ALDERSON, W.Va., Sept. 10 (UPI) — Former Detroit city council president Monica Conyers surrendered Friday at a federal prison in West Virginia to begin a 37-month sentence.
Conyers, 45, became Inmate 43693-039 in the prison camp …

Detroit — A federal appeals court today denied former Detroit Councilwoman Monica Conyers‘ request to stay out of prison pending her appeal.
Conyers is scheduled to turn herself in to the Federal Bureau of Prisons by …

DETROIT, Sept. 9 (UPI) — A Detroit contractor and close friend of former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been charged with money laundering, wire fraud and other federal charges.
Federal investigators say Bobby Ferguson, 41, used “dishonest …

CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Mayor Richard Daley‘s decision to not run for another term prompted a call from someone else who’s famous name is synonymous with the nation’s third-largest city: Oprah Winfrey.
Winfrey was among the …

Four years after her fiancé’s death on their wedding day, Nicole Paultre Bell is focused on Election Day.
Bell, who typically marks her November by the anniversary of Sean Bell‘s death in a 51-shot police fusillade, …

The Dallas Morning News – Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson apparently asked the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation to send scholarship checks directly to her two grandsons and two great-nephews, rather than to their colleges.
But …

While the Reverend Jesse Jackson was in Detroit promoting green jobs for the U.S. economy – someone decided to make a little work for themselves with his car.
According to the UK’s Daily Mail, the Cadillac …

WASHINGTON — A Texas congresswoman who broke scholarship rules by awarding money to her relatives and an aide’s children has repaid about $31,000 to the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation.
Democratic Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson said in …

RALEIGH, N.C. – The Social Security Administration is delivering checks a day early to hundreds of thousands of East Coast residents to make sure the money beats Hurricane Earl’s arrival.
Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue …

WASHINGTON — The Congressional Black Caucus Foundation will investigate its scholarship program following the admission by a House member that she wrongly steered scholarships to her relatives and the children of a staff member, the …