Hurst is one of this year’s Women’s History Month honorees in the Ilitch Sports + Entertainment Game Changers series, which ...

For decades, Chicago police sergeant Louis Vitullo was credited with creating the sexual assault collection kit. But it was ...

Rakshit Chaurasiya, a law student implicated in the death of a woman and the injury of seven others in a car accident in ...

Kenneth Perry, 56, was found guilty last week of murder, rape, and multiple felonies related to the 1990 killings of two siblings, John and Pamela Sumpter. His sentencing is scheduled for 9 a.m.

Sexual assault services are always very aware of giving victim-survivors a choice about having a medical forensic examination. If a person presents to a sexual assault service, they can receive ...

Schimel's campaign argued that Karofsky's current criticism contradicts comments she made when she oversaw the sexual assault kit testing project.

Cuyahoga County's GOLD Unit uses forensic genetic genealogy and familial DNA testing to solve rape cases, some more than 30 ...

Holcomb’s proposal would require that all evidence submitted ... assaults were reported but kits have not been submitted for testing to the Division of Forensic Sciences of the GBI would also ...

Legislators are considering a proposal that supporters say will help victims of sexual assault get local, timely care in ...

Legislators are considering a proposal that supporters say will help victims of sexual assault get local, timely care in ...

Last month, Yvonne “Missy” Woods, a former forensic scientist with ... Nurse Examination to collect physical evidence for a Sexual Assault Evidence kit (colloquially called a “rape kit”).