Basketball legend Dave Bing was elected Tuesday as Detroit's mayor through the end of the year, sweeping the incumbent from office in the city with myriad problems.
"The real work starts now," Bing said to loud cheers during his victory speech.
"What we will bring ... is efficiency, transparency, honesty and integrity back to the mayor's office," he said.
With 100 percent of precincts reporting, Bing had 52.3 percent of the vote, or 49,054 votes, to 47.7 percent, or 44,770 votes, for Cockrel. Both are Democrats.
Bing, 65, will be mayor through 2009, serving the balance of the term that belonged to Democrat Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in September and went to jail after admitting he lied during a civil trial to cover up an affair with his chief of staff.
Bing must run again in the regular Aug. 4 nonpartisan primary and win the Nov. 3 general election to hold the mayor's seat for a full four years.
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This is huge for the D. Check out the Jemele Hill story I posted last week about Bing's background and his quest to fix Detroit.
Man Who Robbed Antoine Walker Gets 21 Years...
A West Side man was sentenced to 21 years in prison Tuesday for ambushing former NBA star Antoine Walker in his River North garage before tying him up with duct tape and robbing him.
Antoine Larkins, 30, is also accused of robbing the New York Knicks' Eddy Curry in a similar stickup at Curry's Burr Ridge home. That case is still pending.
In the July 9, 2007, holdup of Walker, Larkins and three other men were charged with armed robbery, kidnapping and home invasion.
On Tuesday, Larkins, of the 1300 block of South Washtenaw, pleaded guilty to the home invasion charges in a deal reached with prosecutors, Cook County assistant state's attorney Andreana Turano said. Judge Kenneth Wadas issued the sentence. In March, he sentenced Larkins' co-defendant, Gregory Reedfields, 24, to four years in prison.
Also charged were Phillip Allison, 30, and Demorris Hill, 27. Their cases are still pending.
In the holdup, Walker, then with the Miami Heat, pulled into the garage of his $4 million home and was met by the masked robbers. The Mount Carmel grad was ordered out of his SUV. As he opened the door, $3,000 in cash that was apparently sitting on his lap fell out and was grabbed by Larkins, authorities said.
Hill and Larkins marched Walker at gunpoint to an upstairs bedroom while Allison waited downstairs to nab an assistant of Walker's, authorities said.
The gunmen forced Walker to reveal where his money and jewelry were kept, duct-taped him to his assistant, and put them in a closet, authorities said.
They were told to count to 100 before making a move. Allison returned to the bedroom twice -- once to make them restart their 100-count, and a second time to ask how to drive Walker's Mercedes.
Allison allegedly stole the Mercedes and put the SUV's $8,000 rims on his girlfriend's 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme, authorities said.
I've got a couple questions here: What fool has 3 stacks sitting on their lap while they're driving? And what fool goes and puts the stolen rims on his girl's whip? WOW...
Via: ESPN & The Chicago Sun-Times
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