When most people think of organized crime, they picture The Godfather: a structured hierarchy, a code of honor, violence that ...

The 'Anti-Land Mafia Task Force' identified six associates of slain mafioso Atiq Ahmed as land mafia, pending approval for legal action against them.

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

LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — From our station’s founding in 1953, Channel 8/KLAS chronicled the mob fearlessly and fairly. In 1987, Channel 8 reporter Ned Day released a documentary that changed the way 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.

NEW YORK (AP) — Decades after a crackdown by prosecutors decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach, a player and nearly three dozen others in a betting scandal ...

When it comes to career advice, no kid listens to their parents. That also goes for the offspring of mob bosses. Many send their kids to college attempting to get the new generation to “go straight,” ...

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 ...