Marion Barry, the fiery Washington, D.C., politician who was famously re-elected after going to jail for crack cocaine possession, has died after months of battling health issues. He was 78. The ...

Marion Barry, an icon of D.C. politics good and bad for more than 40 years, has died at age 78. "It is with deep regret that the family of former four-time D.C. Mayor, and Ward 8 City Councilman, ...

Marion Barry Jr., a fiery civil rights activist who rose to prominence as a mayor of Washington, D.C., only to fall in disgrace when he was arrested for smoking crack cocaine, died early Sunday ...

(Editor’s Note: This article was first published in June of 2014 when Marion Barry released his biography. The 4-term former DC mayor has died at age 78 of an undisclosed illness.) It’s the 1980s and ...

Friends and colleagues remembered former four-time D.C. Mayor Marion Barry who died early Sunday morning at age 78. President Barack Obama added his thoughts to the many reactions on the passing of ...

Washington, D.C., is marking what would have been former Mayor Marion Barry’s 89th birthday.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Two years after he died, Marion Barry’s gravesite is getting a permanent marker. Relatives and friends of the former District of Columbia mayor will gather at Congressional Cemetery ...

WASHINGTON — A controversial and tireless advocate for the nation's capital who created jobs for generations of black families, Marion Barry was the ultimate District of Columbia politician, though ...