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Combining multiple poor quality CCTV images into a single, computer-enhanced composite could improve the accuracy of facial recognition systems used to identify criminal suspects, new research suggests.
9.21.2018
12:27pm
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Police in New York say at least five people, including three infants, were stabbed early Friday at an overnight daycare center operating in a private apartment in the borough of Queens.
9.21.2018
12:18pm
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Death rates from drug overdoses in the U.S. have been on an exponential growth curve that began at least 15 years before the mid-1990s surge in opioid prescribing, suggesting that overdose death rates may continue along this same historical growth...
9.21.2018
11:59am
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The mysterious closure of a solar observatory in New Mexico earlier this month happened after the FBI opened a child pornography investigation involving a janitor's computer found at the observatory, and agents tracked wireless signals used to access...
9.21.2018
11:34am
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Workers say they endured horrifying moments of wild gunfire and terror as a woman working a temporary job at a drugstore warehouse in Maryland fired on colleagues with a handgun, killing three people before fatally shooting herself, according to...
9.21.2018
11:25am
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DNA databases of huge ivory shipments have shown a handful of poaching and smuggling cartels that are trying to cover their tracks by separating African elephant tusks in different shipments, according to a new study in the journal Science Advances.
9.20.2018
2:24pm
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NIST recently released updated versions of two forensic standard reference materials — the standard bullet and the human DNA quantitation standard.
9.20.2018
11:49am
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Taiwan said Thursday it is looking for the owner of a Texas company that sells blueprints to make untraceable 3-D printed guns who is wanted on an arrest warrant tied to an accusation that he had sex with an underage girl and paid her $500 afterward.
9.20.2018
11:43am
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The Metropolitan Police launched an investigation in 2015 into reports of mutilated cats in Croydon and the surrounding area. During the probe, detectives received more than 400 similar reports of cats being mutilated across London and surrounding...
9.20.2018
11:37am
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The U.S. Justice Department will double the funding it gives tribes for public safety programs and crime victims as it tries to tackle the high rates of violence against Native American women, a top official said.
9.20.2018
11:32am
