Marion Barry

Marion Barry

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  Toronto mayor avoids questions about crack video

  Toronto Mayor Rob Ford continued to duck questions Tuesday about a video that purportedly shows him smoking crack cocaine despite calls by allies and ... 

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  Canada abuzz over purported crack video of mayor

  A video purportedly of Toronto Mayor Rob Ford smoking crack has caused an uproar in Canada. Ford on Friday called the allegations "ridiculous." The ... 

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  DC lottery contract is subject of federal probe

  A federal grand jury is investigating the awarding of the $38 million contract to run the District of Columbia lottery, a process that raises further ... 

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  Civil rights leader Lawrence Guyot dies at 73

  Lawrence Guyot, a civil rights leader who survived jailhouse beatings in the Deep South in the 1960s and went on to encourage generations to get ... 

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  DC on pace for fewer than 100 homicides in 2012

  The crack epidemic that began in the 1980s ushered in a wave of bloodletting in the nation's capital and a death toll that ticked upward daily.