On September 6, 1971, more than 100 members of the Tupamaros, the Uruguayan urban guerrilla group, carried out the largest ...

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 mentally ill repeat offender charged with killing Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, has a ...

Pep the black Labrador retriever was accused of killing a cat, and then-Pennsylvania Gov. Gifford Pinchot sentenced him to ...