LAS VEGAS (AP) — Activists in Las Vegas are attributing a rise in reports of hate crimes against Black residents in 2020 to an increase in racism nationally and a willingness by victims to...

MIAMI (AP) — Lawyers for a South Florida doctor accused of attacking a Hispanic man at a supermarket say the allegation that she committed a hate crime is “simply not true."

MIAMI (AP) — A Florida anesthesiologist has been arrested and charged with a hate crime for assaulting a Hispanic man outside a supermarket, according to news outlets citing police...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A man who spray-painted swastikas and racial epithets on a Lincoln synagogue was sentenced Friday to a year in jail.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida's hate crime law could be expanded to create enhanced penalties for people who commit offenses against someone based on their gender or gender identity under a...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An Indianapolis man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime and weapons charges after threatening a Black neighbor, prosecutors said Friday.

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — A white man accused of attacking a Black teenager and attempting to strike another has been indicted on federal hate crime charges, eight months after an incident at a...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A retired Rhode Island doctor who shouted racial epithets at a neighbor during a property boundary dispute did not violate the state's hate crime law, a judge ruled on...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Spokane Police Department is looking for the person who painted swastikas on the Temple Beth Shalom building and a Holocaust memorial.

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A police department in South Carolina is sponsoring training for officers and prosecutors on hate investigation and prevention.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — Judges will be allowed to require people charged with hate crimes to complete anti-bias education programs if a bill to expand the current Maryland hate crime law is...

LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A hate crime charge has been added to attempted murder in the case of a gay Louisiana teenager who was attacked by another teen he met on a dating app last year.

HONOLULU (AP) — Two Hawaii men each indicted with one federal count of a hate crime in the alleged beating of a white man on Maui in 2014 pleaded not guilty in U.S. District Court on Tuesday....

HONOLULU (AP) — A U.S. grand jury indictment unsealed Friday charged two Hawaii men with one count of a hate crime after they allegedly attacked a white man who was attempting to move into their...

KEYSER, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia now has 14 cities that have adopted local fairness ordinances protecting LGBTQ residents from discrimination, a civil rights advocacy group said.

GLENDALE, Calif. (AP) — A man who allegedly spat on random people while jogging in a Los Angeles suburb because they weren't wearing masks has been arrested, police announced Friday.

NEW YORK (AP) — A 39-year-old man was charged with burglary and criminal mischief as a hate crime Thursday in connection with derogatory graffiti found on four Brooklyn synagogues, police...

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Lincoln Jewish temple that was vandalized earlier this year is donating $11,000 to two organizations to show its gratitude for support it received from the...

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City police have opened a hate crime investigation into the assault last week of a woman of Asian descent riding the subway in Manhattan.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascon said he would backtrack on one of the sweeping changes he had announced when he took office earlier this month.

SEATTLE (AP) — A federal grand jury indicted four men from Idaho, Oregon and Washington state, accusing them of hate crimes and making false statements in the assault of a Black man at a suburban...

BREMERTON, Wash. (AP) — Prosecutors have charged a Bremerton man with a hate crime for allegedly stalking a Black man at work, nearly hitting him with a vehicle, challenging him to a fight and...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island’s attorney general has created a special four-member team of investigators to field civil rights complaints that reach the office.

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man convicted of a hate crime for tearing down and burning an LGBTQ flag hanging outside a Des Moines bar has been sentenced to time served.

SEATTLE (AP) — Two years ago, there were 30 hate crimes in King County, and last year that number was 38, but so far in 2020, the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has handled 51 hate...

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man accused of threatening a Black juvenile while shouting racial slurs has been charged with a federal hate crime, the Justice Department said Monday.

LEWES, Del. (AP) — Police in Delaware are investigating after weed killer was apparently used to write the word “Trump” on a front lawn that has had signs supporting Joe Biden and the Black Lives...

NEW YORK (AP) — A Queens woman accused of shouting an anti-Muslim slur while grabbing a woman's headscarf and then attacking her husband was charged Friday with assault as a hate crime and other...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Two brothers, suspected in the killing of a biracial man on a Danish island in June, were Friday formally charged with murder after the prosecution ruled out a racially...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A Biddeford man convicted of violating a federal hate crime law with a pair of assaults on Black men was sentenced to 10 years in prison on Tuesday.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police have made an arrest in the weekend assault of a Trump supporter and free speech rally organizer who lost two front teeth, officials said Monday.

MONROE, Mich. (AP) — A white man facing assault charges in an attack on a Black Michigan teenager was charged Tuesday with a federal hate crime.

BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Several businesses around Bellingham discovered swastika stickers posted on their windows over the weekend.

One of the owners of Village Books in Fairhaven told KIRO...

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — A man suspected of tying a noose to a tree branch in Berkeley's marina has been arrested and charged with a misdemeanor hate crime, police said.

BENNINGTON, Vt. (AP) — A self-described white nationalist is accused of using racist language in an altercation with a Black man and charged with a hate crime.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Authorities said a transgender woman was fatally shot Wednesday in southwest Puerto Rico, the sixth such killing this year.