Godfrey farmers harvested and shipped asparagus nationwide each spring, making the vegetable a major local crop.

On May 5, 1961, astronaut Alan B. Shepard Jr. became America’s first space traveler as he made a 15-minute suborbital flight aboard Mercury capsule Freedom 7. In 1821, Napoleon Bonaparte, 51, died in ...

Earlier this week, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced his intention to end the Defense Department’s Women, Peace and Security program, which increases the participation of women at all levels of ...

At Macquarie Correctional Centre in western New South Wales, a story of collaboration and persistence is unfolding. Inmates ...

A 22-year-old leapt 10 feet across rooftops. Another starved himself thin enough to slip through a food slot. From cunning tricks to pure desperation, these are the most unbelievable prison escapes ...

Alcatraz was almost three times more expensive than any other federal prison to operate, owing to its remote location, according to the BOP. Costly necessities included food shipments to the ...

Scientists from Harvard University have claimed that a mathematical formula proves the existence of God. Shakira shows off ...

President Donald Trump said he has directed his administration to rebuild and reopen a “substantially enlarged version of the Alcatraz Prison, which was closed in 1963 after government officials ...

As you drive out of the prison, plastic packages from the families of residents containing food and work clothes are piled up, the inmates’ names written on masking tape. Around 100 metres down ...

GLENNVILLE, Ga. (WSAV) — A Smith State Prison employee was arrested in March for violation of oath of office and improper sexual contact by an employee on an offender in custody. A spokesperson ...

President Donald Trump wants to turn Alcatraz, a popular U.S. tourist destination, into a federal prison again, more than 60 years after the California island fortress was shut down as too costly.

President Trump has ordered the reopening and expansion of Alcatraz to detain violent offenders and immigration detainees, ...