National Geographic Channel series will air a tribute to "Snake Salvation" star Jamie Coots on Thursday. Coots died Saturday after being bitten by a rattlesnake during a church service and refusing ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The son of a snake-handling Kentucky preacher who died from a snakebite says he's recovering from his own rattlesnake wound. Cody Coots tells the Lexington Herald-Leader he was bitten ...

A serpent-wielding pastor who championed the reptiles on reality television died following a rattlesnake bite - after declining medical intervention. Jamie Coots, hailing from Kentucky in the US, ...

A snake-handling pastor who praised the serpents on reality TV died after a bite from a rattlesnake - and refusing treatment. Jamie Coots, from Kentucky in the US, starred in National Geographic's ...