Police arrested the juvenile on Oct. 10, hours after Antonia Macri-Reiner was shot in her home.

The Juvenile Justice Reform Task Force is made up of members of all three branches of government, as well as outside groups that work with children.

The Marion County Prosecutor’s Office announced Thursday that instead of charging juveniles who commit low-level offenses, it will pay for their annual membership at a local Boys and Girls Club.

Indiana lawmakers are considering a measure that would allow children as young as 12 years old to be tried as an adult in the criminal justice system.

Legislation headed to the Indiana House would allow 12-year-olds to be sent to the Department of Correction for crimes that include attempted robbery.

An IU School of Medicine professor will receive $4.8 million from the National Institutes of Health to study the issue of drug overdoses among young people who have been involved in the criminal justice system.

The county's juvenile court will collaborate with Valparaiso-based Great Lakes Labs to offer self-styled pharmacogenetic tests to youths in the criminal justice system.

Marion County prosecutors want to try a 15-year-old Indianapolis boy as an adult in last week's fatal shootings of two teenage siblings.

An effort to change Indiana law so that children as young as 12 could face attempted murder charges in adult court has failed in the state Legislature.

Current state statute does not allow 12- and 13-year-olds charged with attempted murder to be sent to adult court - Indiana lawmakers introduced a bill to change that.