(AP) — A snake-handling pastor who appeared on the National Geographic television reality show “Snake Salvation” has died after being bitten by a snake at a weekend church service in Kentucky.

Jamie Coots was handling a rattlesnake at his Full Gospel Tabernacle in Jesus Name Church in Middlesboro when he was bitten on the hand Saturday night.

Police said an ambulance arrived at the church Saturday evening but emergency workers were told Coots had gone home. Authorities said Coots initially refused medical treatment and when emergency workers return later that night, the pastor was dead from a venomous snake bite.

The pastor’s son, Cody Coots, told the television station his dad had been bit eight times before, but never had had such a severe reaction.

A new report finds that one or two of every 100 babies born in the United States now are conceived with advanced fertility help.

In vitro fertilization, or IVF, in which eggs and sperm are mixed in a lab dish, led to a record 61,740 babies in 2012. That is 2,000 more than the previous year and 1.5 percent of all births in the nation.

The report by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology also finds that more women are using one embryo at a time to avoid multiple births, which raise the risk of prematurity and other problems. Only 4 percent of women under 35 used single embryos in 2007 but that rose to 15 percent in 2012.

(AP) — The FBI says it is willing to help investigate claims by a 19-year-old woman charged in a Pennsylvania murder case that she killed more than 20 other people.

Philadelphia FBI spokeswoman Carrie Adamowski said Sunday the agency has been in contact with local police about Miranda Barbour and will offer any assistance they request.

Barbour said in a jailhouse interview with The Daily Item in Sunbury that she had previously killed at least 22 people across the country as part of her involvement in a satanic cult.

Barbour and her husband are charged with killing a stranger they allegedly lured through a Craiglist ad. Attorneys for both are seeking psychiatric evaluations for their clients.

A message left for Barbour’s attorney wasn’t returned Sunday.

(AP) — Authorities say more than 80 people have died this year due to an increase in heroin laced with a powerful prescription drug.

The drug fentanyl is typically used to ease the pain of end-stage cancer patients or in anesthesia, but can kill quickly when coupled with. Authorities in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island say dozens have died in recent weeks.

Officials say dealers sell the heroin as a super high because fentanyl is so potent. But just a small amount can stop someone’s breathing.

As more people are turning to heroin because of crackdowns on prescription drugs, officials worry more may be exposed to fentanyl.

It’s been in bags of heroin stamped with “Bud Light,” ”Theraflu” and “Income Tax.”

The last outbreak killed hundreds of people in 2006.

(AP) — A Fresno-area father watched his four children and their mother perish in a fiery crash and was injured as he tried to rescue them from the burning vehicle.

The California Highway Patrol says Juana Martinez Bejarano drove through a stop sign just south of Riverdale on Saturday night at about 60 mph.

Her 2004 Nissan slammed into the 2003 Ford SUV carrying the family.

The Ford burst into flames and CHP officers say the driver and four children aged 1, 3, 6 and 11 years old died at the scene.

The CHP says the father of the family was following the Ford, witnessed the crash and was injured trying to pull his family from the vehicle.

Bejarano was taken to Community Regional Medical Center with major injuries.