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WASHINGTON (AP) - Sen. Judd Gregg, a conservative who has mixed distaste for deficits with support for federal aid for his home state of New Hampshire, has decided to become chairman of the Senate Budget Committee next year, a congressional aide said Friday. Gregg, a Republican, would take over the panel when the new Congress convenes in January. Gregg was re-elected easily to a third six-year Senate term on Tuesday. The current Budget panel chairman, Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., is retiring from the Senate. Gregg has the most seniority among Republicans on the panel who are interested in the job....

Central Connecticut State University President Retires Amid Criticism Over Plagiarism Mar 19, 2004 The Associated Press NEW BRITAIN, Conn. (AP) - The president of Central Connecticut State University retired Friday amid criticism that he plagiarized an opinion piece published in The Hartford Courant. Richard Judd, 66, who fainted in his office Wednesday afternoon and was hospitalized overnight, cited health concerns for his decision to retire. "I am doing so after careful consideration of my personal responsibilities and of my family and in regard to my health," he wrote in a letter to the chairman of the school's Board of Trustees....

The University of Colorado's secret report naming suspected communists among the Boulder faculty during the Red Scare of the 1950s was made public Friday, nearly 50 years after officials locked it away in a bank vault. The Board of Regents voted 8-1 to release the 126-page report and a 10-page supplement, abandoning the university's claim that unsealing the document "would do substantial injury to the public interest." [ FULL STORY ] A half-century later, professor hears accusers Daily Camera It took 51 years for Morris Judd to hear the flimsy accusations that wrecked his career. That's a welcome ray of...