Black widow population booms

There's only one place in the world to escape bat-catching spiders: Antarctica. These arachnids ensnare and pounce on bats everywhere else in the world, researchers say.

Among the tools BP has been using to respond to spill in the Gulf of Mexico are floating booms designed to contain the oil. The Connecticut company that invented oil containment booms, Slickbar, is working non-stop to meet the huge demand. Craig LeMoult reports for member station WSHU.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us

Twenty children were among at least 91 people killed when a powerful tornado swept through an Oklahoma City suburb, tearing down blocks of homes and two schools, local officials said.

Seodi White is a lawyer fighting to stop 'Widow Cleansing' a tradition in which a widow is expected to have sex, "to cleanse her of her husband's spirit."

Mazda's only worried about spiders on the inside of its cars. Oh now come on. Spiders?!

Australia's deadly redback spider has established itself in New Zealand, posing a significant risk to humans as it threatens to colonise major cities, researchers have found.The venomous redback, a relative of the black widow, probably hitched a ride to New Zealand on imported goods from Australia and had established itself at sites on both the North and South Islands, scientists said.The government's AgResearch institute said in a study published this month that the redback had proved more resilient to New Zealand's cold, wet winters than initially expected.

Not to be confused with residents of the Oklahoma panhandle, the panhandlers of Oklahoma City who are again headline-worthy are of the cardboard sign-holding variety that can be seen at many of the city's busy intersections. An individual panhandler made national news in July when he told arresting officers he made $60,000 a year with his "vocation"; today the business of panhandling made Oklahoma news.