Melinda Hart was walking along the Cape Fear River Trail when a copperhead snake bit her while she was checking her phone.

Collected in 1977 in Tam Dao National park, the snake was initially catalogued as Rhabdophis subminiatus. In 2000, it was identified as Rhabdophis nuchalis and a year later, recategorized again as ...

UNION COUNTY, SC — A 21-year-old man, Zaedan Mack Hill, has been arrested and charged with the murder of Kiran Patel, a 49-year-old woman, who was killed during a robbery at her gas station store on ...

The man accused in a crash that killed a Schenectady man on a motorcycle faced a judge, pleading not guilty to charges. 33-year-old Jacob Snide of Ravena was charged with manslaughter, assault and ...

UNION COUNTY, Illinois — Around 35 species of snakes have shut down nearly three miles of a southern Illinois road to vehicles as their bi-annual migration peaks. Thousands of snakes, as well as other ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somali government forces successfully ended a six-hour siege by militants at a major prison located near the president’s office in the capital, Mogadishu, killing all seven ...

Four people have been sentenced for animal cruelty after keeping over 30 dogs and seven ferrets confined to a single room in a Bethel home. Terri Sprague, Christopher Davis, Vicki Miller and Anthony ...

A Vallejo man, Douglas Irwin Shaw, 41, has been charged with murder in the death of 28-year-old Renia Lewis. Police found Lewis’ body Tuesday in an outbuilding behind a Vallejo home; prosecutors say ...

Ksoo was sentenced to life without parole for his role in a 2020 gang-related murder tied to Jacksonville’s escalating Hip-Hop violence. Ksoo and ATK Scotty were hit with life sentences on Wednesday ...

A judge ordered a 10- to 25-year prison sentence Wednesday for a defendant who admitted to killing a man who was found dead in a pickup truck on Interstate 15. Joseph De Luna, 28, pleaded guilty in ...

FLINT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WJRT) - A Flint Township man has been found guilty of murdering his roommate with a machete three years ago. A Genesee County jury convicted 38-year-old Terrence Joseph Haywood ...