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A former Hendersonville storeowner who exposed himself to a 10-year-old girl in in 2020 is headed to jail after guilty plea, 4 years later.

Patricia Rhodes passed away. This is the full obituary where you can share condolences and memories. Published in the Logansport Pharos Tribune on 2023-11-27.

Newman’s actions in the case of James Franklin Sapp and a charge that he pursued a “vindictive prosecution” in a separate case are the subject of a hearing in Henderson County Superior Court on Monday to decide whether the district attorney is removed from office. Newman’s actions in the Sapp case were explored at length last Nov. 11-12 by the state Bar’s Disciplinary Hearing Commission, which ruled that Newman failed to notify the alleged victim in Sapp’s case of his plea-agreement...

The alleged abuser, James Franklin Sapp, lived next door to the victim on top of Jeter Mountain. The child was 12 years old when she and her mother, Carol Lynn Owenby Siebert, met with a Henderson County sheriff’s deputy at the Waffle House on Upward Road to report “a statutory rape that had occurred over several years at the Sapp residence,” a search warrant application said. Four days later, on June 16, 2014, the girl told detective Tonya Reeves during a lengthier interview that Sapp ha...

>> im jeff. karen is off tonight. elderly church worker is found dead on church grounds. police are calling it murder. the victim of a robbery. he was known as someone with a big heart. keith, what can you kill us? >> we are -- tell us? >> were live on north avenue near aiken street. milton hill, he was 70-year-old. church members say he would do anything for anybody at any time. he would often volunteer his time daiiy here at the church. he had just trimmed the churchs hedges. he live...