The Des Moines Police Department is warning the community that there might be a loose python slithering around in one of Des Moines’ neighborhoods.

Barbara Miller, a Waterbury Neighborhood resident, posted signs around her neighborhood after she saw a 6-foot-long python in ...

DMPD's Animal Services Unit has a plan should the animal be seen or captured, officials said.

A Des Moines neighborhood is on high alert after a woman spotted a python in a tree in her backyard. Barbara Miller, who lives in the Waterbury neighborhood in Des Moines, said she was looking out her ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Bob doesn't mind if her new neighbors call her a snake. The 140-pound female Burmese python recently made the Blank Park Zoo her temporary home.