A wild game of leapfrog – involving a suspected rum-running plane – took place in the air and on the ground in Spokane. Federal Prohibition agents suspected that the mysterious rum-running plane was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 15—MANCHESTER — It was about 2 a.m., Dec. 29, 1929, in Newport Harbor, Rhode Island, when the Black Duck, a rum-running ...

WHEN 6,500 PEOPLE DESCEND ON ANTIGUA April 30 to May 6 for Sailing Week, the Caribbean’s biggest regatta, some will go sailing. More will drink rum. Lots of rum. No longer scorned by connoisseurs, the ...

A federal grand jury in Spokane indicted two men for being part of Spokane’s notorious rum-running airplane gang – but neither was the mysterious rum-running pilot. The indictments were for the two ...

Though Prohibition outlawed the manufacture, transport, and sale of alcohol during the 1920s and early 1930s, it couldn’t put a stop to Americans’ desire to imbibe. To satisfy that thirst—and turn a ...