"Spokesman this is Jody. [pause] So you have the boa?"

- About 9 a.m., reporter Jody Lawrence-Turner on the phone with a source who returned her call about the unclaimed boa constrictor.

In other news

Tomorrow's paper will feature two completely different stories related to pigs.

The news section will have a story about a therapy pig named Elvis Pigsley. The Food section will have a story about curing meats.

Editors this morning did wonder if there's a degree of weirdness in publishing both stories this way (on the same day in different sections), the awkwardness of having live and dead of the same animal. Features editor Ken Paulman described the Food section photos depicting sausages made of other meat such as lamb and not, like, a hanging prosciutto. Everything is still a go.