A Hanover County man is making a last-ditch effort to keep chimpanzees caged in his backyard while avoiding criminal charges for housing potentially dangerous animals. Curtis W. Shepperson has a ...

This browser does not support the Video element. Vanilla, the 28-year-old chimpanzee was finally introduced to an open sky for the first time in her life on June 27. Never being outside her entire ...

A chimpanzee named Vanilla was in awe after seeing the sky and sunlight for the first time. Vanilla was caged for 28 years, according to her care providers – spending most of her life in small cages ...

Tonia Haddix, a Missouri woman already convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice for hiding a chimpanzee and lying to federal authorities, is now back behind bars after investigators say they ...

An animal rights attorney argued Wednesday before a skeptical Third Department panel that a chimpanzee is an "autonomous, self-determining" being as deserving of habeas corpus protection as any human, ...