The Washington attorney general said Tuesday he will notify every law enforcement agency in his state and direct them to ensure that rape kits are not being inappropriately destroyed. His action comes ...

A potentially key piece of evidence collected as part of the high-profile investigation into Stephen Smith’s death appears to remain untested. A rape kit conducted on the Hampton County teenager in ...

Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters has confirmed his office is conducting a review of hundreds of sexual assault cases handled by Christopher Schroder.In October, Schroder, who was a Cincinnati ...

The remaining 42 kits were not submitted to FDLE for analysis for a number of reasons, to include: (1) Victim no longer wants the investigation to proceed, (2) Case is not being pursued by the State ...

A year after a USA TODAY investigation revealed that police around the country weren’t following up on DNA evidence from unsolved rape cases, the Justice Department has published a report urging them ...

GREENSBORO, NC -- "It's very devastating when you're that young, and someone violates you and rapes you like that in your home." To add to her devastation, this North Carolina woman submitted to the ...

City leaders say Austin police and prosecutors must do better at handling cases from the city’s backlog of thousands of rape kits after a USA TODAY investigation revealed just one conviction to date ...

At least 20 states are pursuing reforms to the inconsistent ways rape kits are handled by law enforcement agencies after a USA TODAY NETWORK investigation last year revealed tens of thousands of rape ...