AT a candle-lit ritual in the dead of night, a 10-year-old boy is butchered alive as children gather around an altar. A ...

A man said BCSO pulled his job offer at the county jail after deputies found his wife's altar to La Santa Muerte, the skeletal death saint worshipped by some cartel members and other criminals.

Angus Fraser, “The International Temple of Santa Muerte, Estado de Mexico, Mexico” (2012) (© Angus Fraser, courtesy the artist and the Photographers’ Gallery) The origins of Santa Muerte – a religion/ ...

JSO is searching for missing 11-year-old Savion Simpson. He was last seen Thursday around 9:30 p.m. near W. 45th Street and Moncrief Road. If you’ve seen him or know where he is, call 904-630-0500.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...

Halloween is almost here, so is Dia de los Muertos - the Day of the Dead. It's a holiday in many places, normally just after Halloween, and its symbols include a skull that appears on everything from ...

Every morning before opening her shop to customers, Cristina Perez says “buenos días” to a green-cloaked, three-foot skeleton covered in dollar bills — offerings folded in triangles and taped to the ...

This article was originally published on November 11, 2015. The cult worship of Santa Muerte (typically translated as "Holy Death" or "Saint Death") is a misunderstood — if culturally prevalent — ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A follower in New Orleans built a public shrine in her honor. An actor in Albuquerque credits her with helping him land a role on the TV show “Breaking Bad.” She turns up routinely ...

During one of Pope Francis' speeches on his landmark trip to Mexico earlier this year, he issued a cryptic admonishment. In an address to Mexican bishops, the pontiff said that he was "particularly ...