CORALVILLE — The University of Iowa-based State Hygienic Laboratory — which for the last nearly two years has been on the front lines of Iowa’s COVID-19 response — hasn’t been consistently charging ...

The U.S. Geological Survey’s National Water Quality Laboratory suffers from severe staffing shortages, management shortcomings and other problems that could hamper the quality of the work being done, ...

A man spent time in jail and lost his job after he was arrested for having pills that tested positive for cocaine.The man was adamant the pills were Tums, and re-testing ultimately proved he was ...

The Houston Police Department is conducting an exhaustive search, not for a fugitive but for a box of documents that could help in the investigation of the department's troubled DNA laboratory.

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In 2018, a team from the federal Department of Justice arrived in San Diego for an audit of the San Diego Regional Crime Laboratory to determine if the lab was meeting FBI standards allowing it to be ...

The San Francisco Police Department said Tuesday that it will keep its scandal-tainted drug analysis unit closed indefinitely after an outside audit concluded that the lab had been "sacrificing ...

In May 2016, two bottles tumbled off a poorly supported shelf and broke, leading to a chemical spill in a Sacramento State University lab. The liquid got onto one student’s legs and soaked another’s ...

Baltimore’s crime lab suffers from inadequate funding, spotty recordkeeping and broken equipment, according to an independent audit of the embattled facility released by the Police Department ...

Indiana has halted an audit of its crime labs, spelling an end to one of the better state initiatives this year. A half-finished audit of drug and alcohol test results from the state’s toxicology lab ...