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Mexican site reveals sacrifice of Spanish conquistadors, cannibalism
 MEXICO CITY -- It was one of the worst defeats in one of history's most dramatic conquests: Only a year after Hernan Cortes landed in Mexico, hundreds of people in a Spanish-led convoy were captured, sacrificed and apparently eaten. Excavations at a site just east of Mexico City are yielding dramatic new details about that moment when two cultures clashed - and the native defenders, at least temporarily, were in control. Faced with strange invaders accompanied by unknown animals, the inhabitants of an Aztec-allied town reacted with apparent amazement when they captured the convoy of about 15 Spaniards, 45 foot soldiers who included Cubans of African and Indian descent, women and 350 Indian allies of the Spaniards, including Mayas and other groups...Later, those in the convoy were apparently sacrificed and eaten by the townsfolk known as Texcocanos or Acolhuas... Little by little, the town sacrificed, and apparently ate, the horses, men and women....In contrast, the skeletons of the captured Europeans were torn apart and bore cut marks indicating the meat was removed from the bones...Fifty women and about 10 children are estimated to have been in the convoy, and all were killed....When Cortes' soldiers returned to the town, they found that townspeople had strung the severed heads of captured Spaniards on a wooden "skull rack" next to those of their horses, leading some to think the Indians believed that horse and rider were one beast. |
Duane Lake has been charged with murder for the deaths of Alton Bruce, Candice Roper, and Roper's unborn child. Last week, the victims were found dead inside a home in the 1400 block of King Street. Police said they suffered from apparent gunshot wounds. Lake was originally charged with the taking of a motor vehicle from Alton Bruce, but police said at the time he was a person of interest in the murder investigation. Lake was denied bond on the murder charges. - (Black-on-white)
ADA, Okla. -- There is new information in mysterious death of an Ada woman. In early September, 56-year-old
PITTSBURGH — A 96-year-old woman was wheeled into court to face four men accused of attacking and robbing her last month. Authorities say the suspects forced their way into 
LOS ANGELES — A state appeals court says a woman who was attacked by a classmate at UCLA cannot hold the university responsible. A division of the 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled this week that a public university has no general obligation to protect its students from crimes committed by other students. The 2-1 ruling came in a negligence lawsuit filed against the University of California regents by 
BROCKTON – One minute Matthew Ohrenberger was sitting next to his close friend 
CLEVELAND, Ohio – A man charged with stabbing a Cuyahoga Falls mother to death in her backyard last summer is now linked to an unsolved Cleveland rape reported in 2006. The connection was made after the woman's rape kit, which was sent for testing last year as part of a statewide sexual assault kit testing initiative, was matched to Jeffery Conrad. The 44-year-old is set to stand trial in Summit County this month and is charged with aggravated murder in 
An employee of a South Jersey daycare facility for mentally challenged adults has been charged in the sexual assault of a client. William Claiborne, 58, worked as a caregiver at the Friends of Cyrus facility in Delanco, Burlington County. Claiborne was attending to a
A man who allegedly sexually assaulted three young boys in a Bronx park was nabbed by cops Thursday, police said. Greg Boyden, 37, of the Bronx, was hit with a slew of charges including three counts of sex abuse, cops said. Since August, Boyden allegedly lured 
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Police arrested a man after a lengthy investigation into reports of child sex abuse involving a worker at a Northeast Portland Boys & Girls Club. Riante Ramon Badon, 26, was indicted by a Multnomah County grand jury on numerous charges that include third-degree rape and sex abuse, and seven counts of luring a minor. The investigation began in August, 2014 when detectives looked into a report of possibly inappropriate contact between Badon and a female teen, police said. Badon was fired by the non-profit at 5250 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., for "club policy violations," police said. The Boys & Girls Club cooperated with investigators. Detectives eventually determined that 
East Lampeter Township police are seeking four women accused of stealing expensive hair extensions from a beauty supply store in the township. Police said four black women between 20 and 30 years old entered Hair Viva Beauty Supply store on the 1600 block of Lincoln Highway East and asked to view the hair extensions that are normally kept behind the counter. When the store clerk brought out the hair extensions, the suspects grabbed the merchandise. At some point during the theft the suspects pushed the store clerk to the ground and sprayed her in the face with pepper spray.
Former Chicago Public Schools chief Barbara Byrd-Bennett plans to plead guilty to federal charges that she steered more than 
The position was created after a judge ruled that the FDNY’s entrance exam was biased against minorities.
A California man charged with murdering his mother told police that killing her and desecrating her body felt “good,” according to reports. Omar Malik Pettigen, 31, allegedly used a tomahawk that hung on the wall of his 64-year-old mother’s Monroe apartment to strike her on the head before shooting her in the back at least seven times and cutting open her chest to pick up her heart, according to court documents obtained by The New York Daily News. He put the heart back in 
OAKLAND, CA — Police have released the name of the man wanted in connection with a high-speed pursuit Thursday that ended in a crash in Oakland and with the suspect allegedly fleeing the crash and leaving his injured child in the wrecked vehicle. Police said Kelvin Govan, 29, left his 
COLUMBUS, GA - A Columbus woman was arrested on Sept. 5, and charged with cruelty to children and reckless conduct after her children were allegedly found in unclean conditions. According to Columbus Police Department arrest and incident reports, Lisa Pearl Newsome, 26, was found inside her home, located in the 400 block of Central Circle, asleep at 1 p.m., after her children were discovered by neighbors Sunday morning. The two children, 2 and 3 years old, were wearing diapers and “has feces on their backs,” the CPD arrest report said, when they were found shortly after 10 a.m. near the intersection of Broadwell Drive and Walnut Street.
LANDSDOWNE, Md. — A child was found wandering the streets in the middle of the night, which led police to a death investigation. The man who found her Sunday night says the three-year-old could barely talk and had blood all over her shirt. The girl was later identified as 
Carolina Panther Greg Hardy was found guilty Tuesday night of assaulting his former girlfriend and threatening to kill her. Attorneys for the 25-year-old Pro Bowl defensive end announced an immediate appeal. That means Hardy will have a second day in court, this time before a jury and likely after the NFL team’s upcoming season. Nicole Holder flung her from the bed, threw her into a bathtub, then tossed her on a futon covered with rifles. Holder said Hardy ripped a necklace he had given her off her neck, threw it into a toilet and slammed the lid on her arm when she tried to fish it out. The 6-foot-4, 265-pound Hardy dragged her by the hair room to room, she said, before putting his hands around her throat. 
In the game of love, there’s desperate, there’s really desperate — and then there’s “federal agent” 
A Queens EMT who was dispatched to Brooklyn for a sick toddler used a pay phone to call 911 with a fake emergency closer to his post in a pathetic attempt to avoid the cross-borough shlep, officials said on Friday. William Medina, 27, had just dropped off a patient at a hospital on Aug. 19 when he got the call for the ill child, according to the Department of Investigation... Medina was arrested and charged on Friday with falsifying business records, obstructing governmental administration and falsely reporting an incident, which are all misdemeanors, according to the DOI.
A prominent Philadelphia musician is in custody in Montgomery County and faces child sex charges. Sixty-nine-year-old Charles Cohen is charged with several offenses including Criminal Attempt of Involuntary Deviant Sexual Intercourse with a Child and Unlawful Contact with a Minor. According to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office, Cohen arranged to meet and engage in sex acts with 
NEWTON - The capital case of a Claremont man charged with a triple homicide is scheduled for a March 7, 2016, according to a Catawba County Superior Court news release published Tuesday. Capital cases are cases that can result in the death penalty. Everette Porshau Hewitt, 37, of Claremont, was charged with three counts of murder regarding the March 15, 2011 shooting deaths of 
PORTSMOUTH, Va. -- As Wayne McClellan entertained guests at his boyfriend's apartment Saturday night, his partner was dead in a bedroom closet. Sunday morning, McClellan flagged down a Chesapeake officer and told him the location of 
Oklahoma used the wrong drug
to stop an inmate's heart during an execution in January, according to an autopsy report obtained by a newspaper. The Oklahoman reported Thursday that corrections officials used potassium acetate -- not potassium chloride, as required under the state's protocol -- to execute Charles Frederick Warner. He was convicted of raping and murdering his girlfriend's 
A man is in critical condition after he was shot multiple times during an attempted robbery of an elderly woman inside her Indianapolis home office Monday evening. The suspect, who was later identified as Anthony Talley, 27, apparently walked into the woman’s office just before 5 p.m. under the guise of doing business, but as the two were engaged in a conversation, Talley pulled a gun on the
MINNEAPOLIS - A 34-year-old Muslim immigrant has been arrested and charged with brutally raping
KANSAS CITY, MO - A 20-year-old Johnson County, KS, man faces multiple felony charges in connection with two recent sexual assaults of women in Kansas City. Jackson County prosecutors say Damonte L. Likins-Osbey, 21, faces two counts of sodomy or first-degree attempted sodomy, rape or first-degree attempted rape and first-degree robbery and stealing. 
Police charged a Manor Township man with rape after he allegedly repeatedly molested a teenage girl at his home for nearly three years. Raymond L. Mitchell, Jr., 53, sexually assaulted the girl five or six times a week at his home in the first block of Kendes Road, Manor Township police Detective C. Michael Phenneger said in a criminal complaint. The assaults began in November 2012 when the girl was 14. Police charged Mitchell with rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, unlawful contact with a minor, corruption of minors, and five counts of indecent assault.
DETROIT, MI -- A Detroit-area woman may finally get justice seven years after a brutal sexual attack in Southfield Her case was treated like a hot potato, passed from one police agency to another, and eventually left cold and unattended. Attorney General Bill Schuette on Thursday charged Alan Donnell Broadnax, 48, of Detroit, in connection with the woman's assault and rape. The victim said she was beaten unconscious by Broadnax and sexually assaulted in a Southfield apartment. He then forced her to walk home. She reported the incident to Hamtramck police, who gathered the evidence for the rape kit. 
PITTSBURGH – Pittsburgh Police are investigating a reported sexual assault-robbery that occurred recently in a Squirrel Hill apartment. Detectives released a composite sketch of the suspect, based on the denoscription given to them by the victim, a woman in her 60’s. Police Commander Larry Scirotto says the woman was coming home from the grocery store, when she was approached by someone near her apartment in the 5000 block of Forbes Avenue. The man walked up to the victim, and asked her if she needed help with her groceries. The “good Samaritan” helped carry the groceries inside, but, then Commander Scirotto said the suspect pulled out a gun, sexually assaulted the woman, and ran off taking some items from the apartment with him. Commander Scirotto said the suspect was black, about 5 feet, 10 inches tall, with a thin build. Scirotto said “the victim [told investigators] she didn’t know the suspect, she said she never met him, and he didn’t look at all familiar to her. 
Delaware's Supreme Court is set to hear an appeal by a death row inmate convicted in a Wilmington barbershop shooting that left two people dead, including a young boy. Wednesday's hearing involves an appeal by Chauncy Starling, who was convicted of the 2001 killings of 28-year-old 
An elderly Queens woman who took in needy foster kids over the years was shot dead when she opened the door to a killer trying to settle a beef with one of her adopted sons. 
A Philadelphia Police sergeant has been arrested for allegedly failing to comply with a judge's order that he provide his computer hard drives in an investigation, officials said. Sgt. Francis Rawls, a 17-year veteran who worked in West Philadelphia's 16th District, was held in contempt of court in late September and taken into custody by U.S. Marshals, according to a statement from the Philadelphia Police Department. Rawls allegedly failed to produce unencrypted hard drives that were seized when investigators served a search warrant at his home. Authorities did not reveal the nature of the investigation. 
Police said they received a tip call on Sept. 30 about possible drug activity outside a business on Route 37 East near Brookside Drive. When investigators set up surveillance, police said, they saw Ansel Applewhite 
The men opened fire on the officers, who returned fire as they fled on foot, cops said. The gun was recovered at the scene. One of the suspects was found in Beth Israel Hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg, cops said.
The crazed Chinese man who murdered his cousin’s wife and her four children with a meat cleaver in their Sunset Park home will be imprisoned for the rest of his life after admitting to the slaughter Wednesday. 
JACKSON, MI -- Three people have been charged in the "murder for hire" homicide of 28-year-old 
SALEM, Mass. – Jury selection has begun in the trial of a Massachusetts teenager accused of raping and killing his math teacher. 
The widow of a Metra police officer who was shot in the back of the head and killed more than nine years ago testified Tuesday in the trial of the felon accused of slaying her husband. Jemetric Nicholson, 28, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of 
LAS VEGAS -- The man police say killed an elderly man by battering him in a Walmart parking lot has been arrested. Police say 22-year-old Ramon Smith was responsible for the Sept. 23 battery that sent 
Omaha police have charged a man in connection with the fatal shooting of 31-year-old 
ST. LOUIS, MO - A St. Charles teen is dead and another man is in custody after the city`s latest murder overnight in north St. Louis. The murder occurred October 1 at about 10:30 p.m. on Sexauer near Bircher. Police arrived to find 19-year-old 
A court in the United States yesterday convicted 25-year-old Sanjay Williams for his role in a Jamaican lottery scam. Williams, who was found guilty of conspiracy, wire fraud and money laundering, could face up to 40 years in prison. Investigators described Williams as a "lead broker" who brought and sold "sucker lists" of potential victims. Williams was arrested in North Carolina where prosecutors say he had associates in the scam. They say about a dozen defendants are awaiting extradition from Jamaica. The prosecutors say the case came to light four years ago when 
Albert Poland Jr., at age 81
Authorities arrested a Metairie man accused of repeatedly raping a 9-year-old boy. Charles Turner, 36, was booked Thursday (Oct. 1) with aggravated rape, according to a Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office arrest report. Investigators suspect Turner sexually assaulted the boy a number of times over the course of a year. The boy's mother contacted authorities on Aug. 1 after she learned of the rapes and took her son to Children's Hospital in New Orleans. 
NEW YORK — Police are looking for a man accused of luring and groping 
A model who has accused Bill Cosby of drugging her at the Playboy Mansion in 2008 sued the comedian on Tuesday for sexual assault.
WYLIE – A man from Wylie will spend the next 25 years in prison with no chance for an early release. Donavin Jennings, 23, was convicted of continuous sexual abuse of a child and indecency with a child. Jennings began an inappropriate relationship with the victim when
A fearless Brooklyn dad was fatally shot on Tuesday because he refused to stand by and allow a couple of punks to smash into parked vehicles in a hardworking area of East Williamsburg, cops and witnesses said. “Hey, what are you trying to do? Break into people’s cars?” 
CLARKSVILLE, TN - The search continues for the gunman who killed 
MASSILLON, Ohio - A man was arrested Friday in connection with the deaths of two women. Leeroy Wilbert Rogers Sr. was taken into custody by Massillon Police and BCI agents in Massillon. Rogers is charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the deaths of 23-year-old 
ROCKFORD — A Rockford man has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to the July shooting death of a 67-year-old on the city's northwest side. Delano L. Foreman, 29, who was booked Aug. 3 into the Winnebago County Jail on possession of a stolen firearm charge, is being held without bond. He is scheduled to appear in court at 1:30 p.m. Monday. On July 18, Winnebago County sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to 7609 Owen Center Road for a house fire. At that time, the body of a male was found deceased inside the residence. Sheriff’s detectives along with members of the crime scene unit responded to the scene to assist with the investigation. On July 20, the Winnebago County Coroner’s Office conducted an autopsy, and the victim was identified as 
New Orleans police are trying to identify two women seen in surveillance video beating up a man and stealing his wallet and phone in the French Quarter. The man was moderately injured, police said. Police said the women approached the 51-year-old man Saturday (Oct. 3) around 6:30 a.m. in the 800 block of Burgundy Street and started talking to him. One of the women punched the man, knocking him to the ground. The women went through his pockets and took his wallet and phone then left in a dark Ford sport utility vehicle, police said. 
A group of men and teenagers whom officials are calling a "pack of wolves" have been arrested in connection with Coatesville's first homicide in nearly three years, authorities announced Tuesday. Four of the five men wanted in the murder have been arrested, and a fifth remains on the loose. Police identified the four arrested as Dajon Rowe, 17, Steven Adams, 17, Demetrius Joseph, 21, and Chris Mansfield, 21. Tyler Adams, Steven Adams' 16-year-old brother, remains at large, according to the Chester County District Attorney's Office. Authorities said the man shot in the chest, identified as 
A 15-year-old Monroe County boy has been jailed and charged as an adult with raping, stabbing and robbing 
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis man is in jail for attacking a teenager. Barrington Hunt is charged with two counts each of aggravated sexual battery, kidnapping and rape. Police say on September 30, he forced 
Four men and one teenager have pleaded not guilty in the shooting death of 
NEW YORK - A former president of the United Nations General Assembly was arrested Tuesday and charged with accepting over $1 million in bribes and a trip to New Orleans for his family from a billionaire Chinese real estate mogul and other businesspeople to pave the way for lucrative investments. John Ashe, the U.N. ambassador from Antigua and Barbuda who served in the largely ceremonial post from September 2013 to September 2014, faces conspiracy- and bribery-related charges along with five others, including Francis Lorenzo, a deputy U.N. ambassador from the Dominican Republic. Those charged in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court included Chinese billionaire 
Fattah has denied charges he paid off an illegal $1 million campaign loan with federal grants and charitable donations, and funneled campaign funds toward his son's student loan. 
TAMPA — Eleven-year-old 
SACRAMENTO -- An elderly woman is recovering after she was reportedly sexually assaulted in her North Sacramento home just after 6 a.m. Saturday. Frances Vanskike got a call from her panicked mother-in-law after the attack. "I thought she was having a heart attack," Vanskike said. The 
CATON, N.Y. -- A second man has been arrested and charged in connection to the murder of 
EAST HILLS - Police were called to a home in East Hi
lls on Sunday morning, due to a burglary in progress. Just after 7:30 a.m. Sunday, police say Shauna Kelley, 37, broke into the front of a home in the 2400-block of Bracey Drive in the East Hills. According to the criminal complaint, the woman that lives in the home told police she found Kelley sitting in the living room cutting a tennis shoe with a kitchen knife. The woman says Kelley swung the knife at her when she told her to leave. When police arrived, they found Kelley sitting on the sidewalk out front. She told police she came to the house to get frozen chicken, which police found in her purse. It was then returned to the victim. Kelley told police she and the victim were in a sexual relationship with Marcus Henderson, 37. Henderson was at the home when police arrived and was standing in between Kelley and the officers. When police told him to back up several times, he refused and pushed one officer on the shoulder and swung at another with a closed fist. Another officer tased Henderson in the back. 
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