WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- WUSA9 is remembering the life and legacy of Marion Barry. Marion Barry made a career out of beating the odds and defying expectations. Born a sharecropper's son in Mississippi, ...

A North Carolina hog farmer and a Democrat-turned-Republican, he helped strip Mayor Marion Barry of his fiscal powers as Washington’s deficits swelled in the late ’90s. By Robert D. McFadden American ...

A popular pizza chain in the Washington, D.C. area is facing backlash after launching a new dessert item earlier this week themed around former D.C. Mayor the late Marion Barry’s infamous narcotics ...

This video is no longer available. Ten years to the day after his death, D.C. leaders honored the life of the late Mayor Marion Barry with a new mural hanging in his namesake building. Mayor Muriel ...

Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry got into a profanity-laden fight with Geraldo Rivera on Saturday night, telling the host to “stop the bullsh*t” about his conviction for crack cocaine, ...

Former D.C. Mayor Marion Barry will lie in repose next week in the John A. Wilson Building, so members of the public can pay their respects. Specific details about Barry's funeral have not been ...

Marion Barry: Washington, D.C. councilman, mayor, womanizer, drug abuser, convict, punch line, councilman, mayor, councilman. Viewed from a safe distance, his extravagant misadventures have been good ...

Who is Marion Barry? The truth is that he's different things to different people. To some, he's a Civil Rights leader akin to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s successor. To others, he's the former ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — The restaurant chain &pizza rolled out a menu item that it says “may not be the perfect dessert, but they’re the perfect dessert for D.C.” Cora Masters Barry, wife of the ...

(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 ...

WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- Former mayor and current D.C. Council member Marion Barry has racked up more than $2,800 in unpaid parking and speeding tickets since 2012. City records revealed numerous unpaid ...