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BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

“On theSunny Side of theStreet” is the place to be,according to the well-trod jazz standard.

But as bright, increasingly warm sunshine streamed down on Thursday’s openingofthe 2025 FrenchQuarter Festival, the shady side of the street was the preferred option.

Visitors and locals awaitingthe festival’sannual opening day parade in the 600 block of St. Ann Street clusteredunderthe Place d’Armes Hotel’sbalcony AndassoonasJackson Square, home of the festival’sNewOrleans.com Stage, opened, space under oak tree canopies

was snatched up as prime real estate. Sunshine, and thus big crowds, are expected through the 42nd annual French Quarter Festival’sconclusiononSunday Thursday was asoft opening, with only ahalf-dozen stages up and running. The number bumps up to 14 on Friday,then 22 on Saturday and Sunday

Thecustomary kickoff parade made its waydown Bourbon Street on Thursday morning without the Southern Sounds,agroup of British tourists who first made apilgrimage to the festival in 1992, or the Zapp’spotato chip fire engine that has often concludedthe parade. Instead, ahandful of HarborPolice

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Measuredirects committees to reduce spending

BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

Landry, insurance chiefat odds over legislation

Tort reform battle boils as sessionapproaches

BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

Twopowerful state leadershavepromised they are committed to bringing downhighauto insurance rates shouldered by families and businesses alike, achallenge both have called “a crisis.” But Gov.JeffLandry and Insurance CommissionerTim Temple,both elected in 2023, this week during competing news conferencespresented starkly contrasting visions of policy solutions that will translate to lower rates.

Temple said the primary reason auto insurance rates are high in Louisiana is that when drivers get into accidents, “we’remorethantwicethe nationalaverage to file abodily injury claim and morethan twice to litigate.”

“That’swhat the majority of the legislation is going to focuson,”hesaid at a newsconference Thursday

Most of the bills Temple is backing during thelegislative session that begins Monday would put stricter limits on people’sability to sue over damages and howmuchmoney they can win in court —aneffort pushed as “tort reform” by business interests and insurance companies.

“Will trial lawyers whosue formassive,excessive payouts attack oursolutions and call them harmful to consumers? Probably so,” Temple said. “From energy to insurance, I’msick of how our state has historically sided with afew trial attorneys over the manycitizens and job creators in Louisiana.” The package of bills will create “transparency,certaintyand predictabilityin ourmarket,” Temple said. Thatinturn will attract insurancecompaniestoLouisiana and create competition and lowers

WASHINGTON —Once again with his back pressed to the wallbyhard-right Republicans, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton,was abletopull off Thursday another narrow victory to forward the legislative agenda of President Donald Trump. The House voted 216 to 214 to accept Senate changes to aHouse blueprint bill that instructs congressional committees to reduce spending in the federal budget. TwoRepublican members —Thomas Massie,ofKentucky, andVictoria Spartz, of Indiana —joinedall the Democrats in voting against the measure. If another Republican had joined theDemocratic opponents, themeasure would have failed.

As expected, Louisiana’sfourRepublican members voted in favor and two Democratic representatives voted against. Johnson had to pull the legislation from afloor vote Wednesday nightaf-

ter agroup of about adozen hard-right holdouts concerned aboutgrowing deficitsdemanded more spending cuts than the Senate’sversion included. Johnson, with the help of Trump, had spent threedayslobbying holdoutsand wasable to persuade enough toget the legislation passed Thursday morning. The budget debate has high stakes for Louisiana. For example, the steeper cuts some Republicans want could lead to reductionsinMedicaid, which could devastate the state budgetand leave many low-incomeresidentswithout healthinsurance. Louisianahas one of

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of the House MikeJohnson, R-Benton, talks to reporters Thursdayjust after House Republicans approved theirbudget framework that is central to President Donald Trump’sagenda.

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U.S. ambassador to Ukraine to step down

WASHINGTON The U.S. ambassador to Ukraine is stepping down from her post after nearly three years in Kyiv amid uncertainty over the Trump administration’s attempts to broker a peace deal to end the Russia-Ukraine war

The State Department said Thursday that Bridget Brink will be leaving her post in the near future, although it was not immediately clear exactly when she would depart. Brink assumed the job under former President Joe Biden’s administration and has been a staunch advocate for U.S military assistance to Ukraine. Her resignation had been expected for some time, especially considering the Trump administration’s premium on rapprochement with Russia and ending the war “Ambassador Brink has been at the embassy in Ukraine for three years during a time of war,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce told reporters. “For those three years it’s been an extraordinary performance there And we wish her well.”

“At the same time, of course, it’s a reminder when it comes to the issues that we think about that surround this conversation is that we know that we’re working for (peace) and that is our focus.”

Brink, a career foreign service officer, has been outspoken in her support for arming Ukraine to help it defend itself from Russia’s invasion and had continued her advocacy even after President Donald Trump took office in January and began to pressure Ukraine to accept a ceasefire proposal.

Hackers hit Morocco’s social security database

RABAT, Morocco Morocco‘s social security agency said troves of data were stolen from its systems in a cyberattack this week that resulted in personal information being leaked on the messaging app Telegram.

The North African kingdom’s social security fund administers pensions and insurance benefits to millions of private sector workers, from assembly line laborers to corporate executives. It said in a statement Wednesday that preliminary investigations suggest the leak resulted from hackers bypassing its security systems.

The agency did not say who was thought to be responsible for the leak while also claiming that many of the documents posted were “misleading, inaccurate, or incomplete.”

The hackers who posted the documents on Telegram said the attack was in response to alleged Moroccan “harassment” of Algeria on social media platforms, pledging additional cyberattacks if Algerian sites were targeted Moroccan media have attributed the attack to Algerian hackers, describing it as an episode in a larger cyberwar between the two countries.

Ancient jawbone belongs to early human ancestor

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday Relatively little is known about Denisovans, an extinct group of human cousins that interacted with Neanderthals and our own species, Homo sapiens.

“Denisovan fossils are very scarce,” with only a few confirmed finds in East Asia, said study co-author Takumi Tsutaya at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies in Japan.

So far, the only known Denisovan fossils include partial jawbones, a few teeth and part of a finger bone found in caves in Siberia and Tibet. Some scientists believe fossils found in a cave in Laos may also belong to Denisovans The probable identification of the jawbone from Taiwan as Denisovan expands the region where scientists know these ancient people once lived, said Tsutaya The partial jawbone was first recovered when a fishing operation dredged the seafloor in the Penghu Channel near the Taiwan Strait. After it was sold to an antique shop, a collector spotted it and purchased it in 2008, then later donated it to Taiwan’s National Museum of Natural Science.

Helicopter crashes into Hudson River

Officials say 6 people killed

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK, JENNIFER PELTZ and TED SHAFFREY Associated Press

NEW YORK A New York

City sightseeing helicop-

ter broke apart in midair

Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest U.S. aviation disaster, officials said.

Mayor Eric Adams said the flight began at a downtown heliport around 3 p.m. and the dead including three children — had been recovered and removed from the water The flight north along the Manhattan skyline and then back south toward the Statue of Liberty lasted less than 18 minutes.

Video of the crash showed parts of the aircraft tumbling through the air into the water near the shoreline of Jersey City, New Jersey

A witness there, Bruce Wall, said he saw it “falling apart” in midair, with the tail and propeller coming off. The propeller was still spinning without the helicopter as it fell.

Dani Horbiak was at her Jersey City home when she heard what sounded

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like “several gunshots in a row, almost, in the air.” She looked out her window and saw the chopper “splash in several pieces into the river.”

The helicopter was spinning uncontrollably with “a bunch of smoke coming out” before it slammed into the water, said Lesly Camacho, a hostess at a restaurant along the river in Hoboken, New Jersey Rescue boats circled the submerged aircraft within minutes of impact near the end of a long maintenance pier for a ventilation tower serving the Holland Tunnel.

Recovery crews hoisted the mangled helicopter out of the water just after 8 p.m. using a floating crane.

The flight was operated by New York Helicopters, officials said. No one answered the phones at the company’s offices in New York and New Jersey

A person who answered the phone at the home of the company’s owner, Michael Roth, declined to comment. Roth told the New York Post he was devastated and had “no clue” why the crash happened.

“The only thing I know by watching a video of the heli-

Burials begin after Dominican nightclub collapse kills 221

BY MARTÍN ADAMES ALCÁNTARA and DÁNICA COTO Associated Press

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic A merengue icon, a baseball star and others killed when a cement roof collapsed at a popular nightclub in the Dominican Republic were buried Thursday, as authorities called off the search for bodies with the death toll at 221.

Mourners clad in black and white streamed into Santo Domingo’s National Theater where the body of singer Rubby Pérez lay inside a closed coffin. Pérez had been performing on stage at the packed Jet Set club early Tuesday when dust began falling from the ceiling and, seconds later the roof caved.

President Luis Abinader and first lady Raquel Arbaje arrived at the theater and stood beside Pérez’s coffin for several minutes. Some mourners doubled

over in tears as a recording of Pérez singing the national anthem played. Renowned Dominican musician Juan Luis Guerra was among those gathered to pay their respects.

Pérez, 69, had turned to music after a car accident left him unable to pursue his dream of becoming a professional baseball player He was known for hits including “Volveré,” which he sang with Wilfrido Vargas’s orchestra, and “Buscando tus besos” as a solo artist.

After a five-hour memorial, mourners released dozens of white balloons outside the theater and spontaneously sang “Volveré” in unison. One woman put her hand over her heart and patted it as she cried.

At the cemetery, Zulinka Pérez, one of his daughters, said: “I knew he was loved but I never imagined this.”

Just blocks from the memorial for Pérez, heavy equipment began

withdrawing from the site where Jet Set once stood and rescue crews packed up their equipment.

Meanwhile, a group of prosecutors arrived.

It is still unclear what caused the roof to collapse or when the building was last inspected The government has said it will launch a thorough investigation, and the club’s owners have said they are cooperating with authorities.

Juan Manuel Méndez, director of the Center of Emergency Operations, broke down as he addressed reporters.

“Thank you, God, because today we accomplished the most difficult task I’ve had in 20 years,” he said, moving the microphone away from his face as he cried. Other officials patted him on the back as he continued, “Please forgive me,” before passing the microphone to an army official.

Officials said 189 people were rescued alive from

Supreme Court says feds must facilitate return of deported man

Maryland man wrongly sent to El Salvador prison

BY MARK SHERMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration must work to bring back a Maryland man who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador, rejecting the administration’s emergency appeal.

The court acted in the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen who had an immigration court order preventing his deportation to his native country over fears he would face persecution from local gangs.

U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis had ordered Abrego Garcia, now being held in a notorious Salvadoran prison, returned to the United States by mid-

night Monday

“The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador,” the court said in an unsigned order with no noted dissents.

It comes after a string of rulings on the court’s emergency docket where the conservative majority has at least partially sided with Trump amid a wave of lower court orders slowing the president’s sweeping agenda.

In Thursday’s case, Chief Justice John Roberts had already pushed back Xinis’ deadline. The justices also said that her order must now be clarified to make sure it doesn’t intrude into executive branch power over foreign affairs, since Abrego Garcia is being held abroad. The court said the Trump administration should also be prepared to share what steps it has

taken to try to get him back — and what more it could potentially do.

The administration claims Abrego Garcia is a member of the MS-13 gang, though he has never been charged with or convicted of a crime. His attorneys said there is no evidence he was in MS-13.

The administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending him to El Salvador, but argued that it no longer could do anything about it.

The court’s liberal justices said the administration should have hastened to correct “its egregious error” and was “plainly wrong” to suggest it could not bring him home.

“The Government’s argument, moreover, implies that it could deport and incarcerate any person, including U. S. citizens, without legal consequence, so long as it does so before a court can intervene,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote, joined by her two colleagues.

sightseeing companies, TV news stations and police. It was initially developed for the U.S. Army before being adapted for other uses.

Thousands have been manufactured over the years. The National Transportation Safety Board said it would investigate.

Video of the crash suggested that a “catastrophic mechanical failure” left the pilot with no chance to save the helicopter, said Justin Green, an aviation lawyer who was a helicopter pilot in the Marine Corps. It is possible the helicopter’s main rotors struck the tail boom, breaking it apart and causing the cabin to free fall, Green said

copter falling down, that the main rotor blades weren’t on the helicopter,” the Post quoted him as saying. He added that he had not seen such a thing happen during his 30 years in the helicopter business, but noted: “These are machines, and they break.”

Emails seeking comment were sent to attorneys who have represented Roth in the past.

The Federal Aviation Administration identified the helicopter as a Bell 206, a model widely used in commercial and government aviation, including by

“They were dead as soon as whatever happened happened,” Green said “There’s no indication they had any control over the craft No pilot could have prevented that accident once they lost the lifts. It’s like a rock falling to the ground. It’s heartbreaking.”

The skies over Manhattan are routinely filled with planes and helicopters, both private recreational aircraft and commercial and tourist flights. Manhattan has several helipads from which business executives and others are whisked to destinations throughout the metropolitan area.

“If

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in Jersey City, N.J., near the scene where a sightseeing helicopter crashed into the Hudson River, killing six people, officials say.

the rubble. More than 200 were injured, with 23 of them still hospitalized, including eight in critical condition.

the trauma is too great, there’s not a lot of time” left

to save patients in that condition, said Health Minister Víctor Atallah. He and other doctors said some of the injured suffered fractures to the skull, femur and pelvis.

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A person is comforted Thursday outside the National Institute of Forensic Pathology in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, before identifying the body of a family member who died at the Jet Set nightclub days after its roof collapsed during a concert and killed more than 200 people.

Some profited on Trump’s‘buy’ tipbeforetariffs pause

BY BERNARD CONDON Associated Press

NEW YORK

When Donald Trump offered some financial advice Wednesday morning, stocks were wavering between gains and losses.

But that was aboutto change.

“THIS IS AGREATTIME TO BUY!!! DJT,” he wrote on his social media platform

Truth Social at 9:37 a.m.

Less than four hours later, Trump announced a90-day pause on nearly all his tariffs. Stocks soared on the news, closing up 9.5% by the end of trading. The market, measuredbythe S&P 500, gained back about $4 trillion, or 70%, of the value it had lost over the previous four trading days.

It was aprescient call by the president. Maybetoo prescient.

“He’sloving this, this control over markets, but he better be careful,” said Trump critic and former White Houseethicslawyer, Richard Painter,noting that securities law prohibits trading on insider informa-

Atelevision displays President Donald Trumpspeaking Wednesdayonthe floor at the Newyork Stock Exchangein Newyork.

tion or helping others do so.

“Thepeoplewho bought when they sawthatpost made alot of money.”

Senators speakout

Democratic senators are callingfor investigation

“Did anyone buy or sell stocks, and profit at the public’sexpense?,” said Democratic Sen. AdamSchiff in apostonthe platform

BlueSky.Added Democratic

Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut on X, “An insider trading scandal is brewing.”

Akey questionis: Was Trumpalready contemplating the tariff pause when he madethat post?

“Over the last few days, I’ve been thinking about it,” said Trump himself when asked yesterdaydirectly about when he arrivedat his decision,but then added to the confusion, stating,

Judgeallowsrequirement that allinU.S.illegally must register

BY REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press

WASHINGTON Afederal judge is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with arequirement that everyone in the U.S. illegally must register with the federal government, in amove that could have far-reaching repercussions for immigrants across the country In aruling Thursday,Judge Trevor Neil McFadden sided with the administration, whichhad arguedthatthey were simply enforcing an already existingrequirement foreveryone in thecountry who wasn’tanAmerican citizen to register withthe government.

Therequirementgoesinto effect Friday

The DepartmentofHomeland Security announced Feb. 25 that it was mandating that all people in the United Statesillegally register with the federal government, and

said thosewho didn’tself-report couldface fines or prosecution.Failuretoregisteris considered acrime, and people will be required to carry registration documents with them or riskprison time and fines Registration will be mandatory for everyone 14 and older without legalstatus People registeringhave to provide their fingerprints and address, and parents and guardians of anyone under age 14 must ensure they registered Theregistration process also applies to Canadians who are in theU.S. formorethan 30 days,such as so-called snowbirdswho spendwinter months in places like Florida. Federal immigration law haslong requiredthat people whoaren’tAmericancitizens andliveinthe U.S.,including thosehere illegally,register with thegovernment. Those laws can betracedback to the Alien Registration Act

of 1940, whichcame amid growing fears of immigrants andpolitical subversives in the early days of World War II. The current requirements stem from the Immigration and Nationality Actof1952. But the requirementthat people illegally in theU.S. register has been enforced only in rare circumstances. In fact, advocates opposing thegovernment say it hasn’t been universally used since it was first introduced in the mid-1940s It was used in alimited way after Sept.11, 2001, when the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System required that allnoncitizen males 16 andolderfrom 25 countries —all butone of them majority AraborMuslim —registerwith the U.S. government The program led to no terrorism convictions but pulled more than 13,000 people into deportation proceedings. It wassuspendedin2011 and dissolved in 2016.

U.S.,Russiamakeprisonerswap

BY JON GAMBRELL and DASHA LITVINOVA Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates— Moscow freed aRussian American convicted of treason in exchange for aRussian German man jailed on smuggling charges in the U.S., aprisoner swap that was completed Thursday as the two countries met to repair ties.

“They released the young ballerina and she is now out, and that was good. So we appreciate that,” President

Donald Trump said of Ksenia Karelina, whowas expected to arrive back in the U.S.onThursday evening.

Shewas arrested in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg in February 2024 andconvicted of treason on charges stemming from adonation of about$52 to acharity aiding Ukraine.

U.S. authorities have called thecase “absolutely ludicrous.”

Arthur Petrov was released as part of aswap in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, according to the

Federal SecurityService, or FSB, Russia’s main securityand counterintelligence agency

Petrov was arrested in Cyprus in August 2023 at the request of the U.S. on charges of smuggling sensitive microelectronics to Russia and extradited to the U.S. a year later

Karelina was among a growing number of Americans arrested in Russia in recent years as tensions between Moscow and Washingtonspikedover the war in Ukraine.

“Fairly early this morning.”

Asked for clarification on thetiming in an email to the WhiteHouse later,aspokesperson didn’tanswer directly but defendedTrump’s post as part of his job

“It is the responsibilityof the Presidentofthe United States to reassure the markets andAmericans about theireconomic security in the face of nonstopmedia fearmongering,” wrote White House spokesman Kush Desai.

TrumpMedia shares

Another curiosityofthe posting was Trump’ssignoff with his initials.

DJT is also thestock symbol for TrumpMedia and Technology Group, theparentcompanyofthe president’s social media platform TruthSocial.

It’s notclear if Trump was saying buy stocksin general, or Trump Media

in particular.The White House was asked, but didn’t address that either.Trump includes “DJT” on his posts intermittently, typically to emphasize that he has personally written themessage

The ambiguity about what Trump meant didn’tstop people from pouring money into that stock.

Trump Media closed up 22.67%, soaring twiceas much as the broader market, astunning performance by a company that lost $400 millionlastyear andisseeminglyunaffected by whether tariffs would be imposedor paused.

Trump’s53% ownership stake in the company,now in atrust controlledbyhis oldest son, Donald Trump Jr., rose by $415 million on the day

Trump Media was bested, albeit by only two-hundreds of apercentage point, by another Trumpadministration

stock pick—ElonMusk’s Tesla.

Last month, Trumpheld an extraordinary news conferenceoutside the White House praising the company and its cars. That was followed by aFox TV appearance by his commerce secretary urging viewers to buy the stock.

Tesla’ssurge Wednesday added$20 billiontoMusk’s fortunes. Kathleen Clark, agovernment ethicslaw expert at Washington University School of Law,says Trump’s post in other administrationswould have been investigated, but is not likely to trigger any reaction, save for maybe moreTruth Social viewers.

“He’s sending themessage that he can effectivelyand with impunity manipulate the market,” she said, “As in: Watch this space for future stock tips.”

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Lawsuit against St. James Parish advances

the lawsuit accused the parish of a continuing violation of the plaintiffs’ equal protection and other rights that has diminished their property values and harmed their health.

slavery and Jim Crow laws.

‘Well-pleaded allegations’

BY DAVID J MITCHELL

Staff writer

A federal appellate court in New Orleans will allow a lawsuit to proceed accusing St. James Parish government of a historic practice of steering polluting industries to majority Black neighborhoods and seeking a moratorium on new plants there

Noting the lawsuit is “replete with allegations” of unequal treatment against Black residents, the threejudge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a lower-court ruling finding the local community and environmental groups that brought litigation didn’t have standing to sue or brought it well past legal deadlines to do so. With the ruling, the plaintiffs can now continue to try to prove their allegations in court. Filed in March 2023,

Over 150 pages, the suit details an extensive history of the parish and state, starting with the loss of freed slaves’ rights during Reconstruction and continuing with a series of land-use decisions since the 1960s that largely steered new industries to majority Black areas and, in more recent history blocked new projects in White areas.

Home to two dozen industrial operations, St. James officials through the years have allowed 20 of them in the majority-Black 4th and 5th Districts and not allowed any in majority-White districts for the past 46 years, according to the lawsuit.

In court papers, parish officials argued the lawsuit was brought too late or couldn’t sufficiently support any of its claims, calling it a politically motivated attempt to paint them with racial animus by evoking the state’s dark history of

In the ruling issued Wednesday Circuit Judge Carl Stewart noted some of the comments the plaintiffs had made more recently asking the Parish Council not to approve another project in majority Black areas.

“Similarly, in a council meeting regarding an industrial project to be built within the Fourth and Fifth District, Pastor (Harry) Joseph lamented, ‘(w)hy does it always have to be us?’” the judge wrote. “These statements, juxtaposed with the organizations’ statements about how consistently the parish heeds the concerns of its majority-White districts, demonstrate the organizations’ well-pleaded allegations that they were racially classified and denied equal treatment.”

The plaintiffs hailed the appellate ruling and pledged to continue fighting for the case in court

“We are glad the court has found in our favor, and we thank God, too, for this victory,” Joseph, pastor of Mount

Triumph Baptist Church in St James, said in a statement “This moratorium is important for the people in this area We’ve been battling to achieve it for a long time.”

Parish officials had not immediately responded to a request for comment Parish and industry representatives have in the past cited the economic development, jobs and tax revenue such plants bring while denying any discrimination in the process.

Stewart is an appointee of Democratic President Bill Clinton. The two other circuit judges on the panel are Republican appointees: Senior Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham by President Ronald Reagan and Circuit Judge Catharina Haynes by President George W. Bush. Pattern of discrimination?

The church was one of three plaintiffs in the suit

brought with lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights and Tulane Law Clinic. Other plaintiffs are Inclusive Louisiana and Rise St. James.

In November 2023, U.S. District Judge Carl J. Barbier dismissed most of the suit’s claims based on a parish land use plan that was unanimously adopted in 2014 and zoned large parts of the 4th and 5th Districts for industrial use and later became a point of contention for advocates.

Barbier found the plaintiffs had a year to challenge that ordinance and failed to do so. The appellate court found, however, that the plaintiffs had filed a case sufficient enough to try to prove at trial that the ordinance was part of a larger historic pattern of racial discrimination.

In making that argument,

the plaintiffs had pointed to more recent history by the council within a year of their lawsuit’s filing. In August 2022, the council instituted a moratorium on solar farms amid opposition from residents in a majority White part of the parish, but blocked a requested moratorium on polluting industries in majority Black areas. During oral arguments for the appeal last year, Judge Haynes pushed back on the idea that missing the oneyear deadline to challenge the land use plan barred any ability to

BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ Associated Press

NEW YORK Facing a deadline from an immigration judge to turn over evidence for its attempted deportation of Columbia University activist Mahmoud Khalil, the federal government has instead submitted a brief memo, signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, citing the Trump administration’s authority to expel noncitizens whose presence in the country damages U.S. foreign policy interests

The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S resident and graduate student who served as spokesperson for campus activists last year during large demonstrations against Israel’s treatment of Palestinians and the war in Gaza.

Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs.

He said that while Khalil’s activities were “otherwise lawful,” letting him remain in the country would undermine “U.S. policy to combat anti-Semitism around the world and in the United States, in addition to efforts to protect Jewish students from harassment and vio-

lence in the United States.”

“Condoning anti-Semitic conduct and disruptive protests in the United States would severely undermine that significant foreign policy objective,” Rubio wrote in the undated memo.

The submission was filed Wednesday after Judge Jamee Comans ordered the government to produce its evidence against Khalil ahead of a hearing Friday on whether it can continue detaining him during immigration proceedings.

Attorneys for Khalil said the memo proved the Trump administration was “targeting Mahmoud’s free speech rights about Palestine.”

“After a month of hiding the ball since Mahmoud’s late-night unjust arrest in New York and taking him away to a remote detention center in Louisiana, immigration authorities have finally admitted that they have no case whatsoever

against him,” the attorneys, Marc Van Der Hout and Johnny Sinodis, said in a joint statement.

“There is not a single shred of proof that Mahmoud’s presence in America poses any threat,” they added.

A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin, did not respond to questions about whether it had additional evidence against Khalil, writing in an emailed statement, “DHS did file evidence, but immigration court dockets are not available to the public.”

Khalil, a 30-year-old Palestinian by ethnicity who was born in Syria, was arrested March 8 in New York and taken to a detention center in Louisiana. He recently finished his coursework for a master’s degree at Columbia’s school of international affairs. His wife, an American citizen, is due to give birth this month.

CalebWilsonAct wouldstrengthenanti-hazing education

BY QUINN COFFMAN Staff writer

Abill introduced in the Louisiana House of Representatives, dubbed the Caleb Wilson Act, would require members of collegiate student organizations to take a semesterlong course on antihazing.

Rep. Delisha Boyd, D-New Orleans, sponsor of House Bill 279, saidthe idea for thelegislation came after conversations with the family of Wilson, the 20-year-old Southern junior who diedin February after afraternity hazing ritual.

Wilson collapsed after being punched in the chest multiple times by members of Southern’schapter of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.Wilson, alongside other pledges, had been lined up in aBaton Rouge warehouse late at night before being struck as part of their initiation into the fraternity “I’ve been talking with them almost every day after the incident happened,” Boyd said, who is friends with Wilson’saunt.

The conversations eventually turned to legislative solutions that might be able to keep “another familyfrom going through this.”

Boyd also looked to past interviews with the parents of Max Gruver,the 18-yearold LSU freshman who died of alcohol poisoning in 2017 during another fraternity hazing ritual.

“It’salready afelony (when) causing harm or death,but we really felt like the kids need to be educated, andnot onlythe ones that are beinghazed, but the ones that are doingthe hazing,” she said.“They clearly are not awareofthe consequencesifthings go left.”

Raisingrequirements

Under the bill, anyone joiningastudent organization would be required to take aone-credit-hour semester course on anti-hazing during the first two semesters of their membership in such organization. Boyd saidthe requirement also would apply to any current student who isa member of astudent organization “I think the bill is straightforward,” Boyd said. “I want incomingfreshman to be required totakethis, and if youare already amember of oneofthese groups, then youshould have alittle time to get that class takenbefore yougraduate Anystudent whodoesn’t takethe course would be prohibited from pledging or continuingasamemberofa studentorganization,Boyd said

“So they’d have achoice,” Boyd said. Can’tfitthe class in?Thentheycan’t pledge. They pledge in the grad

Southern University Board Chair Tony Clayton has alreadysuggested that graduatechapters of Greek organizations take over all recruiting andintake forfrats and sororities on Southern’s campus.

Boyd said that while she expects that HB279 might be amended, sheexpects to have bipartisan support.

“I think we all don’twant to see this ever happen again, if possible,” she said. “Ifwecan deter oneortwo incidents, I think this bill is ahuge success by itself.”

for Wilson’sdeath have been booked using this law Landry said thatwhile her legislationwas focusedon criminalresponsibility,antihazing education forstudentswas agoal of lawmakers at that timetoo.

“After theMax Gruverincident,there was alot of cooperation among universities andlaw enforcementtotry to prevent this from happening again,” Landry said. “And there was arequirement that students hadtotakesome sort of training or anti-hazing education.”

chapter.”

Likecurrent anti-hazing legislation, the bill would apply to undergraduate students whoare members of any student organization, notjust fraternitiesand sororities.

This point is important to Boyd, who said it was a“revelation” to her thatotherorganizations, like university bands or sports teams, often engage in the same dangerous hazing rituals reported amongGreek-life organizations.

Currentanti-hazing legislation only requires students to takeasingle, hourlong antihazingorientation andtobe given ahandbook on the dangers and illegality of hazing. Boyd saidshe hasbeen in conversation with multiple university leaderssince

pre-filing the bill, including representativesfrom Southern University.She said that while leaders have been supportive, the talks have focused on howtotransition studentsintotheir potential new responsibilities.

SecretaryofState Nancy Landrysponsored thesimilarly-titled Max Gruver Act during hertime as astate representative. That 2018 law created felony hazing as acriminalcharge that prosecutors could use when ahazing incident resulted in serious bodily harm or death.

The three suspects believed by police to be responsible

Just thisweek, two fraternitiesonTulane’s campus weresuspended pending an investigation into allegations of hazing.

If passed, the Caleb Wilson Act would take effect in the fall 2025 university semester.The next step for HB279 will be forittobeheard in the Capitol’sEducation Committee.

BY BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press

LONDON PrinceHarry met with war victims on Thursday during an unannounced visit to Ukraine as partofhis ongoing work with wounded veterans, aspokesperson said. Harry visited the Superhumans Center,anorthope-

dic clinic in Lviv thattreats and rehabilitateswounded military personneland civilians, to see top-notch services provided in acountry in the midst of war.The center provides prosthetics, reconstructive surgery and psychological help free of charge. The trip into western Ukraine, aregion frequently targeted by Russian missiles, was only announced after he had left the country. Harry,who served10years in the British Army,has made helping injured soldiers one of his most prominent causes. He founded the InvictusGames in 2014 to offer wounded veterans the challenge of competing in sports events similar to the Paralympics

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the highest percentages of people on Medicaid.

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, the Jefferson Republican who is the second-highest-ranking House leader, said the measure accelerates Trump’s agenda to extend his 2017 tax cuts while expanding energy exploration, restricting immigration, and other issues.

The bill doesn’t include specific budget cuts. It tells committees to make spending cuts and include wording that enacts Trump’s legislative wants to achieve those cuts. Under the rules, if the House and Senate Republicans agree precisely on the terms, they can proceed to pass that budget with Trump initiatives into law without Democratic input under what is called reconciliation.

The Senate version, narrowly passed over the weekend, aimed at cutting $4 billion in spending. The version the House previously passed called for much steeper cuts of at least $1.5 trillion over 10 years.

Johnson says passing the Senate version doesn’t lock Congress into a lower number but only gives the House and Senate instructions to proceed.

“The budget resolution is not the law itself, but only the necessary kickoff for reconciliation to begin,” Johnson said. “Although the Senate chose to take a different approach on its instructions, the

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premiums.

Just a day earlier, Landry announced an alternative slate of policies to lower auto insurance rates but urged a “balanced approach” he says would hold both insurance companies and trial lawyers accountable.

“Both sides have plenty of blame to go around,” Landry said at his own news conference Wednesday “Today I’m not here to help any lawyers, and I’m not here to help insurance companies I’m here to help the citizens of the state.”

Landry acknowledged a need to tamp down frivolous lawsuits and said the prevalence of minor injury claims “points to a cultural problem” of civil litigation connected to lawyer advertising.

But unlike Temple, who laid blame for high insurance rates squarely on Louisiana’s civil law system and the trial lawyers, Landry also emphasized the role of insurance companies

“Insurance coverage in this state is not an option,” Landry said. “It is mandated by law, and our citizens are forced to pay for it. With that mandate comes great responsibility from those who cover them.”

Landry said insurers have promised that policy changes would lead to lower rates, “but they have broken their word again and again.” He also said insurance companies have lost public trust as they continue to bring in “record profits.”

Landry angered many in

cuts to Medicaid impossible.

“Give me a break,” said Rep. Brendan Boyle, D-Pennsylvania, the highest-ranking Democrat on the House Budget committee.

The House committee that oversees Medicaid has been told to find $880 billion in cuts over a 10-year period. But 93% of the funding within the committee’s jurisdiction is Medicaid and Medicare, Boyle said, citing a Congressional Budget Office report. CBO estimates that Medicaid will cost $8.2 trillion between 2025 and 2034.

But some Republicans argue there are ways to reduce spending on Medicaid without tearing insurance away from low-income and elderly Americans.

Scalise argued that waste, fraud and inefficiencies in Medicaid amount to about $60 billion a year

“That’s the theft of hardworking taxpayers’ money. That’s taking health care away from the disabled who need it,” Scalise said.

passage of the bill, “they will have to spell out the very cuts to Medicaid and other programs” Democrats have warned about.

Citing the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office analysis, Jeffries added, “the only way to achieve that level of spending cuts is to gut Medicaid along with Supplemental Nutritional Assistance (food stamps) and a whole host of other things.”

Johnson continued to emphasize the importance of the bill to Trump’s agenda.

amended resolution in no way prevents us from achieving our goals in the final reconciliation bill.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-South Dakota, indicated senators could try to match the $1.5 trillion in cuts the House wants.

“The speaker has talked about $1.5 trillion,” Thune said. “We have a lot of United States senators who believe that is a minimum. And we’re certainly going to do everything we can to be as aggressive as possible to see that we are serious about the matter.”

Extending the Trump tax cuts will cost about $5 trillion Worries about cutting Medicaid,

the business community last year when he killed a major bill opposed by trial lawyers and weakened other measures before agreeing to support them.

Business backing Temple At his Thursday news conference, Temple recruited two members of the trucking industry to speak in support of his plan.

“We feel as though the trucking industry is being attacked,” said Jake Minner, a transportation manager at Bengal Transportation Services, which hosted Temple’s news conference. Minner cited “staged accidents” and “plaintiffs attorneys’ frivolous lawsuits.”

We need our legislators to implement measures that will protect our family businesses from frivolous lawsuits,” said Jared Varnado, president of Towing and Recovery Professionals of Louisiana, a trade association.

Temple’s policy is also backed by two other powerful groups: the Insurance Council of Louisiana, an insurance trade association, and the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry, the state’s most powerful business lobby A statement from LABI said the organization has worked with Temple “on a comprehensive package of bills” that “will signal Louisiana is open for business.”

“For far too long, we have failed to enact the reforms necessary to curb lawsuit abuse, prevent jackpot justice and attract more insurers to the state,” the statement said. “The result has been a legal climate where lawyers cash in and Louisi-

the state-federal program that provides health insurance to lowincome Americans, illustrate the tension over how much to cut

While Republicans in deep-red districts want to see massive budget cuts, some senators and some House Republicans operate under different political realities For instance, many of their constituents don’t want deep cuts in Medicaid.

Johnson has said repeatedly that Medicaid was never mentioned in the bill and that the president promised the program won’t be touched.

But others have argued the scale of cuts the House version of the bill required would make avoiding

anans lose out, forcing them to shutter their businesses or relocate to friendlier states.”

Temple worked over 20 years in various parts of the insurance industry and has consistently said free market principles will help ameliorate Louisiana’s insurance woes.

Temple’s priorities

The insurance commissioner highlighted three policies he is supporting this year

One is a “collateral source” bill by Sen. Caleb Kleinpeter that would put limits on recovering health care expenses during litigation. The amount would be the lesser of a “usual and customary rate” for the services or the amount actually paid to a health care provider regardless of the source of funding for those payments.

Another is a legal concept known as “modified comparative fault.”

Right now, if someone is injured but is partly responsible for it, the amount of money or “damages,” received is reduced in proportion to the “percentage of negligence attributable to the person.” But the change backed by Temple wouldn’t allow someone to collect damages if they are at least 50% responsible for the accident.

Also, “general damages” legislation Temple supports would cap money paid out for non-monetary damages such as pain, suffering and emotional distress at $5 million.

Policy debate

Temple took time to dispute details about Louisiana

“People that work two and three jobs, working their tails off to help provide for their family are incensed when they hear about this waste and they say, ‘When’s somebody going to do something about it?’”

“Medicaid is debilitating the vulnerable and not helping them,” said Rep. Chip Roy, a Texas Republican who opposed the Senate version for having shallow spending reduction targets, but in the end voted for the measure. “What the Senate sent over is a joke.”

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-New York, said that, now that the committee process has been set in motion with the

insurance regulation that he said Landry presented in a way that was “incorrect.”

One is the power of the state’s insurance commissioner to regulate insurance companies. Landry on Wednesday said Louisiana has the “weakest regulatory structure for holding insurance companies accountable.”

On Thursday Temple disagreed: “I have all the authority I need to deny a rate for being too high, and I exercise it,” he said. “I don’t approve rates that are too high — period.”

Another issued related to

“By clearing this critical hurdle, House committees can now work in tandem with Senate committees to swiftly prepare their respective parts of the reconciliation bill, keeping us on track for markups during the next work period,” Johnson said after the vote. “This process will require close consultation with the White House to ensure that the final bill reflects our shared priorities, resulting in a product that can pass both chambers and be signed into law by President Trump.”

Johnson became speaker in late October 2023 after House Republicans battled for almost a month among themselves over who to place in the top job. He was nearly ousted in March 2024 by far-right partisans who in January almost kept Johnson from being reelected to the speakership.

Trump bailed him out both times by leaning on Johnson’s conservative opponents. Trump again hit the phones and brought in recalcitrant Republicans to help Johnson pass the House version of the blueprint bill.

insurance company disclosures.

“I’m supporting legislation to prevent these insurance companies from arbitrarily labeling information as confidential and proprietary,” Landry said Wednesday without providing additional details about the measure. “They are preventing the public from seeing information that can assist the insurance commissioner in decision-making.”

Temple disagreed with that.

Insurance companies are required to provide his office information upon re-

quest, confidential or not, he said. “They have to provide the information, and they do.”

Addressing Landry’s assertion that insurers are making record profits, Temple said the companies are leaving Louisiana because they are losing money here. Temple said it is important to “correct the record” on the issues because “if we aren’t on the same page about the problems, we can’t begin to make real progress on the solutions.”

Email Alyse Pfeil at alyse. pfeil@theadvocate.com.

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House Republican leaders, from left, U.S Rep. Lisa McClain, R-Michigan; Majority Whip Tom Emmer R-Minnesota; Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson; and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, talk to reporters about the push for a House-Senate compromise budget resolution on Tuesday.

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30-year mortgage rate falls for third week

The average rate on a30year mortgage in theU.S. declined for the third weekina row, another positive movefor prospective homebuyers during what’straditionally the housing market’sbusy season.

The rate fell to 6.62% from 6.64% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac saidThursday Ayearago, the rate averaged 6.88%.

The average rate has mostly trended lower since reaching just over 7% in mid-January When mortgage rates decline, they boost homebuyers’ purchasingpower

Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, popular with homeowners refinancing their home loans, were unchangedfrom lastweek. The averagerate remained at 5.82%, butisdown 6.16% ayear ago, Freddie Macsaid.

Prada agrees to buy Versace in $1.4B deal

The Prada Group announced adeal Thursday to buycrosstownMilanfashion rival Versace from the U.S. luxury group Capri Holdings underterms that value one of the mostrecognizable namesinItalian fashion at $1.4 billion.

The deal will put Versace, knownfor sexy silhouettesand boldGreco and Medusa motifs, under the sameroof as Prada’s “ugly chic” aesthetic and the youth-drivenMiu Miuwhose stunning growth in recent years has far outpaced the market

Prada said the 47-year-old Versace brand offered “significant untapped growth potential.”

The final value of the deal will be adjusted at closing, which is expected in the second half of the year,the Prada Group said. Donatella Versace, who took over as creative director at the fashion house founded by her brother,GianniVersace, after his 1997 murder,continues with the fashion house in the new role of chief brand ambassador The Italian government welcomeda dealthat appears to secureVersace’slonger-term future as otherfamily-owned fashion brands have faltered or even disappeared after opening up to outside investors. PublishersClearing files for bankruptcy Publishers Clearing House, adecades-old marketingand sweepstakescompanyknown for dolingout large “Prize Patrol”checks,has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcyprotection. In an announcement this week, PCHsaid it was using thebankruptcy process to “finalize ashift away” from its legacy business of direct-mail, retail merchandise and magazine subscriptions. The companyishoping to instead transition to a“pure digital advertising” model, whereit willcontinuetooffer free-to-play entertainment and prizes.

The Chapter 11 proceedings, filed in NewYork on Wednesday,arriveamid growing financial strain forPCH —which has struggled with rising operational costsand changing consumer habitsinrecent years.

PCH’sroots date to 1953 when Harold and LuEsther Mertz and their daughter,Joyce Mertz-Gilmore, formed abusiness outoftheir Long Island, New York, home to send directto-consumer mailings that solicitedsubscribersfor anumber of magazines through one single offering

The company later grew with chances for consumers to win money —first launching adirect mail sweepstakes in 1967.

PCH became known for surprisingprize winners with oversized checks. In Wednesday court documents, the company said it has awarded over half a billion dollars in prizes and continues to attractmillions of contestants today But in recent years the businesshas been squeezed by rising shipping and postal rates, as well as inventory and supply chainchallenges that have continued since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

U.S. inflationfalls in March

Increase in core prices smallest in four years

BYCHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP economics writer

WASHINGTON— U.S. inflation declined last month as thecostofgas, airlinefares, and hotelrooms fell, a sign that price growth was cooling even as President Donald Trump ramped up his tariff threats

Consumer prices rose 2.4% in March from ayear earlier,the Labor Departmentsaid Thursday, downfrom 2.8% in February.That is thelowest inflation figuresince September

Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core prices rose

2.8% compared withayear ago, down from 3.1% in February.That is thesmallest increase in core prices in nearly four years. Economists closely watchcorepricesbecause they are considered abetter guide to where inflation is headed. Yetsome economists warned thatthe data is mostly backwardlooking and could be overtaken by the impact of the tariffs that Trump hasleftinplace, including huge duties on China, even after the90-day pause of some tariffs announced Wednesday. Inflation maystart to pick up in twotothree months’time andpossibly remain

elevated through at least the end of this year

“Wegot ahuge tariff increase,” saidPaul Donovan, chief economistfor UBS Wealth Management. “There was an extreme tariff increase for less than 24 hours, and we’re back to ahuge tariff increase, relativetowhere we were a monthago. This is increasing taxes on U.S. consumers. And they’re going to have to find the money to pay these taxes.”

On amonthly basis, prices actually fell0.1% in March, the first monthly drop in nearlyfive years. Core prices rose 0.1% in March

from February “Thatwas nice, but don’tget used to it,” said Greg McBride, chief financial analyst at Bankrate. “All this is looking in therearview mirror. With both inflation and the overall economy, uncertainty abounds about what might be lurking around the bend.”

One reason prices fell were sharp drops in travel-related costs, including airfares, which slipped 5.3% just from February to March. Hotel room prices dropped 3.5%.

Economists said thosedrops in part reflected much slower international demand as thenumberof tourists visiting the UnitedStates hasfallensharply amidTrump’s aggressive trade policy

Trump’stariffs threaten to endera of cheapgoods forU.S.consumers

BYCHRISTOPHER RUGABER and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

AP business writers

WASHINGTON President Donald Trump’s new tariffs threaten to push up priceson clothes, mobilephones,furnitureand many other products in the coming months, possibly ending the era of cheap goods thatAmericans enjoyed for about aquarter-century before the pandemic.

In return, White Houseofficials hope the import taxes create morehigh-payingmanufacturingjobsbybringingproductionback to the UnitedStates. It is apolitically risky trade-off that could take years tomaterialize, anditwould have to overcome tall barriers, such as theautomation of mostmodern factories.

Evenafter Trump’sU-turn on Wednesday that paused steep new tariffs on about 60 nations for 90 days, average U.S. duties remain much higher than acouple of months ago. Trump hasimposed a10% tariff on all im-

BY MICHAEL LIEDTKE AP technologywriter

SAN FRANCISCO President Donald Trump’sadministration has been predicting its barrage of tariffs targeting Chinawill pushApple into manufacturing the iPhone in the United States for thefirst time But that’sanunlikely scenario even with U.S.tariffs now standing at 145% on products made in China —the country where Apple has manufacturedmost of itsiPhones since thefirst model hit themarket 18 yearsago

The disincentives forApple shiftingits production domesticallyinclude acomplex supplychainthat

ports, while goods from China —the United States’ third-largest source of imports face huge 145% duties.And there are25% taxes on imports of steel, aluminum, cars androughlyhalf of goodsfrom Canada and Mexico.

As aresult,the average U.S. tariff has soared from below 3% beforeTrump’s inauguration to roughly 20% now,economists calculate, the highest level since at least the 1940s.

Should they remain in place, such high duties would reverse decades of globalization that helped lower costs for American shoppers.

Other trends,including factory automation and technological innovation, particularly in electronics such as TVs, have also brought down prices.But imports help keep prices in check, economists say,partly because of lower labor costsoverseas and because increased competition in the U.S. market forces American companies to be more efficient.

“Freer trade has helped moderate inflation

it beganbuilding in China during the1990s.Itwould take several yearsand costbillions of dollars to buildnew plants in theU.S., and thenconfront Apple witheconomic forces thatcould triple thepriceof an iPhone, threatening to torpedo salesofits marquee product “The conceptofmakingiPhones in the U.S. is anonstarter,” asserted Wedbush Securities analystDan Ives, reflecting awidely held view in theinvestment community that tracks Apple’severy move.Heestimated thatthe current $1,000 price tag for an iPhone made in China, or India, wouldsoartomorethan $3,000 if production shifted to the U.S.And he believesthatmoving

over thelongterm,” said ScottLincicome, atrade analyst at the libertarian Cato Institute.“If we areentering amorerestricted supply side then you’re likely to see more expensive stuff.”

Bank of America estimates that the new duties could raise car prices an average of $4,500, even assuming that automakers absorb some of thetariffs’ impact. Suchan increasewould follow sharp price hikes of the past fewyears that have leftthe average price of anew car at apainful $48,000.

AaronRubin, CEO of ShipHero LLC, which provides software for merchants to help book shipments and track order deliveries, said his data indicates that retailers arealready starting to raise prices to get ahead of the tariffs.

ShipHero’sdata capturesprices on several million products equivalent to about 1% of overall U.S. e-commerce sales. Prices rose 3.9% on Sunday and Monday on avariety of goods compared with the week before Trumpannounced moretariffs, Rubin said.

production domestically likely couldn’tbedoneuntil, at theearliest, 2028. “Price pointswouldmove so dramatically,it’shard to comprehend.” Apple didn’trespond to arequest for comment Wednesday.The Cupertino, California, company has yet to publicly discuss its response to Trump’stariffs on China, but the topic may comeuponMay 1when Apple CEOTim Cook is scheduled to field questions fromanalysts during aquarterly conferencecall to discuss the company’sfinancial results and strategy And there is no doubt the China tariffs will be ahot-button issue given Apple’sstock price has

dropped by 15% andlowered the company’smarket value by $500 billion since Trump began increasing them on April 2.

If thetariffs hold, Apple is widely expected to eventually raise prices on iPhones and other popular products because Silicon Valley’ssupply chain is so heavily concentrated in China,India andotheroverseas markets caught in thecrossfire of the escalating trade war

The big question is how long Apple mightbewilling to hold the line on itscurrentprices before the tariffs’ toll on the company’sprofit margins become too muchtobear and consumers are asked to shoulder some of the burden.

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Stocks dive againafter

BY STAN CHOE Associated Press

NEWYORK U.S. stocks dove Thursday and surrendered a chunk of their historicgains from the day beforeasPresident Donald Trump’strade war continues to threaten the economy

The S&P 500 tumbled 3.5%, slicing intoWednesday’ssurge of 9.5% following Trump’sdecisionto pause many of his tariffs worldwide. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,014 points, or 2.5%, and the Nasdaq composite tumbled 4.3%.

“Trump blinks,” UBS strategist Bhanu Baweja wrote in areport about the president’s decision on tariffs, “but the damage isn’t all undone.”

Trump has focused more on China, raising tariffs on its products to well above 100%. Even if that were to get negotiated down to something like 50%, and even if only 10% tariffsremained on othercountries, Baweja said the hit to the U.S. economy could still be large enough to hurt expected growth for upcoming U.S. corporate profits.

The losses for U.S. stocks accelerated Thursday after the White House clarified that the United States will tax Chinese importsat 145%, not the 125% rate that Trump had written about in his posting on Truth Social Wednesday,once other previously announced tariffs were included. The drop for the S&P 500 exceeded 6% at one point.

“Everything is still very volatile, because with Donald Trump, you don’tknow what to expect,” said Francis Lun, chief executiveof Geo Securities. “This is reallybig uncertainty in the market. The threat of recession has not faded.” China, meanwhile, has reached outtoother countries around theworld in

apparenthopes of forming a united front against Trump. The world’ssecond-largest economy is also rampingup itsown countermeasures to Trump’stariffs.

Thestock price of Warner Bros. Discovery,the company behind “A Minecraft Movie,” dropped 12.5% for one of Wall Street’ssharpestlosses after China said Thursday it will “appropriately reduce the number of imported U.S. films.”The Walt Disney Co.’sstock sank 6.8%.

Aspokesperson for the ChinaFilm Administration said it is “inevitable” that Chinese audiences would find Americanfilms less palatable giventhe “wrong move by theU.S.towantonly implement tariffs on China.”

That was after Trump and his Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, sent aclear messagetoother countries Wednesday after announcingtheir pauseon tariffs for most countries: “Do not retaliate, and you will be rewarded.”

The European Union said Thursday it will put its trade retaliationmeasuresonhold for 90 days and leave room

for anegotiated solution.

Thursday’sswings also hit thebond market, which had been showingencouraging signals earlier in the day that stress may be easing.

Thebondmarkethas historically played the role of enforcer against politiciansand economicpolicies it deemed imprudent It helpedtopple the United Kingdom’sLiz Truss in 2022, forexample, whose 49 days madeher Britain’s shortestserving prime minister James Carville, adviser to former U.S. PresidentBill Clinton, also famously said he’d like to be reincarnated as the bond market because of how much power it wields.

Earlier this week, big jumps for U.S. Treasury yields had rattled themarket, so much thatTrump said Wednesday he had beenwatchinghow investors were “getting alittle queasy.”

Severalreasons could have been behind the sharp, suddenrise in yields. Hedge fundsmay have sold Treasurys in order to raise cash, and investors outside the United States may be dumping their U.S. government

bonds becauseofthe trade war.Regardless of thereasons behind it, higher Trea-

sury yields crank up pressure on the stock market and push rates higher for mortgages andother loans for U.S. households and businesses. The 10-year Treasury yield had calmed following Trump’sU-turn on tariffs, dropping all the way back to 4.30% shortly afterthe release of abetter-thanexpected report on inflation Thursday morning. That’s after it had shot up to nearly 4.50% Wednesday morning from just 4.01% at the end of last week.

As Thursday progressed, though, the 10-year Treasury yield climbed once again and reached 4.40%.

It all demonstrates why manyonWallStreet are preparing formore swings in markets, after the S&P 500 at one point nearly dropped intoa “bear market” by al-

most closing 20% belowits record. Often, the market’swhipsaw moves have come not just day to day but also hour to hour.The S&P 500 still remains below where it waswhenTrump announced his sweeping set of tariffs last week on “Liberation Day.” All told, the S&P 500 fell 188.85 pointsThursdayto 5,268.05. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 1,014.79 to 39,593.66, and the Nasdaq composite sank 737.66 to 16,387.31. In stock markets abroad, indexes rallied across Europe and Asiaintheir first chances to trade following Trump’spause on many of his tariffs. Japan’s Nikkei 225 surged 9.1%, South Korea’sKospi leapt6.6%and Germany’sDAX returned 4.5%.

brought up the rear Marchers consisted mostly of employees of the festival’ssponsors, brass bands and ahandfulofBaby Dolls.The New Wave Brass Band trailed amarching krewefrom festival title sponsor Chevron. Ahalf-dozen representatives of theHouse of Blues, in full Blues Brothers regalia, distributed the parade’sbest “throw”: free tickets to upcoming shows, including an April 27 appearance by theRebirth Brass Band with trumpeter Kermit Ruffins, awell-known proponentof “Onthe Sunny Side of the Street.”

The parade’slargest unit was theHomer A. Plessy Community School’smarching band. Rowsof musicians wore green, black and white uniforms.

Typically,the parade’smarcherstake arightatthe corner of St. Annand Chartres to enter Jackson Square in front of the St. Louis Cathedral. But the bollards and barricades blocking vehicle access to the pedestrian mall —part of new security measures following the deadly Bourbon Street terrorist attack in theearly morning hoursof Jan.1 —forced the Plessy band to turn left on Chartresinstead.The brass band musicians, Baby Dolls and Blues Brothers were betterable to squeeze between the bollards.

Emily Madero,the president and CEO of the nonprofit French QuarterFestivals Inc., which produces thefestival, welcomed attendeesto theannual“love lettertoNew Orleans.”

Deacon Richard M. Brady,ofSt. Louis Cathedral, offered an opening prayer,then tackedona “laissezle bontemps rouler” after “amen ” Preservation Brass, an offshoot of Preservation Hall’scollective of musicians, kickedoff music at the square with amix of traditional jazz standards and original compositions, including “LuckyDog.”

“Let thechurchsay ‘Amen’!”

enthused saxophonist Roderick Paulin.Whenthe cheer wasn’t loud enough, he added “the entire church!” Across thesquarefrom thestage, theofferings at the combined booths for Jacques Leonardi’stwo restaurants, Crabby Jack’sand Jacques-Imo’s, included a“festival exclusive”:a crab, butter lettuce, artichokeand citrus salad.

Leonardi,aFrench Quarter Fest vendorsince right after Hurricane Katrina, shuts down Crabby Jack’s during the festival so the staff can work the food booth instead.

In response to acustomer’squery about the different restaurant names on the conjoinedbooths, Leonardiresponded, “I’m Crabby in the morning, thenJacques at night.”

Holy Cross Schoolschedules its annual 7th grade French Quarter field trip to coincide withthe festival’sopeningday.After visiting the Presbytere and Cabildo,the 70 or so students, accompanied by parents and chaperones,werefreeto explore thefestival’sofferings in Jackson Square. Thesno-ball stand

proved especially popular

Cajun music fans braved thehot blacktop of the Jax Brewery parkinglot to hear accordionist Bruce Daigrepontand his band pump out French-language waltzes. Adance floor laid outnear thestage stayed full throughout the set. An elevated, tented VIP viewing area took up aswath of thefield at the main Abita Beer Stage in Woldenberg Riverfront Park. The Casa SambaExtravaganza was a Brazilian-style Carnival come to life with plenty of percussionand plumage,the latter in the form of red, orange, green and yellow feathersonthe dancers’headdresses. Back at the NewOrleans.com Stage in Jackson Square, Lena Prima channeled nother late father,singer and showman Louis Prima, but another alpha-male entertainer,Tom Jones. As akid, Lena explained, “I pretended Iwas Tom Jones.I’m gonnakindofdothat right now.”

She andher band jumpedinto Jones’ signature “What’s New Pussycat” with abaritone sax leading theway.Theysegued into

Jones’“Delilah” and “She’saLady,” detouredinto Prince’s“Kiss” and wound up back at Jones’ “It’sNot Unusual.” Prima and her horn-heavy band used their own “Kickin’ It Old School” to sample ’70s funkstandardsfrom the likes of Sly Stone and George Clinton.Theyfast-forwarded to the 1980s for an instrumental take on Wham’s “Careless Whisper”and aswinging rearrangementofa-Ha’s40-year-old hit “Take On Me.” Ahalf-dozenstaffersand volunteers fromWWOZ90.7 FM stole away from thecommunityradio station’s studios on Jax Brewery’sfifth floor to see oneofthe station’s onair hosts, Cole Williams, sing at the Tropical Isle Hand Grenade Stage With the City of New Orleans paddle wheeler docked behind her, Williams was sheathedinanelegant pink dress trimmedintulleasshe frontedadeep-groovedbandanchored by John “Papa” Gros on organ. Accompanying herself on keyboard, she sang of “The Golden Road,” her voice as sunny as the French Quarter Fest’sopening day

ElizabethTillman Wolfe, age 74, wasonbornon March 2, 1951, in Houma, Louisiana.She left our presenceonWednesday, April 2, 2025. Sheissur‐vived by herdaughter, SamanthaTillman Robin‐son (Terry), of Baton Rouge;sonsAnthony Craig Tillman,TyroneTillman (Lucille) andDominique Talley, of Houma, KevinTill‐man (Regina) ,ofSan Anto‐nio;childrenofloveMilton Wolfe Jr., MalcolmWolfe (Karen) ,Lynette W. Celes‐tine, allofHouma;grand‐childrenJacoby (Rashanda), Bethanyand Jared Robinson,Shakanya Bias(Terrance), Tamia, Nioriaand Kamryn Tillman, JerailLawson; siblings Bev‐erlyShepherd(Lionel), Alvin TillmanSr. (Alicia) and CharlesBass; sister-inlaw JoannTillman;brotherin-lawRay Townsend; client/friend JaredArm‐strong; andmanycher‐ished nieces,nephews other relativesand friends. She wasprecededindeath byher husband Milton Wolfe Sr.; parentsClarence Tillman Sr.and IreneSims Tillman;siblingsCalvin Tillman Sr HerbertTillman Sr.,ClarenceTillman Jr., MarshaT.Townsendand RobertLee Tillman, Angela Tillman;grandparents Joseph“Joe” Tillman, BerthaRobertson,Thomas and Lula JonesSims; sis‐ters-in-law Constance Brown Tillman, Barbara Tillman andTheonitaTay‐lor Tillman, daughter-inlaw of love Gail Marie Wolfe.Relatives and friends of thefamilyare in‐vited to join in theCelebra‐tionofher Life Serviceon Friday, April11, 2025, at Greater St.MatthewsBap‐tistChurch,183 Smith Lane, Houma, LA 70360 at 11:00 a.m..Visitationfrom 9 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Inter‐mentCrescentFarmCeme‐tery, Savanne Road Houma,LA. Youmay sign guest book on http://www gertrudegeddeswillis.com. Gertrude GeddesWillis-Ter‐rebonne FuneralHome, Inc. incharge, (985) 872-6934.

The French Quarter Festival opening dayparade arrives at Jackson Square on Thursday.

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Festivalgoersdance to BruceDaigrepontCajun Band at the Chevron Stage during the first

Council to pay School Board $10M

Move comes after Cantrell abandoned deal

BY BEN MYERS Staff writer

The New Orleans City Council has agreed to pay the Orleans Parish School Board an additional $10 million, ratcheting up a controversy over schools funding that has pit Mayor LaToya Cantrell against the School Board, divided City Hall staff and drawn criticism from state officials.

Tulane suspends

2 groups inhazing probe

Delta Tau Delta, Phi Kappa Sigma under investigation

BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

Two Tulane University fraternities have been suspended while they are under investigation for hazing, a university official confirmed Thursday.

The fraternities, Delta Tau Delta and Phi Kappa Sigma, were placed under interim suspension pending the outcome of investigations into alleged hazing, Mike Strecker a spokesperson for the university, said in a statement.

“The health, safety, and well-being of students is our highest priority and we have robust training and resources dedicated to preventing hazing in all forms,” Strecker said in an email. “We take these matters seriously and will continue to uphold our community standards as the investigative process moves forward.”

The suspensions were first reported by Tulane’s student newspaper, The Hullabaloo. Neither fraternity immediately responded to inquiries.

Though Strecker declined to link the investigation to any specific incident, the Tulane University Police Department has investigated several reports of alleged hazing this semester

A hazing incident was reported to Tulane University police on April 3 in the 800 block of Broadway Street, according to the Tulane University Police Department crime log.

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6-year-old hit, killed by school bus

BY KASEY BUBNASH Staff writer

The New Orleans

Department said the

had

of a car to board the bus in the 1400 block of Desire Street at 8 a.m. and was hit. The child was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His aunt identified him as Mason Richards, WWL Louisiana reported.

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The council on Thursday also voted to impose restrictions on the city’s long-standing practice of taking a cut of the taxes it collects on the School Board’s behalf. The practice is the basis of the School Board’s 6-year-old lawsuit against Cantrell’s administration, which has grown increasingly bitter as it nears trial.

The latest $10 million payment would come on top of an initial $10 million that is already in the city’s budget. Both payments were envisioned by the council, the board and Cantrell’s Chief Administrative Officer Gilbert Montano as a settlement for the lawsuit. All told, those parties agreed the city would pay $90 million over a decade. Cantrell, along with Chief Finan-

cial Officer Romy Samuel and City Attorney Donesia Turner, have resisted paying the first $10 million, though the city has been ordered to by a Civil District Court judge.

The judge, Nicole Sheppard, determined the rest of the proposed settlement was never finalized.

“We are not being fair to our children. We had an agreement that we would settle the litigation and do so by funding it in a certain way,” District A council member Joe Giarrusso said before the votes on Thursday The vote to pay the School Board was unanimous. The vote to change rules for collection fees was 6-0, with council member Freddie King absent. The fight over whether to settle the lawsuit comes as the School Board is grappling with a $50 million budget deficit, caused in part by an accounting foul-up

CONNECTING THE RIVERFRONT

Audubon starts work on park project that will link French Quarter wharves

BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

For more than a century, the wharves on the edge of the French Quarter at Gov Nicholls Street and Esplanade Avenue served as a hub of activity for New Orleans’ bustling maritime sector In more recent years, the structures have sat largely vacant, blocking access to the Mississippi River, even as parks and walking paths on either side of the wharves have welcomed people to the banks of the city’s most prized natural asset.

Now, after years of planning — along with delays and cost increases — construction has begun to convert the two wharves into a quarter-mile park.

On Wednesday work crews began removing the roof from the hulking warehouse on the Gov Nicholls Street wharf, kicking off the first phase of the project, which is being spearheaded by the Audubon Nature Institute and has been dubbed Riverfront for All.

Over the next few months, the warehouse will be largely demolished. A portion will be retained for use as an open-air

Family

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shed, where events and community gatherings can be held. The rest of the site will be turned into green space, according to information provided by Audubon President and CEO Michael Sawaya.

Also included in the first phase of the project will be construction of the path

connecting the pedestrian-friendly wharves upriver — which includes Spanish Plaza, the Algiers Ferry Landing, Woldenberg Park and the Moonwalk — with Crescent Park on the downriver side.

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child attacked by foster dog sues parish

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Pedestrians walk along the Mississippi River near the site of the future park Work crews have

removing the roof from the hulking warehouse on the Gov. Nicholls Street wharf, kicking off the first phase of the project.

STAFF PHOTOS By SOPHIA GERMER

A person rides a bicycle Wednesday past a gap where workers removed a section of the wharf along the Mississippi River to make room for the Audubon Nature Institute’s new Riverfront for All park in New Orleans.

STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE

Advocates urge approval of ‘virtual power plant’

BY JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writer

Beating drums and ringing bells, dozens of advocates and religious leaders gathered on the steps of New Orleans City Hall Thursday to urge local officials and Entergy to quickly move forward on a “virtual power plant” plan for backup clean energy during outages and hurricanes.

Six months after the City Council greenlit the idea, community groups want an official plan approved and funded, citing the looming 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina as a reminder of the need to take action.

Together New Orleans and the Alliance for Affordable Energy say the plan is crucial to equip the city for disasters and outages, while also lowering electricity costs and providing more clean energy The nonprofits criticized Entergy New Orleans for not installing “microgrids” around the city that can power facilities when the traditional grid fails, while the advocacy groups have built out a network.

“We are here today to create a sense of urgency for our city council and our utility system to act to better protect the citizens of this city during the growing dangers of outages,” said Shawn Anglim, a pastor and leader with Together New Orleans. Entergy, meanwhile, stresses that it is committed to resiliency The company is proposing a utility-run plan that would expand grid resiliency using the same technology on a longer timeframe and using fewer funds than the nonprofit groups are requesting.

Nyka Scott, vice president of customer service and economic development at Entergy New Orleans, said the plan would be an additional “cog in the wheel” of related initiatives, such as smart thermostats, solar and traditional grid hardening.

“It really does fit nicely with all the other things we’re doing to make our system more resilient to these more frequent and stronger storms,” Scott said. “We’ve been saying our goal is to get power back

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The case was closed and no further action was taken.

Three incidents of hazing and three incidents of aggravated assault were reported April 4 in the 900 block of Broadway Street. A separate investigation into hazing and aggravated assault reported in the 700 block of Broadway Street on April 4 is still open.

Tulane policy defines hazing as any act that “humiliates, degrades,

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The bus driver stayed at the scene during the investigation, police said. Officers conducted a field sobriety test on the bus driver and investigators do not believe that impairment contributed to the collision, according to the NOPD. Ashley Daniels-Hall, a spokesperson for Kipp New Orleans Schools confirmed the boy was a Kipp student.

on as quickly and fast as possible and safely as possible, and you know the way we do that honestly is to put bigger, stronger poles in.”

In October the council launched the process to bring the virtual power plants to the city, earmarking $32 million in Entergy settlement funds to potentially finance the project.

“It’s kind of a new way obviously of doing things and an out-of-the-box way of doing things, but it is something that is happening in other parts of the country, and why not do it here?” council member-at-large

Helena Moreno, who chairs the City Council’s climate and sustainability committee said in an interview later “I think it makes all the sense in the world.”

Moreno, who is running for mayor this fall, said she wants to push the plan forward as quickly as possible.

“I definitely want to get it done before my term is over,” Moreno said.

The efforts of Together New Orleans emerged in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida and the deadly outages following the 2021 storm. Since then, the organization has built over a dozen solar and battery-powered microgrids, a network of “community lighthouses” of churches, community centers and shelters. Another organization, Feed the Second Line, built similar hubs at a handful of restaurants, an effort that Entergy helped support.

During Hurricane Francine last year, all of the finished lighthouses stayed up and running during blackouts — a successful test run for more damaging weather events in the future, advocates noted during the presser

“My church now has 408 solar panels on it, connected to an 8,000-pound battery,” said Antoine Barriere, a pastor at Household of Faith Family Worship. “When the grid fails, our lights stay on. We have charging stations, cooling, refrigeration, communication. We stay online and ready to serve.”

The proposals by the advocacy groups and Entergy before the City Council are more ambitious than the lighthouse program, sounding almost sci-fi. Alternatively called

embarrasses, harasses, or ridicules an individual” and is considered a condition for joining a group.

Tulane police have investigated several other alleged hazing-related incidents this semester, including a report of hazing Feb. 19 and a report of hazing and aggravated assault March 19 that were both referred to the university’s Office of Student Conduct. The police are investigating allegations of hazing made Feb 21 at the Phi Delta Theta House and another in the 1200 block of Broadway Street reported on March 13.

Several Greek organizations are no longer “recognized” by the uni-

“Our thoughts are with the family, and we are offering our full support to them and to our school community during this incredibly difficult time,” Daniels-Hall said in a statement “We are working closely with local authorities to understand the circumstances surrounding this tragedy.” School staff are providing grief counseling and support services to those affected, Daniels-Hall said. Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s office could not be reached Thursday evening for comment. The city has taken a greater role in promoting school bus safety since 2019, when

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School Board member Olin Parker said Thursday that the city’s payments would help the board fund needed programs for schoolchildren, including a program that recently helped a student after he was shot.

“Not only did he get care coordination, but he received trauma and grief counseling,” Parker said. “(This funding) is for real life situations that are happening to our students on a daily basis.”

The Cantrell administration has said the city cannot afford the payment and accused the School Board of financial mismanagement. The council “acted beyond its legal authority” in approving the payout and other changes Thursday, officials said in a statement.

Cantrell also hinted that the city could challenge the changes in court When the council previously “exceeded its authority” by trying to hold the mayor to the School Board deal it brokered, “litigation arose,” the statement said.

“The Administration will be reviewing the new ordinances closely, in consultation with legal counsel, and will keep all options on the table,” officials said.

consider, the Cantrell administration argued the judge’s order infringed on Cantrell’s spending discretion and said the payment amounts to an illegal donation.

The School Board responded by accusing the administration “of doing everything in their power in the dark of night to dodge the city’s responsibilities.”

The settlement deal aside, the overarching case hinges on whether the fee collections by the city are lawful. A trial in the case is scheduled for June 9.

Meanwhile, state education officials said this week they will probe the School Board’s budget crisis, while state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley said Cantrell “hasn’t done enough to work through this issue.”

The council also voted to end the city’s practice of fee collections through the end of next year, and to require agreements with agencies it collects taxes for before imposing services fees in the future. School officials said their fees totaled $10.5 million last year, an amount that council President JP Morrell said is “out of whack.” He said other parishes charge between $200,000 and $750,000 for tax collection services.

virtual power plants or distributed energy resources, the technology aggregates the solar-tied battery systems to ease strain on the grid during peak demand and serve as backup clean energy during outages.

The advocacy groups want to supply batteries for up to 1,500 solarequipped homes and over 100 facilities — such as shelters and hospitals — over a three-year period using $32 million of Entergy settlement funds.

Estimates have determined these funds could leverage an additional $48 million in private capital and federal dollars, Broderick Bagert, an organizer for Together New Orleans, said.

Entergy, meanwhile, is proposing around $10 million of the settlement money over a five-year period to fund its virtual power plant proposal.

“$32 million is a lot of money,” Scott said. “When we settled the case, that money was specifically dedicated to customer reimbursements that will benefit all customers, not just a small set of customers who may be able to access solar panels and battery backup.”

Both proposals, however, do seek to address accessibility with incentives for low and middle-income households that participate. The advocacy groups are proposing an upfront incentive rate that would have a cap of $10,000 for most residential properties and $300,000 for commercial or institutional systems, and an additional incentive for lowincome residents.

Entergy is proposing lower incentive rates that would encourage battery installation for the 10,000 customers participating in the utility’s net meter solar program. A low or middle-income resident installing a battery in their home might receive a $5,400 incentive under the Entergy program, according to the utility’s proposal compared to the $12,000 cap under the advocates’ proposal.

Email Josie Abugov at josie. abugov@theadvocate.com.

versity for violating the student code of conduct, including 828, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Pi Kappa Alpha, Sigma Phi Epsilon and Sigma Alpha Mu. Earlier this year Caleb Wilson, a Southern University student, was killed during an alleged hazing incident, reigniting conversations about hazing prevention among university officials and lawmakers. A proposed bill would require college students who are members of Greek life or other organizations to complete an hour of anti-hazing training within their first two semesters of membership.

it began conducting inspections on buses and issuing permits to the for-hire companies that transport students following the death of a child hit by a bus several years earlier The 2014 death of first grader Shaud Wilson highlighted gaps in the system since the city went to an all-charter system after Hurricane Katrina. The city now also requires background checks and drug tests for school bus drivers. As a City Council member, Cantrell also worked to secure grant money to help make school bus routes safer

The council, as an independent body intervened in the lawsuit on the School Board’s behalf this year after Cantrell put the kibosh on a settlement proposal her top deputy had agreed to. It was only the latest example of acrimony between the council and the mayor’s administration, and it showcased split loyalties among senior City Hall staff.

The $90 million settlement proposal included two lump sum payments of $10 million apiece, as well as funding for school programs over the next decade.

Judge Sheppard ruled on March 18 that the proposed settlement was never finalized, but ordered the city to make the first payment because it is already in the budget.

When asking Sheppard to re-

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When completed, the path will give walkers, joggers and cyclists nearly 2.3 miles of continuous riverfront access. Sawaya’s predecessor longtime Audubon CEO Ron Forman, who has pushed for the project since at least 2018, has said Riverfront for All will serve as a “front porch view of the river for the people of New Orleans.” Forman spent the last few years at the helm of Audubon working to bring the project to fruition and continues to fundraise for it in his new role at the institute as chair in Conservation Leadership. While a construction crane was working on the site Thursday, crowds were filling the nearby streets for the kickoff of French Quarter Fest. Next year, the wharf should be ready to welcome festgoers for the annual event, an Audubon spokesperson said.

A long time coming Planning for the Riverfront for All has been in the works since Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration. In the years since, the price tag has ballooned as the coronavirus pandemic and inflation sent the cost of labor and material soaring. Securing permits from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers also took longer than expected, further adding to

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The lawsuit says that in February 2023, the previous owner of a “pit bull mix” named “Tate,” short for “Tater Tot,” gave the dog to the parish and requested that it be euthanized The owner told the parish the dog had attacked, injured and killed several animals and that the dog was afraid of young children. The parish, which operates a no-kill shelter, then put up the dog for adoption, the lawsuit alleges, advertising Tate as a Labrador Retriever mix that was very sweet.

Less than a month after Tate was put up for adoption, Bolline, a mother of two young children, responded to the advertisement and took the dog home after telling the parish about her young kids. She alleges the parish failed to inform her about the dog’s aggressive behavior and history As Bolline’s daughter was sitting in the living room of her

“The city cannot be in the business of forever collecting taxes for free. But the fees need to be negotiated,” Morrell said, adding that fees “need to be commensurate with the activity and the work done.”

Giarrusso said he intends to fulfill the city’s end of the aborted settlement agreement with additional funding measures to pay for School Board programming. Leaders of two public charter school systems also told council members they are planning dozens of layoffs next year because of funding shortages.

Asked afterward if the School Board should drop its lawsuit if the additional funding measures pass, Giarrusso said, “We expect the OPSB to recognize the deal and then do what it needs to do with the lawsuit.”

Email Ben Myers at bmyers@ theadvocate.com.

the delays.

The total cost of redeveloping the wharves was originally estimated at around $15 million. By the time plans were unveiled in mid-2023, that figured had doubled to $30 million.

Now, the first phase alone is expected to cost about $40 million, with a total price tag that could exceed $55 million.

The project’s second phase, now pushed back to 2027, will involve redeveloping the Esplanade Avenue Wharf. Plans are still being finalized for that part of the project, though an earlier set of renderings showed more green space and recreational areas at the site. Funding for project, so far has come from several sources, including $15 million from the city and $9 million from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. The Audubon Nature Institute contributed the balance and continues to raise money A recent $7.8 million donation will cover planning costs for phase two, according to Sawaya. Audubon officials are still negotiating with the city over funding to maintain the Riverfront for All park, previously estimated to cost $1.5 million a year The discussions are tied up in a larger negotiation that would give Audubon control over the entire downtown riverfront.

Email Stephanie Riegel at stephanie.riegel@theadvocate. com.

Slidell home on March 16, 2023, without warning Tate attacked her, the suit says. Reynolds said the child suffered deep lacerations and had to undergo plastic surgery He said she will likely need more surgeries. The parish denies that its actions led to the damages done to Bolline’s daughter Reynolds said a trial date has not been set. Email Willie Swett at willie. swett@theadvocate.com.

Pastor Antoine Barriere, of Household of Faith Family Worship Church International, speaks Thursday outside City Hall in New Orleans during a news conference calling for swift action on a virtual power plant plan designed to keep the city running on clean energy during storms.

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Sister Betty Jean Robin‐son Baptiste wasbornon July21, 1942, to Hebert RobinsonSr. andMartha Wright Robinson.She was born, raised,and educated inthe Shrewsbury Commu‐nity. HerChristian journey began here at FirstZion Baptist Church.She has servedinseveral capaci‐tiesinher 70 +years as a baptizedmemberinFZBC, suchasseniorchoir mem‐ber,SundaySchool Super‐intendent andteacher SummerVacationBible School Teacher, anda memberofWomen of Tem‐perance.She remained faithfulinattendanceand continued to lean andde‐pendonGod throughout her life’s journey. Shewas a proudMartynite (JohnH MartinHighSchool), where she attended from grade through high school.She servedascoand vice pres‐ident of theJohnH.Martin AlumniCommittee for manyyears.She graduated fromJohnH.MartinHigh School in1960. Shethenat‐tended Northeast Louisiana University,Del‐gado, andSt. Mary’s Do‐minican College. Shewas a Jefferson Parish Public School System retireeand anactiveRetired Teachers of LouisianaAssociation member. Sheleavesto mourn herloss, herchil‐dren, RenaldoMaxwell Baptiste(Spokane, Wash‐ington),GretchenB.West‐ley,and Kimberly B. Pick‐ney;her siblings,Herbert Robinson, Jr., Brenda Robinson, and Mary Robin‐son Anderson;her sisterin-law, Eloise Robinson; brother-in-law, BryanAn‐derson; sons-in-law, Carlos A.Westley andLarry J. Pickney Jr.; Grandchildren, KelseyJ.Westley (Howard M.Verrett),JustinL.Pick‐ney,VictoriaE.Jones (DavidM.Jones), andKayla A.Westley;Great-grand‐son,WesleyM.Verrett; special cousinsand friends,Catherine Heim, GailScott Gillespie, Jackie Martin, BeverlySharpe, AlethaTurnerLyles, Dorothy Bruster, Anita Scott, MorrisDillard,Jamie Bryant, andKeith Fontain. Alsosurvivedbya host of nieces, nephews, great nieces, nephewsother rel‐ativesand friends. Sheis precededindeath by her parents; grandmother, MaryHamiltonWright; aunt CelestineJones;un‐cles, Mose andJames Wright; brothers,Edward, Aaron,Ray,and Michael Robinson; nephews, Over‐landRobinsonTartand Mario Hobson.Relatives and friendsofthe family, alsopastors,officers and members of FirstZionBap‐tistChurch andall neigh‐boringchurches,friends and classmates of John H. MartinHighSchool,North‐east LouisianaUniversity, Delgado Community Col‐legeand St,Mary'sDomini‐can College, andformer studentsand coworkersof Jefferson Parish School Systemand of course our extendedfamilythe ShrewsburyCommunity are allinvited to attend SisterBatiste's Homegoing Celebration on Saturday April 12, 2025 at 10:00amat First Zion BaptistChurch 1221 Causeway Blvd., Jef‐ferson, La.70121. Inter‐ment will follow at Provi‐dence Memorial Park,8200 Airline Dr., Metairie,La. Visitationwillbegin at 9:00 aminthe above-named church.Toview thefull obituarypleasevisit https://www.dennismortu aryservice.com/obituary/ betty-baptiste

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cember 18, 1956, in NewOr‐leans,LA. Shedeparted thisearthly home on Thursday,April 3, 2025. She was agraduateofthe New Orleans Parish School Sys‐tem andwas an employee ofthe NewOrleans Cae‐sarsSuperdome and Smootie King Center JoAnn wasthe loving motherofLarry Joseph Berzat, Jr.(Devonda),Rod‐erick Berzat,Sr. (Calina), and TyronBerzat. Devoted sisterofTinaToledano, DwaynePeadenand HaroldPeaden, Jr.(Gloria). Sister-in-law of RoyWells JoAnn wasalsosurvived bya host of nieces, nephews,cousins,family and friends. Shewas pre‐ceded in deathbyher hus‐bandLarry Berzat,Sr.;her parents Harold Peaden,Sr. and DorothyMae Peaden; her sonTorin Berzat;her sisterShelita Wells;and her brother-in-law Troy Toledano. Relativesand friends of thefamily, also staff of NewOrleans Cae‐sarsSuperdome and SmoothieKingCenterare invited to attend theCele‐bration of Life Serviceon Saturday, April12, 2025, at GertrudeGeddesWillisFu‐neral Home,2120 Jackson Avenue,New Orleans, LA 70113 at 12:30 p.m. Family Hourfrom11:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. PrivateBurial. You maysignthe guest book on http://www.ger trudegeddeswillis.com Gertrude GeddesWillisFu‐neral Home Inc.,incharge (504) 522-2525.

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Rita ReauxBrown de‐partedthislifeonMarch 29, 2025 at theage of 65 The wife of Donald Brown, Sr. anddaughterofthe late Willie D. Hill andJaneFran‐cis Reaux; Mother of Sharita,Mary, andMarvin Reaux,JohnJohnson and DonaldBrown, Sr.One sonin-law, MichaelWilliams, Sr. andone daughter-inlaw,Kovanda Reaux; sister ofBarbara Charles, Myme Otkins, andthe late Veron‐ica Hunter,Angela, Donald and AnthonyReaux and Donaldand Jerry Hill;God‐motherofDeweltress Bassronne andTerrica Bass; 3aunts, Emelda Mc‐Donald, Amelia Thomas and HelenMosley. Sheis alsosurvivedby21grand‐childrenand 6great grand‐childrenand otherrela‐tives andfriends.Relatives and friendsofthe family, pastors,officers andmem‐bersofthe GreaterAsia Baptist Church,also, Em‐ployees of RedWhite & Blue, SalvationArmyand Sisters of theHolyFamily are invitedtoattend her FuneralService at Rhodes FuneralHomeonSaturday, April 12, 2025 at 1:00 pm Visitationwillbegin at 12:00 pm.The funeralser‐vicecan be livestreamed byvisitingwww.facebook com/D.W.RhodesFuneralHo me/live.Interment:St. Vin‐centDePaulCemeteryNo. 2., 1950 Soniat St., NewOr‐leans,LA70115. Arrange‐mentbyD.W.RhodesFu‐neral Home,3933 Washing‐ton Avenue.Pleasevisit www.rhodesfuneral.comto signthe online guestbook

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he served as Senior Class President.Ernestwenton toearnhis degree in Social WorkfromSouthernUni‐versity at NewOrleans (SUNO). He wasbornon January 9, 1957, to thelate WillardM.Butlerand Flo‐rence M. Butler.Hewas precededindeath by his grandparentsEdwardand Lovie Ateman,and Matthew andLeeEster But‐ler.Ernestissurvivedby his loving children,Ernest L.ButlerJr, (Niya) and Shemika Johnson, and leavesbehind10grandchil‐dren, Da’Shawn Davis, KhalilThomas(Merjani) EricJohnson,Da’Janae Johnson,SummerButler, Nigel Butler,ErnestButler III, NirieyaButler, Brooklyn Andrews andBraylon An‐drews.Hewas also blessedwithone surviving sibling,his sister Leeirma ButlerofGeorgia.Hewas precededindeath by his siblings, Jaquelyn B. Jones, SharonR.Butler, WillardJ Butler, Edward G. Butler and Reginald "Butch"But‐ler.Alsomourninghis loss are hisaunt andgod‐mother, Olga B. Bankston; 9 nephews; 8nieces; anda lovingextendedfamily. He was preceded in deathby4 auntsand 3uncles. Ernest willberememberedfor his humorousnature, warmth, and unwavering love for his familyand community His legacy livesoninthe heartsofall who knew him.The familyinvites you tojointhemina Celebra‐tionofLifeatGreater Anti‐och MissionaryBaptist Church,2126 SimonBolivar Avenue,New Orleans, LA onSaturday, April12, 2025, at10:00 a.m. Church visita‐tionwillbegin at 9:00 a.m. The servicewillbeoffici‐atedbyPastorWilliam P. Jackson.Interment will fol‐low at ResthavenMemorial Park, 10400 OldGentilly Road, NewOrleans,LA 70127. Professional service entrusted to Littlejohn Fu‐neral Home,2163 Aubry Street,Cal K. Johnson, Fu‐neral Director/Manager, (504) 940-0045.

Claire Ruth DanielsGrif‐finCarey,age 81, wasborn onMarch 10, 1944 in New Orleans,LA. Shedeparted thisearthly home on Sun‐day,March 30, 2025. Claire attended Holy Ghost Catholic School.She wasa graduateofWalterL Cohen High School,Dillard Universityand Xavier Uni‐versity of NewOrleans Clairewas also amember ofBlessings Beyond Inter‐nationalChurch anda re‐tired AdaptedPhysicalEd‐ucation Teacher. Claire was thelovingwifeofHay‐wardCarey,Jr. Beloved motherofNicoleKalani Griffin-Shaw.Devoted sis‐ter of LauraD.Bell. She was also survived by two grandchildren,BrookeVic‐toria Griffin, F. BrettGriffin, one great-granddaughter, Ariel Ruth MarieBeck, her favoritenephew/sonEric StevenBelland ahostof nieces, greatnephews cousins,The Big6,family and friends. Shewas pre‐ceded in deathbyher par‐entsLeonard T. Daniels, Jr and LillianC.Daniels,one sisterCarolyn Daniels, and one brotherLeonard T. Daniels III. Relativesand friends of thefamilyare in‐vited to attend theCele‐bration of Life Serviceon Saturday, April12, 2025 at First Street Peck Wesley UnitedMethodist Church, 2309 DryadesStreet,New Orleans,LA70113 at 11:15 a.m.Visitationfrom9:00 a.m.until 11:00 a.m. Private Burial. Youmay sign the guest book on http://www gertrudegeddeswillis.com. Gertrude GeddesWillisFu‐neral Home Inc.,incharge (504) 522-2525.

CatherineScheffler who cultivatedher love of fam‐ily andcelebration.She at‐tendedSt. Anthonyof Padua School,Dominican HighSchool,and Soule BusinessCollege before going to work at Higgins ShipyardduringWorld War II. It waswhile workingat Higgins that shemet her futurehusband,Lloyd Bumps” Comeaux, aMer‐chant Marine andsemi-pro baseballplayer. Afriendin‐troducedthembecause theywere“both tall”and would have funtogether Loisand Bumpsmarried in 1947. They couldn’t wait to start afamilyoftheir own, and theirchildren, Bobby, Cindy,and Suzy,meant the world to them.Loiswas a fan of NewOrleans cook‐ing andwas renownedfor her deliciouscuisine.She couldn’tunderstandwhy other people didn’t like gumbo!(Except of course Lois’ gumbo, which was widelyagreed to be the bestanyoneeverhad.) She loved thecity, theSaints, crawfish boils, andMardi Gras. Lois wasalwaysthe bestdressed, knownfor her senseofstyle,elabo‐rategroup costumes,and wonderful partieswhere she lovedtoact as host‐ess. Sheadoredthe vibrant spiritofNew Orleans, where shewould have stayedfor life if notfor Hurricane Katrinain2005, whenher plannedthreeday evacuation to Houston becamea much longer staythananticipated.For‐tunately, so strong was Lois’ spirit andvivacity thatitgatheredher loved onestoher from across manymiles andmultiple states; within years, much ofthe familyhad followed her to Texas, where sheen‐joyed her finalyears sur‐rounded by thoseshe loved andwho lovedher Loiswas preceded in death byher husband Bumps, her sisterPatricia, herbrother Harold, Jr andher son-inlaw Brian. Sheissurvived byher threechildren (Bobby[Elaine], Cindy [Tim],and Suzy), seven grandchildren (Cory, Brad [Cambre], Doug,Chris, Michelle [Taylor],Derek and Katie[Alex]), and seven great-grandchildren (Cruz,William,Brad, Ben, Erin, Eli, andSara).Loiswill alwaysberememberedfor her fashionable style, her brightsmile,and herbig heart.Wecouldn’thave asked fora better mother/Mimi andwillmiss her everyday.Her memory willliveoninthe hearts of all thosewho lovedher Relatives andfriends are invited to attend thefu‐neral mass in thechapelof GardenofMemoriesFu‐neral Home,4900 Airline Dr.,Metairie, LA.70001 on Saturday, April12, at 12:00 pm, with visitation begin‐ningat10:00 am.The inter‐mentwillfollowthe mass atLakeLawnParkMau‐soleum.

Daniels, Valda MarieWilder

Janice Cotton,bornto James andAnnieB.Bell, July31, 1944, shedeparted thislifeonMarch 29, 2025, ather home in Harvey,La. She was80years old. She was thesecondofthree daughters.She wasa na‐tiveofNew Orleansand Harvey, LA.She wasa graduateofLincoln High School.She wasemployed byWinn- Dixieand Jeffer‐son Parish School Board. The loving Mother of Are‐via,Yvette,John, Ira, and the Late TyranCotton. She isthe sister of theLate Claudia Bell Cobb and RhondaOlivier.She was the wife of thelateRev JohnW.Cotton. Sheissur‐vived by 4Children, 13 Grand Children,10Great Children, 1Sister, 1Sisterin-law, anda host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and otherrelatives,and friends.Relatives and Friends of thefamilyalso employees of Winn -Dixie and JeffersonParish School BoardSystemare invited to attend theCele‐bration of Life at Second ZionBaptist Church #1, 2929 Second Street,New Orleans,La.,April 11, 2025, at10:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9a.m until 10 a.m.Interment will follow atRestlawnParkCemetery inAvondale, LA.Funeral planningentrusted to RobinsonFamilyFuneral Home, 9611 La -23, Belle Chasse,La70037 (504) 2082119. Foronlinecondo‐lences please visitwww

ValdaMarie Wilder Daniels,90, passedaway peacefully on March30, 2025, surrounded by family atPassagesHospice New Orleans after abrief ill‐ness. Alifelongresidentof New Orleans, shewas born onSeptember 1, 1934 to the unionofthe late Albert Wilder andVivianHaynes Richmond. Valdaspent her formative yearsunder the tutelageofher maternal grandparents, Elsieand BenjaminHaynes. Valdaat‐tendedF.P.RicardElemen‐tarySchool,BookerT WashingtonHighSchool, and graduatedfromMc‐Donogh 35 Senior High School in NewOrleans Precociousand outspoken froma young age, shewas admittedtocollege at the age of 15 andinfouryears earneda bachelor's degree inElementaryEducation fromXavierUniversity. In 1955, shemarried thelove ofher life,William Mack Daniels.Two daughters, who thecouplelovingly raised, were born to this union.Valda worked for morethan42years in the Orleans Parish School Sys‐tem servinginmanyposi‐tions,inclusive of acting principal,but primarilyas anelementaryschool teacher forthe thirdand fifthgrades. Afterher re‐tirement, sheenjoyed both domesticand international travelwithfamily, going to casinos,attending theoc‐casionalSaintsgame, watchingthe Pelicans bas‐ketball gamesontelevi‐sion, andofcoursetalking onthe telephone. She leavestocherish hermem‐ory,daughters Theda Daniels-Race, PhD(Paul) and UricaDaniels Regis, MBA (Wayne). Hergrand‐childrenKylan (Chelsea), PeytonRace, andRoyce Regis remember theun‐conditional love shownby their grandmotherwho theyfondlycalledPre‐cious.Additionally,her manygodchildren, family, friends,neighbors,and the hundredsofchildrenshe taughtduringher career mourn herloss. Shewas precededindeath by her husband of 69 years WilliamMackDaniels and parents,AlbertWilderand VivianHaynesRichmond. VisitationwillbeonSatur‐day,April 12, 2025, at St RitaCatholicChurch,2729 Lowerline Street in NewOr‐leans from 9:30 am –10:30 am. Amemorialmasswill immediatelyfollow. Inter‐mentwillbeatLakeLawn Parkand Cemetery at 5454 Pontchartrain Boulevard, New Orleansfollowing the mass. Arrangements en‐trusted to D.W. Rhodes Fu‐neral Home,3933 Washing‐ton Avenue.Pleasevisit www.rhodesfuneral.com to signthe online guestbook.

KennethAnthony Derbigny passedawayat hishomeinHouston, Texas after abrief illness on February 23 at 73 years of age. Born November 15, 1952, in NewOrleans Louisiana, Kennethwas theeighthofnine children born to theunionofArthur PeterDerbigny andAlma Rixner Derbigny,both of whom predeceasedhim by many years. Kennethattended Corpus Christi ElementarySchool and wasa proudgraduate of St.Augustine High School. He went on to matriculate at theUniversity of Pennsylvania andthereafter pursued several other noteworthycareer paths, including astint at theGemological Institute of America in pursuit of certification as alicensed gemologist, followed by a tourofdutyinthe United States Navy, from which he

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received an honorable discharge. Subsequently, he chose to settle in Houston where, under the guidance of his brother Roland, alicensed civil engineer, he began working as acommercial/industrial project inspector with the Fugro Company, amulti-national geodata servicescompany based in the Netherlands. Affectionately known within the family as "Brown", Kenneth was an intensely independent, private and single minded individual in lifelong pursuit of his dreams and ambitions. Unafraid to follow the path these interests led him, he traveled widely in the United States, testing the waters in such places as Las Vegas, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Throughout his life, Kenneth was agood and faithful friend who was partofa stalwart group of friendsdating back to his high school years who contributed mightily to the lauded social cohesion and dynamismofthe St. Augustine High School of his era. Kenneth is survived by his wife and faithful companion, Teenia Ross. He is also survived by hisolder brother Darryl (Sabrina, Dorothy), younger brother Bruce (Bonnie),along with numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and extended family. He was predeceased by his beloved siblings Constance (Connie) Martin (Douglas), Brenda Soublet (Louis), Blaine Derbigny (Elsie), Linda Coleman (Clarence), Brent Derbigny (Mamie) and Roland Derbigny (Sheila). While his loss will be deeply felt, he leaves behind treasured memories of the wonderful and precious times we were blessed and privileged to enjoy in his company. He will be sorely missed. Per his final wishes, interment will take place in aprivate ceremony in Houston without traditional trappingsof obsequies.

RoyLee DouglasJr., beloved companion, father, grandfather,and friend, entered into eternalrest onApril 4, 2025, at theage of64. Roywas born on Oc‐tober 14, 1960, in NewOr‐leans,LA, to theunion of the late RoyLee Douglas, Sr.,and EthelMae Steven‐son Douglas. He attended James Weldon Johnson, Al‐fredC Priestly,and Alcee Fortier High School.Atan early age, Roywas bap‐tized by Rev. Taylor of the Morning Star Baptist ChurchinNew Orleans, La Roy served hiscountry as a devoted soldierinthe UnitedStatesArmyfor 4 years.Roy wasa faithful employeeofTulaneUniver‐sityfor over 30 years. He was also adedicated em‐ployeeofThe CarolCondo‐miniums.Roy's zeal forlife touched everyone he met, sohenever meta stranger Hewas always active and outgoing andenjoyed the second-line parades. Royis survivedbyhis loving com‐panion, Rhonda Michelle Womack, andbeloved fam‐ily memberstocherish his memory. HischildrenKey‐ona (Demetric),Tiffany, Roy III, AmberDouglas,and two bonus children,Ron‐dell(Kiara) andTerrell Martin, Jr.One sister TremaineDouglas Jeffer‐son (Steven),and one brother,Kenneth Douglas, Sr. (Dana).12grandchil‐drenand ahostofaunts, uncles, nieces,and nephews.Familyand Friends andthe employees ofTulaneUniversity, The Carol Condominiums,Tu‐laneMedical Center,Uni‐versity MedicalCenter, and Ochsner Hospital arewel‐cometoattendthe ser‐vices.The Celebrationof LifeserviceswillbeonSat‐urday,April 12, 2025, at St James MethodistChurch, 1925 UrsulinesAve., New Orleans,LA70116. TheVisi‐tationisat9:00am, fol‐lowed by theFuneral Ser‐viceat10:00 am.Interment tofollowatCarrollton Cemetery, 1701 HillarySt., New Orleans, LA 70118 ArrangementsbyD.W RhodesFuneralHome, 3933 WashingtonAvenue Pleasevisit www.rhodesf uneral.comtosignthe guestbook

Eustis,David Leeds

DavidLeeds Eustis,a de‐voted husband,father, grandfather,and esteemed memberofthe NewOr‐leans community,passed awaypeacefullyonApril 1, 2025. Born June 17,1942, in New Orleans, Louisiana, David liveda life marked byservice,dedication, and lovefor hisfamilyand community.Eveninthe lastfew months of hislife heinsistedon"going home toNew Orleans" several times aday,never quite believing he wassitting smack dabinthe middleof Uptown. David'searly years were shaped by his education at IsidoreNew‐man School,followedby TulaneUniversity, where hereceiveda full scholar‐ship throughthe Naval ROTCprogram.His time at Tulanewas highlightedby his membership in the Sigma Chifraternityand his summer Navycruises around theworld.Upon graduation, Davidentered service as acommissioned officerwith theUnited StatesNavy, where he en‐tered flight school and earnedhis wingsasa Naval Aviator. Davidfur‐theradvancedhis aviation skills, becoming aheli‐copterpilot.Hewas a highlyaccomplishedavia‐tor with highlights includ‐ing twodeployments to Vietnam,pilotingthe first Navyhelicoptertothe Mis‐sissippiGulfCoast after Hurricane Camilleand re‐trievingthe test capsules for theApolloSpace Pro‐gram. Forhis service, David receivedthe VietnamSer‐vice Medal(with thethree campaignstars), theViet‐nam Campaign Medal, the Armed Forces Expedi‐tionary Medaland five Air Medals, awardedfor the five rescue missions he conducted,savingseven lives.David retiredfrom the Navy with therankof Lieutenant. Afterhis mili‐taryservice,David re‐turnedtoNew Orleans, the onlyplace he wouldever callhome, andembarked ona nearly 40-yearcareer inthe only jobheever wanted, workingfor the WhitneyNationalBank, fol‐lowinginthe footstepsof his belovedgrandfather LeedsEustis. He loved telling storiesofthe clients,coworkers and friends he made through‐out hiscareer. Tripstothe grocery storewerea testa‐menttohis loyalty, as he onlyboughthis client's products. He instilledinhis familythe importance of contributingtoyourcom‐munity. He exemplified this with hisservice on the boardsofnumerousorga‐nizations,including Young Audiences,UnitedWay of Southeast Louisiana, Louisiana Philharmonic Or‐chestra,Belle Chasse Academy,Louisiana Chil‐dren'sMuseum, andthe PublicAffairs Research Council of Louisiana(past president). He wasalsoa memberofthe Societyof ColonialWarsand apast president of theLouisiana Chapter of theSonsofthe Revolution, reflecting his deep appreciation forhis‐toryand heritage.Asa proud New Orleanian, David enjoyedall aspects ofthe city (except, inex‐plicably, theseafood). Whetheritwas theweek‐endsspent with friendsin the locker room at theselfnamed TableofKnowledge atthe New OrleansLawn TennisClub, dinner with his family at theNew Or‐leans CountryCluborthe manylunchesand events he attended at the Lakeshore Club,Louisiana Cluband theBostonClub, the last of which he proudly served as presi‐dent, he always hada smile on hisfaceand a story to tell. On Sundays, David couldbefound at‐tending themorning ser‐viceatTrinity Episcopal Church.David loveda good mealand sinceLucypro‐vided passable butnot in‐spiredprovisionshebe‐cameanexcellent cook, especially knownfor his Oysters Moscaand Spaghetti Papa,a dish of his owninvention.Hehad a lifelong love of gardening and nevermet aCamillaor rosebushhedidn'tbuy Unfazed by theheatand humidity, he wouldplay tennisinthe morningand garden allafternoon.A consistentpoint of marital contentionoccurred in front of thethermostat whenheinsistedonset‐tingthe airconditioningat 79all summer.Ofcourse, asa passionate New Or‐leanian,David lovedMardi Gras. Iris Saturday and Mardi Gras Daywillnever bethe same forthe large group of friendsand family who spentthe dayathis house enjoying thepa‐rades andred beans. It was acommonsight to see David on topofa ladder wavingtohis friendsinthe parade.David wasa mem‐

berofseveral Carnival or‐ganizations,including reigningoverHarlequins and theTwelfth NightRev‐elers.David waspreceded indeath by hisparents, David Eustis andMolly Cox Minor Eustis,and his brother,RichmondMinor Eustis. He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Lucy ClaireReardon Eustis,and their four sons:David LeedsEustis, Jr.(Megan), WilliamReardon Eustis (Laurie), Robert TerrellEu‐stis(Pornphannarai),and Stephen MinorEustis (Samantha). Hissix grand‐children—Liam,Daniel, Miller, Andrew,Kate, and Anne—will forevercherish the memories of theirOpa whose warmth andhumor touched theirlives deeply Hefurther leaves behind a large,lovingfamily, includ‐ing hissister, Kate Eustis Brown, 7niecesand nephews and6 grand‐niecesand grandnephews along with hishonorary grandson, Justin Patterson and Jacksonand Hudson Thompsonwho addedto the joyDavid got from being with thenextgener‐ation.David wasexceed‐ingly proudofhis family and always cherishedthe large (and rather loud) familygatheringsheand Lucyhosted. Over their55 years of marriage,David and Lucy's devotion never wavered.Through thechal‐lengesofDavid's neverendingloveofall things James Bond andJohn Wayne andLucygivinga hometoevery straydog thatcrossedher path,they stood by each other'sside. The familywould like to recognize theexcellent careofJackie, Monica and othersinthe past two monthsaswellasthe sup‐portive andknowledgeable guidanceand care re‐ceivedfromPassagesHos‐pice. Hispresencewillbe profoundly missed, buthis spiritwillliveoninthe countless livesheen‐riched. Amemorialservice willbeheldatTrinity Epis‐copal Church,1329 Jackson Ave.inNew Orleans, on Tuesday,April 15, 2025, at 12:00PM,withvisitationbe‐ginning at 11:00AM.A pri‐vateinterment will be held inMetairieCemetery. In lieuof flowers, thefamily requestsdonations be madetothe Public Affairs ResearchCouncil of Louisiana (www.parloui siana.org)and the Alzheimer's Association (www.alz.org), causes close to David'sheart.To viewand sign theonline guest book,pleasevisit lakelawnmetairie.com

RickyB."GasMan" VideauFranklin, Sr.en‐tered into eternalreston April 1, 2025 at theage of 66. He wasborntothe union of thelateHelen C. and Ranell Franklin,Sr. Fromaninfanthewas lov‐ingly cherishedand raised bythe late Novairia James" andLillieRoseG Videau. He wasthe de‐voted husband of Linda Payne Franklin for47years LovingfatherofNikkell (Trinithy), RickyJr. (Shamika),and DaMahn (Alexis)Franklin. Grandfa‐therofDeVontre',DeAn‐dre', Jadyn, Sophia,Julien, Rozne', Chrishiaya, Chrishay, Chrishode, A'Mariand Anthony, and great-grandfather of R'Miyah.Brother of David (Patsy),Rodney(Elaine Bell"),Reginald(Judy), Willie (lateWanda)and Buddy (Melissa)Franklin, SheilaWilliams, Carolyn (late Kevin) Miller,and the lateRanellJr. (lateJanice), Leo Sr Diane, Lillie,Ronald and Donald Franklin NephewofTheodolph "Teddy"and Marcia Videau. Father-in-lawof DeWayne Parker.Brotherin-lawofMarguerite, Henry and WandaPayne,GwenP and BobbyTucker. Godfa‐therofVeronique Men‐doza, CatrinaMiller, An‐drewHicks,Jr.,and Rananek Hartley. Father figure andconfidanteof Stephanie Gary,Valencia Ann Allenand Patrick Pete"Gibson. Also sur‐vived by ahostofnieces, nephews,cousins and friends.Ricky wasa resi‐dentofGretna(Jones Town),LA, andwas edu‐cated in JeffersonParish School System.Relatives and friendsofthe family, Pastor, Officers andMem‐bersofNew Beginnings Christian Ministry 3, Is‐raelite,Regular,Pentecost and St.AndrewBaptist Churches,and allneigh‐boring churches arein‐

vitedtoattend thecelebra‐tionoflifeatHousehold of Faith Church,Rev.Booker T. Collor, Jr., Pastor,712 27th St.,Gretna, LA on Monday April 14, 2025 at 11:00 am, Rev.Kenneth Parker,Sr. officiating. Visitation be‐ginsat9:00aminthe church.Interment will fol‐low at NewHopeBaptist Church Cemetery,Gretna, LA. Thefamilyextends our sincere thanks to Davita DialysisCenter-Oakwood, and to thededicated NCC UnitnursesatWestJeff Med Ctrfor theirexcellent careand compassion shown to ourloved one. Fu‐neral planning entrustedto RobinsonFamilyFuneral Home, 9611 LA-23, Belle Chasse,LA70037 (504) 2082119. Foronlinecondo‐lences, please visitwww robinsonfamilyfuneralho me.com

Bernadette (Bern) Williamson Gabrielpeace‐fully transitioned to her heavenlyhomeonSunday, April 6, 2025, at theCarpen‐ter HouseinHarahan,La. She was79years oldand was born on September26, 1945, in NewOrleans Louisiana.A native of Port Sulphur,LA, Bernadette was thebeloved daughter ofthe late Selina andEd‐wardWilliamson. Shewas baptizedatSt. Joseph Catholic Church in Port Sul‐phur.Bernadette was unitedinholymatrimony toSherman Gabrielfor 63 years,and together they raisedseven children: Sonia (the late Paul) Mackey, Robin(Gregory) Vaughn, Suzette (Lilton) Harvey, ShaneGabriel,the lateSgt.ShellyGabriel Barthelemy, Wade (Medea) Gabriel,and Danielle (Benedict)Oguzie. Shealso cherished herbonus daughter, Natasha (MichaelJr.)Mitchell. She was preceded in deathby her siblings:the late Fran‐cis Williamson,Gloria Broussard,Geneva Williamson,Lorraine(the lateElton Jr.) Edgerson, and SusieWilliams. Bernadette wasthe proud grandmother of Tiffany (Gerald)Dillard,Cierra Gabriel,Lanisha Vaughn, Nasha (Charles)Rochester Tshonna Harvey,Jolisa (Emmette III) Sylve, Brit‐tanyand Shanna Gabriel, Sherrie andShane Dinette SethRagas,Rochon BarthelemyIII, Lacie (Korbi) Williams,Angel, WadeJr.,Cody, andCade Gabriel.She also leaves be‐hind23great-grandchil‐dren. Alovingsister-in-law toShelby(Jenny) Spear‐man andgodmother to Donna Lightell andEnid Jones,Bernadette’s mem‐ory will also be cherished byher Aunt Marjie Smith, three devotedfriends Juanita Parker,EarlFox, and Drexel Narcisse—and a hostofnieces, nephews, cousins,and otherrela‐tives.Known affectionately as“Queen B,”Bernadette was adedicated home‐maker who hada passion for cookingand lovedto feed anyone who came to her door.She wasthe keeper of allthe "tea," meaning thelatestgossip, but more importantly, she was aremarkablewoman who touchedthe livesof many. Shetook care of everyonearound her, never turninganyone away. Herkindness, gen‐erosity,and unwavering strengthmadeher atrue pillarofher family. Even as she fought alongand courageousbattlewithill‐ness, sheshowedincredi‐ble resilience.Bernadette was deeply lovedand re‐spected by herfamily, who willmissher dearly.She was preceded in deathby her parents, Selina andEd‐wardWilliamson, her daughterSgt.Shelly Gabriel Barthelemy,grand‐childrenNadia andCharles Gabriel,and her five sis‐ters. Relativesand friends ofthe familyare invitedto attend theMassofChrist‐ian Burial which will be heldonThursday,April 10, 2025 at St.Patrick Catholic Church locatedat28698 LA-23, Port Sulphur,LA 70083. Thevisitationwill begin at 9a.m., andthe service will beginat11 a.m.FatherKyleDaveisthe celebrant andentombment willfollowatSt. Patrick Catholic Church cemetery Funeralplanningentrusted toRobinsonFamilyFuneral Home, 9611 LA-23, Belle Chasse,LA70037. Foron‐line condolences, please

visitwww.robinsonfamilyf uneralhome.com. Church Cemetery.Arrange‐ments entrustedtoDuplain W.RhodesFuneralHome, 1020 Virgil Street,Gretna, LA70053. Please visitwww rhodesfuneral.comtosign the online guestbook share memories,and con‐dolencestothe family.

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StephanieMarie Scott Wilson Hall enteredinto eternal rest on Saturday April 5, 2025 at theage of 71. Shewas anativeof New Orleans, LA anda resi‐dentofHarvey, LA Stephanie wasa graduate ofL W. HigginsHighSchool Class of 1972. Shewas a formeremployeewith Housing AuthorityofNew Orleans Credit Unionasan accountant formany years.Stephanie wasan activememberofEvening StarMissionaryBaptist Church where sheserved asa Deaconess, Sunday School Teacher, YouthDe‐partmentLeader, andNew MemberDirector. Devoted wifeofthe late AaronHall. Beloved mother of Eric Wil‐son,Jr. andBrocton Keith Wilson.Grandmother of Sundiataand Brezahe. Great grandmotherofHar‐mony, Harper,Desirer,and True. Daughter of thelate Leonard,Sr. andAugustine Scott. Granddaughterof the late Jane SlyRiggins who wasinstrumentalin her rearing. Sister of Eliza‐bethScott andthe late Ver‐nitaWatsonClark, Leonard,Jr.,and Carl Scott. FormerwifeofEricWilson, Sr.,alsosurvivedbya host ofother relativesand friends.Relatives and friends of thefamilyalso pastors,officers,and members of EveningStar MissionaryBaptist Church, and neighboringchurches; members of WoodmereSe‐niorGuild,DillyDilly Divia’s,Evening Star Mis‐sionary BaptistChurch Se‐niorSteppers, andSoul Children(SocietyofUniver‐sal Lovers)are invitedto attendthe Celebrationof LifeatEvening Star Mis‐sionary BaptistChurch,817 GreferSt. Harvey,LAon Saturday, April12, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 8:30 a.m. at the above-named church.In‐terment:Willbeprivate ArrangementsbyDavis MortuaryService,230 Mon‐roe St Gretna,LA. To view and sign theguestbook, pleasegotodavismortu‐aryservice.com. In lieu of flowers, please make do‐nations to Pastor Keith PaulStewman Scholarship Fund.Facemasks arerec‐ommended

Henderson, BarbaraJean Smith'Bobbie'

Barbara“Bobbie”Jean Smith Hendersondeparted thislifeonTuesday,April 1, 2025 at theage of 90 Beloved wife of ClydeHen‐derson. Loving daughter of the late JamesEdward, Sr and JoeMaryG.Smith.De‐voted mother of Arthalia Johnson,Shawn Swilley, Calisse Matthews, Katrina Swilley, YolandaBriley, and Laticia Encalade.Loving sisterofWillieAnn Denton, Norland (Dorothy)Smith, Noland(Gloria)Smith, Jacob Smith, Dorothy (James) Thrasher,Grace Lloyd,Juanita (Henry)Dun‐can,and thelateMary LouiseRouser, RosieBruce MorrisWilliam (Bill), Lawrence, Joseph (Delois) and James(Mary)Smith, Jr. Barbaraissurvivedbya hostofgrandchildren, great grandchildren, greatgreat grandchildren, nieces, nephews, otherrel‐atives, andfriends.Rela‐tives andfriends of the family, also employees of LoyolaUniversity, Bridge CityCommunity Center and PACE areinvited to at‐tenda FuneralService at LifeCenterCathedral,2100 AmesBlvd. Marrero, LA 70072 on Friday,April 11 2025 at 9:00am.Visitation willbegin at 8:00am –9:00am. Followingservices, pleasejoinusatHope Springs MissionaryBaptist Church,5189 N. Livingston Road, Jackson, MS 39213 at 2:00pm. Interment: Hope SpringsMissionaryBaptist

Israel, Robert Craig 'Bob'

On March15, 2025, Robert Craig Israel, known by most, includinghis grandchildren, as "Bob, passedaway. He would have seen the humor in departingthisworld on such ahistorical day, theIdesof March. Anative of Bogalusa, LA, he wasbornApril 11, 1943, to RebeccaPemble and MoiseJosephIsrael. After recovering from achildhood summerofPolio, Bobby graduatedfrom Bogalusa High School in 1961. He earnedhis degree in Political Scienceand History from Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond,LA. Wanting to serve his countryduring theViet Nam War,Bob enlisted in theUnited States Navy. He served histourofdutyin theRepublic of the Philippinesand Da Nang, Viet Nam, flying over 60 missions. Hismedals included theArmed Forces ExpeditionaryMedal, the NationalDefense Service Medal, theVietnam Service Medal, theVietnam CampaignMedal, TheAir Medal, andthe United States Navy Aircrew Wings. Returningto Louisiana, he wasa Naval Reservist untilhis honorabledischarge in 1972. Hisprofessional legacy is deeply rooted in Louisiana's business and automotive industries Starting in 1983, and until hisretirement in 2016, he served as Presidentofthe Louisiana Automobile DealersAssociation (LADA), representing nearly all newcar andtruck franchiseddealersinthe state. Hisworkshaped legislativestrategies,workers' compensation policies, andthe overall advancementofthe automotive sector.Hewas aleadingadvocate in the draftingand passage of workers'compensation legislation. He also considered,ofhis greatest legislativeaccomplishments, thepassage of Louisiana's first seatbelt law in 1985. Bob carried adeep sense of adventure throughout his life and rarelyturneddown the chance to trysomething new. Whetherherding cattleatAngola as an aspiring cowboy, or briefly defying gravity as askydiver,he embraced life'sbold moments with characteristic enthusiasm. Not all of Bob's adventures were planned.Hewas in Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, aday that reminded him, perhaps more than most, of thefragilityofpeaceand theweight of service Missing him will be his belovedwife of 53 years, Deanne;his devotedson, Robert Craig II (Lottie) of Covington,LA; hisson-inlaw,Travis Lowell Lejeune; cousin,BarryRoyce Barlow of Oregon;and treasured grandchildren, EllisonBelle Israel, Stafford Lowell Lejeune,and Barlow Travis Lejeune.Along with his parents, he waspreceded in death by hischerished daughter, MollyIsrael Lejeune;brother,Terry Logan Israel; andsister, MarcelleHobgood. For the last several years of hislife, Bob was lovingly caredfor by Sonseeahray and James Brown,Kim Youngblood, AdrienneJackson, and FranFloyd. Theircompassion,dedication,and presence broughtcomfort to Bob and hisfamilyduringa time when it was most needed.A private service to honor andcelebrate Bob's life will be held on a later date, with interment at St.James Episcopal Columbarium. To read the full obituary, please visit Rabenhorst .com

Gabriel, Bernadette Williamson 'Bern'

DouglasJr.,Roy Lee

Franklin Sr., RickyB. Videau 'Gas Man'

Earl Jackson, Jr age91, peacefullyentered into eternal rest on Saturday March 29, 2025, at Kindred HospitalHouston.Hewas a nativeofVacherie, LA and residentofCypress, TX Earlwas aretired Long‐shoremanand amember ofKnights of PeterClaver #125 John A. Daily.Beloved husband of thelateGussie Lee Jackson. Devotedfa‐therofIsadore Jackson and Shantel(Xxavier) Falasha.Lovinggrandfa‐therofNathanael,Zia,Jor‐dun,and EthanFalasha Son of thelateEarlJackson Sr. andMaryS.Jackson Brother of Joseph Jackson, Sr.,Leroy Jackson, Sr Linda M. Jackson, andthe lateRosaLee J. Alexander, MaryA.Williams, andMary C.Jones.Godsonofthe lateLaura Bright.Also cherishinghis memories are ahostofnieces, nephews,cousins,other relatives,and friends. Rela‐tives andfriends of the family, also priest and parishionersofSt. Joseph the Worker Catholic Churchand allneighboring churchesare invitedtoat‐tendthe Homegoing Cele‐bration at DavisMortuary Service,6820 Westbank Ex‐pressway, Marrero, LA on Saturday, April12, 2025, at 11:00a.m. Father Sidney Speaks, celebrant. Visita‐tionwillbegin at 9:00a.m. until servicetimeatthe parlor. Interment: Rest‐lawnParkCemetery-Avon‐dale, LA.Toviewand sign the guestbook,pleasego towww.davismortuaryse rvice.com.FaceMasks Are Recommended

Irma A. Jimenez, age 94, passed awayonFriday, April 4, 2025. Irma was preceded in death by her parents, Antonio Jimenez and Trinidad Aragon Jimenez her sister, Carmelita Jimenez Villarand son-inlaw Michael Posey. She is survived by her three daughters, Juanita Briceno Perriott, son-in-law Leopold Perriott, Delty Briceno Posey, and Dana Jimenez Briceno, son-inlaw Nicholas Briceno, her two sons, Norman Briceno, daughter-in-lawEva Santana Briceno and Eldo Briceno; her brother, Melquiades Jimenez, sister -in-lawAdela Jimenez her eleven grandchildren, Miguel Urbina, David Morales, Irma Briceno, Felipa Briceno Leiva ShyannaBatres, Xaniera Batres, Amanda Posey, Zoe Briceno, Chloe Briceno, Rohjani Perriott, and Tremett Perriott, her seventeen great-grandchildren, Mikey,Naim,Saul, Isabel, Fallon,Zarifah, GianCarlo, Juliannie, Tasneem,Jannah, Ayah, Lena, Musa,Aubrey, Carissa, Esmirna, and Stephen; and her extended family, Carol Wise, Julie Wise Oreck, Richard and Carmen Wise, Kevin Wilkins and Ginny Wise, Zoe, Sophie, Jonathan, Benjamin, Zachary, Marlo. Numerous nieces, nephews and relatives. Irma was born in Orange Walk Town, Belize on December 1, 1930. She had avibrant spirit and aheart full of passionfor life's simple joys. Atrue lover of the kitchen, she found immense joy in cooking, always ready to share adelicioushomemade meal with family and friends. She loved nothing more than tending to her plants and stepping outside to cut freshmint for her homemade iced tea. Sundays were for cheering on her beloved New Orleans Saints surrounded by her family during football season. Her nights were spent engrossed in the latest telenovela, and getting caught up in the excitement of each episode. Lastly, Mardi Gras was afavorite time of the year, and she never passed upa chance to attend the parades. The family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to Mrs. Carol

Wise and family forthe love, care, and compassion theysogenerouslygave to Irma. Relativesand friends are invited to attend the Funeral Mass in the chapel of Lake LawnMetairie FuneralHome, 5100 PontchartrainBlvd.inNew Orleans,onMonday, April 14, 2025, at 3:00PM. Avisitation willbeheldatthe funeral home beginning at 2:00PM. In honor of Irma's memory,wekindly ask that everyone wear shades of Blue her favorite color. In lieu of flowers, please consider adonation in Irma's memorytothe New Orleans Culinary and Hospitality Institute, www.nochi.org. To view and signthe onlineguest book, please visitwww.lak elawnmetairie com

Karcher, Ronald Louis

Ronald LouisKarcher devotedhusband, father, and grandfather, generous communityactivistand business owner, passed awaypeacefully on April 3, 2025,atthe ageof88. Born December3,1936, in New Orleans,Ronnie leavesbehinda legacy defined by faith, service,and dedication to his belovedcityand its institutions. He was precededin deathbyhis parents, Louis F. Karcher and Alma Bourgeois Karcher,and his brother, GeraldD.Karcher He is survivedbyhis loving wifeof64years, Sandra Boulion Karcher, his two children,Brian Karcher (Liz) andStephanie KarcherNewell (Will),as well as fourcherished grandchildren: Ellie Karcher, DavidKarcher, WilliamNewell (Nicolette), and Andrew Newell Aproud graduateof Jesuit High School and Loyola UniversityofNew Orleans,where he was a member of Beggars fraternity, Ronnie liveda life deeply rootedinthe Jesuit valuesthat shaped hisformation. These principles guided not onlyhis personal relationships, but also his professional and civic endeavors. He washonoredtoserve inthe United States Air Forceand Air National Guardfrom1951 through 1962. He went on tofound and operate RonaldL.Karcher Construction Company which heled for over50 years. Ronnie's civic and philanthropic engagement was atestament to alifeof service. He was alongtime and passionate supporter of the Fore!Kids Foundation, producer of the Zurich ClassicPGA Golf Tournament in New Orleans.Heheldnumerous committeeand leadership roleswith the Foundation, culminating in hisgreatest honor and joyinserving as the General Chairman of the 2008 Zurich Classic. Alongtime member of Metairie Country Club, Ronnie servedonthe Board of Directors and as Secretary. He also served on the Friends of CityPark Golf Tournament Committeeand supported public broadcasting through WLAE-TV and WYES-TV. He held multiple roles forthese fundraising efforts, including chairing thepopularLive "On Air" WLAEauctionfor several years. Ronnie wasanactive memberofnumerous localorganizations, including the Willwoods Foundation and the alumni associations of both Jesuit and Loyola Ronnie's Catholicfaith was central to hislife. He was deeply involvedinthe CatholicCharities Association, servingasa board memberand holding leadershippositionsincluding President. He was honored with membership in the EquestrianOrder of theHoly Sepulchre of Jerusalem andthe St Elizabeth's Guild2003 Volunteer Activists Award. Ronniewillberememberednot onlyfor hisunwavering devotion to his family, Catholic faith and city, but also for the joyhe found in sharing favorite stories, cheering forhis belovedNew Orleans Saints, his quickand easy laugh and most of all, being surrounded by friends and family with wife and bestfriend Sandra at his side Sandra and the family wishtothank the many skilled and devoted professionals who have cared for Ronnie throughout the years, including Dr. Sid Bhansali, Dr. Clement Eiswirth, Dr.Sammy

Khatib,Dr. Sarah Lee, Dr. Robert Miles and caregiver Shawanda Howard

Relatives and friends are invitedtoattenda funeral service on Monday, April14, 2025 at St Catherine of SienaCatholic Church, 105 Bonnabel Blvd.,Metairie,LA. Visitation willbeheldfrom 10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. with aMass of Christian Burial to be celebrated at 12:00 p.m. Private interment will follow.

The family suggestsdonations in Ronnie's memory to Jesuit High School NewOrleans, 4133 Banks St. NewOrleans, LA 70119; theFore!KidsFoundation, 11005 Lapalco Blvd. Avondale, LA 70094; or St. JudeChildren's Research Hospital,262 Danny Thomas Pl. Memphis, TN 38105.

A.M.D.G.

Knowles, Belinda Smith

BelindaSmith Knowles passedawayonTuesday April 8, 2025 at theage of 86. Belovedwifeofthe late WilliamO.Knowles,Sr. LovingmotherofWilliam “Bill”O.Knowles,Jr.,Ken‐nethM.Knowles (Laurie) and ChristopherD Knowles.Daughterofthe lateIsabell Smithand Her‐schel Smith, Sr.Sisterof Larry Smith, Sherry Kraus and thelateHerschel Smith,Jr. andJames Smith. Grandmother of WilliamO Knowles III, Kristyn K. Dadlez, AlexandraO Knowles,Elizabeth K. Cow‐art,CarolineK.Landryand KennedieKnowles.Great Grandmother of Eleanor “Nora”, Theodore “Teddy”, Oliver, Jamesand Christo‐pher. Shewillbedearly missedbyAngelaKnowles Whiteand Mara Hauser Belinda wasa native of San Antonio,Texas anda life‐longresidentofAlgiers Louisiana.Belinda partici‐pated as avolunteer fundraiser forJoEllen Smith andMeadowcrest Hospitals,Women’s Auxil‐iaries, Longue VueGardens and Chef’s CharityatSt. Michael’s School.Belinda later enrolled at NewOr‐leans AcademyofFineArts where shespent countless years painting andstudy‐ing under thedirection of AuseklisOzols andmany other mentorsand friends whomshe loveddearly. She will be greatlymissed byher familyand friends. Relatives andfriends of the familyare invitedtoattend the Visitation at Holy Name ofMaryCatholicChurch 500 ElizaStreet,Algiers,LA onMonday, April14, 2025 from9 am until 11 am.A FuneralMasswillbeheld atHolyNameofMary Catholic Church on Mon‐day at 11 am.Interment willbeinWestlawnMemo‐rialParkCemetery, Gretna Louisiana.Mothe Funeral Homeisassisting thefam‐ily during this difficult time. Thefamilyinvites you to shareyour thoughts, fond memories and condolencesonlineat www.mothefunerals.com

LeeJr.,James J.

JamesJ LeeJr.,age 73, passedawayathis home inMandeville, La on Sat‐urday,March 22, 2025. Jim loved God, countryand his beloved wife of 29 years and best friend,MaryLee Jim ledanexceptionally fulland interestinglife. BorninNew Orleans, La., USMCVietNam Veteran, and Owner| CEOofLee Fi‐nancial Partners in Man‐deville,La. Jimwas pre‐ceded in deathbyhis wife MaryDugas Lee, parents Mr. &Mrs.James Lee, Sr., and sister DeborahLee. Jim issurvivedbyhis son James JLee, III(Lauren), grandchildren,Ava and Zoe;and sister,Sandra Lee; hissisters-in-lawMar‐cia DugasShelton (James), Barbara DugasRivet (Charles),Elizabeth Dugas Beadle(Brian);brother-in law Kennedy Joachim Dugas,Jr. (Lydia); his niecesLacey Maynor,Erin LiSik,Michelle Arceneaux, AshleyDelcambre,aswell astheir spouses, theirchil‐dren andother family

membersand devoted friends.Lee FinancialPart‐nersLLC wasJim andhis wife’sbusinessserving the community forover35 years as FinancialPlanner, Mandeville, LA.USMCwas a bigpartofJim’s life.A VietNam veteranwho servedonthe BoardofDi‐rectors of theMarineSup‐portGroup in NewOrleans Hehad asense of respon‐sibilitytoactiveMarines for years. Jimand wife wereROTCsponsored par‐entsand adoptedstudents atTulaneROTChosting An‐nualChristmas dinner for officers-in-training,their spouses,and children.Jim chaired Marine Corp Toys for Tots 2004-2006. LKA, Louisiana Karate School in Metairie, LA under Sensei TakayukiMikami, ninthdan JKA.Jim wasa fourth de‐greeBlack Belt in TaeKwon Doand taught self-defense toTulane’sROTCstudents. Community wasimportant toJim.Hewas agraduate ofLeadershipSt. Tam‐many’sClass of 2014, vol‐unteered at St.Tammany Hospice andwas amem‐ber of theSt. Tammany Chamber of Commerce through he andhis wife’s business, LeeFinancial Partners. Hospicevolun‐teer forSt. Tammany HealthSystemLeadership St. Tammany Classof2013 NorthshoreKiwanis Club and MenWho Cook-Hope House CAC. Anothercause close to Jim’sheart is Pro‐jectDreamcatchers founded by theLee’sto memorialize theirde‐ceasedparents.Thisedu‐cationcharity provides support forstudentsat WestbankAdult Learning Center. Jimand hiswife weregenerousphilan‐thropists to many nonprof‐its.Attended Church of the King in Mandeville and a member of theirmen’s group.Jim hada strong faith andlived hislifeto the fullestwithgratitude Heloved sports,daily walks,golf, prayer,bible study,paintingabstract art,and oftenexercised Tae Kwon Do at hisresi‐dence andenjoyed sweets. Heloved people and strived to connectina per‐sonal waywitheveryone hemet,fromhis clients and fellow business pro‐fessionals. Hisimpacton his corner of theworld was immeasurable andwillbe missedbyall.The family requestsno flowersand in‐stead humblyasksfor do‐nations to be made in Jim’s memorytoSt. Tammany HospitalFoundationin support of either theHeal‐ing Arts Initiative or pa‐tient programsatSt. Tam‐manyCancerCenter. www sthfoundation.org or 1202 South TylerStreet,Coving‐ton,LA70433. Relatives and friendsare invitedto attend theMassofChrist‐ian Burial at E.J. Fielding FuneralHome, 2260 W. 21st Ave., Covington, LA 70433, onSaturday, April12, 2025 at11:00 am andthe visita‐tionwillbegin at 9:00 am until servicetime. Inter‐mentwillfollowthe ser‐viceinPinecrest Memorial Gardens,Covington,LA. PleaseShare aMemoryon the TributeWallatwww.ejf ieldingfh.com.Pallbear‐ers:Ken Dugas, AJ Chap‐petta,Bubby Bodden, James Fisher,Glenn Des‐latte,and CoreyThomas.

CynthiaSanchez Lewis, age 64, wasbornonJune 3, 1960, in NewOrleans,LA. She wascalledhometo eternal rest peacefully at homesurrounded by fam‐ily on Monday,March 24, 2025. Cynthiawas edu‐cated in theOrleans Parish School System andat‐tendedJohnMcDonogh HighSchool.Cynthia was the loving mother of Terry Sanchez-Fournette (Re‐nard) andWallace Lewis. Beloved sister of Gwylen Sanchez,Bernadette Robinson, Emelda Sherman and Eric Harris.She was alsosurvivedbyher doting grandchildren Terriana Sanchez (Kealo,Jr.), Ran‐dallSanchez,Reynell Four‐nette,Blake Lewis, Walayia Lewis,and heradoring great-grandchildren Kealo Higgins III andRanali Sanchez,and ahostof nieces, nephews, cousins, familyand friends. She was preceded in deathby her parentsWarrenDavis and MarilynSanchez;her sonsBrandon andDrey Lewis;and hergreatgranddaughter Kah'lona Higgins.Relatives and friends of thefamilyare in‐vited to attend theCele‐bration of Life Serviceon Saturday,April 12, 2025, at

MoriarityIII, John Rubin

Holy Anointed Houseof Prayer, 1447 Senate Street New Orleans, LA 70122 at 11:00 a.m. Visitation from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. IntermentProvidence MemorialParkCemetery, 8200 AirlineDrive,Metairie, LA70003. Youmay sign the guest book on http://www gertrudegeddeswillis.com. Gertrude GeddesWillisFu‐neral Home Inc.,incharge (504) 522-2525. Panepinto; hischildren, RyanPanepinto (Mike) and Lacey Charvet(Emile IV); his siblings,Lane Panepinto (Nancy)and Lance Panepinto(Paula); and sister-in-lawJodie Caluda(Daniel), alongwith a host of nieces and nephews who cherished him dearly.Heispreceded indeath by hisparents, Phillip Panepintoand Joyce Bossier Panepinto, who in‐stilled in himthe values of hardworkand dedication thathecarried throughout his life.Hehad alovefor his brothers in theDelta Fraternityand wasa Past President.Delta Fraternity holds an annual wild game dinnerbenefiting Chil‐dren’sHospital. An idea Lyledreamed up after hosting Delta‘sclubdinner inSouthernSeaplane‘s hangar. Over theyears Delta fraternity hasraised overa quarterof$1million and supports aroom at the RonaldMcDonaldhouse Thisyear‘swildgamedin‐ner washostedonApril 5 witha toastofremem‐brancetoLyle. Acelebra‐tionofLyle'slifewillin‐clude avisitationatSt. Cle‐tus Catholic Church in Gretna, Louisiana, on April 12, 2025, beginningat 11AM. AMasswillfollowat 1PM,and he will be lov‐ingly inurnedatWestlawn MemorialPark. In lieu of flowers, please donate to Children’sHospitalin honor of Lyle PanepintoDelta Fraternity.Lylewill berememberednot only for hisremarkableachieve‐ments andcontributions to aviationbut also forhis unwaveringloveand devo‐tiontohis familyand friends.His legacy will continuetoinspire those who hadthe privilege to knowhim.Mothe Funeral Homehas been entrusted bythe familywiththe fu‐neral arrangements Pleasevisit mothefuner‐als.com to view andsign the online guestbook

John R. Moriarity, III enteredinto eternalrest on April 5, 2025, at the age of 66. He was preceded in death by his belovedparents, John R. Moriarity, Jr andCatherine"Cathy" GremillionMoriarity, as well as hisgrandparents, Dennis P. andTheresa "Annie"Cummings Gremillion. John is remembered by hissiblings, Dennis P. Moriarity, Sr.(Rachell)and TheresaMoriarity Piglia (Tommy), along with his nieces andnephews: Amanda T. Piglia, Thomas J. Piglia, III (Emma), Dennis P. Moriarity, Jr., DannyP Moriarity andAlesha C. Moriarity. He also leaves behind hisgreat-nieces andgreat-nephews Thomas J. Piglia, IV,Annie Clare Piglia, Hannah R. Martin, Jace P. Martin Savannah R. Forbes and Navaeh J. Forbes,aswell as hisloving friends,Tony andKathy Squatrito For the past 25 years, John was adedicated memberofthe Narcotics AnonymousCommunity whereheservedasa guidinglight for many. His leadership and compassion shone through as he mentored andsponsored countless individuals on theirjourneystorecovery. John'skindnessand unwavering support will be deeply missed by all whose lives he touched. Relativesand friends are invited to attend a GravesideService in GreenwoodCemetery,5190 Canal Blvd NewOrleans LA 70124 at 10:30 AM on Monday, April 14, 2025. Arrangements entrustedto Tharp Funeral Home Expressions of love and sympathy may be placed andviewedat www.tharpcares.com.

Lyle Lawrence Panepinto,a beloved figure in the worldofaviationand a devoted familyman,tragi‐cally passedawayonApril 2,2025. Born on July 17, 1954, in NewOrleans Louisiana,Lylededicated his life to aviation,serving asthe PresidentofSouth‐ern Seaplane Inc. He was recognizedasone of the mostrespected seaplane pilots globally andwas a mentortocountless aspir‐ing aviators,sharing his knowledge andpassion for flight with others.Lyle's contributions to aviation extendedfar beyond his roleatSouthernSeaplane. Hewas proudtohave servedasthe Louisiana Field Director forthe Sea‐plane Pilots Association, duringwhich he also held a position on itsboard of directors.Additionally,Lyle was aDesignatedPilotEx‐aminerfor theFederal Avi‐ation Administration and one of theveryfew MultiEngineSeaplaneExamin‐ers in thecountry.Outside ofhis professional achievements, Lyle wasan avidgolfer, even qualifying and playinginthe U.S. Am‐ateur.Hewas alongtime memberofTimberlane Country Club where he alsohelda position on the board of Directors. He found joyin fishing, NASCAR, andspending timeathis happyplace the familylakehouse where he enjoyedsailing onhis cherishedSunfish sailboat. Most importantly, herelishedspendingtime withhis grandchildren, Emma Charvetand Emile Charvet V, who were his pride andjoy.Lyleleaves behinda loving family, in‐cluding hiswifeof50 years, Rhonda Taravella

Sister Thelma Bernadine Riley departed this life on Sunday, April6,2025, at her homeinSunrise,La. She was 90 yearsold.She was borninOstricia, Louisiana tothe parentsofthe late Saxon andMadelineTaylor. She wasmarried to the lateWesleyRiley. To their union,6 belovedchildren, Mona(Bernell) Trufant, Janie Marie(late Vincent) Marshall, Ray, Carl Sr., (Betty), Terry, andChanell (Ledion)Shkembi.Sister Thelmawas adevoted and faithfulmemberofthe First Mount Zion Baptist Church where sheserved faithfullyinvarious capaci‐tieswithinher local church.She served as the Deaconess Ministry Presi‐dentuntil herdeath,she alsoservedasthe Sunday School Superintendent for manyyears,where she would oftensingher fa‐voritesong"Rise,Shine & GiveGod theGlory." She alsoservedinthe choir, on the UsherBoard,aswellas the MissionDepartment President.She also served various capacities with the local association, Christian Ministers Missionary Bap‐tistGeneral Associationof Plaquemines Parish.She servedfaithfullyfor many years servinginthe Choir Department, WomenDe‐partmentaswellasthe Usher Board. Shealso servedfaithfullyfor many years within theSoutheast Louisiana Regional where she served as aYouth Counselor andDrill Team Instructor.SisterRileywill beknown foralwaysquot‐ing andlivingher favorite scripture,Matthew 5:16 Let your lightsoshine be‐foremen,thattheymay see your good works, and glorify your Father in heaven."One of herfa‐voritesayings was, "You may be theonlyBible that peoplemay read." Sleep on SisterRileyand take your rest, we lovedyou on this side, butGod lovedyou best. Thelma is survived by her siblings,Estelle Cole‐man (lateRobert),Beatrice Prout (lateHewitt),Ben‐jamin Taylor (Caffie),Stan‐ley Taylor,Bruce Taylor, JoAnn Smith, NormaSmith Roxanne Jones(Floyd),and Celeste Green.She is also survivedby21grandchil‐dren, 77 greatgrandchil‐dren, 18 great- great grandchildren,her First Mount Zion BaptistChurch Family, ahostofnieces, nephews,other relatives and devotedfriends.She is predeceased by herhus‐band thelateWesleyRiley,

Riley, Thelma Bernadine

Jimenez, Irma A.

Panepinto, Lyle Lawrence

Lewis, CynthiaSanchez

OPINION

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Bigreforms needed to solveLa.’s auto insurancecrisis

When Itook office last January Louisiana was stuck in aproperty insurance crisis sparkedbythe devastating hurricanesof2020 and2021 and intensified by our state’s overly burdensome regulatory environment. Last year, Iworked with legislators to developa comprehensive package of property insurance reform to get insurerswriting new business in Louisiana again. That package was quickly passed with broad, bipartisansupport from the Legislature and Gov.Jeff Landry We have more to do to make sure home and business owners across the state benefit from these changes, but the data shows we are already trending in the right direction with 10 newly licensed homeowners insurers, a reduction in the severity of rate increases and significantly more insurers taking arate decrease in 2025. While our property insurance

market is on the upswing, Iam sorry to say our long-standing auto insurancecost crisis is not on the same path —atleast not yet. Thereisnodoubt our private passenger and commercial automarkets are in disastrous shape. We consistently rank as the most unaffordable state for auto insurance in thecountry.Louisiana drivers pay close to twice as much as drivers in our neighboring states just for livinginside our borders. In meetings with loggers, big truck drivers and business owners, I am consistently told there are few or no options for affordable insurance —and manyare considering amove out of state because of it.

Youmight think our high rates are driven by insurer profit, but the datashows that is not the case. Over the past 10 years in Louisiana, private passenger auto insurers have an average annual underwriting loss of 7.6%, which

Carbon captureisn’t worththe risk,effort

An interesting debate among traditional allies in Louisiana is underway

These allies are various factions in the oil and gas industry,land owners and economic conservatives regarding carbon capture, utilization and sequestration, often abbreviated CCUS. The topic may be obscure, butitisvery serious. Without caveat, Ifully concur with the notion of American energy dominance. In Louisiana, we literally stand on top of enough energy resources to keep America moving and to sell on the world market for hundreds of years to come. We are at the threshold of prosperity that we’ve never known to access our great resources, use them ourselves and sell them on the world market. To me, “energy dominance” should be focusedonfinding, extracting, processing and marketing these resources. Capturing something that is used by plant life (carbon dioxide) and turning it into apossible poison and then sequestering it below ground is not an energy activity whatsoever

means theyare losing money at threetimes the national average. They do even worse on the commercial side, taking aloss of 30.9%, which is six times the national average. The reason Louisiana families and business pay so much for autoinsurance is not amystery Study after study shows thatour high rate of medical and legal utilization is the primary problem in our state.

Proponents of the status quo say we have triedlegal reform for years and it has not done anything to curb our insurance costs. Well, theyare half right. We have triedtopass meaningful legal reform —but we have failed by passing watered-down “compromise” legislation thatis politically beneficial in the short term but totally ineffective at addressing the root causes of our high auto insurance rates. But it doesn’thave to be the same this year Since the last session ended, I have worked with lawmakers to develop legislation thatfixes the

real problems in our legal system by addressing medical billing transparency,comparative fault, general damages and other areas where we do things differently thanstates with more affordable autorates.

These solutions will be attacked as harmful by those who oppose them, but the bills we are proposing address the foundational issues thatcause our drivers to pay the highest auto insurance rates in the nation. We will continue paying them until we make these necessary legal and insurance reforms.

The time for talk is over.Ifwe can’tget true legal reform passed and signed by the end of this session, it will be time to change the game once and for all. If our legal reform efforts fail, Iwill propose the creation of anew entity called the Louisiana Commercial Automobile Corporation (LCAC).

Basedonthe extremely successful Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation that was created to solve the workers’ comp crisis in the 1980s and ‘90s,

the LCAC would be alegislatively created private entity designed to bring fairness and stability to the commercial market by statutorily limiting excessive claims, setting medical reimbursement rates and capping attorney fees.

The LCAC would solve two problems.

First, it would provide affordable insurance for businesses that have no realistic commercial auto options under the current system. Second, it would demonstrate the degree to which our legal system is corrupting our auto insurance market and finally pave the way for comprehensive legal reform.

Iran for office to make all types of insurance more affordable for the people of Louisiana. Iwill not accept the status quo in which we all suffer from high auto insurance rates for the benefit of a very few

One way or another,now is the time to fix this problem.

TimTemple is the Louisiana Insurance Commissioner

Amendmentrejection waswill of thepeople, notout-of-stateagitators

is tiedto“demands” of the world market. I’m frankly puzzled as to why the U.S. should continue to subjugate itself to thecyclical whims of aloosely defined world market and torture our oil and gas industry by trying to make production“cleaner” for such an obscure purpose. Ouroil and gas industries are already near thetop in the world in terms of clean production.

Further,it’smyappreciation that no other large country on earth is doing carbon sequestration, so Idon’t understand the point of us doing it. We’re out of the Paris Climate Accords, and the currentoccupant of the WhiteHouse sayshe wantsnopart of such things.

There is confusion about two processes that are both tied to the utilization of captured carbon dioxide. One helps maximize available oil and gas reserves, andthe other creates awaste deposit. The first process is EnhancedOil Recovery,orEOR. People in the business know EOR is agood thingfor our oil and gas ventures. EOR is critical to helping oil and gas industries get as muchvalue as possible out of oil fields. The other process is creating permanent waste sites in remote parts of our state that will trap oil and gas below the earthwhen captured carbon is injected. When you put carboninthe ground,itmay makeitimpossibletoget the oil and gas below it That can’tbeagood thing for our economy or our state in general. Some say carbon sequestration

At its root,carbon sequestrationis afederal government initiative —nonmarket-driven taxcredit —aimedatforcing the U.S. to complywithworldexpectations for carbon emissions. Thegoal of this is changing the earth’sclimate. But thescience on climate change is not settled, and Ithink it is very riskytoembrace something that may well be harmful for apurposethat is not achievable or necessary.Iencourage anyone interested in the topic of climate issues to check out Professor Steven Koonin’s book “Unsettled.” This book is agreat review of the utilityof many things we are doing in our current day and age —including capturing carbon.

In addition, there are ahost of other concerns related to sequestering carbon such as personal propertyrightsand the scientific community’sinability to accurately track where thecarbon travels when it goes below the earth’ssurface. Buried carbon is not asafe thing.

Iamvery hopeful that our statewon’tmake decisions now thatwesincerelyregret in the future.

Rep. Charles A. Owen representsDistrict 30 in the Louisiana House of Representatives.

Oneofthe essential principles of American democracy —laid out in the Declaration of Independence —is that our government exists to secure our people’sright to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and its power must be based on theconsent of thegoverned.

Gov.Jeff Landry would do well to reread our nation’sfounding document.

When all four of his proposed constitutional amendments failed overwhelmingly at the ballot box, he blamed George Soros and opposition spending, calling our state“conditioned for failure.”

All four of the proposed constitutional amendments

overwhelminglyonMarch29.

It was apoor attempt to obscure thetruth that thepeople of Louisiana did not consent to his proposed policies to imprison our children, strip away local control, rig our tax system to destabilize our education system and burden the poor to benefit therich.

The election resultswerenofluke or accident. At 21%, this was the highestturnout special electioninrecent history,especially among Black Louisianans,and theamendmentswererejected acrossparty lines.For context, Landrywas elected with547,827 votes,while 419,366 voters turned out to reject Amendment 3, which lostbythe largestmargin of the four questions on the ballot.

While some may claim that thefailure of these amendments is due to money,the “far left” or nonprofitslike the Vera Institute of Justice, where Iserve as director of our Louisiana office, these resultsare, in fact, the mandate of the people Landry was elected toserve. Make no mistake: Plenty of money was spent on this race. The Vera Institute, amemberofthe Liberty and DignityCoalition comprising more than50organizations working acrossLouisiana to create safer,healthier,thriving communities, spent morethan $500,000 against Amendment 3 to reach out and listen to our neighborsacross the state,educatepeople on the harmthese amendmentswould have caused and encourage them to make their voices heard at the ballot box.

The proponents of these harmful ballot measures spent heavily too —$580,000 on Amendment2alone, with money from PACs and outside donors like Charles Koch’sAmericans forProsperity.

Votersshould follow themoney —but that trail can’tstop at the ballot box. Amendment2

would have resulted in Louisiana’srich getting richer,atthe expense of working-class people struggling to get by,while Amendment 3was a“tough-on-crime” scare tactic attempting to trade on fears instead of offering real solutions forsafety

Why did we spend all this money to defeat Amendment 3? Because we love this state. We have spent our lives watching legislators try to arrest and incarcerate their way to public safety It has only madeLouisiana’sproblemsworse, while we are no safer.These failed “tough-oncrime” policies are what condition our state for failure. And while manysheriffs and private corporations makeaprofit off jails and prisons, the people of Louisiana lose millions of dollars that could be used forwhatactually helps neighborhoods and communitiesthrive: jobs, housing, health care and good schools. We helped form the Liberty and Dignity Coalition last summer for these reasons, but it wasborn on the ground, the result of years of organizing by dozens of groups and thousands of Louisianans foranagenda the people of this state actually want: safety,accountability,justice and dignity

The No on 3Campaign knocked on at least 49,000 doors and madeatleast 180,000 phone calls to talk to our neighbors, hear their opinions and explain these misleading amendments. Louisiana voters heard our message, and their will is clear in their ballots.

We are here to listen to the people and to fight fortheir rights to life, to liberty and to happiness. We hope the governor and Legislature will take apage from our book.

Sarah Omojolaisthe director of theVera Institute of Justice’sLouisianaoffice.

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China’sShandong province.

President Donald Trump’ssweeping tariffs sent global stock marketsinto afrenzy before they were pausedascountriesaround the globe struggled to respond.TheTrump administration insists that the president is using trade policy to reset the global economy andbringback manufacturing jobstothe United States. Butcritics argue that the tariffs have unleashed chaos that will ultimately harmU.S.businessesand consumers. Hereare twoperspectives:

Democratsdon’t like tariffs just because Trumpdoes

”Those are my principles, and ifyou don’tlike them well, Ihave others.”Groucho Marx

Guess who said this: “China takestotal advantage of the United States.They steal our intellectual property using cyber theft. Not onlydotheysteal our intellectual property,theykeep ourgood companies out, and say theonly way you’re going to beable to sell yourAmerican productsinChina is if you come to China, make them there,and give us thetechniques and intellectualproperty.”

Elon Musk? Nope.President Trump? Wrong again. That was then-Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer,D-NewYork, in a2018 radio interview.Onanother occasion that same year,Schumersaid: “I’m closer to him (Donald Trump)ontrade than Iwas to either Obama, aDemocrat, or Bush, aRepublican,because we vegot to get tougher on China. But thepresident and his team have to stick withit, be strong, and not sell outfor atemporary purchase of goods without addressingthe real issue: the theft of American intellectual property which will cost us millions of American jobs in thelongrun.”

Even withouttariffs,Trump’s economic agenda is adisaster

In thefive minutes required to read this column at aleisurely pace, pausing to sip coffee, the nation will pay $11 million (about$38,000 asecond) toward servicing thenational debt. Today,Congress is debating how many trillions to increase the debt.

Cal Thomas

Howabout this one: “Interms of tariffs, it’sinteresting to note thatthe average MFN (most favored nation)tariff for Chinese goods coming intothe United States is two percent, whereas theaverage MFN tariff on U.S.goodsgoingto China is 35 percent. Is that reciprocal?” Same list of choices? Wrong again That was Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-California) in 1996.

One more: “It’salsoproper for advanced economieslikethe United States to insist on reciprocityfrom nations like China.”

That was President Barack Obama speaking in Johannesburg, SouthAfrica, in 2018.

What changed and caused manyDemo-

crats whopreviously favored tariffs to now excoriate Trumpover thetariff policies they once supported? Why,politics, of course. Politicians can change positionsfaster than they can change lanes. Meanwhile, there is something else Trumpshould do. Thepresident should address the nation from theOval Office in prime time. He might remindAmericans of Franklin Roosevelt’sfamous line in his first inaugural address near thebeginning of the Great Depression: “The only thing we havetofear is fear itself.” This is nowhere close to adepression, he should say,but an attempt to fundamentally re-set theworld economy which is not working in America’sinterests. Don’t ad-lib or repeat yourself as you do when you go off-script in your speeches. Be serious. Be confident. Don’t make it about yourself, but about all Americans. Note that the U.S. no longer produces drugs in this country,but has outsourcedthem all, mostly to China, and that puts American lives and American interests at risk should those nations decidetonolonger ship drugs to us. Quote Democrats who were for tariffs before they were against them. Convince the public it will be better for everyone if we endure this relatively brief rough patch. Transitions can’tbeeasy,but the outcome can produce good results if we stick together and do not falter

If Trump’stariffs are ashort-term tactic to achieve reciprocitywith other nations, and they work (long termthey have been shown tohave negative consequences) —his critics will again be proved wrong. If he fails, Democrats will likely win the next two elections and nothing will have been solved. Speechwriters, get to work.

Email Cal Thomasattcaeditorstribpub. com

The debate concerns extending or revising portions of, or perhaps extending all of, the first Trump administration’s2017 TaxCuts and Jobs Act. Since then, the 75 percent increase in federal spending has far exceeded the 58% increase in revenue.

progressive still, wanting the wealthy to pay everyone else’sshare, too.

On March 27, thespoilsports at the Congressional Budget Office released their Long-Term Budget Outlook. Their projections refute rosy scenarios, even without factoring in the slower economic growth that President Donald Trump’stariffs would cause. The CBO expects: By 2055, the national debt will grow from today’s122% of GDP to 156%, 37 percentage points above what it was in 1946, after borrowing to fight a global war Donald Trump’seconomic agenda, from taxes to tariffs (which are themselves taxes), is variable because he believes in theimmediate translation of whims into policy proposals, without an intervening pause for study.Commerce

Secretary Howard Lutnick says Trump suddenly favors eliminating “taxes” on people making less than $150,000 ayear —in2022, about 93% of Americans 15 and over

If Trumpisreferring only to income taxes, that would mean —according to Jared Dillian, writing for Reason —that only 7% of Americanswould pay any income taxes. Already,the top 1% of earners provide about 40% of income tax revenue, and the bottom 50% provide about 3%.

Progressives want income taxation to be moreprogressive so the wealthy will pay “their fair share.”Trumpismore

There would be an even larger moral hazard problem —anincentive forperverse behavior —than there already is if 93% of incometax filers were not paying forthe government from which they always want increased benefits. Lutnick says, however,that Trumpwants to eliminate “taxes” —not specifically incometaxes —from those earning less than $150,000. So presumably,Trumpmeans under-$150,000 earners would escape payroll taxes, too, given that mostofthose people pay moretoward Social Security and Medicare than in incometaxes. This is “aspirational,” says Lutnick. It also is delusion, says arithmetic. Social Security’stotal incomein2023 was$1.35 trillion, with 91% of that derived from payroll taxes.

As, second by second, the governmentborrows substantial sumstopay interest on the money it has borrowed, remember: The national debt was$20 trillion when Donald Trumpbegan his first administration, having vowed to eliminate the debt in eight years. It was $28 trillion when Joe Biden’spresidency began. As Maya MacGuineas at the Committee foraResponsible Federal Budget notes, it reached $32 trillion on June 15, 2023; $33 trillion 92 days later; $34 trillion 105 days after that; $35 trillion in another 210 days; and $36 trillion in another 118. It will reach $37 trillion after Congress raises the debt ceiling sometime this summer

All of these numbers reflect the optimistic, perhaps fanciful assumptions that the post-“Liberation Day” economy does not sag into arecession. In any case: This. Will. Not.End. Well.

Email George Will at georgewill@washpost.com

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Sr.,siblingsCarroll (late Elaine) Taylor,Wilfred Tay‐lor,Annette (lateOliver) Smith.Relatives and friends of thefamilyare in‐vited to attend thecelebra‐tionoflifeservice which willbeheldonSaturday, April 12, 2025, at Greater Mount SinaiBaptist Church located at 27954La- 23, PortSulphur,La, 70083. The visitationwillbegin at 9 a.m andend at 11 a.m. PastorReginaldH.BurlSr., officiatingand Rev. Allen Johnson is thehostpastor. Entombmentwillfollowat Mt. Zion Memorial Park CemeteryinEmpire, La The familywillreceive guest fora wake service and musicalonFriday, April 11, 2025, at First Mount Zion BaptistChurch 32471 LA -23, Empire,La., 70050. Thevisitationwillbe from6 -7 p.m.,and themu‐sical will be from 7- 9p.m Funeralplanningentrusted toRobinsonFamilyFuneral Home9611 La -23, Belle Chasse,La70037 9504) 208 - 2119. Foronlinecondo‐lencespleasevisit www robinsonfamilyfuneralho me.com

VernaJ.Severan,age 86 departedthislifeat Ochsner MedicalCenter WestbankonSaturday, March 29, 2025. Shewas a nativeofNew Orleans, LA and aresidentofHarvey, LA. Loving wife of thelate MackSeveran.Beloved motherofDamon Mack Severan.Grandmother to Da’Miaand Ta’Lia Severan. Daughterofthe late Rev. HoraceJohnson,Jr. and LuellaM.Johnson Hamp‐ton.SisterofPercy J. John‐son,BishopWilfret John‐son,I,and Rev. Dr.Eugene (June)Johnson of Manvel TX, Birdel J. Spears,Diana (Luther)McClain andthe late Horace Johnsonlll,

DEATHS continued from andHarriett(Charles) Hayes of SanAntonio,TX. Sister-in-law of Leo(Marie) Severan,alsosurvivedbya hostofnieces, nephews, cousins,and friends. Rela‐tives andfriends of the family, also pastors, offi‐cers, andmembers of OakvilleMissionaryBaptist Church,and allneighbor‐ing churches;members of Pride of OakvilleChapter 149 OrderofEastern Star are invitedtothe Celebra‐tionofLifeatOakvilleMis‐sionary BaptistChurch,100 W.OakvilleStreet, Oakville, LA, Bishop WilfretJohnson, I, Pastor,officiating. on Saturday, April12, 2025, at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. only at the church.Interment:Oakville Cemetery-Oakville, LA ArrangementsbyDavis MortuaryService,230 Mon‐roe St., Gretna,LA. To view and sign theguestbook, pleasegotowww.davismo rtuaryservice.com.Face masks arerecommended

Ms.Ora DeeJames Smith departed this life on Sunday, March16th, 2025, ather home in Terrytown, La. Shewas born in WalthallCountyMissis‐sippi,tothe late Odell James Sr and thelate Willie MaeGainesJames She acceptedChristatan early age. Sheattended school in Tylertown, Mis‐sissippiand then movedto New Orleans, La.Ms. Ora Dee "Momma"or Grandma" as sheaffec‐tionately called by those who lovedher dearly wasa strongwilledladyand very outspoken.She enjoyedlife tothe fullest andshe found an immensejoy and satisfaction in gardening. If youknewher youknow her heartwas full once you brought hersomesoilor dirt. Just askFatmanora plant or two. Sheleavesto cherish herpreciousmem‐ories to herchildrenElnora Mahoney, WillieDean

(Leroy), Encalade and Robert"Jasper"Smith,her girls whomshe raised Atasha, Shenika, and KeishaSmith.Her sisters Rosie Magee, Gloria Sim‐mon andThannieConerly 21grandchildren,40great grandchildren and12great great grandchildren. Her bestfriendJanellJoseph, a hostofnieces, nephews, familyand friendswhom she loveddearly. OraDee was preceded in deathby her father,Odell JamesJr. sisters Sara andDorothy Smith,her grandsonsRay Smith Jr., andRyjhoun Smith.Relatives and friends of thefamilyare in‐vited to attend thecelebra‐tionoflifeservice which willbeheldonSaturday, April 12, 2025, at Robinson FamilyFuneralHome9611 La- 23, Belle Chasse,La 70037. Thevisitationwill begin at 8a.m andthe service will beginat10 a.m.Rev.Terry Nash offici‐ating andentombmentwill followatWestlawnMemo‐rialParkCemeteryin Gretna, La.Funeralplan‐ningentrusted to Robinson FamilyFuneralHome9611 La- 23, Belle Chasse,La 70037 (504) 208 -2119. For onlinecondolences please visit www.robinsonfamilyf uneralhome.com

Smith IV,James Lightbourne 'Jim'

JamesLightbourne Smith IV (Jim), born in Bermuda, died peacefully in his sleep on January31, 2025. Jim survivedbyhis belovedsister, Anne Smith Gordon,MBE (Member of theBritish Empire) J.P. and several cousins. His American family,his longtime friend, Joseph Michael B.P.Bonacci,Anne and Billy Grace,of New Orleans, Mary K.B. Warren of SouthCarolina, Christa and Christopher Montgomery and Mrs. Gail B. Powers of Bonita

Springs, Florida. He was predeceased by hisparents, Elizabeth Crawford Fulton and James Lightbourne Smith,III and dear friends, Anne and GeorgeMontgomery Amemorial servicewill be held at Trinity Episcopal Church on April 12, 2025 at 11:00 a.m. in the chapel with areceptiontofollow In lieu of flowers adonation may be madetoPals of Bermudaonline,which is similar to Hospice here in America.

EmanuelSwayne, Sr., entered eternalrestathis residence surrounded by his familyonThursday, March 27, 2025, at theage of96. He wasa native and residentofNew Orleans, LA. Emanuelattended L. B. LandryHighSchool.He servedhis countryinthe UnitedStatesArmyfor 6 years.Hewas aretired Food Delivery Driver with the OrleansParishSchool Board System for26years Beloved husband of the lateMarionCooper Swayne. Devotedfatherof Kenneth (Brenda), Sr., Ronald(Michelle), Donald (Donnalyn),and Emanuel (Sherise),Swayne, Jr.and the late Sharon Swayne Wagner. Sonofthe late Clarence, Sr.and Mary Jacob Swayne.Brother of the late Joseph,Clarence, Jr.,Albert, Allan, Chester Swayne, HazelBrown, An‐toinette Swayne,LoisElli‐son,and Mary Martin,also survivedby16grandchil‐dren, 22 greatgrandchil‐drenand ahostofnieces, nephews,cousins,other relatives,and friends. Bonus father of Sheryln Hughes. Relativesand friends of thefamily, also pastors,officers,and members of Second Bap‐tistChurch,AbundantLife Church andall neighboring churches areinvited to the FuneralService at Fischer Community Church,1737 L. B.LandryAvenue,New Or‐leans,LAonSaturday, April 12, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. Min‐isterDavid RichardofSec‐

ondBaptist Church,Offici‐ating.BishopJames Nelson Brown, Host Pastor.Visita‐tionwillbegin at 8:30 a.m. atthe church.Interment: EurekaCemetery-NewOr‐leans,LA. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St., Gretna,LA. Toviewand sign theguest‐book,pleasegotowww davismortuaryservice.com. Face masksare recom‐mended.

Welch, Bobby

BobbyWelch,bornon August29, 1960, at Charity HospitalinNew Orleans, Louisiana,passedawayon March 29, 2025, at Ochsner Hospital, at theage of 64 Bobby wasa graduate of Alcee FortierHighSchool Bobby wasa manknown for hiskindspiritand deep lovefor workingwithhis hands.Whether it was cars, bikesoranything witha motor, Bobbywould try to fixit-andoften did, not just forhimself,but for anyoneinneed. He is sur‐vived by hislovingwife, Maude Welch; hisdevoted mother, ZeanderWelch; and hisbrother,Andrew Washington, ason,an aunt,three uncles,three nieces, threenephews and a host of cousins. Preceded indeath by agrandmother, EsjaraWelch,a grandfa‐ther, EliWelch,Sr. anda brother,Larry Welch. Bobby’s presence,kind‐ness, anddependablena‐turewillbedeeply missed byall who hadthe honorof knowing him. Family and friends areinvited to at‐tendthe CelebrationofLife Service on Saturday,April 12, 2025, for1:30p.m.at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy NewOrleans,LA 70126. Visitation will begin at12:30 p.m. Reverend Col‐lis Parham,officiating. In‐terment is private. Guest‐book Online:www.anewtra ditionbegins.com(504)2820600. Linear Brooks Boyd

AnnMarie Wiltzpassed awaypeacefullyonSatur‐day,March 29, 2025 at the age of 82. Shewas the motherofand is survived byher sonWilliam P. Wiltz III (Trenese)and daugh‐ters: Sharon WiltzButler (ClevelandJr.), Shuntell Wiltzand Nicole Wiltz. She was thesisterof: William Moore, Elaine Turner (Ran‐dolph), LouisMoore(Debo‐rah), Glen Moore, Althea Hoard (John),Thais Du‐Bose(Richard) andCarl Moore(Shirley).Ann is alsosurvivedby9 grand‐children: Derrick, Jada, Cleveland III, Ryan,Kortnie TaylorD., Brooke, Chad‐wickJr. andTaylorG.; 6 great grandchildrenand a hostofother relativesand friends.She is preceded in death by herhusband the lateWilliam P. WiltzJr., daughterAnisse Wiltz, grandsonDevin Wiltz, par‐entsGeorgeC.Moore Sr and Marguerite Moore. Rel‐atives,friends of thefamily

andDonavin D. Boyd Own‐ers/Funeral Directors.

Wiltz, AnnMarie

Swayne Sr., Emanuel

Smith, OraDee James

Severan, VernaJ.

SPORTS

ROAD TO RECOVERY

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

AUBURN, Ala. Chris Martin typically has hisstarting pitchers lift weightsthe dayafter astart. Not every baseball strength and conditioning coach deploys the same strategy, butMartin prefers doing it that way.Hewants as much time as possible between their most high-stress lift of theweekand their nextouting. The goal of the workout is to maintain thestrength they’ve built up throughout theseason.

“It’sa full-bodylift,and we’re tracingstrength as kind of our quality that we’re going after,”LSU’sstrength and conditioningcoach said. “So thelifts are going to be heavier.They’re going tobelow reps, high load, relatively intense.” Martin had to pivot fromhis plan last Friday.Sophomore left-hander and LSU ace Kade Andersontossed a complete game shutout against Oklahomathe night before, adazzling start that handed LSUa2-0 victory Butthe outing came at aphysicalprice.Anderson

AUGUSTA, Ga. At the news conferencefollowing the ceremonial tee shots to start the Masters tournament Thursdaymorning, Jack Nicklaus was asked to gauge three-time green jacket-winner Phil Mickelson’sform entering the week at age 54.

“I don’tknow what level Phil is competing at,” Nicklaus said.“I guess he’sstill playing. He’splaying the LIV tour,ishe? Idon’tknowif he’splaying or not. Younever see him anymore.”

That’sthe fact, Jack. Because there is mounting evidence that thesound and fury of LIV Golf is increasingly signifying nothing.

threw135 pitches, eclipsing his previous career-high pitch count by 34 pitches. It was an abnormally long start, especially for someone with his medical history Anderson had Tommy Johnsurgeryasajunior in high school, an injury that forced him to miss his entiresenior year “The fact that he has had aTommy Johnsurgery makes it always present in our minds,” Martin said, “in terms of, how do we prepare him to go out and play?”

Especially given his past,aheavy lift in the weight room the next day just didn’tmake sense for Anderson. He needed extra time for his body to recover before his next start against AuburnonFriday (6 p.m., SEC Network+).

“Wekind of just pushedeverything back aday and gave him an extra24hours to really puta premiumon recovery,”Martin said.

LSU’sschedule helped Anderson receive theadditional rest he needed. Theteamhad an extraday offbefore

9thWard stadium projectclose to reality

The dream of building afootball stadium in NewOrleans’ historic Desire neighborhood is still alive. In fact, it’sclose to becoming areality

For several years, organizers have worked tirelessly to bring the project to fruition. They’re now near the goal line, with just one final push needed cross into the end zone.

“We’ve raised $10 million, all through public funding —federal, state and local —which is unprecedented,” said Arnie Fielkow,the former NewOrleans city councilman, who has spearheaded the project. “We’ve struggled in the private sector.Ifwecan get it to $12 million, then we feel comfortable that we can still get the stadium we all want forthe community.”

Organizers held acommunity meeting at the Desire-Florida Community Center on Thursday night to update residents on the project and sound afinal call forsupport. They hope to lure a sponsor fornaming rights to the stadium and/or field.

“This is an exciting opportunity,” Fielkow said. “Hopefully,someone from our corporate community will step up.”

The 9th Ward Project is an important one foraneighborhood that could use a boost. Organizers believe the stadium can serve as an economic engine forthe Upper 9th Ward neighborhood, which was inundated by Katrina’sfloodwaters and has experienced acheckered recovery in the 19 years since. The hope is that it will not

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LIV has since nixedthe short pants, but it has failed to coerce the PGA Tour to make adeal. Younever seeMickelson anymore except At Masters, LIVgolf’ssound and fury appear to signifyverylittle

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This is not to say LIV Golf,the breakaway men’sprofessional tour created to challenge the hegemonyofthe PGA Tour and sportswashSaudi Arabia’sreputation (the Saudi’sPublic Investment Fund is LIV’sprimary benefactor) is irrelevant Twelve LIV players are in the 95-man field here this week, including six former Mas-

ters champions. TwoLIV players, Bryson DeChambeau, who won his second U.S.Open this past June, and Tyrrell Hatton, were well in thethick of things after the first round. Both shot 3-under 69s to tie for fifthbehind astellar first-round 65 by Justin Rose. They could win. But aside from DeChambeau, there was very little chatter about the LIV legion entering the89th Masters. Not as much as ayear ago, when 2023 Masterswinner Jon Rahm had just defected to LIV.Nor as much as after the spate of stars like DeChambeau, Mickelson, 2020 Masters champion Dustin Johnson and five-timemajor winner Brooks Koepka took the Saudi blood money and ran for LIV’s land of three-round shotgun starts and short pants.

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Godchaux this offseason, the New Orleans Saints made clear that they were undergoingaschematic shift undernew defensive coordinator Brandon Staley Godchaux, abig-bodiedrun stuffer, historically has been anose tackle in a3-4 defense. And that’sthe type of player that the Saints haven’thad in many years, as formercoach DennisAllendeployeda 4-3 scheme.

TheSaints’ makeover at the position may not be completely over,either New Orleansallowedthe second-most rushing yards in 2024, so it wouldn’tbea shock if the team devoted moreresources aimed at plugging one of the team’sbiggest holes last season. This year’s NFLdraftisstacked with defensive tackles. Could the Saints add another to agroupthatincludesGodchaux, Khalen Saunders, Nathan Shepherd, Bryan

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LSU starting pitcher Kade Anderson throws apitch against Purdue FortWayne duringtheir season-opening game on Feb. 14 at Alex Box Stadium.

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Pels,playing with 8players,falltoBucks

BY RODWALKER Staff writer

The New Orleans Pelicans had to deal with Giannis Antetokounmpo this time.

So this time,itwasn’t nearly as close.

The Pelicans lost their final road game of theseason Thursday night, falling to Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks136-111 at FiservForum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

“There are alot of positives to takefrom this game,” saidPelicans’ coach Wille Green. “We threw areally good shot at them. We still have more in the tank. Not our best, but areallygood shot.”

This latest loss came just four days after the Pelicans lost to the Bucks 111 -107 at Smoothie King Center in agame Antetokounmpo missed due to rest.

Antetokounmpo made his presence felt in this one, finishing with 28 points, 11 rebounds andfive assists as the Bucks pulled away in the third quarter Lester Quinone scored acareerhigh 21 points to lead the Pelicans (21-59). Keion Brooks and Jamal Cain scored 20 each, also career highs for both.

The Pelicans (21-59) played the game with just eight players after JoseAlvarado (right calf soreness), Bruce Brown(right knee soreness) androokie Yves

Missi (left anklesoreness) were allruled out Wednesday morning. That left the Pelswithjust Brooks, Quinones, Cain, Karlo Matkovic, Elfrid Payton, Antonio Reeves, JeremiahRobinson-Earl and newcomer Kylor Kelley.It made atough task againsta playoff boundteam even tougher

“It limitsthe rotations just having eight guys,”Green said before the game. “Theseguyswillget a great opportunity to get on the floor andplayagainst aquality opponent. It’sextremely valuable forguys that otherwise probably wouldn’thave these opportunities or be in this position. We want to

go outand takeadvantageoftrying to play up to ourstandards, playing hard and playing together and having funwith it.”

ThePelicans, despitebeing short handed, ledthe Bucksled by as many as nine points in the first quarter and took a26-21 lead into thesecondquarter.Robinson-Earl scored nine points to go with five rebounds in the first quarter to get thingsstarted. Payton,the only Pelicans’player with more than three years of NBAexperience,dishedout 15 assists. It was his fourth straight gamewith 10 or moreassists.

“He’sa veteran and he’sbeen in in these circumstances anumber of times,”Green said of Payton. “He makes people better on both sides of theball. He can getguys in the rightspots and calm us down alittle bit.”

Matkovic (15points, 10 rebounds) recorded hisfourth double double. Robinson-Earl also had 15 pointsand 10 rebounds for his thirddouble double of the season.

ThePelicans, oneseason removed from having the best road record in the NBA, finishedthis season 7-34 on theroad. It ties the 2004-’05 squad for fewest road wins in franchise history

The Pelicanswrapupthe season with apair of homegames.They host the Miami Heat Friday and thenthe Oklahoma CityThunder on Sunday

WNBA salaries continue to be atopic of conversation

BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

NEW YORK Paige Bueckers will receive roughly the samesalary that Caitlin Clark got last year as the top pick in the WNBA draft as player salaries continue to be a topic of conversation. As the presumptive No. 1pick in Monday’sWNBA draft,Bueckers’ deal will be worth just over $78,000 in base salary.Talks betweenthe league and players union are ongoing about adeal when the current collective bargaining agreement expires next season.

Players have indicated there could be alockout if their salary demands aren’tmeet. Thespotlight on WNBA player salaries got brighter following Clark’s and Angel Reese’smuch talked about rookie earnings last season.

WNBA Players Union vice president Napheesa Collierhas said that “no one wants” alockout but the players are “prepared for any possibility right now.”

“Weget such asmall percentage of revenueshare rightnow that affects our salary,” she said last month on the “WeNeed to Talk TV show.“We’re asking for abigger cut of that, like more equitable

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MASON GRAHAM •MICHIGAN: An absolute force on the line, Graham’s addition would seem toinstantly upgrade New Orleans’run defense. He canquickly beatblocks, and his speed allows him to create havoc on the inside. There are concerns about his pass-rushing ability —31/2 sacks last year— and his lack of size (296 pounds at the combine), but thosecould be areas that develop over time He already weighed 10 pounds heavier at his pro day Graham could verywell be gone by the time the Saintspick at No. 9, but if he’sthere, his talent might be too much to pass up. Of the teams in front of the Saints, the JacksonvilleJaguars (atNo. 5) and Las Vegas Raiders

to what the men’srevenue share is.”

Salariesare expectedtogrow exponentially in the new CBA with the11-yearmedia rightsdeal the WNBA signedlast July that will bringinatleast $200 million ayear.Thatdeal goes into effect next year

How much of asalary increase theplayers get isthe question, thoughthatwon’t change this year’srookie contracts.

Bueckers has one of thetop name, image and likeness (NIL) valuations for women’sbasketball players over the last few years and those deals are expected to carry over intoher procareer Bueckersalready has dealswith Nike, Gatorade, Bose, Verizon, Dunkin’ and herportfolio is expected to grow.

What is WNBA rookie salary scale?

If Bueckers is the top pick in the WNBA as expected, shewill earn around$78,000 in base salary.The 10th overallselection earns about $72,000.

Bueckers andotherscould earn hundreds of thousandsdollars in league andteam marketing deals as well as bonuses forperformances on the court—boosting their WNBA earnings to potentially $500,000.

(at No. 6) could be the mostlikely candidates for Graham.

KENNETH GRANT •MICHIGAN: If he was overlooked because of Graham’spresenceonMichigan’s defensive line, he shouldn’t have been.Grant,at6-foot-4 and331 pounds,eats up space and was also disruptive against the run. ESPN ranks Grant as the fourth-best defensive tackle in this year’sclass, which could make him an option on Day 2 for the Saints.

“He’sapeople mover,” The NFL Network’sDaniel Jeremiah said. “Talking to thefolks where he has been doing alot of his training, at 340 pounds he should not be able to move around like that. You’re hoping and dreaming on thisDexter Lawrencetype ascension for him once he gets to the NFL.” T.J. SANDERS •SOUTH CAROLINA: The Saints love athleticism, and Sand-

Unrivaledleagueturns up heat

The inaugural season of the new 3-on-3 league started by Collier and Breanna Stewart drew rave reviews from thenearly three dozen players whoplayed in it. Alot of thepraise was for their earnings Unrivaled had thehighest average salary for players of any profes-

ers has it in spades. The 6-foot-4, 297-pound lineman recorded a9.28 Relative Athletic Score thanks in part to an impressive 311/2-inch vertical jump and a sub-5 (4.99 seconds) 40-yard dash. He also specializes as arun defender.Hestarted nine games last year with 50 tackles and four sacks. The NFLNetwork’sLance Zierlein called Sanders a“powerful road block with heavy hands and astrong core.”

OMARR NORMAN-LOTT •TENNESSEE: The Saints reportedly met with Norman-Lott in Knoxville, and he would present adifferent type of interior lineman on this list. Undersized at 6-foot-2, 291 pounds, the23-year-old makes up for it withaknack as apass rusher —hehad 91/2 sacks over thelast two seasons. He alsowas part of Tennessee’srotation, appearing in 13 games as areserve. He played two seasons for the

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Braves’ aceStrider could be ready for MLBreturn

ATLANTA Spencer Strider struck out 13 batters in 51/3 innings for Triple-A Gwinnett on Thursday in his second injury rehabilitation start andappears readytoreturnfrom elbow surgery to makehis Atlanta Braves season debut next week. Striderallowedthree hits, two walks and one earned run against Norfolk, then was removed after 90 pitches, as planned. He struck out his first sixbatters, hadninestrikeouts through threeinningsand reached 97 mph with his fastball. Strider last pitched for the Braves on April 5last year and had internal brace surgery aweek laterwithTexas Rangersphysician Dr.Keith Meister.Heled the major leagues in 2023 with 20 wins and 285 strikeouts, finishing fourth in NL Cy Young Award voting.

Colts cutkickerGay just 2yearsafter big contract

INDIANAPOLIS— The Indianapolis Colts released Matt GayonThursday, asurprising move that came just two years after he became the NFL’shighest-paid kicker

He had two years remaining on his $22.5 million contract and while the move will save the Colts $2.75 million on this year’s salarycap,Indy already was below the cap figure.

The bigger problem was Gay not meeting the lofty expectations after making more than 98% of his field goals in 2021-22 whenhe played forLos Angeles Rams.

He battled injuriesthroughout hisIndy tenurebut in theColts’ retractable roofdome, Gay managed to make only 80.5% of his field goal attempts in 2023. Hispercentage slightly improved to 83.8% last season.

MLStoconsider adopting fall-to-spring calendar

MajorLeague Soccer’s board of governors will give further considerationtoadopting afallto-spring calendar,amajor move that would align the league with its international counterparts.

The next phase, announced Thursday following the board’s meeting, includes “additional consultation with key stakeholders.” The MLSsaidina statement that any potential changes wouldn’t take effect until the 2027 season “at the earliest.” Advocates for ashift have said it will give MLS amore competitive position for player transfers, while also freeing up players forinternational duty during the summer, when manymajor global tournaments take place.

Billie Jean Cup finals moveduptoSeptember

The final of the Billie Jean King Cup were brought forward two months on ThursdaytoSeptember. Thenew Sept. 16-21 schedule in Shenzhen, China,better aligns with thecalendarfor top women’s tennis players, organizers said. Shenzen hosts thefinals each year through 2027

sional women’s sports league with many earning six-figure salaries for the eight-week season. Players in Unrivaled have an averagesalaryofmorethan $220,000, which is close to the maximum base salary in the WNBA. Things that worked well for the newleaguewillcertainly be discussed at the CBA bargaining table

Vols after three years at Arizona State. With the Saints holding nine picks in the draft, NormanLott could be aDay 3option.

J.J. PEGUES •OLE MISS: The 6-2, 309-pounder has the kind of versatilitythat might makethe Saints’ Saunders —who always clamors to get reps on offense jealous. At Ole Miss, Pegues was used as awildcat quarterback, running back and tight end. His selection could give coach Kellen Moore afun weapontogoalong withwhat Pegues can do on the defensive line. Make no mistake, Pegues will makehis money because of what he can do in the trenches. ESPN praised Pegues as a“adisruptive interior run defender,with the quick first step and active hands to get intothe backfield.” He can play multiple spots on the line as well. He was named third-team All-SEC last year

After the U.S. Open ends on Sept. 7, the WTAtour moves to Asia for the China Open from Sept. 24 in Beijing.The tourthen stays in China forthe Wuhan Open. Billie Jean King Cup reigning champion Italy and host China will be in theeight-team lineup. Italy won a12-nationtournament last November in Malaga, Spain. The other finalists will be winners of sixqualifying groupsplayedthis weekendinAustralia,the Czech Republic, Japan, the Netherlands, Poland and Slovakia.

F1 driver Sainz protests tardiness, swearing fines

CarlosSainz broke Formula 1’s rulesonswearing on Thursday when he protested afine forbeing late.

The Williams driverwas fined 20,000 euros($22,200),with half of that suspended, after arriving lateduringthe Japanese national anthem before last week’srace. Sainz explainedhewas late because of astomach problem and that adoctor confirmed he needed medication.

“I was thefirst one to put my hand up and say,‘I’mlate, I’m sorryfor that.’ At thesametime, Iwas five seconds late,” Sainz said.

“For me it’s outofthe question that we’re having to pay these fines. Idon’tknow if I’mgoing to getanother fine for saying this, but s*** happens,you know,it’s the wayitis.”

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UConn guard PaigeBueckers holds up apieceofnet after the Huskies defeated South Carolina in thenational championship game on Sunday in Tampa,Fla.

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Milwaukee Bucks’ Kevin Porter drives to the basket against Pelicans’ guardAntonio Reevesduring the first half of agameonThursdayin Milwaukee.

LSU prepares for SEC series at Texas A&M

BY JIM KLEINPETER

Contributing writer

LSU softball coach Beth Torina is convinced that as well as her team has played this season, it’s still chasing its potential

The No. 5 Tigers will need to get closer to it beginning this weekend with a visit to No 4 Texas A&M for a three-game series beginning Friday at 6 p.m. The teams play at 2 p.m. Saturday and 1 p.m. Sunday Torina will get a good idea of how far her team has come, not only this weekend but in the following two weekends when the Tigers play at No. 1 Texas and host No 6 Florida. To say this is a crucial time in the season is an understatement.

“It’s a tough road in front of us but an exciting opportunity in front of us,” Torina said, moments after getting her 700th career win against Louisiana Tech Wednesday “It’s never a dull moment in the SEC. The next few weeks are going to be exciting.

“Our best softball is still in front of us. Hopefully we will continue to build and grow, continue to push.” Torina is still pushing buttons and pulling strings to try and snap her team out of its propensity to play well on Friday and Saturday and then falter on Sundays. The Tigers are winless in their last four Sunday games that were marked by uncharacteristically sloppy play Wednesday’s victory, one Torina

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its next series since the Oklahoma series began on a Thursday The added time allowed Anderson to undergo a light recovery workout with Martin at the team hotel in Norman, Oklahoma, on Friday without disrupting his weekly schedule. The extra day factored in LSU coach Jay Johnson’s decision to let Anderson throw so many pitches in the first place.

“I felt like I would give them momentum by taking him out of the game,” Johnson said. “And the fact that he was getting stronger, the fact that he’s well conditioned for it. It was, honestly, one of the easier decisions in a tight game we’ve had this year.”

Step by step

Anderson’s post-start recovery the next day involved seven light exercises aimed toward improving his range of motion and mobility.

The workout began with him performing cat camels, a stretch where he got down on his hands and knees and arched his back up and down — like a cat — to help gain “extension and flexion” within his spine. His hands and knees then stuck to the mat for his next exercise, the foam roller thread the needle. With one hand anchoring him to the floor Anderson tucked his other arm toward the opposite side of his waist and laid it on the roller, pulling his extended arm back and forth and rotating his spine as the roller helped maximize his extension.

He performed two sets of 10 reps on each side of his body

“Pitchers who are rotating predominantly to one side can start to get some weird rotational abnormalities,” Martin said “And so we’re trying to go both ways with it. Free up some some movement.

“People will say motion is lotion, and it’s kind of like this idea that we’re just constantly keeping the spine moving in all directions so that our body doesn’t get used to just doing one thing over and over again.”

His third exercise was the cobra to down dog with foot pedal. The stretch started with Anderson’s legs and waist lying on the mat while he extended his arms to prop up his upper body and head, stretching his back in the process.

He transitioned from the back stretch into a calf and hamstring stretch by lifting his waist in the air before moving his knees up and down — as if running in slow motion — all the while he kept his toes planted to the floor Anderson executes two sets of six reps before moving on

“Again, a little bit of spine extension and flexion there That one also works some range of motion through the shoulder and the (scapula),” Martin said. “ That one is just like a good full body (exercise), kind of hits multiple spots.”

The cobra to down dog with foot pedal exercise was followed by the runner’s lunge with rotation stretch.

While kneeling on one knee, Anderson takes the arm from the

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called “complete,” was a good sign. The offense kept up the pressure, the defense made key plays and pitcher Tatum Clopton tossed a three-hitter LSU batters struck out only once in 33 plate appearances.

“Our staff has done a good job of preparing them,” Torina said.

“We put a huge emphasis on making good decisions at the plate on what pitches we’re swinging at or when. They’re executing that plan really well.”

Catcher Maci Bergeron hit her ninth homer and nearly had her 10th with the bases loaded, resulting in a sacrifice fly on a ball to the left field warning track. She had three RBI, raising her season total to 41, second only to Tori Edwards with 56.

Bergeron said even with several new faces in the everyday lineup, the team has adapted well to the offensive philosophy under new hitting coach Bryce Neal.

“The way we prepare helps us to be comfortable with two strikes,” Bergeron said. “A lot of us don’t get to two strikes but if we do we’re comfortable in that spot.

Maybe we have a few communication things on defense but other than that we’re pretty solid.

“We try to be the most prepared team in the country I’m super excited to get out to Texas.”

The Aggies have won their last

LSU pitcher Kade Anderson is expected to start Friday’s SEC series opener against

with a 2.85 ERA.

nine games and 13 of the last 14, although LSU swept them at home last season.

Leading the offense is out-

fielder Amari Harper with a 463 batting average. The most dangerous hitter is first baseman

Mya Perez with a .450 average, 12 homers and 55 RBIs. Leadoff hitter and third baseman Kennedy Powell is batting .387 has stolen 15 bases without being caught. In the circle, All-American left-

hander Emiley Kennedy is a formidable foe with a 12-3 record and 2.52 earned run average. She has 11 complete games and opponents are batting .188 against her Last season, she went 24-11 with 200 strikeouts in 202 innings.

RHP GUIDRY OUT VS. AUBURN

LSU baseball right-handed junior Gavin Guidry has been listed as out for this weekend’s series against Auburn, according to Thursday’s SEC availability report.

Guidry has not pitched this season mostly due to a back injury he suffered after LSU’s fourth game of the year LSU coach Jay Johnson said last week that the hope was for Guidry to return for this weekend’s series.

There’s benchmarks every day,” Johnson said on Monday,“and he has to hit the benchmarks to go to the next step.

Johnson has not ruled out sitting Guidry for the rest of the year and utilizing his redshirt, but he also said that LSU is still trying to get him back on the mound this season

“We are trying to get him back this season. If it comes to a point where that’s what we need to look at, then we’ll do that,” Johnson said.“And there’s a balance of doing right by the player (and) doing what’s best for the program.”

LSU and Auburn begin their series this weekend at Plainsman Park on Friday. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. and the game will be available to stream on SEC Network+

same side of his knee and rotates it into the air, stretching it out while the arm and foot on the opposite side of his body were anchored to the floor He did two sets of six reps with each arm.

“Kade likes to do some work with his hips post start,” Martin said.

“So this one will really help stretch out the groin, the hamstring (and) inner hamstring to a degree. And again, we’re doing some rotation there and continuing just to put some emphasis on getting the spine rotating well.”

With his back to the mat and facing the ceiling, Anderson’s fifth stretch involved the foam roller again

Anderson placed the roller underneath his behind with one leg hanging straight and the other bent and held to his body by the arm on that same side. He performed two sets with six reps apiece on both

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sides. One breath equaled one rep on the exercise.

“Kade really likes to hit the hip flexors, sometimes (he’s) a little bit sore there,” Martin said “And so it’s just one that, again, frees up some range of motion. It’s like a feel good stretch.”

The breathing incorporated for the fifth stretch — hip flexor stretch on foam roller and his sixth stretch — lat stretch on rack — both would help with the mobility of his rib cage. If his rib cage is stiff, Martin explains that it can affect other parts of the body and how they can move in a negative way

“Your pelvis is kind of directly correlated with how the rib cage works,” Martin said. “If your rib cage stops working as well, maybe your pelvis or your spine are going to have to move differently, and that can cause issues.”

The breathing element was particularly important for the lat stretch. For that exercise, Anderson — this time standing and facing a weight rack leans over without bending his knees to grab a pole on the rack. He then wraps his other arm around his rib cage on the opposite side of his body while breathing in, holding his breath for one second and fully exhaling six times.

He performs two sets on each side of his body

“When you breathe in, your diaphragm is going to sit and kind of descend as you breathe in,” Martin said. “But there’s also going to be some interplay with like your pelvic diaphragm as well. So we’re trying to keep that moving.”

Anderson’s final stationary exercise — kettlebell halos — involves a kettlebell and a return to the mat. While sitting on the back of his calves and with his knees nailed to the floor he rotates the kettlebell around his head in a circular motion.

“(The weight) activates the muscles a little bit but also just gets the shoulder, the ball in the socket, kind of moving 360 degrees, or as close to it as we can (to that),” Martin said. “And (we) can use that motion as lotion and just kind of try to get the whole joint moving freely, and kind of get it unstuck, for lack of a better term, from the day before.”

He does two sets of 10 reps rotating in each direction before concluding his workout on the treadmill, walking at a brisk pace for 30-40 minutes to help get his blood flowing.

Low effort cardio exercises are a staple in LSU players’ physical routines. It’s something Martin

WHO: LSU (31-3, 10-2 SEC) at Auburn (23-10, 6-6 SEC)

WHEN: 6 p.m. Friday

WHERE: Plainsman Park

ONLINE/TV: SEC Network+

RADIO: WDGL-FM, 98.1 (Baton Rouge); WWL-AM, 870 (New Orleans); KLWB-FM, 103.7 (Lafayette)

RANKINGS: LSU is No. 3 by D1Baseball; Auburn is No. 11

PROBABLE STARTERS: LSU — LHP Kade Anderson (6-0, 2.85 ERA); Auburn — RHP Sam Dutton (4-2, 2.66 ERA)

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has his players do multiple times a week in the offseason and throughout the year They won’t notice the benefits of it immediately, but Martin says that a strong aerobic base helps get more blood and nutrients to their muscles and assists their hearts in pumping blood more efficiently

“All of that just helps the whole system operate a little bit more effectively,” Martin said. “And then at high intensities, if your body is not working as hard relative to how it was before, things can feel a little bit easier

“You have to train your body to be able to work at those high intensities but the underpinning kind of mechanism of all that is having a quality, low level aerobic system before you build those. So it’s kind of like if you build a house, you need to build the foundation first before you put everything else up.” Anderson had his bigger lift pushed back to Sunday when LSU returned from Norman, so the rest of his schedule was business as usual heading into the Tigers’ series opener against Auburn.

“I saw him yesterday,” Johnson said Monday “It was good. Lifted, played catch. Feels like normal.” The extra day of rest was an obvious benefit, but Martin had no qualms with Johnson allowing Anderson to smash past his careerhigh pitch count.

Despite his medical history Martin knew the work he’d put in during the offseason gaining at least 10 pounds since August, continuing to strengthen the muscles around his UCL and further growing his aerobic base — prepared him to take on the extra workload and be stronger for it. His recovery the next day was to make sure that he’d be well rested for the long journey ahead.

“He’s got a lot left in the tank in terms of what the finished product is going to look like,” Martin said.

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of thesong ‘you’ll NeverLeave Harlan Alive’ as his walk-up music has been popular with players and fans.

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Rasmussen’swalk-upsongresonates with Tulane teammatesand fans alike

BY GUERRYSMITH Contributing writer

Tulane second baseman Connor Rasmussen had never seen the TV show

“Justified” or had anyfamiliarity with the music most associated with it, but he knew agreat walk-up song the first time he heard it. When he comes to the plate in the first inningas the Green Wave (21-13, 5-4 American Athletic Conference) hosts UAB (18-15, 3-6) on Friday night at Turchin Stadium, just about everyone in the dugout and most of the fans in the stands will be clapping their hands in rhythm to Ruby Friedman’scover of “You’ll NeverLeave Harlan Alive.”

The haunting vocaland electric guitar licks are accompanied by these lyrics —usually cut off after the second line as Rasmussen gets ready for the first pitch —about the rough life in acoal-mining town. In the deep dark hills of Eastern Kentucky

That’sthe place where I trace my bloodline And it’sthereIreadona hillside gravestone

“You will never leave Harlan alive.”

While his teammates’ choices run the gamut from hip-hop to Pink Floyd, Rasmussen’sisthe onethat has resonated. It turns out his choice was alast-minute additionbeforehis debut in the Tulane’s 2023 season openerand notwhat he used as afreshman at East Carolinabeforetransferring Theday beforethe 2024

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opener,achance conversation with teammates Marcus Cline and Matthias Haas in thebattingcage convinced himtoswitch songs.

“Westarted messing around, and Marcus said he played withaguy in theNorthwoods (summer) League that had that (“You’llNever Leave Harlan Alive),and he played it,”Rasmussen said. “I was like, that wouldbekind of cool, and Iended up texting (general manager) Curtis (Akey) like, ‘Hey,isthere any chance Ican change this?” ’

The restishistory,even if Rasmussen, from the CharlottesuburbofFort Mill, SouthCarolina, had little idea of the history of the song, which was originally recorded by American musician DarrellScottin 1997. Differentrenditionswere featured inall but one of the six season-ending episodes of the Western crime drama “Justified,” which ran on FX from 2010-15 and was set in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky

“Never watched it,” Rasmussen said. “The first time Iheard thesong was when Marcus played it in thecage. It’s acool song.” It helps that Rasmussen frequently does cool things when thesnippet ends. Afterhitting.310 with 51 runs and 51 RBIs, seven home runs and 41 walks last year,heisliving up to his ranking as the No. 9second baseman in thecollege

original project had been abandoned by agroup of Carver alumni, who wrested control fromBordainick and squanderedmorethan$1 million in donations.

baseball fromD1Baseball. com this preseason,posting teamsbests forbatting average(.344), hits (44) andRBIs (25). He also has committed only oneerror in 123 chances forafielding percentageof.992.

Rasmussen is aware of the reaction to his walk-up.

“I notice it in big spots,” he said. “Obviously the wholedugout gets into it andthe fans are doing it, andthe coaches enjoy it, too, just to see everyone getinvolved. Ikind of look around whenever there’sa pitching change or amound visit andreally seethe crowd getinto it.”

Tulane coach Jay Uhlman referencing the reaction to Philadelphia Phillies secondbaseman Bryson Stott’s walk-up song “A-O-K, whichhas fans loudly singing “A-O-A-O-K”Acapella every time he comes to the plate atCitizens Bank Park.

“It’sneat,” Uhlmansaid.

“Those little things that get the crowd engaged are really cool.I’m allfor it.”

Rasmussen learned another incidentalbenefitof his choice soon after he started using it.

The song even had special meaning to his grandfather, Earl Lovelace, whose family is fromEastern Kentucky.

“He told me it was actually oneofhis favorite songs,” Rasmussen said.

“He said he was really excited that Ipickedit.”

Lagniappe

UAB has lost 12 of its past 17 games and gone 1-2 against South Florida, Wichita State and Texas-San Antonio to begin AAC play

BY CHRISTOPHERDABE Staff writer

BrotherMartin and Shawwon team bowling statechampionships Thursday and did it with adose of drama.

Both teams overcame uncomfortable deficitsand ultimately came away with victories in the LHSAAstate finalsatPremier Lanes in Gonzales, where Brother Martin topped Slidell in Division Iand Shaw defeated Belle Chasse in Division II. No.1 seeded Brother Martin made a comeback over the finaltwo games and won 14-13 after No. 2Slidell led 7-1 after thefirst game. LHSAAoutstanding bowler selection SamVollenweider rolleda 744 series, posting aper-game average that was 37 pins above his season average of 211.

“I neverhad adoubt he would show up for this,” Brother Martin coach Bruce Himbert said. “He always shows up at the big times.Italked to him (Wednesday) and Isaid, ‘Are you ready?’ He said, ‘I’m going to throwthe best setsofmylife.’ ”

Other bowlers overcame poor starts and finishedstrong, including seniors Peyton Avril and Beau Bufkin,who bothstruck out on the 10th frame —rolling three consecutive strikes to help secure the overall pins lead that clinched the championship.

Himbert said theteam missed too many chances at making spares in the first two games.

“That’s one thing we pride ourselves on, making spares, and we missed them,” he said.“Andthen we did the same thing at theend of the secondgame to give those pins back.Weprobably could havebeen up going intothe thirdgame if we madethe pins we missed.

For Vollenweider, the singles state champion last season, the lanes used forthe final played to his advantage because of how slick they were compared to the drier lanes used during a16-11 semifinal victory against No. 12 Rummel.

“This place was perfect because the oil was longer,” Vollenweider said, adding that theconditions let him get more hook on his shots.

For Slidell, which beat No. 6Jesuit1710 in asemifinal, Hunter Mullenrolleda team-best 668 series in the final.

Thedrama forNo. 1Shaw, whichdefeated No.10Belle Chasse 18-9 in the state final, came when Shaw overcame a10-6 deficit and wonthe semifinal against No. 4 South Terrebonne.

To help winthe semifinal, LHSAA outstanding bowler selection Jonathan Arena rolled nine consecutive strikes to start the third game as Shawswept allsix individual matchups, gained two points for having the high team score and three morepoints for having the higherthree-game total —an 11-point surgethatlifted the Eaglestoa 17-10 victory

only spur redevelopment in the neighborhood but also serve as asource of pride for residents in the oftneglected community

Organizers are hoping to deliver what their predecessors, the aborted 9th Ward Field of Dreams project, failed to do 17 years ago.

Fielkow,the former New Orleans Saints executive, resurrected the plan after learning of the failed efforts of the original stadium project, which was launched in 2008byformer Carver teacher and athletic director Brian Bordainick. Fielkow donated $25,000 to the original campaign, which also attracted support from Drew Brees, Sean Payton and James Carville, among others. The feel-good story garnered nationalattention, including amention from President Barack Obama in his 2010 speechtocommemorate the five-year anniversaryof the storm. The project eventually was derailed by internal politics and malfeasance. A three-month investigation by The Athletic and WVUETV in 2019 revealed that the

Fielkow has assembled an impressiveboard for thenew 501c3 nonprofit: former state senator Ann Duplesis; local developer DarrylBerger; First Jewish Endowment Foundation executivedirector BobbyGaron; civil engineer Roy Glapion; JonesWalker partner Bill Hines; charter school executiveStacy Martin; former Saints runningback Deuce McAllister; architect Mark Ripple; andWilbert Thomas, a1968 Carver High graduate andDesire community activist Thegroup’sfive-year fundraising mission has restored hopefor theproject and broughtittothe brink of reality Thestadium, which was designedbyarchitectsJohn Williamsand Curtis Laub, will belocated on avacant pieceoflandadjacent to Carver’scampusjustsouth of Interstate 10 and owned by New Orleans Public Schools. NOPS will oversee the facility and hire amanagementcompanytooperate and maintain it Carver,like most public schools in Orleans Parish,

does not have itsown football field. Since the school began fielding ateam in the early 1960s, it has played its home games at various neutral sites around the city,some as far as 10 miles away from the school’sHiggins Boulevard campus.

The proposed 4,000-seat stadium will have aturf field, scoreboard, press box, 160-space parking lot and grass berm for akids area. It would serve as an anchor homefield for Carver athletic teams but also will be open for use by all public high schools and middle schools, withanemphasis on serving schools in eastern New Orleans. Soccer games, and potentially other sports like lacrosse and field hockey,will also be played at the facility New Orleans’ 40-plus public and charter schools currently have only three venues in which toplay sports—Joe Brown Park, Pan American Stadium and TadGormley Stadium —on theEast Bank. The sponsorship of the stadium’s naming rights is not adealbreaker,but adealmaker.One way or theother,the project is on track to break ground in September and to hopefully open in late 2026 or early 2027.

BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

St. Charlessophomore pitcher Bryce Waguespack and Shawsenior pitcher Dalton Davidson wenttoeto-toe in aone-run extra innings contest

The left-handerWaguespack allowed only onehit and one walk through six innings, but Shawtook advantage of athrowing error andtied thegame with a sacrifice fly in theseventh.

St. Charlesresponded witharun in the eighthto secure a2-1 district win Thursday at Shaw Waguespack was relieved by right-handerLandree LeBlanc in the seventh. LeBlanc recorded thelast of theseventh and the final threeoutsinthe eighthto get thewin.

LeBlanc also delivered the go-ahead single in the top of the eighth that drove in Reshawn Helaire to take thelead.

“I was really just starting withmyfastball,” LeBlanc said. “(I threwmy) curveball everyonce in awhile but mainly my fastball. (TheRBI) was big. Ijust stucktomyfundamentals and let it happen.” ASoutheastern Louisiana

“I told our team if we’re going to win this game,we’regoingtoneed alittlehelpfromthem, but we’re going to need to helpourselves and get in a good mindset,” Arena said. “Throw good shots, string strikes, make your spares. If you leaveasplit, get the count— we need as many points as possible to separate ourselves and that’sexactly whathappened. Ican’tbemoreproud of thisteam in doingthatand puttingusinpositiontobe here and win it in the championship.”

Five of the six Shaw bowlers rolled their highest semifinal score whenthey needed it mostinthe third game. Shaw hadn’ttrailed in amatch in two years, said coach Denise Vedros, whose husband Gerald is an assistant coach and sonScott is theBelle Chassecoach —making the state final afamily affair “I don’tknowwhaty’allare nervous about,” Vedrosrecalledtelling herbowlers. “You can do this. Youknow you can bowl these high games.Goout and bowl those high games you’re capable of.” For Belle Chase, BryceShepherd bowled 722 seriesinthe finalthat included a278 in the third game. Belle Chasse beat No.6 U-High 16-11 in the semifinals. Brother Martin and Shaw won titles after Chapelle won the girls team championship on Wednesday.The boys and girls singles championships are Friday in Baton Rouge.

signee,Davidsonstruckout 10 in 72/3 innings but was pulled because of ahigh pitch count.

“The big thing is we didn’tpanic when (Shaw) tied it,” St. Charles coach Wayne Steinsaid. “We knew that Davidson had about 10 pitches leftfrom the pitch-count rule, so the goal was to get him off the bump. What apitcher’s duel by both guys. Ithought (Waguespack)was lights out and (Davidson) was lights out.”

Waguespack threw62/3 innings, allowing only two hits and two walks with five strikeouts. The sophomore ran into troubleinthe sev-

enth after allowing asingle to Shaw’s ChaseBaiamonte, who scored on asacrificefly from D’Artanian Miller “I threw alot of fastballs,” Waguespack said. “Just let my teammake plays behind me.” St.Charlesscored the first runinthe fourthafter aLogan Kilbert sacrifice fly brought home Brooks Monica. Monica advanced to thirdona throwing error The District9-4Achampion St. Charles (19-5) got redemption againstShaw (15-16) after aone-run loss on Monday.Next up for the Comets is atwo-game series againstundefeated Covenant Christian.

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St. Charles Catholic coach Wayne Steinsaw histeam top Shaw2-1 in eight innings ThursdayatShaw.

THE 89TH MASTERS

Rose steals theshow

44-year-old builds three-shot lead over Scheffler

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

AUGUSTA, Ga. Justin Rosedid more than justmatch hisbest score at the Masters. With around thatwas nearly nine shots better than the field Thursday,the 44-year-old Rose managed to steal thespotlight from the Masters dominance of Scottie Scheffler and theendless quest of Rory McIlroy to complete the career Grand Slam. Rose felt his 7-under65had the potential to be something special And even withabogey on the final hole, it was every bit of that. He opened with three straight birdies. He ran off three in arow around the turn. And he woundup with athree-shot lead over Scheffler,Ludvig Aberg and Corey Conners.

“When Ihave been playing well, IfeellikeI have beencompeting at ahigh level,” Rose said. “My consistency maybe has not been as high this year.But my good is good again. So I’m excited about that.” Scheffler did his part in his bid to win athird Masters green jacket in four years, playingabogey-free round of 68.

McIlroy,sodesperate to win this major and complete the career Grand Slam, was rightthere with him until the end. He took apairof double bogeys late in the afternoon with careless mistakes andhad to settle for a72. It was the seventh straight time he failed to break 70

Justin Rose wavesafter making aputt on the 18thhole during the first round at the Masters golf tournament on ThursdayinAugusta, Ga.

in the opening round of the Masters.

He declined to speak to the media after his round.

Rose set oneMasters record:

The fifth time he hashad at leasta shareofthe 18-hole lead, breaking the mark held by Jack Nicklaus.

Theglaringdifference,ofcourse, is Nicklaus hassix of those green jackets.

It also was theeighth time Rose hashad at leasta share of the lead after anyroundatAugusta National, something only five othershave done.All are Masters champions “I feel likeI’ve playedwell enough to win this tournament,” said Rose, whose best chance was aplayoff loss to Sergio Garcia in 2017. “I just feel like Idon’thave

the jacket to prove it But you’ve got to be playing thegolf to keep creating those opportunities, and the only way to do that is to get your name on the leaderboard. I definitely don’tshy away from it.”

Rose opened witha 25-foot birdie putt andmadehis eighth birdie with a20-foot putt on the par-3 16th. In between was aseries of good shots —smart shots —that gave him plentyofchances and he convertedmostofthem.

Augusta National, soaked by rain thatwashed out mostofthe Monday practice round, already was getting scary fast

The average score was 73.6. Only six players broke 70, and 20 others broke par

“Ridiculous.That’snuts,” Viktor Hovlandsaidabout Rose’s score. “Those greensare so firm. Iremember afew years ago —Ican’t remember whatyear it was —but he kind of did something similar Ithink this one is probably alittle bit more impressive because out of all the Masters I’ve played, this is probably the firmest it’sbeen on aThursday.It’sdefinitely no joke out there.”

Scheffler was 3under at the turn, including one birdie on the par-5 eighth in which his ball wasdeep in adivot hole short of the green. He managed to get that out some 20 feet left of the pin and used the slope to bring it back to 15 feet and made the putt.

Dunlap hasstrugglefor theagesinfirstround

BY SCOTT RABALAIS

Sports writer

AUGUSTA, Ga. —Nick Dunlap is only 21 years old, but Thursday’sfirst roundinthe Mastersmay have aged him.

Making is second Masters start, Dunlap struggledmightily all the way around Augusta National Golf Club, carding an 18-over par 90 that was the day’sworst round by awhopping 11 strokes.

It’sthe worst round Masters round since two-time winner Ben Crenshaw opened with a91in2015. Crenshaw,however,was 63 and playing his last Masters.

Dunlap struggled from the start, making bogeys on thefirst, third and fourth holes before atriplebogey 7onthe fifth. He made seven bogeys in all along with five doubles and that triple. He finished his round double bogeybogey-double.

Dunlap, who won on the PGA Tour in January 2024 as an amateur,did not speak to reporters after his round. His playing partner, former McNeese State standout RobertMacIntyre,did.

“He was struggling out there today,(but) his attitude was solid,” said the Scottish golfer,who shot 75. “He didn’tget in the way

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in the majors, or the other LIV stars, either.Iwon’tsay no one cares, but apparently few do. This past week, LIV’stournament in Miami, televised by Fox as part of its new deal, DeChambeau, Mickelson and 2017 Masters winner Sergio Garcia in contention, drew abysmal ratings.

Actually,they aspired toabysmal. Sunday’sfinal round drew 484,000 viewers.

Are you kidding me? It’s one thing if your tournament is in Singapore on the CW.It’sanother thing to be on the East Coast on amajor network.There were probably 484,000 people watching the Amen Corner channel Thursday on Masters.com.

Meanwhile, the final round of the PGA Tour’sValeroTexas Open, atournament lacking star power because so many players were resting/preppingfor the Masters, had 1.75 million viewers. I’m not saying the PGA Tour is perfect or can do no wrong. I

NOTEBOOK

“I feel for him today,but he’ll bounce back. Burnsbattles

Former LSU All-American Sam Burns,trying to breakaslumping streak of three straightmissed cuts, battledback from apairof doublebogeys to shoot a1over73.

Burns doubled thepar-4 fifth to fall to 3over,but birdied the sixth, seventh andninth to make the turn at even par.A bogey-doublebogey stumbleat10and 11 againput him at 3over,but Burns played the fi-

do not like these elevated events with smaller fields created to keep stars like Rose and Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler from going to LIV, too. But the PGA Tour is where the history is, the real competition is. It remains the Premier League of men’sgolf.

It looked for years like LIVhad thePGA Tour by thethroat. No longer. LIV’s team concept and threeround events have not caught hold. Walkingaround Augusta National on Thursday,Isaw tons of fans wearing Masters gear (of course) andstuff representing other golf courses and tournaments.

Ididn’tsee anyone wearing gearfor LIVgolf teams like CleeksorMickelson’sHyFlyers, exceptfor theLIVers themselves. They looked like abunch of guyswho still wear the clothes of their collegefraternities no one wanted to join

This is nottosay LIV is about to fold,though even themega rich like the Saudi royalsprobably get tired of wastingmoney.Negotiations between the twosides look stalled, perhaps because thePGA Tour has gainedthe upper hand with private, non-Saudi invest-

nalseven holesin2underwith birdies at the famous par-3 12th and the tough par-4 17th.

TheShreveportnative has missed thecut in two of his three Mastersstartsand has only broken par in twoofhis nine rounds at AugustaNational.

Zurich Masters

The first round was amixed bag for the Zurich ambassadors who represent the Zurich Classic of New Orleans. Collin Morikawa bogeyed 18 to shoot an even-par 72, as did Sahith Theegala.Two-timeZurich champion Billy Horschel didn’thave abirdie and

In 1975, Jack Nicklaus, TomWeiskopf andJohnnyMiller were thethree best players in the game. All three converged to duelonMastersSunday in one of the tournament’s best finishes ever Nicklaus edged Weiskopfand Miller by one stroke,12-under par to 11 under,thanks in parttobombing in a 40-foot birdie puttonthe par-3 16th for his fifth green jacket. He would win asixth in 1986, still the most in Masters history. The1975 Masters was also notable for Lee Elder breaking the color barrier as the first Black golfer to competeatAugustaNational, exactly 50 yearsago Thursday Scott Rabalais

ment. Lastweek, reportedly PIF went to the PGA Tour withan offer of $1.5 billion in return for aguarantee LIV would live on and PIF major domo Yasir AlRumayyan would get aseat on thePGA Tour’spolicy board.

slogged to a5over 77. Morikawa andmedia

Morikawa’scontroversial decision not to speak to reporters after losing to Russell Henley at the Arnold Palmer Invitationaland his continued stance that he is not obligated to talk to reporters drew commentfromtwo-time Masters champion TomWatson

Speaking at anewsconference after the ceremonial tee shots to start thetournament, Watson saidplayers have an obligation to speak to the media.

“I do rememberone time at the New Orleans Open Iwas asked to go to the pressroom,” said Watson, who won in 1980-81 at Lakewood Country Club. “It was gettingdark after my round, and Ihad abad round, andI said,‘I have to go to the practice tee, but I’ll be there after Ihit balls.’ Ihad to do it, and maybe that wasn’tthe right waytodoit, but Idid go to the pressroom afterwards.

“It’sour responsibility to help you withyourjob. That’sthe way Ifeel about it.”

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The PGA Tour apparently took theoffer,set it on fireand wrote “Get lost”with the ashes.

The Masters invited the new LIV CEO Scott O’Neil to attend this year’stournament, but pointedly Masters chairman Fred Ridleysaid Wednesday he had no formal plans to meet with O’Neil, adding “I know we’ll have some discussions.” That could mean a lot of things, but it doesn’tmean an endorsement of the LIV way AugustaNational hastried to stay above the PGA Tour/LIV fray,but Ridleyismaking increasingly urgent calls for unification.

At thispoint, live andlet LIV, PGA Tour.Stars like Mickelson andDeChambeau andRahmand Johnson andGarciaand U-High golfer and2018 Masters champ Patrick Reed were alreadysuccessfuland insanely rich. They broke golf in half forthe proverbial 30 pieces of silver, andall of us wholovegolfhavebeen paying for it ever since. They’ve hurt golf. Now they’re just hurting themselves.

Of course, all the Saudi’sbillions will buy alot of bandages.

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Sam Burns plays from under atree on the 11th hole during the first roundofthe MastersatAugusta National Golf Club on Thursday.

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French QuarterFest, NOMA EggHuntand Family Fest,and ‘The LafayetteTour’

n The powerhouse festivals of the Crescent City takeoff this weekend with the FRENCH QUARTER FESTIVAL through Sunday, filling the Vieux Carrewithacelebration of NewOrleans cultureand music on 20-plus stages showcasing jazz, brass bandsand zydeco,plus more. More than 60 Louisiana restaurants willoffercuisine ranging from succulent seafood to meat pies, po-boys, barbecue and frozen goodies to beatthe heat. There are also ahost of after-dark events. The music starts at 11 a.m.each day. frenchquarterfest.org

n Hop on over to NewOrleans Museum of Artat10a.m. Saturdayfor the annual EGG HUNT AND FAMILYFESTIVAL in the Besthoff SculptureGardenatCity Park. The seasonal celebration includes food,drinks, music, face painting and hunts for children in differentage groups. Tickets forthe event startat$20. noma.org

PROVIDED PHOTO By THORN CHEN Lorrin Dabon looks on as MattStory and Owen

Ever enact aduel under an ancient

during the outdoor

‘Wander’ throughthe historyof City Park in outdoorplay

BY BRAD RHINES

Contributing writer

Before embarking on the site-specificimmersive work “Wonder Wander CityPark,” aguide advises audiences to be mindfulofthe roots.The note is literal,asguests must watchtheir step during the gentle quarter-mile hike around Scout Island, but also figurative, as theperformance elicits stories and characters rooted in the centuries-longhistory of the piece of land we know as City Park.

n Mon dieu! The French National Orchestra of AuvergneRhône-Alpes performs “THE LAFAYETTE TOUR” 4p.m. Sunday at the Orpheum Theater, 129 Roosevelt Way. The “musical and visual journey” celebrates the 200th anniversaryof the MarquisdeLafayette’s triumphant tour halfacentury after the RevolutionaryWar that included astop in New Orleans, where he stayedatthe Cabildo. Tickets startat$48. orpheumnola.com.

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Prior to the performance, participants areprovided apair of headphones throughwhichsoundscapes give way to voices, guidingthe small group to aclearing where the first actorsappear In aseries of vignettes along theway,performerstellstoriesthatrange from thenativeinhabitants of the Chapatoula, Houma andother tribes, to the plantation-era history of thelandwhich housed hundreds of enslaved people,toamodern era marked by segregation and prejudice on cityowned land.

“Wonder Wander” deliversahands-onapproach to audience enlightenment, illuminating the past

BYKEITH SPERA Staff writer

PROVIDED IMAGE Review

There’sanew “Big Chief” in town. On Tuesday,Mardi Gras Records released “I’m Feeling Good! (Big Chief Remix),” a wholesale reinvention of Professor Longhair’s timeless 1965 Carnival classic “Big Chief.” The new versionfeatures lead vocals by Big ChiefRomeo Bougereofthe 9th Ward Hunters Mardi Gras Indian tribe and Dawn Richard, aformermember of R&Bgirl group Danity Kane who masks with the WashitawNation tribe.Though it contains samples of the original recording of “Big Chief,” “I’m Feeling Good!” takes the song in an entirely new,more contemporary direction

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TylerChildersmines the‘hillbillyrock’ vein to fill

BYKEITHSPERA | Staff writer

Tyler Childers is riding the same wave —or, to be more accurately Appalachian, mining the same vein —that enabled Zach Bryan to headline the CaesarsSuperdome in 2024 and Billy Strings to play three nights at the UNO Lakefront Arena over NewYear’s Eve weekend.All three harken back to an earthier,unfilteredand, to many fans, more “authentic” approach to countrymusic.

Twoyears ago, Childers kicked off his2023 touratNew Orleans’ 2,400-capacity Fillmore. Five times as many fans filled theSmoothie King Center on April 3for the first American stop of his 2025 On the Road Tour He and hisstout seven-piece band, the Food Stamps, treated those fans to a two-hour-and-15-minute overview of hiscatalog, from full-bore“hillbilly rock” to intimate acoustic songs rendered on asmall satellite stage.

STAFFPHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER

Tyler Childers performs at the Smoothie King CenterinNew Orleans on April 3.

By The Associated Press

Today is Friday, April 11, the 101st day of 2025. There are 264 days left in the year

Today in history: On April 11, 1945, during World War II, U.S. Army troops liberated the Buchenwald Nazi concentration camp near Weimar, Germany

On this date: In 1814, Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of the French and was banished to the island of Elba. (Napoleon later escaped from Elba and returned to power in March 1815, until his downfall in the Battle of Waterloo in June 1815.)

In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln spoke to a crowd outside the White House, saying, “We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart.” (It was the last public address Lincoln would deliver; he would die four days later after being shot by John Wilkes Booth.)

In 1951, President Harry S Truman relieved General Douglas MacArthur of his command following multiple public statements by MacArthur that contradicted official U.S. policies.

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through informative storytelling and expressive performances.

Conceived by theater artist

Lisa Moraschi Shattuck, the original work started from a place of curiosity.

“I see those huge live oak trees in City Park that are 800 years old and I wonder ‘who was here then?’” said Shattuck. “They were here with this very same tree that I am, so what was it like then? We’re trying to share all these stories.”

We Will Dream fest

Co-directed by Shattuck and Lauren Turner Hines, artistic director of local company No Dream Deferred, the show anchors this year’s We Will Dream festival, an event celebrating new works that amplify Black stories and artists.

“We have several Black creators and writers that have been part of the ensemble making this piece,” explained Hines “Ultimately the storytelling is really what was compelling, this idea of uncovering stories that have not been told.”

The primary narrative of “Wonder Wander” involves an enslaved woman named Fanny, based on an actual historical figure. Fanny was intended to be freed upon the death of her owner, but a dispute over the owner’s will forced Fanny and her 12-year-old daughter Marie to seek their own freedom.

Fanny is depicted by April Louise, and her daughter Maria is played by Lorrin Dabon. The pair of performances conjure the steadfast spirits of the women making their way through the woods Owen Ever and Matt Story play a pair of brothers at odds over the intentions of their mother’s will, disagreeing over the fates of Fanny and Marie and engaging in some antebellumera buffoonery Later, their performances take a darker turn as they play a pair of cops during Jim Crow

In 1961, former SS officer Adolf Eichmann went on trial in Israel, charged with crimes against humanity for his role in the Nazi Holocaust. (Eichmann was later convicted and executed.)

In 1968, President Lyndon B Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, which included the Indian Civil Rights Act and the Fair Housing Act, one week after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr In 1980, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission published guidelines saying sexual harassment in the workplace amounted to unlawful sex discrimination in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

In 2012, George Zimmerman, the Florida neighborhood watch volunteer who fatally shot 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder (He was acquitted at trial.)

Today’s birthdays: Actor Joel Grey is 93. Actor Louise Lasser is 86. Actor Peter Riegert is 78. Actor Bill Irwin is 75. Singer Lisa Stansfield is 58. Former MLB catcher Jason Varitek is 53. Actor Jennifer Esposito is 52. Rapper David Banner is 51.

‘WONDER WANDER’

WHEN: Through April 13

WHERE: Scout Island at City Park, 40 Magnolia Drive

TICKETS: $12

INFO: www.wonderwandercitypark. mystrikingly.com

Radiating heart and strength

As the show’s guide, Juniper Cassaway provides a warm, steady presence that radiates both heart and strength.

Running just over an hour, “Wonder Wander City Park” scratches the surface of the lives it depicts. The scope of the work spans generations, but does sacrifice some depth in doing so. There are some surprises and some emotional, arresting moments, though the play generally favors a more documentary approach over gripping drama or sensationalism. After the subject matter, the biggest draw of “Wonder Wander” is the unique approach to storytelling and the evocative setting in City Park. The headphones add a sound design element that enhances the production, including original music and snippets of recorded dialogue, but it also makes it much easier to hear the live actors, which can be an issue at outdoor productions. There were a few minor glitches with the wireless connection during the first show of the play’s run but overall the show’s aural experience proved both practical and inventive.

It’s truly a wonder to wander the trails of Scout Island, following the waterways beneath the forest canopy as characters emerge and stories take place among the landscape. The sense of shared space is palpable, the land a common denominator among the people who lived, toiled, and played here.

“It feels good to connect to the stories,” said Shattuck, “even if they’re traumatic, to connect and move forward in a positive way.”

Brad Rhines writes about theater. Email him at bradfordrhines@gmail.com.

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Childers very much evokes and embraces his Kentucky roots in the twang of his voice, the content, cadence and character of his lyrics and the Mason jars from which he sipped onstage. At times, he came across as equal parts auctioneer and revival tent preacher Unlike fellow Kentuckian Chris Stapleton, who prefers a simple, unadorned stage, Childers performed on a multi-tiered set with wavy edges and a dozen light globes. Two vertical, high-resolution LED screens flanking the stage provided close-ups of the musicians. Graphics on the center screen ranged from geometric patterns to, during “Gemini,” a spinning circle depicting wolves, bears, cougars, rabbits and chipmunks.

Sporting a mustache, closecropped red hair, a Hawaiianstyle shirt and a lime green sweater reminiscent of the one Kurt Cobain wore for Nirvana’s iconic “MTV Unplugged” appearance, Childers opened with, “How y’all doin’ this evening? I’m doin’ fine. Thanks for asking.”

With that, he and the Food Stamps lit into “Country Squire,” the title track of his 2019 album. Fiddle and pedal steel guitar dressed up the subsequent “I Swear (To God).” “Percheron Mules,” essentially a how-to manual on acquiring useful farm animals, galloped along over accordion and mandolin.

Given all the musicians and racks of instruments onstage plus Childers’ grandfather’s old TV cabinet, now retrofitted as a guitar amp — there wasn’t much room to roam. In the show’s early going, Childers stood rooted in place, staring into the distance while strumming an acoustic guitar and singing. Such a posture was not conducive to charisma.

After setting aside the acoustic guitar, he became more animated, using his hands to emphasize the lyrics of “Rustin’ in the Rain,” the title track of his 2023 album. That song, in which the protagonist likens himself to a plow, “is a bit too randy to be a love song,” Childers noted.

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The new recording is the brainchild of prolific New Orleans producer, engineer and multi-instrumentalist Eric Heigle, who often blends acoustic and electronic instruments. Heigle’s ever-growing resume as a producer and/or engineer includes multiple albums by Arcade Fire as well as albums by the Lost Bayou Ramblers he’s also the Ramblers’ drummer — Givers, Flow Tribe, Eric Lindell, Dumpstaphunk and others.

“The original ‘Big Chief’ recording is pure magic,” Heigle said in a news release. “I knew if I was going to even dare touch it, it had to be with collaborators who shared that opinion and were willing to try and take it somewhere new.”

He was already familiar with both Bougere and Richard, having worked on the former’s 79rs Gang project and the latter’s 2021 album “Second Line.”

“Big Chief” was written by New Orleans rhythm & blues guitarist Earl King, who sings and whistles on the original recording over Professor Longhair’s piano. The

“This one right here,” he continued, introducing “All Your’n,” ”is a love song,”

Opening act and fellow Kentucky native S.G. Goodman lent her voice to Childers’ cover of her composition “Space and Time,” though she was largely inaudible.

The members of the Food Stamps, by contrast, all made their presence known. Rodney Elkins punched up songs with his bass drum and floor toms. Craig Burletic switched between an acoustic upright bass and a fretless electric bass, depending on the feel of the song. James Barker’s pedal steel guitar steered arrangements out of Kentucky and toward Nashville.

During an instrumental romp between “In Your Love” and “Purgatory,” Childers switched to fiddle as Kory Caudill cut loose with a double-fisted, double-time bout of piano. Fellow keyboardist Matt Rowland, in a nod to the show’s host city, led the way into “Purgatory” with a sampling of New Orleans piano legend Professor Longhair’s “Tipitina.”

That gave Childers time to make his way to a small, circular stage near the rear of the arena floor His transition, he explained, was slowed by the lingering effects of a broken toe.

The toe didn’t hinder his ability to emote the plaintive “Shake the Frost” and “Lady May” alone with an acoustic guitar CJ Cain and Jesse Wells joined him on, respectively, acoustic guitar and fiddle for “Bottles and Bibles,” the title track of Childers’ 2011 debut album, and “Nose on the Grindstone.” “Follow You to Virgie,” a vivid, evocative eulogy for a childhood friend’s grandmother

master tapes from the 1965 “Big Chief” weren’t available to Heigle, so he used AI to separate the instruments and voices in order to blend them with new sounds.

Thus King and Longhair are credited as contributors to “I’m Feeling Good!,” along with Heigle, who played drums, percussion and bass synth. Brian Danos contributed additional production and programming and Jeremy Phipps joined in on trombone.

The video for the song, featuring Bougere and his 2-year-old son, Romeo III, on the Mississippi River levee in the Lower 9th Ward and Richard in the 7th Ward this past Mardi Gras Day with Big Chief David Montana and the Washitaw Nation, was filmed on an iPhone.

“Big Chief” shares a long history with Mardi Gras Records and its founder, Warren Hildebrand. Hildebrand’s father, Henry Hildebrand Jr., ran a regional record wholesaler called All South Distributing in the 1950s, then launched Watch Records in the 1960s. Watch Records put out Longhair’s 1965 “Big Chief” single.

Since Warren Hildebrand started Mardi Gras Records in 1977, it has released 4,000 or so recordings, both original material and

was especially poignant.

Fully warmed up, Childers told a long and entertaining story about his COVID acquisition of mules and his multiple encounters with an “Amish mechanic” who didn’t listen to much music. The trio then capped off the acoustic segment with “Matthew.”

As Childers, Cain and Wells disappeared under the bleachers to catch a ride back to the main stage, Rowland and Caudill teamed up on the same keyboard rig for a churchy “When the Saints Go Marching In.” That segued into a robust cover of Hank Williams’ “Old Country Church,” powered by organ and drums, that was a show highlight. The big beat of “Whitehouse Road” gave way to an oddly placed instrumental that quieted much of the crowd. Perhaps sensing the momentum slip, Childers hustled the band into “Honky Tonk Flame.” Afterward, in his role as host, he urged fans to introduce themselves to the strangers seated or standing nearby When he and the band eventually return to town, he quipped, “We hope we see you then. If we don’t have a nice life!” In his mountain revival “Way of the Triune God,” he enthused, “Old time screamin’ and shoutin’/ Go up, tell it on the mountain/ Faith too strong to be left doubtin’/way of the Triune God.” After the rousing “Triune God,” the rocking “House Fire” and concluding “Universal Sound” felt anticlimactic.

But by the time the show credits rolled at 11:30 p.m., Childers had made clear that his mountain music belongs on the big stage.

compilation albums. Those compilations include genre-specific collections of brass band, Mardi Gras and Cajun and zydeco music. Artist-specific Mardi Gras Records titles include albums by the Rebirth, Treme and Soul Rebels brass bands, and 2021’s “Best of Johnny Adams,” a lavish doubleLP collection on vinyl devoted to the great New Orleans rhythm & blues singer known as the Tan Canary Warren Hildebrand enlisted Heigle to reach back across time and bring “Big Chief” into the present with “I’m Feeling Good!”

“The original 1965 ‘Big Chief’ is a true Mardi Gras classic that instantly transports you to a crowded barroom jukebox, blasting out Carnival songs while a street parade passes by outside,” Hildebrand said.

“‘I’m Feeling Good! (Big Chief Remix)’ takes the song to a whole new level of joy and intensity I’m proud to continue placing a spotlight on our amazing talent here in New Orleans, and excited to put a spin on New Orleans tradition with this remix.”

Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

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proceed to sell tothe highest bidderatpublic auction,atthe Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex,1233 WestbankEx‐pressway, Har‐vey,Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐scribed prop‐ertytowit: THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF

GROUND,to‐getherwithall the buildings and improvements thereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longing or in anywise apper‐taining situated inthe Villageof Marrero, Parish ofJefferson, State of Louisiana,in thatpart thereof known asPlantation Estates, in ac‐cordancewith the plan of re‐subdivision of J. J.Krebs &Sons, Inc.,Civil Engineersand Surveyors, datedat Metairie, Louisianaon July28, 1977, ap‐provedby theJefferson Parish Council

under Ordi‐nance No.13135 adoptedNo‐vember16, 1977, registered in COB 914, folio 177, of thecon‐veyance records ofthe Parish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana,and according to saidplan, said Lot is desig‐nated by theNo. 10of Square One(1) which said squareis bounded by the northerly and easterlybound‐aries of thesubdivi‐sion, OakAlley Boulevard, BaratariaBoule‐vard, TractA-13A,Burleigh CourtNorth, Catalpa Court and Hermitage Drive,and ac‐cording to said PlansaidLot 10 measures fiftyfive 00/100

(55.00')feet front from the intersectionof BurleighCourt North andCatalpa Court,with a firstwidth in the rear of forty-five and 00/100 (45.00') feet, and asecondwidth inthe rear of one hundred one and90/100 (101.90")feet bya depth on thesidelinead‐joining Lot9 of one hundred forty-eight and 15/100(148.15') feet anda depthonthe sidelineadjoin‐ing Lot11ofone hundred two and 82/100 (102.82')feet. All asmorefully shown on sur‐vey by Gilbert, Kelly &Cou‐turie,Inc dated May 1988; sub‐ject to restrictions,

servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineral rights ofrecord affectingthe property. Improvements thereonbear the Municipal No. 22 Catalpa Court,Marrero, Louisiana 70072.

This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐riorsecurityin‐terests,mort‐gages,liens and privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice isdue at the timeofthe sale

NOTE:All funds mustbe Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or PersonalCheck withBankLetter ofCredit.

ZACHARY YOUNG

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $118.30

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:856-957 TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST2019-3, U.S. BANK NA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐

ATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE vs JEAN SONTAG GERACI AND LORI A. GERACI

By virtue of and inobedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALEfromthe 24thJudicial DistrictCourt ParishofJeffer‐son,State of Louisiana,inthe above num‐bered andenti‐tledcause, dated August 16, 2024, Ihave seizedand will proceed to sell tothe highest bidderatpublic auction,atthe Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex,1233 WestbankEx‐pressway, Har‐vey,Louisiana, 70058, on April 16, 2025 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ib d

g scribed prop‐ertytowit:

That certain piece or portion ofground,to‐getherwithall ofthe buildings and improvements thereon, andall ofthe rights, ways, privi‐leges,servi‐tudes,appurte‐nances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longing or in anywise apper‐taining,situated inthe Parish of Jefferson, State ofLouisiana,in thatpart thereof known asSOUTHWOOD WEST SUBDIVISION EXTENSION, designated as LOT 17, SQUARE 1,which said squareis bounded by Southwood Drive, Mimosa Drive, Fire Thorn

Drive(side), and Mt. Laurel Drive(side), saidlot com‐mencesata dis‐tance of 641 feet fromthe inter‐section of Southwood Driveand Mi‐mosaDrive,and measures thence 53 feet front on South‐wood Drive, same in width in the rear, by adepth of100 feet,be‐tween equal parallellines.All asmorefully shown on sur‐vey by BFMCor‐poration, dated January 30, 1989, acopyof whichisat‐tachedtoAct registeredin COB 2294 folio 03409. This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐riorsecurityin‐terests,mort‐gages,liens and i il

WHEREAS, on December 14, 2023, the Council adopted Motion M-23-549 selecting Dentons to serve as its legal advisor through 2024; and WHEREAS, in order to ensurethat the Council is able to continue to exercise regulatory authority,itisinthe public’sbest interest for Dentons to continue as the Council’slegal advisors on electric and gas utility matters; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS,That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign acontract with Dentons US LLP to provide electric and/or natural gas regulatory consulting services to the Council in electric and gas utility regulatory matters for aone year period beginning January 1, 2025, for amaximum compensation of $3,537,500.00 for said year THE FOREGOING MOTION WASREADINFULL, THE ROLL WASCALLED ONTHE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, King, Moreno, Morrell -5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Giarrusso, Thomas -2 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. NO. M-24-794

BY:COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MORENO, KING AND THOMAS

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 3-130 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans (“Charter”), the New Orleans City Council exercises powers of supervision, regulation, and control over electric and gas utilities providing service in the City; and WHEREAS, Section 158-432(b) of the Code of the City of New Orleans (“Code”) provides that the Council may appoint ahearing officer to preside over utility regulatory proceedings in accordance with the Charter and Chapter 158 of the Code; and WHEREAS, September 14,2017, the Council adopted Motion M-17-477 authorizing the issuance of arequest for qualificationsand proposals (“RFQ/P”) and acompetitive selectionprocess pursuant to Council Rule 42 to identify highly qualified and experienced individuals to preside over Council regulatory proceedings; and WHEREAS, in response to the RFQ/P,three (3) responses weredelivered to theCouncil Utilities Regulatory Office from: (1) Maria Auzenne, (2) Jeffrey Gulin, and (3) Calvin Johnson; and WHEREAS, the staffselection review committee met on Tuesday, November 26 andevaluated each response, deemed each to be responsive to the RFQ/P,and referred each to the Council for their consideration;and WHEREAS, on December 19, 2019, the Council adopted MotionM-19-525 selecting Auzenne &Associates and Jefferey Gulin to serve as administrative hearing officers for the year 2020; and WHEREAS, on July 1, 2021, the Council adopted Motion M-21-235 selecting Auzenne &Associates and Jeffrey Gulin to serve as administrative hearingofficer for the year 2021; and WHEREAS, on December 15,2022, the Council adopted Motion M-22524 selecting Jeffrey Gulin and Calvin Johnson to serve as administrative hearing officers for the year 2023; and WHEREAS, on December 14,2023, the Council adopted Motion M-23550 selecting Jeffrey Gulin and Calvin Johnson to serve as administrative hearing officers for the year 2024; and WHEREAS, the Council deems it in the public interest to extend the agreements with Mr.Gulin and Mr.Johnson; NOW THEREFORE BEITMOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign contracts with Jeffrey Gulin and Calvin Johnson for aperiod not to exceed one year beginning January 1, 2025, with amaximum compensationof$70,000 for said year BE IT FURTHER MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That the Council Utilities Regulatory Office is direct to issue a request for qualifications (“RFQ”) pursuant to Council Rule 42 to identify highly qualified and experienced individuals to preside over Council regulatory proceedings. THE FOREGOING MOTION WASREADINFULL, THE ROLL WASCALLED ONTHE ADOPTION THEREOF, AND RESULTEDASFOLLOWS:

YEAS: Green, Harris, King, Moreno, Morrell -5

NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Giarrusso, Thomas -2 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED.

NO. M-24-795 BY:COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MORENO, KING AND THOMAS

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section3-130 of the Home Rule Charter of the CityofNew Orleans (“Charter”), the New Orleans City Council exercises powers of supervision, regulation, and control over electric and gas utilities providing service in the City; and WHEREAS, on September 2, 2021, the Council adopted Motion M-21331 authorizing the issuance of arequest for qualificationsand proposals (“RFQ/P”) and acompetitive selectionprocess pursuant to Council Rule 42 toadvise and represent the Council onelectric and gas utility regulatory matters associated with the provision of electric and natural gas services in Orleans Parish and to address abroad range of utility issues as directed for atotal period of up to fiveyears renewable on an annual basis; and WHEREAS, Council staffissued the RFQ/P on September 24, 2021, with a deadline for responses set for December 1, 2021; and WHEREAS, on January 20, 2022, the Council adopted MotionM-2255selecting Legend ConsultingGroup (“Legend”) to serve as technical advisors on utility matters; and WHEREAS, on December 15, 2022, the Council adopted Motion M-22-527 selecting Legend to continue to serve as the Council’stechnical advisors through 2023; and WHEREAS, on December 14, 2023, the Council adopted Motion M-23-551 selecting Legend to continue to serve as the Council’stechnical advisors through 2024; and WHEREAS, in order to ensurethat the Council is able to continue to exercise regulatory authority,itisinthe public’sbest interest for Legend to continue asthe Council’stechnical advisors through 2025; NOW THEREFORE BEITMOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITYOFNEW ORLEANS,That the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign acontract with Legend Consulting Group to provide consulting services to the Council in electric and gas utility regulatory matters for aone year period beginning January 1, 2025, for maximum compensationof$2,237,500 for said year THEFOREGOING MOTION WASREADINFULL, THE ROLL WASCALLED ONTHE ADOPTION THEREOF AND RESULTED ASFOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, King, Moreno, Morrell -5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Giarrusso, Thomas -2 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. NO. R-24-796 BY:COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL, MORENO, GIARRUSSO, HARRIS, KING, GREEN AND THOMAS WHEREAS, on July 21, 2022, the Council ofthe City of New Orleans adopted Ordinance No. 29,116, M.C.S.establishingthe New Orleans Recreation and CultureFund; and WHEREAS, the Council allocated $7,000,000.00infunding to be split among the seven councilmanic districts; and WHEREAS, the Fund is administered by the Greater New Orleans Foundation through aCooperative Endeavor Agreement with the City of New Orleans; and WHEREAS, the Greater New Orleans Foundation collected applications from August 5, 2024 until September 6, 2024, and then forwarded those applications to the Council forconsideration;and WHEREAS, the purpose of the Fund is to support nonprofitcommunity organizations,youth recreation organizations, and culture bearer organizations that contribute substantially to the well-being, development, and growth of the New Orleans community; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCILOFTHE CITYOFNEW ORLEANS, That the following list represents the organizationsselected to receive grant funds from the New Orleans Recreation and CultureFund

gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025

mar7-apr11-2t $89.18

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:855-962

SELENE FINANCE LP VS JUAN PJONES A/K/AJUAN PATRICKJONES

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND

SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJuly12, 2024, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onMay 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

That certain pieceorportion of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywise apper‐taining,situated inthe Parish of Jefferson, State ofLouisiana,in thatpartknown as TIMBERLANE VILLAGE, PHASE II, anddesignated asLOT 33, SQUARE "K", ap‐proved in Ordi‐nanceNo. 15637, by the JeffersonParish CouncilonJuly 27, 1983, regis‐teredinCOB 1054 folio 595; subjectto restrictions servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights ofrecordaffect‐ing theproperty.

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 2213 Breckenridge Drive, Harvey, Louisiana70058

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ZACHARY YOUNG Attorney for

Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025

apr11-may162t $78.59

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:853-629 NEWREZ LLC

D/B/ASHELL‐POINTMORT‐GAGE SERVIC‐ING VS HARYLL DEASON

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 2, 2024,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onApril 16, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

TWOCERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situ‐ated,lying and beingin theTown of Westwego, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, and forming apart of the "WHITEHOUSE SUBDIVISION" accordingto a plan of AlvinH Hotard,Civil En‐gineer datedMay 3, 1941,asper his second revision datedJuly9th 1948,a copy of which plan is attached to an actofsale by MarreroLand andImprove‐ment Associa‐tion, LimitedtoRudy Tassin, by act before Ernest M. Conzelmann, late Notary Pub‐lic, of Jefferson Parish,dated July 30,1943; and according to said plan said lots are designated as LOTS NUMBERS THIRTEEN (13) andFOUR‐TEEN(14);ad‐joiningeach other, of SQUARE NUM‐BERTHIRTYSIX (36),which said Square is boundedby NINTH andTENTH STREETS, AV‐ENUES"B" and "C"; SAID LOTS ADJOIN EACH OTHER, AN DMEASURE EACH THIRTYTWO(32') FEET FRONTONAv‐enue "B"the same width in the rear,bya depth between equal andparallel linesofOne Hundred TwentyFive and81/100 (125.81')feet; subjecttore‐strictions,servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand di

way and outstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe prop‐erty

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNumber: 1045 Avenue B, Westwego, LA 70094.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

CANDACEA COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025

mar7-apr 11-2t $108.77

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICTCOURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:859-081

EVERBANK,N.A VS SAMUELGARZA

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24thJudicial DistrictCourt Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber12, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, atthe Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on April 16, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereonand all rights,ways, privileges, servitude, ap‐purtenances, advantages thereunto belongingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as FOREST ACRESESTATES being in Section 4, Township 13 South, Range22 East, formerly a portionofSouth Kenner andfor‐merly coprisingLots 45A,45B,49and ½ of Lot51, which said propertywas resubdivided as Forest AcresEs‐tatesbyvirtue of Ordinance No.11016, ap‐proved by the Jefferson Parish Council on January11, 1973, registered in theOffice of theclerk of Courtfor the parish of Jeffer‐sononFebruary 8,1973, under entryno. 589142, which said ordinance approved by the Planofresubdi‐vision of R. L. Schumann, Sur‐veyor, datedDe‐cember 5, 1972,a copy of which is an‐

which is an nexedtoanact before RoyL Price, Notary Public,dated June 29, 1973. Thesaidlot of ground is desig‐natedasfol‐lows: LOT44, com‐mences at adis‐tanceof307.68 feet from the corner of South Kelly Lane andSouth Ken‐nerAvenue measures thence 102.56 feet fronton SouthKelly Lane same width in therearby a depth of 195.00 feet between equaland paral‐lellines.The improvements thereonbear themunicipal no.10148 South Kelly Lane 70094.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025 mar7-apr11-2t $100.83

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:859-726

FIDELITY BANK VS KIMBERLY ANN CULOTTA

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND

SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber21, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on April 16, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theCityof Kenner,Parish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in the part thereof knownas Greenlawn TerraceSubdivi‐sion,and desig‐natedasLot E-1, Square 69-A, which square is bounded by Arkansas Av‐enue,40th Street,Arizona Avenue and39th Street

Said LotE-1 commencesat a

commences at a distance of 200 feet from the corner of 40th Street and Arkansas Av‐enue,and mea‐suresthence50 feet fronton Arkansas Av‐enue,with a width in therearof 50.01 feet,by a depth on the opposite side‐line of nearest to 40thStreet of 106.52 feet,and adepth on the opposite side‐line of 105.71 feet

Allasmorefully shownonthe survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie,Inc., S. E.,dated November 5, 1993, annexed to an actregis‐teredinC.O.B 2887, page 108.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

FOERSTNERG

MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025 mar7-apr11-2t $89.71

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:860-097

ROCKET MORT‐GAGE,LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC VS BRUNOC.LEE

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber10, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: UNIT 228 OF THE LONDON TOWNE CONDOMINI‐UMS,(the"Con‐dominium"),a condominium situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, es‐tablishedbyact before Lynne Fruchtnicht, No‐tary Public, datedMarch 30, 1999, registered on March29, 1999, in COB 3004, folio 402, of theCon‐veyance Recordsofthe Parish of Jeffer‐son, Louisiana(the "Declaration") which said con‐dominium unit consists of UNIT 228, as designated in theplatofthe Condominium by Dading,mar‐ques &Associ‐ates,Inc., datedNovem‐ber9,1998, con‐i ti f 1

ber 9 1998 con sistingof1 page, filedas Exhibit Atothe Declaration, together with an undivided .280% interest in thecommonel‐ements andlim‐ited common elements of the Condominium appurtenant to each respective unit, as setforth in the Declaration; subjecttore‐strictions,servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand out‐standing min‐eral rights of record affectingthe property

Improvements thereonbear MunicipalNo. 222 London Ave. Unit 228, Metairie,LA 70005

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ASHLEY E. MORRIS Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $89.19

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:838-280 FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION VS ESTATE OF SYLVESTER STANISLAS By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 15, 2023, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on April 16, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all of thebuildings andImprove‐mentsthereon andall of the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theState of Louisiana, in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, in TERRY‐TOWN SUBDIVI‐SION, SubdivisionNo. 8, beingpartof aSection D, and accordingto which said planssaid property is more particu‐larlydescribed as follows, towit: Lot4,inSquare 129, which said

129 which said lotisbounded by N. Marlin Court, E. Marlin Court, Mink Street,Morning‐side Driveand W. Marlin Court. Lot4 measures 60 feet fronton N. Marlin Court, same widthinrear, by adepth of 110 feet between equaland paral‐lellines.Lot 4 commences at a distance of 233.00 feet from thecornerofW Marlin Court andN.Marlin Court.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025 mar7-apr11-2t $83.36

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:859-900 FV-I,INC.IN TRUSTFOR MORGAN STAN‐LEYMORTGAGE CAPITALHOLD‐INGS LLC VS STRADA HOMES, LLC

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber5,2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as NOTTING‐HAM SUBDIVISION, as shownonthe subdivisionplan of Harris & Varisco, C. E., datedJuly 25, 1977, ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilby virtue of Ordi‐nanceNo. 13134, adopted 11/16/77, reg. in EntryNo. 800900, accord‐ingtowhich said lotisdesig‐nated as follows, toi

as follows to wit: LOT32, SQUARE 2, bounded,now or formerly,by JutlandDrive, PatriotSt.,(late 16th), Long Bridge Driveand Cross‐moor Drive, commencingat adistanceof 655.13 feet, more or less, from Jutland Driveand Cross‐moor Drive, measuring thence 60 feet more or less, fronton JutlandDrive, same widthin therear, by a depthof100 feet,moreor less, between equaland paral‐lellines.All in accordance with survey of Mandle Surveying, Inc., datedJuly30, 1979, September 14, 1979, Octo‐ber18, 1979 and February 13, 1987; subjectto restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe prop‐erty

Theimprove‐mentsbearthe municipalad‐dress1637 Jut‐land Dr,Mar‐rero,Louisiana 70072.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ASHLEY E. MORRIS Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $106.12

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:857-679

FLAGSTAR BANK,N.A VS JAC'QUEL ROCHE' WILLIAMS A/K/A JAC'QUEL R. WILLIAMS A/K/A JAC'QUEL WILLIAMS By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedSeptem‐ber23, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: That portionof ground,situ‐ated in the Stateof Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, in that part thereofknown as Woodmere Subdivision, Section3,all as l f

Section 3 all as perplanofre‐subdivision made by J. J. Krebs& Sons, Inc.,C.E., dated May5,1975, ap‐proved by the Jefferson Parish Council on June 12, 1975 under Ordi‐nanceNo. 112054, and recorded in COB 839, folio 589, andper Actof Dedication be‐fore Bernhardt C. Heebe, No‐tary Public datedJuly21, 1975, recorded in COB840, folio 303, said lotis describedas follows, to-wit: Lot1028, Square EE, which square is bounded by Deerlick Lane, Post Drive (side), East Boundary of subdivision andPatricia Lane,and ac‐cordingto above, said lot commencesat a distance of 65 feet from the corner of Patri‐ciaLaneand Deerlick Lane andmeasures thence 60 feet frontonDeer‐lick Lane,the same in widthin therear, and by adepth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines; allas notedonprint of survey made by J. J. Krebs& Sons, C.E. &S., dated August 9, 1976, resurveyed Oc‐tober15, 1976 to show improvements, andresurveyed December 29, 1978 by Sterling Mandle, Land Surveyor. This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $97.12

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U.S. BANK TRUSTNA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATION, NOTIN ITSINDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUTSOLEY AS TRUSTEEOFCIT‐IGROUP MORT‐GAGE LOAN TRUST2018-RP3 VS MACK A. COBB ANDBARBARA COBB A/K/A BARBARA RICHARDCOBB By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 18, 2024, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice l

Sheriff s Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onApril 16, 2025at10

o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,TO‐GETHER WITH ALLTHE BUILDINGSAND IMPROVEMENTS THEREONAND ALLOFTHE RIGHTS,WAYS, PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BELONGINGOR IN ANYWISEAP‐PERTAINING SIT‐UATEDINTHE PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATEOF LOUISIANA,IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWNAS RANCH ACRESEXTEN‐SION SUBDIVI‐SION, PERPLAN OF J. J. KREBS ANDSONS, INC, SURVEYORS, DATEDSEPTEM‐BER17, 1971, APPROVED BY THEJEFFERSON PARISH COUN‐CILUNDER OR‐DINANCENO. 10688 DATED MAY25, 1972, REGISTERED IN COB764, FOLIO 803 ANDIN SQUARE NO 4 THEREOF, WHICH SQUARE IS BOUNDEDBY WYOMING DRIVE, SIERRA STREET,ORE‐GONDRIVE ANDAMES BOULEVARD, ANDACCORD‐INGTOSAID PLAN AS WELL AS PLAN OF J.J. KREBSAND SONS,INC SUR‐VEYORS,DATED JANUARY21, 1967, LAST REVISEDOCTO‐BER28, 1976, SAID LOTISDES‐IGNATEDASLOT NO.25, COMMENCESAT ADISTANCEOF 496 FEET FROM THECORNEROF WYOMING DRIVEAND SIERRA STREET ANDMEASURES THENCE,INTHE DIRECTIONOF AMES BOULE‐VARD,62FEET FRONTOF WYOMING DRIVE, SAME IN WIDTHIN THEREAR, BY A DEPTHOF93 FEET BETWEEN EQUALAND PARALLEL LINES; subjecttore‐strictions,servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand out‐standing min‐eral rights of record affectingthe property

Theimprove‐mentsbearthe municipalad‐dress2600 WyomingDr. Marrero, Louisiana 70072.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ZACHARYGAR‐RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025

mar7-apr11-2t

$115.12

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:861-767

SPANISHOAKS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. VS GENA PURVIS

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritofFIERI FACIAS from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 18, 2025,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: One(1) certain Condominium Unit,together with allits ap‐purtenantinter‐estinthe common end limitedcommon elementsand allofthe rights ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as SPANISH OAKS,PHASE 4, PLOT M-2issit‐uatedinthe area bounded by Manhattan Boulevard, SpanishOaksto aCondominium Regime known as SPANISH OAKS CONDO‐MINIUM, PHASEII, regis‐teredinCOB 1031folio 991, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and amended on September1, 1982, registered in COB1032 folio 10. Accordingto thecondo‐minium plat by J.J. Krebs &Sons, Regis‐teredLand Sur‐veyorannexed to said declara‐tion as Exhibit “A”, the said Condo‐minium Unit is designated as UNIT 138, 2916 Manhattan Boulevard.

TheImprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 2916 Manhattan Boulevard, Unit 138, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

SEAN R. DAWSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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$89.18

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICTCOURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA

NO:861-469

PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC

VS RYAN M. GUIDRY

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24thJudicial DistrictCourt, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 6, 2025,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN LOTOFGROUND together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances,and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in Parish of Jefferson, State ofLouisiana,in that subdivision knownasACA‐DIANA SUBDIVI‐SION, allinaccor‐dancewith a plan of resubdi‐vision by DufreneSurvey‐ing& Engineer‐ing, Inc. datedOctober 9, 2019,ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder Resolution 136936, adopted on January 13,2021, said Resolution filed atCOB 3449, folio 299. Accordingto said plan,said lotisdesig‐natedasLOT 16 in SQUARE H, ACADIANA SUBDIVISION. Lot16is bounded by Greenville Drive, AugustaDrive (side),Bayou Des Familles,and Savannah Lane (side) andmea‐sures80.00 feet front on GreenvilleDrive, 80.02feet in the rear,bya depth of 171.24 feet alongthe south‐westerlymost sideline, and173.13 feet alongthe north‐easterlymost sideline.Such measurements areall in accordance with asurveyby Dufrene Survey‐ing& Engineer‐ing, Inc.,dated November 9, 2021, revisedto show improve‐mentsonJanu‐ary 12, 2022; subjecttore‐strictions, servitudes rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights ofrecordaffect‐ingthe prop‐erty Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear themunici‐paladdress 264S Greenville Drive,Marrero, Louisiana70072.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ZACHARYGAR‐RETT YOUNG

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $102.42

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT

PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:860-562

SUNWEST MORTGAGE COMPANY, INC. VS TYSHEKARENEE WHITLEY

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber26, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ALLTHATCER‐TAIN LOTOR PARCEL OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,pre‐scriptions, appurtenances, advantages and component partsthereunto belongingorin anywise appertaining, lyingand being situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereofknown as FLORAL ACRESSUBDIVI‐SION,and accordingto a plan of subdivi‐sion by Aldoe Orr, Jr.&Associ‐ates,C.E.dated August 15, 1961, approved by theJefferson Parish Council on March1,1962 under Ordi‐nance Number 5426, registered in COB549, folio 765, said portion of ground is designated as LOT16, SQUARE 3.

Having amunic‐ipal addressof 358 Azalea Drive, West‐wego, LA 70094.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate:

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JUDICIAL

ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL

DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA

NO:861-397

NEWREZ LLC

D/B/ASHELL‐POINTMORT‐GAGE SERVIC‐ING VERSUS THOMAS

ROBERT ORDES ANDSTEPHANIE

JOLENE FELDICK

AKASTEPHANIE

JOLENE FELDICK

ALLENORDES

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 5, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

TWO(2) CER‐TAIN LOTS OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall therights, ways privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingofin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in thePARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATEOF LOUISIANA, in that part thereofknown as METAIRIE HEIGHTSSUBDI‐VISION,in Square bounded by Metairie HeightsAvenue Veterans Memorial Boule‐vard,the west‐ernlineofthe said subdivi‐sion,and Fagot Avenue,which said lots of ground aredes‐ignatedbythe Numbers492 and494, adjoin each other, and measureeach 25 feet fronton Metairie HeightsAvenue, thesamein width in the rear,by adepth of 120 feet between equaland paral‐lellines;Lot 494 begins nearer to and commencingat adistance 524.35 feet from thepoint where Metairie HeightsAvenue meetsthe line of theright of wayofVeterans Memorial Boule‐vard;all accord‐ingto sketch of survey by AdloeOrr, Jr &Associates, Consulting Engi‐neers, dated May28, 1969, acopyof which is an‐nexedtoSaleat COB698, folio 595; subjectto restrictions, servitudes rights-of-way andoutstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ingthe prop‐erty

Improvements thereonbear MunicipalNo. 2800 Metairie HeightsAvenue, Metairie, Louisiana70002

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ZACHARYGAR‐RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $104

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:804-948

CASCADEFUND‐INGMORTGAGE TRUSTHB7 AL‐TERNATIVE HOLDINGS VERSUS CAROL BURGDORF HEWLETT, (A/K/A CAROL BURGDORF, CAROL HEWLETT)

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritofFIERI FACIAS from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber27, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on April 16, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that portion thereofknown as BeverlyGar‐dens Subdivi‐sion,bounded by BeverlyGarden Drive, Codifer Boulevard, Hes‐perAvenue and Metairie Road, which said lotof ground is desig‐natedbythe numberTwo (2), commences at a distance of forty-five feet sixinches, no lines(45’6”0’”) from thecorner of BeverlyGar‐denDrive and Metairie Road, andmeasures thence eightyeightfeet,no inches,nolines (88’0”0’”) front on BeverlyGar‐denDrive, the width in the rear being fifty feet,noinches, no lines (50’0”0’”),depth on thesideline nearestto Metairie Road of eighty-three feet,nine inches,six lines (83’9”6’”) and a depth on the othersideline, nearesttoCod‐ifer Boulevardof seventyfour feet,six inches, threelines (74’6”3’”),all ac‐cording to k h f

cording to sketch of survey Gilbert andKelly,Sur‐veyor, datedOc‐tober4,1947, broughtupto date as ofJune 22, 1956, acopy of which is an‐nexedtoanAct passedbefore Allain C. Andry, Jr., Notary Public,dated July 3, 1956, for reference.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

EMILYE HOLLEY Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:862-365 GOVERNMENT LOAN SECURITI‐ZATION TRUST 2011-FV1, U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION, NOT IN ITSINDIVID‐UALCAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS DELAWARE TRUSTEEAND U.S. BANK NA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATION, NOTIN ITS INDIVIDUAL CA‐PACITY BUT SOLELY AS COTRUSTEE vs ESTATE OF WENDYSMITH COLEMAN BRATHWAITE ANDESTATEOF ROGELIO BRATHWAITE By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 7, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereonand all therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ad‐vantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theSTATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,IN SQUARE BOF GOLDEN HEIGHTSSUBDI‐VISION,(a portionof Sec‐tion "B"of Ames Farms), bounded by Wabash Drive, Suwanne Drive, GulizzoCanal, School Board Property and Bonnie Ann Drive, desig‐d

Drive, desig natedasLOT 7 on a survey by Henry Eustis,Sur‐veyor, dated May13, 1972, a copy of which is annexedtoan actpassedbe‐fore Margaret Gaudin,N.P., registered in COB766, folio 746, and accordingto which,saidLot commences at a distance of 364.28 feet from thecornerof Wabash and Bonnie AnnDri‐ves, andmea‐suresthence 60.33 feet front on Wabash Drive, has a widthinthe rear of 60.44 feet,bya depth on theside nearer to Bon‐nieAnn Driveof109.40 feet,bya depth on theother sideline of 110.50 feet

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

RADERJACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $100.30

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:792-518

FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION VS CHRISTINEKIM‐BALL DUFRENE JOSEPH M. DUFRENE

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 6, 2019, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on April 16,2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, situ‐ated in theCITY OF KENNER PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA, in that part thereofknown as MORNING‐SIDE PARK SUBDIVISION, perplanby AdloeOrr, dated May15, 1941, on file in theOffice of the ClerkofCourt, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Louisiana. Andaccording to said plan, said lots are designated as LOTS 23 and24 of Square 25 ad‐j i h h

of Square 25 ad join each other andmeasure 25 feet frontonGard‐nerStreet,same widthinthe rear by adepth of 120 feet be‐tween equal and parallel lines. Said Lot24lies nearer to and formsthe cor‐nerofGardner Street and DearbonAv‐enue,having a depthand front on Dearborn Av‐enue of 120 feet And accordingto a plat of survey by ErrolE.Kelly datedJune 30, 1976, recertified March8, 19986, by James H. Couturie,said Lots 23 and24 have thesame locationsand dimensions as setforth above, except that GardnerStreet is showntobe now designated as Taylor Street, andDearborn Avenue is showntobe nowdesignated as 15thStreet;sub‐ject to restric‐tions, servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand out‐standing min‐eral rights of record affectingthe property This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

ASHLEY E. MORRIS Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025 mar7-apr11-2t $99.24

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:861-911 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VS TEDDI CARTER COLEMANWIFE OF SHAWN COLEMAN By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 21, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ACERTAIN LOT OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of theservi‐tudes, rights, andappurte‐nances there‐unto, belonging or in anywiseapper‐taining,situated i h f

taining, situated in theState of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, in theCity of Kenner,in that part thereofknown as GreaterHolly Heights, Section 4, beinga resubdivisionof SectionG of ChateauEs‐tates, as delin‐eatedona plan by J.J. Krebs& Sons,Inc., C.E., datedNovem‐ber1,1974, ap‐proved by the City of Kenner under OrdinanceNo. 1764, filedfor record in COB 844 folio 414, under EntryNo. 691718, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Louisiana, andaccording thereto, said lot of ground is designated anddescribed as follows:

LotNo. 12 in Square "V", which square is bounded by Ronson Drive, (north boundary of subdivision side), Chateau Boulevard, southboundary of thesubdivi‐sion (Canal No 12 side), andCas‐tleDrive,(east boundaryofthe subdivision side). LOTNO. 12 commences at a distance of 555 feet from the corner of Ron‐sonDrive and Chateau Boulevardand measures thence 50 feet frontonRonson Drive, same in width in the rear, by adepth of 100 feet,be‐tween equal andparallel lines; allasfur‐ther shownona survey by J. J. Krebsand Sons, Inc. C.E. &S., datedSeptem‐ber2,1976, re‐dated October28, 1976 andJuly22, 1977.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit FOERSTNERG MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $104

DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:862-404 SERVBANK,SB VS RANDYG WASHINGTON ANDKIMBERLY A. JOIENILLE

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the

District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 5, 2025,I have seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public

at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice

Sheriff s Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clock a.m. the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitude, ad‐vantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in Section43, T 23 S, R10E, Southeastern District of Louisiana, East of theMissis‐sippi River, beinga portion of the Elmwood-Lafre‐niereTract,said property being situated in the 8thWardofthe PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATEOF LOUISIANA, and in accordance with survey madebyW.L Case,Surveyor, July 1, 1953, a copy of which is attached to Act of Dedication of Streets executed before Claude W. Duke, N.P.,dated Au‐gust 12,1953. registered in COB344, folio 131for the Parish of Jeffer‐son, is situated in GREEN ACRES SUBDIVISION UNIT NO 3, IN SQUARE 8 thereof, which square is bounded by Green Acres Road,Haring Road,Utica Av‐enue and Wabash Street said lotbeing designated by theNo. 1and measuringas follows: LOT1 formsthe corner of Green AcresRoadand Wabash Street, andmeasures 60 feet frontonGreen AcresRoad, with awidth in therearof 105.72 feet,with adepth on the side line adjoin‐ingLot 2of114 feet,and with a depth andfront on Wabash Street of 122.83 feet Allas more fully shownonsur‐veymadeby WilliamL.Case, Surveyor,dated July 11,1955. Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear themunici‐palnumber2601 Green Acres Road Metairie, Louisiana70003 Beingthe same property ac‐quired by Lisa TschirnSeben wife of7and MichaelPaul SebenbyCash Sale,dated March24, 2010 andregistered as COB3261, folio24; furtheracquired by Bank of America, N.A. by Sheriff'sDeed datedMarch 16, 2016 and registered as COB3367,folio 378; andfurther acquired by Mo‐hamedYasein and HananIsmail Mosa Yasein by Deed,dated May4,2016 and registered as COB3369, folio 793.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $122.00

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:794-957

SHERRY BOUDIN NOONAN VERSUS HAROLD PATRICK NOONAN,II

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritofFIERI FACIAS from the 24thJudicial DistrictCourt, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune27, 2024,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onMay 14, 2025at10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

1. Anymonetary awardmadeto Harold Noonan, III in theCommu‐nity Partitionin this matter 2. Themember‐ship interest of Harold Noonan, III in theentity knownasNOLA INVESTMENT PROPERTIES, LLC.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

IRLR SILVERSTEIN Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025 apr11-1t $57.42

to the highest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: Acertain piece or portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as WOODMERE SUBDIVISION, SECTIONNO. 1, andinaccor‐dancewith a subdivisionplan approved by the Jefferson Parish Council registered in COB808 folio 551, said plan beingrecorded in Plan Book 84 folio 39, and theresubdivi‐sion thereofin accordance with plan of J. J. Krebs& Sons, Inc.,dated Au‐gust 20, 1974, approved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder Ordinance No.11805 on Oc‐tober3,1974, andregistered in COB824 folio 676, andaccord‐ingto which said lot thereonisdes‐ignatedasLOT 195-AofSQUARE “D”; subjectto restrictions servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ing theproperty. Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 4033 NorthWoodbine Street,Harvey, Louisiana

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests,mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

CANDACEA COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025

a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber28, 2022, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

is situated in thesame square,subdivi‐sion andhas the same measure‐mentsashere‐inaboveset forth.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR

1986; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe prop‐erty

Improvements thereonbear theMunicipal No.4129 Mon‐trachetDrive

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice is dueatthe time of thesale.

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $134.71

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:861-147

ONSLOW BAY FINANCIALLLC VS FREDERICK STANLEY PEARSE JR

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

ASHLEY E. MORRIS Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

TheNew Orleans Advocate: March7,2025, April11, 2025 mar7-apr11-2t $92.89

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:829-862

RACHEL E. BREAUX

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:820-531 WELLSFARGO BANK,N.A VS RHONDA MARIE SMITHA/K/A RHONDA MARIE TRETHEINER SMITHFULTZ By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial DistrictCourt Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedAugust 23, 2021,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidd t bli

apr11-may162t $91.30

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:829-503 US BANK TRUST NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION, NOT IN ITSINDIVID‐UALCAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEEFOR VRMTGASSET TRUST VS MARIALUISA GARCIA A/K/A MARIAL.GAR‐CIAA/K/A MARIAGARCIA ANDVALENTE PINA By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritofFIERI

That certain pieceorportion of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theState of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, in Town‐ship 14 South, Ranges 23 and 24 East,South‐easternLand District of Louisiana, West of theMissis‐sippi River, knownasHar‐veyCanal Prop‐erty designated as Parcel P-2-A-2-A, allasper plan of resubdivision made by J. J. Krebs& Sons,Inc., C. E. &S., dated March15, 1973, revisedFebru‐ary26, 1973, April11, 1974, May5,1975, De‐cember 29, 1975, andOctober 19, 1976, andap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Council by Ordi‐nanceNo. 12617, adoptedNo‐vember 18, 1976, recorded in COB 879, folio 409, andwhich said portionof ground was subdivided into Woodmere Sub‐division,Section 5, allinasper plan of resubdi‐vision by J. J. Krebs& Sons,Inc., C. E. &S., datedOc‐tober19, 1976 andOctober 21, 1976, approved by the JeffersonParish CouncilbyOrdi‐nanceNo. 12617, recorded in COB 879, folio 408, and as perAct of Dedication be‐fore Odom B. Heebe, Notary Public,dated December 21, 1976 and recorded in COB 880, folio 822, same beingdes‐ignatedasfol‐lows: Lot1456, Square NN, which square is bounded by Ac‐caciaLane, Woodmere Blvd (side),Eastview (lateOakmere Dr.) Drive(side) andAlexKorn‐manBlvd.., and said lot commences 425 feet from the corner of Acca‐ciaLaneand Alex Kornman Blvd., with a 60 feet fronton AccaciaLane, same in widthin rear,bya depth of 100 feet be‐tween equaland paral‐lellines;all as shownonsur‐veybyJ.J Krebs& Sons, Inc.,C.E.&S datedJune 30, 1978, staked Au‐gust 17, 1978, resurveyed No‐vember 1, 1978 to show improvements Andinaccor‐dancewithsur‐veyofGilbert Kelly &Cou‐turie, Inc. dated March6,1993, a printofwhich is annexedhereto andmadea part hereof,saidlot is situated in

bounded by Mi mosa Street,Av‐enue E, Four‐teenth andFif‐teenth Streets; and accordingto said plan said Lot49-Amea‐sures90.65 feet frontonMimosa Street,bya widthinthe rear of 91.61 feet,bya depth on thesideline adjoiningLot 50 of 97.49 feet andbya depth on thesideline adjoiningLot 47Aof103.80 feet Andaccording to survey of Wilton J. Dufrenedated 3/18/1974 and redated. 8/14/1974, Lot 49-Ahas a first frontage of 30 feet andanad‐ditional frontage along a curveof60.65 feet on Mimosa Street,a width of 30 feet and a second widthof 61.61 feet in the rear,a depthof 97.49 feet on Four‐teenth Street side,a depthof 103.80 feet on theFifteenth Street side,and commences 65.11 feet along thecurve of Mi‐mosa Street from thecorner of Fourteenth Street;subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affecting theproperty. Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theIm‐provements thereonbear theMunicipal No.1404 Mimosa Street Marrero, LA 70072

scribed prop erty to wit:

One(1) certain lotorparcelof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, situ‐ated in that subdivisionof theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, known as AirlinePark Subdivision, and beingdesig‐natedonthe of‐ficial subdivi‐sion map, on file andofrecordin theoffice of the Clerkand Recorderfor said parish and state, as lot numbersix (6), of square one hundred thir‐teen (113) said subdivision, said lothaving such measure‐mentsand di‐mensions as shownonsaid map.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJanuary 29, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on April 16, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, City of Kenner,State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as CHATEAU ESTATESNORTH SUBDIVISION, SECTION1, SQUARE NO.9, bounded by Montrachet Drive, Cham‐paigne Drive, Beaujolais Drive andSt. Julien Drive, desig‐nated as LOTNO. 24 andmeasuring as follows: Lot24com‐mences 105.9 feet from the corner of Mon‐trachetDrive andCham‐paigne Driveand mea‐sures60feet frontonMon‐trachetDrive, thesamein widthinthe rear,bya depthof110 feet between equaland paral‐lellines;all ac‐cordingtosur‐veyofGilbert, Kelly andCou‐turie, Inc.,dated January30, 1986; subjectto t i ti

U.S. BANK NA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATIONNOT IN ITSINDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS LEGALTITLE TRUSTEEFOR RMTP TRUST, SERIES 2021 BKM-TT-V VERSUS PATRICKL FER‐TITTA

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges. TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $71

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJuly1 2022, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall therights, ways privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in thePARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATEOF LOUISIANA, in that part known as LOUISPARK SUBDIVISION, in accordance with plan of re‐subdivision made by Wilton J. Dufrene, Land Surveyor, dated 4/18/1973, said plan beingap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder OrdinanceNo. 11221, adopted 6/7/1973, regis‐teredCOB 792, folio 495; andaccording to said plan of said lotisdesig‐natedasthe WHOLEOFLOT NO.49-Ain thesquare bounded by Mi‐

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit CANDACEA COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: April11, 2025, May16, 2025 apr11-may162t $119.36

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:854-733 FINANCEOF AMERICARE‐VERSELLC vs CATHERINEJ BOURDETA/K/A CATHERINE BOURDET

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:833-593

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND

SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune 12, 2024, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribed prop‐i JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

U.S. BANK NA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATIONNOT IN ITSINDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS LEGALTITLE TRUSTEEFOR RMTP TRUST, SERIES 2021 BKM-TT-V VS ANNETTE FRANKLIN A/K/A ANNETTE JOHN‐SONFRANKLIN By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedOctober 14, 2022, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on May 21, 2025 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: That certain pieceorportion of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theCityof Kenner,Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisianain that part thereof known as University