Two Pasco County residents were recovering at a Tampa hospital Monday after being bitten by rattlesnakes during the weekend. ...more

November 3, 2009

John Agan was doubly unlucky Tuesday - he was bitten by not one but two snakes. ...more

October 28, 2009

Wearing gloves and boots, Paula Simenson takes precautions when she gardens in her Tillers & Toilers plot - even though the much dreaded snakes are less likely to visit as the temperatures dip. ...more

October 28, 2009

John Agan was doubly unlucky today – he got bit by not one but two venomous snakes. ...more

October 27, 2009

The 43rd annual San Antonio Rattlesnake Festival took place Saturday and Sunday at the city park. The event included snake shows by Jim Mendenhall's Squamata Reptiles and John Storm's World of Reptiles. ...more

October 21, 2009

A fifth-grader was bitten by snake during a fire drill this afternoon at Springhead Elementary School near Plant City. ...more

August 31, 2009

Esther Orreno, 87, said she wasn't scared when she fought a pygmy rattlesnake with her cane earlier this week and squeezed it to death with her right hand. ...more

August 14, 2009

One fatality was reported Monday when a pygmy rattlesnake bit an 87-year-old woman on the hand. The final score: Cane-wielding octogenarian, 1: venomous snake, 0. ...more

August 10, 2009

At 2:35 a.m. one morning I was awakened to the clanking sound of my father's walker. ...more

March 12, 2009

Dave Lawson says he knows one way to learn who stole two valuable but deadly snakes from his collection Monday. ...more

January 27, 2009