Tonight voters will finally see a US Senate debate featuring all three major candidates. ULM Political Science Professor Joshua Stockley expects Senator Mary Landrieu to be aggressive since polls show she’s trailing Congressman Bill Cassidy in a potential runoff…

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Retired Air Force Colonel Rob Maness will also participate. The debate will be televised statewide on LPB stations.

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 is cleaning up from a possible tornado or damaging straight line winds…

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Davis says some areas experienced 60 mile per hour winds when the storm system moved through.

A judge in Baton Rouge grants a temporary restraining order that keeps the ashes from the incineration of a Dallas Ebola victim’s belongings from being disposed in a Calcasieu Parish landfill. Attorney General Buddy Caldwell sought the order that was supported by state officials, including House Speaker Chuck Kleckley, who is a lawmaker from Lake Charles…

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