The New York mafia is still kicking—and it may be more powerful than experts believed.Several members of New York City’s most ...

The son of a legendary mafia capo, a newbie made man and highly skilled poker-playing wiseguy were among the 13 mobsters ...

In March 1993, almost exactly a year after the attempt on Michael Ciancaglini’s life, older brother Joseph Ciancaglini, 35, ...

The blood-soaked history of the Detroit mafia is about to seep into Ferndale when author James Buccellato comes to reveal the details he discovered researching the mob. Buccellato, a senior lecturer ...

Longtime mob reporter George Anastasia explains how intensive electronic eavesdropping revealed dialogue that surpassed ...

I read with interest The Desert Sun's series on the Mafia in the valley ("Gangsters in Paradise," Nov. 30-Dec. 4). I figured I'd offer a personal — actually, a family — perspective on this subject. My ...

A string of federal operations decades ago nearly decimated New York's major crime families, but they haven't completely gone ...

From machete fights in California fields to hijacked railcars in the Bronx, organized crime transformed the humble artichoke into a lucrative—and violent—black-market prize.

Convicted former Philadelphia mob boss John Stanfa made headlines as part of a bloody mafia power struggle in the 1990s, ...