Police Chief Neil Noakes provided an update about the Crime Lab’s rape kit backlog to the City Council on Tuesday, Nov 5. As ...

The Missouri State Highway Patrol Crime Laboratory expects sexual assault kit results to be available within 14 months from the time one is submitted.

The Fort Worth Police Department is waiting on a contract with the Tarrant County Medical Examiner’s Office to address the ...

Fort Worth Police Chief Neil Noakes told NBC 5 that he wished he had done more to address the problems months ago, as he and ...

Hundreds of families in Nashville are still waiting for justice, their hopes pinned on the testing of sexual assault kits ...

The owner of a laboratory in Spanish Fort pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to cheat Medicare out of millions of dollars ...

Right now, there's a major backlog of rape kits at the Fort Worth Police Department's Crime Lab. It's something Police Chief ...

Popp handed over the latest consignment of donated tests that included extraction kits and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)-based primers/probes worth 5,000 tests, to Minister of Health Dr. Jane Ruth ...

South Carolina Legislative Audit Council reported missed deadlines, incomplete data, lack of comprehensive guidelines for ...

Two North Texas police departments are changing how they handle evidence in sexual assault cases after NBC 5 Investigates reported last week that rape testing kits used in investigations in Fort Worth ...

A bill that would create a rape kit tracking system in New Jersey unanimously passed the state Senate Monday afternoon.