ROANOKE, Va. -- A deadline for personal injury claims against the peanut processor at the center of a nationwide salmonella outbreak was extended Friday by more than four months. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge William E. Anderson in Lynchburg granted a U.S. trustee's motion in the bankruptcy case of Peanut Corp. of America to extend the claims deadline to Oct. 31.

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City health department officials and state department of natural resources police today announced the recent seizure by city police of 96 illegal young turtles from street vendors throughout the city. In a statement, the health department reminded residents about the dangers of salmonella and other diseases turtles can carry.

The 2009 California cantaloupe crop should reach about 20 million cartons, but not all of that fruit will go directly from grower-shippers to retail and foodservice. “We spend most of our budget on surveillance work with counties to stop gunnysacking thefts,” said Jerry Munson, manager of the California Cantaloupe Advisory Board, Dinuba.