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 ...

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 ...

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 ...