PITTSBURGH, May 20 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh police said a 17-year-old faces theft and animal cruelty charges for allegedly using a snake from his school's biology room as a jump rope.
CARACAS, Venezuela, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- A student zookeeper was killed and nearly swallowed by a Burmese python in the Caracas, Venezuela, zoo, officials said.
NEW FAIRFIELD, Conn., April 27 (UPI) -- A 6-foot python that escaped from a home in Connecticut turned out to have gotten no farther than the yard in two days on its own, neighbors said.
KURANDA, Australia, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- An Australian father said he feared for his children's lives after a python ate his family's pet dog, cat and guinea pig.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 24 (UPI) -- A 10-year-old boy who said he hated snakes killed a 10-foot python at petting zoo by stomping on the reptile's head.
TARPON SPRINGS, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- A 14-foot Burmese python named Chloe improvised during a performance at Florida's Tarpon Springs Aquarium and attacked its handler.
TAYLOR, Texas, April 26 (UPI) -- The Texas Snake Man and his partner won the National Rattlesnake Sacking Championship at Taylor, Texas, by stuffing 10 snakes into a bag in 30.75 seconds.
BHUBANESHWAR, India, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- A crack down on snake charmers in India could put 20,000 people out of work.
CEDARVILLE, N.J., Aug. 24 (UPI) -- More charges were pending Tuesday against a Vineland, N.J., man who allegedly beat a Cedarville man with a dead 6-foot blacksnake.
SEMMES, Ala., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- An 11-month-old Alabama boy took a page out of George W. Bush's book of preemptive attack when he picked up a menacing snake and bit it like a moving sausage.
