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While some states crack down on illegal immigration, Kate Archer Kent reports on how Nacogdoches rolled out the welcome mat for hundreds of foreigners, as heard on All Things Considered.

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Wiley College will host University of Southern California in an exhibition debate, 77 years after the two teams sparred in a segregated America with Wiley pulling out a victory. 

The debate is Jan. 27, at 7 p.m., at Wiley's Julius S. Scott Sr. Chapel.

Commentator Gary Joiner mixes in some chemistry this week with his piece on the deadly consequences of arsenic through history.

The journal Criminal Justice Studies will publish research by LSU Shreveport criminal justice professor W. Chris Hale on domestic hate groups and their Web-based activity.

CMT's "My Big Redneck Vacation" embraces a country-comes-to-town storyline when a Shreveport area family vacations among highfalutin folk in the Hamptons.