Laura Jimenez knew she was worth more than she was making, so she started her own business to prove it. The Texas native opened Rockville, Maryland-based FireClean, an emergency cleaning and restoration service, in 1996 at the age of 27 after doing ...

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Mayda Colón Tsaknis, founder of the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association 20 years ago, said she is not surprised by its growth and proudly recited a list of the association’s accomplishments. But thinking about the significance of the milestone left her searching for the right words.

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In roughly 75 hours of arguments at the Supreme Court since October, only one African-American lawyer appeared before the justices, and for just over 11 minutes. The numbers were marginally better for Hispanic lawyers. Four of them argued for a ...

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HYATTSVILLE — Gay and lesbian advocates teamed up with Maryland’s largest Latino and immigrant rights group on Tuesday, hoping to build support for November ballot questions to allow same-sex marriage and in-state tuition for illegal immigrants who have attended a ...

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — President Barack Obama’s shift to support gay marriage is energizing young Hispanic voters who have been working side-by-side with gay activists in their push for immigration reform. The alliance has been growing nationwide and helping dispel what ...

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A federal judge has dismissed a Salvadoran woman’s suit alleging two Frederick County sheriff’s deputies discriminated against her during a 2008 encounter that led to her arrest on an immigration warrant. Judge Benson Everett Legg ruled Tuesday that the deputies ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s fourth- and eighth-graders each showed improvements in reading compared to results from tests they took two years ago, but eighth-graders performed about the same in math, according to results from the National Assessment of Education Progress released ...

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After months of tests, doctors diagnosed Amalia Ochoa’s infant daughter Vicky with brain abnormalities. Doctors said that Vicky wouldn’t walk or speak, and if Vicky’s head continued to grow at the current rate she wouldn’t live past 3. Ochoa is ...

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While the percentage of minority judges nationwide remained stagnant in the last decade, Maryland bucked the trend. According to figures from the Maryland Judiciary, as of July 1 nearly 23 percent of all state judges were minority members. That’s an ...

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ANNAPOLIS — People from El Salvador comprise a large portion of Maryland’s growing Hispanic community, census data released Thursday shows. The U.S. Census Bureau data shows there are 123,789 people from the Central American nation who now live in Maryland, ...

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