After police found blood stains on the walls and floor of his apartment, a Columbia Heights man was charged with ...

A Linn County man charged in a decades-old cold case has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder.Michael Schappert, 64, is ...

A family of one of the University of Idaho murder victims said they are trying to return $85,000 in donations after Bryan ...

The New Hampshire Attorney General's Office announced on Wednesday that they now have a positive ID on a woman who's body was ...

A species of huge, flightless bird that once inhabited New Zealand disappeared around 600 years ago, shortly after human settlers first arrived on the country’s two main islands. Now, a Texas-based ...

Scientists in recent years have made progress in finding ancient DNA in fossils, gaining insight into organisms that lived ...

In a new genetic study, scientists have charted the rise of 214 human diseases across ancient Europe and Asia.

A research team led by Eske Willerslev, professor at the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge, has recovered ancient DNA from 214 known human pathogens in prehistoric humans from ...

Humans have been getting infected by ancient bacteria and viruses for at least 37,000 years. Now, for the first time, ...

From DNA sequencing to fingerprint analysis, forensic scientists are using groundbreaking new tools to stop animal ...

The father of Manny Collins is now charged with murder after the teen's body was discovered at a landfill, following weeks of searching.

Jurors acquitted Lee Straight, who was linked to a burglary in North Lubbock after investigators found a cigarette butt ...