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 ...

Digital forensics has long been the work of sterile labs and locked rooms. But for federal agents executing search warrants in real homes sometimes in rural areas, sometimes waiting to get evidence ...

Before charges are filed and criminal cases head to court, much of the work begins inside the Union County Sheriff’s Office ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) — Evidence that could solve murders, convict drug dealers and close cold cases first has to make it through South Carolina’s forensic laboratory. South Carolina Law Enforcement’s ...

The analysis that raised eyebrows at the Rhode Island State Crime Laboratory involved a drive-by shooting that killed a Massachusetts man in Pawtucket in 2021. Some criminalists at the nationally ...

The state’s forensic lab played a crucial role in tying two firearms to the Brown University shooting in Rhode Island earlier this month and the subsequent killing of a professor in Massachusetts. “We ...

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) — A new regional forensic laboratory is now complete in the Lowcountry, with local leaders saying it could help reduce DNA backlogs and move criminal investigations ...

South Africa's forensic labs are in crisis, with severe resource shortages undermining the fight against violent crime and ...

After one of the city’s firearms examiners failed an annual proficiency test last year, examiners at the Department of Forensic Sciences had to go back and look at over 100 ballistics tests conducted ...