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.

I was sitting about 30 feet away when a copperhead bit Dewey Chafin on the right hand. He kept worshiping and bent over to take another — this one a rattlesnake — out of a box. I was there when the ...

Authorities say Pastor Brock was bitten on his left arm and refused medical treatment According to the Kentucky sheriff's office, John David Brock of Stoney Fork was handling a snake during a Sunday ...

Two weeks ago, NPR reported on a group of Pentecostals in Appalachia who handle snakes in church to prove their faith in God. The story got us thinking: Why are the handlers bitten so rarely, and why ...

Andrew Hamblin handles poisonous snakes every Sunday in the name of Jesus. At just 22, he leads Tabernacle Church of God in LaFollette, Tenn., a Pentecostal church that practices a rare, century-old ...

I was sitting about 30 feet away when a copperhead bit Dewey Chafin on the right hand. He kept worshiping and bent over to take another - this one a rattlesnake - out of a box. I was there when the ...