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By Associated Press 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 sex scandal that embarrassed this chronically struggling city and preoccupied its government for months.

DETROIT , Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- CHASS Center, Inc. today announced that it will join with Pfizer, Inc. to celebrate National Health Center Week 2008.

By Marisol Bello The mayor of Detroit went to jail Thursday. Democrat Kwame Kilpatrick had been free on bond since he was charged in March with perjury and other felonies over his testimony in a trial by two police officers who had sued the city.

By Kathleen Gray, Detroit Free Press Aug. 6--Rep. Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick, the mother of Detroit's mayor, overcame a City Hall scandal involving her son to narrowly defeat two challengers early today in a Democratic primary.