Twin Blasts Hit Yekaterinburg Shops, Police Point at Mafia

Russia - Two explosions took place overnight in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, in what appears to be the work of an organized crime group. There are no reports of casualties.

FBI digs up suspected gangland graveyard
NEW YORK -- The FBI dug up part of a suspected gangland graveyard on Monday in search of the body of a man who disappeared after killing the young son of late mob boss John Gotti in a 1980 traffic accident.

MAFIA: EX SICILIAN REGIONAL COUNCILLOR UNDER HOUSE ARREST
(AGI) - Palermo, October 1 - Ex Sicily councillor Vincenzo Lo Giudice, of UDC, has obtained house arrest after being arrested last summer under mafia association charges for being considered close to Agrigento province clans.

Mafia suspects indicted, arrested on East Coast
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. -- Eighteen people, including the man suspected of being No. 2 in the Gambino crime family, were charged Wednesday after an investigation into organized crime in Connecticut, Rhode Island and suburban New York.