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 ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DOD employees and contractors overseas who are ineligible for the Military Health System must now seek out rape test kits at ...

Authorities question the evidential value of the kits and call them "problematic".

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 ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — An Indiana lawmaker is trying to fix the problems that led Indiana to have 6,600 untested rape test kits. The new law would be the first step in getting that number to zero and ...

A woman was told she would face damage to her “personal reputation … career prospects … and future opportunities” if she continued posting about Enough, Conservative MP Alicia Kearns said ...

This story has been corrected. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Defense Department civilian workers and contractors stationed overseas can once again undergo rape kit exams at U.S. military medical ...

Colorado’s backlog of untested rape kits shot to the forefront of state attention in January, when a sexual assault survivor detailed her “real-life nightmare” to lawmakers. Miranda Gordon had been ...

With the state Supreme Court race in high gear, Wisconsinites are seeing ads about an issue that made news in the 2010s: rape kits. The pace of the state Department of Justice's testing of this ...