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.

A screenshot of Pastor Cody Coots being attacked by a rattlesnake he is handling as part of a church service. YouTube Cody Coots is following in his father’s footsteps, serving as a pastor in a church ...

Authorities say Pastor Brock was bitten on his left arm and refused medical treatment John David Brock, 60, of Stoney Fork, was handling the snake during a Sunday service at the Mossy Simpson ...

A pastor bitten by a snake while handling a serpent in a demonstration of faith is revaluating his life and belief after a close brush with death. Cody Coots, a pastor at Full Gospel Tabernacle in ...

A Kentucky pastor who starred in a reality TV show about snake-handling has died after being bitten by a poisonous snake. Pentecostal pastor Jamie Coots, a third-generation “serpent handler,” believed ...

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 ...

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

Jamie Coots was handling a rattlesnake at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bitten on the hand Saturday night, another ...