TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The daughter sits on the front porch of a little bungalow in Seminole Heights, her new home since her husband died a few months ago down south. She misses him, but she’s making do.

Looks like mobsters could be as sentimental and sappy as the next guy. (We feel almost safe saying this as Miami Beach gangster Meyer Lansky has been dead for more than 36 years.) A one-page, ...

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Meyer Lansky, gray eminence of organized crime, died of lung cancer at Mount Sinai Hospital in Miami Beach in 1983. By popular belief, never proved legally, Lansky taught the Mafia’s crude leadership ...

After ordering tongue sandwiches and “an assortment of pickles” at a Miami deli, the terminally ill Meyer Lansky asks his handpicked biographer why he wants to write his story. “I don’t think it’s ...