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🌱 Baby Turtles Sold On Strip + South Grand Canyon Drive Shooting

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Happy Monday, neighbors! Let's get you all caught up to start today off on an informed note.


First, today's weather:

Warm with plenty of sunshine. High: 79 Low: 54.


Here are the top stories today in Las Vegas:

  1. On Sunday, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Captain, Dori Koren, shared a video of officers encountering a group of people standing on the strip selling what looks to be baby turtles. Later in the video, police discovered that the group was storing all the turtles in a compact suitcase. (News3LV)
  2. A man is dead after an argument led to a fatal shooting in the parking lot of a convenience store early Sunday morning. On Nov. 14 around 3:29 a.m., Las Vegas Metropolitan Police received multiple reports of a shooting in a parking lot in the 4300 block of South Grand Canyon Drive near Rochelle Avenue. (FOX5 Las Vegas)
  3. Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman is once again pleading with officials to widen I-15 in California near the Nevada border. (FOX5 Las Vegas)
  4. The Mob Museum in downtown Las Vegas is offering free admission for Nevada residents on Monday to celebrate Kefauver Day. (KTNV Las Vegas)
  5. Troopers investigating a crash last year that killed five bicyclists on a stretch of Nevada highway between Las Vegas and Arizona did not suspect the driver of the box truck that hit them was impaired, although a blood test later found he had a potentially lethal level of methamphetamine in his system. (Las Vegas Sun)

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Rachel Kilimnik

About me: Rachel is a born-and-raised New Yorker who recently relocated to the mountains in the west. She is a freelance copywriter for the content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and is assisting Patch.com with community newsletter curation. During her free time, you can find Rachel roller skating, making pottery, drinking tea, and tending to her growing collection of houseplants.

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