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Cult leader gets life in prison for murder of 4-year-old he thought was gay
DURHAM, N.C. — The former leader of a polygamist cult in North Carolina has been sentenced to two life terms for the shooting deaths of a 4-year-old boy he believed to be gay and a woman who sought to leave.
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Paris police obtain video footage of gay rights activist’s murder
PARIS — Investigators say they have obtained surveillance video that captured the fatal clash between skinheads and gay rights activist Clement Meric earlier this month.
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Man pleads not guilty in New York City hate crime shooting
NEW YORK — A man accused of fatally shooting a gay man walking with a companion in New York City’s Greenwich Village afterward claimed that he opened fire because the victim “thought he was tough in front of his bitch,” prosecutors said in court papers Tuesday.
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Lesbian may be forced to testify against spouse in Ky. murder case
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky judge is weighing whether a same-sex couple qualifies for the privilege of not testifying against a spouse in a slaying case in Louisville.
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French Prime Minister orders extreme-right group dissolved after student’s murder
PARIS — French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault on Saturday directed Interior Minister Manuel Valls to take immediate steps to dissolve the extreme right group known as Revolutionary Nationalist Youth, believed to have neo-nazi ties.
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Attorney implies suspect’s child sexual abuse was a factor NYC killing
NEW YORK — The attorney for the man accused in the murder of a gay man in New York’s Greenwich Village on Saturday says his client is not guilty, and implied that his anti-gay bias is the result of being sexually abused as a child.
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Suspect in NYC shooting charged with murder as a hate crime
NEW YORK — The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot to his head appeared in court Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate crime.
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Russian police confirm man was tortured to death because he was gay
VOLGOGRAD, Russia — Two men have been arrested for torturing a 23-year-old man to death in Russia in an apparent homophobic attack, investigators said Sunday.
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Family demands answers in death of gay Miss. mayoral candidate
CLARKSDALE, Miss. — An attorney for relatives of a slain Mississippi mayoral candidate said Thursday that the sheriff’s department has mishandled evidence and withheld information about its investigation.
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Autopsy report says suspect ‘admitted to killing’ gay Miss. mayoral candidate
An autopsy report says a man admitted to killing a Mississippi mayoral candidate in February and that the victim died from lack of oxygen, but it doesn’t give an exact reason for the death beyond calling it a homicide.