The Times-Picayune 06-26-2026

Landry: Orderprotects resources,ratepayers

BYANDREA GALLO and SAM KARLIN Staff writers

Gov.Jeff Landry signed an executive order Thursday while flankedbyLouisiana utility company executives saying that data center projects must have their benefits to residents “evaluated andbalanced”against their useofelectricgeneration, waterand land

The “Ratepayer and Community Protection Framework for Large Load Investments” assigns the Louisiana EconomicDevelopmentOffice to ensure that future projects “adequately protect Louisiana’sresources,ratepayers, and communities,” according to the text of theorder.LED should come up withthe criteria for companies to protect ratepayers, contribute tolocal tax basesand more within the next 90 days,the order states.

“These resources are vital to the welfare of ourcitizensand to thefuture of our economy,and that is whyour approachdemands thoughtful andresponsible stewardship,” Landry said.

The order comes on the heels of questions around Entergy’splans to purchase a$1.8 billion power plantinTexas,which aconsultant for the state’sPublic Service

Commission said is largely needed for Meta’s northLouisiana data center

The gas-fired Cottonwood plant would cost average residential ratepayers $8 amonth, according to records. Entergy and Metahave disputed thatit’sneeded for thedata

Abouthalfofthe funding wasslatedfor N.O. area

BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer

Gov.Jeff Landry used his veto power to cut over $12 million in state funding forlocal governments andcommunity organizations in blue-leaning areas of the state, with roughly half the cuts affecting New Orleans.

Thecuts, whichalsoimpactBaton Rouge,Shreveport, Monroe, Lake Charles andOpelousas, touch everything from programs for at-risk youth and economic development initiatives to local law enforcement and educational initiatives.

Thegovernoralsoparedbackthestate’s capital outlay budgetbymillions more, thoughthat money,allocated through House Bill 2, usually comes through state bonds andisoften not guaranteed. New Orleans was also hard-hit by those vetoes.

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BY JONI HESS Staff writer

Decatur Street businesses received good news this weekwhen Mayor HelenaMorenoannounced

Venezuelanssearchrubblefor survivorsafter earthquakes

BY MEGAN JANETSKY, ANDRYRINCÓN and JUAN PABLO ARRAEZ Associated Press

LA GUAIRA, Venezuela— Venezuelanssearched for survivors beneath collapsed buildings Thursday and res-

cueteams raced to northern areas rocked by apair of powerfulearthquakes that officials say killed at least 188 people andleft more than 200 trapped. More werefeareddead from the7.2-and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes that

struck Wednesdayevening —amongthe strongest in Venezuela in more thana century and felt throughout theregion. Some 1,500 people were injured, thousands were reported missing and buildings were evacuated as far away as Brazil’sAmazon

In cities across northern Venezuela, panicked residents poured into the streets and searched for the missing in the debris. Injured children, animals and civilians covered in dust and blood werepulled out of concrete rubble. Onemother sobbedand collapsed in grief as the bodiesofher 3- and10-year-old

childrenwerewrapped in blankets and carried away

Others screamed the names of missing loved ones. Some stood in silent shock.

Pair of powerful tremorskillatleast 188, trap over 200 ä See QUAKE, page

Retiredschoolteacher Juan Alberto Mendaño climbed through wreckage in La Guaira and past a dead body when he spotted awoman who was trapped and signaling with her hand forhelp.

The coastal region of La Guaira —north of the capital,Caracas —suffered some of the heaviest damage and casualties, and it’s there that the country’s main airport was damaged and closed, complicating aid efforts.

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Heat wave breaks

French and U.K. records

The heat wave bakingwestern Europebroke records in the U.K. and France.

The U.K. recorded its hottest June day on Wednesday,with daytimehighs hitting97degrees FinGosport in southern England, according to theMet Office. France’saverage daily temperature reached an all-time high of 86, eclipsing the record set on Tuesday,data from Météo-France show.The mercury surpassed 104 in some locations, including in Paris

The intense heat wave is hittingEurope earlier than usual, underscoring how climate changeisreshaping summers on the world’sfastest-warming continent. As the extreme heat strains health services, transport networks andpower grids, meteorologists warn of above-normal temperaturesfor months to come.

French Prime Minister SébastienLecornuhas raised the country’shealth alerttoits highest level, while Paris Mayor Emmanuel Grégoire said hundreds of air conditioners are being delivered to schools in the French capital. The heat is also becoming acritical issue for nursing homes that lack air-conditioning,Zaynab Riet, executivedirector of the French Hospital Federation, told FranceInter radio stationonThursday.

The heat wave, driven by a high-pressure heat dome and atmospheric shifts from adeveloping El Niño,has led to widespreadpublic health warnings.

The extreme temperatures have been deadly in France and in Spain, where monitoring by the Institute of Healthshow more than 200 additional deaths during the heat wave. Forecasters and health authorities have warned aboutthe mounting threat of heat exhaustion due to excessively warmand humid evenings.

“If you don’tget enoughsleep, then your body can’trecover and then it struggles again through the day to cope,” U.K. Met Office Meteorologist Alex Burkill said on avideo briefing. Kenzo Kies, a21-year-old French soccer player with a second-division club, diedafter being pulled from the Rhone River this week.

At least 40 fatalitiesfrom drowninghavebeenrecordedin the past week as people seek relief in rivers and other bodies of water,despite authorities’ warningsabout unsupervisedswimming.Mostofthe drownings involved young people, Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornusaid on Tuesday Man setcouncil member on fire; 40-year sentence DANVILLE, Va.— Aman who seta Virginia council member on fire last year in an alleged jealous rage was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday Shotsie Buck-Hayes pleaded guilty in April to one counteach of attempted first-degree murder andaggravated malicious wounding in the July 30, 2025, attack on Lee Vogler.Witnesses said Buck-Hayes walked into Vogler’s Danvilleofficewitha bucket of gasoline, doused him, chased him from the building and set him ablaze. Blair Vogler,the council member’swife, testified that Lee Vogler’sburns covered 60% of his body Commonwealth’sAttorney MichaelNewmansaidVogler and his family attended Thursday’shearing in DanvilleCircuit Court, where the visibly scarred council membermade an emotional statement about how the attack had alteredhis life.NewmansaidBuck-Hayes also spoke, offering “what he claimed to be an apology,” but repeating that he was motivated by an allegedaffair betweenVogler and Buck-Hayes’wife. BRIEFS

U.N. agency pauses evacuation of ships

Britishmilitary says vessel washit by a projectile offthe coastofOman

BY JONGAMBRELLand MATTHEWLEE Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates AUnitedNations agency paused theevacuation of shipsthrough the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday afterthe British military said avessel was hitbyaprojectile off the coastofOmanfollowing thepassage of several tankers that used aroute backed by theU.N.

The head of theInternational Maritime Organizationsaid theplan to move stranded ships out of the PersianGulf throughthe straitwill be on hold until theagency can confirm safety guarantees for the ships on the evacuation list and in the region.

It was unclear who launched theprojectile or the type of vessel that was targeted. The report of astrike came hours afterIranthreatened vessels to stopusing the route through the strait withoutTehran’spermission.

Thevessel thatwas attacked was not part of the evacuation effort, saidArsenio Dominguez, the U.N. agency’s secretary-general.

Following reports of theattack, Iran’s Persian Gulf Strait Authority —a new government agency established to control shippinginthe strait—wrote on X that transitoutside its own designated routes “will not be covered by the guarantee of safe passage.”

The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center saidthe vessel sustained damage, but it reported no injuries or environmentaleffectsfromthe attack off thecoast of Oman

Alternativepassage wouldhelp

Theopening of an alternativepassage through the vital waterwaywould relievepressure on the world economyand remove Iran’smain sourceofleverage in ongoingpeace talks with theUnited States. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on avisit to theGulf to reassure American allies, said Washington was committed to the new route and ensuring that ships are able to transit the strait

“If that stops, then we’re going to have aproblem,”Rubiosaid Thursday before thereport of thestrike on the ship.

The U.S.and Iran are still debating termsofaninterim peacedeal, including issues such as getting ships through the narrowmouthofthe Persian Gulf and addressingthe future of Iran’sstockpile of highly enriched uranium.

Under thememorandum of understanding signed last week, the U.S. and Iran have60daystoiron out the details.

As talks areheld behindcloseddoors, U.S. President Donald Trump and Iranian leaders have seemed to negotiate in public,tradingthreatsand claiming concessionsthe other side denies.

Meanwhile, aflare-up of fighting in

Lebanon between Israel andIranianbacked Hezbollah militants threatened thewider truce. Lebanon saysfive people have been killed by Israeli strikes over thepasttwo days.Iran says thetentative deal to end the war would require Israel to withdraw from Lebanon —acondition Israel has rejected.

Last week’s transitbelow prewar level Oiltankers, led by theStoicWarrior vessel,sailed alongthe United Arab Emiratesand thenOmanearly Thursday, passing by Oman’sMusandam Peninsula fairly close to the shore.The routewas laid outbyOman and the International Maritime Organization.

North of theroute is acorridor in the center of the strait where ships moved freely before thewar,transporting about afifthofall theworld’soil andnaturalgas

Iran said it mined thatpassage after theU.S. and Israel attacked it on Feb. 28. At least one mine has been sighted there.

Though some ships had been getting out of the strait, withU.S. military support,the U.N. agency’s effort wasthe latest to free trapped vessels. The shipping company Maersk said its container ship, theMaersk Baltimore, and another chartered vessel madeitout on Thursday

Last week, 125 vessels crossed the strait,upfrom33the week before,according to marinedata and analysis firm Lloyd’sList Intelligence.

AccordingtoS&P Global,Wednesday saw 78 transits, the most since the war began,but still belowthe daily prewar average of 130 or more.

Iran says newroute is ‘unacceptable’

The naval armofthe Revolutionary Guard issued awarning Thursday against usingthe new route. In astatement carried by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency,naval officialssaidthe route was established without notice or coordination withIran, calling it “unacceptable and completely dangerous.”

“The only authorized route for passing through the Strait of Hormuz is the one declared by the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the Iranian force said. “Vessel traffic outside these routes is extremely dangerous and prohibited.”

“Violatorswill be dealt with,” it added, without elaborating.

On Wednesday,the Guardthreatened one tanker over the radio, with asoldier warning, “You are in range of my missiles and maybe (I) fireonyou,” according to the private security firm Ambrey Rubio: U.S. will preventtolls Rubio met with foreign ministersfrom thesix-nation Gulf Cooperation Council to assure them that their interests would be protected in anyagreementwith Iran.

Those countries, including major energy producersreliant on the straitfor exports,came under attack by Iran after thestartofthe war

“There is no part in this deal that’sundertakenthatinany way underminesthe security,the stabilityorthe prosperity of any of our partners in the Gulf region,” Rubio said at the meeting in Bahrain.

Bahrain’sforeignminister,Abdullatif bin Rashid al-Zayani, said the agreement brought aglimmer of hope but stressed thatitwas “critically important thatIran adheres to its obligations.”

‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigrationcenter hasbeenclosed

BY JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press

The Florida Everglades immigration detention center knownas“Alligator Alcatraz” has served its purpose, Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday,closing the makeshiftfacilityheralded by the Trumpadministration and denounced as inhumane by civil rights groups.

DeSantis said the center, which opened in July 2025, was always meant to be only temporary until more permanentdetention centers couldbesecuredand federal officials now have that capacity

“Westeppedupbecause there was agap, but my hope is thatthey’ll be able to handle that,” the Republican governor saidatanews conference at the facility

Officials announced a temporary closureofthe facility earlier in June and sent all of the detainees to other facilities,saying hurricane season madeit unsafe to keep them in the Everglades.

Immigration advocates said the center’stents were neversafe or humanefor holdingpeople.Detainees at thefacility have talked about their difficulty accessing lawyers and described poor physical conditions,including worms in the food, toilets that didn’t flush, floors flooded with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects everywhere. They described large whitetents with rows of and rows of bunk beds surrounded by chain-link cages. The air conditioning couldshutoff abruptly in the sweltering Florida heat. Detainees could go days withoutshoweringorgetting prescription medicine.

Advocates for immigrants said the closure of “Alligator Alcatraz” does nothing to stop the harm to people who spend months in custodyastheir families suffer.The Florida ImmigrantCoalitionsaidthe only winners were corporations and contractors who profited millions of dollars

as Republicans pushedan immigration emergency that does not exist.

The detention center of tents andtrailers was built by DeSantis’ administrationina matter of days. The governor and President Donald Trump said the center was critical to Republican efforts to return people in the country illegally back to their home countries.

“There is no questionthis mission has madethe state of Florida safer,” said DeSantis, noting that 21,000 people were deported through the facility Even with the closure of the facility,Florida continuestoplaya keyrolewith otherdetention centers and an increased role in helping with immigration enforcement, WhiteHouse border czar TomHoman said at Thursday’snews conference.

“Gov. DeSantis did a good job,and he’sgoing to continue doing what he’s doing to help us make this country safe again,” Homan said.

Lawyersfor theimmigrants at the facility said their clients startedleaving forother facilitiesin South Florida,California, Arizona, Louisiana and Texasearlierthis month, disappearing for about a weekbefore their attorneys andfamilieswere told where they were sent.

DeSantis said the Everglades airstrip thefacility wasbuilt aroundwill continue to be used.

Environmentalgroups sued over the detention center,saying Florida officials never got the proper permits or did required reviewsonits impact. The state andfederal governments built the site with no oversight and closed it with no input, but theywill still be held responsible even with the site is closed,saidPaul J. Schwiep, an attorney for Friends of the Everglades and the Center forBiological Diversity

“Wewill ask the courts to ensure that the environmental damage is fully addressed,” Schwiep said.

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U.S. District Judge Glen H. Davidson ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs in Harris v. DeSoto Countydid not provide enough evidence that DeSoto County district maps were drawn to intentionally dilute Black voting power. In ruling for DeSoto County,Davidson wrote, “plaintiffscannot provetheir claims for vote dilution pursuant to Section2ofthe Voting Rights Act, and judgment must be awarded to defendants.”

tionsonthe boards of supervisors and education and for the election commission, plus the offices of constable and justice court judge.

Thefederal lawsuit, filed in Septemberof2024, allegedthatthe 2022 DeSoto County electoral map diluted Black voting power in county office elections. The plaintiffs sought anew redistricting plan and special electionsfor posi-

DeSoto County,located just south of Memphis, hasbeen oneofthe state’s fastest growingcounties for years The Black population of DeSotonow representsmore than 30% of the total population of 190,000.

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U.S. SecretaryofState Marco Rubio, left, and Bahrain’sKing Hamad binIsa Al Khalifa shakehands after their meeting ThursdayatAl-Sakhir Palace near Zallaq, Bahrain.

aboutthe plantinasocial media post responding to coverage from The TimesPicayune |The Advocate. He said Entergy promised him Meta would not pass along costs to customers.

“The PSC should not allow anyone to take advantage of power markets at the expense of ourratepayers,” he said last week.

On Thursday, though, Landrypassed off taking a position on the plant to the Public ServiceCommission, which he dinged as “somewhat dormant” for the past 50 years. Landry also repeatedly defended data centers, which his administration has said aside millions in incentivesfor, saying they are vital for Louisiana’sfuture.

“I don’tget avote,” he said. “That’sadecision for the Public Service (Commission), and that’ssomething for them and Entergy to work out.” The Public Service Commission’sfive-member elected body has the ultimate authority over whether to approve the purchase.

The consultant, Lane Sisung,who regularly analyzes utilities’ proposals for the commission, raised other concerns about the plant as well. The plant’sprivate equity owners bought ita few years ago for far less than what Entergy plans to pay for it. It’salso 22 years oldand has had reliability issues that would require Entergy to spend hundreds of millions more on improving it, according to the report. Entergy President and CEOPhillip Mayattended the news conference Thursday but did not speakatit. In astatement Entergy released afterward, May defended the Cottonwood plant.

“The Cottonwood generating facility is needed to support broader customer growth across Louisiana anddeactivationoflegacy unitsthathavebeenserving all customers for over five decades, and it has been part of Entergy Louisiana’ssupply plan before Meta was apotentialcustomer,” the statement from May said.

“Despite reports to the contrary,through its contract term, Meta is fully supporting and funding the construction of 7.5 gigawatts of new,highly efficient natural gas generation, along with additional solar and battery resources and purchasecapacity,” he added.

AMeta spokesperson, Francis Brennan, last week described the consultant’s reportas“inaccurate speculation” in astatement. He pushed back againstclaims that ratepayerspicking up the tab for the Cottonwood plant would violate a White House pledge from thespring, in which tech companies agreedtopay for their own data center power needs.

“Meta paysits own way, both for the power and new infrastructure we use,” Brennan said. “Our agreementwith Entergy is built

to guarantee we pay those costs, not Louisianans.”

Plantdraws concerns Landry onThursdaytouted how manydatacenters andothercompanies are tryingtodobusiness in the state.

“We’re finally like the prettiest girl at thedance,” Landry said. “Everybody wants to dance withus, but guesswhat? Before they can even askusout, they’ve gottogolook at thisexecutive order, andthey’vegot to meet those demands.”

Landry saidLouisiana had alreadydesignedits partnership with Meta in a way to ensure that customers would be protected before tech companies signed Trump’spledge.

“The agreement that we had is basically what we put in the executiveorder,”hesaidwhen asked to share the state’sprevious agreements with Meta and Entergy.

Concernsabout theplant in southeast Texas have comefrom both state Republicans andDemocrats, alongwith the Alliancefor Affordable Energy,a consumer advocacy group.

PSC member Davante Lewis, aDemocrat whorepresents New Orleans and parts of Baton Rouge, held hisown news conference after Landry’sonThursday afternoon.Hesaid that, while he agrees withLandry’s contention thatdata centers shouldbear their own costs, Landry’sactions have differedfrom his speech. Lewis criticized arecent PSC rulechange backed by Landry to fast-track the building of data centers, which also said large-scale customersare only required to pay half the cost of new power plants. Lewis said he will push to rescind the rule.

And Lewis notedthat while Landry spoke of transparency andaccountability,he’salso signed nondisclosure agreementsrelated to Meta’sdatacenter

“When he says we are committedtomaking sure these energy-intensive organizations are paying their own costs, that’ssimply not true,” Lewis said. Landry stood by his use of NDAs during the news conference, rebuffing questions about whenthe details of Meta’sincentives with the state willfully become public by saying the project isnot yet complete Landry’sadministration hasaggressively usednondisclosureagreements,including with Meta, Hyundai andLIV Golf.

“Weare winning because we gettonegotiate with those companies, and those companies don’thave to spilltheir plansout to the public,” Landry said.“We are being as transparent as possible while making sure that we don’tmoveopportunitytoother states.”

Republican PSC member Jean-Paul Coussan said Thursday that the executiveorderreflectsthe same principles that the commission stands for “Wewill continue to scrutinize anyproposal that comes before us with Louisiana families at the forefront, demanding transparency,accountability, and fair treatment for every customer on the grid,”said Coussan, who represents Lafayette and parts of Baton Rouge. “Economic development andratepayer protection arenot competing goals.”

Bindingprotections

The Alliance for Affordable Energy applauded Landry’sexecutive order on Thursday,saying they agree regular customers should not bear the costs of data centers. Alaina DiLaura, thegroup’spolicy coordinator for the PSC, said that beyond the executive order thecommission can do more to protect consumers.

“It is the commission’sresponsibilityatthis point to take action to make those protections binding,”she said. PSC memberEric Skrmetta,aMetairie Republican who has supported datacenter projects, said lastweek that he does notplan to approve theCottonwood plant’s purchase unless Meta pays for it. He describedthe sale price as “taking advantage of the moment.”

Mike Francis, another Republican commission member whorepresents Crowley,said in an interview this week that he generally trusts Sisung, the consultant.

“If that’shis opinion, I’m going to be inclinedtogo withit,”Francis said. “But Ihaven’tseen all the details yet.”

State Sen. Bob Hensgens, aRepublican whochairs theSenateCommittee on NaturalResources, recently warned Francis in aletter aboutdata centers’ potential impact on customers’electricbills.Hensgens, who representsAbbeville, asked the commission to consider “stronger safeguards” to protect residential and smallcommercial ratepayers from bearing power costs for data centers.

Landry’sdecisions,which were publicly released on Wednesday,havedrawn the ire of city officials and legislatorsfrom the area, some of whom have accused Landry of acting out of political retribution.

Thevetoes, which mostly target Democratic districts, mark ashift fromhow Landry wielded his vetopen last year,when he primarily killedspending on projects sought by Republican legislatorswho votedagainst a bill he championedthatgave theinsurance commissioner morepower to reject rate changes.

Landry defended this year’svetoes, saying most of themoney was slated for nongovernmental organizations. Landry and other state officials have long questioned whether it is wise to give taxpayer dollars to NGOs.

“For two years Itold members of theLegislature we were going to take aharder look at NGO funding in ourbudgetbills,” he said.

“That’sexactlywhatwedid this year.”

But in ayear wherethe governorsuccessfully pushedlegislation to reduce the number of Orleans Parish judges, eliminate an Orleans clerkofcourt position and redistribute somefunding for theDistrict Attorney’s Office to otherparishes, the cuts have been tough to swallow,local leaderssaid.

“At atimewhen NewOrleansisbuilding real momentumand confidence in our future, it’s deeply disappointing to seesomany investments in ourcity singled out for elimination,” New OrleansMayor Helena Moreno said in astatement.

StateSen. Royce Duplessis, aDemocrat from New Orleans and frequent voice of dissent in theLegislature, called the cuts“continued political retribution.”

“These were not political projects.Theywere investmentsinchildren, healthcare, housing stability,

workforce development and public well-being,” he said.

The line-item vetoesadjusting the budget apply to House Bill 1, which dictates the operating budget forthe fiscal year that starts July 1, and to House Bill 312, which adjusts spending in thecurrent year’sbudget.

Some legislators also speculated that the vetoes punished those who did not vote in favor of the governor’splantopay forteacher stipendsbytakingabout $168 million from the state’s main education fund, meaning some school districts will have to cut other areas.

Landry disputed that notion, saying his office finishedthe vetoes before the teacher pay vote wasfinalized and submitted them the same morning thevotewas released.

Landry signed the budget bills withhis vetoes on June 18, according to the Legislature’s website.But the vetoes werenot announced until Wednesday,the day the result of the teacher pay vote was publicized.

StateRep.Delisha Boyd,DNew Orleans, said she did not learn of the vetoes until after that vote.She felt projects in her district were vetoed because she disagreed with Landry’s allocation funding plan.

Boydrepresents Algiers, which hadover$1.5 million worth of allocations vetoed.

“I am completely horrified,”saidBoyd. “Weare servingunder agovernor that, if youdon’tagree with him, you will be penalized.”

Boyd did not cast aballot in theteacher payplanvote. She said she did not think she should vote because that plan is held up by acourt order —but if she had, she would have voted no, she added.

Landry also vetoed House Bill 950, aconsumer protection bill for seniorsthatBoyd sponsored.Inhis veto message, Landry said the bill set up anew program without funding it.

Meanwhile, JS Clark Leadership Academy,acharter schoolinthe district of Rep. Dustin Miller,D-Opelousas,lost a$500,000 alloca-

tion. Miller voted against Landry’steacher pay plan because, he said,St. Landry Parish schoolscould notafford to make cuts. Miller said he did not request the $500,000 allocation but was in discussions about it. Still, he was matter-of-fact about the veto, and he said he wasunsure whether it was meant to target him.

“That’sjust politics,” Miller said. “It is what it is.” State Rep. Jack McFarland, R-Jonesboro, who chairs the House Appropriations Committee and sponsored key budget bills,saidhedid not know how the governor chose what to veto —but he noted his own funding requests were vetoed multiple timesmyformer Gov.John Bel Edwards, aDemocrat.

“I know how they feel. Ifelt the red ink of John Bel’spen, and usually it was over political differences,” said McFarland. “Historically,that’s whatgovernors do.”

Wherethe cuts were

Someofthe largest allocations cut by the governor in NewOrleans include $1 million for Behrman Stadium in Algiers, $2 million forthe EllisMarsalis Center,$1million for the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office and nearly half amillion dollars forthe Algiers Economic DevelopmentDistrict.

About $2.5 million worth of BatonRouge projectsalso got axed, as did allocations to initiatives in nearby municipalitiessuchasBaker and Port Allen. For example, theLouisiana Leadership Institute, anonprofit which aims to build leadership skills in Baton Rouge area students and was slatedtoget $600,000, will not see that money The organizationwas foundedbyU.S.Rep. Cleo Fields, D-Baton Rouge, who previously served as astate senator Landry also cut $500,000 forKeep Louisiana Clean, an organization that focuses on cleaning up dumped tires and is different from the better-known Keep Louisiana Beautiful, which also is aimed at cleaning up litter

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Bicyclists and pedestrians travel on Decatur Street past signs for businesses on June 10 as the Sewerage & Water Board’s project continues to replace 115-year-old water mains in the French Quarter in New Orleans.

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near enough after months of lost business.

The Business Stabilization Fund, funded by the French Quarter Management District and the city-owned French Market Corporation, will offer between $2,500 and $5,000 to eligible businesses impacted by Sewerage & Water Board’s $9.8 million construction project that’s closed large chunks of Decatur Moreno announced details of the $200,000 fund at a French Quarter news conference Wednesday shortly before she was set to be a guest bartender at Molly’s at the Market nearby in support of businesses

Molly’s owner Trey Monaghan said the large crowd that arrived to see the mayor sling beer bottles and frozen Irish coffees helped their bottom line even as they continued to adjust to a long period of lost sales.

“We haven’t had a Wednesday night like that in over a year,” said Monaghan.

The event was a salve on a bigger wound for the street In recent weeks, three businesses announced they were closing their doors: Indian restaurant LUFU NOLA, longtime Creole eatery Café Sbisa and last month, craft and gift shop Dead on Decatur closed its doors.

The fund is meant to help places hang on a bit longer until the project wraps up in the fall Still, at Lebanon Grill, which opened on Decatur seven years ago, General Manager Yazz Harral said it won’t make up for losses they’ve incurred since August.

Harral said the grill is used to the typical summer lag seen at restaurants across the city, but the twice-delayed construction project has prolonged the slump for nearly a year, including during Mardi Gras.

“I’m working 14, 16 hours a day just to keep the place open,” said Harral, who said he’s too busy to figure out the grant program.

“It’s not worth my time to be in front

of the computer and do all that.”

The S&WB is replacing the 115-year-old water mains below Decatur between Esplanade Avenue and Dumaine Street.

S&WB Executive Director Randy Hayman has said that high Mississippi River levels caused the U.S Army Corps of Engineers to issue a stop work order when the project first started. That delayed work from starting and later, the discovery of historical artifacts below St. Peter and Decatur further stalled progress when it triggered federally mandated reviews.

In recent months, the Decatur project has become a symbol more broadly of the way stalled projects can impact New Orleans businesses.

City officials said businesses facing the 900, 1000, and 1100 blocks of Decatur Street and the 600 block of Peter Street can apply for a one-time payment starting June 29. Those with fewer than eight employees could receive $2,500, while those with eight or more could receive twice that.

“What are we going to do with that?” Harral questioned of the $2,500 Lebanon could receive.

Andrew Tuozzolo, the mayor’s special counsel, said the grants are part of a package of fixes the city is implementing to assist lower Decatur businesses.

“We’re accelerating construction, holding sewage and waterboard accountable, and clearing obstacles for businesses as fast as we can. We know there’s more to do and we stand ready to continue the work to preserve and sustain the affected residents and businesses,” he said in a statement.

Farther down Decatur, The Original French Market Restaurant & Bar has also experienced losses, going from pulling in more than $20,000 a day on the weekends to around $6,000, said Assistant General Manager Catrena Jacobs.

Jacobs said they appreciate the grant effort, but the prolonged revenue losses are significant. The grant

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“May God rescue her as quickly as possible,” said Mendaño. “When we heard the scream, there was nothing we could do.”

Offers of help poured in from around the world, including from the United States, which seized Venezuela’s then-president Nicolás Maduro at the beginning of the year in a surprise military operation.

The natural disaster is just the latest challenge for acting President Delcy Rodríguez, the former vice president who took office in January after Maduro’s capture. Venezuela has been facing economic disarray for more than a decade, and many people reject the legitimacy of the political movement Rodriguez represents.

Rescue in coastal region

would cover about three and a half days of payroll, she said.

There’s also other small things that have affected business, such as the garbage trucks that no longer come up the side street on Saint Phillip and Decatur, stopping down the block instead at Chartres Street.

“The flies from other people’s trash gets in our courtyard and inside the building,” she said before pointing to a ceramic toilet that has been sitting at a nearby trash can for two weeks.

Still, others, say the money is welcome and better than nothing.

Turtle Bay bartender Christie Sicard said construction has cut down business, but not enough to where they can’t survive.

“I think it’s great,” she said of the fund, while standing below a sign marking 281 days since the fences went up.

Moreno has repeatedly chided the S&WB for tearing up several blocks at once instead of doing one at a time and she also this week that city officials would be monitoring the work through its completion using the city’s camera system.

Project Nola founder Bryan Lagarde on Thursday said they also monitored the project for a month last year through their crime camera network following complaints from business owners and residents about the pace of work.

“Hardly anything was getting done,” he said.

While the nonprofit isn’t actively monitoring construction this time around, Lagarde is hoping for swift completion as the fences, some of which are covered by cloth, are currently blocking some of his network’s cameras.

As a result, Lagarde said they’re offering free crime cameras to impacted businesses.

“That’s been problematic for us. In areas where there’s construction fencing, we’ve missed a number of crimes,” he said.

Email Joni Hess at joni hess@theadvocate.com.

than in other parts of Latin America. The U.S. Geological Survey said the first earthquake, with a magnitude of 7.2, hit west of Moron on the Caribbean coast, about 105 miles west of Caracas. It had a depth of about 14 miles. Just a minute later USGS reported a second 7.5 magnitude earthquake, with a depth of about 6 miles and an epicenter 10 miles southwest of Moron.

The one-two punch of the quakes, combined with the shallow seismic movements, amplified the destruction, said Marcos Ferreira, a geophysicist and researcher at the Geological Survey of Brazil.

“It is as if I am screaming and then someone starts screaming, too. That amplifies the vibration and adds to the potential hazard,” Ferreira said.

Venezuela reeling

Venezuelan authorities said they were diverting rescue teams from other parts of the country to La Guaira, which is no stranger to natural disasters; a 1999 mudslide there, considered one of the country’s worst natural disasters, killed thousands.

Rodríguez appealed to businesses Thursday to make heavy construction equipment available for rescue operations, while a United Nations spokesperson said search and rescue teams were just hours away

“We are currently carrying out intensive rescue operations to save lives,” said Rodríguez, who referred to La Guaira as a “disaster zone.”

Jorge Rodriguez, the president of Venezuela’s National Assembly and brother of the acting president, gave updated figures for the numbers of dead, trapped and injured.

While Venezuela sits near multiple fault lines, its position straddling the South American and Caribbean plates makes strong earthquakes much less common

During the quakes, people ran from swaying buildings. Many were stunned Thursday morning as they saw buildings reduced to skeletons, furniture hanging out of windows and helicopters circling overhead.

In La Guaira, Cristian Carreño stared at his charred apartment building tilting precariously to one side.

“I lost everything,” he said. “There are people still inside, I imagine, that couldn’t get out. It’s incredibly devastating.”

Dayana Delgado, mother of three children, said she was desperate because her 8-year-old son was missing. Delgado asked where the heavy machinery was that government officials had promised, pointing out that neighbors were the ones digging through the rubble.

“I want to know where my child is, if he’s trapped or in a shelter,” she said.

Authorities warned people against returning to homes with structural damage. In downtown Caracas, hundreds spent the night huddled in parks, parking lots and other open spaces.

“We were afraid the

buildings would collapse on us,” said María Cristina Díaz, a 41-year-old janitor

“My mother, my daughter and I were cold. We didn’t sleep a wink.”

Parts of the capital lost power and cellphone service, Rodríguez said Subway services were suspended and natural gas was shut off, she said. Classes will also be canceled for several days, and the Ministry of Education said some school buildings would be used as shelters and donation centers. Families began posting missing-person flyers with photos of loved ones, while others shared handwritten lists of names as they searched for those still unaccounted for Venezuelans living abroad struggled to make contact with relatives. Shortly after U.N. officials in Venezuela called on the government to lift social media restrictions so people can get potentially life-saving information, Venezuelans in the country were able to access X. The site had been blocked by Maduro since August 2024. Assistance offered Rodríguez declared a state of emergency in an address to the nation late Wednesday She said the government was creating a $200 million reconstruction fund for damaged hospitals and homes.

Leaders from Mexico, Qatar, Brazil, Spain, Portugal, Canada and more expressed solidarity with and vowed to send aid to Venezuela. A number of shipments were already on the way Thursday Aid included emergency and military personnel, canine and search teams, medical supplies, water purifiers, airplanes and drones.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who spoke to Rodríguez following the quake, said the United States was “immediately” deploying search and rescue teams, medical resources other assistance, though he acknowledged the closure of Venezuela’s main airport created logistical challenges.

Status for Haitians, Syrians can be ended

Legal protections were given to migrants fleeing violence, disaster

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Trump administration to end legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation.

The 6-3 decision overturns lower court orders and allows the Department of Homeland Security to swiftly end temporary protected status, a program that protects a total of 1.3 million people from 17 countries.

It marked another victory at the high court for Republican President Donald Trump’s sweeping crackdown on immigration.

The court’s conservative majority found that immigration authorities have sole authority over the program,

and the law doesn’t allow judges to intervene.

The majority opinion from Justice Samuel Alito also brushed aside arguments that derogatory comments from Trump about Haitians showed the decision was unlawfully tinged by prejudice. He called the statements “insufficient to show that the termination of Haiti’s TPS designation was based on the race of the Haitian people.”

Justice Elena Kagan forcefully disagreed, calling Trump’s comments “so repellent and racially inflected that the majority declines to put them in print.” She pointed out that Trump had said Haitians in the U.S. “probably have AIDS,” and he also amplified false rumors during the 2024 campaign that Haitian immigrants in Ohio were abducting and eating dogs and cats.

Lawyers said Haitian immigrants would be in serious danger if they are sent back.

“Simply put, the Supreme Court’s ruling will directly result in thousands of innocent people dying violent, needless deaths,” Geoff Pipoly and Andy Tauber said.

the end of the program for about 350,000 Haitians and 6,000 Syrians. The high court sided with the administration before and allowed the end of the program for people from Venezuela Federal authorities deny that prejudice played a role, and argued that TPS was supposed to be temporary

Since Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, Homeland Security has moved to end the protections, including some that had been in place for more than a decade, for people from 13 countries.

and contributed to this country for years — only to be cast out based on anti-Black immigration sentiment.”

The United States first granted protections to Haitians in 2010 after a catastrophic earthquake and extended them multiple times amid ongoing gang violence that has displaced more than a million people, according to court documents.

Syrians were first granted protected status in 2012, during a civil war that lasted for more than a decade before the fall of President Bashar Assad’s government in late 2024.

They urged the Senate to approve an extension of deportation protections for Haitians that passed the House on a bipartisan vote in April.

“Families are here, kids are going to school, parents are going into work, folks are trying to commute, and it’s like the Supreme Court just put all those activities on stop and put folks in limbo,” said Viles Dorsainvil, who runs a support center for Haitians

in Springfield, Ohio.

Haitians covered by the program known as TPS are also a key part of the workforce in long-term care facilities. “This would be a dreadful loss for all seniors in our community,” said Rita Siebenaler, a resident at Goodwin Living, a senior living community in Virginia.

The Justice Department appealed to the Supreme Court after judges postponed

The terminations were made through an improperly fast process, even though countries such as Haiti and Syria remain dangerous, immigration lawyers said Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were later found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents.

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP called the ruling “a devastating betrayal of Haitian families who have lived, worked,

“Today, many of our community members, they feel lost,” Farrah AlKhorfan of Immigrants Act Now said about Syrian immigrants losing TPS protections. The program was created by Congress in 1990 to prevent deportations to countries suffering from natural disasters, civil strife and other instability It allows people already in the country to stay with work permits in increments of up to 18 months, but it does not provide a path to citizenship.

Trump can revive restrictive policy for asylum seekers

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for the Trump administration to potentially revive an immigration policy once used to turn back migrants seeking asylum at the U.S.-Mexico border

The justices, in a 6-3 decision, overturned a lower court order blocking the practice that limited the number of people who could apply for asylum each day first under the Obama administration and then expanded during President Donald Trump’s first term. Advocates said the tactic created a humanitarian crisis as thousands of people

settled in unsafe makeshift shelters to await their turn.

The Trump administration said it was necessary to deal with an increase of asylum seekers at the border

The policy is not in place now, though authorities have imposed other restrictions on asylum seekers The Department of Homeland Security did not say if it plans to revive it, but applauded the ruling. “This decision opens up an important tool to continue securing our southern border,” said James Percival, the agency’s general counsel. The administration argued that metering is a critical tool that’s been used by presidents of both parties and should stay available.

Federal attorneys say people turned away at the border could come back later, though lines were thousands of people long when the policy was in place before.

The case is one of several immigration suits the court is considering this term, including Trump’s push to restrict birthright citizenship. The high court also allowed his administration to end deportation for migrants fleeing instability and armed conflict on Thursday

Under federal law migrants who arrive in the U.S. must be able to apply for asylum and be screened for fear of persecution in their home countries.

The Justice Department argued that people stopped

Hawaii law requiring permission to carry guns in stores, hotels overturned

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court struck down a Hawaii law requiring people to get permission to carry guns into stores and hotels on Thursday, in its latest opinion backing Second Amendment rights. The high court’s 6-3 decision means people can carry guns onto privately owned property like shopping malls and gas stations, unless the owners specifically say guns are banned at their establishments. It comes shortly after the court found that marijuana users can’t be completely banned from owning firearms. It’s a win for President

Donald Trump’s Republican administration, which argued the law violates the Second Amendment. The measure was sometimes referred to as a “vampire rule” because it required people with guns to get permission to enter, and according to vampire lore, bloodsuckers need an invitation to enter a home.

Hawaii argued that the 2023 measure ensured private owners could decide whether they wanted firearms on their property The state passed the law as thousands more people got legal permission to carry guns in the wake of a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that found the Second Amendment gives most people the right to

have guns in public.

Hawaii also restricts guns in places like parks, beaches and restaurants that serve alcohol, but those rules weren’t before the court. They are being challenged in lower courts, however

The suit before the Supreme Court was filed by a gun rights group the Hawaii Firearms Coalition, and three people from Maui. A judge originally blocked the measure, but an appeals court allowed it to be enforced Trump’s Republican administration backed the Supreme Court appeal.

The gun-control group Everytown Law pointed out that business owners can still post signs forbidding firearms on their properties.

by authorities haven’t arrived in the country, so immigration agents don’t have to let them apply

The court’s conservative majority agreed. “A guest does not arrive in a house when he knocks on the front door,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote.

But attorneys for people seeking asylum say the law has long meant anyone arriving at a port of entry should be screened, and blocking arrivals disregards the nation’s ideals. Justice Sonia Sotomayor dissented from the bench, saying that the majority’s

opinion “regrettably and tragically extinguishes the light of the torch of the Statue of Liberty.”

The decision could also give people a “perverse incentive” to enter the country illegally if they can’t count on being able to legally apply for asylum at a port of entry, she said, a concern that Alito’s opinion said was overblown.

In an unusual exchange, Alito voiced a response after she finished speaking. He expressed surprise that she had read her dissent out loud and defended his opinion by pointing out that the

policy had been used during two presidential administrations “I won’t add anything more to that,” Alito said. Metering was first used under President Barack Obama when large numbers of Haitians appeared at the main crossing to San Diego from Tijuana, Mexico. It was expanded to all border crossings from Mexico during Trump’s first term in the White House. It ended in 2020 when the government introduced greater restrictions during the coronavirus pandemic, and President Joe Biden formally rescinded it in 2021.

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By LyNNE SLADKy

Linda Joseph holds a candle during a vigil at the Little Haiti Cultural Complex after a federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary immigration status for Haitians, Feb 3 in North Miami.

Lead singer of Blood, Sweat& Tearsdiesat84

BY HILLEL ITALIE AP national writer

NEW YORK David Clayton-Thomas, the lead singer of Blood,Sweat &Tears, whose husky,high-strung tenor on “Spinning Wheel,” “And When IDie” and other hitshelped makethe so-calledbrass rockband among the most popular acts of the late 1960s, has died at age 84. Spokesperson Eric Alper said that Clayton-Thomas died “peacefully” Wednesday at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto.Alper did not cite aspecific cause.

Clayton-Thomas wasa onetime street fighter and petty thief from Canada who briefly became arock superstar,the front man of aninemember group that sold millions of records and won two Grammys for “Blood, Sweat &Tears,” which beat out theBeatles’ “Abbey Road” forbest album of 1969. Callingout amid ajazzy parade of horns, keyboardsand percussion, ClaytonThomas’ urgent shoutwas asignature voice of the era, preaching love on the Motown cover “You’ve Made Me So Very Happy,” alasting legacy on Laura Nyro’s“And WhenI Die” and acool head on his own “Spinning Wheel.” Mean-

while,Blood, Sweat &Tearshelped inspire awave of horn-led bands, amongthemChicago, the Electric Flag and TenWheel Drive.

“A lotofthe guys (inBlood,Sweat &Tears) would play aBroadway show matinee, then go up to Harlem and play Latin music or R&B and funk at night, or come down to the Village and play purejazz the next night,” Clayton-Thomas told bestclassicbands.comin2023. “I was just ablues player: give me three chordsand I’ve got asong.”

At its peak, Blood, Sweat &Tears’ appeal was so broad it helped lead to theband’s downfall.

Hip enough to performatthe 1969 Woodstock festival, where they were among the highest paid acts, they also were known enough to theestablishment to tourEastern Europe thefollowing year on behalfofthe StateDepartment. When Clayton-Thomasand other band members denounced the Communist regimes on the other side of the Cold War, Rolling Stone’sDavid Feltonwrote that “the StateDepartment gotits moneyworth.” Yippies would turn up at a1970 Blood, Sweat &Tears show at Madison Square Garden, carrying obscene bannersoutside and dumping ma-

nure by thefront gate.

The band had practical reasons for going along with thegovernment: Clayton-Thomas, who had allegedly wielded agun at his girlfriend, hadbeen denieda green card and faced deportation. But after topping the chartsin1970 with thealbum “Blood,Sweat & Tears3,” theirappealsoonfaded Aburned out Clayton-Thomas left the group in 1972, andneither he northe remaining musiciansever regained their old stature.

Clayton-Thomas was inducted into the CanadianMusic Hall of Fame in 1996.

Clayton-Thomas is survived by hisdaughters, Ashleigh ClaytonThomas and Christine Graham. Up from thestreets

Born David Henry Thomsett in Surrey,England,and raised near Toronto and Ottawa,hewas theson of aCanadianWorld WarIIveteran and of apianist-entertainerwho helped inspire her son’sinterest in music. Thomsett fought violently with hisfather,was living in the streetsbyhis mid-teens and by age 20 was serving time in areformatory for vagrancy,assault and other crimes.

An oldguitar,left behind by a fellow inmate, changedhis life.He taught himself to playand began spending extensive time in theearly 1960s around Toronto’s Yonge Streetmusic “strip,” where peers included the American rockabilly starRonnie Hawkins, amentor to Robbie Robertson and other future members of the Band and aguide for Thomsett early in his career Anxious to reinventhimself,he changedhis last name to ClaytonThomas while leadinghis own groups.Inthe mid-60s, he released such albums as “Sings Like It Is” andhad ahit single with the anti-war rocker “Brainwashed.” He would also befriend arising star,Joni Mitchell, whose childlike “Circle Game” helped inspire “Spinning Wheel,” andthe venerable John Lee Hooker,who would indirectly contribute to ClaytonThomas’ breakthrough in the U.S. Americabeckons

Hooker hadencouragedClayton-Thomas to movetoNew York, where theAmerican bluesmanhad an engagementatthe Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich Village. When Hooker unexpectedly departedfor atour of Europe, club owner How-

ard Solomon needed areplacement and recruited Clayton-Thomas.

“So Iplayed him acouple songs on the guitar,” Clayton-Thomas told bestclassicbands.com. “He said, ‘Do you have aband?’ Isaid, ‘Sure,’ and went out into Greenwich Village looking for anybody carrying aguitar caseoreven looking like amusician, and we put together alittle band and we opened there that night.Weendedupstaying there for several months.” Around the sametime, session man-producer Al Kooper was looking to form ajazz-rock group andwas joinedbysuch musicians as guitarist SteveKatz, drummer Bobby Colomby andhorn players Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss. They called themselves Blood, Sweat &Tears, releasing the debut album “Child Is Fathertothe Man” early in 1968. Members were torn between thosealliedwithKooper and those who thought his vocals tooweak to attract asubstantial audience.

By the end of the year,Kooper andothershad departed, andthe band was seeking anew singer After Judy Collinssaw ClaytonThomas perform, sherecommended him to Colomby

N. Korea’sKim callsfor ‘deadlyand destructive’ military posture

BY HYUNG-JIN KIM Associated Press

SEOUL, South Korea North Korean leader Kim Jong Un observed major weapons tests and calledfor the military’s“deadly and destructive offensive posture” to be bolstered, state media reported Friday, days after the countrycommissionedits

first naval destroyer

The development was in line with Kim’spush to strengthen both nuclear and conventionalmilitary capabilitieswhilerefusing to return to talks with South Korea and the United States.

The tests watched by Kim on Thursday were meant to evaluate the powerofa“special mission” warhead for atactical ballistic missile, an upgraded multiple rocket launch system and the hit accuracy of shellswith an extended firing range of aself-propelled gun-howitzer,the official Korean

Kim Jong Un, center, observesweapon tests at an undisclosed location ThursdayinNorth Korea. Independent journalists were not given access to coverthe event.

Central News Agency said. KCNA cited Kim as saying results ofthe tests proved thetech-

nological progressachieved in a push to bring about achange in the fire posture on southern border ar-

eas, implying the tested weapons systems target sites in South Korea including U.S. military bases there.

Kimsaid North Korea’sselfdefensepolicyincludes an objectivetostrengthen “the deadly and destructive offensive posture to makenoenemydare to confront,”

KCNA said. “Tomakethe enemies feel constant uneasiness and fear is just an important aspect of the exercise of war deterrent.” KCNA said the special mission warhead tested is aimed at “inflicting fatal damage on major targets including airfields, ports and power facilities of the enemy.”

On Tuesday,North Koreacommissioned the 5,000-ton destroyer that Kim touted as asymbol of the country’s growing navaland nuclear capabilities. The Choe Hyon is North Korea’smost advanced warship.

Kimhas been focusing on en-

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larging his nuclear and missile arsenals sincehis high-stakesdiplomacy with U.S. President Donald Trumpcollapsed in 2019. He’slater underscored the need to build sophisticated conventional weapons as well.

In response to Trump’srepeated outreach to restart diplomacy, Kim hassuggested that talks can resume if the U.S. drops its demand fordenuclearization of North Koreaasa preconditionofdiplomacy Kim hastaken aharsher posture on South Korea, calling it his country’s“principal enemy” and buildingmore military structures along the rivals’ heavily fortified border Kim has boostedhis diplomatic footprint in past yearsbyexpanding ties with Russia with his support of its war against Ukraine. Earlierthis month, Chinese President Xi Jinping visited North Koreafor the first time in sevenyears forameeting with Kim.

Little Bighornmarkedwithhorse races, dance, song

Tribes commemorate 150thanniversary of what they call Battle of Greasy Grass

BY MATTHEW BROWNand JACK DURA Associated Press

LITTLE BIGHORN BATTLEFIELD NATIONAL

MONUMENT,Mont. The quiet, windswept hills of the Battle of Greasy Grass, known to many as the Battle of Little Bighorn, are the setting for Native Americans commemorating the battle’s150th anniversary with horse rides, battlereenactments and acamp of hundreds of people this week.

The battle, one of the most famous andsymbolicallycharged events in American history, marked its anniversaryThursday Allied tribes came together on that hot day near the banks of the Little Bighorn River in present-day Montana to hand the U.S. Army arare defeat as they fought to preserve theirway of life in the faceofwestward expansion.Lt. Col.George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 his troops were killed

Reenactments will illustrate the battle. Horse riders from the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota and elsewhere are traveling hundreds of milestothe Crow Agency area in Montana to mark the occasion. Families are being encouraged to share their oral histories. At theStanding Rock Sioux ReservationinNorth Dakota, horse races and traditional songs and dances are planned Gathering at thebattlefieldarea in Montana means “we’restill here,” said William GoodBird, a traditional singer from the Spirit Lake Dakota Nation in North Dakota who woke up the camp where hundreds of people were gathered from numerous tribes witha song and drumming.

“Today Iamcelebratingthe victory of our people, celebrating my life as ahuman being andmyspot

on this earth,” hesaid.

Nativesoverpowered U.S. Army

Thediscovery of gold in the Black Hills in what is now South Dakota bya Custer expedition just years earlier spurreda military campaignagainst Great Plains tribes that aimed to push them ontoreservations, or what were known then as agencies, saidhistorian Dakota Goodhouse. There were bigger,longer battles andother Native victories between March 1876 and June 1877, but Goodhousesaidonly the Battle of Greasy Grass —named by Native Americansfor theslick grass alongthe river —gained national recognition becausethe commandingofficer was killed.

At thetime, the Lakota were one of thelargest and most powerful tribal nations, with strong lead-

ers in Sitting Bull and warriors like Crazy Horse. Native warriors quicklyoverwhelmedCuster’s menasthe U.S.forceswere spread miles apartover thehilly area. News of Custer’sdefeat stunned Americans.

The federalgovernmentaccelerated efforts to subdue resistance, bringing yearsofhardship and upheaval for Native Americans. Crazy Horse was killed in 1877, andstarvation brought aboutthe surrender of others in 1881.

Sitting Bull was killedwith about adozen other people when agency police attempted to arrest him in 1890.

Custer wasapolarizing figure

Biographer T.J. Stiles described Custer as one of themost distinguished combat officersinthe Army at the end of the Civil War.

Buthesaid the “Boy General” withhis long hair andflamboyant battlefield wardrobe often bristled at thechain of command and did nottake to the management side of leadership. “Custer was someone who whenever he got into the frying pan, he immediately started looking for the fire,” he said. In 1873, Custer wasassigned to lead the Seventh Cavalry at Fort AbrahamLincoln, near presentdayBismarck,North Dakota. From there, he led military expeditions, including one that confirmed the gold in the Black Hills, asacred place to the Lakota.

Seen in theU.S. as atragichero and memorialized forhis military feats, Custer could also be considered progressive even as the federal government sought to displace Native Americansand stampout Native languages through board-

ingschools,Goodhouse said.He learnedtospeak Arikaraand Lakota and became fluent in sign language used by tribes in the region.

Still, as many Americans are celebrating the 250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence, formanyNative Americans it’snot areason to rejoice.

“It’sjust amark to me of 250 yearsofinjusticetothe Native people,” Crow tribal member and reenactment coordinator Jim Real Bird said.

Keepinghistory alivefor future

For morethan 30 years, reenactments featuring hundreds of warriors have marked the anniversary near the battlefield. The choreography is basedonNorthern Cheyenne oral history and highlights horsemanship andlanguage preservation.

“All the other things that are Native American don’tmean nothing if you don’tknow your language,” said Real Bird.

The atmosphere at the battlefield areawas celebratory as hundreds of people from numerous tribes hadgathered. Several hundred horse riders charged up ahill and circled at the top as they whooped and yelled. The sun shined on the battlefield area, awide-open grassland withfew trees, mountains in the distance.

Elders wore headdresses. People sang and played drums as flags flew from various tribal nations. The campwith dozens of tepees stood along the Little Bighorn River,with people therefromtribesas farawayasWashington state.

“This is our fuel for the year.We comehere and this is arenewal for us, too, you know,personally,” said Theresa Long Turkey,ofthe Lower Brule Sioux Tribe in South Dakota. Goodhouse recalled storieshis grandfather would tell him of their ancestors who were in the Hunkpapa camp when troops attacked.

“There’sthis kind of energy there that still lives on because we have this direct narrative that was handed down,” he said.

Rifle-toting warcorrespondent died with Custer 150years ago

BY MEAD GRUVER Associated Press

They’ve died from artillery fire, aircraft crashes, gunfire, disease —even by execution —inconflict zones andelsewhere around the world.

Over the 180-year history of The Associated Press,38 journalists have fallen on thejob while working for theindependent not-forprofit news organization Thursday marked the 150th anniversary of the very first: Mark Kellogg, one of five civilians killed alongside Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and his men at the BattleofLittle Bighorn. Kellogg, 43, was embedded with Custer’stroops. He was reporting for The Bismarck Tribune and New York Herald —the AP circulated his reports across the country—when Custer underestimated the size of aSioux village that he attacked. Custer and his outnumberedmen made alaststand on ahill. There, they were annihilated by Native American defenders. Kellogg’s

scalped body wasfound not far away

His last published dispatch read in part: “I go with Custerand will be at the death.”

It was more of an attempt at poetry than prophecy.“At the death” is afoxhunting term for theend ofthe hunt, suggestingKellogg expected Custer to prevail. Still, Kellogg’sfinal words and fatecirculated far and widethrough his employers andthe AP.Itgavethe obscure, part-time journalist —awidower who worked avarietyofjobs tosupport histwo daughters —fame in death.

He got to know Custer.He covered the campaign.He mingled with the soldiers and interviewedthemat their camps, historian Sandy Barnard said “While his record as a journalistmight be very smallcompared to modern reporters whogointo combat,he certainly was doing exactly what they are doing,” Barnardsaid.

Yetinother ways, Kellogg was much different from modernjournalists.He carried arifle into action, Bar-

nard pointedout. And he madenoattempttoavoid not just bias butracismagainst Native Americans, whom he called “red devils.”

“During the last stages of the campaign, Kellogg was probably moreofasoldier than he was anewspaper man,” said Barnard, author of aKellogg biographyand other booksonthe Battle of theLittle Bighorn.

The State HistoricalSociety of North Dakota preserves Kellogg’sdiaryand variousbelongings, including eyeglasses, tobacco, clothing and amosquito head net. Thefragile diary, now digitized online, documents weather, distances covered,who was riding in front and in back, how many antelope they saw and other day-to-day operations, DeputyState Archivist Lindsay Meidingersaid. Thediary ends before thebattle.

“It’sa primary source of thehistorical event, that not many other primary sources remain from that time periodrelated

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOByTAILyR IRVINE Spectatorswatchthe charging event during festivities to commemorate the 150thanniversaryofthe Battleof theLittleBighornonThursday in CrowAgency,Mont.

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Ruling blocks Roundupsuits

SupremeCourt sideswithBayer, halting thousands of lawsuits

BY LINDSAYWHITEHURST and DAVIDA.LIEB Associated Press

WASHINGTON The Supreme Court sided with the maker of Roundup weedkiller Thursday in aruling expected to block thousands of lawsuits allegingitfailed to warn people the product could cause cancer

The case came before the justices after atidal wave of litigationthat included some multibillion-dollar verdictsagainst Bayer, aGermany-based agrochemical manufacturer that acquired Roundup’soriginal producer, Monsanto, in 2018.

The decision is avictory for President Donald Trump’sadministration, which argued in supportof Bayer.But it provoked outrage from allies in the “Make America Healthy Again” movement who want to rein

in pesticide use.

The high court, in a7-2 ruling, held thatRoundupcannot be sued in state courtsfor failure to warn because federal regulators have found a cancer link unlikely and do notrequire awarning label.

Though focused on Roundup, the ruling couldaffect similarhealth claims against other pesticide products.

“Thisdecision is good for American farmers whohelp feed the world,“ BayerCEO Bill Anderson said. ”It provides the regulatory clarity necessaryfor innovators like us to develop the agricultural tools thatguarantee an affordablefood supply.”

Though Bayer said the ruling should resultinthe dismissal of failure-to-warn lawsuits,the companysaid it planstoproceed with a proposed $7.25 billionclassaction settlementintended to resolve many of theremaining claims

The rulingwas denounced by environmental groups and lawyersrepresenting people who believe they were harmed by Roundup.

“This Supreme Court ruling wrongly slams the court-

house door on Americans sickenedbypesticides,” said attorney ChristopherSeeger, whoisaclaimant’s representative in the settlement. But he said asettlement still wouldallowsomepeople to receive compensation.

Thecase before the Supreme Court was filed by Missouri resident JohnDurnell. He developeda cancer called non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma after morethan 20 years of serving as the neighborhood association’s “spray guy,”using Roundup on parks in his historic St. Louis community.

Ajury agreed thatthe company failed to warn himabout possible cancer dangers and awarded him $1.25 million. But Durnell never received themoney as his case was appealed.Durnell, 75, said Thursday thathis cancer is in remission, and he will be fine without the money

But “thereare thousands of cases that arelikeminethat will not see court now,” Durnell said.“So that is the biggest disappointment for me.”

There is still fierce debate about whether Roundup’s keyingredient, glyphosate

causes cancer.The World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer classified the chemical as “probably carcinogenic” in 2015. The Environmental Protection Agency has determined that it’snot likely to causecancer in humanswhen used as directed.

Theagencyapproveda label without acancer warning, and Bayerarguedthat it was required to follow those federal standards. The Supreme Court agreed, ruling that separate warning requirements cannot be compelled by state laws andcourts. The ruling still leaves room for other lawsuits alleging problems withthe product’sdesign, andDurnell said he is considering bringing anew case on different grounds.

Bayer disputes the cancer claims but previously set aside $16 billion to settle cases,and earlier this year proposed a$7.25 billion class-action settlement.A federal judge recently ruled that the proposedsettlement will be heard in aMissouri state court, where manyof thelawsuits have been filed

Inflation gaugehits3-yearhigh

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

AP economics writer

WASHINGTON The Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge rosetoanew three-year high in May as gas prices peaked, asign rising costscould pose political problems for President Donald Trump and his political party as midterm elections near Consumer prices rose 4.1% in May from ayear earlier,the Commerce Department said Thursday,the largest annual increase since April2023. On a monthly basis, inflation was 0.4%last month, matchingApril’sincrease and down from 0.7% in March. The increase was largely driven by more expensive gas, as well as pricier semiconductors and othercomputer equipment that areinhighdemand for the AI buildout. Rising prices have caused the inflation-fightersatthe Federal Reserve to keep their key rate unchanged this year,areversal from January when they had penciled in two cuts. Some economists forecast the central bankcould lift ratesthis year instead.

“Underlying inflation is closer to 3% rather than 2%,” said Mark Vitner chief economist at Piedmont Crescent Capital. “It does suggesttomethatthe next Fed move,wheneveritcomes,is more likely to be ahike than acut.” The Fed probably won’traise rates until next year,headded.

Oiland gasprices have fallen substantially since Trump agreedtoa peace deal with Iran earlierthis month, but the conflict lifted gas prices to nearly $4.50 agallon on average nationwide in May.They havesincefallen back to $3.92 as of Thursday,according to AAA, but that’smore than 20%above prices at this time last year as the driving sea-

Apple ups prices for Macs and iPads

Apple on Thursday announced an increase in prices forMacsand iPads, citing amemory chip shortage brought on by the artificial intelligence boom. The Cupertino, Californiabasedcompanycalled the demand spike an “unprecedented challenge” for the consumer electronics industry

“The rapid expansion of AI datacenters hascreated an extraordinary surge in demand for memory and storage. We have never seena component price increase this much, this quickly,” the company saidinawritten statement.

The new,entry-level MacBook Neo will now cost $699, up from$599. The 512gigabyte MacBook Air now costs $1,299, up from $1,099. The

songetsunderway

Declining gas prices will likely pull down headline inflation next month, yet measures of underlying inflation remain stubbornly elevated and will be aconcern for theFed. Excluding the volatile energy and food categories, core prices rose 3.4% in May compared with ayear earlier,upfrom3.3% in Apriland the largest increase since October2023.Ona monthly basis, they rose 0.3% from April to May,the same as theprevious month. Adjusted for inflation, spending rose 0.3% from April to May. And inflation-adjusted incomes rose for the first time in four months, picking up 0.3%, which could bolster consumer spending in coming months.

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one terabyte MacBook Pro is $1,999, up from$1,699. The 128 gigabyte iPad Air is now $749, up from $599, while the 256gigabyte iPad Pro Wifi is now $1,199, up from$999

Analysts expect iPhone prices to rise laterthis year Wall Street drifts to amixed finish

NEW YORK The U.S. stock marketmeanderedtoa mixed finish Thursday after several artificial-intelligence stocks veered back up their roller-coasterride,whileApple dropped after hiking prices on many of its products. The S&P 500 finished nearly unchanged with adip of less than 0.1% after swinging between gains and losses throughout the day. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 71 points, or 0.1%, and

New Fed chair Kevin Warsh lastweek underscoredthe central bank’s determination to drive inflation back to its 2% target, but he gave no sign of what steps the Fed might take. Some economists,however,now expect the central bank to increase rates this year.Those expectationsupendedU.S.markets this week, hammering fast-growing sectors like tech.

Inflation has been above theFed’s2% targetfor morethan five years, leaving many Americans moregloomyabout the future. Vitnerpointsout thatinflationhadn’ttopped 2.5% for nearly adecadebefore thepandemic, likely making the inflation spikes since theneven harder to accept for most households.

theNasdaqcomposite fell 0.5%.

Micron Technology helped lead the market after jumping15.7%. The maker of computer memory reported much bigger profit and revenuefor the latest quarter thananalysts expected, and it gave astronger growthforecastfor the current quarter than Wall Street expected. Thathelpedallayworries a bit that itsstock hadgrown tooexpensive after coming into theday with asurge of 267% so far this year

Economyexpanded at 2.1% pace

WASHINGTON The U.S. economy expanded at asolid and unexpected 2.1% annual pace from January through March, the Commerce Department reportedThursday in its final estimateoffirst-

quarter growth. The growthingross domestic product—the nation’s output of goods and services —marked arebound from asluggish 0.5% in thelast three months of 2025 when a43-day federal government shutdownweighed on theeconomy.Thursday’s numberswere an upgrade from of Commerce’spreviousfirst-quarter estimate of 1.6% growth. Business investment surged, probably reflecting an investmentboom in artificial intelligence. But consumer spending, which accounts for around 70% of U.S.economic activity,fell sharply from fourth-quarter 2025and from Commerce’s previous estimate in asign that consumers may be cutting back in theface of higher gasoline prices caused by the war with Iran.

Expertssay it’s notthatsimple

BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS and CATHY BUSSEWITZ AP business writers

NEW YORK U.S. gasoline prices decreased an averageof49cents agallonin the last month as expectationsrosefor an endtothe warwith Iran. But they’re not falling fast enough for President Donald Trump. Trump, whowants to stave off the economic fallout of the war ahead of midterm elections, is now pointingatoil companies as the culprit. The president said on social media early Wednesdaythathe hadtaskedthe JusticeDepartment with investigating whether “customers are being ’gouged.’”

“The big Oil Companies arenot dropping theirprice at the pump commensurate with the sharply lower prices theyare paying for Oil,”Trump wrote. “Gasoline prices better start going down alot faster than what I’mseeing!”

Crude oilisthe main ingredient in gasoline, and its costmakes up the bulk of whatconsumers pay at the pump. But oil companiesdon’t setgasoline prices;gas station owners do. Those operators often have littlechoicebut to raisepumpprices when the cost of oil surges like it did during the Iran war

Even after crude prices come down, it can take weeksorlonger for market changes to reach refineries andeventuallyconsumers, experts said.

“It sounds abit like political theater to me,” Karen Young, asenior research scholaratColumbia University’sCenter on GlobalEnergy Policy, said when askedduring aCNBCinterviewabout Trump’sprice-gouging allegation. “That’snot really howgasoline prices work in the U.S.” Multifaceted prices

Multiple factorsgointo what gasstationowners decide to charge.

In the U.S., oil prices represented about51% of the price of agallonofgasoline last year,per theEnergy Information Administration. When crude oil gets moreexpensive because there’sless on the market, gasoline prices generally follow

Before reaching an interim agreement with the Trump administration last week, Iran blockedships fromcrossing the Strait of Hormuz, awaterway off the country’scoast through whichone-fifth of the world’soil andnatural gas typically passes. In 2025, federal and state taxes contributed about 17% of thegasoline price, refining costs andprofits contributed 14% and distribution, andmarketing contributed17%,the EIA said. In some states, such as California, highertaxes andrefining costs push prices well above the national average. While expensive oil was the leading driver of higher gasoline prices in recent months, U.S. gasprices typicallytick up abit at this time of year.Warmer weather brings ashift to summer blend fuels, which is moreexpensive to refine than the versions sold in coldermonths. Demand also is greater as more people hit the road.

For the upcoming July Fourth holiday period, AAA forecast 61.4 million Amer-

icans traveling at least 50 miles away fromhome by car,slightly morethanthe 61.3 million whotook road trips last year

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Somecomponents of fuel prices areoutside agas station’scontrol.

Refineries buy crude oil in advance, and deliveries of thatoil taketime.Refineries may be processing moreexpensive supplies weeks or months after market prices fall. After refining, gasolinetravels through pipelines, ships, trucks andfuelterminals before landing at filling stations, further prolonginghigher prices forconsumers.

“Weall felt how fast gasoline prices rose this spring,” Rob Smith, director of global fuelretail at data and analytics provider S&PGlobalEnergy.“The pace of their rise wasactually less than thepaceof the rise forcrude oil.” Smith calculated that the price for Brent crude oil, the international standard, rose about$1.75 per gallon between the start of the war and early April, and during that same time, the averagepriceofgasoline went up $1.10.

“It went up alot,” Smith said of gasoline. “But it still wasn’tasmuch as the crude price wentup.”

That’sbecause retailers resisted passing alongall of the fuel price increase to customers, absorbing some of the cost, he said. Whenoil prices started falling, those retailers could recoup someofthe money they lost, Smith added.

“Overthe course of a year,there’sacertain operating margin that the retailers need to keep thelights on,” he said.“Thevastmajority of gas stations are owned by small corporations. Afamily that owns a dozen stations, or even one or twostations, they have little room forerror.”

Prices arestill higher Even with prices dropping, motorists in the U.S. are paying almost $1 more per gallon than they were before thewar,and gas is nearly 22% more expensive than it wasatthis time last year

Gas also isn’tthe only thing that’sgotten more expensive during the war Groceries, airline tickets and even goods like condoms andshoes now cost more due to supply chain disruptions. Even if afinal peace deal is reached and oil resumes flowing reliably from the Middle East, experts warnprices will likely remain elevated for sometime.

Before joining Israel to launch the warwith strikesonIranonFeb.28, Trump bragged about low gas prices. But after Iran effectively cutoff traffic from the Strait of Hormuz and energy prices skyrocketed, the presidentquickly pivoted.Atone point,he tried to paint steep energy prices as apositive forthe business of U.S. crude production —stating in March that, because the U.S. is the largest oilproducer in the world, “whenoil prices go up, we make alot of money.”

Meanwhile,anonline tracker from Brown

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Aperson looks at the fresh fish at agrocerystore on May11inNashville, Tenn. The FederalReserve’s preferred inflation gaugerose to athree-year highinMay as gaspricespeaked.

Louisianajudge suspended over repeated misconduct

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

ALouisiana judge who just served a20-day suspension for accepting a“$100 handshake” hasagreed to spend his last four months in office on unpaid suspension over a handful of other ethical fouls. The Louisiana Supreme Court on Thursday accepted an agreement that7th Judicial District Judge John C. Reeves reached with the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana to resolve aseries of his alleged misdeedson

the bench in Catahoula and Concordia parishes. Reeves, who first won electionin2014, is setto be suspendedonAug. 31 andmust cover more than $6,000 in commission costs,the court ordered. Reeves, 69, will age off thebench when his term endsDec. 31. The high court in May handed him amore lenient suspension than the 30 days the commissionhad recommended overhis acceptinga C-note from aman forwhom he’d agreed to sign legal papers off hours At the time,the court deemed it “a single isolated incidentthat nevertheless seriously taintedthe integrity and reputation of the judiciary.”

Butthen thecommission made public aslew of other allegations against Reeves. Amongthem, he was accusedofethical misconduct in 2024 for authorizing two court staffmemberstosecure reservedeputy commissions so they could carry concealed weaponsinthe Catahoula Parishcourthouse. The commissionalso accused Reeves of violating ethical rules in 2021 when he took it upon himself to order adeputytopick up achild caught in aheated custody disputeand deliverthe boy to his terminally ill grandfather —who attended high school and played football with the judge.

Another chargealleged Reeves issued an illegal ver-

balorder over the phone in 2024for alaw enforcement searchofa home.Inafourth, he’saccused of signing arrest and search warrantsfor a“longtime personal friend” and his propertybefore stepping off the case. Finally,he’saccused of misconduct in “reducing, revoking, and subsequently reinstating the defendant’s bond in acriminal case,” according to thecourt. Reeves could notbe reached Thursday through an assistant for comment. Afew justices expressed reluctance at agreeing to the levelofdiscipline against Reevesbut noted that he could ride out his termwithoutany punishment if they didn’taccept it.

Chief Justice John Weimer hadpreviously described Reeves taking the $100 payment as an “isolated and unfortunate,one-time incident”when he favoredless severe punishment for the veteran judge.

“I nowrealize,based on the current filing, that Iwas misled,” Weimer wrote. Justice Jay McCallum agreed on the suspensionfor Reeves but saidhewouldreject three of the misconduct violations against him McCallumwrote that Reeves “should be commended,” not sanctioned for signing warrants against afriend. McCallum called Reeves’ actions on behalf of hiscourt staff“benign”and describedthe phone order

forasearch warrant as “isolated human error.” Justices Billy Burris, Cade Cole and Jefferson Hughes endorsed McCallum’s assessment. As for the rest of the charges, McCallum wrote that Reeves’ misconduct “highlights the unique circumstances encountered by judges, andparticularly ruraljudges, on adaily basis as they perform their jobs. They arefrequently calleduponto adjudicate matters concerning those with whom they worship, recreate, and work.” Reeves’ example “should be the impetus to redouble our efforts to avoid such conduct even when it is uncomfortable to do so,” McCallum wrote.

Park servicesaysReflectingPoolliner wascut with knifeorrazor

BY MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON Aliner along the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool wascut with asharp knife or razor this month, causing damage to the foam sealant installed as part of a$16 million rehabilitation project,a top official at the National Park Service says.

The U.S. Park Police responded June 9toacomplaint by the park service, said Frank Lands,deputy director of operations for the park service. Lands made the statement in acourt document filed late Wednesday as part of alawsuit filed by anonprofit organizationto halt the Trump administration’swork on the project

Hisstatement does not say when exactly the damage occurred or whether it was a suspected case of vandalism and does not identify anyone who might have been involved.

The police reportindicates damage to the pool, “includingacaulk over thefoam sealantthat was cut with asharp knife or razor and destruction of delaminating surface material,” Lands said. About 70 fence post tops also were thrown into the pool, he said.

The statements are the first time the Republican administration has offered specifics for when andhow

the Reflecting Pool may have beendamaged after work on the project was substantially completed

‘Believedtobeisolated’

Aspokesperson for the Interior Departmentsaid Thursday that public notification about the damage was delayed because, “at the time ofthe June 9incident, the vandalism was under investigation andbelieved to be isolated. So as nottoencourage deranged individuals, we did not announcewhat we hopedtobe an isolated incident.”

Around the same time,park service staff “discovered another incidentwhere fencing around the pool had been forciblyremoved and thrown into the pool,” the spokesper-

son said in an email.

The departmentsoon noticed that“recurring cases and videos of people ripping at the coating began to circulate. We then knewthis was not an isolated incident, but anew trend to attempt to damage the Reflecting Pool,” theemail said.

President DonaldTrump and other officials have repeatedly blamed,without citing evidence, unidentified vandals for peeling paint as well as a“350-foot gash” in the liner and other problems. Six people have been arrested, Trump said this week, without providing details

The Interior Department saidThursdaythere have been seven arrests, seven federalcitations and 18 police reports filed. The depart-

Cassidyflips on war-powers vote

By The Associated Press

WASHINGTON Senate Republicans who were berated by PresidentDonald Trump over opposition to his warinIranhelda late-night vote Wednesday totry toappease him, rejecting awar powers resolution aday after asimilar measurepassed Trump harangued GOPsenators face to face earlier in the day for allowing avote to block his war in IranonTuesday,further escalating afeud that has diverted GOP efforts to focus on election-year affordability issues and brought much of the chamber’s business to ahalt. He exchanged particularly harsh words with Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy,one of four Republicans who had voted with Democrats on the measure. Hours later,though, Cassidy was invited to receive apersonal briefing on the war at the White House from Vice President JD Vance and envoy Steve Witkoff. Cassidy then returned to the Capitol to vote against aseparatebut nearly identicalwar powers resolution.

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, aRepublican who has repeatedly votedwith Democrats

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to halt thewar,voted present this time“to give thePresident morespace and leveragetonegotiate alasting peace,”hesaid on X. Themeasure failed47-50-1just before midnight on Wednesday,and theSenate then left town for atwo-week recess.

It’sunclear whetherthe move will be enough to appeaseTrump,who had called theRepublicans “losers” for voting against hiswar and had called Cassidy a“lunatic” at thelunch after their tense exchange. But the vote wasaclear signal to thepresident from Republican senators who still want to placate him, despite increasing tensions in recent weeksand his decisionWednesday morning to reverse himself and delay signing ahousing bill that received overwhelming bipartisan support.

Senate MajorityLeader John Thune, RS.D., and asmall group of his SenateGOP colleagues calledTrump after the vote. Thune told reporters that thepresident was “pleased withthe outcome.”

Trump later thanked Thune in asocialmedia post and noted that Cassidy andPaulhad switched their votes.“This voteputsIran on notice!” he wrote.

appoints2toLSU

Movesmade earlierthismonth withoutpublic announcement

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

Gov.Jeff Landry has appointed two new members of the LSU Board of Supervisors, the latest fluctuation on aboard that has seen several changes in recent months.

Charles “Chad” Moody of Baton Rouge replaces supervisor Patrick Morrow, while Jennifer Settoon of Gonzales replaces supervisor Laurie Lipsey Aronson, according to appointment letters signed by Landry

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Morrow and Aronson were appointed by former Gov. JohnBel Edwards.

Moody is thefounder and CEOofCrossroadsArea Management, ahealthcare services company in Lafayette, according to hisbiographyonthe LSUBoard of Supervisors website. He graduated from LSU and was asafety on the football team that won LSU anational championship in 2007. He served as second vice chair on theBoard of Supervisors for the LouisianaCommunity and Technical College System Settoonisan attorney based in Gonzales. Her biography was not yet available on theboard website, andshe did not immediately respond to arequest for de-

tails for this story. The appointments were made earlier this month without apublic announcementfrom Landry’soffice. Thenew membersarrive to aboardthat has shifted significantly during Landry’s tenure.Most recently,the governor elevated former Vice Chair Lee Malletttoboard chair, and he appointedJohnCondos to the boardafter Lafayette-based personal injury attorney Glenn Armentor resigned.

The boardselected veteran trial attorney John Carmouche as itsvice chair in February

The new supervisors will take their oath of officeat Friday’sboard meeting,according to thepublic agenda.

mentdid not specify what the charges wereoridentify anyone cited by police.

Trumppledged to beautify the century-oldReflectingPool, draining its water and directing the bottom to be painted acolor he called “American flag blue.”But since thesitewas restored, its water has been plagued by an algae bloom andpieces of the new coating have appeared to be peeling off thebottom.

TrumpsaidWednesday that “sick people” had used razors and box cutters to slice portions of the lining.

Refilled betweenJune4-9

The Associated Pressreviewed videos showing that the Reflecting Pool was refilled between June4 and June 9, meaning thealleged cut reported to law enforcement on June 9could have occurred before the basin was fully refilled. Dayslater, pieces of the new blue liner were observedpeeling up from thebottom.

The Park Police posted surveillance footage Wednesday evening and

askedfor help “identifyingthe individual depicted here in connection witha Destruction of Government Property investigation.”

Thegrainy,30-second video appears to show aperson kneeling down, reaching intothe reflecting pool and removing something from the water.Police said it was taken on Friday afternoon.

In his statement to the court, Lands said the parks agency plans to begin draining the Reflecting Pool following Independence Day celebrations to conduct repairs, including assessing andrepairing anydamage to the lining.

The park service completed morethan twomonths of renovations at theReflecting Pool in earlyJune. The 2,000-foot-long basin was drained and atinted, plasticlike liner was installed to waterproofand protect the concrete pool surface, and the pool was refilled with water,Lands said.

The CulturalLandscape Foundation, an education and advocacy group that suedinMay to halt work on

the project, asked afederal judge to block further renovations.

Dems want investigations

CongressionalDemocrats have calledfor formalinvestigations into the pool renovations, saying no-bid contractsfor theproject were awarded to vendors with prior ties to Trump. Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley,the top Democrat on the Senate Appropriations panel overseeing theInterior Department’sbudget,saidthe pool renovationappears to be awaste of taxpayers’ dollars. “After railingabout waste, fraud and abuse, Donald Trumpspent morethan $16 million on arenovation of the Reflecting Pool that’s nowpeeling andchock-full of algae,” Merkley said Thursday

“Taxpayers deserveafull explanation of how these failures occurredand who will be held accountable for correcting them,” said anotherletter, signedbyNew Mexico Democratic Sen. Martin Heinrich and five other senators.

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Landry addresses levee board turmoil

Governor calls for release of investigative report

BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer

Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday

publicly addressed the turmoil at the New Orleans area’s flood protection authority for the first time since he and his allies began a controversial reshaping of the agency to increase its focus on policing.

In an appearance on WWL Radio

54 dogs seized in illegal breeding operation

Man booked on animal cruelty counts

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Authorities seized several dozen neglected Australian shepherds and arrested their owner, a Kenner man accused of illegally breeding the dogs and keeping them in poor conditions.

Shawn Bell, 50, was booked Monday with 55 counts of aggravated cruelty to animals, Kenner Police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick said Officers and officials with Jefferson Protection & Animal Welfare Services (JPAWS) found one dead puppy and seized 54 dogs from Bell’s home in the 3500 block of Arizona Avenue.

The dogs were living in crowded, unsanitary and unsafe conditions, with matted fur and flea infestations, police said. Cruelty exams performed by licensed veterinarians found medical problems varying from minor to extreme, and some animals may not recover according to JPAWS Director Michelle Brignac.

JPAWS began investigating after receiving reports that Bell was illegally breeding Australian shepherds, Brignac said. He was selling the puppies on social media through a business he called Nola Aussies, according to Kenner police.

The business’ Facebook page and website advertised “AKC Australian Shepherd puppies” for sale and listed dozens of dogs for between $300 and $1,200. The website states that Nola Aussies is “dedicated to breeding healthy and happy Australian Shepherd puppies,” with over 7 years of experience.

Brignac said Bell did not have the Jefferson Parish license required to

the governor said working with the levee board has been “frustrating” and called on it to release an investigative report into alleged wrongdoing at the agency — a report that the agency has said it does not have. He also complained about the process by which board members are nominated, and defended his efforts to expand the agency’s police department.

The flood protection agency, officially known as the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, is responsible for overseeing much of the $14.5 billion system of levees and pumps that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers rebuilt after Hurricane Katrina’s catastrophic levee failures. Over the past couple of years, board members have resigned in

protest over changes Landry’s allies have pursued.

The governor has now replaced every board member since he took office in 2024, removing outspoken opposition to the changes.

Much of the turmoil began when Landry tapped Roy Carubba as the agency’s board president. Alongside Superinten-

dent of Police Joshua Rondeno, Carubba oversaw a 45% increase in the agency’s spending on its 50-officer police department. Carubba resigned from the board last month and Rondeno was placed on administrative leave

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ABOVE: Graduates enter the auditorium Thursday during the Youth Empowerment Project’s commencement at McDonogh 35 Senior High School in New Orleans. BELOW LEFT: Ke’Ron Jones hugs his family after the ceremony BELOW RIGHT: Graduates receive their diplomas.

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3 injured in Gentilly Terrace shooting, police say

BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

Three people were injured in gunfire in Gentilly Terrace on Thursday afternoon in what NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick described as a shootout between young adults.

Police were called to a shooting in the 3400 block of Franklin Avenue at around 12:23 p.m. according to Kirkpatrick. A man was taken to a hospital by New Orleans EMS, and another man and woman arrived in a private vehicle.

All the victims knew one another, and the shooting is domestic in nature, Kirkpatrick said.

“It appears to be that they were in relationships with each other,” Kirkpatrick said.

New Orleans police did not release the names or ages of the subjects, nor did they reveal how many may have

fired or how many guns were involved. One of the victims was in critical condition. No arrests have been made.

Around 1:30 p.m. Thursday NOPD officers were investigating a scene that spanned multiple blocks At least 50 evidence markers were placed around a home at 3625 Franklin Ave. Others were placed at a neighboring Shell gas station next to discarded flip-flops.

“We have quite a bit of ballistics — bullets and casings on the ground,” Kirkpatrick said.

Nearby family members cried and embraced one another while standing on the neutral ground. They declined to comment Franklin Avenue’s southbound lanes were closed to traffic at Elder Street as officials conducted their investigation

The triple shooting comes amid a dramatic decline in violent crime. As of June 25,

Orleans Parish had recorded 38 homicides — a 24% decrease from the same point last year and a 68% drop from the same date in 2023, when the city was still in the grip of a post-pandemic surge in violent crime.

“Our stats have been very, very good,” Kirkpatrick said, citing a successful array of strategies NOPD has used to fight crime, including framing gun violence as a public health issue “But for the loved ones, this isn’t a stat to them.”

“We do use a kind of a holistic approach to deal with giving people different options and ways of handling conflict. This is not the way.”

Anyone with additional information may call NOPD at (504) 658-6030 or call Crimestoppers anonymously at (504) 822-1111.

Staff writer Marco Cartolano contributed to this report.

Suspects arrested in killing of teenager in LaPlace

Pair of brothers face charges in fatal shooting

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Two days after a 17-yearold boy was gunned down in a LaPlace neighborhood, St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested a pair of brothers in the case after tracking them to a New Orleans hotel, authorities said.

Avante Pierce, 24, and Zion Pierce, 18, will face seconddegree murder charges in the death of Omarion Ingram, St. John Sheriff Mike Tregre said.

Investigators allege the Pierce brothers shot Ingram after a fight outside their residence in the 1200 block of Cinclair Loop on June 15. Sheriff’s deputies responded to the area about 7:20 p.m. after receiving reports of gunfire

Though they found shell casings, deputies did not immediately find anyone in-

jured, according to authorities.

While still investigating the scene, Ingram’s relatives reached out to detectives and told them that the teen had been in the area and was possibly involved in an altercation around the time the gunfire was reported, the Sheriff’s Office said. The relatives told authorities they hadn’t heard from Ingram since the time of the report Deputies searched the area and found Ingram’s body just after 10 p.m. in a nearby field, according to officials.

Investigators believe he was shot during the fight and fled before collapsing.

Authorities identified the Pierce brothers as suspects in the case. The pair fled the parish after the shooting, according to Tregre.

Detectives tracked the Pierces to a hotel in New Orleans on June 17, Tregre said. Authorities began conducting surveillance and spotted a car that had been on the scene of the homicide, according to officials.

While investigators were watching the hotel, several

people got into the vehicle and drove away Investigators followed, but at some point, the driver realized and tried to outmaneuver them, Tregre said.

The Sheriff’s Office got assistance from State Police and the New Orleans Police Department, who helped box in the car at a gas station on Elysian Fields Avenue, according to Tregre. Authorities found the Pierce brothers lying on the back seat.

The vehicle’s driver was not arrested.

Zion Pierce was taken to

the St. John Parish jail, where he was booked with seconddegree murder, armed robbery and aggravated battery Bail was set at $188,500. Avante Pierce was being held Tuesday at the Orleans Parish jail, Tregre said. He was wanted by authorities in New Orleans after missing a 2025 hearing in a cocaine possession case, according to court records. Once returned to St. John Parish, Avante Pierce will also be booked on charges of second-degree murder and armed robbery

Two people injured in separate Jefferson Parish shootings

One victim in critical condition; other stabilized

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

The Jefferson Parish Sher-

iff’s Office is investigating a shooting in Metairie that left a woman in critical condition and another outside of a Marrero restaurant that left an employee in stable condition Wednesday night, authorities said.

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earlier this month, pending an investigation. The agency has not publicly said what the investigation is about. Throughout the turmoil the governor had stayed quiet on the subject until Thursday He said the agency had problems he felt he needed to address, though watchdog groups have previously questioned similar assertions made by his allies “It seems like it’s kind of been cursed since the beginning,” Landry said. “When I took over as governor, there were some things that needed to be addressed.”

He defended his record at the agency, and stressed that the flood control system is fully functional. He also questioned the nominating

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breed and sell animals.

“There’s a nominal fee with an inspection process to make sure everybody’s healthy and provided for,” she said. “He circumvented the process.”

Bell was resistant when JPAWS officials tried to pay a visit to his home and inspect the property based on the illegal breeding allegation and an additional complaint that he was selling sick dogs, according to authorities.

The Metairie shooting occurred at an apartment complex in the 6200 block of Riverside Drive, according to Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office.

process for board members a system implemented in the aftermath of Katrina to limit political influence.

“The system is intact,” he said. “The other part of the system, which is the law enforcement component, that had been somewhat downgraded, was vitally needed in the Lakeview area at a time when we know that the NOPD has been struggling for manpower.”

He added: “The one thing that has been a hindrance is how the names come to the board.” Board members are nominated by an independent committee and must meet certain qualifications, which limits who Landry can appoint.

He also called on the board to release an investigative report into alleged wrongdoing at the agency Landry’s informal adviser in New Orleans, Shane Guidry, a busi-

The victim, a 21-year-old woman, was arguing with a man later identified as Kennedy George, 33, of Waggaman, Veal said. The woman and Kennedy know one another, but no details were available about the nature of their relationship.

George was booked with attempted second-degree murder and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

George is accused of shooting the woman at least once in the head before fleeing. He was taken into custody near the intersection of Power and West Esplanade boulevards, Veal said.

nessman who has no role in government but has been overseeing changes at the agency, has hinted that the attorney general’s investigation would reveal explosive findings demonstrating “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

Guidry suggested that the former board members resigned because they were hiding something that they feared would be uncovered, which the board members deny

“There has been an investigation done. There is a report,” Landry said. “The board should release the report.”

But the governor added that he doesn’t think the actions of former board members were out of line.

“I don’t think anyone was doing anything maliciously,” he said. “I think there’s just been a lot of difference of opinions.”

had

Bell’s Nola Aussies in Kenner in 2024.

Kenner police accompanied officials when they returned to Bell’s house Monday and discovered multiple litters of puppies, animal waste throughout the house, poor conditions in outdoor kennel areas and a dead puppy on a table saw Jennifer Gutierrez, of Kenner, was shocked but

The second shooting was reported about 9 p.m. outside of Outback Steakhouse in the 1600 block of Barataria Boulevard in Marrero, Veal said.

In response to a public records request asking for that report, the agency responded that it did not have it At public board meetings, board members have stressed that Attorney General Liz Murrill oversaw the report and that her office has it.

“The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection AuthorityEast’s board has requested that we continue investigating certain new complaints regarding operations,” Murrill said in a statement. “Because those matters overlap and may have an impact on the report the board requested, I will follow the instructions of the board regarding when it wishes to release the prior report.”

“That’s not correct,” said board president Peter Vicari of Murrill’s statement. He said that the agency had opened a second investiga-

not surprised to hear of Bell’s arrest. She bought her daughter’s Australian shepherd, Pudding, from Nola Aussies in 2024 and immediately noticed the dog appeared to be in poor health.

Pudding was infested with fleas, had intestinal parasites, an ear infection and scabbing that a vet told her was from fleas and bites from other dogs, according to Gutierrez.

“I was furious,” she said.

Concerned about the conditions in which Bell’s dogs were kept, Gutierrez said she reported him to the Humane Society, the American Kennel Club and the Australian Shepherd Club of America. She was frustrated that no one seemed to take notice two years ago.

“Finally somebody’s doing something and these

The victim, a 49-year-old man, was involved in an altercation with another employee at the restaurant, according to Veal The disagreement continued outside of the business. The second employee is accused of shooting the 39-yearold man in the chest, Veal said. The victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition, but he was listed in stable condition Thursday morning. The suspect has not yet been arrested in connection with the shooting, Veal said.

tion involving the police superintendent now on leave, and that delayed the report’s release.

“We were re ady t o give it to y’all and this other thing happened. So th at ’s why she said, ‘Stop, don’t release anything until this one is done,’” he said.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate. com.

At that meeting, the board discussed releasing the report in a closed-door session that lawyers said likely violated the state’s open meetings law “The body can go into executive session for an investigative proceeding, not a discussion of a report,” said Bruce Hamilton, the director of the First Amendment Clinic at Tulane University’s law school. Murrill said previously that the investigation did not find any criminal conduct, but did uncover “some pretty severe dysfunction.” Her office said last week that it could not release the report in response to a public records request because the investigation was still open. Landry also said on Thursday that he expected to replace Vicari as board chairman. “I think we’re going to be making a new chairman selection soon,” the governor said “Maybe we can put some of that controversy behind us.”

animals won’t be treated like this anymore,” Gutierrez said.

Bell was being held Wednesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center

Bail was set at $108,000. His dogs are being treated and held by JPAWS, but they are not available for adoption, Brignac explained. The dogs still belong to Bell. Until his case is adjudicated by the court and a judge decides what to do with the pups, Bell’s dogs will remain in the custody of JPAWS. Bell has 15 business days to pay a “dog bond” to JPAWS, a security bond that covers the costs of care and feeding during that time, according to Brignac. If Bell does not pay, the dogs will become the property of the parish, she said. Most of Bell’s Aussies

Email Alex Lubben at alex.lubben@theadvocate. com. His work is supported with a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, administered by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.

have never been handled by humans, Brignac said. Some don’t know what a leash is and can be reactive, frightened and in some cases, aggressive JPAWS will send them to a breed-specific rescue that can help rehabilitate them. LOTTERY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 2026 PICK 3: 1-3-3

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a number of health issues, including a flea infestation, intestinal parasites and an ear infection, when she bought the dog from Shawn

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The New Orleans Police Department investigates a shooting Thursday on Franklin Avenue in New Orleans.

Jail’s corporate structure at issue in inmate’s death suit

Widow says LaSalle jail operator is responsible

BY PATRICK SLOAN-TURNER

Staff writer

Sprawled on the concrete floor of a jail cell in LaSalle Parish, Jaleen Anderson could do little more than wave at an overhead surveillance camera for help.

Over the prior 36 hours, the 29-year-old had experienced a series of at least six seizures, at times covering his bed in urine and his cell in vomit, his family says. After Anderson’s fourth, guards found him on the floor, seemingly unable to stand, and sought permission to call an ambulance for him.

But Anderson’s family claims the facility’s nurse declined, saying: “We don’t send people to the hospital for seizures.”

Two hours later, Anderson — held in the Louisiana jail under contract with Harris County Texas was dead. His widow has sued, claiming the death at LaSalle Correctional Center in Olla in April 2024 was preventable More than two years after Anderson’s death, a legal battle over getting information surrounding it rages on. On the other side of that fight is Louisiana’s largest private jail operator, LaSalle Corrections. Greg Schafer, an attorney for the company recently argued before a federal judge in Alexandria that the records sought by Anderson’s family don’t belong to the company named in the lawsuit.

The attorneys for Anderson’s family say Schafer’s legal position highlights the company’s complicated corporate structure.

Though they say the numerous companies connected to the private jail look the same, are registered to the same address and have the same leadership, LaSalle’s attorney counters that the company is “not conceding that there’s similar ownership.” Regardless, he said, the companies named in the suit are not in possession of the evidence being sought.

Anderson family attorney Stephen Weil, citing other lawsuits over medical care, told the judge that the “not party” argument is a tactic often used by LaSalle to delay proceedings and make itself a moving target.

“It is hard to figure out which exact company is doing what in all these places,” Weil told U.S. District Judge Jerry Edwards Jr “LaSalle uses that to its advantage.”

LaSalle’s attorneys did not respond to a request for comment.

A website for LaSalle Corrections details various services at detention facilities in Louisiana and other southern states. Louisiana business filings show 22 companies each a separate LLC, or limited liability company — registered to the same Ruston address and registered agents as LaSalle Corrections. Several individual government contracts list more than one of those LLCs as being involved in the scope of work.

The private jailer also operates several ICE detention facilities in Louisiana

Lawyers for Anderson’s family argue LaSalle profits by routinely hiring “untrained, unlicensed correctional officers and low-level nurses” and discourages employees from transporting inmates to clinics or hospitals, which can be costly

“LaSalle’s provision of inadequate medical care is driven by the greed of its owners,” they wrote Anderson’s death

Anderson was arrested March 3, 2024, in Houston for allegedly possessing methamphetamine

Through a contract with LaSalle, Harris County shipped Anderson to LaSalle Correctional Center in Olla to be housed as he awaited trial

Attorneys for Anderson’s family say between 6 a.m. on April 2 and 8 p.m. on April 3, Anderson suffered numerous seizures

Images from the jail’s security footage — now filed into the court record over those two days show Anderson alone and at times unresponsive on the cell floor At one point, he clutched the arm of a guard who entered to assist him and curled into a ball in a wheelchair when

staff later were removing him.

Despite being placed under medical observation after a seizure around 6 a.m. on April 3, the lawsuit says, he was provided no medical care during another seizure around 5 p.m. later that day

According to the suit he would again have seizures at 5:41 p.m., 7:05 p.m., 7:35 p.m. and 7:47 p.m.

Guards asked nursing staff to have him taken to a hospital but were told no, the lawsuit says.

Lawyers for Anderson’s family say the jail’s leadership was contacted about sending Anderson to the hospital, too, but Assistant Warden Smith refused to authorize it.

The only treatment from the medical staff was to give him Zoloft, a prescription antidepressant they argue.

Around 8:03 p.m., Anderson again began to convulse, vomit and lose consciousness.

A LaSalle correctional officer “laughed as she stood over an unresponsive Mr Anderson,” the lawsuit says. “At the same time, officers were attempting unsuccessfully to locate a pulse on Mr Anderson.”

Ten minutes later, a lieutenant called an ambulance. Paramedics arrived minutes later and began giving him chest compressions, attorneys say

Around the same time, the jail’s health services director who is not a doctor said Anderson was “faking his symptoms” and told staff she had “evaluated Mr Anderson earlier that day, that he was

fine, and that he was going to stay up all night having seizures,” the lawsuit says.

For minutes, officers could not locate a pulse on Anderson, according to the timeline laid out in the suit

About 23 minutes after he lost consciousness, as paramedics continued to give him chest compressions, the facility’s medical director again told staff not to send him to the hospital, Anderson’s family says.

It is unclear who eventually determined Anderson should be taken to the hospital, but the plaintiffs say at 8:29 p.m., he was loaded into an ambulance while paramedics continued to give him chest compressions and was taken to Hardtner Medical Center — less than a mile down the road.

At 8:59 p.m., Anderson was pronounced dead.

Other inmate deaths

The attorneys for Anderson’s family argue the death wasn’t an isolated incident of neglect but rather a result of “policies or widespread practices within LaSalle.”

The lawyers have another case in the same court against LaSalle for a death in the same facility last year

Erik Carlson, 29, contracted strep throat after arriving at the Olla facility in January 2025, his family says. He had a swollen throat the size of a golf ball, developed a severe fever and began coughing up blood, attorneys argue, so his bunkmates tried to get him medical attention.

But LaSalle staff told them that over-the-counter medicine was available for him to

purchase from the commissary, the lawsuit claims. He was dead eight days later

The cause of Carlson’s death, according to his autopsy report: strep throat.

In 2019 at a LaSalle facility in Texas, Franklin Greathouse, 59, reported having a seizure to the staff, who accused him of faking it, attorneys claim. He died later the same day, says a lawsuit related to his death.

Last year a federal jury in the same court hearing the Anderson case awarded more than $40 million in a separate case against LaSalle.

The verdict stemmed from the death of Erie Moore Sr., a 57-year-old man held on misdemeanor charges in 2015 at LaSalle’s Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe. At trial, Moore’s family claimed he experienced a mental health crisis, and after guards repeatedly beat him, LaSalle staff failed to provide him medical care — and he died of his injuries.

‘The right corporate entity’

In Anderson’s case, LaSalle’s attorneys deny the companies named in the suit — LaSalle Correctional Center LLC, LaSalle Corrections LLC and LaSalle Management Company LLC — bear responsibility for the man’s death.

Schafer, LaSalle’s attorney, also argues the cases involving other LaSalle prisons are irrelevant to the issue of the adequacy of medical policies because each of those facilities is registered to different LLCs.

“Each correctional facility

is owned and operated by a separate LLC,” he said. “I’m sorry, those LLCs are not parties to this matter.”

Earlier this month, LaSalle appealed the verdict that ordered $40-million be paid in Moore’s death. The jury had found that Richwood Correctional Center and LaSalle Management Company LLC “were a single integrated enterprise.” In line with arguments being made in the Anderson case, LaSalle’s lawyers told the appellate court that the jury incorrectly found the two companies were one, calling evidence to support that argument “superficial” and “insufficient”.

Anderson’s family is seeking LaSalle records related to the Olla facility, including an inmate roster at the time of his death and documents related to the jail’s medical operations.

Even if LaSalle had ownership of those records, Schafer argues, those materials would be too difficult to produce.

“They’re in rural Louisiana, they do not have a centralized computer system; many documents are handwritten,” he told the judge in the recent hearing. “This would be overly burdensome.” In April, LaSalle filed motions to have the Anderson lawsuit dismissed before trial, arguing the plaintiffs cannot produce evidence that shows LaSalle Corrections “had any involvement in the events” related to the inmate’s death.

Part of the judge’s decision is expected to depend on whether the various LaSalle-affiliated LLCs should be treated as legally distinct companies or as a single, integrated operation.

“They don’t say exactly what each corporation does in a very complex system all operating out of this Ruston headquarters,” Weil, the attorney for Anderson’s family, argued in court. “Can these folks just sit here and just say, ‘You know, this man died, but you didn’t exactly name the right corporate entity, and therefore you’re out of luck?’”

Email Patrick SloanTurner at patrick.sloanturner@theadvocate.com.

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

A new trial date has been set for the three suspects accused of collaborating to drug and rob French Quarter tourists, a scheme that authorities say led to the death of a Kansas City sports reporter who traveled to New Orleans to cover the 2025 Super Bowl.

Danette Colbert, 49, Rick-

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purchases Construction is expected to take about 16 months.

‘Critical company’

Loop Linen was founded in 1929 by Julius Sandras Sr and Webster Terrebonne

— Burke’s wife’s grandparents — initially as a laundry and dry cleaning service. In the nearly century since, it has expanded into corporate linen and uniforms rentals, serving some 1,700 clients, including restaurants and hospitals, in Louisiana and Mississippi.

Today, annual revenues exceed $20 million.

Burke said he initially considered moving the business outside of Jefferson Parish and was looking at sites in Tangipahoa Parish and Mississippi. He credited Jefferson Parish Council member

ey White, 35, and Christian Anderson, 34, had been scheduled to stand trial July 6 on charges of manslaughter and racketeering in the death of 27-year-old Adan Manzano.

But the trial was delayed until Sept. 14 following a joint continuance requested during a hearing Thursday before Judge Nancy Miller of the 24th Judicial District Court.

“Can we try this case, please?” a frustrated Miller asked the attorneys present. “Can we have no more continuances, please?” Manzano was a sideline reporter for KBKC-TV, the Telemundo affiliate in Kan-

Deano Bonano with convincing him otherwise.

Among the incentives

Loop will receive for its new facility are a $350,000 grant from the Jefferson Parish Council and a $500,000 infrastructure grant from Louisiana Economic Development

“This was a critical company for us to retain right here in Jefferson Parish,” said Jerry Bologna, CEO and president of the Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission. “As we grow this parish, this area specifically is our last frontier.”

The company originally announced plans for the new facility in October 2023 and had hoped to break ground in early 2025. But delays were caused by infrastructure challenges, Burke said Wednesday Conversations with the state to secure the grant funding also pushed back that timeline, according to

sas City, and came to New Orleans with a team of coworkers for Super Bowl LIX.

After missing a meeting on the morning of Feb. 5, 2025, he was discovered dead in his hotel room at the Comfort Suites in Kenner Manzano, who had been out with colleagues in the French Quarter the night before, died of asphyxiation while lying face down on a pillow due to the combined toxic effects of alcohol and Xanax, according to the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Office.

Detectives with the Kenner Police Department determined that Colbert was

Bologna.

The facility is the latest of several new projects under construction or recently completed in West Jefferson. A few miles south of the new Loop Linen site, the Churchill Technology and Business Park in Westwego envisions transforming some of the only remaining undeveloped land on the West Bank into a 480-acre mixed-use campus.

In April, JEDCO announced it secured $9 million in funding for the New Orleans Food and Beverage Incubator, which will be housed on the Churchill campus. The project intends to help local food entrepreneurs scale their businesses.

Earlier this year the $45 million John Alario Jr Youth Sports Complex opened, also in Westwego, promising to generate opportunities in the growing sports tourism sector

the last person seen with Manzano, having met him in the Quarter and driven him back to his hotel. She was seen on video entering his room and later leaving, police said. Authorities allege Colbert drugged Manzano before stealing his wallet and cellphone. She was later found to have his possessions, investigators said.

Colbert, White and Anderson are charged with running a criminal enterprise that similarly targeted tourists. The trio allegedly worked together to supply victims with alcohol with the

goal of stealing cash, credit cards, debit cards, jewelry and cellphones, as well as financial and bank account information.

Colbert and sometimes Anderson would directly target victims, though Anderson also acted as the enterprise’s “administrator,” providing technical support, authorities said. White is accused of serving as a “pimp” and providing the drugs used to knock out victims.

Miller on Thursday was supposed to preside over a motion to sever White’s case from those of his co-defen-

dants. White’s attorney, Leo Callier III, wrote in a motion that his client and Anderson, specifically, have “antagonistic defense.”

Most of the evidence against White comes from Anderson’s statements to authorities, Callier wrote, and a trial together would deny his client the opportunity to confront and cross-examine Anderson. The hearing to consider White’s motion to sever is now set for July 22.

Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate. com.

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The widow of Jaleen Anderson, an inmate who died in April 2024 at LaSalle Correctional Center in Olla, has sued the facility, claiming his death was preventable.

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Obituaries

Anderson,Linda 'Louise'

Linda"Louise"Ander‐son, alifelongresidentof NewOrleans andthe De‐sire community area,was born on December 29, 1956 andentered eternalreston Sunday,June 7, 2026 at the ageof69. Lindaattended George Washington Carver High School.Beloved com‐panion of Carl Spencer. Loving mother of Kendra (Robert) Jones, Jeanne and JuanitaAnderson. Sister of PhyllisDavalie,Eleanor and Brenda Anderson Lindawas adevoted grandmother, Godmother,

aunt,cousinand friend Shewas preceded in death by herparents,Juanita Johnsonand BenGordon; son, KendronAnderson andgreat granddaughter A'sani Apparicio. Allare in‐vitedtoattend aHomego‐ingService honoring the life andlegacyofthe late LindaAndersonatGentilly BaptistChurch,5141 Franklin Avenue,New Or‐leans,LA, on Saturday, June 27, 2026 at 11 am.In‐termentProvidenceMemo‐rial Park Cemetery.Visita‐tion 9aminthe church Please sign online guest‐book at www.charbonnetf uneralhome.com. Charbon‐netLabat Glapion, Direc‐tors (504) 581-4411

Armstrong, LillieMae

Lillie MaeArmstrong wasborn April 6, 1949inSt. Francisville, Louisiana.She was the oldest childborn tothe late Johnson Armstrong Sr. and Alice Smothers Armstrong. Lillie Maeaccepted Jesus Christ in Septemberof1967. She was baptized bythe Late Rev. Lafayette Veal Sr at Rosedown Baptist Church inSt. Francisville, Louisiana.Lillie Maewas a 1968graduateofJohn S. Dawson High School.For more than40years, she faithfullyworked in food service for the New OrleansPublicSchool System. Shealsodedicated 30 yearstohospitality at the New Orleans Arena and the Superdome. Her greatest calling,however, was caring for others. She openednot onlyher home but also herheart,serving as adevoted foster parent to 15 children throughout herlifetime. LillieMae departed this life onMonday, June 15, 2026inBaton Rouge,LA. Sheleaves to cherishher wonderful memories, herloving children, Vidal Armstrong (Chiquita), of Baton Rouge, LA,ChadMcKinsey Sr (Joy),ofSlidell,Laand ChristopherArmstrong (Kirah), of Houston, TX ; eight grandchildren Ra'John Booth, Kiara Young, Jayla Curley,Chad McKinsey Jr, Christopher, Kwan, Marley,andMaryah Armstrong;One goddaughter and one god-son Schquandaand Dawine Smith. Three sisters, ShirleyWilliams (Isaac), Helen andMildred Armstrong. Twobrothers, Dwight Armstrong (Elaine) and John Fred Armstrong Alsocherishing these memoriesare her greatgrandchildren, relatives and friends. Lillie Maewas precededindeath by her parents,Johnson Armstrong Sr. and Alice Smothers Armstrong,two siblings FranciniaJones and Johnson Armstrong.

Brooks, PearlBrown

PearlBrown Brooks passedawayonJune15, 2026, at theage of 95. Mrs. Brooksissurvivedbyher children:PatriciaBrooks, ElvinBrooksand Joseph Brooks, Jr., grandchildren: Natashaand Joseph Stevenson(Carmen), Joshua Vanado,Ashley Guss Salebarria (Joey), Chante´Johnson (Robert) andTiffanyBrooks. Also survived by ahostofother relativesand friends. Pre‐cededindeath by herhus‐band Joseph Bernard Brooks, Sr., herparents FrankBrown, Sr.and Lillian Brown, siblings:RosePel‐lette,Delores Bell,Dorothy Flemings,Margaret Williams (Calvin),Frank Brown, Jr., Jesse Brown, Sr (Emma Lee) andAngelo Brown. Family andfriends areinvited to attend the CelebrationofLifeService on Saturday,June27, 2026, for10:00 a.m. at Christian Mission BaptistChurch, 1477 N. RobertsonStreet NewOrleans,LA. Visitation will beginat9:00a.m.Rev MorrisDaniels officiating. IntermentwillfollowatMt. Olivet Cemetery,2050 CatonStreet,New Orleans, LA.Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins com(504) 282-0600. Linear BrooksBoydand Donavin

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Carter,Charles Leodis

CharlesLeodisCarter, of NewOrleans,LA, departed this life on Friday,June 5, 2026 at University Hospital in NewOrleans at theage of 52. He wasloved dearly by hissibling,nieces, nephewsand friends. All areinvited to attend hisfu‐neralservice on Friday, June 26, 2026atIsraelite BaptistChurch,2100 Mar‐tinLutherKingBlvd.,New Orleans, LA.The visitation will beginat10a.m fol‐lowedbyan11a.m.service officiated by Pastor Joseph Lee. Entombment will fol‐lowinProvidenceMemor‐ialParkCemetery, 8200 Air‐line Dr., Metairie,LA. Fu‐neralplanningentrusted to Robinson Family Funeral Home.For online condo‐lences,pleasevisit www robinsonfamilyfuneralho me.com

Sherell AngelaCooper, age64was born on May30, 1962 departed this earthly home on Monday, June 8, 2026. AnativeofNew Orleans, Louisiana, she later located to DeSoto,Texas after Hurricane Katrina. She was agraduateofL.E. RabouinHighSchool in NewOrleans. She worked themajority of heradult life in the hospitality industryinNew Orleans. Her last job beforeher untimely death was her most fulfilling,asshe worked at her youngestgrandchildren's school,where she was able to spend more time with them. Sherell was thelovingwife of Troy Cazenave. Beloved daughterofPhillip Clay and Frances Lutz (Gino). Loving motherofAlcide, Billie, QianaCooper, Thaddeus and Shanta Hardy, and Toya Cazenave. Devoted sisterofJoelCooper and Tabitha Lutz. Precious godmother of Kaylen Saunders. Sherell was a wonderful grandmotherto 7beautiful grandchildren, Altoine and AltonTaylor, Ryan Burkhalter, Jr., Brilen, Raylan, Ryder, and Fayola Cooper. She was also survivedbya host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, family and friends.She was preceded in death by her beloved son, BillieCooper. Relatives and friendsof thefamily are invitedtoattend theCelebrationofLife Service on Saturday, June 27, 2026 at Gertrude GeddesWillis Funeral Home, 2120 Jackson Avenue,New Orleans, LA 70113 at 10:00 a.m.

Visitationfrom 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Interment HoltCemetery,527 City ParkAvenue,New Orleans, LA 70119. You may sign the guest book on www.gertru degeddeswillis.com. Gertrude GeddesWillis Funeral Home, Inc., in charge (504) 522-2525.

Dempster,Marvin J. Plumbers & SteamfittersLocal 60: Funeral services were recently held for BrotherMarvinJ Dempster, Sr. at Falgout Funeral Homes,Raceland, LA.Byorder of Jacob R. Newton, President Attest: RonaldR.Rosser, Business Manager

Ferdinand, Bernice Frances'Granny'

Bernice“Granny” FrancesFerdinand,a loving wife,a caring mother,a doting grandmother, great grandmotherand greatgreatgrandmother anda loving sister enteredeter‐nalrestonJune 16, 2026. Shewas 97 yearsold.Ber‐nice,bornonMarch 9, 1929, attended St.Mary’s Academy, B.A. from Do‐minicanCollege andher MastersfromUNO.She wasa retiredSpecial Edu‐cation teacherwith theOr‐leansParishPublicschool system.Extraordinary min‐isterfor St.Raymond/St. LeoChurch.She taught CCD at St.Raymond’s church.A member of KPC Ladies AuxiliaryCourt 78. Member of theAltar Soci‐ety, therosarygroup,and SmartSet Social andPlea‐sure Club for66years.She lovedtocook,shop, read andtravel. Berniceleaves behind herson Delfeayo FerdinandIII, (Cheryl) ,sis‐terBerthaAnn Fredericks 6granddaughters, 13 great grandkids, 2great great grandkids, 4godkids,a host of nieces and nephewsinCaliforniaand here in NewOrleans,a host of cousinsand friends. Ber‐nice wasprecededin deathbyher loving hus‐band Delfeayo Ferdinand, Jr sonGlenn Ferdinand, dear greatgrandparents John andBerthaAuld, grandparents Joseph and AliceAubertRobinson,her mother HildaFredericks, stepdadJohnFredericks, father Joseph Francesand siblings AngelFredericks Robinson andJohnFreder‐icks,Jr. Celebrationoflife will be held at St.Ray‐mond/St. LeoChurch on June 27,2026 at 11:00 am Visitation 9-11 am.Rosary at 10:00. Ladies Auxiliary procession at 10:15.Re‐marks/Tributes at 10:30.In‐termentwillfollowatSt. Patrick'sCemetery#1. Please sign online guest‐book at www.charbonnetf uneralhome.comInlieuof flowers, make adonation to Sistersofthe Holy Fam‐ily. Charbonnet Labat GlapionFuneralDirectors (504)581-4411

CaptainPaul (Tud) Hight,age 90, passed away peacefully in Crump, Tennessee. CaptainHight was preceded in deathbyhis parents, Will and Devora Hight; his siblings, Bettye Jean, John, Joann, and Sam; and his first wife MetaHight

He is survivedbyhis belovedwife of 31 years, CherylHight;his children Debbie, Rodney (Donna) and Paula(Vance); his grandchildren, Austin (Korey), Jessie,and Meta (Kenny); and his five greatgrandchildrenMurphy, Cooper, Hayes, Chandler Paul and Francesca.

Robert HunterJr. earned hiswingsonSunday, June 21, 2026. Anativeof Barataria, Louisiana, and a resident of Houma, Louisiana. He was thehusband of GlendaLaSalle Hunter. Father of three, bonus father of 1. Grandfather of 6. AFuneral Service willbeheldon Saturday, June 27. Viewing from 9AM-11 AM Service at 11 AM at Greater St John B.C at 2823 Privateer Blvd.Barataria, Louisiana 70036

Fannie MaeSmith Jack‐sonentered herHeavenly restingplace on Friday, June 12, 2026, at theage of 90. Shewas acaringand devotedmothertoDiedra JacksonWilliams, Ronald (Lisa) Jacksonand thelate Edward JacksonJr. She wasthe proudgrand‐mother to twolovely granddaughters,Na’Arah Jacksonand EdlasiaJack‐sonand onegreat-grand‐son, XamirR.Duncan. She wasalsoanaunt to Mathila (Alton)Prejean of Carencro,La.,Aristide (Clarissa)WilliamsofNew Orleans, La andAndreaM Williams of Atlanta, Ga Shewas preceded in death by herbeloved husband of 58 years, Edward “Red” Jackson, Sr heroldestson Edward Jackson, Jr., her parentsWesleyB.Smith andMarthaMelancon Smith, andher siblings Willie B. Smithand Lucille S. Williams andher godson AaronB.Franklin. Sheis also survived by ahostof nieces,nephews,cousins otherrelatives,and friends. Fannie leaves be‐hind alegacyoffaith,hos‐pitality,generosity, andun‐wavering love that will continue throughher fam‐ily, friendsand allwho were blessedtoknowher Relativesand friendsofthe family, also Pastors, Offi‐cers andmembers of Stronger Hope andPente‐cost BaptistChurches Em‐ployees of OrleansParish School Board(R.T. Daneel Elementary School), OchsnerHospitaland CMC Construction Services are invitedtoattend the Homegoing Celebrationon Saturday,June 27, 2026, at Stronger Hope Baptist Church,2401 SouthGalvez Street,New Orleans, LA 70125. Officiating: Rev. Nicholas K. DereounSr. Pastor.The visitation will beginat9:00a.m.followed by thefuneral serviceat 10:00 a.m. Intermentwillbe at Providence Memorial Park andMausoleum Arrangements entrustedto TheBoydFamilyFuneral Home,5001 Chef Menteur Highway, NewOrleans,LA. Forguestbook andonline condolences, please visit www.anewtraditionbegins com(504) 282-0600. Linear BrooksBoydand Donavin D. Boyd Owners/FuneralDi‐rectors.

AldonHughJames was born on February 14, 1953, in Gretna,Louisiana,tothe loving union of thelate PatrickJames,Sr. and Margie Knight James. He wasthe youngestofthir‐teen children born to this union andwas dearly loved by hisfamilythroughout hislife. On Saturday,June 13, 2026, at 7:30 p.m.,Aldon peacefully transitioned from this earthlylifeinto eternalrestwhile under thecareofOchsnerMed‐ical Center,surrounded by theloveofhis children and familymembers.Although ourheartsare heavywith sorrow,werejoice in know‐ingthatheisnow at peace in thepresenceofthe Lord Aldonwas preceded in deathbyhis parents; his belovedsiblings, Godfrey James, Monroe James, OscarJames,MargieRose,

HelenCrawford, Audrey Cooper,Charles James, Sr PatrickJames,Jr.,Glynn James, Sr.; andhis cher‐ishedgranddaughter, Alexis Nele James. Aldon received hisearly educa‐tion at McDonough#27 El‐ementary School and Gretna MiddleSchool be‐fore graduating from West JeffersonHighSchool.He laterattended Southern University at NewOrleans Throughout hislife, Aldon wasknown forhis strong work ethic, spirit,and un‐wavering devotion to his family. Family wasAldon's greatest joyand most trea‐suredblessing. Aldon shared alifelongbondof love,friendship, andmu‐tual respectwithTheresa L. Evans, thecherished mother of hischildren. From theirunion were born twobeloved children,Tana Jamesand AldonHugh James, Jr., who remained a constant source of pride, love,and joythroughout hislife. He wasalso blessedwithdaughters Mi‐randala Lemon(Lorenzo) andKiljuana Bouiewhom he loveddearly. Aldontook greatpride in theaccom‐plishments of allhis chil‐dren andfound immeasur‐able happinessinspending time with hisgrandchil‐dren andgreat grandchil‐dren.His love forfamily wasevident in everyas‐pect of hislife, andhetrea‐suredevery opportunityto create lastingmemories with thoseheloved most AldonacceptedJesus Christ as hisLordand Sav‐ioratSt. Paul Missionary BaptistChurch.Helater became afaithfuland ded‐icated member of The Hope of GloryChurch under theleadershipofDr. W. RonWalkerand First Lady AlvisL.Walker. As a committed servantofthe ministry,hefaithfully served on thechurch's Se‐curity andMaintenance Teams, always willingto lend ahelping handwher‐ever needed.Profession‐ally,Aldon devotedover twenty yearsofservice as aTransportationSpecialist with Hope Center,Inc., where he touchedcount‐less livesthrough hisdedi‐cation andcompassion. Followinghis retirement in June 2025, he remained fondly remembered by col‐leaguesand friends. He also worked forGretnaAn‐imal Hospital and Zatarain's,earning there‐spectand admiration of thosewho hadthe privi‐lege of workingalongside him. Apagehas turned,a chapterhas ended, anda life well-lived hascometo apeacefulclose.Though Aldonwillbedeeply missed, hislegacyoflove, faith,kindness, andservice will live on in theheartsof allwho knew him. Cherish‐inghis memory andcele‐bratinghis life arehis lov‐ingchildren: Tana James (Eric, Sr.),Aldon Hugh James, Jr., Mirandala Lemon(Lorenzo),and Kiljuana Bouie; hisbeloved grandchildren, Darius Evans, EricaWills,Tanneka James, Eric James, Jr AldonHughJames III, Ala‐siaHaileyJames,Kamron Nolan, McKaylaNolan,Kori Lundsey, LorenzoCarto Jose Carto, Jordan Carto, andAnaya Carto; andhis treasuredgreat grandchil‐dren,Bella Noiedand DantaWills,Jr. He also leaves to cherish hismem‐oryhis devotedsisters Marian Steiband Marva Magee(Lavoise);his life‐long friend,TyroneArm‐stead; anda host of nieces, nephews, cousins, church family, friends, andother relativeswhose liveswere enriched by hispresence. Though he hasdeparted from oursight,Aldon's love,wisdom, andgentle spirit will remain foreverin ourhearts. "Welldone, thou good andfaithfulser‐vant Relativesand friendsofthe familyare in‐vitedtoattendthe funeral serviceonFriday, June 26, 2026 at Thompson Temple C.O.G.I.C.,1515 Whitney Ave.,Gretna, LA.70053. The visitation will be from 9 a.m. until 9:50 a.m. Only, followed by a10a.m.ser‐vice.Entombmentwillfol‐lowinMcDonoghville Cemetery also in Gretna Funeralplanningentrusted to Robinson Family Funeral Home.For online condo‐lences,pleasevisit www

Jackson, Fannie MaeSmith

Cooper, SherellAngela

Hight, PaulHayes 'Tud'

James, AldonHugh

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Johnson, Brian Vernon

Brian Vernon Johnson departed on June 6, 2026, hewas born on February 16, 1950, to Marguerite Delia Young and Lloyd JohnsonSrand was raised by his stepfather Carlie Young Sr. He leaves his sons, Damon Johnsonand Milton "Woody" Daigs (Jenny Daigs); his sisters, Barbara Young,Pecola King, and Cheryl Stern; a host of grandchildren nieces, nephews,godchildren, relatives, and friends.Funeral services will be held on Saturday, 27, 2026 at Resurrectionof our Lord Church 9701 Hammond St, NOLA 70127; visitation from 9am-10am with mass to follow.

Ronell “Roo” Johnson, a visionarymusician, global icon,and devotedservant of God, peacefully entered into eternalrestonJune 14, 2026, at theage of 49.A native of Marrero, LA,born on September23, 1976, Ronell shared hisdivine gift of musicovera career spanning four decades, earningtwo Grammy Awardnominations and performing in over 200 countries. He wasa proud graduate of theNew Or‐leansCenterfor Creative Arts (NOCCA), Dillard Uni‐versity, andSouthernUni‐versityNew Orleans, where he earned hisBachelorof MusicDegree. He also at‐tended McDonogh #32, L.B. Landry,St. Augustine, and O. Perry Walker.Heissur‐vivedbyhis belovedwife of 15 years, Rachel N. WoodsJohnson;three brothers,ErnestJr. (Patri‐cia),DarrylSr. (Sharon), andSteven“Coolbone” (Jill)Johnson;his in-laws, Mr.and Mrs. Ferdinandand CarolynCarr; brother-inlaw, Joel (Felacia)Woods; anda host of aunts, un‐cles,nieces, nephews, cousins, andglobalfans. He wasprecededindeath by hisparents,ErnestSr. andMarionAnderson Johnson, andhis father-inlaw, JamesWoods. Apublic Celebrationofhis Life and Legacy will be held on Sat‐urday, June 27, 2026, at City Church of East Lake,13123 I-10 ServiceRd.,New Or‐leans, Louisiana70128. Vis‐itationwillbeheldfrom 8:00 am to 9:45 am,fol‐lowedbythe serviceat 10:00 am.BishopOwenMc‐manus Jr,officiating. Inter‐ment will follow at Rest‐lawn Cemetery.Guestbook Online:www.anewtraditi onbegins.com (504) 2820600. Linear Brooks Boyd andDonavin D. Boyd Own‐ers/FuneralDirectors

Founding Co-Chairofthe Appellate Practice Committeeofthe New Orleans Bar Association, before retiring as aPartner Emeritus. Beyond his legal achievements,Jonathan was deeply committed to civic and charitable service.Hewas amemberof the boards of the American RedCross (Southeast Louisiana), Tulane University Medical Center (president), WYES-TV (president),Friends of the Stables in Audubon Park, New Orleans Friends of Music(president), Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra,and New OrleansOpera Association, as well as being amember and board member of Mardi Gras krewesand social organizations. He was marriedtoJane W. McCall, who died in 2016, and is survivedbya son, JonathanC.McCall,Jr. (Sara)and adaughter, AlstonM.Nelson (Tim); and by six grandchildren, Alexander, Coalter,and Zoe McCall, and Evelyn, Emmett, and Jonathan Nelson. He spent his retiredyears as adedicated father and grandfather, attending numerous soccer, hockey and lacrosse games, as well as squash and tennis matches. There willbea private family burial,followed by a gathering of remembrance and celebration on July9th at the New Orleans Lawn Tennis Club. The family requests that any memorial contributions be made to the McCallFund at the Greater NewOrleans Foundation.

Itiswith heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Clifford McGraw. Clifford departed this world on June 17, 2026, at the ageof82. Born on August11, 1943, in New Orleans,LA. Cliffordwas the cherished son of Leslie and JoyceLiversand waspredeceasedbyhis devoted parents, his beloved grandmother Gladys Smith, his sister Patricia Livers, and his brothers Leslie Lee Livers and Excell Livers. Despite these profound losses, Clifford remaineda pillar of strength andcompassion forhis family

He leaves behind alegacy of loveand resilience, survivedbyhis adoring daughter Latosha Miller (Sherman), who werethe lights of his life. Clifford's loveextendedtohis sisters Montrelle Farness (Errol), Burdette (Clarence),his brother Irwin Livers (Deloris),and his dear Aunt Beverly Caldwell. Cliffordwas a proud grandfathertothree grandchildren and agreatgrandfather to threemore, each of whom brought immense joytohis days. He was atreasured uncleto threenieces and five nephews, and held dear his extended cousins. The family wishes to extend their heartfelt gratitude to Clifford's caregivers, whosecompassion and dedicationprovided comfort anddignity in his final days.

In accordance with Clifford swishes,a private ceremony willbeheldto honorhis life and legacy.

Though Clifford has left this earthlyrealm, his spirit livesoninthe heartsof those he touched. Rest in peace,dear Clifford, as youjointhose who havegone before you in eternal serenity

vine culinary skills have been elevatedtonew heights.

Leslielived life to the fullest, cherishing every dayasa precious gift.He grew intoa man whose passions forhis family spreading joythrough laughter, and preparing gourmetmeals were fully realized.Known affectionately as "Big Les," he was aculinary maestro.Raised under theculinary tutelage of his family at the renowned ChezHelene Restaurant in NewOrleans' historic7th Ward,Leslie absorbed alifetimeofsecret techniques and sacred family recipes He leaves behind his belovedwife,Orleanna Spears Nailer, withwhom he had shared abeautiful 30-yearmarriage. He is also survivedbyhis father-in -law, FreemanSpears, Sr and hisbrothers-in-law, Antoine Spears, Sr and Frederick Spears.

He is preceded in death by hismother, Bernadine LeslieNailer, his father Wallace Nailer,his aunt, Glenna LeslieHarrellBurgess, his legendary uncle, ChefAustin Leslie, his maternal grandmother, RubyDeJean LeslieJohnson, his mother-inlaw, Sullivan AnnBailey Spears,and his brother-inlaw, FreemanSpears,Jr Homegoing Service will be held on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at theCorpus Christi-Epiphany Catholic Church (2304 St. Bernard Ave, NewOrleans, LA 70116). Visitation,Rosary Obituary, and Family Eulogies willbeperformed from9:30AM to 10 AM. The Mass of Christian Burial willfollow from10AMto 11 AM. 2243.

Nelson, Gleneace Artis Watkins

Gleneace Artis Watkins Nelson, age 99, departed her earthly life on Wednesday,June 17, 2026. She was precededindeath by her husband, Benjamin F. Nelson, Jr.; her sons, BenjaminF.Nelson, III, Elton G. Nelson,and Frederick O. Nelson. She leaves to cherish her memoriesher children: Charles E. Nelson, Betty A. Nelson, AdamR.Nelson, Denise B. Nelson, Grady A. Nelson, and Hilary M. Nelson.Also grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, great-greatgrandchildren, other relatives, and friends. Funeral servicewillbe on Saturday,June 27, 2026, at PilgrimBaptist Church, 2114 Rev. Richard Wilson Drive, Kenner, LA 70062. Visitation:9 AM, Funeral 10 AM; Rev. MitchellJ Stevens, Sr., Officiant Interment:St. Charles BorromeoCemetery, 13396 RiverRd.,Destrehan, LA 70047. Burial preparation entrusted to Richardson Funeral Home of Jefferson, 11112 JeffersonHwy., River Ridge, LA 70123. (504) 469-

Reginald "Reg"Parker, born in NewOrleans, LA. December 14, 1964, passed away peacefullyonJune 15, 2026. He leaves to cherish his memory his mother and father, Eunice &St. James Parker Jr.; daughters Khloe Alivia Parker& Yasha Clark; sisters Angela (George) Simms and Melissa (Steve) Boudreaux and ahost of extended family members, lifelong friends,and all those blessed to havecrossed paths with him. Familyand friends are invitedtoattendthe funeral service on Saturday, June 27, 2026, 10: 00 a.m. at Morning Star Missionary Baptist Church, 6339 Providence Place, New Orleans, LA 70126. Visitation at 9:00 a.m.

Delores Eleanora Payne, age86, of NewOrleans, Louisianapassed away on Monday, June 15, 2026. She was born on September 12, 1939, in Woodville, Mississippi, to LulaPayne Toliverand James Irvin Delores willberememberfor herwarmth, generosity,and devotion to her family.Over theyears, she builta life centered on faith, family,and service to her church community Relatives and friend of thefamily are invitedtoattend aFuneral Service at Second True Love Baptist Church, 2530 S. Robertson St.New Orleans, Louisiana 70113 on June 27, 2026 at 10:00am. Visitation willbeginat9:00am. Interment: LakelawnMetairie Cemetery.Arrangements entrusted to D.W.Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave.New Orleans, LA.Pleasevisit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign theonline guestbook.

Harold Ramson,Jr. departedthis life on Friday, June 6, 2026, at his residence in NewOrleans,LA. He was69, anative of New Orleans, LA. Amemorial service will be held on Saturday, June 27, 2026, at Wesley United Methodist Church, 101 Dr.Martin Luther King Dr Napoleonville,LAat 11:00am. Arrangements by Williams &Southall Funeral Home, 5414 Hwy1 Napoleonville,LA70390. (985) 369-7231. To sign the guest book or offer condolences, visit ourwebsiteat www.williamsandsouthall funeralhome.com.

ErienDelores Scott, af‐fectionately called “Dee”, beganher life journeyon December 17, 1949; in Inde‐pendence,La. Erienwas a loving andkindsoulwho departed this life on June 4, 2026, at RiverbendNurs‐ing& Rehabilitation Center in BelleChasse,La. She was76years old. Deeisthe daughter of thelateAn‐drew Scottand Emma Jean Taylor.She enjoyedlife with hersiblings, Ethel,Joe Ann, Barbara, Faye,and Donald.She wasblessedto be amother figure forher niece, Angela Taylor.She worked as achief in vari‐ouscitiesthroughouther life before retirement.Dee is preceded in deathbyher loving parents, Andrew Scottand Emma Jean Tay‐lor; herlovingsisters,Ethel McGrew,Joe AnnWillis, andFayeTaylor; her nephew Andrew McGrew; andher beloveddaughter, AngelaTaylor. Sheissur‐vivedbyher sister,Barbara Taylor,and herbrother Pastor Donald C. (Lady Shana) Williams.Nieces: Carla(Vince) Chaney,San‐dra(Kenny) Barnes,Shan‐non(David) Hensley, Cha‐sity (lateWillie) Manning, Joyana Williams,AsiaNay (Christian)Magee, and Markia Meyers.Nephews: Derrick(Eureka)Taylor, AnthonyTaylor, and Michael(Kianna)Williams. Sheisalsosurvived by a host of great-nieces,greatnephews, andother rela‐tives. Celebrationoflife services were held on Sat‐urday, June 20, 2026, at

JesusisLordEvangelist Ministries,located at 1728 HancockStreet,Gretna, LA 70053, at 11 a.m. Visitation beganat10a.m.withPas‐torDonaldC.Williamsoffi‐ciating,

In Loving Memory of Fer‐dinand “Boone” Charley ShezbieIII, age63, who passedawayonJune 9, 2026, at OchsnerHospital Main Campus in NewOr‐leans, Louisiana. Born on February 13, 1963, in New Orleans, Louisiana, he was thebeloved sonofthe late FerdinandC.Shezbie,Jr. andEthel Mae“Newton” Shezbie. He wasraisedin NewOrleans andgradu‐ated from G.W. Carver Se‐nior High School.Hewas a devotedhusband,father, grandfather, brother, uncle,and friend whose life impacted many.He shared 31 yearswithhis wife CynthiaWalkerShez‐bieand lovedhis children andgrandchildren deeply Ferdinandworkedasa truckdriverfor CoastalEn‐vironmentaland CBSOut‐door Systems. He lovedthe NewOrleans Saints,Peli‐can’sbasketball, and spending time with family andfriends.Ferdinand leaves to cherishhis mem‐ory: hisdevoted wife,Cyn‐thia Walker Shezbie; daughtersAngela-Marie Walker,Nicole-Nickeya (Frank)Harvey, Tikita (Ken) Williams,and LaQuita Davis; He wasprecededin deathbyhis parents, Ferdi‐nand C. Shezbie, Jr.and EthelMae “Newton”Shez‐bie; andhis son, Thomas M. Walker.Funeral Services will be held on Saturday June 27, 2026, with viewing at 9:00 a.m. andservice at 10:00 a.m. at Living The Word International, 2528 OldSpanish Trail, Slidell, LA.Pastors Lawrence,Sr. andChiquitaWeathersby, Officiating. Intermentwill follow at Providence Memorial Park,Metairie, LA.Arrangementsare en‐trustedtoThe Boyd Family FuneralHome, 5001 Chef MenteurHwy NewOr‐leans, LA 70126. Guestbook Online:www.anewtraditi onbegins.com (504) 2820600. Linear BrooksBoyd andDonavin D. Boyd Own‐ers/FuneralDirectors

Parker, Reginald'Reg'

ShezbieIII, Ferdinand Charley'Boone'

Scott, ErienDelores 'Dee'

Johnson,Ronell'Roo'

Payne,DeloresEleanora

McGraw, Clifford

McCall, Jonathan Christopher Jonathan

Nailer, Leslie DeJean

OPINION

Redistrictingfightshighlight pitfalls of partisanship

Iserved two terms in the Louisiana House of Representatives as an Independent. Being amember of the “no party” party gave me aunique perspective on the legislative process. Ioften joked that there “ain’tnoparty like no party,” and the line usually got alaugh. But there was truth behind the humor.Free from party expectations, Iwas able to evaluate legislation based on its merits rather than whether it came from Republicans or Democrats. That perspectiveisone reason Act 2ofthe 2026 RegularSession concerns me.

Joe Marino II GUEST COLUMNIST

Much of the public debate has focused on who benefits from Louisiana’snew congressional map and whether the district lines are fair.Those are important questions. But Ibelieve they distract from a larger problem that has plagued our politics for years. The real problem is partisanship.

Duringmytime in the Legislature, I attended caucusmeetings and worked alongside members of both political parties. What Iobserved was often frustrating. Toomuch energy was spent

maintaining party unity, counting votes and protecting political advantages. Too little energy was spent listening to opposingviewpoints, finding common ground andbuilding consensus. Redistricting hasbecome aperfectexampleofthatmindset. Rather than viewing congressional maps as away to ensure fair representation,both parties increasingly viewthemastools to maximize political power.Every line becomes abattle. Every district becomes astrategy.Every election becomes afight over who cangainanadvantage before asingle vote is cast. That approachmay help political parties win elections, but it does little to strengthen democracy When districts becomeheavily Republican or heavily Democratic, the most important election often becomes the party primary rather than the general election. Candidates have less incentive to appeal to abroad cross-section of voters and greater incentive to satisfy the most partisan voices within their own party.Over time, compromise becomes moredifficult and politi-

cal polarization becomes more severe. The result is alegislature filledwith members who arerewarded for beingloyal Republicans or loyal Democrats rather than independent thinkers willing to work across party lines.

Iwitnessedthatfirsthand in Baton Rouge. Some of the best ideas Iencountered came fromRepublicans. Some came from Democrats. Neitherside had amonopoly on thebest ideas. Theyemerged when lawmakers were willing to listen to one another andfocusonsolvingproblems rather than scoring political victories

Unfortunately,the current redistricting debate sends the oppositemessage

Many Louisianans look at theconstant legalbattles, shifting district linesand partisanmaneuvering and conclude that politicians are choosing their voters rather than voters choosingtheir representatives. Whether that perception is entirely fair is almost beside thepoint. Public trust depends on people believing theprocess is fair,transparent andnot constantlymanipulated forpolitical gain.

Whenthattrust erodes, cynicismgrows. Citizens disengage.Voter participation

WhyIsupport N.O. schools andchoosethemfor my child

For the first time since Katrina, the Orleans Parish school district earned a“B” from the state on its District Performance Score, or DPS. More than 90% of schools scored aB or above during the 2024-2025 school year

declines. Confidenceingovernment weakens. As someonewho servedoutside thetwoparty system,itisdisappointing to watch both parties continue to treat redistricting as apolitical weaponrather than an opportunitytostrengthenpublic confidence in ourinstitutions. Fairrepresentation should matter more than partisanadvantage. Public trust should matter morethan gaining or protecting aseat in Congress. Louisiana deserves better than another round of political warfare over district maps.Weneed leaders who are willingto place thelong-term health of ourdemocracy ahead of short-term political gains. The goal of redistricting should notbe to help oneparty win. It should be ensuring that voters have confidencethattheir voices matter andthatelectionsremain competitive,meaningful andfair. Withoutthattrust, no map will ever be good enough.

Joe Marino II is aformer member of the Louisiana House of Representatives, where he served as chairman of the House Administration of Criminal Justice Committee.

N.O.,Colombiahit right notes, even beyond music

Julienne LouisAnderson GUEST COLUMNIST

This much-needed good news comes at atime when many Orleans Parish public schools are subject to closing due to low enrollment,financial concerns or both. But even as agraduate of New Orleans public schools, I don’tthink the good news will be enough to increase trust in the schools across the city.

As atoddler mom navigating pre-K and kindergarten options, Ispend countless hours weighing school choices for my daughter, preparing for open enrollment.After speaking with other parents, daycare providers and ourpediatrician, the advice was consistent: Aim for the top three schools or go private.

Even when Imentionedthe DPS growth, most remained unmoved. The numbers haven’tshifted their thinking.

This matters deeply to me. My mother servedonthe Orleans Parish School Board. I’ve taught acrossfour charter networks, and my husband was ateacher and administrator Together we vowed to send our daughter to thecity’spublic schools. Public perception of New Orleans public schoolshas suffered polarization over the past 20 years. Former President Barack Obama lauded advancements, while former President Joe Biden went on the record saying he disapproved of the charter school landscape.

This echoes parents’ sentiments. And with success measures like school and district performance scores constantly changing, public confidence hasn’tkept pace withthe growth.

There’sadisconnect between what parents expect, the role of elected and appointed officials and the realities inside schools. And when all stakeholders disagree on what successlooks like, the path toequitableand desirable education becomes uncertain. Take The Leah Chase School for instance. Old-school New Orleanians revered the return of adistrict-managed public school. But within ayear,the school and district leadership were under fire and threatened to close the school duetolow enrollment.With support from students’ families, Leah Chase remains open.

Many are confused about why parents fought so hard for the school. Leah Chase received aDgrade from the state. And across thecity,only the third graders at Leah Chase Schoolare at risk of being held back if they

cannot read at grade level.

Theschool is also in massive amounts of debt.

Andyet, its families believe in thecause.

It’sbecause they understand that success is not relegated to political markers. They believe,like Ido, that avast majority of public schools also provide aqualityeducation.

Theymay be in theminority.

WhenIask other parents which schools they’reselecting for open enrollment and why,many cite “academic preparedness.”

Theoretically,aBschool, or those on the way, would be viable. Yetfamilies, with and without means, who don’treceive their choice opt out of the system entirely

Last year,this included morethan 500 prospective kindergarteners, even though there were morethan enough spots. Twoschools currently enroll fewer than 10 kindergarteners. When there aren’tenough filled seats, schools close.

I’ve taught in New Orleans classrooms.

AndIknow that while performance scores matter,perception matters more. The truth is thateveryschool has its own areas in need.

Enrollment trends and school success are shaped by bothperception and reality.

Recognizing this complexityisthe first step toward truly supporting Orleans public schools.

Quality exists in everyneighborhood and at every grade level.

As aparent and someonewithdeep roots in the city’s public schools, my daughter will be enrolled in public schools —and Isee plenty of options.

My hope is that we, as acommunity,reconsider thestories we tellourselves about public education, the teachers at theboards and the students in their seats.

Julienne Louis-Anderson is amother and former educator wholives in New Orleans

At this year’s Jazz Fest, Colombian singer Carlos Vives looked out at theFair Grounds crowd and sang what anyone from New Orleans or Barranquilla already feels in their bones:“La ciudad de Nueva Orleans se parece aBarranquilla yelvallenato al zydeco.” In English: “The city of New Orleansislike Barranquilla, and vallenato sounds like zydeco.”

The crowd roared. Because he was right.

Ernesto Fiocchetto

Far from histrionic flattery,the artist sensedthe sound of arelationship that has been quietly building for years —inmusic, in trade, in community —and one that Louisiana’sleaders should consciously choosetodeepen

New Orleans andColombia are bothmusical civilizations born at the crossroads of African, European and Indigenous traditions.

Jelly RollMorton even noted that withoutthe “Spanish tinge,” you could never get the right seasoning for jazz. That tinge lives on both sides of the Gulf —inthe syncopated second-line of NewOrleans and in the cumbia, vallenato and champeta of Colombia’s coast— because both drew from the same deep well of African andSpanish musical traditions Given the deep musical legacy,it should come as little surprise that Colombia is home to four UNESCO Creative Cities of Music:Bogotá, Medellín, Valledupar and Ibagué. In October,New Orleans received this designation and the announcement was made, fittingly,inBogotá. The networkisaready-made platform for artistic exchange, cultural collaboration and sharedadvocacy for living musical traditions.

The cultural diplomacy has alreadybegun. In 2024, the New Orleans Jazz &Heritage Festival named Colombia its featurednation, bringing over 175Colombian artists to its14stages for half amillionfestivalgoers.

That same year, Colombia’sChargé d’Affaires Daniel Avila visited New Orleans, met with the former mayor to exploresubnationalpartnerships, and convened aroundtable with the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce on tradeand investment opportunities. Jazz Fest also organizedcultural travel to Colombia itself.

Within New Orleans, the Aso-

ciación de Colombia en Louisiana hasorganizedColombiaNOLA Fest, giving Louisiana’s Colombian community ahome in the city’scultural life And while the culturalcase is compelling, the economic caseisequally powerful and considerably underappreciated.Colombia is Louisiana’s sixth-largest export partner accounting for$3.86 billion in trade in 2024 alone, making it more critical to Louisiana’s economy thanGermany,Japan or South Korea. The Port of New Orleans sits at the mouth of the Mississippi River, positioning it as the natural gateway for goods moving between Colombia andthe American heartland. Agricultural commodities, energy products andmanufactured goodsflow south; Colombian items flownorth. The infrastructure is alreadythere.The relationship simply needschampions and acomprehensive strategy At amomentwhenWashington is rethinking trade relationships acrossthe Western Hemisphere andlooking to strengthen ties with reliable partners, Colombia stands out. Despite some bumps in the relationship between the Trump administrationand the current Colombianpresident (who lost this week’s elections), it is astable democracy, along-standing ally and acountry undergoing significanteconomic transformation.

Louisiana,with its port infrastructure,its energy sector andits agriculturaloutput, is uniquely positionedtodeepen that partnership at the subnationallevel, city to city, port to port, festival stage to festival stage CarlosVivessinging about zydeco in the Fair Grounds; aColombian diplomat meeting with the mayor of New Orleans; New Orleansbeing namedone of UNESCO’sCreative CitiesofMusic in Bogotá: These are notcoincidences,theyare signals. The beat is alreadythere. Carlos Vivesheardit. The questioniswhether Louisiana’sbusiness andpolitical leadersare listening too, and whether they’re readytodance.

Ernesto Fiocchetto is ascholar and consultant focusing on theWestern Hemisphere.

GUEST COLUMNIST

The Leah Chase School on South Carrollton Avenue in NewOrleans

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio,right, and StevenButler,charged’affaires ad interim of theU.S.embassyinKuwait, attend a flag-raising ceremony at the embassy amid Rubio’svisit to the Middle East to discuss theinterim deal between the U.S. and Iran with Arab Gulf allies,inKuwaitCity, Kuwait, on Wednesday.

ISSUE OF THE WEEK IRAN DEAL

When President Donald Trumpannounced that the U.S. and Iran had reached adealtoend the warand open theStrait of Hormuz,hereleased fewdetails. It’sclear that much remains to be negotiated.Trumpsaysthe deal will prevent Iran from ever getting anuclear weapon, amain goal of the administration. But Iranian officials say no agreementhas beenreachedonmonitoring of the country’snuclear sites. Similarly, the sides appeartobe at odds on what a$300 billionreconstruction fund for Iran would payfor.Trump has sentenvoystothe region to ironout these differences. Butsome arelookingatwhat the president promised at the startofthe warand asking whether it was worthit. Did the U.S. achieve its objectives in Iran? Here are twoperspectives:

Iran deal renews question: Wasthe warnecessary?

It is perhaps the most fundamental question of the Iran war.Ifthe goal of the war was to prevent Iran from acquiring anuclear weapon, and if theU.S. attack of June 21, 2025, either obliterated or substantially damaged Iran’snuclear facilities, and if additional targeted bombing couldhavefinished the job of destroying those facilities, why was it necessary for the U.S., along with ally Israel, to goto full-scale war against Iran at the end of February 2026, targetinga broad range of targets, assassinating thecountry’ssupreme leaderaswell as other key figures and setting off further war and an economic debacle that may or may not be resolved by the currentpeace negotiations? Why not just destroy Iran’snuclear capabilities, keeping the option to strike again if, or when, Iran madeprogress reconstituting them? It’sa question President Donald Trump and top administration officials have never fully answered. After the 2025 bombing,Trumpfamously said that special U.S. bunker-buster bombs had “obliterated” Iran’snuclear facilities. There followed immediate intelligence leaks suggestingthat was nottrue. Onesuch leak said thebombing had set back Iran’sprograms just a short time, perhaps as little as threeto six months. Other assessments saidithad been set back one or two years. Trump has neverbacked down from the “obliterated” assessment. Andat the time, SecretaryofState Marco Rubio stressed that, in addition to all the other damage ithad done, the U.S. had destroyed Iran’sability toperform something called “conversion,” which is akey part of theprocessofmaking anuclear weapon. Finally,the head of theInternational Atomic Energy Agency said theattack had done “enormous damage” tothe Iranian program. So that is success, right?The goal was to keep Iran from buildingorobtaining a

nuclear weapon,and theJune 2025 U.S. strike set them back along way.And yet just eight months later,inearly 2026, some in the administration were suggesting that the Iranian danger hadreturned in full force or nearly full force.

President Donald Trump andVice

In the early days, theWhite House listed four reasons for starting the war: “1)Destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles and production capacity; 2) Demolish their navy; 3) Endtheir ability to arm proxies; and 4) Prevent them from ever obtaining anuclear weapon.

What had been theNo. 1reason for the war slipped to No. 4. For his part, Rubio began expressing theview that Iran’s missiles werethe key target because the country was trying to produce so many missiles that it could effectively createa shield for its nuclear development.

Later, as the war settled into astalemateand the Strait of Hormuz became an overwhelming issue, President Trump began to return to what he called the main issue: preventing Iran from having anuclear weapon Of course, theU.S. could have kept Iran from having anuclear weapon with far less extensive actions than thosethat marked the first weeks of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Trumpfocuses on the notion that Iran will “never” have anuclear weapon,but there is no single action anyone can take to ensure that.

Whoknows what is going to happen years from now? Given that, it appears the best approach would be to simply make sure Iran remains along way away from acquiring anuclear weapon. If it getstoo close in the future,the U.S.can take action again. That is not thecourse theTrumpadministration chose. So now,aspeace talks go on, the fundamental question about thewar —was it necessary? —remains unanswered.

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President JD Vance spent mostoflast week trying to convince Americans the“Memo of Understanding” (MOU) with Iran is agood deal for theUnited States and world peace. That’snot what Iran believes.

Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of the founder of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,has hailed theMOU as amajor “victory” for Tehran. The “greater jihad” would now begin, he promised, according to aspeech aired by Iranian state media last week. Youread that correctly The greater Jihad. To some, this might sound like the same propaganda we have heard from Iran since thestartofthe president’sbombing campaign (“War is peace,” wrote George Orwell in his novel “1984”inwhich he creates “Doublethink,” the act of holding two completely contradictory beliefs in one’smind at the same time, and accepting both as true).Inthis case, the Iranians appear more believable than the administration.

conditions of the agreement between Iran and the United States, the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed until these conditions are met.All ships are requested, forthe sake of their security and safety,not to approach the Strait of Hormuz. Any vessel that defies this directive will be targeted.” Trumpand Vance have said Iran will get nothing from the MOU or any subsequent peace until they meet our conditions.

LastFriday,adelegation headed by Vance that was supposed to go to Switzerland to sign the MOU, delayed thetrip after reportsthat Iran had closed theStrait of Hormuz, blaming Israel’srefusal to leave Lebanon andthe ongoing presence of U.S. forces in the region. Conflicting statementsabout the status of the Strait compounded the confusion. The formula for Iran, which has worked forthem in thepast, is that they demand everything and the U.S. thinks it can appease those who want to destroy Israel andusbygiving them more than we get. Here’show they think, as expressed in astatementread over maritimeradio channels by theRevolutionary Guard Corps, now,apparently,put on hold, at least temporarily: “Since Israel’swithdrawal from Lebanon, thecomplete lifting of the naval blockade, and the withdrawal of American terrorist forces from the Persian Gulf and the region are among the main

If the Strait is closed again, gas prices will go back up and stocks will go back down. And the midtermswould again look problematic forRepublicans, not that Democrats could do any better Writing last week on Truth Social before the latest developments, the president again displayed his gift of overstatement and name-calling: “These fools, who think Ihaven’tbeen tough enough on Iran, when the Stock Market just Hit ARECORD HIGH, and Oil prices are ‘tumbling’ down, are either jealous, bad people, or stupid.” Without the deal, he wrote, “the alternative would be aworldwide depression.” At anews conference, the president, noting aWall Street Journal editorial, seemed to admit that the Iranians had him over abarrel —ofoil. If he had fought on, he said, the market “would go downatlevels that nobody ever saw before, maybe except for1929. …Sorather than possibly going into adepression, rather than having your favorite president be Herbert Hoover,hewas always the one Ididn’twant to be.” Once again, it’sall about him and not the greater good. What to do now?The president has said repeatedly that if Iran refuses to live up to the MOU,hecould start bombing again. If previous bombing didn’twork, what will morebombing achieve? What amess.

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Robert "Jack" Devon Stinner peacefully de‐partedthislifeonWednes‐day,June 3, 2026,atWest Jefferson Hospital at the age of 69. He wasa native ofMeridian, Mississippi and alongtimeresidentof Harvey, LA.Beloved hus‐bandofVeronicaJoseph Stinner.Son of Herman Jones andthe late Martina Stinner.FatherofBianca, Leianca,and Tiffany Josephand Margot Cole Grandfather of Keith HamptonJr.,Moses Law‐son Jr., Jermaine PayneJr., LondynJones andParis Joseph. Greatgrandfather ofKhari Hamptonand Kha‐lamiLawson. Brotherof HermanShelby. Son-in-law ofElder LindaTriggs.Jack isalsosurvivedbya host ofother relativesand de‐voted friends. Relatives and friendsattendedthe funeral serviceonSatur‐day,June 20,2026, at Fisher Community Church,lo‐cated at 1737 LB Landry Ave., NewOrleans LA 70114. Thevisitationbegan at8:30a.m.followedbya 10a.m.service officiated byBishopJames Nelson Brown. Intermentwas pri‐vate. Funeralplanningen‐trusted to Robinson Family FuneralHome. Foronline condolences,pleasevisit www.robinsonfamilyfuner alhome.com

Tarsney, Mary Rose Constantino

MaryRose Tarsney (nee Constantino) died on June 20 just three days following her 90th birthday. She was surrounded by loved ones. Mary was born and raised in Independence, Louisiana.Asa young woman,she earned a bachelor's degree from Southeastern Louisiana Universityand amaster's degreeineducation from Loyola University in New Orleans.She then moved to NewOrleans to begin her teachingcareer that spanned more thantwo decades.Mary'steaching careerincluded the following institutions: Westwego Junior High, Jefferson Junior High, East Jefferson High School,Riverdale High School, Archbishop Chapelle High School, RETS Technical School, Louisiana Vocational Technical School, and Louisiana State Program forAdults.Her passion was teaching businesseducation. During those two decades of teaching, Mary met and married thelate Donald Joseph Tarsneyin 1963.Don and Mary's marriage of 51 yearswas blessedwith adaughter Natalie Ann Tarsney. Mary's favoritecareer move began in 1994 when she became aloving, nurturing, and attentive grandmother. Survivors include daughterNatalie and son-in-law Thomas Leach of Milwaukee, WI Grandchildren include AndrewTarsney Leach, Timothy O'DonnellLeach and wifeJane Leach, and Daniel Constantino Leach. Great-grandchildreninclude Marley and Malcolm Leach. Mary and Don were founding parishioners of St. Benilde Church in Metairie, Louisiana.A Mass willbecelebrated at noononMonday,June 29 at St. Benilde Catholic Church, 1901 Division St., Metairie.Visitation will start at 10 a.m.Burialwill be private. Lake Lawn

Metairie Funeral Home overseesarrangements.

Rev. PearlRuthTurner Thomas, 93, entered eternal rest on June 6, 2026. BornOctober 5, 1932, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, to Rev. Abraham and Esther Mae McCrury Turner, she devoted her life to faith, family,and service. Agifted musician, she served as pianist and choir directorinseveral AME churches. After moving to NewOrleans in 1955, she became afaithful member of Union BethelAME Church and laterPayne Memorial AME Church. Called to ministry in 1984, she was ordained a Local Deaconin1987 and a Local Elderin1991 and served as an Associate Minister at Payne Memorial AME Church until her passing. She is survivedbyseven children, one sister, numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, greatgreat-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends. Funeral serviceswere held in celebrationofher life and legacy at Payne Memorial AME Church on Saturday, June 20, 2026.

Pastor Robert Walker Jr.,entered eternalreston Tuesday, June 16, 2026, at

theage of 91. He wasa na‐tiveofUtica,MSand aresi‐dentofMarrero,LA. Robert was aretired self-em‐ployedcontractor. He was the pastor of Love and Faith Outreach Ministries Beloved husband of Evan‐gelistJonnieWalker. De‐voted father of Dewayne Walker, BruceWalker, Daryl Walker,TonyWalker, Danny Andrewsand the lateMichael,Robert Charles,and Barbara Walker. Sonofthe late RobertWalker, Sr and MaryD.Anderson. Brother ofthe late Ruby,EllaMae Anniebelle, Alice, andBer‐nice. Robert is also sur‐vived by 13 grandchildren, 37great grandchildren, 2 great greatgrandchildren, and ahostofnieces, nephews,cousins,other relatives,and friends. Rela‐tives andfriends of the family, also pastors, offi‐cers, membersofCross Community Church,and all neighboring churches are invited to attend theCele‐bration of Life at Cross Community Church,3233 AmesBlvd.,Marrero,LAon Saturday, June 27, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. ApostleDarren Williams,officiating. Visi‐tationwillbegin at 8:00 a.m.until servicetimeat the above-namedchurch Interment: Woodlawn Park MemorialCemetery-West‐wego, LA.Arrangementsby Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St Gretna,LA. Toviewand sign theguest‐book,pleasegotowww davismortuaryservice.com.

ChesterWebbIII was bornonJanuary 30, 1967, in New Orleans, LA.Hede‐partedthislifeonJune 2, 2026, at theage of 59 in At‐lanta,GA. He worked as a ChefatSean’sCanlerPark. Heenjoyed eating,cook‐ing,hockeyand he loved the Saints.Precededin death by hissisterLisa Webb. He leaves behind his parents ChesterWebb, Sr andEthlynWebb, siblings

Melvin Webb (Cindy), RobertWell(Willanier), DoraWhitfield, andCoanna Lawrence. Also survived by his nieces andnephew Taylor& RileyWebband RonaldStalks. Thefamily would like to thankSean Germain andthe Little Candler Park Communityin Atlanta,GAfor alltheir help. Family,friends,coworkers of TheLittleCan‐dlerParkand Sean Ger‐mainare allinvited to at‐tenda Memorial Serviceon Saturday, June 27, 2026 for 1:00p.m.atThe Boyd Fam‐ily FuneralHome, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy.,New Or‐leans,LA. Visitation will begin at 12:30 p.m. Inter‐mentisprivate.Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditi onbegins.com(504)2820600. Linear Brooks Boyd and DonavinD.BoydOwn‐ers/FuneralDirectors

Lloyd“Leroy” Wells was bornOctober 10, 1954 and hedepartedthislifeonFri‐day,June 19, 2026. Father of the oneand only daughter Kai LatashaWells,ex-hus‐bandofTroyLynnButler, brother of JohnnieWells Jr Alsosurvivedbya host of nieces, nephews, cousins, sister-in-law andother rel‐ativesand friends. Rela‐tives andfriends arein‐vited to attend theMemor‐ial ServiceonSaturday, June 27, 2026 at 10:00 am at First Zion MissionaryBap‐tistChurch, 1221 Causeway Blvd.,Jefferson,LA. Apri‐vateburialwillbeheldat ProvidenceMemorialPark. Funeralplanningentrusted toRobinsonFamilyFuneral Home. Foronlinecondo‐lences, please visitwww robinsonfamilyfuneralho me.com

Betti Jeanne Williams entered eternalrestat WestJefferson Medical CenteronJune 9, 2026, at the ageof65. Shewas a nativeand resident of Mar‐rero, LA.Betti wasa gradu‐ate of John EhretHigh School Classof1978, and Northeast LouisianaUni‐versity in 1983, where she receiveda Bachelor of Sci‐enceinPharmacy. Shewas employedasa pharmacist withWestJefferson Med‐icalCenter. Beloved motherofLeigh Annand LesleyWilliams. Devoted daughterofRuthJackson and thelateClarence Williams.SisterJanet (Travis)Demolle,Carl (Joan)Jackson,Sr.,Welton (Arleen)Williams, andthe lateFeltonWilliams. Niece ofKathleen (Danny)Ander‐son,Ollie Crawford,and James (Renell) Munford, Jr Betti is also survived by a hostofnieces, nephews, godchildren,Sorors, coworker’sother relatives, and friends. Relativesand friends of thefamily, also pastors,officers,members ofSecondHighway Baptist Church,Mt. PilgrimBaptist Church,and allneighbor‐ing churches;Sororsof ZetaPhi Beta Sorority,Inc are invitedtoattendthe Celebration of Life at Sec‐ond HighwayBaptist Church,1533 Haydel Dr., Marrero,LAonSaturday, June 27, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. PastorJosephJohnson,of‐ficiating. Visitation will begin at 8:30 a.m. until ser‐vicetimeatthe abovenamed church.Interment: Woodlawn Park Memorial Cemetery-Westwego, LA ArrangementsbyDavis MortuaryService,230 Mon‐roe St Gretna,LA. To view and sign theguestbook, pleasegotowww.davismo rtuaryservice.com

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Ex-UL catcher Lucroy excelled in bigleagues

Editor’snote: This is one among 12 profiles of inductees for the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame Class of 2026. Festivities will take place through Saturday in Natchitoches.

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Contributing writer

It’sbeen agood handfulofmonths for Jonathan Lucroy

In August, the former Major League Baseball All-Star catcher gotthe phone call fromthe Louisiana SportsHallofFame thatlet himknow he wouldbehonored withthe state’s highestathleticaccoladethis summer Less than twomonths ago, he was back at UL’s Russo Park,where the ex-Ragin’ Cajuns standoutcatcher received thatprogram’s greatest honor withthe retirement of his No 21 jersey During that same time frame, he was selected as the top catcherfor the MilwaukeeBrewers duringthe organization’snearly60yearsofexistence. And this past spring, thehigh school baseballteam he coaches at Grapevine FaithChristian School nearDallas had asurprisingly successful .500 season with ayoung roster

“Only tworeturning varsityplayers,” Lucroysaid.“We willbegood next year.” That isn’tasurprisetoanyone who knows theEustis, Florida, native,since his passion for baseball isrivaled only by his drive to succeed at whatever level the game takes him.

All in all, an excellent fewmonths. But still not as good as his summer of 2014, when he was thebest catcher in baseball. The numbers back it up in abig way Thatseason, his fourthinthe major

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his two-run home run against the Cincinnati Reds during a spring traininggame on March 27, 2015, in Goodyear,Ariz.

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Ayear before Michael Ruzic knew he would take his basketball talents to BatonRouge, he mentioned which former LSU player he enjoyed watching The 7-foot, 221-pound Croatian big was asked at the 2025 NBA Draft combine who he models his game after.The first name he said was former LSU standout and current Charlotte Hornets players Naz Reid, who was traded to Charlotte from Minnesota on Thursday

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Knicks center Robinson fetedbycommunity that helped shapehim

Mitchell Robinson wore a New York Knicks NBA championship cap when the day started Thursday

Butwhen St.Bernard Parish president Louis Pomes giftedRobinson acowboy hat,heswitched to it and wore it therestofthe day.For the7-foot Knicks center they call “Big Country,” the cowboy hat seemed more fitting.

Robinson was in Chalmette, away from the hustle and bustle of the Big Apple and back in the place so near and dear to his heart

Robinson’scustom orange-and-white monster truck cruised down Judge Perez Drive in Chalmette on Thursday, just like it did aweek ago on world-famous Broadway in New York City.

This time, thestreets weren’toverflowing with people like at theKnicks’ victory parade. But that didn’tmatter as Robinson’shigh school coach Butch Stockton remindedusearlier in theday “I don’tthink there will be 2million people, but you will see abunch pf proud people,” Stockton said.

For the citizens of Chalmette, there wasplentytobeproudofasthey welcomed their NBA champion back to his old stomping grounds.

Mark Ashby of Chalmette wore aRobinson Knicks jersey to theparade.

To play like Naz Reid, (a) very overall versatile player,” Ruzic said. “He’sable to space thefloor put the ball on the floor,attack on the perimeter,one-on-ones. And also on defense, he’sgot really good length and getting up to defend multiple positions, which is very valuable in today’sbasketball.” Before Ruzic likely tests the NBA draft watersagain, he’ll play next season for Reid’sformer collegecoach,WillWade.

“Mitch made me aKnicks fan,” Ashby said. In Chalmette, acitywhoseentire population could almostsqueezeinto Madison SquareGarden, pretty much everyone’s aKnicks fan these days.

The 11/2-mile parade fittingly ended at Chalmette High School, where Robinson electrified fans during his junior and senior seasons after moving here from

The 19-year-oldarrives at LSU withexperience in Spain’sLiga ACB, which is widely considered thethird-bestprofessional league in the world behind theNBA and EuroLeague. In 35 games for Joventut, Ruzic averaged 6.9 points, 4.2 rebounds, 0.7assists and 0.7blocks in 18.1 minutes per game. He shot 57.3% from thefield and 35.9% from 3. NBA evaluatorswereintrigued by Ruzic ayear ago because of his shooting potential for his size and age. Since debuting in theACB at 17,hehas consistently flashed touch from theperimeter

Pensacola, Florida.

Thursday washis day,from the free annual basketball camp he held forthe kids in the morning to the proclamations he received from St. Bernard Parish government officials in the afternoon to the parade that night.

Robinson just completed his eighth

Ruzic shoots comfortably from all areas of the arc. He often spaced the floor as apower forwardonthe wings or in the corners. His393-point attempts in 35 gameswere areasonable volume giventhe smaller role he had on ateam that included former NBA playersJabariParkerand Ricky Rubio. Hisjumper is repeatable, despite aslower release speed due to alonger windup thatbrings the ball from his waist to above his head. At 7feet,shorter defenders struggle to contest his shot. Wade should feel comfortable using Ru-

zic as apick-and-pop option and, in certain matchups, amid-post scorer Ruzic also displayed soft touch around the rim. When he wasn’t dunkinginopenspace,herelied on short push shots from 5-8 feet. Oneconcern is hisfree-throw percentage,whichwas 63.3% on 49 attempts. While Ruzic’sshootingdraws themostNBA attention, his passing is also appealing. Hissub-1.0 assist averageundersells his decision-making.

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GGreen in exchange forex-LSUstarReid, bevy of draftpicks

BY STEVE REED AP sportswriter

CHARLOTTE, N.C. LaMeloBall is the latest NBA star with anew home.

The Charlotte Hornets agreed to tradeBall, theirstartingpoint guard, and Josh Green to theMinnesota Timberwolves for former LSU powerforward Naz Reid, a 2033 unprotectedfirst-round draft pick, three first-round pick swaps and three future second-round picks, aperson familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Thursday

The person spoke to theAPon condition of anonymity because the deal, first reported by ESPN, hasyet to be approved by the league.

The three first-round pick swaps will be in 2028,2029 and 2030. TheHornets also getthree second-round picks in 2029, 2032 and 2033.

The Hornets quickly movedto agree on athree-year,$74 million contractwithnew projected starting point guard Coby White following the trade, the person familiar with the situation told the AP White, the all-time leadingscorer in North Carolina high school basketball history,averaged 15.6 points and three assists per game while shooting 39.1% from 3-point range last season for the Hornets after being acquired ina trade with the Chicago Bulls.

The 24-year-old Ball, the No. 3overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, had three years left on a five-year,$203.9 million designated rookie contract with the Hornets, which was afranchise record.

An All-Star in 2022, Ball has struggled with ankle and foot injuries duringhis career,but he played in 72 games last season and averaged 20.1 points, 7.1 assists and4.8 rebounds per game, helping the Hornets win 44 games before being blown out in theplay-in tournament by the Orlando Magic. Ball finished second in the league in 3s made last year with 272, one behind rookie teammate Kon Knueppel.

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tional offensive player,but his shortcomingsonthe defensive endwere at times asource of irritation for coach Charles Lee. Still, Ball’sabilitytocreate opportunities for histeammates off thedribble, his exceptional passing and knack for getting off 3-pointers —with shotsoften coming offone foot —via astepback move, make himone of the league’smostdynamicscoring pointguards But Ball was neverabletoget theHornets to the playoffs in his six seasons with theclub, with injuriesplaying arole. Before this season, Ball missed141 games over theprevious three seasons. This trade is expected to be included as partof the transaction in which Minnesotaagreed to

send Julius Randle to Brooklyn in adeal thatinvolved the Chicago Bulls, asecondperson with knowledge of the agreement told the AP It will create an NBA-record trade exception of nearly $41 million for theHornets

The deals cannot be finalized until July 6, when the league moratorium on such moves is lifted

It’s another blockbuster for the league, which has seen Giannis Antetokounmpo getting traded by Milwaukee to Miamifor apackage thatincludes Tyler Herro, a move that followed theRandle deal before thedraft Reid, 26, has spent allseven of hisNBA seasons withthe Timberwolves. After reaching the Western Conference finals in 2024 and 2025, the Timberwolves stagnated at times last season and were ousted in six games in the second round of the playoffs by therunner-up San Antonio Spurs.

President of basketball operationsTim Connelly hasnever been shy about aggressive pursuit of roster improvement,from the package of draft picks he sent the Utah Jazz in 2022 for defensive ace Rudy Gobert shortly after taking thejob in Minnesota, to the stunningtrade of franchise cornerstone Karl-AnthonyTownsto

theNew York Knicks twoyears ago.

To make this work, the Timberwolves had to give up one of the most popular players in theirhistory in Reid, the 2023-24 NBA Sixth Manofthe Year who would’vebeeninlinefor astartingspotafter the departure of Randle.

The6-foot-11 Reid, who went undrafted outofLSU in 2019, workedhis way into an excellent offensive player with ashooter’s touch from theoutside who has thequickness to get to the rim. Playingthroughashoulder injury this season, Reid appeared in 77 regular-seasongames while averaging 13.6 points and acareer-best 6.2 rebounds per game. Their five-game lossin2025 to theeventual champion Oklahoma City Thunder and their defeat by the Spurs lastmonth made clear to the Timberwolves that they’re notyet at thechampionship level they’vebeen chasing sincebuildingtheir roster around2020 first overallpick Anthony Edwards. Now they’ll have the third pick in that draft to playnexttoBall, oneofthe few remaining pure point guards in aleague that has evolved toward morevolume scorers serving as the primary initiators of the offense.

Bucksmuststart over aftertrading Giannis

BY STEVE MEGARGEE AP sportswriter

MILWAUKEE Giannis Antetokounmpo brought the Milwaukee Bucks back to relevanceand delivered the franchise its first title in half acentury as the most impactful player in team history Now the Bucks face the onerous challenge of retooling withoutthe player who carried the team on his broad shoulders for over adecade. The Bucks agreed on theeve of Tuesday’sdraft to send Antetokounmpo along with forward BobbyPortis to the Miami Heat in exchangefor Tyler Herro,Jaime Jaquez, Kel’el Ware and Kasparas Jakucionis. Milwaukee also got the No. 13 selection in Tuesday’s draft —they used it on Tennessee forward Nate Ament— along with afirst-round pick swap in 2030,first-roundpicks in 2031 and 2033 and asecond-rounder in 2033. The move leaves the Bucks without one of the most beloved figures in Wisconsin sports history.Milwaukee fans watched in awe as Antetokounmpo spent the last 13 seasons maturing from a skinny teenagerinto one of the top players on the planet.

Bucks coach Taylor Jenkins

understood this was apossibility when heaccepted the job in April after thedeparture of Doc Rivers.

“Naturally,wedid talk about Giannis, the entire roster,developmental pathways for everyoneyou know,moving forward,” Jenkins said during his introductory news conference lastmonth.

“Because from thecoaching lens, I’ve got to start formulating that, what we’re goingtodo, not just this offseason, but when we hit theground running, youknow,at thestart of training camp. So naturally,(we) talked about that. Had great dialogue,fulltransparency. Antetokounmpo hadspent his entire career with theBucks, who selected the 18-year-old from Greece withthe 15th pick in the 2013 draft. The nine-time all-NBA

Former TigersMackinnon, Sutton agree to NBA deals

TwoLSU basketball players from last season took steps in their pro careers after going undrafted on Wednesday Former LSUguard MaxMackinnon agreed to an Exhibit 10 deal with theCharlotteHornets, and forward MarquelSuttonagreed to play for the Sacramento Kings summer league team, according to reports from their social media accounts.

Mackinnon’scontract is aoneyear,minimum-salary agreement that is not guaranteed. New players on this kind of deal typically play in the summer league.

The6-foot-6Mackinnonwas the Tigers’ leading scorer last season, averaging 15.7 points as asenior The6-9 Sutton averaged13.1 points and 7.3rebounds last season.

Report: Nicholls’ Saddler named GLeague coach

Nicholls State men’sbasketball coach Tevon Saddler was named the head coach of the CapitalCity Go-Go, theG League affiliate of the Washington Wizards, according to areport by NBAinsider Michael Scotto.

Saddler,aMaryland native, has coached at Nicholls for thepast three seasons, compiling a54-46 record. He led Nicholls to backto-back 20-winseasons, which included avictory at LSU in 2023, in his first twoyears. When Saddler, 31, wasnamed the Colonels’coach in 2023,hewas the youngest DivisionIhead coach in the country Before coaching at Nicholls, Saddlerwas an assistant at Maryland andMcNeeseState.Saddler wasalso aplayer at Nicholls.

WNBA suspends Thomas for hittoClark’sthroat NEWYORK TheWNBAsuspended Phoenix forwardAlyssa Thomas forone game after she made contact with her fist to Caitlin Clark’s throat in Wednesdaynight’s matchup against Indiana. It happenedwith 6:52 left in the second quarter andwas deemed to be anon-basketball act. The league gave Thomas aFlagrant Foul 2 penalty for it. No foul wascalled on the play by officials.

The WNBA is allowed to review agame to reclassify aflagrantfoul or to classifyasflagrantany foul not called as such during agame. Thomas will serve hersuspensiononSaturdaywhenthe Mercury visit the Toronto Tempo. The Fever renewed their call for playersafety in astatement Thursday

Lions CB Arnoldcharged with directing attack

DETROIT Terrion Arnold of the Detroit Lions wascharged Thursday in Florida with leading aplot to detain and pistol-whip three peoplewhomhebelievedhad stolenluxurygoodsand $100,000 in cash from him It turned outthatthe three, including Arnold’spersonal driver, had nothing to do with the theftin February,investigators said. Twopeople charged alongside Arnold have pleaded guilty in the attack andagreed to cooperate with authorities, records show

forwardleads theBucks in virtually every career statistical category,including points, rebounds, assists,blocks, games and minutes. He won MVP awards in 2019 and 2020. Antetokounmpo cameback from aknee hyperextensionin the2021 playoffs to earn NBAFinals MVP honors while scoring 50 pointsinthe title-clinching Game 6victory over the Phoenix Suns. Antetokounmpo, 31, hadsigned multiple contract extensions to stay in Milwaukee and play in one of theNBA’s smallest markets. He was so appreciated forhis loyalty that amural of him—531/2 feet high and 561/2 feet wide —appears on the side of athree-story building in downtown Milwaukee. Plenty of fans stopped by that mural Tuesday to pay homage to Milwaukee’sdeparting superstar. Someleft mementoes, including a Sports Illustrated commemorating the Bucks’ 2021 titlethat included this message:“Thanks for everything, big fella!34forever —Milwaukee.”

“I’m at alossfor words,” said Danny Nelson of Delafield, Wisconsin.

“I still don’tthink it’sreal. He was everything to the city.It doesn’tfeelreal that he’sgone.”

Three men in their late teens were held at gunpoint,battered, pistol-whipped and robbed in aTampa apartment on Feb. 4, police said.It was threedays after Louis Vuitton bags andshoes,Rolex watches, a Bible, cash and more were reported stolen from Arnold at an Airbnb rental in Largo, Florida.

D’backs activateKepler after 80-game suspension

ST.LOUIS The Arizona Diamondbacksactivated outfielderMax Kepler from therestricted list on Thursday following his completionofan80-game suspensionfor testingpositive fora performanceenhancing drug.

Kepler,who signeda free agent deal with the Diamondbacks on June 7, hit .333 with two home runs in 10 minor league games. He was slated to hit fifth in the batting orderand playleft field forthe Diamondbacks against the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday night. Kepler was suspendedinJanuary forapositive test forEpitrenbolone, ametabolite of Trenbolone that’scontainedinsome products used in bodybuilding stores and has been used in products to promotecattle growth.

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Timberwolves center Naz ReidonApril 5in

2020 NBADraft. Reid went undrafted in 2019.

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Milwaukee Bucks forward GiannisAntetokounmpo walks offthe courtafter agame against Brooklyn on April 10 in Milwaukee. Antetokounmpo was traded to the Miami HeatonMonday.

Spurs, Thundergobig;freshmenenvouge again

BY BRIAN MAHONEY AP basketball writer

NEWYORK The San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder were thinking big. Darius Acuffand Mikel Brown might be amatchup to watch among smalls. Andthe one-and-doneera is far from done.

Thosewere some of the things that stood out from thetwo-day NBA draft in Brooklyn,which started with the Washington Wizards taking AJ Dybantsa on Tuesday night with the No. 1pick and continuedwith anumber of trades in the second round Wednesday night. Here are some things that stood out in between: Spursvs. Thunder

The Thunder had trouble with Victor Wembanyama in the Western Conference finals. The Spurs had trouble whenWembanyama wasn’tinthe game in the NBAFinals. Both teams took steps to address those big problems.

Oklahoma City took 7-foot-3 center Aday Mara from Michigan with the No. 12 pick. Chet Holmgren, the No. 2pick in 2022, struggled badly in the series that ended the Thunder’stitle reign, and the 260-pound Mara —the Big Tendefensive player of the year from Spain could provide more of thephysical presence they need.

“I’m excited to play against him, obviously, to play in theNBA,” Mara said about Wembanyama “But Ifeel like I’m going to play againsthim alot. If it’snot NBA, it’s goingtobeonthe national team.”

The Spurs fell to the New York Knicks in five games in the NBA Finals and Wembanyama at times looked exhausted, perhaps over-

was selected first in consecutive years. The one-and-dones have regained their place in abig way.The first eight picks were collegefreshmen matching therecordset last year, as were nine of the top 10 to match another record.

Knicks saving up

There was someskepticism when ownerJames Dolan said in an interview with WFAN Radio in New York that he wanted to avoid going into the second apron. After winningachampionshipfor the first time in 53 years, would the Knicks really not spend whatever it took for the best chance to repeat?

Time will tell, but they were cautious with the draft.

The Knicks traded back from their original No. 24 spot and eventually out of thefirstround entirely.Theycameintothe draftwith the No. 31 pick, the first spot in the second round. They traded back from there as well.

worked because the Knicks were dominating when backup Luke Kornet was in the game

Perhaps theycan handle Wembanyama’sbreaksbetter nowafter drafting6-9 Jayden Quaintance from Kentucky and acquiring the rights to Tarris Reed, the rugged big man who powered UConn to the national title game.

Sizing up guards

One of the pre-draft debates was who would go first when it came time for teams to start choosing among the smaller scoring guards in the class.

That momentarrived at theNo. 6

TuesdayinNew

Dybantsa brings big game,goals to Wizards

BY NOAH TRISTER AP sportswriter

WASHINGTON Before basketball became such abig part of AJ Dybantsa’slife, he was like anyother kid —growing up as afan of afictional superhero.

When he was about 5years old, his father bought him aSpiderMan basketball hoop thatwent on the back of his door

“I lovedSpider-Man growing up. So Ijust started shootingfrom my bed, started shooting from my bed with this miniature ball. Then Istarted playing in the YMCA leagues ended up falling in love with the game,” Dybantsa said “So Spider-Man is the reason why Ilove basketball.”

The Washington Wizardsare certainly glad Dybantsa took up the sport and committed himself to it. Twodays after taking the 6-foot-9 star out of BYU with the top pick in the NBA draft,the team introduced him Thursday at ahotel overlooking the Potomac River,about 11/2 miles south from where the Wizards play their home games.

“Nothing comes easy,but Iwant to be apiece of the puzzle that is part of the rebuild,” he said. “Obviously, Wizardsfanshave been waiting for along time.”

Thiswas thefirsttime the Wizards have picked first in the draft since 2010 when they tookJohn Wall. Dybantsa joins ateam that hasn’twon 50 games in aseason since 1979 —and more recently managed only 50 victories over the past three seasons combined.

One issue of uncertaintywas resolvedatthe news conference. Dybantsa wore No. 3incollege, butinWashington that belongs to Trae Young. Dybantsa will change to No. 4.

“Previously wore No. 3, but Iwas the No. 1pick,” he said. “Wantedto add those up, and we got four.” Dybantsa averaged 25.5 points per game in college, becomingthe

first freshman to lead thenation in scoring since hisnew teammate, Young, did it atOklahomain201718.

Washington fans will have a chance soon enough to see what Dybantsa brings on the court, but Thursday’s eventwas an opportunity to see thetype of person they’ll be investing so much hope in. Dybantsa was personable and confident,and he seemed eager to getdown to business. Thatmuch was clear back at the combine before the draft.

“It was like ajob. My dad was like, ‘This is your first job interview,’ ”hesaid. “Sowedecided to dress up. Iwenttoasuit and tie in every singleinterview.Media availability,that was in asuit and tie. SoIjust wanted to treat it like areal job.”

That made quite an impression on Wizards general manager Will Dawkins.

“It was apretty fun first introduction, justtolearn the maturity that he brings,” Dawkins said. “Weallowopportunities to ask questions. Sometimesyou getthe standard questionsfrom guys. We didn’tget that from AJ. He’sjust curious and mature and asked some really deep questions.”

Dybantsasaidheintends to graduate college, finishing his studies online,and he has big plans for how he can make adifference away from basketball. The 19-year-oldhas alreadystarted a foundation aimed at empowering young people

“My mom’sfrom Jamaica, my dad’sfrom Congo. We’re going to start off just sending 20 kids from there to differentuniversities,”he said. “Ifthat’suniversitiesinthe continent of Africa, if that’sdifferent universities in Jamaica, if that’suniversities in the States, we’re goingtotry that. But after those two, we’rejust going to expand allaround theworld. We just wanttohelpkidsall around the world.”

pick. The Brooklyn Nets wentwith Brown from Louisville.

There were arguments for Acuff over Brown, andcritics of thepick will only grow louder if Acufflooks like abetter pro.Hewentwiththe next picktoSacramento.

“I wasgoodwherever Iwent,” Acuff said. “It wasn’t likeabad reaction on it.”

Butthere was from those who felt like he had abetterbody of work in his season at Arkansas.

Both have shown explosive scoring ability. The 6-4 Brown set an ACCfreshman record when he scored 45 pointsinagame, making 10 3-pointers. But a back injury forced him to miss 14 games

Acuff averaged 23.5 points,

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Ruzic plays with an intuitive basketball feel, rarelyholding the ball longerthannecessary He’salsoastrongcutter,where he consistently moves intoopen pocketsofspace.

Hisscoringefficiency in a tough league is the product of clean looksfromroaming and cutting in the proper areas. That same awareness shows up on the glass. He improvedasa rebounder this season, grabbing 0.9 more offensive boards per game than in previous ACBseasons. Defensively,Ruzicgenerally makes thecorrect rotations. He

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NBA season, capping it off with theKnicks beating theSan Antonio Spurs in fivegames for the title. Thatwas almosttwo weeks ago.

“And it still hasn’tsunk in all the way,” Robinson said.

It’lltakeawhile,muchlikeit took the Knicks awhile to get back to thetop of theNBA mountain. This was their first titlein 53 years.

Afew days after winning the title, Robinson went to social mediawith asimplethree-word message.

“Parade in Chalmette?”

Officials in St. Bernard Parish made that wish come true, much to Robinson’sdelight.

“Just being back home is amazing,”hesaid. “I alwaysliketo come home and show some love. But to come back as achampion feelsawhole lotdifferent.” Robinson is much different now, too.

Thattall, lanky frame he had when he graduated in 2017 holds alot moremuscle now. And the quietkid that once gave oneword answers during interviews after Chalmette games is shy no more.

“A lot of media training,”Robinsonsaidwhile flashing asmile. “Over time, Igot morecomfortable being in that situation.Ihad to growupa lot. Going from here to the Big Apple is very different.”

Robinson adjusted just fine, though. He’sbeen with the Knicks longerthananyone else on theroster,but hisfuture is uncertainasheheadsinto the offseason as an unrestricted free agentfor thefirst time in hiscareer.Abig paydayisa sure thing.

“I’m just going to see what’s outthere andwe’llsee what happens,”Robinsonsaid

The market is in demand for Robinson’sskillset. Hisabilityto

thirdinthe nation, and led the SEC in scoring and assists. He was the SECTournament MVPafter leading Arkansas to the title.

One-and-dones

The one sure thing in theNBA draft for yearswas thatitwould begin with acollege freshman.

From 2010, when Washington took John Wall, to 2022, when Orlando selected Paolo Banchero, the No 1pick was aplayer who spent one year in college.

Thatended in 2023 when San Antonio took Victor Wembanyama

When Atlanta took fellow Frenchman Zaccharie Risacher withthe No. 1pick in 2024, it was the first time that an international player who did not play at aU.S.college

switches onto guards when necessary andcan contain some pro guards, though he tends to bend at the waist rather than sit in a lower defensive stance.

He’sslender, andhis roughly 7-1wingspanoffers only marginallength fora player of hisheight. Withoutsignificant strength or elite wingspan,he’s not yet agreat defender He didn’tplaycenterinSpain because he lacks upper-body strength. Whilehecan time blocks well, older bigs can back him downand get acomfortable shot. Skilled guards can create space andblowbyhim, too. Ruzic competes in pick-and-roll coverage,pressing up on guards andrecovering well to rollers If asked to switch against start-

First-round picks come with guaranteed salary slots, and high second-round picks are paid well. And theKnicks need to leave themselves as muchroom as possible if they wanttopay key role players such as Mitchell Robinson, Landry Shamet, Jose Alvaradoand Miles McBride.

They eventually left the draft with the Nos. 39 and 47 picks, Germanguard Jack Kayil and Vanderbilt forward TylerNickel.IfKayil ends up playing forthe champions, he said they will find aplayer with their type of mentality

“I think also one of my strengths is that Ilovewinning and Igive everything for that, and to comein this organization showsthat they also want winners,” Kayil said. “So Ithink it’sagood fit.”

ing-caliber SEC guards, he’ll more likely be at adisadvantage. Ruzic should be LSU’smost tantalizing NBA prospect because of his youth and skill for his size

Barring significant physical or defensive improvement, the Tigers are unlikely to start him over seniorKentucky transfer Mo Dioubate at power forward. Ruzic isn’tasstrong defensively,and his shooting may notoutweigh Dioubate’sadvantage in physicality andexperience. Still, Wade should have fun deploying Ruzicasastretch big who makesquick decisions and can help on the glass. If the Croatian pro adjusts to the college game faster than expected, he may even flash shades of Reid.

on Thursdy.

rebound andprotect the rim is coveted by teams all across the league. Hisvalue was seen in the NBA Finals. Robinsonwas guarding SpursphenomVictorWembanyama whenWembymissed a potential game-winning shot in Game 2. And it wasRobinson’s clutch rebound on aSpurs’ missed free throwthatclinched theseries in Game 5, setting off acrazy celebrationinacity that was starving for atitle.

Robinsonstayedinthe go in thedays thatfollowed. His itinerary included everything from an appearance on the “The Tonight Show” with Jimmy Fallon to that massive victory parade in LowerManhattan.

“That wasa hard week to sleep,” Robinsonsaid. “I probably got two hours (sleep) max that week. It was insane.That whole week was outrageous.”

Things were much more mellow ThursdayinChalmette,but Mitchell appreciated it just as much. He may be playing in a big city, but he’s asmall-town guy at heart.

“Justthe love andsupport they show here is unreal,” Robinson said. “Theyaccept me as one of their own.” AndRobinsoncontinues to give back. There were 175 kids

at his camp Thursday.

“I want to give these kids hope and allow them to embrace themselves,” Robinson said. “Get them away form that iPad alittle bit.”

Before Thursday’sparade started, Robinson signed autographs while sitting in the back of his monster truck. He sang along to the country music blaring in the background.

This was his element.

“I ain’tgoing to compare this to the oneinNew York,” Robinsonsaid. “NewYork wasjust toowild. Nobody went to work. It was 2million people there. This oneisn’tlike that. But we arestill going to have agreat time,though.”

After signing autographs, Robinson hopped onto afloat and rode in his second parade in eight days. This one didn’thave celebrities such as Spike Lee in attendance, and it didn’thave Alicia Keys singing “Empire State of Mind” at the end. But what it did have were some proud folks in Chalmette celebrating a7-footer wearing acowboyhat in the place that helpedshape him.

Robinsonshowedhis appreciationbyholding asign that read:“Thank You, Chalmette.” And Thursday,the city of Chalmette thanked him back.

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AJ Dybantsa, right, poses for aphoto with NBAcommissioner Adam Silver,left, after being selected by the Washington Wizardsasthe first pick of theNBA draft on

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Ecuadorstays alive, tops Germany

By The Associated Press

EAST RUTHERFORD,N.J.— Gonzalo Plata poked the ball past Manuel Neuer in the 77th minute, and Ecuador advanced to the knockout stage of the World Cup by rallying for a2-1 win over Germany on Thursday Germany,which clinched first place in Group Ewith victories in its first two games, went ahead on Leroy Sané’ssecond-minute goal. Nilson Angulo scored Ecuador’sfirst goal of the tournament in the ninth minute.

Plata, who took akick to the head when Germany scored its early goal, keyed Ecuador’sgreat escape after Pedro Vite’scorner kick was nodded on by Kevin Rodríguez. Neuer,the 40-year-old Germany goalkeeper who came out of international retirementfor the World Cup, was about the grasp the ball when Plata raised his left foot and with atoe put the ball into the net.

Pedro Vite of Ecuador celebrates Gonzalo Plata’s winning goal againstGermany during their Group Ematch on Thursdayin East Rutherford,N.J.Ecuador won2-1 to advance to the knocout round, while Germanyhad already clinched the group title.

Ecuadorcoach Sebastián Beccacece ran to the stands to celebrate. Ecuador finished third in the group with four points and advanced past the group stage for the second time, the first since around of 16 game in 2006. Germany’s winning streak was stopped at 11 games, one shy of the team record set in 1979-80. The four-time championswill play their round of 32 game Mondayat

Foxborough, Massachusetts, most likely against Paraguay,Australia or Sweden. Acrowd of 80,663 at MetLife Stadium that was mostly in Ecuador’syellow boosted attendance to

arecord3,587,539 in the 56th game of the expanded tournament, onemorethan the52matches forthe 1994 tournamentinthe U.S. Sané put Germany ahead about 1minute, 50 seconds

in withhis 18th international goal.Aleksandar Pavlovi had chested the ball and kickedVitefollowingNathanielBrown’sthrow-in but there wasnofoul call by American referee Tori Pen-

so. Pavlovi passed to Florian Wirtz, whocentered to Sané just inside the penalty area.

IVORYCOAST 2, CURAÇAO0: In Philadelphia, IvoryCoast advanced to the knockout round forthe first time. Nicolas Pépé scoredin each half, securing the win forLes Éléphants. The team previously beat Ecuador and lost to GermanyinGroup E. The gametook place in Philadelphia, where Ivory Coast has been training.

NETHERLANDS 3, TUNISIA 1: In KansasCity,Missouri, BrianBrobbeyscored his third goal of the World Cup, and the Netherlands got a pair of goalsthatdeflected offTunisia andintoits own net to give the Dutch the top spot in Group F. The Netherlands began the day tied with Japan, but its drawwith Swedenleft the Samurai Blue second in the group.

JAPAN1,SWEDEN 1: In Arlington, Texas, Daizen Maeda gave Japan the lead and Anthony Elanga took it away six minutes later,giving Sweden adrawthat sent bothteams to the knockout round. Japan is moving past the group stage forthe third consecutive World Cup and fifth time in seven tries since first reaching the round of 16 as co-hosts in 2002.

Mbappé,Haaland collideasFrancemeets Norway

BY JOHN MARSHALL AP sportswriter

Shortly after his team beat Senegal, Norway star Erling Haaland said he didn’t care all that much about its next game against France.

Therest of the soccer world sure does.

One of the marquee matchups of the World Cup takes place in Foxborough, Massachusetts, on Friday, when Haaland and the Norwegians face Franceand Kylian Mbappé.

Mbappé, oneofthe world’s best strikers, has scored four goalsintwo gamesto

push his World Cuptotal to 16, twobehind Lionel Messi’srecord Haaland has put on ashow in hisfirst World Cup, scoringtwice each in wins over Senegal andIraq This is amatchupeven casual soccer fans won’twant to miss. Also on Friday,Spain can clinch Group HagainstUruguay,whichlikely needs a win to keep its knockout-

stage hopesalive. Belgium faces New Zealandinwhat is likely amust-win for both sides.

The winner of Group G will likely be decided when Egypt meets Iran in Seattle. Cape Verdelooks to KO

Cape Verde hasmade quite an impression itsfirst World Cup.

Theislandnation off the western coastofAfrica pulledoff oneofthe World Cup’sbiggest surprisesby playing pre-tournament favorite Spain to ascoreless draw in itsopener. Cape Verdefollowedthatupby scoring its first goals of the WorldCup in a2-2 tieagainst Uruguay Next up could be amonu-

mental achievement forthe BlueSharks: aspot in the knockout stage. Beat Saudi Arabia in Houstonand Cape Verde will finish no worse thansecond in Group H.

Even adrawcould be good enough toget theBlue Sharks out of the group, a monumental accomplishment for anation of about 500,000 people andabout 15 million new Instagram followers “It’sinour hands,” defender Roberto Lopes said. “We have to go and take it.” Uruguay facesmust-win Oneofthe highlight matches of the group stage takes place in Guadalajara, Mexico, with European

championSpain taking on South American powerhouse Uruguay, which will be in danger of not advancing if its loses. Uruguay was held to draws by Saudi Arabia and Cape Verde and now only a winagainst favorite Spain will ensure the team moves on to the next round. Adraw or alosswill leave Uruguay’sfate dependent on other results. Spain will advance with adraw, butonlya winwill secure La Roja first place in Group H. French coachtomissmatch Franceassistant coach GuyStéphan attended Thursday’s prematch news conference in place of coach

Didier Deschamps, whose mother recently died. The 57-year-old Deschamps is currently in France and will miss the team’s finalgroup-stage match against Norway on Friday Deschamps has previously announced he is stepping down as Francecoach afterthe tournament,14 years after taking thejob. Stéphansaidhis thoughts continue to be with Deschamps and his family “Heisvery affected,” Stéphan said. “I have alot of exchanges with him,even just afew minutes ago. Iwill strive to makethe situation as normal as possible and to prove worthy of the trust he places in me.”

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MLB proposes limited years on free-agent deals

BY RONALD BLUM AP baseball writer

MajorLeagueBaseball proposed limiting most free agent contracts to five years and 15% of ateam’s salary cap and to eliminate deferred compensation, fleshing out details of asalary-cap plan likely to spark aconfrontationwith the players’ association.

MLB’splan would eliminate deals such as JuanSoto’s$765 million, 15-yearcontract with the New York Mets. The league said just seven players this year exceed the proposed maximum and98% of free agent contracts would not have been affected.

“There’snoquestion that we’re very far apart,” union head Bruce Meyer said during an online news conference.

During abargaining session Thursday at the union’s office, MLB said it wouldaccept the union’sproposal granting free agency ayearearly for players who havereached age 30 if the union accepted the league’s salary-capsystem.MLB also proposed boosting the minimum salary from $780,000 to $1 million for those with two years of big league service.

MLB also proposed increasing the pre-arbitration bonus pool from $50 million to $65million next year and $75 million by 2032, the sixth season of MLB’sproposed seven-year deal.

Meyer said “the debate gota little more vigorous today.”

“The league has done us afavor because their proposals are

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leagues, Lucroy finished fourth in National LeagueMost Valuable Player voting. He led the NL in doubles that year with 53,becoming the first catcher in MLB history to lead hisleagueinthatcategory and breaking the mark of 47 set by Ivan Rodriguez with the Texas Rangers in 1996. No catcher has come within 15 of Lucroy’stally since that 2014season. He was therunner-up forthe Gold Glove, and he started the All-Star Game behind theplate for the NL and proceeded to go 2-for-2 with twoRBI doubles offJon Lester and Chris Sale. Now that wasagoodyear.

“I had the greatprivilegeof managing Jonathan for fiveyears at Milwaukee,” said Ron Roenicke, who took overasBrewers manager in Lucroy’sfirst full yearwith the club in 2011. “He’sa great manof character,ahard worker and was agreat teammate. And he could really hit. He could hit the otherway he could pullthe ball and he could hit with power.That record, 53 doubles for acatcher,thatspeaks for itself.”

“Toplay on ahigh level incollege, and then to do what he did in pro ball,ittakes thephysicaltalent,” said Anthony Babineaux,a UL assistant coach under Hall of Famer Tony Robichaux during Lucroy’s collegiate career.“But it’s more than just the talent. It’salot of intangibles, it’sthe typeofleader that he was and the type of teammate

Report:LSU softball landstwinsisters

BY JIM KLEINPETER Contributingwriter

The LSU softball team has added twomore players from the transfer portal as twin sisters Madison and Mackenzie Pickens have committed to theTigers, according to Sports Illustrated. Madison Pickens, asophomore All-American outfielder from Louisville, andMcKenzie Pickens, asophomore middle infielder fromOle Miss, will be reunited as Tigers. Both two-year starters at their respective schools, they are thesecond and third players to jointhe Tigers through the portal, along with Notre Dame outfielder Mickey Winchell.

Madison Pickens batted .457 with 11 home runs, 74 RBIs, 19 doublesand 12 stolenbases She was the ACC’sleading hitter in conference games with a

.494 average and .777 slugging percentage. She was an All-ACC first-team pickand second-team All American. Her batting average and RBI totals were school records.

Mackenzie Pickens batted .271 with 11 homers and 43 RBIs for Ole Miss, where she started at second base. As afreshman, she started 62 of 63 gamesfor the Rebels with a.328 average, eight homers and37RBIs. Shehelped Ole Miss gain its first Women’s College World Series appearance in 2025.

The pair played at Buford High School in Flowery Branch, Georgia, where they led Buford to back-to-back Class7Astate titles, including a32-0 record as seniors.

LSU has eight players currently in the transfer portal from last year’steam.

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in fact so obviously and extremely bad for players at all levels thatit’sactually been abenefit for ourunity,” Meyer said. “Anybody’swho’sbanking on Major League Baseballplayers cracking, it’snever happened. It’s not going to happen. That’swhy we’re the only ones who don’t have asalary cap.”

MLB alsosaiditwould agree to eliminate the qualifying offer for free agents that since its inception in 2012 hasrestricted themarket for some players.

Bargaining started May 13 for acontract to replace thefive-year deal that expiresDec.1,and ownersproposed asalary capfor the first time since the union fought offthe systemduringa 71/2-month strike in 1994-95. MLB is expected to impose alockout in December, halting free agentsigningsand trades.

After the prior agreement expired in December 2021, intensive bargaining didnot start until late February as thethreat approached of losing regular-season games along with revenue and salary

The sides reachedanagreement on March 10,the 99th day of the lockout, preserving the 162-game schedule

In the league’scornerstone proposal,made last month, team spending wouldbecappednext yearat$245.3 million,using figures forluxury taxpayrolls that include $20.1 millionfor benefits andthe pre-arbitration bonus pool.Italso would establish apayroll floor of$171.2 million, forcing severalteamstospend more. The

two-time World Serieschampion Los Angeles Dodgers, baseball’s biggestspenders,had a$415.2 million payroll on opening day this year —around $170 million over theproposed cap.

“The biggest issue baseball fans want solved to strengthen the game is fixing the payroll disparity that leaves too many fanswithout hope of their team competing for aWorld Series title,” MLB spokesman Glen Caplin said in astatement. “Every other major U.S. sport hastackled this problem, and everyyear more small marketteams in those leagues have a chance to win. The salary cap and floor proposal levels theplaying field.”

Meyer took issuewith that

“It’sappalling that the stewards of the game, the people whose job it is to grow the gameprimarily and promote the game,havefor whatever periodoftimenow in the lastcoupleofyears been saying nothing but the game’sbroken,” he said.

As partofthe plan, MLBwould establish a“cornerstoneplayer” similartothe NBA’s Bird rule, which wouldallowateam to resign aplayer at 16% of the cap. A free agent switching clubs would be limited toa$36.8 million salary next year and are-signing player to $39.2 million. Salaries for free agents in additionalseasons of amultiyear contract wouldbelimitedto5% increases, as would salaries for younger players in multiyear deals thatcover potentialfree-agent seasons.

that he was, and it’s theextra things he did off the field and on thefield.”

It wasn’t aperfectpath to college stardom or to athird-round MLB draftselection. In fact,Lucroy didn’thavemanyscholarshipoffers out of Umatilla High School, and he only caught theeye of a Cajunsassistantcoach who was recruiting apitching teammate. In his freshmanseason, Lucroy only

caught six games, with most of his first season spent as designated hitter “There werealot of upperclassmenonthat2005team,and it was avery good team with olderguys that were thevoice of the team,” Babineaux said. “Luc respected allthose guys,but he also earned their respect in ahurry withwhat he was able to do on the field and

CROMWELL, Conn. Eric Cole returnedtothe TPCRiver Highlands in much better shape than he left last year,pitching in for eagle from 65 yardsonthe par-5 13th andposting a7-under 63 to take aone-shotlead over Scottie Schefflerand fiveothersThursday in theTravelers Championship.

Wyndham Clarkfound thegallery alot kinder and the course a lot softer than when he won his secondU.S. Open last week at Shinnecock Hills. His only battle was with the 12th hole when he put his tee shot outofplayand made triple bogey in his round of 68.

“They were finally rooting for me instead of against me,sowe like the Connecticut fans,” Clark said.

Scheffler,who hasn’twon since his first start of the year in January,atleast got off to agood start. He played bogey-free in an efficientround of 64 that left him one shot behind along with Matt Fitzpatrick, Ben Griffin, NicoEchavarria,Bud Cauleyand Kristoffer Reitan. Cole had to withdraw from the final roundayear ago he was 10 shots behind, in the middle of the pack —with what he described as anasty stomachbug.Hehas Addison’sDisease in which the body doesn’tproduce enough hormones to handle stress andblood pressure.Itwas bad enough for him to spend anight in the hospital.

“I’m not sure if it’s redemption,but I’mhappy to

howhehandled his business.”

Lucroy wound up hitting .373 with fivehomers and 48 RBIs that year in earning FreshmanAllAmericahonors as DH.Hewent on to setULrecords forRBIs(184), doubles (54) and total bases (414) in acareer while hitting 35 homers, batting .356 andslugging at a.612 clip. He was atwo-time All-Sun Beltpick, and he led the Cajuns to twoleague titles and the 2007 NCAA regional finals.

Lucroy moved fromLow-A to the majors in just two seasons, in large part because of his defensive improvement.One metric rankedhim as the major league’sbest in “stealing pitches” —receiving and framing pitchesinaway that influenced plate umpires’ called strikes —for two seasons.

“Jonathan took alot of pride in his defense,” Roenicke said. “Even though he was agreat hitter,that was really important to him.”

Lucroy was the face of the Brewers in his final two years there before spending two years with the TexasRangers, helping that team winthe AL West in 2016. Injuries andthe COVID-shortened pandemicseason in 2020 hampered the latter part of his career,but he was still valuable enough to clubs seeking aveteran catching presence that he spent time with seven other MLB teams before he retired in 2021 after12big-league seasons. His final stop was in Atlanta during the 2021 season when the Braves won the World Series. Although he did not see action during thatpostseason run, Lucroy was respected enough to be invited to throw outthe ceremonialfirstpitch

be hereand feeling good,” Cole said. His only disappointment was missing an 8-foot birdieputton thefinalholeofapleasantday that followed steadyrainearlier in the weekthat softened the course.

TheTPC River Highlands is built for good scoring in any conditions, and it at times looked like targetpractice for so much of theday withgreens holding shots. The greensbecame slightly firmerasthe round went on Cole seized on the opportunity, particularly on the 13th hole. His secondshotwas just right of the green,and he pitched it on the right line with perfect speed to hole it foreagle.

“From 13 in is really where you can kind of score,” he said. Scheffler,who won the Travelers twoyears ago, also played bogey-free and was poised to at least catch Cole on theclosing stretch. After atee shot just short of the green set up birdie on the reachable par-4 15th, he had medium-length birdie chances on the three closing holesand narrowly missed them for his 64.

Even so, it was his lowest opening round since a63atThe American Express, which he went on to win in the California desert in January

“When the scoring is lower it can be harderand harderto play catch up,” Scheffler said. “Sometimes here youget so far behind you can only shoot so lowonsome of thesegolf courses, so it’s importantto keep pace.”

for Game 2ofthe 2021 National League Divisional Series when the Braves played hislongtime Brewers. While defense wasthe keyto his longevity,his bat was the most memorable part of his game. His .356 batting and .612 slugging marks in college, a.325 mark in summer collegiate baseball, and career .274 batting and .416 slugging marks along with 1,134 major league hits are atestament to that.

“Even in his freshman year,you knew he could hit,” Babineaux said. “There’salot of guys that hit home runs, and then there’ssome that get so muchlift on their ball when they swing the bat. Jonathan was one of those guys. His fly balls werejust someofthe highest I’ve ever seen,the ball would just lift when it left hisbat. Youknowthe power was there, and you had a good ideathatthe catching would advance to ahigh level, and once those two matched up it was just a matter of timebefore he made it to the big leagues.”

Roenicke well remembers one of his 108 career home runs.

“Wewere facing Cincinnati and Aroldis Chapmanhad just come up as theircloser,”hesaid. “Wewere in atie game andChapmancame in, he was throwing 100 plus miles an hour before everyone started throwing 100, he was the hardest thrower we’dseen.Luc saw11 pitches between 100 and102 andhe kept fouling offballs until he got to a3-2 count and Chapman tried to throw him aslider on the 12th pitch and Luc hit ahomer to win the game for us. That’sthe kind of hitter Luc was.”

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By BENNy SIEU

Former UL catcher Jonathan Lucroy, shown here getting astanding ovation in Milwaukee as amember of the Brewers, is joining the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JOHN RAOUX

Commissioner of MajorLeague Baseball Rob Manfredanswers questions during anewsconference at the winter meetings on Dec.8 in Orlando, Fla.

GregoryAgid, second from left, listens in on a class led by saxophonist Scott Johnson, center,during the Second Line Arts Collective’s two-week workshop at the George and Joyce Wein Jazz and Heritage Center

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BY KEITH SPERA | Staff writer

Four days before flying to Europe for atour with Michael Bublé, New Orleans saxophonist and clarinetistGregory Agid stood in aformer funeral home arching his backand grimacing —ina goodway

Five young musicians enrolled in the Second Line Arts Collective’sannual two-week workshop at theGeorge and Joyce Wein Jazz &Heritage CenteronN Rampart Street were navigating Loyola University saxophonist Cooper Belletto’s“When the SunSets.”

Both Agidand Jasen Weaver,the veteran jazz bassist coaching theensemble, liked what they heard. Theyoung musicians were playing well, transitioning smoothly from one section to the next. But playing well is only part of whatSecondLine Arts Collectiveisall about.

The 40 or so students ages 14 to 24 also learn about financial literacy,contracts, marketing, booking, socialmediaand other elements of buildingsustainable ca-

STAFFPHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

GregoryAgid, upper left, records videoaspianist Oscar Rossignoli, trumpeter Steve Lands, bassist Jasen Weaver anddrummer BrianRichburg Jr left to right, performJune 17 during aSecond Line Arts Collectivemaster class at the Georgeand JoyceWein Jazz &HeritageCenter

reers as professional musicians. As Second Line Arts Collective’scofounder and executive director,Agid hopesstudents leave“ready to put yourself out there as alegit artist.” Working as atouring musician at the top

level of the music industry requires more than just musical skills.

“Not only do you have to be amusical fit, but you have to be apersonality fit,” said

ä See FUTURE, page 2D

BY DOUG MacCASH Staff writer

Youhave to be true to yourself, you have to be true to your art. But art doesn’t have to be limited to the music.”

GREGORY

AGID, Second Line Arts Collective co-founder and executive director

age the Parkview back in 1993. It wasa temporary thing; she was just helping outthe new owner for afew weeks. But, as so often happens in New Orleans, the temporary became permanent. Anderson ran the joint forathird of acentury, until it closed on May 29.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By KEITH SPERA

GregoryAgid appearsonthe big screen above the bandstand during aperformance with singer Michael Bublé at the Smoothie King Center in 2019.

STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

Runningout of reassurancefor mom

Dear Annie: Iamanadult now with grown siblings, but it seemsmy mother’sanxiety is growingright along withus. My mother is an incredibly anxious person. Itry to be empathetic, but she hasn’tseen atherapist in years,and she completely dismisses any logical or positive reassurances meant to comfort her.At this point, Iamata lossfor what to do. Currently,her anxiety is hyperfocused on our upcomingsummer family vacation. She is worried about everything: flying, hiking, driving, wildlife and fires. It feels like she actively seeks outthings to worry about, operatingunder the assumption that noneofthe rest of us are planning for these risks.

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Annie Lane DEAR ANNIE

When sheairs these anxieties, I don’tknowhow to respond. Iwant to explain to herthat preparing forasituation ahead of time is notthe samething as beingconsumed by worry about it. Iamsomeone who prepares diligently so that worry doesn’tbog me down, but she can’t seem to make that distinction. Sometimes, Iwonder if sheis just looking for attention, and then Iimmediately scold myself for not being empathetic enough.

Iknow that once this vacation is over,she will just find something else to fixate on. How do Inavigate theseconversations and set healthy boundaries without losing my empathy? —AnExasperated Daughter Dear Exasperated: Stop trying to reassure her.Anxiousminds

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title “Harry Potter and theSorcerer’sStone.”

Today is Friday,June 26, the 177th day of 2026. There are 188 days left in the year

On June 26, 2015, in its 5-4 Obergefell v. Hodges decision, the U.S. Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage across the country,ruling that statelevel bans on same-sex marriage violated the due processand equal protection clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Also on this date:

In 1917, U.S. troops entered World WarIasthe firstsoldiers of the American Expeditionary Force landed in Saint-Nazaire, France.

In 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity withthe city’sresidents, declaring:“Ich bin ein Berliner” (“I am aBerliner”).

In 1997, the first Harry Potter novel,“Harry Potter and thePhilosopher’sStone” by J.K. Rowling, waspublished in the United Kingdom. It was later released in the United States under the

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When she firsttook thehelm, the Parkview had a“rough-looking, rough-acting crowd,” she said. Disputes at the pooltable or the dart board were settledwith fists. So, right away, Anderson banned brawling.

“If you laid ahand on anybody in thebar,you were kicked out,” she said. Even if patrons took thefight out on the Carrollton Avenue neutral ground, they were asked not to come back to the bar.Though, of course, they sometimes did Instead of just waiting to see if those who’d been banished would “reoffend,” Anderson began jotting down their namesand brief descriptions: Dennis theCab Driver,Brandon theFirefighter,MotorcycleScott, TheForeign ManWho Pints, Blonde Jeremy et al It was away to help bartenders identify troublemakersinadvance “Sometimes, things get better by subtraction,” Anderson said. Not that the charactersonthe list were bad people, Anderson noted. When called upon to show someone the door,she’d often say “‘I’m sorry,Ilike you, but you can’tcome in.’” The “86” List, Anderson said, came so naturallytoher,thatshe was surprised to learn notevery bar has one. In time, the lineup grew to include roughly 75 names and nicknames.

Awho’s whoofmisconduct

Anderson said shecan’t recall everyone’sexact misconduct. Whatever Cowboy Hat Rich did has been lost in the mists of time Same with Gravedigger Joe, thoughAnderson recalls that “Gravedigger Joe” wasn’tjust a nickname, he actually dug graves in anearby cemetery.

True, the “86” List could be abit imprecise. At one point, Anderson said, there was aBig Dave, Medium Dave, Little Dave and Red Door Dave (named for another Carrollton Avenue drinking establishment). There may even have been another Dave, butshe’snot sure. People were addedtothe naughty list for sometimes poignant reasons. There was, she said, adiabetic drinkerwho would disconcertinglypass out at thebar when he hadn’ttaken his medicine. Andthere wasalwayscheating

treat reassurance like fuel. Every time you engage withone of her worries, thepattern of panic and reassurance deepens.

Starve the anxiety instead. When she spirals, asimple, “I hear you, Mom”or“Yeah, maybe that could happen” is enough. A therapist who specializes in anxiety can offer tools that can break this pattern for good.

It’sworth noting that growing up withchronic anxiety in the house often leaves amark. The fact that you’ve come out clearheaded and prepared rather than consumed is no small thing.

Dear Annie: Thirty-odd years ago, my husband and Iwere honored to be asked tobegodparents. Unfortunately,the baptism was during aterrible winter storm, and my husband was on call for work, so our godchild’sgrandparents

had to step in to take our place.

Fastforward to 2026: Our godson is getting married and the ceremony is in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When Ireceived the invitation,Iresponded immediately that we would attend. My husband was due to receive a$1,000 bonus which we planned to use to pay for part of the trip. Unfortunately,with the price of everythinggoing up, we had to use that money toward bills.

Ifeel terrible that we won’tbe able to attend his wedding and that we are letting him down again. What can Idotomake it up to him, on top of sending him avery generousmonetary gift? Very Sad Godmother Dear Sad Godmother: Isuspect you’re being much harder on yourself than your godson is. Missing abaptism because of a

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Send your regrets as soon as possible, along with aheartfelt note letting him know how much he meanstoyou and how sorry you are to miss his special day I’msure he and his bride will appreciate the money,but your love and good wishes will mean even more.

And when circumstances allow, makeplans to visit the newlyweds. What he’ll remember most isn’twhether you wereatthe wedding, but that you’ve always cared enough forhim to be there when you could.

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In 2008, in District of Columbiav.Heller,the U.S. Supreme Court struck down ahandgun baninthe District of Columbiaasitaffirmed,5-4, that an individual’sright togun ownership is protected by theSecond Amendment.

In 2013, in the case of United States v. Windsor,the U.S. Supreme Court gavethe nation’slegally married same-sex couples equalfederal footing withall other married Americans, and cleared theway for same-sex marriages to resumeinCaliforniainaseparate decision.

Today’sbirthdays: Jazz musiciancomposer DaveGrusin is 92. Brazilian singer-songwriter and politician Gilberto Gil is 84. Basketball Hall of Fame coach Tara VanDerveeris73. Musician Mick Jones (The Clash, Big Audio Dynamite) is 71. Cyclist Greg LeMond is 65. Football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe is 58. Filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson is 56. Actor Sean Hayes is 56. Actor Chris O’Donnell is 56. Actor Nick Offerman is 56. Country musician Gretchen Wilson is 53.

One person would slyly help him-

self to free drinks from the standup cooler.Some gregarious types would buyroundsfor thehouse, then forget they’d done so and claim they’d been overcharged.

“I’m going to eat this tab,” Andersonwouldsay as she added themto the list, “but that’sthe last one you’re goingtoget from me.”

And some patrons were just plain obnoxious. “One person was so abrasiveand rudethat if Isaw him again, Iwas going to punch him,” Andersonsaid witha laugh.

“In thesober lightofday,” Anderson said,most of thepeople who wereejected probably “understood.”

Endofanera

The Parkview closed last month after some 70 years in business. In away,itwas aspecial place, just becauseit wasn’t so special It wasa neighborhood hang, a cool spot to get out of the afternoonheat andsip an Abita, or to watch aSaints game under the outdoor awning,nothing sillyor swanky.For its rabbleofregulars, that’sall it needed to be.

And Anderson was itsmainstay She said theplace ran so smoothly in recent years that it was like being on “cruisecontrol.”

Anderson doesn’tshare her age anddoesn’t say what she plans to do next.“I’m likeafish out of water,floppingaround on the bank,” she said. The job as Parkview manager wasn’tsupposed to last threedecades,afterall.“So,I still don’tknow whatIwant to do when Igrow up.”

When the sheet metal shutters fell over the plate glass windows of the Parkview for the last time, aformer bartenderposted the old “86” List to socialmedia. It began as aneatly printed document, though now it’syellowed with age, andthe namesofmorerecently banned patrons have been added in the margins with ballpoint pen. Anderson said she probably should have updatedit, so it looked more official, though “it has more personalityinits messiness.”

Most people wouldagreethe chaotic nature of the list harmonizes rather perfectly with its purpose. Naturally, in thedays beforethe bar closed, Anderson mellowed.

“I saw aformer “86” Lister out in Mid-City andIinvited himback in for the last day,” she said.

Email Doug MacCash at dmaccash@theadvocate.com.

GregoryAgid speaks to students during the

Jazz and HeritageCenter in NewOrleans.

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Agid, who went from hustling to makeends meet in New Orleans nightclubs to nowperformingwith Bublé’sbig band in arenas around theworld.

“You have to be on time. You’ve got to be respectful. People rely on you to bring agood vibe to theentireexperience.”

He knows from firsthand experience.

Whoyou know

BorninSan Antonio, Texas, Agid spent much of his childhood in Hawaii. He received his first clarinet as aboy

His family moved to Kenner when he was 12. He attendedthe Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong Summer JazzCamp alongside Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and fellow Kenner resident JonBatiste,whom he knew from playground basketball games (“I had to guard him,because we were the two tall people”)

At theArmstrongcamp,Agid learned fromsuchNew Orleans music masters as Kidd Jordan, Clyde Kerr,Germaine Bazzle and Alvin Batiste, themodernjazz clarinetist who became hisprimarymentor

“Without that opportunity,” Agid said of the Satchmocamp, “I probably would not be here today.”

He attendedthe New Orleans Center for Creative Artsand JesuitHighSchool.AtAlvin Batiste’s suggestion, he enrolled in Loyola’s classical music program.

At thetime, the Thelonious Monk InstituteofJazz, an intensive, national, graduate-level program, was basedatLoyola. Wanting to interact with high-caliber musicians, Agid hung out with the Monk students as much as possible.He befriended theMonk Institute’s tenor sax student,Jake Saslow

After Saslow graduated in 2009, he returnedtoNew York and joined Bublé’sband.

Meanwhile, Agid nurtured his own career in New Orleans.He performedwith trombonistDelfeayo Marsalis’ Uptown Jazz Orchestra and his own quartet.To supplement his musician’s income, he taught at WarrenEaston High School and NOCCA

On atrip to New York in November 2018, Agid hung out with Saslow and other members of the

Bublé band.Saslow subsequently recommendedAgid to Bublé’smusic director

“So muchofthis industry is aboutrelationships,”Agid said. “There aresomany peoplewho are great musicians. But it means nothing if you don’tknow the right people and don’thavethe right people vouching foryou.”

ThemomentAgid hit theroad with Bublé in early 2019, his professional fortunes changed overnight

“It was completely mind-blowing. It’sstill one of the greatest privileges of my life, to kind of live arock star dream. When I was growing up, ‘MTV Cribs’ would showband’stour buses. The first time Iwalked on (the Bublé band’s) tour bus, Iwas like, ‘Oh my God, Iget to live on oneofthese things?!?’”

Over the past seven years, Agid has logged 300-plus arena shows with Bublé. While watching the recent NBA playoffs, he noted which arenas he’d performedin. That listincludes New York’sMadison SquareGarden, plus London’sO2 Arena and,onJuly17, 2019, his hometown Smoothie King Center

“That is the show that meantthe most to me,” he said. “It’savery special, very humbling experience to gettoperform at that level of theindustry.”

He’scontinuously impressed by his Bublé bandmates’ proficiency andprofessionalism.

“Nobody has ever been late to asound check. No one has ever showed up not knowing the music.

“There is alevel of professionalism that was unique to me. In New Orleans, we do alot of things really well.But it’simportanttotrain young musicians to also be hirable in other job markets. Some of the culturalthings here don’ttranslate if youwant to work in NewYork and Los Angeles.”

That’swhere Second Line Arts Collective comes in.

Business versus art

Thetremendous impact Alvin Batistehad on Agid’s life andcareer convinced him that education is essential. He knew one day he’d pay that debt forward.

Tenyears ago, he and drummer DarrianDouglaslaunched thenonprofit Second Line Arts Collective to help musicians build careers worthy of their musical abilities.

“I have been around so many phenomenal musicians. Not allof themhave careers,” Agid said.

“The trajectory of your career as amusician is not purely based on your musical skill.”

Gigging on Frenchmen Street and at other local venues isn’t necessarily enough for musicians trying to pay for student loans or mortgages or support afamily

“A $100 gig doesn’tget you very farwhenyou have allofthese obligations,” Agid said. “Why are we not training musicians to be great artists but also entrepreneurs? We all love playing music. Wouldn’tit be great to continue playing music into your 30s and 40s and 50s and 60s and not have to choose between having agreat life and creating art?”

During theSecondLine Arts Collective’stwo-week workshop, students are grouped into small ensembles forrehearsals. “Noone can hide,” Agid said. “Everyone is taking asolo.”

After 10 years, the program has “been around long enough to witness the success of some of our alumni,” Agid said. They include saxophonist Zahria Sims, whohas toured with PJ Morton and leads her ownensemble, and trumpeter Cam Clark, who works with Cha Wa

The 2026 workshop’sartistin-residence was drummer and bandleader BrianRichburg Jr.A Second Line Arts Collective alumnus, Richburg earned scholarships to both the Juilliard School and Berklee College of Music (he chose Berklee).

Now based in NewYork, he’s performedwith Jon Batiste, Wynton Marsalis &the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, Jack Harlow and Joss Stone, in addition to leading his own band, New Legacy

Right after lunch at the Jazz & Heritage Center recently,Richburg performed withfellow staffersOscar Rossignoli on piano, Steve Lands on trumpet and Jasen Weaver on bass. He then spent an hour answering Second Line students’ questions about his career, giving real-world insights and perspectives.

“You have to be true to yourself youhavetobetruetoyour art,” Agid said. “But art doesn’thave to be limited to the music.How am Igoing to market myself? Thatis art too.

“That samecreative powerthat you use in your music, you can use in your career development.”

Email KeithSpera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

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By virtue of and inobedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALEfromthe 24thJudicial DistrictCourt ParishofJeffer‐son,State of Louisiana,inthe above num‐bered andenti‐tledcause, dated April23, 2025, Ihave seizedand will proceed to sell tothe highest bidderatpublic auction,atthe Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex,1233 WestbankEx‐pressway, Har‐vey,Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust5,2026at 10o'clock a.m. thefollowing d ib d

g described prop‐ertytowit: ONECERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OFGROUND, withall of the improvements thereon, andall ofthe rights, ways, privi‐leges,servi‐tudes,advan‐tages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longing or in anywise apper‐taining,situated inthe Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana,in thatpart thereof known asSection "A" ofthe Bridgedale Sub‐division, in SquareNo. 23, bounded by Zin‐nia Avenue on the West West Metairie Avenue on the North,Kenner Avenue on the Southand a

canalonits Eastsideand designatedas Lot #47; situ‐atedinthe Southeastern District of Louisianain Section 44, Township12 South,Range 10 East. Whichsaid lot measures in ac‐cordancewith planofSection A &B of Bridgedale, pre‐pared by H.W. Nugent,C.E., dated June 24 1926, acopyof which is at‐tachedtoanact before Chas I. Denechaud,N.P., onOctober 15 1934, beingsale byMrs.F.T Borah to AssetRealiza‐tionCo.,Inc.as follows:

or less,fromthe cornerofZinnia Avenue and WestMetairie Avenue and measures thence less. 50 feetfront on Zinnia Avenue,similar width in the rear, by adepth between equal and parallel lines of 120 feet,moreor less; subjectto restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineral rights ofrecordaffect‐ing theprop‐erty.

Theimprove‐ments bear the municipalad‐dress 729 Zinnia Ave,Metairie, LA70001.

g g privileges.

TERMS -The full purchaseprice isdue at the timeofthe sale

NOTE:All funds mustbe Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or PersonalCheck withirrevocable BankLetterof Credit.

BENJAMIN D LADOUCEUR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

Lot#47 begins ata distance of 292 feet,more

This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐riorsecurityin‐terests,mort‐gages,liens and i il

TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 26, 2026, July 31, 2026 jun26-jul31-2t

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:864-827 PLAINS COMMERCE BANK VERSUS JAREDWILFRED HYDELL

By virtue of and inobedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALEfromthe 24thJudicial DistrictCourt, ParishofJeffer‐son,State of Louisiana,inthe above num‐bered andenti‐tledcause, dated May16, 2025, Ihave seizedand will proceed to sell h hi h

p to thehighest bidderatpublic auction,atthe Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex,1233 WestbankEx‐pressway, Har‐vey,Louisiana 70058, on Au‐gust5,2026 at 10o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ertytowit: THAT CERTAIN LOT OR POR‐TIONOF GROUND, situ‐atedinthe Parishof Jefferson, State ofLouisiana,in thatsubdivision known as, WOODMERE SUBDIVISION, SECTION5,and being desig‐nated on theof‐ficial plan of said subdivision, on file andof recordinthe of‐fice of theClerk andRecorder

forthe Parish ofJefferson State of Louisiana,as LOT NUMBER ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED NINETY FIVE-A (1395-A) of SQUARELL, said subdivision, said lot having such measurements anddimensions and beingsub‐jecttosuchre‐strictions andservitudes asshown on the official subdivi‐sionmap and/or ofrecord.

feet between equaland paral‐lel lines. This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐riorsecurityin‐terests,mort‐gages,liens and privileges.

TERMS- Thefull

Furtherinac‐cordancewith a survey, pre‐pared by J.J. Krebs &Sons, Inc.,dated April 24,1978, resur‐veyed July 22, 1978, acopyof which is at‐tachedtoand madea part of that certain actrecordedat COB 939 Page 545, of theoffi‐cialrecords of Jefferson Parish Louisiana, ex‐ceptsaidlot is shown to have a depth of

OFFI CIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

REGULAR SESSION

CITY HALL: May 7, 2026

The Council of the City of New Orleans met this day in Regular Session

at 10:00 A.M., in the Council Chamber,City Hall, Council Vice President, Matthew Willard, presiding.

On calling the roll, the following members answered to their names:

PRESENT: WILLARD (VICE PRESIDENT)

MCCARRON

HARRIS

GREEN

HUGHES

ABSENT: MORRELL (PRESIDENT)

KING (Arrived later in the meeting).

FIVE MEMBERS PRESENT,CONSTITUTING AQUORUM.

ROLL CALL

AISHA R. COLLIER

CLERK OF COUNCIL

INVOCATION

TERRYM.CARTER, ASSISTANT PASTOR GRACE &GLORYFAMILYWORSHIP CHURCH INTERNATIONAL

PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

JASON HUGHES

COUNCILMEMBER DISTRICT “E” APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES

Meetings of -April 9, 2026 and April 23, 2026. APPROVED. AMENDMENTS

AMENDMENT TO CALENDAR NO. 35,424

BY:COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON

An amendment to Ord. Cal. No. 35,424 to correct areferenced bounding street.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5 NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE AMENDENT WASADOPTED.

AMENDMENT TO CALENDAR NO. 35,426

BY:COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST)

An amendment to provide relative to the intended use of Sale proceeds and to confirm that any use of Sale proceeds shall be authorized by ordinance.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard- 5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE AMENDENT WASADOPTED. HDLC APPEAL

VERONICA M. REED, EXECUTIVEDIRECTOR, JANE PLACE

NEIGHBORHOOD SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE -Requesting to appeal the Historic District Landmarks Commission’sdecision of denial of the demolition of aContributing rated one-story,single-family residential building to grade for property located at 2745 Banks Street. WITHDRAWN. (At the applicant’srequest).

ORDINANCES ON FINAL PASSAGE

CAL. NO. 35,400 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) -An Ordinance to authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into an agreement to grant aservitude to an adjacent property owner for encroachments on/over portions of public right-of-way located at the municipal address 1141 Esplanade Avenue; to fixthe minimum price and termsofsaid servitude agreement; to declarethat such use as granted in the servitude agreement will incorporate space that is neither needed for public purposes nor shall such use interferewith the use of the public right-of-way; to set forth the reasons for said servitude agreement; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard- 6

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:Morrell -1

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,416 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS -AnOrdinance to effect azoning change an HU-RM1 Historic Urban Multi-Family Residential District to an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighborhood MixedUse District and to establish aconditional use to permit the retail sale of packaged alcoholic beverages, on Square259, Lots Band Pt. 10, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Baronne Street, Washington Avenue, Dryades Street, and Fourth Street (Municipal Addresses: 27272733 Baronne Street);and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

(ZONING DOCKET NO. 15/26)

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,417 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS -AnOrdinance to establish aconditional use to permit aCommunity Center in an HU-RM1 Historic Urban Multi-Family Residential District, on Square303, Lot 1, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by ThirdStreet,Simon Bolivar Avenue, South Saratoga Street, and Fourth Street (Municipal Addresses: 2134-2138 ThirdStreet);and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (ZONING DOCKET NO. 16/26)

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,418 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING -AnOrdinance to establish aconditional use to permit ahotel in aCBD-2Historic Commercial and Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District, on Square66, Lots A, 1, and Lot 20 or an undesignated lot, in the Second Municipal District, bounded by Iberville Street, Bourbon Street, Canal Street, and Royal Street (Municipal Address: 716 Iberville Street);and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. (ZONING DOCKET NO. 18/26)

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,419 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS -AnOrdinance to amend and reordain Division 2ofArticle VofChapter 18 of the City Code, to increase fees for rabies vaccination license tags; to establish for the reduction or waiver of license tag fees in cases of financial hardship; and otherwise to provide thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,423 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST) -An Ordinance to amend and reordain Sections 70-84 and 70-87 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, relative to budget reporting requirements; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0 ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED. CAL. NO. 35,424 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON-An Ordinance to rename aportion of West Robert E. Lee Boulevard, bounded by Hammond Highway,Regent Street, and Pontchartrain Boulevard, to Zephyr Court; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED, WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,425 -BY: COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELL AND HARRIS (BY REQUEST) -AnOrdinance to amend and reordain sections of Chapters 66 and 154 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, to transfer parking and towing enforcement from the Department of Public Works to the Department of Police; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,426 -BY: COUNCILMEMBERS HARRIS, MORRELL, WILLARD, MCCARRON, KING, GREENAND HUGHES(BY REQUEST)An Ordinance to authorize New Orleans Building Corporation (“NOBC”),

subject to NOBCBoardofDirectors approval, to sell its right to receive certain payments under the Second Amended and Restated Lease Agreement dated April 3, 2020, by and between NOBC, as landlord, Jazz Casino Company,L.L.C. (“JCC”), as tenant, and the City,asintervenor (the “Lease”), to anewly-formed entity (the “Purchaser”) arranged for and financed by TPG AngeloGordon or one of its affiliates or designated funds for alump-sum payment at closing of at least $100,000,000 (the “Minimum

Purchase Price”); to authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans and the President of the City Council,asnecessary or appropriate, to execute and deliver an intercreditor agreement between the City of New Orleans (the “City”) and the Purchaser,pursuant to which the City will agreeto subordinate its right to receive certain other amounts payable under the Lease under certain circumstances; to authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans and the President of the City Council,asnecessary or appropriate, to execute and deliver,onbehalf of the City of New Orleans, such other documentsasmay be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the sale by NOBC; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard -6

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: Morrell -1

RECUSED: 0

AND THE ORDINANCE, AS AMENDED, WASADOPTED.

CAL. NO. 35,427 -BY: COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) -An

Ordinance authorizing the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into aCooperative Endeavor Agreement among the City of New Orleans (the City”), the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (the “Commission”), and Friends of InspireNOLA for aterm greater than one year,for the public purpose of supporting, promoting, stimulating public interest in, and raising and distributing funds to benefitthe construction, creation, preservation, and maintenance of public parks and playgrounds, recreational facilities, and recreational and other leisureprograms and activities in the City of New Orleans, as morefully detailed in the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement attached hereto as (Exhibit “A”); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

ROLL CALL:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard-6

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: Morrell -1

RECUSED: 0 AND THE ORDINANCE WASADOPTED. MOTIONS/RESOLUTIONS

NO. R-26-176

BY:COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES

SECONDED BY:COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD

ARESOLUTION calling an election in the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District for November 3, 2026.

WHEREAS, the Louisiana State Legislatureenacted La. R.S. 33:9073, creating the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District (“District”) and authorizing the City Council to levy and collect a flat annual fee not to exceed $300 on each parcel located within the District, for aterm not to exceed eight years, when authorized by the District and approved by the majority of the District’sregistered voters; and WHEREAS, the BoardofCommissioners of the District met on April 18, 2026, and adopted aresolution requesting the City Council to levy an annual $300 parcel fee, for three years, commencing on January 1, 2027 and ending December 31, 2029, subject to the majority approval of the District’sregistered voters at the November 3, 2026 election; NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That SECTION 1. Election Call. Subject to the approval of the State Bond Commission and under the authority conferred by La. R.S. 33:9073 and the Louisiana Election Code, an election is hereby called for Saturday November 3, 2026 between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. and at said election the electorate of the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District (“District”), comprised of the area of Orleans Parish located between Morrison Road on the north, the Lawrence Drainage Canal on the west, the I-10 Service Road on the south, and on the east by a line approximately two hundred feet west of the west line of Crowder Road, excluding Lots 1B, 1C, and 1D shown on the District’s subdivision plan registered in COB692, folio202, Orleans Parish, may approve or disapprove the levy of an annual flat fee on each parcel located within the District in the amount of $300, for threeyears, beginning January 1, 2027 through December 31, 2029, which is estimated to generate $51,400 annually.Any fee levied upon aparcel in the District shall be in addition to any ad valorem tax affecting real property,orany charge (including, but not limited to, a sanitation charge), fee, license, permitorrate imposed or levied pursuant to the regulatory authority of the City of New Orleans in the operation of the city,its departments, agencies, boards and commissions, whether attached or unattached, including, but not limited to, the Sewerage and Water Board. The proceeds of any fee collected shall be used exclusively for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the beautification, security,and overall betterment of the District; however the City of New Orleans may retain one percent of the amount collected as acollection fee. The affairs of the District aremanaged by the Board of Commissioners (“Board”) which shalladopt an annual budget in accordance with the Local Government Budget Act, La. R.S. 39:1301, et seq. The members of the Boardserve without compensation. The official ballot used in the voting machines for the election shall be as follows: LAKE WILLOW SUBDIVISION IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT PROPOSITION Shall the City of New Orleans levy a flat annual fee on each parcel located within the Lake Willow Subdivision Improvement District (“District”), as delineated by La. R.S. 33:9073(B), in the amount of $300, for three years, beginning January 1, 2027 and ending December 31, 2029, which is estimated to generate $51,400 annually,tobeused exclusively for the purpose of promoting and encouraging the beautification, security, and overallbetterment of the District, except for a1%City collection fee, and provided that, if used to fund additional law enforcement or securitypersonnel and services, such personnel and services shall be supplemental to and not in lieu of those provided by the New Orleans Police Department?

SECTION 2. District Boundaries. The boundaries of the District arethe area of Orleans Parish located between Morrison Road on the north, the Lawrence Drainage Canal on the west, the I-10 Service Road on the south, and on the east by aline approximately two hundred feet west of the west line of Crowder Road, excluding Lots 1B, 1C, and 1D shown on the District’ssubdivision plan registered in COB692, folio202, Orleans Parish.

SECTION 3. Publication of Notice of Election. Notice of this election shall be published in the City of New Orleans’ official journal once aweek for four consecutive weeks, with the first publication occurring between 45 and 90 days prior to the election date, as provided in Exhibit “A”. Exhibit “A” is hereby incorporated as if the same wereset forth in full.

SECTION 4. Canvass. The City Council, acting under the powers granted to it by the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans and state statutes, shall meet, in open session, in the Council Chamber,City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, New Orleans, Louisiana on Thursday,December 17, 2026, beginning at 10:00 a.m. to examine and canvass the returns and declarethe election result.

SECTION 5. Polling Places. The polling places set forth in the aforesaid notice of election arehereby designated as the polling places at which to hold the said election, and the commissioners-in-charge and commissioners will be the same persons as those designated in accordance with law

SECTION 6. Election Commissioners; Voting Machines. The officers designated to serve as commissioners-in-charge and commissioners pursuant to Section 5hereof, or such substitutes therefor,asmay be selected and designated in accordance with La. R.S. 18:1287, shall hold the said election as herein provided, and shall make due returns of said election to the City Council.All registered voters in the District areentitled to vote at said election and voting machines shall be used thereat.

SECTION 7. Authorization of Officers. The Clerk of Criminal District Court is hereby empowered, authorized and directed to arrange for and to furnish to said election officers in ample time for the holding of said election, the necessary equipment, forms and other paraphernalia essential to the proper holding of said election and the President and Clerk of the City Council and the City Attorney areauthorized, empowered and directed to take any and all further action required by state and/or federal law to arrange for the election.

SECTION 8. Furnishing Election Call to Election Officials.Certified copies of this resolution shall be forwarded to the Secretary of State, the Clerk of Court and ex-officio parish custodian of voting machines in and for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, and the Registrar of Voters in and for said parish, as notification of the election herein called, in order that each may preparefor said election and perform their respective functions as required by law

SECTION 9. Application to State Bond Commission. Application is made to the State Bond Commission for consent and authority to hold the aforesaid election as herein provided, and in the event said election results in approval of the proposition, for further consent and authority to levy and collect the special fee provided for therein, and acertified copy of this resolution shall be forwarded to the State Bond Commission

Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard-6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Morrell -1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. NO. M-26-178 BY:COUNCILMEMBERS MCCARRON, HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST) WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of

THEREOF,AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard- 6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Morrell -1 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. M-26-179 BY:COUNCILMEMBERS MCCARRON, HARRIS AND KING (BY REQUEST) WHEREAS, Section 70-10 of the Code of the City of New Orleans requires that certain contracts providing for the aggregate expenditureofmore than $1,000,000.00 in city funds during the initial term and all allowable renewal terms or having an initial term of morethan one year or providing for legal services must be signed by the President of the City Council; and WHEREAS, Section 70-10 further provides that the President of the

Council shall not execute any such contract unless authorized to do so by Council motion; and WHEREAS, the City of New Orleans and Durr Heavy Construction, LLC, after completing the appropriate procurement process detailed within Invitation Bid No. 338, desiretoenter into the fourth amendment to a bid contract for non-emergency demolition services, to extend the term by one year and maximum compensation remains at $4,836,750.00 attached hereto in substantial conformity as Exhibit A; NOW THEREFORE BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, that the President of the Council shall be added as asignatory to the fourth Amendment between the City of New Orleans and Durr Heavy Construction, LLC. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, that the President of the Council is hereby authorized to sign the fourth amendment between the City of New Orleans and Durr Heavy Construction, LLC., as attached heretoasExhibit A; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, that the Clerk of Council shall forwardcopies of this motion, including Exhibit A, to the City Attorney’sOffice to effectuate this request. THE FOREGOING MOTION WASREAD IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF,AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard-6 NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Morrell -1 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED.

**Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. NO. M-26-180 BY:COUNCILMEMBER KING

SECONDED BY:COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON

BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That OVELLA ENTERPRISES, LLC’s application #26-06800-DEMO (DEMO-SUMF) for apermit to demolish the property located at municipal addresses 1300 Frenchmen Street and 2035 Urquhart Street is approved;and

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Department of Safety and Permits is authorized to issue ademolition permit for said property; and BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forwardcopies of this motion to the Department of Safety and Permits.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WASREAD IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF,AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron -5 NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Morrell, Willard-2 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. NO. M-26-181 BY:COUNCILMEMBER KING

SECONDED BY:COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON

BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That

RON LOESEL’S appeal of the Historic District Landmarks Commission’s (HDLC) decision, denying the application to retain delaminated stucco from the front elevation of acontributing rated two-story,single-family residential building without aCertificate of Appropriateness for property located at 934 Port Street,isgranted, and the decision of the HDLC is hereby modified to requirestucco and masonry remediation as recommended by HDLC staff, including allowing the worktobephased, beforeMay 7, 2031.

BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forwardcopies of this motion to all affected departments, including the HDLC and the Department of Safety and Permits.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WASREAD IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF,AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard-6

NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Morrell -1 RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. NO. M-26-182

BY:COUNCILMEMBER KING

SECONDED BY:COUNCILMEMBER WILLARD

BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That DARLEEN M. JACOBS’S appeal of the Historic District Landmarks Commission’s(HDLC) decision denying the application for the retention of the removal of ridge tiles at acontributing rated, one-story,two-family residential building without aCertificate of Appropriateness located at 823-825 Atlantic Avenue, is granted, andthe decision of the HDLC is hereby reversed. BE IT FURTHER MOVED, That the Clerk of Council shall forwardcopies of this motion to all affected departments, including the HDLC and the Department of Safety and Permits.

THE FOREGOING MOTION WASREAD IN FULL, THE ROLL WAS CALLED ON THE ADOPTION THEREOF,AND RESULTED AS FOLLOWS:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard- 6

NAYS: 0 ABSENT:Morrell -1

RECUSED: 0 AND THE MOTION WASADOPTED. NO. M-26-184

BY:COUNCILMEMBER KING

SECONDED BY:COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON

BE IT MOVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, That BONNIE PORTER’s appeal of the Historic District Landmarks Commission’s(HDLC) decision, approving the application for the retention of the installation of inappropriate windowswithout aCertificate of

price and terms of said servitude agreement; to declarethat such use as granted in the servitude agreement will incorporate space that is neither needed for public purposes nor shall such use interferewith the use of the public right-of-way; to set forth the reasons for said servitude agreement;and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

THE FOREGOING ORDINANCES WERE LAID OVER AS REQUIRED BY LAW.

Therebeing no further business, on motion of Councilmember Willard, seconded by Councilmember McCarron, and without objection, the Council meeting adjourned at 11:54 A.M.

AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL CH/jmr NOCP 9113

ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: April 9, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,400 NO. 30646 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY:COUNCILMEMBER KING (BY REQUEST) AN ORDINANCE to authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into an agreement to grant aservitude to an adjacent property owner for encroachments on/over portions of public right-of-way located at the municipal address 1141 Esplanade Avenue; to fixthe minimum price and terms of said servitude agreement; to declarethat such use as granted in the servitude agreement will incorporate space that is neither needed for public purposes nor shall such use interferewith the use of the public right-of-way; to set forth the reasons for said servitude agreement; and otherwisetoprovide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OFNEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, that the following portions of the public rights-of-way arenot needed for public purposes at this time and that the Mayor is hereby authorized to grant the following servitude thereon to the adjacent property owners as described below for ayearly payment of $172.00 said annual payment subject to upwardadjustment of 15%, rounded to the nearest dollar,following the expiration of every fifth year after November 1, 2025: Approximately 129.06 squarefeet of air and ground rights consisting of the Encroachments of stairs,railings, and gutters, on/over the Henriette Delille Street and Kerlerec Street public right-of-way,the Encroachments being part of the improvements located in the 3rdMunicipal District, Square380, Lot A1, bounded by Henriette Delille Street, Kerlerec Street, North Rampart Street,and Esplanade Avenue, bearing the municipal address 1141 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana.

SECTION2.That the grant of servitude be undertaken for the following reasons: The owner,which owns the improvements adjacent to the City-owned property,has constructed or is planning to construct improvements upon the public rights-of-way after applying for and obtaining building permits, to the extent necessary,fromthe City of New Orleans; (a) Said improvements andconstructions referred to in subsection (a) hereinabove aredependent upon the servitude agreement with the owner;the plans and specifications submitted by the owner,toobtain thebuilding permits for the improvements described herein, accurately delineate the improvements and constructions which aresubject to the servitude agreement, and said plans and specifications wereinspected and approved by the City of New Orleans prior to the issuance by the City of building permits allowing the improvements to be constructed as shown therein; the disposition of property rights by the servitude agreement as authorized herein will not hinder or preempt the use by the public or the City of any other public property and will provide revenues to the City otherwise not attainable if the aforementioned property rights wereunused. SECTION 3. That the Mayor is hereby authorized to execute the servitude agreement attached hereto as described hereinabove in SECTION 1 (Exhibit “A”)

ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OFNEW ORLEANS MAY7, 2026

MATTHEW WILLARD VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ONMAY 11, 2026

APPROVED: MAY21, 2026

HELENA MORENO

MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY21, 2026 AT 2:30 P.M.

AISHAR.COLLIER

CLERK OF COUNCIL

ROLL CALL VOTE:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard-6

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:Morrell -1

RECUSED: 0 **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: April 9, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,416 NO. 30647 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY:COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS

AN ORDINANCE to effect azoning change an HU-RM1 Historic Urban Multi-Family Residential District to an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighborhood Mixed-Use District and to establish aconditional use to permit the retail sale of packaged alcoholic beverages, on Square259, Lots Band Pt. 10, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Baronne Street, Washington Avenue, Dryades Street, and Fourth Street (Municipal Addresses: 2727-2733 Baronne Street); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto. WHEREAS, Zoning Docket Number 15/26 was initiated by Adams Baronne Property,LLC and referred to the City Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, the City PlanningCommission held apublic hearing on this zoningpetition and recommended approval of the requested zoning change and conditional use in its report to the City Council dated March 9, 2026, presented in Zoning Docket Number 15/26;and WHEREAS,the recommendation of the City Planning Commission was upheld, the changes weredeemed necessary and in the best interest of the City of New Orleans and the request was approved by the City Council, as stated in Motion Number M-26-135 of the Council of the City of New Orleans on March 26, 2026.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OFNEW ORLEANS HEREBY

ORDAINS, That the Executive Director of the City Planning Commission be and is hereby directed to change the appropriate zoning district maps together with all the notations, references, and other information shown thereon, together with the lot line zoning districts maps referred to in Ordinance No. 4264 M.C.S., as amended by Ordinance No. 26413 M.C.S., as amended, the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance of the City of New Orleans, for azoning change from an HU-RM1 Historic Urban Multi-Family Residential District to an HU-MU Historic Urban Neighborhood MixedUse District, on Square259, Lots Band Pt. 10, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Baronne Street, WashingtonAvenue, Dryades Street, and Fourth Street (Municipal Addresses: 2727-2733 Baronne Street); in accordance with Motion Number M-26-135 of the Council of the City of New Orleans, approved on March 26, 2026.

SECTION 2. THE COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OFNEW ORLEANS

in accordance with the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.

ADOPTED BY THE COUNCILOFTHE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY7, 2026

MATTHEW WILLARD

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY11, 2026

APPROVED: MAY21, 2026

HELENAMORENO

MAYOR

RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY21, 2026 AT 2:30 P.M.

AISHA R. COLLIER

CLERK OF COUNCIL

ROLL CALL VOTE:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard -5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0

**Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

CITY HALL: April 9, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,417

NO. 30648 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES

BY:COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS

AN ORDINANCE to establish aconditional use to permit aCommunity Center in an HU-RM1Historic Urban Multi-Family Residential District, on Square303, Lot 1, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by Third Street, Simon Bolivar Avenue, South Saratoga Street, and Fourth Street (Municipal Addresses: 2134-2138 ThirdStreet); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

WHEREAS, Zoning Docket Number 16/26 was initiated by ThirdRose of Sharon Baptist Church and referred to the City Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission held apublic hearing on this zoning petition and recommended approval of the requested conditional use in its report to the City Council dated March 9, 2026, presented in Zoning Docket Number 16/26;and

WHEREAS, the changes weredeemed necessary and in the best interest of the City of New Orleans and the request was approved by the City Council, subject to four (4) waivers and one (1) proviso, as stated in Motion Number M-26-136 of the Council of the City of New Orleans on March 26, 2026.

SECTION 1. THE COUNCILOFTHE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY

ORDAINS, That aconditional use to permit aCommunity Center in an HURM1 Historic Urban Multi-Family Residential District, on Square303, Lot 1, in the Fourth Municipal District, bounded by ThirdStreet, Simon Bolivar Avenue, South Saratoga Street, and Fourth Street (Municipal Addresses: 2134-2138 ThirdStreet); is hereby authorized and approved, subject to the following waivers and proviso, as specificallyset forth herein:

WAIVERS:

1. The developer shall be granted awaiver of Article 11, Section 11.3.A.1

Table 11-2A of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, which requires a5 interior yardsetback, to permit a2’11” setback.

2. The developer shall be granted awaiver of Article 11, Section 11.3.A.1

Table 11-2A of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, which requires a 10’ corner yardsetback, to permita5’1-1/4” setback.

3. The developer shall be granted awaiver of Article 11, Section 11.3.A.1 Table 11-2A of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, which requires a 10,000 squarefoot minimum lot area, to permita3,842 sf lot area.

4. The developer shall be granted awaiver of Article 11, Section 11.3.A.1 Table 11-2A of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, which requires a50’ minimum lot width, to permit a30’ lot width.

PROVISO:

1. The plans submitted to the City Planning Commission for final approval shall indicate the installation of at least 7bicycle spaces, as set forth in Article 22, Section 22.5.E of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.

SECTION 2. Whoever does anything prohibited by this Ordinance or fails to do anything required to be done by this Ordinance shall be subject to whatever civil liabilities, penalties, or remedies the law prescribes.

SECTION 3. This Ordinance shall have the legal force and effect of authorizing this conditional use after: (1) all proviso(s) listed in Section 1, which impose aone-time obligation have been completelyfulfilled and complied with; and (2) all proviso(s) listed in Section 1, which impose a continuing or ongoing obligation have begun to be fulfilled. Fulfilment of acontinuing or ongoing obligation is based on the City Planning Commission’sapproval of the final site plan, which shall be submitted within one year of adoption of this Ordinance by the City Council, unless extended as authorized by the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance. The Executive Director of the City Planning Commission shall verify that the development plan incorporate all conditions set forth in this Ordinance and shall sign the plan to indicate final plan approval. The final approved plan shall be recorded in the Office of the Clerk of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, within 30 days of the date of final approval, and evidence of such recordation shall be submitted to the City Planning Commission. No use or occupancy certificates or permits, other than the building permits needed to fulfill the proviso(s), shall be issued until the final approved plan is recorded and evidence of recordation is submitted to the City Planning Commission. If the development plan is not approved and recorded, within the timeframes provided in the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, then this Ordinance shall be null and void with no legal force or binding effect. Furthermore, if the requirements of Section 4.3.H.1 of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance arenot satisfied within the timeframe allotted by Sections 4.3.H.1and 4.3.H.2ofthe Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance, the conditional use will expire, and this Ordinance will be null and void. The preceding deadlines may be extended via motion in accordance with the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.

ADOPTED BY THE COUNCILOFTHE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY7, 2026

MATTHEW WILLARD

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY11, 2026

APPROVED: MAY21, 2026

HELENA MORENO

MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY21, 2026 AT 2:30 P.M.

AISHA R. COLLIER

CLERK OF COUNCIL

ROLL CALL VOTE:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard -5

NAYS: 0

ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

CITY HALL: April 9, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,418 NO. 30649 MAYOR COUNCILSERIES BY:COUNCILMEMBERS KING AND WILLARD AN ORDINANCE to establisha conditional use to permit ahotel in a CBD-2 Historic Commercial and Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging InterimZoning District, on Square66, Lots A, 1, and Lot 20 or an undesignated lot, in the Second Municipal District, bounded by Iberville Street, Bourbon Street, Canal Street, and Royal Street (Municipal Address: 716 IbervilleStreet); and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

WHEREAS, Zoning Docket Number 18/26 was initiated by The Three Girls, LLC and referred to the City Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission helda public hearing on this zoning petition and recommended approval of the requested conditional use in its report to the City Council dated March 9, 2026, presented in Zoning Docket Number 18/26;and WHEREAS, the changes weredeemed necessary and in the best interest of the City of New Orleans and the request was approved by the City Council,subject to one (1) waiver and two (2) provisos, as stated in Motion Number M-26-132 of the Council of the City of New Orleans on March 26, 2026. SECTION 1. THE COUNCILOFTHE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That aconditional use to permit ahotel in aCBD-2 Historic Commercial and Mixed-Use District and the Transient Lodging Interim Zoning District, on Square66, Lots A, 1, and Lot 20 or an undesignated lot, in the Second Municipal District, bounded by IbervilleStreet, Bourbon Street, Canal Street, and Royal Street (Municipal Address:

MATTHEW WILLARD

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL DELIVERED

AISHA

COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE: YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard -5

NAYS: 0 ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk

CALENDAR NO. 35,419 NO. 30650 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY:COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Division 2ofArticle VofChapter 18 of the City Code, to increase fees for rabies

to

unspayed or unneutered dogs and cats aredue on every annual anniversary of the administration of the rabies vaccination or issuance of the municipal dog or cat license tag. Such notice shall also inform dog and cat owners of the option to seek areduced fee as specified in sections 18

APPROVED: MAY21, 2026 HELENA MORENO

AISHA

clinic authorized by the agency,attesting to such hardship, the agency or authorized clinic may issue the annual dog or catlicense tag for areduced or waived fee

Sec. 18-232. -Fees remitted by 20th day of each month. All applicable fees collected by licensed veterinarians shall be remitted by each veterinarian to the rabies license fund, through the director of the department of finance or his designee, together with the registration papers contemplated by sections 18-228 and 18-230 and the hardship documentation contemplated by sections 18-228 and 18-229herein not later than the 20th day of each month following the month in which the fees arecollected.

Sec. 18-234. –License fee renewal obligation. The director or his designee shall file all dog or cat registration papers received by the city and shall make such provisions as arenecessary to notify owners or keepers of registered dogs or cats that license renewal fees of $10.0020.00 for spayed or neutered dogs or and cats and $14.0030.00 for unspayed or unneutered dogs and cats aredue on every annual anniversary of the administration of the rabies vaccination or issuance of the municipal dog or cat license tag. Such notice shall also inform dog and cat ownersofthe option to seek areduced fee as specified in sections 18-228 and 18-229.

ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: April 23, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,423 NO. 30651 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES

BY:COUNCILMEMBER HARRIS (BY REQUEST)

AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain Sections 70-84 and 70-87 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, relative to budget reporting requirements; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

WHEREAS,the staffing report required under Section 70-84 of the City Code was instituted to enable the Council to monitor departmental vacancies that werebeing budgeted but never filled; and WHEREAS,councilmembers arenow able to monitor departmental personnel spending through personnel projections data without the need for the staffing report; and

WHEREAS,the full-time equivalent summary report continues to serve a useful purpose and should be retained; and

WHEREAS,the fund balance report required under Section 70-87 of the City Code currently includes all City funds, including funds with no financial activity and in the most recent reporting period, 89 of 170 funds included in the report had no transactions; and

WHEREAS,limiting the fund balance report to active funds and providing account descriptions upon request rather than monthly would reduce the report’ssize by approximately half while preserving the Council’sability to obtain this information; NOW THEREFORE SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OFNEW ORLEANS HEREBY

ORDAINS, That Sections 70-84 and 70-87 of the Code of the City of New Orleans areamended to read as follows:

“CHAPTER 70 –FINANCE

ARTICLE III –FUNDS

DIVISION 1. –GENERALLY ***

Sec. 70-84 –Monthly reports regarding full-time equivalents for all funds. On amonthly basis, the department of finance shall present to the budget, audit, and boardofreview committee, asummary report on fulltime equivalents for all operating funds currently appropriated by the city Information included in such monthly summary reports shall contain, at minimum, the following information for each city agency:

States

2026

Any other fund maintained by the department of finance. ***”

ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS MAY7 2026

MATTHEW WILLARD

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ONMAY 11, 2026

APPROVED: MAY21, 2026 HELENA MORENO

MAYOR RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY21, 2026 AT 2:30 P.M.

AISHA R. COLLIER

CLERK OF COUNCIL ROLL CALL VOTE:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, McCarron, Willard-5

NAYS: 0 ABSENT:King, Morrell -2

RECUSED: 0 ORDINANCE (AS AMENDED) CITY OF NEW ORLEANS CITY HALL: April 23, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,424 NO. 30652 MAYOR COUNCIL SERIES BY:COUNCILMEMBER MCCARRON AN ORDINANCE to rename aportion of West Robert E. Lee Boulevard, bounded by Hammond Highway,Regent Street, and LakeshoreDrive, to Zephyr Court; and otherwise to provide with respect thereto.

WHEREAS,inaccordance with Section 146-760 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, arequest to rename aportion of West Robert E. Lee Boulevard, bounded by Hammond Highway,Regent Street,and LakeshoreDrive, to Zephyr Court, was initiated via Motion Number M-26-6 of the Council of the City of New Orleans on January 8, 2026, and directed the City Planning Commission to consider the renaming; and WHEREAS, the City Planning Commission held apublic hearing on this proposed change and recommended approval of the name change (Street Name Change No. 1/26);and WHEREAS, the recommendation of the City Planning Commission was approved, and the changes weredeemed necessary and in the best interest of the City of New Orleans and weregranted approval, as stated in Motion Number M-26-127 of the Council of the City of New Orleans on March 26, 2026; NOW THEREFORE

SECTION 1. THE COUNCIL OFTHE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS, That West Robert E. Lee Boulevard, bounded by Hammond Highway,Regent Street, and LakeshoreDrive, shall henceforth be named Zephyr Court. SECTION 2. The Department of Public Works shall signify all changes imposed by this ordinance though the installation of new signage. SECTION 3. The staffofthe City Planning Commission shall provide written notice of the approval to the Mayor’sOf

Service, the

MATTHEW WILLARD

VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

DELIVERED TO THE MAYOR ON MAY11, 2026

APPROVED: MAY21, 2026

HELENA MORENO

MAYOR

RETURNED BY THE MAYOR ON MAY21, 2026 AT 2:30 P.M.

AISHA R. COLLIER

CLERK OF COUNCIL

ROLL CALL VOTE:

YEAS: Green, Harris, Hughes, King, McCarron, Willard- 6

NAYS: 0

ABSENT: Morrell -1

RECUSED: 0 **Copies of the attachment may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall.

ORDINANCE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

CITY HALL: April 23, 2026

CALENDAR NO. 35,425 NO. 30653 MAYOR COUNCILSERIES

BY:COUNCILMEMBERS MORRELLAND HARRIS (BY REQUEST)

AN ORDINANCE to amend and reordain sections of Chapters 66 and 154 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, to transfer parking and towing enforcement from the Department of Public Works to the Department of Police; and otherwise toprovide with respect thereto.

SECTION 1. THECOUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWORLEANS HEREBY

ORDAINS, that sections 66-101, 66-102, 66-105, 66-283.5, and 66-403 of Chapter 66 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana are amended to read as follows: “Chapter 66 –ENVIRONMENT

** * ARTICLE III. –REMOVAL AND DISPOSITIONOFABANDONED AND NUISANCE MOTOR VEHICLES Sec. 66-101. –Administration.

The police department shall be responsiblefor the administration and enforcement of this article, including the removal and disposition of vehicles determined to be “abandoned” or a“nuisance” on the public streets and highways or on private property within the city,and property owned by the city. The city may,onanannual basis, contract with private tow truck operators or towing businesses to remove, storeand dispose of abandoned vehicles and nuisance vehicles in compliance with this article and applicable state laws. Any fees collected in the administration or enforcement of this article shall be transmitted to the department of finance for deposit in the general fund. Sec. 66-102. –Definitions.

For purposes of this article, certain words and terms aredefined as follows:

(b) Policing authority or authority.Policing authority means the police department, or other authorized agency

** *

Sec. 66-105. –Removal of abandoned or nuisance vehicles; pretowing notice requirements.

Except as otherwise provided in this article, prior to towing an abandoned or nuisance vehicle the policing authority shall give notice to the registered owner or person entitled to possession of the vehicle by affixing on the windshield or some other conspicuous place on the vehicle printed information indicating that the vehicle will be removed by the city on a specified date, that is at least 48 hours after the notice is affixed, unless the vehicle is moved by the owner or entitled possessor prior to that date.

ARTICLE V. –NUISANCES

** * DIVISION 2. –LITTER

** *

Sec. 66-283.5. –Illegal dumping; enforcement; penalty; fees.

** * (c) (1) Amotor vehicle impounded under this article is not subject to replevin, recognition of ownership for athing wrongfully taken, and is deemed to be in the custody of the superintendent of police. When a motor vehicle is seized under this article, the department of police shall (i) place the motor vehicle under seal; (ii) remove the motor vehicle to aplace designated by the superintendent; or (iii) remove the motor vehicle to an appropriate location for disposition in accordance with law (d) (1) For any motor vehicle impounded under this article, the police department shall issue the operator anotice of violation of the provisions of this article and, within three days of issuing the notice of violation, shall provide acopy of the notice to the towing or storage company and to the department of safety and permits. The notice of violation serves as notice of administrative hearings rights. (2) Uponrequest, the operator of the vehicle or vehicle owner may,within three business days from the date that the notice of violation was issued, present to the director of the department of safety and permits, or his or herdesignee, proof that the vehicle is exempt from seizureand forfeiture because it is subject to one of the exceptions enumerated in paragraph (b) of this section, at an administrative hearing held for that purpose. The owner of the vehicle may request, and the director of the department of safety and permits, or his or her designee, may grant, an extension of time beyond the three days within which ahearing must be held. Upon its own motion, whereappropriate, the director of the department of safety and permits, or his or her designee, may extend the hearing date until after the disposition of any criminal violations for illegal dumping. If the owner fails to provide proof of the fact that the vehicle is not subject to seizureand forfeitureatthe time the notice of violation was issued, the director of the department of safety and permits, or his or her designee, shall coordinate with the appropriate agency to institute forfeitureproceedings.

(3) The administrative hearing shall be limited to areview of the issue ofwhether the vehicle was engaged in illegal dumping, as defined in 66282(b) through (c), at the time of the alleged violation. The report and/or affidavit of the investigating law enforcement officer shall be prima facie proof of the violation, and the owner or operator shall have the burden of proving that the vehicle was not engaged in illegal dumping at the time of the violation. The owner or operator may present the testimony of any witnesses at the hearing, including the officer issuing the violation, to establish that the owner or operator was not in violation with the law at the time of the alleged violation. Any action for judicial review of the decision from the administrative hearing shall be in the same manner and under the same conditions as provided in chapter 6, administrative procedures. No court shall issue an injunction, stay or other process preventing the enforcement of the sanctions required by this part pending the hearing provided for in this part, except as provided by R.S. 49:964.

(4) Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary,a motor vehicle may not be released from impoundment until the superintendent of police, or their designee, receives written proof that all requirements of this section aremet.

(5) If apassenger in the motor vehicle is under the age of 12, the driver of or apassenger in the motor vehicle is handicapped, or when considering the location and the time of day of the stop, the law enforcement officer believes athreat to the public safety or to the occupants in the motor vehicle is possible, the officer may transport the persons from the motor vehicle to an appropriate location or obtain commercial transportation to be paid for by the persons needing transportation.

(6) The towing of vehicles shall utilize the police department call allocation list established in chapter 162. All towing, storage and other such fees contained in this section shall be consistent with the current schedule of prescribed rates and requirements for non-consensual towing and recovery services issued by the Louisiana Public Service Commission.

(g) Any property contained in or dumped by the motor vehicle at the time of seizuremay be held for evidentiary purposes until the forfeiture proceeding is concluded, or the law department determines that the property is no longer needed for evidentiary purposes. Any property that is not needed for evidentiary purposes may be returned to the person who has aright of claim to the property.The department of police may dispose of any solid waste contained in the motor vehicle at the time of seizureand collect up to three times the cost and expense incurred for the proper disposal.

Sec. 66-284. –Reserved.

ARTICLE VI. –BOOTING OF MOTOR VEHICLES ON PRIVATE PROPERTYAND PRIVATEPARKING AREA

** * Sec. 66-403. –Booting service business requirements. ** * (m) In the event the booted motor vehicle is not claimed within 24 hours,

the city and state regarding such aprocedure. Thereshall be no charge for removal of the boot to the towing company or the motor vehicle owner or operator

SECTION 2. THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS HEREBY ORDAINS that sections 154-2, 154-13, 154-56, 154-142, 154-651, 154681, 154-682, 154-778, 154-811, 154-812, 154-815, 154-874, 154-921, 154-1037, 154-1040, 154-1041, 154-1082, 154-1092, 154-1137, 1541139, 154-1140, 154-1141, 154-1146, 154-1301, 154-1302, 154-1303, 154-1305 –154-1312, 154-1563, 154-1702, and 154-1704 of Chapter 154 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana areamended to read as follows: “Chapter 154 –TRAFFIC AND VEHICLES ARTICLE I. –INGENERAL

Sec. 154-2. –Definitions.

The following words, terms and phrases, whenused in this chapter,shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except where the context clearly indicates adifferent meaning: ** * Department means the department of public works, its successor,oran authorized representative as determined by the director of the department. As used in article XVII, department means the department of police. Director means the director of the department of public works. Enforcing department means the department of police, or any other duly authorized persons.

Sec. 154-13. –Personal delivery devices prohibited. In the interest of public safety and in accordance

ARTICLE III. –TRAFFIC COURTOFNEW ORLEANS

DIVISION 2. –PROCEDURE

Sec. 154-142. –Initiation of proceedings by affidavits in municipal and trafficcourts. All proceedings in the municipal and trafficcourts shall be initiated by affidavit, whichshall consist of the swornstatement of the complainant, police officer,oremployee of the department of police authorized to issue parking violations notices, filed with the court on aform provided by the respective court. The city attorney’soffice may also initiate prosecutions by affidavit on information and belief in themunicipal and trafficcourts. ARTICLE VIII. –STOPPING, STANDING, PARKING DIVISION 1. –GENERALLY

Sec. 154-651. –Definitions. The following words, terms and phrases, when used in this article, shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, except wherethe context clearly indicates adifferent meaning:

** * Self-releasing boot means adevice used immobilize amotor vehicle that attaches to its tireorwheel and has aunique locking mechanism that can only be opened with an authorized combination code.

DIVISION 2. –ADMINISTRATION AND ENFORCEMENT

Sec. 154-681. –Division of parking—Created. Thereishereby created and established within the department of police, under the supervision and direction of the superintendent of police, a division to be knownand designated as the “division of parking” headed by the public parking administrator who shall be appointed by the superintendent of police, in accordance with civil service law

Sec. 154-682. –Same—Powers, duties. The public parking administrator shall exercise such powers and duties as areprovided in this chapter or in state laws. In particular,the public parking administrator shall: (1) Enforce regulations involving parking as described in this chapter; (2) Cooperate with other city officials, private citizens and commercial agencies in ways to improve parking conditions; (3) Carry out additional powers and duties imposed by the laws of the city

DIVISION 3. –SEIZURE OR IMMOBILIZATION OF CERTAIN VEHICLES ** * Sec. 154-778. –Immobilization for unpaid parking fines and penalties; impoundment; procedurefor release; hearing.

(a) The

morning, afternoon, or evening hours or wherethe motor vehicle is parked in such amanner as to clearly be atraffichazard.

(d) This section may be enforced by any person, duly authorized by the superintendent of police.

(e) Any person who violates the provisions of this section shall be fined $500.00. In addition to such fine, the offender shall be required to pay all court costs plus all towing fees and storage costs, if any ***

DIVISION 6. –STOPPING FOR LOADING OR UNLOADING Sec. 154-921. –Designation of loading zones, freight only, freight zones, passenger zones, freight handling and service truck zones, and service zones.

(a) The city trafficengineershall determine the location of loading zones, freight only,freight zones, passenger zones, freight handling and service truck zones, and service zones and shall designate, modify and sign, indicating them as such for the use of all appropriate vehicles as specified in this chapter (b) The zones authorized in subsection (a) of this section shall be established when it is deemed necessary to facilitate an overall parking program, to promote safety,ortoimprove the flow of trafficata particular location. These zones shall be enforced according to the signage installed at the location, and the policies and regulations set forth by the parking division of the police department, in accordance with this Code. (c) At the discretion of the city trafficengineer,loading zones, freight only,and freight zones may be in effect on alimited basis as indicated by signage.

DIVISION 8. –STOPPING OR PARKING PROHIBITED IN CERTAIN PLACES *** Sec. 154-1037. –Parking of vehicles equipped with living accommodations prohibited during certain hours. (a) No person may park a vehicle which is equipped with

accommodations with an overall length in excess of 22 feet on any street between the hours of 7:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. Any citations issued under this section and resulting administrative proceedings shall be dismissed upon receipt of written notification from the vehicle’sowner or lessee and verification by the parking division of the department of police that the vehicle was legally registered or leased to an individual who resides on the

for their originally intended purpose: (1) Sinks. (2) Wash facilities. (3) Lavatories. (4) Mattresses. (5) Stoves. (6) Tables. (7) Refrigerators.

Sec. 154-1040. –Nostopping or parking near

Sec.

(a)

eligible for residential permitparking or special permit parking zone, the city trafficengineer shall take into consideration the following factors:

(1) The extent of the desireand need of the residents for appropriate designations and their willingness to bear the administrative costs in connection therewith.

(2) Proximity of the neighborhood to major parking attractors, including employment centers, retail stores, restaurants, universities, hospitals, and tourist attractions.

(3) Proximity of the neighborhood to transit service.

(4) Scarcity of convenient off-street parking for residents.

(5) The extent to which motor vehicles registered to persons residing in the residential area cannot be accommodated by the number of available off-street parking spaces.

(6) Substantial use of neighborhood curb space by commuters and other nonresidents for parking. Substantial use is defined as 25 percent or more of non-resident vehicles in the area under consideration during peak parking space usage times.

(7) Traffic, noise and safety problems caused by vehicles cruising for parking.

Sec. 154-1140. –Designation procedures.

(a) In order to determine whether aparticular area should be designated as aresidential permit parking zone or special permit parking zone, the city trafficengineer or hisdesignee shall conduct, upon his own initiative or upon request of the city council,a public forum prior to the designation or removal of the designation of aparking permitzone, or prior to the withdrawal of such designation once it is established. Such forum shall be held only after due notice has been published in the city’sofficial journal. The notice shall clearly state the purpose of the forum, the boundaries of the permit parking zone under consideration, the reasons why such area is being proposed for designation, and, if applicable, the proposed parking fee that would be charged. During such forum any interested person shall be entitled to appear and be heard.

(b) Within 15 days following the close of the public forum, the city trafficengineer shall recommend by report to the city council whether to designate the area under consideration as aresidential permit parking zone or special permit parking zone, specifying the times or limitations recommended and proposed fees, or whether to remove the designation in the case of an established residential permitparking zone or special permit parking zone. Within30days following the receipt of the report, the council shall approve or disapprove the recommendation of the city trafficengineer,except special permitparking zones may be modified as deemed necessary by the council, as provided herein.

Sec. 154-1141 –Implementation; application for permit.

(a) Once aresidential permit parking zone or special permit parking zone is approved by the city council, implementation on aparticular street shall be contingent on the following criteria:

(1) The street is primarily residential.

(2) Amajority of the households signed apetition seeking residential or special parking status for their block.

(3) At least 75 percent of the legal on-street parking spaces must be occupied during the period proposed for parking restrictions, as determined by the city trafficengineer

(b) The city trafficengineer or his designee shall install parking signs indicating times, locations and conditions under which parking is by permit only on the streets designated as the residential permitparking zone or special parking zone.

Sec. 154-1142. –Permit fee.

** * Sec. 154-1146. –Visitor and non-resident permits.

** * (b) Daily visitor permit.

(4) No single residential parking permit or valid student permit holder shall be permitted to be issued or possess morethan one daily visitor permitatany one time. Awaiver of this limitation may be granted by the parking administrator subject to approval by the superintendent of police or their designee.

(c) Residential property owner permit.

(3) No single real property address shall be permitted to be issued or possess morethan one residential property owner permit. Awaiver of this limitation may be granted by the parking administrator subject to approval by the superintendent of police or their designee.

Sec. 154-1147. –Misrepresentation by applicant; illegal use of transfer of permit.

** * ARTICLE XI. –INSPECTIONOFVEHICLE

** * DIVISION2.–MOTOR VEHICLE INSPECTION

Sec. 154-1301. –Established.

(a) Thereis hereby established in the department of police amotor vehicle inspectionbureau.

(b) The superintendent of police or adesignated representative is authorized to make such administrative rules and regulations as may become necessary to carry out and make effective the provisions of this article.

Sec. 154-1302. –General authority

(a) The department of police shall inspect or cause to be inspected all vehicles registered within the City of New Orleans to determine whether such vehicles areinsafe operating condition and areequipped with functioning safety devices required by the laws of the city and state and areadequately covered by liabilityinsurance as required by La. R.S.

32:861 et seq.

(b) The department of police shall maintain or authorize operation of one or moremotor vehicle inspectionstations within the City of New Orleans.

(c) Subject to the discretion of the superintendent, the department of police may authorize satelliteinspection stations to perform motor vehicle inspections on its behalf.

(d) For purposes of this chapter,a“satelliteinspection station” is defined as afacility authorized by the motor vehicle inspection bureau to conduct motor vehicle inspections on behalf of the department of police, subject to the inspection standards outlined in this chapter

(e) For the purposes of thischapter,a “commercial vehicle” is defined as any self-propelled or towed vehicle used on public roads and highways in commerce to transport passengers or property when:

(1) The vehicle has agross vehicle weight rating or gross combination weight of 10,001 pounds or more;

(2) The vehicle is designed to transport morethan ten passengers, including the driver Sec. 154-1303. –Vehicle inspection required.

(a) No person shall operate avehicle owned by aresident of this state upon the streets of the City of New Orleans unless it bears acurrent safety inspection certificate (brake tag) from the municipalitywherethe vehicle is registered, or if such municipalitydoes not requiresuch safety inspection certificate, then from the state. All vehicles registered in the City of New Orleans shallbepresented to the department of police or an authorized inspection station at least once every other year,except as may be otherwise provided in this section. Such an inspection shall be performed within 60 days after the month the vehicle was acquired or newly registered in the State of Louisiana after being transferred from another state.

(b) Vehicles with agross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less areeligible for atwo-year inspection certificate only if the vehicle age is ten years or less. For purposes of this article, the term “vehicle age” shall be determined based on the vehicle’smodel year,and a“year” shall be measured through the last day of that respective calendar year (for example, avehicle with amodel year of 2000 shall have avehicle age of one year as of January 1, 2001).

(c) Vehicles with agross vehicle weight rating of 10,001 pounds or greater shall be presented to the department of police or an authorized inspection station on an annual basis and shall not be entitled to atwoyear inspection certificate.

(d) The annual inspection period shall begin on January 1ofeach year; the reinspection month shall be determined by the month and year indicated on each particular vehicle’sprevious inspection certificate. *** Sec. 154-1305. –Motor vehicle inspection standards.

(a) The superintendent of police is authorized to promulgate administrative rules and regulations for the inspection of motor vehicles to further the purpose and intent of this article. Rules and regulations so promulgated shall supersede and take precedence over standards of the Louisiana Department of PublicSafety and Corrections.

(b) In the absence of administrative rules and regulations established by the superintendent of police, motor vehicle inspections within the City of New Orleans will be conducted in compliance with the

commercial vehicles, as defined in this chapter,stations shall meet all standards outlined in Title 55 of the Louisiana Administrative Code.

** * (l) Inspection stations shall maintain an inventory of certificates of inspection adequate to satisfy the needs of the public, subject to the determination and standards of the department of police.

Sec. 154-1309.– Satellite inspection stations, specifically.

(a) For the purpose of making inspections and issuing official inspection certificates, as provided within this article, the superintendentofpolice may issue permits for and furnish instructions to satellite inspection stations for the inspection of vehicles as required by this chapter (b) Application for asatellite inspection station permit shall be made upon an official form provided by the superintendentfor that purpose, and may be granted whenthe superintendentissatisfied that the station is properly equipped, has adequately trained personnel to perform such inspections, and that inspections will be conducted in accordance with the lawsofthe city and state.

(c) The superintendentshall supervise and cause inspectionstobemade of such satellite inspection stations and shall suspend and/or revoke and requiresurrender of any permit issued to astation whichisnot properly equipped or where inspectionsare not properly conducted.

(d) The superintendent shall suspend and/or revoke and requiresurrender of any permit issued to astation whensuch station issues an inspection certificate in violation of this article, the Code of the City of New Orleans, or state law (e) Satellite inspection stations permits shall not be assigned, transferred, or used at any location other than therein designated and every permit shall be posted in aconspicuous place at the location designated. (f) Satellite inspection station operators areresponsible for the safekeepingofmotor vehicle inspection

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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SERVICES INC. D/B/AGM FINANCIAL VERSUS DARLENEJONES

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber24, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana,

ou s , 70058, on Wednesday, July 29, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: 2020 GMC SIERRA 1500 CREW CAB, VIN# 3GTP8AE‐F1LG287648

STORED AT: AVONDALE STORAGE 3110 HWY. 90 P. O. BOX9150 AVONDALE,LA

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price isdue at the time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit MARK R. DEETHARDT Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:842-225 U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION NOTINITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS LEGALTITLE TRUSTEEFOR RMTP TRUST, SERIES 2021 BKM-TT-V VERSUS SHANEM MARTIN AND SHAWNA MILLER MARTIN By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, i h f ff

District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber1,2023, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings d i

e u gs andimprove‐mentsthereon andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes advantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the CITY OF KEN‐NER, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereof known as UNIVERSITY CITY SUBDIVI‐SION,asper plan of Adloe Orr, Jr., andAs‐sociates,C.E datedDecem‐ber9,1969, ap‐proved in Ordi‐nanceNo. 1195, registered in COB713, Folio 190, designated f ll

, es g e as follows: LOT45-Aof SQUARE 19, beingbounded by Loyola Drive West,40th Street,35th Street andthe proposed site of Loyola Univer‐sity,saidlot commencesat a distance of 850 feet from 35thStreet and measures thence 50 feet frontonLoyola Drive West,same widthinthe rear by adepth of 130 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines; subjecttore‐strictions,servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand out‐standing min‐eral rightsof d ff ti

e g s o record affecting theproperty.

Improvements thereonbear theMunicipal No.3568 W. Loy‐olaDrive

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges. TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale. NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit CANDACEA COURTEAU

Bank Letter of Credit

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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By virtue of and in

SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune 17, 2024,I have seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust5,2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

That certain pieceorportion of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ad‐vantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as SouthAvon‐dale Homes Subdivision, SectionIII, ac‐cordingto a plan of William Maier, C.E., datedAugust 24, 1964, approved by theJefferson Parish Council under Ordi‐nanceNo. 6792, and filed forrecordas EntryNo. 303,279, regis‐teredinCOB 559, folio 505, andinPlan Book 50, Plan 58, of therecords of theClerk of Courtfor the ParishofJeffer‐son, according to which the saidlot is desig‐natedasLot No 7, Square 18 thereof, bounded by Julia, Dorothyand Ruth Drives,and SouthJamie Boulevard, and measures 52 feet fronton DorothyDrive, thesamein width in the rear, by adepth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price isdue at the time of thesale.

COREYJ.GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:862-081 THE RIVERWOOD CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC. VERSUS MARY ELAINE KOONCE

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritofFIERI FACIAS from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 25, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM PARCEL,con‐sistingofUNIT NO.301 of the Riverwood Con‐dominium,to‐gether with all theundivided interest in the Common Elements of the Condominium appurtenant thereto, situ‐ated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, createdpur‐suanttothe Condominium Declaration executed by Goldsmith-Her‐nandez Kerry Apartments,by an actbefore Henry O’Connor, Jr., Notary Public datedDecem‐ber11, 1981, filedfor record in theoffice of theClerk of Courtfor Jeffer‐sonParish, Louisianaon December 15 1981,under EntryNo. 996005, in COB 1016, folio 762. TheRiverwood Condominiumis situated upon Plots111 and112, Hess‐merFarms Sub‐division Parish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐pal No.2301 Edenborn Av‐enue,Unit301, Metairie Louisiana70001

Beingthe same property ac‐quired by Mary Elaine Koonce by actofCash Sale before Sharon I. Corona,Notary Public,dated October9,1997, registered at CIN9754410, Book 2971,Page 116.

Cashier s Check Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or PersonalCheck with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

CHARLESE SUTTON,JR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-495 COMPUTERSHA RE TRUST COMPANY, N.A., NOTINITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS TRUSTEE OF MFA2025-NQM3 TRUST VERSUS RONALD R. BULLIE A/K/A RONALD BULLIE

Lot 974 com mences at adis‐tanceof254.53 feet from thepoint of cur‐vature of Barb‐wood Driveinto DestrehanAv‐enue andmea‐sures thence 60 feet frontonBarb‐wood Drive, same in width across therear, by adepth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines; allasper survey made by J.J. Krebs& Sons,Inc LS datedJune8, 1987, resur‐veyedAugust4, 1988.

This actismade andaccepted subjecttothe following:

Five foot servi‐tude across the rear of said property in favorofSouth CentralBellas setforth on a survey made by J.J. Krebsand Sons,Inc dated August 4, 1988.

Tenfoot servi‐tude in favorof LouisianaPower andLight Com‐pany across the frontof said property as shownonthe survey made by J.J. Krebsand Sons,Inc dated August 4, 1988.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages,liens and privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit COREYJ.GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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24THJUDICIAL

DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-312

JESSIE'S PROPERTIES, LLC VERSUS JEROMEA TAYLOR

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 24, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

COUVILLION A/K/ABRANDON COUVILLION

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 2, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust5,2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

ject to all supe rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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SECTION all as perplanof resubdivision, approved by Jef‐ferson Parish CouncilOrdi‐nanceNo. 14246, registered in COB979, Folio 380, and as per actofDedica‐tion,registered in COB952, 845, and accordingto which said lot thereonisdes‐ignatedasLOT 2107, of SQUARE D-1.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

g g or in anywiseap‐pertaining,situ‐ated in the PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,STATE OF LOUISIANA,in that part thereofknown as AIRLINEPARK NORTHSUBDIVI‐SION beinga portion of Elmwood and LaFreniere Plan‐tations; allas perplanofsub‐division made by H.E. Landry,C.E., datedSeptem‐ber1,1954, re‐visedOctober 20, 1954, approved by the Police Jury under Ordi‐nanceNo. 2535, recorded in COB 366, folio 627, as perplan of resubdivision made by H. E. Landry,Sr.,C.E datedDecem‐ber 23, 1955, ap‐proved by the Police Jury under Ordi‐nanceNo. 3141, recorded in COB 400, folio 143, andasper plan of subdivision made by H.E. Landry,Sr.,C.E., dated May23, 1958, approved under OrdinanceNo. 3783, recorded in COB451, folio 354 anddescribed as follows:

LOT“K” of SQUARE 213, which said Square is bounded by Abadie Avenue CamphorStreet, AkronAvenue andLaFreniere Street.Accord‐ingtothe afore‐said, LotK of Square 213 commences at adistanceof 174 feet from thecornerof Abadie Avenue and CamphorStreet andmeasures thence sixtysevenfeet (67’) fronton Abadie Avenue by adepth of one-hundred twoand sev‐enty-five hun‐dredthsfeet (102.75’)be‐tween equal andparallel linesand is composed of portions of orig‐inal Lots 5and 6 adjoining, All accordingto a survey by GilbertKely andCouturie, Surveyors, datedDecem‐ber28, 1979.

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 1613 Abadie Avenue Metairie,LA 70003.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- 10% down balancein 30 days

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit

JEFFREYM TOEPFER

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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Property 1: That portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon and allofthe rights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances andad‐vantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as HarlemSub‐division.And in accordance with theplanof F.G. Stewart, Surveyor,dated August 13, 1959, annexed to ordinanceno. 4249 of Jeffer‐son, said prop‐erty is desig‐natedasLot "X1" of Square 91, bounded by 45thStreet AthaniaPark‐way, 46thStreet andNorth Causeway Boulevard, is situated and measures as follows:

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

EMILYA MUELLER

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, C tifi d Ch k

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, ParishofJeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, dated January 30, 2026,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onAu‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: That certain pieceorportion of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, in Town‐ship 14 South, Ranges 23 and24East, Southeast Land District,westof theMississippi River, knownas Harvey Canal Property,Jeffer‐sonParish, Louisiana, for‐merlydesig‐natedasParcel Q-2-B, which said portionof ground has been resubdi‐videdinto Woodmere South SubdivisionSec‐tion 3, allasper plan of resubdi‐vision made by J.J. Krebs& Sons, Inc.,C.E.&S., dated October 10, 1983, ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilby OrdinanceNo. 15784, recorded in COB1064, folio 925, andas perAct of Dedi‐cation before Odom B. Heebe, Notary Public,dated February 2, 1984,recorded in COB 1067,folio 270, same beingdes‐ignatedasfol‐lows:Lot 974, Square “V”, which square is bounded by Barbwood Drive, Cimwood Drive, Havenwood Driveand DestrehanAv‐enue,and said Lot974 com‐

Lot"X-1" com‐mences at adis‐tanceof222 feet from thecorner of NorthCause‐way Boulevardand 45thStreet and measures 50 feet fronton 45thStreet same width in therear, by a depth of 120 feet between equaland paral‐lellines;all as more fully shownonplat of survey by F.G. Stewart, Sur‐veyor, datedAu‐gust 13, 1959, re‐vised November 21, 1961.

This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐i it i

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-823 NEWREZ LLC D/B/ASHELL‐POINT MORTGAGE SER‐VICING VERSUS NATALIE WALKER GAM‐BLEAND CLARENCE O'NEIL GAMBLE, JR. (A/K/A CARENCEO GAMBLE,JR.) By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 13, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, situated in the PARISH of JEF‐FERSON,STATE of LOUISIANA, in WOODMERE SUBDIVISION SECTION, allas

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:873-274

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VERSUS ANTHONY DIXON

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 4, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust5,2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: ONE(1) CERTAIN LOTORPARCEL

LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND,TO‐GETHER WITH ALLTHE BUILDINGSAND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON. SITU‐ATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA, IN THAT SUBDIVI‐SION KNOWNAS STEEPLECHASE AT HOME‐PLACE.,PHASE 2A,AND BEING DESIGNATED ON THEOFFICIAL PLAT OF SAID SUBDIVISION, ON FILE ANDOF RECORD IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERKAND RECORDER OF SAIDPARISH ANDSTATE AS LOT 6, SQUARE 32, SAID SUBDIVI‐SION,SAIDLOT HAVING SUCH SIZE,SHAPE AND DIMENSIONS ANDBEING SUB‐JECT TO SUCH SERVITUDESAS ARESHOWN ON SAID MAP. This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

RADERJACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:873-689 ROCKET MORTGAGE,LLC VERSUS DONALD J. ANTILL,JR. A/K/ADONALD JOSEPH ANTILL, JR. A/K/A DONALD ANTILL,JR. AND CRYSTAL BROADUS ANTILL A/K/A

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof S

ACERTAIN PIECEOROIR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall rights andpre‐scriptions(both liberative and acquisitive) and ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudesand ad‐vantages there‐untobelonging

a Writ of SEIZUREAND

SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the above num‐beredand enti‐tled cause, dated March31, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

Allthatcertain lotorparcelof ground,to‐gether with all of thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall ofthe rights, ways,means privileges, servitudes appurtenances, advantages and component partsthereunto belongingorin anywise appertaining thereto, lying andbeing situ‐ated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, City of Kenner,in that part thereofknown as Highway Park Subdivi‐sion, andaccording to aplanofsub‐division by J. J. Krebs& Sons, Inc.,Civil Engi‐neers& Surveyors, datedJanuary 20, 1956, ap‐proved by the City of Kenner Parish Council on September 17, 1956 under ordinancenum‐ber308, regis‐teredinCOB 411,folio 530, said portion of ground is designated as LotT, Square 503.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable BankLetterof Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, State of Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 31, 2026, Ihave seized and will proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onAu‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

That portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon and allofthe rights ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances andad‐vantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theCityof Kenner,Parish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as Kenner Pro‐ject designated as Lot13-Bof Square 507, boundedby Panama (for‐merlyGlenwood Avenue), Huntsville and 31 Streets(for‐merlyBrenton Avenue). Lot13Bforms the corner of 31st andPanama Streetsand measures one hundred fifteen feet (115’) fronton31st Street,the same in width in the rear,bya depth andfront on Panama Street of one hundred ten feet (110’),ac‐cordingto a plan of Adloe Orr, Jr., & Associates,C.E datedMarch 2, 1963,a copy of which is an‐nexedtoordi‐nanceno. 714 of theCity of Kenner,regis‐teredinCOB 569, folio 279of theconveyance recordsofthe Parish of Jeffer‐son. Theforego‐ingdescription is in accordance with printofsurvey by AdloeOrr, Jr &Associates, C.E.,dated May 16, 1963, an‐nexedto actofsalebe‐fore NatB Knight,Jr.,No‐tary Public, datedJuly12, 1963,registered in COB575, folio 91.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

DENNISF WIGGINS, JR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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LOUISIANA NO:873-557

PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VERSUS ROBYNLYNN AMATIA/K/A ROBYNLYNN AMATI SULLIVAN

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND

SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, dated March9, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onAu‐gust5,2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT PIECEOR PORTION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, andall ofthe rights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in SQUARE 1, ALLO SUBDIVISION, bounded by Allo Avenue (also knownasAv‐enue "C"), Fourth and FifthStreets, andMarrero Ad‐dition,desig‐natedasLOT 5 on asurveyby Gilbert& Kelly,Surveyors datedMay 2, 1940, re-dated July 27,1963, by ErrolE.Kelly, Surveyor, a copy of which is annexedtoact before W. J. Waguespack Jr., N.P.,on August 2, 1963, accordingto which said lot commences at a distance of 291 feet 4 inches from the corner ofAllo Avenue and Fourth Street andmeasures thence 50 feet fronton Allo Avenue, same width in therear, by a depth of 73 feet on theside line nearest Fourth Street anda depth of 73 feet,4 inches on thesideline nearest FifthStreet Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear Municipal No.428 Allo Av‐enue,Marrero LA7007 (“Property”)

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

ELIZABETHC PRICE

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 26,2026, July 31, 2026 jun26-jul31-2t

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:874-879

ROCKET MORTGAGE,LLC VS GEORGE PAUL ADAMSAND TAMMY ADAMS (A/KATAMMY LYNN ADAMS)

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 16, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

THAT CERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theTownof Westwego, LA., Jefferson Parish,in SQUARE 5of WESTDALE AD‐DITION SUBDIVISION, bounded by KellerStreet theWestern line of Westdale Ad‐dition Subdivision, Mapleand Spruce Streets, designated as LOTNO. 12 ac‐cordingtoa survey made by AdloeOrr, Jr andAssociates, C.E.,dated July 9, 1953, annexed to an actpassed before Dobin Friedman,No‐tary Public, datedJune24, 1955, which said Lot12com‐mences 46.16’ feet from the corner of Keller Street and MapleStreet, measures 50.00’ feet fronton KellerStreet, same width in therearby a depth between equal andparallel linesof125.00’ Also in accor‐dancewithsur‐veybyBFM Corporation, registered in COB1756 pg 248 Instrument No.8732694. Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear Municipal No.840 Keller Street,West‐wego, LA 70094.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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24THJUDICIAL

DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:874-949

RICHARD MICHELSON VERSUS JACQUE M. MCQUAIG

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 22, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allofthe build‐ings and improvements thereonand all therights, ways, privileges servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in SQUARE NUM‐BER, NINETYEIGHT(98) of METAIRIEVILLE SUBDIVISION, boundedby LilacStreet, Lake Avenue Magnolia Street andOr‐pheumAvenue, designated as LOTNUMBER TWENTY-TWO-A (22-A) on asurvey made by Gilbert, Kelly &Cou‐turie, Surveyors, datedDecem‐ber16, 1972, redatedApril 10, 1976, acopyof whichisan‐nexedtoact passedbefore Oliver P. Carriere,Jr.,No‐tary Public, datedApril 15, 1976 andregis‐teredinCOB 859, folio 616, andaccord‐ingtowhich, said lotcom‐mences at adis‐tanceoftwo hundredthirty (230’)feet from thecornerof LilacStreet and Lake Avenue andmeasures thence fifty-three(53’) feet on Lilac Street,by a depth between equaland paral‐lellines of onehundred twenty (120’) feet

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNumber: 100 LilacStreet, Metairie Louisiana.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐riorsecurityin‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

M. CLAIRE

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:874-528 FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION VERSUS THEOPENED SUCCESSION OF PAULAMYERS

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 4, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

ACERTAIN CON‐DOMINIUM UNIT, identified as UNIT 420, VILLA D'ORLEANS CONDOMINIUM, createdpur‐suanttoDecla‐ration Creating andEstablish‐inga Condominium Property Regime forVilla D'Orleans Regime forVilla D'Orleans Development, Inc. before WilliamD McArthur,N.P datedSeptem‐ber10, 1984, registered in COB1100, folio 102, as amendedby Amendmentto ActofDeclara‐tion Creating andEs‐tabishinga Con‐dominium Regime forVilla D'OrleansCon‐dominium Regime forVilla D'OrleansCon‐dominium, datedMarch 12, 1986, registered in COB 1435, olio 236 (collectivelythe "Condominium Declaration"), together with its.777 undividedper‐cent interest in theCommonEl‐ements,and which unit is lo‐catedonthe following de‐scribedparcels of ground:

6309 recorded in COB580, folio 683, said portionof ground is more fullydescribed as follows, towit: LOT215-Aissit‐uatedinthat area bounded by Edenborn AveVeterans Memorial Highway, Hess‐merAvenue and 31st Street,for‐merly18thor 23rdStreet,and said Lot215-Ais composed of Lots A, B, Cand Doforiginal Plot 215 and a portionofLot AofPlot210. Accordingto theaforesaid Lot215-Ameau‐res247 feet fronton Edenborn Av‐enue,by a depthof210 feet between equaland paral‐lellines.All of the abovemay be notedmorefully by referenced printofsurvey by AdloeOrr, Jr & Associates,C.E., datedJuly28, 1965.

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 3110 Edenborn Av‐enue,unit420, Metairie, Louisiana.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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thereof known as HOURCADE SUBDIVISION designated as LOTNO. 43 of SQUARE B-18C, which said square is bounded by Oak Drive, Giaise Street, Square B-18-B andFarmLot BI9.SaidLot has afrontageon OakDrive of 50 feet, thesamewidth in therear, by a depth of 207.42 feet between equaland paral‐lel lines; five (5') feet of extreme portionbeing reserved for drainage and utility, allin accordance with plan of sur‐veybyWiltonJ Dufrene, Land Surveyor,dated March 17,1981, acopy of which is an‐nexedhereto (“Property”)

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

CANDACEA COURTEAU

Attorney for Plaintiff

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:875-355

FEDERALHOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORP VERSUS PHILIPPE A. LANNELONGUE (A/K/A LANNELONGUE ANTOINE PHILLIPE)

ber 25, 1958, which said lots adjoin each otherand measureeach 25 feet between equal andparallel lines. Said Lot No.5 com‐mences at adis‐tanceof100 feet from the corner of Delaware Av‐enue and43rd Street.All in ac‐cordance with thesurveyby Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie,Sur‐veyors,dated April11, 1979, improvements located November 21, 1979.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 26, 2026, July 31, 2026 jun26-jul31-2t

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:875-065

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 5, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:

TheNew Orleans

DURIO Attorney for Plaintiff

ACERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall of therights, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the STATE LOUISIANA, PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,inthat part thereof known HESSMER FARMSSUBDIVI‐SION,and desig‐natedasLOT 215-A,all,per printof survey made by AdloeOrr, Jr.& Associates,C datedAugust 29, 1963, ap‐proved by theJefferson Parish Co Under OrdinanceNo. 6309, recorded i CO 80 f li

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOTINITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS OWNER TRUSTEEFOR RCAF ACQUISITION TRUST VERSUS CRUZ ESCOBAR HERNANDEZ By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 1, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, situated in Mar‐rero,Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in that part thereofknown

ONECERTAIN LOTORPARCEL OF GROUND,sit‐uatedinthe Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in BEACHVIEW HEIGHTSIN SQUARE NO.24, bounded by Delaware Av‐enue,42nd Street,Florida Avenue and 43rdStreet,des‐ignatedasLOTS Nos. 5and 6all in accordance with asurveyby AdloeOrr, Jr.& Associates, dated May28, 1956, andattached to actbeforeJohn F. Connolly, N.P., datedSeptem‐ber

LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VERSUS ESTATE OF BYRONR.BATES By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 27, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longinganywise appertaining situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in SECTION"G" of GOLDEN HEIGHTS SUBDIVISION, all as shownon a plan of said Sec‐tion "G", made by J. J. Krebs& Sons,Surveyors, datedApril 5, 1965, annexed to Ordinance No.7098, adoptedby theJefferson Parish Council on April29, 1965, registered in COB613, folio 629, which said lot measures as follows:

LOTNO. 6, SQUARE "K", bounded by d l h

bounded by Randolph Street,Ames Boulevard, Po‐tomac andWabashDri‐ves, Lot6 com‐mences 60 feet front on Po‐tomacDrive, 60 feet front on Ames Boule‐vard,bya depth between equal andparallel linesof120 feet Lot6 commences at a distance of 132.49 feet from thecornerof Potomacand Wabash Drives.All in ac‐cordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly& Couturie,Inc Surveying andEngineer‐ing, datedJanu‐ary14, 1981, a copy of which is annexedtothe act, datedJanuary 19, 1981and recorded as COB997, folio6

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit

CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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116 FOOT AC CESS &UTILITY SERVITUDE (SIDE),HARVEY BOULEVARD, ANDMURPHY CANAL (SIDE),AND MEASURES 60 FEET FRONTON NORTHVILLAGE GREEN STREET,HAS THESAME WIDTHINTHE REAR BY A DEPTHOF108 FEET BETWEEN EQUALAND PARALLEL LINES ALL IN ACCOR‐DANCEWITH SURVEY BY JOHNSON PROFESSIONAL LAND SURVEY‐ORS, INC., DATEDJULY30, 2002, RESURVEYED OCTOBER1, 2002,TOLOCATE SLAB, AND RESURVEYED JANUARY7,2003

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price isdue at the timeofthe sale

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or PersonalCheck with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

RADERJACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:875-276

WILMINGTON SAVINGSFUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOTINITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR OCWEN LOAN ACQUISTION TRUST2023-HB1 VERSUS RAELEE ROTOLO SALAZARA/K/A RAELEE R. SALAZARA/K/A RAELEE SALAZAR

as Whitney HeightsSubdivi‐sion,in Square No.13 thereof, bounded by Clif‐ford Drive, NorthLabarre Road,14thand 17th Streets, desig‐natedasLot No 128 of said square on a plan of survey by AdloeOrr, Jr.& Associates CivilEngineers &Surveyors datedFebruary 25, 1957, revised July 18, 1958, andac‐cordingto which said lot measures as follows,to-wit: LotNo. 128 mea‐suressixty feet frontonClifford Drive, the same width in the rear,by adepth on the division line of LotNo. 127 of onehundred four feet and a depth on theopposite side line of one hundred four andthirteen hundredths feet

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:875-297

in Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that subdivision knownasACA‐DIANA SUBDIVISION,all in accordance with aplanof resubdivisionby DufreneSurvey‐ing& Engineering, Inc.,dated March17, 2004, approved by the JeffersonParish Council under Ordi‐nanceNo. 22234, adoptedon June 23, 2004, said ordinance filedatCOB 3128, folio 108. Accordingto said plan,said lotisdesig‐natedasLOT 17 in SQUARE B. Lot 17 is bounded by VillemontCourt, Savannah Lane (side),Cedar Creek Street (side),and BaratariaBoule‐vard (side) and measures 66.69 feet fronton VillemontCourt, 144.49 feet in therear, by adepth of 122.61 feet alongthe west‐erlymost side‐line and144.90 feet alongthe easterlymost sideline.And accordingto a survey by DufreneSurvey‐ing &Engineering, Inc.,dated July 23, 2012, revised to show im‐provements Au‐gust 22, 2012, said lot hasthe same designation,lo‐cation anddi‐mensions as mentioned above. (“Prop‐erty”)

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit CANDACEA COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff

vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: ACERTAIN LOT OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in SQUARE "B GLENWOOD PARK SUBDIVI‐SION, HARAHAN, bounded by HuntleyLane, JeffersonHigh‐way, Kendal and West ShannonLanes, designated as LOTNUMBER 15 on thesurvey made by Gilbert, Kelly &Cou‐turie, Inc.,Sur‐veying &Engi‐neering, dated July 25, 1973, a copy of which is annexedtoan actofpurchase passedbefore a Notary,dated this even date; and, accordingto said survey, said LotNo. 15 formsthe cor‐nerofHuntley andWest ShannonLanes andmeasures 102.56 feet front on Huntley Lane,a width in therear of 102.62 feet, by adepth and front on West ShannonLane of 49.17 feet, anda depth on the opposite side of 69.36 feet (“Property”)

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

described prop erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,STATE OF LOUISIANA, designated as UNIT 123 of PONTCHAR‐TRAIN PLACE CONDOMINI‐UMS,and the condominium appurtenant thereuntoases‐tablishedbythe Declarationof Condominium Regime datedDecem‐ber21, 1984, registered in COB11614, folio 149.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit

CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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Northwestern Line of M. A. Addition and Dalton Street, designated as lotno. 20 and measures as follows, to-wit: Lotno. 20, in Plot C, of M. A. Green Addition Subdivision, commences50 feet from thecornerofN Howard Avenue andWeston Street andmea‐suresthence50 feet frontonN Howard Avenue, thesame width in therear, by a depthof110 feet between equal andparallel lines. Allinac‐cordance to a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie,Inc., datedJune 5, 1999, acopyof which is at‐tached to act no.9941997.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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2004HE11 VERSUS CLAIRLUTER A/K/ACLAIR LUTERHARDING A/K/ACLAIR HARDINGAND DON EDWARD HARDING, JR. By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 28, 2026, Ihave seizedand will proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,TO‐GETHER WITH ALLTHE

ALL THE BUILDINGSAND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALLTHE RIGHTS WAYS, PRIVILEGES SERVITUDES, ADVANTAGES, ANDAPPURTE‐NANCES THEREUNTOBE‐LONGINGORIN ANYWISEAP‐PERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE STATEOF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWNAS LAKE TIMBER‐LANE ESTATES, COMPOSEDOFA PORTIONOF DESTREHANDI‐VISION,FOR‐MERLYDESIG‐NATEDAS PARCELSD,E, ANDM AS SHOWNON PLAN OF RESUB‐DIVISION BY J. J. KREBS& SONS, C.E. &S., DATEDSEPTEM‐BER18, 1980, APPROVED BY THEJEFFERSON PARISH COUNCILUNDER ORDINANCENO. 14580, ADOPTED JANUARY15, 1981, FILED IN COB996, FOLIO 812, IN THERECORDS OF JEFFERSON PARISH,WHICH SAID PLAN WAS REVISEDJANU‐ARY30, 1985; ANDPARCELS C 1A ANDC 1B AS SHOWNON PLAN OF RESUB‐DIVISION BY J. J. KREBS& SONS INC.,DATED MAY9,1986, AP‐PROVED BY JEF‐FERSON PARISH COUNCILUNDER ORDINANCENO. 17030, ADOPTED SEPTEMBER24, 1986, FILEDIN COB1590, FOLIO21; FUR‐THER RESUBDI‐VIDEDINTO PARCELSD 1, E 1, ANDE 2AS PER PLAN OF RESUB‐DIVISION BY RICHMOND W. KREBS, C.E. &S DATEDMAY 26, 1998, REVISED JUNE 9, 1998, ANDAUGUST13, 1998, APPROVED BY JEFFERSON PARISH COUN‐CIL UNDEROR‐DINANCENO. 20430 RECORDED IN THECLERK OF COURT’SOFFICE FORTHE PARISH OF JEFFERSON UNDER INSTRUMENT NO.9852862 IN COB2991,FOLIO 882; SAID PROP‐ERTY BEING FURTHERRE‐SUBDIVIDED AS PERPLANOF RESUBDIVISION BY RICHMOND W. KREBS, PRO‐FESSIONAL LAND SURVEY‐ING, L.S.,DATED JULY 2, 1998, LAST REVISED SEPTEMBER23, 1999, ANDTHAT PLAN ENTITLED PRIVACY ENTRYGATE PLAN FORVIL‐LAGE GREEN AP‐PROVED BY JEF‐FERSON PARISH COUNCILON JANUARY12, 2000, UNDEROR‐DINANCENO. 20857,FILED AND REGISTERED UNDERINSTRU‐MENT NO 10005777 IN COB 3024, FOLIO 583, ANDACCORD‐INGTOWHICH PLAN SAID PROPERTY IS DESIGNATED AS VILLAGEGREEN; PHASEI ANDII SHOWNON PLAN OF RESUB‐DIVISION DATEDJULY12, 1998AND RE‐VISEDASFOL‐LOWS:JUNE30, 1999,AUGUST 11, 1999, AUGUST 19, 1999, SEP‐TEMBER 2, 1999, SEPTEMBER7, 1999, SEPTEMBER17, 1999, SEPTEM‐BER23, 1999, ANDDECEMBER 15, 1999, AND IS MORE PAR‐TICULARLYDE‐SCRIBEDAS

FOLLOWS: LOT71IS BOUNDEDBY NORTHVILLAGE GREEN STREET 116 FOOT AC‐

and 15th Street andmeasures thence 51 feet fronton 15thStreet same widthin therear, by a depthof100 feet between equaland parallel lines. All accordingto survey made by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie,Inc., dated May5,1983, a copy of which is annexedtoan actrecordedas CIN8316911. Thissaleissub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit FOERSTNERG MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOTINITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS OWNER TRUSTEEFOR RCAF ACQUISITION TRUST VERSUS JAREDA.DAIGLE ANDJENNY ORGERON DAIGLE

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, ParishofJeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, dated May1, 2026,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onAu‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: Onecertain lot of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ad‐vantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as Whitney H i ht S bdi i

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 4, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in Parish of

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:875-298

U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOTINITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS OWNER TRUSTEEFOR RCAF ACQUISITION TRUST VERSUS BARBARAANN NEWHOUSE DENDINGER

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 6, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058 A

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit CANDACEA COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 26, 2026, July 31, 2026 jun26-jul31-2t

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:873-874 LIBERTY BANK ANDTRUST COMPANY VERSUS OCIE WRIGHT SHERROD, III

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 18, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 5, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing described prop‐i

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:869-597 NEWREZ LLC D/B/ASHELL‐POINTMORT‐GAGE SERVIC‐ING VERSUS JULIEN CADIS, III

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedOctober 28, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: Acertain piece or portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theState of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, M. A. Green Addition Subdi‐vision,bounded by N. Howard Avenue (a/k/a Howard Avenue), We‐ston Street Northwestern i f

24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:870-239 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS MELYSSA LUANNE DARBY ANDBRITTNEY LEANNE DARBY

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber18, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, situ‐ated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereof knownasValley Realty Company Extension,des‐ignatedasLot 6 in Square 35, which said square is bounded by 15thStreet,Far‐ringtonDrive, Cottonwood Street, andGaudet Drive, andLot 6 commences at a distance of 260.56 feet from the intersection of Farrington Drive and15thStreet

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:870-495 WILMINGTON TRUST, NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION AS TRUSTEEFOR TRYON STREET ACQUISITION TRUSTI VERSUS GOMEZ& SONS PROPERTIES, LLCAND DAVID LEDEZMA GOMEZA/K/A DAVID EDUARDO LEDEZMA GOMEZ By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber18, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, situ‐ated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in TERRYTOWN SUBDIVISION, part of Oakdale Subdivision, SECTION“B” FIRSTWARD, all in accordance with theplanof AdloeOrr, Jr.& Associates,Civil Engineers, datedApril 30, 1959, ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder OrdinanceNo. 4117, adoptedJuly2, 1959, registered in COB482, folio 53, which said lotismorefully describedas follows: LOT28, SQUARE 29 b d d b

LOT 28, SQUARE

29, bounded by Cranberry Drive, Stumpf Boule‐vard,Terry Parkwayand Browning Lane, said Lot28com‐mences at adis‐tanceof418.54 feet from theinter‐sectionofCran‐berry Driveand Stumpf Boule‐vard andmea‐suresthence 58 feet fronton Cranberry Drive by61.51 feet in width in the rear, by adepth of 110 feet between equaland paral‐lellines.Further in accordance with asurveyby Adloe Orr, Jr.&Associ‐ates,Civil Engi‐neers, dated July 14,1960, a copy of which is annexedtoact registered in COB516, folio 607; subjectto restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe property

Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 421 Cranberry Drive, Gretna, Louisiana70056.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price isdue at the timeofthe sale

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

ZACHARYGAR‐

RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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Sheriff s Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the following de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall of the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as BRIDGEDALE SUBDIVISION, in Square Number OneHundred Sixty-Four (164) thereof, which square is bounded by Ar‐gonne Street Rose Avenue, CamphorStreet andCarnatation Avenue,said certainlot of ground is desig‐natedbythe Lot Number Eight(8) which measures in ac‐cordance with a plan of Neale& Wirth, Land‐scape Architects as follows, to-wit:

LotNumber Eight(8) mea‐sures fifty(50') feet fronton Rose Avenue same width in therear, by a depthofOne Hundred Twenty (120')feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit FOERSTNERG MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff

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MARIA JARAMILLO ESTRADA

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, ParishofJeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, dated January8 2026,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ONECERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall rights ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudesand appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theCity of Kenner,Parish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, as per"Resubdivi‐sion of Lots "C and"D",Square 58-59,Highway Park Subdivi‐sion into Lots C1, C-2and C-3" as per plan of resubdi‐vision by Dad‐ing, Marques& Associates,Inc dated Septem‐ber20, 2000, approved December 14, 2000,byOrdi‐nanceNo. 8380, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, and by theCouncil forthe City of Kenner,which Ordinanceis recorded under Instrument No 10065758, COB 3044, folio 583, Jefferson Parish Louisiana.

Said LotC-2 measures 100 feet fronton Delaware Av‐enue,same width in the rear by adepth of 60 feet between equaland paral‐lellines.All as perresubdivi‐sion of Dading,Mar‐ques &Associ‐ates,Inc.dated September20, 2000.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price isdue at the timeofthe sale

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or PersonalCheck with Bank Letter ofCredit.

EMILYA MUELLER

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff

Parish of Jefferson

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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-595

FEDERALHOME LOAN MORT‐GAGE CORP VERSUS RICKEY J. KIRKLAND A/K/ARICKEY KIRKLAND AND LORI CRESSIONNIE A/K/A LORI CRESSIONNIE

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 23, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: Allthatparcel of land in Jeffer‐sonParish, Louisiana, as more fullyde‐scribedindeed book 3160, page 882, ID#102392, beingknown anddesignated as Lot14, block square 14, Sec‐tion 9E,Bisson‐netPlaza recorded 05/30/1962.

That certainlot of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon and allofthe servitudes rights andap‐purtenances thereuntoap‐plying,situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in BissonnetPlaza Subdivision, SectionNo. 9-E, beingpart of Elmwood Lafreniere Plan‐tation,insquare no.14, bounded by Blanke Street CraigAvenue, Gillan Street CanalNo. 2and PowerBoule‐vard, designated as LotNo. 14. Allin accordance with thesurvey of AdloeOrr, Jr & Associates,C.B., datedMay 30, 1962, which said lotcommences at adistanceof 79.71 feet from thecornerof Blanks Street andCraig Av‐enue,and mea‐suresthence 68 feet fronton Blanke Street thesamein width in the

width in the rear,bya depth of 100 feet between equal andparallel lines.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS -The full purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

COREYJ.GIROIR

Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III

Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS RAYCHELL MARIEHARRIS A/K/A

RAYCHELLEM HARRIS

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 6, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

ACERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ad‐vantages andappurte‐nances there‐untobelonging, or in anywise appertaining, situated,lying andbeing in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in that part known as the WHITEHOUSE SUBDIVISION, formingpartof theTownof Westwego, and designated as theWHOLE OF LOTS NUMBERS THIRTEEN (13), FOURTEEN (14) FIFTEEN (15), ANDFOUR(4') FEET OF LOT NUMBER SIX‐TEEN (16),ad‐joining Lot N 15 f

joining Lot No.15of SQUARE NUM‐BERFORTYEIGHT(48) of said subdivi‐sion,ona plan of survey made by AlvinE.Hotard, Parish Surveyor, datedGretna, Louisiana, June 1, 1936, ablue printofwhich is attached to and made part of an actofsaleby Marrero Lane andIm‐provementAs‐sociation, Lim‐ited,toLeonRi‐choux, passed before Ernest M. Conzelmann, Notary Public datedJune17, 1936; andac‐cordingtosaid plan, said Square is bounded by Av‐enue "E and"D, Fifthand Sixth Streets; said Lots NumbersThir‐teen (13),Four‐teen (14),and Fifteen (15),ad‐join each other, and measureeach THIRTY-TWO (32')feet front on Avenue "D", thesamewidth in the rear,bya depth between equal andparallel linesofOne Hundred Twenty-Fiveand 81/100 (125.81) feet,saidpor‐tion of LotNum‐berSixteen (16) adjoinsLot No 15, and measures Four (4') feet fronton Avenue "D", the same width in therear, by a depth between equal andparallel linesofOne hundred Twenty-Fiveand 81/100 (125.81') feet,saidpiece orportion of ground mea‐suresOne Hun‐dred (100')feet fronton Avenue "D", by adepth be‐tween equal andparallel linesofOne Hundred Twenty-Fiveand 81/100 (125.81') feet;subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe property

Theimprove‐mentsbearthe municipalad‐dress645 Av‐enue D, West‐wego, LA 70094.

This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit CANDACEA COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS DAVIDL HENSON A/K/A DAVIDHENSON ANDJULIA ISAACS HENSON A/K/A JULIAI.HENSON A/K/AJULIA HENSON

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritofFIERI FACIAS from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 14, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:

That portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings improvements thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances andad‐vantages there‐unto belongingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theCityof Kenner,Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as University City Subdivision, and which portionof ground,accord‐ingtothe plan thereofbyRene A. Harris,Inc Con‐sultingEngi‐neer,dated Au‐gust 15, 1962, recorded in COB 561, folio 381 as revised by theplanof Rene A. Harris, Inc.,Consulting Engineer,dated December 20, 1962, recorded in COB, folio,of therecords of theParishof Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, is designated and measures as follows: Lot13 of Square 96, bounded by Loyola,George‐town, OleMiss andFurmanDri‐ves. Said Lot13 measures 65 feet fronton Georgetown Drive, same widthinthe rear,bya depth of 110 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines. According to survey made by Rene A. Harris,C.E., datedMarch 9, 1964, copy of which is an‐nexedtothe vendor’s actof purchase,said lothas the same designa‐tion,location d di i

tion location anddimensions as mentioned aboveand set Lot13com‐mences at adis‐tanceof97.52 feet from the corner of Ole Miss and Georgetown Dri‐ves. This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

DENNIS F. WIGGINS, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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NO:867-658

MORTGAGE SOLUTIONSOF COLORADO,LLC VERSUS GILMACHUCA

By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedAugust 15, 2025, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,July 1, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as OAKDALESUB‐DIVISION,in SQUARE 36 thereof, which square is bounded by Kepler,LeBoeuf, Milton Streets andthe West boundaryofthe subdivision, and accordingtothe planofsurvey b

plan of survey by G.W.T. Stephens dated August 25, 1917, attached to an actbefore NormaKeenan, Notary Public forthe Parish of Orleansdated January5,1933, said lotisdesig‐natedasLOT 5 andhas mea‐surementsand boundariesasis more fully set forthonthe aforesaid plan This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.

TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.

NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit

EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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