GROVE CITY, Ohio -- A Grove City couple says they were the target of a hate crime overnight after a homophobic slur was spray-painted on their home.

David Robins and his partner, Michael, have lived at their home on Castleton Street in Grove City for nine years.

Wednesday morning, Robins said, they awoke to find someone had spray-painted homophobic slurs on their garage door, home and fence.

RENO, Texas -- Two men have been arrested in connection with the brutal assault, stabbing and burning of a gay man early Sunday in Reno, Texas — which the victim and his friends say was a hate crime.

Reno Police Chief Jeff W. Sugg announced in a two-sentence statement this morning that Daniel Martin, 33, and James “Tray” Mitchell Laster III, 31, have been arrested in the beating of 26-year-old Burke Burnett.

LONG BEACH, Calif. -- Long Beach police are investigating a brutal attack Halloween night on two middle-aged gay men as a hate crime, officials said.

Two Long Beach men, a 19-year-old and 27-year-old, have been arrested and booked for assault with a deadly weapon in the attack, which violent crimes detectives are investigating as a hate crime, said Long Beach Police Department spokeswoman Nancy Pratt.

LEICESTER, England -- A man and his friend, seated in the beer garden at the Rainbow and Dove pub in Leicester city center, were doused with a flammable liquid that ignited.

Both men were rushed to the hospital suffering what authorities called "life-changing burns" that will require a number of surgeries and skin grafts.

One of the men suffered serious burns to the face and body, and was heavily sedated and hooked up to a ventilator, according to various reports in the British media. The other man has burns on a hand and forearm.