Life-Enabling Molecules Spotted in Orion Nebula (SPACE.com via Yahoo! News)
The chemical fingerprints of potentially life-building molecules have been detected in the Orion nebula by Europe's Herschel Space Observatory.
Police ID Woman's Remains From Md. State Park (CBS 13 Baltimore)
Montgomery County police have used fingerprints to identify a woman whose remains were found in a shallow grave in Patuxent River State Park near Damascus.
Relevant Links (AllAfrica.com)
Seretse said that the Automated Fingerprinting Identification System (AFIS), which automates the collection of fingerprints and palm prints data, has been completed. "This system will allow for efficient and effective tracing of fingerprints of people who commit crime.
Murder suspect's fingerprints on beer can, truck door (Appeal-Democrat)
Michael Angelo Sanudo's fingerprints were found on a Budweiser beer can in the alley street where Willie Dean Roberts Jr. allegedly was beaten and robbed before being dragged under a pickup, a fingerprint analyst testified Tuesday in Sutter County...
LibraryNotes (Lake County News-Sun)
Lake Villa Lake Villa District Library, 1001 E. Grand Ave., (847) 356-7711. veteran Reporter: Meet the straight-talking veteran reporter John "Bulldog" Drummond, who scored the inside scoop on many of Chicagoland's most notorious crimes and the thugs who often left their fingerprints at 1 p.m. March 18. Registration required. Writing workshop: Third- through sixth-graders are invited to a ...
Murders, assaults, drug and weapon cases make up lawmen's top unsolved files (The Blackshear Times)
Fingerprints and DNA can be vital to investigators tracking unknown criminals. As helpful as they are, however, it can pale in comparison to the wealth of information authorities receive from public tips.
Fingerprints on lager tin land man in court (Hartlepool Mail)
A MAN who has not been in the court system for 18 years landed before magistrates after leaving his fingerprints on a lager can at the scene of a burglary.
EU's Ashton to be urged to lodge formal Iraq vote protest (AFP via Yahoo! News)
European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton will next week be urged to lodge a formal protest over "widespread fraud" during the Iraqi election count.
Prosecutors: Reject expanding evidence for death penalty cases (The Washington DC Examiner)
ANNAPOLIS - Forensic experts and Maryland prosecutors are urging lawmakers to reject a bill that would expand the types of evidence admissible in capital murder cases to include fingerprints and photographs.
State may allow more evidence in death penalty cases (The Capital)
ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Maryland prosecutors could use fingerprints or photos to link a defendant to a murder in death penalty cases under legislation being considered by a Senate panel Wednesday.