Authorities say Just eight monkeys remain free from the group who broke out of a South Carolina compound that breeds the ...

Authorities say two monkeys have been returned to a South Carolina compound that breeds the animals for medical research.

Primates escaped from the Alphas Genesis facility in Yemassee, SC and the police are setting traps and using thermal cameras ...

Twenty-five rhesus macaque primates returned safely over the weekend to the Yemassee lab they broke out of Wednesday, but 18 remain on the lam, officials said Sunday evening.

One monkey has been captured after 43 monkeys escaped from the Alpha Genesis research facility in South Carolina, the Yemassee Police Department said.

Some research does occur at the Yemassee facility. Primates can be seen from Salkehatchie ... town of Port Royal and other communities north of the Broad River for The Beaufort Gazette and Island ...

Alpha Genesis has said that efforts to recover all the monkeys will continue for as long as it takes at its compound about a ...

Yemassee is a small town about 26 miles from ... have come to inhabit the swampy banks of the Silver River in Florida. Their population has been projected to grow to around 400 monkeys as of ...

The 43 female rhesus macaques broke free from the Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center in Yemassee, S.C., last Wednesday.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — More than half of the monkeys bred for medical research that escaped from a compound in South Carolina ...