Established in 1931, the Five Families of the Italian-American Mafia in New York City consist of the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Colombo families.

While the other gangs in the Five Families date back to before the Castellammarese War, the Colombo family didn’t come about until 1928. Then, Joe Profaci put together a bootlegging gang that would ...

In 1991, the Bonanno family regained their seat on the Commission when Massino was appointed boss following Rastelli’s death. Massino took an isolationist approach to running the family, shutting down ...

The history of the Lucchese crime family doesn’t go back quite as far as that of the Genovese and Gambino families. While it was originally formed by members of the Morello gang who had split off, it ...

Terri “Missy” Bevers was born on Aug. 9, 1970, in Graham, Texas, the Dallas Observer reports. A teacher, Bevers married Brandon Bevers in 1998, and the couple had three daughters, aged 8, 13, and 15, ...

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In September 1994, a strange story emerged from the tiny community of Ruwa in Zimbabwe. There, 62 children at the prestigious Ariel School reported seeing flying silver discs land in a nearby field.

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