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Church of the King renovating historic building on St. Charles

BY JONAH MEADOWS Staff writer

When Mandeville-based Church of the King embarked on ambitious plans in 2018 to renovate the Jerusalem Temple on St. Charles Avenue and convert the historic building into a southshore worship center, church leaders had hoped to be finished by Christmas 2019.

More than seven years later, the project’s $17.5 million price tag has nearly doubled to some $31 million, and construction is still not complete.

Church officials attribute the delays to familiar factors — the COVID-19 pandemic, rising costs, permitting issues, regulations around historic building tax credits and funding challenges.

The church is now seeking to raise $5 million to complete the renovation without having to take out a loan, said Executive Pastor Randy Craigshead, whose nondenominational church purchased the landmark in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.

But Craigshead is optimistic the church will meet its fundraising goal in the coming months and hopeful that the project will be completed by the end of this summer.

“This has been an adventure,” he

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ELECTION 2026

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JOHN AMIS

Saints quarterback Tyler Shough passes against the Tennessee Titans in the second half Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. Shough threw for 333 yards and rallied the Saints to a 34-26 win over the Titans.

The Saints trailed by 10 points at halftime, but Shough carved up Tennessee through the air and the New Orleans defense settled into a rhythm in the second half. The No. 40 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, Shough outdueled the No. 1 pick Cam Ward, of the Titans. Shough’s 10-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Austin in the fourth quarter proved to be the winning score.

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Trump says Ukraine and Russia are ‘closer than ever’ to peace President meets with Zelenskyy in Florida

BY WILL WEISSERT, SEUNG MIN KIM and ELISE MORTON

Associated Press

PALM BEACH, Fla. — President Donald Trump on Sunday insisted Ukraine and Russia are “closer than ever before” to a peace deal as he hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zel-

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enskyy at his Florida resort, but he acknowledged the negotiations are complex and could still break down, leaving the war dragging on for years.

The president’s statements came after the leaders met for talks following what Trump said was an “excellent,” two-and-ahalf-hour phone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose invasion of Ukraine launched the war nearly four years ago. Trump insisted he believed Putin still wants peace, even as Russia launched

Several Legislature vacancies to be filled in February One Senate seat, two House seats open in N.O. area

BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

succeed,” Trump said during a late afternoon news conference as he stood with Zelenskyy after

A special election is set for Feb. 7 to fill four open seats in the Louisiana House and one open seat in the Louisiana Senate after a handful of lawmakers resigned their posts this fall to pursue other jobs.

Former state Sen. Joseph Bouie Jr. this summer took a job as chancellor of Southern University at New Orleans, leaving his New Orleans-area District 3 Senate seat open.

Also in New Orleans, Jason Hughes and Matthew Willard have resigned their seats in the Louisiana House after winning election to the City Council in the fall.

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President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands Sunday during a news conference at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Fla. another round of attacks on Ukraine while Zelenskyy flew to the United States for the latest round of negotiations.

“Russia wants to see Ukraine

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Girl, 13, missing since October found safe

A missing 13-year-old girl from Kentucky has been rescued outside Washington, D.C., from a kidnapper after going missing more than two months ago, authorities said Sunday.

Wynter Wagoner disappeared from Orlando, Kentucky, on Oct. 14. She was found Friday at a home in Silver Spring, Maryland, police said.

Christian Alexander Delgado, a 37-year-old Silver Spring resident, was arrested and accused of kidnapping Wagoner, Montgomery County police said in a press release. He was held in Maryland pending his extradition to Kentucky.

Police did not release any information about Wagoner’s condition, saying only that she had been “transported to an area hospital for evaluation.” Delgado surrendered without incident, authorities said.

Wagoner’s family had pleaded for months for help finding her.

In mid-October, they said she’d been at a foster home for about a year before disappearing that month. Authorities did not say why Wagoner was in foster care.

“She is safe and that’s about all the information we can give at this time,” Wagoner’s father, Dustin, told Lexington, Kentucky, NBC affiliate WLEX.

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1 killed in helicopter collision Officials say two choppers crashed midair in New Jersey

BY CHRISTINE FERNANDO and MINGSON LAU Associated Press

HAMMONTON, N.J. — Two helicopters crashed midair in New Jersey on Sunday, killing one person and critically injuring another, authorities say.

Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel said rescuers responded to a report of an aviation crash at about 11:25 a.m. Video from the scene shows a helicopter spinning rapidly to the ground. Police and fire crews subsequently extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.

The Federal Aviation Administration described the crash as a midair collision between an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and Enstrom 280C helicopter over

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Authorities look over the scene Sunday after two helicopters crashed in Hammonton, N.J. Hammonton Municipal Airport.

Only the pilots were on board each aircraft. One was killed, and the other was transported to a hospital with life-threatening injuries.

Sal Silipino, owner of a cafe near the crash site, said the pilots were regulars at the restaurant and

would often have breakfast together. He said he and other customers watched the helicopters take off before one began spiraling downward, followed by the other.

“It was shocking,” he said. “I’m still shaking after that happened.”

Hammonton is a town of about

EMTs deliver baby on side of highway

BY LINCOLN ANDERSON New york Daily News (TNS)

Knife attack in Suriname kills at least 9 people PARAMARIBO, Suriname — A knife attack outside Suriname’s capital of Paramaribo killed at least nine people, including five children, police said Sunday.

Officials said the victims included the attacker’s children and neighbors who came to their aid. Local media reported the victims were located at multiple homes.

The attack took place in Richelieu in the Commewijne district about 15 miles east of Paramaribo. Neighbors said the attack began after the suspect, a 43-yearold man, had an argument over the phone with his wife, with whom he no longer lived.

The neighbors said that after the suspect’s wife said she would not pick up the children, but would instead send someone else for them, the suspect attacked his kids with a knife and also went after neighbors in their homes.

In a statement Sunday, Suriname’s Police Corps said the suspect attempted to attack police officers who arrived on the scene and he was injured during his arrest. He is now recovering in a hospital.

Police said a sixth child and another adult were seriously injured in the attack and were being treated at a hospital.

Thai and Cambodian diplomats meet in China BEIJING — Top diplomats from Thailand and Cambodia kicked off two days of talks in China on Sunday as Beijing seeks to strengthen its role in mediating the two countries’ border dispute, a day after they signed a new ceasefire.

The ceasefire agreement calls for a halt to weeks of fighting along their contested border that has killed more than 100 people and displaced over half a million in both countries.

President Donald Trump, who threatened to withhold trade privileges unless Thailand and Cambodia agreed to a July ceasefire, suggested Sunday that the fighting between Thailand and Cambodia “will stop momentarily” and boasted that the U.S. “has become the REAL United Nations.”

In a post on his social media site from his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump wrote that both sides “will go back to living in PEACE” and referenced his past comments about helping to broker a ceasefire that largely hasn’t held.

China has welcomed the ceasefire announcement, which freezes the front lines and allows for displaced civilians to return to their homes near the border.

China also announced $2.8 million of emergency humanitarian aid for Cambodia to assist the displaced. The first batch of Chinese aid, including food, tents and blankets, arrived in Cambodia on Sunday, Wang Wenbin, Chinese ambassador to Cambodia, wrote on Facebook.

15,000 people located in Atlantic County in the southern part of New Jersey, about 35 miles southeast of Philadelphia. The town has a history of agriculture and is located near the Pine Barrens, a forested wilderness area that covers more than 1 million acres.

The FAA and National Transportation Safety Board will be investigating the crash, Friel said.

Investigators will likely first look to review any communications between the two pilots and whether they were able to see each other, said Alan Diehl, a former crash investigator for the FAA and NTSB. “Virtually all midair collisions are a failure to what they call ‘see and avoid,’ ” Diehl said. “Clearly they’ll be looking at the out-ofcockpit views of the two aircraft and seeing if one pilot was approaching from the blind side.”

Although it was mostly cloudy at the time of the crash, winds were light and visibility was good, according to the weather forecasting company AccuWeather.

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Protesters from the Alawite religious minority demonstrate Sunday, two days after a bomb in an Alawite mosque in Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 during Friday prayers, in Latakia, Syria.

4 dead, dozens injured in Syria during clashes Alawites fight with counterdemonstrators

BY OMAR ALBAM Associated Press

LATAKIA, Syria — Clashes broke out on Syria’s coast between protesters from the Alawite religious minority and counterdemonstrators Sunday, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, health officials said.

The clashes came two days after a bombing at an Alawite mosque in the city of Homs killed eight people and wounded 18 others during prayers. Thousands of protesters gathered in the coastal cities of Latakia and Tartous, and elsewhere.

Officials have said that preliminary investigations indicate that explosive devices were planted inside the mosque in Homs, but authorities haven’t publicly identified a suspect in Friday’s bombing.

A little-known group calling itself Saraya Ansar al-Sunna claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement posted on its Telegram channel, in which it indicated that the attack intended to target members of the Alawite sect, an offshoot of Shiite Islam whom hard-line Islamists consider to be apostates.

Sunday’s demonstrations were called

for by Ghazal Ghazal, an Alawite sheikh living outside of Syria who heads a group called the Supreme Alawite Islamic Council in Syria and the Diaspora.

An Associated Press photographer in Latakia saw pro-government counterprotesters throw rocks at the Alawite demonstrators, while a group of protesters beat a counterdemonstrator who crossed to their side. Security forces tried to break up the two sides and fired into the air in an attempt to disperse them.

Syria’s state-run television reported that two members of the security forces were wounded in the area of Tartous after someone threw a hand grenade at a police station, and cars belonging to security forces were set on fire in Latakia.

The state-run SANA news agency said 60 people were wounded by “stabbings, blows from stones, and gunfire targeting both security personnel and civilians.”

The country has experienced several waves of sectarian clashes since the fall of former President Bashar Assad in a lightning rebel offensive in December 2024 that brought to an end nearly 14 years of civil war. Assad, an Alawite, fled the country to Russia.

During the rein of the Assad dynasty, Alawites were overrepresented in government jobs and in the army and security forces.

Second-in-line at LDS Church dies

BY HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press

SALT LAKE CITY — Jeffrey R. Holland, a high-ranking official in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who was next in line to become the faith’s president, has died. He was 85.

Holland died early Saturday morning from complications associated with kidney disease, the church announced on its website.

Holland, who died in Salt Lake City, led a governing body called the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, which helps set church policy while overseeing the many business interests of what is known widely as the Mormon church.

He was the longest-

tenured member of the Quorum of the Twelve after President Dallin H. Oaks, making him next in line to lead the church under a long-established succession plan. Oaks, 93, became president of the church and its more than 17 million-strong global membership in October.

Henry B. Eyring, who is 92 and one of Oaks’ two top counselors, is now next in line for the presidency.

His death leaves a vacancy in the Quorum of the Twelve that Oaks will fill in coming months, likely by calling a new apostle from a lower-tier leadership council. Apostles are all men in accordance with the church’s all-male priesthood.

Holland grew up in St. George, Utah, and worked for many years in education administration before his call to join the ranks of church leadership. He served as the ninth president of Brigham Young University from 1980 to 1989 and was a commissioner of the church’s global education system.

Under his leadership, the Provo university worked to improve interfaith relations and established a satellite campus in Jerusalem. The AntiDefamation League later honored Holland with its “Torch of Liberty” award for helping foster greater understanding between Christian and Jewish communities.

NEW YORK — Two emergency medical technicians helped deliver a baby on the side of a Bronx highway in the middle of Friday night’s big snowstorm, according to a Fire Department of New York post on X. EMTs Henry Garcia and Rachel Rosado from FDNY EMT Station 3 responded to a call for a woman in labor. They quickly realized, though, the baby was arriving sooner than expected.

As the baby’s head began to emerge, the cool-headed medics pulled over to safely deliver the child on the side of the Bronx River Parkway.

Garcia was experienced in child delivery, already having a few under his FDNY EMT belt. Meanwhile, it was a first for Rosado while on the job. Yet the two partners worked together seamlessly, chalking their teamwork up to their excellent communication.

“This was my first delivery, and communication is what made it possible,”

Rosado said.

“Once we realized it was an imminent delivery, everything clicked. We bounced off each other and delivered the baby instantly with no complications. My partner guided me through every step, and we worked together to make sure the baby and mother were safe.

Despite the circumstances, it turned into a beautiful delivery, and it’s something I’ll never forget.”

“This was my third delivery, and I know how important communication was in that moment,” Garcia said.

“I told my partner that the second (the woman) felt uncomfortable or noticed crowning, we would pull over. Once that happened, we made the call to pull over on the Bronx River Parkway and deliver the baby right there. Everything went smoothly because we trusted each other and stayed focused on doing what was best for the mother and baby.”

This was the 91st baby delivered by FDNY Emergency Medical Services in New York City in 2025.

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BY WAFAA SHURAFA and SALLY ABOU ALJOUD

to prop up a collapsing shelter.

At least 12 people, including a 2-week-old infant, have died since Dec. 13 from hypothermia or weather-related collapses of war-damaged homes, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, part of the Hamas-run government.

Emergency workers have warned people not to stay in damaged buildings, because they could collapse. But with much of the territory in rubble, there are few places to escape the rain. In July, the United Nations estimated that almost 80% of buildings in Gaza have been destroyed or damaged.

Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas began, 414 people have been killed and 1,142 wounded in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry.

The overall Palestinian death toll from the war is at least 71,266.

The ministry, which does not distinguish between militants and civilians in its count, is staffed by medical professionals and maintains detailed records viewed as generally reliable by the international community.

The Israel-Hamas war began with the Hamas-led attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 that

Associated Press

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip — Winter rain lashed the Gaza Strip over the weekend, flooding camps with ankle-deep puddles as Palestinians displaced by two years of war attempted to stay dry in tents frayed by months of use.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled for an expected meeting on Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump in Florida about the second phase of the ceasefire. The first phase that took effect on Oct. 10 was meant to bring a surge in humanitarian aid for Gaza, including shelter.

In the southern city of Khan Younis, blankets were soaked and clay ovens meant for cooking were swamped. Children wearing flip-flops waded through puddles.

Some people used shovels or tin cans to remove water from tents.

Others clawed at the ground to pry collapsed shelters from the mud.

“Puddles formed, and there was a bad smell,” said Majdoleen Tarabein, displaced from Rafah in southern Gaza. “The tent flew away. We don’t know what to do or

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JEHAD ALSHRAFI

Palestinians receive donated food at a temporary camp for displaced people on the beach near the port of Gaza City, Gaza Strip, on Sunday. where to go.”

She and family members tried to wring muddy blankets dry by hand.

“When we woke up in the morning, we found that the water had entered the tent,” said Eman Abu Riziq, also displaced in Khan Younis. “These are the mattresses.

They are all completely soaked.”

She said her family is still reeling from her husband’s death less than two weeks ago.

“Where are the mediators? We don’t want food. We don’t want anything. We are exhausted. We just want mattresses and covers,” said Fatima Abu Omar as she tried

killed about 1,200 people and saw 251 taken hostage.

Humanitarian deliveries into Gaza are falling far short of the amount called for under the U.S.brokered ceasefire, according to aid organizations and an Associated Press analysis of the Israeli military’s figures.

The Israeli military body in charge of humanitarian aid said in the past week that 4,200 trucks with aid entered Gaza, plus eight garbage trucks to assist with sanitation, as well as tents and winter clothing. It refused to elaborate on the number of tents. Aid groups have said the need far outstrips the number that have entered.

Since the ceasefire began, around 72,000 tents and 403,000 tarps have entered, according to Shelter Cluster, an international coalition of aid providers led by the Norwegian Refugee Council.

“People in Gaza are surviving in flimsy, waterlogged tents and among ruins,” Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the top U.N. group overseeing aid in Gaza, wrote on social media. “There is nothing inevitable about this. Aid supplies are not being allowed in at the scale required.”

Turning Point USA turns resources toward Vance for 2028

BY MICHAEL WILNER Los Angeles Times (TNS)

When Charlie Kirk was killed by an assassin this fall, Republican leaders credited the organization he founded for enabling President Donald Trump’s return to power.

Now that organization is mobilizing behind Vice President JD Vance.

Uninterested in a competitive Republican primary in 2028, Turning Point USA plans to deploy representatives across Iowa’s 99 counties in the coming months to build the campaign infrastructure it believes could deliver Vance, a Midwesterner from nearby Ohio, a decisive victory, potentially short-circuiting a fractious GOP race, insiders said.

It is the latest move in a quiet effort by some in Trump’s orbit to clear the field of viable competitors.

Earlier this month, Marco Rubio, the secretary of state previously floated by Trump

as a possible contender, appeared to take himself out of the running.

“If Vance runs for president, he’s going to be our nominee, and I’ll be one of the first people to support him,” Rubio told Vanity Fair.

After Kirk’s widow, Erika, endorsed Vance on stage at Turning Point USA’s annual conference in Arizona last week, a straw poll of attendees found that Vance 84% would support Vance in the coming primaries. Yet, wider public polling offers a different picture.

A CNN poll conducted in early December found that Vance held a plurality of Republican support for 2028, at 22%, with all other potential candidates, such as Rubio and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, registering in single

digits.

The remaining 64% told pollsters they had “no one specific in mind,” reflecting an open field with plenty of room for other figures to gain ground.

While a recent Gallup poll found that 91% of Republicans approve of Vance’s job performance as vice president — an encouraging number entering a partisan primary — only 39% of Americans across party lines view him positively in the role, setting Vance up for potential challenges should he win the nomination.

Potential presidential candidates on both sides of the political aisle are expected to assess their chances over the next year, before primary season officially kicks off, after the midterm elections in November.

Closing out the Turning Point USA conference, Vance called for party unity amid escalating conflicts among right-wing influenc-

ers over the acceptability of racism and antisemitism within Republican politics.

“President Trump did not build the greatest coalition in politics by running his supporters through endless, self-defeating purity tests,” Vance said. “Every American is invited. We don’t care if you’re white or Black, rich or poor, young or old, rural or urban, controversial or a little bit boring, or somewhere in between.”

Charlie Kirk, he added, “trusted all of you to make your own judgment. And we have far more important work to do than canceling each other.”

Vance’s remarks drew criticism from some on the right for appearing to tolerate bigotry within the party. The vice president himself has been subjected to racist rhetoric, with Nick Fuentes — a far-right podcaster who has praised Adolf Hitler — repeatedly directing attacks at Vance’s

wife and children over their Indian ancestry.

“Let me be clear — anyone who attacks my wife, whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat s***,” Vance said in an interview last week, referring to President Biden’s former press secretary. “That’s my official policy as vice president of the United States.”

In the same interview, Vance praised Tucker Carlson, another far-right podcaster who has defended Fuentes on free speech grounds, as a “friend of mine,” noting that he supported Vance as Trump’s vice presidential pick in 2024.

Trump has floated Vance as his potential successor multiple times without ever explicitly endorsing his nomination, calling him “very capable” and the “most likely” choice for the party.

“He’s the vice president,” Trump said in August. “Certainly he’s doing a great job, and he would be probably

favored at this point.”

Several of Trump’s most ardent supporters have pushed the president to seek a third term in 2028, despite a provision of the Constitution, in the 22nd Amendment, barring him from doing so.

Trump himself has said the Constitution appears clear on the matter. But Steve Bannon, an architect of Trump’s historic 2016 campaign and one of his first White House strategists, continues to advocate a path forward for another run, reportedly disparaging Vance as “not tough enough” to lead the party to victory.

“He knows he can’t run again,” Susie Wiles, the president’s White House chief of staff, told Vanity Fair in a recent profile of her. “It’s pretty unequivocal.”

Trump, who will be 82 when he is slated to leave office, has told Wiles he understands a third term isn’t possible “a couple times,” she added.

Winter storm threatens to bring blizzards and ice to parts of U.S.

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM and JEFF MARTIN Associated Press

A powerful winter storm was sweeping east from the Plains on Sunday, driven by what meteorologists describe as an intense cyclone that is expected to impact much of the country with a mixture of snow, ice, rain and strong winds.

“Part of the storm system is getting heavy snow, other parts of the storm along the cold front are getting higher winds and much colder temperatures as the front passes,” said Bob Oravec, a lead forecaster at the National Weather Service office in College Park, Maryland.

“They’re all related to each other — different parts of

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Heavy snow falls Sunday along Nicollet Mall in Minneapolis. the country will be receiving different effects from this storm.”

Snow and strengthening winds spread Sunday across the Upper Midwest, where

the National Weather Service warned of whiteout conditions and possible blizzard conditions that could make travel impossible in some areas. Snowfall totals

were expected to exceed a foot across parts of the upper Great Lakes, with up to 2 feet possible along the south shore of Lake Superior.

In the South, meteorologists warned of severe thunderstorms expected to signal the arrival of a sharp cold front — sometimes referred to as a “Blue Norther” — bringing a sudden plunge in temperatures and strong north winds that will end days of record warmth.

The snowy holiday season in the Upper Midwest and Northeast comes as springlike warmth continues in much of the nation’s midsection and South, where record high temperatures had Santa sweating in recent days.

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In Dallas, Sunday temperatures in the lower 80s could drop down to the mid 40s. In Little Rock, high temperatures of around 70 on Sunday could drop down to highs in the mid-30s on Monday.

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Oldest National Park Service ranger dies Betty Reid Soskin, 104, raised awareness about untold stories

By The Associated Press RICHMOND, Calif. — Betty Reid Soskin, who rose to national fame as the oldest National Park Service ranger and used the spotlight to talk about the African American experience during World War II, has died. She was 104.

Her family and the park service announced her death through social media, saying she was surrounded by loved ones at her home in California when she died Dec. 21. They did not release a cause of death.

“She was a powerful voice for sharing her personal experiences, highlighting untold stories, and honoring the contributions of women from diverse backgrounds who worked on the World War II Home Front. Thank you for your service, Ranger Betty,” the park service said in a statement.

When she was 85, the longtime community activist was hired as an interpretive ranger at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By BEN MARGOT

National Park Service Ranger Betty Reid Soskin, who worked at the Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond, Calif., died Dec. 21 at 104.

Historical Park in Richmond, California. The site at a former shipyard and other parts of the working-class city honors American civilians, including the women who worked in war-related industries, who worked on the homefront during the war.

Soskin helped plan the park while working as a state legislative aide. She played a key role in shaping and designing the park by ensuring that it included the oftentimes overlooked contributions of Black men and women.

They include the 202 Black sailors who were killed in the July 1944 explosion at

Port Chicago, on the northeastern flank of San Francisco Bay, where they were assigned to a segregated unit, loading munitions onto cargo ships bound for the Pacific Theater. Unsafe working conditions led 50 survivors of the blast to refuse loading munitions.

They were court-martialed and convicted of mutiny in a trial that exposed systemic racial inequality in the Navy.

As a Black woman, Soskin worked as a clerk for the allBlack boilermaker’s union in Richmond. She advocated for telling the stories of the “non Rosies” who didn’t get to help build the battleships

because of the color of their skin.

“Rosie the Riveter represents the white woman’s experience on the homefront during the war, but as a woman of color, I was never recognized for my work,” she wrote in an October 2020 essay for Newsweek.

“I had never understood that I had been involved in the building of the ships.

Because at the time, I was 20 years old. I didn’t realize what my role was until I began to go back and recount it for others. It was rather amazing.”

Those who got to meet Soskin during visits to the park took to social media to say it was an honor and that she was an amazing woman.

Born in 1921, Soskin wore many hats throughout her life — a mother, daughter, musician, author, political activist, wife, record store owner, songwriter, painter, grandmother, great-grandmother, prolific blogger and more, as her family recounted.

Her family posted on social media that she had led “a fully packed life and was ready to leave.”

She had just celebrated her birthday with a visit to Betty Reid Soskin Middle School in El Sobrante, Cali-

same community that tried to drive her family away elected her 20 years later to serve as a delegate to the 1972 Democratic National Convention.

“That is how fast social change occurred,” she said.

At the park, her weekly lectures drew large audiences. They also garnered national attention, including the chance to introduce thenPresident Barack Obama at the Christmas tree lighting ceremony in 2015. In 2008, Glamour Magazine named her one of its women of the year.

“I became a ranger when most people retire so I had no idea what it required of me, but it opened up a lot of opportunities that would have been closed to me otherwise,” she wrote in her essay.

She retired on March 31, 2022.

fornia, in September, cheers erupting as she waved to excited children.

In 1995, Soskin was named Woman of the Year by the California State Legislature and about a decade later she received the National WWII Museum’s Silver Service Medallion.

She explored her nine decades of living through extraordinary moments of history in her 2018 autobiography “Sign My Name to Freedom: A Memoir of a Pioneering Life.”

Her experiences included opening Reid’s Records, an influential Black-owned record store in Berkeley with her first husband, Mel Reid, and being the first Black family to live in suburban Walnut Creek.

Someone burned a cross on their lawn, she wrote, but her family refused to move.

She pointed out that the

Brigitte Bardot, sex symbol of 1960s, dies

BY THOMAS ADAMSON and ELAINE GANLEY Associated Press

PARIS — Brigitte Bardot, the French 1960s sex symbol who became one of the greatest screen sirens of the 20th century and later a militant animal-rights activist and far-right supporter, has died. She was 91.

Bardot died Sunday at her home in southern France, according to Bruno Jacquelin, of the Brigitte Bardot Foundation for the protection of animals.

Speaking to Bardot The Associated Press, he gave no cause of death, and said that no arrangements had been made for funeral or memorial services. She had been hospitalized last month.

Bardot became an international celebrity as a sexualized teen bride in the 1956 movie “And God Created Woman.” Directed by then husband Roger Vadim, it triggered a scandal with scenes of the long-legged beauty dancing on tables naked.

At the height of a cinema career that spanned more than two dozen films and three marriages, Bardot came to symbolize a nation bursting out of bourgeois respectability. Her tousled, blond hair, voluptuous figure and pouty irreverence made her one of France’s bestknown stars, even as she struggled with depression.

Such was her widespread appeal that in 1969 her fea-

tures were chosen to be the model for “Marianne,” the national emblem of France and the official Gallic seal.

Bardot’s face appeared on statues, postage stamps and coins.

Bardot’s second career as an animal-rights activist was equally sensational.

She traveled to the Arctic to blow the whistle on the slaughter of baby seals. She also condemned the use of animals in laboratory experiments, and she opposed Muslim slaughter rituals.

“Man is an insatiable predator,” Bardot told The Associated Press on her 73rd birthday, in 2007. “I don’t care about my past glory.

That means nothing in the face of an animal that suffers, since it has no power, no words to defend itself.”

In 1985, she was awarded the Legion of Honor, the nation’s highest recognition.

Turn to the far right Later, however, she fell from public grace as her animal protection diatribes took on a decidedly extremist tone. She frequently decried the influx of immigrants into France, especially Muslims.

She was convicted and fined five times in French courts of inciting racial hatred, in incidents inspired by her opposition to the Muslim practice of slaughtering sheep during annual religious holidays.

Bardot’s 1992 marriage to fourth husband Bernard d’Ormale, a onetime adviser to far-right National Front leader Jean-Marie Le Pen, contributed to her political

shift. She described Le Pen, an outspoken nationalist with multiple racism convictions of his own, as a “lovely, intelligent man.”

In 2018, at the height of the #MeToo movement, Bardot said in an interview that most actors protesting sexual harassment in the film industry were “hypocritical,” because many played “the teases” with producers to land parts.

She said she found it “charming to be told that I was beautiful or that I had a nice little ass.”

‘Difficult’ upbringing Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot was born Sept. 28, 1934, to a wealthy industrialist. A shy child, she studied classical ballet and was discovered by a family friend who put her on the cover of Elle magazine at age 14.

Bardot once described her childhood as “difficult” and said that her father was a strict disciplinarian who would sometimes punish her with a horse whip.

Vadim, a French movie producer who she married in 1952, saw her potential and wrote “And God Created Woman” to showcase her provocative sensuality, an explosive cocktail of childlike innocence and raw sexuality.

The film, which portrayed Bardot as a teen who marries to escape an orphanage and then beds her brotherin-law, had a decisive influence on New Wave directors Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut, and came to embody the hedonism and sexual freedom of the 1960s.

The film was a box-office hit, and it made Bardot a

superstar. Her girlish pout, tiny waist and generous bust were often more appreciated than her talent.

“It’s an embarrassment to have acted so badly,” Bardot said of her early films. “I suffered a lot in the beginning. I was really treated like someone less than nothing.”

Bardot’s unabashed, offscreen love affair with costar Jean-Louis Trintignant eradicated the boundaries between her public and private life and turned her into a hot prize for paparazzi.

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LEGAL NOTICE Hancock Whitney Bank, as Trustee for the Owners of The Finance Authority Of New Orleans Multifamily Housing Rev‐ enue Bonds (GMF-The Willows Apartments) Se‐ ries 2014A, Plaintiff Versus MOF-Willows, LLC (Formerly, GMF-Willows, LLC), Defendant United States District Court, Eastern District Of Louisiana Docket No.: 25-cv-01152 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that, pursuant to a Writ of Execution dated No‐ vember 3, 2025 issued in the above referenced proceeding (the “Pro‐ ceeding”) by the Clerk of Court for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana and directed to the United States Mar‐ shal for the Eastern Dis‐ trict of Louisiana (the “U.S. Marshal”), the U.S. Marshal has seized all of the right, title, and inter‐ est of Defendant, MOFWillows, LLC (formerly GMF-Willows, LLC), in and to the following de‐ scribed property: (a) ONE CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the THIRD DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ORLEANS PARISH, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof known as LAKE FOREST (formerly known as LaKratt Tract and the New Orleans Lakeshore and Company Subdivi‐ sion), designated as LOT 1-D-1 in accordance with a survey prepared by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., Surveying and Engi‐ neering, dated March 1, 1984, approved by the City Planning Commis‐ sion under date of Sep‐ tember 24, 1984, regis‐ tered in COB 795, folio 224, and according to which said Lot l-D-1 is in the area bounded by CROWDER ROAD, CROW‐ DER ROAD INTERCHANGE, INTERSTATE HIGHWAY I10 (N. I-10 Service Road), LAWRENCE ROAD AND LAKE WILLOW DRIVE and measures as follows, towit: Commencing at a point of intersection of the east line of Lawrence Road and the north line of the U.S. 1-10 (N. I-10 Service Road), which point is the point of be‐ ginning, run thence along the east line of Lawrence Road North 24 degrees, 29 minutes, 35 seconds West, a distance of 167.46 feet to a point; thence tum right and run along a line bearing North 47 degrees, 27 min‐ utes, 32 seconds East, a distance of 493.90 feet; thence tum left and run along a line bearing North 27 degrees, 57 min‐ utes, 32 seconds East, a distance of 383.16 feet to a point; thence turn right and run along a line bearing North 35 de‐ grees, 7 minutes, 38 sec‐ onds East, a distance of 58.38 feet to a point; thence turn right and run along a line bearing North 64 degrees, 23 min‐ utes, 43 seconds East, a distance of 196 feet to a point; thence turn left and run along a line bearing North 25 de‐ grees, 36 minutes, 17 sec‐ onds West, a distance of 120 feet to the south line of Lake Willow Drive; thence run along the south line of Lake Willow Drive North 64 degrees, 23 minutes, 43 seconds East, a distance of 74 feet to the northwest comer of Lot 1-C; thence turn right and run along a line bearing South 25 de‐ grees, 36 minutes, 17 sec‐ onds East, a distance of 407.77 feet to a point; thence turn left and run along a line bearing North 64 degrees, 16 min‐ utes, 53 seconds East, a distance of 23.58 feet to a point; thence turn right and run along a line bearing South 25 de‐ grees, 42 minutes, 20 sec‐ onds East, 68.30 feet to a point; thence tum right and run along a line bearing South 5 degrees, 36 minutes, 34 seconds East, a distance of 99.65 feet to a point; tum right and thence run along a line bearing South 34 de‐ grees, 35 minutes, 07 sec‐ onds West, a distance of 99.65 feet to a point; thence turn right and run along a line bearing South 54 degrees, 40 min‐ utes, 57 seconds West, a distance of 388.17 feet to a point; thence along a curve to the right having a radius of 1,879.86 feet a distance of (553.70 feet Present Title) 549.63 feet Original Title & Actual to a tangent; thence contin‐ uing along a curve to the right having a radius of 7,489.44 feet, a distance of (74.51 feet Present Title & 78.51 feet Original Title) 78.57 feet Actual to the point of beginning.

Said lot is a portion of former Lot 1, Section 22 and former Groves 18, 20, 22, 24 & Section 22; (b) together with the im‐ provements constructed thereon, consisting of a residential rental facility known as The Willows Apartments, and all re‐ lated support facilities, including, without limita‐ tion, all buildings, struc‐ tures, and other improve‐ ments now or hereafter constructed thereon;

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g other improvements; and (f) together with all addi‐ tions thereto, substitu‐ tions therefor, and re‐ placements thereof, whether now owned or hereafter acquired; (the foregoing described land together with all such other property (im‐ movable (real) and mov‐ able (personal), corpo‐ real (tangible) and incor‐ poreal (intangible)), rights, and credits, col‐ lectively, the “Project”).

NOTICE IS HEREBY FUR‐ THER GIVEN that, the U.S. Marshal has scheduled a U.S. Marshal’s judicial sale of all of the right, title, and interest of De‐ fendant, MOF-Willows, LLC (formerly GMF-Wil‐ lows, LLC), in and to the Project, subject to the absolute right of Plain‐ tiff, as foreclosing credi‐ tor in the Proceeding, to cancel or postpone any judicial sale.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the U.S. Mar‐ shal’s judicial sale is scheduled for January 30, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. prevail‐ ing Central Time in the lobby of the Hale Boggs Federal Building – Court‐ 500 Poydras house, Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130. The U.S. Marshal’s judicial sale is to be with the benefit of appraisement, with the minimum bid at the firstconducted judicial sale of the Project to be not less than two-thirds of the appraised value of the Project, on an “AS-IS, WHERE-IS” basis, for cash to the highest bid‐ der, with the full pur‐ chase price to be paid by the successful bidder by 1:00 p.m. prevailing Cen‐ tral Time on the day of the sale in cash or by cashier’s or certified check or by credit-bid if Plaintiff is the successful bidder.

NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the U.S. Mar‐ shal’s judicial sale date or the manner in which the sale will be con‐ ducted may change. You may contact the U.S. Marshal’s office by call‐ ing (504) 589-6079 to find out the new date when the property is sched‐ uled to be sold. If applic‐ able, the new sale date will also be published in the local newspaper in accordance with La R.S. 43:203. /s/ Enix Smith, III, United States Marshal, Eastern District of Louisiana PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2026, 1:30 P.M. PUBLIC HEARING CITY HALL, 1300 PERDIDO STREET CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER (CITY HALL - 1E07) The City Planning Com‐ mission, in accordance with the provisions of Ar‐ ticle 4 of the Comprehen‐ sive Zoning Ordinance, Ordinance No. 4,264 M.C.S., as amended, will hold a public hearing.

The public hearing will consider the following proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of New Orleans.

Materials for these items may be viewed via https://onestopapp.nola. gov/ The public comment deadline is 5 pm on the Monday that is 8 days before the meeting date.

Zoning Docket 001/26 Applicant(s): Earl Myers, Jr. Request: Conditional use to permit a reception fa‐ cility with outdoor live entertainment (sec‐ ondary use) in an HU-B1 Historic Urban Neighbor‐ hood Business District Property description: Square 327 or 328, Lots 4, 5, 6, and A, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Philip Street, Simon Bolivar Avenue, and Reverend John Raphael Jr. Way Address(es): 2300 Philip Street Zoning Docket 002/26 Applicant(s): Isaiah Byrd d i d

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pp y and Angeonita Byrd Request: Conditional use to permit a single-family residence in a GPD Gen‐ eral Planned Develop‐ ment District Property description: Square 171, Lots 50 through 54, Riverside Subdivision, in the Fifth Municipal District, bounded by Oliver Street, Rankin Street, Paul Street, and the Missis‐ sippi River Address(es): 3350 Oliver Street Zoning Docket 003/26 Applicant(s): 3201 Or‐ leans Ave, LLC Request: Amendment of Ordinance No. 27,971 MCS (Zoning Docket 126/18) to permit the ex‐ pansion of a neighbor‐ hood commercial estab‐ lishment in an HU-RD2 Historic Urban Two-Fam‐ ily Residential District.

The expansion requires waivers of standards lim‐ iting the neighborhood commercial establish‐ ment to 3,000 square feet and to the first floor of the structure.

Property description: Square 445, Lots D and E, in the Second Municipal District, bounded by Or‐ leans Avenue, North Ren‐ don Street, Hagan Av‐ enue, and Saint Ann Street Address(es): 3201-3205 Orleans Avenue and 721725 North Rendon Street Zoning Docket 004/26 Applicant(s): Icannot‐ standthistown, LLC and the City of New Orleans Request: Planned devel‐ opment for the adaptive reuse of an existing brewery over 10,0000 square feet in floor area as an amusement facility (indoor and outdoor) in a C-1 General Commercial District and an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighbor‐ hood Mixed Use District and the rescission of Or‐ dinance No. 28,218 MCS (Zoning Docket 046/19) and Ordinance No. 28,601 MCS (Zoning Docket 089/20) Property description: Square 482-A, Lots 13-A, 14, and 23, in the First Municipal District, bounded by South Broad Street, Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard, Thalia Street, and South Dorgenois Street Address(es): 3935-3943 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, 3940 Thalia Street, and 1400 South Broad Street Zoning Docket 005/26 Applicant(s): Russell J. Frank Request: Zoning change from an HMR-1 Historic Marigny/Tremé/Bywater Residential District to an HMC-2 Historic Marigny/Tremé/Bywater Commercial District and a conditional use to per‐ mit outdoor live enter‐ tainment (secondary use) in conjunction with a hotel in an HMC-2 His‐ toric Marigny/Tremé/By‐ water Commercial Dis‐ trict. The applicant seeks a waiver of the limitation on operating hours to permit operating hours of 9 am to 10 pm on weekdays and 10 am to 12 midnight on week‐ ends.

Property description: Square 196, Lots 3A, 5A, A-1, M or B, 10A, 11, and Pt. Lot 15 (Proposed Lot 10B), in the Second Mu‐ nicipal District, bounded

by Dumaine Street, North Claiborne Avenue, North Robertson Street, and Saint Ann Street Address(es): 1608-1620 Dumaine Street, 816-834 North Claiborne Avenue Zoning Docket 006/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-25-530 Request: Text amend‐ ment to Article 19 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance to establish an Interim Zoning Dis‐ trict called the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District to require condi‐ tional use approval for hotels/motels; hostels; short-term rentals, com‐ mercial; timeshares; bed and breakfasts, principal and accessory in all zon‐ ing districts citywide where they are other‐ wise permitted.

Zoning Docket 007/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-25-567 Request: Text amend‐ ment to the Comprehen‐ sive Zoning Ordinance to: • Define “dwelling, ship‐ ping container” as a dwelling constructed wholly or partially from one or more repurposed shipping containers.

• Prescribe use stan‐ dards for shipping con‐ tainer dwellings, includ‐ ing but not limited to the following: o “In S-RS Suburban Sin‐ gle-Family Residential Districts, Shipping Con‐ tainer Dwellings shall be subject to the following requirements: a. The exterior walls of such structures shall be clad in permitted build‐ ing materials, including but not limited to wood siding, stucco, brick, fiber cement panels, or corrugated metal panels.

The cladding shall fully obscure the seams, cor‐ rugation, markings, and original metal surface of the shipping container from view. b. Roof surfaces that originate from the con‐ tainer unit shall be ob‐ scured or concealed by an additional roof struc‐ ture, such as a pitched or parapet roof, so as not to be visibly identifiable as a container.”

• Adding shipping con‐ tainer dwellings as a per‐ mitted or conditional use to zoning district use ta‐ bles as appropriate.

Zoning Docket 008/26 Applicant(s): 2915 Bi‐ enville Properties, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a reception fa‐ cility in an HU-B1 Historic Urban Neighborhood Business District Property description: Square 395, Lot 5 and Pt. 6, in the Second Munici‐ pal District, bounded by Bienville Avenue, North Dupre Street, North Gayoso Street, and Conti Street Address(es): 2915 Bi‐ enville Avenue Zoning Docket 009/26 Applicant(s): Grace 9999, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a standard restaurant in an HU-B1 Historic Urban Neighbor‐ hood Business District

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and the Magazine Street Use Restriction Overlay District Property description: Square 217, Lot D, in the Sixth Municipal District, bounded by Magazine Street, Louisiana Avenue, Toledano Street, and Camp Street Address(es): 3329 Maga‐ zine Street

answer, all as required

by Rule 5 of the Supple‐ mental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims.

tion of liability for all claims arising out of cer‐ tain alleged incidents of asbestos exposure in‐ volving the M/V FEDERAL PILOT I and the M/V FED‐ ERAL PILOT III from 1978 through 2000.

All persons having such claims must file them as provided in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, Supplemental Rule F, with the Clerk of this Court, at the United States Courthouse, East‐ ern District of Louisiana, 500 Poydras St, New Or‐ leans, LA 70130 and serve copies on or mail copies to Limitation Petitioners attorneys, Kent B. Ryan, Stephanie D. Skinner, and Miller Hahn, PLLC, 365 Canal Street, Suite 860, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130, on or before the 30th day of January, 2026, or be defaulted. Personal attendance is not re‐ quired.

Any claimant desiring to contest the right of Limi‐ tation Petitioners to ex‐ oneration from liability or the rights of Limita‐ tion Petitioners and cur‐ rent and former owners and operators of the M/V FEDERAL PILOT I and the M/V FEDERAL PILOT III to limitation of liability must file an answer to said Complaint, as re‐ quired by the aforesaid Supplemental Rule F, and must serve on or mail to Limitation Petitioners’ at‐ torneys a copy thereof, unless his/her claim has included an answer.

Zoning Docket 010/26 Applicant(s): Wilson Canal II, LLC Request: Amendment to Ordinance No. 8,046 MCS (Zoning Docket 51/80) for a conditional use to per‐ mit a motor vehicle deal‐ ership, small in a CBD-4 Exposition District Property description: Lot 2 CP on an undesignated square, in the Second Municipal District, bounded by Canal Street, North Peters Street, Iberville Street, and Ba‐ dine Street West Address(es): 333 Canal Street Zoning Docket 011/26 Applicant(s): Corvus Real Estate Holdings, LLC Request: Amendment to Article 8, Section 8.2 and Table 8-1 of the Compre‐ hensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance to classify "con‐ tractor storage yard," "outdoor storage yard," and "warehouse" as con‐ ditional uses in the M-MU Maritime Mixed-Use Dis‐ trict Zoning Docket 012/26 Applicant(s): Corvus Real Estate Holdings, LLC Request: Conditional use to permit a contractor storage yard, outdoor storage yard, and ware‐ house in the M-MU Mar‐ itime Mixed-Use District Property description: Tract A or H1, a roadway, and Lots 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, Faubourg de Montluzin, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Chef Menteur Highway and Ridgeway Boulevard Address(es): 19001 Chef Menteur Highway

In person public com‐ ment: The City Planning Com‐ mission, in accordance with Article 4 of the Com‐ prehensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance, Ordinance No. 4,264 M.C.S., as amended, will hear proponents and opponents to the above proposed changes to the Comprehensive Zoning Law of the City of New Orleans. All interested parties are encouraged to attend and all relevant comments concerning the proposed changes are encouraged. The CPC has established public hearing rules within its Administrative Rules, Policies, & Procedures, which are available on the CPC website (www. nola.gov/cpc).

Written public comment: You may also submit written comments to the Executive Director in ad‐ vance by mail (1300 Per‐ dido Street, 7th floor, New Orleans LA 70112) or email (CPCinfo@nola. gov). All written com‐ ments must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, January 5.

December 29, 2025; December 31, 2025; and January 7, 2026 Robert Rivers, Executive Director

PLEASE PUBLISH IN THE TIMES PICAYUNE/ THE NEW ORLEANS ADVO‐ CATE ONCE A WEEK FOR FOUR SUCCESSIVE WEEKS PRIOR TO THE DATE FIXED FOR THE FILING OF CLAIMS. Respectfully submitted, /s/ Alan J. Meche ALAN J. MECHE (#30631) ALLEN & GOOCH A LAW CORPORATION P.O. Box 81129 Lafayette, Louisiana 70508-1129 Telephone: (337) 291-1480 Facsimile: (337) 291-1485 alanmeche@allengooch. com Attorney for Petitioners, Tres Marine Corporation and Gulf Logistics Oper‐ ating, Inc. 171061 Dec. 22, 29, 2025, Jan. 5, 12, 2026 4t $1,384.36 PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF ASSOCI‐ ATED FEDERAL PILOTS AND DOCKING MASTERS OF LOUISIANA, LLC, FED‐ ERAL PILOTS, INC. AND ASSOCIATED FEDERAL COAST PILOTS OF LOUISIANA, INC. FOR EX‐ ONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:25-cv-2368 SECTION “A” Judge Jay C. Zainey DIVISION “4” Magistrate Judge Karen Wells Roby NOTICE OF ACTION BROUGHT FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY Notice is given that Limi‐ tation Petitioners, Asso‐ ciated Federal Pilots and Docking Masters of Louisiana, LLC., Federal Pilots, Inc. and Associ‐ ated Federal Coast Pilots of Louisiana, Inc., as cur‐ rent and/or former own‐ ers and operators of the M/V FEDERAL PILOT I and the M/V FEDERAL PILOT III, have filed a Complaint claiming the right to ex‐ oneration from or limita‐

Date: Dec 02 2025 Carol L. Michel Name of clerk of court L. Guillot Deputy clerk's signature 170029-dec 5-4t $1,159.80

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PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC HEARING The Louisiana Depart‐ ment of Insurance hereby gives notice of a public hearing to be held on January 16, 2026, re‐ garding the conversion of Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Com‐ pany from a mutual in‐

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surance company to a stock insurance com‐ pany pursuant to La. R. S. 22:237.6. The public hear‐ ing is being held for the purpose of hearing evi‐ dence to determine if the Plan of Reorganization submitted by Louisiana Farm Bureau Mutual In‐ surance Company (1) properly protects the in‐ terests of the policyhold‐ ers as such and as mem‐ bers; (2) serves the best interests of policyhold‐ ers and members; and (3) is fair and equitable to policyholders and members as required by La. R.S. 22:237.6. The pub‐ lic hearing shall be con‐ ducted in accordance with La. R.S. 22:237.6, Rule I of the Louisiana Department of Insurance, and the Administrative Procedures Act. The public hearing will be held by the Louisiana Department of Insurance on January 16th, at 10:00 a.m. in the Poydras Hear‐ ing Room, Poydras Build‐ ing, 1702 North Third Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. If you are in‐ terested in participating in the public hearing, you have the option to make comments or provide ev‐ idence. You can do this by submitting your com‐ ments or evidence in writing to David Cald‐ well, Louisiana Depart‐ ment of Insurance, P.O. Box 94214, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9214, by close of business, January 9, 2026, by 4:30 p.m. Com‐ ments or evidence re‐ ceived by January 9, 2026, will be posted on the Louisiana Depart‐ ment of Insurance web‐ site at https://www.ldi. la.gov/public-hearingand-rulemaking-notices.

The provided link directs to the public hearing no‐ tices page of the Louisiana Department of Insurance website. This page contains announce‐ ments and information regarding upcoming pub‐ lic hearings conducted by the Louisiana Depart‐ ment of Insurance. Users can access documents, notices, and other rele‐ vant information related to these proceedings. It is recommended to visit the website directly for the most up-to-date in‐ formation from the Louisiana Department of Insurance on this public hearing. Interested per‐ sons may appear at the public hearing to provide comments or evidence

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PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE - - CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA CASE NO. 24-10303 DIVI‐ SION “I” SUCCESSION OF JENEVIEVE BROWN - NO‐ TICE IS GIVEN that Val‐ lerie Woods, Executrix of the Succession of Jenevieve Brown, is ap‐ plying for authority to sell at private sale, on terms of SIXTY THOU‐ SAND AND 10/100 ($60,000.00) DOLLARS the immovable property owned by The Succes‐ sion of Jenevieve Brown, described below.

TWO CERTAIN PIECES OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ing and improvements thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the THIRD DISTRICT of the CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, in SQUARE NO. 1385, which square is bounded

by FRANKLIN AVENUE, N. DORGENOIS STREET, PAINTERS STREET and LAW STREET, and accord‐ ing to the survey made

by J.J. Krebs and Sons, Surveyors, dated May 13, 1972, said lots are desig‐ nated as LOT NOS. 1 & 2 of Square 1385. Said Lot Nos. 1 and 2 adjoin each other and measure each thirty-one feet, eleven inches, five lines (31', 11"5" ' front on Franklin Avenue, with a combined measurement of sixtythree feet, eleven inches, two lines (63'11"2"', front on Franklin Avenue, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of one hun‐ dred four feet, ten inches, two line (104',10", 2" ' ) said Lot No. 1 form‐ ing the corner of Law Street and Franklin Av‐ enue. All as per survey of dl i

Public Notices Successions p y Mandle Surveying, Inc., dated November 22, 1988, and as shown on a sur‐ vey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated May 13,1972, lots 1 & 2, measure 64' 11", 2 ", title (actual 63'11'2") .

The Improvements thereon bear the munici‐ pal no. 2534 Franklin Av‐ enue, New Orleans, LA 70117. Being the same property acquired by Jenevieve McCall Brown,

by Judgment of Posses‐ sion, dated 09/24/2012, and registered in CIN 519135 of the official records of Orleans Parish, Louisiana.

An order authorizing the Executrix to sell the property may be issued after seven (7) days from the date of the publica‐ tion of this notice. An op‐ position to the applica‐ tion may be filed at any time prior to the is‐ suance of such an order or within seven days of the last publication. By attorney Michael Wins‐ berg, LSBA 19444, 829 Baronne Street, New Or‐ leans, LA 70113 (504) 5819322.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Department of Conservation and Energy Office of Permitting and Compliance DOCKET NO. ENV 2026-01

Notice is hereby given that the Secretary of Conservation and Energy will conduct a hearing at 6:00 p.m., Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at the Grand Isle Multiplex Building, located at 3101 LA Hwy 1, Grand Isle, Louisiana.

NOCP 8837 172101-dec 29-31-jan 7-3t $277.70 PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF TRES MARINE CORPORA‐ TION AS OWNER OF THE VESSEL M/V MITCHELL C AND GULF LOGISTICS OPERATING, INC. AS OP‐ ERATOR FOR EXONERA‐ TION FROM OR LIMITA‐ TION OF LIABILITY CIVIL ACTION NO.: 252366 SECTION: “T” (1) NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS OF COMPLAINT FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY NOTICE is given that Pe‐ titioners TRES MARINE CORPORATION as owner of the M/V MITCHELL C and GULF LOGISTICS OP‐ ERATING, INC., as Opera‐ tor, filed a Complaint pursuant to 46 U.S.C. §30501, et seq. claiming the right to exoneration from or limitation of lia‐ bility for all claims for loss, damage, death, in‐ jury or destruction al‐ leged caused, arising out of, or resulting from the events that occurred on or about September 29, 2024 wherein Steve Tomeny, Inc., Southern Pride Charters, L.L.C. and M/V Louisiana allege damages and loss of business revenue result‐ ing from an allision be‐ tween the M/V Louisiana and the M/V Mitchell C in Camanada Pass.

All persons, firms, cor‐ porations or other legal entities asserting claims with respect to which the Complaint seeks limita‐ tion and/or exoneration are advised to file their respective claims under oath with the Clerk of Court at the United States District Court‐ house for the Eastern District of Louisiana, 500 Poydras Street, Room C151, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130, and to serve on the attorney for Complainant, Alan J. Meche, Allen & Gooch, 2000 Kaliste Saloom Road, Suite 400, Lafayette, Louisiana 70508, a copy thereof, on or before the 30th day of April, 2026, or be de‐ faulted. Personal atten‐ dance is not required.

At such hearing, the Secretary, or his designated representative, will hear testimony relative to the application of Crescent Midstream, LLC, 263 Trinity Ln, Gray, Louisiana 70359. The applicant requests approval from the Department of Conservation and Energy to construct and operate a commercial class II injection well disposal facility for disposal of exploration & production waste (E&P Waste) fluids located in Section 32, Township 21 South, Range 25 East in Jefferson Parish.

The application is available for inspection by contacting Mr. Christopher Delmar, Department of Conservation and Energy, Office of Permitting and Compliance, Eighth Floor of the LaSalle Office Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Copies of the application will be available for review at the Jefferson Parish Courthouse building and the Jefferson Parish Public Library located at 143 Ludwig Ln. Grand Isle, Louisiana, no later than 30 days prior to the hearing date.

Verbal information may be received by calling Mr. Delmar at (225) 342-3019.

All interested persons will be afforded an opportunity to present data, views or arguments, orally or in writing, at said public hearing. Written comments which will not be presented at the hearing must be received no later than 4:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 27, 2026, at the Baton Rouge Office.

Comments should be directed to:

Department of Conservation and Energy Office of Permitting and Compliance P.O. Box 94396 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70804 Re: Docket No. ENV 2026-01 Commercial Facility Well Application Jefferson Parish

By order of: Gavin Broussard Director of Engineering Division Department of Conservation & Energy

Any claimant desiring to contest either the right of exoneration from or the right to limitation of liability shall file and serve an answer to the Complaint on or before the above date unless his claim has included an

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Chad Brown, of Plaquemine, resigned his job as state representative for Iberville and Assumption parishes after being named commissioner of the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control.

And former Rep. Troy Romero, who represented Jefferson Davis Parish and an eastern portion of Calcasieu Parish, left his seat earlier this month but has yet to announce what’s next.

Those seeking to replace the five former state legislators will compete in a Feb. 7 special election primary. A March 14 runoff is scheduled for any contests where no candidate secures a majority of the vote.

Qualifying closed Friday afternoon for the five races.

Here’s who is running:

said last week, while giving a tour of the partially completed building. “We had no idea when we said ‘yes’ to this building that we were going to get into a 20-year renovation situation.”

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Senate District 3 All five of the following candidates are running as Democrats: n Kenn Barnes, a personal injury and criminal defense attorney n Sidney J. Barthelemy II, construction firm owner and son of former New Orleans Mayor Sidney Barthelemy n Jon Johnson, former New Orleans City Council member and state senator n Chad Lauga, an electrician and former president of an electrical workers union chapter n Arthur A. Morrell, former criminal district court clerk and state representative.

House District 100 All six candidates are running as Democrats: n Patricia Boyd Robertson, business owner n Dana Henry, an attorney n Eric Jones, an education leader n Aeisha Kelly, political consultant n Kenya Rounds, an attorney n Candice Taylor, a New Orleans East resident who works in health care.

House District 97 All three candidates are running as Democrats: n David Edward Cook, a private investigator n Eugene Green III, property management consultant and the son of New Orleans City Council member Eugene Green II n Ed T. Murray, a personal injury attorney.

House District 60 n Brad Daigle, Republican, small-business owner and member of Greater Baton Rouge Port Commission n Chasity Verret Martinez, Democrat, Iberville Parish Council member n Raheem Pierce, Democrat, Iberville Parish Council member.

House District 37 n Reese “Skip” Broussard, Republican, smallbusiness owner and member of Jefferson Davis Parish Economic Development Commission n Coy G. Myers, Republican, who did not respond to a request for information n Ivy Woods, no party, former Jefferson Davis Parish sheriff.

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Storied history The Jerusalem Temple was built in 1918 for the Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, better known as the Shriners. Located a block from Harmony Circle, then known as Lee Circle, the 50,000-square-foot structure was designed in the Moorish Revival style by architect Emile Weil, whose other local landmarks include the Saenger Theatre, the Whitney Bank building and Touro Synagogue.

For decades, the imposing structure hosted Mardi Gras balls, concerts, vaudeville performances, even boxing matches and circus shows — complete with elephants thought to have been hoisted up two stories by a system of pulleys.

The Shriners vacated the temple in 1995, when they decamped to Destrehan.

They sold it to The Way Church a few years later.

But that church lost most of its congregation after Katrina, so their pastor sold it to Church of the King.

Founded in 1999 by Senior Pastor Steve Robinson, the rapidly growing Church of the King reaches 8,500 people every weekend from its 63-acre Mandeville headquarters and five satellite campuses, including one in Cape Town, South Africa.

Even as its footprint has

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Continued from page 1A their meeting. He repeatedly praised his counterpart as “brave.”

Trump and Zelenskyy both acknowledged thorny issues remain, including whether Russia can keep Ukrainian territory it controls, as well as security guarantees for Ukraine to ensure it’s not invaded again in the future.

After their discussion, they called a wide group of European leaders, including Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, and the leaders of Finland, France, Germany, the United Kingdom and Poland.

Zelenskyy said Trump had agreed to host European leaders again, possibly at the White House, sometime in January. Trump said the meeting could be in Washington or “someplace.”

Zelenskyy thanked Trump for his work. “Ukraine is ready for peace,” he said.

Trump said he’d follow the meeting with another call to Putin. Earlier Sunday, Putin’s foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov said the Trump-Putin call was initiated by the U.S. side and was “friendly, benevolent and businesslike.” Ushakov said Trump and Putin agreed to speak again “promptly” after Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy.

But Ushakov added that a “bold, responsible, political decision is needed from Kyiv” on the fiercely contested Donbas region in eastern Ukraine and other matters in dispute for there to be a “complete cessation” of hostilities.

Both leaders identified deciding the future of the Donbas region as a major stick-

grown, Church of the King’s leadership has always envisioned an Orleans Parish campus in its future.

New Orleans has been “long known to be a city of moral decay,” according to a promotional video for the St. Charles project, which described its location as “the crossroads where wealth and poverty collide.”

Thorough transformation Transforming the Jerusalem Temple into a 21st-century worship center has been complicated and fascinating, the project’s architect said recently.

To date, the project has involved picking up a neighboring shotgun house and moving it about 100 feet, replacing 108 windows and building an addition on the building’s rear to make space for elevators, a loading bay and HVAC equipment.

Part of the challenge was ensuring that the renovations passed the muster of historic preservation agencies that determine its eligibility to receive historic building tax credits.

ing point.

Trump said the parties were inching closer to agreement. “That’s a very tough issue but one that I think will get resolved,” he said.

Zelenskyy said: “Our attitude is very clear. That’s why President Trump said this is a very tough question and, of course, we have with Russia different positions on it.”

Trump said, however, that he still believes Putin is “very serious” about ending the war, even as Russia continued striking targets in Ukraine as Zelenskyy traveled to the U.S. Trump said, “I believe Ukraine has made some very strong attacks also.”

He held out the possibility that negotiations could still fall apart.

“In a few weeks, we will know one way or the other, I think,” Trump said. “We could have something where one item that you’re not thinking about is a big item, breaks it up. Look, it’s been a very difficult negotiation.

Very detailed.”

Trump and Zelenskyy’s sit-down underscored the apparent progress made by Trump’s top negotiators in recent weeks as the sides traded draft peace plans to end the fighting. Zelenskyy told reporters Friday that the 20-point draft proposal negotiators have discussed is “about 90% ready” — echoing a figure, and the optimism, that U.S. officials conveyed when Trump’s chief negotiators met with Zelenskyy in Berlin this month.

During the recent talks, the U.S. agreed to offer certain security guarantees to Ukraine similar to those offered to other members of NATO. The proposal came as Zelenskyy said he was prepared to drop his country’s bid to join the security alliance if Ukraine received

for rigging to raise and lower scenery and other theatrical elements. Its wooden floors have been replaced by concrete.

“Everything wood in that building has been attacked by termites over the years, so it wasn’t really practical to save much of that,” Kravet said.

The new penthouse will serve as a green room and guest services space, opening onto a balcony approved to hold 49 people atop an upgraded roof.

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“They were very particular about how we did that,” said architect Richard Kravet. “When you put an addition onto an existing building, they want to make sure you can tell the difference between the historic part and the nonhistoric part.”

Each level of the temple is being transformed to support the church’s services, starting with the basement.

Formerly the site of a boiler room, with a coal chute that opened up in the back walkway, the lowest level will become a space for teenfocused services and events while retaining a bit of the “warehouse look.”

The main entrance will feature four restored original copper doors. They lead past the elevator bays into a symmetrically arranged foyer with marble staircases on each side, flanked by 2-footwide wooden columns.

The ground floor will have space for services for elementary school-aged children, with room for toddlers on one side and a kitchen and cafe, intended to be open to the public, on the other.

In the main auditorium, which will seat 1,200, the old stage has been removed, revealing below it piles of basalt — igneous rock — that functioned as a form of sonic insulation, the project’s architect speculated.

“The original stage at that level was not original to the building,” Kravet said. “They came back at a later time and built the stage, so we sort of guessed that, at that time, they needed some acoustic properties to separate activity that was happening on that level from what was going on below.”

Kravet found the original architectural drawings for the building in the New Orleans Public Library’s archives, though one element did not show up on the floor plans — a projection booth.

Inside, its walls are inscribed with several handwritten reminders of who to call for spare parts when the “moving picture machine” breaks down.

The top floor formerly functioned as a fly loft where stagehands could drop ropes down between wooden slats

Recently, workers perched on scaffolding high above the main auditorium, removing lead-laden wallpaper from the ceiling of the building.

It’s one of the final steps before they begin the final buildout.

All the necessary permits from the city and tax credit approvals from the state have been secured. Because the church pledged it would not incur any debt to undertake the project, it still needs to raise the final $5 million.

Church leaders are optimistic the money will come through. Donors have already funded much of the project to date, including $13.3 million from Hobby Lobby founder David Green, and $7.5 million from former New Orleans Hornets owner George Shinn.

In the decades since taking on the project, it has become something of a labor of love, according to Craigshead, who is trusting in a higher power to see the renovation to its completion.

“Sometimes we tried to rush it, and we could tell we were rushing it,” he said.

“And in the fullness of time, God is allowing us to open this building.”

NATO-like protection that would be designed to safeguard it against future Russian attacks.

Zelenskyy also spoke on Christmas Day with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, Trump’s sonin-law. The Ukrainian leader said they discussed “certain substantive details” and cautioned “there is still work to be done on sensitive issues” and “the weeks ahead may also be intensive.”

The U.S. president has been working to end the war in Ukraine for much of his first year back in office, showing irritation with both Zelenskyy and Putin while publicly acknowledging the

difficulty of ending the conflict. Gone are the days when, as a candidate in 2024, he boasted that he could resolve the fighting in a day. Indeed, on Sunday, Trump referred multiple times to the complexity of the negotiations.

After hosting Zelenskyy at the White House in October, Trump demanded that both Russia and Ukraine halt fighting and “stop at the battle line,” implying that Moscow should be able to keep the territory it has seized from Ukraine.

Zelenskyy said last week that he would be willing to withdraw troops from Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland as part of a plan

to end the war, if Russia also pulls back and the area becomes a demilitarized zone monitored by international forces.

Putin has publicly said he wants all the areas in four key regions that have been captured by his forces, as well as the Crimean Peninsula, illegally annexed in 2014, to be recognized as Russian territory. He also has insisted that Ukraine withdraw from some areas in eastern Ukraine that Moscow’s forces haven’t captured. Kyiv has publicly rejected all those demands.

The Kremlin also wants Ukraine to abandon its bid to join NATO.

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Scaffolding fills the main room and theater area on Dec. 22 inside Church of the King on St. Charles Avenue in New Orleans as workers renovate the historic building.

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Aggressive lizards threaten native species And heat makes it worse, research shows

BY JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writer

Like many residents of warm climates, the brown lizards scurrying around New Orleans have a worse temper in extreme heat.

According to a new study from Tulane University researchers, these invasive brown anoles grow more aggressive toward their native green counterparts as temperatures rise. The research helps provide an explanation for why

the green lizards many New Orleanians remember from their childhood have seemed to become scarce recently.

The combative behavior of the brown lizards — such as pushups, changing colors and biting — makes life harder for the green lizards. In the face of a warming climate, the new research published in October in the Journal of Thermal Biology bodes poorly for the comparatively mild-mannered green lizards, the only anole native to North America.

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Sex offender housing lawsuit dismissed

“The invasive species will be at even more of an advantage as temperatures warm and might be more successful at displacing the native species,” said study co-author Alex Gunderson, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Tulane.

The brown lizards were also recently found to have the highest blood lead levels ever documented in a vertebrate, a discovery that came out of the same Tulane lab that researched the lizards’ aggression. While lead is

known to increase aggression in other animals and humans, it is unlikely that the lead is emboldening the brown lizards, Gunderson said.

“Lead doesn’t seem to affect them at all,” Gunderson said.

But what is affecting the brown lizards is hotter weather — and these conditions are imperiling the green lizards.

Over the course of three summers, Ph.D. student Julie Rej collected brown and green female anoles near the Tulane campus, then placed pairs of the two species in enclosures of varying temperatures, from mild spring weather to

the 100-degree conditions expected to become more common as the climate warms. The researchers selected only females for the experiment because both the brown and green female lizards exhibit more aggression toward the other species than their male counterparts, Rej noted.

At each tested temperature, the brown lizards were more aggressive than the green ones, and the difference in temper worsened with the temperature. Under the hottest conditions, the brown lizards expressed their most aggres-

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TWO PEAS IN A POD

Landlords, parish resolve dispute over ordinance

BY WILLIE SWETT

Staff writer

A federal judge in New Orleans has dismissed a lawsuit that two landlords filed against St. Tammany Parish government over a parish law that strictly regulates housing for registered sex offenders, after the parish and landlords indicated they had reached a settlement and “agreed to resolve this dispute amicably.”

Following the St. Tammany Parish Council’s April 2024 adoption of sweeping regulations of housing for registered sex offenders, landlords Abraham and Lorraine Williams sued the parish, arguing the requirements violated state law and the U.S. Constitution.

The regulations required annual fees, 24/7 on-site supervision and 6-foot fences for all housing where more than 15% of residents are registered sex offenders, along with a slew of other regulations.

Parish Council member Joe Impastato introduced the legislation in response to concerns about the number of registered sex offenders living in the Lacombe area, which is in his council district. The council passed it not long after the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office reported a deadly altercation involving a registered sex offender at a Lacombe laundromat.

U.S. District Judge Wendy B. Vitter of the Eastern District of Louisiana said in her “conditional dismissal” on Dec. 8 that the parish and landlords had indicated in an email they had reached the settlement, but that the case could be reopened if the settlement is “not consummated within a reasonable time.” Vitter had previously denied the landlords’ request for a temporary restraining order to prohibit enforcement of the ordinance.

Impastato said in an interview he could not provide all the details of the settlement, but he said that the Williamses had committed to getting out of the business of providing housing to registered sex offenders. No other information about the settlement was immediately available in the court records.

Abraham Williams declined to comment on Friday. His lawyer, Jim Holt, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Friday.

The ordinance, which the council amended in August to revise the permit fee structure among other changes, drew praise from some Lacombe residents when the council first considered it, but also concern from some people who identified as

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STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

Frannie, left, and Kiera O’Hara talk while their family watches the sunset over the Mississippi River at the Fly on Saturday. The sisters and their mother, Kallie O’Hara, are in New Orleans to visit her brother for Christmas.

Decaying historic home gets new chance Touro-Shakspeare Home in Algiers to become affordable housing

BY JONAH MEADOWS Staff writer

A 90-year-old, city-owned landmark that, for years, was a haven for graffiti artists, urban explorers and the homeless, is on its way to returning to its intended, and only legally permitted, use — a home for those in need.

The final stage of the $32 million project is scheduled to begin next month at the historic TouroShakspeare Home in Algiers, which is being converted to 52 apartments for low-income seniors.

With the help of a $6 million loan from the city of New Orleans, HRI Communities this fall completed 10 months of structural stabilization work to stave off further decay. In December, the developer secured the $26 million in financing to complete the renovation phase.

“Nothing was easy or obvious,” said Chris Clement, HRI’s senior vice president for development.

Built in 1933, the Touro-Shakspeare Home operated as a cityowned nursing home prior to Katrina but has been vacant and decaying ever since.

“The fact that this building

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The final stage of a $32 million project to convert the historic Touro-Shakspeare Home in Algiers to 52 apartments for low-income seniors is scheduled to begin next month. was still standing, given the condition that it was in, is really a testament to the nature of this construction,” Clement said on a recent visit.

Touro-Shakspeare’s origin traces back to before the Louisiana Purchase. Judah Touro, a Rhode Island businessman, moved to New Orleans in 1801 after his uncle rejected his request to marry his cousin.

Touro went on to become one of the nation’s most prominent Jewish philanthropists in the first half of the 19th century. When he died without an heir in 1854, he included in his will an $80,000 gift to build an “Alms House” in New Orleans for the “prevention of mendicity” — free housing for the elderly and others in need.

His will called for the almshouse to be operated “conjointly” with

the mayor, once operational.

Its first iteration was a Gothic castle-style structure on the site of what is now the “Rusty Rainbow” bridge to Crescent Park in Bywater. Near the end of the Civil War, it burned to the ground, after a fire broke out in a makeshift kitchen.

After the war, the almshouse’s

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Man dies in Marrero bus crash

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office is investigating a crash in Marrero that left a 22-year-old man dead.

Authorities had not re-

leased the name of the victim as of Sunday afternoon.

Sheriff’s Office deputies were dispatched about 1 a.m. Sunday to the intersection of Fourth Street and Saddler Road, where a small truck had collided with a bus at the in-

tersection, according to spokesperson Capt. Jason Rivarde. The driver of the truck was pronounced dead at the scene, Rivarde said.

Investigators said the man was driving west on Fourth Street when he hit

the bus. The Sheriff’s Office can’t yet say whether the man was impaired at the time of the crash.

Toxicology testing will be conducted by the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office.

No other information was immediately available.

Firefighters find man dead in home

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

Staff writer

New Orleans firefighters responding to a blaze Sunday morning in Gentilly discovered the body of a 41-year-old man inside the house, according to authorities.

The fire was reported just

before 7:16 a.m. at a residence in the 2300 block of Vienna Street, according to the New Orleans Fire Department. Crews dispatched to the scene arrived to find the single-story residence with flames visible from the left corner.

As some firefighters began attacking the blaze, others

entered the home to search for residents. They discovered the man inside a family room of the house.

The man was already dead by the time firefighters found him, according to the Fire Department. Authorities did not release his name, and no information was available about his cause of

death.

The New Orleans Police Department was called to the scene to assist Fire Department investigators. It took New Orleans firefighters about 30 minutes to bring the blaze under control.

The cause of the fire and the man’s cause of death are under investigation.

Woman booked in fatal January crash Arrest follows disturbance at airport car rental facility

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Eleven months after a Gretna grandfather died of injuries he suffered in a car crash, authorities arrested a Detroit woman wanted in the wreck after she was involved in a wild disturbance at the New Orleans airport rental car facility, Kenner police said.

Melissa Sapp, 40, was jailed Dec. 13 on negligent homicide, aggravated battery, unauthorized use of a motor vehicle and other counts.

She is accused of causing the Jan. 16 death of 83-yearold Joseph Burke, who, according to his obituary, was a retired master chief petty officer with the U.S. Navy and a grandfather of seven.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators say Sapp was behind the wheel of a Nissan SUV that was speeding westbound on Lapalco Boulevard in unincorporated Gretna on the morning of Jan. 7 when she ran a red light at Wall Boulevard.

Sapp crashed into a pickup truck being driven by Burke, said Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office. Both were taken to a hospital, where Burke died of his injuries nine days later.

After months of investigating, the Sheriff’s Office

obtained a negligent homicide warrant for Sapp, Veal said.

Sapp has ties to the New Orleans area but lives in Detroit, according to court records. She arrived at Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport on the afternoon of Dec. 13 and made her way to the rental car facility at 600 Rental Blvd., said Kenner police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick.

Sapp, who had paid to rent a car, got into the wrong vehicle, a 2025 Jeep Wrangler. An employee with the rental agency told her she wasn’t in the correct car, but Sapp refused to exit the Jeep and began screaming obscenities at the employee, McCormick said.

“She proceeds to start the vehicle and drive off, run-

ning over the employee’s right foot,” McCormick said.

Sapp sped through the parking garage, forcing other customers to run out of fear, police said. She was stopped at the garage exit by a spiked security barricade, according to McCormick.

Sapp resisted officers who tried to take her into custody. Kenner police learned of the negligent homicide warrant from the Sheriff’s Office after she was detained, McCormick said.

Sapp was being held Sunday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna. Bail was set at $271,500.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate. com.

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Continued from page 1B sive behavior.

“As temperatures rise, it’s kind of unknown what’s going to happen to (the green anoles) because we know the brown anoles will have that competitive edge with becoming more aggressive,” said Rej, whose dissertation last year included the published study as a chapter.

Gunderson explained that aggression exists “on a scale,” including bobbing their bodies up and down in a kind of pushup, extending their throat fan with a flash of color and ultimately biting another lizard. All of these behaviors are like fighting words, signals to the green anoles that the brown lizards could take them out if they wanted.

“The idea is that by acting more aggressive, you essentially communicate, ‘I’m going to hurt you, I’m going to win, so just go somewhere else and let me have this space,’ ” Gunderson said.

‘Everyone’s daily life’ The brown anoles are already displacing the green

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remaining assets were transferred to the city with a provision restricting their use for any purpose other than Touro intended. With the help of revenue from reformist Mayor Joseph Shakspeare’s gambling tax and federal compensation for its pre-fire occupation, it reopened at the corner of Danneel Street and Nashville Avenue Uptown, operating there from 1883 to 1927.

Algiers years

Graffiti covers a courtyard at the former Touro-Shakspeare Home in New Orleans on Dec. 12.

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Senior Vice President of HRI Communities Christopher Clement stands in the old almshouse.

Graffiti covers the chapel. tial neighborhood, Mayor LaToya Cantrell administration issued an invitation to bid on its restoration in 2021. HRI was one of two developers to submit bids.

The other one pulled out, Almshouse to housing and HRI wound up with the Under growing pressure 99-year ground lease.

The project has been fifrom preservationists and Algiers homeowners weary nanced through a combinaof a rotting building beside tion of low-income housing a public park and residen- tax credits, tax-exempt bond

“As every year went by, my God, it was worse and worse,” Ruiz said. “Because of the city not securing the roof and not securing exterior windows.”

debt and a disaster recovery loan from the Louisiana Housing Corporation. The funding stack also includes a property tax abatement deal, federal and state historic tax credits and private financing.

When HRI first took responsibility for the property — at the time overgrown by nature and overrun by vagrants — the condition of the property was so bad, the firm couldn’t even find an insurance company willing to quote liability coverage.

“We have seen a lot of unstable properties, unsavory

the ordinance. After enforcement began, the Williamses, who at one time had four properties in Lacombe that exceeded the 15% threshold, asked Vitter to issue a temporary restraining order stopping enforcement of the ordinance, but she found they had not proven a substantial likelihood of success with their claims.

Vitter said the court retains jurisdiction to enforce the compromise agreed upon by the parties.

registered sex offenders and who said the housing had helped them transition after serving time in prison.

The number of registered sex offenders living in housing that fell under the requirements of the new ordinance dropped from 132 in March 2024 to 55 in September 2025, said Ross Liner, the parish’s director of planning and development.

Email Willie Swett at In September of this year, willie.swett@theadvocate. the parish began enforcing com.

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The current version, a three-story, 72,000-squarefoot structure, was designed by architect William Burk in the Jacobean Revival style with neoclassical elements.

It sits on more than 7.5 acres set back from General Meyer Avenue and is surrounded by oak trees and open green space.

For decades, it functioned as senior housing. Ahead of Hurricane Katrina, its 175 or so residents were evacuated. It has been vacant ever since.

In the years that followed, the building became one of many public eyesores in the city. A Mayor Ray Nagin administration effort to restore it went nowhere. In 2015, the Louisiana Landmarks Society listed it among the most endangered historic sites in the state, threatened by “demolition by neglect.”

“That’s when I started getting online and I’m coming across all these videos that people were breaking in there and exploring and stuff, and it just kept me going,” said Arthur Ruiz Jr., who grew up in the area and has advocated for the building’s preservation over the past decade. “It was like it was contagious.”

Ruiz, who contributed to efforts to secure landmark designation for the building, blamed city officials for allowing the building to fall into such disrepair.

He recalled a conversation with a Federal Emergency Management Agency official who said city officials weren’t interested in restoring the building and preferred it torn down.

ones, leading the native species to perch higher off the ground in areas where the brown lizards live.

These patterns might explain why the brown lizards are easier to spot in New Orleans backyards, sidewalks and parks, but it made collecting the green lizards more difficult for Rej. That is, until she found that they clustered in certain bushes in Audubon Park, which is where Rej ended up catching the majority of the green anoles.

“A lot of studies that we do as scientists are sort of out in the middle of nowhere and people don’t have a lot of context for them, but in this case, it’s something that’s just part of everyone’s daily life here,” Gunderson said.

The findings aligned with a broader pattern that invasive species perform better than their native counterparts in warming environments, Gunderson said.

The brown anoles are native to Cuba and the Bahamas and made their way to the region via boat traffic to Florida. The invasive species has been in New Orleans for at least 30 years.

properties,” Clement said.

“We’ve never had an insurance company come out here and say, ‘Not even for all the money in the world, we can’t write you a policy.’ ” During the past two decades, the structure suffered pervasive water intrusion that rotted away any remaining wood elements, collapsed the roof and rusted out a majority of the steel trusses supporting its concrete floor.

So much of the building had collapsed that workers could not separate the rubble from the asbestos.

“So we had to dispose of all

of the debris as asbestos, just to be safe,” Clement said.

Despite the extensive damage from years of neglect, decorative details and key elements of the building’s original design remain, now set to take on new uses when HRI’s renovation is complete.

Originally divided for different genders, it features a pair of symmetrical enclosed courtyards featuring ornamental fountains and stone grotesques along its balconies.

Its centerpiece is a nondenominational chapel — whose stained glass windows were mysteriously removed but whose plaster roof has been partially restored — set to take on a new life as a community room.

Once completed, its onebedroom apartments will be reserved for residents aged 62 and older who earn no more than 50% of the area median income, or about $36,000 for a two-person household.

Though Touro-Shakspeare was built as a municipal building for the indigent and infirm, experts say its designer always intended for it to be as aesthetically pleasing as a private home — an architectural legacy that continues into its next incarnation.

“When you walk around, you can see where actual artisans touched every piece of this building,” Clement said. “It was by no means an afterthought; it was there to provide a good place where people would be proud to live.”

Email Jonah Meadows at jonah.meadows@ theadvocate.com.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Chancey, Jo Anne Edwards, Burmadine Kass, Mark Milton, Delilah Young, Joseph

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her father Clayton Louis Perreault, and her beloved mother-in-law, Vesta Shotts Chancey.

A memorial service will be held on January 24, 2026 at Parkway Presbyterian Church at 11:00 a.m. In lieu of flowers, please consider making donations to the Alzheimer's Association, Parkway Presbyterian Church, or the American Heart Association.

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Obituaries Chancey, Jo Anne Perreault

Jo Anne Perreault Chancey, 82, passed away peacefully on December 11, 2025 in Metairie, Louisiana. Jo Anne cherished her lifelong Charleston friends, her "J" friends, her Presbyterian Church friends, and her Bissonet and tennis-playing friends. She also enjoyed her book club, investment club, being a docent at the New Orleans Museum of Art, and playing bridge at the Bridge Center. She was a passionate bridge player, tennis player, and gardener, and loved hosting parties and luncheons of all kinds at her home.

Jo Anne was born in Daytona Beach, Florida, grew up in Charleston, South Carolina, and has lived in Metairie since 1967. She was honored to have served as an elder at Parkway Presbyterian Church and to serve on the PTA Boards at J.Q. Adams Middle School and Grace King High School. She is a retired optician and former owner of TCBY in Metairie.

Jo Anne is survived by her husband of 58 years, Bill Chancey; her children Jill Chancey and Clayton Chancey; her sister Patricia Perreault Burba (Ed Burba), her sisters-inlaw Brenda Chancey Wilson (Guy Wilson) and Marie Chancey Berner; her god-child and niece Kathy Burba; her cousins Gabriella Grayson, Richard Perreault, and Douglas Perreault, and many beloved nieces and nephews.

She is predeceased by her mother Doris Swanson Perreault,

Mrs. Burmadine S. Ed‐ wards passed away on De‐ cember 14, 2025, at the age of 87. She is survived by six children, Clarence (Michell), Barry (Louise), Gerald (Kim) Holley, Ange‐ line (Tyrone) Edwards, An‐ thony and Tammy Hall (Trell), thirty-seven grand‐ children, forty-six greatgrandchildren, eleven great-great grandchildren, and one brother Roosevel Smith. She is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Preceded in death by her parents Eddie and Mattie Smith, one son Glen W. Holley, one daugh‐ ter Rosetta Hall, and seven siblings. Family and friends are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Service on Tuesday, December 30, 2025, for 11:00 a.m. at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126. Vis‐ itation will begin at 10:00 Pastor Sherman a.m.

Smith, officiating. Inter‐ ment will follow at Provi‐ dence Memorial Park Cemetery, 8200 Airline Drive, Metairie, LA 7003.

Guestbook Online: www. anewtraditionbegins.com (504)282-0600.

Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Di‐ rectors.

Jerran Davis, and Sofia and Emma Ramirez. He is also survived by his father Calvin Kass and sisters Mary Jo Clement (Rusty) and Jean Kass, his nieces, many cousins and good friends that he considered family. Mark was preceded in death by his son Rome and his loving mother, Mamie Kass. Mark was self-employed in the truck‐ ing industry and worked many years in the oilfields of Texas. He had a deep passion for the work and a strong respect for the grit, determination, and hard work of the people in the industry. Along the way, he formed many close friend‐ ships with people he con‐ sidered family. He was also part owner of his family’s construction business, Kass Bros., Inc. Mark had a warm heart, generous spirit and strong faith in Christ. He will be remem‐ bered for his larger than life personality, his sense of humor, and his ability to connect with people that cannot be explained. He was often the life of the party and never met a stranger. Mark had the gift of gab from an early age and he never tired of hav‐ ing conservations about any topic. He would often call family members and friends multiple times a day just to say hello. His daily phone calls will be missed by many. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 begin‐ ning at 10:00 am until 1:30 pm at Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Harvey, Louisiana. A funeral mass will be celebrated in the fu‐ neral home chapel at 1:30 pm. Interment at Westlawn Cemetery in Gretna, imme‐ diately following mass.

Family and friends may view and sign the online guest book at www.mot hefunerals.com.

Milton, Delilah Ann

are her sons Melvin Ferdinand, Kimmie Ferdinand, and James Hollins III, her brothers Kimmie Milton and Cornell Batiste and a host of nieces, nephews, grandkids, great grandkids other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her father William Milton, her mother Celestine Brown and her brother Alton Batiste.

Family and Friends of the family are all invited to her Celebration of Life service on Tuesday, December 30, 2025 at Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church, 2100 St. Roch Ave. Visitation will begin at 10:00AM, with service to follow at 11:00AM. Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Young, Joseph Edward

Joseph Edward Young passed away in the early morning hours of Decem‐ ber 18, 2025, at the age of 99, at his home in New Or‐ leans. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Johnston Young, Sr., and Edith Roth Young; by his wife, Genevieve Curott Young, and his daughter, Peggy Young Condon; by his brother James Young, II (Josephine Ramoneda), and his sisters, Imelda Young Kuntz (Thornton) and Edith “Bessie” Young Kinler (Harold). He is sur‐ vived by his son, Christo‐ pher Joseph Young (Susan), and daughter, Linda Louise Young; by seven grandchildren, Patrick Condon, Colin

cis Schulte. He was also a leader in the local chapter of AARP. Joe lived a long and fruitful life and loved attending family gather‐ ings through the years. His family would like to ex‐ press heartfelt gratitude to both his and Genevieve’s many loving nieces and nephews who have ex‐ pressed their fondness for “Mighty Joe Young.” A fu‐ neral mass will be held at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church on Satur‐ day, January 10, 2026, at 11:00 am, with family visi‐ tation at 9:00 am and gen‐ eral visitation at 9:30 am.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Joe’s memory to St. Francis of Assisi Church, 631 State St., New Orleans, LA 70115.

We also invite you to share your thoughts, fond memo‐ ries, and condolences on‐ line at www.greenwoodfh. com. Your shared memo‐ ries will help us celebrate Joseph’s life and keep his memory alive.

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Kass, Mark Anthony

Mark Anthony Kass, passed away unexpectedly on December 21, 2025, while working/traveling through the state of Texas, his second home. Born on December 15, 1966, in Mar‐ rero, Louisiana, Mark re‐ cently celebrated his 59th birthday with his family. He is survived by his son Paris, and his daughters London and Milan Kass, his grandchildren Julian and

Young (Diana Kim), Mary Caitlin Young, Sarah Clin‐ genpeel (Jim Miller), and Zachary Clingenpeel; by step-grandchildren Joshua Clingenpeel (Jisun Yang) and Hannah Clingenpeel (Jake Neupert); and by many nieces and nephews.

Joe was born in 1926 in New Orleans and grew up in Our Lady of Good Coun‐ sel Parish. The youngest of four, he was known as “Joe Buddy” to his older sisters and brother who helped raise him. He attended Good Counsel elementary school, where he served as a dependable altar boy who happened to live across the street from the back of the church and was “called” on often to serve. He graduated from Jesuit High School in 1943 and was awarded a Bache‐ lor of Business Administra‐ tion from Tulane University in 1947. He was an enthusi‐ astic athlete all his life and played football for Coaches Gernon Brown at Jesuit and Monk Simons at Tulane. He continued to play sports through his adult years, which no doubt contributed to his long life. After graduation he worked for L&N Railroad and Gulf Oil Corp., where he met his future wife, Genny, prior to enlisting in the U.S. Marines. He was stationed at Camp Pendle‐ ton in southern California with a company of Marines from New Orleans. After a medical discharge he came home to marry Genny and start a family. He held po‐ sitions locally with Ford and Volkswagen and was a long-time employee of First NBC, later Chase Bank, before retirement.

He and Genny raised three children in St. Francis of Assisi Parish where they were both very active as Scout leaders, and where he later served as an usher, helped count weekly collections, and participated in the Senior Adult Ministries. He was awarded the Order of St. Louis by Archbishop Fran‐

Delilah Ann Milton (affectionately known as Mama D) was born February 26th, 1952 to the late William Milton and Celestine Brown in New Orleans, LA. She transitioned peacefully from this earthly home to the heavenly mansion on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.

Delilah was baptized in Greater Ebenezer Baptist Church and served on the usher board for over 3 decades. She lived most of her life on Banks Street. At a very early age, Delilah perfected the art of cooking and loved sharing her food and feeding those in need. She would often say "when the LORD gets ready, you got to move."

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Immigration raids are no way to repay hard workers

Illegal immigrants chose this fate for themselves and their children The article on Dec. 13 titled “Student absences jump during sweeps” omits what is always omitted when liberals talk about illegal immigration, namely the word illegal.

The article points out correctly the anguish and anxiety felt by illegal immigrant families during the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the New Orleans metro area. While most people are sympathetic and empathetic, we should remember that these parents did it to themselves — that is, rather than enter the U.S. through a legal port of entry, following the legal process, they chose to shortcut the process and enter illegally, bypassing the U.S. law. They chose to be illegal immigrants. Their choice limits my sympathy and empathy.

In addition, a thinking person will realize that all these illegal immigrant students place a huge extra burden on the public education system. They require additional teachers, classroom and building facilities, janitorial staff, breakfast and lunch meals, books and related materials, laptop computers, etc. — all paid for by the taxes of the U.S. citizens and the legal immigrants of our community. (I am a retired teacher myself, and therefore very familiar with the burdens placed on the education system and its teachers.)

The U.S. has immigration laws and processes for a reason — all countries of the world do so. We want legal immigrants. We need legal immigrants. But millions of illegal immigrants place a huge burden on our country and its laws. It is no wonder that so many U.S. citizens resent the imposition of the burden these millions of illegal immigrants cause. Even though most of them are probably fine folks who merely want a better life than is available in their home country, they choose the life of a criminal when they shortcut the system and sneak into the U.S. They, and we all, should not forget that they did this to themselves.

JIM STEPHENS Slidell

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As we witness Border Patrol raids/arrests and profiling people who are Latino, let us remember who came to New Orleans’ rescue after Katrina.

It was about a third government, a third nonprofits and a third Latino workers. They all came to New Orleans to rebuild roofs, kill the mold and collect the trash. We owe these people our everlasting gratitude, not fear. Seventy percent of the people arrested have no criminal record. That is the real crime.

VANCE LEVESQUE New Orleans

Take the political detox challenge Our nation is currently politically hyperpolarized, threatening the continuing internal peace of our democracy.

This has been caused in large part by partisan news and social media bubbles that each portray the other side not as “wellintentioned but mistaken” but as “knowingly evil.”

This mutual demonization is false, toxic and dangerous. It is false because there are relatively few actual Marxists on the left and relatively few actual fascists on the right.

It is toxic because this hatred is dissolving the social connections that bind our society together, including families and friendships.

It is dangerous because demonization leads to violence, including possibly worst-case scenarios of civil war or even genocide.

We need to realize again that reasonable, informed, decent people can profoundly disagree on most moral, political or religious questions. Thus, we can agree to disagree peacefully and respectfully.

If you think “the other side” is “evil” because they disagree with you, you are trapped in a political bubble. If so, try the “Political Detox Challenge.”

Turn off the news. Get off social media. Go outside in the sun and fresh air. Engage in your favorite nonpolitical activities. Spend time with friends and family talking about anything but politics. Call out your own side if they demonize. If you discuss politics with someone who disagrees, don’t judge or persuade. Just listen to understand. Show humility and grace toward them: Realize you might be mistaken, then empathize with them and find shared, common values. You can even read self-help books or get counseling if you need help ending your absolutist, all-or-nothing, us-versus-them thinking.

In short, to restore the health of our democracy, don’t choose left or right; instead, choose humanity over hate.

RICK SWANSON retiring political science professor, UL Lafayette

Keeping momentum at Michoud is key The “space race” is heating up, with growing debate over how the U.S. should build and maintain a durable advantage in space.

Within this conversation, it is essential to recognize a major asset located in New Orleans East: the Michoud Assembly Facility.

Michoud is one of the country’s most sophisticated manufacturing campuses. It is where the Saturn V rockets were built, where the Space Shuttle External Tank was produced and where NASA and its partners assemble key components of the Space STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRETT DUKE Launch System, the backbone of America’s next era of space exploration. Congress reaf- People tour NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility firmed this work through the One Big Beauti- in New Orleans. ful Bill Act, securing missions through Artemis V and retaining the SLS as a pillar of America’s return to the Moon and beyond. ties and a highly-trained workforce, MAF is For greater New Orleans, the “space uniquely positioned to support NASA’s fustakes” couldn’t be higher. Michoud supture and the fast-growing commercial space ports thousands of jobs, generates hundreds sector. Michoud is open for business and ready to write America’s next chapter of inof millions of dollars in economic activity and anchors an ecosystem in aerospace, novation, provided we commit to its current composites and advanced manufacturing. mission and long-term potential.

Continued investment at Michoud diversiAmerica’s future in space and advanced manufacturing relies on assets like Michoud. fies our economy, creates high-skill careers To remain competitive, the next NASA adfor residents and strengthens the nation’s industrial base — when increasing domestic ministrator must support centers like MAF, production is vital. invest in their growth and ensure they reLooking ahead, Michoud represents an main cornerstones of national capability and unmatched industrial opportunity. With over regional opportunity.

800 acres of development area, deepwater MICHAEL HECHT access, world-class manufacturing capabilipresident and CEO, Greater New Orleans, Inc.

Trump’s words and actions don’t line up While President Donald Trump’s masked shock troops are sweeping hardworking members of our community off the streets, roofs and workplaces in and around New Orleans, take a minute to reflect on the estimated 1,800 criminals Trump, also a felon,

has granted clemency and pardons this year.

This includes his most recent, the Honduran ex-president convicted of trafficking drugs into the U.S. The hypocrisy is mind-bending.

JEFF ANDERSON New Orleans

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LSU head coach Brian Kelly listens to a question in the post-game news conference on Oct. 25.

LSU learned nothing from Brian Kelly breakup Hard to see how LSU has learned a lesson from the Brian Kelly fiasco.

We guaranteed 80% of this new contract — even more than for Kelly.

There is no offset for salary earned at his new school. Kelly is required to look and has an offset.

We are paying whatever bonus he would have gotten from the school he left days away from a berth in the CFP. And, like the mistress who convinces the cheater to leave, we will be shocked when he does that to us for whatever suitor comes along in the future.

Hopefully, we can get into the playoffs and maybe win a championship before the inevitable ugly divorce.

CHRIS MORTON Slidell

We can’t afford to extend ACA subsidies There have been several articles and letters recently about the extension or lapsing of Obamacare/ACA subsidies, but no mention was made of the immense cost of the program to American taxpayers.

If cost were not considered, I, and everyone else, would be in favor of such benefits. However, such programs are not being paid by today’s taxpayers, but the cost is being kicked down the road to future generations, as the U.S. spends about 35% more each year than its revenues, creating massive deficits and adding to the massive federal debt.

If today’s taxpayers were asked, or forced, to pay for the Obamacare subsidy extension out of their own pockets, they would overwhelmingly refuse. It’s easy to let some unknown taxpayers pay the bill in years to come.

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COMMENTARY For 2026, predicting a new senator, an empty-handed governor and more I’m long since done with school, but I still think of the end of the year as report card time. It’s when I brew a big pot of coffee, summon the courage to look back at my previous yearend column and see how much I got right, and wrong.

Bottom line: I Stephanie didn’t exactly ace Grace the test, but I didn’t flunk either.

I was correct that U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson, R-Benton, would manage to hold on to the House speaker’s gavel throughout 2025 — for want of a viable alternative, if nothing else — and also that shepherding the GOP’s narrowest of majorities wouldn’t be much fun.

I didn’t quite nail the specifics, though. I predicted that Johnson would be forced to work with Democrats to get anything done, and that President Donald Trump wouldn’t always have his back.

Turns out that the House managed to pass the few significant measures it passed along party lines, and that he and Trump remain thick as thieves.

That doesn’t mean Johnson ends 2025 in good shape though, as his loyalty to the man from Mar-a-Lago is starting to create cracks in the House’s fragile GOP wall. For 2026, I predict Johnson will still hold the speakership — again, who else? — but that he’ll preside over a legislative mess, a slew of departures from frustrated members and a Democratic blowout at the polls come November.

I was wrong about the fate of another Louisiana member of Congress, Garret Graves of Baton Rouge, who lost his seat to redistricting but looked like he might be headed for the Trump administration as head of FEMA. Maybe it was just wishful thinking on my part, a hope that Trump might actually surround himself with at least a few subject matter experts rather than performative sycophants. My bad.

I also figured that U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy would emerge as one of the most interesting politicians to watch in Washington, although I probably underestimated just how Shakespearean his 2025 trajectory would be.

Having risen to chair the Senate committee that oversees health and other matters, the Baton Rouge gastroenterologist’s first and defining move was to support Trump’s nomination of noted conspiracy theorist Robert F. Ken-

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Republican members of Congress reach to shake hands with Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, center bottom, after Johnson signed President Donald Trump’s bill of tax breaks and spending cuts, on July 3 at the Capitol in Washington.

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Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, attends a hearing in October.

nedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

Despite Kennedy’s promise to Cassidy that he wouldn’t undermine the vaccine protocols that the senator understands to be lifesaving, Kennedy has thumbed his nose at him and the entire medical establishment and done just that.

Meanwhile, Cassidy showed his desperation to get reelected with every awkward embrace of Trump, hoping to erase the memory of his principled 2021 vote to convict the president in his second impeachment. It hasn’t worked, and Cassidy continues to take heat from those still angry over that and also those who were counting on him to remain

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Mayor-elect Helena Moreno speaks during the inauguration celebration news conference in New Orleans on Dec. 12. a bulwark against the president’s voluminous transgressions. And a new party primary system debuts in 2026, which will force Cassidy to face not just a Republican primary but a likely party runoff against one of the many MAGA candidates already campaigning against him.

I don’t see how he can survive that, even with the help of unaffiliated voters who might be angry that he’s now caving but still figure he’s better than any of the alternatives. So I’m predicting that Louisiana will have a new incoming Republican senator this time next year.

On the local front, it wasn’t

much of a stretch to predict that, with Mayor LaToya Cantrell under federal investigation (and as of August, indictment) and visibly checked out, New Orleans voters would look to put the “strong” back into the strong mayor system.

They did just that, choosing Helena Moreno’s competencebased campaign over several opponents’ plays to make the race about identity politics. Now Moreno has to deliver more — and more quickly — than even she’d imagined before we all learned about the devastating budget deficit she’ll face when she’s sworn in on Jan. 12.

So will New Orleans be turning a corner a year from now?

Judging by how Moreno’s team is already tackling the difficult tasks ahead and her strong relationships with those who can help, including in Baton Rouge, I’m going to predict a “yes.”

I’m not sure I can say that about the city just up the Mississippi River, though. A year ago, Baton Rouge voters chose a newcomer as mayor, but in 2025, Sid Edwards couldn’t win voter support for the big tax proposal that would have helped the city fiscally weather the secession of St. George. Edwards is an experienced coach, but unlike Moreno’s,

his team still has a lot of on-thejob training to do.

I also predicted last December that Gov. Jeff Landry, who demonstrated in his first year that he likes to move fast and break things, would slow down.

Well, sort of. His big 2025 initiative, four hastily written constitutional amendments that would have revamped state tax and budget laws, among other things, went down to humiliating defeat at the hands of voters. A rejection that decisive has ramifications, including the loss of a governor’s ability to bend legislators to his will, so look for less gubernatorial strong-arming when the Legislature meets this spring.

But Landry in 2025 continued to go big in areas where he didn’t need legislative buy-in, an approach that mirrors Trump’s — and that has caused just about as much controversy. Just to name two examples: Landry’s public interference with LSU’s coaching and athletic management raised eyebrows throughout college sports, and his reversal of major, long-planned river diversions threw the state’s longstanding, bipartisan commitment to coastal restorations into question.

And as the year closed, the governor was bizarrely setting his sights abroad as Trump’s newly announced “special envoy” to Greenland, with a mission, as the governor put it, to “make Greenland a part of the U.S.” Never mind that Landry has no diplomatic background or skills, that the people of Greenland have no interest in being annexed and that Denmark has no interest in ceding it.

So let’s call this the easiest 2026 prediction of all: That Landry will return to Trump empty-handed.

Beyond that, I’d add a word of caution for the governor, who has already sunk to 39% approval in one recent poll. Louisiana votes reliably Republican these days, but that doesn’t mean voters won’t turn on a Republican leader who spends so much time trying to play on the national (let alone international) stage that he neglects the state.

Just ask Bobby Jindal, who remains in the political doghouse a decade after he left office. If Landry gets too taken with being part of the Trump administration — even on a “volunteer” basis — he might just join his predecessor there in 2026.

Email Stephanie Grace at sgrace@theadvocate.com.

We have reached the Emily Litella moment on climate change some anodyne comment and had It’s been a cold winter so far been propounding an absurd in the Midwest and much of the theory, and dismissed it with a Northeast, early-in-the-season hurried, “Never mind.” snow even in Washington, D.C., Playing the Litella role this and temperatures falling to freezOctober was Bill Gates, who, as ing and below in much of the a mega-philanthropist, South. Come to think of it, makes serious efforts to North America’s 2024-25 gauge whether the causes winter was pretty cold, too. to which he has contribIt’s gotten to the point that “polar vortex” is a phrase uted have been worth the on just about everyone’s money. Although “climate lips. change will have seriMichael ous consequences,” he Of course, you are surely Barone said, using the two-word aware — as those of us with doubts about ineviphrase that replaced global warming as it was becomtably disastrous global warming were often told — that there’s a ing apparent that Earth wasn’t difference between weather and uniformly warming in line with climate. Weather is anecdote, clipredictions, “it will not lead to mate is a longstanding trend. And humanity’s demise. People will the longstanding trend in climate, be able to live and thrive in most we have been told this entire past places on Earth for the foreseequarter-century, is toward a hotable future.”

Numbered also among the conter climate all over the world, with multiple catastrophic conse- verts — the use of religious metaquences. phor is not accidental; more beNow, we seem to have reached low — is Breakthrough Institute an Emily Litella moment — the research director Ted Nordhaus. moment when, on the now half“I used to argue that if the world century-old “Saturday Night kept burning fossil fuels at curLive” program, the befuddled rent rates, catastrophe was virtucharacter realized that she had ally assured,” he wrote this fall misheard and misinterpreted in The Free Press. “I no longer

believe this hyperbole.”

He pointed out that the demographic and physical factors on which he based his predictions two decades ago have not come to pass, and that despite measurable warming, some of which is attributable to human activity, people have adapted, and any damage has been well short of catastrophic.

Meanwhile, the undermining of hyperbolic scenarios has, as Wall Street Journal economics reporter Greg Ip wrote recently, led the likes of Canadian Prime Minister (and former British central banker) Mark Carney and BlackRock DEO Larry Fink to downplay the risks of climate change, as most American voters have done some time ago.

In all this, I see elements of religious conversion. Advocates of drastic action to address global warming climate change tend to be secular in religion but religious in their devotion to their cause. We have sinned, with our SUVs and corporate jets frying the Earth; we must atone by reducing our (or others’) standards of living; we must faithfully perform daily rituals, adjusting our

thermostats and sorting our trash for recycling.

For many Americans of a certain age, any change in the climate they remember from the summer when they were 16 is a change for the worse, just like any change from the playlist of songs they remember from that glorious summer.

But my impression is that those musical offerings are, like the baby boomer generation, getting scarcer, and certainly the demand in the political marketplace for restoration of that golden summer’s weather climate seems to have grown weaker too.

This is operating within a larger cultural trend, an increasing skepticism of science and scientists. Earlier this month, as a Wall Street Journal editorial was among the few to emblazon, the journal Nature retracted a study that projected climate change could lead to a 62% economic decline by 2100. You can almost hear Litella saying, “Never mind.”

Such shoddiness seems amusing, at least until you consider the “replication crisis” in which scientists have been unable to

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And then there was the effort, successful during the COVID-19 crisis, by National Institutes of Health official Dr. Anthony Fauci, to suppress the now generally accepted theory that the virus spread because of a leak from the lab in Wuhan, China, whose gainof-function research, deliberately strengthening viruses, was subsidized despite a ban by former President Barack Obama in 2014.

So, the public’s skepticism of science and scientists is not surprising, though it’s surely having some unfortunate effects. People can see that expert recommendations, pushed by teachers unions, to close schools despite children’s negligible COVID-19 risk have resulted in long-lasting learning loss. And they are seeing one prominent preacher after another of environmental doom from climate change suddenly saying, like Litella, “Never mind.”

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Additionally, a Gale Warning is in effect until 3 p.m. and a Small Craft Advisory is in effect for the lakes, sounds and coastal areas all day. Low humidity, strong northerly winds and dry conditions are creating a fire danger as well. Expect a sunny, windy and chilly day with temperatures in the low 50s. North Shore wind chills in teens Tuesday morning.

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It’s indisputable.

Undeniable.

Tyler Shough is the next Offensive Rookie of the Year award winner for the New Orleans Saints.

He still has one game to play in what has fast become the best rookie season by Jeff a quarterback in franDuncan chise history, but the league might as well alert the engraver. The competition is all but over after Shough’s spectacular performance Sunday against the Tennessee Titans.

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NASHVILLE,Tenn.— Tyler Shough smiled when asked whether he thought about his last year in college during Sunday’s game against the Tennessee Titans. How could the rookie not?

It was only last fall when Shough and the Louisville Cardinals got into a shootout with Cam Ward and the Miami Hurricanes. On that day, Ward dazzled. Shough tried to keep pace, and while his performance was more than respectable, Ward came away with the win and made his case for why he deserved to be the first overall

pick in the 2025 draft.

So there Shough was again Sunday, watching as Ward spun his way out of trouble and made passes only a few could make. The Saints quarterback again found his way into a track meet.

But this time, it was Shough who couldn’t be stopped.

Shough threw for 333 yards and rallied the Saints to a 34-26 win over the Titans. The Saints trailed by 10 points at halftime, but Shough carved up Tennessee (3-13) through the air and the New Orleans defense settled into a rhythm.

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In leading the Saints to their fourth consecutive victory with a stirring 333-yard, two-touchdown effort, Shough upstaged Cam Ward — his more heralded and decorated rookie classmate — and stamped himself as the clear favorite to earn the prestigious award when it is presented at the NFL Honors show February in San Francisco.

The victory was the third dramatic come-from-behind win authored by Shough in the last month and improved his record as a starter to an impressive 5-3.

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Bowl loss brings relief, promise of better days HOUSTON — In the end, there was relief.

Hurt? Yes. Frustration? Yes. But the 2025 season is now, mercifully, over. A 7-6 season that cost Brian Kelly his job but not his millions, that cost athletic director Scott Woodward his authority but not his millions, that Scott a fair chunk of Rabalais held the college football world in suspense before Lane Kiffin finally signed on to be LSU’s coach, is history.

If Ole Miss would do the reasonable thing and lose Thursday to Georgia in the Sugar Bowl, ending the obligation of a cross section of Kiffin’s LSU staff to coach the Rebels in the College Football Playoff, then this Lane Train truly could start flying down the tracks.

Kiffin popped by Saturday night to watch from the sideline and do a couple of second-quarter

cameos on ESPN and the LSU radio network as the Tigers lost to hometown Houston 38-35 in the Texas Bowl at NRG Stadium.

He witnessed LSU giving a better accounting of itself than what was expected of the Tigers, who scored north of 25 points against an FBS opponent for the first time in the entire ever-loving season.

It still wasn’t enough against the Cougars. Blame the opt outs.

Blame injuries. Blame the transfer portal. Blame the million little flaws that have cropped up to kneecap LSU throughout a season that began with high hopes but ended with an overwhelming desire to …

Just. Move. On. Saturday couldn’t have started better for the Tigers, who bolted to a 14-0 lead thanks to Barion Brown’s game-opening, 99-yard kickoff return touchdown — the first time LSU ever started a bowl game with one of those. The Tigers got a stop, then Michael Van

Buren found tight end Trey’Dez Green on a 23-yard touchdown pass for a 14-0 lead.

The favorite was stunned but not knocked out. LSU was faster with players like Brown. LSU was more talented with players like Green, who put a helpless defensive back on his waist like he was a rebound-swiping power forward on a 4-yard touchdown catch midway through the third quarter that tied the Texas Bowl 21-21.

But LSU couldn’t keep pace.

A defense that glued the Tigers together most of the season was down six starters Saturday. Their absence was like a levee breach.

Houston quarterback Conner Weigman, last seen against LSU getting benched in 2024 at Texas A&M in favor of Marcel Reed, skillfully found the weaknesses in the Tigers’ armor. He completed 75% of his passes for 236 yards and Houston’s first four

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What’s next for LSU football?

Major roster overhaul likely, but some familiar faces could stay

BY WILSON ALEXANDER

HOUSTON — Lane Kiffin stood near the sideline at the beginning of the Texas Bowl and watched his new team for a little while. He spoke to former Texas quarterback Vince Young and former LSU receiver Malik Nabers while he was down there, waved to fans, then went upstairs for a couple of broadcast interviews before leaving NRG Stadium.

The next time LSU plays, Kiffin will be the coach for the 2026 season opener against Clemson.

The last thing that needed to happen before the Kiffin era began was the Texas Bowl on Saturday night, a 38-35 loss to No. 21 Houston. LSU finished 7-6 for its third season in the past six years with less than eight wins.

LSU hired Kiffin because it believes he can win a championship, but a lot of work needs to be done to get there. Kiffin already has crossed off a major checklist item by assembling his coaching staff, and they are preparing for the transfer portal to open from Jan. 2-16. Let’s look ahead to what comes next for LSU.

SEMMERING, Austria — After dominating the first four World Cup slaloms this season, Mikaela Shiffrin has only just managed to keep her winning streak intact ahead of the 2026 Olympics.

Not that Sunday’s night slalom in Austria, the final event of the calendar year, could make the American ski star particularly happy.

Shiffrin came from behind in the first run to edge out world champion Camille Rast of Switzerland, but then slammed race conditions on the Panorama course, saying “it was not safe to ski,” she told Austrian TV. Mild weather affected the course and organizers attempted to harden its surface by injecting water and salt , but the surface broke on an increasing number of spots during the afternoon run.

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A ‘big emphasis’ STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU offensive tackle Solomon Thomas, right, celebrates a first-down run with running back Harlem Berry during the Texas Bowl on Saturday in Houston. shirt sophomore Paul Mubenga and redshirt freshman Ory Williams planning to transfer, at least six of LSU’s 15 scholarship offensive linemen will enter the transfer portal.

It’s not surprising amid a coaching change for a position group that struggled so much to go through this kind of upheaval.

Missed evaluations and a lack of development piled up over the past few years, and the offensive line needs a dramatic reset.

But the number of departures means Kiffin and his staff will need to sign several starters and add playable depth. That’s a lot in one offseason.

Better defensive depth

In a recent interview with The Advocate, Baker said one of the things LSU has to do going into next season is “close that gap between our starters and our backups.” His point about the depth was evident in the Texas Bowl, O-line turnover when LSU played without six deAt this rate, Moore might be the fensive starters.

Houston controlled the clock, only starting offensive lineman who’s back next year. With red- ran for 201 yards and completed

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“That was a big blow to our football team,” LSU interim coach Frank Wilson said. “It’s not an excuse. It’s the reality of where we are.”

The Tigers were penalized nine times for 95 yards to Houston’s four times for 29 yards. That included a weak pass interference flag on LSU corner Ja’Keem Jackson. Wilson erupted — perhaps with the full force of the season’s frustration fueling his emotions — drawing a rare unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on a head coach. That set up a 7-yard Weigman to Tanner Koziol touchdown pass with 0:04 left before halftime.

“I was willing to fight for a win,” Wilson said.

The will was there for LSU on Saturday night, and all season, but the flesh was weak. From beginning to end, the Tigers were never the team we thought they would be. There is something

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco star tight end George Kittle missed the 49ers’ key game for playoff positioning on Sunday night against the Chicago Bears with an ankle injury.

Kittle missed the full week of practice after getting hurt Monday night in a win against Indianapolis and was unable to go in a game the 49ers (11-4) needed to win to have any chance at winning the division title.

San Francisco did get receiver Ricky Pearsall back after he missed last week’s game with a knee injury.

Kittle is a key part of both the run and pass game for the 49ers.

The Niners’ running game has improved since Kittle returned after missing five games early this season with a hamstring injury.

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During a midgame interview on LSU radio, Kiffin said the staff has a “big emphasis on keeping Whit Weeks. That’s a big priority for us.” Weeks, a junior linebacker and captain, has been training away from the team since the end of the regular season, but he was on the sideline for the Texas Bowl in sweats.

Weeks played in only eight games this season as he dealt with an ankle injury, and he was ejected for targeting early in one of them. It was not the year he expected to have, but he has done enough during his career to potentially get picked on Day 2 of the NFL draft if he leaves now. There was some internal confidence that LSU could keep Weeks after defensive coordinator Blake Baker returned. But at this point, his future is unclear.

Only two other draft-eligible starters, redshirt junior center Braelin Moore and redshirt sophomore safety Tamarcus Cooley, have yet to announce their plans for next season. They both played in the Texas Bowl, and it would likely help their draft stock to return.

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noble about their fight, but moral victories don’t win bowl games or advance you in the College Football Playoff.

“I’m proud of our football team,” Wilson said. “Proud that they competed to the best of their ability.”

Wilson spoke before the game about how these Tigers would have a bond that would carry through their lives. But someone is breaking up that old team of theirs. Wilson is part of the wholesale trade of coaches and front office personnel going on between LSU and Ole Miss — 19 at latest count. He’s set to become the running backs coach of the Rebels after the CFP, while Kevin Smith leaves Ole Miss to coach that position in Baton Rouge.

Hard feelings will simmer all offseason until the Tigers and Rebels play Sept. 19 in Oxford, in what has to be the most anticipated LSU-Ole Miss game since Billy Cannon roamed Baton Rouge. The rivalry is going all Spinal Tap (“This one goes to 11”) again.

For now, the focus shifts to recruiting and the transfer por-

75% of its passes. LSU couldn’t get off the field on third down or make stops in the red zone, two areas that had been a strength.

It didn’t get enough pressure on quarterback Conner Weigman, even with Baker’s exotic blitz packages, and the backup linebackers struggled.

The Texas Bowl exposed the flaw, but it might not have changed much about the offseason plan. LSU already knew that was a problem. It still needs to find three or four defensive linemen, at least one linebacker and a safety in the transfer portal.

Offensive rebuild Sophomore quarterback Michael Van Buren reiterated after the bowl game that he wants to stay on the team. He said he has talked to Kiffin and the new staff, but while he wants to return, it’s not definitive yet. LSU is preparing to go after multiple transfer quarterbacks, including a highlevel starter, and that could affect Van Buren’s future.

In four games as the starter, Van Buren completed 61% of

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LSU—Ba.Brown 99 kickoff return (Ramos kick), 14:46.

LSU—T.Green 23 pass from Van Buren (Ramos kick), 10:48.

HOU—A.Thomas 8 pass from Weigman (Sanchez kick), 6:08.

Second Quarter

HOU—A.Thomas 4 pass from Weigman (Sanchez kick), 11:05.

HOU—Koziol 7 pass from Weigman (Sanchez kick), :04.

Third Quarter

LSU—T.Green 4 pass from Van Buren (Ramos kick), 9:31.

HOU—Frederick 2 pass from Weigman (Sanchez kick), 4:42.

Fourth Quarter

LSU—K.Parker 6 pass from Van Buren (Ramos kick), 14:54.

HOU—FG Sanchez 25, 7:42.

HOU—Connors 20 run (Sanchez kick), 2:23.

LSU—Z.Thomas 3 run (Ramos kick), 1:15.

tal. Kiffin bemoaned the state of college football with the wild transfer portal about to officially open on Friday for two weeks.

Two weeks that will shape the team he has to work with next season.

“I tell our coaches and fans, you’ve got to get used to being uncomfortable,” Kiffin said during the game.

Good advice, but the expectation is that Kiffin will find a way to make the whole thing work to

his passes for 786 yards with six touchdowns and two interceptions. He also ran 33 times for 105 yards with sacks included. He’s the only scholarship quarterback who might return.

“I’m going to sit back and see what happens,” Van Buren said.

“Baton Rouge is where I want to be.”

LSU also has to rebuild the running back room and find proven wide receivers. Though others could emerge, only redshirt sophomore Kyle Parker looks ready to contribute. It wouldn’t hurt to sign another established tight end to complement Trey’Dez Green, though that may not be a priority.

At running back, LSU needs to keep freshman Harlem Berry.

He may be the only active player at the position who comes back, depending on sophomore Caden Durham.

Berry finished his freshman year with 491 yards rushing and two touchdowns on 104 carries.

He also caught eight passes for 32 yards. He showed a lot of potential, though he needs to work on ball security.

First downs Total Net Yards Rushes-yards Passing Punt Returns Kickoff Returns Interceptions Ret. Comp-Att-Int Sacked-Yards Lost Punts Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards Time of Possession

LSU 17 344 24-77 267 2-10 4-151 0-0 17-27-0 4-24 3-42.333 1-1 9-95 22:39

INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS

HOU 30 437 46-201 236 0-0 1-21 0-0 28-37-0 0-0 3-39.667 0-0 4-29 37:17

RUSHING—LSU, Berry 3-45, Van Buren 11-24, Z.Thomas 2-4, Johnson 3-4, Durham 5-0.

Houston, Connors 16-126, Weigman 13-56, Butler 8-21, Carlisle 2-6, Sneed 2-3, (Team) 3-(minus 3), A.Thomas 2-(minus 8).

PASSING—LSU, Van Buren 17-27-0-267.

Houston, Weigman 28-37-0-236.

RECEIVING—LSU, Parker 7-68, T.Green 4-80, Hilton 3-67, Ba.Brown 2-37, Z.Thomas 1-15.

Houston, Koziol 9-76, A.Thomas 8-66, Connors 3-12, K.Young 2-32, Sneed 2-28, Frederick 2-3, Broussard 1-12, Butler 1-7.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—LSU, Ramos 44.

LSU’s advantage. A bowl game few, if any, were eager to see the Tigers play in clears the deck for the question everyone has had since Kiffin arrived: How much can he win in 2026, and can it be enough to get LSU into the CFP? For the Tigers, there is relief that is the only thing to focus on now.

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Nick Kyrgios won the latest version of the “Battle of the Sexes” in tennis, beating top-ranked women’s player Aryna Sabalenka 6-3, 6-3 in an exhibition match that represented light entertainment rather than another landmark moment for gender equality.

There was laughing and joking between the players, some underarm serves and over-the-top grunting on shots.

Kyrgios, the 2022 Wimbledon runner-up, faced the disadvantage of Sabalenka’s side of the court being nearly 10% smaller in an attempt to level the playing field.

Kyrgios was drenched in sweat by the time he clinched victory off his third match point and the pair were all smiles at the net.

Marlins finalize $13M, 1-year deal with reliever

MIAMI — The Miami Marlins finalized a $13 million, one-year deal with right-handed reliever Pete Fairbanks on Sunday.

He gets a $1 million signing bonus, a $12 million salary and the chance to earn $1 million in performance bonuses for appearances.

The 32-year-old made a careerhigh 61 appearances with Tampa Bay last season, going 4-5 with a 2.83 ERA. He set a career high with 27 saves in 32 opportunities, while giving up seven home runs and 45 hits in 60 1⁄3 innings.

Fairbanks also finished last season ranked third among American League relievers in games finished (48) and seventh in saves.

He spent the past seven seasons with the Rays and went 20-22 with a 2.98 ERA.

Reliever Harvey agrees to 1-year contract with Cubs

CHICAGO — Right-handed reliever Hunter Harvey agreed to a oneyear contract with the Chicago Cubs, a person familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Saturday.

The addition of Harvey is the latest move in a bullpen makeover for the Cubs, who have added Phil Maton, Hoby Milner and Jacob Webb and re-signed Caleb Thielbar.

The 31-year-old Harvey was slowed by injuries last season with the Kansas City Royals. He pitched in 12 games and was 1-0 with 11 strikeouts in 10 2⁄3 shutout innings.

The 22nd overall pick in the 2013 draft by Baltimore, Harvey is 1011 with a 3.11 ERA in 182 games with 201 career strikeouts in 185 innings with the Orioles, Washington Nationals and Kansas City.

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LSU women romp to victory in final nonconference game Tigers thump Alabama State, hit 100 points for 11th time this season

BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU guard Rashad King keeps his dribble while working against Prairie View guard Tai’Reon Joseph in the first half of their game on Dec. 22 at the PMAC. King had a season-high 13 points in the game.

LSU men hope ‘X factor’ is beginning to emerge

BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer

Dedan Thomas and Marquel Sutton gave the same answer when they were separated briefly at the Southeastern Conference media day in Birmingham, Alabama, earlier this year.

The LSU starters, 21 days before the season opener, both called Rashad King the team’s “X factor.”

“I feel like he’s gonna surprise a lot of people,” Thomas said. “He can just score the ball in so many ways, and he’s very physical when he has the ball. He’s a big, strong guard, and he can guard the ball really well. Just a dog.”

King proved why his teammates believe he can be a crucial factor in the team’s success in LSU’s 10490 win against Prairie View last Monday. The Northeastern transfer had a season-high 13 points and three blocks, making 5 of 9 field goals and 2 of 5 3-pointers in 20 minutes.

The Tigers (11-1) want him to build off of that performance in their final nonconference game against Southern Miss at 7 p.m.

Monday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

LSU coach Matt McMahon raved before the season about how King was among the top shooters in drills during the offseason. Although his 26.7% 3-point shooting this year doesn’t reflect proficiency, King’s talent and size (6-foot-6, 217 pounds) are vital as LSU tries to reach the NCAA Tournament, McMahon said.

“Rashad is a really important player for us,” McMahon said.

“We know what’s coming when we get to SEC play. I was really excited to see him take a step forward, and I’ve been challenging him

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to quit looking at the offensive numbers. We need him on the defensive side. He gets three block shots (last Monday). I thought he was really physical on that end of the floor.

“We were plus-15 when he was in the game, and so hopefully he’ll take some confidence from this as we move forward.”

Before his season-best game, King had one double-digit scoring performance (11 points against Drake) and had played at least 20 minutes in just three contests.

He’s averaging 4.8 points on 35.8% shooting from the field in 15.3 minutes per game.

King arrived at LSU after being the second-leading scorer in the Coastal Athletic Association, averaging 18.5 points along with 6.1 rebounds and shooting 44.9% overall. Adjusting to a different role as a supplementary scorer off of the bench is something the LSU coaching staff understands takes time.

Against Prairie View, King picked his spots well and made shots without dribbling much. He had a pair of floaters, including one coming after a cut. The standstill 3-pointers he hit contributed to LSU’s 3-point success, as it was 7 of 19.

McMahon likes seeing the shots fall, but he doesn’t want King to fixate on it since he can be effective without scoring. Just as much as McMahon and the rest of the team believe in King’s scoring chops, they know his defensive intensity is essential.

“Rashad is a spark,” Sutton said.

“He’s a really good player, and he can do a lot of things for us.”

The LSU women’s basketball team took a weeklong break between its past two games, but it didn’t return on Sunday with any rust to knock off.

Instead, the No. 5 Tigers (140) routed Alabama State 109-41 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center, punctuating their most dominant nonconference slate of the past five seasons with yet another lopsided victory. LSU has now hit the century mark 11 times this year and earned six wins of at least 60 points.

No other Division I team has more than six 100-point showings or four 60-point victories.

“This team, they’re fun to be around,” coach Kim Mulkey said.

“They’re fun to coach. We know what we face (in) the second part of our season, and there are gonna be some tough times, but the joy for those young ladies — it’s not just winning.”

The Hornets lost their hopes of playing a competitive game in the first quarter. All 10 of LSU’s active players saw the floor in PHOTO By PATRICK DENNIS the first 10 minutes of action, and nine of them scored, which LSU forward ZaKiyah Johnson goes up for a jump shot as Alabama allowed the Tigers to bring a 28-6 State’s Caylee Simpson defends on Sunday at the PMAC. Johnson lead into the second quarter. scored 17 points off the bench in the win.

The only suspense that lingered into the last three quarters was the question of whether that whatever the season throws LSU is still undefeated in DeLSU would hit the century mark at us, everybody’s able to step up cember under Mulkey. Because when they need to.” again. they beat Alabama State on The Tigers missed 11 of the Sunday, the Tigers improved to Its frontcourt helped it get there. Freshman forward Za- 13 3-pointers they tried, but 66-2 in the nonconference games because they they’ve played across the past Kiyah Johnson converted 34 of five seasons. No other Division returned to the their 57 layup I team has more nonconference floor after sitthey wins across that stretch. Their ting out the pre“I feel like everybody on attempts, still shot an only losses came to Florida Gulf vious game and this team can hoop.” efficient 52% Coast in 2021 and Colorado in tallied 17 points. from the field 2023.

She entered off LSU FORWARD KATE KOVAL and finished LSU can now turn its attention the bench behind with 74 paint to SEC play. Its first game is a Amiya Joyner and points. home matchup with No. 11 KenKate Koval — the A l a b a m a tucky that will tip off at 7 p.m. pair of transfer post players who combined to State, on the other hand, hit only Thursday. score 42 points and grab 16 re- 29% of its shots. Each of LSU’s The Tigers did not play a ranked past three opponents — and sev- team in their first 14 games, but bounds.

Koval tallied a career-high 23 en of its 14 — have now convert- they will in January, February points and 11 rebounds to post ed less than 30% of its field-goal and March. Eight of their 16 SEC matchups are against opponents her fourth double-double of the attempts. season. Joyner added a season“Every team has a different ranked in the latest edition of the high 19 points, five boards and personality,” Mulkey said. “They AP Top 25 poll.

LSU won at least 12 league two steals. South Carolina trans- just do. Because new pieces fer guard MiLaysia Fulwiley come in every year, and it’s my games in each of Mulkey’s first four seasons in Baton Rouge. A scored only five points, but she job to figure it out.

“And I haven’t had to figure similar number of wins would assisted a career-high 11 shots anything out with this team. Be- likely give the Tigers a top-four and forced eight turnovers.

Freshman guard Bella Hines cause they just figure it out for NCAA Tournament seed for the fifth year in a row. also chipped in 13 points on themselves.”

With the nonconference slate in 5-of-9 shooting to pair with five Freshman forward Grace Knox rebounds and a career-high five scored a career-high 25 points in the rearview, LSU can now begin steals.

LSU’s previous win, but she was collecting the wins it can use to “I feel like everybody on this not with the team on Sunday. attain that status. team can hoop,” Koval said. “Ev- Mulkey said her absence was erybody can step up and have a planned and that she’ll rejoin the Email Reed Darcey at reed. night, so I feel like it just shows Tigers on Monday. darcey@theadvocate.com.

Pelicans’ glass cleaning far from spotless during lost weekend

BY ROD WALKER

Staff writer

Late in the first quarter Saturday night, the New Orleans Pelicans stood around and watched the Phoenix Suns snatch four offensive rebounds on one possession.

It was that type of game — well, actually two games — for the Pelicans, who lost to the Suns on backto-back nights in the Smoothie King Center.

The offensive rebounds told the story, especially in the first half.

Phoenix grabbed 12 offensive rebounds in the first half Friday and 18 in the first half Saturday.

“Just get the damn ball,” wing Trey Murphy said. “That’s it.

There is no real practice for it.

Just get the ball. Simple as that.”

The Pelicans got better in the second half both nights. Phoenix had six offensive rebounds in the second half Friday and four in the second half Saturday. But it’s still a disturbing trend to get beat on the boards so often to start the game.

“In that first half, they killed us,” forward Zion Williamson said. “When you look at the end of the game, those are the small nuances that affect the game. Last game (Friday), it was free throws (25 of 42). This game it was offensive boards.

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sure, we definitely need to fix it.”

Pelicans interim coach James Borrego said the team will have to take more of a rebound-bycommittee approach to improve in that area.

“Defensive rebounding has been an issue for us since (Jonas) Valanciunas left,” Borrego said.

“Bottom line. We lost that presence, that size, that physicality on the boards. Little by little, we’ve been trying to chip away the defensive rebounding. This isn’t a new phenomenon. The boards have been an issue for us all year.

It was an issue for us last year.

“There’s got to be physical presence to this thing. It takes five guys. We don’t have one guy that’s going to go gobble up every rebound. We don’t have that guy.

It’s going to have to be a collective effort.”

The Pelicans (8-25) are on a three-game losing streak. Prior to this slide, they had won five games in a row and seemed to be turning things around.

“We’re not happy at all,” Murphy said. “Obviously, we didn’t feel like the winning was a fluke.

And we don’t feel like this losing streak is us, either. So we have to get back on track.”

It starts on the glass.

“It’s hard to win in the NBA. If we want to win, we have to be better at those things. We have to do the small things as well.”

Williamson knows the Pelicans can be better at rebounding.

“It was definitely an effort thing,” he said. “We didn’t put a lot of effort there. They outhustled us.”

The Suns’ offensive rebounding led to 30 second-chance points Saturday.

The Pelicans can’t waste any time resolving the issue. They host the New York Knicks on Monday night at Smoothie King Center. The Knicks are the fourth-best offensive rebounding team in the league, averaging 14.1 per game.

They are led in that category by Mitchell Robinson. The Chalmette High alum averages a league-best 4.7 offensive rebounds per game, and he had eight in a victory over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Christmas Day. “We better (fix it) or it’s going to be even worse with him coming to town,” Murphy said of Robinson. “Especially with him playing back in his hometown. He’ll probably be even more energetic and Email Rod Walker at rwalker@ ready to rebound the ball. So for theadvocate.com.

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Pelicans forward Zion Williamson, right, scores against the Phoenix Suns on Friday at the Smoothie King Center.

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SAINTS 34, TITANS 26

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SAINTS NOTEBOOK

New Orleans 34, Tennessee 26 New Orleans 0 10 10 14 — 34 Tennessee 6 14 3 3 — 26 First Quarter Ten—FG Slye 50, 9:10. Drive: 4 plays, 3 yards, 1:34. Tennessee 3, New Orleans 0.

Ten—FG Slye 38, 4:31. Drive: 7 plays, 47 yards, 3:05. Key Play: C.Ward 38 pass to Dike on 3rd-and-2. Tennessee 6, New Orleans 0.

Second Quarter Ten—Okonkwo 43 pass from C.Ward (Slye kick), 12:57. Drive: 7 plays, 64 yards, 4:09. Key Plays: Mullings 4 run on 3rd-and-1; C.Ward 4 pass to Dike on 3rd-and-6. Tennessee 13, New Orleans 0.

NO—FG Smyth 56, 5:53. Drive: 13 plays, 44 yards, 7:04. Key Plays: Pettis kick return to New Orleans 18; Shough 4 pass to Olave on 3rd-and-3; Estime 4 run on 3rd-and-2; Shough 16 pass to Olave. Tennessee 13, New Orleans 3.

NO—C.Young 33 fumble return (Smyth kick), 3:51. Tennessee 13, New Orleans 10.

Ten—Ayomanor 7 pass from C.Ward (Slye kick), :16. Drive: 10 plays, 80 yards, 3:38. Key Plays: C.Ward 11 pass to Jefferson; C.Ward 4 pass to Ayomanor on 3rd-and-2. Tennessee 20, New Orleans 10.

Third Quarter NO—Olave 19 pass from Shough (Smyth kick), 10:39. Drive: 10 plays, 74 yards, 4:26.

Key Plays: Pettis kick return to New Orleans 26; Shough 7 pass to Olave on 3rd-and-4; Shough 30 pass to Johnson. Tennessee 20, New Orleans 17.

Ten—FG Slye 28, 7:20. Drive: 7 plays, 55 yards, 3:14. Key Plays: Pollard 25 run; C.Ward 34 pass to Kinsey. Tennessee 23, New Orleans 17.

NO—FG Smyth 57, 1:51. Drive: 9 plays, 27 yards, 5:29. Key Plays: Pettis kick return to New Orleans 34; Shough 18 pass to Pettis.

Tennessee 23, New Orleans 20.

Fourth Quarter Ten—FG Slye 58, 12:50. Drive: 11 plays, 25 yards, 4:01. Key Play: C.Ward 12 pass to Ayomanor on 3rd-and-9. Tennessee 26, New Orleans 20.

NO—Austin 10 pass from Shough (Smyth kick), 6:26. Drive: 4 plays, 80 yards, 2:23.

Key Plays: Estime 12 run; Shough 60 pass to Olave. New Orleans 27, Tennessee 26.

NO—Estime 32 run (Smyth kick), 3:54. Drive: 4 plays, 64 yards, 1:10. Key Play: Shough 23 pass to Johnson on 3rd-and-1. New Orleans 34, Tennessee 26.

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NO Ten FIRST DOWNS 16 18 Rushing 5 5 Passing 11 12 Penalty 0 1 THIRD DOWN EFF 5-11 5-15 FOURTH DOWN EFF 0-0 2-3 TOTAL NET YARDS 423 336 Total Plays 52 72 Avg Gain 8.1 4.7 NET YARDS RUSHING 103 108 Rushes 23 28 Avg per rush 4.478 3.857 NET YARDS PASSING 320 228 Sacked-Yds lost 2-13 4-23 Gross-Yds passing 333 251 Completed-Att. 22-27 21-40 Had Intercepted 0 0 Yards-Pass Play 11.034 5.182 KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB 7-6-6 7-3-2 PUNTS-Avg. 3-32.0 3-50.333 Punts blocked 0 0 FGs-PATs blocked 0-0 0-0 TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE 148 40 Punt Returns 2-22 1-7 Kickoff Returns 5-126 1-33 Interceptions 0-0 0-0 PENALTIES-Yds 6-84 4-35 FUMBLES-Lost 2-1 2-1 TIME OF POSSESSION 28:19 31:41 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—New Orleans, Estime 14-94, Shough 4-6, Hull 2-3, Hill 3-0. Tennessee, Pollard 18-85, C.Ward 2-10, Dike 1-7, Mullings 1-4, Spears 6-2.

PASSING—New Orleans, Shough 22-27-0-333.

Tennessee, C.Ward 21-40-0-251.

RECEIVING—New Orleans, Olave 8-119, Johnson 4-95, Austin 4-52, Pettis 3-53, Matavao 2-10, Estime 1-4. Tennessee, Dike 4-55, Ayomanor 4-37, Okonkwo 3-55, Jefferson 3-46, Pollard 2-10, Kinsey 1-34, Martin-Robinson 1-9, Proche 1-5, Helm 1-1, Spears 1-(minus 1).

PUNT RETURNS—New Orleans, Pettis 2-22.

Tennessee, Dike 1-7.

KICKOFF RETURNS—New Orleans, Pettis 4-97, Hull 1-29. Tennessee, Dike 1-33.

TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS—New Orleans, Taylor 7-2-0, McKinstry 4-2-0, Stutsman 3-30, Werner 3-2-0, C.Young 3-1-1.5, Riley 3-1-0, Sanker 3-0-0, Jordan 2-3-1, Williams 2-1-1, Bullard 2-1-0, Ridgeway 2-1-0, Shepherd 2-1-0, Reid 1-1-0, D.Davis 0-6-.5, Godchaux 0-2-0, Granderson 0-1-0, Rumph 0-1-0. Tennessee, Gray 9-3-0, Simmons 4-3-1, Baker 4-1-0, Brooks 4-1-0, Hall 4-0-0, Harrell 3-1-.5, Elam 2-0-0, Hooker 2-0-0, Sweat 1-3-0, Barton 1-2-0, Key 1-1-0, Lynch 0-1-.5, Jones 0-1-0, Joseph-Day 0-1-0, J.Ward 0-1-0.

INTERCEPTIONS—New Orleans, None. Tennessee, None.

MISSED FIELD GOALS—New Orleans, Smyth 43.

OFFICIALS—Referee Adrian Hill, Ump Roy Ellison, HL Derick Bowers, LJ Julian Mapp, FJ Tra Boger, SJ Clay Reynard, BJ Greg Steed, Replay Bob Hubbell.

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Tennessee Titans interim coach Mike McCoy greets New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis after Sunday’s game in Nashville, Tenn.

Davis sets new mark, then injured

BY LUKE JOHNSON AND MATTHEW PARAS Staff writers

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Demario Davis, 36, has a new career high in tackles as he’s now up to 137 on the year.

But it remains to be seen whether he can add to that number before the season is over.

The Saints linebacker suffered a calf injury Sunday, sitting out most of the final drive of the game. He was replaced by rookie Danny Stutsman, exiting the field with 1:37 left.

“I know he wasn’t (voted) in the Pro Bowl, but he’s a Pro Bowl linebacker each and every year,” coach Kellen Moore said. “He remains a special player.”

The Saints close the season with a Week 18 matchup in Atlanta against the Falcons.

Moore said Davis, who had six tackles against the Titans, did not go into the injury tent because of how late it occurred in the game.

“The communication did kind of have to adjust there,” Moore said.

“We did bang a timeout just to settle everything down there and make sure everything was good to go after one play once we made that transition.”

Austin’s moment AP PHOTO By GEORGE WALKER IV

Saints wide receiver Chris Olave runs with the ball against Tennessee Titans cornerback Kaiir Elam in the first half Sunday in Nashville, Tenn.

The Saints won 34-26.

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Continued from page 1C The end result provided the Saints (6-10) their sixth victory — one more than last season. In Kellen Moore’s first year, his team has won four straight and with each performance increasingly has solidified the idea that the franchise has found its quarterback of the future.

“What everyone just watched was two quarterbacks who are probably going to be big-time quarterbacks in our league for a really long time,” Moore said.

“We’re fortunate to have Tyler.”

To say the Saints were left impressed with Ward is an understatement. Though his box score of 251 yards on 21-of-40 passing with two touchdowns might not suggest a strong outing, New Orleans realized how tough it was to bring the 23-year-old down. The Saints sacked Ward four times, but it could have been much higher if not for the magicianlike way Ward

With the game on the line in the fourth quarter, Kevin Austin knew the ball was going to come his way — a sentence that would have been wild to imagine at several points of this season.

Austin, the wide receiver who has been released by the New Orleans Saints three times this year

escaped at the last second. Chase Young even compared Ward to Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs superstar known for doing the same thing.

As good as Ward was, Shough was even better. The second-round draft pick missed just five passes (22 of 27), good for a career-high completion percentage of 81.5%.

Every time New Orleans needed a response, Shough delivered.

And the Saints needed that response often. Much of the team’s play in the first half was not to its standards, Moore and several others said. The Saints committed the type of mistakes that led them to a 1-8 record to start the year.

Pick a phase of football and the Saints botched it. There was a 17yard shanked punt, followed by a 43-yard field goal miss. There was a 43-yard touchdown on a broken tackle that Kool-Aid McKinstry likely won’t want to rewatch, and then the 50-yard pass interference penalty that set up another easy touchdown at the end of the first half.

But throughout the year, and es-

highs in receptions (four) and receiving yards (52), giving New Orleans another viable receiving option outside of Chris Olave and Juwan Johnson.

“I just stay positive through everything,” Austin said. “Whether I’m playing that week or I’m not playing that week, I study the same, I work out the same, I keep the same mindset every week so that when I hear my name called, I’m ready.”

and spent most of his career on practice squads, hauled in the goahead touchdown late in a 34-26 win against the Tennessee Titans.

The play was the result of a check that rookie quarterback Tyler Shough made at the line of scrimmage when he noticed the leverage of Tennessee’s coverage structure.

“Once he saw that, I knew it was coming to me,” Austin said.

Austin stemmed his route toward the boundary to get in proper position, then snapped it off toward the pylon in the front corner of the end zone. Shough delivered the pass over defensive back Kemon Hall‘s head, and Austin hauled it in to give the Saints a 27-26 lead with 6:22 to play.

For someone who finished his college career with Notre Dame in 2021 and has spent the ensuing four seasons scrapping for a roster spot, he picked a good time to make his first NFL touchdown catch.

“I’m just excited to be out there doing the best I can to help us win,” Austin said.

Injuries and roster attrition have thrust Austin into his current role in the offense. He began the year on the practice squad, making a brief appearance on the active roster when Devaughn Vele missed time with an injury. Even after the Saints traded Rashid Shaheed and released Brandin Cooks, he had to bide his time.

But an injury to Vele that landed him on injured reserve opened a door, and Austin has been making the most of his shot.

In addition to his first career touchdown, Austin set career

Demario Davis, 36, has a new career high in tackles as he’s now up to 137 on the year.

But it remains to be seen whether he can add to that number before the season is over.

The Saints linebacker suffered a calf injury Sunday, sitting out most of the final drive of the game. He was replaced by rookie Danny Stutsman, exiting the field with 1:37 left.

“I know he wasn’t (voted) in the Pro Bowl, but he’s a Pro Bowl linebacker each and every year,” coach Kellen Moore said. “He remains a special player.”

The Saints close the season with a Week 18 matchup in Atlanta against the Falcons.

Moore said Davis, who had six tackles against the Titans, did not go into the injury tent because of how late it occurred in the game.

“The communication did kind of have to adjust there,” Moore said.

“We did bang a timeout just to settle everything down there and make sure everything was good to go after one play once we made that transition.”

pecially during this winning streak, the Saints have shown they’re willing to fight. New Orleans’ first big punch landed in the second quarter when Young climbed over Ward’s back, stripped the ball right out of his hands and ran it back for a 33yard touchdown.

The Titans would answer with a score of their own, but the tone was set.

“My dad used to tell me when I was a kid, ‘Take the ball out of his hand!’ ” Young said. “And for that split second, it hit me. I was like, ‘Man, the ball is right there, I can take it.’ ” There was another reason the Saints had confidence that the game was far from over: They knew they had Shough.

He already had shown his teammates that he was capable of rallying them, leading them to two game-winning drives since taking over the starting job in November.

Audric Estime said he sees a poise in Shough that inspires. The Saints running back said Shough has a quality that makes him want to “run through a brick wall.” And

he wasn’t alone in that sentiment.

Chris Olave gutted through a back injury this week in part because he wanted to play with Shough.

“I’m trying to get Tyler that (Offensive) Rookie of the Year, too,” Olave said with a smile.

Shough undoubtedly moved closer to that achievement with his performance against the Titans, which is especially telling since his first start didn’t happen until the second half of the season.

After halftime, Shough engineered the Saints’ latest comeback to near perfection. He led with a nine-play, 74-yard drive that ended with a 19-yard strike to Olave, which cut Tennessee’s advantage to three. He didn’t panic when Dante Pettis fumbled a 32-yard completion and the Titans recovered in the end zone for a touchback.

And he finally got the Saints the lead with a four-play, 80-yard series in which he hit wide receiver Kevin Austin for a 10-yard touchdown. That play was set up by a 60yard strike to Olave, who finished

Davis exits early

Injury update

The Saints already were shorthanded at tight end going into Week 17, then they lost another on their first offensive play.

New Orleans opened the game with three tight ends on the field and Taysom Hill at running back.

Hill took the opening carry, then rolled up on the back of tight end Jack Stoll‘s legs after being tackled.

Stoll left the field with the medical training staff and was carted to the locker room with a knee injury after an examination on the sidelines. He was declared out before the end of the first quarter.

Earlier in the week, the Saints placed tight end Foster Moreau on injured reserve and signed rookie Moliki Matavao to take his place. Another tight end, Zaire Mitchell-Paden, missed Sunday’s game with a knee injury.

Special teams gunner Michael Davis also left Sunday’s game with a shoulder injury after a collision on a punt in the second quarter.

He did not return.

Odds and ends Saints punter Kai Kroeger hit an ugly 17-yard punt in the first quarter that nearly made it into the first row of the stands. The short punt allowed Tennessee to take a 3-0 lead despite not gaining a first down on the ensuing drive. … After being outscored 6-0 in the first quarter, the Saints now have been outscored 115-29 in the opening quarter this season. … New Orleans finished with 103 net rushing yards, only its fourth time topping the century mark in the last 12 games.

with 119 yards on eight catches.

“You lock in the quarterback position, your team has a chance,” Saints safety Justin Reid said.

Ward tried his hardest to answer.

When the Saints went up eight points on a 32-yard Estime rushing touchdown, the Titans quarterback still hung tough. Just before the two-minute warning on fourth down, Ward appeared to have a near-miraculous completion to former Tulane running back Tyjae Spears as Ward was falling that would have put his team in scoring territory. But the call was overturned on replay assist when a closer camera angle showed that Ward’s knee had touched the ground moments before the throw.

Even if Ward had rallied the Titans and tied the game, Shough would have been ready to compete.

And the Saints know it, too.

“I love playing with these guys,” Shough said. “I feel like we could play a whole other season right now.”

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SAINTS 34, TITANS 26 THREE AND OUT: ROD WALKER’S TOP THREE TAKEAWAyS FROM THE SAINTS’ FOURTH CONSECUTIVE WIN

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SHOUGH AND AWE Football fans in New Orleans (or Nashville, Tennessee, for that matter) have plenty to be optimistic about for the future. The rookie quarterbacks at Nissan Stadium showed that their teams have found their leaders. Tyler Shough had another stellar game, beating No. 1 overall draft pick Cam Ward. Shough completed 22 of 27 passes for a career-best 333 yards and two touchdowns. He’s now 5-3 as a starter and has back-to-back 300yard games. He is doing it with plenty of backup weapons and a makeshift offensive line. I’ve said it in this space before and I’ll say it again: The Saints have their guy.

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STEPPING UP Props to the Saints who stepped up in a time of need. you always hear teams talking about a next-man-up mentality, and boy did the Saints show that Sunday. Kevin Austin caught his first NFL touchdown pass, putting the Saints ahead 27-26 in the fourth quarter. Austin finished with four catches for 52 yards, stepping in for a team that was without injured receivers Mason Tipton and Devaughn Vele. The Saints backfield is without Alvin Kamara, Kendre Miller and Devin Neal, but Audric Estime stepped up. He finished with 94 yards on 14 carries. Not bad for a back signed to the practice squad two months ago.

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NO QUIT The last time the Saints won four games in a row, they had a guy named Drew Brees playing quarterback. The year was 2020, and the Saints haven’t been to the playoffs since. The 2025 Saints won’t make the postseason, but it’s been a pretty significant turnaround considering they started 1-8. Kellen Moore kept things together, and the Saints have gone on an impressive run. They have a chance to finish the season on a five-game winning streak and get to seven wins. That would mean a road win over the rival Atlanta Falcons. I’m not sure if you could ask for a better finish to this season than that.

Estime reaches standard RB’s second-half performance opens up Saints offense

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The standard wasn’t being met.

That was the message being relayed in the visiting locker room at Nissan Stadium on Sunday during the halftime break. It applied across the board for the New Orleans Saints, but the rushing offense was especially substandard. When the first half came to a close, quarterback Tyler Shough was pacing the team with 8 yards rushing.

And that’s about the time everything clicked for Audric Estime.

“That’s what we did: We came out in the second half and played … to our standard, played physical,” Estime said.

Estime — who signed with the active roster only in November, and who had all of 41 yards rushing to his name this season — played a massive role in sparking the Saints’ furious finish with 12 carries for 88 yards and a massive touchdown in the second half.

“Man, he went crazy, bruh,” right tackle Taliese Fuaga said. “And it’s a good feeling because you can open up a lot of stuff with that.”

New Orleans has tried a lot of things to open up its rushing attack this season, often with middling results. But with Estime surging, the New Orleans offense took off in the second half. Of the Saints’ 423 net yards against the Titans on Sunday, 331 came in the second half. The Saints averaged 11 yards per play in the final two quarters.

“Once we got (the run game) going, it definitely turned it loose,” Fuaga said. “We emphasized that you’ve got to come out the second half smoking, and we did.”

Estime got things rolling right away with four carries for 18 yards on the opening drive of the second half — a nine-play, 74-yard march that culminated in a Shough touchdown pass to Chris Olave.

That set the stage for what was to come. Given some opportunities, Estime ran hard behind his blocks, break-

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Oct. 26 ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JOHN AMIS

Saints running back Audric Estime, left, celebrates his touchdown with running back Evan Hull against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. ing several tackles. At one point, he even hurdled a Titans defender to tack a couple of extra yards onto his runs.

“He’s just a physical, physical runner,” Saints coach Kellen Moore said.

He consistently kept the Saints ahead of the chains. Seven of his 12 secondhalf carries gained at least 6 yards. And then, that big run popped.

Estime looked like he was bottled up when the play started. The left side of the offensive line was clogged, forcing Estime to jump backward and look for a crease.

“It wasn’t the prettiest look, but we made it work,” Estime said.

He saw the opening, and once he did, he was through it in a blink.

He used his 227-pound frame to bully through the last line of the Titans defense and raced for a 32-yard score that put the Saints up by eight points late in the fourth quarter.

“All I remember is we’re blocking, me

and Juwan (Johnson) are right there, and I’m seeing it on the peripheral like, ‘Damn, this is going to be a loss,’ ” tackle Kelvin Banks said. “Then I saw him bounce out … he breaks that tackle and he’s gone.”

Estime’s touchdown run was the longest run by a Saints running back this season and second on the team only to Shough’s 34-yard touchdown against the Buccaneers earlier this season.

“He’s kind of sneaky,” Shough said.

“He’s sneaked up on us. He’s been kind of that stout, kind of that power back, and he’s making elusive plays all over the field. He’s agile. He’s really smart in pass (protection). He stepped up in a short amount of time.”

Estime is technically fourth on the depth chart, but injuries have taken their toll on the backfield this season.

Regular starter Alvin Kamara missed his fifth straight game, and the two other backs on the initial 53-man roster,

Devin Neal and Kendre Miller, will both end the season on injured reserve.

For Estime, a performance like the one he delivered Sunday was especially meaningful. He had a nice rookie season with the Denver Broncos last year, but he found himself living life on the edges of an NFL roster. He didn’t make Denver’s team out of training camp, then spent part of the season with the Philadelphia Eagles practice squad.

He ultimately landed in New Orleans, signing to the practice squad in October after Miller’s injury. Banks remembered thinking it was a good signing at the time.

“I remembered him from college and I was like, ‘He was a damn good running back in college,’ ” Banks said. “I already knew what he could do.

“He just proved it.”

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Continued from page 1C “He’s obviously having a really special season,” Saints coach Kellen Moore said. “For him to navigate this, the momentum we’re kind of carrying as we go through this journey together is really, really special. Tyler is doing some special stuff.”

Granted, Moore is prone to hyperbole. He regularly tosses verbal bouquets to his players like he’s throwing beads from a Mardi Gras float. But in Shough’s case, the words “phenomenal,” “special” and “awesome” are applicable.

His 142.7 passer rating was the fifthhighest in a game by a rookie quarterback in the past five seasons and the 13th-best by a rookie QB since 2000.

He’s the first rookie QB to record back-to-back 300-yard passing games since C.J. Stroud in 2023.

Perhaps most impressive of all, he’s the first Saints quarterback since Drew Brees to pass for more than 300 yards and complete more than 80% of his passes in a game. Jim Everett is the only other Saints quarterback to do it.

“Awesome, awesome game,” Moore said. “The composure to navigate some stuff early. Big play after big play. He’s obviously having a special season.”

If Shough doesn’t join Alvin Kamara, Rueben Mayes and George Rogers to become the fourth player in

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Saints quarterback Tyler Shough lies on the turf after being sacked in a game against the Tennessee Titans on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. franchise history to win the Offensive Rookie of the Year award, it will be the biggest injustice since the NOLA No-Call.

He started the day as the second choice by Vegas oddsmakers to win the award behind Carolina Panthers receiver Tetairoa McMillan, but Shough will enter the final week of the season as the clear favorite after McMillan recorded just one catch for 5 yards in a home loss to the Seattle Seahawks. While McMillan’s overall numbers — 66 catches, 929 yards and seven touchdowns — certainly merit consideration, Shough has distin-

guished himself from his classmates with his franchise-altering performance over the last month.

Moore tries to maintain an even keel as head coach, especially after games, but Shough is playing at such a high level and with such uncommon moxie and composure that the 37-year-old coach can no longer bridle his enthusiasm. You can hear the excitement in his voice when he discusses his young signal-caller and his potential.

While Moore declined to discuss Shough’s candidacy for the Offensive Rookie of the Year award, he did refer

to the rookie from Louisville as a “bigtime quarterback,” who along with Ward is going to be doing big things in the NFL “for a really long time.”

“We’re fortunate to have Tyler,” Moore said.

Shough’s teammates are just as bullish.

“He’s a great leader,” running back Audric Estime said. “I know he just started (eight) weeks ago. If you didn’t know that, you would think he would have been the starter for the past three years. He’s a great guy, and I’m just excited to see the trajectory of the team behind him.”

Added rookie left tackle Kelvin Banks: “It brings a lot of confidence knowing you have a guy at quarterback who can make plays, no matter the circumstance.”

True to form, Shough deferred when asked about his individual performance after the game. Instead, he talked about teammates and credited others for the “great team win.”

“The ultimate goal is to win and come together as a team, and I feel like we’ve been able to do that and how do we keep replicating it?”

Shough said. “So for me, that’s my constant goal. And everything else that comes with it is part of it.”

For Shough, “everything else” is going to include the Offensive Rookie of the Year award. He’ll have to wait another six weeks to officially accept the award during Super Bowl LX week, but he won it on Sunday.

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Morris aims to ‘mimic’ Rams’ winning ways

BY CHARLES ODUM Associated Press

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Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen, center, scores a touchdown during the second half of a game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday in Buffalo, N.y.

Eagles hang on to beat Bills as Buffalo flubs 2-point try Allen’s throw sails past open receiver with 5 seconds left

BY JOHN WAWROW Associated Press

ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. — Josh Allen sailed a 2-point conversion attempt wide of open receiver Khalil Shakir in the back of the end zone with 5 seconds remaining, and the Philadelphia Eagles hung on for a 13-12 win over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday.

Dallas Goedert caught a 1-yard touchdown pass, Jake Elliott hit field goals of 28 and 47 yards, and the Super Bowl champion Eagles barely avoided squandering a 13-0 fourth-quarter lead.

Linebacker Jalyx Hunt had two of Philadelphia’s four sacks and a team-leading three quarterback hits.

Defensive tackle Jalen Carter made a major contribution in his return after missing three games with a injuries to both shoulders.

Carter got his hand up to block Michael Badgley’s extra-point attempt after Allen’s 2-yard touchdown run with 5:11 left.

Allen scored on a tush push on fourth-and-goal to pull the Bills within one point with 5 seconds remaining. The Bills thought they had a touchdown one play earlier, but Dawson Knox was ruled short

of the goal line after a replay review.

Rather than playing for overtime, coach Sean McDermott opted to go for 2. Allen dropped back in the pocket and had a defender in his face when he let loose a pass that was about a foot wide of Shakir. The Bills then tried an onside kick that Goedert recovered.

The NFC East champion Eagles (11-5) are assured of at least the conference’s third seed entering the playoffs.

Buffalo (11-5), which clinched a playoff berth last week, dropped to the No. 7 seed in the AFC. New England clinched its first AFC East title since 2019 with the Bills’ loss.

A matchup between Super Bowl contenders and two of the NFL’s top running backs turned into a defensive struggle played in a persistent drizzle.

The Bills were scoreless through three quarters before Allen — who’s already led three fourth-quarter rallies this season — tried to mount another incredible comeback.

Allen went 16 of 25 for 172 yards in the second half and finished 23 of 35 for 262 yards. With his two rushing scores, the 29-year-old Allen increased his career total to 301 (passing, rushing, receiving) and became the first player to reach 300 before turning 30.

Jalen Hurts threw a 1-yard TD

pass to Goedert with 35 seconds left in the first quarter. That was set up when Allen lost a fumble, with Jihaad Campbell recovering at Buffalo’s 45.

Goedert’s touchdown was his team-leading 11th of the season and set the single-season team record for tight ends — one more than Pete Retzlaff had in 1965.

Hurts finished 13 of 27 for 110 yards, while Saquon Barkley was limited to 68 yards rushing on 19 carries.

Before the fourth quarter, the Bills’ best scoring chance ended when Allen was stopped just short of the goal line while attempting to convert a fourth-and-goal from the 3 late in the third.

Allen had difficulty finding open receivers.

That was particularly evident in the opening minutes of the fourth quarter with Buffalo facing third-and-8 at Philadelphia’s 27. Allen rolled to his left trying to buy time, then reversed his field to escape pressure before Hunt brought him down for a 19yard loss. Allen slammed the ball to the turf several times before getting up.

The Eagles’ offense, meantime, evaporated in the second half.

Not including its game-closing kneel-down, Philadelphia combined for one first down and 17 yards of offense on five secondhalf possessions — all ending with punts.

ATLANTA — Raheem Morris is trying to coach the Atlanta Falcons to play like the Los Angeles Rams.

The records show Morris has found the Rams’ success is difficult to duplicate.

Coach Sean McVay’s Rams (114) will try to improve their playoff position when they face the Falcons (6-9) on Monday night.

Los Angeles is tied with San Francisco for second place in the tough NFC West while Atlanta playoff drought has been extended to eight seasons.

Morris was the Rams’ defensive coordinator under McVay from 2021-23. Morris has five assistant coaches, including offensive coordinator Zac Robinson, who also served on McVay’s staff.

“We definitely mimic and mock a lot of things that they do and want to continue to do that,” Morris said of the Rams.

The Falcons’ lost season could endanger the coaching future of Morris, who is 14-18 in his two years.

Back-to-back wins over Tampa Bay and Arizona show players haven’t quit on Morris. A win over the Rams could make a stronger case for Morris to be given a third season in Atlanta.

The Rams are trying to rebound from a 38-37 overtime loss to the Seattle Seahawks. Los Angeles leads the NFL in scoring and total offense. Matthew Stafford tops the league in touchdown passes (40), yards passing (4,179) and passer rating (112.1). Puka Nacua’s 114 receptions are the most in the NFL. Meanwhile, the Falcons have won three of five games with Kirk Cousins at quarterback since losing Michael Penix to a season-ending knee injury. Bijan Robinson leads the league in scrimmage yards.

Morris acknowledged there is “definitely a balance” in choosing when to try to follow the Rams’ model.

“You steal what you steal from the Rams and you move on and you form your own identity and you form your own stuff within your own building,” Morris said. “But it takes time to do those things with everybody.”

Draft incentive The Rams have more on the line than just improving their playoff position. They also can improve their 2026 first-round NFL draft pick by beating the Falcons.

The Falcons traded their 2026 first-rounder to the Rams in this year’s draft in order to select edge rusher James Pearce at No. 26 overall. Entering this week’s games, that trade gives the Rams the No. 11 overall pick. The Rams could move into the top 10 by beat-

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ing the Falcons.

The Falcons drafted Pearce after taking another edge rusher, Jalon Walker, at No. 15 overall. Pearce and Walker lead NFL rookies in sacks with 8 1/2 and 5 1/2, respectively. The Falcons rank second in the league with 50 sacks after ranking next to last last season with 31.

The Falcons also acquired a third-round pick used for safety Xavier Watts in last year’s trade with the Rams. Watts has three interceptions to tie for the lead among NFL rookies. Morris says the Falcons are still happy with the trade.

“So, us getting X (Watts) in the third and James Pearce joining for a first-round pick, sign me up,” Morris said.

Puka producing The Rams have mostly run their passing offense through one receiver under McVay. Nacua is taking that emphasis to levels not seen since Cooper Kupp’s triple crown season in 2021.

Nacua is averaging 8.14 receptions on 10.36 targets per game. He has 28 catches for 573 yards and four touchdowns the past three games.

Nacua’s big plays have increased since Davante Adams aggravated a hamstring injury against Detroit on Dec. 14.

“Certain games present more opportunities than others,” Stafford said. “We had a lot of plays and a lot of snaps the last couple of games, which just by sheer volume you’re going to have more attempts at it.

We were able to connect on some of those and make some big plays, but same stuff he’s always done.”

Cool opportunity Robinson said preparing for the Rams feels different “just because the familiarity with everybody over there.”

“It’s a cool opportunity,” Robinson said. “We’re playing arguably the best team in football. For our guys to go shoot their shot and cut it loose on Monday night against a great opponent, I think is a cool challenge.”

Holiday commute The Rams left their facility in the San Fernando Valley to practice at SoFi Stadium this week because of heavy rain and gusty winds throughout Southern California.

On Wednesday, that had them traveling on the 405 freeway past Los Angeles International Airport, one of the more notorious stretches of holiday traffic in town.

“It was not too bad on the way down here, though,” Stafford said.

“The bus got here in about 45, 50 minutes, so we’ll take it.”

NFL ROUNDUP

Burrow, Chase connect on 2 TDs as Bengals roll Cardinals

By The Associated Press CINCINNATI — Ja’Marr Chase caught two touchdown passes from former LSU star Joe Burrow, who threw for 305 yards as the Bengals beat the Arizona Cardinals 37-14 on Sunday.

Chase finished with seven catches for 60 yards and became the first player in NFL history with at least 80 receptions, 1,000 receiving yards and seven TD catches in each of his first five seasons.

Burrow passed for 300 yards or more for the 28th time, tying Andy Dalton for the most in franchise history.

“He’s playing like I know Joe to play,” Bengals coach Zac Taylor said. “It’s fun to watch. We all just want to finish the season the right way.”

Chase Brown rushed for 101 yards and two TDs as the Bengals (6-10) improved to 3-2 since Burrow returned from toe surgery.

For Arizona (3-13), Trey McBride had 10 catches, giving him 119 this season to break the NFL singleseason record for a tight end. He surpassed Zach Ertz’s 116 receptions in 2018.

PATRIOTS 42, JETS 10: In East Rutherford, N.J., Drake Maye threw a career-high five touchdown passes before getting the rest of the game off in the third quarter, New England scored a TD on its first six drives and the Patriots finished the regular season undefeated on the road.

Rhamondre Stevenson had a TD run and catch for the Patriots (133), who moved closer to winning

the AFC East title for the first time since 2019.

Maye was 19 of 21 for 256 yards and a 157.0 quarterback rating with TD tosses to Stevenson, Stefon Diggs, Austin Hooper, Hunter Henry and Efton Chism before being lifted by coach Mike Vrabel for Joshua Dobbs with 5:31 left in the third quarter. Maye joined Tom Brady (11 times) and Drew Bledsoe (twice) as the only New England quarterbacks to reach 4,000 yards passing in a season.

Meanwhile, it was another embarrassing showing in the home finale for the Jets (3-13), who have lost four in a row and have two straight seasons with multiple losing streaks of at least four games.

BROWNS 13, STEELERS 6: In Cleveland, Shedeur Sanders threw for 186 yards and a touchdown, Cleveland’s defense kept Pittsburgh out of the end zone and the Browns held on for a victory, preventing the Steelers from clinching the AFC North.

Pittsburgh (9-7) will host the Ravens to close the regular season with the winner getting the division and the AFC’s fourth seed in the playoffs.

The Browns (4-12) snapped a four-game losing streak, along with a seven-game skid in division games.

Sanders completed 17 of 23 passes, including a touchdown and two interceptions as he improved to 2-4 as a starter.

JAGUARS 23, COLTS 17: In Indianapolis, Trevor Lawrence ran for two scores, Cam Little kicked a tie-

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By KAREEM ELGAZZAR

Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow, right, hands the ball off to running back Chase Brown on Sunday against the Arizona Cardinals in Cincinnati. breaking 42-yard field goal with 6:58 left, and the Jacksonville Jaguars moved within one victory of their first AFC South title since 2022.

The Jags (12-4) won their seventh straight game one day after two-time defending division champ Houston beat the Los Angeles Chargers to remain in contention for the title.

Jacksonville’s Liam Coen became the first coach in NFL history to take over a four-win team and win 12 games the next season.

The Jags kept 44-year-old Colts quarterback Philip Rivers winless in three games since he returned to the league following a five-year retirement. Rivers was 16 of 28 for 135 yards with one touchdown and

one interception.

Indy (8-8) has lost six straight after starting 7-1.

SEAHAWKS 27, PANTHERS 10: In Charlotte, N.C., Zach Charbonnet ran for 110 yards and two touchdowns, and the Seattle Seahawks turned two third-quarter Carolina turnovers into TDs. Sam Darnold threw an interception in the end zone but finished 18 of 27 for 147 yards with a touchdown for the Seahawks.

Jaxson Smith-Njigba added nine catches for 72 yards as Seattle (133) won its sixth straight.

Bryce Young was limited to 54 yards on 14-of-24 passing and threw an interception for the inconsistent Panthers (8-8).

DOLPHINS 20, BUCCANEERS 17: In Mi-

ami Gardens, Fla., rookie quarterback Quinn Ewers threw for 172 yards and two touchdowns, including a 63-yard toss for his first career score, as the Miami Dolphins beat the slumping Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Tampa Bay (7-9) has lost four straight games and seven of eight.

The Bucs’ past four losses have all been by one possession.

Despite three turnovers and being outgained 145-53 on the ground Sunday, Tampa Bay pulled within three after a three-play, 91yard drive that Baker Mayfield capped with a 4-yard TD pass to Mike Evans with 54 seconds left.

A busted coverage by the Dolphins led to a 59-yard reception by Chris Godwin that set up the score, but Miami (7-9) recovered the ensuring onside kick to end Tampa Bay’s comeback attempt.

GIANTS 34, RAIDERS 10: In Las Vegas, a major win came out of the Raiders’ loss to the New York Giants — a clear shot at the top pick in next year’s NFL draft.

Las Vegas (2-14) will secure the top pick with a loss next week to Kansas City, and quarterback Geno Smith is unlikely to play because of a high ankle sprain. The Raiders’ skid reached 10 games, which matches last season’s streak for fifth-longest in franchise history.

The Giants (3-13), who snapped a nine-game losing streak, could still wind up with the top pick if they lose to Dallas next weekend and the Raiders beat the Chiefs.

Interim coach Mike Kafka got his first win after losing his first five games.

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Bourrage 20 1-6 0-2 1-3 1 0 2 Fulwiley 21 2-6 1-2 0-6 11 1 5 Hines 23 5-9 2-3 3-5 2 1 13 Z. Johnsn 20 7-9 3-4 2-6 1 2 17 Team 0 0-0 0-0 0-6 0 0 0 Totals 200 44-8419-27 19-53 28 12 109 Percentages: FG .524, FT .704.

3-Point Goals: 2-13, .154 (F.Johnson 1-3, Hines 1-4, Richard 0-2, Bourrage 0-3, Fulwiley 0-1) Blocked Shots: 3 (Fulwiley 2, Koval 1) Turnovers: 13 (Williams 3, Joyner 2, Bourrage 2, Fulwiley 2, Z.Johnson 2, Koval 1, Richard 1) Steals: 27 (Fulwiley 8, Hines 5, Richard 3, Joyner 2, F.Johnson 2, Yarnevich 2, Bourrage 2, Koval 1, Williams 1, Z.Johnson 1) Technical Fouls: None FG FT Reb

Sports Betting Line NFL Monday FAVORITE LA Rams

OPEN 8½

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 7½ (49½) at ATL

Birmingham Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Ga Southern 3½

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 7½ (59½) App St.

College Football Monday

Tuesday

Independence Bowl FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG La Tech 6½ 9½ (51½) C. Carolina Music City Bowl FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Tennessee 8½ 2½ (61½) Illinois Alamo Bowl FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG USC 5½ 6½ (55½) TCU

ASU

Wednesday

ReliaQuest Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Vanderbilt 3½ Sun Bowl El Paso, Texas FAVORITE OPEN Duke 1½ Citrus Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Texas 4½ Las Vegas Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Utah 13½ Cotton Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Ohio State 9½

Thursday

Orange Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Oregon 1½ Rose Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Indiana 6½ Sugar Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Georgia 6½

Friday

Armed Forces Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Texas State 6½ Liberty Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Navy 6½ Duke’s Mayo Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Mississippi St 2½ Holiday Bowl FAVORITE OPEN Arizona 1½

NBA

Monday

FAVORITE Milwaukee at WASHINGTON at BROOKLYN Denver at TORONTO at HOUSTON Minnesota at SAN ANTONIO at OKC New York at PORTLAND

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 4 (46½) Iowa TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3 (49½) Arizona St. TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 7½ (48½) Michigan TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 14 (50½) Nebraska TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 9½ (42½) Miami (FL) TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 1½ (52½) Texas Tech TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 7 (48½) Alabama TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 6½ (56½) Ole Miss

Monday

FAVORITE at SACRED HEART

O/U UNDERDOG (226½) at CHAR (OFF) Phoenix (OFF) Golden St. (244½) at MIAMI (OFF) Orlando (221½) Indiana (238½) at CHICAGO (242½) Cleveland (OFF) Atlanta (240½) at N.O. (OFF) Dallas

LINE 1½

NHL

Monday

FAVORITE LINE at OTTAWA -218 at CAROLINA -181 at FLORIDA -134 Edmonton -126 Buffalo -114 at CALGARY -136 at UTAH -155 at COLORADO -244 at VEGAS -133 at ANAHEIM -202 Vancouver -123

UNDERDOG Merrimack

UNDERDOG Columbus N.Y Rangers Washington at WINNIPEG at ST. LOUIS Boston Nashville Los Angeles Minnesota San Jose at SEATTLE

LINE +179 +151 +113 +105 -106 +115 +129 +199 +112 +167 +103

Pro basketball

W 22 19 18 16 10

L 9 11 14 13 19

Pct .710 .633 .563 .552 .345

GB — 2½ 4½ 5 11

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

W 18 17 15 11 6

L 14 15 18 20 23

Pct .563 .531 .455 .355 .207

GB — 1 3½ 6½ 10½

Detroit Cleveland Chicago Milwaukee Indiana

W 24 17 15 13 6

L 7 16 16 19 26

Pct .774 .515 .484 .406 .188

GB — 8 9 11½ 18½

WESTERN CONFERENCE Southwest Division

San Antonio Houston Memphis Dallas New Orleans

W 23 19 15 12 8

L 8 10 16 21 25

Pct .742 .655 .484 .364 .242

GB — 3 8 12 16

Oklahoma City Denver Minnesota Portland Utah

W 26 22 20 12 12

L 5 9 12 19 19

Pct .839 .710 .625 .387 .387

GB — 4 6½ 14 14

L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento

W 19 18 16 9 8

L 10 13 15 21 23

Pct .655 .581 .516 .300 .258

GB — 2 4 10½ 12

Northwest Division

Saturday’s Games

Sacramento 113, Dallas 107 Phoenix 123, New Orleans 114 Orlando 127, Denver 126 Houston 117, Cleveland 100 Brooklyn 123, Minnesota 107 Miami 142, Indiana 116 Milwaukee 112, Chicago 103 Utah 127, San Antonio 114 New York 128, Atlanta 125

Sunday’s Games

Oklahoma City 129, Philadelphia 104 Toronto 141, Golden State 127, OT Portland 114, Boston 108 Washington 116, Memphis 112 Detroit at L.A. Clippers, n Sacramento at L.A. Lakers, n

Monday’s Games

Milwaukee at Charlotte, 6 p.m.

Phoenix at Washington, 6 p.m.

Denver at Miami, 6:30 p.m.

Golden State at Brooklyn, 6:30 p.m.

Orlando at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at Oklahoma City, 7 p.m.

Cleveland at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Indiana at Houston, 7 p.m.

Army 41, UConn 16

Minnesota at Chicago, 7 p.m.

New York at New Orleans, 7 p.m.

Dallas at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

Pop-Tarts Bowl

Orlando, Fla. No. 12 BYU 25, No. 24 Georgia Tech 21

Pro football

Arizona Bowl

Tucson, Ariz.

Fresno St.18 Miami (OH) 3

NFL AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

New Mexico Bowl

Albuquerque No. 23 North Texas 49, San Diego St. 47

y-New England x-Buffalo e-Miami e-N.Y. Jets

W 13 11 7 3

L 3 5 9 13

T Pct 0 .813 0 .688 0 .438 0 .188

PF PA 452 310 446 357 337 386 292 468

x-Jacksonville x-Houston e-Indianapolis e-Tennessee

W 12 11 8 3

L 4 5 8 13

T Pct 0 .750 0 .688 0 .500 0 .188

PF PA 433 329 366 265 436 374 277 437

Pittsburgh Baltimore e-Cincinnati e-Cleveland

W 9 8 6 4

L 7 8 10 12

T Pct 0 .563 0 .500 0 .375 0 .250

PF PA 371 363 400 372 396 472 259 361

y-Denver x-L.A. Chargers e-Kansas City e-Las Vegas

W 13 11 6 2

L 3 5 10 14

T Pct 0 .813 0 .688 0 .375 0 .125

PF PA 382 308 365 321 350 314 227 420

y-Philadelphia e-Dallas e-Washington e-N.Y. Giants

W 11 7 4 3

L 5 8 12 13

T Pct 0 .688 1 .469 0 .250 0 .188

PF PA 362 301 454 477 332 434 347 422

Carolina Tampa Bay e-Atlanta e-New Orleans

W 8 7 6 6

L 8 9 9 10

T Pct 0 .500 0 .438 0 .400 0 .375

PF PA 297 364 364 397 307 360 289 364

y-Chicago x-Green Bay e-Minnesota e-Detroit

W 11 9 8 8

L 4 6 8 8

T Pct 0 .733 1 .594 0 .500 0 .500

PF PA 387 354 388 344 328 330 4623977

x-Seattle x-San Francisco x-L.A. Rams e-Arizona

W 12 11 11 3

L 3 4 4 12

T Pct 0 .800 0 .733 0 .733 0 .200

PF PA 443 279 392 320 457 299 321 414

South

North

West

East

New York Boston Toronto Philadelphia Brooklyn

Southeast Division

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By EAKIN HOWARD

San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy passes against the Chicago Bears during the first half of a game on Sunday in Santa Clara, Calif.

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

Pacific Division

Atlantic Division

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3½ (53½) W. Forest

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Central Division

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 7 (54½) Cincinnati

LINE 2½ OFF OFF 3 OFF 14½ 4½ 4½ OFF 9½ OFF

Atlantic Division

Hockey

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 13 (58½) Rice

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3 (51½) SMU

Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

McClendon22 2-5 0-1 0-7 0 2 5 Peterson 18 2-2 0-0 1-5 0 4 4 Franklin 14 2-4 0-0 1-2 0 5 5 Reid 31 1-14 1-2 1-4 4 1 3 Smith 8 0-2 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 Bryant 11 0-3 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Osei 5 0-0 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Ponder 15 0-1 0-0 1-3 1 1 0 Pooler 21 3-7 1-2 3-6 1 4 8 Puckett 5 1-3 0-0 0-0 0 2 2 W-Norman 1 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 1 0 Flowers 16 1-9 0-2 0-0 1 0 2 Scott 24 3-5 0-0 1-4 0 3 7 Simpson 9 2-4 0-1 0-0 1 2 5 Team 0 0-0 0-0 2-3 0 0 0 Totals 200 17-59 2-8 10-34 10 25 41 Percentages: FG .288, FT .250.

3-Point Goals: 5-27, .185 (McClendon 1-2, Franklin 1-2, Pooler 1-3, Scott 1-2, Simpson 1-2, Reid 0-9, Smith 0-1, Bryant 0-2, Flowers 0-4) Blocked Shots: None.

Turnovers: 36 (Reid 8, Smith 5, Ponder 4, Flowers 4, McClendon 3, Peterson 3, Scott 3, Puckett 2, Simpson 2, Franklin 1, Bryant 1) Steals: 6 (McClendon 3, Peterson 2, Reid 1) Technical Fouls: None Alabama St. 6 8 10 17 — 41 LSU 28 25 28 28 — 109 A_11,170 Officials_Daniel Drake, Kevin Pethtel, Angelica Suffren

South

North

West

e-Eliminated from playoffs x-clinched playoff spot y-clinched division Thursday’s Games

Gator Bowl

Jacksonville, Fla. No. 25 Missouri vs. No. 20 Virginia, n

Texas Bowl

Houston 21 Houston 38, LSU 35

Monday’s games

Nashville, Tenn.

Tennessee vs. Illinois, 4:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Alamo Bowl

San Antonio No. 16 Southern Cal vs. TCU, 8 p.m. (ESPN)

ReliaQuest Bowl

Tampa, Fla. No. 13 Vanderbilt vs. No. 23 Iowa, 11 a.m.

(ESPN)

Sun Bowl

El Paso, Texas Arizona St. vs. Duke, 1 p.m. (CBS)

Citrus Bowl

Orlando, Fla. No. 14 Texas vs. No. 18 Michigan, 2 p.m. (ABC)

Las Vegas Bowl

Las Vegas No. 15 Utah vs. Nebraska, 2:30 p.m. (ESPN)

College Football Playoff

Quarterfinals At Cotton Bowl, Arlington, Texas Miami at No. 3 Ohio St., 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)

FCS Playoffs Semifinals Illinois St. 30, Villanova 14 Montana St. 48, Montana 23

Jan. 5

Dallas 30, Washington 23 Minnesota 23, Detroit 10 Denver 20, Kansas City 13

College basketball

Houston 20, L.A. Chargers 16 Baltimore 41, Green Bay 24

Saturday’s games

Cincinnati 37, Arizona 14 Cleveland 13, Pittsburgh 6 Jacksonville 23, Indianapolis 17 Miami 20, Tampa Bay 17 New England 42, N.Y. Jets 10 New Orleans 34, Tennessee 26 Seattle 27, Carolina 10 Miami 20, Tampa Bay 17 N.Y. Giants 34, Las Vegas 10 Philadelphia 13, Buffalo 12 Chicago at San Francisco, n

Kansas State 94, UL-Monroe 85 UL 63, Norfolk State 54

State men’s schedule No games scheduled.

Sunday’s games

Monday’s games

Southern at Illinois, 2 p.m.

McNeese at Michigan, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s game

Centenary at Grambling, TBA Southeastern at Incarnate Word, 5 p.m

Wednesday’s games

Stephen F. Austin at Northwestern State, TBA Tulane at East Carolina, 11 a.m.

UL-Lafayette at South Alabama, noon UNO at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 3:30 p.m.

Nicholls at Texas-Rio Grande Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Monday’s Games

L.A. Rams at Atlanta, 7:15 p.m.

College football Friday’s games

Thursday’s games

GameAbove Sports Bowl

Men’s national scores

Southern Miss at UL-Monroe, 4 p.m.

Detroit Northwestern 34, Central Michigan 7

Sunday’s games EAST

Rate Bowl

Phoenix Minnesota 20, New Mexico 17

Boston College 72, Le Moyne 64 Bryant 95, Worcester State 59 Harvard 78, Colgate 69 Saint Joseph’s 87, Arcadia 65

First Responder Bowl Dallas UTSA 57, FIU 20

SOUTH

Austin Peay 110, Fisk 59 Charleston Southern 77, Richmond 72 Columbia 90, North Florida 82 Florida Gulf Coast 84, Fort Lauderdale 43 George Mason 83, Pennsylvania 79 Georgia State 110, Columbia College 72 Georgia Tech 89, Florida A&M 65 High Point 123, Pfeiffer 64 Liberty 97, Florida International 94, OT Longwood 92, Averett 49

Saturday’s games Military Bowl

Annapolis, Md. East Carolina 23, Pittsburgh 17

Pinstripe Bowl

Bronx, N.Y. Penn St. 22, Clemson 10

Fenway Bowl

Boston

Carolina N.Y. Islanders Philadelphia Washington New Jersey N.Y. Rangers Pittsburgh Columbus

GP W L OT Pts GF 37 23 11 3 49 126 39 21 14 4 46 111 36 19 10 7 45 111 38 20 13 5 45 121 38 20 16 2 42 106 40 19 17 4 42 104 36 15 12 9 39 110 37 16 15 6 38 112

GA 108 108 102 106 114 107 119 127

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

FAR WEST

Colorado Dallas Minnesota Utah St. Louis Nashville Winnipeg Chicago

SMU 110, Cal State Fullerton 63 Sam Houston 117, College of Biblical Studies 57 Texas Tech 87, Winthrop 57

State women’s schedule

Music City Bowl

GA 101 127 129 118 118 120 130 126

SOUTHWEST

Independence Bowl

FCS Championship Nashville, Tenn.

No. 2 Montana St. (13-2) vs. Illinois St. (12-4), 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)

Sunday’s Games

Kansas State 94, Louisiana-Monroe 85 North Dakota 88, Dakota State 56 Saint Louis 114, Principia 33 South Dakota 85, Mount Marty 61 St. Thomas 105, North Central (MN) 59

Dec. 30

Dec. 31

Saturday’s Games

MIDWEST

New Mexico State 104, University of the Southwest 33 Northern Colorado 86, Colorado 81 San Diego 66, Pacific 54 UC Davis 108, Pacific Union College 52 Washington State 67, Portland 62

Shreveport Coastal Carolina vs. Louisiana Tech, 1 p.m.

(ESPN)

GP W L OT Pts GF 38 22 13 3 47 126 39 22 14 3 47 122 38 20 12 6 46 127 37 20 15 2 42 119 37 19 14 4 42 116 37 18 14 5 41 124 39 20 18 1 41 123 37 17 15 5 39 122

Metropolitan Division

Louisiana 63, Norfolk State 54 Mercer 122, Baptist University (FL) 49 Morehead State 115, Alice Lloyd 65 Presbyterian 91, Truett-McConnell 64 Radford 87, Shenandoah University 44 Wofford 88, Union (KY) 54

Birmingham, Ala. Georgia Southern vs. Appalachian State, 1 p.m. (ESPN)

Birmingham Bowl

Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Florida Buffalo Ottawa Boston Toronto

Pacific Division

Saturday’s games

No games scheduled.

Sunday’s games

Texas 120, Southeastern 38 LSU 109, Alabama State 41

Monday’s games

UNO at UTRGV, 4 p.m.

Nicholls at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 5 p.m.

McNeese at Incarnate Word, 6 p.m.

Dillard at UL, 6 p.m.

Tuesday’s games

Tulane at UTSA, 1 p.m.

Wednesday’s gae

Stephen F. Austin at Northwestern State, TBA

Thursday’s games

Northwestern at Nicholls, 1 p.m.

South Alabama at UL – Monroe, 1:30 p.m.

Prairie View at Southern, 2 p.m.

Troy at UL – Lafayette, 4 p.m.

Texas Southern at Grambling, 6:30 p.m.

Kentucky at LSU, 7 p.m.

Women’s national scores Sunday’s games EAST

MIDWEST

Clemson 97, Chicago State 44 Illinois 83, Purdue 73 Iowa 99, Penn State 76 Michigan State 70, Rutgers 64 Missouri 71, Kansas City 67, OT Ohio 96, Wilberforce 64 Saint Louis 132, Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis 53 UCLA 82, Ohio State 75 UConn 94, Butler 47

SOUTHWEST

Arkansas State 81, Arkansas 72 Sam Houston 110, Dallas 38 Texas 120, Southeastern Louisiana 38

FAR WEST

Cal State Fullerton 110, La Sierra 22 California 91, Cal Poly 50 Gonzaga 87, Loyola Marymount 80, 2OT Grand Canyon 79, San Jose State 59 Oregon State 74, San Francisco 65 Pacific 85, Seattle 66 Portland 63, Saint Mary’s 59 Santa Clara 68, San Diego 46 Stanford 82, Cornell 50 Washington State 66, Pepperdine 63

No. 5 LSU 109, Alabama St. 41 FG

FT

Reb

3-3 7-9 0-0 2-2 1-2 0-0

3-5 6-11 0-2 2-3 1-4 1-2

Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS 2 0 2 4 3 2

0 2 2 1 0 3

Saturday’s Games

N.Y. Islanders 2, N.Y. Rangers 0 Buffalo 4, Boston 1 Carolina 5, Detroit 2 Washington 4, New Jersey 3, OT Toronto 7, Ottawa 5 Minnesota 4, Winnipeg 3, OT Tampa Bay 4, Florida 2 St. Louis 3, Nashville 2 Chicago 4, Dallas 3, SO Los Angeles 6, Anaheim 1 Calgary 3, Edmonton 2 San Jose 6, Vancouver 3 Colorado 6, Vegas 5, SO

Monday’s Games

Austin Peay 73, Berry 38 Florida 82, Furman 66 Georgia State 85, LaGrange 55 Georgia Tech 79, Wofford 63 Kentucky 80, Hofstra 42 LSU 109, Alabama State 41 Memphis 107, Rust College 63 Miami (FL) 77, Stetson 45 Mississippi State 112, Samford 54 Morehead State 115, Kentucky Christian 36 Ole Miss 64, Alcorn State 44 South Carolina 96, Providence 55 Vanderbilt 109, Stonehill 50 West Georgia 81, Brewton-Parker College 46

8-9 8-15 4-11 2-8 5-7 2-4

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 36 17 8 11 45 115 110 Anaheim 38 21 15 2 44 130 132 Edmonton 39 19 14 6 44 132 131 Los Angeles 37 16 12 9 41 97 97 San Jose 38 18 17 3 39 115 132 Seattle 35 15 14 6 36 89 107 Calgary 38 16 18 4 36 101 115 Vancouver 37 15 19 3 33 106 128 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

Columbus 4, N.Y. Islanders 2 Tampa Bay 5, Montreal 4, SO Pittsburgh at Chicago, n Toronto at Detroit, n Philadelphia at Seattle,n

SOUTH

LSU

GA 85 105 102 112 133 124 111 117

Sunday’s Games

Duke 71, Syracuse 51 George Washington 63, Coppin State 49 New Hampshire 64, New Haven 59 Saint Joseph’s 108, Arcadia 38 Seton Hall 75, Xavier 55 Vermont 61, Dartmouth 59

Joyner 17 Koval 20 F. Johnsn 17 Richard 22 Williams 21 Yarnevich 19

GP W L OT Pts GF 37 28 2 7 63 148 39 25 7 7 57 139 39 23 10 6 52 121 39 18 18 3 39 116 39 15 16 8 38 98 37 16 17 4 36 105 36 15 17 4 34 106 37 14 17 6 34 103

19 23 9 6 11 4

Columbus at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Washington at Florida, 6 p.m.

Edmonton at Winnipeg, 6:30 p.m.

Buffalo at St. Louis, 7 p.m.

Boston at Calgary, 8 p.m.

Los Angeles at Colorado, 8 p.m.

Nashville at Utah, 8 p.m.

Minnesota at Vegas, 9 p.m.

San Jose at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Transactions Major League Baseball

National League MIAMI MARLINS — Agreed to terms with RHP Pete Fairbanks on a one-year contract.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Reinstated D Michael Callahan from injured reserve and sent him to Providence (AHL). Reinstated F Matej Blumel from long-term injured reserve and sent him to Providence.

BUFFALO SABRES — Sent D Ryan Johnson and F Isak Rosen to Rochester (AHL).

COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reinstated F Mathieu Olivier from injured reserve. Placed D Zach Werenski on injured reserve.

MINNESOTA WILD — Acquired F Boris Katchouk from Tampa Bay in exchange for F Michael Milne. Sent D David Jiricek to Iowa (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Sent F Angus Crookshank to Utica (AHL).

NEW YORK RANGERS — Sent F Brett Berard to Hartford (AHL).

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Placed F Danton Heinen on waivers. Reinstated F Blake Lizotte from injured reserve.

SEATTLE KRAKEN — Reinstated F Jared McCann from injured reserve.

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Placed D Ryan McDonagh on injured reserve. Reinstated F Brandon Hagel from injured reserve.

Recalled F Maxim Groshev from Syracuse (AHL). Sent D Steven Santini to Syracuse.

SUNDAY’S FAIR GROUNDS RESULTS First Race - $19,000, Maiden Claiming $20,000, 2 yo, Six Furlongs Tiz Mary’s Comet (Mgnn) $16.40 $7.60 $5.40 I Got the Hint (I. Castillo) $5.20 $3.40 Respectheconnect (M. Pedroza, Jr.) $4.60 Finish Time: 1:12.42 Exacta (7-6) $34.30; Superfecta (7-6-4-5) $81.14; Trifecta (7-6-4) $101.55 Second Race - $16,000, Claiming $12,500, 3 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs Big Nickel (C. McMahon) $16.80 $8.00 $4.20 Deal of Faith (M. Murrill) $8.20 $4.80 Angelic Knight (B. Curtis) $2.80 Finish Time: 1:12.40 Daily Double (7-2) $89.50; Exacta (2-7) $73.50; Superfecta (2-7-3-1) $80.95; Trifecta (2-7-3) $154.20

Third Race - $18,000, Claiming $15,000$10,000, 3 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs About to Set Sail (Pedroza) $3.80 $2.40 $2.10 My Royal Princess (D. Magnon) $12.80 $6.40 Platinumus Maximus (M. Murrill) $4.60 Finish Time: 1:12.17 Daily Double (2-8) $17.90; Exacta (8-3) $60.70; Superfecta (8-3-7-4) $135.13; Trifecta (8-3-7) $164.45; Pic 3 (7-2-8) $112.75 Fourth Race - $19,000, SOC $10,000-$5,000, 3 yo’s & up, Five And A Half Furlongs Briterdayzahead (S. Vives) $34.20 $6.80 $4.40 Guile (B. Curtis) $2.20 $2.10 Julia’s Warrior (C. McMahon) $5.20 Finish Time: 1:04.84 Daily Double (8-8) $23.10; Exacta (8-2) $28.90; Superfecta (8-2-5-6) $74.94; Trifecta (8-2-5)

$121.60; Pic 3 (2-8-8) $146.85 Late Scratches: Treaty Fifth Race - $28,000, SOC $30,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Flamingpropsitin (Cstllo) $52.80 $17.20 $9.00 Mary’s Boy Bolt (M. Pedroza) $5.00 $4.20 $3.20 Edgerton (A. Concepcion) Finish Time: 1:42.45 Daily Double (8-4) $339.70; Exacta (4-6) $105.90; Superfecta (4-6-9-10) $137.79; Trifecta (4-6-9) $188.85; Pic 3 (8-8-4) $357.10; Pic 4 (2-8-8-4) $2,272.50; Pic 5 (7-2-8-8-4) $38,864.50 Late Scratches: Cobblestone Bridge Sixth Race - $28,000, SOC $25,000-$12,500, 3 yo’s & up, One Mile Seventy Yards Next Level (J. Graham) $11.40 $3.40 $2.80

Glen Airy (B. Hernandez, Jr.) $2.20 $2.10 Interlock Empire (C. McMahon) $3.40 Finish Time: 1:42 Daily Double (4-5) $240.70; Exacta (5-3) $11.10; Superfecta (5-3-8-4) $15.47; Trifecta (5-3-8) $20.85; Pic 3 (8-4-5) $934.65 Late Scratches: Now and Later Seventh Race - $56,000, AOC $50,000, 3 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Mo Expectations (Cncpcn) $5.00 $3.60 $2.80 Sophie’s Cruiser (I. Castillo) $9.80 $6.20 Pisciotta (GB) (B. Hernandez, Jr.) $3.40 Finish Time: 1:41.92 Daily Double (5-6) $31.30; Exacta (6-8) $27.40; Superfecta (6-8-10-3) $55.72; Trifecta (6-8-10) $37.65; Pic 3 (4-5-6) $218.50 Late Scratches: Peak Earnings (GB), Classic

Performer Eighth Race - $15,000, Claiming $5,000, 3 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs Honor His Half (M. Murrill) $2.80 $2.20 $2.10 $3.80 $2.80 Where’s Aunt J (S. Vives) Steal Me Over (E. Murray) $2.60 Finish Time: 1:12.28 Daily Double (6-6) $5.20; Exacta (6-3) $14.20; Superfecta (6-3-8-1) $16.26; Trifecta (6-3-8) $20.25; Pic 3 (5-6-6) $21.20; Pic 4 (4-5-4/6/92/5/6/9) $384.60; Pic 5 (8-4-5-4/6/9-2/5/6/9) $4,320.30; Pic 6 (8-8-4-5-4/6/9-2/5/6/9) $3,254.30 Late Scratches: Copper Moon, She Has It All, Emilyhasherturn

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Coast Conference championship game, and that league’s champ being left out of the field. The Hurricanes had a three-week gap between their regular season-ending win at Pittsburgh and CFP debut, which they won 10-3 at seventh-seeded Texas A&M on Dec. 20.

Now they will be about 200 miles from College Station to play the Buckeyes, who will have more time off than the Hurricanes had between their games.

Miami coach Mario Cristobal isn’t sure if there is any advantage, or disadvantage, to those time gaps between games for either side.

“You can never tell. That’s gone back and forth in so many different ways over the years.

And I think if you could put it in a bottle and sell it, you would be a billionaire,” Cristobal said. “The bye weeks and the extra time off, sometimes it’s been great for people, and sometimes it hasn’t.

And then vice versa as it relates to playing. ... I don’t think there’s an exact predictor of success or non-success as it relates to time off.”

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Defending national champion Ohio State is in the Cotton Bowl for the third year in a row, while Miami is already returning to Texas just more than a week after being in the state for a win in its College Football Playoff debut.

Both teams were set to arrive in North Texas on Sunday, three days before their New Year’s Eve matchup in the first of the four CFP quarterfinal games.

The third-ranked Buckeyes (121) are three weeks removed from their 13-10 loss to undefeated No. 1 Indiana in the Big Ten championship game on Dec. 6. They still got the second seed and a first-round bye in the 12-team playoff, proASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By RyAN SUN viding an extended break but also From left, Ohio State Buckeyes defensive end Caden Curry, linebacker Sonny Styles and wide receiver Brennen more time to ponder missing out Schramm celebrate after the team’s win against Michigan on Nov. 29 in Ann Arbor, Mich. on a conference title.

“We had to take a step back beoverall, which began by winning thing on the field,” linebacker cause that loss kind of hurt,” Ohio ä Miami vs. Ohio State, the inaugural CFP championship Sonny Styles said. “So this time, State cornerback Lorenzo Styles 6:30 P.M.WEDNESDAy, ESPN game at the end of the 2014 sea- we got to leave everything out said. “We had to feel that pain, but then it’s like everything we want is son in the same stadium where there.” still in front of us.”

CFP first-timer No. 10 Miami pear in five of the last seven CFPs the Cotton Bowl is played.

Now it’s win or go home for the — all since Ryan Day became “We know the last time we (11-2) got an at-large berth even Buckeyes, the only team to ap- head coach. It is their seventh stepped on the field, we left some- without making the Atlantic

Whittingham introduced as new Michigan football coach

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP sportswriter

ORLANDO, Fla. — Kyle Whittingham brought plenty of energy on four hours of sleep Sunday when he was introduced as the new Michigan football coach, saying it was one of five jobs that could bring him out of a short reWhittingham tirement and offering no hesitation about joining a program in the midst of cultural chaos.

And after 21 years as the head coach of Utah, the 66-year-old Whittingham answered perhaps the most important question: Does he dislike Ohio State or will he have to learn?

“I do now,” said Whittingham,

who was defensive coordinator for two years at Utah under Urban Meyer, who went on to win a national title at Ohio State. “I’m on the right side of the deal now.”

Whittingham said he met with Michigan players Saturday night and will be at the Citrus Bowl for Wednesday’s game against Texas to observe, evaluate and “try to stay out of the way.”

Biff Poggi was tabbed as the interim head coach for the game against the 14th-ranked Longhorns.

Whittingham was the secondlongest tenured coach at a Power Four school behind Kirk Ferentz at Iowa. The Utes had eight seasons of at least 10 wins and went 177-88 during his tenure.

He steps into a Michigan program in disarray, most recently the Dec. 10 firing of coach Sherrone Moore over an extramari-

tal relationship with a staffer.

Moore was arrested later that day and charged with three crimes for barging into the woman’s home and threatening to kill himself.

Michigan also was involved in a signal-stealing scandal in 2023 during its run to a national title that led to the football program being put on probation, which athletic director Warde Manuel has said will cost the department more than $30 million in penalties.

Matt Weiss, who previously shared offensive coordinator duties with Moore at Michigan, was charged with hacking into the computer accounts of thousands of college athletes to find intimate images. He was fired in January 2023.

That led Poggi, who was a candidate for the Michigan job, to

it’s not really fazed me. I focus on coaching the team and everything else will be handled in due time.”

Manuel said the “past few weeks have not been easy,” and he praised the Michigan players for sticking together. He said Whittingham has a track record of running a program built on toughness, discipline and respect.

“I can’t tell you how many texts I received about him after the selection was announced,” Manuel said. “Everyone — everyone — we talked to either started or ended their statements about him with his character.”

Whittingham privately met with quarterback Bryce Underwood and “did a lot of listening.” He said his top priority was retaining players at Michigan and the recruiting class signed earlier this month.

say last week, “It has been five years, let’s just call it a malfunctioning organization. I know the athletic director has made very clear he doesn’t want any more of that.”

Whittingham, who left Utah on Dec. 12, said none of that affected his interest in Michigan when it called or led to questions during the interview process.

“I didn’t have any hesitation,” Whittingham said. “There’s some issues, missteps, that are being take care of. The key is the players here are rock solid. None of those issues involve players.

To their credit, they kept playing.

There was a lot of distraction. I’ve got no doubt that everything will be handled properly.

“My culture is going to be with the players,” he said. “I know the general gist of what transpired, a series of unfortunate events. But

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Comfort, attention key to consider in hospice care When is it time to consider hospice care?

passion on her feet. But unlike most of us, she made that footwear herself: Corcoran is a shoemaker who makes handcrafted shoes to order in her Pike Place Market studio, Leolo Shoes. They are not inexpensive — her bespoke shoes, crafted specifically for the customer’s foot and to

Hospice care is a type and philosophy of care that centers on the palliation of a terminally or seriously ill patient’s pain and symptoms and attending to that patient’s emotional and spiritual needs. At end-stage Alzheimer’s disease, the goal of hospice is to keep that person as comfortable as possible.

Hospice care is provided by a team of professionals, which may include a medical director, the person’s attending physician, nurses, social workers, counselors, clergy and home health aides. Once hospice care is ordered by the physician, and the person is enrolled in that care, the team meets regularly to evaluate and coordinate a plan of care.

One member of the team is always available, 24 hours a day, to address issues and concerns. Hospice care can be offered at the person’s home, in a nursing home or assisted living facility, where the person resides or an in-house hospice care facility.

Hospice services only accept people who are terminally ill, and Alzheimer’s disease is a terminal illness.

Since the span of Alzheimer’s disease can run from seven to 20 years, it is often difficult to know when the person warrants hospice care. Generally, an individual with Alzheimer’s is ready for a hospice referral when they become severely impaired in function, (no longer can walk or feed themselves); when the person has become incontinent; when they experience frequent choking episodes or have difficulty in breathing, are unable to speak or communicate meaningfully (limited to about a half dozen or fewer intelligible words), or have significant weight loss.

With the progression of the disease, comorbid conditions are also associated in the late stages such as aspiration pneumonia, urinary tract infection, septicemia and decubitus ulcers. There could also be comorbid conditions that significantly impair the affected person’s health and functionality, which includes cardiovascular disease or congestive heart failure, lung disease, strokes, diabetes, renal failure and cancer.

The decision for hospice is made when the goals of the person and family members are palliative and not lifeprolonging. The criteria for acceptance into Hospice Care includes: n The person must be diagnosed by a licensed physician as having end-stage Alzheimer’s, with limited life-expectancy (six months or less). n The person must live within the specific geographic boundary of the individual hospice service. n The family/caregiver of the affected person must consent to hospice services.

Medicare, Medicaid and many private insurance policies cover hospice-care costs.

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Quinnipiac University faculty members Brian O’Neill, from left, Karen Majeski and Chetan Jaiswal stand with graduate student Michael Ruocco on Nov. 20 as Ruocco demonstrates AccessiMove. The faculty/student team helped develop the technology, a hands-free mobility tool powered by facial gestures and artificial intelligence, which recently earned Quinnipiac its first U.S. patent.

ACCESSibility GRANTED Professors and students create software that helps people communicate and move. It reads your face

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HARTFORD, Conn. — Observing a young man in a wheelchair with motor impairment struggle to communicate with his parents profoundly affected Chetan Jaiswal.

Jaiswal is an associate professor of computer science at Quinnipiac University.

After meeting the boy at an occupational therapy conference in 2022, Jaiswal decided that more could be done to help individuals connect with their loved ones using technology powered by artificial intelligence, or AI. “We are computer scientists,” Jaiswal said. “We can do better.

Technology should help people

who actually need it. Technology shouldn’t just be created to be rich.

You need to create technology that can help the people who can actually use it on a daily basis.”

Joining with colleagues, Karen Majeski, associate professor of occupational therapy and Brian O’Neill, associate professor of computer science, at Quinnipiac, the three worked together with students Michael Ruocco and Jack Duggan to develop the university’s first patented software hands-free input system using AI with communication entirely through facial gestures to help provide more independence for those with limited mobility.

Using a standard webcam, AccessiMove uses head-tilt detec-

tion, wink/gesture recognition and facial-landmark tracing to enable individuals to make command inputs and move the cursor on a computer screen or other device.

“This benefits a lot of people, especially people with disabilities and motor impairment,” Jaiswal said. “They can actually use their face to interact with a computer and do a number of things that we take for granted.”

The professors are looking for partnerships, collaborators and investors to develop the product across communication technologies including the health care field.

“We have so many health care industry partners in the East Coast,

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Shoemaker wears her passion on her feet

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SEATTLE — If you are in love with shoes, like Leanne Corcoran is, you think a lot about what’s on your feet. You might often ponder Oxfords versus pumps, or the balance of beauty and comfort, or why it is that your favorite shoes often wear out, no matter how

“Shoemaking is almost spiritual. If you’re not present with the process, you’re going to mess up.”

LEANNE CORCORAN

well you try to take care of them.

Shoes can be the punctuation mark of an outfit, a literal reason to kick up your heels, a source of joy. They shield our feet from the pavement and take us where we need to go; they speak, in clomps or taps or whispers, keeping us company as we walk.

Corcoran, a 55-year-old Seattleite, is someone who wears her

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Bone bruising is localized area of microfractures Dear Doctors: I slipped and slammed my shin on the metal ledge of a moving van. I could still move my toes, turn my foot, stand on it and walk, so I figured it wasn’t a break. A few days later, a big lump showed up, with lots of swelling and bruising. Could it be it actually was broken?

Dear Reader: The bone you injured is known as the tibia. It is the second-longest bone in the body — and one of the strongest. Its unique triangular shape provides the structural support needed to bear the weight of the body while standing and in motion. The three distinct borders of the bone, along with their adjacent surfaces, serve as attachment points for muscles and connective tissue.

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Due to its size and heft, the tibia requires a high-energy force to cause a break. This might be a car accident, a fall from a height or a blunt force or twisting injury in a contact sport. Osteoporosis can also play a role. But in a healthy adult, the mishap you described is not likely to have resulted in a fracture. However, and this is

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Dec. 29, the 363rd day of 2025. There are two days left in the year.

Today in history: On Dec. 29, 1890, the Wounded Knee massacre took place in South Dakota as more than 250 Lakota people were killed by U.S. troops sent to disarm them.

Also on this date: In 1940, during World War II, the German Luftwaffe dropped incendiary bombs on London, setting off what came to be known as “The Second Great Fire of London.”

In 1989, dissident and playwright Václav Havel assumed the presidency of Czechoslovakia. In 1993, he would become the first president of the newly independent Czech Republic after Czechoslovakia peacefully dissolved.

In 2021, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in

SOFTWARE

Continued from page 1D especially in Connecticut, whether it is Yale Hospital, Hartford Hospital,” Jaiswal said. “All of us are wanting what is best for our patients, especially for those patients that can’t help themselves.

They need assistance. They need help to live a better life. We are looking up to those partners who want to make a difference in the world for the people who need it.”

Majeski described the software system, explaining that an individual’s facial gestures become like a computer mouse tool dictating commands.

O’Neill said the camera is focused on the bridge of your nose, explaining that when an individual moves the bridge of his or her nose one direction it is signaling to the computer to go in a particular direction.

Jaiswal said, for example, that a left, right, up, down head tilt is tracked to any event such as opening chrome or restarting the computer. Eye blinks, he said, are tracked to mouse/keyboard clicks.

With the technology running on similar devices it is adaptable in long-term care centers, education, rehabilitation, remote learning, and assistive home-care environments, according to Jaiswal.

Jaiswal noted that it is not only limited to computers. It can also be used with wheelchairs, he explained.

“A person with a disability can sit in the chair and just use gestures to move the wheelchair,” he said. “If you look up the chair goes forward, if you look down, the chair goes backward.”

He said it could also benefit seniors in assisted living facilities, helping them to go from point A to point B with a wheelchair using facial gestures that inform the AI technology.

O’Neill said the software couldn’t be used without the assistance of AI.

HOSPICE

Continued from page 1D In choosing a hospice provider, you would want to consider the provider services and reputation, if the staff is specifically trained in Alzheimer’s disease, the plan of care developed by the staff, and if the hospice provider is licensed by the state or accredited by a licensing organization such as the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.

People with Alzheimer’s dis-

New York of helping lure teenage girls to be sexually abused by the late Jeffrey Epstein; the verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14. (Maxwell would be sentenced to 20 years in prison.)

In 2024, Jimmy Carter, a Georgia peanut farmer who was elected president in the years after the Watergate scandal and served one tumultuous term starting in 1977, died at age 100.

After his presidency, Carter worked tirelessly as a global humanitarian, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Jon Voight is 87. Actor Ted Danson is 78.

Actor Patricia Clarkson is 66.

Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski is 58. Actor Jennifer Ehle is 56. Actor Jude Law is 53. Actor Mekhi Phifer is 51. Actor Diego Luna is 46. Actor and producer Alison Brie is 43. Actor Jane Levy is 36.

Actor Dylan Minnette is 29.

AI is used to track the face gestures in real time, Jaiswal said.

The system “also enhances accessibility in the gaming industry, enabling inclusive gameplay and new hands-free interaction styles for slower-paced, strategy, simulation, or narrative-driven games,” according to information on the system.

The idea, Majeski said, is for children who have mobility issues to interact with objects in their environment.

“We are talking about gaming literacy for learning,” she said.

“If it is a toy and they can’t turn the button on could you help us hack that toy so he could turn that button with the whole hand grasp? If it is a computer can you help us to connect something to the computer to get him to be able to do those actions?”

Majeski said the team conducted trials with students, Ruocco and Duggan, to make sure the software works if someone is wearing glasses or has a stiff neck. They found it to be successful in all those situations, she said.

The software is calibrated to the person’s range of motion.

“There is money behind bringing it to the market so even if there is a source option for people with disabilities we still need funding to bring it to a place where it is an open source option for people with disabilities to use it on their own,” she said.

O’Neill explained the simplicity of the software.

“This is not using special hardware,” he said. “It is not using a fancy webcam. It is using the webcam built into any tablet or any phone.”

Jaiswal said it is his hope that the technology becomes an everyday use for people that need it and for people who may want to use it for convenience.

“The technology is useful in hospital settings,” he said. “Patients can use facial gestures to communicate in a hospital setting, especially for patients who can’t speak.”

ease deserve, and are entitled to, the option of hospice and palliative care. To find more about hospice care programs, visit the Louisiana/Mississippi Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (lmhpco.org) or the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization.

Dana Territo is an Alzheimer’s advocate and author of “What My Grandchildren Taught Me About Alzheimer’s Disease.”

She hosts “The Memory Whisperer.” Email her at thememorywhisperer@gmail. com.

important, bones are susceptible to other types of impact injuries.

These include bone bruises.

Based on your symptoms, it’s possible that this is what happened.

A bone bruise occurs when force strikes the bone hard enough to cause damage to its surface structure. Rather than a break in the bone, as happens in a fracture, a bone bruise is a localized area of microfractures. Depending on the severity of the injury, these can reach into multiple layers of bone tissue. Symptoms of a bone bruise include the pain, bruising and localized swelling that you described. But unlike a fracture, a bone bruise does not impair the integrity of the bone. That means it does not need to be stabilized.

The word “bruise” in this type of injury can be misleading. Even though you are able to stand and walk, the damage to the bone can be substantial. The swelling and bruising and tenderness of a bone bruise can take weeks to subside.

During that time, you need to dial down your activity level, regularly elevate the affected limb and avoid percussive movement. You can also use anti-inflammatory medications to manage pain. The structure of the bone itself needs to heal as well. This can take a surprisingly long time — up to three to six months, or even longer.

It would also be wise to check in with your health care provider to rule out other possible injuries.

These include a deep bruise that

may benefit from a guided healing process; a cortical fracture, which is a break in the outer layer of the bone; or a hematoma, which is a collection of blood outside of a vessel. Your doctor will ask for details of how the injury happened and assess swelling, pain and mobility. If they suspect a more serious injury, they may recommend imaging tests. The goal is an accurate diagnosis and appropriate treatment to head off any long-term problems.

Send your questions to askthedoctors@mednet.ucla. edu, or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1450, Los Angeles, CA, 90024.

Practice extension cord safety has multiple outlets. An electrician Dear Heloise: Regarding the recent can give advice on this subject hint suggesting we plug in extenmatter. — Francis W., Hickory, N.C. sion cords behind heavy pieces of furniture for future use.

Rough towels This can be a serious safety hazard if proper precauDear Heloise: I have read your hints/advice for over tions are not taken. Any 50 years and thank you! such cords can be a hazard I sure hope that you can to young children or pets if help me. they play with or chew on Hints from When my sweet mother them. They should also be Heloise passed away, I became rated for heavy duty and the owner of her many as short as possible. Light duty cords, if used with devices or beautiful towel sets. These have tags from Wamsutta Suprima appliances that draw significant current, will heat up, creating a po- or Cannon. Unfortunately, while these towels absorb, they are stiff tential fire hazard. Longer-length and feel rough when drying off. cords increase this effect. They I have tried adding vinegar to are also inefficient due to the voltthe wash, baking soda to another age drop that will occur. Today, most power cords of all types have wash, vinegar and baking soda together to the wash, fabric softa tag attached that give the rating in watts and/or current. You should ener to the wash, and even fabric know the wattage or current draw softener sheet in the dryer to no of anything you are plugging into avail. What is the answer? an extension cord before using Do towels lose their “softness” one. This is especially important over time and with many washwhen using an extension cord that ings? Should I just donate these

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their specifications, begin at $2,200 — but are made for the long haul.

“They will last forever,” said Corcoran, on a recent fall morning at her studio (wearing, for the record, a dapper-looking pair of her own black Oxfords). “My background is in sustainability; I am not about fast fashion.”

Making a pair of shoes from scratch is an elaborate and lengthy process, changed little over the centuries. A shoemaker first takes meticulous measurements of the client’s feet and modifies a last (a foot mold) based on those measurements. The shoe’s design is translated into a pattern, which is used to cut the leather; the upper is then brogued (the engraved lines of decoration seen on many shoes, particularly Oxfords) and handdyed. The two pieces of the upper are sewn together, and there’s a trial fitting at this point.

Once adjustments are made, the upper is attached to the sole with small nails or thread, followed by a steel shank, welt and cork filler, then the outsole and hand-stacked heel. Finishing touches include polishing, laces and final details. Each pair takes about a week to make, as everything is done by hand; there are no high-tech shortcuts in traditional shoemaking. There’s no question that a handmade pair of Corcoran’s shoes is an investment, but the price reflects the many hours of handwork, the high-quality leather and laces, the attention to detail, the personalized fittings.

You can buy designer shoes priced at $2,000-plus at Nordstrom, but they won’t be custom-made for your foot.

Sandra Schumann, the Seattlebased director of development for a climate institute at Harvard University, owns two pairs of Corcoran’s shoes and feels they are well worth the price. “Wearing a pair that’s been shaped precisely to your foot is an experience like no other,” she wrote in a text. “Every detail, from the leather to the colors, feels thoughtfully chosen … You feel as though the shoe is part of you, a natural extension of who you are.”

Corcoran’s clientele is wideranging, with a nearly 50-50 malefemale split, ages spanning from the 30s to 90s, and occupations including construction workers, executives, chefs, musicians and doctors.

Though Corcoran has a lessexpensive line of shoes manufactured in Portugal to her specifications and sold in her shop ($700), all of her bespoke shoes are made right there in her studio. Leolo Shoes, on the south end of Pike

Place Market at 93 Pike St., No. 103, is two adjacent but very different rooms, each smelling of warm leather. The first is an inviting, conventional shop, with shoes arrayed on shelves alongside numerous other wares: belts, bags, socks, key fobs, shoe-care products, shoehorns.

It’s the second room where the magic happens, on and around three scarred work tables. An enormous grinding machine, in a green that matches a pair of cheerful Oxfords on display, lurks in a corner; a bouquet of scissors and other tools blooms in a pot on a side table. Lengths of leather, in a rainbow of colors, hang on the wall, as do a dizzying variety of cutting tools. Several sewing machines, as if poised for battle, punctuate the room’s perimeter, but many of the tools on the tables are simple: pencils, hammers, glue pots.

Corcoran hasn’t spent her entire adult life making shoes; she’s one of those people who figured out her bliss a little later, crafting her first pair at the age of 46. But a love for shoes has been a constant through the years: She remembered playing with her parents’ shoes as a child, and being fascinated by their form. As a teen, she’d buy shoes at Goodwill and “paint them and do weird things to them and sell them back to my friends.” This didn’t seem like a career, though, at least not then. After an MFA in painting and a move to Seattle in 2000, Corcoran worked in the art world, at galleries and Seattle Art Museum, and as an interior designer while raising her two daughters.

But the siren call of shoes eventually won out, nearly a decade ago. Her then-spouse, noticing that Corcoran was unhappy in her work, asked her what she really wanted to do. “And I said, I want to make shoes. I just want to make shoes. She just said do it, go do it.”

If Corcoran’s life were a movie, this is where the happy-ending montage would come in.

It takes a while to learn to make shoes from scratch: Corcoran began with a sandal-making class and studied shoemaking at Seattle’s Pratt Fine Arts Center, traveling to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for an extensive workshop with the teacher, Jessica Brommer (who now teaches shoemaking classes at Leolo Shoes). But she was, for a long time, “just a hobbyist, but a passionate hobbyist.” Eventually, Corcoran built an art studio in her backyard, practicing with leather and tools, “and then the pandemic happened and I was back there every day.” Once she started actually making shoes and selling them to friends, she pulled in her mother, Maurine Corcoran, to help with sewing, which was a nice way for them to spend some time together.

towels? Thank you for advising me. — T. Bing, Klein,Texas T., if your towels are dried outside on a line they will indeed be stiff after drying. Use a dryer and either dryer balls or sheets to soften. If your towels are gray, it could be your detergent or that you are using too much laundry soap. If the towels are white, you could also use just a little bleach. If this doesn’t work, maybe it’s time for a few new towels. — Heloise

Carton date Dear Heloise: Mary in Minnesota says she always writes the date on the end of the egg carton before it goes into the refrigerator.

There is already a date on the end of the egg carton. The three digit number between 000 and 365 is the number of days in the year.

For instance, 032 is Feb. 1. New Year’s Eve is 365 (or 366 in a leap year.) — Ronald P. Email heloise@heloise.com.

(Maurine still helps out at the shop, one or two days a week.)

The next step was a leap of faith: After a visit to Pike Place Market with visiting family, Corcoran thought, “What a cool place this would be to have a shop.” She put in an application and soon opened her business in a yellow storefront on Western Avenue in 2021. It was about a quarter of the size of her current space (that enormous grinder needed to stay in Corcoran’s garage, with the shoes traveling from work to home), but it was a start. A year ago, she reopened in the current space — larger, brighter and with much more foot traffic.

On a recent morning in the studio, several other workers were busy with shoemaking projects alongside Corcoran, their conversations punctuated by the constant pounding of hammers or the screech of the grinder. Shoemaking is a noisy art; hammering is needed to get leather seams to lie flat, while the grinder smooths edges. Shoemaker Emma Owens was carefully crafting a pattern for an elegant green-heeled shoe.

(Corcoran plans to expand the shop’s selection of higher heels; currently, most of the shoes sold are low-heeled variants on Oxfords and derbies.) Tyler Andersen, an apprentice, was working on a project to upcycle old sneakers into handbags. Master shoemaker Arthur Derkach meticulously dabbed fuchsia paint on a pair of whimsical pink-and-green Oxfords. All of them looked uncannily focused.

“Shoemaking is almost spiritual,” Corcoran said. “If you’re not present with the process, you’re going to mess up.”

Corcoran’s shoes all use real leather; vegan leather, she says, “is just not the same … When somebody creates something that has all of those properties that leather has, I will be the first person in line for it.” Her leather, she said, is sustainably sourced from tanneries with high environmental standards. It’s a policy at Leolo Shoes to minimize waste: all leather scraps are saved in a bin to be donated to Our Fabric Stash, a Pike Place Market fabric store, which includes them in grab bags.

Her profession is surprisingly appropriate for Seattle, Corcoran said. “I hadn’t anticipated it or thought it through, but it’s a really good place to be a bespoke shoemaker,” she said. “There are so many people who have problems with their feet, skiers and dancers and soccer players, cyclists, all wearing those constricting shoes, a lot of bunions.” Shoemaking has been an unexpected and late-arriving career, but it’s been a joy, Corcoran said. Sometimes, a shoe looks like a dream — and vice versa.

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AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Refrain from making promises that eat up your time or cost you. A tense situation can give you the push you need to initiate the changes necessary to head in a positive direction. Weigh the pros and cons.

PIsCEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Refuse to let anyone intimidate or push you in a direction that favors them more than you. Participate in situations and plans that offer you something in return.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Keep life simple. A minimalist attitude will help you ward off debt and stress. A strategy is necessary to avoid making poor choices. A hasty act will lead to regret. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) An open mind will lead to knowledge that can shape what's yet to unfold. Live and learn as you go, and you'll acquire inner peace, gratitude and a clear vision of prospects and lifestyle changes.

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Confusion will set in if you listen to people who don't share your agenda. Don't fear heading in a different direction. Stick to the plan that offers the greatest potential.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Frank Stewart, a syndicated columnist, has self-published “What’s Your Call?”

Each of the 14 chapters starts with two pages of information about the bidding topic being discussed. Then there are numerous quiz questions on left-hand pages with the answers on the right-hand pages. The material is based on Standard American. Stewart is not a supporter of two-over-one game-force, especially for irregular and inexperienced partnerships.

Most advice is mainstream, but I did disagree with one answer. If you open one diamond, the next player overcalls three spades, and partner doubles, Stewart thinks that is for penalty. I believe the double should say that responder has too many points to pass, but has no better call available. Opener typically passes with a balanced hand or bids with distribution.

In this deal from the book, who is to blame for reaching five spades?

Over three spades, South had three choices: pass; four spades; or something else, which suggests a slam. Four clubs was a control-bid (cue-bid). Next, North reasonably control-bid four diamonds, his club queen looking like a working card. Then South erred — he should have

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS GRAND ISLE PORT COM‐ MISSION (herein referred to as the "Owner") Sealed bids marked "Sealed Bid - Grand Isle Port Commission Shrimp Facility - Phase 2" will be received at the Grand Isle Port Commission of‐ fice located at 2757 LA 1, Grand Isle, LA 70358 Bids shall be addressed to the Grand Isle Port Commission and deliv‐ ered to the Grand Isle Port Commission office located at 2757 LA 1, Grand Isle, LA 70358 no later than 2:00 P.M. local time on Thursday, Janu‐ ary 22, 2026.

Sealed bids to be marked "Sealed Bid - Grand Isle Port Commission Shrimp Facility - Phase 2". Any bid received after the specified time and date will not be considered.

The sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 P.M. local time on Thursday, Janu‐ ary 22, 2026, at Grand Isle Port Commission office located at 2757 LA 1, Grand Isle, LA 70358 The information for Bid‐ ders, Form of Bid Pro‐ posal, Form of Contract, Plans, Specifications, and Forms of Bid Bond, Performance Bond and Payment Bond, and other contract documents may be examined at the office of Professional Engineer‐ ing and Environmental Consultants, Inc., 46148 Hwy 445, Robert, LA 70455, (504) 347-1900 (En‐ gineer) (mo@peecinc. com), and are open for public inspection be‐ tween the hours of 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. A set of such documents may be obtained from the Engi‐ neers by prospective bid‐ ders upon payment of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($150.00) de‐ posit. This deposit will be refunded upon request in accordance with R.S. 38:22I2. An electronic set of Contract Documents, Technical Specifications and Drawings may be ob‐ tained by submitting a james@ request to peecinc.com. All ques‐ tions must be submitted in writing by email to james@peecinc.com.

Each Bidder must de‐ posit with his/her bid, security in the amount, form and subject to the conditions provided in the Information for Bid‐ ders. Sureties used for obtaining bonds must appear as acceptable on the U.S. Department of Treasury Circular 570.

No bid may be with‐ drawn for at least fortyfive (45) days after scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. Such actions will be in accor‐ dance with Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes.

All bidders must sign: (I) the Bid; (2) Certificate of Corporate Principal and Surety; (3) any Addenda issued; and (4) Bid Bond which MUST always accompany the bid in the correct amount.

A Corporate Resolution authorizing a representa‐ tive of the corporation to sign the bid MUST ac‐ company the bid if the bidder is a corporation.

A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 3:00 P.M. on January 8, 2026, at the Grand Isle Port Commission office located at 2757 LA 1, Grand Isle, LA 70358. At‐ tendance of the Pre- Bid Conference is manda‐ tory.

The Contractor shall begin mobilization and procurement of materi‐ als within ten (I0) work‐ ing days of receipt of the Notice to Proceed.

The Attention of Bidders is called particularly to the requirements for conditions of employ‐ ment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the Con‐ tract, Section 3, Segre‐ gated Facilities, Section I09, Executive Order II246, and all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal Government and State of Louisiana and bonding and insurance requirements.

The successful bidder will be required to exe‐ cute the OWNER'S Stan‐ dard Form of Agree‐ ment/Contract for con‐ struction together with the Performance and Payment Bonds within ten (I0) working days after normal award of contract.

Any person with disabili‐ ties requiring special ac‐ commodations must contact the GRAND ISLE PORT COMISSION AT 985787-2229 no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

The OWNER hereby noti‐ fies all bidders that in re‐ gard to any contract en‐ tered into pursuant to this Advertisement, that Minority Business Enter‐ prises will be afforded equal opportunity to sub‐ mit offers in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, na‐ tional origin or disability in consideration for an award.

IN PARTICULAR, BIDDERS SHOULD NOTE THE RE‐ QUIRED ATTACHMENTS AND CERTIFICATIONS TO BE EXECUTED AND SUB‐ MITTED WITH THE BID PROPOSAL. Advertisement Source and Dates: www.centralauctionh ouse.com The Advocate Friday, December 22, 2025 Friday, December 29, 2025 Friday, January 5, 2026 171224-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $187.92

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS GRAND ISLE PORT COM‐ MISSION (herein referred to as the "Owner") Sealed bids marked "Sealed Bid - Grand Isle Port Commission - Re‐ pairs to the Oak Lane Dock Facility West Slip" will be received at the Grand Isle Port Commis‐ sion Office Building lo‐ cated at 2757 LA Highway l, Grand Isle, LA 70358.

Electronic bids should be submitted to www.cen tralbidding.com.

Bids shall be addressed to the Grand Isle Port Commission and deliv‐ ered to the Grand Isle Port Commission Office Building located at 2757 LA Highway 1, Grand Isle, LA 70358 or electronically submitted at www.cen tralbidding.com no later than 2:00 P.M. local time on Thursday, January 22, 2026.

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Sealed bids to be marked "Sealed Bid - Grand Isle Port Commission - Re‐ pairs to the Oak Lane Dock Facility West Slip" Any bid received after the specified time and date will not be consid‐ ered. The sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 2:00 P.M. local time on Thursday, January 22, 2026, at Grand Isle Port Commis‐ sion Office Building lo‐ cated at 2757 LA High‐ way, Grand Isle, LA 70358

payable without condi‐ tions to the Owner as a guarantee that the Bid‐ der, if awarded the Con‐ tract, will promptly exe‐ cute a Contract in accor‐ dance with bid proposal and all terms and condi‐ tions of the Bid Docu‐ ments.

The information for Bid‐ ders, Form of Bid Pro‐ posal, Form of Contract, Plans, Specifications, and Forms of Bid Bond, Performance Bond and Payment Bond, and other contract documents may be examined at the office of Professional Engineer‐ ing and Environmental Consultants, Inc. at 46148 LA Highway 445, Robert, LA 70455. If you would like to examine a set of plans or pick up a set, please contact Jeff Mey‐ ers at (225) 268-6925 or jeff@peecinc.com to set up a time. A set of such documents may be ob‐ tained from the Engi‐ neers by prospective bid‐ ders upon payment of ONE HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($150.00) de‐ posit. This deposit will be refunded upon request in accordance with R.S. 38:22l2. An electronic set of Contract Documents, Technical Specifications and Drawings may be ob‐ tained by submitting a request to james@ peecinc.com and is avail‐ able on www.centralbidd ing.com.

All questions must be submitted in writing by email to james@peecinc. com.

Each Bidder must de‐ posit with his/her bid, security in the amount, form and subject to the conditions provided in the Information for Bid‐ ders section. Sureties used for obtaining bonds must appear as accept‐ able on the U.S. Depart‐ ment of Treasury Circular 570.

No bid may be with‐ drawn for at least fortyfive (45) days after scheduled closing time for receipt of bids.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. Such actions will be in accor‐ dance with Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes.

All bidders must sign: (l) the Bid; (2) Certificate of Corporate Principal and Surety; (3) any Addenda issued; and (4) Bid Bond which MUST always accompany the bid in the correct amount.

A Corporate Resolution authorizing a representa‐ tive of the corporation to sign the bid MUST ac‐ company the bid if the bidder is a corporation.

A Mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday, January 8, 2026 at the Grand Isle Port Commis‐ sion Office Building lo‐ cated at 2757 LA Highway 1, Grand Isle, LA 70358.

The Contractor shall begin mobilization and procurement of materi‐ als within ten (l0) work‐ ing days of receipt of the Notice to Proceed.

The Attention of Bidders is called particularly to the requirements for conditions of employ‐ ment to be observed and minimum wage rates to be paid under the Con‐ tract, Section 3, Segre‐ gated Facilities, Section l09, Executive Order ll246, and all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal Government and State of Louisiana and bonding and insurance requirements.

The successful bidder will be required to exe‐ cute the OWNER'S Stan‐ dard Form of Agree‐ ment/Contract for con‐ struction together with the Performance and Payment Bonds within ten (l0) working days after normal award of contract.

Any person with disabili‐ ties requiring special ac‐ commodations must contact the GRAND ISLE PORT COMMISSION AT 985-787-2229 no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

The OWNER hereby noti‐ fies all bidders that in re‐ gard to any contract en‐ tered into pursuant to this Advertisement, that Minority Business Enter‐ prises will be afforded equal opportunity to sub‐ mit offers in response to this invitation and will not be discriminated against on the grounds of race, color, sex, na‐ tional origin or disability in consideration for an award. lN PARTlCULAR, BlDDERS SHOULD NOTE THE RE‐ QUlRED ATTACHMENTS AND CERTlFlCATlONS TO BE EXECUTED AND SUBMlTTED WlTH THE BlD PROPOSAL. Advertisement Source and Dates: www.centralauctionh ouse.com The Advocate Friday, December 22, 2025 Friday, December 29, 2025 Friday, January 5, 2026 171219-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $227.50

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

A MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 2:00 p.m. on January 6, 2026 at the New Orleans Lakefront Airport, Terminal Bldg., 2nd Floor Conference Room 6001 Stars and Stripes Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70126.

A jobsite visit will be held following the PreBid Conference. The prebid conference and job‐ site visit are mandatory for those submitting a bid to attend. The jobsite visit being conducted by LMA will facilitate access to project features that are located on private property. Outside of the recommended site visit, the Contractor will not have access to the facili‐ ties located on private property.

ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY LMA OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMODATION RE‐ QUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING. Contact the Lakefront Management Authority at (504) 355-5990 if direc‐ tions are needed to the Pre-Bid Conference.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2163 for the classification of Building Construction.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212 (A)(1)(b), the pro‐ visions and requirements of this Section, those stated in the advertise‐ ment bids, and those re‐ quired on the bid form shall not be considered as informalities and shall not be waived by any public entity.

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Dial in by phone +1 504-356-4110,, 517127593# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 517 127 593# Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 928-47 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: December 22, 29, 2025 and January 5, 2026 NOCP 8825

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Department TITLE: John Deere Equipment and Repair SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4623 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Materials, Equipment, Supplies DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO RELEASED ON: December 29, 2025 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January 12, 2026

ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4620 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Materials, Equipment, Supplies DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO RELEASED ON: December 22 , 2025 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January 12, 2026 4:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE: January 5 2026 11:30 am CST Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 211 421 892 382 54 Passcode: iR3FJ9YE

Meeting ID: 271 529 134 870 73

Phone conference ID: 333 329 153#

Passcode: df29t6jd

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

+1 504-356-4110,, 347806633# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 347 806 633# Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 934-46 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Advertising Dates: December 29, 2025, January 5 and 12, 2026 NOCP 8836

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer

172100-dec 25-jan 5-12-3t $126.48 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Department TITLE: Service for Freightliner Vehicles SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4619 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Materials, Equipment, Supplies DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO RELEASED ON: December 22, 2025 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January 12, 2026 4:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE: January 5, 2026 11:00 am CST Microsoft Teams Meeting ID:

The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: December 22, 29 and January 5, 2026 NOCP 8828 171520-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $108.30

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Department TITLE: Service for Caterpillar Engines

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 934-46 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information this sourcing about event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: December 22, 29, 2025 and January 5, 2026 NOCP 8824 171513-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $125.49 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Capital Projects TITLE: NOPD Real Time Crime Monitoring Center Phase I Building Hardening SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4615 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: CONSTRUCTION DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: December 22, 2025 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January 27, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE via TEAMS: January 12, 2026 Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 928-86 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: December 22, 29, 2025 and January 5, 2026 NOCP 8826 171517-dec 22-29-jan 5-1t $125.49 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Stormwater and Green Infrastructure TITLE: Joe Brown Solar, Battery and Generator Microgrid SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4617 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PUBLIC WORKS DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4616

RELEASED ON: December, 29 2025

TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Materials, Equipment, Supplies

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January, 28 2026

DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January 12, 2026 4:00 PM CST

Microsoft Teams

Dial in by phone

COMMODITY CODE(s): 220, 465-60, 906-38, 912-68

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

Dial in by phone +1 504-356-4110,, 333329153# United States, New Orleans

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: January 5, 2025 9:30 am CST

ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event:

RELEASED ON: December 22 , 2025

TITLE: Service for Caterpillar Engines

ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

171515-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

FOR: NEW ORLEANS LAKEFRONT AIRPORT MOFFETT HANGAR ROOF, DECK AND DOOR REPLACEMENT

All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in the form of certified check, cashier’s check, or Bid Bond as pre‐ scribed by LA RS 38:2218.A.C, in the amount equal to at least five percent (5%) of the total amount bid and

288 900 494 787 19 Passcode: HG9Kc22C

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Department

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

RCL Architecture, LLC , 900 W. Causeway Approach, Mandeville, LA 70471 Attn: Paul F. Dimitrios , Email: pdimitrios@rclconsulta nts.com, Copy: hmorales@rclconsulta nts.com, Phone: 985-727-4440 City Blueprint & Supply Company, cityblueprint‐ plans.com, 504-522-0387

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

169231-dec 9-16-23-29-4t $239.48

Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Lakefront Management Authority (LMA), 6001 Stars & Stripes Blvd., Terminal Bldg., Suite 219, New Or‐ leans, Louisiana 70126 until 2:00 p.m. on January 27, 2026.

Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic and printed form. Printed bid documents are available upon payment of One Hundred dollars ($100.00) per set. Payment for drawings is non-refund‐ able. Electronic bid docu‐ ments may be obtained without charge and with‐ out deposit. Bid Docu‐ ments may be obtained from:

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PRE-BID CONFERENCE: January 5, 2026 9:30 am CST Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 228 396 537 347 92 Passcode: Ss6Fx7PE Dial in by phone +1 504-356-4110,, 885146700# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 885 146 700# Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 928-87 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: December 22, 29, 2025 and January 5, 2026 NOCP 8827

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: January 14, 2026 Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 285-39, 290, 925-31, 939-38 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: December 29, 2025, January 5 and 12, 2026 NOCP 8840 172119-dec 29-jan 5-12-3t $107.31

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: RISK MANAGEMENT TITLE: INSURANCE BROKER-OFRECORD SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4610 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

171519-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $126.48

RELEASED ON: DECEMBER 15, 2025

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: JANUARY 27, 2026 5:00 PM CST

ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Department TITLE: Service for Freightliner Vehicles SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4618 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Materials, Equipment, Supplies DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO RELEASED ON: December 22, 2025 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: January 12, 2026 4:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE: January 5, 2026 10:30am CST Microsoft Teams Meeting ID: 247 252 168 432 50 Passcode: Mp7Zt2Go Dial in by phone +1 504-356-4110,, 67132927# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 671 329 27# Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐

PRE-SUDMITTAL CONFERENCE: JANUARY 13, 2026, 1:30 PM CST (TEAMS ONLY) Pre-Submittal - RFP 4610 Insurance Broker-ofRecord / Meeting-Join / Microsoft Teams Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 953 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Advertising Dates: December 15, 22 and 29, 2025 NOCP 8820 170308-dec 15-22-29-3t $115.38 PUBLIC NOTICE --Audubon Nature Institute is seeking a highly quali‐ fied, experienced firm to run Food & Beverage op‐ erations at the Goldring/Woldenberg Riverfront Park Event Pavilion a dynamic new venue in New Orleans.

The selected operator is expected to provide food and beverage for daily park operations as well as to flex capacity to de‐ liver food and beverage services for festivals and major corporate events.

The firm will serve as the exclusive operator for the GWRP Event Pavilion.

Opening in Spring 2026, the extended Goldring/Woldenberg Riverfront Park trans‐ forms the Governor Nicholls Wharf into a new riverfront park. The Park completes the first phase of Riverfront for All, an initiative to con‐ vert the last industrial wharves in downtown New Orleans into a nat‐ ural destination connect‐ ing over 2 miles of river‐ front park space—among the longest riverfront parks in the country.

Phase II, the Esplanade Wharf conversion, when completed, will fulfill a 40-year dream for visi‐ tors and residents to re‐ connect with the Missis‐ sippi River from the By‐ water neighborhood to Canal Street. Interested parties are invited to se‐ cure a qualification pack‐ age at www.bidnetdirect. com/louisiana/audubon natureinstitute There will be a non-mandatory site visit on January 7, 2026, at 8 am located at 1301 N. Peters, New Orleans, LA 70117. Proposals must be submitted at or before February 4, 2026, at 10:00 am. Proposals shall be submitted in sealed en‐ velopes marked “GWRP Event Pavillion Food & Beverage Operator”. Pro‐ posals must be submit‐ ted to the following: Audubon Nature Insti‐ tute, Attn: Cecilie H. Primeaux, 6500 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70118. Proposals, and amendments to Propos‐ als received after the day and time specified above will be rejected by the Audubon Nature Institute as non-responsive and returned to the team un‐ opened.

170599-dec 18-23-29-3t $109.03 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 1679 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000025744, STRIPING MACHINE TRUCK - DOTD, 01/08/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa.

Louisiana.gov/osp or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified. The right is re‐ served to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities.

Tom Ketterer Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 171589-dec 29-1t $11.48 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 1687 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000025745, ME‐ CHANICAL SWEEPER TRUCK - DOTD, 01/08/26 RFx No. 3000025747, AS‐ PHALT DISTRIBUTOR TRUCK – DOTD, 01/08/26 RFx No. 3000025749, HER‐ BICIDE TRUCK – DOTD, 01/08/26 RFx No. 3000025662, BAD BOY BN Lawn/Golf/Turf – Statewide, 01/20/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa.

Louisiana.gov/osp or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified. The right is re‐ served to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities.

Tom Ketterer Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 171935 Dec. 29, 1t $14.05

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO PROPOSERS SP# 1691 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on 02/04/2026 for So‐ licitation Number Doc1925776585 - Request for Proposal (RFP) for DBE Supportive Services for Regions A and B for LADOTD. The RFP may be https:// accessed at portal.us.bn.cloud.ariba. com/dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110000941?anI d=ANONYMOUS No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities.

Tom Ketterer Director of State Procurement Phone (225) 342-8010 171945 Dec. 29, 1t $11.48

PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT INVITATION TO BID NO. 26-FAC-0075 LEASE OF SPACE FOR MAHALIA JACKSON ELEMENTARY Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) until 11:00 A.M. (CST) on Tuesday, Janu‐

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

ary 27, 2026.

Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement procurement@nol at apublicschools.com.

The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/6HS ziAzVS4Ci40Q-q7Ad0Q After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting.

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodation for people with disabilities. The re‐ quests for any reason‐ able accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings.

Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025 SECOND INSERTION DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025 THREE INSERTION DATE: MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026 171094-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $131.29 PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 26-0074 STEM PROGRAM PROVIDER SERVICES Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) until 10:00 A.M. (CST) on Tuesday, Janu‐ ary 27, 2026.

Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement procurement@nol at apublicschools.com.

The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Tuesday, January 6, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below:

Legal Notices

y ATTN: Full Armor Films 1128 Dublin Street #200 New Orleans, La 70118 Tel (504) 300.9635 170175-dec 15-22-29-3t $286.63 PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE The Council of the City of New Orleans in accor‐ dance with Act 445 of 1983 of the Louisiana Legislature, will hold a public hearing on Janu‐ ary 8, 2025 to be held to either via video confer‐ ence or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07 on the following property located at 4417 Dryades Street, 4417 Dryades St LLC. Application for such Tax Abatement request may be reviewed at 1340 Poy‐ dras Street, Suite 1000 in the Office of Economic Development between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

LORA W. JOHNSON, LMMC, MMC CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATES: December 26 and 29, 2025 NOCP 8834 171802-dec 26-29-2t $26.38

PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE The Council of the City of New Orleans in accor‐ dance with Act 445 of 1983 of the Louisiana Legislature, will hold a public hearing on Janu‐ ary 8, 2025 to be held to either via video confer‐ ence or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07 on the following property located at 628 Jefferson Avenue, Yvonne Cazalot.

Application for such Tax Abatement request may be reviewed at 1340 Poy‐ dras Street, Suite 1000 in the Office of Economic Development between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

LORA W. JOHNSON, LMMC, MMC CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATES: December 26 and 29, 2025 NOCP 8831 171793-dec 26-29-2t $26.38 PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE The Council of the City of New Orleans in accor‐ dance with Act 445 of 1983 of the Louisiana Legislature, will hold a public hearing on Janu‐ ary 8, 2025 to be held to either via video confer‐ ence or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07 on the following property located at 111 Iberville Street, 111 Iberville LLC. Application for such Tax Abatement request may be reviewed at 1340 Poy‐ dras Street, Suite 1000 in the Office of Economic Development between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

LORA W. JOHNSON, LMMC, MMC CLERK OF COUNCIL

Register in advance for this meeting:

PUBLICATION DATES: December 26 and 29, 2025 NOCP 8833

https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/aVR BoqADRUuvAJKnhMR sMQ

171799-dec 26-29-2t $26.38

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting.

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodation for people with disabilities. The re‐ quests for any reason‐ able accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings.

Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2025 SECOND INSERTION DATE: MONDAY, DECEMBER 29, 2025 THREE INSERTION DATE: MONDAY, JANUARY 5, 2026 171093-dec 22-29-jan 5-3t $130.27

PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE The Council of the City of New Orleans in accor‐ dance with Act 445 of 1983 of the Louisiana Legislature, will hold a public hearing on Janu‐ ary 8, 2025 to be held to either via video confer‐ ence or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07 on the following property located at 1401 Delachaise Street, GD1 LLC. Application for such Tax Abatement request may be reviewed at 1340 Poy‐ dras Street, Suite 1000 in the Office of Economic Development between the hours of 9:00 A.M. and 5:00 P.M., Monday through Friday.

LORA W. JOHNSON, LMMC, MMC CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATES: December 26 and 29, 2025 NOCP 8832 171798-dec 26-29-2t $26.38

Public Notices Sex Offenders

PUBLIC NOTICE --Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Sale of Surplus Equipment Notice is hereby given that the Sewerage and Water Board of New Or‐ leans will hold public auction via GovDeals for one each of a compres‐ sor and 2004 Ford F-150 beginning on Friday, De‐ cember 15, 2025, and ending on Friday, Decem‐ ber 29, 2025.

To view a complete list‐ ing surplus items for auction, please visit https://www.govdeals. com/swbno.

Questions pertaining to the auction can be sub‐ mitted through GovDeals portal or Allen Ulrich at aulrich@swbno.org.

170186-dec 15-29-2t $46.68

Legal Notices

PUBLIC NOTICE --In accordance with LSA RS 47:6007(D)(1)(e)(ii), the production company Get Da Bag Productions LLC’s principal photogra‐ phy of the movie “MO‐ TION” has wrapped pro‐ duction in New Orleans, Louisiana as of Decem‐ ber 10th, 2025. All out‐ standing creditor claims should be mailed, prior to Friday, December 19th, 2025 to:

I, Aaron Marshall aka AARON MARSHAL, have been convicted of 14:42 - Aggravated Rape (attempted) Sexual Motivation.

Date Convicted: 3/18/2004.

My Address is: 3750 WESTBANK EXP, ROOM 202, HARVEY, LA 70058 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 9/1/1958 Height: 6'3" Weight: 265 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: Louisiana 172001, Dec 28-29 $250.00

HOME-DELIVERED

EVERY DAY

“Motion” Accounting Get Da Bag Productions LLC 8301 W Judge Perez Suite 210 Chalmette, LA 70043 Tel (504) 300.9635 Following December 19th, post accounting will be handled by: ll il

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