A Salvadoran woman given a 30-year sentence for murder after suffering a miscarriage in 2007 was pardoned Wednesday night in a razor-thin vote in El Salvador’s angrily divided Legislative Assembly. To ...

ICE Dallas arrested Maria Julia Varela, an El Salvadoran national, who is wanted in her home country for organizing an assassination attempt. Varela has connections to MS-13 and Barrio 18 ...

BOGOTA, Nov 14 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When convicted murderer Teodora Vasquez was freed after more than a decade in prison, the Salvadoran single mother faced a whole new challenge - a teenage ...

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Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal rules Wicomico County trailer fire an accident The Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal has ruled a trailer fire in Wicomico County on Friday afternoon ...

BEL AIR, Md. (AP) — A fugitive from El Salvador has been sentenced to life without parole in the 2023 killing of a Maryland woman who was attacked while exercising on a popular hiking trail northeast ...

A 46-year-old woman was indicted for allegedly fleeing after striking and killing a pedestrian on Long Island. Silvia Alvarez DeReyes, of El Salvador, was arraigned in Suffolk County Court on Tuesday, ...

After spending more than a quarter of her life behind bars for losing a child at birth in a country that’s outlawed all forms of abortion, El Salvador’s Carmen “Guadalupe” Vasquez was released from ...

BEL AIR, Md. (AP) — A fugitive from El Salvador has been sentenced to life without parole in the 2023 killing of a Maryland woman who was attacked while exercising on a popular hiking trail northeast ...