Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

A 37-year-old woman from California became ill after grinding up a black widow spider and then intentionally injecting herself with it in a bid to get high from its venom ...

"I think the Black Widow has served me very well ... all of the ways I was trying to fit into society's expectations of me as a woman, as a girl, as a wife, as a mother," she says.

few things compare to how she helped establish Survivor's first successful all-women alliance, "The Black Widow Brigade." It was a turning point in the series that altered how its women ...

The television show “America’s Most Wanted” featured it repeatedly, dubbing Margaret Rudin a “black widow.” Margaret Rudin’s attorneys wrote in Thursday’s lawsuit that there was ...

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The Supreme Court on June 29 upheld the death sentence given to a woman dubbed the “Black Widow” who was convicted of murdering three male partners with cyanide. The five justices of the top ...