Nearly 125 Mafia members were arrested in New York, New Jersey, and Rhode Island on Thursday morning as part of what is being claimed as the largest organized-crime shakedown in F.B.I. history.

NYC mafiosi and NBA stars used a combination of high-tech contraptions and old-school gambling tricks to swindle hapless high rollers out of $7 million in a sprawling backroom poker scheme, ...

Dressed in elegant suits, white shirts, sunglasses and fedoras, and someone with a cardboard suitcase, they disembarked at Asinara from the Cala Reale pier, sent on compulsory stay as a precautionary ...

Italian state prosecutor Teresa Principato has devoted her career to hunting down the Sicilian Mafia and has paid a terrible price for it. She has lost her freedom. Her latest quarry is Matteo Messina ...

ON THE 25th anniversary of a murdered priest, Pope Francis has told members of the Sicilian mafia, who are regular worshippers, that they cannot believe in God and be Mafiosi. The one-day visit was ...

VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis’ statement Saturday that mafiosi (mafia leaders) are “excommunicated” was a reflection of theology rather than canon law and acted as a call to conversion for those in ...

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IF IT had been the screenplay for a Hollywood movie about Italian organised crime, it would have been dismissed as far-fetched. Undercover police footage, released yesterday, which led to the arrest ...

It was a fine day for a Sunday drive, all right, but the men tooling up the road to Montalto, a rugged 6,417-ft. peak in the toe of the Italian boot, were hardly your average weekend motorists. Noting ...

Pope Francis' statement Saturday that mafiosi are "excommunicated" was a reflection of theology rather than canon law, and acted as a call to conversion for those in organized crime, priests have said ...