Summary: Humans have vestigial ear muscles that once helped our ancestors focus on sounds. New research shows these muscles still activate when we strain to hear in noisy environments. Scientists used ...

They explained that the muscles helped change the shape of the pinna, or the shell of the ear, funneling sound to the eardrums. Millions of years ago, our ancestors stopped using them, so humans ...

Kennedy recounts her odyssey in “The Secret History of the Rape Kit: A True Crime Story,” which weaves together her own personal narrative, the origin and implementation of the kit ...

Caleb Shawn Mailman, 21, pleaded guilty in Rockhampton Magistrates ... Magistrate Lance Rundle said Mailman had one charge each of rape and assault occasioning bodily harm which had been through ...

SUMMIT COUNTY, Ohio — Summit County Prosecutor Elliot Kolkovich has announced that Mahmud Kara, a former Hudson doctor, has been sentenced to 8-12 years in prison for rape and sexual battery.

GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) — An American extradited from France to face charges in a 2013 campus sexual assault case has waived his right to a pretrial hearing in Pennsylvania this week. Ian Cleary ...

Daniel Burke, 63, and Robert Eccleston, 61, were both hit with kidnapping and rape charges in the disturbing case, Newsday reported. They are the fourth and fifth men to face charges in connection ...

On Jan. 22, Judge Jason Walker deemed the State proved probable cause during the magistrate preliminary hearing that Brayan Sanchez Casiano likely had sex with a 13-year-old girl. Casiano allegedly ...

The deputies found Casiano outside the house later that night and asked his name. Given his age of 21-years-old, he was questioned on whether or not he knew the minor’s age. He allegedly ...

On Jan. 22, Judge Jason Walker deemed the State proved probable cause during the magistrate preliminary hearing that Brayan Sanchez Casiano likely had sex with a 13-year-old girl. Casiano ...

Dr Bilkis Begum, former coordinator of the crisis centre, said rape survivors could recover to some extent through counselling and a supportive environment, but the trauma lingered, much like a scar ...