Charles "Lucky" Luciano was one of the most nefarious bosses of the Italian Mafia. In 1946, after serving time for the murder of his colleagues in crime, he was pardoned and sent back to his homeland ...

Sign up for City Lights, our twice-weekly guide to arts and nightlife in the D.C. area. It lands in your inbox every Sunday and Thursday. In its Dec. 7, 1998, issue ...

This month marks the 85th anniversary of what was billed at the time by the New York newspapers as the “Trial of the Century” – the trial that convicted notorious mobster Lucky Luciano and eight of ...

On this day, Sept. 10, 1931, Charles “Lucky” Luciano took over New York’s mob with an orchestrated series of hits, culminating with the murder of boss Salvatore Maranzano. He forms what will become ...

True Crime author and organized crime historian Christian Cipollini is creating a new comic series called Gangster. With former LSD kingpin turned crime writer Seth Ferranti, Gangster brings the ...

Charles (“Lucky”) Luciano, supergangster and onetime vice lord of Manhattan, has been trying hard to look calm, quiet and respectable in Italy, but he makes no secret of his yearning for New York.

In the spring of 1935, Eunice Hunton Carter was given an assignment her male colleagues at the Manhattan District Attorney's office considered beneath them. Carter, the first black female prosecutor ...

Long Island, with its extensive shoreline, became a focal point for figures like Dutch Schultz and Charles “Lucky” Luciano. By Florence Fabricant For Amy Kasuga Folk, the Southold Town Historian in ...

On this day, Sept. 10, in 1931, Charles “Lucky” Luciano took over the New York crime world with an orchestrated series of hits, culminating with the murder of the “Boss of Bosses” Salvatore Maranzano.

Eunice Hunton Carter, New York’s first black female prosecutor, helped bring down Lucky Luciano, though she received little credit. The LIFE Picture Collection/Shutterstock In the spring of 1935, ...