César Schmitz thought he’d found the perfect way to destroy a cockroach nest. Instead, he nearly destroyed his home. After spraying failed, he poured gasoline into the hole and threw in a match. The ...

Not only do American cockroaches reproduce quickly, but they also live longer than most, with an average lifespan of two ...

South Korean police said they will seek an arrest warrant for a woman who set fire to her apartment building while trying to kill a cockroach with an improvised flamethrower, local media reports. One ...

The Monday morning fire killed a new mother and injured eight others, according to information cited by local police in Osan, South Korea Getty A South Korean woman allegedly used an improvised ...

OSAN, Gyeonggi-do — Police arrested a woman in South Korea after she allegedly used a homemade flamethrower to kill a cockroach, setting her apartment complex on fire, according to local outlets.

As kids growing up in Houston, my neighborhood friends and I all had cockroach horror stories. Maybe one crawled across someone’s face at night or scuttled over their bare foot in the kitchen. I ...