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Last week, Gov. Rick Perry granted the state's first posthumous pardon to a man who was innocent of a crime for which he had spent 13 years in prison. DNA testing cleared Tim Cole of a rape he did not ...

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In a way, sequencing DNA is very simple: There's a molecule, you look at it, and you write down what you find. You'd think it would be easy—and, for any one letter in the sequence, it is. The problem ...

The surprise news of Osama bin Laden's death, the dramatic raid on his suburban compound, the swift identification and disposal of his body, the presidential announcement that "conveniently" ...

The answers were always there, waiting as the years and decades ticked by: Who killed five people kidnapped from a Kentucky Fried Chicken in Kilgore on Sept. 23, 1983? Finally, though, the science, ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is using rapid DNA testing technology to help speed up investigations, and News 2 got a look at how it works. “This technology has been ...