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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...