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

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

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 ...

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

Rome — Italian authorities arrested Italy's most-wanted fugitive on Monday, taking mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro into custody after a 30-year manhunt. Messina Denaro's arrest brings to a close the ...

When most people think of organized crime, they picture The Godfather: a structured hierarchy, a code of honor, violence that ...

The city of Palermo has long suffered under the rule of a criminal empire: the Sicilian Mafia, better known as the Cosa Nostra. Anti-mob group Addiopizzo reported in 2008 that the Mafia extorts more ...

The Carabinieri had been bugging senior godfathers in the criminal network - many of whom had just been released from prison - X Credit: Carabinieri Palermo Mafia godfathers in Sicily have been caught ...

The man said to be the new head of the Sicilian Mafia has been arrested by Italian police along with 45 associates. Settimo Mineo, an 80-year-old jeweller, was seized by police following a dawn raid.