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Al Woods and the Tigers hope to avenge last year's 31-13 loss to Ole Miss in Baton Rouge.

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Al Woods and the Tigers hope to avenge last year's 31-13 loss to Ole Miss in Baton Rouge.

Looking for revenge

By their once-a-week nature, college football games all have a ton of meaning attached, even for teams whose seasons have taken detours from ascribed goals. Read more →

Nucor defers plant decision

Nucor Corp., the North Carolina steelmaker once expected to announce a major steel mill investment in 2008, likely won’t make a decision to build in Louisiana or Brazil until 2010, a state official said. Read more →

Police & Fire News Feed

Man booked in burglaries

Detectives arrested a Hammond man in connection with a series of burglaries, the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office reported Friday. Read more →

Politics & Elections Feed

State launches contracts Web site

How billions of state dollars are spent on current contracts can now be found online. The new information on state government services contracts is an addition to LaTrac, the Louisiana Transparency and Accountability Portal, that launched in November 2008. Read more →

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Nucor defers plant decision

Nucor Corp., the North Carolina steelmaker once expected to announce a major steel mill investment in 2008, likely won’t make a decision to build in Louisiana or Brazil until 2010, a state official said. Read more →

Education Feed

Digital school gives an edge

LAFAYETTE — Space is still available in Lafayette Parish’s new eCampus program. The digital school began last week with 15 students, and as of Friday four more had applied, said Jarrett Coutee, the Lafayette Parish eCampus director. The goal is to enroll 75 to 100 students. Read more →

Entertainment Feed

UFC 106: Ortiz vs. Griffin 2

Forrest Griffin

The highly anticipated Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) bout between Heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin is no more. Due to a bacterial infection in his intestinal tract, Lesnar is unable to fight. In fact, it is still in question whether he will be able to fight again. Read more →

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'Precious' is great American cinema

In this film publicity image released by Lionsgate films, Gabourey Sidibe is shown in a scene from Precious.

As Hollywood closed specialty divisions that aimed for quality and personal stories, as studios focus more and more on superhero sagas and action blockbusters, cinema fans have rightly wondered, who's left to make great American movies? Read more →

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People and Features Feed

Capturing history

A streetcar passes St. Joseph Church in this photo from 1920. The church was restored in the 1960s shortly after it was designated the cathedral for the Diocese of Baton Rouge.

From the first sighting in 1699 of the “red pole” on the banks of the Mississippi River at the present site of Baton Rouge, Catholicism has played an important part in the history of the city. Read more →