Sitting on a small, rocky island in the middle of San Francisco Bay, Alcatraz is best known as being a former federal prison that housed some of society's biggest offenders, the most famous of ...

Alcatraz Island ... When Al Capone headed there in 1934, the San Francisco Chronicle reported, “Capone sagged at his first glimpse of the prison.” In September of that year, the paper revealed ...

Scientist Pete Kelsey and his team have 3D-mapped the entire island of Alcatraz, discovering Civil War secrets, prisoner escape routes – and looking at ways to preserve the island for the future.

When you hear the name Alcatraz, you probably think of Alcatraz Island up San Francisco way. Or if you know something about ...

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Ashton Andrade, a 15-year-old teen from Phoenix, Arizona, with ancestral roots in Udupi, Sakleshpur, and Mangaluru, has ...