Mayor has deadline to leave mansion

DETROIT - Detroit's mayor has a deadline for moving out of the city's official mayoral residence now that he has pleaded guilty and is resigning. Officials say Kwame Kilpatrick and his wife and three sons are expected to be out of the city's Manoogian Mansion by midnight on Sept. 18. Kilpatrick resigned last week and pleaded guilty to two counts of obstruction of justice. He will serve four months in jail and five years probation after an Oct. 28 sentencing. (AP)

CAPE CANAVERAL - Next month's shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope faces an increased risk of getting hit by space junk because it will be in a higher, more littered orbit than usual, NASA said yesterday. Managers at NASA's highest levels will need to sign off on the mission because of the increased risk. New number-crunching puts the odds of a catastrophic strike by orbital debris including bits of space junk at about 1-in-185 during Atlantis's upcoming mission to Hubble. (AP)

DAYTON - A woman was sentenced yesterday to life in prison without the chance for parole after being convicted for burning her baby daughter to death in a microwave after fighting with her boyfriend. Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman lashed out at 28-year-old China Arnold, who watched her sentencing from a side room on a monitor. "No adjectives exist to adequately describe this heinous atrocity," Wiseman said. "This act is shocking and utterly abhorrent for a civilized society." (AP)

Federal regulators took a first step yesterday toward allowing a radioactive waste dump in Nevada, agreeing to formally review the government's license application for the dump. It will still take the Nuclear Regulatory Commission up to four years to consider the Energy Department's 8,600-page application and decide whether to grant the federal government permission to build the 77,000-ton dump. (AP)

The State Department needs more black diplomats to reflect the ethnic makeup of the United States, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday. "I want to see a Foreign Service that looks as if black Americans are part of this great country," Rice told a gathering of leaders of historically black colleges. Rice, the first black woman to serve as US secretary of state, is the highest-ranking woman and African-American in the Bush administration. (AP)