More than 100 arrested in mafia crackdown across Europe Mafia boss escapes high-security jail by climbing down wall using ...

How should the state protect children raised in organised crime families? Italian courts are tackling this thorny issue.

The Italian State, in its quest to maintain control ... To maintain loyalty and secrecy among its members, the Sicilian Mafia adheres to a strict code of silence known as Omertà. Omertà dictates that ...

An Italian mother who vanished seven years ago was murdered and her body fed to pigs by a mobster from the notorious 'Ndrangheta mafia, police revealed today. Maria Chindamo, 42, a mother of three ...

An all-star team of five journalism experts shared their approaches to investigating the ever-evolving world of organized ...

The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so ...

A Sicilian mafia boss serving a life sentence bit off and swallowed a prison guard's finger during an altercation, an Italian news report ... usually applied to mafia members.

For the better part of the 1900s, the Gambinos were one of New York City's infamous "Five Families" -- an intricate, well-established criminal organization at the heart of the Italian Mafia's ...

Martin Madrigal Cazares, a fugitive Mexican Mafia member who controlled gangs in Ventura County from a base in Mexico where he developed a drug-trafficking network and brought California-style ...

He's quickly charmed by the people who warmly welcome the “Americano.” And the same time, the Camorra mafia is pushing harder into the village, with intentions of driving out locals to make ...

The mafia controls much of the region's agribusiness, and it's big business, adding billions of euros to its yearly turnover. So how is the mafia making all this money, when tinned tomatoes are so ...

Martin Madrigal Cazares, a fugitive Mexican Mafia member who controlled gangs in Ventura County from a base in Mexico where he developed a drug-trafficking network and brought California-style ...