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I All-Star Dream Rays rookie Evan Longoria's three homers not enough. I DETAILS, SPORTS, Page 1 Starbucks Introduces Something Cold And Smooth To The Menu After dosing 600 stores the company expands menu. DETAILS, BUSINESS, Page 1 TAMPA, FLORIDA ONLINEATTBO.COM JULY 15, 2008 LIFE. PRINTED DAILY. Tvrc TAI iPA II NiL-d InBevDeal Leaves Busch Gardens' Future Uncertain CraclcdlowBi HYATT .17 Yi 5) TvT i 1 I VXk IN TAMPA: Questions loom about what will happen to the amusement parks with the Busch name, including Busch Gardens and Adventure Island.

InBev is expected to put them up for sale. IN ST. LOUIS: Despite promises from InBev to keep the headquarters there, locals worry about what will happen to the brand that kept food on their tables and their town on the map. EVERYWHERE: American beer drinkers raise their glasses as one of the most iconic names in U.S. business is swallowed in a $52 billion deal.

They won't take effect for more than a year, but mortgage lending rules laid down Monday by the nation's central bank require assurances that borrowers can pay their loans for at least seven years not just the low "teaser" rates that started the credit crisis. The Federal Reserve's rules also say that, starting in October 2009, lenders have to verify income, establish escrow accounts and stop advertising variable payments as "fixed." The rules, too late for existing loans, are intended to prevent future abuses. DETAILS, THIS SECTION, Page U.S. Seeks To Allay Worry The government's attempt to shore up confidence in the nation's two biggest mortgage lenders will make it a little bit easier to get a mortgage if you're looking and bring some badly needed steadiness to a turbulent credit market. Taxpayers will be on the hook, however, if a $300 billion bailout is needed.

The Treasury Department hopes the symbolism alone will keep Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae afloat. DETAILS, This Section, Page 5 Amid Crunch, Banks Falter Although it's unlikely the nation will see thousands of banks fail as it did during the savings-and-loan debacle of the 1980s, analysts say there will be battered financial institutions unable to survive this credit crunch. Seven banks have failed since last summer, including the second-largest to falter in the 75-year-history of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Stocks in banks, even those having endured losses for months, took a clobbering Monday. DETAILS, BUSINESS, Pagel COMMON ANHEUSER-BUSCH BEERS Budweiser Budweiser Select Bud Light Michelob Rolling Rock Busch Natural Light COMMON INBEV BRANDS Beck's Stella Artois Hoegaarden Brahma Staropramen Leffe Bass Skol i Tribune photo illustration by JAY CONNER By JACOB SCHNEIDER The Tampa Tribune E-gAMPA After decades of stable ownersnip, tne popular tneme parks Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Adventure Island could soon be up for sale now that the board of Anheuser- INSIDE Busch Gardens' Future In Limbo InBev says it will sell non-core assets, such as Tampa park.

DETAILS, Page 4 The End Of Another Era Built in 1959, the original Tampa brewery was razed in 1997. DETAILS, Page 4 SpiSI Your Knowledge share under the deal, which aims to create a global beer magnate, uniting American brands Budweiser and Michelob with European beer brands Stella Artois and Beck's, among others. The pending transfer of ownership, however, means uncertainty for Busch-owned theme parks and their employees. Industry analysts think that InBev will sell all Busch divisions that aren't direcdy tied to making and selling beer. See BUSCH PARKS, Page 4 Tampa Bay is the biggest dram Busch has agreed to be bought by a Belgian company.

After weeks of speculation, Belgian brewer InBev announced Monday that it had reached an agreement with Anheus-er-Busch's board to acquire the venerable St. Louis-based company in a $52 billion deal. The deal must be approved by InBev and Anheuser-Busch shareholders, as well as federal regulators. Anheuser Busch Shareholders would receive $70 a Keyword: Beer, to test your II know-how of Aniieuser- Busch trivia. 4 State May Be Getting A Touch Blue loot, Root, Roof For Song 100th CLEVELAND Frank Sinatra and Frank Zappa each recorded it.

Mike Ditka and Ozzy Osbourne each performed it. It rises into the summer sky at ballparks across the country, and will at tonight's All-Star Game, as thousands of voices sing it as one. "Take Me Out To The Ball Game" turns 100. Now the third-most frequently sung song in the United States, the tune about America's favorite pastime was hastily written on a New York subway or so the story goes. A sign advertising a game supposedly inspired singer Jack Norworth.

In about the time it takes to play an inning, Norworth jotted some lyrics about a fan named Katie Casey whose boyfriend asked if she'd like to go to a show. Her response is the chorus "Take Me Out to the Ball Game." It was not sung at a ball field until 1934, then not during a seventh-inning stretch until 1976. Today, according to the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, the song trails only "Happy Birthday" and "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the most frequently performed songs. The Associated Press DEMOCRATS MAKE SMALL GAINS significant uptick in numbers of Democratic voters; a partisan shift in Hispanic voter registration; urban counties including Pinellas turning somewhat more Democratic. But in a state with a Republican governor and big GOP majorities in the state House, state Senate, elected Cabinet and congressional delegation, any success for Democrats stands out.

Those signals are being heard more loudly after the 2006 election, when Democrats made electoral gains in Florida for the first time in See POLITICAL SHIFTING, Page 6 More voters are registered Democrats. By WILLIAM MARCH The Tampa Tribune TAMPA Is Florida turning blue? Or just slightly bluish? Or even just a less reddish shade of purple? Florida Democrats contend voter registration figures and recent election results show signs of a shift in the politics of a state dominated for more than a decade by Republicans. The signs aren't overwhelming a small but USF Grad Sentenced For Gun Possession Moroccan here on student visa gets 6 months, with credit for 3 served. DETAILS, METRO, Page 1 Metro, Page 7 Classified, Paget 1, 2 OBITUARIES COMICS EDITORIALS This Section, Page8 PUZZLES BRIDGE Classified, Pages 1, 2 4 THE TAMPA TRIBUNE A Media General Newspaper 200202 S. Parker Tampa FL 33606-2395 Copyright 2008, Media General Operations 114th Year, No.

169 TODAY'S TODAY'S There's a 50 percent chance of HIGH LOW raln today and Wednesday, but gy chances of precipitation dimin- RQ 8 ish gradually until bottoming at 30 percent Saturday. This Section, Page 2 This Section, Page 2 TV PERSONALITIES LOTTERY Metro, Page 8 MOVIE TIMES On TBQ.com, Keyword: Movies WEATHER.