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• FBI: Hate crimes down slightly in 2011

  December 10, 2012 in Nation/World WASHINGTON (AP) — The FBI says the number of hate crimes reported to police in 2011 declined slightly compared to the previous year. Nearly half of the reported hate crimes …

• 1 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Another man has pleaded guilty to hate crime charges in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck in Mississippi. … 1

• 2 more guilty of hate crime in Miss. rundown case

  December 4, 2012 in Nation/World JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Two more white men have pleaded guilty to hate crime charges in the death of a black man who was run over by a pickup truck … 1

• Husband of slain Iraqi-American pleads not guilty

  November 13, 2012 in Nation/World EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — There were signs that her traditional Muslim family may have been struggling in the U.S. even before Shaima Alawadi was murdered: Court documents say she …

• Husband held in killing of Iraqi-American woman

  November 9, 2012 in Nation/World EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — The husband of an Iraqi-American woman whose beating death initially appeared to be a hate crime was arrested on suspicion of murder in what police …

• Spokane man may face arson charges

  November 6, 2012 Arson investigators with the Spokane Fire Department may charge a West Central resident with arson after he threw a Molotov cocktail through a window there. Nobody was injured in the … 4

• 2 men acquitted under new US gay hate crime law

  October 25, 2012 in Nation/World LONDON, Ky. (AP) — The first U.S. prosecution under a new federal law against anti-gay violence ended with a Kentucky jury acquitting two cousins of hate-crime charges while finding them …

• 2 Kentucky men acquitted of hate-crimes charges

  October 24, 2012 in Nation/World LONDON, Ky. (AP) — 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 …

• Bond at risk for Ohio Amish hate-crime defendants

  September 21, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Nine of 16 Amish convicted in beard- and hair-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in Ohio have remained free, but the government asked Friday to have them locked …

• Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio beard-cuttings

  September 21, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen men and women who rejected lenient plea deals are facing lengthy prison terms for their convictions in the hair- and beard-cutting attacks on fellow Amish in …

• Amish guilty of hate crimes in Ohio hair attacks

  September 20, 2012 CLEVELAND (AP) — Sixteen Amish men and women were convicted Thursday of hate crimes for a series of hair- and beard- cutting attacks on fellow sect members in a religious …

• FBI asked to keep data on anti-Sikh hate crimes

  September 19, 2012 WASHINGTON (AP) — The son of a massacre victim at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin asked the Obama administration on Wednesday to begin collecting statistics on hate crimes against Sikhs. …

• Transgender-inmate ruling is movement’s latest win

  September 6, 2012 in Health Years ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society …

• Transgender-inmate ruling is movement’s latest win

  September 5, 2012 in Health Years ago, in a darkened parking lot in the middle of the night, Kathy Padilla would meet with fellow transgender people who sought support from one another in a society …

• Police: Mich. student attack not likely hate crime

  August 28, 2012 DETROIT (AP) — A Michigan State University student said he was attacked at an off-campus party by two men who asked if he was Jewish, and when he said he …

• Extremist groups burgeon

  March 9, 2012 in City on Page A1 The number of militias and other extremist movements in the Inland Northwest and across the country continues to rise, according to a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center. … 41

• Three brothers accused of hate-crime assaults

  February 10, 2012 in City on Page A7 A 19-year-old man and his two brothers have been charged with hate crimes for allegedly attacking people because of their race. Deven James-Allen Hood is accused of smashing car windows … 4

• Police say threats led to blows, charges

  July 9, 2011 in City on Page A5 A self-proclaimed skinhead was knocked unconscious by a black man after threatening to stab him last weekend in Bayview, Idaho, officials said Friday. Daren Christopher Abbey, 28, was booked into … 15

• MLK bomb suspect indicted on new charges

    April 21, 2011 in City A grand jury indicted Martin Luther King, Jr. march bomb suspect Kevin William Harpham on a federal hate crime charge today. 5

• Police: Dispute between teen girls led to hate-crime probe

  February 21, 2011 in City Vandalism investigated as a possible religious hate crime was the result of a dispute between two teenage girls, Spokane police say. 17

• Brothers guilty of racially harassing man

  October 29, 2010 in City on Page A1 Following the third trial in eight months, two Coeur d’Alene brothers were found guilty Thursday of racially harassing and threatening a Hispanic man in August 2009. Sentencing was set for … 1

• Defendant has tattoos linked to Aryan beliefs

  October 28, 2010 in City on Page A5 The tattoos on a man accused of racially harassing a Hispanic man last summer are common symbols representing Aryan neo-Nazi beliefs, the Idaho Department of Correction’s top official on gang …

• Third hate crime trial begins for brothers

  October 27, 2010 in City on Page A7 The third round of a hate crime trial opened Tuesday in Coeur d’Alene, with two brothers accused of racially harassing a Hispanic man in the summer of 2009. The first … 1

• Unfurling banners of racial tolerance

  June 22, 2010 in City on Page A1 Human rights activists in Coeur d’Alene have decided to fight flags with flags. For months, people have been walking into the Human Rights Education Institute in Coeur d’Alene asking what … 8

• Attempted robbery called hate crime

  April 9, 2010 in City on Page A6 A man accused of trying to rob a Spokane taco truck owner may have targeted the victim because of his race, new court documents allege. Michael A. Brewer, 22, has … 11

• Bigotry’s embers need constant monitoring

  February 10, 2010 in Opinion on Page A13 “… the flames of Saturday night’s cross might be out, but the kind of needless hatred and bigotry they spread apparently isn’t going to be quickly snuffed.”

• Scourge of Hatred

    February 7, 2010 in City, Idaho on Page A1 In a small house in Coeur d’Alene, 89-year-old Sid Rosen lives out his sunset years going through his life’s mementos. ■ Tucked away in a box, the World War II … 24

• Task force joins hate crime probe

  February 4, 2010 in City on Page A5 The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations is offering up to $1,000 for tips leading to the solution of any of the hate crimes that have plagued the Inland …

• Reward offered for tips in North Idaho hate crimes

  February 3, 2010 in Idaho The Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations is offering up to $1,000 for tips leading to the solution of any of the hate crimes that have plagued the Inland … 7

• Vandals leave racist message

  December 4, 2009 in Idaho, News A Coeur d’Alene man of Middle Eastern descent left his pickup parked downtown Thursday night and returned to find it spray-painted with swastikas and a racial slur and a front …

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