RALEIGH, N.C., Nov. 25 (UPI) -- North Carolina NAACP leaders said they are lobbying the University of North Carolina system to take a harder stance against hate speech on campuses.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif., Oct. 27 (UPI) -- A Southern California Halloween display with a likeness of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin hanging by a noose sparked hate-crime reports by neighbors, police say.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The FBI says 7,624 hate crime incidents involving 9,006 offenses were reported to it in 2007, with 52 percent of the victims targeted because of their race.
TRENTON, N.J., Sept. 18 (UPI) -- A new poll finds that most voters think U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, D-N.J., seeking a fifth term this year at the age of 84, is almost a decade younger.
HAMDEN, Conn., Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama leads Republican John McCain in Pennsylvania and is tied with him in Ohio, a poll indicates.
MOSCOW, July 28 (UPI) -- Russian authorities are expressing concern over a dramatic increase in the number of hate crimes in Moscow this year.
LOS ANGELES, July 25 (UPI) -- Los Angeles recorded a 28 percent rise in hate crimes in 2007, largely resulting from hostilities between Latinos and blacks, officials said.
WHEATON, Ill., March 19 (UPI) -- A swastika painted on the door of a suburban Chicago home was a gang symbol and is not being viewed as a hate crime, authorities said.
NEW YORK, Dec. 12 (UPI) -- A Jewish man who allegedly was the victim of a hate crime in New York last week was saved from serious injury by a Muslim bystander, a report said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 (UPI) -- The 2008 U.S. defense authorization bill could be voted on soon after a congressional panel pulled controversial language extending hate crimes law to gays.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- U.S. hate-crime incidents rose nearly 8 percent last year, the FBI reported on Monday.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (UPI) -- The Rev. Al Sharpton says the U.S. government is not adequately investigating hate crimes.
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Civil War memorial on the grounds of the Alabama statehouse was vandalized, with the face of a Confederate soldier painted over.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20 (UPI) -- The prolific hangman's noose threatens to replace the burning cross as the reigning symbol of hate in the United States,
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., Oct. 10 (UPI) -- Authorities in several U.S. states are investigating a spate of suspected hate crimes in the wake of a highly publicized racial incident in Louisiana.
