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@RealGlenMacnow found them all at la viola, some of them checked in on FB, compared FB pics — FanSince09 (@FanSince09) September 17, 2014 This is how Twitter is supposed to work for cops. I will take a couple thousand Twitter detectives over any one real detective any day. — Joseph Murray (@PPDJoeMurray) September 17, 2014 Let’s be clear here. No …

Philadelphia police have released surveillance video of the mob suspected in the brutal gay-bashing and robbery of two men, one of whom suffered broken facial bones and has had his jaw wired shut. The police say that 15 people are wanted for questioning in the attack. The couple, who wanted to remain anonymous, say the ordeal began Thursday around 10:45 …

Via NBC Philadelphia: A violent attack on two gay men in Center City Thursday night left one of those men in the hospital with multiple fractures, according to sources. Sources tell NBC10 the 27-year-old and 28-year-old victims were walking from a restaurant in the area of 16th and Chancellor around 10:45 p.m. Thursday. Suddenly they were approached by a visibly …

Via Newsweek: South African Olympic and Paralympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius has been found “not guilty” of murdering long-time girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in the early hours of 14 February 2013. The court will resume shortly when Judge Thokozile Masipa will deliver her verdict on the charge of culpable homicide, or manslaughter, and other firearms offences. Masipa accepted the defence’s timeline of …

California should soon become the first state to ban the so-called “gay panic” defense in violent crimes against LGBT citizens. A bill awaiting Brown’s approval would prohibit the use of the defense — the argument that a violent act was triggered by the revelation of a victim’s actual or perceived gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation — in …

Will Hayden (above center), star of the Discovery Channel’s Sons Of Guns reality show, has been arrested for repeatedly raping his 11 year-old daughter. The allegations have prompted the cancellation of his Discovery Channel series. “Given the serious and horrific nature of the charges against Will Hayden, we have decided to halt further production of ‘Sons of Guns’ and cancel …

The Seattle man who confessed to the June hook-up murders of two gay men now says he killed them and two others as revenge against the United States for military actions taken in the Middle East. Ali Muhammad Brown, who had already been charged in the targeted killing of a gay couple in Seattle and the point-blank shooting of a …

Castro Biscuit reports: The San Francisco Police Department has released a video depicting a “person of interest” in the Feather Lynn/Bryan Higgins homicide case we reported on last week. The video below shows a man in a dark gray hoodie which gets taken off at one point to reveal a red hoodie. Many news outlets last week had conflicting reports …

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A registered sex offender who ran in this year’s California GOP gubernatorial primary as a reformed “Christian soldier” has been arrested for shooting a man and killing a horse. Tye “Glenn” Champ, 48, was arrested without incident a day after Fresno County Sheriff’s officials say he opened fire during a dispute with his neighbor in Prather, a community about 30 …

In May 2013, Elliot Morales (left) chased Mark Carson, 32, out of a West Village restaurant and shot him point-blank in the head after calling him a “faggot.” Last week New York City prosecutors declared that they will never agree to a lesser sentence in return for a guilty plea. “I can assure you there is not now or will …

On Friday night a 29 year-old woman was slashed in the face after confronting a man who was screaming anti-gay slurs at a group of strangers who were standing on a street corner on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The woman was hanging out with a group of people at the corner of Essex and Delancey streets at about 10:40 p.m. …

From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: The Seattle man who set fire to a popular Capitol Hill club during a New Year’s celebration was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison – twice as long as the term requested by prosecutors. Facing federal charges in the dangerous but non-injurious blaze, Musab Masmari admitted to starting a fire inside Neighbours Nightclub during the …

The man who attempted to murder over 700 LGBT people by setting fire to a packed Seattle nightclub on New Year’s Eve is due to be sentenced today. Under the plea agreement Musab Masmari will serve the mandatory minimum of five years in prison, although the judge in the case could sentence the 31-year-old up to the maximum 20 years …

Three weeks ago NYC Eagle bartender Paul Martone was left in critical condition after being punched during a Hell’s Kitchen street altercation involving his dog. Last week his attacker, Corey Pohan (left), 32, pleaded guilty in a New Jersey court to criminal trespassing after climbing atop the Lincoln Tunnel toll plaza in an attempt to flee NYPD detectives who were …

Via Orlando’s WKMG-TV: Orange County deputies arrested on Friday the owner of a towing company who they say was illegally towing vehicles during the annual Gay Days celebration and appeared to target its attendees. The owner of ASAP Towing, Jason Combs, 44, has been charged with grand theft, failure to release vehicle, failing to maintain records, failure to post towing …

So this happened in Florida: Days after two naked college-age men and a third underwear-clad accomplice broke into her restaurant to steal burgers, Doc’s Beach House waitress Nancy Sansevieri is still laughing. Why would three naked “knuckleheads” break into a Bonita Beach eatery and only steal food as two security cameras captured their every move? “Dumb, dumber and dumbest,” Sansevieri …

Two weeks ago New York City Eagle bartender Paul Martone was left in critical condition after a Hell’s Kitchen street altercation involving his dog. Martone’s attacker, Corey Pohan, 32, fled to his mother’s home in suburban New Jersey where he remains in jail pending a hearing on local disorderly conduct charges for climbing onto the top of the Lincoln Tunnel …

On Tuesday night. New York City Eagle bartender Paul Martone, 49, was left in critical condition after hitting his head on a Hell’s Kitchen street following a punch by a stranger with whom he had argued about his dog. Martone’s condition was upgraded to stable last night and today the NYPD reports that the attacker has been arrested. Corey Pohan, …

A bartender at the New York City Eagle is in critical condition after hitting his head on a Hell’s Kitchen street following a punch from an attacker yesterday. His assailant remains at large. A dog owner was in critical condition with a fractured skull after a man knocked him to the ground with one punch during an argument over his …