Livingston Parish Sheriff Jason Ard spoke publicly for the first time since the arrest of his former SWAT commander Dennis Perkins. Perkins and his wife are in jail on child sex crime charges. A Baton Rouge TV station has uncovered a 2013 incident involving alleging improper behavior by Perkins against a Baton Rouge officer’s step-child. Ard says he blames the BR cop for not filing an official complaint.
Cut 3 (10) “investigation.”
Ard says the “verbal investigation” unveiled no sexual misconduct and determined Perkins was just “tickling” the child.

Governor Edwards and Eddie Rispone will share the stage tonight for what it is expected to be the only gubernatorial run-off debate. Louisiana Public Broadcasting will televise it at 7 PM.

LSU will likely be the number one team in the Associated Press Top 25 poll when they visit second ranked Alabama on November ninth. But Caoch Ed Orgeron says they are not paying attention to the current rankings…
cut 9 (11) “…towards that”
Orgeron says safety Grant Delpit will be available for the Alabama game, despite the ankle injury.

A new report finds suicide rates for 12 to 19 year-olds are up 87-percent over the last decade. Rhea Farberman, a researcher at Trust for America’s Health, says youth-serving organizations and sectors should work together to embrace strategies that reduce risk factors in teens’ lives…
cut 12 (10) “…skills and resilience”