Rookie C James Wright experienced another first in his young career Wednesday when he sat out his first game as a healthy scratch. ...more

December 24, 2009

The Highlands County Animal Control is looking for information on the possible owners of a reticulated python that was caught Saturday in the area of Marshall Street in Avon Park. ...more

December 15, 2009

A 12-foot-long Burmese python was captured over the weekend in South Tampa by police and firefighters who gingerly guided the reptile into a city-issued garbage can as spectators watched. ...more

December 7, 2009

A fifth-grader was bitten by snake during a fire drill this afternoon at Springhead Elementary School near Plant City. ...more

August 31, 2009

A lawn maintenance man in Lutz was bitten by a pygmy rattler Monday, the second such attack in two weeks. ...more

August 25, 2009

Esther Orreno, 87, said she wasn't scared when she fought a pygmy rattlesnake with her cane earlier this week and squeezed it to death with her right hand. ...more

August 14, 2009

The man who owned an 8-foot Burmese python that suffocated a little girl last month has been arrested on drug charges. ...more

August 8, 2009

Personally, I could care less if a pet store that deals with exotic pets goes broke. ("Pet peeves," May 11). ...more

May 13, 2009

A 42-year-old man bitten by a snake in a Pembroke Pines Wal-Mart garden center is suing the company for negligence. ...more

February 15, 2009

A family of five and a menagerie of pets that ranged from mammals to reptiles escaped a kitchen fire today that did $10,000 damage, authorities say. ...more

December 17, 2008