City officials announced Monday that Houston’s massive, decade-spanning rape kit backlog has been eliminated. Mayor Annise Parker, joined at City Hall by Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson ...

The president of FamilyTreeDNA, one of the country’s largest at-home genetic testing companies, has apologized to its users for failing to disclose that it was sharing DNA data with federal ...

According to a social media post by the sheriff's office on Dec. 29, Rossel Moises Ponce Chirinos, 46, faces charges of sexual battery and armed burglary linked to a 2004 incident in Golden Gate. They ...

For years, the federal government has been amassing DNA profiles of noncitizens. But recently released Customs and Border Protection (CBP) data reveal that officials knowingly collected the DNA of ...

AUSTIN, Texas — The investigation into who killed four girls at an Austin yogurt shop 28 years ago has led to a nearly three-year standoff between local investigators and the FBI over the privacy of ...