The restoration means three of the lab’s core functions are back in operation after it lost accreditation four years ago, upending criminal cases in the District. D.C.’s long-troubled crime lab can ...

If you leave an identifiable fingerprint at a crime scene along Colorado’s Front Range, it probably won’t be long before 32 different police agencies know about it. That’s because of a pioneering ...

D.C. is poised to review every case conducted by the Department of Forensic Sciences’ firearms and fingerprint units since the inception of the independent crime lab nearly 10 years ago, following the ...

D.C.'s long troubled crime lab can once again test latent fingerprints, bringing an agency that was stripped of its accreditation four years ago after errors were discovered in criminal convictions ...

Thousands of fingerprints lifted by Baltimore police following home and business burglaries and car break-ins over the past several years sit in the city’s crime lab, never analyzed nor processed to ...