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Zoo Pays For Barns At Safari Venture
TAMPA - Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more
September 9, 2008
Heaven Knows You Want One
Customers visiting Puppies From Heaven find it hard to resist the merchandise. ...more
September 3, 2008
Animals Up For Bid At Auction In Venus
Kathy Gaudino knew at a young age what she wanted to do in life, noting in the 1981 West Haven, Conn., High School yearbook that her career ambition was to work with animals. ...more
August 31, 2008
A Ray Of Light For Consumers: Bigger Corn Crop Expected
After months of rising food prices, there may be some relief coming with farmers on track to produce the second-largest corn crop and fourth-largest soybean crop in history. ...more
August 13, 2008
Canoe Challenge Needs Help
Organizers of the 10th annual Alafia Challenge - a recreational canoe and kayak race - are working feverishly to line up volunteers, something they are finding in short supply. ...more
August 6, 2008
Kayak, Canoe Challenge Needs Volunteers
Organizers of the 10th annual Alafia Challenge - a recreational canoe and kayak race - are working feverishly to line up volunteers, something they are finding in short supply. ...more
August 6, 2008
Farmers Markets Feel Pressure Of Higher Costs
Franca Tantillo puts rising fuel prices in the same category as the springtime hailstorm that wiped out part of her strawberry crop. Both cut into the profit she can make at the farmers markets she sells at in New York City, about 135 miles south of her farm. ...more
July 31, 2008
Bison May Make A Comeback
More than a century after Buffalo Bill and others hunted America's wild bison to near-extinction, researchers at a compound near Yellowstone National Park have launched an ambitious restoration effort. ...more
July 31, 2008
Florida Theme Parks Voluntarily Report Ride Injuries
One 34-year-old woman stepped off the Jazzy Jellies ride at SeaWorld and fractured her ankle. A few weeks later, at Roa's Rapids in the same park, a 63-year-old woman inhaled water. Tales of heart troubles, dehydration and, in some cases, broken bones come out of the grade-yourself report card for Florida's theme parks, made public each quarter by the state's Bureau of Fair Rides, a division in the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. ...more
July 22, 2008
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