Today's News

A 3-4 record in this past week’s Sandy Koufax Regionals gave the Las Vegas Kryptonite a fifth-place finish to conclude the team’s second full season.

“We did good,” said manager Shannon Aragon. “It was our first year at regionals.”

Unofficially, the Kryptos went 24-15 overall this campaign, with 10 of the defeats having come against 16-and-under foes, an older age group than their 14-and-under norm.

Residents on Seventh Street got most of what they wanted last year when they requested stop signs on their street. But they’re still pushing for some more at another intersection.

Last September, the city posted stop signs on the two-lane portion of Seventh at the intersections of Friedman, Washington and Columbia, but a few weeks later, they took down the signs at Columbia.

Wherever you go, they know where you are — your exact location.

If you get in trouble, the state may require that you wear an ankle bracelet. It’s not the fashionable kind; it’s the one with a global positioning system that tracks and records your every move.

During a recent court hearing, one young man couldn’t dispute the fact that he had burglarized three separate homes while wearing the ankle bracelet. The prosecution was able to tell the judge the time, the exact location and every move the 16-year-old made while committing the crimes.

The Chamber of Commerce is getting a big increase in money from the city.

The City Council this week approved a contract for the next fiscal year that amounts to $192,000, which is up from last year’s $105,000.

Some of that increase is because of the transfer of an events coordinator position from the city government to the chamber, amounting to $35,000. The remaining increase of more than $50,000 in the chamber’s budget is part of what its leaders call an ambitious effort to market Las Vegas regionally.