In the final installment of a three-part series on the Sicilian Mafia, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports from Palermo that many Sicilian women are playing a more assertive role in their society. Long ...

Sicilian Mafia Part I In the first of a three-part series on the Mafia, NPR's Sylvia Poggioli reports that a courageous new generation of magistrates and politicians has dealt serious blows to the ...

World Sicilian mafia bosses complain on wiretaps about lack of quality recruits, reminisce about 'The Godfather' This week Sicilian officers conducted early morning raids, serving 183 arrest ...

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Fears Sicilian mafia bosses could unleash fresh crime wave as 20 - including murderer who ran 'death chamber' where victims were strangled - are released from prison for 'good behaviour' ...

HIS family tree is a rogues’ gallery of hitmen, murderers and extortionists and were even behind the infamous bombings that killed two Sicilian judges and eight police officers in 1992. And at 12 ...

Italian police capture mafia boss after 30 years on the run 02:52. Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia's most heinous slayings, died on Monday in a hospital ...

Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Carabinieri police stand guard near the hideout of Matteo Messina Denaro, Italy's most wanted mafia boss, after he was arrested, in the Sicilian town of Campobello di Mazara ...