Anacostia Park News

For a lot of Washingtonians, today is all about the late Abe Pollin - for better, and for worse in some cases.

My friend Peter Vankevich went canoeing on the Anacostia River this past Sunday and found a Black-headed Gull.

Over the last week, we've learned yet again that the waiting list for Redskins season tickets may not be all it's cracked up to be, but those striving to get prized cookout spots at Anacostia Park ? As committed as ever, the Washington Post discovers .

No way would Claudia Lee be celebrating her 66th birthday in the rain, so she arrived at Anacostia Park at 5 a.m. Buy Photo Despite wind and rain, Rafael Gonzalez, top, and David Meade slept at Anacostia Park overnight to reserve a covered picnic area.

DC Councilman Marion Barry says he'll cooperate fully with an independent probe of a contract he awarded to his girlfriend, Donna Watts-Brightaupt. The DC Council today, by unanimous voice vote, authorized private attorney Robert Bennet to investigate Barry.

D.C. Council member Marion Barry speaks at a press conference on Thursday in response to his arrest for alleged stalking an ex-girlfriend in Anacostia Park.

Donna Watts-Brighthaupt, a political consultant romantically linked to Barry, talks about the night he was arrested near Anacostia Park, denies that she improperly received city funds.

The U. S. Attorneya s office has dropped charges against former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry, who had been accused of stalking a former girlfriend.

The stalking charges againt Barry were dropped this week. WASHINGTON - A U.S. Park Police report into the arrest of D.C. Councilman Marion Barry says an officer stopped the former mayor in Anacostia Park, after observing Barry's vehicle "driving in an erratic manner on the wrong side of the road." The officer, in the report obtained by WTOP Radio, ...

Councilman Marion Barry, 73, one of the most controversial political figures in D.C. history, held a press conference on July 6, to defend his honor, again, after a recent arrest by U.S. Park Police.

Just when you thought the story involving D.C. City Councilmember Marion Barry and stalking allegations from a former girlfriend, more details have surfaced about their apparent historya 'this time, in the form of voicemails left allegedly by Barry on the woman's voicemail.

A spokeswoman to former Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry claims that her boss is not a stalker and insists the woman making these allegations is a constituent he has helped on numerous occassions.

Former D.C. mayor, now Washington councilman, Marion Barry has been arrested again.

Some of Brett Abrams' favorite stadiums never got built. Abrams is a local historian and author of a oe Capital Sporting Grounds: A History of Stadium and Ballpark Construction in Washington, DC.