A notorious Italian mafia boss has died while receiving medical treatment for cancer after being arrested early this year, according to media reports. Messina Denaro’s condition worsened in recent ...

The Genovese family, founded by Lucky Luciano, earned a reputation as the “Ivy League” of organized crime – disciplined, ...

What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

But former prosecutors said the mafia's influence and activities have changed since its heyday in the 20th century, when ...

The Old Country, Hangar 13 dove deep into the history of Sicilian labor issues to find the origins of the mob.

A former Italian police officer has been placed under house arrest 45 years after allegedly tampering with an investigation ...

The president of the Vatican Court, Giuseppe Pignatone, is under investigation by the Italian judiciary for allegedly collaborating with the Mafia in the early 1990s. Pignatone, 75, is known for his ...

ROME -- Ratted on by fellow wiseguys and hounded by police, struggling American Mafiosi are recruiting Sicilian mobsters, believing the island's hardheaded gangsters are more likely to keep their ...

ROME (Reuters) - Police said they were carrying out searches on Tuesday linked to 25 suspected accomplices of Matteo Messina Denaro, a Sicilian mafia boss who has been on the run for more than two ...

MILAN (AP) — The death Friday of Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the long-time "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, puts the spotlight back on Cosa Nostra, which waged a bloody campaign in the 1980s and ...

Much like a board of directors, or even a parent-teacher association, the Sicilian Mafia has been known to operate with a whiff of organizational democracy. In the past, La Cupola, a kind of ...

Mafia: The Old Country takes fans of the franchise on a tour of 1900s Sicily, as protagonist Enzo Favara finds himself getting tangled up in the web of the Sicilian mafia. Promising a compelling ...