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McGlinchey shutdown shuffles legal landscape Law firms try to snag top talent before competition does

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Blake Cody and James Trawick, co-founders of the Hondo Rodeo Fest, speak with members of the media at the Caesars Superdome on Friday.

Organizers for inaugural N.O. event, inspired

by Angola, will include competition for prisoners

BY ANTHONY MCAULEY Staff writer

For a rodeo built around spectacle and scale, the idea that most captured the imagination of Hondo Rodeo Fest’s founders during their early planning for New Orleans came from a place few outsiders ever see: the dirt arena inside Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.

Last October, Hondo cofounders James Trawick and Blake Cody made their first visit to the Angola Prison Rodeo — the inmate-run spectacle long billed as “The Wildest Show in the South” — expecting little more than research.

What they found instead was a six-decade-old institution that had become world-famous not only as entertainment, but as a behavioral incentive and rehabilitation program inside one of the country’s most notorious prisons.

That visit has now become the most unexpected and dis-

tinctly Louisiana element of Hondo Rodeo Fest’s inaugural New Orleans run, set for April 10-13 at the Caesars Superdome.

Organizers say a select group of top-performing Angola rodeo participants will be brought to New Orleans under state supervision to compete in their own rodeo segment on the Superdome floor — a rare and high-profile moment for a prison program that typically plays to crowds of 10,000 to 12,000 spectators in rural West Feliciana Parish.

“We went out there just curious and had no idea what we were walking into,” said Trawick, a former professional rodeo competitor who now serves as Hondo’s CEO. “Not just any inmate gets to compete. You earn your way there through behavior, and then you earn your way again through performance. It’s structured around

The decision by McGlinchey Stafford PLLC leaders this week to shutter their powerhouse law firm after more than 50 years sent shock waves across south Louisiana’s legal community, and even took some of the firm’s attorneys by surprise.

It also began reshaping the local legal landscape. In the days since the announcement, at least two firms have announced that McGlinchey attorneys will be joining them, bringing lucrative practices and longtime clients along.

New Orleans-based Adams and Reese said Thursday it is hiring nearly a third of McGlinchey’s Baton Rouge office — 11 attorneys and two paralegals — from the real estate and corporate transactions group. More announcements are expected to follow, as firms try to snag top McGlinchey talent before the competition does.

Amid the reshuffling, the full picture of what caused McGlinchey’s partners who own the firm, known as equity members, to vote to dissolve

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Alito recuses from coastal lawsuit case Supreme Court arguments set to begin Monday

BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer

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Riley Green played the Hondo Rodeo Fest in Phoenix on Nov. 9, closing out the three-day event with Jason Aldean at a sold-out Chase ä See RODEO, page 6A Field.

On the eve of oral arguments in a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that could determine the fate of dozens of lawsuits that seek billions in damages to repair Louisiana’s eroding coastline, Justice Samuel Alito has recused himself, citing a financial conflict of interest.

The Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Plaquemines Parish case will determine whether the lawsuits, brought

by Louisiana parishes against oil companies, belong in state or federal court. The high court’s ruling could determine whether a jury’s $745 million verdict in Plaquemines Parish stands. Oral

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Trump promises oil executives ‘total safety’ in Venezuela

BY JOSH BOAK and AAMER MADHANI Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday called on oil executives to rush back into Venezuela as the White House looks to quickly secure $100 billion in investments to revive the country’s ability to fully tap into its expansive reserves of petroleum.

Since the U.S. military raid to capture former Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro on Saturday, Trump has quickly pivoted to portraying the move as a newfound economic opportunity for the U.S., seizing tankers carrying Venezuelan oil, and saying the U.S. is

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taking over the sales of 30 million to 50 million barrels of previously sanctioned Venezuelan oil and will be controlling sales worldwide indefinitely.

Trump used the meeting with oil industry executives to publicly assure them that they need not be skeptical of quickly investing in and, in some cases, returning to the South American country with a history of state asset seizures as well as ongoing U.S. sanctions and decades of political uncertainty.

“You have total safety,” Trump told the executives. “You’re dealing with us directly and not dealing with Venezuela at all. We don’t want you to deal with Venezuela.”

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panies will be spending at least $100 billion of their money, not the government’s money. They don’t need government money. But they need government protection.”

The president said the security guarantee would come from working with Venezuelan leaders and their people, instead of deploying U.S. forces. He also said the companies would “bring over some security.”

Trump played up the potential for major oil companies to strike

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First Superman comic book sells for $15M

A rare copy of the comic book that introduced the world to Superman and also was once stolen from the home of actor Nicolas Cage has been sold for a record $15 million.

The private deal for “Action Comics No. 1” was announced Friday. It eclipses the previous record price for a comic book, set last November when a copy of “Superman No. 1” was at sold at auction for $9.12 million.

The Action Comics sale was negotiated by Manhattan-based Metropolis Collectibles/Comic Connect, which said the comic book’s owner and the buyer wished to remain anonymous.

The comic — which sold for 10 cents when it came out in 1938 — was an anthology of tales about mostly now little-known characters. But over a few panels, it told the origin story of Superman’s birth on a dying planet, his journey to Earth and his decision as an adult to “turn his titanic strength into channels that would benefit mankind.”

Its publication marked the beginning of the superhero genre.

About 100 copies of Action Comics No. 1 are known to exist, according to Metropolis Collectibles/Comic Connect President Vincent Zurzolo.

“This is among the Holy Grail of comic books. Without Superman and his popularity, there would be no Batman or other superhero comic book legends,” Zurzolo said. “It’s importance in the comic book community shows with his deal, as it obliterates the previous record,” Zurzolo said.

Skulls, body parts found in grave robbery case

Bones and skulls visible in the back seat of a car near an abandoned cemetery on Philadelphia’s outskirts led police to a basement filled with body parts, which authorities say were hoarded by a man now accused of stealing about 100 sets of human remains.

Officers say a Tuesday night arrest culminated a monthslong investigation into break-ins at Mount Moriah Cemetery, where at least 26 mausoleums and vaults had been forced open since early November.

Investigators later searched the Ephrata home and storage unit of Jonathan Christ Gerlach, 34, and reported finding more than 100 human skulls, long bones, mummified hands and feet, two decomposing torsos and other skeletal items.

“They were in various states.

Some of them were hanging, as it were. Some of them were pieced together, some were just skulls on a shelf,” Delaware County District Attorney Tanner Rouse said.

Most were in the basement, authorities said, and they also recovered jewelry believed to be linked to the graves. In one case, a pacemaker was still attached.

Police say Gerlach targeted mausoleums and underground vaults at the 1855 cemetery. It’s considered the country’s largest abandoned burial ground, according to Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, which helps maintain the 160-acre landmark in Yeadon that’s home to an estimated 150,000 grave sites.

Shark kills woman in U.S. Virgin Islands

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — A shark attacked and killed an American woman along a beach in St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Friday.

Police identified the victim as 56-year-old Arlene Lillis of Minnesota. A hometown wasn’t immediately available.

Authorities said the attack occurred close to shore on western St. Croix on Thursday afternoon.

Police and other emergency crews responded to the beach, where crews worked “swiftly and professionally under very extreme and difficult circumstances” to treat Lillis, said Daryl Jaschen, director of the Virgin Islands’ emergency management agency.

Lillis, who was a frequent visitor to the U.S. territory, was taken to a hospital for further treatment but died from her injuries, according to Lt. Gov. Tregenza A. Roach.

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An image from video taken by an individual not employed by The Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside Iran shows people blocking an intersection Thursday during a protest in Tehran, Iran.

Iran’s leader signals protest crackdown

ers chanting against Iran’s government Khamenei says around bonfires as debris littered the demonstrators ‘ruining their streets in the capital, Tehran, and other areas into Friday morning. own streets’ for Trump Iranian state media alleged “terrorist

BY JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — European leaders urged Iran late Friday to allow its citizens to demonstrate without reprisal after Tehran signaled security forces would crack down on the protesters whom U.S. President Donald Trump has pledged to support.

At least 62 people have been killed in the protests that began in late December over Iran’s ailing economy and have morphed into the most significant challenge to the government in years.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed Trump as having hands “stained with the blood of Iranians” as his supporters shouted “Death to America!” in footage aired by Iranian state television. State media later referred to the demonstrators as “terrorists,” setting the stage for a violent crackdown as in other protests in recent years.

Protesters are “ruining their own streets ... in order to please the president of the United States,” the 86-year-old Khamenei said to a crowd at his compound in Tehran.

“Because he said that he would come to their aid. He should pay attention to the state of his own country instead.”

Iran’s judiciary chief Gholamhossein Mohseni-Ejei separately vowed that punishment for protesters “will be decisive, maximum and without any legal leniency.”

Late Friday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron issued a joint statement condemning reported deadly violence against the protesters, and urged Iran to allow its citizens to express themselves without fear of reprisal. The Associated Press could not independently confirm local media reports that state forces had opened fire on protesters in Tehran on Friday.

There was no immediate response from Washington, though Trump has repeatedly pledged to strike Iran if protesters are killed, a threat that has taken on greater significance after the U.S. military raid that seized Venezuela’s former President Nicolás Maduro.

Despite Iran’s theocracy cutting off the nation from the internet and international telephone calls, short online videos shared by activists purported to show protest-

agents” of the U.S. and Israel set fires and sparked violence. It also said there were “casualties,” without elaborating.

The full scope of the demonstrations that began Dec. 28 couldn’t be immediately determined due to the communications blackout.

The protests also represented the first test of whether the Iranian public could be swayed by Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi, whose fatally ill father fled Iran just before the country’s 1979 Islamic Revolution. Pahlavi, who called for the protests Thursday night, similarly has called for demonstrations at 8 p.m. Friday.

Demonstrations have included cries in support of the shah, something that could bring a death sentence in the past but now underlines the anger fueling the protests that began over Iran’s ailing economy.

So far, violence around the demonstrations has killed at least 62 people while more than 2,300 others have been detained, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.

“What turned the tide of the protests was former Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi’s calls for Iranians to take to the streets at 8 p.m. on Thursday and Friday,” said Holly Dagres, a senior fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “Per social media posts, it became clear that Iranians had delivered and were taking the call seriously to protest in order to oust the Islamic Republic.”

“This is exactly why the internet was shut down: to prevent the world from seeing the protests. Unfortunately, it also likely provided cover for security forces to kill protesters.”

When the clock struck 8 p.m. Thursday, neighborhoods across Tehran erupted in chanting, witnesses said. The chants included “Death to the dictator!” and “Death to the Islamic Republic!” Others praised the shah, shouting: “This is the last battle! Pahlavi will return!” Thousands could be seen on the streets before all communication to Iran cut out.

On Friday, Pahlavi called on Trump to help the protesters, saying Khamenei “wants to use this blackout to murder these young heroes.”

“You have proven and I know you are a man of peace and a man of your word,” he said in a statement. “Please be prepared to intervene to help the people of Iran.”

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pahlavi’s appeal to Trump.

Israeli strikes kill at least 13 in Gaza

The process has moved slowly since a Trump expected to ceasefire between Israel and Hamas took effect three months ago. announce Board of Peace The nearly U.S. official and another official

BY WAFAA SHURAFA

Associated Press

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 13 people, according to health officials, as President Donald Trump was expected to announce his Board of Peace to oversee the fragile ceasefire.

Health officials and family members said at least one child was among the dead in northern Gaza following several strikes there as well as east of Gaza City.

All 13 people were killed on Thursday.

Israel’s army said Friday that it struck Hamas infrastructure and fighters in southern and northern Gaza in response to a failed projectile launched by militants from the Gaza City area.

The phased ceasefire between Israel and Hamas remains in its initial stage as efforts continue to recover the remains of the final Israeli hostage in Gaza.

Officials say that Trump is expected to announce next week his appointments to his Board of Peace, which he has said he will head, marking an important step forward for his Middle East peace plan.

spoke on condition of anonymity pending a formal announcement.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday that Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov would be the board’s “designated” director-general. Mladenov is a former Bulgarian defense and foreign minister who served as the U.N. envoy to Iraq before being appointed as the U.N. Mideast peace envoy from 2015-2020. During that time, he had good working relations with Israel and frequently worked to ease Israel-Hamas tensions.

Under Trump’s plan, the board would supervise a new technocratic Palestinian government, the disarmament of Hamas, the deployment of an international security force, additional pullbacks of Israeli troops and reconstruction. The U.S. has reported little progress on any of these fronts so far.

On Thursday, Egyptian and European Union leaders met in Cairo and urged the deployment of the international stabilization force. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that Hamas still refused to disarm and called the situation “extremely severe.”

Washington exerts control over Venezuelan oil distribution

BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, AAMER MADHANI and MICHAEL BIESECKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. forces boarded another oil tanker in the Caribbean Sea on Friday, the U.S. military said, as the Trump administration targets sanctioned tankers traveling to and from Venezuela as part of a broader effort to take control of the South American country’s oil.

The predawn raid was carried out by Marines and Navy sailors launched from the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, part of the extensive force the U.S. has built up in the Caribbean in recent months, according to U.S. Southern Command, which declared “there is no safe haven for criminals” as it announced the seizure of the tanker called the Olina.

The Coast Guard then took control of the vessel, officials said.

Southern Command and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem both posted unclassified footage on social media Friday morning of a U.S. helicopter landing on the vessel and U.S. personnel conducting a search of the deck and tossing what appeared to be an explosive device in front of a door leading to inside the ship.

In her post, Noem said the ship was “another ‘ghost fleet’ tanker ship suspected of carrying embargoed oil” and it had departed Venezuela “attempting to evade U.S. forces.”

The Olina is the fifth tanker that has been seized by U.S. forces as part of the effort by President Donald Trump’s administration to control the production, refining and global distribution of Venezuela’s oil

products following the U.S. ouster of President Nicolás Maduro in a surprise nighttime raid.

In a post on his social media network later in the day, Trump said the seizure was conducted “in coordination with the Interim Authorities of Venezuela” but offered no elaboration.

The White House did not immediately respond to requests for more details.

Venezuela’s government acknowledged in a statement that it was working with U.S. authorities to return the tanker, “which set sail without payment or authorization from the Venezuelan authorities,” to the South American nation.

“Thanks to this first successful joint operation, the ship is sailing back to Venezuelan waters for its protection and relevant actions,” according to the statement.

Samir Madani, co-founder of TankerTrackers.com, said his organization used satellite imagery and surface-level photos to document that at least 16 tankers left the Venezuelan coast in contravention of the quarantine U.S. forces have set up to block sanctioned ships from conducting trade. The Olina was among that flotilla.

U.S. government records show that the Olina was sanctioned for moving Russian oil under its prior name, Minerva M, and flagged in Panama.

While records show the Olina is now flying the flag of Timor-Leste, it is listed in the international shipping registry as having a false flag, meaning the registration it is claiming is not valid. In July, the owner and manager of the ship on its registration was changed to a company in Hong Kong.

According to ship tracking databases, the Olina last transmitted its location in November in the Caribbean, north of the Venezuelan coast. Since then, however, the ship has been running dark with its location beacon turned off.

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Video shows fatal ICE shooting from officer’s perspective Release brings fresh scrutiny to Minnesota killing

BY REBECCA SANTANA, TIM SULLIVAN and GIOVANNA DELL’ORTO Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota prosecutor on Friday called on the public to share with investigators any recordings and evidence connected to the fatal shooting of Renee Good as a new video emerged showing the final moments of her encounter with an immigration officer.

The Minneapolis killing and a separate shooting in Portland, Oregon, a day later by the Border Patrol have set off protests in multiple cities and denunciations of immigration enforcement tactics by the U.S. government. The Trump administration has defended the officer who shot Good in her car, saying he was protecting himself and fellow agents.

The reaction to the shooting has largely been focused on witness cellphone video of the encounter. A new, 47-second video that was published online by a Minnesota-based conservative news site, Alpha News, and later reposted on social media by the Department of Homeland Security shows the shooting from the perspective of ICE officer Jonathan Ross, who fired the shots.

Sirens blaring in the back-

ground, he approaches Good’s vehicle in the middle of the road while apparently filming on his cellphone. At the same time, Good’s wife also was recording the encounter and can be seen walking around the vehicle and approaching the officer.

A series of exchanges occurred: “That’s fine, I’m not mad at you,” Good says as the officer passes by her door. She has one hand on the steering wheel and the other outside the open driver side window.

“U.S. citizen, former f****** veteran,” says her wife, standing outside the passenger side of the SUV holding up her phone. “You wanna come at us, you wanna come at us, I say go get yourself some lunch big boy.”

Other officers at the scene are approaching the driver’s side of the car at about the same time and one says: “Get out of the car, get out of the f****** car.” Good reverses briefly, then turns the steering wheel toward the passenger side as she drives ahead and Ross opens fire.

The camera becomes unsteady and points toward the sky and then returns to the street view showing Good’s SUV careening away.

“F****** b****,” someone at the scene says.

A crashing sound is heard as Good’s vehicle smashes into others parked on the street.

Federal agencies have encouraged officers to document encounters in which

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A supporter of Immigration and Customs Enforcement argues with a counterprotester on Friday outside the Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis. people may attempt to interfere with enforcement actions, but policing experts have cautioned that recording on a handheld device can complicate already volatile situations by occupying an officer’s hands and narrowing focus at moments when rapid decision-making is required.

Under an ICE policy directive, officers and agents are expected to activate bodyworn cameras at the start of enforcement activities and to record throughout interactions, and footage must be kept for review in serious incidents such as deaths or use-of-force cases. The Department of Homeland Security has not responded to questions about whether the officer who opened fire or any of the others who were

on the scene were wearing body cameras.

Meanwhile, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said that although her office has collaborated effectively with the FBI in past cases, she is concerned by the Trump administration’s decision to bar state and local agencies from playing any role in the investigation into Good’s killing.

She also said the officer who shot Good in the head does not have complete legal immunity, as Vice President JD Vance declared.

“We do have jurisdiction to make this decision with what happened in this case,” Moriarty said at a news conference. “It does not matter that it was a federal law enforcement agent.”

Moriarty said her office

would post a link for the public to submit footage of the shooting, even though she acknowledged that she wasn’t sure what legal outcome submissions might produce.

Good’s wife, Becca Good, released a statement to Minnesota Public Radio on Friday saying, “kindness radiated out of her.”

“On Wednesday, Jan. 7, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns,” Becca Good said.

“I am now left to raise our son and to continue teaching him, as Renee believed, that there are people building a better world for him,” she wrote.

The reaction to Good’s shooting was immediate in the city where police killed George Floyd in 2020, with hundreds of protesters converging on the shooting scene and the school district canceling classes for the rest of the week as a precaution and offering an online option through Feb. 12.

On Thursday night, hundreds marched in freezing rain down a major thoroughfare, chanting “ICE out now!” And on Friday, protesters were outside a federal facility serving as a hub for the immigration crackdown that began Tuesday in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

The Portland shooting happened outside a hospital Thursday. A federal border officer shot and wounded a man and woman in a vehicle, identified by the Depart-

ment of Homeland Security as Venezuela nationals Luis David Nico Moncada and Yorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras. Police said they were in stable condition Friday after surgery, with DHS saying Nico Moncada was taken into FBI custody Just as it did following Good’s shooting, DHS defended the actions of its officers in Portland, saying the shooting occurred after the driver with alleged gang ties tried to “weaponize” his vehicle to hit them. It said no officers were injured.

Portland Police Chief Bob Day confirmed that the two people shot had “some nexus” to Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang. Day said they came to the attention of police during an investigation of a July shooting believed to have been carried out by gang members, but they were not identified as suspects.

The chief said any gang affiliation did not necessarily justify the shooting by U.S. Border Patrol. The Oregon Department of Justice said it would investigate.

The Minneapolis shooting happened on the second day of the immigration crackdown in the Twin Cities, which Homeland Security said is the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever. More than 2,000 officers are taking part and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said they have made more than 1,500 arrests.

Documents: Immigration officers leaving La. for Minn. crackdown

BY JACK BROOK Associated Press/ Report for America

Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of

arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The shift appeared to signal a wind-down of the Louisiana deployment that was dubbed “Catahoula Crunch” and began in December with the arrival of more than 200 officers. The operation had been expected to last into February and swiftly raised

fears in immigrant communities.

The Trump administration has been surging thousands of federal officers to Minnesota under a sweeping new crackdown tied in part to allegations of fraud involving Somali residents. More than 2,000 officers are taking part in what the Department of Homeland Security has

called the biggest immigration enforcement operation ever.

The officers in Minneapolis have been met with demonstrations and anger after an ICE officer fatally shot a woman on Wednesday.

Documents obtained by the AP indicated that federal officers stationed in Louisiana were continuing

to depart for Minneapolis late this week.

“For the safety of our law enforcement, we do not disclose operational details while they are underway,” DHS said Friday in response to questions about whether the Louisiana deployment was ending in order to send officers to Minnesota.

In December, DHS de-

ployed more than 200 federal officers to New Orleans to carry out a monthslong sweep in and around the city under Border Patrol Cmdr. Gregory Bovino, who was also the face of aggressive operations in Chicago, Los Angeles and Charlotte, North Carolina. Bovino has been seen in Minneapolis this past week.

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Trump welcomed the oil executives to the White House after U.S. forces earlier Friday seized their fifth tanker over the past month that has been linked to Venezuelan oil. The action reflected the determination of the U.S. to fully control the exporting, refining and production of Venezuelan petroleum.

It’s all part of a broader push by Trump to keep gasoline prices low.

At a time when many Americans are concerned about affordability, the incursion in Venezuela melds Trump’s assertive use of presidential powers with an optical spectacle meant to convince Americans that he can bring down energy prices.

The White House said it invited oil executives from 17 companies, including Chevron, which still operates in Venezuela, as well as ExxonMobil and ConocoPhillips, which both had oil projects in the country that were lost as part of a 2007 nationalization of private businesses under Maduro’s predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

While some wildcatters and other companies expressed enthusiasm for going into Venezuela, others spoke with a degree of carefulness about the legal and political barriers that still exist.

“If we look at the commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s un-investable,” said Darren Woods, the ExxonMobil CEO. “And so significant changes have to be made to those commercial frameworks, the legal system, there has to be durable investment protections and there has to be change to the hydrocarbon laws in the country.”

Other companies invited included Halliburton, Valero, Marathon, Shell, Singapore-based Trafigura, Italy-based Eni and Spain-based Repsol as well as a vast swath of domestic and international com-

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is starting to emerge. According to attorneys familiar with the situation and a statement from the firm’s managing partner, Michael Ferachi, McGlinchey had been struggling for a while. It had lost several highly skilled attorneys that had lucrative client lists, according to announcements from rival firms, and departures had accelerated in recent months.

Now, dozens of secretaries and back-office staff are scrambling for positions, according to social media posts. Some younger attorneys or attorneys without large books of business are also looking for work.

Loyola University law professor Dane Ciolino said they’ll be doing so in a Louisiana legal market that’s more competitive and less lucrative than it used to be.

“Big cases with high billable hours are fewer and father between than 30 or 40 years ago because we don’t have the big companies that generated that kind of work,” said Ciolino. “As the business community goes, so goes the legal community.”

Big dreams It’s not unusual for mid-sized law firms like McGlinchey to experience ups and downs, lose groups of attorneys and merge or sell to other firms. But according to 10 other attorneys in New Orleans and Baton Rouge who agreed to be interviewed for this story but declined to give their names, it was surprising that McGlinchey’s owners voted to dissolve.

The New Orleans-based firm was among the most aspirational

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The president also offered a new rationale for ousting Maduro and demanding the U.S. maintain oversight of its Venezuelan oil industry, saying, “One thing I think everyone has to know is that if we didn’t do this, China or Russia would have done it.”

While Rodriguez has publicly denounced Trump and the ouster of Maduro, the U.S. president has said that to date Venezuela’s interim leader has been cooperating behind the scenes with his administration.

Tyson Slocum, director of the consumer advocacy group Public Citizen’s energy program, criticized the gathering and called the U.S. military’s removal of Maduro “violent imperialism.” Slocum added that Trump’s goal appears

to be to “hand billionaires control over Venezuela’s oil.”

Meanwhile, the United States and Venezuelan governments said Friday they were exploring the possibility of restoring diplomatic relations between the two countries, and a delegation from the Trump administration arrived in the South American nation Friday.

The small team of U.S. diplomats and diplomatic security officials traveled to Venezuela to make a preliminary assessment about the potential reopening of the U.S. Embassy in Caracas, the State Department said in a statement.

Trump also announced Friday he’d meet next week, either Tuesday or Wednesday, with Maria Corina Machado, the leader of Venezuela’s opposition party, as well as with Colombian President Gustavo Petro in early February.

Trump has declined to back Machado, even as the U.S. and most observers determined her

opposition movement defeated Maduro in Venezuela’s last election. Trump said following Maduro’s ouster that Machado “doesn’t have the support within, or the respect within, the country” to lead.

Trump called on the Colombian leader to make quick progress on stemming flow of cocaine into the U.S. Trump, following the ouster of Maduro, had made vague threats to take similar action against Petro, describing the Colombia leader as a “sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States.”

Trump abruptly changed his tone Wednesday about his Colombian counterpart after a friendly phone call in which he invited Petro to visit the White House.

The seeming detente between Petro, a leftist, and Trump, a conservative, appears to reflect that their shared interests override their deep differences.

who became the firm’s managing member in 2021, said that no single factor had led to the vote to dissolve. Rather, troubles had been building.

“This is not because of any specific attorney’s departure, or any individual financial decision or leadership action that led us to this point,” he said. “This is the result of a combination of market factors, such as lagging collections, compounded with various internal factors over several years.”

The statement also said the firm’s leaders made the decision after “assessing several strategic alternatives.”

Ferachi declined to make additional comment or respond to additional questions. His predecessor, Rudy Aguilar, also a Baton Rouge attorney who is leading the group going to Adams and Reese, also did not respond to requests seeking comment.

Prominent departures have been ongoing for at least a decade and began building in recent months.

In 2015, two prominent attorneys in the real estate and commercial transactions division took their practice to Kean Miller, according to an announcement from Kean Miller at the time. In 2020, five partners from McGlinchey’s consumer finance litigation practice went to Hinshaw, a national firm based in Chicago with more than 500 attorneys across the country, according to a release from Hinshaw.

Around the same time, the firm downsized its footprint in the Pan American Life Center in New Orleans, where it had moved in 2008 after vacating the Magazine Street String of departures building, according to real estate In a statement released Tues- sources familiar with the move.

According to Law.com, an onday, Ferachi, a Baton Rouge-based commercial litigation specialist line trade publication for the le-

gal industry, the firm’s head count declined from 199 in 2016 to 37 in 2021, though it was back up to between 150 and 160 attorneys the time of the announcement.

In 2024, defense attorney Ally Byrd left McGlinchey for Jones Walker. More recently, in late November 2025, Deirdre McGlinchey, daughter of the late founding partner, moved her successful corporate litigation practice, which represented national clients and included three attorneys, to Jones Walker.

By then, the Baton Rouge McGlinchey office was already in serious talks with Adams and Reese, according to a statement from Adams and Reese.

On Jan. 2, three days before the McGlinchey vote, Hinshaw announced it had hired four attorneys from McGlinchey’s Washington, D.C, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida, offices, the firm announced. All specialize in defending consumer financial services companies in high stakes lawsuits.

At the same time it was losing some of its top rainmakers, the firm was continuing to sign new leases for offices. In 2023, it moved its Boston office into One Beacon Street, among the city’s most prestigious office towers, with estimated rents of near $50 per square foot.

In May, it moved its Baton Rouge offices from their longtime headquarters in One American Place to the newly renovated II Rivermark Centre down the street.

Late last year, the firm announced it had created four new administrative positions, hiring from within. The move, the firm said at the time, was designed to strengthen and improve back-office functions.

The firm had also “reconfigured

its governance structure and compensation system,” Ferachi said in his statement.

panies with interests ranging from construction to the commodity markets.

Large U.S. oil companies have so far largely refrained from affirming investments in Venezuela as contracts and guarantees need to be in place. Trump has suggested that the U.S. would help to backstop any investments.

Venezuela’s oil production has slumped below 1 million barrels a day.

At the heart of Trump’s challenge to turning that around is convincing oil companies that his administration has a stable relationship with Venezuela’s interim President Delcy Rodríguez, and can provide protections for companies entering the market.

Trump, however, is confident that Big Oil is ready to take the plunge, but allowed that it’s not without risk.

“You know, these are not babies,” Trump said of the oil indus-

and aggressive in the city when it was founded in 1974. Back then, the city’s legal community was dominated by a handful of old-line firms populated by socially prominent attorneys.

McGlinchey sought to be different.

Founding partners Graham Stafford and Dermott McGlinchey were young, ambitious and smart, those who knew them remember.

They wanted their firm to be taken seriously, setting up offices in One Shell Square, now the Hancock Whitney Center, then the city’s newest and tallest skyscraper.

The firm started out doing mostly insurance defense, which bills at a lower hourly rate and isn’t as prestigious as corporate transactions.

But it quickly expanded as attorneys logged long hours and pursued out-of-state clients, which was less common then than today.

They also sought to recruit the best and brightest young talent coming out of law school.

By the late 1980s, the firm had bought its own office building on Magazine Street in the newly trendy Warehouse District. In a nod to the New York-style firms it sought to emulate, McGlinchey had its own cafeteria, gym and showers, signaling that its attorneys were expected to live at the office.

Both founding partners died young. Stafford in 1987; McGlinchey, at age 60, in 1993. The firm continued to grow in their absence, but some longtime competitors said it didn’t hum with the same intensity.

‘Dignity and grace’ The effect of McGlinchey’s closure is already reverberating across the markets where it operated.

Adams and Reese Managing Partner Gyf Thornton said bringing on McGlinchey’s real estate practice in Baton Rouge will not only benefit the individual attorneys from both firms but create new opportunities.

“With these kinds of combinations, we have found that we typically get a one plus one equals three,” he said. “We start with their current book of business and together we grow to something bigger than the sum of the two parts.”

Partners may bring their associates and paralegals with them when they move, though they don’t typically bring back-office staff.

In a LinkedIn post, McGlinchey’s Chief Business Development Officer Heather Morse posted on behalf of her colleagues, saying “There are people, the #McGlinchey Family, who need to find their next beginning. Many of us are blessed with wide networks, but others are not.”

She tagged 20 colleagues from the firm’s administrative staff, noting she also was “open to new opportunities.”

There’s no word on how long the wind down will take, but Ferachi said the firm “was committed to comporting ourselves with dignity and grace during this process.”

Ciolino said it’s hard to say what exactly the departure of McGlinchey will mean for the market, noting it “does seem odd the way it all went down.”

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Angola Warden Darrell Vannoy didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.

To p r e p a r e t h e A n g o l a participants for the scale of a Superdome crowd — potentially exceeding 40,000 spectators — Hondo plans to send professional rodeo athletes to the facility in advance to walk them through the format and production demands of a major league event.

“We don’t want to throw anyone out there unprepared,” Trawick said. “This is about respect for the athletes and the moment.”

Hondo Rodeo Fest is not a legacy rodeo brand but a deliberately engineered entertainment product, launched in Phoenix in 2024 with the goal of pairing elite-level rodeo with arena-scale music production.

Trawick has described the concept as an attempt to solve what he

sees as a long-standing problem in rodeo: inconsistent quality from event to event.

“In most professional sports, you know you’re seeing the best in the world every night,” he said.

“We’re trying to create that same consistency — the same elite level of competition every single ride, every single run.”

Hondo’s professional roster features a cast of roughly 76 topranked competitors per city, designed to be recognizable and repeatable as the brand expands.

The concert lineup for New Orleans, now confirmed, underscores Hondo’s ambition to operate at the scale of a major touring festival.

It will feature Jason Aldean and Lynyrd Skynyrd on Friday; Cody Johnson and Old Dominion on Saturday; and Creed and Bailey Zimmerman on Sunday.

Cody, who spent years touring as a professional musician, said the booking strategy deliberately blends stadium-level headliners with regional and local acts that reflect each host city.

“We’re also going to feature local artists,” he said. “I’ve got longstanding relationships in places like New Orleans — including musicians like Trombone Shorty — and we want this to feel connected to the local music culture, not parachuted in.”

Local artists are expected to open each night’s show, creating what organizers describe as a bridge between the rodeo crowd and the city’s broader music scene.

While the Angola component provides a powerful local hook, Hondo Rodeo Fest is also a calculated bet by state and city officials seeking to plug a conspicuous hole in New Orleans’ spring 2026 tourism calendar.

The event was first announced last October after New Orleans unexpectedly lost WrestleMania, which had been slated for the same spring window and promised one of the decade’s biggest tourism spikes. In response, the Greater New Orleans Sports Foundation and state tourism officials began searching for a multiday replacement capable of delivering comparable hotel demand.

Hondo fit the profile: three days of professional rodeo, paired with nightly stadium concerts by major national acts, all inside the weatherproof Superdome.

The state has committed $2 million from Louisiana’s Major Events Fund to secure the event, with economic development offi-

coPhillips had previously told the court that the companies were no longer parties to the case, but Harris noted that in further briefings, it was determined the companies were still parties in the underlying state court proceedings.

The case will be argued before the remaining eight justices. If they tie 4-4, the lower court’s ruling will be upheld and the case will remain in state court.

Chevron and ExxonMobil have asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower court’s ruling that the cases belong in state court. The companies have long argued that their actions on the coast were related to the production of aviation fuel during World War II. Because

the production of aviation fuel was part of a federal war effort, the companies argue the cases belong in federal court.

But a 2024 U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that the cases belong in state court cleared the way for last year’s jury trial in Plaquemines Parish that resulted in a verdict ordering Chevron to pay $745 million in damages to repair a section of the coast.

If the high court rules that the case belongs in federal court, a federal judge could vacate the state court’s ruling.

The Supreme Court’s decision in this case could affect dozens of others. Since 2013, coastal parishes, represented by Baton Rouge law

firm Talbot, Carmouche & Marcello, have filed more than 40 lawsuits alleging that oil and gas companies polluted areas of the coast and contributed to Louisiana’s land loss crisis. The Supreme Court’s ruling will likely determine whether these cases belong in state or federal court, a venue seen as friendlier to the oil companies.

Together, those cases allege billions in damages to the coast.

The ruling would likely have ripple effects for other cases nationwide, too, determining whether local juries can hold large corporations accountable for environmental damage, or whether those cases belong in federal court.

The companies argue that some

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Under the plan, eight Angola participants will compete in a standalone rodeo segment lasting roughly 30 minutes each night, staged after Hondo’s professional rodeo events and before the evening concerts. Organizers say the Angola competition will feature two to three disciplines per night, likely focused on rough-stock events such as bull riding and bronc riding.

Prize money earned during those competitions will be split evenly, with half going to Louisiana’s Victims Impact Fund and the remainder earmarked for the inmates, with the stated intention of supporting their families.

“There’s the victim, and then there are the families left behind — kids who had nothing to do with what happened,” said Cody, an Alabama native and former professional musician, in an interview Friday. “This is about creating purpose and dignity where it’s been earned, while still honoring responsibility.”

The logistics, Cody and Trawick say, have been vetted at the highest levels of state government, including the prison’s warden and Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration.

Inmates would be transported under strict supervision and will not compete directly against Hondo’s professional athletes.

Landry spokesperson Kate Kelly said the governor planned a formal announcement on the initiative and declined to comment Friday.

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Continued from page 1A arguments in the case are scheduled for Monday.

Alito has frequently recused himself from cases involving companies in which he owns stock.

In a letter to the parties involved in the case, the Supreme Court clerk, Scott Harris, wrote that “Justice Alito has determined that he will not continue to participate in this case because of a financial interest in ConocoPhillips, the parent corporation for Burlington Resources Oil and Gas Company.”

Burlington Resources and Cono-

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James Trawick, CEO of the Hondo Rodeo Fest, speaks during the Hondo Rodeo Fest lunch and learn event at the Caesars Superdome on Friday.

cials viewing it as a platform not unlike Super Bowl LIX, which was used last year to court potential investors and business relocations.

Gov. Landry and his economic development chief, Susan Bourgeois, have both signaled hopes that Hondo could become an annual spring fixture, filling a gap between Carnival season and summer conventions.

“This is exactly the kind of event that drives tourism, supports local businesses, and gives us a national stage to showcase Louisiana,” Landry said when the event was announced.

Jay Cicero, president of GNOSF, said the governor has taken a personal interest in both the Angola and economic development aspects of the weekend.

“The governor understands how meaningful the Angola story is to Louisiana, and at the same time how important it is to bring in events that generate real economic impact,” Cicero said. “Hondo checks both boxes.”

For now, Hondo’s New Orleans debut is a one-year booking. But state officials and GNOSF have made clear that a successful 2026 run could lock in multiple future dates.

If that happens, the Angola Prison Rodeo partnership may become one of the defining features of the New Orleans stop.

New Orleans may have lost WrestleMania. But with bulls, broncs, stadium rock, and a prison rodeo that has quietly shaped lives for 60 years, officials are betting Hondo Rodeo Fest can fill the Superdome — and the spring tourism calendar — in a way few other cities could replicate.

of the operations in question occurred before a law they are accused of violating took effect in 1980. They also say the lawsuits will unnecessarily hurt employment and energy production.

The cases have pitted Louisiana Republicans against the Trump administration, which has sided with the oil companies.

In a statement Friday, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill reemphasized her position.

“These cases belong in state court,” she said. “Evidence in one case alone showed that 4 billion gallons of toxic production wastewater was continually dumped into our marsh and that it caused longterm damage.”

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Russia uses new ballistic missile in attack on Ukraine

BY SAMYA KULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia bombarded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles in a large-scale overnight attack, officials said Friday, killing at least four people in the capital. For only the second time in the nearly 4-year-old war, it used a powerful, new hypersonic missile that struck western Ukraine in a clear warning to Kyiv’s NATO allies.

The intense barrage and the launch of the nuclear-capable Oreshnik missile came days after Ukraine and its allies reported major progress toward agreeing on how to defend the country from further Moscow aggression if a U.S.-led peace deal is struck.

Europe’s leaders condemned the attack as “escalatory and unacceptable,” and the European Union’s top foreign policy envoy said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s reply to diplomacy was “more missiles and destruction.”

The attack also coincides with a new chill in relations between Moscow and Washington after Russia condemned the U.S. seizure of an oil tanker in the North Atlantic. It comes as President Donald Trump signaled he is

on board with a hard-hitting sanctions package meant to economically cripple Moscow, which has given no public signal it is willing to budge from its maximalist demands on Ukraine.

Ukrainian officials said four people were killed and at least 25 wounded in Kyiv as apartment buildings were struck overnight.

Those killed included an emergency medical aid worker, according to Kyiv City Military Administration head Tymur Tkachenko.

Four doctors and one police officer were injured while responding to the attacks, authorities said.

About half of snowy Kyiv’s apartment buildings — nearly 6,000 — were left without heat amid daytime temperatures of about 17.6 degrees, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

Water supplies also were disrupted.

Municipal services restored power and heat to public facilities, including hospitals and maternity wards, using portable boiler units, he said The attack damaged the Qatari Embassy in Kyiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who noted that Qatar has played a key role in mediating the exchange of prisoners of war.

He called for a “clear re-

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A residential building burns Friday after a Russian strike in Kyiv, Ukraine. sponse” from the international community, particularly from the U.S., which he said Russia takes seriously.

Ukraine’s Security Service said it identified debris from the Oreshnik missile in the Lviv region in the country’s west. It was fired from Russia’s Kapustin Yar test range near the Caspian Sea in southwestern Russia and targeted civilian infrastructure, investigators said.

“I heard a loud, shocking explosion, and it’s normal at this time of the war to hear

these things here,” said Lviv resident Kristofer Chokhovich, who said he was an American. “I just want everyone in the world to know that Ukraine is strong and we don’t care how many missiles you send.”

Another resident, Ulyana Fedun, described the attack as “very unpleasant” but not scary because “we’ve been living in this state for four years.”

Russia’s Defense Ministry said the attack was a retaliation to what Moscow claimed

was a Ukrainian drone strike on one of Putin’s residences last month. Both Trump and Ukraine rejected the Russian claim.

Moscow didn’t say where the Oreshnik hit, but Russian media and military bloggers said it targeted an underground natural gas storage facility in the Lviv region.

Western military aid flows to Ukraine from a supply hub in Poland just across the border.

Putin has previously said the Oreshnik streaks to its

target at Mach 10, “like a meteorite,” and is immune to any missile defense system. Several of them used in a conventional strike could be as devastating as a nuclear attack, according to Putin, who has warned the West that Russia could use it against allies of Kyiv that allow it to strike inside Russia with longer-range missiles.

Ukrainian intelligence says the missile has six warheads, each carrying six submunitions.

Russia first used the Oreshnik missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in November 2024. Analysts say it gives Russia a new element of psychological warfare, unnerving Ukrainians and intimidating Western countries that aid Ukraine.

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said Ukraine would be initiating international action in response to the use of the missile, including an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council and a meeting of the Ukraine-NATO Council.

“Such a strike close to EU and NATO border is a grave threat to the security on the European continent and a test for the transatlantic community. We demand strong responses to Russia’s reckless actions,” he said in a post on X.

Swiss bar owner put Mangione’s trial could start before end of year in pretrial detention over deadly blaze

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

By The Associated Press MARTIGNY, Switzerland — Switzerland held a national day of mourning on Friday for the 40 people who died in an Alpine bar fire during a New Year’s Eve celebration, as prosecutors requested one of the managers to be placed in pretrial detention.

Valais region’s chief prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud said in a statement the detention of the man was needed to avoid a “risk of flight.” The man’s wife and co-manager will remain free under judicial supervision, the statement said.

A Swiss business register lists French couple Jacques and Jessica Moretti as the owners of Le Constellation bar, in the Alpine resort of Crans-Montana, where a fire broke out less than two hours after midnight on Jan. 1. As well as the fatalities, 116 people were injured, many of them seriously.

Local media reported that Moretti was being held in custody pending the court’s decision after the couple were questioned by prosecutors in Sion on Friday morning.

Swiss authorities have opened a criminal investigation into the owners, who are suspected of involuntary homicide, involuntary bodily harm and involuntarily causing a fire.

A memorial service and a minute’s silence marked Friday’s national homage,

while church bells across Switzerland rang out for five minutes, beginning at 2 p.m..

Across the country, people gathered to light candles, put down flowers for the victims and followed the national ceremony that was livestreamed on public television.

Speaking at the memorial ceremony in Martigny, Swiss President Guy Parmelin said that “the memory of that terrible night illuminates the faces of the 156 victims, their happy days, their carefree spirit.”

He added: “Our country is appalled by this tragedy.

It bows before the memory of those who are no longer with us. It stands by the bedside of those who are about to embark on a long road to recovery.”

Investigators have said they believe sparkling candles atop Champagne bottles ignited the fire when they came too close to the ceiling.

Authorities are looking into whether soundproofing material on the ceiling conformed with regulations and whether the candles were permitted for use in the bar. Fire safety inspections hadn’t been carried out since 2019.

The severity of burns made it difficult to identify some victims, requiring families to supply authorities with DNA samples. Police have said many of the victims were in their teens to mid-20s.

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione’s federal death penalty trial in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson could begin before the end of the year, a judge said Friday while weighing a defense bid to bar the government from making it a capital case.

U.S. District Judge Margaret Garnett said she expects Mangione’s trial to begin in December — or possibly January 2027, as federal prosecutors suggested — if the death penalty is still on the table. If not, she said, Mangione could stand trial in October.

Either way, Garnett said, she expects jury selection to begin around Sept. 8. No trial date has been scheduled in Mangione’s parallel state murder case. Prosecutors previously said they anticipated the state trial to be first.

Garnett said she would issue a written schedule after looking at her calendar and reviewing notes of conversations she’s had with the court’s jury coordinator.

The judge said she would rule at a later date on the defense’s requests to prevent prosecutors from seeking the death penalty, throw out some charges and exclude certain evidence. Another pretrial conference is scheduled for Jan. 30.

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At the same time, they are asking Garnett to throw out two of the four charges against him, including the murder by firearm charge that has enabled the government to seek the death penalty. They argue that it

is legally flawed.

Federal prosecutors say Mangione’s lawyers are wrong on both fronts, countering that the murder charge is legally sufficient and that “pretrial publicity, even when intense” is hardly a constitutional crisis. Any concerns about public perceptions can be alleviated by carefully questioning prospective jurors about their knowledge of the case, prosecutors wrote in a court filing.

Mangione has pleaded not

guilty to federal and state murder charges, which carry the possibility of life in prison.

Friday’s hearing was Mangione’s first trip to Manhattan federal court since his April 25 arraignment.

A cause célèbre for people upset with the health insurance industry, Mangione again drew supporters to the courthouse. Some wore green clothing and carried signs such as “Free Luigi” and “No Death For Luigi Mangione.”

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A Flood Watch remains in effect for most of Southeast Louisiana due to the possibility of flash flooding as a result of excessive rainfall.

While rain chances are high this morning, they fall to 30% this afternoon. Temperatures today will rise only to the low 70s and the southwesterly winds will become northerly this afternoon and evening. So, expect a cloudy, mild and breezy day with numerous showers this morning, scattered rain this afternoon, mostly sunny, windy and chilly conditions tomorrow.

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Shreveport 61/40 Longview 58/34

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Baton Rouge 71/44

Lafayette 69/44

Beaumont 65/42

New Orleans 73/49

Lake Charles 67/43 Houma 75/48

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The solunar period schedule allows planning days so you will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover during those times. Major periods begin at the times shown and last for 1.5 to 2 hours. The minor periods are shorter.

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Forecasts and graphics, except Damon’s Outlook, provided by AccuWeather, Inc. ©2026

Winter storm slams U.K., France

BY DANICA KIRKA and SYLVIE CORBET Associated Press

LONDON — Thousands of homes and businesses across northern France and southern England were without power Friday morning and residents faced widespread travel delays after a storm swept in off the Atlantic, bringing high winds, rain and snow to the region.

The low-pressure system, named Storm Goretti, pummeled the Isles of Scilly overnight, with wind gusts up to 99 mph recorded in the archipelago off the southwestern tip of England. Local government officials reported blocked roads, unstable buildings and power outages that left some people without water.

More than 57,000 were without power across south-

western England, the Midlands and Wales, according to National Grid, which runs the country’s electricity transmission network.

As the storm moved across the United Kingdom, it collided with an existing mass of Arctic air, bringing snow to northern areas and heavy rain to the south.

That extended the misery in northern Scotland, where snowplows have been working overtime to keep roads open after more than about 20 inches of snow fell earlier in the week. More than 250 schools across Scotland were closed on Friday, with some remaining shut for a fifth straight day.

National Rail warned people across the U.K. to check before traveling, because the storm had disrupted services across England, Scotland and Wales. Birmingham Airport,

which closed briefly because of snow, said that it had reopened with “reduced runway operations.”

The disruptions came after the Met Office, Britain’s national weather service, issued a rare red weather warning — its highest — in southwestern England for Thursday evening.

Red warnings are issued when the forecaster considers it “very likely” that there will be life-threatening conditions.

Strong winds from Storm Goretti also battered northwestern France on Friday.

No major damage was reported, but some 320,000 homes were still without power at midday, down from 380,000 earlier, national power grid operator Enedis said.

Most of the outages were concentrated in the Normandy region.

Judge to block effort to end protections for relatives of citizens, green card holders

BY MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press

BOSTON — A federal judge said Friday that she expects to temporarily block efforts by the Trump administration to end a program that offered temporary legal protections for more than 10,000 family members of citizens and green card holders.

U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani said at a hearing that she planned to issue a temporary restraining order but did not say when it would be issued. This case is part of a broader effort by the administration to end temporary legal protection for numerous groups and comes just over a week since another judge ruled that hundreds of people from South Sudan may live and work in the United States legally.

“The government, having invited people to apply, is

now laying traps between those people and getting the green card,” Justin Cox, an attorney who works with Justice Action Center and who argued the case for the plaintiffs, said.

“That is incredibly inequitable.”

This case involved a program called Family Reunification Parole, or FRP, and impacts people from Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti and Honduras. Most of them are set to lose their legal protections, which were put in place during the Biden administration,

by Jan. 14. The Department of Homeland Security terminated protections late last year.

The case involves five plaintiffs but lawyers are seeking to have any ruling cover everyone that is part of the program.

“Although in a temporary status, these parolees did

not come temporarily; they came to get a jump-start on their new lives in the United States, typically bringing immediate family members with them,” plaintiffs wrote in their motion. “Since they arrived, FRP parolees have gotten employment authorization documents, jobs, and enrolled their kids in school.”

The government, in its brief and in court, argued Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has the authority to terminate any parole program and gave adequate notice by publishing the termination in the federal registry.

It also argued that the program’s termination was necessary on national security grounds because the people had not been property vetted. It also said resources to maintain this program would be better used in other immigration programs.

France’s national weather service, Météo-France, had issued weather warnings before the storm, urging residents to remain home.

An overnight wind gust of up to 132 mph was recorded in Gatteville-le-Phare in Normandy.

Regional train services were suspended across northwestern France, with disruptions expected to last at least until Friday afternoon. High-speed rail services were operating, and authorities said they anticipated minimal impact on flights at Paris airports.

A cold spell was still gripping the broader continent on Friday, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, where temperatures in some places dropped to doubledigit negatives at night.

Heavy snowfall on Friday morning that hit Prague and

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By PETR DAVID JOSEK

People cross the medieval Charles Bridge on Friday after a heavy snowfall in Prague, Czech Republic. western parts of the Czech Republic caused traffic disruptions in the capital and elsewhere. Some flights have been delayed, and others were canceled, at Prague Vaclav Havel Airport.

The major D5 highway that leads from Prague to Germany was blocked by trucks at two places near the German border for hours while public transportation in the Czech capital came to a standstill in

some parts of the city.

In neighboring Germany, rail operator Deutsche Bahn halted its long-distance rail service for the north of the country stranding thousands of travelers. Many roads and rail connections elsewhere in the country were also affected by high winds and heavy snowfall. Public bus transportation was canceled in many regions and schools stayed shut in some areas.

Lawmakers push DOJ to comply with Epstein disclosure law

BY RYAN TARINELLI CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers sought to ensure the release of more information about Jeffrey Epstein this week, after the Justice Department last month blew through a statutory deadline for the production of documents about the deceased sex offender.

Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., and Ro Khanna, DCalif., main backers of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, asked a judge to appoint a “Special Master and/or Independent Monitor” to compel the further release of Epstein-related files, pointing to the department’s public noncompliance with the law.

“Put simply, the DOJ cannot be trusted with making mandatory disclosures under the Act,” the lawmakers wrote.

Democrats on the House

Oversight and Government Reform Committee called for Attorney General Pamela Bondi to testify on the topic.

And the same panel secured a subpoena for Les Wexner, a billionaire businessman who Democrats say was a longtime benefactor of Epstein.

Rep. Robert Garcia, of California, the top Democrat on the Oversight panel, said Friday that the Justice Department’s handling of the rollout has been illegal, sloppy and disgraceful. Blowing past the December release deadline has been a failure of the DOJ and the Trump administration, he added.

“Why the cover-up? Who are we covering for? We want to know who the co-conspirators are,” Garcia said.

In November, Congress overwhelmingly passed legislation ordering the release of documents by a mid-December deadline. The department released a trove of

investigative documents on the deadline date and published further documents afterward but hasn’t met the statute’s demands that all the records be released by the December deadline.

The rolling document release has been plagued with issues that have exacerbated questions about the department’s efforts. In particular, Massie and Khanna wrote in their letter that the department has missed the deadline, overly redacted documents and is asserting privileges that the law doesn’t allow for.

Department officials told a judge earlier this week that they have released approximately 12,285 of the potentially 2 million documents that could potentially be covered by the statute Congress passed last year. Massie and Khanna wrote to the judge to ensure the documents are released under the terms of the statute.

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Council approves home development Some residents unhappy over Tammany subdivision compromise

BY WILLIE SWETT

Staff writer

The St. Tammany Parish Council has given the go-ahead to a developer to build 50 homes on nearly two dozen acres of forest off U.S. 190 between Lacombe and Mandeville, following a compromise between the developer and the coun-

Amtrak adds new car for Gulf Coast line

cil that still frustrated some residents.

The developer, Calvin Minor Jr., had originally asked the parish to allow 75 homes near the unincorporated community of Big Branch by rezoning 22 undeveloped acres. But after the Planning and Zoning Commission denied the request, Minor agreed to compromise and sought a zon-

ing change that would allow 50 homes.

Council member Joe Impastato said the developer was “extremely resistant” to reduce the development’s density and acknowledged that some people at the meeting Thursday were “still opposed to it.” But Impastato said he felt the compromise reflected the views of majority of the peo-

ple at a community meeting that he held earlier in the week about the issue.

“We don’t need an overabundance of this kind of development,” said Impastato, who represents the area where the development will be.

“But you do need some of it,” Impastato said.

Indeed, some residents ex-

pressed gratitude at the meeting for the compromise.

But other residents remained concerned about the impacts on traffic congestion, drainage and the character of the area.

Veles McGee, a school bus driver for St. Tammany Parish public schools, said she and others moved to the area because of “rural” and “country” feel. She

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Taste of NOLA

More riders expected for Carnival season

BY POET WOLFE Staff writer

Amtrak is adding a train car to its route between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, for the 2026 Mardi Gras season, an expansion reflecting sustained demand across the Gulf Coast.

The coach car, which includes about 72 more seats, was added to trains 23 and 26 on Friday, and the increased capacity will remain in place through Feb. 23, six days after Fat Tuesday marks the end of Carnival, according to the tourism group Visit Mobile. The seat count was confirmed by Knox Ross, chairman of the Southern Rail Commission.

Train 23 departs Mobile from New Orleans daily at 6:30 a.m., while train 26 travels from New Orleans to Mobile at 5:31 p.m. The route includes Mississippi stops in Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascagoula.

The expansion underscores the popularity of a revived route that sold out on its first day in August last year. Since then, the Gulf Coast route — christened the Mardi Gras service — has carried passengers more than 46,000 times, a turnout the Southern Rail Commission has called “one of the most successful service launches in Amtrak’s history.”

Between opening day and December 2025, the service carried an average of more than 420 people per day between the two cities.

Demand surged in the fall, when the service added a third car to accommodate football fans traveling to New Orleans for Saints home games, increasing capacity by 60 seats that sold out on multiple weekends.

By October, the line had already surpassed its projections, carrying nearly 30,000 passengers by the end of the month.

Beyond ridership figures, the route has also received strong feedback from customers, according to David Clark, president and CEO of Visit Mobile. Amtrak data appears to reflect that sentiment, with 96% of customers reporting they were “extremely satisfied” with the service.

“This route is currently earning the highest ratings in customer satisfaction of any of Amtrak’s lines in the entire United States,” Clark said in a statement, “And we are thrilled to share the Mardi Gras spirit with even more people.”

Amtrak had projected about 71,000 passengers in the line’s first year. The company now expects roughly twice that number.

STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

Sienna Odekerken, who is visiting New Orleans with her mother, Kiki Odekerken, and her family from the Netherlands, takes the last slice of king cake from the tray during the annual King Cake Kickoff at The Historic New Orleans Collection in the French Quarter on Friday. The Odekerken family are traveling throughout the United States for a year and stopped in New Orleans for three days.

Shough named grand marshal Quarterback to ride in Pygmalion on Feb. 7 Staff report New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough will be the grand marshal for the Krewe of Pygmalion when the parade rolls at 6:15 p.m. Feb. 7.

Recently named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month, Shough has garnered attention helming the squad and his appreciation for his new hometown.

“I’m just excited to, one, kind of master the offense, but then also take some time, be able to experience Mardi Gras and kind of be out in the community with everybody,” Shough said as he packed up his locker for the offseason. “I’m excited for crawfish season, for sure, and I’ve probably got to go on like a swamp tour or something.”

The swamp tour may have to wait.

Pygmalion rolls along the Uptown route on the first weekend of the New Orleans parading sched-

Gretna argument led to fatal shooting, police say

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

STAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough will be the grand marshal for the Krewe of Pygmalion when the parade rolls at 6:15 p.m. Feb. 7. ule.

A first for 2026, the krewe will process to the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center for Pygmalion Fest, an extravaganzatype celebration that will include a special performance by celebrity DJ Marshmello and a variety of musical artists.

“We are thrilled to welcome Ty-

ler Shough as our grand marshal and our Saints quarterback,” said captain Jack P. Rizzuto. “His passion for New Orleans, both on the field with the Saints and within our community, deserves to be celebrated.”

Tickets for the fest are available to the public at kreweofpygmalion. org.

A New Orleans man shot and killed his cousin’s boyfriend after the couple’s argument turned physical in the parking lot of a Gretna apartment complex, according to authorities.

Mark Haynes, 56, is accused of killing 48-year-old Michael K. Smith.

Haynes appeared in Jefferson Parish Magistrate Court on Friday morning for a probable cause hearing in his case. He is booked with second-degree murder and being a convicted felon in possession of a weapon.

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Human remains found near Bogalusa to be ID’d

The Sheriff’s Office said in a ish Coroner’s Office and the Louisi- as of right now, the Sheriff’s Office Gulf Coast, but didn’t know where Washington Parish news release Friday that the re- ana State Police Crime Lab to iden- does not believe the fatal shooting the nursing home was. That apare thought to be those of tify the remains and determine a and the human remains to be con- pears not to have been true, Smith Sheriff’s Office says it mains Carley Donald Provost Sr., based cause and manner of death. nected, Sheriff’s Office spokesper- said.

After Provost Jr.’s arrest, the could be missing man on information from Provost’s son, Carley Provost Sr.’s son, Carley son Lindsay Miller said.

BY WILLIE SWETT Staff writer

The Washington Parish Sheriff’s office said human remains were found near Bogalusa late Thursday night, and although investigators believe they know the identity of the person, the level of decomposition means it will take longer to make a positive ID.

who is in custody at the Washington Parish jail after being booked Dec. 30 in connection with an unrelated homicide.

The Sheriff’s Office reported earlier this week that Provost Sr., 78, was missing and had last been seen in public in June 2025. The Sheriff’s Office was seeking the public’s help to find Provost Sr. The Sheriff’s Office says it is working with the Washington Par-

Provost Jr., has been in custody in the Washington Parish Jail since the end of last month after being arrested in a fatal shooting near Bogalusa that happened Dec. 29.

Online jail records show Provost Jr., 47, was booked with seconddegree murder and two counts of contempt of court. His bail has been set at $2 million, the jail records show.

The investigation is ongoing, but

The man killed in the December shooting has been identified as Reno Miley, 27, Miller said.

Darryl Smith, the nephew of Provost Sr., said that approximately 18 months ago Provost’s son decided to take his father out of a nursing home and take care of him himself.

Later, Provost’s son told family that his father was actually in a nursing home on the Mississippi

LSU to break ground on new library $154M project aims for 2027 start

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

Utility work is kicking off for the construction of a long-awaited, $154 million library on the LSU campus, but students still have a few years to go before they’ll be able to hit the books in the new space.

According to Paul Favaloro, executive director of planning, design and construction, the plan is to break ground in spring 2027, with doors opening in fall 2029.

The new building will sit at the corner of Field House Drive and South Stadium Drive and replace the LSU Main Library, formerly known as Middleton Library.

The project aligns with LSU’s increasingly southward orientation and will create a “hub for student engagement,” Favaloro said.

“The library location was in a place that was considered more centric to the university, but now with our master plan, things are moving toward the south,” Favaloro said. “This repositions that library to a better location.”

The new library will be 198,000 square feet and contain three levels. It will be able to hold between 1.6 million and 2 million books and media.

In addition to publications, the library will house a cafe and numerous student support services.

LSU is striving to build the “modern library,” Favaloro said.

“Libraries are evolving in how they’re being used,” Favaloro said. “The library will also have more centralized student services.”

The project will be funded

A mock-up of the new LSU Library through a mix of state and donor funds. The LSU Foundation has set a $35 million fundraising goal, with nearly $12 million contributed to date, according to a foundation spokesperson.

What’s next for the project?

The former Middleton Library, built in 1958, will continue to be operational until the new building opens, Favaloro said. He described the building as too costly to justify renovating, with air conditioning, electrical, utility and moisture issues.

“It’s had modernizations here and there, but couple that with today’s library needs and deferred

PHOTO PROVIDED By LSU PLANNING, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION maintenance needs, it would take really a gut renovation to make it meet today’s standards,” Favaloro said. “It’s more feasible to build a new one.”

The old library will be demolished, opening up the LSU Quad.

Favaloro said the arrangement will be more true to the original quad design.

The new space will require a handful of buildings already on the site to be razed, but plans are in place to relocate those departments, Favaloro said. Electrical engineering, for example, will be moved to Jesse Coates Hall.

“There’s some relocation and some modern renovations being

performed to relocate some of the other buildings that are on the site as well,” Favaloro said. “Those are underway, are getting started this month.”

Project leaders also met this week to kick off utility work. Utility lines will need to be rerouted to prepare the site for construction, Favaloro said.

Mock-ups of the exterior design have been released, though some decisions are still being made.

“The library itself is still in design,” Favaloro said. “We’re somewhere roughly in the middle of that, getting ready to start the final phase of design in the next week or so.”

N.O. man Man convicted in gas station shooting DA called it a charged ‘calculated act with child of violence’ abuse

BY BOB WARREN Staff writer

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

A Jefferson Parish grand jury on Thursday handed up an indictment charging a New Orleans man with sexually and physically abusing children, according to court records.

Dexter Hill, 35, was charged with first-degree rape, sexual battery of a victim under 13, indecent behavior with a victim under 13, obstruction of justice and cruelty to the infirm.

He appeared in Jefferson Parish Magistrate Court on Friday morning and pleaded not guilty.

Hill was first arrested Sept.

10 following an investigation by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. The victims in the case are three children under the age of 13, according to authorities.

Hill, who is known to the families of the victims, is accused of raping one female victim and showing pornography to another, according to the Sheriff’s Office. He is accused of repeatedly hitting the third victim, a boy, on the head with a bottle.

A family member of one of the victims became concerned about unusual behavior and asked for help from a school counselor, according to the Sheriff’s Office. The victim disclosed to abuse to school officials in April.

After the indictment, the court set Hill’s bail at $775,000.

He was being held Friday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. Hill returns to court Feb. 12 for an evidence hearing.

A Covington man has been convicted of second-degree murder in a deadly 2023 ambush-style shooting at a Lacombe gas station and now faces a life sentence, authorities said.

Marrio Haynes Jr., 27, is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 26 by Judge Vincent J. Lobello of the 22nd Judicial District. A second-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory life prison sentence, the northshore District Attorney’s Office said.

The St. Tammany Parish jury that convicted Haynes Thursday of killing Juwarren Martin, 23, also found him guilty of obstruction of justice and being a felon in possession of a gun.

“This was a calculated act of violence that ended a young life at a local place of business,” District Attorney Collin Sims

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Continued from page 1B urged the council to keep the zoning as it was.

The 50-home proposal is a “ridiculous development in this area,” said Marie Tavaszi, who lives in Big Branch.

“To suggest that this is a ridiculous development is offensive, quite frankly,” the developer’s lawyer, Paul Mayronne, shot back. He said there are denser developments nearby. He said the development was on relatively high ground.

said following the verdict. “The defendant chose to escalate a verbal grievance into a deadly ambush.”

Haynes was accused of shooting Martin at the gas station on U.S. 190 on Dec. 26, 2023, following a conflict that had begun earlier that day when the victim’s sister and Haynes’ girlfriend, identified by the District Attorney’s Office as Megan Ayanna Coleman, got into a fight at a tobacco store in Abita Springs.

The DA’s office said trial testimony showed that Martin was at the gas station when Haynes exited a black Hyundai Elantra with an “AR-15 style rifle” and fired a single shot into Martin’s torso from behind. Witnesses said that Haynes had declared his intent to kill Martin moments before firing the rifle at him.

Haynes fled on foot, still carrying the rifle, and Coleman, who was driving the Hyundai, picked him up a short distance away, the DA’s office said.

Using surveillance video from area businesses, including the gas station, Sgt. Hayden Folse of the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office

was able to track the Hyundai.

Coleman was apprehended later that night in Folsom; Haynes was captured by the U.S. Marshals Service two months later at a trailer in Kentwood owned

by Coleman’s father, the DA’s office said.

Haynes has a prior conviction for simple burglary, the DA’s office said.

The DA’s office said eyewitnesses testified during the trial in Covington that Haynes was the person who killed Martin. Coleman’s testimony also identified Haynes as the man who exited the Hyundai and approached Martin at the gas station.

The DA’s office said Coleman also admitted looking for Martin and his sister immediately after their fight in an effort to seek revenge. Coleman, 23, of Covington, faces charges of principal to second-degree murder and obstruction of justice and is scheduled for trial in April, authorities said.

The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorneys Tiffany Dover and Shelby Stoop.

“As with any compromise, there are going to be people on both sides that are unhappy with it, but that’s probably a mark of a good compromise,” Mayronne said.

Mayronne said he expects the homes to be between 1,600 to 2,000 square feet, with probably around two to three bedrooms.

Council member Rick Smith noted that even with the compromise, the rezoning would change the number of homes from around 20 to 50 — an approximately “150% increase,” he said. The plot of land has been zoned as L1, which allows one home per acre.

But Smith ultimately joined Impastato and the rest of the council to unanimously overturn the Planning and Zoning Commission’s denial of the developer’s request.

The council then introduced an ordinance, which will likely be adopted next month, to change the zoning from L1 to S1, which will allow more homes.

After the decision, McGee and Tavaszi expressed frustration with the council’s decision.

“I’m very disappointed,” Tavaszi said.

Email Willie Swett at willie. swett@theadvocate.com.

family urgently tried to locate his father, Smith said.

The son was originally not cooperating at all, but has since shared some information with investigators, Miller said. She said the remains were found on a property off North Jones Road.

“I feel blessed that they found his body so quickly so the family can start with the closure process,” said Smith.

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Continued from page 1B The shooting occurred just before 6:30 a.m. at the Creekside Apartments in the 1400 block of Virgil Street on Nov. 16. Officers responded to the scene and found Smith lying on the ground, suffering from four gunshot wounds, Gretna Police Detective Jace Pellegrin testified.

Smith was pronounced dead at the scene. He’d been shot twice in the chest, once the arm and once in his leg. Pellegrin testified that one of the gunshot wounds to Smith’s chest had soot and stippling — tiny cuts to the skin — that indicated the gun was close to the victim when fired.

Investigators recovered four spent 9 mm shell casings from the scene, Pellegrin said.

Detectives spoke with two women who’d witnessed the shooting, according to Pellegrin. One of the women identified herself as Smith’s girlfriend and Haynes’ cousin, Pellegrin told the court.

The two women had been drinking in the apartment building’s parking lot when they made a trip to a nearby convenience store, Pellegrin testified. Outside of the store, they ran into Haynes.

All three chatted for a bit before Haynes is seen on store security video handing a gun over to one of the women to hold while he entered the business, according to Pellegrin.

Pellegrin noted that Haynes has a 1997 conviction for two counts of armed robbery in Orleans Parish, which bars him from possessing firearms. Haynes was sentenced to 491/ 2 years in prison, but he was paroled in 2013, according to the state Department of Corrections.

Haynes and the two women made their way back to the apartment parking lot and continued to hang out. That’s when Smith drove up and parked, according to authorities.

Smith and his girlfriend began arguing, though Pellegrin didn’t say what led to the disagreement.

The witnesses told officers Smith pushed his girlfriend, prompting Haynes to get involved, according to Pellegrin.

“At that time, the defendant steps into the argument and it becomes physical,” Pellegrin said.

Smith ran to his vehicle and opened the passenger-side door, followed by Haynes. The witnesses told police Smith appeared to be reaching for something. Haynes produced a firearm and shot the victim, according to authorities.

Smith ran from Haynes along the side of his vehicle, Pellegrin said. Haynes continued firing until Smith collapsed to the ground.

The witnesses told police they picked up a .380-caliber pistol that belonged to Smith from the ground near his body, Pellegrin testified. One of the women hid the gun in her apartment, but it was later recovered by investigators who executed a search warrant.

The witnesses told police they never saw Smith point the gun, fire it or threaten to shoot Haynes, he said.

Haynes, who drove away before police arrived, turned himself in to authorities Nov. 26, Gretna police said.

Jefferson Parish Criminal Commissioner David Wolff ruled there was probable cause to continue holding Haynes as charged. Bail was set at $600,000, but Haynes was being held without bond for parole violation.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.

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DA drops charges in hazing case

BY MEGAN WYATT

Staff writer

The Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office will not pursue charges against two McNeese State University students who were arrested last fall over hazing complaints at Kappa Sigma fraternity.

The McNeese Police Department arrested the students in October on one misdemeanor count each of criminal hazing. University records described the case as being based on “physical, psychological and emotional hazing” with alcohol involved.

But attorneys for the two students — whom The Advocate is not naming since they are not being prosecuted — say the case against them was weak from the start.

“Our clients should never have been arrested, had their phones seized, or seen their names splashed across the news and social media,” said attorneys Adam Johnson and Andy Leonards in a statement. “The complaint in this case, from a less than reputable source, alleged waterboarding and hazing — claims that were demonstrably false.”

“Once that proof was presented to the court, the judge agreed and the search warrants were quashed,” the attorneys’ statement continued. “All charges were then timely rejected by the state. McNeese likewise concluded that my clients were not guilty. My clients love McNeese to

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The Calcasieu Parish District Attorney’s Office will not pursue charges against two McNeese State University students who were arrested last fall over hazing complaints at Kappa Sigma fraternity. their core and will continue to represent their families, their community and their university with integrity.”

Bethany Bryant, a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office, confirmed that the charges have been dropped and her office will not prosecute the case.

A McNeese investigation determined that the fraternity did not violate the anti-hazing policy, but the organization was found responsible for violating the standards of conduct outlined for student organizations.

McNeese issued sanctions against Kappa Sigma, including suspending its chapter and requiring all its members to complete at least three hours of antihazing training, along with 40 hours of community service during the spring se-

mester. The fraternity may be eligible for reinstatement in April.

The punishment from McNeese went further than the fraternity’s proposed plan of action in the wake of the incident, which recommended suspending everyone involved but not the fraternity as a whole. The fraternity also proposed an increase in training and community service.

“Along with these selfproposed immediate steps, we are undergoing and conducting an internal investigation into the matter in order to identify practices and actions contrary to the Kappa Sigma Code of Conduct and the values of this beloved fraternity,” the acting fraternity president wrote in its proposed action plan. “We realize fully the gravity of such a situation

and it is our sincere hope that through this commitment to restoration we can rebuild our trust with the community, McNeese State University and those individuals affected by these events.”

The Oct. 2 incident that prompted the investigation involved pledges being forced to eat an unknown mixture of items until they were nauseated, as well as pledges being hosed down with water, according to documents.

The Advocate obtained through a public records request. The university did not provide The Advocate with videos or photos included in complaints.

Court records show that 14th Judicial District Judge Bobby Holmes recalled search warrants that the court had previously issued after reviewing 10 videos and concluding they did not depict hazing under the definition of state law.

Three videos that Johnson, one of the students’ attorneys, shared with The Advocate offer a glimpse into the Kappa Sigma initiation.

One video shows young men being shouted at and hosed down as they recite a fraternity oath. Another shows a lumpy, orange mixture being poured onto the heads of the students, who are seen spitting out the substance. A third video depicts the group doing squats as they chant “Thank you!” Beer cans are visible in all three of the videos.

Health providers expand lab services FMOL Health, Orion lab enter joint venture

BY IANNE SALVOSA Staff writer

Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health and Orion Laboratories are launching a partnership this year to expand access to lab services for patients and providers statewide.

The joint venture will bring Orion’s Baton Rougebased services, like test ordering and results delivery, to FMOL Health’s system, which serves Acadiana, the Baton Rouge area, the northshore and northeast

Louisiana, making testing more convenient for the hospitals. FMOL Health also serves Jackson, Mississippi, but the partnership will not extend to non-Louisiana facilities.

The system will hire about 50 employees to meet the needs of the partnership.

A FMOL spokesperson said the system cannot release details on what the partnership will look like because it is in its early stages.

FMOL Health currently provides lab testing services through Labcorp and the joint venture with Orion will expand options for patients and providers.

The partnership will start this year and will gradually take effect throughout

FMOL Health locations in the state.

“At FMOL Health, we believe that investing in partnerships with other innovative local healthcare leaders like Orion Laboratories strengthens our ability to serve patients across the region,” said E.J. Kuiper, the president and CEO of FMOL Health, in a release.

“Together, we are privileged to offer additional options that will ultimately make it easier for our patients and providers to access high-quality lab services, right here at home.”

Orion Laboratories provides testing from cardiology to women’s health for hospitals, government agencies, health systems

and physicians. It is headquartered in Baton Rouge, with an office on Corporate Boulevard, and is the largest independent lab in Louisiana.

“For the past eight years, our team has built a reputation for diagnostic accuracy and responsiveness to the clinicians we serve,” David Slaughter, the CEO and cofounder of Orion Laboratories, said in the release.

“Partnering with FMOL Health allows us to scale those capabilities across a broader network — expanding access to coordinated testing, supporting reliable operations and continuing to invest in Louisiana’s laboratory workforce and healthcare infrastructure.”

Four Men arrested in trafficking OPSO operation; victims sought deputies arrested

BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

Four Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies were arrested Friday and are accused of battering an inmate, Sheriff Susan Hutson said.

Sgt. Kurt Coulon Jr., 38, and Detective Bruce Dave, 53, were arrested on counts of simple battery and malfeasance in office. Detective Damien Anthony, 42, and Detective Bryant Parish, 42, were each booked on counts of principal to simple battery and malfeasance in office.

All four were terminated before being booked into the Orleans Justice Center shortly before 5 p.m. Friday, jail records show. The investigation began around Nov. 20, after a citizen complaint to the agency’s Investigative Services Bureau. OPSO did not provide any additional details about the incident that prompted the charges.

“These allegations, if proved true, violate the very core of our mission which promises humane and compassionate treatment of those in our care and custody,” Huston said in a written statement.

Four men were arrested Thursday on suspicion of human trafficking throughout New Orleans and southeast Louisiana, authorities said.

Leroy Allen, 31, was the alleged ringleader of a family enterprise that trafficked girls and young women in and out of a heavily armed Little Woods apartment, the New Orleans Police Department said Friday.

“They were acting in concert to move victims (through an apartment at 12345 N. I-10 Service Road),” NOPD Deputy Superintendent Nicholas Gernon said. “That’s what we believe they were using for most of their activities.”

A security guard whose territory included multiple south Louisiana locales, Leroy Allen allegedly ran the trafficking ring with his relatives Lawrence Allen, 28, Commoder Allen, 45, and Montrell Porter, 36. All four men will be held without bond until a dangerousness hearing on Tuesday in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court.

Leroy Allen was arrested at 1:15 p.m. Thursday and booked into Orleans Justice Center on three counts of

first-degree rape, and one count each of human trafficking and being a felon with a firearm.

Police arrested his alleged accomplices, Lawrence Allen, Commoder Allen and Montrell Porter, on human trafficking and first-degree rape charges soon after.

Commoder Allen had also been wanted in connection with similar offenses in Baton Rouge, where he allegedly drugged and trafficked a 15-year-old girl his girlfriend brought from New Orleans to a South Sherwood Forest Boulevard motel.

The NOPD seized three handguns, two shotguns, five rifles and ammunition from the Little Woods apartment.

All victims were under age 21 and some were juveniles, according to the NOPD. All were female. Police did not know the exact number of victims involved and petitioned additional victims to come forward.

They believe all the suspects implicated in the human trafficking ring have been arrested.

“We know there are more survivors out there,” Gernon said. “We want those people to know they’re in jail, and there are resources … to keep (survivors) safe.”

The FBI and Homeland Security Investigations as-

sisted with the operation, which began in August 2025.

The NOPD was the “tip of the spear” in the operation, said Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, whose office used open source intelligence to help identify the suspects.

“NOPD worked with real precision to make sure we have all the evidence we need to decide the fate of these violent offenders,” Williams said.

At least 1,700 people were victims of human trafficking in 2025, said Jennifer Best, CEO of Eden House, a recovery center for trafficking survivors.

“I’m forever grateful for the leaders here today who said, ‘Not on my watch,’ ” Best said. “If you are a victim of human trafficking, please understand that you have an army behind you waiting. We will not let this happen, and you’re not alone.”

Survivors may call New Orleans Family Justice Center’s crisis line at (504) 8669554 or visit its office at 701 Loyola Ave. to be connected with resources.

Anyone with information that could assist the investigation may contact NOPD Special Victims Section detectives at (504) 658-5523 or call Crimestoppers anonymously at (504) 822-1111.

New Orleans Area Deaths

Boos, Thomas Archer

Berry, Harry Boos, Thomas Brice Jr., Willie Hall, Roselia Kennedy, Doris Pellebon, Elliot Perrien, Mary Songy III, Edwin Stierwald, Marlene Thompson, Angelique Trosclair, Dale Ward, Laurianna Weathersby, Robert Winins, Eric

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Winins, Eric Dennis Funeral Home

Thompson, Angelique DW Rhodes Kennedy, Doris Gertrude Geddes Ward, Laurianna Greenwood Songy III, Edwin Lake Lawn Metairie Boos, Thomas Majestic Mortuary

Hall, Roselia

St Bernard Charbonnet Labat Berry, Harry St Bernard Stierwald, Marlene

St Tammany Honaker

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Obituaries Berry, Harry Emmett

Harry Emmett Berry was born on December 28, 1955 and passed away in his residence on Wednesday, December 17, 2025 at 8:15 pm, following a long battle with cancer. Mr. Berry was surrounded by love and de‐ voted care. He shared 42 years of marriage with his beloved wife, Betty Jane Burkett Berry, who pre‐ ceded him in death just shy of four years. Harry is survived by his daughters, Jane Washburn Ronda and Janeen Thompson Washburn Rush; Marie Matthew grandchildren, Harold Rush, Alisa Marie Rush, Hailey Marie Rush and Kailey Marie Rush; Ca‐ great-grandchildren, dence Harold Rush, Axel Gene Rush and Avyree Jo Rush. He is now with Jesus, reunited with his beloved wife, whole and at peace.

Thomas Archer Boos, MD, passed away peacefully at home, surrounded by his family, on January 5, 2026, at the age of 73. Tom was a devoted husband, father, brother, and friend, and a respected surgeon whose life was marked by service, integrity, and a deep commitment to his family and community.

Born and raised in New Orleans, Tom attended Jesuit High School and earned his undergraduate degree from the University of New Orleans. He went on to receive his medical degree from the LSU School of Medicine and completed his surgical residency at LSU/Charity Hospital. A Board-Certified General Surgeon and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Tom served for many years in surgical leadership, including as Chief of Surgery, and cared for countless patients with steady hands and a sincere heart.

Outside of medicine, he was a longtime parishioner of St. Louis King of France Church and a member of Metairie Country Club.

Tom is survived by his beloved wife of 43 years, Dr. Nancy Wagner, and their daughter, Heather Boos Crandall (Evan). His devotion to Nancy was unwavering, marked by loyalty and quiet strength. Their marriage was a true partnership grounded in love and respect. He is also survived by his siblings: Dr. Michael Boos, Jr. (Pamela), Richard Boos (Pam), Patricia Green (Stanley), Stephen Boos, Rebecca Donnelly (William), Lisa Montaldo (Edmond), and Eric Boos (Charleen); along with many nieces, nephews, colleagues, and friends who cherished him.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Michael W. P. Boos and Lillie Archer Boos. Tom lived a rich and vibrant life and pursued his passions wholeheartedly. He was an avid golfer, an instrument-rated private pilot, and an enthusiast of auto racing, cycling, traveling, and most of all, spending time with his family. Above all his accomplishments, he was known for his kindness.

For all who knew him, this is undoubtedly true. The family would like to express their heartfelt gratitude to all who supported Tom throughout his life and during his illness. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Cancer Crusaders, an organization dedicated to cancer research and support—an effort close to the family's heart. Tom will be deeply missed and forever remembered with love.

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Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans, LA, on January 13, 2026. Visitation will begin at 10:00 AM, followed by a Memorial Mass at 12:00 PM. A graveside service will take place afterward at Lake Lawn Park, 5454 Pontchartrain Blvd. For those wishing to share condolences or memories, please visit the online guestbook at www.LakeLa wnMetairie.com.

held at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, 1050 Robert Blvd., Slidell, LA 70458 on Monday, January 12, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. Offi‐ ciating is Father Jorge Gomez and Deacon Chris Schneider. Visitation from 10:00 a.m. till 11:30 a.m. in the church. Interment to follow with military honors at The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, the family kindly ask that expressions of sympathy be made in the form of a Memorial Mass for Willie H. Brice Jr. and your continued prayers.

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Kennedy, Doris Bailey

With sadness we share the passing of Doris Bailey Kennedy, on January 5, 2026. Please visit www.rho desfuneral.com to view service information, sign online guestbook, send flowers and share condo‐ lences.

Brice Jr., Willie H.

Hall, Roselia Frazier 'Millie'

It is with sincere sad‐ ness we announce the peaceful passing of our pa‐ triarch and hero, Willie H. Brice Jr., a native of Stuttgart, AR, and a longtime resident of Lacombe, LA, due to health complica‐ tions. Willie H. Brice Jr. was born on May 21, 1944, and entered the gates of Heaven- “talking as usual”.

However: this time he was talking and praying to his “Almighty Savior”.

He slipped away from us on Saturday, December 20, 2025, surrounded by his loving family. Typical of Willie, as he was talking, he was gazing at his beloved wife Delores as he took his last breath. Al‐ ways concerned with De‐ lores’s well-being, he was determined not to slip away, until he was con‐ vinced, she had accepted his “going to glory” and leaving her. Willie was a man of deep Christian faith, which guided every aspect of his life and pro‐ vided comfort to those around him. His love for God was displayed through his daily actions and the way he treated everyone with respect and compas‐ sion. As a teacher/ motiva‐ tional speaker, Willie often shared inspiring words “Whatever I can do to help others feel better about themselves; means I have improved myself”.

Mr. Brice worked with St. Tam‐ many Parish School Sys‐ tem and had over 35 years of experience as a class‐ room teacher, assistant principal and principal.

Prior to relocating to St. Tammany Parish in 1984, Mr. Brice worked in Omaha, Nebraska as an ed‐ ucator with the Omaha Public School System and the University of Omaha Continuing Education Pro‐ grams. Mr. Brice worked with the Upward Bound Programs at Creighton Uni‐ versity, teaching American Government and Intro to Constitutional Law. Willie H. Brice Jr. served his country with honor as a Vietnam War veteran. He was awarded numerous awards and citations for combat action and skill leadership while serving with the “Redcatcher 199th Infantry Brigade”. Two of the combat citations were Bronze Stars. Since his re‐ tirement in 2007 he has vol‐ unteered and worked tire‐ lessly with many commit‐ tees or organizations: Southeast Louisiana Veter‐ ans Cemetery Committee, 22nd JDC Veterans Court, VFW Post #8290, Louisiana Retired Teacher Associa‐ tion, RSVP (Retired & Se‐ nior Volunteer Program), VMAAC (Veterans & Mili‐ tary Affaris Advisory Coun‐ cil, State of Louisiana Vice Shairman U.S. Army). Willie is preceded in death by his parents, Willie H. Brice Sr. and Louise Jones Brice; brothers, Roosevelt and Jesse Brice; and sisters, Lorene Amos, Mattie Cray‐ ton, and Mary London. He is survived by his beloved wife, Delores Washington Brice; son, Kendrick Brice; daughter, Chandra Sandiego; granddaughter, Tiarra (whom he calls his Princess); brothers, Jeff (Augusta) Brice of San Diego, CA., Arthur (Cathy) Brice of New Orleans, LA.; sisters, Patricia Jackie of Stuttgart, AR., Deborah (Curtis) Hill of Stuttgart, AR.; sister-in-law, Mary Brice of Muskogee, OK.; and brothers-in-law, Melvin and Keith (Rebekka) Washington. He leaves to mourn many nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Relatives and friends of the family; priest and parishioners of St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church, St. John of the Cross Catholic Church, St. Tammany Parish Schools, VFW Post 8290, Louisiana Retired Teacher Associa‐ tion, 22nd JDC Veterans Court, RSVP, VMAAC, and Omaha Public School Sys‐ tem are invited to attend the funeral. A Mass of Christian burial will be

Roselia “Millie” Frazier Hall, born on September 26, 1936, in New Orleans, Louisiana, peacefully de‐ parted this earthly life on January 4, 2026, sur‐ rounded by the love and comfort of her family. Her transition was gentle and reflected the grace, warmth, and quiet strength that defined her life. Roselia was known for her beautiful, welcoming smile and her gentle yet loving words. She had a calm, comforting presence and a humble spirit that made everyone feel at ease. She left a lasting im‐ pression simply by being herself, kind, patient, and full of love. At the same time, Roselia carried a feisty spirit and unfiltered honesty that was just as much a part of who she was, and that was exactly what made her so love‐ able. You always knew ex‐ actly what you were going to get. If she had some‐ thing to say, she said it clearly and confidently, without worrying about who might agree or dis‐ agree.

Strong-willed, sharp-tongued when nec‐ essary, and often uninten‐ tionally funny, she had a way of saying what was on her mind, that could make you laugh, even when you knew you’d just been checked. She dedicated many years of faithful ser‐ vice to Hotel Dieu Hospital, where her compassion and strong work ethic were evi‐ dent in all she did. Roselia later continued her calling as a personal caregiver for the Lambert and Sloan families, caring for others with the same devotion she showed her own fam‐ ily. Serving others was not just her work, it was who she was. A devoted mem‐ ber of Israelite Divine Spiri‐ tual Church, Roselia served faithfully as an usher. She welcomed each person with warmth, kindness, and sincerity. Her faith guided her daily life, and her quiet devotion was a true reflection of her char‐ acter. She leaves her most cherished, only son, Zannie I. Hall Jr., whom she loved deeply and wholeheart‐ edly. Her daughter-in-law, Doretha R. Hall, her de‐ voted caregiver who she often thanked for being a constant source of comfort and love. She was a proud and devoted grandmother to Nathan C. Morris (Re‐ becca), Brandon “Akil” Mitchell, Temeka Hall Moore (Troy), and Zannie I. Hall III. She is also survived by her nephews, Phillip Frazier III and Keith Frazier.

She also leaves a host of great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren who brought her immense joy. She is lovingly remem‐ bered by her special friends, Fannie Brumfield, Sandra Washington, Mar‐ garet Coleman, and Ms. Gwen Ford, whose friend‐ ship and companionship meant so much to her.

Roselia was preceded in death by her parents, Phillip Frazier Sr. and Eva Brown Frazier, and her brother, Phillip Frazier Jr. Roselia “Millie” Hall will forever be remembered for her contagious smile, gen‐ tle spirit, bold honesty, and boundless love for family, faith, and service. The fam‐ ily extends heartfelt thanks to the nurses and staff at Southern Grace Hospice and Mercy Home Health for their compas‐ sionate care. Family and Friends are invited to at‐ tend the Funeral Service on Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. with visitation beginning at 9:00 a.m. at Is‐ raelite Divine Spiritual Church located at 3000 Frenchman Street New Or‐ leans, 70122. Followed by an interment at Resthaven Memorial Park 10400 Old Gentilly Rd New Orleans LA. 70127.

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Pellebon, Elliot O.

Elliot O. Pellebon Sr., Age 77, of New Orleans, LA, passed away on January 3, 2026. Born September 21, 1948, Elliot was married to Lorita Pellebon, with whom he had 4 children: Danielle (Darnell) Laurent, Michelle Pellebon, Erin Pellebon, and Elliot Pellebon Jr. Elliot is preceded in death by his wife, Lorita Pellebon; daughters, Erin and Michelle Pellebon; sisters, Linda Jackson and Brenda Lastrapes; brother Allen Pellebon, and parents, Charles Sr and Rosemary Pellebon. He is survived by daughter, Danielle (Darnel) Laurent; son, Elliot Pellebon Jr; sister, Maria Pellebon; brother, Charles (Linda) Pellebon Jr, and a host of family and friends.

to his beloved wife of 60 years, Ulyanaise Aupied Songy, who predeceased him. Together, they built a family anchored in love and mutual respect. Edwin is survived by his children, Christopher Joseph Songy (Rita) and Michelle Songy (Marshall); his Heider cherished granddaughter, Brittany Renee Songy; and his siblings, Cynthia Sepul‐ vado and Bruce Joseph Songy (Lia), along with many adoring nieces and nephews. His son, Scott Michael Songy, and his parents, Edwin J. Songy, Jr., and Alicia Soto Songy, pre‐ ceded him in death. The family wishes to express their deep gratitude to caregivers for Edwin's their unwavering dedica‐ and compassion. tion Ms. Loretta, Michelle, (Keisha), Nakeisha Lakeisha (Chops), and Taki were more than care‐ givers; they became an in‐ tegral part of Edwin's ex‐ tended family, providing comfort and laughter in his final years. Relatives and friends are invited to visit Greenwood Funeral Home, 5200 Canal Blvd., New Or‐ leans, LA 70124, on Mon‐ day, January 12, 2026, start‐ ing at 11:00 a.m. A Funeral Mass will follow the visita‐ tion at 1:00 p.m. The burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. We also invite to share your you thoughts, fond memories, and condolences online at www.greenwoodfh.com.

Your shared memories will help us celebrate Edwin’s life and keep his memory alive.

Stierwald, Marlene 'Marl'

Trosclair, Dale Anthony 'Sonny'

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Weathersby, Robert Lee

Dale "Sonny" Anthony Trosclair, Jr., born January 8, 1972, passed away at home due to natural causes on January 2, 2026 at the age of 53. He is survived by his mother and step-father, Nancy and Wayne; his children, Brittany, Kylie, Rory, Brody, and Desmond (Dezi); aunts and uncles, cousins, and other relatives. Sonny was preceded in death by his brother, Ryan; his maternal and paternal grandparents; and his aunts and uncles.

He grew up in Metairie and graduated from Archbishop Rummel High School in 1989. He spent most of his life working in the hospitality industry and was an extraordinary bartender and general manager. He was generous, had a goofy personality, and always knew how to make us laugh. He loved sports, especially the Chicago Cubs and LSU, poker, classic rock music, his children, and his dogs.

He was a great father, son, and brother, and he will be terribly missed.

Our family is grateful for the prayers, love, and support. A memorial service will be held at Our Lady of Lourdes Church at 400 Westchester Place, Slidell, LA 70458 on January 12.

Visitation begins at 9:30 AM and prayer service begins at 11 AM.

Robert Lee Weathersby entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, December 16, 2025. He was the son of Ulysses, Sr. and Ida Bell McFarland Weathersby.

Loving father of Lawrence Weathersby, Robin W. Young and Khaliq Shabazz; devoted brother of Ulysses, Jr., George, Leonard, Jart, Eleria, Jerome, Veorge, Thomas, John and Ira Weathersby.

Homegoing services will be held at Living the Word International Ministries, 2528 Old Spanish Trail, Slidell, Louisiana 70461 on Friday, January 9, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

Pastor Lawrence Weathersby, Sr., officiating. Viewing at 9:00 a.m. until service time.

Interment: Resthaven Memorial Park, 10400 Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Arrangements by Doyle Funeral Home, Slidell, Louisiana.

Winins, Eric James

Ward, Laurianna Ambranay 'Lauri'

Perrien, Mary Paulette

We say farewell to our mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and aunt Mary Paulette Lampiasi Perrien (November 18, 1931 January 4, 2026) Christopher, Alexandra, Nicole and Ainsley Alexander, Owen, Fritz, Spencer, Tayler, Leland, Eliott and Valentina Hadley, Cyrus, Finn and Sophie and Letitia Marcades.

The service will take place within the family.

In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Paulette's honor to: Audubon Nature Institute 6500 Magazine Street New Orleans, LA 70118 - https://audubonnat ureinstitute.org/annualfund.

"The autumn days grow short and cold / It's Christmas time again / Then snows of winter slowly melt / The days grow short and then He turns the seasons around / And so she changes her gown / Mother Earth and Father Time How very special are we / For just a moment to be / Part of life's eternal rhyme."

- The Sherman Brothers

Songy III, Edwin Joseph

Edwin Joseph Songy, III, a revered family man and businessman, respected passed away peacefully on January 3, 2026, in Metairie, Louisiana, at the age of 87.

Born on November 24, 1938, in the historic city of New Orleans, Louisiana. A grad‐ uate of Holy Cross High School, Edwin furthered his education by attending Louisiana State University.

Edwin's professional jour‐ ney was marked by dedica‐ tion and hard work. He spent a rewarding 25 years at General Electric before embarking on a successful venture entrepreneurial with his close friend Nor‐ man Joseph. Together, they co-owned and operated Ideal Appliance Parts, a business that thrived for 30 years under their partner‐ ship. Edwin's life was en‐ riched by his love for the great outdoors, hunting, and fishing. His passion for sports was equally pro‐ found, as he ardently sup‐ his hometown ported New Orleans teams— Saints, New Orleans Peli‐ cans, and LSU. His adven‐ turous spirit was matched only by his loving nature, both of which left a lasting impression on all who knew him. Family was the cornerstone of Edwin's life.

He was a devoted husband

Marlene "Marl" Stierwald passed away on Saturday, January 3, 2026, at the age of 77. She was born in New Orleans, LA on February 12, 1948. Marl is survived by her cousins, Derlin G. Clair, Rhonda C. Starling (David), Merrill Stierwald III (Sandra), Gwendolyn Ourso (Richard) and other cousins. She is preceded in death by her parents, Louis Stierwald Sr. and Lydia Schulte Stierwald; her brother, Louis Stierwald Jr. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a visitation to be held on Monday, January 12, 2026, from 5:00PM-8:00PM. On Tuesday January 13, 2026, a visitation will be held at St. Bernard Memorial Funeral Home, 701 W. Virtue St., Chalmette, LA from 9:00 AM-11:00 AM. A mass will begin at 11:00 AM. She will be laid to eternal rest in St. Vincent DePaul Cemetery, 1401 Louisa St., New Orleans, LA 70117. To view and sign the Family Guestbook, please visit www.stbernar dmemorial.com

Thompson, Angelique

Angelique Thompson, 52, of New Orleans, LA, passed away peacefully on December 27, 2025. Born on January 21, 1973, she was known for making people feel seen, heard, and cared for through her words, laughter, and her presence. She is survived by her devoted partner Gregory Williams, sisters: Sarah Swington Goffney, Mary Swington Hobson, Wilesta Swington Shaw, and Hope Swington, and a host of family and friends.

Service will be held at Broadway Mission Baptist Church, 121 Alvin Callender Street, New Orleans, LA 70118 on Saturday, January 10, 2026, at 11:00 a.m., with Visitation at 10:00 a.m., She will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her.

Arrangements entrusted to Dennis Funeral Home, Personal Dignified Service, (504) 899-8252.

Laurianna Ambranay Ward “Lauri” entered into eternal rest on Thursday, December 18, 2025 at the age of 15. She was born on May 29, 2010 to the union of TyteAnia Burnes-Ward and the late Lawrence Am‐ brose “Junny” Ward, III in Baton Rouge, Louisiana but New Orleans native. Lauri‐ Ambranay Ward anna “Lauri”, leaves to cherish her many memories, her mother, TyteAnia BurnesWard; her grandmothers, Burnes and Martina Juanita Ward; her grandfa‐ ther, Lawrence A. Ward, Jr.; three brothers, her Lawrence (his wife Alexis), Lavon (his wife Cortnee) and LaVante (his fiancee Jonee) White; her sister, Te’Erica Burnes (her fiance DeShaun); her great grand‐ father, Levernon Burnes (his wife Joyce) and her god-sister, LaShieka Flow‐ ers. She is also survived by her eight nieces, five nephews and a host of un‐ cles, aunts, cousins, other family and friends. She was preceded in death by her dad, Lawrence Am‐ brose Ward, III and her Curtis L. grandfather, Kyles. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Service on Saturday, January 10, 2026 at New Ministries, 1616 Home Robert C. Blakes Sr. Dr., New Orleans, LA 70130, at 10:00 a.m. Visitation from 8:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. In‐ terment Providence Memo‐ rial Park. You may sign the guest book on www.ger trudegeddeswillis.com.

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Eric James Winins was born on August 6, 1966 and transitioned unexpectedly, yet peacefully, in his sleep on December 26, 2025 at the age of 59. A proud na‐ tive of New Orleans, Eric was born to the late James and Joyce Winins and grew up in the Gentilly and 7th Ward neighborhoods. Eric, a proud graduate of John F. Kennedy High School, built a distinguished career in hospitality, where his nat‐ ural gift for hosting and commitment to excellence, made everyone feel wel‐ comed and at home. A life‐ long sports enthusiast, he excelled in golf, baseball, remained a devoted New Orleans sports fan and poured his passion into coaching and mentoring young athletes through basketball programs across the city. His legacy lives on in the lives he touched—on and off the court. Mr. Winins leaves to cherish precious memo‐ ries, his beloved wife of 24 years, Cynthia; daughters, J’Nae, Joyce and Ashley; adored grandchildren, Royce, Aubrey, Cedrick, III and Gianni; brothers, Melvin Winins, Sr. and Don‐ ald Winins; mother-in-law, Dianna Smith; sister-inlaw, Stephanie SmithGreene, as well as a host of other loving relatives and friends. A Celebration ser‐ vice honoring the life and legacy of the late Eric James Winins will be held at Champions of Faith Church, 1720 Flood Street, New Orleans, LA 70117, on Saturday, January 10, 2026 at 10 am. Interment Pri‐ vate. Visitation 9 am in the church. Please sign online guestbook at www.cha rbonnetfuneralhome.com.

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Ride-share drivers protest Waymo cars

SAN FRANCISCO — Drivers for Lyft and Uber protested selfdriving Waymo taxis in San Francisco on Friday, urging state regulators to exercise greater oversight of autonomous vehicles, given recent events in which the cars killed pets and blocked traffic.

About two dozen drivers and supporters spoke or held up signs calling for safer streets and greater accountability outside the offices of the California Public Utilities Commission, which met Friday to consider further regulations on autonomous vehicles.

A steady stream of Waymo cars drove past the protest, a testament to the growing ubiquity of the white cars in San Francisco.

Elon Musk’s xAI to build $20 billion data center JACKSON, Miss. — Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI is set to spend $20 billion to build a data center in Southaven, Mississippi, Gov. Tate Reeves announced Thursday, calling it the largest private investment in the state’s history.

The data center, called MACROHARDRR, is being built in Mississippi’s DeSoto County near Memphis, Tennessee. It will be the company’s third data center in the greater Memphis area. xAI CFO Anthony Armstrong said the cluster of data centers will house “the world’s largest supercomputer” with 2 gigawatts of computing power.

The announcement comes as xAI faces scrutiny over its data center projects in the Memphis area. The NAACP and the Southern Environmental Law Center have raised concerns over air pollution generated by xAI’s supercomputer facility located near predominantly Black communities in Memphis.

A petition by the Safe and Sound Coalition, a Southaven group opposing xAI’s developments, calls for shutting down xAI’s operations in the area and has received more than 900 signatures as of Thursday afternoon. xAI did not immediately respond when asked for comment about environmental concerns.

A fact sheet released by the Mississippi governor’s office said environmental responsibility is a “core commitment” for xAI.

GM hit with charges as EV incentives cut General Motors will be hit with charges of about $6 billion as sales of electric vehicles sputter after the U.S. cut tax incentives to buy them and also eased auto emissions standards.

Shares slid almost 3% Friday.

The charges that will be recorded in the fourth quarter follow an announcement in October that the Detroit automaker would take a $1.6 billion charge for the same reason in the previous quarter, with automakers forced to reconsider ambitious plans to convert their fleets to electric power.

The EV tax credit ended in September. The clean vehicle tax credit was worth $7,500 for new EVs and up to $4,000 for used ones.

GM, which had been the most ambitious among all U.S. automakers with plans to replace internal combustion engines, said in its filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Thursday that the $6 billion in charges includes noncash impairments and other noncash charges of about $1.8 billion as well as supplier commercial settlements, contract cancellation fees, and other charges of approximately $4.2 billion.

EVs have been considered to be the future of the US automotive industry. GM announced in 2020 that it was going to invest $27 billion in electric and autonomous vehicles over the next five years, a 35% increase over plans made before the pandemic.

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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks hit records Friday following a mixed report on the U.S. job market, one that may delay another cut to interest rates by the Federal Reserve but does not slam the door on it.

The S&P 500 climbed 0.6% and topped its prior all-time high set earlier in the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 237 points, or 0.5%, and likewise set a record, while

the Nasdaq composite led the market with a 0.8% gain.

The moves came after the U.S. Labor Department said employers hired fewer workers during December than economists expected, though the unemployment rate improved and was better than expected. It reinforced how the U.S. job market may be in a “low-hire, lowfire” state and may hopefully avoid a recession.

On Wall Street, power company Vistra soared 10.5% to help lead the market after signing a 20-year deal to provide electricity from three of its nuclear plants to Meta Platforms.

Big Tech companies have been sign-

ing a string of such deals to electrify the data centers powering their moves into artificial-intelligence technology.

Oklo jumped 7.9% after saying it also signed a deal with Meta Platforms that will help it secure nuclear fuel and advance its project to build a facility in Pike County, Ohio.

Homebuilders and other companies involved in the housing market were strong in their first trading after President Donald Trump announced a plan to lower mortgage rates. Trump on late Thursday called for the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds, similar to how the Fed in the past has bought bonds

backed by mortgages to bring down mortgage rates.

Builders FirstSource, a supplier of building products, jumped 12% for one of the biggest gains in the S&P 500 along with Vistra. Among homebuilders, Lennar rallied 8.9%, D.R. Horton climbed 7.8% and PulteGroup rose 7.3%.

WD-40 tumbled 6.6% after reporting a weaker profit for the latest quarter than analysts expected.

Chief Financial Officer Sara Hyzer said the soft numbers were primarily because of timing issues, not weaker demand from end customers, and the company stood by its financial forecasts for the upcoming year.

Unemployment slips to 4.4% Sluggish hiring closes out a frustrating year for job seekers

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP economics writer

WASHINGTON — Sluggish December hiring concluded a year of weak employment gains that have frustrated job seekers even though layoffs and unemployment remained low.

Employers added just 50,000 jobs last month, nearly unchanged from a downwardly revised figure of 56,000 in November, the Labor Department said Friday. The unemployment rate slipped to 4.4%, its first decline since June, from 4.5% in November, a figure also revised lower.

The data suggests a reluctance by businesses to add workers even as economic growth has picked up. Many companies hired aggressively after the pandemic and no longer need to fill more jobs. Others have held back due to widespread uncertainty caused by President Donald Trump’s shifting tariff policies, elevated inflation, and the spread of artificial intelligence, which could alter or even replace some jobs.

Still, economists were encouraged by the lower unemployment rate, which had risen in the previous four straight reports. Weakening employment raised alarms at the Federal Reserve, which cut its key interest rate three times last year.

“The labor market looks to have stabilized, but at a slower pace of employment growth,” Blerina Uruci, chief economist at T. Rowe Price, said. “There is no urgency for the Fed to cut rates further, for now.”

Some Federal Reserve officials are concerned that inflation hasn’t improved since 2024 and remains above their target of 2% annual growth. They support keeping rates where they are to combat inflation. Others, however, have grown worried that hiring has nearly ground to a halt and have supported lowering borrowing costs to spur spending and growth.

November’s job gain was revised slightly lower, from 64,000 to 56,000, while October’s now shows a much steeper drop, with a loss of 173,000 positions, down from previous estimates of a 105,000 decline. The government revises the jobs figures as it receives more survey responses from businesses.

Nearly all the jobs added in December were in the health care and restaurant and hotel industries. Health care added 38,500 jobs, while restaurants and hotels gained 47,000. Governments — mostly at the state and local level — added 13,000.

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Maintenance technician Liz Cardenas replaces a conveyor belt roller at a training area in a Walmart distribution center in Bentonville, Ark. Manufacturing, construction and retail companies all shed jobs. Retailers cut 25,000 positions, a sign that holiday hiring has been weaker than previous years. Manufacturers have shed jobs every month since April, when Trump announced sweeping tariffs intended to boost manufacturing.

Wall Street and Washington are looking closely at Friday’s report as it’s the first clean reading on the labor market in three months.

The government didn’t issue a report in October because of the six-week government shutdown, and November’s data was distorted by the closure, which lasted until Nov. 12.

Job gains have been subdued all year, particularly after April’s “liberation day” tariff announcement by Trump. The economy gained just 584,000 jobs in 2025, sharply lower than that more than 2 million added in 2024. It’s the smallest annual gain since the COVID-19 pandemic decimated the job market in 2020.

Outside of recessions, it’s the smallest annual increase since 2003.

Still, Trump boasted on social media late Thursday that since January, all the new jobs have been in the private sector, while government jobs have declined. Yet his figures included December’s jobs numbers as well as revisions to previous months, which the White House receives Thursday afternoon, before the figures are publicly released.

Trump’s post on Truth Social said that 654,000 jobs were added by businesses since January, while government jobs declined 181,000, so it wouldn’t have been immediately clear that the post had new information from December. But

new jobs data are generally closely guarded since they can move financial markets.

The hiring slowdown reflects more than just a reluctance by companies to add jobs. With an aging population and a sharp drop in immigration, the economy doesn’t need to create as many jobs as it has in the past to keep the unemployment rate steady. As a result, a gain of 50,000 jobs is not as clear a sign of weakness as it would have been in previous years.

And layoffs are still low, a sign firms aren’t rapidly cutting jobs, as typically happens in a recession. The “low-hire, low-fire” job market does mean workers have some job security, though it’s become harder to find new work.

Ernesto Castro, 44, has applied for hundreds of jobs since leaving his last in May. Yet the Los Angeles resident has had just three initial interviews, and only one follow-up, after which he heard nothing.

With nearly a decade of experience providing customer support for software companies, Castro expected to find a new job pretty quickly as in the past.

“It’s been awful,” he said.

He worries that more companies are turning to artificial intelligence to help clients learn to use new software. He hears ads from tech companies that urge companies to slash workers like him in favor of AI. His contacts in the industry say that employees are increasingly reluctant to switch jobs amid all the uncertainty, which means fewer open jobs for others.

He is now looking into starting his own software company, and is also exploring project management roles.

Chatbot restricts image generation after global backlash Elon Musk’s Grok created sexualized deepfakes

BY KELVIN CHAN AP business writer

LONDON — Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok is preventing nonpaying users from generating or editing images after a global backlash erupted over sexualized deepfakes of people, but the change has not satisfied authorities in Europe.

The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk’s social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave of what researchers say are malicious user requests to modify images, including putting women in bikinis or in

sexually explicit positions.

Researchers have warned that in a few cases, some images appeared to depict children. Governments around the world have condemned the platform and opened investigations.

On Friday, Grok responded to image altering requests with the message: “Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.”

While subscriber numbers for Grok aren’t publicly available, there was a noticeable decline Friday in the number of explicit deepfakes that Grok is now generating compared with just days earlier.

Grok was still granting image requests but only from X users with blue checkmarks given to premium subscriber who pay $8 a month for

features including higher usage limits for the chatbot.

The Associated Press on Friday confirmed Friday afternoon that the image editing tool was still available to free users on the standalone Grok website and app.

An X spokesperson didn’t respond immediately to a request for comment.

The restrictions for users save for paying subscribers did not appear to change the opinions of leaders or regulators in Europe.

“This doesn’t change our fundamental issue. Paid subscription or nonpaid subscription, we don’t want to see such images. It’s as simple as that,” said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Union’s executive Commission. The Commission had earlier slammed Grok for “illegal” and “appalling”

behavior.

The British government was also unsatisfied.

Grok’s changes are “not a solution,” said Geraint Ellis, a spokesman for British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who on Thursday had threatened unspecified action against X. “In fact, it is insulting to the victims of misogyny and sexual violence,” he said, noting that it shows that X “can move swiftly when it wants to do so.”

“We expect rapid action,” he said, adding that “all options are on the table.”

Starmer, speaking to Greatest Hits radio, had said that X needs to “get their act together and get this material down. We will take action on this because it’s simply not tolerable.”

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Measuring the country’s populist mood Populism — at least on the campaign trail and across the podcast universe — is on the rise, loud enough to rattle the windows of American politics. But it isn’t new. Versions of it have been around since Andrew Jackson, the Hero of New Orleans, and later Huey Long, Louisiana’s Depressionera firebrand who made “Every Man a King” a rallying cry.

Populism runs on outrage. It sets “the people” against “the elites.” It’s less an ideology than a political style, and it can flourish on both ends of the spectrum.

Today, President Donald Trump has shaped his own brand of populism on the right. It targets the cultural and political establishment as the enemy, including media gateRon keepers, academics, bureaucrats, Hollywood Faucheux moguls, nonprofits, think tanks and politically correct corporations.

Trump casts it in highly personal terms: “They’re not coming after me, they’re coming after you. I’m just standing in their way.”

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani represent populism on the left; they call it “democratic socialism.” They see the concentration of wealth and economic inequality as the central problem.

Their villain is “the oligarchy” — a small class of billionaires and heartless corporations they believe control government.

Sanders puts it this way: “We are moving rapidly away from our democratic heritage into an oligarchic form of society … [with] government of the billionaires, by the billionaires, and for the billionaires.”

Ideology and partisanship aside, how populist are Americans, really? An Economist/YouGov poll offers an answer, and it may surprise you.

Overwhelming majorities of U.S. voters nationwide — 86% and 88% — agree with two core populist beliefs: that “political institutions have been captured by the rich and powerful” and that “elites are out of touch with everyday life.” While these ideas are widely held across demographic groups, Americans 45 and older endorse them to a greater degree than do those 44 and younger.

More than 8 in 10 voters also agree that the “most important decisions in politics happen behind closed doors, without public accountability” — a classic expression of populist distrust — and that “graduating from a top university doesn’t automatically make someone better qualified to govern.” Again, older Americans are more likely to agree.

Another mark of populism is suspicion of expertise: 65% of voters say “the people, not experts or elites, should make most political decisions,” and 64% say “common sense is more important than expert analysis for deciding what the government should do.” Conservatives are much more likely to distrust experts than liberals.

But populism has its limits and internal contradictions.

For example, 60% of voters agree that “complex societal problems need professional, organized government institutions to address them effectively.” Likewise, 59% say that “for many policies, ordinary people lack the information necessary to make good decisions.” In other words: yes, experts can be arrogant and wrong — but no, you don’t necessarily want your neighbor running monetary or foreign policy.

Here’s a populist belief with broad support that’s often thrown out the window: 78% of voters say “leaders who come from ordinary backgrounds better represent people like me.” More than three-fourths of Trump voters agree with this statement, even though Trump’s background is anything but ordinary — an Ivy League education, inherited wealth, hobnobbing with the rich and famous.

That gap is telling. A deep emotional connection with voters can sometimes overshadow a politician’s upper-crust background. Trump, John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt — all elite by upbringing — have had that connection. Between them, they won seven presidential elections and lost one. Other politicians with privileged backgrounds, such as Mitt Romney and George H.W. Bush, haven’t had the connection; between them, they won one presidential election and lost four.

Interestingly, a 55% majority of voters believes “bipartisan agreement usually signals that a policy is reasonable and well thought out.” Populism may reject backroom dealing, but voters nevertheless want politicians to work together and find common ground.

Americans are largely populists who are skeptical of concentrated power in the hands of a sheltered few. They want politicians to listen and understand their needs. They want what Lincoln promised: a government of, by and for the people.

But when it comes to governing, even voters with populist instincts still want results and competence. That’s the winning combination for today’s politics.

Ron Faucheux is a nonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writer based in Louisiana.

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AI can’t compare to Santa

Don’t fall for lie that illegal immigrants don’t pay taxes

We just returned from a brief Christmas visit with our sons in Shreveport and got around to reading our Christmas newspaper. I quickly spotted the editorial cartoon. It shows a child on Santa’s lap, tugging on his beard and saying, “Just checking to make sure that you’re not an AI scam.”

I can identify.

For over 20 years, I’ve posed as Santa for dozens of schools, hospitals, nursing homes, scout troops and others. I’ve helped raise money for a variety of causes. I’ve proudly been a Santa for the newspaper’s own Doll and Toy Fund giveaway, and I’ve appeared for about a dozen years on Christmas Eve on WWL Radio, answering kids’ last-minute requests.

And I’ve had my (real) beard tugged by curious and challenging kids.

Artificial intelligence is here.

And it’s challenging much of our world. But so far at least, it’s never come up with a way to replace Santa’s lap.

construction, child care, lawn care, food service and home repair. Yet we do not question their value or accuse them of “not contributing.”

Singling out undocumented immigrants for criticism, while ignoring the same practice among citizens, reflects bias rather than fact.

Others ask how children of undocumented immigrants can attend public schools if their parents do not pay taxes. Public education is funded by local property taxes, state income and sales taxes and federal dollars. Undocumented immigrants contribute to all those revenue streams.

It is also worth noting that undocumented immigrants pay into Social Security and Medicare through payroll taxes, yet are not eligible to receive benefits. They help support programs and services that benefit citizens without being allowed to draw from them.

Public debate should be based on accurate information, not assumptions. Undocumented immigrants are part of our tax base.

I am writing in response to recent claims suggesting that undocumented immigrants “do not pay taxes.” This is a common misconception. In fact, undocumented immigrants contribute significantly to our federal, state and local tax base. Many pay payroll taxes using Individual Taxpayer Identification Numbers or borrowed Social Security numbers. They also pay sales taxes on everyday purchases and property taxes, either directly as homeowners or indirectly through rent. According to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars every year in state and local taxes.

Some argue that undocumented immigrants avoid paying payroll taxes because some work for cash. While this does occur, it is far from the whole story. Millions work regular jobs where taxes are withheld just like anyone else.

And even those paid in cash still pay sales, gas and property taxes through rent. Importantly, many natural-born American citizens also work for cash in fields like

Central political tension is rights vs. responsibility

Humor is window to our leaders’ souls “Trump does not like satire, obviously.”

This off-the-cuff remark by great cartoonist Walt Handelsman (see Commentary page, “People in Louisiana have a great sense of humor,” published Dec. 19) tells us all we need to know about President Donald Trump.

But do his die-hard supporters get it? Probably not. So let me explain.

Every great leader this country ever had could take a joke. And cartoons making fun of our leaders are as old as the republic. Trump stands alone in being unable to tolerate criticism, much less laugh when the joke is on him. He can

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dish it out, but he can’t take it.

At some point, even the dullest people will get bored with Trump’s self-centered blather and constant flow of lies. Reality will sink in when a six-pack of beer costs $15 and a pound of chop meat is $12. Folks will switch the channel and flip the page when it’s about him. They’ll throw away their red MAGA hats and overpriced Trump novelty items. Our wonderful cartoonists, like Walt Handelsman, will be able to make fun of POTUS in the finest tradition of our country. We can all just relax and have fun.

The main difference between Democrats and Republicans is that Democrats enjoy pretty much unrestricted rights free of any individual responsibility, whereas Republicans are saddled with massive responsibility devoid of hardly any rights.

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Queen’s triple-double helps lift N.O. to victory

BY ROD WALKER Staff writer

Derik Queen grew up in Baltimore, just 40 miles away from Capital Arena in Washington D.C. The New Orleans Pelicans’ rookie made the most of his first trip back to his backyard.

Queen recorded his second triple-double as the Pelicans rolled to a 128-107 victory over the Washington Wizards to end a ninegame losing streak.

Queen finished with 14 points, 16 rebounds and 12 assists. The rebounds and assists were career highs for Queen, who played at the University of Maryland.

“It means a lot,” Queen said. “I only come here once a year, so just being here and putting on a show. Hopefully it’s memorable.

Just looking forward to next year also.”

Queen, who recorded his first triple-double in December against the San Antonio Spurs, is just the second rookie in franchise history to record two triple-doubles. He

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Washington Wizards forward Tristan Vukcevic, right, shoots over Pelicans center Derik Queen during the first half on Friday in Washington. Queen recorded his second triple-double in the Pelicans’ 128-107 win.

Vandy will be tough test for Tigers looking to regroup

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he 2026 LSU gymnasts are ready to embody the ancient Greek quote — they’re ready to be a fire to be kindled.

The Tigers’ 2025 season was filled to the brim with accomplishments: Southeastern Conference regular season and championship meet titles, the program’s first-ever No. 1 overall

seed in the NCAA championships, plus an individual NCAA vault title for freshman sensation Kailin Chio.

But it was all made somewhat hollow by the fact that LSU, the 2024 NCAA team champion, came

up just short of the final, not with a bad performance but with an average one by the program’s lofty standards.

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The practice court isn’t the first focus for LSU basketball after games. That would be the film room.

Preparation for coach Matt McMahon’s team usually starts with a ä LSU at rewatch of parts of its last Vanderbilt game and clips of the upNOON SATURDAy, coming opponent. Not many players truly know the valSEC NETWORK ue of film study better than Pablo Tamba. The graduate student’s journey involves him representing his native Spain in international competition and three other college stops, including junior college, before coming to Baton Rouge.

Following Tuesday’s 78-68 loss to South Carolina, where LSU trailed by as many as 28 points, the 22-year-old starting forward was clear about one of the things he was most looking forward to.

“I can’t wait to go back and watch the film, see kind of what went wrong,” said Tamba, who had 10 points and five rebounds.

Fixing the problems it faced will be essential for LSU (12-3, 0-2 SEC) before a noon contest on Saturday against No. 11

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Tyler Shough plans on staying in New Orleans for most of the offseason. The Saints quarterback and his wife are expecting the birth of their son next month. And as a “makeshift New Orleanian,” the 26-year-old is looking forward to his first Mardi Gras.

He even wants to ride on a float, baby permitting.

Shough will take some deserved time off.

But after wrapping up a whirlwind first season, the signal-caller already knows what he wants to work on for Year 2.

“It’s just continual reps of the offense, mastering it, making sure my footwork is dialed (in),” Shough said.

Even though he didn’t start for his first eight games, Shough progressed faster than

the Saints expected. The rate of improvement, as well as his overall play, is why the Saints can’t wait to see how the quarterback grows ahead of his second season.

As promising as Shough looked, there are areas he needs to improve. Notably, Shough took 31 sacks — 29 of which came in his nine starts. That rate would have put him on pace to finish with 55 sacks, tying him with Las Vegas’ Geno Smith and Tennessee’s Cam Ward for most in the league.

There’s context behind the volume of Shough’s sacks, of course. The interior of his offensive line was affected by injuries and a trade, and tackles Taliese Fuaga and Kelvin Banks were banged up for smaller stretches. The Saints also found themselves trailing for a good chunk of Shough’s starts, putting them in more obvious passing situations that allowed defensive lines to tee off.

Even Shough’s aggressive play style arguably opens him up for a higher sack rate,

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Lake could be Rams’ slump solution LA eager for safety’s return from injury

ä Rams at Panthers. 3:30 P.M. SATURDAy, FOX.

BY GREG BEACHAM AP sportswriter

LOS ANGELES — When the Los Angeles Rams lost Quentin Lake to a dislocated elbow in mid-November, their defense suffered and slumped.

Lake is returning for the wildcard round, and the Rams (12-5) are hoping he’s a key to a long playoff run.

As for Lake himself, he’s just eager to get back to work as the do-it-all defensive back who has become the unlikely engine driving a precocious young defense.

“I’m ready to go throw my elbow in there, have fun, fly around and help this team win again,” Lake said Thursday.

After several weeks to recover from surgery, Lake will be back in uniform when the Rams visit the Carolina Panthers (8-9) on Saturday in the first game of the NFL postseason. He wasn’t in uniform Nov. 30 when the Rams made their first trip to Charlotte, and his absence was felt in that game — and in every game the Rams have played since he went down nearly two months ago.

“He’s got this presence where you just feel better,” coach Sean McVay said.

Lake’s job is big and complicated, but the former sixth-round pick from UCLA has grown into the role filled by Jalen Ramsey

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Los Angeles Rams safety Quentin Lake jogs back to the locker room before a game against the Seattle Seahawks on Nov. 16 in Inglewood, Calif. during Los Angeles’ Super Bowl championship run four years ago.

Lake usually plays the “star” position in the schemes utilized

by McVay and his past three defensive coordinators. The job requires him to line up frequently as a slot cornerback in coverage, but also to contribute heavily to the Rams’ run defense in the box.

He earns his “Captain Q” nickname by leading the defense on the field, making sure his teammates on the NFL’s least expensive defense are lined up correctly — and keeping a cool head amid the late-game pressure that will only be ratcheted up in the postseason.

“It’s extremely important,” defensive coordinator Chris Shula

said of Lake’s return. “He’s a great player, whether you’re just talking about scheme-wise or all the things that he does for us. Really what he brings to the team as far as from a physicality, from communication and the questions he’s asking, it’s awesome to have him back.”

Lake’s importance can be measured by what happened while he was out.

The Rams fell to the bottom quarter of the NFL in scoring defense, yards allowed per play and big plays allowed, among several metrics. Los Angeles yielded 28 points per game in its final six outings, dropping the defense into the middle of the pack in the final NFL standings.

Lake showed his leadership qualities when asked about the Rams’ defensive play during his absence. Los Angeles went 3-3 in its final six games.

“We had a lot of guys come in for my spot that did great things,” Lake said. “At the same time, my job is, how can I come back and really help this team?

That’s it. I don’t really look at, hey, what was happening when I was out, what wasn’t happening, the difference between when I was in and when I wasn’t. I was just focused on getting back, and luckily the team gave me a shot to come back and play meaningful football.”

Lake has known about bigtime football pressure his whole life: His father, Carnell, played on several playoff teams and reached the Super Bowl during his decade as a dominant defensive back for the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Quentin Lake made 23 tackles in his first three playoff games, and he believes that the Rams’ experience will matter in Charlotte and beyond.

“The playoff atmosphere is amazing,” Lake said. “Guys either rise to the occasion, or they sink to the level of their training, and I know we have a lot of guys that are built for it. Guys that when the pressure and the moment is big, they rise to the occasion.”

Dolphins finalizing Sullivan as new GM

By The Associated Press MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Jon-Eric Sullivan is finalizing a deal to join the Dolphins as their general manager, making the former Green Bay Packers executive the first key piece in Miami’s organizational reboot, a person with knowledge of the hiring told The Associated Press.

The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team had not made an announcement.

Sullivan, the Packers’ vice president of player personnel, completed an in-person interview this week with the Dolphins, who were expected to move swiftly in hiring a new general manager after parting ways with longtime GM Chris

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Continued from page 1C which the quarterback is willing to risk because he hit on a number of big plays.

But the quarterback can also do a better job. According to charting from Pro Football Focus, eight of Shough’s 31 sacks were his fault.

That’s 25.8%.

“I think it’s just a collective thing,” coach Kellen Moore said.

“Does Tyler want to get better?

Absolutely. Can we get better from a protection standpoint, play-calling standpoint? Obviously, there’s plenty of statistical things we can look at, and say, ‘Hey, let’s get better here.’ ” Shough was sacked on 8.7% of his dropbacks, the eighth-highest rate in the league. And while that doesn’t

Grier during the season.

ESPN first reported the deal.

Sullivan spent 22 seasons with Green Bay Packers, beginning as a scouting intern in 2003 before earning a full-time position with the team’s football operations department in 2004. In 2022, he was named vice president of player personnel, with the Packers making the playoffs in three of the last four seasons. Green Bay is currently set to face Chicago on Saturday in a wild-card game.

He is the son of Jerry Sullivan, a longtime NFL and college coach who was Miami’s receivers coach in 2004. He was also the wide receivers coach at LSU from 1984-90 and returned as the team’s passing game coordinator in 2018.

Sullivan grew up in Baton Rouge and attended Catholic High — playing football with future NFL star Warrick Dunn — while his father coached in his first stint at LSU. Sullivan’s first task in Miami will be finding a new head coach. Mike McDaniel was fired Thursday after four seasons following a 7-10 campaign in which the Dolphins missed the playoffs for the second straight year.

The Dolphins have been linked to former Ravens coach John Harbaugh, although the organization has reportedly not yet pursued him heavily. Other potential candidates who have a connection with Sullivan include Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley; Mike McCarthy, who coached the Packers for

more than a decade; and Jaguars defensive coordinator Anthony Campanile, Green Bay’s linebackers coach in 2024. Campanile also coached Miami’s linebackers from 2020-23.

Sullivan will also need to figure out what to do with quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who was benched the final three games of the season because of poor play.

Tagovailoa is guaranteed $54 million for 2026, and the Dolphins would incur significant hits to the salary cap by releasing him. Releasing him next year would result in a $99 million dead cap charge. If the move is designated as a postJune 1 release, those charges are split over two years, with $67.4 million allocated to the 2026 cap.

necessarily indicate the quality of a quarterback — New England’s Drake Maye is an MVP candidate while carrying an 8.7% sack percentage — Shough’s percentage was surprising in part because he did an excellent job in college at avoiding sacks. And in his first year in the NFL, he also showed creativity in making plays outside the pocket and control when stepping up in the pocket when the edges collapsed around him.

Shough’s navigation of the pocket, even with the heavy amount of sacks taken in Year 1, is perhaps a big reason why those numbers could improve next fall. Moore and his staff saw rapid growth from Shough as he navigated the scout team in the lead-up to him becoming a starter. Another full offseason, combined with his experience from his rookie year, should help Shough grow even

more comfortable.

Coincidentally, the Saints would likely be thrilled if Shough made similar strides to the ones taken

by Spencer Rattler last summer.

Rattler initially won the starting job over Shough because of an improved feel for oncoming pressure from his rookie season. When the season began, Rattler dramatically cut down on his sack rate and often made smart decisions with the ball until a string of turnovers in backto-back games sent him to the bench.

Still, Rattler finished the year with a sack rate of 6.5% — much improved over his 8.8% as a rookie.

The Saints, too, could help Shough out by how they go about filling out the roster. A better rushing attack would help Shough avoid as many obvious passing situations as possible. General manager Mickey Loomis acknowledged the interior of the offensive

line would be an area the Saints would pay “a lot of attention” to this offseason.

“The number one thing there is we’ve got to stay healthy,” Loomis said. “Erik McCoy is a really good player, but he’s been injured the last few years, so we have to examine that. … How can we correct that and not let that happen? Cesar (Ruiz) is a really good player, and yet, we’ve got to get more out of him as well.”

But Shough will focus on his own growth, independent of what moves the Saints make.

“I feel like we’re barely scratching the surface, and there’s so much room to (grow),” Shough said. “That’s the biggest thing — I’m only 26 and I feel like the best, at least at my position, comes into your late 30s. I feel like there’s so much room to grow.

“That’s my job and my focus.”

Tulane hires Schroeder as new volleyball coach

Tulane has named Derek Schroeder its volleyball coach.

Schroeder, who is 279-234 in 17 years, spent the last three seasons at Jacksonville State after coaching Mercer for six years and Samford for eight, leading Samford to the NCAA tournament in 2011 and 2014. He guided Mercer to its first regular-season championships in 2020 and 2021, earning Southern Conference coach of the year honors in 2021.

He was not as successful at Jacksonville State, inheriting a program that had gone 65-15 the previous three seasons in the Ohio Valley and Atlantic Sun before moving to Conference USA. The Gamecocks went 5-22 in 2023, 1021 in 2024 and 14-15 in 2025.

Schroeder replaces Jordana Price, who was fired in November.

NBC’s return to MLB starts with a doubleheader

NEW YORK — NBC’s return to broadcasting Major League Baseball games will start with an openingday doubleheader on March 26.

Reigning NL Cy Young Award winner Paul Skenes of LSU and the Pittsburgh Pirates will face Juan Soto and the New York Mets at noon on NBC and Peacock. At 7 p.m., the two-time defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers will host the Arizona Diamondbacks in the scheduled primetime game for that day.

NBC announced its “Sunday Night Baseball” and “MLB Sunday Leadoff” games on Friday.

The Dodgers, Boston and San Diego will each make four primetime appearances. The Yankees, Philadelphia, Detroit and Seattle will have three appearances apiece.

Chiefs WR Rice accused of domestic violence

DALLAS — The NFL said Thursday it is looking into allegations of domestic violence made on social media by the ex-girlfriend of Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver Rashee Rice.

A spokesperson for the league told The Dallas Morning News it will review the matter under its personal conduct policy. In a statement, the Chiefs said they are aware of the allegations and have spoken with the league.

Last year, Rice was sentenced to 30 days in jail and five years of probation following a highspeed crash that injured several people.

The NFL has shown before a willingness to take action on players without formal charges being filed.

PGA drops Mississippi, Napa from schedule

The PGA Tour released its FedEx Cup fall schedule of eight tournaments — one that moves from the spring — but loses two events, including one in Mississippi that began the year before the modern tour began.

The fall will include new tournaments in Asheville, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas.

They replace the Sanderson Farms Championship in Mississippi that had been played every year since 1968, and the Procore Championship in Napa, California, a tournament that dates to the start of the FedEx Cup era in 2007.

The title sponsorship in Mississippi was not renewed, and Sanderson Farms extended its support an additional year for 2025.

Michigan RB Haynes enters the transfer portal

Michigan running back Justice Haynes is returning for another year of college football but not with the Wolverines.

Haynes, in an Instagram post on Friday, announced he is entering his name in the NCAA transfer portal.

His decision comes after Jordan Marshall, who led the Wolverines in rushing last season after Haynes suffered a season-ending foot injury, announced his return.

Five-star running back Savion Hiter is joining Michigan’s running back room, along with Oklahoma transfer Taylor Tatum, who was added this week.

Haynes’ decision comes after several Michigan defensive backs entered their names in the transfer portal in the last two days.

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UNO looking to keep momentum going against Nicholls St.

BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

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Tennessee defensive lineman Jordan Ross returns a blocked punt for a touchdown during the second half of a game against Chattanooga on Aug. 31, 2024, in Knoxville, Tenn.

LSU lands former Vols edge rusher Ross players upfront. class.

Tigers add two more new Last year, LSU signed three He spent his freshman season transfer edge rushers all with redshirting at UAB before transreceivers and a safety one more year of eligibility. They ferring to McNeese this season.

BY WILSON ALEXANDER AND KOKI RILEY Staff writers

LSU has signed Tennessee edge rusher Jordan Ross, a former fivestar recruit, as the Tigers continued to address one of their biggest positions of need in the transfer portal, sources confirmed Friday with The Advocate.

Ross, who’s from Birmingham, Alabama, was ranked as the No. 22 overall prospect and the third-best edge rusher in the 2024 class, according to the 247Sports composite. He played in 22 games over the past two seasons, and he has two more years of eligibility.

Ross earned freshman All-SEC honors after recording three tackles and 1 1/ 2 tackles for loss. He also blocked a punt that he returned for a touchdown. As his playing time increased this past season, he had 23 tackles, 31/ 2 tackles for loss and 11/ 2 sacks. On3 ranked him as the No. 41 overall player available in the transfer portal.

LSU needed to find several defensive linemen in the transfer portal without many returning starters or proven depth. It has added Clemson defensive tackle Stephiylan Green, Auburn defensive lineman Malik Blocton and South Carolina edge rusher Jaylen Brown.

Defensive coordinator Blake Baker and his staff may continue to add

played critical roles on an improved defense, but with them gone, LSU has to replace a lot of snaps and production at defensive end.

LSU can bring back promising sophomore Gabriel Reliford, who was part of the rotation until he underwent surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in September. It has three other defensive ends who have not entered the transfer portal, and it signed four-star edge rusher Trenton Henderson in the 2026 recruiting class.

Tigers add two receivers Illinois junior wide receiver Malik Elzy and McNeese State wideout Josh Jackson are transferring to LSU, both receivers announced on social media Friday.

Elzy had 16 catches for 213 yards and two touchdowns across three seasons at Illinois. He entered the portal after grabbing seven receptions for 84 yards this past season.

He was a four-star recruit and the No. 4 player in Illinois in the Class of 2023, according to the 247Sports Composite. His lead recruiter at the time was George McDonald, who is now LSU’s wide receivers coach.

Jackson had 20 catches for 258 yards as a redshirt freshman at McNeese this past fall. He attended St. Augustine High and was a three-star recruit and the No. 18 overall player in Louisiana’s 2024

The Tigers have added six wideouts from the portal, including Hawaii transfer Jackson Harris, Florida transfer EugeneWilson, Old Dominion transfer Tre Brown and Kansas State transfer Jayce Brown. LSU has also received a visit from West Florida wideout Tyree Holloway.

Southern safety lands at LSU Southern starting safety Treylan James is transferring to LSU, he announced on social media on Friday.

The 6-foot-3, 190-pound redshirt sophomore from Baton Rouge will have two years of eligibility remaining.

He entered the transfer portal on Dec. 3, two days after Southern welcomed its new coach, Marshall Faulk. James, who has also played cornerback, spent a season with the Jaguars after starting his career at Prairie View.

Coach Lane Kiffin‘s newest addition had 39 total tackles (23 solo), six pass breakups and three tackles for loss in 12 games playing mostly Southwestern Athletic Conference opponents. His six pass deflections were tied for the second most on Southern (2-10, 1-7 SWAC).

James, a former Madison Prep standout, is the 20th player LSU has added out of the transfer portal since the portal opened on Jan. 2, continuing to surpass the Tigers’ total number of transfers from a year ago.

The NCAA has denied QB Chambliss’ eligibility waiver

By The Associated Press The NCAA denied Ole Miss’ request to extend the eligibility of Trinidad Chambliss on Friday.

The Rebels star quarterback just finished his fifth year of college football in a 31-27 loss to Miami in the College Football Playoff semifinals on Thursday night.

He had planned to return to Ole Miss for one more year if the waiver was approved.

The NCAA said Ole Miss and Ferris State failed to provide adequate medical documentation to back up the request.

Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter said his school will appeal the ruling.

“We are disappointed with today’s announcement by the NCAA and plan to appeal the decision to the Committee level,” Carter said in a social media post, in which he included the flag of Trinidad and Tobago. “Additionally, we will continue to work in conjunction with Trinidad’s representatives in other avenues of support.”

Tom Mars, who is an attorney for Chambliss, said he was disappointed but not surprised by the NCAA’s decision.

“The last time I checked, however, the only score that matters is the one at the end of the fourth quarter,” Mars said.

“I understand that Ole Miss will file an appeal with the NCAA. However, there’s now an opportunity to move this case to a level playing field where Trinidad’s rights will be determined by the Mississippi judiciary instead of some bureaucrats in Indianapolis who couldn’t care less about the law or doing the right thing,” Mars said. “Whether to pursue that course of action is a decision only Trinidad and his parents can make.”

After taking a redshirt his first season at Ferris State in 2021-22, Chambliss was held out in his second season for medical reasons.

He played two more seasons at the Division II school, leading the Bulldogs to a national championship before transferring to Ole Miss before the start of this season. Ole Miss filed the waiver request with the NCAA in November.

Chambliss completed 294 of 445 passes (66.1%) for 3,937 yards with 22 touchdowns and three interceptions for Ole Miss (132), which set a school record for wins, including two after making the College Football Playoff for the first time. He ran for 527 yards and eight more TDs. The NCAA said in its denial statement that approval of such waivers requires schools to sub-

mit medical documentation from a treating physician at the time of a student’s incapacitating injury or illness.

“The documents provided by Ole Miss and the student’s prior school include a physician’s note from a December 2022 visit, which stated the student-athlete was ‘doing very well’ since he was seen in August 2022,” the NCAA said. “Additionally, the studentathlete’s prior school indicated it had no documentation on medical treatment, injury reports or medical conditions involving the student-athlete during that time frame and cited ‘developmental needs and our team’s competitive circumstances’ as its reason the student-athlete did not play in the 2022-23 season.”

The NCAA noted that it initially provided a verbal denial on Dec. 8, which was 12 days before Ole Miss beat Tulane at home in the program’s first CFP game.

“To receive a clock extension, a student-athlete must have been denied two seasons of competition for reasons beyond the student’s or school’s control, and a ‘redshirt’ year can be used only once,” the statement reads. “One of the rules being cited publicly (Bylaw 12.6.4.2.2) is not the correct rule for the type of waiver requested by the school.”

The UNO men’s basketball team has played just three home games this season, but Lakefront Arena is getting busier now that Southland Conference play has begun.

UNO (5-10, 3-3 Southland) is in the heart of its conference schedule after completing a nine-game nonconference road slate. UNO improved to 2-1 at the Lakefront after defeating East Texas A&M on Monday, but a tough home test awaits on Saturday against league-leading Nicholls State (78, 6-0).

Tip-off is scheduled for 5 p.m. at Lakefront Arena. The game will be available online at ESPN+.

UNO began Southland play 2-1 but fell to 2-3 after two conference losses. The Privateers got back to .500 after Monday’s win and they’re now looking to string together back-to-back wins.

“It was good to just play a game at home,” UNO coach Stacy Hollowell said. “We played 12 of our first 15 games on the road, and that’ll take a toll on anybody. To get a win here was really good and gives us a little momentum hopefully going into these next few games.”

Like UNO, Nicholls started a tough nonconference road slate but has won seven of its past eight games after an 0-7 start.

The Colonels of Thibodaux are on a four-game win streak.

UNO shook up its starting lineup against East Texas A&M as Irish Coquia and Jamal Chretien got their first starts of the season. A true freshman, Chretien played a season-high 30 minutes and scored five points on 2 of 5 shooting from the field.

“We ran off a streak of losses and thought it was important to make some changes,” Hollowell said, “to see if we could shake things up and get better production. I liked some of the stuff that I saw and some not so much, so we’ll just keep working to get it right.”

Senior point guard Jakevion Buckley came off the bench but

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UNO guard Coleton Benson reacts after hitting a 3-pointer against Tulane on Nov. 14 at Devlin Fieldhouse. The Privateers won 85-63.

still played 29 minutes. Fellow senior guard Coleton Benson saw the most floor time and scored a team-high 17 points.

Benson has started all 15 games for UNO, and his 14.1 points per game average is second only to Buckley’s 14.6. A Texas State transfer, Benson leads UNO with 42 3-pointers.

“Early in the year, I felt like I started off hot,” Benson said.

“Kind of went through a weird little cold streak, and I feel like I’m out of it now. Just ready to take that momentum and carry it throughout the rest of the year.”

MJ Thomas has become a staple in the starting lineup for UNO after coming off the bench early on. The 6-foot-8 forward recorded a double-double on Monday with 12 points and a season-high 19 rebounds.

UNO will be tasked with slowing down a Nicholls team that has four players averaging doubledigit points per game. Guards Jaylen Searles and Jalik Dunkley lead the Colonels in scoring and are each averaging more than 13 points.

The athletic Dunkley is the reigning SLC Playe of the Week.

“Those guys are fast, athletic and aggressive defenders,” Hollowell said of the Colonels. “They have a number of good players, and we’ve got a number of good players. I think we’ve got enough to get it done. We’ve just got to let the work show up.”

Hughes’ game-winner in OT lifts Jesuit over Curtis

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Staff writer

Jesuit senior Tanner Hughes took an inbounds pass and quickly dribbled up the floor and thought, “Five seconds left, I’ve got to make something happen.”

Having already played through four lead changes in overtime, the 5-foot-11 Hughes scored the winning points against John Curtis with a driving layup that spun off the backboard and into the hoop with 0.9 seconds remaining for a 68-67 victory in the semifinals of an eight-team tournament hosted by Country Day. Fouled as he shot, Hughes went to the line and missed the rim, leaving time on the clock for Curtis to try a last-second heave from near midcourt that hit off the backboard — giving Jesuit a confidence-boosting win against a formerly undefeated Curtis team that reached the state semifinals last season.

“I think it just gives us a bunch of confidence, because I think they’re ranked No. 1 in the state, so we can go beat any team out there,” said Hughes, who finished with eight points.

Jesuit senior Zach LaGraize scored a team-high 22 points, including 12 in the fourth quarter and overtime, as 6-4 senior Sven Jensen added 13 points, several of those coming on nifty moves near the basket. Junior Duke Nitcher scored nine points in the win that advanced Jesuit to face Shaw or Miramar (Florida) in the tournament championship set for 6:30 p.m. Saturday.

Curtis senior Autrail Manning scored 28 points, including a 3-pointer at the regulation buzzer that forced overtime. He scored his team’s final 10 points, including a lead-changing three-point play along with a pair of go-ahead layups in the final 30 seconds or so.

Jesuit (13-4) did not call timeout after Manning scored for a 67-66 lead with nine seconds remaining

as Hughes took an inbounds pass and raced up the floor for his winning basket.

“I was trying to look for No. 11, Zach LaGraize — he was on fire all night — but they had been denying him heavily and I got my guy on my hip, and I just took it to the rim,” Hughes said.

Jesuit coach Chris Jennings did not call timeout because “I just believe at the end of a game like that, if you have time to get up and go, you go,” he said. “You don’t call timeout. I think the timeout gives the defense time to get set. So, we want to go and try to create something.”

Hughes, whose father, Brian, played on the first team Jennings coached in 1992, has known the coach for as long as he can remember.

“I always wanted to play for him, knowing my dad played for him and knowing my dad wore No. 5,” said Hughes, who wears his dad’s old number.

The younger Hughes has grown into a dependable player for Jennings.

“He’s tough,” Jennings said.

“He doesn’t give up. He guards people. Most of the time he makes really good decisions. He’s the guy that we have getting the ball up the court.”

Jesuit and Curtis (15-1) will play a second time Jan. 30 at Jesuit in a District 9-5A game.

The undefeated start for Curtis included a 53-47 against reigning state champion St. Augustine in the championship of a four-round tournament hosted by Hannan in December.

The Patriots faced reigning Division II state champion Hannan in the Country Day tournament opener on Thursday and won 54-50.

The eight-team tournament hosted by Country Day is in memory of late WGNO sports director Ed Daniels, who organized an annual tournament held in January at the Alario Center in Westwego.

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Johnson shows grit, assures ‘sky is not falling’ LSU senior stepped ä Texas at LSU, 2 P.M. SUNDAy, ESPN up in win over Georgia the Wildcats that her star senior

BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

Once the fourth quarter rolled around on Thursday, the LSU women’s basketball team found itself in that familiar situation. It held an eight-point lead over Georgia.

The Tigers had similar edges in their first two SEC games. Kentucky trailed by seven at the start of the fourth last Thursday. So did Vanderbilt on Sunday. LSU had gotten control of both contests at those critical junctures, but it wound up losing each time.

“I had kind of put in my head,” Flau’jae Johnson said. “I was like, ‘I’m not letting us lose another lead.’ ” Ten minutes later, Johnson had a season-high 25 points, and the No. 12 Tigers (15-2, 1-2 SEC) had their first win over a conference foe this season — a 21-point road victory over the Bulldogs that they can use to lend credence to their belief that the “sky’s not falling” after their first 0-2 start to SEC play under coach Kim Mulkey.

“The sky would be falling if I looked out there,” Mulkey said, “and I didn’t have talent. Then I would be like, ‘Uh oh.’ But no, we’re very talented. We’re just so young and new, and that’s why so much is required of (Johnson) and Mikaylah (Williams). They’re your older players that have been in this system.”

The problem, in the first two games of SEC play, was that Johnson wasn’t giving LSU what it requires of her. Mulkey made a point to note after the loss to

had grabbed only one rebound.

Then she said after the loss to the Commodores that she wished she could’ve used Johnson’s ankle injury as an excuse for why she went scoreless.

Mulkey could not. Johnson just wasn’t herself.

But she was on Thursday, when LSU bounced back and beat Georgia. Johnson looked more like the player who first ascended to stardom late in her sophomore season.

The one who cemented her status as one of the top players in the country with an impressive junior year.

Johnson shot 9 of 13 from the field and pulled down four rebounds while assisting two field goals and blocking two others. She used her footwork to set up midrange jumpers. Finished difficult layups through contact. Capped her transition chances and drained her open 3-pointers.

Through three quarters, Johnson had 10 points. Then she converted all five shots she took in the fourth quarter, adding another 15 points to her scoring tally and making sure LSU wouldn’t blow another lead. The senior hasn’t notched that many points since she finished with 28 last year in an Elite Eight loss to UCLA — the night she nearly willed the Tigers back into the Final Four.

“She needs to continue to lead,” Mulkey said. “She’s not going to score 25 every night. “(Johnson and Williams) just gotta lead us. They can only do so much on that bench over there, but when it gets to game time, you’re the one on that floor, and you’ve got to be the one that takes us over that

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LSU guard Flau’jae Johnson drives past Kentucky guard Jordan Obi on Jan. 1 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. In a win over Georgia, Johnson had a season-high 25 points. hump when it’s a tight game.”

LSU isn’t finished playing tight games. It’s still in the thick of the toughest stretch it has encountered across the past five seasons, and it won’t reach the end of the gauntlet until after it faces No. 5 Oklahoma on the road Jan. 18.

Before they can think about the Sooners, the Tigers must first tussle with No. 2 Texas at home on Sunday. The undefeated Long-

horns have already beaten No. 3 South Carolina and No. 4 UCLA. They’ll enter their game in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center as the only Division I team with multiple wins over top-five opponents.

LSU still hasn’t beaten an AP top-five SEC team under Mulkey.

Now — because Johnson shook off a slow start, rediscovered her scoring touch and closed out

a tight game — it has a chance to use its win over a Georgia as a springboard into its first such victory.

“The sky is not falling,” Johnson said. “We’re going to be OK. It is January. It’s the beginning of January. We got a lot of basketball to play.”

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Tulane men’s hoops seeking rare 3-0 start to league play Green Wave hasn’t started 3-0 since 1996-97 season

ä Tulane at Texas-San Antonio.

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If the transitive property applied to sports, the Tulane men’s basketball team would be a lock to win at Texas-San Antonio and scratch a 29-year itch.

To wit: The Green Wave (11-4, 2-0) beat Florida Atlantic 69-66 in its American Conference home opener four days after the Owls crushed the moribund Roadrunners (4-11, 0-3) 110-70 in their home opener. Nothing on paper indicates Tulane should encounter any trouble on Saturday at the Convocation Center (4 p.m., ESPN+) as it seeks its first 3-0 league start since 1996-97 in Conference USA. Regardless of the opponent, coach Ron Hunter wants to see the exact same intensity the Wave exhibited against Florida Atlantic in what promises to be a lifeless venue.

“If you want to fight for a championship, you’ve got to get as many road wins as you can get,” he said.

“It doesn’t matter who you play.

They are going to have their backs against the wall. One of the things

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Tulane guard Rowan Brumbaugh, shown against Samford on Nov. 3 at Devlin Fieldhouse, said the Green Wave is not overlooking its next opponent, Texas-San Antonio.

I’m excited about is our defense has played at a high level really all year. The other part is we’ve got some older guys. Our guards have been through these things before.

It doesn’t matter what a coach thinks. The players have to understand we have to come and play, and I think they understand that.”

Nothing has come easily for Tulane in its two visits to the Convocation Center since Texas-San Antonio joined the American. Two

victory over the Dallas Mavericks. This latest win came against a team the Pels have had some recent success against. The Pels have now won their past five games against the Wizards (10-27) and six of their last seven.

Williamson and Murphy got off to fast starts, combining for 34 points in the first half to give the Pels a 60-50 lead at the break. The lead came despite the Pels committing 13 first-half turnovers. The Pelicans began pulling away in the third quarter.

“I thought there was more value on every possession,” Borrego said about the second half. “In the first half, there was not that and we were turning it over left and right, not valuing possessions and not getting to our spots and sloppy execution.

I thought we flipped it there.”

Jeremiah Fears scored 21 points.

But the star of the night was Queen.

“I’m super proud of him,” Murphy said. “He’s been performing the whole year and it was nothing different than what he’s been doing.”

joins Chris Paul.

“Queen was fantastic,” said Pelicans’ interim head coach James Borrego. “Great energy.

Big time performance on the glass. Shared the ball. Had a massive impact out there. Especially to do it here in front of his hometown was really special.”

Queen had plenty of help.

Trey Murphy and Zion Williamson combined for 66 points.

Murphy finished with 35 points and knocked down 7 of 16 3-pointers to go with eight rebounds. Williamson finished with 31 points, shooting 12 of 14 from the floor. He could have scored more, but missed six of his 13 free throws.

“Murph and Z are playing at a high level and they trust each other,” Borrego said. “We had a little two-man game going and they are taking on more leadership and responsibility there. I trust them. We trust them to make the right plays.”

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years ago, the Roadrunners hit a 3-pointer with three seconds left to stun Tulane 89-88 three days after the Wave ended a 24-year drought against ranked opponents by beating Memphis. The loss sent it into a tailspin that lasted the rest of the way.

Last season, Tulane outscored Texas-San Antonio 10-0 in the final 2:10, winning 61-60 on a pair of Rowan Brumbaugh free throws with two seconds left.

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Continued from page 1C Vanderbilt (15-0, 2-0) at Memorial Gymnasium in Nashville, Tennessee. The Commodores are the highest-ranked Southeastern Conference team in the AP Poll and one of six undefeated teams left in the country before Friday’s games.

Before film studying occurred, Tamba and McMahon had a sense of what led to the team’s abysmal start most recently.

Part of why LSU trailed 24-5 after about 6 minutes was because South Carolina’s center made four 3-pointers. Tamba said that South Carolina’s 9-of-9 shooting start was due to an unaggressive mentality.

McMahon’s way of saying the same thing was a lack of “urgency.”

“For whatever reason, I didn’t have us ready to go with the activity and urgency you got to play with on the defensive side of the ball,” the fourth-year coach said.

More important than figuring out what caused its SEC home opener disappointment is preventing that issue from recurring on a team that only has one returning player in the rotation, following Jalen Reed’s season-ending Achilles injury.

Luck hasn’t been on LSU’s side when it comes to injuries, as each

“It’s a really hard place to play,” Brumbaugh said. “It’s a weird gym, so it’s not like a gimme game at all. We’re treating them as we would anyone else.”

Texas-San Antonio has struggled mightily all year under secondyear coach Austin Claunch, who won 90 games in five seasons at Nicholls but faced a near total rebuild after his initial campaign in San Antonio. Three of his four double-digit scorers in 2024-25 were seniors. The exception, Marcus Millender, transferred to Georgia, where he is averaging 12 points.

The replacements were not ready for prime time. Ten of the Roadrunners’ 11 defeats have come by double digits. They lost their home conference opener 7458 to Charlotte, which was picked last in the league coaches’ preseason poll.

Two of the Roadrunners’ victories were against non-Division I opponents, but they can point to one good win. On Nov. 25, they beat Georgia Southern 77-64 in the consolation round of the Jacksonville Classic. The Eagles have won nine consecutive games since then, while Texas-San Antonio has lost eight in row.

“I think we’re a versatile team as well, and we should be able to deal with that way better than that, you know.

We obviously miss DJ and it would be a different result if we had him. But we work.

I mean, Reece, he’s a great point guard for us.”

PABLO TAMBA, LSU forward conference game gains importance by the day.

The Tigers will play arguably their toughest matchup for the rest of the regular season without star point guard Dedan Thomas, who is day-to-day with a lower leg injury he suffered in practice on Jan. 2, the day before the SEC opener, McMahon said.

“He’s made tremendous progress since he suffered the noncontact injury on Friday,” McMahon said. “Really, couldn’t walk the first couple of days. Now, he’s out of the boot, moving around. Just being transparent, I still think he has a little ways to go before he’s able to play basketball again. But he’s anxious to get back. He’s living in the training room 24/7, doing everything in his power to get

“I don’t know if it’s a matter of not playing down to their level,” said Brumbaugh, who made the American Conference honor roll this week after averaging 19.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.5 assists in the league-opening wins.

“We know we can beat anyone, but we can also definitely lose to anyone. We’ve had a great week of practice, so I’m very excited to play.”

Hunter did not want to hear about the long gap between 3-0 starts, but it is history worth repeating.

The 1996-97 Wave, which featured all-time leading scorer Jerald Honeycutt as a senior, began 7-0 in Conference USA on the way to an 11-3 record. Tulane has finished above .500 in league play only four times since then, but three of those seasons have come in the past four years under Hunter.

His ambitions are much higher than simply a winning record this time. A victory Saturday would keep Tulane at the top of the standings as it pursues its first conference championship since 1991-92.

“We just have to go play 40 minutes of great defense and make shots,” Hunter said. “We understand what our formula is for winning. If we take care of the ball and play at our pace, regardless of what other teams do, we have a chance to win every night.”

back to the team. I wish I could give you a better timeline.”

Thomas’ teammates understand the challenge of missing the SEC assist leader (7.1) and their leading scorer (16.2) for a potential third straight game. However, they are confident in his replacement in the starting lineup: freshman point guard Jalen Reece.

“Huge impact on our team,” Tamba said on Thomas’ absence. “I think we’re a versatile team as well, and we should be able to deal with that way better than that, you know.

We obviously miss DJ and it would be a different result if we had him.

But we work. I mean, Reece, he’s a great point guard for us.”

Reece has 6 points on 3 of 13 shooting, 13 assists and six turnovers in his last two games combined. His next test will be his toughest so far, as he’ll face Vanderbilt point guard Tyler Tanner. The sophomore is averaging 17.1 points on 52.8% shooting overall, 5.6 assists and 2.6 steals per game.

Slowing the Commodores’ star will be a team effort. More important than any scheme or an electric scoring game by an LSU player will be the team’s mindset.

A failure in urgency is how the Tigers guarantee not only a 0-3 start in SEC play but a blowout loss that hurts their analytical case for the NCAA Tournament.

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LSU GYMNASTICS

Five Tigers to watch this season Meet five LSU gymnasts to watch going into 2026. The No. 2-ranked Tigers open the season at 3 p.m. Saturday in the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad on ABC:

Kailin Chio • Sophomore Coming off one of the best freshman seasons in LSU history, Chio won 23 individual titles, including the NCAA vault title, en route to SEC freshman of the year honors and seven All-America awards. Goes into this season as one of the nation’s top all-arounders.

Amari Drayton • Junior Drayton competed on vault and floor for the second straight season in 2025 and is poised to build on her repertoire in 2026. Drayton earned All-America honors on floor as a sophomore, recording season highs of 9.95 on that event and vault. Owns three individual titles (two vault, one floor).

Kaliya Lincoln • Sophomore

Konnor McClain • Junior

Madison Ulrich • Junior

Competed in nine meets in her freshman campaign before being shut down by a shoulder injury. Underwent offseason shoulder surgery and is ready to compete full go. An explosive gymnast who was a 2024 U.S. Olympic alternate, she had highs of 9.95 (vault) and 9.925 (floor) in 2025.

The 2022 U.S. nationals allaround champion, McClain has never competed on vault for the Tigers. This season, the talented McClain is expected to be counted on as one of LSU’s top gymnasts. Has 14 career individual titles (including 2024 SEC beam title) with three perfect 10s.

A transfer from the University of Denver, Ulrich was a three-time All-American with the Pioneers, competing in the all-around in every meet both seasons there. In the 2025 NCAA championships, she finished sixth individually in the all-around, seventh on beam and eighth on bars.

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The Tigers have dealt with that hurt and disappointment, storing it until it could serve them this season.

“At the end of the day,” junior Konnor McClain said, “we were SEC champions. We were such an amazing team, but we know we were capable of so much more.”

Starting No. 2 in the preseason coaches’ poll, the Tigers know what more means for them this season, a season that begins Saturday with the Sprouts Farmers Market Collegiate Quad (3 p.m., ABC). LSU will take on No. 1 Oklahoma, No. 4 UCLA and No. 5 Utah, a Daytona 500-like meet at the beginning of the season that could well be a preview of this season’s NCAA final in April.

“We think we have a team that can be in that position again,” LSU coach Jay Clark said. “I’m encouraged by the way they’ve conducted themselves.”

As all college teams do, the Tigers lost some key pieces from 2025, namely two-time NCAA champion and former national gymnast of the STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON year Haleigh Bryant, now an LSU LSU gymnastics members from left, Kylie Coen, Kailin Chio, Kaliya assistant coach, and 2024 Olympian Lincoln and Konnor McClain pose for a photo on Dec. 15. LSU Aleah Finnegan.

For the returning Tigers and the gymnastics will kick off its season on Saturday at the Sprouts Collegiate newcomers, the flame still burns. Squad meet in West Valley City, Utah.

“The fire dimmed for a little bit,” McClain said. “But over the sum- 2026 LSU gymnastics schedule Saturday Sprouts Collegiate Quad* 3 p.m.

ABC mer, we came together as a team Jan. 16 at Georgia 6 p.m.

SEC Network Jan. 23 Kentucky 6:30 p.m.

ESPN2 and we’ve been building this fire.

Jan. 30 at Missouri 6 p.m.

ESPN2 “We’re ready to light it now.”

Feb. 6 Penn State 7:30 p.m.

SECNetwork+ Meet four key returning Tigers Feb. 13 Auburn 7:45 p.m.

SEC Network 20 at Oklahoma 8 p.m.

ESPN2 expected to play key roles in LSU’s Feb. Feb. 27 Alabama 8:30 p.m.

SEC Network quest for more championships in March 1 Podium Challenge# 4 p.m.

March 8 at Florida 5 p.m.

SEC Network 2026:

Kailin Chio The numbers still boggle the mind. As a freshman, the Henderson, Nevada, native won 23 individual titles, including that NCAA vault crown, earned seven All-American honors and was SEC freshman of the year. By comparison, Bryant, arguably LSU’s best gymnast ever, won 14 individual events as a freshman in 2021 (also including the NCAA vault crown) and six All-American honors.

“She’s just mature beyond her years,” Clark said of Chio, “as a competitor and the way she can speak and articulate her points.

“She seems to have a good head on her shoulders about it. If she does what she’s doing in the gym, it’s going to be amazing.”

Clark has cautioned Chio against trying to outdo herself as a sophomore. She appears to be listening.

“Freshman year,” Chio said, “was very unexpected. Honestly,

March 13 Arkansas 7:30 p.m.

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this year it all stays the same.

Nothing more, nothing less.

“That (2025) is in the past now. I want to keep building off of it, but each year starts fresh.”

Chio competed as an all-arounder in every meet except the NCAA regional final at Penn State when she did three events. Arriving as she did in a year when collegiate scoring was more unpredictable than in the past, 41 of Chio’s 59 scores were 9.90 or better, including 16 of 9.95 or better (with one perfect 10).

“She doesn’t just wow you with one thing,” Clark said, “that you’re waiting for that one skill. It’s just everything she does is so right.”

in Bedford, Texas, Coen wanted to be a Tiger.

“My (team) didn’t go for LSU,” Coen said, “They were for Oklahoma. I was like the turning point in my gym.”

She remembers going to watch the Tigers compete in the Metroplex Challenge at Texas Woman’s University in Denton, pulling for LSU gymnasts like Ashleigh Gnat and Jessie Jordan.

“I was so excited, hoping I would be here,” Coen said.

After performing three exhibition routines as a freshman, Coen competed in 13 meets this past season on balance beam and floor.

Now, as a junior, Clark figures the Kylie Coen team will count on Coen to lead on From the time she was a little and off the mat.

“She’s very mature,” he said, girl doing gymnastics back home

TOP LEFT: LSU gymnast Konnor McClain performs a beam routine on Feb. 28 at the Raising Cane’s River Center. TOP: LSU gymnast Kaliya Lincoln performs her floor routine during an SEC meet against Oklahoma on Feb. 14 at the PMAC. ABOVE: LSU gymnast Amari Drayton performs her floor routine in the NCAA team semifinals on April 17 at the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas. STAFF FILE PHOTOS By MICHAEL JOHNSON

“a caretaker for the team. She’s looked to by a lot of her teammates as that person they can rely on. A pillar of stability.”

LSU needs someone who can replace former Tiger Sierra Ballard in the lead-off spot on beam, a crucial table-setting position in a tension-invoking event. Clark figures Coen can be that gymnast.

“Her level of consistency is so high you know what you’re going to get,” Clark said.

Coen said the Tigers have a close bond, something that cuts through the weekly competition for those precious few 24 routines on vault, bars, beam and floor.

Kaliya Lincoln After earning alternate status on the uber-competitive U.S. gymnastics team for the 2024 Olympics, Lincoln came to LSU for her 2025 freshman season as only a shadow of herself physically.

Limited by a shoulder injury, the Frisco, Texas, native performed just 11 routines on vault and floor in nine meets before being shut down in early March. Surgery repaired Lincoln’s shoulder and gave her an entirely new outlook for 2026.

“It was definitely hard to decide to cut my season short,” Lincoln said.

“But I knew it would give me a better chance to be ready for this year.”

Though just 5-foot-1, few if any gymnasts on the LSU roster pack so much energy and potential into their routines than Lincoln.

“Of all the athletes I’ve ever coached,” Clark said, “she’s the most physically explosive and quick. Everything she does is just … bigger. She’s so small and compact, but she’s so powerful.

“Again, health will be the key. So it’s cross your fingers, take your vitamins and say your prayers.”

Lincoln said she’s altered her floor and vault routines for this season and has been working on adding beam to her repertoire, something she didn’t do at all as a freshman because of her shoulder.

“I’m excited to be showing my dynamic side, getting to compete more than last year,” Lincoln said.

Though Lincoln was reduced to a spectator’s role by the 2025 NCAA championships, like her teammates, she’s using this past year’s NCAA semifinals as motivation.

“We want to show everyone it was a one-time thing,” Lincoln said.

Konnor McClain Perhaps no gymnast ever came to LSU with more impressive credentials than McClain, who won the 2022 all-around title at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships.

But hers is one of the most physically demanding sports, and the

first two years of McClain’s LSU career were hampered by injuries.

That included an Achilles tendon tear in May 2024 at a pre-Olympic meet that scuttled her dreams of making the U.S. team.

“I feel like I haven’t reached the level I’m capable of yet in college,” the Las Vegas native said. “It would be so nice this year to put it all out there and do what I want to do.”

After offseason wrist surgery, McClain said she feels better physically than she has in at least five years. Perhaps even more importantly, she’s happier doing gymnastics than she’s been in years as well.

“This year I really have found the joy in gymnastics,” McClain said. “That was my goal in college.

I’ve got the happy part down. This is the first time I’ve walked into the gym and I feel at peace. These are my best friends, my sisters.

“It’s not, ‘Ugh, I have to go into the gym.’ It’s always like, ‘Finally, I’m at practice.’ ” Clark has noticed the upward trend in McClain’s physical and mental well-being.

“Her body is in the best place it’s been,” he said. “If we can keep her healthy, that’s always the unknown.

“But she has the potential to be as impactful a four-eventer as we’ve seen.”

Other gymnasts Junior Amari Drayton is expected to be a major contributor to the Tigers after competing on vault and floor in every meet this past season. The Tigers also have a big crop of newcomers, led by junior transfer Maddie Ulrich, a threetime All-American at Denver.

“Maddie will be an all-arounder,” Clark said. “Really clean gymnastics. Hyper competitive. You can tell when the lights come on, she’ll show up.”

Washington transfer Emily Innes, a senior, will likely be a beam and floor specialist, Clark said. Courtney Blackson has come to LSU after sitting out the 2025 season in “retirement” after four years at Boise State, where she competed on vault, uneven bars and floor.

Of LSU’s freshman class, Nina Ballou is expected to make the biggest impact.

“She has great showmanship on three events,” Clark said. “She’ll be a fan favorite.”

After the Sprouts meet on Saturday in West Valley City, Utah, LSU opens SEC competition Friday at Georgia before the Tigers have their home opener Jan. 23 against Kentucky. LSU will wrap up the home schedule by hosting an NCAA regional — April 3-5 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center — for the first time since 2019.

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Anaheim 44 21 20 3 45 147 163 Calgary 44 18 22 4 40 114 134 Vancouver 43 16 22 5 37 121 153 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.

Sports Betting Line NFL Saturday

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Sunday

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Thursday’s Games

Detroit 5, Vancouver 1 Boston 4, Calgary 1 Carolina 5, Anaheim 2 Toronto 2, Philadelphia 1, OT Pittsburgh 4, New Jersey 1 Montreal 6, Florida 2 Buffalo 5, N.Y. Rangers 2 Edmonton 4, Winnipeg 3 Nashville 2, N.Y. Islanders 1, SO Colorado 8, Ottawa 2 Minnesota 3, Seattle 2, OT Vegas 5, Columbus 3

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Monday FAVORITE Houston

NBA

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3 3 (38) at PIT

Saturday

FAVORITE at CLEVELAND at INDIANA at DETROIT at BOSTON at CHICAGO at UTAH

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COLLEGE BASKETBALL Saturday

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Saturday

FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at BOSTON -132 N.Y Rangers +110 at PITTSBURGH -152 Calgary +127 at COLORADO -287 Columbus +231 Dallas -185 at SAN JOSE +153 at MONTREAL -140 Detroit +118 at OTTAWA -112 Florida -107 at BUFFALO -148 Anaheim +124 at TORONTO -169 Vancouver +141 Tampa Bay -149at PHILADELPHIA +124 at CAROLINA -295 Seattle +238 at MINNESOTA -181 N.Y Islanders +151 at NASHVILLE -198 Chicago +164 at EDMONTON -179 Los Angeles +149 at VEGAS -258 St. Louis +210

Pro basketball NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

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L 17 17 21 25 26

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L 9 18 20 21 31

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Thursday’s Games

Saturday’s Games

N.Y. Rangers at Boston, noon Calgary at Pittsburgh, 2:30 p.m.

Columbus at Colorado, 3 p.m.

Dallas at San Jose, 3 p.m.

Anaheim at Buffalo, 6 p.m.

Detroit at Montreal, 6 p.m.

Florida at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Seattle at Carolina, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at Philadelphia, 6 p.m.

Vancouver at Toronto, 6 p.m.

Chicago at Nashville, 7 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Minnesota, 7 p.m.

Los Angeles at Edmonton, 9 p.m.

St. Louis at Vegas, 9 p.m.

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Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza carries against Oregon during the second half of the Peach Bowl College Football Playoff semifinal on Friday in Atlanta. The game ended after deadline.

Saturday’s games

New Orleans 128, Washington 107 Philadelphia 103, Orlando 91 L.A. Clippers 121, Brooklyn 105 Oklahoma City at Memphis, n Atlanta at Denver, n New York at Phoenix, n Houston at Portland, n Sacramento at Golden State, n Milwaukee at L.A. Lakers, n

Troy at UL, noon LSU at Vanderbilt, noon UL-Monroe at Southern Miss, 2 p.m.

Delaware at Louisiana Tech, 2 p.m.

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 3:30 p.m.

Southeastern at McNeese, 4 p.m.

Tulane at Texas-San Antonio, 4 p.m.

Grambling at Bethune-Cookman, 4:30 p.m.

Southern at Florida A&M, 5 p.m.

Nicholls at UNO, 5 p.m.

Saturday’s Games

Minnesota at Cleveland, noon Miami at Indiana, 6 p.m.

L.A. Clippers at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Chicago, 7 p.m.

San Antonio at Boston, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Utah, 8:30 p.m.

Sunday’s games

No games scheduled.

Monday’s games

Grambling at Florida A&M, TBA Southern at Bethune-Cookman, 6 p.m.

UNO at Southeastern, 6 p.m.

Nicholls at McNeese, 6:30 p.m.

Texas-Rio Grande Valley at Northwestern State, 6:30 p.m.

Pro football Wild-card Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 10

Men’s national scores

L.A Rams at Carolina, 3:30 p.m. (FOX) Green Bay at Chicago, 7 p.m. (AMAZON PRIME VIDEO)

EAST

Sunday, Jan. 11

Buffalo at Jacksonville, noon (CBS) San Francisco at Philadelphia, 3:30 p.m.

(FOX) L.A Chargers at New England, 7 p.m. (NBC/ Peacock) Houston at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m. (ESPN/ABC)

W 24 23 23 20 11

Central Division

Los Angeles at Winnipeg, n Washington at Chicago, n St. Louis at Utah, n

Monday, Jan. 12

New York Boston Toronto Philadelphia Brooklyn

Southeast Division

Friday’s Games

UNDERDOG Minnesota Miami LA Clippers San Antonio Dallas Charlotte

GB — ½ 3½ 8 10

Indiana 114, Charlotte 112 Minnesota 131, Cleveland 122 Utah 116, Dallas 114 Miami at Chicago, ppd

Friday’s Games

Boston 125, Toronto 117

Divisional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 17 and Sunday, Jan. 18 AFC lowest remaining seed at Denver, TBD NFC lowest remaining seed at Seattle, TBD AFC two remaining seeds at higher seed, TBD NFC two remaining seeds at higher seed, TBD

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 25 AFC

AFC lowest remaining seed at AFC highest remaining seed

NFC

NFC lowest remaining seed at NFC highest remaining seed

Super Bowl LIX Sunday, Feb. 8 At Santa Clara.

Amherst 71, Bates 50 Bloomsburg 73, Cheyney Wolves 67, OT Canisius 70, Manhattan 64 Colby 76, Connecticut College 67 Daemen 85, District of Columbia 47 Fairfield 68, Rider 62 Hobart 86, Skidmore 70 Iona 71, Niagara 53 Ithaca 101, RIT 72 Keuka 105, Sage College of Albany 100 Lehman 69, City College of New York 50 Marist 76, Sacred Heart 72 Merrimack 63, Siena 59 Mount St Marys 70, Saint Peter’s 65 SUNY-Cortland 78, SUNY-New Paltz 48 SUNY-Oneonta 105, SUNY-Morrisville 80 SUNY-Oswego 91, SUNY-Potsdam 58 SUNY-Plattsburgh 76, SUNY-Canton 63 SUNY-Polytechnic 60, Alfred 55 St. John Fisher 77, SUNY-Brockport 63 Staten Island 77, D’Youville 70 Trinity College 79, Middlebury 62 Tufts 81, Bowdoin 69 Union (NY) 76, RPI 59 Utica 65, Houghton 59 Vassar 56, Clarkson 54 Wesleyan (CT) 84, Williams College 71 York College (NY) 66, Hunter 64

SOUTH

Converse 77, Shorter 69 Johnson & Wales (NC) 94, Virginia-Lynchburg 82 Mary Baldwin 65, William Peace 55 Pfeiffer 89, Southern Virginia 63

Conference Championships winners, 5:30 p.m. (NBC/Peacock)

College football

MIDWEST

Concordia-St. Paul 102, Minnesota State Moorhead 89 Green Bay 75, IU Indianapolis 59 Jamestown 87, Augustana University 77 Miami (OH) 87, Toledo 73 Minnesota State 68, University of Mary 65 Minnesota-Crookston 67, Winona State 62 Northern Kentucky 85, Milwaukee 67 Oakland 97, Cleveland State 74 Sioux Falls 93, Minnesota-Duluth 89 Southwest Minnesota State 85, Bemidji State 55 St Cloud State 71, Minot State 57 Wayne State (NE) 86, Northern State 79 Wright State 84, Detroit Mercy 82 Youngstown State 99, Bryant and Stratton Bobcats (OH) 61

College Football Playoff Semifinals

Thursday Fiesta Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.

No. 10 Miami 31, No. 6 Ole Miss 27 Friday Peach Bowl, Atlanta No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 5 Oregon, n

National Championship

Miami Jan. 19 Semifinal winners, 6:30 p.m. (ESPN)

FCS glance

National Championship

Monday Frisco, Texas Montana State 35, Illinois State 34

SOUTHWEST

Centenary 94, Mcmurry 89 Concordia (TX) 129, Hendrix 54 Schreiner 93, LeTourneau 88 St Thomas (TX) 76, Dallas 62 Texas Lutheran 106, Ozarks 92

College basketball Men’s state schedule, scores

FAR WEST

Thursday’s games

Colorado College 87, Austin 69

Liberty 72, Louisiana Tech 56 UL 85, UL-Monroe 79

Women’s state schedule Thursday’s games

UL-Monroe 61, UL 51 LSU 80, Georgia 59 Louisiana Tech 65, Delaware 50 UNO 64, Southeastern 63 Southern 61, Bethune-Cookman 50 McNeese 62, Nicholls 51 Northwestern 79, UTRGV 47 Florida A&M 59, Grambling 55

BASKETBALL

Saturday’s games

Texas A&M-Corpus Christi at Northwestern State, 1 p.m.

Southeastern at McNeese, 1 p.m.

North Texas at Tulane, 2 p.m.

Nicholls at UNO, 2 p.m.

UL-Monroe at South Alabama, 2 p.m.

Grambling at Bethune-Cookman, 3 p.m.

Texas State at UL, 3 p.m.

Southern at Florida A&M, 3 p.m.

Sunday’s games

Louisiana Tech at Liberty, noon Texas at LSU, 2 p.m.

Women’s national scores Friday’s games EAST

Monmouth 52, UNC Wilmington 50 North Carolina A&T 84, Northeastern 83, 2OT Stony Brook 57, Drexel 53 Towson 47, Hofstra 46

SOUTH

Belmont 78, Drake 69 Campbell 62, Elon 52 Charleston 62, William & Mary 60 Murray State 75, Northern Iowa 71

SOUTHWEST

Tulsa 94, Temple 82

Hockey NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division GP 44 45 42 42 43 44 43 43

W 25 26 26 23 21 23 22 20

L OT Pts GF GA 13 6 56 151 144 15 4 56 141 142 13 3 55 146 112 15 4 50 135 131 15 7 49 143 140 19 2 48 141 144 18 3 47 132 140 18 5 45 139 145

GP Carolina 44 N.Y. Islanders 44 Philadelphia 42 Pittsburgh 42 Washington 44 New Jersey 44 N.Y. Rangers 45 Columbus 43

W 27 24 22 21 22 22 20 18

L OT Pts GF GA 14 3 57 152 133 15 5 53 130 122 12 8 52 130 120 12 9 51 139 132 16 6 50 143 129 20 2 46 115 137 19 6 46 118 125 18 7 43 132 147

Montreal Detroit Tampa Bay Buffalo Toronto Boston Florida Ottawa

Metropolitan Division

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division

Colorado Dallas Minnesota Utah Nashville Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg

GP 43 44 45 44 43 43 44 42

W 32 26 26 21 20 18 17 15

L OT Pts GF GA 4 7 71 175 99 10 8 60 153 124 11 8 60 143 121 20 3 45 133 125 19 4 44 122 143 18 7 43 125 137 19 8 42 110 153 22 5 35 121 134

Vegas Edmonton Seattle San Jose Los Angeles

GP 42 44 42 43 42

W 19 22 20 22 18

L OT Pts GF GA 11 12 50 133 132 16 6 50 149 148 14 8 48 117 123 18 3 47 136 151 14 10 46 114 117

Pacific Division

MLB — Suspended OF Max Kepler 80 games for testing positive for a performance enhancing substance.

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent OF Will Robertson outright to Norfolk (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Claimed RHP Kaleb Ort off waivers from the Houston Astros.

TEXAS RANGERS — Claimed RHP Zak Kent off waivers from the St. Louis Cardinals.

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Claimed RHP George Soriano from the Baltimore Orioles.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Claimed 3B Ryan Fitzgerald off waivers from the Minnesota Twins.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Waived RHP Sauryn Lao. Claimed RHP Paxton Schultz off waivers from the Toronto Blue Jays.

National Basketball Association WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Acquired G Trae Young from the Atlanta Hawks in exchange for G CJ McCollum and F Corey Kispert.

FOOTBALL

National Football League CAROLINA PANTHERS — Activated G Robert Hunt from injured reserve.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Signed P Nik Constantinou and WR Isaiah Wooden to reserve/futures contracts.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Hired Jon-Eric Sullivan as general manager. Signed DT Keith Cooper Jr., OL Braeden Daniels, TE Cole Turner and OL Carter Warren to reserve/futures contracts. Released DT Simeon Barrow, DB Jack Henderson, TE Chris Myarick, and OT Kadeem Telfort.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Designated DT Isaiahh Loudermilk to return from injured reserve.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League CAROLINA HURRICANES — Assigned D Joel Nystrom to Chicago (AHL).

CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Recalled D Kevin Korchinski and G Drew Commesso from Rockford (AHL).

DETROIT RED WINGS — Assigned F John Leonard to Grand Rapids (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Waived D Dennis Cholowski.

PHILADELPHIA FLYERS — Placed D Jamie Drysdale on injured reserve. Recalled D Adam Ginning from Lehigh Valley (AHL).

SAN JOSE SHARKS — Assigned F Patrick Giles to San Jose (AHL) TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Assigned F Jacob Quillan to Toronto (AHL).

VEGAS GOLDEN KNIGHTS — Recalled G Carl Lindbom from Henderson (AHL).

WASHINGTON CAPITALS — Placed F Tom Wilson on injured reserve. Activated F Aliaksei Protas from injured reserve.

SOCCER

Major League Soccer AUSTIN FC — Signed MF Dani Pereira to a contract extension through the 2027-28 season with an option for 2028-29.

COLUMBUS CREW — Signed G Luke Pruter and MF Zach Zengue to first team contracts.

NASHVILLE SC — Loaned MF Isaiah Jones to Chattanooga FC (MLS NEXT Pro). Signed MF Cristian Espinoza through 2028 with options through June 2029 and the 2029-30 season.

NEW YORK CITY FC — Signed G Mac Learned to a first team contract for the 2026 season, with options for June 2027 and the 2027–2028 and 2028–2029 seasons.

PORTLAND TIMBERS — Acquired $2 million from Inter Miami CF in exchange for MF David Ayala.

SAN DIEGO FC — Signed D Osvald Søe guaranteed through the 2027-28 season with Club options for the 2028-29 and 2029-30 seasons.

SAN JOSE EARTHQUAKES — Signed F Cristian Arango to a new contract through December 2027 with club options through June 2028 and the 2028-29 season.

National Women’s Soccer League ORLANDO PRIDE — Acquired $650,000 in intraleague transfer funds from Angel City.w FC in exchange for D Emily Sams.

WASHINGTON SPIRIT — Signed G Sara Wojdelko to a one-year contract.

SATURDAY’S FAIR GROUNDS ENTRIES Post Time: 12:45PM First Race, Purse $30,000, Starters allowance $50,000, 4 yo’s & up One And One Sixteenth Miles-Turf 01 Just Bernie (C McMahon) 8-1 02 Flamingproposition (I Castillo) 5-1 03 Arthur’s Court (M Pedroza, Jr.) 8-1 04 Main Beach (J Ortiz) 5-2 05 You Belong Here (J Loveberry) 8-1 06 White Whale (J Torres) 6-1 07 Django (B Hernandez, Jr.) 2-1 Second Race, Purse $19,000, SOC $10,000$5,000, 4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) Six Furlongs-Dirt 01 Crusin Like a Cat (E Nieves) 6-1 02 Berlaine (D Magnon) 5-2 03 Hittin My Stride (D Cannon) 7-2 04 Slam Diego (J Torres) 2-1 05 Mamba Out (M Murrill) 10-1 06 Unbridled Lunar (M Pedroza, Jr.) 20-1 07 Diamonds Joy (P Lopez) 4-1 08 Chaparrita (C McMahon) 20-1 Third Race, Purse $22,000, Claiming $15,000,

4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) One Mile Seventy Yards-Dirt 01 Im Singled Up (J Mudd) 8-1 02 Cincy’s Anna (M Pedroza, Jr.) 7-2 03 Lady Jeopardy (P Lopez) 4-1 04 Lofty Heights (R Hernandez) 15-1 05 Sally’s Suprise (M Murrill) 6-1 06 Pickin Ana Grinnin (I Castillo) 6-1 07 Blueberry Eyes (C McMahon) 6-1 08 Izzy’s Monster (J Ortiz) 3-1 Fourth Race, Purse $54,000, Maiden special weight, 3 yo, F (fillies) One Mile-Turf 01 Authentic Beauty (B Hernandez, Jr.) 10-1 02 Strada Del Sogno (C McMahon) 8-1 03 Adorable Moments (J Loveberry) 12-1 04 Angelic Katie (I Castillo) 8-1 05 Champagne Party (P Lopez) 8-1 06 Speightress (F Geroux) 12-1 07 Harpermarie (D Cannon) 10-1 08 Ocala Gala (J Ortiz) 9-5 09 Mo Town Renee (E Murray) 8-1 10 Bugs Malone (M Murrill) 20-1 11 Lewinsky (M Pedroza, Jr.) 6-1

12 She’s an Earner (J Graham) 12-1 13 Mothertwotheblues (I Castillo) 12-1 14 Abilene (F Geroux) 7-2 15 Real Drama (J Loveberry) 5-1 16 Powered by Family (J Ortiz) 6-1 Fifth Race, Purse $100,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) Six FurlongsDirt 01 Blue Fire (J Ortiz) 9-5 02 Beleout (E Murray) 15-1 03 Hopeitsmyluckyday (M Murrill) 30-1 04 Custom Design (C Hernandez) 20-1 05 Secret Faith (C McMahon) 3-5 06 Six String (F Geroux) 6-1 Sixth Race, Purse $55,000, Allowance, 4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) Five And A Half Furlongs-Turf 01 Watering (H Rea) 12-1 02 Miss Lonelle (D Magnon) 12-1 03 Something Stronger (J Graham) 4-1 04 Betty’s Dance (P Lopez) 9-2 05 Dashin’ Diva (I Castillo) 8-1 06 Swoonatra (C McMahon) 10-1

07 Get Back Loretta (M Pedroza, Jr.) 10-1 08 Custom Design (C Hernandez) 15-1 09 I’m Mo Joke (B Hernandez, Jr.) 7-2 10 Lovely Emma (J Ortiz) 5-1 11 Bet Towinit (F Geroux) 6-1 12 Annie’s Joy (R Hernandez) 6-1 13 September Magic (D Cannon) 6-1 14 You’ll Be Back (J Ortiz) 3-1 15 Sweet Darlin (I Castillo) 4-1 Seventh Race, Purse $55,000, Allowance, 4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) One Mile Seventy Yards-Dirt 01 Bundle (P Lopez) 5-1 02 Rising Inflation (I Castillo) 5-2 03 La Reynita (J Ortiz) 20-1 04 Anonima (C Hernandez) 9-2 05 Clearly a Test (H Hernandez) 10-1 06 Sierra November (B Hernandez, Jr.) 5-1 07 Chasten (F Geroux) 3-1 08 Union Mist (D Cannon) 10-1 Eighth Race, Purse $100,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) Five And A Half Furlongs-Turf

01 Big Trouble (D Cannon) 3-1 02 Serving Time (GB) (J Ortiz) 8-1 03 Banterra (P Lopez) 10-1 04 Party Pauline (M Murrill) 10-1 05 Rue Lala (I Castillo) 8-1 06 Harbor Springs (J Loveberry) 6-1 07 Sporting Lady (J Torres) 15-1 08 Gavea (GER) (M Pedroza, Jr.) 6-1 09 Lotsandlotsofcandy (B Hernandez, Jr.) 5-2 Ninth Race, Purse $100,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up Six Furlongs-Dirt 01 Benoit (J Graham) 6-1 02 Sir Wellington (P Lopez) 20-1 03 Bron and Brow (I Castillo) 15-1 04 Hay Jude (J Ortiz) 6-1 05 El Dinero (J Loveberry) 5-2 06 Geaux Sugar (M Murrill) 2-1 07 Strong Promise (F Geroux) 10-1 08 He’s Late Again (B Hernandez, Jr.) 12-1 09 Carpis (S Vives) 12-1 10 Sounds Like Power (M Pedroza, Jr.) 15-1

FRIDAY’S FAIR GROUNDS RESULTS First Race - $14,000, Maiden Claiming $10,000, 4 yo’s & up, Five And A Half Furlongs Roadside Banker (H. Hernandez) $12.20 $5.00 $3.60 Runner Runner (J. Mudd) $5.00 $3.80 Ocean Voyager (E. Murray) $9.00 Finish Time: 1:07.43 Exacta (2-5) $31.70; Superfecta (2-5-1-8) $164.20; Trifecta (2-5-1) $162.50 Late Scratches: Aticus Aurelius Second Race - $22,000, Maiden Claiming $30,000, 3 yo, One And One Sixteenth Miles Amazing Lady (F. Geroux) $27.00 $13.40 $5.80 Stress Test (P. Lopez) $5.40 $3.00 Honor Azteca (J. Graham) $3.00 Finish Time: 1:45.18 Daily Double (2-8) $106.90; Exacta (8-2) $58.90; Superfecta (8-2-4-5) $96.14; Trifecta (8-2-4) $143.20 Late Scratches: Pipinna Third Race - $15,000, Maiden Claiming $12,500, 4 yo’s &

up, Six Furlongs Lost in the Sauce (D. Cannon) $13.00 $6.60 $3.80 Miracle On Central (M. Pedroza, Jr.) $4.00 $3.00 Spielman (J. Graham) $2.60 Finish Time: 1:12.58 Daily Double (8-7) $107.70; Exacta (7-6) $21.50; Superfecta (7-6-5-3) $14.94; Trifecta (7-6-5) $20.90; Pic 3 (2-8-7) $286.15 Late Scratches: Daredevil Doug Fourth Race - $55,000, AOC $12,500, 4 yo’s & up, One Mile Canal Street (A. Concepcion) $6.00 $4.20 $2.80 Snazzy Gal (J. Ortiz) $5.00 $3.60 Factor of Time (M. Murrill) $4.40 Finish Time: 1:37.45 Daily Double (7-8) $19.70; Exacta (8-3) $17.70; Superfecta (8-3-10-12) $52.98; Trifecta (8-3-10) $57.30; Pic 3 (8-7-8) $330.10 Late Scratches: Lady Star, Awree, Desert Glow Fifth Race - $57,000, AOC $35,000, 4 yo’s & up, One Mile

Seventy Yards Sippin On Gin (A. Concepcion) $3.60 $2.60 $2.10 Mangum (P. Lopez) $6.20 $4.20 Cosmic Train (J. Ortiz) $3.40 Finish Time: 1:41.28 Daily Double (8-2) $8.70; Exacta (2-6) $9.60; Superfecta (2-6-1-3) $9.71; Trifecta (2-6-1) $14.05; Pic 3 (7-8-2) $17.25; Pic 4 (8-7-2/7/8/11-2) $470.95; Pic 5 (2-8-7-2/7/8/11-2) $5,336.20 Sixth Race - $56,000, AOC $50,000, 4 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Bless the Broken (F. Geroux) $6.00 $2.60 $2.40 Being Myself (J. Ortiz) $2.40 $2.20 Amalfi Drive (B. Hernandez, Jr.) $3.20 Finish Time: 1:43.10 Daily Double (2-6) $4.30; Exacta (6-2) $6.50; Superfecta (6-2-5-7) $6.53; Trifecta (6-2-5) $18.30; Pic 3 (8-2-6) $9.75 Seventh Race - $56,000, AOC $50,000, 4 yo’s & up, Five And A Half Furlongs

Shining Star (CHI) (J. Ortiz) $2.80 $2.10 $2.10 Cairo Dream (J. Loveberry) $3.40 $2.60 Aldora (D. Magnon) $8.80 Finish Time: 1:02.63 Daily Double (6-8) $5.20; Exacta (8-2) $5.30; Superfecta (8-2-3-5) $11.93; Trifecta (8-2-3) $20.85; Pic 3 (2-6-8) $2.65 Late Scratches: Quantum Burst Eighth Race - $15,000, Claiming $5,000, 4 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Hey Boss (J. Loveberry) $9.60 $4.00 $3.40 Little Ditty (P. Lopez) $4.20 $3.20 Ben Dreaming (J. Graham) $4.80 Finish Time: 1:45.65 Daily Double (8-1) $6.60; Exacta (1-4) $30.80; Superfecta (1-4-9-3) $133.62; Trifecta (1-4-9) $73.10; Pic 3 (6-8-1) $18.70; Pic 4 (2-6-4/8-1) $24.75; Pic 5 (2/7/8/11-2-6-4/8-1) $111.25; (7-2/7/8/11-2-6-4/8-1) $121.26 Late Scratches: Daryl’s Bolt, Prichard, Background

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zodIAC CAPRICoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Listen carefully. Someone will exaggerate or inflate information or the cost of something to throw you off guard. Be the one to take control and protect your reputation, assets and possessions.

AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Keep a close watch. Focus on domestic improvements and making sure you are on the same page as those you live with or are in proximity to before you move forward with your plans.

PIsCEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Stay away from organizations determined to part you from your money, and avoid entertainment that has hidden costs. Protect your interests, meaningful relationships and long-term plans.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Neglecting your domestic duties will cause friction. Stay focused on what's necessary and refuse to let anyone goad you into committing to something you cannot deliver. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Explore the possibilities. Get in touch with your inner self and consider what you want to pursue. Common sense is necessary if you intend to come out on top.

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Put some thought into how you want to use your attributes, skills and experience. Focus your energy on motivating others to trust and believe in you.

CAnCER (June 21-July 22) Address emotional issues before someone backs you into a corner. You'll have more leverage

if you are straightforward and relay your concerns to those influenced by your choices.

LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Live up to your personal commitments and abide by rules and regulations. You'll be subject to scammers and people trying to take advantage of you and your generosity.

VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Look for new ways to use your skills. Social events will turn into a platform to test your plans.

Don't overspend on entertainment or let excess and indulgence tempt you.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Take a breather; relax, reflect and give your thoughts a chance to settle. Making the wrong choice can be costly. Use common sense and take it easy until you feel comfortable. sCoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Draw on your experience to get you moving in the right direction. You have plenty to gain if you take the initiative, start talks and organize plans to bring about positive change. sAGIttARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Be aware of what's happening at home. Question expenses, do your homework and hire only those who offer good references.

Your best alternative is to rely on yourself to do what you can.

The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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By PHILLIP ALDER In yesterday’s deal, declarer had to take three club finesses with Q-9-3 opposite A-J-10-2. This required running the nine, the lower “high” card, first, so that he could repeat the finesse two more times without needing an extra entry.

I thought that was standard technique — until I saw this deal. South gets to five clubs. West leads the spade king. How should South approach the play?

North might have bid one no-trump, but two clubs was preferable. If South had interest in three no-trump, he could have cue-bid in spades. Also, if South had something like queen-doubleton of spades, he ought to have been the notrump declarer, not North.

South has two losers in the black suits.

So he must find East with both red-suit kings, unlikely as that might seem. And being in the dummy for the last time, declarer has to take three finesses, two in diamonds and one in hearts. How? If South runs the diamond nine, what does he do next? If he leads dummy’s diamond 10, he will be stuck in his hand with the jack. And if he plays the queen, East can cover with the king to put South into his hand.

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Bridge retains its appeal primarily because you can rarely use the words “always” and “never.” © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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today’s thought “Chasten your son while there is hope, and let not your soul spare for his crying.” Proverbs 19:18

Consistent loving discipline is what every child needs. — G.E. Dean

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Scrabble GramS dIrectIons: make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus.

“Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. all the words are in the Official sCraBBlE® players Dictionary, 5th Edition.

Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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For more information on tournaments and clubs, email naspa – north american sCraBBlE players association: info@scrabbleplayers.org. Visit our website: www.scrabbleplayers.org. For puzzle inquiries contact scrgrams@gmail.com.

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2 - The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

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762 Harrison, LLC dba 762 Coffee and Cocktails is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Orleans at 762 Harrison Ave., New Orleans, LA 70124. LLC member: Rami Badr.

173147-1/10-1t $87.60 Any heirs of or anyone knowing the whereabouts of Christie Dudenhefer Bozzelle please contact Jessica Mullaly at (504) 258-7294 or jessicamullaly1@gmail.com.

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173483-1/10-11-12-3t $109.00 Any heirs of or anyone knowing the whereabouts of Gladystine Lewis please contact Jessica Mullaly at (504) 258-7294 or jessicamullaly1@gmail.com.

Property rights involved.

173468-Jan 10-12, 3t $109 Any heirs of or anyone knowing the whereabouts of Grant Dunbar, Jr. please contact Jessica Mullaly at (504) 258-7294 or jessicamullaly1@gmail.com.

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173477-Jan 10-12, 3t $109 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of a certain Promissory Note payable to CAPITAL ONE HOME LOANS, LLC, executed by DENISE M. JOHNSON, and dated October 24, 2007, from dated until paid, and providing reasonable attorney fees, and all charges associated with the collection of same. Please contact Herschel C. Adcock, Jr., Attorney at Law, at P.O. Box 87379, Baton Rouge, LA 70879-8379, (225) 756-0373.

173491-1/10-11-12-3t $181.00 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Alexander Julian Shafirovich, Nidal Subhi Jaber and/or Mohamad Farhat Saleh please contact Attorney Keith A. Doley 504-9437071.

173540-1/10-11-12-3t $109.00

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172955-Jan 8-10, 3t $97 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Mildred Robert Dresel or Dianne Kathryn Benefield please contact Jessica Mullaly at (504) 258-7294 or jessicamullaly1@gmail.com.

Property rights involved.

173469-Jan 10-12, 3t $109 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Monique Prejean Riley please contact Jessica Mullaly at (504) 2587294 or jessicamullaly1@gmail.com.

Property rights involved.

173480-Jan 10-12, 3t $97 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of William Paul Joseph, Jr., a/k/a William P. Joseph, Jr. and Rosheen Poplar Joseph please contact Attorney Keith A. Doley 504-9437071.

173327-Jan 10-12, 3t $109 COMMUNITY PROPERTY MATTER PENDING: Anyone knowing the whereabouts of KYMBERLIE S. CALOGERO, A/KA KYMBERLIE CALOGERO, please contact Attorney Victoria Hines, 504-710-4757 or via email: vjhineslaw@aol.com as soon as possible.

173548-1/10-11-12-3t $133.00 Lefort’s Seafood Restaurant, Inc is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 1512 Barataria Blvd, Marrero, La 70072 Lefort’s Seafood Restaurant, Inc Members: Brandon Lefort & Alanie Hand 173472-1/10-1t $106.38 Rouse’s Enterprises, L.L.C. d/b/a Rouses Market #91 is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcoholic content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 2104 Williams Blvd, Kenner, LA 70062 Rouse’s Enterprises, L.L.C. Rouses Market #91 Authorized Members: Donald J. Rouse, Sr., Allison R. Royster, and Donald J. Rouse, Jr. 173158-Jan 10-11, 2t $201

Rouse’s Enterprises, L.L.C. d/b/a Rouses Market #92 is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcoholic content at retail in the Parish of Saint Tammany at the following address: 4100 Highway 59, Mandeville, LA 70471 Rouse’s Enterprises, L.L.C. Rouses Market #92 Authorized Members: Donald J. Rouse, Sr., Allison R. Royster, and Donald J. Rouse, Jr. 173157-Jan 10-11, 2t $201 Rouse’s Enterprises, L.L.C. d/b/a Rouses Market #95 is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcoholic content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 4627 Westbank Expressway, Marrero, LA 70072 Rouse’s Enterprises, L.L.C. Rouses Market #95 Authorized Members: Donald J. Rouse, Sr., Allison R. Royster, and Donald J. Rouse, Jr. 173162-Jan 10-11, 2t $201 The Whitney on Carrollton LLC dba The Whitney on Carrollton is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content on premise for their hotel with a bar in the Parish of Orleans at the following address: 1200 S Carrollton Ave., New Orleans, LA 70118. The Whitney on Carrollton LLC dba The Whitney on Carrollton.

Members: Edward and Esther Nickolaus.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --(NOTICE OF INTENTION TO INTRODUCE BILL – SLS 26RS-86) Public notice is hereby given that there may be introduced at the session of the Legislature to be convened on March 9, 2026, a bill relative to Jef‐ and Orleans ferson parish; to provide for the integration of the Lafitte Independent Levee Dis‐ trict within the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protec‐ Authority-West tion Bank; to provide for the renaming of the entities to be merged; to provide for the governing boards and board members of the Lafitte Independent Levee District and the Louisiana Southeast Flood Protection Author‐ ity-West Bank; and to provide for related mat‐ ters.

173079-jan 9-10-2t $199.42 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 (sec‐ entertainment 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 District, Municipal bounded by Philip Street, Simon Bolivar Avenue, Reverend John and Raphael Jr. Way Address(es): 2300 Philip Street Zoning Docket 002/26 Applicant(s): Isaiah Byrd 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 District, Municipal bounded by Oliver Street, Street, Paul Rankin 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 No. 27,971 Ordinance (Zoning Docket MCS 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 establish‐ commercial 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 Icannot‐ Applicant(s): 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 (Zoning Docket MCS 089/20) Property description: Square 482-A, Lots 13-A, 14, and 23, in the First District, Municipal bounded by South Broad Street, Martin Luther Jr., Boulevard, King, 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 Historic HMC-2 Marigny/Tremé/Bywater Commercial District and a conditional use to per‐ mit outdoor live enter‐ (secondary tainment use) in conjunction with a hotel in an HMC-2 His‐

DOGS Belgian Malinois - Dogs hail from work‐ ing lines, OFA certified for hips and el‐ bows, solid, black and sable pups ready to go. Parents on premises. Call 504-220-2980. $1800

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UPTWN/UNIVERSITY 2BR Kit furn, LR, 4901 S. Saratoga St. sec 8 ok, yd, quiet area 504-909-9535 NEW ORLEANS EAST 4518 Lafon Dr., 4BR/2BA, W/D HU, Off St. Pkg., Sec 8 acc. 504-577-5833

DOGS CKC YORKIES or SHORKIES - (yorkies are with papers) all are vet checked with shot and worming, shorkies $450 will meet in Gulfport yorkies $600 (334) 467-3416 DOGS Shih Tzu pups, 3 M 9wks $400, 1 F 4mos $400 Cash Only. Call 504-418-3046

CATS RAGAMUFFIN & RAGDOLL KITTENS www.CatsByFrancy.com/kittens $700up! Reg. Shots & Guaranty 337-230-3150

CATS Young Male Cat, Gray Colors, Have too many cats, Looking for another home for him. Please call 504-861-9617 ($50)

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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

New Orleans LA 70112) or email (CPCinfo@nola. gov). All written com‐ ments must be received by 5 p.m. on Monday, January 5.

ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

DELLA thereon Improvements bear Municipal No. 233 Court, West‐ Mission wego, LA

LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER.

173225-jan 10-17-2t

TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER.

JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

Zoning Docket 006/26 Applicant(s): City Council Motion No. M-25-530 Request: Text amend‐ ment to Article 19 of the Zoning Comprehensive Ordinance to establish an Interim Zoning Dis‐ trict called the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District to require condi‐ tional use approval for hostels; hotels/motels; 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 constructed dwelling 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‐ Residential gle-Family 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 stucco, brick, siding, 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 Neighborhood Urban Business District Property description: Square 395, Lot 5 and Pt. 6, in the Second Munici‐ pal District, bounded by Bienville Avenue, North Street, North Dupre 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 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, Street, and Toledano Camp Street Address(es): 3329 Maga‐ zine Street 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 District, Municipal bounded by Canal Street, Peters Street, North 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‐ Zoning Ordi‐ hensive 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 District, Municipal by Chef bounded 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,

NOCP 8837 172101-dec 29-31-jan 7-3t $277.70 PUBLIC NOTICE --Jefferson Parish Sheriff & Tax Collector 504-363-5710 THIS IS AN IMPORTANT LEGAL NOTICE PLEASE READ IT CARE‐ FULLY. YOU WILL RECEIVE NO OTHER NO‐ TICE. 1/9/2026 RE: Property: 9500004521 220 Bishop Drive, Westwego, LA LOT 11 SQ E GLEN DELLA Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana Tax sale title to the prop‐ above-described erty has been sold for failure to pay taxes. You have been identified as a person who may have an interest in this property.

Your interest in the prop‐ erty will be terminated if you do not redeem the property by making the redemption required payment to the owner listed below or file a law‐ suit in accordance with law within Sixty Days of the date of this notice.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff & Tax Collector PHONE: 504-363-5710 173232-jan 10-17-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE OF LIQUIDATION OF ANDERCOF LP, LLC

THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 0500005247 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ Original Re‐ ment; sources, Inc. -- LOT 100 SQ O SEC 2 KENNEDY HGTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 112 Xavier Drive, Westwego, LA TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173226-jan 10-17-2t

TO: Creditors of Andercof LP, LLC

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an out-of-court vol‐ untary dissolution pro‐ ceeding has taken effect for Andercof LP, LLC, a Louisiana limited liability company.

Any person or entity hav‐ ing claims against An‐ dercof LP, LLC, are noti‐ fied to present their claims in writing and in detail to the appointed Liquidator, Kim Farmer, at 255 N. Joachim Street, Mobile, Alabama 36603, within six (6) months of the date of this notice.

THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW:

KIM FARMER, Liquidator Date: 11/6/25 172548-jan 3-10-2t $199.42 PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 0500004724 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Heirs and Estate of Nancy Thornton McGin‐ nis & Fred McGinnis, Jr. -- LOT 42 SQ B SEC 3 KENNEDY HGTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 108 Travis Drive, Westwego, LA TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173217-jan 10-17-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 0500001582 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Donald Dillon; Es‐ tate of Donald Dillon -- LOT 90 SQ O SEC 2 KENNEDY HEIGHTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 111 Southern Court, West‐ wego, LA TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐

Tax Bill 0500000568 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ Bruce Edwin ment; Batiste -- LOT 99 SQ O SEC 2 KENNEDY HGTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 108 Xavier Drive, Westwego, LA TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173222-jan 10-17-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 0500000505 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Heirs and Estate of Sam Ball; -- LOT 5 SQ C KENNEDY HGTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 217 Travis Drive, Westwego, LA TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173228-jan 10-17-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 0500003025 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Celebrity Contrac‐ tors, Inc.; -- LOT 37 SQ O GLEN

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BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OPERA‐ TION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER AC‐ TION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 0500002687 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Heirs and Estate of Elizabeth Moss Rhodes Jones; -- LOT 30A SQ I KING ES‐ TATES Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 317 Coretta Drive, Westwego, LA TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173242-jan 10-17-2t

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TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

BY MAKING ALL RE‐ QUIRED PAYMENTS TO THE TAX COLLECTOR LISTED BELOW OR FILE A LAWSUIT IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH LAW WITHIN 60 DAYS OF THE DATE OF THE FIRST PUB‐ LICATION OF THIS NO‐ TICE, OR THE RECORDING OF AN ACT TRANSFER‐ RING OWNERSHIP, IF LATER.

I, CHARLES E HOWARD aka CHARLES HOWARD, have been convicted of 14:43.4 Aggravated Oral Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 06/02/2009.

My Address is: 30 SONIA PL JEFFERSON, LA 70121 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 9/29/1949 Height: 5'11" Weight: 220 Hair Color: GRAY Eye Color: BLUE Scars/Tattoos:

Louisiana 173071, Jan 9-10 $250.00

Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/6/1963 Height: 5'9" Weight: 174 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: HAZEL Scars/Tattoos: I, RODKEEM DAVIS aka RODKEEM J DAVIS, have been convicted of 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 05/15/2019.

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My Address is: 904 W MONTEREY CT, apt b, GRETNA, LA 70056 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 2/15/1997 Height: 5'8" Weight: 140 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: Louisiana

I, KEITH F GILMORE aka Hurricane, have been convicted of 14:42.1 Forcible Rape. Date Convicted: 12/12/1984.

173059, Jan 9-10 $250.00

My Address is: 1801 BENTON ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/25/1953 Height: 5' 8 Weight: 175 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: Louisiana 173069, Jan 9-10 $250.00

My Address is: 321 CORRETTA DR AVONDALE, LA 70094 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/22/1964 Height: 6'1" Weight: 260 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

I, SHERMAN R SMITH aka SHERMAN SMITH, have been convicted of 14:42.1 - Second Degree Rape. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

14:78.1 - Aggravated Incest. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018. 14:81 Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 07/18/2018.

14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 07/17/2018.

My Address is: 2341 CADDY DR MARRERO, LA 70072 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 11/8/1959 Height: 6'2" Weight: 175 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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DEPUTY CLERK NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administra‐ trix of the above Succes‐ sion of Monica McKlinski has made application to the Court for private sale of all of this Succession’s right, title and interest in the following property: CERTAIN LOT OF A GROUND, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, servitudes, privileges, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the First District of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE 801, bounded by Cleveland Avenue, Canal, Hennessey and Alexan‐ der Streets, which said lot of ground is desig‐ nated as LOT NO. 15 on a private sketch annexed to an act passed before Carl C. Friedrichs, Notary Public, on February 25, 1909, and according to which sketch said lot ad‐ joins Lots 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, A, 18, 31, 32, 33, and 34, and measures as fol‐ lows, to wit: 30 feet front on Alexander Street, by a depth of 112 feet 2 inches 4 lines between equal and parallel lines. Ac‐ cording to a plan made

by Adloe Orr, C.E., dated July 6, 1936, said lot is designated by the same number 15 and has the same measurements, a copy of which is annexed to an act passed before Clarence DeLucas, No‐ tary Public, dated July 8, 1936.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal Nos. 132-134 South Alexander Street.

Being the same property acquired by Anita Wim‐ mer McKlinski and Mon‐ ica McKlinski from Vir‐ ginia Mazza Tamburo by Act dated August 24, 1998 before Louis G. Dutel, Jr., Notary Public, recorded as Instrument No. 164712 the conveyance in of Orleans records Parish. upon the following terms conditions: and $257,500.00 cash for the property, OR ONE HUN‐ TWENTY EIGHT DRED THOUSAND, SEVEN HUN‐ DRED FIFTY AND NO/100 DOLLARS ($128,750.00) cash for the Succession of Monica McKlinski’s one-half (1/2) interest, with authority of the Ad‐ ministratrix to pay the succession’s pro rata costs of sale and upon such terms and condi‐ tions as may appear in the Agreement to Pur‐ chase or Sell on file in these proceedings.

Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern including the heirs and creditors of decedent herein to make any opposition which they may have to this ap‐ plication at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment approving authorizing, and homologating the and that application such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of such notice in accordance with law.

BY ORDER OF THE COURT: CHELSEY RICHARD NAPOLEON CLERK OF COURT CIVIL DISTRICT COURT ORLEANS PARISH MATT J. TILLERY, No. 39364 TILLERY & TILLERY 701 Metairie Road, Suite 2A201 Metairie, Louisiana 70005 Telephone (504) 828-1768 mjtillery@bellsouth.net 173507 Jan. 10, 30, 2t $128.88

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I, REGINALD WILSON, have been convicted of 14:43 - Simple Rape.

Details: JUVENILE VICTIM. Date Convicted: 10/13/1999.

14:89.1 - Aggravated Crime Against Nature.

Date Convicted:

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TAX SALE TITLE TO THE ABOVE-DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY HAS BEEN SOLD FOR FAILURE TO PAY TAXES. YOU HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED AS A PERSON WHO MAY HAVE AN IN‐ TEREST IN THIS PROP‐ ERTY. YOUR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WILL BE TER‐ MINATED IF YOU DO NOT REDEEM THE PROPERTY

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Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 2/26/1962 Height: 5' 8 Weight: 172 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 2341 CADDY DR MARRERO, LA 70072

I, RANDY EDWARD WILLIAMS aka RANDY WILLIAMS aka RANDY E WILLIAMS, have been convicted of 14:43.1 Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 02/15/2005.

15:542 - Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 08/21/2012.

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-- LOT 3 SQ M SEC 2 KENNEDY HGTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 261 Travis Drive, Westwego, LA

I, ERIC FONTENELLE aka ERIC FONTELL aka ERIC C FONTENELLE, have been convicted of 4:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles Sexual Motivation. Date Convicted: 08/11/2016 .

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My Address is: 3522 N PRIEUR ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117

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My Address is: 2653 TOURO ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 12/20/1994 Height: 5'11" Weight: 180 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: TEXAS 173072, Jan 9-10 $250.00

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An Old Metairie Greek Revival Diane Sustendal Labouisse’s luxurious Warehouse District condo started home on an unusually large lot offers 6,000 square feet of stately out as a white box. “It would living space in Metairie Club never do,” she says. Today, Gardens, all for $2.9 million. decked out with elegant anGet a peek inside the home on tiques, silk draperies and Page 16. finds from her world travels In Inside Sources, read about — and topped off with an art a business that styles events deco crystal chandelier in the Karen from weddings to dinner parlikeness of a ship under full Taylor Gist ties with vintage bar- and dinsail — it’s become the haven that she’s named “If Not Now, nerware. Plus, there’s a primer When?” Jyl Benson takes us inside on on what bar glasses to pair with which Page 12. drinks. That’s on Page 7.

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Couple fell in love with a ‘big white house’ in Hammond.

Now they’re transforming it.

BY JUDY BERGERON

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Passing drivers can’t help but slow down and stare.

The structure is the largest home by far along Happywoods Road just west of Hammond’s city limits. The locals

call it “the big white house.”

Its newest owners, Sonia and Kevin Ratzmann, have modified the moniker up a notch to “La Grande Maison Blanche” as a nod to the state’s French history.

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state, but the Ratzmanns took on the daunting challenge of renovating it, and opening La Grande Maison Blanche as a wedding and event venue.

The search is on After years of working on wildfire medical rescue teams during the summer months, the pair set out on their own, establishing Emergency Response Logistics at the close of 2021. The couple initially met on the job while both were living in Colorado. A few years later, she was divorced and he a widowerer. Kevin Ratzmann reached out to her, and a romance blossomed.

Finding a semi-central location to headquarter their new business set them on a north-to-south canvassing of the country, starting in Washington and pausing, discouraged, after the lengthy stretch across Texas.

“We said, ‘We’re done now, we’re done looking. We’re gonna go to Florida and go fishing,’ ” Sonia Ratzmann recalled.

While staying overnight in Pensacola, she hopped online to her frequent destination, the property finder site Zillow.

“Because you never know what you’re going to find,” she said. “Every day is new, you know.”

What she stumbled upon was the listing for an underconstruction mansion at 42235 Happywoods Road in Hammond. The fact that neither had ever been to Hammond or lived in Louisiana didn’t deter them. It seemed like the perfect mix of fancy and a fixer-upper.

When the couple first saw the property, there was no

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La Grande Maison Blanche sits on 25 acres off Happywoods Road in Hammond.

Sonia and Kevin Ratzmann sit in the gathering room at La Grande Maison Blanche in Hammond. electricity and studs were everywhere. Still, they noticed that it was solid and strong.

Present meets past The original home on the 25-acre property, a small farmhouse, was constructed in 1905. It was torn down years ago, according to the Ratzmanns. In its place, a grand mansion was built, although with a smaller footprint than its present 30,000 square feet.

Prominent Hammond attorney Hugh Sibley purchased

the home and resided there the longest, hiring builder Vance Gamso and architect Lynn Percival to enlarge the dream home for him and his wife, Frankie, but he died before it was complete.

Shortly after the Ratzmanns purchased the home for $1.2 million in December 2021, Gamso reached out to them and signed on to oversee the decadelong project’s completion. The couple also connected with Percival and original interior designer Rick Luke in Mississippi, who not only

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INSIDE STORY The nearly finished chef’s kitchen features ample counter space and a butler’s pantry around the corner.

A double set of doors with transom windows offers lots of light to the spacious gathering room. rejoined the team but brought with him a houseful of antique furnishings and French Renaissance-inspired decor.

But the practical had to come before the prettying that first year of work, when the couple sank another $500,000 into unseen necessities such as rewiring the entire house, replacing air-conditioners and redoing a portion of the roof.

They lived in the mansion’s two-bedroom attached apartment, putting in sweat equity

as well when not away on jobs with Emergency Response Logistics.

The grand tour Fast-forward to today in the stately four-story home and there’s an elevator multiple sets of French doors looking out on a pond, porches, gazebo, swimming pool and centuriesold oak tree.

The Hammond couple took their setbacks in stride, stressing that they weren’t in a big

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Like the luxurious handmade rugs lying under all that antique furniture. The Ratzmanns selected each of those carefully on a trip to Turkey.

Details — including marble floors, granite countertops and iron railings — are most important to Sonia Ratzmann.

She went so far as to designate a color system for the

doorknobs so guests can quickly find the room they’re looking for throughout the 10-bedroom home which also houses a movie theater, library, chef’s kitchen, butler’s pantry, caterers’ room, spa, wine cellar and three dramatic staircases.

A white handle means it’s a bathroom; gold, a hallway; black, a closet; and crystal, a bedroom.

One of the bedrooms has also been enlarged and redesigned to become a bridal room, with an accompanying sitting area

and bath.

“The idea is that the family would make a week out of it and stay over leading up to the wedding,” she said.

Kevin Ratzmann has big plans for the exterior. A gate house near the northern front section of the property will be designed to match the main house, with balconies accented with two existing large lion statues looking down on cars passing through. He also has

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Continued from page 5 ideas for a courtyard, second garage and another pool.

He’s also taken great care to keep alive the 600- to 800-yearold majestic oak in the front yard — adding supports under the branches that don’t already touch the ground. An LSU arborist, who provided the tree’s age estimate, was called in for care advice.

“They said the only way to tell for sure (of the age) is to bore her, and we don’t want to do that because then you’ll possibly kill it. But she is absolutely amazing,” Sonia Ratzmann said of the oak.

“That gazebo right there, before we built it, that’s where I asked Sonia to marry me,” her husband shared.

Kevin Ratzmann unearthed the marble for the gazebo floor when he was weed-eating one day. The rotting, unusable gazebo roof was found near the pond’s edge. When the couple married in March 2023, they pledged their love in a small, intimate ceremony under the completed gazebo. It was the first of many weddings the couple sees in their future.

Email Judy Bergeron at jbergeron@theadvocate.com.

The view from the second floor includes this 600- to 800-year-old live oak.

A COLORFUL HISTORY Hammond attorney Hugh Sibley’s work was known on a national scale, having helped to win the first class-action lawsuit against Philip Morris over its denial of cigarettes as addictive, and another classaction against Jeep concerning rollovers and fatalities.

Sibley’s social circle included former President Bill Clinton, who was reported to have visited the Hammond home at least twice. The attorney even had a tunnel constructed from a helipad on the property to

a secret hallway so the 42nd commander-in-chief could enter and exit without being seen from the road. Sibley, now a widower, also buddied up to Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner, visiting his Hollywood compound and bringing home more design ideas.

The attorney, who pleaded guilty in 2010 to money-laundering involving an international drug cartel, never saw his big white house project completed. He died in 2015.

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VINTAGE ELEGANCE

Give your next party a touch of sophistication with retro bar and dinnerware

BY JYL BENSON

but we had secured the glasses with 3M double-sided tape.

Whew!”

There are specific glasses for Jeffrey Clark’s passion for pairing with particular styles vintage barware, glasses, art, of beverages and cocktails, and furniture and decor has grown the glasses usually come with a beyond that of a collector into corresponding decanter, shaker a business. Since 2022, he and and tools that complement each his wife and business partner, other.

Lori Clark, have been designEverything has its own role ing and stocking everything and personality. from period-specific “Just like an interbar spaces for large JEFFREY events like weddings esting person havCLARK STYLE ing their own style, to full table settings for smaller events, unique cocktails by appointment like home dinner should be showcased only (504) parties. in their own attire,” In addition to sellhe said.

400-8307; ing pieces from his jeffreyclarkstyle.com Vintage glasses and barware are large, eye-popping AT THE generally defined collection online and from his Old JefferSHOPS AT as items over 20 years old — typically son studio, in 2023, CENTURY from the 1920s to the Clarks opened a the 1990s. Anything retail space in The HALL older is considered Shops at Century an antique.

Hall in Bay St. Louis, 112 S. Second Distinct, eraMississippi, where St., Bay St. Louis, specific designs, they curate seasonal Mississippi. such as art deco, and holiday-driven midcentury modern decor with pieces INSTAGRAM: or Depression-era they have gathered spanning the 1920s to @jeffreyclarkstyle colors, characterize these glasses. the present day.

Key features include highly “The art of entertaining fascinates me,” said Jeffrey Clark, clarified, heavy lead crystal; who’s also a celebrated hairstyl- polished pontil marks — rough, unpolished scars on the base ist of 36 years.

For one memorable wedding, — that indicate the piece is “We built a giant tower of 75 an- hand-finished; intricate etching; hand-applied 22-carat gold gildtique glasses for a Champagne tower. The bride’s mother ing; and manufacturer marks. grabbed one from the bottom of Depression glass is usually the tower for the toast. pink, green, amber or cobalt “We gasped. It could have blue. been a giant Jenga situation, Iconic shapes include zigzagContributing writer

stemmed martini glasses, coupe glasses, flutes, highball and lowball glasses, and glasses with small bubbles or balls on the stem, known as “boopie” glasses.

Clark answered some questions about using his pieces.

Which glasses are used for which type of cocktail or beverage?

“Straight, taller, thin glasses range in size,” Clark said.

“They’re not only used for highballs. These tubular-shaped glasses are often used for Tom Collins or Polynesian rum drinks.”

Clark said the classic flute design is used for sparkling wine or bubbly cocktails. Champagne is the drink of choice in this glass, but the flute is also used for variations, like the French 75.

Then there’s the coupe. “The coupe is known for being the most elegant cocktail glass ever,” Clark said. “It’s most popular for serving Champagne, or frothier drinks made with egg whites or fruit juices with or without alcohol.”

He calls the rocks or lowball glass the star of the cocktail world today. “It complements a wide array of liquors and mixed drinks, from old fashions to gin and tonics. They come in double- and single-pour glasses.”

What do you look for in vintage glasses and barware?

Signatures/marks, such as brand names or logos (such as Libbey, Culver, Anchor Hocking and others), on the bottom or side. Heavier, high-quality crystal often suggests an older, more valuable piece, he said.

How do you care for vintage glasses and barware?

“These iconic glasses are a piece of history that should be well cared for,” Clark said. “All these delicate glasses, whether crystal or finished with gold, should be hand-washed in warm water and mild soap. No dishwashers, please!”

Inside Sources is a column that tracks trends and provides consumer information from experts in their home and gardening fields.

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‘The art of entertainment fascinates me,’ says Jeffrey Clark, who created this full vintage table setting. Clark and his wife, Lori Clark, are business owners specializing in designing and stocking periodspecific bar spaces and dining tables.

A bar setting has gold-rimmed and ruby red glasses with a coordinating decanter.

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Slugs and snails are common garden foes

GARDEN TIPS CAMELLIA SHOW: If you love camellias, plan to attend the Northshore Camellia Club’s Camellia Show on Sunday at The Greenwood, 75082 La. 25, in Covington. Public viewing of show flowers is from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.you will be amazed by the beauty and diversity of the camellia flowers on display.The camellia plant sale begins at 9 a.m. and lasts until plants are all sold.

Slugs, right, and snails, below, can do a lot of damage in the garden. Slime trails on leaves and flat surfaces indicate that snails and slugs (not caterpillars) are the culprits behind leaf damage.

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TATER TIME: Plant Irish potatoes in the garden now through mid-February.

Cut seed potatoes (available at nurseries or feed stores) into pieces about the size of an egg. Make sure each piece includes at least one eye.

Allow the cut seed pieces to heal a few days, and then plant them into well-prepared beds about 12 inches apart and 4 inches deep.

Harvest generally takes place in May. Red LaSoda (red) and Kennebec (white) are generally the most readily available, and both produce well here.

TIME TO TOSS: If you purchase pots of spring-flowering bulbs in bloom, it is generally best to discard them after they finish flowering. Some exceptions would be amaryllis, paperwhites, daffodils and other narcissi.These can be planted in the garden when the flowers fade.Wait until April to plant amaryllis in the garden.

DIG AND DIVIDE WHILE DORMANT: Now is a good time to dig, divide and transplant dormant hardy perennials in your flower gardens. Plant divisions in other areas of your landscape or share with friends. Do not dig and divide any perennials that are in active growth now, such as Louisiana irises, calla lilies, Easter lilies, red spider lilies, acanthus and spring flowering bulbs.

The

Snails and slugs are common pests in gardens. They belong to the mollusk family along with oysters, and they crawl along over a thin layer of slime that they produce to ease their way. Snails carry a shell on their backs that they can retreat into when threatened. Slugs do not have shells.

January and February are often rainy months and spells of mild weather in the 60s and 70s are common.

Snails and slugs thrive when

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the weather is rainy and are most active at night or on cloudy days. In our mild climate, they can cause damage year-round.

Snails and slugs

enjoy eating many of the cool-season bedding plants and vegetables in our gardens now. Trees, shrubs, most ground covers and vines are rarely badly damaged by snails and slugs.

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When is the best time to trim confederate rose bushes? I would like to root some of the branches I cut off. — Jessica Garden Confederate roses (Hibiscus advice mutabilis) are often killed back by winter freezes, so the major pruning is generally done in March or early April.

At that time, any cold damage that may have occurred is removed. Then, if the gardener desires, the plant may be cut back even farther to control the size and shape (how far back you cut beyond the cold damage is up to you).

Pruning can continue through August as needed based on the gardener’s desires to control the height and bushiness of the plant. Cuttings about 6 inches long taken during summer generally root reliably.

Confederate roses are a Southern heirloom plant with a long tradition of cultivation, and are one of our most spectacular fall-blooming plants.

These large, robust-growing plants reach heights of 8-10 feet and produce big, showy flowers in the fall.

We have recently moved to the northshore, and a question keeps coming up.

Is it better to rake up the leaves during the winter or leave them alone to protect the grass from the cold? — Jean The leaves should be removed from the grass either by mowing with a bag attached, mowing with a mulching mower (if leaf drop is not too excessive) or raking (use raked leaves for mulching or add them to compost piles).

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GREEN THUMB Toads can consume large quantities of snails and slugs and are an asset in a garden. Toads like to keep close to a water source and need cover to hide under during the day.

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Just like some people, snails and slugs also enjoy a fresh beer.

To make a beer trap, sink a small plastic bowl up to its rim in the ground and fill it half full of any beer.

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Continued from page 8 The damage snails and slugs cause is obvious but can be misdiagnosed. They eat holes in leaves and flowers, especially favoring low-growing, succulent growth. But caterpillars also chew holes in leaves.

Because the methods and pesticides for controlling caterpillars are different from for

snails and slugs, it’s important to know which pest is causing the damage.

caterpillar activity.

Put out a few beer traps in the area where you are seeing the damage and see if you Or is it caterpillars? catch snails and slugs. Snails and slugs are very attracted to The presence of slime trails the yeasty smell of beer, and on leaves and flat surfaces — which look like meandering re- they will gladly crawl into it flective, silver lines — indicate if given a chance. Once in the beer, they cannot crawl back snails and slugs are the culprits. Slime trails may occur on out and become trapped. If they are causing the damage, concrete, pot sides or on plant foliage. Caterpillars may leave they should show up in the traps. If you don’t catch any behind dark pelletlike droppings, and these would confirm snails or slugs, caterpillars are

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Controlling snails and slugs requires perseverance, and it is best to use several techniques. The goal is to keep the population low enough to prevent an unacceptable amount of damage. The main strategies for their control involve traps, baits, hand picking and encouraging predators that eat them.

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in the ground and fill it half full of beer. Any kind of beer will do, but it should be fresh.

Set the traps in the early evening in areas where snails and slugs have been causing damage. Check, empty and reset the traps daily until you stop catching very many snails and slugs in them. Traps are also a great way to monitor population levels.

Other types of traps take advantage of the habit snails and slugs have of crawling under shelter during the day.

Place bricks, clay pots, flat rocks or scooped out half rinds of grapefruit in shady, damp areas of the garden. During the day, pick them up, check under them and scrape any snails or slugs you find into a bag or container for disposal.

Baits are generally available in the form of pellets, meal or liquid slurries. The snails and slugs must eat the bait for the active ingredient to work, so apply them in such a way that they are likely to be eaten (such as around the base of damaged plants). Apply the bait at dusk so that it will be fresh at night when the critters are active and follow label directions carefully.

Pellets and meal-type baits may be scattered around your plants over the soil surface or placed in small piles in the gar-

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GREEN THUMB den. Liquid slurries are popular because they are easy to apply and last well. The thick liquid is squeezed out onto the ground underneath plants wherever there is a problem.

Baits should be used regularly until new damage is reduced to tolerable levels.

Metaldehyde baits pose a significant threat to pets if they eat the bait. A much safer active ingredient, iron phosphate, is just as effective and is far less toxic to pets. Use products with this active ingredient.

Hand picking is done at night with a flashlight and is not for the squeamish. It helps to wear latex gloves or use kitchen tongs to pick up the slimy creatures. Put them in a plastic bag and throw them away.

Some gardeners seek out snails and slugs and sprinkle them with salt to kill them. The salt rapidly draws water out of their bodies causing them to “melt” before your eyes. Although this could be satisfying for gardeners frustrated by the damage they cause, using salt around your plants can hurt them and I don’t recommend it.

Building effective barriers Several types of barriers will keep snails and slugs out of planting beds. The easiest to maintain are those made with copper flashing and screen. It is believed that copper barriers are effective because the copper reacts with the slime that snails and slugs secrete, causing a disruption in their nervous system like an electric shock.

When erecting vertical copper screens, it is best to use ones that are at least 4 inches tall, so you can bury a portion of it below the soil to prevent slugs from crawling beneath the barrier. Make sure an area is free of snails and slugs before you enclose it in a copper barrier.

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Hand-picking snails off plants is not for the squeamish. It helps to wear latex gloves or use kitchen tongs to pick up the slimy creatures. Put them in a plastic bag and throw them away.

guys in the garden and you should get over any squeamishness you have toward them.

You can attract toads and keep them in your garden by providing a water source (such as a small pond, pool or water garden) and cover for them to hide under during the day. I build small enclosures or “toad houses” with pieces of brick or stones. Gardens with active populations of hungry toads rarely have major problems with snails and slugs.

layer of leaves through the winter. The turf grass does not need the leaf cover for cold protection. So, it is best to remove the leaves and use them for mulch or put them in the compost pile.

I have received many seed catalogs, but all have addresses far north, from Indiana and all the way up to Maine. Should you purchase from these companies, and, if so, how do you select seeds proper for our area? Do you suggest any other seed source for our area? — Ben Where a company that sells seeds is located has nothing to do with the suitability of plants grown from those seeds for our area.

The seeds the company sells could have been produced anywhere in the world. The company is simply packaging and marketing them.

So, select seeds of plants and varieties that you know are suitable for our area (based on local information and recommendations, appropriate references, etc.), and feel free to order them from any seed company anywhere.

For example, seeds for “Contender” bush snap beans will be the same ordered from a company

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will not be all that beneficial.

The fungicide will not take away the spots that have already occurred. The plants will not look any better until spring growth occurs.

In April, fertilize the shrubs with an acid-loving plant fertilizer to encourage vigorous new growth. The azaleas should be fine.

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Natural enemies Finally, toads are excellent predators of snails and slugs and can consume large quantities of them. Yes, they’re good

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The leaves of my azaleas have black spots on them, and I’m concerned about the health of the bushes. What do you recommend? — Ellen Fungal leaf spots are an occasional problem on most azaleas. They detract from the appearance of the plant but are not life-threatening. They may cause some leaf drop that makes the plant look thinner.

But when the new growth comes out in the spring the plants will look more like themselves.

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After a 30-year wait, Diane Sustendal Labouisse’s ship finally came in, so she drydocked it in the air above her dining room table.

“I tore a picture of it out of a magazine in 1986,” Labouisse said of the massive art deco crystal chandelier in the likeness of a ship under full sail.

“I finally asked myself, ‘If not now, when?’ ” Designer and antiquarian Karla Katz sourced the chandelier from the south of France, where its many pieces were disassembled and crated before the vessel disembarked on its voyage to Labouisse’s fanciful Warehouse District condominium.

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CLOCKWISE FROM TOP: Luxurious silk draperies and a monochromatic color scheme featuring Farrow & Ball’s Ballroom Blue help connect the dining area and its art deco ship chandelier to the living space, which gets its vitality from a mix of upholstery prints and pillows.

Silk draperies, a silver service and rich wood flooring give Diane Sustendal Labouisse’s office a luxurious vibe.

Labouisse added a wall, left, to the open kitchen to create separation and privacy for dinner parties. The new wall was fitted with low cabinets topped by a black soapstone counter. Behind the sink, a pair of French casement windows are fitted with twoway, smoked-mirrored glass can be opened outward into the dining room to transfer dishes between the two rooms.

A bonsai tree provides a touch of greenery next to a chaise lounge in the living area.

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The exotic look of the primary bedroom comes via the cotton fabric in a pattern of oversized paisley by Robert Allen that drapes the walls and ceiling and covers the bed.

LIFETIME

Continued from page 12 “That’s Peter,” Labouisse said of the figure she named for her late husband, John Peter Labouisse III. “I imagine him sailing the seas for all eternity.”

The couple, both native New Orleanians, shared a lifelong passion for sailing. Peter Labouisse took up the sport at age 6, his future wife at age 4.

They met as children at a sailing camp at the Southern Yacht Club. They often competed against one another on opposing teams.

They were friends for 60 years before falling in love and marrying in 2006, one year after Diane Sustendal’s ill-timed return to life in New Orleans (“Just in time for Katrina!”) after 23 years in New York.

Peter Labouisse died in 2015.

After selling the family’s grand home on Marengo Street, his widow bought the condominium in 2016. She spent a year renovating it.

“It was a white box,” Diane Labouisse said. “It would never do.”

She enlisted the services of architect John Crestia, of Chrestia Staub + Board, in evolving the 2,700-square-foot

An African theme plays out in the guest sitting room, where the hide of a silver wildebeest is centered on the floor. A collection of mounted vintage hunting trophies hangs on the walls.

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space into one that would tell the story of her life and the many countries to which she had traveled for pleasure and over the course of her career, first as a fashion editor for The Times-Picayune and later for The New York Times before she became an independent travel writer for The Times of India among other publications.

The most significant changes were made to the open kitchen, living and dining space.

“I wanted the kitchen separate from the living and dining spaces so there would be privacy for dinner parties,” Labouisse said.

To facilitate this, a waterfall island was removed, and a wall was erected to cordon off the kitchen, creating a long, narrow space. “I told John (Crestia), ‘Let’s just look at it like it’s a boat,’ ” Labouisse said.

Within the kitchen, the new wall was fitted with low cabinets topped by a black soapstone counter with thin white veining.

Behind the sink, a pair of French casement windows fitted with two-way, smokedmirrored glass can be opened outward into the dining room to transfer dishes between the two rooms for a dinner party or to engage with whoever may be working in the otherwise isolated kitchen.

The walls are adorned by eight framed Toulouse Lautrec illustrations for sheet music that Labouisse found at Neal Auction Co. A 6-foot-tall climate-controlled wine storage cabinet is juxtaposed with Sub-Zero refrigerator and freezer drawers.

Throughout the home’s living spaces, Farrow and Ball’s Ballroom Blue was used monochromatically to banish the unwelcome white walls.

Labouisse named her home “If Not Now, When?” for the sensibility that led her to seek out the over-the-top chandelier after years of fantasizing about it.

She collaborated with interior designers Denise Pierce and Jeanne Barousse to craft a home where each space reflects elements from the different places that have influenced her life and career.

Zebra wallpaper keeps to an African theme in the shared bathroom.

Twin beds in the guest room are dressed in billows of cotton chintz with a pattern of birds and flowers. Coronets above them let drapes in the same chintz fabric flow down around them.

The entry hall is filled with Asian furnishings and artwork, including a 100-year-old Japanese triptych depicting an old man and windows as a ballgown would woman centered on the sun. The hallway ends at a mahogany swaddle a debutante.

Labouisse said the room’s bombe chest.

E. Lee Jahncke was responsible for the home’s faux finishings. Sheila Favrot was responsible for the lighting plan that makes Labouisse’s many works of art radiate warmth.

Upon entering, a visitor is greeted by a large sculpture of Quan Yin, the revered Buddhist bodhisattva of healing, compassion, mercy and lovingkindness.

“Believe me, after losing my husband, I needed both healing and compassion,” Labouisse said.

From the entry vestibule, a long hallway is filled with Asian furnishings and artwork, including a 100-year-old Japanese triptych depicting an old man and woman centered on the sun. The hallway ends at a mahogany bombe chest adorned with a small pencil drawing by A. Demarcey (1724-1811) of a

in the same chintz fabric flow down around the beds. Several antique English botanical waEdwardian library chairs have tercolors maintain the theme. been reupholstered four times man with a turban.

The guest sitting room bears since she bought them at an The living and dining rooms an African theme. The hide estate sale on Garden Lane 45 are furnished with American of a silver wildebeest is cenand European antiques and art- years ago. “The chairs’ most tered on the floor. A collection recent reincarnations are in of mounted vintage hunting works, as well as hand-woven Kravet fabric,” Labouisse said. trophies is hung on the walls. carpets from Istanbul and The primary bedroom is an A pair of beaded necklaces Persia. crafted by the Maasai, a semiUnder the attention-grabbing exotic confection of a space; nomadic pastoralist tribe of chandelier is a Miles Redd din- the walls and ceiling are draped elaborately in cotton the Serengeti, frames a large, ing table of black lacquer with paint-enhanced photograph of brass edging and metal bamboo with a pattern of oversized paisley by Robert Allen. an elephant. tripod legs. The dining chairs A collection of Rajasthani A carved stick Labouisse are a mix of curved Biedermeiused as an aid in hiking the er antiques and Lucite Chariavi miniature watercolors was gathered over the course of 12 Adirondack mountains inspires numbers Labouisse nabbed on trips Labouisse has made to her on dark days. “If I could Overstock.com make the hike up that mounBillowing floor-to-ceiling silk India.

“The room is my tent,” drapes lend a quiet hush to the tain, I can do anything,” she Labouisse said. “My little tent.” said. adjacent living room.

The nearby guest room sets “The curtains changed the Of her extensive world trava decidedly English tone with a els, Labouisse says there is valcondo from a floor-to-ceiling pair of twin beds dressed in bil- ue in being from New Orleans glass box into an intimate space,” Labouisse said. One “It doesn’t matter where lows of cotton chintz with a pathundred and twenty-six yards you go,” she said. “Everyone, tern of birds and flowers. Both of blue-green silk taffeta by beds are adorned with coronets everywhere, knows something Cowtan & Tout mass around the above them, from which drapes about New Orleans.”

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ONE IN A MILLION

Spacious Greek Revival home in Old Metairie has stately charm

The Greek Revival home on Hector Avenue in Old Metairie features four Ionic columns across the front.

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On Old Metairie’s Hector Avenue, a quintessential Greek Revival home holds a prominent spot on a large plot of land that practically defines “stately.”

In Metairie Club Gardens, just a door away from tree-laden Northline Street, 611 Hector Ave. is an inviting, well-kept home with five bedrooms, more than six baths and almost 6,000 square feet of living space. The lot is almost a half-acre, uncommon within the confines of this Jefferson Parish community.

Built in 1940 yet remarkably undated for its age, the home is priced at $2.995 million and stands ready for a new owner.

The profile of the house, with a quartet of Ionic columns, is centered by a double front door that leads into a spacious foyer. Lighthued wood floors create a bright tone, balanced by the staircase leading to the upper floors. A powder room is nestled under the stairs.

To the left, the brightness continues and beckons into a refined sitting room. Large windows on the front wall bring in more light, and a pair of French doors at the far end offer

The backyard is a blend of hard and soft surfaces with mature landscaping that provides plentiful options for outdoor relaxation and entertainment.

ABOVE: The den at the rear of the home is a casual space for relaxing. LEFT: An island provides seating in the gleaming whiteon-white kitchen, which has professional-grade appliances.

Endless possibilities for configuration are available in the third-floor space of the home.

A plethora of windows provide lots of natural light to brighten the space.

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The laundry room on the first floor doubles as plentiful storage for kitchen items. A half-bath sits at the rear. access to the side-walled garden. Tone-on-tone molding adds interest to the walls.

Across the foyer, distinctive dining will be on the menu in this dining den that incorporates Ionic column details and multiple layers of detailed moldings for dramatic effect.

From the sitting room, a doorway opens to the home’s spacious living area, a casual and inviting space large enough for multiple seating arrangements, a fireplace, built-in shelves and a plethora of windows, including a set of French doors to the side yard and access to the back patio.

The room also opens onto a breakfast area with more windows over the backyard.

It’s also home to a wet bar, providing easy access to casual entertaining in the den.

A broad passage opens onto the home’s glistening kitchen, a white-on-white room with glass-front storage, professional-grade appliances and an island with seating for informal meals. A walk-in pantry sits close by, as well as an expansive laundry room with half-bath.

From the kitchen, a hallway leads to the large den that forms an L-shape to the main house. Set on the ground level, the space is an oasis of relaxation, with a fireplace and wall of windows overlooking the backyard. There is also a sitting area and full bath in the space, plus a wet bar.

The primary suite located

One of two bathrooms in the primary suite, this one features striking marble and a standing shower.

at the top of the stairs is a collection of spaces that provide a sanctuary from the turmoil of the day. The large sleeping chamber has space for seating and more. The first of two baths features a long vanity with seating. A soaking tub sits beneath a window. The walk-in closet has echoes of a fashionable boutique, with a separate balcony for al fresco enjoyment.

A home office is also part of the suite, with additional storage. A bath with a standing shower in dramatic tones is connected to the office.

The three bedrooms on the floor are en suite, and a laundry room is close at hand.

Stairs lead up to the third floor, a cavernous and bright space with plentiful windows

and unique angles for a multitude of configurations, from media rooms to playrooms, sleeping spots and more. A bath is also located on this level.

The backyard is an inviting mélange of hard and soft surfaces with established landscaping. A long brick porch on the main house overlooks the yard, and a circular planter is a prime spot for outdoor sculpture.

The home also features a three-car carport.

It’s listed by Shaun McCarthy, of McCarthy Group Realtors, (504) 322-7337.

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Access to a private balcony is available in the primary suite via the boutique-style walk-in closet, one of two in the suite.

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Come to the Camellia Show in Covington Sunday to see blooms not seen before, to buy plants and to learn about their care and propagation.

The Northshore Camellia Club will host its annual Camellia Show from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at The Greenwood, 75082 La. 25, in Covington.

More than 200 camellia plants will be for sale, blooms will be judged and experts will be on hand to speak with gardeners. Anyone may enter the contest and can deliver their entries from 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. For information, visit the group’s Facebook page, facebook.com/nshcamellias.

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City Park’s annual Day of Service will coincide with the National Day of Service on Jan. 19, and Couturie Forest will be the focus of projects.

The National Day of Service, in honor of Martin Luther King Jr., was designated by Congress in 1994.

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Volunteers can sign up for two-hour projects that can also include mulching and invasive plant removal as part of efforts to improve nature trails and habitat restoration. Registration deadline is Jan. 16.

For information and to register, visit neworleanscitypark. org.

Volunteer projects abound at City Park A variety of cleanup days and initiatives are on tap at City Park to improve and maintain the extensive urban

green space. Those coming up include: n Celebration in the Oaks Tree Recycling Cleanup: 9 a.m. Saturday Carousel Gardens Amusements, 7 Victory Ave. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project: 9 a.m. Friday. Big Lake Native Trail near 7 Friedrichs Ave. Register for the programs and find out more about what to bring at friendsofcitypark. volunteerhub.com.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS NEW ORLEANS

Shirley L. Spedale Family Trust to Alex Meazell and Emlyn Meazell.

SILVER MAPLE COURT 3501: $416,000, H&M Investment Partners to Aaron Davis III. THAYER ST. 930: $91,000, Gale Marie Darensbourg Byes and Walter Byes to Plute Properties LLC. VALENTINE COURT 2541: $285,000, Brian E. Hrabar to Amy P. Urbina Pacheco Balbuena and Clavin Giovanni Pacheco Balbuena.

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DISTRICT 1 CARONDELET ST. 727: $2,100,000, Orleans Parish School Board to BD Oz CBD Nola LLC. COLISEUM ST. 1765: $370,000, Clarence A. Harrell to Keri Wong and Kristen Wong.

GRAVIER ST. 425-27: $100 and other valuable consideration, LC Realty LLC to 427 Gravier Street LLC. JULIA ST. 1001: $100 and other valuable consideration, Victoria S. Adjmi Hamburger to Michele Bratt Lapayowker and Stewart Lapayowker.

JULIA ST. 448: $365,000, Nicholas Nesbit to Brandon Slade Nagle and Kirby Jane Nagle.

JULIA ST. 450: $977,500, Barbara Sable and Craig Sable to Marcy V. Ibach and Michael B. Ibach.

DISTRICT 2 CANAL BLVD. 6964: $692,750, Donna Buss Lanasa and Marion Anthony Lanasa Jr. to Alice Breun Buuck.

CHARTRES ST. 129, UNIT 101: donation, no value stated, Billy J. Clairday to Arleen Latino Kelly.

CHARTRES ST. 1216, 1220, 1222-26: $2,350,000, 1216 Chartres LLC to Chartres Nola Property LLC. N. HENNESSEY ST. 601-03: $255,000, Patricia E. Fisher to Ruqayyah Hasin Mustafa.

N. RAMPART ST. 528, UNIT 5: $190,000, Kristi Anne Emerson to Creative Compass Nola LLC. N. RENDON ST. 800, UNIT 404: $189,000, Rendon Partners LLC to Butler Joint Trust.

PONTALBA ST. 877: $329,000, Carl E. Hellmers III, succession of Carl E. Hellmers Jr., Kathleen Juanita Hellmers, Keith James Hellmers, Kendall Jude Hellmers and Kim Judith Hellmers to Katelyn McReynolds.

TOULOUSE ST. 2734: $1,025,000, 2745 Lafitte Partners LLC to Hemali Jardosh and Roshan Jardosh.

URSULINES AVE. 1314: $299,000, Brenton Godfrey to Rebecca Lynn Longworth Willow.

URSULINES AVE. 1715: $240,000, Brian Patrick Swaim to Madison Victoria Estates LLC.

DISTRICT 3 CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 25759: $307,000, Robert M. Verges and

DISTRICT 6

Terry Joseph Verges to Amie Pierre Cuti.

DAUPHINE ST. 1932-34: $625,000, Oona Richael Finn to Denise Ellen Carbonell Dominy and Derek Ian Dominy.

ESPLANADE AVE. 1631: $150,000, Hai Phuoc Cao to Bobby Gene Juarez.

FLOOD ST. 1513-15: donation, no value stated, Marva Bell to Audrey Bell.

FRANKFORT ST. 2633-35: $59,000, Flag Boy Properties LLC to Raul Armando Ocampo and Starrie Pearl Maradiaga Wood Ocampo.

HARBOURVIEW DRIVE 6657: $82,000, Lester L. Bonner to Ryan De Andre Clayton.

HAYDEL ST. 4901: $199,000, Affordable Housing of Nola LLC to Donna Johnson.

HUNTINGTON PARK DRIVE 8455: $267,549, Pelicans Realty LLC to Elizabeth Kambi and Rose Washington Kambi.

LANCELOT DRIVE 4850: $70,000, Christell Butler Baham to Cayla Properties LLC. LAW ST. 3240: $102,000, Orleans Parish School Board to Morris Jeff Community School.

MADRID ST. 1457: $690,000, Joycelyn Racquel Simmons and Tobyus Montrell Simmons to Lanxing Chen Huang and Xiaosheng Huang.

METROPOLITAN DRIVE 4617: $338,000, Damien Roby Coleman to Kevin E. Williams.

N. RAMPART ST. 3516: donation, no value stated, Congregation of The Marianites of Holy Cross to Willwoods Community.

PRENTISS AVE. 2656: $165,000, Succession of Clementine Rattley Johnson and George Johnson Jr. to Ronald N. Hines.

VERMILLION BLVD. 5544: $310,000, RCF2 Acquisition Trust to Abigail

John.

VIRGIL BLVD. 3919: $400,000, Julia S. Lang to Emma Rose Boelter Ennis and Jared Thomas Ennis.

VIRGIL BLVD. 3925: $1, Susan S. Lang Schneider, Thomas Phillips Schneider and Tom Schneider to Emma Rose Boelter Ennis and Jared Thomas Ennis.

COLISEUM ST. 5505: $865,000, Amanda Kruzich Cordner and Thomas M. Cordner to Anne Kelly Rhudy Brett and Taylor E. Brett.

COLLEGE COURT 3039: $196,500, Thomas Benton Harang Jr. to Kelsey Huddleston Hamel, Kraig W. Loyd and Niechelle Loyd.

CONSTANCE ST. 6315: $100

DISTRICT 4 CARONDELET ST. 2521-2523: $490,000, Crystal Scroggins Broussard, Daniel P. Broussard and Linda Wood Scroggins to Kevin Mark Murphy and Michele F. Murphy.

CHESTNUT ST. 2512: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Deborah Beaird Tullis Family Trust and succession of Eli W. Tullis Jr. to David Byrne Denechaud and Viviana Gershanik Denechaud.

EIGHTH ST. 424: $170,000, BNB LLC to Stephen V. Schwartz.

ST. ANDREW ST. 2117-19: $295,000, Dawn Rose Wilson to Lindsey Fields.

SEVENTH ST. 1024: $647,500, Benson L. Henry and Gwendolyn D. Corbett Henry to Blair Shellnut Davis.

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and other good and valuable consideration, Christopher Lee Baldwin and Ella Bright Baldwin to Michael Bright White Jr. FOUCHER ST. 1934-36: $495,000, Andrew William Werling to James R. Martin.

MILAN ST. 814: $1,200,000, Amelia Holdings LLC to Georgia Tyson Leonard.

PITT ST. 6034: $10,000, Adam R. Wirth and Virginia V. Worley Wirth to DP&J Nola LLC. ST. CHARLES AVE. 5534: $100 and other valuable consideration, F. Anne Kinnett and Gregory Kinnett to David H. Boh.

DISTRICT 7 BAMBOO ROAD 5: $100 and other good and valuable consider-

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DISTRICT 5 BOYD ST. 3200: $50,000, Ira C. Smith Green to Bryan D. Roberson.

CASA CALVO ST. 1905-1907: $340,000, Hummel Construction LLC to Rent and Mieten LLC. GEN. MEYER AVE. 4855: $385,000, MMMS Trust to Voje LLC. RAMSEY DRIVE 2639: $123,000, Kathleen W. Frisch to Sean Thomas Sellers and Stephanie F. Sellers.

RHODES AVE. 5858: $241,000, Anthony Roland Spedale Sr. And

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Continued from page 19 ation, James S. Barnett and Linda Nelson Barnett to Longue Vue House and Gardens Corp.

CHEROKEE ST. 248: $120,000, Vlackfontein Trading Co. LLC to Lauren Alexis Benedikt Cook

Rubin and Steven Lee Cook.

DANTE ST. 1016: $230,000, Charles A. Zambito and Susan J. Fischer Zambito to Spencer Gaston Maki.

EAGLE ST. 1638-40: $140,000, Renewal Homes LP to Christina Constance McCarthy.

HAMILTON ST. 4101-03: $209,000, Alicia A. Phelps Jackson to Christian Trumaine Jacobs.

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EAST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR DEC. 23-29

HARAHAN OAK AVE. 370: Kathryn M. F. Meisner to Lapeyrouse Investments LLC, $160,000.

WEST AVE. 439: City of Harahan to Michelle A. Barto, $2,800.

WEST AVE. 439: Michelle B. Abadie to Noah J. Velez, $325,000.

JEFFERSON ALFRED PLACE 3800: Phillip Paddon to Three Lock Box Holdings LLC, $140,000.

MONTICELLO AVE. 408: Nationstar Home Equity Loan Trust 2007 C. to Ddr Property Group LLC, $42,000.

RIVER ROAD 3908: Nims P. Knobloch Jr. to Charles W. Black, $395,000.

RIVER ROAD 3908: Melisa E. Guerra to Jamal A. Elgafer, $285,000.

SONIA PLACE 26: Ckcc Bell LLC to Stephen E. Biehl, $315,000.

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24TH ST. 830: Central States Fumigation & Services LLC to Thirteen Stripes Properties LLC, $380,000.

31ST ST. 1505: Ignatius Sias to Jdl Properties LLC Taffy Connecticut LLC, $75,000.

CONTINENTAL DRIVE 3289: Shelly M. B. Scoper to Osbone F. Brown, $174,000.

DELAWARE AVE. 3933: Kh Flip LLC to Bradley Griffin, $235,000.

LAKE TRAIL DRIVE 3600: Carrigton Mortgage Services LLC to

Wei G. Ye, $213,700.

LOYOLA DRIVE WEST 4129: Rac Development LLC to Jeremiah J. Hill, $255,000.

MINDEN AVE. 1033: Ann M. L. Smith to Charles J. Seruntine, $218,000.

PALMETTO 46: Matthew J. Dawson to Brekenare Ventures LLC, $575,000.

PLAT ST. 4204: Harold J. Mirambell Jr. to Francis M. Corchuelo, $296,000.

ROOSEVELT BLVD. 3443: Yue Zhong to Yanli Xu, $390,000.

METAIRIE 33RD ST. 8901: Carrington Mortgage Services LLC to James Lacava Jr., $220,000.

ACADEMY DRIVE 4004: Jjs Properties of La LLC to Sean Vu, $140,000.

ARIS AVE. 1451: Richard A. Rigby to Aris Rentals LLC, $260,000.

ARMY ST. 4824: Empire Group LLC to Dke Builders LLC, $205,000.

BURKE DRIVE 5041: Quinlivan Homes LLC to Michael Wilson, $384,000.

CATHY AVE. 801: Leandro Illin Sr. to Jayme Songy, $185,000.

CLEARVIEW PARKWAY 4511: Lusco & Lusco LLC to Msmm Real Estate LLC, $1,700,000.

DARLENE AVE. 601: Erica Ehlers to Lr Legacy Properties LLC, $265,000.

DIVISION ST. 2308-10: Dennis M. Quinn to Riyadh M. Haydar, $308,000.

ENGLEWOOD ST. 4217: Victor Danielsen to Guaranteed Rate Inc., $31,906.

HARING COURT 5313: Txnola Development LLC to Sean P. Rich-

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RIVER RIDGE SOPHIA ST. 512: Christina E. E. Dalmodo to Patrick R. Leslie, donation, no value stated.

STEPHEN DRIVE 10144: James W. Knobloch Sr. to Lisa M. Williams, $190,000.

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LAKESHORE 1427: James M. Landry to Fiser Mary Giafagleone Restated Revocable Trust, $275,000.

LEMON ST. 4009: Leslie E. Lestelle to Jennifer A. Howland, $289,000.

MANSON AVE. 2500 UNIT 417: Wang Worldwide Rentals LLC to Michael Thompson, $89,900.

N. LABARRE ROAD 3901: Kimberly F. Powers to Meredith N. Haro, $540,000.

N. LABARRE ROAD 3805: High Performance Properties No 6.

LLC to Angela M. Higginbotham, $480,000.

NURSERY AVE. 1320: Orient B. Sciortino to Baylee N. Foret, $241,000.

PAGE DRIVE 3604: Reina Lanza to Renaldo Jaimes, donation, no value stated.

RICHARD ST. 7717: Maricris Design LLC to Ashley Grant, $485,000.

RYE ST. 4917: Brenda K. Quinn to Magei O. Badrosian, $245,000.

TRENTON ST. 5240: Gladys N. J. Torrealba to Luis J. L. Lopez, $275,000.

WADE DRIVE 4809: Craig Steltz to Vega Blake Adrian Miguel Trust, $310,000.

ZENITH ST. 4833 UNIT 7: Toni J. Tassin to Four Thousand Eight Hundred Thirty Three Zenith Unit 7. LLC, $40,000.

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CHERRYGROVE DRIVE 3604: Dsld LLC to Barry Guy Jr., $276,990.

DEACON ST. 336: Katherine J. Maxon to Kimberly B. Young, $192,000.

PRAIRIE VIEW COURT 176: Stacy C. Coates to Willie B. Rimmer Jr., $115,000.

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GRAND ISLE GRAPE LANE 145: Arthur Bellaner to Lana C. Ourso, $150,000.

GRETNA BELLEMEADE BLVD. 521: Margaret W. Loar to Pine Pots LLC, $149,900.

CHRISTANA PLACE 924 UNIT 4: Georgia F. Major to Kimberly D. Bueno, donation, no value stated.

E. LEXINGTON AVE. 961: Dalia C. Delapaz to Lazaro P. Lopez, donation, no value stated.

FAIRFIELD AVE. 364: Tiffany N. T. Phan to Wadad A. Ayyad, $286,000.

HICKORY ST. 800: Lindsay Williams to Katherine P. Roque, $250,000.

MORNINGSIDE DRIVE 740: Dufrene Evelyn Dipascal Revocable Living Trust to Elegant Houses LLC, $150,000.

SUGARPINE DRIVE 183: Maria B. Dejean to Brooke L. Hunt, donation, no value stated.

TULIP DRIVE 44: Gno Finance LLC to Pf Best Rents Investments LLC, $104,000.

WALL BLVD. 664: Standard Mortgage Corp. to Suha M. A. Nofal, $164,250.

WYNDHAM NORTH 1023: R & I Investments LLC to Eric Walker, $390,000.

Investments LLC to Rayana Fisher, $169,000.

W. FRIENDSHIP DRIVE 2560: Carmelite R. Brown to Nhu N. Huynh, $80,000.

WEDGEWOOD DRIVE 3418: Joanna B. Palmer to Dudley Morlier, $668,000.

LAFITTE JEAN LAFITTE BLVD. 5088: Felix M. Santiago to Fayann Tragueros, $190,000.

MARRERO ALLO AVE. 512: Waj Design & Build LLC to Lidia Amaya, $189,000.

AMES BLVD. 4149: Kayla M. C. Wright to Gregory Jackson, $188,000.

AVE. B 427-429: Gregory C. Guthrie to Samuel Mavromatis, $160,000.

CREOLE COURT 2701: Kristin W. Wagner to Milton Walker Enterprises LLC, $287,472.

FARRINGTON DRIVE 609: Gail B. Holland to Ruth Realty LLC Aubrie, $130,000.

LIBERTY OAK 4936: Macey Terrel to Kelly C. Roberts, $285,000.

TERRYTOWN LIVE OAK DRIVE 2813: New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity Inc. to Giselle A. Sylve, $270,000.

WAGGAMAN SARAH ST. 15: Michael Mier to Michael A. Mier Jr., donation, no value stated.

ST. TAMMANy n TRANSFERS FOR DEC. 15-18

ABITA SPRINGS LYONS PROPERTY SUBDIVISION, LOTS 10, 11, PORTION OF LOT 9: Lawrence J. Baldwin Jr. Real Estate LLC to Christopher Baldwin, $125,000.

COVINGTON BARRINGTON DRIVE 1208: DSLD Homes LLC to Eugene Baung, $328,185.

CEDAR DRIVE 71225: 255 & 275 Florida LLC to Shawn P. Lewis, $399,900.

DELTA LANE 1161: ABC Assets LLC to Brian C. Mosbey and Christine Mosbey, $552,000.

DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, LOT 8, SQUARE 2404: St. Tammany Parish to Ryan C. Gravolet, $6,051.

DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, LOTS 1, 2, SQUARE 302: SKC Investors LLC to Andrew C. Zeringue and Jessica B. Zeringue, $800,000.

DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, LOTS 4, 5: St. Tammany Parish to Ryan C. Gravolet, $56,447.

DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, PORTION OF GROUND: Elizabeth A. Queen Franklin to West Covington 811 LLC, $236,000.

DOVE PARK ROAD 925: Ralph J. Duncan Jr. and Janice L. Duncan to David M. Jones, $170,850.

ELK RIDGE 689: DSLD Homes LLC to Colby Rimes and Abbey Rimes, $422,772.

HARVEY FOS AVE. 512: Dawson C. Ussery to Gabriella R. Ramirez, $103,000.

LAC DUBAY DRIVE 4242: Margaret A. Hill to Lanjo Properties LLC, $100,000.

LAKE CATHERINE DRIVE 3804: Hien Q. Duong to Fatmeh Ismail, $365,000.

MACARTHUR AVE. 604: Jeffery S. Posey to Melanie M. Wang, $178,000.

MARVIN COURT 1077: Trey L. Delger to Christine Reed, $199,900.

MELISSA DRIVE 3813: Miles D. Jenkins to Moses Jenkins, donation, no value stated.

PAIGE JANETTE DRIVE 2460: Glenda W. Raskins to Elegant Houses LLC, $132,000.

SECOND AVE. 439: Nola Brothers

ETA AVE. 74530: Cassandra Marvil Estate to Daniel D. Sauls and Bronice Sauls, $220,000.

FOREST CREEK DRIVE 73292: Renee M. Martin to Rajan J. Khurana and Angelle M. Khurana, $275,300.

LA BRANCHE PLACE 485: Terra Bella Group LLC to Highland Homes Inc., $107,500.

LA BRANCHE PLACE 489: Highland Homes Inc. to Robert W. Smith and Barbara G. Smith, $625,017.

MANOR ST. 72343: Jamie L. Logmann to Kyle Thezan, $195,000.

NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Peace Enterprises LLC to Icon Developments LLC, $30,000.

NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: St. Tammany Parish to Ryan C. Gravolet, $6,051.

N. OZONE PARK ROAD 405: Don

Spiers and Associates LLC to Robin Tallitsch, $110,000.

OLD LANDING SUBDIVISION, PORTION OF GROUND: City of Covington to James R. Robin and Constance K. Robin, $24,700.

PAT O’BRIEN ROAD 21448: KEM Services Inc. to Forefront Construction and Landscape LLC, $215,000.

PENN MILL ROAD 73698: Aparicio Enterprise LLC to Barbara Echevarria, $335,000.

RAMSEY ESTATES, PHASE 1, LOT 14: St. Tammany Parish to Ryan C. Gravolet, $6,051.

RIVER CLUB DRIVE 1368: Stoop Construction LLC to Nicky Nguyen and Loc Phuoc Nguyen, $1,400,000.

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3, LOT 11, SQUARE 13: James B. Bunch and Casey M. Monnerjahn to Robert J. Lambert III and Savanna R. Andrews, $325,000.

ROBINHOOD DRIVE 217: Albert J. Mayers III and Brenda L. Mayers to Jennifer Williamson and Mary Williamson, $243,000.

S. VERMONT ST. 316: Julie Gauger to Douglas A. Ashton and Lisa Ashton, $475,000.

TCHEFUNCTA SOUTH SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, LOT 32: Angela C. Avant and Angela C. Avant Living Trust to Gordon Joint revocable trust, $1,200,000.

TOWN OF COVINGTON, LOT 6, SQUARE 2703: St. Tammany Parish to Ryan C. Gravolet, $7,289.

WILLOW DRIVE 110: Nicholas F. Dischler Jr. to Ann M. Links Mathews, $230,000.

FOLSOM NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Charles P. Nicholson and Felecia M. Nicholson to Kasey L. Mayfield, $125,000.

PEARL ST. 82239: Ross P. Plescia to Cheryl Ladner, $191,900.

LACOMBE HORSESHOE ISLAND ROAD 31035: Patricia P. Ferrara to James Whittington II and Terri C. Whittington, $455,000.

OLD TODD ROAD 30980: Peter S. Fischer and Angie M. Fischer to Preston Poirier and Heather Poirier, $545,000.

PINE DRIVE 60209: Charlene C. Forester to Kathryn Beach and

Kasper Beach, $372,500.

SMITH ST. 28500: Ronald A. Welty Jr. to Robert H. Bergeron and Katherine W. Bergeron, $400,000.

U.S. 190 24615: Succession of Walter G. Links Jr. to Victor Hardison Jr. and Sharon Hardison, $250,000.

MADISONVILLE BEDICO CREEK SUBDIVISION, LOT 933: DLK Homes LLC to Joshua D. Reid and Keslynn C. Reid, $540,000.

BEDICO CREEK SUBDIVISION, LOTS 992, 1004, 1005: Santa Maria Interest LLC to Alvarez Construction LLC, $291,700.

BEDICO PARKWAY 530: Ryan A. Cruz and Jordan S. Cruz to Howard J. Heinz II, $230,000.

BELLE POINTE DRIVE 201: Paul A. Catalanotto and Mary N. Catalanotto to Sheneta Green and Donald Green, $455,000.

BRANDY ISLAND SUBDIVISION, LOT 16: Anthony J. Palazzo and Celia J. Palazzo to Matthew A. Nielsen and Leslie O. Nielsen, $380,000.

E. LOUISIANA 22 127: Melissa Ryan to Ryan L. Orillion, donation, no value stated.

OAK PARK ESTATES, LOT 13, SQUARE 3: Pierre L. Muhoberac Jr. to Andrew B. Rayer, $230,000.

SPIKE DRIVE 71504: DSLD Homes LLC to Quang Le and Chinh Huong, $217,341.

ST. ANN ST. 105: Rory R. Bridges to River Town Rentals LLC, $210,000.

MANDEVILLE CARROLL ST. 1036: Victor Hardison and Shavon Hardison to David Bossier and Stacy Wyllie

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ELDERBERRY LOOP 1551: Chester L. Smith and Marilyn D. Smith to Jeffrey William Cary and Janice F. Cary, $410,000.

GRANDE MAISON BLVD. 102: Nicholas R. Fluitt and Margaret G. Fluitt to Christopher A. Babin and Sasha Babin, $569,000.

JAMES ST. 68399: S&C Development LLC to Anthon Investments LLC, $3,300,000.

JENNIFER COURT 4: Garrett R. Hines and Darlene S. Hines to Courtney E. Farnet, $275,000.

KINGSWOOD SUBDIVISION, LOT 34: McHugh Construction LLC to Jenkins Homes LLC, $100,000.

LAKESHORE DRIVE 1943: Beacon Lighthouse Properties LLC to DC Lakeshore LLC, $750,000.

LIVE OAK ST. 194: Gerald A. Wicker to Lexi M. Wicker, donation, no value stated.

LIVINGSTON ST. 3331: Foucha Coner to Remi Franklin, $20,000.

OCTAVIA DRIVE 1873: Jimmy P. Hunt Jr. and Cathy Foss Hunt to Bonnie Jean Palermo-Albert, $320,000.

PARKVIEW BLVD. 108: Nora E. Moran to Tejaskumar Desai, $135,000.

PRAIRIE COURT 2212: Anthony W. Essaied to Jacob Brister and Kelly Stephens Brister, $419,000.

RED MAPLE DRIVE 371: Benjamin P. Sonnier and Jamie S. Sonnier to Dalton N. Stubbs and Megan B. Stubbs, $450,000.

RUE CALAIS 773: CGHR Investments LLC to Dennis Brown and Melissa McGee Brown, $570,000.

RUE CHINON 1020: Elizabeth J. Stafford to Fouquet Living Trust, $389,000.

STRAIN ROAD 22257: Norberto M.

Alvarez and Cathy L. Alvarez to Shassy Neilsen, $249,900.

SURGI DRIVE 205: Kenneth Brewer Jr. to Robert B. Brady and Olivia B. Brady, $220,000.

PEARL RIVER MAGNOLIA RIDGE LOOP 65269: James C. Smith to Dianna M. Glover, $404,000.

SLIDELL BIRDIE DRIVE 61: Catherine F. Castillion to Lora L. Herweh, donation, no value stated.

BLUE CRANE 236: Lynda C. Palao and Chad Palao to Elisabeth H. Perez and Santiago H. Perez, $325,000.

BYPASS BREEZE DRIVE 5373: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Shannon L. Burlin, $249,900.

CAREY ST. 3143: Click n’ Close Inc. to Lendy R. Chirinos, $108,900.

CLARA DRIVE 228: Successions of Pamela Sue Torrance and Anthony L. Torrance to Colden H. Husser and Marion W. Husser, $255,000.

CUTTER COVE 1322: George A. Musson and Karen K. Musson to Charles Winter, $436,000.

DRURY LANE 426: Succession of Gameel Gabriel to Good Living Properties LLC, $130,000.

E. LAKESHORE VILLAGE DRIVE 385: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Sheila Murray, $229,000.

FERNWOOD DRIVE 1502: Succession of Linda L. Faquier Patrick to Mitchell E. Piper and Julia E. Mascaro, $229,500.

GUTHRIE DRIVE 501: BLD Investments LLC to Matthew D. McElveen and Julie S. Martin McElveen, $110,000.

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HICKORY ST. 418: Ashley J. Sutphin to P&L Real Estate Investments LLC, $10,000.

HUMMINGBIRD LANE 249: Eric J. Durnin Jr. to Richard A. Miley III, $213,500.

INLET DRIVE 109: Roy A. Webster Jr. and Stacy R. Webster to Kevin R. Loar II and Nicole W. Loar, $541,000.

LA. 433 54293: Mike Evers and Debbie Evers Trust to Old Spanish Trail 54293 LLC, $160,000.

MAPLEWOOD DRIVE 1578: Jeffrey A. Abney to Drake A. Abney, donation, no value stated.

MARAIS RIVER DRIVE 4686: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Charles W. Sullivan Jr. and Nancy G. Sullivan, $225,750.

N. NINTH ST. 62090: Karen A. Marin to Elizabeth M. Sanchez, donation, no value stated.

NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: George J. Chiasson to GSRE LLC, $156,000.

OLIVE DRIVE 471: Christian Wingrave and Heather Wingrave to Charles E. Pittman, donation, no value stated.

OLIVE DRIVE 471: Christian Wingrave, Heather Wingrave and Charles E. Pittman to Joshua E. Villegas-Vazquez, $150,000.

ROUSSET RIDGE DRIVE 3241: Ryan B. Stinson and Din Cam Vong to Odessa Eskinde and Marion Eskinde, $335,000.

ROYAL PALM 1410: Richard Stromboe and Mary E. Premeaux Stromboe to Kenneth Soulant Jr. and Sherry T. Soulant, $322,900.

SHIRMAC DRIVE 113: Pamela M. Abney and Daniel P. Abney to Naara E. Hunter and Daniel M. Hunter, $60,000.

SOLOMON DRIVE 213: FAA Investments LLC to Joseph M. Temple and Carol C. Temple, $50,000.

SPILLWAY MANOR DRIVE 5116: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Bailey J. Carroll, $350,795.

ST. LOUIS ST. 4118: Joseph Gilley, Leigh A. Gilley, and others to Miles Down LLC, $50,000.

TIMBERS DRIVE 170: William T. Coggin to Gage M. Huff and Kaylee G. Reed, $160,000.

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LA. 1082 82496: Jordan M. Rivers and Jennie L. Dufrene Rivers to Joseph L. Piel, $1,400,000.

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Surviving cancer but still struggling Dear Annie: I was diagnosed with breast cancer a few months ago. I’ve been through surgery and radiation treatments. According to the oncologists, I should Annie now consider Lane myself a “surDEAR ANNIE vivor.” Since I have scars, I’m taking medication for the next 10 years that has potentially really bad side effects, and the chance of reoccurrence is a definite possibility, I don’t feel like a “survivor.”

I readily admit that I’m depressed. I maintain that this is a perfectly reasonable reaction to something bad that has upended and changed my whole life for the foreseeable future. I’m not suicidal, and although some mornings are hard, I get up every day, shower, brush my hair and teeth, and maintain my usual schedule.

The worst thing to me about cancer is that I can’t talk to anyone because I’ve gone from an actual person with thoughts and interests to people only wanting to know about the cancer. It’s all anyone asks about.

That being the case, I tried to talk to people about how I feel, but the word “depressed” freaks people out more than “cancer.” Now I just say I’m fine or OK to make others feel comfortable, which applies to my doctors as well.

I don’t need medication, and I tried online and in-person group discussions a few times, and they aren’t for me. I’ve noticed the same thing with people who lose a loved one or have something else bad happen — they aren’t allowed to be depressed.

When did it become shameful and something that needs to be fixed when people have a true human emotion to events?

Sad things should understandably make us sad — and maybe depressed? Please note, I’m

TODAY IN HISTORY San Francisco 49ers Dwight Clark leaps high to gather in a Joe Montana pass that tied the game late in the fourth quarter in a Jan. 10,1982, game against the Dallas Cowboys.

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not talking about people with real diagnosed clinical depression or other mental issues. — Sad “Survivor” Dear Sad “Survivor”: The word “survivor” may sound triumphant, yes, but it doesn’t cancel out the fear, pain and lifelong change you’ve endured to get here.

It is a victory to be where you are today, and there’s nothing troubling about feeling conflicted. What is troubling is feeling you have to hide it — especially from your doctors, who need the full picture, whether it’s pretty or not. You’re allowed to say, “I’m getting through it, but it’s still hard,” and you deserve people in your corner who can hear that without panicking or minimizing it, no matter how uncomfortable it may make them.

Healing doesn’t happen overnight. Give yourself permission to feel whatever comes and ask honestly for the support you need. A survivor isn’t someone who feels strong all the time; it’s someone who keeps going despite hardship.

By that measure, you absolutely are one.

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Today is Saturday, Jan. 10, the 10th day of 2026. There are 355 days left in the year.

Today in history: On Jan. 10, 1982, San Francisco 49ers receiver Dwight Clark caught a touchdown pass from Joe Montana with 58 seconds left in the NFC Championship Game; one of the most famous plays in NFL history, “The Catch” led the 49ers to a 28-27 victory over the Dallas Cowboys and a berth in Super Bowl XVI, where they defeated the Cincinnati Bengals for their first Super Bowl victory.

Also on this date: In 1776, Thomas Paine anonymously published his influential pamphlet “Common Sense,” which argued for American independence from British rule.

In 1860, the Pemberton Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, collapsed and caught fire, killing as many as 145 people.

In 1861, Florida became the third state to secede from the Union prior to the Civil War. In 1863, the London Underground was born when the Metropolitan Railway, the world’s first underground passenger railway, opened to the public with service between Paddington and Farringdon Street.

In 1920, the League of Nations was established as the Treaty of Versailles went into effect.

In 1946, the United Nations convened its first General Assembly session in London with 51 nations represented. The proceedings defined the scope and purpose of the world body.

In 1973, at least 40 workers were killed in an explosion and collapse of a large liquefied natural gas tank that was undergoing routine cleaning and maintenance in the New York City borough of Staten Island.

In 2013, a series of bomb blasts in Pakistan killed more than 100 people, including dozens who died in a sectarian attack in the southwest city of Quetta. Hundreds of others were

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In 2017, President Barack Obama delivered his farewell address in Chicago, in which the two-term Democrat urged national unity and highlighted achievements of his presidency including the Affordable Care Act. Republican Donald Trump took office days later after a 2016 election in which Trump defeated Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Today’s birthdays: Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bill Toomey is 87. Singer Rod Stewart is 81. Rock singer-musician Donald Fagen (Steely Dan) is 78. Singer Pat Benatar is 73.

Hall of Fame racing driver and team owner Bobby Rahal is 73. Actor-comedian Jemaine Clement is 52. Actor Sarah Shahi is 46. Business owner Jared Kushner is 45. Actor and singer Reneé Rapp is 26.

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