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1. Last monkey on the loose recovered

WTVA/AP reports that the “last monkey on the loose among several that escaped after a Mississippi highway crash has been found and captured, authorities said Thursday.”

“A resident who lives near the crash site called authorities to report the animal’s location and it was then ‘successfully recovered,’ the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries, and Parks said in a statement to The Associated Press,” WTVA/AP reported. “It was the last monkey on the loose from the Oct. 28 crash when the truck overturned on Interstate 59. Five monkeys were killed as law officers hunted for them in

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