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Council OKs strip club restrictions Measure approved quietly in final meeting of term

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tions earlier this month, to the dismay of some nightlife industry workers.

District C council member FredOpening a new Bourbon Street strip club will require special ap- die King, who sponsored the meaproval from the New Orleans City sure, gave no explanation other Council after the council quietly than to say it was meant “to mitipassed temporary club restric- gate the negative secondary efStaff writer

said Mark Schettler, executive director of Shift Change, a nonprofit that advocates for the nightlife industry.

“This was a late addition to the very end of the agenda for the final council meeting before new members were sworn in,” he said. “The sponsoring council member has refused to answer questions about it during the meeting or since.”

fects” associated with strip clubs.

It passed unanimously with no discussion on Jan. 8, the final meeting of the previous council’s term.

The restrictions, which could be in effect for up to two years, blindsided the local community of dancers, club staff and their advocates,

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King did not respond to messages. Attempts to reach representatives of three well-known clubs on Bourbon Street — Larry Flynt’s Hustler Club, Penthouse Club and Rick’s Cabaret — were unsuccessful on Friday.

“Adult live entertainment venues,” as strip clubs are known in

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Ex-LSU star key figure in gambling probe

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A cyclist rides onto the Lafitte Greenway at the Alexander Street trailhead on Friday.

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A long-touted plan to extend the popular Lafitte Greenway down Bienville Street through Canal Boulevard received a big boost recently, as city officials set aside $4.8 million for an expansion aimed at easing access to public transit.

Even with money in hand, however, the linear park’s future hinges on whether the city can ink a deal with the rail company blocking its path.

Norfolk Southern Railroad owns the rail line that runs from Bienville at North Alexander Street past Canal Boulevard and through City Park. Without them on board, an expansion of the cultural and recreational artery is moot.

“This project is still in the early stages of development, and the city is in active discussions with various parties — including representatives from the Norfolk Southern Railroad,” said a spokesperson for Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration.

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The Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative advocacy group that promotes “biblical principles,” raised about $40,000 to have the posters printBY PATRICK WALL Staff writer ed and delivered to all but about five of the state’s 69 school districts, said Nearly every public school system in Gene Mills, the group’s president. The Louisiana has received donated post- posters were designed by Louisiana ers bearing the Ten Commandments Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office that can be hung up in classrooms if and feature the biblical precepts alonga federal appeals court gives the go- side informational text and photos, in-

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cluding one of House Speaker Mike Johnson.

“It is the foundation of Western civilization and much of natural law,” Mills said about the Ten Commandments, and a “historical document that needs to be brought before young eyes.”

A 2024 state law requiring public K-12 schools and colleges to display the Ten Commandments in every

In early 2023, former LSU guard Antonio Blakeney — then playing in the Chinese Basketball Association — went on a five-game tear.

He averaged 28 points on about 22 shot attempts a game, capped by a 44 point, 10 rebound performance. His prolific scoring abilities had helped him get named a McDonald’s All American in high school, and he later was named a member of the All-SEC Freshman Team. After his sophomore year at LSU, he declared for the NBA draft.

But after his flash of scoring prowess in China, his next game there on March 6, 2023, was different.

Blakeney scored just 11 points in 31 minutes and took only 11 shots.

His Jiangsu Dragons lost by 31 points.

Federal prosecutors now say Blakeney’s performance was no fluke. In an indictment handed up this week in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Blakeney was named as a central figure in an 11-state scheme to fix the outcomes of basketball games in the U.S. and China, mostly at the college level.

Blakeney and more than a dozen other players, including eight men who played basketball for Louisiana colleges, are accused of attempting to influence the final scores of at least eight games involving Louisiana teams in 2024 and 2025.

Blakeney is accused of pointshaving in two games in China, before using his influence as a former LSU star to recruit other college athletes in Louisiana into

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Posters bearing the Ten Commandments that can be hung up in classrooms have been donated to nearly every public school in Louisiana.

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Ex-husband indicted in slaying of couple

COLUMBUS, Ohio — An Ohio grand jury has indicted a man in the double homicide of his ex-wife and her husband who were killed in their Columbus home.

Court records show a Franklin County grand jury charged Michael David McKee on Friday with aggravated murder and aggravated burglary while using a firearm suppressor.

McKee, 39, a vascular surgeon who was living in Chicago, is charged in the shooting deaths of 39-year-old Monique Tepe, from whom he was divorced in 2017, and dentist Dr. Spencer Tepe, 37, in their home on Dec. 30.

Authorities apprehended McKee in Rockford, Illinois, last weekend. He is currently being held after he waived his right to an extradition hearing Monday.

No obvious signs of forced entry were found at the Tepes’ home. Police also said no weapon was found there, and murdersuicide was not suspected. Nothing was stolen, and the couple’s two young children and their dog were left unharmed in the home.

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Johnson said Thursday he still But the setback on the other bills Weeklong break puts lastThune acknowledged Thursday highlighted the tension between intends to pass a Homeland Securithe Homeland Security measure leadership’s agenda and their ty funding bill as well as the three crunch on budget bills would be the most difficult, add- razor-thin majority. Johnson, for remaining, more controversial

BY VALERIE YURK and SAVANNAH BEHRMANN CQ-Roll Call (TNS)

WASHINGTON — Lawmakers left Washington Thursday with a few more government funding bills under their belts but face a rush after the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday to avert another partial government shutdown and respond to developments abroad.

Particularly challenging for Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., will be to push through the fiscal 2026 Homeland Security spending bill, which hit a snag following the fatal shooting by an immigration officer of an unarmed woman in Minneapolis

ing they may have to tackle the department’s funding through a continuing resolution.

The week started off with an easy Republican victory in the House: passage of two bills to relaunch African and Haitian trade programs. But things went downhill for GOP leaders. Johnson saw an embarrassing defeat Tuesday night as six GOP lawmakers sunk a worker education bill and indicated they would oppose other labor measures scheduled for votes.

Johnson pulled the other bills minutes before their votes, which left the House to consider a measure to codify the Trump administration’s efforts to roll back energy efficiency requirements for showerheads. It passed 226-197.

his part, brushed off the snafu as a whip count issue.

“We’re totally in control of the House,” he said after the Tuesday night votes. “This is a team that is very united right now, and everyone has different preferences and issues on bills, that’s nothing new.

But when you have a one-vote margin, it’s dicey some days.”

The balance of the week was easier on leadership.

The House passed on Wednesday a $76.6 billion package of two more fiscal 2026 government funding bills — Financial Services and National Security-State — in a 34179 vote. It marked the second time this month the chamber passed a slate of spending bills as Congress nears the Jan. 30 funding deadline.

Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on bus in 1955, dies

Sinema accused of breaking up marriage PHOENIX — Former U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema had a romantic relationship with a member of her security detail that led to the breakup of the man’s marriage, his ex-wife alleges in a lawsuit seeking at least $75,000 from Sinema.

Matthew and Heather Ammel had “a good and loving marriage” with “genuine love and affection” before Sinema interfered, pursuing Matthew Ammel despite knowing he was married, Heather Ammel alleges in her lawsuit.

The Arizona lawmaker’s head of security hired Matthew Ammel after he retired from the Army in 2022, according to the lawsuit, which says he accompanied her on travels.

In early 2024, Ammel’s wife discovered “romantic and lascivious” messages he’d exchanged with Sinema over the Signal messaging app. That summer, he stopped wearing his wedding ring and Sinema gave him a job as a national security fellow in her Senate office while he continued to work for her campaign as a bodyguard, the lawsuit alleges.

The lawsuit was quietly filed late last year in Moore County, North Carolina. It captured attention this week when it was moved to federal court.

North Carolina is one of a handful of states that allow jilted spouses to sue for “alienation of affection” to seek damages from a third party responsible for the breakup of their marriage.

Trump-class warship may be among costliest WASHINGTON — The first of the Navy’s proposed “Trumpclass” battleships could cost up to $22 billion, a price tag that would make it one of the most expensive U.S. military vessels in U.S. history, according to an early analysis.

The initial cost estimate for the ship was released Thursday

by Congressional Budget Office naval forces analyst Eric Labs at a Navy surface warfare conference in Virginia. He acknowledged that the final price for the first vessel will depend on decisions that still haven’t been made around tonnage, crew size and weapons. His lowest-cost scenario was $15.1 billion.

The guided-missile battleship would be twice as large as any cruiser or destroyer the Navy has built since World War II, but about one-third the size of the Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier that’s now the most expensive U.S. warship. The Ford was delivered in 2017 at a cost of about $13 billion.

Labs said weaknesses in the U.S. shipbuilding industrial base, including skilled labor shortages and supply chain challenges, could make the eventual cost even higher. The average cost of follow-on ships could range from $10 billion to $15 billion, depending on a variety of factors, he said.

President Donald Trump announced plans for the new vessel in December, saying the ship would be part of his “Golden Fleet” plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding and overhaul the Navy.

appropriations measures — Defense, Labor-HHS-Education and Transportation-HUD. The House is under increased pressure next week to deal with remaining spending bills, as they are scheduled to be out the last week of January, when the funding deadline expires.

The Senate has passed six of 12 funding bills after successfully pushing through a package containing the Commerce-JusticeScience, Interior-Environment, Energy-Water bill in an 82-15 vote on Thursday. Senate leaders anticipate taking up the House-passed package that consists of the Financial Services and National Security-State spending bills when they return.

BY KIMBERLY CHANDLER Associated Press

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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel, fourth from right, holds up a Cuban flag during a rally Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana, Cuba, to protest the killing of Cuban officers during the U.S. operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

Demonstration in Cuba demands Maduro’s release

BY ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press

HAVANA — Tens of thousands of Cubans demonstrated Friday outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana to decry the killing of 32 Cuban officers in Venezuela and demand that the U.S. government release former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.

They crowded into the open-air “José Martí Anti-Imperialist” plaza across from the embassy in a rally organized by the Cuban government as tensions between Cuba and the U.S. spike following the U.S. attack Jan. 3 on Venezuela.

The 32 Cuban officers were part of Maduro’s security detail killed during the raid on his residence in Caracas to seize the former leader and bring him to the U.S. to face drug trafficking charges.

“Humanity is experiencing something very complex, and (the U.S.) is governed by a president who considers himself an emperor,” said René González, 64, one of the protesters.

“We must show him that ideas are worth more than weapons,” he said.

“This march is a message of our unity.

Independence is sacred, and we will defend it tooth and nail if necessary.”

Cuba’s national anthem rang out at Friday’s demonstration as large Cuban flags waved in the chilly wind and big waves broke nearby along Havana’s famed sea wall. Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel shook hands with members of the crowd clad in jackets and scarves before speaking to them.

“The current U.S. administration has opened the door to an era of barbarism, plunder and neo-fascism,” he said.

The demonstration was a show of popular strength after U.S. President Donald Trump recently demanded that Cuba make a deal with him before it is “too late.” He did not explain what kind of deal.

Trump also has said that Cuba will no longer live off Venezuela’s oil and money.

Experts say the move could have catastrophic consequences since Cuba is already struggling with severe blackouts.

“No one here surrenders,” Díaz-Canel said. “The current emperor of the White House and his infamous secretary of state haven’t stopped threatening me.”

Washington has maintained a policy of sanctions against Cuba since the 1960s to pressure the island’s government to improve its human rights record, end its one-party communist system and allow democracy. The sanctions have been further tightened during Trump’s presidency, suffocating the island’s economy.

“Cuba does not have to make any political concessions, and that will never be on the table for negotiations aimed at reaching an understanding between Cuba and the United States,” Díaz-Canel said.

After the president’s speech, the demonstration transitioned into a parade that Cubans call a “combatant march,” a custom that originated during the time of Fidel Castro. The crowd was led by a line of people holding pictures of the 32 officers killed. “Down with imperialism!” the crowd yelled. “Cuba will prevail!”

Texas A&M cancels course under ‘race and gender ideology’ policy

BY SAMUEL O’NEAL

Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TNS) FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas A&M graduate professor was told that his Ethics in Public Policy class was canceled three days into the spring 2026 semester.

The university alleges professor Leonard Bright refused to submit information needed to be exempt from a new rule on teaching course content that is considered to include “gender and race ideology,” according to an email sent to faculty.

In an email to employees at A&M’s Bush School of Government and Public Service, Dean John Sherman wrote that Bright was not asked to change course content, but was asked to supply the school information on his course and planned instruction on topics related to race and gender ideology. Because the administration says he didn’t supply the information, his class has been canceled.

“I take no pleasure in making the decision to cancel this course and it is not one that I took lightly,” Sherman wrote.

Bright said in a statement on X that the university’s claim that he declined to clarify the fact that his class addressed race and gender is false.

Bright said on X that his colleagues and students found out about the school’s decision to cancel his class before he did.

“This disrespect my Dean showed towards me was unwarranted,” Bright wrote. “The message was clear: Be very afraid no one can save you from being censored at Texas A&M.” Texas A&M’s Office of the Provost issued the new guidance in December, prohibiting faculty from “requiring or encouraging students to hold certain beliefs, particularly regarding gender or race ideology or sexual orientation, or to feel shame for belonging to certain racial or ethnic groups.”

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Claudette Colvin, whose 1955 arrest for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated Montgomery bus helped spark the modern civil rights movement, has died.

She was 86.

Ashley D. Roseboro of the Claudette Colvin Legacy Foundation confirmed she died of natural causes in Texas.

Colvin, at age 15, was arrested nine months before Rosa Parks gained international fame for also refusing to give up her seat on Colvin a segregated bus.

Colvin had boarded the bus on March 2, 1955, on her way home from high school. The first rows were reserved for White passengers. Colvin sat in the rear with other Black passengers. When the White section became full, the bus driver ordered Black passengers to relinquish their seats to White passengers.

Colvin refused.

“My mindset was on freedom,” Colvin said in 2021 of her refusal to give

up her seat.

“So I was not going to move that day,” she said. “I told them that history had me glued to the seat.”

At the time of Colvin’s arrest, frustration was mounting over how Black people were treated on the city bus system.

It was the arrest of Parks, a local NAACP activist, on Dec. 1, 1955, that became the final catalyst for the yearlong Montgomery Bus Boycott, which is considered the start of the modern civil rights movement.

Colvin was one of the four plaintiffs in the landmark lawsuit that outlawed racial segregation on Montgomery’s buses.

Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed said Colvin’s action “helped lay the legal and moral foundation for the movement that would change America.”

Colvin was never as wellknown as Parks, and Reed said her bravery “was too often overlooked.”

Colvin in 2021 filed a petition to have her court record expunged. A judge granted the request.

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The death toll of at least allies of Iran and the United

by Trump for possible Senior cleric calls down 2,797, provided by the U.S.- States alike sought to defuse action against Iran. repression that has based Human Rights Activ- tensions. Russian President for death penalty leftHarsh several thousand people ists News Agency on Friday, Vladimir Putin spoke Friday dead appears to have suc- exceeds that of any other to both Iranian President for detained ceeded in stifling demon- round of protest or unrest in Masoud Pezeshkian and Isdemonstrators strations that began Dec. 28 Iran in decades and recalls rael’s Netanyahu, Kremlin

BY JON GAMBRELL and FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — As Iran returned to uneasy calm after a wave of protests that drew a bloody crackdown, a senior hard-line cleric called Friday for the death penalty for detained demonstrators and directly threatened U.S. President Donald Trump — evidence of the rage gripping authorities in the Islamic Republic.

Trump, though, struck a conciliatory note, thanking Iran’s leaders for not executing hundreds of detained protesters, in a further sign he may be backing away from a military strike. Executions, as well as the killing of peaceful protesters, are two of the red lines laid

over Iran’s ailing economy and morphed into protests directly challenging the country’s theocracy.

There have been no signs of protests for days in Tehran, where shopping and street life have returned to outward normality, though a week-old internet blackout continued. Authorities have not reported any unrest elsewhere in the country.

“Iran canceled the hanging of over 800 people,” Trump told reporters in Washington, adding that “I greatly respect the fact that they canceled.”

In a post referring to the canceled hangings on his social media site, Trump said: “Thank you!”

Trump did not clarify who he spoke to in Iran to confirm the state of any planned executions.

the chaos surrounding the 1979 revolution.

Cleric’s fiery sermon The sermon by Ayatollah Ahmad Khatami carried by Iranian state radio sparked chants from those gathered for prayers, including: “Armed hypocrites should be put to death!”

Khatami, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts and Guardian Council long known for his hard-line views, described the protesters as the “butlers” of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “Trump’s soldiers.” He said Netanyahu and Trump should await “hard revenge from the system.”

“Americans and Zionists should not expect peace,” the cleric said.

His fiery speech came as

spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. Peskov said “the situation in the region is quite tense, and the president is continuing his efforts to help de-escalate it.”

Moscow has watched several key allies suffer blows as its resources and focus are consumed by its 4-yearold war against Ukraine, including the downfall of Syria’s former President Bashar Assad in 2024, last year’s U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran, and the U.S. seizure of Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro this month.

Authorities list damage Khatami, the hard-line cleric, also provided the first overall statistics on damage from the protests, claiming 350 mosques, 126 prayer halls and 20 other holy places had sustained damage.

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A woman crosses an intersection in downtown Tehran, Iran, on Friday.

Another 80 homes of Friday prayer leaders — an important position within Iran’s theocracy — were also damaged, likely underlining the anger demonstrators felt toward symbols of the government.

He said 400 hospitals, 106 ambulance, 71 fire department vehicles and another 50 emergency vehicles also sustained damage.

Even as protests appeared to have been smothered inside Iran, thousands of exiled Iranians and their supporters have taken to the streets in cities across

Europe to shout out their rage at the government of the Islamic Republic.

Amid the continuing internet shutdown, some Iranians crossed borders to communicate with the outside world. At a border crossing in Turkey’s eastern province of Van, a trickle of Iranians crossing Friday said they were traveling to get around the communications blackout.

“I will go back to Iran after they open the internet,” said a traveler who gave only his first name, Mehdi, out of security concerns.

Poll: Americans’ trust in science on downward trend

BY HAYLEY SMITH

Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — As global officials confirm that 2025 was Earth’s third-hottest year on record, a new poll shows Americans are sharply divided over the role of science in the United States.

A report published Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center found that a majority of Americans want the U.S. to be a world leader in science, but Republicans and Democrats disagree on whether it is.

About two-thirds of Democrats, 65%, fear the U.S. is losing ground to other countries when it comes to scientific achievement — a 28-point increase since 2023, the poll found.

Republicans have moved in the opposite direction, with far fewer saying the U.S. is losing ground than in the past, 32%, a 12-point decrease

in that same time frame.

The divide mirrors “other partisan differences in attitudes around science we have been tracking for years,” the Pew report says. “In particular, partisan differences in trust in scientists and the value of science for society are far wider than they were before the COVID-19 pandemic. Republicans have become less confident in scientists and less likely to say science has had a mostly positive effect on society, while Democratic views are largely unchanged.”

Last month, the Trump administration dismantled one of the world’s leading climate and weather research institutions, the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado.

Some 90% of Democrats say they have a least a fair amount of confidence in scientists, but only 65% of Republicans said the same, ac-

cording to the poll, which surveyed 5,111 U.S. adults in October. The gap in confidence between both parties on this point has been broadly similar in every survey since 2021.

Experts said the findings are not particularly surprising.

“It’s part of a larger trend toward the politicization of science,” said Zeke Hausfather, a research scientist at Berkeley Earth, citing issues such as vaccines and climate change.

The report lands as the world continues to head in the wrong direction when it comes to global warming.

On Wednesday, eight international groups released data confirming that 2025 was Earth’s third-hottest year on record — nearly tied with 2023 and just behind 2024, the warmest year on record.

Last year’s global average temperature was about 2.65 degrees

above pre-industrial levels, the baseline against which global warming is measured. That means it was just shy of the 2.7 degree limit established under the 2015 Paris climate agreement, an internationally recognized tipping point for the worst effects of climate change.

“The news is not encouraging, and the urgency of climate action has never been more important,” Mauro Facchini, head of Earth observation at the Directorate General for Defence Industry and Space at the European Commission, told reporters this week.

Yet Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from the Paris agreement on his first day back in office, a move he also made during his first term as president. Earlier this month, Trump also withdrew the U.S. from 66 other international organizations and treaties, including the United Nations Framework Con-

vention on Climate Change, from which the Paris agreement stems.

The world is now on track to breach the Paris agreement’s limit for long-term global warming before the end of the decade — several years earlier than previously predicted, according to Hausfather, who also helped produce Berkeley Earth’s global temperature report released this week. He said it is likely that 2026 will fall “somewhere between the second and fourth warmest” years on record.

NOAA previously tracked weather and climate disasters where damages exceed $1 billion, but the Trump administration shut down that database last year. The administration also fired hundreds of scientists working to prepare the congressionally mandated National Climate Assessment and removed the website that housed previous assessments.

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Republicans vouch for Federal Reserve chair

BY JOEY CAPPELLETTI and CHRISTOPHER RUGABER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.

As the Trump administration ramps up its pressure campaign against the central bank — now including Justice Department subpoenas and the threat of criminal charges — Senate Republicans have closed ranks around Powell, defending an independent Fed chair under attack from a president of their own party.

“I know Chairman Powell very well. I will be stunned — I will be shocked — if he has done anything wrong,” said GOP Sen. John Kennedy of Madisonville, one of Trump’s most reliable allies in the Senate.

Soon after the Justice Department served subpoenas on the Fed, Powell went on the offensive, re-

leasing a video statement accusing the administration of using “pretexts” to pressure the central bank into sharply cutting interest rates, as Trump has demanded. The 72-year-old Fed chair also leaned on Capitol Hill relationships he has cultivated since his 2018 appointment, holding multiple calls with Republican senators in the days following the video’s release.

“He knows his way around Congress,” said Robert Tetlow, a former senior policy adviser at the Powell Fed. “He gets in there, pets the dog, shoots the breeze, and has a way of getting people to like him, and he’s really good at it.”

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski put her support behind North Carolina Republican Sen. Thom Tillis’ plan to block nominees. She was among the multiple Republican senators who said they spoke with Powell after his video statement.

“I look at the situation with Jay Powell and this supposed investigation of the overhaul of their of-

fices going over there as grounds to do nothing but intimidate, threaten and coerce,” Murkowski told reporters. Powell goes by “Jay” informally.

“I believe strongly in an independent Federal Reserve,” said Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick, who also sits on the Senate Banking Committee. The first-term senator added that he agrees “with President Trump that Chairman Powell has been slow to cut interest rates” but said he doesn’t “think Chairman Powell is guilty of criminal activity.”

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said that the investigation “better be real” and “better be serious.”

Powell, a Republican, has been a fixture in the nation’s capital for decades, where he developed a reputation as a centrist. He worked at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a think tank, from 2010 to 2012 and pushed congressional Republicans toward compromise

during their budget battles with President Barack Obama.

Obama, in turn, appointed Powell to the Fed’s governing board in 2012. Trump then elevated him to the Chair position in 2018. He was reappointed by President Joe Biden in 2022.

Powell also built up credibility among Republicans in the House and Senate by largely ignoring Trump’s personal attacks during the president’s first term in office, when he complained about rate hikes by Powell in 2018. In general, Powell has tried to keep his head down and avoid a back-andforth with the White House. A solid economy — at least until the COVID pandemic struck — also helped protect the Fed during Trump’s first term.

Powell has often cited support on Capitol Hill as a counterweight to Trump’s attacks. At a news conference last July, Powell discussed the importance of distancing the Fed from “direct political control,” because that allows the central bank to take unpopular steps such as rais-

ing interest rates to thwart inflation.

“I think that’s pretty widely understood,” he said. “Certainly, it is in Congress.”

The subpoenas served to the Fed relate to Powell’s comments about the $2.5 billion renovation of two office buildings, which Trump has criticized as excessive.

“The threat of criminal charges is a consequence of the Federal Reserve setting interest rates based on our best assessment of what will serve the public, rather than following the preferences of the President,” Powell said in a video.

Trump has insisted he was unaware of the investigation into Powell. When asked by CBS News whether the subpoenas were a form of retribution, Trump said Tuesday, “I can’t help what it looks like.”

Trump has gone after several officials he sees as having done him wrong, including an attempted firing of another Fed board member, Lisa Cook. The Supreme Court has allowed Cook to keep her job and will hold a hearing on her case on Wednesday.

Trump threatens tariffs as part of Greenland strategy health care, he recounted Nations that don’t ral Friday how he had threatened European allies with support U.S. tariffs on pharmaceuticals.

“I may do that for Greencontrol could get land too,” Trump said. “I economic sanction may put a tariff on coun-

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark — U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation sought to lower tensions in the Danish capital.

Trump for months has insisted that the U.S. should control Greenland, a semiautonomous territory of NATO ally Denmark, and said earlier this week that anything less than the Arctic island being in U.S. hands would be “unacceptable.”

During an unrelated event at the White House about ru-

tries if they don’t go along with Greenland, because we need Greenland for national security. So I may do that,” he said.

He had not previously mentioned using tariffs to try to force the issue.

European leaders have insisted that is only for Denmark and Greenland to decide on matters concerning the territory, and Denmark said this week that it was increasing its military presence in Greenland in cooperation with allies.

In Copenhagen, a group of senators and members of the House of Representatives met Friday with Danish and Greenlandic lawmakers, and with leaders including Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

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President Donald Trump speaks during an event to promote investment in rural health care Friday in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

Chris Coons, D-Del., thanked the group’s hosts for “225 years of being a good and trusted ally and partner” and said that “we had a strong and robust dialogue about how we extend that into the future.”

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, RAlaska, said after meeting lawmakers that the visit

reflected a strong relationship over decades and “it is one that we need to nurture.” She told reporters that “Greenland needs to be viewed as our ally, not as an asset, and I think that’s what you’re hearing with this delegation.”

The tone contrasted with that emanating from the

White House. Trump has sought to justify his calls for a U.S. takeover by repeatedly claiming that China and Russia have their own designs on Greenland, which holds vast untapped reserves of critical minerals. The White House hasn’t ruled out taking the territory by force.

“We have heard so many lies, to be honest and so much exaggeration on the threats towards Greenland,” said Aaja Chemnitz, a Greenlandic politician and member of the Danish parliament who took part in Friday’s meetings. “And mostly, I would say the threats that we’re seeing right now is from the U.S. side.”

Murkowski emphasized the role of Congress in spending and in conveying messages from constituents.

“I think it is important to underscore that when you ask the American people whether or not they think it is a good idea for the United States to acquire Greenland,

the vast majority, some 75%, will say, we do not think that that is a good idea,” she said.

The dispute is looming large in the lives of Greenlanders. Greenland’s prime minister, Jens-Frederik Nielsen, said on Tuesday that “if we have to choose between the United States and Denmark here and now, we choose Denmark. We choose NATO. We choose the Kingdom of Denmark.

We choose the EU.” The chair of the Nuuk, Greenland-based Inuit Circumpolar Council, which represents around 180,000 Inuit from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, and Russia’s Chukotka region on international issues, said persistent statements from the White House that the U.S. must own Greenland offer “a clear picture of how the U.S. administration views the people of Greenland, how the U.S. administration views Indigenous peoples, and peoples that are few in numbers.”

Defendant in Kirk’s killing asks judge to disqualify prosecutors

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tion,” Utah Prosecution Council Director Robert Church told The AssociAssociated Press ated Press. “They’ve got to PROVO, Utah — The Utah man a show a substantial amount charged with killing conser- of prejudice and bias.”

The prosecutor’s 18-yearvative activist Charlie Kirk returned to court Friday, as old daughter, who attended his attorneys sought to dis- the event where Kirk was qualify prosecutors because shot, later texted her father the daughter of a deputy in the Utah County Attorcounty attorney involved in ney’s Office to describe the the case attended the rally chaotic aftermath, according where Kirk was shot. to court filings and testimony.

Defense attorneys say She did not see the shooting the relationship represents but heard a loud pop, accorda conflict of interest after ing to an affidavit submitted prosecutors said they intend by prosecutors. to seek the death Robinson’s attorpenalty for Tyler neys say the close Robinson. connection between Robinson, 22, is the prosecution charged with agteam and a person present for Kirk’s gravated murder in killing “raises serithe Sept. 10 shooting of Kirk on the Utah ous concerns about Valley University Robinson past and future proscampus in Orem, ecutorial decisionjust a few miles north of the making,” according to court Provo courthouse. He has documents. They also argue not yet entered a plea. that the “rush” to seek the The director of a state death penalty is evidence council that trains pros- of “strong emotional reacecutors said he doubted tions” by the prosecution the disqualification attempt and merits disqualification would succeed, and he was of the entire team. unaware of any major case Defense attorney Richard where attorneys had been Novak urged Judge Tony disqualified for bias.

Graf on Friday to bring in “I would bet against the the state attorney general’s defense winning this mo- office in place of Utah Coun-

ty prosecutors to address the alleged conflict of interest.

Novak said it was problematic for county prosecutors to litigate on behalf of the state while defending their aptness to stay on the case.

Utah County Attorney Jeffrey Gray argued that Novak’s last-minute request was aimed at delaying the case against Robinson. His office has asked Graf to deny the disqualification request.

“This is ambush and another stalling tactic,” Gray said.

Several thousand people attended the outdoor rally where Kirk, a co-founder of Turning Point USA who helped mobilize young people to vote for President Donald Trump, was shot as he took audience questions.

The prosecutor’s daughter, a student at Utah Valley University, texted a family group chat that day saying, “CHARLIE GOT SHOT.” Gray testified Friday that he was with his colleague when he received that text, and the colleague showed it to him.

In the weeks after the shooting, the young woman did not miss classes and reported no lasting trauma “aside from being scared at the time,” the affidavit said.

The deputy county attorney and his daughter are ex-

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Prosecutors have said DNA evidence connects Robinson to the killing. Robinson also reportedly texted

his romantic partner that he targeted Kirk because he “had enough of his hatred.”

At the school where the shooting took place, univer-

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But others invested in the project say agreements with the railroad giant have historically been delayed.

“It’s been very difficult to deal with them, but that’s not unusual with these big railroad companies,” said Susan Guidry, a former City Council member who pushed hard for the Greenway’s construction during her tenure.

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ministration that can help steer the project through.

Lined with native trees, bioswales that hold stormwater and vibrant greenery, the path takes its half a million annual visitors through neighborhoods, cafes, breweries and other businesses.

The 2.6-mile park crosses Claiborne and Carrollton avenues and Broad Street before it abruptly ends at the North Alexander Street trailhead.

The completed path, pitched along with the rest of the Greenway in a 2013 master plan former Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration commissioned, would continue past Delgado Community College and City Park Avenue to Canal Boulevard, then loop back down Canal and connect to the Regional Transit Authority Cemeteries Transit Center. A pathway would branch off and connect to the bike line along Marconi

Avenue, leading directly to City Park. When finished, the Greenway would be a continuous path connecting the French Quarter to City Park.

“It’s an incredible asset as is.

But going all the way to the RTA station … that’s a connection for people who don’t have transportation by car. Anybody who walks or bikes along the Greenway can make this safe connection. Regional multimodal connection is extremely important to a lot of people in the city,” Guidry said.

In 2024, city leaders also worked with the Legislature to secure long-term funding for the space, through an economic development district that would raise revenue through taxes or other means for the Lafitte Greenway area. The revenue could be put toward Greenway improvements, maintenance or the public benefit.

A 2024 master plan, released by the Lafitte Greenway Partnership, which manages the Greenway’s day-to-day operations, gave leaders until December of this year to finish the extension. But City Hall officials said it’s unclear if the deal will be done by then.

Ron Foster owns Masonry Products, which has used the rail line for its operations for more than 70 years. He said the market has been slow in recent years and his business has been taking in less brick because of high construction and insurance costs. That leads to less reliance on the railroad.

But Foster said he anticipates things changing for the better as the economy improves. He said discussions around removing the rails altogether or leaving them intact are ongoing between the residential and business community, the city and Norfolk.

“Everything’s really up in the air

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he committed to LSU in 2015.

After two standout years with the Tigers, Blakeney tried moving on to the NBA but didn’t get drafted. He signed a minor-league contract with the Chicago Bulls, winning the NBA G League Rookie of the Year award, but was released by the team in 2019.

In 2021, when Blakeney was 24 years old, he was arrested at his home in Kissimmee, Florida, and accused of arranging an armed robbery of two men who Blakeney invited to play cards at his house.

It’s unclear how the case was resolved: A lawyer for Blakeney at the time didn’t return messages.

As the scheme’s ringleaders, federal prosecutors identified Marves Fairley, of Mississippi, and Shane Hennen, of Philadelphia. Both were professional gamblers and social media influencers who sold betting advice to their followers.

Prosecutors haven’t said exactly why, but at some point during

Blakeney’s 2022-2023 season in China, the pair offered Blakeney bribes in exchange for his participation in the scheme, according to the indictment. There’s no indication that Blakeney had a prior relationship with Fairley or Hennen.

Harry Rosenberg, a former U.S. Attorney in New Orleans, said the pair may have learned of Blakeney’s prior arrest, which was reported on by news outlets.

“If he was caught structuring a card game for other individuals to use as a stickup point, it would seem to me that it tends to indicate that he would be open to other criminal activity,” Rosenberg said.

“If somebody’s willing to put their foot in the pool, they’re likely to jump into the pool.”

Either way, the scheme began with the March 2023 game in China. Bettors made at least $198,000 in illegal wagers on it, according to the indictment. The group placed another $100,000 in winning bets

on a game that Blakeney sat out nine days later, prosecutors allege.

There’s nothing guaranteed in this world, one co-conspirator later texted, but “death, taxes, and Chinese basketball.”

The group soon recruited more than a dozen other athletes into the fold, this time targeting college basketball games in the U.S. beginning in 2024.

According to the indictment, Blakeney and four others, “in person and through social media, text message communications, and cellular telephone calls,” contacted college athletes and offered them bribes ranging from $10,000 to $30,000.

Other defendants accused of helping rig outcomes of games involving Louisiana teams include: Kevin Cross, former Tulane University forward from 2020-2024; Carlos Hart, former University of New Orleans guard from 20232024; Cedouavious “Dae Dae”

Hunter, former UNO guard from 2024-2025; Oumar Koureissi, former Nicholls State forward from 2023-2024; Dyouavion “Jah” Short, former UNO guard from 20232025; Diante Smith, former Nicholls forward from 2023-2024.

None have entered pleas yet.

For bettors looking to illegally fix the outcome of sports contests, college basketball games, particularly involving teams without a large following, make for sensible targets, Foster said.

“It’s a lot easier for a basketball player to have a bigger impact on a game consistently than other sports,” Foster said, because the game involves a relatively small number of players who receive consistent playing time, among other factors.

The scheme also targeted small schools in games that weren’t nationally televised and unlikely to garner much attention, Foster added.

“If something strange is happening in a Duke/North Carolina game, there’s just more people watching,” Foster said.

And even in the era where college athletes can earn money through endorsements, or through direct payments from their universities, the athletes targeted in the scheme likely weren’t making much, said Noah Henderson, director of the Sport Management Program at Loyola University Chicago.

They also played for low-performing teams that weren’t competing for a championship, meaning the outcomes of a regular season game weren’t as critical, Henderson said.

“They were targeting teams that don’t have a whole lot of high hopes for their season, and they were targeting role players who were more than likely earning pretty nominal sums of (endorsement) and other athletic compensation,” Henderson said.

“The bribes go longer and it’s not putting the season in jeopardy.”

new club, Peppermint Hippo, is promoting its upcoming opening at 226 Bourbon Street on social media. It’s not clear if Peppermint Hippo has already obtained its building permit and business license, or if it will need to go through the council’s new process.

Calls and messages to Peppermint Hippo representatives were not returned.

The council imposed similar temporary restrictions from 2016 to 2018, as members and Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s administration sought more permanent restrictions on strip clubs and state authorities cracked down on code violations within the clubs.

Dancers and some club owners organized in vocal opposition to

those efforts, and the zoning proposals failed. But the state raids forced some clubs to close while others saw their licenses suspended. That had a chilling effect on the local industry, forcing some dancers into illegal and more dangerous sex work, said Devin Ladner, a former Bourbon Street dancer who quit last year and now teaches at Loyola University.

“It is scary to hear that there is another zoning ordinance affecting the strip clubs, because this is exactly what they tried to do last time,” Ladner said.

The remaining clubs have more exclusive standards for dancers, and restricting competition will only further limit their options, Ladner said.

“I know girls that are having issues with the amount of clubs that are on Bourbon Street and the limitations of where they can work at,” Ladner said. “They feel forced into certain environments and have no room to really go outside of it.”

The council’s previous failed attempt at new zoning regulations included a proposal to limit the number of strip clubs per block, and the law enforcement raids were meant to stem human trafficking and crime. That came after this newspaper reported a link between trafficking and some French Quarter clubs, and a 19-year-old dancer, Jasilas Wright, died after she jumped out of a car on Interstate 10 trying to escape someone police said was her pimp.

But a City Planning Commission report in 2018 found no link between the number of clubs and crime incidents, and the raids did not result in any trafficking arrests.

Before 2018, the Bourbon Street strip club ecosystem included a range of establishments that catered to different types of audiences and dancers, and “that variety created opportunity and it literally fed families,” said a veteran Bourbon Street dancer who did not want to be identified because she owns an unrelated business.

She said she had no concerns about trafficking in strip clubs, then or now.

“I feel safer in a nightclub than I do on the street,” she said.

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Ultimately, two former forwards from Nicholls State, three former guards from the University of New Orleans and a former Tulane University forward were charged with bribery, fraud and aiding and abetting.

That a significant share of the compromised games involved Louisiana teams appeared to mostly be the result of Blakeney’s connections here. Louisiana legalized sports gambling in 2021; however, most of the bets on the fixed games were placed by actors in other states, according to the indictment.

“It is fair to say that (Blakeney’s) closer to the center than he is the periphery,” said David Foster, a New York attorney and former deputy general counsel for the National Basketball Players Association. He added that Blakeney’s reputation from his time at LSU likely garnered him “instant credibility” with other college players.

Federal prosecutors have focused on Blakeney’s time playing in China and have not charged him with rigging games while he played for LSU. But they say that for his role in the scheme involving Louisiana players, Blakeney was well compensated in bribes, plus his share of winning bets placed on games that players helped rig.

At one point, according to the indictment, a co-conspirator placed a package inside a storage unit owned by Blakeney in Florida. Its contents? Nearly $200,000 in cash.

Reached by The Times-Picayune on Friday, a lawyer for Blakeney said his client had no comment on the allegations.

The case is another turn in the once-promising career for Blakeney, an Orlando, Florida, native who ESPN ranked as the No. 3 shooting guard in the nation when

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The new requirements are part of a new temporary zoning district that could last up to two years while city planners consider recommendations for permanent action. The council will ultimately decide on any permanent changes.

The measure comes while a

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Norfolk representatives did not return a request for comment.

The city previously allocated money for the expansion in a past bond sale measure, but city officials moved the money toward other priorities, Guidry said. To prevent that from happening again, the City Council this time passed an ordinance that ensures bond proceeds are spent on a list of identified projects that would require approval from the council and the public for any changes.

“We’re excited that design is underway and that voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 2 in November to fund the construction of the Greenway completion,” said Jason Neville, Partnership director.

“While the best time to have built this was in 2015 when the Greenway was originally built, the second best time is now.”

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Watchdogs urge probe of Meta’s financing

BY JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writer

Environmental and consumer groups want Louisiana officials to investigate how a new financing structure for Meta’s $27 billion artificial intelligence data center in the state’s northeast could impact electricity bills for residents.

Meta can leave the data center after only four years, far shorter than the 15-year term approved in August by state regulators, the nonprofits say. The altered financing “significantly increases ratepayer risk,” according to a motion filed Wednesday with the Louisiana Public Service Commission on behalf of two nonprofit groups.

“Meta is acknowledging tacitly, I suppose, that the buildout of this facility is risky,” said Logan Burke, who runs the Louisiana-based Alliance for Affordable Energy.

Entergy, which is building the electricity plants for the data center, disputes the nonprofits’ claims.

The Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities, approved

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The law does not require school systems to pay for Ten Commandments posters, but says they must accept donated displays.

Officials in six Louisiana school districts confirmed that they received the donated posters last year but said they are waiting for a final ruling before distributing them to schools.

However, Mills said he has seen photos of the posters already on display in some public school classrooms.

“Some of them were eager to do it the day (the law) passed,” he said.

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in August the plan to power Meta’s biggest-ever data center, a project that will need roughly three times the amount of electricity annually that New Orleans uses in a year.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has separately spoken of further expanding the data center to a size that would rival the footprint of Manhattan, though some analysts have expressed doubt over whether that is possible.

The controversial approval cleared the way for Entergy, the state’s largest utility, to begin constructing three gas-fired electricity plants and other infrastructure worth billions of dollars. Advocates and academics have also raised concerns over the environmental risks of the new fossil fuelpowered gas plants and the water demands of the facility.

On the day Louisiana regulators approved Meta’s power plan, the tech company “fundamentally altered” the financial setup of the Richland Parish data center, the nonprofits allege.

Under the complex financial model, Meta teamed up with a top

private equity firm in a deal that helps the tech company offset financial risk and guarantees a profit for the private equity company, according to The Wall Street Journal. The restructuring essentially gives the private equity company majority ownership of the data center and makes Meta a tenant, able to exit the lease every four years for up to 20 years.

The term is a fraction of the 15year contract that the Louisiana regulators approved, though that length also worried opponents.

The three gas plants that Entergy is building have a life span of up to 40 years, the nonprofits argued over a monthslong approval process, potentially leaving ratepayers on the hook for some costs of the new infrastructure if the tech company leaves.

The nonprofit groups want the commission to investigate whether Meta or Entergy misled the state regulators, determine the effect of the new financial structure on ratepayers and review the timing of the financial rearrangement.

A spokesperson for Meta could

not be reached for comment.

Brandon Scardigli, a spokesperson for Entergy, said the company strongly disagrees with the allegation that changes to the data center financing puts Entergy or its customers at risk.

“That is simply false,” Scardigli said.

The deal between Meta and Entergy is supported and backstopped by robust credit protections, Scardigli said, including a guarantee from the tech company that remains “in full force” regardless of changes to project financing. The company also maintains that the “suggestion that Entergy Louisiana somehow misled the commission is utterly without merit and false.”

Entergy has previously stressed that the tech company will cover all costs for the new plants throughout the 15-year deal, though all customers will pay for other related infrastructure costs.

The plants will be able to serve everyone if Meta leaves after the 15-year deal as the utility retires older, less-efficient plants.

Part of the nonprofits’ concern is related to the creation of a new entity majority-owned by the private equity firm, Blue Owl, and partly owned by Meta. That new entity will now serve as the parent company of the subsidiary that entered into the electricity deal with Entergy. Meta itself had previously been the parent company of the subsidiary, which is called Laidley.

“There is no longer an enforceable parent guaranty since Meta is no longer the parent,” the nonprofits’ motion states.

Public Service Commissioner Foster Campbell, whose district includes Richland Parish, said his staff is looking into the request.

“We’re concerned about it, but we feel good that we have a financial backer in Entergy,” Campbell said.

Commissioner Davante Lewis, the sole regulator to vote against the original plan, said he’s been deeply concerned “since day one” over transparency issues impacting both the public and the state regulators. He said he planned to review the motion “and ensure that it has a public discussion.”

verify that some posters already have gone up.

For now, thousands of donated posters are stacked in school district offices across the state.

They feature four different layouts designed by Murrill’s office, which can be downloaded from her website. One is titled “The House of Representatives and the Lawgivers” and features Johnson’s photo and an image of Moses next to the Ten Commandments, while another cites relevant Supreme Court cases.

School districts also received a copy of legal guidance that Murrill issued in January 2025 saying her office would defend in court any school that is sued for displaying the posters.

In a statement Friday, Murrill said her office was not involved in sending schools the posters, which she noted were donated by private groups. She also argued that the law is constitutional — despite two court rulings saying otherwise.

“If schools want to post them, they can,” she said.

A multifaith group of parents with children in Louisiana public

schools filed a lawsuit in June 2024, just days after Gov. Jeff Landry signed the Ten Commandments law, arguing that it violated their families’ religious freedom. Last year, the three-judge panel on the 5th Circuit upheld a lower court’s ruling that barred the state from enforcing the law, which the panel called “plainly unconstitutional.”

Proponents say the Ten Commandments have historical and educational value. Murrill’s team also argued the lawsuit was premature, writing in a November court filing that the plaintiffs are challenging Ten Commandments displays “that do not exist and whose contents and contexts have not been determined.”

But now thousands of posters do exist and have been delivered to most school systems — including Vernon Parish Schools, which is named in the lawsuit. A Louisiana Family Forum document shows that the posters have not been sent to the other school systems where the plaintiffs’ children attend public school — East Baton Rouge, Livingston, Orleans and St. Tammany — or

to public colleges and universities.

Murrill has argued that only the five named districts are barred from the enforcing the law. But the ACLU of Louisiana and other legal groups have warned that other schools could be sued if they enact the law, which the groups say violates students’ First Amendment right to religious freedom.

“Public-school officials are legally required to protect and uphold the constitutional rights of students and families,” the groups wrote in a December 2024 letter to school superintendents.

In Texas, which passed a similar Ten Commandments law last year, public schools also have received posters donated by conservative groups — including one tied to right-wing political commentator Glenn Beck, according to Houston Public Media. Parents in that state sued to block the law, and in November a federal judge ordered several school districts to remove the displays.

Beck has promoted a joint effort

by Christian churches and conservative advocacy groups to raise

money for Ten Commandments posters for schools in Texas and Arkansas, which passed its own law last year.

A website for the campaign, called “Restore American Schools,” says posters have been donated to about 4,600 schools in those two states.

One group participating in that effort is Patriot Mobile, which describes itself as “America’s only Christian conservative wireless provider.” The cellphone carrier also contributed to the Louisiana Family Forum’s fundraising drive to send posters to Louisiana schools, according to Mills and a news release.

First Liberty Institute, a legal advocacy group that supports Louisiana’s law, also joined the campaign.

Matt Krause, an attorney at First Liberty, said groups like his wanted to ensure that Louisiana’s law is put into action.

“We have the ability to put the Ten Commandments up, which is great,” he said, “but if nobody actually does it, then it doesn’t do us much good.”

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Florida experiences its coldest weather this winter

BY MIKE SCHNEIDER Associated Press

ORLANDO, Fla. — Tourists bundled up, warming shelters for the homeless opened and growers sprayed crops with water to create protective ice for their plants Friday as sunny Florida shivered through the coldest weather that parts of the state have experienced in more than three years.

The 19-degree temperature overnight at Tallahassee International Airport stopped short of the record 16 almost a century ago, according to Mark Wool, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Tallahas-

Florida-like weather predicted for the weekend with the National Weather Service putting the chances for snow in the Panhandle early Sunday at between 20% and 30%.

The snow was predicted to be less than an inch in the western Panhandle but not expected to impact travel because of a short duration and an expected quick rise in temperatures afterward, Wool said. That would make ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By CHRIS O’MEARA it a far cry from the 5 inches A protective coating of ice clings to ornamental plants in sub- of snow that fell on Pensacola almost exactly a year ago. freezing temperatures at a business Friday in Plant City, Fla. “The reasonably worstweather this time of the case scenario is an inch see. since the window is only two “It’s cold, but it’s not all year,” Wool said Friday.

There was even more un- or three hours,” Wool said of that unusual to have cold

Sunday’s forecast. “But all of that will melt away when it warms up.”

Temperatures on Saturday were expected to warm up to more Sunshine Statelike weather before dipping again Sunday and Monday.

The thermometer was expected to be a cool-for-Miami mid-50s during Monday night’s college football championship game between Indiana and Miami at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens.

The central part of Florida on Friday experienced some of the coldest weather it has seen in more than three years as lows dipped to the mid-20s, according to the National Weather Service.

In Orlando, water parks such as Typhoon Lagoon at Walt Disney World were closed Friday. The water park also planned to be closed at the beginning of next week because of the predicted frigid weather, Disney said in an email.

In Plant City, which bills itself as the winter strawberry capital of the world, growers used sprinklers to spray strawberry plants and ornamental plants with water that formed a protective ice as the overnight temperature went as low as 28.

The ice kept the plants’ temperatures from going below freezing. Plant City is about 20 miles east of Tampa.

DOJ investigating whether Walz, Frey impeded immigration actions

BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, ERIC TUCKER and JACK BROOK Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — The Justice Department is investigating whether Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey have impeded federal immigration enforcement through public statements they have made, two people familiar with the matter said Friday.

The investigation focused on potential violation of a conspiracy statute, the people said.

The people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss a pending investigation by name.

CBS News first reported the investigation.

The investigation comes during a weekslong immigration crackdown in Minneapolis and St. Paul that the Department of Homeland Security has called its largest recent immigration enforcement operation, resulting in more than 2,500 arrests.

The operation has become more confrontational since the fatal shooting of Renee Good on Jan. 7, with agents pulling people from cars and homes and frequently being confronted by angry bystanders demanding they leave. State and local officials have repeatedly told protesters to remain peaceful.

In response to reports of the investigation, Walz said in a statement: “Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell.

Before that, Mark Kelly.

Weaponizing the justice system and threatening political opponents is a dangerous, authoritarian tactic.”

U.S. senators Kelly, from Arizona, and Slotkin, from Michigan, are under investigation from the President Donald Trump administration after appearing with other Democratic lawmakers in a video urging members of the military to resist “illegal orders.” The administration has also launched a criminal investigation of Powell, a first for a sitting Federal Reserve chair.

Walz’s office said it has not received any notice of an in-

vestigation.

Frey described the investigation as an attempt to intimidate him for “standing up for Minneapolis, our local law enforcement, and our residents against the chaos and danger this Administration has brought to our streets.”

In a post on the social media platform X following reports of the investigation, Attorney General Pam Bondi said: “A reminder to all those in Minnesota: No one is above the law.” She did not specifically mention the investigation.

Plea for peaceful protests State authorities, meanwhile, had a message for any weekend protests against the Trump administration’s immigration sweep in the Twin Cities: avoid confrontation.

“While peaceful expression is protected, any actions that harm people, destroy property or jeopardize public safety will not be tolerated,” said Commissioner Bob Jacobson of the Minnesota Department of Public Safety.

His comments came after

cers are violating the constitutional rights of Twin Cities residents.

911 call logs on shooting

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ADAM GRAy

Federal immigration officers confront protesters Thursday at Bishop Henry Whipple Federal Building in Minneapolis.

Trump backed off a bit from his threat a day earlier to invoke an 1807 law, the Insurrection Act, to send troops to suppress demonstrations.

“I don’t think there’s any reason right now to use it, but if I needed it, I’d use it,” Trump told reporters outside the White House.

including people observing the agents, a U.S. judge in Minnesota ruled Friday.

U.S. District Judge Kate Menendez ruled in the case filed in December on behalf of six Minnesota activists, which were represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota.

Government attorneys arJudge rules on lawsuit gued that the officers have Federal officers in the been acting within their leMinneapolis-area partici- gal authority to enforce impating in the enforcement migration laws and protect operation can’t detain or themselves. But the ACLU tear gas peaceful protesters, has said government offi-

Minneapolis authorities released police and fire dispatch logs and transcripts of 911 calls, all related to the fatal shooting of Good.

Firefighters found what appeared to be two gunshot wounds in her right chest, one in her left forearm and a possible gunshot wound on the left side of her head, records show.

“They shot her, like, cause she wouldn’t open her car door,” a caller said. “Point blank range in her car.”

Good, 37, was at the wheel of her Honda Pilot, which was partially blocking a street. Video showed an officer approached the SUV, demanded that she open the door and grabbed the handle.

Good began to pull forward and turned the vehicle’s wheel to the right. Another ICE officer, Jonathan Ross, pulled his gun and fired at close range, jumping back as the SUV moved past him. DHS claims the agent shot Good in self-defense.

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N.O. attorney named to ICE leadership Veteran official Charles Wall set for deputy director post

BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

An attorney from New Orleans was named deputy director of federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement, deepening Louisiana’s ties to the agency President Donald Trump’s administration is using to drive its deportation agenda.

The veteran ICE official, Charles

Wall, previously worked as the agency’s principal legal adviser, a role in which he oversaw attorneys representing the federal government across the nation in immigration removal proceedings.

Wall attended Jesuit High School, received an undergraduate degree from the University of New Orleans and studied law at Loyola University.

U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced his appointment as ICE deputy director on Thursday, calling Wall a “forward leaning, strategic thinker” in a news release that said he has helped in “arresting and removing the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens from American neighborhoods.”

Wall replaces former ICE

ready substantial roster of officials with Louisiana ties serving atop ICE at a time when the agency is in the national spotlight, as the Trump administration uses it as the fulcrum of its effort to aggressively ramp up deportations.

Besides Sheahan’s stint as deputy Wall director, Melissa Harper, the longtime head of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations for the New secretary.

Sheahan is leaving ICE to run for Orleans Field Office, was promoted Congress in her native Ohio. ä See WALL, page 2B Wall’s promotion adds to an alDeputy Director Madison Sheahan, a South Dakota politico and Noem ally who previously served as Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

FAST AND FUR-IOUS

STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

On a beautiful Friday afternoon, a dog rides along with the top down while cruising down River Road in the back of a convertible in Jefferson Parish.

Alleged copper thieves arrested in St. Bernard Authorities seek two additional theft suspects

BY CHAD CALDER Staff writer

Investigators in St. Bernard Parish have arrested three people and are searching for two more suspects wanted in connection with stealing copper wiring from internet and cell service providers across the parish.

The thefts haven’t led to any service interruptions that they know of, but the crooks have caused companies thousands of dollars’ worth of damage, said officials with the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Gregory Bondi, 29, Luis Sloan, 25, and Zoe Zanca, 24, all of Chalmette, were each booked with eight counts of felony theft, Sheriff James Pohlmann said in a news release Thursday.

Zanca also was booked on

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Inspector general reviews banner removal decision Cantrell administration hired contractor amid budget woes

He’ll spend 50 years in prison

BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer

With the city of New Orleans short on cash, Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration in December hired a contractor for $5,400 to remove and later reinstall Mayor Helena Moreno’s inauguration banners at Gallier Hall.

Cantrell At Cantrell’s direction, city officials sought out a quote from Uptown Graphics to remove the banners on Dec. 17 and reinstall Moreno them ahead of Moreno’s Jan. 12 inauguration, according to emails obtained by The TimesPicayune. The company told them it would cost $6,500.

The city ultimately reached a

Slidell man pleads guilty in 2-year-old’s drug death

BY BOB WARREN Staff writer

In a Dec. 1 email provided by Moreno’s inauguration committee, the city’s Property Management director, Howard “Trey” Nobles III, told producers at the Solomon Group that he had no objection to keeping the banners up through Mardi Gras.

On Dec. 17, however, a crane rolled up and a crew of workers took them down.

After their removal, Cantrell’s spokesperson, Terry Davis, released a statement noting that Gallier Hall hosts a “full

A Slidell man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the drug-related death of his 2-yearold niece and will spend 50 years in prison, authorities said.

Judge John Keller of the 22nd Judicial District Court handed down the 50-year sentence Thursday following Christopher Mikhail Baker’s guilty plea in the death of his niece, Ryah Young, 2, whose body tested positive for cocaine and fentanyl. Baker also pleaded guilty to charges of second-degree cruelty to juveniles, possession of fentanyl and cocaine and illegally carrying a weapon while in possession of a controlled dangerous substance, northshore District Attorney Collin Sims said in a news release.

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STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER

The last Moreno banner is removed from Gallier Hall in New Orleans on Dec. 17, 2025. verbal agreement with the company to do the work for $5,400, according to a source familiar with the situation.

Moreno’s inauguration committee hung the five massive banners — which touted the need to be “all in” for New Orleans — outside Gallier Hall on Dec. 8 ahead of a news conference announcing the schedule of events leading up to the inauguration. The committee paid for the banners and their installation with private donations.

At first, city officials had no problem with keeping them up.

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Hormone therapy ban lawsuit continues

too many material facts in face a minimum two-year suspen- out-of-pocket to get the kind of care cited last year’s ruling in Skrmetti Case set for trial after were question to toss the Baton Rouge sion if they are caught treating un- that medical professionals all agree and told Judge Johnson that SCOis safe, effective and necessary for TUS justices admonished lower out and denied the state’s mo- derage transgender individuals. two years of litigation case The law also gives people up to these young people,” Nicholas Hite courts to mind the Skrmetti decition for a summary judgment after

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

A lawsuit intent on gutting a statewide ban on hormone therapy and operations for transgender children in Louisiana is poised to proceed to trial soon after two years of litigation.

An East Baton Rouge judge dismissed a bid by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office to get the challenge to Louisiana’s law tossed out of court. Attorney General’s Office attorneys relied on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last June that upheld a Tennessee ban on trans youth treatments.

In that case, known as U.S. v.

Skrmetti, SCOTUS judges determined the Volunteer State’s restrictions on sex-transition therapy for minors addressed a legitimate public health concern, didn’t discriminate against transgender youth and the law wasn’t based on sex.

But 19th Judicial District Judge Ron Johnson said the equal rights protections in Louisiana’s Constitution are broader than the U.S. Constitution’s protections at play in Tennessee. He determined there

listening to about an hour’s worth of arguments from attorneys on both sides.

“The state’s reliance upon Skrmetti … is misplaced,” Johnson said. “The court is not of the opinion that Skrmetti resolves all of the issues associated with the claims that are asserted under the Louisiana Constitution.”

At issue is a bill state lawmakers passed into law in July 2023: The House and Senate overrode thenGov. John Bel Edwards’ veto to enact the Stop Harming Our Kids Act, which banned all gender-affirming medical treatments for transgender people younger than 18. The restrictions went into effect Jan. 1, 2024, and apply only to trans youth, many of who grapple with gender dysphoria.

Doctors can no longer perform voice surgery, do facial reconstruction, insert implants or do any other trans-related procedures on minors.

Medical professionals are also prohibited from prescribing synthetic drugs, hormone analogues or puberty blockers to minors. Doctors who don’t follow the mandates

the age of 30 to file malpractice lawsuits against doctors who perform sterilizing sex-change surgeries — such as castration, hysterectomy, penectomy or vasectomy — on them when they are underage.

It is not clear if the state intends to appeal Thursday’s ruling, but Attorney General Liz Murrill defended lawmakers’ stance.

“My job is to enforce Murrill Louisiana law and protect children from mutilation,” she said in a statement. “Members of the State Legislature and I fully agree that these dangerous, irreversible medical procedures are barbaric and should never be performed on children. This is common sense, which is why we are vigorously defending the law in court.”

Five transgender youth sued the state in January 2024, just days after the law became enforceable in Louisiana. They allege it impacts hundreds of transgender youths across the state.

“Entire families, now because of this ban, are forced to travel out of state and pay exorbitant amounts

said outside the courthouse Thursday.

Hite is part of the legal team that is led by Lambda Legal, a New York City law firm that is the nation’s oldest and largest legal advocacy group for LGBTQ and HIV/AIDS communities.

The plaintiffs are vying for an injunction that would stop the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners from levying suspensions on health care professionals, essentially taking the teeth out of the law.

“What the judge decided today is that the case is not open and closed,” he said. “The stories of our plaintiffs, the testimony of our experts, the record from the Legislature are all really important and need to be heard. So what the judge decided today is that he wants to hear from those experts. He wants to hear from our plaintiffs and he wants to hear the legislative record to decide whether this law is actually appropriate or not.”

In arguing for the case to be dismissed Thursday, Hunter Farrar

Former clerk charged with school theft Investigation reveals unauthorized purchases made

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

A former accounts clerk at Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Academy has been charged with theft, more than a year after she was arrested and accused of using the school’s credit accounts to fund vacations and pay for thousands of dollars in personal purchases, according to authorities.

The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s Office on Thursday formally filed a charge of theft valued over $25,000 against Nicole Bergeron, 51, of Kenner, according to Jefferson Parish court records.

Bergeron’s attorney could not be immediately be reached for comment Friday afternoon.

Bergeron was arrested in August 2024 following an internal inves-

tigation by school officials and a criminal investigation by the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Officials at the school in Avondale alerted the Sheriff’s Office in May 2024 to the suspected thefts.

They told investigators they became suspicious a few months earlier and began looking over the school’s finances. They realized that Bergeron’s name was on some of the school’s credit accounts, and only she could access them, authorities said.

While reviewing the accounts, they uncovered thousands of dollars in unauthorized purchases allegedly made by Bergeron. For instance, in 2021, she is accused of using the school’s Sam’s Club account to buy $4,168 worth of Disney gift cards, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

In 2023, she allegedly used the school Sam’s Club account to buy $1,400 in Carnival Cruise gift cards. Bergeron went on a cruise on Carnival in February 2024, according to authorities.

School officials determined about $16,500 worth of unauthorized purchases had been made on the Sam’s Club card, including alcohol, medication, toys and groceries, authorities said.

When sent to Rouses Supermarket with the school’s checkbook and a detailed list of food to buy for Patrick Taylor’s homecoming and Thanksgiving dances in 2023, school officials alleged that Bergeron tacked on an additional $100-$200 worth of purchases, according to authorities.

Sheriff’s Office investigators planned to check the school’s Amazon and Lowe’s Home Improvement credit accounts for any unauthorized spending, according to a Sheriff’s Office incident report from 2024.

Information was not immediately available Friday about the total amount that authorities allege Bergeron spent with the school’s accounts between 2019 and 2024.

After her arrest on Aug. 14, 2024, Bergeron was released from jail

the same day on a $10,000 bond, according to court records.

The theft was mentioned in the Jefferson Parish School Board’s annual financial report for the 2024 fiscal year.

Jefferson Parish Public Schools released the following statement shortly after the audit was made public in February 2025: “A financial concern was identified at the school level. In accordance with district policy, the matter was immediately forwarded to the district’s Finance Department, which launched an internal investigation. The investigation revealed sufficient evidence to conclude that an employee had engaged in fraudulent activity, whereupon, the district’s findings were reported to the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, law enforcement and the district’s external auditor. The employee is no longer employed by the district.”

Bergeron is scheduled to be arraigned March 6, according to court records.

Avondale woman charged with boyfriend’s murder

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

Kenner police allege Hicks stabbed Dyas once in the chest in the backyard of a rented home in A Jefferson Parish grand jury the 400 block of Holy Cross Place handed up an indictment charging just before 7:30 a.m. on Sept. 29, an Avondale woman with the mur- 2025. He was pronounced dead at der of her boyfriend at the Kenner the scene.

The couple, who share a child, Airbnb they had booked for her paid to stay at the residence and birthday.

Akailah Hicks, 19, pleaded not threw a birthday party for Hicks guilty Friday to second-degree the night before, authorities said.

Hicks told investigators Dyas murder and obstruction of justice in the death of 21-year-old Keenan left the unit at some point earlier Dyas, according to Jefferson Par- in the morning. When he returned and knocked on the door, Hicks ish court records.

Staff writer

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Continued from page 1B a previous outstanding warrant from the New Orleans Police Department for possession of a stolen vehicle.

Arrest warrants have been issued for Logan Neumeyer, 25, of Arabi, and Keith McKinnis, 32, of Violet.

The Sheriff’s Office didn’t identify the cell and internet compa-

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Continued from page 1B St. Tammany sheriff’s deputies responded to a Slidell area residence on Jan. 7, 2024, after receiving a 911 call about an unresponsive child. Baker had been babysitting his niece and 1-year-old nephew.

Baker told investigators he found the toddler unresponsive shortly before 2 p.m., yet emergency response agencies were not alerted until 2:19 p.m., the District Attorney’s Office’s office said. Ryah Young was pronounced dead at the hospital and a toxicology report lat-

said she opened it and discovered that he’d been stabbed, according to Kenner police.

The evidence, however, didn’t support her version of events, according to investigators. Dyas’ fatal stab wasn’t survivable for more than a minute, Kenner Police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick said shortly after Hicks was arrested.

“He would have to have been stabbed right there. There was no blood located anywhere else, not in his vehicle, not out front,” McCormick said. The only blood was

located within the backyard.

Hicks is charged with obstruction because authorities allege she took the knife used to stab Dyas and washed his blood from the weapon to hinder the investigation, according to court records.

After the indictment, the court raised Hicks’ bail to $1 million. She was being held Friday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.

nies targeted by the suspects. But detectives had been investigating complaints of copper thefts for the past several months, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Authorities identified the suspects using video surveillance, the Sheriff’s Office said.

St. Bernard is not alone. In Jefferson Parish, officials said there are currently about 300 streetlights that are inoperable due to copper theft along several major roadways. The cost of repair and replacement is estimated at $1.5

million.

And in St. John the Baptist Parish, the Sheriff’s Office in December arrested three men accused of stealing $75,000 worth of copper from a plant, authorities said. The department said theft of copper wiring belonging to AT&T impacted service for some customers last year.

Copper theft is surging nationally because of rising prices for the metal. Those prices are driven by high demand from other countries that are upgrading electrical and

technology infrastructure. Tariffs and trade policies have also contributed to copper’s rising price tag, experts said.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Neumeyer or McKinnis, or with information about these or similar thefts, is asked to call the Sheriff’s Office at (504) 271-2501, the Criminal Investigations Bureau’s tip hotline, (504) 271-TIPS or 8477, or Crimestoppers GNO at (504) 822-1111.

Staff writer Michelle Hunter contributed to this report.

er confirmed the cause of death as drug toxicity after she tested positive for fentanyl and cocaine.

A medical examination of the 1-year-old nephew revealed he, too, tested positive for cocaine and was also suffering from a liver contusion, eye contusion and internal injuries, the District Attorney’s Office’s office said. A search of the home uncovered baggies and straws containing fentanyl and cocaine residue, along with a .45 caliber gun.

At the time of Baker’s arrest, the Sheriff’s Office had said the drugs contributed to the child’s death.

In recorded jail calls, Baker referred to it as a “freak accident,”

and suggested the children had “ate one,” the District Attorney’s Office’s office said.

Prior to sentencing, the victims’ mother addressed the court and Baker.

“My children loved you, Chris ... they loved their Uncle Juice,” she said, adding Baker “took my daughter and almost took my son. He has a son. At least he has a son to talk to.”

Keller asked Baker if he wanted to make a statement in court to the victims’ family. He declined, the District Attorney’s Office’s office said.

“The death of a child is an unimaginable tragedy, made even more heinous by the fact that it was

entirely preventable,” Sims said in a statement. “Fentanyl is a poison that continues to devastate families in our community. This defendant’s choice to keep lethal narcotics within reach of helpless children is a level of negligence that demands the highest level of accountability.”

“While no sentence can bring Ryah back, today’s 50-year term ensures that Mr. Baker is held fully responsible for the life he took and the child he endangered,” Sims added.

Assistant District Attorneys Iain Dover and Christina Fisher handled the prosecution. Sims noted that Detective Winston Harbin of the St. Tammany Sheriff’s Office was instrumental in building the case.

sion when deciding how to handle challenges to state laws restricting sex-transitions for youth “These statutes were recently enacted by the Louisiana Legislature to achieve a legitimate, compelling state purpose, which is the protection of minors from irrevocable harm,” he argued. “The Louisiana government needs to protect minors. It has an interest in doing so and these laws are narrowly tailored to achieve that.”

But the plaintiffs argued the law amounts to “broad government overreach” and deprives parents of their right to decide their children’s medical care. “(Judge Johnson) made it very clear that the federal ruling from Skrmetti doesn’t determine what happens here,” Hite said after Thursday’s hearing. “This is a case in Louisiana, under Louisiana’s laws, and it needs to be determined

by Louisiana courts.”

The judge set a Feb. 10 hearing where the attorneys are expected to agree on a trial date.

Email Matt Bruce at matt. bruce@theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B in May of last year to a position with Enforcement and Removal Operations in the Washington, D.C., headquarters, according to a news release.

Harper was later tapped to lead the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement, ProPublica reported.

Two Republican Louisiana congressmen — U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise, of Jefferson, and House Speaker Mike Johnson, of Benton — also hold senior legislative branch positions in which they shepherded a massive DHS funding increase as part of Trump’s signature federal funding package.

Wall enters ICE’s second-ranking leadership slot as the agency faces intense scrutiny over an agent’s fatal shooting last week of a Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen, Renee Good. The agency is seeking to grow its ranks and detention capacity with the recent surge of funding.

Wall will help oversee an agency whose operations often flow through Louisiana. There were more than 7,000 people in the agency’s custody in Louisiana late last year, according to data compiled by researchers at Syracuse University. Only Texas has more people in ICE custody.

An ICE spokesperson did not respond to a request to make Wall available for an interview.

Wall previously supervised undercover teams in Louisiana probing worksite enforcement violations, according to an official biography. He often worked with Homeland Security Investigations, DHS’ criminal investigative arm, and prosecuted removal cases with national security implications.

Wall was a prosecutor with the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office from 2009 to 2012.

Email James Finn at jfinn@ theadvocate.com.

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Runners flock to BR for Louisiana Marathon Race may set participant record

BY IANNE SALVOSA

Staff writer

On its 15th anniversary, the Louisiana Marathon is racing toward its largest event yet.

The annual marathon held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day weekend draws visitors from around the globe to Baton Rouge to compete and celebrate south Louisiana culture. This year’s race weekend on Saturday and Sunday will include runners from all 50 states and 15 countries, and Visit Baton Rouge estimates the event to have a $5 million economic impact on the city.

“Knowing that the event is putting heads in beds, putting people in restaurants in downtown Baton Rouge in a time that would normally be a very slow time, because it’s not football season, it gives me a lot of excitement,” said Mike Wattigny, marketing director of FreshJunkie Racing, which produces the marathon.

The high economic impact is driven by a spike in the number of runners participating in the event, which has a full marathon, half marathon, quarter marathon, 5K and a 1-mile kid’s marathon. Wattigny projects 9,500-9,700 runners will be at the starting lines, close to this year’s goal of 10,000 runners.

As of Wednesday afternoon, 8,973 runners are registered for the event, and participants can sign up until race weekend if spots are still available. Current registration for the race surpasses last year’s numbers of about 6,900 participants and is nearing the marathon’s all-time high of 8,648 runners in 2018.

This year’s nearly $5 million economic impact estimate exceeds that of past marathons, which raked in $1.6 million-$3.5 million from each marathon in the past few years. It is more than the economic impact of the Spanish Town Mardi Gras parade, which directly brings an

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Runners go down North Fourth Street during the start of the Louisiana Marathon in Baton Rouge on Jan. 19, 2025. estimated $2.1 million to the city, Cating said.

Baton Rouge’s mild January weather, the unique south Louisiana culture and the quality of race organizing attract both runners and their supporters from outside the Pelican State, said Laura Cating, senior vice president of marketing and communications for Visit Baton Rouge.

“It has really become a desirable destination for runners. We knock it out of the park each year and hopefully can do that again this year,” Cating said.

About 60% of runners hail from out of state, according to Wattigny.

Visit Baton Rouge works with FreshJunkie Racing as a sponsor of the event and helps compute its estimated economic impact from attendees’ spending on hotels, food and shopping and FreshJunkie’s expenses on race setup in Baton Rouge.

Lodging is the largest driver for the event’s economic impact, with most runners spending multiple

nights in Baton Rouge with family and friends. Many downtown hotels including the Hilton Baton Rouge Capitol Center, Courtyard Marriott Downtown and Hampton Inn & Suites are fully booked for Saturday and Sunday.

Searches for Airbnb listings in Baton Rouge on the marathon weekend have increased by double digits compared with searches for other January weekends, according to the company. The short-term rental company said most people booking Airbnbs for the marathon weekend are from out of state, particularly travelers from Houston, St. Louis and Richmond, Virginia.

Bookings for last year’s marathon were up 13% from 2024.

For last year’s marathon, overall hotel occupancy was about 56%, which Cating said is much higher than a typical January weekend in Baton Rouge. This period is referred to as a “shoulder season,” when football season is over and Mardi Gras celebrations are not yet in full swing, so tourism is low.

“Any events that we can have in this season where it is a lighter visitation point, it’s of significant benefit to all of our local businesses,” Cating said.

The event has big appeal for serious runners: The full marathon is a qualifier for the Boston Marathon and has a relatively flat course, making it easier for runners to achieve a personal best time.

Over the past 15 years, FreshJunkie has refurbished its marketing approach, incorporating social media and TV news partners to promote the marathon. Three years ago, the company widened its social media presence with a network of ambassadors, microinfluencers equipped with coupon codes to encourage their followers to register for the race.

Wattigny attributes the rise in registration in part to the rising popularity of run clubs, which have encouraged people to get involved in the sport, as the groups have become more social, with runners grabbing a bite or drink after their runs.

Last-minute sign-ups dissipated during the pandemic, but have since reemerged, he said.

“It is as strong as it has ever been in the industry,” Wattigny said of the growing participation.

The Louisiana Marathon is not the only FreshJunkie race that is growing. Its sister race, the Mississippi Gulf Coast Marathon, hit its 10th anniversary in December and surpassed its goal of 5,000 runners.

FreshJunkie also works with charity partners like Ainsley’s Angels, an organization that provides pink wheelchairs specially designed for runners to push individuals with disabilities in during the race so they can experience competing in a marathon. FreshJunkie races garner $15,000 to $20,000 in donations for the organization each year, enough to purchase three to four wheelchairs.

Donations for Ainsley’s Angels through the Louisiana Marathon

are open and have already raked in about $5,000, up from $2,800 last year.

“It’s nice to know that we’re making an economic impact in the community, we’re making an impact on people’s lives, health wise, and we’re making an impact through donations and fundraising for our charity partners,” Wattigny said.

Promoting Baton Rouge The full marathon course starts near the State Capitol, cruises past the Old State Capitol and heads toward the LSU campus, passing through the Garden District. Runners race around the LSU Lakes and continue the course through Mid City South, where it loops and directs runners back toward the finish line downtown.

Whitney Hoffman Sayal, executive director of the Downtown Development District, said the marathon can help drive Baton Rouge tourism. Most of the course’s path through downtown and Mid City has a grid pattern, making the route very navigable, she said.

“The environment that we’ve created here, in addition to the historic assets that we have that make us who we are, is what gets this event to continue to grow,” she said.

Last year’s marathon weekend drew 115,000 total visitors downtown, according to figures from Placer AI, software deployed by the DDD that uses cellphone data to measure downtown activity.

The race culminates in a celebration at the end in the Visit Baton Rouge Finish Festival, an event open to runners and the public featuring local food and music. In honor of the race’s 15th anniversary, runners will receive a slice of king cake when they cross the finish line, giving them a taste of the upcoming Mardi Gras celebrations.

“People from everywhere, no matter what the climate is, can experience and can appreciate our south Louisiana culture,” Cating said.

Acadiana Renaissance Faire adds touch of La. heritage Mascot Beausoleil is both alligator and dragon

BY JOANNA BROWN Staff writer

If you’re looking for a Renaissance fair with Cajun and Creole sensibilities, look no further than Ville Platte.

Actually, stop at a 100-acre field near Ville Platte, in the village of Chataignier in Evangeline Parish. This site, an imagined crossroads of 17th- and 18th- century Acadiana where French, Spanish, Acadian, Creole and Indigenous people roamed, is home to the Acadiana Renaissance Faire — a place where culture and imagination collide.

Philip Frey, an interpretive ranger at the Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site in St. Martinville, helped found the event in 2022. Knowing that no “ren faire”

bunch of nerds pulling together in the same direction,” said Frey.

The Renaissance Faire is small compared to Hammond’s Louisiana Renaissance Festival, which maintains the classic ren faire focus on life in a 16th-century English village. The Acadiana festival has more local flair, according to Frey — including a mascot named Beausoleil, who is both alligator and dragon.

Organizers have started building out infrastructure at the site, and they are now seeing around 200 people a day during the 5-weekend run, according to Frey, who said, “We want to maintain a community, grassroots-driven feel.”

“Most of us have been to the bigFILE PHOTO By ROBIN MAy gest ren faires. Texas is an aweUnder the Black, a pirate band from Broussard and Lafayette, sing to some experience. But it’s better pirate patrons at the Acadiana Renaissance Faire outside of Chataignier sometimes at the smaller ones — on Jan. 13, 2024. the characters have time to interact with you; the event feels more is complete without a pirate troupe own pirate band called “Under the personal.”

Food at this faire is mostly — and that pirates are historically Black” to help launch the festival. accurate for that period of Loui“It’s a lot of fun. There’s some- drawn from Cajun and Creole ofsiana’s history — he created his thing so heartwarming about a ferings, with the requisite turkey

leg on offer, and a creation called the “Beausoleil egg” that is a Cajun Scotch egg wrapped in boudin, then battered and fried.

The Acadiana Renaissance Faire opened this year on Jan. 10, and will continue from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays until Feb. 8. Upcoming themed weekends include a Celtic heritage celebration on Jan. 31 and Feb. 1, and the final weekend will feature a Mardi Gras party. General admission tickets are $13 for adults and $7 for ages 6 to 12, and kids 5 and under are free.

“We’re different from other faires. For one, some of the best food I’ve ever had at a ren fest is at this one,” said Frey. “Every ren fest starts with tents and a field.

Locals will come by since they remember this place as an old fish pond and come in to check it out.

It’s been really fun to surprise people with this.”

would cost the city money.

“Given the City’s precarious financial state, why would we do that?” he wrote.

Greg Bensel, spokesperson for the Saints and Pelicans, said Benson was not involved in the logistics of the Gallier Hall event. The Solomon Group directed questions to Moreno’s inauguration committee.

media accounts. The Moreno administration said some passwords were incorrect and phones needed to authenticate others were difficult to locate.

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Continued from page 1B calendar of events,” which “may or may not” require their own exterior signage. He wouldn’t say which events, if any, were on the calendar.

Cantrell’s administration hired contractors to remove the banners as New Orleans was grappling with a budget crisis that has required steep cuts to spending.

The move has sparked the interest of the Inspector General’s Office, which on Dec. 18 asked Cantrell’s administration for “a complete list of events” scheduled at Gallier Hall between Dec. 16 and Jan. 12.

In a statement, Inspector General Ed Michel declined to comment on the request but said his office is focused on identifying and mitigating financial waste.

Cantrell hosted her official portrait unveiling at Gallier Hall on Dec. 18.

‘Disrespect is why’ Cantrell first voiced her dissatisfaction with the banners in a Dec. 11 email to then-Chief Administrative Officer Joe Threat. She wrote that she did not approve of them at Gallier Hall prior to Jan. 12.

The next day, Noble told Cantrell via email that it was his understanding the banners would come

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A pedestrian walks past Moreno banners on the front of Gallier Hall in New Orleans. down after the news conference, but that Gary Solomon, CEO of the Solomon Group, called him to say that Moreno, council members and Moreno’s inauguration committee chair, Gayle Benson, wanted the banners to stay up.

“I didn’t get a call. Why is this allowed to be a problem?” Cantrell wrote after Threat forwarded her the message.

Threat said he was surprised he didn’t receive any notification from Moreno or her incoming Chief Administrative Officer Joe Giarrusso.

“I don’t know why Ms. Benson is

not calling you and why Gary Solomon is going directly to Trey on this issue,” he added.

“Disrespect is why,” Cantrell responded. “I don’t know what Benson has to do with anything. … I did not have a problem using them, but need them down after her show.

Period.”

The next day, Threat relayed the message to his team and also Giarrusso: “The Mayor’s direction is to remove the banners now and reinstall them prior to Inauguration Day.” Giarrusso questioned whether it

Email Joanna Brown at joanna. brown@theadvocate.com.

Banners are back Moreno’s banners were back up at Gallier Hall in time for her inauguration’s “All in for Our Culture: Free Community Festival” at Lafayette Square on Sunday. Moreno took the oath of office as the city’s 63rd mayor on Monday.

Todd Ragusa, a spokesperson for Moreno’s transition and inauguration, said information on the private donors who paid for Moreno’s transition and inauguration will be released “mid-next week.”

He added that Moreno’s inauguration featured 442 musician performers, all of whom were compensated, with the exception of Trombone Shorty, who donated his time, and the Marine Corps Reserve Band.

Moreno’s inauguration is hosting a citywide day of service on Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday focused on cleaning up parks and playgrounds across the city. The event was postponed from last weekend due to weather. Volunteers can sign up online.

Staff writer Joni Hess contributed to this report.

The tiff over the banners was one of several clashes between Cantrell and Moreno over the course of the mayor-elect’s threemonth transition.

On the same day Cantrell ordered the banners come down, she also vetoed the 2026 budget crafted by Moreno alongside consultants hired by her transition. The council later overrode that veto.

On Thursday, Moreno’s administration revealed that it was locked out of the city’s social media accounts after the Cantrell administration refused to hand over “accurate passwords … despite requests throughout the transition.”

Moreno’s administration regained access to those accounts on Friday after working with tech firms including Meta and X. A former staffer in Cantrell’s communications office shared screenshots on Friday of a Jan. 8 email sent to Moreno’s communications director, Isis Casanova, Email Blake Paterson at with passwords to the city’s social bpaterson@theadvocate.com.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Bankston, Lawrence Mistich, Wanda Siegel, Gloria Smith, Samantha

New Orleans Greenwood Bankston, Lawrence

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Obituaries Bankston, Lawrence Andrew

Lawrence Andrew Bankston died on Friday, December 26, 2025. He was the life partner of 30 years to Troy Sylvia. He was pre‐ ceded in death by his par‐ ents, Leonard J. Bankston, and Iris Locantro Sr. Bankston. He was the brother of Lenny (Brenda), Louis, Lionel (Robin), and Linda. Lawrence was the uncle to several nieces and nephews, great nephews and a great niece. He was a resident of Terrytown, LA and graduated from West Jefferson High School and the University of New Or‐ leans. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to your favorite charity. A memorial Mass will be held on Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 12:30 pm at Christ the King Church, 535 Deer‐ field Road, Terrytown, LA. Visitation will be at 10:30 until Mass time. Memories and condolences can be at green‐ shared woodfh.com.

Mistich, Wanda Gilbert 'June'

Capri, Jaxx, Zoey, Nolen, Beverly, Callen, and Owen. achievements Their brought her unparalleled pride and joy. June’s inter‐ ests were varied. A lover of giving, she enjoyed sharing experiences with her fam‐ ily and friends, often tak‐ ing cruises to create last‐ ing memories. She had a kind heart and a deep ap‐ preciation for life that touched everyone around her. She is survived by her siblings, Peggy, Nell, Butch, and Allen, who will remem‐ ber her with love and re‐ spect. June was preceded in death by her former hus‐ band, William “Billy” Mist‐ ich, and her parents, War‐ ren Gilbert, Sr. and Mar‐ garet Fountain Gilbert. She also mourned the loss of her siblings, Edna Mae, Barbara, and Ricky, who were cherished parts of her life. Visitation will be held on January 18, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. until 11:30 a.m. at Harvey - Mothe Fu‐ neral Homes, LLC, located at 2100 Westbank Expy., Harvey, LA 70058. A funeral service will follow at the same location starting at 11:30 a.m. June will then be laid to rest in a burial ser‐ vice at Gardens of Memory Cemetery, located at 630 Central Ave., Bay St. Louis, MS 39520, beginning at 2:15 p.m. Wanda June Gilbert Mistich leaves behind a legacy of love, warmth, and dedication to her fam‐ ily that will forever be re‐ membered by all who had the privilege of knowing her. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Institute for Demen‐ tia Research & Prevention Baton Rouge (IDRP-BR) at https://pbrf.org/donate.

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Siegel, Gloria E.

Gloria Elaine (nee Allocca) Siegel passed away on January 9, 2026 at age 92. Please see full obituary on Legacy.com. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Team Luke Hope For Minds, in memory of her grandson Luke Siegel.

Smith, Samantha Jones

Wanda “June” Gilbert Mistich, born on March 13, 1943, in Biloxi, Mississippi, passed away peacefully on January 13, 2026. June was a devoted mother, grand‐ great-grand‐ mother, mother, and friend. She is known for her commitment to her family and her gen‐ erous spirit. June truly lived a selfless life, one full of love and joy. Giving freely of her time, her heart and her compassion, she always put others be‐ fore herself. June's life re‐ volved around her beloved Chris Mistich children: (Bea), Glenn Mistich, Todd Mistich (Lana), and Ann Relle (Darryl). She took im‐ mense joy in being in‐ volved in the lives of her children and grandchil‐ dren, traveling across the country to support them in their endeavors. Her love extended to all of her Linsey grandchildren: (Ché), CJ (Anna), Tabitha (David), Chazz (Andi), Bra‐ cie, Tyler, Evan, Mackenzie (Dom), Chloe, Saverio, and Nico, as well as her greatBrekkan, grandchildren: Paxton, CeCe, Ocean,

Samantha Jones Smith departed this life on Sun‐ day, January 4, 2026 at Ochsner Medical Center Main Campus. She was 48 years old. She was born on November 23, 1977 in New Orleans, LA, and was a res‐ ident of Westwego LA. Rel‐ atives and friends of the family are invited to attend Samantha’s memorial ser‐ vice on Saturday, January 17, 2026 at Third Emanuel Baptist Church, 187 Third Emanuel St., Bridge City LA 70094, at 10 a.m. Pastor J.C. Dyson will officiate and in‐ terment will be private. For online condolences, please visit www.robinsonfamilyf uneralhome.com.

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Supreme Court to hear appeal on Roundup

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed on Friday to hear an appeal from global agrochemical manufacturer Bayer to block thousands of state lawsuits alleging it failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller could cause cancer.

The justices will consider whether the Environmental Protection Agency’s approval of the Roundup weedkiller without a cancer warning should rule out the state court claims.

The Trump administration has weighed in on Bayer’s behalf, reversing the Biden administration’s position.

Some studies associate Roundup’s key ingredient, glyphosate, with cancer, although the EPA has said it is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans when used as directed.

Bayer disputes the cancer claims but has set aside $16 billion to settle cases. At the same time, it has tried to persuade states to pass laws barring the lawsuits.

The high court will take up a case from Missouri, in which a jury awarded $1.25 million to a man who developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma after spraying Roundup on a community garden in St. Louis.

Bayer faces about 181,000 Roundup claims, mostly from residential users.

YouTube relaxes policy on controversial content YouTube is updating its guidelines for videos containing content that advertisers define as controversial, allowing more creators to earn full ad revenue when they tackle sensitive issues in a nongraphic way.

With the update that went into effect Tuesday, YouTube videos that dramatize or cover issues including domestic abuse, selfharm, suicide, adult sexual abuse, abortion and sexual harassment without graphic descriptions or imagery are now eligible for full monetization.

Ads will remain restricted on videos that include content on child abuse, child sex trafficking and eating disorders.

The changes were outlined in a video posted to the Creator Insider YouTube channel on Tuesday, and the advertiser-friendly content guidelines were also updated with specific definitions and examples.

The update also makes personal accounts of these sensitive issues, as well as preventative content and journalistic coverage on these subjects, eligible for full monetization.

The Google-owned company said the degree of graphic or descriptive detail in videos wasn’t previously considered when determining advertiser friendliness.

Some creators would attempt to bypass these policies on YouTube and other platforms by using workaround language or substituting symbols and numbers for letters in written text — the most prevalent example across social platforms has been the use of the term “unalive.”

OpenAI plans for advertising on ChatGPT SAN FRANCISCO — OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren’t paying for a premium version of the chatbot.

The artificial intelligence company said Friday it hasn’t yet rolled out ads but will start testing them in the coming weeks.

It’s the latest effort by the San Francisco-based company to make money from ChatGPT’s more than 800 million users.

Though valued at $500 billion, the startup loses more money than it makes and has been looking for ways to turn a profit.

“Most importantly: ads will not influence the answers ChatGPT gives you,” said Fidji Simo, the company’s CEO of applications, in a social media post Friday.

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Officials aim to solve AI-driven problems White House, governors hope to fix power shortages, price spikes

BY BEN FINLEY and MARC LEVY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration and a bipartisan group of governors on Friday tried to step up pressure on the operator of the nation’s largest electric grid to take urgent steps to boost power supplies and keep electricity bills from rising even higher.

Administration officials said doing so is essential to win the artificial intelligence race against

China, even as voters raise concerns about the enormous amount of power data centers use and analysts warn of the growing possibility of blackouts in the mid-Atlantic grid in the coming years.

“We know that with the demands of AI and the power and the productivity that comes with that, it’s going to transform every job and every company and every industry,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum told reporters at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, next to the White House. “But we need to be able to power that in the race that we are in against China.”

The White House and governors want the mid-Atlantic grid operator to hold a power auction for tech companies to bid on contracts to build new power plants,

so that data center operators, not regular consumers, pay for their power needs.

They also want the operator, PJM Interconnection, to contain consumer costs by extending a cap that it imposed last year, under pressure from governors, that limited the increase of wholesale electricity payments to power plant owners. The cap applied to payments through mid-2028.

PJM wasn’t invited to the event.

However, PJM’s board is nearing the release of its own plan after months of work and will review recommendations from the White House and governors to assess how they align with its decision, a spokesperson said Friday.

PJM has searched for ways to meet rising electricity demand,

including trying to fast-track new power plants and suggesting that utilities should bump data centers off the grid during power emergencies. The tech industry opposed the idea.

The White House and governors don’t have direct authority over PJM, but grid operators are regulated by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, which is chaired by an appointee of President Donald Trump.

Trump and governors are under pressure to insulate consumers and businesses alike from the costs of feeding Big Tech’s data centers. Meanwhile, more Americans are falling behind on their electricity bills as rates rise faster than inflation in many parts of the U.S.

Boost production Lawmakers want to produce more rare earths and the other critical minerals

BY DIDI TANG and JOSH FUNK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A bipartisan group of lawmakers have proposed creating a new agency with $2.5 billion to spur production of rare earths and the other critical minerals, while the Trump administration has already taken aggressive actions to break China’s grip on the market for these materials that are crucial to high-tech products, including cellphones, electric vehicles, jet fighters and missiles.

It’s too early to tell how the bill, if passed, could align with the White House’s policy, but whatever the approach, the U.S. is in a crunch to drastically reduce its reliance on China, after Beijing used its dominance of the critical minerals market to gain leverage in the trade war with Washington. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to a one-year truce in October, by which Beijing would continue to export critical minerals while the U.S. would ease its export controls of U.S. technology on China.

The Pentagon has shelled out nearly $5 billion over the past year to help ensure its access to the materials after the trade war laid bare just how beholden the U.S. is to China, which processes more than 90% of the world’s critical minerals. To break Beijing’s chokehold, the U.S. government is taking equity stakes in a handful of critical mineral companies and in some cases guaranteeing the price of some commodities using an approach that seems more likely to come out of China’s playbook instead of a Republican administration.

The bill that Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., and Sen. Todd Young, R-Ind., introduced Thursday would favor a more market-based approach by setting up the independent body charged with building a stockpile of critical minerals and related products, stabilizing prices, and encouraging domestic and allied production to help ensure stable supply not only for the military but also the broader economy and manufacturers.

Shaheen called the legislation “a historic investment” to make the U.S. economy more resilient against China’s dominance that she said has left the U.S. vulnerable to economic coercion. Young said creating the new re-

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said this week that the Pentagon has ‘deployed over $4.5 billion in capital commitments’ to close six critical minerals deals that will ‘help free the United States from market manipulation.’ One of the deals involves $150 million of preferred equity by the Pentagon in Atlantic Alumina Co. to save the country’s last alumina refinery and build its first large-scale gallium production facility in Louisiana. serve is “a much-needed, aggressive step to protect our national and economic security.”

Rep. Rob Wittman, R.-Va., introduced the House version of the bill.

When Trump imposed widespread tariffs last spring, Beijing fought back not only with tit-for-tat tariffs but severe restrictions on the export of critical minerals, forcing Washington to back down and eventually agree to the truce when the leaders met in South Korea.

On Monday, in his speech at SpaceX, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth revealed that the Pentagon has in the past five months alone “deployed over $4.5 billion in capital commitments” to close six critical minerals deals that will “help free the United States from market manipulation.”

One of the deals involves $150 million of preferred equity by the Pentagon in Atlantic Alumina Co. to save the country’s last alumina refinery and build its first large-scale gallium production facility in Louisiana.

Last year, the Pentagon announced it would buy $400 million of preferred stock in MP Materials, which owns the country’s only operational rare earths mine at Mountain Pass, California, and entered into a $1.4 billion joint partnership with ReElement Technologies Corp. to build up a domestic supply chain for rare earth magnets.

The drastic move by the U.S. government to take equity stakes has prompted some analysts to observe that Washington is pivoting to some form of state capitalism to compete with Beijing.

“Despite the dangers of political interference, the strategic logic is compelling,” wrote Elly Rostoum, a senior fellow at the Washington-based research institute Center for European Policy Analysis. She suggested that the new model could be “a prudent way for the U.S. to ensure strategic autonomy and industrial sovereignty.”

In addition to trying to boost domestic production, the Trump administration has sought to secure some of these crucial elements through allies. In October, Trump signed an $8.5 billion agreement with Australia to invest in mining there, and the president is now aggressively trying to take over Greenland in the hope of being able to one day extract rare earths from there.

Congress in the past several years has pushed for legislation to protect the U.S. military and civilian industry from Beijing’s chokehold. The issue became a pressing concern every time China turned to its proven tactics of either restricting the supply or turned to dumping extra critical minerals on the market to depress prices and drive any potential competitors out of business.

Canada agrees to cut tariff on Chinese EVs China to lower tariffs on Canadian farm products

BY KEN MORITSUGU and ROB GILLIES Associated Press

BEIJING — Breaking with the United States, Canada has agreed to cut its 100% tariff on Chinese electric cars in return for lower tariffs on Canadian farm products, Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday.

Carney made the announcement after two days of meetings with Chinese leaders. He said there would be an initial annual cap of 49,000 vehi-

cles on Chinese EV exports coming into Canada at a tariff rate of 6.1%, growing to about 70,000 over five years. China will reduce its total tariff on canola seeds, a major Canadian export, from 84% to about 15%, he told reporters.

“Our relationship has progressed in recent months with China. It is more predictable and you see results coming from that,” Carney said.

Carney hasn’t been able to reach a deal with U.S. President Donald Trump to reduce some tariffs that are punishing some key sectors of the Canadian economy and Trump has previously talked about making Canada the 51st state.

Trump commended Carney for

making a deal with Beijing. “Well, it’s OK. That’s what he should be doing and it’s a good thing for him to sign a trade deal. If you can get a deal with China, you should do that,” Trump said.

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer earlier told CNBC Canada’s decision to allow Chinese EV imports at a low tariff is “problematic” and said that Canada may regret that in the long term.

Earlier Friday, Carney and Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged to improve relations between their two nations after years of acrimony.

Xi told Carney in a meeting at the Great Hall of the People that he is willing to continue working to improve ties, noting that talks have

been underway on restoring and restarting cooperation since the two held an initial meeting in October on the sidelines of a regional economic conference in South Korea.

Carney, the first Canadian prime minister to visit China in eight years, told Xi that better relations would help improve a global governance system that he described as “under great strain.” The tariffs Trump has imposed have hit both the Canadian and Chinese economies. Carney, who has met with several leading Chinese companies in Beijing, said ahead of his trip that his government is focused on building an economy less reliant on the U.S. at what he called “a time of global trade disruption.”

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Americans are wary of military intervention Nobody likes Nicolás Maduro. Or better put, nobody should. Before the U.S. effectively removed him from power on Jan. 3, he proved to be a disaster for his own country and a destabilizing force beyond its borders.

Venezuela’s living standards plummeted under Maduro. Protests erupted.

His authoritarian rule mixed corruption, censorship, human rights violations and election fraud. Thousands of Venezuelans were killed without due process, and roughly seven million fled Ron the economy imploded.

Faucheux asAnd yet U.S. voters are skeptical of the efficiently executed military action President Donald Trump took against Maduro. Why? When Americans hear “military intervention,” they think “quagmire.” They view foreign involvement through the stained lens of Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan — brutal, costly wars with shifting rationales and murky endings. They want to know if each situation poses a direct threat to them.

A nationwide Economist/YouGov poll conducted Jan. 2-5 found that only 6% of U.S. voters favor using military force to advance foreign policy goals “often,” and another 31% favor using it only “sometimes.” The latest Economist/YouGov polling, conducted Jan. 9-12, found that Americans — by a wide 19-point margin — believe U.S. military interventions are more likely to make situations worse than better.

On Venezuela, the latest polling shows that only 37% of the electorate believes U.S. military intervention was justified. Worse, fewer than a third believe the military action will improve conditions inside Venezuela. A big majority also believes Trump should have sought congressional authorization first — a view shared by most independents and a sizable chunk of Republicans.

A new Quinnipiac University poll finds that 41% of U.S. voters approve and 52% disapprove of Trump’s handling of Venezuela policy. Partisan division is razor-sharp: 83% of Republicans approve, compared to 4% of Democrats and 38% of independents.

A key reason why Trump’s numbers have been so lackluster is because his messaging on Venezuela has been muddled. Is the action we took in Venezuela about drugs, terrorism, democracy or oil? Most Americans think it’s about oil, since that’s what the president has communicated. But other reasons may have been more persuasive in justifying what’s been done.

Like George W. Bush with Iraq and Joe Biden with Afghanistan, Trump has failed to make clear his course of action. A recent CBS News poll shows 70% of Americans believe Trump hasn’t adequately explained his Venezuela policy. That makes it harder for voters, including Trump supporters, to embrace and defend it.

Economist/YouGov polling also finds that voters don’t want the U.S. to “run” Venezuela, as Trump has suggested. Only 17% of voters think we should.

While presidents should not disclose every detail of global wheeling and dealing, they do need to explain enough to earn public trust. Free advice for the White House: Let Secretary of State Marco Rubio do the explaining; he’s better at it than the rest of the administration.

Venezuela isn’t the only international flashpoint creating political trouble for the president. There’s Greenland, too. Even after the administration has floated threats, only 10% of U.S. voters in the latest Economist/YouGov poll support using “military force to take control of that country.” Also, only 15% support giving Greenland residents individual payments to “encourage them to secede from Denmark and join the United States.”

In other hot spots, U.S. voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by 48% to 37%, and disapprove of his handling of the Russia-Ukraine conflict by 50% to 35%. Barely a third of the electorate says “America’s standing in the world” has improved since Trump became president last year, while 62% say it has worsened.

At press time, it was still too early to know how the situation in Iran will unfold. But the Quinnipiac poll shows that only 18% of voters think the U.S. should take military action against Iran if protesters are killed while demonstrating against their government.

Seven in 10 voters don’t want the U.S. to get involved.

Trump won two elections with less than 50% of the vote. But war and diplomacy demand something bigger: a durable public majority to back up his policies.

Right now, he doesn’t have it.

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

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Trump voters can’t feel good about Greenland

Views on immigration reveal much about a person How one feels about our country’s immigration crisis is in many ways a litmus test of the human heart. For some, undocumented immigrants must forever be treated as inferior human beings because they entered our country without permission, often decades ago.

No matter how hard they have worked, how loving and responsible they have been as parents, how much they have contributed to their churches and paid in taxes, their “sin” of entering without permission means they deserve to be treated like their lives don’t matter. For most Americans, however, it is not such a simple equation, nor so cruel a one.

We understand that most immigrants who entered the U.S. without permission did so to escape poverty so pervasive they could never get ahead and live lives of dignity.

But why not come legally?

A quick Google search sheds light: It’s almost impossible to obtain an immigrant visa unless one has a parent, spouse or adult child who is a U.S. citizen or Legal Permanent Res-

ident who can sponsor the applicant, or one is a highly skilled professional with a college degree and has identified a U.S. employer sponsor.

About 80% of immigrant visas a year are granted in these two categories.

Historically, the remainder of immigrant visas allocated yearly are reserved largely for people granted asylum based on persecution by one’s government.

After entering the U.S. without permission, the same limited categories apply to gain legal status.

Clearly, our country’s immigration system needs major reform, which became painfully evident during the terror campaign waged recently by Customs and Border Protection on many of the same immigrants who rebuilt our region after Katrina.

Until reform happens, can we remember the teachings of a famous immigrant whose birth we just celebrated, including: “Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.”

The most recent example of the folly of electing a chief executive so totally ignorant of history and international law is his suggestion that he will either purchase, or seize by force, Denmark’s island of Greenland. Sadly, such is the result when voters fail to appreciate the folly of turning government over to a real estate developer and reality show blowhard.

But it will be interesting to see how long it now takes France to reclaim the vast interior portion of the continental United States, arguing that in 1803 Thomas Jefferson had acted unlawfully, or exerted too much pressure on their country, to realize the Louisiana Purchase. Thanks to CODOFIL, many here will be well prepared for the language change. President Donald Trump’s recently named “envoy” to Greenland also may be advised to save the airfare and avoid a well-earned frosty visit.

JACK BELSOM New Orleans

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We are the villains in Venezuela

Immigrants face hardships we don’t recognize Jessie LeBlanc, in a letter complaining about illegal immigrants, says they are not paying FICA taxes, resulting in them not contributing to Social Security. They may not be contributing, but they also aren’t receiving Social Security, Medicaid or Medicare.

He also states they don’t pay income tax. While that’s possible, they do pay taxes. Let’s not forget sales tax, property tax and all the other taxes built into cellphone, cable bills, etc.

Lastly, LeBlanc states “a large part” of their income returns to

their country of origin. It’s their money; they can use it as they see fit.

Yes, illegal immigration is a problem. The solution is not to arrest and deport everyone because they may not have proper documentation.

They left their families, their home countries, to come to the United States for a better life.

They aren’t afraid of hard work and do jobs most Americans don’t or won’t do. We, as Americans, should welcome them rather than condemn them.

More than 50 years ago, as a Latin American Studies major at Tulane, I learned about the history of our interventions into Latin American politics — from Cuba (Remember the Maine!), to Haiti, to Nicaragua, to all the Central American republics, to Grenada, to CIA support of murderers like Chile’s Augusto Pinochet.

Our attempts to shape the history of Latin America for the benefit of American business interests is almost uniformly shameful. (Yes, capitalism was the engine driving our Latin American policies.) We intervened to protect or generate profits for U.S. corporations. That’s it. We are not democratizing; we are not reforming. We are the bullies of the region and capitalism, not idealism, propels us. We are, in short, the bad guys. Our invasion of Venezuela fits neatly with that history. I find that sickening.

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Pelicans succumb in battle of NBA’s worst teams Zion’s big night not enough for a consecutive win

BY ROD WALKER Staff writer

The New Orleans Pelicans and Indiana Pacers entered Friday night’s game as the worst two teams in the NBA. The Pelicans sit at the bottom of the Western Conference standings while the Pacers are doing the same thing in the Eastern Conference.

But somebody had to win Friday, and it was the Pacers who came away with a 127119 victory at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis.

Not even a splendid night from Zion Williamson and a balanced attack was enough for the Pelicans (10-34) to carry over momentum from Wednesday’s win against the Brooklyn Nets.

Indiana came into the game as the thirdworst scoring team in the league, averaging 110.6 points per game. It was hard to tell after watching the Pacers torch the Pelicans for 73 points in the first half. The 127 points were the third-most points the Pacers have scored all season.

“The biggest thing is they had 20 more shots on goal,” Pelicans interim coach James Borrego said. “We did enough offensively, even though I don’t think the second ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By MATT ROURKE

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Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton watches a play during the first half of a game against the Philadelphia Eagles on Oct. 5 in Philadelphia. Payton and the Broncos are playing a divisional round playoff game Saturday.

Former Saints coach chases one-of-a-kind NFL feat Jeff Duncan

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ean Payton begins his quest for history this weekend.

The Denver Broncos head coach is trying to become the first coach in NFL history to lead two different teams to Super Bowl championships. He needs three wins to get it done, starting with Saturday’s AFC divisional playoff

game against the Buffalo Bills in Denver.

History tells us the task ahead is daunting.

Only seven coaches have managed to lead two different teams to the Super Bowl: John Fox (Panthers, Broncos); Mike Holmgren (Packers, Seahawks); Bill Parcells (Giants, Patriots); Dan Reeves (Broncos, Falcons); Andy Reid (Eagles, Chiefs); Don Shula (Colts, Dolphins); and Dick Vermeil (Eagles, Rams). None has managed to pull off the Super Bowl daily double, underscoring the difficulty of Payton’s challenge. ä See DUNCAN, page 5C

Hurricanes’ turbulent times come to an end

LSU lands another haul of transfers

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Miami has made remarkable turnaround in college football

BY TIM REYNOLDS AP sportswriter

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — Miami safety Jakobe Thomas enjoyed seeing the Hurricanes at their worst.

He was with Middle Tenä Indiana vs: nessee State in 2022 when Miami 6:30 P.M. the Blue Raiders — fourtouchdown underdogs that MONDAy, ESPN day — came into Hard Rock Stadium and used big play after big play to beat Miami 45-31, part of the Hurricanes’ spiral to a 5-7 season in Mario Cristobal’s first year back at his alma mater.

And it wasn’t like that MTSU team was some juggernaut, either. It went 0-3 in its next three games, losing by a combined 60 points. But it had no trouble with Miami.

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Pelicans forward Zion Williamson shoots over Indiana Pacers forward Pascal Siakam during the first half on Friday in Indianapolis.

The Pelicans lost 127-119.

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native, was once committed to LSU before he signed with the Rebels in 2025. He played Staff writers six games as a freshman this past season.

Bah is the most experienced offensive LSU added potential starters to its offen- lineman that the Tigers have added from the sive line and a promising young defensive transfer portal so far. He started 23 straight games at Maryland over the past two seaback Friday through the transfer portal.

Former Baylor offensive lineman Sean sons at right guard. A fifth-year senior next Thompkins, a redshirt sophomore, kicked season, he has one more year of eligibility. off the flurry of activity when he committed LSU’s transfer class last year was the to the Tigers. LSU later picked up pledges largest that the program had signed in the from Ole Miss freshman offensive lineman portal era, but Kiffin and his staff have far Devin Harper, Ohio State freshman safety exceeded that number as they overhaul the Faheem Delane and Maryland redshirt offense and add potentially more starters on junior offensive lineman Aliou Bah. defense.

Coach Lane Kiffin and his staff now The Tigers needed to find several starthave added 36 transfers, twice as many ers on their offensive line. They brought as LSU signed last offseason. back center Braelin Moore and right tackle Delane is a former top-100 recruit, Weston Davis, who both started double-digaccording to the 247Sports composite it games this past season, but most of the rankings, and the younger brother of unit transferred to other schools during the Mansoor Delane, an All-America corner- coaching change.

Including Thompkins, Harper and Bah, back for LSU this past season.

Thompkins played in 10 games and LSU has landed eight offensive linemen made five starts for Baylor this past sea- through the transfer portal. That group also son. He initially committed to North includes Ja’Mard Jones, a Nicholls State Carolina after he entered the transfer freshman who committed to the Tigers late portal, but he did not sign paperwork. Thursday night.

Thompkins is a former three-star recruit Harper also was a top-100 national recruit, and now he’s ranked as the with two more years of eligibility. Bah, third-best interior lineman in the porä See LSU, page 4C tal by 247Sports. Harper, a Shreveport

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Bichette, Mets agree to $126M deal time Gold Glove winner, Realmuto made his decision a month after designated hitter Kyle Schwarber also chose to remain with the Phillies, agreeing to a $150 million, five-year deal.

Realmuto, who turns 35 in March, hit .257 with 12 homers and 52 RBIs in 134 games last year, when he tied for the major league lead with 132 games at catcher. He was in the final season of a $115.5 million, five-year contract.

By The Associated Press NEW YORK — Bo Bichette and the New York Mets agreed Friday to a $126 million, three-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

A two-time All-Star shortstop with the Toronto Blue Jays, Bichette will move to third base with the Mets, who have Francisco Lindor at shortstop. Bichette has never played a professional game at the hot corner.

Bichette can opt out of the deal after the first or second season to become a free agent again.

He would receive $47 million for one year and $89 million for two years, the person said.

The deal does not contain any deferred money and Bichette gets a full no-trade provision. His $42 million average annual value ties for the sixth-highest in baseball history.

It was the latest big development in an eventful offseason for the Mets, who angered fans by letting popular slugger Pete Alonso and star closer Edwin Díaz leave in free agency. President of baseball operations David Stearns also traded two other stalwarts, outfielder Brandon Nimmo and versatile veteran Jeff McNeil — both homegrown players.

Bichette batted .311 with 18 home runs, 94 RBIs and an .840 OPS in 139 games for the Blue Jays last year. He homered off Shohei Ohtani in Game 7 of the World Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

Late last season, Bichette sprained his left knee in a Sept. 6 collision with New York Yankees catcher Austin Wells, keeping the infielder out of the lineup until the World Series. He returned for Game 1 against the Dodgers and played second base for the first time in six years.

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Blue Jays shortstop Bo Bichette celebrates his home run against the Los Angeles Dodgers during Game 7 of the World Series on Nov. 1 in Toronto. Bichette and the New york Mets have agreed to a $126 million, three-year contract.

chance for a third consecutive World Series championship.

Tucker can opt out of the deal after years two and three, according to the person who spoke to The Associated Press on Thursday night.

Tucker’s $60 million average annual value would be the secondhighest in baseball history, without factoring in deferred money, behind Shohei Ohtani’s $70 million in his 10-year deal with the Dodgers that runs through 2033.

Tucker becomes the latest accomplished veteran scooped up by the deep-pocketed Dodgers, who will have seven of the majors’ 29 biggest contracts by average annual value in 2026.

Los Angeles’ previous big move of the offseason was signing former New York Mets closer Edwin Díaz, widely considered to be the best reliever on the free agent market, to bolster their subpar bullpen.

When healthy, Tucker is among the best all-around players in the majors. But he played in just 214 Tucker, Dodgers agree to deal regular-season games over the Kyle Tucker has agreed to a past two years.

He batted .266 with 22 homers $240 million, four-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers, ac- and 73 RBIs with the Chicago cording to a person familiar with Cubs last season. He was acquired the deal, bolstering the team’s in a blockbuster trade with Hous-

ton in December 2024 that moved prospect Cam Smith to the Astros.

Caratini heading to Minnesota Catcher Victor Caratini and the Minnesota Twins agreed Friday to a $14 million, two-year contract, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press.

Caratini, 32, hit .259 last year in his second season with the Houston Astros and set career bests with 12 homers, 46 RBIs and 386 plate appearances. He caught in 49 games, played first base in 15 and was a designated hitter for 30.

A switch-hitter, Caratini batted .268 versus right-handers and .208 against lefties. He could wind up in a platoon with Ryan Jeffers, a right-handed hitter who batted .313 versus left-handers and .248 against righties.

Realmuto to stay with Phillies Veteran catcher J.T. Realmuto agreed to a $45 million, three-year contract to stay with the Philadelphia Phillies, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Friday.

Realmuto can earn an additional $5 million annually in bonuses, the person said.

A three-time All-Star and two-

The Tampa Bay Rays sent outfielder Josh Lowe to the Angels on Friday as part of a three-team trade in which left-handed reliever Brock Burke went from Los Angeles to Cincinnati.

Infielder Gavin Lux moved from the Reds to Tampa Bay and minor league right-hander Chris Clark from the Angels to the Rays.

Lowe, who turns 28 on Feb. 2, batted a career-worst .220 with 11 homers and 40 RBIs last year. He injured his right oblique for the third time in 13 months and didn’t play between the March 28 opener and May 15.

Lowe has a $2.6 million, oneyear contract and is on track to be eligible for free agency after the 2028 World Series. He has a .250 average with 43 homers and 170 RBIs in five big league seasons, all with the Rays.

Lux, 28, hit .269 with five homers and 53 RBIs in his only season with the Reds. He agreed last week to a $5,525,000, one-year contract and can become a free agent after this year’s World Series.

He has a .256 average with 33 homers and 208 RBIs in six seasons with the Los Angeles Dodgers (2019-24) and the Reds, who acquired him last January for minor league outfielder Mike Sirota and a draft pick. Lux missed the 2023 season after tearing his right ACL in a spring training game.

Burke, 29, was 7-1 with a 3.36 ERA in 68 relief appearances and one start for the Angels. He has a $2,325,000 salary and can become a free agent after this year’s World Series.

Keys returns to Australian Open as champion

BY JOHN PYE

Associated Press MELBOURNE, Australia — Madison Keys planned to walk into the player tunnel at Rod Laver Arena in a quiet moment when nobody was watching, and take a photo of her name listed with the other champions at the Australian Open.

After beating top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in last year’s final at Melbourne Park to win her first Grand Slam title, Keys pictured the moment she’d return to the stadium for the first Keys time as reigning champion.

“I’ve always kind of remembered walking through that tunnel and seeing all the names,” she said Friday, two days before the first major of the year starts. “It was a little bit of a pinch-me moment where I was like, ‘Wow, I’m

going to be up there.’

“I have not seen my name in the tunnel yet. I hope I can go in there when there’s no one else so I can take a picture and send it to my mom.”

Before facing the media in Melbourne, she couldn’t help but notice other evidence at the venue of her breakthrough triumph.

“There’s a really cool photo of me holding the trophy,” Keys said. “Getting to see those, it’s something you dream of in your career.”

The 30-year-old American said it was easy to look back almost 12 months and think everything worked to perfection, but “also you think about, ‘Wow, I almost lost.’

“I was match point down. So many three-set matches. There were some ugly matches. I think it kind of just makes everything a little bit better just because it wasn’t issue-free.”

Keys won a tune-up tournament in Adelaide in 2025 before ending Sabalenka’s 20-match winning

streak at the Australian Open.

At 29, she was the tournament’s oldest first-time women’s champion. She also set a record as the player with the longest gap between their first two Grand Slam finals — her first was the 2017 U.S. Open.

The Australian Open victory launched her into a Top 5 ranking the following month. After the breakthrough, though, she was ousted in the French Open quarterfinals, the third round at Wimbledon and had a nervy firstround exit at the U.S. Open. At the season-ending WTA Finals, she lost two group-stage matches.

Sabalenka, meanwhile, admitted Friday that the loss here to Keys last year was tough.

“She played incredible and overplayed me. Took me a little time to recover,” she said. “We had matches after that. I worked on my mistakes on those matches.

“Going to this AO, I’m not really focusing on that last year result, but of course I would like to do just a little bit better than I did

last year.”

Sabalenka, who beat Keys in the quarterfinals last week en route to the Brisbane International title, plays her first-round match Sunday night against Tiantsoa Rakotomanga Rajaonah, a wild-card entry from France.

Keys also lost in the quarterfinals in her title defense in Adelaide earlier this week. But she’s taking it in her stride as she prepares for another career first: defending a major title.

“Even though I’ve been on tour for a long time, this is also still my first experience as that,” she said.

“I’m really just trying to soak in all of the really cool fun parts.”

Seeded ninth and on the other side of the draw from Sabalenka, Keys is scheduled to open against Oleksandra Oliynykova of Ukraine.

“Yes, I’m sure going on court I’m going to be very nervous,” she said, “but I don’t think I’ve ever walked on court first round of a Grand Slam and not been nervous.”

Chambliss sues NCAA for extra year of eligibility

Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss sued the NCAA in state court on Friday for an additional year of eligibility so he can play for the Rebels next season.

The suit filed in Lafayette County came a week after the NCAA denied Ole Miss’ request for an extra year, saying the university and Chambliss’ previous school — Ferris State — failed to provide adequate medical documentation to back up the request.

The lawsuit filed Friday called the NCAA’s denial in “bad-faith, unreasonable and arbitrary,” and detailed his history of illness and included letters from physicians.

Ole Miss’ arguments revolve around the fact that although he has been in college for five years, he has only played three years of football because of that history.

Lavelle, Reale honored as best soccer players of year

National team midfielder Rose Lavelle has been named the 2025 U.S. Soccer Female Player of the Year.

Lavelle, who also plays for Gotham FC in the National Women’s Soccer League, returned to the national team in June after recovering from ankle surgery and appeared in six matches with three goals and three assists.

Lavelle, 30, also scored six goals with two assists during the regular season with Gotham. She scored in a 1-0 victory over the Washington Spirit for the NWSL championship, winning the game’s Most Valuable Player award.

U.S. Soccer also announced Friday that Gotham defender Lilly Reale was named the Young Female Player of the Year.

Schonbaum in lead at Latin American Amateur

LIMA, Peru — Andy Schonbaum of Argentina steadied himself for a 2-under 68 on Friday to build a two-shot lead going into the weekend at the Latin America Amateur Championship.

Schonbaum, 34, has played in all but one of the 11 editions of the championship. He has yet to finish in the top 10 — his best was a tie for 11th in 2020 at Mayakoba in Mexico.

He was at 6-under 134, two shots clear of Andres Martinez Benedetti of Venezuela, who had to settle for a 70 at Lima Golf Club.

Eric Fortlage of Paraguay (66) and Mateo Pulcini of Argentina (68) were three shots behind.

The winner earns a spot in the Masters, U.S. Open and British Open this year.

Franzoni’s super-G win makes him a contender

WENGEN, Switzerland — Host Italy has a new contender in Alpine skiing with the Milan Cortina Winter Olympics three weeks away.

Giovanni Franzoni claimed his first World Cup victory on the famed Lauberhorn course in a super-G Friday, four months after his close friend and former roommate, Matteo Franzoso, died in a crash during preseason training in Chile.

The 24-year-old Franzoni — a former world junior champion in super-G, downhill and Alpine combined — took advantage of the No. 1 bib to deliver a near-perfect run.

Reaching a top speed of 87 mph, Franzoni finished 0.35 seconds ahead of Stefan Babinsky of Austria and 0.37 ahead of downhill world champion Franjo von Allmen of Switzerland.

Petrokina wins European skating title in stunner

SHEFFIELD, England — Niina Petrokina completed one of figure skating’s great comeback performances to retain her European championship title on Friday, three months after Achilles tendon surgery.

Petrokina landed seven triple jumps in a clean, personal-best free skate to music from “Dune” to score 216.14 points, a score which ranks the Estonian among some of the world’s best ahead of next month’s Winter Olympics.

“I don’t know how I do it,” Petrokina said when asked about her recovery. “I needed everything that happened for this moment.”

Petrokina had competed only in second-tier events and her national championships since surgery in October. She’d struggled with pain for much of 2025.

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LSU aims to end SEC slide vs. Missouri

BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer

STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRETT DUKE

Coach Jay Uhlman has led Tulane to two American Conference Tournament titles two in the past three seasons, earning two automatic bids to the NCAA regionals. The Green Wave came up just short last year, finishing as the tourney runner-up.

Ready for the next step?

Tulane wants to play well enough to earn at-large regional bid

BY GUERRY SMITH Contributing writer

No baseball team in American Conference history has enjoyed a better three-year run in the league tournament than Tulane under coach Jay Uhlman, with two championships in Clearwater, Florida, preceding a runner-up finish there in 2025.

The next step is playing well enough in the regular season that an automatic tournament bid is not the only path to an NCAA regional bid.

A roster featuring 17 returning players and 23 newcomers began preseason practice this week with that goal in mind as Uhlman approaches Year 4.

“Clearwater’s our second home,” Uhlman said.

“We feel good there, but we want to win a regular-season championship and get in our merits as an at-large. That’s always the mission. You don’t want to rely on an (automatic qualifier that comes with a tournament title).”

Tulane’s strength is an experienced batting order.

Right fielder Jason Wachs, who hit a team-best .335 as a freshman, is back along with sophomore center fielder Tanner Chun (.259 average, team-high eight home runs), shortstop Kaikea Harrison (.283), first baseman Matthias Haas (.303, 21 doubles), catcher Hugh Pinkney (.271) and third baseman James Agabedis (.260). That sextet combined for 274 starts a year ago, with only first second baseman Connor Rasmussen, designated hitter

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Tulane pitcher Trey Cehajic looks back a runner on first base before throwing a pitch against UTSA on March 29, 2024, at Turchin Stadium. Cehajic is expected to be one of the Green Wave’s top pitchers this season. ä Tulane at Loyola

Marymount. 8 P.M. FEB 13 Gavin Schulz and outfielder Michael Lombardi gone among regulars.

The addition of catcher Johnny Elliott, who exhibited promise in fall ball after starting 24 games for USC as a freshman, and powerhitting first baseman Trent Liolios, a graduate transfer who hit 16 home runs for Northwestern last season, shoulder bolster the lineup.

Sophomore Nate Johnson, who started 17 games early last season but struggled at the plate (.188), is looking for a bounce-back year and could play at either corner of the infield. Uhlman also likes the mindset of Johnson’s older brother, Jack, a graduate transfer who started 18 games over four injuryplagued years at Baylor.

Pitching is a concern. Trey Cehajic had some good mo-

ments last year, but of Tulane’s seven returners on the mound, his 4.89 ERA in 57 innings was the best.

Lombardi (2.14 ERA, 73 strikeouts in 42 innings), dominant as a closer and spot starter, departed for professional baseball along with left-handed reliever Tayler Montiel (3.53 ERA, 29 hits allowed in 431/ 3 innings).

The Wave’s third-mostproductive pitcher, Carter Benbrook (3.55 ERA), used up his eligibility.

“Trey had a fall that was similar along the lines to what (former ace) Chandler Welch and Montiel and Lombardi had just in terms of what they brought dayto-day consistency-wise,” Uhlman said. “That recipe always seems to lend itself to positive results.”

The pressure will be on a crop of transfers to produce behind Cehajic. Uhlman said he liked what he saw from 6-foot-6 lefty Oklahoma transfer Beau Sampson

in a scrimmage at Ole Miss, but consistency eluded most of the eight newcomers in the fall. The same was true for holdovers Jacob Moore, J.D. Rodriguez, Will Clements, Blaise Wilcenski and Julius Ejike-Charles last season. All struggled to varying degrees and will have to be better to help the Wave win.

The most encouraging part of the fall to Uhlman was Tulane’s performance at Ole Miss. He said the pitchers exhibited good control and the hitting was solid against a 2025 regional host.

“We walked into Ole Miss and we belonged,” he said.

“I was encouraged by that a lot. (Rebels coach Mike) Bianco had nice things to say after the game.”

Ratcheting up the regularseason performance will be doubly important if the American adopts the tournament format Uhlman said it would this week. Instead of double elimination with no advantage for the higher seeds other than being the designated home team, the league is leaning toward having seeds five through eight play elimination games on the first day, with the winners advancing to the double-elimination bracket.

The top two seeds would not play until Day 3, with their aces facing their opponents’ No. 2 or 3 starters.

“The impetus is going to be on being one of the top two seeds,” Uhlman said.

“You are rewarding the teams that have a good season from start to finish in the conference.”

GATORADE LOUISIANA VOLLEYBALL PLAYER OF THE YEAR

Haynes senior Voitier ends her career with a top award

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

STAFF FILE PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

Haynes middle blocker Marilyn Voitier dives to dig out a Hannan shot during Marilyn Voitier received what appeared to be an automated text mes- the Division III championship game on sage that said she had been selected Nov. 16, 2024, in Lafayette.

as the Gatorade Louisiana volleyball player of the year.

Initially, the Haynes Academy standout didn’t know if the message was true.

“It looked fake at first,” she said.

Only after she conferred with coach Ashley Miller did Voitier realize that, yes, she had been selected as the state’s best player with 620 kills and 271 digs during her remarkable senior season.

Voitier won the award one year after the six-rotation standout played on a state championship-winning volleyball team alongside her older sister, Virginia, one of the team’s standout players.

This season, with Virginia gone to play beach volleyball in college, the younger Voitier sister had best friend Ella Feehan, a libero, on a Haynes team that reached the state semifinals.

Although disappointed her team did not get back to the final, the 5-foot-8 middle blocker cherished the experience.

“It was great,” Voitier said. “I love my team.”

The season also marked the end of

her volleyball career.

While most other recent Gatorade player of the year winners go on to play in college — Dominican’s Camryn Chatellier and Kate Baker among them with the LSU beach program — Voitier has chosen not to pursue that path.

She plans to attend the University of Arkansas as a regular student.

“I’ve gone back and forth about it,” Voitier said about the decision to not play volleyball in college. “I am going to miss playing volleyball, but that’s what I decided to do.”

Playing college sports, she said, is a commitment she was not willing to make unless she knew she could be all in. Her sister, Virginia, now plays for UAB’s beach volleyball program and “she loves it,” Voitier said. But the 5:30 a.m. daily wake-ups followed by five hours of workouts and meetings are not for Marilyn, she said.

Before volleyball, Voitier put most of her attention on softball with hopes of

playing through high school and into college.

She played for a team based in Mississippi and spent countless hours traveling for practices, games and tournaments until age 14, when she felt “burnt out from softball.”

She then shifted her focus to volleyball, a sport she played primarily at Lakeshore Playground as a child before joining the Haynes middle school program in sixth grade. She played junior varsity in seventh grade and varsity in eighth, quickly becoming a key contributor for a Haynes program that reached the state tournament five years in a row.

“She grew and matured and became so much stronger as she developed all-around skills where she can pass, set and hit phenomenally,” said Miller, who coached Haynes for seven seasons and recently took over the Mount Carmel program.

Voitier’s biggest jumps in development came with a growth spurt before her freshman season spent playing beach volleyball. The two-on-two format of the beach game forced her to do everything — bump, set and spike.

Voitier also played through an injury during her senior season. She rolled an ankle during the week of the team’s first match, and that led to a calf injury that lingered throughout the year.

“Not many people knew she was injured,” Miller said.

At state, Voitier powered through her two matches and recorded 66 kills across four-set contests in the quarterfinals and semifinals, a final reflection of the production and effort that defined her high school career and ultimately earned her one of the state’s top volleyball awards.

LSU basketball understands the unforgiving nature of the Southeastern Conference.

LSU is the only team without a conference win, and coach Matt McMahon and his players admitted that an “emotional toll” was unavoidable after Kentucky’s game-winning, buzzer-beating shot Wednesday.

LSU (12-5, 0-4 SEC) dropped its first four games in league play for the first time since the 2012-13 season.

After the 75-74 loss to Kentucky, players and coaches said that moving on quickly will help their chances of winning an SEC game against Missouri (13-4, 3-1) at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

“We’ve got to start our preparation here for Missouri and build on all the good things that we did (against Kentucky),” McMahon said.

LSU needs to rekindle its defensive effort from the first half against Kentucky.

The Tigers didn’t allow the Wildcats to make its first field goal until the 15:32 mark, and Kentucky opened the game 1 of 12 from the field.

The Tigers brought an intensity early that had been lacking in conference matchups.

Robert Miller’s presence was the most pronounced as he had seven rebounds, two steals and two blocks. The 6-foot-10 center also had six points and two assists.

“Rob Miller continues to come along,” McMahon said. “He’s our best defender. He’s fantastic on that end of the floor. We saw (Wednesday) he’s really good in those little short rolls in the middle of the floor as not only a scorer but a passer.”

McMahon will demand similar attention to detail

ä Missouri at LSU.

2:30 P.M. SATURDAy, SEC NETWORK from Miller and the defense against Missouri, which leads the SEC in field goal percentage (51.6%).

LSU’s top rim protector will be tasked with deterring Mark Mitchell, a 6-8 forward who is averaging 17.5 points and has the third-most free-throw attempts (127) in the SEC. Sound point guard play will remain a top priority for LSU with top playmaker Dedan Thomas nursing a lower-leg injury he suffered on Jan. 2. McMahon said he doesn’t have a timeline for Thomas’ return.

“He’s gone from clearly being out to doubtful, making great progress (but) still day-to-day,” McMahon said. “Started back running and jumping. He’d give anything to be on the floor.

Just can’t cut and jump and do everything at full speed that would allow him to get back out there.”

LSU made a change in the starting lineup against Kentucky for the first time since Thomas’ injury. Instead of freshman Jalen Reece, the coaching staff placed senior Rashad King in the starting lineup. The move worked early as both played confidently and each had his second-highest point total of the season.

King, a 6-6 transfer from Northeastern, used his size to block two shots and grab a steal. He also had 12 points, with eight coming in the second half as LSU tried to fend off Kentucky.

Reece hesitated less on his 3-point shot, attacked more often and was active as a rebounder. He scored 11 points while making 2 of 5 from beyond the arc. He also had five rebounds, four assists and one turnover.

“Jalen Reece and Rashad King were fantastic at the point position,” McMahon said. “I thought they did a lot of good things.”

LSU falls to Georgia in SEC gym opener

BY SCOTT RABALAIS Staff writer

After soaring to a firstplace tie in a meet with three other top five-ranked teams in last week’s Sprouts Collegiate Quad, the No. 2 LSU gymnastics team came back to earth Friday in its Southeastern Conference opener at Georgia.

LSU gymnasts returned from their trip to Athens, Georgia, with four individual wins, including twofor 2025 SEC freshman of the year Kailin Chio, but LSU had five scores of 9.65 or lower and counted two of them. Those were big factors in the Tigers’ 197.200-196.850 loss to the No. 8 Bulldogs.

It’s the Tigers’ fourth straight loss in an SEC road opener. The last time LSU won in its first SEC road meet of the season was 2022 at Georgia.

The previous three years, the Tigers were able to recover from their early SEC road stumbles and go on to have stellar seasons. In 2023, LSU lost at Kentucky and reached the NCAA final.

In 2024, LSU lost at Missouri and won the SEC and NCAA championships. Last year, the Tigers started with a 196.875-196.600 loss at Arkansas and went on to win the SEC regular-season and championship meet titles and were the No. 1 seed in the NCAAs for the first time.

LSU opened the meet on uneven bars with a string of solid performances, starting with a season-high 9.90 from Lexi Zeiss. Then Chio, who won the all-around and beam titles in the Sprouts meet,

couldn’t complete a pass on the low bar and got only a 9.30. But Courtney Blackson and Konnor McClain saved the team score with marks of 9.85 and 9.95, respectively.

After one rotation, LSU led 49.375-49.250 over the Bulldogs, who started on vault.

The Tigers next went to vault, but other than a 9.925 from Chio in the anchor spot, faired poorly.

With former Pittsburgh Steelers coach Mike Tomlin in the stands watching his daughter Harley and the other Georgia gymnasts, LSU managed only a 49.075 on vault while UGA surged to the lead with a 49.250 on bars. The Tigers had to count a 9.65 from Victoria Roberts in the third spot when senior Kathryn Weilbacher, making her first appearance of the season, landed long and scored a 9.525.

Midway through the meet, LSU trailed 98.525-98.450.

It got worse for the Tigers on what traditionally is one of their best events: floor exercise. McClain, making her season debut in the event, seated her second pass and got an 8.975. After a 9.85 from Chio, Amari Drayton stumbled on her final pass and got a 9.575 that LSU had to count. Sophomore Kaliya Lincoln anchored the Tigers with a strong 9.925, but LSU managed only a 48.950.

Trailing 147.725-147.400 going to the final routine, LSU needed a big score on balance beam and for Georgia to collapse to have a chance.

The Tigers did their part with a 49.450, but Georgia was rock solid and did even better on floor with a 49.475.

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Indiana among transfer portal winners Hoosiers land star-studded group that includes QB Hoover

BY STEVE MEGARGEE Associated Press

Indiana and Ole Miss had rather busy schedules the past couple of weeks as they competed in the College Football Playoff while the transfer portal window was open.

But it apparently didn’t bother their 2026 roster construction efforts too much.

As the program gets ready to face Miami in the national championship game, Indiana has put together arguably the nation’s best collection of transfers for its 2026 roster. Ole Miss’ transfer class isn’t that far behind heading into Friday’s closing of the portal window.

Texas Tech and Texas A&M also put together impressive transfer classes, though their playoff runs ended before the portal window opened.

A look at the AP’s top 10 transfer classes in order:

ing and 13 touchdowns at Auburn over the last two seasons. Raleek Brown (Arizona State) rushed for 1,141 yards and Hollywood Smothers (N.C. State) ran for 939 yards this season. Rasheem Biles produced 101 tackles — 17 for loss — at Pittsburgh this season. Smothers was a first-team pick and Biles was a second-team selection on the Associated Press all-Atlantic Coast Conference team. The Longhorns also brought in Melvin Siani, who was Wake Forest’s starting left tackle this season. The secondary adds cornerback Bo Mascoe (Rutgers), an honorable mention allBig Ten selection from the league’s coaches and media.

Texas Tech

Texas Tech’s new quarterback is Brendan Sorsby, who threw for at least 2,800 yards each of the last two seasons at Cincinnati. Texas Tech stockpiled its defensive front seven by adding lineman Mateen Ibirogba from Wake Forest, edge Indiana rusher Adam Trick from Miami Josh Hoover, who threw for 71 (Ohio) and linebacker Austin touchdowns and more than 9,600 Romaine from Kansas State. Royards at TCU from 2022-25, is the maine had more than 160 tackles heir apparent to Heisman Tro- over the last two seasons. Trick dephy winner Fernando Mendoza at livered 81/ 2 sacks and forced three quarterback. He will pass to Nick fumbles this season.

Marsh (59 catches, 662 yards, 6 TDs at Michigan State last season) Oklahoma State and Shazz Preston (43-723-4 at TuOklahoma State is hoping it can lane). Turbo Richard rushed for bounce back from a 1-11 season by 749 yards and nine touchdowns at bringing in plenty of guys from a Boston College. Indiana also add- North Texas team that went 12-2. ed offensive lineman Joe Brunner More than a dozen players fol(formerly at Wisconsin) and de- lowed new Cowboys coach Eric fensive linemen Tobi Osunsanmi Morris from North Texas. Drew (Kansas State), Chiddi Obiazor Mestemaker threw for an FBS(Kansas State) and Josh Burnham leading 4,379 yards this season.

(Notre Dame). Preston Zachman Other arrivals from North Texas (Wisconsin) and A.J. Harris (Penn include Caleb Hawkins and Wyatt Young. Hawkins rushed for 1,434 State) boost the secondary. yards and 25 touchdowns this Texas season. Young had 70 catches for Arch Manning has a prime new 1,264 yards and 10 scores. target now that Texas has added Cam Coleman, a former five-star Louisville recruit who had 1,306 yards receivOffensive linemen Cason Henry

(South Carolina), Johnnie Brown (Georgia Southern), Anwar O’Neal (Delaware) and Eryx Daugherty (Boston College) were all starters at their former schools. Edge rusher Tyler Thompson (North Carolina) had seven sacks and safety Koen Entringer (Iowa) recorded 73 tackles this season.

Wide receiver Tre Richardson (Vanderbilt) and tight end Brody Foley (Tulsa) each caught seven touchdown passes. The Cardinals also added two quarterbacks in former Ohio State backup Lincoln Kienholz and West Georgia starter Davin Wydner.

TCU quarterback Josh Hoover, shown during a game at Houston on Nov. The Aggies rebuilt an offensive 22, is transferring to Indiana for next season.

line that loses four starters by landing Tyree Adams (LSU), Trovon Baugh (South Carolina), Coen Echols (LSU) and Wilkin Formby (Alabama). All were starters at their former schools. C.J. Mims (North Carolina), Brandon DavisSwain (Colorado) and Anto Saka (Northwestern) should help the defensive front. Isaiah Horton (Alabama) caught eight touchdown passes this season. The Aggies boosted one of their major weaknesses by adding David Olano, who went 37 of 43 on field-goal attempts at Illinois the last two seasons.

(Baylor) had more than 100 tackles each of the last two seasons.

Thomas was a second-team AP allBig 12 pick this season. Defensive lineman Michai Boireau (Florida) and defensive backs Joenel Aguero (Georgia), Jay Crawford (Auburn), Sharif Denson (Florida) and Edwin Joseph (Florida State) all were starters at their former schools. Darrell Gill (Syracuse) had five touchdown catches and Jonathan Maldonado (Nevada) had five sacks this season. Offensive linemen Carius Curne (LSU) and Troy Everett (Oklahoma) Wisconsin bring more Power Four experiWisconsin found its new quarter- ence. Quarterback Deuce Knight back in Sun Belt offensive player (Auburn) is unproven, but he’s a of the year Colton Joseph, who former five-star recruit. threw for 2,624 yards and rushed for 1,007 at Old Dominion. Abu LSU Sama rushed for 1,933 yards the Incoming LSU coach Lane Kiflast three seasons at Iowa State. fin rebuilt the Tigers’ quarterSafety Marvin Burks (Missouri) back room by signing Sam Leavitt and cornerbacks Javan Robinson (Arizona State) for the present (Arizona State) and Bryce West and Husan Longstreet (Southern (Ohio State) should provide im- California) for the future. Leavitt mediate help. Burks and Robinson got Arizona State to a CFP berth both started multiple seasons at last season. Longstreet was a five-star prospect coming out of their former schools. high school. Kiffin also upgraded Ole Miss LSU’s passing game by bringing Linebacker Keaton Thomas Winston Watkins with him from

Duke QB Mensah says he’ll enter portal, reversing plan to return

BY AARON BEARD Associated Press

Duke quarterback Darian Mensah says he’s entering his name into the transfer portal, reversing an original announcement that he would return after leading the Blue Devils to the Atlantic Coast Conference title.

Mensah announced his plan in a social media post Friday afternoon, hours before the transfer portal window was set to close.

“I’m forever grateful for Duke and the coaching staff,” Mensah said. “Thank you Duke family for everything. This wasn’t an easy decision, but after talking with my family, I believe it’s in my best interest to enter the transfer portal.”

Mensah and Duke announced his return in December, coming between the Blue Devils’ overtime win against Virginia for the ACC title and their Sun Bowl win against Arizona State.

Mensah, who transferred from Tulane, is second in the Bowl Subdivision ranks with 3,937 yards

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That was then.

Miami’s resurrection from that bad day and a lot of others over the last 20 years — a period during which the Hurricanes have had six coaches, three other interim coaches, 17 seasons that didn’t include a bowl win, countless headaches and zero ACC championships — is just about complete.

The Hurricanes (13-2, No. 10 College Football Playoff) play for the national championship on Monday night against Indiana (15-0, No. 1 CFP) at that same Hard Rock Stadium that was practically empty at the end of MTSU’s win four years ago.

“It’s completely different,” said Thomas, who transferred to Tennessee for 2024 before coming to Miami for his final college season.

“The Miami team we played back in ’22 was not this team now. I think coach Cristobal changed the culture around this place.”

Make no mistake, swagger is still a thing at Miami. These Hurricanes are brash and aggressive and tackle hard and play harder.

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Duke quarterback Darian Mensah looks to pass the ball against Virginia in Charlotte, N.C., on Dec. 6. Mensah said Friday he is going to enter the transfer portal. passing and tied for second with 34 touchdown passes against six interceptions.

College football changed its calendar this year to have only one transfer portal window, with the

Cristobal’s intensity is constant.

Same goes for his staff.

But there’s a balance now as well, a demand for accountability and carrying yourself the right way at all times.

Some examples include wide receiver Malachi Toney, the best freshman in America this season, giving away turkeys at Thanksgiving; star defensive lineman Rueben Bain organizing a toy drive at Christmas and making a $5,000 donation to the elementary school he attended years ago; and receiver CJ Daniels hosting an event to raise awareness of epilepsy, something that has touched his family.

Ever since Cristobal came back to Miami, the team has broken two records each year: one for fall semester GPA, then one for spring semester GPA. “We have good people,” Cristobal said. “No, we have great people.

It starts there. Surround yourself with great people, like-minded people and see what happens.”

Cristobal didn’t use some unheard-of, wacky formula to bring Miami back to the national title picture. It was really quite simple: outwork everyone, make honesty and transparency fundamental

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Texas A&M

15-day period running from Jan. 2 through Friday as the final day for most players to enter their names.

In previous years, there was one transfer portal window in December and a second one in April.

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Miami wide receiver Malachi Toney leaves the field after winning the Fiesta Bowl against Ole Miss on Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz.

principles of the program, hire the best people and fight like hell to win recruiting battles.

Landing Bain — a Miami guy who stayed home for college and should be a first-round NFL draft pick — in 2022 was a huge get.

Cristobal was on a plane when Bain called him to commit. He

Ole Miss and signing several other wideouts, including Eugene Wilson (Florida), Jayce Brown (Kansas State), Tre Brown (Old Dominion) and Jackson Harris (Hawaii). Harris had 49 catches for 963 yards and 12 touchdowns this season. Tre Brown had 762 receiving yards and Jayce Brown had 712.

Virginia Tech/Penn State These two schools are a package deal because of their coaching connection. New Virginia Tech coach James Franklin has added about a dozen of his former Penn State players. That list includes quarterback Ethan Grunkemeyer, who took over for the injured Drew Allar as Penn State’s starter the second half of this season. Wide receiver Que’Sean Brown caught 10 passes for 178 yards and two touchdowns in Duke’s Sun Bowl win over Arizona State. New Penn State coach Matt Campbell brought nearly two dozen players with him from Iowa State. Rocco Becht headed to Penn State after throwing for 64 touchdowns and more than 9,200 yards for Campbell’s Iowa State teams over the last three seasons.

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Continued from page 1C who’s listed at 6-foot-6 and 327 pounds, began his career at Georgia. Harper is the second former Ole Miss player to follow Kiffin to LSU. The first, wide receiver Winston Watkins, committed to the Tigers on Sunday.

On the other side of the ball, LSU has added eight transfers — five linemen and three defensive backs. LSU also is in the market for a linebacker, and sources said the Tigers are a team to watch for in the recruitment of Ole Miss transfer TJ Dottery.

While the Tigers did not have as many needs on defense as offense, they still wanted to sign several players.

The Tigers recruited Delane, a Maryland native, when he was a four-star recruit and the No. 55 overall player in the 2025 class, according to the 247Sports composite. He finished his lone season as a Buckeye with 12 tackles and one tackle for loss while playing in 13 games. He has three more years of eligibility.

Delane visited LSU on Thursday after a three-day NCAA recruiting dead period ended.

He became the second safety to

transfer to LSU this offseason, joining former Boise State safety Ty Benefield. Delane was ranked as the No. 10 safety in the transfer portal by 247Sports.

At safety, LSU already has brought back redshirt sophomore starter Tamarcus Cooley and sophomore Dashawn Spears, a top backup who could become a full-time starter next season. It persuaded Spears to return after he said he would enter the transfer portal. The Tigers need new starters at one safety spot and Star, a hybrid linebacker/safety position usually played by a defensive back.

threw his phone across the plane when he heard the words. Luckily, it was a private plane. The phone didn’t hit anyone.

“We’re used to winning and that’s what we’re going to bring back to Miami,” Bain said in 2022 when he announced his college choice.

“They need help bad, they need help right now, and I’m willing to come in right now and make a change.”

Changes were made.

After that 5-7 first season, Miami went 7-6 in 2023. Better, but nowhere near good enough. In 2024, the Hurricanes started 9-0 before losing three of their last four games. Better again, but still not good enough.

So, Cristobal hired defensive coordinator Corey Hetherman away from Minnesota to shore up that side of the ball. Carson Beck signed and took over for No. 1 draft pick Cam Ward at quarterback.

Miami kept landing key pieces in the transfer portal — Thomas, Keionte Scott and Mohamed Toure are some who’ll play big roles on defense Monday night, while Keelan Marion, James Brockermeyer, Marty Brown, Daniels and Beck are just a few of the names who’ll be on the offensive side.

“It was just getting the brotherhood right,” said linebacker Wesley Bissainthe, who played for Miami in that loss to MTSU. “I feel like we’re all in there. Every person in that locker room is playing for each other. That’s what it looks like when we’re out there. No one is just playing for themselves.

The brotherhood, I feel like it’s one of the most important things in a team’s culture. You’ve got to play for the person beside of you.”

Miami has put together back-toback seasons of double-digit wins — it had four consecutive 10-ormore-win seasons from 2000-03, then exactly one such season from 2004-23. It will have back-to-back, season-ending appearances in the AP Top 25 for just the second time since 2005. Win or lose on Monday, Cristobal inevitably will say more work needs to be done.

But the dark days at Miami seem to be over.

“A care factor that’s through the roof and a die-hard belief in the University of Miami, bleeding orange and green through all of us, I think that’s what has really forged our progress forward as we continue to try to get better,” Cristobal said. “And we certainly have a long ways to go.”

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San Francisco 49ers quarterback Brock Purdy throws an incomplete pass on fourth down against the Seattle Seahawks during the first half of a game on Jan. 3 in Santa Clara, Calif.

Seahawks don’t expect surprises against 49ers

BY ANDREW DESTIN AP sportswriter

RENTON, Wash. — For the Seattle Seahawks to host another playoff game and move closer to the fourth Super Bowl appearance in franchise history, they will have to dispose of a familiar foe.

Very familiar.

The top-seeded Seahawks (14-3) host the San Francisco 49ers (13-5) in the NFC’s divisional round on Saturday night. It’ll be the second meeting in three weeks between the NFC West rivals and the third time they have squared off in the playoffs.

Seattle won the division and secured the No. 1 seed with a dominant 13-3 win over Brock Purdy and the host 49ers on Jan. 3. That was the lowest-scoring output for the Niners since they lost 23-3 to Carolina in coach Kyle Shanahan’s debut in 2017.

Purdy said San Francisco will have to make adjustments against the NFL’s top-ranked scoring defense.

“We just played them two weeks ago, so looking back at the other game plan as well and having it sort of fresh in your mind,” Purdy said, “picking it up where you left off and obviously making some changes where you need to. But yeah, it feels like we just played them.”

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Seahawks defensive lineman Leonard Williams recognizes it will be a challenge to slow down San Francisco’s 10th-ranked scoring offense, even with Seattle’s recent success against the Niners.

“They’ve clearly shown that they have a good offense,” Williams said. “But at the same time, I trust our team.”

Seattle finished the season with seven straight wins to finish with a franchise-record 14 victories, but one of its losses came at home against San Francisco in Week 1.

The Seahawks had some fresh concerns Thursday when quarterback Sam Darnold injured his left oblique in practice. He was listed as questionable but said he’s confident he’ll play.

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald doesn’t expect to see much that’s different about the 49ers, given that they’ve played only once since the last meeting.

“You’re really going off how you felt like you played the game, things you did well, maybe where you think they might take things,” Macdonald said.

The 49ers played their final two games of the regular season with one fewer day of rest than normal,

DUNCAN

Continued from page 1C Before the season, Payton told me and others he had a team talented enough to reach the Super Bowl and win it. I took his words with a grain of salt, assigning his enthusiasm to the normal preseason optimism. Turns out, he wasn’t just talking out the side of his neck. The Broncos went 14-3 and wrested AFC West supremacy away from the Kansas City Chiefs, the division’s longtime kingpin.

A year ago, Payton surprised the league by steering his second Broncos team to the playoffs.

That bunch was not ready for prime time, and it showed in a 31-7 blowout loss to the Bills at Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, New York.

This year is different. The Broncos are the top seed in the AFC. Expectations are high in Denver, where the Broncos will play their first home playoff game in a decade. If you’ve ever been to Invesco Field, you know the atmosphere will be electric for four quarters.

Broncos fans have endured years of frustration, embarrassment and heartache before reaching this point. They’ll be ready.

“After last season, the expectations rose internally as well as externally,” Payton said. “After free agency, I told some (reporters) that I thought this team had a chance to be unique, and I feel the same way now.”

Rest assured, Payton knows what’s at stake. He’s a student of history and aware of what a second Super Bowl title would mean for his legacy.

He also understands the impor-

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Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton looks over a playbook with quarterback Bo Nix on Jan. 4 in Denver.

tance of opportunity. The Broncos are rested, relatively healthy and blessed with the home-field advantage in the AFC thanks to their No. 1 seed, a luxury Payton enjoyed just twice in 16 seasons with the Saints. He knows how rare these opportunities can be and the importance of taking advantage of them.

“No. 1 seeds are not like carwash coupons; they’re hard to get,” Payton said this week. “I told the team (this week), we only have four weeks left together as a team. Let’s make the most of it.”

His team is good enough to garner a fourth Lombardi Trophy for the Mile High City. The Broncos are talented along both lines and boast the more fearsome pass rush in the league. But they are far from dominant. While they posted a league-best 14-3 mark, they outscored opponents by only 5.3 points a game, seventh-best in the league. Eleven of their wins came by eight points or fewer.

The Bills game has all of the ingredients for compelling theater.

including the Week 18 loss to Seattle. They’re in the same situation this week against well-rested Seattle after playing their wild-card game Sunday.

Coach Kyle Shanahan had lobbied for a Sunday game this week to no avail, leading to the team limiting practices and changing meeting times to give players as much rest as possible.

“We can’t control that kind of stuff,” linebacker Eric Kendricks said. “At the end of the day, we’re playing meaningful football. We want to play meaningful football. These games mean a lot. We know what’s at stake, so we better get ready for it.”

Niners wide receiver Ricky Pearsall has not played since Dec. 28 because of a knee injury, but he returned to practice this week in a limited capacity. A return by Pearsalll would be a boost for San Francisco, especially after All-Pro tight end George Kittle tore his right Achilles tendon in the 49ers’ 23-19 win at Philadelphia last week.

Macdonald and the Seahawks expect to see Pearsall in the lineup.

“They have a lot of talented receivers, but he’s definitely one of them,” Macdonald said. “He definitely complements the rest of the guys well in terms of what he does in his skill set and how they use him.”

Reigning MVP Josh Allen is trying to lead the Bills to their first Super Bowl in more than three decades. The Bills began the year as favorites to represent the AFC in Super Bowl LX. In beating Jacksonville last week, Allen ended a four-game losing streak in playoff road games. He won’t be intimidated by the environment and will be at home in the frigid conditions Saturday.

The game features another interesting subplot. The Buffalo coaching staff is filled with former members of Payton’s old Saints staffs, including offensive coordinator Joe Brady, offensive line coach Aaron Kromer, quarterbacks coach Ronald Curry and defensive assistant Ryan Nielsen.

Combine that with a Broncos staff featuring seven coaches with Saints ties and you have two teams that are intimately familiar with each other.

As Saints fans know, Payton’s closing run in New Orleans was hugely disappointing. For all the success he had, the second run of the Drew Brees era left fans feeling empty and unfulfilled.

His teams lost home playoff games they were favored to win in each of the 2018, 2019 and 2020 seasons. The infamous NOLA No-Call derailed the 2018 team, but there was no officiating gaffe to blame in 2019 and 2020. The Saints were just outplayed and out-coached by the Vikings and Buccaneers.

Now, Payton gets a chance at a second run at coaching immortality.

Win it all, and he books his ticket to Canton.

Fall short, and he’ll provide more fodder for his critics, who cite his 9-9 playoff record among the shortcomings on his résumé.

History awaits.

LOS ANGELES — When Jared Verse begins to elaborate on the methodology of sacking Caleb Williams, it’s quickly obvious the Los Angeles Rams star edge rusher has been thinking about this monumental task quite a bit.

“You just have to keep rushing,” Verse said. “You have to keep running. Honestly, once you get your hands around him, if you can’t fully grab him, aim for his arm. He’s a throwing quarterback. Obviously, that’s all quarterbacks, but you have to aim for his arm. Just try to mess his throw up a little bit.

“It can’t just be like you’re getting him off the spot. He’s one of those quarterbacks ... even if they’re off the spot, they’re still liable to make any type of play.”

Williams’ clutch playmaking has driven the Bears (12-6) to the NFC North title and home-field advantage in their divisional round visit from the Rams (135) on Sunday night. The Rams’ success in containing the former Southern California star will be a determining factor in this matchup — particularly in the fourth quarter, when two quarterbacks known for late comebacks seem likely to be trading big plays in the Chicago cold.

Limiting Williams is an 11-man job, but a big chunk of that responsibility falls on Verse and his fellow Pro Bowl edge rusher Byron Young. The duo combined for 191/2 of the Rams’ 47 sacks during the regular season, but both will be challenged at Soldier Field by a profoundly elusive quarterback and his much-improved offensive line.

Verse has plenty of ideas about how to do it, but he also knows the smartest plans against Williams sometimes don’t work.

“When you get to him, you have to wrap him up,” Verse said. “It’s not like (you can) lunge or jump at him. He’s very athletic and he’s very nimble. He’s able to get away from anything you bring to him. You have to keep (moving) your feet under you when you wrap him up. You can’t lunge at him.

“We’ve watched all the tape, watched games from their last playoff game to the first game of their season. He’s been doing it all season long. It’s impossible to say he won’t get away from one of us, but we all have to keep

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pursuing it and be able to make that tackle.”

Verse still remembers his frustration when the Rams visited the Bears in Week 4 of last season. Verse managed to sack Williams twice in a three-play span of the second quarter, only for both to be nullified by defensive penalties.

The Rams sacked Williams three times that day, but he still led the Bears to a victory. Williams was sacked 68 times as a rookie, but that number plummeted to just 24 this season, and the Packers got him down only once last week while he led Chicago’s dramatic comeback victory in the wild-card round.

Rams coach Sean McVay has been struck by Williams’ growth while watching film this week.

“It’s one thing where you see him play in time and in rhythm with good accuracy and anticipation,” McVay said. “But then some of those second-reaction plays where he’s getting flushed to his right or getting flushed to his left and guys understand how to work with him, those are the ones that are really scary.

He’s playing at a high clip.”

This challenge is particularly significant for the Rams because their pass rush is the main strength of their defense, which has faded down the stretch this season. Los Angeles has allowed at least 27 points to every opponent other than the woebegone Arizona Cardinals since Thanksgiving, with the unit’s effectiveness declining in most defensive metrics.

The Rams blitz less than nearly every team in the NFL, just 18.1% of the time in the regular season. They rely on their edge rushers and interior rushers to get home often enough to help their secondary, which has been largely unimpressive all season long.

Williams’ skill set is a potential nightmare for the Rams, and they know it. Verse and his teammates are still confident they can contain him enough to keep the Rams competitive.

“He’s a Heisman winner for a reason,” said Verse, who was drafted 18 picks after Williams in 2024. “He was the No. 1 pick, and I have a lot of respect for him.”

Texans’ fearsome four in rush to get to QBs

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HOUSTON — Asked how he’d describe Houston’s pass rush to someone who hasn’t seen the Texans play before, coach DeMeco Ryans took a few seconds before landing on an answer.

“It’s like four Tasmanian devils just wrecking everything that’s in front of them. That’s how I look at our guys,” Ryans said. “They are fast. They are physical. The way they get off the ball, the way they collapse the pocket, they’re a terror.”

After a stellar performance in a win over the Pittsburgh Steelers in the wild-card round, the Texans are looking for this fearsome foursome to lead them again when they visit the New England Patriots on Sunday, when a win will put them in the AFC championship game for the first time in franchise history.

The starting defensive line consists of first-team AP All-Pro defensive end Will Anderson, and second-teamer and fellow end and LSU star Danielle Hunter along with tackles Sheldon Rankins and Tommy Togiai.

The Texans led the NFL in yards allowed in the regular season and were second to the Seahawks in points. They continued that success in their first playoff game, allowing just 175 yards in the 30-6 win over Pittsburgh.

Houston sacked Aaron Rodgers four times and hit him 12 other times on Monday night while forcing him to fumble twice. They scored two defensive touchdowns against the Steelers, with one coming on Anderson’s strip-sack of Rodgers that Rankins scooped

up and returned 33 yards for the score. It was the fourth touchdown this season for the Houston defensive line, another example of just how good this group has been.

Anderson and Hunter are the undisputed stars of the group after combining for 27 sacks in the regular season. But defensive line coach Rod Wright said what the Texans do doesn’t work unless everyone does their job.

“We say four equals one,” Wright said. “Everything we do, we do together. That’s a tribute to our guys.

We know we’ll sack a quarterback if we rush as one. But if one guy wins, but the other guy doesn’t complement him, the quarterback’s gonna get out, especially a quarterback like we’re playing on Sunday.”

Hunter said playing with that mindset makes the game a lot of fun.

“The guys go out there and the biggest thing is just feeling free,” he said. “You don’t have to worry about somebody else’s job, just doing your part. When you’re out there, there’s no feeling that’s better than you doing your part and everybody else is doing their part. It just flows.”

Houston’s pass rush hurried and harassed the 42-year-old Rodgers throughout Monday’s win.

The Texans know they’ll have a different challenge against the Patriots with the much more mobile 23-year-old Drake Maye, who has 450 yards rushing this season.

But regardless of who they’re facing, Wright’s message this week is that you don’t win at this level by changing things up, but rather by continuing to do what got you here.

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Southeast Division

Sports Betting Line NFL

Orlando Miami Atlanta Charlotte Washington

W 23 21 20 15 10

Detroit Cleveland Chicago Milwaukee Indiana

W 29 23 19 17 9

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN at DENVER 1½ at SEATTLE 6½

TODAY O-U UNDERDOG 1½ (46½) Buffalo 7 (45) San Fran

FAVORITE at NE LA Rams

TODAY O-U UNDERDOG 3 (40½) Houston 3½ (48½) at CHICAGO

Sunday

OPEN 2½ 4½

College Football

Central Division

GB — 7½ 10½ 13 21

L 13 15 23 26 33

Pct .683 .605 .425 .381 .233

GB — 3½ 10½ 12½ 19

Oklahoma City Denver Minnesota Portland Utah

W 35 28 27 20 14

L 7 13 14 22 27

Pct .833 .683 .659 .476 .341

GB — 6½ 7½ 15 20½

L.A. Lakers Phoenix Golden State L.A. Clippers Sacramento

W 24 24 23 17 11

L 15 17 19 23 30

Pct .615 .585 .548 .425 .268

GB — 1 2½ 7½ 14

WESTERN CONFERENCE

NBA

San Antonio Houston Memphis Dallas New Orleans

CFP National Championship FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O-U UNDERDOG Indiana 7½ 8½ (47½) Miami (FL)

LINE 3½ 13 OFF 4 OFF OFF OFF 12 OFF

O-U UNDERDOG (241½) Utah (227½) Indiana (OFF) Phoenix (229½) at ATLANTA (OFF) Minnesota (OFF) Okc (OFF) Charlotte (229½) Washington (OFF) LA Lakers

COLLEGE BASKETBALL

Saturday

FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at VIRGINIA TECH 4½ Notre Dame UConn 12½ at GEORGETOWN at TENNESSEE 6½ Kentucky at SETON HALL 6½ Butler at ILLINOIS 15½ Minnesota Virginia 1½ at SMU at NC STATE 15½ Georgia Tech at OHIO STATE 3½ UCLA Alabama 5½ at OKLAHOMA at VANDERBILT 3½ Florida at INDIANA 1½ Iowa Syracuse 6½ at BOSTON COL Iowa State 6½ at CINCINNATI at WISCONSIN 14½ Rutgers TCU 4½ at UTAH at CLEMSON 4½ Miami (FL) Utah State 5½ at GRAND CANYON at LSU 4½ Missouri at GEORGIA 1½ Arkansas Michigan 16½ at OREGON Nebraska 5½ at NORTHWSTRN North Carolina 3½ at CAL Arizona 9½ at UCF Purdue 7½ at USC at TEXAS 4½ Texas A&M at WEST VIRGINIA 5½ Colorado Wake Forest 2½ at FLORIDA ST Duke 8½ at STANFORD Michigan State 3½ at WASHINGTON at AUBURN 10½ South Carolina at TEXAS TECH 2½ BYU Louisville 6½ at PITTSBURGH at VILLANOVA 1½ St. John’s at MISSISSIPPI STATE 2½ Ole Miss at OKLAHOMA STATE 4½ Kansas State

NHL

Saturday

FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG at BUFFALO -130 Minnesota at PHILA -139 N.Y Rangers New York OFF at CALGARY at UTAH -178 Seattle Carolina -114 at NEW JERSEY at WASH -136 Florida at WINNIPEG -125 Toronto at PITTSBURGH -135 Columbus at OTTAWA -126 Montreal Boston -119 at CHICAGO Edmonton -175 at VANCOUVER Los Angeles OFF at ANAHEIM at VEGAS -245 Nashville

LINE +109 +117 OFF +148 -105 +115 +105 +114 +105 -101 +147 OFF +199

Pro basketball

Boston New York Toronto Philadelphia Brooklyn

W 25 25 25 22 11

L 15 16 17 17 27

Pct .625 .610 .595 .564 .289

GB — ½ 1 2½ 13

W 28 23 17 16 10

Northwest Division

Pacific Division

Thursday’s Games

Orlando , Memphis 111 Detroit 108, Phoenix 105 Oklahoma City 111, Houston 91 Boston , Miami 114 San Antonio , Milwaukee 101 Dallas 144, Utah Portland 117, Atlanta 101 Golden State 126, New York 113 Charlotte 135, L.A. Lakers 117

L.A. Rams 34, Carolina 31 Chicago 31, Green Bay 27

Sunday, Jan. 11

Buffalo 27, Jacksonville 24 San Francisco 23, Philadelphia 19 New England 16, L.A. Chargers 3

Monday, Jan. 12

Houston 30, Pittsburgh 6

Divsional Playoffs Saturday, Jan. 17

Buffalo at Denver, 3:30 p.m.

San Francisco at Seattle, 7:00 p.m.

Sunday, Jan. 18

Houston at New England, 3:00 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Chicago, 5:30 p.m

NFC lowest remaining seed at NFC highest remaining seed

Super Bowl LIX Sunday, Feb. 8 At Santa Clara.

Conference Championships winners, 5:30 p.m. (NBC-Peacock)

College football

Utah at Dallas, 4 p.m.

Boston at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Indiana at Detroit, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at New York, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at San Antonio, 7 p.m.

Oklahoma City at Miami, 7 p.m.

Charlotte at Golden State, 7:30 p.m.

Washington at Denver, 8 p.m.

L.A. Lakers at Portland, 9 p.m.

College Football Playoff National championship Monday

At Miami Gardens, Fla. No. 1 Indiana vs. No. 10 Miami, 6:30 p.m.

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College basketball

Indiana 127, New Orleans FT

Saturday, Jan. 10

NFC

Saturday’s Games

FG

Pro football Wild-card Playoffs

AFC lowest remaining seed at AFC highest remaining seed

Indiana 127, New Orleans Cleveland 117, Philadelphia 115 Chicago at Brooklyn,n L.A. Clippers at Toronto, n Minnesota at Houston, n Washington at Sacramento, n

NOLA

Totals 240 52-1018-12 13-43 37 22 127 Percentages: FG .515, FT .667.

3-Point Goals: 15-43, .349 (Siakam 4-8, Huff 3-6, Walker 2-5, Nembhard 2-6, Nesmith 2-8, Furphy 1-4, Sheppard 1-4, McConnell 0-1, Q.Jackson 0-1).

Team Rebounds: 8. Team Turnovers: None.

Blocked Shots: 7 (Bradley 2, Huff 2, Furphy, Siakam, Walker).

Turnovers: 7 (Nembhard 3, Furphy, McConnell, Q.Jackson, Siakam).

Steals: 5 (Huff 2, Furphy, Nesmith, Q.Jackson).

Technical Fouls: None.

New Orleans 33 33 27 26 — 119 Indiana 31 42 29 25 — 127 A_16,753 (20,000). T_2:07.

Conference Championships Sunday, Jan. 25 AFC

Friday’s Games

Men’s state schedule

Reb

Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS

Saturday’s games

Bey 31:41 6-10 6-8 0-4 1 3 20 Willmsn 33:12 10-12 7-10 0-6 7 3 27 Queen 28:06 5-11 4-4 4-12 3 1 14 Fears 31:18 5-9 4-4 0-6 5 2 16 Murphy 37:37 7-21 3-4 1-4 5 3 22 Missi 19:54 1-3 0-0 3-3 0 1 2 Poole 16:36 4-7 0-0 0-2 1 1 11 McGwns 16:25 2-3 0-0 0-1 0 1 4 Matkvic 14:48 1-4 0-0 0-2 0 1 3 Hawkins 10:23 0-2 0-0 0-2 0 0 0 Totals 240 41-8224-30 8-42 22 16 119 Percentages: FG .500, FT .800.

3-Point Goals: 13-31, .419 (Murphy III 5-14, Poole 3-4, Bey 2-3, Fears 2-4, Matkovic 1-2, McGowens 0-1, Missi 0-1, Hawkins 0-2).

Team Rebounds: 7. Team Turnovers: 1.

Blocked Shots: 4 (Missi 3, Murphy III).

Turnovers: 8 (Williamson 3, Missi 2, Murphy III, Poole, Queen).

Steals: 4 (Fears 2, Murphy III, Williamson).

Technical Fouls: None.

FG FT Reb

Missouri at LSU, 2:30 p.m.

Georgia State at UL-Monroe, 2:30 p.m.

UL at South Alabama, 3 p.m.

Lamar at Nicholls, 3 p.m.

Southeastern at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 3:30 p.m.

Louisiana Tech at Jacksonville State, 4 p.m.

Southern at Grambling, 4 p.m.

NW State at Incarnate Word, 4 p.m.

McNeese at Texas-Rio Grande Valley, 4:30 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at UNO, 5 p.m.

Furphy 28:38 3-8 Siakam 33:52 11-22 Huff 29:15 13-17 Nmbhrd 33:18 7-13 Nesmith 33:00 5-13 Walker 21:20 2-5 Bradley 18:45 1-4 McCnnll 15:37 4-8 Shepprd 14:47 1-4 Q.Jcksn 11:28 5-7

FAR WEST

IND

NBA EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

GB — 2 4 8 12

Pct .744 .548 .475 .415 .220

Southwest Division

FAVORITE at DALLAS at DETROIT at NEW YORK Boston at SAN ANT at MIAMI at GOLDEN ST at DENVER at PORTLAND

Pct .561 .512 .465 .366 .256

L 10 19 21 24 32

Monday

Saturday

L 18 20 23 26 29

Min M-A M-A O-T A PF PTS 0-0 1-2 0-0 3-3 0-1 0-0 1-2 0-0 1-2 2-2

1-4 2 0-6 5 3-9 1 0-3 10 1-4 1 0-1 3 5-9 3 0-2 9 2-3 2 1-2 1

2 2 3 2 4 4 1 1 1 2

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Sunday’s games

North Texas at Tulane, 3 p.m.

Men’s national scores Friday’s games EAST

Carnegie Mellon 64, Washington (MO) 61 Lehman 62, Hunter 54 SUNY-Cobleskill 73, Maine Maritime Academy 53 SUNY-Delhi 92, Maine-Farmington 91, OT SUNY-Oneonta 74, Buffalo State 53 Chaminade 88, Menlo 85 Dominican (CA) 65, Hawaii Hilo 59

Women’s state schedule Tuesday’s game

Tulane 71, Temple 58

Wednesday’s game Troy 86, UL-Monroe 80

Thursday’s games

Anaheim at Los Angeles, n

Saturday’s games

Minnesota at Buffalo, 11:30 a.m.

N.Y. Rangers at Philadelphia, noon N.Y. Islanders at Calgary, 2 p.m.

Seattle at Utah, 4 p.m.

Carolina at New Jersey, 6 p.m.

Columbus at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Florida at Washington, 6 p.m.

Montreal at Ottawa, 6 p.m.

Toronto at Winnipeg, 6 p.m.

Boston at Chicago, 7 p.m.

Edmonton at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

Los Angeles at Anaheim, 9 p.m.

Nashville at Vegas, 9 p.m.

NW State 67, Houston Christian 57 Lamar 72, UNO 56 UTRGV 78, Southeastern 65 Stephen F. Austin 86, Nicholls 78 Louisiana Tech 61, Middle Tenn. 48 McNeese 59, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 42 Arkansas State 75, UL 34

Saturday’s Games

UL at UL-Monroe, noon Southeastern at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, 1 p.m.

Lamar at Nicholls, 1 p.m.

Northwestern at UIW, 1 p.m.

Western Kentucky at Louisiana Tech, 2 p.m.

McNeese at UTRGV, 2 p.m.

UAB at Tulane, 2 p.m.

Stephen F. Austin at UNO, 2 p.m.

Southern at Grambling, 2 p.m.

Sunday’s games

Sunday’s Games

Tampa Bay at Dallas, 1 p.m.

Ottawa at Detroit, 4 p.m.

St. Louis at Edmonton, 7 p.m.

Monday’s Games

Buffalo at Carolina, 12:30 p.m.

Washington at Colorado, 3 p.m.

Pittsburgh at Seattle, 4 p.m.

San Jose at Florida, 5 p.m.

Minnesota at Toronto, 6:30 p.m.

Philadelphia at Vegas, 7 p.m.

Winnipeg at Chicago, 7:30 p.m.

New Jersey at Calgary, 8 p.m.

N.Y. Islanders at Vancouver, 9 p.m.

LSU at Oklahoma, 2 p.m.

Wednesday, Jan. 21 Coastal Carolina at UL – Lafayette, 6 p.m.

Women’s national scores Friday’s games EAST

Stony Brook 61, Hofstra 44

FAR WEST

Transactions

Hockey

Major League Baseball

Hawai’i 86, Cal Poly 46

NHL EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division Tampa Bay Detroit Montreal Buffalo Boston Toronto Florida Ottawa

GP W L OT Pts GF 45 29 13 3 61 160 48 28 16 4 60 149 48 26 15 7 59 162 46 26 16 4 56 153 48 27 19 2 56 159 47 23 16 8 54 158 45 24 18 3 51 139 46 22 19 5 49 151

GA 116 148 159 143 148 155 145 153

Carolina N.Y. Islanders Pittsburgh Washington Philadelphia New Jersey Columbus N.Y. Rangers

GP W L OT Pts GF 47 28 15 4 60 158 47 26 16 5 57 139 46 22 14 10 54 147 48 24 18 6 54 155 46 22 16 8 52 138 47 24 21 2 50 126 47 21 19 7 49 144 48 20 22 6 46 126

GA 142 130 140 138 143 145 157 147

Metropolitan Division

WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Colorado Dallas Minnesota Utah Nashville Chicago St. Louis Winnipeg

GP W L OT Pts GF 45 33 4 8 74 182 48 27 12 9 63 162 48 26 13 9 61 150 48 24 20 4 52 147 46 22 20 4 48 129 47 19 21 7 45 131 47 18 21 8 44 117 46 19 22 5 43 141

Pacific Division

GA 103 135 136 132 151 149 161 144

GP W L OT Pts GF GA Vegas 46 23 11 12 58 153 143 Edmonton 48 23 17 8 54 159 158 Seattle 46 21 16 9 51 127 135 San Jose 46 24 19 3 51 146 164 Los Angeles 46 19 16 11 49 122 131 Anaheim 46 22 21 3 47 153 169 Calgary 47 20 23 4 44 122 141 Vancouver 47 16 26 5 37 126 170 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.

Thursday’s Games

Columbus 4, Vancouver 1 San Jose 3, Washington 2 Pittsburgh 6, Philadelphia 3 Buffalo 5, Montreal 3 Winnipeg 6, Minnesota 2 Boston 4, Seattle 2 Calgary 3, Chicago 1 N.Y. Islanders 1, Edmonton 0 Utah 2, Dallas 1 Vegas 6, Toronto 5, OT

American League DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Diego Orro on a minor league contract.

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Acquired INF Gavin Lux and RHP Chris Clark in a three-team trade with the Cincinnati Reds and Los Angeles Angels. The Rays traded OF Josh Lowe to the Angels, while the Angels traded LHP Brock Burke to the Reds.

National League MIAMI MARLINS — Claimed RHP Osvaldo Bido off waivers from the Houston Astros.

NEW YORK METS — Agreed to terms with INF Wandy Asigen, RHP Oscar Montero, INF Sebastian Toro, OF Cleiner Ramirez, INF Cristopher Jaquez, INF Oscar Pena, RHP Gensil Rosario, OF Ryan Rudas, C Frank Moreno, INF Michalle Mercedes, INF Johnderis Sanchez, OF Yeremy Reyes, OF Emerson Estevez, OF Royner Bravo, INF Dayron Oramas, LHP Eduardo Pina, OF Henry Manrique, RHP Yunior Canario, OF Elvis Teran, C Adrian La Rosa, RHP Cristian Dudamel, RHP Edgardo Rodriguez, LHP Mauricio Nunez, RHP Sebastian Gomez, RHP Jhoangel Marquez, and C Yadier Fuentes on minor league contracts.

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Agreed to terms with RHPs Noah Davis and Chris Devenski on minor league contracts.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association L.A. CLIPPERS — Signed F Patrick Baldwin Jr. to a 10-day contract.

FOOTBALL

National Football League BUFFALO BILLS — Activated WR Curtis Samuel and DT Ed Oliver from injured reserve.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League ANAHEIM DUCKS — Acquired F Jeffrey Viel from the Boston Bruins in exchange for a 2026 fourth-round draft pick.

BOSTON BRUINS — Recalled D Billy Sweezey from Providence (AHL).

COLORADO AVALANCHE — Recalled F Ivan Ivan from Colorado (AHL).

MINNESOTA WILD — Recalled Fs Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Hunter Haight, and D David Jiricek from Iowa (AHL). Placed Fs Matt Boldy and Joel Eriksson Ek on injured reserve. Assigned D Carson Lambos to Iowa.

MONTREAL CANADIENS — Assigned F Owen Beck and G Jacob Fowler to Laval (AHL).

NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Recalled D Andreas Englund from Milwaukee (AHL).

NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Waived F Juho Lammikko and D Colton White.

NEW YORK RANGERS — Recalled D Connor Mackey from Hartford (AHL).

TAMPA BAY LIGHTNING — Recalled G Brandon Halverson from Syracuse (AHL). Placed F Brayden Point on injured reserve.

SOCCER

Friday’s Games

Major League Soccer MINNESOTA UNITED — Signed G Kayne Rizvanovich to a two-year first team contract as a homegrown player through 2027, with club options for 2028 and 2029.

Detroit 4, San Jose 2 Carolina 9, Florida 1 Tampa Bay at St. Louis, n Nashville at Colorado, n

SATURDAY’S FAIR GROUNDS ENTRIES Post Time: 12:00PM First Race, Purse $35,000, Starters allowance $30,000, 4 yo’s & up One And One Sixteenth Miles-Turf 01 National Eclipse (J Loveberry) 12-1 02 Now and Later (P Lopez) 20-1 03 Sabi (J Mudd) 115 5-1 04 Calibrate (H Hernandez) 7-2 05 Next Level (B Hernandez, Jr.) 5-1 06 Protonic Power (I Castillo) 9-2 07 Solid Left (M Pedroza, Jr.) 12-1 08 Liar’s Poker (J Graham) 8-1 09 Write Off Jerry (J Ortiz) 4-1 10 Devil’s Harvest (C McMahon) 12-1 11 Curahee (J Ortiz) 6-1 Second Race, Purse $60,000, Maiden special weight, 3 yo, F (fillies) Six Furlongs-Dirt 01 Paradise Ridge (S Vives) 8-1 02 Seamus’s Girl (E Murray) 12-1 03 Miss Shane (D Magnon) 12-1 04 Tied the Knot (J Loveberry) 5-1 05 Miss Super Mo (A Concepcion) 7-2 06 Running Faith (C McMahon) 6-1 07 Wicked Emily (P Lopez) 8-1 08 Love Getaway (M Pedroza, Jr.) 6-1 09 Mighty Hankerin (L Saez) 3-1 Third Race, Purse $60,000, AOC $125,000, 3 yo One And One Sixteenth Miles-Dirt 01 Jackson Hole (F Prat) 7-2 02 Vamos Ya (D Cannon) 15-1 03 Thunder Buck (L Saez) 9-5 04 Colt Forty Seven (J Graham) 12-1 05 Herbs Bolt (J Ortiz) 7-2

06 Arabia Wild (I Ortiz, Jr.) 7-2 07 Different Gravy (B Curtis) 6-1 Fourth Race, Purse $60,000, AOC $20,000, 4 yo’s & up Six Furlongs-Dirt 01 Louisiana Jess (A Concepcion) 8-1 02 Dapper Moon (B Hernandez, Jr.) 7-2 03 House Bourbon (E Nieves) 20-1 04 Classic Time (J Ortiz) 4-1 05 Clear as a Bele (P Lopez) 3-1 06 Craken Jax (M Pedroza, Jr.) 12-1 07 Max Got Excited (T Bacon) 8-1 08 Majority Opinion (C Hernandez) 12-1 09 F T W Slam (J Loveberry) 9-2 Fifth Race, Purse $60,000, Maiden special weight, 3 yo, F (fillies) Six Furlongs-Dirt 01 Thesewallshaveears (B Hernandez, Jr.) 8-1 02 Tap to Open (I Ortiz, Jr.) 5-1 03 Isabelle’s Music (B Curtis) 15-1 04 Funny Bunny (P Lopez) 20-1 05 Winning Matters (L Saez) 8-1 06 Zsa Zsa (R Hernandez) 15-1 07 Feeling Groovy (F Prat) 9-2 08 Constructively (M Pedroza, Jr.) 30-1 09 Callmeyourmajesty (J Loveberry) 15-1 10 Just Bluffing (D Cannon) 6-1 11 Kayla’s Komet (A Concepcion) 8-1 12 Love and Trust (J Ortiz) 7-2 13 Goodall (P Lopez) 5-1 Sixth Race, Purse $60,000, Maiden special weight, 3 yo Six Furlongs-Dirt 01 Cowboy Roy (M Pedroza, Jr.) 8-1 02 Guns Allowed (I Ortiz, Jr.) 5-1

03 Get Them Roses (B Curtis) 15-1 04 Bearister (J Graham) 15-1 05 Mojacar (F Prat) 7-2 06 Knock It Off (P Lopez) 5-1 07 Classic Tap (H Rea) 115 10-1 08 Special Ops (F Geroux) 15-1 09 Hot Days Ahead (B Hernandez, Jr.) 20-1 10 Double Entendre (J Ortiz) 6-1 11 McBridge (C Hernandez) 15-1 12 Trouble Calling (L Saez) 8-1 13 Tapit’s Gunner (B Hernandez, Jr.) 20-1 Seventh Race, Purse $100,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up Five And A Half Furlongs-Turf 01 Wendelssohn (M Pedroza, Jr.) 6-1 02 Heart Headed (J Ortiz) 7-2 03 Bear River (J Graham) 8-1 04 Usually Wrong (I Castillo) 3-1 05 Petcoff (B Curtis) 8-1 06 Schwarzmeier (F Prat) 20-1 07 Step Forward (R Santana, Jr.) 12-1 08 Mondogetsbuckets (I Ortiz, Jr.) 12-1 09 Can’t Deny It (J Loveberry) 8-1 10 Monsieur Candy (C Lanerie) 20-1 11 Frost Free (T Bacon) 20-1 12 High Front (F Geroux) 10-1 13 Tough Catch (L Saez) 12-1 Eighth Race, Purse $60,000, Maiden special weight, 3 yo One And One Sixteenth MilesDirt 01 El Capo (R Hernandez) 15-1 02 Gethsemane (I Ortiz, Jr.) 10-1 03 Liberty Valance (L Saez) 7-2 04 La Norme de Jour (A Concepcion) 20-1

05 Silver Shot (P Lopez) 10-1 06 Roguishness (J Ortiz) 5-1 07 Reagan’s Honor (F Prat) 8-1 08 Sunset Skip (O Chavez) 50-1 09 Kelz (C Hernandez) 20-1 10 He’s a Charmer (C McMahon) 12-1 11 Market Runner (B Hernandez, Jr.) 5-1 12 Ocelli (B Curtis) 4-1 Ninth Race, Purse $100,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up, F & M (fillies and mares) One And One Sixteenth Miles-Turf 01 Cupids Crush (M Pedroza, Jr.) 20-1 02 Epic Style (A Concepcion) 12-1 03 Wild Bout Hilary (F Geroux) 20-1 04 Lucky Speech (J Graham) 15-1 05 Medoro (J Ortiz) 2-1 06 Sweet Treasure (I Ortiz, Jr.) 3-1 07 Strikingly Spun (P Lopez) 12-1 08 Nanda Dea (ARG) (F Prat) 9-2 09 Stylish Sue (L Saez) 8-1 10 Lakota Spirit (I Castillo) 50-1 11 Triumphant Spirit (D Cannon) 12-1 Tenth Race, Purse $150,000, Stakes, 3 yo, F (fillies) One Mile Seventy Yards-Dirt 01 Atropa (J Ortiz) 2-1 02 Dancin in Old Town (J Graham) 10-1 03 White Smoke (F Prat) 9-2 04 Taken by the Wind (B Hernandez, Jr.) 5-2 05 Luv Your Neighbor (A Concepcion) 4-1 06 Pashmina (B Curtis) 5-1 Eleventh Race, Purse $100,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up One And One Sixteenth Miles-Turf 01 Kupuna (L Saez) 3-1

02 Sand Pipes (R Hernandez) 12-1 03 Idratherbeblessed (M Pedroza, Jr.) 6-1 04 Lagynos (J Ortiz) 7-2 05 Cameo Performance (I Ortiz, Jr.) 6-1 06 Vote No (P Lopez) 12-1 07 Theismann (B Curtis) 10-1 08 Point Proven (C Hernandez) 12-1 09 Reagan’s Wit (F Prat) 10-1 10 Gigante (J Graham) 10-1 11 Otago (A Concepcion) 20-1 Twelfth Race, Purse $175,000, Stakes, 4 yo’s & up One And One Sixteenth Miles-Dirt 01 Moonlight (J Ortiz) 9-2 02 Henro (M Pedroza, Jr.) 20-1 03 Cadet Corps (P Lopez) 8-1 04 Accelerize (F Prat) 8-1 05 Sir Greylind (B Hernandez, Jr.) 5-1 06 Tarantino (B Curtis) 12-1 07 Willy D’s (R Santana, Jr.) 4-1 08 Just a Touch (I Ortiz, Jr.) 8-5 Thirteenth Race, Purse $250,000, Stakes, 3 yo One And One Sixteenth Miles-Dirt 01 Quality Mischief (M Pedroza, Jr.) 10-1 02 Carson Street (A Concepcion) 8-1 03 Crown the Buckeye (R Santana, Jr.) 4-1 04 Exosome (J Loveberry) 20-1 05 Golden Tempo (J Ortiz) 8-1 06 Thunder Buck (L Saez) 6-1 07 Mesquite (F Prat) 8-1 08 White Tiger (I Ortiz, Jr.) 8-1 09 Ocelli (J Ramos) 12-1 10 Stop the Car (B Curtis) 8-1 11 Chip Honcho (P Lopez) 9-2

FRIDAY’S FAIR GROUNDS RESULTS First Race - $14,000, Claiming $5,000, 3 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs Menty B (B. Curtis) $4.80 $3.00 $2.20 Safecracker Sue (H. Hernandez) $8.20 $3.60 Spirit to Inspire (I. Castillo) $2.60 Finish Time: 1:13.52 Exacta (4-1) $17.70; Superfecta (4-1-6-2) $18.16; Trifecta (4-1-6) $28.85 Second Race - $15,000, Maiden Claiming $12,500, 4 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs Illy Simz (H. Hernandez) $28.00 $10.00 $5.40 Y City (A. Concepcion) $5.00 $2.80 Pauline’s Angel (M. Murrill) $4.00 Finish Time: 1:14.29 Daily Double (4-7) $23.00; Exacta (7-8) $57.50;

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Continued from page 1C half was great offensively. But we just didn’t get enough stops.”

Williamson finished with 27 points and missed just two shots all game. He made 10 of 12 from the floor to go with his six rebounds and seven assists. Williamson didn’t miss his first shot until the 7:07 mark of the third quarter.

Five other Pelicans scored in double figures. Trey Murphy scored 22 points, including 5 of 14 on 3-pointers to go with five assists and four rebounds. It’s the seventh straight game Murphy has scored at least 20 points. Sad-

Superfecta (7-8-3-4) $114.36; Trifecta (7-8-3) $235.00 Third Race - $22,000, Maiden Claiming $30,000, 3 yo, One Mile Bst Knwn Scrt (Hrndz) $88.80 $36.80 $14.40 Brockton (H. Rea) $24.40 $9.60 Moral Man (M. Pedroza, Jr.) $4.00 Finish Time: 1:37.29 Daily Double (7-4) $277.00; Exacta (4-9) $710.10; Superfecta (4-9-6-1) $8,007.46; Trifecta (4-9-6) $2,880.80; Pic 3 (4-7-4) $432.70 Late Scratches: Heavenly Beliefs Fourth Race - $17,000, Claiming $7,500, 4 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs Briterdayzahead (S. Vives) $4.60 $3.00 $2.40

Runnin Munnin (H. Hernandez) $3.80 $2.60 Twirling Roses (J. Ortiz) $2.60 Finish Time: 1:11.45 Daily Double (4-3) $213.80; Exacta (3-4) $6.90; Superfecta (3-4-2-6) $5.41; Trifecta (3-4-2) $9.95; Pic 3 (7-4-3) $727.60 Fifth Race - $22,000, Maiden Claiming $30,000, 3 yo, One Mile Easy Munnings (P. Lopez) $10.60 $4.40 $2.80 Ramblin (J. Graham) $2.60 $2.10 Lucky N Lawless (B. Curtis) $3.20 Finish Time: 1:37.25 Daily Double (3-8) $22.80; Exacta (8-9) $12.90; Superfecta (8-9-4-5) $107.83; Trifecta (8-9-4) $28.35; Pic 3 (4-3-8) $366.35; Pic 4 (7-4-3-8)

diq Bey finished with 20, and Jordan Poole came off the bench to chip in 11.

Rookie center Derik Queen recorded his ninth double-double of the season, finishing with 14 points and 12 rebounds.

The Pacers (10-32), who lost to the Oklahoma City Thunder in last season’s NBA Finals, finally reached double-digit wins this season. Their win total ties the Pelicans (10-34), who were hoping to sweep the Pacers after beating them 128-109 in New Orleans in December. But the Pacers flipped the script this time around.

The Pels trailed 33-31 at the end of the first quarter, but the Pacers went on an 18-4 run in the second quarter to build a 63-48 lead. The Pelicans responded with a 15-3

run to trim the deficit to 66-63.

The Pacers led 73-66 at halftime.

Williamson shot a 8 for 8 from the floor in the half for 21 points.

Indiana center Jay Huff scored a career-high 29 points to lead the Pacers. His previous high was 22 points. Huff was just as impressive as Williamson, shooting 13 for 17 from the floor.

“He made some big shots,” Borrego said of Huff. “They moved it, they shared it, they trusted it, and they played with great pace.”

Pascal Siakam scored 27 points for the Pacers.

The Pelicans play on the road against the Houston Rockets on Sunday.

Email Rod Walker at rwalker@theadvocate.com.

$4,750.95; Pic 5 (4-7-7-4-3-8) $14,453.35 Sixth Race - $20,000, Claiming $20,000, 4 yo’s & up, Six Furlongs Starry Eyed (E. Murray) $19.00 $9.20 $5.00 Starport (P. Lopez) $14.00 $8.40 Yockey’s Drivethru (M. Pedroza, Jr.) $4.20 Finish Time: 1:11.29 Daily Double (8-7) $42.60; Exacta (7-2) $102.30; Superfecta (7-2-3-1) $203.86; Trifecta (7-2-3) $356.55; Pic 3 (3-8-7) $78.25 Seventh Race - $23,000, Claiming $30,000, 4 yo’s & up, One And One Sixteenth Miles Lucky Mischief (Cncpcin) $10.80 $5.60 $3.80 (dq)Maki Monarchy (P. Lopez) $7.80 $4.40 E Lion (I. Castillo) $3.20

Finish Time: 1:42.33 Daily Double (7-3) $44.30; Exacta (3-10) $41.20; Superfecta (3-10-1-4) $13.36; Superfecta (3-10-1-5) $120.95; Trifecta (3-10-1) $79.75; Pic 3 (8-7-3) $157.85 Eighth Race - $17,000, Claiming $7,500, 4 yo’s & up, One Mile Seventy Yards Daryl’s Bolt (P. Lopez) $13.80 $7.40 $4.00 Bigfoot Sighting (M. Murrill) $11.40 $6.00 I’m Your Man (B. Hernandez, Jr.) $3.40 Finish Time: 1:43.60 Daily Double (3-1) $39.30; Exacta (1-9) $84.10; Superfecta (1-9-7-8) $107.50; Trifecta (1-9-7) $223.70; Pic 3 (7-3-1) $195.10; Pic 4 (8-7-3-1) $1,599.90; Pic 5 (3-8-7-3-1) $2,826.15

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MICHAEL CONROy

Pelicans guard Saddiq Bey looks to make a pass as Indiana Pacers guard Aaron Nesmith defends during the first half of their game on Friday in Indianapolis. The Pelicans lost 127-119.

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zodIAC CAPRICoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Share your intentions, see who's on board and be willing to proceed alone. Take the initiative and show everyone what you can do. Set a strict budget and find ways to include what's most important to you.

AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) An energetic day will pump you up and get you moving in a positive direction. Start by taking care of all your unfinished projects.

Romance is favored.

PIsCEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Don't secondguess yourself; you're on target, and if you are willing to put in the time and work, you'll make headway. Initiate positive change and start a trend that encourages others to follow your lead.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Consider every possibility. Research, think matters through from beginning to end and do as much as you can yourself. Relying on others or expecting something from them will leave you at a loss.

TAuRus (April 20-May 20) Invite change into your life. Keep an open mind. Look for opportunities that offer greater freedom. Making home improvements or hosting an event are favored.

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Spend time working out or making lifestyle changes to improve your health and well-being.

Updating your appearance, attending a social event or spending time with someone interesting is encouraged.

CAnCER (June 21-July 22) Join forces with like-minded individuals and you'll find a way to bring about positive change.

Discipline and hard work will lead to

unexpected prospects that can alter your direction and give you hope for a better future.

LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Participation will lead to opportunities, newfound friends and the chance to use your skills, knowledge and experience in unique ways.

Listen, engage in bringing about changes and lend a helping hand.

VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Visit a place you love to frequent or go somewhere you've never been before but feel drawn to.

Time spent doing something fulfilling will lead to greater purpose and meaning.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Patience will be necessary when dealing with domestic issues. Bide your time. Consider what's best for you and make positive changes within your budget that help you grow stronger mentally and physically. sCoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Talk to the people you encounter, and see who shares your likes, dislikes and concerns. An opportunity to explore new places, people and possibilities will give you new insight. Now's a good time for romance. sAGITTARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) If something doesn't feel right, it probably isn't. Move forward carefully and be mindful of how much personal information you share.

Focus on how you earn and spend your money.

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By PHILLIP ALDER George Bernard Shaw said, “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

At the bridge table, we make a lot of mistakes. But with luck, as we gain experience, we make fewer of them. This week, we have been handling the trump suit. Here is one last example — let’s get it right!

West leads the diamond king against six spades. How should declarer plan the play?

The South hand is very honorable, with, in Chicago and rubber-bridge scoring, 150 in aces and 150 in spades. It also has 11 winners. Can partner produce an extra trick or two?

In this auction, South’s jump to three spades showed a solid suit, set that suit as trumps, and asked partner if he had anything. North’s raise to four spades denied an ace or a king. South’s leap to six spades was understandable, although risky with those two losing diamonds.

South must discard one diamond from the dummy on his third top heart and ruff his last diamond in the dummy. He wins with his diamond ace, cashes the three top hearts, and exits with a diamond. He takes the next trick and ruffs his last diamond with dummy’s spade eight, so

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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.

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6D ✦ Saturday, January 17, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune Public Notices

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SALE CERTIFICATE SHALL BE ISSUED TO THE PUR‐ CHASER FOR THE PROP‐ ERTY.

City of New Orleans, Cal‐ vary SPV 1, LLC, as as‐ of Synchrony signee Bank, kathryn madison, lynne zaremba, john grif‐ fin, howard c. green, MARTIN M. GURTLER III, daniel oppenheim, lo‐ more crowley, irvena crowley, victoria malveo, patrick crowley, trenitta crowley, monica armelin, terrance watson, cornell wells, ashley carey SQS 1252A 1252 LOT 10 30X100 SGLE ANDRY 9/RMS A/R SEE E REC NOTE FILED CIVIL DIST NO 97-6461 COURT 4/14/97 Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 2303 Andry St, New Orleans, LA 70117

PUBLIC NOTICE --24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 865-335 DIVISION "K" JOSHUA LUMPKIN VERSUS RACHEL L. CIRCLE WHEREAS, Joshua Lumpkin, Plaintiff in the above-captioned matter has made an application to this Honorable Court for a judgment of author‐ ity to sell the following Property, described judgment was which granted on December 1, 2025, to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, appurte‐ servitudes, nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in appertaining, anywise situated in the STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, in that part thereof known as TERRY‐ TOWN SUBDIVISION NO. 6, being part of Oakdale Subdivision, Section B, First Ward, in accordance with survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. and Associates, C. E., dated May 4, 1960, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Or‐ No. 4787, dinance adopted November 3, 1960, registered in COB 520, folio 390, Parish of Jefferson, Louisiana on December 5, 1960, and in Plan Book 41, folio 21, of‐ fice of the Clerk of Court, of Jefferson, Parish Louisiana, and according to a plan of resubdivision

by Adloe Orr, Jr. and As‐ sociates, C. E., dated De‐ cember 2, 1969, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordinance No. 9601, said lot is des‐ ignated and measured as follows: LOT 32-A, SQUARE 99, bounded by Oakwood Drive, Guardian Avenue, Goodson Drive and Carol Sue Avenue. Lot 32-A commences 386.54 feet the corner of from Guardian Avenue and Goodson Drive measures 55 feet front on Goodson Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of equal and parallel lines of 110 feet, all as more fully shown on survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. and Associ‐ ates, C. E., dated October 1, 1971.

The improvements thereon bear the Munici‐ pal Number 765 Goodson Drive, Gretna, Louisiana 70056. (the “Property”) Joshua Lumpkin, Plaintiff in the above-captioned matter, has received an offer to purchase the Property at private sale on the terms of One Hun‐ dred Eighty-One Thou‐ and 00/100 sand ($181,000.00) Dollars, all cash.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that an order granting such authority may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of final publication and that an opposition may be filed at any time prior to the issuance of such order.

PUBLISH TWICE Attorney: Timothy F. Hand Publication: The New Orleans Advocate Address: 10705 Rieger Rd. Baton Rouge, LA 70809 Telephone: (225) 383-0111 174313 Jan. 17, Feb. 7, 2t PUBLIC NOTICE --ANYONE KNOWING THE WHEREABOUTS OF ONE MORTGAGE CERTAIN NOTE DATED MARCH 28, 1996, PAYABLE TO THE OF UNION ORDER BANK OF PLANTERS LOUISIANA, IN THE SUM OF $27,645.00 SIGNED BY JAY DEE WILLIAMS AND CHERYL W. WILLIAMS PLEASE CONTACT LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP, AT‐ TORNEY AT LAW, (504) 831-7726.

174165-jan 17-1t $73.92 PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY OF NEW ORLEANS ADJUDICATED PROPERTY SALE ADVERTISEMENT

BY VIRTUE OF THE AU‐ THORITY VESTED IN ME

BY THE CONSTITUTION AND THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, I WILL SELL, AT CIVIC‐ SOURCE.COM, WITHIN THE LEGAL HOURS FOR JUDICIAL SALES BEGIN‐ NING AT 8:00 O'CLOCK A.M ON THE 4th DAY OF MARCH, 2026 AND CON‐ TINUING UNTIL SAID SALES ARE COMPLETED, TITLE TO IMMOVABLE PROPERTY ON WHICH TAXES WERE ADJUDI‐ CATED TO THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, TO EN‐ FORCE COLLECTION OF TAXES. THE NAMES OF SAID DELINQUENT TAX DEBTORS AND THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR EACH OF THE PROPERTIES TO BE OFFERED FOR SALE ARE AS FOLLOWS: DAVENPORT SHIRLEY 8706 FORSHEY ST, NEW LA 70118 ORLEANS, TAXES OWED ARE WITH THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE AND IM‐ BUILDINGS PROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, PRE‐ SERVI‐ SCRIPTIONS, TUDES, ADVANTAGES AND APPURTENANCES THERE‐ UNTO BELONGING OR IN ANYWISE APPERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF ORLEANS, IN THE SEV‐ ENTH DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, ACCORDING TO SURVEY

BY B. J. OLIVIERI, CIVIL ENGINEER, DATED DE‐ CEMBER 12, 1935, AT‐ TACHED TO AN ACT OF MORTGAGE PASSED BE‐ FORE GUS LEVY, NOTARY PUBLIC, ON DECEMBER 19, 1935. AND ACCORDING TO SURVEY BY R.L. SCHU‐ MANN, LAND SURVEYOR, DATED DECEMBER 10, 1979, SAID PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND IS MORE PARTICULARLY DE‐ SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 2, SQUARE 489, BOUNDED BY FORSHEY STREET, MONROE STREET, OLEANDER STREET SIDE AND EAGLE STREET SIDE. SAID LOT COMMENCES AT A DISTANCE OF 30.1.0 FROM THE CORNER OF MONROE STREET AND FORSHEY STREET AND MEASURES THENCE 30.0.0 ON FORSHEY FRONT STREET, SAME WIDTH IN THE REAR, BY A DEPTH BETWEEN EQUAL AND LINES OF PARALLEL 120.0.0.

8706-FORSHEYST ON THE DAY OF SALE I WILL SELL THE PROPERTY TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER. THE SALE WILL BE WITH‐ OUT APPRAISEMENT, FOR CASH OR OTHER PAY‐ MENT METHODS ACCEPT‐ ABLE TO THE TAX COL‐ LECTOR, IN LEGAL TEN‐ DER MONEY OF THE UNITED STATES, AND A NON-WARRANTY CASH

174195-jan 17-1t $61.44 PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 2026 PUBLIC HEARING: 1:30 P.M. ORLEANS TOWER 1340 POYDRAS STREET 21ST FLOOR CONFERECE ROOM THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION, IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH PROVISIONS OF THE CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS SUBDIVISION REG‐ ULATIONS, WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON Jan‐ uary 27, 2026 ON THE FOLLOWING MATTER: SUBDIVISION DOCKETS 002-26 SD002-26 Resubdivision of Lots 1 and 2 into Lot 1A, in Square 5, Chef Menteur Extension Subd‐ vision, Third Municipal District and bounded by Chef Menteur Highway and the Marques Canal.

Municipal addresses are 21130-21140 Chef Menteur Highway. (Policy D) THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION WILL HEAR PROPONENTS AND OPPO‐ NENTS TO THE ABOVE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO AT‐ TEND AND ALL RELEVANT COMMENTS CONCERNING THE PROPOSED CHANGES ARE ENCOURAGED. THE CPC HAS ESTABLISHED PUBLIC HEARING RULES WITHIN ITS ADMINISTRA‐ TIVE RULES, POLICIES, & PROCEDURES, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CPC WEBSITE: WWW. NOLA.GOV/CPC. YOU MAY ALSO SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS TO THE EX‐ ECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN ADVANCE BY MAIL (1300 PERDIDO STREET, 7TH FLOOR, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112) OR EMAIL CPCINFO@NOLA.GOV. ALL WRITTEN COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE MONDAY, EIGHT DAYS PRIOR TO THE HEARING DATE. January 15; January 17, and January 22, 2026 Robert Rivers, Executive Director NOCP 8863 174088-jan 15-17-21-3t $87.09

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 --Request for Scenic River Permit on Bayou St. John The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) as Administrator of the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System is currently considering the application of Walt Leger III to build a home and dock on Bayou St. John. Copies of the appli‐ cation can be reviewed at the LDWF main office, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA. The public is invited to comment on this permit request for a period of forty-five (45) days. Responses should be mailed to LDWF Scenic Rivers Program, P.O. Box 98000, Baton Rouge, LA 70898-9000.

173934-jan 15-16-17-3t PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 4836-DEANNEST U.S. SMALL BUSINESS AD‐ MINISTRATION, STATE OF LOUISIANA, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION, OFFICE OF COMMUNITY DEVEL‐ OPMENT, DISASTER RE‐ COVERY UNIT, ATTEN‐ TION: SMALL RENTAL PROPERTY REPAIR PRO‐ Lorna Millet GRAM, Baker, City of New Or‐ leans MELIA SUB DIV SQ 15 LOT 40 DEANNE VAR OVER OVER 109 68X100 SGLE/BR 9/RM A/R Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 4836 Deanne St, New Orleans, LA 70126 Tax Bill 2921-LAUSSATPL Isiah Hales, Globe Home‐ stead Association, City of New Orleans, kayota bar‐ nett, bessie hales, chianti hales, iyana hales, julia hales, sam hales, shelia hales, walter hales, al‐ isha milsap, dejean sam‐ son, henrola shaw, mae leaveau SQ 1483 A LOT 11 LAUS‐ SAT PL 30 X 107 SGLE 5/RMS A/R Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 2921 Laussat Pl, New Orleans, LA 70117 Tax Bill 6119NROBERTSONST Gail Robinson Richard‐ son, Gregory Richardson, City of New Orleans, United States Depart‐ ment of Justice SQ 688 LOT 25 N ROBERT‐ SON 30X120 W/FR DBLE 9/RMS A/R Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 6119 N Robertson St, New Or‐ leans, LA 70117 Tax Bill 2303-ANDRYST BENEFICIAL MORTGAGE COMPANY OF LOUISIANA INC., DARLENE MITCHELL, Cornelia Coleman Wood‐ cox, Columbia Home‐ Association, stead Louisiana Life Insurance Company, Inc., American Thrift & Finance Plan, Inc., Small Business Ad‐ Adosia ministration, Woodcox Crowley, Rose Woodcox Wynder, An‐ drew Woodcox Jr., Leslie Woodcox, Charlie Wood‐ cox, Linda Woodcox, Mal‐ colm Woodcox, Michelle Brown, Alvin Gleason,

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. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 1300 PERDIDO STREET ROOM 1W40 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 (866) 709-4513 174199-jan 17-1t $74.91 PUBLIC NOTICE --THIS NOTICE BY PUBLICA‐ TION IS NOTIFICATION THAT YOUR RIGHTS OR INTEREST IN THE FOL‐ LOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS, LOUISIANA MAY BE TERMINATED BY OP‐ ERATION OF LAW IF YOU DO NOT TAKE FURTHER ACTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH LAW: Tax Bill 8706-FORSHEYST Shirley Davenport, Citi‐ zens Homestead Associ‐ ation, City of New Or‐ leans, teresa anderson, robert davenport jr., larry lee davenport, lorna lynn morgan, unjel davenport, FDIC SQ 489 LOT 2 FORSHEY 30 X 120 Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 8706 Forshey St, New Orleans, LA 70118 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. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS 1300 PERDIDO STREET ROOM 1W40 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 (866) 709-4513 174196-jan 17-1t $47.63 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 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

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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:

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 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 173225-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 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 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 DELLA Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 233 Court, West‐ Mission 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‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173233-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

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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. JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173242-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 0500002968 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Tamika Delores Girod Moliere; Roy James Moliere, IV; -- LOT 19 SQ K GLEN DELLA Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 345 Glen Della, 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 173245-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 0500001485 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Heirs and Estate of Dorothy Bryant Davis; Karen Marie Wells Elizey; Ann Wells Stephanie Mosley; Willie Wells, Jr.; Lisa Ann Wells Cosey; -- LOT 25 SQ E GLEN DELLA Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 245 Layman Street, 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‐ ERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710 173235-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 0500000018 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Heirs and Estate of Vivian Nelson Adams & Harry Adams.

-- LOT 3 SQ M SEC 2 KENNEDY HGTS Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 261 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.

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200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

174281-jan 17-24-2t $393.32

174284-jan 17-1t #347.40

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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:

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 0500001198 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Jefferson Parish Judicial District 24th Court; Safety National Casualty; Heirs and Es‐ tate of Margaret Bezette Neuhauser Neuhauser; Trust; -SOUTH AVONDALE HOMES LOT NO 11 Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 240 Ruth Drive, Avondale, LA 70094 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.

Tax Bill 0910010963 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Jefferson Parish Judicial District 24th Court; The Cadle Co; Mariner Finance, LLC; An‐ nette W. Smith; Junell W. Joseph; Inez W. Kinzey; Maude W. Maple; Frankie Cooper; Roy C. C. Jr.; Davis Williams, Weathersby; Heirs and Estate of Freddie Havard; -- EASTBANK SUBD LOT NO 63 & 64 SQ 3 Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 7222 Street, Mistletoe Metairie, LA 70003

JEFFERSON PARISH GOVERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

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.

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LA 70126 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 11/10/1958 Height: 5'8" Weight: 130 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

Public Notices Sex Offenders

Louisiana 174037, Jan 16-17 $250.00

I, DARRELL STEVEN RICKS, have been convicted of 18 U.S.C. 2252 - Reciept or Possession Material Involving the Sexual Exploitation of Minors.

Date Convicted: 03/22/2018.

My Address is: 1418 JOURDAN AVE, APT. B, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/13/1950 Height: 5' 9 Weight: 183 Hair Color: GRAY Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

I, Frank Winding, have been convicted of 14:42.1 - Forcible Rape Sexual Motivation.

Date Convicted: 03/31/2021. 14:42 Aggravated Rape. Date Convicted: 03/31/2021.

My Address is: 470 JACKSON AVE, APT B, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/25/1956 Height: 5' 9 Weight: 201 Hair Color: BALD Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

Louisiana 174050, Jan 16-17 $250.00

Louisiana 174039, Jan 16-17 $250.00

JEFFERSON PARISH GOVERNMENT BUILDING 200 DERBIGNY ST, STE 1200 GRETNA, LA 70053 (504) 363-5710

174279-jan 17-1t $367.84 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 0910010963 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Jefferson Parish Judicial District 24th Court; The Cadle Co; Mariner Finance, LLC; An‐ nette W. Smith; Junell W. Joseph; Inez W. Kinzey; Maude W. Maple; Frankie Cooper; Roy C. C. Jr.; Davis Williams, Weathersby; Heirs and Estate of Freddie Havard; -- EASTBANK SUBD LOT NO 63 & 64 SQ 3 Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 7222 Street, Mistletoe Metairie, LA 70003 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.

174282-jan 17-24-2t $393.32 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 8420004252 Jefferson Parish Inspec‐ tion and Code Enforce‐ ment; Heirs and Estate of Abraham Lewis, Sr. & Evelina Bastein Lewis -- LOT NO 28 AMES TOWNSITE #3 Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 4th Marrero, LA Avenue, 70072 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 GOVERNMENT BUILDING

I, Delery A Brown aka DELERY BROWN aka PEANUT BROWN, have been convicted of 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 01/18/2022.

My Address is: 16500 CHEF MENTEUR HWY NEW ORLEANS, LA 70129

I, LARRY JAMES, have been convicted of 14:42.1 - Forcible Rape.

Date Convicted: 08/20/1998.

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/19/1989 Height: 5'6" Weight: 150 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 1130 ORETHA CASTLE HALEY BLVD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70113 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/13/1955 Height: 5' 10 Weight: 120 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

Louisiana 174048, Jan 16-17 $250.00

Louisiana 174041, Jan 16-17 $250.00

STAY INFORMED I, Donald Gerard Douglas, have been convicted of 14:43.1 Sexual Battery.

My Address is: 6004 chef MENTEUR HWY, Apt 126, NEW ORLEANS,

JEFFERSON PARISH GOVERNMENT BUILDING

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See more CLASSIFIEDS, page PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE Joseph P. Lopinto, III in his capacity as Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, hereby notifies his intent to donate, auction, retain or destroy unclaimed property in accordance with JP Ordinance 31-8 unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Property may be claimed by contacting the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Property and Evidence Division, located at 1801 West Bank Expressway, Harvey, LA 700548, or by calling 504376-2384. All claimants must provide proof of ownership before any property may be released.

Item #

Description

Owner

A-02186-25

Nishiki Pueblo blue bike SN: R904…721

Marcus Manley

A-09446-25

Ozone 500 bike SN: GS2112

Found Property

A-09446-25

Ozone 500 bike SN: GS2203

Found Property

A-14451-25

Black bicycle cruiser SN: unk

Found Property

A-20319-25

Ozone 500 black bike SN: G231…005

Found Property

B-01626-25

Ozone blk/gry bike SN: GS1…S77

Found Property

B-05788-25

Hyper bike blk SN: unk

Wilnor Clancy

B-13794-25

Huffy blk bike SN: SNH…440, Green 3 wheel bike SN: …200, Huffy white bike SN: 150…060

Reshard Robinson

B-15034-25

Ozone bike SN: 162805

Michael Jackson

C-04465-25

Diamondback green bike SN: YF9…827

Found Property

C-11969-25

Kent bike SN: HST…978, Blue Rock bike SN: HLT…867

Denis Munguia

C-19253-25

Unk multicolored bike SN: 130…216

Found Property

C-20604-25

Schwinn red/pink windwood bike SN: SNF…264

Derek Chaisson

D-11382-25

Roadmaster red bike SN: HH0…684

Samuel Jenkins

D-12787-25

Ozark blk bike SN: GS2311

Jeffry Venable

D-14366-25

Huffy cruiser green bike SN: HBC…008

Walter Ragas

D-22665-25

Mongoose gry bike SN: SNF…318

Joanna Mayeaux

E-08977-25

Trek G@ bike SN: WTU…64F

Eddi Osmany-Rivera

E-11566-25

Multi colored bike SN: unk

Christopher Guillory

E-12169-25

Margaritaville blu bike SN: 610…140

William West

E-17626-25

Fisher gry bike SN: CB1…032

Eric McCoy

E-21915-25

Ozone red/pink bike SN: GS1…852

Christopher Vicknair

F-01809-25

Fuji M-500 bike blue SN: CF0…328

Richard Vonderbrink

F-15647-25

Next 26 bike SN: TDD…377

Marune Johnson

F-15754-25

Huffy beach blk/red bike SN: 5NA…650

Found Property

G-11365-25

Shzamano gry/pur bike SN: B54…119

Byron Lemon

G-22279-25

White spray painted bike SN: unk

Daniel Bianchini

G-222749-25

Blk Mongoose bike

Brian James

H-10774-25

Huffy silver bike SN: SNH…394

Found Property

H-12168-25

Huffy yellow bike SN: SNH…690

Cody Hanso

H-16287-25

Huffy blu bike SN: 125…415

Found Property

H-21445-25

Mongoose blk bike SN: SNF…968

Found Property

H-21445-25

Jason e-bike SN: 36V…092

Found Property

I-03418-25

Huffy gry bike SN: HTL…551

Found Property

I-06288-25

Diamond back blue SN: DAF…334

Sterlin Trufant

I-11570-25

Huffy purple mike SN: JM2…287

Found Property

I-15007-25

Roch riders bike SN: 711…234

Found Property

I-17299-25

SC7K pink bike SN: 011…311

Found Property

J-03165-25

Next red bike SN: DJH…743

Found Property

JEFFERSON PARISH GOV‐

173838-606171-jan 17-1t $ 157.08

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Something new and something traditional Karen Taylor Gist

Four local designers — Penny Francis, Curtis Herring, Grace Kaynor and Tanga Winstead — talk about the trends they expect to see in for 2026. Be in the know as Jyl Benson shares the story on Page 12.

There’s one trend we follow every year at this time, no matter the weather, no matter what color Pantone says is the hot new thing. Louis Aubert has some suggestions on how to work a little purple, green and gold into your spaces. See Page 4.

A luxurious Mandeville mansion sits along the Tchefuncte River, offering lovely views and a taste of Italian style. It could be yours for $3.2 million. Victor Andrews offers a peek inside on Page 16.

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COVER STORY

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ONE IN A MILLION

Start the party with some Carnival decor. PAGE 4 Home & garden happenings. PAGE 6

AT HOME WITH MARNI

A whirlwind move ends with a party. PAGE 7

The InsideOut home and garden section is published every Saturday by The Times-Picayune. Questions about InsideOut should be directed to the editor.

INSIDEOUT EDITOR: Karen Taylor Gist, kataylor@theadvocate.com CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Victor Andrews, Louis J.Aubert, Jyl Benson,

Marni Jameson, Dan Gill COVER DESIGN: Andrea Daniel TO BE FEATURED: Send information and photos to insideout@theadvocate.com

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Home decor trends in store for 2026. PAGE 12 Luxe living on the Tchefuncte for $3.2M. PAGE 16

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

Recent transactions in the metro area. PAGE 20

It’s prime tree-planting time. PAGE 8

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HOME WORK WITH LOUIS Float-style flowers can add color to a home’s interior walls.

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Celebrate the spirit WISHING YOU

of Mardi Gras HAPPY HOLIDAYS

Carnival color

Punch up decor with a little

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Drape beads on a fence for an easy and effective way to embrace the season. Try the newer, oversize ones for a contemporary touch.

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If you subscribe to the “more is more and less is a bore” approach to seasonal decorations, your home may look a little bare now that Christmas has been boxed away.

(You know you fall into that category if your holiday decor looks as though joy has exploded in your living room.)

So it’s time for a seasonal decor transition. In other parts of the country, the arrival of spring in the form of crocus and tulips heralds the desire to spiff up the place. But here, Mardi Gras is the driving force, and hues of purple, green and gold take center stage. Yes, all who love New Orleans really believe that those colors look good together.

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Violas in purple and yellow and their accompanying greenery make a Carnival statement in your flower beds.

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LEFT: From flambeaux to floats and Indians, local folk artist Lorraine Gendron crafts an array of Carnival themed painted wooden pieces that are perfect for tabletops.

Colored Depression glass can be a part of a beautiful Carnival-inspired table.

Here are some ways to bring these hues, which represent justice, faith and power, respectively, into your home: Let’s start outside with oversized beads draped on the fence or porch rail. It’s a simple, easy and effective way to express and embrace the season.

Seasonal bedding plants in the tricolors, such as pansies and violas, add a fresh touch in the landscape or in pots near the front door.

We’ve all seen Christmas trees morph into Carnival trees, so why not also drag out that Christmas wreath and replace red ornaments with purple, green and gold and perhaps add a glittered or sequined mask or two?

Add cut flowers to greenery gathered from your garden. A few golden yellow button mums combined with purple daisies with chartreuse-colored centers positively scream “MARDI GRAS!” Fill a bowl to overflowing with beads and doubloons, or scatter them across the fireplace mantle with a few king cake babies or other trinkets thrown in for good measure. Have some crazy fun for a few weeks with a chandelier heavily embellished with beads.

Consider collecting Carnivalinspired local art. For instance, Louisiana folk artist Lorraine Gendron has created painted

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FILE PHOTO parade figures and floats that speak of this special celebration. How about a parade down the center of the dining table floating on a bed of purple, green and gold Easter basket grass?

Dress your table in the colors of the season by mixing Depression glass, Fiestaware or any colorful dishware with the basics.

Colorful glassware is also a great addition to the table; dig out the odds and ends and put them to use.

Embellish green or white table linens with elaborate and colorful ribbons: Place

lengths of ribbon as a table runner or simply use ribbon as napkin rings. Look online for John Marks Enterprises, which has the most incredible selection of wired ribbon. So outstanding are its ribbons that owner John Marks was featured speaker at the January Dallas Design Market.

Bibliophiles can display some of the many wonderful books that document Carnival. They range from Henri Schindler’s scholarly series that details historic jewelry, invitations, float and costume design to “The Big Book of King Cake.”

However you choose to decorate and celebrate Mardi Gras

within your home, remember to have fun.

After all, that is what it’s all about!

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Using natural materials and more, workshop attendees of all ages can fashion a fascinator in time for spring at Longue Vue House and Gardens.

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Longue Vue House and Gardens in New Orleans hosts a fascinator headpiece-making workshop using a variety of natural materials from the gardens on Jan. 31.

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Thursday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project: 9 a.m. Friday. Big

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On Jan. 12, its horticulture team began planting 10,000 tulip bulbs. Peak bloom for the flowers is expected to be late February, just the time that we’re likely to need a boost.

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FAST FORWARD Marni buys a house, renovates, moves in and hosts a party in 90 days. Whew!

Editor’s note: Remember Marni? Of course you do. She recently retired from writing the weekly column that ran in these pages but still contributes the occasional missive. This is one of them.

The date had been etched on the calendar for a year: DC’s last day of work, the day he would retire after 40 years of practicing law. He talked about this nonstop, sometimes with exhilaration (Oh, the places we’ll go!), sometimes with ambivalence (Who will handle my cases?), sometimes with anxiety (Only seven more paychecks).

I, his patient and tolerant wife, ignored all his mental machinations and focused instead on, what else? Marking the milestone with a party at our place!

While he wrestled with his rite of passage, I party planned. Even though the event was in October, I chose an Independence Day theme. I would round up Fourth of July decorations and ask guests to wear red, white and blue. I would get sparklers, and red and blue party napkins that said “Sip Sip Hooray! It’s DC’s Independence Day” and “Out Of Office Forever!”

I had it all pictured. What I hadn’t pictured was that just 90 days before the big day, we would accept an allcash offer on our house, which wasn’t even listed, detonating seismic upheaval.

Between now and then, we would have to pack and move out of the Happier Yellow House, find a new house, renovate it, move in and be show-ready. I pictured that cartoon of a waiter wearing black tie and a confident smile perfectly balancing a silver serving tray of drinks while below he is skidding on banana peels and ice.

Of course, it never occurred to me to postpone the party or have it anywhere but at my house, wherever that was.

And so, the countdown began.

T-minus 90 days. We accept the offer with no new house in sight. Go ahead and judge, but if you were on the verge of retirement and wanted to move into your next chapter with no mortgage and extra cash, you, too, would accept.

T-minus 85 days. In a state of denial (we are not about to be homeless in six weeks), we take off on a long-planned

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noncancellable two-week vacation overseas. Although we have looked at over a dozen homes for sale, we haven’t found The House. One has potential but needs work. We plan to revisit it after our trip and see what else comes on the market.

T-minus 78 days. The house with potential has an offer coming in. Maybe now, because someone else wants it, I like it more. It does have charming curb appeal, a great neighborhood near friends, good size, better floor plan, nice light, good bones and is two-thirds the price of the home we’re selling, so no mortgage. Plus, the house is yellow — a sign. I also have a work list: replace the flooring with hardwood throughout, paint over “decorative” designs and personal-choice colors (petunia pink and prison gray), gut and update two bathrooms, replace dated light fixtures and ceiling fans and add built-in bookshelves. I run all this by DC. His eyeballs roll back in his head like dollar signs in a slot machine. We make an offer from Germany. It’s accepted.

T-minus 70 days. The rest of our socalled vacation is a flurry of texts and Zoom calls to negotiate home inspections and related repairs.

T-minus 46 days. After weeks of nonstop packing, purging, donating and gathering bids for work at the new house, we move out of the Happier Yellow House and put our furniture in storage.

T-minus 42 days. We close on the Happiest Yellow House.

T-minus 39 days. A crew descends on the house with jackhammers. They tear out the floors and gut two of the home’s three bathrooms. The recently updated bathroom in the primary bedroom is spared. The house is literally a shell of its former self. I want to cry.

T-minus 20 days. With new wood floors installed and painting done, the movers

PHOTO By MARNI JAMESON

Caterers christen the kitchen of the Happiest yellow House. Party fare features cupcakes with red, white and blue sprinkles, and red-and-blue fruit kabobs to underscore DC’s retirement party’s Independence Day theme. arrive with our furniture. We spend our first night in our new home. We optimistically send e-vites for DC’s retirement party.

T-minus 16 days. Installers start tiling the two bathrooms. We hang art.

Construction begins on the built-ins — shelves and cabinets in the office and family room. We have boxes of books and accessories on the floor that I’m itching to put away but need shelves.

T-minus 14 days. An electrician replaces four ceiling fans and installs 12 can lights in previously underlit rooms.

I am getting nervous that the party is two weeks away and I don’t have a working bathroom for guests. I don’t want 50 people traipsing through my bedroom to get to the one working bathroom.

T-minus 7 days. We install drapery rods and drapes. Vanity cabinets go in the two guest baths. We still need counters, sinks and faucets.

T-minus 4 days. With the paint (barely) dry on the built-ins, I gleefully empty the boxes of books and accessories.

T-minus 2 days. Stone counters, sinks and faucets go in guest baths. The finish line is in sight.

T-minus 1 day. Mirrors and light fixtures go up in the bathrooms. Dust is everywhere. We clean like mad.

T-minus 0. Fifty guests arrive to the Happiest Yellow House to celebrate DC’s retirement. Many say, “I can’t believe you just moved in! It doesn’t look like it.” I wave my hand, while balancing a tray of bubbling Champagne

glasses, and say lightly, “Oh, it was nothing!”

I have a saying: A task will expand to fill the amount of time you have. And while I did break a sweat more than once getting my new home decorated and party-ready in the 40 days between getting keys and hosting, here’s what helped: 1. A deadline. As a veteran journalist, I know deadlines work. If you want something done, set one.

2. Being organized. In the days before we closed on the new house, I solicited workers and bids. Afterward, I was like air traffic control, lining up crews and supplies on the runway helping projects take off and land.

3. Ordering what I could early. The goal was to not have a contractor waiting on materials. I had a garage full of wood flooring, tile, sinks, faucets, paint, light fixtures and ceiling fans ready.

4. Getting good people. I could not have pulled this off without excellent contractors including painters, flooring installers, electricians, handymen, cabinet makers and more. Treat them well.

Marni Jameson is a speaker and award-winning author of seven home and lifestyle books, including “Downsizing the Family Home” and “Rightsize Today for Your Best Life Tomorrow.” If you have questions about home improvement, better living, downsizing or rightsizing, send them to marni@marnijameson.com.

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PRUNE ROSES: Plan to prune your repeat-flowering roses at the end of January through mid-February. Pruning roses encourages vigorous new growth that will produce lots of flowers. Pruning is also done to shape the shrubs, remove dead wood and to control their size. Pruning roses at this time gets them ready for the blooming season that occurs in the mild weather of April to early June. Roses are pruned again in late August or early September to get them in good shape for the fall blooming season from October to December.

WON’T MIND THE COLD: The foliage of spring-flowering bulbs has been up and growing for a number of weeks now.

The foliage is cold-hardy and will not be bothered by freezes.The flowers are more susceptible to freeze damage, and open flowers should be cut if temperatures below the upper 20s are predicted. Place the cut flowers in vases and enjoy them indoors.

SEED CARE: Seeds of tomatoes, peppers and eggplants should be started now through early February under lights or in a greenhouse for transplanting into the garden in March and early April. Many gardeners do not have the facilities to properly grow transplants from seed. Providing enough light is the most common limiting factor.

A greenhouse or indoor plant lights can provide enough light.Windowsills generally don’t.

SPRING FLOWERS: Foxglove, delphinium and hollyhock are large, tall-growing, cool-season bedding plants that need to be planted early to put on a great display in spring. Plant transplants this month or by February at the latest for bloom in March.

When selecting a tree for your landscape, make a list of the characteristics the tree should have and the growing conditions where it will be planted.

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Roots matter of the

Shady trees come in all shapes and sizes.

Here’s how to choose the right one.

This week we celebrate Louisiana Arbor Day (the third Friday in January), the traditional time we celebrate trees by planting them.

And plant them we should — trees provide a wide variety of benefits to our outdoor environment.

Before you head out to the nursery to purchase a tree for your landscape, there are some important things to consider. Selecting the right trees requires careful

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deliberation.

A common mistake people make when selecting a tree is failing to

consider the purpose it will serve and the characteristics it needs to have. In all earnestness, someone will ask me to recommend “a good shade tree.” Recommending a tree, however, cannot be done properly without considerably more information.

Asking a horticulturist to recommend a good shade tree is

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Canna bulbs can survive the cold in south Louisiana

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Contributing writer I was digging up my canna bulbs for winter storage and noticed a white substance around the roots of some of Garden them. I was wondering if this is mold or advice fungus of some sort.

If so, do I need to get rid of the affected bulbs or just wash them off well? Do I need to treat the area where they were planted and, if so, with what? — Glen The white substance you are seeing is likely just harmless saprophytic fungi decaying organic matter in the bed. Cannas grow well in soggy, even saturated soil, so fungal root rots and soil fungus problems are not generally an issue for them. So, there is no need for concern. I’d just wash it off and leave it at that.

However, we do not need to dig and store canna rhizomes over the winter down here, so this is needless work. Up North, winters are cold enough to freeze the soil. This would kill the canna rhizomes. So, Northern gardeners dig cannas in fall or early winter before the ground freezes and store them in frost-free locations until spring.

Our winters are mild, and soil does not freeze here the way it does in Northern climates. We can just leave the cannas in the ground and save the trouble of digging and storing the rhizomes. Cannas are healthier and happier left in the ground over the winter.

If you need to, you can dig, divide or transplant them in the spring, around March.

I imagine you saw information on the need to dig and store canna rhizomes over the winter on the internet. But now you know that this advice is the wrong information for

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Canna lily bulbs can stay in the ground all winter. south Louisiana. When seeking gardening advice on the internet, make sure the gardening information is written for Louisiana, the Coastal South or Deep South in hardiness zones 8 and 9.

I have a couple of 75-year-old live oaks. I was recently told that they need to be cleaned out of dead wood and crossed branches.These trees are healthy and beautiful, and to my knowledge, have never had this type of maintenance. In your opinion, is this

expensive maintenance necessary?

Thanks. — Judy To put things into perspective, pruning dead wood and crossed branches is certainly not a matter of life and death.

You should not feel pressured.

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Continued from page 8 like walking into a shoe store and asking the salesperson to recommend a good pair of shoes. What kind of shoes do you think they would sell you?

Without knowing your shoe size, what you will be doing in them, your taste, your budget and a variety of other factors, the salesperson won’t be able to help you select the right shoes.

The situation is the same when selecting a tree. You must first decide what characteristics the tree needs to possess. Think about the purpose of the tree and why you feel it is needed. This will help you determine what characteristics are desired, such as its shape, size, ornamental features and so forth.

Deciding the desired mature size of the tree is critical to the selection process. A tree to shade a patio, for instance, should be 15 to 25 feet tall, while a tree to shade a one-story house needs to be 30 to 40 feet tall and a tree to shade a large building may need to be 60 feet tall.

Choosing a tree that will mature at the proper size based on its purpose and available space is critical to the desired outcome. We commonly plant

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Find the right tree for your location by asking yourself a series of questions.

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Now through the end of February is an excellent time to plant need to be determined before trees that grow way too large trees. Water a newly planted tree whenever the weather is dry. This deciding the best tree for your for their sites. is the single most important thing you can do to ensure its survival What about the growing conditions? landscape include: the first summer after planting. n Should the tree be everThe tree must be well-adapted to our climate and the growing conditions where you intend to plant it, including the amount of available light, drainage and soil pH. Trees offered at local nurseries are almost always suitable for planting here, but be cautious ordering from mail-order nurseries.

Other characteristics that

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n Are there nearby power lines or concrete surfaces (sidewalk, driveway) that need to be considered? This will affect where the tree is planted and its appropriate mature size.

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ter), make a list of the characteristics the tree should have and the growing conditions where it will be planted. Then consult an appropriate plant materials reference book, go to the nursery and talk to the staff or contact a horticulturist at your parish LSU AgCenter Extension office, and ask them for help in selecting the trees that best fit your list of desired characteristics.

There is likely to be just one tree, or at most a few, that closely match your list of desired characteristics. Your choice is made from just those trees that most closely fit your desired characteristics and the growing conditions. Doing this, you will end up with the best tree for the situation.

Planting your tree Now through the end of February is an excellent time to plant trees. To get started, dig the hole at least twice the

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Continued from page 9 move into major branches or the trunk (however, live oaks are fairly resistant to rot, a major reason they live so long).

Removing dead branches, particularly larger ones, also prevents them from falling out of the tree, possibly causing damage if they fall on a structure, car, etc. So, if you see significant amounts of dead wood in the tree (especially branches several inches in diameter), removing the dead wood is a good idea.

Removing crossed branches is more optional. If an arborist convinces you of the benefits it would provide to your particular tree (pointing out examples of crossed branches and explaining

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Continued from page 10 diameter of the root ball and no deeper than the height of the root ball.

Remove container-grown trees from the container, and place the tree gently onto the firm, undisturbed soil in the bottom of the hole. The top of the root ball should be level with or slightly above the surrounding soil. It is critical that you do not plant the tree too deep.

Thoroughly pulverize the soil dug out from the hole and use this soil, without any additions, to backfill around the tree. Since the roots will spend most of the tree’s life growing in native soil outside of the planting hole, they might as well get used to it from the beginning.

Add the pulverized soil around the root ball, gently firming the soil as you go to eliminate air pockets. Do not pack it tightly. Finish filling the hole, and then water the tree thoroughly to settle it in.

It is not necessary to fertilize the newly planted tree. The use of a root stimulator solution is optional.

Stake the tree properly if it is tall enough to be unstable.

Removing dead branches, which may begin to decay and spread rot throughout the tree, helps protect the health of the tree.

what issues they may create for your tree), then it’s fine to have the work done. There is no hurry to decide to deal with the crossed branches. But do consider having the dead growth removed.

Is it too late to plant radish and carrot seeds in pots? — Alan It’s not too late to plant radish and carrot seeds. Choose carrot varieties that produce short roots for container growing. To keep you on track on when to plant vegetables, look up the LSU AgCenter Louisiana Vegetable Planting Guide online for a great reference.

Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter. He hosts the “Garden Show” on WWL-AM Saturdays at 9 a.m. Email gardening questions to gnogardening@agcenter.lsu.edu.

Leave the support in place no more than nine to 12 months.

It is beneficial to keep the area 1 to 2 feet out from the trunk mulched and free from weeds and grass. This encourages the tree to grow faster by eliminating competition from grass roots and prevents lawn mowers and string trimmers from damaging the base of the tree.

Water a newly planted tree whenever the weather is dry.

This is the single most important thing you can do to ensure its survival the first summer after planting.

To properly water a tree in

its first year, turn a hose on trickle and lay the end on top of the ground within 6 inches of the trunk. Let the water trickle for about 20 to 30 minutes. This should be done once or twice a week during hot, dry weather.

Trees are indispensable to our urban environment and provide beauty, cooling shade, habitat and food for wildlife and increase property values.

Celebrate Arbor Day by planting trees but think carefully about what trees you choose to plant. It’s a decision you and future generations will live with for a long time.

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FOUR INTERIOR DESIGNERS TRACK 2026 TRENDS

BY JYL BENSON

Contributing writer Few would argue that while trends come and trends go, style remains eternal.

Equally inarguable is the reality that trends can be fun! Just think of last year’s Labubu monster toy and Dubai chocolates, and especially the combination of the two trends, the Dubai Chocolate Labubu, an amalgamation for which people were inexplicably willing to plunk down upward of $30 for a chocolate bonbon in the shape of the friendly little creature soaked in a cloyingly syrup that was supposed to taste like pistachio but didn’t.

As trends tend to do — at least in the 20th and 21st centuries — they reemerge after a hiatus of 20 or more years. We are seeing this now with a reembrace of “brown” furniture; the plaids, jewel tones and chintz Ralph Lauren and Laura Ashley ushered into Americana in the 1980s; and the built-ins that were de rigueur of high midcentury modern architecture.

Returning are “art deco silhouettes in furniture, lighting and fabrics,” said New Orleans-based interior designer Penny Francis, of Eclectic Home. “We see a return to maximalism, rooms that are nostalgic and layered interiors.”

At the same time, nonsensically cluttering our beds with heaps of pillows and whatnot is a goner.

“The biggest trend I am seeing in bedding is less clutter,” said interior designer Grace Kaynor, of Sotre, a Magazine Street studio specializing in fine textiles. Kaynor said the trend

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Interior designer Grace Kaynor says having an abundance of plants indoors is a definite trend. ‘They clean the air and add color without being too much.’

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Green may be the new neutral.

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Interior designer Curtis Herring says ‘introducing color makes the kitchen cozy, gives it more character and makes it more connected to the rest of the home.’

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Interior designer Curtis Herring favors bold patterns and florals on walls to ‘create a visually dynamic space with depth and personality that paint cannot provide.’

‘Moody colors, high-gloss/ high-shine finishes in paint can be done on a ceiling, door trim or interior doors if not the entire room,’ says New Orleans-based interior designer Penny Francis.

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Continued from page 12 is toward “fewer monograms and fewer extra-large European pillows. So, one extralarge Euro instead of three on a king bed, maybe a pattern for a lumbar pillow and cooling, temperature-regulating sheets. It’s about quality and comfort. People want lasting investment pieces that will help them get a good night’s rest.”

Also, Kaynor said having

plants in abundance is a huge trend. “They clean the air and add color without being too much,” she said.

Their color is trendy as well.

“Green is the new neutral,” added Tanga Winstead, of Tanga Winstead Designs.

We also are eschewing white and neutrals (whatever were the brains at Pantone thinking in naming the white “Cloud Dancer” as the color of the year?) in favor of colors that express us, moving from cool tones to warm (even with white when we must), and embracing personality and

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the all-white kitchen and embracing color in cabinetry, finishes and fabrics,” said New Orleans-based interior designer Curtis Herring. “Introducing color makes the kitchen cozy, gives it more character and makes it more connected to the rest of the home. At the same time, choosing proven, timeless colors will eliminate any short-lived trends.”

Elsewhere, color gets more leeway.

“Moody colors, high-gloss/ high-shine finishes in paint can be done on a ceiling, door trim or interior doors if not the entire room,” Francis added.

Also, Francis said, think of the unexpected and playful, such as whimsical accents in architectural details like ironwork and millwork.

Reembracing natural wood A return to the sensibility

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LEFT: Art deco silhouettes are returning, says designer Penny Francis, along with a return to maximalism.

BELOW: ‘Custom banquettes maximize seating space and provide hidden storage,’ says Tanga Winstead, of Tanga Winstead Designs, which specializes in getting the most out of small spaces.

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“Using bold patterns and florals on walls can create a visually dynamic space with depth and personality that paint cannot provide,” Herring said. “By incorporating the same pattern in fabrics, the design feels more layered and unified.”

One pattern has never really gone away. “The animal print, which came into fashion during the reign of Marie Antoinette, is still going strong as

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“Custom banquettes maximize seating space and provide hidden storage,” said Winstead, whose firm specializes in getting the most out of small spaces. “We also want pieces that are highly functional.”

Think performance fabrics and swivel or motion chairs that can be used in different spaces, from dining to living and home office spaces.

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an accent,” Winstead said.

Francis anticipates the animal print trend to intensify as the year progresses. “The use of animal prints in upholstery, animal furs in throws, cowhide rugs and bold animal prints in wallpaper — you will see this throughout the year in design.”

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that natural wood bespeaks character and beauty means that Granny’s armoire can decamp from the attic. Antiques are a thing again.

“Brown wood furniture — burl, walnut and oak finishes in cabinets, floors and furnishings add warmth and depth,” Francis said.

But they don’t have to dominate.

“Mixing antiques and heirloom pieces with contemporary pieces creates a layered look that feels curated and timeless,” Winstead said. “We want quality, warmth and texture.”

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Italian-style villa in Mandeville offers views of the Tchefuncte

Italian style is evident at this home on Magnolia Lane in Mandeville, a stellar threebedroom dwelling on the banks of the Tchefuncte River.

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The traffic on the pastoral Tchefuncte River is nothing compared with the hectic flow on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy.

But there is a slice of Italy waiting on the banks of the St. Tammany Parish waterway.

The Mandeville manse that recalls dwellings in the European city is located in one of the northshore’s gated communities — Beau Chene — with ready access to roadways leading to the Causeway or the east-west Interstate 10.

Villa Bellavista stands proudly on almost a half-acre lot at 432 Magnolia Lane. It offers more than 9,200 square feet (more than 5,200 square feet of living space) with three bedrooms, three full baths, imported fixtures and an immense amount of style. The home lives up to its name (Bella vista is Italian for beautiful views) with three stories of vantage points to see the graceful bend in the Tchefuncte. The asking price is $3.25 million.

A broad front staircase leads to the porch and front door, with its detailed facade of multiple elements.

The double front doors with a fan transom lead into the home’s dramatic living room, which spans the length of the house and soars to the second floor. A custom mural of the Battle of Jericho blankets the ceiling, while Thassos marble tiles anchor the floor.

A black marble fireplace balances the side opposite the stairs leading to the upper floor. Twin powder rooms flank the front door.

To the right, an office is on the corner of the house and is brightly lit by large windows. Walnut and oak parquet floors warm the space and create a stylish spot for work.

Double doors from the office lead

A La Cornue range is the culinary focal point of the kitchen, which also features a central island with seating, abundant counter space and a library ladder for access to the plentiful storage above. into the home’s den, which is open to the central living room through a column-flanked broad opening. The parquet floors create a tie with the wooden casements on the large windows, which allow natural light into the

space.

Across the living room, the formal dining room repeats the flooring and windows, making the space a welcome spot for elegant meals and entertaining. It features a similar columned

The central living room has a view of the ceiling mural and the wraparound gallery that provides access to the bedrooms on the upper floor. opening into the main floor’s central space.

A short hallway from the dining

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The upper-floor balcony provides majestic views of the home’s setting along the banks of the pastoral Tchefuncte River. room features wine and glassware storage and leads into the sizable kitchen. Gleaming white cabinets and marble counters are studded with golden accents and paired with stainless appliances, with a white and gold La Cornue Range. A central island with a waterfall counter is a prime spot for culinary pursuits and entertaining or casual dining.

A library ladder makes access to the upper cabinets easy. A separate prep area has an additional sink, refrigerator and microwave.

The top floor features a hallway to with the sleeping quarters of the villa, headlined by the primary suite. The sleeping chamber includes a seating area with large windows and built-in cabinetry.

Through double doors, the primary bath is a spa-inspired experience. Twin water closets with bidets are located next to twin vanities that hold Italian fixtures. A gilded soaking tub holds a place of prominence in front of the walkthrough shower. One walk-in closet opens onto the room while a hallway leads to the larger of the two closets, which has a dressing table along one wall and boutique-style storage and cabinets.

The two additional bedrooms are en suite, both with tubs and standing showers. A large laundry facility is conveniently placed on the floor, and a

Italian fixtures are featured throughout the home, including the marble and sinks in the primary bath. balcony provides a view of the rear of the home.

Stairs from the main floor lead down to the Europeanstyle pool, complete with water features and a curved apron around the swimming area.

On the river, a dock facility is primed for aquatic endeavors.

The ground floor of the home features a large space that is climate-controlled and does not factor in the living square footage. There is also parking for four cars and an elevator to all floors.

The home is listed by Vince Liuzza III, of Liuzza Realty Group, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices, (504) 237-9634.

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Kenneth J. Broadwell to Silver Linings LLC. NEW ORLEANS ST. 2720: $250,000, YMA LLC to Jonathan D. Whipple.

N. DORGENOIS ST. 1743: $420,000, Anna Gentry Thompson and Christopher Thompson to Andrea Lapointe Barden and Michael Thomas Barden.

N. GALVEZ ST. 1922: $50,000, Piedmont Properties LLC to Nola Community Chest LLC. N. ROCHEBLAVE ST. 2901-03: $40,000, Rose Gilbert Bienvenu to Lawrence Edward Dillon.

ONZAGA ST. 2807: $210,000, Rebecca Owens to Berton Lynn Breaux.

PAULINE DRIVE 5901: $105,000, Emile H. Clay Jr. to Keyana N. Esteen.

PAULINE ST. 1812: $15,000, Scotty J. Evert to Zalia Elaine Bevill Wheat.

PRESS DRIVE 4711: $50,000, Allison Mary Story, Bernell Raymond Story Jr., Gay Marie Story Walker and Kirk Charles Story to Kenric E. Haynes and Shari D. Stewman Haynes.

PROVIDENCE PLACE 5817: $235,900, Latiaya Henderson Morris to Melita Kellette Payne Spencer.

ROBERT E. LEE BLVD. 1656: $600,000, Carrevert LLC to ALVJ LLC. ST. FERDINAND ST. 3538: donation, no value stated, Next Generation of Original Morning Star Full Gospel Baptist Church Inc. to Tyrone Smith.

ST. ROCH AVE. 3025-27: $126,000, Hazel Anderson Sorina to Jerzei Estates Property Management LLC. TRAPIER AVE. 7550: $205,000, Christopher James Giveans and Kimberly Potter Giveans to Zwila Burks Martinez.

WARRINGTON DRIVE 302: donation, no value stated, Alice Willette Smith to Charles Williams.

WAVE DRIVE 7710: $145,950, CWABS Inc. Asset Backed Certificates Series 2007-10 to Joseph Ferrand.

WILDAIR DRIVE 5745: $355,000, J&W Builders Group LLC to Rainnier Dwight Buenaseda Mira.

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CONSTANCE ST. 3209: $100,500, Galilee Housing Initiative Community Development Corp. to Richard Wayne Jernigan and Stewart Andrew Ramsay.

EIGHTH ST. 617-19: $300,000, Catherine Alexandria Hafner to Gerald D. Denton II. LAUREL ST. 3008-3010: $130,000, Galilee Housing Initiative and

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS Continued from page 18 Community Development to Koi Fish LLC. PRYTANIA ST. 2211: $100, Caroline Toth Reily and William Boatner Reily IV to Heidi G. Morse.

ST. ANDREW ST. 2013-15: $252,000, Gwendolyn Rosemore Abair and Patrick R. Abair Sr. to Rashied Cormier and Shanika Latrice Williams.

ST. MARY ST. 1433: $1,005,000, Hammond Norris Garrison to Julie Edmonds.

ST. CHARLES AVE. 2100: $605,000, Patricia L. Barnett to Gail Chauvin Zeringue and Rene P. Zeringue Jr. ST. CHARLES AVE. 2111: donation, no value stated, Madelyn Smith Garrity to Vikki Espinosa.

S. CLAIBORNE AVE. 2306-08, 231012: $100 and other goods and valuable, Ely Edwards Enterprises Inc. to Wagner Residential LLC. S. MIRO ST. 2618: $70,000, Vanessa Bolton Davis to Boran Firat.

S. SARATOGA ST. 2914: $15,300, Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans Inc. to Canaan Properties LLC.

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JAN. 9

HARAHAN CRIS-LAUR AVE. 165: Keith Haas to Lisa Mcardle, $185,000.

DEALERS AVE. 1309: Nims P. Knobloch to Lebrun Properties LLC, $875,000.

GORDON AVE. 700: Barbara W. Banner to Hillary Burridge, $275,000.

PENFOLD PLACE 233: Roy Herbert Jr. to Allison M.D. Leach, $372,000.

W. IMPERIAL DRIVE 29: Rachel Demac to Vivian C.S. Cahill, $125,988.

KENNER COMPROMISE ST. 900: Abigail Land Holdings 33 LLC to Emma M. Buckner, $11,397.

CONTINENTAL DRIVE 3333: Audrey M. Barre to Vincent Glover Jr., $196,000.

CURTIS AVE. 907: Carlos Lois to Renton Properties LLC, $75,000.

FLORIDA AVE. 2118: B&I Holding LLC to Jswami Kenner LLC, $325,240.

David Russell Gallo II and Emma Jayne Coen.

TCHOUPITOULAS ST. 5945: donation, no value stated, Joann Locantro Branigan to Branigan Properties LLC. UPPERLINE ST. 2400: $100, Edward Joiner Pointer and Marilyn Bishop Pointer to Elizabeth Logan and John Logan.

VALENCE ST. 927: $1,375,000, Carli Beckett Simpson and Kevin Charles Simpson to Wells revocable living trust.

AMELIA ST. 2537-39: $475,000, Marclan Enterprises LLC to Ian A. Neville.

AUDUBON ST. 2126: donation, no value stated, Ben J. Haney and Elaine Seaman Haney to Ryan Jacob Haney.

CARONDELET ST. 3705: $582,500, Duke Bennett Morgan to Dino J. Radosta.

CHESTNUT ST. 7008: $837,500, 7008 Chestnut LLC to Joseph F. Rizzo III and Sarah Ionta Rizzo.

COLISEUM ST. 7108: $1,300,000, Allison Michelle Schipp Brouk and Jonathan Brouk to Addison Banerjee Winston Meth and Daniel Meth.

CONSTANTINOPLE 715: $515,000, Sheryl Wilson Hackett and Thomas Steven Hackett to Harrison Kane and Madelyn Healy Kane.

ELEONORE ST. 321: $735,000, James Yates and Sheila Yates to Morgan Lee and Tanner Lee. KRAFT PLACE 2238-40: $199,000, Vl & Associates LLC to Princess Johnson.

LOUISIANA AVE. 1215: donation, no value stated, Stuart A. Tullis to Houston Richard Tullis and Kathleen Victoria Tullis.

MAGNOLIA ST. 3429-31: $140,000, Yorsch Development Group LLC to Gosav Holdings LLC. PATTON ST. 5818: $1,045,000, Kevin Murphy and Michele F. Murphy to RM Patton LLC. PINE ST. 470: $920,000, Catherine Trammell Johnson and William H. Johnson to Heidi Gurtner Haynes and Trevor J. Haynes.

ROBERT ST. 919: $1,300,000, John Quinn Norwood to Esther Beeson Dupepe and Frank Dupepe Jr. STATE ST. DRIVE 3924: $465,000, Rebecca Ann Malpass Lindauer and Ryan Adam Lindauer to

KENTUCKY AVE. 2409: Daja Realty LLC to Duany G. Acosta, $290,000.

LOYOLA DRIVE WEST 3713: Dennis Ayala to Ze H. Liu, $193,500.

MINDEN AVE. 1023: Crystal Jones to Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC, $115,500.

MISSOURI AVE. 1701: Adriana Soimu to Jose A. Serrano Jr., $240,000.

N. LAFOURCHE COURT 5: Harold F. Adams to Bank of America N.A., $40,000.

NORMANDY DRIVE 33: Andrew C. Kessler Jr. to Choctaw American Insurance Inc., $350,000.

ST. ANN DRIVE 4200: Pamela B. Haro to Ron M. Kuchler, $439,995.

UTAH ST. 3124: Juan D. Thibodeaux to Carmen Godoy,

$305,000.

VOURAY DRIVE 724: Hollie A. Bruno to Kenneth Trinh, $445,000.

WALL ST. 9013: Kimberly Washington to Alberta Harris, donation, no value stated.

WILLIAMS BLVD. 2600: R&E Realty II LLC to R&E Realty II LLC, $1,600,000.

S. WHITE ST. 1509-11: $115,000, Salon Candies LLC to Keysha Isaac Temple.

THIRD ST. 916: $1,325,000, BD & TT Real Estate LLC, Christopher Bailey, Ryan Tyler Dunagan and Samuel Grant Tate to James Franklin Gruden.

DISTRICT 5 ABBEY DRIVE 5721: $315,000, Jennifer Brady Alvarado and Ralph Alvarado Jr. to Benjamin L. Levy IV and Vi Tang Hoisington.

HUNTLEE DRIVE 537: $255,000, Oscar Rivera Wilson to Dana Williams and Domonique Nichelle Williams.

DISTRICT 6

DISTRICT 7 14TH ST. 405: $549,000, Kelley Morgan Hebert and Troy J. Hebert to Edward F. Butler III. 18TH ST. 214: $885,000, Katherine Lou Lambert Womac and Victoria Lynn Womac Residence Trust to Tara Cooke Wright and William Kirby Wright IV. 26TH ST. 422: $398,500, Kimberly Flett and Michael C. Townsend to Taylor James Danos.

28TH ST. 212: $560,000, Brenda Leah Mathas Carson to Jose Luis Flores and Michelle Molina Cianchini Flores.

AIRLINE HIGHWAY 9119-9127, 9129: no value stated, Melvin John Faber to Zion Commercial Properties LLC.

APPLE ST. 8324: $70,000, Eugene Jermaine Porter, Janiene Porter Jessie, Rosia Mary Chambers Porter and Tiffany Cloudie Wallace to Claiborne Port LLC. APPLE ST. 8628-30: $205,000, ABC Nola LLC to Henrietta Hunter.

BIRCH ST. 8118: $325,000, Marc G. Dobriner to Bouleau LLC. CHEROKEE ST. 919-921: $620,000, Beth Anne Aguillard to Karen Sommer Shalett and Scott Adam Shalett.

DRIFTER LANE 13: $305,000, Angeles Duron Enamorado and Carlos Ali Enamorado Jr. to Janet Spansel Boudreaux and Ronald Lee Boudreaux.

HAMILTON ST. 4319: $430,000, B1 Bank to Nadia Gray Surin and Raphael Surin Jr. HICKORY ST. 7718-7720: $499,000, Saundra J. Elsky Trust to Christine Federroll and Donald C. Federroll.

LAKE MARINA DRIVE 318: $165,000, JFM One LLC to Jake Declan Leo Raynor and Marina J. Quave Raynor.

PONTCHARTRAIN BLVD. 6234: $588,000, JSE Investments LLC to Katherine Carmona Hernandez.

S. CLAIBORNE AVE. 7833-35: $260,000, David R. Engles and William R. Engles Jr. to Kingdom Ventures LLC.

METAIRIE 44TH ST. 3004: Connie S. Lanasa to Miranda Darr, $280,000.

45TH ST. 3231: Delma Cupit III to Planet Home Lending LLC, $211,700.

APOLLO DRIVE 4401: Ryan R.

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Continued from page 19 Seapy to Thomas S. Hackett, $280,000.

AUGUSTA ST. 3941: Christopher J. Russo III to Ashley M. L. Hoselle, $287,000.

AZTEC AVE. 1516 UNIT 208: Maria G. Fleming to Zoe C. Zollinger, $97,000.

BERON DRIVE 1313: Alison M. E. Syzpula to Lucas Weston, $279,000.

BEVERLY GARDEN DRIVE 57: Bertucci Investment Group LLC to Gen II Residential LLC, $512,000.

BEVERLY GARDEN DRIVE 57: Thomas S. Bruno to Bertucci Investment Group LLC, $426,000.

BONNIE ST. 1916: Ronald C. Watson to Bonnie Street LLC, $75,000.

BROCKENBRAUGH COURT 630: Hilda M. Barrett to Robert C. Borrello Sr., $275,000.

BURKE DRIVE 4405: Brittany G. Townsend to Zachary Parker, $525,000.

CLEARY AVE. 4321: Colette R. Flores to Xueying Wang, $435,000.

CLEVELAND PLACE 4700: Byron J. Bagley to Brittany A. Schoen, $567,500.

ELIZABETH AVE. 1801: Marie T.B. Junca to Rachel M. Delaune, $367,000.

ELLIS PARKWAY 1508: Arthur G. Buuck Jr. to Monika Korsnes, $602,050.

GIUFFRIAS AVE. 2509: Beit Anan Remodeling LLC to Allen M. Watson, $52,000.

GREEN ACRES ROAD 2412: Ritzmann Family Living Trust to Laurel E.N. Money, $290,000.

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menta to Carmen E. P. Armenta, $303,000.

HEIGHTS 289: William N. Fallis to Caroline Livingston, $411,000.

HESPER AVE. 1009: Laurie A.C. Frens to Wingate Investment Group LLC, $287,500.

HESPER AVE. 401: David Gueho to Monica A. Little, $470,000.

IVY ST. 7401: Jefferson Parish Council to Robbie T. Felder, $6,750.

JADE AVE. 601: Leslie Scharfenstein to Ugne G. B. Medina, $170,000.

KENT AVE. 4504: Jean P. Pigeon to Ayse M. Sibel, $377,000.

LAKE AVE. 1128: Bradley Keller to Ellen M. Carroll, $115,000.

LAKE VILLA DRIVE 3408: Brandi P. Hanner to Julianti H. Tjhong, $301,500.

LAWN DRIVE 301: Patrick M. Maloney to Nalleli Cisnero, $350,000.

MARCIE ST. 5800: Emily M. Simon to Haley Gonzales, $297,500.

MARTIN BEHRMAN WALK 932: Michael B. Mcadam to Andrew J. Bagert, $335,000.

MERCURY AVE. 1201: Eugenie B. Loustaunau to Quinlivan Homes LLC, $130,000.

MISSISSIPPI AVE. 2412: Chad Melancon to Amber M. Townsend,

$390,000.

N. WOODLAWN AVE. 109: Sharon T. Nall to One Hundred Nine N. Woodlawn LLC, $395,000.

NORTON ST. 4313: Jacob Macarthur to Susan L. Nguyen, $220,000.

NURSERY AVE. 1029: Bonnie M. Muro to Amber F. Cancienne, $381,000.

NURSERY AVE. 431-433: Ashley C.L. Hunter to Steven J. Foret, $325,000.

OLD METAIRIE DRIVE 961: Perrin C. Butler Sr. to Southshore Family Homes LLC, $118,000.

PAGE DRIVE 4613: Crozet J. Duplantier to Harvey S. Bartlett III, $300,000.

PERKINS ST. 4445 UNIT 102: Jason M. Bergeron to Claudia C.B. Delapena, $185,000.

PHILLIP ST. 6704: Felix Hernandez to Maria D. Mendoza, donation, no value stated.

REBECCA AVE. 4601: Jeannine H. Kenney to Julie B. Leto, $830,000.

ROSA AVE. 927: Joshua Stoltz to Kathryn Murphy, $384,000.

ROSEDALE DRIVE 4618: Paul Park to Paul A. Vonderhaar III, $85,000.

RUE BURGUNDY 00 UNIT 325: Lower Pontalba 325 LLC to Eugene E. Rackle Jr., $585,000.

SADIE AVE. 817: Mt Laurel Properties LLC to Cameron Marcantel, $234,000.

TRANSCONTINENTAL DRIVE 1300: Estingoy Ann Trust to Carrie D. Lopez, $530,000.

UTICA ST. 4827: Shawn D. Murphy Jr. to Tinievangeline B. Petty, $350,000.

UTOPIA DRIVE 4526: Melissa P. Guzman to Robert Stoltz Jr., $360,000.

W. ESPLANADE AVE. NORTH 3212: Double M. Feed LLC to Three Thousand Two Hundred Twelve W. Esplanade LLC, $1,275,000.

WHITNEY PLACE 2700: Graham Joseph Mcdougall Revocable Trust Jr. to Marguerite T. Doeve, $113,000.

WILTY ST. 6809: Lorraine T. Filibert to Tyreauna S. Vaumoron, $290,000.

WEST JEFFERSON

GRETNA

n TRANSFERS FOR DEC. 30 TO

23RD ST. 805-807: Willie J. Mccorkle to Demetris E. Taylor, $130,000.

ALISON DRIVE 1491: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Elegant Houses LLC, $160,500.

CLAIRE AVE. 3613: Wende B. J. Pellecchia to Carolyn F. Daneel, $230,000.

FAIRFAX DRIVE 1036: Joann Mimmitt to Asset Backed Pass Through Certificates Series 2005 Whq2, $170,000.

FAIRFIELD AVE. 776: Seven Thousand Two Hundred Downman Rd LLC to Mohammed Hammad, $405,000.

FIRST ST. 504: Peggy Wallace to Judy Sullivan, $725,000.

GLENBROOK DRIVE 2982: Tyler Wilcox to Margaret B. Gassen, $120,000.

GLENBROOK DRIVE 2994: Shadia Y. M. Reslan to Amal M. Sudki, donation, no value stated.

GULF DRIVE 612-614: Wendi M. Sancho to A. Delafosse, $243,000.

GULF DRIVE 616-618: Wendi M. Sancho to Dao T. Duong, $215,000.

HERO DRIVE 3229: Betsey L. O. Mcelheny to Willette W. Jones Jr., $165,000.

LAMAR AVE. 865: Carl L. Little to

Salvadore J. Miceli, donation, no value stated.

MICHELLE COURT 712: Lisa A. W. Shaw to Katherine R. Works, $165,000.

NEWTON ST. 901: Buras LLC Bonnie to Felix J. Hoskin III, donation, no value stated.

PARK PLACE DRIVE 2468: Catherine R. B. Francis to Derek J. Beloney, donation, no value stated.

RUE ST. MICHAEL 725: Hcld LLC to Ying H. Wang, $330,900.

STAFFORD ST. 2118: Freedom Mortgage Corp. to Alfred Norris, $93,200.

WILLOWBROOK DRIVE 216: Cheun L. Ngo to Dinh N. T. Trinh, $172,000.

JAN. 9

AVONDALE EDGEWOOD COURT 3720: Curtis Jones to Pamela G.B. Jones, donation, no value stated.

RETREAT DRIVE 3817: Dsld LLC to Yaricely Sanlucas, $294,453.

BARATARIA FRAN LANE 4886: John J. Barranco to Evelyn F. Hebert, donation, no value stated.

PRIVATEER BLVD. 2886: Brian Johnson to Loandepot.com LLC, $149,650.

BRIDGE CITY HOOTER ROAD 1008: Henry Poole to Mortgage Loan Asset Backed Certificates Series 2005 4, $63,334.

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GRAND ISLE CHALMETTE LANE 141: Guy P. Holdridge to Sarah C. Nobile, $85,000.

HEBERT LANE 132: Matthew R. Fuertes to R.A. Gafford, donation, no value stated.

RIVER RIDGE CAMILLE DRIVE 9025: Mark W. Mccormick to John M. Bumgardner, $240,000.

TUDOR AVE. 200: Ruth G. Dodson to Paige Dublin, $254,000.

UPSTREAM ST. 507: FDL 507 Upstream LLC to Gator 25 LLC, $1,757,483.

HARVEY ACCACIA LANE 3824: Roy T. Flory to Jts Investments LLC, $130,000.

CHADWOOD DRIVE 3828: Allied Real Estate Holdings LLC to Hdm Real Estate Holdings LLC, $110,000.

CHADWOOD DRIVE 3828: Consolidated Investment Properties LLC to Allied Real Estate Holdings LLC, $120,000.

DEERRUN LANE 3805: Hung T. Ho to Thao N.T.T. Ho, donation, no value stated.

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Continued from page 20 FIFTH AVE. 705: Elegant Houses LLC to Mousa A. Ayyad, $110,000.

FIRST AVE. 509: Black Hammer Holdings LLC to Residential Capital Partners Secured Loan Fund XII LLC, $100,000.

GREFER AVE. 904: Geneen Jefferson to Alesha M. Davis, donation, no value stated.

JUPITER ST. 2749: Jacquelyn F. Boreros to Highland Property Group LLC, $100,000.

KEITH WAY DRIVE 3028: Janice R. Black to James E. Rabb Jr., $121,000.

KINGS ROAD 1511 UNIT B: Lila Khantamr to Mohamed Khantamr, donation, no value stated.

MACARTHUR AVE. 538: Five Hundred Thirty Eight Macarthur Ave Investments LLC to Espn Jolly LLC, $67,000.

MATHIS AVE. 2316: Robert Moore to Shahannah M. Green, $40,000.

MELISSA DRIVE 3717: Bernadine D. Leblanc to Roland J. Darby Jr., donation, no value stated.

PAILET AVE. 1809: Cleveland R. Gordon to Anthony Stewart, $80,000.

PAILET AVE. 525: Becky Boudreaux to Russell B. Autry, $130,000.

SHANNON DRIVE 3825: Lynnette J. Bazley to Damian L. Dent, donation, no value stated.

S. VILLAGE GREEN ST. 2007: Tuyet L. Nguyen to Tuyen D. Vu, $259,000.

TURNBERRY LANE 1901: Christopher A. Hoo to Joel Watts Jr., $440,000.

MARRERO 15 ST. 4009: Gregg M. Vegas to Rhonda V Hart, donation, no value stated.

BARATARIA BLVD. 1512: Ralph J. Pennino to Leforts Seafood Restaurant Inc., $565,000.

BLANCHE DRIVE 2749: Kevin P. Ghivizzani to De Plus LLC, $80,000.

CANDLELIGHT DRIVE 1164: Kim H. Delcuze to Josie B. Cryer, $189,900.

CHRISTY COURT 2617: Cory Rodivich to Glen S. White, $367,500.

EISEMAN AVE. 452: Carlos J.R. Umana to Gx3 Property LLC, $54,800.

FOURTH ST. 6549: Bishmoo LLC to Armands Food LLC, $660,000.

GLASCO DRIVE 5816: Huda N. Masri to Melissa G. Rush, $183,000.

HOPE DRIVE 1625: Kurt J. Theriot to Patricia S. Hartman, $230,000.

KAREN DRIVE 5024: Wayne L. Pittman Sr. to Angela D. Belsome, donation, no value stated.

KATHLEEN DRIVE 2200: Michael C. Poe to Chucky R. Gomez, $315,500.

MELROSE DRIVE 34: Carmelitte N. Wallace to Joanna H. Curtis, $515,000.

OAK DRIVE 5225: Celeste Choquette to Sky J. Dewey, donation, no value stated.

PARK SHORE DRIVE 4416: Horizon One Services LLC to Alexis Petrolia, $343,000.

SAUVAGE AVE. 2205: Latasha H. Bailey to Tyeisha K. U. Perique, $195,000.

SINGLETON DRIVE 6132: Nancy C. Jones to Ag Investment LLC, $115,000.

TUSA DRIVE 5416: Vrmtg Asset Trust to Phan LLC Chau, $145,000.

VICTORIAN DRIVE 6125: Elaine J. Sims to Ag Nola Investments LLC, $65,000.

WESTMINSTER BLVD. 1625: Chante R.L. Jones to Willie C. Jones, $160,000.

WESTWOOD DRIVE 931: Saputo Bros Inc. to H&M Collection LLC, $850,000.

TERRYTOWN AMAPOLA CIRCLE 208: Vera N. Nelson to Austin Bourg, $125,000.

E. MARLIN COURT 633: Gitsit Mortgage Loan Trust Bbplc1 to Delsy Amador, $75,000.

FAIRLAWN DRIVE 632: Freedom Mortgage Corp. to Diane Otillio, $178,000.

HOLMES BLVD. 411: Horton Inc. Gulf Coast D.R. to Ahoua A. Ouattara, $284,900.

HOLMES BLVD. 423: Horton Inc. Gulf Coast D.R. to Joanny A.H. Feliz, $287,900.

TERRY PARKWAY APT E 306: Johnell Kieff to Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing, $83,334.

WAGGAMAN HALLE PLACE 11: Cory Creppel to Troy Johnson, $155,000.

WESTWEGO COLUMBUS ST. 355: Zachery Young to Dena L. Underwood, $238,000.

ELVIE COURT 133: David C. Carter Sr. to Burtis D. Carter III, $85,000.

HELIS DRIVE 500: Reve Inc. to Christopher Bovie, $254,900.

VICTORY DRIVE 907: Betty Forrest to Jonah Kropff, $93,000.

WIEGAND DRIVE 929: Beverly Lopez to I&U Investment LLC, $53,721.

ST. TAMMANy n TRANSFERS FOR DEC. 19-23

ABITA SPRINGS ABITA SPRINGS ESTATES, LOTS 16A, 18, SQUARE G: Michelle R. Panicola and Susan Heggeland to Clifford E. Cunningham and Cynthia B. Cunningham, $330,000.

BOSSIER CITY SUBDIVISION, LOT 6A, SQUARE 61: Patrick E. Sipos and Bessie M. Miller Sipos to Ryan A. O’Regan and Christy L. Becnel, $410,000.

BRYAN ST. 71187: Patricia S. Spicuzza to Angela Frisk, $246,000.

NEAR ABITA SPRINGS, PORTION OF GROUND: Wayne J. Cangelosi and Joanne N. Cangelosi to Rosalie M. Tohme and Elia G. Tohme, $475,000.

NEAR ABITA SPRINGS, PORTION OF GROUND: Mark H. Strauss, Lynn E. Elster and Andrea E. Rubin to Sean Ortiz and Michelle Ortiz, $98,000.

NORTHWOODS DRIVE 580: Nina B. Newlin Mackie revocable living trust to Clay Harvin and Gabrielle D. Harvin, $825,000.

Exemption Trust to William Sauerwin, $222,900.

LAKE RAMSEY SUBDIVISION, PHASE 4, LOT 108A: David A. Sabido and Laura W. Sabido to James T. Serio and Kelly B. Serio, $170,000.

MANOR ST. 72343: Jamie L. Logmann to Kyle Thezan, $195,000.

MP PLANCHE ROAD 16518: Robert Lyons III, Joann Lyons and Robert A. Lyons Jr. to Peter D. Baker, $315,000.

N. 10TH ST. 19522: Suzanne M. Richoux to Deborah B. Coleman, $257,500.

NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: T&T Real Estate and Construction LLC to Rhett C. Hickman and Karley H. Hickman, $42,000.

NINTH AVE. 208: Ashley A. Wolf to Shane Guillot and Michelle Guillot, $233,000.

OAKLAWN DRIVE 34: Suzanne B.

Graham to Anthony T. Minhinnett and Christine M. Minhinnett, $650,000.

PALM PLAZA SUBDIVISION, LOTS 9-14, SQUARE 10: David Rivera and Tracy W. Rivera to Randell J. Porche, $179,000.

PARMA CIRCLE 12421: Tawatchai Petchsingto to Timmy J. Bergeron Jr., $265,000.

PLACE ST. JEAN 204: Thomas J. Favalora Jr. and Pamela B. Favalora to Jerry F. Pepper, $385,500.

S. MAGNOLIA DRIVE 71241: S/F Enterprise LLC to Blake A. Gill, $130,000.

SAGE ALLEY 111: Bardwell Construction Co. LLC to Nelson P. Roth Jr. and Frances C. Roth, $567,000.

SAW GRASS LOOP 318: Daryl Bourgeois and Melissa Bourgeois to Michael Hefner and Kaitlyn

ä See TAMMANY, page 22

ELEGANT WAREHOUSE LOFT LIVING

COVINGTON BARRINGTON DRIVE 1232: DSLD Homes LLC to Tracia M. Nelson, $335,245.

CARROL DRIVE 76020: Brenda W. Dillon to 2941 Ethel LLC, $90,000.

COUNTRY CLUB DRIVE 147: Patsie M. Dehuff to Martin Leahy, $490,000.

DEL SOL COURT 408: Nicholas Toliver to Rachel A. Crittle, $350,000.

DEL SOL PASS 609: James W. Mancuso Jr. and Denise Sue Morris Mancuso to Rolando Duran, $299,000.

DOGWOOD DRIVE 72: Allen N. Sawyer and Amy S. Sawyer to John W. Ragan and Leslie B. Ragan, $1,850,000.

E. U.S. 190 SERVICE ROAD 5001: Succession of Henryetta R. Waguespack, Richard S. Waguespack Jr., Anne W. Berteau, Susan Waguespack Knowlton and David F. Waguespack to Cherished Properties LLC, $210,000.

GABRIEL DRIVE 2110: DSLD Homes LLC to Peter J. Ward and Gina R. Ward, $397,835.

GARLAND’S COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, LOTS 4, 5, SQUARE 8: Angela B. Garza to Cala Investment Properties LLC, $355,000.

HOLIDAY BLVD. 140: Epic Regency Hospitality Partners LLC to 140 Holiday Owner LLC, $10 and other good and valuable consideration.

JUDY AVE. 20411: Jason B. Doss and Amy S. Doss to Richard Franzo Jr. and Candace Franzo, $765,000.

LAKE PLACID DRIVE 71152: Frank Fabacher and Jean Fabacher

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Hefner, $415,000.

SOLOMON DRIVE 751: Robert B. Frady to Amanda Clontz, $335,000.

SUMNER ST. 122: Joseph Cosentino Sr. to Maygen E. Bonner, $270,000.

TAMMANY AVE. 20110: Andrea C. Mitchell to Dylan W. Nash, $309,500.

TIGER AVE. 461: Eileen H. Engelhardt to John P. Furman and Shannon Roussell, $354,999.

TWIN RIVER PLACE 5100: Rockwell Builders LLC to Mario Flores and Tammie Flores, $135,000.

W. 14TH AVE. 219: Benjamin S. Morrison and Emily Morrison to Gwendolyn K. Tappin, $366,000.

WALDEN ST. 20091: Morgan E. Harper to Laura Pritchett, $333,000.

WOODVINE COURT 25: Bayou Warehouse LLC to Anne Ogden, $395,000.

FOLSOM DEERFIELD ROAD 297: Delbert G. Talley to Hunter L. Lanclos, $245,000.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Kathleen V. Miller to David L. Markey, $49,000.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Gerald R. Tisdale and Dolores C. Tisdale to Recreation District No.12 of the Parish of St. Tammany, $243,675.

THOMPSON ROAD 14203: Evano J. Chaisson Jr. to Ryan J. Croom and Amanda A. Adams Croom, donation, no value stated.

LACOMBE FAIRFAX DRIVE 60812: DSLD

Homes LLC to Damon G. Anderson, $245,990.

JACKSON ST. 27095: Carsten H. Menn to Brandi Page and Cynthia S. Page, $225,000.

NEAR LACOMBE, LOT 5A2: Craig J. Pierre to Wright Choice Construction LLC, $43,000.

ROUQUETTE DRIVE 65732: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Angela M. Garza, $290,000.

ROUQUETTE DRIVE 65748: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Jeremy Burd and Rebecca Jo Burd, $274,900.

SUNRISE LAKE DRIVE 26295: Ashley Tyler to Louisiana Land Trust, $165,000.

TOWN OF ST. TAMMANY, LOTS 23, 24, SQUARE 56: Donald A. Ruffo to Joseph D. Carter, $2,000.

W. WOODLAND DRIVE 30355: Glenda M. Lee and succession of David C. Lee to Sean Bonner and Rhonda Bonner, $425,000.

MADISONVILLE BAYOU PEREZ DRIVE 112: Bulldog Trust to Justin L. Ajubita and Courtney S. Ajubita, $1,100,000.

BREWSTER ROAD 717: Derek Varnado and Megan Varnado to Trent Hernandez and Megan Farrell, $275,000.

HANO ROAD 129: The Two Pray Trust to Robert Franzo and Stephanie Franzo, $550,000.

NEAR MADISONVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Philip Family Trust, Michael L. Chalaron and others to Clinton R. Stephens III and Natasha R. Stephens, $240,000.

PETERS ROAD, PORTION OF GROUND: Lizbeth S. Peter, Michael L. Chalaron and others to Allan Baudoin Jr., $240,000.

PINE CREEK DRIVE 154: Marie D. Fitzgerald Hughes to Brooke Buras, $390,000.

S. FAIRWAY DRIVE 436: Brian C.

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Mosbey and Christina L. Mosbey to Willie J. Wallace Jr. and Mishalay Wallace, $1,070,000.

SAFFLOWER COURT 1128: Jonathan D. Lagarde and Catherine L. Lagarde to Seana L. Hester, $439,000.

SAFFLOWER COURT 1133: Integrity Builders Inc. to Elise Benezech, $480,000.

MANDEVILLE CARROLL ST. 1246: Thanh D. Tran and Tuyen L. Tran to Luke M. Cooley and Margaret W. Cooley, $455,900.

CAUSEWAY BLVD. 1802: Valuvest LLC to 4Jets Properties LLC, $1,500,000.

CLAIBORNE ST. 2527: Steven J. Decker, Rachel E. Scogin Holloway and others to Jordan Dinser and Pacifico Gouge, $460,000.

DESTIN ST. 2031: Long Winded Investments LLC to Jason D. Richoux, $199,000.

DUPARD ST. 1617: 2316 Cours Carson LLC to Patrick E. Sipos and Bessie M. Miller Sipos, $480,000.

JASMINE ST. 1457: Donna D. Rauch to Alexander P. Troncoso, $159,500.

LA. 59 3210: Charles S. Hunt Jr. and Heather Hunt to Yair C. Iglesias Morales and Tkeyha Herrien, $415,000.

LA. 59 4004: Campbell Venture No. 2 LLC to Bedford & Thompson Holdings Co., $1,200,000.

MAGNOLIA ALLEY 1201, UNIT 32: Hallmark Homes Inc. to KP Rentals LLC, $155,000.

MANDEVILLE ANNEX SUBDIVISION, PLOTS 1- 9: Alan P. Miller, Tammy N. Miller, William E. Langenhennig, succession of Joan E. Davis King Smith and Louise D. Hampton to Luna Equities LLC, $1,277,000.

MARINA BLVD. 129: Keith Luper and Haley Luper to Jared Robichaux and Allison M. Robichaux,

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PEARL RIVER HERMITAGE COURT 510: Emanuel Beer and Megan Beer to Christopher R. Archer and Samantha Archer, $385,000.

LA. 41 66201: Louis J. Mendel Jr. to Charlene B. Lemon, $145,000.

LA. 41 70204: Succession of Ruth M. Gettle and Gerald A. Gettle to Jeffrey D. Cooksley and Nancy M. Cooksley, $259,900.

SLIDELL BROOKTER ROAD 57343: Velocity Commercial Capital Loan Trust 2017-2 to Ninau LLC, $118,000.

CAREY ST. 3175: Daniel A. McGee and Julie Anne V. McGee to Norman W. Tisdale, $130,000.

CLIPPER DRIVE 1185: Pamela L. Cannon to Robert L. Douglas and Jennifer Douglas, $440,000.

CROSS CREEK DRIVE 144: Pebble LLC to Robert A. Boisvert and Kari G. Jensen Boisvert, $330,000.

CULPER DRIVE 60462: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Dinerra C. White, $289,900.

CYPRESS MEADOW LOOP 49: Alvin P. Chartier and Jennifer G. Chartier to Lechen Coleman, $214,900.

DELTA RIDGE AVE. 6650: D. R.

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SANCTUARY SUBDIVISION, PHASE 4A, LOT 359: Thomas R. Sumner and Cheryl L. Andrus to Nick H. Sandlin and Jacie M. Sandlin, $285,000.

SANDRA DEL MAR DRIVE 164: Katharina Jahnke to 2316 Cours Carson LLC, $103,000.

TEMPLAR LOOP 4441: GMI Construction Inc. to Ronald J. Stewart and Tiffiny Stewart, $571,259.

TENNYSON LANE 302: Darrell L. Cooper and Almie R. Cooper to Charles Widerhold and Carley Anne Wiederhold-Young, $395,000.

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Horton Inc. to Kerri D. Espadron, $339,900.

DEVON DRIVE 35548: Succession of Daniel P. Schlumbrecht Jr. to ZCE Three LLC, $36,527.

E. LAKE DRIVE 268: Wesley G. Rogers and Sara M. T. Rogers to Antoine Deal and Angie Knightshed, $236,000.

FAIRFIELD LOOP 636: Talitha L. Harding to Christopher J. Mitchell and Michael S. Mitchell, $310,000.

FORNEA GLEN WAY 5461: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Christopher A. Hawkins, $224,900.

GRAND SPRINGS ROAD 5575: Miguel A. Avilez and Susana Garcia Avilez to Osaria A. Sanders, $260,000.

JAY SQUARE 2202: Salvadore Gendusa III and Christy B. Gendusa to Joseph Anderson and Ericka Anderson, $185,000.

LAKESHORE VILLAGE POINT 908: Jeffrey W. Johnston and Joy K. Johnston to Ancilla H. Ferdinand and Nadia O. Ferdinand, $234,900.

MARLIN DRIVE 122: Joseph C. Barcelona Jr. and Rebecca B. Barcelona to Lester J. Bernadas, $410,000.

NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Gary W. Schumacker to Dawn’s Rising LLC, $15,000.

NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Sizeler North Shore General Partnership to NS4000 LLC, $10 and other and valuable consideration.

NORTH SHORE BLVD. 150: Revenue Properties NS SQ Mervyn Site General Partnership to NS5000 LLC, $10 and other good and valuable consideration.

OXFORD ST. 3852: HPA III Accquisitions 1 LLC to Marquita B. Fuller, $167,000.

S. QUEENS DRIVE 101: Succession of Karen L. Seidel and Marvin T. Seidel to Gerard Frommeyer, $170,000.

SILVERWOOD DRIVE 153: Cameron Rude and Rebecca Rude to Solomon Carey and Marissa C. Skipwith, $333,000.

SPILLWAY MANOR DRIVE 5109: D. R. Horton Inc. to Rodney Brown Sr., $232,900.

SPILLWAY MANOR DRIVE 5113: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Monica Patterson, $250,900.

SUNSET DRIVE 1334: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Warren E. Gambino, $90,000.

VALIANT LANE 111: Succession of John J. Schluter Jr. to Gary C. Loyd Jr., $270,000.

WAKE RESERVE ROAD 5436: D. R. Horton Inc. to Shelitta M. BrelandRay, $369,900.

SUN/BUSH

WATTS THOMAS ROAD 80022: David J. Bertucci and Julie M. Bertucci to Mary A. Thigpen, $200,000.

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She’s confused after landing in the friend zone Dear Annie: I’m a 32-year-old single woman facing a predicament. I’ve been friends with a guy named “Stan” for a few months, though we haven’t actually talked in Annie over a month Lane now.

DEAR ANNIE We were acquainted in high school, but we lost touch after a short while.

Stan and I went on a couple of dates, and I thought things were going well, but then he asked if we could just be friends.

If we hadn’t ALMOST hooked up, I would’ve been fine with this, but because I thought he was still interested in me as more than a friend, it took me

by surprise, but I agreed to it.

We continued to talk and hung out once more; however, I had expressed my feelings for him a total of three times, and the third time, he came close to blocking me.

Stan had made it very clear to me that he doesn’t reciprocate my feelings, though when we first started talking as friends, I had been optimistic that eventually we could be more than that.

The two times that I’ve messaged him since, he’s left me on read, though he sporadically watches my Instagram stories.

He’s explained that he’s not ready for a relationship, yet I’ve noticed that he follows numerous women and he’s on a dating app.

He’s also mentioned that he’s experiencing family issues, but

because we’ve only known each other for a few months, I felt that was too personal of a subject for me to provide input on.

I’m afraid to initiate a conversation with him because I don’t want to risk arguing and (possibly) consequently losing a friend, but at the same time, I feel like he’s hiding some things from me.

I’d like to let him know that he can trust me, but it remains unclear to me as to whether I can trust him or not. The last time Stan and I talked, he asked me to give him space because I was making him uncomfortable, but now I’m wondering if he is just trying to phase me out of his life.

That was almost a month and a half ago. Please help. I have no idea what to do about this. —

Crushed Overthinker Dear Overthinker: First things first, respect Stan’s boundaries.

He’s explicitly asked you for space and expressed discomfort by your behavior.

You can speculate until the cows come home, but I’d take what he’s telling you at face value: that he only sees you as a friend and he’s not ready to be in any relationship.

You should also reconsider what you want. You have feelings for Stan, sure, but you can’t ignore the signs he’s given you.

Would you want to start a relationship with a man who has admitted several times he doesn’t feel romantically toward you anyway? Someone you admit you’re not sure you can even

trust?

Sometimes the best gift we can give others and ourselves is the time and distance to gain clarity and cool off. Whether the space he needs is intended to be a full breakup of your friendship or simply an intermission, only Stan can know and time will tell.

Let him come to you and see if salvaging the friendship is possible. In the meanwhile, look elsewhere — there are plenty of other men who might be interested in you romantically, as long as you’re not obsessed with Stan.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators. com.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Jan. 17, the 17th day of 2026. There are 348 days left in the year.

Today in history: On Jan. 17, 1920, prohibition of alcohol began in the United States as the Volstead Act went into effect in support of the 18th Amendment.

Also on this date: In 1950, the Great Brink’s Robbery took place as seven masked men held up the Brink’s Building in Boston, stealing $1.2 million in cash and $1.5 million in checks and money orders.

In 1961, President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his farewell address in which he warned against “the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex.”

In 1990, The Four Seasons, The Four Tops, The Kinks, The Platters, Simon and Garfunkel and The Who were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

In 2017, President Barack Obama granted clemency to Chelsea Manning, allowing the transgender Army intelligence officer convicted of leaking more than 700,000 U.S. documents to go free nearly three

Mick Taylor is 77. U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is 72. TV host-comedian Steve Harvey is 69. Singer Susanna Hoffs (The Bangles) is 67.

Actor-comedian Jim Carrey is 64. Former first lady Michelle Obama is 62. Musician Kid Rock is 55. Rapper Lil Jon is 54.

Actor-singer Zooey Deschanel is 46. Basketball Hall of Famer Dwyane Wade is 44. DJ-musician Calvin Harris is 42. Boxer Oleksandr Usyk is 39. Actor Kelly Marie Tran is 37.

decades early. Manning was one of 209 people whose sentences were commuted by Obama days before leaving office.

In 2022, as Russian troops stationed near Ukraine’s border launched drills, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov angrily rejected U.S. allegations that Moscow was preparing a pretext to invade Ukraine. (Russia would launch a full-scale invasion of the neighboring country on Feb. 24.)

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