Public Safety

It has been a year since Gladys and Herman Whitfield Jr. called the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department because their son was having an apparent mental health episode. But it was a call that ended in tragedy.

Indianapolis received $9.9 million in Continuum of Care funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to support community projects serving high-risk residents seeking affordable housing.

Despite the gloomy weather expected this Friday, the Brightwood Community Center and the Domestic Violence Network plan to liven up the Martindale Brightwood community...

One in three women in Indiana have been sexually assaulted, and 63% of assaults are not reported to police. Indiana Coalition to End Sexual...

Demonstrators took turns reading the names of thousands of children killed by gun violence as they protested outside the NRA Convention last weekend. They demanded action on gun control, with some laying out in the grass to symbolize deaths caused by gun violence. They want the NRA to stop obstructing gun control legislation.

  Ralph Yarl, a Black teen from Kansas City, Missouri was hospitalized after knocking on the wrong door. The Staley High School junior drove to a home...

Two Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officers were charged with felonies for their alleged roles in the in-custody death of Herman Whitfield III.  A Marion County...

The Indiana State Police are responding to an email message sent to several dozen Indiana schools threatening to bomb campuses. No suspicious or explosive...

As pedestrian safety concerns grow and advocacy groups cries mount, the City-County Council has a series of “No Turn on Red” proposals for downtown...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville police say at least four people were killed and nine others wounded in a shooting at a bank building in downtown Louisville. Louisville Metro Police Deputy Chief Paul Humphrey told a news conference that the suspect was also dead after the Monday morning shooting. Humphrey said the wounded included two police officers. Officers who arrived on the scene exchanged gunfire with the shooter but it wasn't clear how he died. Humphrey said the shooter appeared to be a former employee of the bank. An emotional Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said he lost two friends in the shooting.