Additionally, the kit must align with the CODIS Core Loci ... 35GY System was led by the New Hampshire State Police Forensic Laboratory with validation support from forensic laboratories across ...

Definitively convicting rapists is only possible thanks to one woman's efforts to create a forensic chain of evidence. A new book explores the rape kit and how we still fail survivors ...

Atlanta Rep. Scott Holcomb introduced a bill to create a statewide sexual assault kit tracking system and reform the process in Georgia for sexual assault and rape investigations.

"A victim has to weigh whether she is willing to go through a four-to-six-hour forensic kit that then disappears ... head of the Maine state crime lab. He worries that the testing requirement ...

commonly called rape kits, to be processed. The money remains from a part of $7.4 million that was initially set aside to retest DNA samples affected by the scandal involving lab analyst Yvonne ...

Two firearm "misidentifications" have drawn scrutiny in advance of an accrediting board's expected assessment on the weekend ...

Incoming sexual assault forensic exams, commonly known as rape kits, are taking the bureau more ... of DNA testing completed by disgraced former lab analyst Yvonne “Missy” Woods, who was ...

Colorado lawmakers unveiled a bipartisan proposal at the capitol on Thursday aimed at heading off future problems at the state’s DNA testing lab, in the wake of the issues caused by former ...

The center's goal is to have a 60- to 90-day turnaround time with DNA analysis, including rape kits and identifying ... The city of Charleston opened its own forensic lab a few years ago off ...

"The move to the Jefferson County Lab is the right ... its ability to process forensic evidence in a timely manner with a backlog of more than 1,400 untested rape kits. CBI said the backlog ...