Michael Corleone's drastic transition from a kind war veteran to a ruthless Mafia Don can be traced back to one forgotten ...

PALERMO, Sicily - In the end, Italy's No. 1 fugitive and reputed Mafia "boss of bosses" was done in not by an informer or a rival gangster, but by clean laundry. Police tracked the package of clothes ...

The road sign at the entrance of the village of Corleone, in Sicily, where Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was arrested, Wednesday , April 12, 2006. Police arrested three people on Wednesday, on ...

There are many chilling scenes in The Godfather trilogy, but none more intense than this Michael Corleone moment.

CORLEONE, Sicily — Decades before Mario Puzo borrowed its name for his novel about a ruthless Mafia family and Marlon Brando brought "The Godfather" to life with a throaty voice, Corleone — the town, ...

ROME -- Italy's reputed No. 1 Mafia boss was arrested Tuesday at a farmhouse in the Sicilian countryside after frustrating investigators' efforts to catch him during more than 40 years on the run, the ...

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, Matteo Messina Denaro, a convicted Mafia boss who ordered some of the nation’s most heinous killings, was arrested Monday at a private clinic in Sicily after three decades on ...

Matteo Messina Denaro, one of the bosses of the Cosa Nostra Mafia in Sicily and Italy's most wanted man, has been arrested by police while being treated in a private health clinic in Palermo, ...

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