Larry Gragg News Today

“Siegel’s Vallejo Girl Friend Believed Kidnapped by Gang,” was the banner headline on the front page of the Oct. 2, 1947, Vallejo Evening News-Chronicle.

The namesake of a character in Mario Puzo’s The Godfather, Moe Sedway, is the focus of a new biographical book that delves into the historic Las Vegas mobster scene.

A man has been found not guilty in connection with a deadly shooting that occurred four years ago in Caldwell County on Tuesday.

George Horne, one of Missouri University of Science and Technologys first two black students, has been honored with the university’s Chancellor Medal for pioneering an integration movement at S&T when

Rolla boasts one of the biggest St. Patrick’s Day celebrations in the Midwest.

Dr. Larry Gragg, professor emeritus of history and political science at Missouri University of Science and Technology, will present a talk on the anti-Nazi efforts of American Jewish gangsters as

The Curtis Laws Wilson Library at Missouri University of Science and Technology is hosting Americans and the Holocaust, a traveling exhibition from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, from Sunday, Sept.

There was a time in America when Jewish gangsters ruled the roost, even if their practice of Judaism was more folk than frum.

Bugsy — nobody called him that to his face — Siegel was a shrewd mobster whose crew was dubbed "Murder, Incorporated" by the press. But that fast life got him killed by age 41.

The sudden resignation of Joshua Wolf Shenk as director of UNLV’s prestigious Black Mountain Institute literary program set off a buzz of speculation in the local creative community.  The Los Angeles Times has reported that Shenk left his position after accidentally exposing himself during a Zoom meeting with colleagues.  Through a public relations representative, Shenk said he regretted taking a bath to relieve nerve pain—this, during a virtual meeting with some BMI staff - and...