Topic: Naomi Rose

A 30-year-old orca whale named Kayla died suddenly this week at SeaWorld in central Florida, but officials aren't sure yet what killed her.

SeaWorld announced Friday it would be expanding and upgrading its killer whale habitats after shares fell by 33 percent in the second quarter.

SeaWorld returned to court Tuesday to continue the more than three-year legal battle over whether trainers should be able to work in close proximity with killer whales after a series of incidents cast concerns over safety.

The U.S. Navy has agreed to restrict the use of sonar during its training exercises as part of a deal with environmental groups, officials said.

The new mother of an Amish baby has named her daughter after one of the five young girls slain in a Pennsylvania schoolhouse by a gunman this month. Identified only as Lydia, the 22-year-old woman was in the schoolhouse on Oct. 2 when heavily armed Charle

The Amish community Thursday buried four of the victims of this week's Nickel Mines, Pa., shooting in private services under bright skies.

The man who shot 10 girls at a Nickel Mines, Pa., Amish school told his wife before the attacks he had molested two children 20 years ago.

Saul Bellow, a Nobel laureate, Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most acclaimed U.S. authors, died Tuesday in his home in Brookline, Mass., at age 89.

An animal protection group wants SeaWorld to stop staging interactive shows with humans and killer whales in the wake of an incident in San Antonio.

Despite well known dangers about swimming in quarries and gravel pits, the United States this summer has seen nine people drown -- in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York and Vermont.