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. Release...
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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 Barr...
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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 file...
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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...
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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 Dist...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Prosecutors at the CIA leak trial on Monday started playing audiotapes of I. Lewis Libby's grand jury testimony, a key piece of evidence against Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff.I...
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A federal judge rejected a request by prosecutors to send former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry to jail for violating his probation in a criminal tax case.U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. ...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Black civil rights leaders
Tuesday announced a rally next week to put pressure on the U.S.
government to take a more aggressive stance against what they
described as a risin...
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