Former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick has been sentenced to 28 years (!) in prison for racketeering and conspiracy committed during his term as mayor. Yowza.

Disgraced former Detroit mayor Kwame Kilpatrick denies paying a stripper a thousand bucks "to perform at a party at the then-mayor's mansion [which] led to Kilpatrick's wife's attacking a woman who was giving him a lap dance." Small victories. [AP]