On the morning of October 28, 2025, a truck transporting rhesus macaques overturned on Interstate 59 in Jasper County, Mississippi. The accident caused a public scare, a rapid law enforcement response ...
A third and final lab monkey has been found after being on the loose for over a week due to a truck carrying the animals overturning on a Mississippi highway. The Mississippi Department of Wildlife, ...
The second of three lab monkeys that escaped a crash on Interstate 59 in Mississippi last week was shot and killed Monday evening, Jasper County Sheriff Randy Johnson confirmed Tuesday afternoon. One ...
A rhesus macaque monkey named Forrest is now living at Popcorn Park Animal Refuge in Lacey. Forrest was one of eight lab monkeys that escaped after a truck crash in Mississippi. Of the three monkeys ...
JASPER COUNTY, Miss — Ten years as sheriff in Jasper County, Mississippi, Randy Johnson has never had a week like the last one. “This is a once-in-a-lifetime thing, I hope, but who knows what’s next?” ...
A group of research lab monkeys escaped captivity in Mississippi as the truck carrying them overturned on Tuesday. The monkeys were on their way to a Tulane University research center in New Orleans ...
JASPER COUNTY, Miss — A weeklong search for escaped lab monkeys in Mississippi ended Wednesday when authorities captured the last rhesus macaque that fled after a truck crash. Right now on WWL+, you ...