Colo. farmers arrested in fatal listeria outbreak

DENVER (AP) -- The owners of a Colorado cantaloupe farm have been arrested on charges stemming from a listeria outbreak in 2011 that killed 33 people.

Federal prosecutors say brothers Eric and Ryan Jensen were arrested Thursday on charges of introducing adulterated food into interstate commerce.

The Jensens' attorney didn't immediately return a call seeking comment.

Prosecutors say the federal Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control determined the Jensens didn't adequately clean the cantaloupe.

The FDA has said the melons likely were contaminated in Jensen Farms' packing house. The agency concluded that dirty water on a floor, and old, hard-to-clean equipment probably were to blame.

A number of lawsuits were filed by people who were sickened or who had a family member die after the outbreak.

Teen arrested in Vegas in deaths of mom, brother

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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Authorities say they've arrested a Las Vegas-area teenager accused in the stabbing deaths of his mother and 9-year-old brother last week.

Henderson police issued a statement saying 16-year-old Adrian Navarro-Canales was found sitting in an open-air food court near the Las Vegas Strip and taken into custody late Wednesday morning.

Police found Elvira Canales-Gomez and 9-year-old Cesar Navarro dead Friday in a bloody bathroom in the suburban apartment where they celebrated Navarro-Canales' birthday just days earlier.

Police say Navarro-Canales dropped out of high school last November, and his cousin told police the teen has said he wanted to return to Mexico.

Navarro-Canales was first sought as a possible victim, then named Monday in a murder warrant.

Henderson police investigators think the killings happened Sept. 17.