The Bud will still flow, but the Clydesdales must go.
 
Busch Gardens is being sold by Anheuser-Busch InBev to the private equity firm Blackstone Group along with the company's other theme parks, including Water Country USA.
 

When Norfolk's mermaid logo swam onto the scene 10 years ago, her job was to polish the perception of a city with a revitalized downtown for both residents and tourists alike. The image of the half-woman, half-sea dweller was plastered on posters, city station-ery and banners to represent Norfolk's nautical heritage.

VIRGINIA BEACH Carol Ann Curran thinks vultures are awesome, and she wants other people to think they are too. So to educate folks about the birds and their role in the ecosystem, the conservation education specialist helped host Vulture Awareness Day at the Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science Center on Saturday.

Say bye to the Big Bad Wolf.

Busch Gardens Williamsburg announced today that, after 25 years zipping through an artificial Bavarian village, the theme park’s suspended roller coaster will be closed Sept. 7.

MANTEO, N.C.  Back in the mid-20th century, David Stick used to wake up early, pile into his $750 surplus Marine Corps jeep with his wife and head from the Outer Banks to Newport News, Va., to research shipwrecks. He dreaded the trips.

By Frank Roberts Correspondent ELIZABETH CITY Depending on where you live, a trip from the Inner Banks to the Outer Banks takes between 30 and 90 minutes - today. At the start of the last century, when there were no bridges to speed the trip, it took about four hours.

By Frank Roberts Correspondent ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. Six times during World War II, Japanese radio announced the sinking of the battleship North Carolina. Six pieces of false propaganda. The ship, considered the world's greatest sea weapon at the time, survived the war with relatively few casualties - 10 dead and 67 wounded, according to the Battleship North Carolina Web site.

It’s not true that what happens in Camelot stays in Camelot. In the case of the touring musical mirth that has moved noisily into Chrysler Hall it gets the Monty Python treatment and becomes Spam.

HAMPTON Ten carousel horses are galloping again after being returned to their home outside the Virginia Air and Space Center in Hampton. Their coats, dulled by nearly two decades of sun and weather, were fully restored by William Finkenstein and his son, Gabe, of Connecticut. They started reinstalling the horses Tuesday.

NORFOLK

After 28 years as photography curator at the Chrysler Museum of Art, Brooks Johnson, as of today, no longer works at the museum.