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She was a charismatic, determined woman who was a "pure joy to be around," her family said. "Raquel, was a beacon of positivity and always knew how to lift our spirits. Her laugh was contagious, her ...

Downtown Long Beach will be taken over by marigolds, sugar skulls, music and dancing, early next month, as it hosts the ninth annual Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead, Parade. The city and ...

Gustavo Arellano’s dispatch from “America’s unofficial Chile Highway.” Cooking for Día de Muertos. A giant corn maze. And big kids sucking on baby food-style pouches — will it change ...

Mounds of sand swallowing their homes? Not so much. That’s the reality for some after Hurricanes Helene and Milton clobbered Florida’s Gulf Coast with back-to-back hits in less than two weeks.

Mounds of sand swallowing their homes? Not so much. (AP Video: Ty ONeil, Rebecca Blackwell) A car sits half-buried in sand as Bradenton Beach, Fla., which was in the process of cleaning up after ...

BRADENTON BEACH, Fla. (AP) — When a hurricane sets its sights on Florida, storm-weary residents may think of catastrophic wind, hammering rain and dangerous storm surge. Mounds of sand ...

My family moved to Austin from Dolores Hidalgo, Mexico, when I was six. Until then, I’d grown up like all of my Mexican cousins, speaking strictly Spanish, celebrating el quince (the night ...

Massachusetts police had to call in a tow truck to remove a giant great white shark after it washed up dead on a beach in Cape Cod. It remains unclear how the 12 ft (3.6m) shark died, local ...

From sugar skull sculptures to ofrenda exhibits, there are plenty of ways to observe Día de los Muertos — the Mexican Day of ...

The popular event, scheduled for Nov. 21-24, with an encore weekend from Nov. 30 to Dec. 1, attracts sand sculptors from all over the world to Treasure Island. A statement said the widespread ...