SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Santa Clara County officials announced the end to a backlog of rape test kits in the county along with an expedited forensic testing process in sexual assault cases leading to ...

Senate recently voted to renew the act, but the Democratic leadership in the House has yet to schedule a vote. Scott Berkowitz with the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN says law enforcement ...

A suspect already in federal prison was linked to open rape cases from 2007 and 2009 and became the 500th defendant in Cuyahoga County indicted as a direct result of my office’s Sexual Assault Kit ...

National policing leaders are warning that self-swab kits may undermine evidence and victim support.

It wasn’t that many years ago that Indiana had data collected from victims in thousands of rape kits just sitting, waiting for those kits to be tested with the hope that the results could help send a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a federal program designed to clear backlogs of DNA evidence from rape cases, state and local officials around the country ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WVEC) -- A 13News Now Investigation has uncovered hundreds of sexual assault kits that have not been tested for DNA in Hampton Roads. In Virginia, there is no mandatory testing of new ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) - City officials say they have tested more than 4,000 sexual assault kits and generated 14 indictments from evidence found in them, as they try to reduce a backlog of more than ...

Mariska Hargitay ‘s Joyful Heart Foundation has achieved a milestone more than a decade in the making.

Rosalie Van Zutphen said rape was "an issue that's going unspoken" in Guernsey [BBC] A group wants to distribute self-swab ...

Despite a federal program designed to clear backlogs of DNA evidence from rape cases, state and local officials around the country chose – again – not to test about 20% of kits and secured few ...