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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. |
RICHLAND COUNTY, SC - Authorities are searching for a suspect after a 76-year-old woman was found dead in a Columbia home on Sunday afternoon. Richland County sheriff's deputies responded to a 911 call by the woman's 8-year-old granddaughter who was found tied up in the home in the 7800 block of Edgewater Drive, Deputies say the home appeared to be ransacked and there are signs of a struggle. Richland County Coroner Gary Watts said Alice R. Tollison was found in her home around 5:50 p.m. Watts said an autopsy conducted Monday morning shows that Mrs. Tollison died from traumatic injuries to her upper body. He ruled her death a homicide. Lt. Curtis Wilson says deputies are looking for a black male wearing an orange basketball jersey. That is the only suspect denoscription given at this time. The child was taken to the hospital to be evaluated. - (Black-on-white)
MILWAUKEE -- Key testimony Wednesday, October 7th in the case against Badger Guns. The second of two officers shot and seriously injured back in June of 2009 took the stand, as did the man who pulled the trigger. A jury must determine whether the gun shop is liable after allowing the sale of a gun to Jacob Collins -- who bought the gun for his friend, Julius Burton, who could not legally buy one himself. One month after the sale, Burton used the gun to shoot two Milwaukee police officers. Jacob Collins served two years in prison for buying the gun illegally. Julius Burton is serving 80 years in prison for the shooting. 
DENVER - She didn't want her face shown but her scars are visible. "I have 
PALATKA, Fla. — Two people died Sunday in what police are calling a murder-suicide in Palatka County. 
It’s a familiar story: a British grandmother falls for a smooth-talking foreigner on holiday and ends up handing over her life savings. But former teacher 
A neighbor of a Memphis cop who was killed while off-duty has been arrested on a gun charge. According to WREG, 36-year-old Lorenzo Clark is also a neighbor of slain Memphis officer 
The woman who called police Thursday morning stating she found her roommate lying on the floor in blood at a Bessemer home was arrested in connection with his death, police announced Friday night. The evidence gathered during the investigation led to the arrest of Bonnie Ray Pier-Danzey, 58, on suspicion of first-degree murder. She was booked into Pueblo County jail on a no-bond warrant. Police said evidence of blunt force trauma was found on the man, who is 60 years old. 
OKLAHOMA CITY – Police say they found unusual items in an Oklahoma City woman while they were booking her into jail. Police were called to the Belle Isle Walmart after an employee noticed a woman allegedly place multiple items into reusable bags and then leave the store without paying for the items. The woman left the store with about $306 worth of items. Police then arrested the woman, 55-year-old Cherie Swindall, and transported her to the Oklahoma County Jail. Police say Swindall was in the process of being booked into jail when officers discovered she had hidden two lighters inside her vagina. 
A football player at Albright College in Pennsylvania has been suspended from school and jailed on attempted homicide and other charges for allegedly stabbing a teammate with a corkscrew during a fight at a dormitory. 18-year-old Marquis Stewart, of Bethlehem, was arrested after the incident around 2 a.m. Sunday in Crowell Hall.
The victim, another freshman football player, 18-year-old 
HILLSBORO, Ore. - A 19-year-old Oregon man has been sentenced to a decade in prison his role in the sledgehammer death of his great-grandmother. Washington County Judge Rick Knapp said Tuesday he would have sentenced Joda Cain to more than 10 years if not restricted by sentencing guidelines. A jury rejected murder charges at Cain's recent trial, and instead found him guilty of manslaughter. Cain did not make a statement Tuesday. 
Portland, OR - Newly unsealed court documents in Oregon show a sledgehammer was used in the October slaying of a retired utility company executive. The records obtained by The Oregonian reveal 
TRENTON, N.J. — Three men from New Jersey and another from South Carolina have been indicted on human trafficking charges involving 
TUSCUMBIA, Ala. – In Tuscumbia, a teenage girl went missing earlier this week and police located her being used as a prostitute. Monday night Tuscumbia Police received a call from family members of
The man who barricaded himself inside a West Baltimore home for more than six hours Saturday has been arrested and charged with sexually assaulting 
MINNEAPOLIS — A Metro Transit bus driver is facing felony charges for sexually harassing a minor on the bus. Hennepin County attorneys charged 32-year-old 
Police arrested a suspect in the attempted kidnapping and sexual assault of
A man suspected of killing a cross-dressing prostitute in Detroit has been arrested. The people who were closest to 33-year-old 
PHOENIX - Phoenix police are seeking to identify an investigative lead in the shooting death of a black transgender woman in August. 
A 19-year-old has been charged in a double stabbing that left a man dead in a Southeast Memphis home. Edward Bentley, JR is charged with Aggravated Assault after stabbing his father, 
A stabbing victim was hospitalized in critical condition Sunday morning. His father has been arrested. Police called to a home near North 34th and Franklin streets in Omaha just after 2:30 a.m. found 40-year-old 
The parents of two Georgia brothers accused of trying to kill them, said outside court today that they forgive their sons and "love them unconditionally." The parents,
He got ‘picked up’ all right. A dopey identity thief was arrested by Port Authority police Thursday when he went to the Enterprise rental lot at JFK Airport to retrieve the trove of forged driver’s licenses and credit cards he’d left in one of their cars, the PAPD said. Carl Black, 33, rented the 2014 Dodge Charger at JFK on Sept. 15 for what was supposed to be one day, but never returned the ride, authorities said.
Columbia, SC - One woman is in custody after being arrested and charged with looting Friday. Shiparish Yates is accused of stealing her neighbor's property who evacuated her home because of the flood waters from earlier in the week. The two live in the Shandon Crossing Apartments located at 504 South Beltline Boulevard. Yates allegedly stole an Xbox, televisions and a microwave from the male victim.
Richland County, SC - Richland County deputies have arrested two more suspects who they say were looting the items of people recovering from this week's natural disaster. Sheriff Leon Lott announced that his officers had arrested 21-year-old Wilshawn Wilson and 21-year-old Shareeka Dreher.
The “Black Lives Matter” leader who landed a teaching gig at Yale University delivered a lecture this week on the historical merits of looting as a form of protest, backing up his lesson with required reading that puts modern-day marauders on par with the patriots behind the Boston Tea Party. DeRay McKesson, who was hired by the Ivy League institution’s divinity school to lecture for two days on "Transformational Leadership in the #BlackLivesMatter Movement," had students read an essay written at the height of the rioting and looting that plagued the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson just over a year ago.
Pittsburgh police say rapper Wiz Khalifa has been cited for urinating in public. City public safety spokeswoman Sonya Toler says it happened at about 2:30 a.m. Saturday behind a bar called The Flats on Pittsburgh's South Side. Khalifa, whose real name is Cameron Jibril Thomaz, is a graduate of Pittsburgh's Allderdice High School and keeps a home in suburban Canonsburg. He was in town to perform during Pitt's Midnight Madness basketball season kickoff Friday night. 
The first suspect is described as a black man, 30-35 years-old, who is 5 feet 7 inches, with a stocky build. He was wearing a blue button-down, short-sleeve shirt with a black, long-sleeve shirt underneath, a black baseball cap, khaki pants and dark-colored sneakers. The second suspect is described as a black man in his early to mid-30s, 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches, with a thin build. He was wearing a blue button-down, short-sleeve shirt with a black long-sleeve shirt underneath, a black and red baseball cap with "USA" on the front, khaki cargo pants and black boots.
Nearly two years ago a gay black fashion student was left blinded in one eye after he was brutally attacked as he walked home following a night of partying. Today three of the four Hasidic Jewish men accused of beating him went before a Brooklyn, New York judge. Daily Mail Online were the only media in the court room as they denied the accusations. Taj Patterson claims he was confronted by the ultra-Orthodox group, made up of at least 12 men, as he was headed to his Fort Greene home on December 1, 2013. He says they assaulted him as they shouted homophobic insults. Officers from the NYPD's hate crime squad later arrested four men - 41-year-old Abraham Winkler, 23-year-old Mayer Herskovic, 21-year-old Pinchas Braver and 27-year-old Joseph Fried. 
DALLAS – It hasn't been a good final week in the United States for 
A woman who was raped and beaten by her former partner during an eight-day ordeal is urging other victims of domestic violence to seek help before it is too late. 
MINNEAPOLIS — An admission of guilt in the disappearance and death of a Wright County man will send Robert Nuttall to prison for 20 years. Nuttall pleaded guilty Friday to felony unintentional murder of 
BUFFALO, N.Y. - No plea bargain for 50-year-old David Wingate. The Buffalo man was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law for attacking his girlfriend with a hatchet and two kitchen knives last month. Wingate also attacked
Authorities say a 20-year-old woman was walking on the 1400 block of Carlisle Street when she heard footsteps. Police say a man allegedly hit her arm with his gun and took her to a construction site where he sexually assaulted her.
A black male entered the Wells Fargo at 2867 Dale Blvd. Thursday morning, brandished a weapon and took money.
He is described as a 5-foot-10 black man, in his late 30s or early 40s, weighing between 200 and 200 pounds, the FBI said. In the July robbery he was wearing dark sweats, a “Bears” hooded sweatshirt and a black and white bandana over his face.
Duane Lake has been charged with murder for the deaths of 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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 
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. 
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