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James Murphy, manager of a Goodwill store in Texas, said staff members plan to care for an albino python found clinging to the side of a bin containing donated clothes from one of nearly 40 drop-off points around Fort Worth until its owner or a permanent home can be found.

Luis Clarke, 25, an inmate at a state prison in Cheshire, Conn., upset about a breakup with his girlfriend, escaped by scaling a razor-wire fence and driving off in a pizza delivery car but was caught a few hours later in Meriden by state police who tracked the pizza driver’s stolen phone.

Sam Snystelian, a commercial eel fisherman, was recorded on video by fellow fisherman Nicholas Taron jumping into the Pacific Ocean near Morro Bay, Calif., to cut free a distressed humpback whale that was entangled in a rope attached to a buoy and was swimming in circles.

Graham Morant, 69, a self-styled preacher from Gold Coast, Australia, was sentenced to 10 years in prison after being convicted of persuading his sick 56-yearold wife to kill herself so he could claim as much as $1 million from her three life insurance policies.

Ledesma Wooden, 24, a Texas man fired from his job providing hurricane relief in Panama City, Fla., faces homicide and other charges after he shot a co-worker at a bus station as the two argued over the firing and over Wooden having to pay for a ticket home, police said.

Katelyn Carter, 26, who resigned as a pre-kindergarten teacher in Tuscaloosa, Ala., after parents complained that she had pushed students and pulled one from underneath a bathroom stall door, now faces misdemeanor harassment charges, police said.

Robert Park, 72, an artist from Bath, Mich., can keep only a blue plastic duck from an outdoor art installation he created on his property after a judge ordered the removal of thousands of other blue objects featured in the project because they violate the town’s anti-junk ordinance.