EAST MANATEE - The plan was to push the python out of a concrete pipe with a long 2-by-2. But then he had to crawl 15 feet or so into the 2-foot-wide pipe to reach the snake. And then the snake turned ...

It was an average laundry day for a woman in Florida recently—that is, until she opened her washing machine and found an unlikely visitor relaxing inside: a python snake. Emily Visnic, a Connecticut ...