Fewer sexual assault evidence kits were submitted to the state for testing last year, according to an annual report from the Idaho State Police.
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The White Plains Police Department has reopened a missing person’s case that was first reported in late 1989, based on a recent discovery by DEP Police of a vehicle submerged in an upstate reservoir, matching the description of a vehicle relevant to the case.
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On June 26, 1984, the Fort Myers Police Department responded to a call of shots being fired in the area of Palm Ave and Lincoln Blvd. Upon arrival, officers located Claretha Gibbs, who was suffering from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
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Sefolosha sued, and the city paid its largest settlement for alleged police brutality in years: $4.5 million. But, the city insisted during the case that the officers were blameless, and they ended up facing no significant punishment.
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A crime lab in California has found unknown male DNA on the knife Pervis Payne is accused of using to murder Charisse Christopher and her 2-year-old daughter, and non-fatally stab her 4-year-old son.
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After a partially unanswered Freedom of Information Act request, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is suing the FBI to learn more about the federal agency’s Electronic Device Analysis Unit.
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In 1966, a young woman drowned in the Ropers Motel pool in Pecos, Texas and more than 50 years later she has been identified as Jolaine Hemmy.
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The Forensic Science Regulator has warned that parts of the sector remain in a precarious position and there is an urgent need for fundamental change.
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This new study will be more challenging for labs because it involves plant material rather than oils. Plant-based measurements are more difficult because the compounds are bound up in plant fibers.
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Researchers compared three designated areas where malt liquor sales were restricted, in parts of Spokane and Tacoma, with comparable neighborhoods that did not implement the same alcohol-related policies.
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