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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...

CORLEONE, Sicily (AP) — Corleone is a Sicilian medieval hill town whose bloody past began generations before “The Godfather” novels and films borrowed its name for a fictional Mafia don. It is the ...

Rookie mobster Michael Corleone, in Mario Puzo’s book “The Godfather,” is sent in exile from New York to hide out in Sicily. In the resulting Academy Award-winning movie, director Francis Ford Coppola ...

Italy’s No. 1 fugitive, convicted Mafia boss Matteo Messina Denaro, was arrested on Monday at a private clinic in Palermo, Sicily, after three decades on the run, Italian paramilitary police said.

As they traveled around Sicily for nine days in March, 16 Bowdoin students didn’t just visit ancient sites and majestic ruins. They spoke to shop owners about fending off the tyranny of the Mafia.

He barely appears in the movie, yet Luca Brasi steals “The Godfather.” Maybe because he’s the subject of two of the film’s most immortal lines — Luca helps administer “the offer he can’t refuse,” and ...

The road sign at the entrance of the village of Corleone, in Sicily, where Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was arrested, Wednesday , April 12, 2006. Police arrested three people on Wednesday, on ...

The narrow alleys of Corleone, Sicily no longer run red with the blood of Mafia victims. But the memory lingers on – thanks in large part to the Godfather movies. That’s why a local lawyer is ...

Bernardo Provenzano, the leader of the powerful Sicilian Mafia, whose life mirrored the characters and events depicted in Mario Puzo’s classic novel and Francis Ford Coppola‘s film versions of “The ...

The road sign at the entrance of the village of Corleone, in Sicily, where Mafia boss Bernardo Provenzano was arrested, Wednesday , April 12, 2006. Police arrested three people on Wednesday, on ...