Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola, the Sicilian mafia boss convicted of a string of mafia murders in the 1980s and 1990s, has died ...

Cosa Nostra leader, who controlled most of eastern Sicily, dies while serving multiple life sentences for murder ...

What happened to never going against the family? Leaders within the Cosa Nostra, Sicily’s mafia, have reportedly complained that mob recruits aren’t what they used to be, as nearly 150 people ...

A notorious Sicilian mafia boss who was behind several murders has died in an Italian prison.

Convicted Sicilian mafia boss Benedetto "Nitto" Santapaola has died in a prison in Milan, Italy, media reports said Tuesday. The Cosa Nostra mafia boss, 87, who was arrested in 1993 and has been in ...

Benedetto “Nitto” Santapaola, who died at 87 in the prison medicine ward of San Paolo Hospital in Milan established for the ...

MILAN (AP) — The death Friday of Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the long-time "boss of bosses" of the Sicilian Mafia, puts the spotlight back on Cosa Nostra, which waged a bloody campaign in the 1980s and ...

Rome — Italian authorities arrested Italy's most-wanted fugitive on Monday, taking mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro into custody after a 30-year manhunt. Messina Denaro's arrest brings to a close the ...

A notorious Italian mafia boss has died while receiving medical treatment for cancer after being arrested early this year, according to media reports. Messina Denaro’s condition worsened in recent ...

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