January 28

On this date in 1998 in Orient, Ohio, white supremacist Cheyne Kehoe, 21, began serving his eight-year prison sentence for Felony Assault, Attempted Murder, and Carrying a Concealed Weapon. Kehoe, who is also an anti-government extremist, was convicted for his role involving a shootout with Ohio law enforcement officers in February 1997. Kehoe completed his prison term on June 12, 2008.

On this date in 2009 in a Long Island (Suffolk County) court, seven Patchogue-Medford High School students previously charged with allegedly targeting and killing a Latino man on November 8, 2008, were indicted on 24 counts of various hate crimes—all targeting Latinos and dating as far back as December, 2007—including assault, gang assault, harassment, robbery and attempted robbery. These grand jury indictments arose after the U.S. Justice Department investigated hate crime allegations on Long Island by Latino residents there following the brutal stabbing murder of Marcelo Lucero, 37, of Patchogue. Each of the teenagers—whose identities are listed at our November 8 calendar date—could get four-and-a-half years in prison for these charges, if convicted as charged. On February 2, 2009, in a Riverhead, New York courtroom, Jeffrey Conroy, 17, of Medford, New York—the man accused of stabbing Mr. Lucero to death in November, 2008—pleaded not guilty to the newly filed charges. The other defendants also pleaded not guilty. On February 11, 2010, State Supreme Court Justice Robert Doyle ruled Conroy's comment to police only minutes after the attack that "I stabbed him" will be permitted at Conroy's trial.

On this date in 2010 in Boca Raton, Florida, Ruby Williams, 65, an African-American grandmother, was pushed to the ground near a park bathroom at the Red Reef Park on North Ocean Boulevard by two men—one white and one Hispanic and both about 20 years of age—who hurled racial slurs at her as they punched her repeatedly before dragging her to a secluded spot where she passed out. Ms. Williams, who said the perpetrators also told her during the attack that African-Americans were not welcome at the park, required six stitches to her lip. If you have information about this crime, please call the police at 1-800-458-Tips.