Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former mob boss John Stanfa, pictured here in 1980, waged a bloody war for control of the Philadelphia mafia in the late 1990s.

When the boss of the Philadelphia Mafia was arrested in the early 1990s, it ignited a violent battle for power in the City of Brotherly Love. A new Netflix docuseries, Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --The underboss of the Philadelphia mafia was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for illegal loansharking and running an illegal gambling business. Steven Mazzone, 59, of ...

The Philadelphia mob’s bloody 1990s power struggle will be back in the spotlight next month, courtesy of a new docuseries from Netflix. Dubbed Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia, the series covers a ...

Netflix is revisiting one of the most notorious showdowns in mob history: veteran mobster John Stanfa vs. young newbie Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino. When longtime boss Nicky Scarfo's reign fell in the ...

(PHILADELPHIA) -- More than 26 years after a man was gunned down outside his Philadelphia home in what police described as a mob-style killing, a suspect was arrested this week, a block from the crime ...

Reputed Philadelphia mob boss “Skinny Joey” Merlino wants no part of President Donald Trump’s desperate efforts to flip the results of his loss to President-elect Joe Biden. A lawyer for Trump ...

Joseph "Skinny Joey" Merlino is one of the subjects of Netflix's 'Mob War: Philadelphia vs. The Mafia' Jessica Sager is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her ...

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Philadelphia mafia underboss Steven Mazzone was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison for conspiring to participate in a racketeering enterprise. Mazzone pleaded guilty to the charges in June. As ...

Kids as young as 10 years old were among a mob of 100 rowdy youths who ransacked a Wawa convenience store in Philadelphia over the weekend, police in the city said. Cops released new surveillance ...

Philadelphia police said they are looking for five other teens who allegedly attacked an elderly man, who died from his injuries. A 14-year-old Philadelphia boy has been charged as an adult with ...