A violent mob was caught on camera reportedly beating a New York City couple and setting a car on fire after several local residents tried to stop a rowdy street takeover in their neighborhood over ...

Some places have achieved notoriety for bad things that happened there — think of Ford’s Theater or the Watergate hotel, both in Washington, D.C. The Rochester-area version was the Blue Gardenia ...

An illegal sports betting ring allegedly headed up by a mafia member has been broken up in New Jersey, according to the state's attorney general. Authorities on Thursday announced charges against 14 ...

The descriptions of two men charged in a wide-reaching, mafia-backed sports gambling ring match two former Rutgers University wrestlers, the New York Times reported Friday. Fourteen people were ...

In Italy’s mafia underworld, the traditional professions of extortioner, hitman and drug-runner are being supplanted by a less risky occupation: social-media influencer. A new young generation is ...

UTICA, N.Y. — A Utica man was arrested by the New York State Police during an Organized Retail Theft Detail operation. The state police said it charged Johnathan L. Franklin, 27, with criminal sale of ...

“We’re all frenemies," Heather Neville of NYC Tree Lady says Gabrielle Rockson is a staff writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She joined PEOPLE in 2023 and covers entertainment and human interest stories. She ...

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Current and former NBA players and members of four New York Mafia families face charges in two major investigations. The schemes allegedly involved rigged high-stakes poker games using high-tech ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. One of the observations people make about President Trump, especially those who have borne the ...

The New York mafia is still kicking—and it may be more powerful than experts believed. Several members of New York City’s most prominent crime families were among the dozens of people arrested on ...

Decades after a crackdown decimated the ranks of the New York Mafia, the indictment of an NBA coach and player in a betting scandal highlights the mob’s adaptability. Four of New York’s five organized ...