Louisiana will experience warm and humid weather until a strong cold front arrives late Saturday night and move through the state on Sunday. Morning lows will be in the 30s Monday morning and it will be even colder Tuesday morning. Chanelle Stigger, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service out of Lake Charles, says if you think weather is unusual for Louisiana, especially for this time of year, you’re absolutely right…

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More seasonable temperatures return on Wednesday.

The LSU marching band’s 66-year-old tuba player, Kent Broussard was a guest on the Kelly Clarkson Show this week. Broussard told Kelly that he had to submit a YouTube video just to be invited to preseason camp…

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Broussard says all 12 freshman Sousaphone players, including himself, made the team. He’s a retired accountant who is a full-time non-traditional student at LSU carrying 12 credit hours.

The Louisiana Renaissance Festival continues this weekend in Hammond; and this weekend, fairgoers are in for a very special – and death-defying – performance from Cy the Sword Swallower. Cyrus Penn says he got the inspiration to take up sword swallowing when he needed something to do with his life upon graduating from college with a theater arts degree.

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Penn says every swallow of the sword has to be done with the utmost of precision – one false move could be the difference between life and death.

LSU is a 10.5 point underdog to Alabama on Saturday night. Tiger Rag Executive Editor Todd Horne has this prediction…

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Kick off is at 6:30.