After first finding her remains in 2012, investigators have now identified Opelika Jane Doe as 6-year-old homicide victim Amore Joveah Wiggins.
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A confidential ShotSpotter document obtained by The Associated Press outlines something the company doesn’t always tout — that human employees can quickly overrule and reverse the algorithm’s determinations, and are given broad discretion to decide if a sound is a gunshot, fireworks, thunder or something else.
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In a chilling sign that producers may be moving to manufacture fentanyl on American soil, U.S. agents in southern Arizona seized up to 440 pounds of what they suspect is a precursor chemical often used to make the dangerous drug.
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Violence and warfare were widespread in many Neolithic communities across Northwest Europe, a period associated with the adoption of farming, new research suggests.
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Samples saved by a Baltimore doctor have been used to solve more than 80 cold cases, but evidence from 1,800 cases remains untested. The state's new AG is acting to protect this evidence trove from destruction.
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The genealogy in this case was complicated by the fact that Earl Pizzoferrato had been adopted.
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Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with a Texas death row inmate who is trying to overturn his conviction due to possibly faulty DNA evidence. In a rare situation, the inmate received the support of the prosecuting district attorney.
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AFP forensic teams are using precious metals such as gold and silver in an evidence recovery technique that can develop fingerprints on cash along with other items including plastics, glass, mobile phones, firearms and other weapons.
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Researchers describe genomes from 10 individuals up to 7,500 years old that help to fill the gap and show gene flow from people moving in the opposite direction from North America to North Asia.
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Anderson has goals to improve the organization’s outreach internationally and outreach to increase membership opportunities and actively find ways to create spaces for Black, Indigenous and other persons of color in the organization.
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