The decapitations of more than two dozen animals whose bodies were discovered last month along a Pomona roadside carry all the hallmarks of a Santeria ritual, according to an expert briefed on the ...

Police are investigating after the remains from a grave at a Hartford cemetery were discovered missing Wednesday by a groundskeeper, possibly for a voodoo or Santeria ritual, police said. Few details ...

Dancing to the throbbing beat of sacred drums, the congregation circles a man lying face-down on the floor paying thanks to Babalu Aye, a deity in Cuba's Santeria religion. The African-rooted faith ...

OKALOOSA COUNTY, Fla. (WEAR-TV) — Seven decapitated chickens were found at the Jesse Rogers Memorial Cemetery on Tuesday. A trail of feathers left behind Thursday, lead to a carcass. About one dozen ...

MILFORD, Conn. - A Connecticut man charged with stealing five bodies, including one interred 71 years ago, from a Massachusetts cemetery to use in Santeria rituals was extradited to Massachusetts on ...

Four men and a woman have died after drinking a poisoned potion during a Santeria ritual in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca, authorities said Wednesday. The five victims, who ranged in age from 18 ...

From a two-room concrete home on the fringes of Cuba’s capital, the rumble of wooden drums spills out onto the streets. Neighbors gather at the door and kids climb a fence to peer inside. They watch ...

TAVARES – New details are emerging about the two men charged with prying open crypts at Mount Dora’s Greenwood Cemetery and stealing four heads for black magic ceremonies, including the fact that they ...

A Santeria priest has been accused of sexually assaulting a girl during what he claimed were healing rituals, Montebello police said Thursday. Police are trying to find Pablo Pinto Mata, 46 — known as ...

It is near impossible for the Department of Education to fire a teacher easily, but when it comes to a principal allegedly using chicken blood in a Santeria ritual to cleanse her high school, that's ...

Carlos Valdes had just finished a misa espiritual, a group communion with the orisha spirits, when rapid-fire pops sounded outside. The celebrated oriate, a high priest in the Santería religion, ...