AUSTIN The Texas Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) Crime Laboratory Division announces the implementation of the state’s new Limited Consent for DNA Testing Program for sexual assault survivors. The ...

FROM STATE POLICE HEADQUARTERS IN SUSQUEHANNA TOWNSHIP. IF YOU SEE FLASHING LIGHTS BEHIND YOU AND YOU’RE PULLED OVER BY A PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE VEHICLE, YOU MIGHT EXPECT THAT THAT INTERACTION WILL ...

GREAT FALLS- This week, U.S. Customs and Border Protection started a new small-scale pilot program where agents collect DNA samples from certain people who are already in custody. Under the 90-day ...

SAN ANTONIO — A new statewide program is giving sexual assault survivors the ability to collect and test DNA evidence without having to file a police report, according to a press release from the ...

DNA evidence that once took days to process could now provide a break in a case in just 90 minutes. The state police have expanded their Rapid DNA program, implementing 15 fully automated genetic ...

What if you could create a mugshot of a criminal using only a single strand of hair left behind at the crime scene? Well, thanks to new research, we're getting closer to being able to do just that. A ...

Many Black people in the U.S. cannot trace their ancestry because earlier generations of their family were enslaved. But an Illinois program is changing what’s possible and connecting long-lost family ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo credit: Adobe Stock) The Illinois Family Roots Pilot program is expanding across the state after launching in June with 250 ...

The Illinois Family Roots Pilot program is expanding across the state after launching in June with 250 kits. A program aimed at helping Black residents trace their ancestry, and in some cases, ...