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  ** FILE ** Wayne County prosecutor Kym Worthy addresses the media in her office in Detroit, Friday, Jan. 25, 2008. The investigation into whether Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his former top aide committed perjury or other crimes during testimony in a highly publicized whistle-blowers' trial is all part of the job for the Wayne County prosecutor. And she doesn't even consider it the toughest assignment she's had since she's been in the prosecutor's office. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, file)

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  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses the media during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a "no-confidence" vote. The council doesn't have the power to force Kilpatrick to step down. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick addresses the media during a news conference in Detroit, Tuesday, March 18, 2008. A nearly unified City Council voiced its displeasure with Kilpatrick on Tuesday, calling on the scandal-tainted mayor to resign. A resolution, which passed on a 7-1 vote in the early afternoon, was more of a "no-confidence" vote. The council doesn't have the power to force Kilpatrick to step down. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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  ** FILE ** Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox speaks during an interview in this April 11, 2005, file photo, in Lansing, Mich. Cox said Wednesday, March 12, 2008, that Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick should resign because he's a liar and a race-baiter "on par with David Duke and George Wallace," and no longer fit for office. (AP Photo/Al Goldis, file)

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  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gives his State of the City address in Detroit, Tuesday, March 11, 2008. A prosecutor says she will announce in two weeks whether she will file perjury charges against the mayor and his former top aide. The case stems from a criminal probe of whether Kilpatrick lied under oath when he denied an affair with former Chief of Staff Christine Beatty that was revealed in the text messages. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

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  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick gives his seventh State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)

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  Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick points towards his family before the start of his seventh State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)

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  The parents and sister of Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick (L), Ayanna (C) and Bernard Kilpatrick stand before the start of Mayor Kilpatrick's State of the City address in Detroit, Michigan, March 11, 2008. Embattled Detroit Mayor Kilpatrick on Tuesday said scandals threatening to derail his second term amounted to a "hate-driven, bigoted assault" against him and vowed to stay in office and fight for sweeping investment plans for the city. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)

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  DETROIT - MARCH 11: Detroit Police Chief Ella Bully-Cummings says the Pledge of Alligiance before Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City address March 11, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Several members of the city council protested the Mayor by sitting in the audience instead of sitting on stage with the Mayor. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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  Protestors demonstrate outside of Orchestra Hall where Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick was giving his State of the City address March 11, 2008 in Detroit, Michigan. Four members of the nine-member council declined to take their customary seats onstage with the mayor, who is in the midst of a text-messaging scandal involving charges of sexual misconduct and of perjury related to a whistle-blower lawsuit filed by former police officers against the city. Bill Pugliano/Getty Images/AFP == FOR NEWSPAPERS, INTERNET, TELCOS & TELEVISION USE ONLY == (Photo credit should read BILL PUGLIANO/AFP/Getty Images)

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Neverland Ranch

A last minute deal has saved Michael Jackson's Neverland Ranch from being lost to foreclosure. Just days before the ranch was to be sold off, a real estate investment firm called Colony Capital bought the loan on the singer's fortress.

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Jackson is said to be in discussions with Colony and its founder, Tom Barrack Jr, "with regard to the ranch and other matters." The King of Pop hasn't stepped foot on the compound in more than two years, spending his time in Europe and Middle East since his 2006 acquittal on child molestation charges.

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The ranch sprawls over 2,800 acres and features a main home, a theme park and a zoo that once housed tigers, elephants, giraffes and orangutans. The animals were removed and the ranch shut down in early 2006 following an investigation into whether Jackson had stopped paying his employees and allowed his insurance to lapse.

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Jackson's overall financial situation has stabilized in the past year, thanks to a refinanced loan with help from his label Sony Music.

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Above is the Neverland train that used to ferry guests -- mostly kids -- around the park.

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Jackson named his property Neverland after the fantasy world in 'Peter Pan.'

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Martin Luther King Statue

Chinese sculptor Lei Yixin stands next to a clay model of a Martin Luther King Jr. statue in March 2007. A federal arts panel criticized the design of the planned 28-foot-tall statue last month because it is "confrontational."

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"The proposed treatment of the sculpture - as the most iconographic and central element of the memorial to Dr. King - would be unfortunate and inappropriate as an expression of his legacy," wrote Thomas Luebke, secretary of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, which reviews the design of projects in the capital area.

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The statue, which will be built with $100 million in mostly private funds, is set to be erected on the banks of the Tidal Basin along the National Mall, above. It will open to the public in about two years.

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It will be the largest statue on the Mall, bigger than those at the nearby memorials to Abraham Lincoln, right, and Thomas Jefferson. Lei has made a full-size clay model in China but has not yet carved the granite statue.

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Last year, many criticized the decision of hiring Lei Yixin, who is known for his sculptures of Mao Zedong, to create the King statue. Critics said an African-American or at least an American should have been selected as the sculptor.

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