Nation Oct 23 Arrests of current and former stars raise troubling gambling questions for NBA By William Brangham, Azhar Merchant, Solveig Rennan
Nation Oct 23 WATCH: Heat’s Rozier and Trail Blazers’ Billups among dozens charged in sports betting, Mafia-backed poker schemes The head coach of the Portland Trail Blazers and a player for the Miami Heat were arrested Thursday along with more than 30 other people in a takedown of two sprawling gambling operations that authorities said leaked inside information about… By Alanna Durkin, Tim Reynolds, Philip Marcelo, Associated Press
Nation Sep 06 Former hitman sentenced to 25 years for prison slaying of crime boss ‘Whitey’ Bulger A former Mafia hitman has been sentenced to 25 years in the 2018 prison killing of notorious Boston gangster James "Whitey" Bulger. By John Raby, Associated Press
Nation Feb 04 Watch 5:24 How a trailblazing Black lawyer took down a top New York City mafia boss This Black History Month, PBS News Weekend is highlighting stories of Black Americans whose lives and work are lesser known — their accomplishments all the more significant because they were made in the face of injustices and discrimination. In the… By John Yang, Kaisha Young
Nation Jan 16 Watch 4:32 News Wrap: Black boxes found at Nepal plane crash site In our news wrap Monday, search teams in Nepal retrieved the flight data and cockpit voice recorders from the site of a plane crash that killed at least 69 people, President Biden marked this Martin Luther King Jr. holiday by…
Jan 16 Italian police arrest fugitive Mafia boss after 3 decades on the run By Frances D'Emilio, Associated Press The head of the Carabinieri police force’s special operations squad said that Messina Denaro was captured on Monday at the clinic where he was receiving treatment for an undisclosed medical condition. Messina Denaro was considered Sicily’s Cosa Nostra top boss… Continue reading
Oct 31 Mafia hit man is suspect in death of Whitey Bulger, official says By Alanna Durkin Richer, Denise Lavoie, Associated Press The official told The Associated Press on Wednesday that Fotios "Freddy" Geas and at least one other inmate are believed to have been involved in 89-year-old Bulger's killing Tuesday at a West Virginia prison. Continue reading
Oct 30 Watch 4:29 Notorious crime boss James ‘Whitey’ Bulger dies in W. Va. prison Boston crime boss James “Whitey” Bulger has died, one day after being transferred to a West Virginia federal prison. A notorious lifelong criminal who ran gambling and drug rackets for decades, he fled Boston in 1994 but was eventually caught. Continue watching
Dec 04 Watch 7:21 What the Mafia has in common with protecting the Vatican from terror attacks By Christopher Livesay During Christmastime at the Vatican, more visitors means added security, especially in the wake of terrorist attacks in Paris, London and many other European capitals. In recent days, ISIS has called on lone-wolf terrorists to shed "Christmas blood" at the… Continue watching
Jul 06 Watch 8:50 Ukraine fighting against Russia, corruption simultaneously By PBS News Hour Ukraine is waging two wars: one against Russian-backed separatists in the East and one against its own internal corruption. Special correspondent Nick Schifrin, in partnership with the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, begins his report in Odessa, where there have… Continue watching