TORONTO – In the latest attack against a reputed Canadian Mafia family, a funeral home belonging to the Rizzuto clan was firebombed Thursday. Montreal police Const. Yannick Paradis said the Loreto ...

Ukraine's funeral services are not immune to corruption. A scandal that has predated the war but been largely kept quiet has ...

ROME (AP) — Italy’s civil aviation authority on Friday suspended the license of the helicopter pilot who flew low over Rome to drop flower petals during the over-the-top funeral of a purported local ...

An ornate hearse pulled by six black-plumed horses carries the body of Vittorio Casamonica to a Roman Catholic basilica in the Rome suburbs, where a funeral Mass was celebrated Aug. 20. Reuters ROME — ...

Body of mafia boss Messina Denaro returns to his Sicilian hometown of Castelvetrano CASTELVETRANO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who once claimed to have murdered enough ...

ROME – Rome's top security official says police were aware of plans for a flashy funeral send-off for a reputed mafia chieftain, but underestimated how outrageous it would be. Prefect Franco Gabrielli ...

A grand funeral held for Vittorio Casamonica, the alleged head of a Roman crime family, has angered the Italian government, according to local media reports. Italian civil aviation suspended the ...

“Was it the mafia?” reads a headline from a murder tale in the April 2, 1891 edition of The Critic. Their evidence: everyone involved had an Italian name, a stiletto knife was used, the victim’s ...

CASTELVETRANO, Italy (Reuters) - Italian Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, who once claimed to have murdered enough people to fill a cemetery, was laid to rest on Wednesday in his hometown in Sicily, ...