Today's News

A good audit for the West Las Vegas school district is expected to help the district convince the state to relax its heightened controls, which have been in place for more than two years, officials said.

West Las Vegas Schools business manager Doug Hendrickson distributed the 2007-08 audit opinion and findings to school board members. He said it would be an action item for the next meeting.

Gilberto Reyes, who stayed in the local jail for 15 months because of a drug distribution charge, has been released. And the district attorney has dismissed the case against him.

But that doesn’t mean Reyes is a free man.

The Dominican Republic native was quickly transferred to a federal holding facility in El Paso. That’s because his visa had lapsed while he was in the local lockup.

Last week, the Highlands University Board of Regents heard a number of requests for naming buildings and other infrastructure after local notables.

Fortunately, the Board of Regents didn’t take any action on the issue. Regent Jesus Lopez asked that the university draft a policy on how to handle such requests. He suggested that the university not name any structures after living people.

Michael Romero coaches a team that practices on a baseball field behind his shop on South Commerce Street.

But he says the kids may not be able to practice on the city-owned land for at least a week.

That’s because the city dumped a lot of snow on the baseball field, which will make the field too muddy to play on for awhile, said Romero, owner of Michael’s Precision Automotive. Romero said the city could have dumped the snow on other portions of the tract of city land without affecting the baseball field.