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Two brothers charged with hate crimes after a cross was burned in the yard of an interracial couple in Nova Scotia will enter pleas on April 19.

Nathan Rehberg, 20, and Justin Rehberg, 19, of Avondale, appeared briefly in court today in Windsor.

The case was put over because the prosecutor was not available.

The pair face charges of public incitement of hatred, mischief, uttering threats and criminal harassment.

Police laid the charges after racial slurs were allegedly hurled at Michelle Lyon and Shayne Howe, who have five children, in an incident outside their home in Poplar Grove last month.

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