In 1973, 16-year-old Ballarat girl Sherrilyn Mitchell disappeared. Now, 37 years later, DNA evidence could be used to solve the mystery.

DNA testing has been used for a second time in Queensland to nail a fisherman selling nearly one tonne of female and undersized mud crabs.

THE elderly mother of a girl who disappeared from Ballarat 37 years ago will have DNA samples taken today to see if a body discovered in the United States is that of her missing daughter. Police investigating the case of missing 16-year-old Sherrlynn Mitchell will today travel to Ballarat to take samples from her mother Betty Hill.

NEW results smashed the state’s first case of DNA innocence testing after finding a man was 45 billion times more likely to be linked to blood from the scene.

Based DNA Collection Product Chosen for Study to Identify Host Correlates of Protection Against Tuberculosis

A fingerprint and DNA on a Tropicana orange juice bottle — apparently used as a makeshift silencer — pointed detectives to the alleged killer of retired Miami Police Capt. Robert Yee, according to an arrest warrant unsealed Thursday.

A landmark retesting of DNA evidence used to convict a man of a Queensland murder 20 years ago has confirmed his guilt.

RETESTING of DNA material in the case of Shane Sebastian Davis shows it is 45 billion times more likely to belong to Davis than any other Caucasian.

DNA testing has bagged a a second Queensland fisherman trying to illegally sell nearly a tonne of female mud crabs to Sydney Fish Markets.

An Anchorage man acquitted in a 2009 sex-assault case has been indicted on new charges stemming from two cold-case rapes that police say they have solved using DNA.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Armed with new DNA evidence, Sacramento police have arrested a man in connection with a 30-year-old unsolved homicide. The suspect, 57-year-old Robert Lee Blockton, was arrested Monday on suspicion of stabbing to death a former high school classmate in November 1980. Blockton denied killing 22-year-old Charles Redmond in a jailhouse interview with the Sacramento Bee. He …

Pakistani health officials say they will have to use DNA tests to identify charred and broken bodies plucked from the wreckage of a crashed airliner.

Pakistani health officials said yesterday they would have to use DNA tests to identify charred bodies plucked from the wreckage of an airliner that crashed into hills outside Islamabad.

Starting next February, all law enforcement officers will be required to collect DNA from people arrested for certain crimes. Anyone arrested for murder, rape, burglary, kidnapping or even cyberstalking will automatically have their DNA collected via a cheek swab.

Armed with new DNA evidence, Sacramento police have arrested a man in connection with a 30-year-old unsolved homicide.

A man was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison Monday after DNA evidence linked him to two unsolved rape cases from the 1990s. 41-year-old Lavern Robert Span is currently serving a 12-year sentence for a 2005 rape conviction.

BRADENTON New DNA testing has revealed that a Manatee man convicted of a 1992 kidnapping and rape should be released from prison because he is innocent, his lawyers said Monday.

DNA evidence has linked a teenager to war medals taken from a train three months ago.

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The attorney for convicted killer Colton Pitonyak cites DNA issues and evidence from Laura Halls resentencing trial in his latest appeal. It is just the latest fallout from the credibility questions surrounding the Austin Police Departments DNA lab. A former worker alleges improper training, cheating on exams, and human resources problems. In 2007, Colton Pitonyak was sentenced to 55 years in …