Texas group derides scent IDs as junk science

The Innocence Project of Texas said Friday that scent identification lineups, in which trained dogs determine if a suspect's smell matches the smell of crime scene evidence, are based on faulty science and have led to a number of wrongful convictions.

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Giving biometrics a hand

A perceptive palm reader is helping one of the largest healthcare systems in the U.S. divine the true identities of its patients, ushering in a new era of biometric identity verification.

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Voter ID Law Heads to Supreme Court

The dispute over Indiana's voter identification law that is headed to the Supreme Court next week is as much a partisan political drama as a legal tussle.

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Mo. Elections Chief in Election Dispute

Missouri's chief elections official said Monday she was asked for photo identification at the voting booth despite a court ruling striking down the requirement.

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States Say New IDs Could Cost Billions

New federal security rules for issuing driver's licenses could cost $11 billion to implement, raising concerns among states about paying for the changes, according to a national survey of states released Thursday.

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Judge Won't Block Ariz. Voter ID Law

A federal judge on Monday refused to block a law that requires Arizona voters to present identification before casting a ballot.

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Suit Seeks to Block Mo. Voter ID Law

Opponents of a new state law requiring voters to show government-issued photo identification filed a second lawsuit Thursday, claiming it could discourage or prevent people from voting in November.

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Biometric Summit Set for Feb. 22-25, 2010

Join your colleagues for the 20th highly acclaimed international forum to hear the latest implementations of biometrics...

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A Brazilian bricklayer reportedly killed in a car crash shocked his mourning family by showing up alive at his funeral.

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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have identified genes which may influence the onset age of Parkinson's Disease (PD).

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A California man who rapped about the thrill of killing has been charged in the slaying of a rural Virginia pastor found dead with three others inside the home of his estranged wife, a college professor, authorities said Sunday.

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Not long ago, Americans feared and ridiculed the police states cursing too many parts of the world.

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One of the great debates among pet owners is identification of pets: microchip vs. tattoo, especially on dogs.

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Given that cell phones are lost/stolen/broken so frequently, I cannot imagine Americans adopting this practice anytime soon. Although, I can certainly see how having less items to worry about could lead to fewer instances of loss/theft.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Colleagues of Henry Louis Gates Jr., Harvard's most prominent scholar of African-American history, are accusing the police here of racism after he was arrested at his home last week by an officer investigating a report of a robbery in progress.

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A domestic horse found loose in Nevada with the brand cut out of its hide is drawing outrage from equine advocates concerned about the growing number of horses abandoned in the wild.

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Superman and Batman took on New York's Finest last night in an epic Crossroads of the World battle that left the Caped Crusader in cuffs. Stunned Times Square tourists and office workers watched agog as cops struggled to subdue Clark Kent's alter ego without kryptonite.

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S.S.N.

Here I am watching the local news at my uncle's house in Texas, and they mention something about social security numbers. About how they were assigned and that the Social Security Administration is thinking issuing randomized numbers in the future to help protect people's numbers.

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Back in the 1990s, I did a physical on a boy in fifth or sixth grade at a Boston public school. I asked him his favorite subject: definitely science; he had won a prize in a science fair, and was to go on and compete in a multischool fair.

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Forget LED thumb-pad identification devices, complex retinal laser scanning, or even computerized iris recognition, the way forward for biometric validation is a quick X-ray snapshot of a person's knees, according to a report published in the International Journal of Biometrics.

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Apparently individuals can be identified "from the faint sounds made deep inside the human ear."

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Law enforcement officials are vastly expanding their collection of DNA to include millions more people who have been arrested or detained but not yet convicted.

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ONCE the art of disguise would rely on a false moustache, a wig and probably a touch of make-up to foil an identification check. Today you need to beat an electronic fingerprint-analyser or a retinal scanner.

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Taina Lopez thought the 2-month-old girl in the Amber Alert resembled her own newborn.

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FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Bouncers at a Fort Collins bar aren't just checking IDs for a person's age. They're also looking at the person's home town.

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Police are looking for a man they say has robbed several banks around the state. Monday, he robbed one in Lake City. Police say during the lunch hour, a man robbed the Bank of America on Highway 90.

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- The meter reader who discovered the remains of Caylee Anthony plans to tell his whole story to the media sometime in the new year, his attorney said on Wednesday.

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. (WOFL FOX 35, Orlando) -- Caylee Anthony's remains have been turned over to a south Orlando funeral home. The remains are now at the Robert Bryant Funeral & Cremation Chapel .

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Dec. 22: Investigators confirm the body found in the Florida woods is missing toddler Caylee Anthony. TODAY's Matt Lauer talks to Casey Anthony's ex-fiance, Jesse Grund, about the tragedy.

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The attorney representing Caylee's grandparents Cindy and George Anthony said Sunday that the items removed from their home Saturday (Dec. 20, 2008) by Orange County Sheriff's Office deputies belonged to Caylee and Casey.

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A look at the crime scene after it's been gutted.

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An Orange County Jail spokesman reacts to, lawyer, Jose Baez's criticism of how Caylee's death was handled.

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