FORT WORTH, Texas – The results are in for USA Today’s 10 Best Zoos, and the Fort Worth Zoo is proud to announce that it has been named the No. 4 zoo in the nation. In addition, the Zoo’s African Savanna placed 6th in the Best Zoo Exhibit category. 
These are the latest honors for the internationally recognized zoo, which has been ranked the Best Zoo in Texas by Yahoo Travel and the No. 1 attraction in the DFW Metroplex by Zagat survey. This is the third year of the USA Today polling and the third year the Zoo has finished in the top 5.
USA Today assembled a panel of industry experts who created the lists of zoos and exhibits it deemed the top 20 in North America. The newspaper then opened the voting, asking the public to choose the top 10.  Voters could vote once a day, every day for four weeks until the contest closed on Monday, April 22. The final rankings were revealed this morning, Friday, May 3.

​Alexander Steen took his turn hoisting the Stanley Cup on Wednesday after the Blues beat the Bruins. St. Louis had the league’s worst record on Jan. 3 and had never won a finals game before this year.

BOSTON — When their proximity to the inconceivable can be measured in months or years instead of mere days or weeks, the members of the St. Louis Blues will reflect upon one of the most extraordinary moments of not only their lives, or the team’s 52 years in the N.H.L., but also the two and a half centuries since a pair of fur traders settled the city along the western banks of the Mississippi River.
Yet even with proper detachment, they still might wonder whether this all wasn’t some icy mirage: Did the Blues, after ranking last in the 31-team league in early January, actually win the Stanley Cup?
The Blues won the Stanley Cup.
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Never before Wednesday night could that sentence be written, and so again: The Blues won the Stanley Cup.
“We’ve been waiting for this for so many freaking years, and to be from St. Louis and put this sweater on every night, holy cow,” said forward Patrick Maroon, who grew up in Oakville, Mo., about 15 miles south of St. Louis. “We brought it home.”