If YouTube existed 20 years ago, there’s little doubt the grainy black-and-white footage of then-Washington Mayor Marion Barry smoking crack instantly would have gone viral, with one hit on the pipe ...

Congressional lawmakers Sunday mourned the death of Marion Barry, Washington, D.C.,’s powerful, popular, and polarizing former four-term mayor whose political career survived a highly-publicized 1990 ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was re-elected despite a prison sentence for smoking crack cocaine. But Barry says he’s not sure about Mayor Vincent Gray’s political ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Marion Barry, the scandal-plagued former mayor of Washington, D.C., who was jailed for smoking crack cocaine before making a surprising return to office, died early on Sunday ...