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Reindeer traces confirmed after Rhode Island lab tests carrots

A man found in the Lampasas River last week has been identified as Eric Martinets, 30, of Taylor. Next of kin has been notified.

The girl, a Cumberland resident, had sent the cookie and carrot sticks to the town’s police department to ask if they can be tested for DNA.

The girl, a Cumberland resident, had sent the cookie and carrot sticks to the town’s police department to ask if they can be tested for DNA.

The Rhode Island Department of Health says it was not able to definitively confirm or refute the presence of Santa in a young girl’s home after she requested to have a partially eaten cookie and a couple of gnawed-on carrot sticks tested for DNA to see if Santa Claus is real. The department tweeted on Monday that it found no complete matches to anyone in a database but that there was a partial DNA match “to a 1947 case centered around 34th Street in New York City.” It said it would need mo...

A girl from Rhode Island had cookies tested for DNA to see if Santa was real. The Rhode Island Department of Health tweeted, “we all agree that something magical may be at play.”

The “good news” is that the lab did find the presence of DNA closely matching Rangifer tarandus. Read more at Boston.com.

A young Rhode Island girl has finally figured out how to determine if Santa Claus is real: DNA.

The Rhode Island Department of Health said it would need more DNA samples “from other known Santa encounters” to find a match, but the department noted the lab did find the presence of DNA closely matching reindeer when testing partially-eaten carrots.

Reindeer traces confirmed after Rhode Island lab tests carrots