David Courtney, 64, shot himself with a Glock 9mm after a difficult battle with crippling arthritis. The charismatic Kray ...

The gangster epic Scarface, starring Al Pacino and directed by Brian De Palma, is headed to a new streaming home in October. Find out where here.

Crime has come to the movies in a big way. Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe star in American Gangster, a film about the career of Harlem drug lord Frank Lucas. And the documentary Mr. Untouchable ...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A high-ranking member of the Gangster Disciples gang has been sentenced to life in prison for the murders of three Athens men, two of whom were found dead in a storage unit.

Leyton Burgos was a 19-year-old "enforcer" seeking to rise in the gang hierarchy when he ordered the killing of Sylvia Ramirez.

This story is part of The California Report Magazine’s series about resilient Californians, and what lessons they may have for the rest of us. Shanice Robinson grew up in Richmond, where she first met ...

MATHARE, Kenya (AP) — Joseph Kariaga and his friends once lived the “gangster life” in Nairobi’s Mathare slum, snatching phones, mugging people and battling police. But when Kariaga's brother was shot ...

Larry Hoover gets his six federal life sentences commuted by Donald Trump. Gangster Disciples Founder Larry Hoover has been granted clemency by President Donald Trump for his six federal life ...

A Russian court has sentenced a notorious gangster from Russia's Republic of North Ossetia in the North Caucasus, Aslan Gagiyev (aka Dzhako), to life in prison for his role in several murders. The ...