ROME (AP) — Italian authorities said Tuesday they had dismantled the rebuilt upper echelons of the Sicilian Mafia by arresting 46 people including the presumed new regional boss who took over after ...

Former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina, one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, died early Friday after battling cancer, Italian media reported. Riina, who had been serving ...

The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor, and fears of Axis agents operating along the waterfront ran high. Naval ...

When we first heard about the Sicilian Film Festival, our minds were flooded with blood-red visions of the Cuntrera-Caruana Mafia clan and oversized servings of pasta alla Norma. Wrong, says festival ...

In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history. Among the 471 defendants rattling their cages was the entire leadership of the ...