A Monkey Advocate Lands Behind Bars
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A famed Brazilian scientist goes to jail for stealing jungle animals. But he says his conviction is pure monkey business
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REGENT, Sierra Leone  - They can leap playful somersaults or maul a human to death. Meet the chimpanzee, man's closest relative.
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SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - A southwest Missouri woman has asked the Springfield-Greene County Health Department to allow her to take her pet monkey into local restaurants as a service animal.
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When convicted Thai drugs dealer Samson Sor Siriporn enters the ring at the notorious &quot;Bangkok Hilton&quot; prison next month, her freedom as well as a world title will be on the line.
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A murderer who absconded from an open prison and was then recaptured is found hanging in a cell.
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A chimpanzee cannot be declared a person, Austria's Supreme Court has ruled, activists said Tuesday. An animal rights group had sought to have the chimp, Matthew Hiasl Pan, declared a person in hopes of gaining guardianship of the animal.
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BEIJING, Dec. 1 -- The controversial four-year, three-month prison sentence given to a blind legal activist for disrupting traffic and damaging property was upheld by a Chinese court Friday morning and immediately condemned by the activist's attorneys.
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Mary Kay LeTourneau -- a former Washington state teacher -- is reportedly moving forward with the relationship that landed her behind bars.
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A comic book hero mounts a comeback in the footsteps of many others.
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Defendants who jump bail are targeted in a new campaign launched by the attorney general.
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By Kris Wernowsky, Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Times Leader  Sep. 17--A shaky camera captures a man in a gorilla costume wearing a shirt that says, "Don't Monkey With Social Security." U.S. Sen.
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The arrival of an infant mountain gorilla is giving conservationists battling to save the critically endangered great apes an uncommon reason to celebrate.
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NEW DELHI - A top court reprimanded authorities in the Indian capital for failing to stop hundreds of monkeys from terrifying residents, news reports said Thursday. As forest cover around New Delhi has shrunk, the city has struggled with a growing simian population.
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A Belgian inmate made a dramatic escape from jail for the fourth time on Sunday evening after his armed accomplices landed in the prison grounds in a hijacked helicopter, prosecutors said on Monday.
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While other prisoners are lifting weights or playing basketball, Michael Ray is working 40 hours a week, his head buried in legal texts and journals. Over the years, the jailhouse lawyer has helped dozens of fellow inmates file appeals, sometimes with success.
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MANCHESTER, N.H. - A man who had just been released on bail got into more trouble during the weekend before even leaving the police station.
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VERNON TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An animal rights activist protesting the state's bear control methods locked herself into a bear trap Monday before being arrested...