[ noun ] a port city in northeastern Sicily on the Strait of Messina <noun.location>
"I was born here in 1928 and there's always been fire cans on this street to keep warm," said Anthony Messina. "But times change.
Guy Messina, shop chairman of UAW Local 595 in Linden, praised the announcement of increased employment. "We have produced employment and security for our members and that's what it's all about," he said.
ANSA said the three men killed in the attack were linked to the Messina and Albanese organized crime families, who investigators suspect carried out a shooting in a bar in September 1986.
The results of the quake certainly raise questions about whether reasonable care was taken, Mr. Messina says.
Eleven people were arrested in predawn raids in the Messina area and charged with criminal association and extortion.