The Houston Astros are in the middle of a week filled with a pair of contenders that likely will decide their postseason fate. So far, so good. For the second straight night, the Astros jumped on the ...

Each year, more than one million people make the trek to Alcatraz Island to visit the site of the prison that was home to some of America's most hardened ...

Prison food may get a deservedly bad rap, but Alcatraz's fresh and filling cafeteria offerings were rarely cause for complaint, even from the guards.

One of Alcatraz’s most well-known prisoners left the famed island penitentiary in San Francisco Bay for the last time 87 years ago today on Jan. 6, 1939, for medical reasons. Eight years later, former ...

COLUMBIA - It was 68 years ago that the Bank of Columbia was robbed, setting off a chain of events that ended in an escape from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary four years later.