All three major candidates in Louisiana’s US Senate race will participate in a televised debate tonight. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley thinks Congressman Bill Cassidy is the front runner, at this point, and should play it safe tonight…

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Stockley expects Senator Mary Landrieu and Rob Maness to be aggressive during the debate. It will be televised on LPB stations statewide.

A Baton Rouge judge grants a temporary restraining order that keeps the ashes from the incinerated belongings of a Dallas Ebola victim from being disposed in a Calcasieu Parish landfill. Louisiana House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, who is from Lake Charles, says we should understand all the risks before transporting this material to a Louisiana landfill….

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The company that owns the landfill says it will not take take the Ebola waste, until state officials determined it would not pose a health threat.

Governor Bobby Jindal has issued a state of emergency as a result of the severe weather that moved the through the state on Monday. Kevin Davis, director of the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, says Ouachita Parish appears to be one of the hardest hit areas…

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At one time, nearly 40-thousand people were without power in north Louisiana.

We’re three weeks away from Election Day and Secretary of State Tom Schedler is encouraging Louisiana voters to download their GeauxVote mobile phone app. The app, which is available for iPhone and Android phones, provides all kinds of election information, even up-to-the-minute election results…

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He says Louisiana is a front runner in the nation for this technology.