The New Orleans sheriff waited nearly a week to have the scene of a 10-man jailbreak processed for evidence by crime lab technicians, and then did so only at the behest of the district attorney, ...

KANNAPOLIS — The 10-week Kannapolis Police Citizen’s Academy wrapped up its final class Thursday night with a description of how crime scenes are processed and a tour of the evidence room. Sergeant ...

Inside an unoccupied house, a student gingerly pushes open a creaky door and takes a wary step into a dark room—only to find the walls completely splattered with blood. It sounds like the cliché ...

The Jackson Police Department has a new mobile crime scene unit to improve crime scene processing. The unit, a converted van, cost about $240,000 and was funded by a federal grant. It will be used to ...

The Baltimore Police Forensic team is proving there’s more to documenting crime scenes than meets the eye. Crime lab technician Megan Descalzi started the drone unit in the Baltimore Police Forensics ...

Crime-scene models with detailed measurements once took hours to collect. Now, law-enforcement agencies are increasingly turning to new technology to help speed up the work and better collect evidence ...