The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is giving the Allegheny County Crime Lab a new, high-tech piece of equipment that will help investigators solve crimes involving guns.

For years, Allegheny County's crime lab suffered from a lack of funding, staff and resources; and as a result, some violent criminals were never prosecuted.

The money will be used by the Miami Valley Regional Crime Lab to update equipment, buy rapid DNA identification technology, and improve the hardware and software used in the lab, as well as adding ...

Kaul said that the lab's eight current toxicologists are overwhelmed with the number of cases involving fentanyl and fentanyl analogues.

For example, lab technicians may look at photographs of blood splatter patterns and conduct ballistics tests on bullets found at the crime scene to determine the direction from which a shot was fired.

The High Tech Crime Unit uses the lab to uncover evidence in murders, rapes, robberies and crimes against children.

QUANTICO, Va. (AP) -- The FBI opened the doors of a $155 million crime lab on Thursday that gives the bureau state-of-the-art technology for forensic police work ranging from the latest DNA ...

Philly DA wants city’s crime-fighting efforts to go more high-tech The money would go towards bolstering everything from the crime lab to the cold case unit.

The nearly $26 million project will see a 40,000 square foot facility to help continue housing evidence and analyze crime data with high-tech state of the art equipment for crime solving.

Good old-fashioned police work and the latest technology – that’s what led to an arrest in the Indian Creek Trail murders. We got a rare look into the inside of the Kansas City Crime Lab. 70 ...