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 ...

Peter Robb’s superb book Midnight in Sicily is a sensuous tour of Sicilian food, art, and urban life. Organized crime, its ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Carabinieri had been bugging senior godfathers in the criminal network - many of whom had just been released from prison - X ...

Giuseppe Di Matteo, 12, was kidnapped by Cosa Nostra mobsters in Sicily and held for 779 days before being murdered as revenge against his father, Santino Di Matteo, a former Mafia member turned infor ...

Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola, a notorious Sicilian mafia boss who has ​been in prison for ‌more than three decades, has died at the age of 87, two sources close to the ‌matter ​said on ⁠Monday.

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 ...

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 ...