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The educator reportedly brought in four kittens, feeding one to the snake while students were not present Escher Walcott is a Writer/Reporter at PEOPLE, covering stories in Entertainment, Style, Human ...

As the leaves turn to shades of orange and brown, a copperhead snake starts to blend perfectly into its habitat. These are one of four venomous snakes found in Texas alongside rattlesnakes, ...

A Texas high school teacher is under fire for telling her students that she fed one of their classroom snakes an “ailing” kitten before school in early September. The woman who oversees an advanced ...

The Coney Island Community Advisory Committee officially rejected the proposed gaming complex on Monday, ending a monthlong tug-of-war in The People’s Playground. The panel voted 4-2 against advancing ...

"If it came down today, I would do the same thing," one of the paramedics said Toria Sheffield joined the PEOPLE editorial staff in 2024. Her work as a writer/editor has previously appeared in places ...