New DNA testing from a sexual assault kit helped reveal that a man was wrongly convicted of rape over 40 years ago in Ventura County, officials announced Thursday. Ventura County District Attorney ...

Nearly 30 years after a Norfolk State University student was raped, a jury has found the man responsible guilty. On Friday, a Norfolk jury convicted 58-year-old Melvin Antonio Cuffee of two counts ...

A jury convicted a 58-year-old man on two counts of rape, two counts of sodomy, and abduction with intent to defile in a 1996 ...

Police say DNA links a 62‑year‑old Atascocita man to four Houston rapes; investigators seek more victims and witnesses.

Leaders called Phillip Cerf a “vicious” offender tied to four rapes from 1997–2016. They said DNA and genealogy solved the ...

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State leaders are responding to a WRAL Investigation on DNA testing for rape victims. One lawmaker has filed legislation on the victims' behalf. For convicted murderers, state law requires the State ...

The prosecution’s case, all but closed since the attack in 2013, grew out of a years-long initiative to have untested sex assault kits examined for evidence. After living with a dozen years of fear ...

NO ONE knows the exact figures, but across the US, tens of thousands of rape test kits are thought to be lying around awaiting analysis. The country is finally starting to clear this backlog of DNA ...

In this April 2, 2015, photo, a sexual assault evidence kit is logged in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill that will aim ...