Marion County News

The rain might be putting a damper on Fourth of July cookouts, but on Saturday night, the skies above Indianapolis will light up with fireworks.

At approximately 9:30pm on July 1st at 12 North Temple, Indianapolis, the United States Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force arrested Bobby Jones.

A former state legislator and recent candidate for lieutenant governor faced misdemeanor charges Wednesday in an incident in which he is accused of pretending to be an active lawmaker to avoid a public-intoxication arrest.

Police have caught a second Indianapolis teen and charged him the armed robbery of an affluent Johnson County couple.

An arrest warrant has been issued for Indiana's 2008 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor, who is charged with misrepresenting himself as a state legislator to avoid arrest for public intoxication.

Metro police broke up a massive drug ring during an early morning raid on the east side.

A 111-year-old home for troubled children in Indianapolis will remain open for at least one more year even though state officials plan to stop sending youths to the facility.

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi said Monday that he needs more time to consider what charges to file against a former state representative and one-time candidate for lieutenant governor who allegedly claimed immunity after police tried to arrest him early Friday morning.

A February drunken driving charge against Indiana's 2008 Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor is on hold amid new questions of whether he misrepresented himself as a legislator this week to avoid possible arrest for public intoxication.

Police say a former state representative and candidate for lieutenant governor tried to avoid arrest for public intoxication by telling officers he was a lawmaker serving in the special legislative session.

A private investigation into the February accident that killed a 10-year-old Washington Township elementary school student places blame on the bus driver who dropped the boy off, contradicting an Indiana State Police finding.

Curtis Dance was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive 65-year prison terms for killing two people six years ago.

In the last minutes of Father's Day, police believe, a Brownsburg man violently stabbed his estranged wife to death.

The Indianapolis Star reports that some Indiana public safety officers injured in the line of duty are paying thousands of dollars in taxes on benefits that are actually tax-exempt. The newspaper found that the officers are paying taxes they could avoid because their former employers don't know that those benefits are exempt from federal and state ...

Building permits for new homes fell 28 percent in the Indianapolis area in May, continuing a year-long slide.

The Indiana Supreme Court has reinstated convictions of battery and disorderly conduct against an Indianapolis high school student who confronted the assistant principal and dean of students in the school cafeteria.

The number of homeless families in the state's most-populous county grew by 78 percent this year, an official count shows, but the actual number is several times higher, an advocacy group said Wednesday.

A man being held on charges of attempted murder in the shooting of Indianapolis police Officer Jason Fishburn last year claims he's being mistreated at the Marion County Jail.

Prosecutors have filed a felony child neglect charge against an Indianapolis woman accused of letting her boyfriend fatally beat her 15-month-old daughter with a belt.

A man was shot to death late last night on the Near Northside. Frank G. Moore III, 45, was found in a yard in the 3100 block of Broadway Street at 11:47 p.m. Monday.