In a move long anticipated, the Austin City Council voted Thursday to officially transfer the forensic laboratory out from under police control, turning it into an independent entity.
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The Oregon State Police’s Medical Examiner’s Office worked with multiple agencies to successfully identify remains after more than 40 years.
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A judge has rejected a bid to throw out DNA evidence against a man charged with sexually attacking and fatally stabbing two young women in separate attacks in the early 1990s while they were riding bikes near a canal system that winds through metro Phoenix.
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Police in Oregon can no longer arrest someone for possession of small amounts of heroin, methamphetamine, LSD, oxycodone and other drugs as a ballot measure that decriminalized them took effect on Monday.
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Sixty-four arrests were made during a nearly week-long proactive enforcement operation that targeted online prostitution and those whose demand for these unlawful activities fuels an illicit underground economy, both locally as well as across the State of California.
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Philadelphia has a “zombie drug” problem, and experts are concerned it is going to start rapidly spreading to other parts of the U.S.—just as the drug infiltrated the City of Brotherly Love from Puerto Rico about 5 years ago.
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Police in Waterbury, Connecticut said last week they arrested and charged a local man in the killing of a teenager nearly 17 years ago.
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San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin said he plans to file murder charges against two men arrested last week for the attempted robbery and fatal attack on famed private investigator Jack Palladino.
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The skeletons are today far from complete. Only fragments of a tibia, a femur and a mummified foot remain. The tibia and foot are attributed to St. Philip, the femur to St. James. It appears likely that this has been the case since the sixth century.
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The software company SolarWinds unwittingly allowed hackers’ code into thousands of federal computers. A cybersecurity system called in-toto, which the government paid to develop but never required, might have protected against this.
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