NEW YORK, April 2 (UPI) -- Four hate-mail photographs, one of which featured a noose, were placed in mailboxes at New York's Columbia University, police say.
CLERMONT, Fla., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- A hangman's noose was found near an election sign for Democratic U.S. presidential nominee Barack Obama posted near Clermont, Fla., police say.
NEW YORK, June 24 (UPI) -- Officials at Columbia Teachers College in New York say a professor who said she found a noose on her office door faces dismissal for plagiarism.
MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- The firing of a Minnesota community college newspaper news editor over a newsroom noose has stirred up a debate over racial sensitivity.
PEARLAND, Texas, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Parents pulled more than 300 students from classes at a Texas high school after two students were charged with hanging a noose in the school parking lot.
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Another noose scandal is brewing, this time in the New Orleans area where parish officials have located a rope and other items deemed racially offensive.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- A U.S. government agency said since 2001 more than 30 racial harassment lawsuits have been filed involving hangman's nooses in the workplace.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Oct. 28 (UPI) -- Four white high school students in Florida were suspended for hanging a noose on a tree with one of them allegedly asking two blacks to put it on their necks.
HOUSTON, March 3 (UPI) -- A Houston teachers' union survey found nearly three of four middle and high school teachers in the school district have been verbally abused by students.
SAO PAULO, March 12 (UPI) -- The noose threatening to strangle one of Brazil's leading senators tightened Wednesday as officials called for another investigation into his alleged misdeeds. Antonio Carlos Magalhaes is accused of ordering illegal wiretaps for both political and persona
