One lawsuit has been filed, and SC officials are considering changes in the law after a small child was attacked by a large ...

Pastor Jamie Coots says his Pentecostal church is really not that different from other churches. "We sing, we preach, we testify, take up... Snake-Handling Preachers Open Up About 'Takin' Up Serpents' ...

Coots was handling a rattlesnake during a Saturday night service at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bit, another preacher, Cody Winn, told WBIR-TV. “Jamie ...

MIDDLESBORO, Ky. (AP) — Jamie Coots, a snake-handling Kentucky pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation,” died Saturday after being bitten by a snake.

FREER, Texas — A rattlesnake handler is dead after he was bitten during a snake showcase festival in Texas. Eugene De Leon Sr was bitten on the shoulder, while he was handling snakes in front of a ...

The 1990s, Joe Martin said, "that was a bad decade." That's when four venomous snakes - three Western diamondback rattlesnakes and a lone coral snake - got their fangs into him. But that's to be ...

Zululand snake catchers kept busy, with no fewer than three mambas, black and green, captured in various parts of the region ...