Former GOP Lawmaker Sentenced for Traveling to Europe to Exploit Children Sexually

Former North Dakota State Senator Raymon “Ray” Everett Holmberg, a Republican, was sentenced on Wednesday to 10 years in prison after repeatedly traveling to Europe and paying to “sexually exploit children.” In a Wednesday press release, the U.S. Department for Justice announced that court documents showed the 81-year-old lawmaker traveled to Prague in the Czech…

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LASD to Reevaluate 4,000 DNA Samples Following Eight Months of Faulty Test Kit Usage

In August, a manufacturer of DNA testing kits sent a letter to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department warning officials to stop using certain test kits that had proved prone to giving incomplete results. The letter eventually landed in front of a civilian employee at the department’s Scientific Services Bureau — but the employee didn’t…

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