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• Some retirees said they felt socked by the outcome Tuesday.
• "We'll be thrown out of our homes and starving if they seriously slash our pensions. Then they'll tell us to go to the soup lines," said David Sole, 65, who retired from the public works department in January after 22 years and whose wife also is a city retiree.
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• LAS VEGAS (AP) -- Las Vegas, where the only design rule seems to be that everything must mirror something else, is getting a new mall modeled on Istanbul's Grand Bazaar.
• Construction began this week on the Grand Bazaar Shops outside of Bally's Las Vegas Hotel and Casino. The 2-acre outdoor mall is expected to open next fall on the corner of Flamingo Road and Las Vegas Boulevard, in the heart of the Strip.
• Developer Larry Siegel describes the project as a sanitized, glitzed-out version of a traditional Middle Eastern market.
• "They're really interesting places where people can gather, and it's a real experience in terms of sights and sounds and smells. That's what we're trying to create here in a more sophisticated, modern way," he said.
• The walking mall will feature a spice market, a butcher shop, and the first Swarovski store that will allow customers to haggle over crystals.
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• NEW YORK (AP) -- Free agent outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury, fresh off winning the World Series with Boston, reached agreement with the rival New York Yankees on a seven-year contract worth about $153 million, a person familiar with the negotiations said Tuesday night.
• Ellsbury is the second major free-agent addition in the Yankees' offseason rebuilding after missing the playoffs for just the second time in 19 years. The center fielder was to take a physical in New York on Wednesday that he must pass before the deal can be finalized, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity because no statements were authorized.
• The Yankees also had been negotiating with outfielder Shin-Soo Choo, who like

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