Donnell Hamilton News Today

More than just a football coach, Coach Nell was a mentor, father figure and pillar of the Butler Tarkington and Crown Hill community.

Gun crimes in Indianapolis may have dropped in 2022, but there's a bigger story. Inside 365 days of loss, pain and resilience.

IndyStar is tracking homicides to better understand the citys violence and remember the victims. Here are those cases from January 2023.

Chants, cheers, cries and clamoring horns rang out in memory of Coach Nell amid rush hour traffic during the Stop the Violence Walk on Aug. 4. 

How could this man be swept away by the one thing he spent a lifetime trying to stop? I went back to his city to find out.

Richard Donnell Hamilton, 43, started the Indy Steelers with the motto: Mute the echoes of gun violence so children can learn a better way.

Tarkington Park has been the go-to destination for the Black community in Indianapolis for years, but the neighborhood where the park is located is at the intersection of stark racial, health and socioeconomic disparities.

Editors at IndyStar meet at least twice a day to brainstorm and discuss the most important stories we can offer you, our readers. And IndyStar reporters spend hours each week doing the same, but also filing Freedom of Information Act requests, interviewing elected and other local officials, mothers and teachers and renters and homeowners, so that we fulfill our mission to cover the best and most important news that impacts you. These stories include a mix of hard-hitting articles that ask tough...

I think about Dalia Mendoza, and why I do what I do professionally. Dalia was 14 years old when she gave birth to her daughter in the west Texas desert town of Kermit. She was smart, determined and trying to figure out life while teaching her child about it, too. When I met her, she was about to graduate high school a year early and with Kermit High’s highest GPA. That last fact really mattered. In Texas, the valedictorian of a high school qualified for a tuition scholarship at a state unive...