NEW ORLEANS — When a pair of suspects fled a routine traffic stop and shot at a Baton Rouge-area police officer in 2020, DNA at the crime scene helped police quickly arrest one suspect. But the other ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Major DNA backlog improvements have been made six years after an I-Team investigation uncovered massive DNA delays and murder evidence sitting in Illinois labs. Robin Woolery, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Every day, DNA is routed through local, state and federal databases to identify suspected criminals. A technological breakthrough that's allowed law enforcement to solve ...

DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (WOIO) - New DNA testing may be happening as soon as this summer on evidence, specifically hair, in the Amy Mihaljevic kidnapping and murder case. It’s been 35 years since ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - More than 500 missing and murdered children in the United States remain unidentified and unaccounted for, with many families left without answers for decades. Othram, a DNA ...

The Louisiana State Police Crime Lab is sitting on a backlog of 2,500 DNA cases, an official testified Thursday in an Orleans Parish courtroom, blaming a staffing exodus and heavy demand for a huge ...

Weeks after the San Francisco Police Department vowed to stop using victim DNA samples to identify suspects in crimes, the department's internal records show officers can continue to do just that – ...