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Kwame Kilpatrick (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Ex-Detroit mayor leaves prison after weekend stay

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DETROIT (AP) - Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been released from a city lockup where he spent the weekend for violating parole in the 2008 criminal conviction that booted him from office...
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Mayor Cory Booker (City of Newark, New Jersey) speaks at the Tech:Crunch Disrupt SF 2012 Conference on September 10, 2012 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by C Flanigan/Getty Images)

Cory Booker helps rescue freezing dog

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theGRIO REPORT - After ABC Eyewitness News reporter Toni Yates tweeted a message to Newark mayor Cory Booker about residents leaving their dogs out in the cold, he took action...
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In this Sept. 27, 2012 file photo, former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick makes his way to U.S. Federal Court in Detroit. Businessman Karl Kado, who held contracts at Detroit's convention center, said Monday, Dec. 3, 2012 that he was a “hostage” who felt compelled to pay thousands of dollars to then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father or lose work. Kado told jurors that he personally delivered $5,000 to $10,000 to Kilpatrick “three or four times.” He said he also delivered money through a top mayoral aide and separately paid $200,000 to $300,000 to Kilpatrick's father, Bernard. Kado is a crucial witness at the corruption trial, which began in September. (AP Photo/The Detroit News, David Coates)

Ex-Detroit mayor to spend weekend in prison

Associated Press
DETROIT (AP) — Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick will spend the weekend in prison as a penalty for 14 parole violations, a state corrections spokesman said Friday....
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Senate Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine Infrastructure, Safety, and Security Subcommittee Chairman Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) presides over a hering on 'Superstorm Sandy: The Devastating Impact on the Nation's Largest Transportation Systems.' December 6, 2012 in Washington, DC. Lhota, Shumer and others testified before the subcommittee about the need for more federal dollars for Superstorm Sandy recovery. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

NJ senator compares Cory Booker to child who needs a spanking

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theGRIO REPORT - The awkward tension between incumbent New Jersey senator Frank Lautenberg and the upstart Newark mayor, Cory Booker, who wants to take his seat has reached a fever pitch...
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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin speaks during an interview in his office at City Hall in New Orleans. The former New Orleans mayo was indicted Friday, Jan. 18, 2013 on 21 corruption charges including wire fraud, bribery and money laundering. The charges come from a City Hall corruption investigation that already has resulted in guilty pleas by two former city officials and two businessmen. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Ex-mayor Ray Nagin charged with bribery, fraud

Michael Kunzelman, Associated Press
NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was indicted Friday on 21 corruption charges including wire fraud, bribery and money laundering...
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Mayor Svante Myrick (courtesy of NBC's 'Rock Center')

theGrio's 100: Svante Myrick, running a city in his 20's

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theGRIO's 100 - The 25-year-old Myrick is the youngest-ever mayor of Ithica, New York, as well as the first African-American in the post...
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Mayor Anthony Foxx, of Charlotte, N.C., speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative, in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)

theGrio's 100: Anthony Foxx leading in the New South

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theGRIO's 100 - Anthony Foxx is the mayor of Charlotte and considered a rising political star not only in the state but nationally...
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Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson speaks during a news conference in Sacramento, Calif, Wednesday, Jan. 9, 2013. People with knowledge of the situation said that investor Chris Hansen has contacted the Maloof family about buying the Sacramento Kings basketball team, setting up the possibility of the NBA's return to Seattle. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)

Sacramento mayor to present counteroffer for Kings

Antonio Gonzalez, Associated Press
(AP) - Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson is taking his fight to keep the Kings in California's capital city to NBA owners...
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Newark, N.J., Mayor Cory Booker addresses the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C. In a 1992 column in The Stanford Daily, his college newspaper, Booker wrote that he was "disgusted by gays" before a transformative experience with a gay peer counselor changed his views. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Cory Booker can raise money for US Senate bid

Geoff Mulvihill, Associated Press
(AP) - Newark Mayor Cory Booker has taken an initial step toward running for U.S. Senate in 2014, adding intrigue to his political future and that of 88-year-old fellow Democrat Frank Lautenberg, who currently holds the seat...
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Senator Frank Lautenberg (2nd R)) and Mayor of Newark Cory A. Booker pose for photos prior to the news conference between Prudential Financial and Devils Arena Entertainment naming the Prudential Center as the new home of the New Jersey Devils on January 8, 2007 in Newark, New Jersey. (Photo by Andy Marlin/Getty Images for the NHL)

Booker wants to give Lautenberg 'space' for 2014 decision

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theGRIO REPORT - Newark mayor Cory Booker has begun to apply public pressure, albeit subtly, on incumbent N.J. senator Frank Lautenberg to step aside so he can run unopposed for his seat in 2014...
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