Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett has identified $300,000 in city funds that he says can be spent to create a witness protection program for people who assist local police with criminal investigations.
New York City officials sent a letter to the U.S. Justice Department on Friday defying a directive intended to pressure the city into cooperating more with federal immigration enforcement efforts.
The Community Justice Academy of the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office will host an event tonight in Indianapolis updating the community on the local fight against human trafficking.
A convicted cop killer who sued Alabama over its lethal injection method was put to death, but not before he cursed at the state and said: “I hate you.”
A southern Indiana city has agreed to pay $100,000 as part of a settlement after a city police officer’s personal medical information was disclosed at a public meeting.
A first-of-its kind study finds women are the fastest-growing incarcerated population, with more than 219,000 behind bars in American jails and prisons.
A white former Tulsa, Oklahoma, police officer was convicted of first-degree manslaughter late Wednesday in the off-duty fatal shooting of his daughter's black boyfriend after jurors in three previous trials couldn't decide whether to find him guilty of murder.
The Indiana Supreme Court on Wednesday unanimously affirmed drug convictions against an Evansville man who challenged a “military-style” SWAT team raid on his house that turned up cocaine, marijuana and prescription painkillers. The convictions previously were reversed in a divided opinion of the Indiana Court of Appeals that was vacated when justices granted transfer.
A 40-year-old man has been charged with drunken driving and reckless homicide after a head-on crash in northern Indiana left a husband and wife dead.
An Indiana prosecutor has determined that police officers acted in self-defense in the fatal shooting of a suspected car thief following a chase in an Indiana suburb of Chicago.
A probation officer is suing the city of Fort Wayne and several police officers, alleging that they racially profiled her during a relative's arrest.
A former central Indiana sheriff’s deputy convicted of civil rights violations for battering two handcuffed suspects will be sentenced in November for the third time after rulings by a federal appeals court.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for the man charged in the fatal shooting of a police officer who had come to his aid after the suspect's car overturned in a crash in Indianapolis.
Police in New Castle said a man was shot and killed after he opened fire on an officer whose own life may have been saved by his protective vest.
Two women who were sexually assaulted in separate cases by on-duty police in Evansville and Fort Wayne prevailed on appeal in their civil lawsuits against the cities Friday after trial courts had ruled in favor of the municipalities.
The family of an unarmed black man fatally shot by Indianapolis police during a traffic stop is suing the city, its police department and two officers, alleging excessive force.
Like many states, Indiana has a problem — mountains of untested rape exam kits in local law enforcement agencies that contain DNA evidence potentially identifying sex offenders. Indiana’s backlog of untested kits is certainly in the thousands. Victim advocates say the question is, how many thousands?
A new Indiana law that allows people with certain types of epilepsy to use a marijuana-derived oil for treatment spurred a statewide crackdown which made it more difficult for those seeking the product to obtain it.
Indiana police officials say a proposal to eliminate the state's handgun carry license requirement for civilians could result in a loss of revenue.
An Indianapolis man accused of fatally shooting a police officer who was trying to help him following a car crash wants his trial moved out of Marion County.