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UPDATED 11:02 p.m. June 20: A special agent with the FBI has confirmed to SFGN that they are assisting Fort Lauderdale Police Department, who is leading the investigation.

A Michigan man was slapped with a jail sentence Thursday for using a baseball bat to threaten patrons at a gay bar in April, Grand Rapids, Mich., ABC-affiliate station WZZM13 reports.

SEATTLE (AP) _ A man who set fire to a crowded Seattle nightclub just after midnight on New Year's Eve has pleaded guilty to a federal arson charge.

One man's early morning attempt to set a restaurant on fire literally blew up in his face, and it was all captured by a surveillance camera.

WASHINGTON - A Maryland man has been sentenced to more than 4 years in prison after prosecutors say he stabbed a transgender girl on a transit train in the nation's capital.

(WM) A man has been ordered to spend life in prison without parole for killing a transgender teen whose burned remains were found three years ago in southwest Missouri.

A man was shot and killed in Oakland Park Monday during a domestic dispute, according to the Broward Sheriff’s Office.

A Florida man who was arrested earlier this month for allegedly stealing butt plugs from a sex shop said he stole the items because he was too embarrassed to legally purchase them, police said according to the Smoking Gun.

WASHINGTON -- A protester who disrupted historic arguments over gay marriage at the U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to be sentenced.

BOSTON -- Victims of one of Mark Wahlberg's racially motivated attacks as a teenage delinquent in segregated Boston in the 1980s are divided over whether he should be granted a pardon for his crimes.

An American man was told he could make $18,000 for marrying a Chinese woman who needed a green card, so he agreed to get hitched at a California wedding studio and then took an all-expenses-paid trip to Las Vegas where he posed in photos with his new wife.

Wayne Brian Griffies was arrested Feb. 1, 2017. He is currently incarcerated at the Joseph V. Conte facility in Pompano Beach.

A transgender woman was shot and killed Friday night in Miami and her killer remains on the loose.

A Michigan man who told police he beat his two-year-old daughter to death in 2011 in an attempt to turn her gay so she would avoid men was sentenced to 40-years in prison with a non-parole period of 18-years and nine months Monday.

A man from Brighton, Mich., was sentenced to six months in jail Thursday after having sexual encounters with a then-15-year-old teen he met on Grindr, the Detroit Free Press reports.

Michigan police recently arrested two men for robbing a gay man in Lansing, Mich. after meeting him on Craigslist, local news station WLSN 6 reported on Dec. 18.

Milwaukee, WI (WITI) -- A Milwaukee County Transit System bus driver is fired after video surfaces on Facebook showing him punching a passenger in the street. It wasn't just fists flying, but words too -- and a witness on the bus recorded the entire episode on her smart phone.

Minnesota police are currently searching for a man they believe pointed a gun at an adult video store worker after the two had a dispute about a broken penis pump, the Smoking Gun reports.

Prosecutors have accused a former Missouri college student of knowingly exposing more than 30 sexual partners to HIV in four months -- as revealed by the man’s personal video collection of the encounters.

The racial tension at the heart of the protests that led two top University of Missouri administrators to resign intensified at the Columbia campus after the arrest of a white college student suspected of posting online threats to shoot black students and faculty.

PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors deadlocked in the case of a Roman Catholic priest accused of sexually assaulting an altar boy.

MIAMI (AP) _ A Miami model has been charged with animal cruelty for her role in fetish pornographic videos. Sara Zamora, 28, pleaded not guilty Friday after being accused of torturing chickens and rabbits.

For the fifth time, the trial testimony of Officer Elizabeth Skala in a pending DUI case has been postponed.

Charlie Sheen's recent revelation that he's HIV-positive served as a reminder that his home state of California remains among a large group of states with HIV-specific criminal laws that activists consider outdated and that the U.S. Justice Department says should be revised.

Overall, Part One crimes were down in Wilton Manors in 2015.

A Gothic hip-hop artist who did illegal cosmetic surgery on the side boasted at her murder trial Thursday that her body sculpting work was so popular she was dubbed "the Michelangelo of buttocks injections."

A murderer who stabbed a man in the heart because he thought he was "queer" is on the run after escaping from a British prison Sunday, the U.K. newspaper the Daily Mail reports.

The man suspected of driving a BMW that killed a 22-year-old man on a motorized scooter in a hit-and-run crash nearly four months ago has been arrested, according to the Broward Sheriff's Office.

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Hundreds of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transvestites paraded through Nepal’s capital Sunday to demand that rights for sexual minorities be included in the country’s new constitution that is being finalized.

Federal agents have arrested a man suspected of trying to blow up an LGBT community gym.