GREENFIELD, Ind. – The Hancock County Council approved funding for a new deputy prosecutor after a request from the county’s prosecutor, Brent Eaton. Eaton was noticing a dramatic increase in cases and he felt this hire would help their office with the workload. "We are swamped," he said. "You are always swimming upstream
GREENFIELD — When Hancock County Prosecutor Brent Eaton recently went before the county council with a plea to hire a new deputy prosecutor, he had math on his side. The caseload in his office, he said, is up 26 percent since 2010. The number of lower-level felony cases his office handles is up 400 percent
GREENFIELD, Ind. – The Hancock County Council approved funding for a new deputy prosecutor after a request from the county’s prosecutor, Brent Eaton. Eaton was noticing a dramatic increase in cases and he felt this hire would help their office with the workload. "We are swamped," he said. "You are always swimming upstream
NEW PALESTINE — An instructional aide at New Palestine High School in Hancock County faces a number of charges after he allegedly tried to solicit sex from a female student. The Community School Corporation of Southern Hancock County fired 42-year-old Justin McCaw, who was arrested by New Palestine Police. He faces child seduction, stalking and
GREENFIELD — The Hancock County prosecutor’s office will soon have an eighth attorney on staff to help handle the county’s increasing criminal caseload. The Hancock County Council, by a recent vote of 4-3, narrowly approved the addition of a new deputy prosecutor at a salary of $75,000. Council members Bill Bolander, Jeannine Gray and Jim
GREENFIELD — Greenfield police are warning users of CBD flowers after a shop owner voiced her concerns about the products on her shelves. "I was very upset because I felt like my business was threatened at first," Lisa Tift, owner of Indy's Vape Escape, said. Tift has been selling CBD oil for a