BRIDGEPORT — Wielding the threat of dark magic, a suspect arrested in a drug probe kept an East Side neighborhood virtually captive, afraid to complain about him, police said. Felix “Cuba” Delgado, ...

(CN) - The 5th Circuit ruled that a Texas town can't ban a Santeria priest from sacrificing animals at his home. The court said the ban placed a "substantial burden" on the religious practices of the ...

Five people have died after drinking a poison potion in a Santeria "power" ritual, police in the southern Mexico state of Oaxaca said Wednesday. Iván García Alvarez, the Oaxaca state police chief, ...

HAVANA (AP) — 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 ...

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