Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT Dana Ireland, left, Albert Lauro Jr. PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT Dana ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A sharply divided Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for police to take a DNA swab from anyone they arrest for a serious crime, endorsing a practice now followed by more than ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Tuesday struggled with what one of the justices called its most important criminal procedure case in decades, whether to let police take DNA from those arrested, ...

1,700 National Guard troops will assist ICE with processing detainees in over a dozen states. Guard duties include DNA swabbing, fingerprinting, and transporting individuals. WASHINGTON − National ...

Nearly 23 years after the murder of a New Mexico woman, her story is still shaping public policy debates, and now it’s influencing a proposal at the Iowa State Capitol. Lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a ...

Over the past three decades, the collection of DNA from convicted criminals has become standard in the U.S. justice system, ...

Dana Ireland, left, Albert Lauro Jr. Police and an FBI agent from the Honolulu field office who had Lauro under surveillance already had retrieved a fork from a plate lunch he discarded, which matched ...

Hawai‘i County police went beyond FBI and U.S. Department of Justice procedures when a swab was taken from Dana Ireland murder suspect Albert Lauro Jr. when they already had DNA linking him directly ...

PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT Dana Ireland, left, Albert Lauro Jr. PHOTOS COURTESY HAWAII POLICE DEPARTMENT Dana Ireland, left, Albert Lauro Jr. Hawaii County police went beyond FBI and U.S ...