Travis (chimpanzee)

BOSTON -- A Connecticut woman mauled by a chimpanzee in 2009 has received a full face transplant, the third surgery of its kind performed in the country, Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital said on Friday. Charla Nash, 57, was hurt after a friend's...

The owner of a chimpanzee who brutally mauled a Connecticut woman last year has died, an attorney confirmed Tuesday. According to Robert Golger, his client Sandy Herold died Monday night after suffering a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Herold owned a 200-...

In 12 gruesome minutes last year, Sandra Herold saw her best friend maimed for life and the pet chimpanzee she called her "son" shot and killed. Herold, who had lost her only child in a car accident in 2000 and her husband to cancer in 2004, died...

An attorney representing the owner of a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman is calling the attack a work-related incident and said her family's case should be treated like a workers' compensation claim. The strategy, if successful, would severely.....

Charla Nash, the Stamford, Conn., woman mauled by a 200-pound chimpanzee on Feb. 16, appeared on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" today. During the interview, Nash willingly removed her veiled hat that normally covers her face to avoid scaring people, revealing.....

A Connecticut woman who owned a chimpanzee that mauled and blinded a woman won't be charged because there's no evidence she knowingly disregarded any risk the animal posed, a prosecutor said Monday. State's Attorney David Cohen said it wasn't evident........

HARTFORD, Conn. — A Connecticut woman who lost her hands and much of her face when she was mauled by a chimpanzee has moved from an Ohio hospital to a Boston-area assisted-living center, where she plans to continue rehabilitation and......

Charla Nash had not shown her face publicly since the February attack that made her a national fascination, a woman mauled by a chimpanzee, left to live with no hands, nose, lips or eyes. The Stamford woman knows the tabloids have been vying for a...

In the waning hours of the regular legislative session Wednesday, state lawmakers revived and unanimously approved a previously stalled bill prompted by the Stamford chimpanzee attack - a ban on the private ownership of gorillas, chimpanzees and...

Charla Nash's family members said they have mixed feelings but were ultimately accepting of a decision by prosecutors not to charge Sandra Herold, owner of the chimpanzee that mauled Nash in February. Stamford State's Attorney David Cohen said Monday...

Sandra Herold, the Connecticut woman whose 200-pound pet chimpanzee, Travis, attacked and critically injured Herold's friend Charla Nash last February, died Monday. Herold's attorney told the Associated Press that his client died of a ruptured aortic...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- An attorney says a Connecticut woman whose chimpanzee mauled and blinded her friend has died. Robert Golger says his client, Sandy Herold, died Monday night of a ruptured aortic aneurysm. Herold owned a 200-pound chimpanzee named...