SWEETWATER, Texas — As winter starts to turn into spring, the town of Sweetwater gets ready to host the 2025 Sweetwater Jaycees Rattlesnake Roundup. The annual event takes place the second weekend of ...

Every year, 16 all-American girls climb into a pit of poisonous snakes to decapitate, skin and eat them in a bid to become ...

The World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup, now in its 67th year, took place in Sweetwater last weekend. The event began in the 1950s as a way to control the rattlesnake population within the city. Venom ...

There's not much in Sweetwater to recommend it to the outside world. People in the dusty little West Texas town seem to enjoy it all right, but for most of the year it's just a wide spot in the road.

Amid intermittent rain, clouds and spots of sun, the Sweetwater Jaycees visited the Texas Capitol this week with three boxes of western diamondback rattlesnakes in tow. For nearly 30 years, members of ...