The federal government has agreed to pay an undisclosed amount of money to a Massachusetts mobster who was accidentally shot by an FBI agent in Tampa in 2004. ...more

February 27, 2009

A former actor on "The Sopranos" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison for a botched burglary in the Bronx in which an accomplice shot and killed an off-duty police officer. ...more

January 9, 2009

Lillo Brancato, who played a bumbling aspiring mobster on "The Sopranos," was cleared Monday in New York of second-degree murder in the shooting death of an off-duty policeman. ...more

December 23, 2008

"Kaleidoscope," by Darryl Wimberly (Toby Press, $25) ...more

November 2, 2008

John "Junior" Gotti "is definitely not a mobster," his sister told reporters after his arraignment Thursday in U.S. District Court. ...more

August 29, 2008

Victoria Gotti told reporters this afternoon she is angry that her brother is being prosecuted in Tampa by the federal government. ...more

August 28, 2008

"Swan Peak," by James Lee Burke (Simon & Schuster, $25.95) ...more

August 17, 2008

"Extracurricular Activities," by Maggie Barbieri (St. Martin's Minotaur, $24) ...more

December 30, 2007

Mike Tyson ate sloppy joes and read the mobster epic "American Gangster" during his 24-hour jail term for a DUI conviction. ...more

November 22, 2007

So perhaps 'American Gangster,' Ridley Scott's much-anticipated mobster epic, doesn't have a single original idea in its head, with its unshakable shades of 'Scarface' and 'Serpico' and 'Superfly.' And maybe it's a half-hour too long - this time of year, what film with awards ambitions isn't? ...more

November 2, 2007