Documenting Italy's bloody battle against the mafia 03:45. An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced Camorra boss Maria Licciardi, one of the few women to lead a mafia clan, to almost 13 years in ...

An Italian court on Wednesday sentenced Camorra boss Maria Licciardi, one of the few women to lead a mafia clan, to almost 13 years in prison, media reports said. Licciardi, 71, known as "the ...

Gabriel 'Sleepy' Huerta is an alleged member of the Mexican Mafia's three-man 'commission.' He's been charged in a more mundane matter: the beating of a Wilmington gang member who lost a gun.

Italian anti-Mafia police have arrested another mobster on the run, just two weeks after the sensational arrest on January 16 of Sicilian Cosa Nostra superboss Matteo Messina Denaro at a health ...

A Mafia boss who spent nearly three decades evading law enforcement before he was arrested in January has died while receiving medical treatment, according to Italian media reports. Matteo Messina ...

Italian mob boss Vincenzo La Porta, on the run for 11 years, was arrested after police spotted him in a photo celebrating his hometown soccer team's championship.

Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who was convicted of multiple murders and was arrested in January after spending 30 years on the run, has died of cancer, officials said on Monday.

His arrest came 30 years and a day after the Jan. 15, 1993, capture of the Mafia's "boss of bosses,'' Salvatore "Toto" Riina in a Palermo apartment, also after decades in hiding.

ROME — Even by mafia standards, his crimes curdled the blood. Authorities linked him to dozens of murders in the 1990s, including the kidnapping and strangling of a mafia turncoat’s 12-year ...

ROME — Matteo Messina Denaro, the convicted mastermind of some of the Sicilian Mafia’s most heinous slayings, died Monday in a hospital ward, several months after being captured as Italy’s ...