Standing before an elaborate altar in her living room in New York, Arely Vazquez explains the pledge she made to Santa Muerte -- or Saint Death -- after surviving pancreas surgery 17 years ago: that ...

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 ...

Leesburg, the seat of Loudoun County, is an all-American town in the classical — which is to say, narrowest — sense. It's largely white (71.1 percent), affluent (median household income: $91,367), and ...

After being resurrected Friday night, a crucified skeleton Santa was decapitated on Saturday in Leesburg. The red-robed skeleton had been vandalized once before and taken down, but the owners, a ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) – Firearms and drug-trafficking convictions for two Oklahoma residents were overturned Wednesday thanks to a skeleton saint known as La Santa Muerte. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court ...

A controversial holiday display in Leesburg, Va., has been vandalized for a third time. The skeleton Santa at the Loudoun County Courthouse lost its legs, Loudoun Times reported. That follows its ...

Bishops in the United States are denouncing the skeleton folk saint known as La Santa Muerte — a figure Roman Catholic leaders in Mexico routinely have attacked for the deity's connection to violence ...

THIS IS MS. BLUE. SHE'S A GIANT, 87-FOOT-LONG, BLUE WHALE SKELETON AT THE SEYMOUR MARINE DISCOVERY CENTER IN SANTA CRUZ. "MISS BLUE IS ICONIC BECAUSE FIRST OF ALL, SHE'S BEEN IN OUR COMMUNITY FOR ...

“Welcome home, Ms. Blue, welcome home to you, welcome home to the shores of old Santa Cruz.” A crowd gathered at the Seymour Marine Discovery Center as Patti Maxine, a Santa Cruz-based musician, ...

After nine months of some well-deserved R&R — restoration and refurbishment — Santa Barbara’s iconic Blue Whale skeleton will come home to the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History on Wednesday for ...

A crew from the UC Santa Cruz carpentry shop on Monday meticulously disassembled “Ms. Blue,” the iconic 87-foot-long blue whale skeleton next to Seymour Marine Discovery Center in Santa Cruz. The ...

A chance encounter at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has led to the restoration of a long-time, massive display of a blue whale skeleton display at the university. Forty-six years ago, a ...