By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — He was Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s good buddy, his confidante, his favorite city contractor. But Bobby Ferguson managed to turn off many in Kilpatrick’s inner circle. Contractors and city officials — including Victor Mercado, the head of the water department — complained about Ferguson. Even Kilpatrick’s sister, Ayanna, found…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — On Thursday, Derrick Miller finally talked about the much anticipated payoff in the bathroom — something out of an episdoe of “The Sopranos.” Miller, a former close friend who was in Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick’s administration, testified at Kilpatrick’s federal trial that the then-mayor asked him to get…
By Allan Lengel Deadline Detroit DETROIT — Kwame Kilpatrick fidgeted in his chair, sometimes leaning to the left, sometimes smirking, looking worried and shaking his head in disbelief, as he watched ex-close friend Derrick Miller deliver some damaging testimony on the 49th day of trial Monday. Miller, who was part of Kilpatrick’s inner circle at…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com DETROIT — The U.S. Border Patrol is building a new station in Detroit after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $14 million contract for the design construction of the new building, the Associated Press reports. The 45,000-square-foot facility is expected to be done in spring 2015. It is to include…
This is the first of two parts. By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Stephen Simmons slowly walked up the steps to the scaffold in Library Park in Detroit. It was September 24, 1830, his last day on Earth, and he looked out at the festive crowd of 2,000 celebrating spectators. Men had brought their wives…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The job market may be suffering in Detroit, but not at its FBI office. The FBI is searching for special agents, intelligence analysts and interns to work at its field office in Detroit, WWJ reports. “We’re looking for special agents who have either an extended degree or a degree with at least…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The FBI has joined an investigation into racist graffiti spray-painted on a suburban Detroit church that also was serving as an Election Day poling place, the Associated Press reports. Bishop-Elect James Richard Evans Sr. said he believes the graffiti, which included an anti-black slur, was intended to intimidate voters. Racial problems are…
