SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WLS) -- Illinois State Senators got an update on the state's DNA processing backlog for murders and other violent crimes at a Thursday hearing. Some families have waited years for ...

HOUSTON (KETK) – A Houston-area high school has come under fire for a 9th-grade biology assignment that included a question about rape. Klein ISD has confirmed to KPRC that a teacher sent home a ...

As 2004 begins, staff writer Valerie Strauss asked students and teachers across the country to describe their most interesting or effective assignment so far this ...

A homework assignment about DNA leaves parents and students at a Texas high school upset. This is the question assigned to ninth graders at Klein Independent High Shool in Houston. It reads, “Suzy was ...

A Texas school district reportedly said it is investigating the “source of the materials” after a question about rape appeared on a high school homework assignment and prompted backlash from some ...

On April 6, 2015, skeletal remains of a Hispanic man were found off I-90 near Albert Lea, Minnesota. Investigators say ...

On Wednesday, July 1 Illinois State Police (ISP) Director Brendan Kelly announced the State has achieved a 33-percent overall reduction in its biology and forensic DNA backlog. Forensic backlogs are a ...

(KPRC/NBC News) Parents in Spring, Texas are asking how a question about rape ended up on a biology homework assignment for ninth graders at Klein Collins High School. The question was part of a ...