Man gets 4 years for accidental shooting death of boy, 4
A northwestern Indiana man has been sentenced to four years in prison for the fatal accidental shooting of his 4-year-old nephew.
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Fort Wayne crash that killed 73-year-old leads to probation
An 18-year-old Fort Wayne man has been sentenced to five years of probation after pleading guilty in a crash that killed a 73-year-old man. Liam B. Burke was given his punishment Friday after earlier entering the plea to felony reckless homicide and criminal recklessness and misdemeanor criminal recklessness.
Police: Terre Haute cop killed by suspect spent 16 years on force
The Terre Haute Police Department has identified an officer who was killed in a shootout with a homicide suspect as a 16-year veteran of the force.
Man’s 57-year conviction affirmed in fatal shooting, chase
A southern Indiana man who shot and killed a woman he believed was pulling a gun on him, and who subsequently fled, crashed a vehicle and stole another before leading police on a meth-fueled chase will continue to serve a 57-year sentence for his crimes.
Court: Man deserves new trial because jurors slept
A man convicted of involuntary manslaughter should get a new trial because two jurors at his original trial slept during testimony, the highest court in Massachusetts said in a decision released Thursday.
7th Circuit denies relief for man who killed stepmom at 17
A 17-year-old whose jailhouse confession to his mother that he killed his stepmother was secretly recorded by detectives, who testified about the incriminating statement at his trial, lost his federal habeas appeal Monday after the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld his sentence.
Muncie teen fatally shot after brother’s sentencing hearing
Police say the shooting death of a 17-year-old girl in Muncie may have stemmed from a family conflict involving a crime her brother committed.
FBI sketch spurs 6,000 tips in slayings of 2 Delphi girls
Authorities say they’ve received more than 6,000 tips since police released a composite sketch of the suspected killer of two northern Indiana girls.
Lafayette police find man sought for questioning in 2 slayings
Northern Indiana police say they have located a man considered a person of interest in the fatal shootings of two people.
Man whose conviction in killing was overturned gets 75 years
A central Indiana man whose conviction in his girlfriend’s killing was overturned has been sentenced to 75 years in prison after being convicted again in her slaying.
Indiana woman wins prison release in fatal injection case
A central Indiana woman who admitted giving her chronically ill mother a fatal injection of a painkiller has won release from prison.
Chicago man pleads guilty in triple fatal Indiana crash
A Chicago man has pleaded guilty in a crash that left three international college students from Indiana dead earlier this year.
COA: Sentence appropriate for officer involved in deadly accident
The Indiana Court of Appeals upheld a police officer’s sentence for reckless homicide and criminal recklessness inflicting serious bodily injury after he crashed into a car while under the influence of hydrocodone and Xanax. The crash killed a man in the other car and severely injured his wife, who was nine months pregnant. Rebecca Sperry […]