A Bassett family is seeking whatever a jury deems appropriate in a civil rights suit involving the death of an inmate at the Henry County Adult Detention Center.
Judge Colby Hathaway found probable cause to believe Jose Valentin, 43, of Galva, committed a felony during a hearing Monday in Henry County Circuit Court.
After sitting in a jail cell for nearly eight months, a Martinsville man has walked away free from three counts of malicious wounding. The prosecution dismissed one charge of malicious wounding against Franky Uribe Merchan, 29, at the beginning of the trial on Tuesday, and it took about 15 minutes of deliberation by the jury to acquit him of the two additional malicious wounding charges in Henry Circuit Court.
A Henry County funeral home that bought the Stevens Funeral business accused the Stevens organization of failing to transfer money and documentation needed to honor the needs of some customers.