LANCASTER − One of the first things police officers do when responding to a crime is to investigate the crime scene itself. Local high school students learn how to do that if their school offers a ...

A 1998 Subaru wagon sits unoccupied in a parking lot. A bullet hole was found under the hood near an unidentified drop of blood on the water reservoir. A spent bullet was recovered from the floor in ...

Yellow tape with the words “CRIME SCENE DO NOT CROSS” winds across classroom 209 in the Wisconsin Conservatory of Lifelong Learning. It’s not an actual crime scene, however; Instead it's the scene of ...

A school year is 180 days, with no two days and no two schools exactly alike. The students differ, the teachers differ, school cultures differ. Here, our photographers find what makes our school days ...

Mary Hanson is a high school science teacher. She is also a reserve officer in her local police department. Student misbehavior, she likes to say, is rarely a problem in her class. A more serious ...

The study of forensic science has been around for more than 100 years. But now thanks to Hollywood, a flowering of interest in the discipline is occurring. Enter FORENSICS: The SCIENCE Detectives, a ...