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Senate race headlines election day ballot items

Five constitutional amendments also go to voters

BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

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Volunteer Anna-Louise Ledet trims back the plants at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail at City Park in New Orleans on Friday. The Native Plant Initiative of Greater New Orleans works to promote native plants in urban areas through community partnerships and volunteer efforts.

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Helped by volunteers, New Orleans City Park adds native plants around Big Lake

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cies can thrive.

On Friday, string trimmers buzzed and workers moved Behind the City Park swan buckets filled with nonnative boats and past the running plants. Jennifer Prout, a voltrail, the volunteers in work unteer, patted down mulch boots and sun hats got to beneath a new tree before work Friday morning, pulling stopping to take a break in the weeds, schlepping through shade and look out over the the mud, and helping tackle small spot that she and other a persistent problem in the workers had been clearing. park and across much of New “Even a year ago, it didn’t Orleans — the spread of plants feel like an area,” said Prout of that don’t really belong there. the corner of City Park where The volunteers are part of orange-petaled clasping conethe Native Plant Initiative of flower and various native Greater New Orleans, a non- grasses and sedges are now profit aiming to create spaces ä See GROW, page 6A in the city where native spe-

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Volunteer Byron Alanquist trims the canna plants at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail at City Park on Friday.

Can U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy survive to fight another day?

That’s the biggest question on Saturday’s primary election ballot, with polls showing that Cassidy may not finish first or second in the Republican Senate primary to keep alive his hopes of winning a third term in the Senate.

Trying to unseat Cassidy are U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and state Treasurer John Fleming. All three have run as the candidate Cassidy most aligned with President Donald Trump.

The outcome has drawn extensive coverage from news outlets outside of Louisiana as a litmus test of Trump’s power and popularity. Trump wants to defeat Cassidy because he joined Democrats in voting to Letlow convict the president on impeachment charges stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol by Trump supporters.

Trump has endorsed Letlow, who has emerged as the frontrunner thanks to the president’s backing, polls show. Gov. Fleming Jeff Landry, who is close with Trump, has also endorsed Letlow and has raised big dollars INSIDE for outside groups attacking ä On the Fleming to keep him from ballot. PAGE 3B knocking out Letlow in the primary.

The Senate race is the marquee election on Saturday, when voters will also decide whether to approve five constitutional amendments. Also

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Prosecutors seek to add evidence in upcoming murder, fraud trial

set an August trial date for the The trial is an expected flash- jury lawyers in March.

In staged-wrecks saga, defense pushes back has two defendants: Sean Alfortish, a point in a sprawling federal probe Last month, prosecutors asked

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are pushing back on a swath of evidence prosecutors are hoping Staff writer to introduce involving a pair of Ahead of a federal murder and years-old crimes: a 2005 cold case fraud trial in New Orleans’ staged- killing and a fraud scandal within wrecks saga, lawyers for two a horse racing group.

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disbarred Kenner attorney, and Leon “Chunky” Parker, whom Alfortish allegedly paid in 2020 to kill an FBI informant named Cornelius Garrison. Prosecutors say Alfortish had grown suspicious that Garrison was cooperating with the government.

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6 from hantavirus-hit ship arrive in Australia

MELBOURNE, Australia — Six passengers from a cruise ship hit by a hantavirus outbreak arrived Friday in Australia for a quarantine expected to last at least three weeks.

The Gulfstream long-range business jet carrying them from the Netherlands landed at RAAF Base Pearce outside the Western Australia state capital, Perth.

The passengers, crew and a doctor who accompanied them were taken by bus to the nearby Bullsbrook quarantine facility.

Australian Health Minister Mark Butler said the government would implement one of world’s strongest quarantine responses to the outbreak.

He said passengers of the cruise ship MV Hondius who returned to the United States and most European countries would spend a few days in a quarantine center before they were sent home.

“We have taken the decision to take a stronger approach to quarantine arrangements than that because we are determined to ensure there is no risk at all of any transmission of this virus into the Australian community,” Butler told reporters in his hometown of Adelaide.

The five Australians and one New Zealand citizen will spend the three-week quarantine period in the facility that had remained largely unused since it was built in 2022 is response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Gaza airstrike targeted Hamas military leader

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — An Israeli airstrike in Gaza on Friday targeted the leader of Hamas‘ military wing, Israeli officials said, but it wasn’t immediately clear if Izz al-Din al-Haddad was killed or injured.

Hamas did not immediately acknowledge or comment on the strike.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said an airstrike carried out by the military Friday evening targeted al-Haddad, the leader of Hamas’ Qassam brigades.

There were at least two Israeli strikes Friday evening in Gaza City, one of which Israel said targeted al-Haddad. One strike targeted a residential building and another a vehicle. Seven people were killed and dozens of others wounded, according to health officials in the Palestine Red Crescent Society’s Saraya Field Hospital and Shifa hospital, where the casualties were taken In a statement, Netanyahu and Katz said that al-Haddad was “one of the architects” of the Oct. 7 attack.

Gaza has seen near-daily Israeli fire despite a fragile ceasefire agreement reached in October. More than 850 people have been killed since then, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Soldier’s wife out of U.S. immigration custody

The wife of a U.S. Army sergeant has been released from federal immigration custody after spending a month in detention.

Sgt. Jose Serrano, an active duty soldier stationed in Texas who served three tours in Afghanistan, previously told The Associated Press that immigration agents arrested his wife, Deisy Rivera Ortega, during an April 14 appointment with immigration services to advance her application for permanent residency.

U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a Democrat and combat veteran, told the AP that she personally contacted Department of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Wednesday to advocate for Rivera Ortega’s release after learning of her situation from advocacy groups.

Rivera Ortega returned home Thursday evening.

“Rivera-Ortega has been released from ICE custody with a GPS tracking device, mandatory home visits, and ICE office check-ins. She will receive full due process,” said the DHS, which oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

The family of Rivera Ortega did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Trump weighs Taiwan arms package President says he hasn’t made decision on deal as he returns from China

BY AAMER MADHANI, WILL WEISSERT and SIMINA MISTREANU Associated Press

BEIJING — President Donald Trump said Friday that he has not made a decision on whether to move forward with a major arms package for Taiwan after hearing concerns about it from Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Trump’s comments on Taiwan — a self-ruled island that China claims as its own territory — came as he flew back to Washington after wrapping up critical talks in which both leaders said important progress was made in stabilizing U.S.-China relations even as deep differences persist between the world’s two biggest powers on Iran and Taiwan.

“I’ll be making decisions,” Trump said. “But, you know, I think the last thing we need right now is a war that’s 9,500 miles away.”

Trump’s Republican administration in December authorized a record-setting $11 billion weapons package for Taipei, but it has yet to move forward. Lawmakers also approved a $14 billion arms sale to Taiwan in January, but the sale cannot advance until Trump formally sends it to Con-

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Chinese President Xi Jinping, right, and President Donald Trump attend a meeting Friday on the sidelines of their visit to the Zhongnanhai Garden in Beijing, China. gress. China opposes such sales and has suggested that Washington’s relationship with the self-governing island is the key factor in U.S.-China relations.

Trump said Xi also reiterated China’s strong opposition to Taiwan’s independence. “I heard him out,” Trump said. “I didn’t make a comment.”

Trump’s consultation with Xi about arms sales to Taiwan may violate the socalled Six Assurances, a set of nonbinding U.S. policy principles formulated in 1982 under President Ronald Reagan that have helped guide the U.S. relationship with Taipei, according to analysts.

The second of the Six Assurances states that the U.S. “did not agree to consult with the People’s Republic of China on arms sales to Taiwan.”

Trump said the issue of the 1982 assurances came up in the talks with Xi. Trump also said he raised a potential three-way nuclear deal that would involve the U.S., Russia and China.

He wants each of the three countries to sign a pact that would cap the number of nuclear warheads in their arsenals. China has previously been cool to entering such a pact.

Beijing’s arsenal, according to Pentagon estimates, exceeds 600 warheads and is far from parity with the U.S. and Russia, which are each estimated to have more than 5,000 warheads.

But Trump suggested Xi was receptive to the idea.

“I got a very a positive response,” Trump said. “This is the beginning.”

The last nuclear arms pact, known as the New START treaty, between

Russia and the United States expired in February, removing any caps on the two largest atomic arsenals for the first time in more than a half-century. As the treaty was set to expire, Trump rejected a call by Russia to extend the twocountry deal for another year and called for “a new, improved and modernized” deal that includes China.

The Pentagon estimates China will have more than 1,000 nuclear warheads by 2030.

Xi welcomed Trump at his official residence, Zhongnanhai, on Friday for their final engagement of the summit before the U.S. leader’s return to Washington. The leaders took a short walk through the grounds that feature ancient trees and Chinese roses, and they strolled through a covered passageway with green col-

umns and archways painted with birds and traditional Chinese mountain scenes.

Over tea and lunch, Trump and Xi — with top aides and translators in tow — huddled for nearly three hours of talks before the U.S. leader completed his three-day visit to China.

Trump appeared impressed by the bucolic grounds, remarking that the roses were the most beautiful he had ever seen.

Xi promised to send him some rose seeds.

“It’s been really a great couple of days,” Trump told reporters.

Xi, for his part, called it a “milestone” visit. “We have established a new bilateral relationship, or rather a constructive, strategic, stable relationship,” he said.

But the optimistic outlook collides with some difficult truths about the thorniest issues between the two superpowers.

Beijing has shown little public interest in U.S. entreaties to get more involved in solving the conflict in Iran, even though Trump said in an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Xi had in their conversations offered to help.

In recent weeks, the U.S. State Department has accused Chinese firms of providing satellite imagery to the Iranian government, and the Treasury Department has moved to target Chinese oil refineries accused of buying oil from Tehran, as well as shippers of the oil.

Sources: DOJ prepares to seek Raúl Castro indictment U.S. ramping up pressure on Cuba

BY JOSHUA GOODMAN, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

MIAMI — The Justice Department is preparing to seek an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro, three people familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Friday, as President Donald Trump threatens possible military action against the communistrun island.

One of the people told the AP that the potential indictment is connected to Castro’s alleged role in the 1996 shootdown of four

planes operated by the Miami-based exile group Brothers to the Rescue.

Castro was defense minister at the time.

All three people spoke on the condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to discuss an ongoing investigation.

The Cuban gov- Castro ernment did not respond to a request for comment on the potential indictment, which was reported earlier by CBS. Any criminal charge against Castro, which would need to be approved by a grand jury, would dramatically escalate tensions with Havana. Following the U.S. military’s brazen capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in January, the Trump

administration quickly turned its attention to its ally Cuba and ordered an economic blockade that choked off fuel shipments to Cuba, leading to severe blackouts across the island, increasing food insecurity, and heightening ongoing economic woes across the island.

But the U.S. war in Iran gave Cuban leaders something of a reprieve from U.S. talk of regime change.

Richard Feinberg, a professor emeritus specializing in Latin America at the University of CaliforniaSan Diego, said that any indictment of Castro will play well with voters in south Florida but is unlikely to persuade members of the U.S. military to pursue

Jurors deadlock in Weinstein’s retrial; judge declares mistrial

BY JENNIFER PELTZ

keep fighting,” attorney Marc Agnifilo said, adding that the defense believed NEW YORK — Jurors dead- it has “outstanding” proslocked in Harvey Wein- pects if the case is retried.

The majority-male stein’s rape retrial Friday, forcing another mistrial Manhattan jury weighed whether Weinin a #MeToo-era case that has gone stein raped Jesto trial three times sica Mann, a so far. hairstylist and While the foractor. Weinstein’s lawyers argued mer Hollywood that the encounter mogul has been was consensual. It convicted of other happened in 2013 sex crimes on two Weinstein during a fraught U.S. coasts and remains behind bars, the relationship between the mistrial leaves the New then-married Weinstein York rape charge in limbo. and the decades-younger Prosecutors were ponder- Mann.

Deliberations began ing whether to try the case a fourth time, after some Wednesday. On Friday, afjurors said outside court ter the jury sent two notes that nine out of 12 wanted in 90 minutes saying it was to acquit Weinstein. stuck, Judge Curtis Farber Weinstein, 74, showed declared a mistrial. little reaction as he was Some jurors said they ushered from court, but his were struck by gaps in attorneys said later that he what Mann recalled, parwas pleased with the out- ticularly when defense lawyers were questioning come.

“Maybe it’s not the win her.

“The prevailing thought that he wanted, but it’s a win, and we’re going to was that the witness had a

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lot of inconsistencies in her story,” said juror Josh Hadar, 57. He favored acquittal: “I don’t come to that easily, but it just seemed that there was enough reasonable doubt.”

Another juror, Sarae Perez, 25, noted that she studied feminism and is well versed in #MeToo, but she also couldn’t overcome uncertainties about Mann’s account.

“There were places where we couldn’t trust her word for it,” she said.

Mann said in a statement that the mistrial “doesn’t in any way detract from the truth I told.”

“I deserve justice, which is why I stand up and face unbearable public scrutiny in the name of a greater good,” she said.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg hailed Mann’s “perseverance and bravery” and said in a statement that prosecutors will consult her about next steps. They’re due to say next month whether they will retry the case.

a second war of choice — this time just 90 miles from Florida.

“There’s no easy Venezuela copy,” said Feinberg.

“There’s no clear line of succession and it’s hard to imagine regime change without U.S. boots on the ground.”

The AP reported in March that the U.S. Attorney in Miami had created a special working group of prosecutors and federal law enforcement to build cases against top Cuban officials amid calls by several south Florida Republicans to reopen its inves-

tigation into Castro’s alleged role in the 1996 shootdown.

As Trump seeks to wind down the war in Iran, speculation has been growing that he may soon turn his attention back to Cuba after pledging earlier this year a “friendly takeover” of the country if its leadership didn’t open up its economy to American investment and kick out U.S. adversaries.

Trump declined to discuss a potential indictment on Friday, deferring to the Justice Department.

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House map accused of violating gerrymandering law

BY DAVID A. LIEB and JEFFREY COLLINS

Associated Press

New U.S. House districts that could help Republicans win several additional seats in Florida got their first test in court Friday against assertions that they violate a state constitutional ban on partisan gerrymandering.

Attorneys representing voters asked a state judge to block the new districts from being used in the midterm elections and instead reinstate districts used for previous elections. Such a move would create a significant wrinkle in President Donald Trump’s attempt to hold on to a narrow House majority by redrawing voting districts to the GOP’s advantage. The judge gave no timetable for when he will rule.

Florida’s new House map is part of a national redistricting battle that gained steam last year when Trump urged Texas Republicans to redraw the state’s congressional districts. On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court refused to declare that Democratic lawmakers had vacated their offices when they briefly fled the state to block a redistricting vote.

The Florida Legislature approved a new House map on April 29 — the same day the

U.S. Supreme Court weakened federal Voting Rights Act protections for minorities while striking down a majority-Black congressional district in Louisiana.

Since then, several Southern states have taken steps to try to eliminate minority districts that have elected Democrats.

On Friday, Democratic U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee announced that he is ending his reelection bid. His decision came a week after Tennessee Republicans enacted a new U.S. House map that carves up Cohen’s majority-Black district in Memphis. The new map gives Republicans a shot at winning all nine of Tennessee’s U.S. House seats.

Republicans already hold 20 of Florida’s 28 U.S. House seats. New voting districts signed into law by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis after a swift two-day special legislative session could improve the GOP’s chances to win four additional seats in the November elections.

Congressional districts typically are redrawn once a decade, after each census, to rebalance populations. But since Trump urged mid-decade redistricting last year, Republicans think they could gain as many as 15 seats from new House maps in Texas,

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By MIKE STEWART

State Rep. Angie Nixon, D-Fla., speaks loudly on April 29 on the House floor as lawmakers vote on a redistricting bill during a special session of the Florida Legislature in Tallahassee, Fla. Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tennessee and Alabama. Democrats, meanwhile, think they could gain six seats from new maps in California and Utah.

Democrats had counted on winning up to four additional seats in Virginia.

But the Virginia Supreme Court last week struck down a Democratic redistricting plan approved by voters, ruling the legislature violated procedural requirements when placing it on the ballot.

On Friday, the U.S. Supreme

Court rejected a request to restore the map favoring Democrats.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that it has no authority to decide whether partisan gerrymandering goes too far. But it said partisan gerrymandering claims could continue to be decided in state courts under their own constitutions and laws.

Florida voters approved a state constitutional amendment in 2010 that prohibits U.S. House districts from being drawn with the intent

to favor or disfavor a political party or incumbent. The amendment bars districts from diminishing the ability of racial or language minorities to elect the representatives of their choice. It also requires districts to be compact and, where feasible, use existing political and geographic boundaries.

Lawsuits filed on behalf of voters seek a temporary injunction against the new House map for violating that amendment. Their arguments focus heavily on po-

litical favoritism.

Under the new House map, 82% of voters in districts represented by Republicans remain in the same districts as under the previous map, said attorney Chris Shenton, who represented Common Cause and other groups challenging it. Just 41% of voters in districts represented by Democrats are kept in their same districts, he said.

“It shows that Democratic districts are being targeted for reconfiguration. And why? To favor Republicans and disfavor Democrats.

That is unconstitutional,” Shenton said.

Attorneys representing Florida’s state lawmakers and executive officials argued that partisan intent had not been proven and that a temporary injunction against the new districts is not appropriate in advance of a fully developed trial.

Though DeSantis called lawmakers into session before the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Louisiana case, he anticipated an eventual outcome weakening Voting Rights Act protections for minority districts. Among other changes, Florida’s new map reshapes a southeastern district that DeSantis’ office said was created to help elect a Black representative in an attempt to comply with federal law.

Colorado’s governor commutes ex-county election clerk’s sentence Tina Peters convicted in scheme to copy election data

BY COLLEEN SLEVIN and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press

DENVER — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Friday commuted the sentence of election conspiracy theorist Tina Peters following pressure from President Donald Trump, the latest instance of the president using his powers to reward those who echoed his baseless claims of mass fraud as the cause

of his 2020 loss.

Trump has championed the case of Peters, a 70-yearold former county clerk who was sentenced to nine years behind bars after being convicted in a scheme to make a copy of her county’s election computer system. She gets released June 1.

In April, a Colorado appeals court Peters ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud, a decision praised by Polis. The court upheld her convictions though.

In a letter to Peters, Polis wrote that Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison. “However, this is an extremely unusual and lengthy sentence for a first time offender who committed nonviolent crimes,” the governor wrote.

President Donald Trump posted around the time of the announcement on his Truth Social platform: “FREE TINA!” Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, said “it was a dark day for democracy” and ”selling out our state’s justice sys-

tem for Trump is an affront to the rule of law.”

“A clear message is being sent to those willing to break the law and attack democracy for the president — they will likely not face consequences for their actions,” Griswold said at a news conference.

Peters has been serving her sentence at a prison in Pueblo after being convicted in 2024 by jurors in

Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump.

Peters snuck in an outside computer expert, an associate of MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, to make a copy of her county’s Dominion Voting Systems election computer server as state officials updated it in 2021.

After Peters joined Lindell onstage at a “cybersymposium” that promised to

reveal proof of election rigging, video and photos of the upgrade, including passwords, were posted online.

Peters was convicted of state, not federal, crimes, which put her beyond the reach of Trump’s pardon power that he used to free those convicted of crimes for the Jan. 6, 2021, attacks on the U.S. Capitol. But the president still championed her cause.

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DOJ will seek death penalty in killings of Israeli Embassy staffers

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for the man accused of fatally shooting two staff members of the Israeli Embassy in Washington outside a Jewish museum, prosecutors said in a court filing Friday.

Elias Rodriguez faces federal hate crime and murder charges in the killings of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim as they left an event at the museum last May. Ro-

driguez shouted “Free Palestine” during the shooting and later told police, “I did it for Palestine, I did it for Gaza,” according to his indictment.

The charges against Rodriguez include a hate crime resulting in death. The indictment also includes notice of special findings, which allows prosecutors to pursue the death penalty.

“My message to anyone who seeks to commit political violence in this district — D.C. is not the place. You will be held accountable and you will face the full wrath of the

law,” Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, said at an unrelated news conference Friday in which she revealed the Justice Department’s death penalty decision.

The hate crimes charges mean prosecutors will have to prove that Rodriguez was motivated by antisemitism when he opened fire on Lischinsky and Milgrim, a young couple who were about to become engaged. Milgrim, 26, was a U.S. citizen and Lischinsky, 30, was an Israeli citizen working in the U.S.

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Sources: U.S. halts deployments to Poland, Germany Pentagon seeks to reduce troop numbers in Europe

BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, EMMA BURROWS, BEN FINLEY and CLAUDIA CIOBANU

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is drawing down thousands of troops in Europe by canceling deployments to Poland and Germany as opposed to yanking forces already stationed there, U.S. officials say, as President Donald Trump has tussled with allies over the Iran war and called for changes.

Several U.S. officials confirmed that 4,000 troops from the Army’s 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division were no longer en route to Poland this week. The Trump administration had previously said it was cutting U.S. forces only in Germany, and the decision spurred questions and criticism in both Warsaw and

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, left, testifies Tuesday at a House Appropriations subcommittee budget hearing for the Department of Defense in Washington, as Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Dan Caine listens.

Washington.

Two officials told The Associated Press the Poland deployment was canceled after Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth signed a memo directing the Joint Chiefs of Staff to move a brigade combat team out of Europe. One of them said the choice of which unit was left to military leaders.

Besides the Army combat team based in Fort Hood, Texas, the memo also led to the cancellation of an upcoming deployment to Germany of a battalion trained in firing long-range rockets and missiles, according to the two officials, who like the others spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military operations.

Three U.S. officials said the canceled deployments were part of an effort to comply with a presidential order issued at the beginning of May to reduce the number of troops in Europe by about 5,000. The reasoning does not appear to have been well communicated because others based in Europe said they did not know

if the halted deployment to Poland was part of the previously announced reduction in troops.

Trump and the Pentagon have said in recent weeks that they were drawing down at least 5,000 troops in Germany after Chancellor Friedrich Merz said the U.S. was being “humiliated” by the Iranian leadership and criticized what he called a lack of strategy in the war.

The drawdown reflects a growing rift between the administration and traditional European allies, with the U.S. leader repeatedly criticizing fellow NATO members for a lack of support for the Iran conflict.

Polish officials on Friday insisted that the canceled U.S. deployment to Poland, which was reported earlier

by The Military Times and other outlets, was not targeted directly at their country but was a consequence of Trump’s decision to reduce the number of troops in Germany.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he “received assurances” that the decision was of a logistical nature and said it does not

directly impact deterrence capabilities and Poland’s security.

Joel Valdez, a Pentagon spokesman, said “the decision to withdraw troops follows a comprehensive, multilayered process” and he argued that it was “not an unexpected, last-minute decision.”

Speaking to Congress in a hearing Friday, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the Army’s chief of staff, said discussions around the halted deployment to Poland occurred over the past two weeks but that the decision itself was made in the past couple days.

Republican Rep. Don Bacon, of Nebraska, said he spoke with Polish officials Thursday and they were “blindsided.”

The move also left some U.S. military personnel in Europe in the dark about how the Trump administration was reducing forces. A U.S. official based in Europe said a meeting was called with 20 minutes’ notice on Monday to discuss the cancellation of the deployment to Poland.

Iranian official: Lack of trust impeding talks with U.S.

BY SHEIKH SAALIQ and ADAM SCHRECK

Associated Press

NEW DELHI — Iran‘s foreign minister said a lack of trust is the biggest obstacle in negotiations to end the war with the U.S., saying Friday that Tehran would be open to diplomatic help, particularly from China, to help ease tensions.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said contradictory messages have “made us reluctant about the real intentions of Americans.”

“We are in doubt about their seriousness,” he told reporters in New Delhi, add-

ing that negotiations would move forward if Washington was ready for a “fair and balanced deal.”

President Donald Trump earlier this week dismissed Iran’s latest formal proposal as “garbage.” While Iran was said to include some nuclear concessions, Trump has said he wants to remove highly enriched uranium from the country and prevent it from developing nuclear weapons. Iran says its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes.

In separate negotiations in Washington between Israel and Lebanon, both sides agreed Friday to extend their ceasefire until early June,

U.S. officials said.

With talks between Iran and the U.S. at a standstill during the shaky ceasefire, tensions remain high and threaten to tip the Middle East back into open warfare and prolong the worldwide energy crisis sparked by the conflict.

Iran still has a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, a vital waterway where a fifth of the world’s oil passed through before the war, and America is blockading Iranian ports.

Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping, who finished talks on Friday, agreed the strait needs to be reopened.

Araghchi said Friday that

New Ebola outbreak confirmed in remote province in Congo Officials say 65 deaths recorded

By The Associated Press KINSHASA, Congo — Africa’s top public health body on Friday confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded so far.

Neighboring Uganda later confirmed one death in an Ebola case it said was imported from Congo.

The deaths and suspected cases have been recorded mainly in the Mongwalu and Rwampara health zones, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement. The agency said 65 deaths have been at-

tributed to the outbreak and that four of those have so far been confirmed in a laboratory.

Ebola is highly contagious and can be contracted through bodily fluids such as vomit, blood or semen. The disease it causes is rare, but severe and often fatal.

Scientists were trying to determine exactly what virus was driving the current outbreak in Congo. The Ebola virus — also known as the Ebola Zaire strain — has been prominent in Congo’s past outbreaks. Results so far suggest some variant other than the Ebola Zaire strain, with sequencing continuing to give more clarity, the Africa CDC said.

The World Health Organization says the Ebola disease

is caused by a group of viruses, and that three of them are known to cause large outbreaks: Ebola virus, Sudan virus and Bundibugyo virus.

Uganda on Friday reported one Ebola case involving a Congolese man admitted to a hospital in Kampala three days before he died.

Officials said the case was “imported” from Congo, and that Uganda has not yet confirmed any local cases.

Uganda’s Health Ministry said the patient was tested posthumously on Friday after neighboring Congo confirmed its Ebola outbreak.

All contacts linked to the man have been quarantined, the agency said. The deceased’s body has been taken back to Congo.

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Iran would welcome diplomatic support from other countries, particularly from China, citing Beijing’s previous role in facilitating the restoration of ties between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Beijing has shown little public interest in U.S. requests to get more involved, even though Trump told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that Xi had in their conversations offered to help.

Pakistan said Thursday it was continuing diplomatic efforts to help ease regional tensions. But it declined to disclose details of the discussions or say whether the U.S. had formally responded.

“The clock on diplomacy has not stopped. The peace process is working,” Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesperson Tahir Andrabi told reporters in Islamabad.

Trump has demanded a major rollback of Iran’s nuclear activities while Iran says it has a right to enrich uranium.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who launched the war with Trump on Feb. 28, also wants Iran’s highly enriched uranium removed from the country.

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“When we come to that stage, obviously we will have more consultations with Russia and see if the Russian offer can help or not,” he said.

Israel and Lebanon agreed to extend the expiring Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire for another 45 days to allow for negotiations on a broader peace agreement, the U.S. State Department said.

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Continued from page 1A on the ballot are elections for the Louisiana Supreme Court, the Public Service Commission, the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education and local races, including who will be mayor of Kenner and president of Lafourche Parish.

Voting takes place between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Cassidy, Letlow, Fleming and business owner Mark Spencer of Belle Chasse are running in the Republican Senate primary.

Competing in the Democratic Senate primary are policy analyst Nick Albares, who lives in New Orleans and has the endorsement of his former boss, ex-Gov. John Bel Edwards; Jamie Davis, a farmer in northeast Louisiana running with the endorsement of the Louisiana Democratic Party; and Gary Crockett, a business owner in New Orleans.

The three Democratic Senate candidates appeared Friday at a forum hosted by Jim Engster on his “Talk Louisiana” public radio program.

Albares, Davis and Crockett criticized Trump for launching the war against Iran. They also knocked plans underway by Landry and the Republican-controlled state Legislature to turn the Black-majority district held by U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields of Baton Rouge into a safe Republican seat, as legislators draw a new map for the state’s six congressional districts.

How will ‘no party’ voting go?

Voters will choose among the Republican and Democratic Senate candidates in separate party primaries Saturday. No-party voters can choose whether to vote for ei-

TRIAL

Continued from page 1A Association with Alfortish at the center. Prosecutors argue the material contains relevant context for a jury weighing new charges against the men.

Parker was arrested in 2010 on allegations that he killed Marcel Trudeau inside his Gentilly home weeks before Hurricane Katrina in 2005, but he was never charged. Trudeau’s house burned after his death, prosecutors say, and a witness who admits to planning Garrison’s killing, Ryan “Red” Harris, has said that Parker ordered him to burn a getaway car.

Evidence about Alfortish involves his trial, fraud conviction and disbarment for bilking the horse racing association. Prosecutors say he tried to intimidate witnesses in that case in ways that mirror new allegations against him.

The defendants’ lawyers pushed back hard in a pair of sharply worded responses this week, arguing that the evidence would unjustly prejudice the jury and falls well short of federal evidence rules.

The fierier of the two entries came from Parker’s attorney, Stephen Haedicke, who wrote that his client “unequivocally denies” any role in Trudeau’s killing.

“The Orleans Parish Dis-

ther the Republican or Democratic candidates, but not both. To do so, no-party voters must fill out a onepage Declaration of Ballot Choice.

Cassidy is relying on a goodsized turnout of no-party voters for him.

But he told reporters on Friday that he fears a significant number of no-party voters won’t understand the new system and won’t vote for him as a result.

“The system should be made to serve the voter, not asking the voter to serve the system,” he said.

Landry and Republican legislators instituted the semi-closed party primary for this year’s elections.

Past open primaries — where voters could choose among Republican and Democratic candidates on the same ballot — produced turnout rates of about 50%.

But this year, the office of Secretary of State Nancy Landry is projecting a voter participation of only 28%. That would equal about 830,000 voters.

About 257,000 people have already voted, either by absentee ballot or during the May 2-9 early voting period, according to pollster John Couvillon, who conducted surveys for Fleming. Of the 257,000 voters, only about 15% have been no-party, Couvillon said.

In all, 27% of Louisiana’s voters are registered as no-party.

If no candidate wins a majority in either party primary, Cassidy needs to finish first or second to advance to the runoff election on June 27 and avoid becoming on Saturday only the second incumbent Louisiana senator to lose reelection since 1932.

Early voting from May 2-9 showed widespread confusion with the semi-closed primary system and with Gov. Landry’s decision to declare an “emergency”

trict Attorney declined to pursue any charges against Mr. Parker, or even to bring evidence to a grand jury, related to the baseless allegation he was involved in that murder,” Haedicke wrote.

“And for good reason: The charge is false.”

Alfortish’s lawyer, Shaun Clarke, similarly cast prosecutors’ bid to introduce evidence of Alfortish’s disbarment as an attempt to impugn his character.

“The fact that Sean Alfortish had been a lawyer prior to the charged conspiracy is relevant in this trial,” Clarke wrote. “Alfortish will stipulate to that fact. But the prosecution’s attempt to leverage that into telling the jury that ‘Alfortish was a convicted fraudster who had been disbarred’ is an unsubtle attempt to introduce highly prejudicial character evidence.”

A narrow needle Prosecutors need not prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Parker committed Trudeau’s murder for Vitter to admit the evidence.

Yet they must still thread a narrow needle: They must show that the events of the 2005 murder were connected to the crimes on trial, or that they at least illuminate a pattern of behavior by the defendant.

Vitter can strike it down if the evidence risks prejudicing the jury against a defendant’s moral character.

Prosecutors want to intro-

and cancel the races for the six House elections, even though absentee ballot voting was underway.

Landry made that decision after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the state’s current congressional districts are unconstitutional.

During early voting, Black voters turned out in large numbers proportionally, with analysts citing anger at the move to eliminate seats held by Black elected officials.

Anyone with concerns or questions on Saturday can speak with an election commissioner at their precinct or call the secretary of state election hotline at (800) 883-2805.

Voters can go to geauxvote.com or download the GeauxVote app to get their voting information, their sample ballot, their voting precinct location, and other info, according to the Secretary of State’s Office.

Last-minute campaigning On Friday, Cassidy and Fleming kept up their attacks on Letlow, while an outside group associated with Gov. Landry continued its attacks on Fleming.

Cassidy mostly stuck to his home base in Baton Rouge, speaking to a disabled veterans’ group at a hotel and talking to reporters at a gun range.

Afterward, he stepped into the range and, while shooting an AR15, hit the bull’s-eye on five of six shots. He proudly held up the paper target afterward to show off his marksmanship.

Fleming appeared on the talk show radio programs of two conservative stalwarts, Jeff Crouere and Moon Griffon.

On both, he blamed Letlow for attack ads broadcast by the Accountability Project, one of the pro-Landry outside groups, that say Fleming is soft on border security, didn’t serve as Trump’s deputy chief of staff in his first term

duce a series of FBI interviews with Harris, a “slammer” who drove cars in the staged wrecks scheme.

Harris has admitted to helping introduce Alfortish to Parker so they could kill Garrison, who was Harris’ mentor.

Parker dated Harris’ mother, and Harris recounted to the FBI last spring how the elder man had bragged before of “killing a man and burning his house down.”

Harris said he burned the getaway car after Garrison’s murder at Parker’s direction, according to FBI memos.

Haedicke wrote that Harris is an admitted “serial liar, fraudster and murderer” whose remarks are mistruths meant to help him “avoid a lifetime in prison.”

Introducing his testimony would be an “incredibly and unfairly harmful” error, he wrote.

He pointed out differences in the two alleged arsons, noting that Trudeau’s home burned the evening he was killed, while the 2020 car arson was performed “10 days after” Garrison was killed.

Harris’ attorney, Christopher Murrell, did not respond to a request for comment.

“That representatives of the U.S. Government have leveled such unfounded allegations against him in such a manner,” Haedicke added, “has resulted in unfortunate and prejudicial media coverage of the upcoming trial

and voted for carbon capture and sequestration bills as a member of Congress more than a decade ago.

“It’s dishonest politics, and it’s boomeranging on them,” Fleming said on Griffon’s show.

Letlow, who is leading in most polls, went to Cameron Parish with Landry and Energy Secretary Chris Wright to celebrate plans for a $13 billion LNG facility.

In a phone interview, Letlow said her key message is that she has Trump’s message and would be a great public servant in the Senate.

Letlow noted that she’s not involved with the Accountability Project and said Fleming’s comments “are another of his conspiracy theories.”

Bernard parishes and a smidgen of Orleans Parish.

Two Republicans are running for the seat: William Burris, a district court judge in St. Tammany and Washington parishes; and Blair Edwards, a 1st Circuit Court of Appeals judge and former juvenile judge.

Board of Elementary

Three Republicans are running in a primary election for the 1st District seat on BESE, which sets policy for Louisiana’s K-12 school system. The district covers St. Tammany Parish and parts of Orleans, Jefferson and Tangipahoa parishes.

Those candidates are: n Joseph Cao, a former member Five constitutional amendments of Congress who Gov. Jeff Landry Voters will decide whether to ap- appointed to fill a vacant spot n Mike Hollis, who is in the inprove five amendments to the state constitution. surance business and whose faAmendment 1 would give the ther and brother were both state Louisiana Legislature more power lawmakers n Ellie Schroder, who worked in to designate which positions have civil service protections. public schools for nearly 30 years Amendment 2 would create a and is the wife of former state school district in St. George, the Treasurer John Schroder. new city in East Baton Rouge ParPublic Service Commission ish.

Amendment 3 would liquidate Five Republicans are running several education trust fund ac- for a seat on the Public Service counts and use the money to pay Commission representing St. Tamoff retirement debt, which would many Parish and parts of Orleans, fund a $2,250 raise for teachers Jefferson and Tangipahoa parstatewide. ishes. The commission regulates Amendment 4 would give par- utilities.

The candidates are: ishes the option to eliminate taxes n Wayne Cooper, a kitchen manon business inventory.

Amendment 5 would raise the ager at the Florida Parish Juvenile mandatory retirement age for Detention Center n State Rep. Stephanie Hilferty, judges from 70 to 75.

R-New Orleans State Supreme Court n John Mason, a criminal deVoters in the first district of the fense attorney n State Rep. Mark Wright, Louisiana Supreme Court will elect a new justice. That district R-Covington n John Young, the former Jeffercovers Livingston, St. Tammany, Washington, Tangipahoa and St. son Parish president.

after Trudeau’s killing, in 2010. Then-District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro ‘Unsupported claims’ declined to charge them, The Times-Picayune this telling Trudeau’s family month interviewed two of the evidence wasn’t strong Trudeau’s siblings, who enough.

Haedicke’s filing argues said they hoped the staged wrecks investigation might that Harris’ statements that bring fresh attention to he introduced Parker to Altheir brother’s still-un- fortish, based on Harris’ belief that Parker participated solved slaying.

Parker was one of four in Trudeau’s murder, repremen arrested five years sents the sort of character-

that may seriously affect the jury pool.”

tainting information federal evidence rules are meant to prohibit.

“The government’s proposed use of the evidence isn’t ‘context,’ ” he wrote.

“It’s pretext to raise unsupported claims about an unrelated, 15-year-old unsolved murder that prior District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro declined to bring to a grand jury and refused to charge.”

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Continued from page 1A growing in large numbers. “Hopefully, park visitors are enjoying it.”

Encouraging native plantings The Native Plant Initiative was founded in 2019 and partners with City Park and others to create spaces for native plants in urban areas. The group operates three urban gardens, located in City Park, Rosa Keller Library, and along the Laffite Greenway.

Dexter Ellis, vice president of the nonprofit, said its mission is to show the potential of native plants with display gardens and seed giveaways. It also packages and distributes seeds citywide, with some packages tossed from Mardi Gras floats, handed out at graduation parties and sold at pop-up events.

The goal is to encourage residents to plant native species, like goldenrods, narrowleaf sunflower, fragrant lemon beebalm and Gulf muhly, a grassy plant graced with purple spikelets.

Native plants enhance soil fertility, attract pollinators, benefit birds, and support natural habitats, Ellis said. Their deep root systems also help to sequester stormwater.

But over the years, non-native ornamental plants have displaced many native species that local pollinators, insects, and birds depend on, said Ellis.

“There are native bees flying around the garden, pollinating plants, finding little places to nestle and grow,” Ellis said of areas with lots of native plants. “And if you go to any other garden that is not native plants, it’s not that. It’s dead.”

Ornamental cast-iron plants, for example, are an inhospitable host for insects.

“You may as well put a statue there. It doesn’t do anything,” Ellis said.

Pulling weed by weed The volunteer’s approach is not to eradicate all non-native species, but to build stable, functional habitats.

That requires constant intervention, according to Prout. Without weeding, invasive species like torpedo grass choke out establishing plants.

“We have to continually disturb it,” Prout said.

That was Bryon Almquist’s job on Friday morning along the Big Lake, where he was ripping out invasive weeds and vines.

“I’m the vine guy,” said Almquist, noting that the some of them smoth-

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Melissa Passman, from left, Anna-Louise Ledet and Dustin Diaz pull weeds at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail at City Park on Friday. er desirable plants around the area, making it harder for new plantings to take root.

A year ago, Almquist said the perimeter around the lake was covered in weeds. There are a lot fewer now.

On a buttonbush plant near where Almquist was working, native bees, monarch butterflies, and other insects had gathered to drink its nectar. Volunteers hadn’t expected to find all those bugs on one plant, but it’s given them a place to feed.

Just across the trail, coneflowers, similar to daisy lions, were originally planted in one prairie section. But they’ve spread naturally as their seeds have been carried across the park, and they now brighten several areas around the lake.

In other ways, native species are spreading across New Orleans through different plantings that residents are choosing for their gardens.

Ellis said that over the past five years, he has noticed a significant increase in native plants appearing in residential yards across New Orleans neighborhoods.

“It’s one yard at a time,” Ellis said.

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Jennifer Prout, a local horticulturalist and volunteer lead with the Native Plant Initiative, pulls weeds along the walkway at the Big Lake Native Plant Trail at City Park on Friday.

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15:542 - Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 02/22/2010.

15:542 - Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 01/14/2019.

My Address is: 2976 SKIDMORE DR MARRERO, LA 70072 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 6/17/1983 Height: 5'9" Weight: 160 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: Louisiana 187411, MAY 15-16 $250.00

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Date Convicted: 04/24/1996. 14:89.1 Aggravated Crime Against Nature. Date Convicted: 04/24/1996.

My Address is: 2414 PAULINE ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/1/1964 Height: 5'9" Weight: 230 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN

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Date Convicted: 04/14/1992. 14:44.1 Second Degree Kidnapping. Date Convicted: 04/14/1992.

I, Martin Marvin Journee, have been convicted of 14:42.1 Forcible Rape. Date Convicted: 06/29/2010.

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Date Convicted: 02/07/1997.

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Date Convicted: 07/02/1998.

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Whereas Ivory Brooks Ross, the duly appointed, qualified and acting Ad‐ ministratrix has made application to the Court the refinancing for through Liberty Bank of the immovable property described to-wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, appurte‐ servitudes, nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in appertaining, anywise situated in the THIRD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT of the CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS, PARISH OF OR‐ LEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in SQUARE “C”, SHERWOOD FOREST SUBDIVISION, SECTION “A”, bounded by Notting‐ ham Drive, Wright Road Dwyer Road (side), (side), Gentilly Oaks Sub‐ division and Pressburg Street, designated as LOT NO. 11, commences 528 feet from the corner of Nottingham Drive and Pressburg Street, mea‐ sures thence 52 feet on Nottingham front Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of 105 feet between equal and parallel lines. All as more fully shown on a survey

by Gilbert, Kelly & Cou‐ turie, Inc., S&E, dated Au‐ gust 25, 1995.

For informational pur‐ poses only: The improvements thereon bear Municipal Number 4972 Nottingham New Orleans, Drive, Louisiana 70127.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: Loan not to exceed One Twenty-Five Hundred Thousand and No/100 ($125,000.00) Dollars.

NO. 2026-01982 DIVISION “N” DOCKET NO. 8 SUCCESSION OF JULES AMBROSE, SR. NOTICE OF SUCCESSION NOTICE IS GIVEN that Joelle Ambrose, Adminis‐ tratrix of the Succession of Jules Ambrose, Sr., is applying for authority to sell at private sale, on terms of ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($180,000.00) DOL‐ LARS all cash, the im‐ movable property owned by the Succession of Jules Ambrose, Sr., de‐ scribed below: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, d d

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N.O. judge recuses in Hutson case

Indicted ex-sheriff, financial officer have yet to enter pleas

BY MARCO CARTOLANO and JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writers

An Orleans Parish criminal court judge has recused himself from the state’s case against Susan Hutson, the former Orleans Parish sheriff, citing an arrest warrant that highlights a fight last summer between the court’s judges and Hutson over inmate transfers.

Readings from refinery explosion released

District Judge Leon Roche notified the court of his recusal on the eve of a scheduled arraignment for Hutson, who faces 30 felony counts related to her four-year tenure as sheriff, which ended this month. Hutson made way for new Sheriff Michelle Woodfork.

Hutson, along with her chief financial officer Bianka Brown, who is also implicated in the case, appeared in Roche’s courtroom Fri-

day morning for the scheduled arraignment. The court session ended early after Roche announced his recusal.

Neither Hutson nor Brown entered pleas.

The case is expected to be reallotted to another of the 12 district court judges in the building.

Should all of its judges recuse, the Louisiana Supreme Court would appoint an outside judge.

Days before Hutson left office, transferring authority to Woodfork over the city lockup, court security and other functions, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office secured a 50-count indictment against Hutson and Brown.

The indictment does not describe the alleged criminal acts, listing the dates of their alleged offenses as virtually the entirety of their tenures at the Orleans Parish

Sheriff’s Office.

The indictment stemmed from an investigation that Murrill’s investigators launched in response to a jailbreak a year ago by 10 inmates that set off a monthslong manhunt and doomed Hutson’s chances of reelection after a rocky term.

An arrest warrant affidavit suggests the charges relate to alleged criminal failures by Hutson that were flagged by judges and

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Afternoon stroll

State DEQ says no air qualty concerns in blaze’s aftermath

BY JOSIE ABUGOV Staff writer

A Chalmette refinery explosion last week that shook homes miles away did not create air quality concerns in the aftermath of the blaze, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality said Friday.

Emergency air monitoring at the facility and in nearby neighborhoods found no detections of volatile organic compounds, particulate matter or other monitored chemicals that can pose health risks, according to Greg Langley, communications director for the state agency.

The cause of the explosion and the fire remains undetermined.

“The incident is still under investigation as LDEQ awaits the 7-day letter from the facility, which should provide more information,” Langley said.

On May 8 at 12:50 p.m., a blast at Chalmette Refining, near the busy intersection of Paris Road and St. Bernard Highway, rippled as far as New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood and across the river in Algiers. The subsequent fire spewed clouds of smoke that towered over the facility.

No injuries were reported and the flames were quickly brought under control.

STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER

Regan VanMeter and Lisa Baerman stroll along the Mississippi River overlooking the city’s skyline in the Holy Cross neighborhood of New Orleans on Friday.

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Common ensign wasp a friend Teen accused in ambush linked to crime spree

It reduces cockroach population, and not a threat to humans

17-year-old faces multiple charges

BY KASEY BUBNASH

BY MISSY WILKINSON

At a glance, it resembles a creepy, crawly black spider — but with wings. Your first instinct upon finding one in your home may be to flatten it. Once you discover that it comes from a family of “parasitoid wasps,” the urge to kill will likely intensify.

“You should rejoice,” said Aaron Ashford, an entomologist at LSU’s AgCenter in Baton Rouge.

“You should be happy to have them there.”

That’s because these freaky little insects, known to scientists as Evaniidae and to laymen as ensign or nightshade wasps, play a vital role in limiting cockroach populations with little to no downside for human beings.

Wasps have a bad reputa-

A teen accused of carrying out a carjacking, armed robberies and a shooting during a violent March crime spree was rebooked Tuesday on a count of second-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder.

Bail for Jeffrey Mulul, 17, was set at $1 million in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court on Wednesday afternoon. Combined with bonds previously set on aggravated battery, carjacking and two armed robbery charges, his total bail now stands at $1.25 million.

New Orleans police say a masked Mulul, along with five other males, opened fire on five teens in a parking lot near the West Bank levee in the early

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Ensign wasps are insects that are harmless to humans but can do serious damage to some kinds of cockroach populations. tion for painful stings, sure, but Ashbrook said ensign wasps are harmless.

Solitary creatures that lack nests to defend, ensign wasps use their would-be stingers as ovipositors, tubelike organs used to lay eggs. Ashbrook said the ensign wasp’s ovipositor is sharp and strong, so much so that it can pierce through the tough outer shell of a cockroach egg sac.

That’s where these cuckoolike bugs plant their eggs, one egg per sac, leaving ruin in their wake.

“The wasp adult itself is not the one who kills the cockroach,” Ashbrook said. It’s the egg.

When the wasp egg hatches, it molts repeatedly inside the sac, consuming the cockroach eggs as it grows. Once it’s big and strong,

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morning hours on March 23. Using handguns affixed with lights and lasers, Mulul allegedly fired upon the silver SUV as the youths fled the lot near Socrates Street and Brooklyn Avenue.

Two boys were shot, one in the head. That victim, Noe Padilla, 17, was pronounced dead at University Medical Center at 5:54 a.m.

“He was a young boy full of dreams, with a family who loved him deeply … and everything changed in a matter of seconds,” states a GoFundMe launched to help cover the costs of repatriating Padilla’s body to Honduras.

“His life was taken in a tragic and unexpected way, leaving his entire family completely devastated.”

NOPD officers recovered shell casings from four 9 mm firearms, according to an affidavit supporting Mulul’s arrest. Investigators recognized the suspect vehicle

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Caleb Wilson’s family receives his posthumous degree Southern honors N.O.-native student who died

BY HALEY MILLER

Staff writer

With a crowd of thousands silent save for the sounds of wailing babies, Southern University conferred during its commencement Friday a posthumous degree to 20-year-old mechanical engineering student Caleb Wilson, who died in an alleged fraternity hazing incident last year.

Kavon Barnhill, a 21-year-old nursing major from Shreveport who died in a car crash in December, was also honored with a posthumous degree.

“The Southern University family is deeply saddened, and our thoughts and prayers remain with all who knew and cared for Kavon Barnhill and Caleb Wilson,” Southern University Chancellor John Pierre said.

Families of the deceased students accepted their degrees at the Mini-Dome on the Southern University campus in Baton Rouge, where more than 600 undergraduate and graduate students participated in ceremonies on Thursday and Friday. Parents, siblings, friends and supporters packed the stands Friday morning to cheer on the graduates, who filed in wearing caps decorated with phrases like

“That’s a wrap” and “She believed she could, so she did.”

Attendees took a moment of reflection for Barnhill and Wilson before the reading of the graduates’ names began. As they walked on stage to receive the degree, Wilson’s parents carried a poster with their son’s image, capturing him in a suit with a pair of rectangular glasses balanced on his nose.

“We love you, Caleb!” shouted one member of the crowd.

Graduates on the floor of the arena stood up row by row as Wilson was honored, erupting into applause as the family exited the stage.

Wilson inspires change Wilson was a trumpet player with Southern University’s renowned marching band, the Human Jukebox. His friends called him “Cheese” and described him as both a jokester and someone who “walked this campus with a purpose.”

He died after being punched in the chest during an off-campus fraternity hazing ritual involving Southern’s chapter of Omega Psi Phi in February 2025, investigators said. Five defendants have been charged with criminal hazing in connection to his death. All pleaded not guilty in January of this year.

His death sparked a wave of anti-hazing advocacy around the state, with memorials held in New Orleans and Baton Rouge in the immediate aftermath. His fam-

PHOTO PROVIDED By APRIL BUFFINGTON

Caleb Wilson’s family received his posthumous degree during Southern University and A&M College’s Spring commencement held at the F.G. Clark Activity Center on Friday. ily established a foundation in his honor and raised awareness with a billboard campaign that spanned from Kenner to New Orleans.

State leaders also spoke out about the incident. Lawmakers are currently considering a bill called “The Caleb Wilson Hazing Prevention Act” to provide greater education around hazing rituals, strengthen reporting requirements for institutions and permanently banishing from college campuses

any organizations that violate the law resulting in the death of a person. The legislation passed the House and is awaiting final passage in the Senate.

“Hazing is not a tradition, and it should not be a part of any tradition,” bill author Rep. Vanessa LaFleur, D-Baton Rouge, said during a House Education Committee meeting in March. “It is not brotherhood. It is not harmless. It is dangerous, it is illegal, and hopefully,

with this bill and others, preventable.”

LaFleur said Wilson’s family served as a grounding, guiding force of the legislative efforts to protect students from hazing. His mother, Urania Wilson, spoke in favor of the bill at the committee meeting.

“I feel that Louisiana can be an example for the rest of the country,” she said to legislators. “Something needs to happen.”

Man accused of Kenner thefts suspected in multistate scheme Duo may be tied to identity fraud spree

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

Staff writer

A man jailed in Memphis earlier this month following an investigation into large-scale mail theft and identity fraud in Tennessee has also been identified as the second suspect in a similar spree of thefts in Kenner, according to authorities.

Local detectives and police in Tennessee believe Joshua Johnson, 36, has been traveling from state to state to steal packages and mail, looking for victims’ checkbooks, credit cards or other identifying information that he can use to commit financial fraud, according to Kenner Police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick.

Johnson’s name surfaced during a Kenner detective’s investigation into credit card fraud. He was later tied to a potential theft ring identified after a package was stolen from a Kenner home, officials said.

Kenner police say Johnson is the man seen on a doorbell camera video from March 25 stealing allergy medication from the front door of a home on Avant Garde Circle.

Kenner detectives used automated license-plate recognition cameras to track the vehicle used in the theft. The car was registered to James Nelson, 36, of unincorporated Gretna, McCormick said.

When authorities served a search warrant at Nelson’s house on Drake Lane on March 31, they recovered merchandise believed to be stolen from homes in the area, along with several pieces of mail, identification cards, credit cards, credit card applications, birth certificates and vehicle titles.

They also found ledgers inside Nelson’s home that listed victims’ names and personal information, including birth dates and Social Security numbers, according to Kenner police.

Included in the slew of papers was a stolen $567 check belonging to a Kenner family. It was later determined that Nelson had allegedly forged a $1,300 check belonging to the family, likely stolen from an ordered checkbook that never arrived, according to authorities.

Nelson was arrested, and local detectives continued the investigation, suspecting that there could be more than 50 victims involved in the case.

Johnson was later identified as a suspect after a Kenner resident’s stolen credit card was used at a

store on the West Bank, McCormick said.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigations learned of the Kenner police warrant for Johnson, who was a suspect in their own mail and identity theft investigation, according to McCormick.

Kenner police partnered with Tennessee investigators, who tracked Johnson to a house in Memphis where authorities found a cache similar to the one at Nelson’s home: stolen mail, identification cards, passports, credit and debit cards and personal information, according to authorities.

Kenner police have since determined that Nelson and Johnson know one another. Investigators suspect Nelson drove around Kenner neighborhoods while Johnson stole packages and mail, according to McCormick.

Johnson isn’t from Louisiana but has ties to Baton Rouge, Dallas and Tennessee, authorities said.

It’s not clear when Johnson will be extradited to Jefferson Parish.

He must first face criminal charges in Tennessee, including counts of mail theft, fraudulent use of credit cards, identity theft and attempted bank fraud, McCormick said.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.

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Ex-Orleans Sheriff Susan Hutson leaves the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court building after New Orleans judge recuses in New Orleans on Friday.

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Continued from page 1B monitors who report to a federal judge over reforms to conditions at the city jail.

The indictment accuses Hutson of official misconduct, obstruction of justice, falsifying public documents and conspiracy. Eighteen of the 30 charges against her allege malfeasance in office.

Legal analysts say prosecutors under Murrill must show that Hutson intentionally dropped the ball.

Hutson was accompanied to court Friday by a group of sup-

porters that included several men who stood out in dark suits and bright red bow ties. The men surrounded the former sheriff as she left the courthouse for a waiting car. One of their ties featured a crescent-and-star symbol associated with the Nation of Islam, a religious movement of Black nationalists founded almost a century ago.

Hutson did not immediately respond to questions about their presence at the courthouse.

“It was community support,” said Kevin Griffin-Clark, an activist and former City Council hopeful who helped shepherd Hutson to her car with the group.

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Carlson.

Small, tan insects that live exContinued from page 1B clusively indoors, German cockroaches are most likely to infest a home and remain notoriously the wasp breaks free from the difficult to exterminate. They’re sac and begins its own journey highly prolific, often resistant to of reproduction and destruction. pesticides and Carlson said they But don’t get too excited. can carry their egg sacs with While these wasps are effec- them on the go, making them a tive soldiers in the war against challenging target. roaches, Ashbrook said they’re not going to wipe out the enemy Avoid friendly fire entirely.

Despite the ensign wasp’s flaws, Carlson said he’s deWeapon of destruction? lighted every time he sees one Ensign wasps have their limi- of these little allies. Named for their mobile abdomen, which tations.

A female ensign wasp can lay they lift up and down the way a hundreds of eggs in a lifetime, military ensign lifts a flag, enbut her total output depends on sign wasps have sapphire blue how quickly she can find suit- eyes that Carlson described able cockroach sacs in just two as “gorgeous,” if a bug can be to three weeks of life. Mean- called such a thing.

If you see one in your house, while, American cockroaches — the big, red-brown bugs you’re he said it’s not necessarily a most likely to see scurrying sure sign that you have a cockacross the pavement at night — roach infestation. These wasps can live up to three years, laying are constantly on the hunt for more than a dozen eggs per sac. egg sacs, and he said they cover Plus, Ashbrook said research a lot of ground in their short suggests ensign wasps may lifetimes. not offer foolproof pest conHe recommends catching and trol in some of the places most releasing them safely outside frequented by American cock- or, for lack of a better term, letting them cook. With multiple roaches.

“In theory, it could still work,” invasive species of cockroachhe said, “we’d just have to try it es thriving in New Orleans, we perhaps with a different experi- need all the help we can get.

“Nature is wild and wicked out mental design.”

Perhaps the biggest downside, there,” Carlson said. though, is that ensign wasps are not effective killers of German Email Kasey Bubnash at cockroaches, according to ento- kasey.bubnash@theadvocate. mologist and pediatrician John com.

STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE

A ship passes by Chalmette Refining along the Mississippi River on May 8. A fire broke out at the refinery following an explosion.

CHALMETTE

Continued from page 1B The initial fire was burning a mix of naphtha, a petroleum-based liquid, and hydrogen that was being used as raw material in the refining process, Langley said. All water used to contain the fire was captured and held in a wastewater treatment system.

LDEQ performed community air monitoring at the facility and in neighborhoods to its north for an hour after the reported explosion, according to the agency. It detected no volatile organic compounds

or other monitored chemicals.

PBF Energy, the company that owns the plant, also hired contractors to perform air monitoring, as did the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The contractors did not detect any chemicals of concern, according to the state’s field report.

Minimal smoke from the fire was blowing toward the Mississippi River. The fire stopped burning around 4 p.m., according to the field report.

Chalmette Refining is one of PBF Energy’s six refineries. PBF bought the plant in 2015. The refinery employs about 500 people and calls itself the parish’s largest

private employer and taxpayer.

A large fire previously broke out at the facility in 2023, causing nearly $35 million in damages, according to a report from the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.

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Runoffs, if needed, will be held June 27.

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Boulevard, Prytania Street, Nashville Avenue, and Magazine Street for eight years beginning 2027, an estimated $222,750 per year for security.

NOTE: Races for the U.S. House of Representatives will appear on the ballot, but those votes will not be counted. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state’s voting map unconstitutional and Gov. Jeff Landry postponed the election, but it was too late for election officials to change the voting machines.

Imposes an annual fee of up to $100 on residential parcels and up to $200 on commercial parcels for the first three years and up to $125 on each residential parcel and up to $225 on each commercial for the next two years in the area bounded by Cerise Avenue, the south side of Chef Menteur Highway, Gawain Drive and the north side of Dwyer Road canal beginning 2027. The fee will generate an estimated $65,000 per year for beautification and improvements.

Party Affiliations D = Democratic R = Republican NP = No Party

U.S. SENATOR DEMOCRATIC PARTY Nicholas “Nick” Albares Gary Crockett “Jamie” Davis

REPUBLICAN PARTY “Bill” Cassidy John Fleming Julia Letlow Mark Spencer

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS AMENDMENT 1

STAFF FILE PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

Fire crews move a line around Nottoway Plantation on May 15, 2025, in White Castle.

Nottoway owners file suit a year after fire Iberville Parish, others acted in ‘gross negligent manner,’ it claims

BY AIDAN McCAHILL Staff writer

Nearly a year after Nottoway Plantation burned to the ground, its owners filed a lawsuit against the Iberville Parish government, Parish President Chris Daigle and the city of Plaquemine, claiming all three acted in a “gross negligent manner” that contributed to the complete destruction of the major attraction.

Nottoway Plantation Resort filed the petition for damages on Thursday, asking for compensation of “all reasonable damages.” Its owner, Dan Dyess, could not be immediately reached for comment.

Nottoway Plantation was destroyed in a fire on May 15, 2025. The blaze started at around 2 p.m. in the mansion’s south wing before completely engulfing it by nightfall.

At some point after firefighters arrived on the scene, the suit claims the Plaquemine Fire Department assumed the lead.

At 3:30 p.m., sources on the scene reported the fire had been contained in the “Boys Wings” of the mansion. Water had extinguished the fire on the floor, drapes and furniture, according to the lawsuit, and the fire was in a position to be completely put out.

But it was a “false horizon.” The mansion was built using a 19th-century technique called “balloon framing,” where wall studs run vertically in a single piece from the foundation up to the roof

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Continued from page 1B — a Chevrolet Traverse — from an armed robbery and aggravated battery by shooting that occurred March 22, one day before the killing. The vehicle was also linked to an armed robbery late March 21.

In the March 22 shooting, Mulul and another suspect allegedly approached a man who was drag racing near Downman and Old Gentilly roads at 3:14 a.m. They shot him in

— a “known issue for firefighters,” the suit states.

The spaces between those studs hadn’t been fully extinguished, the suit alleges, and the Plaquemine Fire Department should have known to send hose lines to the attic, or the highest point of the structure, to douse it from above and prevent the fire from spreading.

But they didn’t, despite standard procedures and also at least two of the Nottoway Plantation employees notifying the Plaquemine Fire Department that water needed to be put in the walls from the attic. That, along with additional failures by the department, allowed the fire to reignite and spread, the suit states.

The petition for damages also claims that at a “critical juncture,” Daigle, who is a volunteer firefighter, arrived at the scene and told firefighters to “stand down.” The suit claims his actions allowed the fire to rekindle.

Daigle said he has not gotten a chance to thoroughly review the petition for damages but called the claims false.

The Plaquemine Fire Department was one of several fire departments on the scene that acted in an assisting role, Daigle said.

Others included White Castle, Bayou Goula, Iberville Parish, St. George, Baton Rouge and West Baton Rouge fire departments.

Plaquemine Fire Chief Darren Ramirez could not be immediately reached for comment.

One of the challenges in putting out the fire at the time was a lack of available water, and the suit claims the Parish Council’s failure to maintain an adequate water supply directly contributed to the

damages.

“Water. Not enough of it,” Iberville Parish Fire Department Director Shaun Bordelon told The Advocate during the fire.

The suit alleges the only fire hydrant available was operating at less than half capacity for both water flow and water pressure.

The lack of water and failure to utilize water from the Mississippi River allegedly directly contributed to the damage.

Safe Home Monitoring Inc., a home alarm company, is also included in the suit for negligence and breach of contract. It claims the alarm system failed to sense the fire and alert first responders in time.

After last year’s fire drew national media attention, the owners of Nottoway Plantation told The Advocate in February they planned to rebuild the mansion “exactly as it stood.” No insurance had been purchased on the mansion before the fire.

Prior to its destruction, Nottoway was a major tourist attraction in Iberville Parish, though one that sparked divided reactions from local residents and the descendants of enslaved Black Americans.

Shortly after the fire, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms began assisting the Louisiana Fire Marshal in investigating the origin of the fire.

A spokesperson for the State Fire Marshal said Friday the investigation is still ongoing. Interviews with the owners, workers and witnesses, as well as results of lab tests conducted on recovered items, have so far not revealed anything suspicious about the cause of the blaze, the official said.

the face and shoulder and tried unsuccessfully to steal his vehicle, stymied by its manual transmission. Investigators said the suspects did steal the victim’s Glock 43X handgun.

In the March 21 armed robbery, the Chevrolet Traverse was one of two vehicles carrying Mulul and eight other suspects, who allegedly followed a man from a store to the 6200 block of Chef Menteur Highway, where they robbed him of his cellphone, according to the affidavit.

A search warrant executed at Mulul’s home turned up a 9 mm Taurus G2C in his bedroom. Investigators linked the firearm to the killing and the March 22 shooting, while cellphone data placed Mulul at both crime scenes, according to an affidavit signed May 8 by Magistrate Commissioner Jay Daniels. Surveillance footage also allegedly placed Mulul at the scene of the March 21 armed robbery.

Mulul faces life in prison if convicted of second-degree murder.

To allow the legislature to remove or add officers, positions and employees to the unclassified state civil service system.

AMENDMENT 2

To grant the St. George community school system in East Baton Rouge Parish the authority to operate a school system.

AMENDMENT 3

To fund a teachers pay raise by paying down the long-term debt of the Teachers Retirement System of Louisiana.

That would be achieved by redirecting funds from three educational trust funds.

AMENDMENT 4

To allow parishes to reduce or eliminate property taxes on business inventory, but only if the sheriff, school board and parish governing authority approve. Parishes choosing to fully exempt inventory taxes could receive a one-time payment from the Revenue Stabilization Trust Fund.

AMENDMENT 5

To change the mandatory retirement age of judges from 70 to 75 years of age.

MULTIPLE PARISHES (ORLEANS, JEFFERSON, ST. TAMMANY) ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SUPREME COURT, 1ST DISTRICT — REPUBLICAN PARTY William “Billy” Burris Blair Downing Edwards

PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION DISTRICT 1 — REPUBLICAN PARTY Wallace “Wayne” Cooper II Stephanie Hilferty “Big John” Mason Mark Wright John Young

BOARD OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION DISTRICT 1 — REPUBLICAN PARTY “Joseph” Cao Michael Hollis Ellie Schroder

JEFFERSON PARISH MAYOR OF KENNER “Walt” Bennetti, NP Michael Glaser Sr., R Diane Schnell, D

KENNER CITY COUNCIL, ATLARGE DIVISION A Brian Brennan, R “Joe” Stagni, R

KENNER CITY COUNCIL, ATLARGE DIVISION B George L. Branigan, R Gregory W. Carroll, D

KENNER CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 1 Michael “Mike” Sigur, R “Tom” Willmott, R

KENNER CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 4 Stacey Allesandro, R Kristi Katsanis McKinney, R

KENNER CITY COUNCIL DISTRICT 5 Kaylin Ramirez, NP “Danny” Riehm III, R

CITY OF GRETNA, FIRE PROTECTION RENEWAL Renews 5 mills on all taxable property generating an estimated $854,924 per year for ten years beginning 2027 for fire protection.

ORLEANS PARISH JUDGE CIVIL DISTRICT COURT, DIVISION M Stephanie Bridges, D Richard Perque, D

JUDGE CIVIL DISTRICT COURT, DIVISION N Sheryl Howard, D Elroy James, D

JUDGE CRIMINAL DISTRICT COURT, SECTION J John T. Fuller, D Andre Gaudin Jr., D

Propositions UPPER HURSTVILLE SECURITY DISTRICT PROPOSITION Renewal of annual fee of up to $650 on each parcel of land bounded by Exposition

CASTLE MANOR IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PROPOSITION

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH HOME RULE CHARTER AMENDMENT Establishes annual compensation for parish council members equal to the average salary of those in St. Charles and St. James parishes.

PARISHWIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 PROPOSITION 1 OF 2 Renews up to 4.33 mills generating an estimated $3.8 million per year for 10 years beginning 2027 to operate and maintain the school system and its facilities.

PARISHWIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 PROPOSITION 2 OF 2

Renews up to 8 mills generating an estimated $7 million per year for 10 years beginning 2029 to provide additional support to public elementary and secondary schools. It would dedicate 1 mill to pay unfunded obligations for health benefits for retired employees and to establish a trust fund for that purpose; 4 mills to pay salaries and benefits of teachers and employees; dedicate 3 mills to implement a plan for academic school improvements.

ST. CHARLES PARISH PARISHWIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 PROPOSITION 1 OF 2 Renews 39 mills generating an estimated $100.1 million per year for 10 years beginning 2028 to operate and maintain the school system.

It represents a reduction of 4.18 mills below the 43.18 mills authorized by voters on April 29, 2017.

PARISHWIDE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 1 PROPOSITION 2 OF 2

Renews 4.92 mills generating an estimated $12.6 million per year for 10 years beginning 2028 to construct and improve school buildings.

PARISHWIDE HOSPITAL SERVICE DISTRICT NO. 1

Renews 2.13 mills generating an estimated $5.4 million per year for 10 years beginning 2026 to construct, operate and maintain hospital facilities, including ambulance service.

ST. TAMMANY PARISH CHIEF OF POLICE, CITY OF SLIDELL Brian Nicaud, R Thomas “Tommy” Williams, R

COUNCIL MEMBER(S) AT LARGE, CITY OF SLIDELL (Vote for Two) “Tom” Abney, R “Jeff” Burgoyne, R Leslie Denham, D David Dunham, R “Kenny” Tamborella, R

COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT A, CITY OF SLIDELL Rene Arcemont, R Landon J. Washington, D

COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT B, CITY OF SLIDELL Sean Fadely, NP Fabian L. Hartley, NP

COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT C, CITY OF SLIDELL Megan Haggerty, R Belinda Parker Brown, NP

COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT E, CITY OF SLIDELL Shawn Jones, R Dominick “Nick” Spadoni, III, R

COUNCIL MEMBER, DISTRICT G, CITY OF SLIDELL John Grigg, R Timothy “Tim” Rogers, R Local Propositions

LIGHTING DISTRICT NO. 6 PROPOSITION (MILLAGE) “Shall St. Tammany Parish Lighting District No. 16 (the “District”), levy a 1.00 mill tax on all the property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $42,100 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2026 and ending with the year 2035, for the purpose of contracting with any public utility company (or companies) to provide and maintain utility poles and electric lights on the Parish streets, roads, highways, alleys and public places in the District and that the revenues derived therefrom shall be subject to debt service and administrative charges thereagainst?”

ROAD LIGHTING DISTRICT NO. 9 PROPOSITION (SERVICE CHARGE)

“Shall Road Lighting District No. 9 of the Parish of St. Tammany, State of Louisiana (the “District), be authorized to assess and annual service charge of $50 per structure or lot (an estimated $123,300 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the service charge for an entire year) for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2026 and ending with the year 2035, to persons occupying residential and nonresidential structures and persons owning unoccupied structures located wholly or partly within the boundaries of the District and to persons owning lots located wholly or partly within the District upon which no structures is located for the purpose of paying utility charges for road lighting and maintaining and operating road lighting facilities and equipment within the District?”

LIGHTING DISTRICT NO. 4 PROPOSITION (MILLAGE)

“Shall St. Tammany Parish Lighting District No. 4, (the “District”), levy a 3.80 mills tax on all the property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $466,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2026 and ending with the year 2035, for the purpose of contracting with any public utility company (or companies) to provide and maintain utility poles and electric lights on the Parish streets, roads, highways, alleys and public places in the District and that the revenues derived therefrom shall be subject to debt service and administrative charges thereagainst?”

TOWN OF PEARL RIVER PROPOSITION (SALES TAX RENEWAL)

“Shall the Town of Pearl River, State of Louisiana (the “Town”), be authorized to continue to levy and collect a sales and use tax of 0.25% (the “Tax”) (an estimated $300,000 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the Tax for an entire year), for a period of 10 years, beginning July 1, 2026, in accordance with Louisiana law, with the proceeds of the Tax (after paying the reasonable and necessary expenses of collecting and administering the Tax) to be used for the purpose of paying the costs of sewer maintenance and operations?”

FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT NO. 11 PROPOSITION (MILLAGE RENEWAL) “Shall the Fire Protection District No. 11 of the Parish of St. Tammany, State of Louisiana (the “District”), continue to levy and collect a tax of 10 mills (the “Tax”) on all property subject to taxation in the District (an estimated $617,400 reasonably expected at this time to be collected from the levy of the Tax for an entire year) for a period of 10 years, beginning with the year 2027 and ending with the year 2036, for the purpose of acquiring, constructing, improving, maintaining and operating the District’s fire protection facilities, including equipment and paying the cost of obtaining water for fire protection, provided that a portion of the Tax proceeds is required to be contributed to the state and statewide retirement system as provided in R.S. 11:82?”

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New Orleans Area Deaths James, Marilyn Larmann, Laurence Schellhaas, Jennie Toups, Cheryl Wesley, Onetta

New Orleans DW Rhodes Wesley, Onetta Greenwood Toups, Cheryl Lake Lawn Metairie Larmann, Laurence Schellhaas, Jennie

Obituaries James, Marilyn Savage 'Sister'

Marilyn Savage James was born on Sunday, December 7, 1952, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the late Ruby Mae Charles Jones and Earl Savage, Sr. On Saturday, May 9, 2026, Marilyn gained her heavenly wings in the comfort of her home following a long illness.

Marilyn is survived by her husband Carlton T. James 111, her father Earl Savage, ten sisters and brothers, three children , Eddie ( Yvonne) Tawana, and Larry, 12 Grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews and friends.

Marilyn's funeral will be held Saturday May 16th, 2026 at Oakland Baptist Church, Kenner, La. Rev. Charles Hurst officiating.

Larmann, Laurence Emig 'Larry'

Laurence Emig Larmann ("Larry"), a lifelong resident of Metairie, passed away peacefully at home surrounded by the family he cherished throughout his life.

Born in New Orleans to Anthony Leo Larmann and Beryl Emig Larmann, Larry was a devoted Catholic, husband, father, grandfa-

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ther, uncle, attorney, and friend. He lived by the values of faith, family, and service, teaching those around him that God comes first and family matters most.

Larry shared nearly 60 years of marriage with his beloved wife and college sweetheart, Sheila O'Haire.

Together they built a family centered on faith, love, and devotion. He was the proud father of Kevin Larmann (Margaret), Laurie Friedrichs (Shelby, III), and Erin Larmann Reynaud; and devoted "Papa" to Mimi, Larry II, and Kate Larmann, Shelby Friedrichs, IV and Bailey, Brooks, and Stafford Reynaud. He was a constant presence in the lives of his children and grandchildren, never missing milestones, birthdays, games, or opportunities to say "I love you" and "I'm proud of you."

A proud graduate of St. Francis Xavier grammar school, Class of 1954 and Jesuit High School New Orleans, Class of 1959, Larry earned his undergraduate and law degree from Loyola University New Orleans and became a respected attorney and managing partner at Hailey, McNamara, Hall, Larmann & Papale. He was known for his integrity, mentorship, and the joy of practicing law alongside his son, Kevin.

His Catholic faith guided every part of his life. He served for more than fifty years as a Eucharistic minister and lector and was deeply involved with St. Catherine of Siena Parish as parish council member, school board president, and volunteer.

Larry also served in the United States Army Reserve and was an avid runner, completing 12 marathons including the Marine Corps Marathon.

He remained active throughout his life, and was a member of Metairie Country Club, Past President of the Mercy Family Center Board, member of Sandestin and DeLimon Owners Associations, the Society of the Founders of the City of New Orleans and the Beggars fraternity at Loyola.

He loved New Orleans traditions, family gatherings, Saints games, and time on the dock in Sandestin. He was known for his thoughtful letters, meticulous notes and lists, and deep loyalty.

He was preceded in death by many beloved family members including his big sister Barbara Larmann Spencer "Bobbie" and many friends and is remembered for a life defined by steadfast faith, humility, discipline, and love.

"I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith."

-2 Timothy 4:7 The family gratefully acknowledges the compassionate care of Dr. Siddharth Bhansali, Dr. Margaret Pelitere, Dr. Julie Guider, and Passages Hospice and the spiritual guidance of Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J , Dcn. Will Sigl, Rev. Clayton J. (Beau)

Charbonnet, III and Rev. Timothy Hedrick, J.C.L. Fr. Anthony McGinn, S.J. will preside over mass at St. Catherine of Siena Church,105 Bonnabel Boulevard on Saturday, May 16th at 11:00 a.m.

Visitation will begin at 9:30 a.m. Burial will be private at a later date in the St. Catherine of Siena columbarium.

In lieu of flowers please consider donations in his name to Jesuit High School, 4133 Banks Street or the Academy of the Sacred Heart, 4521 St. Charles Avenue.

Schellhaas, Jennie Catanese

Jennie Catanese Schellhaas passed away peacefully on May 11, 2026 after a long and happy life.

She was 98. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Jennie was a resident of Metairie for over 60 years. Upon graduating from John McDonogh Girls' High School, she attended Joseph A. Maybin School for Graduates and received a General Clerical Certificate.

After World War II, Jennie married Bill, her childhood sweetheart, and they welcomed three children. Her family was her greatest joy. She was a devoted and loving daughter, sister, wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and aunt. True to her Italian heritage, Jennie's spaghetti and meatball dinners on Sundays and elaborate holiday festivities were her signature.

She was a devout Catholic and longtime parishioner of St. Angela Merici Church. Her faith was paramount.

Jennie was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, William Lionel Schellhaas, Jr.; and parents, Anthony J. Catanese and Mary Moschitta Catanese. She is survived by her children, Cynthia S. Oliver (Glenn), Jerry T. Schellhaas (Pamela) and Terry G. Schellhaas (Janet); sister, Diane C. Pizzo; grandchildren, Scott Oliver, Ashley Oliver, Amy McClellan (Matthew), Mark Schellhaas (June), Donald Schellhaas, and Matthew Schellhaas (Alexa); step granddaughter, Alexandria McKee (Blake); 10 great grandchildren; and four step great grandchildren.

Jennie will be sadly missed and will remain in her family's hearts forever.

The family would like to extend their gratitude to Lacey, Pepper, Heather, and the staff of

Compassus Hospice.

In lieu of flowers, please consider having Masses said in her honor.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd in New Orleans, on Monday, May 18, 2026.

Visitation will begin at 10 AM with a Mass following in the chapel at 12 PM. Jennie will be laid to rest in St. Louis Cemetery #3 immediately after the chapel service has concluded.

To view and sign the family guestbook, please visit lakelawnmetairie.com

Toups, Cheryl Ann

Cheryl Ann Toups, a lov‐ ing and kind woman whose spirit touched radiant everyone she met, passed away on May 12, 2026, in Jefferson, Louisiana, at the age of 79. Born on August 14, 1946, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Cheryl lived a life marked by devotion, generosity, and unwaver‐ ing love for her family and faith. She spent most of her life in River Ridge, Louisiana, and later made her home in Covington, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. Through every season of life, she re‐ mained a steady source of warmth and encourage‐ ment to those around her.

Those who knew Cheryl will remember her as someone who was always smiling and who made everyone else smile as well. She radiated positiv‐ ity and light, and her pres‐ ence had a way of lifting the spirits of those around her. She had a big heart and was deeply selfless, living for others and espe‐ cially for her family. She did everything in her power to make others happy, and she gave of herself freely and lovingly throughout her life. Cheryl was a devout Catholic who prayed every day and lived faith with quiet her strength and sincerity. She was a faithful parishioner of St. Benedict Catholic in Covington, Church Louisiana, where her devo‐ tion and gentle spirit were known and appreciated.

Her life was a beautiful re‐ flection of kindness, humil‐ ity, and steadfast love.

Cheryl was the beloved wife of Lanny Toups, Sr. for 62 years, and together they shared a lifetime of love, companionship, and devo‐ tion. She was the cher‐ ished mother of Lanny Toups, Jr. and his wife Josephine “Jo Marie,” and the proud grandmother of Cullen Toups and his wife Katie, as well as Emily Marie Krummel and her

husband Preston. She was also a loving great-grand‐ mother to Mia Claire Toups and Jackson James Toups.

She is also survived by her twin brother, Gene Terra‐ nova and his wife Arleen.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Pietro Terranova and “Peter” Mary Rita Tanisia Terra‐ nova, and by her beloved furbaby, Bosco. Her family and friends will forever cherish the memory of her loving nature, her kind heart, and the joy she brought into their lives.

Though she will be deeply missed, the example she set and the love she shared will remain a lasting bless‐ ing to all who were fortu‐ nate enough to know her.

Family and friends are in‐ vited to attend the Funeral Mass on Monday, May 18, 2026, held at Greenwood Funeral Home, 5200 Canal Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70124 beginning at 1:00 p.m. Visitation will begin at 11:00 a.m. until service time. Burial will follow at Cemetery.

Greenwood Those attending are also invited to a Celebration of Life Reception being held after the burial at the Greenwood Funeral Home Boulevard Room. To sign the online guestbook, as well as leave memories and condolences, please www.greenwoodfh. visit com.

Orleans, LA. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the guestbook.

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Wesley, Onetta Young 'Nita'

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Onetta Young Wesley passed away on May 6, 2026 at the age of 81.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Service at D.W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Avenue on Saturday, May 16, 2026 at 11:30 am.

Visitation will begin at 10:30 am. Interment: St. Louis #3 Cemetery.

Arrangements by D.W. Rhodes Funeral Home, New

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Tech CEOs summoned to Congress for hearing

Social media CEOs once again are being called to testify before the Senate in light of mounting legal and public pressure to protect young users on their platforms.

The leaders of Meta, Alphabet, TikTok and Snap were invited to testify next month before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a committee spokesperson confirmed Friday.

The hearing comes at an inflection point for social media as court cases, proposed legislation and increased advocacy place mounting pressure on the tech companies behind these platforms to protect children and teens who use them by making material changes to how they operate.

“Americans are realizing more and more every day that they cannot trust the CEOs at the helms of these companies because they do not put our safety first,” said Sacha Haworth, executive director of watchdog group The Tech Oversight Project. “If it feels like the pace is accelerating, it’s because it is.”

The date of the hearing has significance for advocates. In 2024, Senators Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., introduced a resolution to designate June 23 as Social Media Harms Victim Remembrance Day. The resolution encouraged the “government, industry and community stakeholders to take action to prevent social mediarelated harm.”

India raises fuel prices during global crisis NEW DELHI — India raised fuel prices by $0.03 per liter Friday as the government moved to offset losses due to higher global oil prices.

In New Delhi, gasoline prices rose to $1.17 a liter, while diesel climbed to $1.09 a liter.

India imports about 90% of its oil and has been hit hard by rising energy prices and supply disruptions linked to the Iran war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. It had until now avoided raising retail fuel prices despite sharp increases in energy costs, making it one of the last major economies to pass higher crude prices on to consumers.

The price increases came days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged Indians to adopt voluntary austerity measures.

Modi on Sunday called on people to work from home where possible, limit foreign travel and reduce purchases of gold. He described fuel conservation and saving foreign exchange as an act of “patriotism,” and encouraged greater use of public transportation, carpooling and lower fertilizer consumption.

Opposition leaders said Modi’s appeal came only after a key round of state elections had concluded, noting that fuel prices were kept unchanged during the campaign.

Starbucks to lay off workers, close offices Starbucks said Friday it’s laying off 300 corporate employees and closing some U.S. offices as part of its ongoing turnaround.

No coffeehouse employees are affected, the company said. The cuts will impact employees in support functions like marketing, human resources and supply chain management. No international employees are affected for now, but Starbucks said it is also reviewing its corporate structure outside the U.S. Starbucks said it’s also closing underused offices in Atlanta, Dallas, Chicago and other cities. The Seattle-based company recently announced that it’s opening a corporate office in Nashville, Tennessee, that will employ up to 2,000 people within five years.

Starbucks expects to the moves to result in $400 million in restructuring charges, including $120 million in employee separation benefits.

Starbucks has been trying to reduce costs and complexity under Chair and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last year, the company laid off 2,000 corporate employees and closed hundreds of stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe.

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Oil prices rattle the bond market Stock markets worldwide drop from records

BY STAN CHOE

AP business writer NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market fell from its records Friday and joined a worldwide drop for stocks after higher oil prices sent a shiver through the bond market. Stocks that had been caught up in the euphoria around artificial-intelligence technology led the way lower.

The S&P 500 fell 1.2% from its all-time high set the day before.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 537 points, or 1.1%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1.5% from its own record.

Technology stocks tumbled in a

sharp turnaround from their meteoric rises for much of the year, which had carried markets worldwide to records but also raised criticism that they had gone too far.

Nvidia, the stock that quickly became the face of the AI revolution, dropped 4.4% and was the heaviest weight on the S&P 500. It had come into the day with a gain of more than 26% for the year so far.

Micron Technology was another one of the heaviest weights on the market after falling 6.6%. It’s nevertheless still up nearly 154% for the year so far.

“To us, it looks like markets have pushed into overbought territory,” according to Brian Jacobsen, chief economic strategist at Annex Wealth Management. He said the strong corporate profits and durable U.S. economy that launched U.S. stocks to records remain intact, but

“the path is unlikely to be smooth.

Periods like this call for discipline more than hope.”

In the meantime, rising oil prices are raising the pressure after already worsening inflation by more than economists had feared. The war with Iran is continuing, and the Strait of Hormuz remains shut to oil tankers, which is preventing them from delivering crude to customers worldwide and driving up oil’s price.

The price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose 3.3% to settle at $109.26 and is well above its level of roughly $70 from before the war.

Many big U.S. companies have been saying their customers have been able to keep spending on their products and services despite having to pay higher prices for gasoline. But U.S. households have also

been telling surveys they’re feeling discouraged about the economy and the pressures building on them because of the war and tariffs.

The worries were most clear Friday in the bond market, where Treasury yields climbed. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.59% from 4.47% late Thursday. That’s a notable move for the bond market, and it’s well above its 3.97% level from before the war.

The yield on the 30-year Treasury reached 5.13% and is back to where it was in 2007, before the financial crisis sent yields crashing toward zero in the ensuing year.

Higher yields can make mortgages and other kinds of loans going to U.S. households and businesses more expensive, which slows the economy. They also tend to push downward on prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments.

Trump says China agreed to buy Boeing planes, interested in more

BY RIO YAMAT

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Aircraft manufacturer Boeing will make its first major sale to China in nearly a decade with an order for 200 planes, President Donald Trump told reporters Friday as he flew back from his summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump said China reserved the right to buy as many as 750 Boeing aircraft as part of a deal reached during the summit. The White House did not specify the types of planes or provide any other details.

Neither the Chinese government nor Boeing issued statements confirming the purchase agreement. A Boeing spokesperson on Friday referred questions to the White House.

The deal, if finalized, would mark a significant breakthrough in a market that was once central to the U.S. aerospace company’s long-term growth.

Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg was among a large group of American CEOs who joined Trump during the president’s trip to Beijing, seeking to sell products and services to China.

Trump said the potential aircraft deal also would benefit General Electric, which he said would supply 400 to 450 engines to China. GE Aerospace Chairman and CEO H. Lawrence Culp also joined the president on his trip. The company did not immediately comment on the agreement.

While there were some hopes that the summit would result in concrete announcements of deals, the trip ended with a lot of uncertainty about what the two sides agreed on, said Bonnie Glaser, managing director of the Indo-Pacific program at the German Marshall Fund.

“I think we really have to wait until we hear numbers from Boeing or from the Chinese,” Glaser told a media briefing Friday, saying there had been little concrete information about any trade agreements from the summit, including on Chinese purchases of U.S. exports such as soybeans, liquefied natural gas and beef. “All that we have is really what the president has told the world that China has agreed to.”

Last month, Ortberg expressed confidence that any broad U.S.-China trade agreement to emerge when Trump and Xi met would be a “meaningful opportunity” for Boeing.

“President Trump has been very focused on supporting us in international campaigns, and he’s been very successful in doing that,” Ortberg told investors.

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A Boeing 737 MAX airplane on the final assembly line is seen during a media tour at Boeing’s factory on April 15 in Renton, Wash.

Since Trump’s return to the White House for his second term, his administration has made Boeing a focus of its plans to revive U.S. manufacturing. A visit to the Middle East a year ago culminated in major aircraft agreements, including a Qatar Airways order for up to 210 Boeing jets in what the planemaker described at the time as its largest-ever widebody aircraft order. Saudi Arabia also placed commercial jetliner orders during the trip.

Other major Boeing agreements have followed meetings between Trump and foreign leaders. In August, Korean Air formalized a roughly $50 billion deal to buy more than 100 Boeing aircraft, spare engines and long-term maintenance services during South Korean President Lee Jae Myung’s visit to Washington.

The following month, a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo an met with Trump in Washington, Turkish Airlines said it planned to add 225 Boeing aircraft to its fleet.

In another win for Boeing, the biennial Dubai Air Show opened in November with hometown airline Emirates ordering 65 of Boeing’s upcoming 777-9 aircraft. Days later, FlyDubai, the lower-cost sister carrier of Emirates, announced it had ordered 75 additional Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, roughly a third of the narrowbody airliners Boeing de-

livered went to China. But the company’s business there plummeted as U.S.-China relations soured.

China also was the first country to ground the 737 Max in 2019 after two of the then-new models crashed less than five months apart in Indonesia and Ethiopia, killing 346 people.

Chinese airlines did not resume Max flights until January 2023, much later than carriers in many other countries.

Ortberg took over as Boeing’s CEO in 2024, a calamitous year for the company. In January of that year, a panel known as a door plug blew off a 737 Max shortly after takeoff from Portland, Oregon. Boeing faced mounting financial pressure as it came under intensifying scrutiny over alleged production and quality failures.

Months later, the U.S. Justice Department revived a criminal case against Boeing tied to the two fatal Max crashes, although prosecutors later reached an agreement with Boeing to dismiss the case, committing the company to an additional $1.1 billion in fines, compensation for victims’ families and internal safety and quality improvements.

Then an eight-week strike stretching through the fall by machinists who assemble the 737 Max in Washington state disrupted production and added to the company’s financial strain.

AP finishes US restructuring with round of layoffs

BY JOCELYN NOVECK AP national writer

The Associated Press laid off an unspecified number of U.S.-based journalists on Friday, part of a restructuring announced last month that is turning the news organization’s focus away from print journalism and toward visual journalism and other revenue sources.

“This is part of the restructuring we announced last month to align our operations with what our top customers need from us today,” an AP spokesman, Patrick Maks, said in an email. He declined to give numbers or to say whether the layoffs would conclude on Friday.

“It’s never easy to part ways with valued colleagues — we are appreciative of their contribu-

tions to the AP and wish them all the best,” wrote Maks, the news outlet’s director of media relations and corporate communications.

The layoffs, which had been expected, come about a month after AP, one of the world’s oldest and most influential news organizations, offered buyouts to more than 120 journalists based in the United States. About 40 subsequently volunteered and were accepted, according to the News Media Guild, the union that represents AP journalists.

The guild said some 20 employees had been laid off by midafternoon. For those affected, Friday was their final day of work.

Tony Winton, the guild’s administrator, said the union had received an email just before 10 a.m. Friday

from an AP human resources official saying the company was planning to implement layoffs, and the last day of work was Friday. He said no other information was provided.

“Today’s cuts show just how directionless AP’s leadership has become,” said a statement from Kimberlee Kruesi, an AP reporter and the guild’s acting president. “The company touts that it is prioritizing visual journalism, yet among the 20 employees sacked today are experienced photographers.”

Julie Pace, executive editor and senior vice president of the AP, said in an interview last month that AP’s goal was to reduce its global staff by less than 5%. The company does not say how many journalists it employs.

Pace said at the time that the AP “is not in trouble.”

“We’re making these changes from a position of strength, but we’re doing so now to recognize our changing customer base,” she said.

Over the past four years, the AP’s revenue from newspapers has declined by 25%. Gannett and McClatchy, two of the largest traditional newspaper publishers, dropped AP in 2024.

AP customers now are dominated by broadcast, digital and technology companies. Kristin Heitmann, senior vice president and chief revenue officer, said last month that the company had seen a 200% growth in revenue from technology companies over the same period.

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It’s time to abolish the S&WB

Problems at the New Orleans Sewerage & Water Board are far beyond tweaks, patches and piecemeal fixes. The city’s drainage, sewer and water operations need to be reimagined and rebuilt, top down.

A survey I conducted last year for the City Services Coalition showed 80% of New Orleans voters believe the S&WB needs “major changes” and an additional 15% favor “minor changes.” That adds up to 95% support for change. Importantly, those numbers have not improved in recent years, despite the diligent efforts of citizens inside and outside government who have tried to clean up the mess.

The S&WB’s current governing structure — often called a four-headed monster — includes state government, the City Council and the board itself, which is chaired by the mayor.

Ron When things go wrong, who’s accountable?

Faucheux Two former board members, Lynes “Poco” Sloss and Janet Howard, drawing on years of involvement and experience, wrote to this newspaper: “The S&WB suffers from a fractured governance system, characterized by a misalignment of responsibilities and powers….

This structure guarantees dysfunction.”

They’re 100% right.

State legislation that gives the City Council authority over the S&WB is now pending. While that measure would open the door to true reform, it’s just the first step. Council President JP Morrell and state Rep. Stephanie Hilferty are pushing the issue in the right direction.

We all know it’s time to untangle the knots. But that’s not so simple.

Fixing the S&WB requires more than rearranging boxes on an organizational chart. In addition to restructuring governance, it means retooling daily operations, surmounting legal and technical barriers to make changes and, most difficult, finding revenue sources to fund modernization of obsolete, decaying infrastructure.

The price tag to bring the vast network of pumps, pipes, equipment and related infrastructure up to par will be steep — in the multiple billions. It will likely take a major commitment of federal and state dollars, plus local revenues, to pay for it.

As city and state leaders contemplate these goals, they should take three essential steps.

First, establish a vision.

New Orleans residents need a clear picture of what a new drainage, water and sewer department will look like. Just fixating on a hodgepodge of problems and partial solutions won’t provide that vision. One piece at a time may be the way to eat an elephant, but it’s not the way to earn public trust.

Water management is more critical to New Orleans than to any other American city. We can’t afford a dysfunctional system, and shouldn’t even settle for a minimally functional one. Instead, we need excellence: a national model of professionalism. This requires a single vision and a unified plan.

Second, earn public confidence.

New Orleans voters have such an unfavorable opinion of the S&WB that many have given up hope it will ever get better. That makes it highly doubtful city residents would vote to put more of their tax dollars into the current system; they don’t trust how the funds will be used. Real reforms must be implemented — and shown to be working — before new taxes and fees are requested.

Third, reform civil service.

The civil service system has one central strength: hiring personnel on the basis of merit, not politics. But it also has serious bureaucratic flaws. Managers trying to improve operations and enhance performance often find themselves slowed at every turn by a thicket of red tape.

People with administrative know-how point to civil service complexities as an impediment to competent, nimble management of the S&WB. If this reality is ignored, drainage and water services will never become what residents have a right to expect.

We need a fresh start.

The successor agency to the S&WB must be built for speed — responsive customer service, quick thinking during emergencies and the facility to promptly identify and eliminate bottlenecks.

To streamline governance, there are those who favor putting the new agency inside city government, either as a standalone department or within the Department of Public Works. In terms of focusing responsibility and accountability, which is critical, one head is better than four. And when select functions can be handled more efficiently by the private sector, or by regional coordination, those options should be pursued as well.

For all these reasons, the Sewerage & Water Board needs to be abolished. It’s time for a trusted, accountable and modern water department to take its place.

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How we invest in La. must lead on early education says a lot about us childhood education When employers absorb the cost, Louisiana loses. Right now, over 116,000 children under the age of 4 lack access to quality early education programs.

Louisiana is not starting from scratch. More than two decades ago, this state led the entire South with the creation of LA-4, delivering quality pre-K to over 80% of atrisk 4-year-olds before most states had even entered the conversation.

That was a decision to compete.

The creation of the Early Childhood Education Fund signaled that Louisiana wasn’t done — that we understood the next and harder frontier was infants and toddlers, the most expensive and most undersupplied segment of the entire pipeline. That is Louisiana’s distinct advantage. And it is what this session must protect.

The data is not in dispute. The cost of inaction is not theoretical.

The only question is whether Louisiana leads or follows.

Louisiana employers are absorbing a $1.3 billion annual hit. Not from regulation. Not from litigation. From a workforce that can’t show up. The reason is straightforward: Parents can’t work when they have nowhere safe to take their children.

This isn’t a family problem. It’s a business problem. And right now, it’s our problem.

Gov. Jeff Landry opened this legislative session with a clear charge: Strengthen Louisiana’s economy, remove barriers to work and build a workforce ready to meet industry’s demands.

Those are the right goals. But they cannot be achieved while we ignore the single largest barrier keeping Louisiana workers on the sideline. Louisiana already ranks near the bottom nationally in workforce participation at 58%. Business leaders across the state will tell you why: childcare. When the system breaks down, workers don’t show up. When workers don’t show up, employers absorb the cost.

On April 19, the newspaper included an editorial about education. It was titled, “As public school enrollment shrinks, (our) state needs a strategy.” It highlighted that there are 60,000 fewer students in our Louisiana public schools than 10 years ago.

I took an interest and researched the current fastest-growing parishes in Louisiana. Livingston, Lafayette and Ascension were the top three parishes for population growth.

According to a Google review, “Lafayette Parish Schools have maintained a solid ‘B’ letter grade. Ascension and Livingston parish schools are currently holding an ‘A’ rating.” Anyone with kids and an average income in Louisiana will want to live in a parish with a strong public school system. When my friends were pregnant with their first baby, many quickly moved to Livingston because they wanted affordable housing and high-quality public schools. Many families make this sacrifice despite the inconvenience of the commute to and from work.

Back in 1991, I remember the Louisiana Lottery was touted as a way to fund K-12 public schools.

Last year, the lottery brought in $585.2 million in profit. Louisiana also received $144 million in state taxes for Exxon and $84 million in local taxes. For sports gambling, Louisiana earned $67.9 million. Of course, we are also earning millions from Caesars casino, as well as the riverboats.

Our next investments include artificial intelligence data centers in Louisiana. With all these profitable businesses, at what point are we going to seriously invest in high-quality public schools for all of our children? When is Louisiana going to become a state that pays teachers a competitive wage? Surely, Louisiana has the ability to see that quality public schools are a well-established investment for our communities and our state.

JOHN ENGQUIST Baton Rouge

Ten Commandments a learning opportunity in schools If someone insists you post the Ten Commandments in your school, here’s a suggestion.

For your upper grades, history and literature, have them research other law codes or society rules. For the lower grades, ask them to construct a plan for what they feel would be proper classroom or playground behavior.

From the Code of Hammurabi to Robert’s Rules of Order and

The Girl Scout Laws, every group of people have some recognized agreements on what people should do to have peace and good order.

(For example, don’t take things that don’t belong to you.)

Then take these and post them with the Ten Commandments.

Your students will learn something.

NANCY VAN DEN AKKER New Orleans

Comey case puts Trump hypocrisy on full display It is another disappointment that we have a president who would react, as President Donald Trump has, regarding the seashell formation that James Comey encountered on a North Carolina beach.

Hundreds, possibly thousands, of “MAGA patriots” demanded the hanging of Vice President Mike

Pence on Jan. 6, 2021. Not a vague, implied, encrypted message made of seashells, but blood-curdling demands that our vice president be hanged! What did Trump do? Release them all! Hypocrisy beyond description.

ALICE DEVALL Baton Rouge

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

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LSU rolls past Akron to open NCAA regional

BY JIM KLEINPETER Contributing writer

Whether it was extra preparation time or memories of last year’s stumble, the LSU softball team came out and established itself early.

Jayden Heavener struck out the side in the first inning, and her offense handed her a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the first inning on the way to an 8-0 victory ä Virginia against Akron in the Baton Tech vs: LSU Rouge Regional at Tiger NOON SATURDAy, Park Friday.

Heavener whiffed 11 in ESPN+ the game shortened to six innings by the mercy rule and the offense did the rest. Kylee Edwards had two hits and three runs batted in, including a timely two-run double three batters into their first at bat.

“It was important for us to come out, set a tone today, start the postseason on the right foot,” LSU coach Beth Torina said. “That was obvious by the lineup we wrote and the way we approached the game.

“We knew we had a quality opponent in Akron and the season they put together.

We wanted to make sure and give them our best game. We did that. Jayden started with

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Saints wide receiver Dante Pettis, left, celebrates wide receiver Chris Olave’s touchdown in the second half of a game against the New york Jets on Dec. 21 at the Caesars Superdome.

SEASON OUTLOOK Game-by-game predictions following Saints’ schedule release

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he New Orleans Saints’ path to the playoffs is now set after the league announced the 2026 schedule Thursday.

The Saints have missed the playoffs each of the past five seasons.

The last time they made it was in Drew Brees’ final year.

The Saints are Tyler Shough’s team now, and it’ll be up to the second-year quarterback and his new

weapons to lead the team back to the postseason.

It won’t take long for the Saints to get tested, as they face two of their toughest opponents right out the gate.

Can the Saints improve on last year’s 6-11 record and return to the playoffs for the first time since 2020?

STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU shortstop Kylee Edwards drives the ball for a base hit against Akron in the fourth inning on Friday at Tiger Park. LSU won 8-0 and will face No. 2 Virginia Tech on Saturday.

Preakness has everything but Derby winner

Here are my annual (and way-tooearly) game-by-game predictions for this season.

SEPT. 13 AT DETROIT LIONS, NOON • Last meeting: Saints lost 33-28 in 2023 • Lions in 2025: 9-8, fourth in NFC North PREDICTION: The Saints start on the road for just the second time in the last eight years. The Lions took a step back last season after making the playoffs the previous two seasons, including a trip to the NFC championship game after the 2023 season.

The Saints have to deal with a loaded offense that includes QB Jared Goff, RB Jahmyr Gibbs and WRs Amon-

Rod Walker Ra St. Brown and Jameson Williams.

Too much firepower. Lions 27, Saints 17 | Record: 0-1.

SEPT. 20 AT BALTIMORE RAVENS, NOON • Last meeting: Saints lost 27-13 in 2022 • Ravens in 2025: 8-9, second in AFC North PREDICTION: Starting the season with

BY STEPHEN WHYNO

One and done at Laurel Park The second leg of the Triple Crown moved down the road to Laurel Park for a one-time performance while Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore is rebuilt from the ground up.

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NFL exec explains why ‘Domecoming’ tribute isn’t on anniversary

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Except for the Kentucky Derby winner going for the Triple Crown, the 151st running of the Preakness Stakes has a little bit of everything.

The Preakness features a venue change to a 115-year-old track that has never hosted the event, a field of some of the best 3-yearold colts in the country ä Preakness and a couple of chances to Stakes POST make horse racing history.

“This is a great race,” TIME: 6:01 P.M. Maryland Jockey Club SATURDAy, NBC president and general manager Bill Knauf said. “It’s 14 horses: a great betting race. Incredibly hard handicapping race. And you don’t always have those.”

After Cherie DeVaux decided not to enter Golden Tempo two weeks after his thrilling last-to-first charge in the Derby, there is — just like that day — no obvious horse to beat.

Six horses opened at odds of 8-1 or shorter.

back-to-back road games isn’t easy.

One of the most difficult tasks in the NFL is trying to slow down the Ravens’ tandem of QB Lamar Jackson and RB Derrick Henry. Former Chargers defensive coordinator Jesse Minter takes over as head coach in Baltimore, replacing John Harbaugh. The Ravens added former Saints draft pick Trey Hendrickson, so an always-tough defense should be even better. The Ravens lead series 6-2 and will stretch that lead even more. Ravens 27, Saints 17 | Record: 0-2.

BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

Saints safety Steve Gleason blocks a punt by Falcons punter Michael Koenen in the opening drive of the Saints’ return to the Superdome on Sept.

25, 2006, following Hurricane Katrina. The Saints ran the ball for the first score of the game, eventually winning the game 23-3. The NFL will recognize the 20th anniversary of the Saints’ homecoming on Oct. 5 with a Monday Night Football broadcast. STAFF FILE PHOTO By MICHAEL DEMOCKER

The NFL recognized the 20th anniversary of the New Orleans Saints’ first game back in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina by scheduling the black and gold against the Atlanta Falcons in prime time on “Monday Night Football.”

But in an odd twist, the game will be 10 days removed from the actual “Domecoming” date: Steve Gleason’s famous blocked punt against the Falcons took place on Sept. 25, 2006.

And the Saints won’t play the Falcons this year until Oct. 5 — in Week 4 of the NFL season, even though New

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Orioles IF Westburg has surgery, will miss season

WASHINGTON — Baltimore Orioles infielder Jordan Westburg had Tommy John surgery on his injured right elbow on Wednesday and will miss the rest of the season.

“Pretty normal Tommy John surgery,” general manager Mike Elias said Friday. “Obviously this will put him out for the rest of the year. I think it’s too early to put a specific timeline on something like this, but him being back as a full player in the early part of 2027 is very much in play.”

Westburg, an All-Star in 2024, had a partial tear of his ulnar collateral ligament. He received a platelet-rich plasma injection in February and had hoped to return this season. Westburg was limited to 85 games last year because of injuries.

Ruud defeats Darderi in Italian Open semifinal

ROME — Casper Ruud maintained his focus during a nearly two-hour rain delay to rout home player Luciano Darderi 6-1, 6-1 and reach the Italian Open final for the first time on Friday.

The match was suspended with Ruud leading 4-1 in the first set.

In Sunday’s final on the red clay of the Foro Italico, Ruud will face top-ranked Jannik Sinner or former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev.

Sinner led Medvedev 6-2, 5-7, 4-2 when their semifinal was suspended due to rain. The match will resume on Saturday.

Coco Gauff will play Elina Svitolina in the women’s final on Saturday.

Rome is the last big warmup before the French Open starts in nine days.

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Chris Gotterup lines up his ball on Friday during the second round of the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club in Newtown Square, Pa.

Smalley, McNealy share PGA lead

BY DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

NEWTOWN SQUARE, Pa. — Not many players imagined Aronimink Golf Club and its wild, wavy greens would be so tough on scoring at the PGA Championship. Even fewer would have predicted Alex Smalley and Maverick McNealy to be atop the leaderboard Friday.

What to expect the rest of the weekend? Pretty much anything.

“Anyone who makes the cut, they’ve got to feel they have a shot in the tournament,” said Rory McIlroy, who found himself only five shots behind with 29 players — including Scottie Scheffler and six other major champions — ahead of him.

Two long days at Aronimink produced the highest 36-hole score to par to lead the PGA Championship in 14 years. The 15 players separated by two shots made it the biggest logjam going into a weekend

at a major since 2002.

The difference between first and worst among 82 players who made the cut was only eight shots, unusually tight for any tournament, much less a major.

Smalley, in only his fifth major championship, overcame three straight bogeys after making the turn and closed with a birdie for a 1-under 69. McNealy, who has never been among the top 25 in any major through 36 holes, fell back with a pair of late bogeys in his round of 67.

They were at 4-under 136, the highest 36-hole score to par for co-leaders in the PGA since 2012 at Kiawah Island.

Chasing them? It’s a long list.

Hideki Matsuyama, the 2021 Masters champion, and world No. 10 Chris Gotterup were among those one shot behind. They were followed by Scheffler, two-time PGA champion Justin Thomas and Cameron Young, who has won

The Players Championship and at Doral the last two months.

Jon Rahm and Ludvig Aberg.

Patrick Reed and Patrick Cantlay.

And on it goes.

“A bunched leaderboard like this, I think it’s a sign of not a great setup,” McIlroy said after a 67. “It’s easy to make a ton of pars, hard to make birdies, and ... it feels like bogey is the worst score you’re going to shoot on any one hole.”

It was tough to hit shots close.

And then it was tough to get long putts close.

“This is the hardest set of pin locations that I’ve seen since I’ve been on tour,” Scheffler said after salvaging a 71. “And that includes U.S. Opens. That includes Oakmont.”

McNealy became the only player to reach 6 under at any point this week. He holed a bunker shot for eagle on the par-5 16th and remarked to his brother and cad-

PREAKNESS

Preakness since 1888.

Looking to join 19th-century champions like Refund, Saunterer, Cloverbrook, Shirley and Culpepper, Ocelli is 0 for 7 but he did win a 2-furlong trial race in Aiken, South Carolina, that doesn’t count on his record.

“At an unrecognized racetrack and race meet, he is indeed a winner,” trainer Whit Beckman said.

“He knows how to put his head across the line first.”

Continued from page 1C The plan is for the Preakness to return to its traditional home next year, mid-construction, with the full Pimlico back in 2028.

Many of the top trainers have limited experience at Laurel, which will host the Preakness at the same 1 3/16-mile length.

“I’ve run horses there sparingly,” said Chad Brown, who has the slight morning line favorite, Iron Honor. “The change for this year isn’t going to stop me from going and kind of seeing what happens.”

Tactically, the stretch run at Laurel is shorter than many tracks. The finish line comes 1,089 feet after the final turn, compared to 1,152 feet at Pimlico and 1,234 feet at Churchill Downs. It could be an edge for hometown horse Taj Mahal, who is unbeaten in all three of his races on the dirt course there.

“I’d like to think it’s beneficial that he’s had a good two-turn run over it,” trainer Brittany Russell said. “That’s definitely in our favor.”

die, Scout, that he was amazed and how well he was playing. And then he added three birdies over his next five holes until some mistakes caught up with him, as they did just about everyone.

“This is unfamiliar territory for me,” McNealy said.

Gotterup and Matsuyama had the toughest time by playing in the morning, when the temperatures barely cracked 50 degrees and the wind was ripping. Gotterup, who played college golf at just up the New Jersey Turnpike at Rutgers, had enough Jersey toughness to handle it just fine, and he poured it on at the end with three straight birdies for a 65, the low round of his championship.

“Today would definitely be one of those days where I would be on the couch and I would be like, ‘How did he hit it there?’ and ‘How did he do this?’ And then you’re out there, and it just feels like it’s impossible,” Gotterup said.

What to watch

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Horses work out at sunrise ahead of the 102nd running of the BlackEyed Susan horse race on Friday at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md. The 151st Preakness Stakes will run at the track Saturday evening.

victory with Archangelo, Russell has the chance to complete the Triple Crown sweep in the Preakness.

In the aftermath of losing a horse to a cardiac event following his debut race Friday, Russell is saddling Taj Mahal in the Preakness at her home track, where she started her business eight years Chances at history ago and is stabled full time. HusDeVaux two weeks ago became band Sheldon is the jockey.

“We’re just trying to keep it the first woman to train a Kentucky Derby winner, following pretty simple,” said Sheldon RusJena Antonnuci’s 2023 Belmont sell, who’s set to take part in his

fourth Preakness. “We both do our homework. We watch replays together. It’s nice because I know him. That’s a huge advantage, I would say. I’m happy, and I’m happy it’s one of Brittany’s horses that we get to have a ride in the race with.”

Ocelli is one of three Derby horses in the field, coming off finishing third as a 70-1 long shot, and could accomplish something not done in more than a century: No horse has broken his maiden — picked up his first win — in the

With a capacity of just 4,800 at Laurel Park, tickets are hard to come by this year. The Preakness is set to air on NBC and Peacock, with post time scheduled for 6:01 p.m.

Brown, who has won the Preakness twice, pointed out that the $2 million race, even without the Derby winner, carries great importance in the sport, for the rest of this year and beyond. While Golden Tempo has the spotlight now, the Preakness could bring a rival to challenge him.

“Maybe there’s another star that’s going to emerge from this race and perhaps we’ll be looking back at the Preakness in a few months saying, ‘Wow, this was the start of this particular horse’s campaign that ended up being one of the top horses,’ ” Brown said.

“Just not sure that’s not clear yet until we run the race.”

DOVER, Del. — Dystany Spurlock became the first Black woman to compete in one of NASCAR’s three national series, crashing on lap 39 in her debut in the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series at Dover Motor Speedway on Friday.

Spurlock, 34, drove the No. 69 MBM Motorsports Ford at the track in Delaware. Her truck became loose while coming around a turn and she tried to save it before crashing into the outside wall, which ended her race.

She finished 36th.

Spurlock made her stock car racing debut in March, finishing seventh in the ARCA Menards Series East — one of NASCAR’s developmental series — while driving the No. 66 MBM Ford at Hickory Motor Speedway in North Carolina.

Ko, Doherty share lead in Cincinnati; Korda 3 back

CINCINNATI — Jin Young Ko and Amanda Doherty each shot 4-under 66 on Friday to share the second-round lead in the Kroger Queen City Championship, with Nelly Korda three shots back in her bid for a third straight victory.

Korda had two late birdies for a 67 at Maketewah Country Club.

She won the Chevron Championship for her third major, then followed with a victory in Mexico before taking last week off.

Ko had a bogey-free round in the morning to reach 7-under 133 on the first-year venue. The 30-yearold South Korean player has 15 LPGA Tour victories, winning two majors in 2019.

Doherty had five birdies and a bogey, closing with a birdie on the par-3 18th.

Woodson Jr. commits to play at Michigan in 2027

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Charles Woodson Jr. has committed to play college football at Michigan, which is where his dad won the Heisman Trophy in 1997.

The defensive back is headed to Ann Arbor, where he’ll play under first-year coach Kyle Whittingham. The 5-foot-11, 170-pound rising senior will be part of the 2027 class.

Woodson picked the Wolverines over several other schools, including Florida State, Ole Miss, Texas A&M, Iowa State and Kentucky, according to ESPN. The elder Woodson is one of the all-time great college football defensive backs, starring for Michigan from 1995-97. He led the Wolverines to the national title in 1997 and became the first primarily defensive player to win the Heisman.

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Continued from page 1C Orleans has a home game in Week 3.

Why the delay?

According to an NFL executive, the league wanted to make sure the game had its moment, but was flexible with the date as long as it was close enough.

“Relative to the exact date of the anniversary, honestly, we figured if we were within a couple of weeks, we were in good shape,” said Mike North, the NFL vice president of broadcast planning. “Fans remember that moment, the electricity, the excitement.

“If we were a week early or close to the day or a week later, we weren’t going to throw away our best schedule just by being off a couple of days.”

North said the NFL has to be mindful of other events in the region, though he noted he didn’t have the stadium’s availability memorized. The NFL opted to have the Philadelphia Eagles play the Chicago Bears on “Monday Night Football” in Week 3.

Still, North said having the Saints take the Falcons on in prime time was a priority for the league — starting at the very top.

“It was, and it’s really to the commissioner’s credit, it was, ‘We’re gonna play Falcons at Saints on Monday night this year. Fit it in that kind of 3-week window,” North said, referring to commissioner Roger Goodell.

“It wasn’t a requirement it had to land in a special week, but it was a requirement straight from the boss that it landed on our schedule.”

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WALKER

Continued from page 1C SEPT. 27 VS. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS, 3:25 P.M. • Last meeting: Saints lost 25-10 in 2024 • Raiders in 2025: 3-14, fourth in AFC West PREDICTION: The Saints are 5-2 in their last seven home openers. In this one, they’ll face either the No. 1 overall draft pick (QB Fernando Mendoza) or veteran Kirk Cousins.

They’ll also have to contend with Raiders running back Ashton Jeanty. The Raiders revamped their linebackers corps in free agency.

Surprisingly, the Saints have lost three of their last four games against the Raiders. They’ll get a win this time, their first of the season. Saints 27, Raiders 13. | Record: 1-2.

OCT. 5 (MONDAY) VS. ATLANTA FALCONS, 7:15 p.m.

• Last meeting in New Orleans: Saints lost 24-10 in 2025 • Falcons in 2025: 8-9, third in NFC South PREDICTION: The Saints get a prime-time game this season after not having one in 2025. The Saints have lost their last five prime-time games. They should have plenty of motivation for this one after getting swept by the Falcons last season. It was the first time that had happened since the 2016 season.

The Falcons quarterback situation is still up in the air with Michael Penix and Tua Tagovailoa vying for the job. Running back Bijan Robinson is the early favorite in Vegas to win Offensive Player of the Year, so slowing him down is a must. The Dome on a Monday night should be rocking. Saints 23, Falcons 17 | Record: 2-2.

OCT. 11 VS. MINNESOTA VIKINGS, NOON • Last meeting: Saints lost 27-19 in 2023 • Vikings in 2025: 9-8, third in NFC North PREDICTION: Kyler Murray, who spent his first seven seasons with the Arizona Cardinals, signed with the Vikings in March. He gets to team up with one of the NFL’s best receivers in former Destrehan High and LSU star Justin Jefferson. The Saints defense did a solid job of keeping Murray in check last year (five sacks, 163 yards passing), despite losing to Arizona in the opener.

The Saints lost their last two games against the Vikings, but snap that skid. Saints 30, Vikings 20 | Record: 3-2.

OCT. 18 AT NEW YORK GIANTS, NOON • Last meeting: Saints won 26-14 in 2025 • Giants in 2025: 4-13, fourth in NFC East PREDICTION: Two of the top quarterbacks in the 2025 draft (Tyler Shough and Jaxson Dart) go head-

Chiefs’ early prime-time games not tied to Mahomes’ recovery

BY JOSH DUBOW

the NFL season was played on a Wednesday came in 2012 when the Dallas Cowboys visited the New York Giants. The game was moved from its usual Thursday spot that year because President Barack Obama was set to speak that night at the Democratic National Convention.

AP pro football writer The NFL’s decision to put the Kansas City Chiefs in primetime windows the first two weeks of the season wasn’t meant to be a hint on how fast Patrick Mahomes will recover from knee surgery.

Mahomes tore the ACL and LCL in his left knee on Dec. 14 and has said his goal is to be back in time for Week 1 of the season. The Chiefs host the Denver Broncos on “Monday Night Football” to open the season on Sept. 14 and then play Indianapolis at home on Sunday night in Week 2.

“We didn’t know anything more than anyone else,” NFL executive Hans Schroeder said Friday.

Coach Andy Reid said on NFL Network on Friday that the NFL didn’t talk to him about Mahomes’ status, but is encouraged by what he has seen so far early in the offseason program.

Schroeder said he was “excited” about Reid’s comments and said that the Chiefs remained a popular team among the broadcasters as evidenced by their six primetime games, including a Thanksgiving night showdown against Buffalo that is typically one of the most-anticipated matchups of the season.

Kansas City, which went 6-11 and missed the playoffs last season after making three straight Super Bowl trips, also has five additional games slotted in the high-profile late afternoon Sunday doubleheader window.

Travel mitigation

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes looks to pass during the first half on Dec. 14 against the Los Angeles Chargers in Kansas City, Mo.

year and the NFL wanting to play a Week 1 game in Australia, the opener was moved to a Wednesday for the second time in league history.

That might not be a one-off.

The league announced a new deal with Netflix through 2029 that guarantees the streamer a Week 1 game in addition to the traditional opening game on NBC for the defending Super Bowl champion. Schroeder said that could lead to a Wednesday start to the season again.

The 2026 season opens on Wednesday, Sept. 9, with Seattle hosting New England on NBC, More Wednesday openers followed by a game on Netflix the With Labor Day falling later this next night in the United States be-

tween the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers. That game will kick off on Friday morning in Australia.

The NFL played an international game in Week 1 on a Friday night the previous two seasons but can’t play again on Friday night in Week 1 until 2029 because of the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, which prohibits the league from televising games on Friday night starting with the second Friday of September. The Friday of Week 1 will be on the second Friday of September again in both 2027 and 2028.

The only other time before this season that the first game of

The opening game in Australia gave a heavy load in terms of travel to both the 49ers and Rams.

San Francisco will set a record this season with about 38,000 miles traveled thanks to the far-flung opener and a “home” game in Mexico City in Week 11 against Minnesota. Los Angeles is close behind with about 35,000 miles traveled this upcoming season.

The two teams will return home on Friday Sept. 11, giving them a little extra time before playing Week 2. The Rams get an extra day because they will host a Monday night game against the New York Giants before back-to-back road games at Denver and Philadelphia.

Niners coach Kyle Shanahan publicly complained about the heavy travel at the league meetings earlier this offseason and general manager John Lynch said the NFL would make some considerations for them.

San Francisco will play three straight home games following the Week 1 trip and won’t leave the Pacific Time Zone again until a trip to Atlanta in Week 7. The Niners also avoided having games on either Thanksgiving or Christmas after playing on both holidays in 2023.

South PREDICTION: Raymond James Stadium has been pretty good to the Saints over the years. The Saints are 6-2 in their last eight games there.

Baker Mayfield returns at quarterback, but he’ll no longer have Mike Evans (now with the 49ers) to throw to. But there are still plenty of weapons and the defense added former Saints’ LB Alex Anzalone and rookie edge rusher Rueben Bain. Slight edge to the home team. Bucs 20, Saints 17 | Record: 7-7.

DEC. 27 VS. ARIZONA CARDINALS, NOON • Last meeting: Saints lost 20-13 in 2025 • Cardinals in 2025: 3-14, fourth in NFC West PREDICTION: The Cardinals came to the Dome last season and gave the Saints their first season-opening loss since 2018. The Saints had a chance late, but Juwan Johnson wasn’t quite able to hold on to what would have STAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD been a late touchdown. Jacoby BrisSaints quarterback Tyler Shough looks to make a pass as center Luke Fortner right, protects him against the sett is the likely starting QB unless Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Oct. 26 in the Caesars Superdome.

Gardner Minshew or Carson Beck wins the job. The Saints have to slow including a late touchdown to Chase, down rookie Jeremiyah Love, a runto-head for the first time. Dart NOV. 15 VS. CAROLINA PANTHERS, NOON in the win over the Saints four years ning back whom Saints fans coveted played in last year’s game against • Last meeting in New Orleans: Saints ago in the Dome. The Saints’ sec- in the draft. Saints 24, Cardinals 13 | Rethe Saints, but Shough was still a ondary will surely get tested with cord: 8-7. backup to Spencer Rattler at the won 20-17 in 2025 • Panthers in 2025: 8-9, first in NFC Chase and Tee Higgins. The Bentime. Dart threw for 202 yards JAN. 3 AT ATLANTA FALCONS, NOON gals beefed up their D-line this offand two TDs (and two INTs). The South • Last meeting in Atlanta: Saints lost PREDICTION: The Panthers won the season. Bengals 30, Saints 20 | Record: 6-5.

Giants signed ex-Tulane WR Dar19-17 in 2025 nell Mooney in free agency to go NFC South last season for the first • Falcons in 2025: 8-9, third in NFC DEC. 6 VS. GREEN BAY PACKERS, NOON alongside former LSU star Malik time since 2015. QB Bryce Young • Last meeting: Saints lost 34-0 in South Nabers. Round 1 goes to Shough. had his best season since being the PREDICTION: The Saints have lost No. 1 overall draft pick in 2023. 2024 Saints 21, Giants 20 | Record: 4-2.

• Packers in 2025: 9-7-1, second in their last three games at MerWide receiver Tet McMillan was cedes-Benz Stadium. Both of the OCT. 25 VS. PITTSBURGH STEELERS (IN named Offensive Rookie of the NFC North PREDICTION: Jordan Love and the last two games were decided by Year, finishing ahead of secondPARIS), 8:30 A.M. • Last meeting: Saints lost 20-10 in place Shough. The Saints have sent Packers have won their last two two points (19-17 last year and the Panthers home with an L the games against the Saints, both at 26-24 the year before that). Saints 2022 • Steelers in 2025: 10-7, first in AFC last three times they came to New Lambeau Field. Three years ago, linebacker Kaden Elliss returns to Orleans. Make it four. Saints 21, Pan- the Saints were unable to hold on face the team he played with for North to a 17-0 lead. And two years ago, the past three seasons after playPREDICTION: The Saints take the thers 20 | Record: 6-3. it was just a whipping from start to ing his first four years in New Orlong trip across the pond to take finish. The Saints keep it close this leans. Falcons 28, Saints 23 | Record: 8-8.

NOV. 22 AT CHICAGO BEARS, NOON on one of the league’s most storied • Last meeting: Saints lost 26-14 in time, but the Packers run their winfranchises. It’s designated as a JAN. 10 VS. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS, ning streak against Saints to three in Saints home game, but it could feel 2025 • Bears in 2025: 11-6, first in NFC a row. Packers 26, Saints 21 | Record: 6-6. NOON like a neutral site with the Steel• Last meeting in New Orleans: Saints ers’ large fan base. The Saints are North lost 23-3 in 2025 DEC. 13 AT CAROLINA PANTHERS, NOON PREDICTION: This very well could 2-1 in international games, with all • Buccaneers in 2025: 8-9, second in • Last meeting in Charlotte: Saints won three of those being played in Lon- be the toughest game on the Saints’ NFC South don. Slight edge to the Steelers if schedule. The Bears reached the 17-7 in 2025 PREDICTION: The Saints have lost • Panthers in 2025: 8-9, first in NFC Aaron Rodgers returns for another divisional round of the playoffs the last four games in the Dome year. If it’s Mason Rudolph at QB, and came close to reaching the South PREDICTION: Tyler Shough’s first vic- against the Bucs. The last home this one flips the other way. Steelers NFC championship game. Much like last season, Bears defensive tory as a starter came last season in win against Tampa Bay was the 23, Saints 20 | Record: 4-3. coordinator and former Saints Charlotte. Now he looks to improve Halloween game in 2021 when head coach Dennis Allen will have to 2-0 at Bank of America Stadium. Jameis Winston injured his knee.

NOV. 1 (BYE WEEK) his unit locked in. Bears QB Caleb The Saints swept the Panthers last The Bucs saw their streak of four Williams showed during the play- season. Assuming my prediction is consecutive NFC South titles come NOV. 8 VS. CLEVELAND BROWNS, NOON • Last meeting: Saints won 35-14 in 2024 offs just how dangerous he can be. right for the first meeting this sea- to an end last season. The NFC • Browns in 2025: 5-12, fourth in AFC This begins a tough stretch. Bears son, this is their chance to sweep South typically comes down to the them again. The two teams have last week of the season, and this 27, Saints 16 | Record: 6-4.

North alternated wins and losses the last year won’t be any different. There PREDICTION: Will it be Shedeur four meetings in Charlotte, but likely will be scoreboard-watching NOV. 29 AT CINCINNATI BENGALS, NOON Sanders or Deshaun Watson hold• Last meeting: Saints lost 30-26 in Saints end that trend and sweep on this day to see what’s going on ing the keys to the Cleveland ofagain. Saints 20, Panthers 17 | Record: 7-6. between the Falcons and Panthers fense that was one of the worst 2022 in their regular-season finale. The • Bengals in 2025: 6-11, third in AFC in the league last season? The deDEC. 20 AT TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS, Saints end their home woes against fense is led by two-time Defensive North Bucs, secure their first winning PREDICTION: Joe Burrow and NOON Player of the Year Myles Garrett.

• Last meeting in Tampa: Saints won 24- season since 2023 and squeeze The Saints’ offensive line will be Ja’Marr Chase play the Saints for into the playoffs. Saints 17, Bucs 14 tested, but they pass the test. Saints the second time in their stellar ca- 20 in 2025 • Bucs in 2025: 8-9, second in NFC | Record: 9-8. reers. Burrow threw for 300 yards, 19, Browns 16. | Record: 5-3.

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Auburn ends LSU’s season in women’s tennis

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FILE PHOTO By PATRICK DENNIS

LSU freshman pitcher Marcos Paz pitches in relief in the eighth inning against Texas A&M on April 18 at Alex Box Stadium.

The LSU women’s tennis team fell to No. 2-seeded Auburn 4-1 in the NCAA Championship quarterfinals Friday morning in Athens, Georgia, bringing an end to another strong season for coach Taylor Fogleman’s squad.

Under Fogleman’s direction, LSU reached the NCAA quarterfinals for the second consecutive season and for only the second time in program history.

Friday’s match marked the third time this season Auburn defeated LSU, including a 4-3 outcome in the title round of the SEC Championship on April 19 in Norman, Oklahoma. On March 7, Auburn topped LSU 4-2 at the LSU Tennis Complex.

Following a tight contest in the SEC Championship, Auburn came up with an answer each time LSU was on the verge of building momentum at the Dan Magill Tennis Complex.

LSU’s No. 1 doubles team of Cadence Brace and Kayla Cross picked up a 6-4 win, but

Auburn secured the doubles point with victories from its No. 2 team of Angella Okutoyi and Merna Refaat and No. 3 pairing of Ekaterina Khairutdinova and Ashton Bowers.

Cadence Brace provided LSU, the tournament’s No. 10 seed, its lone point of the day when she topped Auburn’s DJ Bennett, 6-3, 7-5 in the No. 1 singles match.

Auburn swept three other singles matches to clinch the victory, with Khairutdinova, Okutoyi and Eva Ionescu all coming out on top. Ionescu, who also clinched Auburn’s victory over LSU in the SEC Championship, provided the decisive point Friday, 4-6, 6-0 and 7-5, over Ella McDonald.

Auburn (36-3) advances to play the winner of Ohio State-Pepperdine in the national semifinals at 3 p.m. Saturday in Athens.

Matches are available to watch on ESPN+.

Fogleman, a New Orleans native, has led LSU to the postseason in each of his four seasons as coach.

LSU suffers mercy rule loss to Florida Freshman RHP Paz struggles in start

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

Marcos Paz was looking for a bounce-back.

Last weekend was not what LSU’s freshman right-handed starter had hoped for, allowing seven earned runs and failing to escape the second inning against Georgia. It was a step back after a promising outing two weeks ago against South Carolina when he surrendered just one run in five innings.

But on Friday night against Florida (36-18, 17-12 SEC), Paz didn’t get the step forward he was looking for. He allowed seven earned runs in 41/ 3 innings as the Gators dominated LSU in an 11-1 victory in seven innings at Alex Box Stadium.

Paz allowed two runs in the first inning and three in the second, in-

cluding a 496-foot home run that gave Florida a 5-0 lead. He never found his command, walking four batters, hitting another and throwing just 53 of his 99 pitches for strikes.

The exclamation point for the Gators came in the fifth inning, when Paz allowed a two-run homer off the batter’s eye in center field, stretching Florida’s advantage to 7-1. Friday was the fifth consecutive game in which LSU (29-26, 9-20) allowed at least 10 runs.

Despite LSU coach Jay Johnson stating that sophomore right-hander Casan Evans wouldn’t pitch this weekend, Evans entered the game in the sixth inning on Friday and tossed a scoreless sixth inning before allowing a three-run homer in the seventh that gave Florida a 10-1 lead.

The Gators then won the game on the 10-run mercy rule after first baseman Landon Stripling’s solo homer off of freshman right-hander Zion Theophilus and a scoreless

bottom of the seventh for LSU. Evans and sophomore righthanded starter William Schmidt didn’t pitch in Thursday’s series opener so that both pitchers would be rested for LSU’s first game at the SEC Tournament on Tuesday.

While Paz struggled, LSU’s offense didn’t fare any better against right-handed starter Liam Peterson. In a complete game performance against the Tigers, Peterson struck out 11 batters and allowed just three hits. His fastball was still up to 99 mph by the sixth inning, and he threw a devastating slider all night.

Junior Steven Milam’s home run in the fourth was the Tigers’ only extra-base hit off the future firstround pick. Freshman Jack Ruckert and sophomore Derek Curiel had their other two hits.

LSU and Florida finish their series and their regular seasons on Saturday at Alex Box Stadium.

First pitch is set for 2 p.m., and the game will be available to stream on SEC Network+.

Anderson, Eyanson shining in pro baseball

BY KOKI RILEY

Anthony Eyanson

start in his professional career, posting a 2.16 ERA with 20 strikeEyanson has been an early-sea- outs in 162/ 3 innings in Single-A. Control is still an issue since he Tough times have hit LSU on the son star in the Boston Red Sox mound in 2026, but it was just a minor league system. He posted a arrived in the Boston Red Sox orseason ago that the Tigers had one 0.44 ERA over five starts in High-A ganization. He’s walked 12 batters, of the best pitching staffs in all of before being promoted to Double- including five in one game. But college baseball, led by Kade An- A last week, allowing one earned Mayers is holding hitters to a .179 run in four innings in his first start batting average, and he hasn’t surderson and Anthony Eyanson.

The Tigers’ struggles this year for the Portland SeaDogs. rendered a home run. The swingHis velocity is up from where it and-miss stuff out of the bullpen is make their triumphs last year feel like they happened a decade ago. was at LSU, and that, in turn, has very much present.

But under pitching coach Nate helped him become a top prospect Yeskie’s tutelage, LSU won the in the Red Sox’s system. He’s the Conner Ware College World Series and had three No. 3 prospect in Boston’s system, Ware has pitched in six games in pitchers selected in the first three according to MLB.com, and the Single-A, making three starts and No. 5 prospect in ESPN’s rankings. earning a save in 22 innings. He rounds of the MLB Draft.

Here’s how the pitchers that holds a 5.73 ERA with 22 strikeouts were drafted out of LSU have Chase Shores and 11 walks. fared in pro baseball so far.

After getting drafted by the New Despite speculation that he’d be used as a reliever in profes- York Mets in the 15th round, he’s Kade Anderson sional baseball, Shores has only allowed one run or fewer in three Anderson began his pro career been used as a starting pitcher in appearances but has also surrenin Double-A and is dominating, High-A after he was selected in the dered four or more runs in his allowing just two earned runs in second round by the Los Angeles three other outings. six starts for the Arkansas Trav- Angels He holds a 5.06 ERA in four Kade Woods elers. He’s struck out 47 batters, walked only five and he holds a starts for the Tri-City Dust Devils, Woods was the only LSU draftee allowing one earned run in his first whose organization (the Atlanta 0.60 ERA. After the Seattle Mariners two outings before getting tagged Braves) had him pitch last sumscooped him up with the No. 3 for five earned runs in three in- mer. With the Augusta GreenJackoverall pick in last summer’s draft, nings on April 21 and three earned ets in Single-A, Woods had a 2.63 Anderson has lived up to the hype runs in five innings a week later.

ERA in 132/ 3 innings last weekend and then some. MLB.com and before returning to Augusta this ESPN have him tabbed as a top-20 Jacob Mayers season and allowing two earned prospect in baseball.

Mayers had gotten off to a strong runs in 41/ 3 innings.

Staff writer

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LSU pitcher Jayden Heavener delivers a pitch against Akron in the first inning of an NCAA regional game on Friday at Tiger Park.

LSU

Continued from page 1C three strikeouts in the first inning to set the tone and the offense scored early and throughout the game.”

LSU lost to last year’s No. 4 seed Southeastern in the first game and was eliminated by the Lions the next day. Tomorrow, the Tigers play No. 2 seed Virginia Tech, a 6-0 winner against South Alabama, at noon for a trip to the championship round.

Akron (34-24) plays South Alabama in an elimination game at 2:30 p.m.

Heavener (13-8) threw her fifth shutout and 10th of her career.

The offense doubled the lead in the third inning, which included a home run by Alix Franklin. Heavener allowed two baserunners in the third and fifth innings but pitched around both jams with three more strikeouts.

“This week’s preparation, we worked on some little things mechanically, hitting my spots and spins,” said Heavener of the keys to her success. “Going out there with confidence and knowing things I’ve done in the past, playing for LSU.” Heavener had some spotty performances toward the end of the season but allowed only three hits and three walks while throwing 115 pitches.

“With the movement she has and the velocity she has, she located really well today,” Torina said. “Somebody (teammate)

nominated her for player of the game and said they’d never seen her throw like that. We had a good matchup with them as a lefthander; they hadn’t seen as many.”

Jalia Lassiter opened the game with a walk and Sierra Daniel and Edwards followed with doubles off Akron starter Madie Jamrog (18-7). LSU pushed another across with two outs on Char Lorenz single to score Edwards.

The Tigers doubled the lead in the third. Franklin hit her sixth homer to center field while Ally Hutchins and Avery Hodge added run-scoring singles. The bottom third of the Tigers’ line went 4-for-7 with three RBIs. “Today was fun, being out there playing Tiger softball,” Edwards said. “We did a lot during the season, so we were out there playing free, being ourselves. That was our main goal and that’s what we did.

“It was just take our swings.

See ball hit ball, put a good bat on it.”

VIRGINIA TECH 6, SOUTH ALABAMA 0: Kylie Aldridge hit a two-out grand slam in the third inning to break a scoreless tie and lift the Hokies to a 6-0 victory in Friday’s opening game.

Aldridge followed a walk, a hit and an error with her 11th home run to right field on a 1-2 pitch.

Catcher Zoe Yaeger had two hits, including her 10th home run.

Bree Carrico (15-1) and Avery Layton teamed up to pitch a four-hit shutout, allowing two hits each, and struck out seven.

Presley Lively had two of South Alabama’s hits.

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THE VARSITY ZONE

Newman offense erupts to force Game 3 Greenies capitalize on extra-base hits to roll past U-High

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

Christian Sauska ran to second base and raised his arms outward has he looked to the sky, celebrating his team’s sixth extra-base hit — all in the first two innings of a win-or-go-home game in the state championship series.

Second-seeded Newman scored nine runs in the first two frames and built an insurmountable lead in a 13-6 victory over No. 1 University High on Friday at McMurry Park, forcing a decisive third game Saturday.

Charles Wilson’s three-run double padded the lead in the fifth inning for Sauska, the starting pitcher who allowed two runs apiece in the third and fourth innings. U-High (30-10) added two runs in the seventh.

The Greenies (29-8), in the state

finals for the first time since 2003, came into the game prepared to ride the arm of their pitching ace but won with their hot bats at the plate.

“We’re not really a team that’s going to have double-digit hits, and we did that today,” Sauska said. “That’s what great teams do: They show up and do things they haven’t done in a long time in the biggest moments.”

Jack Falgoust doubled and scored twice in the first two innings. Collier Villere also doubled and scored in the first. Malcolm Schairer’s triple brought home the run that made it 4-0.

Tanner Robert’s double started the five-run second. Falgoust drove in a run with his second double, followed by Wilson’s RBI single and Sauska’s RBI double.

Atticus LaFleur’s two-run single made it 8-0. He later scored on a STAFF PHOTO By JACKSON REyES wild pitch.

Newman senior Christian Sauska celebrates a double against University Benjamin Singer’s RBI bunt single in the fifth preceded Wil- High in Game 2 of the Division III select state championship series on son’s three-run double to left Friday at McMurry Park in Sulphur. field.

“It didn’t really make any fensive explosion. “That’s not the really get a lot of doubles.” sense,” Wilson said about the of- type of ball that we play. We don’t Sauska pitched into the sev-

Brother Martin, Catholic battle in extras after wild ninth

Catholic-Baton Rouge drew a walk with the bases loaded for what would have been the state championship-clinching run in the bottom of the ninth, but the batter turned to celebrate instead of taking first base.

Brother Martin coaches shouted for catcher Tyler Durand to throw the ball to first on an appeal, and his throw beat the runner as he scrambled to the base after realizing his mistake.

The unconventional out kept the score tied 2-2 as Brother Martin and Catholic continued their battle in the second game of the Division I select state championship series Friday at McMurry Park. Catholic eventually won 3-2 in 15 innings.

Catholic won the first game 6-2 on Thursday, positioning the Bears for a chance at clinching a third consecutive state title.

Brother Martin opened Game

2 with two runs in the first inning.

Catholic’s two runs came in the fourth. Both teams’ starting pitchers lasted nine full innings — Drake Amedee for Brother Martin and Mills Richardson for Catholic.

Relievers Nolan Amato of Brother Martin and Tanner Forbes of Catholic proved equally effective as the score remained tied into the 15th inning.

— Christopher Dabe

STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE

Edna Karr quarterbacks Marlon Jones, left, and Forest Johnson warm up before a spring game against John F. Kennedy on Wednesday in Algiers.

Edna Karr showcases quarterback competition at spring scrimmage

BY SPENCER URQUHART

Staff writer

It’s been three years since Edna Karr has had a starting quarterback not named John Johnson, and the battle to become his successor is underway.

A two-time undefeated state champion, Karr is searching for a new quarterback after Johnson signed with West Virginia.

Three players received snaps under center during the Cougars’ spring scrimmage on Wednesday against John F. Kennedy at Karr’s practice field.

Karr incoming junior Forest Johnson got the first crack at starting quarterback reps and led back-to-back scoring drives.

Incoming junior Marlon Jones and incoming senior Jayce Romain also saw time under center for Karr.

“We’re fortunate enough to have three (quarterbacks) that have been competing (to start) all the way since February,” Karr coach Brice Brown said. “It’s going to be a competition, and that’s how we like it. I was happy how the offense moved the ball (in the scrimmage).”

Forest Johnson showed off his arm on Karr’s first drive, completing a long first-down pass to

incoming junior Kamal Martin to set up a touchdown run by incoming senior running back Jermond Macklin.

Johnson connected with Martin again for a first down on Karr’s second drive, which ended with Martin catching Johnson’s first touchdown pass. Johnson finished the scrimmage with three touchdown passes and one interception.

Four of Karr’s six scoring drives were led by Johnson, who credits John Johnson for helping him prepare to compete for the starting quarterback role. “(Kennedy) was running man (coverage) most of the game, so I just trusted my guys and put the ball up,” Forest Johnson said. “(John Johnson) showed me stuff that I can improve on the field and stuff off the field that helps me with the playbook.”

Karr gave Jones the next opportunity to start at quarterback, and he showcased a dual-threat skillset. Jones led a scoring drive and nearly found the end zone with his legs but was ruled down due to spring game rules prohibiting quarterbacks from being tackled.

“I was like ‘man, they didn’t even touch me,’ but it is what it is,” Jones said. “I still did what I

had to do.”

Romain started under center for one drive, which ended in a Karr touchdown after incoming senior running back Jarrell McGee found the end zone. Macklin and McGee each scored twice against Kennedy.

“It’s not just going to be a oneheaded monster (at running back),” Brown said. “You’re going to see five backs play this year. I like how we finished (runs) and how the offensive line cleaned it up.”

Karr scored 42 points, but Kennedy managed 27 points of its own. Kennedy senior quarterback Dorrien Dunham threw three touchdown passes, connecting multiple times with senior Semaj Lyons.

“I thought we showed a lot of perseverance,” Kennedy coach Lynaris Elpheage said. “(Dunham and Lyons) played together last year. Nothing takes the place of experience, so we’re going to rely on that.”

Kennedy became Karr’s new spring game opponent after Karr’s multi-year run of scrimmaging Destrehan came to an end.

Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@theadvocate.com.

enth inning, receiving hugs from the infielders before he swapped places with Villere at shortstop.

“Those guys just never quit, and that’s really difficult for a pitcher, especially when you have a nine-run lead in the third inning,” Sauska said. “A team that’s not going to roll over and quit causes some problems.”

The game ended with a tagout at the plate that completed a double play on a comebacker to Villere at pitcher.

In the third game, Newman is likely to use a mixture of pitchers. Peter Barras and Augie Sauska have pitched well this season, Newman coach Pat Adams said.

Villere, who threw 12 pitches Friday, is another option.

“The guy they’re throwing tomorrow is going to be really good too, so we have to go back and make sure we have a good plan of attack offensively,” Adams said. “We get to play Game 3 in the state championship. We just got to prepare.”

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Vandebilt stymies St. Charles’ bid for Game 2 comeback

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Staff writer

A throwing error, on what should have been the third out, let a run score in the second.

“I told my kids, I’m not going to sugarcoat it to them, I was disappointed in the way we played defensively,” Stein said. “I really thought Bryce gave us what he got, coming in after throwing 28 pitches yesterday and emptying the tank. I mean, it’s not gonna be a 2-0 game with that lineup and this wind blowing out.”

For St. Charles (31-10), Landree LeBlanc reached base four times and scored two runs. His RBI double in the first drove in the first run. He scored his second run on a delayed double steal when Kole Hurst got caught in a rundown between first and second.

Pregeant’s single up the middle started the seventh inning. LeBlanc’s hit by pitch and Brooks Monica’s walk loaded the bases as Jace Jarveaux reached the 115-pitch limit. With Gary Brignac on the mound, Hurst hit the RBI groundout before Gabe Kugler’s walk loaded the bases a second time. The next batter popped out.

St. Charles, in the state finals for the sixth time in seven seasons, seeks its fourth title during that span. Vandebilt (32-12) won its lone title in 2022.

“We feel real good about what we got left for Game 3,” Stein said. “It’s going to be a war between two really good baseball teams. Whoever plays the best tomorrow is going to be the state champion.”

SULPHUR — St. Charles ended its first chance at getting a championship series-clinching win with the bases loaded — and with the potential winning run at first.

The Comets, down by three when coming to bat in the bottom of the seventh, scored on an RBI groundout before a walk loaded the bases with two outs. The next batter popped out to the shortstop, leaving Vandebilt Catholic with a 6-4 victory on Friday at McMurry Park, evening the Division II select series and forcing a decisive Game 3 Saturday.

The failed comeback came one day after Dax Pregeant’s tying two-run home run in the seventh and the four-run eighth that sealed the Game 1 win.

“Our kids fought to the last pitch,” St. Charles coach Wayne Stein said. “You saw that yesterday, when we found a way to win.

Today, they found a way to win.

Very evenly matched teams.”

For Vandebilt, No. 9 hitter Henri Lapeyere’s triple over the head of the centerfielder and Krash Menard’s RBI groundout produced the go-ahead run in the fourth, immediately followed by Jordan Reynolds’ solo home run for a 5-3 lead.

St. Charles ace Bryce Waguespack pitched into the sixth inning, leaving when he reached the 115-pitch limit with eight hits, no walks and four strikeouts.

He labored through the first two innings, when a pair of errors led to two unearned runs. A dropped fly ball in left put two runners on Contact Christopher Dabe at base with nobody out in the first. cdabe@theadvocate.com

LHSAA BASEBALL REPORT LHSAA baseball championships At McMurry Park, Sulphur Best-of-three series

Nonselect DIVISION I

Christian Ouachita Christian 4, Coventant Christian 2 (title game)

Class B

No. 1 Pitkin vs. No. 2 Glenmora Glenmora 3, Pitkin 2 (title game)

No. 8 Dutchtown vs. No. 2 Sam Houston Game 1: Dutchtown 5, Sam Houston 1 Game 2: Sam Houston 3, Dutchtown 1 Game 3: 5:30 p.m. Saturday

Class C

No. 1 Brusly vs. No. 3 Lutcher Game 1: Lutcher 6, Brusly 4 Game 2: Lutcher 8, Brusly 3

University High 002 200 2 — 6 11 4 Newman 450 040 X — 13 12 2 W — Christian Sauska, L — Brody Mayeux.

Hitters: Newman: Charlie Wilson 2-4, 1 2B, 3 RBIs; Atticus Lafleur 2-4, 2 RBIs; Malcolm Schairer 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 3B. University High: Shepherd Gammon 2-4, 1 RBI, 1 2B; Lane Mixon 3-4, 1 RBI.

DIVISION II

DIVISION III

No. 1 Sterlington vs. No. 2 Westlake Game 1: Westlake 5, Sterlington 3 Game 2: Sterlington 18, Westlake 7 Game 3: 11 a.m. Saturday

DIVISION IV

No. 1 Maurepas vs. No. 3 Claiborne Christian Claiborne Christian 8, Maurepas 0 (title game)

Newman 13, University High 6

No. 1 Welsh vs. No. 3 Mangham Mangham 11, Welsh 7 (title game)

Select

DIVISION I

No. 1 Brother Martin vs. No. 2 Catholic-Baton Rouge Game 1: Catholic 6, Brother Martin 2 Game 2: Catholic 3, Brother Martin 2, 15 innings

DIVISION II

HOME DELIVERED

EVERY DAY

No. 1 Vandebilt Catholic vs. No. 2 St. Charles Game 1: St. Charles 6, Vandebilt 2, 8 innings Game 2: Vandebilt Catholic 6, St. Charles 4 Game 3: Time TBA Saturday

DIVISION III

No. 1 University vs. No. 2 Newman Game 1: University 4, Newman 2 Game 2: Newman 13, University 6 Game 3: 11 a.m. Saturday

DIVISION IV

No. 5 Ouachita Christian vs. No. 2 Covenant

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Cunningham scores 21; Pistons dominate 2nd half to beat Cavs

BY JOE REEDY AP sportswriter

CLEVELAND — Cade Cunningham scored 21 points and the top-seeded Detroit Pistons dominated the second half, beating the Cleveland Cavaliers 115-94 on Friday night to force a Game 7 in their Eastern Conference second-round series.

Jalen Duren had 15 points and 11 rebounds while Daniss Jenkins also scored 15 for the Pistons, who have won four games this postseason when facing elimination.

They were down 3-1 to Orlando before winning the last three to ad-

vance out of the first round.

Cunningham made five 3-pointers as the Pistons went 16 of 36 from beyond the arc. Duncan Robinson, who missed Wednesday’s Game 5 with a lower back injury, had four 3-pointers and scored 14 points off the bench.

Paul Reed also had 17 points as Detroit’s reserves outscored Cleveland’s 48-19.

James Harden scored 23 points for Cleveland, which suffered its first home loss of the postseason.

Donovan Mitchell and Evan Mobley scored 18 apiece.

Detroit asserted its will on the

offensive boards and took advantage of Cleveland turnovers. The Pistons converted 13 offensive rebounds into 20 points. The Cavaliers had 20 turnovers, which resulted in 28 Detroit points.

The Pistons were up 54-41 at halftime and started the second half with a 12-2 run. The Cavaliers rallied to get within 74-68 before the Pistons put it away with a 13-2 spurt.

Evan Mobley missed a dunk and Marcus Sasser drove the length of the floor for a layup at the buzzer to give Detroit a 84-70 lead at the end of the third quarter.

SCOREBOARD Holes-in-one

Thursday, May 14: Vegas 5, Anaheim 1

Colorado 4, Minnesota 1

Sunday, May 3: Colorado 9, Minnesota 6 Tuesday, May 5: Colorado 5, Minnesota 2 Saturday, May 9: Minnesota 5, Colorado 1 Monday, May 11: Colorado 5, Minnesota 2 Wednesday, May 13: Colorado 4, Minnesota 3, OT

James Upton

Course: Baton Rouge Country Club Hole: No. 8 Yardage: 151 yards Club: 8 Iron Witnesses: Charlie Peit, Tommy McRae, Charles Mugrove

CONFERENCE FINALS

Nick Russel

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Course: Baton Rouge Country Club Hole: No. 3 Yardage: 108 Club: Wedge Witnesses: n/a

Colorado vs. Vegas

Wednesday, May 20: Vegas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Friday, May 22: Vegas at Colorado, 7 p.m.

Sunday, May 24: Colorado at Vegas, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, May 26: Colorado at Vegas, TBA x-Thursday, May 28: Vegas at Colorado, TBA x-Saturday, May 30: Colorado at Vegas, TBA x-Monday, June 1: Vegas at Colorado, TBA

Odds Sports Betting Line MLB

College softball

Saturday

NCAA Tournament glance

American League FAVORITE LINE at DETROIT OFF Texas -152 National League FAVORITE LINE Arizona -124 Philadelphia -188 Interleague FAVORITE LINE Kansas City -111 Baltimore -116 at TAMPA BAY -126 at CLEVELAND -162 Milwaukee -120 Chicago Cubs -112 N.Y Yankees -130 at ATLANTA -138 at SEATTLE -132 LA Dodgers -132 at ATHLETICS -130

UNDERDOG Toronto at HOUSTON

UNDERDOG LINE at COLORADO +104 at PITTSBURGH +158 UNDERDOG at ST. LOUIS at WASH Miami Cincinnati at MINNESOTA at WHITE SOX at N.Y METS Boston San Diego at LA ANGELS San Francisco

NHL

Saturday

FAVORITE LINE at MONTREAL -162

LINE OFF +128

LINE -108 -102 +108 +136 +102 -104 +110 +118 +111 +112 +110

(Double elimination; x-if necessary)

Baton Rouge (La.) Regional Friday’s games

Game 1 — No. 5 Virginia St. 6, South Alabama 0 Game 2 — No. 4 LSU 8, Akron 0

Saturday’s games

Game 3 — No. 5 Virginia St. vs. No. 4 LSU, TBD Game 4 — South Alabama vs. Game 2 loser, TBD. Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, TBD

Sunday’s games

Game 6 — Game 3 winner vs. Akron, TBD x-Game 7 — Game 6 opponents, TBD

Bryan-College Station (Texas) Regional Friday’s games

Game 1 — No. 4 Texas A&M 17, UConn 3 Game 2 — No. 5 Arizona 8, McNeese 0 UNDERDOG Buffalo

LINE +136

Pro basketball

Sunday’s games

NBA Playoff

Game 6 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 5 winner, TBD x-Game 7 — Game 6 opponents, TBD

SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Eastern Conference Cleveland 3, Detroit 3

Tuesday, May 5: Detroit 111, Cleveland 101 Thursday, May 7: Detroit 107, Cleveland 97 Saturday, May 9: Cleveland 116, Detroit 109 Monday, May 11: Cleveland 112, Detroit 103 Wednesday, May 13: Cleveland 117, Detroit 113, OT Friday, May 15: Detroit 115, Cleveland 94 Sunday, May 17: Cleveland at Detroit, TBA

New York 4, Philadelphia 0

Monday, May 4: New York 137, Philadelphia 98 Wednesday, May 6: New York 108, Philadelphia 102 Friday, May 8: New York 108, Philadelphia 94 Sunday, May 10: New York 144, Philadelphia 114

Western Conference

Sunday’s games

Game 6 — Game 3 winner vs. Game 5 winner, TBD x-Game 7 — Game 6 opponents, TBD

College baseball Southland Conference tournament (Double elimination; x-if necessary)

Friday’s games

G3. Houston Christian 6, No. 4 Nicholls 5 G4: No. 5 McNeese 15, Southeastern 9

Saturday’s games

WNBA Glance

Chicago Atlanta New York Washington Indiana Toronto Connecticut

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L Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 1 .750 1 .500 1 .500 1 .500 3 .000

GB — — — 1 1 1 2½

Minnesota Las Vegas Golden State Phoenix Dallas Seattle Portland Los Angeles

W 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 0

L 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2

GB — — — 1 1 1 1 1½

Pct .667 .667 .667 .333 .333 .333 .333 .000

Minnesota 90, Dallas 86 New York 100, Portland 82

Friday’s Games

Las Vegas at Connecticut, n Washington at Indiana, n Chicago at Phoenix, n Toronto at Los Angeles, n

Saturday’s Games

No games scheduled.

Hockey NHL Playoff SECOND ROUND (Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

EASTERN CONFERENCE Montreal 3, Buffalo 2

Wednesday, May 6: Buffalo 4, Montreal 2 Friday, May 8: Montreal 5, Buffalo 1 Sunday, May 10: Montreal 6, Buffalo 2 Tuesday, May 12: Buffalo 3, Montreal 2 Thursday, May 14: Montreal 6, Buffalo 3 Saturday, May 16: Buffalo at Montreal, 7 p.m. x-Monday, May 18: Montreal at Buffalo, TBA

Carolina 4, Philadelphia 0

Saturday, May 2: Carolina 3, Philadelphia 0 Monday, May 4: Carolina 3, Philadelphia 2, OT Thursday, May 7: Carolina 4, Philadelphia 1 Saturday, May 9: Carolina 3, Philadelphia 2, OT

WESTERN CONFERENCE Vegas 4, Anaheim 2

Saturday’s games

Game 3 — No. 1 Alabama vs. Belmont, TBD Game 4 — USC Upstate vs. No. 8 Southeastern, TBD Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. Game 4 winner, TBD

G1: No. 5 McNeese 11. No. 4 Nicholls 3 G2: No. 1 Southeastern 3, No. 8 Houston Christian 2

Monday, May 4: Minnesota 104, San Antonio 102 Wednesday, May 6: San Antonio 133, Minnesota 95 Friday, May 8: San Antonio 115, Minnesota 108 Sunday, May 10: Minnesota 114, San Antonio 109 Tuesday, May 12: San Antonio 126, Minnesota 97 Friday, May 15: San Antonio at Minnesota, n x-Sunday, May 17: Minnesota at San Antonio, TBA

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Game 1 — No. 1 Alabama 8, USC Upstate 0 Game 2 — Belmont 2, No. 8 Southeastern 0

Thursday’s games

San Antonio 3, Minnesota 2

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Regional Friday’s games

Hammond bracket

Oklahoma City 4, L.A. Lakers 0

Tuesday, May 5: Oklahoma City 108, L.A. Lakers 90 Thursday, May 7: Oklahoma City 125, L.A. Lakers 107 Saturday, May 9: Oklahoma City 131, L.A. Lakers 108 Monday, May 11: Oklahoma City 115, L.A. Lakers 110

Thursday’s Games

Saturday’s games

Game 3 — No. 4 Texas A&M vs. No. 5 Arizona, TBD Game 4 — UConn vs. Game 2 loser, TBD Game 5 — Game 3 loser vs. McNeese, TBD

Monday, May 4: Vegas 3, Anaheim 1 Wednesday, May 6: Anaheim 3, Vegas 1 Friday, May 8: Vegas 6, Anaheim 2 Sunday, May 10: Anaheim 4, Vegas 3 Tuesday, May 12: Vegas 3, Anaheim 2, OT

G5: Houston Christian vs. Southeastern, 1 p.m.

G6: No. 5 McNeese vs. Winner of Game 5, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s games

x-G7: Winner of Game 6 vs. Loser of Game 6, 1 p.m.

Beaumont bracket

Thursday’s games

G1: No. 6 Northwestern State 6, No. 3 UTRGV 5 G2: No. 7 SFA 3, No. 2 Lamar 0

Friday’s games

G3: No. 2 Lamar 3, No. 3 UTRGV 2 G4: No. 7 SFA 6, No. 6 Northwestern State 4

Saturday’s games

G5: No. 2 Lamar vs. No. 6 Northwestern State, 1 p.m.

G6: No. 7 SFA vs. Winner of Game 5, 6 p.m.

Sunday’s games

x-G7: Winner of Game 6 vs. Loser of Game 6, 1 p.m.

Championship Series May 21

G1: Winner of No. 1 Seed Bracket vs. Winner of No. 2 Seed Bracket

May 22

G2: Winner of No. 1 Seed Bracket vs. Winner of No. 2 Seed Bracket

May 23

x-G3: Winner of No. 1 Seed Bracket vs. Winner of No. 2 Seed Bracket

State schedule

Thursday’s games

UL 7, Coastal Carolina 2 Southern 9, Alabama A&M 8 Florida 11, LSU 8 Rice 12, Tulane 0

Friday’s games

Coastal Carolina at UL, n Alabama A&M at Southern, n Florida 11, LSU 1 Rice 12, Tulane 0

Saturday’s games

Tulane at Rice, 1:05 p.m.

Florida at LSU, 2 p.m.

Coastal Carolina at UL, 2 p.m.

Alabama A&M at Southern, 3 p.m.

Late Thursday Florida 11, LSU 8

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Curiel (15); Milam (15). HBP — Yost; Lawson; Dardar. SB — Yost (2); Lawson (11).

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American League

National League

East Division

East Division

Tampa Bay New York Baltimore Toronto Boston

W 28 27 20 19 18

L 14 17 24 24 25

Pct .667 .614 .455 .442 .419

GB — 2 9 9½ 10½

Atlanta Philadelphia Washington Miami New York

W 30 21 21 20 18

L 14 23 23 24 25

Pct .682 .477 .477 .455 .419

GB — 9 9 10 11½

Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

W 24 22 20 19 19

L 21 21 24 25 25

Pct .533 .512 .455 .432 .432

GB — 1 3½ 4½ 4½

Chicago Milwaukee St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 28 24 25 24 23

L 16 17 18 20 21

Pct .636 .585 .581 .545 .523

GB — 2½ 2½ 4 5

Athletics Seattle Texas Houston Los Angeles

W 22 22 21 17 16

L 21 23 22 28 28

Pct .512 .489 .488 .378 .364

GB — 1 1 6 6½

Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 26 25 20 18 17

L 18 18 22 26 27

Pct .591 .581 .476 .409 .386

GB — ½ 5 8 9

Central Division

West Division

Thursday’s Games

N.Y. Mets 9, Detroit 4 Minnesota 9, Miami 1 Seattle 8, Houston 3 St. Louis 5, Athletics 4 Philadelphia 3, Boston 1 Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City 2

Friday’s Games

Washington 3, Baltimore 2 Detroit 3, Toronto 2 Tampa Bay 7, Miami 2 Cincinnati at Cleveland, n Milwaukee at Minnesota, n Boston at Atlanta, n N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, n Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, n Texas at Houston, n Kansas City at St. Louis, n L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, n San Diego at Seattle, n San Francisco at Athletics, n.

Saturday’s Games

Toronto (TBD) at Detroit (Mize 2-2), 12:10 p.m.

Kansas City (Cameron 2-2) at St. Louis (Leahy 4-3), 1:15 p.m.

Baltimore (Bassitt 3-2) at Washington (Cavalli 1-2), 3:05 p.m.

Miami (Alcantara 3-2) at Tampa Bay (Martinez 4-1), 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Paddack 0-5) at Cleveland (Williams 5-3), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Taillon 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 5-1), 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Henderson 0-1) at Minnesota (Prielipp 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Texas (deGrom 3-2) at Houston (Teng 1-3), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Tolle 1-2) at Atlanta (Elder 4-1), 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Rodón 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 6:15 p.m.

San Diego (Buehler 2-2) at Seattle (Gilbert 2-3), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Wrobleski 5-1) at L.A. Angels (Soriano 6-2), 8:38 p.m.

San Francisco (McDonald 1-0) at Athletics (Severino 2-4), 8:40 p.m.

PGA Championship Friday At Aronimink Golf Club Newtown Square, Pa. Yardage: 7,394; Par: 70 Second Round M. McNealy, United States 69-67—136 -4 Alex Smalley, United States 67-69—136 -4 C. Gotterup, United States 72-65—137 -3 M. Greysrmn, United States 68-69—137 -3 Stephan Jaeger, Germany 67-70—137 -3 Min Woo Lee, Australia 67-70—137 -3 Hideki Matsuyama, Japan 70-67—137 -3 A. Potgieter, South Africa 67-70—137 -3 Ludvig Aberg, Sweden 72-66—138 -2 Harris English, United States 71-67—138 -2 Si Woo Kim, South Korea 71-67—138 -2 David Puig, Spain 71-67—138 -2 S. Scheffler, United States 67-71—138 -2 J. Thomas, United States 69-69—138 -2 C. Young, United States 71-67—138 -2 Patrick Cantlay, United States70-69—139 -1 Jason Day, Australia 69-70—139 -1 K. Kitayama, United States 70-69—139 -1 A. Novak, United States 69-70—139 -1 Jon Rahm, Spain 69-70—139 -1 Aaron Rai, England 70-69—139 -1 Ryan Fox, New Zealand 70-70—140 E Daniel Hillier, New Zealand 71-69—140 E Ryo Hisatsune, Japan 67-73—140 E Rico Hoey, Philippines 70-70—140 E Hao-Tong Li, China 71-69—140 E A. Putnam, United States 69-71—140 E Patrick Reed, United States 68-72—140 E Cameron Smith, Australia 69-71—140 E Bud Cauley, United States 69-72—141 +1 Corey Conners, Canada 68-73—141 +1 Rickie Fowler, United States 70-71—141 +1 Ryan Gerard, United States 69-72—141 +1 Ben Griffin, United States 71-70—141 +1 Ben Kern, United States 74-67—141 +1 B. Koepka, United States 69-72—141 +1 R. McIlroy, Northern Ireland 74-67—141 +1 C. Morikawa, United States 69-72—141 +1 X. Schauffele, United States 68-73—141 +1 Matti Schmid, Germany 69-72—141 +1 Jordan Spieth, United States 69-72—141 +1 Nick Taylor, Canada 69-72—141 +1 S. Theegala, United States 68-73—141 +1 C. Blanchet, United States 69-73—142 +2 Sam Burns, United States 70-72—142 +2 Matt Fitzpatrick, England 70-72—142 +2 Alex Fitzpatrick, England 72-70—142 +2 Kazuki Higa, Japan 71-71—142 +2 Tom Hoge, United States 72-70—142 +2 Casey Jarvis, South Africa 70-72—142 +2 D. Johnson, United States 72-70—142 +2 Martin Kaymer, Germany 67-75—142 +2 Mikael Lindberg, Sweden 71-71—142 +2 D. McCarthy, United States 71-71—142 +2 Keith Mitchell, United States 73-69—142 +2 Joaquin Niemann, Chile 69-73—142 +2 Sam Stevens, United States 69-73—142 +2 Matt Wallace, England 71-71—142 +2 Daniel Brown, England 68-75—143 +3 Brian Harman, United States 70-73—143 +3 Padraig Harrington, Ireland 74-69—143 +3 Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark 72-71—143 +3 Michael Kim, United States 73-70—143 +3 Chris Kirk, United States 73-70—143 +3 Kristoffer Reitan, Norway 71-72—143 +3 Justin Rose, England 70-73—143 +3 Sami Valimaki, Finland 73-70—143 +3 Daniel Berger, United States 74-70—144 +4 C. Bezuidenht, South Africa 72-72—144 +4 M. Brennan, United States 72-72—144 +4 B. Campbell, United States 72-72—144 +4 Luke Donald, England 71-73—144 +4 Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark 69-75—144 +4 John Keefer, United States 72-72—144 +4 Shane Lowry, Ireland 68-76—144 +4 William Mouw, United States 74-70—144 +4 Rasmus N-Petersn, Denmark 72-72—144 +4 Alex Noren, Sweden 71-73—144 +4 John Parry, England 73-71—144 +4 Taylor Pendrith, Canada 72-72—144 +4 Elvis Smylie, Australia 72-72—144 +4 Jhonattan Vegas, Venezuela 73-71—144 +4 Missed Cut A. Bhatia, United States 71-74—145 +5 Michael Block, United States 70-75—145 +5 W. Clark, United States 75-70—145 +5 Thomas Detry, Belgium 72-73—145 +5 Tommy Fleetwood, England 72-73—145 +5 Russell Henley, United States 72-73—145 +5 Garrick Higgo, South Africa 69-76—145 +5 Sungjae Im, South Korea 73-72—145 +5 Kota Kaneko, Japan 73-72—145 +5 Robert MacIntyre, Scotland 70-75—145 +5 J.T. Poston, United States 71-74—145 +5 Andy Sullivan, England 72-73—145 +5 Jimmy Walker, United States 71-74—145 +5 Angel Ayora Fanegas, Spain 72-74—146 +6 K. Bradley, United States 74-72—146 +6 Stewart Cink, United States 74-72—146 +6 Tyler Collet, United States 75-71—146 +6 Pi. Coody, United States 71-75—146 +6 J. Gumberg, United States 73-73—146 +6 Tyrrell Hatton, England 72-74—146 +6 Viktor Hovland, Norway 74-72—146 +6 David Lipsky, United States 74-72—146 +6 Max McGreevy, United States 76-70—146 +6 Ben Polland, United States 73-73—146 +6 Adam Schenk, United States 75-71—146 +6 B. Snedeker, United States 72-74—146 +6 J.J. Spaun, United States 70-76—146 +6 Sepp Straka, Austria 73-73—146 +6 G. Woodland, United States 72-74—146 +6 Ricky Castillo, United States 74-73—147 +7 B. DeChambu, United States 76-71—147 +7 Harry Hall, England 72-75—147 +7 T. McKibbin, Northern Ireland 74-73—147 +7 P. Rodgers, United States 77-70—147 +7 A. Smothermn, United States 72-75—147 +7 Travis Smyth, Australia 74-73—147 +7 +8 J. Bridgeman, United States 74-74—148 Jason Dufner, United States 75-73—148 +8 Steven Fisk, United States 76-72—148 +8 Emiliano Grillo, Argentina 76-72—148 +8 Joe Highsmith, United States 73-75—148 +8 Billy Horschel, United States 74-74—148 +8 Adam Scott, Australia 72-76—148 +8 72-76—148 +8 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria Lucas Glover, United States 76-73—149 +9 Garrett Sapp, United States 75-74—149 +9 Y.E. Yang, South Korea 72-77—149 +9 N. Echavarria, Colombia 75-75—150 +10

Central Division

West Division

Thursday’s Games

Cincinnati 15, Washington 1 Pittsburgh 7, Colorado 2 N.Y. Mets 9, Detroit 4 Minnesota 9, Miami 1 Milwaukee 7, San Diego 1 St. Louis 5, Athletics 4 Philadelphia 3, Boston 1 Chicago Cubs 2, Atlanta 0 L.A. Dodgers 5, San Francisco 2

Friday’s Games

Philadelphia at Pittsburgh, n Washington 3, Baltimore 2 Cincinnati at Cleveland,n Tampa Bay 7, Miami 2 Milwaukee at Minnesota, n Boston at Atlanta, n N.Y. Yankees at N.Y. Mets, n Chicago Cubs at Chicago White Sox, n Kansas City at St. Louis, n Arizona at Colorado, n L.A. Dodgers at L.A. Angels, n San Diego at Seattle, n San Francisco at Athletics, n

Saturday’s Games

Kansas City (Cameron 2-2) at St. Louis (Leahy 4-3), 1:15 p.m.

Arizona (Rodriguez 4-0) at Colorado (Sugano 3-3), 2:10 p.m.

Baltimore (Bassitt 3-2) at Washington (Cavalli 1-2), 3:05 p.m.

Philadelphia (Sánchez 4-2) at Pittsburgh (Chandler 1-4), 3:05 p.m.

Miami (Alcantara 3-2) at Tampa Bay (Martinez 4-1), 3:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Paddack 0-5) at Cleveland (Williams 5-3), 5:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Taillon 2-2) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 5-1), 6:10 p.m.

Milwaukee (Henderson 0-1) at Minnesota (Prielipp 1-1), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Tolle 1-2) at Atlanta (Elder 4-1), 6:15 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Rodón 0-0) at N.Y. Mets (TBD), 6:15 p.m.

San Diego (Buehler 2-2) at Seattle (Gilbert 2-3), 6:15 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Wrobleski 5-1) at L.A. Angels (Soriano 6-2), 8:38 p.m.

San Francisco (McDonald 1-0) at Athletics

BOX SCORES Chicago Cubs 2, Atlanta 0

Milwaukee 3, Minnesota 2

Chicago

Milwaukee

Atlanta

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ab r h bi ab r h bi Hoerner 2b 3 0 0 0 Baldwin c 4 0 1 0 Bregman 3b 4 0 1 0 Albies 2b 4 0 0 0 Happ lf 3 2 2 1 Olson 1b 4 0 1 0 Suzuki dh 4 0 0 0 Harris cf 4 0 1 0 Shaw rf 4 0 0 1 Dubón lf 4 0 0 0 Busch 1b 4 0 1 0 Riley 3b 3 0 1 0 Swanson ss 4 0 0 0 Smith dh 4 0 1 0 Amaya c 4 0 1 0 Kim ss 3 0 0 0 Crw-Armstrong cf3 0 1 0 Yastrzemski rf2 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 6 2 Totals 32 0 5 0 Chicago 000 001 010 — 2 Atlanta 000 000 000 — 0 E_Kim (1). LOB_Chicago 7, Atlanta 7. HR_ Happ (10). SB_Shaw (3), Crow-Armstrong (11).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Brown 4 1 0 0 1 7 Milner W,1-0 2 1 0 0 0 1 Maton H,3 1 1 0 0 0 2 Webb H,2 1 1 0 0 0 1 Palencia S,3-3 1 1 0 0 0 2 Atlanta Sale L,6-3 6 5 1 0 2 8 1 1 1 López 1 2⁄3 1 1 0 0 1 Bummer 1 1⁄3 0 0 HBP_Brown (Riley). WP_Brown.

ABS Challenge_Brown (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Milner (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Umpires_Home, John Libka; First, James Hoye; Second, Tyler Jones; Third, Sean Barber.

T_2:30. A_36,367 (41,149).

ab r h bi ab r h bi Chourio lf 5 2 2 0 Martin rf 4 0 1 0 Turang 2b 4 1 1 0 Lee ss 4 0 1 0 Contreras c 4 0 1 1 Jeffers c 3 0 0 0 Bauers 1b 4 0 2 1 Bell dh 4 0 0 0 Mitchell cf 2 0 1 0 Keaschall 2b4 1 1 0 Perkins ph-cf 2 0 0 0 Clemens 1b 3 0 1 0 Vaughn dh 4 0 1 0 Lewis 3b 4 0 1 1 Frelick rf 4 0 1 0 Kreidler cf 3 0 2 0 Rengifo 3b 4 0 0 0 Outman lf 3 1 1 0 Hamilton ss 2 0 0 0 Totals 36 3 9 2 Totals 32 2 8 1 Milwaukee 100 000 020 — 3 Minnesota 000 001 100 — 2 E_Rengifo (2), Lewis (4). DP_Milwaukee 2, Minnesota 0. LOB_Milwaukee 7, Minnesota 4. 2B_Chourio (4), Bauers (9).

SB_Bauers (4), Turang (9).

IP H R ER BB SO Milwaukee Crow 5 3 1 1 0 3 Ashby W,8-0 2 4 1 1 0 1 Uribe H,5 1 1 0 0 1 1 Megill S,5-6 1 0 0 0 0 1 Minnesota Ryan 6 4 1 1 1 7 Rogers 1 2 0 0 0 0 Morris L,1-2 BS,0-2 2/3 3 2 2 0 0 Banda 1 0 0 0 0 0 Gómez 1/3 0 0 0 0 1 Crow pitched to 2 batters in the 6th, Banda pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

HBP_Crow (Clemens). WP_Ashby.

ABS Challenge_Crow (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Ryan (Ball-Confirmed); Martin (StrikeConfirmed); Megill (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Umpires_Home, Rob Drake; First, Stu Scheuwater; Second, Junior Valentine; Third, Jordan Baker.

T_2:40. A_24,309 (38,544).

Washington 3, Baltimore 2

Tampa Bay 7, Miami 2

Baltimore

Miami

Washington

ab r h bi ab r h bi Henderson ss5 0 2 1 Wood rf 4 0 1 0 Ward lf 4 0 1 0 García dh 4 0 0 0 Rutschman c 5 0 0 0 Mead 1b 3 1 1 0 Alonso 1b 4 0 0 0 Abrams ss 4 1 1 0 Basallo dh 3 1 1 0 Lile lf 4 1 3 2 O’Neill rf 3 1 0 0 House 3b 3 0 0 1 Cowser cf 1 0 0 0 Nuñez 2b 0 0 0 0 Alexandr ph 1 0 0 0 Vivas 2b-3b 1 0 0 0 Taveras ph 0 0 0 0 Millas c 3 0 0 0 Mayo 3b 3 0 1 0 J.Young cf 3 0 0 0 Jackson 2b 3 0 1 1 Totals 32 2 6 2 Totals 29 3 6 3 Baltimore 000 000 002 — 2 Washington 000 102 00x — 3 LOB_Baltimore 10, Washington 6. 2B_Henderson (8), Jackson (4), Lile (12). HR_Lile (7). SF_Jackson (2), House (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Baz L,1-5 7 6 3 3 3 4 Walker 1 0 0 0 0 1 Washington Littell W,2-4 5 2 0 0 2 3 Alvarez H,1 3 3 2 2 1 5 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 Varland H,5 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Lovelady S,2-2 Alvarez pitched to 2 batters in the 9th.

HBP_Littell (Mayo).

ABS Challenge_Baz (Ball-Confirmed); Lovelady (Ball-Confirmed).

Umpires_Home, John Tumpane; First, Chris Conroy; Second, Brennan Miller; Third, Ben May. T_2:33. A_38,912 (41,376).

Tampa Bay

ab r h bi ab r h bi 4 0 2 0 Simpson lf 4 0 2 0 4 0 0 0 Caminero 3b4 0 0 0 4 0 1 0 Aranda 1b 2 1 0 0 4 0 0 0 Díaz dh 3 1 1 2 4 0 0 0 Fraley rf 3 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 DeLuca ph-rf1 0 0 0 4 1 3 1 Palacios 2b 3 1 2 0 3 0 0 0 Williamsn ph1 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 Mullins cf 4 3 4 1 3 0 0 0 Feduccia c 2 1 1 1 Fortes ph-c 1 0 0 0 Walls ss 3 0 1 3 Totals 35 2 7 2 Totals 31 7 11 7 Miami 010 001 000 — 2 Tampa Bay 220 201 00x — 7 E_Feduccia (2), Caminero (9). DP_Miami 2, Tampa Bay 0. LOB_Miami 6, Tampa Bay 4. 2B_Palacios (2), Walls (4), Feduccia (2).

3B_Simpson (4). HR_Norby (4), Marsee (3), Díaz (6), Mullins (3). SB_Mullins (9).

SF_Feduccia (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Miami 7 3 4 Junk L,2-4 5 2⁄3 10 7 0 0 1 Petersen 1 1⁄3 0 0 Nardi 1 1 0 0 0 2 Tampa Bay Seymour 2 2 1 1 0 2 Scholtens W,4-2 5 5 1 1 0 4 Legumina 2 0 0 0 0 0 Umpires_Home, Quinn Wolcott; First, Brock Ballou; Second, Ramon De Jesus; Third, Paul Clemons.

T_2:17. A_14,919 (25,025).

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THIS DATE IN BASEBALL May 16

1933 — Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators made his major league debut with five hits in a 12-inning, 11-10 win over the Chicago White Sox. 1939 — The Cleveland Indians beat the Philadelphia Athletics 8-3 in 10 innings in the first American League night game, held at Philadelphia’s Shibe Park.

1953 — The White Sox loaded the bases against the Yankees in the ninth inning, but Vern Stephens, who had 10 grand slams in his career, was lifted for a pinch hitter. Pitcher Tommy Byrne, the substitute batter, then hit a homer off Ewell Blackwell for a 5-3 win.

1965 — Jim Palmer, 19, won his first major league game and hit his first homer, off Jim Bouton. The Baltimore Orioles beat the New York Yankees 7-5.

1972 — Rick Monday hit three consecutive homers to lead the Chicago Cubs to an 8-1 win at Philadelphia. Greg Luzinski’s 500-foot home run hit the Liberty Bell monument at Veterans Stadium for the Phillies’ only run.

1978 — The White Sox trade OF Bobby Bonds to the Rangers for OF Claudell Washington and OF Rusty Torres.

1981 — Craig Reynolds of Houston hit three triples to lead the Astros to a 6-1 victory over the Chicago Cubs.

1996 — Sammy Sosa becomes the first Cub ever to hit two homers in one inning, hitting them in the eight-run 7th inning at Wrigley Field.

1997 — The Montreal Expos overcame an early nine-run deficit and rallied past the San Francisco Giants 14-13 on David Segui’s RBI single in the ninth inning. The Giants took an 11-2 lead after three innings.

Montreal came back with four runs in the fourth, three in the fifth and three more in the sixth for a 12-11 lead. Glenallen Hill’s RBI single capped a two-run seventh that put the Giants ahead 13-12.

2000 — The Los Angeles Dodgers went into the Wrigley Field crowd after a fan ran off with Chad Kreuter’s cap in the ninth inning of Los Angeles’ 6-5 victory. The game was delayed for nine minutes while some Dodgers and fans fought.

2001 — Rickey Henderson leads off with a home run, extending his major-league record for leadoff home runs to 79. This is more than the combined total for the #2 and #3 players on the list: Brady Anderson (44), and Bobby Bonds (35).

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zodIAC TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Be bold. Once you lay your intentions on the table, you will get a clear vision of what's possible.

Don't sit back when asking for what you want will help you come to terms with what it will take to reach your goal.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) You'll have plenty of ideas and change your mind a lot, which will confuse some and excite others. Be true to yourself and worry less about who comes along on your journey.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Be a good observer. Bide your time, and offer only what's necessary. Confusion will set in due to misinformation. Take the initiative to determine what's valid before you agree to get involved.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Channel your energy into fulfilling your obligations.

Someone will be quick to point out your flaws if you take shortcuts or renege on a promise you made. Take a step back.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Pay attention to the changes others make. Protect yourself from anyone who tries to talk you into something you don't want to do.

Choose to be direct and to take a pass.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Physical activities that strengthen your mind, body and soul will be uplifting and give you a positive perspective regarding what's possible. Trust and believe in yourself.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) You'll be drawn to people, places and events that are new to you. The opportunity

to share perspectives with those from different backgrounds will help you find common ground.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Put a plan and a budget in place. Getting organized will be the most effective way to stay out of financial trouble. A little charm, resourcefulness and confidence will result in new beginnings.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Put your energy into something you enjoy doing.

Challenge yourself, socialize, enter a competition and rise above any situation that tries to drag you down when you are upward bound.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Don't get stuck in someone else's dream. It's time to build your own future and to turn your attention to what makes you happy. Let the past go and make way for a bright future.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) You have plenty to gain regarding personal growth, establishing your position and gaining the support necessary to turn your dream into a reality. Protect your honor.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Discuss your thoughts and intentions with those affected by the decisions you make, and find solutions that will justify your actions. How you manage your money and what you spend it on will matter.

The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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BY PHILLIP ALDER Jackie Chan, an action film star who hails from Hong Kong, said, “American stunt men are smart — they think about safety. But in Hong Kong, if you’ve got the guts, you do it. All of my stunt men have gotten hurt.”

At the bridge table, we have safetyplays. Their aim, usually, is to ensure at most one loser whatever the lie of the missing cards in that suit. Experts know a lot of them; less capable players know far fewer. But, of course, often a safetyplay proves unnecessary, because the distribution is docile.

The safety-play that is needed in this deal looks so strange that many would never even think of it. How should South play to guarantee making six no-trump?

West leads the spade 10.

North made a sensible quantitative raise to slam.

Declarer starts with 10 top tricks: three spades, three hearts, two diamonds and two clubs. So he needs only four club winners, not five.

It is tempting to win the first trick in the dummy and call for the club jack (the right play in seven no-trump). And it is true that any time clubs are 3-2 or 4-1, or East has all five, there is no damage done. However, when West has all five clubs, suddenly the contract has died.

South should take out insurance. He should win the first trick in his hand

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At the worst, this costs an overtrick.

Here, though, if West wins with his club queen, four club tricks are established.

Or, if West plays low, declarer wins with dummy’s 10, plays a heart to his hand, and leads another club toward dummy — mission accomplished. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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today’s thought “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.”

Genesis 1:1

God and God alone is the creator and sustainer of the universe. — G.E. Dean

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Scrabble GramS dIrectIons: make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus.

“Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. all the words are in the Official sCraBBlE® players Dictionary, 5th Edition.

Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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For more information on tournaments and clubs, email naspa – north american sCraBBlE players association: info@scrabbleplayers.org. Visit our website: www.scrabbleplayers.org. For puzzle inquiries contact scrgrams@gmail.com.

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2 - The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

3 - Freebies: Fill in the single-box cages with the number in the top-left corner.

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classifieds.nola.com | 504-636-7435 Announcements 326 Events LLC d/b/a The Trademark is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of East Baton Rouge at the following address: 326 3rd Street STE A, Baton Rouge, LA, 70801 326 Events LLC The Trademark

Members: Dustin Malina 187758-May 16, 1t $112.64 Anyone having info. or knowing the whereabouts of the agents, officers, owners, and/or representatives of Make It Right - New Orleans, LLC please contact Atty. Gina Recasner at 504.343.3673.

187877-May 16-18, 3t $109

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MONDAY ONDAY,, MAY 25TH 25T in observance of

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And will be observing the following Early Deadline: Deadline: Thursday May 21 @ 3pm

Run Date Tuesday May 26 Wednesday May 27

As always, you may place your ad 7 days a week, 24 hours a day online at www.theadvocate.com or call Monday – Friday 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (225) 383-0111

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of: Hieu Construction LLC and/or Trinh Hieu please contact Attorney David J. Motter 3500 N. Hullen Street, Metairie, LA 70002; 504-388-7005.

187458-May 14-16, 3t $97 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Ivette Mora, last known address of 1014 Saint Julien Dr., Apt. D2, Kenner, LA 70065, please contact Timothy F. Hand, Esq. at (504) 3681118.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Thomas J. Curran, Jr. please contact David Fos, attorney, at 504.343-3725 or dsfoslaw@outlook.com.

187734-May 16-18, 3t $97 Anyone know the whereabouts of Olman E. Estrada a/k/a Olman Estrada please contact Atty. P. Lindsey Williams at 504-561-1222.

187844-May 16-18, 3t $85

Hickory Café Harahan LLC, is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for the permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: Hickory Café Harahan LLC 1313 Hickory Avenue Harahan, LA 70123 William Cooling, /Owners 187900-May 16, 1t $106.38

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I 'CLOUD DISTRICT LLC' DOING BUSINESS AS SMOKE GALORE' I AM APPLYING TO THE COLLECTOR OF REVENUE OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA FOR A PERMIT TO SELL TOBACCO AND CBD PRODUCTS AS DEFINED BY LAW AT THE FOLLOWING MUNICIPAL ADDRESS: 3000 SEVERN AVE STE C METAIRIE LA 70002 PARISH OF JEFFERSON

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of that certain Promissory Note executed by CHARLETTE J. JONES on

MEMBER: EMAD JABER ABDALLAH 187986-May 16, 1t $106.38

To satisfy the owner’s privilege, PS Retail Sales, LLC will sell at public sale on May 26, 2026, the personal property in the below-listed units, which may include but are not limited to: household and personal items, office and other equipment. The public sale of these items will begin at 08:30 AM and continue until all units are sold. The lien sale is to be held at the online auction website, www.storagetreasures.com, where indicated.

For online lien sales, bids will be accepted until 2 hours after the time of the sale specified.

PUBLIC STORAGE # 07025, 12320 I-10 Service Rd, New Orleans, LA 70128, (504) 224-9067 Time: 08:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

1014 - Morris, Taffy; 1016 - Stovall, Eric; 1034 - Wright, Ashanti M; 1056 - Alexander, Michaelyn; 1070 Strickland, Javanda; 1112 - Schexnayder, Kentrice; 1286 - Williams, Craig; 1313 - Melancon, Monica; 2095 - Jordan, Kendra; 2613 - Scott, Reginld; 4012 - hendricks, Tim; 4014 - Chambers, Kawanda; 4037 - Anderson, Malik; 4054 - Tate, Lisa; A14 - Jordan, Richon; P004 - J- Vu Entertainment Sherman, Cheryl PUBLIC STORAGE # 07120, 1850 Lapalco Blvd, Harvey, LA 70058, (504) 229-4188 Time: 09:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

A012 - Carter, Jarielle; A130 - Easley, Michael; A161 - Johns, Clarence; A289 - Yarbrough, Jeremy; A300 Gonzales, Samantha; A309 - Mccreary, Sharon; A439 - Roy, Janet’; A448 - Mitchell, Theresa; B038 - Fairman, Alexis; E012 - Williams, Sabrina; E027 - Smith, veronica PUBLIC STORAGE # 20175, 3440 S Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118, (504) 308-1583 Time: 09:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

0007 - Williams, Troy; 0020 - Curry, Justin; 0030 - Jenkins, Sabrina; 0047 - Bolander, Justin Wayne; 0177 - Boucree, Daniel; 0178 - Sturgis, Pleshette; 0201 - dupuy, micheal; 0242 - Smith, Kalean; 0331 - Frazier, Essience; 0339 - baker, ron; 0410 - Bess, Mark; 0443 - Price, Jessica; 0461 - Douglas, Cher; 0535 - Fisher, Dmytryk; 0537 - Newman, Wayne; 0538 - Savoy, Brad; 0546 - Montana, Dylan; 0616 - Spooner, Carla; 0642 GREEN, Antione; 0820 - vance, valencia; 0846 - Hughes, Jovan; 0937 - Cole, Cameron; 0966 - Poret, Meah; 1040 - Douglas, Cher; 1105 - williams, Tykesh; 1111 - Laroche, Anthony; 1129 - Paulsen, James; 1181 Edwards, Calvinisha; 1187 - Harris, Jerry; 1210 - Prado, Ernesto; P06 - Victor, James PUBLIC STORAGE # 21704, 3000 Belle Chasse Hwy, Gretna, LA 70053, (504) 229-4180 Time: 10:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

A017 - Jones, Candace; B058 - Bishop, William Chad; C049 - George, Dnonisha; C053 - lopez, eduardo; C062 - lewis, jaylin; C084 - Williams, Victor; C114 - woods, Chrisean; C130 - leiva, juan; C248 - Valentine, Sharon; C254 - Battle, Valdez kanesha; D036 - Dixon, Allen; E087 - Sylvia, Troy; F009 - Parker, Earlneisha; F058 - Parker, Chasmin; F082 - Jones, Rosla; G006 - Enloe, Hilda; G076 - Jr, Reget Vaughn PUBLIC STORAGE # 21802, 2930 Clearview Pkwy, Metairie, LA 70006, (504) 229-4204 Time: 10:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

A010 - hauck, Christopher; A049 - Ross, Teisha; A085 - Daniels, Henry; A088 - Anthony, Felicia; B095 case, Heather; B128 - Delaney, Nicolas; B137 - Housley, Bianca; B148 - Nichols, Keshaun; B239 - Celestine, Christopher; B274 - case, Heather; B282 - Simmons, Jessica; B288 - Gagnon, Blake; B290 - Curley, Kereck; B292 - Ramirez, David; C353 - Pujalt, Mario; C372 - hamilton, rachelle; C428 - Jamison, Ashley; C435 - Green, Ekeisa; C436 - jeanpierre, Erica; C469 - Marbley, Audrey; C472 - Walden, Howard; C474 - Robinson, Tierra; C483 - hamilton, rachelle; C503 - foster, Dewun; C563 - jenkins, Jacodie PUBLIC STORAGE # 22055, 34570 LA Highway 16, Denham Springs, LA 70706, (225) 665-5770 Time: 11:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

0219 - FRANKLIN, RESHONDA; 0432 - smith, Kevin; 0441 - wood, Kelly; B03 - Wale, Michael; B36 - Nelson, Russell; D07 - Gerding, Jolie; D19 - Harris, Stephen PUBLIC STORAGE # 23799, 2257 S Range Ave, Denham Springs, LA 70726, (225) 468-5877 Time: 11:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

0113 - Dunn, Jarshaun; 0335 - wright, Shenetta; 0417 - helmes, james; 0543 - Arthur, Makayla; 0607 - helmes, james; 0618 - helmes, james; 0620 - helmes, james; 0808 - Marino, Theresa; 1028 - Rockett, Regina Letitia; 2007 - Marino, Theresa PUBLIC STORAGE # 25740, 4507 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125, (504) 308-1275 Time: 12:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

1043 - ROBINSON, KIM; 1146 - Chauvin, Leslie; 2010 - Wilson, Tyra; 2090 - Sudduth, Akeyra; 2093 - SMITH, BIONCA; 2115 - meilleur, Trinidy; 2131 - pace, Katie; 3033 - Leefort, Frenchell; 3054 - Coulon, Kristin; 3117 - Williams, Curtis; 3140 - JOHNSON, Sade; 3150 - Gibson, Lynette; 3243 - nero, Lashun; 3254 - Bolden, Rai PUBLIC STORAGE # 26983, 5730 Citrus Blvd, Elmwood, LA 70123, (504) 930-4129 Time: 12:30 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

2103 - Roberts, Amber; 2210 - Desporte, Dylan; 2806 - thomas, belinda; 3013 - Cain, Chiquita; 3049 Jackson, Semone; 3608 - collins, Diamond ; 3713 - Martin, Annastasia; 3716 - Brown, Lyric; 3800 - Wornner, Britt; 3803 - Day, Tim; 3828 - Bermudez, Juanita A; 3836 - Wilson, Trinette; N1088 - Parks, Deshon; S1013 - batiste, Jerome; S1042 - Knott, Ceret; S1097 - Leblanc, Dawn PUBLIC STORAGE # 26984, 2820 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119, (504) 584-4619 Time: 01:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

1060 - Scott, Jimmy; 1074 - Wilson, Byron; 1077 - Richards, Darnika; 2035 - Glover, Tedrine Quenell; 2090 - Gastinell, Samantha; 2112 - pryor, Tytianna; 3001 - Jones, Kyle; 3075 - griffin, macarthur; 3113 - Jones, David; 3138 - Turner, Kimberly; 4014 - Spiers, Slaydon; 4037 - Smith, Tyler; 4065 - Jr, Corey Jackson; 4118 - Broussard, Wade; 5005 - Davis, Paula; 5013 - Bolden, Mariah; 5057 - Rosemond, Ishmael; 5106 - Lewis, Tristan; 5147 - B Penny Properties LLC Penny, Brandon PUBLIC STORAGE # 28188, 3900 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70115, (504) 224-9167 Time: 01:30 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

0131 - Hewett, Isabel; 0769 - Dillon, Candace; 0770 - prendergast, Martin PUBLIC STORAGE # 29112, 1901 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 308-1566 Time: 02:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

1405 - Duncan, Carsandra; 1411 - Lee, Khayleel; 2608 - Barbarin, Tyler; 4317 - Sabatier, Dale; 5214 - Gannon, Daniel; 6110 - bush, Bree; 6113 - Fields, Jessica; M300 - Brickeen, Tyler PUBLIC STORAGE # 29222, 10010 I-10 Service Rd, New Orleans, LA 70127, (504) 224-9213 Time: 02:30 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

1034 - Zacharie, Christie; 1133 - Lindsey, Patrice; 1146 - Walker, Allie; 1157 - Williams, Rashad; 1186 - Scott, Dana; 2035 - Dean, Troylynn; 2039 - Johnson, Martha; 2066 - Tyler, David; 2089 - Green, Kimberly; 2095 rayford, lyntasia; 2119 - August, Jasper; 2138 - Comeger, Dwayne; 2144 - boykin, Shayne; 2167 - Bunch, Ronjana; 2200 - Duplessis, Bianca; 2214 - Williams, Mary; 2251 - Fisher, Corey; 2275 - Bernhart, Arron; 3052 - Collins, Brittany; 3074 - Jackson, Elisha; 3082 - jenkins, James; 3103 - Kaufman, Charlatia; 3126 - Pollard, D Nira; 3261 - Knight, Brinnen; 3312 - boykin, Shayne PUBLIC STORAGE # 78084, 3701 Highway 90 W, Avondale, LA 70094, (504) 317-1534 Time: 03:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com.

0104 - Davis, Loralyn; 0120 - Robinson, Demetrius; 0121 - Neeley, Abigail; 0129 - Spurlock, Charles; 0130 Stewart, Marvell; 0140 - Lee, Darryl; 0155 - Spurlock, Charles; 0237 - Till, Larry; 0238 - Armant, Jennifer; 0242 - Armant, theresa; 0303 - Migliore, Lauren ; 1032 - eugene, adrienne; 1036 - Simmons, Natalie; 1045 - Brown, Jamie; 1083 - Butler, Kendrick; 1129 - Wallace, Ashely; 1144 - Mccloud, Keirra; 1147 - Williams, Alma; 1158 Harris, Roosevelt; 1163 - Collins, Emony; 2001 - Mire, Wayne ; 2002 - Huffman, Tanya M.; 2006 - Washington, Tiana; 2061 - Miller, Florine; 2062 - Richardson, Bishop ; 2074 - Darby, Demetrice; 2086 - Pritchett, Christine; 2090 - Mott, Shelita; 2095 - Prevost, Sharlayne; 2145 - do, Christopher; 2146 - Haynes, Tiffany; 2179 - Smith, Sherell Trinca; 2194 - Belton, Orlita M; 3006 - Sowell, Tracie; 3015 - Kampa, Patricia; P08 - Ramirez, Ulysses Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201.

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Respectfully submitted, BROWN WEIMER, LLC Robert T. Weimer, IV, Bar No. 32005 Carley Di Stefano, Bar No. 38722 Hunter J. Forbes, Bar No. 39884 Sarah E. Waguespack, Bar No. 41616 2121 N Causeway Blvd., Suite 200 Metairie, Louisiana 70001 Phone: (504) 561-8700 Fax: (504) 561-8707 robert@brownweimer. com

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a Public, Private Partnership pro‐ ject to operate certain components of Poverty Point State Park and Black Bear Golf Course.

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Dunson Empire LLC, DBA Downtown with TaTa’s applying to the Office Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the state of La for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in Orleans Parish at the following address: 125 Camp St. New Orleans, La 70130. Member: Taricia Dunson 187880-May 16, 1t $87.60

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of New Horizon Learning Academy LLC, whose last known office domicile was 1344 Lake Avenue, Metairie, LA 70005, or its only named Member/Manager, Jamalynn Lewis, please contact Timothy F. Hand, Esq. at (504) 368-1118.

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February 12, 2025, in the full principal sum of $3,000.00 Dollars, bearing interest at the rate of 17.99% per annum, and made payable to UNO FEDERAL CREDIT UNION in 48 equal and consecutive semi-monthly installments of $78.89, including principal and interest, beginning on May 8, 2025, until paid in full.

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BY: ROBERT T. WEIMER, IV 187764-may 16-1t $47.44 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice of Hearings on Proposed 2026-27 Bud‐ gets for the Following Schools: For at least ten calendar days before its Public Hearing, each school’s proposed budget will be available for public in‐ spection online via the school’s website or dur‐ ing school hours in its Main Office at its ad‐ dress below. (Hearings may last approximately one hour) Audubon Schools French and Montessori Education, Inc. Monday, June 1, 11am 3128 Constance St., New Orleans, LA 70115 Warren Easton Charter High School Foundation, Inc – Warren Easton Charter High School Wednesday, June 17, 5pm 3019 Canal St., New Or‐ leans, LA 70119, Library The Young Audiences Charter Association Young Audiences Charter Schools Wednesday, June 17, 5:30pm 1000 Burmaster St., Gretna, LA 70053

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Battery. Date Convicted: 09/05/2007.

14:80 - Carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Date Convicted: 09/05/2007.

My Address is: 7100 HAYNE BLVD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126

a juvenile.

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 9/12/1977 Height: 5'8" Weight: 172 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 278 W ROBERT E LEE BLVD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70124 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 3/14/1989 Height: 5'9" Weight: 210 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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187539, MAY 15-16 $250.00

Louisiana I, DAVID A SHEPHERD, have been convicted of 14-27.33 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 04/24/2019.

State Equivalent: 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery.

My Address is: 2910 LAURIE LN MARRERO, LA 70072 I, DARRYL DOWELL, have been convicted of 14:42.1 - Forcible Rape.

Date Convicted: 10/24/1995.

I, BRETT Robert CRIST, have been convicted of 14:43.1 - Sexual

I, DAMION JACKSON, have been convicted of 948.02(2) - Second Degree Sexual Assault of a Child**.

WISCONSIN. Date Convicted: 04/05/2006.

State Equivalent: 14:80 - Carnal knowledge of

My Address is: 1923 WASHINGTON AVE NEW ORLEANS, LA 70113 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 3/1/1966 Height: 5'5" Weight: 150

Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 5/1/1979 Height: 5'11" Weight: 350 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: HAZEL Scars/Tattoos: NORTH CAROLINA

I, Eddie Lee Jones JR AKA EDDIE JAMES AKA EDDIE LEE JONES AKA EDDY JONES, have been convicted of 11990004 - 22.021(a)(2) (b) PC - Agg Sexual Assault Child (attempted). TEXAS. Date Convicted: 04/27/2011. State Equivalent: 14:43.1 Sexual Battery.

11990004 - 22.021(a)(2) (b) PC - Agg Sexual Assault Child (attempted). TEXAS. Date Convicted: 04/27/2011. .

My Address is: 3018 N ROCHEBLAVE ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 2/10/1987 Height: 5'7" Weight: 180 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN

I, JAMES BALONEY AKA PAPPY, have been convicted of 14:80 Carnal knowledge of a juvenile Sexual Motivation. Date Convicted: 04/09/2012.

My Address is: 16503 CHEF MENTEUR HWY NEW ORLEANS, LA 70129 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 12/26/1978 Height: 5'11" Weight: 225 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 7/26/1959 Height: 5'9" Weight: 205 Hair Color: GRAY Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

187406, MAY 15-16 $250.00

corinne.fox@compass.com www.compass.com/agents/corinne-fox 7934 Maple St. New Orleans, LA 70118 Licensed by the State of Louisiana

My Address is: 4114 OLD GENTILLY RD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 6/12/1988 Height: 5'10" Weight: 170 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: HAZEL Scars/Tattoos:

Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 9/28/1993 Height: 6'2" Weight: 260 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

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Louisiana 187529, MAY 15-16 $250.00

Louisiana 187530, MAY 15-16 $250.00

187531, MAY 15-16 $250.00

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I, Justin Michael Frierson, have been convicted of 14:80 Carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Date Convicted: 02/17/2009.

15:542 - Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 09/24/2025.

My Address is: 3112 ST ROCH AVE NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122

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From the outside, the stately home at 300 Audubon St. is a charming bit of New Orleans architecture that sits comfortably in its Uptown environs.

But the true comfort this elegant home exudes comes out in full force inside, with details and furnishings that are as welcoming as a warm hug on a chilly day.

This level of comfort, renovated in 2023, comes in the form of three bedrooms, two baths, 2,800 square feet and a price just under $1.7 million.

Situated on a corner lot, the side-hall home has a tidy front yard with broad stairs leading up to the house-wide front porch. An arched fanlight over the front door creates a curved element and allows plenty of PROVIDED PHOTOS By JAMES NORTON light into the broad foyer.

In the typical style of a turn- A corner lot is one of the many advantages of the home at 300 of-the-last-century home, the Audubon St., built in 1910 and renovated in 2023. foyer is dominated by a soaring staircase to the upper level and a broad opening to the den.

The den’s formal elegance belies a casual name. Fine millwork creates a finished look at the ceiling, brightly glowing from a quartet of windows, two of which are floor-length, front-facing ones and two that flank a fireplace.

Wood floors ground the space and draw the eye to the next space.

Another large opening leads to the living room, with much the same characteristics as the den. A fireplace and large window ground the space and light the area, with another The arched fanlight over the door lets in natural light that seems to large opening leading to the rise up the stairs in this lofty foyer. dining room and a doorway into the kitchen.

The dining room, a magical and seating area. A decorative design, capturing a vintage spot lined with bookshelves, ceiling adds to the ambiance. feel while boasting contemposits at the end of the hall, sparary conveniences. A square The home’s kitchen is a island with a quartz top procious enough for a dining table prime example of duality of

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Everything old is new again in this kitchen, which holds a wet bar, wine storage and an ice maker, left, as well as the appeal of a rich heritage and the attraction of modern culinary abilities, right. vides seating for two and a generous workspace.

Stainless appliances and appliances masked by a cabinet-matching front are evident throughout. The room also holds a wet bar with wine storage and a lighted glass display. The laundry and half bath are just off the kitchen by the back door and hall, which provides a landing pad for ar-

rivals into the home.

The second floor opens onto a house-traversing hall that leads to the front balcony and a back sitting room.

Two bedrooms on the hall, each with fireplaces and abundant windows, share a bath that evokes fine European spa style, with a large soaking tub, intricate tilework and a vanity fashioned from vintage-style

furniture.

The primary bedroom’s sleeping chamber is a cocooning space with broad windows that allow plenty of natural light.

Double doors lead into the bath with its marble glassfront shower room and a vanity that speaks of French antique elegance.

The walk-in closet for the

primary suite is located in the hall just outside the sitting room.

An L-shaped configuration is the format for the walled backyard space, a wonderland of sectors for all sorts of outdoor fun. A terrace with a wrought-iron balcony sports a checkerboard pattern tile floor, with plenty of room for al fresco culinary adventures.

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The checkerboard pattern continues on the walkways through the pebbled space, framed by mature greenery in beds and pots.

A raised pool, with a Romanesque wall and fountain feature, sits in its own space, with large trellises bearing privacy providing greenery.

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Set into the L-shape is the off-street parking for two vehicles.

The house also features a climate-controlled carpeted attic, generator, irrigation system and elevator.

The home is listed by Cat Wilkinson, of French Quarter Realty, (504) 458-3088.

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The den is a sunlit space with four windows, including two on the front of the house.

A French antique provides the vanity in the primary bath, with a large marble walk-in shower beckoning for relaxation and rejuvenation.

The upstairs balcony is a great spot for morning coffee, evening cocktails or midday day dreaming.

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INSIDE INFO BK House celebrates style with tablescaping

Dining by Design will return to the historic BK House, 1113 Chartres St., at 5:30 p.m.

Sunday with elaborate and imaginative dining and floral creations by more than a dozen locals. Cuisine will be provided by Pigeon Catering and Events, plus libations and live music.

The event raises funds to support the preservation and restoration of the French Quarter house’s art, textiles and ephemera.

Tickets start at $150. Visit bkhouse.org.

Learn about native garden certification Wendy Rihner, a board member of the New Orleans Native Plant Initiative, will discuss the steps to get home gardens certified native at 7 p.m. Sunday at Central St. Matthew United Church of Christ, 1333 S. Carrollton Ave. The free program is sponsored by the Delta chapter of the Sierra Club.

For information, visit sierraclub.org.

Bromeliad show and sale set for Lakeside The River Ridge Bromeliad Society will be out in full bloom under the skylight near Macy’s at Lakeside Shopping Center for its annual three-day show and sale.

Hundreds of plants will be on display, and many varieties will be for sale from noon to 8 p.m. May 22, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

May 23 and noon to 3 p.m.

May 24. Members will also be on hand to answer questions about the tropical flowering plants.

For information, call (504) 495-0371.

Group putting orchids on display Plenty of vendors are setting up for the New Orleans Orchid Society’s annual show and sale at Lakeside Shopping Center

The New Orleans Orchid Society is hosting its annual show and sale May 29-31 at Lakeside Shopping Center in Metairie.

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The show is from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. May 29, noon to 9 p.m.

May 30 and noon to 4:30 p.m.

May 31. Judging will take place Saturday morning by the American Orchid Society.

For information, visit neworleansorchidsociety.org.

Orleans residents can get free wood chips The city will be distributing free wood chips to Orleans Parish residents from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday through May 30 at 1 Green Parade Lane.

The Department of Parks and Parkways, which generates the chips from routine tree-trimming operations, is continuing its efforts to divert green waste from local landfills and promote sustainable practices.

This initiative supports the city’s broader sustainability goals while providing a practical benefit to residents. n Chips are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

n Residents must bring their own loading supplies, including shovels, gloves, bags, containers and any other necessary equipment. n Staff will not be able to assist with loading.

For information, follow the department on Instagram or Facebook.

Home research seminar slated June 20 by FOC The Friends of the Cabildo will help get homeowners on the road to learning about the history of local properties June 20 at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in the Old U.S. Mint, 400 Esplanade Ave. Tulane University architecture lecturer Robert J. Cangelosi Jr. will present “Researching Your New Orleans Property,” an in-depth seminar about historic dwellings and their lineages, including how to find primary sources rather than using oral traditions and secondary sources, and preparing a “chain of title.” Documents showing the ownership

of a property, can in theory, go as far back as the early 1700s during the French Colonial period.

The class will be at 10 a.m. in-person and live on Zoom.

Tickets start at $25. To join the class or for information, call (504) 523-3939 or visit friendsofthecabildo.org.

Volunteer projects abound at City Park A variety of cleanup days and initiatives are on tap at City Park to improve and maintain the extensive urban green space. Those coming up include: n Urban Forest Support Initiative:

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9 a.m. Saturday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Litter Cleanup Krewe: 9 a.m.

Tuesday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n City Bark Painting Project: 9 a.m.

Tuesday. 10 Magnolia Drive.

Work with park staff on the shelter building and pergola. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project: 9 a.m. Friday. Big Lake Native Trail near 7 Friedrichs Ave. Register for the programs and find out about what to bring at friendsofcitypark. volunteerhub.com.

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KEEP PALM AND CARRY ON: If you want to plant palms in your landscape, the best time is May through August. Palms establish best when planted in warm soil. Select hardier palms that survive severe freezes, such as cabbage or sabal palm (Sabal palmetto), windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei), Chinese fan palm (Livistona chinensis), Mediterranean fan palm (Chamaerops humilis), jelly palm (Butia capitata), Canary Island date palm (Phoenix canariensis), date palm (Phoenix dactylifera), palmetto (Sabal minor) and needle palm (Rhapidophyllum hystrix).Always ask how hardy a palm is before you purchase it.This is particularly important when planting palms on the northshore. Ideally, palms should be hardy down to 15 degrees.

REACH OUT: If you are having insect or disease problems in your landscape or vegetable gardens, be sure to get the proper diagnosis and determine what, if anything, should be done. For help, contact your local LSU AgCenter extension horticulturists by email. Find your parish horticulturist’s name and email address by typing — LSU AgCenter and your parish name — into a search engine.

Find the horticulturist in the staff listing and use their email address to contact them.

GET YOUR FILL: Soil subsidence may require fill to occasionally be spread over the lawn area.This is especially common on the south shore of the New Orleans area. Filling over lawns can be done now through August. Use a sandy soil, like pump sand or river sand (avoid spillway sand due to weed issues like torpedograss).Where the fill is deeper than 2 inches, you may have to replace the grass.

STAY DRY: Try to avoid wetting the foliage of plants prone to leaf diseases, like vegetables, bedding plants and roses.Wetting the foliage encourages fungal diseases to attack.

A garden floods after a hard rain.

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A heavy shower can harm plants in the garden

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wet climate. Rain events that drop several inches of water are not all that uncommon. The recent heavy rains and street flooding certainly reminded us of this.

Our rainy climate has a profound effect on gardening in southeast Louisiana. It determines the plants we can grow in our

Rain droplets cover a rose.

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Tree production may slow after large fruit harvest

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spring, leaving a one-inch stubble. The monkey grass will recover from this, but it is hard on the plants to produce a second flush of growth. It may not come back as thick.

But over time, it will fill in and thicken up.

My amaryllises have finished blooming, and I have removed the old flower stalks. They are starting to produce new green leaves. Do I leave them in their pots, or do I remove and store them? — Andrea Do not remove and store them. Continue to water and STAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD care for them. They need the

Contributing writer I have a persimmon tree over 25 years old. It is an astringent type that must be soft to eat. Last year, it produced more perGarden simmons than ever before, at least 100. advice This year, I fertilized the tree in late February. The tree looks great, but it flowered very little, and I don’t see any fruit. I am puzzled why it is not producing a crop this year. What do you think? — Steve This is likely a matter of overproduction last year. When a fruit tree produces an unusually large crop, it depletes its resources. As a result, the tree may not produce the next year as it builds back up. Your persimmon tree should produce a good crop next year.

I have dallisgrass growing in my St. Augustine lawn. What is the best way to control it? — Herbie There are three options for controlling dallisgrass in St. Augustine.

1. Physical control. Use a shovel to dig out individual dallisgrass plants. Be sure to dig down and get the roots and rhizomes. This is labor intensive but can be effective for light infestations.

2. Spot treatment with glyphosate (Killzall, Eraser Grass and Weed Killer).

Glyphosate is nonselective and will also kill St. Augustine grass. Apply this just to the dallisgrass, getting as little as possible on the St. Augustine.

If some of the lawn grass is killed in the spot, the surrounding grass will grow back into small dead spots. But if you must kill a larger area of these weeds, you should consider removing the dead weeds and laying sod over the area. This will quickly repair the damage. An area that stays bare of grass for an extended period is an invitation to weeds.

3. There are no highly effective selective herbicides that will kill dallisgrass without hurting the St. Augustine.

When a fruit tree like persimmon produces an unusually large crop, it depletes its resources. As a result, the tree may not produce the next year as it builds back up.

Celsius herbicide is most often recommended for suppression of dallisgrass in St. Augustine. Plan on making three applications following label directions. You may just spray individual plants or patches of dallisgrass. This weed killer will also control a wide variety of lawn weeds and can be used through the summer despite high temperatures.

The ends of my monkey grass have turned brown. How far back should I cut them? — Rosemary The best time to cut back monkey grass (Ophiopogon

japonicum) to remove unattractive foliage and rejuvenate the plants is late February or early March, before new spring growth. At that time, we cut it back near the soil and let the new growth come up. At this point, the new growth has already occurred.

You have two options. You can just trim enough to remove the brown ends of the leaves.

The monkey grass would look better, and it preserves the spring growth. Or you can cut back the monkey grass the way we would do in early

summer growing season to bloom next spring. Move the pots to a protected area during winter anytime temperatures below the upper 20s are predicted. They will bloom again next year around April.

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.

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GREEN THUMB RAINS

VICTORIA ZANGARA

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But when heavy rains occur over several consecutive Continued from page 8 days, the soil tends to stay wet over an extended period.

Plant roots need oxygen to be healthy, and when the pore Periods of heavy or frequent spaces are filled with water for rainfall can have a negative efa lengthy period, the roots suffect on plants.

The upper parts of plants fer and do not work properly. don’t really mind the rain all A sick root system leads to a that much, although we do see sick plant. an increase in the number of This can also occur in foliar fungal diseases during container plants if they are wet weather. This is because watered too frequently or the the spores of most fungi that drainage holes get stopped up, infect leaves need a film of liqpreventing excess water from Snails and slugs thrive and draining out of the soil. uid water to sprout and cause reproduce rapidly during rainy Wet soil conditions also enan infection. weather and will chew holes in courage The more leaves stay dry, water molds (such leaves and flowers. the less opportunity there is as Phytophthora, Pythium for fungal infections to ocand Rhizoctonia) to attack the roots or crown of a plant and cur. The more the leaves stay Although the upper plant wet, such as during periods of parts can deal with rainy peri- cause rot. Root or crown rot can cause wilting, scorched or frequent rain, the more likely ods well, the roots are where brown leaves, leaf drop, diefungal spores will land on the most problems occur. Excesleaves, sprout and cause infecback or even kill plants. sively wet soil (especially Once infection occurs, combined with warm temperations. tures) can create stressful, and little can be done to help a Wet and dry potentially destructive, condi- plant. Plants with succulent stems, such as impatiens tions for the roots of bedding This is why gardening techplants, perennials, vegetables, and begonias; those that like niques that tend to discourshrubs and even trees — espe- cooler temperatures, such as age foliar fungal infections geraniums and dianthus; and include: cially newly planted ones. those that prefer drier, well1. Irrigating plants using After it rains, the soil is devices that apply the water to saturated — pore spaces in the drained soils, such as Indian the soil while leaving the foliSTAFF FILE PHOTOS By CHRIS GRANGER soil, which usually hold air, are hawthorns, rosemary and Texas sage (Leucophyllum filled with water. Normally, age dry, such as soaker hoses Irrigation lines help send water to the roots while keeping the frutescens) are particularly gravity quickly pulls the exor drip irrigation. foliage dry. susceptible.

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GREEN THUMB Leaf edges or entire branches may turn brown, and a bush may yellow and drop leaves.

Shrubs showing these symptoms may ultimately be lost, but prompt soil aeration in the root zone could help in some cases.

Using a garden fork, drive the tines straight down into the soil about 8 inches and pull straight out in numerous places around the shrubs. Do not dig with the fork, but make as many holes as seems practical.

This technique provides air to the roots and encourages the soil to dry faster. A metal rod or wooden dowel could also be used to make the holes.

Diseases and pests Fungal diseases that attack the foliage of many plants are also encouraged by rainy weather. Black spot disease on roses is more common after rainy weather, but resilient landscape roses, like Knock Out roses, Peggy Martin roses and Drift roses, will recover without treatment. Cercospora leaf spot on crape myrtles will likely show up in the coming weeks as a result of recent rain and cause leaf drop.

Lawn diseases, such as gray leaf spot and brown patch, thrive in wet weather and are bound to be more active if we continue to get abundant rain.

Leaf spots and fruit rots are likely to be more prevalent in vegetable gardens as well.

Snails and slugs thrive and reproduce rapidly during rainy weather. These pesky critters chew holes in leaves and flowers and are particularly fond of soft-leaved plants such as impatiens, begonias and hostas.

Properly applied baits can be very helpful in control efforts.

Choose products that contain iron phosphate, as it is safer and less toxic than other types.

You can even place a bowl buried up to its rim in the ground and fill it half full of beer to attract and trap many snails and slugs.

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Rain encourages growth of mushrooms, and the fungi that produce them, but they are not harmful to your lawn or other plants in your yard.

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PHOTOS By JEFF STROUT

Brian Steffey, left, and Zeren Badar bought the Marigny circa 1850s home that once belonged to sisters Nita and Zita, Hungarian burlesque dancers who rose to international fame in the 1920s.

‘A kind of

destiny’ Couple finds the perfect home in eclectic Creole cottage

BY JYL BENSON

Contributing writer

Known as Nita and Zita, Flora and Piroska Gellert were Hungarian-Jewish immigrant sisters who were celebrated internationally in the 1920s as burlesque dancers.

They left Hungary in 1922 to escape rising antisemitism and to pursue artistic freedom and opportunity.

At one time, they lived on 46th Street in New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood. But beginning in 1948, they lived as reclusive,

eccentric artists in a Creole cottage on Dauphine Street in the Faubourg Marigny.

They painted their house top to bottom with flowers and polka dots and surrounded themselves with photos from their dancing days.

The home, now owned by spouses Zeren Badar and Brian Steffey, will be one of seven residences featured Sunday on The Faubourg Marigny Improvement Association’s 50th annual Home & Garden Tour.

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To design the lush backyard garden, Steffey collaborated with a team from Roussel Outdoors.

ABOVE: Builder Jonathan Rubenstein retained the bargeboard from the home that once stood on the property, incorporating it throughout the new residence, including on the skirt of this seated quartzite waterfall island. The stools are from Blu Dot. LEFT: The French doors in the Badar-Steffey home were salvaged from the house that originally stood on the property. Builder Jonathan Rubenstein used salvaged hardwood flooring from another source throughout the home.

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Badar sought furnishings like those in the living space with clean midcentury modern lines from sources such as Design Within Reach, CB2, West Elm, One Kings Lane and Blu Dot. Local resources include Merchant House and Consign Consign.

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Continued from page 12 Like the sisters, who were featured in a 2025 documentary, Badar and Steffey also lived in Hell’s Kitchen for many years. In 2023, they bought the Creole cottage once occupied by the sisters, who lived there until Flora died in 1985 and Piroska died in 1991.

Badar is an internationally celebrated conceptual artist.

He immigrated to New York City from his native Imir, Turkey, in 2001 to learn English.

Steffey, now retired, moved to New York City from his native Clearwater, Florida, in 1986 after graduating from Vanderbilt Law School. He was in search of a community that would accept him as a gay man working in a conservative legal profession.

Badar went for a traditional look in Steffey’s home office. He refrained from hanging a piece of art over the golden-hued glasscloth-covered wall behind the sofa, preferring to allow its luminous nature to serve as a focal point. He and Steffey disagree on this design decision.

“I worked for a huge law firm, and all of the gay lawyers were still in the closet,” Steffey said. “They all brought women with them to company

events. Being gay was still so unaccepted back then.”

The couple met six months after Badar arrived in the Big Apple. They were at a bar

Badar’s home office and studio retain the clean lines and minimalist look of the rest of the home. where Badar would go to practice his English.

“I arrived in May and was

more or less married in December,” Badar said. The couple officially married in

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Bargeboard from the original property is used for the ledges and built-in bench seat in this open space, which Badar uses for reading and reflection.

Vertically oriented high-gloss subway tiles were used in the generous guest bathroom, which features accents of the ancient bargeboard from the house that previously occupied the site. Is it a wonder that guests check in for a visit and tend to linger?

2010, immediately following the legalization of same-sex marriage in Connecticut.

The couple moved to New Orleans because they wanted a home with a garden, and they loved the city’s open, welcoming nature. They still retain an apartment in New York.

“It’s so weird,” Badar said.

“It feels like we have a kind of destiny with Nita and Zita.”

It’s not what it appears to be Badar and Steffey bought their circa 1850, four-bay double Creole cottage from builder Jonathan Rubenstein.

From the curb, the home looks like one of hundreds of its style that dot the New Orleans landscape.

But the story changes when you open the front door.

When Rubenstein bought the home with the intention of renovating it to sell, the house was in such deplorable condition that he was able to convince the Historic District Landmarks Commission to allow demolition of everything but the front facade and for him to rebuild to the governing body’s specifications.

Rubenstein’s evolution of the property was painstaking and of great quality and thought.

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INFORMATION: thefmia.org He retained all the salvageable exterior doors, louvered shutters and bargeboard construction materials from the original house and used them to construct the new one, which he augmented with salvaged hardwood flooring from other sources.

He eschewed the use of decorative trim and molding on the interior of the home, except for minimal baseboards.

This allowed the greatly aged bargeboard and wooden French doors, repurposed as raw-edged floating shelving, to stand out in the two parlors used as living rooms.

The house still appears to be a double from the curb, yet functions as a single-family home.

Badar is responsible for the interior design, while Steffey created the lushly textured, secretive tropical garden at the rear of the home.

Badar left the walls throughout the home in the warm white Rubenstein chose. It allows the natural, unfinished wood and the colorful nature of Badar’s artwork to radiate.

He sought furnishings with clean midcentury modern lines from sources such as Design Within Reach, CB2, West Elm, One Kings Lane and Blu Dot. Local resources include Merchant House and Consign Consign.

To design the garden, Steffey collaborated with a team from Roussel Outdoors, which was responsible for its instal-

Badar kept the walls the same warm white chosen by the builder.

It offsets the home’s clean lines and the abundance of natural wood. The dining table and chairs are from Design Within Reach. lation. The sanctuary includes specimens of Loropetalum, Japanese maple, sedum, Peggy Martin roses, American holly trees, star jasmine, dusty miller, Japanese yew, foxtail fern, fruit trees, iris and a variety of colorful bedding plants. A hedge of bamboo is kept contained in a sunken concrete planter.

“This is the perfect house for us,” Steffey said. “It has

four bedrooms: one for my office, one for Zeren’s studio, one for us and one for guests, which sometimes tend to stay for a while. The bathroom is en suite, which is unusual for many of our guests from New York, so they tend to get comfortable and stick around.”

Jyl Benson writes about homes and gardens. Email her at jylbenson@gmail.com.

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CAREE A pet trainer’s approach to a happier household

BY JYL BENSON

Contributing writer Mine is a family of devoted, if inconsistent, pet parents to rescue mutts, so my home is where the inmates run the asylum. We are happy and used to this, and our sibling littermate dogs, is our fault, not Singleton’s, whom I regard as Mazie and Hooch (both mixes of, in this order, Staffordshire terrier, shar-pei, beagle, Jack Rus- a miracle worker and a master of his trade. InsideOut talked to him regarding how to live with sell terrier and rat terrier), live lives of luxury. dogs without them driving you bananas.

A problem arose a couple of years ago when “They have a communication that we do not Hooch, a 55-pound brick, got off leash and, for understand,” he said. hours, refused to acknowledge his CANIS Singleton became certified in canine own name or come out from under a psychology and training at Lone Star neighbor’s house except for an occaINTEGRATED College in Texas under the guidance sional jaunt through rush-hour traffic TRAINING of Anthony “Mr. Pawsitive” Bruins. on Tchoupitoulas Street. This was a He had a lengthy career in animal rehair-raising experience, so we sought By appointment search at LSU and as a microbiologist professional help. only Enter KC Singleton, of Canis Intespecializing in rabies for Houston.

He started Canis Integrated Traingrated Training.

(504) 356-2259 “Yes, Hooch is neurotic and intense,” canisintegrated ing in 2014 after studying the behavior Singleton confirmed. of 400 dog breeds and achieved imtraining.com.

Long story short, with a bit of work, mediate success. He works with pets we were able to get Hooch to more in homes and at his training facility in or less refrain from busting a move out of our Gentilly. front gate. When he does, he usually comes right How should a homeowner choose a dog? back when called. Mazie, a 23-pound gazelle of Research the psychology of the breeds that a creature, is obstinate, escapes whenever poscatch your eye. Your environment must be conducive to your animal’s overall care. Yard space, sible and wears an air tag on her collar, but that secure enclosure, housing, availability for walkis another story.

We are not the greatest success story, but that ing, grooming, training and affordability. Get

ABOVE: Get a dog that fits your lifestyle: high-energy breeds for athletic people or low-energy dogs for less active people.

PHOTO By JyL BENSON

LEFT: KC Singleton works with a dog at Canis Integrated Training.

PROVIDED PHOTO By CANIS INTEGRATED TRAINING

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When your dogs get the message that you are in control, you can let them do way more, says dog trainer KC Singleton. a dog that fits your lifestyle: high-energy breeds for athletic people or low-energy dogs for less active people.

When picking out a puppy, pick the pup that is confident, happy, follows you and can be held in place without complaint. Never pick the pup that is standoffish or runs from loud sounds and doesn’t come back.

Most people allow dogs into their homes without building structure and boundaries first.

Dogs have a pack order. Stop giving dogs food without allowing them to wait and sit or lie down before approaching the food bowl. Stop allowing dogs to approach people without permission from you. Stop letting dogs go into every part of the house as if they owned it. Stop feeding dogs table scraps. Stop giving treats if they aren’t working for them.

When they get the message that you are in control, you can let your dog do way more.

My dog can do whatever she wants in my house because she followed the rules. I have nothing chewed, no potty accidents, no jumping on guests and no barking unnecessarily.

What about furniture? What about digging in flower beds?

Only allow them on furniture or in rooms after they have agreed to your rules.

Invite them on furniture and in rooms only if they behave properly. If you don’t want destructive behavior, don’t give them things to destroy. Let them know what toys are for them from day one and find toys they really love. Reward them when they pick up only their toys, just like rewarding them during potty time.

If you want your dog to spend time outside, set rules, potty in one area, stay out of flower beds and don’t chase the neighbors or dogs along the fence. Address this behavior early and reward them with their favorite toy when they listen to you. This can help reduce unwanted behaviors, such as digging, by keeping their minds busy. Find a spot in the yard with new toys that require long chewing sessions. This should keep them from digging, but if your yard has many ground-dwelling insects, stopping them will be difficult.

What about separation anxiety?

Teach independence so that anxiety isn’t an issue. Dogs communicate with us and ask for things all the time — you must listen and be ready to interpret their behavior.

Jyl Benson writes about homes and gardens. Email her at jylbenson@gmail.com.

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GOVERNOR NICHOLLS ST. 1805: $345,000, Melissa Ann Britton Quackenbush to Justine Marion Crowley Clark.

N. SCOTT ST. 215: $290,000, Madeline G. Kaplow and Margaret Jannetti Kaplow to Khari Parrish.

N. TONTI ST. 1221-23: $950,000, Robert Israel and Scott Edward Veazey to Patrick Niddrie and Sarah Woodward Niddrie.

ORLEANS AVE. 3220: $271,000, Jason G. Grudzien and Renee Karen Grudzien to Briana Elise Whetstone.

ORLEANS AVE. 3222: $300,000, Jaimee Landry Boyd and Kenneth S. Boyd to Jason G. Grudzien and Renee Smith Grudzien.

ST. ANN ST. 1723: $50,000, Deidra Rouzan Williams and Gregory D. Williams to Johnell Williams.

ST. CHARLES AVE. 828: $485,000, Mona Dionisio Nelson and Stephen Lewis Nelson Jr. to Faubourg LLC. ST. PETER ST. 1022: $1,035,000, Kathryn Anne Lemoine Leblanc to Suzanne Harper Dildy.

ST. PETER ST. 2912-2914: $290,000, Dumaine Project LLC to Lisa Ann Ginardi.

TOULOUSE ST. 537-539: $175,000, 539-A Toulouse LLC to Jane Lee Foster and Lantz P. Foster.

TOULOUSE ST. 605-07: $957,500, Bastille Holdings LLC to Zhao Massage LLC.

DISTRICT 3 ALDEN PLACE 128: $218,000, Alton R. Eaglin and Kiren Devon Leggins Eaglin to Coty Lovelady.

AMERICA ST. 4631: $60,000, 4631 America St. LLC to Benjamin Alan Sloane.

ä See ORLEANS, page 18

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Continued from page 17 ANDOVER DRIVE 9761, MEANS AVE. 7621: donation, no value stated, Brock Anthony Boult to Brock Anthony Boult revocable trust.

ANNETTE ST. 1230-32: $280,000, Silviano Properties LLC to Ernest B. Garcia Jr. AVON PARK BLVD. 7631: $85,000, Mary W. Green and Willie Ethel Trask to Roderick H. Muhammad.

BONITA DRIVE 4501-4503: $44,000, Ireon Smith and Victoria Smith to Celestine Management Enterprises LLC. BRUXELLES ST. 3738-3740: $532,000, Piedmont Properties LLC to Michael Asante.

CERNAY ST. 4943: donation, no value stated, Denis B. Lagos Guerrero to Katherine F. Flores Martinez.

CHADBOURNE DRIVE 7210: $24,500, Barker Investors to CM&LRM Investment Properties LLC. CHAMBERLAIN DRIVE 5835: $320,000, Alexandria C. Toepfer and Jeremy G. Toepfer to Meghan Christine Schmitt and Taylor Cole Schmitt.

CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 10600: $100, FDI Postal Properties I Inc. to Chef Menteur Investments LLC. CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 21880: $55,000, Eugenie Gutierrez Killian and Robert J. Killian Jr. to Nathan Luong and Truc Luong.

CURRAN ROAD 13337: $120,754, RCF2 Acquisition Trust to David Blanton.

DESIRE ST. 1713-1715: $235,000,

Timothy John Lasalle to Daniel Cardillo and Dororthy Cardillo.

DORCHESTER ST. 6721: $209,000, Danielle D. Perrilloux Castro and Ramon Castro Jr. to Leisa White.

EASTERN ST. 4462: $235,000, Gary Don Myers and Kimberly Oglesbee Myers to Baily Milligan Kossover and Harrison A. Kossover.

ELMIRA ST. 724, GALLIER ST. 724: $280,000, Marion Jack Williams to Jordan Mitchell Gewirtz and Kathleen Tackett Pope Gewirtz.

FAIRMONT DRIVE 3646: $80,000, Bernard L. Eckholdt III to Perry J. Courseault.

FILMORE AVE. 1310: $290,000, Angelina Uddo Lenfant, Ashley Lenfant Casey, Brian Louis Lenfant, Laurie Lenfant Smith and Louis O. Lenfant to Betty Jo McCall and Gregory Gansar.

FILMORE AVE. 1479: $199,000, Atosha Haynes to Cynthia Ann Cole Tice.

FRANKLIN AVE. 2534: $50,000, Succession of Jenevieve Brown to Kenberly Hester Barahona Gomez and Wilder Leonel Sanchez Melara.

GALLIER ST. 1332-34: $422,000, Brian Allen Monk and Lily Sundari Santoso Monk to Lee Miller Buuck Whitfield.

GLADIOLUS ST. 2560: $157,000, Mary Dale Marcomb Ross and Walter L. Roy Ross to Joseph Earl Ferguson.

GRANADA DRIVE 1335: $248,900, Loyce Annette Frilot Bradshaw to Jonique L. Landry and Tyrone Landry Jr. HENRIETTE DELILLE ST. 1124-1126: $157,000, MJ Falgoust Inc. to 1124 Henriette Delille Street Industries LLC. JAY ST. 1301: $680,000, Daniel Paul Jenkins to Jack Dyer Clark III.

LADY GRAY ST. 7638: $192,500, Good Funds LLC to Estelle Eliska Labry Howard.

LAFAYE ST. 5126: donation, no value stated, Ella M. Oliver to Ella M. Oliver irrevocable trust.

LINDEN ST. 13901-03: $178,000, Peaches Martin Robinson to Charde M. Gross.

MARIGNY ST. 1314-16: $144,000, Darlene Perkins Howard, Doris Williams Perkins, Michelle D. Perkins and Pamela Ann Perkins to Adam Chase Parker.

METROPOLITAN ST. 3855: $95,000, Sheakliann Marie Calhoun to Cameron Davis A. Dewald.

MONTEGUT ST. 831-833: $450,000, David Ian Brooks to Luke J. Koeferl.

MONTEGUT DRIVE 4869: donation, $10 and other valuable consideration, Oliver Reed III to Oliver Reed IV. MORRISON ROAD 10803: $140,000, Gerard Doris and Kimberly Wilcher Doris to Ma Del Carmen Mvienez Segura.

MUSIC ST. 4619: $245,000, Alice J. Bordelon and Ray Edward Bordelon to Linden Francesca Impellizzeri Wakeling.

MUSIC ST. 5942: donation, no value stated, Alan Paul Weiss Maxwell to Nathaniel Maxwell Weiss.

NEW ORLEANS ST. 4701: $305,000, Stephen Fitzpatrick Bond to Anne Marie Lumene Regis, Brittney Regis Ammons, Gilbert Pierre Paul Regis and Jamie Anna Marie Ammons Regis.

NEW YORK ST. 2401: $36,000, Daryl Womack Jr. to Hawkland LLC. N. RAMPART ST. 2538: $1,630,000, Jane Boisdore Rinck Living Trust to Eliana M. McCaffery Chanez and Hugo L. Chanez.

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BARONNE ST. 2410: $170,000, Baronne LLC to Randall Lee Jordan.

CARONDELET ST. 2601: $90,000, Mary Smith Boname to Benjamin Johnson.

JACKSON AVE. 3404-06: $385,000, RB Property Investment Group LLC to Tais Yamiles Valdez Rondon.

PRYTANIA ST. 1916: $195,000, Kelly M. Najar to Andrew Preston

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N. RAMPART ST. 3032: $490,500, Ross Howard Garber to Marcia Fenchak Wiedefeld and Paul Jerome Wiedefeld.

PAUGER ST. 4810: $360,000, Nida Lonatro and Terry A. Lonatro to Allie Nicole Dantin Touchet.

ROYAL ST. 4213: $530,000, Clifton Wayne Hankins, Clinton Shane Hankins and Dwelling Resources Inc. to Laura Kate Legge and Walter David Roof.

SAGE ST. 2509-2511: $220,000, Keith Michael Crawford to Shannon Marie Savage.

ST. ANTHONY ST. 4501: donation, no value stated, Edward Ellis Goins Jr., Irene Katrinka Goins Bradley and Katrice Goins Haisley to Krystal Goins Bush.

SPAIN ST. 523-25: $280,000, Stephanie S. Dreher to ZCE Three LLC. SYBIL ST. 4347: $108,000, Nabeel Hafeel and Niranjala Wijekoon Hafeel to Ben Property LLC. TENNESSEE ST. 2644: $15,000, Shelly Coleman Howard and Shirley Johnson Coleman to Mark Sanders.

VANDERKLOOT AVE. 7726: $95,000, Joyce Frazier to IPF22 LLC. WALES ST. 7701: $176,500, Albert E. Fly and Belinda Vickers Fly to Pedro David Maradiaga Nunez.

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ST. CHARLES AVE. 2100, UNIT 7-A: $215,000, Hema Ravichandran and Ravichandran Shanmugam to Monique Carmouche and Richard Kyle Carmouche.

ST. THOMAS ST. 2615, UNIT 2615: $370,000, Edward Cannon Ledford to Jonathan McCaslin and Michelle C. McCaslin Cinquigranno.

DISTRICT 5 BACCHUS DRIVE 2841: $169,000, Antoinette Johnson Green and Charles W. Green Jr. to Cherys Walker.

BACCHUS DRIVE 3101: $179,900, Diamond Investment Properties LLC to Pierra Harris.

BOUNY ST. 419: $400,000, Kex Design + Build LLC to Patrick Washington.

BOUNY ST. 621, 623: $165,000, Maria A. Fuertes Andurand Dabasse and Pablo G. Dabasse to Max Velazquez Madison.

EASTER LANE 2020: $124,000, Gloria Jeanne Ingersoll and Laurie Ingersoll Allsbrook to Trinity Holdings Wy LLC. ENGLISH TURN DRIVE 117, 123: donation, no value stated, Audrey Duncan Hampton to Dah Family Private Trust.

FLANDERS ST. 1231-1233: $250,000, Dominique Wright to Albaney Shakara Royal.

GALLATIN ST. 4621: $50,000, Melissa Alvarado to Selvin Mejia.

LENNOX BLVD. 4450: $385,000, Sue Williams Lippert to Derek Schroeder.

PACIFIC AVE. 613: $215,000, Elizabeth Mychal Schaeffer to Kurt Bryning.

PELICAN AVE. 1420-1422, UNIT A: $195,000, Edward R. Hogan to Ale Investments LLC. PINE VALLEY DRIVE 131: $40,000, Dream Big Properties LLC to Thu Le Anh Tran.

SHIRLEY DRIVE 1413: $92,700, Martha Tinoco Nassar to Linda Pollard Cooper and Philip Cooper III. SOMERSET DRIVE 2331: $179,000, Carmen Cristina Anzalone Taylor to Chloe Beth Gress.

WESTPARK COURT 148: $39,003, Peggy Ann Woods Stamp to Francis Marbella Almendarez Silva Reyes and Ramon Santiago Oliva Reyes.

WILLOW ROAD 11219: $175,000, Jacquelyn and Henry Relayson revocable trust to RBJF LLC.

DISTRICT 6 ALINE ST. 905: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Christopher S. Ziluca to David H. Hector and Mary Lucy Lapeyre.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS ANNUNCIATION ST. 4716: $322,500, Jillan Scahill Farrell and Timothy Farrell to Jennifer Nichole McCarthy.

ANNUNCIATION ST. 5313-15: $950,000, Jacob T. Springfield and Jennifer M. John Block to Samuel Righi and Shannon Esher Righi.

BROADWAY ST. 1813-1815: $750,000, Daniel R. Hughes III and Hughes Legacy Holdings LLC to James H. Miller Trust.

CONSTANCE ST. 3608-10: $299,000, Richard William Jacobs to Elle Properties LLC. DELACHAISE ST. 2226-28: $380,000, Jessica Wilkinson Glatzer and Nicholas Glatzer to Amy Connor Flores and Jason L. Connor Flores.

DELACHAISE ST. 3025: $70,000, Abaeo Frein Pokorn LLC to Meixin Wu and Xiuzhen Wu. DELACHAISE ST. 3027: $70,000, Abaeo Frein Pokorn LLC to Dandan Wu. DRYADES ST. 3806: $1,329,000, Mochon Development LLC to John Weirich and Sara Bruce Weirich.

ELEONORE ST. 630: $802,000, Brett King and Shiva Sadri King to Lisa Martina Bonfield.

GENERAL PERSHING ST. 1424: $975,000, 1424 General Pershing LLC to Kimberly Ann Bell.

HURST ST. 5920: $100, Keith James Deshautreaux and Stephanie Harkness Deshautreaux to Godfrey Bruce Parkerson and Jennifer M. Parkerson.

JOSEPH ST. 2433: donation, no value stated, Eric L. Lifschitz and John Gormley to 2015 John Gormley and Eric L. Lifschitz revocable trust.

LAUREL ST. 3654-56: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Leslie E. Smith, Pamella E. Bouie and Senais L. Edwards Jr. to Nola Buys Houses LLC. MARENGO ST. 1039: donation, no value stated, David St. Pe to Svetlana Ilie St. Pe. PITT ST. 5343: $1,425,000, Ann Cahill Casbon and John N. Casbon to Michelle Smith.

ST. CHARLES AVE. 4007: $219,000, Arnold G. Fontana Jr. to Gracewater LLC. STATE ST. 2616: $585,000, Amy Breen Johnson and Todd Bennett Johnson Jr. to SSB Vacations LLC. WEBSTER ST. 1206-08: $100 and other good and valuable consideration, Cameron C. Gamble and Nancy Witherspoon Gamble to Mary A. Santina Andronaco and Peter Andronaco.

DISTRICT 7 14TH ST. 152: $615,000, Fabiana Frazier to Elizabeth A. Boyd

Moussa and Moussa Ahmed Ibrahim Moussa.

20TH ST. 431: $395,000, Margaret A. Brame to Ashton Queyrouze and Carley Katzenstein Queyrouze.

DOMINICAN ST. 7828-30: $524,000, Scott Boyd Herlihy to Ann K. Wall.

GENERAL OGDEN ST. 1808-1810: $70,000, Althea Valtoria Thompson Galloway, Anya Cherie Johnson, Elaine Thompson Williams, Evangeline Antoine Thompson, Norwood Thompson Jr. Estate, Theada Virginia Thompson, Vanessa D. Landry Rogers and Wayne Joseph Landry to Jose Guadalupe Hernandez Guerra and Leonidas A. Dubon Pineda.

GENERAL OGDEN ST. 2510: $55,000, Bruce Wendell Norcise, Tyrus Ryan Norcise and Veronica Ann Harney to Eldridge Pollard.

HILLARY ST. 1417: $482,500, Teresa M. Kenny to Ronald Scot Lyle.

MONTICELLO AVE. 2817: $20,000, Helen Gray Hagan to 2718 Monticello LLC and 2817 Monticello LLC. OLEANDER ST. 9220: donation, no value stated, Rodney Nmi Smith and Roger Nmi Smith to Donnell Carroll Jr. PLUM ST. 8317: $290,000, David Branden Terribile and Madelyne Coyle Terribile to Sarah E. Nelson Andrus.

STAFFORD PLACE 320, 330: $455,000, Lisa Lazaro Devlin and Shane M. Devlin to Peter Alan Kiech.

WALMSLEY AVE. 7920: $485,000, Catherine Cahn Kahn to Special Inc.

EAST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR MAY 1-7

HARAHAN 565 OAK AVE. 563: Anthony R. Mazerat Jr. to Ballard Barbara Ann & Arden Newman Ruth Mccarroll Living Trust, $930,000.

FRANKLIN AVE. 917: John S. Atchley to Rory J. Rouset, $145,000.

ROSELAND PARKWAY 447: Steven A. Mehrtens to Annya Russo, $245,000.

JEFFERSON JEFFERSON HEIGHTS 757: Phyllis P. Meyer to Marshall Carll, $295,000.

JEFFERSON HIGHWAY 726: Bergez Family Properties LLC to Best Deal Auto Sale & Repair LLC, $280,000.

JEFFERSON HIGHWAY 3003-30053007: VJ Real Property LLC to Alejandra V M. Morales, $280,000.

JEFFERSON HIGHWAY 6625: Ruby XVII LLC to Nine Twenty Four Canal Street Associates LLC, $700,000.

KAREN AVE. 4709: Dennis J. Collins to Hunter J. Bufkin, $130,000.

NEWMAN AVE. 855: Joshua Toepfer to R&I Investments LLC, $120,000.

CONNECTICUT AVE. 3416-18: Three Thousand Four Hundred Sixteen Connecticut LLC to Crystal of Kenner LLC, $104,000.

ERLANGER ROAD 5404: Lisa C. Caiazzo to C.M. Calongne Jr., $300,000.

GEORGIA AVE. 3201: AKM Acquisitions LLC to Three Thousand Two Hundred One Georgia Avenue LLC, $500,000.

JANICE AVE. 5204: Brandi C. Chamberlain to Sarah M. Uzee, $447,000.

KILGORE PLACE 82: Sylvia M. Muniz to Marlovy Sanchez-Renteria, $234,900.

LOYOLA DRIVE E. 4245: Daja Realty LLC to Blanca L.R. Aguilar, $239,000.

MAYFAIR LANE 717: Ashley M.L. Murray to Kayla Culotta, $265,000.

N. CATAHOULA COURT 1: Nicholas Digerolamo to Delores H. Bell,

$370,000.

SAGO 5: Frances W. Leonardi to Judith L. Cuglewski, $545,000.

TEXAS AVE. 3140: Gerald T. Johnson to Haley Verbois, $332,000.

VETERANS MEMORIAL HIGHWAY 822: Patrick J. Shields Sr. to Creole Estates LLC, $125,000.

W. 27TH ST. 93: Blue Chips & Hot Tips LLC to BLD Investments LLC, $215,000.

W. LOYOLA DRIVE 4233: Alba Urbina to William A. Lopez, donation, no value stated.

METAIRIE 42ND ST. 3225: Cadogi Properties LLC to Rachel Simoneaux, $432,000.

AZTEC AVE. U109 1516: Aztec Property LLC to Deep South

ä See EAST, page 20

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KENNER 31ST ST. 1505: Jdl Properties LLC Taffy Connecticut to M.J. Garay, $167,000.

CHATEAU BLVD. 4140: Leda M. Sobon to Leinik Investments LLC, $230,000.

CHATEAU LAFITTE DRIVE W. 1010, UNIT C, BUILDING H: Chelsea P. Baker to Micaza Properties Inc., $115,000.

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Continued from page 19 Mortgage Co. Inc., donation, no value stated.

AZTEC AVE. U109 1516: Kelvin Martin to Deep South Mortgage Co. Inc., $47,000.

BELLE DRIVE 4504, UNIT D: Shannon K. Nicholson to Jenna Cleary, $144,200.

BERON DRIVE 1305: Mary J. Sapp to Lighthouse Homes LLC, $165,000.

BEROT ST. 3924: J.E. III Fitzpatrick to Onpath Federal Credit Union, $100,000.

BEVERLY DRIVE 231: Joanne B. Sanderford to LHC Builders LLC, $550,000.

CHATEAU DRIVE 4804: William A. Lack to Staci W. Sundmaker, $495,999.

CHEROKEE AVE. 1456: Erika W. Dorfi to Lisa M.W. Africk, $950,000.

CLEVELAND PLACE 5233: Dung T. Tran to Michelle K. Lutze, $1,000,000.

COURTLAND DRIVE 3800: Stephanie C. Bradford to Ho P.Q. Duong, $274,000.

FOCIS ST. 902-904: Sandra L.G. Bacigalupi to Gray Johnny Special Needs Trust, donation, no value stated.

HACKBERRY AVE. 1420: Diane H. Sill to Lauren C. Timphony, $331,500.

HASTINGS ST. 5012: Robert M. Handley to Carolyn E. Berthelot, donation, no value stated.

HOUMA BVLD. 3805, UNIT C, BUILDING 2: Craig D. Blackburn to Brynn C. Bourgeois, $130,000.

JASPER ST. 4821: Jesse A. Schud-

mak to Andrew Cedor, $340,000.

JEANNETTE DRIVE 4817: Charles F. Ruffino Jr. to Donlyn Kwedar, $515,000.

LAKE AVE. 1401, UNIT D, BUILDING 3: J.R. Sheehan to Reem LLC A.L., $89,000.

LONDON AVE. 222: Adner Banegas to Emil Jovanovski, $106,000.

LONGWOOD DRIVE 2721-23: Amelia E. Hotard to Andres F.R. Vidal, $235,000.

LOUMOR AVE. 2230: Jasmine M. Abdalla to Charlotte N. Hightower, $882,500.

MEADOWDALE ST. 5511: Five Thousand Five Hundred Eleven Meadowdale LLC to Robles Properties LLC Oliva, $345,000.

MELODY DRIVE 1409: Schmidt Homes Inc. to Jill A. Carter, $350,000.

N. ARNOULT ROAD 1212-1214: Anthony J. Benigno to Gabriel R. Bopp, $255,000.

N. CUMBERLAND ST. 315: Summer Sisters LLC to Nicholas P. Juneau, $250,000.

N. HOWARD AVE. 1124: Carter Investments Nola LLC to Pac Investments Nola LLC, $245,000.

N. LABARRE ROAD 3416: Deborah C. Donahue to I A. Bardales, $375,000.

N. DILTON ST. 728: Gail A.J. Aiola to Alexandra R.S. Shaphat, $199,000.

N. ELM ST. 719: Gary A. Lowenhaupt to Garcia Properties & Investments LLC, $160,000.

NOUVEAU LANE E. 10: Christian F. Kientz to Jenny C. Escobar, $275,000.

ORION AVE. 1010: Shelley S. Wang to Ryan M. Alfonso, $325,000.

PASADENA AVE. 1304: Untereiner Patricia W. Revocable Living Trust

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PASADENA AVE. 1408: Rebecca E.D. Broggi to Jean P. Garnier, $360,000.

PIKE DRIVE 4908: M Barbe to John B. Swift, $247,500.

RIDGELAKE DRIVE 3812: Three Thousand Eight Hundred Twelve Ridgelake Drive LLC to Dual Focus Visionary Holdings LLC, $1,793,000.

ROMAN ST. 3861: Shannon Stewart to Melissa S. Manwaring, $174,000.

ROSA AVE. 868: Germaine P.T. Degrusha to Quinlivan Homes LLC, $314,580.

SENAC DRIVE 4709: Hallie H. Morris to Quinlivan Homes LLC, $220,000.

TAFT PARK 1800: Austin Landry to Sebastian E. Aguilar, $329,000.

VERSAILLES ST. 8008: New Holmes LLC to Jng Construction LLC, $85,000.

WANDA LYN DRIVE 3616: Robyn C. Gaspard to Yvette J. Weems, $465,000.

W. WILLIAM DAVID PARKWAY 1035: R.B. Poche to Gio Advisors Group LLC, $305,000.

W. ESPLANADE AVE. 1912: Elisabet Olsen to Katherine S. Davis, $260,000.

W. LIVINGSTON PLACE 300: Margaret L. Johnson to Megan H. Wente, $795,000.

RIVER RIDGE ANDREA ST. 123: Averil F. Degrushe Jr. to Andy Herr, $325,000.

DARBY LANE 9120: Stephanie G. Lagarde to Brandi C. Cormier, $700,000.

GLOXINIA CIRCLE 9708: Bryan E. Schexnayder to Brennan Okeefe, $582,500.

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WEST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR MAY 1-7

AVONDALE DIALITA DRIVE 101: R&T Anan Inc. to Javier E. Vargas, $205,900.

RETREAT DRIVE 3726: DSLD LLC to Damorria Ivey, $279,475.

RINGROSE COURT 3712: DSLD LLC to Dawson Vallee, $291,930.

BARATARIA PRIVATEER BLVD. 2407: Stella Lea LLC to Troy A. Pizani, $36,000.

PRIVATEER BLVD. 2411: Valerie Cahill to Bruce A. Pizani, $36,000.

GRAND ISLE ADMIRAL CRAIK DRIVE U3 411: Allison T. Ardoin to Kendra W. Wadleigh, $225,000.

LA. 1 2151: LJH L.T.D. to Kadencraig LLC, donation, no value stated.

LA. 1 2723: Milton J. Bourgeois to Charles J. Pitre Jr., $85,000.

MARGOT AVE. 117: Regina D. Moerau to Gavyn Hickox, $55,000.

GRETNA ADONIS WAY 222: Fredy Garcia to Fredy Garcia, $204,000.

AVE. MON MARTRE 2446: Iyania Thomas to Margaret Mays, $290,000.

FAIRFIELD AVE. 28: Cityside Properties LLC to Warehouse 24 8. LLC, $650,000.

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HOLLY DRIVE 61: James E. Zimmerman to Elegant Houses LLC, $105,000.

LEGION DRIVE 2152: Threecg LLC to Kronda Sanders, $249,000.

PARK PLACE DRIVE 2424: Phillip G. Webb to Kimberly Investment LLC, $163,000.

VIRGIL ST. 1110: Glenn E. Coleman to Gatt LLC E. B., $83,000.

WHITNEY AVE. 2029: Roland A. Causin Jr. to Gatt LLC E. B., $399,000.

HARVEY BRECKENRIDGE DRIVE 2020: Brianna T.S. Johnson to Harb LLC, $117,000.

GLENOAK DRIVE 3816: Joyce M. W. Brown to Exclusive Rentals 1.

LLC, $120,000.

LOCH LOMAND DRIVE 1253: JPMorgan Chase Bank N.A. to Rental Girl LLC, $135,000.

WOODMERE BLVD. 2417: Ebony A. Hamilton to LEM Investments LLC, $169,045.

YETTA AVE. 456: Robby J. Tingle Jr. to Carlito Dominguez, $140,000.

LAFITTE CHATEAU DRIVE W. 1010, UNIT C, BUILDING H: Chelsea P. Baker to Micaza Properties Inc., $115,000.

JEAN LAFITTE BLVD. 4304: Gerard Aertker to Khai Q. Hoang, $240,000.

JEAN LAFITTE BLVD. 5240: E Abadie to Michaela Terrebonne, $410,000.

VERDIN ST. 5122: Stella G. Martin to Jerry J. III Verdin, $165,000.

MARRERO ACRE ROAD 6604: Robin Lovely to Osmel C. Rodriguez, $124,000.

ALLO AVE. 1414: Kerry Rodrigue Sr. to Justin Rodrigue, $153,500.

AVE. E 1505: Ryan Schmidt to Scott Bourg, $275,000.

AVE. E 800: Day One Enterprises LLC to Paige Leblanc, $371,300.

BAY VIEW DRIVE 4462: Angela Randolph to Jacob Jackson, $203,000.

CANDLELIGHT DRIVE 1112: Teena Breaux to Asmar Estates 1112 LLC, $50,000.

CARDINAL DRIVE 2736: Wanda S. Santiago to Melissa M.W. Gray, $188,000.

GENTRY ROAD 7100: Hong B.N. Vu to Glen E. Stewart, $140,000.

GIAISE ST. 1970: Denna K. Gabourel to Vincent W. Gabourel, donation, no value stated.

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ABITA SPRINGS INGRAM ESTATES, PHASE 1, LOT 7: Eddie M. Smith and Patricia A. Smith to EP Smith Family Trust, donation, no value stated.

PETERS ST. 33077: Kenneth H. Jordan to Christopher G. Legrange and Deborah Legrange, $332,500.

RAVINE STREET, LOT 10A: Brian J. Arthur II to John J. Brugier and Patricia L. Brugier, $55,000.

COVINGTON 10TH STREET 70371: Hunter Luke Henderson LLC to Noel Maestri and Linda G. Maestri, $192,500.

11TH ST. 70311: Danny G. Menge Builders Inc. to Noah L. Christopher, $235,000.

ARLINGTON AVE. 337: 110 Builders LLC to Richard Wilson and Patricia B. Wilson, $695,000.

AVE. LACROIX 1333: GMI Construction Inc. to Blake C. Labat and Jenna L. Labat, $605,000.

BARRINGTON DRIVE 1220: DSLD Homes LLC to Jose Acevedo Jr. and Lessly Torres, $322,998.

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MOUNT RUSHMORE DRIVE 5109: New Orleans Property Ventures Inc. to Ryan Montegut, $189,000.

RAPTOR CIRCLE 2223: Ian Vignes to Dillon Degruise, $450,000.

ROBINSON AVE. 505: Estelle Simmons to Fifth District Savings Bank, $52,325.

BARRINGTON DRIVE 1224: DSLD Homes LLC to Abraham Batlle, $397,330.

BODET LANE 150: Norma C. Borden to Joseph M. Jolicoeur and Karen Freas T. Jolicoeur, $285,000.

CALDEN COURT 19638: DSLD Homes LLC to Jose D. Mira and Ana C. Mira, $271,141.

DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON SUBDIVISION, PORTION OF GROUND: Carl W. Darion and DeLane F. Darion to Tyler Price, $215,000.

INSPIRATION LANE 401: Noel E. Dauterive Jr. and Jennifer D. Dauterive to Ann E. Coogan, $250,000.

JUSTIN DRIVE 1801: Ashley F. Anglin to Charles Porche III, $322,500.

K ST. 70261: Kayla Heavlin to Kelcie J. Landry, $245,000.

LAKE TAHOE DRIVE 14448: Jessie G. McKenzie to Robert O. Smith and Katherine B. Smith, $184,000.

LAURELLEAF LANE 424: Thomas F. Kingrey IV to Robert Hooper, Mary Hooper and Sharon G. King, $430,000.

LOURDES LANE 278: Marie A. Matherne to Michael C. Frady, $300,000.

LOWE DAVIS ROAD 20125: Richard

O’Connell Jr. to Rene J. Martinez and Mirtza Martinez Small, $160,000.

MENETRE DRIVE 208: Georgia Cassidy testamentary trust to Edward L. Dahmer Jr. and Melinda D. Dahmer, $680,000.

MILLSTONE COURT 417: Joshua B. Schmaltz to Ben W. Wallace and Charlotte A. Wallace, $322,000.

MONGA DRIVE, PORTION OF GROUND: Equity Trust Co. to Glenn J. Landry Jr., $55,000.

N. MAGNOLIA DRIVE 104: Freedom Mortgage Corp. to Grace Burns, $178,000.

NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Jeffrey E. Elliott Jr. and Yaritza Garcia R. Elliott to Charron D. Windom Kernan, Rachel M. Kernan and Jarred M. Kernan, $865,000.

NEAR COVINGTON, PORTION OF GROUND: Shanie S. Sanor and Sherry S. Crain to James W. Smith Jr., $71,400.

NORTH DRIVE 119: Linda C. Cousin to Scott S. Corden and Kaitlyn C. Corden, $500,000.

OAKLAWN DRIVE 35: Benjamin Bullock and Elaine S. Bullock to Benjamin R. Morvant and Margaret M. Stewart Morvant, $725,000.

RIVER OAKS DRIVE 423: Luca

Sr. to Jason R. Smoak, $4,600.

PETUNIA COURT 1: Tara H. Wetzel to Henry L. IV Hannan, donation, no value stated.

W. PRISCILLA LANE 25: Coast Builders LLC to Kayla Smith, $446,700.

Builders LLC to Alvin Morris, $389,900.

EMILE ST. 645: Marvin Mitchell to Melvin Mitchell, donation, no value stated.

LANE ST. 117: Pennymac Loan Services LLC to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, $63,038.

RUTH DRIVE 536: New Orleans Property Ventures Inc. to Sommer S. Pontecorvo, $169,000.

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CAROL SUE AVE. 1836: Michelle Fuster to Quiennetta Williams, $399,900.

HOLMES BLVD. 429: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Leonor S. Calderon, $269,900.

LASALLE AVE. 2168: Jennifer L.S. Sprouse to Keith A. Broussard, $100,000.

WAGGAMAN ASTER LANE 142: Carl J. Breaux to Jason R. Smoak, $4,600.

ASTER LANE 142: Denice B. Collins to Jason R. Smoak, $4,600.

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Balbo and Laura Schiffino to Stephen Englehardt and Lindsey Smith, $639,000.

SAGE ALLEY 115: Bardwell Construction Co. LLC to Russell Smith and Michelle Smith, $644,100.

SEVENTH ST. 70015: Glenn Hebert to Timothy M. Hopper, donation, no value stated.

SIMPSON WAY 724: Lan Thi Nguyen to Jared A. Diaz and Tennille K. Diaz, $255,000.

SOLOMON DRIVE 776: David T. Lindsay to CGHR Investments LLC, $183,115.

SYLVIA DRIVE 75633: Movement Mortgage LLC to William Frost Jr. and Renee Frost, $270,000.

TAMMANY HILL SUBDIVISION, LOT 40A, SQUARE 21: Advance Mortgage Co. LLC to Gary St. Amant and Sandra Readeau, $10,000.

TIGER AVE. 452: Mary D. Singleton to Karen S. Durel, $354,000.

FOLSOM N. WILLIE ROAD 80262: Peter C. Cannizzaro Jr. to John Dovie, Eric J. Dovie and Dana Dovie, $299,000.

N. WILLIE ROAD 80483: Shae P. Thibodeaux and Ashley L. Thibodeaux to Gabriel J. Peterson and Macy F. Allen Peterson, $462,000.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Succession of James E. Casey Jr. and Hazel Ann Lamia Casey to Wayne S. Lam and Sally L. Lam, $299,300.

NEAR FOLSOM, PORTION OF GROUND: Ernie P. Fussell and Linda R. Fussell to Drew M. Fussell and Brittany B. Fussell, dona-

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VINEYARD ROAD 87492: Sean R. Naquin to Kirk Trombatore and Kristin Trombatore, $190,000.

LACOMBE BAYOU LACOMBE MANOR S/D LOT 11: Jarred M. Kernan and Rachel M. Kernan to Julie M. Baudier, $110,000.

FISH HATCHERY ROAD 63105: Christopher J. Childers and Reannon L. Childers to Jason Losch and Kymberlie Hester, $190,000.

LANCASTER COURT 30301: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Alyssa A. Zimmerman and Louis L. Delise III, $297,900.

PICHON ROAD 26096: Craig P. Naccari Jr. and Emily P. Naccari to Craig Martin, $279,000.

ROAN LANE 28500: David W. Burlett and Barbara M. Burlett to Alan M. Segrave, $1,200,000.

MADISONVILLE AUDUBON PARKWAY 1145: Tyler A. Dugas to Willard L. Hatcher III and Megan T. Hatcher, $478,000.

BEDICO CREEK PRESERVE SUBDIVISION, LOT 134: Santa Maria Interest LLC to Mark A. Chauffe and Johnnette Lemoine Chauffe, $112,900.

CYPRESS TREE COURT 2020: Mark A. Chauffe and Johnnette L. Chauffe to Jackson Murrell and Hadley Murrell, $552,000.

MADISONVILLE ON THE LAKE SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, LOT 49: Beverly C. McQuaid to Joseph A. Benson and Christine D. Benson, $41,485.

MARINA BEAU CHENE TOWNHOMES CONDOMINIUM, UNIT 3: David L. Pesses and Beth W. Pesses to Calcutta Investments of Louisiana LLC, $385,000.

NEAR MADISONVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Debra F. Ventola to Richard D. Ventola Jr., donation, no value stated.

NIGHT HERON LANE 635: Alvarez Construction Co. LLC to Kenneth B. Seward and Kelly M. Sewart, $486,160.

OAK PARK DRIVE 25A: Gregory B. White and Anna Guillot White to Mason Simmons, $260,000.

RUE CHARLOTTE 379: Cane Construction and Development LLC to Edgar Campo Jr. and Regina Paulette Wert-Campo, $899,000.

TOWN OF MADISONVILLE, LOTS 1, 2, SQUARE 13: Clifford R. Tillman and Lee Ann Combs Tillman to

Ronald J. Arnoult and Amy B. Arnoult, $580,000.

MANDEVILLE ALBERT STREET, PORTION OF GROUND: Bruce D. Burglass Jr. and Melissa Burglass Miller Supplemental Needs Trust to Harry J. Delaune Jr., $58,000.

AUTUMN PLACE 827, UNIT 6: Mary O. Becker to Christina Z. Cenac, $250,000.

CARRIAGE LANE ESTATES, LOT 46: Edward L. Vamprine and Janice W. Vamprine to Aimie Reif Cooper, $338,000.

CHERRY RIDGE COURT 1581: Scott J. Dolese and Carmina Lott Dolese to Arthur W. Lott, $200,000.

DUMMYLINE ROAD 429: Curtis J. Ledet to Nicole Gossell and Jeremy Gossell, $195,304.

E. MAGNOLIA RIDGE DRIVE 611: Edward L. Dahmer Jr. and Melinda Dakin Dahmer to Joseph N. Bland and Shannon K. Bland, $439,000.

GRAND CHENIERE DRIVE 122, UNIT 318-L: E&G Hap LLC to Tina B. Henson, $215,000.

GREENLEAVES CORNERSTONE SUBDIVISION, PHASE 7A, LOT 12A: Donald F. Rulh Jr. to Michael K. Weeks II and Ivy E. Weeks, $615,000.

GROVE COURT 3160: Benjamin P. Maturin and Kimberly PoirierMaturin to Jason Simmons and Bridgett Simmons, $375,000.

JULIETTE LANE 435: Jean Manders Hunn to CPP Rentals LLC, $215,000.

KINGSWOOD SUBDIVISION, LOT 17: Integrity Builders Inc. to Scott Dolese and Carmina Lott Dolese, $659,048.

LA MESA COURT 20621: Danny M. Steib and Cynthia P. Steib to Kelly O. Orgeron, $460,000.

LEWISBURG ESTATES, LOT 26, SQUARE 2: Charles E. Greer and Emily L. Greer to Elmer L. Smith III and Lena N. Smith, $135,000.

MCNAMARA ST. 2152: Polanco Polanco Jr. to Adam J. Schoolmeyer and Jan S. Schoolmeyer, $435,000.

NEAR MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Briggs of N. Causeway Property LLC to Highway 23 LLC, $3,050,000.

ORCHID LANE 76: Dennis J. Allen and Alisson B. Allen to We Always Look 1 LLC, $1,460,000.

PENROSE ST. 1523: Brandon Burchett to Tgarner Investments LLC, $237,000.

SANCTUARY SUBDIVISION, PHASE 3B, LOT 233: Byron R. Burkhardt and Melissa K. Burkhardt to John L. A. Lenfant IV and Trilby T. Lenfant, $10 and other good and valuable consideration.

TANAGER DRIVE 517: Harley Davis

and Chelsea Davis to William Burroughs and Melissa Burroughs, $462,000.

TOWN OF MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Dedra M. Risin, Robert V. Alexander Jr. and others to Patrick T. Dessauer and Carmen W. Dessauer, $90,000.

TRENTON DRIVE 217: Charlotte H. Miller to Ryan J. Marchand, donation, no value stated.

TUPELO TRACE 10: SBN V FNBC LLC to Fortan LLC, $850,000.

VILLERE ST. 1210: Nicholas A. Selby and Julia W. Selby to Andre F. Toce Sr. and Mary M. Toce, $240,000.

PEARL RIVER NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Dorothy Aucoin to Steven G. Oxendine, donation, no value stated.

NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Carl B. Marinello and Myrlene H. Marinello to Laura R. Marinello, donation, no value stated.

SLIDELL AUTUMN LAKES ROAD 301: Russell J. Callen III and Shari G. Callen to Dustin Koeppel and Katilynn Koeppel, $370,000.

BAYOU LIBERTY GARDENS, LOT 29, SQUARE G: JBJ Holmes LLC to Harlan L. Herron, $24,000.

BLUEBIRD ST. 2008: Land Trust Inc. LLC to Pablo M. Pilone, $115,000.

BLUEBIRD ST. 2523: Gerard S. Gambino Estate to Ross Marengo, $155,000.

BOSWORTH ST. 56675: Patricia L. Turner to Michael Turner, $17,200, donation.

BRIAN DRIVE 206: Darlene M. Nelson, Cheryl M. Calm, Brenda J. Marshall, Mary J. Marshall and Richard J. Marshall Jr. Estate to Meredith M. Jansen, $170,000.

BRITTANY LANE 212: Succession of Elsie C. Cornett and Howard V. Cornett to Kristi A. Lacour and Lisa M. Lacour, $204,000.

CARR DRIVE 341: Miguel Culasso and Angie Culasso Living Trust to Lisa Culasso, donation, no value stated.

CHANNEL BEND COURT 949: Jacob E. Boone and Hannah K. Boone to 949 Channel Bend Court LLC, $263,156.

CHINCHAS CREEK ROAD 40735: Stanley Schmidt and Kathleen F. Schmidt Trust to Emily E. Leach and Neil P. Bodenheimer, $135,000.

CUTTER COVE 1258: Gary Lee Dodson to Gabrielle Findorff, Jesse J. Findorff and John Izzo, $749,900.

DELTA RIDGE AVE. 6720: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Arkeevin R. Lewis and Shania A. Lewis,

$407,095.

GRETEL COVE 103: Kenny L. Bartram to Quannecia Booker, $355,000.

HICKORY DRIVE 365: Kevin M. Sweeney to JNB Investment Group LLC, $68,500.

INLET DRIVE 73: Jong S. Ham and Yeon J. Kim Ham to Nadja C. Ochsner and Royce Hocke Ochsner, $100 and other valuable consideration.

LA. 433 53007: Calvin P. Lemoine to Dawn A. Lemoine, $55,000.

LA CHENIER 302: BLVD Investments LLC to Silessi Construction LLC, $95,000.

LAKE VERRET COURT 804: Nancy J. Hausmann to Jerry A. McGaughey and Emily H. McGaughey, $284,000.

MARAIS RIVER DRIVE 4426: Shellpoint Mortgage Servicing to David Capitano and Timothy Manning, $215,000.

MARIS STELLA 1224: irk E. Hartsell and Darla D. Hartsell to Bill Brown Jr., $155,000.

MOCKINGBIRD LANE 264: Carl B. Marinello and Myrlene H. Marinello to Chaliese M. Crow, donation, no value stated.

N. QUEENS DRIVE 208: Mary K. Carter Clark to Tarik Isaac, $199,900.

NEAR FLORENVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Ashley Marie B. Lowe to Michael A. Prinz, $62,000.

NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Marie C. Giorlando Estate to David P. Dickey, $150,000.

NORTHWOOD DRIVE 175: Darlene Keyes Milliet to Miceli Real Estate Development LLC, $70,000.

OLD SPANISH TRAIL 2060: G&S Tammany Services LLC to 2060 OST LLC, $460,000.

PALM DRIVE 2877: Midfirst Bank to Edward Sam Swan Jr., $57,007.

PELICAN ST. 2102: Gulf Coast Bank and Trust to Kristy H. Cortez, $235,000.

PENNSYLVANIA AVE. 715: Hollis E. Johnson to Partners LLC, $127,500.

PONTCHARTRAIN DRIVE 3838, UNIT A-203: Karly C. Barduca to Wang Worldwide Rentals LLC, $45,000.

PONTCHARTRAIN DRIVE 3838, UNIT B102: Karly C. Barduca to Wang Worldwide Rentals LLC, $50,000.

ROSE MEADOW LOOP 1160: Wilbur C. Riley and/or Dorothy W. Riley revocable living trust to Robert Links Jr., $119,000.

ROYAL PALM DRIVE 1413, UNIT E: Donna B. Tucker to Thomas M. Cantelmo, $236,000.

S. QUEENS DRIVE 117: Saray Arroyo to Family Forever LLC, $53,000.

SALT BAYOU ROAD 38505, 38509: Judy S. Vogel to Claude L. Maurer, $105,000.

SANDPIPER COURT 402: Nathan L. Welch and Sima T. Welch to Nicholas Vance and Crystal Vance, $408,000.

SIRIUS LANE 107: Marlin S. Brutkiewicz and Tait-Lauren Marilyn Brutkiewicz to Richard L. Jackson, $316,500.

SLIDELL HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, LOTS 5, 8, 10, 12, 14, SQUARE 5, LOTS 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, SQUARE 6: Succession of Gameel Gabriel to Pellicon Builders LLC, $100 and other good and valuable consideration.

SNEAD COURT 517: David Hudspeth and Marcia Hudspeth to Carl A. Caloian Jr. and Shantel Caloian, $435,000.

SUNSET DRIVE 209: Ann L. Schlater to Lynne Schlater, donation, no value stated.

TANGLEWOOD DRIVE 412: Jeremiah Johnson Enterprises LLC to Teresa Ann Williams Copeland, $250,468.

TIMBERS DRIVE 155: Michael A. Northcutt and Carol L. Northcutt to Dwaquille Jabal and Ayat Jabal, $249,700.

VILLAGE OF GUTHRIE SUBDIVISION, LOTS 7H, SQUARE 41, LOT 12: Circle D Properties LLC to Michael L. Dammon, donation, no value stated.

W. QUEENS DRIVE 107: Lakeview Loan Servicing LLC to Tanner Manor LLC, $90,000.

WILDWOOD LANE 1561: Gulf Coast Bank and Trust to Joann Levron and Levan Levron Sr., $245,000.

SUN/BUSH LA. 21 81542: Realty Income Properties 29 LLC to MDC Mercury 2604 PropCo 3 LLC, $10 and other good and valuable consideration.

NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: Anthony J. Christiana Jr., Sandra A. Christiana and John M. Christiana to John M. Christiana and Angela O’Neal Christiana, $100,000.

NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: Danie R. Jenkins Dutel to Dennis A. Depolitte and Lynne O. Depolitte, $40,000.

NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: Mackenzie Transition LLC to Andrew P. Miller and Sarah B. Miller, $180,000.

NEAR SUN, PORTION OF GROUND: Linda Bennett to Christopher Miller and Teresa Miller, $20,000.

NEAR SUN, PORTION OF GROUND: James A. Munizza to Christopher Miller and Teresa Miller, $25,000.

RAILROAD AVE. 80267: Lindsey H. Morgan and Aaron J. Morgan Sr. to Allegiance Government Relocation, $576,500.

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By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, May 16, the 136th day of 2026. There are 229 days left in the year.

Today in history: On May 16, 1966, the Chinese Communist Party issued the May 16 Notification, a document that criticized “counterrevolutionary revisionists” within the party and marked the beginning of the Cultural Revolution.

Also on this date: In 1770, Marie Antoinette, 14, married the future King Louis XVI of France, who was 15.

In 1868, having already been impeached by the House of Representatives, President Andrew Johnson narrowly avoided impeachment by the Senate, which voted 35-19 in favor of impeachment — one

vote shy of the required twothirds majority.

In 1943, the nearly monthlong Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to an end as German forces crushed the Jewish resistance and blew up the city’s Great Synagogue.

In 1960, the first working laser was demonstrated at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, California, by physicist Theodore Maiman.

In 1975, Japanese climber Junko Tabei became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

In 1988, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop declared that nicotine is as addictive as heroin or cocaine as part of his campaign to warn against the health hazards of smoking and make America smoke-free by 2000.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton publicly apologized for the notorious 40-year Tuskegee Experiment, in which government scientists deliberately allowed Black men to weaken and die of treatable syphilis.

In 2011, Space Shuttle Endeavour launched on its 25th and final flight into space, bound for the International Space Station. The launch came as NASA was winding down the 30-year shuttle program that ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO would end with a final flight by the orbiter Atlantis that July.

Japan’s Junko Tabei, left, the In 2018, officials at Michigan first woman to conquer Mt. State University said they had Everest, sips tea May 28, 1975, agreed to pay $500 million to settle claims from more than on lower slopes of the world’s highest peak with sherpa guide 300 women and girls who said they were assaulted by sports Ang Tsering, who escorted her doctor Larry Nassar. to the 29,028-foot-high summit Today’s birthdays: Actor Danny

on May 16.

If estranged child comes knocking Dear Annie: I’m a 63-year-old widow with three grown children. Two of them live nearby and are wonderful children, while the third is estranged and lives several Annie states away. It’s Lane been six years DEAR ANNIE since I’ve seen her. She’s sent very brief emails wishing me a happy birthday, etc., but nothing more.

Over the course of these six years, my other children discovered their sister has been telling her friends and acquaintances that she was severely abused growing up, specifically sexually abused by both her now-deceased father and her brother. These are vicious lies.

When she was a teenager and going through a cutting phase, we got her psychiatric help. I obtained access to her medical records of these visits, and the doctor diagnosed her as having a severe personality disorder as well as being a compulsive liar.

She apparently made up so many unbelievable stories, including being raped by ce-

lebrities and being abandoned in the woods at the age of 6 during a camping trip, that the doctor told her that unless she started telling the truth, he would no longer treat her. She never went back.

My struggle is that I’m still her mother. I still worry about her. I worry if she’s on drugs.

I lose a lot of sleep and really need to, at least emotionally and for my own health, let her go. She’s 27 now and responsible for her own choices.

She doesn’t know that we know about the lies she’s told her friends. Her side of things is that we are toxic and she had to extricate herself from us.

But I feel I have to be prepared if she ever shows up on my doorstep wanting to come back into my life, no matter how remote a chance that may be.

I’ve gone through this many times in my head — her standing there, not having seen me in six years, wanting a hug, me wanting to hug her, but knowing the lies she’s made up about her dad, her brother and her past. I feel that if I simply embrace her, I will be betraying her brother and accepting the lies she’s told. She never pursued anything legally, just told her friends these things.

Our family wasn’t perfect, but she grew up pretty privileged. How could she have done this? Would I just forgive and invite her in? Would I tell her I know about her lies and close the door in her face? Any advice? — Still Grieving Dear Still Grieving: Two things can be true at once: You can love your daughter and worry about her, while also feeling betrayed and standing firmly by your husband and son.

From what you describe, your daughter has long struggled, and you may never fully understand the choices she’s made or the stories she’s told.

That’s a painful reality, but it’s not one you can fix.

If she ever does return, you don’t have to decide everything in a single moment. You can meet her with love and still be clear that rekindling any sort of relationship will take time, honesty and effort — largely from her.

For now, focus on finding some peace for yourself. A mother’s love never goes away, but remember to take care of yourself, too.

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