You can't make this stuff up. On Thursday, as armed guards kept the media from a meeting between the board that operates the city's zoo and its about-to-be-canned director, the about-to-be-canned director's wife was charged with animal cruelty for, authorities said, leaving two dogs alone in a car for more than two hours. ...more

December 21, 2008

Anheuser-Busch's storied brewing history includes a Tampa footnote. The nation's largest brewer made its Budweiser and other beers at a small plant on the grounds of what would become Busch Gardens starting in 1959. The original "theme park" was a beer garden where patrons could enjoy free Bud products from the plant while watching an exotic bird show and the Busch family's own animal collection at Busch Boulevard and 30th Street. ...more

July 15, 2008