Bompensiero On this date in 1977: Frank "Bomp" Bompensiero, a longtime leader of the southern California underworld, is shot t...

The Joe Petrosino story is coming to the big screen . To have your book sold to Hollywood before it is even released must be a very cool th...

On this date in 1909: Seventeen-year-old Stefano Magaddino of Castellammare del Golfo, Sicily, arrived in New York City aboard the S.S. San ...

On June 7, 1930, a tugboat chugging through a drainage canal outside of Chicago churned up a body that had been weighted down with seve...