Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola, the Sicilian mafia boss convicted of a string of mafia murders in the 1980s and 1990s, has died ...

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." ...

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced the sister of Sicilian crime boss Matteo Messina Denaro to 14 years in prison for mafia association, Italian media reported. Rosalia Messina Denaro was arrested ...

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 ...

How realistic is The Sopranos? Well, don’t expect a mob boss to visit a therapist’s office regularly. That’s according to the legendary FBI undercover agent, Joe Pistone, who infiltrated the Bonanno ...

Reading “The Don: 36 Rules of the Bosses” is a disconcerting experience, almost as if you are entering into the deepest, darkest thoughts of a Mafia boss’s mind. “I wanted the book to read as if ...