Oklahoma lawmakers are advancing a proposal they say would speed up the testing of sexual assault kits, aiming to reduce ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A swab sample from a crime scene rests on a forensic evidence bag — one piece of evidence that may be included in a rape kit, ...

Kentucky State Police investigators are using decades-old evidence and new DNA technology to make arrests in cold sexual ...

Police Department waits an average of two and a half years to receive testing results for sexual assault examination kits.

It’s important for a teen to have access to a rape kit without parental consent — because according to Nashville’s Sexual ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Tennessee is dealing with a backlog on thousands of sexual assault kits. “Tennessee is not the only state dealing with this issue,” said Tennessee Bureau of Investigation ...

A first-of-its-kind sexual assault kit tracking system is now fully implemented in Washington, state patrol announced Tuesday. Each kit will have a barcode, and the online system lets sexual assault ...

Amid a statewide sexual assault nurse examiner shortage, long-term SANE Kristy Schwetman explained why there is a shortage, the importance of SANEs and why she continues to do the job.

She arrived at the hospital in St. John’s shaken, her hands trembling and her mind racing. Instead of being forced to make an impossible decision in that moment, hours after she had been sexually ...