DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, a one-time rising star and Detroit's youngest elected leader, was charged Monday with perjury and other counts after sexually explicit text messages contradicted his sworn denials of an affair with a top aide.

DETROIT - So for Super Bowl XL, the NFL actually chose to come here. “I never imagined Detroit would ever get a Super Bowl,” said Steelers center and one-time Detroit Lion Jeff Hartings.

DETROIT - When defensive end Chike Okeafor left the Seattle Seahawks 11 months ago and came to the Arizona Cardinals as a free agent, he caused a stir with his comments.

DETROIT - So for Super Bowl XL, the NFL actually chose to come here. “I never imagined Detroit would ever get a Super Bowl,” said Steelers center and one-time Detroit Lion Jeff Hartings.

DETROIT - When defensive end Chike Okeafor left the Seattle Seahawks 11 months ago and came to the Arizona Cardinals as a free agent, he caused a stir with his comments.

DETROIT - It didn’t feel like a homecoming for Coyotes associate coach Barry Smith when he walked into Joe Louis Arena on Friday, but it was the next best thing.

LOS ANGELES - Luis Gonzalez will be part of the National League team at the All-Star game for the fifth time, so it can be said that the Midsummer Classic has become old hat for him.

The Detroit Red Wings are the defending Stanley Cup champions, and Wednesday came to America West Arena with 12 wins and a tie in their last 14 games. They are on cruise control, trying to feign interest until the run for the Cup begins anew.

DETROIT - One measure of how tough times are in the Motor City: Some of the offenders in jail don’t want to be released; some who do get out promptly re-offend to head back where there’s heat, health care and three meals a day.

Gov. Janet Napolitano’s new Cabinet member is a former Detroit police chief whose tenure ended after he was arrested trying to take a loaded and unregistered handgun onto a plane.

DETROIT - Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges they lied under oath about having an affair.

Get ready for guns a blazin’. Smarting from a 28-point loss to Phoenix on Saturday, the Detroit Shock are all too eager to get tonight’s Game 3 underway, even if it meant a 2,000-mile trip in between.

Auburn Hills, Mich. - Don’t bother wondering about Plenette Pierson still wearing a Mercury uniform. Pierson doesn’t.

DETROIT - Detroit Public Schools officials canceled classes until further notice Tuesday, the eighth day of a teachers strike.

DETROIT - Proof, a member of rap group D12 and a close friend of Eminem, was shot to death early Tuesday at a nightclub along Eight Mile, the road made famous by the 2002 film that starred Eminem and in which Proof had a bit part.

DETROIT - People stood in a line that spilled out into the street Tuesday as they waited to pay their final respects to the late civil rights leader Rosa Parks.

 The Detroit Red Wings spoiled the big party in Arizona, bringing the Phoenix Coyotes back to Earth with a resounding thud in a 6-1 rout in Game 7 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday night.

Dan Thomasson: Toyota will survive its current problems despite the tremendous damage to its reputation, not to mention its bottom line. But owners will always have a little doubt about what they are driving, and future buyers may think twice about the reliability and safety of these cars.