Topline. Authorities in Italy on Monday announced the arrest of Matteo Messina Denaro, the country’s most wanted mafia leader who had been on the run from the law since 1993.

I n southern Italy, the Mafia wars are heating up. On Monday, Italy will deploy an expected 80 soldiers into the city of Reggio Calabria, on the toe of Italy’s boot, to provide security for anti ...

Jan. 16 (UPI) --Mafia chieftain Matteo Messina Denaro, dubbed the "boss of bosses" of the organized crime empire, was arrested in Italy Monday after three decades on the run, police announced.

Italy’s Carabinieri military police have detained the country’s most notorious fugitive mafia boss, who had been on the run for 30 years, at a private hospital on the outskirts of Palermo.

ROME, Metropolitan City of Rome — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought ...

VENICE (Reuters) - What is it like to serve as a foot soldier for the Mafia? That is the question at the centre of Andrea Porporati's "Il Dolce e l'Amaro" (literally "Sweet and Sour"), one of ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private ...

The Italian Mafia boss who set the record for the longest time on the lam was Bernardo Provenzano. He was captured in a farmhouse near Corleone, Sicily, in 2006 after 38 years as a fugitive.

ROME (AP) — Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, a Mafia boss convicted of helping to mastermind some of the nation’s most heinous slayings, was arrested Monday when he sought treatment at a private ...

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted Mafia boss who ordered some of the nation’s most heinous killings, was arrested Monday at a private clinic in Sicily after three ...