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"SNAKES ON A PLANE" PREMIERE
Cast member Samuel L. Jackson handles Kitty Jr., a Burmese python, at the premiere of "Snakes on a Plane" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles, California on August 17, 2006. The movie opens in the U.S. on August 18. (UPI Photo/Jim Ruymen)

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A menagerie of exotic animals, including several dead animals, was removed by police from an unoccupied Kenosha, Wis., house, police said.
A California woman said she was driving on the freeway north of Los Angeles when a king snake slithered between her legs.
A Saskatchewan hospital said more than 100 garter snakes have been discovered inside the facility since February.
Two cars containing a total of 109 smuggled king cobras were seized in Vietnam as officials work to curb the trafficking of the country's wild animals.
London Marathon opens with moment of silence
The London Marathon began Sunday with a moment of silence and runners wore black ribbons for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, observers said.
Five exotic snakes and a dead 7-foot python were found at a California Little League field, police said Wednesday.
A weekend fire at a privately owned Scottish zoo killed most of its reptiles and meerkats and a colony of leafcutter ants, the owners said Monday.
Man found dancing naked in stranger's home … Plane makes emergency landing on road … Snake stows away in potpourri … Judge orders birther to pay $177K in costs … UPI Quirks in the News.
A New York state woman said a snake is loose in her home after apparently stowing away in a large bag of potpourri.
Scientists describe two-headed shark
U.S. scientists have announced the first-ever discovery of a two-headed bull shark, confirming it was a single shark with two heads, not conjoined twins.
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Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch