A judge has ordered the daughter of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. to bring intimate correspondence between the civil rights icon and his late wife, Coretta Scott King, to a Fulton County courtroom for a hearing to determine the letters’ fate.
Two Detroit Water and Sewerage Department water-main contracts for Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's friend Bobby Ferguson were approved Monday by a City Council committee.
But the contracts, which total about $4.4 million, aren't
necessarily on their way to final approval. The 2-0 vote by the Public
Health and Safety Committee simply sends them to the full nine-member
council, which is set to consider the contracts July 1.
Councilwomen
Sheila Cockrel and Alberta Tinsley-Talabi voted to send the contracts
out of committee. Cockrel previously had requested a hold on approving
them, citing increasing questions about how Ferguson's relationship
with Kilpatrick may have affected his ability to get city contracts. A
third member, JoAnn Watson, was not present when the vote took place,
according to the City Clerk's Office.
Cockrel said Monday she is
still considering her final vote, as she weighs her concerns that
Ferguson may have received preferential treatment against the impact
that halting such contracts would have on the employees of Ferguson's
company, which is based in Detroit.
The Kilpatrick administration has said all work awarded to Ferguson resulted from a fair bidding process.
After
Kilpatrick took office in 2002, the amount of work Ferguson did for the
water department increased dramatically. He worked as either the main
contractor or as a subcontractor on projects worth more than $90
million.
Ferguson Enterprises came under council scrutiny in
April after the Free Press raised questions about whether Ferguson
received favored treatment on city contracts.
Federal authorities are looking into reports that a man arrested with rifles, ammunition and drugs in his truck may have made threats against Barack Obama, officials said Monday.
WASHINGTON - Imagine, for just a minute, the pain of America's first black president. Not Barack Obama — Bill Clinton. That's about the only explanation for Clinton's lack of brotherly behavior lately: He's in pain.
You have a year to give a wedding gift or return shoes to Zappos.com, 90 days to pick up dry cleaning, and a week to return a DVD. But how long does a new mother get to lose the baby weight before people start, you know, talking?
A childhood friend of the alleged victim in the R. Kelly child pornography case testified Wednesday that she recognizes her longtime friend as the one in the explicit video at the center of the trial.
With Sen. Barack Obama poised to make history as the first African-American presidential nominee of a major political party, BET and TV One will significantly step up their coverage of the Democratic National Convention in August.
RICHMOND, Va. (Dec. 10) - Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that involved gambling and killing pit bulls.
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