In 1931, following decades of turf warfare, Brooklyn bootlegger Salvatore Maranzano established the leaders of New York ...

This is for you, Frank,” the young hitman snarled before firing at mob boss Frank Costello outside New York’s Waldorf-Astoria ...

The Alto Knights tells the story of two mob bosses who are at loggerheads. Nicholas Pileggi (who also wrote Goodfellas) wrote the biographical crime drama, which Barry Levinson directed.

ROBERT DE NIRO might be more or less synonymous with gangsters on film, but he’s doing double duty in The Alto Knights, which ...

Vincent van der Merwe, a globally recognised conservationist and a key figure in India’s ambitious Project Cheetah, was found dead in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The 42-year-old’s body was ...

Robert De Niro plays the crime lords Vito Genovese and Frank Costello in this film about midcentury Mafia moves.

The story begins with a failed hit on Costello by future mob boss Vincent “The Chin” Gigante (Cosmo Jarvis, Shogun), here ...

Art Schallock, a World War II veteran who collected three World Series rings pitching with the New York Yankees in the 1950s, has died at 100. Schallock had been MLB’s oldest-living player since ...

One arrest has been made and more are expected in connection with the death of a 20-year-old Southern University student after an off-campus fraternity hazing ritual, Baton Rouge authorities ...

He was 71. Bridgeman was a fixture in Louisville after his playing days, and Mayor Craig Greenberg announced his death, saying the city had “lost a kind, generous and groundbreaking legend.” ...