Using a cooking mitten for protection, the parent carefully captured the snake and placed it inside a backpack while waiting for authorities. No one was injured.

Police in Ohio said a report of "unwanted slithering" in a Westlake neighborhood resulted in the detention of a ball python.

Henny is a 3-year-old yellow belly/ball Python mix who got out of her cage and was missing for weeks. She finally turned up at an In-N-Out Burger joint 50 miles from her home in San Bernardino, ...