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Students remember Monty Python, the letter 'S'

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 7:30am

PLAIN CITY -- One of Plain City's best-known and most-beloved celebrity residents has passed away. Monty Python, 30, was a muscular 70 pounds and measured 10 feet 6 inches tall, uh, long.

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Python bitten by Sacramento man is on mend, needs new home

Whitney Mountain The Sacramento Bee

Last updated Saturday, September 3, 2011 - 9:40pm

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A pet python that underwent surgery after being bitten by a Sacramento, Calif., man is “looking a ton better,” Sacramento animal control officials said Saturday.

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Couple found guilty in killer python case

Stephen Hudak The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Thursday, July 14, 2011 - 1:20pm

BUSHNELL, Fla. -- After deliberating for two hours, jurors in the killer python trial on Thursday found Jaren Hare and her boyfriend Charles "Jason" Darnell guilty of all charges in the death of Hare's 2-year-old daughter Shaianna, who was strangled two years ago by an 8-foot-6 inch snake.

Each faces up to 35 years in prison after being convicted on manslaughter, third-degree murder and child-neglect charges. Hare, 21, and Darnell, 34, earlier rejected a pretrial plea agreement that could have put each in prison for up to 10 years.

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Jaren Hare, center, talks to her defense attorney, Ismael Solis, right, on the opening day of her and co-defendant Charles Jason Darnell's murder trial on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at the Sumter County Courthouse in Bushnell, Fla. Darnell, 34, and Hare, 21, are being tried on charges of third-degree murder, manslaughter and child abuse for the 2009 death of Hare's 2-year-old daughter, Shaianna Hare, who was strangled to death by Hare's pet albino Burmese python, Gypsy. A previous charge of child neglect was changed to child abuse on Tuesday morning. (AP Photo/The Daily Commercial, Victoria Aldrich)

Python that killed little girl called 'instrument of death'

Stephen Hudak The Orlando Sentinel

Last updated Wednesday, July 13, 2011 - 10:42am

BUSHNELL, Fla. -- Sheryl Hare never trusted Gypsy.

The Marion County, Fla., grandmother said she so feared that the 8-foot-6-inch Burmese python would hurt her tiny granddaughter, Shaianna, that she offered $500 for the pet reptile from her daughter weeks before it strangled the child.

In opening remarks to jurors Tuesday, Assistant State Attorney Pete Magrino said Shaianna's mother, Jaren Hare, 21, and her boyfriend, Charles "Jason" Darnell, 34, both charged with manslaughter, third-degree murder and child neglect, ignored the risks posed by the snake, which had repeatedly escaped its tank.

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