"Criminals have a choice -- victims don't." This slogan was the dominant theme of Carl Brizzi's successful campaign for Marion County prosecutor last year. Y-Press interviewed Brizzi late last year and again recently to see how these few words are being put into action. "As simple as those words are to say, it really means a lot more in terms of how the office is actually run," Brizzi said in Dece

Timothy, 18, describes how guns and greed put him in the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility. Originally from Elkhart, he was paroled on Dec. 30 and now lives in Marshall County: "When I was like 5, I was woken up by someone banging on my door, and I answered the door, and it was a black guy (who) used to live next door to me, and he was shot in the chest and in his back. He wanted me to call

Over the course of a year, more children and teens die from gunfire than from cancer, pneumonia, influenza, asthma, and HIV/AIDS combined, according to the Children's Defense Fund. In 2000, 3,042 youths ages 19 and younger were killed by firearms, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Y-Press went to the Pendleton Juvenile Correctional Facility to talk to four teens about th

"Court is now in session." There is a judge behind the bench, a panel of jurors off to the side and two attorneys representing the defense and prosecution. But the judge is the only adult in the proceedings. This is Teen Court, where kids ages 12 to 17 determine the fate of their peers. Recently, Y-Press interviewed volunteers Brittany Brown, 14; Crystal Brown, 15; Bryan Sanders, 14; Katie Anderso