Digital forensics has long been the work of sterile labs and locked rooms. But for federal agents executing search warrants in real homes sometimes in rural areas, sometimes waiting to get evidence ...

Imagine a laboratory filled with equipment advanced enough to locate deleted child pornography on a hard drive, recover old e-mails sent on a cell phone and trace the owner of a camera used to ...

Chase Cochran originally came to Neumann University outside Philadelphia intending to study criminal justice and work toward becoming an FBI agent. But after his first semester, he realized that path ...

The Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection has begun deploying a van equipped with crime-lab equipment to aid in investigations around the state. Credit: Angela Eichorst / ...

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. — In the basement of Fogarty Hall at the University of Rhode Island, Dennis Hilliard and a team of 12 others can be found scrutinizing guns for DNA or examining particles from ...

Kane County recently received $1 million from the federal government to expand its in-house forensic science lab that officials say could one day be a “full-service” regional hub for DNA and drug ...

In the beginning, in 1947, tools for the South Carolina Law Enforcement Division’s one-man crime lab could fit in the trunk of agent Millard Cate’s state-issued brown Oldsmobile — instruments for ...