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N.O. leaders fear GOP retribution after AG indictment Moreno pulls request for bond funding as Landry questions city finances

BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

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The proposed site for the Rivana Apartments is seen Thursday next to the Shell Riverside building in the River District of New Orleans. The New Orleans City Council on Thursday approved an agreement that will exempt the 220-unit affordable housing development from taxes on the property for the next 40 years.

Council approves tax break for apartment developers

BY RICH COLLINS Staff writer

The River District took a big step forward on Thursday when the New Orleans City Council approved a tax break to help fund the planned neighborhood’s first apartment complex, a housing project that’s been seen as key to showing progress on the long-delayed redevelopment.

In a 6-1 vote, the council approved a payment in lieu of taxes, or PILOT, agreement that will exempt the 220-unit affordable housing development known as the Rivana Apartments from taxes on the property for the next 40 years.

In exchange, developers will maintain rents below market rate for the

same amount of time.

Documents show that tax savings for the developers could top $30 million over the four-decade life of the deal.

The approval was one of the last hurdles for getting the first housing development moving in the River District, a nearly 40-acre tract of land along the Mississippi River just upriver from the Ernest N. Morial Harris Convention Center.

City Council member Lesli Harris, whose District B includes the proposed $100 million Rivana project and the rest of the River District,

said the vote was a win for the city’s workers and the community overall.

“We need a menu of options to solve the housing crisis, and we need affordable housing with a PILOT that means it can stay affordable for 40 years,” she said before the vote in council chambers. “This is highquality housing in an area where it is needed.”

The council’s action was also cheered by the Rivana’s developers, a partnership between a subset of River District Neighborhood Investors, the consortium overseeing the River District project, and Providence Community Housing, a two-decade-old nonprofit that has

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Will there be more shoes to drop?

That’s the question New Orleans officials were asking Thursday after Mayor Helena Moreno announced that the city has retracted a $110 million bond sale request before the State Bond Commission rather than have the commission reject it.

The mayor said the city appears to be facing retribution from Republicans angered Moreno by the recent indictment of Attorney General Liz Murrill by an Orleans Parish grand jury.

“I made the decision to withdraw our application before next week’s Bond Commission meeting because it had become clear that denial was imminent,” Moreno said in a statement, adding, “we are hearing warnings that some state leaders may pursue separate efforts to target the City’s finances, including the casino lease proceeds that recently strengthened our reserves and other critical

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RTA violated law, judge rules Suit focuses on steps board took to oust CEO

BY BEN MYERS

U.S. and Iran exchange more attacks Back-and-forth fire bigger than in prior days

allied Mideast countries in an exchange of fire that threatened an interim deal intended to help end the war in the Middle East.

Back-and-forth attacks, inBY JON GAMBRELL cluding a day earlier, have repeatedly threatened the Associated Press ceasefire. But Thursday’s apDUBAI, United Arab Emirates — peared bigger all around, with The United States launched sirens sounding at least three new airstrikes against Iran times in Bahrain, home to the early Thursday, and Tehran U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet headresponded by targeting U.S.- quarters, and missiles target-

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ing Kuwait and Qatar.

Sirens sounded Thursday afternoon in Jordan as well, where the U.S. has stationed troops and aircraft.

An Iranian official accused the U.S. of launching an airstrike later Thursday targeting the area around Iran’s sole nuclear power plant, and other explosions were reported elsewhere in the country during the afternoon.

The strikes came hours

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after U.S. President Donald Trump said recent Iranian attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz signaled the end of a fragile ceasefire and threatened to escalate the conflict if they didn’t stop. That raised concerns that the region could tip back into a war that would engulf several countries and could halt energy shipments through the strait

The Regional Transit Authority violated state law when it took steps to oust former CEO Lona Edwards Hankins, an Orleans Parish Civil District Court judge said Thursday in a ruling that doesn’t reinstate Hankins but could strengthen her position in future litigation.

Hankins resigned from the RTA on May 26 and sued it a day later, alleging that the agency violated Louisiana’s Hankins open meetings law when it met on May 9 behind closed doors before reconvening in public to vote on a trio of resolutions affecting Hankins’ job.

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World Santa Congress brings Christmas cheer

AALBORG, Denmark — While Europe’s still in the throes of summer heat, it’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in the Danish city of Aalborg.

Dozens of Santas, Mrs. Clauses and elves from around the world have descended on Denmark’s fourth-largest city for the Nordic nation’s annual World Santa Claus Congress.

First staged at an amusement park near Copenhagen in 1957, the congress moved to Aalborg on Denmark’s Jutland peninsula two years ago.

The event, which marks its 70th anniversary next year, was created to entertain children, but became a popular gathering for Santas who appear in stores and shopping malls during the Yuletide season.

Over the years, the annual fourday gathering has attracted Santas and Mrs. Clauses from as far away as Australia, Hong Kong, Canada and the United States.

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Mexico to seek criminal charges Government says 14 have died while in ICE custody

BY MARÍA VERZA Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Mexico will request criminal charges over 17 Mexicans who died in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody or during immigration enforcement operations by the Trump administration, officials said Thursday.

Mexican Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco’s announcement Thursday further escalated tensions with the United States, as Mexico’s government has sharply criticized the treatment of its citizens under U.S. President Donald Trump’s push to increase deportations.

The request, which carries no legal weight, will be submitted to state prosecutors’ offices and the U.S. Department of Justice, asking them to consider criminal charges against

those responsible for the deaths.

It will be accompanied by civil lawsuits against the companies that operate the detention centers in an effort to put an end to human rights violations in those facilities, Velasco said.

President Claudia Sheinbaum said Thursday that Mexico decided to “move beyond diplomatic channels” and escalate its complaints after an ICE agent killed Mexican citizen Lorenzo Salgado Araujo in Houston this week. Sheinbaum said the killing “is not only sad and regrettable, but also appears to have been targeted.”

“We are going to do everything in our power, because we cannot stand silent” in the face of the deaths of Mexicans “whose only crime is working honestly in the United States,” Sheinbaum said.

Salgado Araujo had been living in the country for decades. He was transporting a work crew to a housing construction site when he was shot. His family demanded a thorough investigation into what happened.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, agents were pursuing him because he was living in the country without legal authorization. Salgado Araujo, the department added, was shot after disregarding orders and attempting to ram an agent, who fired his weapon in self-defense.

According to the Mexican government, 14 Mexicans have died while in ICE custody and three during ICE operations.

Until now, the Mexican government had supported the victims’

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Fire at Chinese shoe factory kills 28 BEIJING — A fire broke out at a shoe factory in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian on Thursday, killing 28 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

Chinese President Xi Jinping demanded “an all-out search and rescue effort,” urging a swift investigation of the incident and “strictly hold those responsible accountable.”

The blaze started in a factory at Huiteng shoe company in the city of Jinjiang, the city’s fire department said in a statement.

The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Jinjiang is known as China’s shoe capital.

There were 237 factory workers and two visitors in the building when the fire broke out. Authorities pulled out 213 people, two of whom were pronounced dead after being taken to hospital.

Another 26 missing people were later confirmed dead, according to the state broadcaster CCTV. Xinhua said the factory’s owner and others in charge have been taken into custody and the company’s accounts have been frozen.

The fire started on the first level of a five-floor concretestructured building, where a workshop and a warehouse were located. The burning materials included shoe components, which are highly flammable and helped the fire spread quickly, according to CCTV. A local fire department official said in an interview with the state broadcaster that sole material piled up in stairwells made it much harder for the firefighters to reach the flames and put them out.

8 men indicted in planned UFC attack COLUMBUS, Ohio — Eight men were indicted on murder and terrorism conspiracy charges Thursday for their alleged roles in a thwarted drone and sniper attack on the UFC cage-fighting show staged at the White House in June.

The indictment, returned in Ohio, charges all eight in two separate conspiracies, one to provide material support to terrorists and a second to commit murder on federal government territory and to murder a federal government official.

According to the indictment, the plot began in May, when the group began amassing money, firearms, ammunition, body armor, explosives, drones, medical equipment, communications equipment and other items.

On June 10, law enforcement officials learned about a possible threat to President Donald Trump’s UFC cage-fighting show, four days before the mixed martial arts extravaganza.

The Justice Department announced federal charges against seven people last month from across the country, including from Ohio, Missouri, Washington, Nebraska and California.

Officials said the group members harbored fringe conspiracy theories and hoped the attack would destabilize the government.

One of the defendants told investigators they planned to fly explosive-laden drones into the event and then shoot panicked crowd members as they fled, according to a federal affidavit.

families, sent diplomatic notes to Washington demanding investigations, and raised the issue with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. Sheinbaum earlier this year ordered consulates to regularly check in with ICE detainees, and her government even lodged a complaint with the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.

Mexico’s latest request adds to an already strained relationship with the Trump administration.

Sheinbaum has cracked down more fiercely than her predecessors on organized crime in the wake of mounting threats by Trump to take military action against cartels. She has also sought to keep an amicable relationship with her U.S. counterpart as the countries renegotiate the decades-old free trade agreement. At the same time, she’s taken a strong stance on immigration enforcement and the rights of Mexican citizens in U.S. custody.

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Rescuers evacuate stranded teachers and students at Xijiang education park in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Maysak in Guigang City, south China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, on Wednesday.

Flooding from heavy rain in southern China kills 39 Saipan and other U.S. territories earlier Military rescue teams retrieve this week, was downgraded Thursday trapped students, teachers from super-typhoon strength but still had

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BEIJING — Authorities in southern China said Thursday that 39 people died in flooding after a tropical storm dumped heavy rainfall, as the country’s east coast and Taiwan prepared for a typhoon expected to make landfall in the coming days.

Most of the deaths were in Hengzhou, where the partial collapse of a reservoir dam sent torrents of water into the city and claimed 26 lives, said Ding Wei, the vice mayor of Nanning city, which has jurisdiction over the area. Nine people remained missing in the broader Guangxi region.

Tropical Storm Maysak brought record rainfall to Guangxi starting Saturday, breaching reservoirs and stranding people for days in homes and other buildings. The previously announced death toll on Tuesday was six people.

A second storm, Typhoon Bavi, was at sea on a northwest track that would take it over some remote Japanese islands and then just north of Taiwan before making landfall in China’s Fujian or Zhejiang province on Saturday. Fishing boats could be seen tightly packed at ports in northern Taiwan on Thursday in anticipation of heavy rain hitting the island of 23 million people.

Bavi, which brought violent winds to

maximum sustained winds of 114 miles per hour, according to Taiwan’s Central Weather Administration. Classes were suspended in several cities and towns in the Philippines and ships prohibited from leaving northern ports as the typhoon passed east of the northern island of Luzon.

In southern China, military rescue teams finished bringing out more than 10,000 trapped students and teachers from a cluster of schools in Guigang city, about 40 miles northeast of Hengzhou. Video on state broadcaster CCTV showed the students, wearing bright orange life vests, clambering onto boats that took them away from the surreal scene of school buildings rising out of a lake of muddy water.

Animals were also stranded or swept out by the floodwaters.

A zoo in Guigang said more than 100 animals were missing, including two zebras, four porcupines and dozens of tropical birds. In Hengzhou, encounters with snakes that reportedly escaped from a farm prompted authorities to stock up on antivenom and advise residents what to do if they were bitten.

Drones and some 5,700 boats have been used in a massive relief and rescue operation to deliver drinking water and other supplies and bring out trapped residents. About 130,000 people have been evacuated.

Orbán allies protest in Hungary

BY JUSTIN SPIKE Associated Press

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Opponents of the Hungarian government’s efforts to oust the country’s president gathered for a protest in the capital Budapest on Thursday after being called to action by the former autocratic prime minister, Viktor Orbán.

The protest drew several thousand people to the presidential offices at the opulent Sándor Palace in Budapest’s Castle District, where demonstrators spoke out in defense of President Tamás Sulyok, whom the new center-right government has vowed to remove from office with a constitutional amendment.

After defeating Orbán in a blowout election in April, bringing an end to his 16 years in power, Hungary’s new proEuropean prime minister, Péter Magyar, has taken action to dismantle what he calls Orbán’s “mafia” by removing numerous political appointees and heads of institutions viewed as having facilitated Orbán’s autocratic regime.

The constitutional amendment, set to go to a vote next week, would end Sulyok’s term, as well as set term limits for members of parliament, implement reforms to the judiciary and create a new authority tasked with uncovering alleged financial abuses by Orbán’s government.

But Orbán and his far-right Fidesz party, long accused of dismantling Hungary’s democratic institutions while in power, have declared that the move to remove Sulyok is an assault on the rule of law and democratic norms, and the first steps toward a dictatorship.

One protester, Krisztina Nemerkényi, said Thursday that the demonstration was not about the person of Sulyok, “but about the office.”

“The point is not whether Tamás Sulyok is popular or not, but that this is simply unacceptable in a democracy,” she said.

Magyar has argued Sulyok failed to live up to his role as president by neglecting to stand in the way of antidemocratic steps by Orbán’s government.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A South Florida airport officially changed its name on Thursday to the President Donald J. Trump International Airport.

Signs for the Palm Beach International Airport have been removed, while new signage goes up.

“Because an entire airport transformation doesn’t happen overnight, you’ll notice a combination of both our classic look and our new brand elements coexisting while traveling through the terminal over the next several weeks,” airport officials said in a Facebook post.

“Trump Force One,” a Boeing 757 owned by The Trump Organization, was the first plane to arrive at the airport under its new name, shortly after 5 a.m.

The president’s son, Eric

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in nearby Palm Beach. A stretch of road from the airport to Trump’s estate was renamed Donald J. Trump Boulevard earlier this year.

“There is no person who has done more for Florida and our country, and no one more deserving of this incredible honor,” Eric Trump posted on X. “As a son, and someone who flies out of this airport nearly every day, I will forever be proud to see the initials ‘DJT’ on my boarding pass.”

While the name change took effect Thursday, the three-letter airport code will change from PBI to DJT on Aug. 18.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation earlier this year that made the name change possible.

Changing the airport’s name is expected to cost as much as $5.5 million for new signs, branding and other updates.

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Monroe senator joins race to fill Letlow’s House seat Stewart Cathey’s entrance brings field to four

BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

The campaign to replace U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow got a bit more crowded Thursday, when state Sen. Stewart Cathey, a Republican from Monroe, joined the race.

Letlow is giving up her seat representing the 5th Congressional District to run for the U.S. Senate.

Cathey is a second-term senator with a solid conservative voting record H H H H H H who chairs the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture and Rural Development.

“I’m running for Congress for the same reason I ran for the state Senate: the people of the 5th Congressional District deserve a representative who shows up, tells the truth, and gets things done,” Cathey said in a news release.

“I’ve spent my career serving this country in uniform and standing up for Louisiana families in Baton Rouge, and now I’m ready to take that fight to Washington.”

A consultant with his father on IT issues, Cathey, 45, served two tours in Afghanistan as a member of the Army Reserves.

Two candidates — state Rep. Michael Echols and Board of Re-

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gents Chair Misti Cordell — have had a head start in raising money and winning over key endorsements in the 5th District because they’ve been Cathey running to succeed Letlow for months.

Cordell is from Monroe.

State Rep. Gabe Firment, a Republican from Pollock in Grant Parish, announced his candidacy a week ago.

The four are now running in a district that was quickly redrawn by the state Legislature in May after the Supreme Court ruled the state’s congressional map was unconstitutional. The new map turned the 6th Congressional District, represented by Cleo Fields, a Black Democrat from Baton Rouge, into a majority-White district.

The reshaped 5th Congressional District includes all or parts of 24 parishes — stretching from Monroe south to Avoyelles and Rapides parishes and east to the Florida Parishes. It was designed to elect a Republican.

“The 5th District is farm country, timber country, and small-town Louisiana,” Cathey said. “These are the people I’ve worked for every day in the State Senate. They don’t want a representative who is all talk. They want a seat at the table, lower costs, secure borders, strong support for agriculture, and a government that respects their values.”

Cathey has raised eyebrows in the State Capitol at times for con-

troversial bills or behavior.

During the 2026 legislative session, Cathey sponsored a resolution that called on Congress to support changing the constitutional provision that allows members to live outside of their congressional districts.

Cathey said he was targeting state Sen. Blake Miguez, R-Erath, who was running for the 5th Congressional District at the time but didn’t live in the district. Cathey’s colleagues privately said his resolution was sophomoric. It didn’t advance.

In 2023, Cathey upbraided state Sen. Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, outside a Senate committee room just after the two dueled over a bill. Cathey cussed her out and put his finger inches from her face.

Barrow, who cussed him back, said no one had ever spoken that way to her previously during her 18 years in the Legislature.

Cathey apologized to Barrow privately as soon as he saw her afterward and also apologized to her again in front of the entire Senate.

He blamed his “passion” in trying to pass the bill.

Cathey’s entrance into the 5th Congressional District race raises the question of whether the three candidates from Monroe will split up the vote to the benefit of Firment or another non-Monroe candidate who might get in.

Candidates have to formally declare their entry into the race during the Aug. 5-7 qualifying period.

The open primary is on Nov. 3, followed a month later by the runoff for the top two candidates, assuming no one received at least 50% of the vote in the primary.

Challenge to Tuberville’s eligibility dismissed

BY KIM CHANDLER Associated Press

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — A judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit alleging U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville does not meet the residency requirement to run for governor of Alabama.

Montgomery County Circuit Judge Brooke Reid dismissed the case on jurisdiction grounds after

finding that she did not have the authority to decide the eligibility of a party’s nominee prior to the general election. Reid, a Democrat, wrote that she had “wrestled” with the decision but there is no legal precedent directly addressing the dispute.

Tuberville, who has represented Alabama in the Senate since 2021, is the Republican nominee for governor. The lawsuit argued that Tu-

berville does not meet the Alabama Constitution’s seven-year residency requirement to be governor of Alabama.

Joe Espy, an attorney representing Tuberville, praised the decision.

Jordan Doufexis, chairman of Tuberville’s campaign, called the residency allegation a “bogus lawsuit” pushed by allies of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Jones.

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Singer Bonnie Tyler performs her song ‘Believe in Me’ during a rehearsal for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden, on May 17, 2013. Tyler died on Thursday.

Chart-topping singer Bonnie Tyler dies at 75 Performer best known for ‘Total Eclipse of the Heart’

BY MARK KENNEDY

AP entertainment writer Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star whose 1983 charttopping power ballad “Total Eclipse of the Heart” enchanted succeeding generations with its bombastic charms during solar and lunar eclipses, has died. She was 75.

Tyler died unexpectedly in a hospital in Portugal where she was being treated for an illness, her family said Thursday in a statement on her website. She was hospitalized in May in Faro, where she had a home, for emergency intestinal surgery. She had been placed in an induced coma for a period but was reportedly improving last month and expected to make a good recovery.

“Bonnie’s family and team are heartbroken to announce that Bonnie unexpectedly passed away last night in hospital in Portugal as a result of the illness that she was being treated for,” her family said.

Tyler earned three Grammy nods and in 2013 represented Britain at the Eurovision Song Contest, where she came in 19th.

She was honored as a Member of the Order of the British Empire in 2022 for her services to music

by Queen Elizabeth II, thanks mainly to “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which has had more than 1 billion streams, boosted by real eclipses in 2017 and 2024.

The song spent four weeks at No. 1, and when Stereogum reevaluated it in 2020, the music outlet declared it an “extinctionlevel event rendered in musical form.”

“It’s pop music as heart-pounding, chest-thumping, blood-gargling, heavens-falling passion explosion. It’s sheer spectacle.

It’s fireworks and lasers and lightning and thunder. It soars and swoops and barrel-rolls,” the site said.

The song has never really gone away: it was covered by the English singer Nicki French in 1995, and the band Westlife in 2006.

Cate Blanchett sang it while hitting Billy Bob Thornton with her car in 2001’s “Bandits,” it appeared in a wedding scene in 2003’s “Old School” and One Direction sang it in 2010 on a U.K. version of “The X Factor.”

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surge in Venezuelan communities

BY REGINA GARCIA CANO

BY PAOLO SANTALUCIA

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POLISTENA, Italy — Italy’s southern Calabria region is the rare place in Europe where Cuba sends medical professionals under a longrunning program that the United States wants to stamp out.

Cuba’s doctors for decades have worked in developing nations such as Gambia and Venezuela, skilled in providing care with scarce resources. Over 200 now staff remote hospitals across Calabria, Italy’s poorest region in the tip of the country’s boot. A shortage of homegrown healthcare workers had forced some hospital departments to close.

“It was a disaster. I was keeping the emergency room open all by myself,” the chief physician of Polistena hospital, Francesco Moschella, told The Associated Press, recalling the days before the Cubans arrived in January 2023.

Their presence triggered a visit this year from U.S. officials. The U.S. has long criticized the Cuban program and called it a moneymaker for the socialist government that the Trump administration has isolated, sanctioned and wants to see changed.

Facing U.S. pressure, some Caribbean and Central American countries have canceled Cuban missions. But Calabria’s governor has refused. Even if Cuba’s socialism doesn’t fit with his political views, he says the region depends on them.

Lines several hours long Despite growing tourism and a strong farming economy, Calabria symbolizes southern Italy’s lack of development compared to the more wealthy and industrialized north. Wages are about 30% lower, and its unemployment rate is double the national average.

Calabria ranks last among Italy’s 20 regions in public health-

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Cuban doctor Daysi Luperon Loforte, right, helps lift up Francesco Ascone, a patient hospitalized in the emergency unit of the Santa Maria degli Ungheresi Hospital of Polistena, in the southern Italian Calabria region, on June 16. patients who swing by to say hi.

care access, according to the health ministry.

Until April, Calabria had spent 17 years under special administration due to persistent budget deficits, which along with corruption scandals and Mafia infiltration affected health investments.

Many newly graduated doctors built careers in the north instead.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuba sent doctors to several areas of Italy. Calabria continued employing Cubans after the pandemic ended.

Emergency medicine specialist Zoila Yakelin Arevalo Cruz left her young son in Cuba in mid-2023. The emergency room where she works in Polistena town sees 30,000 patients annually, and six Cuban doctors make up half its staff.

“For a first-world country, Europe, we had a completely different idea. We didn’t think that the shortage of doctors was so serious,” said Arevalo Cruz, 38. “In this hospital there were lines that lasted up to eight or 12 hours. Now, thanks to our work, in less than an hour a doctor visits you.”

During an AP visit last month, she conducted her work in nowfluent Italian. She says she even picked up some of the local dialect by chatting with grateful former

Not all countries bow to pressure U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has accused the Cuban missions of being a “form of human trafficking” — a reference to Cuba’s government keeping most of doctors’ salaries and allegedly confiscating some passports.

“Cuban medical brigades are a key source of hard cash for the failing regime,” the State Department told the AP in an emailed response to questions, adding it was sharing information with partner nations on “the sobering realities of Cuban medical brigades to which they might otherwise be unaware.”

In March, Jamaica ended its 50year medical cooperation agreement with Cuba, affecting nearly 300 healthcare workers. Honduras expelled more than 150.

Mexico’s President Claudia Sheinbaum in March, however, defended the program and said it provides vital care to underserviced people.

Officials in Cuba have said it has 22,000 medical personnel deployed to 55 countries in what they called a “mission of solidarity.” Neither they nor the State Department has specified which ones.

Former Olympian pleads not guilty in reflecting pool case

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A former Olympic canoe racer pleaded not guilty on Thursday to deliberately damaging the recently renovated Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a politically charged case that his defense attorneys and other Trump administration critics have derided as an abuse of prosecutorial power.

David Hearn, who competed in three Summer Olympics, entered the plea through one of his attorneys during his initial appearance in D.C. Superior Court. Hearn, 67, of Bethesda, Maryland, was indicted last Thursday on a single felony count of

property destruction.

Before the country’s 250th independence celebrations, President Donald Trump launched a multimillion-dollar renovation project for the Reflecting Pool, which was plagued by problems, including damage to its new coating. Trump, without providing evidence, has alleged the damage was caused by vandals.

Hearn has said he reached inside the pool to examine the peeled sealant and let go of a chunk when he was told to by a park worker. He is accused of causing more than $1,000 in damage.

“Every American should be alarmed about this prosecution,” defense attorney Norm Eisen said after the

CATIA LA MAR, Venezuela — Victims of the powerful twin earthquakes that jolted Venezuela last month as well as people spared by the destruction on Thursday flooded relief services offered by nongovernmental organizations in the hardest-hit areas.

The demand for help comes as the United Nations launched an appeal for roughly $300 million to assist 1.3 million people in urgent need of aid in the South American country where nongovernmental organizations until recently were targets of government repression. Mobile kitchens and clinics as well as field hospitals now dot public spaces in the northern state of La Guaira, where most of the devastation occurred.

“It is clear at displacement sites that, particularly after two weeks, that people are turning up because they haven’t been able to get their other treatments,” U.N. relief chief Tom Fletcher told The Associated Press during his visit to Venezuela. “So, they’re not turning up with just the fractures now, they’re turning up with those longer-term health needs. And it’s vital that we’re there for them.”

Doctors treating people in that state’s Catia La Mar community on Thursday reported an increase in skin conditions and diarrheal diseases, as well as of requests for medications for the treatment of chronic illnesses, including diabetes and high blood pressure.

The emerging diseases can be tied to crowded living spaces and poor water and sanitation conditions, which in many communities predate the earthquakes.

Irma Echarri showed up at a mobile unit on a sidewalk across the street from a church with the boxes of the eyedrops and pain reliever she usually takes, hoping that doctors there could give her new ones. She also wanted to be

seen for the pain she developed in her nose after the June 24 earthquakes.

“It hurts a lot,” Echarri, 67, said while waiting to be seen. “It hurts because it hurts.”

Echarri’s home was not damaged, but many of her neighbors are living in temporary shelters or outdoors after 190 buildings collapsed and 856 others were damaged, according to Venezuelan officials, in the back-to-back earthquakes that killed 3,889 people.

The government of acting President Delcy Rodríguez has estimated that the earthquakes left about 18,000 people without a home. The displaced are now living in schools, sidewalks, parks, plazas and other public spaces.

Fletcher, the head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, told AP the United States has so far provided most of the earthquake-response aid. Much of the assistance on the ground is being delivered by local groups that have partnered with global humanitarian organizations.

Among the displaced is Zulbey Reyes, who went to the clinic ran by the Venezuela-based organization Paluz in partnership with the global relief agency International Rescue Committee.

Reyes, who was also robbed by the earthquakes of her job as a nanny, sought treatment for the onset of chest pain.

“I thought it was my heart that was sick,” Reyes, 41, said after being diagnosed and receiving medication. “But it’s a nerve that became inflamed after the screams that day.”

Armando Denegri, representative in Venezuela of the PanAmerican Health Organization told reporters Thursday that “50% of the health professionals in La Guaira were directly affected” by the earthquakes.

“Some disappeared, some died, others were severely affected by the crisis, impacting their families,” Denegri said without giving further details.

The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction has estimated direct physical damage to housing and infrastructure around $37 billion.

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hearing. “It is not a crime to touch the Reflecting Pool.”

At least three other people have been charged in the same court with misdemeanors for allegedly removing pieces of paint from the Reflecting Pool, according to online court records.

All three pleaded not guilty during their initial court appearances Wednesday, records show.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, the top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia, said vandalizing the nation’s monuments and public spaces is “an affront to our shared history.”

“The law applies equally to everyone, and when it is broken, there are consequences,” she said in a statement on Thursday.

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In Iran, the two days of American airstrikes have killed at least 14 people and wounded another 78, Iran’s Health Ministry said Thursday. Most were reportedly members of the armed forces.

In Kuwait, the military said falling debris wounded one person as the nation shot down three ballistic missiles, a cruise missile and 10 drones. Bahrain said it shot down incoming fire, without elaborating, and Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al-Momani said all incoming fire from Iran had been intercepted. Iranian state TV said the country’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard fired missiles at a U.S. base in Jordan.

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Several Republicans confirmed that the indictment of Murrill — which the Louisiana Supreme Court has suspended for now — has exacerbated tensions between the city’s Democratic officials and Republicans elsewhere.

“I can’t imagine New Orleans would get anything they’re asking for now,” said state Sen. Alan Seabaugh, RShreveport. “And I would be very surprised if they kept everything they’ve got now.”

Added Rep. Debbie Villio, R-Kenner: “The issues surrounding the indictment of our great Attorney General are very troubling. While — in theory — these issues stand alone, they also lead to serious concerns about much larger systemic problems in New Orleans.”

Gov. Jeff Landry responded to Moreno’s statement by writing her a letter in which he ratcheted up pressure on her.

Landry noted that the city won state approval in November to borrow $125 million from a bank that it repaid in May — but he didn’t note that Moreno inherited a budget mess from Mayor LaToya Cantrell that created the need for the short-term loan.

The governor also noted that the city received an upfront payment recently by selling the rights to future Caesars casino lease revenue. He said the deal cost the city $50 million in future lease payments, “a decision that is tantamount to the largest ‘pay day loan’ by a municipality in recent times.”

Landry then asked how the city could “urgently” request the $110 million bond sale one day and then say the money isn’t needed.

“The City’s ongoing inability to meet basic cash-flow requirements is unacceptable and raises serious concerns about management and transparency,” Landry wrote.

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U.S. strikes more targets The U.S. military’s Central Command said it hit 90 targets across Iran, releasing black-and-white footage of what appeared to be strikes on an airport runway and missile launchers.

The U.S. said the strikes were intended to “further degrade” Iran’s ability “to threaten freedom of navigation” in the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas passed before the war began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28.

Traffic has picked up somewhat since a tentative deal last month included opening the waterway. Maritime data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence said Thursday that preliminary data showed at least 576 ships passed through the strait in June, compared with 233 in May. More than 3,100 transited the strait in June 2025.

Moreno responded evenly Thursday night to Landry’s letter, saying that when city officials sought the shortterm bank loan last year, they said publicly it “would likely be necessary as part of the City’s multi-year financial recovery.” She added that the Louisiana Legislative Auditor, who has been working with city officials to straighten out the finances, acknowledged that.

“Our request this year was therefore consistent with the recovery path that had been discussed from the outset, not the result of a new or unexpected financial development,” she wrote.

Moreno also addressed Landry’s question on how the mayor could now say the money wasn’t needed.

Without the $110 million in bond proceeds, the mayor wrote, “we are compiling a plan that defers tens of millions of dollars in projects, implements an additional $20 million in mid-year reductions affecting City operations, public safety and essential services, aggressively pursing collections owed to the City, and continue utilizing furloughs and other temporary cost-saving measures while we stabilize our finances. This path is achievable, but it is unquestionably more painful.”

Political fallout Ron Faucheux, who spent two terms as a state legislator from New Orleans, said he worries about the fallout for New Orleans from the ongoing fight.

“The city always needs state help, and this fight badly hurts that effort,” Faucheux said in a text. “It also aggravates the underlying partisan divide. New Orleans is a blue city in a sea of red. I worry that the next state elections will become a nasty partisan and racial war, which would be a disaster for the state and city.”

In her statement, Moreno said city officials have concluded they can continue to provide vital services without the loan. Because the city is short of cash reserves, city officials planned to use the money to help pay

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Thousands of mourners line the streets as a truck carries the coffins of the slain Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and members of his family on Thursday through a main avenue in Mashhad, Iran.

Iranian state media reported explosions in several locations, including Bushehr, home to Iran’s nuclear power plant complex, and southern port cities. The state-run IRNA news agency quoted Ehsan Jahanian, a local official in Bushehr, as accusing the U.S. of striking near the plant around noon, hours af-

ter Central Command said it had ended its latest round of strikes. Asked for comment on Bushehr, Central Command referred to a news release that detailed targets but made no mention of the nuclear power plant.

For the first time since April, U.S. strikes also appeared to target Iranian

bills that are due before it collects the tax revenue it would use for those payments.

“Fortunately, we have identified a path to get us through 2026 without needing Bond Commission approval for a third-party loan, but it won’t be easy,” Moreno said, without explaining how.

The indictment is only the latest in a series of developments in recent weeks that have put Democratic-led New Orleans at odds with Republicans elsewhere in the state.

New Orleans officials were taken aback when Landry and Republican lawmakers moved aggressively during the just-completed legislative session to eliminate nine judgeships in New Orleans, revoke funding for 10 assistant district attorneys and erase the position of Calvin Duncan, the newly elected Criminal District Court clerk.

Landry added to the friction, in the eyes of New Orleans officials, by vetoing $33 million worth of projects for the city just after the session ended.

In turn, Republicans believe that the indictment of the popular Republican attorney general was payback by the city. In her indictment, a grand jury accused Murrill of committing 16 felonies by sending letters to Moreno, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams and five City Council members that threatened to remove them from office for opposing the law that eliminated Duncan’s job.

No evidence has emerged, though, to show that any city officials orchestrated the indictment.

Moreno responded defiantly to Murrill’s letter, saying she felt threatened by it but wouldn’t back down in her criticism of the attorney general.

But in an interview on Wednesday, Moreno said she played no role in Murrill’s indictment.

“I didn’t even know grand juries could do this,” she said, speaking of their ability to investigate crimes.

“This is a court thing. Overall, it’s becoming such a distraction, and I just have to stay focused on the city and taking care of the city.

That’s the lane where I stand.”

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After leaving a NATO summit in Turkey, Trump posted several videos on his social media site of what he said were explosions in Iran and issued another warning to the Islamic Republic.

“This is in retribution for yesterday’s bombing of ships

by Iran. If it happens again, it will get much worse!” Trump wrote Wednesday, a day after three tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz.

Trump said the latest backand-forth fighting would not result in lengthy military ac-

tion.

Trump also renewed his past threats to hit Iran’s civilian infrastructure, including electric and desalination plants, and to seize Kharg Island, through which some 90% of Iranian oil exports pass.

Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, a key negotiator in talks seeking a permanent end to the war, was defiant in a post on X on Thursday morning: “America still hasn’t learned that bullying and breaking promises are no longer costfree. Let me put it plainly: If you strike, you’ll get hit.”

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a post on Telegram that he spoke by phone with his Saudi, Turkish and Omani counterparts and with Pakistan’s army chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, who has been one of the main mediators in the war. The outreach suggested efforts may be underway to reduce tensions.

publican leadership.

“Targeting finances will be detrimental to city services which we are improving every day, along with public safety where we have made historic strides,” she said.

“Our murder rate is now so low that it is comparable to levels not seen since 1969.

New Orleans is on a roll. We are finally making significant progress.”

In April, city officials cut a deal to bolster their reserves by selling the next nine years of revenue from its lease with Caesars’ casino. In exchange, the city received $103 million.

The Attorney General’s Office has filed a public records request for documents related to the deal, an administration official said.

This refers to the concern Moreno expressed in her statement about the casino lease.

State Sen. Jimmy Harris, a Democratic senator from New Orleans who has a good working relationship with Landry and Senate President Cameron Henry,

R-Metairie, said he is concerned that other actions by the Republican leadership may ensue.

“But I hope at some point everyone can be adults,” he said. “We all understand that politics plays into this. I get it. But when you’re now hurting the citizens you’re supposed to protect, the people who count on you, that’s when I think it’s gone too far.”

Harris said he will reach out to Landry but not immediately given the high political temperatures.

Members of the New Orleans City Council released a statement backing Moreno. ““It is disappointing that the City’s financial needs have become the subject of political disagreement rather than collaborative problem-solving,” the council members said. “New Orleans is an economic hub and powerhouse that anchors revenue for the State of Louisiana as a whole.

Simply put, when New Orleans wins, Louisiana wins.”

bridges. State media reported a strike on a railway bridge in Iran’s northeastern Golestan province, and the Revolutionary Guard said two bridges were attacked on the route to Mashhad, where tens of thousands of mourners thronged wide boulevards during a funeral procession for the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday.

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Through future River District developments, the RDNI consortium plans to create 900 residential units, about half market rate and the rest designated either affordable or workforce housing, which covers households making between 80% and 120% of the area median income.

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built more than 3,000 units in Greater New Orleans.

The partners said the PILOT was the missing piece of a financing plan that includes funds from the city, state, the convention center and a private investor.

“Like all affordable housing deals, this project is challenging because it requires so many levels of capital and subsidy,” Providence CEO Terri North told the council.

“This project is perfect for the essential workers that work in the French Quarter, CBD and for the convention center itself.”

Jim Cook, the convention center’s president and CEO, said through a spokesperson Thursday that the deal “brings new energy, investment and momentum to an emerging area of the city.”

Now the developers say they can move toward signing a master development agreement with the convention center and closing financing before beginning construction as soon as this year.

Second major project The Rivana Apartments will be the second project to break ground in the longvacant section of the Lower Garden District, where city leaders hope to invest more than $1 billion in multifamily housing, offices, shops, museums and more. Discussions date back two decades, but the project gained momentum five years ago when the convention center selected RDNI as lead devel-

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Continued from page 1A One resolution voided a three-year extension of her contract, which was set to expire in 2028. Another allowed RTA Board Chair Ann Duplessis to negotiate with Hankins on leaving her position, and a third authorized Duplessis to start a national search for Hankins’ replacement.

Judge Omar Mason on Thursday nullified all three resolutions, agreeing that the RTA board violated state law by improperly noticing its closed-door session and by not adding the Hankins resolutions to the board’s public agenda.

But the judge denied Hankins’ request to levy $14,000 in civil penalties upon board members, saying that the board didn’t purposely violate the law.

“There was at least an attempt to comply with the open records law. They just didn’t comply,” Mason said while making his ruling.

It’s not clear if the RTA board will take a new vote on the contract amendment, or if the board will appeal Mason’s ruling. The RTA’s attorney, Kim Boyle, and Duplessis declined to comment on that point.

An attorney for Hankins, Bill Aaron, said the ruling won’t affect her separation from the RTA but could

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A fence surrounds the proposed site for the Rivana Apartments on Thursday next to the Shell Riverside building in the River District of New Orleans. oper.

The River District project debuted with a ceremonial groundbreaking in 2023 and news that Shell would build a new $130 million regional headquarters there while Topgolf would build an entertainment complex.

The Shell building is due to be completed next year but the Topgolf deal has since fallen through. Late last year, the entire project stalled when RDNI backed out of talks with the convention center after missing performance and payment deadlines. But in January, the two entities announced they had agreed to a revised deal that gave the state-

sponsored agency more control and more risk.

The original Rivana development team — part of the larger RDNI group led by local real estate veteran Louis Lauricella — includes Brian Gibbs, Tara Hernandez, Michael Merideth, Shawn Barney and Nicole Webre. The five partnered with Providence in February, giving the nonprofit 51% of the project.

Together, the partners have secured funding from public and private sources, including the Louisiana Housing Corporation, the city of New Orleans, and the Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Au-

strengthen her hand in an upcoming wrongful termination suit that will seek damages tied to her employment contract.

Aaron said she will seek damages amounting to five years of her annual salary, which was about $315,000.

“We needed this ruling to say the resolution voiding the contract extension to 2031 is invalid,” Aaron said after the hearing. “That ups our damages by a million dollars.”

The relatively new RTA board adds the lawsuit to a list of its challenges as it attempts, with a push from Mayor Helena Moreno, to right an agency seen as having veered off course. The public transportation authority oversees buses, streetcars, ferries and paratransit services.

Hankins, a lightning rod during her three years atop the agency, is credited for rebounding bus ridership after the COVID-19 pandemic and securing $197 million in federal grants. But under her watch, the agency has also been criticized for faltering on paratransit improvements.

Her oversight of a controversial construction contract attracted FBI inquiries in 2024, although it’s not clear what became of any investigation. Upon her resignation, Hankins repaid the $21,000 to the agency from improper excess allowances.

Meanwhile, a dozen current and former employees

filed a lawsuit in April claiming workplace harassment, wage theft and First Amendment violations.

On Thursday, the question before Mason was whether the agency in May violated a state law that requires public agencies to conduct business before the public, and to provide a legally acceptable reason on meeting agendas when taking up matters in private. The May 9 meeting agenda specified the contract extension as the purpose of the executive session, but the statute it cited only allowed for discussion of Hankins’ character and competence.

“The agenda item as described was false,” Aaron said.

And when voting on items not on the agenda — like the three RTA resolutions — the board must first vote unanimously to amend the agenda.

That did not happen at the RTA meeting.

But Kim Boyle, representing the RTA board, argued the agenda gave the public a reasonable idea of what would be discussed, and said the discussion was allowed under a different exception for attorney-client privilege.

She also argued that the board’s votes on May 9 don’t need to be voided because they are moot or were addressed by a subsequent vote. The termination negotiation isn’t necessary because Hankins resigned, and the national search was ratified at a later meeting,

thority, which is providing $6.5 million toward the $100 million total development.

The state awarded $16.5 million sourced from a federal program that supports low- and moderate-income individuals.

Rivana design documents and renderings from Trapolin-Peer, a New Orleans architect, and San Franciscobased Gensler show a fourstory structure surrounding a courtyard with a pool.

The building’s main entrance will be located at the corner of Race and Tchoupitoulas streets, just upriver from the new Shell building,

which currently rises alone from several unkempt empty lots. Euterpe and Race streets will be extended to connect to Convention Center Boulevard, and there will be a parking garage entrance on Euterpe with retail on the first floor.

The building will include 500-square-foot studio apartments along with onebedroom units between 650 and 750 square feet and twobedroom units topping out at around 1,000 square feet.

North said people who earn $15 an hour will qualify for one of the building’s 60% AMI units and pay under $1,000 for rent, which she said is half the market rate

Boyle said.

As for the contract extension, Boyle said that it wasn’t legally valid to begin with.

“That addendum was not properly executed and therefore void as a matter of law,” Boyle said.

The contract extension was executed by a former board chair, Fred Neal Jr., without public notice or full vote of

the board. Neal has previously told WWL Louisiana the execution was proper because it did not increase Hankins’ annual salary.

The extension, signed only

by Neal and Hankins, was executed on Oct. 15, shortly after Mayor Helena Moreno was elected to succeed former Mayor LaToya Cantrell.

Moreno replaced Neal, along

Courtyard with a pool

A convention center spokesperson said the Rivana team continues to work toward a financial close anticipated to be no later than July 29.

Test pilings for the building are already in place.

Surveys, soil samples and other preliminary work has already been completed.

Gibbs Construction could start driving pilings later this year, one of the developers said after the City Council meeting.

While the Rivana developers and their partners celebrated the council’s decision, two council members expressed concerns about the decades-long exemption before the vote.

Jason Hughes said he was worried that the units might not go to people most in need, and JP Morrell said it’s hard to justify giving away future tax revenue at a time when many homeowners are struggling financially and still have to pay their property taxes.

Hughes joined five other council members to approve the deal. Morrell was the lone no vote.

with all of Cantrell’s appointments to the board, after taking office in January.

Moreno had taken issue with the extension, and the RTA’s lawyers on Thursday argued that it was illegal, though Mason did not rule on that point.

Email Ben Myers at bmyers@theadvocate.com.

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“I think the consumer is worse than what we had anticipated, and it’s driven mainly by gas prices,” PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta said Thursday during a conference call with investors.

The food and beverage giant said its net revenue rose 6.4% to $24.2 billion for the AprilJune period. That was better than the $23.9 billion Wall Street expected, according to analysts polled by FactSet. In February, PepsiCo slashed U.S. prices on Lay’s, Doritos, Cheetos and Tostitos chips by up to 15%, which boosted snack demand in the first quarter.

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WASHINGTON — Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, economist Raj Chetty and former Bank of England governor Mervyn King are among a slate of names released by the Federal Reserve Thursday that will help develop recommended changes to the central bank’s operations.

They are among the co-leaders of five different task forces announced

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Warsh called for “regime change” at the Fed last year while he was under consideration by the Trump administration to replace

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Warsh has sought to communicate less about the Fed’s thinking on interest rates and has said he wants to reduce the central bank’s roughly $6.7 trillion in holdings of government bonds.

Most of the directors announced Thursday are leading figures in economics and business, rather than longtime Fed critics. Warsh’s use of task forces, Fed-watchers say, suggest he wants to persuade his fellow Fed officials of any changes rather than impose them.

“The U.S. economy has changed significantly over the last generation, and never more so than right now,” Warsh said in a written statement. “Each task force will carefully consider whether policymakers’ means and methods, analytical tools and policy approaches can be improved upon.”

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One of the task forces will focus on how artificial intelligence and other new technologies will affect productivity and jobs.

To oversee that task force, Warsh has turned to executives from firms developing AI, including Andreessen, a major investor in crypto firms and AI technology.

Asha Sharma, an executive vice president at Microsoft and CEO of its Xbox unit, will also co-lead that task force. Charles Jones, an economist at Stanford currently on leave with Anthropic, will act as the third co-chair.

Chetty, a Harvard economist, will co-lead a task force on evaluating the data sources used by the Fed. Chetty has broken ground by using huge data sets to track families’ economic fortunes over decades and evaluate which areas of the country have seen the most

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Doug McMillon, the former president and CEO of Walmart, and Kevin Murphy, an economics professor at the University of Chicago, will co-lead the data task force.

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Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes slowed in June, but a key measure of home prices climbed to an all-time high, adding to affordability challenges for prospective homebuyers.

Existing home sales fell 2.4% last month from May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday. Sales rose 2.8% compared with June last year.

The latest sales tally fell short of the roughly 4.21 million pace economists were expecting, according to FactSet. Home sales have been mostly hovering close to a 4 million annual pace going back to 2023, far short of the historic norm that is closer to 5.2 million.

Sales have remained sluggish as mortgage rates have mostly trended higher in the months since the war between the U.S. and Iran started. Expectations of higher inflation amid surging oil prices have pushed up the longterm bond yields that lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans, causing mortgage rates to climb.

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Despite the lackluster sales, home prices continued to rise nationally last month. The U.S. median sales price increased 1.8% in June from a year earlier to $440,600, an all-time high on data going back to 1999, NAR said.

Home prices have risen on an annual basis for 36 months in a row.

First-time buyers accounted for 33% of home purchases last month, down from 35% in May and up from 30% in June last year. Historically, they made up 40% of home sales.

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Existing home sales fell 2.4% last month from May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million units, the National Association of Realtors said Thursday.

“Without a doubt, the affordability is a major challenge for people who want to become homeowners, which is the reason why we need more supply,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist.

The U.S. housing market has been in a slump since 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows.

Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes were essentially flat last year, stuck at a 30-year low.

Through the first half of this year, seasonally adjusted sales of existing U.S. homes are up only 0.7% compared to the same period in 2025.

Years of soaring home prices, especially in the early part of this decade when rock-bottom mortgage rates fueled a buying frenzy, have left many would-be homebuyers frozen out of the market. And a chronic shortage of homes for sale nationally, due

partly to years of below-average new home construction, has helped prop up home prices even in a multiyear sales slump.

Many of the homes purchased last month likely went under contract in April and May, when the average rate on a 30-year mortgage ranged from 6.23% to 6.53% — the highest level going back to late August, according to mortgage buyer Freddie Mac. Those who can afford to buy at current mortgage rates or pay all cash are likely to encounter buyer-friendly trends in many markets. In June, median list prices fell 2.5% from a year earlier, the steepest annual drop on data going back to 2017, according to Realtor.com.

Still, housing market pricing trends vary widely regionally and locally. Consider, since peaking in 2022 at $449,000, list prices have come down 7.3% in the West and 3.5% in the South,

but are up 10% in the Midwest and 12.6% in the Northeast, according to Realtor.com.

Home shoppers have more homes on the market to choose from than this time last year, although home inventory levels remain well below historical norms.

There were 1.56 million unsold homes at the end of last month, down 0.6% from May and up 1.3% from June last year, NAR said. That’s still well short of the roughly 2 million homes for sale that was typical before the COVID-19 pandemic.

June’s month-end inventory translates to a 4.6-month supply at the current sales pace. Traditionally, a five- to six-month supply is considered a balanced market between buyers and sellers.

“We need to see 30%-40% growth in inventory,” Yun said.

“We’re not seeing that, so inventory (is) still remaining relatively tight.”

News outlets urge judge to sanction OpenAI in AI copyright fight

BY MATT O’BRIEN and JOCELYN NOVECK Associated Press

NEW YORK — The New York Times, the Daily News and other media outlets are asking a federal judge to impose sanctions on OpenAI, escalating a fight over artificial intelligence and copyright that could shape the future of a struggling news industry.

The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles. At issue is whether AI chatbots are unfairly competing as an information source, siphoning off web traffic without doing the journalistic work involved in gathering the news.

A filing Thursday in a Manhattan federal courthouse alleges OpenAI

“chose obstruction” over releasing datasets and ChatGPT logs that could show how the AI system used copyrighted news content. The plaintiffs are asking the judge to penalize the company for “discovery misconduct” that could distort evidence, saying the recent deposition of an OpenAI employee contradicts the company’s earlier claims.

New York Daily News attorney Steven Lieberman said OpenAI has been “making misrepresentations” for two years about its ability to search for copyrighted content in its AI training datasets and logs.

OpenAI has described its limitations in sharing ChatGPT logs as a measure to protect user privacy.

“As the Times’ case weakens and they’ve been forced to drop claims against us, they’re persisting with their efforts to invade the privacy of people who have nothing to do with this case, including by making these blatantly false allega-

tions,” said a statement Thursday from OpenAI spokesperson Drew Pusateri.

The New York Times sued OpenAI and Microsoft in late 2023, about a year after ChatGPT’s debut sparked a commercial AI boom and began changing the way people search for information online. The threat to news publications became even more apparent when Google in 2024 introduced AI-generated summaries at the top of online search results, cutting off the advertising dollars that come when people click a link to the information’s original source.

The Times has since been joined by other news organizations.

OpenAI and other tech companies have argued the process of training their AI systems on digitized books, online articles and other writings found on the internet is protected by the “fair use” doctrine of U.S. copyright law.

OpenAI rival Anthropic agreed

to pay book authors $1.5 billion for training its chatbot Claude on their pirated works — an amount that represents a small fraction of Anthropic’s $965 billion market valuation as it prepares to become publicly traded.

The New York Times’ arguments are different from those brought by book authors. In its original lawsuit and an amended complaint filed last month, it focused on the unfair competition of companies that “seek to free-ride on The Times’s massive investment in its journalism by using it to build substitutive products without permission or payment.”

The mounting costs come as a growing number of media organizations have signed licensing deals with OpenAI and other companies that typically pay the outlet a fee to be able to train AI systems on their news feeds or archives. The Associated Press was the first to announce such a deal with OpenAI in 2023.

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BY HUIZHONG WU Associated Press

BANGKOK — When China launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific Ocean on Monday, it was a rare test of a nuclear-capable weapons system that drew international rebuke.

Arriving two years after a similar missile launch in international waters in the Pacific, the test by the People’s Liberation Army caught the attention of small island nations whose leaders have increasingly urged bigger countries to stop using the vast oceanic region for power struggles. But Beijing’s message was largely for just one country, experts say: the United States.

“The most important message is the PLA is becoming a powerful military with a very strong strategic nuclear capability,” said Tong Zhao, a senior fellow with the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a think tank.

The test, launched from a nuclearpowered submarine, was a demonstration of the sea-based leg of China’s nuclear triad capability, which refers to the ability to have land, sea, and air-based nuclear systems.

Further, it showed that China’s military has what is called a second-strike capability, said Dominic Meagher, a research fellow at the Crawford School of Public Policy in Australia. That means even if China was attacked first, it still has the ability to strike back, because the ability to fire could be anywhere, in the ocean or on land.

Beijing said the launch was part of annual exercises, suggesting that it may conduct similar launches in the future.

“I would see this as a systematic move, not an isolated event,” said K. Tristan Tang, nonresident fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research, in emailed comments.

The missile testing comes as China is also racing to build more nuclear-powered submarines. In the past five years, China has been building these types of submarines faster than the U.S., according to a report from the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a think tank.

Launch recalls grim history However, the use of international waters, specifically treaty-protected waters where nuclear testing is prohibited, drew criticism from countries in the region. The waters of the South Pacific Ocean are contested because they’re strategically important and rich with fishers and minerals.

For Pacific nations, nuclear testing in particular recalls historical harm.

The U.S., the UK and France have all detonated nuclear warheads in the Pacific, causing environmental contamination and health issues such as cancers and birth defects

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 863-993 LOANDEPOT.CO M, LLC VERSUS JOYCE L. GROS A/K/A JOYCE L. NAJOLIA DE‐ MANDRE GROS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 29, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at l k

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A long-range ballistic missile bursts out of the sea during a test launched from a Chinese nuclear-powered submarine in the South Pacific on Monday. Beijing said the launch was part of annual exercises. that some island nations say they are still recording generations later.

“Those tests resulted in outrage and resulted in treaties to prevent future tests, and that includes the nuclear test ban treaty and the Treaty of Rarotonga, said Meagher. “These kinds of missile tests haven’t been conducted since.”

Monday’s missile landed in the South Pacific Nuclear Free Zone, which was established by the 1986 Rarotonga accord, which prohibits nuclear weapons throughout the region. China ratified the protocols in 1987 that prohibit testing nuclear weapons within the zone or threatening to use them against signatories with territory in the region.

Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale, speaking to reporters in the Solomon capital Honiara Tuesday, said, “China is a good friend of Solomon Islands, but this is not something a friend does.

This is not … good in our region.”

While U.S. forces still conduct nuclear missile testing in the Pacific, they avoid the treaty area, Meagher said.

Test conducted with short notice Australia and New Zealand both said they were not given enough prior notice about the test, and other countries like Japan said it was done without transparency. Canberra and Wellington are two of the South Pacific’s biggest powers and have grown anxious about Beijing’s attempts to vie for sway in the region.

Bilateral deals between China and the leaders of small Pacific nations have prompted Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to embark on a charm offensive of his own. That has included defense and security pacts inked with Vanuatu, Fiji and Papua New Guinea in the past year.

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g 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in VALLEY REALTY CO. Subdivision, in Square No. 16, bounded by Manson Drive, Street, Tenth Farrington Drive and Eleventh Street, designated as Lot No. 121, all in accordance with the survey of Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C. E., dated July 17, 1958, which said lot commences at a distance of 250.03 feet from the corner of Manson Drive and Tenth Street, and measures thence 50 feet front on Manson

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Drive, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the prop‐ erty.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

BRIGHAM J. LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans

On Tuesday, Albanese decried the missile launch as “a provocative act by China which does destabilize the region,” when he spoke to reporters in Honiara, where he was holding talks with officials.

Australia and the Solomon Islands are in the process of negotiating a comprehensive treaty.

“The fact that this test took place yesterday with very little notice is of real concern,” he added.

China has defended its actions and said it gave countries in the area appropriate notice. “China informed the relevant countries in advance, which demonstrates the openness and transparency of the Chinese military,” according to a statement from its Defense Ministry issued Tuesday.

Experts say that if there is a standard, it would be the Hague Code of Conduct which sets out regulations on ballistic missiles and their use. It expects states to provide notice at least 24 hours beforehand, but the code is not legally binding. Further, Tang said, China is not a member of the Hague Code of Conduct.

Much speculation remains around what was fired and when.

The People’s Liberation Army is known to make very little information public, but the secretary-general of Taiwan’s National Security Council said on Wednesday that this was a JL-2 missile launched from waters off Guangdong, a southern Chinese province. The JL-2 is an older ballistic missile for submarines.

Chinese state media, on the other hand, presented experts saying it was likely a JL-3, which has a longer range than the JL-2. “The JL-3’s range can strike a target on the east side of the Pacific from the west side,” said Shao Yonglin, a military expert featured in an interview with state broadcaster CCTV.

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bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated January 12, 2026, I will offer for sale to the highest bid‐ der at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as GRETNA GAR‐ DENS SUBDIVI‐ SION, desig‐ nated as LOT NO. 3, of SQUARE 17; said Square bounded b ff d

BY ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov on Thursday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Kyiv a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems to protect its cities.

A top Ukrainian official, meanwhile, cautioned that it could take a year or more for the country to produce Patriot interceptor missiles.

The Kremlin said the license deal reflected what it called Washington’s “ambivalence” but noted it appreciated Trump’s efforts to help broker a peace deal to end the war, which Russia launched over four years ago.

Ukraine’s drone strikes on oil refineries and other infrastructure across Russia have triggered a widespread fuel crisis with gasoline shortages and rationing in multiple regions and motorists waiting for hours to fill their tanks. Moscow has responded by intensifying its bombardment on Kyiv and other cities, exposing Ukraine’s vulnerability to ballistic missile strikes.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy described the latest strikes on Russia’s infrastructure as part of Kyiv’s campaign of “long-range sanctions” carried out in response to Moscow’s refusal to halt the fighting.

“We have long proposed that Russia end this war, and every day of delay should bring the feeling of war to where it all began — to Russia,” Zelenskyy said.

A Ukrainian drone strike sparked a fire at an oil depot in

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gages, liens and privileges.

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by Dufrene Sur‐ veying & Engineering, Inc., Land Sur‐ veyors, dated May 21, 1996.

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This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order.

WESLEY M. PLAISANCE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t

THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 6642 AVENUE B, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER ENTI‐ TLED: EUREKA HOMESTEAD VERSUS MELISSA JACK‐

the western Russian city of Tver, according to acting Gov. Vitaly Korolyov. Oil reservoirs also were set ablaze by drones in Vyazniki, in the southern Stavropol region, said Gov. Vladimir Vladimirov, forcing the evacuation of nearby apartment buildings.

In the Sea of Azov, Ukrainian drones set two oil tankers on fire, according to Rostov Gov. Yuri Slusar, who said one of the ships was still burning and its crew evacuated.

It was the latest in a series of strikes on oil tankers in recent days, part of Ukrainian efforts to cut fuel supplies to the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia illegally annexed in 2014.

In addition to the Stavropol and Tver facilities, Zelenskyy said Ukrainian forces hit fuel infrastructure deep inside Russia, including one in Ufa, as well as an oil-loading terminal in the Rostov region closer to Ukraine.

Russia’s Defense Ministry said its defenses downed 73 Ukrainian drones from late Wednesday into early Thursday.

Ukraine’s air force said Russia fired 94 long-range strike drones and two ballistic missiles. While 72 drones were jammed or intercepted, 19 drones and both missiles damaged 13 locations, it said.

During Wednesday’s meeting with Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump said the U.S. will meet a longstanding request from Ukraine and give it a license to make the Patriot air defense systems. He also praised Zelenskyy for doing “an amazing job” — a sharp change in tone from past criticisms of the Ukrainian leader.

But setting up domestic production of the mobile, surfaceto-air systems will take many months, said Serhii Beskrestnov, an adviser to Ukraine’s defense minister.

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N.O. inmates booked with arson

June 9 blaze forced housing unit’s evacuation

BY MISSY WILKINSON

Staff writer

A fire last month in the Orleans Justice Center that led to the evacuation of an entire jail pod resulted in counts of aggravated arson for two inmates accused of starting the blaze using a pile of mattresses, jumpsuits, blankets and Styrofoam plates.

According to court records,

Derrick Clayton, 24, and Jarick S. Bourgeois Jr., 19, were each booked with 73 counts of aggravated arson after a June 9 blaze that represented another early test for Orleans Parish Sheriff Michelle Woodfork.

On June 14, Magistrate Commissioner Jay Daniels found probable cause for one count of aggravated arson against each defendant and set bail at $75,000 apiece.

The incident led to one patient being taken by Emergency Medical Services to a hospital. It also resulted in staff relocating all inmates assigned to Pod 3E of the jail to a first-floor classroom.

The incident occurred less than two months after Woodfork took over leadership of the troubled jail from former Sheriff Susan Hutson.

“The investigation has been com-

pleted and the matter has been referred to the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office for review and prosecution,” Woodfork said in a statement. “As this is now a pending criminal matter, the Sheriff’s Office will have no further comment at this time.”

Also in June, Woodfork’s deputies responded to an inmate stabbing another inmate with a homemade weapon, forcing an evacuation and a shakedown of the housing unit.

According to court documents,

Clayton told deputies he set the fire in Pod 3E to protect himself after multiple inmates threatened to assault or stab him.

“Clayton advised that he participated in the act out of fear for his personal safety and concerns for potential retaliation from other inmates,” a New Orleans Police Department arrest report states.

According to the report, Clayton did not provide investigators with the names, cell assignments or

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DUST ANOTHER DAY

STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

Alternating stretches of wet and dry weather leave an athletic field muddy enough to kick up clouds of dust while grading the field on the campus of LSU New Orleans.

Covington man drowns saving child Family remembers Chris Rushing as a ‘warming soul’

BY WILLIE SWETT Staff writer

The last time Ryan Rushing saw his cousin Chris was on his grandmother’s porch in Abita Springs.

“We were out there sitting on the porch, talking about the basketball team,” recalled Ryan Rushing, a coach at Covington High School.

Though they were first cousins, Ryan said he and Chris Rushing grew up like brothers.

“Chris was real dependC. Rushing able. He was a warming soul,” Ryan Rushing said. “You ask Chris to help, he was more than welcome. A lot of the times you didn’t even have to ask him.”

Later that day, Chris Rushing, a 38-yearold Covington resident, went with family to a popular fishing and crabbing spot near Bayou Lacombe.

While there, Rushing’s granddaughter fell into the water on the west side of Lake Road by the bayou, according to a statement from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office on the July 1 incident.

Rushing jumped in and tried to rescue her, the Sheriff’s Office said, but struggled

ä See RUSHING, page 3B

Judge appointed in Murrill indictment Criminal court judges recused themselves

BY MATT BRUCE

Staff writer

The Louisiana Supreme Court has appointed retired state appeals court Judge Robert Chaisson to preside over Attorney General Liz Murrill’s intimidation case, which the court has stayed.

Justice Piper Griffin signed the Supreme Court’s order, which came down Thursday morning, a day after all 12 criminal court judges in New Orleans recused themselves from the case and the court’s chief judge requested an ad

hoc appointment.

Murrill, a 62-year-old Republican, is the state’s top lawyer.

She faces eight counts each of intimidation and malfeasance in office from an indictment handed up last week by an Orleans Parish grand jury.

Chaisson, a Democrat from Destrehan, served 12 years on the Gretna-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeal before retiring at the Murrill end of 2023.

He inherits a volatile case that’s quickly turned up political tensions between state leaders and elected officials in New Orleans.

The appointment comes in the lead-up to a heated election season when all of New Or-

leans’ criminal court trial judges are up for reelection, thanks to a Republican-led Legislature backed by Gov. Jeff Landry that shrank the city’s courts.

Murrill has described the indictments as “corrupt … retaliatory, meritless, and unconstitutional.” She has not entered a plea on account of the swift stay by the high court.

Sources said a New Orleans grand jury launched the investigation into Murrill’s actions on its own initiative, spurred by letters she’d sent in May to Mayor Helena Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams and five members of the City Council who voted to call a special election for a single clerk of court.

State lawmakers merged the city’s civil and criminal clerk’s duties into one office and handed it to civil Clerk Chelsea Richard Napoleon, casting aside the popular criminal clerk-elect, former life prisoner Calvin Duncan.

The grand jury leveled the bombshell criminal charges July 2. District Judge Leon Roche closed his courtroom to the public when the indictment was read, and deputies took an extraordinary step by ordering media from the courthouse.

Roche later defended the move to clear his courtroom, saying he was trying to protect the anonymity of the grand jurors.

In his own recusal order

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Body of teen found dead going to D.C. for autopsy will be flown Nolan Wells last weekend, to Washington, D.C., for independent autopsy seen alive Saturday an following days of online speculation surrounding on Horn Island his death.

BY POET WOLFE

Staff writer

The body of 18-year-old Nolan Wells, who was found dead on Horn Island after going missing over the Fourth of July

ing that independent autopsies have brought “some measure of justice” to other families he has represented.

The Jackson County In an interview ThursCoroner’s Office, which has conducted an autopday with journalist Don Lemon, the family’s at- Wells sy on Wells, has not yet released their report or torney Ben Crump said Wells’ parents are “not accept- a cause of death.

Crump said the third-party ing that their son just died by coincidence or accident,” add- medical examiner will look for

any physical injuries to Wells’ body beyond those consistent with drowning. The results of the independent autopsy are expected to be released Friday.

“The parents want to know objectively,” Crump said in the interview. “They don’t want to rely on the state of Mississippi’s investigation to be the end of the story here.”

ä See WELLS, page 2B

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LSU to host summit on funding athletics Top donors invited to Governor’s Mansion

BY ALYSE PFEIL and JON BLAU Staff writers

Gov. Jeff Landry and LSU President Wade Rousse plan to host the top 40 donors to LSU sports at the Governor’s Mansion in Baton Rouge for a presentation on the financial future of the university’s athletics department, a university spokesperson said Thursday.

The gathering will be held the first week of August, and the two leaders will unveil “a first look at an alternative revenue generating opportunity for LSU athletics that is first of its kind nationally and could quite possibly change the future of college sports in America,” according to the event invitation.

The meeting was first reported

by LouisianaSports.net.

Tiger Athletic Foundation President and CEO Matt Borman sent

the invitation to donors Thursday.

“College athletics is at financial crossroads, and we’re feeling it every day at LSU,” Borman wrote.

Landry “As someone who has contributed generously to our athletic programs to keep them operational, you know how unsustainable the budget of the athletic department looks and Rousse how hard TAF has worked with our donors to assist.”

A private event at the Governor’s Mansion hosted by Landry and Rousse will be held on either Aug. 3 or Aug. 5 at 6 p.m. for “a conversation about the future of LSU Athletics.”

Asked for additional details

about the event and what will be discussed, LSU spokesperson Meg Casper Sunstrom declined to comment.

“Athletic budgets across the country are all experiencing the same unsustainable conditions as LSU,” Sunstrom said.

A financial arms race The meeting comes as college sports programs engage in a fundraising arms race to attract top players through name, image and likeness deals and revenue sharing.

In the 2025 fiscal year, LSU athletics reported just over $223.4 million in expenses, which is a 36% increase from its 2020 budget. The athletic department did generate nearly the same amount of money in revenues, but the expense category will only rise in the coming years.

The amount of revenue athletic departments can directly share with athletes will increase from

$20.5 million in the last academic year to $21.3 million in 2026-27. To remain competitive, schools have also worked to facilitate third-party NIL deals between businesses and athletes, which is a further strain on the athletics donor base.

There are ways to generate additional revenue through sponsorships, and LSU inked what is believed to be a multimillion-dollar deal with Woodside Energy to put a jersey patch on its uniforms for the 2026 season.

There has also been broad discussion in college athletics about private equity investment serving as a tool to boost cash flows.

The Tiger Athletic Foundation’s letter doesn’t mention any specifics about what it means by an “alternative” revenue source.

Rousse has a background in the financial sector, serving as a policy research specialist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and founding his own investment company.

23 cases of parasite reported in Louisiana Cyclosporiasis can cause weeks of diarrhea

BY MARGARET DeLaney Staff writer

On Wednesday, the Louisiana Department of Health reported that 23 cases, including one hospitalization, are being investigated in connection to cyclosporiasis, a parasitic infection that can cause weeks of watery diarrhea.

“Because many of these cases are still under investigation, this number is preliminary and subject to change,” a representative from the Health Department said.

“For comparison, the state has averaged 20 reported cases over the same time period during the past five years.”

Louisiana is one of 29 states investigating outbreaks of the infection. No deaths have been reported, and the source of the cyclospora infections hasn’t been identified.

Cases of cyclosporiasis typically spike in the summer months, with historically active outbreaks in Louisiana between June and

August. In the U.S., the cyclosporiasis season is considered May 1 through Aug. 31, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Over the past 20 years, between 1 and 101 cases have been reported annually in Louisiana, with 73 cases reported in 2023.

“Dying from cyclospora is extremely rare,” said Dr. Obinna Nnedu, an infectious disease physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. “Where people feel really bad is when they feel dehydrated.”

Nationally, there have been record-breaking spikes in both Michigan and Ohio. Although Michigan state officials first announced the outbreak last week, they were only aware of 170 cases.

On Wednesday, Michigan reported 992 cases, including 40 hospitalizations. Ohio reported over 177 cases, with 28 hospitalizations, shortly after.

“I certainly don’t want (Louisianans) to start panicking,” Nnedu said. “Our Centers for Disease Control is going to be looking into these cases to see if they are linked, and specifically what the exposures are.”

What is cyclospora?

Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC. The illness, called cyclosporiasis, is not usually life-threatening and is typically treated with antibiotics.

As far as epidemiologists know, humans are the only species that can contract cyclosporiasis.

The heat-loving parasite infects the bowels and spreads through feces. In the past, people have been infected by consuming fruits or vegetables that were exposed to feces-contaminated irrigation water.

The rates of cyclosporiasis cases are generally higher in developing countries, according to Nnedu, and some previous outbreaks of the illness were linked to imported produce.

The following foods have been specifically linked to previous cyclospora outbreaks in the United States and Canada: n Bagged salad mixes and kits (pre-cut lettuce blends with romaine, iceberg, red cabbage, carrots)

n Fresh cilantro (coriander leaves) n Fresh basil n Raspberries n Snow peas n Green onions (scallions).

People with diarrhea that hasn’t resolved on its own within a few days should see a health provider and discuss the possibility of cyclospora, officials say.

“If a diarrhea is prolonged, that goes on for more than two days unstopped, you may want to talk with your physician,” Nnedu said.

Continue to watch out for other symptoms as well, like abdominal pain and nausea.

Investigations can take months to determine where contaminated food came from and sometimes fail to find a clear source of the parasitic infection.

The best way to prevent infection with a parasite is to avoid food or water that may have been contaminated.

Fresh produce should be thoroughly washed before being eaten, especially for those immunocompromised who are at a greater risk of infection. But be aware that cyclospora can really stick to some foods, so washing may not eliminate the risk of infection.

2 arrested in fatal N.O. house party shooting

BY MARCO CARTOLANO Staff writer

Two men were arrested Thursday in connection with a fatal shooting last month at a Central City house party, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Joseph Washington, 24, was arrested on a count of second-degree murder, and Cameron Thomas, 23,

ARSON

Continued from page 1B physical descriptions of the inmates he claimed had threatened him. Convicted of battery of a correctional officer in 2021, Clayton had been awaiting trial on multiple charges, including possession with intent to distribute tapentadol, simple burglary, theft of a motor vehicle and identity theft, according to court records.

Bourgeois was awaiting trial on two counts of attempted second-degree murder, one count of aggravated criminal damage to property and one count of discharging a firearm during a vio-

WELLS

Continued from page 1B Authorities said Wells was last seen on Horn Island at about 3 p.m.

Saturday. He disappeared during a Fourth of July outing with friends on the popular barrier island, which drew large boating crowds over the holiday weekend.

Two days later, a body was recovered near the shore. Jackson County Coroner Bruce Lynd said Tuesday that dental records had positively identified the remains as Wells. Lynd said Thursday he was unsure when the official autopsy

was booked on a count of accessory after the fact to second-degree murder. The pair are accused in the June 28 shooting death of 20-yearold Shawn Mitchell.

Mitchell was one of a group of roughly 20 people who were at a party in the 2200 block of Louisiana Avenue when shots rang out at around 3 a.m. He was taken to a local hospital, where he died more

than a week later on July 3.

Washington and Thomas reportedly fled the scene at the time of the shooting.

Thomas was arrested Thursday in the 7800 block of Dorsett Drive in New Orleans East and booked into the Orleans Parish Jail.

Washington was taken into custody in the 4000 block of South Dells Street in Harvey and booked into

the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. He will be extradited to Orleans Parish at a later date, officials said.

The arrests were coordinated by NOPD, U.S. marshals and the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.

The investigation into the shooting is ongoing. Anyone with information can call the NOPD at (504) 658-5300 or Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111.

lent crime.

Investigators said Clayton admitted to gathering combustible materials “from various locations throughout the housing unit” and piling them at the base of a rear stairwell.

Clayton passed a lit paper wick to Bourgeois through the trap door of Bourgeois’ mezzaninelevel cell, police said. Investigators say that after several unsuccessful attempts, the two ignited an orange jumpsuit that Clayton carried downstairs and used to set the debris pile ablaze, “causing a substantial fire.”

“At the time the fire was set, all inmates assigned to 3 Echo were secured within their cells and were unable to evacuate the

housing unit without staff intervention,” the report said. “The resulting fire produced significant smoke and created a foreseeable risk of serious bodily injury or death to the inmates and staff present within the facility.”

It’s not clear how many inmates were in the pod at the time of the fire. A pod in the jail can house approximately 60 inmates.

New Orleans EMS Capt. Bill Salmeron said one person was taken to a hospital for treatment.

The New Orleans Fire Department said it had no record of responding to the jail on that date, according to spokesperson Lauren Maiden.

At a June 29 meeting of the New Orleans City Council’s Criminal

Justice Committee, Woodfork presented her first quarterly public safety and operations update since taking office in May. The report didn’t mention the June 9 fire, nor was it discussed during the meeting. Woodfork discussed efforts to harden the jail, including an ongoing upgrade of the cell door and locking system.

“The only way we are going to bring down assaults at the jail is to hire more staff and, of course, look at the infrastructure of the jail,” Woodfork said. “Right now, our priority definitely is to shore up this building.”

If convicted of aggravated arson, Bourgeois and Clayton face up to 20 years imprisonment at hard labor.

results would be completed.

Crump, who has represented families in a number of highprofile cases, including around the death of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, called out “many inconsistencies” in the case during his interview, saying that Wells’ parents described the teen, a standout football player, as “a strong swimmer.”

He also told Lemon there was an alleged argument before Wells’ disappearance and that text messages were allegedly deleted from his phone.

Jackson County Sheriff’s Office investigators are interviewing friends who accompanied Wells

on the trip. They’ve also asked the public to come forward with information about interactions with, sightings of or statements regarding Wells; original, unedited photos taken on the northwestern tip of Horn Island, particularly those depicting alleged altercations or showing Wells; and any observed or heard arguments, disturbances or other unusual activity on the island.

“Currently there’s no information that would lead us to believe at this point that a crime has been committed, but that’s not to say something will come out with more evidence,” Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter said Thursday.

Crump’s involvement in the case marks a new development following widespread online speculation about Wells’ death after photos circulated showing Wells, who is Black, with a group of friends, all of whom were White.

“His family deserves answers.

They deserve the truth,” Crump said in a statement Wednesday.

Anyone who was on or near Horn Island on Saturday and has information is asked to call the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office. The Criminal Investigations Division can be reached at (228) 769-3065 during business hours, Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or at (228) 769-3063 after hours.

The governor’s involvement

Landry has played a prominent role in LSU sports. He made national headlines for publicly criticizing the buyout for fired head football coach Brian Kelly and saying that he would not allow then-Athletic Director Scott Woodward to select Kelly’s replacement. Woodward was also fired soon after.

Kelly was owed the remaining $54 million dollars on his contract, though LSU’s obligation could be reduced if he earns a salary elsewhere.

After LSU hired Lane Kiffin as the new head coach, the Louisiana governor said the experience taught him that college athletics is “broken,” and he has warned other university sports are at risk over the financial strain caused by football programs and name, image and likeness deals.

A spokesperson for Landry declined to comment on the planned meeting with donors.

MURRILL

Continued from page 1B Wednesday, Roche claimed Murrill’s attorney, Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue, spread “vicious falsehoods and derogatory remarks” about him and the at-large New Orleans “citizenry” in public interviews and on social media.

Roche cited an interview on courthouse steps minutes after the indictment, during which Rodrigue lamented a “kangaroo court.”

Rodrigue did not immediately respond to a request for comment Thursday.

Less than 24 hours after the indictment was recorded, the Louisiana Supreme Court granted Murrill an emergency stay that’s frozen proceedings in the case for now.

Justices did not put a timeline on the stay order but granted the attorney general time to file a motion to quash the indictment, finding “considerable support” that she’s “likely to succeed on the merits” in getting the indictment tossed out on “either a legal basis or due to apparent procedural irregularities.”

Hans Liljeberg, who served 10 years alongside Chaisson on the 5th Circuit bench before becoming a Jefferson Parish Council member, praised the appointment.

“Good man. Honest as the day is long, super fair temperament, very hard to upset,” he said of Chaisson. “It was a very wise choice by the Supreme Court, in my humble opinion.”

While a self-initiated grand jury probe is unusual, it’s not unprecedented.

Baton Rouge attorney Jim Boren helped get then-East Baton Rouge Mayor-President Pat Screen out of hot water in 1987 after a grand jury indicted him and a former top aide with malfeasance in office, acting against the advice of then-Attorney General William Guste’s office. The panel sought counsel from another lawyer before charging Screen. Legal observers at the time dubbed it a “runaway grand jury.”

The grand jury in Murrill’s case was guided by a former criminal court judge, Laurie White, after Williams recused.

If it wasn’t a runaway jury, Boren said the bigger anomaly was in the flash freeze by the Louisiana Supreme Court.

“I have never, ever seen a case where a defendant … went straight to the Louisiana Supreme Court. And without giving the prosecution an opportunity to respond, they issued a stay,” Boren said. “I would venture to say that’s never happened before. I mean, I’ve been a lawyer for 50 years.

In those 50 years, that’s never happened.”

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

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Opera enthusiast Joseph Young dies at 96

opera, which has been part staffer. Young set up a permanent graduated from an arts-manageAnd he met Aysen Kutalp, a deHe stepped in to save ofBut New Orleans’ culture since professional staff and an endow- ment program, Tidmore said. signer and theatrically trained is prohibitively costly. With ment, organized a series of fun“He had on-the-job training and artist who earned a doctorate in N.O. organization 1796, dozens of onstage and draising organizations, joined a lot of organizations and political science at Tulane.

BY JOHN POPE

Contributing writer Joseph Young Jr., a real estate developer whose unabashed love of opera led him to improve its finances by imposing a business structure on a historically expensive art form, died June 28 at his New Orleans home of complications from a fall, said his niece, Norma Jane McClain. He was 96.

Young and his wife, artist Aysen Kural Young, were avid supporters of all the arts, but opera held a special place in their hearts, said James C. “Jay” Gulotta Jr., the New Orleans Opera Association’s president.

“Opera brought together everything they loved,” Gulotta said.

“In opera, you have the visual arts, the musical arts, the auditory arts. They loved talking about it.”

backstage personnel, scenery and a full orchestra, the average cost of staging an opera is about $500,000, said Christopher Tidmore, a member of the opera association’s advisory board.

Young Young, who had been the association’s treasurer, was asked to lead the organization in 1985. This coincided with the oil industry crash, which was a major blow to the local economy. To make matters worse, Gulotta said, Young was told he would have to cover any deficit, possibly amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars, as his predecessors had done.

“I didn’t have those kinds of resources,” Young said in a 2024 interview, “so I had to get creative.”

When he became president, the association had only one full-time

such as the Mastersigners — a play on the Wagner opera “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” — and the Opera Club. He stressed the importance of ticket sales and established a shop for making and repairing scenery.

“We are one of the only theatrical organizations in the United States that has its own scene shop,” Tidmore said. “It rents sets to (organizations in) 27 states and three countries. It supports a dozen artists and a training program for set designers and electricians. It’s the only part of New Orleans opera that makes a profit.”

Young was asked in the late 1990s to lead the association again. Unlike many arts administrators, he didn’t have a master’s degree in business, and he hadn’t

tried to serve them. He was always trying to improve organizations.”

And Young never hesitated to ask people for money, Tidmore said. “He made people feel as if they were doing him a favor.

When he asked you for something, it was like he was sharing his passion with you. It wasn’t guile or salesmanship; it was sharing his passion. Joe had a childlike enthusiasm for what he believed in.”

A native of Springfield and a graduate of Springfield High School, Young came to New Orleans to attend Tulane University and never left after earning a degree in political science.

After graduation, Young went into property management, developing housing and strip malls throughout the New Orleans area and in Destin, Florida, said William Coe, a longtime friend.

The two married and became a force on the New Orleans arts scene. In addition to opera, their causes included the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the New Orleans Ballet Association, said Astra Thibodeaux, Young’s stepdaughter.

“Joe had a compelling belief that the arts were essential to New Orleans,” Gulotta said. “He treated it as a full-time job.”

Aysen Kutalp Young died in 2022.

In addition to Thibodeaux, Young’s survivors include a stepson, Dr. Glenn Hedgpeth of Covington.

Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements, which are incomplete.

Contact John Pope at pinckelopes@gmail.com.

Westlake woman sentenced after shooting boyfriend 15-year term reduced to five after recommendation

BY MEGAN WYATT

Staff writer

A Westlake woman was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in prison, with 10 years suspended, more than four years after she shot her boyfriend in the head with her three children in the home.

Keri Buller Bradberry, 36, was initially arrested by Westlake Police in April 2022 on counts of attempted second-degree murder, aggravated second-degree battery and three counts of domestic abuse battery with child endangerment.

State prosecutors later charged her with the lesser crime of illegal use of a weapon during a crime of

violence, which Bradberry pleaded no contest to in May 2025.

During Thursday’s sentencing, which had been delayed several times, 14th Judicial District Judge David Ritchie accepted the recommendation of state prosecutor Lea Hall for Bradberry to serve five years of a 15-year prison sentence.

Bradberry’s defense attorney, Adam Johnson, asked the judge to sentence Bradberry to only probation.

In addition to the prison sentence, Ritchie sentenced Bradberry to five years of supervised probation upon her release to include no contact with the victim or the victim’s family, no consumption of alcohol, no contact with known drug dealers or felons, and the completion of 200 hours of community service, a domestic violence intervention program, a parenting class and therapy.

Ritchie agreed to Johnson’s request that Bradberry would not have to begin her prison sentence until July 31.

The victim did not attend Thursday’s sentencing, but several of his family members did. The victim, who spent a month in the hospital recovering from his injury, did not want to see Bradberry imprisoned, Hall said.

The victim’s family members, however, wanted to see Bradberry prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law, Hall noted.

In response to a “minor dispute,” Bradberry had taken a gun out of a safe, aimed it with the intent to kill and fired it at the victim’s head, Hall said.

“I do truly believe it was attempted murder,” Hall said. “And I just don’t think probation is appropriate.”

Bradberry addressed the judge

ahead of the sentencing, saying she was “truly sorry” and that the victim has offered her more grace and forgiveness than she deserves, noting that she’s been in touch with him nearly every week since the April 2022 shooting.

“There are no words that can undo what pain I’ve caused,” she said, later adding that she’s “the reason people go to therapy.”

Bradberry said she wants to be a mother to her three children and asked the judge to take the victim’s wishes into account and sentence her to no prison time.

Her defense attorney noted that she had no criminal history and had followed all court orders.

“This was an anomaly of a situation,” as demonstrated by the victim’s desire to keep Bradberry out of prison, Johnson said.

Ritchie said he’s seen a lot in the 23 years he’s been on the bench,

including people now serving life sentences after making one horrible decision similar to the one Bradberry made in April 2022.

“I’ve seen so many different types of cases,” Ritchie said. “This is a strange situation.”

Ritchie noted that it’s not just the victim who suffered because of Bradberry’s actions that night, but also the victim’s family. The judge said he didn’t necessarily trust what the victim was asking for in the case because of the emotions involved in domestic abuse situations.

Ritchie also said he didn’t fully believe that Bradberry felt remorse for her actions. Ritchie noted that “remorse is humility.”

“I saw some remorse in what you said, Ms. Bradberry,” Ritchie said.

“But in the end, focusing so much on how it’s affected you tempers the remorse aspect of it.”

RUSHING

“It’s sad for us who are still here. But us knowing Chris, if he was put in that situation 100 times, he’s going to do what he did every single time.”

Continued from page 1B and was pulled underwater. A female relative was able to save the young girl. But Rushing never resurfaced.

Firefighters who responded to the scene around 7:34 p.m. pulled Rushing ashore and attempted CPR. He later died at the hospital, according to Fire District No. 3 Chief Michael Geissler.

The autopsy showed it was an accidental drowning, St. Tammany Coroner’s Office spokesperson James Hartman said.

Those who knew Rushing, an employee at Covington’s arts and cultural department who helped organize over 100 events every year, said his attempt to help was an example of the altruism he practiced daily.

“That final act of courage and selflessness was simply a reflection of the person we all knew every day,” said Sarada Bonnett, the event department’s head. “Chris PHOTO PROVIDED By RyAN RUSHING was the person I could always Chris Rushing, right, smiles with his cousin Ryan Rushing. Chris Rushing died July 1 after helping rescue his count on to be there, early, ready to work and wearing that unforgetgranddaughter from drowning.

RyAN RUSHING, cousin of Chris Rushing table smile.”

Ryan Rushing said he wasn’t surprised that his cousin didn’t hesitate to jump in.

“It’s sad for us who are still here.

But us knowing Chris, if he was put in that situation 100 times, he’s going to do what he did every single time,” Ryan Rushing said.

Still, when Ryan Rushing thought back to the final moments he saw his cousin on his grandmother’s porch, he started choking up.

“If I’d known that was the last time, I would have told him how much I loved him, and how much he meant to me and our family,” he said. “I just wish I would have savored that moment.”

The family plans to hold a funeral at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Community Church in Covington at 1148 N. Columbia St.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Bell Jr., Willie Birdsall, Yvonne Bowens, Alonzo Ford, Lisa Hall, Tyrone Hills-Holmes, Malinda Hughes, Sonia Jacobs, Mary Ann Jacques, Joseph Kendrick, Stella Mills, Bernadette Mitchell, Ophelia Muse, Carrie Sanders, Ella St. John Jr., James Suggs Sr., Perry

Obituaries Bell, Willie

Willie Bell, Jr., 97, peacefully entered into eternal rest on Friday, July 3, 2026.

He was the father of Janice Duplessis (Darrell), Willie Bell III of Inglewood, California, Reginald Bell (Yarvelle) of Los Angeles, California, and Damon Bell.

He also leaves to cherish his memory nine grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, his significant other, Joann Lollis, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, and friends.

Relatives, friends, and former associates of the Regional Transit Authority (RTA), AT&T, Loyola University, and Southwest Airlines are invited to attend the Funeral Service at St. Mark Fourth Baptist Church, 2130 Perdido St., New Orleans, LA, on Saturday, July 11, 2026.

Visitation at 9:00 a.m.

Interment - Providence Memorial Park Mausoleum, 8200 Airline Dr., Metairie, LA. Please sign the online guestbook at www.charbonnetfuneral home.com.

Charbonnet Labat Glapion Directors, (504) 581-4411.

Birdsall, Yvonne Meloncon

It is with deepest regrets and heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Yvonne Meloncon Birdsall. She has left this earth to spend eternal life with our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ and the family and friends who have passed before her.

Yvonne was born in New Orleans, La. on October 5, 1935 and passed away at East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, La. on June 5, 2026 at 3:30 p.m.

She is survived by her four sons and their spouses and families: Benjamin J. Birdsall, III (Terry); Brian G. Birdsall (Karen); Barry A. Birdsall (LaDonna Albert) and Brett E. Birdsall (Fiance', Leann Giardina and family).

Yvonne was blessed with 4 grandchildren: Benjamin J. Birdsall, IV (Kayla); Arianna M.A. Birdsall; Chelsey B. Casteix (Hugh Casteix, III "Trip"); Abigail B. Moroux (Dr. Damon M. Moroux, Jr.) and 2 Great Grandchildren Rhodes H. Moroux and Hugh Casteix, IV. Yvonne is also survived by her sister, Beverly Monteleone (Edwin Monteleone, Sr. and Edwin Montelone, Jr., predeceased) and her children, Darlene McKnight, Stephen Montelone (Kristian) and Michael Montelone (Victoria) and many other family and friends too numerous to name.

Yvonne was a life long resident of the New Orleans area graduating from Redemptorist High School in 1954. She was married to the late Benjamin J. Birdsall, Jr. from 1958 through 1976, dedicating her life to rais-

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ing her 4 sons. While raising her sons, Yvonne always made her home and home cooked meals available and welcome to many of her sons friends, earning her the affectionate nickname of "Momma B".

After Hurricane Katrina destroyed her family home on Pratt Dr. in New Orleans, she moved to Metairie where she resided for the remainder of her life. Yvonne will be fondly remembered in the hearts of many.

Visitation and Celebration of Yvonne's life will be held at Saint Angela Merici Catholic Church, located at 835 Melody Dr., Metairie, La. on Friday, July 10, 2026 with visitation from 11:00 to 12:30 p.m., Eulogy / Words of Remembrance from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m., Church service at 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. with repass to follow.

Bowens, Alonzo M.

Rev. Alonzo Morris Bowens, Sr. peacefully passed away on Wednesday, June 17, 2026, at the age of 91. He was a member of the first graduating class of Walter L. Cohen High School. A Veteran who served in the U.S. Army in Korea. Proud owner of Bowens Technical Cleaners for over forty-five years. Rev. Alonzo served as the Assistant Pastor of True Vine Baptist Church from 1996 until his health failed him. Survived by his wife Gelon Simmons Bowens, children: Alonda Brinston, Alonzo (Gia) Bowens, Jr., Michelle (Chad) Stokes, Gaynell Bowens, Angela Bowens and bonus children Tracey Smith, Robin Butler, Yolanda Caliste, Marcus (Rochelle) Gasper, Monique (Theron) Egana and Maurice (Samarie) Gasper, twenty-two grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren. Also survived by a host of other relatives and friends Family and friends are invited to attend the Celebration Life Service on Saturday, July 11, 2026, for 10:00 a.m. at The Church at New Orleans (CANO), 11700 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126.

Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Rev. Dr. Donald C. Jeanjacques, Sr. of True Vine B.C. officiating.

Interment will follow at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, 34888 Grantham College Drive, Slidell, LA 70460.

Guestbook Online: www.an ewtraditionbegins.com (504)282-0600.

Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/ Funeral Directors.

Ford, Lisa Breaux

Lisa Breaux Ford was born on January 17, 1960, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the late Martha Ann Breaux and Harrison Breaux Jr. Age 66. She departed this life on Monday, June 22, 2026. She is Survived by her Husband Gerald Ford Sr., her children Calvin Smith, Ronica Breaux ,Gerald Ford and Terrell (Ronnie).

Grandchildren Anthony, Aalijah Ann, Celisia, Ryder, Marley, Cali Rae, Caeli Lynn, Mercy and Mozzi.

Siblings Anita, Chris, Bobby, Michael, and Linda.

Lisa is reunited in Heaven with her beloved granddaughter, Angel Breaux and her siblings, Joyce, Ronnie, Kevin, Steve, and Harrison. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Service on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, 2120

Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113 at 2:00 p.m. Visitation from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. Private Burial. You may sign the guest book on www.gertru degeddeswillis.com.

Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, Inc., in charge (504) 522-2525.

Hall, Tyrone

Burial at Divine Mercy Catholic Parish,4337 Sal Lentini Parkway, Kenner, LA on Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 11:00a.m. Father Francis Sarpong, celebrant.

Visitation will begin at 9:00a.m.

Interment: Woodlawn Park Memorial Cemetery, Westwego, LA. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

Hughes, Sonia Marie Tyrone Hall, age 67, passed away on Tuesday, March 24, 2026. He was born on September 5, 1958 in New Orleans to the late Coy Hall and Avernell Hawthorne Williams.

Tyrone was a Pittsburgh Steelers fan and enjoyed a friendly rivalry with New Orleans Saints fans.

Tyrone loved his sister Betty's homemade oyster dressing and requested it for every holiday dinner.

He is survived by his brothers, Herbert Hawthorne, Eugene Williams, Coy Hall, Jr., and James Williams; his sisters, Betty Hall Bennett, Vivian Hall German, and Jautaune Hall Harris. He is also survived by his uncle, Charles H. Hall, III and other relatives and friends.

He adored his great nephew, Jordan and nicked named him, "Tornado" when Jordan was a toddler. Tyrone was preceded in death by his brother, Glenn Milton Hall.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Memorial Service on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, 2120 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70113 at 10:00 a.m. Family hour from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Private Burial. You may sign the guest book on www.gertru degeddeswillis.com.

Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, Inc., in charge (504) 522-2525.

Sonia M. Hughes departed this life on Sunday, June 21, 2026 at the age of 58.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Service at Ray Avenue Baptist Church, 4712 Ray Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m.

Interment: English Turn Cemetery, Braithwaite, Louisiana 70040.

Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave New Orleans, Louisiana. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Jacobs, Mary Ann Guccione

Hills-Holmes, Malinda

Jacobs and Chaz Cavignac (Shelby) and four great grandchildren, Edward L. Jacobs IV "Jax", Palmer Marie Jacobs, Hattie Ray Cavignac and Betsy Ann Cavignac.

She is also survived by her brothers, Anthony Guccione (the late Joan Guccione) and Salvatore Guccione Jr. (Cathy) and one sister, the late Brenda Guccione Peterson.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend the visitation at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home on Friday, July 17, 2026 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. New Orleans, LA, 70124.

A Catholic Mass will be said at 12:00 noon in the funeral home chapel.

Interment will be at All Saints Mausoleum, next to the funeral home. There will be a Celebration of Life Reception following the interment in the Event Center of Lake Lawn Funeral Home immediately after.

Jacques, Joseph Anthony

On Saturday, June 13, 2026, Joseph Anthony Jacques, a loving brother, uncle, and friend passed away at the wonderful age of 67. He was born to John and Althea Jacques on July 15, 1958, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Joseph was the youngest of a family of 14 children.

A Celebratory Mass will be held on Saturday, July 11, 2026, 10:00AM, at Corpus Christi-Epiphany Catholic Church, 2022 St. Bernard Ave, New Orleans, LA 70116. Visitation will be held from 9:00AM until the hour of service.

Mills, Bernadette Pierre

Bernadette "Bunny" Pierre Mills (Feb. 27, 1955June 24, 2026) of New Orleans was a devoted public servant, community leader, wife and grandmother. A Xavier Prep and University of New Orleans alum (B.A., M.P.A.), she served the City of New Orleans, led Big Brothers/ Big Sisters of Greater New Orleans, worked with Freeport McMoRan and Loyola University's Twomey Center for Peace through Justice, and consulted for nonprofits. A trainer in diversity and conflict resolution, she volunteered as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion.

Preceded in death by several relatives, she is survived by husband Charles Mills Sr., children Leslie Mills Wagstaffe and Charles Mills Jr., five grandchildren, sister Julie Jacobs, and many loved ones. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Mass at Holy Name of Mary Catholic Church, 500 Eliza St. New Orleans, LA 70114 on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m.

Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave. Please visit www.rhodefuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Mitchell, Ophelia K.

Kendrick, Stella Louise Perry

Malinda Hills-Holmes entered eternal rest on Saturday, July 4, 2026, at the age of 84. She was a native of Zachary, LA and a resident of New Orleans, LA. Malinda attended Chaneyville High School and was a graduate of Northwestern High School.

She continued her studies at Southern University Baton Rouge, obtaining both her undergraduate and law degrees. Malinda was a retired New Orleans Assistant District Attorney and later entered into private law practice. She was formerly employed as a Medical Technologist and as a Allied Health Coordinator with LSU Medical Center at Southern University Baton Rouge. Melinda was a member of Divine Mercy Catholic Parish, where she was a lector, Louisiana State Bar Association, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, and Southern University Alumni Federation.

Beloved mother of Michael D. Holmes, Pyrannes F. Holmes, Cynthia M. Holmes, Cedric T. Holmes, Christopher R. Holmes, Janine A. Holmes and the late Edward Holmes, Jr., Vern N. Holmes, and Patricia D. Holmes.

Grandmother of the late Jamaal M. Holmes.

Daughter of the LouVilla Hills Holliday and the late Leonard Moore. Loving sister of Novelyn Askins, Moses Holliday, and the late John H. Judson, Bertha C. Franklin, Brenda White, Ayres Holliday, and Paula Holliday West. Mother-inlaw of Nancy Holmes.

Sister-in-law of Melvin Holmes, Sheila Holliday, and Oradine Holliday.

Malinda is also survived by 19 grandchildren, 36 great grandchildren, 5 great great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends. Relatives and friends of the family, also priest and parishioners of Divine Mercy Catholic Parish and all neighboring churches; members of Louisiana State Bar Association, Southern University Alumni Federation, and Sorors of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority Mu Zeta Chapter are invited to attend a Mass of Christian

With deep love and cherished memories, we honor the life of Mary Ann Guccione Jacobs, who went home to be with the Lord on July 3, 2026, after a very brief battle with Cancer. Mary Ann was a cherished wife and a beloved mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend, whose unconditional love and spirit brought laughter and joy to everyone she met.

Our Mimi was a proud Italian matriarch who lived life fully and passionately.

Nothing made her happier than spending time with her family and friends playing board games or dominoes or spending time with her beloved husband, dancing the night away surrounded by friends, laughter and music.

Whether it was a family celebration or just an ordinary evening, she always found a way to turn every moment into something special.

Mary Ann was born on December 19, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana to the late Salvatore J. Guccione and Anna Amato Guccione.

She graduated from Annunciation High School as a Valedictorian.

Mary Ann married Edward L. Jacobs Sr. on November 6, 1960, and they enjoyed 65 plus years together.

Mary Ann and Eddie were members of the Village Church in Lacombe, Louisiana.

Her life was spent participating in Mardi Gras Krewes as well as going to many social dances with her friends and playing in numerous groups for Bunco, Mahjong and Dominoes, always living life to its fullest.

Mary Ann worked at Crescent City, MRI for over ten years, where she never met a stranger. She was the friendliest, caring and most loving person, always laughing and sharing jokes. Mary Ann was an excellent cook, and her food was made with love for her family and friends.

Mary Ann is survived by her husband, Edward L. Jacobs, Sr.; her daughter, Bonnie Jacobs Cavignac (Craig); her son, Edward L. Jacobs Jr. (Katherine); and her son, Stephen R. Jacobs, (Felicia).

Mary Ann has five grandchildren, Blaire Jacobs (Kristen), Colby Cavignac (Morgan), Edward L. Jacobs III "Bryce" (Sarah), Chase

Stella Perry Kendrick, a homemaker, entered peacefully into eternal rest at her residence on Monday, June 22, 2026, at the age of 82. She was a native of New Orleans, LA and a resident of Marrero, LA. Stella was a graduate of Joseph S. Clark High School. Beloved wife of Dr. Leroy L. Kendrick. Devoted mother of Leroy L. (Demetrian) Kendrick, Jr., Michelle L. Kendrick, Bryron M. Kendrick, and the late Yolanda Kendrick Lewis. Daughter of the late Frank Perry, Sr. and Irene Farve Perry. Loving sister of Dolores Russell, Antionette Perry, Frances Perry, and the late Frank Perry, Jr. Also cherishing her memories are 7 grandchildren, 3 great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.

Relatives and friends of the family, also priest and parishioners of St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church and all neighboring churches are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church, 455 Ames Blvd., Marrero, LA on Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Father Sidney Speaks III, celebrant.

Visitation will begin at 8:00a.m. followed by tribute at 9:00a.m. Interment: Restlawn Park Cemetery, Avondale, LA Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

Ophelia K. Mitchell, age 82, departed this earthly life on Wednesday, June 24, 2026.

She leaves to cherish her memories her granddaughter, Tiara Kennedy; one great-granddaughter, Harmonie Peters; her devoted sister, Rose Williams (Richard); one brother Eldridge Kennedy; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral service at Oakland Baptist Church, 825 Rev. Richard Wilson Dr., Kenner, LA, on Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. Rev. Charles Hurst, officiant. Visitation will begin at 12:00 p.m.

Interment will follow at Belle Grove Cemetery, Kenner, LA. Arrangements have been entrusted to Richardson Funeral Home of Jefferson, River Ridge, LA. www.richardsonfunera lhomeofjefferson.com

Muse, Carrie Franklin

Carrie Franklin was born on November 9, 1951 to the late Malinda Parker Jones and Albert Franklin. Carrie departed this life on June 28, 2026, at The Sanctuary at Passages Hospice in New Orleans at the age of 74. Through the marriage with the late Donald Muse, they shared a bond of 7 children.

Ivory (Brandy), Kisha (Manny), LaShaun, Malinda (Moses), Ciara, Jarvis (Keva), and Gicanda.

Carrie was the sister of the late Albert Jr. (Bobe), the late Michelle, Greg (Diane), Barry (Trenese), Calvin, Larry, Alcita, Annette, Tammy, Cynthia, Denise, Lisa, Albert, Michael, Robert, Nicole, and the late Frankie. She is survived by 19 grandchildren and 15

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She was preceded in death by one great grandson, Zaire.

Relatives and friends of the family, pastor, nurses and doctors are invited to attend Funeral Services at D.W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Avenue on Saturday, July 11, 2026 at 11:30 am.

Visitation will begin at 11:00am. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery.

Arrangements by D.W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Avenue.

Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Sanders, Ella Cecelia

Ella Cecelia Sanders entered eternal rest at Slidell Memorial Hospital on Sunday, June 28, 2026, at the age of 78. She was a native of Decatur, AL, former resident of New Orleans, LA and presently residing in Slidell, LA. Ella was a retired hairstylist.

Devoted wife of the late Wayne Calvin Sanders, Sr. Beloved mother of Waynette Sanders, and the late Wayne C. Sanders, Jr., and Solomon S. Sanders.

Daughter of the late Robert L. Love, Sr. and Helene Love. Sister of Christopher, Eddie, Bryant, Delores, and Cindy Love, Sandra Quick, Pamela Eaglin, and the late Irastine Keith, Belinda Love, Gilda Love, Donald Love, Robert L. Love, Jr., Rev. Charles Sanders, Rev. Derrick Sanders, Pratt Sanders, and Sandra Fay Hall. Aunt of the late Sgt. Chase Love and Alfred Keith. Ella is also survived by 12 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren, and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends. Relatives and friends of the family, also pastors, officers, members of Fischer Community Church, First Baptist Church, and all neighboring churches are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Fischer Community Church 1737 L. B. Landry Ave. New Orleans, LA on Saturday, July 11, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Bishop James Nelson, officiating.

Visitation will begin at 8:30a.m. until service time at the above named church.

Interment: McDonoghville CemeteryGretna, LA. Arrangements

by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA. To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.davismortuaryservic e.com.

St. John Jr., James Berry

James Berry "Berry" St. John Jr. of Springfield, Virginia, died on July 4, 2026, at the age of 85 after a long illness. He was born in Sanford, FL, on December 14, 1940, the son of the late James Berry St. John and Marion Appleby St. John. He is survived by his beloved wife of 62 years, Mary Ann Newman St. John; his son and daughter-in-law, James Berry "Jay" St. John, III and Stephanie Hill Williams St. John of Alexandria, VA, and grandchildren Paige Elizabeth St. John and Julian Hill St. John; and his son, Matthew Rogers St. John of Kalispell, MT, and grandchildren Natalie Grace St. John and Sawyer James St. John.Berry attended the University of South Carolina on a Naval ROTC scholarship and graduated in 1962. He was assigned to Navy flight training and received his wings of gold in 1964. He served as a pilot with squadron VS-28 aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp and later flew in Navy

Reserve Squadron VP-94, based at NAS New Orleans.

He studied at Tulane University Law School in New Orleans and received his JD degree in 1970. He practiced law in New Orleans for 34 years with the firm of Liskow & Lewis, and founded the firm's environmental law section.

He was a recognized authority on the Federal Clean Water Act and the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, the law governing offshore oil and gas operations, and argued cases throughout the country involving these statutes. He served on the practitioner faculty at Tulane School of Law and was frequently listed in the publication "Best Lawyers in America" in the fields of Environmental Law and Natural Resources Law. He served as chair of the American Bar Association's Section of Environment, Energy and Resources Law and as president of the New Orleans Bar Association.

Berry had a lifelong interest in aviation. He and Mary Ann owned an antique Stearman open-cockpit biplane, and they enjoyed many years of fun and excitement flying it around the country. After Berry's retirement from the practice of law, the St. Johns moved to eastern North Carolina, where they enjoyed an active retirement in the Cypress Landing golf and marina community on the Pamlico River. In 2019, they moved to Greenspring Senior Community in Springfield, VA. A memorial service will be held at Greenspring Chapel at 1:00 PM Saturday, July 25. Family and friends are welcome to a gathering in Hunter's Crossing Conference Center immediately after the service. Inurnment of ashes will be held at Arlington National Cemetery at a date and time to be announced later. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in memory of Berry St. John to Christ the King Anglican Church, Alexandria, VA.

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Dr. Reverend Perry "Punch" Suggs, Sr. son of the late James O. and Rosia Suggs departed this life on Wednesday June 24, 2026. Father of Sherida M. Suggs Smith (Reynauldo) and Perry Suggs, Jr. brother of James L. Suggs Sr. (Delma) and the late Terry Turner, Bobby Suggs, and Belinda Zeno. Dr. Suggs also leaves to cherish his memories his granddaughters: Reyondalin, Reyana, Reylin, and Reyvon Smith, and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.

Family and Friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Saturday July 11, 2026, at 10:00a.m. at Oakland Baptist Church 825 Reverend Richard Wilson Drive, Kenner, La 70062. Reverend Charles Hurst, Pastor officiating.

Interment in Zion Travelers Cemetery. Reserve, La., Visitation on Friday from 56:30pm and on Saturday from 9am until Service time.

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Aerospace can drive better employment in La. Louisiana has an opportunity to appear overnight.

Four years ago, I attended a compete for thousands of highmeeting in Alaska and learned paying jobs in one of the fastesthow aerospace technology intergrowing industries in the world: aerospace. sects with issues deeply While aerospace may be important to Louisiana, receiving more headlines from hurricane forecasttoday, this is not a new ing and coastal restoration conversation for Louisito national defense and advanced manufacturing. ana. Since 2022, we have Billy I saw what this industry worked with aerospace leaders, built workforce Nungesser could bring to our state, which led to me becoming partnerships and helped GUEST position Louisiana to comCOLUMNIST chairman of that group.

I hosted their meeting in pete for the investment Louisiana during my term and jobs now making in 2024 and welcomed elected front-page news. leaders and industry professionals At the second National Lieufrom across the country to New tenant Governors Association Orleans. Attendees toured NASA’s (NLGA) Aerospace Committee Michoud Assembly Facility in meeting, we heard from the FedNew Orleans East and Stennis eral Aviation Administration, Space Center in Mississippi and Space Foundation, the Advanced Air Mobility Multi-State Collabor- heard from leading experts about the future of the space industry. ative and higher education instiThis inspired me to ask the tutions. We also met with NASA NLGA to help advance this indusAdministrator Jared Isaacman and his team. The common theme try in the states, so we created was workforce needs. the committee. Each lieutenant Louisiana is uniquely positioned governor appointed two advisers to capitalize on aerospace infrom their state. Louisiana’s deldustry growth. We already have egation included Dr. Tina Tinney a strong manufacturing base, of Nunez Community College and world-class energy expertise, a representative from Louisiana strategic military assets, growEconomic Development. Toing educational partnerships and gether, we highlighted Louisiana’s a workforce eager to learn new growing workforce efforts, inskills. But this opportunity did not cluding Nunez’s Aerospace Manu-

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Crews walk alongside the Artemis III core stage as it is slowly rolled out of the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans on April 20. facturing Technology Program, which has awarded 330+ credentials for high-demand, high-skill careers. These programs provide Louisianans with pathways to well-paying jobs without relocation or years of additional education.

Nunez Community College is seeking $9.2 million to renovate a donated building and expand training capacity. These are the kinds of investments Louisiana must support to remain competitive in aerospace and show the

industry that we will have the workforce they need.

Many of the issues discussed by the committee were reflected in legislation passed this year to create a stronger business and legal environment for aerospace companies in Louisiana. Reports suggest that SpaceX is already paying attention.

I’m pleased to see Louisiana creating policies to attract aerospace investment and help our workforce, but tax incentives and grants alone will not determine

our success. Workforce availability will play a major role. States like Alabama that train students as early as high school in aerospace manufacturing techniques are dominating the industry.

The aerospace, aviation and defense industries are poised to create thousands of highly skilled, high-paying jobs in the coming years. States benefiting the most will be those providing the trained workers aerospace employers need.

These opportunities extend beyond engineers, astronauts and pilots. Current projections estimate the country will need an additional 1.5 million civil aviation professionals, 400,000 maintenance technicians and 71,000 air traffic controllers over the next decade. Additional demand will exist in administration, communications, marketing, logistics and related fields.

We need our Legislature to support policies and investments that attract these businesses and help our citizens gain the skills to claim these jobs. The aerospace industry is growing rapidly. Louisiana’s challenge is not whether the opportunity exists but whether we can seize it.

Billy Nungesser is Louisiana’s lieutenant governor.

Republican voter registration is For homeless addicts, treatment works better than incarceration finally catching up to reality Louisiana is experiencing a historic political milestone. According to voter registration data from the Secretary of State’s office, for the first time in the state’s modern history, the number of registered Republicans now exceeds the number of registered Democrats.

While Republicans have been the dominant party in state govEd for a number of years, Chervenak ernment the partisan realignment of GUEST the electorate reflects the final COLUMNIST piece in the structural consolidation of Republican dominance in Louisiana’s political landscape.

Louisiana, like other former Confederate states, maintained a strong allegiance to the Democratic Party from Reconstruction through the mid-20th century. During this period, the Democratic Party functioned not merely as a political organization but as the primary institutional expression of Southern political identity and governance, exercising near-hegemonic control over state and local institutions.

This alignment began to unravel in the 1960s following the national Democratic Party’s embrace of civil rights and voting rights legislation. These policy shifts fundamentally altered the party’s relationship with its traditional White Southern base. In Louisiana, as in much of the South, White voters increasingly shifted their support to Republican candidates while often remaining formally registered as “legacy” Democrats.

While voting patterns in Louisiana have long signaled a shift in political preference toward the Republican Party, the change in voter registration has been slower to follow. This lagging indicator of registering and identifying as a Republican now appears to have caught up with the leading indicator of voting for Republicans, thereby completing the state’s partisan realignment. Although Louisiana is considered a red state based on electing Republicans to office, it can now be officially recognized as a truly realigned state, as voters are no longer merely casting ballots for Republican candidates; they increasingly perceive and define themselves as Republicans.

The partisan reshuffling has been driven overwhelmingly by the realignment of White voters. Registration data illustrate the scale of the transformation. In 1960, approximately 99% of Whites were registered Democrats.

That figure fell below 90% by 1979, at which point 6% of Whites were registered Republi-

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While voting patterns in Louisiana have long signaled a shift in political preference toward the Republican Party, the change in voter registration has been slower to follow.

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The Democratic share of White registrants continued to decline in the following decades.

The last time a majority of Whites were registered as Democrats was 2001, compared to 31% registered as Republican. By 2023, Republicans attained majority status among White voters, while only 21% were registered Democrats. The most recent data show that 54% of Whites are registered as a Republican, while 18% are registered Democrats.

At the same time, White voter registration has also shifted toward the nonpartisan category. Over the past 50 years, the share of Whites registered as “No Party” has grown substantially, increasing from 3% to 28%.

Taken together, these figures show that the long-term partisan transformation is not simply a story of Democratic decline but of a structural realignment in which White voters have moved away from their historic partisan home.

This shift reflects deeper institutional and behavioral transformations driven by the steady migration of White voters into the Republican Party. Consequently, electoral competition has increasingly declined, and Democratic capacity to contest statewide power has weakened considerably.

The end result is a political environment in which Louisiana can now be characterized less as a competitive two-party system and more as a reliably Republican state where diminished Democratic institutional strength limits the prospects for meaningful partisan competition.

Ed Chervenak is the director of the LSU New Orleans Survey Research Center.

John was caught in the unyielding into waiting rooms for jail, while the cycle of addiction. Over time, the discosts in officer time, detention and emergency room visits rack up. ease cost him his job, his family and We do not have to accept this cycle as his home. Surviving on the streets of inevitable. Today, New Orleans has a New Orleans, he sought shelter from the elements in an abandoned building. proven roadmap.

LEAD offers a compassionate, When the property owners discovevidence-based alternative that ered him, they called the police. connects individuals to commuUnder our traditional system, this is where the trap snaps nity support instead of funnelshut. The police arrest John ing them into the criminal legal for criminal trespassing. He is system. The results speak for detained in a cell, experiencing themselves: Data from LEAD Travers New Orleans shows that prothe intense trauma of sudden, Kurr unmanaged detox behind bars. grammatic enrollment slashes GUEST Released a few days later with overall time spent in jail by 72% COLUMNIST and reduces subsequent para brand-new criminal record, he is back on the street more ticipant arrests by 53%. Every destabilized than before. Deep avoided arrest frees up valuin his addiction, John misses his able officer time to focus on secourt date. A warrant is issued. rious public safety threats and A minor survival tactic has reduces strain on our courts, blossomed into deeper systemic the Sheriff’s Office and local involvement and an even higher emergency departments.

Adrienne barrier to recovery.

This is not a partisan issue. It Tobler This story is lived and relived is a public safety issue, a fiscal every day by individuals in responsibility issue and a huGUEST crisis, officers without options COLUMNIST man dignity issue. Louisiana’s and concerned community congressional delegation has members. long recognized the importance But imagine a different path. When of innovative responses to behavioral the police arrive, they recognize that health and substance use challenges.

John’s trespass is a symptom of home- Senators Bill Cassidy and John Kenlessness and substance use, not malinedy were instrumental in supportcious intent. Instead of handcuffing ing federal funding opportunities for him and driving to the local jail, offiLEAD, and lawmakers from both parcers utilize Law Enforcement Assisted ties have championed approaches that Diversion (LEAD). They conduct a reduce recidivism while improving “warm handoff” to a LEAD case manoutcomes. Now is the time to build on that success. ager right on the street.

Congress should continue investing There, John is met with immediate, in programs that have demonstrated client-centered harm-reduction supincreased public safety and public port. The case manager helps him secure emergency housing, connects him health, and LEAD is one of those proto medical care to manage withdrawal grams. The question is not whether safely and begins the long-term work of LEAD works but whether we are willrebuilding his life. Because no criminal ing to invest in expanding a model that charges are filed, there are no missed makes communities safer, saves taxcourt dates, no warrants and no empayer money and gives people a genuployer-barring record. John is given the ine opportunity to heal and rebuild structural support to heal, proving that their lives. public safety and public health are most powerful when they work together.

Adrienne Tobler is the LEAD Project John’s story is a microcosm of a sysManager at Travelers Aid Society (TAS) and Travers Kurr is the temic crisis unfolding across our naBehavioral Health Special Projects tion. The intersection of unaddressed Coordinator for the New Orleans behavioral health conditions, poverty Health Department. and structural gaps turns our streets

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An attendee wearing a 250 shirt listens as President Donald Trump speaks at Mount Rushmore National Memorial, near Keystone, S.D.

ISSUE OF THE WEEK RED SCARE As Democrats in recent elections have chosen increasingly left-leaning candidates, some who bear the label of Democratic Socialists, Republicans are taking the opportunity to paint the party as too radical.

President Donald Trump in a speech last week at Mount Rushmore warned of the dangers of communism and said that Americans should reject such ideologies. Has the left embraced policies that are antithetical to American values or is the right stoking fears just to win in the midterms? Here are two perspectives:

Trump’s anti-communist What to make of move from red hats to red hate manifesto is no surprise

Donald Trump has gone from red hats to exported by an insidious international conred hate. spiracy to poison the American character.

With his popularity stuck below 40% in The political situation is complex bemost polls, the president knows that if the cause the clash between Trump and his fall elections become a referendum on rivals is not purely an ideological righthis record, Republicans will lose. So he’s versus-left conflict. For one thing, the turned to his favorite strategies of fear president isn’t a real conservative in many and falsehood. ways, championing federal power over Trump has long pitted Red America states’ rights in areas like voting rules and against Blue America and donned a crimviolating traditional norms such as the power of Congress to spend federal son cap to symbolize his tribal loymoney. alties. But after far-left candidates In addition, the Democratic insurwon Democratic primaries in New York and Colorado, he quickly gents are promoting generational transformed red from a revered change, not just policy differences, color to a reviled one. and capitalizing on visceral dislike “There is now a resurgence of of Trump personally. “Fighter” and Steve the communist menace in our are not ideological conRoberts “outsider” land,” the president said at a rally cepts. in South Dakota. “Communism is a But some of their ideas can be mortal threat to American liberty.” both ideological and unpopular, from Red-baiting is a deeply dangerous and abolishing ICE and denouncing Israel to despicable strategy, but it has been a cennationalizing healthcare. Even more damtral part of American politics for more aging can be “woke” cultural tropes, espethan a century, since the Bolshevik Revocially those concerning gender identities.

That’s why Matt Bennett, co-founder of lution transformed Russia in 1917. And it keeps resurfacing because it works, which Third Way, a centrist Democratic think is why Democrats face a critical dilemma. tank, told the Times that primary triumphs The successful insurgents, some of them by far-left candidates were “dangerous” for Democrats nationally. “What we’ve Democratic Socialists, have excited and engaged primary voters, especially young seen Republicans do very successfully beones. And they’ve introduced innovative fore is weaponize the craziest ideas of the campaign tactics using social media that activist left,” he said. “And now the amamplify their appeal. munition they’ve got is much, much more However, ideas that win primaries in powerful.” safe blue districts don’t always translate What alarms Democratic realists is simto Middle America. Control of Congress ple political math. The “majority makers” won’t be decided in urban centers like from marginal districts, as former SpeakBrooklyn or Berkeley, but in swing diser Nancy Pelosi calls them, are particulartricts such as the suburbs of Philadelphia ly vulnerable to those GOP weapons, and and the farming towns of California’s Cen- a group of moderate House Democrats felt compelled to issue a statement saying, tral Valley.

“We are capitalist, not socialist.”

The New York Times summarized the One of them, Rep. Tom Suozzi from the Democrats’ problem: “The insurgents, New York suburbs, argued in the Times often campaigning on progressive platthat Democrats were “never going to win forms, have injected new energy into a the majority by just appealing to the exparty still recovering from a crushing defeat in 2024. But they have also concerned treme base” and added: “The Republicans some in the party establishment who are always going to get 40%. The Demoworry that voters are choosing candidates crats are always going to get 40%. It’s the with narrower general-election appeal or fight over that 20% in the middle.” politically toxic positions that could hurt Trump has made a major blunder by Democrats in November.” ignoring, even denigrating, the real-life Red-baiting comes easily to Trump beeconomic concerns of ordinary Americause it enables him to target two of his cans. But Democrats are fully capable of favorite enemies, liberals and foreigners, blowing their chances if they misread the and throughout history, every outbreak meaning of a few far-left victories. has taken the same tone: Communism is Email Steven Roberts at stevecokie@ demonized as a lethal ideology, like an gmail.com. infectious disease or debilitating drug,

President Donald Trump had two mes- the country.

Now, Trump is on record calling the sages in his speech at Mount Rushmore on the eve of July 4. The first, expected, whole DSA group communists. On one message was a traditional celebration of hand, it’s remarkable that so far there really hasn’t been much outrage and the nation’s 250th anniversary. The second, less expected message was a warn- pushback from mainstream Democrats.

On the other hand, why would they ing about a “resurgence of the commupush back? Many view the DSA continnist menace” in the United States.

“As we approach this maggent as invaders who used the Democratic Party’s structure to nificent anniversary, we see our power their campaigns — for the American identity under a repurpose of defeating incumbent newed attack, a generation after Democrats. we fought and won the Cold War Another reason for the quiet is against the menace of commuthat, for some of the DSA winnism,” Trump said. “There is now Byron a resurgence of the communist ners, the communist label either York menace in our land, including fits or comes uncomfortably from newcomers to our country close. Mamdani, of course, has who embrace ideas totally opposed to specifically denied being a communist. our way of life and our great success.

But he has spoken of the “warmth of colThese are not mere political disagreelectivism” and “each according to their need, each according to their ability” ments like differences over taxes or — his paraphrase of Karl Marx. Also, regulations. Communism is a mortal at a DSA conference in 2021, Mamdani threat to American liberty.” discussed goals like canceling student Trump’s move wasn’t a complete surprise. After the June 23 Democratic pri- debt, Medicare for all and “seizing the means of production.” If you are talking maries in New York — the one in which about “seizing the means of production,” Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran then you should not be too surprised Mamdani emerged as a kingmaker by when people think you are a communist. backing far-left candidates who upset But it’s not that way for the other DSA progressive Democratic House incumcandidates who won recently — Claire bents — Trump quickly branded those Valdez, Melat Kiros, Janeese Lewisfar-left candidates as “communists,” George and others. and not as socialists, as they styled On the other hand, all of them are themselves. members of the Democratic Socialists “As you saw with the communists of America, and the word “socialist” has elected in New York City recently — always been a key part of the vocabuthey’re communists, they’re not social Democrats — they want to completely lary of communism, in the 20th century destroy the traditional American way of and today. So one could say that Trump’s life,” Trump told the Faith & Freedom accusation is reasonably true for some Conference in Washington, D.C., on June of the DSA comrades who have defeated 26. The Democratic Party, Trump said, Democratic candidates and at least is “becoming a communist party. These adjacent to the beliefs of some others. are not social Democrats, these are In other words, it’s close enough for a hardcore, godless communists. They’re political campaign. godless communists. All communists That said, Trump is absolutely on the are godless. They don’t believe in God. money about communism, the ideology This is the most serious threat to our that led to so much death, deprivation country since its existence, in my opinand destruction in the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, Communist China, ion, 250 years ago.”

Cuba and elsewhere. “Communism is By the next week, when Trump delivered the Mount Rushmore speech, more a loser, and it always will be,” Trump said in his July 4 speech, the day after Democratic socialists had won Democratic Party primaries, one in Colorado, he spoke at Mount Rushmore. “Commuand one in Washington, D.C. What some nism is the enemy of free people everynon-socialist Democrats had hoped — where, everywhere in the world. Never that the Democratic Socialists of Ameri- works.” ca victories would remained localized in New York City — instead spread across Byron York is on X, @Bryon York.

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Not even a splendid performance from Kobe Bufkin was enough to stop the New Orleans Pelicans’ Summer League woes Thursday.

Bufkin poured in 30 points, but the Pelicans fell to the Minnesota Timberwolves 105-92 in the Summer League opener in Las Vegas. ä Pelicans The Pelicans have now vs: Hornets lost 12 straight games in 3 P.M. SATURDAy, Summer League play. Their last win in Summer League ESPN play was in their next-to-last game in 2023.

Bufkin, who has the most NBA experience on the Pels’ Summer League roster, scored 21 of his points in the first half. That included three 3-pointers. In the game, he knocked down five of nine 3-pointers to go with his six rebounds and two assists.

Bufkin was drafted by the Atlanta Hawks with the No. 15 overall pick in the 2023 draft.

He spent his first two seasons in Atlanta and played last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, appearing in 16 games.

Pelicans’ coach Jamahl Mosley spoke Monday about what this opportunity means for Bufkin.

“I think it’s great for Kobe,” Mosley said.

“He’s been excellent in his communication with the coaches in what he’s trying to do and what we’re asking of him to do. Just be

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A look at LSU’s draft-eligible players heading into the MLB Draft

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer It’s hard to argue with LSU coach Jay Johnson’s track record of getting players to professional baseball.

Since arriving in Baton Rouge, Johnson has helped Paul Skenes, Dylan Crews and Kade Anderson become top-three picks in the MLB Draft and developed Gage Jump, Luke Holman and Tommy White into second-round picks. Under his watch, Jacob Berry also became a first-round pick after one season at LSU. That trend of Johnson getting Tigers to the big leagues as high-round picks is expected to continue this summer, with Derek Curiel and Jake Brown expected to be selected in the first two rounds of the draft.

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Pelicans guard Micah Peavy takes a shot during a game against the Detroit Pistons on Jan. 21 at the Smoothie King Center. Peavy hopes to make strides in his shooting during Summer League play in Las Vegas.

To help preview the draft, The Advocate spoke with six MLB scouts about LSU’s incoming high school class and its own draft-eligible players to paint a clearer picture of what may happen on Saturday and Sunday. They spoke to The Advocate confidentially.

This story is part three of a threepart series of scouting reports, draft predictions and analysis on every LSU player and signee.

Here’s what you need to know about LSU’s draft-eligible players heading into the draft.

Derek Curiel, CF Draft rankings: No. 8, The Athletic; No. 10, ESPN; No. 12, MLB.com Breakdown: It would be a big surprise if Curiel didn’t land in the first round.

He hit .359 with a .957 on-base-plusslugging percentage over two seasons with the Tigers and was a Gold Glove Award-winning center fielder as a sophomore.

After playing left field as a freshman, Curiel proved this year that he has a chance to stick in center in professional baseball.

“He hit the ball harder this year and showed he could play center, and he puts good at-bats together,” one scout told The Advocate. “I would say he probably just kind of proved overall that he can do all of those things.”

Scouts, however, are more split on whether Curiel is worthy of being a first-round caliber player. One scout who spoke with The Advocate said he wouldn’t pick him until the beginning of the second round. Another

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Judge grants injunction for basketball players suing NCAA Ruling allows athletes in the lawsuit an opportunity to enter transfer portal

The Associated Press CINCINNATI — An Ohio judge has granted a preliminary injunction for 24 men’s and women’s college basketball players suing the NCAA for eligibility, claiming the new age-based model unfairly shuts them out of further competition.

Judge Christopher Wagner said Thursday the NCAA eligibility rules have been applied to 2022 high school graduates in an arbitrary and capricious manner, adding the plaintiffs would suffer “irreparable injury” without an injunction.

“We hope the NCAA reconsiders its position and allows all other similarly situated athletes from the high school class of 2022 to compete for remaining roster spots in all sports,” attorney Ryan Downton said.

Wagner’s ruling allows the athletes in the lawsuit an opportunity to enter the transfer portal. He scheduled a conference for Aug. 4 to prepare for a trial.

“While we will seek to overturn this ruling, it is now apparent that Congress must act swiftly to restore stability, uniformity, and fair competition in college athletics,” the NCAA said in a statement.

The Protect College Sports Act has moved forward with Senate committee approval in June. However, the Big Ten and Southeastern conferences oppose the bill designed to stabilize college sports and are seeking revisions.

Downton has filed similar lawsuits against the NCAA on behalf of nearly 30 men’s and women’s basketball players.

The lawsuit in Cincinnati was filed shortly after the NCAA Division I Cabinet approved a monumental change in eligibility rules last month.

“When each plaintiff completed their fourth season of competition during the 2025-26 academic year, they had every rea-

son to know it was the end of the line and time to make way for the next generation of college athletes,” the NCAA wrote in a filing.

The plaintiffs are seeking to be eligible to play a fifth year during the upcoming season, representing athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 and began their college sports careers that autumn and never redshirted.

“Each plaintiff was harmed each time he or she competed in a basketball game against a fifth or sixth-year player without being offered the same opportunity to compete in a fifth season themselves,” Downtown wrote in a filing.

The NCAA now allows athletes five seasons of competition over a five-year period that begins with their full-time enrollment or the academic year following their 19th birthday, whichever occurs first.

The move will all but eliminate waivers or redshirt years for extended eligibility except for religious missions, pregnancy

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UConn forward Jayden Ross, left, defends Xavier forward Filip Borovicanin during a Big East Tournament game on March 12 in New york. Borovicanin was one of several players ä See NCAA, page 3C suing the NCAA over its new eligibility rule.

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McIlroy tied for lead in Scottish Open

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

NORTH BERWICK, Scotland — Rory McIlroy began getting into the mood for the final major of the year by taking advantage of the par 5s at The Renaissance Club for a 5-under 65, giving him a five-way share of the lead Thursday in the Genesis Scottish Open.

Patrick Cantlay made a little noise in an otherwise quiet year for the American with five birdies in 10 holes and then a collection of tough par saves at the end that felt just as valuable. He also was at 65, along with Tom Kim, Bernd Wiesberger and Rasmus Hojgaard.

Hojgaard was the only player of the leading five to play in the afternoon, when the wind began to calm. He was at 6 under with four holes to play but found a bunker off the 16th, went into the rough and took double bogey.

Scottie Scheffler, the No. 1 player in the world searching for his first win since January, made three straight birdies around the turn and was slowed by a long three-putt bogey on the 11th, followed by a drive into a bunker that kept him from reaching the green at the par-5 12th. Scheffler failed to birdie any of the three par 5s in his round of 68.

“Wish I could have gotten a few more shots out of it,” Scheffler said. “I like to keep a clean card, so two bogeys hurt. Maybe could have played the par 5s a little bit better. But overall, nothing crazy.

Just a decent day.”

McIlroy felt about the same. He was tied for the 18-hole lead for the first time since the Masters, but this didn’t feel like anything special except for seizing on the easiest scoring chances.

McIlroy holed an 18-foot eagle putt on the par-5 first hole — he started his round on No. 10 — to go along with a pair of birdies on

EVIAN-LES-BAINS, France — Aki Iwai shot an 8-under 63 for a two-stroke lead on Thursday in the first round of the Evian Championship, the fourth women’s golf major of the season, as top-ranked Nelly Korda struggled.

The 24th-ranked Iwai had eight birdies and no dropped shots in the sun-splashed lakeside town that three weeks ago hosted the G7 summit of world leaders.

Japan’s Iwai made birdies at three of the last four holes, including the par-5 18th, and led by two shots from Perrine Delacour, whose 6-under 65 included an eagle at the par-5 15th and a pair of bogeys toward the end of her round.

Korda was 11 shots back with a 3-over 74, including a doubly bogey six at the first hole.

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Rory McIlroy plays from a bunker on the ninth fairway in Thursday’s opening round of the Scottish Open at The Renaissance Club in North Berwick, Scotland. the other two par 5s at The Renaissance Club. That made his round and his scorecard feel a little better.

He has been away the last two weeks since a pedestrian performance in the U.S. Open, though the brand of golf doesn’t feel entirely different. Shinnecock Hills might be as close to links golf as any course in America. The Renaissance Club has the look of links, though it is not links turf.

The real test is Royal Birkdale next week for the British Open.

“I felt like I drove the ball particularly well, and I started to see that at Shinnecock, as well,” McIlroy said. “A continuation of putting the ball in play, and then once I do that, I feel like I can attack courses and I can set up scoring opportunities. I did that today.”

Cantlay hasn’t won in nearly four years and slipped to No. 37 in the world after missing the cut in the U.S. Open, his lowest ranking in more than eight years. He’s had three top 10s and four other

finishes in the top 20. It hasn’t been horrible, but he has lacked a spark and might have found one.

He went to a slightly heavier putter to account for the slower greens this week and next, and it paid off in birdies and pars. Most impressive was his finish. He found a pot bunker off the tee on the par-5 seventh and could only get that back to the fairway, leaving him 261 yards for his third shot. He wound up getting upand-down and saving par with a 13-foot putt.

He saved par with a 5-foot putt on the eighth and then got up-anddown from just inside 100 feet off the ninth green to keep a clean card.

“I’ve been putting in some hard work with my team, and have got some important golf the rest of the year,” Cantlay said.

The Scottish Open is co-sanctioned by the European tour and PGA Tour, the ideal place to be for those wanting to get acclimated for the British Open, whether

it’s the seaside air, the time zone or a slightly slower set of greens.

It’s also a last chance for the likes of Michael Thorbjornsen, among those at 67. The leading three players not already eligible get a spot at Royal Birkdale.

Thorbjornsen is fourth alternate.

Brooks Koepka, who appears to be past that mysterious nerve issue in his left hand that caused him to pull out of the Canadian Open when he was off to a good start, felt that putting is all that has slowed him this year. That much was evident when he missed four putts from 7 feet or under, one of them from 20 inches. He also rolled in three birdie putts from outside 20 feet and was among seven players at 66.

Nearly half of the 156-man field broke par.

“It could have been a very, very good round. But then again, I’m happy with the way I battled back,” Koepka said. “That was solid. So hopefully take that into tomorrow.”

Scheffler gets last shot at a major in 2026 The British Open is set to begin on July 16

BY DOUG FERGUSON

AP golf writer

The oldest championship in golf has become the last major on the calendar.

The British Open has 166 years of history behind it, so it doesn’t need a catchy slogan — the PGA Championship was “Glory’s Last Shot” when it was last in the lineup — for Scottie Scheffler and everyone else to know it will be eight months before the next major.

“We look forward to them so much, we build our schedules and the year around them, and then they’re over like that,” Justin Thomas said. “It sucks when they’re done.”

And for the 153 players who have their last chance at winning a major this year? The pressure is not necessarily any greater, nor is there greater urgency to win one before the season is done.

“But every year you don’t is another year you haven’t,” Thomas said.

The 154th edition of The Open Championship returns to Royal Birkdale on July 16-19 along the Lancashire Coast in northwest England, an area rich with links golf — three British Open venues are about 60 miles (96 kilometers) apart. The Royal & Ancient is expecting upward of 300,000 fans.

It will be the last chance for Scheffler to make it three years in a row winning a major. In the modern era of majors that dates to 1934, only seven other players have done that — Peter Thomson, Arnold Palmer, Jack Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson and Brooks Koepka.

Scheffler became the “Champion of the Year” at Royal Portrush last summer with another command

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Scottie Scheffler speaks at a news conference after winning the British Open on July 20 at the Royal Portrush Golf Club in Northern Ireland. performance on golf’s biggest stage. He is not one to look back on all the trophies he has won in the last five years, but the 30-year-old Texan has caught himself glancing at all the names engraved into the base of that silver claret jug.

Scheffler is the last of 10 names added to the base of golf’s oldest trophy since Rory McIlroy last took possession in 2014. McIlroy, the back-to-back Masters champion, is keen to get a seventh major and join Harry Vardon with the most majors by anyone from the Old World.

English hopes lie with Tommy Fleetwood, who grew up a short walk from Birkdale, and Matt Fitzpatrick, whose three wins this year are more than Scheffler’s and McIlroy’s combined.

McIlroy hasn’t seriously contended for the British Open since 2022 in St. Andrews. His lone appearance at Royal Birkdale was a tie for fourth in 2017, though he finished seven shots behind. But he loves the course and the challenge off the tee it presents, which typi-

cally is his strength.

“The one thing that I like about Birkdale is there’s usually sets of bunkers on both sides of the fairway. So you’re always having to challenge one set of bunkers to get to where you want your ball to finish,” he said.

McIlroy cited the 10th hole to illustrate. To play it safe and stay short of the bunkers doesn’t leave a good view of the green with a midiron. To challenge the bunker on the left, and stay short of the bunker on the right, allows for a good chance at birdie with a wedge in hand.

This is not exactly the same Royal Birkdale that last hosted the British Open in 2017 because of changes to some five holes.

The most noticeable might be the par-4 fifth, shortened to 321 yards with more bunkers and the green shifted to the left to tempt players to drive the green.

The most significant change is eliminating the par-3 14th hole where Jordan Spieth began his remarkable rally in 2017. Now the 14th is a par 5 that used to be No.

15, only it’s 60 yards longer (602 yards), has been shifted to the right and now has 12 bunkers.

The 15th is a newly created hole that measures 241 yards. Adam Scott was asked to give a short assessment and replied, “too long.”

McIlroy said he was “undecided,” which didn’t sound all that encouraging when he added, “I think it’s going to be a big talking point during the week.”

It’s a beautiful links course set among dunes off the Irish Sea, one of only two on the British Open rotation where the ninth and 18th holes return to the clubhouse.

And it has a rich heritage despite not hosting the Open until 1954.

Of the nine previous champions (Thomson won twice) all but one are in the World Golf Hall of Fame or certain to be there when eligible.

Those nine champions have combined to win 37 majors.

Links golf on any course can produce some quirky bounces, when seemingly good shots turn bad and sometimes — though not as often — the other way around.

“You can tell why golf was invented here,” Scheffler said. “You can hit a lot of clubs from off the green. It’s not the same club every time, and it gives you an option.

You can get some funny bounces sometimes. But it’s also a pure and raw way to play golf.

“The conditions change pretty quickly, and that could have an effect on tournament. But when you have similar conditions over four days, it’s a pretty true test of golf.”

Harris English was the runnerup to Scheffler last year at Royal Portrush. He was asked what trait an Open champion needs to conquer links golf. “Super gritty,” he replied.

And when it’s over, another name will be added to the base of the claret jug. And then golf’s best players will have to wait 263 days until the next major.

U.S. star Christian Pulisic fractured his right leg during the Americans’ World Cup loss to Belgium and will be sidelined for several weeks.

Pulisic has a bone bruise and a microfracture of his tibia and fibula, the U.S. Soccer Federation said Thursday. The diagnosis was made after an X-ray and MRI on Tuesday.

He would not have been able to play during the remainder of the tournament had the U.S. advanced.

Pulisic is expected to resume training before AC Milan’s Serie A opener at Torino on Aug. 23.

Pulisic hit a leg of Belgium captain Youri Tielemans while attempting a shot in the 52nd minute of Monday’s 4-1 round-of-16 loss at Seattle.

Commanders to retire Hall of Famer Riggins’ No. 44

ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders are retiring John Riggins’ No. 44 during the upcoming NFL season, the team announced Thursday.

The Hall of Fame running back will be honored in a ceremony at halftime of the team’s game against the Los Angeles Rams on Nov. 8.

“There are certain players whose impact goes far beyond statistics, championships and accolades: They become woven into the identity of a franchise,” controlling owner Josh Harris said in a statement.

Riggins is the organization’s all-time leading rusher with 7,472 yards and 79 touchdowns on 1,988 carries and helped the team win the Super Bowl in the 1982 season.

Wichita joins Dayton as host cities for NCAA Tournament

The opening round of the expanded men’s NCAA Tournament will be split between Dayton, Ohio, where those early games traditionally have been played, and Wichita, Kansas, for at least the next two years.

The NCAA said Thursday that both cities would host six games apiece in the enlarged 76-team field.

“Like Dayton, Wichita is a basketball-crazed community that we expect will embrace the reimagined start of the tournament,” Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill, the chairman of the NCAA’s Division I men’s basketball committee, said in a statement.

The NCAA approved the expansion of the tournament from 68 teams in May.

Red Sox pitcher Suarez out of All-Star game due to injury

CHICAGO — Boston Red Sox pitcher Ranger Suarez will miss next week’s All-Star Game after he was placed on the 15-day injured list on Thursday with a left groin strain.

The IL stint for Suarez was made retroactive to Monday, a day after he left with two outs in the third inning in Boston’s 7-5 victory at the Los Angeles Angels. The lefthander is 4-3 with a 3.15 ERA in 17 starts in his first season after signing a $130 million, five-year contract with the Red Sox in free agency.

The 30-year-old Suarez was scheduled to pitch again on Saturday at the New York Mets.

Tracy said the team is considering several options for the start at New York, including Brayan Bello, who was optioned to TripleA Worcester last month.

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LSU target Spears Jr. commits Gauff ‘panicked’ into to rival SEC program Texas

loss at Wimbledon

BY TOYLOY BROWN III

Staff writer

One of LSU’s top targets on the 2027 recruiting trail is no longer available.

Marcus Spears Jr., the No. 1 player in the class of 2027, committed to Texas and reclassified to the 2026 class, according to ESPN. The 6-foot-9 lefty forward turned 17 in April and will have to spend two years in college before being eligible for the NBA draft. He is the son of former LSU football and NFL defensive lineman Marcus Spears, now an ESPN analyst. His mom is also former LSU women’s basketball center Aiysha Smith, who started all 64 games in her Tigers career.

“Marcus Jr. grew up in Texas, and there’s nothing like playing for your home school and winning,” Spears told ESPN. “I experienced that growing up in Louisiana at LSU. This is his decision and his future.”

Spears Jr. was re-offered

by LSU coach Will Wade on May 21 after being initially recruited by former coach Matt McMahon. The star Texas commit was also heavily recruited by Kentucky and Arizona.

Spears Jr. told Sam Lance of the Field of 68 on May 29 that he was in contact with assistants on Wade’s coaching staff but hadn’t spoken to Wade.

“I haven’t talked to coach Wade yet, but I’ve been in contact with the assistants,” Spears Jr. said. “I seen what coach Wade did at NC State.

BY ANDREW DAMPF AP sportswriter

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Dynamic Prep forward Marcus Spears Jr. drives the ball against Prolific Prep during a game on Jan. 19 at the Hoophall Classic in Springfield, Mass. On Thursday, Spears Jr. committed to Texas.

He obviously did good, so I’ll be looking into it.”

Spears Jr., who will now be the No. 4 player in ESPN’s top 100 rankings, has been playing AAU basketball this summer for the Texas-based program Drive Nation. In 11 games, he averaged 20.9 points, 8.7 rebounds, 1.2 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.2 steals per game. He also shot 59.3% from the field and 52.6% from the 3-point line on 1.7 attempts per game.

The only commitment Will Wade has in the 2027 recruiting class is Ahmad Hudson,

the No. 26 player in the country, according to ESPN. The 6-foot-7, 239-pound four-star forward is also committed to play football for Lane Kiffin.

Hudson, a Ruston native, is the No. 1 tight end in the country and said this summer he’s going to play both sports.

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

LONDON — Coco Gauff had just the shot she was looking for.

Seven years after her breakthrough at Wimbledon, the American player was on the verge of reaching her first final at the All England Club.

All she needed to do was execute what appeared to be a manageable put-away on her first match point.

The thing is, it’s never that simple in a Grand Slam semifinal, especially toward the end of a decisive super tiebreaker on Centre Court — the sport’s most hallowed venue.

Gauff fluffed a forehand drop-shot attempt into the net and her opponent Karolina Muchova went on to see out a drama-filled tiebreaker to win 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10) on Thursday.

On the match point, Gauff hit a well-placed serve down the T on the ad court and Muchova’s weak forehand return bounced before the service line — right in Gauff’s attack zone. But Muchova’s shot had some topspin on it and kicked up higher than Gauff was anticipating.

“The bounce kind of caught me off guard,” Gauff said. “I just panicked a little bit.”

After the miss, Gauff ran her non-hitting hand over her face and practiced a full-swing forehand that perhaps she would have preferred in hindsight.

“People who don’t watch tennis are going to be like, ’Why did you do that?”

Gauff said. “At the end of the day, that’s the choice I made. Was it the right one in that moment? Maybe not.

But then also, if I make it, everyone’s going to say how clutch of a shot that was.

“That’s just tennis. You lose some points off margins.”

roller coaster.”

Muchova will meet Linda Noskova in an all-Czech final on Saturday after Noskova beat Marta Kostyuk of Ukraine 6-4, 6-4.

Clearly flustered after her miss, Gauff called for a ball to serve again before she realized it was time to change ends since it was 9-9.

“I’m going to think about it tonight,” Gauff said.

“I look at Roger (Federer, in the 2019 final) lost match points here, Jannik (Sinner) obviously at Roland Garros (in last year’s final). Every great champion has this happen in their career,” Gauff added. “Maybe this is something I need to be on their level.”

Tracy Austin suggested on the BBC that Gauff looked like “she changed her mind three times as to where to hit that ball.”

But Gauff said, “Honestly, I didn’t change my mind too much. I feel like if I had to do it over, I probably A ‘roller coaster’ would have gone for a slice Muchova also lost a forehand down the line.

“It’s a learning experimatch point before she came out on top when Gauff ence,” Gauff added. “I know hit a forehand into the net. I can do better and improve “It was such a big fight,” on that, and going with a Muchova said. “It was a higher-margin shot in a pres-

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St. Augustine coach Robert Valdez, left, and Edna Karr coach Brice Brown speak after a Division I select state championship game on Dec. 13 at the Caesars Superdome. Edna Karr and St. Augustine will return to the Superdome for a regular-season game.

Prep doubleheader at Superdome includes Karr, St. Augustine

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

Edna Karr and St. Augustine will both return to the Caesars Superdome this season — in a regular-season doubleheader to be played on a Saturday.

Two-time reigning state champion Karr will face Ruston, a state finalist the past four seasons, in the first game set for 3 p.m. on Sept.

19, followed by St. Augustine’s matchup against East

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While Bufkin was the most experienced player, the Pelicans also got big contributions from the smallest guy on the court. Markquis Nowell, a 5-foot-7 guard, finished with 20 points, six assists, five steals and four rebounds.

Ascension.

Karr won the Division I select state title in December by defeating St. Augustine in the Dome, St. Aug’s first state finals appearance since 1979.

Ruston, a Division I nonselect state finalist last season, has reached the state finals four years in a row, winning once in 2023.

The Week 3 doubleheader comes one year after Karr and Rummel played separate doubleheader games

last season. Karr defeated American Heritage (Florida) in an overtime game that ended after midnight, while Rummel toppled University High.

Ruston announced the start time and date for this year’s game on its social media accounts this week.

St. Augustine coach Robert Valdez on Thursday confirmed the day and location for his team’s Dome matchup against East Ascension.

Micah Peavy, who played in 61 games for the Pelicans as a rookie this past season, scored 16 points on 6-of-11 shooting. He shot 2-for-4 on 3-pointers, a vast improvement from his rookie year when he shot just 25.9 % from long distance. Making strides in his shooting was an area Peavy wanted to improve during Summer League play.

“I’m going to go out and show what I’ve been working on and what this new coaching staff has been putting in place,” Peavy said Monday. “Mainly, I can show just how many shots I’ve been putting up. My confidence is there.”

The Pelicans selected Peavey in the second round

of the 2025 NBA Draft.

Jaron Pierre, the New Orleans native and the Pels’ second-round pick in June, scored just two points in his 12 minutes of play. Solomon Washington, also a New Orleans native, did not play.

He was one of five players on the roster who didn’t play.

Center Hunter Dickinson finished with 12 points and six rebounds. He was 2-for4 on 3-pointers. Collectively, the Pelicans shot 42% (14-of33) on 3-pointers.

The Pelicans will try to end their 12-game summer skid Saturday against the Charlotte Hornets.

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Coco Gauff reacts after losing a point against Karolina Muchova in a Wimbledon semifinal singles match on Thursday in London.

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Athletes whose eligibility expired by spring 2026 under the traditional model — four years of competition over five years — will not be allowed a fifth year of competition under the new rules that go into effect this fall.

The Division I Cabinet has said in a statement posted on X that it was aware of

legal action challenging its decision and that “we do not intend to change course.”

Three basketball players, including Xavier forward Filip Borovicanin of Serbia, and three coaches, including Xavier coach Richard Pitino, along with an agent testified at a hearing in Cincinnati earlier this month, while the NCAA did not call any witnesses.

Wagner appeared to be critical of the NCAA in his written ruling, saying the governing body resembles “a highly profitable professional sports league,” more than its argument of being a voluntary association.

sure moment, for sure.”

Diving like Boris Becker On the point after Gauff ’s miss, Muchova produced a lob winner to set up her first match point, which she lost when she slipped to the grass and a passing shot from Gauff sailed by her.

But Muchova quickly set up another match point and produced a series of shots to the corners. Gauff, on the full run, reached the last ball but her forehand response landed in the net and Muchova covered her hands in disbelief.

“You’re up and down in 10 seconds. You have a match point, then match point down. It’s no time to think, but very nerve-wracking,” Muchova said. “I’m really kind of shaking and trying to sink it in.”

Earlier in the tiebreaker, Muchova produced a diving forehand volley winner at full stretch that brought back memories of the way three-time Wimbledon champion Boris Becker used to play. She ended up face down on the grass, her racket lying next to her, as the crowd roared.

“The court finds, by clear and convincing evidence, that plaintiffs will suffer irreparable injury if the preliminary injunction is not granted,” Wagner said.

The NCAA said the decision was wrong.

“We will immediately seek all avenues for reversal, including a stay of the court’s order pending appeal,” the NCAA said. “The court disregarded over a century of precedent and substituted its own judgment, on a limited factual record, for the collective expertise of the nation’s leading higher education institutions.”

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Mbappé leads France past Morocco in quarterfinal WORLD CUP GLANCE

BY KYLE HIGHTOWER

AP sportswriter

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Kylian Mbappé had a goal and an assist after missing a first-half penalty kick, Ousmane Dembélé scored the other and France beat Morocco 2-0 Thursday in the World Cup quarterfinals.

Mbappé’s goal in the 60th minute was the 20th of his World Cup career and came in his 20th match at the tournament, moving him one behind Argentina captain Lionel Messi. Dembélé scored his fifth goal of the tournament in the 66th.

Mbappé was taken down in the 76th minute and was taken off for a substitute a minute later. He was then shown sitting on the bench with an ice pack on his right ankle.

After the match and with both shoes on, Mbappé ran and jumped in celebration with his teammates.

France will face either Spain or Belgium in the semifinals in Dallas on Tuesday.

France beat Morocco by the same score in the semifinals of the 2022 tournament in Qatar when the Atlas Lions became the first African team to make it that far. France now remains on track to become only the ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MARTIN MEISSNER third nation to play in the final of France forward Kylian Mbappé celebrates after defeating Morocco in a World Cup quarterfinal match on three consecutive World Cups.

Mbappé got his goal with a per- Thursday in Foxborough, Mass. fectly placed shot just inside the far post after Morocco failed to clear forward and then sent his shot sail- ebrate with his teammates. back for Dembélé. Mbappé kept the ball. He received the ball just ing into the net. He extended both France’s second goal came after running forward and took defendoutside the area, took a couple steps arms and ran to the sideline to cel- Mbappé took a pass and tapped it ers with him, opening space for

ROUND OF 16 Saturday, July 4

Canada 0, Morocco 3 Paraguay 0, France 1

Sunday, July 5

Brazil 1, Norway 2 Mexico 2, England 3

Monday, July 6

Portugal 0, Spain 1 United States 1, Belgium 4

Tuesday, July 7

Argentina 3, Egypt 2 Switzerland 0, Colombia 0, Switzerland advances 4-3 on penalty kicks

QUARTERFINAL Thursday, July 9

France 2, Morocco 0

Friday, July 10

Spain vs. Belgium, 3 p.m.

Saturday, July 11 Norway vs. England, 5 p.m.

Argentina vs. Switzerland, 9 p.m.

Dembélé’s shot.

France held a 21-4 advantage in shots on goal and 8-1 edge in shots on target for the game.

Mbappé also had the first shot on goal of the game, just missing wide right in the fourth minute. Then, in the 25th, he was running up the left side when he was chopped down in the box by Morocco defender Noussair Mazraoui. Referee Facundo Tello quickly pointed to the penalty spot.

Mbappé lined up waiting for his attempt but was held up by a lengthy video review. He was finally cleared to shoot in the 28th minute, but after a hesitation, Mbappé’s shot toward the right corner was corralled by goalkeeper Yassine Bounou, who guessed the direction of the shot correctly.

Stutter-step technique Spain meets star-powered Belgium can make World Cup’s in the World Cup quarterfinals best players look cool

BY GREG BEACHAM AP sportswriter

BY STEVE DOUGLAS AP sportswriter

technique” — as it’s called by experts — is not for the fainthearted.

“It is very sophisticated and hard to perform when the pressure is truly on,” explains Geir Jordet, professor at the Norwegian School of Sport Sciences and author of the book “Pressure: Lessons from the Psychology of the Penalty Shootout.” “If you’re competent at executing this technique, this will effectively delete the risk factor of the goalkeeper going in the right direction and your odds suddenly going down.”

However, Jordet added: “You need to have a very high clarity in your head to be able to do that.”

It’s theatrical. It can be maddening. It makes the world’s top soccer players look very cool — or very silly.

The stutter-step penalty has been a feature of this World Cup, with the leading adopters of the technique being superstars Lionel Messi, Kylian Mbappé, Cristiano Ronaldo, Harry Kane and Neymar.

Let’s say it’s had varying levels of success.

It has sent France through to the quarterfinals and contributed to Brazil’s exit. Messi didn’t even hit the target when he tried one in group play.

As for Neymar, a converted stut- Most everyone is doing it ter-step penalty proved to be his When it comes to penalties, there parting gift to international soccer. will always be traditionalists in the And that feels poignant. head-down-and-hit-it-hard camp.

There was also fleetingly a hopPopularized by Pelé skip routine, used notably by PorThe stutter-step penalty — tugal midfielder Bruno Fernandes where a player feints, sometimes and former Italy international repeatedly and almost to the point Jorginho, that enjoyed some sucof stopping, keeping his eyes on cess around six or seven years ago. the goalkeeper during their runNowadays, most penalty-takers up to the ball — is widely believed have the stutter-step technique in to have been spawned in Brazil in their armory, even if they don’t the late 1950s and early 1960s. use it all the time.

Nicknamed the “paradinha,” Messi used it — and failed — Portuguese for “little stop,” it was for his spot kick that drifted wide made famous by Pelé and contin- against Austria in the group stage. ued by a young Neymar when he He changed course by doing a norwas being hailed as an heir to the mal run-up for a penalty against three-time World Cup winner.

Egypt in the last 16 on Wednesday In 2010, at the age of 18, Ney- and this time saw his kick saved.

In England’s group-stage win mar took the stutter to extremes when he scored a penalty for club over Croatia, Kane had a penalty team Santos by dancing up to the saved after a stutter-step run-up, ball, coming to a standstill after only for the referee to order the placing his standing foot next spot kick to be retaken because to the ball, and then stroking it the goalkeeper stepped off his home, having made the goalkeep- line too early. Kane scored his second attempt after a straight er commit a dive already.

It forced soccer’s lawmaking run-up to the ball.

Successful kicks using that officials to change the regulations ahead of the World Cup in South technique have been delivered Africa that year, instructing ref- by Mbappé to secure France’s 1-0 erees to show a yellow card to win over Paraguay in the round of penalty-takers who feint as they 16, Ronaldo in Portugal’s 2-1 win are about to strike the ball and to over Croatia in same round, while Neymar — now aged 34 — rolled disallow those goals.

The law has been refined again back the years to score from one since then, with players allowed to in the last seconds against Norfeint during their run-up but not af- way. He retired from internater completing it before shooting. tional play after the match.

Possibly the best at it is Mexico ‘Sophisticated’ but risky striker Raúl Jiménez, who used The main idea of the stutter-step repeated stutter steps on his way penalty is to befuddle goalkeepers to converting a penalty in the 3-2 so much in this battle of wills over loss to England on Sunday. He is 12 yards (11 meters) that they com- statistically the best ever penalmit early and offer an easy path ty-taker in the Premier League, having scored on all 14 of his for a shot into the net.

This “goalkeeper-dependent kicks.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — Spain hasn’t lost and hasn’t even conceded a single goal at this year’s World Cup. La Roja is unbeaten in 36 straight competitive matches since March 2023.

This lofty standard of play clearly doesn’t scare Belgium, which is on a surging trajectory of its own heading into the teams’ World Cup quarterfinal match on Friday.

While Spain has been Europe’s most consistent winner for the past 3 1/2 years, Belgium has played its way into position for what could be the final chance for its full golden generation to do something spectacular together.

The tantalizing clash at SoFi Stadium matches a pre-tournament favorite and the reigning European champions against Belgium, which has never quite reached its full potential despite the bigmoney stars across its roster. Yet goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois says Belgium realizes the opportunity it has after blowing out the co-host United States 4-1 on Monday in its best performance of the tournament and extending the Red Devils’ own unbeaten streak to 18 matches across all competitions.

“I think they’re one of the favorites to win it, so obviously we start as the underdog against them,” said Courtois, who has been at Real Madrid since 2018. “But in football, everything is possible, and I believe that we can win, with all respect. But obviously they are the favorite.”

While Spain has struggled to score occasionally over the past month, its defense has remained perfect, with Rodri orchestrating the effort superbly from midfield.

Goalkeeper Unai Simón has played a World Cup-record 609 consecutive minutes without conceding, racking up another World Cup record of six straight clean sheets dating back to the 2022 tournament in Qatar.

Simón has only had to make six saves in five World Cup matches, but Belgium has enough offensive talent to make any goalkeeper work — including Kevin De Bruyne, Youri Tielemans, veteran striker Romelu Lukaku, playmaker Leandro Trossard and Charles De Ketelaere, who had two goals against the Americans.

Despite a wealth of good players around teenage sensation Lamine Yamal, Spain hasn’t scored with as much flair as Belgium in this tournament, getting seven of its nine goals at the World Cup in two routs of overmatched Saudi Arabia

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Spain players celebrate after Mikel Merino scored a goal during a World Cup match against Portugal on Monday in Arlington, Texas. Spain will face Belgium on Friday. and Austria. La Roja managed only Mikel Merino’s clutch injury-time goal while beating Portugal 1-0 in the round of 16.

“Ultimately we have been very focused on the defensive aspect, but we’ve also historically scored a lot,” Spain coach Luis De La Fuente said Thursday. “I think we have the most attempts on goal (in this World Cup). Perhaps a little bit more efficacy, and we might also be the squad that scores the most. But we’re so good on the attack that it gives the opponent little opportunity to come the other way.”

Striker Mikel Oyarzabal scored two goals in Spain’s first appearance at SoFi Stadium last week, leading Spain to a 3-0 rout of Austria.

“I think we’ve managed to build a really solid core group,” Oyarzabal said. “Regardless of whether things go well or badly, or who’s playing, the team responds, and I think that’s crucial. We’ve achieved something very difficult: creating that kind of unity within the national team.”

Belgium has been to the World Cup quarterfinals more recently than Spain. The veteran Belgian stars were youngsters eight years ago when the Red Devils made the semifinals in Russia, while Spain hadn’t won a knockout match since winning the World Cup in 2010.

Yamal’s time?

Yamal still hasn’t broken out in his first World Cup, scoring only one goal for Spain. His teammates and coaches say they’re quite satisfied with his overall tournament performance, which began with limited playing time in the group matches while he returned from a hamstring injury incurred in April

with Barcelona.

“Maybe he hasn’t contributed goals, but he brings all the attack,” midfielder Gavi said. “He’s incredible. I hope that now if we win, hopefully in the semifinals or the final, too, if we win, then he scores goals so people understand what he does for us.”

De La Fuente praised Yamal for an excellent two-way performance against Portugal. The coach even credited Yamal for the fact that Nuno Mendes, who was attempting to mark Yamal, had to leave early in the second half with an injury.

“He’s very motivated,” De La Fuente said. “(Yamal) wants to do so much, and we know the best version of him, the attacking Lamine, is something we haven’t seen yet in this World Cup. He had to work on the defensive side quite a bit because we were facing a powerhouse of a rival. I think this was an exercise in maturity for Lamine.

He’s going to perform on the attacking front, that’s clear. He’s got incredible potential, and it’s going to come.”

Injury concerns for Belgium Belgium lost midfielder Amadou Onana to a knee injury this week, forcing a tactical change to preserve its defensive structure.

That change might simply be the return of De Bruyne, who likely didn’t play against the U.S. to keep him in top condition for Friday’s match. Winger Jérémy Doku is thought to be healthy now, but hasn’t consistently played well at the World Cup. Nico Williams is expected to be fit after being limited earlier in the World Cup, and Spain otherwise appears to be in good health.

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Pitcher Latz lone All-Star for Rangers

BY STEPHEN HAWKINS AP baseball writer

ARLINGTON, Texas — Jacob Latz went to spring training with the Rangers competing for a spot in their rotation. He instead became an All-Star closer, even after his first appearance for Texas this season was as a starter and he didn’t have a save until late April.

Latz is the only Rangers player named to the American League All-Star team for Tuesday’s game in Philadelphia. That is also where they opened the season, and he threw four no-hit innings while starting their second game on March 28, only after two-time Cy Young Award winner Jacob deGrom was a late scratch because of neck stiffness.

This season has certainly been an unexpected twist for the 30-yearold left-hander who has longed to be a big league starter. He is excelling in a first-time role, with 18 saves in 20 opportunities and a 1.71 ERA in 33 games.

“When I didn’t get the starting role ... I was hurt in the moment, for sure,” Latz said. “But I knew that there were good things ahead because of the work I put in during the offseason. I didn’t know it would show up this way.”

That spot start for Latz in Philadelphia came only days after being told he didn’t make the rotation. He instead went into a bullen without a designated closer, and he didn’t get his first save until April 25.

Latz was named AL reliever of the month in June after his 11 saves set a franchise record for the most in any single month. His other appearance in June was a perfect

LSU

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Texas Rangers relief pitcher Jacob Latz throws during the ninth inning of a game against the Miami Marlins on June 22 in Miami. Latz is the only Rangers player named to the AL All-Star team. ninth inning in a game that went to extra innings.

His only save in the big leagues before this year was pitching the final three innings of a 10-2 win over Baltimore last season, when as a swingman he started eight of his 33 games.

“He’s always super even-keeled. ... The qualities to be a closer, the temperament, the mound presence and the stuff, he’s got all of those,” first-year Rangers manager

talent to start right away.

Tulane’s Jason Wachs, Oregon’s Continued from page 1C Angel Laya and Notre Dame’s Bino Watters all made the top-60 of ESPN’s portal rankings. Laya and believed that his value belonged Watters cracked the top-15.

Prediction: First round, likely topmore in the third or fourth round.

A third scout said he’d be comfort- 15 able with taking him in the back Jake Brown, RF half of the first.

Curiel isn’t a perfect player. He Draft rankings: No. 41, The Athletic; only hit 13 home runs in college, No. 59, MLB.com; No. 64, ESPN and scouts question whether he Breakdown: Brown had an excelhas the tools to ever become an lent career at LSU. He hit .304 with All-Star-caliber player in the big a .951 OPS over three seasons, won leagues. But the divisive nature of a national championship as a sophhis draft value among scouts had omore and showcased dangerous less to do with who Curiel is as a pull-side power as a left-handed player and more to do with how hitter in his final year in Baton they value a player like him.

Rouge.

“He’s kind of like one of those He arrived at LSU as an excelin the eye of the beholder type of lent athlete drafted out of high players, because there are some school as a pitcher. He now enters people that will point to the con- the draft with the same athletic tact skills and say, ‘Hey, we can upside, but as a right fielder who make swing changes to get him can potentially play center and has into more power,’ one scout said. a big arm.

“And there’s some people who will “He hit for more power, and then, say, ‘He’s just not going to hit the I thought he did better against leftpower.’ ies this year,” one scout said. “Be“There’s people within our orga- cause last year they really didn’t nization that do think he’s a definite expose him to many, but I thought first rounder.” he did a little better job.”

A player that scouts have often Brown was on track to potentialcompared Curiel to is Cleveland ly become a first-round pick after a Guardians left fielder Steven hot start to the season, but a downKwan. Like Curiel, Kwan is an turn in production in Southeastern excellent contact hitter with little Conference play and a broken hapower and an elite left fielder who mate bone in his right hand at the can play center in a pinch. end of the year added some ques“I think (Curiel’s) like a Gold tion marks to his profile.

Glove left fielder and a competent One scout told The Advocate that center fielder,” another scout said. the injury could affect Brown’s “And now you’re putting him in draft stock. He believes the Louithe Steven Kwan bucket. As good siana native needed three full seaa player as Steven Kwan is, he sons as a hitter to prove he could wasn’t drafted in the first round.” do it at a high level in professional Despite these concerns about his baseball. power (or lack thereof) and ceil“Him missing that much of his ing, mock drafts have consistently junior year,” the scout said, “probpegged Curiel as a first-round pick. ably hurts him more than just One scout — who believed he was about every player.” closer to being a second-round Two scouts who spoke with The type of player — theorized that Advocate said that Brown will his draft stock is as high as it is be- land in the second round. Between cause of the makeup of this year’s Brown and Curiel, one scout said draft class. that he thought Brown had a better “I think he ends up going in the chance of ending up back at school top-15,” the scout said. “And it’s be- than Curiel, despite Curiel better cause how confident are you in any fitting the profile of a player who hitter in this college class? Every- could return to school as a draftone struck out.” eligible sophomore.

If Curiel dropped out of the first Prediction: Second round round, the chances of his return to school could rise significantly, for Deven Sheerin, RHP two reasons. He’s represented by Draft rankings: No. 145, MLB.com; Scott Boras, an agent who often No. 163, ESPN won’t allow his clients to sign for a Breakdown: Sheerin’s end-of-seasalary he believes is less than what son numbers don’t accurately they’re worth. Curiel also holds ne- reflect how good he was through gotiating leverage over teams as a most of his only healthy campaign draft-eligible sophomore because at LSU. he could return to LSU next year At 6-foot-5 and 255 pounds, with two years of eligibility re- Sheerin has a fastball that’s up to maining.

98 mph and a delivery that makes “I think if he had stayed strug- him especially difficult for rightgling, I think there was a good handed hitters to face. Those traits chance he goes back (to school),” allowed him to strike out 58 batters one scout said. “Because as a soph- in 372/ 3 innings. omore eligible (player), he could “You can see the deception, the go back and it wouldn’t hurt.” stuff, the size,” one scout said. “I LSU, however, doesn’t seem to would say it’s all that stuff.” believe that Curiel or Jake Brown Sheerin also throws a slider that could end up back at school. LSU could use some sharpening, and he has added three outfielders from missed all of last season with a torn the transfer portal this summer, ACL. The injury, one scout said, all of whom have the pedigree and may have affected his conditioning

Skip Schumaker said. “I still think he could be a really good starter.

That’s how good he is. I have no idea what his future’s going to look like, but having All-Star on his resume no matter what is pretty sweet.”

Schumaker, an adviser for Texas last year, and Latz met for lunch in California during the offseason to talk about what the pitcher needed to do to prepare to compete for a rotation spot.

They had what Schumaker called “a really challenging conversation” late in spring training. Latz responded that he wanted to pitch high-leverage innings.

“You earn those innings, you’re not just given those innings. He absolutely earned it two, three weeks into the season,” Schumaker said.

“Long story short, that conversation in the offseason at lunch was amazing, then disappointment, then back to amazing.”

Latz has five saves when pitching two innings, and his MLB-leading nine saves getting at least four outs are the most for a Rangers pitcher since Francisco Cordero had nine the entire 2004 season.

“This is a player who has developed a little bit later in his career, but it’s not for a lack of determination and work ethic. This guy is as committed as anybody I’ve seen in the game, and he’s not afraid of the moment,” said Rangers president of baseball operations Chris Young, a former big league pitcher.

Texas took Latz in the seventh round of the 2017 draft after he pitched only 8 1/3 innings over three college seasons. He missed his freshman season at LSU in 2015 because of a stress reaction in his left elbow that required surgery, then pitched in only seven games in 2016. He then went to Kent State but was unable to play there because of NCAA transfer rules.

Latz made his big league debut by starting his only game for the Rangers in 2021 before the transition to the bullpen. He didn’t pitch in the majors again until three relief appearances in 2023, and he made 46 more the following season.

“Just incremental steps along the way. It was a tough climb to get back from my college career to where we are at right now,” he said. “Little by little, I tried to solidify myself as a major league player, and last year was a big step forward, just growing the confidence. It wasn’t truly linear, but learned a lot along the way.

And I think it definitely makes it a little more meaningful doing it this way.”

that’s no way to pitch.”

Benge has a fastball that sits in the mid 90s and a good slider.

Control has been an issue for him and he doesn’t have the size to be a starter, but he has “enough stuff to be drafted,” as one scout put it.

Prediction: Rounds 11-20

Zac Cowan, RHP Draft rankings: N/A Breakdown: Cowan had a stellar collegiate career, becoming a key arm on a national championshipwinning team and developing into an ace at Wofford before transferring to LSU. Cowan’s prospects in professional baseball, however, are more muted. His fastball has never reached the mid-90s, he lacks a plus breaking ball and he doesn’t offer much deception with his delivery.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON His changeup and command are LSU pitcher Gavin Guidry throws the ball during drills before a game both excellent, but his ceiling is against Oklahoma on March 21 at Alex Box Stadium. relatively low as a senior.

“I guess you’re hoping you can consistently struggled to avoid get him to throw harder,” one scout in the second half of this year.

Despite the injury, ESPN still has hard contact, allowing 10 home said. “But if he hasn’t by now, that’s Sheerin as one of the top relievers runs in 432/ 3 innings. His issues probably going to be it.”

Prediction: Rounds 11-20 in the draft. But because of his came as a surprise following two future as a reliever, don’t expect campaigns in which he was one of Sheerin to be picked in the first LSU’s best arms out of the bullpen. Grant Fontenot, RHP few rounds of the draft.

“I am a fan of Guidry. I think he Draft rankings: N/A “Relievers are so hard to peg,” should have signed last year with Breakdown: Fontenot pitched more one scout said. “But I would guess the hurt back and all,” one scout than he ever had before this year he goes somewhere (fourth round said. “I did talk to his agent during as a fifth-year senior, posting a 4.18 to 10th round), somewhere in that the summer, and he just decided he ERA over 321/ 3 innings and sportrange.” wanted to go back, which is fine. I ing a fastball that reached 98 mph Prediction: 3rd-5th round don’t really know what they’re at the start of the season. looking for financially, but he probHis slider could use some work, Santiago Garcia, LHP ably ought to just take it and move and he didn’t have a reliable third on, do something else.” pitch, but Fontenot threw more Draft rankings: N/A The same scout believed that strikes this season after appearing Breakdown: Garcia’s lone season at LSU had its ups and downs, but much of Guidry’s struggles this in just six games in 2025.

“He got to pitch more this year the left-handed reliever possesses season originated from LSU’s a few traits that should appeal to coaching staff not putting him in than he ever had,” one scout said. the right positions to succeed con- “So it kind of told you they bemajor league teams. lieved in him more.”

He has a clean delivery, a good sistently.

“I don’t think he’s pitching right,” Fontenot pitched well enough breaking ball and a fastball that can get into the mid-90s. Consis- the scout said. “I don’t think his this season to potentially be drafttently throwing strikes was an is- fastball has enough on it to pitch ed, but one scout questions whethsue for Garcia — which likely lim- upstairs like he is. But once again, er he’ll actually get picked up by its his ceiling to being a reliever — he has a good slider. The slider a team.

“He’s a year older and really the but his best traits should still allow gives him a floor as a reliever.

“You’re a sinker/slider guy. Go same kid,” the scout said. “So why him to be drafted.

“I think at the end of the day, his with it, because you’re going to didn’t anyone sign him last year?”

Prediction: Rounds 11-20 breaking ball, once again, provides have more success that way than him a floor of a lefty reliever,” one what you’re doing right now.”

Guidry isn’t guaranteed to be Chris Stanfield, OF scout said. “And if he’s going to throw 93, 94, touch 95, then that’s drafted this weekend, and he went Draft rankings: N/A to the Cape Cod Baseball League not bad.”

Breakdown: Stanfield’s senior seaThe same scout said he’d be will- this summer to help raise his draft son was defined by injuries. He ing to pick Garcia in the seventh stock. But his slider and track re- broke his hand diving into home round and prefers him to Sheerin, cord before this season suggest plate in the second game of the despite Sheerin’s pedigree as one that he deserves a shot in profes- year, and then hurt his hamstring sional baseball. of the top relievers in the draft. during the back half of the season Prediction: Rounds 11-20 “You’ll probably laugh,” the and never fully recovered. scout said. “But I think there’s When healthy last year, he startmore upside and I will always take Connor Benge, RHP ed in center field for the evena lefty over a righty.” tual national champions and hit a Draft rankings: N/A Prediction: 7th-10th round Breakdown: Benge didn’t pitch career-best .298 with an .818 OPS. much in two seasons in Baton But despite those impressive creGavin Guidry, RHP Rouge, throwing only 23 innings. dentials, three scouts told The AdThat small sample size was frus- vocate they don’t expect him to be Draft rankings: N/A Breakdown: After four seasons trating for one scout who spoke drafted this weekend.

“Small possibility,” one scout with the Tigers, Guidry didn’t fully with The Advocate.

“With all those guys, it’s hard to said. “If it does (happen), it will be close the book on a return to Baton Rouge for a fifth year, but he did pitch when you’re looking over late.”

Prediction: Undrafted express a willingness to move on your shoulder right when you get to professional baseball in an in- in the game,” the scout said. “I terview with 104.5 ESPN after this don’t know how Jay didn’t know Email Koki Riley at koki.riley@ that, but if you throw one ball, and theadvocate.com. For more LSU season.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL GLANCE American League

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Wednesday’s games

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Yastrzemski hits grand slam in Braves’ win over Pirates

BY JOHN PERROTTO Associated Press

PITTSBURGH — Mike Yastrzemski hit a game-sealing grand slam in the ninth inning, Matt Olson hit a first-inning home run while tying the franchise record for consecutive games played and the Atlanta Braves defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 10-5 on Thursday.

The Braves were leading 6-5 when Yastrzemski connected off Dennis Santana for his third career slam.

Olson’s homer was a solo shot

and his 25th season, opening the scoring. The first baseman played in his 740th straight game, going back to the start of the 2022 season, and tied the mark set by Dale Murphy from 1982-86.

Atlanta’s Jim Jarvis hit his first career home run, connecting for a two-run blast off Cam Sanders in a three-run fourth inning that extended the lead to 6-2. The rookie shortstop had three hits.

Pittsburgh’s Bryan Reynolds and Esmerlyn Valdez hit back-toback homers in the third to cut the Braves’ lead to 3-2. Jake Mangum

had four hits and three RBIs, including a two-run homer in the fourth that brought the Pirates to 6-4 and an RBI double in the sixth that made it a one-run game.

Atlanta’s Bryce Elder allowed four runs in four innings. Mitch Keller (6-7) gave up three runs in three innings to fall to 1-5 with a 7.94 ERA in nine career starts against the Braves.

Dylan Dodd (2-0) pitched a perfect fifth inning for the win.

The game was delayed by rain for 35 minutes at the end of the fifth inning.

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Pro tennis Wimbledon results Thursday

At All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club London Purse: $30,327,600 Surface: Grass

Women’s Singles

Semifinals Karolina Muchova (10), Czechia, def. Coco Gauff (7), United States, 6-2, 1-6, 7-6 (10).

Linda Noskova (9), Czechia, def. Marta Kostyuk (12), Ukraine, 6-4, 6-4.

Men’s Doubles

Semifinals Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo (6), El Salvador, def. Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz (7), Germany, 7-6 (8), 6-2.

Harri Heliovaara, Finland, and Henry Patten (1), Britain, def. Thanasi Kokkinakis, Australia, and Aleksandar Kovacevic, United States, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (8).

Women’s Doubles

Quarterfinals Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Hanyu Guo (10), China, def. Taylor Townsend, United States, and Katerina Siniakova (1), Czechia, 7-6 (8), 7-5.

Xu Yifan and Xinyu Jiang, China, def. Ingrid Neel, Estonia, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, 6-1, 2-6, 6-4.

Mixed Doubles

Championship Marcelo Arevalo, El Salvador, and Jelena Ostapenko (2), Latvia, def. Storm Hunter and Marc Polmans, Australia, 4-6, 7-5, 6-2.

Pro golf Genesis Scottish Open par scores Thursday

At The Renaissance Club North Berwick, United Kingdom Purse: $9 million Yardage: 7,282; Par: 70 First Round Patrick Cantlay, USA 34-31—65 Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark 32-33—65 Tom Kim, South Korea 32-33—65 Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland 31-34—65 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 34-31—65 Angel Ayora Fanegas, Spain 33-33—66 Kurt Kitayama, USA 33-33—66 Brooks Koepka, USA 31-35—66 Min Woo Lee, Australia 33-33—66 Oliver Lindell, Finland 31-35—66 Andrew Novak, USA 32-34—66 Michael Thorbjornsen, USA 34-32—66 Zachary Bauchou, USA 32-35—67 Michael Brennan, USA 34-33—67 Wyndham Clark, USA 32-35—67 Corey Conners, Canada 31-36—67 Matt Fitzpatrick, England 32-35—67 Tommy Fleetwood, England 34-33—67 33-34—67 Calum Hill, Scotland Joost Luiten, Netherlands 32-35—67 Robert MacIntyre, Scotland 33-34—67 Matthew McCarty, USA 33-34—67 Tom McKibbin, Northern Ireland 33-34—67 Keita Nakajima, Japan 32-35—67 Kevin Roy, USA 34-33—67 Danny Willett, England 34-33—67 Ludvig Aberg, Sweden 35-33—68 Marcus Armitage, England 32-36—68 Nicolas Echavarria, Colombia 34-34—68 Ryan Gerard, USA 34-34—68

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Chris Gotterup, USA 32-36—68 -2 Angel Hidalgo, Spain 32-36—68 -2 Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark 35-33—68 -2 Viktor Hovland, Norway 32-36—68 -2 Casey Jarvis, South Africa 34-34—68 -2 John Keefer, USA 34-34—68 -2 Michael Kim, USA 33-35—68 -2 Hao-Tong Li, China 35-33—68 -2 Guido Migliozzi, Italy 33-35—68 -2 Francesco Molinari, Italy 32-36—68 -2 R. Neergaard-Petersen, Den. 34-34—68 -2 Shaun Norris, South Africa 31-37—68 -2 Patrick Reed, USA 31-37—68 -2 Davis Riley, USA 35-33—68 -2 Jayden Trey Schaper, S. Africa 36-32—68 -2 Scottie Scheffler, USA 33-35—68 -2 Matti Schmid, Germany 33-35—68 -2 Jordan L. Smith, England 35-33—68 -2 J.J. Spaun, USA 35-33—68 -2 Sam Stevens, USA 33-35—68 -2 Andy Sullivan, England 35-33—68 -2 Sudarshan Yellamaraju, Canada 34-34—68 -2 Laurie Canter, England 35-34—69 -1 Nacho Elvira, Spain 33-36—69 -1 Grant Forrest, Scotland 36-33—69 -1 Max Greyserman, USA 33-36—69 -1 Scott Jamieson, Scotland 37-32—69 -1 Jacques Kruyswijk, S. Africa 34-35—69 -1 Mikael Lindberg, Sweden 34-35—69 -1 Max McGreevy, USA 33-36—69 -1 Adrian Meronk, Poland 34-35—69 -1 Alex Noren, Sweden 37-32—69 -1 Victor Perez, France 35-34—69 -1 Antoine Rozner, France 34-35—69 -1 Xander Schauffele, USA 33-36—69 -1 Adam Scott, Australia 35-34—69 -1 Marcel Siem, Germany 34-35—69 -1 Brandt Snedeker, USA 34-35—69 -1 Ockie Strydom, South Africa 33-36—69 -1 Justin Thomas, USA 34-35—69 -1 N. Von Dellingshausen, Germ.

34-35—69 -1 Ricky Castillo, USA 36-34—70 E Cameron Davis, Australia 36-34—70 E Hennie Du Plessis, South Africa 34-36—70 E Austin Eckroat, USA 35-35—70 E Ewen Ferguson, Scotland 34-36—70 E Dylan Frittelli, South Africa 33-37—70 E Brian Harman, USA 34-36—70 E Tyrrell Hatton, England 32-38—70 E Mark Hubbard, USA 33-37—70 E Si Woo Kim, South Korea 36-34—70 E Chris Kirk, USA 37-33—70 E Joakim Lagergren, Sweden 35-35—70 E Eugenio Lopez-Chacarra, Spain 35-35—70 E Richard Mansell, England 33-37—70 E Taylor Moore, USA 34-36—70 E Dylan Naidoo, South Africa 34-36—70 E Thorbjorn Olesen, Denmark 35-35—70 E Matthieu Pavon, France 35-35—70 E Marco Penge, England 33-37—70 E Aldrich Potgieter, South Africa 36-34—70 E Sepp Straka, Austria 35-35—70 E Jesper Svensson, Sweden 38-32—70 E Nick Taylor, Canada 34-36—70 E Sahith Theegala, USA 36-34—70 E Darius Van Driel, Netherlands 35-35—70 E Karl Vilips, Australia 34-36—70 E Matt Wallace, England 34-36—70 E Dan Bradbury, England 33-38—71 +1 Seungbin Choi, South Korea 35-36—71 +1 Eric Cole, USA 36-35—71 +1 Pierceson Coody, USA 36-35—71 +1 Harris English, USA 34-37—71 +1 Alex Fitzpatrick, England 36-35—71 +1 Ryan Fox, New Zealand 34-37—71 +1 Doug Ghim, USA 37-34—71 +1 Julien Guerrier, France 33-38—71 +1 Harry Hall, England 34-37—71 +1 Joe Highsmith, USA 37-34—71 +1 Rikuya Hoshino, Japan 35-36—71 +1 Kota Kaneko, Japan 35-36—71 +1 Yuto Katsuragawa, Japan 34-37—71 +1 Pablo Larrazabal, Spain 36-35—71 +1 Thriston Lawrence, S. Africa 35-36—71 +1 Shane Lowry, Ireland 36-35—71 +1 Mac Meissner, USA 35-36—71 +1 Niklas Norgaard Moller, Den. 35-36—71 +1 Yurav Premlall, South Africa 34-37—71 +1 Andrew Putnam, USA 35-36—71 +1 Aaron Rai, England 34-37—71 +1 Kristoffer Reitan, Norway 35-36—71 +1 Erik Van Rooyen, South Africa 35-36—71 +1 Paul Waring, England 35-36—71 +1 Brian Campbell, USA 36-36—72 +2 35-37—72 +2 Alejandro Del Rey, Spain Jordan Gumberg, USA 35-37—72 +2 Sungjae Im, South Korea 35-37—72 +2 36-36—72 +2 Ryggs Johnston, USA Jake Knapp, USA 36-36—72 +2 Junghwan Lee, South Korea 36-36—72 +2 35-37—72 +2 Matteo Manassero, Italy Taehoon Ok, South Korea 35-37—72 +2 Daniel Rodrigues, Portugal 35-37—72 +2 Adrien Saddier, France 35-37—72 +2 Alex Smalley, USA 35-37—72 +2 Richard Sterne, South Africa 37-35—72 +2 Daniel Brown, England 36-37—73 +3 Bud Cauley, USA 36-37—73 +3

The Amundi Evian Championship par scores Thursday

At Evian Resort Golf Club Evian-les-Bains, France Purse: $9.1 million Yardage: 6,479; Par: 71 First Round Aki Iwai Perrine Delacour Charley Hull Jin Hee Im Hae-Ran Ryu Mao Saigo Maja Stark Cara Gainer Erika Hara Brooke Henderson MinJi Kang Lottie Woad Jing Yan Ruoning Yin Chella Choi Ayaka Furue Somi Lee Nastasia Nadaud Farah O’Keefe Kajsa Arwefjall Jodi Ewart Shadoff Linn Grant Wei-Ling Hsu Sei Young Kim Hyo Joo Kim Lydia Ko Jennifer Kupcho Alison Lee Anna Nordqvist Ryann O’Toole Cassie Porter Hinako Shibuno Shannon Tan Ina Yoon Aditi Ashok Karis Davidson Hannah Green Nataliya Guseva Anna Huang Chizzy Iwai Ariya Jutanugarn Minami Katsu Auston Kim Lauren Kim Shiho Kuwaki Andrea Lee Mary Liu Yuna Nishimura Alexa Pano Shuri Sakuma Asterisk Talley Patty Tavatanakit Miyu Yamashita Amy Yang Arpichaya Yubol Weiwei Zhang Rose Zhang Hye Jin Choi Lauren Coughlin Alexandra Forsterling Melanie Green Megan Khang

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EASTERN CONFERENCE

W 12 13 12 10 9 7 5

L 8 9 9 10 12 14 17

Pct .600 .591 .571 .500 .429 .333 .227

Minnesota Las Vegas Golden State Dallas Portland Los Angeles Phoenix Seattle

W 16 15 16 14 9 8 8 6

L 6 6 7 8 12 11 14 17

Pct GB .727 — .714 ½ .696 ½ .636 2 .429 6½ .421 6½ .364 8 .261 10½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Wednesday’s games

Golden State 83, Toronto 75 Minnesota 86, Connecticut 80 Los Angeles 106, Indiana 92

Thursday’s games

Atlanta 89, Seattle 78 Indiana at Phoenix, n Las Vegas at Portland, n

Friday’s games

Dallas at Toronto, 7:30 p.m.

Golden State at Connecticut, 7:30 p.m.

Chicago at Los Angeles, 10 p.m.

GB — — ½ 2 3½ 5½ 8

Pct .587 .553 .553 .511 .426

GB — 3 3 7 15

W 58 52 48 47 42

L 34 41 43 47 50

Pct .630 .559 .527 .500 .457

GB — 6½ 9½ 12 16

W 61 46 45 38 38

L 33 46 47 54 56

Pct .649 .500 .489 .413 .404

GB — 14 15 22 23

Wednesday’s games

N.Y. Mets 7, Kansas City 3 Cleveland 5, Minnesota 2 N.Y. Yankees 12, Tampa Bay 4 Baltimore 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Boston 2, Chicago White Sox 1 Detroit 4, Athletics 1 Miami 8, Seattle 4 L.A. Angels at Texas, n

N.Y. Mets 7, Kansas City 3 Atlanta 10, Pittsburgh 5 Baltimore 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Miami 8, Seattle 4 Philadelphia 1, Cincinnati 0 Milwaukee at St. Louis, n Arizona at San Diego, n Colorado at San Francisco, n

Philadelphia (Nola 3-6) at Detroit (Flaherty 2-8), 5:40 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Weathers 3-7) at Washington (Littell 7-6), 5:45 p.m.

Kansas City (Avila 4-3) at Baltimore (Young 7-2), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Messick 7-5) at Miami (Alcantara 10-4), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Castillo 3-7) at Tampa Bay (Martinez 7-2), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Gray 10-1) at N.Y. Mets (McLean 6-5), 6:15 p.m.

Athletics (Civale 5-6) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 5-4), 6:40 p.m.

Houston (Brown 1-0) at Texas (Quantrill 3-1), 7:05 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Rodriguez 2-2) at Minnesota (Matthews 4-5), 7:10 p.m.

Toronto (Bieber 0-1) at San Diego (Sears 2-1), 8:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Sproat 3-4) at Pittsburgh (Ashcraft 9-3), 5:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Nola 3-6) at Detroit (Flaherty 2-8), 5:40 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Weathers 3-7) at Washington (Littell 7-6), 5:45 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 5-7) at Cincinnati (Greene 0-1), 6:10 p.m.

Cleveland (Messick 7-5) at Miami (Alcantara 10-4), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Gray 10-1) at N.Y. Mets (McLean 6-5), 6:15 p.m.

Atlanta (Sale 9-6) at St. Louis (Leahy 7-4), 7:15 p.m.

Toronto (Bieber 0-1) at San Diego (Sears 2-1), 8:40 p.m.

Arizona (Rodriguez 7-3) at L.A. Dodgers (Ohtani 8-2), 9:10 p.m.

Colorado (Gordon 0-2) at San Francisco (Ray 8-6), 9:15 p.m.

Thursday’s games

Friday’s games

Friday’s games

BOX SCORES Atlanta 10, Pittsburgh 5

Boston 2, Chicago White Sox 1

Atlanta

Pittsburgh ab r h bi ab r h bi Harris cf 6 1 1 0 Mangum cf 5 1 4 3 Albies 2b 4 2 1 1 Lowe 2b 5 0 0 0 Olson 1b 3 2 1 1 Reynolds lf 4 1 1 1 Baldwin c 4 1 2 1 Valdez rf 4 1 1 1 Dubón lf 4 0 1 1 O’Hearn dh 4 0 0 0 Smith dh 3 1 1 0 Gonzales 3b 1 1 0 0 Riley 3b 5 0 0 0 Callihan 1b 4 0 1 0 Yastrzem. rf 3 2 1 4 Flores c 4 0 1 0 Jarvis ss 5 1 3 2 Triolo ss 3 1 0 0 Totals 37 10 11 10 Totals 34 5 8 5 Atlanta 102 300 004 — 10 Pittsburgh 002 201 000 — 5 E—Baldwin (2). DP—Atlanta 1, Pittsburgh 0. LOB—Atlanta 9, Pittsburgh 8.

2B—Albies (20), Jarvis (1), Callihan (3), Mangum (10). HR—Olson (25), Jarvis (1), Yastrzemski (6), Reynolds (14), Valdez (7), Mangum (2). SB—Mangum (18), Harris (6). S—Dubón (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Elder 4 5 4 3 2 3 Dodd W,2-0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 1 Ritchie H,1 11⁄3 2 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Young H,2 Karinchak H,1 1 0 0 0 1 1 Mederos 1 1 0 0 0 2 Pittsburgh Keller L,6-7 3 4 3 3 2 3 2 ⁄3 2 3 3 3 2 Sanders 0 0 0 2 Stratton 11⁄3 2 Ramírez 2 0 0 0 1 2 Soto 1 0 0 0 0 0 Santana 1 3 4 4 2 1 WP—Karinchak.

ABS Challenge—Elder (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Smith (Strike-Confirmed); Stratton (Ball-Confirmed); Ramírez (BallConfirmed); Dubón (Strike-Confirmed).

Pitch timer violations—Santana (pitcher).

Umpires—Home, Nic Lentz; First, Hunter Wendelstedt; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Edwin Moscoso.

T—3:07. A—20,895 (38,753).

Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Seigler 2b 2 0 0 0 Meidroth 2b 3 0 1 0 Rafaela cf 4 0 0 0 Grichuk dh 2 0 0 0 Abreu rf 4 0 1 0 Benin. ph-dh 2 0 1 1 R.Gonz. dh 3 1 1 0 Vargas 1b-3b 4 0 0 0 Durbin 3b 4 1 1 2 C.Mntgm. 3b-ss 4 0 2 0 Monaste. ss 4 0 0 0 Perez cf 2 0 0 0 Eaton lf 1 0 0 0 Peters ph-cf 2 0 1 0 Duran ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Antonacci lf 4 0 0 0 Harris 1b 2 0 0 0 B.Montgom. rf 4 0 1 0 Wong c 3 0 1 0 Acuña ss 2 1 1 0 J.Gonz. ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Romo c 2 0 0 0 Teel ph-c 1 0 0 0 Totals 28 2 4 2 Totals 34 1 7 1 Boston 000 200 000 — 2 Chicago 000 010 000 — 1 DP—Boston 0, Chicago 1. LOB—Boston 5, Chicago 7. HR—Durbin (9). SB—Acuña (15). S—Seigler (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Boston Sandoval 41⁄3 5 1 1 1 5 Guerrero W,1-1 12⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 Whitlock H,15 1 0 0 0 0 2 Slaten H,11 1 0 0 0 0 1 Chapman S,19-21 1 0 0 0 0 0 Chicago Kay L,6-4 51⁄3 4 2 2 2 4 Hicks 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Taylor 1 0 0 0 1 0 Davis 1 0 0 0 1 0 HBP—Kay (Harris). WP—Sandoval.

ABS Challenge—Kay (Ball-Confirmed); Hicks (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Whitlock (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Taylor (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Umpires—Home, Chris Guccione; First, Nestor Ceja; Second, Charlie Ramos; Third, David Rackley.

T—2:32. A—19,148 (40,241).

N.Y. Mets 7, Kansas City 3

Baltimore 3, Chicago Cubs 2

Kansas City New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Thomas cf 4 1 1 1 Ewing cf-2b 5 1 1 0 Witt ss 4 1 1 1 Soto lf 2 2 1 1 Perez 1b 4 0 0 0 Bichette ss-3b3 0 0 1 Marte dh 3 0 1 0 Benge rf 3 2 2 1 Rojas ph 1 0 0 0 Alvarez dh 4 0 1 1 Loftin 3b 4 1 2 0 Young 1b 4 0 2 1 Cagliano. rf 4 0 1 1 Vientos 3b 0 0 0 0 Collins lf 2 0 0 0 Taylor cf 3 1 2 1 Tolbert 2b 3 0 1 0 Lindor ss 0 0 0 0 Maile c 2 0 0 0 Baty 2b-3b 4 1 1 0 Jensen ph-c 1 0 0 0 Torrens c 3 0 0 0 Totals 32 3 7 3 Totals 31 710 6 Kansas City 100 100 100 — 3 New York 010 050 10x — 7 E—Thomas (2), Soto (1). DP—Kansas City 2, New York 0. LOB—Kansas City 3, New York 6. 2B—Caglianone (15), Young 2 (6), Taylor (5). HR—Thomas (7), Witt (13), Taylor (6), Soto (21). SB—Benge (13), Baty (4). SF—Bichette (6).

IP H R ER BB SO Kansas City 6 3 5 Wacha L,5-7 42⁄3 6 6 0 0 0 Erceg 11⁄3 1 0 Way 1 2 1 1 0 0 Cuas 1 1 0 0 1 2 New York Manaea W,2-4 7 6 3 2 1 6 Brazobán 1 0 0 0 0 2 Williams 1 1 0 0 0 1 HBP—Wacha (Vientos).

ABS Challenge—Alvarez (Strike-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Manny Gonzalez; First, Tom Hanahan; Second, Ron Kulpa; Third, Tyler Jones.

T—2:24. A—33,868 (42,136).

Chicago

Boston

Baltimore ab r h bi ab r h bi Crw-Arm. cf 3 1 1 0 Rutschm. dh 2 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 3 0 0 0 Ward lf 3 0 1 0 Suzuki rf 4 1 3 2 Henderson ss 3 1 0 0 Dean rf 0 0 0 0 Alonso 1b 1 1 0 0 Kelly dh 4 0 0 0 O’Neill rf 3 1 1 1 Busch 1b 4 0 1 0 Beavers ph 0 0 0 0 Hoerner 2b 4 0 1 0 Jackson ph 1 0 1 2 Happ lf 4 0 2 0 Cowser cf 0 0 0 0 Swanson ss 4 0 1 0 Mayo 3b 2 0 0 0 Amaya c 3 0 0 0 Hollid. ph-2b 0 0 0 0 Conforto ph 1 0 0 0 Basallo c 4 0 0 0 Alexan. 2b-3b 4 0 0 0 Taveras cf-rf 3 0 0 0 Totals 34 2 9 2 Totals 26 3 3 3 Chicago 000 001 010 — 2 Baltimore 010 000 02x — 3 E—Alexander (6), Henderson (9). DP— Chicago 1, Baltimore 1. LOB—Chicago 7, Baltimore 8. 2B—Hoerner (23), CrowArmstrong (15), Suzuki (13), Jackson (9).

HR—Suzuki (15), O’Neill (6). SB—Suzuki (1), Swanson 2 (12).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Peterson 5 2 1 1 4 2 0 2 1 Hollowell 11⁄3 0 0 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Thielbar 2 0 1 Ferguson L,0-1 H,3 1⁄3 0 2 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 Rolison BS,1-3 Baltimore Rogers 6 5 1 1 2 4 Cano 1 1 0 0 0 0 Wells W,2-1 1 2 1 1 0 1 Kittredge S,2-4 1 1 0 0 0 0 HBP—Ferguson 2 (Henderson,Alonso).

WP—Hollowell.

T—2:31. A—12,052 (45,971).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL July 10

Indiana New York Atlanta Washington Toronto Chicago Connecticut

Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

L 38 42 42 46 54

Toronto 10, San Francisco 0 Miami 2, Seattle 0 Atlanta 3, Pittsburgh 0 Chicago Cubs 9, Baltimore 7 Washington 8, Houston 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Kansas City 2 St. Louis 5, Milwaukee 1 Cincinnati 11, Philadelphia 5 L.A. Dodgers 4, Colorado 3 San Diego 10, Arizona 4

Pro basketball WNBA glance

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati West Division

W 54 52 52 48 40

Toronto 10, San Francisco 0 Miami 2, Seattle 0 Tampa Bay 3, N.Y. Yankees 0 Detroit 6, Athletics 1 Chicago Cubs 9, Baltimore 7 Washington 8, Houston 2 N.Y. Mets 6, Kansas City 2 Boston 5, Chicago White Sox 0 L.A. Angels 13, Texas 1 Minnesota 6, Cleveland 5

Thursday’s games

Atlanta Braves hitter Mike yastrzemski, right, celebrates with third base coach Tommy Watkins as he rounds third base after hitting a grand slam home run off Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dennis Santana during the ninth inning of a game in Pittsburgh on Thursday.

Atlanta Miami Philadelphia Washington New York Central Division

1917 — Ray Caldwell of New York pitched 9 2-3 innings of no-hit relief as the Yankees beat the Browns 7-5 in 17 innings in St. Louis.

1932 — The Philadelphia A’s defeated Cleveland 18-17 in an 18-inning game in which John Burnett of the Indians had a record nine hits. Jimmie Foxx collected 16 total bases, and Eddie Rommell of the A’s pitched 17 innings in relief for the win, despite giving up 29 hits and 14 runs.

1934 — Carl Hubbell struck out Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin in succession, but the AL came back to win the All-Star game 9-7 at the Polo Grounds as Mel Harder gave up one hit in the last five innings.

1936 — Philadelphia’s Chuck Klein hit four home runs in a 9-6 10-inning victory over the Pirates, and it wasn’t in the cozy Baker Bowl. He hit them in Pittsburgh’s spacious Forbes Field, including the game-winning three-run shot in the 10th off Bill Swift.

Klein almost homered in the second inning when he sent Pirates outfielder Paul Waner to the wall in right to haul in a long fly ball.

1947 — Don Black of the Cleveland Indians pitched a 3-0 no-hitter over the Philadelphia A’s in the first game of a twin bill.

1951 — The NL hit four homers en route to an 8-3 triumph at Detroit, giving the

league consecutive All-Star victories for the first time.

1968 — The American League and National League agreed to split into two divisions in 1969. The twelve teams in each league will be divided and play a best-of-five games League Championship Series to determine the pennant winner.

1982 — Larry Parrish of the Texas Rangers hit his third grand slam in seven days, off Milt Wilcox in the first game of a doubleheader against Detroit. The Rangers beat the Tigers 6-5. Parrish had hit his first on July 4 and his second on July 7.

2001 — Cal Ripken upstaged every big name in the ballpark, hitting a home run and winning the MVP award in his final All-Star appearance to lead the American League over the Nationals 4-1. Derek Jeter and Magglio Ordonez connected for consecutive home runs as the AL won its fifth in a row.

2007 — Seattle’s Ichiro Suzuki went 3-for-3 with an inside-the-park home run to lead the American League to a 5-4 victory over the National League in the All-Star game.

2009 — Jonathan Sanchez pitched the majors’ first no-hitter of the season, recording a career-high 11 strikeouts in San Francisco’s 8-0 win over the San Diego Padres. The only runner the Padres managed came on an error by third baseman Juan Uribe in the eighth.

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George Clinton and members of Parliament Funkadelic perform in front of their new mothership during the final night of the 2026 Essence Festival on Sunday.

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Cardi B performs during the 2026 Essence Festival’s opening night on Friday before the biggest crowd of the weekend in the Caesars Superdome.

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What the 2026 festival got right and what needs to be improved The sharp-dressed the Rev. Al Sharpton and I don’t share the same fashion sense, but we do have one thing in common. We’ve both attended every Essence Festival of Culture since its 1995 inception.

The 2026 edition still felt like Essence Fest, even as different owners, operators and managers have impleKeith mented changes Spera over the decades.

Daytime events at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center are a huge part of the overall Essence experience. My focus is on the three nights of Caesars Superdome concerts.

What went right at the Dome last weekend? What can be improved? Until the Rev. Sharpton weighs in, here are my thoughts.

Concert attendance Overall concert attendance increased this year compared to 2025’s turnout, reportedly one of

race level, which contains nearly a third of all available seats in the Dome, was empty Sunday.

A Sunday drop-off is to be expected, as many out-of-towners travel home to go to work the next day. But this past Sunday’s attendance was precipitously low.

And Saturday wasn’t the sort of blockbuster night it should be.

I don’t know how many tickets Essence needs to at least break even. Sponsorships, VIP enhancements and subsidies from the city and state cover a chunk of the costs.

But organizers definitely want more than 20,000 people in the Superdome.

STAFF PHOTO By KEITH SPERA

A Tramp from the Krewe of Zulu poses with attendees at the 2026 Essence Festival at the Caesars Superdome on Saturday. The Tramps were popular with the crowds. the lowest in the festival’s history.

No night was a sellout. Friday came closest; approximately 32,000 or so of the 40,000 avail-

able seats were occupied.

Attendance dipped to around 25,000 on Saturday and was even lower on Sunday. Most of the ter-

The Aunties As first-time overall curators of Essence, actress/singer Teyana Taylor and her creative collective The Aunties came up with fresh ideas that enhanced the overall experience.

Chief among them was the entertainment between main stage acts. The Aunties showcased New

Orleans acts in a meaningful way, including bounce rapper HaSizzle and Flagboy Giz. Deploying a dozen or so Zulu Tramps to cavort in the crowd was another nice touch. Attendees from Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles and New York — judging by the DJs’ shoutouts, these cities all sent sizable contingents to the Superdome — likely had no idea what to make of the Tramps in their feathers and face paint.

But the Tramps couldn’t take two steps on the Dome floor without being stopped for selfies, which then became postcards for New Orleans culture.

The main stage emcees and DJs did a good job as well. They understood that “swag surfing” is a surefire crowd-pleaser. Cameos by the likes of “Barbershop” heartthrob Michael Ealy were also fun.

Conversely, comedian Kountry Wayne — who is not from New

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Festival closes with Aaliyah tribute, Fresh party and a spaceship Approximately 20,000 people were Sunday was the least attended tended. reportedly in the Dome. More seats, especially the terrace and loge levels, were empty than night but most eclectic lineup inoccupied.

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That was especially true when George Clinton and his sprawling Parliament Funkadelic crew kicked off exactly at 7 p.m., when many attendAtlanta rapper T.I. and the Louisiana Philharees were just arriving. If Clinton, who turns 85 on July 22, was discouraged, he didn’t show it. monic Orchestra supplied all the “Motivation” He and his band of merry pranksters plunged necessary to stick around for the 2026 Essence right in, cheered on by Festival of Culture’s a cluster of hardcore conclusion late Sunday fans down front. From night at the Caesars Suthe singer wearing a perdome.

Marie Antoinette wig Pumped up by with flashing lights, a strings, brass, woodleopard-print bikini winds and drums, T.I.’s and sparkling platform 2004 song “Motivation” shoes to the shirtless hit even harder than guitarist with metalthe original recorded version. It was one of lic angel wings and a many high points in crown, the band was on an orchestral/hip-hop brand.

STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK hybrid that topped an esSo was the music, an up-tempo, unrelenting pecially eclectic Essence George Clinton performs on Sunday at the Essence Festival. swirl of electric guitar roster. and groove-powered Between the T.I./LPO funk. This wasn’t the slinky, spartan funk of closing and George Clinton’s opening with dozNew Orleans’ Meters; this was throw-it-all-in ens of musicians and guests, far more people funk. stepped onstage Sunday than on Essence’s first two nights. ä See CLOSES, page 2D Conversely, Sunday’s show was the least atStaff writer

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Normani, from left, Ryan Destiny, Mya, Chlöe and Sevyn Streeter perform during the Aaliyah tribute on the final night of the 2026 Essence Festival at the Caesars Superdome on Sunday.

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Some years, the main Essence Stage featured more LED screens and scrolls than Times Square.

In what was likely a cost-cutting measure, this year’s staging was barebones by comparison.

But all the Times Square flash could be a bit much. As long as the LED screens are large enough so the folks sitting in the upper reaches of the Dome see the action, that’s fine.

And the row of movable uplights running the length of the lip of the stage was a nice touch.

Orleans — and his brand of humor may not have set the right tone as the lead-in to the Aaliyah tribute.

In search of a Superlounge Teyana Taylor was intimately involved with Saturday’s onenight revival of an Essence Superlounge on the Dome’s second level. It hosted performances by Raheen DeVaughan, Lil Mo and Teedra Moses.

If you didn’t know about the Superlounge, you’re not alone.

Essence only alerted subscribers, even though it was open to everyone.

The concept of a speakeasystyle secret Superlounge is intriguing. But if you’re going through all the trouble to make it happen, why not let more people know?

Calling superstars

Changing tastes Rapper Cardi B headlined this year’s most attended night. The undercard included another contemporary rapper, Latto.

Essence has always catered to the “grown and sexy” demographic, i.e., music fans who are responsible adults in their 30s and older. But that demographic’s tastes and timelines have shifted.

In the festival’s early years, the Essence audience was nostalgic for the music of the 1960s and ’70s. Thirty years later, “nostalgia” at Essence means the music of the 1980s, ’90s and even the early 2000s.

Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, who wrote and produced dozens of contemporary R&B hits in the ’80s and ’90s while also singing his own, is to Essence now what Smokey Robinson, who wrote and sang many hits in the ’60s and ’70s, was in the festival’s early years.

I don’t think Essence wants

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Most of the Caesars Superdome had emptied out by 1:38 a.m. as Brandy and Monica continued to perform late on the second night of the 2026 Essence Festival of Culture in New Orleans on Saturday. the younger, rowdier crowd that, say, NBA Youngboy draws. But changing tastes and demographics need to be considered.

On time Essence made huge strides to correct the punctuality and production problems that contributed to Lauryn Hill playing to an empty Superdome at 3 a.m. in 2025.

This year, each night proceeded more or less on schedule. Essence even got George Clinton, with his film clips, dozen-plus bandmembers and spaceship, rolling right at 7 p.m.; he finished at exactly 8:30 as scheduled.

Brandy and Monica wrapped up at 2 a.m. Saturday night, the latest

of the three nights. Much of the crowd had already left by then.

That was partly because their show wasn’t particularly compelling. But maybe 2 a.m. is just too late for many people.

Essence cut back from eight acts per night in 2025 to five this year. Kirk McDonanld, CEO of Essence parent company Sundial Media & Technology Group, has suggested that four acts nightly might be the sweet spot.

He’s probably right. If the show starts at 7 p.m. and ends at 1 a.m., no one should feel shortchanged.

Six hours is still a lot of music.

What time is it?

Essence needs to address its frustrating habit of waiting until

hours before the doors open each night to reveal exactly when each act will perform.

Those times need to come out sooner. That would require confirming the performers earlier and allotting the proper amount of time for each.

This year, two hours was at least 30 minutes too long for Brandy and Monica — especially when their scheduled start time was 11:25 p.m. (It was midnight when they actually started).

And 40 minutes was at least 20 minutes too short for Patti LaBelle, who delivered one of the most consistent performances I’ve ever seen her deliver at Essence.

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A Fresh hit parade By contrast, Doug E. Fresh, the human beatbox and Essence Fest favorite, is essentially a one-man show. His beatboxing is like Glover’s tap-dancing: a remarkable show of dexterity, speed and skill.

Fresh has no trouble commanding a room the size of the Superdome because he knows the Essence audience well. Cueing up the late Rob Base’s “It Takes Two,” he knew, would go over huge.

So did his surprise guests, from Scarface to MC Lyte to Tevin Campbell, who sang his hit “Can We Talk?” Rapper Too Short

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lar to Aaliyah’s.

After a brief video retrospective about Aaliyah, who died in a 2001 plane crash at age 22, a full band arrayed on cubed stage risers backed the singer Mya on Aaliyah’s “Back & Forth;” Mya later returned for “At Your Best (You Are Love).”

Ryan Destiny delivered “If Your Girl Only Knew.” Normani handled “Try Again” and “Rock the Boat.” Chlöe delivered “More Than a Woman.” Sevyn Streeter sent a “4 Page Letter.” Winding down at midnight, the tribute was a respectful remembrance of an artist who passed way too young.

Continued from page 1D Visually and sonically, the show was a nonstop spectacle. The musicians romped through “We Want the Funk” and “Get Off Your Ass and Jam,” essentially their theme song. Nona Hendryx, who recorded “Lady Marmalade” alongside Patti LaBelle, took a turn on lead vocals.

So did gospel singer Kim Burrell. Big Boi from OutKast joined in. Veteran P-Funk guitarist Michael Hampton carved out searing solos during the instrumental “Maggot Brain.”

In 1976, Clinton debuted his famed Mothership prop at New Orleans’ Municipal Auditorium.

Fifty years later, a new replica of the original spaceship descended from the stage rigging. The shiny capsule’s lights flashed as the band pulled out “Flashlight.”

Acclaimed tap dancer and actor Savion Glover, as the character Sir Nose D’Voidoffunk, broke into a bout of frenetic tapping ahead of “Atomic Dog.” Omega Psi Phi fraternity brothers — Clinton is an honorary member — danced onstage alongside other friends and guests. Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews and Big Freedia were nearly lost in the scrum.

If the free daytime events at the Convention Center and elsewhere were well attended, that means a large number of Essence fans specifically decided not to go to the nighttime concerts.

The music lineup was certainly a factor.

Overall, the lineup wasn’t bad; Sunday’s roster was especially diverse and interesting. But no night boasted a stadium-sized superstar along the lines of Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Usher, Janet Jackson or Chris Brown.

Additionally, Saturday headliner Brandy & Monica had just performed at the Smoothie King Center in December. Many locals may have opted to not see them again.

Booking superstar talent is not easy, especially when many of them are more inclined to embark on tours promoted by Live Nation or AEG Presents instead of playing at independent festivals such as Essence.

But superstars are necessary to drive Essence ticket sales.

If I’m an Essence producer, I’m sending flowers to Sade every week until she agrees to launch a comeback tour at the 2027 Essence Festival.

That would be a sellout.

T.I. finale T.I. occupied the Sunday night Essence closing slot that belonged to the late Frankie Beverly for years. A mass Electric Slide didn’t break out during T.I., as it inevitably did during Beverly and Maze.

PHOTO By BENNETT RAGLIN/GETTy IMAGES FOR ESSENCE But T.I., in a sharply tailored double-breasted black jacket, Chuck D and Flavor Flav of Public Enemy perform Sunday on the final day of the 2026 Essence Festival. brought his considerable chaof the stage with clown prince risma to bear in a compelling set.

Flavor Flav. Members of the The orchestra locked in with him S1Ws, the military police-style for the rolling cadence of “ASAP.” security team, moved in crisp, He introduced a swaggering choreographed steps.

“Stand Up” with, “To do this with Enlivened by a live band, Chuck an orchestra seems like a full D and Flavor Flav bounced back circle moment.” and forth between classic and T.I. held a much higher percentcontemporary anthems. They age of the late-night crowd than stormed through “Can’t Truss It,” Monica & Brandy did on Satur“Shut ‘em Down” and the 2025 day. Such energetic anthems as single “Public Enemy Comin’ “Whatever You Like,” with its Throooo.” Chuck D gave a shoutsing-song melody and call-andresponse engagement, helped. out to the Meters and that band’s So did the big drums in the cho“Cissy Strut.”

“911 Is a Joke” and “Fight the rus of “Bring ‘em Out.” His curSTAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK Power” threw back to Public rent single, “Let ‘em Know,” was Trombone Shorty, right, performs with George Clinton during the Essence Enemy’s classic “Fear of a Black one last crowd-pleasing blast of Planet.” Their set was strong, but symphonically enhanced hip-hop.

Festival on Sunday. it was a tough sell to an audience T.I. was likely the first LPO colmore primed to party thanks to laborator to urge audience memPublic Enemy’s power chopped up his 20-year-old track Doug E. Fresh. bers to raise their middle fingers.

“Blow the Whistle.” Gospel singer But the unlikely pairing worked.

Marvin Sapp briefly took the As Public Enemy also demonNearly 40 years after “Yo! Bum Remembering Aaliyah crowd to church.

Rush the Show” introduced Pubstrated, a rap performance is alHip-hop icon Missy Elliott cu“Thank you my brothers and most always enhanced by a band. lic Enemy’s brand of politically rated Sunday’s tribute to her late sisters,” Fresh exclaimed. “I hope charged rap, the band’s principals friend and collaborator Aaliyah Or, it turns out, an orchestra. you had a good time!” and principles are still in place. but didn’t perform. Instead, she It’s hard not to when Doug E. At Essence on Sunday, crown coordinated five guest singers Email Keith Spera at kspera@ Fresh is on the microphone. prince Chuck D worked the front whose vocal styles are more simi- theadvocate.com.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Friday, July 10, the 191st day of 2026. There are 174 days left in the year.

Today in History: On July 10, 1940, during World War II, the Battle of Britain began as the German Luftwaffe launched attacks on southern England. (The Royal Air Force was ultimately victorious.)

Also on this date: In 1509, theologian John Calvin, a key figure of the Protestant Reformation, was born in Noyon,

Picardy, France.

In 1890, Wyoming was admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

In 1925, jury selection began in Dayton, Tennessee, in the trial of John T. Scopes, charged with violating the law by teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution.

(Scopes was convicted and fined, but the verdict was overturned on a technicality.)

In 1929, American paper currency was reduced in size as the government began issuing bills that were approximately 25% smaller.

In 1951, armistice talks aimed at ending the Korean War began at Kaesong.

In 1962, the first active communications satellite, Telstar 1, was launched by NASA. In 1985, the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sunk with explosives in Auckland, New Zealand, by French intelligence agents; one activist was killed.

In 1991, Boris N. Yeltsin took the oath of office as the first elected president of the Russian republic.

In 1991, President George H.W.

Bush lifted U.S. economic sanctions against South Africa.

In 2002, the U.S. House approved a measure to allow airline pilots to carry guns in the cockpit to defend their planes against terrorists (President George W. Bush later signed the measure into law).

In 2015, South Carolina pulled the Confederate battle flag from its place of honor at the Statehouse after more than 50 years.

Today’s Birthdays: Singer Mavis Staples is 87. Actor Robert Pine is 85. International Tennis Hall of Famer Virginia Wade is 81. Folk

singer Arlo Guthrie is 79. Baseball Hall of Famer Andre Dawson is 72. Rock singer Neil Tennant (Pet Shop Boys) is 72. Banjo player Bela Fleck is 68. Actor Fiona Shaw is 68. Singer/actor Jacky Cheung is 65. Actor Alec Mapa is 61. Country singer Gary LeVox (Rascal Flatts) is 56. Actor Sofia Vergara is 54.

Actor Adrian Grenier is 50. Actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is 49. Actor Thomas Ian Nicholas is 46. Singer/ actor Jessica Simpson is 46. Actor Emily Skeggs is 36. Pop singer Perrie Edwards (Little Mix) is 33.

Actor Isabela Merced is 25.

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Take the road less traveled. Look for new opportunities to put your attributes to good use. Engage in events that reflect something you want to pursue in life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Listen to your inner voice, not what someone else is prompting you to do. Don't be a tagalong when you have dreams of your own to pursue. You don't need to change to please others.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Focus on values, and set a course to embark on what moves you most. Take the path that allows you the freedom to breathe easy and satisfy your soul. A domestic adjustment will open your eyes.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Trust your instincts when dealing with others. Be resourceful, research, ask questions and determine what's most likely to support your long-term plans. An emotional situation will help mold your perspective.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Easy does it. You'll be manipulated if you let your heart lead the way. Stay focused on what's happening in your relationships and how you can ensure equality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Physical activity will help you blow off steam.

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part you from your money or encourage you to take a risk with your physical or emotional well-being.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Pay attention to what's happening at home or to those you love. Compensations are necessary when at a crossroads or embarking on a lifestyle change. Stop worrying about what went wrong.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Listen to your heart, not what others try to lead you to believe. Be resourceful and engage in activities and events that require your intellect and experience, and you will outperform those who challenge you.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Opportunity begins with you. Don't hide when it's necessary to put yourself out there and connect with people who can spark your imagination and inspire you to make changes to how you earn your living.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Engage in events that bring you in contact with like-minded people. Home improvements that make your life easier will turn into viable solutions to whatever is lacking in your life.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Change may be haunting you, but acting in haste will send you on a wild-goose chase. Slow down and rethink every move; time is on your side.

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The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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BY PHILLIP ALDER Hesiod, an early Greek poet, said, “Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.”

That applies to many bridge contracts, either to make or to break them. This deal gives both sides a chance for good timing once North-South push into four hearts.

West leads the spade two. How can East defeat the contract? How can South get home if East wins the first trick and tries to cash a second spade winner?

The bidding was difficult. When one spade came around, North thought about making a takeout double, but was rightly nervous about having only two hearts.

After North balanced with two clubs, South might have passed, but advanced with two hearts, knowing that his partner would remember that he had not immediately made a two-heart overcall. North cue-bid two spades to show a strong hand and ask his partner to bid no-trump with a spade stopper. (Five clubs can be defeated after a trump lead.)

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today’s thought “But so shall it not be among you: but whoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:” Mark 10:43

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Announcements You work hard enough, let me handle the dusting, vacuuming & mopping. Enjoy a flawlessly clean home without lifting a finger.

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

PUBLIC NOTICE --Downtown Development District of the City of New Orleans RFP # 2026 – 5135 – 51/52 – 50 The mission of the Down‐ town Development Dis‐ trict of the City of New Orleans (DDD) is to drive the development of Downtown New Orleans and be the catalyst for a prosperous, stimulating, innovative heart of the Crescent City.

Notice is hereby given that the DDD has issued a Request for Proposals for Labor and Mainte‐ nance Services (Holiday Lighting and Banners) within the 160 Blocks of the DDD. Proposals must be submitted electroni‐ cally via a shared folder using Microsoft OneDrive, a cloud-based program. The Downtown Development District of New Orleans will not ac‐ cept hard copy submis‐ sions at this time. Re‐ spondents who wish to submit a proposal must send a request to access a shared folder to cbourg@downtown‐ nola.com. Include in your request the company name, primary contact name and phone num‐ ber, and the email ad‐ dresses of the individu‐ als who will be allowed access to the e-folder. In response to your re‐ quest, you will receive a link to the shared folder and instructions on how to upload your proposal and how to organize it for easy viewing by the scoring committee. A Mandatory Pre-Proposal Conference will be held Tuesday, July 21st, 2026, at 2PM at 201 St. Charles Avenue, 39th Floor, Board Room.

Proposal re‐ sponses must be up‐ loaded to an assigned shared folder and re‐ ceived no later than Fri‐ day July 31st, 2026 at 2:00pm Central Time.

Bid Documents may be obtained online by con‐ tacting the Public Safety and Operations Division of the DDD at 504-784cbourg@dow 9454 or ntownnola.com.

All responses must be submitted in accordance with the RFP bid docu‐ ments. The DDD reserves the right to accept or re‐ ject any and all items or portions of items re‐ ceived.

193019-jul 3-4-5-10-11-1217-18-19-9t $273.33 PUBLIC NOTICE --INVITATION TO BID NO. 3122: CROSS TIES & SWITCH TIES The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Commis‐ sion for the Port of New Orleans (“NOPB”) is so‐ liciting bids for the asneeded purchase and de‐ livery of new cross ties and switch ties (the “Ma‐ terials”), as set forth more fully and in accor‐ dance with the General Conditions and Specifi‐ cations (“Specifica‐ tions”) and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the form agree‐ ment attached hereto (“Agreement”) for an ini‐ tial term of one (1) year, with the NOPB having the option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods.

Official bid documents can be downloaded and must be submitted elec‐ tronically through Cen‐ tral Bidding at www.cen tralbidding.com.

The specifications of the Invi‐ tation to Bid (ITB) may also be obtained from App, the SEBconnect available on both the Apple and Google play platforms.

BID SUBMISSION: NOPB will accept sealed bids for this Project until 10:00 a.m. CDT on Tuesday, July 21, 2026 (the “Bid Sub‐ mission Deadline”). Any bid received after the Bid Submission Deadline will not be considered.

Bidders must submit bids electronically for this Project in the follow‐ ing way: • Submit an ELECTRONIC BID. Bids must be submitted electronically at www. centralbidding.com For any questions relating to the electronic bidding l ll

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

the electronic bidding process, please call Cen‐ tral Bidding at 225-8104814. The bidder must at‐ tach a completed and signed digital copy of the Bid Form, Proof of Au‐ thority and any other documents required in the Bidding Documents.

The NOPB shall not be re‐ sponsible if a bidder can‐ not complete or submit an electronic bid. Bidders shall be responsible for receiving confirmation that the bid was suc‐ cessfully delivered prior to the Bid Submission Deadline.

tions relative to utiliza tion of DBEs on publicly funded projects.

The RTA is committed to utilization of DBEs on all federally funded projects toward attainment of the agency's established overall goal of 32%. No DBE goal has been estab‐ lished for this project as there are no subcon‐ tracting opportunities on this project.

BID OPENING: Immedi‐ ately following the Bid Submission Deadline, bids will be opened in ac‐ cordance with the bid documents.

NOPB CONTACT: Respon‐ dents must submit Ques‐ tions in writing to pro‐ curement@railnola.com

by Monday, July 13, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. CST. As nec‐ essary, addenda to this ITB will be issued to all respondents receiving this ITB. Questions, an‐ swers, and all forms re‐ quired will be posted on Central Bidding at www. centralbidding.com .

191872-JUN 23-JUL 1-10-3T $113 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2084 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026441, Au‐ gust 2026 Meat & Cheese - DOC - PE, 7/21/26 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.

Amy Vincent Director of State Procure‐ ment FAX (225) 342-8688 193674-JUL 10-1T $11.77 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #2026-020 360° MANAGED IT SERVICES Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans is seeking qualified ven‐ dors to provide 360-de‐ gree managed IT ser‐ vices per specifications in IFB 2026-020.

Notice to all offerors is hereby provided that, in accordance with all ap‐ plicable federal, state, and local laws, the RTA will ensure that DBEs are afforded full opportunity to submit offers and re‐ sponses to this solicita‐ tion and to participate in any contract consum‐ mated pursuant to this advertisement. Addition‐ ally, no offeror will be discriminated against on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, na‐ tional origin, ethnicity, or disability. For additional information, contact the RTA’s Small Business Of‐ fice at 504-827-8301.

The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals submitted.

Ronald Baptiste Jr. Chief Executive Officer Regional Transit Authority 193661-jul 10-24-2t $654.20 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority (“the Author‐ ity”) is requesting sealed bids for C-2207 Furnish & Install Sprinkler System Improvements.

Bids are due Tuesday, August 4, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at which time bids received on time and in the correct location will be considered. Bid docu‐ ments may be obtained online at https://www. centralauctionhouse. com/Category/10822/ NewOrleansErnestNMo rialConventionCenter or by contacting the Con‐ tracts Department at (504) 582-3562 or via email at contracts@ mccno.com.

All bids must be submit‐ ted in accordance with the bid documents.

193275-JUL 10-14-27-3T $28.44 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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How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Specifications and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained July 10, 2026, from the RTA’s Procure‐ ware website at https:// norta.procureware.com/ home. You will be re‐ quired to first register on this website. The IFB can also be obtained at the Regional Transit Author‐ ity’s website at http:// www.norta.com Clarification Deadline: Any questions or further information concerning this IFB must be submit‐ ted through https:// norta.procureware.com/ home by 1:00 PM on July 31, 2026. Only written questions submitted through the Procureware site shall be considered official. All answers to questions shall be by for‐ mal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026-020.

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Responding to IFB: Bids shall be submitted through the RTA’s Pro‐ cureware website or de‐ livered to 2817 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119 on or before 1:00 P.M., August 10, 2026.

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I, DORRELL MOTEN, DOC #701303 have applied for clemency for my conviction of FIRST DEGREE MURDER. If you have any comments, contact the Board of Pardons (225)342-5421.

193212 - JULY 8-10 3T $310 I, EDWARD WYNN, DOC #97424 have applied for clemency for my conviction of SECOND DEGREE MURDER. If you have any comments, contact the Board of Pardons (225)342-5421.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENTS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Monday, July 20, 2026 10:00 a.m.

City Council Chambers City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, 1st Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana The Board of Zoning Ad‐ justments, in accordance with Article 4 of the Com‐ prehensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance of the City of New Orleans, will hold a pub‐ lic hearing on the follow‐ ing items: Variances – Unfinished Business 1.

BZA032-26 2022-24 Philip Street / Team Robot, LLC, Greg John‐ son, DeShawn Davenport 2. BZA039-26 1455 N. Roman Street / Roy Cohen and Eileen Spira, Ezra Spira-Cohen 3. BZA043-26 2518 Bur‐ gundy Street / Brandon Laramie Macloud, Mar‐ garet Ann Macloud 4. BZA048-26 5015 Camp Street, 1013 Soniat Street | John Joyce and Chris‐ tine Harvey, Zach Smith Consulting & Design, Fre‐ sia Galvez Variances – New Business 5. BZA050-26 6500 Vicks‐ burg Street / Katie Beck Mitchell, Ashley LeJeune, AEDO+TERRA Studio 6. BZA051-26 3001 Saint Anthony Street / Nadine Ramsey, Ruth L. Ramsey, Douglas C. Mayo 7.

BZA052-26 1631 Killdeer Street / Unix Ser‐ vices, LLC, Robyn and Ed‐ ward Murhammer, Metro Studio 8. BZA053-26 3914 Pryta‐ nia Street, 3915 Perrier Street / Rosalyn L’Amir, Sherman Strategies, Becca Gieger 9. BZA054-26 906 Philip Street / Charles and Sarah Anderson 10. BZA055-26 5912 Pat‐ ton Street / Young Family Revocable Trust - Linton and Kirstin Young, Zach Smith Consulting & De‐ sign LLC, Jonnie Beth Bryan 11. BZA056-26 518 Spain Street / Robert and Susan Hirt, Doug Kohnke, SZS Consultant, Inc., J.W. Drennan, LLC 12.

BZA057-26 10 Audubon Boulevard / Rena Jolly Qualified Per‐ sonal Residence Trust, Sherman Strategies, Becca Gieger Director of Safety and Permits Decision Appeals – Unfinished Business 13. BZA008-24 2900 Per‐ dido Street / The Voice of the Experienced 14. BZA110-25 1037-39 Broadway Street / C NAPCO INC, Zach Smith Consulting & Design, Laura Barth, Laura Carlisle, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, P.C. 15. BZA049-26 717 Bar‐ racks Street / 717 Bar‐ racks LLC, Zach Smith Consulting & Design, Laura Barth, Laura Carlisle, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, P.C. Director of Safety and Permits Decision Appeals – New Business 16.

BZA058-26 4501 Toulouse Street / JNJ Amusement, LLC, Keli and Thomas Burgess 17. BZA059-26 7301 Bur‐ the Street / Town of Car‐ rollton Watch, LLC, Susan Johnson 18. BZA060-26 7600 Maple Street / MGZ, LLC, Steve Zissis, Efthimios Zissis, Stavros Zissis, Maria Zissis, Rob Ennis, TJQ Maple LLC, Robert Ellis Notice under the Ameri‐ cans with Disabilities Act: This meeting is ac‐ cessible to people with disabilities. Should you need further assistance, please contact the Front Desk in the Main Lobby h d i i

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its first public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307).

ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR STATE‐ MENT OF INTEREST AND QUALIFICATIONS The Coastal Protection and Restoration Author‐ ity (CPRA) gives public notice that it is request‐ ing Statements of Inter‐ est and Qualifications from interested, qualified persons or firms (includ‐ ing public agencies and institutions) to provide the means for “Surveying Services for the Coast‐ wide Reference Monitor‐ ing System (CRMS)”.

• RSIQ No. 2503-27-01 is available http://coastal. la.gov/resources/rfpsrsiqs-contracts/ contracts-and-grants/.

They also may be ob‐ tained by emailing CPRA‐ Contracts@la.gov.

• Proposals must be re‐ ceived no later than 3:00 p.m. CST on September 11, 2026 after which time and date they will not be accepted.

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 869-615 MCLP ASSET COMPANY, INC. VERSUS GERARD WALKER AND BETRICE HUD‐ SON WALKER (A/K/A BETRICE HUDSON) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐

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Parish of Jeffer son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated October 20, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ talning, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son in that part thereof known as Timber‐ Lake lane Estates, composed of a portion of De‐ strhan Divi‐ sion,formerly designated as Parcels D, E and M as shown on a plan of resub‐ division by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E.& S., dated September 18, 1980, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordinance No. 14580, adopted January 15, 1981, filed in COB 996,folio 812 in the Records of Jefferson Parish, LA which said plan was last revised January 30, 1985 said Parcel D being further re‐ subdivided into Parcel D-1 as per plan of resubdi‐ vision by Rich‐ mond W. Krebs, Professional Land Surveyor, dated May 26, 1998, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordinance No. 20430, recorded in the Clerk of Court's Office for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son under In‐ strument No. 9852862, in COB 2991, folio 882; said prop‐ erty being fur‐ h bdi

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DOGS Micro Mini Goldendoodle - puppies males & female.S/W, health guaran‐ tee. $1000 504-228-6701

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WANT TO BUY Old Records 33's, 45's & 78's. All types of music. Call 985-259-1889

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FURNITURE China Cabinet, excellent condition, like new, cream & beige $250. New Queen Bed, mattress set included $175. Text or Call 504-539-0755

10,000 Apt Homes and 75 Locations with Studio, 1, 2 & 3 Bedrooms Pools, Access Gates, Garages (504) 360-9347

JEWELRY/WATCHES Ladies beautiful 10k gold diamond wishbone ring. $300. 504-994-7385

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of The Heirs of James R. and/or Viola Matherne Thibodeaux please contact Attorney David J. Motter, 3500 N. Hullen Street, Metairie, LA 70002; 504-388-7005.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Jose Alvarado please contact Attorney David J. Motter, 3500 N. Hullen Street, Metairie, LA 70002; 504-388-7005.

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Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the Unopened Succession of Gertrude Melvina Jones and the Unopened Succession of John Courtade and their heirs, successors, and assigns, please contact Atty. Rudy W. Gorrell @ (504) 553-9588.

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y g ther resubdi‐ vided as per plan of resubdi‐ vision by Rich‐ mond W. Krebs, Professional Land Surveying, L.S., dated July 2, 1998, last re‐ vised Septem‐ ber 23, 1999 and that plan enti‐ tled Privacy Entry Gate Plan for Village Green, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on January 12, 2000 under Ordi‐ nance No. 20847 filed and regis‐ tered under In‐ strument No. 10005777 in COB 3024, folio 583 and accord‐ ing to which said property is designated as Village Green, Phase 1 as shown on plan of subdivision dated July 2, 1998 and re‐ vised as follows, June 30, 1999, August 11, 1999, August 19, 1999, September 2, 1999, September 7, 1999, Septem‐ ber 17, 1999, September 23, 1999 and December 15, 1999 and is

15, 1999 and is more particu‐ larly described as follows: Lot 94 is bounded by North Village Street, Green Manhattan Boulevard (side),Harvey Boulevard and 116 foot access & utility servi‐ tude and mea‐ sures 50 feet front on North Village Green Street, has the same width in the rear by a depth of 108 feet between equal and parallel lines. All in ac‐ cordance with survey by John‐ son Professional Land Surveyors, Inc., dated Sep‐ tember 18, 2000, resurveyed Oc‐ tober 12, 2000 to lo‐ cate forms, resurveyed Oc‐ tober 16, 2000 to locate slab, resurveyed December 15, 2000, a copy of which is an‐ nexed hereto and made a part hereof.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ i it i

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j p rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit.

AMY R. ORTIS Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ISSUANCE OF SINGLE FAMILY MORTGAGE REVENUE BONDS The Louisiana Housing Corporation (the “Corporation”) hereby gives notice of a public hearing to be held pursuant to the requirements of Section 147(f) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, concerning its proposed issuance of not exceeding One Hundred Twenty-Five Million Dollars ($125,000,000) of Louisiana Housing Corporation Single Family Mortgage Revenue Bonds, Series 2026A (Non-AMT) (the “Bonds”) under the provisions of Chapter 3-G of Title 40 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended (R.S.40:600.1 through R.S.40:600.24) (the “Act”), and other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto. The Bonds are being issued pursuant to the Corporation’s General Indenture of Trust dated as of March 1, 2025 (the “General Indenture”) and a Series 2026A/B Indenture (the “Series 2026A/B Indenture”, together with the General Indenture, the “Indenture”) for the purpose of providing funds for the Corporation to finance qualified mortgage loans throughout the State of Louisiana with the proceeds of the Bonds which will be allocated private activity volume cap pursuant to Section 146 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), and to pay the cost issuance of the Bonds as permitted under the Code. The Bonds are limited obligations of the Corporation and will be payable solely out of the income, revenues and receipts derived from the Mortgaged Backed Securities backed by qualified mortgage loans and certain funds and accounts held under and pursuant to the Indenture and pledged therefore. As provided in the Act and the Indenture, the Bonds do not constitute and obligation, either general or special, of the State of Louisiana, any municipality, or any other political subdivision thereof.

The Corporation will hold a public hearing with respect to the issuance of said Bonds on July 23, 2026, at 10:00 a.m., Louisiana Time, at the offices of the Louisiana Housing Corporation, 2415 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808. The meeting will be open to the public in accordance with law, and any comments with respect to the proposed Bonds will be received and considered by the Board.

Written comments received at the offices of the Corporation prior to the date of the meeting will be considered.

Further information regarding the Bonds may be obtained from the offices of the Louisiana Housing Corporation, 2415 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808.

LOUISIANA HOUSING CORPORATION By: /s/ Kevin Delahoussaye LHC Executive Director

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NO: 868-191 PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VS CHAD MICHAEL MARRERO AND CHRISTINA ANN MARRERO AKA CHRISTINA ANN MEYER MARRERO By virtue of and in obedience to Writ of a AND SEIZURE SALE from the Judicial 24th Court, District Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the num‐ above bered and enti‐ l d

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bered and enti tled cause, August dated 28, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Ex‐ Westbank pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. following the described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ OF TION GROUND, to‐ h i h ll

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, gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in the City of Kenner, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in HIGHWAY PARK SUBDIVISION (Pope Park) in SQUARE NO. 515, bounded by Illi‐ Avenue nois (formerly Pine 22nd Street), (side) Street (formerly 2nd Street), Idaho (for‐ Avenue Elm merly Street) and 21st Street (formerly West Metairie Avenue), which id l i d i

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, y , dated May 31, 1965; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding rights mineral of record affecting the property.

), said lot is desig‐ nated as LOT "Q", and com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 216.40 feet from the corner of Illinois Avenue and 21st Street measures and thence 50 feet front on Illinois Avenue, same width in the rear, and front on a 15 foot alley, in the rear, by a depth of 120 between feet equal and paral‐ lel lines, all in accordance with the survey of J.L. Fontcu‐ berta, Surveyor, d d

The improve‐ ments thereon bear the Munici‐ pal No. 1909 Illi‐ Avenue, nois Kenner, Louisiana 70062.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ mort‐ terests, gages, liens and privileges.

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TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds be must Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Brenvilla Subdi‐ vision, as shown on plan of re‐ subdivision by Adloe Orr, Jr., C.E. & Associates, dated April 25, 1962, registered in COB 553, folio 556, records of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, des‐ ignated as Lot 49-C. All in ac‐ cordance with a survey

by Dading, Mar‐ ques & Associ‐ ates, Inc., dated February 27, 1996, a copy of which is annexed to act no. 96-11857 and made a part hereof; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the property.

For informa‐ tional purposes only: Improve‐ ments thereon bear Municipal No. 612 Sophia Street, River Ridge, Louisiana 70123.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 873-920 PINGORA LOAN SERVICING, LLC VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF CHARLES L. NICELY, (A/K/A CHARLES LEE NICELY) AND LEANE MARIE SCHERER AND CAROLYN SCHERER DUPUY By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated March 19, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE LOT

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together with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in SQUARE “E” of BELMONT PLACE, bounded by Bel‐ mont Place, N. Line of Subdivi‐ sion, KennerN.O. Interstate Highway, Jeferson Drive Subdivision, N. Turnbull Drive and 33rd Street, designated as LOT NO. 2 on a sur‐ vey made by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., Surveyor, dated May 30, 1974, revised July 1, 1983, a copy of which is annexed to an Act of Mortgage dated August 1, 1983 by act passed before Gerald Wasserman, No‐ tary Public, recorded in MOB 888, Folio 264, and accord‐ ing thereto, said LOT commences at a distance of 360 feet from the corner of Belmont Place and 33rd Street, measures thence 60 feet front on Bel‐ mont Place, same width in the rear, by a depth on the sideline nearer to 33rd Street of 100.92 feet, and a depth on the opposite side‐ line of 101.20 feet.

And according to a survey made by S. Z. S. Consultants dated Decem‐ ber 7, 1993, the above-de‐ scribed prop‐ erty has the same location, designation and dimensions as hereinabove set forth.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 2509 Bel‐ mont Place, Metairie, Louisiana 70001.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 870-907 CASCADE FUNDING MORTGAGE TRUST HB15 VERSUS TRACY MARILYN CARR FEDERICI AND THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF RONALD R. FEDERICI By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial

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District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Decem‐ ber 8, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: REAL PROPERTY IN THE CITY OF METAIRIE, COUNTY OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 3, SQUARE 5, CHATEAU PARK SUBDIVI‐ SION, MORE FULLY DE‐ SCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, TO‐ GETHER WITH ALL RIGHTS, WAYS, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN AP‐ ANYWISE PERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN THAT SUBDI‐ VISION KNOWN AS CHATEAU PARK, BEING A RESUBDIVSION OF PLOTS 340, 341, 330, 331, 328, 329, 316, 317, 318, 319, 304, 305, 306, 307, 294, 295, AND PART OF 292 AND 293, HESSMER FARMS SUBDIVI‐ SION, AS PER SUBDIVISION PLAN OF WILLIAM MAIER, DATED 415-70, RECORDED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON UNDER ORDINANCE NO. 10331 IN COB 745, FOLIO 390.

ACCORDING TO SAID PLAN LOT 3 OF SQUARE 5 IS SITUATED IN THAT SQUARE BOUNDED BY CHATEAU DRIVE AND WEST ES‐ PLANADE AV‐ ENUE, HESSMER AV‐ ENUE AND 7TH STREET. LOT 3 COMMENCES AT A DISTANCE OF 116.07 FEET FROM THE COR‐ NER OF CHATEAU DRIVE AND WEST ES‐ PLANADE AVENUE, MEA‐ SURES THENCE 60 FEET FRONT ON CHATEAU DRIVE, THE SAME IN WIDTH IN THE REAR, BY A DEPTH OF 96.27 FEET ON THE SIDE LINE NEAREST TO WEST ES‐ PLANADE AV‐ ENUE, AND A DEPTH OF 96.92 FEET ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE LINE. LOT 3 OF SQUARE 5 LIES WHOLLY WITHIN WHAT WAS ORIGINAL PLOT 295 OF HESSMER FARMS SUBDIVI‐ SION. ALL AS MORE FULLY SHOWN ON THE SURVEY OF JAMES F. LUMSDEN, C.E., DATED 3-20-72 AND 7-23-72 (FINAL).

ALL AS MORE FULLY SHOWN ON SURVEY OF DADING, MAR‐ QUES & ASSOCIATES, INC. DATED 9-161998.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the

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time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 874-262 PNC BANK, NATIONAL AS‐ SOCIATION VERSUS AMANDA HERG‐ ERT LACHNEY AND JULES JOSEPH LACHNEY By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 7, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof known as GREATER HOLLY HEIGHTS SUBDI‐ VISION, SEC‐ TION 3, all in accordance with the survey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. dated June 29, 1971, filed in Plan Book 74, folio 20, and also according to a survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons dated December 17, 1971, said Prop‐ erty is more fully described as follows, towit: LOT NO. 12 of SQUARE M, and said Square M is bounded by Rancher Road, Cascade Boule‐ vard, Sessions Lane and the North boundary of the subdivi‐ sion, Section 3; and Lot 12 com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 797.06 feet from the corner of Rancher Road and Sessions Lane and mea‐ sures thence 50 feet front on Rancher Road, same width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and

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g g privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

RADER JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 870-835 WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF CSMC 2018-SP3 TRUST VERSUS AHMAD Q. SIDDIQUI AND GULNAZ QAVI SIDDIQUI By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Decem‐ ber 5, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE BUILD‐ INGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL OF THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN ANYWISE APPERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN THE CITY OF KENNER, IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWN AS PLACE PONTCHAR‐ TRAIN SUBDIVI‐ SION, AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PLAN OF SUBDIVISION

BY J.J. KREBS & SONS INC., DATED FEBRUARY, 4, 1993, REVISED MAY 24, 1993 AND JUNE 30, 1993, APPROVED

BY THE KENNER CITY COUNCIL

BY ORDINANCE NO. 668, REGIS‐ TERED IN COB 2873, FOLIO 814, SAID LOT IS DESIGNATED BY THE NO. 28, AND MEASURES 75.00 FEET FRONT ON RUE ST. MARTIN SAME WIDTH IN THE REAR, BY A DEPTH OF 130.00 FEET BETWEEN EQUAL AND PARALLEL LINES. ALL AS MORE FULLY SHOWN ON SURVEY BY DADING, MAR‐ QUES & ASSOCIATES, INC., DATED

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7/25/97.

THE IMPROVE‐ MENTS THEREON BEAR THE MUNICIPAL NO. 4409 RUE ST. MARTIN, KEN‐ NER, LOUISIANA 70065.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

KATE SOTO‐ LONGO Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 869-753 FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS BRUCE B. MILLER, JR. AND NICOLE MILLER AKA NICOLE GRAY MILLER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated October 23, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part des‐ ignated as HICKORY RIDGE ESTATES on a plan of resubdi‐ vision by Krebs, LaSalle, LeMieux Consultants, Inc., dated April 1, 2003, desig‐ nated as LOT 11 and is described as follows: LOT 11 mea‐ sures 70 feet front on Ferri‐ day Court, same width across the rear, by a depth of 138 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines. All as shown on plan of subdivision for Hickory Ridge Estates by Krebs, LaSalle, LeMieux Consul‐ tants, dated April 2, 2003, registered with the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son. All as

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more fully shown on a sur‐ vey by Gilbert, Kelly & Cou‐ turie, Inc., dated December 14, 2003; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the prop‐ erty.

The below is for informational purposes only: The improve‐ ments thereon bear the Munici‐ pal Number: 681 FERRIDAY COURT, HARAHAN, LA 70123.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

ELIZABETH CROWELL PRICE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 874-912 U.S. BANK NATIONAL AS‐ SOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE OF THE NEW RESIDEN‐ TIAL MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2024NQM2 VERSUS KEVIN MMAHAT A/K/A KEVIN P. MMAHAT AND GINA TEDESCO MMAHAT A/K/A GINA T. MMA‐ HAT A/K/A GINA MMAHAT By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 21, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: A certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, means, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, located in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, lo‐ cated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, designated as Lot M-11-A, Cleveland Es‐

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tates "On the Lake", as more fully shown on a plan of Cleve‐ land Estates "On the Lake", Section 43, T12S-R10E, Jefferson Parish, LA, by Ronald Clement, P.L.S., dated Au‐ gust 03, 2018, and as supplemented by a plan of resubdivision of Lots M-9, M-10, M-11 & M-12, and Khan Court into Lots M-94, M-10A, M11A, M-12A, and Khan Court (Lot M-18), Cleve‐ land Estates "On the Lake" Subdivision lo‐ cated in Section 43, T12S-R10E, Jef‐ ferson Parish, LA, by Ronald Clement, P.L.S., dated Septem‐ ber 29, 2020, registered at COB 3445, folio 918, in the official records of the clerk of court for the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ mort‐ terests, gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-717 GITSIT SOLUTIONS, LLC, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE OF GV TRUST 2026-1 VERSUS ANN BEVAN FRAICHE AND THOMAS J. FRAICHE By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 28, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐

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son, State of Louisiana, in METAIRIE HEIGHTS by bounded Metairie Heights Avenue, W. Esplanade Avenue, Metairie Court Parkway and Poplar Street and Lake Pontchartrain, designated as LOTS NOS. 869 and 871, on the survey made by Gilbert, Kelly & Cou‐ turie, Inc., Sur‐ veying & Engi‐ neering, dated May 15, 1976, a copy of which is an‐ nexed to an act of purchase reg‐ istered in COB 866, folio 171 and accord‐ ing to said sur‐ vey, said Lots Nos. 869 and 871 adjoin, and measure each 25 feet front on Metairie Heights Avenue, or a total of 50 feet front on Metairie Heights Avenue, same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet, between equal and paral‐ lel lines. Lot No. 859 forms the corner of Metairie Heights Avenue and W. Esplanade Avenue and has a depth and front on W. Es‐ planade Avenue of 120 feet (“Prop‐ erty”).

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 874-529 U.S. BANK TRUST NA‐ TIONAL ASSOCI‐ ATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR LEGACY MORTGAGE ASSET TRUST 2020-RPL1 VERSUS WILLIAM H. RAMBEAU, SR. By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 9, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit:

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ONE CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT, together with all im‐ provements thereon including said Unit's appur‐ tenant undi‐ vided interest in the Common El‐ ements, situated in the State of Louisiana, Jef‐ ferson Parish, designated as Unit 1 in DEVONSHIRE CONDOMINI‐ UMS, as created by Condo‐ minium Declara‐ tion dated September 24, 1981 recorded as COB 1017, folio 664, entry no.: 997745 as amended on January 21, 1982 recorded as COB 1019, folio 65, entry no.: 1000395.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

EMILY A. MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 821-168 GIROD TITLING TRUST VS REGINALD D. WAYNE AND REGGIE WAYNE ENTERPRISES, LLC By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated January 29, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, advan‐ tages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in STONEBRIDGE SUBDIVISION (formerly a part of Parcels FF-9 and FF-10, Lake Tim‐ berlane Es‐ tates), in SQUARE 7 thereof desig‐ nated as LOT NO. 169, which lot mea‐ sure 100.48 feet front on Lake Aspen East i

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p Drive, 100 feet in width in the rear, by a depth of 126.74 feet on the North side line and a depth of 136.46 feet on the opposite sideline. All in accordance with a plan by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated August 31, 1981, filed in Plan Book 108, Folio 31-B approved by Ordinance No. 15014 adopted by the Jefferson Parish Council on January 6, 1982, registered in COB 1019, Folio 674, Entry No. 1001764, Parish of Jefferson on February 5, 1982, registered in COB 1031, folio 53. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey

by J.F. Ruello, Land Surveyor, dated July 20, 1983.

Said measure‐ ments are more fully shown on Plat of Survey by Wilton J. Dufrene, Land Surveyor, dated May 25, 1990, a copy of which is an‐ nexed to act of Cash Sale dated June 13, 1990, recorded at COB 2332, Folio 234, Entry No. 9024382, of‐ ficial records of Jef‐ ferson Parish, Louisiana, and according thereto said square is bounded

by Lake Aspen East Drive, Lake Aspen North Drive, Lake Tim‐ berlane Drive, Lake Aspen South Drive, Lake Kristin Drive, Parcel B and Lake Louise Drive.

Improvements thereon bear municipal ad‐ dress 3621 Lake Aspen Drive East, Gretna, Louisiana 700568302.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

SCOTT R. CHEATHAM Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 852-232 REGIONS BANK VS BRET M. PENNISON (A/K/A BRET PENNISON) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated February 9, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office

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Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED PROPERTY IN THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA: IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWN AS UNI‐ VERSITY CITY, AS PER PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION

BY RENE A. HAR‐ RIS, DATED FEB‐ RUARY 3, 1972, APPROVED IN COB 759, FOLIO 475 AND DESIGNATED AS LOT T, SQUARE 13, BOUNDED BY WEST LOUISIANA STATE DRIVE, WEST TEMPLE PLACE, LOYOLA DRIVE WEST AND WEST STAN‐ FORD PLACE AND LOT T (SOMETIMES ERRONEOUSLY REFERRED TO AS LOT 7) COM‐ MENCES 160 FEET FROM WEST TEMPLE PLACE AND WEST LOUISIANA STATE DRIVE AND MEASURES 50 FEET FRONT ON WEST LOUISIANA STATE DRIVE, SAME WIDTH IN THE REAR, BY A DEPTH BETWEEN EQUAL AND PARALLEL LINES OF 110 FEET. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

AMY R. ORTIS Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 865-302 WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR STRUCTURED ASSET SECURI‐ TIES CORPORATION MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2007-OSI VERSUS MARY LOUISE BUTLER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 28, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit:

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A CERTAIN LOT OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part for‐ merly designated as Parcel F, Or‐ leans Village Corporate Tract, a portion being resubdivided into Parcel F-1; said Parcel F-1 being resubdi‐ vided with a portion of Parcel E into Parcel F-1A; said Parcel F-1A, now being known as LINCOLNSHIRE SUBDIVISION, SECTION III (3), in accordance with a plan of subdivision by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated Feb‐ ruary 24, 1982, approved by Or‐ dinance No. 15100, registered in Cob 1024, Folio 275, as amended by that plan of re‐ subdivision by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., CE & S , dated May 11, 1982, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council by Ordi‐ nance No. 15201, registered in Cob 1028, Folio 726, under Entry No. 1021497, accord‐ ing to which plan, said lot is described as follows: LOT 20A, SQUARE 27 is bounded by Rue Louis Phillipe, Fernando Court, Gentry Road and Con‐ stantine Drive, and commences at a distance of 326.74 feet from the intersection of Gentry Road and Constantine Drive and mea‐ sures thence 40 feet front on Con‐ stantine Drive, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 95 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines. All in accordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated July 29, 1988.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

EMILY A. MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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AKA ROSHANDA LYNN ALEXANDER BLUE By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 18, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Acres Ranch Subdivision, which said piece or portion of ground is shown on that certain subdivi‐ sion plan by Alvin E. Hotard, C.E., dated April 15, 1960, ap‐ proved by Ordinance No. 4567 of the Jef‐ ferson Parish Council adopted May 12, 1960, registered CDB 507, folio 402, and is further described in ac‐ cordance with the survey of J. J. Krebs & Son, Inc., dated September 24, 1976, resur‐ veyed Novem‐ ber 30, 1976, to show improvements es Lot 5 of Square 18, which said lot commences 200 feet from the in‐ tersection of Colorado Drive and Sierra Street, and measures thence 50 feet front on Colorado Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of 125 feet each; subject to re‐ strictions, servi‐ tudes, rights-ofway and out‐ standing min‐ eral rights of record affecting the property.

The improve‐ ments bear the municipal ad‐ dress 2516 Col‐ orado Dr, Mar‐ rero, Louisiana 70072.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

Jul 10-aug 14-2t

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT

ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff

The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 866-959 PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VERSUS ROSHANDA L. ALEXANDER

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 853-663 DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR FIRST FRANKLIN MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2006-FF9, MORT‐ GAGE PASSTHROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-FF9 VS PATRICIA AMAYA MORGA HERNANDEZ AKA PATRICIA ARACELY HERNANDEZ AMAYA, CAMILA ALEXANDRA HERNANDEZ AND SEBASTIAN DAVID HERNANDEZ By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 4, 2024, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in SQUARE NO 101, TERRYTOWN SUBDIVISION, NO. 6, bounded by Glouster Place, Gibson Street (side), Goucher Street (side), Grape Place (side) and Glouster Place (side), desig‐ nated as LOT NO. 5, com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 325 feet from the corner Glouster Place and Gibson Street, mea‐ sures thence 60 feet front on Glouster Place, a width in the rear of 60.32 feet by a depth on the sideline nearer Gibson Street of 112.50 feet and a depth of 106.25 on the opposite side‐ line. All as more full shown on survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., S&E, dated Oc‐ tober 12, 1991, which as the ad‐ dress of 744 Glouster Place, Gretna, Louisiana 70056; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the property.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or

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y Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

ASHLEY E. MORRIS Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 862-741 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS CRISTI JOFFRION A/K/A CRISTI GEISENDORFF AND THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF CHRISTOPHER CELESTIN A/K/A CHRISTOPHER AARON CELESTIN, DECEASED By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 27, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, in that part thereof known as Lake Timber‐ lane Estates, Section 4, in accordance with the plan of resubdivision by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., Civil Engineer & Sur‐ veyors, dated December 8, 1989, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on Feb‐ ruary 14, 1990 by Ordinance No. 17929, recorded March 15, 1990, under Entry No. 90-10219, in COB 2305, folio 207, said portion of ground is desig‐ nated as Lot 16, Square D and more fully de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: Square D is bounded by Jupiter Street, Sutherland Place, Pem‐ broke Lane and Parcels A-1 and A-2.

Lot 16 com‐ mences 915.00' from the corner of Jupiter Street and Sutherland Place, measures thence 60' front on Sutherland Place, same width in the rear by a depth of 125' between equal and paral‐ lel lines. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc, redated and

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signed February 17, 1994.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

L. GRAHAM ARCENEAUX Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 863-183 PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC VS TAREK A. FADL AND MELODY STUART ISMAIL A/K/A MELODY STUART RICCIARDO ISMAIL FADL By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Novem‐ ber 5, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 19, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PO‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated In the City of Kenner, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in UNIVERSITY SUBDIVI‐ CITY SION, SQUARE NO. 80, which said square is bounded by Kilgore Place, North‐ western Drive, John Hopkins Drive and Tu‐ lane Drive and according to a plan of subdivi‐ sion by the of‐ fice of Surveys, Inc, dated No‐ vember 4, 1960, revised on December 31, 1960, February 20, 1961, and as further revised October 13, 1961, copy of which is on file in the records of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, and accordance in with a resubdi‐ vision of a por‐ tion of Univer‐ sity City Subdivision by Rene A. Harris, dated Novem‐ ber 15, 1965, ap‐ proved under Ordinance No. 881, City of

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Kenner, on De‐ cember 20, 1965, said lot is desig‐ nated as fol‐ lows: LOT NO. 7 forms the corner of Northwestern Drive and John Hopkins Drive and measures thence 65.26 feet front on John Hopkins Drive, 53.95 feet In width in the rear, by a depth along North‐ western Drive of 110.58 feet and a depth of 110 feet on the opposite sideline. All in accordance with survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated August 18, 1975, resurveyed and certified correct December 10, 1976; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

The Improve‐ ments thereon bear Municipal No. 94 John Hop‐ kins Drive, Ken‐ ner, LA 70065.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

BRIGHAM J. LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 10, 2026, August 14, 2026 Jul 10-aug 14-2t Public Notices Successions

PUBLIC NOTICE --LEGAL NOTICE. SUCCES‐ SION OF AARON BROWN, No. 656-517, Div. “G,” 24th JDC, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana.

NOTICE IS GIVEN that Linda H. Brown, Administratrix, has filed an Amended Final Tableau of Distribu‐ tion and Petition for Ho‐ mologation. No cash dis‐ tributions are proposed.

Property at 2093 Benedict Drive, Marrero, LA 70072 to be sold by judicial sale. The Tableau may be homologated after 7 days from publication.

Oppositions must be filed before homologa‐ tion. Hearing: August 18, 2026, 10:00 a.m., Division “G,” 200 Derbigny Street, Gretna, LA. Contact: Con‐ nie P. Trieu, Trieu Law LLC, (504) 301-4525.

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