On this date in 1891... A lengthy jury selection process concluded Friday, February 27, 1891, and the trial of nine men accused of the assa...

On this date in 1888... A single pistol shot echoed along New Orleans' St. Philip Street at about ten o'clock in the evening of Th...

Group of 'white citizens' backs overthrow of Republican government in Louisiana On this date in 1874... Joseph P. Macheca, a pro...

On this date (Oct. 15) in 1890, New Orleans Police Chief David Hennessy was fatally shot by several Mafia assassins a short distance from hi...

J.P. Macheca, later linked with local Mafia, played key role in Reconstruction Era battle Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper ...

On this date (Aug. 28) in 1863, Joseph Macheca of New Orleans was tried and convicted in a Union military occupation court in connection wit...

Early this morning (Monday, April 24, 2017), city of New Orleans workers dismantled and removed the Liberty Place monument, commemorating th...

On this date in 1869, New Orleans Mafia boss Raffaele Agnello was shot to death during an underworld feud.  New Orleans Crescent, April 2...

On this date in 1891, one of nine accused Mafiosi, standing trial in New Orleans for plotting and carrying out the assassination of Police C...

On this date in 1894, a federal jury returned a sealed verdict in a lawsuit related to an alleged New Orleans Mafia leader who was killed by...

On April 2, 1869, the New Orleans Crescent reflected upon the causes of local Sicilian gang violence. On this date in 1868 - Returnin...