Both dailies front paged the story today. The Strib gets cheeky and calls the story 'Team Diarrhea' helped state crack salmonella case. The Pioneer Press plays it straight--and uses the Associated Press wire story--here:

WASHINGTON — It was a hot lead for detectives on a cold case. People suddenly were getting salmonella at a Minnesota restaurant more than 1,000 miles from the center of the nation's outbreak.

Not my tomatoes, protested the manager. He'd switched his supply to government-cleared fresh tomatoes and even canned ones. But a lot of his menu items had a raw jalapeno garnish sprinkled on top, and that turned out to be a critical clue in the two-month salmonella mystery.

You can also find the AP story in USA Today and the Washington Post. Another follow-up on the story appear in the Wall Street Journal.

Here's the scandal at the heart of the story laid bare:

How could Minnesota pinpoint hot peppers just days after discovering a cluster of sick residents, when federal investigators had spent weeks fruitlessly chasing tomatoes?

Well, here's what one knowledgable anonymous source told me when I was reporting the original story:

"When this thing completely unfolds, I'll say off the record there has been a fricking disaster. CDC is obviously gonna be held accountable."