Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or “Tommy guns,” on display at the J ...

What do you know, what do you say. In Old Pen prison parlance, the word "squawky" was slang for a prison-made alcoholic beverage. It was made from apples, oranges, potatoes, grapefruit, prunes, yeast ...

Tucked away in a 4,500-square-foot former warehouse in a far corner of the Old Idaho Penitentiary in Boise sits an exhibit representing one of the nation’s largest collections of historic weapons and ...