From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

GROSSE TETE,  Louisiana— More than 10 years of controversy
and litigation over Tony,  the resident tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop
near Interstate 10 in Grosse Tete,  Louisiana,  may be near an
end–or maybe not.  District Judge Michael Caldwell on November 3,
2011 ruled for the second time in six months,  in a case brought by
the Animal Legal Defense Fund,  that Tiger Truck Stop owner Michael
Sandlin is illegally keeping the tiger.  However,  Caldwell’s
previous ruling was reversed by a three-judge panel of the Louisiana
First Circuit Court of Appeal,  and Sandlin is expected to appeal
again. Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:
ZANESVILLE–Muskingum County Sheriff Matt Lutz on the evening of October 18,  2011 ordered his deputies to kill 18 tigers, 17 African lions,  six black bears,  two grizzly bears,  two wolves, and a baboon because he believed that the circumstances under which they were running loose–including a failed attempt to shut some of them back in their breached cages–left no other options.

Reported Zanesville Times Recorder staff writer Hannah Sparling,  “Sam Kopchak,  64,  owns about four acres on Kopchak Road,”  next door to Terrry Thompson’s 73-acre Muskingum County Animal Farm.  Kopchak was walking his horse Red back to his barn when he noticed a group of about 30 horses on Thompson’s property acting
strange,  he said.  He looked a little closer and saw they were running from a bear.  Then, Kopchak turned around and saw a male African lion standing about 30 feet from him and Red.  The only thing separating them was a 4- or 5-foot wire fence,  he said.”

“I don’t know how I controlled myself,”  Kopchak told Sparling.  “We made a beeline toward my barn.” Read more