Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The front page of the Deseret News on June 12, 1962, reporting the escape of three prisoners from Alcatraz prison in California on ...

Throughout its history, Alcatraz Island was notorious for keeping people from leaving, but tourists won't be arriving there either for several weeks. The National Park Service announced Monday that ...

Tourists expecting prison lore at Alcatraz instead got a wildlife mystery: a lone coyote churning through San Francisco Bay toward the island once billed as "escape-proof." Alcatraz City Cruises ...

Prisoners on Alcatraz once risked the perilous waters in San Francisco Bay to escape the island's high-security prison. Now, a wily coyote has been filmed doing the opposite: swimming to Alcatraz ...

On the morning of June 12, 1962, a guard at Alcatraz reached through the bars to wake Frank Morris, and Morris's head rolled ...

Reservations for tours during the impending closure will be canceled and refunded.

You know Alcatraz Island? The notorious prison from which three men made a daring escape back in 1962, never to be heard from again? Well, another creature recently made history as it swam to Alcatraz ...

About Escape from Alcatraz. Escape from Alcatraz is a 1979 American prison thriller film directed and produced by Don Siegel that depicts the June 1962 prisoner escape from the fe ...