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obtained a temporary restraining order to stop the state from carrying out the governor’s plan. They argued that Landry overstepped his legal authority by effectively reallocating education funding and that the Legislature, which is not in session, should have reconvened to publicly debate the plan rather than voting on it remotely.

Lawmakers “chose to vote on one of the most important education funding issues in years through an online voting platform while calling

On an October day in 2022, an East Baton Rouge building code enforcement officer inspected three small homes renovated through a federally funded housing deal — the final step before the developer could receive occupancy permits.

All three failed.

The inspector said the homes — renovated by local developer Jason Hughes — lacked running water, electricity and heat, according to documents obtained by The Advo“I cannot cate. The inspection also turned up hazardous wiring and missing think of any insulation. reasonable But the very next day, a differexplanation ent inspector approved all three that would homes, declaring them fit to be justify lived in.

The timing of the second inpassing spection raised red flags among these city-parish officials, who began inspections. ” investigating, records show.

They went back and found 11 de- BILL POUSSON, ficiencies serious enough to bar East Baton the three properties from receivRouge Parish ing a permit, documents show. permitting “I cannot think of any reasonofficial able explanation that would justify passing these inspections,” said city-parish permitting official Bill Pousson in a December 2022 Department of Development memo.

City-parish officials promptly put the inspector — Grayson Washington, a chief code enforcement officer at the time — on leave, requiring him turn in his government-issued phone.

Upon examining its contents, they found evidence that he received a payment to his personal Cash App account from a permit applicant on a different property, records obtained by The Advocate show. Officials suspected he improperly let that property pass inspection after being paid, according to a letter they wrote to the Louisiana Board of Ethics.

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Gov. Jeff Landry holds an executive order that calls for taking money from public school budgets to fund teacher stipends after signing it on June 2.

BY PATRICK WALL

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Education advocates have dropped their legal challenge to Gov. Jeff Landry’s order to pull money from public school budgets to pay for teacher stipends.

The order, which took effect Wednesday, cuts $168 million from the state’s main education fund and uses the money to give $2,000 stipends to teachers and $1,000 to school support staff.

The advocates were scheduled to appear in court Wednesday to ask

a Baton Rouge judge to block the funding cut, which state lawmakers approved last week. However, on the eve of the hearing, the advocates decided to withdraw their lawsuit.

Katie Baudouin, an Orleans Parish School Board member and a plaintiff in the lawsuit, said she and the two other advocates determined that they couldn’t stop the governor’s order before it went into effect.

“The cuts are going to be made,” she said. “Whether or not those cuts could be restored at a later date was unclear.”

Earlier this month, the advocates

Clerk’s office errors delay Dunn prosecution Subpoena not issued for Metro Council member

BY PATRICK SLOAN-TURNER

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Prosecutors say the East Baton Rouge Parish clerk of court has three times failed to issue a subpoena bringing East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council member Cleve Dunn Jr. into

court for his arraignment on corruption charges, causing a high-profile investigation to stall for more than a month.

Dunn was scheduled to enter a plea on Wednesday, but did not appear because he was not served papers informing him of the court date, officials

said.

“Judge, this is the third arraignment date that the state requested notice be sent,” said a frustrated Joseph LeBeau, prosecutor for Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office.

It is unclear why subpoenas were not issued for Dunn. But the missteps have

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A row of homes developed by Jason Hughes’ Hughes Consulting Group is at the center of questions about housing inspections.

Grand jury probe adds to N.O., state feud say I’m not surprised,” she said at Simmering hostilities between AG, local leaders flare up awould news conference called in Baton Rouge

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Attorney General Liz Murrill answers questions at a news conference on Wednesday.

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Weeks after Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill threatened to remove seven New Orleans leaders from elected office, simmering hostilities between the Republican attorney general and Democratic local leaders are flaring to new heights.

Murrill now faces an Orleans Parish criminal grand jury probe, several sources told The Times-Picayune | The Advocate on Tuesday. The panel is said to be review-

ing whether Murrill broke laws in May involving intimidation of public officials, based on when she wrote to Mayor Helena Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams and other local officials and threatened to remove them from office if they did not walk back calls to elect a new court clerk.

On Wednesday, Louisiana’s top lawyer gave a measured response when asked about the possibility that she might face criminal charges.

“I can’t explain why they do things in New Orleans the way they do them, but I

to discuss the arrests of people accused of bilking Medicaid programs.

To some longtime courtroom watchers, news of the criminal grand jury investigation seemed to highlight just how far the debate between local and state officials has spiraled off the rails.

“This is an absurd continuation of the silliness between these grown-ups a few months ago,” said Dane. S. Ciolino, a law professor who specializes in ethics at

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1 dead, 4 hurt after Greece firebomb attack

THESSALONIKI, Greece — One person died and three others were injured in three pre-dawn firebomb attacks that struck the homes of members of Greece’s governing conservative New Democracy party, authorities said Wednesday.

The attacks between 4 a.m. and 4:45 a.m. outside apartment buildings in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki used crude explosive devices made with camping gas canisters. All the injuries were sustained from the last of the three attacks, where cars and motorcycles were set ablaze, police said.

One of the cars reportedly was owned by a parliamentary candidate for the New Democracy party, Afroditi Nestora. Nestora suffered burns but her mother succumbed to her burn injuries in an intensive care unit. Two other residents in the apartment building were also hospitalized, police said.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who also heads New Democracy, traveled to Thessaloniki to visit the injured in hospital Wednesday afternoon. Mitsotakis called the death confirmation of the “blind violence in public life.”

Attacks by shadowy Greek militant groups against symbols of power or the property of politicians, police or other authority figures are relatively frequent.

Most cause material damage but no injuries.

Actor Danny Glover has Alzheimer’s disease NEW YORK — Actor and activist Danny Glover, best known for starring as an easygoing police officer in the “Lethal Weapon” franchise, has revealed he has Alzheimer’s disease.

The four-time Emmy Award nominee, who turns 80 on July 22, told “Today” and People magazine that he was diagnosed with the progressive, memory-destroying disease three years ago.

“I’m still not accepting in my mind all parts of it,” he told People magazine. “There are the moments that you keep remembering that validate the fact that you can remember stuff. And there are moments I’ll never forget.”

More than 6 million people in the United States and millions more around the world have Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia.

Glover earned four Emmy Award nominations and an honorary Oscar in 2022. Other awards came from the NAACP and Black Entertainment Television, and he received nominations from the Screen Actors Guild.

Glover also served as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Development Program from 1998 to 2004. It focuses on poverty, disease and economic development in Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Administration sues Calif., Va. over gun laws WASHINGTON — The Trump administration sued California and Virginia on Wednesday over new laws in both states that restrict the sale of semiautomatic firearms.

The two separate lawsuits filed by the Justice Department in federal court say the laws violate the Second Amendment.

“The Constitution is not a suggestion, and the Second Amendment is not a second-class right,” Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said in a news release announcing the lawsuit against Virginia.

Virginia’s Democratic governor, Abigail Spanberger, signed legislation earlier this year banning the sale and manufacture of certain semiautomatic firearms. The law, which took effect Wednesday, is facing at least four other lawsuits challenging its constitutionality.

The California law prohibits gun shops from selling certain handguns that can easily be made fully automatic.

Attorneys general in both states vowed to defend their gun laws.

CORRECTION A photo that ran in Tuesday’s Metro section was incorrectly identified as Madison Brooks.

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foreign journalists from enPentagon remains quiet on bomb that killed over 100 children most tering the country. Iran had shut

BY JULIA FRANKEL Associated Press

JERUSALEM — It was the deadliest reported strike in the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, and most of the victims were children. Yet over four months since a U.S. missile struck an Iranian primary school, there is no final accounting of what happened.

The Trump administration has not directly accepted the blame, though the military possessed evidence almost immediately that the site had been struck, a U.S. official with knowledge of the situation, speaking anonymously to discuss an ongoing investigation, told The Associated Press.

Drawing from interviews with U.S. officials, human rights workers and Iranians in direct contact with rescuers and families of victims, the AP reconstructed the strike and its aftermath to reveal new details of what happened. Most requested anonymity for fear of retribution against them and their sources.

Details remain elusive. When asked last week about the strike, President Donald Trump said he had seen nothing to make him believe the U.S. was responsible.

Iran’s mission to the United Nations did not respond to the AP’s request for comment.

Teachers called parents Skies over the city of Minab

were clear the morning of Saturday, Feb. 28. Students jostled into the Shajareh Tayyebeh school, one of many across Iran established for children of families tied to Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard or other state institutions, said Shiva Amelirad, the international representative for an Iranian teachers union who taught in Iran for 18 years and has been in contact with people in Minab.

Though most schools in Iran operate within guidelines proscribed by the Islamic Republic, the Shejareh Tayyebeh schools were more explicitly oriented toward reproducing and reinforcing the Guard’s worldview, she said, adding: “Regardless of the students’ family backgrounds, children are civilians and any attack targeting a school is unequivocally condemnable.”

The building lay within the same compound as a Guard base, according to an AP assessment of satellite imagery. It was a Guard building before it was fenced off and converted over a decade ago.

Some of its students were the children of Guard officers. Others were local kids from an area populated by people of a majoritySunni ethnic minority known as the Baluch, often repressed by the Iranian government, said a local rights group.

Hundreds of students were inside when bombs began falling on

down the internet. The Strait of Hormuz became a major battlefield. All branches of Iran’s military deployed heavily in the area, said the resident, heightening fears among families of the victims about speaking out.

With details of the death toll elusive, researchers homed in on the question of responsibility. Iran blamed the U.S. Trump blamed Iran. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon was investigating.

Internally, the U.S. military knew more than it initially let on.

After the blast, the U.S. military knew they had conducted strikes in the vicinity — though it took time to verify Iranian claims that a school was struck and begin an investigation, said the U.S. official. It appears that the building housing the school was identified as such by one analyst as early as seven years ago, but that discovery was not sufficiently made known across different intelligence and military staffs and agencies; the building was not known among target developers as a school, revealing potential systematic shortfalls in the target analysis and review process, they said.

Clues buried in archives Much of the investigative work Racing to document the ongo- has been completed and the miliing bombardment, journalists and tary is currently reviewing the rights groups struggled to verify findings.

Still, there is no full list of the details from Minab. Government restrictions in Iran prevented dead.

Tehran. School staff began calling parents, summoning them for an early pickup, said two people.

One father living nearby rushed to pick up his son, said the resident of Minab, who relayed several families’ stories. He noticed young relatives waiting for their parents, said the resident. They declined his offer of a ride home.

Ten minutes later, bombs hit at least five buildings in the compound, according to satellite imagery. At least one collapsed the neighboring school.

The father raced back to the chaos at the school, where men pawed through smoking rubble to dig out the bodies, according to video of the aftermath circulated by state media. He saw burned bodies he believed were his relatives.

Bodies arrived at the local hospital in pieces, said the Balochistan Human Rights Group. By the end of the day, doctors at the hospital estimated they had at least 108 bodies, but cautioned that it was likely an undercount, said the resident of Minab.

Soon, state media was reporting a toll of 168.

Authorities: Rescued youths were ‘almost feral’ 16 children recovered from dilapidated conditions

An open door revealed bits “serious physical harm.”

Gary Siders Jr., Gary Sid- of trash inside while a wooden ers Sr., Christina Siders and deck and the backyard were Elizabeth Siders appeared filled with discarded tires, a in court Wednesday where high chair and other debris.

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West Nile virus season hits earliest, worst start since 2004 CDC urges people to prevent mosquito bites

BY DEVI SHASTRI AP health writer

Health officials are encouraging people to use bug spray and mosquitocontrol efforts as West Nile virus season is off to its earliest and worst start in over two decades.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday that it had confirmed at least 48 cases — 38 of them severe — as of June 30. Since 2004, the average number of cases reported to the CDC by the end of June is around 10. Federal health officials said 23 states have report-

ed finding West Nile virus, the most in 10 years.

“These findings serve as an important reminder that mosquito season is well underway,” said Dr. Erin Staples, a CDC expert on insect-borne diseases. “As families gather outdoors to celebrate Independence Day, we encourage everyone to enjoy their holiday while taking simple steps to protect themselves and their loved ones from mosquito bites.”

Most of the cases have been in Arizona. Of the state’s 32 total cases, 29 are in Maricopa County.

The county, which includes Phoenix, has also recorded four deaths from the virus so far this year.

Officials there asked people to wear bug spray

containing DEET, patch up broken window screens and get rid of standing water, where mosquitoes often breed.

“Even an overturned bottle cap can hold enough water for mosquitoes to breed,” said Melissa Kretschmer, a county health department official. “It’s important that we remove these breeding sources that can form after rain or watering plants.”

The CDC also recommends people wear long, loose-fitting clothes when outside to make it harder for mosquitoes to bite them. Experts also suggest people avoid being outdoors around dusk and dawn, when the mosquitoes that carry the virus are most active.

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21 arrested in La. Medicaid fraud investigation Providers accused of false claims

BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer

Attorney General Liz Murrill on Wednesday announced 21 arrests related to Medicaid fraud and abuse of patients that are part of a state and nationwide crackdown on fraud in the program.

Many of the arrests relate to Louisiana providers accused of submitting false claims to receive Medicaid reimbursement for services they did not actually provide, according to a release from Murrill’s office. The release says the frauds involve sums ranging from $500 to $100,000, though most are

between $5,000 and $10,000.

“One of my top priorities has been rooting out fraud and holding accountable individuals and companies who try to cheat the system,” Murrill said during a news conference at the State Capitol. “Every dollar that is stolen by fraud is a dollar that is Murrill taken away from a child, a senior or a family that relies on these critical services and support.”

“These individuals are trying to profit at the expense of hardworking taxpayers, and while Louisiana is not immune to these schemes, we’re making it clear that we won’t

tolerate them,” she added.

The arrests stem from investigations performed by Murrill’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. That unit is being turned into a standalone division within the Louisiana Department of Justice, Murrill announced. It is led by Matt Stafford.

The FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration and other federal partners helped in the operation, which was part of a coordinated national investigation, Murrill said.

Other arrests involve cases where people allegedly falsified documents in response to Medicaid-related audits, such as CPR investigations. Some concern workers accused of abusing patients in their care.

In two additional cases being

prosecuted at the federal level, providers in Louisiana allegedly defrauded Medicaid for between $800,000 and $28.4 million, per the release.

Those arrests are in addition to related indictments Murrill has obtained since taking office, during which time she “has indicted, arrested, or charged 95 individuals for programmatic offenses, including Medicaid fraud and abuse and neglect in residential facilities,” the release says. “She has also secured 105 convictions and over $73 million in ordered restitution.”

Murrill’s Medicaid fraud unit received about $13.3 million in funding during the fiscal year that ended Wednesday, according to the release, which says that $10 million

came from a federal grant and $3.3 million came from the state.

The Louisiana Department of Health has also been a partner in rooting out fraud, according to officials.

“LDH has completely changed our paradigm on fraud detection, prevention and recovery in the last year or so to better police spending in the Medicaid program,” said agency head Bruce Greenstein, who appeared alongside Murrill at the news conference.

The Health Department created an in-house Medicaid fraud detection unit in 2024 and has been able to audit many more tips and program anomalies than it has in previous years, Greenstein said, adding that some of those cases were referred to the attorney general.

U.S., Iran hold separate meetings, agree to continue talks Pakistani mediators, host Qatar reporting ‘positive progress’

BY JON GAMBRELL Associated Press

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. and Iranian negotiators met separately on Wednesday with Qatari and Pakistani mediators, with “positive progress made,” and they agreed to continue discussions, host Qatar said.

The next meeting will be scheduled “at the earliest possible time” after the funeral of Iran’s previous supreme leader, the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Majed al-Ansari, a spokesman for Qatar’s Foreign Ministry, said on X. The funeral is set to start Saturday in Tehran.

U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, were in Qatar for talks seeking a permanent end to the war, along with Iran’s top negotiator, Kazem Gharibabadi.

Negotiators aim to nail down specifics to pave the way for top leaders to seal an agreement, though differences over the Strait of Hor-

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By AMIRHOSEIN KHORGOOI

A group of people stands in shallow water as a cargo ship appears anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Tuesday. muz and Lebanon loom large.

A ship ran aground in the strait while using a route not approved by Iran, state television in Tehran reported Wednesday. The vessel was identified as a foreign container ship, with no other details.

The report appeared aimed at underlining Tehran’s claims to control the strait, which the world has long considered an interna-

tional waterway. A fifth of all oil and natural gas passed through it in peacetime.

Since the U.S. and Israel launched the war against Iran on Feb. 28, Iran has used its ability to choke off the waterway as a key source of leverage, disrupting global markets for energy and other critical goods.

agreed as part of an interim deal to allow ships to pass without paying charges for 60 days. But Tehran insisted it must control the routes of the vessels and later charge fees for passage, upending decades of practice in the waterway.

The U.S. and many Gulf Arab states say they won’t agree to the charges. An effort by Oman and a U.N. agency to launch a new route near Oman’s shore sparked attacks across the Mideast last weekend, highlighting the tensions.

Iranian state TV on Wednesday said the ship “ran aground with its cargo because of shallow waters along the route it had chosen and was unable to continue sailing.” It said shippers needed to follow the instructions of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard in the strait.

The Guard’s navy has repeatedly warned that “any entry or exit through routes other than the ‘Route of Authority’ in the Persian Gulf could lead to irreparable incidents.”

The report did not mention the two ships Iran attacked in recent days for daring to head out through the strait without Tehran’s permission, including one carrying crude oil from Qatar.

Qatar meets both sides Witkoff and Kushner met Wednesday with Qatar’s ruling emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, and its foreign minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani, according to a statement by the Qatari government.

Discussions included details related to traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. Vice President JD Vance told reporters in the United States.

“Obviously, we’re worried about the nuclear issue,” Vance said. “We’re going to start talking about that.”

Sheikh Mohammed also met with Gharibabadi and other Iranian officials, with Pakistani mediators also on hand. Gharibabadi said the Iranian delegation had no direct talks with the American side, and its talks with me-

diators dealt with Lebanon and plans to return some of Iran’s frozen assets, Iranian state media reported.

Lebanon remains a thorny issue in the negotiations. Iran has insisted that all fighting end between the Iranianbacked militia Hezbollah and Israeli military forces there.

Iran also has called for Israel to give up the land it now occupies in southern Lebanon. Israel insists it must hold the territory and have a free hand to attack Hezbollah, which has been launching attacks into northern Israel.

More ships get out of strait While ship traffic in the strait dropped after the weekend attacks, more countries say their vessels have gotten out.

The Thai Foreign Ministry said Tuesday that 10 out of 11 Thai-flagged vessels or vessels chartered by Thai operators have departed the strait safely. South Korean officials say all but two of the country’s 26 vessels that were stranded have left safely.

Strait a key sticking point Iran and the United States

Filing shows Trump took in about $1.2 billion from crypto interests — many in his new term.

He also earned ofof business The disclosure report which have benefited from policy moves of Trump’s doesn’t give profit figures, millions on Bibles the own government. Trump has just revenue, so it’s impos-

BY BERNARD CONDON Associated Press

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump took in nearly $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses last year, a federal filing released Tuesday shows, locking in profits while his investors were socked with losses.

Mere startups when he took the oath of office, the new ventures have now eclipsed in revenue much of his vast property portfolio that took him decades to accumulate. Fueling their rise were billionaire investors and Trump’s own move to quash a federal crackdown on the industry.

Trump got more than $500 million from his World Liberty Financial business selling new crypto products, including “governance tokens,” according to the required annual disclosure report with the Office of Government Ethics.

It also showed another crypto business, CIC Digital LLC, took in more than $600 million from sales of souvenirtype “meme” coins stamped with his face.

Both the tokens and the coins have plunged in value since the sales.

Trump also took in millions last year from selling Trump-branded Bibles, sneakers and other small items in another unprecedented move for the presidency. The sale of Trumpbranded watches alone brought in $4.7 million.

The 927-page disclosure form paints a stark, if incomplete picture of the massive growth of the president’s wealth since taking office last January through a web

insisted that his sons direct his finances but the arrangement rejects the conflict of interest protections that his recent predecessors in office had instituted.

Forbes estimates Trump’s net worth at $6 billion, up from $2.3 billion in 2024.

Business growing abroad The rise of crypto relative to Trump’s property is especially noteworthy because he first rode to office boasting of his property wins. It’s also remarkable because that mainstay business also boomed last year.

Trump took in tens of millions in fees from a flurry of new hotel, resort and condo deals overseas that amounts to the biggest property expansion ever in the century since the family business was founded.

Many of those countries were negotiating with the U.S. over tariffs, military aid and other important matters while the family business was striking the deals.

A property in the United Arab Emirates generated $10.4 million for the Trump business last year. One in Saudi Arabia being built by a real estate developer close to the ruling family sent the president’s company $9 million. And one in Bucharest, Romania, and another in Qatar sent him $5 million each.

One of his prominent domestic properties, Mar-aLago in Florida, notched big growth last year, too.

Trump took in $77 million from the property, a 50% jump from the year earlier when he was just another citizen, as heads of state and business people flocked to it

sible to know how much he is earning.

Billion-dollar crypto man Trump said Wednesday that most of his gains last year came from the stock market and he’s just riding along with everyone else.

“We’re all profiting,” he said. “I’m profiting because I have a lot of money and a lot of cash.”

But crypto was clearly the big revenue generator last year in part due his own moves since taking office — pushing policies friendly to the industry and reversing a Biden administration regulatory crackdown.

The regulators are still worried. Before Trump’s World Liberty began selling “governance tokens,” they issued warnings about this new kind of crypto asset, saying that unlike stocks, the tokens offer no ownership stake in the issuing company, just voting power on certain corporate policies, and are difficult to value.

Buyers pounced anyway, including a Chinese billionaire who spent $75 million on the tokens and $200 million on the souvenir coins.

In February last year, a federal lawsuit charging him with duping investors was paused before being settled for a $10 million fine.

The billionaire, Justin Sun, has repeatedly denied his spending on Trump businesses had anything to do with his federal case, while World Liberty has dismissed the notion of a conflict of interest.

Meanwhile, investors have seen the value of their Trump-tied holdings drop significantly.

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LA GUAIRA, Venezuela — Angélica Mundrain wants the bodies of her son, niece and nephew to be pulled from the rubble of her flattened beachfront apartment. She has spent every minute of the past six days waiting for the heavy machinery needed to remove the slabs of concrete and twisted metal that trapped them.

So have other Venezuelan earthquake survivors.

They, like others across the northern state of La Guaira, have the same question: Who is in charge? Venezuela’s selfdescribed socialist government, which long prided itself on being protector and provider, has been neither when it mattered most, many said.

The powerful back-to-back earthquakes on June 24 have brought to the forefront the inability of the party that has ruled the country for 27 years — now with acting President Delcy Rodríguez at the helm — to carry out basic governmental functions.

“We’ve been abandoned,” Mundrain said, sitting in a chair on the street Tuesday in front of what remained of the 11-story building she once called home. “We feel helpless. What we have seen is a lack of organization, a lack of empathy, a lack of everything.”

In the critical 72 hours after residential buildings, food joints, pharmacies, hotels and convenience stores imploded in La Guaira state, Caracas and surrounding regions, the on-the-ground response was primarily focused on directing traffic, with police officers, intelligence agents and members of the armed forces manning intersections.

Residents take on rescue Civilians, mostly alone and some with the help of foreign rescuers, searched for loved ones among piles of rubble. Ambulances were stuck in miles-long traffic jams.

Hospitals were undersupplied and understaffed. Emergency personnel responded with little to no equipment.

A week later, many residents in coastal communities of La Guaira were attributing most rescues and recoveries to fellow Venezuelans

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Continued from page 1A no witnesses, accepting no public testimony and allowing no transparency in the process,” said Mike Faulk, a former school superintendent and one of the plaintiffs, in a statement.

On Monday, Judge Richard “Chip” Moore of the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge lifted the temporary restraining order and disqualified the plaintiffs’ law firm, Baker Donelson, ruling that the firm had a conflict of interest because it was representing the state in a separate case.

The plaintiffs hired new attorneys and were scheduled to return to Moore’s courtroom Wednesday to argue for a preliminary injunction, before deciding to pull their lawsuit.

Landry issued the executive order June 2, the day after lawmakers adjourned without allocating

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Reached Wednesday morning, a spokesperson for the Clerk of Court’s Office said the repeated issue appears to have been a simple clerical error.

Dunn “The court did order the subpoena to go out … but there was no subpoena ever created,” LeBeau said.

Wednesday’s arraignment was supposed to be held in Commissioner Nicole Robinson’s courtroom.

She also expressed frustration with the matter — and said the same issue has occurred in other recent

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Residents search Tuesday through the rubble of a building that collapsed in the earthquakes in La Guaira, Venezuela. and foreign teams with know-how and equipment like thermal cameras and sound detectors as well as trained dogs. They also pointed out that while civilians and foreign rescuers worked, men and women in Venezuelan uniforms stood watching and state workers took selfies.

Tulane University professor David Smilde, who has studied Venezuela for three decades, said the tragedy has made clear that the stunning Jan. 3 capture of thenPresident Nicolás Maduro by U.S. forces was not a one-off “in which the Venezuelan state was not able to defend itself at all.”

“It also can’t do anything like get started with digging people out,” he said, adding that it should be a worrying concern for Rodríguez, who was sworn in after Maduro was deposed and taken to New York to face drug trafficking charges.

money for the stipends.

In recent years, the Legislature has allocated about $200 million annually to give teachers onetime payments instead of permanent raises. Under Landry’s plan, that money will be taken out of the roughly $4 billion the state sends to schools.

Landry and lawmakers say schools can afford the roughly 4% reduction in state dollars by tapping their rainy-day funds.

Landry also argues that the money is staying in education because it is going toward teacher pay.

“Not a single dollar is being taken away from public education,” he said in a social media post Tuesday.

“We’re investing in teachers, not bureaucracy.”

The order says the cut should not come out of funding for classroom instruction, security, transportation or food services. But school system leaders have warned that the funding reduction could result in programs or

cases too.

The court record lists scheduled arraignments for Dunn on June 2 and July 1.

Robinson set a new arraignment date for July 9 and asked the prosecutor to go straight to the clerk’s office upon leaving her courtroom and figure out what the issue is.

Dunn was indicted in February on a slew of charges including conspiracy, bribery, theft and money laundering. He is one of five defendants in a case involving alleged contract fraud related to the Baton Rouge transit system.

He is accused of steering a $50,000 Capital Area Transit System contract to Jay Colar, who was also charged in the case.

Colar then paid more than 90% of the contract to Dunn as a kickback, according to arrest warrants.

Also indicted were former CATS administrator Pearlina Thomas and contractors Terral “TJ” Jackson and Erica

Smilde said the dismal response is linked to the huge numbers of people who have left the public sector because of extremely low pay as well as corruption, such as the many people who are included in the government’s payroll but who have not worked in months or years. In a functioning government, he added, people have specific duties to design protocols spelling out procedures in case of emergencies, including earthquakes.

“It’s like trying to have a baseball team with three people on the field. You’re not sure who’s going to be the pitcher, who’s going to be catching, and who’s going to be outfielder,” he said of the government’s lack of organization.

When one collapsed building was teeming with police and military school students, people accurately guessed that officials or politically connected individuals must have lived there. The police officers from a neighboring state were indeed searching for a captain, while the students and a few members of the national guard were hoping to locate a major general.

A telescopic crane, like the one Mundrain needs for the recovery of her family, was parked for several hours in what was that building’s entrance. The relatives of the well-off families who lived in the building were able to rent it. Mundrain cannot.

“I think that if there were someone in a position of authority in Some get help each of these apartments, there Wealth and government connec- would be a well-oiled machine tions also influenced the govern- working like they have in other ment’s response, with some sites residences,” Mundrain said pointgiven preferential treatment. ing to her building.

positions being eliminated, especially in small and rural districts where money already is tight.

After the Legislature approved Landry’s order, Ouachita Parish schools announced several costcutting measures, including a freeze on nonclassroom hiring, library book purchases and nonemergency maintenance projects. A district spokesperson said the steps are temporary while a longer-term plan is being developed.

Baudouin said that even if classroom spending is spared from cuts, student learning still could be impacted.

“It’s naive to think that this will not be felt in the classroom,” she said, arguing that noninstructional staffers, such as reading coaches and attendance counselors, also contributed to New Orleans students’ recent academic gains. “I really fear these cuts are going to slow, or even begin to reverse, that progress.”

Jackson, who are married.

All five face charges related to alleged improper contracts.

Colar, Thomas and the Jacksons have all appeared in court. TJ Jackson pleaded not guilty in court Monday.

Like Dunn, Erica Jackson had not been served to appear at her scheduled arraignment Wednesday but she showed up anyway and pleaded not guilty.

Thomas and Colar entered not guilty pleas at their arraignment in February, making Dunn the only defendant who has not been arraigned.

After appearing before Robinson on Wednesday, LeBeau immediately went to the clerk’s office and personally watched as new subpoenas were issued for Dunn to appear on July 9.

LeBeau told staff he would have Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agents serve Dunn in addition to the regular attempts by sheriff’s deputies.

People’s anger over the response has also led to altercations between residents and machine operators. In one instance, when a government-provided excavator tried to leave the site of a flattened public housing building, people blocked traffic to keep it in place and even pulled the operator from the cab.

The government reported Wednesday that 2,295 died and more than 11,200 were injured in the 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck June 24. Thousands more have been reported missing.

“We continue to support the affected families and directly oversee the care and recovery efforts in La Guaira,” Rodríguez posted on X Wednesday. “I know that many Venezuelans feel pain and frustration; I deeply share those feelings.”

Rescuers on Tuesday continued to free some survivors from mountains of debris, offering anguished families a sliver of hope even as the likelihood of finding people alive diminished with each passing hour. The desperation led two women to fight late at night, one dragging the other to the mud right next to a flattened building after one of them refused to be quiet while rescuers tried to listen for signs of life among the rubble.

The first 48 to 72 hours after a natural disaster are crucial to rescue efforts, though survival can be extended if people have access to food and water.

Electrician Daniel Castillo was able to pull his mother and son alive from their second-floor apartment in a collapsed public housing building in La Guaira just hours after the earthquake struck. The body of his brother remained inside for another day until he could reach him.

On Tuesday, he decried the government’s response while he waited in line to get a free bag of hygiene products, including toilet paper and soap, from a tent staffed by the Venezuelan armed forces.

“You see the guards, and their uniforms are spotless, not dirty at all,” Castillo said, contrasting members of Venezuela’s National Guard with dust-covered civilians and foreign rescuers who have dug through rubble for days. “The government did nothing.”

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The battle ratcheted up this spring when Louisiana’s Republican-controlled Legislature approved bills to reshape two typically sleepy public offices: New Orleans’ clerks of civil and criminal court.

Operating in secrecy

Legal, political fight Supporters cast the legislation, which eliminated the criminal clerkship and placed its duties under the Civil Clerk’s Office, as a needed reform. But New Orleans leaders slammed the move as unnecessary incursion, slamming the legislation as retaliation against Calvin Duncan, a former prison lawyer who spent decades behind bars before a judge found him innocent of a 1981 murder.

Duncan won the criminal clerkship last fall with 68% of the vote despite opposition from Murrill and other conservatives. The measure took effect four days before he was to assume the office, at which point Williams and Moreno pressed the City Council to call a special election for the newly melded seat. They argued the legislation had created a new position that must be filled by voters. Murrill fired off her letters threatening to remove them from office.

Democrats and some Republicans alike called the move an overstep, and both sides seemed to calm their rhetoric following that blow-up. On June 1, the Louisiana Supreme Court issued a ruling upholding the state law that

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The Central Road inspections raise more questions about a project that already has drawn the eye of investigators after its original costs soared from $220,000 to nearly $500,000, with the fee Hughes was to be paid as the developer more than doubling.

In March 2025, Office of Community Development Director Kelly LeDuff — hired by current MayorPresident Sid Edwards — discussed the Hughes project with federal agents, according to emails obtained through a records request.

Federal prosecutors subsequently subpoenaed the city-parish for documents related to Hughes and his company, Hughes Consulting Group LLC. The status of that probe is unclear. A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baton Rouge said Monday the office “does not confirm or deny the existence of an investigation.”

Neither Hughes nor Washington responded to requests for comment.

A Cash App payment The inspector who originally failed the three Central Road homes wrote that electrical wiring, plumbing and new air conditioning units were installed but hadn’t been separately inspected and permitted as required.

Emergency escape openings in bedrooms did not meet zoning requirements, the inspection report said.

That December, when cityparish officials investigated the questionable approvals, they visited the unoccupied homes and saw that none had power, running water or heat yet, and that windows had been replaced without required permits.

When they looked at Washington’s phone, they found an issue with the other property, records show.

In June 2021, Washington created a work order to conduct three inspections at a home on El Scott Avenue in Baton Rouge.

According to the cityparish letter to the Ethics Board, Washington messaged the property’s owner the morning of the day he was to inspect it to ask for the address. He then sent his personal Cash App account information on the day of inspection, and afterward the property owner sent a screenshot of proof of a $100 payment to Washington’s account, records show.

Development Director Rachael Lambert noted issues with Washington’s inspec-

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Calvin Duncan, a former prison lawyer who spent decades behind bars before a judge found him innocent of a 1981 murder, won the Orleans Parish criminal clerkship last fall with 68% of the vote. cut Duncan’s position. It seemed the fight had ebbed.

Then sources told The TimesPicayune this week that a grand jury was weighing evidence against Murrill, reigniting the tensions.

“The matter was ultimately going to be resolved by the Louisiana Supreme Court, not by absurd cross-accusations of criminal conduct,” Ciolino said.

Many questions remain unanswered about the grand jury’s focus and how far its investigation has progressed. Details such as how many witnesses the panel has called and what evidence it may be considering aren’t clear.

Also unclear is how much criminal exposure Murrill could ultimately face. The letters she sent

tions at El Scott Avenue and highlighted the Cash App payment in the letter.

“It is alleged that Mr. Washington fraudulently passed these inspections and violated state ethics code by potentially taking compensation for services,” Lambert wrote.

The evidence cited by the city-parish included GPS locations of Washington’s vehicle and data from his work phone — including the Cash App payment.

“Mr. Washington has created a false reality around the state of the buildings he was supposed to inspect,” Lambert wrote. “By knowingly certifying buildings that have not been inspected or buildings with known code violations, Mr. Washington has falsified public documents, which is a grave and serious matter.”

According to the letter, city-parish officials also believed Washington had contacted Entergy to authorize an emergency after-hours reconnection at another property — even though there was no emergency and the reconnection had not been paid for.

In December 2023, the Board of Ethics subpoenaed city-parish records related to Washington for its own investigation, according to documents obtained by The Advocate.

The board did not respond to a request for comment on the status of the case.

East Baton Rouge Parish First Assistant District Attorney Tracey Barbera said Tuesday that the district attorney’s office was not made aware of the matter involving Washington.

When Edwards took office as mayor and learned of investigations into city-parish housing deals, including potential problems in permitting, he ordered a review.

He said Monday that the city-parish has enhanced oversight with regular field ride-alongs with chief inspectors, increased rotation of assigned inspector territories and expanded GPS tracking of inspector vehicles.

Edwards said maintaining integrity in permitting is a “top priority” for his administration.

“While many of the poli-

to local officials claimed the fivemember City Council majority was helping to “usurp” Clerk of Court Chelsea Napoleon’s authority, citing a statute that makes it a misdemeanor to assume office without authority or to interfere with a public official.

At least some City Council members have been called to testify, sources said.

The council members had “put your own offices in jeopardy,” Murrill wrote. She directed them to “rescind or suspend” the resolutions, alleging they had “opted to aid and abet in the usurpation of the officeholder.”

Some legal veterans are skeptical that a criminal case built around the correspondence would pass muster.

cies designed to prevent fraud were already in place, we have taken additional steps to strengthen oversight and ensure those safeguards are being consistently followed,” Edwards said in a statement.

Questionable project costs In early 2022, the cityparish awarded Hughes $220,000 in federal grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to rehabilitate three small homes, one just under 1,000 square feet and two under 700, on Central Road in Scotlandville.

Six months after the initial award, the agreement with Hughes was amended and his public funding increased to $480,000.

City Hall later started raising concerns about the overall cost of Hughes’ project and the amount of money he was being paid for developing it.

In January 2023, the cityparish’s purchasing director at the time warned that Hughes was taking work away from the project’s contractor and doing it himself.

Kris Goranson wrote in a memo that Louisiana law explicitly says a construction contract made with an unlicensed contractor is null.

“We do not even have a valid contract with Hughes Consulting,” he wrote.

Hughes has never been listed as a licensed contractor with the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors.

It is unclear from the documents who did the work cited in Hughes’ failed inspections.

City-parish officials have noted other concerns related to the project’s finances.

In a 2024 internal audit by the finance division of the city-parish Office of Community Development, Hughes’ project was selected from a sample of housing deals for review.

The initial agreement between Hughes and the city-parish allowed for developer fees — his compensation for the project — totaling $33,000.

The agreement was later increased to allow for $72,000 in developer fees.

But upon completion, the audit says, Hughes was ac-

Grand juries, which at both the federal and state court levels weigh evidence to decide whether prosecutors have probable cause to criminally indict a defendant, typically meet with the utmost secrecy. But two sources told The Times-Picayune that the probe appears to have been initiated by the grand jury itself, a rare step the panel may take under state law.

Sources also told the newspaper that Williams recused himself from the probe and that former criminal court judge and veteran defense attorney Laurie White is handling the matter as a special prosecutor.

White declined to comment Wednesday on the grand jury investigation, saying only that there was “secrecy” surrounding the matter. She left the bench in 2023 amid a court employee’s sexual harassment complaint, which White denied at the time. A federal judge in 2023 dismissed a lawsuit from the employee.

White also previously represented Duncan in his criminal case before the Innocence Project, now known as Innocence and Justice Louisiana, took it over.

Moreno declined to comment Wednesday on the grand jury proceedings, which Criminal District

tually paid $135,000.

Last year, Hughes told The Advocate the ballooning developer fees were a mistake by city-parish officials and not his fault. As for the total cost of the project increasing by 118%, Hughes cited soaring construction material prices during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hughes’ Central Road renovation project is one of several contracts that federal and state prosecutors have scrutinized during a widening probe into alleged corruption in East Baton Rouge

Parish government.

In December, another Baton Rouge developer was accused of bank fraud related to a $6 million federally funded program known as “Housing for Heroes” following a probe conducted by the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office. The developer, Bradly Brown, also faces charges of falsifying public records related to the deal to build affordable housing in Scotlandville.

The investigations have yielded eight arrests, including three current or former

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Among them is sitting Metro Council member Cleve Dunn Jr., former transit official Pearlina Thomas and Courtney Scott, who was an aide to former Mayor-President Sharon Weston Broome.

A grand jury is continuing to investigate alleged corruption in Baton Rouge government under the Broome administration.

Broome was subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury in April but has not yet done so. The former mayor has denied any wrongdoing.

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Williams and several City Council members did not respond to phone calls.

Murrill hinted at reports of interest surrounding the allegations of a grand jury investigation as she opened her news conference Wednesday in Baton Rouge.

“Everyone is here for the sole reason we’re having a news conference on Medicaid fraud, right?” she asked, laughing.

She said she first heard of the grand jury investigation when a reporter contacted her on Tuesday to ask about it. Asked if she had an opinion of White’s reported appointment as a special prosecutor, Murrill said she would hold her tongue.

“I wouldn’t speak to it out of respect for the process, however much I may have thoughts about it or disagree with it,” she said.

“I won’t talk about it until we see what happens. Now, when we see what happens, I can assure you that I do have thoughts, and I will express them.”

Records show retired Judge Calvin Johnson, who the City Council tapped as an interim clerk when it called a special election in May, filed a complaint with the state bar commission against Murrill on June 17.

The document accuses Murrill of “unethical and unprofessional conduct,” naming as examples the letters she sent Johnson, Moreno, Williams and the five council members. In her letter to Johnson at the time, Murrill warned that he could face “imprisonment” even as she said he “appears to be an innocent bystander” to the dispute.

Staff writers John Simerman, Andrea Gallo and Meghan Friedmann contributed to this report.

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households thought the Fed replacing Jerome Powell as chair strategy, and the rest, that’s still New Federal Reserve or would accept inflation above 2%, May 22. He called for lower rates to come,” he later added. guess they’d be disappointed. last year as he essentially camAt his first news conference last chair emphasizes “IWe’re going to deliver price sta- paigned for the job. Since becom- month, Warsh also emphasized bility.” ing chair, however, Warsh has ap- his goal of getting inflation back independence The Fed typically combats infla- peared to move away from that down to target. Wall Street inves-

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tion by raising borrowing costs.

When asked about Trump’s oftrepeated desire for lower rates, WASHINGTON — New Federal Re- Warsh underscored the Fed’s indeserve Chair Kevin Warsh said pendence from day-to-day politics.

Wednesday that the central bank “We’ve been an independent cenwould remain independent and tral bank for a very long time,” he seek to bring down inflation, like- said. “We’re going to be an indely foreclosing the rate cuts Presi- pendent central bank at this modent Donald Trump has sought. ment and you’re going to see no In remarks at a central bank changes to that.” conference in Sintra, Portugal, Such comments suggest that Warsh said that if businesses Warsh has shifted his views since

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stance and instead has signaled a focus on getting inflation down.

But on Wednesday he declined to say what steps the Fed would take to achieve that goal, consistent with his opposition to socalled “forward guidance,” in which central bank leaders foreshadow their next policy moves.

“I’m not going to make a judgment now,” he said during the panel discussion with other central bankers. “The tactics, the

tors expect the Fed could hike its key interest rate as soon as in September, from its current level of about 3.6% to roughly 3.9%.

When the Fed last met June 16-17, nearly half of the 19 policymakers signaled that they supported higher rates this year, while eight supported no change and one penciled in a cut. Warsh did not submit a forecast because of his opposition to providing guidance.

French company to buy FedEx’s logistics arm NEW YORK — French container shipping company CMA CGM Group said Wednesday it will buy FedEx Supply Chain, the third-party logistics subsidiary of FedEx for $1.4 billion, as it works to expand in the U.S. CMA CGM Group said the acquisition will triple the size of its own logistics arm, CEVA Logistics and help build its presence as a contract logistics provider in North America.

In 2025, CMA CGM pledged to invest $20 billion in its U.S. warehousing, air cargo and logistics over four years.

The two companies said they expected to enter into multiyear air and ocean freight commercial agreements as well.

Rodolphe Saadé, CEO of CMA CGM Group, said the deal will “reinforce our long-term commitment to investing in the United States and supporting the resilience and efficiency of its supply chain.”

FedEx, based in Memphis, Tennessee, has been spinning off some businesses to focus on its delivery business, focusing on higher-margin businessto-business deliveries for the healthcare, automotive, aerospace and data center industries. It completed its spinoff of FedEx Freight, which transports heavy and bulky shipments, on June 1.

AOL’s owner hits Wall Street with $1.7B IPO NEW YORK — The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday.

Bending Spoons priced 58 million shares at $29 apiece.

The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 41% shortly after it started trading under the symbol “BSP” on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $25.5 billion.

Among the company’s wellknown holdings are the event creation and ticketing company Eventbrite, and the video hosting service Vimeo. AOL, formerly America Online, is a more recent acquisition for the company. The email and search engine service dates back to the dawn of the internet age.

AOL itself went public in 1992 and was a vanguard of technology and communication. It reached a market value of $164 billion in 2000 shortly before merging with Time Warner. It then crashed along with the rest of the industry following the bursting of the dot-com bubble. It has been bought and sold several times over the last two decades.

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U.S., Canada, Mexico begin bumpy negotiations to renew trade pact

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WASHINGTON — Tourists from Chattanooga check into beach resorts in Cancun. Canadian auto parts feed factories in the American Midwest — and vice versa. Happy hour revelers raise glasses of Mexican tequila and mezcal at bars in Seattle.

It adds up. The United States trades $1.9 trillion a year — $5 billion a day — worth of goods and services with its neighbors, Canada and Mexico. They have supplanted China as America’s top two trading partners.

So the stakes are high when it comes to fiddling with the rules that govern trade between the three countries. And after a year of President Donald Trump’s chaotic tariff policies, many U.S., Canadian and Mexican businesses would welcome the return of stability across North America.

They are not likely to get it.

The regional trade pact — the U.S.-MexicoCanada Agreement or USMCA — that Trump negotiated and boasted about in his first term came up for renewal Wednesday, starting a

process that is likely to last months, maybe longer.

And the path forward is lined with landmines.

“There’s going to be a lot of drama this summer,” Diego Marroquín Bitar, a fellow in the America’s program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, said last week at a USMCA forum sponsored by the Cato Institute.

The U.S. is making demands that could effectively force Canada and Mexico to surrender some automaking production to the United States. That might bring more auto factory jobs to the United States. But it would also upend established supply chains and would push up U.S. prices for new cars that now average nearly $50,000 at a time when American consumers are already furious about the high cost of living.

Trump, characteristically, has added to the tension by threatening to pull out of his own agreement altogether.

In 2020, the USMCA replaced the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement, which tore down most trade barriers be-

tween the three North American countries.

Trump and other critics had called NAFTA a job killer because it encouraged U.S. companies to move factories south of the border to take advantage of low-wage Mexican labor, then ship goods back to the United States duty free.

His USMCA ended up being similar to NAFTA — though it pressured factories to pay higher wages and make sure that more of what they made originated in North America in an effort to prevent Chinese products from slipping across regional borders duty free.

The USMCA included a novel provision requiring the pact to be renewed every six years. That deadline was Wednesday, and the three countries met virtually. But U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said in a statement that the United States was not ready to renew the pact as it is for another 16 years — which would have been until 2042.

The United States wants changes to the agreement to reduce its trade deficits with Canada and Mexico and to resolve specific disputes over issues such as Canada’s protection of its dairy industry.

Congressman seeks probe of ‘rent now, pay later’ companies

BY KEN SWEET

AP business writer NEW YORK — A Democratic member of Congress is calling for the federal government to investigate the growing “rent now, pay later” industry, saying Americans may not understand the fees and cost structure of these products as the services become more widely available.

Rep. Maxwell Frost, D-Fla., sent a letter to Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Acting Director Russell Vought urging the bureau to investigate rent now, pay later companies and hold them accountable for potential violations of federal consumer financial protection

laws. In the letter, obtained by The Associated Press, Frost also asked the bureau to explain what it is doing to protect renters and whether landlords are steering tenants toward rent-financing products.

“Rent now, pay later” companies allow renters to split their monthly rent into smaller payments over the course of a month. A renter with a $1,000 monthly rent bill might pay in four weekly payments of $250 or two payments of $500.

First elected to Congress in 2022 at the age of 25, Frost said he frequently used buy now, pay later services to furnish his first apartment in Washington, which put him heavily into debt. In an interview, Frost said it was only because he

made a healthy salary as a member of Congress that he was recently able to pay those debts off.

He said he believes his experience is likely the same as other young Americans.

“Americans should know they have rights when using these buy now, pay later products,” Frost said. “This is why the CFPB was created in the first place.”

Frost looked into using his credit card to pay rent, but “thank God that didn’t happen,” he added.

Companies such as Flex and Livble say breaking rent into multiple payments can help renters manage cash flow. The buy now, pay later company Affirm has also done limited trials that allow its

customers to split rent into multiple payments. But several of these payment plans can come with high fees and finance charges. In February, the AP reported on how users of these services were paying as much as $50 a month to split their rent.

These RNPL companies differ from companies like Bilt, which allows some renters to pay rent through its credit card and rewards platform. Bilt says it has more than 5 million members, and its customers have historically used its service to earn rewards points on rent payments. RNPL companies are more focused on allowing customers to finance large rent payments across multiple payments.

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Disability advocates warn against Trump’s actions

Hard-fought rights Justice released guidance live and work in their com- year, where he said children proper supports was a form losophy. Last year, President lowered the barrier to munities. Before that, peo- with autism would never of discrimination. The Olm- Donald Trump issued an could be eroded that institutionalizing any person ple with mental illnesses or write a poem, pay taxes or stead v. L.C. decision led to executive order on homedevelopmental and intellec- hold a job, raised questions requirements that govern- lessness that endorsed civil a disability. under administration with Taken together, the actions tual disabilities were largely about how he would oversee ment agencies provide dis- commitment, where a court

BY ANNIE MA

AP education writer WASHINGTON — For decades, disabled people have fought for their rights to go to school and live alongside peers without disabilities — rights that some fear could be losing ground under the Trump administration.

Last month, the Department of Education announced it would shift oversight of special education to the Department of Health and Human Services, led by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., whose comments on the limits of disabilities such as autism have drawn sharp rebukes from advocates and lawmakers.

Meanwhile, after a White House push to police homelessness, the Department of

signal a worrying return to a reality where people with disabilities are pushed to the margins of society, advocates said.

“It’s a direct, frontal assault on the rights of people with disabilities to live their lives the way that people who are nondisabled live their lives,” said Selene Almazan, legal director for the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. “I can’t imagine that as a country, that would be something that we would agree we should go back to.”

confined to institutions.

Advocates have pushed back on what is known as the “medical model,” where an individual’s disability is viewed as a defect to be cured. Instead, under a “social model” of disability, differences can be accommodated and supported, as people with and without disabilities learn and work alongside each other.

Families and advocates have warned that moving special education to a health department marks a return to the medical model. They also have been angered by Move away from confining Kennedy’s attempts to link Since the 1960s, legislation vaccines to autism, going and court decisions have ex- against decades of research panded supports and pro- that show no such link, and tections for people with dis- his framing of autism as a abilities to go to school with debilitating disease.

Kennedy’s comments last nondisabled peers and to

an agency meant to help students develop those skills.

Kennedy later said he was referring to people with “severe autism” or those who are nonverbal.

“Many of the things he said autistic people will never do, (special education) is in charge of making sure students with disabilities have the opportunity to do,” said Zoe Gross, director of advocacy at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network. “Will he execute that faithfully, or does he consider disabled students a lost cause until we find some medical cure?”

ability services in the most integrated setting possible — in mainstream schools, homes and workplaces.

But in a memo issued in June, the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel upended that guidance. It argued that neither the Americans with Disabilities Act nor Section 504, two major disability rights laws, requires states to provide services in the most mainstream setting.

While the memo does not change the law, it signals how federal agencies may interpret and enforce civil rights issues related to the topic.

It could embolden states or Supreme Court weighs in school districts to decline to In 1999, the Supreme support people with disabiliCourt ruled that segregat- ties in mainstream environing disabled people who ments. are otherwise able to live The White House has alin their community with ready acted on a similar phi-

orders individuals into involuntary hospitalization or treatment programs. Trump directed HHS to reduce barriers to institutionalizing people with mental illnesses.

In its memo, the Justice Department acknowledged its interpretation of the Supreme Court’s Olmstead decision is “out of step” with the common understanding.

The Republican administration’s steps fit a worldview in which the government has no obligation to support people with disabilities, said Claudia Center, legal director at Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund.

“It’s dark, and it’s awful,” Center said. “And I think it’s contrary to the majority view in our country. ... It’s out of touch with where our society is.”

Israeli forces detain Palestinian women in West Bank raids Many imprisoned without formal charges

BY SAM METZ

Associated Press JERUSALEM — It was shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday when Abdelrahman Badr said he heard footsteps outside his home in Hebron in the occupied West Bank. Soon Israeli forces were at his door, he said.

They were looking for his wife.

The forces took Itaf Badr, who serves on the board of a prominent health charity, and said she was wanted for questioning, driving her away in the dead of night, according to Abdelrahman.

She was one of five Palestinian women detained by Israeli security forces across the West Bank on Wednesday. The early morning raids targeted multiple cities, including Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus

from the Israel Prison Service.

The number of Palestinian women and girls in Israeli detention has more than doubled since the start of the Israel-Hamas war and increased 80% since the start of 2026. Fifteen have been arrested since the beginning of June, bringing the total to 99, according to Prisoners’ Club data.

Some of them were arrested after posting messages on social media, including ones that were critical of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or the war in Gaza.

Others were members of Palestinian political parties’ student branches at their universities, AlZaghari said.

Many have been imprisoned without formal charges under Israel’s administrative detention policy, which allows authorities More women arrested to hold Palestinians for renewable Women now make up a small periods of up to six months.

Last month, Israeli soldiers arbut growing share of the roughly 9,300 Palestinians currently in de- rested at least five other young tention, according to Israeli rights women, including four members group Hamoked, which gets data of the Palestinian national soccer

and Bethlehem, the women’s families and Palestinian rights groups said.

For most of Israel’s decades-long occupation, Palestinian men and boys have borne the brunt of the military’s effort to enforce it, and have been swept up in mass detentions or spent years in jail for throwing rocks at Israeli troops.

But security forces are detaining more women and girls, said Abdullah Al-Zaghari, head of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club, a nongovernmental organization that supports political prisoners in Israeli jails. He said gender is no longer a distinguishing factor in who the group believes Israel is targeting, from political activists to student leaders at Palestinian universities.

team and a 20-year-old PalestinianAmerican, Sama Saif.

The military said those women were suspected of “promoting terrorist activities.” At least one has since been released. The others have not yet been charged, according to their attorneys. Saif’s arrest has drawn criticism from several U.S. senators, who have demanded her immediate release.

On Wednesday, the Israeli military referred questions about the arrests in Ramallah and Nablus to Israel’s Border Police, which also operates in the West Bank. It said it was checking for information on the arrest of Itaf in Hebron but did not respond to a request for comment on why she was detained.

Why they were detained The relatives of the women who were detained early Wednesday said they were unsure why they were taken away.

In Nablus, Wael al-Faqih said his wife, Maiser al-Faqih, was arrested

at home by Israeli forces. She is a former detainee and, like Itaf, was previously involved with the Union of Health Work Committees, a charity that provides medical care in low-income communities.

Israel has accused the group of ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which it has designated a terrorist organization.

The charity denies the allegations.

“We still don’t know what it was about,” Wael said in an interview.

He said Israeli forces searched him and his son and then asked Maiser to put on her hijab before whisking her away.

Abdelrahman said he believed his wife Itaf’s work with the charity put her at risk. He told a similar story about her arrest.

First, she was taken outside and then handcuffed in the street.

“I looked at them from the window, they shouted at me and my son,” he said. Then, “they grabbed her, blindfolded her and put her in the military vehicle.”

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New autopsy of a Challengers score victories against Arkansas’ restrictions baby killed by police deepens outrage

Federal judge rules extra conditions on ballot initiatives violate free speech

Mississippi family is challenging claims about the shooting

BY MARC LEVY Associated Press

BY HANNAH FINGERHUT

A federal judge in Arkansas has thrown out a handful of state laws that put extra restrictions on citizen efforts to gather signatures for ballot initiatives, agreeing with challengers that they violated the constitutional free speech rights of voters.

The decision handed several victories to the League of Women Voters of Arkansas and other plaintiffs, which sued last year amid efforts in various states to make it harder for regular citizens to make laws or amend their states’ constitution through ballot initiatives.

One such measure required someone signing a petition to show photo ID. That and other additional ballot-initiative restrictions were imposed by Arkansas’ GOPcontrolled state government after election officials cited a legal technicality to reject petitions submitted by abortion rights supporters in a 2024 effort to legalize abortion in the conservative state.

One of the plaintiffs, Protect AR Rights, called the decision an “important victory for the people of Arkansas and their constitutional right to direct democracy.”

The decision, issued Tuesday

by U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks, also rejected some challenges by the league and its fellow plaintiffs, while Brooks sent three other disputes to trial.

The defendant, Arkansas Secretary of State Cole Jester, a Republican who had defended the laws in court, said in a statement that his office plans to appeal Brooks’ decision and “will fight tirelessly for common sense safeguards like voter ID.” Among the laws Brooks struck down are 2025 measures requiring canvassers to verify a petition signers’ identity through a photo

A Mississippi family whose 1-year-old child was killed when police fired into a moving car offered evidence Wednesday that they say challenges the officers’ account of being in danger when one opened fire.

A preliminary autopsy requested by the family of Kohen Wiley suggested the baby was shot from the side of the car, not the front, civil rights attorney Ben Crump said, disputing officers’ claims that the car was heading toward them. Kohen’s mother, who was holding her baby in the passenger seat, says her friend was driving away from the officers.

Kohen and his mother are Black, and the June 14 shooting has sparked protests and outrage in the small town of Senatobia. Residents point to a string of troubling encounters with police in recent years. Crump said the child was killed after police were called to a Walmart parking lot about diapers that may have been shoplifted.

“We’re going to try to continue to demand transparency,” Crump said. He spoke from the pulpit of Senatobia Church of Christ, surrounded by more than a dozen people including the baby’s grandparents, some of them holding “Justice for Baby Kohen” signs.

However, Crump repeatedly emphasized that the pathologist did not have access to complete information. He said the family won’t rest until authorities release the police body camera and dashcam video, as well as Walmart surveillance video.

A spokesperson for the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, which is in charge of the ongoing inquiry, declined to comment Wednesday. Tate County Coro-

Associated Press

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Boxes containing signatures supporting a proposed ballot measure to scale back Arkansas’ abortion ban are delivered to a room in the state Capitol, on July 5, 2024, in Little Rock, Ark. ID and to read the ballot question aloud or require a petition signer to read the entire ballot question before signing it. The ballot questions are often hundreds of words long.

Requiring a petition signer to possess and present a photo ID “before engaging in core political speech” plainly violates free speech laws, Brooks wrote, and noted that the Arkansas secretary of state’s office reviews every signature to confirm that the petition signer is a registered voter.

The ID requirement regulates what a registered voter “must do before signing a petition and what a canvasser must do before allowing them to,” Brooks wrote. “This impedes supporters of a measure from expressing their views by signing a petition.”

State officials had contended that requiring a reading of the ballot question before anyone can sign a petition was necessary to prevent a canvasser from misrepresenting the ballot question.

But Brooks wrote that the state had refused to prosecute reported cases of such canvasser misconduct, and that it should enforce its existing laws before it chose a more restrictive alternative of “imposing burdensome speech

codes on good and bad actors alike.”

Twenty-three states and Washington, D.C., allow citizen-initiated ballot measures, according to the nonprofit Ballot Initiative Strategy Center.

In March, the center reported that it had found a “sharp escalation” by lawmakers in both the number and severity of anti-democratic attacks on the ballot measure process over the past several election cycles.

Sponsors of such efforts, it wrote, framed them as steps to improve election integrity, administrative efficiency or voter protection.

One of the most common methods is making it harder for initiatives to qualify for the ballot by placing restrictions on where, when and how signatures are collected, it wrote.

It singled out efforts in Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio and Oklahoma.

Another common method of restricting ballot initiatives, it said, is requiring a larger majority of voters, rather than a simple majority, to approve a referendum, thus making it harder to pass. It cited efforts in Arizona, Florida, Missouri, North Dakota and Ohio.

ner Ernie Lentz said in an email the official autopsy report is not complete. An email was sent to Senatobia Police Chief Harold Vanderford seeking comment.

An email was also sent to a Walmart spokesperson seeking comment.

On display at the church were photos and diagrams of Kohen’s body and a photo of the car. The passenger window was shattered and an apparent bullet hole pierced the windshield on the passenger side. The other woman in the car was badly wounded, authorities said.

The broken passenger-side window indicates a bullet was fired into that side the car, Crump said.

The preliminary findings, Crump said, show the bullet entered the baby’s torso on his right side and exited on his left. Crump said that assessment is supported by the clusters of cuts on the right side of his chest and abdomen that would have been caused by the broken tempered glass.

“That’s very important as we try to solve a puzzle,” he explained, adding: “The reason that we’re having to try to solve the puzzle is because they won’t release the video.”

In an initial account of the shooting, state investigators said: “Officers attempted to stop the vehicle, but the driver drove in the direction of the officers, almost striking one. An officer then discharged their weapon and the vehicle fled the scene.”

Investigators will try to figure out the vehicle’s position, how everyone was sitting inside, and where the officers were standing, said policing expert Ian Adams, who teaches criminal justice at the University of South Carolina. They will need to look at damage to the car as well as bullet wounds, because people can move around.

“We need to know a lot more before drawing firm conclusions based on bullet wounds alone,” Adams said.

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Man argues self-defense in shooting Gunfire killed one, left teen injured

BY QUINN COFFMAN

family member of the victims, is accused of gunning down Robinson in the front yard of a residence durA Baton Rouge family sat divided ing a family gathering in April 2024. across a courtroom aisle WednesWalker is charged with one count day as the trial began in a shooting each of second-degree murder, atthat left 39-year-old Norris Rob- tempted second-degree murder inson Jr. dead and his 17-year-old and illegal use of a firearm.

According to Walker’s attordaughter wounded.

Terrell Walker, 23, an extended neys, a feud between their client Staff writer

and Robinson had been going on before the shooting. At the gathering, a verbal argument began after Walker failed to properly greet Robinson, and that escalated to the fatal result, attorneys said.

But other factors brought up in opening arguments further complicate the case, including that an autopsy revealed methamphetamines in Robinson’s system and that he had a firearm of his own.

Assistant District Attorney Jim

Norris Robinson Sr., stood in front of Walker. Robinson Sr. told Walker to leave and walked him back to his vehicle in the front driveway.

“Big Norris thinks it’s over. He thinks the defendant’s leaving, but the defendant doesn’t leave,” Perrilloux said. “He goes back to his vehicle and he comes back around the front of his car with a .45-caliber handgun, and he starts shooting.”

Perrilloux set the scene in his opening statement: an evening family gathering on April 12, 2024, at a residence on Sycamore Street with both Walker and Robinson in attendance.

A heated verbal altercation between Walker and Robinson began in the front yard; prosecutors said the reason for the fight is unknown.

Other family members exited the house to break things up.

Robinson’s daughter stood in front of him, while her grandfather,

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CURB APPEAL

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A construction worker hammers a post while removing a frame as sidewalk construction continues under the hot afternoon sun during part of the Florida Boulevard Corridor Enhancement and Resurfacing Project in Baton Rouge on Monday.

Sheriff: Toddler dies after falling into pond A toddler died after falling into a pond near an apartment complex on Tuesday night, according to the East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office.

CRIME Deputies responded to BLOTTER The Waters at Bluebonstaff net apartments at 3445 reports Bluebonnet Blvd. at 8:17 p.m. The child was taken to a hospital for treatment, where they later died, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The victim was identified as 2-year-old Amar Guidry.

The investigation is ongoing.

Police seek car connected with shooting injuries The Baton Rouge Police Department is asking for the public’s help in finding a vehicle that is believed to have played a part in the shooting and injuring of five juveniles, ages 11 to 17, on June 17.

The victims were outside an apartment complex in the 2100 block of Lobdell Boulevard a little after 7 p.m. when a vehicle pulled up and someone began

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Redevelopment plans for north Rep. Firment announces Baton Rouge candidacy for U.S. House unveiled ELECTION 2026

Rural central La. Republican seeks seat Letlow vacating

who was appointed by Gov. Jeff Landry to chair the state Board of Regents.

State Sen. Stewart Cathey, R-Monroe, is expected to announce his candidacy in the coming days.

Echols and Cordell have been running for the seat for months, giving them a

BY TYLER BRIDGES head start in raising money and winning Staff writer over key people in the district.

The three are now running in a district State Rep. Gabe Firment, a Republican from rural central Louisiana, an- that was quickly redrawn by the state Legislature in May after the nounced Wednesday that he’ll Supreme Court ruled the state’s run for the 5th Congressional congressional map was unconDistrict seat that U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow is vacating. stitutional. The new map turned Firment, who lives in Pollock the 6th Congressional District, in Grant Parish, has built a solrepresented by Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat from Baton idly conservative voting record Rouge, into a White-majority during his six years in the state district.

House.

Firment The reshaped 5th Congres“Louisiana’s 5th District deserves a fighter who will stand firm sional District includes all or parts of and deliver results,” Firment said. “I’m 24 parishes — stretching from Monroe ready to take that fight to Washington.” south to Avoyelles and Rapides parishes Firment joins a race that already in- and east to the Florida Parishes. It was cludes one state House colleague, Mi- designed to elect a Republican. chael Echols, R-Monroe, and another ä See FIRMENT, page 2B Republican from Monroe, Misti Cordell,

New homes, retail space included

BY AVERY WHITE Staff writer

Build EBR took to the community this week for input on new redevelopment plans for north Baton Rouge.

The Baton Rouge Redevelopment Authority hosted meetings in Scotlandville and the Dixie neighborhoods, inviting residents to provide feedback on plans to redevelop lots in the areas and to introduce new ideas for retail and housing opportunities. Part of the proposals are new homes and retail space.

“We realized that with our land bank, we have a tremendous opportunity to put business, put commerce, put housing into the market in a way that makes sense,” Build EBR President and CEO Deidre Deculus Robert said. “But the first thing you have to do is you have to talk to the community.”

The two spaces planned for redevelopment

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School marks new chapter as LSU New Orleans UNO changes name with celebration and a big sign

BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

It’s official: The University of New Orleans is now LSU New Orleans.

The name change and return to the LSU system marks a new chapter for the nearly 70-year-old university, officials said during a ceremony Wednesday attended by hundreds of students, faculty, alums and local leaders, including New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno. The event culminated with the unveiling of a large LSU New Orleans sign in purple and gold.

“Today we unveil a new sign, but what we are really unveiling is possibility,” said Jeanette Weiland, the school’s interim chancellor and chief administrative officer. She added that the revamped university is aiming for higher enrollment, stronger academic programs, expanded research and more community partnerships.

Last year, alarmed by dwindling enrollment and precarious finances at the University of New Orleans, Louisiana lawmakers began the process to shift the university back to the LSU system, which governed the university from its founding until 2011. Supporters hope the shift will financially stabilize and attract more students to the university, where enrollment fell to 5,700 students last fall, down from a peak of 17,000 students before Hurricane

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Wade Rousse, LSU system president and a University of New Orleans graduate, center, pats the back of Jim Dalton, chancellor of LSU Baton Rouge, as they stand by the new sign for LSU New Orleans that was unveiled on Wednesday.

Katrina.

Ahead of the official shift, there have been other signs of the coming change on campus.

Banners marking LSU New Orleans recently went up along Elysian Fields Avenue and purple and gold decals wrapped around the exterior of the library. Officials also took steps they said were necessary to address a budget shortfall and put the school on a new path.

They hired a slew of new administrators, including Weiland; closed the liberal arts building; cut some academic programs; and raised tuition.

LSU President Wade Rousse, who earned a master’s degree from University of New Orleans and credited the university for inspiring his love for economics, said the changes have put the university on stable financial footing.

11 people in Kenner accused of exploiting minors online considering he was attempting dresses up as Santa Claus, inviting One suspect’s legal toinghave sex with a boy,” Kenner parents to drop their young chilpolice said in a statement Monday dren in his lap for photo ops,” Kenname is Santa Claus evening. ner Police Chief Keith Conley said

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

Staff writer

A weekend sting by the Kenner Police Department concluded with 11 arrests of suspects accused of exploiting minors online, including a man from New Orleans whose legal name is Santa Claus, according to Kenner police.

Claus, 75, was taken into custody Friday on the Kenner lakefront where he arranged to meet up with a 15-year-old boy that he met on the dating app Grindr, according to court records.

In text message exchanges, Claus discussed showering with the teen and engaging in various sex acts, court records showed. The 15-yearold was actually an undercover Kenner police detective.

Claus arrived at the planned meeting wearing a red shirt, red jacket and red pants. He also had a white beard.

“His physical appearance indicates he does take on the persona of the Santa Claus, which is alarm-

PLANS

Continued from page 1B are the 3.3-acre lot on the corner of Plank Road and Choctaw Drive in the Dixie community and a 6.5acre site in Scotlandville on 76th Avenue and Scenic Highway adjacent to Southern University.

Survey results circulated by Build EBR showed that residents in both areas wanted to see more access to grocery stores, restaurants, health services and youth programs. While the project managers are taking their wants into account, they explained to those in attendance that planners also have to take data from the surrounding areas into account to guarantee long-term success.

“We can ask for a lot of things in a community, but if the data is not there to support that in that community, it’s going to be extremely hard to get a developer to come in and do those types of things,” said Paragon Advisors co-founder Shane Hooper, a developer on the project.

The redevelopment authority uses a land bank to retain vacant lots and blighted properties through tax adjudication, donations or partnerships. The land is then redeveloped for economic improvement. The goal is to transform the property — bringing in new retail, housing opportunities and civil infrastructure‚ to improve economic viability in the neighborhood.

Police arrested Claus and booked him on charges of computer-aided solicitation of a minor and indecent behavior with a juvenile. He was being held without bail Monday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna.

Investigators uncovered images showing the man had worked at some point as a “Santa Claus.”

Police couldn’t solidly confirm his employment history or where he might have performed those services, according to Kenner Police Deputy Chief Mark McCormick, who said the case is still under investigation.

Agents did confirm that Claus legally changed his name to match the Christmas figure, though investigators said they don’t know when and where he did so. Claus has no prior criminal convictions under his current or former name, according to authorities.

“We preach daily about the vulnerability of our children on social media and gaming platforms, and now we have arrested a person who

in a statement. “This is a cautionary tale to parents and guardians.”

The other 10 suspects arrested

by Kenner police were booked on similar charges, including indecent behavior-grooming, Kenner police said. Those arrested include: n Carlos Lopez-Reyes, 29, of Kenner n Christopher Fava, 45, of Metairie n Faustino Salanicsam, 57, of Kenner n Francisco Amaya Paguada, 48, of Baton Rouge n Jamal Landry, 34, of New Orleans n Johnny Pierre, 31, of New Orleans n Jonathan Akers, 31, of New Orleans n Mario Herrera Zeledon, 44, of Kenner n Michael Lousteau, 23, of Luling n Melvin Walker, 43, of Pascagoula, Miss.

Project leaders said the success of the developments relies on community engagement.

“We’ve seen a lot of great ideas, great development ideas not happen because the community wasn’t engaged,” said Gaudet and Associates founder and project consultant Jay Gaudet. “If I live in a community, … it could be the greatest idea, but if I can’t digest what you’re trying to tell me that you’re going to do in my community. Chances are I’m going to say, ‘No, I don’t want it.’ ” Plans for the Dixie development are for 20 single-family homes and 12,000 square feet of commercial space split among eight retail units and an anchor retail space.

While residents showed interest in the plans, some expressed concern for the affordability of the new housing.

“There’s no way to drive or bring up the income of your residents that are there,” Dixie resident Sonyja Thomas said.

Robert told residents the housing units would be mixed-income housing with potential for tax credits, leaving room for families that may need help and subsidies.

Mayor-President Sid Edwards stopped in on the morning meeting in Dixie, expressing support for the project.

“Where my feet are today, goes right into where my heart’s at, and it’s in this community,” Edwards said. “This is what I want to see be lifted up. I want to see new things.”

Plans for the Scotlandville tract feature 17 single-family homes and a single 12,000-square-foot retail hub, providing for different opportunities. With a focus on middle-class families and income to recruit more retail ventures in the future, Hooper said.

Metro Council member Anthony Kenney, who represents Scotlandville, said the plans were the next step in improving Scotlandville.

“It’s time to materialize and execute development plans in our community,” Kenney said. “This is definitely a huge leap towards solving a lot of the problems in Scotlandville, housing and grocery store access.”

Scotlandville residents were happy to be involved in the planning process, resident Pat McCallister-LeDuff said.

“I think it’s the right direction,” McCallister-LeDuff said. “If you come to Scotlandville with a plan you think we want, you could very well leave with your tail tucked. … We want to be involved.”

Build EBR leaders emphasized the plans were not set in stone, but rather jumping-off points for more community feedback; plans for the sites will continue to be developed. Leaders say they hope to see major developments on the projects late this year, with the project wrapping up in the first quarter of 2028.

“I see a lot of hope and new beginnings for our area,” Dixie resident Lisa Simpkins said.

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He added that the school will contribute to LSU’s mission to educate students from across the state and prepare them for the workforce.

But the university will also remain a research institution rooted in New Orleans, Rousse said.

“LSU New Orleans must remain committed to serving as a catalyst for social mobility, for first-generation students, working students, adult learners and veterans,” he

told the crowd. “That is a critical legacy worth keeping.”

Students in yellow LSU New Orleans shirts cheered and waved glittery pompoms as attendees arrived at Wednesday’s celebration.

Kamille Isom, a graduate student and president of the Student Government Association, said she was hopeful the event’s high energy and optimism would be a permanent feature of LSU New Orleans.

“We had a lot of people come out,” she said. “Seeing all those people just made me really excited for what’s to come.”

Chris Summa, a professor and president of the Faculty Senate, said he was nearly moved to tears by a promotional video that highlighted faculty members’ commitment to New Orleans. He noted that the university has endured financial hardships since Hurricane Katrina, but said he is optimistic that the new leadership will help the school function more seamlessly.

“This is a chance to get our mojo back and get to doing what we do best,” he said. “It’s exciting to see this many people excited about LSU New Orleans.”

Arian Verrett, a New Orleans native who enrolled at UNO after moving back to the city to care for her family, said she appreciates the university’s close-knit community, though she wouldn’t mind seeing more students on campus. She believes the school can maintain that sense of community even if it’s now called LSU New Orleans.

“It doesn’t matter if they change the name,” she said. “It’s still the same people. It’s still the same school.”

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Anyone with information about the vehicle or its whereabouts is firing shots at the juveniles, police asked to contact BRPD’s Violent Crimes Unit at (225) 389-4869 or said.

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Continued from page 1B Candidates will qualify for the seat on Aug. 5-7. The open primary is on Nov. 3. If no candidate receives above 50%, the top two finishers will advance to a December runoff.

Letlow is giving up the seat to run for the U.S. Senate.

Firment, 55, received an undergraduate degree from Louisiana Christian University and an MBA from Louisiana Tech and is a deacon and Sunday school teacher at his church.

A leading conservative voice on insurance issues, Firment chairs the House Insurance Committee, an assignment he received from the speaker both because of his indepth knowledge of the subject and his leadership abilities.

Firment spent most of his career as an insurance adjuster. He now works as a consultant helping home and business owners with disputed insurance claims.

In 2023, in the final year of his first

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term, Firment sponsored a measure to ban gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth that thrust him into the middle of perhaps the most controversial issue of that year’s legislative session.

Conservative activists hailed the legislation, while critics said it maligned a small, vulnerable population.

The Republican-controlled Legislature approved the measure, House Bill 648, then-Gov. John Bel Edwards vetoed it, and legislators took the exceedingly rare step of overriding the governor to have it become law.

In 2025, the Legislature passed a bill by Firment that prohibits undocumented immigrants who are injured in car accidents from collecting general damages.

That same year, Firment showed his independent side by criticizing Landry’s effort to pass a bill that put him at odds with Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple. In the face of opposition from Firment and other Republicans, Landry had to water down the bill to get it passed. Firment voted for the final version.

the range that could cause aggressive or irrational behavior.

In the cross examinations of Clark and multiple Baton Rouge police officers, Walker’s attorneys asked repeated questions about Robinson’s firearm: where it was found in relation to his body, if it had blood from the victim’s hand wound on it and why an officer failed to properly store it in an evidence bag when it was first found at the scene.

Prosecutors argued that Robinson’s gun was never drawn, and could have potentially fallen out of his pants when he hit the ground.

Since Walker’s case rests on an argument of self-defense, the question of who drew first, if at all, could be central to his case.

The trial is scheduled to continue Thursday.

The first shot passed through Robinson’s wrist, striking his teenage daughter in the chest, Perrilloux said. That prompted Walker to chase Robinson and shoot at him again, this time fatally.

Brooke Alexander, Walker’s attorney, set a slightly different scene in her opening statements.

She said her client acted in selfdefense against a bigger assailant who was clutching a gun of his own.

“This happened in seconds, and this happened in chaos,” Alexander said. “This happened when a 229-pound man on methamphetamine, fentanyl, amphetamine, who’s armed with a gun, who is following my client to his car, who’s twisting his own daughter Email Quinn Coffman at quinn. around trying to get to my client, coffman@theadvocate.com. who’s angry and who is trying to fight my client. That’s how this case happened.”

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Obituaries James, Cornelius

Cornelius James, born on December 26, 1948, passed away on June 25, 2026. Viewing, Friday July 3, 2026 form 5PM -7PM and on Saturday, July 4, 2026 from 8AM until funeral service at 9AM at Mt Calvary Baptist Church, 8969 LA-18 St. James, LA. Rev. Dr. Samuel Jones, officiating.

Jones, Talyn Maliyah 'Liyah'

And while she sleeps a peaceful sleep, Her memory we shall always keep.

Talyn Maliyah was born on Wednesday, March 4, 2015, to Helen De'Shay Jones and Tolley Ray Milton. Talyn passed away in her sleep from a rare form of Brain Cancer, DIPG, on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at the home of her great aunt, Dana Leron Jones.

Talyn loved cheering, dancing, swimming, women's wrestling, arts and crafts, card and board games, and football. Talyn loved the character, "Stitch." Talyn adored her family and friends. She attended Episcopal School of Baton Rouge from Pre-K3 through 5th Grade, and was a member of Greater Mount Olive Missionary Baptist Church.

Talyn Maliyah is remembered by her mommy, Helen De'Shay Jones; father, Tolley Ray Milton; "daddy," Marvin "Junior" Queen; grandparents, Mario Jones, (Brenda) and Ingrid Willis (Bobby); great grandmother, Mary Mitchell; uncle, Maril J. Jones, II; great aunt and Godmother, Dana Leron; Godmother, Hilda Taylor (all of BR, LA); and great-great uncle, Patrick (Gloria) Jones (Dallas, TX).

Talyn Maliyah is now in Heaven with her great grandparents, Mary Louise Jones, Tolley Gaten and Everlean Milton; great uncle, Corbett Jones; great-great aunts, Helen and Deborah Kay Jones; great-great uncles, Warren and Henderson Jones, Jr.; cousin, Thalani Jones; and close family friend, Marvin Rogers.

Visitation is from 4:007:00 p.m. at Jordan Stone B. C., 8523 Thelma St. on Thursday, July 2, 2026, and from 8:00-9:45 a.m. at Greater Olive MBC, 3155 Victoria Dr on Friday, July 3, 2026. Religious Service starts at 10:00 a.m. Charles

Our beloved Janaki Rao was truly an angel on earth. She was lovely and kind and had a very beautiful heart. Jana was born in London, England on June 12, 1937, to her parents Leontine (Boo) Weimer and Dr. Mugar Ranga Rao Suba Rao, and passed away peacefully into the loving arms of Jesus Christ and her parents on June 29, 2026. They lived in India for the first 10 years of her life and, after the untimely death of her father, Jana and her mother returned to the United States and lived in Baton Rouge where she became the delight of her mother's large family. She was also fortunate to have the love of her stepfather, Q. A. Hester, who made sure that Jana was loved and well educated.

She graduated from LSU and became a devoted schoolteacher for many years.

From her mother, grandfather, and aunts and uncles, Jana learned that the love of family is the most important gift that a person can have. God was good to Jana and, through his divine intervention and the help of her cousin Jodi Sanders Rollins, she was reunited with her brother Ramu, who lived in India, in the twilight of both of their lives.

It was a time of great joy for Jana to have the opportunity to also meet her brother's daughter, Vidya and her husband and their children, Anita and Sarika, and to know that she had their love.

She was so proud to know that her brother and his family had happy and successful lives and that they knew that she was part of their family.

Jana is survived by so many who love her, it is impossible to name us all.

Those of us who knew and loved her, have benefited greatly by her presence in our lives and we are grateful.

She is preceded in death by her mother, father and stepfather and her brother, Ramu Rao, her grandfather George Weimer, Sr., her Uncles George Weimer, Lowell Weimer, Cliff Weimer, B.M. Dixon, Sr. and Irvin Head and her Aunts Verda Weimer, Lorna Weimer, Mrs. Irvin (Winnie) Head and Mrs. B.M. (Fadra) Dixon, her cousins B.M. Dixon, Jr., Cindee Parsons, Charlie Dixon, Allen Sanders, and a large extended family who welcomed her into heaven with open arms.

Her family would like to thank Carrie McBride who took excellent care of Jana for many years.

Visiting will be at Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government Street, 9am to 11am with funeral services at 11am.

Pallbearers will be Curtis Dixon, Jr., Barrett Dixon, Braden Dixon, Billie Dixon III, Tom Weimer, Dan Weimer, Nick Weimer and Kyle Mautner.

Honorary Pall bearers will be James Dixon, Brad Dixon, Curt Dixon, Sam Dixon, Clifford Weimer, Greg Weimer, Dean Weimer and Samuel Jowers. Interment will be in Roselawn Cemetery, 4045 North Street, next to her beloved mother and stepfather.

Thank you, Jana, for all the things you did for all of us. You will never be forgotten and will always be loved.

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Sexual assault victims should be at top of state’s priority list Louisiana’s yearslong struggle to properly respond to the victims of alleged sexual assaults has been well documented. Whether it’s a lack of personnel to perform exams, a backlog in handling of rape kits, or struggles pursuing criminal charges, the problems have been persistent and intractable.

And even with recent efforts to address some of the issues, a new report by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor notes that plenty of work remains to be done.

The audit identified major gaps in the efforts to respond to sexual assaults. Among the findings: The various agencies, which include law enforcement, advocacy groups and healthcare providers, often don’t coordinate on their response; some regions of the state do not have response plans that meet the requirements of state law and, even when they do, some are in need of significant improvement; some of those plans have not been approved by coroners, as they are required to be; at least four parishes do not have an accredited sexual assault advocacy center; and many victims do not have access to Sexual Assault Nurse Examiners, or SANEs. One advocate told this newspaper’s Meghan Friedmann that the state’s biggest problem boils down to inconsistency of services and response.

“Everything is siloed,” said Morgan Lamandre, CEO of Sexual Trauma Awareness & Response.

The report comes as some legislators in recent years have taken steps to tackle the problem. Three years ago, Sen. Beth Mizell, RFranklinton, authored a bill that created a system to track rape kits in the process of analysis.

This year, a bill authored by Rep. Annie Spell, R-Lafayette, sought to centralize and strengthen oversight of the statewide response to sex crimes.

Spell’s bill, which was signed into law by Gov. Jeff Landry, creates a new position in the attorney general’s office tasked with getting a statewide picture of the responses. The person will also help direct resources to areas where it is lacking, Spell said. The law also creates a mobile SANE team, requires regional health officials to submit annual reports on the response and sets up a panel to create statewide standards.

We believe all of these measures are positive.

We also agree with Lamandre that the new rules need to include accountability for the officials responsible.

“We need more teeth behind things,” Lamandre said. “We need consequences.”

The auditor’s report also noted some needed additional steps, including finding consistent funding for advocacy centers and improved oversight.

All of these seem like good ideas to us. For years, the old system has too frequently failed the very people it was supposed to help. Louisiana is a law-and-order state; the rights and protection of sex crime victims should be at the top of the priority list.

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Declaration means nothing if we don’t fight for our freedoms What are we celebrating, really?

A divided country? Limited freedom for a select few? No equal/voter’s rights? A Department of Injustice? Exhausting our resources through selfserving means? An indecisive war?

Strained economy? What?

Absolutely nothing in the Constitution of the United States of America, the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights matters if we have a Congress willing to oppose we, the people, who put them in office. How do we, and I quote, “form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and posterity,” when our very own legislation, both Senate and House of Representatives, supports the dysfunctional behavior of the legislative, executive and judicial branches?

There’s no sovereign or governing body held responsible. Add insult to

Vote on candidates’ positions, not their party

injury, Congress has failed the people of the United States when they allowed an insurrectionist to hold office against Amendment XIV Sec.3. Our legislative, executive and judicial branches have all been tarnished.

So, I say, “What are we celebrating, really?” Our flag has been replaced by the Confederate flag. This is not America, land of the free, home of the brave. America needs legislators of strength. It’s one thing to speak up, but it’s only beneficial when you act on behalf of everyone.

Americans believe our government to be better than that. America attracts immigrants because we’re a country all other countries strive to be. The best way to correct something is to call it out. America should use this July 4, Independence Day, the 250th anniversary to get re-vested in why we’re here in the first place. Time to save America.

Republican voters of Louisiana, it’s time to vote for what is best for the people — not simply for the letter “R” or “D” next to a candidate’s name. Our elected officials should be judged by their character, leadership and results, not by their political party.

Too often, we reelect politicians whose primary goal seems to be staying in office and following party lines rather than solving the problems facing our state.

Louisiana has long been considered a red state, yet we continue to rank near the bottom in many important measures, including education, health outcomes and economic opportunity. If we want better results, we must be willing to hold every elected official accountable, regardless of party affiliation.

We need to demand more transparency from those who represent us.

Too many decisions are made behind closed doors, and too many promises are made during campaigns that are never fulfilled once candidates are elected. This cycle of disappointment has gone on too long.

Our communities deserve leaders who focus on real solutions — improving schools, creating good-paying jobs, strengthening infrastructure and ensuring access to quality healthcare. These are not partisan issues; they are Louisiana issues that affect every family in our state.

Our voices are powerful. We should use them to support leaders who put the people of Louisiana first and are committed to improving the lives of all our citizens.

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Fed-up country has news for its wayward leadership Who’s going to tell him?

That the affordability crisis is real news — not fake news — and needs attention.

That the purpose of the presidency is not to enrich oneself and one’s family.

That preoccupation with a ballroom that redefines ostentatious and an arch that mocks taste and proportion is not helping Americans.

That shotgun tariffs, implemented based on grudges and bullying, hurt Americans.

That a poorly planned war based on false premises (the regime will be overthrown) will hurt us economically in the short run, militarily in the intermediate term and politically in the long run.

That repeatedly insulting and dismissing our long-term allies will leave us isolated and scorned by the world.

That cozying up to autocratic leaders who share his penchant for the arbitrary acquisition of free and independent countries is wrongheaded.

That letting a science- and evidenceaverse attorney direct American healthcare is a travesty.

That being insecure about one’s masculinity is not a qualification for heading the Defense Department.

That promising to remove “the worst of the worst” does not mean indis-

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criminately arresting asylum seekers, shooting Americans who protest, separating 100,000 children from their parents, nor shipping nonviolent offenders to El Salvador or the Congo.

That a Justice Department that exists primarily to exact revenge for perceived slights and disloyalty to one person is an anathema to its mission.

That pardoning criminals who confessed or were convicted by juries of crimes on Jan. 6, 2021, is unconscionable, and compensating them is unimaginable.

That promises matter.

Who’s going to tell him? We are, on Nov. 3, 2026.

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Bill Cassidy now shows his true colors By now it is very clear why Bill Cassidy lost his reelection bid. He is a traitor to his party and his constituents. We really no longer care what he thinks or care to see newspaper articles about his thoughts or opinions. He needs to just go away.

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Joyeux anniversaire et merci Close ties between France and Louisiana stretch back to before Revolution

By Rodolphe Sambou partnerships are being created I still remember it vividly. every year.

On a sunny Saturday morning The relationship between in December 2011, I arrived in France and Louisiana is not Louisiana for the first time. a legacy of the past; it is a Dropped off in the heart living partnership, growing of the French Quarter, in stronger every day. The front of an old bookstore, New Orleans Saints game I heard a young street in Paris this fall is proof musician playing “La Vie en Rose.” Around me were Rodolphe that even after three centubalconies that reminded Sambou ries, our story continues to me of those in my mother’s be written.

GUEST Basque village. It may This year, we celebrate COLUMNIST sound like a cliché, but I the 250th anniversary of immediately felt at home. the relationship between In that moment, I recognized France and the United States. I something familiar: a European often joke with my fellow French heritage that so many French diplomats in Washington that, people — and Europeans more compared with the centuries-old broadly — can still feel in Louisities between France and Louisiana today. ana, it is still a relatively recent Since then, I have encountered story. Yet it is a remarkable one. that connection throughout the When I meet Louisiana veterstate. ans who landed on the beaches of I have seen it in Louisiana’s Normandy on D-Day, I am always French immersion schools, where struck by a simple thought: The students sometimes surprise their alliance between France and the parents by speaking French with United States is not an abstract their grandparents, or even great- diplomatic concept. It was built by grandparents. men and women willing to cross I have felt it in Lafayette, in its an ocean — and sometimes to sacmusic, literature and traditions. rifice their lives — so that others I have discovered it through could live in freedom. Some of the works of Edmond Dédé and the veterans are Cajuns. One told through the remarkable history of me that the French of his childL’Union, the first African Amerihood was once often overlooked, but had become a source of concan newspaper in the South, published in French. I see it in Mardi nection and pride. Regardless of Gras celebrations, in the love of what they spoke, France remains food, culture and community, and profoundly grateful for their sacin the countless Louisianians seek- rifice.

From Lafayette and Rochaming to reconnect with their French roots. beau to Normandy, our alliance This heritage is not simply was forged in decisive moments about preserving memories. It when liberty, sovereignty, democis about building opportunities. racy, and human dignity were at Learning French opens doors to stake. Those values remain just as education, careers, travel and cul- relevant today.

The world has changed since tural understanding. It prepares 1944. Yet the fundamental quesfuture generations to thrive in an interconnected world. tion remains the same: How do And this friendship is not mere- free nations preserve peace, security and human dignity in an ly cultural. increasingly unstable world?

France is today among LouisiWe face immense challenges: ana’s leading foreign investors climate change, economic uncerand foreign employers. Bilateral trade has nearly tripled over the tainty, regional conflicts and growpast five years, approaching $3 ing geopolitical tensions. War has billion annually. More Louisianreturned to Europe with Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. ians are studying French, more France’s support for Ukraine is French visitors are discovering rooted in a simple principle: BorLouisiana and more economic

ders cannot be changed by force, and nations have the right to determine their own future. These principles matter not only for Europe, but for the stability of the international system as a whole.

France also believes that today’s challenges — whether climate change, maritime security, public health or economic stability — cannot be solved by any country acting alone. Cooperation among allies and within international institutions remains indispensable. Take coastal erosion, which threatens communities in Louisiana just as it threatens parts of France. On issues like these, cooperation is not ideological; it is practical. We can share expertise, innovation and solutions.

The United States has played, since 1945, a decisive role in the security and stability of Europe.

We are grateful for that commitment. At the same time, France has consistently advocated for Europe to assume greater responsibility for its own defense, thereby strengthening the transatlantic partnership rather than replacing it.

Louisiana occupies a special place in this story. It is where French, American, African, Caribbean and Native influences came together to create something unique. It is a living reminder that identities can be enriched rather than diminished through openness to others.

As America 250 approaches, may we remain faithful to the legacy of Jefferson and Lafayette, and inspired by the courage of those who crossed the Atlantic in both directions to defend liberty.

May we also remember the soldiers who landed in Normandy and all those, throughout the world, who have risked everything in the name of freedom and democracy.

We owe it to them. We owe it to ourselves. And we owe it to future generations.

Merci, Louisiana, for keeping that friendship alive.

Rodolphe Sambou, a career diplomat, is consul general for France in New Orleans.

ON THE CALENDAR There are several events around Louisiana to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence. Here is a list of some going on now.

For a full list, go to america250la.org n The Historic New Orleans Collection, 520 Royal St., New Orleans, is featuring the exhibit,“American Revolution: The Augmented Exhibition,” where visitors can immerse themselves in 3D interactive reconstructions of key moments in American history.

This free, interactive experience, which runs through Jan. 17, utilizes 360-degree augmented reality to immerse visitors in 20 defining moments of the nation’s founding, from the sparks of the Boston Tea Party to the victory at yorktown.The “American Revolution” was produced and designed by Histovery with promotional support from New Orleans & Company and Louisiana America 250.The exhibition offers a fresh, technologically driven way to explore the American story. For more, go to hnoc.org. n The Louisiana State Museum at the Cabildo, 701 Chartres St., New Orleans, is featuring the exhibit, “Gálvez and Louisiana in the American Revolution,” which explores the life of Spanish Gov. Bernardo de Gálvez and the diverse people of Louisiana who fought for American independence.Through May 15, 2027. louisianastatemuseum.org. n Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, 100 North Blvd., Baton Rouge, is featuring the exhibit,“Bought for a Song: A young Nation Expands,” whose only artifact is the French exchange copy of the convention between the Republic of France and the United States that finalized the Louisiana Purchase.Through July 11. louisianaoldstatecapitol.org.

ABOUT THIS SERIES Throughout the year, the Opinion pages are featuring columns and conversations from historians, scholars, politicians and others about what this 250th anniversary of America means.To read previous pieces, go to the Opinion section of our website.

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Seabird die-offs linked to warming oceans Marine heat wave impacts populations

Some had opportunistic infections linked to malnourishment.

Krysta Rogers, a senior state environmental scientist, said there may be factors besides warm ocean temperatures. High mortality rates among young Brandt’s cormorants and common murres began after a robust 2025 breeding season, peaking post-winter, and appeared to coincide with the marine heat wave.

Those deaths may be mostly due to chicks simply not surviving on their own, she said.

But she does not discount the marine heat wave affecting some seabirds, considering an increase this spring in reported deaths from other species and not just young ones.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which collects data from the dead seabird surveys and others, said they do not have a comprehensive report ready yet.

BY JULIE WATSON Associated Press

SAN DIEGO — Within minutes of walking on a San Diego beach, marine ornithologist Tammy Russell found the feathered carcasses — one after another.

Some were mixed in with washed up kelp. Others were under rocks.

Each month, scientists and volunteers conduct surveys of dead seabirds and find what Russell describes as a grim assessment of the impact of a massive marine heat wave that has lingered for months off parts of the California coast.

The surveys that have been carried out by various organizations for decades help build a baseline of information on beached sea life to detect threats and their impact.

Many seabirds, including California brown pelicans, loons and grebes, starved to death in recent months as record-setting ocean temperatures decreased the band of cold, nutrient-rich surface water where krill, anchovies and sardines thrive near the shore, said Russell, a postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

“We’ve been seeing cormorants walk to shore and then just die within the hour. I mean one time it happened within 15 minutes, and I’ve never seen that before,” Russell said. “That has been heartbreaking for me and we’re seeing this happening across the whole coast.”

Scientists fear the die-off could worsen with the recently formed El Nino, the natural warming of parts of the central Pacific that alters weather worldwide and spikes global temperatures.

Die-offs happening more The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in June confirmed an El Nino formed and it is expected to grow to historic strength.

Die-offs of seabirds occur periodically, and not all the seabird deaths off California this year are tied to the marine heat wave, scientists and wildlife officials say.

But such die-offs are becoming

Not all birds wash ashore

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Marine ornithologist Tammy Russell looks at a dead seabird near a beachgoer during a survey along Blacks Beach in San Diego on May 6. more frequent as the planet warms and oceans heat up.

Already a marine heat wave has persisted off parts of the West Coast for the past year, marking only the third time on record that such a large section of coastal waters stayed warm for so long, according to NOAA. Scripps measures daily ocean temperatures at 10 coastal stations along the California coast, where their records stretch back over a century. This year, saw three stations break records for 40 days or more, said the director Melissa Carter, who runs the program. The samples are taken in a variety of ways, including off piers by dropping an insulated bucket, or by lifeguards in the early morning surf or researchers off rocky shorelines.

Robotic underwater gliders with sensors operating out at sea also recorded high temperatures offshore and at depth during the spring. Dan

birds this spring when the marine heat wave intensified.

“It’s not abnormal to see dead birds on the beach, but the quantity of dead birds is unusual,” J.D. Bergeron, the CEO of International Bird Rescue, a global wildlife conservation organization that runs two aquatic bird rehabilitation centers in California, said in an interview in May. Brown pelicans are turning up in inland lakes, Bergeron said.

“When birds starve, especially the pelicans, they start to look in unusual places for food,” he said.

“They will chase fishing boats, they will go to piers and you end up with birds with fishing line and fish hook injuries.”

Many dead or debilitated seabirds examined this year have been young and emaciated, and Seabirds seeking food most have tested negative for aviWildlife rehabilitation facilities an flu, according to the California treated hundreds of emaciated Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Rudnick, who runs the Scripps glider program, said the warm temperature anomaly off Southern California this spring was comparable to that during the last El Nino in 2023.

And that was before the formation of this year’s El Niño, which could stretch into 2027.

As cold-water species move deeper and farther north, the marine heat wave coupled with El Nino could further disrupt food webs for sea life from gray whales to seabirds. A similar pattern happened a decade ago.

“We don’t know how bad this is going to get,” said Russell, who has written about five species of Booby that are now common off California because of warming ocean temperatures.

In 2013, a warm water mass nicknamed “the blob” developed off Alaska and stretched south, lingering for years as it wreaked havoc on marine ecosystems all the way to Mexico’s Baja California peninsula. One of the strongest El Niños on record overlapped with it in 2015.

Carcasses of emaciated common murres showed up on beaches in what biologists say was the largest seabird die-off recorded in the world’s oceans.

Common murres look like thin penguins. They can fly miles in search of schools of finger-length fish and can dive and swim nearly 600 feet deep to capture them.

However, the birds’ high metabolism means they have to eat a lot.

If they don’t eat prey matching 10% to 30% of their body mass daily, they can use up fat reserves and drop to a critical threshold for starvation within three days.

Studies show that only a fraction of birds that die at sea wash ashore. It took years for scientists to confirm that more than half of Alaska’s population of common murres, an estimated 4 million birds, died during “the blob,” according to a 2024 study in the journal Science.

The species is still struggling to recover.

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Legendary Southern baseball coach Cador remembered as ‘great man’

BY JIM KLEINPETER Contributing writer

The first time Southern baseball coach Chris Crenshaw met Roger Cador, the 14-year-old Crenshaw shook his hand, and Cador made a promise to his father.

“He told my dad, ‘I’ll hold his hand and make sure he does the right thing,’” Crenshaw recalled Tuesday.

The last time Crenshaw saw his former coach, on March 19, Crenshaw’s 40th birthday, Cador looked at him and said, “I’m still holding your hand.”

Tears flooded from Crenshaw’s eyes Tuesday on the news that the iconic Southern coach passed away at the age of 74 at his sister’s home in Baton Rouge two years after undergoing surgery for a brain tumor.

He got the news while driving to Florida to see his son play baseball and had to pull off of I-10 to grieve.

Crenshaw recounted, as he wept, what Cador meant to him. His words spoke for hundreds of other Southern players whom Cador guided through college baseball while building Southern into an HBCU baseball powerhouse.

“He was the man; if he didn’t know he was going to help you figure it out,” said Crenshaw, who played for Cador in 2006-07.

“My dad (Greg) played at Southern. There wasn’t much recruiting. He always said I was going to be a Jaguar. When it was time for me to be one, I took the opportunity. He was such a great coach and a great man.”

Cador didn’t only leave a mark on his former players. In many respects, he was Southern baseball. He coached for 33 years (1985-2017) and compiled a 913-597-1

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Former Southern baseball coach Roger Cador walks on the field before a game against LSU on April 9, 2019, at Lee Hines Field.

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United States’ Malik Tillman celebrates after scoring on a free kick during a World Cup match against Bosnia on Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif. The United States won 2-0.

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U.S. beats Bosnia-Herzegovina to keep World Cup dream alive

BY JOSH DUBOW AP sportswriter

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Folarin Balogun scored his third goal of the World Cup before being sent off with a red card in the second half, and Malik Tillman converted on a free kick to give the 10-man United States squad a 2-0 win over Bosnia-Herzegovina on Wednesday night to advance to the round of 16.

Balogun dominated the first half with his goal and several other chances that helped the U.S. control the match early, but the Americans had to scramble down a man after his foul against Tarik Muharemovic in the 64th minute.

Tillman helped seal the win when he scored on a free kick from just outside the box in the 82nd minute with a shot off the hand of goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj.

That gave the U.S. just its second World Cup knockoutround win. The Americans made it to the semifinals in the first tournament in 1930 by winning their group and won a round of 16 matchup against Mexico in 2002.

The win over Bosnia in the round of 32 in this year’s expanded tournament sets up a matchup on Monday in Seattle against Belgium as the U.S. hopes to make a deep run on home soil.

The game was played less than 20 miles from the site of the first U.S. knockout round game of the modern era, when the Americans lost 1-0 to heavily favored Brazil at Stanford Stadium in 1994.

The U.S. was favored this time around for the first time on record in a knockout round match and didn’t let down the large contingent of red-white-and-blue clad fans at Levi’s Stadium who were chanting “U-S-A! U-S-A!” in the closing minutes.

The win snapped a 10-game losing streak for the U.S. against European teams dating to a tie against England in the 2022 World Cup. It marked the first win in the World Cup for the Americans against a European team since a win over Portugal in the 2002 opener. They were winless

ON TO THE NEXT ONE: Belgium rallies to beat Senegal in extra time | Kane lifts England to Round of 16 | Mexico snaps 40-year knockout drought to advance, Page 4C

The Advocate wins LSWA awards, including top honor Staff report Georges Media publications, including The Advocate, Times-Picayune and Shreveport Bossier-City Advocate, piled up a long list of honors in the 2025 Louisiana Sports Writers Association Annual Contest, including one staff member who was named Sportswriter of the Year.

The awards were handed out Sunday during a ceremony in Natchitoches, honoring the best the state has to offer in print, television and media relations.

Roy Lang of The Shreveport-Bossier City Advocate was named Sports Writer of the Year for his coverage of the LSU-Shreveport baseball team on its undefeated run to an NAIA national championship, his writing following the tragic death of a member of the Calvary Baptist Academy softball team and his work after a pair of Shreveport area natives performed well at last year’s U.S. Open.

“2025 was meaningful for me, with or with-

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out any awards. I’m honored to be a part of the Advocate team we have in Shreveport and across the state,” Lang said of his honor.

Five other Georges Media employees picked up top individual honors.

Wilson Alexander, who served as the LSU football beat writer for The Advocate, claimed Beat Writer of The Year after taking the top spot in the College Event and College Feature categories.

As a Saints beat writer for The TimesPicayune, Luke Johnson earned first place in the Pro Event and Pro Feature competitions.

In the Pro Column category, Times-Picayune veteran columnist Jeff Duncan landed the top spot.

For his coverage of the Division I state football championship game between Edna Karr and St. Augustine, Rod Walker of The Times-Picayune took first place in the Prep Event group.

Michael Johnson of The Advocate came out on top in the Photography category.

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Krejcikova upsets Andreeva at Wimbledon

BY MATTIAS KAREN Associated Press

LONDON — Barbora Krejcikova needed seven match points to knock French Open champion Mirra Andreeva out of Wimbledon in the biggest upset of the women’s tournament so far, winning 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.

Andreeva faced six match points when Krejcikova — the 2024 Wimbledon champion — served for the match at 5-3 and saved them all before finally converting her fourth break point in a marathon game.

The fifth-seeded Russian teenager handed her opponent a seventh match point when she sliced a backhand wide in the next game, and this time Krejcikova converted with a bit of luck. Her shot hit the net cord and bounced in and Andreeva could only return it long.

Andreeva, coming off her first Grand Slam title at Roland Garros, threw her racket away in disgust and later smashed it into her bag before leaving Centre Court.

“What a match,” Krejcikova said, trying to sum it all up. “What a match.”

Earlier, No. 1 ranked Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner both advanced in straight sets, with Coco Gauff and Naomi Osaka also reaching the third round.

Krejcikova is a two-time Grand Slam winner, also taking the 2021 French Open title, but has struggled with back and knee injuries and has fallen to No. 38 in the rankings.

Andreeva had shown signs of frustration throughout the third set — including when her bead bracelet broke during a point at 1-1 and she had to spend a few moments picking beads out of the grass along the baseline and throwing them toward the back of the court.

Two ball kids and the chair umpire joined her in cleaning up before play resumed.

There was also some loud cheers during the third set that had nothing to do with tennis. Some in the Centre Court crowd had half an eye on England’s World Cup match against Congo and celebrated both

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Barbora Krejcikova of Czech Republic celebrates her victory against Mirra Andreeva of Russia following their second-round singles match on Wednesday at the Wimbledon Championships in London. of Harry Kane’s goals and the final whistle.

Gauff came from a break down in the third set and then won the last six points of the tiebreaker to beat Solana Sierra 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7).

Gauff was two points away from losing the match when Sierra served at 5-4 in the third set but won three straight points to break back. In the 10-point tiebreaker, she trailed 7-4 but didn’t lose another point, sealing the win with an ace and then screaming out loud with both fists clenched.

“When she had to serve for the match I just reminded myself that I’m a great returner as well,” Gauff said. “I was just trying to be positive and I think that showed.”

Gauff had her breakthrough at Wimbledon in 2019 when she reached the fourth round as a 15-year-old, beating Venus Wil-

liams in the first round. But while she has won both the U.S. Open and the French Open since then, she has yet to make the quarterfinals at the All England Club despite two more trips to the fourth round.

As it happens, that win over Williams also came on July 1 on No. 1 Court.

“It was kind of my breakout moment, and playing against one of my idols was insane,” Gauff said.

“Every time I walk down this hallway I get deja vu and I just remind myself, like, if I could do that (seven) years ago, I’m definitely a better player since then.

So I definitely can do it now.”

Osaka showed off a new look again before winning her secondround match.

Osaka, whose fashion reveals have become an event of their

own at Grand Slam tournaments, wore a less elaborate outfit for her walk-on than the “Kill Bill” inspired kimono she sported for her opening-round match on Monday.

It still drew plenty of attention as she made the walk from the locker room to No. 2 Court, trailed by photographers and fans wanting to take their own photos.

This all-white outfit featured a wide belt and a long train that trailed behind her, which the fourtime major winner took off as she began warming up for her match against qualifier Anastasia Gasanova.

She went on to quickly dispatch Gasanova 6-3, 6-2.

“I’m just trying to mix it up a little bit,” Osaka said about her outfit, adding she had been worried that a loss might have ruined her daughter Shai’s third birthday on Thursday.

“I just wanted to be here for longer, I didn’t want to make her get on a plane on her birthday,” Osaka said.

Sabalenka soon followed her into the third round, beating McCartney Kessler 6-1, 7-6 (9) on No. 1 Court.

Sinner, the defending champion who came from a set down twice to win in five sets in the first round, had a more comfortable victory Wednesday. Sinner beat Nuno Borges 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-4 in the first match on Centre Court.

It wasn’t entirely straightforward for the Italian, though, as he had to break back for 5-5 when Borges served for the second set, before winning in just over 2½ hours.

“Second set was very, very tough,” Sinner said.

Other winners included French Open runner-up Flavio Cobolli, No. 8 Daniil Medvedev, No. 17 Frances Tiafoe and No. 21 Tommy Paul.

Next up on Centre Court Novak Djokovic taking on Stefanos Tsitsipas.

On Tuesday, Serena Williams returned to Centre Court but lost in three sets to Maya Joint in her first singles match in nearly four years. Williams, who tweaked her knee in the match, still hopes to play doubles with sister Venus later in the week.

Serena Williams wins praise from fellow pros

BY ANDREW DAMPF AP sportswriter

LONDON — There were still serves beyond 120 mph. Plenty of heavy groundstrokes landing within inches of the baseline, too.

Serena Williams won plenty of praise about her game from her fellow players at Wimbledon a day after her first singles match in nearly four years.

The 44-year-old Williams was beaten 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 by 20-yearold Maya Joint of Australia in the first round on Tuesday but showed she could be competitive after being away for so long.

Coco Gauff ended her dinner early to find somewhere to watch Williams.

“I think Serena’s level was insane,” Gauff said Wednesday. “It proves even more how she’s the GOAT despite age and all that. I don’t know how she can play that level not playing for four years. I was already nervous not playing two weeks before this tournament.

I couldn’t imagine four years.

“I just love her. I love her fight.

And the serve is unbelievable,” Gauff added after her second-round win. “You just look at her and you think, ’This is like 10 years ago.’ It’s really insane. I think it was cool for the sport.”

The 87th-ranked Joint was in the top 30 earlier this year.

“Maya played top-10, top-5 tennis. Obviously she’s a great player,” Gauff said. “She seems like an even, chill girl. I do think if anyone was ready for the moment, it would be her.”

Williams announced on Wednesday that she tweaked her right knee toward the end of the first set but said she still hopes to play doubles with sister Venus later in the week.

Serena, a 23-time Grand Slam singles champion who won seven of her titles at Wimbledon, did not ask for medical treatment during the

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Serena Williams plays a forehand against Maya Joint of Australia during their singles match at the Wimbledon Championships on Tuesday in London. match and did not meet with media afterward.

“Serena tweaked her right knee at the end of the first set and was therefore excused from her media obligations by the Wimbledon and WTA medical teams,” said Jill Smoller, Williams’ agent. “She left site that night unaided and is doing everything she can to be ready for her doubles match later this week.”

Williams confirmed the injury on Instagram and added, “It felt so good to be back on the grass (at) Wimbledon. I’m incredibly thankful for the wild card — and even more grateful my daughters got to see that it’s never too late to chase something you love.

“Congratulations to Maya Joint on a great match, and thank you to everyone who showed up and showed me so much love. That feeling will never get old,” Williams added.

Serena received wild card invitations from Wimbledon organizers to play both singles and doubles with Venus.

Serena has said that having her two daughters off from school inspired her comeback and it marked the first time that her youngest daughter, Adira, who is almost 3, saw her play singles. Adira sat next to her 8-year-old sister, Olympia in the front row of Serena’s players’ box.

Alexis Ohanian, Williams’ husband, wrote on social media: “Our little family is so proud of you (at) serenawilliams — even though it wasn’t the outcome you wanted, you’re an inspiration. We love you” He added that the kids “are also happy they got to stay up a bit past their bedtime.”

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka also paid tribute on so-

cial media: “I really wonder if Serena and Venus know how much they mean to us,” Osaka posted.

Then after winning her secondround match, Osaka discussed watching Serena play.

“The montages that they had before the match started made me really emotional because I feel like I’ve watched her growing up,” Osaka said. “Now I feel like I’m grown up and I get the privilege of watching her again. So it was really cool.”

Fellow American Tommy Paul watched, too.

“It’s pretty impressive at her age,” Paul said. “She was striking the ball pretty well, returning pretty well. I thought she was going to go after it a little bit more. ... I think it would have helped her a lot to have maybe a match of singles before coming out to Wimbledon. But she’s Serena.

She can do whatever she wants.”

RHP Smith transfers to LSU from South Florida

South Florida transfer and righthanded pitcher Kaden Smith is transferring to LSU baseball, he announced on Wednesday.

Smith posted a 4.24 ERA in 46 innings this past season, his only with the Bulls. He spent his freshman year at TCU and had a 5.25 ERA in 12 innings.

At USF, Smith had 52 strikeouts and walked 25 hitters. Control was sometimes an issue for him, as he hit 17 batters, but he also has starting experience. He started eight games for the Bulls.

Smith is the seventh player LSU has added out of the portal, joining Notre Dame outfielder Bino Watters, Tulane outfielder Jason Wachs, Texas State infielder Dawson Park, Southern Cal pitcher Diego Velazquez, Florida second baseman Cade Kurland and Gonzaga pitcher Landon Hood.

Rangers’ Seager back on IL with back inflammation

CLEVELAND — Corey Seager is back on the injured list.

The Texas Rangers shortstop was placed on the 10-day injured list before Wednesday’s game against the Cleveland Guardians because of lower back inflammation.

Seager was in the lineup for Tuesday’s game but was removed before his first at-bat when his back flared up during warmups.

He returned from the IL on June 25 after missing 12 games because of a concussion he sustained in a home plate collision with Kansas City catcher Carter Jensen on June 11.

Seager is batting .182 with 10 homers and 25 RBIs in 50 games. The five-time All-Star went 1 for 10 but walked five times in 15 at-bats since returning from his concussion.

WTA Finals moving from Saudi Arabia to Indian Wells

LONDON — The WTA Finals, the elite season-ending event in women’s tennis, is moving from Saudi Arabia to Indian Wells, California, this year.

The 2026 finals, which the top eight singles players and doubles teams qualify for, are scheduled for Nov. 8-15.

The women’s professional tennis tour and Saudi Arabia had signed a three-year deal in 2024 to stage the event in Riyadh. The agreement provided a big increase in prize money.

There were concerns about going back to Saudi Arabia due to military conflicts in the Middle East.

Indian Wells also hosts the BNP Paribas Open for both men and women in March.

Sony Open flips over to PGA Tour Champions

HONOLULU — The golf season in Hawaii again starts at Waialae Country Club next year as a PGA Tour Champions event that will be called the Sony Championship.

The PGA Tour and Sony on Wednesday announced the change, which had been expected since April when the tour said it would not be returning to Maui for The Sentry, which since 1999 had preceded the Sony Open.

The Sony Championship will be Jan. 14-16 — ending on a Saturday — at Waialae, which had hosted a PGA Tour event since 1965. The prize fund will be $3 million. Past champions at Waialae now on the 50-and-older circuit include Ernie Els, Vijay Singh, Zach Johnson and Jerry Kelly.

Nationals RHP Cavalli apologizes for remark

BOSTON — Washington Nationals pitcher Cade Cavalli apologized Wednesday for shouting “sit down, boy” at Boston Red Sox first baseman Willson Contreras while instigating a benches’ clearing scrum a night earlier.

“I’m extremely torn up about the way that things were perceived,” Cavalli said. “Obviously, there was no ill intention behind that.”

Cavalli shouted at Contreras after striking him out looking with a full-count pitch in the fourth inning of the Nationals’ 8-1 victory over the Red Sox. “My teammates know me, my family knows me, this organization knows me,” Cavalli said.

Cavalli said he hadn’t apologized to Contreras yet, but he hopes he hears his explanation.

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Liberty RB Broussard, Stephens look to build on last season’s success

BY JACKSON REYES Staff writer

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By FRANK FRANKLIN II

Stewart Cink hits from the first fairway during the second round of the PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club on May 15 in Newtown Square, Pa.

U.S. Senior Open demands precision rather than power

the fate of Angel Cabrera, who did field will play from the same posiCink has won the not make the cut in last year’s Senior tions on pretty much every hole, so Open. it will be a second-shot golf course, first two majors Cink leads the tour in driving approach shots. And the greens are distance, but that might not be an very good, so the standard of putting this year on advantage beginning Thursday, be- should be very high this week,” said PGA Tour Champions cause Scioto’s layout is more about Harrington, who is in the middle of

BY JOE REEDY AP sportswriter

Stewart Cink has won the first two majors this year on the PGA Tour Champions, though isn’t thinking about the Grand Slam this week at Scioto Country Club in Columbus, Ohio. He just wants the U.S. Senior Open title that he fell just short of last year.

“The way I think about it is I would rather just have won the U.S. Senior Open than have it be part of some series of events like the Grand Slam,” he said. “It means a lot to me that this is a big tournament. It’s certainly one of the biggest tournaments of the year on my schedule, and that’s why we’re here, to compete and win.”

The 52-year-old Cink has four wins in nine starts this year, including the Senior PGA Championship and the Tradition. It is the second straight year that a player has won the first two majors. Cink will try to avoid

precision than power.

“It does take the driver out of your hand in places, a lot of places, but power translates all the way through the bag. So power is an advantage coming into the greens, too.

It’s not just about hitting the driver far,” Cink said. “I think the biggest challenge here is just going to be to remain yourself and not try to be someone you’re not. The golf course has got a lot of challenge out there.

I don’t think it really fits one type of player. It’s just a really good overall golf course.”

Cink finished second in last year’s U.S. Senior Open at the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado, as Padraig Harrington won his second Senior Open title by one shot.

Harrington, who also won in 2022, is trying to join Miller Barber as the only three-time champions in the event’s 46-year history.

“There always seems to be something in front of you that you kind of have to layup off. Most of the

a stretch of playing eight straight weeks.

Ian Poulter and Henrik Stenson are among the 50 golfers in the 156-player field making their first Senior Open start.

Besides the usual challenge of a USGA championship, another factor will be temperatures near triple digits. Cink feels like he is ready for whatever is thrown his way.

“It’s going to be a grind and a test, and stay hydrated and stay rested.

But really just stay kind of in the present and just be myself,” he said.

“I think the way the year or so has gone, I’ve proved to myself that it’s enough just to be pretty ordinary.

And I don’t mean that in a negative sense. I mean being ordinary in extraordinary circumstances like these is enough and just to remember that.”

This marks the third time Scioto has hosted the U.S. Senior Open.

Gene Sauers won in 2016 and Dale Douglass in 1986.

Baseball players propose limiting optional assignments in minors

BY RONALD BLUM

AP sportswriter

NEW YORK — Baseball players proposed optional assignments to the minor leagues be cut from a maximum of five per season to three and those sent down get more pay and service time, aimed at reducing roster churn that teams use for their bullpen back ends in an era when relief pitchers throw an increased portion of games.

During a bargaining session Wednesday with Major League Baseball, the union proposed that a pitcher optioned after an outing of at least nine outs or 50 pitches during the seven days before the break be given major league pay and service time up until his team’s fourth game after the break.

In addition, a pitcher who is optioned at any time after a game or the next day after an outing of nine outs or 50 pitches would get major league pay and service time for the four days following the appearance.

There often is a wide disparity of pay for players with so-called split contracts. While the major league minimum is $780,000 this year, the minimum in the minors for those with split contracts is primarily $127,100 — and $63,600 for those signing a first big league deal.

Teams have averaged 4.2 to 4.3 pitchers per game in each season since 2022, according to the Elias Sports Bureau. The last season under 4 was 2014 at 3.98.

Players also asked that active rosters be increased to 28 from 26 during the first 15 days of each season, including a maximum of 14 pitchers that would be up from the current 13.

Players also proposed the 60-day injured list open at the time of the November tender deadline rather than the first day players can report to spring training. The change would allow teams to protect more players from the Rule 5 draft during the winter meetings because players on the 60-day IL do not count against the 40-

man roster limit.

The union asked that MLB agree to accelerate eligibility for the Rule 5 draft, restoring the ages in place through 2005. A player 18 or younger on the June 5 preceding his signing would be eligible for the fourth succeeding draft rather than fifth and a player 19 or older would be eligible for the third rather than the fourth.

Players also want to ensure the draft will be held this year, even if management locks out the union after the current five-year labor contract expires Dec. 1.

It also wants pitchers to be credited with major league service time if they are optioned to the minors during the All-Star break or after a game in which they meet specified performance thresholds.

Players also want a guarantee of access to team performance and video data that is not proprietary.

Owners have proposed a salary cap for the first time since the 199495 strike that led to the first cancellation of the World Series in 90 years.

When first-year coach Devyn Baker joined Liberty this past spring, he looked for a leader.

He got two in senior Jaxon Broussard and junior Abednego Stephens.

The running back duo immediately stood out to Baker with their leadership and talent on a young Patriots squad that graduated 32 seniors. The pair looks to help build off Liberty’s first playoff appearance at the 5A level last year.

“They’re the corner of the team,” Baker said, adding that they are both “extremely” talented.

The duo enters the 2026 season following the footsteps of Zaiden Foster, who ran for more than 2,000 yards and was a catalyst for the Patriots’ first winning season in four years.

Foster may be gone, but Stephens and Broussard are hungry to keep building a culture of winning at Liberty.

Setting the tone As Baker began his tenure, Broussard jumped to the forefront.

Baker said he may not be the most vocal guy on the team, but his presence commands respect.

“Jaxon has this leadership capability that you rarely see in kids these days,” Baker said. “When he speaks, they listen. When he walks into a room, they listen. He commands a room without having to be that loud, ra-ra guy. His leadership strikes my attention every day I walk into this building.”

Abednego brings a more vocal leadership style.

“When he speaks, they listen, but you’re going to hear him versus Jaxon,” Baker said. “Both of them are great human beings at their core.”

Talent to match Along with their leadership, the running back duo has the talent to match.

Broussard has strong agility as a dual-sport athlete. He runs the 400 in track, and also adds strength, squatting 300 pounds and benching 225.

“No person my size can really, in a one-on-one scene, can really compete with me, and I’m good at finding the holes in defense,” he said. “I’m not the most technical route runner, but I’m good at finding the gaps and getting open.”

At running back is where Broussard feels most at peace.

“When you’re in the hole, and you’re running, the world just is quiet,” he said. “It’s the loudest place in the world, but it’s extremely quiet.”

When he’s at his calmest, he looks to find holes to gash defenses for big plays.

For Stephens, he looks to his work ethic and ability to find ways to make plays.

“My effort is always there,” Stephens said. “I’m physical, vision,

footwork, it’s all there, I’ve got the whole package. I’m going to grind for everything I do. I’m going to give it my all.”

Stephens flashed last season, backing up Foster, breaking out for 152 yards and two touchdowns against Scotlandville.

He hopes to use this upcoming season to garner college offers.

When scouts come to watch other teams, he hopes to be the one who steals the show.

“We’ve got a lot of hard teams,” Stephens said. “I know these teams are definitely going to have colleges coming up to the games, looking at them, and if I ball out, they’re going to look at me too.”

When Baker watches Stephens play, he knows he has a special talent on his hands.

“Man, he reminds me of Reggie Bush,” Baker said. “He just does things that the average athlete can’t do.”

He knows both players can make something happen anytime the ball is in their hands. Baker has already started working on packages with his offensive coordinator to include both of them on the field.

“It’s going to be a two-headed monster,” Baker said. “They complement each other well. Abednego is going to be that power, shifty back, and Jaxon is going to be that speedy, shifty back.”

Ready to prove themselves Broussard and Stephens enter the year with lofty expectations.

Each hopes to run for more than 1,500 yards and surpass doubledigit touchdowns.

On top of that, they want last year’s playoff appearance to become a regular occurrence, and neither is satisfied with last year’s first-round exit.

“We come into the season with a lot to prove,” Broussard. “We’ve got a lot of competition this year, and we plan on being in the playoffs.”

Broussard knows he can’t take a play off with the younger players watching him. He wants to do whatever it takes to help his team be prepared by the time the calendar turns to Week 1.

“I can’t have that on my conscience, knowing that I caused us to be behind,” Broussard said. “I give it 110% every time I can.”

Broussard said he hopes a deep playoff run can set a foundation for underclassmen so they can keep building the program. He knows the road ahead will get tough, but he hopes to push his team to its full potential.

“I try to encourage a lot of my teammates around us because we can compete,” Broussard said. “We don’t let anyone push us around.

It’s going to be very hard to beat Liberty this year.”

Baker understands the challenge of year one in a difficult district, but with his running backs ready for the challenge, he’s ready, too.

“If they’re up for the challenge,” Baker said. “Let’s rock and roll.”

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Liberty football running backs for 2026, from left, are Abednego Stephens and Jaxon Broussard.

Wings star Bueckers approached this WNBA season differently

BY MYAH TAYLOR

The Dallas Morning News (TNS) DALLAS — When Paige Bueckers strolled into the Dallas Wings’ training camp after an offseason full of excursions, it was clear she’d also made time for the weight room ahead of her sophomore year in the WNBA. The guard, historically slight, gained 15 pounds of muscle on a regimen that included three-hour lifting sessions five to six days a week and a new diet.

She no longer looked like the freshfaced rookie from the year prior, but someone built to take on the physicality of a league that she’s already become a face of.

“Unfortunately, a lot of times throughout college I was always rehabbing something in the summer,”

Bueckers told The Dallas Morning News. “This was my first long offseason where I really got to hone in.”

Added time in the gym has seemingly paid off for Bueckers, the 2025 No. 1 overall pick and WNBA Rookie of the Year. She’s averaging 19.9 points, 3.8 rebounds and 5.9 assists for the new-look Wings, who finished 10-34 overall in 2025 and are currently 11-8 near the midpoint of the 2026 season.

The 24-year-old ranks top 10 in the league in points and assists, and recently achieved 1,000 career points.

Bueckers became the fourth-fastest player in history to reach 1,000 points and the fastest to reach 1,000 points and 250 assists, but these feats can’t all be attributed to work in the gym.

Though physically more built, Bueckers has also strengthened her mind.

“I believe in the power of positive thinking. I’m probably delusionally positive,” Bueckers said. “Situations could be 99 percent negative and I’ll try to find that 1 percent.”

That mindset has made Bueckers a beloved teammate. It’s also helped her navigate the weight of responsibility and the pressure of being in the public eye.

And she’s still learning how to fight against the perfectionism that comes with that role. Time in the gym made her even more elite on the court, but life in the spotlight has taught Bueckers being a leader doesn’t negate her own humanity.

the sport, though she often deflects the spotlight away from herself and on to her teammates.

While she can take over a game, she has more of a pass-first mindset.

When Bueckers has a great performance, she’ll credit a teammate for creating space. You won’t see her placing blame on anyone.

“I ride for my teammates. Good, bad, ugly, win, loss, whatever,” Bueckers said. “Everybody’s important. No person’s bigger than the other.”

During her time at UConn, where she became one of the top NIL earners in women’s college sports, she often included her teammates in NIL Humble teammate, leader deals and used her influence to creA big sister to three siblings, ate pathways for minority content Bueckers has long been a connector. creators and advertisers.

That warmth is part of what’s Bueckers also left additional monmade Bueckers a household name in ey on the table.

“At the beginning of that NIL thing, I remember saying to her ... ‘All right, listen, we’re going to sit down and talk about how much money we’re going to give you,’ “ longtime UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma said during a recent media availability. “And she’s like, ‘I don’t want it.’ “ When Auriemma pushed her on it, Bueckers’ answer remained the same.

Bueckers credits the 12-time champion coach, along with high school coaches and veteran players, for much of her growth in that area.

“Holding people accountable and calling people out is really just calling people up,” Bueckers said. “It’s really a respect thing. If you think your teammate is capable of better and you think we can be better as a team — that’s what leadership is.”

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SPAIN VS. AUSTRIA 2 p.m., Fox, Telemundo, Fox One | PORTUGAL VS. CROATIA 6 p.m. Fox, Telemundo, Fox One | SWITZERLAND VS. ALGERIA 10 p.m. Fox, Telemundo, Fox One

Kane lifts England to Round of 16 after win against Congo

BY JAMES ROBSON AP soccer writer

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By LINDSEy WASSON

Senegal’s Krepin Diatta controls the ball past Belgium’s Diego Moreira during the World Cup Round of 32 match on Wednesday in Seattle.

Belgium converts late penalty to beat Senegal in extra time

BY ANDREW DESTIN

GLANCE

AP sportswriter

SEATTLE — Down to its final last-gasp chances, Belgium came through with goals — three of them.

The Red Devils overturned a two-goal deficit with two scores in the final minutes of regulation time and then added a third in the final seconds of extra time to somehow claw back into the game and beat Senegal 3-2 Wednesday in the round of 32 at the World Cup. Youri Tielemans scored the equalizing goal in the 89th minute and then converted from the penalty spot in the fifth minute of stoppage time in extra time for the latest goal in World Cup history. He was fouled with only seconds to go and with a penalty shootout looming, and the referee awarded the spot kick after a video review.

“I do not want to interpret the decision. We all have different interpretations when it comes to awarding a penalty,” Senegal coach Pape Thiaw said. “I’d rather not comment, not interpreting the referee’s decision.”

The win for Belgium marked the second time in the last 11 World Cups that a team trailed by two or more goals in the knockout round and advanced. Belgium also did so in a 3-2 victory over Japan in the round of 16 at the 2018 tournament.

Many of the key players from that Belgium team, which finished in third place in Russia, were instrumental to Wednesday’s victory.

Striker Romelu Lukaku, who leads his nation in goals scored, came off the bench to get Belgium back into the match by scoring in the 86th minute, setting the scene

ROUND OF 32 June 28

Canada 1, South Africa 0

June 29

Brazil 2, Japan 1 Paraguay 1 (4-3 PK), Germany 1 Morocco 1 (3-2 PK), Netherlands 1

Tuesday

Norway 2, Ivory Coast 1 France 3, Sweden 0 Mexico vs. Ecuador, n

Wednesday

England 2, Congo 1 Belgium 3, Senegal 2, OT United States 2. Bosnia-Herzegovina 0

Thursday

Spain vs. Austria, 2 p.m.

Portugal vs. Croatia, 6 p.m.

Switzerland vs. Algeria, 10 p.m.

Friday

Australia vs. Egypt, 1 p.m.

Argentina vs. Cape Verde, 5 p.m.

Colombia vs. Ghana, 8:30 p.m.

ROUND OF 16 Saturday

Canada vs. Morocco, noon Paraguay vs. France, 4 p.m.

Sunday

Brazil vs. Norway, 3 p.m.

Mexico vs. England, 7 p.m.

Monday

United States vs. Belgium, 7 p.m.

for Tielemans to force extra time.

“It is a cruel loss, as we were good in the game,” Thiaw said. “We had the advantage. We were leading 2-0. However a football match is not an 85-minute one. Belgium came back, and we were not able to deal with that ... We must congratulate Belgium as they progress.”

Belgium is back in the round of 16 for the third time in four tournaments. The team reached the quarterfinals in 2014 and the semifinals in 2018 but failed to get out of the group stage four years ago in Qatar.

The Belgians will next face either the United States or BosniaHerzegovina on Monday in Seattle.

Ismaïla Sarr scored his fourth goal of the World Cup, and one of the most beautiful of the tournament, to give Senegal a 2-0 lead in the 51st minute. He made a perfect first touch off his chest on a long ball from Moussa Niakhaté and then sent his shot past Belgium goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois.

Senegal, which was without goalkeeper Édouard Mendy because of a knee injury, took the lead on Habib Diarra’s goal in the 25th minute.

Courtois, who is playing in his fourth World Cup, then made three key saves to keep Senegal from increasing its lead.

It’s the second time this year Senegal has been hit with a late penalty in a big game.

In the Africa Cup of Nations final on Jan. 18, Senegal’s players left the field in stoppage time after having a late goal ruled out before Morocco was awarded a potentially game-deciding penalty. There were scuffles between rival players before Senegal coach Pape Thiaw led most of his players off the field.

They returned after about 10 minutes later and play resumed with Morocco midfielder Brahim Díaz having his penalty saved by Mendy.

Senegal midfielder Pape Gueye then scored the only goal in extra time, but the victory was taken away in March by the governing body of African soccer and Morocco was awarded a 3-0 default victory.

In Wednesday’s match, Senegal defender Pathé Ciss went down with an injury directly on top of the penalty spot in an apparent protest as his teammates argued with the referee. Ciss only moved once it was time for Tielemans to take the shot.

ATLANTA — England handled the pressure and is now headed to Mexico City.

Harry Kane ensured England avoided an early exit from the inaugural 48-team World Cup by scoring two second-half goals in a come-from-behind 2-1 win over Congo in the round of 32 on Wednesday.

The late victory, England’s second ever at the World Cup after conceding the first goal, earned the 1966 champions a spot in the round of 16 and a match against co-host Mexico.

“It was just about pounding the rock, keep pounding the rock and our moment would come,” Kane said after scoring his fourth and fifth goals of the tournament. “We spoke about people having hero moments. It can be anyone in the team … Whoever it is, we have hero moments, and for me it was the day.”

That team’s next match will be played at the Azteca Stadium, the site of Argentina great Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” goal that eliminated England from the 1986 World Cup quarterfinals.

Getting there didn’t come easy against a Congo team that nearly pulled off one of the biggest upsets in World Cup history.

England’s only other World Cup victory after trailing 1-0 came in the 1966 final against West Germany at Wembley Stadium.

“That’s a good sign. It just shows you the level of determination and the level of belief and also the level of focus,” England coach Thomas Tuchel said. “I didn’t feel the weight on their shoulders and I found that we played it with the exactly right attitude and we trusted our spirit.

“The goalkeeper kept on saving

incredible saves ... but this team today did not accept a defeat as an outcome.”

Kane made sure the early deficit wasn’t a problem Wednesday at Mercedes-Benz Stadium by extending his record as his country’s leading scorer in tournament history to 13. He has a record 84 goals for the national team in total.

His first goal came in the 75th minute. Substitute Anthony Gordon lifted a cross from the left and despite Congo goalkeeper Lionel Mpasi getting a hand to Kane’s header, he didn’t stop it from nestling into the bottom corner.

Eleven minutes later, Kane sent his shot into the top corner to put the thoughts of an upset to rest.

“When you get to the knockouts, the pressure and the risks are so much higher. But from an attacking point of view, that was easily our best game of the tournament,” Kane said. “Sometimes you just have to grind wins out and we did exactly that today. I told the boys to enjoy it. We’re through, and we go again in four days.”

Brian Cipenga had put Congo in the lead in the seventh minute after collecting a cross on the left of the box and shooting low past England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford at the near post.

Mpasi did his best to keep that 1-0 lead alive. He denied Jude Bellingham on three occasions — blocking two close-range headers before halftime and then clawing away another deflected effort after the break.

Kane nearly made a breakthrough late in the first half, but Mpasi blocked a powerful shot at the near post. And the keeper was also caught up in a collision with Kane in the box. England thought it should have been awarded a penalty, but referee

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By BUTCH DILL

England’s Harry Kane celebrates after scoring a goal next to his teammates Jude Bellingham, center, and Anthony Gordon, right, during the Round of 32 match against Congo on Tuesday in Atlanta.

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Mexico ends 40-year knockout drought, beats Ecuador to reach Round of 16

BY CARLOS RODRIGUEZ AP sportswriter

MEXICO CITY — The 40-year wait is over. Mexicans had learned to live with defeats in the knockout stages of the World Cup. On seven occasions, El Tri fans were left heartbroken at this stage.

Not anymore.

Julián Quiñones and Raúl Jiménez scored within a nine-minute span in the first half and Mexico defeated Ecuador 2-0 on Tuesday night to break a four-decade drought in the knockout stage and progress to the round of 16.

Quiñones opened the scoring in the 22nd minute and Jiménez added a goal in the 31st for the Mexicans, who had not won a knockoutstage match since defeating Bulgaria in the round of 16 when they hosted the tournament in 1986.

Mexico coach Javier Aguirre was one of the starting midfielders in that ‘86 team.

“It means a lot to me because I am one of those who could not progress in the knockout stage,” Aguirre said. “We are in the round of 16 and it is happening a great connection with the fans. We are

like a family. It is spectacular.”

Mexico lost seven consecutive times at that same stage from 1994 to 2018 and didn’t advance past the group stage in 2022.

Aguirre, who returned as Mexico’s head coach in August of 2024, was an assistant in 1994 and was the coach in 2002 and 2010.

“We will be on high alert from here until Sunday. We will try to have the players recover from this and we will see if we are able to win again,” Aguirre said.

In the expanded, 48-team World Cup, there’s an extra round in the knockoutphase—theroundof32was inserted for this tournament between the group stage and the round of 16.

Quiñones goals

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By SILVIA IZQUIERDO

A third goal in the tournament Mexico’s Raul Jimenez celebrates with teammates after scoring a goal makes Quiñones El Tri’s second- during the World Cup Round of 32 match against Ecuador on Tuesday in highest scorer in World Cup history Mexico City. Mexico won 2-0 to advance to the Round of 16.

behind Luis “Matador” Hernández and Javier “Chicharito” Hernández, who scored four each.

Quiñones, who was the scoring leader in the Saudi Pro League last season, has become the spark in the attack that Mexico lacked in previous World Cups.

“I am just happy with the result,

that is all that matters now,” said Quiñones, who is playing in his first World Cup with Mexico.

The 29-year-old forward arrived in the country from Colombia at age 17 and became a naturalized citizen in 2023.

“Life is about struggle and fight

until you get what you want,” he said, “and I am taking full advantage of the opportunity that I got.”

Jiménez scored his second goal of the tournament and has 47 with the national team to break a tie with Jared Borgetti. He is five away from tying “Chicharito”

Hernández as the all-time leading scorer for Mexico.

Mexico will play another home match Sunday against the winner of Wednesday’s match between England and Congo.

Playing at the iconic Azteca Stadium, the Mexican squad boasts an undefeated record across 10 World Cup matches. Mexico has just two official losses at the venue — the last being a World Cup qualifying defeat to Honduras on Sept. 6, 2013.

With the win, Mexico extended its unbeaten run to 12 games, dating back to a friendly loss against Paraguay in November.

Mexico also became the first CONCACAF side to eliminate a team from CONMEBOL in a World Cup knockout match. Teams from South America won the previous five meetings.

The match started one hour after the original scheduled time due to a thunderstorm.

It was the second match of the tournament delayed by weather.

A storm during the France-Iraq match at Philadelphia on June 22 caused a 2-hour, 11-minute suspension at the end of the first half.

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Two Former LSU aces crack All-Star Futures Game roster

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

Former LSU pitchers Kade Anderson and Anthony Eyanson have been selected to represent the American League in the 2026 MLB All-Star Futures Game on July 12 at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia. The game is part of an All-Star Week showcase.

Anderson pitches in Double-A

for the Arkansas Travelers in the Seattle Mariners’ organization. Eyanson is also in Double-A, pitching for the Portland SeaDogs in the Boston Red Sox minor league system.

Both pitchers have gotten off to dominant starts this season.

Anderson has a 1.22 ERA in 13 starts. He’s allowed just two earned runs in his past six outings. Eyanson, meanwhile, has a

1.07 ERA in 12 minor league starts, including a 1.48 ERA in seven Double-A starts.

Along with Anderson and Eyanson, three former LSU signees will also participate in the Futures Game, including catcher Blake Mitchell, left-hander Cam Caminiti and right-hander Miguel Sime.

The 2026 All-Stars Futures Game will be held at 11 a.m. and will be televised on NBC.

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Pro tennis Wimbledon results Wednesday

At All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club London Purse: £30,060,000 Surface: Grass

Men’s Singles

Second Round Jenson Brooksby, United States, def. Ignacio Buse (31), Peru, 6-2, 6-2, 6-3.

Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Sebastian Ofner, Austria, 7-6 (8), 6-4, 6-4.

Tommy Paul (21), United States, def. Kwon Soon Woo, South Korea, 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (22), Spain, def.

Fabian Marozsan, Hungary, 6-3, 6-0, 6-3.

Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, def. Learner Tien (16), United States, 6-7 (6), 6-4, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Jannik Sinner (1), Italy, def. Nuno Borges, Portugal, 7-6 (4), 7-6 (2), 6-4.

Arthur Rinderknech (25), France, def. Martin Damm Jr, United States, 6-4, 7-6 (1), 6-3.

Michael Zheng, United States, def. Nicolas Mejia, Colombia, 6-7 (4), 7-6 (8), 6-1, 6-4.

Daniil Medvedev (8), Russia, def. Daniel Merida, Spain, 3-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-2.

Joao Fonseca (24), Brazil, def. Jesper De Jong, Netherlands, 6-1, 7-5, 6-4.

Roman Safiullin, Russia, def. Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 6-0, 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5).

Shintaro Mochizuki, Japan, def. Ethan Quinn, United States, 6-2, 7-6 (6), 7-5.

Felix Auger-Aliassime (3), Canada, def. Dino Prizmic, Croatia, 7-6 (2), 6-3, 7-5.

Women’s Singles

Second Round Jelena Ostapenko, Latvia, def. Antonia Ruzic, Croatia, 6-2, 6-0.

Mananchaya Sawangkaew, Thailand, def.

Alycia Parks, United States, 7-5, 6-0.

Naomi Osaka (14), Japan, def. Anastasia Gasanova, Russia, 6-3, 6-2.

Daria Kasatkina, Russia, def. Janice Tjen, Indonesia, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-4.

Claire Liu, United States, def. Zeynep Sonmez, Turkiye, 7-5, 6-3.

Karolina Muchova (10), Czechia, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 6-3, 6-2.

Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. McCartney Kessler, United States, 6-1, 7-6 (9).

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, def. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 6-2.

Nikola Bartunkova, Czechia, def. Katerina Siniakova (32), Czechia, 6-2, 6-4.

Coco Gauff (7), United States, def. Solana Sierra, Argentina, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7).

Anna Kalinskaya (19), Russia, def. Diane Parry, France, 6-4, 3-6, 7-6 (8).

Iva Jovic (16), United States, def. Tatjana

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in 13 straight World Cup matchups against European teams since then, including a 2-1 loss in extra time to Belgium in the round of 16 in 2014.

The U.S. had started fast in the group stage matches by scoring in the first 15 minutes of all three games. But it was Bosnia that had

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Continued from page 1C record for a .604 winning percentage while leading Southern to 14 Southwestern Athletic Conference and 11 NCAA tournaments. He won Black national titles in 2003 and 2005.

He was inducted into the SWAC Hall of Fame (2018), the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (2019), the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (2021) and the National College Baseball Hall of Fame (2022).

Sixty-two of his former players were taken in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft during his tenure, including Rickie Weeks, who in 2003 became the only HBCU player ever awarded the Golden Spikes and Dick Howser trophies. Weeks was the No. 2 overall pick in the draft by Milwaukee that year.

Cador’s milestone coaching victory was a 1-0 win over Cal State Fullerton, the No. 1 seed in the 1987 South II Regional at UNO. He would go on to win two other NCAA tournament games.

He was an ambassador for the game and a man who didn’t shy away from fundraising beyond his sport. He often helped raise money

Maria, Germany, 6-1, 6-2.

Jessica Pegula (4), United States, def. Sara Sorribes Tormo, Spain, 7-6 (6), 6-1.

Belinda Bencic (11), Switzerland, def. Wang Xinyu, China, 7-5, 6-0.

Barbora Krejcikova, Czechia, def. Mirra Andreeva (5), Russia, 4-6, 7-5, 6-4.

Ekaterina Alexandrova (18), Russia, def.

Lanlana Tararudee, Thailand, 7-5, 7-5.

Men’s Doubles

First Round Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (4), Italy, def. Joshua Paris and Ben Jones, Britain, 6-4, 6-3.

Jakub Paul, Switzerland, and Ryan Seggerman, United States, def. Luke Johnson, Britain, and Jan Zielinski, Poland, 6-4, 6-4.

Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Hugo Nys (9), Monaco, def. Daniel Evans and Henry Searle, Britain, 6-2, 6-4.

Nikola Mektic, Croatia, and Austin Krajicek (14), United States, def. Marcelo Melo, Brazil, and Andres Molteni, Argentina, 6-1, 4-6, 6-2.

Mac Kiger and Patrik Trhac, United States, def. Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Quentin Halys, France, 6-2, 6-4.

Fernando Romboli, Brazil, and John-Patrick Smith, Australia, def. Karol Drzewiecki and Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 5-7, 7-6 (9), 7-6 (8).

Lucas Miedler, Austria, and Francisco Cabral (11), Portugal, def. Diego Hidalgo, Ecuador, and Matej Vocel, Czechia, 6-7 (4), 7-5, 7-6 (2).

Marcus Willis and David Stevenson, Britain, def. Ariel Behar, Uruguay, and Joe Salisbury, Britain, 3-6, 7-6 (6), 6-3.

Marc Polmans and Rinky Hijikata, Australia, def. Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner (16), Germany, 7-6 (1), 6-7 (4), 7-6 (7).

Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz (7), Germany, def. Gonzalo Escobar, Ecuador, and Reese Stalder, United States, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (9).

Corentin Moutet and Arthur Reymond, France, def. Harry Wendelken and Johannus Monday, Britain, 6-3, 1-6, 6-1.

Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl, Czechia, def.

Marcos Giron, United States, and Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, 6-2, 6-2.

Christian Harrison, United States, and Neal Skupski (5), Britain, def. Mariano Kestelboim and Tomas Martin Etcheverry, Argentina, 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-4.

Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo (6), El Salvador, def. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, and Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 6-3, 6-4.

Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash (3), Britain, def. Mariano Navone, Argentina, and Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, Paraguay, 6-3, 6-0.

Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, and Aleksandar Kovacevic, United States, def. Santiago Gonzalez, Mexico, and Maximo Gonzalez, Argentina, 5-7, 7-6 (7), 6-2.

Harri Heliovaara, Finland, and Henry Patten (1), Britain, def. Terence Atmane and Luca Sanchez, France, 7-5, 6-2.

Pro basketball WNBA glance Eastern Conference

Los Angeles Portland Phoenix Seattle

Tuesday’s games

8 8 7 5

10 12 13 15

.444 6½ .400 7½ .350 8½ .250 10½

New York 93, Las Vegas 85

Wednesday’s games No games scheduled.

Thursday’s games

Atlanta at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Connecticut, 7 p.m.

Seattle at Phoenix, 9 p.m.

Pro golf

National League

American League East Division Tampa Bay New York Toronto Baltimore Boston Central Division Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City West Division Seattle Texas Houston Athletics Los Angeles

W 49 48 41 40 37

L 33 38 46 48 48

Pct .598 .558 .471 .455 .435

GB — 3 10½ 12 13½

W 45 45 41 38 35

L 40 42 46 49 51

Pct .529 .517 .471 .437 .407

GB — 1 5 8 10½

W 44 44 43 40 36

L 43 43 45 46 51

Pct .506 .506 .489 .465 .414

GB — — 1½ 3½ 8

Tuesday’s games

East Division Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York Central Division Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati West Division Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

W 50 49 46 45 36

L 34 38 40 43 51

Pct .595 .563 .535 .511 .414

GB — 2½ 5 7 15½

W 52 49 44 43 39

L 31 38 39 44 45

Pct .627 .563 .530 .494 .464

GB — 5 8 11 13½

W 56 43 43 35 33

L 30 42 42 50 53

Pct .651 .506 .506 .412 .384

GB — 12½ 12½ 20½ 23

Tuesday’s games

Philadelphia 8, Pittsburgh 0 N.Y. Mets 3, Toronto 0 St. Louis 5, Atlanta 3 Washington 8, Boston 1 Milwaukee 7, Cincinnati 2 Chicago Cubs 9, San Diego 7 Miami 14, Colorado 3 Arizona 8, San Francisco 2 L.A. Dodgers 9, Athletics

Texas 4, Cleveland 2 Chicago White Sox 9, Baltimore 3 Detroit 9, N.Y. Yankees 3 N.Y. Mets 3, Toronto 0 Washington 8, Boston 1 Tampa Bay 10, Kansas City 4 Houston 6, Minnesota 4 L.A. Dodgers 9, Athletics 3 Seattle 8, L.A. Angels 3

Wednesday’s games

Wednesday’s games

Washington 10, Boston 2 Chicago Cubs 23, San Diego 3 Toronto 9, N.Y. Mets 3 Cincinnati at Milwaukee, n Miami at Colorado, n Atlanta 5, St. Louis 1 L.A. Dodgers at Athletics, n San Francisco at Arizona, n Philadelphia 10, Pittsburgh 6

Thursday’s games

Pittsburgh (Jones 1-1) at Philadelphia (Rangel 0-1), 11:35 a.m.

Cincinnati (Burns 9-1) at Milwaukee (Misiorowski 9-3), 1:10 p.m.

Miami (TBD) at Colo. (Lorenzen 3-9), 2:10 p.m.

St. Louis (May 5-6) at Atlanta (TBD), 6:15 p.m.

San Diego (Vásquez 6-6) at L.A. Dodgers (Sasaki 3-5), 9:10 p.m.

Baltimore 6, Chicago White Sox 1 Cleveland 9, Texas 4 Detroit 6, N.Y. Yankees 2, 11 innings Washington 10, Boston 2 Toronto 9, N.Y. Mets 3 Tampa Bay 4, Kansas City 0 Minnesota at Houston, n L.A. Dodgers at Athletics, n Chicago White Sox (Martin 9-3) at Cleveland (Cecconi 4-6), 5:40 p.m.

Tampa Bay (TBD) at Kan. City (TBD), 6:40 p.m.

Detroit (Valdez 4-5) at Texas (Eovaldi 8-7), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Ureña 5-6) at Seattle (Miller 3-2), 8:40 p.m.

Thursday’s games

PGA Tour statistics Through June 29 FedExCup Season Points

1, Scottie Scheffler, 3,511. 2, Matt Fitzpatrick, 3,195. 3, Cameron Young, 2,586. 4, Wyndham Clark, 2,199. 5, Collin Morikawa, 2,176. 6, Si Woo Kim, 1,860. 7, Ludvig Aberg, 1,773. 8, 6 tied with 1,631.

Scoring Average

1, Scottie Scheffler, 68.901. 2, Collin Morikawa, 69.533. 3, Matt Fitzpatrick, 69.621. 4, Jake Knapp, 69.795. 5, Sam Burns, 69.908.

6, Wyndham Clark, 69.938. 7, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.943. 8, Cameron Young, 69.971. 9, Ludvig Åberg, 70.014. 10, Xander Schauffele, 70.017.

Driving Distance

1, Aldrich Potgieter, 328.8. 2, Michael Brennan, 325.4. 3, Gary Woodland, 322.4. 4 (tie), Chris Gotterup and Nicolai Højgaard, 322.1.

6, Rasmus Højgaard, 321.4. 7, Marco Penge, 320.8. 8, Min Woo Lee, 320.2. 9, Johnny Keefer, 318.6. 10, Jake Knapp, 317.7.

Driving Accuracy Percentage

1, Russell Henley, 73.41%. 2, Aaron Rai, 72.43%. 3, Lucas Glover, 70.13%. 4, Si Woo Kim, 70.10%. 5, Andrew Putnam, 69.65%. 6, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.44%. 7, Collin Morikawa, 69.41%. 8, Matt Fitzpatrick, 68.90%. 9, Corey Conners, 68.78%. 10, Emiliano Grillo, 68.41%.

Greens in Regulation Percentage 1, 10 tied with .00%.

Total Driving

1, Ludvig Åberg, 44. 2, Scottie Scheffler, 49.

3, Kurt Kitayama, 55. 4, Michael Brennan, 62. 5, Neal Shipley, 64. 6, Min Woo Lee, 67.

7, Jordan Smith, 71. 8, William Mouw, 72. 9, Cameron Young, 74. 10, Matt Fitzpatrick, 76.

SG-Putting

1, Vince Whaley, .780. 2, Jake Knapp, .698.

3, Akshay Bhatia, .681. 4, Jacob Bridgeman, .673. 5, Sam Burns, .662. 6 (tie), A.J. Ewart and Beau Hossler, .632. 8 (tie), Eric Cole and Harris English, .581. 10, Alex Noren, .563.

Birdie Average

1, Scottie Scheffler, 4.82. 2 (tie), Si Woo Kim and Collin Morikawa, 4.59. 4, Wyndham Clark, 4.55. 5, Ludvig Aberg, 4.39. 6, Akshay Bhatia, 4.35. 7, Robert MacIntyre, 4.34. 8, Eric Cole, 4.33. 9, Jacob Bridgeman, 4.32. 10, Keith Mitchell, 4.3.

Atlanta New York Indiana Washington Toronto Chicago Connecticut

W 12 12 11 9 9 6 4

L 7 8 8 9 10 13 15

Pct .632 .600 .579 .500 .474 .316 .211

GB — ½ 1 2½ 3 6 8

Minnesota Las Vegas Golden State Dallas

W 15 14 13 11

L 4 5 7 8

Pct .789 .737 .650 .579

GB — 1 2½ 4

1, Scottie Scheffler, 157. 2, Ludvig Åberg, 218.

3, Wyndham Clark, 244. 4, Collin Morikawa, 268. 5, Sam Burns, 277. 6, Si Woo Kim, 312. 7, Min Woo Lee, 317. 8, Keith Mitchell, 322. 9, Chris Gotterup, 334. 10, Jake Knapp, 335.

the better chances early with Matt Freese needing to make two saves early to stop Ermedin Demirovic following a deceptive goal kick that caught the U.S. defense napping and then again on the ensuing corner kick that Kerim Alajbegovic almost scored on directly.

Balogun then took over from there, having one apparent goal called off for offside, being knocked down in the box on two other opportunities and then finally delivering in the 45th minute.

Tim Ream intercepted a Bosnia goal kick at midfield and then Malik Tillman found Balogun in the box. He slid the left-footed shot in for his third goal of the tournament — one shy of the record for a U.S. men’s player in a single World Cup set in 1930 by Bert Patenaude.

He punctuated it with his version of the LeBron James Silencer celebration, drawing a positive reaction from King James himself.

for charitable causes. His success on and off the field helped him build a strong reputation among his peers in college baseball, including LSU icon Skip Bertman, whom he befriended soon after being hired.

Bertman, who was hired one year before Cador took over at Southern, remembered thinking “this is a good guy” upon meeting Cador.

Their friendship and professional association grew over the years.

“He was a good friend, a gentleman, and a good baseball coach,” Bertman said. “What he did with the Southern program would make anybody proud. He started with almost nothing and built a program into a competitive one in the SWAC. I really liked Roger on a personal basis. He was incredibly nice with a great sense of humor and a good family man.”

Bertman and Cador almost immediately established a three-game series between the two schools called the Mayor’s Cup, and the teams still play at least once a year.

They would meet on Mondays at a local restaurant and talk baseball with other local coaches.

The impression Cador made on his alma mater was profound. He helped get many of the amenities, including lights, constructed at Lee-Hines Field. He pushed for decades to get a baseball field house,

which was finally finished in 2015 after years of dressing in the Clark Activity Center and sometimes the parking lot. In 2022, the $1.4 million project was dedicated as the Cador Baseball Operations Center.

“Coach Roger Cador was far more than a baseball coach — he was a visionary, a mentor, a leader and a true pillar of the Jaguar Nation,’ Southern athletics director Roman Banks said. “His impact on Southern University and HBCU baseball is immeasurable. For more than three decades, he built a championship culture, developed generations of student-athletes, and inspired countless lives both on and off the field.

Southern had always been a part of Cador. He played five seasons in the Atlanta Braves organization, where he became lifelong friends with future big-league player and manager Dusty Baker. He returned to Southern as an assistant baseball coach in 1978 and served as an assistant basketball coach before being promoted to the head coaching job.

After 33 years, his humility followed him as he announced his retirement in 2017.

“Baseball at Southern University doesn’t belong to me,” Cador said then. “It belongs to Southern and the state of Louisiana. That’s what makes it easier to walk away now.”

Western Conference

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Eagles (Holes per)

1, Jake Knapp, 48. 2, Nicolai Højgaard, 77.5.

3, Matt Wallace, 82. 4, Sahith Theegala, 83.3.

5, Keegan Bradley, 84. 6, Tommy Fleetwood, 88.4. 7, 4 tied with 90.

Sand Save Percentage 1, 10 tied with .00%.

All-Around Ranking

BOX SCORES Cleveland 9, Texas 4

Washington 10, Boston 2

Texas

ab r h bi Foscue 2b 4 1 1 0 Jung 3b 3 0 0 0 Duran rf 5 0 3 0 Burger 1b 4 0 0 0 Higashi. dh 1 1 0 1 Peder. ph-dh1 0 0 0 Cauley cf 2 0 0 0 J.Smith ph-lf 2 0 1 0 Osuna lf-cf 4 1 0 0 Díaz c 4 1 2 2 Lopez ss 3 0 1 1 Totals 33 4 8 4 Totals 35 9 11 7 Texas 001 002 010 — 4 Cleveland 050 000 22x — 9 DP—Texas 0, Cleveland 2. LOB—Texas 9, Cleveland 5. 2B—Lopez (2), DeLauter (15), Watson (3). 3B—Kwan (1). HR—Díaz (3), Fry (5), Hedges (2). SB—DeLauter (3). S— Hedges (4).

IP H R ER BB SO Texas Gore L,5-7 5 7 5 5 1 7 Winn 1 2 2 2 0 0 Santos 2 2 2 2 1 1 Cleveland Cantillo W,7-3 5 3 2 2 5 4 Holderman 1 3 1 1 0 1 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Gaddis H,15 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Herrin H,14 Sabrowski 1 1 1 1 0 2 Festa 1 0 0 0 0 0 Winn pitched to 2 batters in the 7th, Cantillo pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

HBP—Cantillo (Lopez). WP—Gore, Santos(2).

ABS Challenge—Burger (Strike-Confirmed); Higashioka (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Higashioka (Strike-Confirmed); Cantillo (Ball-Confirmed); Arias (StrikeConfirmed).

Umpires—Home, Chris Segal; First, Laz Diaz; Second, Erich Bacchus; Third, Brian O’Nora.

T—2:50. A—20,141 (34,788).

Washington Boston ab r h bi ab r h bi Wood lf 4 2 2 3 Seigler 2b 4 0 0 0 Mead 3b 5 2 2 0 Rafaela cf 4 1 2 0 Chaparro 1b 2 1 1 2 Abreu rf 5 0 1 0 García ph-1b4 1 1 2 Contreras 1b4 1 2 0 Crews rf 3 0 2 0 Gonzalez dh 4 0 1 0 Lile dh 5 0 1 0 Durbin 3b 3 0 0 1 Young cf 3 1 2 1 Eaton lf 3 0 0 1 Vivas 2b 5 0 0 0 Monaste. ss 4 0 1 0 Nuñez ss 4 1 1 1 Wong c 4 0 2 0 Millas c 3 2 1 0 Totals 38 10 13 9 Totals 35 2 9 2 Washington 200 500 300 — 10 Boston 000 000 020 — 2 DP—Washington 1, Boston 2. LOB—Washington 11, Boston 11. 2B—Young 2 (11), Lile (19), Monasterio (11), Rafaela (19).

3B—Mead (1). HR—Chaparro (1), Nuñez (1), Wood (22). SB—Crews (5).

IP H R ER BB SO Washington 0 2 1 Lord 21⁄3 2 0 Alvarez W,2-1 42⁄3 2 0 0 1 6 Cornelio 1 3 2 2 1 2 Palmquist 1 2 0 0 0 1 Boston Tolle L,4-6 3 7 6 6 3 5 Watson 2 3 1 1 1 1 2 1 2 3 Morán 1 ⁄3 0 1 Gamboa 21⁄3 3 2 2 4 1 Tolle pitched to 4 batters in the 4th.

HBP—Alvarez (Eaton).

ABS Challenge—Nuñez (Strike-Confirmed); Alvarez (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Vivas (Strike-Confirmed); Durbin (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Gamboa (Ball-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Vic Carapazza; Second, Edwin Moscoso; Third, Nic Lentz.

T—3:05. A—32,574 (37,755).

Toronto 9, N.Y. Mets 3

Detroit 6, N.Y. Yankees 2

New York

Detroit

ab Benge rf 4 Soto dh 4 Bichette 3b 2 Mauricio 3b 1 Lindor ss 3 Ewing cf 4 Alvarez c 4 Young 1b 3 Baty 2b 3 Taylor lf 3

Cleveland ab r h bi Fry lf 3 1 1 3 Kwan ph-lf 2 1 1 0 DeLauter rf 5 1 3 1 Hoskins 1b 3 0 0 0 Manzardo dh4 0 1 0 Rocchio ss 4 1 1 0 Arias 3b 4 1 1 0 Watson cf 4 1 2 0 Hedges c 3 2 1 3 Schneem. 2b 3 1 0 0

Toronto r h bi 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0

ab r h bi Lukes rf 5 1 2 0 Guerrero 1b 4 1 1 0 Okamoto 3b 3 1 2 1 Varsho cf 4 1 1 1 Kirk c 2 2 2 0 Piñango lf 3 0 0 0 Straw ph-lf 1 1 1 3 Clement 2b 4 1 2 1 Urías 2b 0 0 0 0 Keys dh 4 1 1 3 Giménez ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 5 3 Totals 33 9 12 9 New York 000 000 021 — 3 Toronto 104 000 40x — 9 DP—New York 1, Toronto 0. LOB—New York 3, Toronto 5. 2B—Benge (11), Guerrero (13), Clement (22). HR—Benge (10), Lindor (4), Keys (1), Straw (3).

IP H R ER BB SO New York Peralta L,5-7 4 7 5 5 3 4 Gerber 11⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Pérez 11⁄3 5 4 4 1 2 Minter 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Toronto Fisher 1 0 0 0 1 1 Miles W,4-1 3 1 0 0 1 5 Corbin S,1-1 5 4 3 3 0 5 ABS Challenge—Kirk (Strike-Confirmed).

Pitch timer violations—Miles (pitcher).

Umpires—Home, John Libka; First, D.J. Reyburn; Second, James Hoye; Third, Sean Barber.

T—2:39. A—41,842 (39,150).

New York ab r h bi ab r h bi McGon. ss-3b5 2 1 1 Rice 1b 3 0 1 0 Dingler dh 5 1 2 0 Domínguez rf4 0 0 0 Carpenter rf 2 0 1 0 Sánchez c 1 0 0 0 Vierling ph-rf2 0 0 0 Bellinger lf 5 0 0 0 Greene lf 3 1 0 1 Rosario dh 5 1 1 1 Keith 3b 3 0 1 0 Chisholm 2b 5 1 2 0 Lee ph-2b 1 1 0 0 Volpe ss 4 0 1 0 Torkelson 1b3 1 0 1 Wells c 2 0 0 0 McKin. 2b-ss 5 0 1 2 S.Jones ph-cf 2 0 1 0 Outman cf 5 0 0 0 Caball. cf-rf 3 0 1 0 Rogers c 4 0 0 0 Cabrera 3b 3 0 0 0 Totals 38 6 6 5 Totals 37 2 7 1 Detroit 001 001 000 04 — 6 New York 000 000 002 00 — 2 E—Wells (4), Sánchez (2). LOB—Detroit 7, New York 8. 2B—Dingler (18), Chisholm (11). HR—McGonigle (7), Rosario (9). SB— Chisholm 2 (26), Greene (2). SF—Greene (3). S—Cabrera (2), Caballero (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Melton 61⁄3 2 0 0 1 7 2 Sommers H,4 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Anderson BS,2-6 2 5 2 2 0 1 Montero W,5-5 2 0 0 0 1 3 New York Warren 51⁄3 5 2 2 0 7 Blackburn 12⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 Headrick 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 F.Cruz 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Doval L,3-1 1 1 4 2 3 0 WP—Anderson, F.Cruz.

ABS Challenge—Outman (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Melton (Ball-Confirmed); Warren (Ball-Overturned to Strike); McGonigle (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Anderson (Ball-Confirmed); Doval (BallConfirmed); Chisholm (Strike-Overturned to Ball).

Pitch timer violations—Montero (pitcher); Doval (pitcher).

T—2:59. A—37,117 (47,309).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL July 2

1903 — Washington outfielder Ed Delahanty went over a railroad bridge at Niagara Falls and drowned. The exact circumstances of his death never were determined.

1909 — The Chicago White Sox stole 12 bases, including home plate three times, in a 15-3 rout of the St. Louis Browns.

1930 — Chicago outfielder Carl Reynolds homered in the first, second and third innings, leading the White Sox to a 15-4 win over the New York Yankees. Reynolds, the second player in history to hit home runs in three consecutive innings, had two inside-the-park homers.

1933 — Carl Hubbell of the New York Giants beat the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 in an 18-inning game. He allowed six hits and no walks. In the second game of the doubleheader, the Cardinals were blanked 1-0, with Roy Parmelee outdueling Dizzy Dean.

1933 — Jimmie Foxx of the Philadelphia Athletics set and American League record with 21 total bases in a doubleheader.

Foxx hit two solo homers in the opener, a 6-5 win over the St. Louis Browns. In the nightcap, an 11-6 loss, Foxx had two homers, a double and a triple.

1941 — Joe DiMaggio of the New York Yankees hit a home run to extend his consecutive game hitting streak to 45 games, surpassing Willie Keeler’s record of 44 straight games for the Orioles in 1897.

1963 — Juan Marichal of San Francisco beat Warren Spahn and the Milwaukee Braves 1-0 in 16 innings on Willie Mays’ homer.

1986 — Roger Clemens of the Boston Red Sox fell short of a record-tying 15th consecutive winning decision when the Toronto Blue Jays scored three runs in the

eighth inning for a 4-2 victory.

1995 — Hideo Nomo of the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first Japanese player picked for baseball’s All-Star game. Nomo was the NL’s leader in strikeouts and second in ERA. 2007 — Roger Clemens reached a rare milestone, pitching eight innings of two-hit ball to earn his 350th career win and lead the New York Yankees past Minnesota 5-1. Clemens became the first major leaguer to win 350 games since Hall of Famer Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves accomplished the feat in 1963.

2009 — Houston Astros beat the Padres 7-2, but only after waiting out a 52-minute delay in the top of the ninth inning caused when a swarm of bees took over part of left field at San Diego’s Petco Park.

2013 — Homer Bailey pitched his second no-hitter in 10 months and the first in the majors this season, pitching the Cincinnati Reds to a 3-0 victory over the slumping San Francisco Giants. Bailey beat the Pirates 1-0 in Pittsburgh last Sept. 28.

2014 — Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz became the 36th player in major league history to collect 1,000 extra-base hits with a ground-rule double during a 16-9 lost to the Chicago Cubs.

2016 — Cleveland’s franchise-record 14-game winning streak was snapped by a 9-6 loss to Toronto, with the Blue Jays scoring three runs in the eighth to overcome a cycle by Rajai Davis.

2016 — C.J. Cron went 6 for 6 with two homers and five RBIs, Carlos Perez had five hits and drove in six and the Los Angeles Angels ended a four-game losing streak with 21-2 rout of the Boston Red Sox.

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All-Stars traded as NBA free agency heats up of those talks confirmed.

Vucevic is second all-time on the Magic list in rebounds, third in points and fourth in games played.

The 35-year-old center has been in the league for 15 seasons, nine of those with Orlando — and now joins a young core led by Paolo Banchero and Franz Wagner.

Orlando needed another post option after losing Moritz Wagner in free agency to Brooklyn — and Vucevic, who still has a home in central Florida, was the natural fit.

Moritz Wagner, the brother of Franz Wagner, is signing a twoyear deal with the Nets.

Vucevic averaged 15.1 points this past season for Chicago and ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By NELL REDMOND Boston.

Also Wednesday, the Magic reMiami Heat guard Norman Powell drives to the basket against Charlotte signed forward Jonathan Isaac.

Hornets forward Miles Bridges during the second half of an NBA play-in He was waived last week in a protournament game in Charlotte, N.C., on April 14. cedural move, only to be brought back as expected for what will be his 10th season with the club (inThe deal was reached on Wednes- clinched the series in Game 5.

Now Robinson heads to play for cluding two he missed with injury). day, the second day teams were allowed to negotiate with free agents. one of the Knicks’ biggest rivals, Robinson spoke about his free the Boston Celtics. He will help Smart to Houston agency last Thursday when he was fill the void left by center Nikola Marcus Smart, the NBA’s defenin Chalmette for his annual camp Vucevic, who agreed to a deal with sive player of the year in 2022, is and a parade that was held in his the Orlando Magic on Wednesday. about to join his fourth team in a honor for winning the NBA chamspan of 17 months after agreeing Celtics star Brown to 76ers with the Houston Rockets on a pionship.

“I’m just going to see what’s out The Boston Celtics are trad- two-year deal worth about $12.7 there and we’ll see what happens,” ing 2024 NBA Finals MVP Jaylen million, a person with knowledge Robinson said.

Brown to the Philadelphia 76ers of those talks told the AP. Smart was with Memphis as reHe has agreed to a three-year, for Paul George and a slew of draft $47.4 million deal with the Celt- capital in yet another blockbuster cently as February 2025, then was ics. The deal has a player option in offseason move in the NBA, a per- sent to Washington to complete the third season, according to the son with knowledge of the terms that season and spent this past seareport. said Wednesday. son with the Lakers.

Drafted by the Knicks in the secBoston also gets two first-round He averaged 9.3 points and startond round of the 2018 draft, Rob- picks and two second-round picks, ed 54 games for the Lakers in 2025inson had been with the Knicks according to the person who spoke 26. longer than anyone else on the to The Associated Press on conroster. He averaged 7.5 points and dition of anonymity because the Harris to San Antonio 8 rebounds in his time with the trade had not received the required The Western Conference chamKnicks. He was a key reserve for a league approvals. pion Spurs got another veteran, team that won its first NBA chamESPN first reported the trade adding Tobias Harris on a twopionship in 53 years. His ability agreement, and the terms were lat- year deal worth about $15 million to rebound and protect the game er confirmed by The Boston Globe. this coming season and about $16 made him one of the most coveted It brings Brown’s tenure to Bos- million in 2027-28, a person with big men in this year’s free agency ton to an end after five All-Star ap- knowledge of the agreement told class. pearances in a 10-season run that the AP. Including playoff games, Harris He was instrumental through- saw him play in more wins — when out the playoffs, including the job counting both regular season and has played in 466 victories over he did against San Antonio Spurs’ playoff games — than any other the last decade — the sixth most of center Victor Wembanyama in player in the league over that span. any player in the league over that span. Harris, who turns 34 later the Finals. Robinson was guardthis month, averaged 13.3 points ing the San Antonio star when Vucevic returns to Orlando Wembanyama missed a potential Nikola Vucevic is headed back this past season for Detroit. game-winning shot in Game 2. And to the Orlando Magic, agreeing on it was Robinson’s clutch rebound a one-year deal for just under $4 Collins to Detroit on a Spurs’ missed free throw that million, a person with knowledge Forward John Collins is chang-

The Associated Press Add Norman Powell to the list of this past season’s All-Stars who are changing addresses this summer in NBA free agency.

Powell has agreed to a two-year deal that could be worth up to $45 million with the Chicago Bulls, a person with knowledge of the talks said Wednesday. Powell also had received some interest from the Detroit Pistons, said the person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the contract cannot be finalized until July 6 at the earliest.

ESPN and Chicago Sports Network were among those who first reported the agreement between Powell and the Bulls, who will hold a team option for 2027-28. Powell spent this past season in Miami, where he became an All-Star for the first time and averaged 21.7 points in 58 games with the Heat.

Miami will have a very different look this coming season, after the acquisition of Giannis Antetokounmpo in a trade that sent Tyler Herro and others to Milwaukee.

Powell will be joining his fifth team, after past stints with Portland, the Los Angeles Clippers, Toronto and the Heat.

All-Stars on the move Powell is among five — and there likely will be more — All-Star selections from 2026 alone to be on the move this offseason.

He joins Antetokounmpo (Milwaukee to Miami), Kawhi Leonard and Brandon Ingram (the headliners of a trade that brings Leonard back to Toronto and sends Ingram to the Los Angeles Clippers), and LeBron James (who is leaving the Los Angeles Lakers for a yet-to-bedecided team).

Of the 62 players with at least one All-Star selection in the last five years, just over half — 32 of them — have changed teams at least once in that span.

Robinson to Boston Mitchell Robinson, the Chalmette High School alum who helped the New York Knicks win an NBA championship in June, has found a new team.

The 7-foot center has reached a deal with the Boston Celtics, according to an ESPN report.

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Not far from the Corniche along the Eastern Harbor in Alexandria, Egypt, there’s El Fallah, a tiny place that only makes one thing: liver sandwiches.

You say liver sandwich in Alexandria and people know you’re talking about this spot — it’s so famous that the owner has dozens of pictures of himself posing with Egyptian celebrities.

The reason the sandwich works is the meat is cut paperthin and is generously seasoned with spices. That liver sandwich inspired this recipe in my book “My Egypt,” made with rib-eye, which applies similar flavors to steak sliced super-thin (as in, Philly cheesesteak thin).

If you’d rather make the sandwich with beef liver instead of steak, slice the liver in half horizontally, season generously with salt and pepper, and brush with the garlic butter used in this recipe. Broil the liver for 1 to 2 minutes or until brown on the outside and slightly pink in the center.

Let it cool for a couple of minutes, then slice it crosswise and add it to the bowl with the cooked shallots and other fixings.

You can make the garlic butter ahead and refrigerate it with the garlic cloves inside.

This recipe makes more garlic butter than you need, but the extra keeps, sealed in an airtight container, for a month, ready to be pulled out and used to make many other things, like garlic bread or scampi.

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Alexandria Steak Sandwiches, Recipe 2D

Add a sweet twist to your July Fourth coleslaw with fresh mangoes

BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service (TNS)

I look forward to mango season, when perfectly ripe, sweet mangoes are easy to find in the markets.

Their juicy, tropical flavor adds a refreshing twist to everyday dishes. Tossed into a quick coleslaw, mango brings a touch of natural sweetness Recipe, and vibrant color, transform2D ing it into a light, satisfying vegetarian salad that’s perfect for a warm evening.

Here are some tips on how to handle a mango. Mangoes continue to ripen after they are picked. Keep them at room temperature until they yield to gentle pressure. To speed up the ripening, place mangoes in a covered bowl or paper bag.

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The local meteorologists were less concerned about Tropical Storm Arthur’s winds than the possibility of a significant amount of rain. I went to bed wondering if we would wake up to flooded streets or a few puddles. Early in the morning, the unmistakable shrill ring of the emergency alert system warning of a possible tornado jolted me out of bed. I turned on the local news station to watch the weather and the familiar feelof uncertain angst during hurLiz Faul ing ricane season in Louisiana hit me.

In New Orleans, and many other cities along the Gulf Coast, summertime hurricane preparation and conversation are ever-present elements of the culture. Inevitably, stories about Hurricane Katrina resurface, and with it the physical destruction and communal loss that residents still grapple to comprehend.

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ANOTHER RECIPE ä Frank Brigsten’s

Marinated Crab Claws with Green Onion Sauce.

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Red Beans and Rice Makes 8-12 servings. Recipe is from the cookbook “Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” edited by Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker.

1 pound dry red kidney beans ½ pound fatty ham or another seasoning meat, such as salt meat, or smoked ham 1 medium onion, chopped 1 or 2 stalks of celery, chopped 1 green bell pepper, chopped 1 clove garlic, minced

1 large bay leaf 1 to 2 teaspoons Creole seasoning Salt to taste Black pepper to taste 2 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley, or more to taste ¼ cup chopped green onions (green part only) Hot cooked rice for serving Hot sauce for serving

1. Pick over the red beans to remove any stones or broken beans. Soak overnight in a large bowl with about 3 inches of water to cover. Drain the water, rinse the beans, drain again, and set aside.

2. Render the ham or seasoning meat in a Dutch oven over medium heat to obtain the fat, then remove the meat and set aside. Saute the onion, celery, bell pepper and garlic in the rendered fat, adding a little oil if needed, until softened. Add the beans, return the meat to the pan, and pour in 8 to 10 cups of water, or enough to cover everything by at least a couple of inches. Bring to a boil. Add the bay leaf and the Creole seasoning to the beans, then reduce to a simmer and gently cook, uncovered, for about 1½ hours, or until the beans are tender. Add more water while cooking if necessary.

3. Toward the end of the cooking time, mash some beans with a spoon against the side of the pot to make the mixture creamier, if desired, and add the salt and pepper to taste, the parsley and the green onions as a garnish. Discard the bay leaf and serve in bowls over white rice. Pass the hot sauce.

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Alexandria Steak Sandwiches Serves 4. Recipe is excerpted from “My Egypt” by Michael Mina.

GARLIC BUTTER: ¼ pound unsalted butter 5 garlic cloves, peeled and smashed ¼ teaspoon fine sea salt Freshly ground black pepper SANDWICH: 4 soft French sandwich rolls, cut in half and toasted cut side up 2 boneless rib-eye or New York strip steaks (about 12 ounces) 1 teaspoon vegetable oil Fine sea salt Freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 3 shallots, thinly sliced 1 small hot pepper (Anaheim or jalapeño), thinly sliced crosswise ½ teaspoon ground cumin ½ teaspoon ground turmeric ½ teaspoon paprika 1 lime, halved 1 handful cilantro sprigs 1. To make the garlic butter, in a small saucepan, melt the butter with the garlic over medium heat, about 2 minutes. Season with salt and a few pinches of pepper and let cool to a warm room temperature, about 10 minutes.

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2. Using a pastry brush, lightly coat the cut side of the sandwich rolls with the garlic butter, about 1 tablespoon per roll.

3. Trim some of the fat from the steak and save to render in the pan. Cut away any gristle. Slice each steak in half crosswise, then slice thinly across the grain into 3- to 4-inch-long pieces (try to get as close as you can to Philly cheesesteak thinness with the slices).

4. In a large skillet over medium-high heat, render the saved beef fat for 1 minute, then remove (it’s OK if not much fat comes out).

Add the oil and heat for a few seconds, then add the sliced steak and sear briefly, turning the pieces once or twice and seasoning with a few pinches of salt and a generous pinch of pepper, until the beef is cooked through, about 2 minutes. Transfer the beef and any juices to a heatproof bowl and keep warm.

5. In the same skillet, melt the butter over medium heat. Add the shallots, hot pepper, cumin, turmeric and paprika and cook until the shallots have softened slightly, about 2 minutes.

Add to the bowl with the steak and stir together well.

Squeeze the lime over the bowl, then mix again, adding more salt if needed.

6. Divide the steak and shallots among the sandwich rolls and finish with cilantro sprigs. Slice the sandwiches in half before serving.

Mango Coleslaw Yields 2 servings. Recipe is by Linda Gassenheimer.

5 cups shredded cabbage ¼ cup thinly sliced scallions ¾ cup diced red onion 1 cup sliced green bell pepper 1 cup sliced red bell pepper ¾ cup plain unsalted walnuts 1 tablespoon canola oil 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar 2 teaspoons sugar 1 cup mango cubes Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons reduced-fat mayonnaise

Continued from page 1D A quick way to cube mango flesh is to place the mango on a cutting board upright with the narrow side

facing you. Slice off each side of the mango as close to the seed as possible.

Hold the mango half in the palm of your hand skin side down. Score the fruit in a crisscross pattern through to the skin. Bend the skin backwards so that

the cubes pop up. Slice the cubes away from the skin.

HELPFUL HINTS: n Ripe peaches can be used instead of mangoes. n Pecans or almonds can be used instead of walnuts. n Any type of onion can be used.

Frank Brigsten’s Marinated Crab Claws with Green Onion Sauce Makes 8 servings. Recipe is from the cookbook “Cooking Up a Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” edited by Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker.

GREEN ONION SAUCE: 1 large egg yolk 1 cup thinly sliced green onions (white and green parts) 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon black pepper 2 tablespoons white vinegar 1 cup vegetable oil MARINATED CRAB CLAWS: ½ cup red wine vinegar 1 tablespoon Creole mustard 1 tablespoon paprika 1 teaspoon minced garlic ½ teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon dried oregano leaves 1 teaspoon sugar 1 cup olive oil 24 Louisiana blue crabs CUCUMBER CUPS: 3 large, wide cucumbers (Sliced in 2-inch-thick pieces) 1. For the green onion

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Continued from page 1D The preservation of recipes is a key way of retaining cultural identity. This is even more the case when the culture is essentially built around the food and recipes of the region. In New Orleans, Mondays mean red beans, cold snaps conjure cravings for spicy gumbo and spring means crawfish. And when New Orleanians leave home, they dream of their favorite foods cooked in neighborhood restaurants.

After Hurricane Katrina, when residents were scattered all over the country, readers of The Times-Picayune and Nola.com wrote to ask the food editor, Judy

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Dear Miss Manners: My Three, actually. daughter was recently First, the trio breached married — a second marno rules of etiquette or riage both for her and for good taste — at least nothher new husband. They had a lovely ceremony and ing that you have related. invited close family and Wedding gifts are not, you good friends — well, some will be surprised to hear, good friends. mandatory. So we Three of my have nothing to daughter’s friends charge them with. work with her new Second, you do husband’s ex-wife. not send thankThe couple received you letters simply neither cards nor because someone Judith gifts from this trio. attended your Martin wedding; thanking She feels they have MISS been manipulated them for attending MANNERS by the ex. What would therefore not should she do? demonstrate your 1. Should she not send a daughter’s familiarity with thank-you note to them? etiquette, but rather, the 2. Should she just send a reverse. This eliminates note thanking them for atone of your proposed courses of action. tending and celebrating?

Third, shaming (or ex3. Should she send a card thanking them for attendtorting) guests is a serious breach of etiquette. This ing, with a P.S. such as, “I eliminates another profear your card/gift was lost”? She does not value posed course of action. To the friendship of these answer your question then, three ladies and wants to if your daughter wants shame them for their lack to demonstrate her good of class and manners. manners, she should forget Gentle reader: Before we about this trio and enjoy get to the how, Miss Manher honeymoon.

Dear Miss Manners: A few ners wants to be sure she years ago, my mother-inunderstands the goal, law, an amateur painter, which is to “shame” three gave my husband and me a guests at your daughter’s large portrait of ourselves. wedding for their “lack of I don’t wish to judge the class and manners,” presumably while having your skill of the artist, but will say that it was “not our daughter display her own.

thing.” We thanked her profusely and hung it up for a few years in a remote corner of the house.

We have since moved to a smaller place without the space to display it, so it’s been packed away in a closet. Now my husband wishes to get rid of it altogether.

Setting aside the question of whether any secondhand store would even want it, what is the appropriate etiquette? We are likely never to hang up this painting again, but I feel guilty disposing of a heartfelt, homemade gift that’s so personal in nature.

Gentle reader: Paintings can be removed from their frames, rolled and shoved into a tube at the back of a closet. This way if you absolutely have to produce it at a later date, you can claim that it was in storage while you thought about reframing it. Consider yourself lucky your mother-in-law did not take up sculpting.

Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners. com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

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1. Add the cabbage, scallions, red onion, green bell pepper, red bell pepper and walnuts to a large bowl.

TNS PHOTO By LINDA GASSENHEIMER 2. Add the canola oil and toss to make sure all veg- Mango Coleslaw etables are coated with the oil. Add the apple cider vin- mix all together. fat), 40.2 g fat (3.0 g saturategar, sugar, mango cubes 4. Divide in half and serve ed, 12.8 g monounsaturated), and salt and pepper to taste. on two dinner plates. no cholesterol, 16.4 g protein, Toss well.

NUTRITION INFO PER SERVING: 44.1 g carbohydrates, 12.7 g 3. Add the mayonnaise and 564 calories (64 percent from fiber, 153 mg sodium.

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sauce: In a food processor, combine the egg yolk, green onions, salt, black pepper and white vinegar. With the processor running, slowly add the vegetable oil in a thin stream until fully incorporated. Refrigerated until ready to serve.

2. For the marinade: In a mixing bowl, combine the red wine vinegar, Creole mustard, paprika, garlic, salt, oregano and sugar.

Slowly add the olive oil, whisking constantly until fully incorporated.

3. For the cucumber cups: Trim the ends off the cucumbers and cut them so you have a total of 8 slices, each 2 inches thick. From one end of each slice, hollow out the

seed to form a cup.

4. For the marinated crab claws in cucumber cups: Marinate the crab claws for 15 minutes. Remove from the marinade and drain. To serve, spoon 2 tablespoons of green onion sauce into each cucumber cup. Place 3 crab claws in each cup.

NOTE: If you are short on time, the marinated crab claws are a simple appetizer that is made in advance and best served cold in the bowl with the marinade sauce. The cucumbers with green onion sauce is a delicious addition that can be added if you have time, but not necessary to enjoy these tasty marinated crab claws.

Walker, and co-author Marcelle Bienvenu to compile a book of many authentic New Orleans recipes so they could cook their favorite comfort foods while the city was being rebuilt and revived. This is how “Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from The Times-Picayune of New Orleans” came to be a popular cookbook that holds important food history.

This summer, food writers for The Advocate | The Times-Picayune were assigned to cook recipes from “Cooking up a Storm.” For July, I made a delicious summer appetizer, Frank Brigtsen’s marinated crab claws with green onion sauce, a staple of the popular seafood platter that is served at Brigtsen’s, his restaurant in the Riverbend

neighborhood of New Orleans. This recipe is easy to follow at home and will be a crowd-pleaser at a summer party.

I always say, “When I don’t know what else to do, cook a pot of beans.” Red beans and rice is my favorite New Orleans dish. It was not surprising to me at all that red beans and rice was the first nomination of recipes to add to this archive of New Orleans cooking.

I also learned in “Cooking Up a Storm” that Louis Armstrong signed his letters “Red Beans and Ricely Yours.” So listen to your favorite Louis Armstrong album — mine is “Ella and Louis” (1956) — and make this red beans and rice recipe. You will taste, hear and feel what New Orleans is all about.

By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, July 2, the 183rd day of 2026. There are 182 days left in the year.

Today’s highlight in history: On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law a sweeping civil rights bill passed by Congress prohibiting discrimination and segregation based on race, color, sex, religion or national origin.

Also on this date: In 1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that “these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.”

In 1881, President James A. Garfield was shot by Charles J. Guiteau at the Washington, D.C., railroad station; Garfield died the following September. (Guiteau was hanged in June 1882.)

In 1917, rioting erupted in East St. Louis, Illinois, as White mobs attacked Black residents; at least 50 and as many as 200 people, most of them Black, are believed to have died in the violence.

In 1937, aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight along the equator.

In 1962, the first Walmart

store opened in Rogers, Arkansas.

In 1976, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Gregg v.

Georgia, ruled 7-2 that the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.

In 1979, the Susan B. Anthony dollar coin was released to the public.

In 1986, ruling in a pair of cases, the Supreme Court upheld affirmative action as a remedy for past job discrimination.

In 1990, more than 1,400 Muslim pilgrims were killed in a stampede inside a pedestrian tunnel near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

In 2018, rescue divers in Thailand found alive 12 boys and their soccer coach, who had been trapped by flooding as they explored a cave more than a week earlier.

In 2020, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire on charges that she had helped lure at least three girls — one as young as 14 — to be sexually abused by the late financier Jeffrey Epstein. (Maxwell would be convicted on five of six counts and sentenced to 20 years in prison.)

In 2022, the police chief for the Uvalde, Texas, school district stepped down from his City Council seat amid criticism of his response to the mass shooting at an elementary school in which 19 students and

two teachers were killed on May 24 of that year.

Today’s birthdays: Former Philippine first lady Imelda Marcos is 97. Racing Hall of Famer Richard Petty is 89. Former White House chief of staff and former New Hampshire governor John H. Sununu is 87. Writer-directorcomedian Larry David is 79. Actor Wendy Schaal is 72. Actor-model Jerry Hall is 70. Former baseball player Jose Canseco is 62.

Race car driver Sam Hornish Jr. is 47. Former NHL center Joe Thornton is 47.

Singer Michelle Branch is 43. Retired figure skater Johnny Weir is 42. Actorsinger Ashley Tisdale is 41. Former professional soccer player Alex Morgan is 37. Actor Margot Robbie is 36. Singerrapper Saweetie is 33. U.S. Olympic swimming gold medalist Ryan Murphy is 31. Actor Caitlin Carmichael is 22.

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Reset your schedule to meet your needs and pursue what excites you most. Utilize your strengths, connections and cash flow to set your plans in motion.

LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) A broad-minded attitude will open doors to new people and experiences. What you discover will help you secure and stabilize your prospects and lifestyle. Let your uniqueness shine through with unfiltered truthfulness.

VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Keep your ears and eyes on high alert. What you see and hear will indicate your best move.

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ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Network and thrive. Step into the spotlight and let onlookers see what you can do. Your intelligence and enthusiasm will lead to an offer you cannot turn down. Rise to the occasion.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Steven Wright, a comedian who specializes in deadpan delivery, said, “Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.”

Cast your mind back to yesterday’s column. Then look at this one. Maybe you will have a Steven Wright moment.

West is defending against four hearts.

He leads off with the club ace: six, queen, nine. How should he hope to defeat the contract?

The bidding is instructive. North is right to make a takeout double over one club. True, if South does not have a fivecard major, the ensuing 4-3 major-suit fit might be worse than a 5-3 or 5-4 diamond fit. But a good South will have a five-card major. East made a pre-emptive jump raise to three clubs, promising five or more clubs and a weak hand. With gameinvitational or greater strength, he would have responded with an artificial two notrump. (When responder has a big balanced hand, he starts with redouble over an opponent’s takeout double.) South cue-bid four clubs to show a strong twosuiter. (With a good one-suiter, he would have jumped in that suit.)

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Exodus 32:26 Are you on the Lord’s side? Can He count on you? G.E. Dean

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Bids will be received by the Office of Purchasing, Room 213 Thomas Boyd Hall, Louisiana State Uni‐ versity and Agricultural and Mechanical College 70803 until 11:00 AM on Tuesday, July 28, 2026. ** Refer to www.centerl inebidconnect.com for bid submission instruc‐ tions. All bids must be submitted via email to lsubids@lsu.edu ** ANY PERSON REQUIRING ACCOMMODA‐ SPECIAL SHALL NOTIFY TIONS LOUISIANA STATE UNI‐ VERSITY, OFFICE OF PUR‐ CHASING OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMODATION RE‐ QUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING. FOR: Furnish Labor and Materials for Electrical Infrastructure Upgrades, Life Science Building Louisiana State Univer‐ sity Project No. 01-1072405, F.01004590, Item 38 LSU SOLICITATION NUM‐ BER: RFQ-0000002854 Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments for this project may be obtained from: www.centerlinebidco nnect.com.

Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrangements can be made to obtain them most repro‐ through graphic firms.

Contractors unable to access bidding docu‐ ments at www.centerl inebidconnect.com should contact Merge Engineering LLC David Soileau 7423 Picardy Ave, Ste E1 (225) 478-2990 david@mergeengineerin g.com All bids must be accom‐ panied by bid security equal to five percent (5%) of the sum of the base bid and all alter‐ nates, and must be in the form of a certified check, cashier’s check or Bid Bond Form written by a surety company licensed do business in to Louisiana, signed by the surety’s agency or attor‐ ney-in-fact. Surety must be listed on the current U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Man‐ agement Service list of approved bonding com‐ panies as approved for an amount equal to or greater than the amount for which it obligates it‐ self in the Bond, or must be a Louisiana domiciled insurance company with at least an A- rating in the latest printing of the A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide. If surety qualifies by virtue of its Best’s list‐ ing, the amount of the Bond may not exceed ten percent of policyholders’ surplus as shown in the latest A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide. The Bid Bond shall be in favor of the Louisiana State Uni‐ versity and Agricultural and Mechanical College, and shall be accompa‐ by appropriate nied power of attorney. No Bid Bond indicating an oblig‐ ation of less than five percent (5%) by any method is acceptable.

The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written by a company licensed to do business in Louisiana, in an amount equal to 100% of the Contract amount. Surety must be listed currently on the U.S. Department of Trea‐ sury Financial manage‐ ment Service List (Trea‐ sury List) as approved for an amount equal to or greater than the con‐ tract amount, or must be an insurance company domiciled in Louisiana or owned by Louisiana resi‐ dents. If surety is quali‐ fied other than by listing on the Treasury list, the contract amount may not exceed fifteen percent of policyholders’ surplus as shown by surety’s most recent financial state‐ ments filed with the Louisiana Department of Insurance and may not exceed the amount of However, a $500,000.

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EDUCATION SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS The Iberville Parish School Board (IPSB) is ready to continue its path to excel‐ lence and is seeking an exceptional Su‐ perintendent of Schools to lead those efforts. The IPSB serves a diverse popu‐ lation of 4,072 students on 13 campuses with approximately 980 employees. It has an annual operating budget of ap‐ proximately $150,000,000. Iberville Parish has approximately 30,000 citi‐ zens and is located only 20 minutes from Baton Rouge.

Qualifications: Applicants must be cer‐ tified as a superintendent in Louisiana at the time of application or be eligible for immediate certification, as con‐ firmed in writing by the LDOE, at the time of application. You must furnish your LDOE confirmation of certification along with your completed application.

Please note that the applicant must possess the credentials which entitle him/her to serve as the district’s super‐ intendent. Each applicant must meet or exceed, as of the date of application, the qualifications for superintendent listed in Bulletin 746 Louisiana Stan‐ dards for State Certification of School Personnel.

Applications: Applications for the posi‐ tion of Superintendent of Schools may be found and printed off the IPSB web‐ site (www.ipsb.net). Applications must be completed, signed, and delivered as outlined below to be considered.

Deadline for Applications: All applica‐ tions must be received on or before Au‐ gust 18, 2026. Applications not received by that date will not be considered.

Method for Delivery of Applications: All applications must be mailed to: Super‐ intendent Search, P.O. Box 539, Plaque‐ mine, LA 70765. Applications delivered in any other fashion will not be consid‐ ered.

Salary: The salary for this position is negotiable based on the experience of the applicant. The estimated salary range is $150,000-$190,000 per year.

PLEASE NOTE: Applications for this po‐ sition are subject to public release under the Louisiana Public Records Law, La. R.S. 44:1 et seq.

The IPSB is an equal opportunity employer.

Public Notices Bids/Proposals p g Best’s Key Rating Guide shall not be subject to the $500,000 limitation, provided that the con‐ tract amount does not exceed ten percent of policyholders’ surplus as shown in the latest A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide nor fifteen percent of policyholder’s surplus as shown by surety’s most recent financial state‐ ments filed with the Louisiana Department of The Bond Insurance. shall be signed by the surety’s agent or attor‐ ney-in-fact.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD 10:00 AM, Friday, July 17, 2026 LSU Life Sciences Build‐ ing, First Floor, Main Lobby, 214 South Campus Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70803 Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2163 for the classification of BUILD‐ ING CONSTRUCTION. Bid‐ der is required to comply with provisions and re‐ quirements of LA R.S. 38:2212 (A)(1)(c). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after receipt of bids, ex‐ cept under the provi‐ sions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212 (A)(1)(b), the pro‐ visions and requirements of this Section, those stated in the advertise‐ ment for bids, and those required on the bid form shall not be considered as informalities and shall not be waived by any public entity.

When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or federal funds, the award of this Contract is upon the contingent granting of lines of credit, the sale of bonds by the Bond Commission or the commitment of federal funds. The Uni‐ versity shall incur no obligation to the Con‐ tractor until the Contract Between Owner and Con‐ tractor is fully executed.

192613-JUL 2-9-16-3T $201.66 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the State of Louisiana by the Division of Administration and shall be directed to the Office of Facility Planning and Control, 1201 North Third Street, Claiborne Office Building, Suite 7Baton Rouge, 160, Louisiana, 70802 or P.O. Box 94095, Baton Rouge, 70804-9095.

Louisiana, The deadline for receipt of bids is 2:00 PM on Thursday, July 30, 2026, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in a public meeting in the Claiborne Office Conference Building, Room 1-145.

FOR: Strategic Capital Plan Deferred Maintenance of Infrastructure and Streets - Quail Research Relocation Louisiana State University Baton Rouge, Louisiana PROJECT NUMBER: 19-601-20-03, F.19002666

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security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 9:00 AM on Tuesday, July 14, 2026 at Poultry Barn Main Entry, 1950 Ben Hur Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70820.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and require‐ of LA R.S. ments 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a pe‐ riod of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity.

When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are received, the award of this Con‐ tract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Com‐ mission or the availabil‐ ity of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract Between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted.

Facility Planning and Control is a participant in the Small Entrepreneur‐ ship (SE) Program (the Hudson Initiative) and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Connected Dis‐ Veteran-Owned abled (LaVet) Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program. Bid‐ ders are encouraged to participation. consider Information is available from the Office of Facility Planning and Control or on its website at https:// www.doa.la.gov/doa/ fpc/.

If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to participate in this meeting, please con‐ tact Cheryl Schilling at Cheryl.Schilling@la.gov or (225) 342-6060 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled meeting.

STATE OF LOUISIANA DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION FACILITY PLANNING AND CONTROL MATTHEW H. BAKER, DIRECTOR 191403 June 25, July 2, 9, 3t $165.63 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS

Questions about this pro‐ cedure shall be directed to the Designer at:

Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the State of Louisiana by the Division of Administration and shall be directed to the Office of Facility Planning and Control, 1201 North Third Street, Claiborne Office Building, Suite 7Baton Rouge, 160, Louisiana, 70802 or P.O. Box 94095, Baton Rouge, 70804-9095.

Louisiana, The deadline for receipt of bids is 2:00 PM on Tuesday, August 04, 2026, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in a public meeting in the Claiborne Office Conference Building, Room 1-145.

Remson Haley Herpin Ar‐ chitects / Tipton Associ‐ ates, A Joint Venture 200 Government Street, Suite 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Telephone: 225-387-0101 E-mail: shigdon@tiptonassociates.com

FOR: Lock and Key System Replacement Buildings 1-8 Department of Corrections Headquar‐ ters Baton Rouge, Louisiana PROJECT NUMBER: 01-107-24-03, F.01004678

All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this

Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments for this project are available in electronic form. They may be ob‐ tained without charge and without deposit from li bid

Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments for this project are available in electronic form. They may be ob‐ tained without charge and without deposit from www.centerlinebidco nnect.com.

Printed copies are not available from the Designer but arrangements can be made to obtain them most repro‐ through graphic firms. Plan hold‐ ers are responsible for their own reproduction costs.

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Louisiana, The deadline for receipt of bids is 2:00 PM on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in a public meeting in the Claiborne Office Conference Building, Room 1-145.

The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

FOR: Re-Roof Buildings G, H/I and Gym Family and Youth Service Center Baton Rouge, Louisiana PROJECT NUMBER: 01-107-24-04, F.01004763 Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments for this project are available in electronic form. They may be ob‐ tained without charge and without deposit from www.centerlinebidco nnect.com.

Printed copies are not available from the Designer but arrangements can be made to obtain them most repro‐ through graphic firms. Plan hold‐ ers are responsible for their own reproduction costs.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 10:00 AM on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at Department of Corrections Headquarters, Facility Services Office, 504 Mayflower Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802.

Questions about this pro‐ cedure shall be directed to the Designer at:

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and require‐ of LA R.S. ments 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a pe‐ riod of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity.

When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are received, the award of this Con‐ tract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Com‐ mission or the availabil‐ ity of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract Between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted.

Facility Planning and Control is a participant in the Small Entrepreneur‐ ship (SE) Program (the Hudson Initiative) and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Connected Dis‐ Veteran-Owned abled (LaVet) Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program. Bid‐ ders are encouraged to participation. consider Information is available from the Office of Facility Planning and Control or on its website at https:// www.doa.la.gov/doa/ fpc/.

If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to participate in this meeting, please con‐ tact Cheryl Schilling at Cheryl.Schilling@la.gov or (225) 342-6060 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled meeting.

STATE OF LOUISIANA DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION FACILITY PLANNING AND CONTROL MATTHEW H. BAKER, DIRECTOR 191865 June 25, July 2, 9, 2026 3t $165.63 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the State of Louisiana by the Division of Administration and shall be directed to the Office of Facility Planning d l h

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Printed copies are not available from the Designer but arrangements can be made to obtain them most repro‐ through graphic firms. Plan hold‐ ers are responsible for their own reproduction costs.

All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

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The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 10:00 AM on Wednes‐ day, July 15, 2026 at Fam‐ ily and Youth Service Center, Administration Building, Conference Room, 1120 Government Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction or Roofing and Sheet Metal, Siding.

Bidder is required to comply with provisions and requirements of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity.

When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are received, the award of this Con‐ tract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Com‐ mission or the availabil‐ ity of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract Between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted.

Facility Planning and Control is a participant in the Small Entrepreneur‐ ship (SE) Program (the Hudson Initiative) and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Connected Dis‐ Veteran-Owned abled (LaVet) Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program. Bid‐ ders are encouraged to participation. consider Information is available from the Office of Facility Planning and Control or on its website at https:// www.doa.la.gov/doa/ fpc/.

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order to participate in this meeting, please con‐ tact Cheryl Schilling at Cheryl.Schilling@la.gov or (225) 342-6060 as soon as possible but no later than 48 hours before the scheduled meeting.

STATE OF LOUISIANA DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION FACILITY PLANNING AND CONTROL MATTHEW H. BAKER, DIRECTOR 191573 June 25, July 2, 9, 3t $164.79 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT OF BID BIDS TO BE OPENED:

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The OWNER reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for just cause per State Public Bid Law.

y the most advantageous, taking into consideration price and other evalua‐ tion factors set forth in the request for propos‐ als.

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A corporate resolution authorizing a representa‐ tive of the corporation to sign the proposal must accompany the proposal if the proposer is a cor‐ poration. Such activities will be in accordance with Title 38:2237 of the Revised Louisiana Statutes.

An award shall be made to the responsible offeror whose proposal is deter‐ mined in writing by the governing authority of the City of Monroe to be h d

MINORITY-OWNED FIRMS AND SMALL BUSINESSES ARE ENCOURAGED TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS RE‐ QUEST FOR QUALIFICA‐ TIONS. RFP Reference No. 2027-00000014

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________ Date ________________/s/ Richard Moore, Director of Administration

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 123 Sealed bids will be re‐

10am – Thursday – July 31, 2026 NOTICE The Purchasing Division, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, Suite 200, Jackie Cochran Building, Parish of East Baton Rouge will receive sealed bids, until 10am/ Friday – July 31, 2026 for the fol‐ lowing:

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“SYNTHETIC OIL” At precisely 10am/ Friday – July 31, 2026 they will be publicly opened and read aloud in Suite 200, Jackie Cochran Building.

Bid proposals, amend‐ ments to bid or request for withdrawal of bids re‐ ceived after time speci‐ fied for bid opening shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.

Bidders or their autho‐ rized representatives are invited to be present. No other information or tab‐ ulations will be available until awards are made after all bids are fully checked as to specifica‐ tions and accuracy. We reserve the right to di‐ vide items to avail our‐ selves of the low bid.

The bid proposal is firm for a period of sixty (60) days from the opening of the bids and no bid pro‐ posal can be withdrawn for any reason during this period of time.

Full information and bid specifications may be obtained upon request from the Purchasing Divi‐ sion, East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office, P. O. Box 3277, Baton Rouge, La 70821 by phone at (225) 389-4833, and infor‐ mation also available on‐ line and bids may also be online at submitted https://www.centralbidd ing.com The right to reject all bids and waive informali‐ ties is reserved.

Bid# 1112 EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE Stephin Henderson, Pur‐ chasing Department 192853 July 2, 16, 2026 2t $56.02 PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY OF MONROE REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL

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Separate sealed PROPOS‐ ALS for RFP - Transit Route Study will be re‐ ceived by the City of Monroe, at the Purchas‐ ing Division, located at 1014 Grammont Street, Monroe, Louisiana 71201.

Proposals will be re‐ ceived until 2:00 P.M., on Tuesday, July 28, 2026.

The CONTRACT DOCU‐ MENTS, consisting of Re‐ quest for Proposal, Infor‐ mation for Proposers, SPECIFICATIONS, and AD‐ DENDA, may be exam‐ ined at the following lo‐ cation: City of Monroe Purchasing Division 1014 Grammont Street Monroe, LA 71201 All Proposers MUST ob‐ tain copies of Proposal Documents from the City of Monroe Purchasing Di‐ vision by emailing the Purchasing Division at purchasing@ci.monroe. la.us, thereby being added to the Proposers’ List. Proposals from ven‐ dors not on the Pro‐ posers’ List will not be accepted. The name of the vendor must match that of the name on the Proposals’ List, under which the Request for Proposal was requested.

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ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Louisiana, at Rouge, 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing:

Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688

y shall be required in ac‐ with R.S. cordance 38:2212 (A) (1) (c) and/or R.S. 39:1954 (C) (2) (d).

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Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified.

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities.

Proposals will be re‐ ceived until 2:00 PM on July 23, 2026 by the Pur‐ chasing Department of Delgado Community Col‐ lege and thereafter pub‐ licly opened for Pest Control Services at Del‐ gado Community Col‐ lege’s Campuses and Sites. Additional informa‐ tion may be obtained by contacting the Purchas‐ ing Department, Delgado Community College, 501 City Park Ave., New Orleans, LA 70119 (504) or email: 762-3028 aharri@dcc.edu or pur‐ chasingdept@dcc.edu.

Bid Documents and Ad‐ denda may be down‐ loaded from: https:// wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/osp/lapac/dspBid. cfm?search=departm ent&term=39 Evidence of authority to submit bid h ll b i d i

PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE - - - AD‐ VERTISEMENT FOR BIDS City of St. Gabriel (herein referred to as the "Owner") hereby solicits sealed bids for the Sun‐ shine Event Center pro‐ ject described as follows: STATEMENT OF WORK: New Construction Build‐ ing with site work.

Sealed Bids shall be ad‐ dressed to the _ City of St. Gabriel-Sunshine Event Center Project, and delivered to Attn: John Chumba, St. Gabriel City Hall located at 5035 Iberville Street St. Gabriel, LA 70776, not later than 10:00 a.m.

Wednesday, on the 15th day, of July 2026. **Pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statute 38:2212, vendors/contractors now have the option to sub‐ mit their bids and bid

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bonds, electronically. In addition to paper bids, electronic bids and elec‐ tronic bid bonds for the project will be down‐ loaded by the Owner. To view bids, download, and receive bid notices by email, your com‐ pany/agency will need to register at www.central bidding.com prior to the deadline. ** Any bid received after the specified time and date will not be consid‐ ered. The sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 10:00 a.m. on the 15th day of July, 2026, at the Council Chambers, St. Gabriel City Hall located at 5035 Iberville Street, St. Gabriel, LA 70776. Com‐ plete Bid Documents, In‐ structions to Bidders, Bid Form, Contract, Plans, Specifications, and Forms of the Bid Bond, Performance Bond and Payment Bond, and other bidding documents may be downloaded from the City of St. Gabriel Plan Room as hosted by Cen‐ tral Bidding https:// www.centralbidding.com (subject to fees and con‐ ditions). For any ques‐ i di h b

y q tions regarding the web‐ site call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814. Prospec‐ tive Bidders are solely re‐ sponsible for obtaining the most up-to-date bid‐ ding Documents from the designated website.

Complete Bid Documents may also be examined by emailing raphael@r3a rchitects.com or at the Office of the Architect for the contract; located at 2900 Westfork Dr, STE 401, Baton Rouge, La 70827; (225-588-8825).

Hard copies may be ob‐ tained at this office upon payment of a deposit of $300.00. This deposit will be refunded upon re‐ quest in accordance with R.S. 38:2212. Contractors submitting bids shall be licensed under Louisiana Contractors Licensing Law for the Major Classi‐ fication of Building Con‐ struction. The bidder shall show his license number on the bid and on the sealed envelope submitting the bid. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause; such ac‐ tions will be in accor‐ dance with Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes. In accordance

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with R.S. 38:2212 (A)(1) (b), the provisions and requirements stated in the Bidding Documents shall not be waived by any entity. Each Bidder must deposit with his/her bid, security in the amount of at least five percent (5%) of the total bid price, provided on the specified form and subject to the condi‐ tions provided in the In‐ formation for Bidders.

Sureties used for obtain‐ ing bonds must appear as acceptable on the U. S. Department of Treasury Circular 570. No bidder may withdraw his/her bid within forty-five (45) days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

The construction budget is approximately $1,750,000 and will be awarded to lowest, re‐ sponsible and responsive bidder in accordance with Louisiana Public Bid Law requirements.

LOCATION: Council Chambers, St. Gabriel City Hall located at 5035 Iberville Street, St. Gabriel, LA 70776. **

21st, 2026, at 3:00 pm local time. Call 866-8398477 for problems with web‐ site or questions.

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**A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD: TIME & DATE: on the 26th day of June , 2026 at 10:00 a.m.

BUSHHOGGING LOTS MOWED 225-505-3907 OR 225-272-5614

BIDS TO BE OPENED 07/27/26

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Interlocal Purchas‐ ing System (TIPS) has posted procurement so‐ licitations at www.tipsusa.com for the following categories: 260701 Indoor Air Quality Equipment and Services 260702 Online Student Registration and Enroll‐ ment Systems 260703 Staffing Services 260704 Printing, Mailing, and Shipping Solutions and Goods The proposal is due and will be opened on August

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enrollment. NOTE: This RFQ is not available to submit online via Central Bidding; submissions MUST be mailed or hand delivered to the address mentioned in the RFQ. In that LaPAC and Central Bidding provides an im‐ mediate email notifica‐ tion to subscribing bid‐ ders that a solicitation and any subsequent ad‐ denda have been let and posted, notice and re‐ ceipt thereof is consid‐ ered formally given as of their respective dates of posting. Though not re‐ quired if receiving solici‐ tation and addenda no‐ tices from LaPAC and Central Bidding the CityParish will email ad‐ denda to all vendors con‐ tacting our office and re‐ questing to be put on our office Vendor Listing for this solicitation.

The deadline for receiv‐ ing written inquiries is July 14, 2026 at 5:00 PM CST. Proposals received after the above specified time will not be considered.

The right to reject any and all proposals and to waive irregularities and informalities is reserved.

All questions concerning the Solicitation and Con‐ tract Documents MUST be received in accor‐ dance with the Schedule of Events cited in the So‐ licitation documents.

Though not required if receiving solicitation and addenda notices from LaPAC, the City of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge will email or mail addenda to all ven‐ dors contacting our of‐ fice and requesting to be put on our office Vendor Listing for this solicita‐ tion.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --(Case No. Z-26-0002) CITY OF CENTRAL ORDINANCE NO. 2026-14 AN ORDINANCE REZONING LOT B-2-A-1 OF THE ERVING J. BOURG TRACT FROM R/A (RURAL/AGRICULTURAL) TO B-1 (NEIGHBORHOOD BUSINESS) (9821 Joor Road) WHEREAS, an applica‐ tion has been made to rezone Lot B-2-A-1 of the Erving J. Bourg Tract from R/A (Rural/Agricul‐ tural) to B-1 (Neighbor‐ hood Business); WHEREAS, the property is located at 9821 Joor Road and consists of 4.23 acres and a storage building, and is located within the Corridor Over‐ lay District; WHEREAS, the applicant requests a rezone in order to use the storage building to repair and build golf carts which is an allowed use (“smallscale service and retail (CZC establishments” Sec. 6.1)) within the B-1 (Neighborhood Business) zoning district; WHEREAS, the City of Central’s Staff Report is attached hereto and in‐ corporated by reference as Attachment A; WHEREAS, a public hearing was held on May 28, 2026 before the City of Central Zoning Commis‐ sion at which the Zoning recom‐ Commission mended approval of this rezone application with the stipulation that the rear portion of the lot cannot be used for com‐ mercial purposes; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Central, State of Louisiana as fol‐ lows: Section 1: That the prop‐ erty subject to this Ordi‐ nance is legally de‐ scribed in Exhibit A at‐ tached hereto and made a part hereof.

Section 2: That the sub‐ ject property is hereby from R/A rezoned (Rural/Agricultural) to B1 (Neighborhood Busi‐ ness) with the stipula‐ tion that the rear portion of the lot cannot be used commercial pur‐ for poses.

Section 3: Conflicts. The specific terms and condi‐ tions of this Ordinance prevail against shall other ordinance of the City to the extent that there may be any con‐ flict. Except for the fore‐ going, the development of the subject property is subject to the terms of all applicable ordinances and regulations of the City of Central, including any amendment thereto.

Section 4: Severability.

If any section, subsec‐ tion, sentence, clause or provision of this Ordi‐ nance is declared by a court of competent juris‐ diction to be invalid, such declaration of inva‐ lidity shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole, or parts thereof, other than the part declared invalid. The remainder of the Ordi‐ nance shall not be af‐ fected by the declaration of invalidity and shall re‐ main in force and effect.

Section 5: Effective This Ordinance Date. shall be effective upon publication.

Introduced before the Council on June 9, 2026.

Notice of public hearing was published in The Ad‐ vocate on the 16th day of June, 2026.

This Ordinance having been submitted to a vote; the vote thereon was as follows: For: Fralick, Lavergne, Lazaroe, McKinney, Myer and Wells Against: None Absent: Roy Abstained/Recused: None Adopted this 23rd day of June 2026.

Signed the 26th day of June 2026. s/Mark Miley, City Clerk Delivered to the Mayor on the 29th day of June 2026.

Approved: s/Wade Evans, Mayor Received from the Mayor on the 29th day of June 2026.

193006 July 2, 1t $55.30 PUBLIC NOTICE --(T-26-0002) CITY OF CENTRAL ORDINANCE NO. 2026-15 AN ORDINANCE AMEND‐ ING TITLE 7 UNIFIED DE‐ VELOPMENT CODE AND APPENDIX 1 COMPRE‐ HENSIVE ZONING TO ALLOW SWIMMING POOLS IN A SIDE YARD AND TO PROVIDE FOR RE‐ LATED MATTERS. WHEREAS, Central’s zoning regulations re‐ quire front, side, and rear yards, which must be open space that is unob‐ d

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p p structed except as may be specifically allowed;

p p riod will be open from July 2, 2026, through July 16, 2026. Interested par‐ ties are invited to review the draft application and written com‐ submit ments regarding the pro‐ posed services. All com‐ ments received by 4:00 p.m. on July 16, 2026, will be reviewed and consid‐ ered prior to submission of the FY 2025 Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) ap‐ plication to the Louisiana Housing Corporation.

WHEREAS, swimming pools are one encroach‐ ment that are allowed in a yard, but only in a rear yard, not in front or side yards; WHEREAS, a swimming pool in an interior side yard, so that it is not closer to the street that the front façade of the is acceptable house, given the many large lots in Central; WHEREAS, after a public hearing on May 28, 2026, the Zoning Commission moved to recommend approving the suggest text amendment pro‐ posed by the City’s Staff; WHEREAS, considering recommendations the from City of Central’s Planning Staff and the Zoning Commission, the City Council seeks to amend Title 7 Unified De‐ velopment Code, Chapter 9, Part 1 and Appendix 1 of the CZO, Chapter 2 as reflected in Attachment A-Staff Report; NOW THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Mayor and the City Coun‐ cil of the City of Central, State of Louisiana: Section 1: Title 7 Uni‐ fied Development Code, Chapter 9, Parts I and Ap‐ pendix 1 of the CZO, Chapter 2 are hereby amended to read as fol‐ lows: NOTE: Underlined text is new. Strikethrough text is deleted.

TITLE 7 - UNIFIED DEVEL‐ OPMENT CODE *** CHAPTER 9. DEFINITIONS, CALCULATIONS, AND MEASUREMENTS Part I. Definitions *** Sec. 7:9.1. – Definitions applicable to all *** Obstruction in required yard: a structure that in‐ trudes upon any open spaces required by this UDC. Recreational equip‐ ment, including swings sets, and above-ground swimming pools, and recreational vehicles, are Obstructions. *** Swimming pool: a struc‐ ture receptacle or artifi‐ cial basin intended to contain water at least 24 inches deep for swim‐ ming, total body immer‐ or recreational sion, not readily bathing, portable in design or including construction, or above-ground inpools, hot tubs, and spas.

APPENDIX 1 CITY OF CENTRAL COM‐ PREHENSIVE ZONING CODE *** CHAPTER 2. GENERAL DISTRICT REGULATIONS *** Sec. 2.2. Permitted ob‐ structions in required yards. *** B. Side Yards *** 3. Garages in interior side yards provided there is at least a three-foot setback from the Side Lot Line and a five-foot set‐ back from the alley, if there is an alley en‐ trance; and 4. Swimming pools in in‐ terior side yards. *** Section 2: All remaining sections and subsections specifically ad‐ not dressed in Attachment A shall remain unchanged.

Section 3: Conflicts.

The specific terms and conditions of this Ordi‐ shall prevail nance against other ordinances of the City to the extent that there may be any conflict. Development of property subject to this ordinance is subject to the terms of all applica‐ ble ordinances and regu‐ lations of the City of Cen‐ including any tral, amendment thereto.

Section 4: Severability.

If any section, subsec‐ tion, sentence, clause, or provision of this Ordi‐ nance is declared by a court of competent juris‐ diction to be invalid, such declaration of inva‐ lidity shall not affect the validity of the Ordinance as a whole, or parts thereof, other than the part declared invalid. The remainder of the Ordi‐ nance shall not be af‐ fected by the declaration of invalidity and shall re‐ main in force and effect.

Section 5: Effective This Ordinance Date. shall be effective upon publication.

Introduced before the Council on June 9, 2026.

Notice of public hearing was published in The Ad‐ vocate on the 16th day of June, 2026.

This Ordinance having been submitted to a vote; the vote thereon was as follows: For: Fralick, Lavergne, Lazaroe, McKinney, Myer and Wells Against: None Absent: Roy Abstained/Recused: None Adopted this 23rd day of June 2026.

Signed the 26th day of June 2026. s/Mark Miley, City Clerk Delivered to the Mayor on the 29th day of June 2026.

Approved: s/Wade Evans, Mayor Received from the Mayor on the 29th day of June 2026.

Written comments should be submitted to: Sharon St. Romain Director of Grants and Contracts St. Vincent de Paul of Baton Rouge 220 St. Vincent de Paul Place Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Email: sstromain@svdpbr.com Phone: (225) 383-7837 192865 July 1, 1t $242.85 PUBLIC NOTICE --In accordance with the provisions of Act 953 of the 2026 Session of the Legislature, Louisiana notice is given that Iberville Parish Assessor John Randall Sexton in‐ tends to increase his by an compensation amount not to exceed five percent annually through calendar year 2029.

192959-JUL 1-2-2T PUBLIC NOTICE --RE: Final Notice of Pro‐ posed Activity in a Flood‐ plain or Wetland: St. Charles Parish, Fairfield & Oakland Drainage Im‐ provements To: All interested Federal, State, and Local Agen‐ cies, Groups, and Individ‐ uals This is to give notice that the St. Charles Parish Government (SCP) under 24 CFR Part 58 has con‐ ducted an evaluation of proposed action this under Louisiana Commu‐ nity Development Block Grant (CDBG-MIT) num‐ ber 45MTR27701 located in the 100-year floodplain Zone AE / Federal Flood Risk Management Stan‐ dard (FFRMS) riverine floodplain/wetland as re‐ quired by Executive Or‐ ders 11988 (Floodplain Management) and 11990 (Protection of Wetlands), in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Proce‐ dures for Making Deter‐ minations on Floodplain Management. Extent of FFRMS floodplain was determined using the value ap‐ freeboard proach.

St. Charles Parish Gov‐ ernment proposes to im‐ plement flood hazard measures mitigation within the Fairfield and Oakland Watershed. The proposed project is lo‐ cated on Fairfield and Oak in the town of St. Rose, Louisiana in St. Charles Parish. The pro‐ ject site covers approxi‐ mately 21.14 acres be‐ tween Airline Highway, CPKC Railroad, Riverbend Drive, and the Oakland Pump Station. Coordi‐ nates for the site are 39° 58' 28.85" N 90° 17' 52.74" W. The proposed project would address the need for flood hazard mitiga‐ in St. Rose, tion Louisiana. This project proposes the following activities in the Almedia region of St. Rose. These activities include the in‐ stallation of reinforced concrete pipes, a pro‐ posed berm at 6-ft eleva‐ tion, conversion of an open channel to a sealed manhole, the addition of a drop inlet, ditch main‐ tenance, ditch grading, and the addition of a flap gate.

St. Charles Parish Gov‐ ernment rejects the no action alternative as it would not improve flood hazards. After coordina‐ tion with agencies, re‐ viewing alternatives fol‐ lowing early public no‐ tice period in which no responses were received, and the fact that the pro‐ posed work is to improve drainage in the surround‐ residential area ing which is essential in pro‐ tecting surrounding com‐ munities and infrastruc‐ ture, SCP determined that it has no practicable alternative to floodplain development.

There are three primary purposes for this notice.

First, people who may be affected by activities in floodplains and those who have an interest in the protection of the nat‐ ural environment should be given the opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Sec‐ ond, an adequate public notice program can be an important public edu‐ cational tool. The dis‐ semination of informa‐ tion about floodplains can facilitate and en‐ hance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associ‐ ated with the temporary impacts to the special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government de‐ termines it will partici‐ pate in actions taking place in floodplains, it must inform those who may be put at a greater i d i k

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Written comments must be received by Michael Hill at ELOS Environmen‐ tal on behalf of St. Charles Parish Govern‐ ment at the following ad‐ dress on or before July 2nd, 2026, during the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Michael Hill mhill@elosenv.com 985-662-5501 Project Manager/Envi‐ ronmental Scientist ELOS Environmental, LLC 607 W Morris Ave Hammond, LA 70403 St. Charles Parish may also be reached directly through the LA Relay Communications System at the following num‐ bers: Access #’s: Voice Users: 1-800-9475277 Speech to Speech: 1-888272-5530 TTY Users: 1-800-846-5277 Spanish/Español: 1-800737-1813 Email: larelay@hamilto nrelay.com This service is free of charge 191522-jun 18-25-jul 2-3t $1,419.67 PUBLIC NOTICE --RE: Final Notice of Pro‐ posed Activity in a Flood‐ plain or Wetland: St. Charles Parish, Turtle Pond Pump Station Up‐ grades To: All interested Federal, State, and Local Agen‐ cies, Groups, and Individ‐ uals This is to give notice that the St. Charles Parish Government (SCP) under 24 CFR Part 58 has con‐ ducted an evaluation of proposed action this under Louisiana Commu‐ nity Development Block Grant (CDBG-MIT) num‐ ber 45MTR27702 located in the 100-year floodplain Zone AE / Federal Flood Risk Management Stan‐ dard (FFRMS) riverine floodplain/wetland as re‐ quired by Executive Or‐ ders 11988 (Floodplain Management) and 11990 (Protection of Wetlands), in accordance with HUD regulations at 24 CFR 55.20 Subpart C Proce‐ dures for Making Deter‐ minations on Floodplain Management. Extent of FFRMS floodplain was determined using the value ap‐ freeboard proach.

St. Charles Parish Gov‐ ernment proposes to im‐ plement flood hazard measures mitigation within the Turtle Pond Watershed.

The pro‐ posed project is located in the town of St. Rose, Louisiana in St. Charles Parish. The project site approximately covers 11.59 acres between Air‐ line Highway and Alme‐ dia Plantation Drive. Co‐ ordinates for the site are 29° 58’ 17” N, 90° 18’ 43” W. The proposed project would address the need for flood hazard mitiga‐ in St. Rose, tion Louisiana. The project proposes the following activities in the Almedia region of St. Rose: cul‐ vert replacements, pump station upgrades, culvert canal installations, widening, ditch installa‐ tion, channel mainte‐ and channel nance, widening.

St. Charles Parish Gov‐ ernment rejects the no action alternative as it would not improve flood hazards. After coordina‐ tion with agencies, re‐ viewing alternatives fol‐ lowing early public no‐ tice period in which no responses were received, and the fact that the pro‐ posed work is to improve drainage in the surround‐ residential area ing which is essential in pro‐ tecting surrounding com‐ munities and infrastruc‐ ture, SCP determined that it has no practicable alternative to floodplain development.

There are three primary purposes for this notice.

First, people who may be affected by activities in floodplains and those who have an interest in the protection of the nat‐ ural environment should be given the opportunity to express their concerns and provide information about these areas. Sec‐ ond, an adequate public notice program can be an important public edu‐ cational tool. The dis‐ semination of informa‐ tion about floodplains can facilitate and en‐ hance Federal efforts to reduce the risks associ‐ ated with the temporary impacts to the special areas. Third, as a matter of fairness, when the Federal government de‐ termines it will partici‐ pate in actions taking place in floodplains, it i f h h

Written comments must be received by Michael Hill at ELOS Environmen‐ tal on behalf of St. Charles Parish Govern‐ ment at the following ad‐ dress on or before July 2nd, 2026, during the hours of 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM. Michael Hill mhill@elosenv.com 985-662-5501 Project Manager/Envi‐ ronmental Scientist ELOS Environmental, LLC 607 W Morris Ave Hammond, LA 70403 St. Charles Parish may also be reached directly through the LA Relay Communications System at the following num‐ bers: Access #’s: Voice Users: 1-800-9475277 Speech to Speech: 1-888272-5530 TTY Users: 1-800-846-5277 Spanish/Español: 1-800737-1813 Email: larelay@hamilto nrelay.com This service is free of charge 191529-jun 18-25-jul 2-2t $1,366.12 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice is hereby given to all citizens and to all other interested persons that the Mayor and City Council of the City of Port Allen will hold a public hearing for the purpose of adopting an ordinance amending Sec‐ tion 2-132 of the City of Port Allen Code of Ordi‐ nances relative to the ad‐ vertisement of vacant authorizing positions; advertisement of open positions on the City’s of‐ ficial website and official social media account(s) for a period of seven (7) consecutive days in lieu of publication in the offi‐ cial journal; and provid‐ ing for related matters.

The hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at 5:30 P.M. at Port Allen City Hall, 375 Court Street, for all interested citizens. Interested citi‐ zens will have the oppor‐ tunity to give written or oral comment prior to any action taken by the Council.

Mayor City Pattan Pub‐ Terecita lished 07/02/26 192209-JUL 2-1T $13.87 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice is hereby given to all citizens and to all other interested persons that the Mayor and City Council of the City of Port Allen will hold a public hearing on an or‐ dinance amending the fiscal year ending 2027 sewer fund budget to provide for the allocation of funds for the indepen‐ dent appraisal and po‐ tential acquisition of ap‐ thirty-one proximately (31) acres of land for a municipal proposed treatment wastewater facility; providing for a purchase contingent agreement subject to ap‐ praised value, environ‐ mental review, and site suitability; and providing for related matters. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, July 8, 2026, at 5:30 P.M. at Port Allen City Hall, 375 Court Street, for all interested citizens. Interested citi‐ zens will have the oppor‐ tunity to give written or oral comment prior to any action taken by the Council.

Mayor City Pattan Pub‐ Terecita lished 07/02/26 192211-JUL2-1T $14.54 PUBLIC NOTICE --Public Hearings on Northshore Charter School’s 2026-2027 PROPOSED BUDGET In Pursuant to the Provisions of La.R.S. 39:1306-1308, the Public Hearing ill b h ld b f h

Thursday, July 9, 2026, Time: 5:30 PM, Place: 111 Walker St, Bogalusa, LA 70427 Regular Board Meeting Adoption of Budget Thursday, August 13, 2026, Time: 5:30 PM, Place: 111 Walker St, Bogalusa, LA 70427 For at least 15 calendar days before the Budget’s Adoption, Northshore Charter School’s proposed budget will be available for public in‐ spection at 111 Walker St, Bogalusa, LA 70427 193013 July 2, 1t $117.83

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PUBLIC NOTICE --IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF MARY ANN MOORE PROBATE NO. 115205 DIVISION: 25 19TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE STATE OF LOUISIANA NOTICE FOR APPLICATION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN, that Ritchie K. Goebel, the Ad‐ ministrator of the Estate of Mary Ann Moore, has, pursuant to the provi‐ sions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure art. 3281, petitioned this Court for authority to sell at private sale, for the sale price of Eighty Five ($85,000.00) Thousand Dollars and No Cents on the terms and conditions set forth in the Louisiana Agreement Residential To Buy Or Sell, which in‐ cludes the Estate’s undi‐ vided one-half (1/2) in‐ terest, the following de‐ scribed immovable prop‐ erty: One certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, sit‐ uated in that subdivision of the City of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of known as Louisiana, SUBDIVI‐ ROSEWOOD SION, and being desig‐ nated as LOT 36 of said subdivision according to the final plat thereof on file and of in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for said parish and state as Original 288, Bundle 11991, said lot having such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servi‐ tudes and building setback lines as shown on the said map.

Municipal address: 9343 Tea Rose Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70810.

All interested parties are required to make op‐ position, if any, they have or can to such sale, within seven (7) days, in‐ cluding Sundays and hol‐ idays, from the date on which the last publica‐ tion of this notice ap‐ pears.

Publication: The Advocate – East Baton Rouge Parish Published twice Attorney: Michelle Lorio St. Martin Koch St. Martin, LLC Address: 201 Napoleon Street Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 Telephone: 225-612-9700 190758-jun 11-jul 2-2t $93.84 PUBLIC NOTICE --IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF RUTH DORSEY PROBATE NO. 115204 DI‐ VISION: 26 19TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE STATE OF LOUISIANA NOTICE FOR APPLICA‐ TION TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NOTICE IS GIVEN, that Ritchie K. Goebel, the Ad‐ ministrator of the Estate of Ruth Dorsey, has, pur‐ suant to the provisions of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure art. 3281, petitioned this Court for h i ll i

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Municipal address: 9343 Tea Rose Lane, Baton Rouge, LA 70810.

All interested parties are required to make opposi‐ tion, if any, they have or can to such sale, within seven (7) days, including Sundays and holidays, from the date on which the last publication of this notice appears.

Publication: The Advo‐ cate – East Baton Rouge Parish Published twice Attorney: Michelle Lorio St. Martin Koch St. Martin, LLC Address: 201 Napoleon Baton Rouge, Street, Louisiana 70802 Telephone: 225-612-9700 190757-JUN 11-JUL 2-2T $89.78

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Public Notice West Baton Rouge Parish Zoning Commission Rezone with a Special Use Permit Request: Zoning map error requires rezoning from I-1 to I-2 with a SUP for Commercial Seasonal Fireworks in I-2 and Wrecker Service/storage facility.

Applicant/Owner: Michael Kauffman with MBK Land LLC Address: 838 Hwy 190 W Port Allen LA 70767 Property Description: PJ#26-0019: TRACT E-7 & W P/O TRACT E-8 CONT 4.59 AC BELAIR INDUS‐ TRIAL PARK The West Baton Rouge Zoning Commission will hold a PUBLIC HEARING relative to the rezoning request.

Date: Tuesday, July 21, 2026 Time: 5:30 pm The West Baton Rouge Parish Council will hold a PUBLIC HEARING relative to the rezoning request.

Date: Thursday, July 23, 2026 Time 5:30 pm Public hearings will be held at the West Baton Rouge Parish Govern‐ mental Building, 880 N. Alexander, Port Allen, LA 70767 WEST BATON ROUGE PARISH P&Z COMMISSION ALL MEETING INFORMA‐ TION INCLUDING MIN‐ UTES AND VIDEOS CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE WBRPARISH.ORG UNDER THE AGENDA AND MIN‐ UTES TAB. Ordinances in full can be found on our website under Notice of Public https:// Hearings…… www.wbrparish.org/720/ Notice-of-PublicHearings

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PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING West Baton Rouge Public Notice Notice Is Hereby Given To All Citizens Of The Parish Of West Baton Rouge, State Of Louisiana, And To All Other Interested Persons, Of The Introduc‐ tion At The Regular Meet‐ ing Of The West Baton Rouge Parish Council Of The Proposed Ordi‐ nance(s) Introduced By Title June 11, 2026 As Set Forth Hereinafter.

An Ordinance To Amend And Reenact The West Baton Rouge Parish Code Of Ordinances, Part III (“Unified Development Code”), Chapter 101 (“General Provisions”), Section 101-1 (“Defini‐ tions”); And Chapter 105 (“Subdivisions”), Article I (In General), Section 1057 “(Minor Subdivisions)”, Chapter 111 “(Adminis‐ tration and Enforce‐ ment)”, Article IV “(Zon‐ ing Enforcement)”, Sec. 111-83 –“( Power Of The Parish President And Parish Council To Issue And Extend Temporary Special Use Permits)”.

An Ordinance To Amend And Reenact The West Baton Rouge Parish Code Of Ordinances, Part III (“Unified Development Code”), Chapter 106 (“SITE PLANNING”), Arti‐ cle VI (ASTHETICS), Sec‐ tion 106 - 224 thru 229 (“Sign Regulations”) to Update Sign Regulations In West Baton Rouge Parish.

A PUBLIC HEARING will be held by the West Baton Rouge Zoning Commission relative to the rezoning requests.

Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2026 Time 5:30 pm A PUBLIC HEARING will be held by the West Baton Rouge Parish Council relative to the re‐ zoning requests.

Date: Thursday, July 9, 2026 Time 5:30 pm Public hearings will be held at the West Baton Rouge Parish Govern‐ mental Building, 880 N. Alexander, Port Allen, LA 70767 191603 June 20, 25, July 2, 2026, 3t $89.10

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SHERIFF’S SALE DOCKET NO: 49460 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK NEW YORK AS OF TRUSTEE FOR NATION‐ STAR HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2007-B VS. PATRICIA ANN SIBLEY AN‐ THONY A/K/A PATRICIA ANN SIBLEY, A/K/A PATRI‐ CIA A. SIBLEY A/K/A PA‐ TRICIA SIBLEY A/K/A PA‐ TRICIA ANN ANTHONY A/K/A PATRICIA A. AN‐ THONY, A/K/A PATRICIA ANTHONY A/K/A PATRI‐ CIA SIBLEY ANTHONY A/K/A PATRICIA S. AN‐ THONY AND THE UN‐ OPENED SUCCESSION OF AND UNKNOWN HEIRS OF BILLY EARL ANTHONY A/K/A BILLY EARL AN‐ THONY A/K/A BILLY E. ANTHONY A/K/A BILLY ANTHONY 18TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT WEST BATON COURT ROUGE PARISH STATE OF LOUISIANA By virtue of a Writ of Fieri Facias, directed by the The Eigh‐ Honorable teenth Judicial District Court, for the Parish of West Baton Rouge, in the above entitled and num‐ bered cause, I have seized and proceed to sell by public auction, on the front steps of the West Baton Rouge Court‐ house, 850 8th Street, Port Allen, Louisiana on WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2026 at 10:00 A.M., the follow‐ ing described property, to wit: That certain piece or por‐ tion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, servitudes, privileges, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the Parish of West Baton State of Rouge, Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision thereof known as West Side Village Subdi‐ vision, Portion Number IV, and designated on the final plat of said subdivi‐ sion made by Miller, Smith & Champaign, Inc., dated March 6, 1970, on file and of record in the office of the clerk and recorder in and for the

192007 July 2, 1t $76.52 PUBLIC NOTICE FY 2025 NOTICE OF IN‐ TENT TO APPLY FOR EMERGENCY SOLUTIONS GRANT (ESG) FUNDING St. Vincent de Paul of Baton Rouge, a nonprofit organization, announces its intent to apply to the Louisiana Housing Cor‐ poration (LHC) for FY 2025 Emergency Solu‐ tions Grant (ESG) fund‐ ing. If awarded, ESG funds will be used during the 2026–2027 program year to support eligible Solutions Emergency Grant activities that as‐ sist individuals and fami‐ lies experiencing home‐ lessness in the Capital Region.

The proposed grant will support Emergency Shel‐ ter operations, Rapid ReHousing assistance, and related services in accor‐ dance with the require‐ ments of the U.S. Depart‐ ment of Housing and Development Urban (HUD) and the Louisiana Corporation Housing (LHC).

The draft FY 2025 Emer‐ gency Solutions Grant (ESG) application, along with links to the FY 20252029 Consolidated Plan for the State of Louisiana and the City of Baton Rouge Draft FY 2025-2029 Consolidated Plan, will be available on the St. Vincent de Paul of Baton Rouge website beginning Thursday, July 2, 2026, and will remain available throughout the public comment period at: https://www.svdpbr.net/ esgapplicant The public comment pe‐ i d ill b f

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Parish of West Baton State of Rouge, Louisiana, as lot number two hundred forty six-A (246-A), said subdivision, said lot having such measurements and di‐ mensions as shown on the official recorded sub‐ division map.

The municipal address is: 1451 Avenue G, Port Allen, LA 70767 Terms of Sale: Cash to the highest bidder WITH‐ OUT benefit of appraise‐ ment and according to law.

Attorney for the Plaintiff: THE LAW OFFICE OF HER‐ SCHEL C. ADCOCK, JR., LLC 13541 TIGER BEND ROAD BATON ROUGE, LA 70817 (225) 756-0373 Judicial Advertise‐ ment(s) will appear in THE ADVOCATE on the date(s) of: June 4, 2026 and July 2, 2026.

JEFF BERGERON, SHERIFF PARISH OF WEST BATON ROUGE BY: ANGIE DELAUNE, CIVIL DEPUTY $64.47 SHERIFF’S SALE DOCKET NO: 50980 GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS SEPA‐ RATE TRUSTEE OF GV TRUST 2025-1 VS. FAYE FORNEA DUPUY 18TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT WEST BATON COURT ROUGE PARISH STATE OF LOUISIANA By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale, di‐ rected by the Honorable The Eighteenth Judicial District Court, for the Parish of West Baton Rouge, in the above enti‐ and numbered tled cause, I have seized and proceed to sell by public auction, on the front steps of the West Baton Rouge Courthouse, 850 8th Street, Port Allen, Louisiana on WEDNES‐ DAY, JULY 8, 2026 at 10:00 A.M., the following de‐ scribed property, to wit: ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND SIT‐ UATED AND LYING IN COHN'S SUBDIVISION OF THE TOWN OF PORT ALLEN, PARISH OF WEST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF AND DE‐ LOUISIANA, SCRIBED ON THE OFFI‐ CIAL MAP THEREOF ON FILE IN THE CLERK AND RECORDERS OFFICE OF SAID PARISH AS BEING LOT NUMBER NINE (9) OF SQUARE NUMBER TWO (2) SAID SUBDIVISION; SAID LOT MEASURING SIXTY (60) FEET FRONT ON MICHIGAN AVENUE BY A DEPTH BETWEEN PAR‐ ALLEL LINES OF ONE HUNDRED TWENTY (120) FEET, TOGETHER WITH ALL BUILDINGS AND IM‐ PROVEMENTS THEREON, RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVI‐ LEGES AND SERVITUDES THERETO ATTACHED OR IN ANYWISE APPERTAIN‐ ING. MUNICIPAL ADDRESS: 336 MICHIGAN AVENUE, PORT ALLEN, LA 70767 Terms of Sale: Cash to the highest bidder WITH‐ OUT benefit of appraise‐ ment and according to law.

Attorney for the Plaintiff: HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN 1602 W. PINHOOK SUITE 300B ROAD, LA 70508 LAFAYETTE, (801) 355-2886 Judicial Advertise‐ ment(s) will appear in THE ADVOCATE on the date(s) of: JUNE 4, 2026 and JULY 2, 2026.

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The Library Millage Continuation Proposition was approved by voters on June 27, ensuring that the East Baton Rouge Parish Library can continue providing the services, resources, and programs our community relies on every day.

With the millage approved, the Library can restore complete funding for books and Pay-As-You-Go Capital Improvements Plan. This allows us to move forward with planned renovations and improvements at the Central, Zachary, Delmont Gardens, Bluebonnet Regional, and Carver branches.

Library Director Katrina Stokes shared, “On behalf of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library, I wish to express our gratitude to our community. We greatly appreciate your approval of our 10year dedicated millage, as you have every 10 years since 1986.

Thank you for providing us with the means to continue keeping the promises we made for the past 40 years.”

Library Board President Candace Temple added, “The Library belongs to the people of East Baton Rouge Parish, and we take seriously our responsibility to be careful stewards of the public’s investment. We remain committed to transparency, accountability, and serving residents of all ages and backgrounds. Thank you for your trust. We look forward to continuing our mission of enriching lives, strengthening communities, and expanding opportunities for future generations.”

We are deeply grateful to everyone who supported the Library!

The encouragement, advocacy, and enthusiasm we received from our community meant so much to us.

We remain committed to responsibly managing taxpayer dollars and to providing outstanding library services that educate, inspire, and connect our community for years to come!

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Join the East Baton Rouge Parish Library this summer as we commemorate America’s 250th anniversary with special displays, hands-on activities, and patriotic crafts for all ages! Stop by any library location to view displays featuring copies of the Declaration of Independence and the Louisiana Purchase.

Stars and Stripes Rockets Make & Take

July 2-3 | 2:00pm - 4:00pm | Ages 2 to 11 Main Library at Goodwood

Stop by the Main Library’s Children’s Room to make a paper rocket ship as we celebrate America250!

While supplies last.

July 3 | 5:30pm - 6:30pm Main Library at Goodwood Stop by the Main Library’s Children’s Room to make a paper rocket ship as we celebrate America250! While supplies last.

Take a step back in time to learn historical dances in celebration of the 250 years since America was established.

A Very Special Edition of our

Summer Movies on the Plaza Series: America 250: Apollo 13!

July 3 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm Main Library at Goodwood

Celebrate America’s 250th birthday with a special screening of Apollo 13! Bring your blankets and chairs, enjoy food trucks and popcorn, then stick around for our signature After Movie Dance Party.

Moonwalks encouraged.

Get creative with a patriotic-themed art journaling session celebrating America’s 250th! Explore guided prompts, mixed media, and creative expression while making a one-of-a-kind journal.

Designed for adults of all experience levels.

Teens are welcome with an adult.

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The Wild Robot (Rated PG) Ages 0 to 11 Friday, July 3 10:00am - 11:00am 2:30pm - 3:30pm Trolls (Rated PG) Ages 0 to 11 Monday, July 10 10:00am - 11:00am 2:30pm - 3:30pm

Monsters vs Aliens (Rated PG) Ages 0 to 11 Friday, July 17 10:00am - 11:00am 2:30pm - 3:30pm

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Dog Man (Rated PG) Ages 0 to 11 Friday, July 24 10:00am - 11:00am 2:30pm - 3:30pm

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Thursday, July 30 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm Main Library at Goodwood

Everyone is invited to join us for the premiere of all eight films made at this year’s Teen Summer Film Camps! Photos will be taken, awards will be handed out, and general merriment will ensue!

Summer Reading

Now through Saturday, August 15 Main Library at Goodwood

Bring your curiosity and let your imagination grow this summer!

There is still time to join the East Baton Rouge Parish Library’s 2026 Summer Reading Challenge, Plant a Seed, Read! We have FREE programs, workshops, storytimes, concerts, and performances for all ages across the Library system. Watch your love of reading bloom and discover something new along the way! Learn more about our summer events at ebrpl.com/ summerreading Track your reading and earn rewards! It’s easy! First, sign up at your local Library location or online at ebrpl.beanstack.org, Then, read books and log them into your Beanstack account to earn virtual badges and completion rewards, as well as entries for weekly prize drawings! There are reading challenges and incentives for kids, teens, and even adults! We’ll see you at the Library this summer for exciting events and reading rewards!

Linder Challenge II: Linder 2041

Now through Saturday, August 15 Main Library at Goodwood The Linder Challenge is back for Summer 2026—now reimagined as Linder Challenge II: Linder 2041!

Inspired by the Linder Family’s spontaneous 2024 journey to visit every library location in a single day, this challenge invites participants to start at any branch and visit all others either in one day or throughout the summer, now through August 15.

Pick up a map at your first stop, collect stamps at each location, and once your map is complete, present it at your final library to earn your Certificate of Achievement and— new this year—your official Proof of Lindering (PoL)!

Teen End of Summer Party

Wednesday, July 29 | 2:30pm - 4:00pm Main Library at Goodwood

Summer is almost over! Celebrate a summer wellspent with video games, crafts, door prizes, and more! Learn more about our summer events at ebrpl.co/events

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Preserving Your Voice;

Remembering the Great Flood of 2016:

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Small Towns and Big Secrets: In Conversation with Bestselling Author Karin Slaughter Tuesday, July 14 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm Join us for a thrilling evening with acclaimed author Karin Slaughter as we chat about her North Falls series, consisting of We Are All Guilty Here, in which two teenage girls vanish in rural Georgia, and her upcoming sequel, The Secrets We Hide.

See red circle below for QR Code.

Migrant Heart: The Hidden Cost of the American Dream and Healing Through Storytelling with Reyna Grande Thursday, July 16 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm In her ambitious new memoir, Migrant Heart: Essays About Things I Can’t Forget, beloved bestselling author Reyna Grande illuminates the hidden cost of the American Dream and the complex journey of healing that follows survival. See red circle below for QR Code.

In August, we will remember the 10th anniversary of the Great Flood of 2016, a catastrophe that affected everyone in our region. The library would like to help you preserve your recollections of that day for posterity. In order to do so, the library is offering the opportunity for you to schedule an appointment with us to sit with an interviewer (or record yourself alone) to record your authentic voice: your experiences, the aftermath, rebuilding, community and connections made or severed, and how it continues to inform how you go about your daily life.

Your real voice, no expectations, no nudges.

Your perspective, articulated by you.

These grassroots oral histories of that event will be compiled into an archive of voices and recordings that will be made available for all, forever.

Scan the QR code to make your appointment today or contacting us at programs@ebrpl. com. An inaugural program “Voices from the Flood” will be held during our Week of Remembrance in August.

“Unlock the Power of AI” presented by TDM

Technologies and Sponsored by the Medicare Experts at Humana July 30 | 10:00am - 11:00am Main Library at Goodwood Join our exciting AI Tech Class and discover how Artificial Intelligence is shaping the world around us. Learn how tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot can help with everyday tasks—from writing and research to organization and creativity. Seniors will enjoy hands-on demonstrations, real-life examples, and practical tips for using AI safely and effectively.

Filmmaker Forum

July 22 | 6:00pm - 7:30pm Main Library at Goodwood

The Main Library at Goodwood will host a BRUFF Filmmaker Forum on Wednesday July 22nd at 6pm. This networking event will give attendees a chance to meet other local creatives interested in the filmmaking industry. The Baton Rouge Underground Film Festival will present a panel of industry professionals discussing the state of the film industry and how to get further involved in the craft.

Libby Reads LIVE: Q&A with John Kenney Thursday, July 23 | 11:00am - 12:00pm Darkly funny, heartfelt, and unexpectedly uplifting, I See You’ve Called In Dead

by John Kenney is the next featured title in the Libby Reads program. From July 9–23, readers can borrow the ebook and audiobook with no waitlists or holds through the Libby app.Scan the QR code to register to attend the live Q&A with author John Kenney to talk about his writing style, favorite reads, the inspiration behind the book, and the meaning of life.

Your Canadian Journey July 21 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm Main Library at Goodwood

The Power of Connection: Creating Lasting Friendships in an Increasingly Lonely World with Dr. Marisa Franco Tuesday, July 28 | 1:00pm - 3:00pm Join us in virtual conversation with bestselling author Dr. Marisa Franco, one of the world’s leading experts in human connection. Her book, Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make–And Keep–Friends, explores the science of different attachment styles and how they impact our relationships–often in ways we don’t realize!. Go to libraryc.org/ebrpl or scan this QR Code:

Join Genealogy Services for a program that will provide education and guidance on researching family history using historical records, immigration archives, census data, birth and marriage certificates, military documents, and other genealogical resources.

Learn how to identify and document ancestral connections to Canada and build accurate family trees. FREE. No registration is required.

BLINGO: Play, Discover, Connect

Wednesday, July 15 | 10:00am - 11:00am Main Library at Goodwood Join us for BLINGO, a fun, social bingo program for adults ages 50+. Along the way, you’ll discover library services and surprises you may not know we offer, all in a relaxed, mid-morning setting with prizes, conversation, and a little extra library magic.

Registration is required.

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