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BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON — After three weeks of legislative paralysis that required Congress to go home early for the July Fourth holiday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, was finally able Tuesday to narrowly pass legislation that included the partisan voter restrictions demanded by President Donald Trump and making daylight saving time permanent.

But the legislation faces a tougher path in the Senate, largely because of the sudden death of prominent Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., and the illness of Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. Republicans hold a 53-47 majority.

U.S. Sen. John Kennedy, R-Madisonville, told

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Oak trees are prepared for removal for a major drainage project on Elysian Fields on June 30.

When complete, Gentilly will see said Gentilly resident Fences go up along struction,” Kristi Jacobs-Stanley. “They didn’t six stormwater parks capable of storing 9 million fences up for Elysian Fields Avenue put gallons of stormwathat walkway,” she Lake Pontchartrain

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For more than a decade, New Orleans has pondered new ways to manage stormwater in low-lying areas like Gentilly, where $141 million worth of green projects are in the queue for construction.

And after repeated delays, the city broke ground on the largest of those projects — the Blue Green Corridors — in May, when crews erected large chain-link fences along several blocks of Elysian Fields Avenue near Filmore Avenue.

“When the fences went up, that was what made me think there’s going to be some kind of major con-

. added, referencing a ter. It will get new Lakeshore Dr separate project that playgrounds, fitness University of carved a walking areas, native plant. on Dr New Orleans Leon C. Sim path between Genings and a stretch Allen Toussaint Blvd. of Elysian Fields tilly Boulevard and neutral grounds will Mirabeau Avenue GENTILLY Prentiss Ave. be converted into an last year. open waterway that The $42 million Filmore Ave. stores stormwater federally funded Blue when it rains to ease project aims to alleGreen pressure off the viate flooding across Corridor tilly Blvd. city’s overburdened swaths of city-owned Gen Project pumping and drainland bounded by the Staff map London Avenue Caage system.

City officials have nal, Franklin Avenue, Allen Toussaint Boulevard and Film- said the goal of Blue Green Corridors and the broader Gentilly Resilience ore Avenue.

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ICE to suspend vehicle stops after 2 deadly shootings

BY PATRICK WHITTLE, JACK BROOK, REBECCA SANTANA and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press

BIDDEFORD, Maine — Trump administration officials told Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to suspend most vehicle stops after two deadly shootings within a week, people familiar with the decision said Tuesday.

The policy change came after an ICE officer shot and killed a Colombian driver Monday in Maine and a week after one shot and killed a motorist in Houston, renewing criticism of the

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MANILA, Philippines — A distinguished American marine biologist has been fatally shot by three men who entered his house in the central Philippines, police said on Tuesday.

Kent Carpenter, 73, was with his Filipina companion in a house in the coastal town of Sibulan, in Negros Oriental province, on Sunday night when the masked men forced their way in.

One drew a gun and shot Carpenter in the head, killing him instantly, police said his companion told them. The men took a laptop, an unspecified amount of cash and a backpack before fleeing, national police spokesperson Col. Allen Rae Co told reporters.

Regional police spokesperson Lt. Col. Joem Malong told The Associated Press that Carpenter’s companion sustained unspecified injuries and was being treated.

Investigators were trying to determine the motive for the killing and identify the attackers.

Carpenter was a marine biologist who had worked as a lecturer at the Silliman University, in Dumaguete city, Negros Oriental, Malong said.

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Security’s looming fundBipartisan group introduces legislation to address Social Security ingSocial shortfall is mainly the result

BY FATIMA HUSSEIN and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press

WASHINGTON — With Social Security’s looming insolvency date roughly six years away, a bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced a proposal Tuesday to grapple with one of the most consequential financial challenges facing the federal government.

The Protecting Retirement Opportunities and Maintaining Income Security for Everyone, or PROMISE Act, comes on the heels of the latest Social Security Board of Trustees’ annual report, which found that Social Security’s retirement trust fund is projected to face a funding shortfall in 2032, a year earlier than last year’s projections.

Even with it being clear for years that Social Security was running out of money, Congress has been loath to act. Making changes to the

program — and potentially cutting benefits — has long been politically unpopular, and lawmakers have repeatedly kicked Social Security and Medicare’s troubling math to the next generation.

“The longer Congress waits, the more difficult it will be to address the program’s financial shortfall,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., one of the bill’s authors, said in a statement.

“We were elected to solve problems — we owe it to our kids and grandkids to protect and strengthen this critical program.”

Durbin, who is retiring, is joining with Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia; independent Sen. Angus King of Maine and outgoing Republican Sens. Bill Cassidy, of Louisiana, John Cornyn of Texas and Thom Tillis of North Carolina in backing the Social Security legislation, which calls for an “independent, bipartisan advisory committee” that would make recom-

mendations to Congress.

Sens. Chris Coons, D-Del., and Alan Armstrong, R-Okla., signed onto the bill right before its introduction.

The bill is designed to force Congress to confront Social Security’s long-term financing problem by guaranteeing that lawmakers vote on a solvency plan. It culminates in an up-or-down vote on a plan that restores Social Security solvency for at least half a century.

Committees, however, have been here before. That happened as recently as 2024, when House lawmakers undertook an effort with the backing of several in GOP leadership to form a federal debt commission that would include tackling the solvency of Social Security and Medicare.

The effort collapsed when Americans for Tax Reform — led by its president, Grover Norquist — aggressively lobbied against it.

Bangkok bar fire death toll rises to 30

U.S.-Russian crew arrives at the ISS MOSCOW — A U.S.-Russian space crew arrived Tuesday at the International Space Station after launching from the Russialeased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

NASA astronaut Anil Menon and Russian crewmates Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off as scheduled at 7:47 p.m. aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS29 for an eight-month stint on the orbiting outpost. Their spacecraft docked smoothly at the station in automatic mode about three hours after the launch.

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman attended the launch, the first visit to Baikonur by a NASA chief in eight years that highlighted the ongoing cooperation in orbit between Moscow and Washington, despite tensions over Russia’s military action in Ukraine.

Before the launch, Isaacman met with the head of Russia’s state corporation Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov. Speaking during Monday’s meeting with the crew, Isaacman thanked Roscosmos for its efforts to prepare for the mission, saying that “the integrated work performed over the past several months reflects the professionalism and dedication of everyone involved.”

The mission is Menon’s first space flight and the second for Dubrov and Kikina.

The trio will join NASA astronauts Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway and Chris Williams, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev and Andrei Fedyaev.

2 teens charged in fatal Illinois family shootings EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. — Two teenagers were charged with murder Tuesday in the killings of five members of an Illinois family who were shot at three different locations.

A 16-year-old boy will be prosecuted as an adult, while the case against a 15-year-old girl will start in juvenile court before a possible transfer to the St. Clair County criminal court, the county prosecutor’s office said.

Five people were killed and two more were wounded, primarily on Sunday, in a “targeted mass shooting” in East St. Louis, a city across the Mississippi River from St. Louis, police said.

Troopers stopped a vehicle and arrested the teens Sunday in a state park, lllinois State Police Director Brendan Kelly said.

Court documents don’t reveal a motive. But Marcus May, the father of the 15-year-old, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the girl was upset with family members and plotted the attacks with Ja’ymeir Davis, her boyfriend.

CORRECTION A story that ran Tuesday incorrectly stated the street where the city’s Drainage Pump Station No. 7 is located. It is located on Marconi Drive. The TimesPicayune regrets the error.

of lower projected birth rates, reduced immigration and reduced trust fund revenue due to the costs of Republicans’ massive tax and spending bill that President Donald Trump signed into law last summer, according to the Board of Trustees’ report.

The looming challenge for the programs is a partial funding gap, not a collapse. Even after trust fund depletion, the system will continue issuing benefits, albeit at reduced amounts.

In 2022, members of the House Republican Study Committee proposed raising the age at which someone could qualify for Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security benefits were last reformed roughly 40 years ago, when the federal government raised the eligibility age for the program from 65 to 67, based on recommendations from a commission under the leadership of Alan Greenspan.

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‘Gus,’ one of the largest and most complete Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever discovered, sold for a record $50.1 million at auction on Tuesday.

Mystery bidder buys ‘Gus’ for a record $50M Tyrannosaurus fossil was discovered in 2021

BY PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press

NEW YORK — A Tyrannosaurus rex fossil billed as one of the world’s largest and most complete specimens sold for a record $50.1 million Tuesday to a mystery bidder.

Sotheby’s said the 67-million-yearold fossil, nicknamed “Gus,” is now the most expensive set of dinosaur bones ever auctioned off, besting the almost $45 million price tag for a nearly complete stegosaurus sold by the same New York auction house in 2024. The previous record holder had been a Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton nicknamed “Stan” that sold for nearly $32 million in 2020.

“Gus is not only an exceptional find, but a specimen that’s been excavated, documented, prepared, and cared for with real excellence,” Cassandra Hatton, Sotheby’s vice chair, said after the sale was completed. “The market responds when great specimens are taken care of in the right way.”

Why the bidding was intense Standing upright with its tail extended and right foot slightly raised, “Gus” is an adult dinosaur specimen measuring about 121/ 2 feet tall and 38 feet long.

He’s about 61% complete, with what Sotheby’s describes as an “exceptionally preserved” skull including a gaping jaw of powerful teeth, two “well represented” feet and a number of rarely found bones, including a furcula, or wishbone.

The fossil was discovered in 2021 on a ranch in South Dakota and named in honor of property owner Gary Licking, who died during the roughly five year excavation, restoration and mounting process.

The auction house said the winner, who participated by phone and wants to remain anonymous, outbid six other prospective buyers during Tuesday’s 10-minute bidding battle. The piece had been estimated to fetch anywhere from $20 to $30 million ahead of the sale.

“Try a bigger bite,” auctioneer Phyllis Kao cajoled the bidders at one point

during the auction, which was conducted live and online. “It’s a T. rex, after all.”

Scientists want ‘Gus’ on public display The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, an advocacy group of scientists, scholars and students, said scientifically significant fossils such as “Gus” should be publicly displayed in museums and other research institutions so that they can be “preserved, documented, and accessible for future generations.”

“Our hope is that the new owner recognizes the extraordinary scientific and educational value of Gus the T. rex and that they aim to keep it in the public trust by immediately donating it to an accredited natural history museum,” Kristi Curry Rogers, the society’s presidentelect, said in a statement Tuesday. “That outcome would ensure that this remarkable specimen continues to advance science, rather than becoming unavailable for study.”

Indeed, “Apex,” the stegosaurus, the previous dinosaur fossil record-holder, is currently on long-term loan to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. “Sue” the T. rex, the first dinosaur ever sold at auction in 1997, also

by Sotheby’s, is a centerpiece of the Field Museum in Chicago.

And “Stan” is on display at the Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi, posed in combat with another fossilized T. rex over the remains of a triceratops.

A Cretaceous king, Hollywood staple Tyrannosaurus rex, whose name roughly translates to “King of the Tyrant Lizards,” stood firmly at the top of the food chain when it ruled during the late Cretaceous period.

With its fearsome jawline and comically stubby arms, it has become the most recognizable and beloved of the dinosaurs, depicted in everything from children’s programs like Barney, the purple T. rex, to the enduring “Jurassic Park” movie franchise.

The great beasts roamed what is today western North America, during a time when the region boasted “warm climates, high sea levels, and rich coastal floodplains” that allowed their primary prey, giant herbivores like the triceratops, to flourish, according to Sotheby’s.

BANGKOK — The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday, as the investigation into the blaze proceeded while relatives of the victims took on the grim task of identifying their loved ones and retrieving their bodies.

More than 70 people were injured in the Sunday night tragedy, with 24 of them still in critical condition, according to a statement by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration.

Initial details about the victims, which have not been updated since Monday, said 18 of the dead were women and nine were men, all Thai except one bar employee from Laos.

The injured included 41 women and 34 men.

The blaze at the Rong

Beer Na Ladprao bar, the city’s deadliest in 17 years, broke out shortly before midnight in a northern part of the Thai capital.

Firefighters needed half an hour to bring it under control.

The bar, which in Thai calls itself a brewery or beer hall, claimed to accommodate as many as 600 customers. It was not clear how many were present Sunday night.

An investigation into the cause of the fire and whether the bar was following safety regulations is ongoing. Most of the people who were killed were found trapped in windowless bathrooms where they may have sought to escape the flames, police said.

Bangkok Gov. Chadchart Sittipunt said Tuesday he has ordered the city’s administration to conduct a sweeping survey of such establishments to assess risks.

The city will also step up enforcement of existing laws to improve safety standards, he said.

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U.S. restores blockade on Iran Senate Democrats block $1 trillion defense bill in protest over Iran war

Interim ceasefire unravels; Iran attacks ships in strait

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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The U.S. military said Tuesday that it has reimposed its blockade of Iranian ports in response to Iran’s attacks on commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz, as the interim ceasefire deal unravels and concerns grow about a return to all-out war.

The U.S. first imposed the blockade in mid-April and then lifted it in mid-June, a day after the signing of the interim deal aimed at permanently ending the war. The deal set a 60-day timeline to also negotiate an agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, but talks have stalled as fighting over the strait has intensified.

When U.S. President Donald Trump announced the return of the blockade Monday, he also said he would impose a 20% fee on ships passing through the strait. But he dropped the plan to collect fees hours before resuming the blockade, citing requests from allies in the Gulf.

The interim peace agreement was supposed to reopen a waterway that is key to world energy supplies and give negotiators time to hammer out a permanent end to the war. Instead, fighting has once again engulfed the region, threatened the global economy and brought warnings to commercial airlines.

The U.S. carried out another wave of strikes ahead of reimposing the blockade, the U.S. military’s Central Command said. Iran’s deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Kazem Gharibabadi, said in an interview aired Tuesday by IRIB, Iran’s state broadcaster, that the U.S. was seeking to prevent Tehran from exercising what he described as “effective sovereignty” over the strait.

There are at least 19 U.S. warships in the Arabian Sea, including two aircraft carriers and an amphibious assault ship with more than 1,000 Marines aboard.

U.S. Central Command also said in a social media post that there are “hundreds of military aircraft

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A woman stands at the water’s edge along the Strait of Hormuz as a plume of smoke rises in the background following an explosion off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Monday. operating across the Middle East.”

A fifth of all traded crude oil and natural gas passed through the Strait of Hormuz before the war, when it was open to all without tolls. When the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Feb. 28, it effectively shut the passage by attacking and threatening ships. That sent the price of oil, fertilizer and other goods soaring.

Iran has more recently attacked ships moving through the strait on a route overseen by the U.S. military that is outside Tehran’s control, setting off tit-for-tat strikes.

The U.S. has threatened to reopen the strait by force — but experts say that would require a much bigger armada if not tens of thousands of ground troops.

Replace fees with investments Trump said Tuesday that he was called by “kings and emirs” and other leaders who suggested an alternate arrangement to charging ships fees to pass through the strait.

“They said we’d love to do it a different way. We’d love to invest in the United States with billions and billions of dollars,” Trump told reporters Tuesday in the Oval Office.

Trump said he preferred that arrangement to charging tolls “because I don’t think anybody should be able to charge a fee for the strait.”

It was unclear if the investment

deals would be new commitments relative to what Trump announced after a visit last year to the Middle East.

Strikes, counterstrikes resume U.S. Central Command said it struck several areas in Iran earlier Tuesday, targeting “coastal defense systems, missile and drone sites and maritime capabilities.”

Iran acknowledged the strikes but provided no immediate casualty or damage assessments.

“These strikes will continue imposing a heavy cost on Iranian forces and degrade their ability to attack innocent civilians and commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz,” the U.S. military said.

Iranian state media Tuesday reported the sound of explosions on Qeshm Island in the strait, alongside additional explosions in the southwestern city of Ahvaz and the port city of Bandar Abbas.

Iran responded with attacks targeting Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and three tankers that traveled through the strait.

The International Maritime Organization said the attack killed two mariners and wounded 14 others on two of the tankers, Mombasa and Al Bahiyah, which were associated with the United Arab Emirates. The UAE threatened to retaliate.

WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats blocked a $1 trillion annual defense bill Tuesday, refusing to advance the bipartisan package that would substantially increase Pentagon spending, including a pay raise for the troops, in protest of President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer announced his opposition and other key Democrats said they could not support the annual bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, as the war drags into a fifth month with no clear endgame in sight. The tally was 50-46, failing largely along party lines to reach the threshold needed.

“The NDAA cannot become a permission slip for that recklessness that we see occurring in Iran,” Schumer, of New York, said ahead of voting.

“Donald Trump does not get to drag the American people deeper into a war he cannot explain and does not know how to end—and then demand that Congress look the other way.”

The Senate vote comes a day after the White House formally notified Congress that it had resumed bombing strikes against Iran, effectively undoing the fragile ceasefire in the U.S.-Israel led conflict that has resulted in economic disruptions, including volatile gas prices ahead of the midterm elections.

Congress has tried repeatedly to slap guardrails on the administration, voting more than 10 times on various war powers resolutions that would halt hostilities. But those efforts have not succeeded, and most Republicans in the House and Senate majorities back Trump.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune called the defense package a good bill and implored his colleagues to provide the resources to ensure the U.S. is kept safe.

“We have an obligation here in Congress to ensure that they have

everything they need for whatever the mission may be,” he said.

After the bill failed to advance, Thune switched his vote in a procedural move that will allow the leader to bring it back up for consideration again later.

For decades, Congress had made sure to approve the annual defense bill each year, setting the policy and direction for the department and authorizing the funds that would later be allocated to carry out its investments in systems, supplies and missions.

This year, the 66th annual NDAA is running into a doublewhammy of opposition. Lawmakers are fuming over Trump’s military action against Iran and resisting the White House request to substantially increase Pentagon spending to $1.5 trillion, up from about $900 billion last year.

The sizable boost of funds aligns with the White House’s 2027 budget request as the Trump administration seeks a generational investment to modernize the Defense Department, which it refers to as the Department of War under Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Hegseth was scheduled to meet later Tuesday evening with House Republicans as Congress considers providing additional money through a separate budget reconciliation bill the party can pass on its own, overpowering the opposition from Democrats.

The White House has requested $350 billion from Congress under the budget reconciliation process, but House GOP leaders have indicated it is likely to be a much smaller amount, more in line with $87 billion the White House requested last month as supplemental funding for Iran.

But Republican deficit hawks are skeptical of the big budget numbers, despite support for the war within their ranks.

The extra defense funding comes on top of the additional $150 billion Republicans already provided the Pentagon last year under Trump’s big tax breaks bill that some say has not been spent or fully accounted for.

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Ukraine downs five Russian ballistic missiles Kyiv looks to boost its air defenses

BY ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine’s air force said Tuesday it intercepted five ballistic missiles launched by Russia in a raft of overnight attacks, although other missiles and drones got through and hit warehouses and a school in the capital of Kyiv.

It was the first time in almost two weeks that Ukraine said it had downed Russian ballistic missiles, which are harder to stop than drones or cruise missiles and have pummeled the country in Moscow’s 4-year-old fullscale invasion.

Ukrainian air defenses likely used the U.S.-made Patriot surface-to-air guided missile system that is the most effective way of countering ballistic missiles, but ammunition for it has been in short supply amid the Iran war despite European efforts to make up for the shortfall.

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Tuesday’s attack in Kyiv caused fires at two warehouses and also damaged a school, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.

The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement it targeted military manufacturing facilities that produce long-range missiles and drones.

Moscow is seeking to choke off Ukrainian strikes on oil facilities deep inside Russia that have caused critical fuel shortages, frustrating the public and, Western analysts say, are hindering the Russian army’s advance on the front line.

Ukraine’s air force said REUTERS PHOTO By BENOIT TESSIER Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his wife Olena Zelenska and French President one ballistic missile and 25 drones struck 17 locations, Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte Macron stand with heads of the Government of the while falling debris was reCoalition of the Willing and French leaders for a photo after the annual Bastille Day military ported in 10 locations.

parade on the Place de la Concorde in Paris, France, on Tuesday.

crowds cheered Ukrainian troops marching in the annual Bastille Day parade, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy received an ovation from European leaders who showed solidarity with Kyiv.

Ukrainian aviators trained in Paris cheers Ukraine France flew aboard two MiAlong the cobblestoned rage 2000B fighter jets alongChamps-Elysees in Paris, side French air force pilots.

Zelenskyy was in France seeking a remedy to his country’s air defense problem, and he announced Monday that Ukraine is joining with nine other nations to form a coalition that will build a shared ballistic missile shield for Europe.

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produced, low-cost system in the next 12 months, he said.

The Bastille Day parade featured about 500 troops from the coalition of the willing group of countries that have pledged to help with Ukraine’s postwar security. French President Emmanuel Macron called

Ukraine urgently needs to improve its air defense shield before winter. Much of the country is at the mercy of Russian missiles that have hammered its power grid since 2022, making winters almost unbearable.

President Donald Trump said at the NATO summit last week that the U.S. will

give Ukraine a license to make Patriot systems itself.

However, they are expensive, in high demand and take a long time to produce, so it will likely be years before any Ukrainian-made systems are ready to deploy.

Ukraine strikes oil facilities Ukraine, meanwhile, kept up its long-range onslaught on Russian targets, especially oil facilities.

An attack in southern Russia’s Krasnodar region caused a fire at the Afipsky Oil Refinery that was later put out, authorities there said.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine also hit an oil refinery in the city of Salavat in the Bashkortostan region, some 900 miles from the Ukrainian border. Bashkortostan Gov. Radiy Khabirov confirmed an attack on an industrial area in Salavat, but didn’t say what was hit.

In addition, the Ukrainian navy struck four Russian tankers operating as part of Moscow’s so-called shadow fleet of aging tankers of uncertain ownership and safety practices that are dodging international oil sanctions and a patrol boat, Zelenskyy said.

Officials: U.S. military will be out of Iraq by end of September Burden of combating Islamic State shifts to Iraqi troops

BY BEN FINLEY and QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military will leave Iraq by the end of September, American and Iraqi officials said Tuesday, following a 23-year presence that started with the 2003 invasion against Saddam Hussein and ended with much smaller operations against the Islamic State group.

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ing alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi at the White House, said “we don’t think we need the military there anymore” and noted Iraq’s growing relationships with oil companies.

“The relationship is a whole big relationship where we don’t need the military,” Trump said. “We’re there to help them. We’re there to protect them if need be. But we don’t think that’s going to be necessary.”

Speaking through an interpreter, al-Zaidi said “U.S. forces will be out of Iraq” by Sept. 30, “while U.S. companies will be inside Iraq.”

The Pentagon said in a subsequent statement that it was reaffirming a 2024 agreement with

Iraq to end its mission against IS fighters. Many of the U.S. troops still serving in Iraq at the time of the deal, which was made during the Biden administration, already have departed.

The United States has been shifting the burden for combating IS in Iraq from American and coalition forces to Iraqi troops who have been trained by the U.S. military. American troops have been diminishing their footprint, withdrawing from areas and consolidating forces.

The U.S. invaded Iraq in March 2003 in what it called a massive “shock and awe” bombing campaign that lit up the skies, laid waste to large sections of the country and paved the way for Ameri-

can ground troops to converge on Baghdad. The invasion was based on what turned out to be faulty claims that Saddam Hussein had secretly stashed weapons of mass destruction. Such weapons never materialized.

The U.S. presence grew to more than 170,000 troops at the peak of counterinsurgency operations in 2007. The Obama administration negotiated the drawdown of forces, and in December 2011, the final combat troops departed, leaving only a small number of military personnel behind to staff an office of security assistance and a detachment of Marines to guard the embassy compound.

In 2014, the rise of the Islamic

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After IS lost its hold on the territory it once claimed, coalition military operations ended in 2021. The U.S. had maintained about 2,500 troops in Iraq for training and to conduct partnered counter-IS operations with Iraq’s military. Many have withdrawn since the 2024 agreement to end the mission, with just a small contingent of military advisers and others still remaining in Iraq.

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Justices detail safety risks, ask Ebola outbreak for budget increase for security outpaces response High court’s ethics code, emergency appeals questioned

Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett, right, and Elena Kagan testify during a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Tuesday on Capitol Hill in Washington.

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

WASHINGTON — In rare congressional testimony, Supreme Court justices shared chilling stories Tuesday about the threats they increasingly face in public life and fielded questions about ethics and emergency appeals.

The appearances from Supreme Court Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan were the first of their kind since 2019. Their testimony came weeks after the conservative-majority court handed down a series of major opinions, including one that increased President Donald Trump’s power over federal regulatory agencies and one that rejected his wide-ranging tariffs.

Those rulings and more sparked harsh personal criticism of the justices.

The main focus of the hearings in the House and Senate was a request for increased security funding for the justices. Like judges around the country, they’ve faced a surge in threats of violence and intimidation.

Barrett said she had to take a bulletproof vest home a few years ago, something she struggled to explain to her 12-year-old son. “I didn’t expect that performing this service would put me in the position of explaining to my children what a bulletproof vest was, why I had to wear one,” she said.

While security was the major theme of the justices’ testimony, ethics and the shadow docket also emerged as lines of questioning for members of Congress in packed hearing rooms with lines out the door.

Budget request The Supreme Court requested a total of $228 million for next fiscal year, a roughly 10% increase over the year before. About $18 million of that is for maintaining the building and grounds.

Much of the requested operatingbudget increase, $14.6 million, would go to expanding personal protection for justices, with six more agents for each.

The U.S. Marshals Service reported 564 threats in the last government fiscal year, an increase that includes

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By NATHAN HOWARD threats to the hundreds of federal judges around the country.

The nine-member Supreme Court has also been targeted, including by fake 911 swatting calls and pizza deliveries in the name of a judge’s murdered son.

Barrett said her son opened their door in May to see their street filled with police cars responding to a fake swatting call that her security team quickly dispersed. Last year, her sister was the victim of a bomb threat in Charleston, South Carolina, police said. No bomb was found.

In 2022, shortly after the leak of a draft opinion overturning the Roe v.

Wade abortion decision, a would-be assassin was arrested near the home of Justice Brett Kavanaugh with weapons and zip ties. Threats to the Supreme Court have continued to grow since then and are expected to be up 38% this year, Kagan said.

She condemned rhetoric from public officials targeting judges for personal criticism when they disagree with their rulings.

“When political figures of any stripe are trying to intimidate judges and justices to do things that they like rather than things they don’t, that’s where we really have crossed the line,” she said.

Kagan and Barrett differ Multiple Democrats brought up the Supreme Court’s relatively new code of ethics, adopted in 2023 during a storm of criticism over undisclosed trips and gifts from wealthy benefactors to some justices.

While the justices agreed that members of the court are taking the code seriously, Kagan supported creating a

way to enforce it. The liberal-leaning justice acknowledged, though, that enforcement could be tricky. That would have to come from the judicial branch and the Supreme Court sits at its head.

Barrett, who is part of the court’s conservative majority, said she’s not sure an enforcement mechanism is possible.

It’s not clear there’s an effective way to address questions about who would do the enforcing and how, she said.

“I am certainly fully committed to the code as are all of our colleagues, but because of some of the complexities I’m just not quite sure” about enforcement, she said.

Rise in emergency appeals The Supreme Court has seen a sharp rise in appeals to its short-term emergency docket, where the justices make quicker decisions in cases still working their way through the court system.

It’s been especially busy during Trump’s second term, as his administration appeals orders blocking parts of his wide-ranging agenda to the nation’s highest court. The government notched a string of wins in this manner, on cuts to the federal workforce, restrictions on transgender members of the military, and more.

Such decisions are usually made without a detailed explanation, and while the orders are designed to be temporary they can nevertheless have real-world effects.

“There are downsides of using emergency relief,” Kagan said. “You don’t get the kind of briefing that we ordinarily do. We don’t get the argument we ordinarily get.” She added: “We should consider those downsides when we decide how often to grant relief.”

in eastern Congo Majority of new cases are from unknown chains

BY JUSTIN KABUMBA and MONIKA PRONCZUK Associated Press

Eighty percent of new Ebola cases in eastern Congo are emerging from unknown chains of transmission, the World Health Organization said Tuesday, a sign the outbreak is spreading faster than health officials can track despite an expanding response.

Congo has been battling an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola since May, with no approved treatment or vaccine. The Africa Centres for Disease Control says it is the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on the continent.

“Perhaps the most alarming finding is that many of the newly reported deaths are people who died in their communities without ever reaching a health facility and without receiving care,” Chikwe Ihekweazu said after returning from Bunia, in Ituri province, one of the worsthit cities. “And as of today, 80% of new cases are outside our contact lists and so are coming to us from unknown chains of transmission.”

People who die outside the health system cannot be isolated, treated or have their contacts traced promptly, increasing the risk of further transmission.

The outbreak, Ihekweazu said, “continues to outpace the response efforts.”

As of Monday, at least 1,926 people have been infected, of whom 702 have died, in three provinces in Congo from the rare Bundibugyo virus, Congolese authorities said. Cases have also been confirmed in neighboring Uganda.

Ihekweazu told reporters in Geneva that his visit to Bunia had been “quite encouraging on many fronts, but also deeply concerning.”

Treatment capacity in Bunia is now close to 800 beds, with capacity increasing every week, and lab capacity has grown from 1 to 14 labs, an effort the emergency chief lauded.

However, Ihekweazu said that despite “our best efforts ... we have not caught up in the race.”

A funding gap, attacks on health centers, an ongoing conflict in eastern Congo, and mistrust among local communities have hampered the response.

Dozens of healthcare workers at an Ebola virus treatment center in northeast Congo went on strike over unpaid salaries and bonuses on Monday. On Tuesday, they agreed to resume work under the condition the government pays them within 72 hours.

“Just one day of strike action has already caused damage. Patients were unable to access the center,” the striking health workers said in a statement. “We hold the government solely responsible for any loss of life if the site closes after this ultimatum.”

The Congolese authorities declared a fresh Ebola outbreak on May 15 after the disease had been transmitting for weeks without official detection, according to the WHO. Clinical trials for treatment began last week after researchers launched a highly anticipated study in the hope of fighting the virus.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on July 11 that a U.S. citizen working for a humanitarian organization in Congo has tested positive for the Ebola virus, without providing further details.

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House passes bill to ‘ditch the switch’

BY KEVIN FREKING Associated Press

WASHINGTON — There will be no turning back the clock if the House has its way.

The House passed a bill Tuesday that would make daylight saving time permanent. Proponents, including the White House, argued the change would provide more daylight during the times that Americans are most active. The vote was 308-117.

Daylight saving time is that period between spring and fall when clocks in most parts of the United States are set one hour ahead of standard time. States could opt out if their respective legislatures act to do so before the bill’s enactment.

The Senate would also have to pass the bill before it could be signed into law, but it’s unclear if it will do so.

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A vandalized statue of Christopher Columbus towers over Columbus Square in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, in August 2024.

Caribbean leaders press for slavery reparations Activists call for end of islands’ territorial status

BY DÁNICA COTO Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A group of Caribbean leaders met with senior clergy from the Church of England on Tuesday as the push for slavery reparations intensifies, with activists also calling for the independence of British, French, Dutch and U.S. territories in the region.

The reparations commission from Caricom, a Caribbean trade bloc, was scheduled to also meet with British parliamentarians as part of a four-day official trip to the United Kingdom to seek reparations, the second such trip since November.

The group said the commission is creating a framework to launch negotiations because the time for making the case for reparatory justice is overdue.

“We in the Caribbean remain the most colonized part of the world, and this has to stop,” said Hilary Beckles, chairman of Caricom’s reparations commission and vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies.

The meetings in London come after Caribbean leaders bristled at the recent suggestion by a U.K. lawmaker that Britain’s former colonies should repay it for its historic investment in them.

The commission noted that the Caribbean has at least 20 territories with ties to Britain, France, the Netherlands and the United States.

“I am quite sure the people

of the Caribbean … will be looking to see whether their king … is going to advance this conversation about sovereignty, decolonization and reparatory justice for these crimes that have been committed,” Beckles said.

David Comissiong, Barbados’ ambassador to Caricom, echoed those comments, stressing that the first step of reparations must be the recovery of national sovereignty and selfdetermination.

He said the commission had a “productive meeting” with three senior clerics from the Church of England, calling it a “possible ally.”

He also praised King Charles III for expressing in recent years “personal sorrow at the suffering of so many” as he noted “slavery’s enduring impact.”

However, Comissiong and others criticized the United Kingdom for abstaining from a U.N. resolution passed in March that called for reparations and declared the trafficking of enslaved Africans “the gravest crime against humanity.” All 27 members of the European Union also abstained, while Argentina, Israel and the United States voted against the resolution.

Comissiong noted that some European governments have offered apologies, memorials, museums and the preservation of slavery infrastructure on Africa’s west coast.

“These are some preliminary gestures that we appreciate,” he said. “But those gestures are not negotiations. … The damage that was done and that still exists today was so consequential, so deeply rooted, that it goes

way beyond, way beyond gestures of memorialization.”

An estimated 12 million Africans were forcefully taken by European nations from the 16th to the 19th century, and those who survived the trip across the Atlantic Ocean were enslaved on plantations in the Caribbean and elsewhere under brutal conditions.

Commission members spoke during a press conference in London, ahead of the meeting with parliamentarians.

Among the questions was whether the commission would publish rules as to who should receive reparations.

The answer for the Caribbean remains unclear, although Ron Daniels, head of the National African-American Reparations Commission, said talks in the United States have centered on land, economic development and the restoration or building of communications and healthcare infrastructure.

“Reparations is proceeding quite effectively in the United States as a blueprint,” Daniels said.

Caricom leaders are seeking a formal apology; education and public health improvements; development programs for Indigenous people; repatriation and resettlement for those seeking to live in their homeland; debt cancellations; and monetary compensations, among other things.

In early September, Jamaica’s government is expected to file a formal petition asking King Charles III to refer legal questions on slavery reparations to the Privy Council, the island’s final court of appeal.

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people get up and travel to school or work or have to go about their days,” said Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa. Rep. Jim McGovern, DMass, said he supported the bill, but he questioned whether it was the best way for Congress to be spending its time.

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their genetics, gut microbiome, where they live and education level will be accounted for.

A separate NIH-funded study at Pennington is approaching the same question from a nutrition angle. Both aim at advancing the growing field of precision medicine.

Perhaps the most high-profile study led by Ravussin and Pennington is CALERIE. In the mid2000s, more than 200 healthy, average-weight Baton Rouge residents followed a 25% calorie-restricted diet for two years. The protocol was replicated at Tufts University in Boston and Washington University in St. Louis.

Follow-up studies are still assessing participants 15 years later, but initial results were clear, Ravussin said. Even though participants started out healthy, nearly all became healthier after eating less.

“If you look at their lipid profile, their insulin, glucose level, all these things were improved,” he said. “Less inflammation, they had a better quality of life. They all liked it much better.”

“I think caloric restriction has been very clearly shown to increase longevity,” Ravussin added.

For exercise, the “jury is still out.”

Continued from page 1A lion each, they let scientists track, in near-real time, how many calories a person burns while eating, sleeping or exercising.

A few brave volunteers stay in the chambers for several days at a time and can be paid thousands of dollars, depending on the nature and duration of the rest of the study. At least one person has stayed a week.

I barely made it 24 hours.

Booking a reservation for journalistic purposes was difficult, given rising demand. For years, the chambers have supported federally funded projects aimed at answering basic questions about how the body uses energy. Recently, pharmaceutical companies have used the chambers to test the effectiveness of drugs like GLP-1s, which are now widely used for weight control. Other GLP-1 studies at Pennington are trying to separate fact from fiction about side effects, such as whether the drugs cause muscle loss.

“Is that just a rumor or is it just a perception, or is it true?” said Dr. Eric Ravussin, the lab’s director.

“We don’t have the answer yet.”

Before entering the chamber, preparations include stripping into a hospital gown and stepping onto a platform of electrodes to grip a pair of metallic handles. Because muscle and fat hold different amounts of water — a good electrical conductor — the machine can use electrical currents to estimate body composition.

“When you combine height, age, gender, it puts all that analysis in, and it can get a guesstimate on what your fat content is,” explains Annalee Campbell, a registered nurse administering the test.

Ravussin briefly greets me, but there is little time for small talk: The chamber is calibrated and must be sealed by 8 a.m. Sipping coffee from a Styrofoam cup, the tall, lanky physiologist grins, then shuts the door.

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Clinic research nurse Annalee Campbell, left, and biomedical engineer Isabella Reed chat outside reporter Aidan McCahill’s metabolic chamber at Pennington Biomedical.

oxide, is continuously fed into the room through inlet ducts. It mixes with the air exhaled inside, then is drawn out through a series of ceiling pipes. As it leaves, analyzers — similar to ones used in mechanic shops — measure slight changes in the gas levels.

“By knowing the flow of fresh air going in and out, and knowing the difference in concentration, you can calculate O2 consumption and CO2 production,” Ravussin said.

“We calculate minute by minute; it’s getting it as fast as it can.”

From those measurements, researchers can determine how many calories are burned. They can also use the ratio of the two Chamber mechanics gases to tell whether a person’s The chamber resembles a body is primarily using fat or carstripped-down hostel room: a nar- bohydrates for fuel.

On the counter sits an orange jug row twin bed, a desk, a sink, a television — and a toilet tucked behind to be used in lieu of the toilet. Urine a thin, pullable curtain. A camera contains nitrogen, a byproduct of protein metabolism. Measuring it records continuously for safety.

The room is silent and sealed, but allows researchers to gauge how not entirely cut off. A window and much protein was broken down for telephone connect to the outside, energy, completing the metabolic where Campbell and biomedical picture. engineer Isabella Reed can communicate and monitor everything Discovery science in real time. Reed explains the Ravussin, who sports a white rules. No caffeine, nicotine or any goatee and droll sense of humor, other stimulants. No naps, push- has spent the past 45 years reups, gum, or anything that could searching how the human body subtly shift metabolism. Usually, converts food into energy. He endiets are controlled for three days joys discovery science, which isn’t before entering. driven by specific hypotheses.

Through a process called aerobic “It’s on the creativity of the scirespiration, the body converts — entist to address the question,” or “metabolizes” — nutrients from he said. “It’s not a question of is it carbohydrates, fats and proteins good for society; it’s trying to uninto ATP, the molecules that pow- derstand human physiology.”

It is fitting he oversees most of er nearly every cellular process.

That requires oxygen and produc- the studies conducted in Penninges carbon dioxide, and by measur- ton’s metabolic chambers, given ing the two gases, researchers can that he helped build the first one determine how much energy the ever as a Swiss Ph.D. student in the 1970s. A few years later, the body is using.

Metabolic chambers are consid- director of the National Institutes ered the gold standard for such of Health, the federal agency that leads biomedical and public health measurements, Reed says.

The basic mechanics are simple. research, recruited him to design Fresh air, with a known concen- one in Phoenix. At the time, there tration of oxygen and carbon di- were only two in the world, one

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in Switzerland, the other in Cambridge, England, he said.

A central through line in his career is the interplay between metabolism and weight gain. In one of his earliest studies, Ravussin tracked energy expenditure among the Pima tribe in Arizona, finding that those with lower metabolic rates were more likely to gain weight over time. The work helped advance the idea that traits once advantageous during famine may increase obesity risk in today’s calorie-rich environment.

“Caucasians would be the worst survivors in periods of famines,” he said.

Ravussin later tracked the metabolic rates of contestants on “The Biggest Loser,” a show where overweight contestants compete to see who can lose the most pounds.

Successful contestants saw their metabolic rates drop sharply. Six years later, Ravussin said, their rates still hadn’t changed — a phenomenon known as a “metabolic adaptation.”

Together, those findings clarified a frustrating reality: As people lose weight, their bodies become more energy efficient, burning fewer calories and making it harder to keep the weight off.

“Basically, you run on a more efficient engine,” he said.

That dynamic now complicates the promise of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro, which have reshaped obesity treatment by mimicking gut hormones to curb appetite and improve blood sugar.

“All the companies are afraid of two things with the GLP1s: It’s a loss of skeletal muscle, and it’s also this metabolic adaptation, which basically tries to pull you back,” Ravussin said. “If you stop the drug, you gain the weight.”

So far, Ravussin has published one study that showed Zepbound, a drug by Eli Lilly that combines GLP-1 with another peptide, did not reduce metabolic adaptation.

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Pennington is conducting several other studies examining the effects of combining GLP-1s with other peptides. At least one will require participants to spend 47 hours in the chambers. Due to confidentiality reasons, Ravussin declined to name the companies involved.

Exercise vs. diet At 8:30 a.m., Campbell opens an outside latch and slides breakfast through an airtight pass-through.

Once she seals it, I open my end and eat a boiled egg, Cheerios, blueberries and milk, finishing everything within 30 minutes.

Campbell smiles and waves.

The same routine is repeated four more times throughout the day.

The end result: 2,900 kilocalories consumed, and 2,869 burned.

Most participants work remote jobs while staying at Pennington, but I’m groggy without my morning coffee and struggle to get anything done. At 11 a.m., a 30-minute stationary bike ride bumps my metabolic burn rate — how fast calories are expended — from about 2 kilocalories per minute to 4.

In general, exercise is beneficial for metabolic health but has less clear effects on actual weight loss, Ravussin said. The same uncertainty goes for its impact on tissues, organs and longevity.

“As soon as you exercise, you have a stimulus of eating more,” he said. “There are some people who exercise and don’t benefit very much. And there are some people that benefit tremendously.”

To find what type of exercise has the most health benefits, and for whom, Ravussin is a lead principal investigator in the largest exercise study in human history: The Molecular Transducers of Physical Activity in Humans. More than 2,300 people have been recruited, about half sedentary and half athletes, to undergo endurance or resistance training. Everything from Public Notices Sheriff Sales

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For most of the day in the chamber, the hardest part was staving off sleep. As the chilly air whooshed in and out, I spent my time scrolling social media, staring at the fluorescent lights and wondering what the next meal would be: a turkey sandwich for lunch, pasta and meatballs for dinner. The whole thing felt like one long airplane ride, with slightly better food.

By 9 p.m., I was tucked into the twin bed. An hour later, the order came down to shut off all screens. The sooner deep sleep was reached, the better the data.

At 6 a.m., the wake-up call came.

After another hour of lying in bed, it was time to leave the chamber.

Outside Pennington, motorists packed Perkins Road, many pulling into fast-food joints before work.

Around the 1980s, as both calories and cars became more pervasive in American life, obesity rates began to climb, Ravussin said. He added the U.S., and Louisiana in particular, are among the worst environments for obesity. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, more than two out of five Americans are classified as obese, a condition strongly linked to a range of life-threatening diseases.

Despite new technology, exercise programs and wonder drugs, Ravussin believes obesity will remain a stubborn foe.

“Obesity is a total disaster for public health … and it’s not going to improve,” he said. “The only thing would be to reverse some of the obesogenic environment.”

Ravussin recalled the Pima study, where he compared obesity and diabetes rates between communities in Arizona and those in more remote parts of Mexico.

The Pima in Mexico had about nine times less diabetes than those in Arizona. When he presented the data to the tribal council in Arizona and discussed whether some habits could be changed, the chief, responsible for maintaining the well-being of his tribe in the modern world, replied: “Do you think I’m not going to offer a truck to my son?”

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is necessary to address alleged election fraud.

Conservatives leveraged the narrow Republican majority on procedural votes to stall full House consideration until their points were included. With 217 Republicans and one independent making up the 218 members needed to form a majority, Johnson can’t lose three GOP votes in order to pass a bill without Democratic votes.

Continued from page 1A The Hill, a political trade publication, that the Republican agenda in the Senate seems stalled.

“The next four weeks are going to look like the happy hour at an airport Chili’s,” Kennedy said.

Much of the legislative constipation came about because Trump refused to sign bills into law until Congress approved one that would tighten the use of mail-in ballots, require proof of citizenship when registering to vote, and show a photo ID when casting ballots.

Called the SAVE America Act, the legislation doesn’t have the votes in the Senate to pass on its own.

And the House still has plenty left on its plate.

“We have a lot of work still to do,” said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, told reporters before the vote on the House bill. “You’re going to see this week the budget committee move the beginnings of reconciliation 3.0 out of committee. And we’re moving more bills through the floor this week, another appropriations bill.”

Before the July Fourth holiday break, Trump had refused to sign a bill that authorizes spy agencies to gather information about foreign nationals and another giving incentives to build more homes and lower housing costs for consumers. House leadership pulled

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Continued from page 1A agency’s enforcement tactics that were widely condemned last winter after the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good in Minnesota.

In Florida on Tuesday, a third man in roughly a week died during an encounter with immigration officers. This time, a 28-year-old man was killed after he was hit by a tractor trailer while running from immigration and other federal officers, authorities said.

The suspension of vehicle stops allows room for exceptions when executing a criminal warrant or working with partner agencies, according to a person who spoke Tuesday on condition of anonymity

Johnson, Scalise work feverishly

bills from scheduled floor votes for three weeks because conservative factions leveraged the narrow GOP majority on procedural votes to stall consideration by the full House.

Johnson sent the House home early because nothing was getting passed.

Democrats have continuously blasted Republicans over the gridlock.

“As we reconvene this week, one thing remains incredibly clear to us,” said Rep. Pete Aguilar, D-Calif., chair of the House Democratic Caucus. “The Republican conference remains deeply divided. …

And Republicans have not put forward a single bill to make life more affordable. Unfortunately, this level of chaos and dysfunction has become a hallmark of Republican leadership.”

But on their first full day back from the two-week vacation, the House voted 215 to 211 — all Republicans except one voting ‘yes’ — to approve legislation that included wording from four bills: daylight saving time, banning codes that track guns, additional medical benefits for veterans and State Department funding that includes the wording that Trump and his allies say

Johnson said he has gotten only a few hours of sleep since the holiday, working almost nonstop to cobble together plans that would get the Republican support necessary to pass legislation with only Republicans votes.

Johnson, Scalise, and House leadership turned to a rules procedure with a military term.

Named for the acronym of “multiple-warhead missile,” the MIRV procedural rule puts unrelated bills into a single legislative package to send to the Senate. Johnson suggested that “a lot of MIRVs” are on the way.

The Senate, however, on Tuesday evening voted against a motion to proceed to the $1.15 trillion annual defense authorization bill, called NDAA. The motion to advance the annual defense bill failed by a vote of 50 to 46. It needed 60 votes to succeed.

Without Graham and Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., who has been in the hospital and unable to vote, the Senate is now 51 Republicans and

to discuss sensitive law enforcement operations. Matthew Felling, a spokesperson for Maine Sen. Angus King, said the senator’s office was also told by the Department of Homeland Security that ICE was suspending stops.

Hundreds of people in Maine protested Tuesday over the fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a 26-year-old Colombian national.

DHS said Monday that an officer, “fearing for public safety,” shot and killed Durán Guerrero while officers were watching the home of someone they believed was in the U.S. illegally and facing a final order of removal from the country. It said in a post on X that when ICE tried to stop a car driven by someone who came from the home, the vehicle attempted to flee and the officer fired.

That was a shift from how King earlier described the encounter, when he said Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin told him the officer opened fire after the man tried to use his vehicle as a weapon. King said Mullin told him the officers were trying to serve an arrest warrant, but not for the man who was shot.

DHS, which oversees ICE, didn’t respond to an email seeking clarity on what led to the shooting.

In a scathing post on X, outgoing Colombian President Gustavo Petro called the shooting a targeted killing “at the hands of the U.S. government.”

Petro, who has openly quarreled with U.S. President Donald Trump, urged Trump to provide an explanation and accused ICE officers of treating Durán Guerrero as “an

inferior being without rights.”

The shooting also sparked outrage in Maine, where hundreds of protesters gathered Tuesday outside an ICE detention center in Scarborough, just up the coast between Biddeford and Portland.

“These people are killers and they must leave our state now,” organizer Todd Chretien told the crowd, including some who held signs reading “Stop the murder” and “End this terror.”

Maine’s congressional delegation on Tuesday demanded a “comprehensive, transparent, and expedited investigation.”

Durán Guerrero’s shooting marked at least the ninth time ICE has used deadly force since Trump began his immigration crackdown.

Photos showed bullet holes in Durán Guerrero’s car’s wind-

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House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, accompanied by Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-Benton, speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday.

47 Democrats.

Usually, the must-pass bill receives strong bipartisan support.

South Carolina’s governor tapped Graham’s sister, Darline Graham, to fill out the five remaining months of his term. She was sworn in as a senator Tuesday afternoon.

Lindsey Graham also chaired the Senate Budget Committee, which put him at the tip of the spear to get a resolution through the parliamentary maneuver, called reconciliation, that would allow passage with a simple majority.

Several Republican and all Democratic senators rejected a reconciliation resolution that included additional money for the military action in Iran, largely because of opposition to enacting the SAVE America Act, the language of which was merged into instrument.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said Monday the votes for voting restrictions just weren’t there. He will be focusing on getting Trump’s nominees confirmed.

“We’re not going to have a lot of time to get things if it has to go through both chambers, but the appointments (confirmation of presidential nominees) are what I’m most comfortable with because that only has to go through the Senate,” said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge. “There are a lot of things we have to get done before the August recess. “ “The House leaves July 23,” Cassidy noted.

shield, but the officers involved in the shooting didn’t have body cameras, leaving many questions.

Among them are how close the officer was to the vehicle when they fired, whether officers told Durán Guerrero to stop, and why ICE believes he had put the public in danger.

“We are always evaluating our procedures to keep our officers safe and criminals off our streets.

We will not disclose or discuss law enforcement tactics,” an ICE spokesperson said in a statement.

Maine’s attorney general’s office, which noted that it’s working with federal agencies to investigate, said initial statements suggest the driver was trying to flee in the direction of the officer, whose name hasn’t been released and who was placed on leave.

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Continued from page 1A flooding through nature-based solutions that capture stormwater as it falls. They say that solution is particularly needed in Gentilly, which has battled heavy flooding over the years brought on by larger rainstorms and aging drainage infrastructure.

“This is going to be a model project relative to living with water,” said City Council member Eugene Green, who represents the area.

“It’s not just the canal, it’s something that will be attractive to the community,” he added.

During a typical storm, water is collected in catch basins, routed into pipes and underground canals then pumped into the London Avenue Canal before it’s directed out to Lake Pontchartrain, according to project documents.

But the improvements would pull the water out of the city’s system and store it temporarily, largely through the creation of landscaped drainage ditches called bioswales.

Some intersections will also have extended curbs, called bumpouts, that capture street water before it enters the system through catch basins.

Along the neutral ground on Elysian Fields Avenue, crews have begun to uproot and haul away trees to make way for the stormwater ponds. The trees are invasive, and the city plans to relocate them, officials said Tuesday.

The Blue Green Corridor project is one of nine green infrastructure initiatives under the Gentilly Resilience District, a series of federally-funded projects centered on developing landscapes to better manage stormwater.

It comes 16 years after state officials, armed with federal funding, tapped Greater New Orleans Inc. to commission a comprehensive water management strategy for Orleans, Jefferson and St. Bernard parishes, the Greater New Orleans Urban Water Plan, which encouraged similar water retention strategies. Officials announced the plan in 2013, and the city began receiving federal funding for some projects in 2017.

Collectively, the Gentilly Resilience projects are designed to hold 50 million gallons of water. The $6.8 million Dillard Wetland, still in the design phase, would help store water in 27 acres of existing

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The Department of Housing and Urban Development in 2017 awarded the city $141 million in Community Development Block Grant and National Disaster Resilience funds to carry out the projects. But they’ve faced repeated delays.

The Blue Green project, for example, was initially slated for completion by early 2022.

A federal inspection found that

by September 2023, the city only spent about $21 million in grant funds, or 15%, much of it on consultants, designs and community meetings.

“When grant recipients do not use these funds timely, it increases the risk that vulnerable communities and populations will again be harmed by natural disasters,” Rae Oliver Davis, the then-U.S. inspector general, said in the 2024 inspection report.

City officials have blamed delays on a number of factors, including hurricanes and ballooned construction costs following COVID-19. Federal compliance requirements have called for environmental reviews, scope of work adjustments and other checkmarks that prolonged the timeline between design and construction, according to city officials.

Poor coordination between city departments, and efforts to ensure the project met city equity goals for disadvantaged businesses also delayed the work as city officials sometimes had to break up larger contracts into more manageable pieces of the project to lower construction costs and make the bidding process more accessible.

As the projects tiptoe to fruition, some still wonder how the city plans to maintain its new assets.

“Will there be a maintenance schedule? Who do we contact if we see something needs attention?” wondered Jacobs-Stanley.

The city’s existing green infrastructure portfolio requires it to spend between $500,000 to $700,000 annually for maintenance, and costs are expected to rise as more projects come online, according to documents.

“What we really need is a dediSTAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER cated source of revenue to mainOak trees are prepared for removal for a major drainage project on Elysian Fields. tain these projects,” said City Chief Resilience Officer Meagan wetlands. beneath Willie Hall Playground, with lagoons and walking trails. Williams in a December interview.

Crews have already started and on the $31 million Mirabeau Neighborhood blocks will also see construction on the first phase of Water Garden, which will create permeable sidewalks, rain gardens Email Joni Hess at joni.hess@ the $24 million stormwater park a natural wetland filtration system and recreational spaces across the theadvocate.com.

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Decatur Street work nears end

S&WB welcomes audit of project

Fences are removed from the sides of the 1100 block of Decatur Street in the French Quarter on Friday.

BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE

project in a timely manner and we are dedicated to continue communicating timelines and expectations to residents Facing criticism for construction that and businesses,” said Randy Hayman, the has left some of the French Quarter’s S&WB’s executive director.

The utility’s assurances came after Gov. busiest streets impassible, Sewerage & Water Board officials say their project Jeff Landry joined in the chorus of backis nearly wrapped and they welcome an lash over the project on Friday, calling on audit of their progress. state lawmakers to request a state audit A project to replace underground water of the project. It also comes as S&WB ofinfrastructure on Decatur Street between ficials prepare for a hearing this week in Esplanade Avenue and Dumaine Street a lawsuit brought by French Quarter busiwill be fully complete by late fall, the ness owners who say that the work has S&WB said in a Saturday announcement. harmed their businesses and damaged The project’s utility work will be finished their property. by the end of the summer. ä See PROJECT, page 2B “We are committed to completing this

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Murrill seeks judge’s recusal

AG’s Office has dozens of cases before Roche

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

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Vanessa Dupre, 5, reacts as members of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra perform at the St. Charles Parish Library’s St. Rose Branch on Tuesday. The string duet was part of the library’s summer programming and included a discussion about the musicians’ instruments, music and careers.

Smart water meter project in Jefferson Parish resumes State board dispute had paused work

challenging the act. Fuller arLaw shrank gues that neither chamber of Legislature reached a recriminal court from the quired two-thirds vote for pasof the measure to shrink 12 to 9 seats sage the criminal court from 12

BY LARA NICHOLSON Staff writer

A Jefferson Parish project to replace every water meter with smart technology will resume Wednesday after a dispute between the company installing the meters and the state’s contractor licensing board paused the project.

The parish announced last week that the project to replace its 160,000 water meters was halted after the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors issued a cease and desist letter to Pedal Valves, the Luling-based company contracted to replace the meters, due to a “hiring issue.”

But on Tuesday, Pedal Valves President Robert Gilbert said in an email that the issue had been rectified and the order lifted.

“This matter was administrative in nature,” Gilbert said. “It did not involve the quality, safety, or performance of Pedal Valves’ work.”

Neither Gilbert, Jefferson Parish nor the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors provided further information on

Injunction granted in N.O. judges suit

BY MATT BRUCE

judges to nine.

State officials argued that the measure didn’t need a The three New Orleans supermajority for passage, judges slated for removal last citing a specific exception for New Orleans mumonth by state lawnicipal offices from makers may be able the 1974 constitutionto qualify to run for their seats in the upal convention. The delegates made the coming election under Crescent City’s courts a Baton Rouge judge’s “subject to change by order Tuesday. But law” with a simple mait remained far from settled if those races Smith jority vote, the state will actually happen. argues.

J u d g e Ta r v a l d As defendants, FullSmith, of the 19th er’s lawsuit listed Gov. Judicial District, enJeff Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill, joined state and local Secretary of State officials from enactNancy Landry and ing any provision of Orleans Parish Clerk Act 748 until after the of Court Chelsey Richqualifying period ends Fuller next month. ard Napoleon.

His ruling came afThe court ruling ter Smith heard arguments comes two months after Fullin a lawsuit filed by newly er won a special election to elected Orleans Parish Crimiä See SUIT, page 2B nal Court Judge John Fuller, Staff writer

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Jefferson Parish is trying to replace nearly every water meter in the parish with more reliable, smart technology.

the hiring issue that led to the cease and desist. The company also faces a federal lawsuit from a former employee that was filed last week, though Gilbert said it was unrelated.

The smart meter project is one component of a much larger, $2.3 billion plan approved in 2021 to upgrade the parish’s water and

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Attorney General Liz Murrill is seeking to remove Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge Leon Roche from dozens of cases her office is prosecuting before him, after Roche oversaw grand jury proceedings that led to a bombshell criminal indictment against her, a spokesperson for her office said.

The spokesperson, Lester Duhe, said Tuesday that prosecutors from Murrill’s office had already sought Roche’s recu- Murrill sal in cases involving 54 defendants, including the 10 men charged last year in a massive New Orleans jailbreak.

Murrill’s office handles hundreds of felony cases in the Orleans Parish Roche criminal courthouse under a two-year-old agreement with District Attorney Jason Williams’ office for the attorney general to try all cases from arrests by Louisiana State Police.

In at least two recusal motions, attorneys from Murrill’s office cited Roche’s role in the recent grand jury probe and statements he’s made since the panel leveled 16 charges of public intimidation and malfeasance in office against Murrill, the state’s top prosecutor.

Roche appointed former New Orleans criminal judge Laurie White as special prosecutor over the grand jury after District Attorney Jason Williams recused his office from the probe into Murrill because he’s a purported victim of alleged threats against New Orleans officials that spawned the charges against her.

According to sources, the grand jury launched an investigation of Murrill on its own based on letters she sent New Orleans leaders in May, suggesting they’d lose their jobs if they continued to flout the Legislature by backing a special election for the city’s newly unified clerk of court position.

In the July 2 indictment, the grand jurors found probable cause for crimes in Murrill’s letters to Mayor Helena Moreno, District Attorney Jason Williams and the five City Council members that voted for the special election, along with their interim choice for clerk, former judge Calvin Johnson.

The attorney general’s recusal motion comes as eight of 10 defendants from the May 2025 jailbreak await a Sept. 15 trial date before Roche.

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Ocean Springs waits for answers in teen’s death Tight-knit community ‘just in disbelief’

BY MARTHA SANCHEZ Staff writer

The city where Nolan Wells lived is full of sorrow.

It has been more than a week since a search crew found the teenager’s body in the waters near a Gulf Coast barrier island, where he celebrated the Fourth of July with friends. The tragic news rattled his tight-knit community of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where shock is now turning to grief, speculation and painful uncertainty.

The community is “trying to pull together and be supportive to his family, but they’re still just in disbelief,” said Tracy Lampley, who coached Wells when he played football at Ocean Springs High School. “Everybody just wants to know what happened.”

So far, the answer has remained unclear. Law enforcement have said Wells, 18, disappeared during crowded holiday celebrations on Horn Island, about 10 miles off

the Mississippi Coast. Autopsy results are still pending, and authorities had not released a cause of death by Monday night.

The county’s sheriff said last week that no signs of foul play had emerged as the department’s investigation into Wells’ death continues.

Ben Crump, a national civil rights attorney who is Wells representing Wells’ family, is also investigating the teen’s death. The tragedy began drawing national attention as a photo circulated online that shows Wells, who was Black, sitting on a boat with several friends, who are White.

Crump and Wells’ parents, Christine and Elmore Wonsley, appeared on the show “Good Morning America” last week and called for a thorough investigation. They said they could not understand why Wells would separate from his group of friends.

“It’s not adding up,” Crump said, “and that is the problem when you think about the history of Mississippi.”

Sean Tindell, commissioner of

the Mississippi Department of Public Safety, told the conservative talk radio station SuperTalk Mississippi that his “heart is bleeding for the family and the friends of Nolan who have suffered a tragic loss.”

“The investigation will lead where it will,” he added. “But there’s no indication that there was anything regarding race that led to this unfortunate situation.”

Ocean Springs grieves Over the weekend, hundreds peacefully gathered on the streets of Ocean Springs to call attention to Wells’ death. They chanted his name and carried handmade signs. “Justice for Nolan Wells,” one read. “Hope for Nolan,” said another.

“We want answers,” one attendee told WLOX-TV in Biloxi.

“It’s about the truth, and it’s about transparency.”

Students and staff in the Ocean Springs School District were also invited last week to the high school auditorium, where they

held a grief session.

“Our community is hurting,” Ron Chambers, who serves on the district’s Board of Trustees, recently wrote on social media. “Let us not become trapped by gossip, rumors, backbiting, or sensationalism. Those things only fuel conflict and prolong pain.”

Wells’ mother has posted on social media pleading that users report videos generated by artificial intelligence, which she said are spreading false information about her son’s death. She has also called out fake fundraising accounts purporting to support her family. Others in Ocean Springs are condemning online actors they say are using the tragedy for personal gain.

The digital chaos is frustrating some residents across Ocean Springs, a city of about 19,000 people usually known for its towering oaks, beaches and laid-back art scene. Many leaders are urging their city to come together with compassion.

“Everybody’s upset over the whole ordeal,” said Kevin Wade, an Ocean Springs alderman. “Un-

Former Tammany clerk of court dies at 67 Prieto had ‘innate desire to serve the community,’ mayor says

BY JIM DERRY Staff writer

Marie Elise “Malise” Prieto, who served St. Tammany Parish as its clerk of court for nearly two decades, died Friday at her home in Maine.

The death was due to cancer, according to her husband, Rick Delaune. She was 67.

Prieto won her first election in November 1995, taking over as clerk for Lucy Reid Rausch, who also had served the clerk’s office for five terms and was the first

SUIT

Continued from page 1B complete the unexpired term of former Judge Darryl Derbigny in Section J. The law change takes effect Jan. 1, axing Fuller’s seat along with the seats currently held by Judges Simone Levine and Rhonda Goode-Douglas.

All 12 judges’ terms end at year’s end. The qualifying period runs Aug. 5-7.

There’s no timeline for when Smith might decide the broader constitutional question about the number of votes needed for the law to pass.

“While the final decision wasn’t made on that question, the judge

RECUSAL

Continued from page 1B Given Roche’s dealings with Murrill’s indictment, he “can’t be a neutral observer” in the jailbreak case, wrote Assistant Attorney General Daniel Smart in his motion Tuesday.

“No one could objectively believe that his bias would not be imputed to anyone associated with her office or any matter before her involving her office,” he wrote.

Smart alleged Roche put a “bias against the Attorney General on open display” in a per curiam letter he sent the Louisiana Supreme Court, which had just issued a stay that halted the criminal proceedings against Murrill.

In the letter, Roche argued that, despite booting a throng of reporters from his courtroom to protect grand jury secrecy, he’d complied with a law requiring indictments to be returned in “open court.”

Roche argued that the term meant only that the judge must be sitting on the bench.

All 12 New Orleans criminal judges recused themselves from Murrill’s case last week, and the Louisiana Supreme Court appointed retired state appeals court judge Robert Chaisson to preside over the case.

Roche’s recusal order noted that Gov. Jeff Landry has urged Louisiana State Police to investigate leaks by the grand jurors without

woman ever to hold the position.

“She had the utmost respect for people in the community, and they had the utmost respect for her,” said Jessica Jenkins Brewster, the current clerk of court, who garnered Prieto’s endorsement in defeating the outgoing Melissa Henry three years ago.

“Many of the clerks (under Prieto) stayed their whole careers; they didn’t Prieto swap around. … They were faithful to the office and the community, and I felt she was loyal.”

After narrowly defeating Bonnie Schultz to win her first term as clerk of court, she then defeated her former deputy, John Beyl, in 1999. She easily won her next three elections, including a fifth term, when she ran unopposed.

“She had an innate desire to

serve the community,” said Covington Mayor Mark Johnson, who knew Prieto from their high school days. “She was just always someone you could depend on.”

A seventh-generation resident of Mandeville, Prieto spent part of her year at her second home in New England. It was there, in October, that she learned of her diagnosis.

“She did everything she wanted to do in life,” Delaune said. “She had a great life. I am so proud to have been a part of it for 26 years until the end of it.

She was a pretty amazing lady.”

Prieto was a 1976 graduate of St. Scholastica Academy in Covington and continued her education by earning a law degree from LSU in 1983. She spent the early part of her professional life working

as a real estate attorney with her father, Ernest Prieto, before deciding to take a chance in politics.

In her later years, Prieto became a “world-class” bird watcher, Delaune said, and traveled to the Dominican Republic, Cuba and all over the world to do so. She also was an avid sailor, and at one time won a Gulf Coast yacht race in Pensacola on her boat, “The Creole Lady.”

She had no children, and along with Delaune, she is survived by a brother, Ernie Prieto, two nieces, Emily and Calla Prieto, and a nephew, Harrison Prieto.

Private services will be held in Maine, and a celebration of her life will take place in Mandeville at a future date.

Email Jim Derry at jderry@ theadvocate.com.

did think that there was enough vigor to maintain the status quo until a final decision can be made,” said Fuller’s attorney, Jerome Matthews. “Because if you don’t allow the judges to qualify and we come to find out afterward that it was unconstitutionally passed, it’ll be too late for them to qualify for their seats at that point.”

Murrill said she plans to appeal the injunction.

“The law is clear that a preliminary injunction blocking implementation of a state law is not legally proper,” Murrill said in a statement. “We will file an appeal immediately, which suspends the judgment. As this matter impacts elections and qualifying deadlines, we will seek priority review to get this matter resolved quickly.”

any credible reports that its members had spoken to the press.

“This was one of the precise reasons the court had to protect the grand jurors’ anonymity from the media for fear of unlawful retaliation and harassment against them, from their own governor and attorney general,” Roche wrote.

The Supreme Court’s stay has placed Murrill’s arraignment on hold. In the meantime, Murrill’s attorneys have issued subpoenas to Williams and White seeking records related to how the state grand jury came to indict Murrill and how it got out.

Murrill is also seeking Roche’s recusal from the case of Sterling Williams, a former Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office janitor charged with helping facilitate last year’s escape. Investigators said he cut off the water supply in the jail cell, allowing inmates to remove a toilet and flee through the hole it left.

Court records show Roche on Tuesday asked another judge to hear the attorney general’s recusal motion. Williams’ trial was set to begin next week.

Steve Scheckman, a longtime former special counsel for the Judiciary Commission of Louisiana, said Roche’s decision to leave his recusal to another judge is in line with state law.

“If a motion is clearly frivolous, he can deny it. But if it is not, it must be allotted randomly to another judge to decide,” Scheckman said. “Obviously, all of this needs to be litigated before a fair and impartial judge to decide it.”

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The Jefferson Parish smart water meter project has resumed after contractor issues paused work.

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and not the result of faulty equipment.

The issue flared up at the last council meeting in June, with residents voicing their frustrations and council members vowing to investigate the issue.

At-large council member Jennifer Van Vrancken has two upcoming pieces of legislation at next week’s council meeting to reduce the schedule of rate increases and hire a third-party company to handle bill disputes, although she said Tuesday they will likely be deferred to August to allow more time to sort out the specifics.

“The public can rest assured that this is a significant issue for us all, and we’re looking for solutions,” Van Vrancken said.

Parish officials have implemented several changes in recent years in response to resident complaints. In 2025, they relaunched in-person appointments to field complaints at the customer service center, and implemented new policies to photograph water meters any time readings are twice as high or less than half the average reading over the last year.

sewer infrastructure over the next two decades, paid for with annual rate increases to residents’ water bills.

As of Friday, the parish was more than halfway through with the meter replacement program, with 82,909 new meters installed.

Pedal Valves began installing new meters in 2024 after the Jefferson Parish Council approved a roughly $116 million contract to replace them over four years and then maintain their software for 20 years. Parish officials say the new meters are able to read usage more accurately and allow customers to view their usage in real time using an app.

But both the water bill increases and the new smart meters have been the source of growing complaints from constituents who blame the new technology for abnormal increases on their water bills. Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng’s administration has maintained that high water bills are likely the result of leaks in the home that may have gone Email Lara Nicholson at undetected under the old meters, lnicholson@theadvocate.com.

til law enforcement and everybody gets all the investigations done, nobody’s really going to know what’s going on.”

“Each and every step we take together supporting Nolan’s memory, his family, his friends, and unity is a step in the right direction,” Ocean Springs Mayor Bobby Cox wrote on social media.

The people who loved Wells recall him as a kind and friendly role model and peacemaker. He worked hard on his football career, first in Ocean Springs, then at Southwest Mississippi Community College. Lampley, Wells’ former coach, called him “a joy to be around.”

Law enforcement have said speculation surrounding Wells’ death is damaging to their investigation, because rumors and public scrutiny may intimidate teenage witnesses from coming forward.

Lampley added that observers should await whatever facts the family chooses to share.

“Give them the respect they deserve,” he said.

Staff writer Poet Wolfe contributed reporting.

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Continued from page 1B The S&WB has not formally responded to the lawsuit. At least three businesses in the area have closed, citing the project’s impact on their bottom lines.

Louisiana Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack said he had not yet received an audit request. Louisiana Senate President Cameron Henry, R-Metairie, and House Speaker Phillip DeVillier, R-Eunice, who received Landry’s request, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Tuesday.

In their recent statement, S&WB officials said the utility “will fully cooperate with any requested audit activities.” Officials also sought to pin the project’s problems on former staffers, saying that the project’s scope and timeline “had already been established” when the agency’s current leadership took the reins.

And the project’s anticipated one-year timeline was extended because of “unforeseen impacts,” officials said, including the discovery of historical artifacts, cold weather and rain, and “coordination around major city events and coordination with other utility partners.”

Officials also offered updates on each block of the project.

Crews have fully paved the 1100 block of Decatur Street and have removed fencing. They expect to begin sidewalk restoration this week.

On the 1000 block of Decatur Street, crews have paved most of the street, installed most of the curb, and pulled most fencing down. On the 900 block of Decatur Street, they have completed drain line work and sewer upgrades, and they have installed about 70% of a needed water main.

They expect to wrap up underground utility work on that block within a month and to remove fencing after they finish paving temporary asphalt.

On the 600 block of St. Peter Street, which is also included in the water main transmission replacement project, the street is fully paved. Crews have pulled down the fence and have installed jersey barriers to shift pedestrian traffic to one side of the block while they work to restore the sidewalk over the next month.

“The aging infrastructure upgrades and upgrades from other utility partners on Decatur Street and St. Peter Street are vital to ensuring redundancy in our system and preventing rework on the same roadways,” said Hayman on Saturday.

Business owners sued the S&WB over the project in June, asking the court to force the utility to speed up work and remove barricades from areas where there’s no construction activity.

A hearing in the case is set for Friday after it was postponed last week because of a procedural issue, attorney Robert Ellis of the firm Bivalacqua, Gelé + Ellis said.

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Subaru issues label recall for 541,000 SUVs

NEWYORK — Subaru of America is recalling more than 541,000 of its Crosstrek, Forester and Ascent SUVs due to an inaccurate label attached to the vehicles.

According to a notice published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this week, the now-recalled vehicles were made with a certification label that incorrectly states their gross axle weight rating, or GAWR, which reflects the maximum weight that each axle of a vehicle can support.

The NHTSA warns a wrong GAWR label “may lead to an overloaded vehicle,” which could increase the likelihood of a crash.

Subaru has not been aware of any crashes or injuries resulting from this issue in the U.S., according to recall documents. And no mechanical repair is needed — but the company plans to mail impacted owners a “corrective certification label” to place over the faulty one. Customers may also choose to have a dealer place the new label on their cars, free of charge.

Frontier picks SpaceX’s Starlink for in-flight Wi-Fi Frontier Airlines will retrofit its fleet of more than 180 aircraft with Starlink, becoming the latest carrier to join the inflight high-speed internet arms race by partnering with Elon Musk’s SpaceX subsidiary.

The Denver-based budget carrier said it plans to deploy its first Starlink-equipped aircraft in early 2027, adding that it will be the first U.S. airline to offer customers access to Starlink’s internet through a new system directly managed by Starlink.

Frontier touted Starlink’s gateto-gate connectivity potential for its employees, saying it will lead to “improved operational performance and more seamless customer service.”

The potential for high-speed internet on Frontier flights could equip the airline to better compete with legacy carriers at DFW International Airport, where it has built up a significant presence over the past few years. After Spirit Airlines’ collapse, Frontier now is the unquestioned dominant budget airline at DFW Airport, the central hub of American Airlines.

In combination with Frontier, other members of Indigo Partners’ portfolio, including Wizz Air, Volaris, JetSMART and Cebu Pacific, plan to install Starlink on over 1,000 aircraft, according to Frontier.

China’s June exports surge amid AI boom HONG KONG — China’s exports accelerated in June, jumping 27% from a year earlier thanks partly to the boom in artificial intelligence, the customs agency said Tuesday.

The increase in exports in June was much better than economists had expected. Exports rose 19.4% year-on-year in May. Imports in June surged 36%, better than May’s 27.4% yearon-year growth, with analysts attributing the expansion in part due to the Iran war driving up import costs.

China recorded a trade surplus of $125.6 billion in June, widening from $105.4 billion in the previous month.

“With the rapid growth of AI, our imports and export of products in this field are robust,” Wang Jun, vice minister of China’s General Administration of Customs, said at a news conference in Beijing.

He said trade in electronic components, computer spare parts, and other computing hardware jumped nearly 57% to $760 billion in the first half of the year. Other products such as AI glasses, AI translating devices, powered exoskeletons and other smart products are also evolving.

“Trade values took another big leg up in June,” Julian EvansPritchard, head of China Economics at Capital Economics, wrote in a note Tuesday. “This predominantly reflects the recent surge in semiconductor prices on the back of the AI boom. But even putting that aside, foreign demand for Chinese goods remains robust.”

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Banks Inflation cools more raking in than expected in June big profits

BY MATT OTT

AP business writer

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U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost of gas, clothes and used cars fell, providing some relief to consumers, while underlying price pressures also slowed more than expected.

Gas costs fall, underlying prices ease

BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

AP economics writer

WASHINGTON — U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost of gas, clothes and used cars fell, providing some relief to consumers, while underlying price pressures also slowed more than expected.

Consumer prices dropped 0.4% from May to June, the largest monthly drop in four years, the Labor Department said Tuesday, after rising 0.5% in the previous month. On a yearly basis, inflation declined to 3.5%, down from a year-over-year gain of 4.2% in May and lower than many economists expected.

Excluding the food and energy categories, core prices were unchanged from May to June, a positive sign that underlying inflation is declining. On a yearly basis, core prices rose just 2.6%, down from 2.9% the previous month. Core inflation remains above the Federal Reserve’s target of 2%.

The core figures suggest that the gas price spike from the Iran war, while it pushed up airfares and some other costs, hasn’t so far led to broad-based, sustained inflation, economists said.

“This reading is very much in the camp that the inflation we’ve had this year is transitory,” said Michael Metcalfe, head of macro strategy at State Street Markets. “Yes, gas prices went up, but nothing else did, more or less.”

Yet oil prices rose for a sec-

ond day Tuesday as the United States renewed attacks on Iran and President Donald Trump announced a new blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route for about one-fifth of the world’s oil. The increase threatens to undo at least some of the progress that occurred last month.

And many Americans have soured on the economy after five years of elevated inflation, posing a risk to Trump and Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections.

For his part, Trump on Tuesday blamed his predecessor, Democrat Joe Biden, for the rate of inflation having spiked to a three-year high just last month.

“It’s not my fault,” he said. “We are putting it to sleep. ... Inflation is way down.”

“Remember that for the midterms,” he added.

Yet inflation has risen since Trump’s inauguration last year, to 3.5% from 3% in January 2025. It jumped even further after the Iran war began Feb. 28, when it was just 2.4% Tuesday’s report likely reduces pressure on the Fed to boost its short-term interest rate to combat inflation. Last month, Fed officials left their key rate unchanged at about 3.6%.

“Today’s report gave some breathing room for the Federal Reserve in deciding whether and when to raise interest rates,” Kathy Bostjancic, chief economist at Nationwide Financial, said.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, in written testimony to the House Financial Services Committee, said Tuesday that the Fed has “no tolerance” for high inflation which he pledged would become “a thing of the past.” Yet he provided no hints about what steps

the Fed may take in coming months. Warsh will face questions later Tuesday from members of Congress.

A wider range of prices cooled last month than economists had forecast. Electricity prices, which have been elevated by spiking demand from data centers, fell 1% from May to June, though they are still 4% higher than a year ago. Clothing prices dropped 0.6% from May to June but are 3.9% more expensive than a year earlier.

Groceries rose 0.2% from May to June and are up 2.7% from last year, while apartment rental costs cooled, rising just 0.1% last month and 2.8% from a year ago.

The inflation-fighters at the Fed remain sharply divided over next steps, according to minutes of their June 16-17 meeting.

About half of policymakers support raising interest rates by the end of the year to cool borrowing, spending, and price increases, the minutes showed. Another half are willing to wait for signs that inflation may resume falling as gas prices decline, though the minutes predate the recent flare-up of violence in the Middle East.

And the situation in the Middle East continues to change hour to hour. On Tuesday, the price for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the international standard, climbed 4.6% to $87.13 after the United States and Iran each said the Strait of Hormuz is under its control. Gas prices have also risen about 6 cents a gallon in the past week, to a nationwide average of $3.86 a gallon.

“Today’s number is a very good reading, but so much is going to depend on what happens in the Middle East,” Bostjancic said.

Economists, tech leaders speak out on AI

BY QUEENIE WONG

Los Angeles Times (TNS) Many of the smartest people in the world warned governments, companies and people Monday that they need to be ready for the deep impact that artificial intelligence is going to have on the economy.

More than 200 economists, researchers and tech leaders said artificial intelligence could transform the economy for the better and for worse and fuel risks including “large-scale job displacement.”

In a statement, the group said AI could become more powerful over a decade, driving an unprecedented economic transformation that could bring downsides but also opportunities such as “major gains in living standards.”

“We must act now to guide AI to complement humans rather than simply imitate them — and to generate prosperity for the many, not just the few,” said Erik Brynjolfsson, a Stanford Univer-

sity professor and director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, in a separate statement.

Brynjolfsson is among the prominent individuals who signed the statement titled ”We Must Act Now” to urge economists, policymakers and tech leaders to better understand how AI will transform the economy.

The group is pushing for the creation of more guardrails, incentives and institutions to “steer AI in a direction that complements humans and benefits society.”

Among those who signed the statement were Nobel laureates, AI researchers and tech leaders from California venture capital firms and companies including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google.

The tech leaders included Eric Schmidt, former Google chief executive; Reid Hoffman, a LinkedIn co-founder; Vinod Khosla, a venture capitalist; Yann LeCun, a computer scientist; and Jack Clark, a co-founder of Anthropic.

Economists from Harvard, Stan-

ford, MIT and other prominent universities were also on the list.

The statement highlights some of the anxiety surrounding the latest advancements in technology as some of the world’s largest companies race to compete with China and other countries to dominate the AI race.

Companies are going head-tohead with one another, rolling out more powerful AI tools that allow people to quickly generate text, code, images, videos and other content.

They’re marketing the tools as ways to help workers with tedious tasks. The rise in automation, though, has also raised concerns about whether AI will wipe out certain jobs in software engineering, customer service, entertainment and other areas.

AI also poses safety risks. AI companies including ChatGPT maker OpenAI are facing lawsuits over whether they should be held responsible when people use AI to harm themselves or others.

WASHINGTON — Five of the biggest U.S. banks reported record profits on Tuesday, boosted by their trading desks and a remarkably resilient American consumer amid persistent global economic uncertainty.

It marks the second straight quarter of strong results from the banks, which have benefited from market volatility since the Iran war began in late February.

Both consumer-facing and marketfocused banks reported revenue and profit growth that beat even the most optimistic Wall Street expectations.

The KBW Nasdaq Bank Index, which tracks the performance of two dozen banks, rose in afternoon trading.

JPMorgan Chase logged $16.9 billion in second-quarter profit as its equities trading division again took advantage of market volatility triggered by the war in Iran.

The nation’s largest bank by asset size, JPMorgan said that revenue in every line of its business hit record levels in the quarter, including its markets division, where revenue grew 35% over the same period last year. Revenue in its equity markets division skyrocketed 86%.

JPMorgan earned $6.14 per share in the period, beating analyst estimates of $5.59 per share. Managed revenue came in at $58 billion, also topping the estimates of analysts surveyed by FactSet. JPMorgan shares rose 1.8% by midday.

Bank executives highlighted a surprisingly strong U.S. consumer even as inflation remains elevated, in part due to the higher oil prices brought about by the war in Iran.

Bank of America said that consumer spending expanded, outperforming expectations. Consumer investment assets grew 18% year-over-year and average deposits and spending all increased from the first quarter, the bank said.

JPMorgan reported revenue of $20.3 billion from its consumer banking division in the period, a year-over-year increase of 8%.

Wells Fargo also reported improved consumer activity, reflecting a broadly healthy U.S. economy.

“Consumer spending is higher, charge-offs and delinquencies are lower, and savings and investments are growing across consumer segments,” Wells CEO Charlie Scharf said.

The unresolved conflict in the Middle East, however, remains a potential economic hurdle for consumers and businesses alike.

Oil prices fell back near prewar levels earlier this month, but they’re back up more than 10% this week after the U.S. renewed attacks on Iran and President Donald Trump announced a new blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, a key shipping route for about one-fifth of the world’s oil. At $3.86 per gallon, gas prices remain well above prewar levels but below their peak of around $4.50 in May. Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, said on a conference call that JPMorgan remains “appropriately cautious” in light of the current global economic risks.

“We cannot predict how these forces will Dimon ultimately play out,” Dimon said. “They may remain manageable, but they could also cause meaningful disruptions when they shift or collide.”

Dimon said that revenue from the New York bank’s investment banking division rose 30%, accelerating to the highest level since 2021 as the thirst for initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions remained strong.

All the major banks played a role in SpaceX’s record-setting IPO in June, with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley acting as lead underwriters. The offering brought in $75 billion, more than all U.S. IPOs combined in 2024 and 2025, according to Renaissance Capital.

Renaissance expects the IPO market to extend its hot streak into the second half of this year, also driven by larger deals such as Korean memory chip giant SK Hynix’s “mega-listing” on Friday that raised $26.5 billion.

Global mergers and acquisition activity also accelerated in the second quarter of 2026, with announcements up 64% year-over-year and closings up 33%, according to Morgan Stanley.

Goldman Sachs said revenue from advising on mergers and acquisitions in the second quarter rose 17%.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Bertucci Jr., Christopher Burd, Eric Dickerson, Larry English, Joel Jackson Sr., J.W. Parks, Gary Rivers, James Schmitt, David Webster, John

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Villafranco, and Dante Ness; and 22 great-grandchildren.

Chris had a joyous and generous spirit, a wonderful sense of humor, and a gift for making others smile. He loved to laugh, have fun, and share his love of art, music, travel, and good food with family and friends. His kindness, warmth, faith, and devotion to others will remain an inspiration to all who knew and loved him.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend visitation on Friday, July 17, 2026, from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. at St. Pius X Catholic Church in New Orleans, followed by Mass celebrated by Archbishop James Checchio at 11:30 a.m. Interment will follow at Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum.

nephews, nieces, other relatives and friends.

Preceded in death by his parents Irvin and Rebecca Dickerson, siblings: Walter Jones, Irvin Dickerson, Dorothy Taylor, Stella Keasley, Ronald Lewis and his beloved son Brian.

Family and friends are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Service on Friday, July 17, 2026, for 10:00 a.m. at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126.

Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Apostle Barry Green, officiating. Interment will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park, 10400 Old Gentilly Road. A Repass will be held at The Luxury Hall, 5555 Bullard Ave., New Orleans, LA. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditi onbegins.com (504)2820600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

English, Joel Condon

Burd, Eric Timothy

Christopher Anthony Bertucci, Jr. passed away peacefully on July 12, 2026, at the age of 89. Born on April 13, 1937, in New Orleans, LA, he was the son of the late Agnes LeBlanc Bertucci and Christopher Bertucci. A lifelong resident of the New Orleans area, Chris was a graduate of Fortier High School and attended LSU. He built a distinguished career in real estate, becoming a respected broker and earning numerous professional certifications.

Alongside his beloved wife and fellow real estate broker, he owned and operated a successful real estate firm, Bertucci Realty, Inc. His professionalism, integrity, and commitment to serving others earned him the respect and admiration of colleagues and clients.

Beyond his professional accomplishments, Chris dedicated much of his life to service. He was past president of the Jaycees and was deeply committed to his Catholic faith.

Ordained as a permanent deacon in 1991, he devoted himself to serving God's people. He ministered at St. Philip Neri, St. Ann, St. Pius X Catholic Church and at parishes in Mississippi.

He also provided pastoral care at EJ Hospital, Orleans Parish Prison, and Southeast LA Mental Health Hospital in Mandeville, bringing compassion, encouragement, and faith to those in need.

Chris was preceded in death by his parents; siblings, Russell Bertucci, Rosalie Aleman, Peter Bertucci, and Jimmie Bertucci; and his beloved son, Christopher A. Bertucci, III. He is survived by his devoted wife of 61 years, Elizabeth Maenza Bertucci; his children, Leslie Bertucci, Elizabeth Bertucci, and Maria Villafranco (Danny); his grandchildren, Michael Ural, Jr., Henri Lespinasse, Anna Kedzuch, Brittany Winter, Daniel Villafranco, Jr., Bradley Oster, Alex Lespinasse, Christian Villafranco, Sophia

Estelle J. Wilson Funeral Home, Inc. 2715 Danneel Street New Orleans, LA 70113 Office (504) 895-4903 Email: estelle@ejwilsonfh.com Eric Timothy Burd, passed away on July 1, 2026 at Touro Infirmary at the age of 63. He was a resident of New Orleans, LA. He was the son of the late Joseph and Selma Burd.

Brother of Sylvia Williams, Donna Bernard and Carmelia (Toni) Burd, and the Late Bernice Placide, Joyce Burd, Clara Wallace, Marcell Burd and Gregory Burd. Also survived by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. A memorial Service will be held on Friday July 17, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at Estelle J. Wilson Funeral Home, Inc. 2715 Danneel Street, New Orleans, La. 70113. Ms. Sylvia Thomas worship leader .

Arrangements Entrusted To Estelle J. Wilson Funeral Home, Inc.2715 Danneel St. NOLA 70113 Information (504) 895-4903 To sign online guest book please visit www.estellejwilsonfh.com

Dickerson, Larry

Larry Dickerson, 79 passed away peacefully on June 29, 2026, at Ochsner Hospital. Larry is survived by his wife of 56 years Angette Dickerson, his children Karen, Larry and Byron. Fifteen grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, and two great-great grandchildren. Also survived by a host of

With great sadness, the family of Mrs. Joel Condon English would like to announce her passing at her home on July 10, 2026. She was 85 years old.

Joel was born the youngest of eight children in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 15, 1940, to August and Onelia Favlin Condon. She graduated from Holy Angels Academy. Most recently she was a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Slidell, Louisiana.

After learning how to cook from her parents, Joel became a chef and headed up the kitchen at Mandich's Restaurant for 33 years. Mandich's was known by many as "The Galatoire's of the 9th Ward." As head chef, she received many accolades in the restaurant industry due to her perfect execution of every dish she served. Her hard work and dedication led to Mandich being featured in the September 1998 issue of New Orleans Magazine as well as other publications.

John Besh was quoted in an article saying, "Mrs. English was one of the greatest New Orleans cooks that ever walked the streets."

Post Katrina, Lloyd and Joel decided to retire after working side by side for 33 years. Joel missed the restaurant dearly, but this gave her the chance to focus on her favorite job of all, being a grandmother.

She still spent most of her time in the kitchen, but this time with her family.

She made sure that everyone who walked through her door was well fed, especially with her famous post-Christmas dinner "Grammy Sammie."

Joel was loved by everyone because of her wonderful, sweet disposition and could warm anyone's heart with her infectious smile. She was easily everyone's favorite by being a beautiful woman inside and out. She will be dearly missed by her family, friends, many restaurant

patrons, and anyone she crossed paths with.

She was preceded in death by her parents, August and Onelia Condon; siblings, Marguerite Crespo, Una Gelpi, Lois Blakewell, Elaine McKenna, and Joseph Condon; and her grandson, Rod Willhoft II. Joel is survived by her loving husband of 66 years, Lloyd A. English, Jr.; daughter, Leslie Willhoft (Rod); son, Erin English (Melissa); sister, Alva Navarre; brother, Raymond Condon; granddaughters, Yvette Porte (Josh), Alexis English, and Courtney Willhoft (Seth Floyd); great -grandchildren, Oliver Porte and Ezra Porte, and Baby Willhoft-Floyd due in December; as well as numerous nieces and nephews.

The family would like to give special thanks to Hospice of St. Tammany, Caretaker Crystal, and nurse Susan; nieces, Elle McCracken and Marguerite Marks; and friends, Amy and Troy Alexander.

Relatives and friends are invited to celebrate Mrs. Joel's wonderful life on Monday, July 20, 2026 at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Boulevard in New Orleans. Visitation will be from 10:00 in the morning until the Funeral Mass at 1:00 PM. Interment to follow after a walking procession to All Saints Mausoleum on the same grounds.

In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to St. Jude Children's Hospital.

To view and sign the online guestbook, visit www.LakeLawnMetairie.co m.

Jackson, J.W.

John William Jackson Sr, age 90, was born on June 23, 1936. He passed away peacefully at his home in Ponchatoula, Louisiana on July 4, 2026 surrounded by family. He was born in Waveland, MS and raised in the Irish Channel in New Orleans, LA. He later relocated to Terrytown, LA with his wife to raise their four children and eventually retired in Ponchatoula, Louisiana. John served in the Army and was stationed in Germany post WWII. He worked as an iron worker and a shrimp fisherman. He founded Terrytown Boxing Club, where he served as president and Head Coach. He was a devoted husband and father and an amazing grandfather. He will be greatly missed. He is survived by his son John William Jackson Jr. (Ellia); his grandchildren Jason Rooney, Jayna Berthelot (Justin), Jayme Caminita (C J), Joseph Caminita III (Tonya), Charlie Jackson, Jennifer Jackson, Jordan Jackson, Mia Jackson, Marley Jackson, and Jeanne Denning (Patrick), and several great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents Elmer Jackson and Hazel Turncotte Jackson; his siblings Joyce J. Bird and Elmer "Nunu" Forest Jackson Jr; his children JayLynn Jackson Wolf, Jolene Jackson Acy and Jay Paul Jackson; his son in law Allen Acy Jr. and his granddaughter; Jessica Jackson.

Family and friends are invited to attend visitation and Mass at Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 Westbank Expy. Harvey, LA. Visitation will be held from 9:00 am -11:00 am on

Wednesday July 22, 2026.

Mass will begin at 11:00 am with interment to follow at Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans, LA. Condolences offered at mothefunerals.com.

Parks, Gary P.

Gary P. Parks was born January 30, 1941 and died June 10, 2026. He was the son of the late Ernest & Edna Parks. In his youth they farmed an area located between the town of Paradis and fishing village of Bayou Gauche, Louisiana. Gary

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and his older brother Terry, were the last of the family order consisting of deceased siblings Velma Dufrene, Wilmer, Venis, Ethel Savoie, and Raymond.

He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Glenda, son Michael, and grandsons Aaron and Brady Parks, many nieces & nephews, cousins, in-laws, and his honorary granddaughters Jordan Jamieson and Jaci Tortorella.

He attended the Paradis Elementary School 1st through 4th grades attaining a great educational start, with thanks to beloved teachers Peyregne, Roberts, Amaca, and Hebert. After graduating from Hahnville High School in 1959, he also earned a BS in Mathematics from Southeastern Louisiana College and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from LSU. His career in the chemical industry included Rubicon, Albermarle, retiring from Novartis Agricultural Chemical. He was an LSU area property owner and Condo Association Consultant and Manager.

He loved old boats, old cars, but most of all old friends and new.

An avid volunteer and community activist, he was also a member of the Unitarian Church of Baton Rouge for over 40 years. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, July 18, 2 p.m., at the Church at 8470 Goodwood Boulevard.

members and friends.

James was preceded in death by his wife Camille Virginia Rivers, his parents Earnest Rivers, Sr. and Noella Fox Rivers Victorin, and brothers Herbert and Earnest Rivers, Jr. James was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 18, 1937, and attended Craig Elementary School and Booker T. Washington High School.

The family extends their deepest gratitude and appreciation for the outpouring of prayers, love and support they have received during this difficult time.

Relatives, friends, and employees of Royal Sonesta Jazz Playhouse, Parlay's Bar, East Jefferson Hospital, West Jefferson Hospital (Bridgepoint) and Oschner Foundation Hospital are invited to attend the funeral services at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd, New Orleans, Louisiana on Thursday, July 16, 2026.

Visitation is from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm, and services begin at 1:00 pm. Please feel free to sign the online guestbook.

Schmitt, David Frederick

Rivers, James 'JR'

James, "JR" Rivers, aged 89, passed away at his home in New Orleans, surrounded by his loving family on July 6, 2026.

He is survived by daughters Countess and Wanda Rivers; sisters, Betty Merrill, Ella Rivers, and Sandra Rivers. Sister-inlaw Joy Gray and brotherin-law Matthew Sharper and his loving nephew, Roland Gray, Jr., along with numerous other nieces, nephews, extended family

David F. Schmitt, 79, of Westwego, Louisiana, passed away on July 12, 2026. Born on November 2, 1946, in Syracuse, New York, he was the son of Katherine and Ernest Schmitt. David was preceded in death by his parents, his brother, Ernie Schmitt, his sister, Patricia, his son, Martin Charles Scherr, and his son-in-law, Gilbert Sanchez. He is survived by his beloved wife of 44 years, Bonnie Jean Schmitt of Westwego, Louisiana; his daughters, Mandy Schmitt of Syracuse, New York, and Christine Scherr Brannon, of Harvey, Louisiana; his son-in-law Michael Brannon, his five grandchildren, Camille Brannon of Orlando, Florida, Jarod Sanchez, Janelle Sanchez, Sebastian Sanchez, and Catalina Sanchez, all of Syracuse,

New York; and his greatgranddaughter, Cassia Sanchez of Syracuse, New York.

David graduated from North High School in Syracuse and attended Onondaga Community College. He retired from St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, where he worked in hospital security for many years. In 2015, he and Bonnie relocated from Bridgeport, New York, to the New Orleans area, where they made their home in Westwego. A devoted Syracuse University sports fan, David proudly cheered on the Orangemen through good seasons and bad. He enjoyed watching all sports, had a deep appreciation for silent and classic films, enjoyed listening to all sorts of music from Bluegrass, New Orleans Jazz and Opera, loved dogs, catching beads at Mardi Gras, and treasured time spent with his family. David's greatest legacy was the way he lived his life with compassion, generosity, and unwavering dedication to helping others. A member of Alcoholics Anonymous, he celebrated 53 years of sobriety and devoted himself to helping others achieve lasting recovery.

His kindness, encouragement, and example touched many lives and left a lasting impact on all who knew him. He was a parishioner of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Marrero, Louisiana, and previously attended Bridgeport Methodist Church in Bridgeport, New York. David will be remembered most for his love of family, his faith, his commitment to helping others, and the joy he brought to those around him. He will be deeply missed and forever remembered by all who had the privilege of knowing and loving him.

Post condolences at mothefunerals.com.

Webster, John David 'Jay'

John David (Jay) Webster Jr. died July 1, 2026 from complications following a bicycle accident in November 2025. He was 67 years old. Jay was preceded in death by his father, John D. Webster, Sr., and a younger brother, Bradley James Webster. He is survived by his mother Marilyn Webster, formerly of Smithtown, NY; a sister, Helene Webster Goldstein, and a nephew, Bradley, of Orlando FL; and three sons Roke, Jack and Carl Webster and one daughter, Isabella Webster. Born in Brooklyn, NY, Jay graduated from the State University of New York (SUNY) Maritime College at Fort Schuyler with a degree in marine engineering and relocated to New

Orleans to pursue a career in the maritime industry.

After working on the U.S. Corps of Engineers hopper dredge Wheeler, and sailing traveling around the world for many years aboard commercial cargo vessels as a merchant marine, Jay became engineer surveyor with Sabine Surveyors. Holding the rare designation of Chief Engineer for Steam and Diesel of Unlimited Horsepower, Jay was also certified as a lead auditor for the U.S. Dept. of Justice and acted on their behalf in assessing and monitoring federal regulatory and environmental compliance offenses and mandates. In 2019, he opened Jay Webster Marine Compliance and Consulting, traveling the world to serve maritime industry clients. Jay was a devoted friend and family man. He was an avid cyclist who as a young man had ridden across the U.S. and also toured parts of Europe by bicycle. He continued to ride for fun and fitness with The City Park Irregulars Bike Club. He was an accomplished swimmer and competed with a U.S. Master's Swim Team in both state and na-

tional championships. He is best remember for his jovial and generous nature, a waning but still enduring Brooklyn accent, a clever wit, thoughtful sentimentality, and a silly habit of breaking out into song wherever and whenever the mood would strike him.

The family extends its thanks to all of Jay's doctors and caretakers for their efforts in giving him the possibility of recovery, as well as very special thanks to his many friends and family members who remained steadfast by visiting him, praying for his recovery, and supporting his family throughout the eight months of his hospitalization.

A Catholic Funeral Mass will be held for Jay at Jacob Schoen & Son Funeral Home, 3872 Canal St., New Orleans, LA 70119 on Saturday, July 18, 2026.

Visitation will begin at 11 a.m., followed by Mass at 1 p.m.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to Bike Easy NOLA and Sailors' Snug Harbor in New York.

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Fight between N.O. and La. hurts both city, state An Orleans Parish grand jury’s indictment of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill earlier this month was a shock, but it wasn’t the first time the ongoing political feud between Republican officials at the state level and Democrats who run New Orleans spilled over into allegations of criminality.

That happened earlier this spring, after the Legislature folded the Clerk of Criminal District Court’s office into the civil court clerk’s operation just before Calvin Duncan, who’d been elected to the criminal court job, could be sworn in. With the backing of Mayor Helena Moreno and District Attorney Jason Williams, five City Council members voted to declare the new combined office substantially changed and call for a new election. Murrill responded by threatening to remove them from office and have Gov. Jeff Landry replace them, and to prosecute the interim clerk they’d appointed, a respected retired judge.

That was just the beginning. Moreno filmed a video in which she said Murrill may have violated a state law against threatening public officials to influence their actions. And then the grand jury — on its own, reportedly, with Williams recusing himself and Moreno saying she had no knowledge of the proceeding — indicted Murrill under that law.

There’s more. Judge Leon Roche appointed a special prosecutor, Laurie White, who is a lightning rod herself. Journalists exercising their First Amendment right to cover the unusual court action wound up barred from the building, and in one case even handcuffed, by Orleans Parish sheriff’s deputies.

Murrill went to the state Supreme Court, which stayed the indictment. She has now gotten a judge to OK subpoenas seeking electronic communications and other records from Williams and White.

Meanwhile, Murrill’s political allies, most notably Landry, have not only rallied to her defense but pushed back against multiple city initiatives, including its request that the state Bond Commission allow it to borrow money for needed projects and ongoing efforts to pull itself out of the fiscal mess Moreno inherited.

It’s a lot, but we can sum up our reaction in four words: This has to stop.

It should go without saying that accusing political adversaries of criminality undermines trust in the system. It distracts officials from doing their jobs and hurts their ability to lower the temperature and pursue the common good.

There are well-established ways to settle political and policy differences, even intense ones. That’s what happened with the Duncan imbroglio, when the Supreme Court upheld the disputed legislation and rejected the council’s call for a new election, which should have been the end of the story.

Distressingly, this escalation comes at a time when cooperation was bearing real fruit.

As a Democratic former lawmaker who served in a majority Republican Legislature, Moreno understands well the benefit of looking beyond political differences.

Murrill and Landry do too. They showed it when the governor put his muscle behind the big infrastructure push ahead of last year’s Super Bowl in New Orleans, and when he and Murrill contributed significant state resources to help the city bring down its violent crime rate. Both initiatives also indicate that they fully understand the vital role New Orleans plays in Louisiana’s economy.

So we know that when the state and city work together, everyone wins.

And, we’re sadly learning, when they lower themselves to the kind of behavior we’re now seeing, everyone loses.

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Massive cut to education fund sets up La. schools for failure

Getting out Democratic vote in Senate race could shock nation It was harder to get excited about this July 4 than most in my long life.

The Supreme Court’s inviting back Jim Crow while pretending racism is gone with the wind; the bombing of Iran without congressional advice, consent or even an endgame plan; using specious charges to bully political opponents; turning our back on Europe and Ukraine — all these try my soul.

Not to mention ICE’s inhumane tactics and goals, tax cuts for the rich and disingenuously slashing Medicaid from poor people, until somehow the ruination of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool has become a metaphor for how completely President Donald Trump has betrayed our hallowed Declaration of Independence, now 250 years young.

So I need to remember it took five more years for Yorktown to end the Revolutionary fighting, and two additional years for the Treaty of Paris to “create” the United States in the eyes of the world. Lasting progress (or destruction) takes time.

Similarly, it might be worth remembering that, according to Wikipedia, 766,870 Louisianans voted for Kamala Harris in 2024. While she lost by 441,635 votes, it’s also worth noting that 1 million Louisiana citizens over 18 did not vote in that election.

Furthermore, only 851,568 folks voted for Sen. John Kennedy in 2022, an off-year.

Therefore, if Rep. Julia Letlow matches Kennedy this fall in the Senate race, and if all the people who voted for Harris would vote for the Democratic candidate, Jamie Davis, then we only need 10% of those who did not vote in 2022 or 2024 to shock the country.

Louisiana would thereby send a shot against racism and Donald Trump that would be “heard ’round the world,” to echo Lexington and Concord of 251 years ago.

Are Louisiana’s get-out-the-vote teams up to this challenge? ’Tis a consummation devoutly to be wished.

LEN NICHOLS New Orleans

Veteran salutes VFW for Pride support I’m writing to recognize and thank the New Orleans Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973 for participating in the recent Pride parade.

I am a veteran of the war in Afghanistan who served 12 years under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” and it meant so much to see combat veterans of all branches who served in war showing up to support all of us who served.

It is wonderful to see battle buddies

showing up for those of us who were at one time not welcomed and even persecuted.

Thank you, New Orleans VFW, for having our back. We served in war for freedom. The Pride parade was one way for us to celebrate that freedom here at home.

RON HILL Lt. Colonel, USAF, retired New Orleans

Ny fans made us glad to be Saints fans Watching the “fans” in New York celebrate the Knicks’ victory — and it was a great one — by burning school buses and trashing police cars with pipes, crowbars and motorcycle chains reminded me, in contrast, of the 2010 Saints Superbowl victory celebration in New Orleans.

At that time, I lived in downtown New Orleans. When the game ended, my wife and I walked through the city, and all we saw was unbounded joy.

We walked past Poydras and Canal streets to Decatur and Bourbon streets, and we were surrounded by ecstatic people of all colors hugging each other in “group hugs.” We were all Saints fans and New Orleanians.

As an American, I was embarrassed by the behavior of the New Yorkers.

And I am grateful that I live here and not in New York. I sure would like to experience that again! GO SAINTS!

As a high school history teacher, I instruct Louisiana’s youth about the values that shape a just society.

Chief among them is the moral obligation to invest in our future rather than prepare for our failure.

That is why I am filled with profound disgust by the Louisiana Legislature’s recent maneuver to slash $168 million from the Minimum Foundation Program for public education.

By raiding public school funding for a superficial, one-time stipend, our leaders are starving the very institutions meant to uplift our children. Worse still, this massive cut to education occurs as the state pumps an extra $100 million into criminal justice and public safety, driving the total corrections budget to a staggering $816.8 million.

This is a damning indictment of our state’s moral compass. We are willingly choosing to fund the containment of human lives instead of the cultivation of human potential.

A budget is a reflection of a society’s soul. When we prioritize expanding the prison-industrial complex over the classroom, we send a tragic message to Louisiana’s children: We would rather spend nearly a billion dollars to lock you up tomorrow than ignite the intellectual spark to help you succeed today.

This legislation robs our schools of essential instructional resources, setting up our students — and our communities — for systemic failure.

As educators, we teach that choices have consequences. The consequence of prioritizing incarceration over education is the slow destruction of our state’s future. It is a profound betrayal of our kids, our communities and our shared values.

Louisiana deserves leaders who have the moral courage to fully fund our public schools. Our children are not liabilities to be managed; they are a sacred trust. It is time we start budgeting like we believe it.

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COMMENTARY La. Haitians are caught in a flurry of deportation decisions A short time ago, the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the Trump administration can send thousands of people home to their native countries. Actually, we’re talking more than 1 million people. Those potentially affected include 300,000-350,000 Haitians, about 6,000 Syrians, 200,000 Salvadorans and 50,000 Ukrainians.

The high court ruled the administration can end what’s called the Temporary Protected Status program, or TPS. What we’re watching Will is a Republican presiSutton dent destroying a legacy program created by a Republican president.

President George H.W. Bush signed TPS into law as a part of the Immigration Act of 1990 after a bipartisan Congress overwhelmingly approved the measure. Only eight senators voted against the bill. Louisiana’s Democratic U.S. Sens. J. Bennett Johnson and John Breaux voted yes. So did U.S. Reps.

Richard Baker, Bob Livingston and Jim McCrery, all Republicans.

In 2026, with the help of the high court, President Donald Trump said it’s time for our nation of immigrants to get rid of as many of them as we can, in part by ending TPS. With a 6-3 vote, the Supremes said the Trump administration can do away with a core part of the law that has provided protections for many for decades.

About 10 countries had TPS protections expire or been terminated from the early 1990s and the late 2000s.

Now we have another round of terminations. Haitians, Syrians and others in Louisiana and elsewhere are concerned.

The ruling has terminated TPS for them. There is a little breathing space.

Work permits have been extended, but only until July 24. That’s not much time.

Lower courts have to rush to comply with the new policy. Meanwhile, Congress is considering overturning the ruling with bills that would return TPS consideration to the judiciary, away from Homeland Security. One would extend TPS to 2029 for Haitians.

But in Florida, where 50% of the nation’s Haitian population live, there is widespread confusion. Massachusetts and New York have a good number of Haitians as well. There are as many as 5,000 Haitians in Louisiana, most of them living in the greater New Orleans area. I don’t know how many have had their lives changed by this ruling. I do

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People hold Haitian flags and signs during a rally in support of immigrants living in the United States with temporary protected status, or TPS, on July 9 in San Diego. know that Louisianans who are Haitian or Haitian Americans are concerned.

Al Grandoit, a New Orleans-based mediator, justice advocate and Haiti commentator is the son of Haitian immigrants. He was born in Boston and he’s lived in New Orleans for about 20 years. A criminal defense lawyer, he’s active in Haitian circles. He remembers the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, which then had about 50 aftershocks of 4.5 or more. At least 100,000 people died. Some estimates say about 300,000 died. TPS helped a lot of people bounce back.

When he heard about the ruling, he said he was “a little ticked off.” He knows Haitians here, in Ohio and in North Carolina affected by the ruling.

No doubt, he said, some Haitians will return to a poor nation that doesn’t have the economy, the infrastructure and the jobs to match what they’ve had here.

New Orleans has a rich Haitian history. As the French Revolution ended in the early 1800s, about 10,000 Haitians fled to Louisiana. They doubled the population of New Orleans. Like Haiti, New Orleans has Catholic, Creole and French roots. Haitians brought their versions of gumbo and jambalaya. I have some Creole and Haitian roots, and I cannot imagine what New Orleans might be like without that part of my culture.

I don’t expect New Orleans to change drastically in two or three years if Trump and anti-immigrant forces keep

moving in this direction, but I worry that the Catholic, Creole and French culture will be further diminished without so many of our Haitian brothers and sisters. Trump has a strong immigration background and immigrant family connections. His mother was born in Scotland. One of his former wives was born in Czechoslovakia. First lady Melania Trump was born in Slovenia.

Referencing Haitians and Africans, the president famously asked, “Why are we having all these people from s*** hole countries come here?”

He said he wanted more people from Norway and other European countries.

For the most part, we are a nation of immigrants. Indigenous people were already here when the founders of the nation and others arrived here. Most people of African descent were forced to come.

This isn’t something we have to take.

We can look up the congressional measures, weigh in with support to strike executive power to do this in favor of acts of the U.S. Congress being the only way TPS can be designated.

We can find another way forward. We can give Haitians, Syrians and others more time and give them paths forward to keep, or get, work permits and to get citizenship, if that’s what they desire.

Email Will Sutton at wsutton@ theadvocate.com.

Trump’s two steps forward, one step back fat drug,’ and I said, ‘I didn’t know you With midterm elections just a few used it, because it’s not working.’” months away, a recent 36-hour period On the one hand, some in Trump’s gave the political world a good picture corner might groan at him going off of President Trump’s approach to message like that. On the other hand, campaigning for Republicans with the House and Senate at stake and the clock it was a classic Trump moment in a running down. Call it two steps forward speech that ran to one hour and 23 minand one step back. utes. It was the kind of thing that keeps The first step forward was the the audience entertained, which president’s speech at a Mack is always a big concern for the Truck plant in Macungie, Pennpresident.

The step backward came the sylvania, in the Lehigh Valley. next day, when Trump was back The rally was part of Trump’s in Washington. The House and on-and-off effort to highlight his Senate had passed a bill called administration’s economic poliByron the 21st Century ROAD to Houscies in the run-up to November.

York The big issue is the cost of ing Act. It was one of those rare living, of course. Trump has substantive bills that passes always hated the word “affordability.” with bipartisan majorities, winning 358 Whatever you call it, he has often frusvotes in the House and 85 in the Senate.

It wasn’t the biggest or most consetrated aides who wanted him to focus on it more in public appearances. Over quential bill in the world, but it appears the last several months, their hopes for that some of its provisions to reduce the an extended focus on the cost of living regulatory burdens on homebuilders have been interrupted by Trump’s mili- would probably make housing sometary action in Venezuela, a violent imwhat more affordable. .

To celebrate its passage, congresmigration crackdown in Minneapolis, a government shutdown and a war in sional leaders had set up a ceremony Iran. There has been no smooth road to and lunch at which Trump would come a midterm message. to the Capitol and sign the bill into law.

But there Trump was, in an important But 90 minutes before the event, Trump state, talking (mostly) about the econposted on Truth Social that it was off.

Trump abruptly threw a wrench into omy. It was a good thing, especially if things shortly before he was scheduled you were on his political team. to take an action to improve the econoOf course, Trump did not talk only about the economy. He talked about all my. And that means the next day was a sorts of things. One part of the speech lost day for midterm campaigning. The touted his work to lower the price of timing and staging of it made Trump’s prescription drugs, which then turned actions appear erratic, too. into a riff on the “fat drug” in which he Then Trump got back on track. It haptold the story of “a friend of mine who pened when he appeared at the Ameriis very fat, sloppy, a brilliant businessca 250 Great American State Fair. The man, but he’s a slob, there’s no question event, which was set to kick off the Washington celebration of the nation’s about it ... and he said, ‘I bought the

250th birthday, had a troubled past. A planned concert fell apart when several entertainers withdrew, claiming that Trump had politicized the event.

At that point, Trump took over and said he would be the main attraction.

And so he was. Standing in front of the U.S. Marine Band, Trump delivered a campaign speech that was thorough and — this is the striking part — remarkably concise. It lasted all of 28 minutes. Trump used the occasion to go through his administration’s accomplishments one by one, making the case for giving Republicans another term running Capitol Hill. It was focused, but on the other hand, it was straight from a prompter and lacked the spontaneity of asides that make Trump’s speeches entertaining.

A campaign strategist might wish that he could blend the two speeches — present the core case and then add amusing asides to spice it up — and come up with a campaign speech that stays on track and is longer than 28 minutes but a lot shorter than an hour and 23 minutes. But Trump has been making his own speech choices for years and has been elected president of the United States twice, so it is unlikely he would see a great need to do things any other way.

The bottom line is that the president’s midterm campaigning is going forward in fits and starts. That seems understandable, given the size of the problems he has created for himself with closing out the Iran war. But it is still worrisome for Republican lawmakers up for reelection who need Trump’s help in their states and districts.

Why the transgender sports campaign was doomed There was little question who was going to win in West Virginia v. B.P.J. and Little v.

Hecox. The two cases, which went to the U.S. Supreme Court this term, contested laws in West Virginia and Idaho barring transgender women and girls from competing in women’s school sports. Even many LGBTQ activists seemed to recognize that this effort was doomed.

Writing last year about U.S. v. Skrmetti, a test of red-state bans on pediatric medical transition, Nicholas Confessore wrote in The New York Times: “In private meetings of L.G.B.T.Q. legal-advocacy groups, many lawyers expected a loss almost from the moment the court agreed to hear the case.”

The Supreme Court’s Skrmetti Megan decision in June 2025 upheld the state bans and dashed any realMcArdle istic hope of getting trans people declared a protected class, such as racial minorities, whose exclusion would trigger strict judicial scrutiny.

After Skrmetti, it looked unlikely that the Supreme Court was going to rule trans women had a right to participate in women’s sports.

Lindsay Hecox tried, and failed, to moot her case by declaring she no longer had any intention of competing in Idaho sports. Lawyers for the trans athletes fell back on the position that while yes, there may be safety and fairness reasons for separate women’s divisions, it was unfair to exclude biological males whose athletic advantage had been reduced by puberty blockers or hormones.

These arguments at times bordered on incoherent — is any sufficiently unathletic male entitled to join the women’s team? And if not, why should these particular males be given that right? Advocates for the trans rights side had no good answer.

It is no surprise that the trans athletes lost last month at the U.S. Supreme Court. It is more surprising that these cases were brought at all. Who thought this was a good idea?

Confessore’s article suggests the answer is activists engaged in the fatal activity known as reading your own press releases. Groups such as the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal were increasingly committed to radical ideas about gender that had little public support and saw the pursuit of sweeping civil rights rulings as “the logical next step” in turning those views into law.

Unfortunately, they had skipped the critical step in building consensus: persuasion. Progressive-leaning institutions, such as media and academia, were instead pressed into embracing fairly extreme views — the gender binary was fake and who belonged to the category “woman” was a mystical question of inner feeling, not mere biology. These tactics backfired disastrously; broader public opinion never came over to their side and has now moved in the opposite direction. As the poet Samuel Butler pointed out in the 17th century, “He that complies against his will/ is of his own opinion still.” Butler might justly have added, “Only now they’re really mad about it.”

There’s a lesson in that, and not just for the progressive groups that have scored historic defeats for their cause and set themselves up for further losses.

Lots of people quail at the long, hard work required to deliver real social or political changes — you know, like the decades of patient little wins that LGBTQ groups accumulated before the Supreme Court delivered the ultimate victory in the 2015 decision that declared a constitutional right to same-sex marriage. It’s very tempting to look for a quick fix. That’s certainly the approach favored by the Trump administration.

The trans backlash helped propel Donald Trump back into office, and yet once there, the administration looked for institutional shortcuts rather than trying to build public and legislative consensus for durable change.

Many of these efforts have also come to grief in the courts, but the real loss is in the court of public opinion, where Trump’s approval rating sank below 40%. Every overreach makes it more likely that Democrats will retake the White House in 2028 and ensure most of this frantic effort is for naught.

Should that happen, Democrats will also be tempted to read a mandate into the public backlash, mistaking a temporary turn of affairs for a decisive win. They would be wiser to eschew the whole idea of a quick victory. Those sorts of “wins” are to actual political change what instant coffee is to a good cup of joe. It may look like coffee, and it’s certainly faster than the real thing. But if you try it, you’ll find it tastes like defeat.

Megan McArdle is on X, @asymmetricinfo.

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Last weekend unfolded unexpectedly for the LSU baseball program.

The 2026 MLB Draft brought tons of surprises for Jay Johnson and company, as LSU got 16 of its 22 high school signees through the draft and, at least presumably, onto campus for the 2027 season.

The only riddle Johnson will have to solve now is the size of his new roster.

LSU is projected to have 42 players next season, eight more than the Tigers are allowed to have under NCAA roster limit rules.

LSU had 38 players on its team last season, but it had a handful of players labeled as designated studentathletes, meaning that they could be on the team without counting against the 34-man roster restriction that was implemented after the House vs.

NCAA settlement. It’s unclear which LSU players are tagged as designated student-athletes players for the upcoming season.

Regardless of how the roster shakes out, LSU has more than enough players now to put together a way-too-early lineup and starting rotation projection

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Those moves could foreshadow what is to come this fall. The 2025 Saints were predominantly a shotgun, 11-personnel team — meaning they most often had only one tight end on the field. The 2026 Saints could look different, following the direction the league is trending toward.

Even after Juwan John6-4 231 7 son posted his best season Juwan Johnson 6-4 249 8 as a professional in 2025, Noah Fant the Saints went into the off- Oscar Delp 6-4 245 R season looking to upgrade Moliki Matavao 6-6 263 2 the position.

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ARLINGTON, Texas — Mikel Oyarzabal scored from the penalty spot after a heady play by teenager Lamine Yamal, Pedro Porro added another goal and Spain advanced to its first World Cup final since winning in 2010 with a 2-0 victory over France on Tuesday.

A day after his 19th birthday, Yamal was denied a goal on a close offside call that came soon after Porro’s give-and-go with Dani Olmo in the 58th minute had put Spain up 2-0. But it was Yamal’s smart play against a veteran defender that put Spain in the lead.

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This win on soccer’s biggest stage Spain, which will play in the final for only the second time, will face marked the third summer in a row either reigning champion Argenä See SPAIN, page 4C tina or England on Sunday in East

SOUTHPORT, England — Scottie Scheffler finally heard about the text his PGA Tour friend never sent, a reminder that even the No. 1 player in golf with four majors and more than 20 victories doesn’t know everything.

It was a list of things to do on the weekend ä British Open. after missing 3 A.M. THURSDAy, USA the cut.

“He was like: ‘Hey, you can practice at the facilities. You can still go to the gym.

You can also go to the next tournament.’ It was basically all my options,” Scheffler said Tuesday ahead of the British Open. “He never sent it to me, but he told me about it.”

The reason the text was created — without being sent, to Scheffler’s disappointment — was missing the cut at the Scottish Open, his first missed cut in nearly four years, a streak of 78 consecutive cuts that was the longest since Tiger Woods set the record (142) from 1998 to 2005.

Frustrating, yes. Despair?

Hardly.

“You never want to have a weekend off, but going into a tournament when you’re defending, there’s always a bit more stuff to

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do,” Scheffler said. “So it wasn’t the worst thing in the world.”

Among his duties was officially returning the claret jug he won last year at Royal Portrush, a ritual the Royal & Ancient has turned into a ceremony. Then, it was playing an exhibition with Jordan Spieth, Tommy Fleetwood, Justin Rose and others.

But key to Scheffler’s early arrival was Royal Birkdale, which has hosted the British Open more than any other links course in England since it first joined the rotation in 1954.

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Ole Miss threatens legal action Rebels want buyouts from 2 LSU players

BY REED DARCEY

Staff writer

Ole Miss is still seeking buyouts from two former football players who transferred to LSU in January, and the school is considering legal action to obtain those payments.

Keith Carter, the Rebels athletic director, told The ClarionLedger that Ole Miss has not yet received contract buyouts from LSU edge rusher Princewill Umanmielen and offensive lineman Devin Harper. Both players signed agreements to return to the Rebels in early January before reversing course and following coach Lane Kiffin to Baton Rouge instead.

“That would be an option, going and asking a court to get that money for you,” Carter told the outlet. “Contracts are with the players. LSU could pay that on behalf of the players. So we’re kind of exploring all of that right now.”

Umanmielen and Harper are two of the four players who transferred from Ole Miss to LSU in the offseason. They each landed with the Tigers after the Rebels had said they were reupping for the 2026 season. Ole Miss announced Umanmielen’s return on Jan. 5 and Harper’s on ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By ROGELIO V. SOLIS Jan. 6.

Carter told The Clarion-Led- Mississippi linebacker Princewill Umanmielen looks for a South ger that schools are sometimes Carolina ball carrier during a game on Nov. 1 in Oxford, Miss. hesitant to enforce buyout clauses in contracts they sign with players. Ole Miss wants to days after they signed them. tracts are typically the parties do so in these instances, he said, The schools that land the that cover the payments. Carter because Umanmielen and Harp- transfer players with buyout declined to reveal how much er broke their agreements a few agreements in their old con- LSU owes Ole Miss for Uman-

mielen and Harper, though On3 reported on July 2 that the total amount was roughly $1 million.

“Those are the kind that, having signed a brand-new rev share contract basically a week or two before wanting to leave,” Carter said, “put you in a bind, especially there in the portal cycle. Those two we’re going to continue to figure out how to collect. We feel like based on the contract, we deserve to collect.”

Both Umanmielen and Harper are expected to play significant roles for LSU this coming season.

Umanmielen, a senior, was one of the top transfer edge rushers of the 2026 cycle. Last season, he was tied for third among SEC defenders in sacks (9.0), and he ranked eighth in tackles for loss (13).

Harper is a sophomore from Shreveport who appeared in six games last season. He opened spring practices in April as LSU’s first-team left guard before later settling into a role on the second-team offensive line. He’s expected to compete for a starting job when the Tigers begin preseason camp in August.

An LSU spokesperson declined comment when asked whether LSU has considered paying the former Ole Miss players’ buyouts or whether there’s been communication between LSU and Ole Miss on the subject.

Jon Blau contributed to this report.

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LSU reveals its SEC media days lineup

BY JON BLAU

Staff writer

LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt won’t be at SEC media days, but his likely top target and a couple of star defenders will.

Linebackers Whit Weeks and T.J. Dottery, along with tight end Trey’Dez Green, will join LSU coach Lane Kiffin in Tampa, Florida, for the conference’s preseason media event from Monday through July 23.

Weeks was one of the LSU player representatives last year, while Dottery was at SEC media days with the Ole Miss contingent when Kiffin was the coach there.

This is the debut at SEC media days for the 6-foot-7 junior Green, who is expected to be one of the top players at his position this season.

Quarterbacks are usually high on the media’s priority list coming into a season, but Leavitt — a highly touted transfer from Arizona State — missed most of LSU’s spring practices as he recovered from foot surSTAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON gery. Leavitt was only recently LSU linebacker Whit Weeks walks off the field after a win over South cleared to fully participate in Carolina on Oct. 11 at Tiger Stadium. summer workouts.

The Tigers are slated to appear on the final day of SEC me- schedule: Arkansas, Mississippi to be in high demand, considering the coach’s much-talkeddia days on July 23, along with State and Texas.

Kiffin and company are likely about move from Ole Miss to three opponents on their 2026

LSU at the end of the 2025 regular season. The Rebels made a run to the College Football Playoff semifinals without Kiffin.

Ole Miss, the Tigers’ Week 3 opponent, is scheduled to appear on July 22. Pete Golding, who was elevated to head coach during the Rebels’ CFP run, will be joined by quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, defensive tackle Will Echoles and running back Kewan Lacy.

Chambliss recently appeared in front of reporters at the Manning Passing Academy, saying there was no “bad blood” between him and Kiffin but adding that he didn’t agree with Kiffin’s comments to Vanity Fair about difficulties recruiting Black athletes to Mississippi.

Nine of the SEC’s 16 schools are bringing a quarterback, including Auburn’s Byrum Brown, Georgia’s Gunner Stockton, Kentucky’s Kenny Minchey, Mississippi State’s Kamario Taylor, Oklahoma’s John Mateer, South Carolina’s LaNorris Sellers, Texas’ Arch Manning and Texas A&M’s Marcel Reed.

The schools that aren’t bringing a quarterback are LSU, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Missouri, Tennessee and Vanderbilt.

Email Jon Blau at jon.blau@theadvocate.com.

Neutral-site game announces NIL deal with Auburn

BY CHARLES ODUM AP sportswriter

ATLANTA — The Aflac Kickoff Game on Tuesday announced a name, image and likeness deal with Auburn leading up to the Tigers’ game against Baylor on Sept. 5.

The Peach Bowl and the Kickoff Game say the deal is worth “multimillion” dollars and marks the first time a neutralsite college football game has incorporated NIL compensation for student-athletes.

The NIL agreement also will involve third-party entities. According to the announcement, as many as two dozen Auburn student-athletes will promote the game through social media posts, public appearances, advertisements, in-game promotions and branding opportunities.

“In the new NIL era of college football, this will be an innovative way to create wins for the teams, programs and student-athletes,” said Peach Bowl Inc. CEO David Epps in

a statement.

“This new model is a true win-win scenario where Auburn and its student-athletes get a financial boost in the NIL space. At the same time, it’s a potential game changer for neutral-site games like ours who want to bring added value to participating teams and make it a more attractive and lucrative opportunity.”

Auburn opened its 2025 season with a 38-24 win at Baylor.

This year’s rematch originally was scheduled as an Auburn

home game. The teams agreed to move the game to MercedesBenz Stadium, also the home of the NFL’s Atlanta Falcons and the Peach Bowl.

The Kickoff Game is the nation’s longest-running neutralsite game and will be televised

by ABC at 3:30 p.m. EDT. Auburn will be making its fourth appearance in the Kickoff Game. It will be Baylor’s first appearance.

Peach Bowl Inc. operates the Peach Bowl as well as the Kickoff Game.

Gymnast Lee to return for 3rd shot at Olympics

Suni Lee is making a run at a third Olympics.

The America gymnastics star announced she is returning to the sport on Tuesday, about two years out from the Los Angeles Games.

Lee, the 2020 all-around champion and a six-time Olympic medalist, posted a video on Instagram saying she was back in the gym and ready to return to work.

The 23-year-old Lee has been on a break following the 2024 Paris Olympics, in which she helped the Americans win team gold while earning bronze in the all-around and uneven bars.

She’s the latest member of the 2024 Olympic team to announce she is eyeing a shot at LA. Jade Carey is among the gold medalists who already have returned to competition.

McNair, co-founder of Texans, dies at age 89

HOUSTON — Janice S. McNair, who alongside her late husband Robert “Bob” McNair brought football back to Houston after the Oilers left for Tennessee by founding the Texans, has died. She was 89.

“It is with profound sadness that we announce Houston Texans co-founder and senior chair Janice S. McNair passed away peacefully in Houston this afternoon with her family by her side,” the Texans said in a statement on Tuesday.

After her husband Bob died in 2018 following a battle with both leukemia and squamous cell carcinoma, Janice took over the Texans organization as owner.

McNair’s son, Cal, was approved as primary owner of the team in 2024.

Ohtani to be available for Dodgers series at Yankees

PHILADELPHIA — Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani will be a designated hitter at a minimum for this weekend’s series at the New York Yankees after having fluid drained from his left knee.

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said Tuesday that Ohtani had the procedure to relieve irritation following Sunday’s game and that the four-time MVP was taking a few days of vacation before the season’s second half. Roberts said the two-way star did not receive an injection.

Two-time World Series champion Los Angeles opens the second half Friday for the start of a threegame series at Yankee Stadium.

Ohtani last pitched on July 3.

It isn’t yet clear whether he will pitch against the Yankees.

No. 1 MLB pick Cholowsky gets record-breaking bonus

CHICAGO — Roch Cholowsky has agreed to a contract with the Chicago White Sox that includes a record-breaking $10.35 million signing bonus after he was the No. 1 overall pick in last weekend’s amateur draft.

The slot value for the top pick this year was $11,350,600.

Cholowsky’s bonus tops the previous mark of $9.25 million for the amateur draft that belonged to Reds pitcher Chase Burns and Rockies prospect Charlie Condon, two of the top three selections in 2024.

Cholowsky, a 6-foot-2 shortstop who turned 21 in April, hit .320 with 21 homers, 60 RBIs and a 1.088 OPS in 60 games this season for UCLA. He is the first No. 1 overall pick for the White Sox.

Pogacar’s 10th stage victory extends Tour de France lead

LE LIORAN, France — Four-time champion Tadej Pogacar dealt his rivals another crushing blow by winning the 10th stage of the Tour de France on Tuesday to extend his already commanding overall lead.

Pogacar is on course to equal the record for Tour wins. Only Belgian Eddy Merckx, Spaniard Miguel Indurain and Frenchmen Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault have five Tour victories to their names.

“We just need to be grateful for this moment to be riding in the biggest race of the world,” the 27-year-old Pogacar said.

Pogacar, who had already sapped his rivals’ morale with victory on the iconic Col du Tourmalet on Thursday, again stamped his authority with a break just over 900 meters from the summit of the Col de Pertus.

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differently decade to decade when we come back that you never really get to know the course that well.”

Scheffler said he felt at peace about his game, and he certainly looked the part.

His game didn’t look deplorable in the Scottish Open, just a matter of not hitting it terribly close and not making many putts.

“I don’t think it hurts as much as coming close to winning and finishing second,” Scheffler said. “I felt like coming in second at Travelers hurt more than missing the cut, but missing the cut is significantly more frustrating is how I would describe it.”

He’s had plenty of experience finishing second. Scheffler’s lone victory this year was his first tournament in January at The American Express. Since then, he has had four runner-up finishes, including the Masters. The most recent was a playoff loss to Viktor Hovland at the Travelers Championship two weeks ago when Scheffler missed a 4-foot slider.

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“On each hole there’s a good bit of strategy. There’s a decent amount of thinking,” Scheffler said. “If it wasn’t as firm as it is now, there wouldn’t be as much decision-making. But I think with the firmness, it creates a whole lot more challenges.”

Rose is among four players — and at 45, the youngest — to have played Royal Birkdale three times in the Open dating to 1998. He was a 17-year-old amateur that year, full of joy and optimism when he holed out a wedge for birdie on the 18th to tie for fourth. He didn’t finish in the top 50 his two times as a professional.

Rose certainly has more experience than Scheffler, but only to a point.

“A links course is interesting because you never really get to know them that well,” Rose said. “Like 2008 I think it was, weather was dreadful. It was wet. You might have been hitting 2-irons and 3-woods into par 4s, and now you could be flicking 52-degree wedges.

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in the fall, but Reed has a job to finish.

The first PGA Tour event where he can earn an exemption is Sept. 17-20 at a new event in Asheville, North Carolina. Reed will be in England that week for the European tour’s flagship event at Wentworth. The French Open, Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland, all of them are opportunities to win the Race to Dubai — and deny McIlroy a record-tying eighth title.

A case can be made for Reed being the most global player in golf.

McIlroy has been brilliant in taking his Masters green jacket around the world to the Indian Open and Australian Open. He has sparked a renewed interest in national opens. But his appearances come with a hefty appearance fee said to be in the neighborhood of $2 million.

It’s been that way for top players dating to the era of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer, accounting for inflation.

Reed said he occasionally gets appearance money but often plays “because I just want to play.”

He shot 59 in the Hong Kong Open when he won at the end of 2024 on the Asian Tour. He has two European tour titles this year, along with two World Golf Championships titles, the Masters for his lone major and six victories in regular PGA Tour events, the last won at Torrey Pines the year before he defected to LIV, where he won once.

He doesn’t plan to stop his global travels. He wants to keep supporting the European tour. But there is a part of him that looks forward to coming home.

In some ways, it will be like starting over. He played the third round of the Scottish Open with Kevin Roy, a 36-year-old whose rookie season was the year Reed left for LIV Golf.

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He had never seen it.

Scheffler had not seen conditions like this — a combination of yellow and brown, which translates to firm and fiery in a links vocabulary. St. Andrews came close in 2022, but Jon Rahm recalls the greens still being soft enough to allow for low scoring.

Scheffler ticked off two items on his friend’s list — he went to the gym in Scotland and then headed to the next tournament. That allowed him time to play 18 holes on Sunday, and to limit his energy in sunbaked Blighty to nine holes on Monday and Tuesday.

Is it driver to take it over the bunkers and possibly reach the green on the 393-yard, downwind 16th hole, or hit iron off the tee? Is the redesigned fifth hole at 321 yards worth trying to reach with a pond to the right, a series of bunkers short and a wee part of a wee burn to the left?

countdown, knowing when his one-year ban from playing LIV Golf will end — the week of the Tour Championship in late August.

He also would be eligible to be a pick for the Presidents Cup team — he last played for a U.S. team, his favorite events, in Australia in 2019 during darker times. Royal Melbourne was a week after Reed was penalized for improving his lie in the sand, and Aussies heckled him endlessly. His caddie was suspended for the final match after shoving a spectator who had been cursing Reed.

U.S. captain Brandt Snedeker also was at the Scottish Open. Reed said he never saw him and doubts he would be a serious candidate for the Presidents Cup team in Chicago in September unless he were to win the British Open this week.

“It’s not really on my mind,” Reed said. “My biggest thing right now is continuing to play solid golf and let things take care of themselves. I know it would be hard to make that team since I haven’t played anything in the United States.

But hey, try to get yourself in the discussion.”

He is not in that big of a hurry.

Reed won the Masters in 2018 and received honorary life membership on the European tour, a courtesy once offered major champions.

Reed took it seriously, playing seven regular European tour events in 2019 and he has kept a presence since then.

After deciding to leave LIV — and still banned by the PGA Tour — it became his best option. Now he has a chance to join Collin Morikawa as the only Americans to win the Race to Dubai.

Reed officially won’t get a PGA Tour card until the European tour season ends Nov. 15. He would be eligible for sponsor exemptions

Yes. Would I love to be a multiple major champion?

Yes. Do I feel I could have pushed towards close to a Grand slam? Yes. I’ve had results that nearly put me in that realm. So a little bit of luck here and there, I could be sitting here with a very different career.”

Faldo questions strategy But he was happy with Bryson DeChambeau the career he has, which missed the cut at the first includes five stints at No. 1 three majors this year. in the world. And his hope Nick Faldo wouldn’t be is being comfortable with surprised if the American all that he’s achieved gives failed to make the weekend him freedom to achieve more. at the British Open, too.

“I’d say it to his face — DeChambeau has zero clue Arise, Sir Rory? of strategy,” the three-time The wait goes on for Rory Open champion said on the McIlroy, one of Britain’s Sky Sports Golf podcast. greatest ever sports stars, Faldo questioned De- to receive a knighthood.

“If that honor were beChambeau’s attacking approach in links golf, saying stowed on me one day,” he needed more creativity McIlroy said Tuesday, “that and to “look at humps and would be amazing.” bumps.

So what’s the holdup? Af“You don’t think: ‘Oh, I’ll ter all, it’s more than a year just blast it down there. since he won the Masters to Can’t see where I’m go- become the only European golfer to complete the caing,’” Faldo said.

DeChambeau has two reer Grand Slam. top-10 finishes in eight Sections of the British appearances at the Open media have reported that Championship, including a tax issue might be the a tie for 10th at Royal Por- reason and that was put to McIlroy at his news confertrush last year. ence.

No regrets for Rose “I have no idea,” he said.

Nick Faldo, who also has Justin Rose tied for fourth as a 17-year-old am- six major titles, has been ateur in the 1998 British knighted.

Open at Royal Birkdale and British Open prize fund turned pro a week later.

He famously missed The British Open has in20 cuts in a row when he creased its prize fund to turned pro. He has only one $17.5 million, remaining major, the 2013 U.S. Open as the lowest purse among at Merion. That’s among the four majors after havhis 25 victories worldwide, ing the smallest increase of which includes an Olym- the majors.

The Masters increased pic gold medal when golf returned to the Olympic it purse by $1.5 million to program in 2016 in Rio de $22.5 million. The PGA Championship also had a Janeiro.

He was asked Tuesday $1.5 million bump to $20.5 if this is what he imag- million. The U.S. Open inined when he left Royal creased its purse by $1 milBirkdale 28 years ago. It’s lion to $22.5 million. impossible to answer, and The R&A announced a Rose eventually said he $750,000 increase in its would stand pat with what purse, with $3.2 million for he has done. the winner, $100,000 more “Could I have won more than Scottie Scheffler won of what I’ve already won? last year.

Rahm said. “With all the policies we have on pace play, you get a warning, another warning and then you MIGHT get a penalty.”

Rahm suggested a warning was warranted on the first offense, especially in the first round.

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SOUTHPORT, England — Patrick Reed was on the range at the Scottish Open, surrounded by PGA Tour players at a tournament co-sanctioned by the PGA Tour. The last time that happened was more than four years ago, and it’s soon to change.

“I can’t wait,” Reed said.

Two weeks after Brooks Koepka became the first player from LIV Golf to be welcomed back by the PGA Tour, Reed was in his hotel Doug Ferguson room at the Dubai Desert Classic on the European tour contemplating his fourshot lead and how the final day would play out.

LIV Golf had a shotgun start, meaning all 54 players were warming up at the same time before each went off to their assigned hole to begin the round.

“Being the last guy out, having the range full and then it slowly empties, walking to the tee with the lead ... having that feeling again, those emotions, the adrenaline, I felt like I wanted to get back to that,” Reed said. “That Saturday night was huge for me.”

And when he finished it off with a four-shot victory the next day, Reed firmly decided not to renew his contract with LIV Golf and start the long road back to the PGA Tour.

He lost in a playoff the next week in Bahrain. The week LIV Golf began its fifth season, Reed was winning again in the Qatar Masters. That put him atop the Race to Dubai on the European tour, and he’s still leading the season race over Rory McIlroy.

The leading 10 players from the European tour not already exempt earn PGA Tour cards for 2027, and Reed is virtually a lock.

He already has started the

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Patrick Reed gestures on the 15th tee during a practice round for the British Open at Royal Birkdale golf club in Southport, England, on Tuesday.

SOUTHPORT, England — Player conduct on the golf course has long been part of the Rules of Golf. This is the first time all four majors published their code for the players, and there already have been ramifications.

Sergio Garcia was given a warning at the Masters when he smashed (and broke) his driver twice into the ground and then against a table holding a water cooler.

The USGA opted to bypass the warning and give Joaquin iemann Notebook N a two-shot penalty in the first round of the U.S. Open for heaving his wedge on his 15th hole (No. 6) at Shinnecock Hills after twice driving out of bounds and then hitting into thick rough. There were no spectators anywhere near where the club landed in the dunes.

The two-shot penalty turned his 9 into an 11 on the hole and he shot 78. He still tied for seventh.

Is it working?

Jon Rahm, who describes himself as an “intense” player, doesn’t mind the code of conduct. His only question is how it gets applied. Because while the principles and penalties are similar at the four majors, it’s at the discretion of each one how it gets applied.

“I think it’s good. I get it,” Rahm said. “They have a code of conduct and they enforce it. Why not? It’s not going to change how I play.

To go from zero to a penalty? I don’t know.”

The R&A’s conduct policy reads: “If a player’s (or their caddie’s) behavior is so far removed from what is expected in the spirit of the game of golf, in accordance with Rule 1.2b, the Chief Referee, in consultation with the Chief Championships Officer, may issue an official warning or apply a penalty of two strokes or disqualification, taking account of the frequency, impact or potential impact, intent and severity of the misconduct. An official warning does not need to be given prior to applying a penalty of two strokes or disqualification.”

Rahm was playing with Garcia when he lost his temper in the final round at Augusta National. He still doesn’t know exactly what happened with Niemann.

But his views on the policy made him wonder why this was getting more attention than pace of play.

“Sergio received a warning. I think Joaco maybe deserved a warning — I don’t know what he did,”

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BY RONALD BLUM Associated Press

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Jude Bellingham, left, and Harry Kane celebrate England’s victory over Norway in a World Cup quarterfinal match on Saturday in Miami Gardens, Fla.

It’s Messi vs. Bellingham to set finals of World Cup

BY JAMES ROBSON

Associated Press

ATLANTA — It’s England vs. Argentina in the World Cup semifinals.

It’s also Lionel Messi vs. Jude Bellingham.

The battle of the two No. 10s could be pivotal to deciding Wednesday’s match in Atlanta.

“We know how good Messi is,” England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford said of the Argentina great, whose enduring brilliance has been on show again, even at 39.

Messi and Bellingham have been inspirational in their teams’ respective runs to the final four. And Wednesday’s match may well be determined by which one has the biggest say on the day.

Messi is playing England for the first time in his storied career.

“He’s scored so many goals and contributed to so many goals as well throughout his career, it’s great to finally go up against him,” Pickford said.

Settling the G.O.A.T. debate Messi is already considered by many to be the greatest soccer player of all time and he seems to be on a mission to settle the debate about where he stands in the history of the sport.

Already the all-time top scorer in the World Cup with 21 goals, he could surpass Argentina icon Diego Maradona by leading his country to back-to-back world titles.

His eight goals in the tournament so far have been pivotal to Argentina’s run and his moments of magic have dragged his team through big scares against Cape Verde and Egypt.

With Maradona as captain, Argentina won the World Cup in 1986 and was runner-up four years later when it lost to West Germany in the final.

“Trying to draw inspiration from what Diego did is difficult. Only Leo can do that,” said Argentina midfielder Alexis Mac Allister. “Diego is a national icon for us, and hopefully, we can achieve something similar to what that team did.”

Doubts about Bellingham England has a talisman of its own in Bellingham, who is at the opposite end of his career to Messi.

At 23, Bellingham is already playing in his second World Cup and his fourth major tournament for England. He has six goals, including two each in the past two rounds against Mexico and Norway.

Not bad for a player who was dropped by coach Thomas Tuchel in the lead-up to the World Cup, prompting debate about whether he would even be in England’s starting 11.

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Yamal scored in a 2-1 win in the 2024 European Championship semifinals just days before his 17th birthday, and La Roja won 5-4 in Nations League play last year.

After a quarterfinal win over Belgium onFriday, Yamal said he believed France should fear Spain.

Those words certainly proved true.

“In so many ways, France was missing everything today,” France midfielder Rayan Cherki said

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Argentina’s Lionel Messi dribbles the ball during a quarterfinal match against Switzerland on Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.

With a record like that, it should come as little surprise that BellArgentina, 2 P.M.WEDNESDAy, FOX ingham, along with captain Harry Kane, who also has six goals, has been such an inspiration at this For a long time, Bellingham has World Cup. not only been considered one of “Everyone talks about Messi beEngland’s brightest talents, but one cause he’s one of the GOATs of the of the global game’s biggest names. game, but you can’t look past the Yet his relationship with Tuchel ability and talent we have in the cast doubt over his role in the Eng- squad,” Pickford said. land team, with Morgan Rogers A fierce rivalry threatening to take his place.

There is no doubt anymore about England vs. Argentina is a fierce a player Tuchel described as “world rivalry that goes beyond the socclass” after his double against Nor- cer field, with tensions also relatway in the quarterfinals. ing to the 1982 conflict over the Falkland Islands.

Talented Bellingham There have been numerous Bellingham is a different type clashes at the World Cup over the of No. 10 to Messi, relying on his years.

Argentina captain Antonio Ratathleticism, power and speed when running beyond defenders. tin, whose death was announced He is also technically gifted with on Saturday, was sent off in a his touch and range of passing, but bad-tempered quarterfinal match arguably no one can rival Messi’s against winner England in 1966. individual control of the ball, his Maradona scored his infamous dribbling ability or vision.

“Hand of God” goal in 1986 — and Bellingham’s maturity always England also felt aggrieved when stood out. He made his debut for David Beckham was sent off for second-division Birmingham at kicking out against Diego Sime16 and despite many of England’s one in 1998 and losing in a penalty top teams wanting to sign him, he shootout. resisted the likes of Manchester Most recently, England beat ArUnited and moved to Borussia gentina in the group phase in 2002, Dortmund in Germany instead. with Beckham scoring from the Birmingham knew it had lost a penalty spot. special talent and retired his No. Rather than being weighed down 22 jersey despite him playing less by the disappointments of previthan 50 games for the club. ous clashes, Kane said it was that After starring for Dortmund, win that stood out in his mind.

Bellingham joined Real Madrid, “We all knew what Beckham wore the great Zinedine Zidane’s went through previously against No. 5 and helped the Spanish gi- Argentina and that kind of reant to the Champions League and demption story of scoring that Spanish title in his first season in penalty, his celebration, he’s pull2024. That same year he was part ing the shirt and his face. of England’s team that reached “I think that’s one of my favorthe final of the European Champi- ite England memories,” Kane told onship, scoring an overhead kick ITV. “That was always one of my in stoppage time to save his coun- favorite memories, Beckham betry from elimination earlier in the ing a big idol of mine, so that one tournament. stands out for sure.”

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through a translator.

“Truly, everything was missing today. We’ll be back in four years and we won’t make the same mistakes.”

Oyarzabal’s penalty kick in the 22nd minute came after Yamal drew a foul when kicked by defender Lucas Digne.

After a poor first touch with his head, Digne was trying to clear the ball when Yamal raced in from behind to challenge in the penalty area. The ball hit off the elbow of the leaping teen before he was kicked by Digne, playing in his 63rd game for France only six days before his 33rd birthday.

Oyarzabal’s fifth goal of this

year’s World Cup marked the first time either team had trailed in their seven games in this tournament. It was his 30th goal in 60 international games for Spain.

For the second goal, Porro broke free and received a pass back from Olmo, who got the touch just before getting knocked off his feet by defender Dayot Upamecano.

“We gave it our all in order just to go through to the final,” Porro said. “We knew that we’re a very tough team, we’re doing things really well. This is our team, it’s not about me.”

France had allowed only two goals in its first six games in this tournament. Spain goalkeeper Unai

PHILADELPHIA — Discussions for major leaguers to play in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics baseball tournament remain in the early stages, with players used to top hotels wanting to be assured of accommodations.

Major League Baseball has envisioned an extended 11-day AllStar break.

The last regular-season games before the break would be on July 9, followed by the All-Star Game on July 11, likely at San Francisco, and the Olympic tournament at Dodger Stadium from July 13-19. The season would resume July 21.

“In general our players want to play in the Olympics. They’re patriotic, and for them it’s a special opportunity, and we want them to have that opportunity,” union head Bruce Meyer said Tuesday ahead of the All-Star Game.

“Having said that, we want to make sure that they have things like travel and accommodations, and things that they deserve based on who they are.”

Five entities are involved in the negotiations: Major League Baseball, the players’ association, the International Olympic Committee, the LA28 local organizing committee and the World Baseball Softball Confederation.

Meyer characterized discussions as early.

“We’re focused on player quality of life,” Meyer said.

The United States qualified automatically as host, and the Dominican Republic and Venezuela earned berths based on their finish in this year’s World Baseball Classic. Asia and Europe/Oceania will have one spot each and the sixth nation will be determined during a final qualifying tournament.

“We went down the road on LA 2028 because we saw it as a unique opportunity to market the sport with our very, very best players,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said. “It is a disruptive undertaking for us.

Put money to one side, you’re disrupting your entire season, and if we’re going to undertake that effort, we want our very best out there so that people see how great our game really is.”

MLB wants player participation to be mandatory for those

chosen along with those picked for future All-Star Games.

“The proposals they made in terms of what the discipline would be, the ramifications of a player who doesn’t want to do that, in our view were extreme,” Meyer said.

Meyer said San Francisco would be the 2028 All-Star Game site, but Manfred said MLB hasn’t made a final determination.

Robot umpires Manfred is happy with the Automated Ball-Strike System, which began this year with teams able to challenge strike zone decisions. There are no plans to use ABS for all ball/ strike calls.

“We’re letting the dust settle on the challenge system,” he said. “Who knows what’s next? I really don’t have a plan on that.”

Cincinnati has been the most successful challenging team, winning 64.4%, followed by Arizona (62.2%), Detroit (60.4%), the Athletics (57.5%) and Texas (56.7%).

Pittsburgh had been the least successful at 41%, and just above are Cleveland (43.7%) the Chicago White Sox (47%), Washington (47.1%) and San Francisco (48.4%).

Clubs have been successful on 53.2% of the 6,040 challenges.

Batters have won 47.9% of 2,810 challenges and fielders (catchers and pitchers) 58% of 3,230.

High school players and draft Manfred detailed why MLB has proposed banning an amateur in the U.S., Canada and Puerto Rico from signing until he was at least 20 years old by the Sept. 1 of his signing year and two years removed from the graduating year of his high school class.

“Seventy to 75% of our players are college players now,” he said.

“That is a dramatic change in the way that baseball operations people think about colleges.”

MLB also wants to encourage players to get higher education.

“Talking players out of going to college, I’m not sure I agree with that just in terms of the overall development of the human being,” he said.

Stars are out

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New york yankees outfielder Cody Bellinger hits a two-run single during the MLB All-Star Game between the American League and National League on Tuesday in Philadelphia. The game ended after press time.

Simón has six shutouts while allowing only one goal in seven games so far.

Spain had two other real scoring chances in the first half.

There was the a free kick from just beyond the box after Adrien Rabiot drew a yellow card for a foul on Olmo in the eighth minute. Alex Baena’s kick went directly into the wall of French players.

After France goalkeeper Mike Maignan’s attempted clearing pass in the 38th minute instead went straight to Baena, there were several quick nifty passes before Fabian Ruiz’s close-range shot was denied.

Spain’s run at this year’s World

Cup has extended its unbeaten streak in regular time to 37 matches (28 wins and nine draws) since March 2024. That broke the country’s previous record of 35 in a row from 2007-09.

The loss broke France’s recordmatching streak of six consecutive World Cup wins, which also was accomplished in the 2018 and 2022 tournaments.

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Minnesota Timberwolves newly acquired point guard LaMelo Ball laughs during an introductory news conference at the Target Center in Minneapolis on Tuesday,

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Wolves expect PG Ball to provide creativity, joy

BY DAVE CAMPBELL AP sportswriter

MINNEAPOLIS — LaMelo Ball came to Minnesota at a steep price.

The opportunity with a cost of two proven power forwards and multiple draft picks was deemed worthwhile by the Timberwolves in their ongoing attempt to make the last and most difficult step toward an NBA title.

“I think he’ll elevate us,” president of basketball operations Tim Connelly said, “and our environment will be conducive to his continued growth as well.”

Eager to gain one of the league’s true point guards and lessen the ballhandling and playmaking burden

LSU

Continued from page 1C for the 2027 season.

Here’s how the Tigers are shaping up on the field heading into next year.

Lineup 1. Mason Braun, 1B 2. Cade Arrambide, C 3. Steven Milam, SS 4. Omar Serna, DH 5. Bino Watters, LF 6. Dawson Park, 3B 7. Angel Laya, RF 8. Cade Kurland, 2B 9. Malachi Washington, CF Bench: Jason Wachs (OF), Dominic Santarelli (OF), Jack Ruckert (2B), Nathaneal Davis (OF), Anthony Murphy (OF), John Pearson (3B), Eddie Yamin (C/1B/ OF), William Patrick (OF), Lucas Nawrocki (OF), Diego Velazquez (SS), Parker Loew (SS), Luke Tucker (3B/1B), Jordan Martinez (3B), Masen Belding (C), Dylan Minnatee (1B) Breakdown: Braun, Arrambide, Milam and Serna were four of LSU’s five best hitters by the end of last season. Their excellence at the plate in Southeastern Conference play makes them shoo-in starters to begin next year.

Watters was LSU’s biggest addition out of the portal. He was a first-team All-ACC selection last season and made the All-ACC Freshman Team in 2025 at Notre Dame. Park follows the left-handed hitter in the order as a right-handed bat who has the arm and glove to play shortstop. He hit 13 home runs in just 48 games last season at Texas State.

Laya was another massive portal addition from Oregon.

The lefty hit 14 homers and made the All-Big Ten Freshman Team. Kurland follows him as a right-handed, fouryear starter at Florida who posted an .809 on-base plus slugging percentage last year in SEC play.

The last starting spot came down to Washington, Wachs and Santarelli.

Wachs is a transfer from Tulane who posted an OPS over .900 in each of his two seasons with the Green Wave. Washington and Santarelli were top-85 prospects in the draft, according to ESPN.

on their roster.

“I’ve known Ant for a minute, so we’ve been talking,” Ball said. “Everybody’s excited, and we’re ready to get to work.”

Ball played in only 43% of the games over a three-year stretch from 2022-25 before a promising 2025-26 season that helped propel the Hornets into the play-in games.

He has shown a recklessness on and off the court at times, too. But the Wolves will give him a stronger team around him than he ever had with the Hornets, and six years into his NBA career the 6-foot-7 Ball is still just 24.

“You’ve got to have a big backcourt. We learned that through the playoffs this year,” Wolves coach Chris Finch said.

on superstar Anthony Edwards, the Wolves had to swallow hard and surrender valuable assets.

Completing a complicated four-team trade with Brooklyn, Charlotte and Chicago, Minnesota acquired Ball and guard Josh Green and sent fan favorite Naz Reid and a package of draft picks — a 2033 unprotected firstrounder, first-round swaps in 2028, 2029 and 2030, and second-rounders in 2029, 2032 and 2033 — to the Hornets.

Second-leading scorer Julius Randle went to the Nets, who swapped the 28th overall selection in the draft last month for No. 33 that landed the Wolves guard Isaiah Evans. That first part of the trade also created the sala-

ry-cap space necessary for the Wolves to re-sign guard Ayo Dosunmu.

Edwards was the first overall pick in the 2020 draft. Ball went third. Green was the 18th selection by Dallas and Jaden McDaniels was 28th, giving the Wolves four first-round picks from that year.

“Well, we have none for the next 10 years,” Connelly quipped at the introductory news conference for Ball and Green on Tuesday at Target Center. “It’s all about quality, not quantity, right?”

All four of those 2020 draftees are still 25 and younger, giving the Wolves confidence they’ll continue to contend — “bites at the apple” is Connelly’s description — as long as Edwards is

Washington took the last spot in this exercise because he’s a true center fielder. Wachs primarily started in right field at Tulane, and Santarelli is also a corner outfielder by trade.

Santarelli is 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, but he’s fast for his size. One scout told The Advocate that another evaluator in his organization suggested that Santarelli could play center at the next level.

Davis, Murphy and Patrick are three more options in center field. Ruckert is a strong reserve behind Kurland, which could be important given Kurland’s injury history. Nawrocki and Velazquez are twoway players who likely will make a bigger impact on the mound than at the plate, at least in 2027.

Pearson became a fulltime starter at third base this year but mostly struggled, especially on defense.

Yamin earned time as a pinch-hitter against lefthanded pitching and had some good moments. Martinez, Loew, Tucker, Belding and Minnatee may have trouble finding the field as freshmen, although Loew provides valuable depth at shortstop.

L a c h e n m a y e r, P l o g , Johnson primarily sees him as a pitcher moving for- Theophilus and Aase return from last season. ward.

Sides, Stringer and Brady Lachenmayer had the best were the top-ranked righthanded arms to make it to campus. Injuries would need to occur for them to crack the rotation, but they’re all candidates to start midweek games.

Stringer and Sides were top-110 prospects in the draft, per MLB.com, and Brady was the No. 71 player on The Athletic’s draft rankings.

Williams struggled in 2026, but he was a candidate to start back in January.

Among LSU’s lefties, he’s the best equipped to do it at the moment. Ricken had a strong final outing in his freshman season, allowing just two earned runs in 41⁄3 innings against Florida

Starting rotation Friday: Casan Evans, RHP Saturday: William Schmidt, RHP Sunday: Cooper Moore, RHP Other potential options: Landon Hood (RHP), Cooper Sides (RHP), Velazquez (RHP), Coleton Brady (RHP), Cooper Williams (LHP), Kolby Stringer (RHP), Reagan Ricken (RHP) Breakdown: Hood poses the biggest threat to crack the rotation despite LSU bringing back all three of its weekend starters from last season. Schmidt and Evans have the talent to be co-aces, while Moore looks to get through a full season healthy.

Hood still has a chance to start in SEC play after winning the West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year award at Gonzaga. He’s the top arm LSU added out of the portal. Velazquez — a transfer from Southern Cal — made the All-Big Ten Freshman Team and started five games for the Trojans.

him back on a big contract extension before the start of the 2025 campaign.

The only NFL tight ends with more yards receiving last season were Arizona’s Trey McBride and Atlanta’s Kyle Pitts. Johnson’s 889 yards receiving were the fourth-most in a single season by a tight end in Saints’ history, tied with Jimmy Graham.

The bulk of Johnson’s production came after Tyler Shough took over under center. In nine games with Shough as the starter, Johnson caught 41 of his 50 targets for 521 yards (12.7 per catch) and two touchdowns.

In the first eight games, Johnson caught 36 of his 52 targets for 368 yards (10.2 per catch) and one TD.

The lowdown

snaps with multiple Saints tight ends on the field.

Delp is the key to this.

Fant is somewhat similar to Johnson as a player — a mobile tight end who is at his best as a receiver. But New Orleans envisions Delp as a true “Y” tight end who can line up off tackle and affect the game both as a receiver and blocker.

It should allow the Saints to find personnel advantages.

Delp’s ability as a blocker at the point of attack could force opposing defenses to stay honest, giving the Saints opportunities to exploit base defensive looks with their athletes at tight end.

All of this is a theory, and one opposing defenses could start having answers for after watching what the Rams did last season.

Camp battle to watch Johnson, Fant and Delp aren’t going anywhere. And if the Saints are going to run more heavy personnel packages, it would not be a surprise to see them keep a fourth tight end on their initial 53-man roster after keeping three on their initial 53 last season.

If that is the case, the fourth spot will likely be between Moliki Matavao, Treyton Welch and Zaire Mitchell-Paden. Each of those players appeared in stretches with the Saints last season, with MitchellPaden playing in eight games compared to six for Matavao and three for Welch.

It may come down to the type of player the Saints want. Of the three, Matavao may have the most to offer as a blocker, with a sturdy 6-foot-6 frame. Welch has shown solid pass-catching skills. Mitchell-Paden might offer the best blend of both.

The Saints know what they have in Johnson.

Though he does have some lapses in concentration that lead to drops, Johnson has established himself as a dangerous weapon in the passing game. The converted wide receiver is an excellent size-speed athlete who can stretch the seam and also pick up yards after the catch.

What will be interesting to watch is what happens with the rest of the tight end group.

The offseason additions of Fant and Delp signaled a willingness to incorporate more multiple tight end sets, and Moore confirmed that was the plan when asked about it this summer.

Maybe the Saints won’t go full Los Angeles Rams, who created advantageous matchups last season by running more three-tight end sets than anyone else in the NFL, but it’s safe to Email Luke Johnson at assume there will be more ljohnson@theadvocate.com.

season of the group, and Aase missed the whole year because he was recovering from Tommy John surgery.

Wisener is another freshman who throws a fastball and a slider, but he needs to throw more strikes.

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Bullpen Multi-inning closers: Hood, Velazquez, Williams Middle relief: Nawrocki, Kaden Smith (RHP), Braxton Beaty (LHP), Danny Lachenmayer (LHP), Major Osbolt (RHP), Zion Theophilus (RHP), Ethan Plog (LHP), Jonah Aase (LHP), Braydon Wisener (RHP), Bradyn Cupit (LHP), Sides, Ricken and Brady Breakdown: Among the freshmen, Nawrocki has the chance to make the biggest immediate impact. His fastball is up to 95 mph, and he might’ve had the best slider in the draft within the high school pitching crop.

LSU needs lefties to step up on the mound next season, and Nawrocki has the polish and talent to fill the void.

Beaty is another freshman lefty who can help the Tigers immediately. He’s not as strong as Nawrocki (Beaty is only 178 pounds), but he is polished and throws strikes. Cupit is the lone freshman from Louisiana and can, at the very least, help provide more depth from the left side.

Smith is a transfer from South Florida who, Johnson believes, has the stuff necessary to get outs in the SEC. He also started eight games, which means he could also be used in a bulk role if need be. Osbolt is another new addition, this time from the junior college ranks at Walters State. He’s LSU’s lone add at that level this year.

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World Cup Scores, schedule QUARTERFINALS July 9

Monday’s games

East Division

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York Central Division

Norway 1, England 2, OT Argentina 3, Switzerland 1, OT

SEMIFINALS Tuesday

Spain 2, France 0

Wednesday

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati West Division

England vs. Argentina, 2 p.m.

3RD PLACE PLAYOFF Saturday France vs. TBD, 4 p.m.

FINAL Sunday

Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

Spain vs. TBD, 2 p.m.

Basketball WNBA Glance Eastern Conference

Monday’s games

Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Toronto Chicago Connecticut

W 14 14 13 12 10 7 6

L 9 10 11 10 14 16 18

Pct .609 .583 .542 .545 .417 .304 .250

GB — ½ 1½ 1½ 4½ 7 8½

Minnesota Las Vegas Golden State Dallas Los Angeles Portland Phoenix Seattle

W 18 17 17 16 10 10 8 6

L 6 7 7 8 12 14 17 19

Pct .750 .708 .708 .667 .455 .417 .320 .240

GB — 1 1 2 7 8 10½ 12½

Western Conference

Atlanta 101, Los Angeles 92 Minnesota 104, Phoenix 100

Tuesday’s games

Connecticut 90, Portland 87 Washington 79, Toronto 62

Wednesday’s games

Seattle at Chicago, 11 a.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, noon Golden State at Indiana, 7 p.m.

Baseball MLB Home Run Derby Results Monday

At Citizens Bank Park, Philadelphia First Round: Wilson Contreras, Boston 13; Jordan Walker, St. Louis 13; Junior Caminero, Tampa Bay 12; Kyle Schwarber, Philadelphia 10; Munetaka Murakami, Chicago White Sox 9; Jac Caglianone, Kansas City 8; Bryce Harper, Philadelphia 8; Ben Rice, New York Yankees 7.

Semifinal: Schwarber def. Contreras 9-8; Walker def. Caminero 6-5.

Final: Walker def. Schwarber 12-11.

MLB Glance

American League

Texas

W 55 54 52 48 40

L 40 43 45 49 57

Pct .579 .557 .536 .495 .412

GB — 2 4 8 16

W 59 54 50 50 43

L 37 42 45 47 52

Pct .615 .563 .526 .515 .453

GB — 5 8½ 9½ 15½

W 61 49 48 41 39

L 36 47 48 55 59

Pct .629 .510 .500 .427 .398

GB — 11½ 12½ 19½ 22½

National League

July 11

Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Detroit Kansas City West Division

1½ 3 8 11½

No games scheduled

Spain 2, Belgium 1

Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto Central Division

.495 .480 .427 .392

Tuesday’s games

July 10

East Division

49 51 55 59

No games scheduled

France 2, Morocco 0

Monday’s games

48 47 41 38

W 56 54 46 46 45

L 38 42 48 51 51

Pct .596 .563 .489 .474 .469

GB — 3 10 11½ 12

W 51 50 48 44 38

L 46 45 49 52 59

Pct .526 .526 .495 .458 .392

GB — — 3 6½ 13

W 49

L 47

Pct .510

GB —

No games scheduled

Tuesday’s games

No games scheduled

Auto racing NASCAR Cup Series Points Leaders Through July 13 1. Denny Hamlin, 791.

2. Tyler Reddick, 767.

3. Ryan Blaney, 726.

4. Ty Gibbs, 665.

5. Chase Elliott, 610.

6. Kyle Larson, 594.

7. Chris Buescher, 568.

8. Carson Hocevar, 563.

9. Christopher Bell, 551.

10. Chase Briscoe, 542.

11. Daniel Suárez, 529.

12. William Byron, 520.

13. Bubba Wallace, 493.

14. Austin Cindric, 470.

15. Shane Van Gisbergen, 469.

16. Erik Jones, 446.

17. Joey Logano, 438.

18. Ryan Preece, 420.

19. Brad Keselowski, 403.

20. Ross Chastain, 401.

21. Michael McDowell, 399.

22. AJ Allmendinger, 396.

23. Zane Smith, 356.

24. Todd Gilliland, 353.

25. Riley Herbst, 350.

26. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., 344.

27. John H. Nemechek, 344.

28. Austin Dillon, 327.

29. Alex Bowman, 281.

30. Noah Gragson, 241.

31. Ty Dillon, 238.

32. Cole Custer, 237.

33. Josh Berry, 233.

34. Connor Zilisch, 208.

35. Cody Ware, 169.

36. Kevin Magnussen, 11.

37. Casey Mears, 10.

38. Jimmie Johnson, 9.

39. Katherine Legge, 8.

40. BJ McLeod, 4.

Golf British Open Tee Times At Royal Birkdale, Southport, England (a-amateur) Thursday-Friday 12:35 a.m.-5:41 a.m. — Matthew Baldwin, England; Thomas Detry, Belgium; James Nicholas, United States.

12:46 a.m.-5:52 a.m. — Michael Kim, United States; Daniel Hillier, New Zealand; Andy Sullivan, England.

12:57 a.m.-6:03 a.m. — Ryan Fox, New Zealand; Andrew Novak, United States; Mat-

thew Jordan, England.

1:08 a.m.-6:14 a.m. — Henrik Stenson, Sweden; Max Homa, United States; Joe Dean, England.

1:19 a.m.-6:25 a.m. — Robert MacIntyre, Scotland; Rickie Fowler, United States; Alex Fitzpatrick, England.

1:30 a.m.-6:36 a.m. — David Duval, United States; Martin Couvra, France; Matthew Southgate, England.

1:41 a.m.-6:47 a.m. — Sungjae Im, South Korea; Dan Brown, England; a-Fifa Laopakdee, Thailand.

1:52 a.m.-6:58 a.m. — Gary Woodland, United States; Jake Knapp, United States; Jordan Smith, England.

2:03 a.m.-7:09 a.m. — Francesco Molinari, Italy; Tom McKibbin, Northern Ireland; a-Lev Grinberg, France.

2:14 a.m.-7:20 a.m. — Hennie du Plessis, South Africa; Jose Luis Ballester, Spain; Dan Bradbury, England.

2:25 a.m.-7:31 a.m. — Angel Ayora, Spain; Victor Perez, France; a-Mateo Pulcini, Argentina.

2:36 a.m.-7:42 a.m. — Stewart Cink, United States; Scott Vincent, Zimbabwe; Joakim Lagergren, Sweden.

2:47 a.m.-7:53 a.m. — Michael Thorbjornsen, United States; Kota Kaneko, Japan; Travis Smyth, Australia.

3:03 a.m.-8:09 a.m. — Alex Smalley, United States; Sam Stevens, United States; Ryo Hisatsune, Japan.

3:14 a.m.-8:20 a.m. — Akshay Bhatia, United States; Harris English, United States; Rasmus Hojgaard, Denmark.

3:25 a.m.-8:31 a.m. — Ben Griffin, United States; Hideki Matsuyama, Japan; Min Woo Lee, Australia.

3:36 a.m.-8:42 a.m. — Russell Henley, United States; Justin Rose, England; Viktor Hovland, Norway.

3:47 a.m.-8:53 a.m. — Justin Thomas, United States; Alex Noren, Sweden; Jason Day, Australia.

3:58 a.m.-9:04 a.m. — Scottie Scheffler, United States; Tyrrell Hatton, England; Bryson DeChambeau, United States.

4:09 a.m.-9:15 a.m. — Jordan Spieth, United States; Tommy Fleetwood, England; Jon Rahm, Spain.

4:20 a.m.-9:26 a.m. — Brian Harman, United States; Si Woo Kim, South Korea; Nick Taylor, Canada.

4:31 a.m.-9:37 a.m. — Ryan Gerard, United States; Maverick McNealy, United States; David Puig, Spain.

4:42 a.m.-9:48 a.m. — Kazuma Kobori, New Zealand; Tom Sloman, England; a-David Howard, Ireland.

4:53 a.m.-9:59 a.m. — Antoine Rozner, France; Ren Yonezawa, Japan; Caleb Surratt, United States.

5:04 a.m.-10:10 a.m. — M.J. Daffue, South Africa; Frederic Lacroix, France; Jack McDonald, Scotland.

5:15 a.m.-10:21 a.m. — Jeongwoo Ham, South Korea; Ryutaro Nagano, Japan; a-Alejandro de Castro Piera, Spain.

5:41 a.m.-12:35 a.m. — John Parry, England; Eric Cole, United States; Tiger Christensen, Germany.

5:52 a.m.-12:46 a.m. — Eugenio Chacarra, Spain; Matt Wallace, England; Max Greyserman, United States.

6:03 a.m.-12:57 a.m. — Michael Brennan, United States; Sahith Theegala, United States; Laurie Canter, England.

6:14 a.m.-1:08 a.m. — Cameron Smith, Australia; Keith Mitchell, United States; a-Stuart Grehan, Ireland.

6:25 a.m.-1:19 a.m. — Sepp Straka, Austria; Joaquin Niemann, Chile; Kurt Kitayama, United States.

6:36 a.m.-1:30 a.m. — Sami Valimaki, Finland; Shaun Norris, South Africa; Jackson Suber, United States.

6:47 a.m.-1:41 a.m. — Darren Clarke, Northern Ireland; Adrien Saddier, France; Bernd Wiesberger, Austria.

6:58 a.m.-1:52 a.m. — Keegan Bradley, United States; Corey Conners, Canada; Casey Jarvis, South Africa.

7:09 a.m.-2:03 a.m. — Matt McCarty, United States; Harry Hall, England; Haotong Li, China.

7:20 a.m.-2:14 a.m. — Padraig Harrington, Ireland; Marco Penge, England; Michael Hollick, South Africa.

7:31 a.m.-2:25 a.m. — Tom Kim, South Korea; Billy Horschel, United States; a-Mason Howell, United States.

7:42 a.m.-2:36 a.m. — Johnny Keefer, United States; Pierceson Coody, United States; Keita Nakajima, Japan.

7:53 a.m.-2:47 a.m. — Aldrich Potgieter, South Africa; Jesper Svensson, Sweden; a-Jack Buchanan, South Africa.

8:09 a.m.-3:03 a.m. — Bud Cauley, United States; Jayden Schaper, South Africa; Lucas Herbert, Australia.

8:20 a.m.-3:14 a.m. — Kristoffer Reitan, Norway; Patrick Reed, United States; J.T. Poston, United States.

8:31 a.m.-3:25 a.m. — Chris Gotterup, United States; Sam Burns, United States; Adam Scott, Australia.

8:42 a.m.-3:36 a.m. — Collin Morikawa, United States; J.J. Spaun, United States; Nicolai Hojgaard, Denmark.

8:53 a.m.-3:47 a.m. — Shane Lowry, Ireland; Aaron Rai, England; Brooks Koepka, United States.

9:04 a.m.-3:58 a.m. — Cameron Young, United States; Wyndham Clark, United States; Ludvig Aberg, Sweden.

9:15 a.m.-4:09 a.m. — Rory McIlroy, Northern Ireland; Xander Schauffele, United States; Matt Fitzpatrick, England.

9:26 a.m.-4:20 a.m. — Jacob Bridgeman, United States; Rasmus Neergaard-Petersen, Denmark; a-Tim Wiedemeyer, Germany.

9:37 a.m.-4:31 a.m. — Patrick Cantlay, United States; Daniel Berger, United States; Nico Echavarria, Colombia.

9:48 a.m.-4:42 a.m. — Peter Uihlein, United States; Alistair Docherty, United States; Francesco Laporta, Italy.

9:59 a.m.-4:53 a.m. — Cameron John, Australia; Austen Truslow, United States; Sam Bairstow, England.

10:10 a.m.-5:04 a.m. — Naoyuki Kataoka, Japan; Marcus Plunkett, United States; Baard Bjoernevik Skogen, Norway.

10:21 a.m.-5:15 a.m. — Kazuki Higa, Japan; Jiho Yang, South Korea; a-Nevill Ruiter, Netherlands.

PGA Tour Statistics

Through July 13 FedExCup Season Points 1, Scottie Scheffler, 3,511. 2, Matt Fitzpatrick, 3,329. 3, Cameron Young, 2,586. 4, Wyndham Clark, 2,255. 5, Chris Gotterup, 2,200. 6, Collin Morikawa, 2,176. 7, Si Woo Kim, 1,938. 8, Ludvig Aberg, 1,773. 9, Tommy Fleetwood, 1,733.

10, Sam Burns, 1,728.

Scoring Average 1, Scottie Scheffler, 68.946. 2, Collin Morikawa, 69.236. 3, Matt Fitzpatrick, 69.459. 4, Collin Morikawa, 69.533. 5, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.811. 6, Wyndham Clark, 69.815. 7, Chris Gotterup, 69.822. 8, Jake Knapp, 69.862.

9, Sam Burns, 69.908. 10, Si Woo Kim, 69.940.

Driving Distance 1, Aldrich Potgieter, 329.4. 2, Rory McIlroy, 328.2. 3, Michael Brennan, 326.6. 4, Nicolai Højgaard, 322.6. 5, Gary Woodland, 322.4. 6, Rasmus Højgaard, 321.9. 7, Chris Gotterup, 321.7. 8, Marco Penge, 321.4. 9, Min Woo Lee, 320.1. 10, Johnny Keefer, 318.3.

Driving Accuracy Percentage 1, Russell Henley, 73.41%. 2, Aaron Rai, 72.16%. 3, Si Woo Kim, 70.16%. 4, Lucas Glover, 69.65%. 5, Collin Morikawa, 69.41%.

6, Tommy Fleetwood, 69.18%. 7, Andrew Putnam, 68.93%. 8, Kensei Hirata, 68.27%. 9, 2 tied with 68.24%.

Total Driving 1, Ludvig Åberg, 55. 2, Scottie Scheffler, 57.

3, Neal Shipley, 62. 4, Jordan Smith, 66. 5, Min Woo Lee, 69. 6, Kurt Kitayama, 74. 7 (tie), Michael Brennan and Cameron Young, 76. 9, Matt Fitzpatrick, 81. 10, 2 tied with 82.

SG-Putting 1, Vince Whaley, .787. 2, Akshay Bhatia, .681.

3, Jacob Bridgeman, .675. 4, Sam Burns, .662.

5, Jake Knapp, .589. 6, Erik van Rooyen, .570.

7, Beau Hossler, .561. 8, Alex Noren, .556. 9, Robert MacIntyre, .544. 10, Eric Cole, .540.

Birdie Average 1, Scottie Scheffler, 4.76. 2, Si Woo Kim, 4.62.

3, Collin Morikawa, 4.59. 4, Wyndham Clark, 4.52. 5, Rory McIlroy, 4.37. 6, Ludvig Aberg,

4.36. 7 (tie), Akshay Bhatia and Robert MacIntyre, 4.35. 9, Jacob Bridgeman, 4.33. 10, Keith Mitchell, 4.32.

Eagles (Holes per) 1, Jake Knapp, 50.4. 2, Nicolai Højgaard, 83.1.

3, Matt Wallace, 84.6. 4, Tommy Fleetwood, 87. 5, Sahith Theegala, 87.8. 6, Aldrich Potgieter, 88.2. 7 (tie), Keegan Bradley and Rasmus Hojgaard, 90. 9, Shane Lowry, 93.6.

10, Brandt Snedeker, 95.1.

All-Around Ranking 1, Scottie Scheffler, 170. 2, Ludvig Åberg, 248.

3, Sam Burns, 265. 4, Wyndham Clark, 267. 5, Chris Gotterup, 278. 6, Min Woo Lee, 281. 7, Collin Morikawa, 284. 8, Doug Ghim, 313. 9, Rory McIlroy, 314. 10, Si Woo Kim, 333.

Tennis ATP World Tour Swiss Open Results Tuesday At Roy Emerson Arena, Gstaad, Switzerland Surface: Red clay Men’s Singles Round of 32 Yannick Hanfmann, Germany, def. Pedro Martinez, Spain, 7-6 (6), 6-1.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo (6), Argentina, def.

Zdenek Kolar, Czechia, 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Jerome Kym, Switzerland, def. Dylan Dietrich, Switzerland, 7-6 (3), 2-6, 7-6 (5).

Quentin Halys, France, def. Federico Cina, Italy, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (6).

Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, def. Ignacio Buse (5), Peru, 6-4, 6-4.

Aleksandr Shevchenko, Russia, def. Alexandre Muller, France, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Jaime Faria, Portugal, def. Stan Wawrinka, Switzerland, 6-7 (8), 6-4, 6-4.

Transactions Baseball MLB

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Acquired OF/DH Jahmai Jones from Detroit in exchange for a player to be named later. Optioned UTL Nate Eaton to Worcester (IL).

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Acquired RHP Easton McGee and optioned him to Omaha (IL) from Milwaukee in exchange for cash considerations. Transferred RHP Nick Mears to the 60-day IL. MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent RHPs Cole Sands and Garrett Acton on a rehab assignments to FCL Twins.

National League CHICAGO CUBS — Sent RHP Jake Woodford outright to Iowa (IL).

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Sent RHP Edwin Díaz on a rehab assignment to ACL Dodgers.

NEW YORK METS — Sent RHP Dan Hammer outright to Syracuse (IL).

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHPs Trevor Williams and Max Kranick on a rehab assignments to FCL Nationals. Sent LHP Matt Krook outright to Rochester (IL).

Basketball NBA

PHOENIX SUNS — Signed G Luke Kennard to a multi-year contract.

Football NFL

BUFFALO BILLS — Claimed WR Quentin Skinner off waivers from the N.Y. Jets. Released WR Deven Thompkins.

Hockey NHL

MINNESOTA WILD — Signed G Filip Ruzicka to a three-year, entry-level contract.

NEW YORK ISLANDERS — Signed D Malte Gustafsson to a three-year contract.

PITTSBURGH PENGUINS — Signed F Nicholas Robertson to a two-year contract.

Soccer MLS

NEW ENGLAND REVOLUTION — Re-signed D Peyton Miller to a multi-year contract extension through the 2028-29 MLS season with an additional club option for 2029-30.

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Chef combines Vietnamese flavor with barbecue

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The table where Tung Nguyen grew up eating at home was lined with ketchup and hoisin, Tabasco and Sriracha, ready Nguyen to augment meals drawn alternately from the Vietnamese heritage of his family and the traditions of their adopted home in New Orleans.

It was pho one day, Popeyes fried chicken the next.

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rosschicken-fried steak with a poboy, or Vietnamese banh mi with Korean barbecue on local French bread. How about a po-boy with shredded duck instead of roast beef, or a hot sausage po-boy so spicy it comes with a heat advisory?

Are these the latest wild mashups designed to grab attention on the social media scroll? Emphatically no.

They’re examples of longSTAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER running house specials at ABOVE: Tradition endures at Radosta’s Po-boys in Metairie, where Don po-boy shops that I’ve revisited recently while dig- Radosta, from left, Wayne Radosta and Rob Case work together. Wayne ging into the lesser-known makes the Italian and hot sausage patties from recipes he developed. corners of the New Orleans TOP: An open duck po-boy next to a fried shrimp po-boy at Crabby po-boy world.

Jack’s in New Orleans.

Much of this thrives not in New Orleans itself, but next door in Jefferson Parish kept them from developing dis- were smaller. at joints that are practically tinctive specialties through the It’s a few blocks off Jefferson invisible unless you already years.

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Alexandria, Virginia, to two felonies in a deal sparing him life in prison. (Walker was released in Today is Wednesday, July 15, the 196th day of 2026. There are 2019 after serving 17 years of a 20-year prison sentence.)

169 days left in the year.

In 2006, Twitter (now known as Today in History: X) was launched to the public.

On July 15, 1799, the Rosetta In 2019, avowed White suStone, a key to deciphering ancient Egyptian scripts, was premacist James Alex Fields Jr. found at Fort Julien in the Nile was sentenced by a state court Delta during the Napoleonic to life in prison plus 419 years campaign in Egypt. for killing one person and injurAlso on this date: ing dozens when he deliberately In 1834, the Spanish Inquisidrove his car into a crowd of tion was abolished more than 350 anti-racism protesters during a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. years after its creation.

(The previous month, Fields In 1870, Georgia became the received a life sentence on 29 last Confederate state to be refederal hate crime charges.) admitted to the Union.

In 2020, George Floyd’s family In 1913, Democrat Augustus Bacon of Georgia became the first filed a lawsuit against the city of Minneapolis and the four police person elected to the U.S. Senate officers charged in his death, alunder the terms of the recently ratified 17th Amendment to the leging the officers violated Floyd’s U.S. Constitution, providing for rights when they restrained him popular election of senators. and that the city allowed a culture In 1975, three American astro- of excessive force, racism and nauts blasted off aboard an Apol- impunity to flourish in its police lo spacecraft hours after two So- force. (The city would agree to pay $27 million to settle the lawviet cosmonauts were launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft for a suit in March 2021.) mission that included a linkup of Today’s Birthdays: Actor Patrick the two ships in orbit.

Wayne is 87. R&B singer MilIn 1976, a 36-hour kidnap ordeal lie Jackson is 82. Singer Linda began for 26 schoolchildren and Ronstadt is 80. Author Richard their bus driver as they were Russo is 77. Musician Trevon abducted near Chowchilla, CaliHorn is 77. Arianna Huffington, co-founder of The Huffington fornia, by three gunmen and imPost, is 76. Former professional prisoned in an underground cell.

(The captives escaped unharmed; wrestler Jesse Ventura is 75. Acthe kidnappers were caught.) tor Terry O’Quinn (TV: “Lost”) In 1996, MSNBC, a 24-hour all- is 74. Rock drummer Marky Ranews network, made its debut on mone is 74. Rock musician Joe cable and the internet.

Satriani is 70. Model Kim Alexis In 1997, fashion designer Giis 66. Actor Willie Aames is 66.

Actor-director Forest Whitaker anni Versace, 50, was shot dead is 65. Actor Brigitte Nielsen is outside his Miami Beach home; 63. Rock drummer Jason Bonsuspected gunman Andrew Phillip Cunanan, 27, was found dead ham is 60. TV personality Adam eight days later, a suicide. (Inves- Savage (TV” “MythBusters”) is 59. Actor-comedian Eddie Griftigators believed Cunanan killed four other people before Versace fin is 58. Actor-screenwriter Jim in a cross-country rampage that Rash (TV: “Community”) is 55. began the previous March.)

Actor Scott Foley is 54. Actor In 2002, John Walker Lindh, an Brian Austin Green is 53. Singer American who’d fought alongBuju Banton is 53. Actor Diane Kruger is 50. Actor Lana Parrilla side the Taliban in Afghanistan, pleaded guilty in federal court in is 49. Actor Travis Fimmel is 47.

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Asian Cajun Cowboy is a brand of dipping sauces created by New Orleans-born chef Tung Nguyen.

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Continued from page 1D The same mix of Vietnamese and American carried through to the restaurants and food stands he would later run, which were known for hot sausage patty banh mi and pulled pork bao. As a chef, he eventually created his own sauces that bridge the AsianCreole-American barbecue blend.

Now, Nguyen has turned them into a new retail brand of sauces called Asian Cajun Cowboy. It’s taking off as the New Orleans native has found a new national audience for his cooking chops on the Food Network. In July, he made it to the season finale of the network’s “BBQ Brawl” show, paired up with celebrity chef Bobby Flay.

Asian Cajun Cowboy is hitting the market with four dipping sauce flavors, developed from recipes Nguyen first devised for Slow & Pho, the stand he once ran at the St. Roch Market food hall, and his earlier spots, including Em Trai Sandwich Co. and T2 Street Food.

In the home kitchen, they’re designed to jazz up the frozen dumplings, shumai, gyoza and other Asian bites that proliferate now in grocery aisles and to add new life to takeout.

“That cheap Chinese food we all love and adore? These are sauces to have around that’s compatible with it,” he said.

It’s for dipping, drizzling and dunking. The tagline: “Not traditional. Not sorry.”

“I learned that I could use these Asian flavors to infuse traditional American barbecue traditions and make something that stands out,” he said.

Barbecue brawler

Later, his sister Betty Archote opened Thanh Thanh, the Vietnamese restaurant in Gretna where their mother Viet Nguyen oversees the pho every morning.

Nguyen’s obsession with barbecue developed after a friend recruited him to join a charity cookoff team at Hogs for the Cause.

This would open new horizons.

Eventually he left the restaurant business and went to work for barbecue seasoning and sauce maker Kosmos Q. From a new home base in Oklahoma City, he is now the company’s director of culinary operations and travels to trade shows and events around the country cooking for the brand.

It was at one such event where he caught the attention of producers for a Netflix show, “Barbecue Showdown.” His debut performance was a personal disappointment after being eliminated in the first episode. But the experience lit a fire in him to do more.

His run on Food Network show “BBQ Brawl” was a comeback.

The show pairs contestants with celebrity chefs, and for Nguyen working with Flay was pivotal.

The chef and food media luminary coached him through the season, and also took an interest in the hybrid Vietnamese influenced sauces he put to use on the show.

With that affirmation, Asia Cajun Cowboy was born as Nguyen’s own independent brand.

“It’s still my flavors, my story, I just get to share it on a bigger platform now,” he said.

The sauce line is distributed at about 300 Target locations around the country (though none in Louisiana so far). It’s available to order on Amazon and direct through AsianCajunCowboy.com.

Nguyen said he’s now working on more local retail distribution in the New Orleans area as well.

Food has always been central in Nguyen’s family. His parents once ran a seafood market in Al- Email Ian McNulty at giers called De Gaulle Seafood. imcnulty@theadvocate.com.

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Parenton’s Po-boys is a tiny shop for traditional New Orleans flavors and house specials in Old Jefferson.

PO-BOYS

Continued from page 1D personality that operators Brenda Castillo and Dennis Valentino have baked into the clubhouse-like confines, and for the specials.

Chicken-fried steak is on each Thursday. It arrives with long, thin sheets of steak stretching across the length of the bread, with crisp, well-seasoned edges jutting out past the crust.

The chicken parm on Wednesday is worth marking a day on the calendar to try, too. I’m also a fan of the everyday oyster po-boy, with lightly-coated bivalves popped out of the oil at the perfect time, still bursting with juice. Dress mine with butter and pickles only, please.

Radosta’s hotter-thanhot sausage po-boy

Korean beef po-boys are dressed like a Vietnamese banh mi at Singleton’s Po-boys and Mini Mart, alongside traditional New Orleans flavors. juicy, and the crisp coating pairs with the crunch of the bread, with a layer of cheese between (I like it with pepper jack). Like the entire menu, it’s a bargain, still under $6 for a half po-boy.

Adams Street Grocery is still recovering from roadwork street closures (now complete), that made its block harder to reach. So a visit will help out the local business.

“festival style,” and they dress it with coleslaw for a creamy crunch, like the restaurant does at Po-Boy Fest.

A hotter-than-hot sausage po-boy comes from Radosta’s (249 Aris Ave.), in a pocket neighborhood of Singleton’s small homes off Metairie Road. It was once a grocery (the vestiges of Korean beef shelves are still visible around the po-boy memento-clad room) and this one wears its Italian heritage proudly.

Nearby, tucked All the sausage varieties are into the Black Pearl made in house. The hot sausage neighborhood, Sinpatties sing with a multi-pepper gleton’s Po-Boys heat (black, red, white, dried flakes & Mini Mart (7446 and ground jalapeño). It gives a A fried chicken po-boy from Garfield St.) has sharp bite that lingers and builds. been getting more Adams Street Grocery in The bread doesn’t just hold the attention for the New Orleans is a bargain sandwich together, it also balances Vietnamese staples the juicy heat. of eggrolls and Crabby Jack’s lunch, with a half po-boy still under $6.

Expect to hear a warning about noodle bowls (and duck po-boy just how spicy this one hits when Saturday-only pho) ordering. For a milder take, try Around a cluster of warehouses served next to its po-boys. the Don Special, which pairs Ital- and workshops, Crabby Jack’s But it’s a house creation of Koian sausage patties with olive salad (428 Jefferson Highway) has long rean beef on French bread with been the counter service po-boy the crunchy-fresh garnishes of and provolone. spinoff from the better-known Vietnamese banh mi (shredded Fried chicken po-boy at restaurant Jacques-Imo’s Café. carrot, cilantro, jalapeño) that There’s always been a mix of old- first turned my head here, and it’s Adams Street Grocery school New Orleans and off-script still a mainstay. Add a hit of the Chin Su hot sauce at the table to Fried chicken sandwiches are all signatures here.

One go-to: the roasted duck po- accentuate the earthy chile spice the rage these days, but the fried chicken po-boy at Adams Street boy. It’s like a hunting camp feast of the marinated beef.

The latest thrill? It’s not always Grocery (1309 Adams St.) has been packed into French bread, with the hiding in plain sight at the takeout meat treated like roast beef debris, a viral trend. Sometimes it’s just coming apart in strands and chunks old-school New Orleans know-how deli counter for years.

The chicken breast is thick and in a light brown au jus. Order it at backstreet joints.

KIRA

Continued from page 1D He moved to New Orleans this spring and is now executive chef and partner at the new Kira Omakase (601 Tchoupitoulas St.).

This is a distinct restaurant of its own found inside Kira, the highSTAFF PHOTO By IAN McNULTy style Mediterranean/Japanese Kira is a restaurant blending restaurant opened late in 2025 by local restaurateur Billy Blatty. He Mediterranean and Japanese recruited Okai for the omakase influences with a stylish dining room concept after eating at his Austin vibe in downtown New Orleans. restaurant Okoto.

Kira Omakase is slatHeavily inked with KIRA tattoos and the owner ed to open in August, OMAKASE of an excellent haircut, with finishing touches Okai exudes a frenetic now being completed.

601 Tchoupitoulas personality and a punk The omakase, or a St., projected rock aesthetic. The chef-guided set menu meal, will be served at opening August 2026 Kyoto native is a punk vocalist who was first a 12-seat counter and will change with the seasons. Ex- drawn to Austin for its music scene. pect about 20 courses, including He still compares his passion for about 15 different pieces of nigiri sushi with his love of music.

“You have to have your own style and other dishes. The omakase will be priced around $175 per person, or you’re stuck,” he said in an inwith sake pairings available. terview at Kira Omakase. “You have to keep changing what you Meet Yoshi do, but keep a style so people know Okai has worked at and led sushi it’s your food.”

In Austin, Okai was known for bars in Austin that rank among the most influential in the U.S. That in- bringing elements of local food cludes the long-running sister res- culture into his omakase, like chartaurants Uchi and Uchiko. For the coal and salts from the region’s past decade, he led Otoko, the 12- Hill Country barbecue. He hinted seat restaurant where he prepared a similar approach could be in the every bite and orchestrated the works with Louisiana ingredients. music and vibe for an immersive About omakase omakase experience.

The chef announced his departure Kira Omakase is a multifaceted and Otoko closed last spring, news restaurant hidden within Kira, that was bemoaned by Texas sushi with its various spaces revealed aficionados. The magazine Austin by a progression of sliding doors.

Monthly lamented the loss of “one The sushi counter is the heart of Austin’s best culinary talents.” of Kira Omakase, though the chef Austin’s loss could be New Or- won’t fill all seats at once. Staggered seatings mean more immeleans’ gain.

diate service as sushi is prepared and handed over the counter, crucial with Okai’s approach, and it invites more interaction with the chef himself.

Kira Omakase will eventually add an a la carte menu served at tables around the sushi counter.

There is a private dining room seating up to 20, and also a lounge that will be the venue for tuna breakdowns.

All the rage in other cities, these special events are a combination of butchery demonstration and feast as chefs bring in a large tuna, upward of 200 pounds, and cut it into pieces for attendees to eat directly from the bone. Okai expects to host these events about three times a year.

Kira keeps growing Kira opened late in 2025 with a menu is part Greek and part Japanese, with dashes of a high-dollar steakhouse, all in a setting that feels like a taverna with neontrimmed nightlife vibes.

The bar glows, the room curves around coves of tables, and a DJ sets the beat later in the night on the weekends. Blatty’s hospitality company also runs the attached club Ohm Lounge and the nearby Italian restaurant Sofia.

In addition to Okai, he’s been hiring more local talent behind the scenes. That includes director of operations Hadi Ktiri, previously of Four Seasons New Orleans and the Windsor Court; Josh Adamo, a chef consultant who was previously chef de cuisine at Emeril’s Restaurant in its new tasting menu era; and general manager Zehava Lunin, previously of the Windsor Court and Antoine’s.

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n Affirmative Ado YEP! The acronym says it all.

Presented by the Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust and held in the Audubon Tea Room, the Youth Empowerment Project (YEP) Luncheon of Champions rounded up an area who’s who. The event honored Champions of Empowerment for our Youth and Community, who further the organization’s mission of engaging “underserved young people through communitybased education, mentoring, enrichJerome Jupiter, Gayle Benson, Pete ment, and employment readiness November programs to help them develop skills and strengthen ties to family and community.” All in the affirmative.

A foursome, Michael Hecht, Pete November, Deanna Rodriguez and Gregory Rusovich, chaired the luncheon that, after an 11 a.m. registration and networking, officially began at noon with Judge Calvin Johnson‘s invocation and, minutes later, a welcome by Michael Hecht (who also made closing remarks) and Deanna Rodriguez. Guests enjoyed a menu

by Dickie Brennan & Co. Catering of pre-set salad and lemon tart dessert, punctuated prandially by a tasty main course. Hydrangeas, some blue, others white, centered the tables.

Further program highlights were the Mission Moment by Jerome Jupiter and Darrin McCall, respective YEP CEO and president; Hecht’s auctioning of a stay in France, the “Provencal Dream,” donated by Beth Branch; and the awards presentations. The presenters were the above-named while the recipients were Gayle Benson, Cam Jordan, chefs Donald Link and Stephen Stryjewski, and Ochsner Health. They, as Champions, were hailed for their leadership in Greater New Orleans. Celebrated, too, was YEP’s 21-year legacy as one of the state’s most trusted and impactful nonprofits. Annually, more than 1,000 young people across 13 parishes receive life-changing services at no cost to participants.

Under the Champion Sponsor category, the listing was Ochsner Health, Rusovich Family Foundation, T Parker HOST, and Entergy New Orlans. In the next three categories, individual names were Shelley Massengale (Enriches); Robert and Ann Boh, Danny Conwill, Diana and Thomas Lewis, and Gary Sernovitz and Molly Pulda (Mentors); and Anderson and Michelle Baker, Elizabeth Boh, Bill Hammack and Janice Parmelee, and Roger Ogden (Works). Most were spotted networking.

Special thanks were plentiful with a top shoutout to the YEP board members and development chair Suzanne Rusovich for her leadership as the “Event Architect for (the) inaugural Luncheon of Champions.” Others recognized, in addition to most of the above, were Jodi Aamodt, Scot Craig, Gretchen and Dook Chase, Kerri Westenberg, Steve Baker, James Melohn, Dean Howard,Amanda Lindsey, Chabre Jones, Karen Johnston, and two Nicoles, Msses. Long and Woolfolk. Benjamin Allen and Lynne Burkart are co-presidents of YEP’s board, and Franchesca B. Lorio, the vice president.

Adding their presence were luncheon attendees Sharonda Williams, Bill Hines,Amanda and Ryan Berger, Karyn Kearney,Ashley Francis, Stephanie November with Pete, and Miriam Henry. All attested to the YEP purpose, and promise, that was showcased during this newly launched luncheon.

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Pat Denechaud, John Ormond II, Penny Baumer Margaret Louise Hogan, Benjamin Tanet, Debbie Reily

Karen Tipton, Brittany Greiffenstein, Laura McWhirter, Carol Starr

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n Women of Substance Walton Goldring is the immediate past president of the board of Bridge House/Grace House, which assembled supporters for the 31st annual Women of Substance Luncheon. The location and presenting force were the Audubon Tea Room and the Oscar J. Tolmas Charitable Trust. The mission of BH/GH for more than 65 years has Scott and Tammy Crabtree, Greg Romig been “to provide substance use disorder treatment services to those who have lost everything.” They are provided a safe place to recover and help building a new life.

Each year the well-attended luncheon honors three worthy women. Carol Starr, of Capital One Securities, Inc., is deeply committed to improving opportunities for children in our community and has given countless volunteer hours on related boards.

Laura Buchtel McWhirter, a former morning meteorologist at WWL-TV Channel 4 and now working for The Lilly Medicine Company, has served on a series of boards and, for BH/GH, has organized clothing drives and emceed events, such as Mr. Legs. Marcy Nathan, the creative director for Rouses Markets and editor-in-chief of Rouses Magazine, was named Woman of the Year by Women Grocers of America in 2024 and currently serves on its board. She also worked on a BH ad campaign.

There were also three Award Recipients, namely Karen Tipton, Leigh Whitman Director Volunteer of the Year; Scott Crabtree, Richard “Buzzy” Gaiennie Award; and Brittany Greiffenstein, Alumna of the Year. Scott, the recently retired CEO/President of Lambeth House, has served BH/GH either as a board member or a volunteer for almost 30 years; and another recent retiree, Karen, a private and commercial banker with Resource Bank, serves as treasurer of the Vieux Carre Commission Foundation and is active with Bridge House on its finance and investment committee. Brittany recounted her battle with addiction and her salvation through BH/GH. Quite a few luncheon attendees were moist-eyed.

Brittany also served on the luncheon committee along with the above Walton, Julie Adler, Julia Bowen, Julie Butler, Barbara Gaiennie and daughter Michelle Hamrick, Felicia Kleinpeter, Diana Parham,Angele Romig, Stephanie Schott, Mary Kay Staten, Miki Tomeny, Susan Tyler, and Vittoria Volpi.

Special thanks tapped the Audubon Tea Room, chaplain Phil Peavey, and Mark Romig, the auctioneer for the live portion’s four enticements, including the “Asheville (North Carolina) Escape.” There was also a silent auction with dozens of exciting items.

Additional features were the luncheon’s three courses of gumbo, roasted chicken spring mix salad, and cheesecake with blueberry coulis (enjoyed by Janie Glade, Heather Songy, Jessica Walker, and everyone else); the for-purchase pretty centerpieces of, among others, yellow roses; the raffle; Aspirational Art Postcards; and the Grace House Wish List.

Headlining the 12-person management team of BH/GH are CEO Kevin Gardere, CFO Walter Wright, and Chaise Gilbert, BH clinical director. Michael Pou, H. Elder Gwin, Gregory Romig, and Susan Tyler answer in turn to board president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary. All present answered to the Houses’ supporters.

n Midday Merriment Brunch with pals, plus the chance to dance.

And thus The 25 Club was founded in 1941, following a New Orleans tradition of bringing friends together to enjoy music, dancing and good food.

The annual Jazz Brunch formed festively at Ralph’s on the Park with attendees first sipping cocktails on the balcony overlooking City Park’s majestic oaks before sitting for the plated brunch of salad, chicken breast and lemon cake.

Passed hors d’oeuvres occurred before the meal. During that time, interest targeted a special table filled with the history of the 25 Club in the form of invitations, newspaper clippings, and thank-you notes. Helene Tebo keeps all of that ephemera, dating to the first brunch, in an original blue suitcase.

Penny Baumer,Angie Bowlin, Pat Denechaud, Margaret Louise Hogan, John Ormond and Courtney Rive formed the party’s committee. Noted, too, were Martin PHOTOS By REAGAN LAQUE Robinson, who proposed a toast to the 85th anniversary; Tom Cianfichi and Bryan Batt with London Courtney and Jay Rive, Angie Bowlin, Martin Robinson on their itinerary and the latter’s starring as the central character in “Here Comes J. Edgar” at the King’s Head Theatre; Benjamin Tanet; and Preston Valois, who had just wed Caroline France. And Cody and Patrick Washburn, Eileen and Gene Gambel (celebrating their 40th anniversary), Meredith and Olivier Carriere, Ike Carriere and Sarah Borwick, Linda and Alan Brackett, Melissa and Bruce Gordon, Debbie and Jamie Reily, Kathleen and Jim Wilbert, Christine and Otto Briede,Adrienne Rynning, Donna Bossier and Peter Gambel, Margaret Carriere, Sue and Bruce Senter, Denise and Chet Mehurin, Laurie and Sam Oliphant, Liz and Jim Hailey,Terry and John Olivier, Mary Beth and Seth Nehrbass, Charlotte and Chris Dorion, Susie and Brien Toso, Christine and Scott Zazulak, new parents Heather and Cody Wells, Jan and Tim Wells, and a mom-son set in Emily and Ben Morrison.

Setting the midday to music was Swingaroux, a three-piece jazz band that delighted the crowd as it moved from table to table.

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VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Reevaluate before making a move or disrupting your life personally or professionally.

Emotions run high, and you're likely to encounter opposition or interference from someone authoritative or nosy.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Attend events, connect with people and make your pitch to those you feel you can help or who can further your agenda. Listen, ask for any offers and costs in writing and consider if a partnership is worthwhile. scoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Intelligence, charm and honesty will be your passage forward. Leave nothing to chance or let anyone disrupt your plans. Keep your pitch simple and your costs reasonable. sAGITTARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Hosting an event for those you want to get to know better or setting up meetings that offer a platform for you to share your opinions and offer your services will pay off. cAPRIcoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Use your intellect when dealing with associates.

Listen carefully and practice discretion regarding what you share. Keep your personal life to yourself.

AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Embrace life with a positive attitude. Look for new beginnings and self-serving pastimes.

Feeling your best will be uplifting and encourage you to pursue pastimes that make you happy.

PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) What you want and what you get will conflict if you let uncertainty take over. When in doubt, ask an expert or someone you trust for help. Communication is the best way to solve problems.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Participate, and you'll discover something or someone who broadens your perspective and opens your eyes to possibilities. Don't restrict yourself or ignore what's available to you.

TAuRus (April 20-May 20) Pay attention to how you look, feel and what you do with your cash. Be intelligent, research and set a budget you can live with before you make personal or professional changes that can alter your financial situation.

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Participating in something that intrigues or concerns you will help broaden your perspective regarding what lies ahead and how you can make the most of any situation you encounter.

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By PHILLIP ALDER James Carville, a political commentator, said, “The best time to plant an oak tree was 25 years ago. The second best time is today.”

In yesterday’s deal, East used the bidding and early play to place the missing high cards and to work out the best defense against four hearts.

Here is a second deal along the same lines. South is in four hearts. West leads the spade queen. South wins with his ace and plays a trump to dummy’s queen.

What should East do?

South rebid three no-trump because North might have raised hearts with only three-card support if he had a minimum opening bid with, for example, 1-3-5-4 distribution. Here, though, North corrected to the heart game because he had two unstopped suits and four strong hearts.

East should wonder which four tricks his side might win. Since West’s opening lead marks South with the spade ace and king, there are no spade winners available.

East has one heart trick. There are no diamond winners, because even if South is missing the king, the finesse is working. So the defenders need three club tricks, or two clubs and a club ruff.

This should make East’s path clear. He must win with his heart ace and shift to the club five.

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Psalms 50:21 Beware of trying to make God like yourself. God is holy and we are not. G.E. Dean

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the Orleans Parish School Board (OPSB) by the Procure‐ ment Department, Room 5055, 2401 Westbend Parkway, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114, until 2:00 PM CDT on Thurs‐ day, August 6, 2026.

Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at that time, and a tabu‐ lation will be made for consideration by the Owner in awarding the Contract.

Bids received after the date above-designated and time will not be opened and will be re‐ jected.

ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY THE ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMO‐ DATION REQUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING. FOR: Mechanical Re‐ placement at Edward Hynes School 990 Harrison Ave New Orleans, LA 70124 PROJECT NUMBER: No. 26-FAC-0072

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Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments may be obtained from: Marrero, Couvillion & As‐ sociates, LLC 2644 S. Sherwood Forest Blvd, Suite 200 Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Attn: Chad Blanchard cblanchard@mca-llc.com (225) 408-8249 Bid documents will be emailed by Architect or a downloadable link will be provided to obtain bid documents in PDF for‐ mat.

All Bids must be accom‐ panied by bid security equal to five percent (5%) of the sum of the Base Bid and all Alter‐ nates, and must be in the form of a certified check, cashier's check or the Orleans Parish School Board Bid Bond Form written by a surety com‐ pany licensed to do busi‐ ness in Louisiana, signed by the surety's agency or attorney-in-fact. Surety must be listed on the current U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Management Service list of approved bonding companies as approved for an amount equal to or greater than the amount for which it ob‐ ligates itself in the Bond, or must be a Louisiana domiciled insurance company with at least an A - rating in the latest printing of the A.M. Best's Key Rating Guide.

If surety qualifies by virtue of its Best's listing, the amount of the Bond may not exceed ten per‐ cent of policyholders' surplus as shown in the latest A.M. Best's Key Rating Guide. The Bid Bond shall be in favor of the Orleans Parish School Board, and shall be accompanied by ap‐ propriate power of attor‐ ney. No Bid Bond indicat‐ ing an obligation of less than five percent (5%) by any method is accept‐ able.

The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond written by a company li‐ censed to do business in Louisiana, in an amount equal to 100% of the Con‐ tract amount.

Surety must be listed currently on the U. S. Department of Treasury Financial Management Service List (Treasury List) as ap‐ proved for an amount equal to or greater than the contract amount, or must be an insurance company domiciled in Louisiana. If the Surety is not listed on the Trea‐ sury List, and has less than an “A-“ rating (as shown in the latest edi‐ tion of A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide) the maxi‐ mum Contract amount for which that Surety may provide a Bond is $500,000.00 (Five Hundred Thousand Dollars), or fif‐ teen percent of the Surety’s policyhold‐ l ( h

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by Surety's most recent financial statements filed with the Louisiana Department of Insur‐ ance), whichever is less.

If the Surety is not listed on the Treasury List, and has at least an “A”- rat‐ ing or better (as shown in the latest edition of A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide), the maximum Contract amount for which that Surety may provide a Bond is fifteen percent of the Surety’s policyholders' surplus (as shown by Surety's most recent financial statements filed with the Louisiana Department of Insurance.

The Bond shall be signed by the surety's agent or attor‐ ney-in-fact, and shall be in favor of the Orleans Parish School Board.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, July 23, 2026 at Edward Hynes School located at 990 Harrison Ave, New Orleans, LA 70124.

Attendance at this con‐ ference is NOT required but highly encouraged and Bidders are advised that they will be required to state on the Bid Form that they are familiar with the Project site lo‐ cated at 990 Harrison Ave, New Orleans, LA 70124.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2163 for the classification of Building Construction or Mechani‐ cal Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and re‐ quirements of LA R.S.38:2212 (A)(1)(a). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of thirty (30) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212 (B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section, those stated in the advertise‐ ment bids, and those re‐ quired on the bid form shall not be considered as informalities and shall not be waived by any public entity.

NOTICE OF PUBLIC FUND‐ ING: Notice is hereby given that this Project is to be financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which will not be readily available at the time the Bids are re‐ ceived. As a result, pur‐ suant to La. R.S. 38:2215, the Owner is exempt from the requirement of acting to award the Con‐ tract or reject all Bids within forty-five (45) cal‐ endar days of receipt of the Bids. Pursuant to this Statute, the Owner specifically reserves the right to hold all Bids for greater than forty-five (45) calendar days.

The Orleans Parish School Board shall incur no obligation to the Con‐ tractor until the Contract Between Owner and Con‐ tractor is fully executed.

INCORPORATION OF IN‐ STRUCTIONS TO BIDDERS INTO ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS The Instructions to Bid‐ ders contained in the Bid Documents (referenced above), and all require‐ ments contained therein, are incorporated into this Advertisement for Bids as if completely set forth herein.

By: Mr. Paul Lucius Executive Director of Pro‐ curement Insertion dates: (1) Wednesday, July 8, 2026 (2) Wednesday, July 15, 2026 (3) Wednesday, July 22, 2026 193277-JUL 8-15-22-3T $ PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Capital Projects Administration TITLE: Set Aside NOPL Main Library Elevators & HVAC Replacement SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4727 TYPE OF SOLICITATION:

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Construction DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: July 8, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: August 5, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: July 22, 2026 Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 910-65, 914-50, 967-02, 295 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: July 8, 15 and 22, 2026 NOCP 9142 193199-jul 8-15-22-3t $108.30

PUBLIC NOTICE --Clover NOLA Inc.,Food Service Program Request Invitation to Bid/Proposal Notice is hereby given that proposals are re‐ quested for the Food Ser‐ vice Program at Clover NOLA Inc., (Clover) and will be received, publicly opened and read there‐ after by Clover, a nonprofit providing Early Childhood Education and Development Services across three campuses and Daycare for Seniors and Medically Fragile Adults, by Valerie Wheat‐ ley, Chief Operating Offi‐ cer, on Friday, August 7, 2026, at 12:30 p.m. pre‐ vailing time in the Clover Boardroom, 1600 Con‐ stance Street, New Or‐ leans, LA 70130. Phone No. (504) 523-6221.

Prospective vendors https:// should visit clovernola.org/bid/. The RFP is viewable on the site and is accessible by selecting “View Open So‐ licitations.”

If submitted by hand or through the mail, all pro‐ posals must be in sealed packages; an electronic copy of the entire pro‐ posal must also be sub‐ mitted, whether by USB drive in the sealed enve‐ lope or by sending the entire response after proposals have been opened. If a submission is furnished online, no further action is needed.

Sealed submissions shall be delivered between the hours of 9:00 am and 3:00 pm Central Time (CT), Monday through Friday, attention to Valerie Wheatley, Chief Operat‐ ing Officer, Clover, 1600 Constance Street, New Orleans, LA 70130. The deadline for receipt of the proposal, whether via the bid portal, by hand, or by mail, is noon CT on Friday, August 7, 2026, which is also the date of the proposal opening and reading. h b i i b

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Clover is highly focused on meeting all federal and state regulations in‐ cluding, but not limited to, the Child and Adult Care Food Program. All meals must be delivered at times that accommo‐ date the schedules of the designated participant group.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR ANNUAL AUDITNG SERVICES RFP #26-905-10 The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) is requesting proposals from qualified and expe‐ rienced professional companies to provide an‐ nual auditing and tax preparation services. The auditors/firms must be licensed to practice au‐ diting in the State of Louisiana.

Contractors must submit proposals that outline their qualifications and their ability to execute the services in accor‐ dance with the Scope of Services contained within the request for proposals (RFP). Specifi‐ cally, proposals must demonstrate their previ‐ ous experience, qualifi‐ cations, and other fac‐ tors, to perform the ser‐ vices outlined in the RFP. Single copies of the RFP package may be down‐ loaded from HANO’s website at www.hano. org. The RFP package will be available on Wednes‐ day, July 1, 2026.

Sealed responses to this solicitation will be re‐ ceived by the Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) in the Depart‐ ment of Procurement and Contracts until 2:00 p.m., CST, on August 4, 2026.

Deliver one (1) jump drive, and four (4) com‐ plete sets (one original clearly marked or stamped “original”, and three (3) copies) of the required submittals, in a sealed envelope or box clearly marked with the words “RFP Documents”, to the Department of Pro‐ curement and Contracts at the following address: Housing Authority of New Orleans Procurement and Con‐ tracts Department Trudy Jackson, Contract Administrator 1555 Poydras, Suite 1800 New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 Place the following infor‐ mation in the upper, lefthand corner on the out‐ side of the envelope when submitting propos‐ als: Company Name Company Address RFP Name and Number Date and Time responses are due All responses submitted are subject to these In‐ structions and Supple‐ mental Instructions to Offerors, General and Supplemental Condi‐ tions, and all other re‐ quirements contained herein, all of which are made a part of this Re‐ quest for Proposal by ref‐ erence.

The Housing Authority of New Orleans reserves the right to reject any or all proposals for just cause and to waive any informalities in the sub‐ mission process, if it is in the best interest of the Housing Authority to do so.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Invitation to Bid SEALED PROPOSALS AS LISTED BELOW WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT AT: LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER 433 BOLIVAR STREET ROOM 623 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 (504) 568-2947 UNTIL TIMES AND DATES INDICATED, AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE THE PROPOSALS WILL BE OPENED AND READ: BID TITLE: Strainers Maintenance BID NUMBER: 002996 BID OPENING DATE: July 31st, 2026 @ 2:00PM ALL INQUIRES AND REQUESTS FOR SPECIFICATIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED VIA EMAIL TO: MMALTE@LSUHSC.EDU SPECIFICATIONS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE PURCHASING DEPARTMENT. THE RIGHT IS RESERVED TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS AND TO WAIVE INFORMALITIES. 194087-jul 15-1t $38.48 PUBLIC NOTICE --Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived until the hour of 10:00 a.m. Wednesday August 12, 2026 at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Administrative Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, La. 4th floor, room 411. Bids will be opened at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday August 12, 2026 and read aloud for: 2026/2027 Ford Vehicles Detailed list of specifica‐ tions is available at the above address. The Sher‐ iff, Parish of Jefferson, reserves the right to ac‐ cept or reject any and all bids in whole or in part and waive formalities.

JOSEPH LOPINTO III, SHERIFF PARISH OF JEFFERSON, LA. Bid # 26-AUG-1201 ADV: The New Orleans Advocate July 15, 22 and 29, 2026 193675-jul 15-2-2-29-3t $45.66

Public Notices Bids/Proposals p p Peipherals, 8/4/26 RFx No. 3000026424, Spar‐ tan BN Janitorial Chemi‐ cals – SW, 8/4/26 RFx No. 3000026483, Temp. Seasonal Person‐ nel Services – LDWF, 8/4/26 RFx No. 3000026480, Box Truck – OTS, 8/11/26 RFx No. 3000026484, Am‐ bulance Services – DOC – RCC, 8/12/26 RFx No. 3000026482, Air‐ craft Services – LDWF, 8/13/26 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 Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 194262-jul 16-1t $16.05 PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0009 STAFF TRAINING FAMILY ENGAGEMENT: SPECIALITY IN ENGLISH LEARNER, IMMIGRANT, LEP POPULATIONS Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 10:00 A.M. (CST) on Wednesday, August 5, 2026.

Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement procurement@nol at apublicschools.com.

The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Thursday, July 23, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. (CST). The Virtual link can be found below:

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

Register in advance for this meeting:

NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2090

https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/ WKQoiolVS_Cth9z7_vUtw

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. 3000026380, Ele‐ vator Maintenance & Re‐ pair Services for OSM, NOLA Museums, 8/4/26 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 Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 194053-jul 15-1t $12.05 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2092 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. 3000026390, Espon BN Computer i h l

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting.

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodation for people with disabilities. The re‐ quests for any reason‐ able accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings.

Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 2026 194074-jul 15-22-2t $98.54

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Construction & Facilities Management Office Building #3022, Office 235 (CFMO Environmental), 6400 St Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117, until 11:00 a.m. CT on Wednesday, August 19, 2026.

TORS THAT ATTEND THE ENTIRE MANDATORY PREBID CONFERENCE.

70117, telephone 504-2788129. Contractors MUST attend the mandatory Pre-Bid conference scheduled for 11:00 a.m.

CT on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 5, 2026 at the listed above location in order to submit an electronic bid.

ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY DAVID L HOWLEY OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMO‐ DATION REQUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING. Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form.

They may be obtained without charge and with‐ out deposit from LANGCFMO. Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrange‐ ments can be made to obtain them through most reprographic firms.

Plan holders are respon‐ sible for their own repro‐ duction costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Designer at Construction and Facilities Manage‐ ment Office, 6400 St Claude Avenue, New Or‐ leans, LA 70117. Phone (504) 278-8129. Attention: David Howley. E-Mail Ad‐ dress: david.l.howley. nfg@army.mil.

A Mandatory Pre-Bid conference and site visit is scheduled for 11:00 a.m. CT on, August 5, 2026, Construction and Facility Management Of‐ fice Building # 3022, Of‐ fice 235 (CFMO Environ‐ mental), 6400 St Claude Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70117. Attendance at this Conference is manda‐ tory.

Prospective bidders must attend the entire mandatory Pre-Bid con‐ ference in order to sub‐ mit a bid. The Construc‐ tion and Facilities Man‐ agement Office point of contact is David L. How‐ ley, Email: david.l.howley. nfg@army.mil CFMO Building # 3022, Office # 235, 6400 St Claude Av‐ enue, New Orleans, LA 70117, 504-278-8129.

BIDS SHALL BE ACCEPTED ONLY FROM CONTRAC‐

ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY DAVID L HOWLEY OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMO‐ DATION REQUIRED NOT LESS THAN FIVE (5) DAYS BEFORE THE MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE. All Bids must be accom‐ panied by Bid Security equal to five percent (5%) of the Base Bid and Additional Bid Items (ABI) and must be in the form of a certified check, cashier’s check or bid bond.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of BUILD‐ ING CONSTRUCTION. Bid‐ der is required to comply with provisions and re‐ quirements of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5).

The successful Bidder will be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written by a company licensed to do business in the State of Louisiana, equal to 100% of the Contract amount, including Addi‐ tional Bid Items (ABI), if required.

No Bid may be with‐ drawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after receipt of Bids except under the provisions of LA R.S. 38:2214.

Electronic Bid Docu‐ ments may be submitted

by Contractors to the Construction & Facilities Management Office by submitting their bid along with their bid secu‐ rity to https://www.cen tralauctionhouse.com/.

Electronic bids must be submitted so as to be posted prior to 11:00 a.m.

CT on Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026. Hard copies of the contrac‐ tor’s electronically sub‐ mitted packet must be sent to ATTN: David L Howley, Construction and Facility Management Office Building #3022, Of‐ fice #235, 6400 St Claude Ave, New Orleans, LA

The Owner reserves the right to accept or reject any and all Bids for just cause. In accordance with directives and guid‐ ance published by Facil‐ ity Planning and Control, the Louisiana Revised Statutes, the provisions and requirements of those stated in the ad‐ vertisement for bids and those required on the bid not be form shall waivered. The Louisiana Military Department Deputy Director for Con‐ tracting and Purchas‐ ing and the State Con‐ tracting Officer do not possess authority to waive any informality in‐ cidental thereto.

The Owner shall incur no obligation to the Con‐ tractor until the Contract between Owner and Con‐ tractor is fully executed.

The Louisiana Military Department is a partici‐ pant in the Louisiana Ini‐ tiative for Small Entre‐ preneurships (SE) Pro‐ gram (the Hudson Initia‐ tive) and the VeteranOwned and Service-Con‐ nected Disabled VeteranOwned Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program (the Veteran Initiative). Bid‐ ders are encouraged to consider participation.

193949-jul 15-22-29-3t $212.08 PUBLIC NOTICE --Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Invitation to Bid 2026-SWB-37 Liquid Polyphosphate The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (Board) is soliciting bids from companies to pur‐ chase Clarifier and Thickener Drive Assem‐ blies.

Invitation to Bid (ITB) will be available July 8, 2026, f d l d h f l

NEW ORLEANS HOUSING INVESTMENT PROGRAM (NOHIP) REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS TO DEVELOP SINGLE-FAMILY HOMES ON SCATTERED SITES ON BEHALF OF THE NEW ORLEANS REDEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY AND NEW ORLEANS REDEVELOPMENT UNLIMITED, INC. The New Orleans Redevelopment Authority (NORA) and New Orleans Redevelopment Unlimited, Inc. (NORU) are requesting applications from developers seeking to purchase lots owned by NORA and seeking financing from NORU to support the redevelopment of those properties.

An informational meeting will be held online via Zoom, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026, at 1:30 p.m. (CDT). Respondents are encouraged to attend this meeting, during which time NORA staff will discuss the application process, review program requirements, and answer questions.

Applicants are required to register and complete the full application electronically through NORA’s grants management software system.

NORA will not accept hard copy submissions at this time.

The application period opens on Monday, July 6, 2026. All applications must be submitted electronically through NORA’s WebGrants Portal no later than THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026, at 4:00 P.M. (CDT).

Copies of the “Guidelines and Application”, including detailed instructions and information regarding the meeting, may be accessed at https://noraworks.org or by contacting Audrey Plessy, Procurement Manager, at (504) 658-4400 or email at Audrey.Plessy@nola.gov.

Important Note: Please read and complete the entire application.

All applications must be complete at the time of submission to be considered. Missing items or information may result in disqualification.

Brenda M. Breaux Executive Director 193151-664802-jul 6-15-21-3t $ 211.68

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Dial in by phone +1 504-2248698,,617173101# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 617 173 101#

Bids shall be addressed to the St. John the Bap‐ tist Parish Purchasing and Procurement. Bid en‐ velopes shall be sealed, display the name, ad‐ dress, and Louisiana State Contractor’s Li‐ cense Number be clearly marked on the outside of the envelope “BID 2026.17 Wastewater Collection and Treatment Mainte‐ nance Emergency Re‐ pairs.” Any bids received after the specified time and date will not be con‐ sidered. The sealed bids will be publicly opened and read aloud at 10:00 A.M. Local Time August 7, 2026, in the St. John the Baptist Parish Govern‐ ment Complex Council Chambers located at 1811 W. Airline Highway, LaPlace, LA 70068.

electronically submitted on www.centralbidding. com.

y for download at the fol‐ lowing websites: Board: https://www. swbno.org/Bids/ LAPAC:https:// wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/OSP/LaPAC/dspBid. cfm?search=departm ent&term=181

LATE BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

Fax and email submis‐ sion will not be accepted.

192986-JUL 8-15-2T $46

Bids will be received by the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Procurement Department by July 24, 2026, at 11:00 a.m.

(Central Time). For sub‐ mission instructions, see bid documents.

Bids will be publicly opened on July 24, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. (Central Time) in the Procurement Conference Room, Rm 131, located at 625 St. Joseph St., New Orleans, Louisiana 70165.

PUBLIC NOTICE --ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS WASTEWATER COLLECTION AND TREATMENT MAINTENANCE EMERGENCY REPAIRS Sealed Bids will be re‐ ceived by St. John the Baptist Parish Purchas‐ ing and Procurement De‐ partment in St. John the Baptist Parish Govern‐ ment Complex Building, 1811 W. Airline Highway, LaPlace, La. 70068, at the receptionist's desk, or electronically submitted on www.centralbidding. com until 9:45 A.M. Local Time, August 7, 2026.

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Join: https://teams. microsoft.com/meet/294 794741797849?p=HDB a4cP2ITeJziBco8 Meeting ID: 294 794 741 797 849 Passcode: wK3KV9J8

Bid documents may be viewed on or down‐ loaded from the parish website, www.sjbparish. com; obtained by con‐ tacting Peter Montz or Mellissa Levandoske at the above address, phone 985-652-9569, or p. montz@Stjohn-la.gov or m.tassara@Stjohn-la.gov or downloaded and Bids

A mandatory Pre-Bid Conference will be held at 1811 W. Airline High‐ way, LaPlace, LA 70068 on July 30, 2026 at 10:00 A.M. local time.

Questions and com‐ ments regarding this Bid must be submitted in writing to St. John the Baptist Parish, Purchas‐ ing & Procurement De‐ partment, ATTN: Peter Montz, 1811 West Airline Highway, LaPlace, LA 70068 or via e-mail to p. montz@Stjohn-la.gov no later than 10:00 A.M. local time on July 31, 2026.

The Parish reserves the right to accept or reject any and all bid and to waive any irregularities or informalities inciden‐ tal thereto, and to accept any bid, which the Parish feels serves its best in‐ terest. Such action will be in accordance with Title 38 of the Louisiana Revised Statues.

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yp ties requiring Special Ac‐ commodation must con‐ tact the St. John the Bap‐ tist Parish Council Office at (985) 652-9569 no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. Participa‐ tion by minority and fe‐ male owned business, as well as businesses lo‐ cated in this Parish, is encouraged.

y campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com.

V. PUBLIC COMMENT – AGENDA ITEMS ONLY (3 minutes per citizen)

121 Tassin Drive, Wallace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS-1475) (J. Hotard/ R. Rome)

(Permit No. 19701) (J. Ho‐ tard/R. Rome)

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ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH COUNCIL PUBLIC NOTICE ---

Publish: July 8, 2026 July 15, 2026 July 22, 2026 193509-jul 8-15-22-3t $136.63 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 d d l d

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VII. REPORTS President’s Report VIII. PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE(S) A) 26-46 – An ordinance naming the Cambridge Park in honor of Larry Snyder, Sr. located in the Cambridge Park Subdivision in the Town of LaPlace, Louisiana – “The Larry Snyder, Sr. Memorial Park” in accor‐ dance with Ordinance 2620, Article III, Section A7(a), (b) and (xi) of the St. John the Baptist Parish, Louisiana, and notwithstanding the LA Rev. Statute 42:267 (V. Bailey) B) 26-47 – An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of Lot 1 and Lot 2 of the Thelma T. Tassin Tract, located at

C) 26-48 – An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of a portion of the Henry C. Maurin Sr. Lot, located at 263 West 5th Street, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS1476) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of fiber optics along Oak Point Drive by municipal ad‐ dress 336 Oak Point Drive, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19709) (J. Ho‐ tard/ R. Rome)

D) 26-49 – An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of the Jason August Lot, located at 134 Lapeyrolerie Lane, Edgard, St. John the Baptist Parish, (PZS-1477) (J. Ho‐ tard/R. Rome)

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of fiber optics along Devon Road by municipal address 304 Devon Road, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Per‐ mit No. 19723) (J. Ho‐ tard/R. Rome)

E) 26-50 – An ordinance approving excavation within Parish Rightsof-way for the installa‐ tion of fiber optics along English Colony Drive, by municipal address 1400 English Colony Drive, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA

F) 26-51 – An ordinance approving excavation within Parish Rightsof-way for the installa‐ tion of gas lines along Fairway Drive, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19736) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

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JEFFERSON PARISH LEGALS Parish & City Officials Parish President Cynthia LeeSheng Parish Council Jennifer Van Vrancken Council Chairwoman Dist. 1: Timothy P. Kerner Jr. Dist. 2: Deano A. Bonano Dist. 3: Byron L. Lee Dist. 4: Arita M. L. Bohannan Dist. 5: Hans J. Liljeberg Council At Large Div. A: Jennifer Van Vrancken Div. B: Scott A. Walker Sheriff Joseph P. Lopinto, III District Attorney Paul Connick, Jr. Assessor Thomas J. Capella Coroner Gerry Cvitanovich, M.D. Registrar of Voters Dennis DiMarco Parish Clerk Lizabeth A. Johnston Clerk of Court Jon Gegenheimer School Board President- Kriss Fairbairn Fortunato Vice-President- Ralph Brandt, Jr. District 1 – Dr. Gerard LeBlanc District 2 – Ricky Johnson District 3 – Kriss Fairbairn Fortunato District 4 – Clay Moise District 5 – Derrick Shepherd

District 6 – Michael Pedalino District 7 – Ralph Brandt District 8 – Chad Nugent District 9 – Steven Guitterrez Superintendent Dr. James Gray 24th Judicial District Div. A: Raymond S. Steib, Jr. Div. B: R. Christopher Cox, III Div. C: June Berry Darensburg Div. D: Jacqueline Maloney Div. E: Frank A. Brindisi.

Div. F: Michael P. Mentz Div. G: E. Adrian Adams Div. H: Donald “Chick” Foret Div. I: Nancy A. Miller Div. J: Stephen C. Grefer Div. K: Ellen Shirer Kovach Div. L: Donald A. Rowan, Jr. Div. M: Shayna Beevers Morvant Div. N: Stephen D. Enright, Jr. Div. O: Danyelle M. Taylor Div. P: Lee V. Faulker, Jr. Criminal Court Commissioners: David P. Wolff & Paul Schneider Domestic Court Commissioners: David P. Wolff and Ashley Schepens Domestic Hearing Officers: Lisa Matthews, Theresa Piglia, Chelsea Kiefer, Donald Rose First Parish Court Judge, Division A: Rebecca M. Olivier Judge, Division B: Johnny Lee Traffic Hearing Officer changes monthly Second Parish Court Div. A: Sharlayne Jackson

Prevost Div. B: Raylyn R. Beevers Constables 1st Justice Court Jonathan Liberto 2nd Justice Court Kendall C. Bussey 3rd Justice Court Brennan Rojas 4th Justice Court Leon F Bradberry, Sr. 5th Justice Court Allen Leone, Jr. 6th Justice Court Jason Ural 7th Justice Court Floyd Davis 8th Justice Court Charles L. Wilson Justice of the Peace Div. 1 Vernon J. Wilty, III Div. 2 Mark Spears Div. 3 Charles R. Kerner Div. 4 Leon Bradberry, Jr. Div. 5 Charles V. Cusimano, II Div. 6 Kevin Centanni Div. 7 Michele P. Holmes Div. 8 Roscoe W. Lewis

Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East Peter G. Vicari, President Roy M. Carubba, VicePresident David A. Martin, Treasurer

Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - West Commissioners Scott M. Burke, President Stephen P. Gauthé, Secretary-Treasurer Larry B. Ardoin, P.E., Commissioner William B. Fogle, Commissioner Mitchell L. Kirkland, P.E., Commissioner Ronnie L. Robinson, P.E., Commissioner Jesse D. Noel, P.E., Regional Director

Juvenile Court Section A: Judge Jennifer Guillot Womble Section B: Judge Amanda Chauvin Calogero Section C: Judge Barron C. Burmaster Grand Isle Independent Levee District David Camardelle President/Director Kelly Besson, Sr., VicePresident Michael Scioneaux, Secretary/Treasurer

Gregory S. Marsiglia, Secretary Kerwyn King, Commissioner Ronald Schumann, Jr., Commissioner Ronald Schumann Elton J. Meyers

Greater New Orleans Expressway Commission Col. Evans Spiceland – Chair Ralph C. Cox Jr. -Vice Chair Timothy Coulon – Treasurer Justin R. Clinton – Secretary James W. Tucker - Member GRAND ISLE Mayor David Camardelle Council Members Seat A- Councilmember James Cheramie Seat B- Councilmember Harley Stelly Seat C – Councilmember Loren Gonzalez Seat D –Councilmember Brian Barthelemy Seat E – Councilmember Michael Scioneaux Chief of Police

Christopher Hernandez

Marcell Rodriguez

Grand Isle Port Commission John Cheramie – President Terrill Pizani – Vice President Kerry Besson – Sec/ Treasurer Ernie BallardCommissioner Patrick LandryCommissioner Weldon Danos- Executive Director

KENNER Mayor Michael J. Glaser, Sr.

GRETNA Mayor Belinda Cambre Constant Council Members Dist. At Large: Wayne A. Rau Dist. 1: Rudy S. Smith Dist. 2: Michael A. Hinyub Dist. 3: Mark K. Miller District 4: Randy S. Carr Chief of Police Brett J. Lawson HARAHAN Mayor: Tim Baudier Council Members Jason D. Asbill Tommy Budde Eric Chatelain Paul Johnston Michael Ricks Chief of Police Edward “Ed” Lepre JEAN LAFITTE Mayor: Yvette Crain Council Members Barry Bartholomew Larry Kerner Jr. Chirsty N. Creppel Kyle Darda Verna Smith Chief of Police

Joseph J. Ewell Jr. Josline Gosserand Frank Maria Teresa C. Lawrence James Robert Martin Jr. Michael O’Connor Melissa Barrett O’Neal Mayra Elizabeth Pineda Paula Scalco Polito Joseph Riccobono Stephen Edwin Robinson Jr. Eugene Paul Sausse Jr. Melissa Bennette Simeon Lynda Nugent Smith Robert Stevens Teri Boudreaux Tucker Shondra Griffin Williams

Council Members Joseph A. Stagni At-Large Div. A, George L. Branigan At-Large Div. B Dee B. Dunn District 1, Thomas “Tom” P. Willmott District 2 Joseph F. LaHatte, III District 3, Kristi K. McKinney District 4 Daniel W. Riehm District 5

Directory of Parish & City Officials JEFFERSON PARISH COURTHOUSE

Chief of Police Keith Conley

West Bank Office 200 Derbigby St. Gretna, LA 70053 (504) 736-6000

WESTWEGO Mayor Robert. E. Billiot, Sr. Council Members Dist. 1: John I. Shaddinger, Jr. Dist 2: Hon. Johnny S. Nobles, Jr. Dist. 3 Hon. Lisa Valence Dist. 4 Hon. Robert “Bobby” Utley Dist. 5 Hon. Robert “Bobby B” Bonvillian Chief of Police Hon. Dwaye J. Munch, Sr. JEDCO Commissioners Chairman – James R. Martin Jr. Vice Chair – Stephen E. Robinson Jr. Treasurer – Joseph F. Riccobono Secretary – Robert Stevens Mickal P. Adler Roxanne Arocha James Kenneth Baum Jr. Darren Chifici William Douglass

East Bank Offices Joseph S. Yenni Bldg.

1221 Elmwood Park Blvd.

Harahan, LA 70123 (504) 736-6000 JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE 1233 Westbank Expressway Harvey, LA 70058 (504) 363-5500 JEFFERSON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD 501 Manhattan Blvd.

Harvey, LA 70058 (504) 349-7600 CLERK OF COURT P.O. Box 10 Gretna, LA 70054 (504) 364-2900 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd.

(504) 736-6390 WEST JEFFERSON LEVEE DISTRICT

7001 River Road Marrero, LA 70072 (504) 340-0318 EAST JEFFERSON LEVEE DISTRICT 203 Plauche Court Harahan, LA 70123 (504) 733-0087

CITY OF HARAHAN 6437 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, LA 70123 (504) 737-6383 HARAHAN POLICE DEPARTMENT 6441 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, LA 70123 (504) 737-9763

GREATER NEW ORLEANS EXPRESSWAY COMMISSIONS P.O. Box 7656 Metairie, LA 70010 (504) 835-3188

TOWN OF JEAN LAFITTE 4917 City Park Drive Lafitte, LA 70067 (504) 689-2208

TOWN OF GRAND ISLE 170 Ludwig Lane P.O. Box 200 Grand Isle, LA 70358 (985) 787-3196

JEAN LAFITTE POLICE DEPARTMENT 2607 Jean Lafitte Blvd.

Lafitte, LA 70067 (504) 689-3132

GRAND ISLE POLICE DEPARTMENT 3101 LA Highway One P.O. Box 880 Grand Isle, LA 70358 (985) 787-2104

CITY OF KENNER 1801 Williams Blvd.

Kenner, LA 70062 (504) 468-7200

GRAND ISLE INDEPENDENT LEVEE DISTRICT P.O. Box 757 Grand Isle, LA 70358 (985) 787-3196 GRAND ISLE PORT COMMISSION P.O. Box 500 Grand Isle, La 70358 Office phone: 985-787-2229 CITY OF GRETNA 740 Huey P. Long Avenue , Gretna, LA, 70053 P.O. Box 404 Gretna, LA 70054-0404 (504) 363-1500

KENNER POLICE DEPARTMENT 500 Veterans Blvd.

Kenner, LA 70062 (504) 712-2200 CITY OF WESTWEGO 1100 Fourth Street Westwego, LA 70094 (504) 341-3424 WESTWEGO POLICE DEPARTMENT 401 Fourth Street Westwego, LA 70094 (504) 341-5428 JEDCO 700 Churchill Parkway Avondale, LA 70094 Phone/ Fax: (504) 875-3916

GRETNA POLICE DEPARTMENT 200 5th Street Gretna, LA 70053 (504) 366-4374

In accordance wIth provIsIons of the amerIcan wIth dIsabIlItIes act amendments act of 2008, as amended, Jefferson parIsh shall not dIscrImInate agaInst IndIvIduals wIth dIsabIlItIes on the basIs of dIsabIlIty In Its servIces, programs or actIvItIes. If you requIre auxIlIary aIds or devIces, or other reasonable accommodatIon under the ada amendments act, please submIt your request to the ada coordInator at least forty-eIght (48) hours In advance or as soon as practIcal. a seventy-two (72) hour advanced notIce Is requIred to request certIfIed asl Interpreters. ada coordInator/offIce of cItIzens wIth dIsabIlItIes 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd.

SuitE 403 JEffErSon, la 70123 (504) 736-6086 ada@JEffPariSh.nEt CORRECTED REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP 0517 Jefferson Parish Department of Purchasing is soliciting Request for Proposals (RFPs) from qualified firms To Provide a Pre-Placed Emergency Contract for Fuel Delivery During a Declared Disaster from an Area Outside of Southern Louisiana for the Jefferson Parish Department of Fleet Management.

The purpose of this Request for Proposal (RFP) is to obtain competitive proposals as allowed by Code of Ordinances, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana (hereinafter “JPCO”) Section 2-895 from bona fide, qualified Proposers who are interested in providing Scope of Work as defined in Part II hereof. By submitting a proposal, Proposer agrees to comply with all provisions of Louisiana law as well as compliance with the Jefferson Parish Code of Ordinances, Louisiana Code of Ethics, and applicable Jefferson Parish ethical standards.

All proposals will be evaluated on criteria such as vendor’s technical proposal, qualifications and experience, financial profile and proposal responsiveness and other criteria more specifically defined in the RFP document. The maximum total points for each proposal are set at 100 points A pre-proposal conference will be held at 10:00 AM on July 17, 2026 at Joseph S. Yenni Building located at 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd. Room 303, Jefferson, LA 70123. Prospective proposers may participate in the conference to obtain clarification of the requirements of the RFP and to receive answers to relevant questions thereto. Any proposer intending to submit a proposal is encouraged to attend and should have at least one authorized representative attend the Pre-proposal Conference.

RFP specifications may be obtained by visiting the Jefferson Parish Purchasing Department webpage at http://purchasing.jeffparish. net and selecting the LaPAC Tab. RFPs may also be viewed and submitted online free of charge at: www.jeffparishbids.net or www. centralbidding.com.

Submissions will only be accepted electronically via the Parish’s e-Procurement system, Central Bidding. Responses will be received until 3:30 P.M. on August 6, 2026. Jefferson Parish no longer accepts manual submissions. All vendors will be required to register with Central Bidding.

The Jefferson Parish Council reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals, in whole or part, pursuant to the law.

Jefferson Parish and its partners as the recipients of federal funds are fully committed to awarding a contract(s) to firm(s) that will provide high-quality services and that are dedicated to diversity and to containing costs. Thus, Jefferson Parish strongly encourages the involvement of small businesses, minority businesses, women’s business enterprises, and veteran-owned businesses to stimulate participation in procurement and assistance programs.

Renny Simno Director Purchasing Department

Misty A. Camardelle Assistant Director Purchasing Department

ADV: The New Orleans Advocate: June 24, July 1, 8, and 15, 2026 For additional information, please visit the Purchasing Webpage at http://purchasing.jeffparish.net or you may call 504-364-2678.

PUBLIC NOTICE SOQ 26-017 Provide 24-Hour Supplemental Emergency Veterinary Services on an As-Needed Basis for Jefferson Parish Animal Welfare Services (JPAWS) The Parish of Jefferson, authorized by Resolution No.148712 is hereby soliciting the submittal of a Statement of Qualifications (General Professional Services Questionnaire) from persons or firms qualified and interested in providing 24-hour Louisiana Licensed Veterinary Supplemental Emergency Services (“Supplemental Veterinary Care”) on an as-needed basis for the Department of Jefferson Protection & Animal Welfare Services. “Supplemental Veterinary Care” shall include, but not be limited to: 24-hour services in instances when JPAWS does not have a veterinarian on site; when an animal requires care in excess of that which JPAWS is capable of providing in-house; emergency after-hours services; and/or overflow services as needed. (Parishwide).

Deadline for Submissions: 3:30 p.m., August 14 ,2026 Minimum Requirements for Selection 1.

The persons or firms under consideration shall have at least one (1) Louisiana licensed Doctor of Veterinary Medicine on staff.

Evaluation Criteria All proposals shall be evaluated with respect to the completeness of data provided, support for all claims made, and the overall approach taken. The following criteria will be used to evaluate each person or firm submitting a Statement of Qualifications - (total maximum of 100 points): (A) The nature, quantity, and value of work to be performed as matched by the person and/or firm submitting, including, but not limited to consideration of the 24-hour services, diagnostic equipment, and emergency/critical care capabilities. – Maximum awarded points shall be 25).

(B) The size of the firm based on the number of personnel, as related to the project requirements and/or scope. – Maximum awarded points shall be 25).

(C) Professional training and experience, both generally and in relation to the type and magnitude of work required for the particular project. – Maximum awarded points shall be 15).

(D) Capacity for timely completion of the work, taking into consideration the person’s or firm’s current, and projected, workload and professional and support manpower. – Maximum awarded points shall be 15).

(E) Location of the principal office where work will be performed, with preference being given to persons or firms with offices located in Jefferson Parish at (15 points), and all other areas at (5 points). – Maximum awarded points shall be 15).

(F) Past and current professional accomplishments, for which references from clients or former clients and information

gathered by inspection of current or recent projects may be considered. – Maximum awarded points shall be 5).

publication of this notice.

The person or firm submitting a Statement of Qualification (General Professional Services Questionnaire) must identify all subcontractors who will assist in providing professional services for the project, in the professional services questionnaire. Each subcontractor shall be required to submit (General Professional Services Questionnaire) and all documents and information included in the questionnaire.

(Refer to Jefferson Parish Code Ordinance, Section 2-928) All persons or firms (including subcontractors) must submit a Statement of Qualifications (General Professional Services Questionnaire) by the deadline. The latest professional services questionnaire may be obtained by contacting the Purchasing Department at (504) 364-2678 or via the Jefferson Parish website at https://www.jeffparish.gov/468/Statement-of-Qualifications-SOQ. Submissions will only be accepted electronically via Jefferson Parish’s e-Procurement site, Central Bidding at www. centralauctionhouse.com or www.jeffparishbids.net. Registration is required and free for Jefferson Parish vendors by accessing the following link: www.centralauctionhouse.com/registration.php.

No submittals will be accepted after the deadline.

Affidavits and Insurance are not required to be submitted with the Statement of Qualifications, but shall be submitted prior to contract approval.

Disputes/protests relating to the decisions by the evaluation committee or by the Jefferson Parish Council shall be brought before the 24th Judicial Court.

ADV: The New Orleans Advocate: July 1, 8, and 15, 2026 ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS BID EVENT #48 Sealed Bids will be received electronically through our E-Procurement site at www.jeffparish.gov/supplier until 2:00 p.m. September 10, 2026 and shall, at the below listed time and place, be publicly opened and read aloud. At no charge, bidders may submit via Jefferson Parish’s electronic procurement page by visiting www.jeffparish.gov/supplier to register for this free site.

Bids will be accepted and received through the Bridge Supplier Portal until 2 p.m. The public bid opening will be held at the West Bank Purchasing Department at 200 Derbigny Street, Suite 4400, Gretna, LA 70053 beginning at 2:30 p.m. on each bid opening date for the following project: Two (2) Year Contract to Provide Labor, Materials, and Equipment Necessary for Emergency Tree Removal, Stump (Rootball) Removal, Hazardous Limb Removal and Hauling Tree Debris for the Jefferson Parish Department of Parkways Bid specifications may be obtained by visiting the Jefferson Parish Purchasing Department webpage at https://www.jeffparish. gov/464/Purchasing and selecting the LaPAC Tab. Bids may also be viewed and submitted online free of charge at: www.jeffparish. gov/supplier.

WHEN INDICATED IN THE SPECIFICATIONS, bids must be accompanied by a surety bid bond in the amount of 5% of the total bid amount, or the amount specified. Vendors must submit an electronic bid bond through the respective online clearinghouse bond management system(s) as indicated in the electronic bid Solicitation and place the electronic bid bond number as indicated on the bid request. No scanned paper copies of any bid bond will be accepted as part of the electronic bid submission.

The Jefferson Parish Council reserves the right to reject all bids and to reject bids for just cause, pursuant to the law. Jefferson Parish and its partners as the recipients of federal funds are fully committed to awarding a contract(s) to firm(s) that will provide high-quality services and that are dedicated to diversity and to containing costs.

Thus, Jefferson Parish strongly encourages the involvement of small businesses, minority businesses, women’s business enterprises, and veteran-owned businesses to stimulate participation in procurement and assistance programs.

All prospective bidders are invited to attend this non-mandatory pre-bid conference which will be held at 9:00 am on August 14, 2026 at The General Government Building, 200 Derbigny Street, Suite 4400, Gretna, La 70053. However, failure to attend the pre-bid conference shall not relieve the bidder of responsibility for information discussed at the conference. Furthermore, failure to attend the pre-bid conference and inspection does not relieve the successful bidder from the necessity of furnishing materials or performing any work that may be required to complete the work in accordance with the specification with no additional cost to the owner.

Renny Simno Director Purchasing Department

Misty A. Camardelle Assistant Director Purchasing Department

Parish of Jefferson By: Yvette Hargis Assistant to Parish Attorney NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING The Jefferson Parish Planning Advisory Board will conduct a Public Hearing in the Council Chambers, 2nd Floor, Joseph S. Yenni Bldg., 1221 Elmwood Park Blvd., at 5:00 P.M., on Thursday, July 30, 2026 for the purpose of hearing arguments for and against land development requests.

ES-66-26 4408 Cleary Ave., 3958 W. Esplanade Ave., 3978 W. Esplanade Ave., 4317 Richland Ave., 4308 Richland Ave., 4413 Art St., 4412 Era St., Subdivision of Lot 128-A, De Felice Park Subdivision, Lot 9-D, Sq. 330, Manson Subdivision, Lots D-9 and 12-A, Sq. 331, Manson Subdivision, and Lot 9-A, Sq. 332, Manson Subdivision, into Lot 128-B, De Felice Park Subdivision, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana as a preliminary/final plat; bounded by Haddon St., Art. St. Richland Ave., W. Esplanade Ave. & Era St.; Zoned R1A Single Family Residential (Council District 5).

SPU-2-26 657 E William David Dr., Request to establish a special permitted use for an accessory hair care use in a dwelling for the operation of Gio’s Barbershop and Salon in accordance with Sec. 33-5.3, Specific Use Standards; on Lot 43 and 44, Square 33, Canal Street Subdivision; bounded by Dumaine St., Oaklawn Dr., Veterans Memorial Blvd., and E. William David Pkwy.; zoned R-1A Single Family Residential. (Council District 5) Bert Turner, PAB Chair The Parish of Jefferson hereby notifies the owners, agents, mortgagees and / or other interested parties of the following properties that it will conduct an administrative hearing pursuant to R.S. 13:2575 and Jefferson Parish Ordinance NO. 23373, thereby seeking to have the buildings at the following locations vacated, secured, repaired, or demolished, as their conditions may warrant.

THE HEARING FOR THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES WILL BE HELD AS FOLLOWS: 1:00 PM, Tuesday, July 28, 2026 General Government Bldg.

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ADV: The New Orleans Advocate: July 15, 22, and July 29, 2026

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For additional information, please visit the Purchasing Webpage at https://www.jeffparish.gov/464/Purchasing or you may call 504364-2678.

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NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC In accordance with the provisions of Act 953 of the 2026 Session of the Louisiana Legislature, notice is given that the Jefferson Parish Assessor has chosen to receive the increased compensation provided for by that Act. PUBLIC NOTICE In compliance with LSA: R.S. 13:5109, the Parish of Jefferson does hereby publicize its intent to settle and compromise that certain claim made by Shaie’Mei Gibson (CCMSI Claim No. 25G57N000927) against the Parish of Jefferson, State of LA, regarding damages caused on or about October 29, 2025 in an auto liability claim for bodily injury made due to an auto accident on US Highway 90 in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Settlement and compromise for the injuries is being made for the sum of Twelve Thousand Seven Hundred Sixty Dollars ($12,760.00) and will be consummated ten (10) days, or later, subsequent to the date of

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Lot(s) 35, Sq 27 MEADOWBROOK 640 TAYLORBROOK DR in GRETNA DERRICK WHITE 640 TAYLORBROOK DR GRETNA, LA 70056 RESTORATION NOLA, LLC 640 TAYLORBROOK DR GRETNA, LA 70056 RESTORATION NOLA, LLC 401 REALTY DR GRETNA, LA 70056 Through its agent for service of process BILAL ZUGHAYER 401 REALTY DR GRETNA, LA 70056 SCOTT SONNIER 401 REALTY DR GRETNA, LA 70056 BILAL ADEL ZUGHAYER 640 TAYLORBROOK DR GRETNA, LA 70056 BILAL ADEL ZUGHAYER 3509 LAKE KRISTIN DR GRETNA, LA 70056 SCOTT SONNIER 650 POYDRAS ST., STE 1400 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 DERRICK WHITE 3542 VESPASIAN BLVD., APT 113 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70114 Lot(s) 42, Sq E HOOTER HEIGHTS EXTENSION 809 HOOTER RD in BRIDGE CITY FRANK L BRAUNER III 809 HOOTER RD BRIDGE CITY, LA 70094 FRANK L BRAUNER III 809 HOOTER RD BRIDGE CITY, LA 70094 JANET S BRAUNER 809 HOOTER RD WESTWEGO, LA 70094 JANET S BRAUNER 809 HOOTER RD WESTWEGO, LA 70094 ABIGAIL LAND HOLDINGS 23 LLC 13575 LYNAM DR OMAHA, NE 68138 ABIGAIL LAND HOLDINGS 23 LLC 13575 LYNAM DR OMAHA, NE 68138 Through its agent for service of process TAX DEED LAW GROUP, LLC 900 CAMP ST., 3RD FLOOR #1129 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 Through its agent for service of process TAX DEED LAW GROUP, LLC 900 CAMP ST., 3RD FLOOR #1129 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130 ESTATE OF FRANK BRAUNER III 1211 MOISANT ST KENNER, LA 70062 ESTATE OF FRANK BRAUNER III 1211 MOISANT ST KENNER, LA 70062 Lot(s) 2A, AMES FARMS 5523 EHRET RD in MARRERO GLENN F BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 GLENN F BOURGEOIS

5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 GLENN F BOURGEOIS 5406 SARAH ST ALEXANDRIA, LA 71303 Owner 2: GLENN F BOURGEOIS 5406 SARAH ST ALEXANDRIA, LA 71303 Owner 3: GLENN FORD BOURGEOIS, CARL DEAN WARD 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 3: GLENN FORD BOURGEOIS, CARL DEAN WARD 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 4: TRACIE ANN BOURGEOIS MATHERNE, GERRYLYNN D BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 4: TRACIE ANN BOURGEOIS MATHERNE, GERRYLYNN D BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 5: HENRY F BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 5: HENRY F BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 6: ESTATE OF HENRY G BOURGEOIS 5505 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 6: ESTATE OF HENRY G BOURGEOIS 5505 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 7: GLEN & BRENDA BOURGEOIS 5406 SARAH ST ALEXANDRIA, LA 71303 Owner 7: GLEN & BRENDA BOURGEOIS 5406 SARAH ST ALEXANDRIA, LA 71303 Owner 8: BRENDA BOURGEOIS, GLENN FORD BOURGEOIS, SUCCESION OF JERRY ALLEN BOURGEOIS, GERRYLYNN DANOS-WIDOW OF HENRY GARDELLE BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 8: BRENDA BOURGEOIS, GLENN FORD BOURGEOIS, SUCCESION OF JERRY ALLEN BOURGEOIS, GERRYLYNN DANOS-WIDOW OF HENRY GARDELLE BOURGEOIS 5523 EHRET RD MARRERO, LA 70072 Owner 2:

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Lot(s) 16, 17, Sq E GLEN DELLA 200 BISHOP DR in WAGGAMAN WORD OF FAITH TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH 200 BISHOP DR AVONDALE, LA 70094 Through its agent for service of process REV. JOHN J. HELIRE SR. 200 BISHOP DR AVONDALE, LA 70094 WORD OF FAITH TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH 123 PRAIRIE VIEW CT AVONDALE, LA 70094 Through its agent for service of process REV. JOHN J HELIRE SR 123 PRAIRIE VIEW CT AVONDALE, LA 70094 WORD OF FAITH B.C. 200 BISHOP DR AVONDALE, LA 70094 ORETHA W HELIRE 123 PRAIRIEVIEW CT WESTWEGO, LA 70094 WORLD OF FAITH TEMPLE BAPTIST CHURCH 121 PRAIRIE VIEW CT AVONDALE, LA 70094 Lot(s) 82, TOWNSITE #4 1208 SILVER LILY LN in MARRERO THOMAS CHOPIN 1208 SILVER LILY LN MARRERO, LA 70072 JULIA B CHOPIN 1208 SILVER LILY LN MARRERO, LA 70072 THOMAS CHOPIN 2049 CARVER DR MARRERO, LA 70072 ELIZABETH GILDA CHOPIN 1208 SILVER LILY LN MARRERO, LA 70072 ELIZABETH GILDA CHOPIN 2020 LUTHER DR MARRERO, LA 70072 IVORY CHOPIN 2049 CARVER DR MARRERO, LA 70072 Lot(s) 29, Sq F ORLEANS VILLAGE 5091 ROCHESTER DR in MARRERO KAREN A LEBLANC 5091 ROCHESTER DR MARRERO, LA 70070 LOUIS DANIEL PARKMAN 5091 ROCHESTER DR MARRERO, LA 70072 PAMELA MARIE MAJOR PARKMAN 5091 ROCHESTER DR MARRERO, LA 70072 MGC MORTGAGE, INC LPP MORTGAGE LTD ATTN: SPECIAL PRODUCTS DEPT 425 PHILLIPS BLVD EWING, NJ 08618 KAREN LEBLANC 5100 PRITCHARD RD MARRERO, LA 70072 LOUIS DANIEL PARKMAN PAMELA PARKMAN 1645 CAROL SUE AVE., APT 113 GRETNA, LA 70056 PAMELA PARKMAN

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Lot(s) 27, Sq 40 VALLEY REALTY CO. 1620 FARRINGTON DR in MARRERO THOMAS HANDY 1620 FARRINGTON DR MARRERO, LA 70072 THOMAS HANDY 401 HELIS DR WESTWEGO, LA 70094 ROBERT BORDELON, JR 1620 FARRINGTON DR MARRERO, LA 70072 EMA-LEE BORDELON 1620 FARRINGTON DR MARRERO, LA 70072 CHRISTOPHER BORDELON 637 CHAMBERLIN DR KENNER, LA 70065 VIRGINIA BORDELON BURR, ROSARIO BORDELON MADUELL, CHRISTOPHER BORDELON , HOLLY BORDELON WASHABAUGH 1620 FARRINGTON DR MARRERO, LA 70072 APRIL BORDELON MCDONALD, DARRIN BORDELON, ANNA BORDELON & THE ESTATE OF ROBERT BORDELON, JR 1620 FARRINGTON DR MARRERO, LA 70072 ASSOCIATES FINANANCIAL SERVICES OF INC C/O CORPORATE TAX DEPT P.O. BOX 660237 DALLAS, TX 75266 Through its agent for service of process THE PRENTICE-HALL CORPORATION SYSTEM, INC 450 LAUREL ST., 8 TH FLOOR BATON ROUGE, LA 70801

D) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2684 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to enter into a Professional Ser‐ vices Agreement with Curtis Environmental Services, Inc. for Backflow Prevention Services E) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2685 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to enter into a Professional Ser‐ vices Agreement with VeraPro for Information Technology Services F) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2686 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to enter into a Professional Ser‐ vices Agreement with Barowka and Bonura En‐ gineers and Consultants, LLC for the LaPlace Water Intake Pump Sta‐ tion and Pre-Treatment Facility Project G) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2687 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to amend the Professional Services Agreement with Digital Engineering & Imaging, Inc. for the Highway 61 Improve‐ Streetscape tP j t

TOWN OF GRAND ISLE SCHEDULED TOWN COUNCIL MEETING WEDNESDAY JUNE 24, 2026 6:00 P.M.

An ordinance adopting the Town of Grand Isle Operating Budget for FY beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE Town Council of the Town of Grand Isle, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana that: The following line-item totals and fund balances are hereby adopted For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027 FUND GENERAL FUND SPECIAL REVENUE FUNDS UTILITY FUND

REVENUES $ 4,363,757 $ 907,050 $ 628,150

EXPENDITUES $ 4,527,157 $ 730,400 $ 548,850

This ordinance was considered section by section and as a whole and was offered by Council Member James Cheramie and seconded

by Council Member Harley Stelly.

Roll Call Vote Thereon as follows: YEAS: James Cheramie, Harley Stelly, Loren Gonzalez, Michael Scioneaux NAYS: 0 ABSTAIN: 0 ABSENT: Brian Barthelemy This ordinance was declared adopted this 24th day of June 2026 and becomes effective on said date.

District: 5

Chief Hernandez was recognized and reports on the following for June 5, 2026 through June 18, 2026: Total callouts 119, medicals 18, total arrest & total summons 2, total citations 48, total violations 48, total summons 2, total charges 2, court fines paid $10,363.68, tags sold $24,900.00.

Ray Mayeau with GIS Engineering was recognized and reports on the following: 1.) Community Center - $145K estimate cost to repair structural supports, estimate painting columns $90K, HAVC estimate $148K. Estimated total $2,442,673.00 for repairs. 2.) GI and Vicinity Hurricane Ida Breakwater Repairs – Contractor will be TKTMJ with a bid amount of $50,233,000.00. USACE anticipates issuing the notice to proceed on or around July 1, 2026. 3.) LADOTD - LA 1 Plum to Caminada Bridge has been asked to wait until after July 4 to begin construction.

Sanitation Department update regarding Office of Debt Recovery –

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H) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2688 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute Change Order No. 1 with Southern Coatings, LLC for the Lyons Water (North) and Reserve Water Storage Tank Rehabilitation Pro‐ ject I) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2689 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute Change Order No. 6 with Bip & Sons Services, LLC for the St. John Parish Water Distri‐ bution and Treatment Maintenance/Emergency Repairs Project J) Jaclyn Hotard/Perter Montz – Resolution – R2690 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute the Certificate of Substantial Completion with Bip & Sons Services, LLC for the St. John Parish Water Dis‐ tribution and Treatment Maintenance/Emergency Repairs Project K) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2691 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to submit a Grant Appli‐ cation to the Louisiana Office of Tourism (LOT) for the funds in Connection with the FY 26-27 Grant Cycle for the 2026 Andouille Festival L) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2692 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to enter into a Professional Ser‐ vices Agreement with Waste Pro of Louisiana, Inc. for Solid Waste Collection and Removal Services X. INTRODUCTION OF OR‐ DINANCES XI. ADJOURNMENT

St. John the Baptist Parish, will upon request and three (3) days ad‐ vance notice, provide reasonable accommoda‐ tion to any disabled indi‐ vidual wishing to attend the meeting. Anyone re‐ quiring reasonable ac‐ commodation is re‐ quested to contact Mrs. Stacey Cador at (985) 652-9569 (voice) or the Louisiana Relay Service 1-800-846-5277 and ask for St. John the Baptist Parish at (985) 652-9569.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE OF VACANCY Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Author‐ ity-West Bank Board of Commissioners Pursuant to La. R.S. 38:330.1 et seq., notice is hereby given that appli‐ cations are being ac‐ cepted from persons in‐ terested in serving on the Board of Commis‐ sioners for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protec‐ tion Authority-West Bank (“SLFPA-W”). Nine mem‐ bers serve on the Board A of Commissioners.

Nominating Committee comprised of representa‐ tives of civic, profes‐ sional, and academic or‐ ganizations reviews ap‐ plications and recom‐ mends individuals for ap‐ pointments by the Gover‐ nor and confirmation by the Senate. The Nominat‐ ing Committee is com‐ prised of representatives from the following orga‐ nizations: Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, Leaders for a Better Louisiana, Louisiana Geological Sur‐ vey, Association of State Floodplain Managers, National Society of Black Engineers, UNO College of Engineering, Tulane University School of Sci‐ ence & Engineering, Southern University Col‐ lege of Engineering, LSU College of Engineering, Louisiana Engineering Society, American Soci‐ ety of Civil Engineers, West Bank Business and Industry Association, and Holy Cross College.

CURRENT VACANCIES The Nominating Commit‐ tee is accepting applica‐ tions for three positions on the SLFPA-W Board of Commissioners: 1. A resident who resides in Jefferson Parish on the west side of the Missis‐ sippi River, within the ju‐ risdiction of West Jeffer‐ son Levee District to complete a term from August 1, 2026 to July 1, 2030.

2. A resident who resides outside of Jefferson or Orleans Parishes juris‐ diction of SLFPA-W to complete a term from July 2, 2027 to July 1, 2031.

3. A resident who resides in Orleans Parish on the west side of the Missis‐ sippi River, within the ju‐ risdiction of SLFPA-W to complete a term from July 2, 2027 to July 1, 2031.

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MENTS Three members shall re‐ side in Jefferson Parish on the west side of the Mississippi River within the jurisdiction of SLFPAW. Two members shall reside in Orleans Parish on the west side of the Mississippi River. Three members shall reside outside of Jefferson or Orleans Parishes. One member shall reside in the territorial jurisdiction of the Lafitte Area Levee District.

QUALIFICATIONS Engineering/Related Field Professional Three members shall be either an engineer or a professional in a related field such as geotechni‐ cal, hydrological, or envi‐ ronmental science. At least one of the three members shall be a civil engineer.

Non-Engineering Profes‐ sional Three members shall be professionals in disci‐ plines other than engi‐ neering, geotechnical, hydrological, or environ‐ mental science. They each shall, at a mini‐ mum, hold a baccalaure‐ ate degree from an ac‐ credited institution of higher learning with at least ten years of profes‐ sional experience in that discipline.

Engineering/Related Field Professional or Non-Engineering Profes‐ sional Three members shall possess the qualifica‐ tions of either an engi‐ neering/related field pro‐ fessional or of a non-en‐ gineering professional.

Once the new members are appointed, the com‐ position of the Board must meet the residency and occupational qualifi‐ cations defined above.

HOW TO APPLY You may obtain an appli‐ cation by going online to www.slfpaw.org or con‐ tacting: Jesse D. Noel, P.E. Regional Director, South‐ east Louisiana Flood Pro‐ tection Authority-West Bank 7001 River Road Marrero, LA 70072 (504) 371-6847 director@slfpaw.org Please submit applica‐ tion by August 10, 2026.

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The following proposed ordinance was introduced with the hearing schedule for the regular town meeting of July 8, 2026 and July 22, 2026 at which time it will be eligible for adoption.

Landry. Commissioner Kerry Besson was absent.

A motion was made by Commissioner Cheramie, seconded by Commissioner Landry, and unanimously agreed to approve the minutes of the meeting held on May 14, 2026, as read.

Director Danos discussed invoices and checks made for the prior month with the board. He went over checks that were written that were not normal everyday invoices. A motion was made by Commissioner Landry, seconded by Commissioner Pizani, and unanimously agreed to approve the financial report and pay all invoices associated with operating the port commission.

A motion as made Commissioner Pizani, seconded by Commissioner Cheramie to introduce the following resolution: Resolution A resolution amending the budget for the fiscal Year ending June 30, 2026.

Roll call vote as follows: YEAS: John Cheramie, Terrill Pizani, Ernie Ballard, Patrick Landry NAYS: 0 ABSTAIN: 0 ABSENT: Kerry Besson This resolution is considered adopted this 11th day of June, 2026.

ORDINANCE NO.

A motion as made Commissioner Cheramie, seconded by Commissioner Landry to introduce the following resolution excluding the pay raise request:

An ordinance amending ARTICLE IV. - COLLECTION FEES, Sec. 74-116. – Schedule. and Sec. 74-118. - Reduced garbage rate and exemptions (a)

Resolution A resolution adopting the budget for the fiscal Year ending June 30, 2027.

RESOLUTION NO. 2889

Roll call vote as follows: YEAS: John Cheramie, Terrill Pizani, Ernie Ballard, Patrick Landry NAYS: 0 ABSTAIN: 0 ABSENT: Kerry Besson This resolution is considered adopted this 11th day of June, 2026.

A resolution appointing the New Orleans Advocate as the Official Journal for the Town of Grand Isle for the fiscal year 2026-2027.

ORDINANCE NO. 1059

Accordingly, the Parish of Jefferson will demolish the following structure on or after July 15, 2026.

C) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R2683 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to advertise and receive Re‐ quests for Proposals (RFPs) for the Fire De‐ partment’s Property and Casualty Insurance

PUBLISH Wednesday, July 8, 2026, AND Wednesday, July 15, 2026.

An ordinance amending the Town of Grand Isle Operating Budget for FY beginning July 1, 2026 and ending June 30, 2027.

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B) Chairman Arcuri – Claim Number 29784, Darryl Robertson, et a; v.

St. John the Baptist Parish Council: Request to grant Legal Counsel authority to settle all claims with Jace Lee, pursuant to Legal’s rec‐ ommendation.

LIZA M. CALUDA DIRECTOR CODE COMPLIANCE & ENFORCEMENT DANGEROUS BUILDING ABATEMENT DIVISION

Motion by Council Member Council Member James Cheramie seconded by Council Member Harley Stelly to open the agenda for discussion.

The Parish of Jefferson hereby notifies the owners, agents, mortgagees and/or other interested parties of the following properties that it has conducted administrative hearings pursuant to Jefferson Parish Ordinance Number 23373. The following structure has been deemed to be a hazard to the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of Jefferson Parish, dilapidated, substandard and unfit for human habitation, and in violation of Ordinance Number 23373.

A) Chairman Arcuri – Claim Number 29784, Darryl Robertson, et al v.

St. John the Baptist Parish Council: Request to grant Legal Counsel authority to settle all claims with Darryl Robertson, pursuant to Legal’s recommendation.

CYNTHIA LEE SHENG PARISH PRESIDENT

Motion by Council Member James Cheramie seconded by Council Member Michael Scioneaux and unanimously agreed to accept the minutes of June 10, 2026 regular schedule meeting.

BILL TO : DANGEROUS BUILDING ABATEMENT

IX. NEW BUSINESS

Owner 6:

Leonard Ray was recognized and appeared before the council to discuss public safety with the bike path being blocked in some areas.

LIZA M. CALUDA Director161 CODE COMPLIANCE & ENFORCEMENT To be run July 08, 2026, and July 15, 2026

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of gas lines along Doral Boule‐ vard, LaPlace, St. John the Bap‐ tist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19737) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

Owner 5:

ORDINANCE NO. ____ An ordinance requested by Sunset Cove, LLC (Miko Oliver) for approval to rezone a portion of Lot 34 of the Bourgrol Subdivision from B-3 (Business) to R-7 (Recreational Vehicle Subdivision Residential District) which is located in the Town of Grand Isle, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, all in accordance with a preliminary plan prepared by Angelette Design, entitled, “Sunset Cove Preliminary Plat - 6/18/26,” dated 18 June 2026.

Iann Caulfield was recognized and appeared before the council to discuss that all repairs that have been done on his house have been done with a permit from the town. After Hurricane Ida his house was not condemned by Jefferson Parish.

CYNTHIA LEE SHENG PARISH PRESIDENT

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The following proposed ordinance was introduced with the hearing schedule for the regular town meeting of July 8, 2026 and July 22, 2026 at which time it will be eligible for adoption.

ABSENT: Brian Barthelemy

If you have any information on the whereabouts of the owners, agents, mortgagees and / or interested parties for any of the above listed properties, or if you have any interest in the compliance with the violation(s) at any of the above listed properties, please contact the office at (504) 364-3560, Monday through Friday between the hours of 8:00 AM and 4:00 PM.

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Weldon Danos with GIPC was recognized and reports on the following: 1.) Annual Budget Process – FY 26/27 new budget total revenue $532,780.00 total expenditures $515,429.36. 2.) FY 26/27 Commercial Dock Leases – Boat slip renewals effective July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027. 3.) FY 26/27 Oyster Farm 1 & 2 Leases – Annual Farm Plot Lease Renewals effective July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027.

PRESENT: Council Members – James Cheramie, Harley Stelly, Loren Gonzalez, Michael Scioneaux

Lot(s) 14, Sq 12 MAPLEWOOD PARK 1553 MAPLEWOOD DR in HARVEY PHILLIP A BLALOCK 1553 MAPLEWOOD DR HARVEY, LA 70058 WM A BLALOCK 1553 MAPLEWOOD DR HARVEY, LA 70058 PHILLIP BLALOCK 4918 WAREHAM DR ARLINGTON, TX 76017 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A CHAMPION MORTGAGE COMPANY 8950 CYPRESS WATERS BLVD COPPELL, TX 75067 SECRETARY OF HOUSING & URBAN DEVELOPEMENT 451 7TH ST., S.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20410 GULF COAST BANK & TRUST COMPANY 101 W ROBERT E LEE BLVD. STE 400 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70124 Through its agent for service of process CORPORATION SERVICE COMPANY 450 LAUREL ST., 8 TH FLOOR BATON ROUGE, LA 70801 GULF COAST BANK & TRUST CO. 200 ST CHARLES AVE NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130

440 ORION AVE METAIRIE, LA 70005 SHARON MERRITT 440 ORION AVE. METAIRIE, LA 70005

Owner 3:

The Move It File that was uploaded to the ODR was rejected on May 29, 2026. Another file was uploaded on June 18, 2026. Social Security numbers are needed for collection so this can take a few months for them to locate this information.

The meeting was called to order by Mayor David Camardelle who led the Pledge of Allegiance to the American Flag. Leonard Ray followed with a prayer. Roll call was as follows:

In accordance with provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (“ADA”), Jefferson Parish shall not discriminate against qualified individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs or activities. If you require auxiliary aids or devices, or other reasonable accommodations under the ADA, submit your request to the ADA Coordinator at least 48 hours in advance or as soon as possible. A 72-hour notice is needed to request Certified ASL interpreters.

Property:

SECRETARY OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPEMENT 451 7TH ST., S.W. WASHINGTON, DC 20410 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC 1600 DOUGLASS RD., STE 200-A ANAHEIM, CA 92806 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC 1600 DOUGLASS RD., STE 110 ANAHEIM, CA 92806 REPUBLIC FINANCE, LLC 8427 KELWOOD AVE BATON ROUGE, LA 70806 C T CORPORATION SYSTEM 3867 PLAZA TOWER DR BATON ROUGE, LA 70816 GARY L PHILLIPS 8427 KELWOOD AVE BATON ROUGE, LA 70806 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC 1600 S DOUGLASS RD., STE 110 ANAHEIM, CA 92806 RA/CT CORPORATION SYSTEM 3867 PLAZA TOWER DR BATON ROUGE, LA 70816

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Town Council of the Town of Grand Isle, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana that: the New Orleans Advocate be and hereby is appointed as the Official Journal of the Town of Grand Isle for the fiscal year 2026-2027.

This resolution offered by Loren Gonzalez and seconded by Michael Scioneaux having been submitted to a vote, the vote thereon was as follows: Vote thereon as follows: YEAS: James Cheramie, Harley Stelly, Loren Gonzalez, Michael Scioneaux NAYS: 0 ABSENT: Brian Barthelemy This resolution was declared adopted this 24th day of June, 2026.

Joint motion was made to issue a letter of no objection to Coastal Use Permit # P20260025, Elda Thibeau, 117 W. Central Avenue, installing a bulkhead, pier/wharf and deck.

Motion by Council Member Loren Gonzalez seconded by Council Member Michael Scioneaux and unanimously agreed to renew Beer & Liquor License for 2026-2027.

Joint motion was made to confirm Mayor Camardelle recommendation for Rodney Rigaud to the Planning Commission Board.

Motion by Council Member James Cheramie seconded by Council Member Harley Stelly and unanimously agreed to open agenda for discussion. Motion by Council Member James Cheramie seconded

by Council Member Harley Stelly and unanimously agreed to waive all/any permits for Mélange Food Truck for 2026 Grand Isle Tarpon Rodeo, July 23-25, 2026.

Council Member James Cheramie request & reports: 1.) Is there any progress with the Community Center? 2.) Is there any progress with hiring an employee for the MITS program to drive the town mini handicap van? Mayor’s office set up an appointment to possibly hire someone that is interested.

Council Member Michael Scioneaux request & reports: 1.) Town needs to encourage more businesses within Grand Isle.

Mayor’s report: 1.) DOTD is setting up staging area to start working on highway and ditches along Hwy 1 starting at Plum Lane going west towards bridge.

Motion by Council Member James Cheramie seconded by Council Member Micheal Scioneaux and unanimously approved to adjourn meeting at 7:22 p.m. _______________________________ David J. Camardelle, Mayor Town of Grand Isle

ATTESTED:

_________________________________ Janet Scardino, Administrative Assistant Town of Grand Isle

Mo Saleh from PEEC addressed the board and gave the following report: 1. Repairs to Shrimp Shed Phase 2 has been completed. 2.

Damages to Oak Lane Dock Facility Phase 1 and 2 are complete.

3. C and O Marine is working on the Oyster Processing Facility.

A motion was made by Commissioner Ballard, seconded by Commissioner Cheramie and unanimously agreed to approve Pay App #1 for C & O Marine in the amount of $105400.80. 4. The Oyster Farm 2 expansion is on hold until the new layout has been approved. 5.

The plans and specifications for the Drainage Pump is complete. 6.

2026 Capital Outlay proposals were submitted on behalf of the port.

Director Danos stated that: 1. Collected $42.00 for a new slip lease.

2. Installed Aluminum Oil Container Recycle Box. 3. Coordinated Oil Recovery – Shrimp Facility. 4. Coordinated LDH Commercial Seafood Inspection of the Shrimp Facility. 5. Coordinated GOSHEP Inspection of the Shrimp Facility. 6. Mailed FY 26/27 Dock Boat Slip Lease Renewal Invoices. 7. Attended Senate Finance Committee and meet with Representative Joe Orgeron at State Capitol. 8.

Completed 2026 Ethics and Compliance on Line Training Course.

9. Attended PAL BOD meeting in Baton Rouge. 10. Participated in CSRS Zoom Meetings for IDA 10% matching funds. 11. Act 71 – Expansion of Oyster Farm 2 effective 8/1/26. 12. Mailed FY 26/27 Oyster Fram No 1 and No 2 Lease Renewal Invoices. 13. Develop FY 25/26 Proposed Amended Budget. 14. Developed Fy 26/27 Proposed New Budget.

Director Danos gave a GIPC Project Funding update to all the commissioners to show where the money is coming from for each project.

A motion was made by Commissioner Ballard, seconded by Commissioner Landry and unanimously agreed to give Mr. Robert Collins the check from Jefferson Parish that will cover his out-ofpocket expenses for the shrimp Shed in the amount of $17,848.65.

The board approved looking at a new proposal for the shrimp shed lease.

A motion was made by Commissioner Landry, seconded by Commissioner Pizani and unanimously agreed to approve State Farm Insurance in the amount of $802.24.

A motion was made by Commissioner Cheramie, seconded by Commissioner Pizani and unanimously agreed to approve the Camnetar & Co, CPA invoice in the amount of $6,986.59 for fiscal year ending June 30, 2026.

A motion was made by Commissioner Cheramie, seconded by Commissioner Pizani and unanimously agreed to approve La Citizens in the amount of $3,101.00.

A motion was made by Commissioner Cheramie, seconded by Commissioner Landry and unanimously agreed to approve the Workers Comp invoice in the amount of $1,173.00.

A motion was made by Commissioner Cheramie, seconded by Commissioner Ballard and unanimously agreed to adjourn the meeting at 6:23 p.m. _______________________ John Cheramie, President Grand Isle Port Commission

Grand Isle Port Commission Jeff Landry - Governor Commissioners: John Cheramie- President, Terrill Pizani Vice-President, Ernest Ballard Jr.-Commissioner, Kerry Besson-Secretary/Treasurer, Patrick LandryCommissioner Weldon Danos – Executive Director

_______________________________ Kerry Besson, Secretary/Treasurer Grand Isle Port Commission

Thursday, June 11, 2026 The meeting opened at 5:00 p.m. with Director Danos leading the meeting at the Grand Isle Port Office Building located at 2757 Louisiana Highway 1 until the end of 2026. The commissioners present were John Cheramie, Terrill Pizani, Ernie Ballard and Patrick

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Request for Proposal Professional and Technical Assistance for Title V Air Permit Compliance The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (SWBNO) is issuing a re‐ quest for proposals (RFP) from an experienced, qualified environmental consultants/contractor with specialized experi‐ ence in the Clean Air Act, (CAA), Title 33 Part III and Title V Part 70 Operating Permits, specifically Title V Part 70 Operating Per‐ mit No. 2140-00128-V5 (LDEQ Document No. 11285150) for the SWBNO Power Plant.

RFP will be available July 8, 2026, for download at the following websites: SWBNO: https://www2.swbno. org/business_bidspecific ations.asp LAPAC: https://wwwcfprd.doa. louisiana.gov/OSP/ LaPAC/dspBid.cfm?sea rch=department& term=181

A pre-bid conference for this RFP will be held on July 15, 2026, at 2:30 pm CDT at the SWBNO Administration Building, 625 St. Joseph St. – Executive Board‐ room, New Orleans, LA 70165 or if you are unable to attend this in-person meeting, you can also join via teleconference call: Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams.microsoft. com/meet/24736992949 5858?p=1BRUBH0AaoN rn7xrHk Meeting ID: 247 369 929 495 858 Passcode: FB6ET9gq Dial in by phone +1 504-224-8698,, 143010030# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 143 010 030# At this meeting, staff will discuss the scope of work, proposal require‐ ments and respond to questions from the at‐ tendees.

Inquiries and/or Re‐ quests for Clarification are due to Prentice Mackyeon, on July 17, 2026, no later than 5:00 pm CDT via in writing or email to pmackyeon@ swbno.org. All responses will be posted on or be‐ fore July 21, 2026.

Proposals will be re‐ ceived by the Sewerage d W t B d f N

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ceived by the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans Procurement De‐ partment by August 6, 2026, at 11:00 am CDT. For submission instructions, see proposal documents.

wastewater treatment plant. The Wastewater Treatment Plant Improve‐ ments will include a re‐ habilitation of all six (6) aeration basins at the treatment wastewater plant which will include the cleaning and coating of the inner and outer walls of the basin, isola‐ tion gate replacements, air header and diffuser replacements, and pipe replacement. Project in‐ formation is available for review at the City of Ken‐ ner Wastewater Depart‐ ment, located at 1610 Reverend Richard Wilson Drive, Kenner, Louisiana, phone number (504) 4687292.

Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration AURO-REO@eda.gov

LATE PROPOSALS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. 193310-jul 8-15-2t $95.86 PUBLIC NOTICE --The U.S. Department of Commerce, Economic De‐ velopment Administra‐ tion (EDA) is considering a request for Federal as‐ sistance from the City of Kenner to construct the Wastewater Infrastruc‐ ture Upgrades to Enable MSY Airport Expansion and Economic Growth Project in Kenner, Jeffer‐ son Parish, Louisiana.

Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA), EDA is conduct‐ ing an assessment of the potential of the proposed project to affect the envi‐ ronment and/or historic properties.

Notice is hereby given that the project is proposed to be located in, or may affect, a floodplain and/or wet‐ land as defined by Exec‐ utive Order (EO) 11988 and/or EO 11990 The project involves im‐ provements to multiple sewer lift stations and force mains, as well as rehabilitation of key process units at the City of Kenner’s wastewater treatment plant. The pro‐ ject will be located at four locations. The Veter‐ ans and Dawson Sewer Lift Station and Force Main Replacement will include the construction of a new sewer lift sta‐ tion with new pumps, controls, and a wet well, as well as installing 1,600 feet of new 6" High Den‐ sity Polyethylene (HDPE) sewer force main from the Veterans and Dawson Lift Station to the 27th and Dawson Sewer Lift Station. The 27th and Dawson Sewer Force Main Replacement will include replacing the ex‐ isting sewer force main with 7,000 feet of 10" HDPE from the 27th and Dawson Sewer Lift Sta‐ tion to the 24th and Delaware Sewer Lift Sta‐ tion. The Veterans and Parish Line Sewer Lift Station and Force Main Replacement will include the construction of a new sewer lift station with new pumps, con‐ trols and a wet well, as well as installing 2,500 feet of 4" HDPE force main from the station to wastewater treatment l t Th W t t

If you have any informa‐ tion regarding potential impacts to historic prop‐ erties or environmental resources including wet‐ lands or floodplains as‐ sociated with this pro‐ posed project, please provide it in writing to: Kristin Gunning Regional Environmental Officer Department of C

Comments received in the EDA Regional Office by 5:00 pm central on Monday, August 17, 2026 will be considered. A copy of the NEPA/NHPA decisional document will be available upon re‐ quest at the above EDA Regional Office.

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Public Notices Meet/Hear/Min 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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TOWN OF JEAN LAFITTE LEGALS Jean Lafitte Officials Mayor Yvette Crain Councilman Kyle Darda Councilman Barry Bartholomew Councilwoman Verna Smith Councilwoman Christy Creppel Councilman Larry Kerner, Jr.

Police Chief Marcell Rodriguez Town of Jean Lafitte 4917 City Park Drive, Lafitte, LA 70067 Office: (504) 6892208 Fax: (504) 233-1207

The Town of Jean Lafitte is now accepting resumes for the Chief of Police position. Please hand deliver your resume to 799 Jean Lafitte Blvd, Lafitte, LA, or email it to kmatherne@townofjeanlafitte.com.

The final date to submit a resume is Wednesday, July 29, 2026 by 4:00 pm.

For more information, you may contact Kerri Matherne at 504-689-2208.

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CITY OF HARAHAN LEGALS Mayor Tim Baudier Councilmen Jason D. Asbill Tommy Budde Eric Chatelain Paul Johnston Michael Ricks Chief of Police Edward “Ed” Lepre City Clerk/Tax Collector Carrie Heustis

City of Harahan 6437 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, LA 70123 (504) 737-6383 Harahan Police 6441 Jefferson Hwy. Harahan, LA 70123 (504) 737-9763

6437 Jefferson Highway Mayor and Harahan City Council Council Meeting Minutes Date: June 29, 2026

Time: 6:30PM

Mayor Baudier opened the public meeting at 6:30PM. The Pledge of Allegiance was led by the Clerk.

ROLL CALL Present: Councilman Jason Asbill, Councilman Tommy Budde, Councilman Eric Chatelain, Councilman Paul Johnston, Councilman Michael Ricks, Mayor Tim Baudier, Police Chief Edward Lepre, City Attorney Scott Stansbury, Municipal Clerk Carrie Heustis MAYOR’S ANNOUNCEMENT None Councilman Chatelain made a motion to amend the agenda to add award presentation for Chief Lepre, and electoral candidates for judge to special presentations.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Seconded by Councilman Asbill.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/AGENDA AMENDED SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS 1. Award Presentation to Chief Lepre The St. Patrick Parade Committee of Jefferson presented Chief Ed Lepre with the 2026 Founders Award which is the highest award given by the committee.

2. Electoral Candidates for Judge Sal Brocato introduced himself. He is running for First Parish Court Judge Division A. Jessica Raines introduced herself. She is running for First Parish Court Judge Division B. Joseph McMahon introduced himself. He is running for Division F, 24th Judicial District Court Judge.

Marco Marjanovic introduced himself. He is also running for Division F, 24th Judicial District Court Judge.

APPROVAL OF MINUTES Reading of the Minutes of the Council Meeting on May 21, 2026. Motion by Councilman Chatelain to dispense with the reading of the minutes.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Seconded by Councilman Ricks.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES Approval of the Minutes of the Council Meeting on May 21, 2026.

Motion by Councilman Budde to approve the minutes.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Seconded by Councilman Asbill.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/MINUTES APPROVED COMMUNICATIONS Reading of the Minutes of the Board of Adjustment Meeting on May 20, 2026. Motion by Councilman Johnston to dispense with the reading of the minutes.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Seconded by Councilman Chatelain.

Council Discussion 1. Tommy Budde 2. Paul Johnston 3. Eric Chatelain 4. Paul Johnston 5. Jason Asbill Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES Approval of the Minutes of the Board of Adjustment Meeting on May 20, 2026.

Motion by Councilman Asbill to approve the minutes.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. 1. Carol Logreco Carrie Heustis, clerk, spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Council Discussion 1. Eric Chatelain 2. Paul Johnston 3. Mike Ricks Chris Marino. CBO, spoke and answered council questions.

4. Mike Ricks 5. Paul Johnston Carol Logreco spoke.

Councilman Asbill moved for the vote.

Seconded by Councilman Chatelain.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/MINUTES APPROVED RESOLUTIONS PROPOSED RESOLUTION 2026-4 The following Resolution was offered by Councilman Chatelain.

A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Harahan, Louisiana, accepting the contract with TEH Enterprises, LLC for the Harahan Wastewater Treatment Plant Slab for New Centrifuge as being substantially complete.

Carrie Heustis said she spoke to Linfield, Hunter, and Junius and the concrete has not been poured and the job is not substantially complete.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Council Discussion 1. Eric Chatelain Motion by Councilman Asbill to approve Proposed Ordinance 2026-4.

Seconded by Councilman Chatelain Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/RESOLUTION APPROVED PROPOSED RESOLUTION 2026-9 The following Resolution was offered by Councilman Chatelain.

A Resolution of the City Council of the City of Harahan authorizing the Mayor to enter into an agreement with Linfield, Hunter, & Junius, INC for FP&C Project 50-MC1-2402 for Emergency Road Repair/Replacement, OK Avenue, and Elfer Street, Planning and Construction.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Council Discussion Mayor Baudier spoke.

1. Mike Ricks 2. Paul Johnston 3. Tommy Budde 4. Paul Johnston 5. Tommy Budde 6. Paul Johnston 7. Eric Chatelain 8. Mike Ricks 9. Jason Asbill 10. Paul Johnston 11. Tommy Budde Mayor Baudier spoke.

12. Tommy Budde Motion by Councilman Chatelain to approve.

Second by Councilman Asbill.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/RESOLUTION PASSES ORDINANCES FOR APPROVAL PROPOSED ORDINANCE 2026-6 The following Ordinance was proposed by Councilman Asbill and seconded by Councilman Chatelain.

An Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1333, the comprehensive zoning law of the City of Harahan relative to

height regulations for single-family residential structures in the R-1A Single-Family Residential District Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Council Discussion 1. Jason Asbill Councilman Asbill made a motion to defer pending this ordinance going before the Planning and Zoning Board on July 1, 2026.

2. Mike Ricks 3. Jason Asbill 4. Tommy Budde 5. Jason Asbill 6. Mike Ricks 7. Jason Asbill 8. Mike Ricks 9. Jason Asbill 10. Mike Ricks 11. Jason Asbill 12. Eric Chatelain 13. Tommy Budde 14. Mike Ricks 15. Tommy Budde 16. Mike Ricks 17. Paul Johnston 18. Jason Asbill 19. Paul Johnston 20. Jason Asbill 21. Tommy Budde 22. Paul Johnston 23. Jason Asbill 24. Paul Johnston 25. Jason Asbill 26. Tommy Budde 27. Mike Ricks 28. Jason Asbill 29. Mike Ricks 30. Jason Asbill 31. Mike Ricks 32. Jason Asbill 33. Mike Ricks 34. Eric Chatelain 35. Jason Asbill 36. Paul Johnston 37. Eric Chatelain 38. Paul Johnston 39. Eric Chatelain 40. Paul Johnston 41. Eric Chatelain 42. Paul Johnston 43. Mike Ricks 44. Tommy Budde Mayor Baudier spoke.

45. Mike Ricks 46. Jason Asbill 47. Mike Ricks 48. Jason Asbill 49. Paul Johnston 50. Mike Ricks Motion by Councilman Asbill to defer.

Second by Councilman Chatelain.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/ORDINANCE DEFERRED Councilman Budde continued the discussion on Proposed Ordinance 2026-6.

Councilman Asbill spoke.

Chris Marino, CBO, spoke and answered council questions.

Councilman Asbill spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Chris Marino, CBO, spoke and answered council questions.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Asbill spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Asbill spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Chris Marino, CBO, spoke and answered council questions Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Asbill spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/AGENDA AMENDED 4. High and low content ABO application for Real Pinta dba Puccino’s, located at 1801 Dickory Ave for Maurina Renda & Joseph LaRocca Jr. The Police Chief Lepre confirmed that they have met all the requirements for the State and that all the backgrounds checks have been approved.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

No council discussion.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/ABO APPROVED EXECUTIVE SESSION The Council entered executive session at 7:56PM. Mayor Baudier called the meeting back to order at 8:18PM Councilman Asbill said they discussed the Purple Martin case in executive session and no actions were taken.

ADDRESS THE COUNCIL 1. Foster Wade 2. Carol Logreco 3. Foster Wade SECRETARY’S REPORT Secretary’s report for May 2026 Total revenues $612,954.00 REPORTS Police Chief Lepre thanked the citizens for going out and voting in favor of the police millage renewal. He then spoke and read the monthly statistics.

Councilman Asbill spoke.

Councilman Budde spoke.

Councilman Chatelain spoke.

Councilman Johnston spoke.

Councilman Ricks spoke.

Mayor Baudier Spoke PAY BILLS Bills paid in May 2026 Total expenditures $588,915.64 ADJOURN Motion by Councilman Chatelain and seconded by Councilman Asbill to adjourn the meeting at 8:39PM. Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/MEETING ADJOURNED A.

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The following matter involving pending litigation may be considered (Court, Case Number, Parties): 1. Wood Materials LLC, Wood Resources LLC v. City of Harahan, 24th JDC, Case 761-783, Div: “K” 2. Melanie Seeling v. City of Harahan, et al, No C-734196 19th JDC, Div ?, Case 734-196 3. Adams v. City of Harahan, US District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Section H, Div 1, Civil Action Number 20-2794 4. B&M Properties LLC v. City of Harahan, et al, 24th JDC, Case 854-700, Div: “G” 5. 1600 Hickory Ave LLC v. City of Harahan, et al, 24th JDC, Case 866-373, Div: “G” The following matter involving prospective litigation for which formal written demand has been made, may be considered.

The following matters involving discussion of the character, professional competence, or physical or mental health of: Name:

Submitted by:

Carrie Heustis Carrie Heustis, City Clerk (Electronically Signed) _________________________________________________________

ORDINANCE FOR INTRODUCTION (FIRST READING) The following Ordinance was proposed by Councilman Asbill PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 2026-7 An Ordinance amending Chapter 19, Chapter 50, and Chapter 58 of the Harahan Code of Ordinances to Declare a Nuisance for Certain Parking, Vehicle, Obstruction, Right-of-Way, and Nuisance Violations; To Authorize Designated Code Enforcement Officials to Issue Notices of Violations; To Provide for Regulatory Court Jurisdiction Over Violations; To Provide for Abatement, Towing, Removal, Storage, Disposition, and Cost Recovery; and To Provide for Other Related Matters.

The following Ordinance was proposed by Councilman Chatelain PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 2026-8 An Ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the Harahan Code of Ordinances to Require a Centralized Financial Transparency Page on the City’s Official Website.

OLD BUSINESS None NEW BUSINESS 1. Monthly Financials – Walter Oliff joined via zoom and presented the May financials and answered council questions.

There was also a brief discussion regarding funding used on street repairs.

2. 2026-2027 Official Journal Appointment Renewal Council Discussion 1. Jason Asbill 2. Tommy Budde Councilman Asbill made a motion to approve the Advocate as the City’s official journal for 2026-2027.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Second by Councilman Chatelain Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/APPOINTMENT RENEWAL APPROVED 3. Appointment of Special Prosecutor for the Purple Martin case.

Council Discussion 1. Tommy Budde 2. Jason Asbill Councilman Asbill made a motion to appoint Mike Futrell with Connick and Connick to be the new Special Prosecutor.

Councilman Budde said he would like to go into Executive Session to get an update on this matter and any other open litigation Second by Councilman Chatelain.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows: YEAS: Asbill, Budde, Chatelain, Johnston, Ricks NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTAIN: None MOTION PASSES/MIKE FUTRELL HAS BEEN APPOINTED Councilman Asbill made a motion to amend the agenda to add Executive Session to the agenda after New Business, before address the council.

Mayor Baudier opened the public hearing. No one spoke.

Mayor Baudier closed the public hearing.

Second by Councilman Chatelain.

Mayor Baudier called for the vote, the vote was as follows:

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CITY OF HARAHAN LEGALS An Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1333, the comprehensive zoning law of the City of Harahan relative to height regulations for single-family residential structures in the R-1A Single-Family Residential District 2. Appointment Chairman

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3. Appointment of Planning and Zoning Vice Chairman 3. Appointment of a Board Secretary 4. Master Plan Review Called by the order of the Planning and Zoning Commission ADVERTISE: July 15, July 22, & July 29 _________________________________________________________ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Council of the City of Harahan will conduct a Public Meeting on Monday July 16, 2026, at the Harahan City Hall Council Chambers, 6437 Jefferson Highway, Harahan, Louisiana, 70123, at 6:30PM The meeting will be livestreamed. A link for the broadcast will be posted on the city website.

The following agenda items will be considered: RESOLUTIONS PROPOSED RESOLUTION 2026-10 A resolution providing for canvassing the returns and declaring the results of the special election held in the City of Harahan, State of Louisiana, on Saturday, June 27, 2026, to authorize the renewal of a special tax therein _________________________________________________________ REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL RFP NO: 2026-0002 The City of Harahan is soliciting Request for Proposals (RFP’s) from qualified firms to provide: Disaster Debris Collection, Processing and Disposal Services.

PROPOSALS WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE CITY OF HARAHAN CITY CLERK’S OFFICE 6437 JEFFERSON HIGHWAY HARAHAN, LA. 70123 UNTIL 4:30PM ON AUGUST 14, 2026 The City of Harahan reserves the right to reject any and all proposals, in accordance with the law and to make any award in the City’s best interest.

ORDINANCES FOR APPROVAL PROPOSED ORDINANCE 2026-6 An Ordinance amending Ordinance No. 1333, the comprehensive zoning law of the City of Harahan relative to height regulations for single-family residential structures in the R-1A Single-Family Residential District PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 2026-7 An Ordinance amending Chapter 19, Chapter 50, and Chapter 58 of the Harahan Code of Ordinances to Declare a Nuisance for Certain Parking, Vehicle, Obstruction, Right-of-Way, and Nuisance Violations; To Authorize Designated Code Enforcement Officials to Issue Notices of Violations; To Provide for Regulatory Court Jurisdiction Over Violations; To Provide for Abatement, Towing, Removal, Storage, Disposition, and Cost Recovery; and To Provide for Other Related Matters.

Proposals are available gratis from: www.harahanla.gov, or

PROPOSED ORDINANCE NO. 2026-8 An Ordinance amending Chapter 2 of the Harahan Code of Ordinances to Require a Centralized Financial Transparency Page on the City’s Official Website.

Harahan City Hall City Clerk’s Office 6437 Jefferson Highway Harahan, LA. 70123, or

In accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance, please contact City Hall at (504) 7376383, describing the assistance that is necessary.

Email: Carrie Heustis, Municipal Clerk Carrie.heustis@ci.harahan.la.us

BY ORDER OF THE MAYOR TIMOTHY BAUDIER CITY OF HARAHAN

ADV: The Advocate: July 15th, 22nd, & 29th, 2026 _________________________________________________________

Advertise July 15, 2026

ANYONE KNOWING THE WHEREABOUTS OF BONNIE FISCHER, 616 Colonial Club Drive, Harahan, LA 70123 is asked to call the City of Harahan, Regulatory Department (504) 737-6383 or email regulatory@ci.harahan.la.us. _________________________________________________________ NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the regular meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission of the City of Harahan, State of Louisiana, will be held at the regular meeting place, Harahan City Hall, 6437 Jefferson Highway, Harahan, Louisiana, on Wednesday, August 5, 2026, at 7:00PM for the following:

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PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN POIRTION OF GROPUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 3734 PAUGER STREET, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: FLAG BOY PROPER‐ TIES, LLC VER‐ SUS DORIS MARIE NELSON, CARL LEE JOHN‐ SON, THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, AND GOODLEAP, LLC CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2022-11262 By virtue of a Court Order di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 3734 PAUGER ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122 LOT A, SQUARE 1927, THRID MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT, CIN: 749576 TERMS - 100% CASH AT THE MOMENT OF AD‐ JUDICATION. Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork

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BD 13 JONAH FREED‐ MAN LAW LLC 504-475-8075 JONAH FREED‐ MAN The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 6201 MORRISON RD, UNIT 1405, BUILDING 14, CITY OF NEEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: HAN‐ COCK WHITNEY BANK VERSUS DAVID LOUIS CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-6446 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil Court District for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed 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‐ d

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g , tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District of the City of New Or‐ leans, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, Lakeshore Land Company Subdi‐ vision, desig‐ nated as Lot No. 71 on a plan of subdivision of Gandolfo, Kuhn & Associates, dated Septem‐ ber 13, 1974, certified correct on April 15, 1976, which said plan is of record in the conveyance of‐ fice for the Parish of Or‐ leans In COB 736, folio 31 and according to said plan said piece or portion of ground is in the Square bounded by Morrison Road, Lamb Road (side), Curran Road (side) and West Laverne Street, (side) and which said piece or portion is more particularly de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: com‐ mences at the Northeast Cor‐ ner of West Laverne Street and Morrison Road, thence along the North line of Morrison Road North 70 degrees, 17 min‐ utes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 377.88 feet; thence North 19 degrees 42 minutes 32 sec‐ onds West, a distance of383.12 feet to the control point, as shown on the survey of Gandolfo, Kuhn, Luecke & Associates, dated May 3, 1976, thence North 64 de‐ grees, 17 minutes, 28 sec‐ onds East, a dis‐ tance of 4.36 feet to the Point of Beginning, from said Point of

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of Beginning mea‐ sure thence North 25 de‐ grees 42 min‐ utes 32 seconds West, a distance of 72.50 feet to a point; thence South 64 degrees 17 min‐ utes 28 seconds West, a distance of 19 feet to a point; thence South 25 de‐

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South 25 de grees, 42 min‐ utes, 32 seconds East, a distance of 72.50 feet to a point; thence North 64 de‐ grees, 17 min‐ utes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 19 feet to the Point of Beginning. All in accordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & C t i I

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, y Couturie, Inc., dated Decem‐ ber 29, 1986 and as accurately de‐ scribed in that Act of Sale dated March 17, 1983 and recorded at COS 784, folio 23.

Said property is also described

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also described as follows: 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, appurte‐ d

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, pp nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, Situated in the State of Louisiana, in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District of the City of New Orleans, in Section 12 of the LaKratt Tract

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Tract (former New Or‐ leans Lakeshore Land Company Subdivision), now known as Chimneywood Townhomes Phase I, being designated as Lot No. 71 on a plan of subdivi‐ sion of Gan‐ dolfo, Kuhn & Associ‐ ates, dated Sep‐ t b 13 1974

City of Gretna offiCial Journal CITY OF GRETNA LEGALS Gretna City Officials Mayor Belinda Cambre Constant Council Members: Dist. at Large: Wayne A. Rau Dist. 1: Rudy S. Smith Dist. 2: Michael A. Hinyub Dist. 3: Mark K. Miller Dist. 4: Randy S. Carr Chief of Police Brett J. Lawson City of Gretna Gretna City Hall 740 Second Street Gretna, LA 70053

P.O. Box 404 Gretna, LA 70054 Telephone: (504) 3631500 Website: www.gretnala.com Gretna Police Department 200 5th Street Gretna, LA 70053 Telephone: (504) 3664374 Website: www.gretnapolice.com

City of Gretna

Notice of Public Meeting Council Regular Meeting Notice of Ordinance Adoption: NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that said ordinance was introduced at the July 8, 2026, regular meeting of the Gretna City Council copy was provided to the Mayor and all Council Members present. The Gretna City Council will consider adoption of this ordinance at the next scheduled Gretna City Council regular meeting of AUGUST 12, 2026, at 5:30 PM, at which time a public hearing shall be held in accordance, prior to adoption of this ordinance; at which time the title of same shall be read and called for final passage; and may be adopted by an affirmative vote of a majority of the Council of the City of Gretna, State of Louisiana.

An ordinance establishing procedures to change speed limits on city regulated streets throughout the City of Gretna. /S/ NORMA J. CRUZ, LCMC CITY CLERK CITY OF GRETNA STATE OF LOUISIANA ___________________________________________________________________________ On a motion by Council Member Rau and seconded by Council Member _____, the following ordinance was introduced: ORDINANCE NO. 5038 An ordinance amending the Gretna Code of Ordinances relative to Fire Prevention Bureaus to satisfy the requirements of newly passed House Bill 534.

WHEREAS, the City of Gretna has an interest in the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens; and WHEREAS, the City of Gretna desires to amend and update municipal ordinances as necessary to comply with new state laws; and WHEREAS, the State of Louisiana has passed House Bill 534 that establishes new requirements to be established and followed; and WHEREAS, these new requirements will codify nationally recognized best practices.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council, acting as legislative authority for the City of Gretna, that: The Gretna Code of Ordinances is hereby amended as follows: There is hereby adopted, for the purpose of prescribing regulations,

governing conditions, hazardous to life and property from fire or explosion, those codes and standards adopted by the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code Council (LSUCCC), and the Louisiana Office of State Fire Marshall’s Office National Fire Protection Association of Fire Prevention Code (NFPA 1) or where applicable, the international fire code (IFC), and other applicable international codes (I– Codes), as adopted by the LSUCCC, together with any codes in standard specifically reference therein and adopted by the LSUCCC except such portions, as may be deleted, modified, or amended by this chapter will be the minimum code which will be utilized by the bureau.

The Code: The above referenced codes in standards are hereby, adopted, and incorporated by reference as fully as if set forth at length here in.

From and after the date on which section takes effect, the provisions of the codes and standards adopted by the LSUCCC and OSFM shall be controlling within the city limits of the City of Gretna.

In the event of a conflict between adopted codes or standards, the code or standard most recently adopted by the Louisiana State Uniform Construction Code Council (LSUCCC) shall govern.

The Bureau: The Fire Prevention Bureau will be headed by the Chief of the Fire Department or a person designated by the Chief of the Fire Department. Bureau will be staffed by qualified individuals whose credentials have been reviewed and accepted by the State Fire Marshall.

The Bureau will conduct maintenance inspections on behalf of the Fire Marshal. The Fire Marshal shall have the authority to monitor the performance of the Fire Prevention Bureau in the performance of those functions which would otherwise be performed by the Fire Marshal.

Provided that a majority of the Gretna City Council have voted in favor of this ordinance, this ordinance shall have the full force and effect of law at midnight on the tenth day, following the Clerk’s presentment of same to the Mayor, in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes 33:406(c)(2) unless the Mayor returns same, unsigned, to the Clerk during that ten-day period.

This ordinance having been submitted to a vote; the vote thereon was as follows: Yeas: Council Members Rau, Smith, Hinyub, Miller, and Carr.

Nays: None Absent: None Abstain: None ADOPTED: JULY 8, 2026.

APPROVED: JULY 9, 2026.

/S/ NORMA J. CRUZ, LCMC CITY CLERK CITY OF GRETNA STATE OF LOUISIANA

/S/ BELINDA C. CONSTANT MAYOR CITY OF GRETNA STATE OF LOUISIANA

Ordinance presented to the Mayor July 9, 2026.

Ordinance returned from the Mayor July 9, 2026.

/S/ NORMA J. CRUZ, LCMC CITY CLERK CITY OF GRETNA STATE OF LOUISIANA

/S/ NORMA J. CRUZ, LCMC CITY CLERK CITY OF GRETNA STATE OF LOUISIANA A TRUE COPY: /S/ NORMA J. CRUZ, LCMC CITY CLERK CITY OF GRETNA CITY OF GRETNA

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY OF KENNER CITY OF KENNER LEGALS Kenner City Officials Mayor Michael J. Glaser, Sr.

Chief of Police Keith A. Conley

Council Members Joseph A. Stagni At-Large Div. A, George L. Branigan At-Large Div. B Dee B. Dunn District 1, Thomas “Tom” P. Willmott District 2 Joseph F. LaHatte, III District 3, Kristi K. McKinney District 4 Daniel W. Riehm District 5

City Hall 1801 Williams Blvd.

Kenner, LA 70062 Telephone (504) 468-7200 Kenner Police 500 Veterans Blvd.

Kenner, LA 70062 Telephone (504) 712-2200

THE COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, MET IN REGULAR SESSION ON THURSDAY, JULY 9, 2026 AT 5:30 P.M., AT HERITAGE HALL, 303 WILLIAMS BOULEVARD, KENNER, LOUISIANA WITH THE FOLLOWING RESULTS: JOSEPH A. STAGNI GEORGE L. BRANIGAN DEE B. DUNN THOMAS “TOM” WILLMOTT JOSEPH F. LAHATTE KRISTI K. MCKINNEY DANIEL W. RIEHM NATALIE HALL THERESA HASTINGS

COUNCILMEMBER-AT-LARGE, DIV. A COUNCILMEMBER-AT-LARGE, DIV. B COUNCILMEMBER, DISTRICT 1 COUNCILMEMBER, DISTRICT 2 COUNCILMEMBER, DISTRICT 3 COUNCILMEMBER, DISTRICT 4 COUNCILMEMBER, DISTRICT 5 COUNCIL CLERK ASST. COUNCIL CLERK

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AFTER THE MEETING HAD BEEN CALLED TO ORDER WITH THE ABOVE RESULTS, PURSUANT TO MOTIONS DULY MADE AND CARRIED, THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCES, RESOLUTIONS, AND APPLICATIONS WERE APPROVED AND/OR ADOPTED. ON JOINT MOTION BY ALL COUNCILMEMBERS PRESENT, THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCES/RESOLUTIONS WERE INTRODUCED IN SUMMARY FOR PUBLICATION AND PUBLIC HEARINGS TO BE HELD ON FRIDAY, JULY 24, 2026 AT 11:00 A.M. AT HERITAGE HALL, 303 WILLIAMS BOULEVARD KENNER, LOUISIANA. COPIES OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE/RESOLUTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL PLEASE CALL (504)468-7254 FOR AN APPOINTMENT BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30 A.M. AND 4:30 P.M. MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS, HOLIDAYS EXCEPTED. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,201, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION OF LOTS K-1-A, K-2-B, K-3-A, K-3-B, SQUARE C, PARK, SQUARE D, LOTS 4654 AND 67-74, SQUARE E, LOTS 98-109 AND GREENSPACE, SQUARE F, LOTS 86-97 AND GREENSPACE, SQUARE G, LOTS 80-85, SQUARE J, GREENSPACE, AND A PORTION OF DOGWOOD DRIVE, HICKORY DRIVE, AND CHESTNUT DRIVE, ALL LOCATED IN LOUISIANA TRACE SUBDIVISION, CITY OF KENNER LOUISIANA, INTO LOTS K-1-A-1, K-2-B-1-A, SQUARE C, PARK, SQUARE D, LOTS 1-B THROUGH 18-B, SQUARE E, LOTS 33-B THROUGH 49-B AND GREENSPACE 3, SQUARE F, LOTS 19-B THROUGH 27-B, SQUARE G, 28-B THROUGH 32-B, SQUARE J, GREENSPACES 1 AND 2, AND PORTIONS OF DOGWOOD DRIVE AND HICKORY DRIVE, LOUISIANA TRACE SUBDIVISION IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SURVEY BY BASIN ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING DATED MAY 19, 2026, WHICH LOTS ARE OWNED BY LOUISIANA TRACE LLC AND THE VINEYARD CHURCH OF NEW ORLEANS, AND REVOKING THE 38-FOOT AREA SET ASIDE FOR THE EXTENSION ON SUNSET BOULEVARD IN ORDINANCE 5594 DATED DECEMBER 5, 1985. CASE NO. P-9-26 SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,202, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION OF LOT 349-A, KENNER SUBDIVISION, KENNER, JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA, INTO LOTS 349-B, 349-C, AND 349-D, KENNER SUBDIVISION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SURVEY BY DUFRENE SURVEYING AND ENGINEERING INC. DATED APRIL 17, 2026, WHICH LOT IS OWNED BY THE JEFFERSON PARISH SCHOOL BOARD. CASE NO. P-10-26 SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,203, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH CMC’S SERVICES FOR GARDEN MAINTENANCE SERVICES IN LAKETOWN IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $90,000.00 FOR THE GENERAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,204, AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF A GRANT FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, LOUISIANA COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, AWARD NO. 2025-VA-033139, IN THE AMOUNT OF $64,136.00, WITH THE CITY OF KENNER MATCH OF $16,041.00, FOR CHILD ABUSE PROGRAM FOR THE KENNER POLICE DEPARTMENT. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,205, AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ACCEPTANCE OF A GRANT FROM THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, LOUISIANA COMMISSION ON LAW ENFORCEMENT, AWARD NO. 2025-VA-01/02/03/04-9138, IN THE AMOUNT OF $40,102.00, WITH THE CITY OF KENNER MATCH OF $10,026.00, FOR A VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR THE KENNER POLICE DEPARTMENT. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,206, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AN AGREEMENT WITH THE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND DEVELOPMENT (DOTD), STATE PROJECT NO. H.016833, FEDERAL AID PROJECT NO. H016833 REGARDING POWER BLVD. SOUTHBOUND RESURFACING IMPROVEMENTS FROM W. ESPLANADE AVE. TO VINTAGE, CITY OF KENNER PROJECT.

SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,207, AN ORDINANCE APPROVING AMENDMENT NO. 1 TO THE AGREEMENT WITH EASI, LLC DATED JANUARY 25, 2024, TO PROVIDE LABORATORY ANALYSIS SERVICES, INCREASING THE NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT BY $60,000.00 ANNUALLY, FOR A NEW NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $160,000.00 ANNUALLY, FOR THE WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,208, AN ORDINANCE RATIFYING AN EMERGENCY REPAIR OF THE HYDROMATIC PUMP #1 AT THE PONTCHARTRAIN CENTER LIFT STATION BY FLUID PROCESS & PUMPS, LLC IN THE AMOUNT OF $8,977.00 FOR THE WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,209, AN ORDINANCE ACCEPTING THE QUOTE RECEIVED FROM FLUID PROCESS & PUMPS, LLC TO REPAIR THE FAIRBANKS MORSE PUMP #3 AT THE FIREHOUSE ROAD LIFT STATION IN THE AMOUNT OF $25,559.00 FOR THE WASTEWATER DEPARTMENT. PUBLISH ON JULY 15, 2026 ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE In accordance with provisions of the American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, as amended, the City of Kenner shall not discriminate against individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs or activities. If you require auxiliary aids or devices, or other reasonable accommodation under the ADA Amendments Act, please submit your request to legal@kenner.la.us or by calling (504) 468-4080 at least forty-eight ( 48) hours in advance or as soon as practical. A seventy- two (72) hour advanced notice is required to request Certified ASL interpreters.

ON JOINT MOTION BY ALL COUNCILMEMBERS PRESENT, THE FOLLOWING ORDINANCES/RESOLUTIONS WERE INTRODUCED IN SUMMARY FOR PUBLICATION AND PUBLIC HEARINGS TO BE HELD ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026 AT 5:30 P.M. AT HERITAGE HALL, 303 WILLIAMS BOULEVARD KENNER, LOUISIANA. COPIES OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE/RESOLUTIONS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL PLEASE CALL (504)468-7254 FOR AN APPOINTMENT BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8:30 A.M. AND 4:30 P.M. MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS, HOLIDAYS EXCEPTED. SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,210, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 11,062, ADOPTED MARCH 17, 2016, ENTITLED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SECTIONS 6.11 INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS, 12.04 USE REGULATIONS, 12.11 AUTOMOBILE SALES ESTABLISHMENTS: NEW USED, AND RENTAL AND SECTION 12.15 TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWERS TO ALLOW METAL CORRUGATED FENCING FOR CERTAIN SCREENING APPLICATIONS. CASE NO. Z-3-24 ***(IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY OF KENNER CHARTER, THIS ITEM SHALL HAVE A 28 DAY LAYOVER).

SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,211, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 11,062, ADOPTED MARCH 17, 2016 BY THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, ENTITLED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SECTION 6.13 RIVERTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT (RHD) TO ADD REGULATIONS FOR MURALS WITH THE DISTRICT. CASE NO. Z-4-24 ***(IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY OF KENNER CHARTER, THIS ITEM SHALL HAVE A 28 DAY LAYOVER).

PUBLISH ON JULY 15, 22, 29 & AUGUST 5, 2026 ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE In accordance with provisions of the American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, as amended, the City of Kenner shall not discriminate against individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs or activities. If you require auxiliary aids or devices, or other reasonable accommodation under the ADA Amendments Act, please submit your request to legal@kenner.la.us or by calling (504) 468-4080 at least forty-eight ( 48) hours in advance or as soon as practical. A seventy- two (72) hour advanced notice is required to request Certified ASL interpreters.

PUBLIC NOTICE THE KENNER CITY COUNCIL FOR THE CITY OF KENNER WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026 AT 5:30 P.M. AT HERITAGE HALL, 303 WILLIAMS BOULEVARD KENNER, LOUISIANA, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING THE FOLLOWING: SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,210, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 11,062, ADOPTED MARCH 17, 2016, ENTITLED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SECTIONS 6.11 INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS, 12.04 USE REGULATIONS, 12.11 AUTOMOBILE SALES ESTABLISHMENTS: NEW USED, AND RENTAL AND SECTION 12.15 TELECOMMUNICATIONS TOWERS TO ALLOW METAL CORRUGATED FENCING FOR CERTAIN SCREENING APPLICATIONS. CASE NO. Z-3-24 ***(IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY OF KENNER CHARTER, THIS ITEM SHALL HAVE A 28 DAY LAYOVER).

SUMMARY ORDINANCE NO. 14,211, AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE 11,062, ADOPTED MARCH 17, 2016 BY THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, ENTITLED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE OF THE CITY OF KENNER, LOUISIANA, MORE PARTICULARLY AMENDING SECTION 6.13 RIVERTOWN HISTORIC DISTRICT (RHD) TO ADD REGULATIONS FOR MURALS WITH THE DISTRICT. CASE NO. Z-4-24 ***(IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CITY OF KENNER CHARTER, THIS ITEM SHALL HAVE A 28 DAY LAYOVER). /S/

NATALIE HALL TARTAGLIA

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CLERK OF THE COUNCIL

GEORGE L. BRANIGAN PRESIDENT OF THE COUNCIL

POSTED ON JULY 9, 2026 3:00 P.M. PUBLISH ON JULY 15, 22, 29 & AUGUST 5, 2026 ACCESSIBILITY NOTICE In accordance with provisions of the American with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, as amended, the City of Kenner shall not discriminate against individuals with disabilities on the basis of disability in its services, programs or activities. If you require auxiliary aids or devices, or other reasonable accommodation under the ADA Amendments Act, please submit your request to legal@kenner.la.us or by calling (504) 468-4080 at least forty-eight ( 48) hours in advance or as soon as practical. A seventy- two (72) hour advanced notice is required to request Certified ASL interpreters.

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE CITY OF KENNER CITY OF KENNER LEGALS NOTICE

Building D Kenner, Louisiana 70062 All interested parties are invited to attend the Bid Opening on the same day at 10:00 a.m. in the City of Kenner, Building D Auditorium, 1610 Rev. Richard Wilson Drive, Kenner, Louisiana, at which time the bids will be publicly read.

There will be no pre-bid meeting. Site visits will be held at each location on July 15, 2026 from 11:00am-11:45am. All interested bidders are encouraged to attend.

Any person with disabilities requiring special accommodations must contact the City of no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. If the request cannot be reasonably provided, the individual will be informed prior to the bid opening. Each bidder must have an active UEI Number, as verified on www. sam.gov, prior award of contract.

/s/Elizabeth Herring Chief Financial Officer

INVITATION TO BID Sealed Bid No. 26-6974 July 8, 2026 Lead Safe Hazard Reduction (LSHR) Bid Packet #10 Sealed Bid No. 26-6974 The City of Kenner (also referenced as “Kenner” and “Owner”) will receive sealed bids for: Lead Safe Hazard Reduction in homes located at: 650 Webster Street 312 Taylor Street Bidders may also obtain copies of the bid documents and submit bids electronically by visiting www. centralauctionhouse.com. Sealed bids may also be received by mail or in-person until July 23, 2026 at 9:45am, by the City of Kenner in the Finance Department located at:

Case P-11-26 – AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION OF PARCEL 18-G-1, CHATEAU ESTATES SOUTH SUBDIVISION, KENNER, JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA, INTO PARCELS 18-G-2 AND 18-G-3, CHATEAU ESTATES SOUTH SUBDIVISION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SURVEY BY DADING, MARQUES & ASSOCIATES, LLC DATED 04-10-2026, WHICH LOT(S) ARE OWNED BY PARISH PARTNERS CO, LLC AND CAUSEWAY PARTNERS, LLC. /s/Robert Pastor Kenner Planning Commission

CITY OF KENNER

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The Kenner Planning and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, in the Council Chambers, Heritage Hall, 303 Williams Boulevard, Kenner, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, at six o’clock (6:00) p.m. The applicant premises affected, and the nature of the cases are as follows:

/s/ Christopher Sliwinski Planning Director

Advertisement: The Advocate July 8, 2026 July 15, 2026 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ In accordance with Sec. 91/2-7 of the City of Kenner Code of Ordinances, Regulations for removal of weeds, grass or other noxious matter, the following property owner(s) are hereby notified that within five (5) days of this notice, if said property owner(s) do not cut, destroy or remove such weeds, grass or deleterious, unhealthy growth, trash, debris, refuse, discarded or noxious matter from the premises involved, the City of Kenner will undertake the removal of weeds, grass or other noxious matter assessing all costs and an administrative fee of $250.00 against said property. The City of Kenner may undertake continued monthly maintenance of said property for a period of twelve (12) months without giving any additional notification to the owner.

LATHERS, CANDICE BENTEL PROPERTIES LLC FUTURE PROPERTY INVESTMENTS LLC HINNAWI, MOHAMMAD GALJOUR, DAVID AGUARE, MIGUEL M & SANTA V MORRELL, DELORES S LOCKETT, THELMA & JON LOCKETT THYMES, ISAAC WELLS, JOHNNY C/O ANNIE WELLS

NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 15 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 15 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 7 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 7 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 7 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 7 INCHES UBSTANDARD BLDG-REPAIR DEMO NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 15 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 15 INCHES NO GRASS/WEEDS OVER 15 INCHES

727 FARM AVE 1823 COMPROMISE ST 1504 CLAY ST 3811 OLE MISS DR 3305 CONNECTICUT AVE 3504 OLE MISS DR 424 WEBSTER ST 3121 ALBANY ST 3120 ALBANY ST 3015 ACRON STREET

MOISANT PLACE SQ 8 LOT 9 GREENLAWN SQ 187 LOTS 29 & 30 PART OF ARPENT - LOT 206/KENNER LINCOLN MANOR SQ 499 LOT 10 LINCOLN MANOR SQ 164A LOT 37 LINCOLN MANOR SQ 502, LOT 16 194096-667460-jul 15-1t $ 1,081.08

1610 Reverend Richard Wilson Drive

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es, e Sep tember 13, 1974, certified correct on April 15, 1976, which said plan is of record in the con‐ veyance office for the Parish of Orleans In COB 736, folio 31 and according to said plan said piece or portion of ground is in the Square bounded by Morrison Road, Lamb Road (side), Curran Road (side) and West Laverne Street, (side) and which said piece or portion is more particu‐ larly described as follows: com‐ mences at the Northeast Comer of West Laverne Street and Mor‐ rison Road, thence along the North line of Morrison Road North 70 degrees, 17 minutes, 28 sec‐ onds East, a dis‐ tance of 377.88 feet; thence North 19 de‐ grees 42 minutes 32 seconds West, a distance of 383.12 feet to the control point, as shown on the survey of Gan‐ dolfo, Kuhn, Luecke & Asso‐ ciates, dated May 3, 1976, thence North 64 degrees, 17 minutes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 4.36 feet to the Point of Beginning, from said Point of Beginning measure thence North 25 de‐ grees 42 min‐ utes 32 seconds West, a distance of 72.50 feet to a point; thence South 64 de‐ grees 17 min‐ utes 28 seconds West, a distance of19 feet to a point; thence South 25 degrees, 42 min‐ utes, 32 seconds East, a distance of72.50 feet to a point; thence North 64 degrees, 17 min‐ utes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 19 feet to the Point of Begin‐ ning. All in ac‐ cordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated December 29, 1986 and as ac‐ curately de‐ scribed in that Act of Sale dated March 17, 1983 and recorded at COS 784, folio 23.

Which has the address of 6201 Morrison Road, Unit 1405 Build‐ ing 14, Unit 1405, New Orleans, LA 70126 WRIT AMOUNT: $

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WRIT AMOUNT: $63,949.18 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 25 LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP 504 838 7535 EMILY A. MUELLER The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 6201 MORRISON RD, UNIT 1405, BUILDING 14, CITY OF NEEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: HAN‐ COCK WHITNEY BANK VERSUS DAVID LOUIS CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-6446 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil Court District for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and

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and improvements 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 Third Mu‐ nicipal District of the City of New Or‐ leans, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, Lakeshore Land Company Subdi‐ vision, desig‐ nated as Lot No. 71 on a plan of subdivision of Gandolfo, Kuhn & Associates, dated Septem‐ ber 13, 1974, certified correct on April 15, 1976, which said plan is of record in the conveyance of‐ fice for the Parish of Or‐ leans In COB 736, folio 31 and according to said plan said piece or portion of ground is in the Square bounded by Morrison Road, Lamb Road (side), Curran Road (side) and West Laverne Street, (side) and which said piece or portion is more particularly de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: com‐ mences at the Northeast Cor‐ ner of West Laverne Street and Morrison Road, thence along the North line of Morrison Road North 70 degrees, 17 min‐ utes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 377.88 feet; thence North 19 degrees 42 minutes 32 sec‐ onds West, a distance of383.12 feet to the control point, as shown on the survey of Gandolfo, Kuhn, Luecke & Associates, dated May 3, 1976, thence North 64 de‐ grees, 17 minutes, 28 sec‐ onds East, a dis‐ tance of 4.36 feet to the Point of Beginning, from said Point of Beginning mea‐ sure thence North 25 de‐ grees 42 min‐ utes 32 seconds West, a distance of 72.50 feet to a point; thence South 64 degrees 17 min‐ utes 28 seconds West, a distance of 19 feet to a point; thence South 25 de‐ grees, 42 min‐ utes, 32 seconds East, a distance of 72.50 feet to a point; thence North 64 de‐ i

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North 64 de grees, 17 min‐ utes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 19 feet to the Point of Beginning. All in accordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated Decem‐ ber 29, 1986 and as accurately de‐ scribed in that Act of Sale dated March 17, 1983 and recorded at COS 784, folio 23.

Said property is also described as follows: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings d

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e u gs and improvements 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 State of Louisiana, in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District of the City of New Orleans, in Section 12 of the LaKratt Tract (former New Or‐ leans Lakeshore Land Company Subdivision), now known as Chimneywood Townhomes Phase I, being designated as Lot No. 71 on a l f bdi i

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Lot No. 71 on a plan of subdivi‐ sion of Gan‐ dolfo, Kuhn & Associ‐ ates, dated Sep‐ tember 13, 1974, certified correct on April 15, 1976, which said plan is of record in the con‐ veyance office for the Parish of Orleans In COB 736, folio 31 and according to said plan said piece or portion of ground is in the Square bounded by Morrison Road, Lamb Road (side), Curran Road (side) and West Laverne Street, (side) and which said piece or portion is more particu‐ larly described f ll

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The color sequence shall be:

Poly-Laminate Numeric Labels

Colors

Poly-Laminate Numeric Labels

Colors

0

Red

5

Blue

1

Pink

6

Lavender

2

Yellow

7

Brown

3

Orange

8

Gray

4

Green

9

Gold

Additionally, four full sets of 3/4” year number labels are required.

All binders and year number labels shall be delivered on or before November 20, 2026. Failure to meet the delivery date will result in an automatic 20% reduction on the bid price.

Any damage to binders and year number labels as result of packaging, shipping, or handling will be at the supplier’s expense.

Replacement of any damaged binders and year number labels will be at the supplier’s expense.

Bids submitted pursuant to the aforesaid specifications can be delivered or mailed to the OPCOC, Room 402 – Civil Courts Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112 on or before the time aforesaid. The envelope/package should be clearly marked “SEALED BID”. Bids submitted via email should be clearly marked on the subject line, “SEALED BID” and sent to cdcclerk@ orleanscivilclerk.com.

At the time and place aforesaid, all timely bids will be opened.

Upon completion of the opening of the bids, the timely submitted bids will be reviewed and calculated for the purpose of the purchase of the aforementioned case binders and year number labels from the lowest responsible bidder. The OPCOC reserves the right to waive any informalities of the bids submitted hereunder and to accept or reject any and all bids submitted.

Any inquiries should be directed to Alexandria Irvin, Chief Deputy for the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court, Rm. 402 – 421 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, LA. 70112 Chelsey Richard Napoleon, Clerk of Court Parish of Orleans – 421 Loyola Avenue, Room 402 New Orleans, LA 70112 – (504) 407-0000 Publications on: July 15, 2026, July 22, 2026, and July 29, 2026 – Advocate

SLFPA-West Commissioners Scott M. Burke, President Stephen P. Gauthé, Secretary-Treasurer Larry B. Ardoin, P.E., Commissioner William B. Fogle, Commissioner Mitchell L. Kirkland, P.E., Commissioner Ronnie L. Robinson, P.E., Commissioner

Jesse D. Noel, P.E., Regional Director Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West 7001 River Road Marrero, LA 70072 (504) 340-0318 www.slfpaw.org

PUBLIC NOTICE OF VACANCY Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West Bank Board of Commissioners Pursuant to La. R.S. 38:330.1 et seq., notice is hereby given that applications are being accepted from persons interested in serving on the Board of Commissioners for the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West Bank (“SLFPA-W”). Nine members serve on the Board of Commissioners. A Nominating Committee comprised of representatives of civic, professional, and academic organizations reviews applications and recommends individuals for appointments by the Governor and confirmation by the Senate. The Nominating Committee is comprised of representatives from the following organizations: Public Affairs Research Council of Louisiana, Leaders for a Better Louisiana, Louisiana Geological Survey, Association of State Floodplain Managers, National Society of Black Engineers, UNO College of Engineering, Tulane University School of Science & Engineering, Southern University College of Engineering, LSU College of Engineering, Louisiana Engineering Society, American Society of Civil Engineers, West Bank Business and Industry Association, and Holy Cross College.

CURRENT VACANCIES The Nominating Committee is accepting applications for two positions on the SLFPA-W Board of Commissioners: 1.

A resident who resides outside of Jefferson or Orleans Parishes jurisdiction of SLFPA-W to complete a term from July 2, 2027 to July 1, 2031.

2.

A resident who resides in Orleans Parish on the west side of the Mississippi River, within the jurisdiction of SLFPA-W to complete a term from July 2, 2027 to July 1, 2031.

RESIDENCY REQUIREMENTS Three members shall reside in Jefferson Parish on the west side of the Mississippi River within the jurisdiction of SLFPA-W. Two members shall reside in Orleans Parish on the west side of the Mississippi River. Three members shall reside outside of Jefferson or Orleans Parishes. One member shall reside in the territorial jurisdiction of the Lafitte Area Levee District.

QUALIFICATIONS Engineering/Related Field Professional Three members shall be either an engineer or a professional in a related field such as geotechnical, hydrological, or environmental science. At least one of the three members shall be a civil engineer.

Non-Engineering Professional Three members shall be professionals in disciplines other than engineering, geotechnical, hydrological, or environmental science. They each shall, at a minimum, hold a baccalaureate degree from an accredited institution of higher learning with at least ten years of professional experience in that discipline.

Engineering/Related Field Professional or Non-Engineering Professional Three members shall possess the qualifications of either an engineering/related field professional or of a non-engineering professional.

Once the new member is appointed, the composition of the Board must meet the residency and occupational qualifications defined above.

HOW TO APPLY You may obtain an application by going online to www.slfpaw.org or contacting: Jesse D. Noel, P.E. Regional Director, Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-West Bank 7001 River Road Marrero, LA 70072 (504) 371-6847 director@slfpaw.org Please submit application by July 17, 2026.

191561-659994-jul 15-22-29-3t $ 395.01

South 64 de grees 17 min‐ utes 28 seconds West, a distance of19 feet to a point; thence South 25 degrees, 42 min‐ utes, 32 seconds East, a distance of72.50 feet to a point; thence North 64 degrees, 17 min‐ utes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 19 feet to the Point of Begin‐ ning. All in ac‐ cordance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated December 29, d

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The 11,000 printed and unnumbered case binders shall be constructed from fifteen-point (15 point) manila stock, BEIGE in color, a sample of exact shade of BEIGE and all other specifications must be requested from the OPCOC, with overall dimensions of 9-1/2” x 15-1/2” laminated back flap, plus a 1-3/4” ear on left side and 9-1/2” x 14-11/16” single thickness front flap. (Manila stock refers to type of paper.)

Year band – 2027 Color – Brown

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OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF SLFPA - WEST

BE IT KNOWN, that at two o’clock p.m. (2:00 p.m.), Central Standard Time on Thursday, the 13th day of August 2026, sealed bids will be opened by the Orleans Parish Clerk of Court (“OPCOC”), Room 402 – Civil Courts Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana, for the purchase of 11,000 printed, unnumbered case binders and the year number labels.

1. A 2” enameled fastener embedded in earflap at left side; 2. A 13/16” full-cut tab at right side back flap, beginning 1-1/2” from fold; 3. All corners round; 4. Sixteen score marks 1/8” apart on ear flap and seven score marks 1/8” apart on ear flap for added extension; 5. Printing in black on outside and inside front flap.

po , s s o on the survey of Gan‐ dolfo, Kuhn, Luecke & Asso‐ ciates, dated May 3, 1976, thence North 64 degrees, 17 minutes, 28 seconds East, a distance of 4.36 feet to the Point of Beginning, from said Point of Beginning measure thence North 25 de‐ grees 42 min‐ utes 32 seconds West, a distance of 72.50 feet to a point; thence South 64 de‐

y esc e as follows: com‐ mences at the Northeast Comer of West Laverne Street and Mor‐ rison Road, thence along the North line of Morrison Road North 70 degrees, 17 minutes, 28 sec‐ onds East, a dis‐ tance of 377.88 feet; thence North 19 de‐ grees 42 minutes 32 seconds West, a distance of 383.12 feet to the control point, as shown th

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Additionally, each binder shall have:

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December 29, 1986 and as ac‐ curately de‐ scribed in that Act of Sale dated March 17, 1983 and recorded at COS 784, folio 23.

Which has the address of 6201 Morrison Road, Unit 1405 Build‐ ing 14, Unit 1405, New Orleans, LA 70126 WRIT AMOUNT: $63,949.18 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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RB 25 LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP 504 838 7535 EMILY A. MUELLER The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 6600 MORRISON ROAD, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: CITY OF NEW ORLEANS VERSUS KSC, LLC CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-1608 By virtue of a Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias directed to me by the Hon‐ orable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Or‐ leans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF LAND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, situ‐ ated in the Third Municipal Dis‐ trict of the City of New Orleans, Orleans Parish, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as the LAKRATT TRACT, SECTION 20, designated as LOT 1B 1, on a plan of resubdi‐ vision by Ben‐ jamin L. Carter, Civil Engineer, dated April 3, 1970, which said lot is a part of former Lot 1B and is com‐ prised of por‐ tions of original Groves 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 1 and 3 of Section 20 of the LaKratt Tract (formerly New Orleans Lakeshore Land Company Subdi‐ vision), in the area bounded

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area bounded by Morrison Road, Lamb Road, Martin Drive (formerly Joffre Road) and Interstate High‐ way 1 10, and, according to the aforesaid plan of resubdivi‐ sion, is more particularly de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: Commencing at the intersection of the new south line of Morrison Road and the east line of Lamb Road, run along thence the new south line of Morrison Road, North 70 degrees, 9 minutes, 9 sec‐ onds East a dis‐ tance of 520.18 feet to the northwesterly comer of Lot 1B 1, which is the point of begin‐ ning; thence continuing along the new south line of Morrison Road, North 70 de‐ grees, 9 min‐ utes, 9 seconds East a distance of 343.60 feet to a point; thence continuing along the new south line of Morrison Road, North 68 de‐ grees, 15 min‐ utes, 24 seconds East a distance of 580.81 feet to the intersection of the new south line of Morrison Road and the west line of Martin Drive (formerly Joffre Road), which is also the north‐ easterly comer of Lot 1B 1; thence tum right and run South 21 de‐ grees, 37 min‐ utes, 36 seconds East along the west‐ erly line of Mar‐ tin Drive, a dis‐ tance of 273.75 feet to a point which is also the northeasterly comer of Lot 1B 3; thence tum right and South 70 degrees, 10 minutes, 10 seconds West a distance of 253.62 feet to a point, said point being the north‐ westerly corner of Lot 1B 3; thence turn left and run along the west‐ erly side of Lot 1B 3, South 19 degrees, 50 minutes, 51 sec‐ onds East a dis‐ tance of 556 feet to a point; thence turn right and run in the direction of In‐ terstate High‐ way 1 10 South 70 degrees, 9 minutes, 9 sec‐ onds West a dis‐ tance of 195.52 feet to a point on the northerly line of Interstate High‐ way I 10; thence tum right and run along Inter‐ state Highway I 10 in a north‐ westerly direc‐ tion a distance of 593 .84 feet to the point of inter‐ section of the westerly line of Lot 1 B 1 and the northerly line of Interstate High‐ way I 10; thence turn right and run North 19 de‐ grees, 50 min‐ utes, 51 seconds West a distance of 466.59 feet to the Point of Be‐ ginning.

The resubdivi‐ sion of former Lot 1B into Lots 1B 1, 1B 2, and 1B 3, as shown on the above referred to plan of resubdivi‐ sion, was· ap‐ proved by the City Planning Commission on April 9, 1970, registered in COB 698, folio 314.

All as more fully shown on the plat of survey

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Dading, R.L.S., of Dading, Mar‐ ques & Associates, Inc., dated De‐ cember 13, 1989, recertified Janu‐ ary 27, 1995, an‐ nexed hereto and made a part hereof, except that the last measurement along Interstate Highway 10 is shown as being along a curve to the right, having a radius of 3,669.72 feet, and an arc length of 593.84 feet.

Improvements thereon bear municipal num‐ ber 6600 Morri‐ son Road.

WRIT AMOUNT: $6,260.00 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans TJ 2 CITY OF ORLEANS 658 4346 DEISHA GARDE

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Condominium, contained in an act passed before D.H. Harkins; H.P., on October 5, 1995, registered as CIN 111922 N.A. #95 43893, in conveyance records of the Parish of Or‐ leans, State of Louisiana on October 5, 1995, as the same has been amended from time to time.

The improve‐ ments thereon bear the munici‐ pal No. 1201 Chartres Street, Unit 9, New Or‐ leans, LA 70116.

WRIT AMOUNT: $18,920.74 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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RB 4 FAVRET CAR‐ RIERE CRON‐ VICH, LLC 504 383 8978 PAUL L. CAR‐ RIERE

The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026

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THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 1201 ST CHARLES ST, UNIT 9, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER ENTITLED: STELLA MARIS CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION, INC VERSUS MILLENNIUM GROUP II LLC

THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBERS 516 NATCHEZ STREET, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: LOAN PARTNERS, L.L.C. VERSUS MIURA, L.L.C. AND CHRISTOPHER PRASAD

CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2018-1596

CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-9521

By virtue of a Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias directed to me by the Hon‐ orable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Or‐ leans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit:

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit:

ONE CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT, being UNIT NUMBER NINE (9) together with it's appurtenant in‐ terest in the Common and Limited Com‐ mon Elements of the STELLA MARIS CONDOMINIUM, located in SQUARE 51, SEC‐ OND DISTRICT, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, which said con‐ dominium regime was cre‐ ated and estab‐ lished by the Declaration Cre‐ ating and Establishing a Condominium Regime for Stella Maris Condominium,

THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PAR‐ CEL OF PROP‐ ERTY, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BELONGING OR IN ANYWISE AP‐ PERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, SIT‐ UATED IN THE FIRST DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN SQUARE NO. 165, DESIGNATED AS

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DESIGNATED AS LOT 7 B, ALL AS PER THAT PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION BY GILBERT, KELLY, & COU‐ TURIE, INC., DATED MAY 22, 2013, WHICH SAID PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION WAS APPROVED

BY THE CITY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ON JULY 18, 2013, DOCKET NO 71/13 AND SAID PLAN OF RESUBDIVISION WAS RECORDED AT CIN 537394, SAID LOT HAV‐ ING THE SAME MEASURE‐ MENTS AND DIMENSIONS AS SHOWN THEREON AND IS COMPOSED OF FORMER LOTS 7 AND 8 A OF SQUARE 165, FIRST DISTRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. IMPROVEMENTS THEREON BEAR THE MUNICIPAL NO. 516 NATCHEZ STREET, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70130.

BEING THE SAME PROP‐ ERTY ACQUIRED BY MORRISON PROPERTY IN‐ VESTMENTS. LLC BY ACT DATED APRIL 14, 2021 AND APRIL 15, 2021, REGIS‐ TERED AT CIN 692830, ORLEANS PARISH, LOUISIANA. WRIT AMOUNT: $1,850,000.00 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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RB 22 NEWMAN, MATHIS, BRADY & SPEDALE, APLC 225 343 3456 JOSHUA P. MATTHEWS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 3217-19 FERN STREET, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: NATION‐ STAR MORT‐ GAGE LLC VER‐ SUS MICHAEL N. WATSON A/K/A MICHAEL WAT‐ SON CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-11821 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City J l 16 2026

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trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 3217-19 FERN ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70125 LOT: 18, SQUARE: 498 SEVENTH MU‐ NICIPAL DIS‐ TRICT ACQ MIN: 1307373 WRIT AMOUNT: $120,132.62 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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GH 29 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 COREY J. GIROIR The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 1018 WAGNER ST, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: CAR‐ RINGTON MORT‐ GAGE SERVIC‐ ING LLC VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF AND UNKNOWN HEIRS OF ERNESTINE BRANTLEY HAR‐ RIS A/K/A ERNESTINE BRANTLEY HARRIS A/K/A ERNESTINE B. HARRIS A/K/A ERNESTINE HAR‐ RIS A/K/A ERNESTINE BRANTLEY HAR‐ RIS A/K/A ERNESTINE B. HARRIS A/K/A ERNESTINE HAR‐ RIS AND THE UNOPENED SUC‐ CESSION OF AND UNKNOWN HEIRS OF JOSEPH HARRIS A/K/A JOSEPH HARRIS A/K/A JOSEPH HARRIS, JR. CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-94 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 1018 WAGNER ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70114 LOT E - SQUARE 171 5TH MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 905160 WRIT AMOUNT: $85,645.74 Seized

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Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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RB 33 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 4929 CROWDER BD, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. VERSUS JUAN PAUL SCOTT A/K/A JUAN P. SCOTT A/K/A JUAN SCOTT AND DANIELLE ROBERTS SCOTT A/K/A DANIELLE R. SCOTT A/K/A DANIELLE SCOTT CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-11123 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 4929 CROWDER BD NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70127 LOT 1 - SQUARE A 3RD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 962502 GOLDEN HEIGHTS SUBDI‐ VISION WRIT AMOUNT: $184,346.99 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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RB 22 LAW OFFICES OF HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK, JR., LLC (225) 7560373

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0373 COREY J. GIROIR The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 7410 NEWCASTLE ST, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: RE‐ GIONS BANK VERSUS SHAWNA MAXWELL CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-2170 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 7410 NEWCAS‐ TLE ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70126 LOT 10 - SQUARE 3 3RD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1378856 LA KRATT TRACT WRIT AMOUNT: $260,166.15 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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RB 10 GRAHAM, ARCE‐ NEAUX & ALLEN, LLC 504-5228256 LOUIS G. ARCE‐ NEAUX The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBERS 854 TAFT PLACE, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: WILM‐ INGTON SAV‐ INGS FUND SO‐ CIETY, FSB, NOT INDIVIDUALLY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR FI‐ NANCE OF AMERICA STRUCTURED SECURITES AC‐ QUISITION TRUST 2018-HB1 VERSUS RUS‐ SELL JAMES TALLUTO A/K/A RUSSELL J. TAL‐ LUTO A/K/A RUSSELL TAL‐ LUTO

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-9884 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 854 TAFT PL NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119 LOT: X, SQUARE: 468 SECOND MUNIC‐ IPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1057652 WRIT AMOUNT: $430,584.51 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 21 LAW OFFICES OF HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK, JR., LLC (225) 7560373 The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 1 ORI‐ OLE STREET, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: WILM‐ INGTON TRUST, NATIONAL AS‐ SOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVID‐ UAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF MFRA TRUST 2019-1 VERSUS LIONEL JOSEPH NELSON A/K/A LIONEL J. NELSON A/K/A LIONEL NELSON CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-775 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 1 ORIOLE ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70124 LOTS: 3, 4, 5 AND 6, SQUARE: 22 S CO C

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6, SQUARE: 22 SECOND MUNIC‐ IPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1456557 WRIT AMOUNT: $1,957,850.33 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 32 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 7530 CROWDER BD, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL AS‐ SOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVID‐ UAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF2 ACQUIS‐ TION TRUST VERSUS DER‐ RICK WALKER CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-2648 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 7530 CROWDER BD NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70127 LOT 16 - SQUARE C 3RD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1328346 NORTH KENIL‐ WORTH SUBDI‐ VISION WRIT AMOUNT: $258,659.13 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

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RB 17 HALLIDAY, WATKINS, AND MANN, P.C 318388-1440 ZACHARY G. YOUNG The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 2715 MARENGO ST, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC F/K/A QUICKEN LOANS, LLC VER‐ SUS JEAN FARMER CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-3049 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil Court District for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 2715 MARENGO ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70115 LOT 3 - SQUARE 636 6TH MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1379497 WRIT AMOUNT: $170,706.68 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 34 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR., L.L.C. (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS, JR The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 3696 PIEDMONT DRIVE, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: LAKE‐ VIEW LOAN SER‐ VICING, LLC VERSUS SCOTT W. BANKS CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No:

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Case No: 2026-553 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 3696 PIEDMONT DR NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70122 LOTS: 23, 22, AND 1/2 OF LOT 21; SQUARE: P THIRD MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT MIN: ACQ 1365992 GENTILLY PARK‐ WAY SUBDIVI‐ SION WRIT AMOUNT: $263,225.22 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

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TJ 34 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐ TORNEYS AT LAW 318-3881440 CANDACE A. COURTEAU The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 248 CHEROKEE STREET, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: FED‐ ERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE AS‐ SOCIATION VER‐ SUS MICHELLE BUSHEY WASHINGTON A/K/A MICHELLE BUSHEY IVY WASHINGTON

TJ 18 JACKSON & MCPHERSON LLC 504-5819444 KATE A. SOTO‐ LONGO

CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2024-11204

The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026

By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit:

jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 9234-36 APPLE STREET, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: BRIDGE LOAN VENTURE VI QV TRUST 2024-3 VERSUS 5GK PROPERTIES LLC AND KEVIN BAI‐ LEY A/K/A KEVIN A. BAILEY CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-1507 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 9234-36 APPLE ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70118 LOT: Y-5, SQUARE: 366 SEVENTH MU‐ NICIPAL DIS‐ TRICT ACQ MIN: 1443457 WRIT AMOUNT: $244,000.00 Seized

in

the

248 CHEROKEE ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70118 APT 33 A CONDO: SQUARE 39 & 40, LOTS 7,11-B, 8, 14, 17-A, 18-A, 19, 20, & 21 SEVENTH MU‐ NICIPAL DIS‐ TRICT ACQ MIN:1386842 WRIT AMOUNT: $253,204.38 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 15 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐ TORNEYS AT LAW 318-3880

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LAW 318 388 1440 ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 4574 LAINE AVENUE, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER ENTI‐ TLED: FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS JOANN DAVIS AKA JO ANN DAVIS CAMEL CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-619 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 4574 LAINE AV NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126 LOTS: 1, 2, 1A AND 2A, SQUARE: 1-12 THIRD MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT MIN: ACQ 1397339 BLUM ANTOINE SUBDIVISION WRIT AMOUNT: $73,538.14 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 16 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐ TORNEYS AT LAW 318-3881440 ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 5100 KENDALL DRIVE, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER ENTI‐ TLED: U.S. BANK NATIONAL AS‐ SOCIATION VER‐ SUS ANNAMAE C. WOODS A/K/A ANNA‐ MAE CROCKER WOODS A/K/A ANNAMAE CROCKER VIN‐ CENT WOODS

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-867 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure di‐ and Sale rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 5100 KENDALL DR NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70126 LOT: K, SQUARE: 25 THRID MUNICI‐ PAL DISRTICT ACQ MIN: 513646 WRIT AMOUNT: $15,863.23 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 14 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐ TORNEYS AT LAW 318-3881440 ZACHARY G. YOUNG The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 2839 GENERAL TAY‐ LOR STREET, CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS, IN THE MATTER ENTI‐ TLED: LOANDE‐ POT.COM, LLC VERSUS JERRIN D. MORGAN A/K/A JERRIN MORGAN CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-173 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 2839 GENERAL TAYLOR ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115 LOT: A, SQUARE: 3 SIXTH MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 202236284 WRIT AMOUNT

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36284 WRIT AMOUNT: $355,547.11 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 31 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 4741 HAUCK DR, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK AS TRUSTEE FOR NATIONSTAR HOME EQUITY LOAN TRUST 2007 B VERSUS DOROTHY KNOX BUTLER CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-7090 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on July 16, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the fol‐ lowing de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ OF TION GROUND. TO‐ GETHER WITH ALL THE BUILD‐ INGS AND IMPROVE‐ MENTS THEREON, AND ALL THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVI‐ LEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN ANYWISE AP‐ PERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE THIRD DIS‐ TRICT OF THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN SECTION B OF MERLIE MANOR SUBDIVISION. ACCORDING TO SURVEY MADE BY J.J. KREBS & SONS, DATED JULY 25, 1958, SAID SQUARE IS BOUNDED BY HAUCK DRIVE, PRESSBURG GOOD STREET, DRIVE, AND PRENTISS AV‐ ENUE, SAID LOT COMMENCES AT A DISTANCE OF 480 FEET FROM THE CORNER OF HAUCK DRIVE AND PRESSBURG

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PRESSBURG STREET AND MEASURES THENCE 60 FEET FRONT ON HAUCK DRJVE, SIMILAR WIDTH IN THE REAR. BY A DEPTH OF 90.24 FEET BE‐ TWEEN EQUAL AND PARALLEL LINES. ACCORDING TO SURVEY BY ADLOE ORR, JR. AND ASSOCI‐ ATES, C.E., DATED MARCH 18, 1963, SAlD LOT COM‐ MENCES AT A DISTANCE OF 218.67 FEET FROM THE POINT OF CURVE FORM‐ ING THE COR‐ NER OF HAUCK DRIVE AND PRENTISS AVENUE AND HAS THE SAME DESIGNATION AND MEASURE‐ MENTS AS ABOVE SET FORTH AND ALL AS SHOWN ON SURVEY BY STERLING MAN‐ DLE, LAND SUR‐ VEYOR, DATED JUNE 26, 1975. ALL AS MORE FULLY SHOWN ON A MORE RECENT SURVEY MADE BY UNI‐ VERSAL LAND SURVEYORS, INC., DATED 9/9/86; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights of way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the prop‐ erty.

WRIT AMOUNT: $33,743.71 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 8 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐ TORNEYS AT LAW 318 388 1440 The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 6/10/2026 & 7/15/2026 jun 10-jul 15 PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 8233 S. CLAIBORNE AV, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: CITI‐ MORTGAGE, INC VERSUS HELEN SMITH GREEN A/K/A HELEN G. SMITH A/K/A HELEN GREEN A/K/A HELEN SMITH-GREEN A/K/A HELEN A. GREEN A/K/A HELEN SMITH CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-233 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court 421 Building, L l A

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Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 8233 S CLAI‐ BORNE AV NEW ORLEANS, LA 70118 LOT 2 - SQUARE 343 7TH MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 730214 WRIT AMOUNT: $228.14 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 27 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR., L.L.C. (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS, JR. The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 3126 N. ROBERTSON ST, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: CAR‐ RINGTON MORT‐ GAGE SERVICES LLC VERSUS NAKISHA SKIDMORE, IN HER CAPACITY AS INDEPEN‐ DENT ADMINIS‐ TRATOR OF THE SUCCESSION OF BERNADINE MCGEE A/K/A BERNADINE MCGEE CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-896 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 3126 N ROBERT‐ SON ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70117 LOT 24-A SQUARE 604 3RD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1364925 WRIT AMOUNT: $233,899.78 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified

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Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 26 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 4124 S. JOHNSON ST, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: FIRST HORIZON BANK VERSUS CHRISTAL RUBY HURST A/K/A CHRISTAL R. HURST A/K/A CHRISTAL HURST CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-1314 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 4124 S JOHNSON ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70125 LOT 9 - SQUARE 730 6TH MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1101643 WRIT AMOUNT: $36,775.58 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 25 THE LAW OF‐ FICES OF HER‐ SCHEL C. AD‐ COCK, JR. LLC (225) 756-0373 DENNIS F. WIG‐ GINS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL

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ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 1022-24 ORANGE STREET THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR VELOCITY COM‐ MERCIAL CAPITAL LOAN TRUST 2018-2 VERSUS MOY‐ VANE-ARABIAN PROPERTIES, LLC CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2024-6611 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 1022-24 ORANGE ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70130 LOT: 6, SQUARE: 146 FIRST MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1275923 WRIT AMOUNT: $277,829.51 Seized in the above suit, TERMS -100% CASH AT THE MOMENT OF AD‐ JUDICATION. Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 18 MCCABE LAW FIRM, LLC 504782-3436 RYAN M. MC‐ CABE The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 7901 DANUBE RD, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: HSBC BANK USA, NA‐ TIONAL ASSOIA‐ TION, AS TRUSTEE FOR WELLS FARGO HOME EQUITY ASSETBACKED SECURI‐ TIES 2005-1 TRUST, HOME EQUITY ASSETBACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-1 VERSUS ANITA TONEY A/K/A ANITA M. TONEY CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-8004 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City A t 20

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trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 7901 DANUBE RD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126 LOTS - 38 & 39 SQUARE D 3RD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1119666 WRIT AMOUNT: $69,609.12 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 15 LAW OFFICES OF HERSCHEL C. ADCOCK, JR., LLC (225) 7560373 COREY J. GIROIR The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 916 NORTH TONTI STREET, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER ENTITLED: NEWREZ LLC D/B/A SHELL‐ POINT MORT‐ GAGE SERVIC‐ ING VERSUS LORENZO R. RODGERS (A/K/A LORENZO RODGERS) CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2024-11171 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 916 N TONTI ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119 LOTS: 1 AND 2, SQUARE: 294 SECOND MUNIC‐ IPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 909085 WRIT AMOUNT: $119,538.55 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING G

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UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 16 LOGS LEGAL GROUP LLP 504838-7535 AMY R. ORTIS The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 1631 PIETY ST, CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS, IN THE MATTER ENTITLED: COM‐ MERCIAL LENDER LLC VERSUS MGW REAL ESTATE LLC CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2026-1272 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 1631 PIETY ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70117 LOT 35 - SQUARE 731 3RD MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1439114 WRIT AMOUNT: $189,186.00 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 11 JACKSON & MCPHERSON LLC 504-5819444 KATE A. SOTO‐ LONGO The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 2501 BANKS STREET, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER ENTI‐ TLED: FORSTALL FOLLIES, LLC VERSUS PAUL SYLVESTER, JR., MICHAEL TESSI‐ TORE, AND LIBERTY BANK AND TRUST COMPANY

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CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2021-1906 By virtue of a Court Order di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 2501 BANKS ST NEW ORLEANS, LA LOT 30, SQUARE 578, FIRST MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT, ACQ CIN: 483348 TERMS - 100% CASH AT THE MOMENT OF AD‐ JUDICATION. Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

BD 12 JONAH FREED‐ MAN LAW LLC 504-475-8075 The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAT‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBERS 130132 S. OLYMPIA ST, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: WILM‐ INGTON SAV‐ INGS FUND SO‐ CIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVID‐ UAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE OF NYMT LOAN TRUST 2024INV1 VERSUS 130 OLYMPIA LLC AND GABRIEL INTERI‐ ANO CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-6745 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 130-132 S OLYMPIA ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119 LOT 3 - SQUARE 818 1ST MUNICIPAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1461379 WRIT AMOUNT: $355,645.15 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐

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to make a de posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 9 HALLIDAY, WATKINS & MANN P.C. AT‐ TORNEYS AT LAW 318-3881440 The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 2519 ST ANTHONY STREET, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER ENTITLED: IPF22, L.L.C. VERSUS JIMMIE L. TURNER, THE UNOPENED SUC‐ CESSION OF ALBERT FRANK FRANCOIS, JR., THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF ALICE FRANCOIS CLARK THOMAS, AND THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF CONSTANCE FRANCOIS AU‐ GUSTUS CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-3549 By virtue of a Court Order di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 2519 ST AN‐ THONY ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70119 LOT V, SQUARE 1374, THIRD MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT, CIN: 768994 TERMS - 100% CASH AT THE MOMENT OF AD‐ JUDICATION. Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

BD 14 JONAH FREED‐ MAN LAW, LLC 504-475-8075 JONAH FREED‐ MAN The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT

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THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 1018 DELACHAISE STREET, CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, IN THE MATTER ENTITLED: PA‐ CIFIC RBLF FUNDING TRUST VERSUS PAR‐ ADISE VEN‐ TURES GROUP LLC CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-8520 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 1018 DELACHAISE ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70115 LOT: B, SQUARE: 214 SIXTH MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 1432411 WRIT AMOUNT: $270,159.00 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

TJ 2 ADAMS AND REESE LLP 504581-3234 The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 10555 LAKE FOREST BD, UNIT 9C, CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS, IN THE MATTER ENTI‐ TLED: DEER PARK OFFICE CONDOMINIUM OWNERS ASSO‐ CIATION, INC. VERSUS GRAY LAW GROUP, LLC CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2017-2975 By virtue of a Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias directed to me by the Hon‐ orable Judges of Civil District Court for the Parish of Or‐ leans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 ' l k

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2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT, along with its appurtenant 0.0250% interest in and to the common el‐ ements situated in the Third Mu‐ nicipal District of the City of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, des‐ ignated as Unit 9C of Deer Park Office Condo‐ minium per the official Condo‐ minium Declara‐ tion dated April 15, 1983, regis‐ tered in COB 788 B, folio 19, NA# 496079.

Said Condominium is situated on land formerly de‐ scribed as Lot 3B 8B, Deer Park Subdivision, Third District.

The Unit bears the Municipal No. 10555 Lake Forest Blvd., Unit 9C, New Or‐ leans, Louisiana 70127.

Being the same property ac‐ quired by Ven‐ dor by act regis‐ tered in CIN 493993, Parish of Orleans, Louisiana.

This act is made and accepted subject to the following: 1. Any and all restrictions, overlaps, over‐ hangs, servi‐ tudes and/or easements, rights of ways and outstanding rights of record which might be shown on a cur‐ rent survey of the property.

WRIT AMOUNT: $10,000.00 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

RB 28 THE SILVER‐ STEIN LAW FIRM, A PLC 504 362 3692 IRL R. SILVER‐ STEIN The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t PUBLIC NOTICE --SALE BY SHERIFF JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND BEAR‐ ING MUNICIPAL NUMBER 924-926 SPAIN STREET, THIS CITY, IN THE MATTER EN‐ TITLED: STAN‐ DARD MORT‐ GAGE CORPORA‐ TION VERSUS WILLIAM AR‐ MOUR, IV CIVIL DISTRICT COURTFOR PARISHOF ORLEANS Case No: 2025-2641 By virtue of a Writ of Seizure and Sale di‐ rected to me by the Honorable Judges of Civil Court District for the Parish of Orleans, in the b titl d

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Orleans, in the above entitled cause, I will pro‐ ceed to sell by public auction, on the ground floor of the Civil District Court Building, 421 Loyola Avenue, in the First Dis‐ trict of the City on August 20, 2026, at 12:00 o'clock noon, the following described prop‐ erty to wit: 924-926 SPAIN ST NEW OR‐ LEANS, LA 70117 LOT: 13, SQUARE: 274 THIRD MUNICI‐ PAL DISTRICT ACQ MIN: 583737 WRIT AMOUNT: $51,267.28 Seized in the above suit, TERMS - CASH. The purchaser at the moment of adjudication to make a de‐ posit of ten per‐ cent of the pur‐ chase price, and the balance within thirty days thereafter.

Note: The pay‐ ment must be Cash, Cashier's Check, Certified Check or Money Order. No Per‐ sonal Checks.

FACE MASKS AND TEMPERA‐ TURECHECKS ARE REQUIRED UPON ENTERING BUILDING. Michelle Woodfork Sheriff, Parish of leans

M. Or‐

GH 7 GRAHAM, ARCE‐ NEAUX & ALLEN, LLC 504-5228256 LOUIS G. ARCE‐ NEAUX The N.O. Advo‐ cate Date (s): 7/15/2026 & 8/19/2026 jul 15-aug 19-2t Public Notices Successions

PUBLIC NOTICE --24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-167 DIV: "O" SUCCESSION OF TATANISHA E. JACKSON VS. FREDERICK LEONARD JR, ET. AL PUBLIC NOTICE OF PARTI‐ TION BY PRIVATE SALE By virtue of an order of this Honorable Court in the above and titled mat‐ ter, Tatanisha E. Jackson, will proceed to sell, by private sale, the immov‐ able property described as: CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in appertaining, anywise situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jef‐ ferson, in Township 14 South, Ranges 23 and Mississippi River, known as Harvey Canal Prop‐ erty, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, formerly des‐ ignated as PARCEL Q-2-B, which said portion of ground has been resub‐ divided into WOODMERE SOUTH SUBDIVISION SECTION 3, all as per plan of resubdivision made by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. C.E.& S., dated October 10, 1983, approved by the Jefferson Parish Counsel

by Ordinance No. 15784, recorded in COB 1064, folio 925, and as per Act of Dedication before Odom B. Heebe, Notary Public, dated February 2, 1984, recorded in COB 1067, folio 270, same being designated as LOT 851, SQUARE S, which said square is bounded commences at a dis‐ tance of 62.13 feet from the intersection of Cim‐ wood Drive and Prim wood, same with across the rear, by a depth of 100 feet between equal and parallel lines; all as per survey made by J.J. Krebs & Sons Inc., dated March 21, 1986, resur‐ veyed May 2, 1986, to show improvements des‐ ignated as 3105 Prim‐ wood Drive.

Improvements thereon bear the Municipal No. 3105 Primwood Drive, Harvey, LA 70058.

Under the terms and the price as set out in the Pe‐ tition for Partition by pri‐ vate Sale and Judgment entered in the above ref‐ erenced case, said sale to take place on July 30th, 2026 at Title Man‐ agement Group, Inc. 3421 North Causeway Blvd, Suite 300, Metairie, Louisiana 70002 JON A. GEGENHEIMER CLERK Attorney: Ryan C. Hamilton 3835 Elysian Fields Av‐ enue New Orleans, LA 70122 192140-jun 24-jul 15-1t $97

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