MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida toddler was strangled on Wednesday by a 12-foot (3.6-meter) albino Burmese python that escaped from a holding tank in the girl's home, authorities said. The pet's owner, a boyfriend of the child's mother, found the python ...Read More
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A warning to those who may want to release balloons outdoors: not only is it against the law, but it can harm wildlife. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is reminding residents that a little-known-law prohibits releasing ...Read More
BRADENTON, Fla. -- A Bradenton man who staged the capture of a 14-foot Burmese python has been criminally charged in the hoax. The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said Thursday 47-year-old Justin Matthews faces charges of misusing the 911 emergency ...Read More
Winston-Salem, NC (Sports Network) - Travis Benjamin's 13-yard touchdown catch late in the fourth quarter helped 18th-ranked Miami-Florida take a 28-27 win over Wake Forest at Groves Stadium. Jacory Harris went 22-for-43 with 330 yards, three touchdowns and an interception for ...Read More
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Officials believe they have found an alligator that escaped from a wildlife officer who brought the animal to his daughter's school for show and tell. Stan Kirkland, a spokesman for the Florida wildlife commission, says officials ...Read More
PANAMA CITY BEACH, Fla. - Officials say a Florida Panhandle Fish and Wildlife officer lost a 5-foot alligator after bringing it to his daughter's school for show and tell. Searchers scoured a wooded area surrounding the school Friday afternoon. The alligator ...Read More
(CNN) -- A football player for the University of Connecticut was stabbed to death early Sunday morning, university police said in a statement.
Jasper Howard, 20, a native of Miami, Florida, who started in every game for the team last season, ...Read More
MIAMI - A U.S. Geological Survey report says five giant, non-native snake species could pose high risk to wildlife, especially in South Florida. More troubling, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released Tuesday, nonnative snakes like the Burmese python could ...Read More
MIAMI — A cluster of python captures within a square mile in South Florida has wildlife officials scrambling to prevent a new breed from spreading. Authorities are investigating the discovery of three African rock pythons in west Miami-Dade County over the ...Read More
As if one giant python wasn't enough, a cluster of captures in a single square mile of West Miami-Dade has scientists worried about a new species spreading across South Florida. And this constrictor makes the Burmese python that has already pushed ...Read More
Florida wildlife officials seized a dozen pythons and arrested a 19-year-old man in an undercover sting after getting a tip that the snakes were being sold on Craigslist without a proper license. Investigators from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission ...Read More
A teenager is recovering after a gang of youths wielding pet snakes pinned him to a wall and forced a python to bite him on the hand. The incident, described as racially aggravated by police in Bristol, caused only minor wounds ...Read More
A couple heard their cat's dying screams as it was eaten alive by a neighbour's pet PYTHON. Horrified Martin and Helen Wadey heard "blood-chilling" cries from a Bristol garden then found the 13ft snake with a bulging stomach. Tabby cat Wilbur, four, ...Read More
A cat called Wilbur has discovered that it really is a jungle out there, even in the suburbs. Wilbur, a four-year-old tabby, strayed into the next garden on the outskirts of Bristol, only to encounter a 13ft Burmese python with ...Read More
Reporting from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. -- Go ahead, stretch out in the soft grass. It's comfortable. You're surrounded by a smorgasbord of prey. You may belong half a world away, but here in the Everglades, life is good. Except you're a ...Read More
MIAMI — A South Florida town manager who married a porn star last year was fired at an emergency meeting after the mayor and council members learned about it. Fort Myers Beach town council voted 5-0 to fire Scott Janke "without ...Read More
Atlanta - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is convening the nation's first "python posse," an extraordinary hunt to cull a population of up to 150,000 slithering beasts from state lands and, potentially, Everglades National Park. The bounty hunt proposal comes after the ...Read More
Florida is on the verge of unleashing a "python posse" to track down and kill giant snakes on state land, The Miami Herald reports. The paper quotes Rodney Barreto, chairman of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, as saying ...Read More
Unrolling the skin of a 17-foot Burmese python at a congressional hearing Wednesday, Sen. Bill Nelson (D) of Florida focused America's attention on the biggest invader on the continent, saying it's only a matter of time until one of the ...Read More
