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Rasheeda Moore, the former model who cooperated with the FBI in setting up Washington Mayor Marion Barry's drug arrest, testified at his trial Wednesday that the two had used cocaine and other drugs "over 100 times." During the three years of a relationship that was also sexual, Moore testified, she and Barry used drugs at all hours and in all places--in hotels, borrowed apartments, government offices, a drug dealer's rooming house and Barry's own home.

Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was sentenced to three years' probation in connection with charges that he failed to file federal or local tax returns for 2000. Barry, 70, pleaded guilty in October under an agreement with federal prosecutors that required him to acknowledge his failure to file returns. U.S. Magistrate Judge Deborah A. Robinson declined to fine Barry, noting that the outstanding taxes he had agreed to pay were substantial.

Inside an elementary school auditorium, in a run-down part of town that tourists never see, Mayor Marion Barry is lecturing 400 youngsters on the evils of drugs and the importance of staying clean. As mayor of one of the nation's most drug-plagued cities, Barry visits three or four schools a week with his message. It is his way, he says, of helping motivate the children. His style is relaxed, warm, captivating. "How many y'all know somebody in your family using drugs?" he asks gently.

Former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts stemming from his failure to file tax returns in 2000. Sentencing for Barry, a city councilman, was set for Jan. 18 in U.S. District Court. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor counts of willfully failing to file and failure to provide information. A plea agreement recommended probation. Magistrate Judge Deborah A.

Chris Rock, the comedian who turned Marion Barry into a punch line, will executive produce a TV movie for HBO about the former Washington mayor. Jamie Foxx is ready to take the lead role on "Livin' for the City: The Marion Barry Story." It's scheduled to start shooting around Washington, D.C., and Baltimore in the early fall. Barry, who had just got his hands on a copy of the script late Friday, blasted it as "outrageous," his spokeswoman told the Washington Post.

Mayor Marion Barry, whose trial last summer on drug charges polarized the nation's capital, was sentenced Friday to six months in prison and fined $5,000 on his one-count misdemeanor conviction for drug possession. U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, in passing the stiff sentence, rejected Barry's plea for leniency. He told the mayor that there were "aggravating circumstances" to his conviction, including his "frequent and conspicuous drug use . . .

It's a black thing. You wouldn't understand. --Slogan often displayed by African-Americans Emily Feistritzer, a 49-year-old white Washingtonian, just can't make any sense of it. She is trying hard, struggling with the best of intentions to understand the incomprehensible: Why do so many black residents turn out at rallies and church meetings to cheer and praise Washington Mayor Marion Barry?

The former model who lured Washington Mayor Marion Barry into an FBI sting operation testified Friday that she repeatedly turned the conversation back to drugs until Barry finally lit a crack pipe--even though he had told her he did not want to "do" drugs that night. Rasheeda Moore, the key prosecution witness in the government's drug and perjury case against Barry, denied that she had "coerced" the mayor into smoking the cocaine pipe in a room at the Vista Hotel in downtown Washington last Jan.

Federal prison officials are investigating reports that a woman visited former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry in prison last Sunday and performed oral sex on him in a room where dozens of inmates and their visitors were gathered, according to inmates and a federal official. "You couldn't miss it. It was blatant--in front of everybody," said Floyd Archer Robertson III, a former inmate at the prison in Petersburg, Va.

Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, who is appealing a six-month prison sentence and $5,000 fine for a drug possession conviction, lost his bid to secure an at-large seat on the District of Columbia City Council Tuesday night. Barry was receiving 19% of the vote, badly trailing two rivals. Democrat Linda Cropp had about 39% and incumbent Hilda Mason of the local Statehood party was collecting about 30%.

Former Mayor Marion Barry, who served prison time on a drug charge a decade ago, secured his comeback Tuesday, winning a City Council seat to represent the U.S. capital's poorest area. Barry, a four-time Democratic mayor and one of Washington's most controversial and well-known politicians, easily won the election in Ward 8 with 95% of the vote. "I've been knocked down. Some folks said I got pushed down, I pulled myself down.

Marion Barry is the Lazarus of District of Columbia politics: Just when you think he's politically dead, he rises -- most recently on Tuesday in a City Council primary, trouncing his opponent with 57% of the vote in a city where winning the Democratic nomination is tantamount to victory in November. From the praise heard outside Barry's campaign headquarters Wednesday, it was clear this was about more than the return of a former four-term mayor.

Former Washington Mayor Marion Barry, whose political career survived a drug arrest and prison sentence, said Saturday he was running for the city council. He will seek the seat on the District of Columbia Council for the city's Ward 8, a southeastern Washington area of mostly poor people that long has served as his political base. Barry, 68, announced his comeback effort before supporters outside his campaign headquarters. Many called him "mayor."

Former Washington, D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is in the hospital with stomach pains and fever. Barry, 67, said he checked into Howard University Hospital Sunday, two days after returning from a visit to the west African nation of Togo. Doctors believe his illness may have been caused by something he ate or drank. Barry said he has recovered enough to work as an investment bond consultant by telephone.

Chris Rock, the comedian who turned Marion Barry into a punch line, will executive produce a TV movie for HBO about the former Washington mayor. Jamie Foxx is ready to take the lead role on "Livin' for the City: The Marion Barry Story." It's scheduled to start shooting around Washington, D.C., and Baltimore in the early fall. Barry, who had just got his hands on a copy of the script late Friday, blasted it as "outrageous," his spokeswoman told the Washington Post.

U.S. Park Police, using a preliminary field test, found apparent traces of marijuana and cocaine in former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry's car while he was parked in a remote part of southwest Washington, authorities said this weekend. No arrest was made in the incident, which began about 9 p.m. Thursday as Barry sat in a Jaguar, which he told police was his. The amounts of drugs allegedly detected in a police field test were described as too small to support a prosecution.

This one you didn't see on the Fox series "Cops." There he was on perhaps every newscast in the nation, as plain as a picture taken through a dirty lens, getting busted and handcuffed in a Washington hotel room by police and FBI agents who barged in as he prepared to leave. These brief excerpts, showing Washington Mayor Marion Barry getting snared in a Jan.

Marion Barry announced he would not seek a fifth term as mayor. Barry, who held the office for most of the last 20 years, said he concluded he could better fight "the mean-spirited Republican Congress" that had whittled away home rule in the district from "the outside rather than the inside."

Marion Barry announced he would not seek a fifth term as mayor. Barry, who held the office for most of the last 20 years, said he concluded he could better fight "the mean-spirited Republican Congress" that had whittled away home rule in the district from "the outside rather than the inside."

Imagine the 25-year experiment of home rule in the nation's capital as a troubled marriage. Congress is cast as the aloof head of household and the District of Columbia government as its financially dependent spouse. For most of their debt-ridden union, the breadwinner has quietly seethed at the deterioration of the family home. The house is constantly in disrepair, and some parts are unlivable. The children aren't studying.