The Navy suspected sabotage. German U-boats had sunk 120 American merchant ships in the first three months after Pearl Harbor ...

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." ...

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 ...

PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - The son of one of Italy's most infamous Mafia bosses was back in prison on Friday to serve the rest of his sentence for mob membership, after enjoying a year-long break ...

ROME (AP) — An Italian lawmaker has decried a secret arrangement in which intelligence agents paid imprisoned top Mafiosi for information during several of the years when Silvio Berlusconi was premier ...

PALERMO, Sicily (Reuters) - Salvatore Lo Piccolo, who magistrates believe is the Sicilian Mafia's new "boss of bosses", was arrested on Monday after nearly a quarter of a century on the run, police ...

Mafia bosses have been secretly moaning about the “miserable” quality of recruits leaving them “on our knees” — while dreaming it could be more like “The Godfather.” “The caliber these days is low, a ...