On a Sunday meant for worship and holiday celebration, members of Mayflower Congregational Church in Billings found ...

Pride, an independent nonprofit located at the First Congregational Church in Billings, is standing in solidarity with the ...

A man is accused of beating two other men with a gun because of their race after a weekend car crash in Zebulon. Twenty-seven ...

COURT TODAY TO BRING US WHAT’S NEW IN THIS CASE? SEAN PAYTON APPEARED BRIEFLY IN THE COURTHOUSE EARLIER THIS AFTERNOON. HIS ATTORNEY DID NOT TAKE QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS CASE OR ABOUT HIS CLIENT BEHIND ...

A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the hate crime convictions of the three men who chased Ahmaud Arbery through their Georgia subdivision with pickup trucks before one of them killed him with a ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Two teenage boys who attacked a Black 18-year-old man with punches and racial slurs in a Simi Valley parking lot ...

Hate-crime laws sound good on paper. Who wouldn’t want to send a message that violence driven by bigotry is especially unacceptable? But beneath the rhetoric lies a harder truth: these laws don’t ...

SPARTANBURG — Spartanburg City Council passed the final version of its hate crime ordinance, which places enhanced penalties on crimes motivated by certain biases. The ordinance imposes an additional ...

SPARTANBURG, S.C. (WSPA) — The “Hate Intimidation” ordinance passed unanimously during the Spartanburg City Council meeting on Monday. The second reading of the ordinance immediately went into effect ...

COLUMBIA — Attorney General Alan Wilson says local hate crime ordinances may run afoul of the state’s constitution, and that South Carolina’s Supreme Court could strike them down if challenged. The ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WCSC) - South Carolina’s attorney general says the state’s Supreme Court could likely strike down any local hate crimes ordinance based on the state’s Constitution and lawmaker ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WSPA) – South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson issued a legal opinion Monday, clarifying that municipalities in the state do not have the authority to create their own hate crime ...