Since appearing as a public shrine in 2001, the female death deity’s popularity has exploded and is a frequent sight in ...

Curious about La Santa Muerte? Mexico's Death Saint has become very popular in recent years — but do you really know what she ...

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 ...

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 ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- 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 ...

An FBI and U.S. Border Patrol task force recently arrested a Juárez woman in a raid at an El Paso motel in a border case featuring a dark brew of drug trafficking, mutilation killings and the occult, ...

Reporting from Mexico City — Her skull-face peers from beneath a cloak, the Grim Reaper’s scythe often clutched in her hand. She is the Saint of Death, icon of an underground cult that for many years ...

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 ...

In Mexico City, a growing number of people devote themselves to the Death Saint. May 29, 2013— -- What's the one certain thing that binds us all? Death. Regardless of race and economic or social ...

MEXICO CITY – “I may be big but I’m very scared,” Jorge says as we work our way through a series of narrow streets near the historic Zocalo plaza in Mexico City. Jorge Vasquez is a longtime friend, a ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Myriam Lamrani, Harvard University (THE CONVERSATION) When a life-size skeleton ...