The California Highway Patrol announced more than $19 million in grant funding to 71 California law enforcement agencies, crime laboratories, and nonprofit organizations to help address the dangers of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.
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Researchers have unveiled crucial insights into the brain's potential ability to regulate the urge to consume fentanyl. This discovery offers a glimmer of hope in the ongoing battle against opioid addiction.
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New York City’s DNA Gun Crimes Unit is now the fastest big city lab for testing and analyzing gun crimes evidence.
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Less than a month after announcing $3 million in funding for 44 local law enforcement agencies to help their drug task forces, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is seeking even more for narcotics intelligence.
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In October 1991, a hunter was quail hunting in a rural area of Mentone and located a human skull, without teeth and mandible.
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While numerous exhibits were tested forensically over the years, a confirmed match to a suspect could not be made. Last year, the RCMP forensic laboratory re-examined the exhibits and a male DNA profile was generated.
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Cecilia Ashe, at the time Inspector of Operations in the Wilmington Police Department, knew her city had already been labeled “Murder Town, USA.”
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Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History have identified the oldest decisive evidence of humans’ close evolutionary relatives butchering and likely eating one another.
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The study found that 85% of cartridge cases that were judged inconclusive by forensic firearm examiners were actually fired by two different guns.
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Human remains found near Granger, Wyoming in 1982 have been identified as belonging to a man who disappeared in 1981 while traveling back to his home in Missouri after visiting family in California.
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