Kilpatrick resigns, governor adjourns hearing

DETROIT, Michigan (CNN) - Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm adjourned a
hearing Thursday on whether to remove Detroit's mayor after Mayor Kwame
Kilpatrick sent her word he had resigned effective Sept. 18.

Grandholm had been holding a hearing into whether to remove Kilpatrick.
She said if the mayor's resignation takes effect as scheduled she will dismiss
the hearing.

"I'm glad this chapter is closed," Graholm said. "There is much work to
do. It is my profound hope that we can write a new history for this great, but
embattled, city."

The governor convened a hearing Wednesday to help her determine whether
to use her constitutional power to dismiss the mayor because of the felony
charges against him.

If the mayor doesn't resign as promised, she said the hearing would
reconvene on Sept. 22.