Only Hope WNC, a well-known youth homeless shelter in Henderson County, officially filed for bankruptcy in December, ...

Absher has been held at the Henderson County Detention Center since his arrest in July on charges of sexual abuse of children.

A former Henderson County School Board member and the founder of Only Hope WNC Inc. is seeking a reduction of his $2.2 million bond.

An attorney for Michael Absher, charged with more than 20 sex crimes against children, argues that his bond is set unfairly ...

Michael Absher, the founder of a now-defunct homeless youth shelter called Only Hope WNC, has been charged with numerous sex crimes involving children.

A Superior Court Judge on Thursday declined to lower the bond for Michael Absher, the Only Hope WNC founder who faces 23 charges of sexual offenses involving boys who stayed at or visited the shelter.

The bond policy recommends an $80,000 bond for a charge of first-degree child exploitation; for three counts of the class C felony, the court imposed a bond of $250,000.

Michael Absher, founder and former CEO of the homeless children’s nonprofit Only Hope WNC, was indicted Sept. 15 on additional counts of sex offenses involving children. Absher was indicted by a ...

Michael Absher, the former CEO of the Flat Rock nonprofit Only Hope WNC, which had offered services for homeless children, was charged Oct. 15 with three counts of human trafficking of a child victim.