Jury found two IMPD officers are found not guilty on all charges in the death of Herman Whitfield III

The family went missing after leaving on July 6 to go to the pond on Indianapolis’ south side.

The in-custody death of Herman Whitfield III has been ruled a homicide, according to the Marion County Coroner’s Office.

The Marion County coroner’s office budget has been strained from deaths from COVID-19, drug overdoses and rising homicides in Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis City-County Council's Public Safety and Criminal Justice Committee met Wednesday night to discuss proposals related to giving for people experiencing homelessness and a moratorium on jails.

The family of Dreasjon Reed received a copy of the coroner's report nearly three months after he was shot by an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department officer.

Alfarena McGinty, chief deputy coroner for Marion County, talked with Side Effects Public Media about what it's been like on the front lines of the county's morgue, tough choices during this crisis, and how the pandemic reached her personal life, too.

A doctor fired from the Cook County, Illinois, medical examiner's office in November after an internal review found he had "botched autopsies" also worked part-time for the coroner's office in Marion County, Indiana.

Standards for how to investigate and report on overdoses vary widely across states and counties and as a result, opioid overdose deaths are not always captured in the reported data.

Heroin and fentanyl overdoses more than doubled between 2014 and 2015 in Indianapolis, and the use of the opioid overdose antidote Narcan is on a record pace this year.