Three University of Illinois Springfield students were arrested early Saturday in connection with an incident that authorities are calling a hate crime.
The three men allegedly were at an off-campus party when they began calling two other men derogatory names aimed at homosexuals.
The story was published in an October 6, 2009 article in the State Journal-Register.
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