Ranked No. 2 in Class 3A New Palestine’s softball team — state runner-up in 4A in 2024 — pounded out 17 hits, seven for extra ...

The Indiana Parole Board denied Ritchie’s clemency plea on May 14 to have his sentence commuted to life without parole, ...

Benjamin Ritchie is scheduled to die by lethal injection nearly 25 years after he shot and killed Ofc. Bill Toney.

Ofc. Bill Toney was shot and killed on Sept. 29, 2000, while chasing down suspects who had run from a stolen van. Benjamin ...

The Beech Grove Police Department had never seen an officer killed by gunfire before the year 2000, when a chase turned ...

Ritchie was sentenced to death in 2002 for the murder of Beech Grove officer William Toney. A slew of last-minute appeals ...

Benjamin Ritchie, 45, had been on Indiana’s death row since 2002, when he was convicted of killing Beech Grove Police Officer ...

An Indiana man convicted in the 2000 killing of a police officer is set to receive a lethal injection early Tuesday in the ...

Beech Grove officials offered a special tribute to fallen Officer Bill Toney ahead of the scheduled execution of his ...