HAMPTON COUNTY, Sc. (WTOC) - The Hampton County Sheriff’s Office has arrested two people in connection to a fatal shooting that happened in the Yemassee area. The shooting happened near Ishmel Road ...

Multiple witnesses told Beaufort County deputies they saw the suspect “exchanging words” with the victim shortly before the ...

The USDA has cited a Yemassee research and breeding facility for violating an animal welfare law after 22 monkeys died in its care in November, likely from carbon monoxide exposure from a heating ...

Read the latest here. Forty-three monkeys,who escaped their facility in South Carolina, were still on the loose Friday morning, the Yemassee Police Department told USA TODAY, though they had been ...

Residents in Yemassee and surrounding areas were "strongly advised" to secure all doors and windows to prevent the animals from entering their homes. "Alpha Genesis currently have eyes on the ...

YEMASSEE, S.C. (WCSC) - The Yemassee Police Department says one of the escaped monkeys has been recovered unharmed. The other 42 remain a few yards from the facility, jumping back and forth over the ...

The monkeys escaped around 1 p.m. Nov. 6 from Alpha Genesis Primate Research Center on Castle Hall Road, according to Yemassee police. None have been reported captured by Friday morning.

YEMASSEE, S.C. (WCIV) — One of the 43 escaped primates loose in Yemassee, South Carolina has been caught, according to the Yemassee Police Department. Officials said the monkey was captured ...

The rhesus macaques slipped out of an Alpha Genesis facility in Yemassee — which is just off I-95 in the south of the state — on Wednesday night. The company provides “primate research and ...

The “skittish” animals, belonging to local primate research company Alpha Genesis, have been wandering the Yemassee area, police said this week. Authorities urged residents to keep their doors ...

YEMASSEE — The Great Monkey Escape made headlines around the world, inspired an onslaught of memes and punchlines for late night television hosts and brought up a question often considered by ...

WALTERBORO, S.C. (WCIV) — A Yemassee man has been sentenced Thursday to 30 years in prison after being convicted of sexually abusing an 8-year-old relative, according to Solicitor Isaac McDuffie ...