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A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi YAZOO CITY, Miss. -- A group of hunters have captured the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi, according to the state Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks. Four state residents — Donald Woods, Will Thomas, Joey Clark and Tanner White — harvested a male alligator Saturday in west Mississippi's Su NFL ower River. It weighed 802.5 pounds (364 kilograms) and measured 14 feet, 3 inches (4.3 meters) long, breaking the previous record by over 2 inches, the department said. After capturing the animal, the hunters hoisted it with a forklift and posed for a picture at Red Antler Processing in the Mississippi Delta town of Yazoo City. The area is located in a designated alligator hunting zone. Mississippi’s alligator hunting season opens on the last Friday in August each year. In 2023, the season ends Sept. 4. Source: https://thefoxposts.com/longest-alligator-in-mississippi...

A 21-year-old has been charged with two counts of first degree-murder after St. Petersburg Police found the body of his two-year-old son in the mouth of an alligator. A 21 -year- old man has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder after police found the body of his 2 -year- old son in the mouth of an alligator days after the child's mother was stabbed to death in St. Pet ersburg, Florida. The child, Taylen Mosley, was reported missing when authorities found his mother, Pashun Jeffery, 20, stabbed to death in her apartment on Thursday, Yolanda Fernandez, a police spokesperson, said in a press release. St. Pet ersburg authorities' investigation led them on Friday to Dell Holmes Park and Lake Maggiore, which lies adjacent to the park. While searching the area, detectives spotted an alligator with an object in its mouth , St. Pet ersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway said in a press conference. After firing one round, the alligator dropped the object, which was ...