Campus Noose Sparks Hate Crime Probe

A noose was left hanging from a tree limb near a black cultural studies center on an American college campus. That's the scenario that University of Maryland police, with help from the FBI, are investigating as a possible hate crime that may be tied to a similar racial controversy playing out in Louisiana. Students and faculty at the university's Nyumburu Cultural Center reported the noose to police Friday afternoon, Paul Dillon, a spokesman for the University of Maryland Police Department,...Full Story