The third time was the charm for the director of Rhode Island’s State Crime Lab to win approval to return most forensic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A forensic science examiner performs an analysis at the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory. Some state labs face yearslong ...

Promising new inroads into critical DNA testing has been forecast by experts who have applied machine learning to DNA profiling. From medical diagnostics to forensic tests and national security, PCR ...

Evidence that could solve murders, convict drug dealers and close cold cases first has to make it through South Carolina’s ...

Avery was sentenced to life in prison without parole in 2007. Steven Avery is escorted into a Calumet County courtroom during the opening day in his murder trial, Feb. 12, 2007, in Chilton, Wis. Morry ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Knox County will soon get thousands of dollars from the United States Department of Justice to fund forensic genealogical testing of human remains, with the hope that investigators ...

Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, delays in forensic testing are stalling prosecutions, stretching court ...