Here’s what’s going on around the state, nation and world this Monday afternoon…

The Rematch is finally here. Tonight at 7:30, Alabama will once again square off against LSU, but this time it’s for all the marbles. The BCS Championship football game takes place tonight at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, and there’s a good chance many of you are reading this from there. If so, take it easy on Bourbon Street and get back home safely.

There’s an even bigger contest tomorrow. As big as a national football championship is, the New Hampshire Primary is even bigger. The first-in-the-nation presidential primary starts just after midnight in the tiny hamlet of Dixville Notch, near the Canadian border, where the first votes are traditionally cast. Mitt Romney, the former governor of neighboring Massachusetts, is the clear Republican front-runner; in fact, most of his rivals have largely conceded the primary to Romoney and have moved on to next week’s event in South Carolina, home to a more conservative electorate than relatively-moderate New Hampshire. (By the way, President Obama is opposed in the Democratic primary, but not by anyone with a chance.)

Speaking of Obama and primaries, a lawsuit filed to keep the president off the Alabama Democrtaic primary ballot was dismissed quickly in a Birmingham circuit court. Judge Helen Shores Lee ruled against Al Hendershot, who filed the suit saying he had evidence that Obama’s birth certificate was forged, and that he did not qualify to run because he was not a natural-born U.S. citizen. Lee said the courts had no business telling political parties who could run in their primaries. The issue has dogged Obama since before his election, coming a head when Donald Trump pressed the president to release his official birth certificate. Obama did, producing a long-form document from a Honolulu, Hawaii hospital.

Historic mill in peril. The Talladega Daily Home reports that the state’s oldest operating grist mill is in danger of falling into the creek by which it was built. The Kymulga Grist Mill in Childersburg was built in 1859, but floods and time have caused damage to the mill. The local historical commission is having a Birmingham engineering company evaluate the mill’s condiiton, with an eye toward repairs that would be financed by grants and donaitons.

Prep sports tonight: None. Local coaches knew the date of the BCS Championship as well as anyone else, and wisely didn’t schedule anything for tonight. There’s a full slate of basketball games Tuesday night, though, highlighted by Corner at Hayden. Gardendale hosts Buckhorn in wrestling.

Weather: More scattered rain tonight, lows near 51. Tuesday could see some severe storms, mainly at night, with damaging straight-line winds and localized flooding, with a high around 66. More rain on Wednesday, then clearing and colder on Thursday and Friday.