Wyoming lawmakers pursue 2 hate crimes bills for 2022
June 16, 2021 GMTCASPER, Wyo. (AP) — Wyoming lawmakers are pursuing two possible hate crimes bills for next year's legislative session.
One bill to be drafted would require law enforcement to report hate crimes.
Montana man indicted on federal hate crime, firearm charges
June 2, 2021 GMTBILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal grand jury has indicted a Montana man on hate crime and firearm charges after he was accused of threatening a person with violent, homophobic slurs and firing a gun into the person's house, prosecutors announced Wednesday.
Tennessee man admits hate crime in attack on Muslim girls
May 18, 2021 GMTNASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man who harassed two teenage Muslim girls and then swung a knife and attacked their father has pleaded guilty to a federal hate crime.
Christopher Beckham, 35, of Nashville, appeared in court last week to enter the plea, the Justice Department said Monday in a statement.
Wyoming shelves hate crime law decades after Shepard’s death
March 12, 2021 GMTCHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Lawmakers in Wyoming, where gay college student Matthew Shepard was killed more than 20 years ago, again decided not to adopt a hate crimes law...
Democrats hope unconventional travelogue entices viewers
August 19, 2020 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — An unexpected travelogue connected as a television event during the second night of the Democrats' virtual convention, livening up a show that so far is struggling in the ratings...
Buttigieg urges LGBTQ to turn differences into social change
June 8, 2019 GMTDES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg told an audience in Iowa on Friday that coming out as gay has empowered him in a way he did not anticipate, and he called on others to harness their differences into social activism...
Matthew Shepard, symbol for gay rights, laid to rest in DC
October 26, 2018 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — After 20 years without a permanent resting place, the remains of Matthew Shepard, a 21-year-old college student whose brutal murder in 1998 has come to symbolize the plight of the LGBTQ community in America, were interred at the Washington National Cathedral on Friday...
Matthew Shepard’s murder still haunts Wyoming after 20 years
October 13, 2018 GMTLARAMIE, Wyo. (AP) — When two roofing workers beat a young gay man to death in Wyoming in 1998, the gruesome crime quickly reverberated around the U...
Views are mixed on hate crime law named for Matthew Shepard
October 12, 2018 GMTNEW YORK (AP) — Twenty years after Matthew Shepard's death , the federal hate crimes law bearing his name is viewed with mixed feelings by LGBT and anti-violence organizations that lobbied over nearly a decade for its passage...
Feds: Man who assaulted co-worker convicted of hate crime
January 24, 2018 GMTRICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man is facing up to 10 years in prison for committing a hate crime against a co-worker whom he perceived as gay...