Tarantula-tossing Hennepin County Board candidate appears in court, ... said he wasn’t aware of the case before meeting Simonetti on Thursday when she was due to appear for a procedural hearing.

A budding Minnesota lawmaker was pictured smirking in her mugshot after she was arrested for allegedly tossing a live tarantula at her renter during a fight. Marisa Simonetti, 30, was cuffed on an ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A Hennepin County Board candidate charged with assault for allegedly throwing a tarantula and other objects at another woman is planning to stay in the race. Marisa Simonetti made ...

It is the tarantula’s burrow that enables it to survive in desert regions. The fangs and pedipalps are used to construct a vertical shaft (or modify an existing hole) up to 20 inches deep and ...