After Tulane officials publicly disputed Jasper County's account of events, the Sheriff's Department said in a statement posted to social media Tuesday evening that it was the truck driver who warned...

Lab monkeys initially thought to be carrying a range of diseases have escaped from a truck in Mississippi following a crash — prompting law enforcement officers to kill a number of the animals.

Tulane University subsequently responded to the situation, saying that its National Biological Research Center provides primates to other research organizations and that the monkeys belong to a third...