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Whether enjoying Arkansas on land or by water this summer, it’s important to keep an eye out for the Natural State’s six ...
Copperheads also feature an hourglass-shaped pattern on their bodies — from the head down to the tail. When curled up, this ...
Prairieville Middle School hosted its annual Living in the South event for seventh grade students on May 9 at which students ...
You’ve heard of the 2006 movie Snakes on a Plane? Well, the latest issue of Urology Case Reports included a case of a “Snake in a Toilet.” It didn’t have actor Samuel Jackson yelling ...
With warm (and soon hot) temperatures across North Carolina, snakes are out and about. Here in the Triangle, that means some of us might be seeing venomous copperheads as we visit parks and trails ...
Tim Friede has survived hundreds of snakebites—on purpose. For nearly two decades, he let some of the world's most dangerous snakes sink their fangs into his arms, all for science. Now ...
A Tufts University student from Turkey was released from a Louisiana immigration detention center Friday, more than six weeks after she was arrested in a Boston suburb. U.S. District Judge William ...
The first American pope's grandparents identified as Black, records show. Robert Francis Prevost, the Chicago-born man who became Pope Leo XIV on Thursday, has Black family roots in New Orleans ...
Historian Jari Honora said he started searching for French or Louisiana connections after hearing the new pope’s last name, “Prevost.” While doing his research, Honora said he learned that ...
The dangers of snakes usually come from getting too close and chancing a bite. But this week it is the reptiles as aggressors, knocking out power in Durham and Rolesville. On Thursday night ...
Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk has been released from a Louisiana immigration processing facility, her attorneys say, following a six-week detention and legal fight that has become a ...