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Court OKs merging clerk’s offices Duncan loses his post in 4-3 vote of state Supreme Court

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

A divided Louisiana Supreme Court on Monday endorsed Act 15, the new law that merged the two district court clerk’s offices in New Orleans and eliminated the criminal clerk’s post that a former life prisoner, Calvin Duncan, won last fall.

The court took up a pair of legal challenges lodged in Baton Rouge

to the controversial legislation authored by state Sen. Jay Morris, R-West Monroe. A 4-3 court majority upheld the new law and found that city officials overstepped last month when they named an interim clerk to the combined post and called for an election.

“No provision of the Louisiana or United States Constitution prohibits Act 15 from being immediately effective. By the clear terms of the Act, there is no vacancy in any of-

fice,” the court ruled.

The opinion was unsigned. Justices Cade Cole, Jeff Hughes and Jay McCallum along with a fill-in justice, 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Allison Penzato, comprised the majority. Justices John Michael Guidry, Piper Griffin and Chief Justice John Weimer dissented.

The decision made permanent a ruling the court issued earlier as it took up the case, endorsing

Chelsey Richard Napoleon, the elected civil clerk who was tapped by the Legislature under Act 15 to run a unified clerk’s office.

Napoleon was one of two people who sued in Baton Rouge state court. She claimed the City Council shouldn’t have appointed retired criminal Judge Calvin Johnson as interim clerk and called for a new election. The other lawsuit

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Dealership faces opposition at former Kmart site

2026 LEGISLATURE SESSION ENDS

Legislators tighten oversight of La. child welfare agency

Gayle Benson’s company challenges effort from Matt Bowers

BY RICH COLLINS Staff writer

and support.”

Berault said members of the House and Senate, the department, the Governor’s Office, the Attorney General’s Office, the State Child Ombudsman’s Office and Louisiana’s child advocacy centers played a part in negotiations.

“At this moment, everyone feels like this is a step in the right direction,” she said, adding that it moves Louisiana

Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson’s automotive group is challenging an effort by rival auto dealer Matt Bowers to move his New Orleansarea Chevrolet dealership from Airline Drive near Kenner to the site of a former Kmart in the heart of Metairie, intensifying a long-simmering battle between two of the market’s largest dealers.

Benson Automotive Group’s Best Chevrolet and another local dealership, Banner Chevrolet, have been engaged in behind-the-scenes efforts to halt the move since March, when Chevy parent company General Motors informed state regulators it had approved the Matt Bowers Group’s request to relocate its operation from 8213 Airline Drive to 2940 Veterans Blvd., according to records obtained from the Louisiana Motor Vehicle Commission.

The Veterans site, which Bowers has owned since 2020, shortly after Kmart shut down, is among the busiest commercial corridors in the metro area, across from Trader Joe’s, near the intersection of Causeway Boulevard and two blocks from Lakeside Shopping Center.

In March 12 filings to the state commission, GM simply notified the agency it had approved the relocation proposal. It did not give a reason or include Bowers’ explanation for wanting to relocate.

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Speaker of the House Phillip DeViller, R-Eunice, bangs the gavel to end the 2026 legislative session on Monday.

not done asking whether the agency ä Bill to take money from Orleans ‘Everyone feels like this is a are needs a bigger overhaul.

Parish DA passes. PAGE 5A step in the right direction’ Senate Bill 237 requires more thor-

BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

On the final day of the legislative session, lawmakers passed a bill to have stricter oversight of how Louisiana’s child welfare system handles deaths caused by abuse and neglect.

While lawmakers stopped short of abolishing the Department of Children and Family Services, which has faced intense scrutiny over how it handles such deaths, some legislators said they

ough reviews of child abuse and neglect cases, and it orders the department to give more detailed information about child deaths to a state watchdog and legislators.

“I feel like there’s consensus that what we have in the bill is going to make a difference in helping kids without ballooning costs,” said state Rep. Stephanie Berault, R-Slidell, who played a key role in negotiating the final version of the legislation. “And it’s giving the department an opportunity for those changes to work and also getting them more help

N.O. judicial cuts legislation swaps out seats Change comes as a last-minute surprise

BY MATT BRUCE and JOHN SIMERMAN

ing as it passed on the final day of the legislative session MonStaff writer day, while Gov. Jeff Landry lamented a deal to take a judge A surprise change to a bill he favors off the bench.

Whether Landry signs the that would cut several judgeships in New Orleans caused revised Senate Bill 217, which consternation and finger-point- sailed through both houses of

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the Legislature over a 24-hour span, remained in question after a weekend audible by lawmakers saved the seat of Criminal District Judge Leon Roche and landed a colleague, Rhonda Goode-Douglas, on the extinction list.

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Judge: Key hearing in Kirk killing will be public

SALT LAKE CITY — Reporters and the public will be allowed to attend a key upcoming hearing for the man accused of killing Charlie Kirk, after a Utah judge on Monday denied a defense request to restrict access.

Tyler Robinson’s defense team had asked Judge Tony Graf to close portions of the preliminary hearing on July 6-10, when prosecutors must show they have enough evidence to warrant a trial. It will mark the most significant presentation of evidence to date in a case that has so far focused on matters of media access.

“The public and the media enjoy a presumptive right to access court proceedings, including preliminary hearings,” Graf said during his ruling. He said the defense hadn’t shown that presenting the evidence publicly would deny Robinson a fair trial.

Robinson’s lawyers have tried to guard against media coverage that they say sometimes misrepresents their client, as his case has drawn tremendous public attention. The 23-year-old from southwestern Utah is charged with aggravated murder in the Sept. 10 assassination of Kirk on the Utah Valley University campus.

Prosecutors intend to seek the death penalty if Robinson is convicted. He has not yet entered a plea.

5 U.S. cruise passengers leave quarantine facility

OMAHA, Neb. — Five of the 18 American cruise ship passengers who have been staying at a national quarantine facility in Nebraska after being exposed to hantavirus are going home, U.S. health officials said Monday.

The five people will complete their monitoring at home after remaining symptom-free and meeting criteria for monitoring outside the quarantine unit at the University of Nebraska Medical Center.

They are leaving Omaha about three weeks after they and the 13 other Americans arrived in Nebraska following a deadly outbreak of hantavirus on a cruise ship traveling in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Hantaviruses usually spread when people inhale contaminated residue of rodent droppings, but the hantavirus that has caused the current outbreak, called the Andes virus, may be able to spread between people in rare cases.

A total of 13 confirmed or probable hantavirus cases, including three deaths, have been linked to the ship, according to the World Health Organization.

No Andes virus cases have been confirmed in the U.S., and the risk to the public remains low, health officials said.

None of the U.S. passengers has shown any symptoms, a spokesperson for Nebraska Medicine said Monday.

Ex-N.C. officer charged in beating woman

SHELBY, N.C. — A former North Carolina police officer caught on a doorbell camera repeatedly punching a woman in the face was charged Monday with assault.

The video of Shelby Officer Karson Hyder pummeling Cherrie Moore on Friday has circulated widely on social media.

Hyder, 22, turned himself in to the Cleveland County Detention Center Monday morning and was released on a $10,000 bail. Court records do not list an attorney for him, and a phone number associated with his name was out of service.

Hyder, who was suspended Friday and fired on Saturday, was responding to a breaking-andentering call when the scuffle ensued.

According to a warrant, Moore, 34, fled the residence on foot and resisted arrest, assaulting Hyder by “grabbing and ripping (his) uniform.”

CORRECTION An article Saturday about the Kenner election lawsuit provided incorrect information concerning the political affiliation of candidate Dee Dunn. She is a Democrat. The Times-Picayune regrets the error.

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U.S. bombs Iranian military sites Officials: Missiles Tehran fired at troops in Kuwait were shot down

enough to carry globally significant amounts of oil or cargo. That compares to an average of more than 130 ships per day before the war began.

A fifth of all the world’s traded oil and natural gas once passed through the strait. Its closure has put pressure not only on energy supplies but on chemical fertilizer, generating fears of food shortages. The Gulf region produces 30% of globally traded chemical fertilizers.

BY JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. says it shot down.

The nominal ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. has been repeatedly tested with back-and-forth attacks, though officials from both countries are still trying to negotiate an end to the war.

It’s not clear how close they are to a deal — and there is always the risk that an attack could derail those talks.

Fighting has also been escalating between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, despite their nominal ceasefire, and that has increasingly threatened the emerging deal to extend the Iran war ceasefire.

On Monday afternoon President Donald Trump said Israel and Hezbollah had agreed to dial back their fighting after he held talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with Hezbollah through mediators. Moments later, though, Israel said it had detected missile launches from Lebanon and warned Israelis in part of northern

Kuwait reports fire

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Cargo ships and service vessels are anchored Sunday in the Strait of Hormuz, as a person stands in shallow water off Bandar Abbas, Iran.

Israel to take cover in protected spaces.

Meantime, Iran maintained its chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz, disrupting global energy supplies and driving up the price of fuel around the world, with far-reaching consequences.

A cargo ship came under attack off Iraq Monday afternoon, the British military said.

Fighting in Lebanon Israel has extended its occupation deep into Lebanon, and Hezbollah — which joined the war in support of its main backer, Iran — continues to launch drones into Israel.

Iran wants any agreement to include Lebanon, and its foreign ministry on Monday highlighted the rising tensions in Lebanon, saying via government

media: “The responsibility of the results and consequences of this situation is on the U.S.” In his social media post about Israel and Hezbollah scaling back their fighting, Trump added that talks with Iran “are continuing, at a rapid pace.”

In Pakistan, which has been a mediator between Washington and Tehran, a former ambassador to the U.S. said that Israel’s actions in Lebanon were complicating the diplomatic environment.

“Israel is creating a new strategic reality in its neighborhood,” Masood Khan said.

around the city of Geruk and on Qeshm Island, hitting air defenses, a ground control station and two attack drones it said threatened ships in the region.

“The measured and deliberate strikes occurred ... in response to aggressive Iranian actions that included the shootdown of a U.S. MQ-1 drone that was operating over international waters,” Central Command said.

Traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is at a trickle compared to before the war, with ship owners deterred by the risk of an Iranian attack. Only 36 ships transited the waterway in the seven days leading up U.S. military attacks Iran to Friday, a third of them The U.S. military’s Cen- carrying crude oil or petrotral Command said it car- leum products, according ried out the strikes in Iran to Lloyd’s List Intelligence, on Saturday and Sunday which counts only ships big

Kuwait said its air defenses opened fire early Monday morning to intercept incoming drone and missile fire.

Around the same time, Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard said it responded to an American attack without saying where, likely referring to the attack on Kuwait. In a statement carried by the staterun IRNA news agency, the Guard said that U.S. forces had targeted a telecommunications tower.

Kuwait is home to U.S. Army Central, the Mideast forward command for the Army.

Iranian state television shared footage of the ballistic missile launch, including a close-up showing a sticker on its body depicting a bruised Trump overlaid on a “closed” Strait of Hormuz with the caption: “Until the last American soldier leaves the region.”

Central Command said U.S. forces shot down two ballistic missiles Iran launched toward bases home to American troops.

No Americans were hurt, it added.

Trump: Israel, Hezbollah agree to dial back fighting

BY AAMER MADHANI, BASSEM MROUE, KAREEM CHEHAYEB and NATALIE MELZER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Monday that Israel and Hezbollah have agreed to dial back fighting after he talked with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and communicated with the Lebanese militant group through mediators.

Trump announced the development in a social media post following a call with Netanyahu, whose forces recently made their deepest incursion into Lebanon in more than a quarter century. Trump said there would be no Israeli troops “going to Beirut, and any Troops that are on their way, have already been turned back.”

The president said Hezbollah had “agreed that all shooting will stop — That Israel will not attack them, and they will not attack Israel.”

Netanyahu confirmed

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A destroyed building that was hit in an Israeli airstrike is seen through a shattered window of the Jabal Amel Hospital on Monday in Tyre, Lebanon. the conversation but cast it less as restraint and more as a warning, saying he told Trump that Israel would strike targets in Beirut if Hezbollah’s attacks do not stop. The Israeli military will continue “to operate as planned” in southern Lebanon, Netanyahu added.

There was no immediate word from Hezbollah.

The two sides have been under a ceasefire since mid-April, but the militant group resumed attacks

after Israeli strikes in Lebanon that Israel characterized as self-defense.

The fighting also presents a major obstacle in the emerging deal to extend the ceasefire in the Iran war. Tehran wants any agreement to include Lebanon.

Lebanese authorities secured Hezbollah’s approval of a proposal by Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Israel would not strike Beirut’s southern suburbs, and Hezbollah

Court panel rules Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, a divided panel of federal appeal court judges ruled on Monday in another legal setback for President Donald Trump’s sweeping agenda.

The majority opinion — by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia circuit — held that the Trump administration’s policy was designed to exclude people from the military based on their gender identity.

The ban remains in ef-

fect. The U.S. Supreme Court allowed the Pentagon to start enforcing it last year, as litigation continues to plays out.

The panel’s new ruling would keep the military from kicking out current service members named in the lawsuit, but wouldn’t allow new transgender recruits to join. The judges put their decision on hold, though, to let the administration seek further review.

The appeals court panel’s 2-1 decision partially upholds a March 2025 ruling by U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes in Washington, D.C. Reyes concluded that Trump’s executive order to exclude transgender troops from military ser-

vice likely violates their constitutional rights.

The administration appealed after Reyes issued a preliminary injunction requested by attorneys for several transgender people who are active-duty service members and others seeking to join the military. The appeals court’s majority decided that the injunction should be narrowed to the plaintiffs serving in the military but not those trying to enlist.

Another lawsuit challenging the ban was filed in Washington state and led to a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs challenging the policy in that case, though it’s been blocked by the Supreme Court.

would not attack northern Israel, according to a statement issued by the Lebanese Embassy to the U.S. Moments after Trump’s message, Israel detected missile launches from Lebanon and warned Israelis in part of northern Israel to take cover.

The agreement comes ahead of talks between Israel and Lebanon scheduled for Tuesday and Wednes-

day in Washington, where Lebanese negotiators hope to widen the scope of areas that will not be attacked in the country as they seek a complete ceasefire.

Tr u m p ’s c o m m e n t s emerged after Israel’s government ordered strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut and as Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel, including the outskirts of the coastal city of Haifa.

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Ex-Colo. elections clerk released from prison

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Governor commuted sentence

BY NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press

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Healthcare workers who have recovered from Ebola pose Sunday in Bunia, Congo.

Ebola cases near 300 as recovery stories emerge

BY JUSTIN KABUMBA Associated Press

BUNIA, Congo — At least 282 cases of Ebola disease have been confirmed in Congo’s growing outbreak, the central African nation says, as more joyful stories from recovered medical workers emerge. One nurse spoke of his “indescribable joy” at beating the illness.

The outbreak remains focused in eastern Ituri province, where 264 cases have been confirmed, the health ministry said. Congo has reported more than 1,000 suspected cases of the Bundibugyo virus, the species of Ebola that was confirmed weeks after the outbreak quietly began. There is no approved medicine to treat it, or vaccine.

The disease outbreak has killed 42 people in Congo and one person in neighboring Uganda, according to health authorities in both countries.

The outbreak has spread to 22 health zones across three eastern provinces in

Congo, government data shows, even as the World Health Organization has sought to highlight signs of progress, like new deliveries of supplies to deeply underresourced health centers.

Congo’s health ministry says the main challenges in containing the outbreak in the remote region include early detection and rapid isolation of cases, rigorous contact tracing, safe and dignified burials and strengthening infection prevention and control in health facilities.

Meanwhile, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations said Monday that it would commit up to $62 million to accelerate development of three experimental vaccines targeting Bundibugyo. The three in development are from the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, Moderna and the University of Oxford.

Health workers have been at high risk. WHO honored five of them as survivors over the weekend, during a visit by Director-General

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, as he opened a new Ebola treatment center in Bunia, capital of Ituri province.

Baraka Bulambulu, a nurse, said that he was thrilled after the final Ebola tests on him returned negative.

“Coming out of this illness alive is an indescribable joy,” Bulambulu said with a wide grin.

Ezo Étienne, another nurse who recovered, said that he had started feeling dizzy as he checked on patients.

“I called the team and told them, ‘Something’s wrong here,’ ” he recalled. “I decided to rest for a bit, and a few minutes later I started vomiting.”

The virus is spread through close contact with sick or deceased patients’ bodily fluids.

Treatment has mostly targeted patients’ symptoms, WHO has said.

“Your courage gives hope and your living story that this outbreak can be stopped,” Tedros told the health workers on Sunday.

DENVER — Tina Peters, the former county clerk convicted of participating in a scheme to chase election conspiracy theories promulgated by President Donald Trump, was released from state prison Monday after the president successfully pressured Colorado’s Democratic governor into commuting her sentence.

Shortly after her Peters release was confirmed by the Colorado Department of Corrections, Peters appeared on the program of Steve Bannon, a former Trump adviser who was part of the rightwing campaign to free Peters. Gov. Jared Polis said he would shorten Peters’ sentence if she expressed regret about her actions.

But in her interview with

Bannon, Peters repeated the debunked conspiracy theory that voting machines cheated Trump out of reelection in 2020 and portrayed herself as a martyr to the effort to expose it.

“I know that the Democrats are going to cheat, and no one is really addressing the problem that I spent my time in prison as retribution for,” Peters said.

Multiple reviews, recounts and audits in the battleground states where Trump disputed his 2020 loss have all affirmed that Democrat Joe Biden won. Dominion Voting Systems, the company used for Colorado elections, has also succeeded in multiple defamation cases against conservative news outlets and others who repeated the false claims that its voting systems were somehow manipulated to change the outcome.

Peters’ sentence was shortened by Polis last month after Trump waged

a lengthy pressure campaign against the governor and his state. Peters served less than a quarter of her nine-year sentence.

“She really is extremely grateful to Donald Trump,” Peters’ attorney, Peter Ticktin, said in an interview. “If it weren’t for Donald Trump, she’d still be behind bars.”

In her interview with Bannon, Peters said she plans to spend “the next few weeks regaining my health and with loved ones and family.” She said she is interested in becoming involved in prison reform and the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4.

Peters also is challenging her conviction, a case her attorneys hope to take to the U.S. Supreme Court if needed. She told Bannon she will “fight to clear my name and bring out the truth of why they came after me the way they did.”

Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election.

Pentagon bars journalists from its press office, calling it ‘classified space’

BY JOCELYN NOVECK AP national writer

NEW YORK — In another of a series of moves restricting media access at the Pentagon, the Defense Department has declared that its press office is now a classified space inaccessible to journalists.

On X, acting Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez confirmed the move, saying there was “nothing contro-

versial” about it and that it came because speechwriters, who use classified material, were now occupying the space.

“The Pentagon Press Office has been redesignated as a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility due to speechwriters from the Office of the Secretary of War sharing the facility,” Valdez wrote.

“These speechwriters routinely handle classi-

fied material … as a result, journalists will no longer be permitted to enter the office space. There’s nothing controversial about that.”

The latest move, first reported by The Washington Post, took place against a backdrop of escalating tensions between the U.S. media and the second Trump administration, which has played out both in the public arena and at times in the courts.

U.S. to slash number of embassies in Africa that can process visas

BY MATTHEW LEE and SAM MEDNICK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The State Department plans to drastically slash the number of U.S. embassies and consulates in Africa that can process visas for foreigners seeking to come to the United States.

The almost 50 U.S. embassies and consulates that are processing visa applications will be reduced to 20 in the coming weeks, according to three U.S. officials and an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press. There is not yet a set date for the change, but it is expected in June, according to the officials, who were not authorized to comment to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The move is part of the

Trump administration’s effort to crack down on issuing both immigrant and nonimmigrant visas as part of its broader aim to limit immigration to the U.S. and clamp down on those who travel on temporary visas but then overstay them.

The administration also has scaled back personnel at embassies and consulates around the world.

On a conference call last Friday, U.S. diplomats, including consular chiefs, were told the U.S. would be scaling back its visa services across Africa, according to one of the officials who was on the call.

Under a directive approved by Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week, the State Department will reduce consular operations in all but 20 “hubs” in Africa,

according to the officials and the memo.

Visa processing in Africa has already been affected by a travel ban on certain countries as well as a requirement for applicants to post up to $15,000 bond in order to apply and more recently by restrictions caused by the Ebola outbreak.

The new rules mean that a citizen of a non-hub country will have to travel to one of the 20 approved sites, which could pose formidable travel challenges and costs.

Consular sections in nonhub countries will stay open but be limited in the services they can offer. They will still be able to assist American citizens with passport renewals and emergency consular requests as well as special national interest cases and diplomatic visa applications.

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Trump may back off $1.8B fund, source says Justice Department temporarily pauses it

BY ERIC TUCKER, SEUNG MIN KIM and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is reconsidering whether to move forward with a $1.8 billion fund meant to compensate his allies, a person familiar with his thinking said Monday, as the Justice Department said it would temporarily pause its implementation to comply with a court order.

The potential retreat is a recognition of the legal setbacks the fund has encountered since it was announced two weeks ago as well as a mounting political backlash from Republicans concerned by a perceived lack of oversight of the money disbursement and the potential for payouts to participants in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

The Trump administration had defended the $1.776 billion “AntiWeaponization Fund,” established to resolve Trump’s lawsuit against the Internal Revenue Service over the leak of his tax returns, as an appropriate corrective measure

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Continued from page 1A was filed by Gary Crockett, a U.S. Senate candidate who claimed Act 15 was unconstitutional.

The court adopted both cases in May, citing “the urgent need to provide a definitive resolution to prevent further confusion.” It aimed to decide the act’s constitutionality, and, if legal, whether it created a vacancy that required the New Orleans City Council to back an election and appoint an interim clerk. Monday’s ruling permanently barred the city from doing so.

“The process is not what I would have wanted, but the Legislature made this decision,” Napoleon said at a news conference Monday in front of the criminal courthouse. “I have been put in a position to where I was reacting to what was happening.”

Mayor Helena Moreno issued a statement after the court decision.

“While I am disappointed in today’s ruling, we stood up for the voters of Orleans Parish and defended what many believed was their constitutional right to have the results of an election respected,” she said.

“The Louisiana Supreme Court has now provided final clarity on the legality of Act 15 and the consolidation of the Clerk of Court offices.

Importantly, the Court also made clear that the Mayor, District Attorney and 5 Councilmembers did not violate Louisiana’s usurper law as the Attorney General had claimed.”

Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams and others argued that Act 15 created a new office and that state law required the City Council to call a special election

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President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he arrives at the White House on Sunday. to make up for what officials insist was weaponized law enforcement during the Biden administration.

Though some Trump supporters — including participants in the Capitol riot — celebrated the announcement of the fund, the reaction among Republicans in Congress has been decidedly more hostile. The fund was one of the issues the president spoke about with House Speaker Mike Johnson, whom he met with Monday, according to a person who was

to fill it. The council appointed Johnson as interim clerk over objections from Napoleon and also Attorney General Liz Murrill, who threatened the jobs of New Orleans city leaders over the move.

Murrill had warned the council that its actions violated Louisiana’s “usurper laws,” which bar public officials from recognizing or supporting an unauthorized officeholder.

City Council President JP Morrell, who was named as a defendant in Napoleon’s suit, said he was “pleasantly surprised” at how close the court decision was. Morrell said the opinion showed a court dismissive of Murrill’s threat to punish city leaders.

“All of them acknowledged the law, how it was written and its timing created confusion,” Morrell said in an interview. “All parties agreed it was never a crime like the attorney general represented wherever she went.”

In a footnote, the Supreme Court immunized city officials over their moves before Monday’s ruling, while agreeing with Murrill that the new law didn’t create a new clerk’s office that dictated an election.

“As I stated from the beginning, the Legislature had the constitutional authority to consolidate these offices, and Act 15 clearly transferred all duties and responsibilities to Orleans Parish Clerk of Court Chelsey Richard Napoleon,” Murrill said in a statement. “The Louisiana Supreme Court got this right.”

granted anonymity to discuss a private discussion.

On Monday, a person familiar with the matter who insisted on anonymity to discuss the president’s thinking, said Trump was reconsidering whether to move forward with the fund. The Justice Department said separately that it would comply with a ruling by a federal judge in Virginia on Friday that halted plans for the fund pending additional arguments later this month, even as it noted

Duncan won the criminal clerk’s seat last year in convincing fashion, taking 68% of the vote over incumbent Darren Lombard.

A prison counsel for two decades at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, he went free in 2011 in an agreement with prosecutors before a judge vacated his conviction in 2021. Duncan ran on a mission to help liberate court records he’d struggled to obtain for his own case and others while locked away.

A history of the court

In its opinion Monday, the Supreme Court majority recounted the history of the unique court setup in New Orleans, with separate civil and criminal courts. It said delegates at the constitutional convention in 1974 held off on a merger but also “affirmatively rejected attempts to protect” Orleans judges and clerks from future cuts by a simple majority in the Legislature.

“In other words, the continued existence of these offices and courts was placed under the express and unconstrained control of the legislature,” the court found, adding that no federal laws were violated by abolishing Duncan’s post, either.

“In reaching this conclusion, we acknowledge that the timing of the legislation was perhaps unfortunate,” the court said.

In a dissent, Weimer wrote that the move to abolish the criminal clerk’s office days before Duncan was set to assume it “makes a mockery of the electoral process by completely obliterating the Calvin Duncan lawsuit constitutional effectiveness Duncan, meanwhile, has of the people’s vote.”

He went on to quote sevargued in federal court that the law denying him office eral historical figures on the violates his civil rights. A right to vote, from founding federal appeals court stayed father Thomas Paine to fora favorable lower court rul- mer U.S. presidents Franking over his legal challenge. lin D. Roosevelt and Ronald

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Lawmakers have raised concerns about the lack of oversight of the money and pushed the administration to either impose limits on the fund or scrap it altogether. It especially complicated matters in the Senate, where Republicans defiantly left town 10 days ago without passing legislation to fund Trump’s immigration enforcement agencies.

Republicans who returned to Washington on Monday said they won’t have the votes to pass the Homeland Security spending bill until the White House works with them to place parameters on the fund.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune indicated Monday that he hoped the White House would move to drop the fund.

“I do think the best way to handle it is if the administration decides to shut it down themselves,” Thune told reporters.

Senators pressed acting Attorney General Todd Blanche over the fund at a closed-door gathering last month that Sen. Ted Cruz, of Texas, called one of “the roughest meetings I’ve seen in my entire time in the Senate.”

Reagan to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. “The enactment of Act 15 does not merely terminate a position; it effectively cancels the right to vote and voids an election in which the citizens participated and justifiably believed their votes were counted and would be given effect,” Weimer wrote.

The decision “invites review by the United States Supreme Court,” Griffin added in her dissent.

“Both the federal and state constitutional guarantees must include a prohibition against the legislature abolishing an office after votes have been cast and before the term for which those votes were cast has concluded,” Griffin wrote.

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vote is not only diluted but is completely nullified.”

Guidry wrote that the decision “amounts to nothing less than condoning a brazen and unconstitutional political coup that subverts the will of the majority of the electorate of Orleans Parish by unceremoniously ousting Calvin Duncan from his duly elected position.”

Emily Faye Ratner, a local civil rights attorney who cochaired Duncan’s transition team, said the court offered little support for its ruling.

“This opinion puts us into a new territory about the rights of voters in the state of Louisiana,” Ratner said.

She said Duncan’s federal challenge to Act 15 remains “all the way alive” in Baton Rouge, where U.S. District Judge John deGravelles ini-

tially ruled the law unconstitutional before the appeals court stay.

Duncan expressed disappointment in the outcome as he advocated Monday for recall petitions underway against both Murrill and Gov. Jeff Landry.

“At a time when our voting rights are under unprecedented attack, this decision clarifies that if we want to live in a democracy, we have to fight for it with every tool our system of government provides,” he said in a statement.

The governor, attorney general “and a legislator from Monroe have substituted their will for that of the people of New Orleans,” Duncan added.

Staff writer Matt Bruce contributed to this story.

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BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN

Other districts would get between one and five new warrants, and some would maintain the same amount.

Because warrants can also be used to supplement prosecutors’ salaries, they do not necessarily reflect the exact number of prosecutors a district has.

Rep. Peter Egan, R-Covington, who sponsored HB719, said the changes more fairly allocate the state’s limited resources and bulk up some of Louisiana’s most understaffed prosecutors’ offices. He represents St. Tammany, where, he said on the House floor, the district attorney has less than half as much funding as the district attorney in Orleans.

A study by the Louisiana District Attorneys’ Association originally recommended the state fund over 170 new warrants, according to Egan.

That was “not going to fly,” Egan said. Instead, legislative leaders told him they could come up with the money for 60, he said.

Staff writer

A bill to give most Louisiana district attorneys’ offices more money to hire lawyers passed the Legislature on Sunday night, despite backlash to a last-minute amendment to take away state funds from New Orleans.

House Bill 719, which needs Gov. Jeff Landry’s signature before becoming law, raises the number of “warrants” for prosecutors across the state by 60, while taking 10 from Orleans. A warrant is a $50,000 allocation the state gives judicial districts to hire assistant district attorneys.

Under the bill, the 19th Judicial District Court in East Baton Rouge Parish is slated to get 16 new warrants, and the 22nd Judicial District Court, which serves St. Tammany and Washington parishes, is slated to get another 14. Those districts currently have 55 and 30 warrants, respectively; Orleans Parish has 83.

But members of the Orleans delegation — and even a state representative from Baton Rouge, which stands to benefit from the bill — questioned the apparently abrupt decision to reduce the number of prosecutors in Orleans, which is expected to cost the district about $500,000.

“I’m just trying to figure out why you accepted such a large reduction for Orleans,” said state Rep. C. Denise Marcelle, D-Baton Rouge, who voted against the amended bill. Egan’s original proposal did not take away any warrants for the parish, she noted.

The Senate adopted the amendment slashing those warrants last week, with just days left in the legislative session that ended Monday. That amendment also restored some new warrants for the 19th and 22nd judicial districts that an earlier change had cut.

Orleans representatives complained it was another blow to their hometown after the Republicancontrolled Legislature advanced legislation to cut down on the number of judges there and eliminate the parish’s criminal clerk of court

position.

“There’s this irrational desire from some people in this building to stick it to New Orleans,” said state Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans. “You are only hurting crime victims.”

Gov. Jeff Landry, who is said to have helped negotiate the final version of the bill, has treated Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams as a political foe.

State Rep. Jack McFarland, RJonesboro, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee, sought to alleviate tensions on the House floor by noting that Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office helps Orleans Parish by prosecuting cases that arise from Troop Nola’s law enforcement activity.

Troop Nola is a special group of State Police started in 2024 to fight crime in New Orleans.

McFarland also said a chunk of the money Orleans gets from warrants goes toward augmenting salaries. Not every warrant funds a prosecutor, he said.

“If Orleans is somehow damaged by the removal of the 10 (warrants), then that conversation can

SESSION

ombudsman said she was having trouble getting important information from the department about child abuse deaths.

Continued from page 1A toward the larger goal of “making sure that no vulnerable child slips through the cracks.”

Department Secretary Rebecca Harris celebrated the legislation.

“The passage of Senate Bill 237 reflects what can happen when leaders come together around a shared goal: protecting Louisiana’s children,” Harris said in a statement.

She said lawmakers, advocates and other stakeholders “worked through difficult conversations to find common ground on an issue that matters deeply to all of us.”

The bill was among the last pieces of legislation passed in the waning hours of a session marked by intense debates over congressional redistricting, tougher scrutiny of judges and pay for teachers and other state employees, among many other issues.

be held” next year, he said.

The 22nd Judicial District Court handles more felony defendants than New Orleans, according to Egan. Meanwhile, the 19th Judicial District Court serves a larger population.

But Orleans officials pointed out that New Orleans deals with millions of tourists and argued that reducing prosecutors is a bad way to answer crime.

HB719 passed by a vote of 75-18.

Another measure by Egan, House Bill 660, would have increased the allocation for warrants from $50,000 to $60,000. The warrants represent a base salary for assistant district attorneys, and Egan said some parishes cannot afford to supplement it.

That bill died in the Senate.

Yet the Legislature did pass a bill giving appellate, district and Supreme Court judges permanent raises of roughly $10,000 to $12,000. City court judges will also get some money.

Judges received those pay bumps last year, but they were considered temporary supplements.

Scrutiny to remain

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State Rep. Francis C. Thompson, R-Delhi, calls for sine die to end the 2026 legislative session on Monday.

Those interventions would have cost the state too much money, she said.

“We still have a lot of work to do,” she said.

Harris said “a major goal of DCFS for the remainder of this year will be expanding our focus on prevention.”

“We cannot have a system that only responds when a family has reached a point Lingering tensions of crisis,” she added. “Our The compromise bill fol- responsibility is not only to lowed months of at-times protect children when harm intense interrogation of the occurs, but also to strengthdepartment by lawmakers en families before harm who say too many children happens.” are dying of abuse and neglect on the agency’s watch. What the bill does Sen. Regina Barrow, D-BaSB237 makes dozens of ton Rouge, who sponsored substantive changes to dethe bill, said the measure was partment operations. Among a move in the right direction. the most notable: n It must notify the State But she told her colleagues on the Senate floor Monday Child Ombudsman’s Office she had hoped to go further. in writing of any child abuse “Certainly, this was not death investigation and inall that I wanted to do with clude detailed information the bill,” she said. “We do about the child. n It must notify the omlook forward to working extremely close with the de- budsman’s office in writpartment as we look to safe- ing when any child abuse guard our young people and death investigation has make sure that we are keep- concluded, including more ing them out of harm’s way.” detailed information about In an interview, Barrow whether the department said the legislation doesn’t had involvement with the include measures aimed at child before the death. n The ombudsman’s office, preventing child abuse and neglect before it happens. within 24 hours of being no-

tified of a child abuse fatality by the department, must notify the following people: Lawmakers who represent the district where the child died, the speaker of the Louisiana House and president of the Senate, and chairs of the House and Senate health committees. n All child deaths determined to be caused by abuse or neglect will now be reviewed by a “critical incident review team.” The Attorney General’s Office will chair the review team, which will meet quarterly and evaluate how deaths could have been prevented. n Children reported as having experienced physical or sexual abuse will now be interviewed by a trained interviewer at a children’s advocacy center, which have teams of professionals that handle investigation and prosecution of child abuse. n It will have a new law enforcement liaison position that will be a link between the department and law enforcement agencies and facilitate any joint investigations.

The ombudsman, a position created in 2023 in response to criticism of the department, works in the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s

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Office and independently reviews child welfare problems and other child-related issues throughout the state.

Earlier in the session, the

One of the child welfare agency’s chief critics this year was state Sen. Patrick McMath, R-Covington. Earlier in the session, he pushed to dismantle the department and put child welfare functions under the purview of the state Health Department, Louisiana State Police and the Attorney General’s Office.

After he unveiled that plan in April, it quickly became clear he lacked buy-in from Gov. Jeff Landry, however.

McMath said SB237 “will move the needle in the right direction when it comes to improving child welfare in the state.” That’s in part because the legislation should lead to more investigations of child abuse and neglect

incidents and, thus, fewer child deaths, he said.

Nonetheless, he said state officials should still entertain dismantling the agency.

There are “significant structural flaws” in the way the department operates, McMath said, and lawmakers should still “seriously consider” folding it into a larger state Department of Health and Human Services that handles both public health and child welfare.

McMath said that, to make that kind of major structural change, buy-in from the legislative and executive branches of government is necessary.

“We didn’t have that this session,” he said.

Barrow argued that, while the child welfare agency has always had problems, it’s currently at a low point. She said she “is not opposed” to a plan that would fold it into the Health Department.

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Oil prices rise as U.S. stocks set records

NEW YORK — Oil prices rose Monday following the latest fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, but Wall Street isn’t very worried, and U.S. stocks ticked to more records.

The S&P 500 added 0.3% to its prior all-time high set on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 46 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite climbed 0.4% to likewise set records.

A slight majority of U.S. stocks actually fell, including companies with big fuel bills hurt by higher oil prices. United Airlines lost 2.6%, and Alaska Air Group fell 3.3% after the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil climbed 4.2% to settle at $94.98. That clawed back a chunk of Brent’s loss from last week and means it’s still well above its price of roughly $70 from before the war.

Expensive oil has already sent inflation higher, which increases not only bills for households but also yields in the bond market. High yields worldwide recently have threatened to slow economies and undercut prices for stocks and all kinds of other investments.

But yields regressed during the day after oil prices came off their highest levels. That eased some of the pressure on Wall Street, and the Russell 2000 index of the smallest U.S. stocks went from a loss of 1.3% back to roughly even before finishing with a dip of 0.5%. Small companies can feel the pinch of higher borrowing costs in particular because of the need for many to borrow to grow.

Nvidia bets on chips for AI personal computers TAIPEI, Taiwan — Nvidia on Monday unveiled new powerful chips that would bring advanced artificial intelligence functions into laptops and desktop computers, with the new personal computer models from brands including Microsoft and Dell set to roll out later this year.

While Santa Clara, Californiabased Nvidia has already been massively successful in supplying highend chips for data centers riding the worldwide AI demand boom, it is plotting different plans to expand its presence across AI systems and products.

Jensen Huang, the TaiwaneseAmerican founder and CEO of Nvidia, made the announcement in Taipei at the annual Nvidia GTC event. Microsoft and Nvidia “are going to reinvent the PC (personal computer),” he said in his keynote speech.

“This is going to be the new PC,” Huang said as he unveiled Nvidia’s RTX Spark superchip — which combines CPU, or central processing unit, and GPU, or graphics processing unit, capabilities — that would power new Windows laptop and desktop computer models in what the company called “AI personal computers,” expected to debut in the fall of this year.

Nvidia is already the world’s most valuable company, ahead of Apple, Google’s parent Alphabet and Microsoft. Its new superchips for PCs will challenge chipmaking rivals including Intel and AMD. Nvidia’s shares were up nearly 4% in early U.S. trading, while Intel and AMD both fell more than 3%.

New CEO makes first Berkshire Hathaway deal OMAHA, Neb. — Berkshire Hathaway’s new CEO Greg Abel hinted that he may depart from Warren Buffett’s longtime hands-off operating model at the conglomerate as he announced a $6.8 billion acquisition of homebuilder Taylor Morrison.

Abel suggested in the deal announcement he plans to consolidate Taylor Morrison with Berkshire’s existing site-built homebuilding operations that are part of its Clayton Homes subsidiary. For six decades under Buffett, Berkshire promised to largely leave companies alone after it acquired them and allow the executives to keep running the dayto-day operations the same way.

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Anthropic races toward Wall Street debut

BY MATT O’BRIEN

AP Technology Writer Artificial intelligence company Anthropic is moving toward going public on Wall Street, the latest chapter in its meteoric rise from a little-known research laboratory to one of the leading AI companies valued at $965 billion.

Anthropic said Monday it has submitted a confidential filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering of its common stock.

“This gives us the option to go public after the SEC completes its review,” Anthropic said in a brief statement. “The proposed initial public offering will depend on market conditions and other factors.”

The company said it hasn’t decided on the number or price of

shares to be offered.

Anthropic said last week it had raised $65 billion in private funding that will push its valuation to $965 billion, a whopping number that makes the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot one of the world’s most valuable startups.

Anthropic now has vaulted ahead of its chief rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, not only in market value and reported revenue but also on the path to becoming a publicly traded company.

“I think we were all expecting OpenAI to go first, so it was a little bit surprising,” said Patrick Corrigan, a law professor at Notre Dame University who studies IPOs. “Public investors are going to be comparing them roughly around the same time, and so there seems to be a bit of a first movers’ advantage here.”

Anthropic said it’s now making

annualized revenue of $47 billion from selling its technology to people and organizations using Claude to write code and do other work and personal tasks on their behalf.

Anthropic was formed in 2021 by ex-OpenAI leaders and now both AI firms, along with Elon Musk’s rocket and AI company SpaceX, are all expected to become publicly traded. All three have been losing more money than they make, fueling concerns of an AI bubble.

Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives said Anthropic’s move marks a major step for the company to get ahead of OpenAI and “an opening of the floodgates for the IPO market, which has been relatively dormant for a few years, with these three major conglomerates set to go public later this year.”

Corrigan said the race between

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Anthropic, OpenAI and SpaceX resembles in some ways the rush by startups to go public in the early internet era. Some of those companies — like Amazon — did well, and others infamously failed during the dot-com crash but still left new technology that changed society and work life.

Claude’s growing popularity has left OpenAI playing catch-up despite its early lead in making ChatGPT a household name that sparked a commercial AI boom.

Anthropic also last week launched its newest AI model, called Claude Opus 4.8, boasting that it is even better at coding and other professional work than previous models.

OpenAI last reported in March it was heading toward a $852 billion valuation after a $122 billion fundraising round. It has not yet reported filing initial IPO paperwork with the SEC.

Florida sues OpenAI, CEO Sam Altman Company accused of concealing serious risks of ChatGPT

BY JOSH BOAK

Associated Press

BY DAVID FISCHER

WASHINGTON — The world is getting more uptight about lending money to President Donald Trump’s government — causing interest rates to climb in ways that are worsening affordability pressures, hampering economic growth and creating a new risk for Republicans in November’s midterm elections.

The energy price spike triggered by the Iran war has seeped into the price of bonds that help fund the U.S. government. Interest rates on a 10year U.S. Treasury note are topping 4.44%, up from 3.95% before the war started at the end of February. Average mortgage rates have climbed to their highest levels in nine months, while auto sales are slumping.

The challenge is global in scale, as interest rates have risen for multiple countries as the world has been adjusting to the prospect of higher inflation, mounting questions about the sustainability of government debt and a dramatic surge in investment in artificial intelligence.

Trump has tried to assure Americans that he has a plan to trim the roughly $1.8 trillion annual budget deficit. In the past, he has pointed to revenue from tariffs, payments from foreigners for his “Gold Card” visa, spending cuts made by the Department of Government Efficiency, and faster economic growth. Last week, he said the fraud task force led by Vice President JD Vance would be the key to unlocking massive savings.

“If he does really great, we’ll have a balanced budget without having to do anything,” Trump said.

Economists say Trump’s strategies to meaningfully curb the deficit are unlikely to deliver the promised results.

The cost of servicing the national debt has tripled since 2021 to more than $1 trillion annually, said Jessica Riedl, a budget and tax fellow at the Brookings Institution.

“President Trump signed a tax cut bill that will likely add $5 trillion to 10-year deficits — and tariffs are offsetting only a small fraction of those costs,” she said. “Budget deficits are still projected to soar past $4 trillion annually within a decade under current policies.”

Deficits are expected to grow over the next decade as the costs of Social Security and Medicare outstrip tax revenues.

The 10-year U.S. Treasury rate climbed as high as 4.67% in the middle of May and has since

MIAMI — The state of Florida filed a lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman on Monday, claiming the company knowingly released and aggressively marketed ChatGPT to the public while concealing serious risks.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said during a news con- Altman ference that the company suppressed internal safety warnings and deceived users about the true nature and dangers of the product. He said Florida was the first state to sue OpenAI. “Today, we announced the first-in-thenation state-led lawsuit against OpenAI and its CEO, Sam Altman,” Uthmeier said.

“OpenAI and Altman ignored internal and external safety warnings, put children at great risk, and allowed a dangerous product to reach millions of Floridians.”

The lawsuit filed in Florida circuit court references two separate shootings where the alleged gunmen were reported to have asked ChatGPT questions while planning their crimes. OpenAI said in a statement that its models repeatedly encouraged the individuals to seek realworld support, including from mental health professionals. The company also said it has cooperated with law enforcement in both cases.

“ChatGPT is a general-purpose tool used by hundreds of millions of people every day for legitimate purposes,” an OpenAI statement said. “We work continuously to strengthen our safeguards to detect harmful intent, limit misuse, and respond appropriately when safety risks arise.”

In April, Uthmeier opened a criminal investigation into OpenAI over whether ChatGPT offered advice to a gunman who killed two people and wounded six others last year at Florida State University. And in another case, prosecutors have said the man charged with killing two University of South Florida doctoral students had asked ChatGPT what would happen if a human body was put in a garbage bag and thrown in a dumpster, days before they went missing.

Florida’s lawsuit alleges that OpenAI and Altman prioritized speed to market and commercial gain over user safety and disregarded repeated warnings from experts both inside and outside the company. The lawsuit claims the company deployed a product that facilitates and encourages harm, including self-harm and violence, while falsely assuring users it was safe.

The complaint also alleges that ChatGPT collects data from minors without meaningful parental oversight, as well as causes behavioral addiction and cognitive harm. The company has also actively downplayed dangerous errors, the suit said.

Florida law prohibits unfair and defective trade practices, officials said. The complaint alleges that OpenAI’s conduct causes ongoing harm to Floridians and demands accountability.

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eased as negotiations over the Iran ceasefire continued — just as rates initially climbed in 2025 because of Trump’s “Liberation Day” tariffs and then began to decline once Trump backed off the most extreme increases.

When Kent Smetters, faculty director of the Penn Wharton Budget Model, broke down the math tied to rising 30-year Treasury yields, he estimated that 60% of the increase had come from the expectation that America will continue its outsized borrowing and the other 40% was tied to the inflation driven by the Iran war and Trump’s tariffs.

Glenn Hubbard, a former chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers during the George W. Bush administration, worries that the U.S. may no longer have the same borrowing capacity as before to effectively combat an economic crisis, such as the 2008 crash or the coronavirus pandemic.

“I don’t think we have the space that we had in 2008 or 2020 to deal with it,” said Hubbard, now a professor at Columbia University’s Business School. “Washington doesn’t seem to be full of ideas — good or bad — to solve it.”

Higher interest rates are giving Democratic candidates in the races to determine control of the House and Senate another line of attack at a time when voters are concerned about high costs for food and gasoline.

In Colorado’s 5th Congressional district, Democrat Jessica Killin is leaning into the message that the persistent deficits

and higher interest rates make it harder to buy or renovate a home, afford a new car or manage credit card debt.

“Things are already expensive,” said Killin, an Army veteran who was a top aide to Doug Emhoff, the former second gentleman. “We can already talk about gas, but the cost of borrowing only makes that worse.”

Joe Reagan, an Army veteran also seeking the Democratic nomination, said in an email that he is talking “a lot about fiscal stewardship” in his campaign.

“Every dollar spent paying interest is a dollar that isn’t being invested in infrastructure, education, veterans’ services, or economic growth,” he said.

They are challenging Republican Rep. Jeff Crank in a district that their party views as a potential pickup. Killin said the deficit is an example of how “Trump says one thing and does the opposite.”

In his March 2025 address to Congress, Trump declared that “in the near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years: balance the federal budget. We’re going to balance it.”

Crank, the Republican incumbent, did not reply to requests for comment.

The administration maintains that it is going to steadily reduce budget deficits. As a share of the overall economy, the deficit last year was lower than it was in 2024, though that drop depended in part on tariff revenues that are subject to refunds after the Supreme Court ruled them to be illegal.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent last week cited a report showing that there was as much as $500 billion annually in fraudulent government spending that could be eliminated, “so that would reduce the deficit substantially.”

Bessent appeared to draw that conclusion from a 2024 report by the Government Accountability Office that estimated there had been between $233 billion to $521 billion each year in fraudulent spending.

But those numbers were drawn in part from the pandemic era when the government borrowed heavily to stabilize the economy.

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Two weeks later, in a letter to the commission, Benson Automotive Group President Jerald Moisant challenged the move, writing that the “proposed relocation to a prime commercial location across from Lakeside Shopping Center and at the Causeway Boulevard intersection will cannibalize Best Chevrolet’s existing sales and service business.”

Under state law, dealerships can challenge a new dealership if it is within 5 miles of their locations.

Best Chevrolet’s location, at 2600 Veterans Blvd. in Kenner, is 4.8 miles from Bowers’ proposed new site.

“This prime location would position MBC Metairie to intercept customers who currently patronize Best Chevrolet for sales and service,” Moisant wrote.

Bowers declined to comment.

The dispute comes as Bowers continues an aggressive expansion spree, growing his holdings to 14 dealerships in six states with more on the way, and bringing new competition to an automotive market challenged by rising vehicle costs, high gas prices, a slower-than-expected embrace of electric vehicles and inflation.

Benson Automotive Group, a long-dominant player, has eight dealerships in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Benson and Banner owner Rick Flick, who has two locations in the greater New Orleans market, declined to comment for this story.

Objections GM’s letter to the LMVC in March signaled Bowers’ and the automakers’ intent to create a new use for the property along a stretch of Veterans Boulevard that is home to retailers, restaurants and offices but no auto dealers.

Moisant, in his objection, challenged the move on a couple of grounds. He argued that by help-

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But critics got few answers for a revision that abandons a “last in, first out” edict for deciding which three judges to cut from the criminal courthouse in New Orleans.

Previous versions of SB217 aimed to remove three of 12 criminal district judges through seniority; those with the least would be out first. Slated for removal were the recent winner of the vacant Section “J” seat, Judge John Fuller, then Roche and Judge Simone Levine.

Roche was a veteran public defender when he lost to Levine in a 2023 race before winning his seat on the bench later that year. The surprise move to pull him from the chopping block and add Goode-Douglas generated suspicions over the rationale.

“The House was not remotely involved in these decisions,” said Rep. Mandie Landry, D-New Orleans.

“I don’t know what’s going on here. We’ve been told ‘last in, first out’ this entire time. Somehow that was just thrown in the garbage. No one knows why.”

House members passed the legislation nevertheless, by a 62-34 vote. SB217 also clears the way for reductions of two juvenile court judges and a pair of seats on the New Orleans Municipal and Traffic Court bench. Orleans Parish Civil District Court, originally slated to lose a judgeship, was spared.

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General Motors has approved a plan to move the Matt Bowers Chevrolet dealership to the site of the former Kmart discount store in Metairie. ing a rival dealer move into Best Chevrolet’s established market territory, GM is favoring one franchisee over another and giving Bowers increased access to customers in the affluent 70002 and 70005 ZIP codes.

Moisant also argued that having two Chevrolet dealerships on the same road would result in market confusion.

“Best Chevrolet has invested millions of dollars advertising itself as the Chevrolet dealership on Veterans Memorial Boulevard,” he wrote. “Permitting MBC Metairie to relocate to Veterans would effectively constitute a hijacking of Best Chevrolet’s substantial marketing investment.”

The Bowers team has not filed a rebuttal to the objections to its proposed move.

Goode-Douglas, a former prosecutor who won office in 2020, reached Gov. Landry before the bill itself. He was swift to react, saying he was familiar with her track record.

“Nobody called and asked me. If they would have, I would’ve told them that’s ridiculous,” the governor said.

“They’re taking the best judge off the bench.”

Now Landry is the only person with veto power to stop it. The governor made reforms to the judiciary a priority as he kicked off the legislative session, and he has vowed in the past to sign the bill. Following Monday’s amendments, he said he can’t guarantee it until he reviews its final form.

Family ties questioned Among the questions raised by critics of the move was about Roche’s relationship to Sen. Gary Carter, who is part of a New Orleans delegation that has been negotiating with the bill’s author, Sen. Jay Morris, on broad Republican plans to shrink the courts in New Orleans.

Roche and Carter are cousins, Carter confirmed in an interview Monday. He insisted he didn’t campaign for Roche to hold onto his judicial robes.

“The decisions about judges, these were decisions made by the governor and his administration, that I was opposed to. That I fought with everything I had every step of the way,” Carter said.

Calling the speculation “offensive,” Carter said he’s also cousins with City Council President JP Morrell and Criminal District Judge Tracey Flemings-Davillier, and a nephew to U.S. Rep. Troy Carter.

Morris, R-West Monroe, credited the governor’s office and the New Orleans

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Banner Chevrolet, located at 5950 Chef Menteur Highway in New Orleans East, objected to Bowers’ proposed relocation for different reasons.

In the dealership’s formal objection letter filed March 31, attorney Claude F. Reynaud said that Flick has been asking GM to help him find a new location for the last 15 years, ever since market conditions in New Orleans East changed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.

Last August, Reynaud wrote, GM officials suggested Flick move the dealership to St. Bernard Parish, an idea he considered unreasonable based on the metro area’s established shopping patterns. Now, according to Reynaud, the dealership suspects another motive.

“GM’s nonsensical suggestion that Banner Chevrolet relocate to

delegation for the decision to swap in Goode-Douglas over Roche. But Gov. Landry denied any involvement in the late amendments.

Sen. Jimmy Harris, considered the “dean” of the New Orleans delegation, did not respond to calls Monday.

Proponents of the reshaped bill offered little explanation on the House floor for a change that first emerged over the weekend from the conference committee.

“Who made the decision to deviate from the first-in, lastout (approach)?” asked Rep. Kyle Green, D-Marrero.

“The Senate ultimately made the decision in terms of abolishing which ones,” said Rep. Jerome Zeringue, R-Houma, who was a member of the conference committee. Zeringue first told fellow members that senators selected judges to remove by those with the least seniority.

All three seats would go away at the end of the year under the bill. All of the judgeships in criminal court are up for reelection in the fall.

Rep. Candace Newell, D-New Orleans, regarded Goode-Douglas among the most efficient judges on the criminal court bench in Orleans Parish.

Skipping seniority Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue, a former Orleans Parish prosecutor who had earlier testified alongside Rep. Dixon McMakin, R-Baton Rouge, in support of the House version, said she did so with the understanding that the last judges to take office would be first to go.

“That’s what we testified to, because then there was a basis for the selection of judges that was not arbitrary or political,” she said.

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politan Crime Commission, criticized the move as a de facto impeachment.

“They bypassed four less senior judges to get to Goode-Douglas. To me, I think that is tantamount to legislative cherry-picking,” Goyeneche said. “It has politicized this whole thing.

If this is about determining the workload and what’s the proper workload, it should not allow politics to get involved in it.”

In a statement, Roche’s campaign team said the Legislature’s moves this session to remove judges, abolish the Criminal Clerk’s Office and strip funding from the District Attorney’s Office weakens the justice system in New Orleans amid historic lows in many categories

of violence.

“The Republican attacks on New Orleans’ justice system from Baton Rouge were never based in logic, rhyme, or reason from the start,” said Tyronne Walker, Roche’s campaign manager.

“As everyone knows, the local judges, elected officials, and advocates were unified in opposition to this bill and all attacks on the right of New Orleanians to choose their public servants.”

Broader goals in sight SB217 is part of a trio of bills by Morris aimed at bringing New Orleans in line with the rest of the state in the size and scale of its judiciary. Critics argue the moves are part of a veiled power grab by Republicans

and Landry over New Orleans affairs.

The bill headed to the governor’s desk on the same day the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld a bill authored by Morris that handed former Orleans Parish Civil Clerk Chelsey Napoleon parishwide clerk duties at the expense of Calvin Duncan, a former life prisoner who’s newly won seat as criminal clerk was abolished.

Morris also sponsored Senate Bill 197, which cleared the Legislature and would slash two of 12 judges from the New Orleans-based 4th Circuit Court of Appeal by the end of 2031. Gov. Landry had not signed the bill as of Monday, according to Secretary of State’s Office records.

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Chalmette was to [sic] deliberate attempt to move Banner Chevrolet farther away to pave the way for the Bower Chevrolet relocation,” the attorney wrote.

Even though the proposed Bowers dealership is outside Banner’s protected 5-mile radius, Reynaud argued that bringing a competitor with a “new, state-of-the-art showroom” 5.5 miles closer to Banner would “siphon off a good number of Banner Chevrolet’s customers and impede Banner Chevrolet’s ability to compete in the market.”

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to move his dealership to 3609 Veterans Blvd. The proposal was ultimately withdrawn.

It’s also not the first time Bowers, 48, a New Orleans native who said his growing automotive empire grosses more than $1 billion annually, has clashed with the Benson Group.

In 2024, Benson alleged that executives from carmaker Nissan Motor Company and Bowers conspired to sabotage her deal to buy Nissan and Infiniti dealerships in south Mississippi and Metairie from the Ray Brandt Auto Group.

A hearing on this latest dispute by the commission was set for April 22, but the commission agreed to postpone it by at least six months at the request of Best Chevrolet and Banner Chevrolet, which requested more time to gather data.

Industry experts say in cases like this, dealers protesting the move will try to prove measurable economic harm or clear encroachment onto their turf. Advocates for the move will tout increased consumer access and new facilities.

The three-member hearing committee — all appointed by the governor — will weigh support from the manufacturer in its decisionmaking process.

Appeals of the committee’s decision would go to the 24th Judicial District Court in Jefferson Parish, though it’s possible the parties could agree to a settlement before that.

If the commission approves the move, Bowers will have to seek permits and site review approval from Jefferson Parish.

Jefferson Parish Council member Hans Liljeberg, whose district includes the former Kmart property, said he’d be happy to see the property back in commerce.

“We will work with them and their neighbors in an attempt to accommodate everyone,” he said in an interview last week. “Matt Bowers’ people have been in contact with us, but they have not submitted anything formally.”

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A few weeks after a man named Vince began documenting what he found on his daily walks through London, I discovered his Instagram account, “Until Found.” His project rests on the goal of finding a real diamond.

In the meantime, he finds a variety of other things — Lego flowers, broken charms of dancing ladies, silver bird charms, wooden beads, earring backs, zipper pulls and lots of buttons.

He makes beautiful videos of his finds. His voice is soothing. Each of the videos I watched ended with the same three words: “No diamond today.”

One hundred days in, Vince did a recap. We learned that he actually found a diamond on day four.

Over the 100 days, he took roughly a million steps (about 10,000 per walk). Along the way, he collected 3,786 objects. He even takes some of his finds and casts them into new jewelry pieces.

His process made me wonder: What would a daily walk reveal here?

I’ve never noticed a broken dancing-lady charm on a Louisiana sidewalk. Is that because they aren’t there? Or because I’m not looking?

Granted, Louisiana is not London, with its centuries of lost jewelry and cobblestone crevices, but in New Orleans? In Baton Rouge?

Surely, there would be interesting things.

Only one way to find out.

I challenged myself to walk every day for a week and to look down along the way. I made a few rules. The first: only nonorganic matter. That rule lasted until day five, when I found a perfect ginkgo leaf. On day seven, I added two tiny bird feathers.

The second rule: I would not pick up anything obviously dangerous or gross. That one held without effort.

Memorial Day was my first walk looking down — and it was humbling. I covered familiar ground in our neighborhood, followed by exploring the backside of Baton Rouge’s City Park (the other side of Dalrymple), a place I had never been.

I love going places I’ve never been, even those close to home, but along the way, I found very little.

By day seven, things emerged from the pavement much more easily. Spotting so many things on day seven reminded me of the way we see shapes in a Magic Eye poster once the brain adjusts.

Seven days produced 72 items across four walks in Baton Rouge, two in New Orleans — and 30 rocks on a creekside in Mississippi. The finds tell the stories of their surroundings.

The New Orleans walk to see the tall ships yielded a broken Christmas light, Budweiser bottle cap, Sutter Home screw cap — and the strangest find of the week, a tiny handmade pillow (with a tag confirming its handmade-ness) that was meant to look like a piece of toast. Velvety fabric, little felt legs, a stitched face — sitting on a New Orleans street corner.

On the next day on the other side of town, I found a Delgado Community College alumni ribbon that I hope someone didn’t regret dropping.

The creekside walk offered only rocks, which turned out to be a gift. So many shapes, so many sizes, so many shades of gray and rust. Deciding on which rocks to choose was delightful, yielding the most peaceful of the seven.

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Vote on hotel incentive punted Legislators balk at 45-year tax break for the Omni

BY JONAH MEADOWS Staff writer

For the second time in two months, state lawmakers have balked at approving a major tax incentive for the Omni New Orleans, the planned 1,000-room “headquarters” hotel for the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center that local officials contend is critical to attracting conventions and major events like the Super Bowl.

Last week, a key legislative

committee that controls taxes and spending decided not to take up a measure seeking to redirect nearly a half-century of state sales taxes generated by the new hotel back to its developer, citing ongoing concerns about the incentive, worth an estimated $265 million over the hotel’s first 45 years of operation.

“It’s created a lot of questions, and I use the word ‘angst,’ with legislators, so it was just best at this time to put it off again,” Rep.

Jack McFarland, a Republican from Jonesboro and vice chair of the Joint Legislative Committee on the Budget, said on Thursday.

“They need to go back to the drawing board.”

In April, following 20 minutes of questioning, the same committee deferred a vote on the incentive, saying the deal raised too many questions that Convention Center officials were not able to answer.

In the weeks since, backers of the $550 million project say they have

met with lawmakers to make the case that the incentive is needed to help finalize the deal, noting that the sales taxes at issue would not exist but for the hotel.

But McFarland, who also chairs the powerful House Appropriations Committee, said “right now, there are still a lot of concerns with the tax benefits and the sacrifice of public dollars.”

On Friday, Convention Center President and CEO Jim Cook acknowledged that the terms of the deal will have to be adjusted

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People wait for a streetcar in a passing afternoon rain shower, a normal summer occurrence in New Orleans, as a Hop-On Hop-Off sightseeing bus passes through the intersection of Washington and St. Charles avenues in New Orleans recently.

Chicago company buys The Exchange Facility opened at height of pickleball craze

BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

Three years after opening The Exchange Pickleball + Bar in the Lower Garden District, local attorney Renée Melchiode has sold her popular venue to the parent company behind Chicago’s largest pickleball club.

The Exchange will be the first location outside of the Chicago area for the company, Clear Skies Hospitality, which operates three pickleball facilities in the Windy City under the Social, Pickleball, Fun brand, said Clear Skies’ co-founder Rich Green in a phone interview Monday.

Green doesn’t plan to change the name or the existing management team at The Exchange, he said, though he is adding new programming and new technology — including TVs with instant replay on every court and an artificial intelligence-assisted ball machine.

He’s also planning to add more outdoor activities in the fall.

“Our initial emphasis is on improving the player experience, things we can do to make the game more fun, more competitive,” Green said. “But one of

the first things we want to do is to meet with the players and listen to them about what they would like to see.”

Clear Skies purchased The Exchange in two separate transactions that were finalized on May 22. It bought the 26,000-squarefoot venue on Rousseau Street in the Lower Garden District that houses The Exchange for $5.2 million, courthouse records show.

It bought the business for an undisclosed price.

Melchiode’s attorney Mike Sherman, who handled the transaction, said Melchiode decided to sell because, “It was her dream, she fulfilled it and it was obvious that to continue moving it forward to the next level, she needed to scale.”

In a statement, Melchiode, who is traveling, said The Exchange has been “far more than a business venture for me — it has been a labor of love and a place where friendships have been formed and community has truly been created.”

Though Melchiode’s was not the first pickleball venue in the metro area, it was the first in the city and the first in the area to combine an air-conditioned facility with six indoor courts, an outdoor court, bar and restaurant.

It opened at the height of the

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Hammond cop embroiled in Miss. cockfighting sting Officer accused of retaliating against informant after uncle arrested

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A member of Hammond law enforcement was charged in a federal criminal complaint in Mississippi, accusing him of retaliating against a confidential informant in a Bay St. Louis cockfighting sting resulting in the arrests of multiple people, including the police officer’s uncle.

Denver Keith Golmon, 37, made an initial appearance Wednesday

in federal court in Gulfport, Mississippi, where U.S. Magistrate Judge Robert Myers ordered him held without bail pending a detention hearing. He was arrested Wednesday by the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation and Homeland Security Investigations agents in Gulfport.

The investigation began shortly after HSI agents received a tip in February 2025 about a cockfighting derby in Bay St. Louis, records show.

During the investigation, a confidential informant equipped with a camera attended the derby and collected video evidence, along with other Homeland Security agents. Golmon was supposed to

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Ex-employee accused of $500K theft Former event production company worker arrested

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The former financial controller for an Elmwood event production company has been arrested after she allegedly stole more than $500,000 from the business, ac-

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before the matter is brought back to lawmakers, which won’t happen until at least July, when the committee meets next.

“We don’t know what that form will take when we get there,” Cook said.

Cook said his team has met with committee members multiple times in an effort to convince them that the hotel project is key to the economic viability of both the city and the state.

“This isn’t just that we thought it’d be nice to have an Omni next door,” he said. “This is that our customers are telling us that, to stay competitive, we need to have a headquarters hotel right at the Convention Center.”

Inventive incentives The developments are the latest setback for a long-sought project that hospitality officials say will determine the future of New Orleans’ tourism-dependent economy.

The developer, Dallas-based Omni Hotels & Resorts, is proposing to build a 27-story hotel adjacent to the Convention Center and the planned River District neighborhood that would lead to “up to 27 new events and conventions,” according to Convention Center representatives.

Plans for the dedicated head-

cording to authorities.

Michelle Esquerre Stroud, 57, was extradited from San Antonio and booked May 27 on a count of theft valued over $25,000 and bank fraud, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

A criminal investigation was opened in March after the owner of Event Producers Inc. discovered Stroud, an employee, had been making unauthorized purchases on a company credit card,

according to the Sheriff’s Office.

Stroud handled accounting and payroll in her position with the business, according to a company social media post. She’d been employed there for about nine years but began working remotely from Texas in 2025, the Sheriff’s Office said.

Event Producers officials reviewed company credit card statements and determined that Stroud made more than $100,000 worth of unauthorized purchases

in 2025, alone, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

After reviewing statements between 2019 and 2026, Stroud was accused of theft in the amount of $500,094, according to court records. No other details were immediately available.

Stroud was released from the Jefferson Parish jail in Gretna on Thursday on $500,000 bail.

quarters hotel include an agreement that would set aside about 800 rooms to be available for Convention Center events, which would give meeting planners the kind of large, guaranteed room block that rival destinations like Nashville and Atlanta already offer.

But the project is controversial and complex, with several layers of financial incentives and approvals from various city and state agencies. Both have come under scrutiny in recent months.

In addition to decades of nonroom state sales tax rebates, the Convention Center’s governing body has pledged Omni $80 million upfront and purchased the land for the hotel site between Convention Center Boulevard and South Peters Street for about $21 million.

The Convention Center’s development agreement with Omni also calls for the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, which oversees the Superdome and other publicly owned facilities, to rebate its 4% hotel tax on rooms at the hotel for its first 45 years in operation. The district initially said no to those terms, arguing that it needed to maintain borrowing capacity for renovations to the Smoothie King Center, district board Chair Robert Vosbein said.

“We have, however, been in recent discussions on this issue and are looking into all options to enable both the Smoothie King Center renovations and the Omni to go forward as planned,” Vosbein said

in a statement.

A report issued last year by the Bureau of Governmental Research found that both the state and the district would each sacrifice more than $250 million in tax revenue and could keep subsidizing the hotel long after its developer had met its profit goals. Depending on how tax revenue generated many years into the future is valued, the public’s contribution would amount to somewhere between about a third and more than half of the project’s $600 million price tag, the report found.

Project backers contend much of that money comes from revenue that would not exist without the hotel, pointing to a study that found it will generate more than $15 million in new city and state tax revenue every year.

“We’re trying to help them understand why it looks the way it does today and how that particular model was what was necessary to give Omni the comfort to bring this development capital and to take this risk,” Cook said.

If the Convention Center is unable to secure an incentive package equivalent in value to the one included in the agreement, it will need to find another way to come up with the money — or risk Omni walking away from the deal.

“If anything changes relative to what we’re able to get approval for, we’ll have to understand the impact of that and see if there’s an alternative way to get to what was agreed with Omni,” Cook said.

Representatives of Omni’s parent company, TRT Holdings, said in a statement they’re ready to move forward with what would be one of the largest public-private partnerships in state history, though they did not to say how much they’re willing to negotiate on the value of the incentive package.

“We respect the diligence of state leaders as they review the agreement and remain confident in the project’s merits,” the statement said. “The development remains on track, provided approvals are secured this summer to allow critical foundation work to proceed before seasonal high river conditions.”

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It’s unclear whether the sentiment expressed by McFarland and others at the Capitol represents a mere hurdle or a more significant roadblock for the project.

The Legislature has been preoccupied in recent weeks by redistricting battles that have intensified partisanship at the Capitol and deals like the Omni incentive have been pushed to the side amid larger political battles.

Cook said Convention Center officials are trying to determine what changes to the state sales tax rebate plan are needed to make lawmakers comfortable with ap- Email Jonah Meadows at jonah. meadows@theadvocate.com. proving the project.

RISHER

Continued from page 1B Still, every one of my 72 finds produced a small jolt.

Not a jolt of discovery exactly — more like the feeling of being let in on something. The ground had been there, holding so much. The simple act of looking made the objects visible.

My favorite find was near a school. It’s a piece of frayed braided rope with a clip attached — old, worn, the kind of thing that looks like it once belonged to something that mattered but was discarded after years of use.

The week’s collection tells multiple stories.

Three National WWII Museum tags. A bright yellow fishing bobber. A dirty rubber ball the color of old brick. A golf ball to match the fishing bobber. A rule-breaking ginkgo leaf. Bottle caps and broken beads and one improbable piece of toast.

In London, Vince averaged more than 37 finds a day. His walks were two to three times as long as mine.

Meanwhile, I averaged less than eight finds per walk.

He finds charms shaped like animal limbs and tiny ornate objects that look as though they may have fallen from Victorian jewelry.

Louisiana finds are messier, more industrial, more beer-adjacent.

Both tell the stories of the places they are.

The process hasn’t created a certain, profound truth — but it has

CHICAGO

Continued from page 1B nation’s pickleball craze, which caught fire in the aftermath of the pandemic, and became an instant hit in New Orleans, growing at about 5% a month, Melchiode said in fall 2024, far exceeding expectations.

Green said the business has continued to grow, though he could not say by how much.

By some measures, the nation’s love affair with the sport could be cooling. According to a report last month from Axios, the number of pickleball courts across the 100 largest U.S. cities is not growing as rapidly as it had been, increasing about 4% from 2025 to 2026, compared to 13% last year and 14% in 2024.

At the same time, other reports

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Jan Risher took a walk each day for a week and looked down, picking up the odds and ends she found along the way. Here is the collection of the 72 items she found, including a tiny smiling toast pillow. been fun. A week of looking down proved that attention is a muscle and produced enough small jolts

of joy to recommend the practice to anyone with a half-hour and a bag.

The ground beneath everyday feet holds the score.

No diamond today.

note, while the sport is maturing, professionalization is accelerating, broadcast exposure is growing, and national brands and private equity firms are investing in facilities and venues across the country, bringing pickleball to an ever wider audience.

Green said he believes as the sport becomes more established, “the environment improves — for us, for guests, for everyday players.”

coln Park neighborhood. The 42,000-square-foot facility features nine indoor courts with instant replay technology, a smoothie and coffee bar and spa. It also features activities like cornhole, bocce, air hockey and pool.

Social, Pickleball, Fun’s second location in Chicago’s Old Irving Park is open 24/7 and bills itself as the city’s first “autonomous location.” A third SPF will open later this year in West Loop.

Green said he wants to bring some of the technology and amenities he’s implemented at Social, Pickleball, Fun to The Exchange. They include offering more personal instruction and coaching and more open play to better match players with those who share their goals for the game.

“Some people want a social game. Others want the best game possible,” he said. “So, we can

implement certain programming to create the best game for everyone.”

Green said he started talking to Melchiode about buying The Exchange after meeting her at a convention last fall.

“We really hit it off and later, she came to me and asked if we had any interest,” he said. “I have always loved New Orleans and I was like, ‘Let’s walk down that path.’ ” “The first time I visited, I knew it was a good fit,” he added.

Melchiode said selling is bittersweet.

“While it’s not easy to pass the torch, I am excited about the future and grateful to everyone who helped make The Exchange what it is today.”

Amenities, technology Green founded Clear Skies Hospitality shortly after the pandemic, around the same time Melchiode was planning The Exchange. They were both, he said, inspired by the same Fort Worth, Texas, pickleball facility, Courtside Kitchen.

His first Social, Pickleball, Fun opened in 2024 in Chicago’s Lin-

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Continued from page 1B attend the derby but backed out at the last minute, authorities said.

Federal agents later arrested people accused of being connected to the derby, including Bert Lester, Golmon’s uncle.

Soon after the arrests, federal investigators learned that video evidence collected during the cockfighting investigation was being shared in a recording.

Homeland Security agents later obtained the video, which they said showed a man matching Golmon’s description using a cellphone to record video evidence on a laptop computer.

The laptop had a sticker reading “Property of the city of Hammond LA 7873.”

Authorities later determined that Lester was among those arrested when HSI agents executed a May 3, 2025, search warrant tied to the operation, dubbed Bayou Blue Birds.

During a search of Golmon’s phone records, agents said they found text messages, photographs and videos of conversations between Golmon and his uncle about cockfighting derbies and law enforcement records. Federal investigators determined that Golmon distributed recorded footage of the video evidence HSI agents collected during the cockfighting investigation.

In text messages, Golmon referred to the confidential informant as “always a snake” and a “rat,” authorities said. Investigators also cited one recording in which they said Golmon described sending video evidence showing the informant’s camera recording evidence for authorities. Golmon encouraged those he shared the footage with to distribute it to people questioning whether the informant was cooperating with authorities, investigators said.

“These are the people I want to see it,” Golmon allegedly said in a text message to one person.

“I want everybody to see that it was this motherf***** and I just recorded bits and pieces.”

Golmon instructed people not to identify him as the person who recorded the evidence, authorities said. “Please whatever you do, don’t tell anybody where you got it from,” one exchange reads. “I don’t want anyone to know it came from me.”

In other messages, Golmon wrote in Spanish about how “the situation with the federal police is bad at this time,” authorities said.

At other times, authorities said Golmon wrote that the informant “got caught up with drugs, and he’s not legal, so he’s been singing.” One person told Golmon to call Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the informant, authorities said.

“He’s their rat,” Golmon said in response. “They are not going to deport him.”

Golmon also contacted a fellow Hammond police officer on April 29 and provided a photograph and information about the confidential informant, so authorities could detain him for immigration violations, authorities said.

In conversations with the other officer, Golmon said things such as, “You wanna pick up a few illegals,” and described the informant as someone who used to work for his uncle and stole money from him, authorities said. Golmon also told the officer not to mention his name because the target knew he was Lester’s nephew.

On April 29, two Hammond police officers arrested the informant at his job. One of the officers later called Golmon to tell him the informant had been released, authorities said.

Since then, the informant has been advised to avoid certain places in Tangipahoa Parish along with restaurants near the Hammond Police Department.

In addition, the complaint said, several people in the cockfighting community have called the informant to get him to meet with them. The HSI agents told the informant to avoid any such meetings because they were likely a “ruse to cause bodily harm” to him.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Ballay, Mollie Benjamin, Adelaide Duhe, Richard Peters, Dell Richards, Brenda

New Orleans Boyd Family Richards, Brenda DW Rhodes Peters, Dell Lake Lawn Metairie Benjamin, Adelaide

West Bank Mothe Ballay, Mollie

Obituaries Ballay, Mollie Clause

Mollie Clause Ballay en‐ tered eternal rest on Satur‐ day, May 30, 2026, at the age of 92. Loving and de‐ voted wife of the late Robert Paul Ballay, Sr. for 44 years. Beloved daughter of the late Gus J. Clause and Mathilde Berthelotte Clause. Loving mother of Joan B. Sharp (Dennis), Jane B. Legendre (Charles) and the late Robert P. Bal‐ lay, Jr. Grandmother of Renee Sharp Yesso (Justin), Rachel Sharp Wil‐ son (David), Matthew Sharp, Oneal Legendre (Tiffany), Michael Legendre (Kelsey), Ryan Ballay (Ash‐ lin), Rachelle Ballay (Chris‐ tian) and Joshua Ballay.

Great Grandmother of Gabriel, Paige, Shaleigh, Ellis, Owen, Arthur, Hattie, Isabel, Kylan and Amari.

Sister of the late Royal Clause, Odell C. Bergeron and Bonnie R. LeCompte.

Mollie is also survived by many nieces and nephews.

Mollie loved many things: painting, cooking, garden‐ ing, crafting, traveling, LSU sports, and spending time with her grandchildren at Orange Beach, Alabama.

Her Sunday dinners brought the family to‐ gether weekly for decades.

As a faithful Catholic, Mol‐ lie had a devoted prayer life, with prayer cards and rosaries always nearby.

She was a retreat captain for The Cenacle retreat house for over 35 years.

Mollie lived her entire life in her beloved Algiers and was a proud Algierine. She was a lifelong parishioner of Holy Name of Mary Church and 1950 graduate of Martin Behrman High School. Her stories and ability to connect with people everywhere she went were her strengths.

This ability to connect with others carried over into her career. Mollie worked hard. From working in a bakery as a child, in a drug store as a young teen, to becoming the Housing Di‐ rector for The Naval Sup‐ port Activity, she could al‐ ways do the job well be‐ cause she could easily re‐ late to Commanders as well as plumbers. She will be sorely missed by many.

Mollie was a longtime par‐ ticipant in the People Pro‐ gram, a member of the Westbank Art Guild, the Sultanas, the Behrman High School Reunion Com‐ mittee, and the Federal Housing Managers Associ‐ ation. The family would like to thank Our Lady of Wisdom Care Center and Notre Dame Hospice for their care in Mollie’s last months. Thank you also to Sherry Williams for her years of care in home. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, Algiers, La. Family and friends are invited to attend the Visitation at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, 500 Eliza Street, Algiers, Louisiana on Thursday, June 4, 2026, beginning at 9AM until 11AM. A Funeral Mass will be held at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church on Thursday at 11AM. Inter‐ ment will be in St. Mary Cemetery, Algiers, Louisiana. Mothe Funeral Home is assisting the fam‐ ily during this difficult time. The family invites you to share thoughts, fond memories and condo‐ lences online at mothefu‐ nerals.com

Benjamin, Adelaide Wisdom

BENJAMIN, Adelaide Wisdom, born in New Orleans on August 23, 1932, the daughter of William Bell Wisdom and Mary Freeman Wisdom, and passionately dedicated to New Orleans, died peacefully at home on May 30, 2026. As an avid reader, storyteller, and scholar late into her

life, Adelaide attended Louise S. McGehee School and Hollins College, graduating from Newcomb College, Tulane University in 1954. She went on to attend Tulane Law School, where she was a member of the Tulane Law Review and graduated at the top of her class of 1956.

Despite being the only woman in her law school class, she was elected to the Law Review because of her outstanding grades and her keen understanding of law. During this time she was also Queen of Carnival and Queen of Twelfth Night in 1953, and she was the oldest living queen of each at the time of her death and the longest living Queen of Carnival in the history of the Rex Organization.

After being admitted to the Louisiana Bar association in 1956, Adelaide became an attorney at Wisdom, Stone, Pigman and Benjamin, where she met her husband Edward B. Benjamin Jr., thus beginning a lifelong bond with him throughout their 55 year marriage until his death in 2012.

Enthusiastic about music and education, Adelaide was up for a challenge holding many noteworthy positions in the community, including 17 pivotal years on the New Orleans Symphony board bringing it to solvency from the brink of bankruptcy, 35 years on the board of Louise S. McGehee School, nine years on the Loyola University Board, where she led a million capital campaign and received an honorary degree in 2008, as a founding member of the National World War II Museum board. She served on two influential foundation boards: The RosaMary Foundation and The Mary Freeman Wisdom. In addition to being well known and highly regarded for her advocacy and leadership, she was a dedicated member of Trinity Episcopal Church and received many honors and awards during her lifetime.

While Adelaide was philanthropically-minded and cared deeply about New Orleans, her work as mother to her four children was her priority.

Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin is survived by her four children: Edward Wisdom Benjamin, (his wife, the former Helaine Higgins, and their children Mary Elizabeth Benjamin, Edward Wisdom Benjamin, Jr., Glen Higgins Benjamin, and Joan Caroline Benjamin and great-grandchild Adelaide Wisdom Benjamin); Mary Dabney Benjamin (her husband James Scott Williamson and their children Haley Benjamin Williamson and Amy Benjamin Williamson); Ann Leith Benjamin Hill (her husband

John Peter Hill and their children Gareth Griffin Hill and Oliver Benjamin Hill); and Stuart Minor Benjamin (his wife Arti Kaur Rai and their children Sophia Rai Benjamin and Anna Rai Benjamin), and numerous cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Service at TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH, 1329 Jackson Ave, New Orleans, La. 70130 on Saturday, June 6th at 1:00PM. Visitation will begin at 11:00 AM. Interment at Metairie Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please consider a memorial contribution to Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Ave., New Orleans, LA. 70130, Louise S. McGehee School, 2343 Prytania St., New Orleans, LA 70130, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, 4176 Canal St. Ste 100, New Orleans, LA. 70119, Loyola University, 6363 St Charles Avenue, NOLA, 70118, or Metairie Park Country Day School 300 Park Road, Metairie, LA 70005. Please visit and sign the family guestbook at www.lakelaw nmetairie.com.

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Dickie served St. Charles Parish as a Constable and Councilman for over 20 years. He was known for his honesty and integrity.

Dickie was a lifelong parishioner of Sacred Heart of Jesus Church in Norco. He served on multiple church and school committees and as an usher. He was proud to have served as an usher during Pope John Paul II's Mass in New Orleans in 1987.

Dickie was an avid history buff, especially World War II, and had much respect for military veterans.

He was a deeply devoted husband, father and grandfather.

He was greatly loved and will be sorely missed. The family would like to thank his caretaker, Shannon Reale.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend visitation and funeral services at Sacred Heart Church in Norco on Wednesday, June 3, 2026. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 11 a.m. Interment will follow at St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery.

Peters, Dell Pierson

Duhe, Richard 'Dickie'

Richard (Dickie) Duhe passed away on May 28, 2026 at the age of 83, surrounded by family.

He was born in New Orleans on March 30, 1943 to Purney and Harry Duhe, Sr. He was married to Linda Duhe for 63 years.

Dickie grew up in his beloved town of Good Hope and lived in Norco for the past 63 years.

Dickie is survived by his wife, Linda, his son, Michael (Christy), his daughter Kitty (Kurt) Brignac and his daughter, Danielle (Matt) Loosemore.

He is also survived by his grandchildren, whom he treasured Mallory, Madeline and Ben Brignac and Allie and Adrienne Loosemore. He was preceded in death by his son, Richard (Rickey) Duhe, Jr., his brother, Harry Duhe, Jr and his parents, Purney and Harry Duhe, Sr. Dickie worked at Shell Oil as a machinist for 35 years. He was loved by all who knew him. He was a volunteer firefighter for Norco Volunteer Fire Department and Shell Oil

Dell Pierson Peters departed this life peacefully on May 27, 2026. Born October 23, 1944, in St. Gabriel, Louisiana, she was a devoted nurse, educator, woman of faith, and community servant. She retired from the Medical Center of Louisiana after 32 years of service and later taught nursing. A faithful member of James Chapel Baptist Church since 1972, she founded and served as president of the church's Health Ministry. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clifford Peters.

She leaves to cherish her memory her brother and sister-in-love, Dr. Melvin and Natalie Pierson; nephews Keith and Nicholas Pierson; her godchildren; and a host of relatives, friends, and colleagues.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral service on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at James Chapel Baptist Church, 4228 Thalia Street, New Orleans, LA. Visitation will be from 10:00 10:45am following a Louisiana Nurse Honor Guard Presentation from 10:45 11:00am.

The Celebration of Life Service will begin at 11:00am.

Interment will follow at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 2050 Canton Street, New

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To live is Christ, and to die is gain. Brenda Marie Richards was born on Jan‐ uary 3, 1947, to the union of George and Alritta T. Richards. Brenda had 6 sib‐ lings, Gwen R. Gray, 5 who preceded her in death, Doris Alexander, Linda Richard Gaines, Alvin Richards, Jerry Richards, and George Richards Jr. Brenda leaves to cherish her precious memories to her husband Gregory Searls of nearly 54 years, two loving sons: Keith Richards, and Kelin Richards, Sr., her daugh‐ ters-in-law: Cheryl Richards, and DeShondra Stevenson, three grand‐ children: Kala Allen, Kalin Hankton, and Kelin Richards Jr. along with a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and dear friends. Brenda accepted Christ as her Lord and Sav‐ ior and was baptized at Greater King Solomon Bap‐ tist Church under the lead‐ ership of Reverend James Wilkerson. Brenda was em‐ ployed at Walgreens Drugs for many years where she later retired. Brenda will be remembered for her loving and caring ways she had for everyone that came across her path, her laugh‐ ter, and spirit will forever remain in the hearts of all who knew and loved her dearly. Family and friends are invited to attend her Homegoing Celebration on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70126 for 10:00 a.m. Visita‐ tion will begin at 9:00 a.m.

Pastor Lionel Roberts offi‐ ciating Interment will fol‐ low Providence Memorial Park, 8200 Airline Drive Metairie, Louisiana 70003.

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What’s shaking the state? We need a network of seismic monitors Earthquakes are among the natural disasters that we had thought Mother Nature had largely spared Louisiana from. But since 2022, the number and strength of earthquakes in northwest Louisiana have been increasing at an alarming rate. On March 5, an area in Red River Parish saw a 4.9-magnitude earthquake, tied for the strongest recorded in state history.

Since then, researchers have installed seismometers and the federal Environmental Protection Agency ordered the state to look into the activities of oil and gas companies in the region.

As in other states, the proliferation of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has coincided with an uptick in seismic activity, even though no direct links have been proven.

In northwest Louisiana, the discovery of new potential in the Haynesville Shale prompted a rush of oil companies to drill there starting in 2019. Texas and Oklahoma, two states that also share the formation, have seen a drilling boom for nearly two decades. But recent shale plays have shifted the focus of activity to northwest Louisiana.

By fracking, drillers can extract oil from places previously out of reach due to technology or economics. They inject saltwater into rock, and in the process extract brine and other toxic materials from the well that must then be disposed of. They generally use injection wells to push the saltwater deep underground.

There are concerns that this may cause problems if water is injected at too high a pressure or if other geological factors add unforeseen risks. But the only way to remedy the situation is to know what’s going on.

That’s why we’re glad to see that state regulators and LSU officials are working to create a seismic monitoring network, which would gather data in greater detail than we have had before. Information from Louisiana researchers like Tulane University’s Cynthia Ebinger, data from the nationwide network through the U.S. Geological Survey and out-of-state networks have been able to capture some of what’s going on, but it’s well nigh time for the state to have a formal seismological network in northwest Louisiana.

A 2022 report by Erbinger and researchers at the LSU and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette that recommended the state install up to 10 seismic monitors in the region with an automatic earthquake detection system.

We were pleased to see that lawmakers want to see that happen and put a bill on hold that would have removed state limits on the pressure of injection wells until further notice. We hope that going forward, industry, science and government can work together on solutions.

We believe government should act only when there is solid evidence on what’s causing these temblors. Otherwise, decisions for the future might rest on faulty ground.

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High electricity bills are Republicans scared of hurting working families Mamdani don’t Electricity is no longer just a basic necessity; it has become a burden many families can barely afford. Over the past few months, my power bill has continued to rise, even during periods when my electricity usage has not changed much. It is frustrating to constantly worry about how to keep the lights on while also trying to afford food, transportation and other daily needs.

Many people in my community are facing the same struggle. Some households now limit the use of basic appliances just to avoid outrageous bills, while others experience poor or unstable supply despite paying so much.

It feels unfair to pay high amounts for electricity that is not always reliable.

recognize their own bogeymen

Affordable and stable power supply should not be a luxury. Energy providers and policymakers need to take the concerns of ordinary citizens seriously by reviewing billing systems, improving transparency, and ensuring that consumers are not overcharged. There should also be stronger investments in reliable energy infrastructure so people can get the quality service they are paying for.

Electricity is essential for businesses, students, workers and families. If prices continue to rise without improvement in service, more people will continue to suffer financially.

Billy Arcement’s letter reads like a Facebook comment section wrapped in Cold War paranoia.

According to him, New York City electing Zohran Mamdani apparently means communism is marching toward Louisiana like the Red Army crossing the Atchafalaya Basin.

Please.

Let me kindly remind Louisiana MAGA Baby Boomers of something uncomfortable: Your momma was a Democrat, darlin’. So was your pawpaw. So were half the people sitting at the camp boiling crawfish every Easter Sunday while voting for folks like Edwin Edwards without believing Stalin was about to seize the sugar mills.

The modern Republican obsession with calling every Democrat a communist would be funny if it were not so intellectually lazy.

These are the same people who lose their minds anytime someone points out the authoritarian behavior coming from their own party.

Republicans can compare school boards to dictatorships, call liberals enemies of America and scream socialism at anything more complicated than a tax cut. But make even a mild comparison between today’s strongman politics and Europe in the 1930s and they collapse faster than a snowball on Airline Highway in August.

Dissent is patriotic. Blind loyalty is not. Louisiana Democrats are not plotting collectivized crawfish boils and government owned bait shops.

Most are trying to keep flood insurance from bankrupting working families while Republicans chase another cable news culture war.

Arcement is terrified of a mayor in New York while ignoring a national political movement demanding loyalty oaths, punishing dissent, attacking the press and treating disagreement as betrayal.

That is the real danger to democracy.

Not a guy in Brooklyn talking about rent.

FRANKIE GERAD New Orleans

Gerrymandering should drive all to voting booths Gerrymandering based on race is illegal, yet our U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2019 that political gerrymandering is a state issue and not for federal courts to resolve.

Raised in Tennessee, and having spent the last 32 years in New Orleans, I recognize that racial bias and racism have diminished in some ways following the passage of the Civil Rights Act, but I am watching politicians and the U.S. Supreme Court act as if we can check off racial inequality from our list of national challenges.

How can the state on the wrong side of Plessy v. Ferguson continue to pretend that we are basing our gerrymandered districts on anything but race?

The U.S. Census, upon which the two parties allegedly rely while seeking to “balance” districts fairly, contains no information about political party affiliation.

So I wonder exactly how the political parties are drawing their maps, and why?

As NOLA.com reported, Louisiana’s population fell in 70% of our parishes.

We could adopt mathematical modeling to more fairly shape districts, create independent map redistricting commissions, use proportional representation, and pass federal legislation (remember the Freedom to Vote Act?).

Our governor and other elected leaders may wish to remember that, since the last census, Louisiana remains about 32% black and Hispanic population has increased from 2% to almost 7%, while the White population has decreased from 65% in 2000 to about 56% in 2020.

Is all of this gerrymandering a backlash of fear as our state’s demographics change? This fear gets played out, not by working for a more just union, but by rigging maps so the powerful remain in power. This should drive us all to the voting booths. But will it?

MICHAEL KUHN New Orleans

Louisiana needs the revenue from carbon sequestration Missing in the political debate about carbon sequestration are discussions of where to put the meters and how much to charge. The empty geological space under Louisiana, once occupied by oil, is now in demand to store carbon dioxide from producing carbon-free hydrogen.

What is a fair price for that storage?

Who gets the revenue? How does the public benefit? Can carbon sequestration pay for plugging orphan wells?

How about a revenue stream for coastal restoration? Carbon sequestration from biomass removes carbon

dioxide from the atmosphere. Should biomass carbon get a discount? These are all questions that should be part of the debate.

I will let others debate the pros and cons of sequestering, including the long-term environmental risk and the associated decrease in property values.

If sequestering occurs, let it be with a substantial recurring revenue stream sufficient to repair some of the environmental damage Louisiana has incurred.

BARRY RANSHI Kenner

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Can Trump handle the world he has changed?

Ten years ago this month, Donald Trump clinched the Republican nomination for president, with a platform that was vastly different on trade and foreign policy from other recent presidents, Republican and Democratic alike.

Michael How fares America Barone — and the world — 10 years later?

In some important ways, things have moved in Trump’s direction. In 2016 and since, he complained constantly that Europeans were not contributing their fair share to NATO. That had been the position of previous administrations, but none emphasized it as Trump did.

Early in Trump’s first term, only five NATO allies met the stated goal of spending 2% of GDP on defense. A decade later, the goal has risen to 5%, and most NATO allies are moving toward that goal.

And as Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened his neighbors, previously neutral (for nearly 75 years!) Finland and Sweden, with their highly competent militaries, have decided to join NATO and have made the Baltic Sea just beyond Putin’s hometown of St. Petersburg a NATO lake.

In the Middle East, Trump has also made a difference. His predecessors’ policy was based on the hoary assumption that the key to stability was to pressure Israel to make a peace agreement with the Palestinians. So America’s task was to pressure Israel to make concessions.

Trump saw it differently. He pushed the Abraham Accords, diplomatic relations between Israel, Saudi Arabia and Persian Gulf oil producers. Progress has been uneven but palpable. Israel’s pacification of Gaza has not prevented the Saudis and United Arab Emirates from supporting Trump’s efforts, cooperating with Israel, to disarm and destabilize the regime in Iran.

On trade, Trump’s on-again, off-again threats, impositions and adjustments of tariff rates have resulted in channeling trade in different patterns. The days of a jointly dependent “Chimerica” (historian Niall Ferguson’s phrase) seem to be waning.

Not everything has gone Trump’s way. His fixation on unproblematic trade “deficits” has led him to impose tariffs that have fed inflation and eroded his job approval at home. His initiatives in Iran, without persuasive explanations to voters or any attempt at buy-in by the political opposition, have also hurt him politically — although regime collapse in Iran remains possible and could put things in a different light.

More importantly, the world has changed, sometimes in line with his expectations, sometimes to the contrary. The prime example is Russia’s

more expensive Russian missiles and have enabled Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to destroy energy infrastructure in Perm, 1,000 kilometers beyond the Russian border, and prompted Putin to downsize his WWII victory parade in Moscow.

It is clear that the Trump policy of pressuring Ukraine to accept Russian control of provinces it hasn’t occupied is as obsolete as Trump’s predecessors’ policies of pressuring Israel to accept Palestinian control of territory from which the Palestinians could launch attacks like those of Oct. 7, 2023.

It seems clear as well that the remnants of the Iranian regime are unwilling to abandon their 47-year hostilities toward the U.S., and that Trump’s eagerness to deploy “the art of the deal,” even under the auspices of a hostile Pakistan, is encouraging their continued resistance. And in the meantime, will the drawdown of America’s expensive smart weapons in the Persian Gulf reduce American deterrence against Chinese aggression against Taiwan?

The final verdict on Trump’s foreign policies cannot be written now, with 32 months left in his term and so many kinetic events in unpredictable motion.

But perhaps it can be said that while his departures from his predecessors’ policies have had some successes in reshaping the world, it is not clear that he has developed policies adapted to the world he has done so much to change.

At first, it didn’t sound right. Someone must have miscalculated. How could there be so much fraud that has robbed taxpayers of billions of dollars without anyone seeming to notice?

Worse, it appears they didn’t seem to care.

Vice President JD Vance convened a meeting on Tuesday Cal his Task Force to Eliminate Thomas of Fraud. Fifteen Republican attorneys general showed up.

Almost two dozen Democrat attorneys general didn’t come, citing short notice. Their invitations went out on Friday, so they probably had a good excuse. Vance urged all of them to help in rooting out more fraud than has so far been discovered. So many administrations have talked about fraud, but seemingly have done little about it, until now.

According to Vance, taxpayers across the country were defrauded of billions of dollars by unscrupulous scammers. Vance said the number will likely be higher as investigations continue. One optimistic note. Vance said $160 billion has been “clawed back,” which doesn’t always happen in such cases.

Vance said more than $22 billion has been recovered from small business loans and transferred to the Treasury Department. He said more than $1.3 billion in fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements has been recovered. As previously disclosed these included fake hospice care facilities, many of which were in Los Angeles and other California cities. Vance also said: “We’ve recovered taxpayer funds from the $135 billion stolen after the floodgates were opened in the immediate aftermath of COVID.” Vance also announced $6.3 billion has been recovered from fraudulent government contracts which “were mostly rewarded during the (Biden) administration. And finally, he said the task force has blocked $60 million in student aid fraud.

Fraud is not a victimless crime, Vance said, because it robs people who should be getting help, including needed medical aid.

The first question that should come to mind from these revelations and accusations, is where were the inspectors general in these states and at the federal level? Why did no one appear to notice? Probably because it wasn’t their money being wasted. Look at the defensive posture of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and his attorney general, Keith Ellison. Both made initial statements they knew nothing about fraud in their state. They sounded like piano players in a brothel who claimed not to know what was going on upstairs.

DOGE – the Department of Government Efficiency – began to unveil some of this fraud, but it takes a much larger effort than Elon Musk and his crew of volunteers were able to achieve.

One other point. The fraudsters revealed a complete lack of conscience as they stole money that was supposed to help people, especially those in physical need. Is this another consequence of our failure in too many cases to impose a moral and ethical standard, beginning in schools?

An ancient proverb says: “Where there is no revelation (or vision), people cast off restraint.” (Proverbs 29:18) It also makes one wonder whatever became of shame?

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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on May 15. war on Ukraine. As Trump has noted, Putin launched his 2014 attacks on Donbas and his 2022 march toward Kyiv when Democrats were president.

And former President Joe Biden’s restrictions on aid to Ukraine — especially bans on lobbing attacks on Russian territory — limited Ukraine’s defense.

But like the Biden CIA’s assumption that Kyiv would fall in days, Trump’s obvious admiration for Putin as a strong leader has proved a poor guide to events. Note that this is not an endorsement of the Democrats’ and much of the media’s Russia collusion hoax; admiration is not collusion. But it turns out that Russia’s enormous superiority in manpower and major weapons systems has proved unavailing against Ukraine’s unexpected advantage in morale and adaptability.

As analysts of various stripes have concluded, Ukraine has developed drone warfare as a barrier to Russian advance and to make advances itself.

Ukraine has had one advantage Putin didn’t count on in 2022: morale, a sense of national pride and resolve that is unquantifiable but has enabled seemingly ordinary people to adapt with extraordinary speed and inventiveness reminiscent of the best of American examples in World War II. It’s interesting that Trump, for all his emphasis on building America’s national morale, has been deaf to the importance of that factor in Ukraine.

The cheap drones that Ukrainians have invented and produced in astonishing numbers — some 60,000 per day — have routinely destroyed much

Fraudsters running amok

Suspicious decline in birth rates points to a new culprit If you attend a high school graduation this spring, you will witness something special: not just fresh-faced younglings being launched into the maelstrom of the world, but Megan Megan adult the number of McArdle them. America may never see so many graduates again. The United States hit a peak number of high school seniors in 2025, and now the country is entering a period of rapid decline. The class of 2041 is projected to be about 13 percent smaller than the class of 2025.

The drop in U.S. birth rates is well known, as are the problems that demographic change will cause: closing schools, slower economic growth, climbing budget pressures and a politics that is increasingly locked into zerosum intergenerational battles — something evident as established homeowners vote to exclude new housing that young people need.

What’s less understood is that this isn’t just America’s future.

It’s everyone’s.

Sometime between 2008 and 2015, birth rates worldwide hit an inflection point. They had been decreasing in most countries for

a while as societies got richer, women got more educated and infant mortality fell. But during that period the decline sped up, and some places that had comparatively high birth rates — — such as Latin America — are now declining faster than in the U.S. Mexico’s birth rate dropped below America’s in 2023.

The fact that low- and middleincome countries are no longer producing so many eager young people complicates the usual answer to worries about American birth rates: let in more immigrants to bolster our shrinking workforce. It also complicates the stories that try to explain why birth rates are falling. Whatever your pet explanation is for the U.S. birth dearth, it probably doesn’t account for why fertility has plunged in Tunisia or Sri Lanka.

In a recent essay for the Financial Times, John Burn-Murdoch suggests that the culprit is smartphones. The devices could be causing birth rates to decline in several ways — accelerating the spread of Western norms about female empowerment, pitting the sexes against each other as feminists on social media take on the manosphere, or simply substituting for the social activity that leads to babies. Burn-Murdoch’s

data suggests that less socialization, especially, is a big part of the problem: Young people are spending less time together, which means fewer opportunities to find romantic partners.

I’m suspicious of monocausal explanations, and Burn-Murdoch isn’t saying phones are the only reason people might be having fewer kids. But the trend is sufficiently widespread, and the timing sufficiently suspicious, to justify adding the decline in fertility to the long list of the smartphone’s unwanted side effects.

If you think having too few kids is a problem (and I do), that leaves us with what to do about it. I’m not casting aspersions on anyone’s life choices — I married at 37 and never had kids. But I don’t want America to become a sort of continent-scale retirement village.

Unfortunately, if Burn-Murdoch is correct, naming a policy fix is difficult. Every argument about birth rates founders on this point: Even if people can acknowledge the problem and agree about the cause, it’s hard to find solutions that aren’t laughably unworkable or hideously expensive, especially with old-age entitlements already squeezing out the fiscal space that could otherwise pay for beefier family benefits.

But smartphones present an even more challenging problem than usual. Is the answer to ban them? Sue TikTok to make its content less compulsively scrollable? Force single young people to attend mandatory speed dating?

Obviously not. So what, then?

One option is that we could change the culture around smartphones to limit their harm. And by “we” I don’t mean public officials or other authorities. I mean you and me. Communities could collectively decide to give kids dumb phones rather than smartphones, to discourage people from taking them out in adult social settings, and to generally treat the infinite scroll as something like smoking — if you’re an adult you have a right to do it, but it’s bad for you and kind of déclassé.

If that seems fanciful, just remember that social sanction can be much more effective than the law at deterring destructive behavior. Few people shoplift, cheat on their taxes, vandalize public property, run through red lights or shout at strangers even when they could probably get away with it. That’s because they’d be ashamed to violate the social contract — and even more ashamed to have the neighbors find out.

It is possible to rewrite that

social contract, constructing new social norms to handle new kinds of destructive behavior. Humans have evidently done so many times throughout history, since none of the offenses I named existed among our hunter-gatherer ancestors. But though it can be done, it takes a lot of work, because the social sanctions that reinforce the norms have to be applied (consistently!) by ordinary people going about their daily lives.

No one wants to fight with their kids about smartphones, fight with their boss about the expectation to be available at all times, or fight with their friends when phones appear at the dinner table.

It’s much easier to go along, especially because that means you can enjoy your own guilt-free hours of scrolling.

But sitting passively and waiting for something to happen got us into this mess — or, at the very least, have made the mess much worse. Complaining and hoping someone else will do something won’t stop the downward spiral in birth rates. If we actually want something done, we’re going to have to do it ourselves.

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LSU commit says he’s eyeing two sports

COLLEGE FOOTBALL HALL OF FAME NOMINEES

BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer

STAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

Saints head coach Kellen Moore watches a play that is under review during the second half of a game against the San Francisco 49ers at the Caesars Superdome on Sept. 14.

ON THE BALLOT

Saints coach Moore, two ex-Tigers LSU cornerback Patrick Peterson exhorts the crowd to cheer louder against Florida on Oct. 10, 2009, at Tiger make first college HOF cut Stadium.

BY SCOTT RABALAIS Staff writer

Is it finally Kellen Moore’s time to be enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame? Will LSU great Alan Faneca add a place in the hall in Atlanta to his enshrinement in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio?

The ballot is out for the 2027 College Football Hall of Fame induction class,

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with the second-year Saints coach and former LSU All-America offensive lineman headlining those with Louisiana ties on the list.

Other notable nominees include former LSU All-American Patrick Peterson, Saints great Jahri Evans and former Biletnikoff Award winner Troy Edwards from Louisiana Tech.

The National Football Foundation released the ballot Monday for those eligi-

ble to be inducted next year. It includes 80 players and nine coaches from the FBS level, and 99 players and 39 coaches from the NCAA divisional and NAIA levels. The Class of 2027 will be announced early next year.

Moore is a repeat nominee, having compiled one of the greatest careers in college football history. A first-team

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LSU is no stranger to dual-sport athletes.

Five-star tight end Ahmad Hudson from Ruston plans to be the next in line for the Tigers on the football field and basketball court.

After a standout performance for his JL3 Elite AAU basketball team last week, the 6-foot-7, 239-pound athlete did a postgame interview with the commentators broadcasting the game on the NBA’s YouTube channel. When Hudson was asked about how fun it was to play his last year of basketball on the EYBL circuit for his Houston-based team, he said, “Actually, I’m going to play both sports” at LSU. “I was actually recruited by basketball first,” Hudson said. “Then football offered me after my first high school football game, and ever since then it’s been up.”

Hudson is one of the most highly touted two-sport athletes in recent memory.

He is the No. 1 tight end and the No. 11 football player in the country, according to 247Sports. He is also the No. 5 power forward and No. 25 basketball player in the 2027 class.

Hudson committed to LSU for football on May 3. He was first offered

by LSU basketball on Nov. 9, 2024, by former coach Matt McMahon and reoffered by Will Wade’s staff on April 9.

The last LSU athlete to play both sports was current junior tight end Trey’Dez Green. The 6-7, 237-pounder played six games and a total of 40 minutes on the basketball court as a freshman during the 2024-25 season after playing 13 games on the gridiron. He stepped away from the basketball to focus on academics in February 2025, and he didn’t rejoin the team last season.

Hudson was asked why the tight end position has historically translated well on the basketball court.

“We got the physicality to play with anybody,” Hudson said. “You can have a 6-4 tight end and he can come out here and play with a 7-2 center. So just the physicality that we have to be able to play 1 through 5. Not a lot of people got that.”

Hudson is averaging 13.2 points on 53.3% shooting, 10.0 rebounds, 1.3 assists, 1.4 steals and 3.0 blocks in 10

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Rams land Garrett in blockbuster trade

BY JOE REEDY and GREG BEACHAM AP sportswriters

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By GREGORy BULL

Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Cristopher Sánchez celebrates after the last out of the seventh inning of a game against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday in San Diego.

Sánchez’s scoreless streak in rarified air

BY DAN GELSTON

struck out 13 overall in the May 16 shutout victory.

“That wasn’t a very good idea to PHILADELPHIA — Cristopher Sánchez piss him off,” Phillies catcher J.T. is friends with fellow Dominican Realmuto said with a laugh.

Using an elite sinker-sliderRepublic native Marcell Ozuna, so it was only natural they trash changeup mix that has made him talked each other before their one of the best pitchers in basemost recent game. ball, Sánchez had his way with just The Pirates’ designated hitter about every batter in a sensational told Sánchez he would take him scoreless May. deep.

Sánchez went 4-0 and struck Sánchez instead struck him out ä See SÁNCHEZ, page 5C — four times, and the Phillies’ ace

AP sportswriter

Myles Garrett finally got his wish — to be a part of a consistent winning team instead of one in a perpetual rebuild.

The Cleveland Browns traded the two-time AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year to the Los Angeles Rams for pass rusher Jared Verse and three draft picks in a blockbuster deal on Monday.

Garrett was the unanimous choice for Defensive Player of the Year last season after he had 23 sacks to break the NFL singleseason record. He is expected to report to the Rams’ facility on Tuesday and have a news conference to discuss the trade.

Garrett’s addition marks the first time the reigning AP NFL MVP and Defensive Player of the Year will be teammates. Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford won his first MVP award last season.

General manager Andrew Berry was able to make a deal after the Browns and Garrett agreed to modify his contract and defer option payments over the 2026-28 seasons in March. The first payment of around $10 million was due on March 28 but was moved to near the start of the regular

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This photo combination shows Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett, left, in Cincinnati on Jan. 4 and Los Angeles Rams linebacker Jared Verse on Jan. 4 in Inglewood, Calif. season.

Garrett demanded a trade at the end of the 2024 season, but signed a four-year contract extension in March 2025 with a total value of $204.8 million that made him the highest-paid non-quarterback in NFL history. The contract also included a no-trade clause.

Berry had long said that Garrett would play his entire career in Cleveland, but Garrett’s lingering frustrations over the franchise’s

direction and the chance to start anew meant it was time to move on.

Cleveland is 8-26 the past two years after making the playoffs in 2023.

“As discussions intensified, we were stuck at a legitimate crossroads: Do we hold on to a truly generational player who has become the identity of our team, or

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PARIS — Naomi Osaka might have had the edge in the fashion contest. In the tennis department, though, top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka was the winner.

Sabalenka beat Osaka 7-5, 6-3 on Monday to reach the French Open quarterfinals and move one step closer to finally winning the clay-court Grand Slam, where she lost last year’s final to Coco Gauff.

It was the first women’s night match at Roland Garros in three years, and Osaka entered the court wearing a golden bomber jacket over her gold sequin playing dress, trailing a tiered train with puffs of tulle.

Sabalenka wore more standard tennis attire: a slightly sheer black flared tennis dress with a red underlayer; plus diamond necklaces.

In the matchup of four-time Grand Slam champions, Sabalenka improved to 3-1 in her career against Osaka, who was playing in the fourth round at Roland Garros for the first time.

Sabalenka overpowered Osaka from the baseline and produced a huge forehand return winner on her first match point that Osaka barely got her racket on.

Tournament organizers had been criticized for not scheduling more women’s matches at night, with Roland Garros officials responding that women’s best-ofthree set matches don’t occupy enough time for TV broadcasters. The men play best-of-five set matches.

Sabalenka won in 1 hour, 27 minutes.

“The atmosphere and the attention that this match brought (is) going to show them that probably for the future they should con-

On a day when several NFL stars have been on the move, Alvin Kamara is still a member of the New Orleans Saints.

And the running back reportedly is expecting it to stay that way.

“We plan on playing for the Saints in 2026,” said Brad Cicala, Kamara’s agent, to the NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo on Sunday.

Monday was seen as a pivotal day for Kamara and the Saints, because it was when the 30-year-old running back became eligible to be released without New Orleans incurring a sizable salary cap charge.

According to Garafolo, the Saints’ unconventional restructure of Kamara’s contract in March made Kamara ineligible to be designated as a post-June 1 cut, which would explain why the Saints have waited this long to determine the running back’s future.

Giants add three receivers, including ex-LSU star OBJ

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Aryna Sabalenka waves to the crowd after winning a fourth-round match against Naomi Osaka on Monday at the French Open in Paris.

Italian fans will have at least two men in the quarterfinals.

Tenth-seeded Flavio Cobolli advanced to his second Grand Slam quarterfinal — and his first here — after beating American Zachary Svajda 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5).

“It’s for sure my favorite Grand Slam to play,” Cobolli said after winning on Court Philippe-Chatrier. “We have the best feeling with the surface as Italians.”

A little while after his win, Italians in quarterfinals Cobolli — a former youth socDespite top-ranked Jannik Sin- cer player at Italian club Roma ner losing in the second round, — joined players from the Paris sider putting at least sometimes women matches at night,” Sabalenka said.

Sabalenka’s quarterfinal opponent will be Diana Shnaider, who beat Madison Keys — the last American woman remaining in contention — 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.

French hopes were dashed following Diane Parry’s 6-3, 6-2 loss to 114th-ranked Maja Chwalinska of Poland.

Saint-Germain team as they paraded the Champions League trophy on Court Philippe-Chatrier.

PSG beat Arsenal in the final on Saturday.

Cobolli next faces No. 4 Felix Auger-Aliassime, who beat Alejandro Tabilo 6-3, 7-5, 6-1 to complete a career set of reaching the last eight at all four majors. The Canadian has never been beyond a Grand Slam semifinal, though.

“Not having Sinner in the semifinals is another opportunity, but you need to be there,” Auger-Aliassime said.

Williams, 44, announces return to tennis

BY ANDREW DAMPF

daughter: “Rumor has it…I got a new trainer,” Williams said in the post.

Williams’ second daughter was born in 2023.

Venus Williams, who also had a stint at No. 1 in the rankings and is a five-time Wimbledon champion, is still playing occasionally at 45.

Associated Press

PARIS — Serena Williams is coming back to professional tennis at the age of 44, returning to the sport she dominated for two decades before famously “evolving” away from the daily grind of competition.

First up for the 23-time Grand Slam singles champion is the doubles tournament at Queen’s Club.

But Wimbledon and the U.S. Open could be next.

“It seems like she’s trying to work her way up maybe to the U.S. Open, and those fans would be so ready to see her back on a singles court there,” former No. 1 Lindsay Davenport said at the French Open after the WTA Tour announced Monday that Williams has accepted a wild-card invitation to play doubles at next week’s grass-court tournament in London.

Williams won seven Wimbledon titles and six at the U.S. Open before stepping away from the game in 2022. In doubles, she won six titles at Wimbledon and two at the U.S. Open — all with her older sister Venus Williams.

John McEnroe suggested Williams could compete in singles at Wimbledon, which starts June 28.

“She’s not getting any younger, but she’s Serena Williams, so I bet you she would tell me about wanting to win the whole damn thing,” McEnroe said in Paris.

The Queen’s Club tournament starts next Monday, and the WTA said Williams will play “with a partner to be announced in due course.”

“Queen’s Club feels like the perfect place to begin this next chapter,” Williams said in a statement.

“Grass has given me some of the most meaningful moments of my career, and I’m excited to be back competing on one of the sport’s most iconic stages.”

Williams has not competed since bidding farewell at the 2022 U.S. Open. At the time, Williams said she didn’t want to use the word “retiring” and instead declared that she was “evolving” away from tennis.

Davenport said some current

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Serena Williams returns a shot to Anett Kontaveit during the second round of the U.S. Open on Aug. 31, 2022, in New york. Williams has not competed since bidding farewell at that event. women’s players went down to Florida to practice with Williams recently.

“I don’t think anyone’s admitted to that, but I do know that some of them were,” Davenport said. “So I think she has kind of a handle on where the level is. But I don’t know if she’s been playing a twohour singles match, right? We’ll have to see how she can handle that physically.”

Williams, who has won 14 Grand Slam doubles titles overall in her storied career, became eligible to compete in February after re-registering with tennis’ mandatory anti-doping program six months earlier — which is the first step toward a comeback.

Djokovic still competitive at 39 Davenport noted how Novak Djokovic is still competitive at 39 — having recently pushed 19-year-old Joao Fonseca to five sets before losing in the third round in Paris.

“It’s not going to be easy. If anyone could do it, certainly it could be her,” Davenport said of Williams. “We’re seeing kind of an unprecedented time with players and how they train now, being able to play better longer, play at a level that we never expected.

“She always looks in incredible

shape, and better shape than arguably when she left.”

While Williams’ big serve automatically gives her an advantage on grass, it’s a surface that also presents unique challenges because of the speed of play and low bounces.

“Grass is a tough surface to start on,” Davenport said. “It goes very quick, very low, very physical, not as much running as clay, but a lot of bending. ... She wouldn’t come back unless she knew she could play at such a high level. But we’ve got to be a little graceful in the time we give her until she hits her feet.”

Osaka’s role models Four-time major champion Naomi Osaka, who beat Williams in the 2018 U.S. Open final for her first major title, was excited at the prospect.

“It will bring people to watch tennis,” Osaka said Thursday.

“I’m going to be tuned into the first match, for sure. I think a lot of people are. Everyone knows Serena and Venus were my role models growing up, so it’s going to be cool to see her on the grounds again.”

Williams recently posted a video on Instagram showing herself training on a hard court with her

McEnroe was 47 when he returned after 12 years of retirement and won a tour-level doubles tournament with partner Jonas Bjorkman.

“Physically I still had it for doubles, so she definitely could still have it for doubles, there’s no question about that. She could win anything (in doubles),” McEnroe said. “The singles is more difficult. ... I’m not really sure what the plan is. She hasn’t called me to tell me the plan.”

Gauff’s regrets “One of my biggest regrets was not being able to play her,” reigning French Open champion Coco Gauff said.

Eighteen-year-old American player Iva Jovic was also thrilled.

“I have never seen Serena in real life,” Jovic said. “Obviously, I grew up watching her. In my entire childhood she was dominating tennis.”

Added fellow American player Madison Keys: “Serena Williams playing tennis is only good for tennis. Let’s be real. We all want to watch Serena play tennis.

“I mean, you literally get to watch history every single time she takes the court,” Keys added.

“So why not watch more?”

‘Icon of the game’ A women’s tournament rejoined the men’s competition at Queen’s last year after an absence of more than 50 years, meaning Williams will be making her debut at the historic grass-court tournament.

“Women’s tennis made a historic return to the Queen’s Club last year,” Queen’s tournament director Laura Robson said, “and now we have an icon of the game stepping back on to court at this prestigious venue.”

Odell Beckham Jr. is returning to the New York Giants.

The 33-year-old receiver and former LSU standout signed with the Giants on Monday after visiting and working out with them in April.

The Giants also signed receivers JuJu Smith-Schuster and Braxton Berrios, according to a person with knowledge of the moves.

There is uncertainty at the position with fellow former Tiger Malik Nabers recovering from a torn ACL in his right knee and wideout Gunner Olszewski having torn his right Achilles tendon in an offseason workout practice last week.

Beckham did not play in the NFL last year, when he served a six-game suspension for failing a performance-enhancing drug test.

Sorsby, NCAA await ruling after judge hears case

LUBBOCK, Texas — Attorneys for Brendan Sorsby and the NCAA presented arguments before a district judge Monday as the Texas Tech transfer quarterback seeks an injunction to allow him to play next season after he acknowledged making thousands of impermissible bets while in college.

There was no immediate ruling from Senior Judge Ken Curry after the two-hour hearing, or any indication of when he would rule on a temporary injunction against the NCAA. An injunction would not change Sorsby being declared permanently ineligible by the NCAA, but would put that on hold as the case proceeds.

Hall of Fame receiver, Colts legend Berry dies

NEW YORK — Raymond Berry, the Hall of Fame wide receiver who teamed with Baltimore quarterback Johnny Unitas for one of the NFL’s greatest passing combinations and helped lead the Colts to victory over the New York Giants in the storied 1958 championship game, has died. He was 93.

Berry, who later coached the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XX, died May 25, the Pro Football Hall of Fame said Monday.

His family said in a statement that Berry died peacefully at home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, surrounded by family, including his wife of 65 years, Sally.

Adelman, winner of over 1,000 games, dies at 79 Rick Adelman, a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who played for seven NBA seasons before becoming one of the game’s all-time winningest coaches, has died, the National Basketball Coaches Association announced Monday.

Adelman, the father of Denver Nuggets coach David Adelman, was 79. The cause of his death was not immediately announced.

Rick Adelman won 1,042 games as an NBA coach, 10th-most in league history. Only four other coaches — Pat Riley, Gregg Popovich, Jerry Sloan and George Karl — coached more games and had a better winning percentage than Adelman, who took the Portland Trail Blazers to the NBA Finals twice and also was head coach in Sacramento, Houston, Minnesota and Golden State.

Adelman played in the NBA from 1969-75 as a point guard with five teams — but found his calling as a coach.

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Atlanta Regional

Game 1: Georgia Tech 22, UIC 5

Saturday

Game 2: Okahoma 8, The Citadel 3 Game 3: The Citadel 9, UIC 8 Game 4: Georgia Tech 9, Oklahoma 3

Sunday

Saturday

Game 2: Georgia 18, LIU 2 Game 3: Boston College 8, LIU 4 Game 4: Georgia 6, Liberty 2

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Game 5: Liberty 8, Boston College 3 Game 6: Georgia 6, Liberty 1

Auburn Regional Friday

Game 1: Milwaukee 13, Auburn 8

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Austin Regional Friday

Edna Karr

Hudson Wright shined last season as a senior in Country Day’s “air raid” offense that averaged over 40 points per game, and the quest to find his successor is underway.

Incoming senior Allen Dietz was Wright’s backup last season but will have his work cut out for him this summer in what’s currently a four-man quarterback battle. Jack Grace, a Jesuit transfer described as a “rising sophomore” by Country Day coach Ben Powell, is in the mix to start along with incoming senior Justin Drago and incoming sophomore Cooper Vitrano.

“We’re hoping to get a guy that can grow into being the next allstate guy (at quarterback)” Powell said. “We probably won’t know who the starter is until Week 1.”

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Texas Tech stays alive with walk-off HR OKLAHOMA CITY — Mia Williams hit her first career walk-off home run to force a winner-take-all rematch Monday night after Texas Tech’s 5-4 victory over Alabama in the semifinals of the Women’s College World Series.

It was the fifth time in WCWS history both semifinals went to a second game in the doubleelimination format, with Texas beating Tennessee twice earlier in the day.

Williams’ 26th home run of the season came after Alabama’s

Jena Young tied it at 4-all in the top of the seventh inning with a two-run homer.

Texas Tech (60-8) kept alive its hopes of reaching the finals for a second consecutive season — both against the Longhorns.

Alabama (56-8), which had a seven-game winning streak halted, still seeks its first finals appearance since 2014.

TEXAS 4, TENNESSEE 0: Teagan Kavan pitched a complete-game two-hitter and reigning champion Texas advanced to the championship in the teams’ second matchup of the day.

Game 3: Arizona St. 17, South Dakota St. 0 Game 4: Ole Miss 6, Nebraska 3 Game 5: Arizona State 11, Nebraska 8 Game 6: Ole Miss 5, Arizona St. 4

Los Angeles Regional

Game 1: Saint Mary’s (Cal) 3, UCLA 2 Game 2: Cal Poly 6, Virginia Tech 2

Saturday

Game 3: UCLA 6, Virginia Tech 5 Game 4: Cal Poly 14, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 1 Game 5: Saint Mary’s (Cal) 6, UCLA 5 Game 6: Cal Poly 5, Saint Mary’s (Cal) 2

Morgantown Regional

Game 1: Kentucky 6, Wake Forest 5 Game 2: West Virginia 10, Binghamton 1

Saturday

Game 3: Wake Forest 12, Binghamton 3 Game 4: Kentucky 11, West Virginia 9

Sunday

Game 5: West Virginia 0, Wake Forest 5 Game 6: West Virginia 11, Kentucky 9

Game 3: VCU 5, Tennessee 4 Game 4: North Carolina 7, East Carolina 5

Starkville Regional

Monday

Game 7: West Virginia 6, Kentucky 5

Friday

Game 1: Mississippi St. 10, Lipscomb 1 Game 2: Cincinnati 12, UL 2

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Friday

Game 3: UL 10, Lipscomb 4 Game 4: Mississippi St. 10, Cincinnati 5

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Game 5: UL 8, Cincinnati 6 Game 6: Mississippi St. 19, UL 5

Sunday

Game 1: St. John’s 6, Florida St. 5 Game 2: N. Illinois 12, Coastal Carolina 10

Game 1: Texas A&M 7, Lamar 5 Game 2: Texas St. 5, Southern Cal 4

Sunday

Game 3: Southern Cal 19, Lamar 6 Game 4: Texas A&M 17, Texas St. 2

Tallahassee Regional

Game 5: Southern Cal 15, Texas St. 4 Game 6: Southern Cal 14, Texas A&M 3

Saturday

Eugene Regional Friday

Game 1: Washington St. 3, Oregon St. 2 Game 2: Oregon 14, Yale 2

Saturday

Game 3: Oregon St. 9, Yale 2 Game 4: Oregon 4, Washington St. 0

Sunday

Game 5: Oregon St. 10, Washington St. 1 Game 6: Oregon 4, Oregon St. 1

Gainesville Regional

Game 4: St. John’s 21, N. Illinois 8

Sunday

Game 3: Florida St. 2, Coastal Carolina 1 (resumption of suspended game) Game 5: Florida St. 7, N. Illinois 4 Game 6: St. John’s 5, Florida St. 4

Tuscaloosa Regional Friday

Game 1: SC-Upstate 8, Oklahoma St. 5 Game 2: Alabama 21, Alabama St. 3

Saturday

Game 3: Oklahoma St. 7, Alabama St. 7, 11 innings Game 4: Alabama 7, SC-Upstate 5

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Sunday

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Super regionals

Game 1: Florida 8, Rider 7 Game 2: Miami 10, Troy 5 Game 3: Troy 15, Rider 7 Game 4: Florida 22, Miami 10

Sunday

Game 5: Troy 9, Miami 6 Game 6: Troy 16, Florida 11

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Game 7: Troy 10, Florida 2

Game 5: Oklahoma St. 12, SC-Upstate 1 Game 6: Alabama 9, Oklahoma St. 7

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Game 1: East Carolina 7, Tennessee 3, 14 innings Game 2: North Carolina 8, VCU 0

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Converted running back Jake Randle took over as Newman’s starting quarterback last season and thrived, but the Greenies are searching for a new signal caller with Randle off to Tulane.

Incoming senior Ren Guidry has the most experience but was unable to attend spring practices due to Newman’s state title run in baseball. Incoming sophomore Jaylen Hunter and incoming freshman Baldwin Montgomery got quarterback reps, and the Greenies will have a new play-caller in former St. Paul’s offensive coordinator Kenny Sears III. “It’s a totally open (quarterback) competition,” Newman coach Aaron Vice said. “(Sears) has been awesome.”

Game 1: Nebraska 4, South Dakota St. 1 Game 2: Ole Miss 7, Arizona St. 6, 14 innings

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Newman

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Game 3: UC Santa Barbara 15, Holy Cross 1 Game 4: Texas 16, Tarleton St. 2

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College Station Regional

Two-time reigning Division I select state champion Karr graduated a three-year starting quarterback in West Virginia signee John Johnson. A three-man race is taking place between Forest Johnson, Marlon Jones and Jayce Romain for the keys to Karr’s dynamic offense.

An incoming junior, Johnson started at quarterback in Karr’s spring scrimmage against Kennedy and completed several long passes. Jones is also an incoming junior and made plays with his legs during the scrimmage, while Romain will be a senior come the fall.

“We’re always going to have a quarterback at Karr,” coach Brice Destrehan Brown said. “It’s going to be a comAushai Smith is the frontrunner petition, and that’s how we like it.” to lead Destrehan’s high-powered offense as the starting quarterSt. Augustine back with two-year starter Jackson Vashaun Coulon will be at South- Fields headed to Incarnate Word.

Smith started multiple games at ern University this fall after helping lead St. Aug to its first state quarterback as a freshman while championship game appearance Fields was injured. An incoming in nearly 50 years. Incoming ju- junior, Smith led the first-team niors Jaelle Noble and Jay May offense during this year’s spring are competing to become St. Aug’s scrimmage against Shaw, and innext starting quarterback. coming sophomore Denham EllsA dynamic athlete, Noble re- worth also saw reps in the spring cently picked up an offer from game.

“Whoever gives us the best Arkansas and received the majority of first-team reps in St. Aug’s chance to win will play,” Destrespring scrimmage against Alex- han coach Marcus Scott said. “So andria. Whoever wins the start- far, it’s been Aushai (Smith).” ing job will have plenty of help at wide receiver, as incoming seniors Holy Cross Miguel Whitley and Ray’Quan WilThe competition to replace Jokoliams both have SEC offers.

by Farria as Holy Cross’ quarter“(Noble) is a bigger, dual-threat back is shaping up to be a two-man guy, and (May) is a smaller pock- battle between U-High transfer et passer,” St. Aug coach Robert Cooper Odle and incoming sophoValdez said. “Jaelle has separated more Garrett Chittenden. himself a little bit.”

Odle brings experience and appears to be the frontrunner for the Jesuit starting quarterback role despite Jesuit had to shuffle its quar- not getting reps this spring. Chitterback room around last season tenden started for Holy Cross durafter senior Taylor Norton missed ing its spring scrimmage in Misgames with a thumb injury. Both sissippi, making plays with both Sully Sullivan and Mani Vanden- his arm and his legs.

Lincoln Regional

Sunday

Game 5: East Carolina 10, VCU 0 Game 6: North Carolina 9, East Carolina 3

“(Odle) throws it well and has great touch; he’s a leader,” Holy Cross coach Scott Wattigny said. “I thought (Chittenden) did real well (this spring).”

Game 5: Arkansas 10, Northeastern 9 Game 6: Kansas 13, Arkansas 10

Game 1: Texas 19, Holy Cross 1 Game 2: Tarleton St. 11, UC Santa Barbara 5

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weghe saw playing time while Norton was out, and the two incoming juniors are currently battling it out for the starting quarterback job.

Sullivan got the start in Jesuit’s spring scrimmage against Hahnville, finishing with two passing touchdowns. While Sullivan appears to have the most passing upside, Vandenweghe showed flashes during the scrimmage with his legs and picked up a rushing touchdown.

“Competing against each other is going to make both (Sullivan and Vandenweghe) much better,” Jesut coach Ryan Manale said. “(Both) could go on to play quarterback in college.”

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Jesuit High School’s Mani Vandenweghe runs the ball against John Curtis on Oct. 24 at the Shrine on Airline in Metairie.

Game 3: Northeastern 5, Missouri St. 1 Game 4: Kansas 5, Arkansas 3

Game 5: Auburn 9, UCF 3 Game 6: Auburn 8, Milwaukee 1

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Sunday

Chapel Hill Regional

Several standout quarterbacks from the 2025 prep football season in New Orleans have graduated, which means there will be several new faces taking the field behind center in 2026.

With Division I signees such as Edna Karr’s John Johnson and St. Augustine’s Vashaun Coulon off to college, the New Orleans area’s next quarterback crop has big shoes to fill. Quarterback competitions are underway to see who the new Friday night football stars will be this fall.

Listed below are seven New Orleans-area prep football quarterback competitions, with details on each battle heading into the summer.

Friday

Game 2: UCF 9, NC State 3 Game 3: Auburn 17, NC State 13 Game 4: Milwaukee 13, UCF 6

Game 5: UC Santa Barbara 9, Tarleton St. 5 Game 6: Texas 6, UC Santa Barbara 4

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Game 5: Jacksonville St. 7, Virginia 6 Game 6: Little Rock 6, Jacksonville St. 3

Game 1: Kansas 6 Northeastern 3 Game 2: Arkansas 9, Missouri St. 5

Game 1: Liberty 4, Boston College 3

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Sunday

Game 7: Oklahoma 8, Georgia Tech 7

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Area high school quarterbacks competing to be next starter

Game 3: Virginia 15, Southern Miss 11, 10 innings Game 4: Little Rock 8, Jacksonville St. 6

Lawrence Regional

Athens Regional

Edna Karr incoming junior Forest Johnson, left, warms up before the team took on John F. Kennedy in a spring game May 13 in Algiers. Johnson is among several players vying to be the team’s next quarterback.

Game 1: Little Rock 7, Southern Miss 4 Game 2: Jacksonville St. 15, Virginia 7

Game 5: Oklahoma 8, The Citadel 3 Game 6: Oklahoma 15, Georgia Tech 8

Monday

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Hattiesburg Regional

Double elimination; x-if necessary

The second-seeded Longhorns (51-12), needing two wins against the seventh-seeded Volunteers (49-12), accomplished the feat with a 5-2 win in the first game, then followed with Kavan’s dominating win. It was the second straight year that Texas eliminated Tennessee in the Final Four.

Longhorns ace Kavan (28-6) did not start the first game but got a one-batter save. In her start, she struck out 10 without a walk. Tennessee had only two base runners as the Longhorns played errorless ball after committing four errors in the first game.

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UL center fielder Noah Lewis had three hits, including this solo home run, for the Cajuns during a 19-5 loss to top-seeded Mississippi State late Sunday night in the Starkville Regional. The loss eliminated the Cajuns from the tournament.

Five LSU players enter transfer portal on 1st day

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

LSU baseball saw five players enter the transfer portal on Monday, the first day on which players could submit their names.

Redshirt junior right-hander Jaden Noot, junior infielder Trent Caraway, redshirt junior left-hander DJ Primeaux and junior outfielder Daniel Harden all entered the portal, becoming the first departures in an offseason likely full of them.

Sophomore right-hander Mavrick Rizy was the first player to announce that he’d be entering the portal last Tuesday, six days before he could officially enter his name.

Caraway was a major name LSU picked up as a transfer last summer. The former Oregon State third baseman was a top200 prospect as a draft-eligible sophomore in last year’s MLB draft, per MLB.com, and hit 12 homers a year ago.

But he struggled this year, hitting just .243 with two home runs

while starting in 24 games.

The next biggest names to enter the portal on Monday were Noot and Rizy.

The former appeared in just nine games this season but pitched for LSU at the College World Series last summer. He started five games and had a 4.13 ERA in 2025, and he was the No. 1 right-handed pitcher out of California in the Class of 2022.

Rizy led the Tigers in appearances in 2025 and posted a 4.74 ERA as a freshman before struggling this year as a sophomore.

Rizy hit seven batters and walked 19 others in 211/ 3 innings this year.

Primeaux and Harden played small roles for LSU in 2026.

Harden had just 22 at-bats after transferring in from McLennan Community College. Primeaux redshirted as a freshman during LSU’s 2023 national championship season before appearing in 22 games as a redshirt sophomore in 2025. He pitched only four times this year.

The transfer portal is open until June 30.

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LSU men’s golf team shoots historical round

BY SCOTT RABALAIS Staff writer

Jake Amos didn’t want his LSU Tigers to give up hope, but he also had to be realistic.

“I booked our flights (home) before the round, I’m just going to tell you,” the LSU men’s golf coach said Sunday night.

Understandable, since after two poor rounds to open the NCAA Championships at La Costa Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, California, his Tigers were in 27th place going into Sunday’s third round. Only the top 15 teams would make the 54-hole cut to Monday’s final round of stroke play, and LSU was 16 shots out of 15th place with a ton of teams to climb over.

Amos sent his players out with a simple message.

“Let’s just see what we can do,” he said. “No pressure, just be super aggressive.”

Aggressive and on target, the Tigers combined for a round for the ages. Starting on the 10th hole, LSU players sizzled for an 18-under 270 Sunday, vaulting into a tie for 12th and keeping hopes alive of contending for the program’s sixth national championship.

It was LSU’s lowest round ever in the NCAA Championships, topping an 11-under 277 in 2017. According to Golfweek.com, it was just one stroke off the NCAA championships single-round record.

“I might be at a loss for words,”

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Amos said. “We talked about just not quitting, and we kind of tried to play the golf course in different sections. Get off to hot start, survive 12 through 14, and we did that.

“It is just kind of the proudest I’ve ever been of any team. Tigers don’t quit and we didn’t. We finally showed the firepower this team has.”

Four of the five LSU players shot in the 60s, led by Dan Hayes’ 8-under 64. Jay Mendell shot a 68, followed by 69s from Arni Sveinsson and Matthew Dodd-Berry. Noah McWilliams shot a 74 that LSU did not have to count.

Hayes was 3 under through his first eight holes before hitting a shot into the water on the par-5 18th, his ninth hole of the day. But Hayes knocked a 7-iron close and made the par putt, keeping his hot round going as he shot 5 under on his second nine.

“I think that was when I kind of knew I could take it low,” Hayes said of his recovery on 18. “I’ve been playing fine all week. I just knew we needed to make birdies.

“We were terrible the first round.

I think everyone will say it, and we just knew we had to go low, and I think today there was no holding back. Like we had nothing to lose, and we know how good we are.

Every single one of us can shoot seven, eight under, so when it all clicks, it clicks.”

Monday’s fourth round was not complete by press time.

and two turnovers. He also made 6 of 7 free throws.

Hudson earned Louisiana Gatorade Player of the Year honors as a junior, averaging 19.7 points, 13.5 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 3.0 blocks. He led Ruston (23-4) to the Division I nonselect state tournament championship game.

Hudson’s dad, Antonio Hudson, played basketball at LSU from 2001-05 and is the basketball coach of Lincoln Prep.

Hamlin storms back from penalty to win

BY TERESA M. WALKER AP sportswriter

LEBANON, Tenn. — Denny Hamlin looked in his mirror wondering why nobody else went with him when the green flag dropped at the start of the Cracker Barrel 400 on Sunday night.

He said nothing on his radio, instead paying the penalty by going to the back of the field.

Then he drove his way back to the front where he outraced Christopher Bell over the last four thrilling laps off a final restart to win at the Nashville Superspeedway.

“Man, what an unbelievable day,” Hamlin said. “Starting first, going to last and back to first.”

This was Hamlin’s second win this year and 62nd of his career, and he wound up leading a racehigh 57 laps including the one that mattered most.

The 45-year-old Hamlin wound up racing side-by-side with his Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Bell and Chase Briscoe, making it three-wide before Hamlin took the lead down the backstretch to win by 0.115 seconds in his No. 11 Toyota.

“Well, that’s why on the last lap, I committed to just run the bottom,” Hamlin said.

Team co-owner Heather Gibbs said watching the teammates race so hard was like kids on a family vacation swatting at each other in the backseat. But she said they raced cleanly.

“We want them to race for the win,” she said. “That’s what they do, and it makes us proud.”

Hamlin, who won at Las Vegas and also the All-Star race at Dover, pulled within 97 points of Tyler Reddick in the season standings. Reddick finished sixth.

The race started 80 minutes late after rain delayed NASCAR’s Cup Series for a second straight week. The wait was worth it with

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Denny Hamlin celebrates after winning a NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday in Lebanon, Tenn.

LATE SUNDAY a record 31 lead changes among a record 15 leaders. The race also featured 12 cautions at the 1.33mile, D-shaped oval that is NASCAR’s largest concrete track.

Bell finished second for a second straight race ahead of Briscoe. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. was fourth, and Shane Van Gisbergen rounded out the top five.

“I had the best car on the race track ... and we had the lead on the restart,” Bell said. “I got a great push from Denny on the restart, and I didn’t win the race.”

Hamlin now is one Cup victory away from matching his one-time teammate Kyle Busch, who died May 22 at 41. Busch is ninth alltime with his 63 Cup victories, and Hamlin said he certainly aspires to get there.

“It just shows how good he was

for so long,” Hamlin said. “I saw the stats online where we ran together 500 and some races, and he finished ahead of me 10 more times than I beat him in the same equipment.”

Ryan Blaney, trying to repeat as champ at this track, led the restart trying to hold off AJ Allmendinger on a one-lap shootout for the first stage. Allmendinger took the lead on the backstretch, then held off Kyle Larson to take stage one for his first stage victory since 2024.

Daniel Suarez took the second stage after staying out during a caution and took the lead on the restart on lap 182. Then Corey Heim drove his No. 67 Toyota into the back of Todd Gilliland’s No. 34 Ford, sending him backward into the Turn 1 wall. That brought out the seventh caution with Cole Custer spinning out in the crash.

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Faneca, who played guard at LSU from 1995-97, was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2021.

A consensus first-team AllAmerican in 1997 and LSU’s first Outland Trophy finalist, he won the Jacobs Blocking Trophy that year. Faneca helped the Tigers lead the Southeastern Conference in rushing his final two seasons and was a two-time firstteam All-SEC pick.

Peterson made history as an LSU cornerback, becoming the first player to win both the Bednarik (top defensive player) and Jim Thorpe (top defensive back) awards. A unanimous first-team All-American in 2010, Peterson was the first player to be named SEC defensive player of the year and SEC special teams player of the year after also leading the conference in punt and kickoff return yards.

Evans, a Saints Ring of Honor honoree who played guard from 2006-16 in New Orleans, was a standout small college offensive lineman at Bloomsburg (Pennsylvania). Evans was a first-team All-American in 2005 and two-time NCAA Division II player of the year finalist.

Edwards set the thenNCAA record for career touchdown receptions with 50 (he now ranks third alltime) as he won the 1998 Biletnikoff Award at Louisiana Tech and was a consensus first-team All-American. He caught 27 touchdown passes that season and set a singlegame FBS record with 405 receiving yards against Nebraska.

Other notables on this

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Star LSU guard Alan Faneca takes a breather after a win over Akron is well in hand on Sept. 27, 1997, in Tiger Stadium. year’s ballot include: Ashley Ambrose, Mississippi Valley State: A first-team All-American in 1991, the former Saint (1999, 2003-04) led the nation in punt returns as a senior.

Vaughn Dunbar, Indiana: Long before the Hoosiers dreamed of winning the national title, the former Saints running back (1992, 1994-95) led the nation in rushing in 1991 (1,805 yards) and was a unanimous first-team AllAmerican.

Matt Dunigan, Louisiana Tech: A 1982 first-team All-American and Southland Conference Player of the Year, Dunigan set career school records for completions (550), passing yards (7,042) and TD passes (40).

Craig Heyward, Pittsburgh: A 1987 consensus first-team All-American, the former Saints running back (1988-

92) led the nation in rushing and finished fifth in Heisman voting.

Maxie Lambright, Louisiana Tech: The coach in Ruston from 1967-78, he led the program to three consecutive Division II national titles from 1972-74 and won seven conference titles.

Manti Te’o, Notre Dame: A Saints linebacker from 2017-19, Te’o was a unanimous firstteam All-American in 2012 under former LSU coach Brian Kelly. He was the first player ever to sweep the Maxwell, Walter Camp, Bednarik, Butkus, Lombardi and Nagurski awards in the same season.

Jonathan Vilma, Miami: Also a Saints linebacker from 2008-13, Vilma was a firstteam All-American in 2003 and led the Hurricanes to back-to-back BCS national

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North Squad quarterback Kellen Moore of Boise State looks for a receiver in the first half of the Senior Bowl game on Jan. 28, 2012, at Ladd-Peebles Stadium in Mobile, Ala. championship games.

Not included on this year’s ballot is former LSU coach Les Miles, his absence notable because of the names of two other coaches.

Former Mississippi State coaches Mike Leach and Jackie Sherrill made the list. Both were eligible because of a voting rule adopted in 2025 saying that coaches with a winning percentage below .600 could be on the ballot if their winning percentages round up to .600 (.595 or higher), among other considerations.

Leach, who died in 2022 and is considered a mastermind behind modern college offenses, had a winning percentage of .596 with a 158-107 record at Texas Tech, Washington State and Mississippi State. Sherrill, who coached 26 seasons at Washington State, Pittsburgh, Texas A&M and Mississippi State, was 179-121-4 (.595).

Miles went 114-34 with a 2007 national championship at LSU and was 145-73 in 18 total seasons that included stops at

Oklahoma State and Kansas for an on-fi eld career winning percentage of .665. But LSU forfeited 37 wins from Miles’ tenure, stemming from improper benefits given to former Tiger Vadal Alexander by convicted Our Lady of the Lake Foundation president/CEO John Paul Funes.

That officially made Miles 108-73, for a winning percentage of .597.

That qualifies under the new criteria, but Miles must be nominated by one of the schools he coached at to be on the ballot.

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BY KYLE HIGHTOWER

BY BRIAN MAHONEY AND TIM REYNOLDS

AP sportswriter

AP basketball writers

NEW YORK — Getting to the NBA Finals proves that the New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs have made plenty of smart moves along the way.

You need a star, like a Jalen Brunson or a Victor Wembanyama.

They need some help. They need the right coach.

But this matchup, which starts Wednesday in San Antonio, also shows that there’s no one way to get all those things done. Of the 10 players that the Spurs are most likely to have in the regular rotation for this series, six were drafted by San Antonio. Of the 10 most likely to appear for the Knicks, only one was drafted by New York.

It’s Biggest Market vs. Smaller Market. Shopping vs. Drafting.

Knicks vs. Spurs isn’t just a clash for the NBA title, it’s a clash in styles as well — with Knicks president Leon Rose seeming to constantly tinker until finding the right mix, and the Spurs building through the draft instead.

“I’ve said it before, I’ll keep saying it: Leon and his staff have done a freaking fantastic, fantastic job,” Knicks coach Mike Brown said.

Whether it was LeBron James, Kevin Durant or some other megastar, there was always hope that someone would eventually come save the Knicks — who are in the finals for the first time since 1999.

They missed the playoffs 16 times in the 27 seasons that followed, including a nine-year stretch where they failed to win a single playoff series. Whatever the approach was, it wasn’t working.

Constructing a championship contender takes good luck — the Spurs know that part well, with a slew of good lottery fortunes including the one that landed them Wembanyama in 2023 — but also good leadership. It takes bold decisions, such as committing more than $100 million to a former second-round pick in Brunson who had largely been a backup in Dallas, or trading a whopping five first-round picks to land Mikal Bridges, who has never even been an All-Star but has become an integral part of this Knicks’ run.

“It took a long time for us to get here,” Spurs forward Keldon Johnson said. “It took a village.”

The Knicks can say the same.

They just took a different route.

Rose was hired in March 2020.

He was a longtime agent, and James was one of the players once on his talent roster. Rose’s arrival

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Continued from page 1C out 45 — with only three walks — over 39 innings in May and broke a 115-year-old franchise record along the way. Sánchez has pitched 442/3 consecutive scoreless innings headed into Wednesday’s start against San Diego to top the mark of 41 innings set in 1911 by Grover Cleveland Alexander.

Up ahead, a shot at the major league record held by former Los Angeles Dodgers great Orel Hershiser, who threw 59 consecutive scoreless innings for the World Series champions from Aug. 30 to Sept. 28, 1988.

“I’m pulling for anybody to have a life-changing moment,” Hershiser said. “’88 and the 59 scoreless changed my life. The only time I’m not going to root for him is when he’s pitching against the Dodgers.”

Sánchez missed the Dodgers series during the Phillies 4-2 road

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Continued from page 1C do we make the difficult decision that we think is best for the organization over the long run?” Berry said after the trade was announced.

The Browns get Verse — the 2024 AP NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year — a 2027 first-round selection, a second-round pick in 2028 and a 2029 third-round selection.

Owners Dee and Jimmy Haslam said in a statement that they met with Garrett on Saturday to discuss the trade.

“Trading Myles was never our intent, but we also recognize that certain opportunities demand seri-

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The New york Knicks hold the Eastern Conference championship trophy after Game 4 in the Eastern Conference finals against the Cleveland Cavaliers on May 25 in Cleveland. ä Knick at Spurs.

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — A.J. Brown is leaving Philadelphia for a reunion in New England with his first NFL coach.

The Eagles traded the star receiver to the Patriots on Monday, putting a cap on the longrumored deal.

The Eagles said they will receive a first-round pick in 2028 and a fifth-round pick in 2027 for the three-time Pro Bowler.

The trade comes after a frustrating 2025 season for Brown in Philadelphia, in which he had grown dispirited with an Eagles offense that played uninspired football at times while the team failed to defend its Super Bowl title.

Still, he posted a message on Instagram shortly after the trade became official Monday of him in an Eagles jersey with his hands making the “heart” symbol. He also posted a few other photos of himself as a kid wearing a Tom Brady Patriots jersey.

Brown played under Vrabel for three seasons after being drafted by the Tennessee Titans in 2019.

Brown, 28, quickly rose to the top receiving option in Philadelphia after being traded by Tennessee to the Eagles in 2022.

He had back-to-back Pro Bowl seasons his first two seasons with the Eagles, catching 88 passes for 1,496 yards and 11 touchdowns in 2022 and 106 passes for 1,456 yards and seven TDs in 2023.

He earned a Super Bowl ring

during the 2024 season, but began to grow unhappy last season as the Eagles offense stagnated — leading to a change at offensive coordinator after a wild-card playoff loss to San Francisco last season.

It led to an increase in chatter about the potential for a trade heading into this offseason. It didn’t happen during April’s NFL draft likely because the Eagles would have had about $43 million in dead cap money for 2026 compared to about $16 million this year and $27 million next year if traded after June 1.

Ultimately a high draft pick proved to be enough to persuade them to deal a player of Brown’s caliber.

The Patriots have been viewed as a possible landing spot for Brown since they released receiver Stefon Diggs in March.

Diggs led New England with 85 receptions and 1,013 yards receiving with four touchdowns in his only season in New England in 2025, helping the Patriots reach the Super Bowl, where they lost to the Seattle Seahawks.

Diggs’ exit made finding a No. 1 receiving option for quarterback Drake Maye a priority.

The Patriots did add former Green Bay Packers receiver Romeo Doubs in free agency, but he doesn’t instantly change an offense the way Brown’s addition could.

Maye acknowledged last week that he was aware of the Brownto-New England rumors.

was right near the end of a typically turbulent season in New York, when the coach (David Fizdale) had been fired early in the season, and later the president who fired him (Steve Mills) was also ousted.

One of Rose’s first moves was to hire the coach who would set the organization’s standard and culture — Tom Thibodeau. And Thibodeau won, though evidently didn’t win enough. So, the Knicks turned to Brown this season, another example of the constant tinkering.

The Spurs, meanwhile, embrace continuity. They haven’t had a coaching search in more than three decades; Gregg Popovich named himself coach in 1996 and when he had a stroke in November 2024, Mitch Johnson replaced him on an interim basis. Johnson got the job full-time last spring, and it was never a question that the Spurs were going in that direction.

“This team,” Johnson said, “has now been pretty damn consistent for a long time.”

Not the Knicks, who became a league laughingstock.

Hall of Famers such as Isiah Thomas and Phil Jackson were given the keys to the franchise, only to crash it. Jeff Hornacek lost more than 100 games in two seasons, and Derek Fisher (96) and Fizdale (83) would have if they’d gotten to finish their second.

Free agents such as Joakim Noah

flopped. High draft picks (Frank Ntilikina, Jordan Hill, Kevin Knox) were busts, and even when the Knicks got something right, such as drafting Kristaps Porzingis, they were so dysfunctional that he wanted out. They were a leagueworst 17-65 in 2018-19.

The summer before Rose arrived had been another massive miss in free agency for the Knicks.

Durant and Kyrie Irving not only passed but went together to Brooklyn, and suddenly it seemed the Knicks weren’t even the biggest deal in New York.

The Knicks tried other flashy moves, like the 2019 summer where they got Julius Randle in free agency and RJ Barrett with the No. 3 pick in the draft. They eventually got turned into other moves; Barrett and Immanuel Quickley were dealt to Toronto in 2023 for OG Anunoby, and Randle was part of the package that brought Karl-Anthony Towns from Minnesota to New York in a blockbuster on the eve of the 2024-25 season.

Along the way, Josh Hart — who had already played for three other teams — was acquired in a 2023 trade in which Rose sent out Cam Reddish, a former top-10 pick who isn’t even in the NBA anymore.

For Anunoby, who had been playing in the same division, it was clear that the Knicks were building something.

“Definitely progression,” Anunoby said, adding, “getting better and better each year.”

trip, and they are now 21-10 under interim manager Don Mattingly.

He hasn’t missed much else, except maybe a lot of bats.

“It’s something special,” Sánchez said through an interpreter. “Something really important. I never imagined something like this. So, I’m really happy and proud of myself.”

Sánchez has thrown at least seven shutout innings in five straight starts — he would need to reach that minimum in two more starts, plus one inning to top Hershiser — and only six other pitchers are ahead of him on the consecutive shutout innings list dating back to the start of the Live Ball Era in 1920.

Arizona pitcher Zac Gallen is the only other active pitcher who understands what Sánchez is feeling on the mound over a lengthy scoreless streak. Gallen — just passed by Sánchez — had six straight scoreless starts of six-plus innings and finished at 441/3 innings overall in 2022.

“When you’re on a streak like that,

it’s fun,” Gallen said. “It’s kind of like walking around, I wouldn’t say on eggshells of, ‘Oh man, you never know when this thing’s going to end.’ But it’s fun when you’re out there and you’re in flow and the zeroes start to stack up.

So, it’s awesome for him. I hope he can take down the record.”

Sánchez is 6-2 with an MLBlow 1.47 ERA overall headed into Wednesday’s start against a Padres team he just beat last week with seven brilliant innings.

Should Sánchez start the game with three scoreless innings, he would pass Sal Maglie, Carl Hubbell, Zack Greinke and Bob Gibson on the scoreless streak list.

Only Don Drysdale and Hershiser would be left.

“What I do watch, he’s very, very special,” Hershiser said.

“His changeup, his athleticism, his ability to change speeds to both sides of the plate. I just think he’s a real special pitcher. You can’t do what he’s doing without repeating your mechanics and having

some deception and making a lot of good pitches. He’s putting it all together.”

Each of Sánchez’s last 282/3 innings at Citizens Bank Park have been scoreless, and he has the thirdlongest scoreless streak in ballpark history, trailing only Roy Halladay in 2010 (33 innings) and Cliff Lee in 2011 (29).

The 29-year-old Sánchez has inched toward greatness each of the last two seasons.

He was the NL Cy Young Award runner-up in 2025 when he went 13-5 with a 2.50 ERA and struck out 212 in 202 innings. Sánchez was rewarded in March with a guaranteed $104 million over a six-year contract through the 2032 season in a deal that contains $20 million in deferred money payable from 2035-44.

The Phillies put a lot of financial faith in Sánchez, and the early returns have been significant — he made his first opening-day start and could lead to the lanky lefty earning an All Star start in July on his home

mound.

Sánchez signed with the Tampa Bay Rays as an international free agent in 2013 and was traded to the Phillies six years later for infielder Curtis Mead, who never caught on as an everyday player and is batting .242 in 45 games this season with the Washington Nationals.

Sánchez — throwing a changeup that averages 86.5 mph and holding hitters to a .153 average — and Zack Wheeler have formed a formidable 1-2 punch in the rotation and helped the Phillies play their way out of a 9-19 start to get back into wild-card contention.

Sánchez has pitched largely to weak contact, and the scoreless streak has never been in any serious jeopardy since he last allowed two runs in the first inning of a 3-2 Phillies win over the Giants on April 30.

“If Cristopher would break it, that would be an honor to be mentioned and I would treat him with the same (respectful) that Don Drysdale treated me,” Hershiser said.

ous consideration, and we believe this is the right move for our team.

Adding a young defensive star like Jared Verse, along with valuable draft assets, are necessary to strengthen a talented young core and align with the youth of our team,” the Haslams said.

Garrett was not seen at the Browns’ facility during offseason workouts even though he made a couple of visits to Cleveland during the Cavaliers’ NBA playoff run.

Garrett has a minority stake in the Cavaliers.

Coach Todd Monken said two weeks ago he had not had a faceto-face meeting with Garrett since being hired in late January. Defensive coordinator Mike Rutenberg said last week he had some

conversations over the phone with Garrett about the direction of the defense.

The 30-year-old Garrett is the first player in NFL history with at least 12 sacks in six consecutive seasons (2020-25) and the only player with double-digit sacks in each of the past eight years. His 1251/2 career sacks are tied for 20th on the league list.

Garrett, who was part of five double-digit losing seasons during his nine years in Cleveland, finally gets a chance to contend for a Super Bowl title.

The trade is yet another blockbuster deal swung by Rams general manager Les Snead, whose eagerness to use his draft picks in trades for star veterans has kept

the Rams among the NFL’s top teams during coach Sean McVay’s decade on the sideline.

Snead notably acquired star cornerback Jalen Ramsey from Jacksonville in 2019 in a deal that included two first-round picks, securing the cornerstone of the secondary for a team that won a Super Bowl. But the Rams only won it all after they acquired Matthew Stafford in early 2021 in an even bigger trade for Jared Goff and two first-round picks.

Just a couple of months ago, Snead acquired star cornerback Trent McDuffie from Kansas City in a deal for four draft picks, including a first-rounder, to rebuild the secondary that was the weak link of last season’s team.

Before Snead shocked the NFL by picking quarterback Ty Simpson this spring, the Rams had made only one first-round selection over the previous nine years.

That pick was Verse, who quickly became a star during his two seasons as the anchor of the Rams’ rebuilt pass rush in the wake of Aaron Donald’s retirement.

Verse had 41/2 sacks while being selected as the NFL’s top defensive rookie in 2024, and he had 71/2 sacks last season along with three forced fumbles. Byron Young led the Rams with 12 sacks and interior lineman Kobie Turner contributed seven sacks, and both young stars are heading into the final year of their rookie contracts.

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Philadelphia Eagles wide receiver A.J. Brown was traded to the New England Patriots on Monday for a pair of draft picks.

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SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Kentucky Derby runner-up Renegade opened as the 2-1 favorite for the the 158th Belmont Stakes when post positions were drawn Monday for the third leg of the Triple Crown.

Renegade drew post position No. 4 and is set to be ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr. The Todd Pletcher-trained horse is coming off finishing second by a neck in the Derby to Cherie DeVaux-trained Golden Tempo, who opened as the 9-2 third choice.

Golden Tempo will start on the outside Saturday after drawing the No. 9 post in the nine-horse field.

DeVaux made history as the first woman to train a Derby winner. She returns to Saratoga Race Course in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she was born and spent some of her early career looking to win two Triple Crown races in the same year.

Golden Tempo, with Jose Ortiz set to be aboard, is running for the first time after DeVaux and owners decided not to run him in the Preakness Stakes.

“The field can go out ahead of him, and he’ll just find himself in the back of the pack early in the race,” DeVaux said.

Bill Mott’s Chief Wallabee was the second choice at 3-1 after being fourth in the Derby and will start the race out of the No. 3 post. Mott won the Derby and the Belmont with Sovereignty last year. Jockey

American League FAVORITE LINE at TAMPA BAY -145 at BOSTON -130 at N.Y YANKEES -206 White Sox -118 National League FAVORITE LINE at PHILADELPHIA -130 at WASHINGTON OFF at MILWAUKEE -184 LA Dodgers -123 Interleague FAVORITE LINE at CINCINNATI -124 at ATLANTA -128 Texas -111 Athletics -123 Pittsburgh -115 at LA ANGELS -159 at SEATTLE -152

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UNDERDOG LINE Detroit +121 Baltimore +110 Cleveland +171 at MINNESOTA -101 UNDERDOG LINE San Diego +110 Miami OFF San Francisco +153 at ARIZONA +103 UNDERDOG Kansas City Toronto at ST. LOUIS at CHI CUBS at HOUSTON Colorado N.Y Mets

LINE +106 +108 -108 +103 -104 +133 +128

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Golden Tempo, ridden by Jose Ortiz, wins the 152nd running of the Kentucky Derby as Renegade, ridden by Irad Ortiz Jr., finishes second at Churchill Downs on May 2 in Louisville, Ky. Junior Alvarado will look to bring Mott another Belmont win.

“Our horse seems to be doing well,” Mott said. “He doesn’t seem to have taken a step backwards since the Derby. It seems like he’s been on an upwards progression.”

The rematch of Golden Tempo and Renegade highlights the third and final Belmont at Saratoga.

It has taken place at the historic track in upstate New York while Belmont Park is undergoing a full reconstruction.

New York-based trainer Chad Brown has the most horses entered in the race, headlined by Derby 10th-place finisher Emerging Market, who opened at 6-1 with Flavien Prat lined up to ride.

Game 1 — Teams TBD, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 4

Game 2 — Teams TBD 8 p.m.

Friday, June 5

x-Game 3 — Teams, TBD, 7 p.m.

Hockey NHL Playoff Glance FINALS

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

Carolina vs. Vegas

Tuesday, June 2: Vegas at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Thursday, June 4: Vegas at Carolina, 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 6: Carolina at Vegas, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 9: Carolina at Vegas, 7 p.m. x-Thursday, June 11: Vegas at Carolina, TBA x-Sunday, June 14: Carolina at Vegas, TBA x-Wednesday, June 17: Vegas at Carolina, TBA

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UNDERDOG Vegas

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Pro basketball FINALS

(Best-of-7; x-if necessary)

San Antonio vs. New York

Wednesday, June 3: New York at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Friday, June 5: New York at San Antonio, 7:30 p.m.

Monday, June 8: San Antonio at New York, 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 10: San Antonio at New York, 7:30 p.m. x-Saturday, June 13: New York at San Antonio, TBA x-Tuesday, June 16: San Antonio at New York, TBA x-Friday, June 19: New York at San Antonio, TBA

WNBA Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlanta New York Toronto Indiana Washington Chicago Connecticut

W 5 5 5 4 3 3 2

L 2 4 4 4 4 5 8

Pct .714 .556 .556 .500 .429 .375 .200

GB — 1 1 1½ 2 2½ 4½

Minnesota Dallas Las Vegas Golden State Portland Los Angeles Seattle Phoenix

W 6 5 5 5 6 4 3 2

L 2 3 3 3 4 4 6 7

Pct .750 .625 .625 .625 .600 .500 .333 .222

GB — 1 1 1 1 2 3½ 4½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Sunday’s Games

Las Vegas 91, Golden State 81

Monday’s Games

Seattle at Dallas, n Minnesota at Phoenix, n

Tuesday’s Games

Chicago at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Connecticut at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m.

Las Vegas at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

Portland at Golden State, 9 p.m.

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Thursday’s games

Game 1 — No. 3 Texas Tech 8, No. 5 Miss. St. 0 Game 2 — No. 2 Tennessee 6, No. 1 Texas 3 Game 3 — No. 1 Alabama 6, No. 2 UCLA 3 Game 4 — No. 1 Nebraska 5, No. 2 Arkansas 3

Friday’s games

Game 5 — No. 1 Texas 4, No. 5 Mississippi State 0 Game 6 — No. 2 UCLA 11, No. 5 Arkansas 0

Saturday’s games

Game 7 — No. 2 Tennessee 2, No. 3 Texas Tech 1 Game 8 — No. 1 Alabama 5, No. 1 Nebraska 1

Sunday’s games

Game 9 — No. 1 Texas 3, Nebraska 1 Game 10 — No. 2 UCLA 8, No. 3 Texas Tech 7

Monday’s games

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Game 11 — No. 1 Texas 5, No. 2 Tennessee 2

National League

Tampa Bay New York Toronto Baltimore Boston

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L 20 23 31 32 33

Pct .643 .610 .483 .467 .431

GB — 1½ 9 10 12

Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Kansas City Detroit

W 34 32 27 22 22

L 27 27 33 37 38

Pct .557 .542 .450 .373 .367

GB — 1 6½ 11 11½

Seattle Athletics Texas Houston Los Angeles

W 31 28 28 27 23

L 29 31 31 34 37

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GB — 2½ 2½ 4½ 8

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West Division

Brown, who has never won the Belmont, also has Ottinho (20-1) and Growth Equity (12-1).

“He hasn’t taken a step back from the Derby,” Brown said on Emerging Market. “It was kind of a rough race for him. He came out of there in one piece, and we got him up here a few days after and he’s been doing really well.”

The rest of the nine-horse field includes Brad Cox’s Commandment (6-1), Doug O’Neill’s longshot Vitruvian Man (30-1), and Pletcher’s second horse, Powershift (12-1).

This year’s field doesn’t include any horses that ran in the Preakness, including winner Napoleon Solo.

At Nashville Superspeedway Lebanon, Tenn.

Lap length: 1.33 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 300 laps, 62 points.

2. (4) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 300, 38.

3. (31) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 300, 39.

4. (15) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 300, 41.

5. (10) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 300, 32.

6. (2) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 300, 37.

7. (29) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 300, 37.

8. (7) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 300, 37.

9. (11) Zane Smith, Ford, 300, 28.

10. (17) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 300, 27.

11. (13) Erik Jones, Toyota, 300, 26.

12. (30) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 300, 25.

13. (6) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 300, 24.

14. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 300, 23.

15. (14) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 300, 27.

16. (26) Noah Gragson, Ford, 299, 21.

17. (23) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 299, 22.

18. (32) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 299, 19.

19. (3) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 299, 28.

20. (21) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 299, 17.

21. (20) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 299, 16.

22. (34) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 299, 15.

23. (5) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 299, 23.

24. (27) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 298, 13.

25. (24) Corey Heim, Toyota, 298, 0.

26. (36) Austin Cindric, Ford, 296, 18.

27. (25) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 293, 0.

28. (37) Chad Finchum, Ford, 289, 0.

29. (22) Chris Buescher, Ford, accident, 286, 8.

30. (8) William Byron, Chevrolet, accident, 231, 15.

31. (33) Josh Berry, Ford, accident, 214, 6.

32. (18) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, accident, 203, 10.

33. (19) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, accident, 203, 13.

34. (12) Brad Keselowski, Toyota, accident, 192, 4.

35. (16) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, accident, 172, 12.

36. (28) Ryan Preece, Ford, garage, 90, 1.

37. (35) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, accident, 81, 1.

38. (38) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, accident, 71, 1.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 106.425 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 44 minutes, 57 seconds.

Margin of Victory: .115 seconds.

Caution Flags: 11 for 77 laps.

Lead Changes: 31 among 15 drivers.

Lap Leaders: D.Hamlin 0; T.Reddick 1-37; C.Bell 38; S.Van Gisbergen 39-40; J.Logano 41; S.Van Gisbergen 42-48; K.Larson 49; S.Van Gisbergen 50-52; K.Larson 53-75; C.Bell 76; A.Allmendinger 77-78; R.Herbst 79; R.Blaney 80; A.Allmendinger 81; R.Blaney 82-89; A.Allmendinger 90-93; K.Larson 94-125; C.Briscoe 126-139; R.Blaney 140-146; C.Elliott 147; R.Blaney 148-177; C.Elliott 178; D.Suárez 179-188; D.Hamlin 189-244; C.Bell 245-259; C.Elliott 260; T.Reddick 261-265; T.Gibbs 266; E.Jones 267-269; Z.Smith 270-287; C.Bell 288299; D.Hamlin 300 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): D.Hamlin, 3 times for 58 laps; K.Larson, 3 times for 56 laps; R.Blaney, 4 times for 46 laps; T.Reddick, 2 times for 42 laps; C.Bell, 4 times for 29 laps; Z.Smith, 1 time for 18 laps; C.Briscoe, 1 time for 14 laps; S.Van Gisbergen, 3 times for 12 laps; D.Suárez, 1 time for 10 laps; A.Allmendinger, 3 times for 7 laps; C.Elliott, 3 times for 3 laps; E.Jones, 1 time

for 3 laps; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 1 lap; J.Logano, 1 time for 1 lap; R.Herbst, 1 time for 1 lap.

Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 2; C.Elliott, 2; R.Blaney, 1; T.Gibbs, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; D.Suárez, 1; S.Van Gisbergen, 1.

Top 16 in Points: 1. T.Reddick, 657; 2.

D.Hamlin, 560; 3. R.Blaney, 483; 4. C.Elliott, 460; 5. T.Gibbs, 449; 6. K.Larson, 409; 7.

C.Bell, 399; 8. C.Buescher, 393; 9. C.Hocevar, 383; 10. D.Suárez, 378; 11. W.Byron, 352; 12.

S.Van Gisbergen, 348; 13. B.Keselowski, 347; 14. C.Briscoe, 343; 15. B.Wallace, 338; 16.

A.Cindric, 306.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Tennis French Open Results Monday

At Stade Roland Garros Paris Purse: €28,900,000 Surface: Red clay Results Monday from French Open at Stade Roland Garros (seedings in parentheses):

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Tuesday’s Games

Detroit (Flaherty 0-7) at Tampa Bay (Matz 4-2), 5:40 p.m.

Baltimore (Baz 2-5) at Boston (Early 5-2), 5:45 p.m.

Cleveland (Cantillo 4-2) at N.Y. Yankees (Schlittler 7-2), 6:05 p.m.

Kansas City (Cameron 2-4) at Cincinnati (Abbott 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Gausman 4-3) at Atlanta (Elder 4-3), 6:15 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Martin 8-1) at Minnesota (Prielipp 1-3), 6:40 p.m.

Texas (Eovaldi 5-6) at St. Louis (May 3-6), 6:45 p.m.

Athletics (Jump 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Taillon 2-4), 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Chandler 1-6) at Houston (Burrows 3-6), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Sugano 4-4) at L.A. Angels (Rodriguez 2-1), 8:38 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Tong 1-0) at Seattle (Gilbert 3-4), 8:40 p.m.

Women’s Singles

Fourth Round Anna Kalinskaya (22), Russia, def. Anastasia Potapova (28), Russia, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (7).

Diana Shnaider (25), Russia, def. Madison Keys (19), United States, 6-3, 3-6, 6-0.

Maja Chwalinska, Poland, def. Diane Parry, France, 6-3, 6-2.

Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. Naomi Osaka (16), Japan, 7-5, 6-3.

Men’s Doubles

Third Round Harri Heliovaara, Finland, and Henry Patten (2), Britain, def. Evan King, United States, and Andre Goransson, Sweden, 6-3, 6-4.

David Pel and Sander Arends, Netherlands, def. Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo (7), El Salvador, 3-6, 7-6 (7), 7-6 (6).

Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Quentin Halys, France, def. Hugo Gaston and Titouan Droguet, France, 6-3, 6-3.

Marcelo Demoliner, Brazil, and N. Sriram Balaji, India, def. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz (6), Germany, 7-5, 6-4.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Hugo Nys (10), Monaco, def. Miguel Angel ReyesVarela, Mexico, and Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, 7-6 (7), 6-2.

Women’s Doubles

Third Round Shuko Aoyama, Japan, and En-Shuo Liang, Taiwan, def. Eudice Chong, Hong Kong, China, and Veronika Erjavec, Slovenia, 6-1, 6-3.

Gabriela Dabrowski, Canada, and Luisa Stefani (4), Brazil, def. Ulrikke Eikeri, Norway, and Quinn Gleason (15), United States, 7-5, 6-4.

Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Hanyu Guo (13), China, def. Zhang Shuai, China, and Elise Mertens (3), Belgium, 6-2, 6-4.

Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, and Ellen Perez (7), Australia, def. Beatriz Haddad Maia, Brazil, and Liudmila Samsonova, Russia, 6-3, 2-6, 6-4.

Mixed Doubles

Quarterfinals Sara Errani and Andrea Vavassori (1), Italy, def. Anna Danilina, Kazakhstan, and James Tracy (7), United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Nikola Mektic, Croatia, and Asia Muhammad, United States, def. Andre Goransson, Sweden, and Erin Routliffe, New Zealand, 5-7, 6-4, 14-12.

Atlanta Washington Philadelphia New York Miami

W 40 31 30 26 26

L 20 29 29 33 34

Pct .667 .517 .508 .441 .433

GB — 9 9½ 13½ 14

Milwaukee St. Louis Chicago Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 35 31 32 32 30

L 21 26 28 28 28

Pct .625 .544 .533 .533 .517

GB — 4½ 5 5 6

Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 38 32 31 23 22

L 21 26 27 36 38

Pct .644 .552 .534 .390 .367

GB — 5½ 6½ 15 16½

Central Division

West Division

Sunday’s Games

Monday’s Games

Miami 7, Washington 3 Kansas City 9, Cincinnati 2 San Francisco at Milwaukee, n Texas at St. Louis, n Colorado at L.A. Angels, n L.A. Dodgers at Arizona, n N.Y. Mets at Seattle, n

Tuesday’s Games

San Diego (Vásquez 5-3) at Philadelphia (Nola 3-4), 5:40 p.m.

Miami (TBD) at Washington (Mikolas 1-4), 5:45 p.m.

Kansas City (Cameron 2-4) at Cincinnati (Abbott 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Gausman 4-3) at Atlanta (Elder 4-3), 6:15 p.m.

San Francisco (McDonald 2-2) at Milwaukee (Harrison 6-1), 6:40 p.m.

Texas (Eovaldi 5-6) at St. Louis (May 3-6), 6:45 p.m.

Athletics (Jump 0-1) at Chicago Cubs (Taillon 2-4), 7:05 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Chandler 1-6) at Houston (Burrows 3-6), 7:10 p.m.

Colorado (Sugano 4-4) at L.A. Angels (Rodriguez 2-1), 8:38 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Lauer 2-5) at Arizona (Soroka 7-2), 8:40 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Tong 1-0) at Seattle (Gilbert 3-4), 8:40 p.m.

BOX SCORES Miami 7, Washington 3

Detroit 10, Tampa Bay 9

Miami

Detroit

Washington

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SB_Edwards (9). S_Stowers (1), Mack (1).

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HBP_Lovelady (Marsee).

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T_2:51. A_11,808 (41,376).

Tampa Bay

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HBP_Martin (Torkelson). WP_Madden.

ABS Challenge_Jax (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Hanifee (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Vilade (Strike-Confirmed); Vest (Ball-Confirmed); Jones.

Umpires_Home, Dan Bellino; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, Derek Thomas; Third, Dan Merzel.

T_3:08. A_13,695 (25,025).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL

Men’s Singles

Fourth Round Flavio Cobolli (10), Italy, def. Zachary Svajda, United States, 6-2, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 7-6 (5).

Matteo Berrettini, Italy, def. Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (6).

Felix Auger-Aliassime (4), Canada, def.

Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, 6-3, 7-5, 6-1.

East Division

Pittsburgh 9, Minnesota 3 Washington 4, San Diego 2 Cincinnati 6, Atlanta 4 N.Y. Mets 10, Miami 1 Milwaukee 2, Houston 0 San Francisco 19, Colorado 6 Seattle 3, Arizona 2, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 9, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 5, Chicago Cubs 1

Monday’s Games

Championship Series (Best-of-3) Wednesday, June 3

Tuesday

East Division

Baltimore 9, Toronto 5 Pittsburgh 9, Minnesota 3 Tampa Bay 5, L.A. Angels 2 Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit 1 Boston 9, Cleveland 4 Milwaukee 2, Houston 0 Texas 6, Kansas City 3 N.Y. Yankees 13, Athletics 8 Seattle 3, Arizona 2, 10 innings

Game 12 — No. 1 Texas45, No. 2 Tennessee 0 Game 13 — No. 3 Texas Tech 5, No. 1 Alabama 4

Sports Betting Line MLB

American League

Sunday’s Games

SCOREBOARD Odds

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

June 2

1928 — Les Bell of the Boston Braves hit three home runs and a triple at Braves Field, but the Cincinnati Reds came away with a 20-12 triumph.

1928 — The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 2-1. All the runs came from three pinch-hit home runs.

1941 — Lou Gehrig died in New York at age 37.

1949 — The Philadelphia Phillies hit five homers in the eighth inning against the Cincinnati Reds. Andy Seminick hit two and Del Ennis, Willie Jones, and Schoolboy Rowe hit one apiece. Seminick had homered earlier in the game.

1959 — The Baltimore Orioles-Chicago White Sox game at Comiskey Park was delayed for nearly half an hour as a swarm of gnats overcame the field.

Groundskeepers tried using bug sprays and torches, but the gnats wouldn’t budge. A postgame fireworks display was brought in from center field and a smoke bomb was attached to the framework. The gnats left and the Orioles defeated the White Sox, 3-2.

1990 — Randy Johnson pitched the first no-hitter in the Seattle Mariners’ history as he beat the Detroit Tigers 2-0. The 6-foot-10 left-hander, walked six and struck out eight while pitching the first no-hitter at the Kingdome, which opened for baseball in 1977.

1996 — Houston starter Darryl Kile tied the modern major league record by hitting four batters in a 2-0 loss at St. Louis, and the first to do it in the NL since Moe Drabowsky in 1957.

2000 — Tampa Bay’s Fred McGriff hit his 400th career home run, but the Devil Rays lost to the Mets 5-3.

2000 — Rick Aguilera of the Chicago Cubs became the 13th pitcher with 300 saves in a 2-0 win over Detroit. Aguilera reached the mark in 614 career appearances, third quickest.

2002 — Philadelphia pitcher Robert Person drove in seven runs with a grand slam and a three-run homer in an 18-3 win over Montreal. Person had just come off the

disabled list and collected his first win of the season.

2005 — Kansas City completed a sweep of the New York Yankees with a 5-2 victory.

The Royals, who have the worst record and second-lowest payroll in the major leagues, finished their first three-game sweep of the Yankees at home in 15 years.

2009 — Dan Uggla of the Marlins became the fastest second baseman to 100 homers in Florida’s 10-3 win over Milwaukee.

Uggla’s two-run shot in the bottom of the second came in his 502nd game as a second baseman, beating Alfonso Soriano to 100 by 34 games.

2010 — Ken Griffey Jr. announces his retirement after 22 seasons in the major leagues. Hitting only .184 in part-time duty for the Mariners, he retires with 630 career home runs and six seasons of 40 or more homers. Most of his career was spent with Seattle and the Cincinnati Reds.

2010 — Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers lost his bid for a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning on a call that first base umpire Jim Joyce later admitted he blew. First baseman Miguel Cabrera cleanly fielded Jason Donald’s grounder to his right and made an accurate throw to Galarraga covering the bag. The ball was there in time, and all of Comerica Park was ready to celebrate the 3-0 win over Cleveland, until Joyce emphatically signaled safe.

2011 — Aubrey Huff hit three home runs and matched his career best with six RBIs and the San Francisco Giants posted a 12-7 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals.

Huff hit two-run homers in the fourth and ninth and a solo shot in the seventh.

2015 — In a memorable major league debut, Rangers 3B Joey Gallo hits a tworun homer in his second at-bat on the way to collecting 3 hits and 4 RBIs in leading Texas to a 15-2 beating of the White Sox. 2017 — Clayton Kershaw of the Dodgers records his 2,000 career strikeout.

2018 — Jacob deGrom matches a career high set just two weeks earlier by racking up 13 strikeouts in 7 innings in a start against the Cubs.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League DETROIT TIGERS — Reinstated RHP Ty Madden from the 15-day IL. Optioned RHP Ricky Vanasco to Toledo (IL).

HOUSTON ASTROS — Optioned RHP Logan VanWey to Sugar Land (PCL).

National League ATLANTA BRAVES — Sent RHP Hurston Waldrep on a rehab assignment to the FCL Braves.

CINCINNATI REDS — Designated RHP Yunior Marte for assignment. Recalled SS Edwin Arroyo from Louisville (IL). Selected the contract of LHP Brandon Leibrandt from Louisville.

MIAMI MARLINS — Placed RHP Josh Ekness on the 15-day IL, retroactive to May 29.

Transferred LHP Andrew Nardi from the 15day IL to the 60-day IL. Transferred LF Griffin Conine from the 10-day IL to the 60-day IL.

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Showstoppers

Big Chief Demond Melancon performed in one of his plumed and sequined suits at the start of the Venice Biennale.

Art world takes notice of N.O. artists at the Venice Biennale

BY JENNA ROSS Staff writer

PHOTO PROVIDED By DAWN DEDEAUX

New Orleans artist Dawn DeDeaux is showing works new, old and reimagined in the prestigious Venice Biennale.

An exhibition at the center of the art world starts and ends with New Orleans.

Earlier this month, Big Chief Demond Melancon kicked off the Venice Biennale in Italy, arguably the contemporary art world’s most important exhibition, with beads, plumes and song. Wearing a grand, chartreuse suit, Melancon and members of the Young Seminole Hunters from the Lower 9th Ward beat tambourines.

Titled “Blessing the Ancestors,” the performance helped launch the exhibition and its theme, “In Minor Keys,” in early May, where he was one of two New Orleans artists featured in the prestigious central group show.

Then, in the historic venue’s final room, artist Dawn DeDeaux, a daughter of New Orleans, is exhibiting works new and old, drawing from dirt to stardust.

One work is new: A small meteor rotates atop a desk. The desk’s drawer is ajar, revealing glowing light. Meanwhile, a projection of a similar space rock tumbles behind it, as if headed toward the room.

“The space is so spectacular,” said Arthur Roger, whose Arthur Roger Gallery represents DeDeaux and who attended the opening. But the grand old building, part of a former shipyard, also added complications: “It’s not just a blank canvas; you’re working with a pretty complex area.”

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ROLLING AND COASTING

Adventures of the ‘Big Zephyr’

In an age before astronauts were launched to the moon, my mom had a simple explanation for some thrill riders aiming toward the stars. “Crazy people,” she would say, “crazy people.”

Errol That probably Laborde summed up the sentiment of most STREETCAR others seeing the sights along the Lake Pontchartrain waterfront.

Before universal air conditioning, taking a ride along the lake was a thing to do on summer

evenings — especially in the postWorld War II era of new cars on the road and new kids in the backseat. (To sweeten the journey, we always stopped at a Lakefront watermelon stand where the melon was sold by the slice. Now grocery stores have taken over as the purveyors, selling the melons pre-chunked and packed in plastic containers.)

After the melon break, the ride would sometimes be slowed by the traffic of others also escaping the heat. Along the way, there were visual attractions, including the lake, whose pounding waves could be heard on the other side of the concrete seawall steps where people sat while crabbing, fishing, hugging or just being.

By far the biggest attraction lay ahead, and that was the Pon-

tchartrain Beach Amusement Park, which dazzled with lights at night. Nothing there was more awe-inspiring than the sprawling, white, wooden lattice structure supporting the high-speed roller coaster that climbed and dipped on its wooden hills.

In the 1930s, the seawall had been built along the lake’s southern edge. That allowed for ambitious development projects, including a scenic Lakeshore Drive, a military base, new neighborhoods and even a plant where boat builder Andrew Higgins developed Army landing crafts. In test runs, the lake even played a role on the Normandy beachfront.

(We didn’t know that we were driving through history. President

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Support partner healing from trauma Dear Annie: My soon-to-be fiancée has had an incredibly hard year.

She had ankle surgery and a difficult recovery. She worked hard to get her mental health back on track. She gave up drinking for me. She also went through seriAnnie ous family drama Lane after being kicked DEAR ANNIE out of her aunt’s house, and she had to sue to get out of the situation.

She won.

For most of her life, her family had a lot of control over her. After more than 50 years, she finally stood up for herself and told them how she felt. I am so proud of her.

Right now, I feel like her biggest

cheerleader.

We have known each other for 30 years as friends, and now we are dating. She already “proposed” to me online, but she has no idea that I am planning to propose to her in person on her birthday at her favorite restaurant. She has her ring picked out, her gown chosen and even has thoughts about the honeymoon.

We are keeping the engagement quiet because she is a very private person.

The only problem is that she is not always great at communicating. She also has very few friends she can truly trust. I am one of the only people in her life, besides one other friend, who really looks out for her.

I love her deeply and want to

support her without overwhelming her or saying the wrong thing.

Do you have any advice on how I can talk to her, reassure her and help her feel safe as we begin this next chapter? — Her Biggest Cheerleader Dear Cheerleader: Lead with love, not fixing. Tell her simply, “I’m proud of you, I love you, and I want us to build a peaceful life together.”

Then listen more than you talk.

After the year she has had, safety will mean consistency, patience and no pressure. You do not have to say the perfect thing. Just be steady, kind and honest.

Dear Annie: My adult son is a good man, and I know he loves me, but lately I feel as if I only hear from him when something has gone

wrong. If his car makes a strange noise, he calls. If he needs help figuring out insurance, he calls.

If he is short on money or having trouble with his girlfriend, suddenly Mom is the first person on speed dial.

But when I call just to chat, ask about his day or invite him over for Sunday dinner, he is always “swamped” and says he will call me back. Most of the time, he doesn’t. I find myself staring at the phone, feeling foolish for missing someone who only seems to remember me when life gets inconvenient.

I don’t want to guilt him or push him away. I just miss being part of his everyday life, not only his emergency contact. How do I tell him that without sounding needy?

— More Than Mom’s Help Line Dear More Than Mom’s Help Line: You can love your son dearly and still refuse to be treated like roadside assistance with a casserole dish. Tell him warmly and directly, “I’m always glad to help you, but I miss hearing from you when nothing is wrong.” Then stop rewarding only the crisis calls with your full attention and invite him into ordinary connection instead. A weekly dinner or Sunday phone call may not fix everything, but it is a good place to remind him that mothers are people, not just emergency contacts.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators. com.

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TODAY IN HISTORY

Continued from page 1D So DeDeaux had to translate her conceptual pieces, “a challenge on top of all the challenges of just getting there.”

In the end, Roger said, the team was thrilled: “She was over the moon.”

The exhibition, curated by the late Koyo Kouoh, runs through November, but the reviews are out. Here’s a roundup of the media coverage: Video of Melancon’s performance sat atop The New York Times’ coverage of the exhibition.

“Once again, digital media take a back seat to textiles, ceramics, folklorism and pageantry,” critic Jason Farago wrote in his review, “a tone set right from the start, with plumed and sequined regalia for Mardi Gras celebrations designed

by Big Chief Demond Melancon of New Orleans.”

“I find plenty to like,” wrote critic Ben Davis, of Artnet. “I like the giant, detailed red feathered costume-cum-sculpture created

by Big Chief Demond Melanchon [sic] of New Orleans, which opens the freshly renovated Central Pavilion.”

In its list of the Biennale’s “shows you don’t want to miss,” Christie’s included DeDeaux and a photograph of her works, including a new iteration of her work with burned timber fragments.

The piece, “Burnt Chimes: In Minor Keys for Koyo Kouoh,” is among several homages to the ex-

By The Associated Press

Celebrated multimedia artist Dawn DeDeaux poses in her studio in March. hibition’s curator, who spent time in the studios of DeDeaux and Melancon in 2023. Kouoh died last year, just days before the exhibition’s theme was announced.

“The exhibition closes with an installation by the New Orleans artist Dawn DeDeaux,” Christie’s notes, “who has been grappling with the consequences of Hurricane Katrina

since 2005.”

Artsy also included DeDeaux in its collection of “5 Trends Shaping the 2026 Venice Biennale.”

“Raw materials like earth, salt, and sand, which bear associations with national identity and environment, play a major role for many Biennale artists. In the main exhibition, American artist Dawn

LABORDE

Continued from page 1D Dwight Eisenhower would later say that it was the Higgins landing crafts, used to bring troops to the battlefields, that won the war for the Allies.)

Harry Batt Sr., a local businessman with a passion for theatrics, had opened an amusement park inland along Bayou St. John. By 1939, he had moved his park to the lakeshore near Elysian Fields Avenue. There would be a pool, arcades, restaurants, a stage for outdoor shows, a sandy beach and amusement rides.

The most visual attraction was the roller coaster known as the “Big Zephyr.”

At a time when rocket scientists were developing fuel systems for spaceships, roller coaster scientists had already created a two-part system for their ride’s propulsion — chains and gravity. The chains provided for ascending the wooden hills, and the gravity caused the plunge, which powered the coaster down the track and through three scream-inducing tunnels.

Most feared, or anticipated, was the climb up the big hill toward the stars, ascending to a celestial 80 feet (about 8 stories) and then making a slow and anxiety-filled turn downward before speeding back to Earth. After a big curve, home base reappeared. As the brakes screeched, there was a quick glimpse of the lake in the distance. Alongside, palm trees waved as if welcoming the travelers home.

During the speedy descent, riders would habitually yell and flail their arms to cope with gravity.

Those screams, and the accompanying swaying extremities, could be noticed by the passengers at ground level creeping along the periphery in their automobiles.

Perhaps that is what prompted my mother’s verdict of “crazy people,” though it could have been only temporary insanity.

In 1983, the Batt family announced the amusement park would close at the end of the sea-

The Zephyr thrilled visitors to Pontchartrain Beach for years. son. Times had changed for the classic, old-time amusement parks.

Glitzy theme parks (pioneered by Walt Disney and Six Flags) were the new model.

Attendance was declining nationwide, plus the land was increasing in value as cities developed around the parks. Also, unique to the New Orleans situation, was that the World’s Fair would open the next year. That would be hard to compete with.

On Labor Day 1983, Pontchartrain Beach had its last day — sort of. The beach would actually have two last days.

The next day, an event called “The Last Ride” was held as a fundraiser for the Contemporary Arts Center. The day was described as “beautiful, breezy and sunny.”

STAFF FILE PHOTO

Over 12,000 people attended.

Most importantly, the event provided a last chance to ride the Zephyr, although at times hundreds of people were in line for the opportunity. There would be music and fireworks, and then at 11:30 p.m., the Zephyr’s official last ride was followed by a jazz funeral.

At 7:30 the next morning, an engineering battalion from the National Guard began dismantling the park, according to Avenue Magazine.

There were many other attractions spread throughout the beach.

My favorite was the bumper cars, which provided some adventure but were also timid-friendly. My favorite sensory appeal along the midway was the smell of burgers

STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER

DeDeaux’s Dirt Bowl Table (2021) features 64 wooden bowls of varying sizes filled with ash and earth.”

Those wooden bowls of dirt, elegantly displayed, hail from every continent. In one: earth from Kouoh’s hometown in Cameroon.

Email reporter Jenna Ross at jenna.ross@theadvocate.com.

fried with onions. On some nights, that was complemented by the salty sea breeze.

There were a couple of other thrill rides. One was the Ragin’ Cajun, which twisted upside down during its speedy run. There was the Wild Maus, a German-made ride that charged along to the edge of the track, then made a last-minute turn, launching its passengers into the distant downtown skyline.

In 1993, a decade after the amusement park closed, New Orleans got a Minor League Baseball team that had moved from Denver.

Named after the winds in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, the team was called The Zephyrs. It played at the University of New Orleans baseball field, which happened to be across the street from the former beach site.

Inevitably, locals thought the team was named after the roller coaster. Eventually, the team relocated to Wichita, Kansas, where it was renamed the Wind Surge; one of the worst names in sports, second only to a name change given to our Zephyrs, The Baby Cakes.

Perhaps for fear of having my sanity questioned, especially by my mom, I never did ride the Zephyr until that closing month when I knew it was now or never. Like all its passengers during its 44 years, I was apprehensive as the roller coaster made its climb up the big hill, then the pause at the top, and finally its downward charge.

I did not raise my arms, but I probably screamed; everyone else did. After a few thrills and abrupt turns, there was a flashing glimpse of the lake and then the screeching halt. For a moment, I sat there stunned.

More than a ride, I had gone through a rite of passage: finally riding the hometown roller coaster. And it was actually fun! I wondered if I could do it again, but it was closing time.

Maybe all those decades of screaming, arm-waving people weren’t so crazy after all.

Errol Laborde is a producer and panelist on WYES Channel 12’s “Informed Sources.” Contact him at elabordenola@gmail.com.

Today is Tuesday, June 2, the 153rd day of 2026.

There are 212 days left in the year.

Today in history: On June 2, 1953, Queen Elizabeth II was crowned at age 27 at a ceremony in London’s Westminster Abbey, 16 months after the death of her father, King George VI. Also on this date: In 1886, 49-year-old President Grover Cleveland became the first president to get married in the White House, wedding 21-year-old Frances Folsom.

In 1924, Congress passed, and President Calvin Coolidge signed, the Indian Citizenship Act, a measure guaranteeing full American citizenship for all Native Americans born within U.S. territorial limits.

In 1941, baseball’s “Iron Horse,” Lou Gehrig, died in New York of the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease; he was 37.

In 1966, U.S. space probe Surveyor 1 landed on the moon and began transmitting detailed photographs of the lunar surface.

In 1997, Timothy McVeigh was convicted of murder by a federal jury in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, which killed 168 people.

(McVeigh would be sentenced to death and was executed in 2001.)

In 1999, South Africans went to the polls in their second post-apartheid election, giving the African National Congress a decisive victory; retiring President Nelson Mandela was succeeded by Thabo Mbeki.

In 2012, ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during the 2011 uprising that forced him from power (Mubarak was later acquitted and freed in March 2017; he died in February 2020).

In 2016, autopsy results revealed that musician Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a powerful opioid painkiller.

In 2023, two trains derailed in eastern India, killing 275 people and injuring hundreds in Odisha state.

Officials said an error in the electronic signaling system led to a passenger train wrongly changing tracks and crashing into a freight train.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Stacy Keach is 85. Filmmaker Lasse Hallström is 80. Actor Jerry Mathers is 78.

Actor Joanna Gleason is 76. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman is 74. Actor Dennis Haysbert is 72. Comedian Dana Carvey is 71.

TV personality-producer Andy Cohen is 58. Actorcomedian Wayne Brady is 53. Actor Wentworth Miller is 54. Actor Zachary Quinto is 49. Actor Justin Long is 48. Actor Morena Baccarin is 47. Olympic soccer gold medalist Abby Wambach is 46. Actor-rapper Awkwafina is 38. Actor Madison Hu is 24. Actor Jeremy Ray Taylor is 23.

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zodIAC GEMInI (May 21-June 20) A change will motivate you to explore new possibilities. Participate in events that make you feel good. Be cognizant of someone using compliments or pressure tactics to push you in a questionable direction. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Speak up, do your thing and live in the moment. It's up to you to make things happen and to push yourself to participate in events that allow you to use your skills and attributes to your advantage.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Be careful sharing personal information. Dealing with institutions and government agencies will lead to problems. Concentrate on lifestyle changes and reclaiming your dreams.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Being detailed, having precision and remembering discipline will be important. Refuse to let what others choose to do tempt you. Pay more attention to whatever makes you feel good.

LIBRA (sept. 23-Oct. 23) You'll be stepping back in time if you don't leave the past behind you. Stop holding yourself back when letting go offers you the freedom to find your niche and power yourself forward. scORPIO (Oct. 24-nov. 22) Whether work or personal, the encounters you experience will have an impact on what you choose to do next. Getting a new adventure underway will boost your ego and motivate you to explore new possibilities. sAGIttARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Pay attention to legal, financial and medical issues.

Look for opportunities to mix and mingle with people who can offer inside information or help you gather your thoughts as to how to best take care of your concerns or needs. cAPRIcORn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Trust your instincts over the information you receive. Fact-check and prepare to branch out in directions that are better suited to what you want to achieve.

AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Take time to think matters through before acting.

Refuse to let anger get the best of you, disrupting your day or your relationship with someone. Make domestic changes that ease tension.

PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) Don't let the changes happening around you stifle your plans. Use what's unfolding to your advantage, and you'll find a path that leads to greater confidence and getting things done on time.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Observation is necessary. Refuse to let sensitive situations push you toward an argument.

Expect situations and conversations to offer an exaggerated perspective. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) A chance to learn something new while making a difference in your community or an organization that interests you will have an impact on your lifestyle. Verify information before you act on it.

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 John Buchan, a Scottish politician and novelist, whose most famous book was “The Thirty-Nine Steps,” said, “Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.”

It helps if a bridge player is a detective, uncovering clues from the bidding and play. But another word in that sentence is important in today’s deal.

South is in three no-trump. West leads the spade queen. Given that the defenders can take only four tricks in spades, how should declarer plan to win the last nine?

South starts with six top tricks: four hearts, one diamond and one club. He needs to deduce that if the club finesse is losing, the contract is hopeless. But if that finesse is winning, he can rake in nine tricks: four hearts, one diamond and four clubs. So, on the fourth spade, declarer must discard his diamond queen. Yes, this risks going several down if the club finesse fails, but pitching a club instead would leave South needing both minorsuit finesses to work.

Then, after taking the fifth trick with his diamond ace, how should declarer continue?

He must realize that he might need to take the club finesse three times. But he has only one dummy entry, in hearts, and he must stay in the dummy while repeating the club finesse. This requires first leading the bottom card in dummy’s

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clubs that can hold the trick when East has the club king. South must lead first the club nine. When that holds, he runs the club jack. Then he plays a club to his queen and claims.

If declarer first leads dummy’s club jack, East can defeat the contract. Work out how. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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word game InstRuctIOns: 1. Words must be of four or more letters. 2. Words that acquire four letters by the addition of “s,” such as “bats” or “dies,” are not allowed. 3. additional words made by adding a “d” or an “s” may not be used. 4. proper nouns, slang words, or vulgar or sexually explicit words are not allowed.

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today’s thought “Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.” Psalms 19:14 This is the kind of praying we should be doing. 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

jump Start

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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InstructIons: 1 - Each row and each column must contain the numbers 1 thorugh 4 (easy) or 1 through 6 (challenging) without repeating.

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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HErE is a plEasanT liTTlE gamE that will give you a message every day. it’s a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. if the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. if the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. start at the upper left-hand corner and check each of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the checked figures give you.

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STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT UHAUL OF METAIRIE AT CENTRAL 1019 CENTRAL AVE METAIRIE, LA 70001 FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: SARAH PENNARTZ RM. 1708 HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, WASHER/DRYER SET; WILLIE KING RM. 1106 BAG. 189291-June 2, 1t $156.46 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT AIRPORT U-HAUL STORAGE 2828 MARIETTA AVENUE KENNER, LA. 70062, FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: JOSE SILVA RM. 791 TOOLS, LAWN CARE ITEMS; DOMINICK BARBARIN RM. 585 BOXES, SUITCASES; ARIEL LOPEZ QUINTANA RM. 328 DRYER, MICROWAVE; BLAIR FLEMING RM. 202 DISPLAY CASE, ROLLER CART; SHANNON CLAYTON RM. 72 BOXES, MICROWAVE; BOB MITCHELL RM. 109 BAGS, CLOTHES; BRYAN OLIVO RM. 524 WOODEN FURNITURE,

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BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT SLIDELL UHAUL CENTER 1685 GAUSE BLVD. SLIDELL, LA. FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM.NO ARE AS FOLLOWS: TERRY ISADORE RM. 1041 HEAD COVER, DRESSER; KAREN JACKSON RM. 1209 AIR FRYER, SOFA; BRYCE WILLIAMS RM. A300 SOFA, DRESSER; MELISSA BREAUX RM. C201 HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, BOXES; KAILYN COLEMAN RM. A265 CLOTHES, SHOES; JONTELLE WHITEHEAD RM. C116 BED, OFFICE CHAIR; JOSHUA ARRAZATE RM. A292 TOOLBOXES, GUITARS 189267-6/2-1t $200.28 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

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BY PUBLIC SELF STORAGE AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT LAPALCO UHAUL CENTER 2340 LAPALCO BLVD HARVEY, LA., FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: WARREN SCHELDER RM. J433 PLASTIC FLORAL DECOR, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS; WARREN SCHELDER RM. J437 LAMPS. BOXES; TRYA RHODES RM. B139 STROLLER, BABY BED; REAGAN EHRLICH RM. H301-02 WASHER/ DRYER, MICROWAVE; ROSS GREEN RM. J444 TV, RIFLES; HOLLY BOUDOIN RM. B141 MICROWAVE, TV; STEVEN WILSON RM. J353-55 SHOES, CONTAINERS; GREGORY MABENS RM. N595 BOXES, BAGS; WALTER DAVIS RM. C173 FILE CABINETS, MEDICAL EQUIPMENT; BRENNISHA PEOPLES RM. K513-14 DINING ROOM SET, WOOD FURNITURE; TERRANCE WASHINGTON RM. J434 WOOD FURNITURE, BED FRAME; TYREANNE MCCRAY RM. K501 MATTRESSES, KIDS TOYS; JANICE GEARY RM. J391 CONTAINERS, BOXES 189283-6/2-1t $269.14 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT GENTILLY UHAUL CENTER 6210 CHEF MENTEUR HWY. NEW

ORLEANS, LA. FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: NICOLE WILSON RM. 0022 WASHER, DRESSER; DESHAUNE TAYLOR RM. 2B TV, CHILDREN ITEMS; CLIFTON LAMPTON RM. 1161 RED SOFAS, BAR STOOLS; TARA FOREST RM. 1136 KIDS TOYS, CONTAINERS; TYRONE ARGEYO RM. 0037 MICROWAVE, GRILL; MONIQUE ATKINSON RM. 1281 TV, KIDS ITEMS; RODRICK LATIKER RM. 1159 BAGS, CRATES; MITCHELL JAMES RM. 2270 DRESSER, BABY CRIB; JAMES DUPLESSIS RM. 2382 KIDS TOYS, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS 189285-6/2-1t $212.80 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT CAUSEWAY UHAUL CENTER 3800 N. CAUSEWAY BLVD. METAIRIE, LA. FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: DORIS DEANE RM. 2120 CAT TOWER, LEATHER SOFA; LYLA WILSON RM. 2002 BEAN BAG, CLOTHES; KIYA THOMPSON RM. 1100 MATTRESSES, BOXES; DEANN RASTAFARI RM. 3161 HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, SOFA. 189286-June 2, 1t $168.98 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

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HELD AT ST. CLAUDE UHAUL 2936 ST. CLAUDE AVE. NEW ORLEANS, LA.FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: GREGORY BALL RM. 166 STOVE, DRESSER; ROBERT FRANKLIN RM. 142 BOXES, TREADMILL 189274-6/2-1t $150.20

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC STORAGE AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT N.O. EAST UHAUL CENTER 4449 MICHOUD BLVD. NEW ORLEANS, LA. 70129 FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: FREDDIE FUENTES RM. A219 WOOD DRESSER, LARGE BED. 189292-June 2, 1t $150.20

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT UHAUL OF METAIRIE AT AIRLINE HWY 3847 AIRLINE DR METAIRIE, LA 70001 FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: DANIEL CREDO RM. 295 ABITA BARREL, CHIQUITA BOXES; JERRY STERLING RM. 406 WOODEN DINING ROOM SET, WOOD DESK. 189268-June 2, 1t $162.72

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT TULANE UHAUL CENTER 2801 TULANE AVE. NEW ORLEANS, LA. FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORD'S LIEN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND ROOM NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: KIM CELESTINE RM. 3216 SUITCASES, CLOTHES; STEPHANIE WILLIAMS RM. 2825 BOXES, WODDEN TABLE; AQAINAS SMITH RM. 2506 TV, STROLLER; JOHNNIE ROBERTSON RM. 1343 SOFA SET, BAR STOOLS; LATOYA WILLIAMS RM. 1005 ROUND SOFA, SUITCASES; LAWRENZA WILLIAMS RM. 1304 CLOTHES, WASHING MACHINE; LAURA LAZARD RM. 1707 KIDS ITEMS, HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. 1189294-June 2, 1t $206.54 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LEIN PROCESS

BY PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER THE FOLLOWING STORAGE UNITS. A SALE WILL BE HELD AT MARRERO UHAUL STORAGE 7201 WESTBANK EXPRESSWAY MARRERO, LA., FOR THE PURPOSE OF SATISFYING A LANDLORDS LEIN ON THE CONTENTS OF STORAGE UNIT. CONTENTS CONSIST MAINLY OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS. TERMS OF THE SALE WILL BE CASH. TENANTS NAME AND RM. NO. ARE AS FOLLOWS: SHILDA RICHARDSON RM. A072 DEEP FREEZER, BOOKSHELF; MICHELLE HYMES RM. B089 BAGS, BOXES; LEROY DIXON RM. B118 DEEP FREEZER, TV; TROY MURRAY RM. B094 CONSTRUCTION TOOLS, GRILL 189290-6/2-1t $168.98 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT ON 6/13/2026 ON OR AFTER 10:00AM UHAUL WILL BE OFFERING FOR SALE UNDER THE JUDICIAL LIEN PROCESS

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The CSH Exchange LLC dba The Exchange is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content on premise for their health club/fitness and recreational center in the Parish of Orleans at the following address: 2120 Rousseau St., New Orleans, LA 70130. The CSH Exchange LLC dba The Exchange Members: Richard Green, Christopher Boston, and David Galst.

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BID TITLE: PERDIDO LOT 5 ASPHALT REPAIRS

EVENT NO: 4705 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Non-Professional Services DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO RELEASED ON: Tuesday, June 2, 2026, 8:00 AM CST DEADLINE TO RESPOND: Tuesday, June 23, 2026, 1:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE: TBD Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If you wish to receive no‐ tification of addendum posted by the Bureau of Purchasing about this event, register as a sup‐ plier or update your sup‐ plier account (if already registered) and select the following commodity code(s): COMMODITY CODE: 210-75 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this event, go to www.nola.gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Por‐ tal” under “BIDS & CON‐ TRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Portal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: June 2, 9 and 16, 2026 NOCP 9091 189630-jun 2-9-16-3t $92.13 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOS‐ ALS (RFP) CONSTRUCTION PROPOS‐ ALS FOR THE NORMAN C. FRANCIS SCIENCE & ACA‐ DEMIC BUILDING EXTE‐ RIOR ENVELOPE REPAIRS Xavier University of Louisiana is issuing an RFP for an organization, authorized to do busi‐ ness in the State of Louisiana, to provide construction services for the Exterior Envelope Re‐ pairs of the NCF Science & Academic Building. RFP XULA 05-2026 is available on the University’s Web‐ site at https://www.xula. edu/fiscal-services/rfpxula-05-2026-ncfexterior-envelope.pdf The University must re‐ ceive all proposals that are submitted in re‐ sponse to the RFP before 2:00p.m. Central Stan‐ dard Time (CST) on June 19, 2026. The University will not accept either faxed or emailed propos‐ als. Also, proposals re‐ ceived after that time will not be considered.

Xavier University of Louisiana reserves the right to reject any or all proposals and to waive any informalities inci‐ dental thereto.

All questions about this correspondence shall be di d i il

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189132-may 28-jun 18 $3,153 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Department of Property Management TITLE: Guided Tours at Lafayette Cemetery No.1 SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4700 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: May 19, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: June 18, 2026 by 4:00 PM PRE-BID CONFERENCE: May 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. https://events.gcc. teams.microsoft.com/ event/e0903189-49ae4ff6-afc0-590d1c34bd6b@ 08cbf485-1cb7-4a02-9a210dd9b45b9ff7 If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 961-80 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: May 19, 26 and June 2, 2026 NOCP 9064 188021-may 19-26-jun 2-3t $177.39 PUBLIC NOTICE --Invitation to Bid SEALED PROPOSALS AS LISTED BELOW WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT AT: LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER 433 BOLIVAR STREET ROOM 623 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 (504) 568-6261 UNTIL TIMES AND DATES INDICATED, AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE THE PROPOSALS WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ:

BID NUMBER: 002983 BID OPENING DATE: JUNE 23, 2026 @ 2:00PM A MANDATORY PRE-BID MEETING WILL BE HELD ON TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2026 AT 10:00 A.M. SUPPLIERS ARE TO MEET IN THE ALLIED HEALTH/SCHOOL OF NURSING BUILDING, ROOM 147 (SEMINAR ROOM 2), LOCATED AT 1900 GRAVIER STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112.

ALL INQUIRES AND REQUESTS FOR SPECIFICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED VIA EMAIL TO: MWIL34@LSUHSC.EDU BIDS WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AT: LSUHSC-433 BOLIVAR ST. 6TH FLOOR, RM 623C NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 SPECIFICATIONS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT. THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS AND TO WAIVE INFORMALITIES. 188636-may 27-jun 2-8-3t $84.31

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2015 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026270, Bulk Medical Oxygen Cylin‐ ders “E” - LDH, 6/16/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa.

Louisiana.gov/osp or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified. The right is re‐ served to reject any and all bids and to waive any informalities.

Amy Vincent Director of State Procure‐ ment FAX (225) 342-8688 189507-JUN 2-1T $11.48 PUBLIC NOTICE --SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS WATER MAIN LINE REPLACEMENTS AND EXTENSIONS AT SCATTERED LOCATIONS THROUGHOUT ORLEANS PARISH CONTRACT NO. 2166 SOLICITATION NO. 2026-SWB-23 Sealed Bids for WATER MAIN LINE REPLACE‐ MENTS AND EXTENSIONS AT SCATTERED LOCA‐ TIONS THROUGHOUT OR‐ LEANS PARISH. Bid Documents and pro‐ posal forms are available for download on June 2, 2026, at the following websites: SWBNO: https://www2.swbno. org/business_bidspecific ations.asp LAPAC: https://wwwcfprd.doa. louisiana.gov/OSP/ LaPAC/dspBid.cfm?sea rch=department& term=181 A NON-MANDATORY prebid conference will be held on June 16, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Central Time at the Sewerage and Water Board of New Or‐ leans, Purchasing Con‐ ference Room RM 131, lo‐ cated at 625 St Joseph St., New Orleans, Louisiana, 70165 or if you are unable to attend this in-person meeting, you can also join via telecon‐ ference call: Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams. microsoft.com/meet/211 338419022529?p=cz‐ zryqhXIntdTbXtl4 Meeting ID:

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211 338 419 022 529 Passcode: PY3Ng9js Dial in by phone +1 504-224-8698,, 695951673# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 695 951 673# All inquiries shall be di‐ rected to Connor Metcalf, Procurement Analyst, at cmetcalf@swbno.org.

The deadline for in‐ quiries is on June 17, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. Central Time.

Bids are due on July 8, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Any Bids received after the specified time will be re‐ jected.

Bids will then be publicly opened and read on July 8, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, 625 St. Joseph Street, Purchasing Conference Room 131, New Orleans, Louisiana.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice of Hearing on Pro‐ posed Budget for Advo‐ cates for Science and Mathematics Education, Inc - New Orleans Char‐ ter Science and Mathe‐ matics High School “Sci High" Wednesday, June 17, 2026 at 4:30 PM (Hearing may last approximately one hour) 2011 Bienville St., New Orleans, LA 70112 For at least ten calendar days before its Public Hearing, the school’s proposed budget will be available for public in‐ spection during school hours in its Main Office at its address listed above.

Sci High does not dis‐ criminate in the render‐ ing of services to/or em‐ ployment of individuals because of race, color, religion, sex, age, na‐ tional origin, disability, veteran status or any other characteristic pro‐ tected by law.

189517-JUN 2-1T $132 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE OF SALE OF BONDS NOT EXCEEDING $21,000,000 LOUISIANA PUBLIC FACIL‐ ITIES AUTHORITY REVENUE BONDS (CRESCENT CITY SCHOOLS PROJECT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that not exceeding $21,000,000 principal amount of Louisiana Pub‐ lic Facilities Authority Revenue Bonds (Crescent City Schools Project) in one or more series, on a taxable and/or tax-ex‐ empt basis (the "Bonds") will be sold at private sale to Hebert J. Sims & Co., or its designee, or such other purchaser se‐ lected by the Borrower (defined below), or a re‐ lated person, by the Louisiana Public Facili‐ ties Authority (the "Au‐ thority"), at 2237 South Acadian Thruway, Suite 650, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at nine o'clock (9:00) a.m., Louisiana time, on June 10, 2026, or such other date, time and/or place as may be determined by the Chair‐ man of the Authority. The d b ld

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y Bonds may be sold pur‐ suant to the terms of a bond purchase agree‐ ment or contract of pur‐ chase at a price of not less than 90% of the prin‐ cipal thereof (inclusive of underwriter's discount in an amount not exceeding 3% of the principal amount thereof). In the alternative, the Bonds may be sold to a bank pursuant to a private placement agreement, investment agreement and/or investment letter, or loan agreement. Other proposals are hereby in‐ vited and upon receipt will be considered, and the proposal most ad‐ vantageous to the Au‐ thority will be accepted at the time of the sale.

Capitalized terms used herein which are not oth‐ erwise defined shall have the meanings given to them in the Indenture (defined below).

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The issuance and sale of the Bonds have been duly authorized pursuant to the terms of a resolu‐ tion adopted by the Au‐ thority on April 8, 2026, under the provisions of Chapter 2-A of Title 9 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (the "Act"). The Bonds will be issued on behalf Crescent City Schools Foundation, Inc., a Louisiana nonprofit corporation (the "Bor‐ rower"), in accordance with the provisions of a Trust Indenture (the "In‐ denture") to be entered into between the Author‐ ity and Regions Bank (the "Trustee"), for the purposes of (i) refinanc‐ ing one or more loans as‐ sociated with the acqui‐ sition of land and the construction, equipping and furnishing of Harriet Tubman Charter School (the "School"), a Pre-K through Eighth grade, tu‐ ition free (with the ex‐ ception of fifteen (15) Pre-K students due to lack of MFP and other State funding), public charter school located at 2701 Lawrence Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114, including facilities for special education programs (the "Original Facility"), (ii) financing (or reimbursing the Bor‐ rower for) the construc‐ tion, equipping and fur‐ nishing of additional fa‐ cilities of the School, in‐ cluding facilities for spe‐ cial education programs (the "Additional Facili‐ ties" and, together with the Original Facility, the "Facilities"), (iii) funding one or more reserve funds, if necessary, and (iv) paying the costs of issuance of the Bonds.

The Bonds will be dated, mature on such dates not later than July 1, 2066 and bear interest at a fixed rate not to exceed 7.75% per annum on a tax-exempt basis and not to exceed 10% on a tax‐ able basis, all as pro‐ vided in and subject to the terms and conditions of the Indenture. The Bonds will be subject to redemption prior to ma‐ turity as set forth in the Indenture.

The Bonds are issued under and equally se‐ cured both as to princi‐ pal and interest by the Indenture, which Inden‐ ture provides a complete description of the pledged property and revenues constituting the Trust Estate (as de‐ fined in the Indenture) the nature and extent of the security, a statement of the terms and condi‐ tions on which the Bonds are issued and secured, the rights, duties and obligations of the Au‐ thority, the rights, duties and immunities of the Trustee and the rights of the owners of the Bonds.

The Authority will loan the proceeds of the Bonds to the Borrower pursuant to a Loan Agreement (the "Loan Agreement") between the Authority and the Borrower. The Borrower will lease the Project to Crescent City Schools, a Louisiana nonprofit cor‐ poration, for the contin‐ ued operation of the School therein.

The Bonds will also be se‐ cured by a mortgage on the facilities and an as‐ signment of leases and rents by the Borrower to Regions Bank.

For further information relative to the Bonds and not contained in this no‐ tice, please contact Ms. Patricia A. Dubroc at 2237 S. Acadian Thruway, Suite 650, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808.

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p 2026, at www.opdla.org or at OPD office, 2601 Tu‐ lane Ave, Suite 700, New Orleans, LA 70119.

p ing held on Friday June 12th, 2026 at 11:00am at 1601 Leonidas St, New Orleans, La 70118.

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The Louisiana Office of the State Museum is re‐ questing proposals for a Public-Private Partner‐ ship project to design, build, furnish, operate, and maintain an in‐ door/outdoor café at the New Orleans Jazz Mu‐ seum. For more informa‐ tion go to opportuni‐ tiesinlouisiana.com.

The Orleans Public De‐ fenders (OPD) will hold a public hearing on the FY 2027 proposed budget on June 10, 2026, at 12:30 pm.

OPD conference room, 2601 Tulane Ave, Suite 700, New Orleans, LA 70119.

188284-MAY 21-JUN 16 $139 PUBLIC NOTICE ---

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The Bonds do not consti‐ tute or create an obliga‐ tion, general or special, debt, liability or moral obligation of the State of Louisiana or any political subdivision thereof or personal obligations of the Authority, but are limited and special oblig‐ ations of the Authority.

Neither the faith and credit nor the taxing power of the State of Louisiana or of any politi‐ cal subdivision thereof is pledged to the payment of the principal of or the interest on the Bonds.

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The Orleans Public De‐ fenders (OPD) FY 2027 proposed budget will be available for public in‐ spection on June 9 – 11, dl

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ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Our Lady of the Angels Hospital, Inc. in Bogalusa, LA is seeking sealed bids from LouisianaState-licensed General Contractors for construction of the Project referenced below. The Owner is non-profit, non-state entity but this Bid Solicitation and the Project will be prosecuted in compliance with the Louisiana State’s Public Bid Law. Sealed bids will be received by Our Lady of the Angels Hospital, Inc. at the CSRS, LLC/A Westwood Company offices located at 8555 United Plaza Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70809 until Tuesday, June 23, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. local time for the following Project: OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS HOSPITAL Project No. 2371 HELIPAD 409 Plaza Street, Bogalusa, LA 70427 Complete Bid Documents for this project are available in electronic form. They may be obtained without charge and without deposit from https://www.centralauctionhouse.com/ Category/10930/FMOLHealthOurLadyoftheAngels. Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrangements can be made to obtain them through most reprographic firms. Plan holders are responsible for their own reproduction costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Designer: Greenleaf Architects, APAC 404 E. Gibson Street, Suite 1, Covington, LA 70433 985.778.2080 Lwindom@greenleafarch.com All bids shall be accompanied by bid security in an amount of five percent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all alternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

The successful Bidder shall be required to furnish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD Thursday, June 11, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. local time at the site: 409 Plaza Street, Bogalusa, LA 70427 Attendance at the Pre-Bid Conference is mandatory and a pre-requisite for submitting a bid.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and requirements of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

Each bid must be placed in an envelope, sealed and marked on the outside: “Bid Enclosed for OUR LADY OF THE ANGELS HOSPITAL Project No. 2371 HELIPAD to be opened at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, 2026”. Refer to Instructions for Bidders for other requirements on outside of envelope.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In accordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provisions and requirements of this Section; and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity.

This project is partially-financed by federal funds which may not be available at the time bids are received. The Owner shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Contract Between Owner and Contractor is fully executed.

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