Victims of sexual assault in West Virginia may have an easier time finding health care providers to conduct forensic examinations and collect rape kits if a bill passed Monday by the state Senate becomes law.
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A young Rhode Island girl has finally figured out how to determine if Santa Claus is real—DNA. Last week, the resident sent a partially eaten cookie as well as a couple of gnawed-on carrot sticks to the police department.
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One day after police tried to interview school bus driver Jeremiah Guyette about a murder that took place in 1994 in the town he briefly lived in, Guyette fatally shot himself.
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Through speaking with witnesses, investigators learned of Hudgens’ intentions to rob the business that day and, along with forensic evidence, were able to tie him to Anshutz’s murder.
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The identity was confirmed through historical, genealogical, anthropological, archaeological and DNA analysis.
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Thoma Bravo intends to combine Magnet Forensics and Grayshift LLC, which Thoma Bravo acquired majority control of in July 2022.
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The remains of more than 110,000 Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Natives’ ancestors are still held by museums, universities and federal agencies.
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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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