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A mistrial may be declared in the trial of Brandon McInerney after jurors could not agree on how to convict him for shooting to death openly gay classmate Larry King. [UPDATE: The judge has now declared a mistrial.] Defense attorney Scott Wippert and co-counsel Robyn Bramson didn’t dispute that McInerney killed King. But they argued he was pushed to an …

A 19 year-old college student was beaten death in Michele Bachmann’s hometown of Waterloo, Iowa this weekend. Witnesses say Marcellus Richard Andrew’s attackers shouted anti-gay slurs while kicking him in the head. Officers and paramedics said they found Andrews unconscious with severe head injuries in the early morning hours Friday. Andrews, who was slated to start studying interior design at …

The half-brother of teenage murderer Brandon McInerney claimed in court yesterday that Brandon had been molested by a male relative. And that mitigates his murder of gay teen Lawrence King somehow. James Bing testified that McInerney’s father cried hysterically as he revealed the molestation that occurred when Brandon was about 9 years old. The older McInerney was upset because the …

More details have emerged about the horrific killings that I reported on several weeks ago.

Norwegian authorities are holding a man described as a “Christian fundamentalist” in connection with yesterday’s terrorist attack on a youth camp. At least 91 people were killed. The police said they did not know if the man, identified by the Norwegian media as Anders Behring Breivik, was part of a larger conspiracy. He is being questioned under the country’s terrorism …

Prosecutors in the trial of Brandon McInerney plan to ask the judge to have the jury disregard the sexual orientation of his murder victim, openly gay teen Lawrence King. Attorneys for Brandon McInerney argue that their client, who was 14 when he gunned down Larry King in an Oxnard junior high school computer lab, was so humiliated by King’s flirtation …

A Seattle man on trial for the 2009 rape and fatal stabbing of a lesbian couple told the court that God had instructed him to commit the crime. “I was there and I was told by my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to attack my enemies, and I did so,” Isaiah Kalebu said under questioning by one …

The head of a North Carolina religious cult is under arrest for murdering a four year-old boy for his “gay behavior.” The man is also charged with killing a woman for leaving his group marriage. Prosecutors laid out evidence they believe justifies the death penalty against Peter Lucas Moses, 27, who faces two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths …

Three years after then-8th grader Brandon McInerney murdered openly gay student Larry King in front of horrified classmates, a prosecutor in McInerney’s just-launched trial says the killing was premeditated and based on the shooter’s belief that homosexuality is an abomination. White supremacist materials were found in McInerney’s home after the murder. King was bullied by McInerney and other boys at …

The person running the Entenmann’s Twitter account thought he’d take advantage of the #NotGuilty hashtag spawned by the Casey Anthony verdict. The tweet has since been deleted. In other news, that boring-ass Casey Anthony story is finally over.

A Texas man has been charged with two counts of murder after shooting to death the woman dating his daughter and her mother. The Austin Statesman reports: Jose Alfonso Aviles, 45, has been charged with capital murder and was arrested early this morning in Bexar County by the Lone Star Fugitive Task Force, said Lt. Gena Curtis. Aviles lives in …

Once again, we see the brutal fallout of a God-ordained one man/one woman marriage. The woman apparently had just had a fight with her husband, Jean Pierre, and loaded into her four children into the vehicle, driving a short distance into the river, police said Wednesday. Lashandra Armstrong, 25, and three children, ages 5, 2 and 11 months, died, submerged …

Reeling from the murders of numerous transgender people, Brazilian activists have launched a petition campaign to the nation’s president. President Dilma Rousseff, You have said that human rights are at the “center of your politics.” In the face of a dramatic rise in attacks and murders of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Brazilians, we need your immediate support for …

A Pennsylvania man is under arrest after confessing to beating an elderly man to death with a stone, just like the Bible instructs should be done with homosexuals. A 28-year-old Upper Darby man has been charged with murder after telling police that he stoned a 70-year-old man to death when the man made homosexual advances toward him, authorities say. John …

Four New York City teenagers have been charged with manslaughter after they crashed a party in Queens and stomped 18 year-old Anthony Colloa to death while shouting anti-gay epithets. One of Colloa’s attackers also beat him with a metal pipe. It’s not clear why Collao was targeted. Friends said he had a girlfriend and was not gay – though the …

Ronald Jones, 55, beat and strangled his friend Robert Jenkins to death on Saturday as the pair drank in Jenkins’ Staten Island home. Yesterday Jones (left) told investigators that he killed Jenkins in a “rage” after an unwanted sexual advance. Some of the victim’s enraged relatives were so overcome by emotion after spotting the suspect in court, they had to …

Nineteen year old Michael Anderson (left) has confessed to the murder of Stephen Starr, 35, in Hickory, North Carolina, telling a police dispatcher that it was an overdose of Mucinex combined with Starr’s unwanted advances that caused him to shoot and hack Starr to death. Starr was found in bed in what law enforcement has described as one of the …

Some hefty justice has been doled out to the murderer of transwoman Ashely Santiago, whose brutally stabbed body was found in her Puerto Rico home last April. Michael Lavers reports at Edge News: A Puerto Rican man who confessed to murdering a transgender woman in her Corozal home received a 111-year prison sentence on Monday, Feb. 7. Primera Hora reported …

“Will the donor countries that Uganda relies on so heavily say publicly, ‘We are paying attention to this murder. Do not disappear David Kato’s murder or we will make you a pariah for it’? Given American citizens’ vile involvement in this, maybe the United States can take the lead.”