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More anti-gay, religious-motivated crimes reported

AP News 3 days ago

Reports of anti-gay or religious-based hate crimes rise in 2008; more agencies tracking Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday. Overall, the number of reported hate crime incidents increased about ...

Number of hate crimes up slightly in US: FBI

AFP American Edition 3 days ago

The number of US hate crime victims rose slightly last year to nearly 9,700 from 9,500 in 2007, with most people targeted because of their skin color, the FBI said Monday. More than half of hate crimes committed in the United States ...

Tenn. lawmaker: No consensus on special session

AP News 3 days ago

Tenn. House speaker says no consensus on December special legislative session on workers comp Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams says there's no consensus among lawmakers about whether to call a special legislative session next month to delay a workers compensation law. Williams ...

FBI wants public's help in civil rights killings

AP News 3 days ago

FBI seeks public's help to find relatives of those killed in civil rights cold cases Over the last three years, the FBI scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen and tracked down witnesses from killings that occurred decades ago, many of them involving ...

Civil Rights Cold Cases

AP News 3 days ago

This is a Feb. 12, 2009 photograph showing a chart the FBI unveiled in Jackson, Miss., of civil rights cold cases in the state. The federal law enforcement organization says agents investigating civil rights-era murders have scoured faded documents, interviewed aging lawmen ...

Pistols, Tasers, assault rifles sell fast at US show

AFP Global Edition 4 days ago

Recession-stoked fears of rising crime and tougher gun laws under a Democratic government are sending US gun sales sky high, and big crowds at the Chantilly Gun Show this weekend proved it once again. "Do you see the line all around the ...

Levin: More e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect possible

AP News 5 days ago

Senator says investigators may reveal more troubling e-mails from alleged Ft. Hood shooter WASHINGTON — The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more ...

Elderly US couple pleads guilty in Cuba spy case

AFP Global Edition 5 days ago

An elderly US couple charged with spying for Cuba for almost 30 years has pleaded guilty in the conspiracy, with the husband agreeing to serve a life sentence, the US Justice Department said. Walter Myers, 72, a former State Department official with ...

Levin: could be more e-mails from Ft. Hood suspect

AP News 5 days ago

Senator says investigators may reveal more troubling e-mails from alleged Ft. Hood shooter WASHINGTON — The government intercepted at least 18 e-mails between the alleged Fort Hood gunman and a radical Muslim cleric, and a key senator says there could be more ...

Levin: May be more troubling e-mails from Hasan

AP News 5 days ago

Levin: Fort Hood investigation may reveal more troubling e-mails involving alleged shooter There may be additional e-mails that could have tipped off law enforcement or military officials to the Fort Hood shooter before he went on his deadly rampage, the chairman of ...

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