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Cummings to run for prosecutor
Seven other candidates file for election
ANDERSON — Former Madison County prosecutor Rodney Cummings filed Friday to run for prosecutor in the May 4 primary election. Cummings, a Republican, will run against Angela Warner Sims, another Republican who filed Friday to run for the same seat.
Current prosecutor Tom Broderick, a Democrat, filed last week for re-election to his position.
In a news release, Cummings said he had been prosecutor from 1994 to 2006, when he used a system of “restorative justice” to reduce violent crime and incarceration rates. During his term as prosecutor, the Madison County Drug Court, Re-entry Court and Pre-trial Diversion Program were established.
Since, 2006, Cummings has served as director of trial advocacy and homicide prosecutor for the Marion County prosecutor.
Other candidates to file Thursday and Friday for the primary election include:
-- Terry Bailey, Lafayette Township board, Democrat
-- Robert C. Jones, Pendleton Town Council (District 3), Republican
-- Jerry Farr, precinct committee person (Fall Creek 2), Democrat
-- Denna Watkins, Stony Creek Township trustee, Democrat
-- Carletta Morrison, precinct committee person (Fall Creek 9) and state convention delegate, Democrat
-- Doran East, state convention delegate, Democrat
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Wisehart investigator: No one called
A retired Anderson Police Department investigator who took the initial murder confession of Mark Wisehart 27 years ago said Thursday that he was puzzled why prosecutors didn’t contact him before granting a plea deal a day earlier that put an end to a long and costly legal fight.
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Local Briefs: Sept. 3
A compilation of news items from the Madison County area:
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Aspire headquarters moves 13 positions to Noblesville
The merger between area behavioral health agencies will mean a move for some local employees of Aspire Indiana but also an expansion to some local services.
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Murder trial still looms
Just because he walked free from the walls of prison Thursday does not mean that Walter Goudy is free from the same murder charges that led to his 15-year incarceration.
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House ‘total loss’ after Alexandria fire
Alexandria Fire Chief Bruce Waters said no one was inside a residence at about 4 p.m. Thursday when it caught fire.
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1994 shooting victim’s family upset about Goudy release
Dismay flooded Kendra Graves on Thursday, after reading that the man who had been convicted of murdering her brother 16 years ago had been released from prison.
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Goudy freed from prison
“It’s a very joyous day,” Walter Goudy said Thursday outside the gates of the Wabash Valley Correctional Facility. “I don’t hold no hatred or animosity toward anyone.”
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Three-car wreck sends 3 to hospital
Three people were sent to the hospital Thursday afternoon after a truck smashed into a sedan along Indiana 9 Thursday.
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Woman dies, 3 hospitalized in rural Anderson crash
A woman died and three other people were transported to hospitals after a collision Thursday afternoon at 38th Street and Layton Road. Members of a church at the intersection said afterward that they have begged local officials to put a four-way stop there.
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