hate crime

A Euless woman who is charged with attempted murder and injury to a child was rearrested and had her bond set at $1 million.

A North Texas woman was charged with attempted capital murder after she allegedly tried to drown a three-year-old Muslim child in an apartment complex pool.

On the one-year anniversary of the shooting that killed eight people and injured seven others, a coalition of advocacy organizations released a joint statement calling on state leaders to label the shooting as a hate crime.

Anthony Paz Torres pleaded guilty to five federal hate crimes for killing one person and attempting to kill four others at a tire shop on Buckner Boulevard in 2015, the U.S. Attorney's Office said Wednesday.

Bradley Stanford allegedly yelled a homophobic slur at Akira Ross before fatally shooting her at a gas station June 2.

"Texas is becoming a dangerous place for Latinos because state and local authorities refuse to take our safety seriously," said San Antonio Congressman Joaquin Castro.

Law enforcement officials have pointed out the Allen outlet mall shooter had neo-Nazi beliefs, but they stopped short of assigning racism as a motive. Activists say that shows a pattern of misunderstanding bias.

When Texas civil rights hero Frank J. Robinson died in 1976 there was a public outcry for an independent investigation. That never happened, and since then there have been doubts about the official ruling of suicide. In the final part of his series Texas Public Radio’s David Martin Davies reports on calls for a new investigation.

Extremism experts and historians sound alarms as politicians, media personalities and celebrities amplify antisemitic conspiracies that have historically led to the killing of Jews.

Plano mayor John Muns said the video of a woman hurling racist slurs at a group of South Asian women outside a Plano restaurant was "appalling."

The arrest was connected to a shooting that wounded three women in a hair salon in the city's Koreatown. The suspect's girlfriend said he had delusions that Asian Americans were trying to harm him.

On Wednesday, a group of Dallas lawyers and advocates gathered at a Korean restaurant in the Asian Trade District to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, when a man targeted women of Asian descent, killing eight people.