Community Grants, School District Sued, and Ramen Powered Trains

Good morning, Las Vegas. It's Tuesday, January 3.

🚔The Clark County Sheriff Kevin McMahill spoke about homelessness, addiction and mental health at his swearing-in ceremony on Monday.

🏕The National Park Service (NPS) has awarded $1 million in Underrepresented Community Grants to 22 projects in 16 states, including a $38,336 grant to the city of Las Vegas for the Rafael Rivera Historic Context and Survey. The Underrepresented Community Grant Program focuses on diversifying the nominations submitted to the National Register of Historic Places in order to preserve more of the nation’s history and tell a more complete story of the nation’s diversity. Las Vegas will use the funds to research and determine eligibility of historic sites in the Rafael Rivera study area, also known as the Neighborhood Revitalization Strategy Area.

 🏎To comply with a new law relating to minor traffic violations, the city of Las Vegas Municipal Court has quashed nearly 35,000 active warrants and eliminated the fees associated with those active warrants.

    The 2021 Nevada Legislature passed Assembly Bill 116 that was later signed into law. The law converts some minor traffic violations, which are currently criminal misdemeanors, into civil infractions. This means that individuals will not be subject to arrest for committing these civil infractions. 

🎓The Clark County School District is being sued by two Las Vegas-area parents over an assignment in which their daughter was required to read an expletive-laced monologue at a school board meeting, a piece that was later deemed obscene.

Candra Evans and Terrell Evans filed the lawsuit against the district, Superintendent Dr. Jesus Jara, the teacher and others over allegations of “unlawful grooming and abuse of a minor” involving "pornographic material.”

☔️ Prepare for a wet week, Las Vegans! 

The Las Vegas Valley’s wet conclusion to 2022 may become a nearly equal wet week to start the new year.

Showers are a near daily possibility for the majority of the coming week, according to the National Weather Service.

“We’re not sure how much rain we’ll get, but at least there is a chance,” meteorologist Andy Gorelow said.

Tuesday has a 30 percent chance of showers early before the sky becomes partly sunny. Chances of rain will drop to 20 percent in the overnight hours and will likely pick up occasional possibilities of showers throughout the middle of the week.

🚨LVMPD officers responded to a report of a robbery in the 4100 block of Spring Mountain Road on January 1, 2023, at approximately 1:34 a.m.  Arriving officers located an adult male victim suffering from injuries sustained during the incident. While the victim was speaking to the officers, he collapsed to the ground. Medical personnel responded and pronounced the victim deceased at the scene. The investigation is ongoing and led by the LVMPD Homicide Section.

✒️Prosecutors allege Mizrahi, the founder of LV.net, a Las Vegas-based internet company, and three other men defrauded banks, businesses and individuals of more than $9 million through compromised email addresses and credit cards, documents said.

Prosecutors say the men transferred the money to their own accounts and lied to banks. In addition to Mizrahi, David Goran, 56, of Riverside, California; Julia Rebiga, 55, of Long Beach, California; and Joel Zubaid, 55, of Riverside, California, are named as defendants.

“To effectuate the schemes, the conspirators sent email messages to victims that fraudulently appeared to come from a known source making a legitimate request,” prosecutors wrote in charging documents. "Through those emails, the conspirators requested that the victims send money to bank accounts under the control of [Zubaid, Goran and Rebiga], which was then transferred and disbursed to bank accounts and cryptocurrency wallets, including accounts under the control of Zubaid, Rebiga and Mizrahi.”

🤣 I want to go to Vegas next year...

But I can't find any information about what happens there. 

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Rollo, a smart shipping printer company, announced today that celebrity real estate mogul and Shark Tank investor Barbara Corcoran will make an appearance at its CES booth (LVCC 15543) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Corcoran will be available for photos and autographs on Jan. 6 between 10-11 am PT. Barbara Corcoran is a motivational speaker, Founder of one of New York’s largest real estate brokerage firms, The Corcoran Group, Star and Executive Producer of the Emmy-winning series, Shark Tank, and Author of the book, “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business!”

That's all for today. Be well, neighbor!