Homicide detectives for the Broward County Sheriff’s Office arrested a 40-year-old man on a first-degree murder charge.

A Southern California mother of an eight-year-old boy and her then-boyfriend will take a plea deal to avoid the death penalty for murder and torture charges in the boy's death. The boy was allegedly killed because the couple thought he was gay, Los Angeles NBC-affiliate station KNBC reports.

The search to find the man responsible for killing a North Philadelphia lesbian woman in broad daylight last month has ended.

The Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office is appealing an order by the state Office of Open Records to provide certified copies of dispatch records pertaining to the Nizah Morris incident.

Local community members sat frustrated through a meeting this week with the Northern District of Texas Department of Justice Community Relations Service and a representative of the FBI Dallas field office who maintains hate crime statistics.

Chicago area resident Carl Szulczynski has been determined to find out what happened since his brother's mysterious death in 2000.

A defense attorney for Charles Sargent, the accused murderer of trans woman Diamond Williams, says prosecutors are unfairly withholding evidence in the case.

Carlton Champion was found guilty in the January 2015 murder of Ty Underwood, a trans woman from Tyler.

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) _ A former high school football captain was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Friday for fatally stabbing a man who he said sexually abused him as a minor, provided him drugs and called him gay in an Internet posting.

Officials from the New York Police Department are currently investigating the death of Michael Wright, a former player for the New York Knicks, saying he was possibly was killed by someone he met on the gay dating app Grindr, the New York Daily News reports.

(WM) The family of a man who was stabbed to death in February outside of a Chicago bar is suing the bar and the man charged in the killing, claiming the slain man was targeted because he was gay and is accusing the bar of not doing enough to protect him.

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In 2015, at least 23 trans women were murdered in the U.S. and now the first known homicide of a trans woman in 2016 has been reported, according to Jezebel.

Florida has 27 new laws ranging from tougher penalties for people who solicit prostitutes to making revenge porn a crime.

A transgender woman was found burned to death behind a garbage container in Fort Myers, Fla., on June 19, Naples News reports.

A former gay porn actor was sentenced to life in prison Monday for murdering his rich lover in 2015, People magazine reports.

(SS) For Richard Christopher Busey, it was supposed to be an evening of cocktails and companionship with a much younger man he met by a canal near his Wilton Manors condo.

A gay Swedish man, being described as a "vampire," is currently standing trial, accused of murdering his boyfriend by slitting his throat and drinking his blood, according to TheLocal.se.

Marc Pourner, 28, of Spring, Texas, was found dead just north of Houston on Saturday night, Nov. 14, a little more than two days after he went missing.

A gay man from Texas is facing a murder charge for his boyfriend's death after he allegedly refused to let him out of a car before a fatal crash, local news CBS-affiliate KDBC-TV reports.

A Canadian gay porn actor who was convicted of murdering his sex partner and was sentenced to life in prison, is currently sending letters to friends, detailing how he's enjoying prison life, Gay Star News reports.

At Thanksgiving last year, Carol Asberry picked up a video camera and asked her family what they where thankful for.

The main suspect in the stabbing murder of two gay sex workers in Guyana's capital of Georgetown last week died on Sunday, July 20 at Georgetown Hospital after confessing to the murders and setting himself on fire.

The preliminary hearing for a man accused of killing a psychiatrist in a Gayborhood hotel was continued until February.

For a few transgender Americans, this has been a year of glamour and fame. For many others, 2015 has been fraught with danger, violence and mourning.

(WB) The Inter-American Court of Human Rights this week held a hearing in the case of a transgender woman who was murdered in Honduras during a 2009 coup.

A Syrian human rights group is claiming that ISIS militants executed nine men and a 15-year-old boy in Syria Monday for being gay, the Daily Mail reports.

MARKS, Miss. (AP) — A jury has been selected for the trial of a man accused of murdering Clarksdale mayoral candidate Marco McMillian in 2013.

A transgender woman from Los Angeles was shot and killed early Wednesday morning on the front porch of a home as she pounded on the door looking for help, according to police.

Police may soon know more about the transgender woman whose body was found along a Clermont road in 1988.