Forensic scientists both help solve crimes and aid in exonerating innocent people. They use scientific methods ...

Students in a Center Grove class studied maggots to see if they could tell how long a pig had been dead. Upcoming lessons for forensics class students include studying blood spatter to see how a crime ...

Mary Hanson is a high school science teacher. She is also a reserve officer in her local police department. Student misbehavior, she likes to say, is rarely a problem in her class. A more serious ...

LANCASTER − One of the first things police officers do when responding to a crime is to investigate the crime scene itself. Local high school students learn how to do that if their school offers a ...

Southern Local High School students got a lesson in what it takes to be a crime scene investigator with a hands-on project in their forensics class. Teacher Mary Lou Taylor created seven crime ...

Yellow tape with the words “CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS” winds across classroom 209 in the Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning. It’s not an actual crime scene, however; Instead it's the scene of ...

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is genetic information inside the cells of the body that helps make people who they are. Its study has revolutionized forensic science by allowing law enforcement agencies ...

A school year is 180 days, with no two days and no two schools exactly alike. The students differ, the teachers differ, school cultures differ. Here, our photographers find what makes our school days ...