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The Detroit Free Press has obtained court records containing over 6,000 text messages from the city-issued paging device of former mayoral chief-of-st...
AP | ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 04.10.2009 | Politics
DETROIT — Former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick is out of jail. His ex-lover and top aide, Christine Beatty, still has weeks behind bars. But their text mes...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 03.06.2009 | Politics
DETROIT — Kwame Kilpatrick regained his freedom early Tuesday morning, emerging from jail after a 99-day sentence and stepping back onto the str...
C. Nicole Mason | Posted 01.19.2009 | Politics
This past year has shown us that power and openness to corruption often go hand-in-hand.
Harry Moroz | Posted 01.12.2009 | Business
Urban America is resurgent and hearing the stories -- both good and bad -- from its diverse environs will help city dwellers and suburbanites alike better understand the nation's economic challenges.
Casey Gane-McCalla | Posted 01.11.2009 | Politics
Elliot Spitzer may not be the first to take in the services of a hooker, he is probably the biggest hypocrite who did; he spent his career trying to clean up New York in the name of decency.
Derrick K. Baker | Posted 10.11.2008 | Chicago
Depending on your politics and perspective, if there ever was a time to kick a dog when he's down, it's now, as Kilpatrick might be headed to hell on scholarship.
AP | ED WHITE and COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was bounced from office Thursday in a deal with prosecutors that will send him to jail and put an end to the se...
Diane Tucker | Posted 02.21.2009 | Home
"Road trip? Sure, why not," said writer Chris Sloat, of Bloomfield Hills, Mich. "Who knows what kind of trouble Kwame can get into in Denver? And at least he'll be somebody else's problem for a week."
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — A judge ruled Friday that there's enough evidence for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick to stand trial on two felony assault charges stemming fro...
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 09.14.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — Barack Obama doesn't want Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his legal troubles to be a distraction at the upcoming Democratic Nationa...
AP | ED WHITE | Posted 09.11.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — A prosecutor on Monday accused Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick of violating his bond in an assault case by spending time over the weekend with ...
AP | KEN THOMAS and COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — The mother of Detroit's mayor narrowly survived a primary election that focused on her scandal-plagued son as much as her own six term...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 05.07.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — A series of often explicit text messages from Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's former chief of staff appear to show she had a long-term romant...
AP | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide have pleaded not guilty to charges they lied under oath about having an affair. The mayor and ...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 04.02.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — Legal experts said Tuesday that the heart of the perjury case against Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick _ steamy text messages that seem to contr...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was charged with perjury and other offenses Monday _ and got a stern lecture about the importance of telling th...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
DETROIT — A defiant Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick quickly rejected the City Council's call Tuesday for him to resign because of accusations that he lie...
AP | COREY WILLIAMS | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lashed out at his opponents and the news media Tuesday night, accusing them of showing a "lynch mob mentality" amid a scandal o...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
The Detroit Free Press reports: Christine Beatty, chief of staff to Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, submitted her letter of resignation this morning...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home
Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick exchanged romantic - and often salacious - text messages with a top aide, contradicting earlier denials made under oath...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.12.2009 | Politics