A lawyer for the Clark County School District has been named a U.S. magistrate judge in Las Vegas.
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Roger Hunt announced his selection Tuesday of Carl “Bill” Hoffman for the newly created position that will give the court a third magistrate.
Hoffman’s appointment is subject to background checks by the FBI and IRS, which are expected to take up to three months. The term is for eight years.
A man convicted of killing two people at Circus Circus was sentenced on Wednesday to burglary and robbery charges in connection with the slayings.
Las Vegas police say a 30-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the fatal shooting of a man found near railroad tracks.
Karl Groschen has been indicted on two counts of murder with a deadly weapon in connection with the October deaths of his wife and stepson.
After months of treatment, a man facing murder and sexual assault charges was found competent to stand trial.
A judge ordered that a man accused of striking a Henderson Police Department sergeant with an SUV remain detained without bail.
Michael Grindrod was arrested in November and was accused of attempting to kill five puppies found in a dumpster.
The suit claims that in addition to “severe pain and shock”, the man also “sustained a traumatic brain injury, a concussion, aggravation of his post-traumatic stress disorder and post-traumatic headaches.”
A Las Vegas man was sentenced Wednesday for casting two ballots in the 2020 election: one in Las Vegas, and one in Kingman, Arizona.
The custody battle between Dylan Houston and his ex-wife’s parents resolved in December, less than nine months after the contentious family court case erupted in a violent shooting at a Summerlin law office.
Misty and Jeffery Scanlan pleaded guilty to charges of child neglect or endangerment after they were arrested in April and accused of keeping an 11-year-old boy in a cage.
