New Jersey may claim Tony Soprano, but Rhode Island now has the equally menacing mobster Tony “Untouchable” Martone, thanks to the imagination of a Connecticut author and filmmaker. Streaming on ...

Discover the untold story of Luigi “Baby Shacks” Manocchio — the final mob boss to lead New England’s most notorious crime ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — On a sunny Tuesday morning a few days after Christmas in 2020, a man wearing a dark hoodie drove into the upper lot of the R.I. State House and parked his gray SUV. He hopped ...

Edward C. Lato, a longtime Rhode Island mobster who rose through the underworld ranks as the local Mafia fractured under the weight of criminal prosecutions, died Friday with members of his crew by ...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) – Louis Manocchio, the last Rhode Island boss of the New England crime family, has died. He was 97. Steven O’Donnell, law enforcement analyst for Nexstar’s WPRI and a former ...