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Detroit mayor agrees to plea deal in text scandal

Embattled Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick pleaded guilty Thursday to charges resulting from a sex scandal and is to resign from office immediately, a prosecutor said. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_allpolitics?a=gsp6fz"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_allpolitics?i=gsp6fz" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?a=bb8bUL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?i=bb8bUL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?a=FKArRL"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?i=FKArRL" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?a=eCSNvl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?i=eCSNvl" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?a=i15V2L"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?i=i15V2L" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?a=B03DZl"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_allpolitics?i=B03DZl" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_allpolitics/~4/383344137" height="1" width="1"/>