A Burmese python population has emerged in Southwest Florida, raising fresh concerns about the invasive predator's spread.

From medical oddities to a snake farm, these are the city's weirdest curiosities, mostly museums, with a few rule-breakers thrown in ...

Port St. Lucie residents could get to vote on increasing residential trash collection. The increase would go from one to two days a week. But the doubling of pickups wouldn't come soon and it wouldn't ...

There is a saying that common sense isn't very common anymore. That was brought home quite clearly in a story in your paper about a fellow who caught a python in Everglades National Park and was fined ...

Naples is plagued by one of the most capable creepy predators on the planet. The situation is dire from an ecological perspective. For years, hunters, hikers and others who get out in the historic ...

An exotic snake was discovered inside an Ontario wastewater treatment facility last week after making its way through the sewer system and into the plant's mechanical screening equipment. The snake, a ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...

A staff member at a Windsor, Ont., sewage plant had an unexpected surprise recently when he found a ball python in a collection bin. The snake was first spotted on the Little River Pollution Control ...

A 1.07-metre long ball python is recovering in the care of the Windsor/Essex County Humane Society after being found by a worker at a sewage plant in east Windsor. The discovery of the snake was made ...