The San Jose Police Department is hoping to generate new leads in sexual assault cold cases by resubmitting hundreds of rape ...

Police had long insisted that corroborating evidence of sex crimes was near impossible, so Bernard Carey, then state’s attorney, explained the kits would be used to create a process for ...

FILE - This Feb. 8, 2017, file photo, Utah State Crime Lab Director Jay Henry holds a sexual assault evidence collection kit following a committee meeting at the Utah State Capitol, in Salt Lake City.

That race between Schimel and Democratic challenger Josh Kaul was largely fought over rape kits. Kaul slammed Schimel, arguing his department took too long to test thousands of evidence kits.

With the state Supreme Court race in high gear, Wisconsinites are seeing ads about an issue that made news in the 2010s: rape kits. The pace of the state Department of Justice's testing of this ...