https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Italy in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A court in Italy has sentenced a former far-right extremist to life in prison for his part in a bombing at a railway station that killed 85 people 40 years ago. https://www.thelocal.it/20200110/italian-far-right-extremist-life-sentence-bologna-bombing Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:43:39 +0100 italian-far-right-extremist-life-sentence-bologna-bombing The mayor of Livorno in northwestern Italy has said he is being investigated for complicity in culpable homicide over a flood which killed eight people in the Tuscan city last September. https://www.thelocal.it/20180116/italian-mayor-livorno-tuscany-filippo-nogarin-investigated-complicity-homicide-flood-deaths Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:30:02 +0100 italian-mayor-livorno-tuscany-filippo-nogarin-investigated-complicity-homicide-flood-deaths An Italian priest is being investigated for embezzlement after squandering €100,000 which was intended for the poor on cars, holidays - and cosmetic treatments for his mother. https://www.thelocal.it/20151204/priest-spends-charity-money-on-mums-cosmetic-surgery Fri, 04 Dec 2015 10:57:22 +0100 priest-spends-charity-money-on-mums-cosmetic-surgery A maths teacher at a high school in Sardinia has been arrested for allegedly blackmailing his students into having sex with him in exchange for high grades. https://www.thelocal.it/20140917/teacher-arrested-in-sex-for-grades-scandal Wed, 17 Sep 2014 17:30:00 +0200 teacher-arrested-in-sex-for-grades-scandal Anti-mafia campaigners are up in arms about a new TV drama about the life of a high-profile woman in the Camorra - the Neapolitan mafia, claiming that it glorifies women in the criminal organization. https://www.thelocal.it/20130606/anti-mafia-figures-slam-camorra-tv-drama Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:27:00 +0200 anti-mafia-figures-slam-camorra-tv-drama