Tony the tiger, famed as a Louisiana roadside attraction and the center of a years-long legal battle, has died, the Animal Legal Defense Fund said Monday night (Oct. 16).

A 2014 state law that has allowed Tony the 550-pound Bengal tiger to stay in a roadside enclosure at an Iberville Parish truck stop is an illegal special law that ...

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A tiger kept at a Louisiana truck stop has died at the age of 17. Tony, a Bengal-Siberian mix, was euthanized Monday night because he was old, ill, and had not responded to ...

When you drive off the I-10 in Grosse Tête, Louisiana, you'll run into a roadside attraction at the Tiger Truck Stop. No, not a giant statue or an object declaring itself to be the "World's ...

Abigail White, 5, looks through the bars at the memorial for Tony the Tiger at the Tiger Truck Stop Tuesday Oct. 17, 2017, in Baton Rouge, La.. Tony was euthanized Monday night.

Tony looks out of his cage at the Tiger Truck Stop on June 20, 2014, in Grosse Tete. Gov. Bobby Jindal quietly signed into law Senate Bill 250, granting an exception for the tiger, who is kept in ...