What was meant to be a celebration marking the end of Ramadan turned into a melee at an amusement park on Tuesday when a group of Muslim women were told they weren't allowed on certain rides with their headscarves.
Growing up in Massachusetts, Joshua Pahigian was an automatic Red Sox fan, and going to Fenway Park was akin to a religious experience, with observed rituals.
Ira Botnick didn't expect to love the view of Los Angeles from the back of a garbage truck, much like Keara McCarthy thought she would love selling ice cream. Then again, summer jobs aren't often what they appear to be.
• Step right up! Hugh Jackman brought his son Oscar to Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., Wednesday for a day of thrills. The father-son pair, there with friends, rode roller coasters like Batman the Ride, the Dark Knight, Skull Mountain and the park's new Green Lantern, and played games including paintball and laser tag. When the group was ready to refuel, they hit Nathan's in the park's Boardwalk area for some hot dogs and fries.
SeaWorld says its "Dine with Shamu" killer whale show is reopening, nearly a year after it closed following the death of a trainer.
Thousands of lights dance across the field as holiday music plays in the air. Cars slowly wind their way through displays of elves, candy canes, reindeer and snowmen. Children ooh and aah. Adults smile peacefully.
This time of year, theme parks across the nation are transformed into Halloween hot spots.
A 25-year-old killer whale unexpectedly died at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida, the park said in a statement Tuesday.
The Florida theme park's Halloween Horror Nights pushes the fright envelope
Workers load the body of a 12-year-old male killer whale on to a truck after it passed away.
Shows at SeaWorld in San Diego, California, are expected to resume on schedule Wednesday, a day after a 12-year-old male killer whale died.
A 12-year-old male killer whale, who showed signs of being ill only the day before, died Tuesday afternoon at SeaWorld in San Diego, California, the park announced.
Dawn Brancheau, the trainer who was killed at Sea World in February, was laid to rest Chicago.
SeaWorld has been fined $75,000 by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration for three safety violations, including one classified as willful, after an animal trainer was killed in February.
The negotiations went right down to the wire.
A killer whale at SeaWorld Orlando died Sunday while giving birth, the theme park said. The calf was stillborn.
The SeaWorld trainer killed by a whale in February fought to free herself from the animal after he caught her hair, a sheriff's report said.
An autopsy report released Wednesday confirmed that a SeaWorld trainer killed after a 12,000-pound killer whale pulled her underwater died of drowning and traumatic injuries to her body, including her spine, ribs and head.
Should a Florida judge release to the public video and photos showing the death of a SeaWorld trainer?
A Florida judge considers whether video tape of the whale trainer's death at SeaWorld is public record.
Dawn Brancheau, the SeaWorld trainer killed by a whale, talked with WESH in 2000 about working with the creatures.
Mourners packed into a church in Illinois Monday to remember a woman whose death made headlines worldwide.
SeaWorld announces that whale shows will resume Saturday, but trainers will not be in the water.
SeaWorld will resume killer whale shows while the company and two federal agencies investigate the death of a whale trainer at SeaWorld Orlando, company and federal officials announced Friday.
The director of an Oscar-nominated documentary about dolphin slaughter says the SeaWorld killer whale attack that left a trainer dead earlier this week could have been prevented.
A whale trainer at SeaWorld died from "multiple traumatic injuries and drowning" after a 12,000-pound killer whale grabbed her ponytail and pulled her underwater in front of shocked onlookers at Shamu Stadium, the Orange County Sheriff's office said Thursday.
She lived the life of a little girl's dream.
The killer whale who attacked Dawn Brancheau was also involved in the deaths of two others
Christine Belford agreed to let her ex-husband take their three daughters to Disney World for a two-week vacation. In August 2007, the Delaware mother kissed her little blond girls goodbye.
Mary Waring had just quit her marketing job in San Diego in 2001, so saving money on her upcoming trip to Disney World in Orlando, Florida, was a high priority. She found lots of resources online and posted links to coupons on a Web site.
China's announcement on Wednesday that Walt Disney could go ahead with its long-planned theme park in Shanghai raised a few eyebrows in Hong Kong. That's because Disney's first foray into the China market, via Hong Kong in 2005, has been tepid at best -- and embarrassing at worst.
Anheuser-Busch InBev said Wednesday that it will sell its theme park business -- including the Sea World and Busch Gardens parks nationwide -- to buyout firm Blackstone Group for up to $2.7 billion.
Michael Jackson was one of the most famous people in the world. Yet for all his global fame, the man himself was shrouded in mystery.
Universal Orlando affords its first sneak preview of J.K. Rowling's realm
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All-platform journalist John Couwels reports on another employee death at Disney World.
A Disney stunt performer died Monday night after suffering an injury during a rehearsal, company and local officials said.
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