The Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department hopes to hire nearly 1,900 new officers over the next few years.

The Clay County Sheriff's deputy was transported to a hospital with non-life threatening injuries, state police said.

A man armed with multiple knives stabbed two Indianapolis police officers early Wednesday before they shot and wounded him, authorities said.

The bodies of four people were found in a northeastern Indiana home following a report of shots being fired inside the residence, authorities said.

One officer fired his handgun and the shots hit both a dog and a person who was attempting to corral the canines, police said.

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

Indianapolis will use over $150 million from the American Rescue Plan to boost public safety. The latest part of the plan is a gun violence reduction strategy led by the city Office of Public Health and Safety and the National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform.

Two people, including a 14-year-old girl, were killed and four other juveniles were injured early Friday when an SUV crashed in central Indiana following a police pursuit that began in Lawrence.

Indiana Task Force 1 has been in New Orleans this week helping with Hurricane Ida relief efforts.

An Indianapolis police officer was injured and briefly hospitalized following a well-being check on the city's southeast side early Sunday, authorities said.