There’s some monkey business afoot at a Massachusetts zoo. WWLP-TV reports a 12-pound guenon monkey named Dizzy escaped from its enclosure at The Zoo in Forest Park, in Springfield, on Tuesday. The zoo is temporarily closed while employees try to recapture the animal. The zoo says on its website that… Read More

Some five decades after he led a platoon credited with rescuing dozens of soldiers pinned down by enemy fire, a Vietnam War veteran will be awarded the nation’s highest military honor for valor, the White House announced on Tuesday. In May 1967, Army Maj. Charles Kettles led several helicopter trips… Read More

A high-energy Hungarian herding dog is the latest new breed headed to the Westminster Kennel Club and many other U.S. dog shows. The American Kennel Club is announcing Wednesday that it is recognizing the pumi, the 190th breed to join the roster of the nation’s oldest purebred dog registry. That… Read More

Lionel Messi pretty much ended the United States’ Copa America hopes in less than three minutes. Argentina’s diminutive dribbling and scoring machine showed the skills, speed and brilliance that made him a five-time world player of the year, exposing the huge gap between the U.S. and soccer’s elite. Messi set… Read More

Singer and Prince protege Judith Hill says she was on a plane with Prince when it made an emergency landing in Illinois after the superstar lost consciousness less than a week before his death. Hill told The New York Times for a story posted online Tuesday that she was “very freaked… Read More

Polygamous sect leader Lyle Jeffs has fled home confinement in Salt Lake City less than two weeks after he was let out of jail pending trial on charges in a multimillion-dollar food stamp fraud scheme. A warrant for Jeffs’ arrest was issued Sunday afternoon after he took off sometime over… Read More

A Harvard professor who caused a huge splash when she unveiled a small fragment of papyrus that she said referred to Jesus being married now says it’s likely a forgery. Harvard Divinity School professor Karen King presented the piece of papyrus in Rome in 2012. The fragment, written in Coptic,… Read More

A Massachusetts woman can check something off her bucket list: She celebrated her 87th birthday by skydiving. The Recorder reports Janis Lefebre’s children bought her the skydiving package from Jumptown, a skydiving center based in Orange, after learning that jumping out of a plane was something she always wanted to do…. Read More

A New Mexico marathon runner was less than 3 miles from the finish line of an organized mountain race when she climbed over a hilltop and saw a black bear charging at her. The female black bear attacked after Karen Williams unknowingly startled it and at least one of its… Read More

The Navy spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars to fulfill its need for speed with a new class of fast and agile warships capable of zipping along at highway speeds. It turns out speed is overrated. The Navy has learned lessons from the light-and-speedy littoral combat ships: Upcoming ships… Read More