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August 27, 2009 - 9:00 pm

• A headline on a story in Wednesday's Review-Journal was incorrect. The mother of a 2-year-old Florida girl asphyxiated by a Burmese python and the woman's boyfriend were charged with third-degree murder and manslaughter in connection with the death, not convicted.

• The address listed for Nevada Pigeon Control in a feature that ran in the Aug. 16 Living section was an old one. The company's address is 2920 Brookspark Drive in North Las Vegas.

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