Opening new gun stores may raise neighborhood shooting rates for years, highlighting how firearm availability affects community violence, according to researchers.
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Kenneth J. Breslauer’s research has touched different aspects of society from improving the development of medicine to treat disease to making it easier to solve criminal cold cases.
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The state of Ohio is continuing to experience a rise in drug seizures involving carfentanil, while forensic labs have detected a new opioid compound in the state.
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While the police department knows the identity of both parents, their names are not being released at this time. This identification represents a major step forward in the case and has renewed efforts to bring this case to justice.
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Forensic professionals are suffering severe damage to their mental health due to frequent exposure to traumatic scenes, according to UNISON, the largest trade union in the United Kingdom.
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More than 30 years ago, on August 17, 1992, workers clearing brush near the St. Johns Bridge in North Portland discovered the fully skeletonized remains of a man.
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Continued follow up on a missing persons investigation led to a piece of closure for the family of 20-year-old TSU student and mother, Alice Mae Sullivan, 39 years after she went missing.
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After six decades, the suspect in the assault and murder of Catherine Blackburn of Albany, New York has been identified.
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The East Command building was not designed for forensic sciences and years of modification simply couldn’t turn into the kind of space necessary for advanced forensic services.
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On October 14, 2025, Missouri is set to execute Lance Shockley by lethal injection. The circumstantial evidence is compelling, but comprehensive DNA testing wasn’t done—and the courts have decided that it never will be.
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