ROME – The Italian government believes Mafiosi have infiltrated the local administration of Corleone, the Sicilian town which inspired the fictional crime clan's name in "The Godfather" novel and ...

The Italian government isn’t letting a town refuse its offer to help clean up its mob problem. The country’s Interior Ministry has taken over the government in the Sicilian town of Corleone because it ...

ROME — It is the birthplace of both "Godfather" character Don Corleone and real-life Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano. Now Corleone — a town perched on a hilltop in the idyllic Sicilian countryside — ...

The president of the court Alfredo Montalto (L) reads the sentence, at the end of a historic mafia case in which mob bosses and former high-ranking state officials were convicted of holding secret ...

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 ...

ROME (Reuters) - Italy's government on Wednesday dissolved the municipal administration of Corleone, the Sicilian town known around the world as both a real and fictional stronghold of the mafia.

When Don Corleone's daughter got married in the film "The Godfather," the guests kissed his hand and he dispensed favors. But in real life, Salvatore 'Toto' Riina could only read about it in the ...

Cosa Nostra’s “boss of bosses,” who was serving 26 life sentences as the convicted mastermind of dozens of murders of rivals for power on his Sicilian turf as well as prominent anti-Mafia heroes, died ...

CORLEONE, Italy — In the dark heart of Sicily near the town that for decades was the Mafia’s capital and killing ground, a dozen strangers cultivate a vineyard. They are the new muscle on land that ...

The iconic Corleone saga made its debut in 1972 and spawned two additional movies — 1974's 'The Godfather Part II' and 1990's ...