Carl Jackson caught this year's heaviest Burmese python in Florida. Could the next catch happen in Palm Beach County?

Burmese pythons are an invasive species causing significant harm to the South Florida ecosystem. The annual Florida Python Challenge encourages hunters to help control the growing python population.

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A woman has been found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia, a local official said Saturday, marking at least the fifth person to be devoured by a python ...

Amy Siewe (far right) hunts by night in the summer, and is hoping one day to catch a legendary 20-footer (Credit: Amy Siewe) When invasive snakes began killing the Everglades' native wildlife, Florida ...

Last year, I started to notice a particular phrase cheerfully uttered in my direction when I entered a store, hotel, restaurant, yoga studio — even the venerable halls of the JFK Delta SkyClub: ...

The FBI released detailed data on over 11 million criminal offenses reported to the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, largely through the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) and the ...