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FAIRMONT, W.Va. (WDTV) -- Fairmont State University Criminal Justice students recently took top honors at the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences/Alpha Phi Sigma National Conference in Kansas City, Mo. In fact, Fairmont State will be known as the Alpha Phi Sigma National Office for the next two years because three FSU students won the national election for the presidential slate of the organization and will serve a two-year term as its national officers.

The new national officers are Samuel Hamilton, President; Morganne Phillips, Secretary; and Phillip Sands, Treasurer. A student from the University of Maryland Eastern Shore will serve as Vice President.

As the chapter advisor to Alpha Phi Sigma, Im very pleased to announce that Fairmont State University students won the national election. The students will be involved in recruiting new chapters, maintaining communication with more than 300 chapters nationwide and planning the next two national conferences that will be held in New Orleans and Baltimore, said Dr. Deanna Shields, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and advisor to FSUs Epsilon Iota chapter of Alpha Phi Sigma, the National Criminal Justice Honor Society.

The FSU chapter also won first place in the T-shirt design competition, the Star Chapter Award given by the National Headquarters and the Outstanding Chapter for Leadership Award presented by a panel of judges at the conference.

FSUs students consistently perform well in the national crime scene competition. Last year the FSU team won first place in the crime scene competition over teams from 16 other schools.

Because FSU has won so many times, they have now what they call the Fairmont rule. If a team wins one year, they cant compete the next, said crime scene investigation coach Dr. John McLaughlin.

This year the FSU crime scene investigation students developed, administered and judged the entire crime scene competition.

With the assistance of Dr. John McLaughlin, the crime scene competition was a tremendous success, Shields said.

The FSU team is comprised of the following students: Nick Brown, Brittiany Brummage, Olivia Eubanks, Samuel Hamilton, Thairon Holler, Bailey Kershner, Emily Markham, Amber Miller, Abby Palmer, Julian Pecora, Morganne Phillips, Jamie Riddell, Sarita Robinson, Phillip Sands and William Siegler.

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There was confusion in Shepherd's Bush last night (Thursday March 30) as camera crews were spotted filming people in crime scene investigation suits at the same time as a real police incident.

Hammersmith and Fulham police tweeted at around 6.30pm to say that lanes around the green were closed because of an incident.

At the same time, passers-by saw film crews and cameras as well as people dressed in protective clothing worn during crime scene investigations.

People on social media suggested the filming was for a BBC drama called Hard Sun a pre-apocalyptic crime drama set in modern day London.

The series is by Neil Cross, the creator of the Idris Elba crime drama Luther, and will be filmed across the capital.

It stars Jim Sturgess and Agyness Deyn and is expected to air later this year.

According to one report on social media, filming at Shepherd's Bush will continue today (March 31).

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Joe Kulkosky, Ph.D., works with Julia Bacon-Henderson after the students cultured bacteria from various lab surfaces as an investigator would do at a crime scene. (Photo by Brenda Lange)

By Leslie Feldman

Crime scene investigation (CSI) is hotter than ever. Just count how many CSI shows there are on television. And now Chestnut Hill College is offering students, grades 5 through 12, a chance to learn about how their favorite detectives use science to figure out seemingly unsolvable thefts, arsons, mysteries and more.

Returning for its fourth year, Chestnut Hill Colleges (CHC) Forensic Sciences Summer Camp, led by Joe Kulkosky, Ph.D., professor and chair, Department of Biology, offers campers the chance to learn how to collect and analyze crime scene evidence such as serology, toxicology entomology, odontology and trace evidence. It also provides students who uniformly give the course an A+ hands-on experiences in several professional techniques such as DNA typing, fingerprint classification, fabric and shoe print pattern comparisons and blood type testing.

Kulkosky says the idea for the camp came from high school students and their parents at open house campus visits asking questions and wanting information about the colleges Forensic Biology undergraduate degree program. Students interested in forensics are really into the topic, and I thought it would be neat if students at a younger age, considering a college degree program, could have a hands-on summer experience in forensic methods to see if it really was a career path for them.

According to an article by Brenda Lange in the latest issue of the CHC Magazine, Cole Angstadt is a 12-year-old who loves science. He calls it the coolest subject and was thrilled to be part of CHCs Forensic Sciences Camp last summer. NCIS is his favorite TV show, and working with and learning about some of the same equipment from the show was fun and unique.

On the show, they use a thermometer that determines the time of death, and in the camp we watched a slideshow about it, Angstadt said. His favorite part of the weeklong program was the use of micro pipettes. They measure precise amounts of liquids and are more sophisticated than a glass or plastic dropper.

Using microscopes, taking fingerprints and footprints, measuring blood splatters and learning what they mean, doing DNA and blood type testing are all part of the collection and analysis of crime scene evidence that culminates on the last day of the camp with students solving the crime who killed Dr. K.?

Coles father, Tom, said his son was at the camp because he wanted to be there, and he had to drag him away at the end of the day. He was very engaged, and it was a great place to expand his mind.

Kulkosky, a resident of Wyncote, spent most of his scientific career, over 30 years, in hard-core basic and medical research as a molecular biologist at Cornell Medical Center, Fox Chase Cancer Center and Thomas Jefferson University. He had the opportunity to teach a biotechnology course in the adult division at CHC several years ago and liked teaching and the environment so much, he decided to jump at the opportunity to apply for a faculty position at the college. He is also choir director/organist at All Saints Episcopal Church.

I know of no other forensic summer camp for high-school or middle school students in the area that offers such a specific forensic summer camp experience, said Kulkosky. CHC is also the only institution in the state of Pennsylvania to offer dual undergraduate degrees in forensics.

Favorite activities at the camp include isolating their own cheek cell DNA, simple blood splatter experiments using synthetic blood samples and solving Who killed Dr. K, where they review many samples of evidence relating to the murder of Dr. K.

The students really like hands-on activities, said Kulkosky. Ive been somewhat surprised at how adept they are at understanding scientific concepts and using fairly sophisticated scientific equipment. The kids who attend the camp almost always have an intrinsic interest in science, so they are really engaged in the topics and experiments. They also very much enjoy the intimate interaction with each other in our labs. They come from different schools, so they engage in a lot of conversation with each other about whats going on in each of their own schools.

For middle school students, the camp session runs from July 24 to 28. For high school students, the camp session runs from August 7 to 11. All sessions run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

For more information or to register, visit https://www.chc.edu/forensic-sciences-summer-camp

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Forensic teams at work

Students from Newman Catholic College in Carlisle have been given an insight into the demanding work of a crime scene investigator through a collaboration with the University of Cumbria.

15 students in years 8,9,10 and 11 have already met Ashleigh Hunt, the universitys lecturer in forensic science, who demonstrated how science, English and maths all have a part to play in a modern investigation.

Tomorrow (Thursday 30 March) theyll see for themselves how a police inquiry unfolds when they visit a crime scene staged at the universitys crime house on the Brampton Road, Carlisle campus.

This is an amazing hands-on opportunity for young people to experience possible career paths in forensic science, Louise Tickell, head of English at Newman Catholic School, said. The project has enabled our students to broaden their horizons and realise that the world is their oyster if they choose it to be! Thank you to Nicola Jones, LRC assistant at Newman and to the team from the University of Cumbria.

Students and staff will meet at Brampton Road campus at 3:30pm where theyll be faced with a realistic crime scenario. Over the following weeks pupils will analyse the evidence that they have collected before law staff from the university will return to school to demonstrate how evidence would be presented in court at a mock trial.

Crime investigation demands skills from across the school curriculum and to be able to demonstrate practically how they all play a part in a successful investigation will we hope be inspiring, Ashleigh Hunt, lecturer in forensic science at the University of Cumbria, said. Were delighted to host pupils from Newman Catholic College and look forward to welcoming them back to hopefully join us as students in the future.

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Officer-involved shooting...

RED BLUFF, Calif. - Authorities are continuing to look into an officer-involved shooting that took place Friday night on I-5, north of Red Bluff.

On March 24, around 11:45 p.m., a Red Bluff area California Highway PatrolOfficer conducted a traffic enforcement stop on a white Hyundai Sedan on northbound Interstate 5, north of Hooker Creek Road in Tehama County. The CHP Officer contacted the two adult male occupants of the Hyundai and conversed about the enforcement stop.

The officer, whose name is being withheld under the Peace Officer's Procedural Bill of Rights, continued to ask the two occupants questions when one of them shot him in the right thigh. Officials say that the CHP officer then drew his sidearm and fired at the shooter, hitting both the driver and the passenger of the vehicle.

One of the occupants was pronounced dead at the scene by medical staff, while the other was taken to a local hospital for his major injuries.

Backup officers from the California Highway Patrol, Red Bluff Police Department, and Tehama County Sheriff's Office responded to the scene and the injured CHP Officer was rescued from the scene and transported to an area hospital for his major injuries.

"We're still early on, the Department of Justice is here doing a crime scene investigation for us, the California Highway Patrol has theirMAITteam doing a diagram, our office, the Sheriff's Office is handling criminal aspect of the investigation, the California Highway Patrol is handling their internal investigation" said Lt. David Greer of the Tehama County Sheriff's Office.

Northbound Interstate 5 was closed from Hooker Creek Road to Sunset Hills Road for approximately 12 hours while investigators and Criminalists thoroughly investigated the scene of the shooting.

The identity of the two occupants of the white Hyundai is pending further investigation and the notification of next of kin to the deceased occupant.

The CHP Officer has been released from the area hospital and is recovering from his injuries.

Northbound traffic was slow moving just north of Red Bluff where a detour had been set up for most of Saturday. Drivers had to exit at Hooker Creek Road then drive along Auction Yard Road and then they could get back onto northbound I-5 at Sunset Hills Boulevard.

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