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

Although investigators confirmed that Google Street View helped them locate Gammino, they emphasized that they were already on a strong investigative path, with Google Maps serving to verify their ...

Italian mafia boss Gioacchino Gammino had been on the run for nearly 20 years after escaping prison. Authorities had no idea where he was until investigators spotted him on Google Street View outside ...

ROME (AP) – Italian authorities say a fugitive Sicilian Mafia boss has been arrested in Venezuela, with family ties aiding investigators on his trail. Police and prosecutors in Palermo, the Sicilian ...

Italian mafia boss Rocco Morabito has fled prison in the Uruguayan capital Montevideo, where he was awaiting extradition to Italy, the interior ministry announced Monday. Morabito and three other ...

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced the sister of Sicilian crime boss Matteo Messina Denaro to 14 years in prison for mafia association, Italian media reported. Rosalia Messina Denaro was arrested ...

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." ...

BALI, Indonesia (AP) — Police on the Indonesian resort island of Bali have arrested a convicted Italian mobster who is believed to be an up-and-coming Mafia boss near Palermo, Sicily. Antonio ...

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian police said on Tuesday they arrested an Italian mafia boss who had been on the run for 30 years and was convicted of killing over 20 people in the 1980s. Pasquale ...

Next month, the doors of an Italian mob boss’s former home will open to the public, thanks in part to the Uffizi Gallery. Egidio “Brutus” Coppola had funneled part of his fortune as head of the ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italian anti-Mafia author Roberto Saviano wept in court on Monday as judges upheld a conviction against a notorious mob boss who was found to have threatened him. Francesco Bidognetti, ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italian mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano, one of the most notorious crime figures of his time, has died in a Milan hospital at the age of 83, prison authorities said on Wednesday.