Mosque vandalism in Burlington leads to call for hate-crime probe

BURLINGTON – Two local teenagers face charges in connection with damage to a mosque in an early Sunday incident that an Islamic group decried as an example of a rising tide of hate crimes targeting Muslims and their places of worship. Responding to a 1:45 a.m. call Sunday, police saw that the exterior of the Islamic Center of Burlington had "USA" spray painted on it in multiple places and the remains of several smashed eggs that apparently were thrown at the building, according to a statement f

BURLINGTON – Two local teenagers face charges in connection with damage to a mosque in an early Sunday incident that an Islamic group decried as an example of a rising tide of hate crimes targeting Muslims and their places of worship. Responding to a 1:45 a.m. call Sunday, police saw that the exterior of the Islamic Center of Burlington had "USA" spray painted on it in multiple places and the remains of several smashed eggs that apparently were thrown at the building, according to a statement f…