BOSTON (AP) — Did notorious gangster Al Capone have a soft spot? An intimate letter he penned from prison suggests the ruthless racketeer could handle tenderness almost as skillfully as his Tommy Gun.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A sharp-eyed boy who noticed that the vintage radio inside gangster Al Capone’s former Philadelphia prison cell wasn’t historically accurate has delivered a replacement.

For several decades, Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay has attracted the public to tour an aging, infamous prison whose inmate roster included Al Capone and George “Machine Gun” Kelly. But ...