Marion Barry, the longtime mayor of the District of Columbia who staged a remarkable political comeback after a 1990 FBI sting videotaped him smoking crack cocaine, died early Sunday. He was 78. The D.C. City Council issued a statement confirming Barry's death. Barry's family said the former mayor died shortly after midnight Sunday at the United Medical Center, after having been released from Howard University Hospital the previous day. No cause of death was immediately specified, but spokeswoman LaToya Foster said Barry collapsed outside his home. Barry had battled kidney problems stemming from diabetes and high blood pressure and underwent a kidney transplant in February 2009. Barry had served as a member of the city council since 2005, winning re-election twice. He was often still referred to in his Ward 8 constituency as "Mayor Barry" despite not having held the office since 1999. Read more http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/11/23/former-washington-dc-mayor-marion-berry-dies-at-age-78/
