Turtle Books prepares to open its brand new bookstore on Washington Street, three short years after The Children’s Bookshop ...

Two girls who swam with pet turtles in a backyard pool were among 107 people sickened in the largest salmonella outbreak blamed on turtles nationwide, researchers report. The 2007-08 outbreak involved ...

The federal Food and Drug Administration has issued an urgent warning to parents to keep pet turtles out of households with young children, following the death last month of a Florida baby from ...

Investigators trying to figure out why dozens of people across 13 states have been stricken with salmonella poisoning have stumbled on the reason behind the outbreak: Adorable tiny pet turtles. People ...

Again this year, young children across the country are becoming violently ill and being hospitalized because of Salmonella infections from contact with pet turtles, many of which are illegal. To view ...

Tiny turtles have been linked to an outbreak of salmonella in nearly half of US states. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said last Friday that it had received 51 reports of ...

MONTPELIER – Lauren Parker feels she owes at least 30 percent of her children's success to Turtle Island. It is the reason why she has served on the children center's board of directors for the last ...

It may sound like an Aesop fable: Mary Dix and the turtle. But as she watched over more and more turtles, it was less fable and more stable. Over the years, Dix's Potomac home -- already a guesthouse ...