Editor’s Note: Danny Cevallos, a CNN legal analyst, is a criminal defense attorney practicing in Philadelphia, New York and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The recent death of the “snake-handling” pastor of ...

In a story Feb. 26 about a snake-handling preacher who recently died from a bite, The Associated Press reported erroneously the number of deaths each year from snake bites in the United States. Around ...

Condemned Pentecostal practice lives long enough to get its own reality TV show. 1) The practice began in 1910 when an illiterate Tennessee preacher tried to literally apply Mark 16:18: "They will ...

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' ...

How should we respond to the news of the recent death of another snake-handling Christian? I can tell you a few ways that have been tried: condescension; amusement; disbelief; mockery; advocacy; and ...

Kennedy posted the two-minute and two-second video and captioned it, "In response to the many comments about venomous snakes, this video shows how Cheryl and I handled a recent rattlesnake rescue." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Even if you have found yourself in the hollers of the Appalachian Mountains, you still may not have come across one of America's ...

“Them That Follow,” the Appalachia-set drama about a snake-handling Pentecostal church, features several skin-crawling scenes of rattlesnakes slithering across congregants’ torsos in a bid to prove ...

Snake-handling is a tradition for the Coots family of Kentucky. But months after taking over for his father to lead a Pentecostal church, Cody Coots says he was bitten this week. His father, Jamie, ...