Last week's column, in which I described in vivid detail the theft of one our newspaper racks, my comically heroic efforts to recover it from behind a grocery store and the debilitating back injury I suffered while loading its remains onto a truck, drew much sympathy from readers. ...more

October 28, 2009

Hospital officials in Ohio say a Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee two weeks ago lost her hands, nose, lips and eyelids and may be blind and suffering brain damage. ...more

March 5, 2009

Recently in Stamford, Conn., a chimpanzee named Travis was shot and killed after he mauled a friend of his owner. The chimpanzee lived with a widow, eating lobster and ice cream at the table, wearing human clothes and entertaining himself with a computer and television. ...more

March 2, 2009

Her hands looked like they were wrecked by a machine. Eyes wounded, hair yanked out. Face and scalp injuries so extensive, all the blood obscured whatever parts were left. ...more

February 19, 2009

Travis the chimpanzee's relationship with his owner was closer than those of some married couples. ...more

February 19, 2009

The frantic owner of a 200-pound chimpanzee that went berserk in Connecticut pleaded with police over the phone to help her stop the animal from mauling her friend, begging them to "Hurry, please! He ripped her face off." ...more

February 18, 2009

A highly trained 200-pound chimpanzee who once starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola was shot dead by police after a violent rampage that left a friend of its owner badly mauled. ...more

February 17, 2009

A 42-year-old chimpanzee who is toilet-trained and can eat with a knife and fork - and whose owner was nearly killed in 2005 by fellow apes - is believed to be at large in a Southern California forest after escaping his cage. ...more

July 1, 2008

Speed Racer The Wachowski brothers ("The Matrix" trilogy) bring 1960s Japanese anime TV series "Speed Racer" to the big screen. We sent our TBO.com Street Team to check it out and share their thoughts. ...more

May 8, 2008

Think you're smarter than a fifth-grader? How about a 5-year-old chimp? Japanese researchers pitted young chimps against human adults in tests of short-term memory, and overall, the chimps won. ...more

December 4, 2007