In a significant breakthrough, scientists at Maynooth University in Ireland have developed a new test that successfully recovers fingerprints from spent bullet casings. This achievement, often ...

An Auburn man caught in the crossfire of a shootout in Des Moines Saturday night says he came within inches of being killed or injured. The 26-year-old man was driving home from a barbecue gathering ...

Finding a fingerprint on the casing of a fired bullet was once a nearly impossible task. But scientists have at last achieved a breakthrough. Researchers at Maynooth University in Ireland have now ...

Since the dawn of modern fingerprinting, lifting prints from bullet casings has been thought to be impossible due to damage caused by the intense temperatures, gas, and friction of firing a gun. A new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fired bullets found at Keith and Jennifer Caneiro’s Colts Neck home had markings that matched a handgun barrel that investigators ...

A Vancouver police commander last month fired a bullet through his office wall at the department’s west precinct, narrowly missing a patrol officer who was showered with drywall and fragments.