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<p>BATON ROUGE - Randy Ewing is crisscrossing the state trying to persuade voters that his business and people skills, highlighted through a smooth North Louisiana drawl, can bring the state out of an economic slump.</p> <p>The 59-year-old gubernatorial candidate has put his plan in writing, using his state government experience that recognizes both the good and not-so-good policies and practices of prior governors and injects his ideas. Ewing served 12 years as a senator, including four as president of the Senate. He voluntarily gave up his Senate seat to fulfill a campaign promise that he would serve no more than three terms.</p>

<p>Jackson deputy fired, plans to run for sheriff Leesha Faulkner / Education Editor Posted on April 12, 2003 Jackson Parish Sheriff Richard Johnson has fired his chief deputy, Andy Brown.</p> <p>Brown, in a telephone interview Friday afternoon, said Johnson called him into his office Thursday and terminated him.</p>