🌱 Three Found In Car Identified + GR Comic Con 5K and Fun Run

Hey, neighbors! It's me again, Miranda Fraraccio, your host of the Grand Rapids Daily.

First, today's weather:

Cooler with a few showers. High: 46 Low: 34.

Here are the top stories in Grand Rapids today:

1. A family member has identified the three people found dead in a car in Grand Rapids a week ago as a 78-year-old woman, her daughter-in-law, and a child. She said the oldest of the three was her grandmother, Ruby Roberts. The others were Ellay Mae Brown, 60, and Zaida Ashford, who was 4 months old. Police are still investigating after the three were discovered in a car outside Roberts’ home. (CBS Pittsburgh)
2. The Michigan Sports Alliance will be hosting an inaugural event, The Grand Rapids Comic Con 5K and Fun Run. Participants can dress as their favorite comic characters and take part in an untimed 5K walk or run, virtual 5K, and a quarter-mile kids’ fun run. The run will take place at 9 a.m. on Nov. 14 at Riverside Park in Grand Rapids. (GR|MAG)
3. Johnny Brann’s Steakhouse & Grille, a Grand Rapids restaurant, recently completed a $1 million renovation project and is using their new décor to honor veterans and law enforcement. (WZZM13.com)
4. Grand Rapids Public Schools held a job fair on Thursday in an effort to fill over 200 teacher and staff vacancies. (MLive.com)
5. David West, a Grand Rapids man, has opened a first-of-its-kind, secondhand LEGO store called DNA Brix, where customers can buy, sell, or trade LEGOs. (WZZM13.com)

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— Miranda Fraraccio

About me: Miranda Fraraccio is a born and raised Rhode Islander. She works as a freelance copywriter for content creation agency Lightning Media Partners and as an assistant producer for a live-lit storytelling show in Chicago. She holds a degree in Writing & Rhetoric and Communication Studies from The University of Rhode Island. In her free time, you can find her traveling, hiking, or photographing her neighborhood as a street photographer.