January 8, 2015 2 women plead guilty in connection with hate-crime attacks on African-Americans in Mississippi Two women have pleaded guilty in connection with a series of attacks on African-Americans in Mississippi that included running over and killing a man.
January 8, 2015 Mother of man charged with running down Missouri teen says her son is mentally ill The man accused of fatally hitting a teenager with his car last week in Missouri had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, committed to a Minneapolis hospital for treatment and sometimes stopped taking his medications, according to court records and his family in Minnesota.
January 8, 2015 Friends of slain Muslim teen say someone recently drove around with anti-Islamic messages Mourners will gather to remember a Muslim teenager who was run down and killed in a crash that was being investigated as a possible hate crime.
January 8, 2015 Delaware prosecutor charges 3 teens with hate crime in assault on man with mental disability Delaware's Attorney General has brought new charges against three teens in an assault on a man with a mental disability.
January 8, 2015 Police say NY motorist called Sikh man a terrorist, mowed him down with truck, dragged him Police have arrested a 55-year-old New York man on charges he called a Sikh man a terrorist and mowed him down with his pickup truck.
January 8, 2015 Mississippi sheriff says white man shot 2 weeks after he reported cross burning in his yard A Mississippi sheriff says a man was beaten and shot two weeks after reporting a cross burning in his yard.
January 8, 2015 Rabbi killed in Florida; police say no hate crime Police and Jewish community leaders say an Orthodox rabbi from New York was fatally shot as he walked to a Miami temple.
January 8, 2015 Jewish man's hate crime case over black man's attack resurrects old wounds in NYC neighborhood The extradition of a white Orthodox Jewish man to New York City to face hate crime charges over a black man's attack has renewed questions about the case.
January 8, 2015 Hate crime case resurrects racial wounds in NYC Yitzhak Shuchat, a white member of a civilian patrol group, and Andrew Charles, the black son of a police officer, came face to face in 2008 in a neighborhood with a history of racial strife — that much is certain.
January 8, 2015 Federal investigation into attacks on Mississippi blacks grows with new indictments A three-year federal investigation into groups of suburban white teens crossing into Mississippi's capital city to attack blacks has grown to 10 indictments and six convictions.