A Columbia University football player has been arrested and charged with a hate crime for allegedly threatening an Asian student at the Morningside Heights campus on Sunday.
A man accused of spitting anti-gay and racist insults while attacking a patron at one of New York City's oldest gay bars has pleaded guilty to assault as a hate crime and other charges.
A judge on Wednesday upheld hate-crime charges against a college student accused of slashing a taxi driver's neck in an anti-Muslim attack that amplified concerns about tolerance shortly before the anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.