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

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 ...

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

Sicilian novelist and critic Leonard Sciascia fearlessly exposed the Mafia’s intersection with politics and business.

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 ...

A notorious Sicilian mafia boss who was behind several murders has died in an Italian prison.

Notorious Sicilian mafia boss Nitto Santapaola, serving life sentences since 1993, has died in a Milan prison at 87 after leading Catania’s mafia.

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 ...

Cosa Nostra leader, who controlled most of eastern Sicily, dies while serving multiple life sentences for murder ...

2K Games’ consistently sporadic Mafia series will return in 2025. Mafia: The Old Country is set in Sicily in the 1900s and will explore the origins of organized crime. Developer Hangar 13 announced ...

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 ...

Convicted Sicilian mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola has died in a prison in Milan, Italy, media reports said Tuesday. The Cosa Nostra mafia boss, 87, who was arrested in 1993 and has been in ...