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Police say a gunman used anti-gay slurs before fatally shooting a 32-year-old man in New York City's Greenwich (GREN'-ich) Village.Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Saturday that the shooting, which occurred just after midnight, appears to have been a hate crime.Kelly says the gunman was seen urinating on the street outside a bar. He says the man went into the bar, made anti-gay remarks to the bartender and showed the bartender that he was wearing a holster with a silver pistol.Kelly says the gunman then confronted the victim and a companion on the street and asked if they were "gay wrestlers."Kelly says the man shot the victim in the face. He was pronounced dead at a hospital.The names of the victim and the suspect were not immediately released....
Alec Baldwin's latest squabble with the media may have him in some serious hot water.An NYPD rep told FOX 411 the 54-year-old actor is being investigated following a...
Germany says far-right crime rose last year, fueled by an increasing number of xenophobic and anti-Semitic acts.Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich vowed Monday t...
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As prosecutors consider filing bias-crime charges against two college freshmen accused of streaming online video of a classmate's sexual encounter with another man, ...
Attorneys for a group of Amish men and women found guilty of hate crimes for cutting the hair and beards of fellow members of their faith in eastern Ohio are arguing...
The former Rutgers University student convicted of using a webcam to spy on his gay roommate reported to jail Thursday as the victim's parents rejected his written a...
NYPD investigating '30 Rock' star
Polish prosecutors say they will not charge former President Lech Walesa with hate crimes for recent remarks deemed offensive to gays.Walesa, a communist-era fighter...
British police say they have arrested two people over an assault on an "emo" teenage boy — the first to be recorded in the country as an alternative subculture hate ...
Following are excerpts from some of the letters Judge Glenn Berman received as he considered the sentence for Dharun Ravi, who was convicted in March of invasion of ...
The federal hate crimes trial of two men in Kentucky accused of beating another man because he was gay quickly grew murky, with tales of substance abuse, drug deals ...
Two Kentucky men were acquitted of hate-crimes charges but found guilty of kidnapping late Wednesday in connection with an attack on a gay man.Prosecutors had argued...
The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head has been charged with murder as a hat...
A Columbia University football player has been charged with a hate crime after allegedly assaulting another student and using racial slurs.Chad Washington, a 19-year...
When Rutgers University freshman Dharun Ravi set up a video camera to spy on his roommate Tyler Clementi having sex with another man, it was unclear whether Ravi was...
Across Europe, gay couples are scared of publicly engaging in even the most basic expression of their affection: Holding hands.Released Friday, the largest ever EU s...
As the Senate's top Democrat met with advocacy groups to push for expansion of federal hate crime laws Monday, the self-described neo-Nazi accused of shooting and ki...
Conservative columnist and Oberlin alumna on reports of hate speech, vandalism on campus
The number of racially motivated attacks increased in Greece last year, as did the severity of the violence involved, human rights groups said Wednesday.The incident...