RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - In hit TV crime drama show "C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation," and its two spin-offs, the criminologists use the latest technology to solve grisly murders and other crimes. Soon, real criminal investigation teams will be using videogame technology to help forensic scientists collaborate virtually to ...

Lil Wayne's gun possession case is putting a leading edge of DNA science under a microscope. As the Grammy-winning rapper sat in a Manhattan court on Wednesday, a hearing began on a debated, highly sensitive DNA profiling technique used to tie him to a gun found on his tour ...

Texas governor further shakes up panel set to investigate arson finding that led to executionTexas Gov. Rick Perry has further shaken up a state panel that was about to review a report concluding that a faulty arson investigation led to a Texas inmate's execution. The governor announced Friday that ...

NYC on pace for lowest number of homicides since 1962; crime down nearly 12 percent from '08More New Yorkers are out of work, and the cash-strapped city isn't graduating a new class of police cadets this year. And yet crime is going down — way down. The city is heading ...