Marion Shepilov Barry, Jr. was born on March 6, 1936, in the small town of Itta Bena, Mississippi. Barry was raised within a family of modest means, in a place where poverty was commonplace. When Barry was young, his father died, and his mother moved...

Long-time mayor of Washington D.C., Marion Barry (born 1936) followed his third term in office with a conviction on cocaine possession charges, but Washingtonians had not seen the last of him. Released from prison in 1992, three years later, Barry...

Federal prosecutors said Councilman Marion Barry failed to file his tax returns on time for a seventh year in a row, and they asked a judge to send the former mayor to jail.In a court document filed Wednesday, prosecutors said Barry, who last year got...

Former Mayor Marion Barry was acquitted Wednesday of drunken driving and other offenses stemming from his arrest last year near the White House.Barry, now a District of Columbia Council member, had been charged with driving under the influence, operating a vehicle while impaired, driving an...

A federal judge declined Thursday to revoke former Mayor Marion Barry's probation, which would have sent him to prison for failing to file his 2005 tax returns on time.Barry, 71 and now on the District of Columbia Council, pleaded guilty in 2005 to misdemeanor charges...

Effi Barry, the District of Columbia's stoic former first lady who endured her husband's drug abuse and unfaithfulness during his years as the city's mayor, died Thursday. She was 63.Barry died of leukemia at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., said Justin Paquette, a...