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On this day, May 16, 1957, Eliot Ness, the leader of a legendary team of law enforcement agents nicknamed “The Untouchables,” died of a heart attack. He was 54. Ness was best remembered for his ...

Travel back to the era of Untouchables and learn about Eliot Ness during a special program at 6:30 p.m. March 14 at Mentor Public Library’s Main Branch, 8215 Mentor Ave. Ness served as Cleveland’s ...

Michael Cornelison portrays legendary real-life lawman Eliot Ness in this fascinating one-man show that offers a look at the ups and downs of the courageous gangbuster's life and career. As he tracks ...

MIAMI (AP) — A legal fight is brewing in Florida between the estate of “Untouchables” Prohibition agent Eliot Ness and an Ohio company over some long-undiscovered stock that apparently belonged to ...

Brian de Palma's 1987 classic The Untouchables took the 1959 series of the same name, starring Robert Stack as the "untouchable" Eliot Ness, and made a taut crime drama with stunning performances by ...

CHICAGO – In the pantheon of Chicago crime fighters, nobody has the worldwide reputation of Eliot Ness. He’s the Prohibition agent who brought down Al Capone, the principled lawman in a city awash in ...

Rare documents from the professional and private life of famed crime-fighter Eliot Ness-one of the federal agents who put gangster Al Capone in jail-will be auctioned later this summer by Central Mass ...

Elizabeth Ness — wife of Eliot Ness, the iconic-crime fighter of the 20th century — got into a little trouble with Pennsylvania fishing laws way back when. And since they were married, and had their ...

Author Douglas Perry's new book, Eliot Ness: The Rise and Fall of an American Hero, paints a portrait of the legendary lawman as a flawed but... 'Eliot Ness': Actually Untouchable, Except When It Came ...