An unholy alliance is reshaping Los Angeles’ criminal underworld. Police have told The California Post once-sworn enemies MS-13 and 18th Street have set aside differences and decades of violence to ...

Ryan Gingeras grew up hearing Mob folktales courtesy of his grandfather Charley, who worked in a tough bar in the Bronx after ...

Historian Ryan Gingeras examines the history -- and hidden influences – of underworld gangs around the globe.

Italian police arrested almost 150 people Tuesday in a major operation against the Sicilian mafia in Palermo, areas of which remain in the grip of powerful Cosa Nostra clans. Warrants were issued ...

NPR's A Martinez talks to Louis Ferrante about the first volume of his Borgata trilogy on the history of the American Mafia. Ferrante is a former high-ranking member of the Gambino crime family.

In 1986, Italian authorities built a fortified bunker inside a Palermo prison to hold the largest mafia trial in history. Among the 471 defendants rattling their cages was the entire leadership of the ...

A scheme run out of an Angola jail cell led to the murder of a prominent Biloxi couple and the downfall of a local mayor.

From a federal penitentiary in Virginia, Jose Landa-Rodriguez reconnected with an old friend in California. “Long time no hear, you know?” he told Hugo Montes in Spanish in a recorded call.

NUORO, Italy, Feb 7 (Reuters) - In Nuoro, a remote city on the Italian island of Sardinia, a high stone wall rings ‌the ...

Growing up as the son of an Italian immigrant in the 1990s, the word “mafia” has been in my lexicon for as long as I remember. It was unavoidable in that era. Media at the time was filled with images ...