DETROIT ICONS SHINE: 4 leaders honored for commitment to region

Four civic leaders known for their passionate commitment to Detroit -- from the creation of landmark sports and entertainment venues to enterprises devoted to job training, entrepreneurship and community redevelopment -- were recognized Thursday with the inaugural Shining Light Regional Cooperation Awards.

The awards, named in honor of the late Free Press columnist, editor and publisher Neal Shine, were presented by the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition and the Free Press to Mike and Marian Ilitch, who turned their Little Caesars pizza company into a wide-ranging business empire that includes the Detroit Tigers, Detroit Red Wings and MotorCity Casino; former Detroit Pistons great, businessman and humanitarian Dave Bing, and activist Eleanor Josaitis, cofounder of the job training, social service and human rights organization Focus: HOPE.

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Constable resigns from court duties

Former constable Lloyd Davis has resigned from his position at Whitfield County Magistrate Court after transporting female inmates without authorization and doing other favors for them, District Attorney Kermit McManus said Friday.During the past year, Davis, 70, paid bonds and deposited money into the jail accounts of approximately 100 female inmates for purchases from the commissary, McManus said. There were no reports after several interviews with inmates that he got anything in return.Davis said by telephone Friday he served for five years as a constable for Whitfield County Magistrate Court and 30 years before that in the Georgia State Patrol.He said he was just trying to help the women."It was a mistake I made by trying to help people, I guess," Davis said. "That's all I have to say."McManus said employees at the Whitfield County Sheriff's Office reported some odd behavior and an unusually large number of phone calls between Davis and some inmates."There was an incident reported where he had gone to the jail and gotten a female prisoner out of the jail to take her to drug treatment," McManus said.Tnzrf Popup