Pet python kills man in Indiana
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A 14-foot pet python crushed its owner to death, authorities said Tuesday after finding the snake loose in a southern Indiana shed with the man's body.
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BISMARCK, N.D. - North Dakota's House has agreed to ban private ownership of poisonous snakes, responding to an incident in which two Bismarck men ordered deadly reptiles over the Internet and then showed them off.  Rep.
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By CHRISTOPHER LEONARD ST. LOUIS - A two-headed snake named &quot;We,&quot; the main attraction at the World Aquarium, has died. The 8-year-old rat snake died of natural causes during the weekend, said caretaker Leonard Sonnenschein. Most two-headed snakes survive for only a week or two.
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Three more people in Wayne County have died from what authorities suspect is a combination of heroin or cocaine and fentanyl, a prescription painkiller.
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Animal Planet has a new snake in the grass. And his name is Austin Stevens. The keepers at the cable network are billing Stevens aka the "Snakemaster" and his new show as the slithery descendant to "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, but the South African snake wrangler doesn't even know Irwin by name.
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MARTINSBURG, W.Va. - A woman has been charged with animal cruelty for what police call a retaliatory killing of a parakeet. Witnesses told police that Andrea Grantham, of Martinsburg, brandished a knife during a weekend property dispute with a neighbor.
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CLIFTON, N.J. - The story of Paco the Python is a serpentine tale of a pet snake accidentally shipped from Missouri to New Jersey in a box with a DVD player being sent for repairs.
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Wildlife officers on Monday fatally wounded a bear they believed was the same animal that snatched an 11-year-old boy from his family's tent and killed the youngster.
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A Japanese man died after a bite from his pet hamster caused anaphylactic shock, Mainichi Shimbun reports. Ther nameless forty-something succumbed after repeated bites from the animal sensitised his immune
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A man captured neighborhood cats and kittens and fed them live to his pit bulls, authorities said Thursday. Tye Hilmo, 21, was charged Thursday with aggravated cruelty to animals.
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McALESTER, Okla. - James Fletcher was delivering newspapers when he came very close to a large Western Diamondback rattle snake...
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MARY ESTHER, Fla. - A pet lizard is being blamed for causing a fire that severely damaged a house, killed the reptile and put a cat in an animal hospital...
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla.  - A Florida man was shot in the  arm when a puppy he was trying to kill caused the gun to fire,  officials said on Thursday.
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Xiang Xiang, the five-year-old panda who last year became the first to be released into the wild after being bred in captivity, has died.
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A tiger killed a man at San Francisco Zoo and badly injured two teenage brothers on Tuesday, a year after an employee was mauled by a tiger at the park, according to local news reports.
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DENVER - A male jaguar killed a zookeeper at the Denver Zoo on Saturday and employees put the animal down, police said.
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A zookeeper died Saturday after a 140-pound jaguar mauled her in its enclosure, and the big cat was fatally shot when it approached emergency workers treating the injured woman, the zoo said.