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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which ...

A luxury ocean liner burned and capsized in New York Harbor on Feb. 9, 1942. The SS Normandie, being converted into a troopship, caught fire during welding work and took 6,000 tons of water from ...

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 New global mafia poses the most serious criminal threat in history. A team of NEWSWEEK correspondents spent a month on the trail. The report: ON THE VIA NOTARBARTOLO in Palermo, Sicily, stands a ...

The high stone walls of a prison in Nuoro, a remote city on the Italian island of Sardinia, once contained notorious mobsters ...