His more expansive definition allows the author of Mafia to bring the creation of an entire generation of criminal ...

Ryan Gingeras grew up hearing Mob folktales courtesy of his grandfather Charley, who worked in a tough bar in the Bronx after ...

Once-sworn enemies in Hispanic gangs have set aside decades of violence to form a "super gang," cashing in on drugs, ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Louis Ferrante about the first volume of his Borgata trilogy on the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante is a former high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.

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 ...

A scheme run out of an Angola jail cell led to the murder of a prominent Biloxi couple and the downfall of a local mayor.

From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California. “Long time no hear, you know?” he told Hugo Montes in Spanish in a recorded call.

Samuel “Negro” Villalba was found shot to death in a homeless camp in 2021, years after the Mexican Mafia kicked him out and put a target on him, according to authorities. Villalba joined the gang in ...