Life at the Ken’s Korner shopping plaza in Clinton has come to a crawl for Raja, a 9-year-old tortoise. There are less feet on the sidewalk on his afternoon strolls. Fewer hands feed him strawberries.

You read it here first: The Senate was up to passing an amendment to lift the 1975 ban on those little pet turtles baby boomers had growing up. And yesterday they did it. The vote was 93-1, passing a ...