On Nov. 10 1936, San Mateo County police made a public announcement that seemed too audacious to be true: A former Alcatraz ...

Alcatraz Island, a military fort turned an army prison in the San Francisco Bay, is most well known for operating as a federal prison from 1934 until 1963. That distinction is being challenged after ...

The convicted killer was an expert on a hobby followed by millions of people, and was the subject of a famous movie.

Alligator Alcatraz is still open and keeping detainees in its caged facilities. Most people we talk to do not know that an ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Scientists say the three prisoners who escaped from Alcatraz in one of the most famous and elaborate prison breaks in U.S. history could have survived and made it to land. Using ...