After more than adecade of stalled negotiations, NewOrleans Mayor Helena Moreno and Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng on Thursday announced a new agreement to redevelop an area of West End Park once known as arestaurant and entertainment hub.
In arare joint news conference between leaders of the two parishes, Moreno and Lee Shengwere joined by state Rep. Stephanie Hilferty,R-New Orleans, and other leaders to celebrate what’sknown as acooperative endeavor agreement.
LeadersplanWestEnd transformation
Shengmeettoannounceredevelopment agreement
“This isreally an exampleof the progress that cantake placewhen we canwork together.”
HELENA MORENO,New Orleans mayor
The finalized pact, which was stalled for years over howsales taxes of anynew businesseswould be doled out, will allow them to pursue redevelopment proposals and split salestax revenuesfor the portion of West End that’ssat idle since Hurricane Katrina. Redevelopment proposals could include aboardwalkorpierin addition to restaurants or others businesses, according to Hilferty,
who sponsored legislation to help create an economic development district for thearea.
Moreno,speakingnearwhere Fitzgerald’s, Augie’sDel Lago and Jaeger’soncestood on pilings jutting out intoLake Pontchartrain, said the new redevelopment would not only attract residents from bothparishes back to thearea, but visitors fromacross the regionas well.
“Before HurricaneKatrina, this wasreallyquite an amazingplace where there were so manyrestaurants and entertainment venues, andI’m so excitedthatsoonthat is what it will return to,” Moreno
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Presidentraising doubts aboutelectionsecurityheading into
BY MICHELLEL.PRICE, ERIC TUCKERand COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press
WASHINGTON PresidentDonald Trump used aprimetimeaddress to the nation Thursdaytoonce again raise doubts about the resultsofpast elections, revivinga subject he’slong used to make unproven claims and deny his loss in the 2020 election. Trump’sfixation on his loss to Democrat Joe Biden six years ago andthe long-debunked theories he’scirculatedabout it are things he still brings up regularly when discussing other subjects. Butelevatingthe deeply political and conspiratorial topics to apresidential primetime address underscores the lengths to which Trump hasused his second term to both blow past norms and fixateonold grievances. Trumpbegan Thursday night withastark warning about what he describedasflawsinthe
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Lawfirm auctions offart
Nearly 75 pieces available in bankruptcy sale
BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer
Nearly 75 works of art that once adorned the offices of McGlinchey Stafford were auctionedoff Thursday,asthe formerlaw firm, which dissolved early this year after half acentury in business, liquidates its assets to settlemore than $13 million in debts.
The McGlinchey collection included dozensofoils, acrylicsand watercolors from someofthe best-knownSouthern artists of the 20th century,aswell as statues, pottery and antiques, according to court records included in the firmsChapter 7bankruptcy filing.
Among thebig-ticketitems: an Ida Kohlmeyeroil,which soldfor $55,000, and an Enrique Alferez sculpture that fetched $60,000 —more than double whatbankruptcy court documents had listed as the estimated value of thebronze work, entitled “Woman in a
STAFFPHOTO By CHRISGRANGER
Jefferson Parish President CynthiaLee Sheng,left, and NewOrleans MayorHelena Moreno stand on abulkhead overlookingWest End Park on Thursday.
STAFF PHOTO By BRETT DUKE
Series,
center, at NealAuction Company in NewOrleans on Thursday.The oilpainting
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2plead not guilty in attack plot on UFC fight COLUMBUS,Ohio Twoofthe eight men indicted in an alleged drone and sniper plot to attack PresidentDonaldTrump’sUFC cage-fightingshowonthe White House lawn pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal conspiracy charges.
Clothed in jail garb and shackled, Tycen Proper,19, of Danville, Ohio, and ChandlerScaggs,21, of Chapmanville, West Virginia, entered the pleas before U.S. District Court Judge Edmund Sargus Jr.inOhio, wherethe case has been consolidated. They and the other six defendants are each charged with conspiracy to providematerial supporttoterrorists and conspiracy to commit murder on federal government territory and to murder afederal government official.
Sargus scheduled their trial to begin Sept. 14.
It remains unclear from the court recordhow closethe would-be attackers were to being able to carry out theplan they are alleged to havehatched. Scaggs’ attorney,EricBrehm, said in astatement that his office is only in the early stages of reviewing the case, “but one issue is already clear: there appears to be asignificant disconnect between the severityofthe alleged offenses and Mr.Scaggs’ naivety,lackofsophistication, and judgment.” The firstcharge is punishable by up to 15 years in prison; the second could mean prison for life.
Puerto Rico announces water rationing
SAN JUAN,Puerto Rico PuertoRico announced water rationing measures on Thursdayasa drought gripsthe U.S. territory,worsening chronic water shortagesthat have forced the governorto declare astate of emergency Thousands of people in the island’snortheast region face 48-hourrationing periods from Friday,said Luis González, executive president of the island’s water and sewer authority.
The rationing program will affect several communities in the cities of Canovanas and Rio Grande as temperatureskeep rising. “There’sjust not enough water,” he said, adding that rationing will likely be extendedto other areas.
González blamed alack of rain, although severe water shortages began affecting some ofthe island’smost populated areas monthsbefore the drought began, with officials yet to identify the problem.
Those outages prompted the mayor of San Juan to sue the island’s Water and Sewer Authority in late May,with Gov.Jenniffer González acknowledging thatthe agency’sinfrastructure has lacked investment and maintenance for decades.
1killed in crowd surge at Hindu festival in India
NEWDELHI Asudden crowd surge at apopular Hindufestival in eastern India’sOdisha state on Thursday left at least one person dead and manyhospitalized, a news agency reported.
The incident occurred as tens of thousands of people gathered in the coastal town of Puri for the annual RathYatra chariotfestival, according to the Press Trust of India.
The festival is considered one of the world’soldest and largest religious processions. The centuries-old festival involves the idols of Hindu deities being taken outofthe Jagannath Temple and carried through the streets in colorfully decorated chariots.
Videos from the sceneshowed injured devotees being carried to hospitals as shoes, bags and other belongings were left strewn across the area in the aftermath of the incident.
Odisha police said in asocial media post that rescue teams provided first aid and oxygen to 33 peoplebeforetransferring them to nearby hospitals.
U.S. expandsattacks on Iran
Bridges increasingly being targeted
BY JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates
TheUnited States expanded its airstrike campaign against Iran early Friday by increasingly hitting bridges, part of PresidentDonaldTrump’s threatstostart striking infrastructure to pressure Tehran to easeits chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz. Iran launched new missile attacksagainst U.S.-allied nations in the Middle East and warned thatits attacks would escalate.
In Qatar,authorities warned thepublictotake shelter as abarrage of Iranian missilestargeted the nation. People heard explosions overhead as air defenses fired to intercept the missiles.
Qatarisakey mediator with Pakistan in trying to reach an end to theIran war.But talks havebroken down over Iran’schokehold on theStrait of Hormuz Iran earlier targeted Bahrain and Kuwaitover U.S.airstrikes hitting bridges in the Islamic Republic overnight. The interim ceasefire agreed to last month has collapsed, and the regionhas endured days of
back-and-forth attacks by theU.S. and Iran as theybattle for controlof thestrait. Iranian officials say U.S.strikes have killed more than 35 people and wounded over 300 others, with new casualties reported in Friday’sstrikes.
Whenthe U.S.and Israel launched the war on Iran on Feb.28, Tehran effectively closed the straittoshipping traffic, amovethatsent theprice of oil soaring and gave Iran major leverage in negotiations. Speaking in aprimetime address to the American public, Trumpinsisted the war was going well.
“Weare likewise winning big in Iran, and you will see thefruits of that labor very, very shortly,” Trumpsaid. Col. EbrahimZolfaghari, aspokespersonfor the Iranian military’sKhatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters, earlier threatened that Iran could launch widespread attacks on “all the infrastructure in the region” if the U.S. acted on Trump ‘s repeated warnings that America could hit Iranian bridgesand power plants. “Under no circumstances and in no way will we allow America, as aforeign and extraregional country,to
interfere in theStraitof Hormuz,”headded. “This is Iran’sinvincible red line.”
The U.S. airstrikeshit bridges overnight into Friday in Iran’ssouthern Hormozgan province, killing at least seven people, Iranian state television reported. Theattacks hit Bandar Khamir,a city on Iran’scoast on the Strait of Hormuz.
Iranianstate media said the U.S. strikes Thursday hit around Tehranand Semnan province, home to Iran’sballistic missile production and space program
Trumphas returned in recent days to histhreats to target Iranian power stations and bridgestotry to compel Iran to loosen its hold on thestrait, through which aboutafifthofall oil and natural gas once passedinpeacetime. The U.S. also reimposed anaval blockade on Iranian portstohaltits shipments of crude oil.
Week-to-week cargo shipments through the strait dropped by almost aquarter at the beginning of the month, according to Maritime data firm Lloyd’sList Intelligence. And that was before the recent surge in tit-for-tat attacks. Given the risks, some oilshippers aretransiting the strait with theirlocation devices turned off, but many are just staying put, Lloyd’ssaid Thursday Agrowing amount of the region’senergy is being shipped through pipelines, but notnearly enough to offset the decline in shipping through the strait. U.S. forces have redirected three commercial vessels trying to run the blockade, disabled one that did not comply and boarded another “to ensure full compliance,” the U.S. military’sCentralCommand said in apost on X. Associated Press writers Abby Sewell in Beirut, MaeAnderson in New York and Christopher Weber in Los Angeles contributed to this report.
Ukrainians protestousterofdefense minister
BY SAMYAKULLAB and ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press
KYIV,Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shook up his wartime government,drawing thousands into the streets Thursday across Ukraine to protest theouster of his youthful defense minister —seen as an innovator of the country’ssuccessful drone technology but who clashedwith thetraditional military establishment.
The personnel overhaul, which included replacing his prime minister,could becomeatestofZelenskyy’spolitical authority as Ukraine’s fight against Russia’sfull-scale invasion approaches41/2 years. Zelenskyy has remained in office undermartial law because wartimeelections areprohibited but has periodically reshuffled his government.
Themoves threw Ukraine’smilitary leadership into an unwelcome crisisatatimewhen its actions against Russia are starting to bear fruit and
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Ukranians gather ThursdayinKyiv, Ukraine, to denounce PresidentVolodymyr Zelenskyy’sdecisiontodismiss Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov.
as Moscow hasunleashed unrelenting aerial attacks Twopeople were killedand five otherswerewounded, including achild, when Russianmissileshit the capital of Kyiv overnight, Ukraine’sEmergency Service said.
In making thechanges, Zelenskyycited friction between outgoing Defense MinisterMykhailo Fedorovand Gen.Oleksandr Syrskyi,the commander of Ukraine’sarmed forces “I’mjust showing that
if thesides can’tresolve an issue, Iwill have to resolve it,”Zelenskyy said at anews conference.
Fedorov,35, is considered to be avigorous modernizer whose technological expertise is credited in part with significantly improving Ukraine’smilitaryperformance in recent months againstRussia’s bigger army.Heisleaving thegovernment after only six months in thepost.
Fedorov appeared at anewsconferenceina
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dark T-shirtand jeans, and accused Syrskyi of blocking reformsneeded because “the war has changedcompletely” due to new technology like drones.
During his time in office, he secured restrictions on Russian forces’ access to the Starlink satellite communications system, allowing Ukraine to better leverage its midrange strike capabilities giving Kyiv significant battlefield advantages.
Fedorov said he was willing to work with Syrskyi, “but we encountered asituation in which all the initiatives we proposed began to be blocked.” “Under this arrangement (with Syrskyi as commander), Ipersonally do not know how the war can be won,” he said. On social media, Fedorov highlighted what he called his major achievements: redirecting funds earmarked for salaries into midrange strike capabilities, fiber-opticdrones, reconnaissance systemsand other technologies. He pointed to expanded drone procurement, Patriot missile defense contracts, successful ballisticmissile tests and sweeping changes to military procurement.
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MEXICO CITY The U.S. government has designatedtwo new Mexican cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. They are theJuárez Cartel,onthe border with Texas, and Los Viagras, a criminal group from the western state of Michoacán. The Federal Register, the U.S. government’s gazette, published the designation on Thursday Theyjoined sixother Mexicancriminalorganizationsthatthe U.S. considers terrorist groups, including theSinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel. Gangs in other Latin American countries, including Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador and El Salvador,also have beendesignatedasforeign terrorist organizations by
theTrumpadministration. President DonaldTrump begantoextend theterrorist label to LatinAmerican cartelsinFebruary 2025 to allow U.S. authoritiestotake more aggressive action against them or againstanyone who theU.S. sees as aiding the groups.
SecretaryofState Marco Rubiosaid that both criminalgroupseither have committedterrorist acts or pose aserious risk of committing acts thatthreaten the security of U.S. nationalsorthe national security,foreign policy,oreconomy of the United States. The measure represents afurther increase in pressure on Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum’sadministration following the indictmentof10current andformerofficialsfrom the state of Sinaloafor al-
leged ties to the Sinaloa Cartel, as well as thecontroversies aboutU.S. operations in Mexico.
Juarez Cartel is one of Mexico’soldestdrug trafficking organizations, which for decades has controlleda keycrossing point in thecentral part of the Mexico-U.S. border: Ciudad Juárez,across from El Paso, Texas. One of its factions is considered responsible for the 2019 deaths of nine U.S. citizens, six of whom were children.
Los Viagras is alocal cartel in the western state of Michoacan, which is alreadyhome to two other criminal groupsdesignated as terrorist organizations: Cárteles Unidos and La NuevaFamiliaMichoacana. The Jalisco New Generation Cartel and partners of SinaloaCartel also operate in this state.
ISNA PHOTO By RAZIEH POUDAT
Three boys playinthe shallowwaters of the Strait of Hormuz as aplumeofsmokerises from an explosion in the background on Mondayoff Bandar Abbas, Iran.
Texas flash floodsleave at least1dead
BY JESSE BEDAYN and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press
UVALDE, Texas
Rescuers aboard boats and helicopters saved dozens of stranded drivers and people trapped in homes from catastrophic flash floods in Texas in areas stillreeling from devastating floods ayear ago.
At least one person was dead, Gov.Greg Abbott said, adding that it appeared many of the summer camps hit hard last year were notin danger.“Our No.1focus is saving lives,” he said.
After days of pounding rain, the National Weather Service saida“large and deadly flood wave” barreled downthe sameriver wrecked by flash floods last summer when two dozen children andcounselors were killed at Camp Mystic. Much like last year,the floods came in the middle of the night. But this time some residents in the Texas Hill Country said they received more warnings.
Forecasters urgently warned, “Move to higher ground now!” as rivers rose hour by hour,turning them into fast-moving seasof
whitewater.Somespots of the Guadalupe River rose by more than 30 feet.
The governor said more than 1,300 first responders were deployed, rescuing well over 70 people.
As much as 28 inches of rainfellover thepast three days in Uvalde County, whichwas spared from the worst floodinga yearago, the weather service said Thursday. Other areas saw roughly afoot of rain with more expectedgoing into Friday.
“This is hopefully the last realbatch of rain,”saidJasonRunyen, ameteorologist with the weatherservice
Whileauthorities have not released the name of theperson who died, Jennie Steward said the body of her husband, 65-year-old John Mark Steward, of Kerrville, wasfound Thursday.
She was visiting herparents when aneighbor calledovernight, saying her husband was missing after water had risen tothe door of their mobilehome, whichstood about 8feet off the ground.
The entire home was swept off the platform and floated down Goat Creek on the Guadalupe River, she said
“It’sreally hard that I
wasn’t there with him,”she said. The two were married three yearsago andlast spoke by phone Wednesday to celebrate theiranniversary
The unfolding crisis brought back haunting memories of last summer’s unimaginableHillCountry floodsthatkilledmore than 100 people over the July Fourth holiday.
“It’scrazy happening two times in one year,” said JosiahRodriguez,who awoke to the sound of heavy rain around2 a.m. Thursday in Kerrville.Henavigated flooded roads to help evacu-
aterelatives
“Last year there was no warningofit,” he said. “It just kind of happened overnight and it took everyone by surprise. This year,alot more alerts have gone into place, a lot more safetymeasures.”
Residents saidthey were caught off guard ayearago and didn’treceive any warning when floodsovertopped the Guadalupe. Some local leaders were criticized for not acting quickly
Thestorms and flooding thistime threatened multiple counties closetothe Mexico border and in the Hill Country near San Anto-
nio. Roughly six millionresidents across Texas were under aflood watch this week, and some were expected to remain in effect through Friday evening.
Several agenciessent rescue helicopters to the flood zone, including Travis County in the state capital of Austin.
“My understanding is people were mostlytrapped in trees andonrooftops,”said Travis CountyJudge Andy Brown, whosaid onecaller warned 10 people were trapped on abarn roof.
At awild animalrescue, Katie Buck evacuated several dozen animalstohigher ground in the dark Thursday as thenormally dry Lazy Creek overflowed. She had to quicklygrab aporcupine despite having no gloves.
She got all of the animals to safety,but flooding destroyed several enclosures at the BuckWild AnimalRescue and Wildlife Rehabnear Ingram in Kerr County
“Wewerejuststartingto get backonour feet again,” Buck said. “Tohave to go throughthisagain is just devastating.”
Residents at an RV park in Comfort moved their trailers
as sirens sounded, said manager Duke Earwood. Water rose over thehoods of vehicles parked near the river at the Comfort RV Resort. Markers showed the flooding already matched last July’sbig flood.
“Too familiar forsure, and too soon,” Earwood said. Floodwaters also overran the city of Uvalde overnight, cutting offmost outside routes. The Leona River,normally dry most of the year, filled streets with water
“People really can’tget anywhere,” said Carmen Rodriguez, who nervously watchedwater engulf her neighborhood as ahelicopter roared overhead. “Wehave a place to go, but all the streets are closed.”
Rodriguezsaidauthorities seemed to be well prepared, ordering mandatory evacuations and notifying people directly Texas Game Wardens rescued close to 150 people by the afternoon, according to aTexas Parks andWildlife Department spokesperson. Video released by the agency showed crewshoisting children from ahouse surroundedwithwater intoa helicopter
Blanchemeets with Epsteinaccusersafter demand from GOPsenator
BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press
WASHINGTON Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche met Thursday with accusers of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein following the demand by aRepublican senator whose support is crucial to advancing his nomination to lead the Justice Department. Blanche met for about an hour with agroup of Epstein’saccusers at Justice Department headquarters in Washington. After the meeting, Blanche told reporters
that he encouraged the accusers to come to the FBI with any information that could help investigators
The political firestorm over Epstein has been a persistent headache for the Trump administration, which released millions of investigativedocuments over the last yearin responsetoright-wing clamoringfor answers aboutthe disgraced financier’scrimes and connections to high-pro-
file people.
The Justice Department hasrepeatedly said it will investigate further if new information surfaces, but the government doesn’t currently have evidence to supportadditionalprosecutionsagainstpeople tied to Epstein.
“It wasn’tall cordial,” Blanche said of Thursday’s meeting. “Because there’s something that they want that Idon’t think Ican give them, which is some form of justice. And Iwant to be able to give justice in theformof prosecutions,and maybewe can do aprosecution at some
point,” Blanche said.
But Blanche added,“Idon’t know.”
Oneaccuser,Dani Bensky, expressedfrustration after the meeting, telling NBC in an interview thatitwasn’t substantive or productive.
“My mind has not been changed that he will do what is best for the American people andsurvivorsinthis country,” she said.
Earlier Thursday, Bensky told lawmakers on theSenate Judiciary Committee that women harmedbyEpstein repeatedly asked to meet with Blanche “through multiple channels andhenever
responded.”
“Wedeserve to be heard directly,not dismissedand ignored,” Bensky said.
Blanche has pushed back on suggestions that the Justice Departmenthas been dismissive of the late financier’saccusers, saying officials have spoken with more than 30 representatives of the women over thecourseoftheir sweeping review of the files.
“The DepartmentofJustice will always meetwith victimsortheir representatives, and if those victims or their representatives have evidence that anybody committed acrime —whether
it has to do withJeffrey Epstein or anybody else —we will of course moveforward andinvestigate andprosecute,” Blanche told reporters.
Themeeting came hours afterRepublicanSen.Thom Tillis saiditneeded to happen before Blanche could earnhis vote amid criticism from accusers about the Justice Department’shandling of Epstein’s case and atrove of files related to his sex trafficking investigation. Without Tillis’ support, Blanche’snomination won’t makeitthrough theSenate Judiciary Committee.
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Flooding on Thursdayblocks off astreet along the GuadalupeRiver in Kerrville, Texas.
Blanche
said.“This is really an exampleofthe progress that can take place whenwecan work together.”
Lee Sheng saidshe’sbeen working on West End redevelopment since she served as adistrict council member more than adecade ago, and agreed with Moreno on the importance of the land.
“It took alot of people to make this happen,and it took amindset change to make this happen,” Lee Sheng said. “So thank you, andweall look forwardto many,many more regional projects.”
Lee Sheng said the agreement is the firstmajor initiative between the two parishes sinceMoreno took office in January.Inher mayoral campaign, Moreno promised more regional cooperation to tackle issues across parish lines, including emergency planning, economic development, transit and others.
So far,parish officials have taken steps like brainstorming over policy topics during aGreater New Orleans Inc. luncheonand holding more proactive discussions on disaster preparedness during hurricane season. Parish leadersnoted that Thursday’snews conference was thefirst that the two parishes hosted togetherinovera decade,outside of occasional media appearances at the airport.
The agreement announced Thursday is akey step toward development, but there are several more before any work canbegin. Hilferty said astate ground lease is pending approval from Gov.Jeff Landry’s administration. Once the state gives the greenlight, they can begin putting out requests from developers to build restaurants or other retail buildings on the land.
Theplan is to have adeveloper selected by early next year.
Some residents have raised opposition to the redevelopment plan over concerns that new businesses wouldcreate noise, traffic or environmental problems in West End andBucktown They have suggested the land be used for green space or abird sanctuary instead, and cited efforts to place West End Park on the National Register of Historic Places.
Moreno said Thursday that the“overwhelming type offeedback we’vereceived is that people really wanted West End developed again,both in Jefferson and Orleans.”
Any new development will takeplaceonland so as not to disrupt the flow of wateratthe 17thStreet Canal pump station next door. A 2024 state law also prohibits the construction of anyresidential propertyonthe land.
Overseeing the area will be the West End Economic Development District, created throughHilferty’s bill
in the most recent legislative session. The district, runby New Orleans and Jefferson Parish appointees, will be able to levy asales tax of up to 2% on businesses on the land and use those funds for improvements to thearea or theadjacent West End Park.
‘Shock anddisbelief’
The redevelopment announcement was along time in the making. Before Katrina, thearea on thewesternmost side of West End Park served as ahub for restaurants and nightclubs. The storm dev-
astated the area and left only wooden pilings in its aftermath that still poke out of the water
The land was vacant for years as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers built the nearby pump station. Once
construction on the station finished, efforts to revitalize the area remained stalled even after they came to an agreement in 2021.
Unlike most public property,any changestothe land require buy-in from the state, whichowns the water bottoms, and the twoparishes thatshare portions of the land within theirjurisdictions.
According to Moreno, negotiation attempts previously fizzled because New Orleans wanted alarger share of sales tax revenue than Jefferson Parish.
“Looking forthatperfect deal that was never going to happen, unfortunately is what was causing this deal to not happen at all,” Moreno said. “So Ichose progress over delays.”
Former City Council member Joe Giarrusso, who servesasMoreno’ssecondin-command, spearheaded the plan while on the council. And Aimee McCarron, his formerpolicydirector, took his seat on the council. Thathelpedthe stars align
for the project to finally come together
Lee Sheng said that early into the new New Orleans administration, the mayor offered hercooperation during ameeting between Moreno, JeffersonParish council member Hans Liljeberg and the Jefferson Parish attorney
“Our parish attorney came back and they said, ‘Itwas a great meeting, everything well, they agreed to everything. This is going to happen.’ And I’mlike, ‘What?’” Lee Sheng said. “I’m kind of still in shock anddisbelief, but here we are today.”
West End was once considered the “the Coney Island of New Orleans” in the late 19th and early20thcenturies, with amusement rides and astreetcar line. In the 1910s,the city converted the land to the present day West EndPark, with theNew Orleans Municipal Yacht Harbor,boathouses and businesses sprouting there in the decades since.
Today,there are roughly 800 residents living in condominiums, apartments and boathouses in thearea surrounding West End Park, along with about 770 tenants in boat slips. On the eastern edge of the park,restaurants including JB’s FuelDock andFelix’s Restaurant &Oyster Bar line both sides of the canal. Email Lara Nicholsonat lnicholson@theadvocate. com.
AUCTION
Huipil (Seated Woman).”
“Wewere real excited to see the interest in the pieces,” said Neal Auction Co.President Michelle Leckert. “It says alot about the material.”
Altogether,ifthe McGlinchey pieces sold for their maximum estimatedvalue,theywould fetch about $156,000 for the bankruptcy estate
That’satiny fraction of what the firm owes banks, landlords, vendorsand former employees
Still,the auction provided awindow into the world of the one-time powerhouse firm, which had 17 offices in 11 states and 150 attorneys at the time of its shutdown, andwas involved in some of the region’smost significant cases for decades.
Neither the firm nor the attorney representing the bankruptcy trustee responded to requestsfor comment.
Wind-downprocess
McGlinchey Stafford stunned the local legal communityinJanuary by announcing that its equity members, agroup of senior attorneys who owned thefirm,had voted to dissolve.
Avariety of factors contributed to the decision, including departures of several high-profile attorneys, delinquentcollections, internal disagreements and steep costs in far-flung offices. In February,the firm filedfor Chapter 7inthe U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Court records filed at the time show the firm’s liabilitiestopped $13 million andincluded more than $2.5 million in bank debt, $6.5 million in officerent and more than $1.5 million in wage claims to employees. Its $15.5 million in assets, though greater than its liabilities, included more than $9.4 million in accountsreceivables or bills for services that have not yet been paid.
In themonthssince thefiling,the court-appointed trustee overseeing the liquidation of firmassets, Metairie attorney Wilbur “Bill” Babin, has been working with experts to locate and secure client files, clean out offices and negotiate with creditors, including banks and landlords, court documents
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elections.
“America is backand doing really well, but we still have amajor challenge that must be urgently addressed, because no country canbe great without fair and honest elections,” he said. He said all Americans should be assured their elections are free of cheating and interference.
“Unfortunately,the system we have today falls catastrophically short of that standard,” Trump said.
Trump used the remarks to justify his push to pass a strict voterIDbill in Congress.
Primetime presidential addressesare typically reservedfor major milestones or nationally significant events.
Trump last did it in April to speak on theIranwar amonth after it started. He said then that the U.S. would accomplish its objectives“very shortly”and that “the hard part is done, so it should be easy.” The war,however,has dragged on and strikes between the U.S. and Iran haveintensified this week.
Trump also delivereda politically charged primetime speech in December in which he sought to blame the challenging economic climate on Democrats.
Some networks didn’t airit
At least some TV networks saidThursday they would not carry the speech live but would air it on their streaming services. ABC, NBC and CNN decided not to air the remarks live but to carry them in full on their streaming services and break into network coverage as needed.
CBS said it was “airinga special report” during the address, but it wasn’tclear if the network would carry it live.
Trump called out the media outletsfor not carrying it live and accusedthem of
show.The process could take months oryears
SupportofSouthernartists
While McGlinchey had several offices in high-priced buildings around thecountry,including Boston, New York andWashington,D.C., most of the artwork auctioned Thursday camefromthe firm’s homeoffice in New Orleans.
During itsheydayfrom the 1980s through theearly2000s, McGlinchey had its own office building. The building, inthe 600 block of Magazine Street in the Warehouse District, had itsown cafeteriaand gym, as well as lavish amenities.
Many ofthe piecesinthe collection, which moved with the firm in 2008 to the Pan American Life Building on Poydras Street, were purchased during that era, accordingto Neal Auction Co.Directorof FineArt Marney Robinson.
TheMcGlinchey works, 74 lots in all, were among 365 pieces from avariety of privateestates and in-
being “part of aplot.”
Networks typically but don’talways choose to carry presidential addresses to the nation live.In2022, when then-President Joe Biden deliveredaprimetimeaddress fullofwarnings about Donald Trump and his adherents’ “extreme ideology,” the networks did not carry it live.
In 2014, themajornetworks chose to stick with their primetime programming instead of airingan address bythen-President Barack Obama on his plans for immigration reform.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt on Thursday afternoon seemed to be still trying to persuade networks to carry the remarks live, saying, “I think that themainstream media should air the president’s speech and allow theAmerican people to draw their own conclusionsfrom it.”
Questionsabout midterms
Democrats warned that Trump was trying to revive false claims of past stolen elections inorder to delegitimizethe 2026 midterm elections, in which Trump’s Republican Party is facing headwinds.
“Trump is going to usea primetime addresstostoke misleading claimsabout our elections in order to justify interfering in our midterms. It’sonall of us to follow the factsand notaccepthis constantstreamofmisdirections and lies,”Virginia DemocraticSen.Mark Warner saidinastatementonX
“Trump is again trying to drum up baseless election
stitutional sources included in the auction,which featuredmid-century,modern and contemporary art and design.
TheMcGlinchey pieces,Robinson said, were abeautiful collectionofSouthern art thatshowcased the firm’ssupport of local and regional artists.They included twoKohlmeyer works —the $55,000 oil painting, “Circus Series 6-84,” and alithographfrom 1981, which soldfor $1,700, as well as theAlferez sculpture.
There was an antique French mantel clock that soldfor $400 and apastel on paper by Louisiana artist Elemore MorganJr.,“Spring Landscape,” that sold for $5,500.
“It hung over the copy machine in the office,” Robinson said.
An oil paintingbyGeorge Schmidt, “Oculus of thePantheon,” had garnered 14 bids as of Thursday afternoon. The bidders hadrun up the price of the piece, estimated to be worthbetween $3,000 and$5,000 in court documents,to$7,500.
conspiracies ahead of the November elections,”New JerseyDemocratic Sen. Andy Kimsaid in aposton X. “Americans aretired of endless war,skyrocketing gasprices, anda president that isn’t looking out for them. Voters will make their voices heard, whether Trump wants them to or not.”
Leavittdidn’tanswer a question Thursday about whether Trump would acceptthe results of themidterms, though Vice President JD Vancetold reporters on CapitolHilladay earlier that “of course we’re gonna support theresults of themidterm elections.”
Vance bristled Wednesday when asked if he’d encourageTrump in hisThursday remarks to stay focusedon November’smidterm elections rather than relitigate pastelections. “‘The unfounded claims,’ ”Vance said,repeating thereporter’s language. “You’re basically assuming an answerinthe very question that you ask.”
“The presidentisgoing to talk about anumberof things tomorrow night. I’mobviously notgoing to get ahead of his remarks,” Vance said. “But we can talk aboutanumberofthe American people’sproblems.We can solve anumber of the American people’sproblems.”
Before he began speaking about elections, Trump started his speech by ticking through along list of what he said were his administration’saccomplishments —including cuttingdrug prices.
Most of theother works, includingdrawings and framed photographs, hadmoremodestprice tags, ranging from afew hundred dollars to around $1,000.
Ahead of the live bidding Thursday,Leckert said it was difficult to predict how much any of the works, whether from McGlinchey or any of the other sources, would bring in.
Online bidding for the pieces opened threeweeksago,and hundreds of art collectors andinterested buyers from aroundthe world had already started bidding before thelive auction began.
“Butthe majority of the activity happens when the live auction opens,”Leckert said. “So, while there is alot of advanced bidding, at anygivenmoments thereare thousands of people online through theseplatforms watching. We never know what is going to happen.”
Email Stephanie Riegel at stephanie.riegel@theadvocate. com.
Enrique Alferez’ssculpture, ‘Woman in aHuipil(Seated Woman),’isdisplayedatNeal
Elemore Morgan Jr.’s‘Spring Landscape’ oncehung above acopymachine in McGlinchey Stafford’s NewOrleans office.
Wildfire smokemakes airunhealthy across U.S.
BY TAMMY WEBBER and PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press
NEW YORK Heavy,pungent
wildfire smoke darkened skies in the U.S. on Thursday from the Great Lakes to partsofthe East Coast, reducing visibility and prompting warnings thatbreathing the air outside could be dangerous.
Officials in many cities urged residents to stay inside or wear masks outsideasair quality reached unhealthyto hazardous levels, meaning it’s unhealthy for anyone regardless of health conditions. The smoke is coming from fires that are burning primarily in Canada butalso in northern Minnesota. Alingering high pressure system has trapped the smoke close to the ground, said Steven Freitag, aNational Weather Service meteorologist in Detroit, where air quality was among the worst in the world for major cities.
“Sure enough, it arrived in forcehereand it’sreally pretty extreme levels,” said Freitag, who noted that visibility in some areaswas reduced to ahalf mile.
“It’sscary,” Omar Mitchell, 50, saidashelooked he looked to the sky.Hewore amask while walking to his restaurant in Detroit. “You
Apedestrian crosses the
don’tknow necessarily what the sideeffects may be. That’sdays or months later.”
Microscopic particlescan lodge deep in the lungs and enterthe bloodstream,leadingtoheart and lung problems and contributing to other long-termhealth issues.
All of Michigan and much of Minnesotawereunder a hazardous air quality alert. In theChicago area, air quality ranged from very unhealthy to hazardous.
National Weather Service meteorologistJakePetrsaid even if windsfrom the northwest clear skies as expected later this week,the smokyair
Trump’steleprompter operator accusedof making bets on speeches
BY BILL BARROW Associated Press
ATLANTA— PresidentDon-
ald Trump’steleprompter operator is on unpaid leave after reports that he used his inside knowledge to make bets about the president’sspeeches on the online prediction market
Kalshi, the White House said Thursday The firm’senforcement chief said Kalshi contacted federal regulators about bets allegedly made about what the president would say in public addresses.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president is aware of the situation, which she described as “unfortunate” and “a disgrace.”
“The White House has extremelystrict ethical guidelines with respect to issues like this,” Leavitt told reporters, saying the aide is on unpaid leave.
ABC News reported Thursday that Gabriel Perez, who has been operating Trump’steleprompter since 2016, used his inside knowledge to win more than $100,000 betting on what the president would say in big speeches,including the State of the Union address earlier this year Robert Denault, Kalshi’s lawyer and head of enforcement, said on Xthat the “Kalshi surveillance team promptly flagged, investigated andreferred
these trades” to theU.S. Commodity Futures TradingCommission that has regulatory authority over such matters.
His statement didnot name Perez.
“Wehave been assisting regulators on thismatter and provided allevidence that wecollected, aswedo with anyreferral,” Denault added ABCbased itsreporton multiple sources who have knowledge of thematter but spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the details.
The ABCreport described suspicious activity on Kalshi’s“Mentions” market, in which users can place bets on whatphrases and specific words might be usedinpublic speeches. Kalshi recently began requiring users to disclose their placeofemployment, andthe platform’spolicy prohibits betting based on informationthat users gain because of their job Attentiononmembers of the administration profiting from the presidency has reached all theway to Trumphimself.
In hismostrecent financial disclosures,Trump reported making $1.2 billion from his crypto businesses in 2025, raking in profits while his investors suffered losses in marketplaces that Trump has sought to shield from tighter federal regulation.
could keep returning until thefires are out. That could take months,until it snows in Canada and northern Minnesota,officials have said.
“Anytime we have something that could bring air from thatregion until the fires areover,itcould conceivably dip back into the area,” Petr said.
Bill Ostrowski, 76,worea mask as he walkedthrough downtown Chicago,where wildfiresmoke shrouded skyscrapers.“It stinks.It’s not agood sign when you wake up in the morning and you can smell the air,” said Ostrowski.
In St.Paul, Minnesota, the sky was “glowing yellow,” said Brent Williams,headof thesoil, waterand climate department at theUniversity of Minnesota. The area “could be looking at weeks to months of continued smoke and flare-ups off and on as the winds blow in different directions,” he said.
Astudy published this year found that long-term exposure to tiny particles from wildfire smoke contributed toanaverage of 24,100 deaths ayear in the lower 48 states. Long-termexposure can makeexisting health problems worse and lead to
arange of chronic and deadly issues, including respiratory illness, cardiovascular and neurological diseases, and premature death.
In the New York City area, athick haze tinged the morning sky orange and yellowand partly obscured Manhattan’sskyline.
Cityofficials opened cooling centers as health officials urged New Yorkers to limit strenuous and prolonged outdoor activities.
The city’sschools, parks and otheragencies moved activities indoors, rescheduled events andadjusted operations. State officialsdistributed tens of thousands of face masks at transit hubs and other major locations.
Gwen Moseley, 65,was amongthe first patronsat Rosedale LibraryinQueens to take advantage of the free masks, saying she’son the road muchofthe day working as atherapist for children with autism.
“Whowants to be breathing this? It’snot healthy,” Moseleysaidasshe waited to meet ayoung client.
“When I’m out walking, I canfeelthe scratchiness in my throat.”
Smoke eased abit but was expected to thickenagain by late afternoon or evening, possibly lasting overnight, weather service meteorolo-
gist Maureen Hastings said. She said it might move south forawhile on Friday but return at night. The state Department of EnvironmentalConservation warnedthatthere was apotential fortemporary spikes of “very unhealthy” airqualityfromBuffalo in the state’swestern corner to Rochester by LakeOntario, Syracuse in the central region, down to the greater New York City area. Philadelphia officials urged people to avoid strenuous activity and stay inside or wearN95 or KN95 masks outside.
“Today is not the day to startyourmarathon training plan,” said Dr.Palak Raval-Nelson, the city’spublic health commissioner In Minnesota, forest rangers on Thursday combed a remote wilderness area for anyone who might still be there days afterwildfires led to its closure.
Officials closed the BoundaryWatersalong theU.S.Canada border on Tuesday At the time, 6,000 to 10,000 people were inside, but SuperiorNationalForest staff estimated Wednesday that they’d reached 90% of them,said Karen Harrison, aspokesperson for state and federal agencies involved in the response.
Louisianaparasitediarrheacases double
Five patients now hospitalized
BY MARGARETDELANEY Staff writer
Casesofexplosive diarrhea in Louisiana, caused by aparasite found in some foods, have nearly doubledin one week.
Last week,there were 23 cases, including onehospitalization. As of Tuesday, there are43cases,including fivehospitalizations. In contrast, Louisiana has averaged about 30 cases ayear during thesametimeframe over the past five years. No deaths have been reported.
Theparasitic infection, called cyclosporiasis, can cause weeksofwaterydiarrhea. Louisiana is oneof 38 statesinvestigating outbreaks.
Cases havebeen reported in almost every region of the state,with thehighest numbersinEast Baton Rouge and Lafayette, arepresentative from the Louisiana Department of Healthsaid Wednesday
Since May 1, the Centers for Disease Controland Preventionhas received reports of 1,645confirmed casesof cyclosporiasis in the U.S. and is aware of more than5,100 cases that requirefurther analysis to confirmthe illness.
“This is substantially higher than the249 casesreported nationally by this same time lastyear,” the CDC report said.
Cyclospora is amicroscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causeswatery
diarrhea“with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC. Theillness, called cyclosporiasis,isnot usually life-threatening andistypically treated with antibiotics. Cases of cyclosporiasis typically spike in the summer months, with historically active outbreaks in Louisiana between June andAugust. In the U.S., the cyclosporiasis season is considered May 1through Aug. 31, according to the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention.
Over the past 20 years, between 1to101 cases have been reported annually in Louisiana,with73cases reported in 2023. The following foods have been specifically linked to previous cyclospora outbreaks in the United States and Canada: n Bagged salad mixes and kits (precut lettuceblends with romaine, iceberg, red cabbage, carrots)
n Fresh cilantro (coriander leaves) n Fresh basil n Raspberries n Snow peas n Greenonions (scallions) Peoplewith diarrhea that hasn’tresolved on its own within afew days should see ahealth providerand discuss the possibility of cyclospora, officials say EmailMargaret DeLaney at margaret.delaney@ theadvocate.com.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By PAUL SANCyA
street Thursday as the Detroit skylineisobscuredduring poor air qualitydue to smokefromCanadian wildfires.
WASHINGTON Republicans on theHouse Budget Committee advanced a$95 billion package Thursday for the Iran war,farm aid and President Donald Trump’s push for strict new voter ID requirements, moving forward on aparty-line vote despitetrouble in thefull House —and the Senate.
Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington framed the proposal as one last pushto deliver for voters ahead of the midterm elections that will determine control of Congress. It advanced on a vote of 20-14.
“Weare rallying to finish what we started when theAmerican people sent us here,” said Arrington,RTexas.
With Iran war funding makes up thebulk of the package, some $60 billion, Arringtonacknowledged that people can debate “why we’re there” in the overseas conflict. Buthesaid the money is needed for basic supplies —“just the bombs, bullets and battlefield readiness for our men and women in uniform to finish the fight successfully and return home safely —that’sit.”
The resolution, which sets outinstructions for the various congressional commit-
tees to draw up proposals, also calls for $13 billion for Intelligence, $12billion for Agriculture, and$10 billion for Administration,which handlesvoting and elections
Theproposalisthe third budget reconciliation package Republicans in control of Congress have putforward thissessiontosteamroll Trump’spriorities past Democratic objections using alegislativeprocedurethat allows forsimple majority votes for passage
It’sthe sameprocess
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton, used to pass Trump’sbig tax cuts bill last yearand to advance Homeland Security money after Democrats refused to fund thedepartmentfollowing the deathsofAmericans protesting Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions earlier this year
Johnson is pushing the effort almost single-handedly, without full backing from his slim House Republican majority or theSenate. He held lengthy meetings with Trump this week at the White House and hosteda private session for Republicans at the president’sCamp David retreat to hash outdetails.
Butthe 47-page package remains along-shoteffort —too meager for some, too costly for others —ahead of
House Budget Committee Chairman JodeyArrington, R-Texas, center,speakswith an aideThursday during amarkup on the Fiscal year 2027 spending plan, at the Capitol in Washington.
voting in thefull House expected next week.
Key Republican Rep.Chip Roy, an influentialmember of the Freedom Caucus who has expressed reservations about the package, did not voteatthe Budget Committee session, as his home state of Texas deals withflooding. Democratsare readyto vote against the proposal, as they did Thursday during committee action.
Rep. BrendanBoyle, of Pennsylvania, the ranking
Democrat on the Budget Committee, said thedocument, some 6,500 words, never once mentions the issue that’stop of mind for many Americans: affordability
“People know this is a failed presidency, anda failed Republican majority, Boyle said.
Democrats offered more than adozen amendments to the package during the hourslong BudgetCommittee session and raised ques-
tionsabout howthe new spending will ultimately be paid for—either via budget cuts to other programs or by piling onto the nation’sdebt.
Boyle offered an amendment to reverse healthcare cuts from the Republicans’ big taxbreaksbill. Rep. Ilhan Omar,D-Minn., sought to reinstate funding forfood stamps under the Supplemental NutritionAssistance Program. Rep. Scott Peters, D-Calif.,suggested funding forimmigrationenforce-
ment at Department of Homeland Security could be used to offset costs elsewhere.
Rep. Lloyd Doggett, DTexas, blamed the high costs of living on the Iran war and said every time Americans open theirrefrigeratorsor go to the gas pump they are “paying forawar that should never have been started.”
Next steps are highly volatile, as the House holds arare Saturday pro forma session, which is alargely administrative meeting that will allow the resolution to be filed in timefor consideration next week.
Johnsoncan only lose afew detractors on his side of the aisle as he relies on Republicans only,without Democrats, for passage. But the resolution would also have to be agreed on by the Senate, and Republican senators have largely panned the House effort, waiting to see if Johnson can heave it to passage.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune said senators have “a lot of questions” about it –from defense hawks concerned about the military to deficit hawks who want to offset costs.
“It’savery unevenpath,” he said. “We’ll see whatthe Housecan executeon,”he said, but “I can’t make any guarantees over here.”
Rule could deny greencards to immigrants usingpublicbenefits
BY GISELA SALOMON
Associated Press
MIAMI TheTrump administration is reviving arule that could deny green cards to immigrants whouse public benefits that could include food stamps, Medicaid, housing vouchers and others. The policy,known as “public charge,” appeared on Thursday in theFederal Register.Itwillbeformally published on July 20 and takeeffect Sept. 18. Under the policy,applicants for green cards have to show they wouldn’tbeburdens
to the country or public charges.”
The policy was first implemented in February2020 as one of President Donald Trump’smoves to limit legal immigration during his first administration,but it was reversed after Democratic President JoeBiden came to power Its return comes when the Republican administration is implementinga hard-line policy to curb both illegal and legal immigration, and when the cost of healthcare andfood is rising. The federal government “is reaffirming the require-
ment of self-reliance, protectingpublic resources and ending policies that encourageddependency on the backsofhardworking American taxpayers,”U.S. Citizenship and ImmigrationServices said in apost published on itsX account.
“Under President Trump, USCIS is restoring the basic principle that immigrants must be able to support themselves,” the post said. While theadministration’s crackdown on immigration has an increased focus on deportationsand immigration enforcement in cities across thecountry andat
FDAOKs first-of-its-kindpillto cutcholesterol in high-riskpatients
BY MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press
WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration has approved afirst-of-its-kind pill that can drastically reduce cholesterol in away that’s previously only been available with expensive, injectable drugs. The drug from Merck was OK’d on Thursday forpatients with artery-clogging cholesterol that persists even after takingstatins, the standard medications for cutting heart attack risk. Merck will market its pill under the brand name Lipfendra. It’sthe firstnoninjectable medication that works by blocking aliver protein
called PCSK9. Thatprotein limits thebody’sabilityto clear cholesterolfromthe blood, and biotech injectables targeting it have been availablefrom Amgen and other drugmakers for more than adecade. But patient access has been stymied for years by high prices, insurance restrictions and limited prescribing by doctors. Statins blocksomeofthe liver’s production of cholesterol and are the cornerstone of treatment. But evenatthe highest doses, many people need additional help lowering their LDL, or bad, cholesterol enough to meet medical guidelines Merck, whichhas headquarters in Rahway,New
Jersey,won approvalbased on twostudiesinhigh-risk patients who added the company’s pill to their standard treatment, including statins. In one study of 3,000 patients, those taking Lipfendra saw their levels of LDL cholesterol dropmore than 55% after six months.Inasecond study,patients averaged a reduction of 59% compared withpatients who received a dummy pill.
That benefitdropped only slightly over ayear,and side effects— including dizziness and diarrhea were similarbetween those taking thepill or aplacebo, researchers found. One caveat: Thepill must be taken on an empty stomach.
borders andentry points, it has alsotaken actions that target legal immigrants andmixed-status families, in which theparents are foreign nationals with U.S.born children. Federal lawalreadyrequiresthose seeking permanentresidency or legal statustodemonstrate that they will notbecome a public charge. The Trump administration’s rule,however,broadens the grounds fordisqualification.
Thenew rule does notdescribe or specify by name the benefits and programs that could be considered a public charge. Instead, it says that officers whowould implement the policy will make “individualized, factspecific public charge inadmissible determinations, based on atotality of the alien’scircumstances.”
It says that, “using good judgment and discretion, of-
ficers will more accurately assess an alien’slikelihood at any timeofbecoming a public charge.” The Trump administration first promoted the rule in 2018 as away to ensure that only thosewho were self-sufficient came to the U.S. Immigrant rights advocates criticized it, saying it amounted to a“wealth test.” Public health experts said it would lead to worse health outcomes.
Ex-CEO of highwayoperatorconvicted in bridge collapse
31 others also convicted
BY COLLEEN BARRY and BRIAN HENDRIE Associated Press
GENOA, Italy
An Italian court on Thursday convicted the former CEO of Italy’s main highway operator and 31 others in the 2018 Genoa highway bridge collapse that sent vehicles plunging and killed43people,a disaster that exposed serious lapses in the maintenance of Italian infrastructure.
Dozens of family members of the victims packed the courtroom as Chief Judge Paolo Lepri read the verdicts against 57 defendants, including former executives and officials.Many relatives brokedownintears as the sentences were read.
Arepresentative for the families of the victims, Egle Possetti, expressed satisfaction with the verdicts, saying they showed “therewere serious failures in management,and 43 people paid with their lives.”
The former chief executive of highway operator Autostradeper l’Italia,Giovanni Castellucci, was sentenced to 12 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down after four hours of delibera-
tioninthe trialthat spanned four years.
Castellucci’slawyers said they would appeal,noting in astatementthat as CEO, their client hadrelied on Italy’s leading engineers and suggestingthat he hadbeen scapegoated.
“Thesuffering causedby the Genoa tragedy is immense and deservesrespect. But the gravity of the event requiresjustice to remain basedonindividualresponsibility,not the search for
ascapegoat,” they said in a statement.
Also convicted were Autostrade’sformer head of maintenance, Michele Donferri Mitelli, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison.
The former CEOofthe SPEA engineering company,Antonino Galatà, received five years and six months
The most serious charges includednegligence resulting in the collapse, aggravated manslaughter and vehicular homicide stemming from
failurestoproperly monitor and maintain the bridge, which was partofa main route linking northernItaly withthe French Riviera
The court will issue its full reasoning within six months. But in asummary accompanyingthe verdict,itsaidthe convictions were based on findings thatidentified asystem of defects affecting one of the bridge’sstay cables and concluded that the collapse was “foreseeable and preventable.”
The court said that some defendants from the highway concession and its engineering subsidiary failed to carry outthe requiring monitoring of the bridge,relying in part on a1967 Ministry of Public Works circular, while some transport ministry had officialshad failedtoexercise proper oversight of Autostrade’ssafety monitoring.
In all, 32 people were convicted and handed sentences ranging from1year and 11 months to 12 years. The rest wereeither found not guilty,orlesserchargeshad expired under the statute of limitations.
Lawyer RaffaeleCaruso expressedsatisfactionthat court had held people responsible at the three main players: the highway concession, itsengineeringsubsidiary and the transport ministry
“Whatemerges is that this bridge did not collapse by chance —this bridge collapsed duetospecific, precise, individualized, personalized, and specifically identified responsibilities,” Caruso told anews conference. “There has been much talkabout the construction defect But this does not rule outthe existence of liability.”
Shortly before noon on Aug. 14, 2018, a650-foot section of Genoa’sMorandi highway bridge gave way
duringa rainstorm,sending dozens of vehiclesplunging to the ground. Images of the collapsed bridge were seen around the worldand shockedItalians on one of Italy’sbusiest travel days, as millions headed out for the traditional Aug. 15 Ferragosto holiday that marks the peak summer vacation season. Prosecutors arguedthat years of maintenance neglectled to thecollapse, and demanded combinedsentences totaling nearly 400 years for all of the defendants. Thedefendants denied wrongdoing and say the fault was caused by aconstruction defect.
Considered an engineering marvel when it opened in 1967, the Morandi featured threeA-shapedconcretepylons andconcrete-encased stay cables. Caruso said that the trial showed that warning signs about defectsinthe pylon thatcollapsedhad existed for decades. He cited maintenance on the other two starting in 1993 that was never extended to the third.
“From1993onward, the problem was known. We had three identical pylons. Two had already shownthe same defect, and no one seriously asked whether the third one had it as well,” Caruso said.
Ghostgun companyordered to pay$100M in deathofKentuckyteen
BY JAKE OFFENHARTZ and DYLAN LOVAN Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky.— Aghost gun companyhas been orderedto pay more than $100 million in the death of aKentucky teenager who had purchased the company’spistol-building kit online. The verdict —believed to be the largest-ever against a gun dealer —was awarded by ajury Wednesdayfollowingatrial focusedon whether the vendor,Husky Armory LLC, skirted federal regulations barring the sale of the gun-assembly kits to those under 21.
In awrongful-death lawsuit, the family of Henry Willis said he was just 18 when he purchased the Glock G19 pistol “build kit” from Husky Armory’swebsite in 2023. He
assembled the handgun in his garage —telling hisfather it was atransistor radio —and usedittoend his life six days later.
Everytown Law, whichrepresented thefamily, saidthe $104.2 millionpayout wasthe largest ever reached against agun seller,surpassing the$73 millionsettlement awarded to the families of the Sandy HookElementary School shooting bythe riflemaker Remington. It comesa little overa year after the Supreme Court upheld regulationsenacted by the Biden administrationthat mandatedserialnumberson the homemadeweapons and requiredbuyers to complete backgroundchecks andage verification.
Attorneys for Willis said Husky Armory hadflouted each of thoserequirements.
Their websiteadvertised the product as having “everything you need to build your own Glock style pistol from thecomfort of your home,” noting the weapon could be assembledby“nearly anyone with abrain,” according to thelawsuit.
Inquiries to Husky Armory LLC and itsowner Cody Yurk,werenot immediately returned. The company,which is based in Omaha, Nebraska, was not present for thetrial, according to thefamily and their attorneys.
At anews conference Thursday, Willis’ mother, Laura Herp, described her sonasa“kind, gentle child” whohad struggled with mental health issues in the months leading up to his death.
“A child in crisis should
didn’tcarewho Henry was. They didn’teven bother showing up to the trial.”
never be able to access a deadly weapon,” Herp said “Companies like Husky Ar-
mory thrive off selling to folks who shouldn’thave access to firearms, and they
Astate court in Louisville had previously issued adefault judgment against the vendor for failing to respond to the lawsuit. Following a two-day trial this week, a jury awarded $4.2 million in economic damagesand $100 million in punitive damages to the family “Thishistoric verdict sends apowerful message to ghost-gun sellerswho set up businesses to profit by circumventing critical safeguards like background checks and age verification,” said Dana Mulhauser,anattorney for Everytown Law “Henry should be home with his family today,and Laura deserved moretimeand opportunity to help her son heal.”
Trumpfiresnew court-appointedtop prosecutor in Seattle
BY GENE JOHNSON Associated Press
SEATTLE President Don-
ald Trump fired the new top U.S. prosecutor in Seattle on Wednesday less than an hour after the attorney wasunanimously appointed by the federal judgesinthe district, highlighting tensions between the courts and the president over the powerful positions.
courthouse in downtown Seattle. In aphone interview,he saidhethen went to theU.S. Attorney’sOffice and asked to meet withCharles Neil Floyd, whose 120-day interim term in the positionendedin February
Roger Rogoff, a former judge and veteran state and federal prosecutor, was sworn in as U.S. attorney before 8a.m. at the U.S.
As he waited in a lobby,Rogoffsaid, he received an email from the Trump administration informing him he’d been removed. He isconsulting with other lawyers about suing over hisfiring, he said Presidentsnormally appointU.S. attorneys, the top federal prosecutor in
each judicialdistrict. The positionsrequireSenate confirmation, except in temporaryappointments. When temporary appointments expire before anominee is confirmed, the judges in a judicial districtcan name a U.S. attorney But under Trump, the Justice Departmenthas sought to leave unconfirmed prosecutors in their positions indefinitely,often through novel personnel maneuvers.
“Districtcourtjudges can appoint atemporaryU.S. Attorney,and POTUS can fire them,” Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche saidin asocial media postWednes-
day. He addedthatthe judges whoappointedRogoff“abandoned thetime-honored process of consultation withthe administration so that theselected U.S. Attorneyisqualified to serve in theadministration.”
Trump named Floyd, who previously servedasanimmigration judge, interim U.S. attorneylastOctober but neverforwarded his nominationtothe Senate. When Floyd’stime as interimU.S. attorney expired, Trump simply shifted histitle, a tactic the administration has alsotriedinother federal judicial districts: It named him first assistant U.S.attorney
while leaving the top post empty
In May, aU.S. appeals court panel expressed skepticism that the maneuver was legal.
Thefederal judgesinthe city decided to take applications for the position, and it appointed abipartisan panel to review the applications.
On Wednesday morning the court —comprising 17 active and senior judges appointed by five presidents issued its unanimous order naming Rogoff the U.S. attorney for western Washington.
Democratic Washington
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, who had opposed Floyd for the U.S. attorneyjob,blasted
Rogoff’s quick firing. “Throughouthis career, he hasdemonstratedan outstanding commitmentto public service, and he was appointed legally by the federal judges in the Western District of Washington,” the senator said in awritten statement. “This administration doesn’twant to deal with advice and consent—they just want to install cronies to carry out acorrupt political agenda.” In December,Alina Habbaresigned as the top federal prosecutor for NewJersey after an appealscourt said she had been serving in the post unlawfully
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Cars areblocked on theMorandi highway bridgeafter asectionofitcollapsed on Aug. 14, 2018, in Genoa, northernItaly
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TadThomas, alawyerfor the family of HenryWillis,speaks Thursdayatanewsconferencewhile Willis’mother,Laura Herp,looks on in Louisville, Ky
Williams denies involvement in Murrill case
DA
states he turned over subpoenaed
BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer
Orleans Parish District Attorney
Jason Williams insisted Thursday that neither he nor his office
“initiated or handled” the recent indictment of Attorney General
Liz Murrill, as a Friday deadline approached for the district attorney and special prosecutor Laurie White to respond to subpoenas for records.
Williams said in a statement that he’d turned over records already under a separate public records
records already
request from Murrill’s criminal attorneys. According to Williams, the records he produced reflect “no communication” between the District Attorney’s Office and Mayor Helena Moreno or council members “regarding this indictment.”
Williams
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Williams’ statement said that he and his office “have been fully recused from this grand jury inquiry since its inception.” Attorneys for Murrill had no immediate comment Thursday
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The statement marked Williams’ first direct reply to questions about the grand jury that indicted Murrill and the actions of the district attorney or his office.
Baton Rouge to honor fallen officers with walk, ride, service
Airline Highway ambush was 10 years ago
BY BLAKE LESCHBER
from the Baton Rouge Police Department headquarters at 9000 Airline Highway to the site of the shooting, Benny’s B-Quik at 9611 Airline. A time of reflection and prayer will be held there.
Police Chief T.J. Morse said that time was chosen because the ambush happened about 8:40 a.m.
Also, the Gulf Coast Brotherhood will be riding bicycles from the Slidell Police Memorial to BRPD headquarters. They are scheduled to arrive at 3 p.m. for a memorial service.
Morse said the events are important, as the families of the fallen officers will be in attendance. They show that those lost in the line of duty will always be remembered, he noted. “Also, for the law enforcement
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BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer
STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK
Teddy Gautreaux, 5, feeds the birds with his grandmother Celina Rodriguez at City Park in New Orleans on Wednesday.
Murrill
Ex-teacher admits relationship with student
Man, 28, signed in as ‘boyfriend’ when 15-year-old was in hospital
BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer
A former math teacher at East Jefferson High School was sentenced after he admitted carrying on a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old student.
Blake Hazeltine, 28, of New Orleans, pleaded guilty Monday to felony carnal knowledge of a ju-
venile and indecent behavior with a juvenile, according to Jefferson Parish court records. Louisiana’s felony carnal knowledge law makes it illegal for a person over 17 to have consensual sexual intercourse with a person who is older than 13 but younger than 17.
Judge Nancy Miller of the 24th Judicial District Court suspended a 10-year prison sentence and ordered that Hazeltine serve 60 months of active probation, according to court records. Hazeltine must also register as a sex offender for 25 years. Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office
investigators became aware of the inappropriate relationship in September 2025. The victim was being treated at a hospital when a nurse noticed an adult who was not a parent or a relative in the girl’s room, holding her hand, caressing and kissing her, according to authorities. The nurse asked the man, later identified as Hazeltine, to leave. The girl identified Hazeltine as her boyfriend. He’d signed in as her “boyfriend” on a hospital sheet that requested his “relationship to the patient,” according to authorities.
The hospital contacted the Sher-
Suspect in Marrero shooting arrested in Texas, JPSO says
Altercation happened at restaurant
The suspect accused of shooting his co-worker during an altercation at an Outback Steakhouse restaurant in Marrero last month has been arrested in Texas, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office. Jeffrey Williams, 40, of Marrero,
was taken into custody July 9 in Grand Prairie, Texas, just outside of Dallas, said Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office.
He was still being held there Wednesday, according to jail records.
Williams is accused of shooting a 49-year-old fellow employee at the Outback located in the 1600 block of Barataria Boulevard in Marrero on the night of June 24, Veal said.
Williams and the victim had been involved in an argument, according to authorities. The disagreement continued outside, where Williams shot the victim once in the chest, authorities said.
The victim was taken to a hospital in critical condition. He was expected to recover, authorities said.
Once returned to Jefferson Parish, Williams will be booked with attempted second-degree murder and obstruction of justice.
JPSO: Man kidnapped toddler, fled police
He used child as a shield, officer reveals
BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer
A Harvey man was arrested after authorities say he kidnapped his girlfriend’s young daughter and used the toddler as a shield after a chase on the West Bank Monday morning.
Sahaan Gilmore, 26, was booked on counts of aggravated kidnapping, cruelty to a juvenile, aggravated assault with a firearm and aggravated flight from an officer, said Sgt. Brandon Veal, spokesperson for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office.
The victim, a 1-year-old girl, wasn’t injured during the ordeal which began just before 10 a.m. outside Gilmore’s residence on Maple Avenue in Harvey, according to authorities.
Gilmore’s girlfriend, a 23-yearold New Orleans woman, told investigators she was parked out-
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A 16-count indictment handed up July 2 alleges that Murrill violated the law in letters sent to Williams, Moreno and five council members over their support for a special election for the leader of a unified court clerk’s office. The letters accused the council members of crimes and said they could lose their seats.
The Republican attorney general
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officers that are there, this is a chance that they know the public has their back and they can see, ‘Hey if something like this ever happened to me, I know that I would still be remembered and my family would still be taken care of,’ ” Morse said.
East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore said such events allow the community to come together and be mindful and respectful of everyone
“Remember that law enforcement and our community can be attacked at any time, and so you always have to be aware of potential problems and issues,” Moore said Edwards has directed all U.S. and Louisiana flags at city-parish government facilities to be flown at half-staff from sunrise to sunset.
“The City-Parish encourages residents, businesses, and organizations throughout East Baton Rouge Parish to join in this
side of his residence, removing some of his property from her car Her daughter was inside the vehicle on the back seat.
It’s not clear whether the couple was in the midst of a disagreement, but the woman told deputies Gilmore got into the driver’s seat of her car, a white Nissan Altima, and drove off with her daughter inside, authorities said. Gilmore is not the child’s father according to Veal.
The woman called Gilmore several times, demanding that he bring back her daughter But Gilmore refused, telling the woman that he would not return the child unless the woman paid him money authorities said.
The woman called 911, and Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to Gilmore’s residence. While there, Gilmore drove past in the woman’s vehicle, authorities said.
Deputies spotted Gilmore in the car, and he sped away from the scene, the Sheriff’s Office said. Authorities began pursuing Gilmore, who refused to pull over and began running stop signs as he
faces eight counts each of public intimidation and eight more of malfeasance in office from an indictment that the Louisiana Supreme Court swiftly stayed. Murrill says she was doing her job. She has not entered a plea.
The regular criminal grand jury in Orleans Parish is said to have acted on its own in seeking to charge Murrill.
Williams recused his office, and Judge Leon Roche appointed Laurie White, a former criminal court judge who stepped down in 2023 after 15 years, to oversee it
tribute by lowering their flags to half-staff and taking a moment to remember the heroes who gave everything in service to our community,” Edwards stated in a news release
10 years ago today
Morse was on the SWAT team the morning of the ambush. He said he was working 12-hour shifts as Baton Rouge was handling protests during the period of unrest after Alton Sterling was fatally shot by a police officer July 5.
The ambush at Benny’s B-Quik lasted a little under 14 minutes.
The gunman — Gavin Long, a 29-year-old former Marine who traveled to Baton Rouge from Kansas City — chose the location because it’s about a mile from BRPD headquarters, so officers would drop by the store for coffee and other items, Moore said.
About 8:35 a.m., Long arrived in the area of Benny’s B-Quik in a white Chevrolet Malibu carrying a semiautomatic rifle, according to a summary of the investigation into the attack. He ambushed Jackson and Gerald about 8:40 a.m.
iff’s Office. An investigator spoke with the victim and learned that Hazeltine was a math teacher at her school, East Jefferson High in Metairie, authorities said. The two met in the spring of 2025.
The girl told investigators that her parents had met Hazeltine and agreed to condone the pair’s relationship as long as they kept things “cordial” and didn’t have sex, according to authorities. They said the two could pursue a romantic relationship after the girl turned 18.
Over the summer break, Hazeltine would visit the girl’s house every Sunday according to au-
thorities. The girl admitted the two had kissed several times, the Sheriff’s Office said. Though the victim denied any sexual contact, investigators uncovered evidence that Hazeltine had sex with the girl “multiple times.” He was arrested in December 2025 and later charged.
During Monday’s sentencing hearing, Miller issued a protective order barring Hazeltine from having contact with the victim, according to court records.
Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.
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navigated onto Manhattan Boulevard, the Sheriff’s Office said.
The chase continued down Manhattan as Gilmore blew through red lights and swerved through traffic on wet roads. The pursuit ended when he crashed into a vehicle at the intersection of Lapalco and Barataria boulevards in Marrero, Veal said.
As deputies approached the car, Gilmore, who was armed grabbed his girlfriend’s child, put the toddler in his lap and pointed a gun at her head, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies repeatedly ordered Gilmore to drop the weapon. At some point, he tossed the gun and got out of the car before using the child as a shield, authorities said.
Deputies were able to safely get the toddler away from Gilmore and take him into custody, Veal said.
Gilmore was being held without bail Tuesday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna.
Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.
as a special prosecutor Gov Jeff Landry has pledged to pardon Murrill if she’s convicted. Neither White nor Williams’ office have commented on subpoenas from Murrill’s defense attorneys that were signed Tuesday by Robert Chaisson, a retired state appeals court judge appointed to oversee the case against Murrill after all 12 criminal court judges recused. The subpoenas direct Williams and White to surrender records by 5 p.m. Friday, as Murrill’s attorneys aim to root out the origins of the grand jury’s interest in Murrill.
At 8:41 a.m., Garafola radioed shots fired and officer down” from behind the building and, despite being fatally wounded, Gerald transmitted his final radio call, “shots fired.” Garafola had left his cover after seeing Gerald go down.
Morse arrived at the scene and went to the wounded officers.
“When the call went out, I was one of the first SWAT officers to arrive on the scene and the very first person to get to Montrell and Matthew and Brad, and found them over by the side of the business,” Morse said Long then positioned himself between Carolyn Sue Drive and the Hair Crown, located next to the convenience store, and fired 10 rounds at officers arriving on Airline to create a perimeter At 8:45 a.m., Long fired shots at Tullier and another sergeant, who survived.
Moore said BRPD’s Special Response Team was right down the road from the ambush, so several members quickly showed up in unmarked cars. Long also began to fire at them. Alongside other officers, Morse
“These bicycles travel at a higher speed than most people pedal,” Capt. Buddy Micheu, NOPD’s traffic commander, said during a media briefing Thursday “It will also enhance your time and distance to how fast you can stop, how well you can navigate the turn. And if you fall from a bike that’s traveling 20 to 25 mph, the injuries we see are even more substantial.”
On June 11, a man was thrown from his e-bike after striking a curb in the 4900 block of St. Charles Avenue. Four days earlier, on June 7, another man collided with an RTA bus at the intersection of South Claiborne and Jackson avenues.
On May 18, a man crashed into a school bus at Duplessis and St. Denis streets. On April 7, a woman riding on the Lafitte Greenway was struck by a car while crossing North Claiborne Avenue after investigators said she failed to ensure both lanes of traffic were clear Of the four killed, the woman was the only one wearing a helmet, NOPD said.
Along with any correspondence involving the grand jury, Roche, Murrill or the charges she faces, her attorneys want Williams to turn over communication with Moreno, City Council President JP Morrell, former congressman Cedric Richmond, state Sen. Gary Carter or news media.
From White, Murrill’s attorneys want any correspondence with Williams, Roche, Moreno or members of the news media. The subpoenas seek records dating to March 1. Neither Williams nor White had
helped track down Long, who was shot in the leg about 8:46 a.m. but was still alive and moving toward his gun. The final shots were fired around 8:49 a.m., and Long died at the scene.
“But for this group being right down the street, he (would’ve) gone to other places,” Moore said.
“He’s ready to go; his ammo is filled to go to other places and kill more people.”
How BRPD has changed
Many changes were made after 2016 in how Baton Rouge police operate, Morse said.
It is now standard for officers to wear vests with rifle plates in them. Rifles are also now a larger part of the weapons officers carry, according to Morse Morse said training for officers’ mental health increased after the ambush.
“We’ve increased our training, increased our preparation. We can’t, unfortunately, train for everything, and officers are still being shot across the country,” Morse said “We just need the public’s help when things happen and even when we’re not in
Louisiana allows three classes of e-bikes, with the fastest pedalassist models reaching 28 mph. E-bike riders have the same legal rights and responsibilities as traditional bicyclists, said Adam Watts, owner of Bicycle World New Orleans.
“The two biggies we see are riding against traffic and riding on the sidewalk,” Watts said.
“Both of those activities are super dangerous.”
Despite the increase in deaths, advocates say the addition of more e-bikes in the city is meeting broader transportation needs.
“E-bikes are one of the fastest growing forms of transportation, because they open bicycling to people who may not otherwise ride,” said Allene La Spina, an e-bike owner and the executive director of Bike Easy “Here in New Orleans, they also play an important role in transportation and equity.”
As of July 16, the parish had recorded 22 traffic deaths, putting it on pace to end the year with about 40 fatalities, down from 56 in 2025 and 64 in 2024.
“One death is one death too many,” La Spina said. “The goal is to help more people enjoy the benefits of e-bikes while making sure everyone gets home safely.”
filed to quash those subpoenas as of late Thursday On first blush a majority of the Louisiana Supreme Court has found the whole episode untoward. The court’s unusual and unsigned stay order said Murrill was likely to succeed in a motion to quash the indictment. It gave her a chance to “assert any and all necessary defensive pleadings” while the case is frozen.
It’s uncertain if that includes securing the range of records that Murrill’s attorneys now seek on behalf of the state’s top lawyer
a time like this in remembrance, I encourage the public to take a moment, say hello, tell them you appreciate them.” Moore said he knew the officers who were shot and had talked to one of the surviving injured officers the night before. He said emotions were high after the incident due to the proximity to home.
“It was just a really unique, unnerving situation that you can’t ever think of that being created and can’t ever recreate that whole circumstance again,” Moore said.
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“He’sselling expedited,privileged access to information about whatheisdoing as president,” saidKathleen Clark of Washington University School of Law and an expert in governmentconflicts of interest rules. “It’s yet more brazen corruption,animproperexploitation of government power to enrich himself.”
The Trump familycompany declined to comment. TruthSocial’spublic parent, Trump Media &Technology,did not immediately respond to emailed questions,includingwhether the president’sposts will be excluded from the offering
The release did not sayhow much customerswould be charged.
Slumping AI stocks drag down global markets
NEW YORK Drops for computer chipmakers and other winners of theartificial-intelligenceboom dragged down stock markets worldwide on Thursday
Nearly three out of every four stocks rose within the S&P 500 after more of the country’s biggest companies reported better earnings for the latest quarter than analysts expected. Abbott jumped 10.7% after the healthcarecompany delivered a fatter profit than expected and raised its forecast for earnings overthe full year.J.B.Hunt Transport Services climbed 8% after thefreight companylikewise topped analysts’ expectations for the latest quarter
But a1%move forNvidia’s stock packs more punch on the S&P 500than a1%move for any other company because it’sthe largest on Wall Street by value. And Nvidia fell 2.4%,making it the heaviest weight on the index. Other AI winners also sank, giving back some of their stellar gains.
Micron Technology fell 5.6% to shave its gain for the year so far below 199%. Sandisk fell 12.6% but is nevertheless up 494%for theyear so far.Western Digitalsank9.2%but is still up 171% for the year so far
Average mortgagerate climbs to 6.55%
Theaverage long-term U.S mortgage rate climbedthisweek to its highest level in nearly a year,driving up borrowing costs for prospective homebuyers. The benchmark 30-year fixed ratemortgage rate roseto 6.55% from 6.49% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday.One year ago, theaverage rate was 6.75%.
Higher mortgage rates can add hundreds of dollars amonth in costs for borrowers,limiting homebuyers’ purchasingpower at atime when affordability challenges continue to sideline many aspiring homeowners.
Mortgage rates are influencedbyseveral factors, from the Federal Reserve’sinterest rate policy decisions to bond market investors’ expectations for the economy and inflation. Theygenerally follow the trajectory of the 10-year Treasury yield, which lenders use as a guide to pricing home loans. Rates have been mostly rising this year as the war with Iran has driven crude oilprices sharply higher,stoking expectations of hotter inflation.
Presidentlikelytoturn to TradeAct of 1974 to impose sanctions
BY PAUL WISEMAN AP economics writer
WASHINGTON The U.S. Treasury last year swelled with revenue from President DonaldTrump’sdouble-digit taxes on imports from almost every country on earth.
But the money dried up afterthe Supreme Court struck down thebiggest and boldest of Trump’stariffs in February
Thequestion now is: Can the president’stradeteammake good on its promise to replace thelost revenue?
Adeadline is approaching rapidly After the Supreme Court setback,the president turned firsttoSection 122 of theTrade Actof 1974 toimpose 10% tariffs globally. ButSection 122 only authorizes tariffs for 150 days. Trump’sexpire on July 24. Congress would have to extendthose tariffs —something lawmakers are unlikely to do as theNov.3midterm elections approach amid voter discontent over thehighcost of living.
But the administration has more durableoptions: Section 301 of the same 1974 trade law permits the president to impose tariffs andother sanctions against countries foundtoengage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade practices. Trump used Section 301 to impose bigtariffs on China in hisfirst term and is rollingthem outagain —asrecently as late Wednesday when he announced 25% tariffs on some Brazilian imports, chargingthe world’s 11thbiggest economywith ahostof unfairtrade practices. Trade attorneys andanalysts are confidentthe tariff-happy
BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP retail writer
NEWYORK Shoppers slowed their spending in June from May, as they spent less to fill their gas tankbecause of falling gas prices. Butthe report,released by the Commerce DepartmentonThursday,showed consumers’ continued resilience despite ongoing economic uncertainty as they bought cars and took advantage of summersales events.
Retailsales rose 0.2% in June, after being up arevised 1% in May, accordingtothe report Outsideofgas stations, retail sales rose asolid 0.7%, according to thereport. The government figuresaren’t adjusted for inflation so last month’sdeclineingas prices
Trumpadministration will managetobeat the clock and swap out Section 122 tariffs withbigger Section 301 tariffs by the July 24 deadline. “They’re going to raise thetariffwallagain,” said trade lawyerRyanMajerus, apartner at King &Spalding anda trade official in Trump’sfirst administrationand in President Joe Biden’s. Trump lastyear tested —and exceeded —the limitsofhis authority to impose import taxes, apower the U.S. Constitution gives Congress. He invoked the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act to slap bigtariffs on most of theworld’s countries.
He justified thelevies, which markedastunning reversalof decades of U.S. policyinfavor of lower tariffs and freer trade, by labeling America’slongstanding tradedeficits anational emergency
The Supreme Court didn’tbuy it, rulinginFebruary that the president couldn’tuse the emergencypowers law to impose tariffs at all. Thelegal defeat meantthe administration had to send refundstoimportersthat had paid thelevies.
As aresult,tariffs have at least temporarily gone from awindfall to adrain on the Treasury.
Revenuefromimporttaxes peaked at more than $31.4 billion lastOctober.Then, after theSupremeCourtruling, it started dwindling —to$22 billion in both March and April. As refund checks went out faster than revenue from the Section 122 and other tariffs came in, thenumber turned negative: A small ($42 million) shortfall in Maywas followed by awhopping $25.6billion loss in June.
Trump andTreasury SecretaryScott Bessenthave vowed to use other legalauthoritiesto recoup the lost income.
Enter Section 301, which gives the president power to impose —and adjust —tariffs in re-
sponse to other countries’ trade practices.But the administration must first check procedural boxes—collecting comments and holding hearings. There are no limits on Section301 tariffs. Theyexpire after four years but can be renewed.
So the president has flexibility in howheusesthe Section301 tariffs. Trump can still change them —after clearing procedural hurdles —but he can’t impose or move them up or down on awhim as he often did with the IEEPA tariffs. Uncertainty over Trump’s tariff policy hasvexed businesses, leaving them hesitant to make investments and decisions because they don’tknow what the trade rules are goingtobe. Aswitch to rule-bound 301 tariffs would mean “there’sless uncertainty but not no uncertainty,” said Sarah Bianchi, aformer U.S. tradeofficial who is now chief strategist of internationalpolitical affairs at theinvestment research firmEvercore ISI.
The Trump administration has turned to twobig Section301 investigations in its campaign to replace lost tariff revenue.One accuses 60 countries, accounting for99% of U.S. imports, of failing to do enough to crack down on imports created by forced labor.The other is investigating whether 16 U.S.trading partners —includingChina,the European Union and Japan —are overproducing goods, driving down worldwide prices andputting American manufacturers at adisadvantage.
The administration hasalready decided what it wantstodoabout theforced labor issue. Invoking Section 301 last month, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer proposedtariffs —10% on 16 countries and12.5% on 44 —that arethe same or slightly higher than the 10% Section122 levies they wouldreplace. ButGreer’s office is stillreceiving public comments on the proposed tariffs and has not imposed them yet.
Brazil calls Trump’s 25%tariff unjustifiable Government vows
to impose reciprocal tariffs
BY MAURICIO SAVARESE and ELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press
RIO DE JANEIRO— Brazil has described the latest U.S. tariffs on certain Brazilian imports as unjustifiable and politically motivated and threatened on Thursday to impose reciprocal tariffs against U.S. products. The country’stop diplomat criticized U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio forthe move.
TheU.S. saidonWednesday it would impose anew 25% tariffon certain imports from Brazil, citing unfair trade practices by the world’s10th-biggest economy Brazil’sForeign Minister Mauro Vieira accused Trump administrationofficials of pressuring theSouth American nation to give American companiesexclusiveaccesstosome sectors of itseconomy.HesaidBrazil has never left the negotiating table. The tariffs,first proposed last month, will take effect July22. The order exempts somegoods that are not produced in the U.S. or that officials worry would disrupt supply chains —including coffee, beef,oranges and orange juice and aircraft components. Brazil’sgovernment said the decision hits about 3,000 items, but is yet to decide whether and how it could retaliate with alaw itsCongresspassedin2025in response to President Donald Trump’stariffs.
In astatementlate Wednesday,the office of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva refuted the U.S. allegations of unfair trade practices. It said 76% of imports from the U.S. entered Brazil duty-free in 2025, and said the averagetariff effectively applied to U.S. products was only 3.1%. It said it has taken steps to impose reciprocal tariffs,along with other trade-related countermeasures, through its own law and through the World TradeOrganization’sdispute settlement mechanism.
Vieira saidRubio made statements that are “unacceptable, offensive to the Brazilian people andthe Brazilian government” after the new tariffs wereannounced. Rubiosaidinapost on X that thetariffs were the resultof Lula putting “his ownego ahead of making adeal”and notnegotiating withthe U.S. in good faith.
“Rubio launches acrude and arrogant attack on the Head of State of afriendly nation, who has personally sought to open channels fordialogue on severaloccasions,”Vieira tolda news conference in the capital, Brasilia.
“What Secretary Rubio dismisses as ‘ego’ is, in fact, President Lula’s steadfast resolve to defend Brazil’ssovereigntyand theinterests of our businesses and workers.”
pulled down gas station sales and thus theoverall retail sales figure. Business at gasstationsfell 5.3% lastmonth. Meanwhile, sales at motor vehicle andparts dealers rose 1.9%, helped by aggressive manufacturers’ incentives, according to thereport.
Elsewhere, shoppers were selective in their buying, given their worries about the economy and fadingbenefits of generous governmenttax benefits, which propelled spending earlier in the spring.
Business at clothingand accessoriesstoresaswell as at miscellaneousretailers both postedsmall declines, Andsales at retailers that sell big-ticketitems were mixed, with business at furniture andhome furnishings merchants flat, while electronicsand appliancestores showing asmall increase for June.
Among the bright spots: online sales rose 1.9%,fueled by spending surrounding Amazon’s Prime Day event, which was held from June 23 through June 26. Business at sporting goods, hobby,musical instrument and book stores was up 1.3%, likely helpedbyspending around the World Cup tournament.
The data offers only asnapshot of consumer spending and doesn’t include activities like travel and hotelstays. The lone services category —restaurants —registered aslim 0.1% increase.
The so-called control group which excludes food services, autos, building materials and gas station sales andisusedtocalculate economic growth —rose asolid 0.5%.
The report comes as U.S. inflation cooled last month as the cost
of gas, clothes,and used cars fell, offering some relief to consumers, whileunderlying price pressures also slowed morethan anticipated Gasprices fell to $3.94 per gallon on Thursday, down from $4.04 amonth ago, according to motor club AAA.
“Falling fuel prices weighed on headline sales data, but asmaller bill at the pumpwas asource of relief forconsumers and provided at least alittle more cushionin household spending budgets,” Jim Baird, chiefinvestmentofficer with Plante Moran Financial Advisors,wrote in areportpublished Thursday
But Baird notedthe June report suggests consumers are “perhaps taking amorediscerningapproach to where they’re spending andhow they’re prioritizing their choices.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By NG HANGUAN
Shipping containers are seen readyfor transportatthe Guangzhou Port in the Nansha districtin southernChina’sGuangdong province in April 2025.
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Obituaries
Ballensaw, Charles A. 'Figgy'
Charles A. BallensawJr. enteredinto eternal rest on Monday, July6,2026. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at St. James Methodist Church, 1925 Ursulines Avenue beginning 10 am. Church visitation 9amuntil service time. Interment Providence Memorial Park. Information: 504-940-0045 littlejohn2163@gmail.com
Boudreaux, Wilmer Paul
WilmerPaul Boudreaux, 89,passed away on Friday, July10, 2026 after abrief andsudden illness. He was born in Thibodaux,LA but lived his whole life in NewOrleans before moving to Metairie in 1966.He was aproudgraduateof Redemptorist High School Class of 1956. He wasa parishioner of St. Philip Neri Church. Wilmer was an avid sports fan. He loved watching the Saints on Sunday, but no team could takethe place of his beloved New York Giants, along with the LA Dodgers and Kentucky Wildcats basketball team. He enjoyed his morning cup of coffee with his brother-inlaw Emery and loved going out to eat with his friends, but most of allheenjoyed spending time with his family.
Wilmer is survived by his three children: Ellen Brechtel (Chuck), Terry Boudreaux (Darcie) and Beth Hebbler (Ryan); six grandchildren: Megan Costa, Elizabeth Johnson, Matthew Boudreaux, Riley Boudreaux, Brady Hebbler and Abby Hebbler; four great grandchildren: Colette Costa, Lorelai Johnson, Charlotte Costa and Cate Costa; one brother, Paul Boudreaux Jr (Charlotte) and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife of 65 years, Carol AnnBoudreaux, his parents, Paul and Anna Mae Boudreaux, and his brother, Winston Boudreaux (Jackie). Relatives and friends are invited to attend the visitation at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home, 4747 Veterans Memorial Blvd. Metairie, LA 70006 on Monday July 20, 2026 beginning at 12:00 noon with aFuneral Mass to follow at 2:00 PM in Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home's chapel. Interment will be in All Saints Mausoleum at alater date. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions maybemade to St. Philip Neri Church. Fond memories and expressions of condolences
CoreyRandall Constantine,Jr. entered eternal rest on Wednesday,July1,2026,at the ageof25. He was anativeofMarrero,LAand a resident of Katy,TX. Corey was agraduate of Langham Creek High School, and he is employed with Five Star Trucking Logistic as atruck driver. Relativesand friends of the family, also pastors, officers, membersof Beecher Memorial United ChurchofChrist, and all neighboring churchesare invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Beecher Memorial United Church of Christ1914 N. Miro St. NewOrleans,LA on Saturday, July18, 2026, at 10:30a.m.Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. until service time at the above named church. Interment: Woodlawn ParkMemorial Cemetery-Westwego, LA Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA. To view and signthe guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com
In LovingMemory of Glynn LouisDurand, January2,1952 -July4 2026
Glynn LouisDurand, age 74, of New Orleans, Louisiana,enteredinto eternal rest on Saturday, July 4, 2026 Born on January2,1952, in New Orleans,Glynnwas the sonofthe late Venida MaryDurand and Alton Labostrie.Hewas adedicated constructionprofessional andthe proud owner of Tri-Star Construction, where he earned the respect of manythroughhis hardwork, integrity, and commitment to excellence. He was preceded in death by hisparents Venida Mary Durand and Alton Labostrie. He leaves to cherishhis memoryhis daughters GianDurand and Anique Durand; five grandchildren, JonathanRutherford, Gian Rutherford, Eunique Taylor, NolianeEugene, and Codi LeBlanc; hissiblings, Sheila Price(Ernest), Mark Durand (Euritici), Terry Durand (Marilyn), Oliver Durand (Sue), and Byron Durand (Karen); his paternalbrothers, Jose Labostrieand Juan Labostrie; and ahost of nieces, nephews, other relatives,and friends. Relatives and friends areinvited to aMassof ChristianBurial at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church,7300 CrowderBlvd New Orleans, LA on Saturday, July18, 2026. Visitation9:00am- 11:00am. Mass 11:00am. Interment to follow at Metairie Cemetery, 5100 PontchartrainBlvd New Orleans,LA. Please signthe online guestbook at www.charbo nnetfuneralhome com. CharbonnetLabatGlapion Directors, (504) 581-4411.
Sr. Paul was thebeloved husband of Mary Bech Gaillot for46years. Paul graduated from FortierHighSchool in New Orleans and served honorably in theUnited States Navy during theVietnam Era.Helater served with theJeffersonParish Sheriff's Office before pursuing his passion fornursing.Aftergraduating from theTouro Infirmary School of Nursing, Paul dedicated 22 years of his career to caring for others as aregistered nurse at Touro Infirmary. He is survivedbyhis children: Bridgette Mooney, Robert Gaillot, Anne Smith, Amanda Karem,and Leslie Gaillot; five grandchildren: Audrey, Maxton, and WyattSmith and Addison and Andrew Karem; and hissiblings: Anne Lambert, Adrienne O'Shea, and William Gaillot Jr Funeral serviceswillbe held at Garden of Memories FuneralHome on Saturday, July18, 2026 with visitationbeginning at 11:30 a.m.,withMass to follow at 1:30 p.m. Interment willbeata later date in Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Slidell, LA Online condolences may be offered at www.garden ofmemoriesmetairie.com.
Carmen Howard Jackson peacefully entered eternal rest on Tuesday, July7,2026, at theage of 70. She was anativeof Marrero, LA and aresident of Slidell, LA.Carmen was agraduateofL.W.Higgins Class of 1974. Carmen was aretired employee with Cytec Chemical Industries as asafety director Relatives and friendsof thefamily,also pastors, officers, members of RestorationBaptist Church, Second Highway Baptist Church, Mt.Pilgrim Baptist Church, and all neighboring churches; members of Krewe of Nandi are invited to attend theCelebration of Life at Second Highway Baptist Church 1533 HaydelDr. Marrero, LA on Saturday, July18, 2026, at 10:00a.m.
VirginiaFiorella Esta Harrispassed away peacefully on July13, 2026 at age 85. She wasthe beloved wife of thelate Seymour J. Harrisand devotedmother of Christina Anderson(loving son-in-law,Kenny), Michael Esta (loving daughter-in-law,Sherry), and James Esta. She is also survivedbyher grandchildren,BrandiClement (Scott), Brad Esta (McKenzie),Blake Esta (Sage), KoreyAnderson, and KyleAnderson, and Great-grandchildren, Elijah,Brody, Reid,and Cody. She was preceded in death by her parents, Carlo "Kelly"J.Fiorella and Jennie Picataci Fiorella, and her brothers, AngeloJ Fiorella (Earline)and AndrewJ.Fiorella.
Virginiawas born in Morgan City, raised in New Orleans, and aresident of Kenner. She graduated fromSt. JosephAcademy and attended UNOand Dominican College,later graduatinginBusiness. She was aformeremployee of Shell Oil, Olaf Lambert, LL&E,and HalpernsPromenade.
She was alifelong friend of LindaBucher and longtime companion of the late David Felix.
She lovedtraveling, spending time at thecasinos, ballroom dancing,and drinking redwine.She especiallyloved spending SaintsSundays with her family
The family wouldliketo thank theemployees of Inspired Living,especially Shauna, Sandy, Nichelle, Lee, Shenita, Sherrell, Dorothy,Stacy, and Belinda. We would also like to thank CareAssociates Hospice.
Relatives and friends are invitedtoattend the services on Saturday, July 18, 2026 at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. NewOrleans, LA 70124. The visitationwillbeginat8:30 am until thefuneral mass at 10:00 am. The interment willfollow within Metairie Cemetery, which is in the same grounds as thefuneral home. In lieu of flowers,please donateinher honor to the Alzheimer's Association.
Visitation willbegin at 8:30 a.m. until servicetime at theabove namedchurch. Interment:Woodlawn Park Memorial CemeteryWestwego, LA. ArrangementsbyDavis Mortuary Service, 230 MonroeSt. Gretna, LA.To view and sign theguestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.
Jackson, Sr.,departed this life on Friday, June 29, 2026 at theage of 79. Relatives and friends of thefamily are invitedtoattend aGravesideService at Westlawn Cemetery, 1225 Whitney Ave. Gretna, LA 70056 on Saturday, July18, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. ArrangementsbyD.W RhodesFuneral Home. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to signthe online guestbook.
Evangie "Van" Longino crossed over to receive his heavenly reward on Wednesday, July1,2026, at his residence at theage of 86. He was anativeof Hazlehurst, MS and aresi-
dent of Marrero,LA. Evangie wasemployed as acrane operator with CooperT.Smith and Son andretired after 32 years of service.Hewas also the ownerofD&F Seafood in NewOrleans.Evangieenjoyed repairingwashers anddryersasa hobby, whichearned himthe name,"Washerman". He always stood firminhis faithand was afaithful anddevoted servant of St Mary Baptist Church of Marrero,LA, wherehe served as chairman emeritusofthe deacon board He wasa PrinceHall Masonfor many years. The neighborhood captain for many years, he nevermet astranger, always greetingeveryonewith asmile. Evangie was mild-manneredman with afriendly spirit whoalways hada song in hisheart.His life wasa witnesstothe fruits of thespirit.Beloved husband of thelateZella P. Longino. Loving father of DebraLongino (Matthew) Scott andFredrick (Shawonza) Longino GrandfatherofDevinJ Hollinsand Joshua Longino. Brother of Rachael Gerard, Shirley Smith andDelores Sanders. Brother-in- love to Annette Flowers,also survived by an abundance of nieces, nephews, cousins, otherrelatives, and friends. Relativesand friends of thefamily, also pastors, offices, and members of St.Mary Baptist Church,Life Center Cathedral,Friendship West Baptist Church Dallas, TX, andall neighboring churches; employeesof TheLouisianaSupreme Court,FedEx, UPS, and Clover Care(formerly Kingsley House) are invited to attendthe Celebration of Life at St Mary Baptist Church 6223 Sixth AvenueMarrero, LA on Saturday, July 18,2026 at 10:00 a.m. Rev. Dr. Edward Joesph, officiating Visitation willbeginat8:30 a.m. untilservice at the church.Interment: RestlawnParkCemetery, Avondale,LA. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service 230 Monroe St.Gretna, LA. To view andsignthe guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.
andWillie J. McDonald, parents T.J. andJothan McDonald,and latewife Mary LeeBunch McDonald, andsisters: AnnieRuth Carter,Ruthie Carter, LewisMcDonald,and Rosie Arrington.Familyand friends are invited to attend theCelebrationofLife Service on SaturdayJuly 18, 2026, for 10:00 a.m. at Pleasant Valley Missionary Baptist Church,5919 Morrison Rd.Visitationwill begin at 9:00 a.m. Rev. Dr. Reginald Varnado Sr., officiating. Internment willfollowatMount Olivet Cemetery,2050 Caton St NewOrleans,LA70122. GuestbookOnline: www.an ewtraditionbegins.com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/ Funeral Directors.
Neville,Robert Meteye, BerylMoskau
Moskau Meteye, age 85, of Metairie, Louisiana, passed away peacefully on July 10th, 2026, surrounded by her loving family.
Daniel
DanielMcDonald Sr passedawayonJuly11, 2026, at the age of 91. Danielissurvived by his sister,children, andwife, Mamie McDonald and Betty LeeCarter.Jr., Kathylean, Dyane, Mary Jean,Maudie, James, Kathy, andClevin. Tyrone (Lucy) Robinson Sr David VanNorman (Kaonta), Devon VanNorman, Sharrell(Joesph) MimsMcFarland,Darrell Mims, Shymrri, Anissa, Kehnemahand Naami McDonald,Many grandchildren, great-grandchildren,otherchildren, relatives, and friends also made it outalive.Hewas preceded in death by his brotherLewis McDonald sons Timothy Robinson Sr.,
Beryl wasbornon December 30th, 1940, in NewOrleans to thelate August and Bernice Moskau. Shewas the beloved wife of thelate Richard Meteye, whoprecededher in death in August 2018, and with whom she shared 55 years of marriage. Beryl proudly served as apostal clerk with theUnited States Postal Service for 20 years before retiring. Sheissurvivedbyher brother, GlennMoskau (Lois); herson,Derren Meteye; herdaughter, Dawn Garton (Mike); her grandson, Austin Garton (Marlee); anda host of extended familyand dear friends. Beryl willberememberedfor herunwavering devotion to herfamily, her faith, hergentlespirit,and thelove andcare shegave so freely to those around her. Shetouchedthe lives of all whoknewher and will be deeply missed. Relativesand friends are invited to attendthe visitation on Saturday, July 18th, 2026, at Greenwood Funeral Home, beginning at 9:00 a.m., followed by a funeral service at 11:00 a.m. Intermentwill follow at GreenwoodCemetery
Neville, Robert Santangelo 'Bear'
Age 35 passed away on Friday, July 3, 2026. He was born on December 7, 1990 to the lateRobertEvans, Jr andBeatrice Neville in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was preceded in death by his father Robert Evans, Jr andgrandparents:Delores Williams and Bryson Neville. He leaves to cherish hislegacyand memories hisdevoted andloving fiancé Telisha, children Dreamand Robèrt Neville Jr,and DwayneJenkins. His motherPatrice Neville
Jackson, CarmenHoward
Beryl
Harris, Virginia Fiorella Esta
Jackson,Harold
Harold
Durand,Glynn
McDonald,
Longino,Evangie
four brothers: Jamarien, Chauvin(Kernisha), Michael and Elliott Neville; two sisters Briecia Neville and Brittany Aguillard, grandmother: Frieda Neville; stepmother and father: Yodonnalisa Aguillard and Charles Craft, two godchildren James Neville Jr. and CaliLewis. He wasa proud graduate of George Washington Carver Senior High School, class of 2011. One of his greatest accomplishments was accepting Jesus Christ as his Savior. Robèrt affectionately known as "Bear" was a gentle, kindhearted, loyal and loving person. His personality radiated wherever he went. Robèrt was atruly greatman whose impact will forever be felt by his family, that loved him dearly. His ability to sacrifice, provide support and love will be forever engrained in all who knew him. He exemplified everything we hold dear; honesty, integrity, character, intelligence, kindness and love. He enjoyed taking his family on yearly vacations and spending quality time with them, often making the children turn their phone off and having a movie or family fun night. He workedasa manager and cook for many years at Oceana, Mambos, Hideout, Tipsy and Bobby Hebertoftentraveling between restaurants to assist wherever he was needed, Family and friends are welcome to celebrate his life on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at New Home Family Worship Center, 13800 Haynes Blvd. Visitation
10:00am Service 11:00am Private Interment Please sign the online guestbook at www.charbonnetfuneral home.com.Charbonnet Labat Glapion Directors, (504) 581-4411.
Marie Dolores Noya, a resident of Harahan, passed away peacefully at theage of 95 on Monday, July 13, 2026, at Ochsner Hospital after abrief illness. She was surrounded by her family who all loved and treasured her deeply.
Marie was born on August 27, 1930, in Baltimore, Maryland, whereshe was raised and later met and married her husband Joseph J. Noya
M.D. They were married for over 59 years until his death in 2011. Together they raised five sons. As a mother and exceptional grandmother, her energy, dedication and love were unmatched. She was dedicated to her family, and treated friends and others she met as if they were part of her own family.
Marie was afaithful memberofSt. Rita of Cascia Parish. She was friends with so many, keeping active in Silver Trotters, Colonial Garden Club, Imperial Woods Gourmet Club and her ladies bowling group at Colonial Lanes. Even after she stopped bowling, a weekly highlight was lunch with thebowling girls. She loved hosting parties, welcoming and entertaining guests. Visiting with her always involved eating great food, making people feel at home, telling stories, laughing, and asking folks to "come back soon." Her Italian biscotti were legendary and will be dearly missed. Family Sunday dinners are memories that we will always cherish. Marie was predeceased by her parents, Salvatore Giordano and Josephine Gugliuzza Giordano, her husband, "Dr. Joe," her sister, Angela Giordano, and grandson, Stephen Noya. Survivors include her five sons, Mark Noya, Kirk Noya (Pam), Scott Noya (Anne), Keith Noya (Angie), and Glenn Noya (Maria), and grandchildren, Angela Noya, Alex Noya, Christina Noya, Elizabeth "Liz" Noya, Elizabeth "Libby" Noya, Mary "Cat" Noya, Shelby Schenck (Thomas), and Grant White. Relatives and friends are invited to attend afuneral service on Saturday July 18, 2026, at St. Rita of Cascia Parish Catholic Church, 7100 Jefferson Highway,Harahan, LA
Visitation will be heldfrom 10 a.m. until 12 p.m. with a funeral Mass to begin at 12 p.m. Interment willfollow at All Saints Mausoleum, inside Metairie Cemetery, 5100 PontchartrainBlvd. New Orleans, LA.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donating to your favorite charityin the memory of Marie Noya,
September.I asked her to
or to the St. Rita Parish Church FoodPantry.Mass cards in hermemoryare also welcomed.
Parmelee, Janice Lynn 'JP'
Afew weeks ago, my wifedecidedshe wanted to write her own obituary. She wanted it short and conciseand toldme, "Peopledon'twant to read allthat stuff!" By "all that stuff,"she meant the details of an amazing life well lived.
As Ipromised, hereis her version: JPpassed peacefullyon July5,2026,ather home in New Orleans.She was born on January 3, 1948,in Oakland, California, to Milton Harold Parmelee of Berkeley, California, and Georgia LucillePenny ParmeleeofBaton Rouge, Louisiana. Shewas predeceased by both parents. She is survivedbyher mostbeloved husband of morethan 33 years, William"Bill" Hammack; her sister, JoanB ParmeleeofDiamondhead, Mississippi; her stepchildren, Will Hammack and his wife, Melissa,and Amanda Hammack; and her step-grandchildren, Cassidy Link and Nicholas Link. Hercareer was in finance,publishing, and hospitality. She also served on manynonprofit boards. In lieuofflowers, please donatetoone of her two favorite localcharities, Clover or the Youth Empowerment Project Acelebrationoflifereception willbeheldon August 7from5:30 to 8p.m. at Calcasieu, 930 TchoupitoulasStreetin NewOrleans.
Now,for the rest of us, hereare the details JP, as she was calledby allwho knew and loved her,was aphilanthropist, an adventurer,a world traveler,and ahighly accomplishedbusinesswoman. She had atrailblazing careerinbanking, where she and her best friendof more than 50 years, Mary Catherine Maddox,broke throughthe glass ceilingof the good-old-boys' networkthat defined the banking industryinthe 1970s. JP was one of the first femalevice presidents and commercialloanofficersinBaton Rouge.
While shakingupthe banking world, she was also mastering scuba diving at atime when few women were reaching the ranks of Master Diver and Rescue Diver. Shecompleted hundreds of dives throughout the Caribbean and on the Great BarrierReefin Australia.
She was also an expert snow skier who never met adoubleblack diamond runshe didn't love.She was agreat dancer and barber, too. Butthose were only afew of her manytalents JP and Imet later in life, after we had both been married previously.The bond was instant. Our first formal date was in
marry me in October, and we were marriedin December...33 1/2 years ago She left banking to join my publishing business in NewOrleans, servingas Chief Financial Officerand helping grow it into avery successfulventure. Innovation was part of her DNA.She helpedguide our traditional print operation intothis "new" thing called theInternet,quickly pivotingthe company into online publishing,internet software development and local searchmarketing
Almost 26 years ago,I was considering arestaurant partnership with DonaldLink, thefather of my grandchildren, Cassidy andNico. JP's first comment was, "Restaurants are terrible businesses. Bankers avoidthem at all costs!"
She immediatelyadded "But Donald is aspecial talent. Let's do it!"
That decisionbegan an amazing partnership with thehighly successfulLink Restaurant Group,now encompassing sixwonderful, award-winning restaurants and an extraordinary group of talentedteam members.
JP used her business success to do what she always didsowell: help others. Over theyears, she devotedmany hours to nonprofitboardsand financially supported causes that madea real difference in thelives of countless people.She was also always quick to lend a helping hand to an individual in need.
Her travels took her across Europe,Africa, South America, theUnited States, Canada, the Caribbean, and Antartica
Sheembraced my love of flying and became an efficient radio operator and capable backup whenever thetwo of us tookoff on one of our flying adventures. She was also remarkably forgiving whenever Itried to talk her into the"next"airplane.
JP was surrounded by dear friends and made new ones easily. She had a gift forcreating special relationships,and thoseof youreadingthisknowexactly what Imean. She couldbridge generations, forming close friendships with people olderthanshe was and withmany who were much younger including "the boys," whom she lovedasiftheywere her own.
Iamnot going to go on, because she is already fussing at me for including allthis"detail."But abook couldbewrittenabouther accomplishments,her character, her passions, her courage, and her strength JP,thank youfor sharing all of it with us.
Mrs. LovellaS.D.Pollar
entered into eternal rest on Friday, July3,2026. A NewOrleans native, she graduated from McDonogh No.35HighSchool.She was thedaughterofthe late Lucienand Albertha Mackey Dabon. Loving mother of PamelaK.Pollar (Alfred), LindaP.(Clifford H.) Adams, and Deanna P.
(Curry J.)Reed. Bonus MothertoPatricia N. (Shannon Sr.) Stevenson and children Hailey Flint and Shannon StevensonJr. Godmother of PatriciaL McGruder. Grandmother of Linnet Adams, Corey, Colby, Caleb,and thelate Cierra Reed. Also survived by ahost of nieces, nephews, relatives, and friends. Predeceased by husband William J. Pollar; brothers ErwinRileySr., James Sr John Sr Jules Dabon Sr.,and Joseph Darbon Sr.;and sisters Naomi Williams, Vernice Lymous, Grace Heim, and Muriel Marrero. Relatives and friendsofthe family, also pastors, officers and members of True Vine Missionary Baptist Church and allneighboring churches are invitedtoattend thefuneral service held at True Vine Missionary Baptist Church, 2008 MarignySt., on Saturday, July18, 2026, for 10:00 A.M., Rev. Donald C. Jeanjacques Sr., pastor, officiating.Church visitation from8:00 A.M. until the hour of service. Interment at Mount Olivet Cemetery and Mausoleum. Rev. David M. PatinSr. and Gwiena Magee Patin, directors. Professional Service Entrustedto Littlejohn Funeral Home, 2163 Aubry Street; Cal K. Johnson, Funeral Director/ Manager. Info:(504) 9400045.
In Loving Memory of Hemant Shah Some people buildbusinesses. Others buildcommunities. Hemant Shah builtboth. With heavyhearts, we share thepassing of our belovedhusband, father, Dada, brother, and friend, Hemant Shah, on July14, 2026. BornAugust 27, 1943, he married theloveofhis life,Saroj, in February 1966 and came to America the following year withlimited English and determination.
Acivil engineer by profession, Hemant began selling Indiangroceries fromhis garage. That smalleffortgrewinto International Foods, Louisiana's first Indian grocery store, nowserving thecommunity formore than fifty years. To him, it was never onlya business. It was aplace where peoplefound familiar food, friendship,and belonging Family came first in everything he did. He helped his brothers and sisters come to America, supported them as they builttheir lives, and remained devoted to his childrenand grandchildren. Froma youngage,hewas always agiver, even when he had little.Hehelpedrelatives, friends, strangers, and childrenwithout hesitation, and he was humble enough to apologizequickly when he knew he was wrong.
Guidedbythe teachings of Shrimad Rajchandra, Hemant believedkindness and generosity were life's greatest wealth. Hisfinal act reflected theway he lived: giving his body to science so that others might learn and benefit.
To hisgrandchildren,he was proudly Dada. His love,faith,humor, and generosity willliveon
through hisfamily, his community, andeverylife he touched. AMemorialGathering will be held at Lake Lawn MetairieFuneral Home & Cemeteries, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd,New Orleans, Louisiana, on Sunday, July 19, 2026, from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm.
AMemorialCeremony andSharing of Memories will follow from 12:00 pm to 2:00 pm, with livestream availableathttps://client.t ribucast.com/tcid/c260739 9477917 To view andsignthe familyonline guestbook andshare yourmemories of Hemant, please visit lakelawnmetairie.com Williams,
Melvin Clifford Sylve, of Belle Chasse, Louisianadepartedthislifeon, Tuesday, July 7, 2026. He wasbornonJune21, 1962, to the lateAlidore &Alice SylveSr. Husband of the lateKenettaSylve. He leaves to cherish his loving children, grandchildren,siblings, nieces nephewscousins other relatives anddear friends Celebration of life serviceswill be held on Friday, July 17, 2026 at Greater MorningStar Baptist Church locatedat 14747 LA -23, Naomi,La, 70037. Visitation begins at 9a.m., andservice willbegin at 11 a.m. Pastor Joseph Brooks officiating andintermentwillbeheld private Funeral planningentrustedtoRobinsonFamily Funeral Home of Belle Chasse, Louisiana.
Queen E. Williams passedaway peacefullyon Thursday, July 9, 2026, at the age of 82. Born on December 22, 1943, in Clayton,Louisiana, she wasthe daughterofthe lateJames and AnnieLee Afuneral service will be held at 10:00 a.m., on Saturday, July 18, 2026, at Little Zion Baptist Church, 2200 Kenner Ave Kenner Louisiana. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Intermentwill follow at Belle Grove Cemetery, Kenner,Louisiana. Richardson Funeral Home of Jefferson, River Ridge,LAisinchargeofarrangements. www.richards onfuneralhomeofjefferson com
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OPINION
Newlaw aims to help make home ownershipeasier
When moms and dads lie down to sleep at night and can’t,it’sprimarily because they are worried about the cost of living in America. And the largest expense most Americans face each month is housing.
Roughly half of all Americans spend more than 30% of their income on housing, including the 16% of individuals whose rent sucks up more than half of their paycheck. When rent claims most of your income, it becomes incredibly difficult for afamily to save even $1,000 for an emergency expense, let alone adown payment on ahome. In turn, the average age of afirst-time homebuyer has increased from 30 years oldin 2010 to 40 years old today
The cost of housing has spiraled out of control for many reasons, but one problem is obvious: We aren’tbuilding nearly enough homes. Demand exceeds supply
New home construction starts fell by40% over thepast two decades. Meanwhile, thecountry’s population increased by 15%. We have too many people competingfor too few homes, andithas driven housingprices to the moon. Some cities responded to this housing crisis better than others. Raleigh, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas, forexample, cut regulations to make it easier for home builders to build. Thesetwo cities lead the nation in new home construction. Other cities spentmore time regulating than building. In Los Angeles, for example, homeowners waited for months for the city to approve newbuilding permits followingthe devastatingEaton and Palisades fires. By thefirst anniversary ofthe blaze, Californianshad rebuilt fewer than adozen of theroughly13,000
homes that burned to theground.
While it is painful to watch the incompetence in Los Angeles, Congress does not control local regulations or zoning policies and that’sa good thing.Ahousing policy that works well in New Orleans may not work in New York City,and that’sOK. Washington’s one-size-fits-all policies have a long history of making matters worse.
ButCongress should not reward cities and local governments that are making life unaffordable for American families
The federal government has manytools at its disposal to incentivize good policies and punish thebad.
Oneexample is theDepartment of Housing and Urban Development’sCommunity Development Block Grants, or CDBG, program. This program distributes $3.3 billion in grantstostate and local governmentstosupport economic development and community im-
Murrillcaseshows that lawfarehas no winners
On July 2, agrand jury charged At-
torney General Liz Murrill with16 feloniesbecause of letters she sent in May to New Orleans officials during the Orleans Parishclerk of court dispute. One day later,the Louisiana Supreme Court halted the case, found her likely to prevail on amotion to dismiss and cited serious problems in how the charges were obtained.
Ihold no brief for the attorney general, and no quarrel with New Orleans. Yetthis case is a symptom of adangerous national habit: using criminal charges to fight political battles. Lawfare has no winners, and no onewho loves this country shouldwant it to become normal.
provementplans.
Local leaders have alot of discretion to choose how to use these grants, and they love this money like the devil loves sin. They’ll do just about anything to keep this money flowing into their communities, and that gave me an idea: We could use the CDBG program to reward cities that build lots of new homes,and we could take somefunding away from those that fail to increase new housing starts.
This idea turned into my Build Now Act, and it just becamelaw as part of the larger 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
Here’show it will work: Cities that fall below the national median rate of homebuilding will lose 10% of their CDBG funding.
The funding we take away from cities that fail to build will then go intoabig pot that we will proportionallydistribute to the cities that outpace the national median rateofhome building. Cities that
face natural disasters or other hardships will receive an exemption, and their CBDGfunding won’t change at all.
It’s both areward to cities that increase their supplies of homes and apenalty forthose whoenjoy burdensomeregulations more than affordable housing. It’s a carrot and astick —and it could unlock the American dream of homeownership forthe families that have struggled to afford a place of their own.
The only way to bring downthe cost of anew homeistoincrease our housing supply
Idon’tcare how cities do it, but they better get serious about cutting red tape if they wantto keep the federal funding they have growntolove. The days of rewarding bad policies that make lifetoo expensive forAmerican families are over
JohnKennedyrepresents Louisiana in theU.S. Senate.
Fish farmsinthe Gulf wouldhurt area fishermen
Louisiana’sfishing grounds are already under pressurefrom decades of oil andgas development.Now Congress is advancing a bill that could open the door to offshore fish farming in theGulf.
Anew law,Act 15, combined the two Orleans Parish clerk of court offices into one, as in every otherparish. Officials disagreed in good faith: One side believed it created avacant office for the CityCouncil to fill; the attorney general believed it merged theold office into theexisting one, leaving no vacancy.Her letters stated her position, quoted the law word for word,and saidshe would file acivil suit if the appointment went forward. It was an ordinary “demand letter,” sent by lawyers by the thousandsevery year.Such letters are sometimes unwelcome, sometimes even wrong They are not crimes. On June 1, afull month before the indictment, the Supreme Court ruled that Act 15 was constitutional. The court agreed withthe heart of what her letters said. In the same ruling it protected the officials on theother side, holding that the genuineconfusion shielded them from thevery laws her letters cited. The civil courts answered the question and shielded everybody.The fight was over.Then, amonth later,criminal charges arrived anyway.They resolved nothing, because nothing remained toresolve. They could only reopen awoundthe courts had already closed On this, there can be no argument: Every official who holds thepublic’s trust, the attorney general included, answers to the same law as any citizen. Had she demanded money, threatenedharm or lied aboutthe law, her title would not protect her,and it should not. The problem withthis indictment is different: What shedid is not acrime, not for her andnot for anyone. Take awayher title, and these letters are what any Louisianaattorney sends before filing suit.The office
changes nothing but theaudience. Every citizen should worry,whatever their politics. Allover this country, on every side, aline we once respected has been erased: the line between “you are wrong” and “you areacriminal.” Losing an election used to mean goinghome. Now,too often, it means being investigated. Winning an argument used to be enough. Now the opponent mustbecharged. Each side sees its own cases as accountability and its opponent’sasattacks, and the score is kept in charges filed, not cases proven. Thedamage lands on all of us. Good people stop running for office. Those who serve govern scared. Real corruption grows harder to punish, because thepublic stops trusting any charge. Andmost gravely, the peaceful transfer of power,the thingthat makes America work,grows shaky when losing might mean prosecution.
Principles only count when they cost something, so everything said here must hold when the roles flip. If these charges are dismissed, the right response is not celebration or revenge, but aquiet return to the people’s business. Andthe real testof “noone is above the law” is whether we also believe“no one is beneathits protection,” including those we disagree with most.
This month,America turned 250. TheFounders disagreed about more than we do, yet pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to each other while trusting argument,not accusation, to settle their differences. We can disagree about this case and everything else in our politics andstill hold three truths in common:Argument should never be acrime, aprosecution never a campaignand acourtroom never a weapon Standing down is not weakness. It is thediscipline of the confident. Louisiana has already shown the country how this dispute should have ended: in acourtroom, on themerits,with gracefor thelosing side. Now,let us show how it ends for good. Let the first side to put down theweapon be theone that proves it never needed it. Let it be us, and let it begin here. There is no better gift Louisianacould give this country in its 250th year
Lance C. Beal is aLafayette attorney
I’ve been acommercial shrimp fisherman in the Gulf for morethan 30 years, where my extended family and our United HoumaNation have fished for centuries. I’ve also worked in the oil and gas industry.I’ve watched corporationsput profits above our safety.Pipelines have cut through and weakened protective wetlands that shield us from hurricanes andturned working families intoclimate migrants. Even as we push for cleanup of abandoned oil and gas wells after companies fled, theGulf is facing anew threat: offshore fish farms.
Right now,Congress is debating theMarine Aquaculture Research for America Act, or MARA Act, abill seeking to open thedoor to offshore fish farms in federal waters forthe first time. The bill calls this “research.” Our communities, which have been stewarding Gulf waters for generations, don’tneed experiments on ourfishing grounds.What’smore, ourcountry is not suffering from a“seafood shortage” tobegin with. Yet, theGulf is being targeted as an “aquaculture opportunity area,” so we may be first in line for these fish farmsif MARA passes.
MARA’s “research” tagline makes it harder for thegeneral public to understand what’sreally happening. The bill would give the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration full authority to hand out permitsand governmentsubsidies to commercial operations. That makes it aone-way speedboat to permanent commercial finfish farms, with no clear way to shut it down if the impacts are disastrous, as they’ve been in countries that permit this practice.
Here’swhat we need to ask ourselves today: Should public waters support existing waysof life and community-scale seafood systemsor subsidize theworst of industrial food production in our waters?
MARA supporters and opponentsreflect an all-too-familiar divide: Megacorporations and their shareholders pursue profit on one side, and everyday people who care about our food, planet,communities and local economies on theother
The main argument used to legitimize MARA —that theU.S. needs seafood security because of our “seafood deficit”—isfalse. Our commercial fishermen already catch more wild seafood than our country eats every year In 2023, for example, thenumber landed was about 8.4 billion pounds, versus the6.4 billion pounds eaten. On top of this, arecent study in Nature backs up what many of us on the water already know: The U.S. could meet more of its
own seafood needswith better,more independent processing and local distribution andby eatinga widervariety of species.
Claimsabout industrial aquaculture’ssustainability fall apart when you look at what it actually takes to feed carnivorous fish. In practice, farmed fish are fedamix that still heavily relies on wild-caught fish, much of it extracted from coastal communities around the world to supply global fish feed markets. A 2024 study found that producing one pound of farmed salmon, for instance, can take two to five pounds of wild fish.
And because offshore fish farmsmust be industrial-scale to withstand rough seas with powerful storms, these projects will likely depend on government subsidies and taxpayerfunded cleanup when disasters like amass fish escape occur Congress should instead invest in the seafood systemswealready have, and the deep heritage they support. Bills like the Domestic Seafood Production Act focus on timely solutions, such as supporting community-based fishermen, oyster farmers and kelp growers to improve local seafood processing and distribution. In addition, the Keep Finfish Free Act would keep offshore fish farmsout of our waters, and the Destruction of Hazardous Imports Act would makesure low-quality imports don’tundercut wild-caught seafood from the Gulf Ultimately,the vote on MARA will determine whobenefits from our waters, whogets leftout and whowill carry the burden of cleanup foryears. Gulf communities have already been footing the bill —financially,culturally and with our health —for ongoing harmsfrom the oil and gas boom.Let’snot repeat that with factory fish farms.
JustinSolet is acommercial fisherman from southeast Louisiana and an Equation Fellow withTrue Transition, where he advocates for thecleanupofthousands of abandoned oil and gas wells in hisstate.
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AWestbank Fishing boat passes poles used to mark oyster beads as it heads backtoEmpire loaded with menhaden caught in the Gulf.
COMMENTARY
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ISSUE OF THE WEEK GRAHAM’S LEGACy
The unexpecteddeath of Sen.LindseyGraham, aSouth Carolina Republican, has led to much speculation about thefuture of theinstitution asthe midterms approach. In addition to the loss of Graham,Sen.Mitch McConnell, the longtime Republican leader, has been absentfromthe chamberfor more than amonth as rumors swirledabout thechances for his return. Graham, astaunchally of President Donald Trump, wasknown as ahawkonIranand a strong supporter of Ukraine.South Carolina Gov. HenryMcMasternamed Graham’s sister Darline Graham Nordone to fill the vacancy beforethe November elections. Butwhat will happentothe causes Graham championed and will Trump face more obstacles advancinghis agenda amid the turmoil? Here are twoperspectives:
Graham wasthe best kind of political‘operator’
On Feb. 22, 2022, two days before Vladimir Putin sent his tanks rumblingtoward Ukraine’scapital, Donald Trump said of the Russian leader: “This is genius. .Here’sa guy who’svery savvy.”
Eight days later,Lindsey Graham offered astarkly different sentiment: “The onlyway this ends is for somebody in Russiatotakethis guy out.”
The Republican senator from South Carolina had ahistoryofdismissing Trump’sworldview.When Trump first ran in 2015, Graham let loose, calling him a“race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.” After Trump won, Graham shocked observersbyheaping unbridled praiseonthe game show host now entering the White House.Hecame off as an almost comical fawner. Many thought Graham had no principles or self-respect,that he’d do anything to ensure reelection. Turns out, he had very different motives. He was playing the long game. Graham stayedin, it seems, tostem MAGA’s weakening views on the importance of strong Americanglobal leadership. Trump himself had isolationist tendencies, amplified by ignorance of world affairs. How did Graham become oneofTrump’s dearestgolf buddies?Heemployed wit wrapped in Southern charm. He’d say things to Trump like “Mr.President, you’re not far behind God.” (The mockery it contained may have flown over Trump’shead.) Graham was playing the long gameofretaining influence in an administrationrun by amercurial and angry personality Many of us failed to see this. Grahamwas determined to stay in the president’sgood graces to preserve Americansupport for Ukraine’sresistance to Putin’saggression. And he held that stance evenwhen Trump ignorantly saidabout Ukrainian leader VolodymyrZelenskyy: “I’ve beenwatching him negotiate with no cards. He had no cards.” Zelenskyy responded, “We’re not playing cards.” Graham understood thenationalsecurity threat posed by Putin’smarchtoward NATO’sborders. And it turns outthatZel-
enskyyobviously had cards in theform of Ukraine’sprogram to develop adroneforce now battering Russia’sinfrastructure.
Trumprecently did a180 on Zelenskyy “Look, he’sdone an amazing job,” Trump said.
Illness, death, turmoil change face of Senate
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Graham also remained asteadfast supporter of Israel when much of MAGA andmany Democrats turned against it over thewar in Gaza. Graham didn’talways agree with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, but he had asophisticated understanding of Israel’sneed to defend itself.
On the domestic front, Graham had joined agroup of Republicans who worked with Democrats to pass the2013 immigration reform bill in the Senate. HadRepublican House Speaker John Boehner put it up for avote, the bill would have been approved andput teeth in immigration enforcement.
Boehner let it die because some of his members opposed thepart extending amnestyto otherwise law-abiding immigrants who had been in the U.S. and working for along time.
Graham was one of 10 Republicans who joined an agreement on gun control. That took guts.
Graham’s lowest moment camewhenhe triedtohelp Trump overturnthe results of the 2020 election. He asked Georgia’ssecretary of state, in BradRaffensperger’s recollection, to throwout legally cast mail ballots. Republican Raffensperger refused to do so.
Complex man,Graham was.Afew days ago, hedined with DelawareDemocrat Sen. Chris Coons at theNATOconference in Turkey.“While we disagreed fiercely on many policy issues,” Coons said in astatement of remembrance, “he was complicated and could not be pigeonholed.” Coons went on: “Few have been able tofrustrate and anger, amuse and engage me in asingle conversation theway Lindsey could.”
Graham is areminder of patriots who loved this country before radicals in both parties turned against it. Can anyone replacehim?
FromaHarrop is on X, @FromaHarrop.
Oneofthe colder aspects of lifein Washington politics is that the death of an important person often results, before much grieving is done, in afrenzy of speculation about who will get the unfortunateimportantperson’s job.Soitiswith South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham,whose deathset off an immediate “frenzy” of guessing who would fill his post both in the short and long term
SouthCarolina Gov.Henry McMaster answered thefirst part of thequestion quickly,appointing thelate senator’ssister,Darline Graham Nordone, to serve the remainder of Graham’sterm, which lasts until Jan. 3, 2027.
The second answer,onwho will be the next full-term senator from South Carolina, will come after aspecial primary in August and the general election in November People are still processing Graham’s loss. Think back to some of the most momentous issues of the last several decades —the war in Iran, national security, judicial confirmations, budget battles, immigration and political fights going back to theimpeachment of Bill Clinton. Graham, who, when he died, was chairman of the Senate Budget Committeebut also earlier chaired the Judiciary Committee, was in the middle of them all. He was the face of the Republican Party in theSenateonmany issues, and for many years, he was close to whoever was seen as the leader of the party Butthere is alarger story.Graham’s deathcomes at awrenching momentfor theRepublican Party in the U.S. Senate. That is because, beyond Graham, anumber of leaders who played key roles in theevents of the last decade and beyond —who shaped the Senate as we know it today —are leaving, the result of illness, age and thepolitical turmoil of the Trumpyears. Lawmakers normally exit when they retire or lose reelection. This year,there’smore than
that going on. Sen. Mitch McConnell’sdecline has been long and public, and at age 84, he is serving —sometimes from ahospital room —the last months of 42 years in the Senate. After rumors that he had died, or that he was braindead, this week, McConnell released astatement explaining that he “took afall which landed me in the hospital” and also had a“mild case of pneumonia.” Another longtimeRepublican senator,John Cornyn of Texas, is also leaving at the end of this term.Inhis 24 years in the Senate, Cornyn built areputation as an effective lawmaker and served as party whip, the second-highest position in the party.Hescored an 85% lifetime rating from CPAC USA; in 2025, he voted with President Donald Trump100% of the time. That, apparently,was not enough forthe president, whofelt that Cornyn had not supported him quickly enough in the 2024 presidential race. Trump endorsed Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, whothen handily defeated Cornyn in the GOPprimary Two-term GOPSen. Bill Cassidy is also being pushed out by Trump, having lost aprimary to aTrump-backed opponent.
Republican Thom Tillis is also leaving, by choice but also under pressure from Trump. Other GOPsenators are leaving, too. Retiring are Joni Ernst of Iowa,Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, Steve Daines of Montana and Alan Armstrong of Oklahoma, whohas served as the placekeeper forMarkwayne Mullin. Tommy Tuberville of Alabamaisatthe end of his term and is running forgovernor,and Tennessee’sMarsha Blackburn, whoisinthe middle of her Senate term,isalso running forgovernor and will leave the Senate if she wins. There’sareally big change coming, no matter whowins in November Byron York is on X, @Bryon York
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Sen. Lindsey Graham,R-S.C., speaksduring a2022 news conference in Washington, D.C.
SPORTS
LSU, SEC schools oppose college sports bill
Officialsremainvague on reasoningbehindopposition
BY JON BLAU Staff writer
After years of lobbying Congress for help, the NCAA has been offered the “Protect College Sports Act” as ameans to clean up its mess. But to the surprise of no one familiar with political horse-trading, the proposed legislation, which provides the NCAA power to enforce rules regarding athlete pay and eligibility, hasn’tsatisfied all parties.
Severalschools, including LSU,have come out in opposition to the bill in its current form. Some institutions have detailed their objections more than others.
Alabama and Auburn penned aletter on July 6, saying the bill meant to “stabilize” college athletics would do the oppositebecause its antitrustexemption isn’t strong enough to ward off lawsuits and override a patchwork of state laws.
LSU, on the otherhand, joined ahandful of SEC schools in publicly opposingthe bill Monday but did so withoutexplainingwhy
“While we appreciate all of the efforts surrounding the Protect College Sports Act, we believe key issues remainwith the
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LeBron remains undecidedon future team
BYSTEPHENWHYNO andTIM REYNOLDS
AP sportswriters
NEW YORK —IfLeBron James knows where he will play this coming season,he’sstill not saying.
The NBA’s career scoring king and current free agent spoke publiclyfor the first time in weeks Thursday afternoon,indicating that adecision is close —though stopping short of revealingwhich team he’ll choose to play for this fall, despite at least one cry from someone in ajampacked room shouting for him to “pick ateam.”
“I won’thold you guys up too much longer,”James said.
Thefour-timeNBA champion had apair of appearances Thursday: He recorded an episode of his “Mind the Game” podcast alongside guest co-host Tyrese Haliburton of the Indiana PacersinNew York on the opening day of Fanatics Fest, then spoke at the Game Plan Summit presented by CNBC
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Saints QB Shough lookingtoprove
BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer
After watching four and ahalf years of middling quarterback play,ittook eight gamesfor theNew Orleans Saintsfaithful to start feeling good about what’sgoing on under center again.
Technically,Tyler Shough started nine games last season (andappeared in 11 total). Butthe momentum truly started withstartNo. 2, when he led the Saints into Carolina anddelivered an impressive winagainst the team that would go on to win the NFC South.
Shoughbuilt upon that initial winning performance and wound up finishing second in the NFL’sOffensive Rookie of the Year race despite playing roughly half of the 2025 season.Then New Orleans spent theoffseason building up thecastofcharactersaround him, aclear indication it felt Shough was ready to take another step. Thesecond-year signal caller has saidand done all the
right things since theend of his rookie season.Now he just needs to prove that optimism is well-placed.
Depth chart(name,height, weight, experience)
n Tyler Shough, 6-foot-5, 210 pounds, 2years
n Spencer Rattler,6-0, 211, 3
n Zach Wilson, 6-2, 214, 6
n Hunter Dekkers, 6-1, 210, 1
Number to know:118.5
That wasShough’spasserratingwhentargeting receiversinthe intermediate areaofthe field (10-19 yards past the line of scrimmage),according to NFLPro.Among 33 qualifiedNFL passers, only Detroit’sJared Goff hadahigher rating. It maysound likeaniche stat, but this means much of Shough’sproduction camewhenpushing theballdownfield. With an improved crew of pass catchers,the Saints maybeabletotap intosome moreexplosive pass plays
‘The moment an object became an icon’
BY NICCOLÒ LUPONE
TheAssociated Press
MILAN The Italian sculptor whodesigned theFIFAWorld Cup trophy wanted to capture three sportingemotions in asingle spiraling form:the athlete’sstruggle,the fan’sjubilation and the moment of victory.
On Sunday,eitherSpain or Argentina will lift the trophy after the 2026 World Cup final.
Here’swhat to know aboutthe most coveted prize in soccer
Thetrophywas designed in Milan Silvio Gazzaniga designed the trophy in his studio in Milan’sBrera neighborhood after FIFAissuedan open competition for anew design when Brazil took permanent possession of the original trophy by winning its third World Cup in 1970.
Thedesign, now familiartogenerations of World Cup fans, features twofigures swirling up toward an orb representing the Earth.
“When he started to design the cup, he was sketching ahuge numberofdrawings and finally started to develop the idea to have the
world andthis symbolthatitislike atwo DNA spirals, thatare moving up,”saidGiorgio Gazzaniga,the designer’sson who wasa teenager at the time. The elder Gazzaniga, asculptor and trophy designer who died in 2016, worked for G.D.E. Bertoni Srl andcreated some of the most prestigious trophies in the world, including the UEFACup and European Super-Cup. 1930 trophy wasstolen
The first World Cup Trophy,introduced for theinaugural tournament in 1930,depicted the Greek goddess Nike, and wasknown as the Jules Rimet Trophy for the tournament’s founder.FIFAcommissioned areplacement after Brazil earned permanent possession of theoriginalafter becoming thefirst nation to win three WorldCups
The JulesRimetTrophy wasstolentwice —first in 1966 while on public displayinEngland, before beingrecovered by adog named Pickles beneath ahedge in south London, accordingtoFIFA. It wasstolen againfromthe BrazilianFootball Confederationheadquarters in 1983 after Brazilhad taken permanent
AP FILE PHOTO By JESSIE ALCHEH Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James dunks against the Phoenix Suns during a game on April 10 in LosAngeles. James
where he will playnext season.
STAFF FILE PHOTOByBRETT DUKE Saints quarterback Tyler Shough looks to throwthe ballduring organized team activies on June 3atthe team’s practice facility in Metairie.
More whistles, more points
How the WNBA’s new officiating focus is reshaping games
BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer
NEW YORK Cheryl Reeve has seen a lot of improvements in officiating this season and it’s helped the WNBA have record offensive numbers so far through the first half of the season.
There’s still areas that need to be worked on, but it will take more than 20 games for everything to be cleaned up.
“We’ve seen great improvements on the very things that were broken,” the Minnesota Lynx coach said. “There was a level of impeding players and trying to cut off a screen. We don’t want the unnecessary physicality.”
The league put together a task force, which Reeve is on, in the offseason to help clean up some of the physicality in the game. The main point of emphasis was to help players’ freedom of movement. Despite some hiccups early on, it has led to more offense as teams are averaging around 86 points a game — the highest ever They are shooting nearly 45% from the field — also the best in league history
So far this season there have been roughly 4 1/2 more fouls called per game with 75% of them being non-shooting fouls
“I think it’s fair for our coaches and players to be able to say
we’re happy and we think positive things are taking place, but still I disagree with the calls that are affecting our team tonight,” Monty McCutchen, who is the head of WNBA officials, told The Associated Press.
“I want coaches to remain advocates for their teams,” McCutchen added. “We have gotten positive feedback that we’re on the right track. we’ll continue to work through specifics when we
fail that task and we’ll continue to check in with the officiating task force to make sure that we’re aligned with the expectations.”
By no means are things perfect. Coaches and players have complained of inconsistencies between officiating crews. What might be called a foul in one half might not be deemed a foul at another point in the game. Obvious fouls are getting missed too.
“It’s never going to be perfect,
but we’re trending in the right direction,” Reeve said. “We’ve put resources into this.”
Reeve recalled a play that she asked to be reviewed during her team’s game against Dallas. The officials looked at the play and upgraded it to a flagrant.
The league is constantly reviewing plays. Alyssa Thomas’ punch to the throat of Caitlin Clark that was upgraded to a Flagrant-2 was one of four that the league reviewed that night and was the only one upgraded.
Common fouls aren’t the only thing on the rise. Both technical fouls and flagrant fouls are up too. There have been 124 technicals assessed this season (four more were rescinded). Last year there were 171 total. There have been 44 flagrants called this season as compared to 51 all of last year
“I think they are doing a better job at reviewing hostile acts,” Reeve said. “We didn’t ask for that, but if that’s what it takes to clean it up (it’s worth it).”
Not everyone is a fan of all the reviews. Las Vegas coach Becky Hammon said after a loss to Indiana last week that there were too many of them.
“It’s exhausting when they go to the review every time I mean, these games are getting longer and longer It’s encouraging more drama,” she said. “So, it’s like somebody gets hit, and it’s like take them to the hospital. And they jump up, and they’re fine. So I actually think it’s not just today It’s across the league. There’s so many reviews.”
Giannis looking to follow Messi’s path to titles, success
BY TIM REYNOLDS
AP basketball writer
MIAMI Giannis Antetokounmpo
was watching Lionel Messi play in the World Cup semifinals this week, and a realization struck him.
Messi, to him, is greatness. And Antetokounmpo wants to follow Messi’s path.
Antetokounmpo got his welcome-to-Miami ceremony Thursday at the team’s arena, with a few fans chanting his name as he walked along his new home court for the first time after he got a tour of his new city
“I need pressure at this time of my career,” Antetokounmpo said “I think in order for me to go to the next level, I’ve got to get out of my comfort zone — and I feel like Miami was the place for me to be.”
Messi came to Inter Miami three years ago, adding to his already copious resume by winning a couple of Major League Soccer MVP awards and another championship. Antetokounmpo has now joined him in Miami, hoping his relocation comes with the same level of success.
“That’s the blueprint,” Antetokounmpo said. “LeBron James, Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, they set the blueprint and you just got to follow, right? It’s hard You have to be disciplined. You have to
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and Boardroom later in the afternoon. At the summit, he told Boardroom co-founder Rich Kleiman in an on-stage conversation that making this decision has a slew of layers — many of which, it seems, are off the court
“It’s not just about the team,” James said. “There’s so many other factors that I’m factoring in right now on what best fits me as a player, what best fits me as a person and what best fits my happiness, and also my family as well.” At Fanatics Fest, an 11-year-old in the crowd asked James about
be dedicated to your craft, but it’s there. And if you want to follow, you follow If you don’t want to follow, then you go home.”
He didn’t go home. He’s in a new home.
Antetokounmpo got his formal Heat introduction a couple of weeks after Miami swung the trade that landed the two-time MVP along with Bobby Portis Jr from the Milwaukee Bucks in exchange for Tyler Herro, Jaime Jaquez Jr Kel’el Ware, Kasparas Jaku ionis and draft capital.
For the Heat, it’s another on a long list of superstar acquisitions made since Pat Riley arrived to take over as team president in 1995.
“I think this is just part of who the Heat are in the pursuit of excellence,” Riley said. “But you don’t win championships unless you have greatness on the court and on the bench. I’m just so excited for this challenge.”
Antetokounmpo entered the NBA in 2013. His career totals to date: 21,531 points, 8,882 rebounds and 4,484 assists. The point and rebound totals are both fifth best in the NBA over that span, while the assist total is 13th best — and those numbers are just part of the reason why the Heat consider him to still be one of the five best players in the league.
If all that wasn’t enough, has simply been a nightmare for de-
free agency and his next team
— “first of all, that was a hell of a question and some of the media people here probably should learn from the young fella,” James said — and the youngster got perhaps the best answer of the session, with James indicating that the 2026-27 season may not necessar-
ily be his last as a player
“It’s a big decision for not only myself, but for my family as well,” James said “Just for the last part of my career and where I want to spend the last few years or the last year or the last two years of my NBA career
I’m going to try to fit into whatever team I’m going into — but also give them all the tools and give them all the knowledge that I’ve been able to grasp over the last 23 years I know the
fenses. Nobody has drawn more fouls over those 13 seasons than Antetokounmpo, which is absolute music to the ears of Heat coach Erik Spoelstra.
“A little while ago Pat called me into his office and he looked at me,” Spoelstra said. “He said, ‘Do you want to coach Giannis?’” Spoelstra’s no-brainer answer: “Yes.”
And then he walked out, waiting for Riley, Heat general manager Andy Elisburg and the rest of the front office to get a deal done.
When Antetokounmpo arrived early Thursday morning for his first workout as a member of the Heat, Spoelstra was waiting for him.
“I just want to be coached hard,” Antetokounmpo said. “I’d rather you tell me the ugly truth than a beautiful lie. I’m excited to be coached by him.”
Antetokounmpo’s run in Milwaukee ended with him having, by far, the most points in franchise history, more than 7,000 ahead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s total during his tenure with the Bucks. Antetokounmpo is also Milwaukee’s all-time leader in rebounds and assists, plus he ranks second on the team’s career list in steals.
He had a ton of success there. He’s looking for more success in Miami, which is one of the reasons why Portis felt like the Heat were
game. I know the ins and outs of the game of basketball.”
James playfully chided Haliburton for asking him about his future — “didn’t we talk about this in the back?” James asked, and Haliburton said he would ”leave it alone.”
Of course, they didn’t leave it alone. James made reference to a slew of teams such as Cleveland, Miami, Philadelphia and Golden State, though didn’t appear to give much in the way of hints He did sip from a bottle of red wine that he opened and shared with Haliburton, calling it one of his podcast traditions. And when fans shouted out suggestions for James’ next team — one even asked him to play for the New York Yankees — no clues
Liberty-Wings postponed because of travel issues
New York’s game against the Dallas Wings was postponed Thursday after the Liberty had travel delays caused by mechanical issues on their charter flight, the league announced.
On Wednesday evening, New York rookie Pauline Astier posted to Instagram that the team was “still on the tarmac” after 10 hours on the plane. The game was originally scheduled to be played Thursday night in Dallas, but has been rescheduled for 7 p.m Monday The Wings said all tickets purchased for Thursday’s game will be honored for Monday’s matchup.
The Liberty, who have dropped three games in a row, next visit Indiana on Saturday
NBA, Heat won’t punish Adebayo for altercation
MIAMI The NBA is moving on from Tyler Herro v. Bam Adebayo, with the league issuing a statement Thursday that there will be no disciplinary action regarding last week’s practice-court kerfuffle between former Heat guard Tyler Herro and Heat captain Bam Adebayo:
“After discussing with the players involved and the NBPA, everyone would prefer to move on from this unfortunate circumstance, and no further action will be taken by the league.”
The Heat later confirmed that no team action will be taken.
Herro and Adebayo got into a confrontation over social media posts last Friday on a practice court set up at a Las Vegas resort, one utilized by teams participating in the NBA Summer League and also available to NBA players for workout sessions.
NHL releases expanded 84-game schedule
NEW YORK The most expansive season in NHL history will begin in September not October and limit most teams to four preseason games.
The league’s first 84-game season since 1993-94 opens on Sept. 29, as 32 teams will combine to play a total of 1,344 games. The season runs through April 10, before the playoffs begin the following week.
the best place for him as well.
“The conversations I have with Giannis have always been about winning. ‘Where can we go to win? How can we impact winning? How can you get another ’chip? That’s always been the talk,’” Portis said during his introductory news conference earlier Thursday “It hasn’t been about anything else but winning. All he cares about is winning.”
By all accounts, the Giannis-inMiami era is off to the right start.
Antetokounmpo was thrilled by the welcome he and his wife got when their plane landed in Miami after watching Messi and Argentina beat England in Atlanta on Wednesday He says he already loves the Miami weather (“warmer than Milwaukee,” he said) and isn’t a fan of iguanas, which are everywhere in South Florida (“those guys, stay away from me,” he said).
Riley told him the Heat are looking to win and win big. That was all Antetokounmpo needed to really hear He has one ring. He wants more.
“You’ve got to work,” Antetokounmpo said “They show you, they show you the way It’s not hard. Just listen and open your eyes. It’s something that I wanted. I was able to accomplish it once in my career Hopefully, it will happen a second time.”
were forthcoming.
“We’ll see,” he said.
In Miami, where the Heat introduced Giannis Antetokounmpo and Bobby Portis Jr as their newest forwards on Thursday, team president Pat Riley acknowledged there have been talks about a reunion with James.
But the Heat don’t seem to have any hints either “Right now, I think we’re like everybody else,” Riley said “We’re just waiting to see what he does and then we’ll see what happens.”
Same goes for the NBA: Commissioner Adam Silver spoke at the Game Plan Summit not long after James on Thursday Silver said he has a bit of an “inkling” on which way James is leaning, but no concrete word.
The increase from an 82-game slate, which had been the standard since the mid-90s, was agreed upon by team owners and players in the last round of talks on a collective bargaining agreement. The intent is to provide more breathing room between the end of the Stanley Cup Final and the draft in late June before free agency commences on July 1.
Burns agrees to $105M, seven-year deal with Reds
Right-hand pitcher Chase Burns has agreed to a $105 million, seven-year contract with the Cincinnati Reds that covers 2027-33, two people familiar with the deal told the Associated Press on Thursday The people spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity because the deal had not been announced. Burns has a $785,000 salary while in the major leagues this year and $198,173 in the unlikely event he is sent to the minors.
Burns’ deal would run through the 2033 season and, under the current labor contract, covers three seasons of arbitration eligibility and the first two years after he would have been eligible for free agency It does not include options or deferrals.
Norris hit with 10-place grid penalty for Belgian GP
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium Lando Norris’ faltering Formula 1 title defense hit another setback Thursday as McLaren confirmed he will get a 10-place grid penalty for the Belgian Grand Prix. Norris is paying the price for poor reliability earlier in the season of the electronics that manage his car’s hybrid power systems. Fitting an upgraded power electronics unit supplied by Mercedes with what McLaren called “a series of reliability fixes” took Norris over his allowance of three for the season and triggered the penalty Norris lost two of the units to failures, including a breakdown that left him unable to start the Chinese Grand Prix.
McLaren picked Belgium to use the new unit because it will be
atively easy for Norris to overtake at the Spa-Francorchamps
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Minnesota Lynx head coach Cheryl Reeve questions a call during the second half of a game against the Dallas Wings on June 28 in Arlington, Texas.
WORLDCUP 2026
Spainpractices outside as smokefillsthe air
BY STEPHENWHYNO AND SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press
With the sun obstructed by haze, Spain’splayers practiced Thursday ahead of the WorldCup final outside in northern New Jersey while air conditions are hazardous because of smokefromCanadian wildfires.
It was not clear how fastpacedapractice Spain held Media members are only able to observe the first 15 minutes of what wasscheduled to be ahourlong session in East Hanover beginning at 11 a.m. EDT Argentinaremained in the Atlanta area to work out less than 24 hoursafterrallying to beat England and reach the final for asecond consecutive tournament. Marietta, Georgia, is far enough south to avoid the effects of the fire, which are being windblown to the southeast from northern Ontario, triggering warnings from the U.S. Midwest through the Northeast.
Officials urged people to stay inside or wear masks outside as air quality reached unhealthy to hazardous levels, meaning it’sunhealthy for anyone, regardless of health conditions. Expertsexpressed concern overholding practice outdoors.
“These are high-level athleteswho are moving alot of air through their lungs during every practice in every game, and really they shouldn’tbepracticing outsideifthe air quality levels are at hazardous sortofranges for wildfirerelatedair pollution,”said Dr.Courtney Howard, an emergency room physician and Global Climate and Health Alliance official. “That’sthe time to schedule apractice inside. Youcould put an N95 mask on them, but trying to make sure that everybody’smask is well-fitted, Isuspect that’snot the best choice. I
Spain’sDani Olmo, right, greets teammate Mikel Merino as Olmoisreplaced by Merino during the WorldCup semifinal soccer matchbetween France and Spain on Tuesday in Arlington, Texas.
would go find an air-conditioned indoor facility that’s aclean-air shelter.” Messages sent to FIFA andthe Spanish Football Association asking whether that was consideredorpossible were not immediately returned. The smoke is expected to clear the area well before the championship game Sunday in East Rutherford, New Jersey, with kickoff scheduled for 3p.m. The air quality in East HanoveronThursday startedearlyinthe morning as “unhealthy” but got cleaner,so by midafternoon it was merely “unhealthy for sensitive groups,” according to the U.S.EnvironmentalProtection Agency’sAir Now monitoring system. Particle pollution in New Jersey on Thursday was more thanseven timeshigher thanthe WorldHealthOrganization standard. The forecastcalls foranimprovement to “moderate” for Sunday
Smokefrom wildfires which are burning more of North AmericaasEarth warms—attacks nearly every system in the body, killing tens of thousands of peoplea year, numerous medical studies show It attacks the body im-
mediately,spiking asthma cases with increased ambulance runs within hours. Smoke can triggerinflammation in different parts of the body,often attacking aperson’sweakestpoints, which can then cascade into differenteffects of an immune system trying to fight anasty irritant, doctors and scientists said.
“It’snot healthyfor anyonetobeinthe smoke, especially if you’re exercising,” Harvard School of Public Health environmental healthresearch scientist Mary Johnsonsaid. “You’re exchangingmore air, so you’re being exposed to even more pollutants, and even healthyindividuals at some pointwill have some type of healtheffect from the exposure to the smoke. So,even though theseare healthy,young individuals, it’snot agood idea to be exercising in this type of environment.”
Englishmedia criticize Tuchel afterletdown
BY JAMES ROBSON AP soccer writer
ATLANTA— England hired aGerman coach to end 60 years of hurt but sawits World Cup hopes come crashing down in themost English of ways. Another defeat in the semifinals. Anotherdefeat from awinning position.
The English mediawas predictably critical of coach Thomas Tuchel after Wednesday’s2-1 loss to Argentina.
“Same oldstory” read one headline. Another declared that “Tuchel just shrank.”
Tuchel,a serial trophywinning coach with Borussia Dortmund, Paris SaintGermain, Chelsea and Bayern Munich, was hired to put asecond star on England’sjersey andend the decades-long wait for afirst trophy since theWorld Cup in 1966.
The wait goes on.
FormerEngland captain Gary Lineker raised the question about Tuchel’s future,sayinghewas “brought in specifically to takeusover theline.”
“Is he the right man to take us forward?”Lineker saidonhis Netflix show ‘TheRestisFootball.’ “He just got it so wrong in the big moment.”
Tuchel’spredecessor, Gareth Southgate, wascredited with making England fans fall back in lovewith the men’snational team afteryearsofunderachievement.Hereached back-toback European Championship finals but ultimately fell short, with his supposed cautious approach said to have costEngland in clutch matches.
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England’sElliotAnderson reacts after Argentina scored asecond goal during the WorldCup semifinal match between England and Argentina on WenesayinAtlanta.
“It’sa real panic.You can’tgoa goal up and then surrender theballand surrender any opportunity of trying to get the second goal,” former England captain Wayne Rooney told the BBC. ”I just think the decisions Thomas Tuchel made, and Ithink we have to be honest on this, have cost us tonight.”
Lineker said Tuchel’stactics andsubstitutionsafter going 1-0 up “made zero sense to me.”
Tuchel, whosigned atwoyear contract extension ahead of the World Cup, stood by his decisions.
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Starmer supported calls forFIFAtoinvestigate,the spokesperson said,afterU.K Business Secretary Peter Kyle said the players’ behavior was “entirely inappropriate.”
FIFAcan prosecute Argentina’splayers and soccer federation because itsdisciplinary codeprohibits at stadiums any “messagethat is notappropriate for asports event” including thoseof“a political, ideological, religious oroffensivenature.”
The FIFAfinesfor political messaging range from around$5,000to$20,000 FIFA was approached for comment Thursday
LONDON The British government on Thursday urged FIFA to investigate Argentina’s team after players celebrating their 2-1 win overEngland in the World Cup semifinals posed with abanner that claimed sovereignty over the contested Falkland Islands. During post-match celebrations Wednesday in Atlanta, Argentine players heldabanner handed over by fans, reading “Las Malvinas son Argentinas” —“The Malvinas are Argentine.” Argentina refers to the Falkland Islands as Islas Malvinas. They were invaded in 1982 under orders from Argentina’sthen-military dictatorship, triggeringa10week war won by Britain. “The World Cup might not be ours, but theFalkland Islandsdefinitelyare,” aspokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer said Thursday.“Self-determination restswiththe islanders and our commitment tothe Falklands willneverwaver.”
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possession. It has never been recovered and is widely believed to havebeen melted down.
Winnerstakehomereplica
The official World Cup trophy hoisted by the winning captain at the end of the final is 14 inches tall cast in 18-carat gold, sitting on a
base featuring two rings of green malachite, symbolizing the playing fields. After the tournament, the original trophy goes back to FIFA, which keeps it at its Swiss headquarters between World Cups. The winning teambrings home agold-plated replica. FIFAnolonger lets threetimewinnerskeeptheoriginal.
This is the 14th World Cup to use Gazzaniga’sdesign,and FIFAhas decided to keep the trophy in use at least through
Argentine President Javier Milei described the players’ celebration with the banneras“perfectly valid,” saying the message “reflects asentimentsharedbyall Argentines.” But he said he expected FIFA to sanction the team with afine.
“Whatthe players do is understandable;theyget carried away by theiremotions,theyact on impulse, andthatwill likely lead to discussions about afine,” Milei told a local Buenos Aires radio station.
Vice President Victoria Villarruel was morevocal in her support,posting aphoto on social media of the players raisingthe banner with the caption: “The Malvinas are Argentine! They banned us from bringing (signs) into the stadium, forgetting that we carry them in our blood and in our hearts.”
the 2038 tournament, according to Gazzaniga’swebsite.
TheyoungerGazzaniga still vividly remembers watching the 1974 World Cup final at home withhis family as West Germanyfaced the Netherlands. It was the first time his father’strophy was presented at the World Cup. “The real explosion of joy came when theGerman team raised thecup in Munichand the whole stadium erupted,” hesaid.“Thatwasthemoment an object became an icon.”
Southgate’ssubstitutions were criticized as wellas his tactics when England relinquished leads against Croatia in the World Cup semifinals in 2018 and Italy in the finalofthe Euros three years later Therewas criticism of theEnglish soccer federation’sdecision to turn to aGerman,but Tuchel,a Champions League winner, was supposed to be difference maker in those key moments Leading 1-0going into the85thminuteand in a defensive shell, England sawits hopes shattered on Argentina goals from Enzo Fernandez and substitute LautaroMartinez.
“As soon as you lose, you get criticized. It’s just what it is,” Tuchel said. “No one knows what would have happened if Ihad madedifferent decisions so it makes no sense to engage in that and lose my head.
“I’m responsible for them.I took them,soI take the criticism. That’sjust the way it is.” FA chief executive Mark Bullingham said shortly after the loss that it is “heartbreaking to be so close.”
“The players and Thomas gave it everything today and the squad, coaches and staff could not have worked harder during the tournament,” he said in a statement. “I would like to thank them all —and also give my heartfeltthanks to our wonderful fans here in the USAand at home. We felt your support every step of the way and we are
allsodisappointed notto go further.” England will face France in the third-place game on Saturday in Miami. Defeat to defending champion Argentina continueda pattern forthe England men at the World Cup. It hasnot beaten oneof the traditional major nations at soccer’sbiggest tournament sincethe 1-0 win over Argentina in the groupstagein2002. Before that,England beat France in the group stage in 1982. Knockout eliminations have comeatthe hands of Argentina and Germany on three occasions each, Brazil, Portugal and France. There was also the2018 semifinals defeat to Croatia, ateam that has never wona major trophy Tuchel, however,does not buyintothe narrative that repeated failure is aspecifically English problem
“I love to see these things in afootball matter and through football glasses. So first of all Ialways think it’s solvable on thefootball field,” he said. “I don’tbelieve so much in an English thing or in acurse or whatever or historyrepeating itself.”
Britainand Ireland are co-hosting Euro 2028.
“I have acontract until thehome Euros, and I’m looking forward to that, even if right now it is difficult to look that farahead,” Tuchel said.
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ACCcommissioner Jim Phillips speaksduring ACCmedia days on WednesdayinCharlotte, N.C.
ACClooks to corporate sponsorships to boost league’s bottom line
BY AARON BEARD AP sportswriter
CHARLOTTE, N.C. Jim Phillipshas spent his five-plus-yeartenure as AtlanticCoast Conference commissioner trying to generate more revenue for aleague facing financial pressures even with yearly record hauls For his league —and across the national landscape in the revenue-sharing era,for that matter —thathas included more emphasis on corporate sponsorships. Finding eventsponsors for naming rights. Securing deals for advertisements on conference TV networks. It’sall about looking for ways to sell those options and supplementthe media rights payouts and earnings frompostseason success that stand as core engines of the college financial system.
And stacking every bit helps in atime when schools are allowed to pay athletes directly “I don’tknow if it’spressure, but it’sthe reality,” Phillips said Wednesday in an interview with The Associated Press during theleague’spreseason football media days. “Tomeit’sthe reality of this role and it’sreality of our league. We havetocontinue to find incremental dollarseach andevery yearthat continue to grow.
ACC’srevenue grows
That’sbeen aparticular focus for Phillips, too, in dealingwith asignificant revenue gapbehind the Big Tenand Southeastern Conference since his spring2021 arrival.
The league reportedabout $826.5 million in total revenue in tax filingscovering the202425 sports season, with schools earning afull distributionshare getting an average of $47.1 million.
That continued the ACC’s upward trajectory;the league reported $617 million for 2021-22 in Phillips’ first full season, good for
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Thelowdown
It is hard to overstate how much Shough’srapid ascent into apotential franchisequarterback has meant for the Saints.Just think back to what thediscourse was like this time ayear ago. Last summer,more oxygen was expended on the Saints potentially being in positiontodraft aquarterback No.1overallin the 2026 draft than there was on Shough. That was based on two assumptions: The Saints were going to be the worst team in the NFL, and Shough (the No. 40 pick in the 2025 draft) was not goingto be worth building around. As things currently stand, the Saints are apopular dark horse to go from worst to first in their division. Alot of that is basedon thegood vibes emanating from Shough’sdebut season, both directly and indirectly
Direct: Shough displayed an advanced skillset in his time as a starter.New Orleans was adifferent team when he took over,going5-3 in their final eightgames as Shough finished the season. During that span, Shough ranked second among all qualifying NFL passersincompletionpercentage (69.7%), seventh in passing yards (2,080) and ninth in passer rating (97.1)and ninth in passing yards.
Three of the Saints’ fivewins with Shough as astarter included gamewinning drives in the fourth quarter (and Shough nearly pulledoff two others).
SwinneysayshelpfromCongress
BY STEVEREED Associated Press
CHARLOTTE, N.C.
It’sbeen six monthssince Clemson head coach Dabo Swinneypubliclycalledout OleMissfor engaging in what he called “blatant” tampering to lure away transfer linebackerLuke Ferrelli.
He has heard nothing back despiteproviding an allegedtimeline, evidence and receiptstothe NCAA.
Swinney said Thursday he doesn’tregret pointing thefinger at Ole Miss head coach Pete Goldingand generalmanager Austin Thomas.And he again pushed for change andaccountability on Thursday for what he called “rampant” tampering in college football.
pering, which has been afrequent topic of concern in multiple sports. “There is lots of things that can be put in place,” Swinney said. ”(Tampering)isrampant because there hasn’tbeen consequences and Idon’tknow there has been muchfear of consequences. So you’ve got to get someorder.”
Golding defendedOle Miss in April, explaining there are “two sides to every story” referring to Ferrelli, whoabruptly transferred to Ole Miss 20 days after beginning classes andteam meetings at Clemson in January
Ferrelli played last season at Cal beforeoriginally transferring to Clemson.
speaking out.
“I agree withDabo,” Louisville coach JeffBrohm said. “He should have been upset. To me that type of tampering shouldn’thappen. It goes back to there needstobe moreguardrails. There needs to be asystem in place where there’s consequences for doing things you’re not supposedtodo, and that’snot in college football right now.”
Brohm said it’sone of the reasons he wantstosee the Protect College SportsAct passedinCongress.
afull-share average of $39.4 million. And Phillips said Wednesday during his annual forum thatthe league would crack$900 million in total revenue for the just-completed2025-26 season By comparison, theBig Ten andSEC both crossed the$1billion mark in total revenue in their 2024-25 filings, withthe BigTen paying anaverage of nearly$79.9 milliontofull-sharemembers while theSEC cameinatnearly $72.4million.
The biggest way to movethe needle for aleaguelooking to change itsfinancialpicturetypically is media rights contracts. The ACC is locked into adeal with ESPN —both for its base TV rights andthe August 2019 launch of theACC Network through the 2035-36 season The TV revenue continuestoincrease, but Phillips saidatleast some gainshave come through corporate sponsorships, such as investment management firm T. Rowe Price puttingits name on thetradition-rich men’sbasketball tournament.
The ACC hasdoubled its list of corporate sponsorships to nine in the past fiveyears, a list that includes Apple, Dr Pepper, Gatorade and Allstate.
On Wednesday,the league announcedadealwith AI cybersecurity firm ReliaQuest, which includes advertising through ESPN, ESPN parent company Disney andthe ACC Network That goes with other adjustments such as changes to the league’srevenue-distribution model to reward programs that generate higher TV viewership and the “success initiative” that allows schools to keep money generated by their own postseason success.
“You can’t waitaround, you can’t just kind ofsit on your hands asitrelates to some of theseother areas andnot fully explore andcommit to finding those additional dollars,”Phillips told the AP.“Allofthat stuff adds up incrementally.”
“We’re probably gonna need somecongressional help for that,” Swinney said during the AtlanticCoast Conference’spreseason football media days. “There has to be sometype of order put in place. The tampering is aproblem. So there needs to be consequences or youjustsay to heck with it, don’t worry about it, and let’sjust call it like it is —the wild, wild West.”
Swinneysuggested fines,suspensions and even firings should be considered to discourage tam-
In March, Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey called NCAA language covering tampering rules “archaic,” but stopped shortofurgingthe oversight body to halt tampering investigations.
Sankey said the new landscape in college sports calls forthe rules language to be changed.
ACCCommissioner Jim Phillips on Wednesday urged coaches and administrators to go public with information if they see potential tampering.
OtherACC coacheshave expressed support forSwinney for
The bill that top lawmakers and athletic leaders have described as the best hope to stabilize college sports cleared akey vote in the Senate in June following weeks of input fromschools, conferences and athletes.
It is now currently in the House foravote.
The bill would address many areas, including tampering.
“Itmay not be perfect foreveryone, but I’mall forit,” Brohm said. ”I think it’s important thatwedo something to trytohelpthe game overall and thenmake adjustments along the way.Until there’s consequences forcheating and tampering, people will continue to skirt the edges.”
legislation,” said aletter co-signed by LSUpresident Dr.WadeRousse andboard of supervisors chairLee Mallett.
The Advocate contacted Rousse’soffice on Tuesday.Aspokespersonsaidthe bill continuesto undergo changes and the university would have no comment beyond what’swritten in theletter.Mallett did notreply to an email requesting comment either
While LSU’slist of “key issues” remains unexplained,the university’s opposition underscores a tensionbetween the NCAA’s power players.
In early June, the SEC and Big Tenreleased ajoint statement saying both support a“sustainable national framework” but that the bill presented by Sen. MariaCantwell (D-Washington) and Sen. TedCruz (R-Texas) left “criticalissuesunresolved.”
Along withconcernsaboutthe strength of the act’santitrust exemption, the SEC and BigTen objected to ashift of “ongoing rulemaking” to Congress. Therewere also concerns about how the bill would change theHouse settlement’srevenue-sharing framework.
In turn, Cantwell blastedthe “Power Two” forconsolidating power viaconference realignment.
“The politics of these commissionersmoving around deck chairs and making millionsofdollars
themselvesand not thinking about the broad interest to solve these problems has led us to this point,” Cantwell said during ahearing of the Senate Commerce Committee in June. “It’stimetolisten to some other people.”
Cantwell’sbill prohibits conferencesearning $700 million or more from adding new members, essentially halting realignment.That has led to moreimmediate discussion about expansion before alaw is passed.
The bill also amends the Sports Broadcasting Act, allowing collegestopool their mediarights, like the NFL, which would theoretically leverage moremoney from networks. But the resulting payouts could shrink the revenue gap between theBig Ten, SEC and therest
TheaverageSEC school, for example, received just over $72 million in broadcast revenues in 2025, while theACC average was $47 million this past year
While the SEC and Big Tendon’t appear anxious to surrender their financial advantage,there are other points of contention.
Auburn and Alabama’sletter argued that apoolingofmedia rights would advance theinterest of private equity,which “stand to profit froma redistributionof media-rights revenue” if they invest in college sports programs.
There is also aworry athletes will ultimately make less money,because thereislanguage in the47-page bill stating that athletes can’tstrike dealswithentities closely “associated” with a school,suchasa booster-funded
Indirect: NewOrleans wasa populardestinationfor big-ticket free agents this offseason. Running back TravisEtienneand guard David Edwards,two of the top available players at theirrespectivepositions, chosetosign with the Saints. Noah Fant turned down the Saints last year to play with JoeBurrow inCincinnati, but wound up signing with the Saints this offseason. Shough’srole in getting the Saintsarrow trending upward played apart in that. The Saintsshouldfeelgood aboutShough.They’ve invested inhis supporting cast, and they’ve seen him fully take the reins of the offense this offsea-
son.But these are still the early days, anditisalso fairtowantto seeitover alarger sample size beforeNew Orleans can fully claim it has itsfranchise quarterback in place.
Potentialcampbattle Spencer Rattler played well enough in his eight starts last year to generate some buzzasa potential trade chip this offseason.Whether that was amedia creation or thereweregenuinely teamsinterestedinacquiring him is somewhat beyond the point: He is avaluable piece of thepuzzle becauseheisyoung, inexpensive and, to adegree, proven.
Saints backup quarterback
Spencer Rattler throws the ballduring organized team activities on May28at the team’s indoor practice facility in Metairie.
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That being said, thislikely will be histhird consecutivetraining camp where he will have to competefor his spot on the depth chart. New Orleans signed former No. 2overallpick Zach Wilson this offseason, amove that almost certainly was madewith the intent of lettinghim compete for the No. 2 job While Wilson’sstruggles have been well-documented, hisstatistical résumé (on arate basis) is similar to Rattler’s. The best guess here is thatRattlerwill havea head start, given his history with the team and hisrecent starting experience, but Wilson will have the opportunity to unseat him.
collective or corporate sponsor, if those payments circumvent a school’syearly revenue-sharing cap.
As of now,schools can share up to $21.3 millionwith athletes duringthe 2026-27 schoolyear, but promotional dealswithbusinesses, oftentimes facilitated by the school itself, don’tcount toward the limit.
For instance, LSU has worked withits multimedia rightsholder, PlayFly,and its apparel sponsor, Nike, to steer millions of dollars to athletes. Nike just announced arosterfor itsBlueRibbon Elite Football campaign and LSU’s11 athletes were the most of any school.
Most of the rumored $40 million invested in LSU’sfootball roster this season came from third-party dealslike these, notdirect revenue sharing with the school.
Again, LSU’sleadershaven’t specified which provisions in the bill are mostworrisometothem, butit’snot difficulttotheorize why they currentlystandagainstit.
Thus, the horse-trading continues.
“Welook forward to working with the House, the Senate, and our fellow institutions in the Southeastern Conference to make the needed improvements to the legislation,” LSU’s letter concluded.
“Weare hopeful that together we can support abill that will truly help ensure college athletics is preserved forour students and all higher education institutions.” Email Jon Blauatjon.blau@ theadvocate.com.
INSIDE RB KAMARA’S NEW DEAL
After an offseason of hemming and hawing,the NewOrleans Saintsand Alvin Kamarareached an agreement on anew contract thisweek that should allowKamara to finishhis career in New Orleans.
The details of that deal became clear Thursdaymorning via an NFL Media report: Kamara’snew contract will payhim abase $6 million salarywith achance to earn$8.5 million with incentives.Kamara was settoplayon the final year of a2-year,$24 million extension he signed in 2024.
It puts an end to an offseason of drama surrounding Kamaraand the Saints, after the organization repeatedly declined to saywhether Kamarawas part of theirplans for 2026.
The deal ensured one of the most prolific players in franchise history sticks around. Nowentering his 10th season in NewOrleans,Kamara holds the franchise’sall-time marks in rushing (7,250) and rushing touchdowns (61) as well as total touchdowns (87) and yards from scrimmage(12,198).Heis one of nine activeplayers with more than 12,000 career yards from scrimmage. Kamaraiscoming off the worstseason of his career.Injuries limited him to a career-low 11 games,but he also posted someofhis worstper-game and pertouch figures in his career
The Saints responded by signing the younger and more explosiveTravis Etienne thisoffseason to lead theirbackfield. Kamaraisexpected to serveasthe primaryoption behind Etienne.
BRITISH OPEN QUICK STUDY
BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer
SOUTHPORT, England — Jack-
son Suber got his first taste of links golf — on his first trip to Europe — when he arrived at Royal Birkdale. Three days later, he proved to be a quick study with a superb par save and a 6-foot eagle late in his round for a 5-under 65 to lead the British Open Bryson DeChambeau might be getting the hang of this, too, no matter what three-time British Open champion Nick Faldo said he thinks about his strategy An opening round lasting some 15 hours included just about everything during a warm and breezy start Five of the leading 12 players were playing the British Open for the first time. Rory McIlroy missed three 4-foot putts in a four-hole span and had six bogeys in his round of 72. Scottie Scheffler opened with four birdies in six holes and didn’t make another the rest of the way for a 68. Most startling was Suber, a 26-year-old American who has yet to win anywhere since leaving Ole Miss and is playing in only his third major He made a tough par save on the new par-3 15th with slopes off severely on both sides. He followed with a 6-foot birdie on the 16th and then choked up on a 4-iron from 233 yards and hit it to 6 feet for eagle. Not bad for his seventh round in any major and first on a links course as tough as Birkdale.
“Just kind of kept the ball in good spots and didn’t put much pressure on my game to make pars,” Suber said. He led by one shot over Sungjae Im and Dan Brown of England. The nine players at 67 include four Open debutants — Alex Smalley, Ryan Gerard, M.J. Daffue, Pierceson Coody And then there was DeChambeau, who has missed the cut in all three majors this year and has chosen not to speak to the media since Friday at the Masters, except for on LIV Golf. Turns out he had enough strategy to get in the mix, often ripping driver to take the fearsome bunkers out of
Cigarette smoker Brown lights up with strong round
BY STEVE DOUGLAS AP sportswriter
SOUTHPORT, England Dan Brown is lighting it up again at the British Open.
One of the few smokers in golf, Brown went through “seven or eight” cigarettes during his 4-under 66 that left him tied for second place, one shot off the lead, after the first round at Royal Birkdale on Thursday.
After weeks of sunshine in this northwest corner of England, the fairways here are baked and parched — making them a potential fire hazard from discarded cigarettes.
“I’ve been making sure that they’re out,” the 31-year-old Englishman said reassuringly
Not that he sounds too proud of a habit that makes him stand out on the circuit, but which he feels is needed to relieve some stress.
“Sorry, Mum,” he said with a cheeky smile
The burly and bearded Brown is an interesting character not least because of the 10 tattoos on his body — three of which are of little birds — and his YouTube channel called “BeersForeBogeys” which has around 4,000 subscribers.
Brown first came into widespread consciousness in golf in 2024 when, as the
world No. 272, he shot a 6-under 65 for the outright first-round lead in his British Open debut at Royal Troon.
His name — one he shares with the author of “The Da Vinci Code” — was a headline writer’s dream and his dry humor proved popular, too.
Brown was tied for second place heading into the final round at Troon and wound up in a tie for 10th.
That experience taught him he could compete with the best players in the world.
“I feel like I’m a better player now to what I was back then, two years ago,” he said. “So we’ll see.” Brown arrived at the Open
with no form from his first year on the PGA Tour he missed the cut in his last four events — but has immediately taken to the Birkdale links. He made seven birdies, including three straight around the turn, after being 1 over after seven holes.
“Today a few putts dropped, which was nice to see,” Brown said, “because I’ve not seen that for a while.
“(Hopefully), I’m in a sort of similar area on the leaderboard come Sunday.” That might mean continuing to have a smoke during his rounds.
“There might be a big drop off by Sunday if I’m not allowed,” he said.
Argentine golfer’s gesture mimics World Cup jubilation
BY STEVE DOUGLAS AP sportswriter
SOUTHPORT, England — The only Argentine golfer in the British Open field was playfully jeered by some spectators on the first tee Thursday, the morning after his national soccer team’s epic comeback win over England at the World Cup.
Mateo Pulcini delivered an amusing response a few hours later
play and doing enough right for a 67 that left him two shots behind.
Strategy became a talking point when Faldo told the Sky Sports Golf Podcast this week, “DeChambeau has zero clue of strategy He said last year, ‘I’m going to go out and attack the links.’ Well, I’ve never attacked a links. You thread it, don’t you? You feed it down the fairway You don’t think, ‘Oh, I’ll just blast it down there.’ ”
DeChambeau hit only four fairways but missed only three greens, though he was rarely in big trouble when he wasn’t in the short grass. He twice blasted tee shots over the trouble and close to the green at the par-4 second and the par-4 10th, the latter a blind shot. He made birdie on both. And while Jon Rahm was among those who said going long can lead to trouble at some point, the only two shots DeChambeau dropped came from his putting (the par-5 14th) and chipping (the par-4 18th). He was tied for the early lead until going from wispy rough over the back of the 18th, chipped weakly to 8 feet and missed the putt. He missed three birdie chances from around 10 feet or under, one of them on redesigned, 321-yard fifth hole, when he drove it just over the green.
DeChambeau agreed to take a few questions from the R&A and said, “I feel like I did a really good job today of being incredibly strategic and focused super hard on placing it in the
right places. Besides 18, I placed the ball in some good areas. I just need to hit more fairways. Other than that, I feel like my strategy was nice today.”
Cameron Young, one of the hottest players in the spring but quiet the past two months, also was at 67 along with Robert MacIntyre, Thomas Detry and Francesco Molinari, the 2018 Open champion at Carnoustie, which also featured a baked links course.
Scheffler had few complaints after a 68, even not making a birdie over his last 12 holes, playing the two par 5s in 1 over and making a pair of soft bogeys. He also missed a 5-foot birdie putt Whether he could have gotten more out of his round was of little concern.
“If I continue to strike the ball the way I did today and just keep giving myself looks, that’s part of it,” Scheffler said. “Golf is played over 72 holes and I definitely liked what I saw today.”
Smalley, who took a twoshot lead into the final round at the PGA Championship, was leading until his drive on the 18th was fading with the wind and then the luck of links golf took over One wild bounce sent it further right and out of bounds He finished with a double bogey for a 67.
“Got up to where the ball was supposed to be and was told it hit a spectator fence and kicked another 15 yards right out of bounds. All three of us in our group actually hit it over there, and mine just got an unlucky break,” Smalley said. “Poor tee shot, poor break. Sometimes that’s how it goes.”
After holing a 40-foot putt for birdie on the 18th green at Royal Birkdale, the 25-year-old amateur cupped both of his ears in a gesture to spectators that mimicked the celebration his countryman, Enzo Fernandez, produced after scoring Argentina’s 85th-minute equalizing goal on Wednesday Argentina went on to win 2-1 in the semifinals.
“I was pretty excited and that came to my mind,” he said, “and I did it.” Pulcini stressed there were only “a few boos” on the first tee and that it was just a bit of fun.
“People are being great. Fans are being spectacular They were cheering for me as well,” he said. Asked what felt better — his putt on the 18th or seeing Fernandez’s goal — Pulcini said: “Enzo’s goal, for sure.”
Pulcini is making his debut at the British Open after qualifying by winning the Latin American Amateur Championship in a playoff in Peru.
BY STEVE DOUGLAS AP sportswriter
SOUTHPORT, England There were no “I’m so bad at golf” exclamations from Rory McIlroy this time.
The puzzled looks, shakes of the head and sagging shoulders said it all. McIlroy was just 10 holes into his bid to win the British Open for the first time since 2014 and he was veering dangerously close to playing himself out of title contention.
Missing one putt from four feet wasn’t necessarily unusual. But doing it three times? In the space of four holes?
That trio of bewildering close-range mishaps — on Nos. 7, 8 and 10 — came either side of McIlroy driving the green to make birdie on the 415-yard No. 9 Go figure. And it pretty much summed up the world No. 2’s wild late-afternoon ride
in a 2-over 72 that included six bogeys and left him seven shots off the first-round lead, held surprisingly by 115th-ranked Jackson Suber on Thursday
“Just too many stupid mistakes,” McIlroy said — and he was specifically referring to his putting on greens he described as “very inconsistent”
“I missed a couple early on that looked like they were going to break one way and they actually went another way, and then when you get the next one, you’re over it and it’s just very hard to trust that the ball is going to do what you think it’s going to do. Then you maybe don’t make quite as committed of a stroke.”
McIlroy arrived at the Open after a seventhplace finish at the Scottish Open, where he went viral by shouting “I’m so bad at golf” following a poor approach shot late in his final round.
The sixth player — and only European — to complete the career Grand Slam rarely hides his emotions and he cut a frustrated figure for most of his round Thursday, not least when he chipped through the green and into a bunker at the par5 No. 17. McIlroy managed to splash out to 8 feet while having one knee on the ground but a weakly struck par putt led to another dropped shot.
“It’s just hard to judge the speed sometimes,” he said. Making birdie at the tough last hole after a brilliant approach to 5 feet sparked shouts of “Rory, Rory” from spectators in the grandstands and at least gave him something to cling to. He barely raised a smile, though, after plucking the ball out of the cup. One stat spoke volumes: he ranked 148th in putting in the 156man field.
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Jackson Suber and his caddie Greyson Porter walk on the 18th green during the British Open on Thursday at Royal Birkdale golf club in Southport, England.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JON SUPER Bryson DeChambeau, right, and Scottie Scheffler walk off the 18th green after completing their round.
Former Ole Miss star Suber grabs early lead at Royal Birkdale
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Daniel Brown watches where his shot landed after playing off the first tee on Thursday. Brown shot a 4-under 66.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By DAVID GOLDMAN Mateo Pulcini of Argentina plays on the 10th fairway during a practice round for the British Open on Wednesday.
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO Argentina’s Enzo Fernandez gestures to fans after scoring against England in a World Cup semifinal match on Wednesday.
Live and learn
Charlie Brown’s longtime pen pal is finally revealed in new Apple TV ‘Peanuts’ movie
BY MARK KENNEDY AP entertainment writer
NEW YORK Charlie Brown began writing to a pen pal not long after the comic strip “Peanuts” debuted in newspapers back in 1950 No one has gotten a look at whoever was on the other end of his letters — until now Her name is Mia, and she’s a young girl from London of South Asian descent who uses a wheelchair She glides into the spotlight in the animated movie “Snoopy Unleashed,” coming to Apple TV in 2027, helping Charlie Brown, Snoopy and the gang explore what being a pal is really all about.
“The story is really about what real friendship is about, and I think that continues to be something that’s relevant not only to kids, but adults,” says producer Bonnie Arnold.
“True friends love you for who you are. And that’s something that we not only have to learn as kids, but we have to remind ourselves as we become teenagers and young adults and adults and even in older age,” she added.
What’s the movie about?
In the 80-minute movie, Mia makes a surprise visit to a suddenly flustered Charlie Brown, who has to live up to the curated version of himself that he has presented in his letters. His relationship with Snoopy is then strained, and the dog bolts for a nearby city Naturally, Charlie Brown and the gang, plus Mia, give chase With Mia, the creators wanted to birth someone as different from Charlie Brown as possible — a girl, not from a suburb or a rural town, who moves through the world differently, without a pet, and someone with confidence.
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PROVIDED IMAGE FROM APPLE ‘Peanuts’ characters, including Snoopy, center, star in the animated movie ‘Snoopy Unleashed’ coming to Apple TV in 2027
New Orleans blues guitarist Little Freddie King to perform again for his 86th birthday
BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer
When local blues guitar icon Little Freddie King rolled onto the Blues Tent stage in a throne-like wheelchair during the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, many fans thought that might be their last chance to see him perform.
A series of accidents and ailments had left him unable to walk or play guitar His team and Jazz Fest staffers went to great lengths to make the Blues Tent show possible. But if all goes according to plan, King will make another rare onstage appearance for his 86th birthday party Saturday at BJ’s Lounge, his unofficial Bywater headquarters at 4301 Burgundy St. The Leopard Hounds open the show at 9 p.m. After a break, King is slated for an hour-long set. As he did during Jazz Fest, he’ll sing from his wheelchair and leave the
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guitar-playing to others. Cake will be cut after his set. Beyond the birthday, King will celebrate being able to perform at all. In September, his new electric bicycle bucked and threw him. He landed hard. When “Wacko” Wade Wright, his drummer and manager for three decades, arrived, he found King stretched out on the sidewalk, unable to stand. Spinal compression had damaged King’s nerves. He had no strength
La. artist inspires fashion line
BY DOUG MacCASH Staff writer
The glittering gowns recently debuted by the house of Christian Dior may seem familiar to fine art aficionados, especially in Louisiana. They are tributes to 84-year-old Lake Charles artist Lynda Benglis, who regularly rattled the art world with her avant-garde work Jonathan Anderson has only been
Little Freddie King and his band perform in the Blues Tent at the 2026 Jazz Fest. The legendary musician is set to make another appearance for his 86th birthday on Saturday at BJ’s Lounge.
in his legs, and his hands were numb. He spent 40 days at a rehabilitation center and another 20 at a nursing facility learning to use a rolling walker
Back home, he fell while using the walker After that, he was confined to a wheelchair Wright canceled the next seven months of upcoming shows. They’d focus on building up his strength for Jazz Fest.
STAFF FILE PHOTOS By DAVID GRUNFELD
Little Freddie King reflects before his set in the Blues Tent during the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival at the Fair Grounds in New Orleans.
Christian Dior debuts a new fashion line inspired by radical Louisiana artist Lynda Benglis.
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Dear Anxious: Twenty years of trust doesn’ttransfer with your file,sothe uneasemakes sense. But you’ll get used to the new office and the new portal. Thereal adjustment is therelationship, and that takes time. Don’texpect thefirst visit to feel perfect; you’re allowed to try another doctor if this one doesn’tfit.
Dear Annie: I’m asingle man in my 40s living in Gillette, Wyoming. While this energy —and resource-rich —region provides
TODAYINHISTORY
Today is Friday,July17, the 198th day of 2026. There are 167 days left in the year
On July 17, 1955, Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California, after its $17 million, yearlong construction; the park drew a million visitors in its first 10 weeks.
Also on this date:
In 1862, during the Civil War, Congressapproved theSecond Confiscation Act, which declared that all enslaved people taking refuge behind Union lineswere to be setfree.
In 1902, Willis Carrier produced aset of designs for what would become the world’sfirst modernair-conditioning system.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as right-wing army generals launched acoup attempt against the Second Spanish Republic.
In 1944, during World War II, 320 men, two-thirds of them AfricanAmericans, were killed when apair of ammunition ships exploded at the Port ChicagoNaval Magazine in California.
In 1945, following Nazi Germany’ssurrender,President Harry S. Truman, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston S. Churchill began meeting at Potsdam in the final Allied summit ofWorld WarII.
In 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with aSoyuz spacecraft in orbit in the first superpower linkup of itskind.
In 1981, 114 people were killed whenapairofsuspended walkways above the lobby of theKansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel collapsed during atea dance.
In 1996, TWAFlight 800, a Europe-bound Boeing 747, ex-
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“Charlie Brown is probably one of the most insecure human beings that we know.That’swhat makes him charming. It’show we see ourselves in him.Sowefelt that we wanted Mia to be more comfortable with who she is,” says director Steve Martino, adding: “A big part of her role in the movie is to be amirror to Charlie Brown, to journey with him and to reflect some things thathe couldn’tsee himself.”
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They landed on London as Mia’s home sincethat elevated the stakes.
“If this pen pal was goingto come to visit, it would be amuch stronger storyifshe came from much further away,” says Martino. “Hehas oneshot to make a good impression.”(Plus, itgave Lucy the chancetobelieve somehow that Mia might be aroyal) In the city, Miaismore comfortable than CharlieBrown and the gang, who are fish outof water,likeencountering theirfirst revolving door with amazement. The jazz score grows more frenziedasthe children navigate honking traffic and the urban energy Snoopy’strip to the city also introduces another new character: anameless, gold-haired stray mutt who becomes his oppositesattract pal, like Mia and Charlie Brown.
“Snoopy definitely is more of a human-typecharacter.Hewalks on twos and not fours,” says Arnold. The stray,onthe other hand, “walks on fours, he barks, he pants, he’smore doglike, but he befriends Snoopy.Even though hisactions are abit puppylike, he’s alittlebit more seasoned in the ways of being on the road.”
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great career opportunities, it’s created what Ican only describe as a“dating desert.”
In Gillette, thedating pool feels highly transactional.High income and wealth are consistently chosen over emotional stability and character,and Ifind this prioritization to be entirely intentional.Many people here seem to prioritizealifestyle heavily propped up by financial success, leaving littleroom for genuine connection or appreciation of traditional values like loyaltyand steadfastness. Is it unreasonable to wanta partner who values character
over apaycheck, or am Ijust looking in the wrong places in a boomtown economy? —Frustrated in Gillette Dear Frustrated: It isn’tunreasonable to want someone whovalues character over cash.Those qualities still matter to plenty of people. Boomtownscan sometimes put careers andincomefront and center,but that doesn’tmean everyone shares the samepriorities. Be careful not to paint an entire town with the samebrush. You’ll find people whochase status and people whodon’tinany community. If you’re convinced ev-
eryone around you is looking for something you’re not, you may be writing off good matches before they have achance to prove you wrong. Keeplooking, and widen your circle. Find people whoshare your interests. Volunteer,join groups or expand your search beyond your immediate area if you can. The right person won’tbe impressed by your bank account nearly as much as by the kind of man you are.
Sendyour questions forAnnie Lane to dearannie@creators. com.
plodedand crashed offLong Island,New York, shortly after departingJohnF.Kennedy International Airport,killing all 230 people on board
In 2014, all 298 passengers and crew aboard Malaysia Airlines Flight 17were killed when the Boeing 777 was shot down over rebel-held eastern Ukraine; both Ukraine’sgovernment and pro-Russianseparatists denied responsibility
In 2020, civil rights icon John Lewis, whose bloodybeating by Alabama state troopers in 1965 helpedgalvanize opposition to racial segregation, and who went on to alongand celebrated career in Congress,died at age 80. In 2022, areportsaid nearly 400 law enforcement officials rushed to amass shooting that left 21 peopledead at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, but “egregiously poor decision-making”resulted in achaotic scenethat lasted more than an hourbefore thegunman was finally confronted andkilled. Today’sbirthdays: Former sportscaster VerneLundquist is 86. Queen Camilla of theUnited Kingdom is 79. Rock musician Terry “Geezer” Butler is 77. Actor Lucie Arnaz is 75. Actor David Hasselhoff is 74. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel is 72. Film director Wong Kar-wai is 68. Television producer Mark Burnett is 66. Singer ReginaBelle is 63. Country music artist Craig Morgan is 62. Rock musician LouBarlow is 60. Actor Bitty Schram (TV: “Monk”) is 58. Actor Jason Clarkeis57. Movie director F. Gary Gray is 57. Country singer Luke Bryanis50. Film director/ screenwriter JustineTriet is 48. R&B singer Jeremih is 39. Actor Billie Lourd is34. NHL center Connor Bedardis21.
Schulz —“Peanuts” creator Charles M. Schulz’sson —and his own son, Bryan Schulz, along with CorneliusUliano and Karey Kirkpatrick. To accurately portraylife in awheelchair, the creators consulted several groups, including DisabilityBelongs.
Lara Mehmet, awheelchair user who lives just outside London, was picked to voice Mia aftera long auditionprocess and helpedthe script soundmore authentic.
While viewers todayare more familiar with texts, instantmessages and social media posts, the moviemakers hope they’ll see the same issues of authenticity and presentation in astory sparked by snail mail letters
“Onsocial media,welike to curate and project alife that is thevery best of whoweare. And Ithought that is such rich story material to diginto,”says Martino.“We communicate differently today,but feelings thatare universal.”
“Peanuts” ran in more than 2,600 newspapers, reaching millions of readers in 75 countries before ending in 2000. Charlie Brown andSnoopy have since thrived in the digitalage with fresh specials and series.
In addition to “Snoopy Unleashed,”Apple TV has season twoof“CampSnoopy” on tap forJune, anew special“Snoopy Presents: There’sNoPlace Like Home, Snoopy” premiering at the end of July,and the “Peanuts” classics “This Is America, Charlie Brown” and “The Charlie Brown andSnoopy Show”willbeavailable on theplatform in early July
The moviemakers credit Schulz forleavinga legacy of very believable kidsand anability to tap into the human experience, with all its vulnerabilities.
“What Charles Schulz did in the comic strips so well is kind of touch on things thataffect us all at all ages, right? Some universal truths aboutrelationships,” says Arnold.
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collection inspiredbyAmerican artist Lynda Benglis.
The commission was acoup for the LVMH-owned house and for Anderson, the 41-year-old NorthernIrish designer appointed a year ago to overhaul allofDior’s fashion lines. For months,industry watchers hadbet on American names, such as Ralph Lauren, or on Vivienne Westwood,whom Swift wearsoften
The onedress the worldwanted to seewas the one Andersonwould not show So on Monday he changed the subject —toart Poured,not sewn
The collection tried to movethe conversationfromSwift’s hidden gowntothe work of Benglis, known since thelate 1960s for pouringlatex onto gallery floors and letting metal fold and sag into shape.
Dior workrooms were treated as aversionofher studio —a place
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thecreative director of Christian Dior Haute Couture for about a year,but he has already delivered oneofthe plum couture commissions of alltime: TaylorSwift’s wedding gown.
It’sunclear from reports in the fashion press how exactly Anderson, 42, became enamored with Lynda Benglis’art. Hisfall 202627 couture collection is concentrated on Benglis’smost beautiful sculptures, particularly aseries of large worksthatappeared to be shimmering pleated ribbon knotted into loose bows. He respectfully translated Benglis’ vision into gowns that are both spectacular and quietlyelegant Anderson, who is certainly aware of Benglis’ role as a1970s feminist firebrand, also scored aconceptual coup by wrapping youngwomen in
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King’sdistinctive style of roadhouse bluesguitarisdifficult to duplicate. That’sevident throughout “Live at BJ’s Lounge,”the album King andhis band recorded on Sept. 19, just days before his accident. Released as adouble album on vinyl just in time for Jazz Fest, it chronicles the loose-yet-tight aesthetic of King’sband, with his chugging guitar setting thepace. To trytoreplicate the feel and
where flat fabric is pressed, knotted and bent into three dimensions.
Benglis bends flat material into shape; so, in the end, does couture.
The clothes followed that idea. A skirtofsilver-foiled petals moved with each step.
Astrapless silver lamégown was cinchedwithanoversizedbow Trousersand blouses were finished in tight hand-pressed pleats.
Dior’s signatureBar jacket, the nipped-waist shape thehouse has built on since 1947, wasremade several ways: in fern-green tweed with afrayed fringe, in gray houndstoothfolded intoa giant bow,and once with loose chiffon threads left hanging at the hem Otherlooks were built entirely from embroidered silk flowers.
Awide fanofblue tulle was splayed across the front of one dress.
Handbagscame in metallic pleats—four of them designed with Benglis herself Fans out, starsin France was in another heat wave, with temperatures above 86 F.
Dior had sentfans withits invitations, and guests used them through the show in the gardens
thepioneering artist’slife’swork. Benglis might be the most famousartist to have ever graduated from Newcomb College’s art department —now part of Tulane University.She was already achievingfameinNew York by 1974 for her experimental style. Imagine gallons and gallons of rainbow-colored latex paint poured directly onto the floor of an art gallery. Lava flows of foam plastic insulation gushing fromthe walls
energyofKing’sguitarwork, Wright recruited two guitarists to fill in:TonyDios, aKingfan whoalready knew his songs, and Ryan Scully,afriend of King’sfor 25 years, aveteran of Morning 40 Federation (and numerous other musical projects)and thecurrent owner of BJ’sLounge. King’sJazz Fest comeback was atriumph. He presided from his wheelchair throne, earning big cheers whenever he raisedhis arms. With Wright on drums, Bobby DiTullio Jr.onharmonica, Robert Snow on bass and Dios and Scully splitting guitarduties, the Little Freddie King Blues Band
of the Rodin Museum The front row mixed popstars with artists. SingerSabrina Carpenterand actor JoshO’Connorsat among guests including Priyanka Chopra, Nick Jonas, Naomi Watts, Rebecca Ferguson and Alexa Chung. Despite the razzmatazz, Anderson’swager is plain: that the world’smost storied fashion house can afford to be strange. He is oftencomparedtoMatthieu Blazy,the new designer at rivalChanel, whomade the wedding dress for singer Dua Lipa this month.
The season now carries apeculiardistinction: Itstwo biggest stories are dresses no one is allowed to see.
Thebride youcan’t see
As couture tradition dictates,the show closed with abride. Anderson sent outapale, strapless column gown undera long veil of hand-pleated chiffon, trimmed with feathered dandelions and embroidered cactus flowers.
It wasthe second wedding dress Anderson showcased this week —and the only oneanyone could photograph.
and piling up in the corners. ImagineEnormous, crusty,curly, coils of clay coated in gold or silver glaze. That’sthe sort of thing Benglis has been known since the 1960s. Back then, big-time art was mostly aboys’ club. Benglis satirized the situation by taking out an ad in arespected art magazine that featured atotally nude photo of herself with alarge dildo. It was an art world hand grenade that immediately madeher afeminist icon. Acouple of Benglis’ major works are on permanent display in New Orleans. One of her golden abstractions stands on the Poydras Street neutral ground near the intersection of Baronne Street, and awave-shaped bronzepiece rises from the bank of Big Lake on the walking path near the entranceto City Park. There arealso six smaller Benglis sculpturesinthe New Orleans Museum of Art collection. Email Doug MacCashat dmaccash@theadvocate.com.
soundedlike itself across“Can’t Do Nothing Babe,” “Crack Head Joe,” “Baby Please Don’t Go,” “Hello Josephine”and afinal “Louisiana Train Wreck.” Since Jazz Fest, his only other gig has been May 24 at BJ’sLounge. The only other upcoming show on his calendaristhe Crescent City Blues &BBQ Festival on Oct. 12. But he and his band will be “Live at BJ’sLounge” again this weekend, arare opportunity to see this particular King of the blues in the twilight of his career Email KeithSpera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.
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Lynda Benglis’‘TheWave’ fountain was dedicated in CityPark in 2015.
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Amodel wearsa creation as partofthe ChristianDior Haute Couture Fall/Winter 2026-2027 Women’scollection presented in Paris on July 6.
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Historic Preservation Act (NHPA),EDA is conduct‐inganassessmentofthe potentialofthe proposed projecttoaffectthe envi‐ronmentand/orhistoric properties.Noticeis hereby giventhatthe projectisproposedtobe locatedin, or mayaffect,
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans
will consider at its regular meeting of July 23, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber,City Hall, 1300Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,503 introduced at the meeting of July 9, 2026.
SAID ORDINANCE would authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into aCooperative Endeavor Agreement(“CEA”) between the City of New Orleans (the “City”), and the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans (“S&WB”), relative to the administration, planning and construction of the Monticello Canal Culverts State Capital Outlay Project (FP&C #50-ML2-22-03) as set forth morefully in the CEA form attached hereto as Exhibit “1” and made apart hereof.
Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street.
AISHA R. COLLIER
CLERK OF COUNCIL
PUBLICATION DATE: July 17, 2026 NOCP 9147
OFFICIAL NOTICE CAL. NO. 35,503 EXHIBIT “1”
COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND THE SEWERAGEAND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS MONTICELLO CANAL CULVERTS STATECAPITAL OUTLAY PROJECT(FP&C #50-ML3-22-03)
COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND SEWERAGEAND WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS FOR FP&C PROJECT NO. 50-ML3-22-03 MONTICELLO CANAL CULVERTS AT AIRLINE HIGHWAY
THIS COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT (the Agreement”)
is entered into by and between the City of New Orleans, represented by Helena N. Moreno, Mayor (the City”), and Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans, represented by Randy E. Hayman, Esq., Executive Director (the Contractor”or“SWBNO”). The City and the SWBNO may sometimes each be referred to as a“Party”, and collectively,asthe Parties”. The Agreement is effective as of the date of execution by the City (the Effective Date”). RECITALS
WHEREAS,the City is apolitical subdivision of theState of Louisiana; and WHEREAS,the SWBNO is apoliticalcorporation organized underthe laws of the State of Louisianaand whose principal address is located at 625 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70165; and WHEREAS,pursuant to Article 7, Section 14(C) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and related statutes, and Section 9-314 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, the City may enter into cooperative endeavors with the State of Louisiana, its political subdivisions and corporations, the United States and its agencies, and any public or private corporation, association, or individual with regard to cooperative financing and other economic development activities, the procurement and development of immovable property,joint planning and implementation of public works, the joint use of facilities, joint research and program implementation activities, joint funding initiatives, and other similar activities in support of public education, community development, housing rehabilitation, economic growth, and other public purposes; and WHEREAS,onApril 17, 2023, the State of Louisiana, Division of Administration, Office of Facility Planning and Control (“FP&C”), notified the City of funding (attached as Exhibit “A”)for theapplication prepared and submitted by the Department of Public Works to widen the drainage culverts in the Monticello Canal and the nearby trestle bridge to ensure adequate drainage capacity (attached as Exhibit “B”)and referredtoin this Agreement as the Project,” bearing FP&C Project No. 50-ML3-2203; and WHEREAS,the City,asgrantee, entered into acooperative agreement with the FP&C to facilitate the funding of FP&C Project No. 50-ML3-22-03 (the FP&C CEA,” attached as Exhibit “C”); and WHEREAS, the City and the SWBNO desiretoaccomplish avaluable public purpose of establishing the funding to the SWBNO to facilitate the design and construction of the Project; and WHEREAS,following completion of theProject, the Project will be owned and operated by the SWBNO;and WHEREAS,the City and the SWBNO agree that their mutual goals and objectives satisfy alegitimate and valid public purpose, and that these goals and objectives will provide intangible benefits to the betterment andimprovement of the City’sinfrastructureand the public at-large, and enable the SWBNO to mitigate flooding in the Hollygrove and surrounding neighborhoods: and NOW THEREFORE, the City and the SWBNO,each having the authority to do so, agree as follows: ARTICLE I- THE SWBNO’S OBLIGATIONS A. Work Plan. The SWBNO shall develop aworkschedule, listof deliverables, and action items for submission to, review,and approval of the City,identifying work activity, project milestones, deliverables and timeline for each work activity concerning or relating to the Project. The project milestones shall include commencement and completion of the schematic design; conceptual design; design development; pre-construction services; construction documents; permits; commencement of constructiononthe Project; completion of construction of the Project; and commencement of use of the Project.
B. SWBNO Obligations.The SWBNO shall, in addition to the above, perform or cause to be performed the following:
1. Hireand work with alicensed Louisiana engineer to provide engineering analysis and design of the Project.
2. Present the Project concept at key stages (e.g., schematic design and design development) to City staff, city council, and the publicat-large.
3. Develop awritten budget for the Project (the Project Budget”) which shall be subject to the written approval of the City’sDeputy CAO of the Office of Sustainability,which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld.
4. Work with the engineer,contractor,and any other retained consultants to develop appropriate performance milestones to ensuretimely completion of the Project.
5. Obtain all required governmental regulatoryreviews and approvals required in connection with the constructionofthe Project.
6. Provide all plans and specifications to the City’sCAO Fiscal Grants Management and Financial Compliance office for transmittal to FP&C for review and approval;
7. Incorporate any reasonable review comments fromCity or FP&C into the design and construction of the Project;
8. Comply with pertinent local and state laws concerning the bidding of the work and the expenditureofpublic funds by FP&C and the City,including, but not limited to, La. Rev.Stat. §38:2212, et seq., awardthe Project to the lowest responsive and responsible bidder(the SWBNO”) in accordancewith the Louisiana Public Bid Law,and provide City with documentation of the process used in obtaining design or constructionbids;
9. Hireany and all other necessary consultants to manage the construction of the Project and to perform any required site civil surveying, geotechnical, mechanical, electrical, and other engineering services.
10. Assume day-to-day management and oversight authority and responsibilities with respect to the design and construction of the Project;
11. Execute aconstruction contract, which shall be in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, the Louisiana Public Bid Law,and the Louisiana Public Works Act.
12. Report to the City’sDeputy CAO of the Office of Sustainability every six (6) months during the term of this Agreement and as reasonably requested by the City regarding: (a) statusofthe bidding process and execution of the constructioncontracts; (b) status of any and all performance milestones (performance data will be specificand measurable); (c) the dollar value expended on the Project; and (d) any other information reasonably requested by the City as it relates to the Project.
13. Provide all documentation reasonably required by FP&C or the City to show funds sought to be reimbursed wereexpended in compliance with this Agreement,the Project Budget, and any applicable local, state, and federal regulationsand statutes, notwithstanding any approved waivers, that areapplicable to the use of said funds.
14. Complete construction of the Project in substantial conformance with the final plans, free of any statements of claim or privilege pursuant to the Louisiana Public Works Act, in accordance with
provision
18. Pursuant to La. Rev.Stat. 39:112(E)(2), SWBNO agrees to provide amatch of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the total City Project Funds, except as provided in La. Rev.Stat. 39:112(E)(2)(a) or (b). The SWBNO’smatch may consist of acombinationofpast or futurefunding or in-kind contributions.
C. SWBNO Representations &Warranties.The SWBNO shall represent and warrant that:
1. The SWBNOhas not employed or retained any entityorperson, other than abona fide employee or professional working solely for SWBNO, to solicit or securethis Agreement nor has SWBNO paid or agreed to pay any entity or person, other than abona fide employee, any gift, commission, percentage, brokerage or any other such fee for the purpose of assisting The SWBNOinsecuring this Agreement.The SWBNOacknowledges its understanding that any gifts made or fees paid in contravention of this representation and warranty shall be considered bribery pursuant to City Code Section70-509 and shall subject the offender to criminal penalties in addition to suspension from participation in the City contracting for aperiod of not less than three (3) years. The execution of this Agreement by SWBNO’sduly authorized representative shall be deemed aswornstatement by SWBNO of its compliance with this representation and warranty,asrequired by City Code Section4651;
2. The SWBNO, through its duly authorized representative, has the full power and authority to enter into and execute this Agreement and, as such, this Agreement is legally binding and enforceable against SWBNOinaccordance with its terms;
3. The SWBNOisnot under any obligation to any other Partythat would be inconsistent with or in conflictwith this Agreement or that would prevent, limit, or impair in any way its performance of any obligations under this Agreement;
4. The SWBNO has the requisite expertise, qualifications, and staff to enable it to fully perform its obligations under this Agreement;
5. As of the Effective Dateofthis Agreement, SWBNO has no knowledge of any undisclosed fact that could materiallyadversely affect its condition (financial or otherwise),business operations, or its ability to fulfill its obligations under this Agreement;
6. The SWBNOisnot in breach of any federal, state, or local statute or regulationapplicable to SWBNO or its operations that would materially affect SWBNO’sobligations under this Agreement;
7. The SWBNO shall complete, or cause to be completed, the construction of the Project in accordance with the final plans; and
8. The SWBNOhas read and fully understands the terms, covenants, and conditions set forth in this Agreement and is executing the same willinglyand voluntarilyofits own volition.
D. Reliance on Representations, Warranties, and Covenants.All representations, warranties, covenants, and agreements made in this Agreement areintended to be material and shall be conclusively deemed to have been relied uponbythe received Party ARTICLE II -THE CITY’SOBLIGATIONS
A. Administration. The City will:
1. Administer this Agreement through the Office of Sustainability(the Department”); and
2. Provide the SWBNO with documents reasonably necessary forthe SWBNO’sperformance of any work required under this Agreement;
3. Provide reasonable access to Department personnel required for the performance of the Project;and
4. Administer funds for the Project as specified in Article III; and
5. Withinareasonable timeafter receipt from the SWBNO, submit the SWNBO’srequests for reimbursement, along with any supporting documentation, to FP&C ARTICLE III –FUNDING
A. Funding Overview The SWBNOshall undertake the Project and expend such funds as it deems appropriate, all in compliance with applicable state and local law and FP&C requirements. The SWBNO will submit reimbursement requests and supporting documentation to the City,who will then, within areasonable period of time, submit such reimbursement requests to FP&C.Once FP&C reviews and approves each request, it will provide payment to City.Within areasonable period of timeafter receipt of payment, City will provide those funds to the SWBNO. Payment from the City to the SWBNO will only be made out of the funds received by the City from FP&C for this Project
B. Requirementsand Limits on Funding:
1. The SWBNOshall only be entitled to receive payments for eligible work. Eligible means those services, tasks, or materials needed forthe Project that areeligible forreimbursement by FP&C.
2. No City funds areobligated forthe Project as aresult of this Agreement.The Parties agree that payment from FP&C under the FP&C CEAshall be asuspensive condition to any payments, partial or full, from City to the SWBNO. Allpayments from City to the SWBNO aresubject to availabilityoffunds from FP&C.All risk of non-payment, forany reason, shall be exclusively borne by the SWBNO.
3. If payments or total payment available under the FP&C CEA shall be withheld forany reason, including but not limited to any adverse determination with respect to whether the SWBNO’s work constitutes eligible work, then City shall have the right to proportionally(by percentage) reduce the amount of its payment to SWBNO forthe work or line item reduced or withheldbyFP&C.
4. SWBNO acknowledges that no part of this Agreement will constitute awarranty to the SWBNOofany eligibilityorright to reimbursement for funds spent on the Project.The SWBNO further acknowledges that the City will have no obligation, aside from that expresslyprovided in Article II, to aid or assist in SWBNO’s compliance with FP&C rules and regulations.
C. Detailed Monthly Invoices.Inaddition to those requirements contained in Article III SectionB,asa prerequisite to payment, the SWBNOwill:
1. Submitelectronicallythrough the City’sBRASS system the detailed monthly invoices, with all required supporting documentation and proof of payment, required by FP&C or required in Article III(C)(1) above; and 2. Any additional documentation requested by FP&C or City
D. Reimbursement Funding Available. The City will not be liable for any costs or expenses paid or incurred by SWBNO in excess of the City Project funding in the performance of the SWBNO’sobligations under this Agreement,except as may be specifically set forth in aduly authorized amendment. The SWBNOagrees to provide or obtain all funding forthe Project not provided by the city Project funding.
E. No Payment for ServicesBeyond Scope of Agreement Except as may be provided by laws governing emergency procedures, officers andemployees of the City arenot authorized to request SWBNO to provide additional services that wouldresult in the performance of services beyond the scope of this Agreement,unless this Agreement has been amended in accordance with the termsofthis Agreement to authorize such additional services and/or expenditures. The City shall not be required to reimburse SWBNO for any services that are provided by SWBNOthat arebeyond the scope of this Agreement,in the absence of aduly authorized executed amendment.
F. No PaymentsinExcess of Maximum Funding. Officers and employees of the City arenot authorized to offer or promise to SWBNO additional funding for the Project in excess of the maximum amount of the City Project funding set forth above, unless this Agreement has been amended in accordance with the termsofthis Agreement to authorize such increase and the City’sDepartment of Finance has certified the availability of such additional funding. Absent the prior duly authorized amendment of this Agreement and the necessary certification of the City’sDepartment of Finance, the City shall not be required to honor and will notremittothe SWBNOany offered or promised additional funding in excess of the maximum amount of the City Project funding set forth above. ARTICLE IV –MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION
Following completion of construction, SWBNO, at its sole cost and expense, shall maintain the new boundaries and improvements of the Monticello Canal and its Culverts in first class condition, good working order,and free from defects. Following completion of construction, SWBNOshall be fully responsiblefor the condition and operation of the Monticello Canal. Allstructures or improvements covered by this Agreement shall be solely the property of SWBNO. Uponthe end of this Agreement,whether by expiration, termination, cancellation,orbyany other means, the structures and improvements shall be and remainthe property of the City ARTICLE V- DURATION AND TERMINATION
A. Term This Agreement will be effective for ten (10) years from the Effective Date.
B. Extension. The City can opt to extend the term of this Agreement provided that the City Council approves it as amulti-term cooperative endeavor agreement and that additional funding, if required, is allocated by the City Council. C. Terminationfor Convenience. The City may terminate this Agreement at any timeduring the term of the Agreement by giving the SWBNO written notice of the termination at least 30 calendar days beforethe intended date of termination. D. Terminationfor Cause. The City may terminate this Agreement immediately forcause by sending written notice to the SWBNO. “Cause” includes
or damage to persons or property arising from or relating to anyact or omission or the operation of the SWBNO, its agents or employees while engagedinorinconnection with the dischargeorperformance of anyservices underthis Agreement; andfor anyand allclaims and/ or liens for labor,services, or materials furnishedtothe SWBNO in connection with the performance of workunderthis Agreement. To the fullest extentpermittedbylaw,the City will indemnify, defend, andhold harmless SWBNO, its agents, employees, officials, insurers, self-insurance funds, andassigns (collectively,the SWBNO Indemnified Parties”) from and against anyand allclaims, demands, suits, andjudgments of sums of moneyaccruing against the SWBNO andSWBNO Indemnified Parties: for
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Byvirtueofand inobedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALEfromthe 24thJudicial DistrictCourt, ParishofJeffer‐son,State of Louisiana,inthe above num‐bered andenti‐tledcause dated Septem‐ber 24, 2025, I haveseizedand willproceed to selltothe high‐est bidder at publicauction, atthe Jefferson ParishSheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana,
70058,on Au‐gust26, 2026 at 10o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ertytowit: Onecertain lot orparcelof ground,to‐getherwithall the buildings and improve‐ments thereon, and allofthe rights, ways privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longing or in anywise apper‐taining,situated inthe Parish of Jefferson,State ofLouisiana,in thatpart thereofknown
as RanchEs‐tates Subdivi‐sion, designated asLot No.66-A inthe Square bounded by RamseyStreet, CloverStreet the south boundaryofthe subdivision and Morning Glow Drive,and forms the corner of RamseyStreet and Clover Street andmea‐sures thence 31.03 feet from onRamsey Street;thence along thearc of a curveatthe intersectionof RamseyStreet and Clover Street 28.93 feet;a width in therearof51
feet;bya depth and fronton CloverStreet of 77.17 feet and a depth on the opposite side‐lineof99.73 feet, allinac‐cordancewith the plat of sur‐vey by J. J. Krebs &Sons, Inc.,Civil Engi‐neering &Sur‐veyors, dated October 27, 1971, resur‐veyed May9, 1972, acopyof which is an‐nexed to cob 767, folio 119, Official Records ofJefferson Parish, Louisiana.
Andaccording to asurveyby
y y Gilbert,Kelly and Couturie, in.,surveying and engineer‐ing,dated Janu‐ary 30, 1986 said lot lies in the samesquare and formsthe cornerofRam‐sey andClover streets,mea‐sures 30.13 feet front on Ramsey Street, thence along thearc of a curveatthe intersectionof Ramseyand CloverStreets 28.93 feet,with a width in the rearof51feet, bya depth and front on Clover Streetof77.17 feetand adepth onthe opposite sideline of 99.73
feet
Havinga munic‐ipaladdress of 2573 Ramsey Drive,Marrero LA70072.
This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐riorsecurityin‐terests,mort‐gages,liens and privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchaseprice isdue at the timeofthe sale
NOTE:All funds mustbe Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or PersonalCheck withirrevocable Bank Letter of
Credit PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21,2026 jul17-aug21-2t
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JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:865-242
MIDFIRST BANK VERSUS EDWARD M. GSELLAND COURTNEY E. PETERSON Byvirtueofand inobedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALEfromthe 24thJudicial DistrictCourt ParishofJeffer‐son,State of Louisiana,inthe above num‐bered andenti‐tledcause dated May29, 2025, Ihave seized andwill
proceed to sell tothe highest bidderatpublic auction,atthe Jefferson Parish Sheriff'sOffice Complex,1233 WestbankEx‐pressway, Har‐vey,Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust26, 2026 at 10o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ertytowit: ONECERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OFGROUND, to‐getherwithall the buildings and improve‐ments thereon, and allthe rights, ways privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances d d
p andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, in that part known as MAPLERIDGE PARK,being a subdivisionof therearportion of Lots 10, 11, 12 and13ofthe Volant LaBarre Plantation,in SQUARE "B thereof, which square is bounded by Ole‐anderStreet, MapleRidge Driveand West MapleDrive, designated as LOT15onplat of survey made by F.C. Gandolfo,Jr., Surveyor,dated March12, 1942, on file in theof‐fice of theClerk of Courtinand forthe Parish of Jeffersonin MapBook 14, Page 10, re‐datedOctober 5,1946 andac‐cordingthereto, Lot15com‐mences 150 feet from thecorner of MapleRidge Driveand Ole‐anderStreet (135 feet from thepoint of curveofthe in‐tersection of MapleRidge Driveand Ole‐anderStreet), andmeasures 50 feet fronton MapleRidge Drive, thesame in width in the rear,bya depth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines; allinac‐cordance with survey by Gilbert& Kelly Surveyors, datedDecem‐ber9,1955. Whichhas the addressof215 MapleRidge Drive, Metairie, LA 70001
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit
Jefferson
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:873-439
UNITED WHOLE‐SALE MORT‐GAGE,LLC VERSUS TREY M. CA‐MARDELLE,IN HISCAPACITY AS INDEPEN‐DENT ADMINIS‐TRATOR OF THE SUCCES‐SION OF ALLEN JOHN CA‐MARDELLE A/K/AALLEN JOHN CAMARDELLE A/K/AALLENJ CAMARDELLE A/K/AALLEN CAMARDELLE
p on July 11, 2006.
PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-864 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS THEUNOPENED SUCCESSION OF EARL A. ADAMS, JR.,DECEASED
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
EMILYA
MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 12, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onAu‐gust 26,2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: That certain portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall of the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorany‐wise appertain‐ing, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known as WhiteHouse Subdivision, in theCityof Westwego, in Square 10, bounded by Av‐enue "A", Otto
Street (formerly 11thStreet), the SalavilleLine (Laroussinin Street side)and 10thStreet, which said lots of ground are a resubdivisionof Lots 1and 2of Square 10, Whitehouse Subdivision, as shownonthe sketch attached to Ordinance No.564, City of Westwego, and approved by the City of West‐wego on Octo‐ber4,1960, recordedinCOB 526, folio 307, EntryNo. 200888, andac‐cordingtosaid sketch,saidlots aredesignated as Lots "B"and "C"; said Lot"B" and"C" adjoin each otherand measureeach 32’ feet fronton Avenue "A", same width in therear, by a depth between equaland paral‐lellines of 90’ feet.SaidLot "B"forms the corner of Tenth andAvenue "A". Allasmorefully shownonplan of survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Sur‐veying andEngi‐neering, dated March9,1968, a copy of which is annexedtoact registered in COB700, folio 993.
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
COREYJ GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul17-aug21-2t
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT
SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune5, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: That certainlot or parcel of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in Township 14 South, Ranges 23 and24East, SoutheastLand District of Louisiana, West of theMissis‐sippi River, knownasHar‐veyCanal Prop‐erty,Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, for‐merlyknown as Parcel Q-2-B, which said lotof ground has been resubdi‐videdinto Woodmere SouthSubdivi‐sion,Section 3, allasper plan of resubdivision made by J.J. Krebs, Inc., CE&S,dated 10/10/1983, ap‐porovedbythe JeffersonParish CouncilbyOrdi‐nanceNo. 15784, recorded at COB 2167/270, same beingdesig‐natedas follows: LOT 739, SQUARE "Q", which said square is bounded by Cimwood Drive, DestrehanAv‐enue,Clover Lane andKeithWayDrive,and said Lot739 commences at a
distance of 253.19 feet from theintersection of Keith-Way Driveand Cim‐wood Drive, and measures thence 60 feet frontonCim‐wood Drive, same in width across therear, by adepth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines. Allasper survey by J.J. Krebs& Sons Inc. dated 10/14/1985, resurveyed 11/22/1985, to show improve‐ments.
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
FOERSTNERG MEYER
Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III
Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA
NO:874-255
MAND TBANK VS PAUL JAMESPI‐CHOFF
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all of thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall of the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Section2 and 41, Township 15 South, Range 23 East,located in atract com‐prised of por‐tionsofParcels T-3-Eand T-1-A of theRobertJ PerkinsTract,in that subdivision knownasACA‐DIAN VILLAS SUBDIVISION, all in accordance with aplanof resubdivisionby DufreneSurvey‐ing& Engineer‐ingInc., dated October9,2002, approved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder OrdinanceNo. 21766, adopted on February 12, 2003, said ordi‐nance filedat COB3094 folio 768, Jefferson Parish Louisiana. Ac‐cordingtosaid plan of resubdi‐vision,saidlot is designated as follows:
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
L. GRAHAM ARCENEAUX Attorney for Plaintiff
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HOPE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION VERSUS PATTY JOHNSON MILITELLO A/K/APATTY J. JOHNSONA/K/A PATTY MILITELLO
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in BlockB of NicholsonPlace, boundedby Francis, Michael, Short andMary Streets, and designated as Lot16onthe mapofsaid subdivision made by James S. Webb, C.E., datedNovem‐ber3,1927 (and revisedMarch 10, 1931 and April21, 1943), a copy of which is filedinthe offi‐cial plat room of JeffersonParish in book 12, folio 24, andaccord‐ingtosaidmap said LotNo. 16 measures 54 feet fronton FrancisStreet by adepth be‐tween equal andparallel linesof78.7 feet,and has a widthinthe rear of 54 feet
time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
COREYJ GIROIR
Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 1, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish
LOT3,SQUARE 4, which said square is bounded by CedarCreek Street,Barataria Boulevard (side),Northern Boundaryof Subdivisionand Savannah Lane Said lot3 com‐mences at adis‐tanceof248.57 feet from the corner of Cedar Creek Street andSavannah Lane,measures thence 60 feet frontonCedar Creek Street same in width in therear, by a depth of 110.00 feet between equaland paral‐lellines.All in accordance with survey by DufreneSurvey‐ing& Engineer‐ing, Inc.,dated June 9, 2006, re‐visedtoshow improvements l
SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 1, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: Acertain lotor portionof ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall of the
Said Nicholson Placebeing a subdivisionof thefront por‐tion of Farm Sites16and 17, SectionB of Ames Farms Subdivision, Jef‐ferson Parish, as shownonthe mapofJ.W.T Stephens,C.E datedJuly27, 1918, and amendedMarch 6, 1920, anda certified copy is registered in ac‐cordance with lawbyJames S. Webb, C.E.,on November2, 1927, andwhich said mapof subdivisionwas approved by J. H. Payne, Engi‐neer forthe Parish of Jeffer‐son, in accor‐dancewithpro‐visionsofAct No.134 of the Legislatureof Louisiana passed1896, dated, theap‐proval,Gretna, LA,December2, 1927, allaswill be fully shown in thesaidmap of subdivision of Nicholson Placeasafore‐said
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:787-855 DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUSTCOM‐PANY,ASCER‐TIFICATE TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BOSCOCREDITII TRUSTSERIES 2010-1 VS ZINA SHABAZZ LEWISAKA ZINA SEMONE SHABAZZLEWIS AKAZINALEWIS AKAZINAS LEWIS
ONECERTAIN LOTORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall rights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances andad‐vantages there‐untobelonging or in anywise appertaining situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as BAYOUDES FAMILLES SUB‐DIVISION,being aresubdivision of aportion of Ames Farms, LowerEstelle Plantation,Lots L, M, N, O, P, Q, andR in accor‐dancewithplan of resubdivision by J. J. Krebs& Sons,Inc dated April25, 1984, approved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder OrdinanceNo. 16259, approved b
OFFICIAL NOTICE
Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regular meeting of July 23, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., to be heldeither via video conference or in the Council Chamber,City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street,Room 1E07, the adoption ofOrdinance Calendar No. 35,500 introduced at the meeting of July 9, 2026.
SAID ORDINANCE would authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into aCooperativeEndeavor AgreementAmendmentNo. 1 (“CEA”) between the City of New Orleans (the “City”), and Toole Design Group, LLC and Fehr &Peers, relative to develop, refine and implement data applications that address specificroadway safety problemsfor the Safe Streets and Road for All Program, the provisions thereof as set forth morefully in the CEA form attached hereto as Exhibit “A” and made a part hereof.
Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street.
AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL
PUBLICATION DATE: July 17, 2026 NOCP 9145
OFFICIAL NOTICE CAL. NO. 35,500 EXHIBIT “A”
COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND TOOLE DESIGN GROUP,LLC AND FEHR &PEERS SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL PROGRAM AMENDMENT NO. 1TOCOOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND TOOLE DESIGN GROUP,LLC AND FEHR &PEERS FOR THE SAFE STREETS AND ROADS FOR ALL PROGRAM SAFER STREETS PRIORITYFINDER ENHANCEMENTS THIS FIRST AMENDMENT (the “Amendment”) is entered into by and between the City of New Orleans, represented by Helena N. Moreno,
WHEREAS,the City received agrant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (“USDOT”) to support the SafeStreets and Roads forAll Program; and WHEREAS,onJune 13, 2024, the City,TDG and SafeStreets Research +Consulting,LLC, represented by Rebecca Sanders, Founder and Principal Investigator (“SSR”) entered into atwo (2) year Cooperative Endeavor Agreement,K24-327/BRASS #5814, (the Agreement”), to accomplish the valuable public purpose of partnering to improve public health and wellness by working to develop, refine, and implement data tool applications that address specificroadway safetyproblems and can demonstrate deployment application; and WHEREAS,onorabout February 27, 2026, SSR merged with F&P; and WHEREAS,F&P is aCalifornia corporation,registered to do business in Louisiana, which principal address is located at 100 Pringle Avenue, Suite 600, Walnut Creek, CA 94596; and WHEREAS,the City consents to the assignment of the Agreement to F&P which executed Assignment of Agreement is attached separately and incorporated hereinas“Exhibit A”; and WHEREAS,F&P will assume all rights and obligations of SSR under the Agreement going forward; and WHEREAS,all other termsand conditions of the Agreement will remainthe same; and WHEREAS,F&P and the City, each having the authority to do so, desiretoenter this Amendment to ensurecontinuity of services, to memorializethe Assignment of Agreement,and to authorize and acknowledge F&P’sassumption of SSR’srights, obligations, and liabilities under the Agreement;and NOW THEREFORE,for good and valuableconsideration, the Parties amend the Agreement as follows:
1. Assignment.Inaccordance with the termsofthe Agreement and as evidenced by the execution of the Assignment of Agreement F&P shallassume all rights, responsibilities, obligations, and liabilities afforded to SSR under the original Agreement
2. ConvictedFelon Statement.The Contractor swears that it complies with City Code §2-8(c). No Contractorprincipal, member,orofficer has, within the preceding five years, been convicted of, or pled guilty to,afelony under state or federal statutes for embezzlement, theft of public funds, bribery,or falsification or destruction of public records.
3. Non-Solicitation Statement.The Contractor swears that it has not employed or retained any company or person, other than abona fide employee working solelyfor it, to solicit or secure this Amendment.The Contractor has not paid or agreed to pay any person, other than abona fide employee working for it, any fee, commission, percentage, gift, or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from this Amendment
4. Prior Terms Binding.Except as otherwise provided by this Amendment,the terms
BY:_ HELENA
Executed
FORM
TOOLE DESIGN
BY:_ JENNIFER TOOLE,PRESIDENT
FEDERAL TAXI.D.
FEHR &PEERS
BY:_ CHRISTINESHIELDS, DIRECTOR
FEDERAL TAXI.D.
EXHIBIT
AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK
COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE:July
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pp on November 29, 1984, regis‐teredinEntry No.8459835, COB1180, folio
100, Jefferson Parish,LA, said Lotismorefully describedas follows, to-wit:
LOT9,SQUARE 6; subject to re‐strictions,servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand out‐standing min‐eral rights of record affecting theproperty.
Improvements thereonbear theMunicipal No.4621 Bayou DesFamilles Drive, Marrero, LA 70072.
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit
BRIGHAMJ LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:853-661
CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐VICES, LLC VS THEOPENED SUCCESSION OF COTRIA V. OVER‐STREET (A/K/A COTRIA OVERSTREET) ANDTRAE BARDELLAND TISHARABAR‐DON
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
on May25, 1972, under Ordi‐nanceno. 10688, registered in COB764, folio 803, said portion of ground is designated as LOT21, SQUARE 4.
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests,mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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PhyllisDrive the same in width in therearby a depth of 104 feet between equaland paral‐lellines;subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way andoutstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe prop‐erty
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
BRIGHAMJ LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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y Parish Council under ordinance No.12331, recorded in COB 858, folio 638, andwhich said portionof ground was subdivided into Woodmere Sub‐division,Section 4, allasper plan of resubdivision thereofmadeby J.J. Krebs& Sons,Inc C.E. & S, datedDecem‐ber16, 1975 ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder ordinanceNo. 12331, recorded COB858, folio 638, same being designated as follows: Lot1269, Square GG, which square is bounded by NorthDeerwood Drive, Alex Ko‐rnmanBlvd., SouthDeerwood Dr.(side)and Deerwood Ct (Side),and said lotforms the corner of Alex KornmanBlvd. andNorth Deer‐wood Dr., and measures 65 feet fronton NorthDeerwood Drive, same in width in the rear,bya depth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines, andfront on Alex Korn‐manboulevard allasshown on printofsurvey by J.J. Krebs& Sons,Inc., C.E. & S.,dated May 23,1977, re-sur‐veyedtoshow improvements July 2, 1977.
gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as HARBOR ES‐TATESSUBDIVI‐SION,desig‐natedasLOT 113, SQUARE 5, bounded by HeatherStreet, EmileAvenue DollyStreet and WayneAvenue Said Lot113 be‐gins 213 feet from thecorner of Heather Street,the same width in the rear,bya depth of onehundred (100) feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines. Allinac‐cordance with a plan of survey by Murphy Engi‐neering, Inc. C.E.,dated Janu‐ary4,1973, re‐datedOctober 12, 1973, acopy of which is at‐tached to the mortgage recorded at In‐strument # 12019954.
Improvements thereonbear theMunicipal Number 7817 HeatherStreet, Westwego, LA 70094.
gether with all of theimprove‐mentsthereon, allthe rights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudesand ad‐vantages there‐untobelonging or in anywise appertaining situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in whatwas for‐merlyknown as Parcel Aofthe OrleansVillage Corporation Tractand is now designated as Westminster Park Subdivi‐sion,asper plan of subdivision by J.J. Krebs& Sons,Inc., C.E. & S.,dated Octo‐ber24, 1977, ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish CouncilbyOrdi‐nanceNo. 13192 adoptedJanu‐ary4,1978, and recorded in COB 918, folio 662 andasper Act of Dedicatedbe‐fore Odom B. Heebe, N.P., datedMarch 1, 1978, recorded in COB920, folio 308, andsaid property is more particu‐larlydescribed as follows,to wit:
COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJanuary 26, 2024,I have seized andwill proceedto sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA
NO:876-105
U.S. BANK TRUSTNA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATION, AS TRUSTEE OF BRACKENRIDGE MORTGAGE TRUST VERSUS STEPHFEN J. MCGILL
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
LOT3,SQUARE 5, Whichsaid square is bounded by Bartlett Drive, Westminster Blvd., Lapalco Blvd andLan‐caster Drive. Said Lotislo‐catedand mea‐suresasfol‐lows:LOT 3 measures 60 feet fronton Bartlett Drive, with awidth in therearof60.84 feet,bya depth of 100 feet be‐tween equal lines, andcom‐mences at adis‐tanceof138.39 feet from the corner of West‐minsterBlvd. andBartlett Drive. Allas more fully shownonsur‐veybysurveys, Inc.,dated Feb‐ruary26, 1979.
PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff
SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune 6, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
ALLTHATCER‐TAIN LOTOR PARCEL OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall rights ways,means, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as RANCH ACRESEXTEN‐SION,and ac‐cordingtoplan of subdivision by J. J. Krebs andAssociates, Inc.,Civil Engi‐neer,and Sur‐veyor, dated September17, 1971, approved by theJefferson Parish Council
THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall of the rights,ways, privileges servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as SOUTH AVONDALE HOMESSUBDI‐VISION,SEC‐TION NO.6,ac‐cordingto a plan of J.J. Krebs& Sons C.E. datedJuly 1, 1969,ap‐proved by the JeffersonParish Councilunder OrdinanceNo. 9322, and filed forrecordas EntryNo. 465565, registered in COB701, folio 963 andinPlan Book 66 Plan 42 of therecords of theClerk of Courtfor the Parish of Jeffer‐son, according to which said lotorportion of ground is desig‐natedasfol‐lows: LOT33, SQUARE 21, which said square is bounded by Phyllis, Marie, Patand Elains Drive; said Lot 33 measures 52 feet fronton
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune 6, 2026,I have seized andwill proceedtosell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,onAu‐gust 26,2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:875-688
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NO:875-877
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
ALLTHATCER‐TAIN PIECEOR PORTIONOF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐tainingsituated in theState of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Township 14 South, Ranges 23 and 24 East,South‐easternLand District of Louisiana, West of theMissis‐sippi River, and designated as Parcel P-2-A-1, allasper plan thereofmadeby J.J. Krebs& Sons,Inc C.E. & S.,dated May 15,1973, revised September26, 1973,revised April11, 1974, revisedMay 5, 1975 andDe‐cember 29, 1975, andapproved by theJefferson
ROCKET MORT‐GAGE,LLC VERSUS BRENDA AUGUS‐TINE WILSON DUMAS, (A/K/A BRENDA W. DUMAS, BRENDA WILSON DUMAS)
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 14, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐
U.S. BANK TRUSTNA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATION, AS TRUSTEEOFLBCABANA SERIES IV TRUST VERSUS LOUISH THOMAS,JR. ANDANGELA CRAWFORD THOMAS
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMay 20, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
ACERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐
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U.S. BANK TRUSTNA‐TIONAL ASSOCI‐ATION, NOTIN ITSINDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS OWNER TRUSTEEFOR LEGACY MORT‐GAGE ASSET TRUST 2021-GS3 VERSUS FELIX MORTER
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐
tled cause, datedMay,29, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT PORTION OF GROUND,TO‐GETHER WITH ALLTHE BUILD‐INGS ANDIM‐PROVEMENTS THEREONAND ALLOFTHE RIGHTS,WAYS, PRIVILEGES SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTOBE‐LONGINGORIN ANYWISEAP‐PERTAINING, SITUATED IN THECITYOF KENNER,PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATEOF LOUISIANA, IN THAT PART THEREOF KNOWNASUNI‐VERSITYCITY OF SUBDIVI‐SION, ALLINAC‐CORDANCE WITH PLAN OF SUBDIVISIONOF SURVEYS, INC. DATEDNOVEM‐BER4,1960, AND REVISEDRE‐CENTLY INSO‐FARASTHE PROPERTY HEREIN CON‐VEYEDISCON‐CERNED AS PER PLAN OF J.L. FONTCUBERTA, SURVEYOR, DATEDMAY 11, 1970, ANDAP‐PROVED BY OR‐DINANCENO. 1224 OF THE CITY OF KENNER ON JUNE 5, 1970, ACOPYOF WHICHISDULY REGISTERED IN COB716, FOLIO 675, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, LOUISIANAON JUNE 10, 1970, IN ACCORDANCE THEREWITHTHE SAID LOTISSIT‐UATEDAND MEASURES AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: LOT12-A, SQUARE 19, BOUNDEDBY LOYOLA DRIVE, 35THSTREET 40THSTREET ANDPROPOSED FUTURE SITE OF LOYOLA UNI‐VERSITYOR EAST BOUND‐ARYOFSUBDIVI‐SION,COM‐MENCES AT A DISTANCE OF 885 FEET FROM THECORNEROF LOYOLA DRIVE WEST AND40TH STREET AND MEASURES THENCE 50 FEET FRONTONLOY‐OLADRIVE WEST,SAME WIDTHINTHE REAR,BYA DEPTHOF130 FEET BETWEEN EQUALAND PARALLEL LINES. LOT12-AIS COMPOSED OF A PORTIONOF ORIGINAL LOT 12 ANDA POR‐TION OF ORIGI‐NALLOT 13 OF SQUARE 19, ALL AS MORE FULLY SHOWNONSUR‐VEYOFFRANK FOSTER &ASSO‐CIATES,DATED SEPTEMBER3 1971, ALLINAC‐CORDANCE WITH THESUR‐VEYOFJ.J KREBS& SONS SURVEYORS, DATEDMAY 24, 1977, ACOPYOF WHICHISAN‐NEXEDHERETO ANDMADEPART HEREOF (“Prop‐erty”)
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:876-299 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐VICES, LLC VERSUS THEUNOPENED SUCCESSIONOF ANDUNKNOWN HEIRSOFLOIS ANDERSON SAM A/K/ALOISAN‐DERSON SAM A/K/ALOISA SAMA/K/A LOIS SAMAND HARRYSAM,JR. By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedSeptem‐ber21, 2023, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
That certain pieceorportion of ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, in the StateofLA, in that part thereofknown as Haydel ManorSubdivi‐sion,saidpor‐tion beingdes‐ignatedasLot 241 of Square 11. Accordingto aplanbyAdloe Orr, Jr.& Associ‐ates,C.E., dated April30, 1969, Square 11 is bounded by Vic‐torian Drive, Marine Avenue theNorth Line of Haydel Manor andJordan Street.Lot 241 commences at a distance of 127.49 feet from thecornerof Marine Avenue andVictorian Driveand mea‐suresthence60 feet fronton VictorianDrive thesamein widthinthe rear,bya depth of 100.26 feet on thesideline closer to Marine Avenue and a depthonthe opposite side line closer to Jordan Street of 100.38 feet
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale. NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit CANDACEA
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit COREYJ GIROIR
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:876-393
JPMORGAN CHASEBANK, NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION VERSUS PHILLIPL.REED By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJune 5, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theState of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Lake Tim‐berlaneEstates, designated as LOT21, SQUARE B, LAKE TIMBER‐LANE ESTATES, SECTION4,in accordance with plan of re‐subdivisionbyJ J. Krebs& Sons, Inc.,dated De‐cember 8, 1989, last revised September27, 1990, approved by theJefferson Parish Council on February 14, 1990, by Ordi‐nanceNo. 17929, recorded March 15, 1990, under entryNo. 9010219, in COB 2305, folio 207, more fully de‐scribedasfol‐lows:
SQUARE Bis bounded by Brighton Place, JupiterStreet, Bradford Place, andManhattan Boulevard. LOT 21 commences 1145 feet from theintersection of JupiterStreet andBrighton Place, measures thence 60 feet fronton Brighton Place, same widthin therear, by a depthbetween equaland paral‐lellines of 105 feet.All as more fullyshown on survey by J. J. Krebs& Sons Inc.,redated andcertified October21, 1991.
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III
Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:876-314
PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VERSUS GERALDINE COUSTAUT
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJanuary 8, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m thefollowing describedprop‐erty to wit:
y Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letterof Credit
MARGIE SCOTT Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III
Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:833-114
U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUTSOLELYAS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF2 ACQUISITION TRUSTC/O U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL AS‐SOCIATION VS JAMESD.DAY,II A/K/AJAMES DAY, II
p feet on theop‐posite sideline LOTNO. 2of SQUARE 5lies wholly within whatwas original Plot 295 of Hessmer FarmsSubdivi‐sion.All as more fully shownon sur‐veyofSterling Mandle,Land Surveyor,dated June 4, 1976 a copy of which is an‐nexedtoanact datedJune 10, 1976,before CharlesBar‐bara,Notary Public
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
COREYJ.GIROIR
Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III
Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
N.P.,dated 8/12/53, regis‐teredinCOB 344, folio131 for theParishof Jefferson, is situated in GREEN ACRES SUBDIVISION UNIT NO.3,in SQUARE NO.5 thereof, which square is bounded by Green Acres Road,Wabash Street,Haring Road and York Street,said lotbeing desig‐natedbythe NO.5 andmea‐suring as fol‐lows:
LotNo. 5mea‐sures60feet frontonGreen AcresRoad, same width in rear,bya depth between equaland paral‐lellines of 114 feet,all in ac‐cordance with Survey of Williams L. Case,Surveyor, dated6/6/55. Lot5 com‐mences at adis‐tanceof240' feet from corner of Green Acres Road andYork Street
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
SION,being des‐ignatedasLOT 51-AofSQUARE 20, which said lot measures ap‐proximately60 feet X130 feet Andaccording to survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie,Inc dated7-14-2003, said Lot51-A commences at a distance of 1000.00 feet from theinter‐sectiononLoy‐olaDrive East, same width in therear, by a depth of 130 feet between equaland paral‐lellines Thissaleissub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
LGRAHAM ARCENEAUX
Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III
East side and designated as Lot#47; situ‐ated in the Southeastern District of Louisianain Section44, Township 12 South, Range10 East.Which said lot measures in ac‐cordance with plan of Section A& Bof Bridgedale,pre‐paredbyH.W Nugent,C.E., datedJune24, 1926, acopyof which is at‐tached to an act before Chas I. Denechaud, N.P. on October15, 1934, beingsale by Mrs. F.T. Borahto AssetRealiza‐tion Co., Inc. as follows: Lot#47 begins at adistanceof 292 feet,more or less, from the corner of Zinnia Avenue and West Metairie Avenue and measures thence 50 feet frontonZinnia Avenue,similar width in the rear,bya depth between equal andparallel linesof120 feet,moreor less.
Louisiana, said lotbeing known as LOTY,in SQUARE NO.97of METAIRIEVILLE SUBDIVISION, andaccording to aplanofresubdivison by J.J.Krebs& Sons,Inc., dated October13, 1978, approved by theJefferson Parish CouncilonNo‐vember 21, 1978, OrdinanceNo. 13667, passed December 4, 1978, said portionof ground is desig‐natedasLOT Y, SQUARE 97, which square is bounded by Lake Avenue Rosebud(late Magnolia), Lilac andCarrolton Streets, and said lotcom‐mences at adis‐tanceof70feet from theinter‐sectionofLake Avenue and Rosebud(late Magnolia) Street andmea‐suresthence60 feet fronton Lake Avenue same widthin therear, by a depthof120 feet between equaland paral‐lellines
ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, andall the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes,ad‐vantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐tainingsituated, lyingand being in theWhite‐houseSubdivi‐sion in theCity of Westwego, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, ac‐cordingto a plan of survey by AlvinE.Ho‐tard,civil Engi‐neer,dated Jan‐uary 6, 1958,and adoptedbythe Mayorand BoardofAlder‐menofthe City of Westwego, by OrdinanceNos 526 and527, datedFebruary 28, 1958, andac‐cordingtosaid plan said lotis designated as thewhole of Lot No Five (5)of Square No.Fifty six(56),which said Square is bounded by Av‐enue "E"and "H", Tenth Street andVie Street;and ac‐cordingtosaid plan said Lot No.Five(5) measures Fiftytwoand 75/100 (52.75')feet frontonTenth Street,same width in the rear,bya depth between equal andparallel linesofOne HundredThirtyNine and5/10 (139.5')feet (“Property”)
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedOctober 13, 2022,I have seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058,on Wednesday,July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PORTIONOF GROUND, to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, and anyofthe rights,ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and prescriptions thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that subdivi‐sion thereofknown as CHATEAU PARK,being a resubdivisionof Plots340,341, 330, 331, 328, 329, 316, 317, 318, 319, 304, 305, 306, 307, 294, 295 andparts of 292 and293, Hess‐merFarms Sub‐division,asper subdivisionplan of William Maier, datedApril 15, 1970, recorded in theParishof Jefferson, under OrdinanceNo. 10331,inCOB 745, folio 390. Accordingto said plan,said lotisdesig‐natedasLOT NO.2 of SQUARE NO 5, which said square is bounded by ChateauDrive West EsplanadeAv‐enue,Hessmer Avenue and7" Street.LOT NO 2commences at a distance of 56.07 feet from thecorner of ChateauDrive andWestEs‐planadeAvenue andmeasures thence 60 feet fronton ChateauDrive, same width in therear, by a depth of 96.27
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:835-042
MIDFIRST BANK VS LILLIE IRENE TORRES (A/K/A LILLIE TORRES) ANDCARMEN ELIZABETH TORRES
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber21, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the following de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
EMILYA MUELLER
Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III
Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:864-686
HANCOCK WHITNEYBANK VERSUS KIRSTENDENISE MULLEN
Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-340
DEUTSCHE BANK NATIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE, IN TRUSTFOR REGISTERED HOLDERSOF LONG BEACH MORTGAGE LOAN TRUST 2005-1, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2005-1 VERSUS WAYNEJOHN DESCANT
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
KATE SOTO‐LONGO Attorney for Plaintiff
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Theimprove‐mentsthereon bear theMunici‐palNo. 1344 Lake Avenue, Metairie,LA 70005
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior securityin‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges. TERMS- 10% down balancein 30 days
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit SIERRA EGRASS Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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ALLTHATCER‐TAIN PIECEOR PARCEL OF GROUND,to‐gether with all buildings andimprove‐mentsthereon, allrights, ways means, privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, prescriptions andappurte‐nances there‐untobelonging or in anywise appertaining thereto, situ‐ated in Section 43, T12S,R10E, Southeastern District of Louisiana, East of theMissis‐sippi River, beinga portion of theElmwoodLafreniere Tract, said property being situated in the 8thWardofthe Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, andinaccor‐dancewithSur‐veymadeby W.L. Case Sur‐veyor, 7/1/1953, copy of which is at‐tached to Actof Dedication of Streetsexe‐cutedbefore Claude W. Duke,
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 21, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJanuary 30, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-826
D.A.N. JOINT VENTUREIII, L.P. VERSUS NEWHORIZON LEARNING ACADEMYLLC
pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall of the rights,ways, privileges, servitudes appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐FERSON,STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof known as ATHA‐NIAPLACE SUB‐DIVISION,inthe square bounded by Athania Avenue,Cypress Street,the East line of Athania PlaceSubdivi‐sion,Harlem Subdivisionand Metairie Road, designated as LOTNO. 17-Eon thesurvey made by Edward L. Clin‐ton, Land Sur‐veyor, dated July 12, 1984, an‐nexedtoact be‐fore F. Joseph Drolla, Jr Notary Pub‐lic, datedJuly 25, 1984, accord‐ingtowhich said lot commencesat a distance of 117.50 feet from thecornerof AthaniaAvenue and CypressStreet andmeasures thence 57.50 feet frontonCy‐pressStreet,the same widthinthe rear,bya depth of 100 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines. Allasinaccor‐dancewiththe plan of survey by Edward L. Clinton, Sur‐veyor, dated July 12, 1984, a copy of which is annexedtoan actbeforeF Joseph Drolla Jr., Notary Public, datedJuly25, 1984, registered in COB1080, folio 590.
son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 25, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
THAT CERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theCityof Kenner,Parish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as UNIVERSITY CITY SUBDIVI‐
ONECERTAIN LOTORPARCEL OF GROUND with allofthe improvements thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, advan‐tagesand appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as Section"A" ofthe Bridgedale Sub‐division,in Square No.23, bounded by Zin‐niaAvenue on theWest, West Metairie Avenue on the North, Kenner Avenue on the Southand a? canalonits
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedFebruary 18, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ALLTHATCER‐TAIN LOTOR PARCEL OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon andall of the rights,ways, servitudes,ap‐purtenances, andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof
JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:873-508 THEBANKOF NEWYORK MELLON FKA THEBANKOF NEWYORK, AS TRUSTEEFOR THECERTIFI‐CATE HOLDERSOF CWALT, INC. ALTERNATIVE LOAN TRUST 2004-J2 MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGH CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2004-J2 VERSUS ESTATE OF DANIEL A. VEITH ANDESTATEOF DIANNE CA‐LONGNE VEITH A/K/A DIANNE N. CALONGNE VEITH, DIANNE C. VEITHA/K/A DIANNE NOBLET FAUCONNE DE CALONGEAND KARENM.VEITH By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedMarch 12, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit RADERJACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:873-983 FIRST AMERICAN BANK AND TRUST VERSUS NINE MILE WESTWEGO INVESTMENTS LLC By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐
ACERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings and improvements thereon, all rights,ways, privileges, servitudes, thereunto, or in anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof knownas PECANGROVE SUBDIVISION, said portionof ground bounded by Oak Avenue,Seven Oaks Blvd.(for‐merlyknown as Bridge City Av‐enue), theEastBound‐aryofSubdivi‐sion (side),and Square 3(side), andbeing des‐ignated as LOT2-A OF SQUARE 1of said subdivi‐sion,saidlot beinga Resub‐division of former lots 1, 2, 3& 4, approved by Jefferson Parish Planning Department under OrdinanceNo. 19782, adopted August 14, 1996, amendedJuly 21, 1999 by Ordinance No 20737, further amendedon March14, 2007 by Ordinace No 23009, with finalap‐proval on June 14, 2011, as more fully shownand in accordance with Resubdivision survey by DufreneSurvey‐ing& Engineer‐ing, Inc.,dated May6,2011, recorded at COB 3280, Page 186, andaccording to said Resubdi‐vision,saidlot is more fully de‐scribedasfol‐lows,to-wit: LOT2-A com‐mences at the corner of Oak Avenue and SevenOaks Blvd.(formerly knownas Bridge City Av‐enue)and mea‐sures100.00 feet fronton SevenOaks Blvd., thesamewidth in therear, by a depthalong Oak Avenue of 150.00 feet,and a depth of 151.77 feet on theopposite side line. Improvements thereonbear municipalno. 836 SevenOaks Blvd., Bridge City, Louisiana70094
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges. TERMS- 10% down balancein 30 days
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
WAYNEA MAIORANA,JR Attorney for Plaintiff
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew
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y y Krebs& Sons, datedJanuary 5,1965, acopyof which is an‐nexedto mortgagorsac‐quisitionbefore Paul Murphy,Jr., N.P.,registered in COB607 folio 278.
This sale is sub‐ject toall supe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 17, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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andSuzanne Drive, andmea‐sures thence 70 feet fronton Suzanne Drive, by adepth of 131.71 feet be‐tween equal and parallel lines. All in furtheraccor‐dancewithsur‐veymadeby Sterling Mandle Land Surveyor,dated February 11, 1971, acopyof which is at‐tached to Act passedbefore Curtis Allen Hennesy, Notary Public,dated February 12, 1971
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐riorsecurityin‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
AMYR.ORTIS Attorney for Plaintiff
recorded March 15, 1990, under EntryNo.9010219, in COB 2305, folio207, more fully described as follows: SQUARE B, is bounded by Brighton Place, JupiterStreet, BradfordPlace andManhattan Boulevard, LOT 12 commences 665 feet from the intersectonof JupiterStreet andBrighton Place, measures thence 60 feet fronton Brighton Place, same width in therearby a depth between equaland paral‐lellines of 105 feet.All as more fully shownonsur‐veybyJ.J.Krebs &Sons, Inc. redatedand certified De‐cember 10, 1991; subjecttore‐strictions,servi‐tudes, rights-ofwayand outstanding mineralrights of record affect‐ingthe prop‐erty
Theimprove‐mentstheron bear themunici‐palnumber: 2109 Brighton pl Harvey La
minium Declaration" passedbyact before F. Ran‐dall Garrett, No‐tary Public datedOctober 13, 2006, filed with theClerk andEx-Officio Register of Con‐veyances for theParish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in COB3175, Folio 279, creating andestablish‐ing "Metro View Condominium" (The Condo‐minium Declara‐tion), Including thesurvey, plat plans, and otherinstru‐mentsannexed thereto,said unitbeing more particularly describedinthe Condominium Declarationand in theplatplans annexedthereto as Exhibit "A." Said Condominiumis situated upon Parcel E-2ofthe Dreyfous Tract, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana.
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
MalvernLanes, designated by theNumber2, on asurvey made by Corwin A. Robert,C.E andS., dated September15, 1950, acopyof which is an‐nexedtoanact passedbefore Margaret Gaudin,dated October20th, 1950, andac‐cordingto which,saidlot commences at a distance of 56 feet from the corner of Kendal Lane andJefferson Highwayand measures thence 54 feet frontonJeffer‐sonHighway,by adepth be‐tween equal and parallel linesof onehundred andthirtyeight feet (1381).Ac‐cordingtoa sur‐veyby AdloeOrr, Jr., C.E..dated May 7, 1956, the property has thesameloca‐tion and measurements
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
p resubdivision by AdloeOrr, Jr and Associates,C.E datedOctober 26, 1964, revised November 19,1964, ap‐proved by theJefferson Parish Council under Ordi‐nanceNumber 6877 on Novem‐ber19, 1964, registered in COB603, Folio 861 on Decem‐ber7,1964, which said lotof ground is designated as follows:
g in thePARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATEOF LOUISIANA, in that part thereofknown as WOODMERE SUBDIVISION, SECTIONNUM‐BERTWO,inac‐cordance with the subdivisionplan of J.J. Krebs& Sons,C.E ,dated May5,1975, Or‐dinanceNo. 12053, regis‐teredinCOB 839, folio 588, which said lotis designated as follows:
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That Portionof Ground,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimprove‐mentsthereon and allthe rights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances andad‐vantages there‐unto belongingorin anywiseapper‐taining, includ‐ingbut without limitation,all immovable by nature or destination, noworhere‐after part of or attached to the property or used in connection therewith, situ‐ated theParish of Jefferson, Stateof Louisiana, in TerrytownSub‐division,being a part of Oakdale Subdivision, Section"B" FirstWard, in thepart thereofknown as Subdivision No.4-A,Square 47, bounded by Euclid Street,Emerson Street,Deerfield Road andDiplo‐matStreet,in accordance with a survey made by AdloeOrr, Jr., & Associates C. E, datedOcto‐ber15, 1959 approved by Or‐dinanceNo. 4687, Jefferson Parish Council, which said ordi‐nanceis registered in COB512 folio 599, andact of dedication reg‐isteredinCOB 512 folio 602, said plan beingfurther registered in MapBook 39, folio 68, andac‐cordingto said plan Lot34 measures as follows, to-wit: Lot34com‐mences 493.17 feet from the corner of Emer‐sonStreet and Deerfield Road andmea‐suresthence60 feet fronton EmersonStreet, thesamewidth in the rear,bya depth of 110 feet be‐tween equal andparallel lines, allas shownona survey by J.J.
JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT 24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:869-967 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES,LLC VS SONNA J. ANGELLE (A/K/A SONNA ANGELLE) AND THOMAS J. CURRAN,JR. (A/K/A THOMAS CURRAN JR.)
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐MENT
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:870-208
This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
BRIGHAMJ LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe timeofthe sale
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit L. GRAHAM ARCENEAUX Attorney for Plaintiff
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit LGRAHAM ARCENEAUX Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
LOT10in SQUARE 37, which square is boundedbyCy‐pressStreet, Camphor Street,Farring‐tonDrive and Gaudet Drive. Lot10com‐mences at adis‐tanceof118 feet from thein‐tersection of CypressStreet andGaudet Driveand mea‐suresthence 53 feet fronton CypressStreet, same widthin therear, by a depthbetween equal andparallel linesof100 feet Allinaccor‐dancewithan‐nexedsurveyby AdloeOrr, Jr andAssociates, C.E.,Dated No‐vember 21, 1966. This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber5,2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058,on Wednesday,July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the following de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall rights,ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto belongingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in thePARISH OF JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, in WAGNER PARK, in thesquare bounded by SUZANNE DRIVE, the PROPERTY OF J.H. LITTLE FARMS, the SOUTHWEST BOUNDARY LINE OF WAGNER PARK andTHOREAU STREET,desig‐natedbythe LETTER "U"ona survey made by E.L. Eustis & Sons,Civil Engi‐neersand Sur‐veyors,dated April14, 1959, acopyof which is at‐tached to Act passedbefore Margaret Gaudin,Notary Public,onMay 13, 1959, and, accordingto which,saidLot commences at a distance of 210feet from thecorner of Thoreau Street
MIDFIRST BANK VERSUS FELTON JAMES GLAPIONAND PAMELA JOSEPH GLAPION
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 12, 2026, July 17, 2026 jun12-jul17-2t
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:870-241
M& TBANK VS DONALD JULIEN
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:870-246
STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS CHARLENE I. JENKINS
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND
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LOT871, SQUARE CC, bounded by West Sunny MeadeDrive, Deerpark Drive, 105 Drainage Servi‐tude,90foot CanalServitude (side),Sunny MeadeCourt (side),and East Sunny MeadeDrive (side).Lot 871 measures 62 feet fronton West Sunny MeadeDrive same widthin therear, by a depthof100 feet between equaland parallel lines. Lot871 com‐mences at adis‐tanceof724.25 feet from the corner of West Sunny Meadeand Deerpark Drive. Allaccording to survey by Dad‐ing, Marques &Associates Inc..dated De‐cember 8, 1998. This sale is sub‐ject to allsupe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages,liens and privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber12, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the following de‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECEORPOR‐TION OF GROUND,to‐gether with all thebuildings andimporve‐mentsthereon, andall of the rights,ways, privileges, servitutdes, appurtenances andadvantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseaper‐taining, situated in the Stateof Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐son, City of Har‐vey,being more fullydescribed as follows: Par‐celA-11, Lake Timberlane Es‐tates, now knownasLOT 12, SQUARE B, LAKE TIMBER‐LANE ESATES, SECTION4,in accordance with the plan of resbdivi‐sion by J.J. Krebs& Sons, Inc.,dated De‐cember 4, 1989, approved by thejefferson Parish Council on February 14, 1990,byOrdi‐nanceNo. 17929
SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedNovem‐ber17, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT beingUnit 304B (aka B304) of MetroView Condominiums, aCondominium Jefferson Parish,State of Louisiana, to‐gether with allrightsand appurtenances thereuntoap‐pertaining,in‐cludingrightsin the"Common Elements"and LimitedCom‐monElements" as provided in the"Condo‐
SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 21, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall of therights, ways,privi‐leges, servi‐tudes, appurte‐nances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in Square "E"of Glenwood Park Subdivisionin Harahan bounded by Jef‐ferson Highway, Kendal and
24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:871-075 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS MIESHA ALEXIS HENRYWIFEOF ALEX HENRY By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedDecem‐ber12, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to thehigh‐estbidderat public auction, at theJefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: ONECERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining, situated in theParishof Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in VALLEY REALTY COMPANYSUB‐DIVISION EXTENDED,all in accordance with a planof bdi i i b
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit FOERSTNERG MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 12, 2026, July 17, 2026 jun12-jul17-2t
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:872-303 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES,LLC VS TRACYLACOLE JOHNSON
EMILYA MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson TheNew Orleans Advocate: June 12, 2026, July 17, 2026 jun12-jul17-2t
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24THJUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATEOF LOUISIANA NO:874-976
NEWREZ LLC VERSUS THUANH NGUYEN
of theservi‐tudes, rights ways,privi‐leges, prescriptions, advantages and appurtenances thereuntobe‐longingorin anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in that part thereofknown as MEADOW‐BROOKSUBDIVI‐SION,UNITNO. 2, PHASEII, (which is aresubdivi‐sion of portion of original tracts 1, 2and 3 of OakdaleSub‐division Sec. C).Accordingto theplanofsub‐division by J.J. Krebsand Sons, Inc.,dated July 16, 1970, registered in COB59, folio 32, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. Ac‐cordingto a plan by Rene A. Har‐ris, C.E.,dated April6,1971, said portion is designated as LOT26, SQUARE 21, and said square is bounded by Blythewood Drive, Banner‐wood Drive, Glenbrook Drive andWillow‐brook Drive, and lot26com‐mences at adis‐tanceof 61.95 feet from thecomer of Glenbrook Drive andBanner‐wood Drive, and measures thence 54.84 feet fronton Bannerwood Drive, andby a depthof106.86 feet on the sideline closer to Glenbrook Drive, andby a depthonits op‐posite sideline of 172.85 feet;saidlot having widths in therear(1st)10 feet (2nd)7.17 feet,(3rd) 82.50 feet, andlastly15 feet.And ac‐cordingtoa sur‐veybyGilbert, Kelly &Cou‐turie, Inc., Surveyingand Engineering, datedAugust 29, 1986 (“Prop‐erty”)
This sale is sub‐jecttoall supe‐rior security in‐terests, mort‐gages, liensand privileges.
TERMS- Thefull purchase price is dueatthe time of thesale.
NOTE:All funds must be Cashier'sCheck, Certified Check, MoneyOrder,or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit
ELIZABETH CROWELLPRICE Attorney for Plaintiff
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedJanuary 29, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN LOTOFGROUND, together with allthe buildings andimprove‐ments thereon, andall therights, ways, privileges, servitudes,ap‐purtenances and advantages thereuntobe‐longingorin anywiseapper‐taining,situated
By virtue of and in obedienceto aWritof SEIZUREAND SALE from the 24thJudicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐son, Stateof Louisiana, in the abovenum‐beredand enti‐tled cause, datedApril 24, 2026, Ihave seized andwill proceed to sell to thehighest bidder at public auction, at the JeffersonParish Sheriff'sOffice Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐pressway,Har‐vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, July 22, 2026 at 10 o'clocka.m.the followingde‐scribedprop‐erty to wit:
ONECERTAIN LOTORPARCEL OF GROUND,to‐gether with all of thebuildings and improvements thereonand all
JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson
