The Senate Judiciary Committee heard mostly supportive testimony Monday of a measure that would dole out harsher sentences in crimes motivated by hatred, bias or prejudice.

A man whose iPhone was stolen from his car used GPS to track it down. Tiernan Paine left a $400 phone in his unlocked car while at Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Oak Creek on Thursday night.

The day after a fundamentalist group will protest a play in Brookfield about the murder of a gay man, First Congregational Church of Danbury will hold a "Radically Inclusive Celebration" for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth, young adults and those who support them.

Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system.

Eight years after opening with great fanfare, San Francisco's city-subsidized, $12.3 million Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center is on the verge of foreclosure - and is asking the cash-strapped city for a $1 million line of credit to help bail it out.

Looking in the mirror used to make Yiliam Gonzalez sick to her stomach. "I would see myself, and my body didn't match who I was," said the 28-year-old wedding pianist, who went by William before receiving a sex change under Cuba's universal health care system.