The troubled sister of Mariah Carey has filed a summons with notice naming her mother as a defendant, claiming she was sexually assaulted as a child, causing her to misuse drugs to suppress the ‘horrific memories’. Alison Carey, 57, has accused her mom, Patricia, of allowing and encouraging adult men to ‘engage in sexual acts’ when she was just 10 years old in a document filed... 

The New York Supreme Court has rejected a claim by an advocacy group that two chimpanzees held in captivity should be treated like legal persons and granted the right of habeas corpus – relief from unlawful imprisonment. The Nonhuman Rights Project and its president, Steven Wise, sought habeas corpus relief for Tommy and Kiko, two chimpanzees held in cages by private owners in upstate New York,...