Though yesterday's news was that 40-year-old confessed Frappucino firebomber Ray Lazier Lengend threw Starbucks-themed Molotov cocktails to avenge petty slights, the New York Daily News reports that prosecutors now say Lengend wanted to hit "as many Muslims and Arabs as possible."

The three men suspected of beating up 26-year-old gay man Burke Burnett and throwing him onto a fire have been charged with aggravated assault with hate crime enhancements.

Teonna Brown, the 19-year-old woman filmed beating transgender woman Chrissy Polis at a Baltimore-area McDonald's, was sentenced to five years in jail on hate-crime charges. "I'm sorry. My mother did not raise me like this," Brown said in court.

Hundreds of pages of documents relating to the suicide of Rutgers student Tyler Clementi were released today, and, well, if you thought the story of a gay college freshman jumping off the George Washington bridge after his roommate set up a spy cam in their dorm room couldn't get any more unbelievably sad and tragic... think again.

Fifteen year-old Larry King (no relation to the CNN interviewer) was shot twice in the back of the head by his classmate Brandon McInerney while sitting in school in Oxnard, California. Now that McInerney is on trial, the boy's legal team and the school administration are using the tried and true "he was asking for it" defense. This is totally disgusting.

June 26, James C. Anderson, a 46 year-old auto worker and a black man, was standing in a Jackson, Mississippi motel parking lot. Then, police say, a car full of teenagers pulled up. They beat Anderson. Then ran him over.

Among the many highlights of former Dior designer John Galliano's trial today in Paris—the recounting of his wild anti-Semitic night, his apology and admission that he was drinking heavily and taking Valium "like candy," his hot lawyer—the most memorable was his outfit. Just look at it!

On Monday in Portland, ME the walls of the largest mosque in town were spray-painted with "Osama today, Islam tomorow [sic]" and other phrases, sometime following morning prayers on the day after American forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan.

A grand jury handed down a 15-count indictment today for Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student accused of livestreaming 18-year-old roommate Tyler Clementi's gay liaisons on the internet. The event preceded Clementi's suicide.

There will be no hate crime charges in last week's alleged "camel jockey" subway attack.

An imam from Queens was riding the subway this week when he was allegedly attacked by racist idiots hurling anti-Muslim slurs. Just another day on the downtown A train, amirite? New York is full of hate crimes.

Getting punched in the jaw now automatically constitutes a "bias crime." (In Williamsburg.)

A tenth suspect's been arrested in the horrific Bronx gay-bashing case. Carl Paladino is still at large.

The ninth suspect in the awful Bronx torture case, Ruddy Vargas-Perez, is in police custody.

Four high school students in Staten Island have been arrested and charged with assault and aggravated harassment as hate crimes for their roles in the continuing, yearlong abuse of a Muslim classmate. What's going on with New York City?

Police have arrested seven Bronx men ranging in age from 16 to 23 on charges that they lured three gay men to an apartment and beat and tortured them last weekend.

Two men have been arrested after assaulting a man in the Stonewall Inn, the iconic Manhattan gay bar and "ground zero" of the gay-rights movement. "What kind of bar is this?" one of them asked, before hitting the victim.

As the uproar surrounding the suicide of 18-year-old Rutgers student Tyler Clementi escalates, prosecutors are considering whether they can charge the students who broadcast video of Tyler making out with a man before his death with a hate crime.

A Washington man was charged with a hate crime today for assaulting a 7-11 clerk wearing a turban last week. His words to the convenience store employee? "You're not even American, you're Al-Qaeda. Go back to your country."

Ahmed Sharif, the New York City cab driver stabbed after allegedly being asked if he was Muslim, described the violent attack to local TV news reporters, saying he pleaded with his attacker not to kill him.