Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Black and white photo of Al Capone - New York Times Co./Getty Images Perhaps the most famous (or infamous) gangster that the ...

Al Capone didn't give himself the nickname "Scarface." He received it the hard way one fateful night at a Coney Island bar where he once worked.

Q: According to a few articles I've read, gangster Al Capone disliked the nickname "Scarface." How did he get the scar? — Y.B., Manning, S.C. A: In his early days, Capone (1899-1947) worked as a ...

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 ...