ORLANDO, Fla. — The former head trainer at SeaWorld spoke out Friday and said mistakes by trainer Dawn Brancheau led to her death. "It looks like to me she made a mistake," Thad Lacinik told WFTV. RAW ...

Park has no plans to euthanize killer whale linked to deaths of 3 people. Feb. 25, 2010— -- SeaWorld has no plans to euthanize the killer whale that dragged a trainer to her death Wednesday, and ...

MERRILLVILLE | Dawn LoVerde Brancheau, the trainer at SeaWorld Orlando who died Feb. 24, 2010, doing what she loved, is being honored by her family and friends through a foundation established to ...

The family of Dawn Brancheau are still tormented by the tragic day she was killed in a orca whale attack. The SeaWorld trainer was pulled into the water so swiftly by Tilikum, a 5.4 tonne killer whale ...

Dawn Brancheau, 40, lost her life in 2010 after Tilikum dragged her by ponytail The orca's troubled life in captivity was ...

CHICAGO | Andrean High School graduate and one-time Cedar Lake resident Dawn Brancheau was remembered Monday for the "light" she gave to work, family, friends and faith. The Rev. Thomas McCarthy told ...

SANFORD - In hearings that could ultimately determine the future of SeaWorld's famous Shamu shows, federal lawyers said Monday that the theme park's animal trainers cannot safely work in close contact ...

SeaWorld is fighting OSHA citations that may put its famous shows in jeopardy. Sept. 22, 2011 — -- SeaWorld Orlando and federal officials are sparring in a Florida courtroom this week over ...

Tilikum was a male orca who almost lived his whole life in captivity. He was only two years old when authorities captured him in the waters off the coast of Iceland in 1983. At first, he lived in a ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at ...

(AP) What the Oscar-winning 2009 documentary “The Cove” did for dolphin slaughter in Japan, “Blackfish” may do for killer whales living in captivity while performing at marine parks. “Blackfish,” ...

Tilikum, an orca that killed a trainer at SeaWorld Orlando in 2010 and was profiled in a documentary that helped sway popular opinion against keeping killer whales in captivity at SeaWorld parks, has ...