A forensic science examiner performs an analysis at the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory. Some state labs face yearslong backlogs across a range of cases, including those requiring DNA and ...

State police and public safety officials have announced plans for a new state crime lab in Marlborough that they say will keep Massachusetts at the leading edge of the behind-the-scenes police work ...

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Officials with the Arkansas State Crime Laboratory said on Friday that they are recruiting two “highly accomplished physicians” as medical examiners. Officials said Dr. Lance Van ...

Across the country, state and local crime labs are drowning in evidence. From rape kits to drug samples to vials of blood, delays in forensic testing are stalling prosecutions, stretching court ...

LARGO, Fla. (WFLA) — The Pinellas County Forensic Laboratory has been named one of the top 14 labs in the nation, according to the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors. ASCLD ranked the ...

San Diego County Sheriff’s Department crime lab. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department) The San Diego County Sheriff’s Office announced Tuesday that its Regional Crime ...

The facility has been a part of solving several high-profile cases in recent years, including the case of 17-year-old Carla Walker, who was abducted and murdered in Fort Worth in 1974, and Othram DNA ...

The Texas Department of Public Safety is recognizing the hardworking men and women of the Crime Laboratory Division during National Forensic Science Week. (Courtesy Photo) Established in 1937, the ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Lawmakers held a special committee hearing Monday to question state crime lab officials following an ABC7 I-Team report on the hundreds of cases being delayed justice because DNA ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Nearly 90 years ago, the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Crime Laboratory Division started as a one-chemist operation at Camp Mabry in Austin. Since then, it has evolved into a ...