Our Lady of the Lake Cancer Institute is celebrating after completing a bone marrow transplant so rare it has not been done at the facility in over a decade. Hospital staff celebrate discharge of ...

New developments in fatal Walgreens robbery, funeral arrangements made for Billy Jamison, & Mayor Chandler qualifies for re-election. The Shreveport Police Department has released crime statistics for ...

A wallet is more than just a place to stash your cash and cards—it also reflects style and personal taste, much like a handbag. Wallets have evolved in design, from the materials used to the ...

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

The kit would include swabs, microscope slides, and envelopes for storing hairs, fibres, semen, blood, and other evidence, as well as a consent form for victims and instructions for administering ...

Our rape-kit evidence system is incredibly fragile and often falls short of its promise. And yet, it is a modern miracle. While working on my book, The Secret History of the Rape Kit, I uncovered ...

THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE RAPE KIT: A True Crime Story, by Pagan Kennedy In 2021, the Smithsonian acquired something called the Vitullo Evidence Collection Kit for Sexual Assault Examination.

In this section, Kennedy describes how rape kit evidence has fundamentally changed how law enforcement thinks of serial rapists. When the evidence system functions properly, it can do more than ...

Her counterpart in the lower chamber, Assemblywoman Verlina Reynolds-Jackson, D-Mercer, said that “establishing a tracking system for sexual assault forensic evidence kits is of the utmost ...

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.