Even the man who ran Traficant's district office is an admitted bag man for the Youngstown mafia in a city that has been overrun by crime since the 1950s. Ironically, it was Traficant's 1983 ...

May said that Sandy Naples, who ran Youngstown in the 1950s for the Pittsburgh Mafia before his March 11, 1960, murder was “probably the most widely known gangster in the Mahoning Valley.” ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A gang that operated on Cleveland’s East Side emulated the Mafia, killed a person ... Northeast Ohio Corrections Center in Youngstown. Three defendants have already pleaded ...

Members of the Youngstown group craned their necks to look at a bust of a Corleone mayor who Governale said was slain a century ago for refusing to bow to the Mafia. "To hear this, it's so ...

Illegal gambling was so lucrative that Cleveland and Pittsburgh Mafia families killed to control ... young people left Youngstown, and the mob became more and more desperate and brutal.

Akron and Youngstown, as well as federal and state prisons and jails. The Fully Blooded Felons styled themselves after the Mafia of yesterday. And federal prosecutors used Mafia-era charges to try ...

The former head of the Youngstown faction of the Cleveland organized crime family — Ronald “Ronnie the Crab” Carabbia — has died. The ex-gangster, who lived in Poland, was 92 and left ...