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 ...

Operation Underworld is usually remembered as a secret pact between the Navy and the Mafia to secure America’s wartime docks, ...

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 ...

ROME (AP) — Cosa Nostra’s “boss of bosses,” who was serving 26 life sentences as the convicted mastermind of dozens of murders of rivals for power on his Sicilian turf as well as prominent anti-Mafia ...

Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...

The mafia makes its presence felt at the Venice Film Festival this year, with a film inspired by boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who died last year after three decades on the lam. That long period as a ...

CORLEONE, Italy, April 14, 2006 — -- Deep in the hills outside Palermo, Italy, is a medieval farm town with a history written in blood. The town's name -- Corleone -- literally means "Lionheart." ...

ROME (AP) – Italian authorities say a fugitive Sicilian Mafia boss has been arrested in Venezuela, with family ties aiding investigators on his trail. Police and prosecutors in Palermo, the Sicilian ...

ROME -- Italy's reputed No. 1 Mafia boss was arrested Tuesday at a farmhouse in the Sicilian countryside after frustrating investigators' efforts to catch him during more than 40 years on the run, the ...