Of course, virtually everything of significance that is seen on film or on television, except for live events, comes from books, including play scripts. The interplay between those forms is rich an… ...

The Cosa Nostra, along with its counterparts in the southern Italian provinces of Calabria, Campania and Puglia, will this year rake in profits equivalent to 10% of the national GDP, or about $123 ...

In City Hall, Corleone's Deputy Mayor Giuseppe Governale tried to debunk the notion that the town, home to Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the "boss of bosses" who was captured in 1993 after two decades ...

ROME — Italian police officers on Tuesday arrested 181 people believed to be affiliated with the Cosa Nostra, as the Sicilian mafia is known, dealing what officials said was an “important blow ...

They shocked the nation and sparked a crackdown on Cosa Nostra, the real-life Sicilian crime syndicate depicted in the Godfather movies. Messina Denaro was born on April 26, ...

Mineo, allegedly a member of Cosa Nostra all his adult life, was arrested in 1984 in a case pursued by anti-mafia magistrate Giovanni Falcone, who was murdered by the mob in a car bombing 1992.

It has been 33 years since anti-mafia prosecutor Paolo Borsellino was blown up by Cosa Nostra in front of his mother’s home in Palermo, Sicily. His death on July 19 1992 came 57 days after the murder ...

The Cosa Nostra's booming trade in cigarettes and heroin brought as many as five murders every day; A new documentary film about Battaglia's life, Shooting the Mafia, ...

The Cosa Nostra is perhaps the most well-known Mafia internationally, given Sicily’s depiction in the Godfather movies and the island’s central — and bloody — role in the “Mafia war ...