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LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson intercepts a pass intended for Alabama’s Marquis Maze in last year's game, won by the Crimson Tide.

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LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson intercepts a pass intended for Alabama’s Marquis Maze in last year's game, won by the Crimson Tide in overtime, 27-21

LSU-Alabama ... Enough said

There’s the former coach angle, but thankfully that seems to have died down after a few years. Read more →

Teachers say jobs promised

A second attorney for Filipino teachers recruited to work in East Baton Rouge Parish has complained that some did not receive promised jobs and that the school district provided federal labor officials false reports about their situations. Read more →

Police & Fire News Feed

Paralyzed man killed in traffic crash

Bruce Chaisson, 33, 6924 Braswell Lane, Ethel, died at Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center after the 2001 Dodge Caravan he was riding in slammed into the back of a 2004 Honda Civic, said Sgt. Don Kelly, a Baton Rouge police spokesman. Read more →

Politics & Elections Feed

Campaign to push tax package raises $43,500

A political action committee formed to promote a $901 million tax package on the Nov. 14 ballot raised $43,500 in campaign contributions in the past few days, according to campaign finance disclosure reports. Read more →

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Effects firm moves to LITE

A California-based digital effects company with a résumé that includes the movies “300,” “The Last Samurai,” and “Spiderman” is opening shop in Lafayette. Read more →

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SU board meets to discuss lawsuits

Members of the Southern University Board of Supervisors and their lawyers prepared Friday for their ongoing legal battle with former Southern President Ralph Slaughter. Read more →

Entertainment Feed

Season's screenings

Frog Naveen, left, and Princess Tiana in The Princess and the Frog.

Christmas Day is seven weeks away, but the 2009 holiday movie season starts today with the opening of the Jim Carrey-starring Disney’s A Christmas Carol. The holiday season being a busy time for children at the movies, animated films following A Christmas Carol to theaters include another film adaptation of a Roald Dahl story, Fantastic Mr. Fox; Planet 51; the Alvin and the Chipmunks “squeakquel”; and Disney’s The Princess and the Frog. Read more →

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‘A Christmas Carol’ visually spectacular

In this film publicity image released by Disney, Ebenezer Scrooge, voiced by Jim Carrey, is shown in a scene from A Christmas Carol.

The tale of Ebenezer Scrooge has been retold countless times since Charles Dickens wrote it way back in 1843. Although there have been some original and stunning depictions of this story, very few have been as visually unique as that of director Robert Zemeckis’ new film “Disney’s A Christmas Carol.” Read more →

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A servant’s heart

The Rev. Donald Ruth, of St. John’s Baptist Church, is the recipient of the 2009 Servant Heart Award provided by Christian Tools for Affirmation Inc. in partnership with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. His Bible is open to Hebrews 11:1, the scr

The members of St. John Baptist Church have long known about their pastor’s servant’s heart. They’ve watched him serve as a teenager singing in the choir, as a young man teaching Sunday school and as their pastor for 13 years leading the church in service to the surrounding community. Read more →

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