After a third chief medical examiner in little more than a year has left the post, Attorney General Tim Fox will ask the Legislature to revise the management structure of the state crime lab. Crime ...

The city's medical examiner will offer free genetic screening to at-risk family members of people who die suddenly and ...

The medical examiner's office investigates approximately 40,000 deaths per year in New York City. Its molecular genetics laboratory, founded by Dr. Yingying Tang in 2003, is the only one of its kind ...

Before a homicide case can proceed, prosecutors and defense attorneys need to know, officially, how the person died. Before insurance companies will pay out on a policy when someone passes away, they ...

Blood samples from criminal investigations have been stacking up in freezers across the state after the only lab that had tested them for drugs ended its contract last month. Harford County State?s ...

RALEIGH — North Carolina Gov. Beverly Perdue is scheduled to cut the ribbon on a new facility to house the State Laboratory of Public Health and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. Perdue will ...

The Oklahoma Medical Examiner's Office has regained full national accreditation after losing it in 2009 due to deteriorating ...

Polk County will transfer autopsy services to the Iowa Medical Examiner’s Office, aiming to save $1 million annually. The move comes amid recruitment challenges and rising costs for the county's ...