This video explains how Mussolini’s regime launched a harsh campaign against the Sicilian Mafia in the 1920s. After being ...

An Italian mafia boss known as the “last godfather” of the Cosa Nostra has died. Matteo Messina Denaro was one of the country’s most wanted men and spent more than 30 years on the run until his ...

For nearly 30 years, Matteo Messina Denaro was Italy’s most wanted fugitive. The Sicilian Mafia boss was linked to murders, bombings, drug trafficking, extortion, and billions of dollars in criminal ...

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 ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy’s most wanted mafia boss, has been arrested in Sicily after 30 years on the run. Denaro, the 60 year old head of the Sicilian mafia the Cosa Nostra, who once claimed “I ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the “miserable” quality of recruits leaving them “on our knees” — while dreaming it could be more like “The Godfather.” “The caliber these days is low, a ...

Rome — Italian authorities arrested Italy's most-wanted fugitive on Monday, taking mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro into custody after a 30-year manhunt. Messina Denaro's arrest brings to a close the ...

Two indictments detailed schemes involving sports betting and rigged poker games, prosecutors said. The link was current and former N.B.A. players and coaches. By David Waldstein Scores of people ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bagheria is a byword for some of the Mafia's most spectacular and heinous crimes. While the organized crime group's influence is ...

Italy’s Carabinieri military police arrested the country’s most notorious mafia boss in Sicily after a 30-year manhunt. Matteo Messina Denaro was at a clinic in the outskirts of Palermo when police ...