The former chief executive of the Painted Turtle, a nonprofit that operates camps for ill children, has been accused of embezzling more than $5 million from the organization.

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Former CEO of Paul Newman’s camp for sick kids charged with embezzling $5.2m - The former executive has been charged with 15 felonies ...

A projected rise in droughts could muddy the waters for painted turtles and some fellow freshwater-dwelling reptiles, says 11 years of data collected by 50-plus undergraduates. Two recent studies ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Hungry hikers, bikers and beachgoers now have a spot to grab food and non-alcoholic drinks at Minneapolis' popular Lake Nokomis. On Monday, June 12, The Painted Turtle opened in the ...

MINNEAPOLIS – A new, lakeside eatery is having a dry summer, and not just because of the drought. The Painted Turtle just opened on Lake Nokomis in Minneapolis. But almost as recently as they opened, ...

In the dark, frigid months of winter, painted turtle hatchlings hunker down in shallow, icy nests where they enter a state of suspended animation. 1 Their hearts stop beating; their metabolisms slow ...

With early ice-outs on some lakes this year, it's time to see active turtles. Painted turtles are usually first seen sunning a few days before the ice cover leaves larger lakes in various parts of ...

The painted turtle was brought into the wildlife center with a puzzling injury. “After assessing the injury, we are convinced there is only one logical cause, he was struck by a golf ball!” the New ...

There are four kinds of North American painted turtles (the eastern, midland, southern and western). My photo here is of a southern painted turtle. It is the only North American painted turtle to have ...

A turtle outside of Best Cleaners.Courtesy of Jennifer Malon and Best Cleaners. A dry cleaning store in Connecticut has become a passageway for local turtles. Female turtles cross from a local pond ...

China's appetite for turtles is voracious. The nation of 1.2 billion people has nearly decimated its turtle population by eating them and grinding them up for folk medicines. That's one reason about ...