CALIF. TEACHER ACCUSED OF HATE CRIME

Teacher pleads not guilty to hate crime (JTA)
A teacher accused of beating a Jewish mother pleaded not guilty to hate-crime charges. Donna Jean Hubbard of Coarsegold, Calif., entered her plea Wednesday. Hubbard allegedly pulled the hair of a mother of one of her students, kicked her and said she wished she had burned in the Holocaust. Police closed the case after concluding they couldn’t establish who started the fight, but reopened it this year after discovering that Hubbard and her husband had hosted a white supremacist rally.