PALERMO, Italy — Here is a quick quiz for the opera aficionado. The biggest opera house in Italy is in Milan, Venice or Palermo? Yes, Milan’s La Scala may have more seats, and La Fenice in la Venezia ...

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 ...

ROME (AP) — Matteo Messina Denaro’s long record as a killer — turncoat mobsters said he’d boast of enough murders to fill a cemetery — greatly burnished his credentials among his peers as a major boss ...

ROME – A major fire in Rome on Wednesday caused the closure of a street named for Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, anti-mafia prosecutors in Sicily whose separate assassinations in 1992, one ...

ROME — The Italian authorities arrested 46 members of the Sicilian Mafia, including top leaders in the Palermo area, officials announced on Tuesday, nipping in the bud an attempt to re-establish a ...

ROME — Around 130 people were arrested on Tuesday in a large-scale sting against the Sicilian Mafia in Palermo, indicating that it has remained a significant criminal force despite setbacks in recent ...

ROME (AP) — Italian authorities said Tuesday they had dismantled the rebuilt upper echelons of the Mafia in the Sicilian capital by arresting 46 people, including the man presumed to have taken over ...

Palermo boasts natural beauty, situated between the sea and the mountains, with magnificent Baroque architecture, mosaics ...

Open ambition is a dangerous thing for a mafioso. For years, Salvatore Lo Piccolo managed to mask his highest aspirations as he rose from loyal foot soldier to the upper reaches of the Mafia hierarchy ...