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BOULDER - Ward Churchill's lawyer said a decision to put the professor's sabbatical on hold amounts to retribution and that he'll likely will file a federal lawsuit. Denver lawyer David Lane responded Friday to the University of Colorado's decision to delay approval of the sabbatical pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations of plagiarism and research misconduct against Churchill. A subcommittee of the university's Standing Committee on Research Misconduct is expected to report its findings soon to the full committee, which would decide whether to order a full investigation of Churchill. If it doesn't, his request for a sabbatical...

LONGMONT — University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill’s comparison of victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks to a Nazi villain has grown into a nationwide controversy, but in December he also used the infamous name of Adolf Eichmann to illustrate his opposition to the name of Chivington Drive here in town. The Longmont City Council voted Dec. 28 to change the name of the street, named for Col. John Chivington, a Civil War officer who led the Sand Creek Massacre. Two weeks before the vote, Churchill spoke to the council about Chivington and drew an analogy to Eichmann,...

CLAREMONT — A visiting Claremont McKenna College professor accused of making up a story about her car being spray-painted on campus with racist and anti-Semitic slurs pleaded innocent Tuesday to felony and misdemeanor charges. Kerri Dunn, 39, is free on her own recognizance pending a June 1 hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to require her to stand trial. Dunn was charged April 26 with two felony counts of insurance fraud and one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report. Dunn was scheduled to be in court tomorrow, but the hearing was done a day early at...