"Date","City","State","Type","Description"
"08/14/2012","Cape Girardeau","MO","Legal Developments","A gay woman was allegedly attacked at her home by a 17-year-old girl who yelled anti-gay slurs. Mercedes Ayers was charged with a hate crime and burglary."
"08/06/2012","Joplin","MO","Arson","A mosque was set afire."
"07/24/2012","Independence","MO","Legal Developments","Charles Wilhelm, 23, was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for conspiracy and violating the Fair Housing Act after he vandalized a biracial man's mobile home with racial slurs in June 2006 and then burned it two days later."
"07/24/2012","Cape Girardeau","MO","Assault","A Missouri teen pleaded guilty to a hate crime Monday months after she and her friends severely beat her gay neighbor. Mercedes Ayers was charged with third-degree assault motivated by discrimination for physically attacking 41-year-old Jeana Terry outside her Cape Girardeau home, the Southeast Missourian reported. The 17-year-old went to Terry's house on July 24th and grabbed her by the arm when she opened the door. Ayers, her two younger siblings, and several friends kicked and punched Terry while shouting homophobic slurs, leaving her with bruising, nausea and dizziness, according to the local paper. In the months following the attack, Ayers denied targeting Terry because of her sexual orientation. The teen said that she went to Terry’s home in response to an altercation she had with Terry and Terry's partner, Lisa Lange, the day of incident. Ayers, however, entered a guilty plea Monday in an agreement that required prosecutors to drop a more serious first-degree burglary charge which carried a maximum 10-year prison sentence. Via NY Daily News: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/teen-pleads-guilty-gay-bashing-article-1.1174339#ixzz28itnc6OC"
"07/09/2012","Springfield","MO","Vandalism","A racial slur and a threat were etched into a car owned by a black family whose house was burned a week earlier."
"06/18/2012","Kansas City","MO","Legal Developments","Teresa Witthar, 43, was sentenced to 63 months in prison for participating in writing racial slurs inside a biracial man's mobile home in 2006 in an attempt to make him move."
"04/24/2012","Blue Springs","MO","Leafletting","Fliers from the white supremacist group the Council of Conservative Citizens were left in driveways."
"04/08/2012","Kansas City","MO","Leafletting","Literature from the white supremacist group the Council of Conservative Citizens was distributed in several neighborhoods."
"03/15/2012","Kansas City","MO","Assault","A group of six black men allegedly used anti-white slurs and assaulted a white man on the street."
"03/09/2012","Richmond Heights","MO","Vandalism","A 24-year-old  man was arrested for spray-painting ""KKK"" graffiti on two homes and a fence over the weekend and causing other damage in a Richmond Heights neighborhood, police said Monday. The man also spray-painted the last name of President Barack Obama, police say. The man is in a hospital psychiatric ward for evaluation, according to police. (via http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/metro/man-arrested-for-spray-painting-kkk-and-obama-on-homes/article_f2b65f1f-2a4c-51a1-8902-b114bf818d18.html)"
"03/08/2012","Independence","MO","Legal Developments","Charles Wilhelm and David Martin, both 23, pled guilty to conspiracy to violate civil rights and to violation of the Fair Housing Act for writing racist epithets in a black man's mobile home and later setting it afire in 2006."
"03/05/2012","Kansas City","MO","Assault","Two black 16-year-olds allegedly doused a 13-year-old white boy with gasoline and then set him on fire, saying, `You get what you deserve, white boy.`"
"02/06/2012","Golden City","MO","Vandalism","A racial slur directed at Latinos was written on a church window."
"02/06/2012","Columbia","MO","Vandalism","Weslie K. McWilliams, 17, was arrested on suspicion of second- degree property damage and a hate crime for allegedly carving a racial slur into a black high school student's car."
"01/26/2012","Kansas City","MO","Legal Developments","Teresa Witthar, 43, pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges for writing racial slurs inside a biracial man's mobile home in 2006 and participating in the arson of his home."
"01/19/2012","St. Louis County","MO","Vandalism","The letters `KKK` were spray- painted on a highway sign honoring civil rights figure Rosa Parks."
"01/16/2012","Sedalia","MO","Leafletting","Ku Klux Klan fliers were left in neighborhoods on Martin Luther King Jr. Day."