New York's highest court is allowing prosecutors to resubmit a case alleging manslaughter as a hate crime to a grand jury after agreeing that a man's earlier conviction had to be thrown out.

NEW YORK (AP) - A Brooklyn man has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars for an assault on a transgendered woman that left her with severe brain injuries.

(EDGE) A New York City woman was arrested after allegedly stabbing a black transgender man who offered his seat to her on a subway Christmas night. She has been charged with assault as a hate crime, the New York Daily News reports.

Officers from the New York Police Department arrested and charged two men and one teen suspected of chasing and shooting a man dressed as a woman in Brooklyn Saturday morning, the New York Daily News reports.

(EDGE) New York City Police are investigating the weekend stabbing of a 28-year-old gay man as a possible anti-gay hate crime.

NEW YORK — The NYPD is looking for a suspect in a gay bias attack on a New Jersey man on a subway platform.

At least two Indianapolis-based officials and two organizations are calling upon state lawmakers to establish a hate crime law.

CLEVELAND (AP) — A Cleveland police official says police believe the recent slayings of two transgender women were motivated by hate.

A judge sentenced an Ohio man, who was in charge of taking care of his younger disabled brother, with two-and-a-half years in prison Monday after threatening to castrate and "beat the gay" out of his sibling, the Lancaster Eagle Gazette reports.

A transgender woman and LGBT activist from Toledo, Ohio was attacked on her walk home Monday afternoon in what may be a hate crime, Northwest Ohio's NBC-affiliate station WNWO reports.

(WB) A gay man in Oklahoma raising a black son has filed a civil rights lawsuit against his local sheriff for allegedly allowing fellow residents to burn down his home in an attempt to run him out of town.

A jury found a woman guilty of obstruction of justice Wednesday for her role in an attack on a gay couple who were walking a pink poodle in Hillsboro.

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HILLSBORO, Ore. (AP) _ A 25-year-old Oregon woman convicted of murder in the death of her 4-year-old son has been sentenced to life in prison. Jessica Dutro will serve 25 years before she gets her first chance at parole.

A three-judge panel of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals last week upheld all current convictions against Frank R. Chester, who murdered Anthony V. Milano almost 30 years ago.

ennsylvania's state legislative session comes to a close without a vote on the LGBT-inclusive hate-crimes bill.

Philadelphia Police Officer Matthew Zagursky was removed from street patrol last week, after he was caught on video uttering anti-LGBT slurs and coercing a motorist into purchasing tickets to a police fundraiser.

Philadelphia Police are looking to identify and locate the suspects wanted for an attack that landed an employee of a local gay bar in the hospital for a week.

The gay couple who were brutally assaulted by a "clean cut" gang in Philadelphia last September are one step closer to having justice served, as lawyers for the three defendants accused of taking part in the beating said their clients are considering deals with the DA's office.

South Florida audiences get to experience the creative process in action thank to Jan McArt’s New Play Reading Series at Lynn University in Boca Raton.

A judge granted another continuance Thursday in the case of the three suspects accused of attacking a gay couple in Center City last fall. 

Dallas police started a task force and launched "lock-down" patrols in Dallas' Oak Lawn gayborhood after a dozen violent attacks in the past few months.

A Denver man is facing hate-crime charges after allegedly attacking a man he thought was gay, 9News reports.

London police are investigating an alleged anti-gay assault that occurred on a train on July 15, Gay Star News reports.

Palm Springs was the site of a brutal attack on Sunday when two prominent gay residents were beaten because they are gay. The attack on married couple George and Chris Zander is being investigated by police as a felony hate crime.

Three Latino men attacked a gay African-American man in West Hollywood, Calif., early Tuesday morning in a possible double hate crime, according to a statement by Los Angeles Sheriff's Department, LA Weekly reports.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police say an attack on two women during Gay Pride festivities in San Francisco was a hate crime.

The Broward State Attorney’s Office announced April 12 that it is filing hate crime charges against a family of three who beat a gay man so badly he is permanently blind.

Hatred, bigotry, and discrimination “can’t just be left to slowly erode. By itself, it does not just “get better. And time is not our friend,” said Jason Marsden, executive director of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

Pride Fort Lauderdale kicks off Oct. 7 with an evening pub crawl through Wilton Manors presented by the Stonewall National Museum & Archives.