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 ...

One of Alabama's strangest crime stories was set in motion 29 years ago in Scottsboro, where a Pentecostal preacher's wife told police her husband tried to kill her, using the snakes he employed in ...

A woman who was bitten by a snake at a church that neighbors say practices serpent-handling died of her wounds hours later, a newspaper reported. Linda Long, 48, was bitten Sunday at East London ...

A Beaumont snake handler at Gator Country is home from a Houston hospital with an incredible story of survival. Salvador Cavazos said his venomous pet cobra pulled a fast one Sunday night and bit him.