For decades, Chicago police sergeant Louis Vitullo was credited with creating the sexual assault collection kit. But it was ...

Atlanta Rep. Scott Holcomb introduced a bill to create a statewide sexual assault kit tracking system and reform the process ...

Legislation to process untested rape kits could protect victims and prevent future assaults, says sexual assault survivor.

Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul is wading into the state Supreme Court race by renewing an old feud with ...

A 35-year-old North Carolina man allegedly sexually assaulted a 21-year-old female Western Michigan University student at a ...

Legislators are considering a proposal that supporters say will help victims of sexual assault get local, timely care in ...

The legislation requiring Mississippi emergency rooms to have a sufficient number of rape kits, and someone present to ...

USA TODAY's 18-month investigation into untested rape kits has lawmakers, victims' advocates calling for results, ...

Legislators are considering a proposal that supporters say will help victims of sexual assault get local, timely care in ...

A Loganville man was convicted in the 1990 rape and killing of two siblings in Stone Mountain after DNA finally linked him to the crime.

Hundreds of rape kits are untested in Indiana, with a backlog longer than six months. House Bill 1413 hopes to change that.

A bipartisan panel of Colorado lawmakers formally asked Wednesday for an audit of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation over ...