Court of Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera was raising young children and teaching in a public elementary school in Baltimore when she was inspired by a family member’s work in the Maryland ...

After graduating from Towson State College, Mary Ellen Barbera taught young children in Baltimore City Public Schools. During those years, she witnessed the challenges and struggles of the families of ...

A former public school teacher who went to law school at night will become the first woman to head Maryland’s highest court. Gov. Martin O'Malley (D) on Wednesday named Mary Ellen Barbera, who has ...

LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — A Los Angeles man has been convicted of second-degree murder and elder abuse in the beating death of his mother two years ago. Superior Court jurors in Van Nuys deliberated ...

Education and support may be the keys for people with autism and their families to cope with the puzzles of a diagnosis that is becoming more and more frequent. “The rate has completely escalated,” ...

Mary is survived by her two sons: Thomas M. Barbera and his wife, Kay of Charlotte, N.C., and John David Barbera and his wife, Christine,of Warren, Pa.; and one granddaughter, Shalynn Barbera of ...