In the Viking Sky cruise disaster, a massive storm left the ship drifting towards disaster. A desperate evacuation and a race ...

A Texas man was sentenced for smuggling six baby Mexican spider monkeys, too young to be separated from their mothers, into ...

Sarmad Ghaled Dafar, 33, of Houston, Texas, was sentenced on April 18 to four months in federal prison and ordered to pay $23 ...

The settlement comes after a years-long struggle between PETA and UMass over the use of animal subjects in university research, including a protest with Massachusetts-born actor Casey Affleck.

Two new art exhibits Knights in Armor the Pavia Tapestries and Art Deco painter Tamara de Lempicka now open at Museum of Fine ...

The man spotted the trapped animal and flagged down officers to help, police say. Photo from Holyoke Police Department via Facebook An alert bystander who noticed a raccoon with its head stuck in ...

No injuries were reported, but officials said, three animals -- a dog and two cats -- were killed in the fire. Five people were displaced by the fire and, officials said, the Red Cross is ...