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Donors threaten to cut off funds at Rutgers after popular AD resigns in basketball scandal
• NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- The burgeoning basketball scandal has cost Rutgers more than a popular, young athletic director, an interim general counsel, two coaches and a lot of embarrassment.
• The state university of New Jersey is in danger of losing some of its biggest donors in tough economic times.
• The school's woes only mounted on a day that started with AD Tim Pernetti resigning over his failure to fire coach Mike Rice in December after reviewing video of the coach hitting, kicking and taunting players with anti-gay slurs at practice.
• First-year Rutgers President Robert Barchi came under intense questioning at a news conference Friday over what he knew about the video months ago, but he got a nod of support from New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and the school's board of governors.
• Eric Murdock, the former NBA player and Rice's director of basketball development, filed a whistleblower lawsuit against the university for unspecified damages for wrongful termination.
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White supremacist gang member's arrest stems from probe into killing of Colorado prisons chief
• DENVER (AP) -- A white supremacist prison gang member was arrested and another was still being sought for questioning Friday in the death of Colorado's prisons chief as authorities investigated whether the gang had any ties to the killing.
• James Lohr, who has the words "Hard" and "Luck" tattooed where his eyebrows would be, was taken into custody early Friday in Colorado Springs. He was wanted for questioning in the slaying of Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements.
• Authorities believe Lohr was in contact with gang associate Evan Ebel days before the killings of Clements and pizza delivery man Nate Leon. Police said they believe Ebel killed Leon and Clements less than a week before he died in a Texas shootout, but the motive is unclear.
• Clements was shot to death March 19 in Monument, just north of Colorado Springs. Leon was killed two days earlier. His body was found in the Denver suburb of Golden.
• Colorado Springs police arrested Lohr after a short foot chase that started when (Continued on page 29)
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