Ashley Fantz

As a Georgia state trooper, Jacob Thompson impressed his bosses. They praised him for setting records in his unit for traffic stops and DUI busts. They commended his dedication to serving on the agency’s honor guard. And they noted that in his off hours he raised money for a children’s hospital and …

It was a moment that captured national attention and revealed an important lesson about police reform.

The executive director of a prominent North Carolina charity is leaving his post after a CNN investigation this week detailed the account of a 47-year-old woman who says he sexually abused her when she was his teenage student.

Inspired by a CNN investigation showing law enforcement nationwide destroyed rape kits before the statutes of limitations ran out, a Georgia lawmaker introduced legislation aimed at preventing that from happening in his state.

The police chief in Springfield, Missouri, on Thursday told a rape victim advocacy group that the department will review sex crimes cases in which the agency destroyed rape kits.

The police chief in Springfield, Missouri, has apologized to the city’s sexual assault victims and ordered changes in how the department handles sex crimes following a CNN investigation into the agency’s practices and destruction of evidence.

CNN’s investigation turned up a “systemic problem” of police departments trashing rape kits after flawed detective work.

The police department in this college town stood out for flawed sex crimes investigations that experts called “disturbing.”

More than a decade after detectives failed to pursue one survivor’s suspect, police try to right their wrong

A CNN investigation found that police departments across the country destroyed rape kits before the statutes of limitations expired.

A California judge’s decision to give Brock Turner, a former Stanford University swimmer, a six-month jail sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman has led to widespread outrage.

Sexual assault survivors are being rebuffed at hospitals and forced to make hours-long trips in rural areas. New legislation wants to change that.

Lost time and lost wages are among the invisible costs that rape victims suffer. CNN tells the stories of survivors who suffered and paid in many ways.

While Jessica Lynch fought the sense of dislocation that soldiers experience when they return from war, she committed to the retelling of her story.

The war of words between Jennifer Weiner and Jonathan Franzen continues, as the former accuses the latter of hurting the careers of female writers.

Eleven-year-olds sometimes have trouble sleeping through the night, kept awake by monsters they can’t see.

One tragic number is known: 22 veterans kill themselves every day. But another is not: How many military spouses, siblings and parents are killing themselves? What is war’s true toll?

When David Seligman left on his second deployment to Iraq, his 2-year-old daughter began banging her head on the floor.