FBI notifies crime labs of errors used in DNA match calculations since 1999
Crime labs across the country were notified, possibly affecting thousands of cases.
Backlog in Illinois rape kit testing persists
State says outside agency will soon begin to test kits.
$3 million goes to task force investigating untested Detroit rape kits
The state funds has been used to expand the Wayne County Sexual Assault Kit Task Force.
San Francisco police to test old rape kits, clear backlog
Budget available to test evidence by year end.
7,500-plus Ohio rape kits tested by state for DNA matches
It's an effort to check previously untested kits for evidence that could help solve reported sexual assaults.
More than $100K needed for test to ID identical twin rapist
Traditional DNA testing can't confirm which twin raped a student in 1999.
Maryland's DNA database records 4,000th hit
Another milestone for Maryland's DNA database.
Mississippi's new $30 million-plus state crime lab ready
The state's new $30 million-plus Crime Lab has opened in Rankin County.
National DNA testing effort on old rape kits sees success in indicting sexual predators
Hundreds - possibly thousands - of sexual predators and rapists may be prosecuted in the U.S. as new funding is spent on clearing a backlog of rape-kit tests.
Rape kits: A decade and a billion dollars later, why can't we fix the backlog?
A Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to be held May 20 is titled, "Taking Sexual Assault Seriously: The Rape Kit Backlog and Human Rights.
Out of prison, out of luck
When the test of innocence is withheld.
Forensic scientist explains how Virginia's DNA data bank works
Investigators have said DNA links Jesse Matthew to two other criminal cases in our region
