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Snake lost on train back cuddling owner

BOSTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A Boston woman has her boa constrictor back, a month after the reptile slipped off her neck on a subway.

Melissa Moorhouse, 30, told The Boston Globe she first noticed Penelope, her nearly 3-foot-long, non-venomous Dumeril's boa, missing as she headed outbound on the Red Line train Jan. 6.

Transit employees helped her look in the subway car, held the train for a few minutes and searched further at the Braintree terminus without success.

Thursday morning, a Red Line passenger spotted a snake and told a motorman, transit police Lt. Daniel Fitzgerald said. The train was taken out of service, but it was not until that night that train attendant Sharon Lynch got Penelope into a box.

Moorhouse said, "I'm overwhelmed. I'm extremely happy to have her back."

She said the snake could hide in tiny spaces and fend for itself.

"What I've been trying to tell people is that she would survive, she would be in the train whether it was weeks or months,'' she said. "I don't know if they have mice or rats but she is completely capable of eating them.''

Prison gives pizzerias a record order

HUTCHINSON, Kan., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Two Pizza Huts in Kansas are working up a Super Bowl order of 941 pizzas and almost 10,000 chicken wings -- for a prison.

The Hutchinson Correctional Facility is holding the huge meal as a fundraiser for its Spiritual Life Center, selling slices to inmates, KWCH-TV, Wichita, reported. About 800 of the 2,000 prisoners ordered pizza or wings.

Hutchinson's Pizza Huts are used to orders up to 500 for Super Bowl Sunday but had to bring in corporate managers from Colorado for this one.

"It's definitely a record," said manager Jen Osner.

"They could have gone somewhere else but they are putting that money back into the community. That's awesome," she added.

Costumes abound at charity polar plunge

LAKE SAINT LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 6 (UPI) -- Some participants dressed in costumes during an annual plunge into Missouri's Lake Saint Louis to benefit the Special Olympics, bathers said.

Dennis Eddlemon, 50, of St. Louis County, dressed up as silent-movie star Charlie Chaplin in a dark suit and derby hat for the event Saturday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported.

"It's so nice out here. What a beautiful day," said Eddlemon.

There were 449 participants in the polar plunge, the Post-Dispatch reported.

Plunge organizers last week broke ice near the shore and used a bubbling machine to make the water move continuously. Swimming geese in the area helped, the newspaper said.

But the morning of the plunge, organizers shot off fireworks to scare off the geese, said Matt Lauer, St. Louis metropolitan area director of Special Olympics Missouri.

Officials said the plunge raised $89,800 by Saturday.

Boston woman delivers big baby

BOSTON, Feb. 6 (UPI) -- A Boston woman delivered a 13-pound, 2-ounce baby boy -- the largest her doctor said she has delivered naturally.

Amanda Byron, 21, gave birth Thursday to Jonathan Patrick Rozzi after 4 hours of labor and 10 minutes of pushing, the Boston Herald reported.

"When they told me his weight I didn't realize how big a deal this was until everyone started taking pictures," said Byron.

"The nurses were all so surprised at his size. I was told the last big baby was 12 pounds but that was a C-section. Everyone's asking me 'How did you do it?' It wasn't as much pain as I thought it would be. So I just smile and shrug," said Byron.

Byron said she knew, based on ultrasound results, to expect a larger-than-average baby.

"We thought maybe 9 or 10 pounds, and that the average size is 6 to 8 pounds. They don't know why he's so big. I had a normal, well-balanced diet -- avoided caffeine and sodas," Byron said, adding that neither she nor her fiance, Eric Rozzi, come from families with such large people.