Terrible Ideas in Pest Control

A cup of gasoline could kill a small wasp nest, but the risks aren’t worth it. Here’s what to do instead.

A 70-year-old woman is accused of lacing her husband's coffee with ant and roach killer multiple times, causing him to become sick.

LAS VEGAS (KLAS/CBS Newspath/WKRC) - A man died in a house fire after investigators say he started the blaze, trying to kill bugs with a propane torch. The Clark County coroner identified the man as 63-year-old Jeffrey Long. The fire happened Monday night in Henderson. According to Henderson Fire, Long was trying to exterminate bugs with a propane torch in a crawl space of the basement of his home when the blaze started. Firefighters say Long accidentally ignited combustible materials.

LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY)- The Lafayette Parish Sheriff's Office dive team recovered a vehicle that crashed into a bayou in north Lafayette Parish this morning.

In a predicament that would surely elicit sympathy from Little Miss Muffet, 50 federal government employees were frightened away from their Ottawa office building not once, but twice, after someone spotted a potentially dangerous spider.

For the woman who says she mistakenly started the fire, the weight of that reality is almost overwhelming.

Fresno Fire says a man who was house-sitting for his parents set the home on fire after he used a blowtorch to kill black widows.

Enraged that he found bedbugs in the Minneapolis apartment he shared with his mom, Michael Gallagher beat the 89-year-old woman over the head with a sculpture, smothered her with a pillow, strangled her and ultimately suffocated her to death with a garbage bag on Thursday, police said.