CLEVELAND COUNTY, N.C. — Cleveland County deputies hope DNA and fingerprint samples will lead them to the people who shot and killed a store clerk last month. Investigators sent off that evidence to a ...

Town of Poughkeepsie police say the Ossining Free Union School District would've known sooner about one of its custodians' rape arrest, had it required the Poughkeepsie man to provide fingerprint ...

Researchers at the University of Surrey have developed a tool that can determine whether someone has used heroin, even if they have washed their hands. Image Credit: ktsdesign / Shutterstock.com The ...

A revolutionary drug test can detect amphetamines, cannabis, cocaine and opiates from the sweat of single fingerprint sample in just 10 minutes. The research shows that the technology works on both ...

Fingerprints can reveal critical evidence, as well as an identity, with the use of a new technology developed at Purdue University that detects trace amounts of explosives, drugs or other materials ...

An experimental fingerprint detection approach can identify traces of cocaine on human skin, even after someone has washed their hands -- and the test is also smart enough to tell whether an ...