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Published: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 6:30 a.m. Last Modified: Monday, December 21, 2009 at 10:47 p.m. Two-year-old Shaiunna Hare was asleep in her crib when her family's Burmese python escaped from its cage and slithered into it with her.

A yard sale at the First Baptist Church of Wildwood on Friday and Saturday, raised more than $1,600 for a ministry designed to help the needy.

Shaianna, two, was killed by the albino python. The mother of a US girl suffocated by a pet python after it slithered into her crib last month has been charged over the child's death, Florida authorities say.

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Sumter County deputies today say they arrested Charles Jason Darnell on a series of narcotics charges.

A man, whose daughter was killed by his pet python in July, was arrested on Friday and charged with selling cocaine.

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Legendary German theatre and film director Peter Zadek has died at the age of 83 after a long illness, the theatre in the northern city of Hamburg where he frequently staged productions said Thursday.

The recent death of a two-year-old Oxford, Florida girl, killed by the family's eight feet pet Albino Burmese Python, underscores a major ecological threat to Florida that many Floridians are just now becoming aware of - Southeast Florida is potentially facing a major invasion of pythons! As unbelievable as that may sound, there are estimated to be ...

A recent tragedy has called international attention to a problem long been plaguing Florida -- the invasion of Burmese Python snakes.

This July 1, 2009 file photo shows police measuring a Burmese python after removing it from a home in Oxford, Fla.

Law enforcement officials remove a Burmese python, measuring more than 8 feet long, from the home where it killed 2-year-old Shaunnia Hare in Oxford, Fla.

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Police measure a Burmese python after they removed it from a home in Oxford, Fla., on July 1. The 9-foot-long snake strangled to death a 2-year-old in her crib.

An autopsy revealed a Florida toddler died of asphyxiation after she was constricted and bitten by the family's pet Burmese python.

OXFORD, Fla. - Authorities say a 12-foot pet Burmese python broke out of its terrarium in a central Florida home and strangled a two-year-old girl.Police say the snake's owner says he found the girl in her room with bite marks on her head.

An autopsy on the toddler strangled in her crib by the family's pet Burmese python revealed that the child died from asphyxiation, authorities said Thursday.

A 2-year-old girl was strangled by a 12-foot Burmese python a few hours ago in this rural community just west of The Villages, according to authorities.

Share + Jul 2, 2009 7:03 pm US/Eastern OXFORD, Fla. Asphyxiation is the preliminary cause of death of a little girl strangled by a Burmese python in central Florida, a medical examiner determined Thursday after conducting an autopsy.

Deputies in Sumter County are investigating a report that a child was killed by a snake this morning.