Over 20 mafia mobsters have been released from prison in Italy after showing good behaviour - the Goodfellas could now be out ...

Their control over landlord-farmer relationships gave rise to powerful mafia bosses in Sicily. The Italian State, in its quest to maintain control, inadvertently supported the growth of this ...

The Italian Mafia boss who set the record for the longest time on the lam was Bernardo Provenzano. He was captured in a farmhouse near Corleone, Sicily, in 2006 after 38 years as a fugitive.

Italy on Monday marked the 45th anniversary of the Cosa Nostra murder of Christian Democrat Sicily Governor Piersanti ...

A leading Italian mafia boss who escaped a Sardinian prison using bed sheets has been recaptured in France. Marco Raduano, who was on Europol's list of Europe's most wanted criminals, was arrested ...

FBI’s Boston office, which oversees much of New England, reportedly disbanded its organized crime squad recently and ...

A Sister of Charity in northern Italy was placed under house arrest after a nearly four-month investigation by prosecutors revealed she allegedly used her prison ministry to connect local mafia bosses ...

Pope Francis has declared a sort of holy war on the Mafia. And it's not unreasonable to believe that the Mafia may fight back. On Saturday, the pope traveled to Calabria, the heartland of one of ...

More than 80 contemporary works of art confiscated from the Italian mafia ... Reale were confiscated in 2016 from a boss of the powerful 'Ndrangheta mafia, based in the southern region of Calabria.