Former Sicilian Mafia godfather Salvatore "Toto" Riina — who ordered the murder of Italian prosecutors and law enforcement officials who tried to bring him down — died Friday in the prison wing of a ...

A notorious Italian mafia boss has died while receiving medical treatment for cancer after being arrested early this year, according to media reports. Messina Denaro’s condition worsened in recent ...

MILAN (AP) — The death Friday of Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the long-time "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, puts the spotlight back on Cosa Nostra, which waged a bloody campaign in the 1980s and ...

Former "boss of bosses" Toto Riina, one of the most feared Godfathers in the history of the Sicilian Mafia, died early Friday after battling cancer, Italian media reported. Riina, who had been serving ...

Before him, Salvatore “Toto” Riina led the bloodiest era of the Sicilian Mafia’s storied history, and hand-picked Messina Denaro to carry out some of his bloodiest crimes, including murdering the anti ...

MILAN/PALERMO (Reuters) - A death threat by a Sicilian mafia boss against the lead prosecutor in a historic mob trial has stirred grim memories of the murders of Italy's top prosecutors two decades ...

ROME (AP) — A Palermo prosecutor who was allegedly threatened with assassination by the Mafia boss who ran the Sicilian Cosa Nostra says the mobster might still be calling the shots from prison.

Much like a board of directors, or even a parent-teacher association, the Sicilian Mafia has been known to operate with a whiff of organizational democracy. In the past, La Cupola, a kind of ...

ROME (Reuters) - When Don Corleone's daughter got married in the film "The Godfather," the guests kissed his hand and he dispensed favours because no Sicilian Mafia boss could refuse a request on his ...

PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - Police arrested the suspected new head of the Sicilian mafia and 45 other alleged gangsters on Tuesday, dealing a major blow to the mob as it tried to rebuild after years of ...