GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - Finally, a potential answer to the huge backlog of homicide cases. For the first time since the new crime lab opened in South Mississippi in 2012, WLOX News Now has confirmed ...

Phillip Hutchinson Jr., 41, Lafayette, was speeding northbound on Main Street about 4:15 p.m. Thursday, witnesses told Lafayette police.

Lab tests are pending in the autopsy of a 6-year-old girl who was killed Feb. 21 in Branson, according to Kevin Tweedy, Taney County coroner. The autopsy, completed Feb. 23, concluded Jasmine Miller ...

"Real CSI is not like what you see on TV," writes Duke law professor Brandon Garrett in Autopsy of a Crime Lab. That's an understatement. Some forensic specialties—including bite mark, blood spatter, ...

NORTHRIDGE — Body bags and restaurants just don’t mix. After hearing from nearby merchants who fear that the steady arrival and departure of corpses would hurt business, a city planning commission on ...

A Dec. 22 news release by Hamilton County's coroner shedding doubt on key evidence was likely based on a misreading of lab reports.

If an inmate dies after 6 p.m. in Greene County, coroner Ladd Pulliam takes the body to his funeral home. There, for up to 10 hours, the body will lie on a counter, zipped in a body bag. The room has ...

DAVENPORT — The loss of access to two of three forensic pathology labs in Iowa is translating into high costs for autopsies out of Scott County. The Scott County Medical Examiner’s Office lost access ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — The first daughter died in 2004. She was just 12. She collapsed while running around like every child wants to do. The local medical examiner was mystified. Her heart had no ...