Wednesday, July 30, marks 50 years since Teamsters Union President Jimmy Hoffa vanished from a restaurant outside of Detroit. Hoffa, a powerful labor leader with mob ties, was last seen getting into a ...

His full name is James Riddle Hoffa. But everyone knew him as Jimmy. A labor leader who thrived in the rough and tumble world of union organizing, of contracts, and picket lines ... and of standing up ...

It was September 2012 and dozens of residents looked on as police cordoned off the area around a shed just northeast of Detroit. Low whispers about what — or who — officers were searching for grew to ...

DETROIT (AP) – The FBI has spent this week digging up a field in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ago. He was last seen outside a ...