INCIDENT There was a fatal mauling of a zoo intern by a lion that escaped from a locked pen. Alexandra Black, 22, was attacked while cleaning an animal enclosure with other staff members. It was at least the 10^th instance of an escape or attack by an animal at a privately-run North Carolina wildlife facility since 1997, according to the Humane Society of the United States. Officials said the lion somehow escaped from a nearby pen and killed the recent college graduate just two weeks after she started working at the Conservators Center near Burlington, about 60 miles northwest of Raleigh. Sheriff’s deputies […]