Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Al Capone is seen in federal court in Chicago on Oct. 7, 1931, during his tax evasion trial with his attorneys Michael Ahern, left ...

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 ...

On this day, Jan. 24, in 1925, a failed mob hit on Chicago outfit boss Johnny Torrio led to his retirement and the succession of his lieutenant, Al Capone. Torrio was nicknamed “The Brain” or “The Fox ...

If you believed every story you were told, Chicago gangster Al Capone controlled every saloon in Milwaukee, every tavern has a tunnel Capone used and every subterranean space was one of his ...

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