1.   As a result, and rather unconvincingly, Joe gets more and more deeply involved with local mobsters.

2.   As he spoke, Stein had a minor, if frightening, revelation involving those local mobsters.

3.   He started selling drugs in front of Christopher Columbus High School until some local mobsters took him under their wing.

4.   Police from Croatia would likely be less susceptible to links with local mobsters and hard-line politicians.

5.   Several reports have claimed local mobsters might have been tempted to kill Starovoitova because her liberal election bloc, Northern Capital, is expected to make a strong showing.

6.   Top police officials responsible for fighting organized crime in a central Russian city have been arrested on charges of helping local mobsters, a government newspaper reported Wednesday.