Merrillville didn’t have to look far for its next girls basketball coach. The Pirates have hired assistant Kelly Kratz to replace Amy Govert, who resigned after 16 highly successful seasons.

When the phone rang at 3:30 a.m., Ron Thomas knew it had to be bad news. “Kelly’s been beaten up,” his daughter, Christina, tearfully told him. “It looks like he’s going to die.” ...

Mentally ill and homeless, Kelly Thomas had dozens of run-ins with police in the years before he died after an altercation with six Fullerton officers, according to an internal document from the ...

Fullerton homeless man Kelly Thomas was beaten into a coma on July 5, 2011, by five members of the Fullerton Police Department. His family took him off life support days later. Last September ...

The father of Kelly Thomas referred to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office as “the enemy” on a radio program Tuesday, angry that the D.A. investigation has yet to reveal how and why ...

It showed Kelly Thomas struggling with six police officers, who hit, kneed and jolted him with an electric stun gun as he was on the ground, calling out for his father over and over again.

As the trial of two former Fullerton police officers charged in the death of Kelly Thomas began Monday, attorneys painted two strikingly different portraits of the videotaped beating that left the ...

Thomas died five days later in a hospital. Following the afternoon court recess, defense attorney John Barnett continued to use the timeline of Kelly Thomas' alleged violent behavior as he ...