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New Haven officers responding to a minor dispute got a surprise when they found a 4-foot alligator living as a family pet inside a city apartment, police said Wednesday.

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An 8-foot-long alligator sunk its teeth into a 90-year-old woman's leg and tried to drag her into a canal in southern Florida, a spokeswoman for the state's Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission said.

A monster 880-pound alligator that was a Dallas lawyer's prize catch last month is now evidence in an investigation that has resulted in four arrest warrants.

Social workers in south Mississippi say that when they responded to a recent call about seven neglected children, they found an alligator being kept in an aquarium inside the home.

A Tampa-area woman found an unwelcome weekend guest in her bathroom - a 7-foot alligator.

Sylvia Mythen snapped a photo when she spotted an orange alligator sunning beside a neighborhood canal.

This story originally appeared on LiveScience.com ) Most of us may never get the chance - or even want one - to bag a record-breaking alligator.

Alligator hunting is one of the fastest growing game sports in the country. Thousands of people from all 50 states applied for Gerogia's lottery to decide which 850 hunters granted licenses to harvest one alligator this year.

A man who trapped and killed an alligator so big it pulled his boat around a lake has snared what authorities say is Florida's longest gator on record, exceeding 14 feet.