Bowden goes out a winner in Gator Bowl, 33-21

Bobby Bowden rode only a few bouncy steps on his players' shoulders, then hopped off.

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SC golfer loses arm in alligator attack on course

Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.

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Domestic dispute leads to 4-foot gator in NY home

Police officers responding to a domestic dispute in an upstate New York village found something they didn't expect: a nearly 4-foot-long alligator.

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SC teen bags 10-foot alligator with a crossbow

A 16-year-old girl has bagged a 10-foot alligator in a South Carolina swamp. In the middle of the night. With a crossbow. The State newspaper in Columbia reported that Cammie Colin won one of 1,000 lottery slots for the state's annual public alligator harvest. Hunters are required to use a crossbow or a harpoon.

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Man spotted riding bicycle with gator on shoulders

The 3-foot-long alligator on a bicyclist's shoulders was a real attention-getter. St. Charles Parish sheriff's deputies stopped the cyclist. He allegedly ran, leaving both wheels and his toothy little rider. Capt. Pat Yoes, a spokesman for the sheriff's office, said deputies booked 38-year-old Terron D. Ingram on Friday with resisting arrest, possessing drug paraphernalia, and cruelty to animals by abandonment.

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Pa. woman warned about gator finds pot lab instead

Police said a woman defied a warning not to venture onto the second floor of a Philadelphia-area house because an alligator was kept there, and uncovered an operating marijuana lab. She tipped police, who searched the house in Darby, just west of Philadelphia.

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Florida woman rescues good ol' boys from gators

The 8-foot alligator opens its jaws wide and hisses in the dark at Julie Harter, who takes a few steps closer and dangles a lasso just like the kind rodeo cowboys use.

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Hello! There’s an 11-foot gator on your doorstep

Sometimes it’s OK to have neighbors who can’t wait to tell you what’s wrong with your house. Among them would be the ones who phoned Belinda Donaldson to tell her about the unsightly 11-foot alligator on her front porch.

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Wandering Fla. 'gator winds up on Tampa doorstep

Florida alligators are known to roam in springtime when they search for mates, but a Tampa woman was mystified to find one parked on her doorstep. Belinda Donaldson got a call Thursday morning from a neighbor who warned her to stay inside because an 11-foot alligator was lounging on her front stoop. She looked out the window and there it was, just outside her door.

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One-eyed, 3-legged alligator found on Fla. beach

It sounds more like something out of a freak show: a one-eyed, 3-legged alligator. The gator was captured Thursday morning in Seacrest Beach by Walton County officials. The animal was less than five feet long and had somehow found its way to the beach.

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'Dawgs, Gators try to stifle talk about 'Stomp'

Urban Meyer vowed in writing to get back at the Georgia Bulldogs. Now, he dismisses any hard feelings as "old news."

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`Alligator Capital of Texas' hit hard by storm Ike

In this town on the edge of the Trinity Bay, alligators normally outnumber people three to one, and the annual Texas GatorFest draws 30,000 people — more than 10 times the town's population.

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Alligator disrupts traffic on I-10

Commuters heading into New Orleans are used to dealing with traffic snarls, flooded roadways, wrecks and fog.

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Woman finds 8-foot alligator in her Florida kitchen

And some people get jittery about mice in the kitchen.

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Students arrested for allegedly trying to steal baby gator

Five Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University students are behind bars for trying to steal a baby alligator from a miniature golf course in Daytona Beach.

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Gator Dropped Off at Water Department

Officials are trying to figure out who dropped off a three-foot-long alligator in front of the Westchester County water department. A sign on the wooden crate containing the green alligator warned: "Do not open. Live Gator."

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Police Find Gator Trying to Cross Street

Law enforcement officers are trained for all kinds of circumstances, but Ventura County sheriff's deputies were stunned to find an alligator crossing an intersection in Thousand Oaks.

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Gator Lunges at Man Delivering Newspapers

A man delivering newspapers at 5 a.m. Monday heard an unusual sound as he got out of his truck to retrieve a misthrown newspaper. He walked between two parked cars and saw a 4-foot alligator.

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Man Frees Puppy From Alligator's Jaws

A morning walk Monday turned into a dangerous tango with an alligator for one dog owner.

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Woman, 74, Gets Revenge on Gator With Hose

An elderly woman, who was bitten by an alligator while working in her backyard, beat back the reptile with a garden hose.

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Officials say an alligator bit off part of a golfer's arm as he leaned over to pick up his ball at a private South Carolina course.

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Five-year-old Simon Hughes shot an alligator in September 2009.

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Nothin' like a Gator in a bikini !

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A 10-foot-gator that was caught in a tug-of-war with some children earlier this week has been captured

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The metre-long alligator on a cyclist's shoulders was a real attention-getter. St Charles Parish, Louisiana sheriff's deputies stopped the cyclist. He allegedly ran, leaving both wheels and his toothy little rider.

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An 80-pound Dalmatian has died after being attacked by an alligator at Jacksonville's Hanna Park.

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Jet skiing is soooo much fun....until your engine stalls.

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Wildlife Organization offers instructions to would be hunters.

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Brandon Norwood had just taken out the trash at his grandparents' Jackson home around 2:30 a.m. Wednesday when he noticed something peering at him from under his grandmother's car.

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Veterinarians in Miami have successfully fitted a badly injured crocodile with metal plates and 41 Frankensteinian screws on its skull. More Articles

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An alligator was spotted lying in the median of Primrose Road near downtown Orlando.

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Edwards said he was face-to-face with the gator during the attack. "I looked back and the gator surfaced and I looked him right in the face and stared at him for 10 seconds," Edwards said from Holmes Regional Medical Center in Central Florida.

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Terrible things have emerged over the years from Bubbly Creek, a spot in the Chicago River that was once a churning sewer for the city's slaughterhouses.

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Authorities released a composite sketch on Thursday in an effort to identify a deceased man whose armless body was found last month floating in a Polk County canal near an alligator. See more irresistible headlines  

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Baughman and other deputies responded and found the alligator roaming the area. The sheriff's office said the alligator lashed out and bit Baughman several times. However, witnesses said the deputy threw a towel on the alligator, jumped on its back and tried to wrestle it.

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Trappers are lying in wait for a stubborn alligator who has hunkered down in a pond outside of a Windermere elementary school. Yesterday a Windermere police officer saw the 10- to 12-foot alligator near the school and immediately called police Chief Dan Saylor.

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The new term was grayware, an apt description given the legal gray area these programs inhabit.

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Sandra Frosti said the alligator must have pushed through the back porch screen door and gone inside through an open sliding glass door. It then walked through the living room, down a hall and into the kitchen. One-Handed Man Wrestles Gator

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Scientists said they noticed alligators often get banged up in battles over territory or food but their wounds never seem to get infected, despite slimy living conditions in bacteria-filled swamps.

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It may be the case that the next time you stumble into the doctor's office with the horrid bacterial illness of the season, instead of giving you the extract of a fungus, he'll draw up a dram of bright red alligator blood, and let you wonder what sort of mutant you're doome …

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Bit once by an alligator, blame the gator. Go wading through alligator-infested Florida waters another time? Police say blame the naked, dazed risk-taker who seems to have a fatalistic attachment to the scaly beasts, according to a report by MyFOXTampaBay.com.

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Deputies patrolling Saddle Creek in Lakeland said they found an abandoned pickup near a pond early Friday and investigated.

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A Seminole Tribe employee trying to trap a nuisance alligator was bitten by the creature, which lopped off his thumb...

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The gator grabbed 5-year-old Freddy, a 19-pound cairn terrier, on Monday. Sarah Frey said she and Freddy had just walked a lap around the park when the dog took off barking toward a pond. By the time she caught up, the dog was gone....

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A suspected thief disappeared into an alligator-infested lake as he fled police only to turn up dead the next day with gator teeth marks on his upper torso, authorities said Tuesday.

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