Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that […] The post Skeletal remains found in North Carolina woods in 1977 identified as 15-year-old Maryland runaway appeared first on American Almanac .
Nearly half a century after skeletal remains turned up in the woods outside a North Carolina tire plant, state investigators used advanced DNA testing to put a name to the dead, a 15-year-old girl who ran away from home in Maryland and never came back. North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation announced this week that remains discovered on December 29, 1977, belong to Cindy Marcell Blizzard, a teenager from Monkton, Maryland, who left home in the spring of that year. The SBI is treating her death as a homicide. No arrests have been made, and the cause of death remains unknown. The remains, skeletal by the time they were found, lay in woods near a Firestone tire manufacturing plant in Wilson County, a rural area roughly 60 miles east…Open
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka gave full-throated support to the Women's Tennis Association's new mandatory genetic testing policy, a move that makes the WTA the first professional sports league to screen players for biological sex. Sabalenka, the Belarusian four-time Grand Slam champion, addressed the policy at a press conference during the 2026 National Bank Open, […] The post Top-ranked women's tennis player backs WTA gene testing to protect fair competition appeared first on American Almanac .
World No. 1 Aryna Sabalenka gave full-throated support to the Women's Tennis Association's new mandatory genetic testing policy, a move that makes the WTA the first professional sports league to screen players for biological sex. Sabalenka, the Belarusian four-time Grand Slam champion, addressed the policy at a press conference during the 2026 National Bank Open, telling reporters she welcomed the testing and urged the tour to hold the line. Her comments landed as international sports bodies from track and field to boxing have moved toward similar eligibility standards, and as the International Olympic Committee prepares its own sex-based screening ahead of the 2028 Los Angeles Games. The WTA's policy, which took effect July 21, requires…Open
A woman was arrested by Texas authorities and charged with murder after FBI DNA testing linked her to a murder case that was stuck in limbo for 14 years.
A self-described Bigfoot hunter claims he possesses the remains of an 8-foot creature discovered in New York's Adirondack Mountains — and says DNA testing proves it's a Neanderthal-human hybrid. Skeptics call it a hoax. So what does the science actually say? Forensic analyst Joseph Scott Morgan joins “Hot Take” to examine the latest Bigfoot DNA claims, the limits of forensic testing, and whether modern genetics could ever prove the existence of Sasquatch.
Alex Murdaugh returned to a South Carolina courtroom Monday for the first time since the state’s highest court threw out his murder convictions for a status hearing over his retrial. Defense attorney Dick Harpootlian argued significant questions remain, such as conflicting first responder accounts, unverified investigative tips and the need for independent DNA testing. Get a fast-paced look at the latest from the border to Main Street to the White House on "NewsNation Live" with Nichole Berlie. Weekdays starting at 12p/11C. NewsNation is your source for fact-based, unbiased news for all Americans.
