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‘Us and LSU’

Murrill says she’s lost trust with N.O. officials

Kiffin speaks on difficult decisions, joining historic Tigers at SEC Media Days LSU football coach Lane Kiffin finally had his moment at the podium on the final day of SEC Media Days in Tampa, Florida, and he faced more questions

Morrell: ‘Pursuing vendettas is beneath all of our offices’

Thursday related to his controversial departure from Ole Miss in November.

While not shying away from the questions, Kiffin addressed the topic in his own distinct way.

BY JOHN SIMERMAN, JAMES FINN and MATT BRUCE

“I can’t be so concerned about little things and what

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people say,” he said as he wrapped up his explanation. “You’ve got to make decisions.”

As for whether Kiffin can avoid controversy through the 2026 season, he may have taken a significant step in that direction by deleting all social media apps from his phone this summer. ä Coach uses spotlight to explain why LSU is a good fit PAGE 1C

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The north video board at Tiger Stadium welcomes new LSU head football coach Lane Kiffin in December. Kiffin spoke about the upcoming season and his decision to take the job as head coach at SEC Media Days in Tampa, Fla., on Thursday.

If New Orleans looks upon her as a felon, Attorney General Liz Murrill chalks it up to bad influences in the city.

“They literally think that I’m a criminal because everybody told them I was,” Murrill said in a lengthy interview Thursday, a day after special prosecutor Laurie Murrill White dismissed the 16-count indictment that lit a political firestorm in Louisiana.

The Republican attorney general heaped much of the blame on District Attorney Jason Williams and Mayor Helena Moreno, saying she has reason to suspect Williams held influence over the grand jury despite his recusal a month before the indictment on charges of public intimidation and malfeasance in office.

Murrill concedes the fingerprints remain blurry on the blockbuster indictment, but she argues that Williams, at minimum, led the grand jury off the rails and said she won’t soon forget it.

“They incited this and they fed it.

They promoted a false interpretation of law,” Murrill said. “And whether they directly put a grand juror up to it or not, other individual agencies will have to determine. But you can’t say they had no hand in it. Whether they directly incited the grand jury, I can’t say.”

The indictment accused Murrill of

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Internal battle erupts over EBR’s Livingston library effort to join suit against St. George board recommends Mayor-president property tax increase speaks out against Millage rate could be raised to 8.2 mills

ton Parish Council will be asked to raise the tax that funds the libraries.

The Library Board of Control, which oversees the parish’s five

BY GIGI LIMAN libraries, voted Tuesday to recomStaff writer mend that the council raise the After years of political turmoil, property tax that funds the library turnover among both directors system.

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parish attorney’s move

BY CLAIRE GRUNEWALD Staff writer

East Baton Rouge city-parish government is seeking to join in on a lawsuit that asks a judge to answer a long-debated question with a huge financial impact: What is the incorporation date for the city of St. George?

East Baton Rouge Parish Attorney John McLindon filed a peti-

tion Thursday to intervene in a lawsuit filed by a developer, LRK LLC — a move that Mayor-President Sid Edwards quickly spoke out against.

LRK sued St. George government in June over the city’s proposal to rezone a 60-acre parcel, which is part of the Kleinpeter family’s land. As part of that challenge, the company’s lawyers argue no legal date was ever set for St. George’s incorporation, which means it was never incorporated.

The city-parish effort to intervene in the case only involves the incorporation aspect, not the rezoning issue.

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“The city-parish has a direct and justiciable interest in the incorporation date of St. George, including but not limited to tax, zoning and property implications for the cityparish,” the petition states.

But Edwards released a statement Thursday evening stating he did not approve the parish attorney filing the petition.

“I strongly disagree with the decision to insert our government into this dispute,” Edwards stated. “It is important for the public to understand that the Parish Attorney is not under the authority

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Illinois to annually honor Chicago teen Emmett Till

CHICAGO — Illinois will annually honor Emmett Till, the Black teenager from Chicago whose 1955 murder galvanized the Civil Rights Movement and became a glaring example of failures in the justice system, under a law Gov. JB Pritzker signed Thursday.

“Every policy that advances justice passed, every bill signed, every monument built, is in the spirit of the legacy of accountability and progress, every inch of which was fought for, often with blood,” Pritzker said. “Today, we are building on that legacy.”

Speakers on Thursday at the Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ in Bronzeville, the location of Till’s funeral that in 2023 became a national landmark dedicated to Till and his mother, said the annual commemoration on Till’s birthday, July 25, will serve as a reminder of both the nation’s past moral failures and the possibility of working for a better future.

Till, who was in Mississippi visiting relatives, was abducted and killed in August 1955 after he reportedly whistled at a White woman shopkeeper, Carolyn Bryant. He was 14 years old.

A jury of all White men found her husband, Roy Bryant, and his half-brother J.W. Milam not guilty after just more than an hour of deliberation on Sept. 23, 1955. The pair confessed to killing Till months later in an article in Look magazine.

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Trump sets slew of new tariffs

BY PAUL WISEMAN and MAE ANDERSON AP business writers

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump is going ahead with new double-digit tariffs on dozens of U.S. trading partners just as the clock runs out Friday on stopgap levies he imposed after a stinging defeat at the Supreme Court.

The United States will slap taxes of 10% to 12.5% on imports from 60 countries accounting for 99% of U.S. imports, charging that they have inadequately enforced bans on goods produced by forced labor.

“The United States has had a forced labor import ban for nearly a century, and rigorously enforces it; it’s well past time for our trading partners to do the same,” said U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. “Today’s action will begin to correct what is both a human

rights abuse and distortive trade practice to improve the welfare of workers everywhere.

The new tariffs will take effect just as temporary 10% worldwide tariffs expire. Trump had turned to those temporary levies after the Supreme Court struck down his biggest and boldest tariffs in February.

Now he’s tapping more durable tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, which permits the president to impose import taxes and other sanctions against countries found to engage in “unjustifiable,” “unreasonable” or “discriminatory” trade practices.

Trump used Section 301 to impose big tariffs on China in his first term, and they survived court challenges.

More Section 301 tariffs are likely coming: The U.S. Trade Representative’s office has launched a probe into whether 16 countries

— accounting for 70% of U.S. imports — have overproduced goods, pushing down prices and putting U.S. companies at a disadvantage in global markets. The administration has yet to complete that investigation.

Trump, who argues that high tariffs will revive American manufacturing, last year overturned decades of U.S. policy that favored lower tariffs and ever-freer trade.

Invoking the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), he imposed double-digit tariffs on imports from almost every country on Earth, saying America’s longstanding trade deficit amounted to a national emergency.

But the Supreme Court ruled that IEEPA did not authorize tariffs. The decision forced the administration to pay refunds to importers that had paid the tariffs.

In response, Trump announced

FDA panel backs peptide drugs that RFK Jr. supports

BY MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press

Secret Service agent put on leave after leaks A Secret Service agent assigned to protect Vice President JD Vance has reportedly been put on administrative leave amid an investigation into leaks of embarrassing information about his “inappropriate” travel requests.

The unnamed agent is suspected of being the anonymous source who revealed grousing among Vance’s team over his last-minute and questionable travel like using a Marine Two chopper for house-hunting trips in rural Virginia where the second family have found an expansive property to live part time.

The Secret Service and the FBI are investigating the leak which could be considered to be an unauthorized disclosure of operational details about its protection of Vance and his family.

The most eye-catching claim in the original leaked story was that Vance planned to use the chopper for a golf lesson for his elementary school age son at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The trip was scrapped due to bad weather.

2 dead in flash floods caused by rain in W.Va. BUCKHANNON, W.Va. — Two people have died in flash floods caused by torrential rains in West Virginia this week, the governor’s office said Thursday.

An emailed statement from Lars Dalseide, communications director for Gov. Patrick Morrisey, did not provide details.

They are the first confirmed deaths from Tuesday’s floods, when forecasters said up to 7 inches of rain fell. Morrisey said some places received 4.5 inches in 37 minutes. Officials in northcentral West Virginia have described the devastation as extensive.

Video and photos on social media showed submerged vehicles in parking lots.

Alligator Alcatraz era formally ends in Florida MIAMI — Miami-Dade has resumed control of the former Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention camp, returning to the county a remote airfield previously used as a small airport for training landings and takeoffs, the county’s Aviation Department confirmed on Thursday.

The news comes roughly a year after Gov. Ron DeSantis seized the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport from MiamiDade under emergency powers he claimed for himself based upon what he deemed a statewide crisis from illegal immigration.

His administration converted the airfield into a temporary detention camp for people accused of federal immigration violations, a move the county criticized but did not fight in court.

10% worldwide tariffs under Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974.

But he can only use Section 122 levies for 150 days; time runs out on them Friday.

The administration initially proposed the forced labor tariffs last month. Since then, some countries have tightened forced labor enforcement and qualified for lower tariffs, said a senior administration official who spoke under condition of anonymity. For example, the official said, the tariff on imports from India initially was set at 12.5% but now will be 10%.

Some products — including oil and gas and fertilizer — are exempted from the new tariffs announced Thursday. Also being spared are products that qualify for duty-free status under the USMexico-Canada Agreement, the North American trade pact Trump negotiated in his first term.

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Mourners gather on Thursday around a memorial at the site where a man was shot and killed on Wednesday by Madison police in Madison, Wis.

Police shooting of man with knife roils Madison Protesters crash news conference, politicians call for transparency

BY SCOTT BAUER Associated Press

MADISON, Wis. — Protesters burst into a Thursday news conference about the police shooting of a homeless man in Madison, taking the microphone from the police chief and arguing with some attendees who said they wanted to hear more about the investigation.

The group of roughly 20 protesters burst into the room at the Madison police station, shortly after Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway and Common Council President Sabrina Madison identified the man killed by police as Corey Ruiz, a homeless resident.

Ruiz was shot and killed Wednesday after police said he resisted arrest and injured an officer with a knife.

Police Chief John Patterson stepped away from the microphone when the protesters were shouting, and one man in the group took his spot at the podium.

The event quickly devolved into a shouting match.

One protester held a sign saying “Corrupt cops deserve to die too!!!”

Moments earlier, the mayor said the shooting will be “rigorously investigated.”

“It does not matter who you are or what your past is, you should not lose your life as a result of an encounter with law enforcement,” Satya Rhodes-Conway said.

Madison, for her part, said “Corey could have been my brother because my brother is homeless and he often rides a bike.”

Once the protesters quieted down, the chief resumed his presentation, promising his department’s full cooperation with the state investigation.

Police have released few details The shooting has roiled Wisconsin’s capital city, with Gov. Tony Evers calling for “transparency and accountability” and Madison community members gathering Thursday at a growing memorial.

None of the four officers who were detaining the man wore body cameras, but passersby recorded the confrontation on video, and accused the officers of overreacting.

“I thought, ‘Holy cow — what could have warranted that?’ It looked to me like they had him under control,” David OrtizWhittingham, who saw officers swarming and heard the gunshots, said Thursday.

“Even now, knowing about the knife, did he have to die for it? Could this have been de-escalated without him losing his life?”

The police chief released few details

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Attendees gesture during a candlelight memorial where a police officer shot and killed a man Wednesday in Madison, Wis.

Thursday, saying the Wisconsin Department of Criminal Investigation into the officer-involved shooting must run its course.

Chief urges caution on conclusions Patterson has urged caution in reading too much from the cellphone videos. He said none show the perspective of the officers, and additional video that hasn’t been released is being reviewed.

The officer who fired his weapon is a veteran of the force, the chief said. He and the three other responding officers will be placed on administrative leave pending an independent investigation.

Patterson said police were responding to calls that someone was attempting to enter parked vehicles, and the suspect fled on a bike before the officers surrounded him. One deployed a taser but failed to control the man, Patterson said.

In the videos circulating online, the man can be seen standing before he’s brought to his knees as the officers struggle to force him into a prone position.

Then he falls quickly to the pavement after what sounds like three gunshots, and seems motionless as the officers handcuff him behind his back. Arriving officers then escort one of the officers a short distance away.

Questions about race, technology The race of the officer who fired his gun on Wednesday and that of the man he killed were not released by police.

But Black advocacy groups, protesters and politicians spoke out against the crime and said they believe the man was Black.

The shooting also focused attention on the Madison Police Department’s lack of body-worn cameras. The force of around 500 is among the largest in the Midwest that doesn’t use the devices.

Madison said Thursday that she expects a police request for $400,000 to be approved, enabling the cameras to be phased in over the next three years. Others lamented that cameras aren’t already being used.

WASHINGTON — A panel of federal health advisers on Thursday narrowly recommended easing access to several peptides popular with wellness influencers and celebrities, despite warnings from government scientists that the chemicals haven’t been shown safe or effective.

In a series of votes, outside experts to the Food and Drug Administration advised the agency to drop current restrictions barring pharmacies from producing injectable peptides with names like BPC-157, TB-500 and KPV. The panel’s vote is not binding but is likely to embolden Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has described himself as a “big fan” of peptides and vowed to overturn FDA restrictions put in place under President Joe Biden.

Across several votes, the panelists voted 8-6, with one abstention, in favor of putting the peptides on FDA’s list of substances considered safe for pharmacy

compounding. If FDA follows that advice, telehealth companies are expected to ramp up marketing of the chemicals for wellness and cosmetic uses.

Before the meeting, more than a half-dozen people with connections to the peptide industry were added to the panel, including doctors, pharmacists or consultants who work in the field.

“I voted yes because it’s time to put this decision back in the hands of the patient, the physician and the pharmacist,” said David Pope, chief pharmacy officer of Xifin Pharmacy Solutions, after the vote on BPC-157.

The panel will vote Friday on three more peptides.

The positive votes came despite highly critical reviews from FDA staff scientists, who said there was little data that BPC157, TB-500 and the other chemicals can be safely used for medical purposes.

Panel members with backgrounds in academia, rather than peptides, mostly voted against the substances, which are widely advertised on social media.

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Entergy joins pledge on electricity costs lll

Measure seeks to shield ratepayers from data center needs

BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON — Entergy was among more than 220 utilities, tech companies and state political officials that signed onto a pledge not to pass along to regular customers the increased costs for producing more electricity to fuel artificialintelligence data centers, President Donald Trump announced Thursday.

Gov. Jeff Landry, Entergy CEO Drew Marsh and Richland Parish schools Superintendent Sheldon Jones all attended the ceremony in Washington, D.C., where Trump made the announcement.

“These companies are spending tremendous amounts of money in these communities,” Trump said at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency event.

The new commitments mean that signatories to Trump’s “Ratepayer Protection Pledge” account for about 80% of all power deliv-

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President Donald Trump, left, speaks at the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday in Washington, as Gov. Jeff Landry applauds. ered to U.S. homes and businesses, he added.

Landry and the other signatories didn’t participate in the public portion of the event — though Trump did name-check the governor, saying he was “smart” and “popular.”

Landry was overheard afterward asking if Trump would attend a football game with him. Trump responded he will as the president

left the event.

Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, is building a massive data center in Richland Parish.

Landry and other Louisiana officials have heralded the plant as a transformative economic development win. But they have also faced concerns that the power-hungry centers will jack up utility bills: A consultant for the Public Service

Commission, which regulates utilities in Louisiana, recently said the data center was driving the need for Entergy to purchase a new power plant for $1.8 billion, costing ratepayers an average of $8 a month.

Entergy and Meta have said the consultant is incorrect and that the tech company is paying for all its own power needs.

Landry last month signed an executive order stating that data center projects must have their benefits to residents “evaluated and balanced” against their use of electric generation, water and land.

Trump said “smart” people support building data centers in their communities as AI is an emerging industry and the facilities being constructed will create a lot of jobs.

The data center boom is to service the expanding use of remote servers and the internet cloud to help increase visuals, develop applications and other internet functions.

Trump came up with the pledge earlier this year as businesses and homeowners around the country saw their utility bills escalate, and the burgeoning AI industry sought to more open database centers that

require lots more power than is usually available.

Monthly residential electricity bills have increased 8.8% on average nationwide since 2025, according to Electric Choice, a Tyler, Texas, service that compares federal data to calculate electricity rates.

“They’re just very large. They go on for miles. They also throw off a lot of money,” Trump said of the data centers.

Opposition was pushing some of the companies to start looking overseas for locations, with China being a main beneficiary, Trump said.

The costs of expanding electricity generation and transmission in most jurisdictions, including Louisiana, is paid for by a utility company’s customers.

Entergy Corp., whose subsidiaries sell power to most of Louisiana, was one of the utility companies signing the pledge. The utility agreed to protect its current customers from cost-shifting in Meta’s Richland Parish project. Customers can expect to save $2.65 billion over 20 years, according to the company.

Email Mark Ballard at mballard@theadvocate.com.

Saudis must normalize relations with Israel for nuclear deal, Trump says

BY AAMER MADHANI, COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHELLE L. PRICE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday appeared to add a condition to the newly signed agreement with Saudi Arabia for a civilian nuclear program, saying the deal would require the kingdom to normalize its relations with Israel through the Abraham Accords.

When the deal was announced Wednesday, neither the U.S. Energy Department nor the Saudi government made any mention of it being contingent on the kingdom’s relations with Israel.

Trump’s social media post a day later asserting that the agreement was subject to the Saudis joining the accords was unexpected and almost certain to complicate any final approval. The accords ap-

proved in 2020 expanded the number of Arab and Muslim-majority nations with diplomatic ties with Israel.

Getting Saudi Arabia to join would be a monumental diplomatic achievement. The Saudis have previously made clear that normalizing relations with Israel would first require the establishment of a clear path for Palestinian statehood. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has rejected the idea of Palestinian statehood as being untenable for his country’s security.

The Republican president also said the pact does not allow for enrichment of uranium. Nonproliferation experts have raised concerns that the deal fails to include guardrails to prevent enrichment of uranium to weapons-grade levels.

Trump said the agreement “will

be approved, but is totally subject to Saudi Arabia joining the very respected and successful Abraham Accords.” He added that the U.S. “is not opposed to Civil (NonEnriched) Nuclear Facilities.”

When asked by a reporter why the condition was not mentioned in the initial announcement, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the president was the “final dealmaker” and has called on Saudi Arabia to join the accords “on numerous occasions.”

The Saudi Embassy in Washington declined to comment Thursday on Trump’s assertions about the deal.

Netanyahu’s office in a statement applauded the prospect of Saudi Arabia joining the accords as a “historic leap forward for peace in the Middle East.” The statement made no mention of the deal to bolster Saudi’s civil nuclear program.

Trump has sought to build on the accords, which also formalized commercial ties between Israel and some Arab and Muslim-majority nations. Saudi Arabia is the most important Arab power in the Middle East, and Trump believes the kingdom joining the accords is critical to establishing long-term stability in the region.

The new nuclear deal is expected to last 30 years and involve U.S. firms in the program’s development. The agreement could allow for the building of a uranium-enrichment facility in Saudi Arabia following a joint U.S.-Saudi study, according to a person familiar with the matter who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The deal does not include the International Atomic Energy Agency’s “additional protocol,” which would allow for more monitoring,

inspections and verification, according to a second person familiar with the agreement.

Enrichment is not an automatic path to a nuclear weapon — a nation also must master other steps, including the use of synchronized high explosives, for instance. But it does open the door to weaponization, which has fueled concerns over Iran’s program.

As details of the deal emerged Wednesday, opposition on Capitol Hill and elsewhere began to snowball, with Republicans and Democrats both questioning the wisdom of the agreement. Conservative commentators who have generally supported Trump’s polices asked why the president would give Saudi Arabia such a deal without getting anything in return. Then on Thursday, Trump abruptly announced that the deal is contingent on the Saudis joining the accords.

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The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of St. George becoming a city in 2024, but the contentious question of when the city officially incorporated has been left unanswered.

St. George leaders, including Mayor Dustin Yates, have consis-

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tently argued that the city incorporated in 2019 after voters approved the new city. However, Edwards and his predecessor Sharon Weston Broome both have insisted the incorporation date was in 2024, after the court ruling.

If a court ruled 2019 as the incorporation date, St. George could sue for tax collections going back to that year, which could result in the city-parish potentially having to pay the new city an estimated $200 million, according to annual

sales tax revenue estimates.

Other potential repercussions to setting an incorporation date include St. George being required to help pay for city-parish workers’ retirement and health benefits.

Edwards, in his statement, said both the city-parish and St. George negotiated earlier this year and reached an agreement to resolve the issues surrounding the incorporation of the new city.

“But, before that agreement could move forward, a separate

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Attorney General Liz Murrill holds up a legal pad full of notes while speaking about the felony charges she faced from an Orleans Parish grand jury during a news conference in Baton Rouge on Wednesday.

Continued from page 1A crimes when she wrote to warn Williams, Moreno and five City Council members that they could lose their jobs for backing an election for a citywide court clerk.

New Orleans City Council President JP Morrell, one of the council members on the receiving end of Murrill’s letters, said Thursday that New Orleans city officials are focused on the city instead of the mudslinging. Gov. Jeff Landry on Wednesday questioned whether Morrell should lose his law license over backing the election that Murrill warned about.

“The people of the state have real problems and pursuing vendettas is beneath all of our offices,” Morrell said.

Murrill, meanwhile, said Thursday she suspects a role for Williams even after his office recused.

“I have information indicating that Laurie White made a phone call to administrative staff at the Louisiana Supreme Court” requesting support after the indictment dropped and that she “stated she had been getting assistance from the DA’s Office.”

White denied making that comment to anybody at the Supreme Court.

“This case was prosecuted by me, myself and I,” she said.

Murrill pressed the case for state and federal investigations to find out, “which I think they should do jointly,” she said. “Everybody needs to have a full investigation to determine whether there was illegal conduct.”

Murrill said she’s heard a federal probe has gotten underway but said she hadn’t heard directly from investigators. A Louisiana State Police spokesperson declined to comment.

Since Murrill and Landry’s attacks erupted on Wednesday, Williams has not respond to requests for comment so far.

Murrill continued an attack she launched Wednesday at a news conference with Landry shortly after White dismissed the indictment.

In tossing the case, White cited letters this week from the elected officials who Murrill wrote to in May. They urged White to reconsider the July 2 indictment that cast them as victims.

Williams’ letter cited a threat to a partnership with Murrill’s office that he described as “a hallmark of my administration.”

White also cited “extraordi-

STAFF PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS nary interference” in a case that Louisiana Supreme Court quickly froze while casting doubt on the validity of the charges against Murrill.

Charges on the table White’s dismissal of the case came as an ad hoc judge, Robert Chaisson, was due to rule on subpoenas issued by Murrill’s attorneys for records from Williams and White that might reveal the origins of the grand jury inquiry.

Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue, one of Murrill’s attorneys, said Thursday that she expects a federal investigation to pick up where those subpoenas left off in seeking those records and others. Murrill said she may sue down the road for malicious prosecution.

“Right now, I’m happy to sit and let federal and state investigators (review) this matter to determine whether there was jury tampering,” Murrill said. “That, to me, is the larger concern.”

Veteran former federal prosecutors who are not involved in the case said a federal review of the grand jury process could potentially hinge on questions of whether Murrill’s civil rights were violated.

Federal law makes it a crime to “deprive a person of a right or privilege” that’s protected by federal law or the U.S. Constitution.

“The most plausible federal theory of investigation would be the criminal civil rights statute,” said Andre Lagarde, a lawyer for the Social Media Victims Law Center and a former federal public corruption prosecutor in New Orleans.

Investigators could be using the civil rights statute as a “guide” for grounds to prosecute a criminal case, said former federal prosecutor Matt Coman, who led the trial of former Mayor Ray Nagin.

In the past, federal prosecutors have wielded the civil rights statute against state and local law enforce-

ment officers accused of serious misconduct.

The statute played a significant role after Hurricane Katrina, when the Justice Department charged five New Orleans police officers in the fatal shooting of two innocent civilians on the Danziger Bridge and a subsequent cover-up.

The former officers each were convicted and handed sentences ranging from three to 12 years.

The Justice Department’s Washington, D.C.-based Civil Rights Division has undergone dramatic changes since President Donald Trump took office, as Trump’s pick to head the section, Harmeet Dhillon, has fired veteran employees and reshaped the kinds of cases the office pursues. Washington-based officials within that division have historically been key decision-makers on whether to file civil rights charges in jurisdictions around the country.

Calls for a federal investigation into Murrill’s indictment began the day after grand jurors handed it up, when U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, R-Lafayette, wrote to FBI Director Kash Patel asking for a probe of “significant questions regarding the proper application of the law” in the process.

An FBI spokesperson this week confirmed the bureau’s New Orleans Field Office received the letter but declined to confirm or deny a probe, citing agency policy. Assistant FBI Director Catherine Treadwell wrote to Higgins’ office on Thursday that the congressman’s concerns had been “routed to the appropriate personnel” and declining further comment, according to a copy of the letter.

Neither the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Orleans nor Justice Department headquarters in Washington, D.C., responded to multiple inquiries about a federal probe.

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legal action derailed the process and brought those negotiations to an end,” Edwards continued.

“Now, rather than learning from that failure, the Parish Attorney’s office has once again chosen to put the city-parish in the middle of another legal dispute.”

A spokesperson for the city of St. George said Thursday that the city’s position remains the same as when LRK first sued.

“The Louisiana Supreme Court ruled in favor of incorporation, and

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ceives a tip it considers credible, agents perform a “preliminary assessment” to weigh grounds to open a formal investigation, then seek agreement from prosecutors. After that, “things like grand jury subpoenas and search warrants become available tools,” Lagarde said.

An investigation regarding a public figure like Murrill would typically be assigned to an outside federal prosecutor, possibly one based in Washington, D.C., Coman said.

Doomed partnership Murrill insisted Thursday that Williams, despite being a purported victim, had a responsibility to tell the grand jury that she was shielded by the First Amendment and the public intimidation law didn’t apply to her letters.

But in a TV interview shortly after Murrill’s letters, Williams called her actions “an abuse of power.”

nothing about this lawsuit changes that. City services continue, city business continues and we remain focused on serving the people of St. George,” Yates said in June.

State District Judge Beau Higginbotham, who is presiding over the case, had not signed off on the city-parish’s petition to intervene as of Thursday evening.

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Murrill said that only stoked the public flames.

“The DA is the first line of defense against roving grand juries walking around perceiving crimes to be committed in the community,” Murrill said. “Especially in this environment we’re in now that everyone whose feelings are hurt thinks a crime has been committed against them.”

According to Williams, his office recused after the grand jury said it wanted to pursue charges against Murrill, who argued Thursday that Judge Leon Roche and White also had a responsibility to rein in the grand jury.

Murrill said she last spoke with Williams around Mardi Gras and described a broken trust.

“We’ve had a very cordial, professional and good personal relationship. I like Jason. That’s why this is so disappointing to me,” she said.

“It wasn’t just a political act or a legal misunderstanding. It was an attack that affected me very deeply and personally,” she added. “If they come to your house and try to burn your house down, and your family is in it, they’re in the house — that’s the threat of putting me in jail. I have four children. I have a grandchild on the way.”

Murrill, Williams and Landry were all smiles in November 2023, when they stood together inside Caesars Superdome to announce a partnership to empower the Attorney General’s Office to prosecute Louisiana State Police cases in New Orleans.

Murrill and Williams finalized the historic agreement two months later as Landry was launching Troop NOLA, the dedicated State Police unit that has fueled hundreds of cases under the agreement.

Williams heralded the partnership with the Attorney General’s Office as a “hallmark of my administration” in his letter lobbying White to reconsider the indictment against Murrill.

He credited it for helping yield the most dramatic crime reductions in modern New Orleans history.

Metropolitan Crime Commission President Rafael Goyeneche described high stakes over the agreement, which he expects to survive.

Williams “could unilaterally end the attorney general’s ability to prosecute cases in Orleans Parish. But if he does, it’ll probably result in the State Police pulling out, because their presence is predicated on the fact that the cases that they make are going to be prosecuted by the AG’s Office,” Goyeneche said.

“It’s going to remain intact because they see how important it is for public safety in the city.”

Murrill said the agreement doesn’t require much interaction between the two offices and that she has “no intention of withdrawing” her prosecutors from Orleans Parish, though her office is pushing to have Roche recused from more than 50 cases. She said she has no plans to seek recusals from other judges.

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but was otherwise operating normally, said employee Jesi Hahn.

“We’ll definitely be open,” Hahn said. “We usually close for big hurricanes.”

At the nearby Harbor House Hotel and Marina, employee Justin Timber said he wasn’t aware of any canceled reservations.

“It seems like a normal day,” he said. “Restaurants are clicking. Everything’s great.”

BY RUSS BYNUM

Associated Press

Tropical Storm Bertha made a second landfall Thursday near the TexasLouisiana state line after grazing southern Louisiana in a slow crawl that triggered heavy surf and some flooding along the Gulf Coast. Forecasters said more flooding was possible as heavy rains moved onshore into southeast Texas.

Bertha moved inland about 75 miles northeast of Galveston, Texas, on Thursday afternoon, the National Hurricane Center said. Three hours later it remained a tropical storm, though its maximum sustained winds had dropped to 40 mph. More weakening was expected overnight.

Thick clouds associated with Bertha prompted SpaceX to call off Thursday evening’s planned Starship launch from the southern tip of Texas. The spaceskimming test flight was rescheduled for Friday, when the forecast called for clear skies.

No deaths or significant damage have been reported since Bertha formed Monday in the Gulf of Mexico south of the Florida Panhandle. The storm caused

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Continued from page 1A from the 7.53 mills over the past two years to 8.2 mills.

Under the higher rate, the average homeowner would pay about $143.50 a year in library taxes, about $12 more than under the current rate.

A millage rate is a local property tax, charged as a rate on the assessed value of homes, that helps fund local agencies, including the library and the Fire Department. Voters narrowly approved an up to 10-mill library rate in 2023, but a stateordered reassessment adjusted the rate to 7.53 in 2024, where it has stayed since.

The question Tuesday was whether to raise the rate — taxing homeowners more but giving the library more money — or to hold or lower it, easing the burden on taxpayers while leaving the library with less.

For the past few years, Livingston Parish library board meetings have been riddled with disputes over library leadership, funding and book content for minors.

Most recently, the board has been searching for its third director within the past year, following its last director resigning after less than two months on the job.

The board recently agreed to raise the starting salary for its next director and hopes to have someone in the position by early fall.

Storm topples sign

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Grettel Badillo catches the wind from Tropical Storm Bertha at the Hurricane Katrina Memorial in Shell Beach on Wednesday. some coastal flooding as its center first struck land Wednesday in Louisiana southwest of New Orleans, but its heaviest rains stayed over the Gulf waters.

That rainfall south of the storm’s center began moving inland along Texas’ southeastern coast Thursday afternoon. A tropical storm warning remained in effect from Sargent, Texas, to the Vermilion and Cameron Parish line in Louisiana.

The hurricane center said Bertha could cause up to 2 feet of storm surge along the coast and trigger isolated flash flooding from heavy rains in coastal and

Seaport canceled its sightsouth Texas.

Tropical storm force seeing boat tours Thursday winds on Thursday ex- afternoon as a precaution, tended as far as 140 miles from the storm’s center, the hurricane center said.

Still, forecasters expected the storm to weaken as it moved over inland Texas and dissipate by Friday.

“The library stands upon the edge of a knife,” Assistant Director of Branch Services Dustin Cotton told the board, warning that holding or cutting the millage would erode services. “You stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of the parish.”

A rate of 7.53 or less would leave the library with fewer funds to maintain the building, services and salaries, although there were some proponents of cutting funding.

“This system is not a community service apparatus,” resident and former board member Larry Davis said during the public comment period, criticizing some of the extra programs and services the library offers. Davis is running to represent Louisiana’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.

“If we all type into Google what the purpose of a library is, it is a collection of books and resources,” he said.

Board member Rebecca Howze Morgan called that view outdated. Libraries have evolved into the third most important hub in a community behind the home and the workplace, she said.

She got emotional describing what libraries offer children.

“It is no longer just a booklending institution,” she said.

Central to the vote were the wages of the library employees. The millage discussion followed a labor report presentation showing how far Livingston’s pay lags behind neighboring parishes.

Its library assistants have a starting wage of between $9.95 and $11.31 an hour, and the system’s associates make between $14.97 and $16.30 — less than the wages in Ascension, East Baton Rouge, Iberville and St. Tammany parishes. Meeting the average pay across the parishes would cost about $352,470 over five years.

The board will vote on the raises in the fall, but the pay hikes would not be possible without the higher millage.

“I have a really hard time doing anything that would not allow our library staff to have a livable wage,” board member Kristan Whann said. “As a teacher, I consciously understand that our library staff getting paid $11 an hour is not OK.” Whann voted for the 8.2mill rate after her own proposal for a more modest increase was rejected.

Among the three members who voted against the final rate was board president Jonathan Davis, who had floated a separate resolution to hand the decision to the Parish Council instead.

There were “too many opinions for us to declare as a volunteer board,” he said.

The idea drew comments from the audience that the board was not doing its job.

District Attorney Scott M. Perrilloux told members the move might not be illegal but would be neglecting their responsibilities. Davis withdrew the proposal and later said he was glad people voiced their opinions.

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Electrical outages across the Gulf Coast were minimal, according to the website poweroutage.us.

In Pensacola, Florida, officials closed an area around a storm-damaged beach boardwalk, Mayor D.C. Reeves said Thursday on Facebook. He posted a photo showing part of the boardwalk’s support structure ripped away and a fence

damaged nearby.

Strong gales earlier in the week knocked over a Waffle House sign onto a car in Panama City Beach, Florida.

Heavy surf and the threat of rip tides had prompted warnings at Gulf Coast beaches for swimmers to stay out of the water.

Bertha is the second tropical storm of the Atlantic hurricane season. Tropical Storm Arthur in June brought heavy rainfall to the southeastern U.S. In the eastern Pacific Ocean, Hurricane Fausto churned far from land Thursday. The hurricane was more than 1,000 miles west-southwest of the southern tip of Baja California with maximum sustained winds of 80 mph.

The hurricane center said swells generated by Fausto could cause life-threatening surf and riptides in parts of southern California.

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BY ELENA BECATOROS, FATMA KHALED and COLLIN BINKLEY

states are increasingly pessimistic about finding an off-ramp. The diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the situation, said regional countries like Pakistan and Turkey continue to push for de-escalation.

Associated Press

CAIRO — The U.S. military announced Thursday that it is conducting the 13th night of strikes against Iran as clashes escalate over shipping routes. Earlier Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said they attacked two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea, potentially widening the Iran war as international oil topped $100 a barrel.

U.S. Central Command said the latest attacks CO ONFLICT are designed to “further degrade IN THE T ability to MIIDDLE Iran’s threaten civilEAST AST ian mariners and commercial vessels transiting regional waters” as the Americans push to regain control over the Strait of Hormuz and restore the flow of international shipping.

A short time later, Iranian state media reported explosions along the strait in Bandar Abbas and Qeshm, as well as to the northwest near Andimeshk and Omidiyeh.

Meanwhile, the Houthis threatened to shut down another key trade route, with the world economy already reeling from Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

The threat came as Iran and the

‘Double whammy’ on oil

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Iraq’s Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, center, reviews an honor guard as he is welcomed by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, left, during his official welcoming ceremony in Tehran on Thursday.

U.S. have stepped up attacks as they vie for control of the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s oil and gas transited in peacetime, setting off a scramble for alternative routes.

President Donald Trump threatened “major military punishment” against the Houthis if their attacks on ships continue.

“If they do this again, the U.S. will hold Iran responsible, in that the Houthis are a Surrogate and/or Proxy of Iran, and major military

punishment will be inflicted upon Iran and, of course, the Houthis, themselves,” Trump wrote on social media.

Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi of Iraq, which has close ties to both the U.S. and Iran, was in Tehran on Thursday to call for peace and dialogue, and he promised not to allow Iraqi territory to be used for attacks on Iran, his office said. AlZaidi met with Trump earlier this month in Washington.

An Arab diplomat said Gulf

The Houthis’ SABA news agency said the rebels had struck two tankers, the Encelia and the Layla, in the Red Sea, leading to fires on both. There were no reports of casualties.

Bab el-Mandeb, at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula, is a vital shipping chokepoint connecting the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. Around 12% of the world’s trade, including a fourth of global container traffic, passes through there, moving between Europe and Asia via Egypt’s Suez Canal.

The Houthi attacks put at risk oil shipments from Saudi Arabia’s Yanbu port on the Red Sea and present a “double whammy” on top of the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, said maritime data and analysis firm Lloyd’s List Intelligence.

Saudi Arabia has diverted millions of barrels a day of oil exports to Yanbu via an overland pipeline as the war has bottled up the Persian Gulf.

The Houthi threat “raises ques-

tions on the viability of this route,” Lloyd’s said in slides accompanying an online webinar Thursday.

Both sides dig in over strait Iran says it has the right to manage traffic and potentially charge fees in the Strait of Hormuz, which was open to all and toll-free before the war. It has attacked ships using a route through the strait that is overseen by U.S. forces and intended to be outside Tehran’s control.

In response to Iran’s attacks, the U.S. began the widening campaign of strikes across Iran and restored a naval blockade of Iran’s ports.

U.S. Central Command said it has redirected 12 commercial vessels and disabled one since the blockade resumed nine days ago.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Tehran would adopt an “eye for an eye” policy on U.S. strikes against its infrastructure.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio retorted that Trump’s policy is “a head for an eye.”

“The price will continue to get higher every single night until they come to their senses,” Rubio told reporters while traveling in the Philippines for a regional summit.

Iran’s health ministry said Thursday that 55 people have been killed and 629 have been wounded since renewed U.S. airstrikes began on June 27.

House again passes resolution to halt military action in Iran

his support on Capitol Hill is and encouraged lawmakers to vote this war then Congress must,” said he needed to give more details to Cassidy votes against that Senate Minority Leader Chuck the public about the conflict. chipping away. against them.

“This was supposed to last four The war has had “no clear misAs the House debated the reso- Schumer, D-N.Y. resolution in Senate sion, Republicans on both sides of the weeks. It’s lasted four months,” no strategy, no end goal,” said lution Wednesday evening, For-

BY MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated.

The 214-208 vote requiring congressional approval for the war came just before the Senate narrowly rejected a similar resolution, 47-49. Though the votes forced by Democrats are largely symbolic, they are meant as a signal to the Republican president

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., who led the resolution on the House floor.

The House resolution passed after a handful of Republicans voted with Democrats to end the war. But the vast majority of Republicans in both chambers voted to back the war and cede congressional war powers to Trump.

Trump has insisted that continued U.S. attacks against Iran do not mean a return to war or longterm action.

A statement of administration policy issued by the White House on Thursday noted that the resolutions don’t have the force of law

eign Affairs Committee Chairman Brian Mast, R-Fla., read out names of 18 service members killed since the war began.

“To belittle this mission is to belittle and demean the very service these members gave their life for,” Mast said. “Their sacrifice was not meaningless. This operation is bringing reckoning for the hundreds of times Iran has attacked and killed people of the United States of America.”

Democrats said they would continue to force Republicans to vote on the issue. “If Donald Trump won’t listen to the people and end

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When the Senate passed a war powers resolution on Iran for the first time in June, Trump called the four Republicans who voted for it “losers” and then reprimanded them at a Senate GOP luncheon that he attended the next day.

Sen. Bill Cassidy, one of the Republicans who had voted with Democrats, said afterward that he had clashed with Trump over the issue.

He said he told Trump directly that

said Cassidy, who had just lost reelection in a primary after Trump endorsed one of his opponents.

“Our original objectives have not been achieved.”

Trump argued back, Cassidy later told reporters, and he told the president that he wouldn’t change his vote until he got a briefing. The White House later relented, giving Cassidy a one-on-one meeting, and the Baton Rouge Republican changed his vote in a late-night doover vote before the Senate left for a two-week recess.

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Government withdraws subpoenas of 3 reporters

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK, ERIC TUCKER and LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press

NEW YORK — Criticized by a federal judge for sloppy legal work, the government on Thursday grudgingly withdrew subpoenas that would have compelled three New York Times reporters to testify about their sources for articles about President Donald Trump’s Qatari-gifted Air Force One jet.

The withdrawals in U.S. District Court followed a remarkable back-and-forth between a visibly irritated Judge Arun Subramanian and government lawyers.

They come at a time when the Trump administration is vigorously going after news organizations whose reporting and coverage it doesn’t like — and also trying to crack down on leaks inside the government.

The government’s retreat in the face of vigorous legal opposition and a stern reprimand from a judge marked the latest instance of the Justice Department pulling back on its aggressive efforts to compel journalists to identify their sources before a grand jury. The administration recently withdrew similar subpoenas that sought to compel testimony in Virginia from journalists for the Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal re-

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The new Air Force One, seen parked at Joint Base Andrews, Md., on Wednesday, recently entered service. lated to separate national security coverage.

Subramanian said he otherwise would have granted the newspaper’s request to reject the subpoenas because laws and regulations pertaining to subpoenas served on journalists maintain that they should be issued as a last resort in an investigation.

“Subpoenas are the last step, not the first step, but the last step,” the judge said, citing rules set to protect against violations of the First Amendment. He said the government’s actions had turned the law and the regulations “on its head.”

“When you see something like this, if this were a civil proceeding, what I would normally do is ask the parties to show causes why sanctions should not be is-

sued,” the judge said, referencing punishment for lawyers for egregious actions.

After the hearing, the Justice Department lashed out at the judge in a statement, saying he “threatened our attorneys with sanctions unless subpoenas were withdrawn, and blocked us from presenting the meticulous process of this investigation.”

Subramanian noted that with protections for journalists at stake, the government was required to ensure it could not obtain what it needed from any other sources before issuing subpoenas to journalists.

A Justice Department lawyer, Sean Buckley, cast the government’s missteps as inadvertent errors and said “no one was trying to pull a fast one.” Buckley apologized for other subpoenas that sought

Evidence in Nolan Wells’ death remains sealed for now, DA says Grand jury to review case

BY MARTHA SANCHEZ Staff writer

The district attorney overseeing an investigation into the death of Nolan Wells, a teenager whose body was found near a Mississippi Coast barrier island earlier this month, said Thursday she has instructed local authorities to avoid making public statements about the case.

The 18-year-old’s death has shaken and divided many in his hometown of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, and beyond as news of the case spread across the country.

Wells’ cause of death is still uncertain, and the search for answers is unleashing intense scrutiny on authorities investigating the case in Jackson County.

District Attorney Angel Myers McIlrath issued a recorded statement saying that keeping information confidential during the investigation will protect the integrity of the process and “is not an effort to keep the truth from the public.”

“I understand the public’s urgency to know what happened to Nolan,” McIlrath said. “But we are not taking time for time’s sake. We are taking the time required to complete the work this investigation demands.”

The move likely means the results of the Mississippi state medical examiner’s autopsy report, among other evidence, will not be released until a grand jury reviews the case. The Biloxi Sun Herald reported Thursday that the state autopsy will remain sealed until after the grand jury’s review. The timeline of that process is unclear.

Authorities have said Wells, who attended and played football at Southwest Mississippi Community College, disappeared during crowded Fourth of July celebrations on Horn Island, about 10 miles off the Mississippi coast. A search crew found Wells’ body in the water two days later.

Jackson County Sheriff John Ledbetter said earlier this month that his office’s preliminary investigation uncovered no signs of foul play but that authorities were still collecting evidence and interviewing witnesses.

Ben Crump, a national civil rights attorney who is representing Wells’ family, is independently investigating the teenager’s death.

The tragedy began drawing national attention as a photo circulated online that shows Wells, who was Black, sitting on a boat with several friends, who are White.

Crump and other national figures have raised questions about whether race played a factor in Wells’ death.

On Wednesday, Crump

said an independent autopsy had been largely inconclusive. He said the autopsy had identified a 12-by-8-inch area of discoloration on the back of Wells’ head but found no fractures or deep tissue injuries.

“We stand for truth, no matter who it implicates or who it exonerates,” Crump said Wednesday. “We stand for justice, no matter who it convicts or it acquits. We stand for transparency.”

McIlrath and Ledbetter have pledged a thorough investigation. McIlrath said Thursday that prosecutors present evidence surrounding every death in the county — except for those of natural causes and noncriminal car wrecks — to a grand jury. The grand jury then decides whether the evidence supports criminal charges.

McIlrath also said local, state and federal agencies investigating the case must avoid making public statements that could influence witnesses, prejudice the proceeding or compromise the fairness of the judicial process.

“Nolan’s family deserves answers, and our community deserves answers,” McIlrath said. “These rules exist to protect the search for the truth, not to prevent it,” she added. “We all want the same thing: To understand what happened to Nolan.”

Staff writer Poet Wolfe contributed to this story.

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“That was an error, judge, which we own,” Buckley said. “It was a consequence of trying to move quickly.”

“These things are starting to pile up,” Subramanian said, becoming increasingly testy.

The hearing was held publicly despite efforts by the Trump administration to keep secret the litigation spawned by subpoenas it served on the Times’ journalists to try to get them to divulge their sources.

The newspaper’s lawyers had challenged the validity of the grand jury subpoenas, along with subpoenas issued for phone records of several Times journalists and some of their relatives. Senior Times officials, including the paper’s managing editor and general counsel, sat in

the gallery watching during Thursday’s proceedings.

The new jet in question, a present from Qatar that Trump’s administration spent $400 million to retrofit and upgrade, recently entered service. But Trump used an older model Air Force One jet to leave a NATO summit in Turkey earlier this month.

The Times, citing anonymous sources, reported that the switch had come at the urging of the Secret Service and that the newer plane lacked some of the advanced security features of the older Air Force One aircraft, including antimissile capabilities. On social media, Trump rejected claims of security concerns.

The Times wrote in a letter to the judge several days ago that two subpoenas seek records beginning on Jan. 1, long before the newspaper published articles on July 8

and July 9 that became the basis for the grand jury subpoenas.

It said that lengthy stretch of records sought would indicate that the purpose of the subpoenas might have been “to forage for information about the Journalists’ source relationships more broadly.”

At Thursday’s hearing, a final rebuke from the judge to the government came when he asked its lawyers to assure him that it won’t repeat a scenario that left one journalist being served a subpoena by an FBI agent while he was home watching the family-friendly movie “The Sheep Detectives,” about sheep on a quest to solve the murder of the shepherd who took care of them.

Said the judge, to loud courtroom laughter: “I can’t think of anything more inconsistent with ‘Sheep Detectives’ than an FBI showing agent up at your door.”

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La. lawmakers question no-bid contract

$54M Motorola deal would buy bodycams, other police tech

BY ALYSE PFEIL

He said lawmakers should “hit the brakes” on the contract approval and instead hold a special hearing Louisiana officials want to award to review the details and give the Motorola a $54 million, no-bid con- public and other vendors a chance tract for police technology including to weigh in.

That would bring more credibility body cameras, dashcams and radios, but some lawmakers are raising to the deal and avoid the perception concerns about a lack of public scru- that state leaders are trying to “slide something in for Motorola,” Boutiny on the deal.

“It shines a bad light that we’re dreaux said. rushing through something that is During a budget committee so important,” said state Sen. Gerald meeting Thursday, officials from Boudreaux, D-Lafayette.

Louisiana State Police and the

Staff writer

Office of Technology Services, the statewide IT agency, told legislators that Motorola is offering big savings for the technology and that having one company provide Boudreaux all of the equipment will improve its functionality and public safety.

“What it’s going to allow us to do is get much deeper discounts for state agencies, local sheriffs’ departments and local police departments for the same equipment that we all use, and it’s gonna lock us in at those discounts for 10 years,” said Evelina Broussard, chief information officer

for the state.

The Office of Technology Services is asking for permission from legislators to enter into a 10-year “sole source” contract with Motorola for portable radios, body cameras, dashcams, software that manages video streams and other data, and the statewide radio system used by various law enforcement agencies, according to a document provided to lawmakers summarizing the request.

The two-page document says Motorola is the only company that can offer all of the policing equipment together as one unified system, and Motorola’s “guaranteed discounts would result in approximately $40 million in savings.”

ON THE GROW

Several state agencies would be covered by the contract, including State Police, the Office of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, the Governor’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and others, the summary says.

Broussard said the total value of the contract over 10 years is $54 million.

Her office is working toward finalizing the proposed contract, which should be ready for review by lawmakers next month, Broussard said.

Lt. Col. Robert Burns, chief

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Judge’s son wants rape convictions set aside

2001 motion was never ruled on, he argues

BY QUINN COFFMAN Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS

Richard Elliot Knox helps carry plants bought from Mizell Farms to a customer’s car at the Red Stick Farmers Market downtown on Saturday. The market features farm-fresh produce and goods, including wine, seafood, plants, flowers, prepared and baked items and more.

WBR Parish jail warden resigns Cites ‘personal circumstances’ in his notice

BY OLIVIA TEES Staff writer

The West Baton Rouge Parish Detention Center is searching for new leadership, as Trevor McDonald has resigned after 10 months as warden, the Sheriff’s Office said.

McDonald submitted his resignation letter on July 13. Maj. Steven Judge, chief of corrections, is presiding as interim warden while a permanent replacement is sought, said Sgt. Landon Groger, a spokesperson for the Sheriff’s Office.

In his resignation letter, McDonald said he was not able to give a two-week notice due to “personal circumstances” that required his immediate attention. He will serve as warden of a different correctional facility, though the department did not

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Massey’s, a longtime Towne Center tenant, to be replaced Jos. A. Bank to move into spot after outdoor retailer closes next month

BY IANNE SALVOSA Staff writer

One of the original tenants in Towne Center at Cedar Lodge will be replaced by a menswear store that is returning to the Baton Rouge market.

Massey’s Professional Outfitters, which has sold outdoor gear from brands such as Patagonia, Hoka and Big Green Egg since the lifestyle center opened in 2005, will close next month.

Shawn Bentley, Massey’s manager, said the shopping center found a new tenant for the space. Massey’s was notified on Thursday that it needs to vacate by the end of August, he said.

Jos. A. Bank, which sells tailored men’s clothing, shoes and accessories, will move into Massey’s spot next to Whole Foods. The menswear store used to have a location at the Mall of Louisiana but closed in 2021 as part of a mass shuttering as the company faced financial pressures from the

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Outdoor gear retailer Massey’s Outfitters will be replaced by men’s clothing store Jos. A. Bank next month, a Massey’s manager confirmed. The store had been at the Towne Center at Cedar Lodge since it opened in 2005.

COVID-19 pandemic. It has two other Louisiana locations in Mandeville and Metairie.

Jos. A. Bank already has the Towne Center store listed on its website.

Towne Center has experienced high traffic as open-air, grocery store-anchored centers have surged in popularity and tenants like Whole Foods and Barnes & Noble draw in shoppers.

Massey’s, which has a team of about seven people, will

run deals before it closes next month. An Instagram post announcing the store’s closure said the team intended to find a new Baton Rouge location, but Bentley said it may not have enough time to reopen this year.

New Orleans-based Massey’s, which has been in business since 1972, also has a location in Covington.

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The son of Baton Rouge District Judge Gail Horne Ray returned to court Wednesday in a bid to have multiple forcible rape convictions and their sentences set aside, nearly 30 years after the crimes were committed.

Speaking on his own behalf during much of Wednesday’s status conference, Nelson Taylor, 46, argued that a 2001 motion to set aside his conviction was never ruled on by a judge and clarification was still needed on its status.

The status conference was the first hearing for Taylor in his fight to have the convictions dropped.

The motion leading to Wednesday’s hearing was originally filed in November, but hadn’t yet been taken up because all of the 19th Judicial District Court judges recused themselves from the case last year over Taylor being Ray’s son. District Attorney Hillar Moore also filed to recuse his office.

Retired 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Michael McDonald was then assigned by the Louisiana Supreme Court to handle Taylor’s case.

Brett Sommer, an assistant district attorney from Livingston Parish, was assigned as the prosecutor.

Taylor originally pleaded guilty to three counts of forcible rape and five counts of aggravated burglary in 1997 for a series of attacks the then-high school track star committed against multiple girls, some who were his classmates, from fall 1995 to spring 1996.

Prosecutors said Taylor surprised the victims in their bedrooms while armed with a knife or gun and while wearing a mask. He was accused of using tape to cover the girls’ eyes and mouths, as well.

The 1997 plea avoided a life sentence for Taylor, then 17, with a judge giving him 50 years for the collected charges.

A post-conviction plea deal in 2001 dropped the burglary charges, reducing Taylor’s total sentence to 40 years for the forcible rapes.

The practice of amending a plea agreement after the conviction was ruled as unconstitutional by the state Supreme Court in 2023 on the grounds it allowed the judiciary to pardon a final conviction, a power reserved for the governor. Taylor’s argument rests on that ruling.

Taylor said in court Wednesday he had filed to have both his forcible rape and burglary convictions set aside in 2001 while the window to file was still open.

But instead of having that filing considered by a judge, Taylor was instead offered a post-conviction plea deal that led to his burglary charges being dropped, he said Wednesday.

Since this kind of deal has now been found unconstitutional, Taylor’s

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Cyclospora outbreak grows in Louisiana 79 cases and six hospitalizations have been reported

BY MARGARET DeLANEY Staff writer

Cases of cyclospora continue to climb in Louisiana, with 79 total cases including six hospitalizations reported by the Louisiana Department of Health as of Thursday — a jump from 43 cases including five hospitalizations reported the previous week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found a link between cyclospora and shredded iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico from Taco Bell locations in Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia.

On July 17, Taylor Farms initi-

ated a recall of all iceberg lettuce sourced from central Mexico. The recall includes iceberg lettuce sold at retail stores and restaurants. It also includes other recalled products distributed to food service customers, according to the CDC. Neither the CDC nor state officials, however, have reported any connection to Louisiana cyclospora cases.

Nationally, there have been 1,644 people infected with cyclospora between May 13 and July 13. There have been 94 hospitalizations and no deaths reported.

The Health Department gets notice of cyclospora cases as soon as they are confirmed through lab results in hospital medical records.

The parasite is diagnosed through a gastrointestinal pathogen panel, a one-hour, highly sensitive stool test that simultaneously detects the DNA or RNA of multiple bacteria,

viruses and parasites causing diarrhea.

“This is a rare one,” said Dr. Katie Taylor, who runs infection control and outbreak management at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital in Baton Rouge. “(Cyclospora) tends to last longer and may improve and relapse before it completely resolves.”

The threshold for hospitalization, sitting at six people so far in Louisiana, rests primarily on dehydration.

“Louisiana has slightly higher than normal levels going around right now,” Taylor said. “The center of where this is happening is around Michigan.”

“As far as we know, humans are the only animal that gets sick with this parasite,” said Dr. Obinna Nnedu, an infectious disease physician at Ochsner Medical Center in New Orleans. “Dying from cyclospora is extremely rare.”

The parasite spends half its life cycle in the soil and half in the body. Lettuce species and berries are common sources of cyclospora because they grow close to the ground. Berries and lettuce are also often consumed without being cooked. (Cooking kills the parasite.)

“What happens is some form of sewage or stool that has this organism in it gets into the soil of where this produce is being grown, and What is cyclospora? then gets on that produce through Cyclospora is an infection from the soil,” Taylor said.

There are some other parasites a parasite that can cause diarrhea.

People are exposed when ingesting that will go into the body and infect more than one organ system. contaminated food or water.

Ex-officer sentenced to 35 years A former St. Gabriel police officer has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for killing a man at the home of his estranged wife in 2023.

Earlier this month, Andre Redditt, 30, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the CRIME March 2023 death BLOTTER of 26-year-old Dylan Martin, according to staff the Livingston Parreports ish Sheriff’s Office.

Deputies were dispatched to the Denham Springs home of Redditt’s estranged spouse just after midnight on March 2, 2023. At the scene, deputies found Martin, who had been shot multiple times.

Investigators determined that Redditt entered the home without permission, went into a room where Martin and his estranged wife were, and fired six rounds at Martin in the bedroom and then the hallway as he attempted to escape.

Redditt claimed he acted in selfdefense, but evidence showed he was the aggressor, the Sheriff’s Office stated.

According to previous Advocate reporting, Redditt’s wife filed for divorce in January 2023. She accused Redditt of domestic abuse and requested a restraining order against him hours after the shooting.

Her allegations included that he abused her throughout her pregnancy, threatened to “hire someone

CONTRACT

Continued from page 1B administrative officer for Louisiana State Police, said the proposal would result in big savings for the state, technology that works better and improvements to public safety.

Local police departments and sheriff’s offices would not be required to use the Motorola equipment, though they would have the option, Burns said.

Lawmakers raise questions

Lawmakers pressed for more details on the rationale for the no-bid contract, however.

Rep. Tony Bacala, R-Prairieville, said state officials should present options from other companies, provide a cost comparison and detail

to ‘beat her to death,’” and tried to prevent her from calling 911 as he was attacking her. He also allegedly followed her in a co-worker’s car two months before the shooting.

Two arrested in alleged stolen gift cards scheme

“This is not one of those,” Taylor said.

Previous outbreaks in Louisiana and the United States were linked to imported produce from other countries.

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

Common symptoms of cyclospora include: n Watery diarrhea n Loss of appetite n Weight loss n Cramping n Bloating n Increased gas n Nausea n Fatigue.

Email Margaret DeLaney at margaret.delaney@theadvocate. com.

WARDEN

of Las Vegas, were arrested. Each faces 112 counts of access device fraud, among other charges, and they are being held at the Livingston Parish Detention Center on a bail set at more than $2.8 million.

19-year old killed in vehicle crash on Thursday Two people face more than 100

counts of fraud each after they were arrested in Livingston Parish with more than $40,000 worth of stolen gift cards, according to the Sheriff’s Office.

The Amazon and Apple gift cards were obtained as part of a deliberate scheme, according to the Sheriff’s Office. In the racket, individuals alter gift cards in stores and retrieve the unique codes; when unsuspecting customers buy the cards, the money added goes to the scammer.

Federal law enforcement officials have previously linked these types of gift card schemes to organized Chinese crime groups.

A woman, Meiyu Cai, 55, of Rosemead, California, was standing outside a car stopped at South Range Avenue and Vincent Road in Denham Springs when a deputy attempted to approach the vehicle, the Sheriff’s Office said. The vehicle drove off, and when it eventually came to a stop, authorities found the gift cards were inside.

Jail records show Cai and the car’s driver, Kang Shang Huang, 29,

A woman died after her vehicle struck the rear of an SUV stopped on Nicholson Drive near Innovation Park Drive on Thursday morning, Louisiana State Police said.

Troopers began investigating the crash around 2:40 a.m. A Ram pickup truck was stopped on the side of the road after it had become disabled. A 2013 Cadillac Escalade had stopped in the northbound travel lane a short time later to assist the truck when a Kia K4 slammed into the rear of the SUV, according to State Police.

The driver of the Kia, Madison Marshall, 19, sustained severe injuries and was transported to a hospital where she died. Marshall was unrestrained at the time of the crash, according to State Police.

The driver of the Cadillac was also unrestrained, suffered minor injuries and was transported to a hospital.

Impairment is not suspected, but routine toxicology samples will be run.

why they are choosing to go with Motorola instead of other companies.

“I think it’s a valid question,” he said. “The public needs to know the answer.”

In the meantime, Burns acknowledged that state officials were essentially asking legislators to “take our word for it” that Motorola has the best offer.

The budget committee is allowed to vote as soon as next month to approve the deal, though it isn’t required to, said chair Rep. Jack McFarland. He said whether they take a vote is contingent on first seeing a draft of the contract proposal and state officials’ addressing lawmakers’ concerns.

Sen. Regina Barrow, D-Baton Rouge, said she is “definitely not inclined” to vote on the costly 10year contract until they have more

details.

A day earlier on Wednesday, a separate legislative committee that handles technology matters authorized the no-bid contract negotiations to proceed, a requirement under state law. That committee gave one day’s notice that it was taking up the Motorola contract.

Motorola’s current contract for the statewide radio system, the Louisiana Wireless Information Networks, is up in 2030.

However, a separate state contract for Axon body cameras and dashcams expired this year, and that gives officials a chance right now to negotiate a deal with Motorola to provide the radio system, cameras and other software, which will save the state money, Burns said.

Email Alyse Pfeil at alyse.pfeil@ theadvocate.com.

remains minimal and our personnel continue to perform their duties with dedication and integContinued from page 1B rity,” McDonald wrote.

McDonald started as warden on Sept. 22 and has 25 years of disclose where.

“I want to make it clear that experience in law enforcement my decision to resign is unre- and corrections, the department lated to the recent events at the said in a Facebook post announcdetention center,” McDonald ing his hiring. said in his letter, referring to The jail has faced an increased recent instances of inmate drug issue with drug usage in the overdoses. prison, which resulted in the “In my opinion the level of deaths of four inmates before contraband within the facility McDonald took the position.

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in May that Ray does not need to be recused, overruling two lower courts and allowing the bench trial to be scheduled for later this year.

attorney, Michael Mitchell, argued that Taylor should be al- Email Quinn Coffman at quinn. lowed to reenter a new guilty plea coffman@theadvocate.com. with a sentence no greater than the original.

The second part of this arguLOTTERY ment is that Taylor’s original 2001 motion to have the conviction WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 2026 set aside is still pending, since a PICK 3: 4-6-4 judge never formally ruled on it.

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4-5-22-50-58 (1) “They haven’t carried their burden to show that there’s some Unofficial notification, keep your tickets. exception or some reason that this court has jurisdiction to address a 2001 plea when we’re now 25, 26 years later,” Sommer said.

McDonald made no ruling on the case Wednesday.

Taylor had been previously granted parole, but was placed back in parish prison after a 2024 arrest for obscenity. He argued his case Wednesday while still in an orange jumpsuit.

Taylor’s status as a convicted rapist led Moore to seek Ray’s recusal last year from presiding over the case against Casen Carver, one of the men accused of raping LSU student Madison Brooks.

Prosecutors argued the recusal was necessary because Ray had represented her son in his 1997 case, and texts between Carver and his parents showed the 21-year-old believed Ray would look favorably on his circumstance due to her son’s conviction.

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Ford and Chinese automotive company Geely Auto announced plans on Thursday to jointly manufacture lowand zero-emission vehicles at Ford’s Valencia, Spain factory.

The partnership is a bid to reignite Ford’s offerings for the European auto market as the legacy carmaker seeks to compete with the likes of fast-moving Chinese companies that are rapidly dominating auto sales across the globe.

In the U.S., policy all but locks Chinese firms out of the market — though American automakers still partner with companies in China for production, and Chinese vehicles are making inroads in North America more broadly.

The joint venture, pending regulatory approval, will be owned two-thirds by Ford and one-third by Geely, which also owns brands such as Volvo, Polestar and more.

The two companies said they will focus on five vehicles.

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Brent crude hits $100 again

rising oil prices, which raise costs Brent had dropped below $72 per meeting Thursday. But traders are Alphabet, Tesla, for businesses and erode their cus- barrel, roughly back to where it betting on a 36% chance the Fed ability to spend. The price was before the United States and will hike the federal funds rate at airline stocks all drop tomers’ for a barrel of Brent crude oil, the Israel attacked Iran to begin their its meeting next week. That’s up

BY STAN CHOE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Brent oil shot to its highest price since May after increased fighting in the Middle East on Thursday threatened to slow the global flow of crude. At the same time, sharp drops for two of Wall Street’s most influential companies, Alphabet and Tesla, yanked the U.S. stock market to its worst loss in a month.

Stocks fell under the pressure of

international standard, jumped 7% to settle at $100.69.

It touched $102 during the day, the highest price since May for the most actively traded Brent contract in the market. The cause: attacks on two Saudi oil tankers in the Red Sea. That threatens another avenue that oil companies use to move their crude from the Middle East to customers worldwide, along with the Strait of Hormuz.

It was just a few weeks ago that

war, on hopes that a wind-down in the war would fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

The jumps in oil prices will worsen inflation, just when it had begun to decelerate by more than economists expected. That in turn could push the Federal Reserve and other central banks to raise interest rates, which would slow economies and undercut prices for stocks and other investments.

The European Central Bank held its main interest rates steady at its

from the nearly 12% probability seen a week ago, according to data from CME Group.

An increase by the Fed would be the first since 2023.

Higher oil prices pushed the yield of the 10-year Treasury up to 4.69% from 4.67% late Wednesday and from just 3.97% before the war with Iran began. That’s a significant increase, and it’s already brought long-term U.S. mortgage rates to their highest levels in nearly a year.

Filings for jobless aid fewest since 1969 WASHINGTON — U.S. applications for jobless benefits tumbled to the lowest level in more than five decades last week as layoffs remain historically low despite global economic uncertainty.

The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits in the week ending July 18 declined by 22,000 to 187,000, the Labor Department reported Thursday. That’s the fewest number of weekly applications since the week ending Sept. 6, 1969, according to Labor Department data.

It’s also well below the 215,000 new applications forecast by analysts surveyed by the data firm FactSet. Weekly filings for unemployment benefits are considered a proxy for layoffs and are close to a real-time indicator of the health of the U.S. job market.

“The economic crisis caused by the energy supply shock is not over yet,” said Carl Weinberg, chief economist at High Frequency Trading. “But the labor market has yet to show any sign of wear and tear from the surge in oil prices.”

In its expansive June jobs report earlier this month, the government reported that employers pulled back on hiring, adding only 57,000 jobs.

Amazon cuts jobs within AI team Amazon’s artificial general intelligence organization is the company’s latest target for workforce reductions even as the e-commerce giant continues to heavily invest in AI. On Thursday, an Amazon spokesperson confirmed the layoffs but declined to share details, including the number of layoffs and the types of roles cut.

Over the last several years, Amazon has developed its own generative AI models, primarily through its Amazon Nova and Amazon Titan foundation model families. Those models have similar concepts to OpenAI’s GPT or Anthropic’s Claude models.

However, Amazon’s models are built primarily for businesses or computer programmers.

Artificial general intelligence, or AGI, is a hypothetical branch of AI that surpasses human intelligence and gains autonomy.

An Amazon spokesperson said building large AI models remain a priority.

The layoffs add to more than 30,000 job cuts at Amazon over the past 10 months amid efforts to slim its headcount and restructure.

A customer shops at a grocery store in Chicago. Grocery prices are rising with the price of oil.

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Higher oil prices could impact gas, groceries and back-to-school items

BY CATHY BUSSEWITZ, MAE ANDERSON and ANNE D’INNOCENZIO

“Given the typical lag along the oil industry’s supply chain, prices at the pump are poised to keep rising at least into next week,” AP business writers said Pavel Molchanov, an investment strategy NEW YORK — Already feeling pinched since analyst at investment bank Raymond James. the start of the Iran war, consumers are likely to feel more pain ahead as oil prices Shoppers paying more for groceries pushed past $100 a barrel Thursday amid reGrocery prices generally rise with oil benewed fighting and military strikes that have cause farmers use diesel fuel to power equipleft global oil supplies stranded in the Middle ment, while many food products are transEast. ported by trucks that require fuel.

The elevated price marked a turn from “Oil at $100 doesn’t make food prices jump lower oil prices enjoyed briefly when hostili- right away, but it does put upward pressure ties between the U.S. and Iran waned in June. across the food supply chains, especially for Brent crude, the international standard, last categories that depend heavily on trucking, cold storage and packaging,” said Miguel Goreached $100 a barrel in May. Companies that produce and sell fresh mez, a Cornell University professor who difood, school supplies and anything that gets rects the school’s Food Industry Management shipped using fuel reported cost impacts Program. Fresh produce and dairy could feel from an earlier spike in energy prices after a larger impact because they require refrigthe U.S. and Israel attacked Iran. They’re eration during delivery. likely to continue passing some of their inGrocery chain Albertsons on Thursday lowcreased expenses to consumers. ered its 2026 fiscal outlook, citing pressure on “Since everything relies on petroleum in its core grocery business and a pullback in our economy, for good or ill, if the cost of pe- consumer spending.

Higher fuel costs for ships, trucks and air troleum goes up, then everything else goes up as well,” said Joe Adamski, a managing carriers can trickle down to consumers and director at procurement services company businesses that depend on shipping. UPS, FeProcureAbility. dEx and other shipping services introduced fuel surcharges and other fees as fuel prices Gasoline prices return to $4 increased.

The U.S. price for regular gasoline averaged $4.09 a gallon Thursday, 15 cents more Consumers pulling back than a week ago, and drivers in most states Rural lifestyle retailer Tractor Supply Co. were paying $4 or more, according to AAA. reduced its annual sales outlook on Thursday,

citing in part higher fuel prices during its spring selling season that weighed on customer spending.

“Our customers often drive longer distances to shop frequently in pickup trucks, many of which are diesel-powered, making them especially sensitive to higher fuel costs,” CEO Hal Lawton told analysts.

Lawton said customers are still investing in their pets, animals, farms and properties, but shopping has become “more deliberate.”

Customers are consolidating trips, prioritizing needs-based purchases and taking a more measured approach to discretionary spending.

Higher prices for back-to-school shoppers The Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America trade group warned in a report Wednesday that increasing freight and material costs, along with rising tariffs costs, were creating big challenges for the footwear industry as families prepare for backto-school shopping and companies plan for the remainder of the year.

Matt Priest, CEO and president of the trade group, said some of its members have cited 25% price increases for petroleumbased materials used in footwear manufacturing due to the Middle East conflict. Those costs could eventually translate into roughly a 5% increase in the cost of finished footwear products sold to consumers, Priest said in the report.

Canadian National supports Union Pacific acquisition plan

BY JOSH FUNK

AP transportation writer OMAHA, Neb. — Union Pacific struck a deal with Canadian National to secure that rival’s support for its proposed $85 billion acquisition of Norfolk Southern railroad.

The deal to create the nation’s first transcontinental railroad has been divisive within the industry because it would concentrate so much market power in the hands of one company that would control more than 40% of all rail traffic and reduce the number of major freight railroads in the United States down to five. BNSF, CPKC and CSX railroads all strongly op-

pose the merger, but now Canadian National said it will support it after winning concessions from Union Pacific.

The U.S. Surface Transportation Board is just beginning to review the proposed $85 billion merger, but it has demanded more information from the railroads by the end of the month before it will move forward. Shippers have also lined up on both sides of the deal with some excited about the promises of faster cross-country deliveries while other companies mainly in the chemical and agriculture industries worry about the possibility of higher rates and service problems.

UP CEO Jim Vena said he be-

lieves these agreements with Canadian National will address many of the competitive concerns with the merger because CN will gain permission to be able to serve any customers that will see significantly reduced shipping options after the merger. And CN will take over Norfolk Southern’s ownership of smaller railroads in St. Louis and Kansas City to ensure the merged railroad will never control the majority of those operations.

Canadian National will also gain access to tracks between St. Louis and Kansas City where there was the most overlap between UP and NS, and CN will be able to use a key rail yard in Kansas City that will

help that railroad compete better for business to and from Mexico.

Union Pacific will get the ability to move more traffic around the congested tracks in Chicago.

“As the rail industry considers significant structural change, it is essential that customers continue to benefit from meaningful competition and choice,” CN President and CEO Tracy Robinson said.

But BNSF spokesperson Zak Andersen said these agreements show what can already be accomplished through cooperative agreements between railroads without all the disruptions of a merger that would leave many customers with fewer competitive shipping options.

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Obituaries Edwards Oubre, Elvia Lee

Elvia Lee Edwards Oubre a native of White Castle and resident of Baton Rouge departed this life on Tuesday, July 14, 2026. She leaves to cherish her memory Allen Oubre, her husband of 54 years; sons, Donald Edwards and Denzel Jordan; six grandchildren, Kaylynn, Justen, Harlem, Ariah, Lailah, and Malachi.

Five sisters; Shirley Edwards, Glenda (Alton) Green, Linda (Donald) Jordan, Jacqueline (Harold) Johnson, Geraldine (Clement) Brown, one brother; Alvin (Delois) Edwards; four brothers-in law, Lester Thomas Sr., Ivan (Linda) Oubre, Kevin (Patricia) Oubre Sr., Oliver Clayton Sr.; five sisters-inlaw; Marion Brown, Joyce Dunmars, Lorraine Murray, Chiketta (Milton) Hawkins, and Christine Edwards., a host of cousins, nieces, nephews, friends, and other loved ones.

Services will be held Saturday, July 25, 2026 at Asberry Methodist Church White Castle, LA, visitation begins at 9:00 until 11:00am.

She was proceeded in death by her parents; Willie and Virginia Edwards, parents-in-law; Joseph and Veronica Oubre, three brothers ; Willie Roy, Charles, and JC Edwards, five sisters; Delores Clayton, Gloria Dickerson, Olivia Edwards, Barbara Fleming, and Joyce Thomas; six brothers-inlaw; Gayward Oubre, Edward Oubre, Larry Oubre, Wayne Oubre, Tyrone Knighten, and Felton Fleming; maternal and paternal grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, nieces, and nephews.

Clarence Victor "C.V." Hutchinson, passed away peacefully on July 22, 2026, his 81st birthday. C.V. was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend. He found his greatest joy in spending time with his family, who meant everything to him. He was happiest when surrounded by those he loved, creating memories that will be cherished for generations.

An avid fisherman, C.V. loved being on the water, where he found peace and contentment.

Whether casting a line or sharing stories with family and friends, he appreciated life's simple pleasures and the beauty of the outdoors.

C.V. proudly served his country in the United States Army and later retired from Tembec Paper Mill after many years of dedicated service. He is survived by his beloved wife of 62 years, Cheryl Wicker Hutchinson; his children, Mike (Dana) Hutchinson, Rene (Keith) Cranford, and Jennifer (David) McVea; his grandchildren, Brennan and Kaleigh Hutchinson, Bailey Cranford Burke, Collier Cranford, Abby Guerra Wilson, and Gauge McVea; as well as seven great-grandchildren, with one more precious blessing on the way. He is preceded in death by his parents, Clarence Vivian Hutchinson, and Juanita Jarreau Hutchinson; sisters, Patricia Gayle Smith, and Deborah Thibodeaux, and grandson, Colton Robert Hutchinson. C.V.'s legacy is one of love, hard work, faithfulness, and dedication to his family. He will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved him, but his memory will live on in the hearts of those whose lives he touched.

Graveside Service will be held on Saturday, July 25, 2026 at 10am at Azalea Rest Cemetery in Zachary.

Share sympathies, condolences, and memories at www.charletfuneralhome. com.

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Howard, Delois Alice

Delois Alice Howard born August 24,1946 departed this life on Wednesday July 15, 2026. Visitation will be held Sunday, July 26, 2026, 4pm until 6pm, Desselle Funeral Home, and will resume on Monday, July 27, 9am until religious services at 11 am., Neely United Methodist Church 1755 Thomas Delpit Dr. Baton Rouge 70802 Interment will take place at La. National Cemetery in Zachary, La. Services entrusted to Desselle Funeral

Charles T. Kinsley Sr., beginning a marriage filled with love and devotion.

Sue was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Charles T. Kinsley Sr.; her parents, Susie A. Peel and Donald O. Peel; her daughter, Kathy Kinsley Edgens; and her son-in-law, Hubert F. Kolb Jr. She is survived by her loving daughter, Susan Kolb; her son, Charles T. Kinsley Jr. and his wife, Royeann; and her son-inlaw, Gerald W. Edgens. She was a proud grandmother to Katherine K. Neal (Dave), Brittany K. Elliser (Bryan), Breann K. Kelly (Michael), Hunter R. Edgens (Bailey), Heather L. Edgens, Jason M. Kolb (Lori), and Jeremy L. Kolb.

She was also blessed with twelve great grandchildren: Harrison Neal, Brady Elliser, Briggs Elliser, Brooks Kelly, John Michael Kelly, Abel Landry, Easton Edgens, Greyson Thibodeaux, Gracie Kolb, Remi Kolb, Emily Evans (Jake), and Grant Kolb. Sue graduated from Istrouma High School in 1948 before earning her bachelor's degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1954, where she was also a cheerleader.

She later earned her master's degree, furthering her lifelong commitment to education. Her teaching career began at Hahnville High School before she returned to Baton Rouge, where she taught physical education at Istrouma Junior High, Park Forest Middle School, and Central Middle School.

After obtaining her master's degree, Sue became a librarian, serving many years at Central Middle School and Starkey Academy. Throughout her career, she inspired countless students with her kindness, enthusiasm, and dedication. A lifelong sports enthusiast, Sue enjoyed playing basketball during her years at Istrouma High School and later coached numerous teams while teaching. She especially loved watching her great grandkids play. A devoted LSU fan, she faithfully followed Tigers baseball and women's basketball and continued attending games well into her nineties. Sue also had a special talent for crocheting and lovingly created countless handmade gifts for her family and friends.

Her generosity, warmth, and unwavering love for those around her will be remembered by all who knew her. The family extends heartfelt gratitude to Dr. Gerald Miletello and the staff of Baton Rouge Hospice for the compassionate care and support they provided during Sue's final days. Sue's legacy of love, dedication to education, and devotion to her family will live on in the many lives she touched. She will be deeply missed and forever cherished. Family and friends are invited to attend a Funeral Service on Monday, July 27th, 2026, at Blackwater United Methodist Church, 10000 Blackwater Rd., Baker LA. 70714 at 12:00 PM. Visitation will be held from 9:00 AM until service time. Burial will follow in Greenoaks Memorial Park.

Sue Don Peel Kinsley,age 95, passed away peacefully on Saturday, July 18, 2026, surrounded by her loving family after a brief illness. Born on May 12, 1931, in Jonesville, Louisiana, Sue lived a life defined by faith, family, education, and service to others. On June 4, 1954, she married the love of her life,

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Kleinpeter, Milton Haynes

Dr. Milton Haynes Kleinpeter was born on September 25, 1931, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, to Louis and Fannye Haynes Kleinpeter as the fifth of seven children. Raised in the Church of God in Christ, he attended local Christian and public schools, graduating from McKinley High School in 1950 before earning a Bachelor of Arts in Education from Southern University. While in school, he learned the trade of brick masonry, worked during summers, and became a member of Progressive Baptist Church under the leadership of Rev. Walker Thomas.

After receiving an educational deferment, Dr. Kleinpeter proudly served four years in the United States Army as a personnel specialist during the Korean Conflict. He was honorably discharged and awarded the Good Conduct Medal.

Returning to Louisiana, he began his career as an educator, teaching in several parishes. While living in Lafayette, he met Eva Bonnett, and they married in 1961, building a life centered on faith, family, and education. Together they achieved a remarkable milestone by earning Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Education from Kansas State University while raising their three children, becoming the first husbandand-wife team in the United States to do so.

Dr. Kleinpeter spent much of his professional career in the College of Education at Southern University, where he mentored graduate students, secured grants, and helped strengthen academic programs. He served on numerous university committees, including as a dedicated University Marshal at commencement ceremonies. His work also extended internationally through a U.S. Department of State grant supporting

teacher education programs in Jamaica.

A devoted member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., Dr. Kleinpeter actively supported community service initiatives and mentored generations of young men. He was also a passionate supporter of Southern University Athletics, faithfully attending games throughout the years.

Dr. Kleinpeter is survived by his beloved wife of 65 years, Dr. Eva Bonnet Kleinpeter; his children, Dr. Myra A. Kleinpeter, Milton H. Kleinpeter, Jr., and Milowe A. Kleinpeter; his granddaughter, Maya A. Kleinpeter, J.D.; nieces Fannye P. Wiltz (Jeanerette), Reverend Freida K. Brown (Baton Rouge), Dr. Lisa Green (Chicago), Patricia Dunbar (Houston), nephew Louis Steven Green (Chicago), and cousins Julius Kleinpeter (Baton Rouge), Johnnie Hayes (Baton Rouge), and many other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents Louis and Fannye Kleinpeter, brothers Louis (Bernice) Kleinpeter, Joseph Kleinpeter, Gene Kleinpeter, sisters Marion Pierre, Freida (Willie) Green, Ida Leon Kleinpeter and several more relatives and friends.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the Southern University Foundation in support of the Dr. Milton H.

Kleinpeter Endowed Professorship in the College of Education or the Kleinpeter Scholarship, honoring his lifelong commitment to education and student success.

A viewing (wake) will be held from 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM on 2026-07-24 at Progressive Baptist Church, 998 Julia Street.

A funeral service will be held from 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM on 2026-07-24 at Progressive Baptist Church, 998 Julia Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 A burial will be held from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM on 2026-07-24 at Louisiana National Cemetary, 303 W Mt. Pleasant Road. Zachary, LA 70726 A reception will be held from 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM on 2026-07-24 at Progressive Baptist Church Fellowship Hall, 998 Julia Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802

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when she went home to be with her Lord and Savior.

All of her life she selflessly and faithfully used her gifts, talents and time to help others. Born on October 4, 1959 to June and William Drummond in West Point, Mississippi, Angela was a resident of West Point, Columbus, and finally Tupelo as a child. She was an active Girl Scout and member of the competition chorus at Tupelo High School graduating in 1977. An Alpha Delta Pi at the University of Mississippi, Angela continued to cheer on the Rebels and even became a Tiger fan upon moving to Baton Rouge after graduation.

Through her career and life of serving others, she served with the Baton Rouge Police Department after graduating from the police academy. Angela was passionate about supporting those battling cancer as the Program Director at Cancer Services of Greater Baton Rouge and later the Executive Director of Komen Baton Rouge and Komen Louisiana. Angela faithfully served the church and helped to start several churches in the Baton Rouge area. She was on the support staff at Church at Addis, and she lead many initiatives including the annual Westside Easter egg hunt, the church's social media presence, grief support group and the weekly AA meeting. She had a heart for the least of these and showed her love through a weekly commitment to a bible study at Baton Rouge Rehab where she ministered to and mentored many men battling addiction. Affectionately known as Mom to many of "her guys," she showed them a mother's love and the love of Christ. Angela is survived by her husband of 43 years, Johnny Miller of Plaquemine; daughter, Chrislyn and beloved sonin-law Adam Maher of Baton Rouge; and son Charles Naylor of Prairieville; siblings, Cathy (Ricky) Cockrell, Desiree (Steve) Warren and Bill (Shannon) Drummond of Tupelo Mississippi; inlaws, Judy (Steve) Whitfield, Kevin (Tammy) Miller. Ricky Andre and Janna (Chris) Kershaw, and many very beloved nieces and nephews each of whom she found a way to make feel special and loved. She is proceeded in death by sisters-in-laws, Kellye Andre and Kathy Elliott; nephews, John Hunter Miller and JohnMicah Cockrell; in-laws, Evelyn and John Miller; and her parents, June and William Drummond.

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who loved Angela, are invited to celebrate her life on Saturday, July 25, at Church at Addis. Visitation will begin at 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., followed by the service at 11:30 a.m., conducted by Rev. Tom Shepard and Doc. Lawton Searcy.

Burial will follow at Grace Memorial. Angela was giving and selfless even in the end. She was an organ and tissue donor to help impact the lives of others. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to Church at Addis (Pastoral Missions Fund).

Stewart, Norma Jean 'Granny'

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our beloved Norma "Granny" Stewart, who left this world peacefully at her home on July 18, 2026. Born on October 6, 1940, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Norma was a treasured wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, and friend.

Her love of Jesus, her warmth, kindness, and unwavering devotion to her family and community will be deeply missed.

Norma was the cherished wife of Lonnie Wayne Stewart Sr., with whom she shared 66 beautiful years of marriage. Together, they built a life filled with love, laughter, and countless memories.

She was a devoted mother to Lonnie Stewart Jr. (Susan), Byron Stewart (Kelly), Becky Price (Scott), and Phyllis Callahan (Joel).

Her love and legacy extend through her grandchildren, Lauren Madison (Brad), Cassie Stewart, Randy Price (Jade), Holley Wheeler, Hillary Wheat (Dalton), Elizabeth Stewart (Kyle), and Haley Callahan, as well as her great-grandchildren, Connor Blalock, Ethan Madison, Baylor Dufren, Lorelei Dufren, Holden Wheat, Bennett Wheat, Macy Wheat, Kyler Booluck, Cayden Wheeler, Avery Wheeler, Matilda Fitzpatrick, and Wyatt Price. Norma is also sur-

vived by her siblings, Diane Heard, Pat Dungan, Alvin Dungan, Carolyn Cooper, and Butch Grenada.

She was predeceased by her parents, Samuel and Edna Dungan, and her siblings Juanita Dunaway, Joan Beverson, Edna Earl Milton, and Thomas Dungan, with whom she is now joyfully reunited.

Norma was an active and beloved member of Zoar Baptist Church, where she found great joy in singing with the choir. Her passion for community service was evident in her instrumental role in running the ceramic ministry at Zoar, where she touched many lives with her creativity and kindness.

More than anything, Norma treasured her family. She relished celebrating milestones and cheering on her "grands" and "greats", creating memories that will be cherished for generations to come.

Her legacy of love, faith and family will forever live on in the hearts of those who were truly blessed to know her.

A service to honor and celebrate Norma's life will be held on July 25, 2026, at Greenoaks Funeral Home, located at 9595 Florida Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70815. Visitation from 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm, Service at 2:00 pm with the Graveside service to follow. Donations can be made to St. Jude, reflecting Norma's generous spirit and love for helping others.

The Stewart family would like to extend their deepest gratitude to Hospice Specialist of Louisiana and The Claiborne at Shoe Creek. Their kindness, dedication, and support brought comfort to Norma and her family and will always be remembered with heartfelt appreciation.

Werner, Catherine Mary

beloved grandchildren, Emma and Eli Williams, to whom she was known as "Quinoa". They truly were the light of her life. Also survived by her brother, Paul Werner, sister, Nancy LeBlanc (John), and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Catherine had a long career as an Early Childhood Special Education teacher.

A graveside service will be held on Saturday, July 25, Resthaven Gardens of Memory, 11817 Jefferson Highway, Baton Rouge at 10 a.m. in the King Solomon area. In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Capital Area Animal Welfare Society.

Wyckoff, Keith Robert

Keith Robert Wyckoff passed from this life on Sunday, July 19, 2026, at Terrebonne General Hospital in Houma, LA. Keith was born May 15, 1957, in Hopewell, New Jersey to George Richard and Margaret Wyckoff. He was one of four children. At the age

of 18 he came to Louisiana to join a family business and never left. No more shoveling snow for Keith.

He was a businessman and entrepreneur for many years in Baton Rouge most notably with Yellow Cab Company.

Keith was a dedicated, loving father and a wonderful grandfather and great grandfather. He was an amazing friend who was always there to give advice or help. Keith was an avid fisherman, outdoorsman and a gardener especially after he retired to Cocodrie. He loved to talk and laugh and would share his thoughts with all.

He was a prankster with a sometime raunchy sense of humor. He enjoyed traveling, especially to family reunions and scenic places.

In his own words, " I've been blessed with a fantastic life and enjoyed each and every moment."

He added a gentle warning to his loved ones, "...I will be going to classes for haunting so consider yourself warned, I am not done with you yet..."

A celebration of Life will be held in his memory on August 8, 2026, at Ashley Manor on Old Hammond Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA. In lieu of flowers, Keith requests that you buy a living plant and give it to someone you love.

Keith was preceded in death by his parents and his wife, Rhonda Hubert

Wyckoff. Those left to cherish his memory are his two sons and daughters-in -law, Robert and Jessica, Michael and Taylor, Brenda Hubert, his wife and his stepchildren, Joey and Meghan. He is also survived by his siblings Rich Wyckoff, Cheryl Saleem and Kevin Wyckoff along with his grandchildren Harley, Maren, Christian, Kaelin, Cassidy, Brayden, Maddy, Aydan, Greyson, Vella and his great-grandchildren Hayes, Mary Claire, Ozzy, Emery, and Rynlee. A host of extended family members, aunts, uncles, and cousins, as well as close friends, will miss him.

Keith's final message was to his family and friends, "God Bless....you will feel me soon and often. Live every day with love and smiles..." A celebration of life will be held from 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM on 2026-08-08 at Ashley Manor, 14214 Old Hammond Hwy.

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Wetlands need a ‘Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy’ Every hurricane season, meteo- tween the Gulf and the more than rologists track storms to prepare two million people who call south Louisiana home. for their effects. EmerI spent years serving gency managers train and the people of St. John the preposition supplies for Baptist Parish, a commutheir communities. Elected officials declare states nity that knows firsthand of emergency in advance what it means to live in of landfall. But long beNatalie hurricane country with fore any of that happens, Robottom dwindling natural protecthe first line of defense tion. After multiple major GUEST against a catastrophic hurfloods, the West Shore LeCOLUMNIST ricane is already doing its vee is under construction. quiet, essential work. It is But levees are one of the not a levee. It is not a pump stalast protections of our Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy against tion. It consists of our wetlands flooding. The first lines of defense and barrier islands. are our coastal ecosystems.

Coastal Louisiana’s wetlands As board chair of Pontchartrain are among the most consequenConservancy, I work alongside tial natural systems in the world. scientists and partners who are They are home to some of the fighting to restore defense sysmost productive fisheries in North America, a nursery for tems that have been lost. We are species that feed the entire Gulf losing too much, too quickly.

Coast. They are an economic The now-familiar numbers are engine supporting the energy, staggering. Since the 1930s, Louimaritime and seafood industries siana has lost more than 2,000 that drive Louisiana’s economy. square miles of land — an area And they are an important buffer roughly the size of Delaware. A and shock absorber, standing befootball field of wetlands disap-

pears every 100 minutes. Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 alone converted an estimated 100 square miles of marsh to open water in days. Hurricane Ida, in 2021, may have erased another 106 square miles of marsh. Each acre of wetland lost brings the water one step closer to our front doors, schools and hospitals.

The science is clear. Coastal wetlands absorb and slow storm surge, and can mean the difference between a community surviving a storm and being destroyed. These protective features of our coastal wetlands reduce the costs of our levees and extend their life. Every mile of wetland we lose brings more risk to people and property in this region.

The coast has always been our first line of defense against hurricanes. Recognizing this, Pontchartrain Conservancy developed the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy designed to explain how our ecosystems and infrastructure work together to

State’s offshore reserves a key part of energy security, future As geopolitical instability reshapes expertise. It is a lack of access and longglobal energy markets and allies increas- term certainty. Offshore projects often take a decade or more to move ingly look to the United States for from lease sale to production. The reliable supply, Louisiana and our decisions policymakers make tonation face a critical question: Will we continue to lead on enerday will determine America’s engy or voluntarily limit one of our ergy position well into the 2030s greatest strategic advantages? and beyond.

Gifford The answer starts offshore.

When access is delayed or At a time of rising global enerconstrained, investment slows Briggs and future supply becomes less gy demand, expanding access to GUEST U.S. offshore oil and natural gas COLUMNIST certain. When access is expanded and leasing remains predictable, resources — particularly in the investment follows, production South-Central Gulf of America, grows and America’s position as a global an area that corresponds to the waters energy leader is strengthened. offshore of Louisiana, Mississippi and This is fundamentally an energy secuAlabama proposed within the federal government’s offshore leasing program rity issue. Expanding domestic offshore — is one of the clearest opportunities to production reduces reliance on less stastrengthen American energy security, ble foreign sources, strengthens supply reinforce economic growth and maintain resilience and helps shield consumers U.S. geopolitical influence. from global volatility. In an increasingly The opportunity is significant, but it uncertain world, maintaining control will not remain open indefinitely. over more of our own energy future is A recent analysis from Energy and essential.

Industrial Advisory Partners found Too often, energy debates in Washingthat opening the South-Central Gulf of ton treat inaction as the safer option. It America to development could support is not. more than 133,000 jobs, contribute $11.3 If the United States restricts offshore billion to U.S. GDP and add more than development, global demand for oil and 470,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day natural gas will not disappear. Producby 2040. That is not marginal production. tion will simply shift to other countries, It is a meaningful addition to secure, many with weaker environmental stanAmerican-controlled energy supply. dards, less transparency and greater In Louisiana, supported GDP is progeopolitical instability.

The path forward is straightforward. jected to reach just over $1.6 billion in The United States should expand access 2040. Over the 10-year period between to new offshore areas, including the 2031 and 2040, supported GDP in Louisiana is anticipated to average around $725 South-Central Gulf of America, while million. Offshore drilling and natural gas advancing a robust and predictable offexploration and development would also shore leasing program that gives comsignificantly expand employment opporpanies the long-term certainty needed tunities. In Louisiana alone, employment to invest. These are practical, proven policies grounded in decades of successis projected to reach just over 18,000 jobs by 2040. ful offshore development in the Gulf of Importantly, this is not a speculative America. frontier. The Gulf of America is already Thanks to states like Louisiana leadamong the most productive offshore ing the way, America already has the energy regions in the world, backed by resources, infrastructure and workforce decades of infrastructure investment, necessary to remain a global energy technological innovation and a highly leader. What is needed now is policy skilled workforce. Expansion would alignment that recognizes offshore enbuild on that existing foundation, allowergy as a strategic national asset, not a resource to be sidelined. ing new production to come online more The longer the United States delays exefficiently and at lower cost than many competing global projects. panding offshore access, the greater the The need to open new offshore areas risk that investment and energy leaderis becoming more urgent. Independent ship move elsewhere. research from Rystad Energy shows The South-Central Gulf of America that future Gulf production growth presents a clear opportunity to strengthincreasingly depends on deepwater deen energy security, support economic growth and reinforce America’s role as velopment, while legacy shallow-water production continues to decline. Without the world’s leading energy producer.

But offshore development requires acaccess to new offshore opportunities, maintaining current production levels cess, and the time to act is now. will become increasingly difficult over time.

Gifford Briggs is the Gulf Coast region For offshore energy, the challenge is director for the American Petroleum not a lack of technology, investment or Institute.

help save our coast. In the simplest terms, natural features of our coast (such as barrier islands, marshes and ridges) complement man-made features (such as levees) to protect the greater New Orleans area from hurricanes. No single line of defense is sufficient on its own.

The natural lines of defense generally protect the man-made lines of defense, which in turn protect our communities. Thus, the work of coastal restoration is not merely environmental stewardship. It is public safety. It is emergency management. It is the most cost-effective form of hurricane protection.

Louisiana has the plans. The Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority’s Master Plan outlines the path forward with clarity and scientific rigor. In 2025, CPRA delivered what it called some of the most impactful work in its history — 12 new construction starts, 9,216 acres of wetlands restored or enhanced, nearly five miles of levees

strengthened. This is real progress, and it should be recognized.

But the pace of restoration does not match the pace of loss. Every year, projects become harder and more expensive. Every year we debate, the marsh retreats a little further. We have too little time and money to start over with new strategies and plans. The Pontchartrain Conservancy coined the Multiple Lines of Defense Strategy two decades ago — the idea that natural systems, structural protection, and community preparedness work together. We believe in that strategy. But the natural line of defense has to actually be there for it to work.

The looming peak of hurricane season reminds us of how vital our coast is in being the first line of defense that protects this region we call home.

Natalie Robottom is the former parish president of St. John the Baptist Parish and currently serves as board chair of the Pontchartrain Conservancy.

New Orleans isn’t a La. liability; it’s an asset Gov. Jeff Landry has spent weeks making promoting tourism, I used the analogy of his feelings about New Orleans unmistaka gumbo at a historic New Orleans restauable. He said the city “thinks they’re so rant. The seafood comes from the coastal special,” declared that the old axiom “where parishes, the rice from southwest Louisiana, goes New Orleans, so goes the state” no the andouille from River Parishes — all in longer applies and accused Mayor Helena the same pot. The port here exports soyMoreno of treating the state “as an beans and other goods from North ATM.” Louisiana to the world. We have to He has vetoed tens of millions in city be one team, because Louisiana is funding, helped strip New Orleans getting lapped by our neighbors on of 10 elected positions including nine economic development and populajudgeships and stifled a bond-comtion growth.

Mitch I fear the governor believes this mission request to let the city borrow from private banks to manage cash Landrieu fight helps him politically, borrowflow. ing from the Trump-era playbook GUEST I served as a state legislator for 16 COLUMNIST of red-state governors limiting years, lieutenant governor for six and blue cities. Tennessee cut Nashmayor of New Orleans for eight. I ville’s Metro Council in half and worked with six governors from both partook control of its airport authority. Missisties and hundreds of legislators statewide. sippi expanded Capitol Police jurisdiction Governors have quarreled with New Oracross Jackson and installed state-appointed judges there. Texas has preempted local leans mayors before, over crime, money, authority in Austin. We’ve seen the same who runs what. But no one has misunderpattern in Birmingham, St. Louis and Kanstood or hated New Orleans quite like Jeff Landry. sas City. But I know the people of Louisiana Even his own economists disagree with understand our unique value. his central premise. Stephen Barnes, who Landry may also be attacking New Orsits on the state’s Revenue Estimating Conleans to obscure his own record. Louisiana ranks last in U.S. News’ best states, with ference, has said New Orleans remains the woeful marks in crime, economy, fiscal state’s largest cluster of economic activity — a very different claim than “New Orleans stability, education and health care. CNBC rated it the 4th-worst quality of life in the no longer matters.” country; WalletHub ranked it the worst The numbers show New Orleans is the state’s largest economic engine, not a drain. state to live in. Tulane’s Murphy Institute Orleans Parish punches above its weight on ranked Louisiana dead last this year, driven the state’s biggest revenue sources, income by poverty, child mortality, single-parent households, low-birthweight births and life and sales tax, thanks to its incomes, propexpectancy. Even stripping New Orleans erty values and retail spending.

Visitor spending approached $10 billion in out of the FBI crime data, Louisiana would 2023, drawing more than 18 million visitors. still rank among the worst in violent crime.

Of course, no single governor is responsiThe hotel industry alone generated nearly $9 billion in economic impact in 2025, supble for every ranking. But it is worth noting Landry has spent most of the last 15 years ported more than 51,000 jobs, and contribin government — in Congress, eight years uted $1.2 billion in taxes — a sector Landry as attorney general and now as governor. himself called “a crown jewel of our state’s Louisiana is a small, poor state. We won’t economy” this spring. out-compete Texas, Georgia or Tennessee The same story holds for trade, healthcare, higher education and federal research by fighting ourselves. Every dollar spent stripping elected offices and blocking loans dollars. The Port of New Orleans, for example, is the gateway to the global economy for New Orleans is a dollar not spent closfor 38 states. ing the pension gap, lifting our kids out of Louisiana’s brand overseas — the reason last place, fixing our coast or keeping young conventions, film productions and internapeople from leaving for Atlanta and Houstional tourists choose the state — is insepaton.

None of this means New Orleans is beyond rable from New Orleans. A city supplying a disproportionate share of state taxes, brand criticism. But a fair accounting of who’s carrying weight for whom has to start with recognition and cultural export value isn’t the fact that New Orleans isn’t the cause “special” in the dismissive sense Landry means. It’s special because it generates rev- of Louisiana’s problems. We are a source enue and brand value others cannot replace. of goodwill and economic strength for the whole state. It’s time to end the war on New Undercutting the city’s finances and capacOrleans. We all do better when we partner ity to govern itself doesn’t help Louisiana’s together to move Louisiana forward. budget; it erodes an asset the rest of the state relies on.

The rest of the state needs New Orleans Mitch Landrieu is a former legislator, as much as New Orleans needs the rest of lieutenant governor and mayor of New the state. When I was lieutenant governor Orleans.

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Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., left, speaks with customers Tanya and Ed Thompson at the Decadent Dogs pet store in South Haven, Mich., on July 7.

ISSUE OF THE WEEK DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM Candidates who belong to the Democratic Socialists of America have made a splash in recent elections in New york, Michigan and elsewhere.The term “socialism” carries much baggage in American politics, but victories by the party seem to indicate that could be changing.What does socialism mean in the context of today’s politics? Are these candidates promising something different than what was called socialism in the past, and which voters are responding to their message? Here are two perspectives:

Workers of the world not Self-described ‘socialists’ exactly uniting behind DSA are just that, socialists What did the country ever do to White prospect of a worker revolution, and then college graduates to make them feel so looked around the room and saw no workdisaffected from its economic and politiers, only intellectuals and activists like themselves. cal system?

The good news for DSA-aligned The wave of socialist victories candidates is that college-educated in Democratic primaries is being White people are very reliable votdriven by well-educated White voters who are more extreme than ers who can make a big difference the rest of the Democratic coaliin the kind of low-turnout primation. ries where anti-establishment, leftRich The latest evidence is a new poll wing candidates thrive.

Lowry in the closely watched Democratic A recent analysis in The New primary for a Senate seat in MichYork Times noted that Zohran Mamdani-endorsed socialist Darializa igan. The AOC-endorsed, Israel-hating Avila Chevalier defeated Rep. Adriano insurgent, Abdul El-Sayed, has had momentum, but is now narrowly trailing the Espaillat in a marquee New York City congressional primary while winning establishment candidate, Haley Stevens. high-education and higher-income areas; According to a Detroit News survey, Espaillat, in contrast, won in majorityStevens is ahead by about seven points, Hispanic and lower-income areas. with demographic advantages that are Another Mamdani pick, Brad Lander very telling. similarly wiped up in high-income and Stevens, a goofy White lady, leads Elhigh-education areas while crushing Rep. Sayed by a 3-to-1 margin among Black Dan Goldman, whose strong performance voters. On the other hand, El-Sayed, a in low-income parts of the district didn’t person of color fully vested in the left’s save him.

Third Worldist agenda, leads among Socialistic economics may have appeal White voters, 51-39%. to working-class voters in theory, but the Stevens, a career apparatchik and poliDSA couples its economics with extreme tician, leads among noncollege-educated views on cultural issues that have very voters, 56-34%, whereas El-Sayed, who little appeal with non-college-educated has been endorsed by the Working Families Party, is ahead with college-educated voters. Tax the rich? Sure. Transcend the gender binary? No, thanks — whatever voters, 48-41%. that means.

The respective strengths of the two That the average Black Democrat is candidates run against the grain of what more moderate and pragmatic than the you might expect in a race between a conventional Democrat and a radical, yet average White Democrat may prove the accord with what we’ve seen in campaign ultimate check on whether an AOC-type candidate can claim the big prize of the after campaign.

Democratic presidential nomination in Socialists may imagine themselves the champions of people of color and of work- 2028.

It’s one thing to appeal to the so-called ers, but their movement is, by and large, Commie Belt in New York City, the most attractive to Caucasian associate young, highly educated, diverse neighprofessors of sociology who think they haven’t achieved the station in life that borhoods in Queens and Brooklyn that they deserve. so strongly backed Zohran Mamdani; It’s less a proletarian phenomenon than it’s quite another to win over the older, a project of frustrated Ph.D. candidates religious African American voters in, say, and medium-level professionals.

South Carolina’s I-95 Black Belt.

Because many socialist candidates have In the 2020 primaries, Bernie Sanders immigrant backgrounds, it can be tempt- ran a campaign of great verve and ideoing to consider the movement as fundalogical energy, while Joe Biden stumbled mentally a function of immigration, when from one early setback to another — yet, Black Democrats decided that the former that’s not true. vice president was the safer choice, and A 2021 survey of DSA members found that was the end of Sanders. that they were disproportionately White, In short, the workers of the world may at 85%, and disproportionately had colone day unite, but not behind a socialist lege degrees (80%) or a higher degree vessel for the grievances of ideologically (35%). exotic, college-educated White people.

This leaves them in a similar predicament to pioneering communists and Rich Lowry is on X, @RichLowry. socialists in Europe who talked up the

I’ve come to expect pushback on my But broadly, the party seems far columns from readers who disagree. I from traditional socialists — doctrienjoy the back-and-forth. Occasional- naire, immersed in the deep lore of ly, however, I encounter a response so the movement, obsessed with details of their proposed systems. The DSA’s off the wall that I am too speechless platform seems curiously to dive into the fray. This hapsparse by contrast, more of a pened a few weeks ago, when I vibe than a five-year plan. wrote about the rising socialist Note that Mamdani couched faction stirring up Democratic his grocery proposal as a pilot politics. project and has now delayed it.

“Why are you calling them Megan ega That’s some comfort to socialists?” some readers deMcArdle Democrats who might want manded. a few more government proFeebly, I responded, “Because they call themselves grams, but don’t actually want socialists.” It’s literally in the name of the government to nationalize their their organization: Democratic Social- Chevy Tahoes. They can insist that the socialists aren’t really socialists under ists of America.

But isn’t there a difference between the old meaning of the word; really, they’re just good progressives who the Union of Soviet Socialist Repubwant social democracy — you know, a lics and democratic socialism? That Scandinavian-style welfare state. was the question from readers who That’s not really true — the DSA were scandalized by my remark that candidates who have recently el“aging Gen Xers who thought that socialism had been decisively refuted bowed establishment Democrats by the fall of the Berlin Wall have aside want something more transforbeen refuted ourselves” as DSA mem- mational than a bigger safety net. But one could argue that it’s functionally bers won primary after primary. true of how socialists will govern, Indeed, if we start with the word because there’s little appetite outside “democratic,” those differences are of progressive primary voters for interesting to consider. radical change, or the taxes to pay for I stand by my assertion that the Soviet Union’s demise cast a long pall it. In fact, we seem to be experiencing something of a tax revolt. over the word “socialism” — at least Today’s America is an aging society for those who had not already recoiled from the purges, famines and censor- with a looming entitlement crisis and wage growth that is not even outpacship. I grew up on the Upper West Side, one of the remaining redoubts ing inflation. Any big expansion of the of socialism in the Reagan era, and welfare state will mean significantly watched as the toppling of the Berlin curtailing the disposable income of Wall crushed the last hopes that centhe middle class.

The rise of the neo-socialists retral planning could work. Encountering a socialist holdout in the 1990s was flects frustrated older dreams of a as quaint as finding someone who still European-style social democracy. believed in alchemy.

Obamacare was the high-water mark This makes the current renaisof that hope, but its architects lacked a mandate for the requisite taxes or sance all the more remarkable. Yet true disruption of the status quo, so what’s also striking is how little the they settled for modest patches rather movement resembles the socialists I than comprehensive reform. Disapremember from my youth.

Sure, you can see the common anpointed socialists have decided we must transform existing political and cestry in spots — notably Darializa economic frameworks, rather than Avila Chevalier, who recently won working inside them. the Democratic nomination for New That was also the understanding of York’s 13th Congressional District, the socialists of yore. The difference and whose now-deleted tweets occais that they were clearer about what sionally sounded borderline Leninist. that would entail — which is why they New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a never got very far politically. member of the DSA, promoted a plan for government-owned grocery stores that certainly gave off old-school soMegan McArdle is on X, @asymmetricinfo. cialist vibes.

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TAMPA, Fla. — The question Lane Kiffin received Thursday was meandering, beginning with all of the wins and highly-ranked recruiting classes he accumulated in six seasons at Ole Miss and ending with his controversial comments in Vanity Fair.

If Oxford, Mississippi, didn’t have the “diversity” challenges Kiffin described in the magazine, does he believe those numbers could have been even better?

“I had a feeling that was going somewhere,” Kiffin interjected from the SEC media days podium, smiling as he started an equally winding answer.

He made, admittedly, a difficult decision taking the LSU job. This might not seem related, but he recently watched a television special on Hulk Hogan, who died in July 2025, and there were two people Kiffin believed would never leave this earth.

His dad, Monte, the legendary Bucs defensive coordinator, and The Hulkster.

“It just made me reflect really on, like, I can’t be so concerned about little things and what people say,” Kiffin said. “You’ve got to make decisions.”

He may never find an explanation that resonates with everyone, but Kiffin at least tried to use the SEC media days stage to explain why he’s representing his leaguerecord third conference school as a head coach.

His apologies may never satisfy Ole Miss partisans after he left before a College Football Playoff run and later characterized Oxford as he did. He said Thursday he believes his quote on the difficulties of recruiting Black athletes to Mississippi was “factual,” but he may have chosen the wrong words at the wrong time.

He knows he can be as detailed as humanly possible about why he took the LSU job, and he may still fail to convince people. That’s maybe why he held back from adding one more data point after his Hulk Hogan refrain.

But Kiffin reached the next microphone, and he offered his point anyway.

“I didn’t really want to say it,” Kiffin said. “But when you talk about the change in places, somebody said it the other day … ‘He’s been (at LSU) six months, and he’s had more five-star signings and commits than he did in the previous six years combined.’

“That’s kind of proof to me of the decision and of the

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TAMPA, Fla. — No one is neutral on Lane Kiffin.

People love him or hate him. At Ole Miss, fans used to love him and now hate him.

At LSU, they used to hate him (admit it) and now love him. Much of college football fandom, which casts Ole Miss in the role of underdog/jilted lover now that Kiffin is at LSU, doesn’t like him. His approval ratings, were he running for national office, would have a political consultant reaching for an ice bag and a couple Scott of aspirin.

Rabalais But no one shrugs and says, “Kiffin? Don’t have an opinion.”

Kiffin and LSU finally had their turn Thursday in person in the SEC media days spotlight at the Tampa Marriott Water Street.

Kiffin really was here all four days. In the air. Being mentioned either by the reporters and pundits covering the league’s enormous kickoff event or by the other players and coaches themselves.

Whichever side of the Kiffin fence you come down on — Adonis or troll, to use points of reference from Georgia coach Kirby Smart — LSU’s first-year coach was THE story of SEC Media Days 2026. Texas quarterback Arch Manning, he of the New Orleans quarterbacking House of Manning, got his due attention. And the aforementioned Georgia Bulldogs, going for their third straight SEC title for the first time since the days of Herschel Walker, were also headline grabbers.

But let’s be real. Kiffin is the most famous college coach in the country going into this season. A few examples: n The provision in the proposed Protect College Sports Act that would prohibit coaches from changing schools before their current school’s season is over is referred to as the “Lane Kiffin Rule” because of the timing of his move from Ole Miss to LSU.

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LSU coach Lane Kiffin speaks at SEC media days on Thursday.

Pels sign second-round draft pick Pierre to a deal

Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley poses with draft pick Jaron Pierre during an introductory news conference on June 29.

Pierre, a New Orleans native, signed a two-way contract with the Pelicans on Thursday.

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New Orleans native joins team on a two-way contract

BY ROD WALKER Staff writer

The New Orleans Pelicans have signed their hometown draft pick.

Jaron Pierre, the former St. Augustine High standout selected in the second round in June’s NBA draft, signed a two-way contract with the Pelicans. The Pelicans announced the signing Thursday morning.

Pierre, who finished his collegiate career at SMU, was drafted with the No. 58 overall pick. He was the only draft pick the Pelicans had this year.

Joe Dumars, the Pelicans’ executive vicepresident of basketball operations, spoke after the draft about what the team liked about the 6-foot-5 guard.

“We’re trying to hit on every pick that we bring in here,” Dumars said. “We don’t take any of them for granted. There’s a certain

type of player that we are looking for. We are looking for guys who are competitive.

We are looking for guys who have toughness.

And we are looking for guys who really want to be here in New Orleans. Jaron checks the box for all of those.”

Pierre averaged 17.6 points, 4.9 rebounds and 2.1 assists during his one year at SMU. He scored a career-best 21.6 points per game the year before at Jacksonville State.

Pierre shot 37% on 3-pointers at SMU, the fourth school he attended. He began his college career at Southern Miss before transferring to Wichita State.

Pierre played in three games for the Pelicans during Summer League play in Las Vegas. He averaged 10 points and 1.7 rebounds.

His best game came against the Phoenix Suns when he scored 16 points and grabbed three rebounds.

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Kohles takes 1st-round lead in 3M Open

BY MIKE COOK Associated Press

BLAINE, Minn. — Ben Kohles eagled the final hole for a 9-under 62 and a two-shot lead Thursday after the first round of the 3M Open, leaving top-ranked Scottie Scheffler three shots back.

Emiliano Grillo, Jackson Koivun and Gary Woodland opened with 64s, and Scheffler topped the group at 65 in his first appearance in the event.

Coming off a fourth-place finish Sunday in the British Open, Scheffler was 1 under through eight holes, then birdied five of the next eight.

“I didn’t hit a bunch of fairways early, but I was able to kind of manage my way around and get out of some trouble areas without making any bogeys.

That was important keeping my momentum going,” he said.

“Once I started to hit fairways and gave myself some looks, was able to start making some birdies.”

Kohles’ second shot from 241 yards out on the par-5 finishing hole settled 4 feet from the cup.

The short putt capped a careerbest round for the 36-year-old who has split the season between the PGA and Korn Ferry tours.

In a nine-hole stretch beginning on No. 6, he birdied every other hole and added another birdie at No. 15 to tie for the lead at 7 under.

“I was just in control all day,” he said.

Three weeks ago, Kohles nearly got his first career win, but a double bogey on the final hole resulted in a third-place finish at the John Deere Classic.

“Of course you would like the outcome to be different, but you’ve just got to keep putting

ATLANTA — Braves right fielder Ronald Acuña Jr. could be activated from the injured list and return to the lineup for the team’s threegame series in Baltimore starting Friday, Atlanta manager Walt Weiss said Thursday.

Acuña is scheduled to play Thursday night with Triple-A Gwinnett.

Acuña was placed on the injured list with a left hamstring strain on June 9, the second time this season it prompted a trip to the IL. Acuña missed 15 games in May with the same injury.

The 2023 MVP has played seven minor league games during his rehab assignment, three with the Braves rookie league affiliate in Florida and four with Triple-A Gwinnett.

Mavericks re-sign Cisse after reports of offer from Knicks

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Ben Kohles hits from the 16th hole during the first round of the 3M Open at the Tournament Players Club on Thursday in Blaine, Minn. the pedal down and see where you go,” he said.

Koivun birdied four holes on the front nine and three on the back during a bogey-free round at the TPC Twin Cities where scores are traditionally low. In the tournament’s seven previous years, the average winning score was 19 under.

“Playing smart, playing for

a score. Just executing when the time is right and getting aggressive when you can,” he said.

“Just felt like I did a good job of taking advantage of that today.”

In his 13th tour start, but just third as a professional, 64 is the lowest score in Koivun’s 43 career rounds. The 21-year-old turned professional in June after dominating at Auburn, in-

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cluding a school-record 11 wins.

Grillo made birdie on five of his first seven holes and added three straight birdies starting at No. 12. However, he played the final three holes in 1-over.

“Any day beating Scottie Scheffler is a good day, so I’ll take that,” he said.

Reigning champion Kurt Kitayama shot 68.

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Aston Martin driver Fernando Alonso steers his car during free practice ahead of the Formula One Grand Prix on Saturday at the SpaFrancorchamps racetrack in Stavelot, Belgium.

Belgium, where the cars ran out of battery power on the long straights.

“I think it’s not fun to watch, it’s not fun to drive, and we’ve been

repeating the same thing every single Grand Prix,” he said. “It’s not the same adrenaline that I used to have driving a Formula 1 car. That’s something that I need

to put on the table. It’s not a problem with the competitiveness of the team. It’s just a problem of whether Formula 1 gives me the adrenaline that I need to live.”

Aston Martin is bringing a major package of upgrades to its car for the Hungarian Grand Prix.

An engine upgrade from supplier Honda is expected later, but Hungary’s relatively slow and twisty track could make up for the Aston Martin’s lack of power.

Alonso said he still believed Newey and Honda could deliver a world-beating car and engine combination given time.

“I think I have a pretty clear picture of the team, that we will fix all the problems. They take time, but I have no doubts, zero doubts, that Adrian will provide the best car on the grid sooner or later,” he said.

“I would like to see the first step with this package ... and I think there’s going to be more to come next year, that’s for sure, and in the years to come. On the power unit, I have no doubts as well.”

Bowman to retire from full-time racing after ’27 season The Associated Press CONCORD, N.C. — NASCAR driver Alex Bowman will retire from full-time racing following the 2027 season.

Bowman, who had been in the final year of his contract at powerhouse Hendrick Motorsports, signed a one-year extension before announcing his future plans on Thursday.

The 33-year-old Bowman missed four races earlier this season because of vertigo and also was sidelined in 2022 because of a concussion and the

HENDERSON, Nev. — Quarterback Fernando Mendoza, the top overall pick in this year’s draft, signed a fouryear, $57.27 million contract with the Las Vegas Raiders on Thursday.

The Raiders hold a fifth-year option.

Mendoza was the last of the Raiders’ 10 draft picks to sign.

“I’m excited to get this thing signed,” Mendoza said on the team’s social media post. “I’m excited to be a part of the silver and black. Can’t wait.”

He ran the third-team offense in organized team activities and minicamp, but is expected to take on a larger role in training camp, which begins Wednesday.

Veteran Kirk Cousins, who signed a free-agent contract worth $20 million guaranteed, enters camp as the No. 1 quarterback.

Braves’ Acuña could return from IL for Baltimore series

Alonso links future to making cars enjoyable to drive MOGYOROD, Hungary — Fernando Alonso has suggested his future in Formula 1 could depend on whether the cars become more enjoyable to drive.

Alonso and Aston Martin have struggled with a slow and unreliable car, the first produced with car design great Adrian Newey in charge. Alonso scored the team’s only point so far this season at the Monaco Grand Prix.

The two-time F1 champion turns 45 next week and signed what was described as a “multiyear” extension in 2024. He confirmed he still has a contract for 2027 with Aston Martin, “so I’m not moving.”

“For me, I’m relaxed. As I’ve said many times, I’m thinking.

I need to know what I do next year and in the years to come.

I feel fresh, I feel motivated, I feel fast, but I need to enjoy also what I do,” Alonso said ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Alonso was sharply critical of the last two races in Britain and

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following year because of a back injury. He drives the No. 48 Chevrolet for Hendrick and currently sits 29th in points, well below the 16-driver cutline for the postseason.

“I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what’s next, and this feels like the right decision at the right time,” Bowman said.

“The sport asks a lot of you, and I’ve learned it’s important to listen to your body and make the right choices for yourself. ...

“My focus now is on making the most of my time on the racetrack and competing for wins.

We still have a lot to accomplish, and I want to close my career on a high note for our team and our fans. To have the chance to do that with this organization and these people is really special.”

While driving most of his 12-year career for Hendrick, Bowman has eight Cup Series victories and has qualified for the playoffs seven times since 2018. The 2027 campaign would be Bowman’s 10th with Hendrick.

“Alex has meant so much to our organization for a long time,” team owner Rick Hen-

drick said. “He’s overcome adversity, won big races and represented our team and partners with professionalism, personality and class. Alex is a tremendous talent in the race car and an even better person outside of it. We’re proud he’ll have the opportunity to finish his full-time career with us on his terms.

He’s family.”

Bowman is expected to eclipse 400 career Cup starts next season. He has competed in 307 races for Hendrick, which ranks sixth in team history.

DALLAS — The Dallas Mavericks have re-signed restricted free agent Moussa Cisse in the wake of multiple reports that the second-year center had signed an offer sheet with the New York Knicks.

The team didn’t disclose the terms in the deal announced Wednesday.

According to multiple reports, the Mavericks matched the Knicks’ offer on a $4.7 million, two-year contract.

Cisse went undrafted out of Memphis last year and spent the season with the Mavericks on a two-way contract. The 6-foot-11 Cisse gives Dallas depth at center behind Dereck Lively II and Daniel Gafford.

Cisse tied Roy Tarpley’s Dallas rookie record of 20 rebounds in the 2025-26 season finale against Chicago.

Osborne becomes 1st living inductee to Nebraska HOF

LINCOLN, Neb. — Tom Osborne, who coached Nebraska to three national championships in the 1990s and ended his career with one of the highest winning percentages in college football history, on Wednesday became the first living person voted into the state historical society’s Nebraska Hall of Fame.

The state legislature in April passed a law paving the way for the 89-year-old Osborne’s entry.

The law set aside the stipulation that a person must be deceased at least 35 years before he or she can be considered. The hall of fame commission voted 7-0 in favor of Osborne’s induction.

After retiring from coaching after the 1997 season, Osborne was a three-term congressman.

Trump fetes Dodgers at White House again

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump feted Shohei Ohtani, Freddie Freeman and the World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers at the White House on Thursday, calling the team “one of the great brands anywhere in the world” during a Rose Garden event celebrating their second title in as many years.

Trump said the Dodgers edging the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 7 last fall capped “a hell of a series.”

He indicated he was surprised to learn the Dodgers had never before won consecutive titles.

The Dodgers gave Trump what looked like a replica of a World Series ring. That prompted Trump to exclaim: “Wow. Do I have to report this? I don’t want to report this” before slipping the ring into the inside pocket of his suit jacket.

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Trump provokes complaint to FIFA ethics investigators

BY GRAHAM DUNBAR AP sportswriter

GENEVA — U.S. President Donald Trump’s role in clearing Folarin Balogun from a mandatory one-game ban at the World Cup is set to provoke a formal complaint to FIFA ethics investigators.

The Norway soccer federation said Thursday its board of directors will consider filing the complaint at its next meeting, likely on Aug. 6.

“We need our leader in FIFA to say that this was an error,” Norwegian federation president Lise Klaveness told London daily The Times in an interview published Thursday.

After Trump called FIFA president Gianni Infantino, a one-game ban for Balogun’s red-card tackle against Bosnia-Herzegovina was deferred so he could play against Belgium with a quarterfinals place at stake.

Belgium beat the U.S. 4-1 after a chaotic 36 hours at the World Cup. The Belgium players were seemingly fired up by one of the alltime controversies in tournament history.

Trump called the referee’s red card for Balogun after video review a “horrible”

call and took credit for getting FIFA to review what should routinely have been a one-game ban.

“We all know that this verdict was influenced from external forces and did not have the proper process,” Klaveness told The Times of the FIFA ruling that was unprecedented in the past 60 years at World Cups.

“When you bend a rule like this, you’re on a slippery slope that will put the whole game at risk,” said the former Women’s World Cup player for Norway, who is an elected member of European soccer body UEFA’s executive committee.

Soccer’s conscience Klaveness is a lawyer and judge who has positioned the Norwegian federation as a conscience in world soccer since her election in 2022.

“It is a worry for the game when you compromise fundamental rules of the game,” she said Thursday about not enforcing Balogun’s ban.

Norway previously joined a London-based NGO’s complaint to the FIFA ethics committee alleging Infantino breached a statutory duty of political neutrality, including by creating a peace prize to award to

Trump at the World Cup draw in December.

The close personal and political ties between Trump and Infantino include the U.S. president believing the soccer official could be a good pick as next secretary general of the United Nations, the New York Post reported this week.

Olympics complaint The human rights NGO, FairSquare, also has filed an ethics complaint about the Balogun incident to the International Olympic Committee, where Infantino is an elected member, about breaching its rules on political neutrality.

FIFA and the IOC rarely acknowledge or provide updates on potential cases before their ethics bodies.

The independence of FIFA’s process to handle complaints alleging unethical conduct has been questioned since the lead investigator and judge both were replaced in 2017, in the second year of Infantino’s presidency.

FIFA has yet to publish documents explaining how its disciplinary judges reached verdicts about Balogun or other World Cup players.

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FIFA president Gianni Infantino, left, and President Donald J. Trump talk as they wait to congratulate the Spanish players after their World Cup final victory on Sunday in East Rutherford, N.J.

WNBA discuss steps to protect players from online harassment

BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert discussed what more can be done to protect players from online harassment during a virtual meeting with the players’ union executive committee and the union’s Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee.

The call Tuesday night came at the union’s request.

Players have been sharing threats and harassment they’ve received on social media over the last few weeks. Chelsea Gray of the Las Vegas Aces posted a message from a man that included a racial slur. The man was tracked down and fired from his job at Hilton Grand Vacations.

“The conversation underscored the importance of addressing issues early through proactive communication and strengthening the league-union relationship,” the league and union said in a joint statement Wednesday. “The league committed to continuing to enhance security resources and will work with the players’ union to explore collaborations with organizations that share the values of our league and advance our shared priorities.”

Dealing with abuse toward players has been a priority of the league the last few years, including the “No Space for Hate” platform that was introduced last season. Part of that program in-

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Ecuador’s Richard Carapaz celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the 18th stage of the Tour de France with start in Voiron and finish in Orcieres Merlette, France, on Thursday.

Carapaz wins stage 18 of the Tour de France The Associated Press ORCIERES-MERLETTE, France — Ecuadorian rider Richard Carapaz timed his attack perfectly in the final climb to win the 18th stage of the Tour de France on Thursday, while Tadej Pogacar finished a few minutes behind and maintained his significant overall lead.

It was the 33-year-old Carapaz’s first stage win at this year’s race and second overall. He was not chased down by Pogacar because he is not considered a threat to win the Tour, and is in 10th spot.

“This is a wonderful victory,” Carapaz said. “I dedicate it to my family.”

After moving ahead about 3 kilometers (2 miles) from the summit, Carapaz raced clear. He patted each side of his head as he approached the finish line, and was 45 seconds ahead of Swiss rider Mauro Schmid and American Matteo Jorgenson.

“It’s been a special day.

It took a lot of hard work,” said Carapaz, who failed to win with a similar breakaway earlier in this year’s race. “This is the most rewarding thing for me, knowing that the work I

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put in has paid off.”

Pogacar is chasing a third straight Tour title and fifth overall. The Slovenian star rolled over the line in a large group containing his closest rival Remco Evenepoel and Pogacar’s UAE Emirates XRG teammate Isaac Del Toro.

There was no change overall as Pogacar maintained his lead of 4 minutes, 32 seconds over the Belgian time trial star Evenepoel, the winner of two stages at this year’s race, and 6:51 over the 22-yearold Mexican Del Toro in third overall.

Thursday’s stage was the first of three straight days of Alpine climbs.

The 185-kilometer (115mile) trek featured an early Category 1 climb — the second-hardest category — up Côte d’Engins, before ending with a Cat. 1 ascent to the Orcières-Merlette ski station.

After going over Engins, Jorgenson was in a small group at the front. They were then joined by Carapaz with Pogacar’s yellow jersey group clearly hanging back.

“I think nobody would really commit,” said Pogacar, who has won four stages at this year’s race.

Carapaz’s stage could have ended when he had a near miss with a fan stood in the road, just swerving around him in time.

Heading into the final climb up OrcièresMerlette, Jorgenson and Schmid could not respond when Carapaz, who won the 2019 Giro d’Italia, attacked.

“This final climb was tough and suited my strengths well,” said Carapaz, whose other Tour stage win came in 2024. “This was a hard-fought victory, but just as tough as the first one. It gets harder every year to win here.”

Tough climbs ahead Friday’s 19th stage ends with a HC climb (the hardest category) up L’Alpe d’Huez, an iconic Tour climb and among the most famed in cycling.

Saturday’s 20th and penultimate stage is brutal and could be epic. It features three HC climbs — Col de la Croix de Fer, Col du Galibier and Col de Sarenne — and one Cat. 1 climb up Col du Télégraphe, before a hilly finish to L’Alpe d’Huez.

The race ends Sunday on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.

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WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert speaks before Game 1 of the WNBA finals between the Las Vegas Aces and the Phoenix Mercury on Oct. 3 in Las Vegas. cluded the use of AI technology that players can use to filter out hateful comments.

When harassment escalates, the league’s security office launches an investigation.

Additional steps that were discussed in the meeting included pursuing accountability from tech companies and having more streamlined conversations between the WNBA and law enforcement.

“The biggest thing was communication,” WNBPA secretary Elizabeth Williams told reporters at shootaround Wednesday before her Chicago team played New York. “Communication from Cathy and the league side being a little more consistent, so we feel more comfortable.”

Alyssa Thomas received death threats and social

media vitriol after she hit Caitlin Clark in the throat a few weeks ago. No foul was called on the play, but the league upgraded it to a Flagrant-2 foul and suspended her for a game. Thomas said at the time she hadn’t heard from the league about the threats she had received.

Natasha Cloud, who previously said Engelbert hasn’t done enough to help the players, backed off a bit on Tuesday.

“There’s only so much that the league can do because people are going to be miserable and they’re going to be continue to be hateful human beings,” the Sky guard said Tuesday after practice. “We can find these IP addresses. We can make sure that bans are banned for life from certain arenas, certain teams, certain leagues.”

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LESS IS MORE Kiffin was uncommonly candid about eliminating negatives in his life, including alcohol, changing his diet and what he called “toxic relationships.” His son Knox challenged him to get off social media, which has been trouble for Kiffin in the past. “If you know me, that’s the best thing to do.

Just say I can’t do it and I’m going to do it.” Kiffin’s accounts still bear monitoring, but he has posted only once on X.com since May 11.

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THE TAMPA 2 Kiffin was asked about the “Lane Kiffin Rule,” part of the Protect College Sports Act to prohibit coaches leaving before their season ends, and his comments about cultural difficulties in recruiting at Ole Miss compared to LSU. Kiffin said he hopes future coaches are “not put in that situation” as he was changing jobs. He didn’t walk back, saying civil rights issues made recruiting tough at Ole Miss, but apologized for his timing and choice of words.

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LOUISIANA LANE Kiffin has gotten a lot of play, positive and negative, about saying LSU “is just different.” He expounded on that Thursday: “These seven months at LSU have been awesome. Just seeing that Louisiana is built out of hardworking people that are really passionate and love football. I think that really fits in well with our staff and the values and principles that we bring into our organization, into our football program. That’s been great.”

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Texas quarterback Arch Manning looks to make a pass under pressure during the second half of a game against Florida on Oct. 4 in Gainesville, Fla.

Sarkisian: ‘99% of people’ would have been ‘destroyed’ Texas coach credits Manning’s poise after rough start

BY JON BLAU Staff writer

TAMPA, Fla. — Texas coach Steve Sarkisian was elated when he received his first question Thursday about quarterback Arch Manning.

He’d waited all day to address criticism of the New Orleans native, which had nothing to do with the player and everything to do with his last name.

“It’d like to touch on that,” Sarkisian said at SEC media days. “Arch Manning a year ago wasn’t on social media or on television saying ‘I’m gonna be the first pick of the (NFL) draft.’ He wasn’t on television saying ‘I’m gonna win the Heisman Trophy.’ ” But others were saying it for the nephew of Peyton and Eli Manning.

Then he guided the Longhorns to a 9-3 season that fell just shy of the College Football Playoff.

“He didn’t play to the way he was capable of playing, and then those same people that were saying that about him wanted to criticize and demean him for letting them down because he didn’t live up to what they thought he would be,” Sarkisian said.

“What he got put through probably would have melted or destroyed 99% of people.”

But Manning arrived in Tampa, Florida, this week, fully intact, coolly answering reporters’ questions.

Earlier in the day, LSU coach Lane Kiffin talked about comparison being a thief of joy, because he felt so much better being off of social media. Manning has hundreds of thousands of followers on social media, but his accounts are purely for promotional purposes. He literally “follows” no one on the site X. “My goal this offseason was just to stay present, take it one day at a time. I’m not really worried about the outside world,” Manning said.

“That’s what I’ll continue to try to do.”

Texas comes into the 2026 season with immense expectations because the redshirt junior Manning, a Newman High School grad, has one of the most talented receiving duos in the country with Ryan Wingo and Cam Coleman.

He’s certainly looking forward to a visit to his home state and LSU on Nov. 14.

“I grew up going to Baton Rouge for football games,” Manning said. “It’s going to be a good game.

They’re a great program with a bunch of good players. So we’re

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Texas quarterback Arch Manning answers questions at SEC media days on Thursday in Tampa, Fla. excited.”

More schedule talk Sarkisian has experienced both the risks and the rewards of playing meaningful nonconference games.

In 2024, the Longhorns handled a top-10 Michigan team, which probably helped two-loss Texas host a first-round game in the CFP and make a run to the semifinals.

In 2025, Texas lost the first game of a home-and-home series at Ohio State, which probably bounced the three-loss Longhorns from the CFP. He posed a rhetorical question Thursday: If he scheduled Jones Junior High in 2025 rather than the Buckeyes, would 10-2 Texas have made the 12-team field?

“There’s risk involved in playing a high-level, nonconference schedule. But there’s a lot of value in that win,” Sarkisian said. “Is the juice worth the squeeze or not?”

Sarkisian wasn’t as critical as some of his colleagues at SEC media days, such as Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz, who agreed with Kiffin that the league’s nine-game slate, plus a required Power Four nonconference opponent, wasn’t the “right play.”

The Longhorns coach did say it’s “common sense” to weigh wins that come on the road more heavily than home games, which the CFP committee doesn’t.

Power Four programs are trending toward more matchups with Jones Junior High because the committee doesn’t seem to delve deeply into a team’s record.

“If we’re at 9-3, these other teams (are) getting in and strength of schedule’s not mattering like it should,” Kiffin said, “you’re going to get teams that start not playing big nonconference games … be-

cause they realize the risk-reward isn’t there.”

Silverfield doesn’t throw podium Florida coach Jon Sumrall joked about throwing his media days podium at a reporter Wednesday after their phone alarm went off in the middle of his Q and A. Another first-year coach, Arkansas’ Ryan Silverfield, didn’t playfully lose his cool when he was asked why the Razorbacks aren’t highly regarded. Because the question included a mention of Silverfield’s 5-1 record against the SEC’s current slate of coaches.

“Keep doubting me,” said Silverfield, who was previously at Memphis. “What did you say my record was against the coaches in this conference?”

“5-1, coach,” the media member responded.

“OK, thanks. Yeah, that’s great,” Silverfield said. “I won’t throw the podium at you. I appreciate that.”

That stat has a caveat: Those wins came against just two coaches.

Silverfield beat South Florida’s Alex Golesh, who is now the head coach at Auburn, three times. He also topped Sumrall and Tulane twice, while he lost a game to Missouri’s Eli Drinkwitz in 2023.

Now, Silverfield faces a ninegame conference slate with a program that finished 2-10 last season.

His SEC schedule will end with LSU on Nov. 28.

“Listen, we’ll look up in December and see where we’re at, and so be it. Hopefully we’re not at the back end,” Silverfield said. “We continue to make steps in the right direction … let people have their opinions and their thoughts.”

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combination of the two, us and LSU.” Kiffin doesn’t like to speak in the third-person. But it’s the “Lane Kiffin Effect,” he said.

LSU has the branding, the history, the 100,000-seat stadium.

“Then you put that with us, with our systems,” Kiffin said, and it should amplify everything.

He pointed out that a dozen LSU players are slated to have NIL deals with Nike this season. No other school has more than eight.

“It’s a big reason why we’re here,” Kiffin said. “I said it at that first press conference (in December); it’s just different. We’re going to make this thing different than anywhere else when you combine LSU and us. And you’re seeing that.”

Inevitably, negative storylines have swirled nationally about the duplicitous Lane Kiffin who left Tennessee for Southern Cal after just one season, then bounced from Ole Miss to LSU and attempted to raid the Rebels’ roster.

Kiffin was asked directly if his reputation as “the coach who left his team” has made it more difficult to build trust with recruits and their families.

“People were saying that would be a big thing. They don’t (ask),” Kiffin said. “They wanna know how they’ll be coached, how do they fit into the program, and what’s their NIL deal.”

For the first three days of SEC media days, other schools’ coaches and players were peppered with questions about Kiffin. They provided answers that were colorful and cold.

Tennessee coach Josh Heupel joked that Knoxville needs to be well-stocked with golf balls and mustard bottles for Kiffin’s next trip to Neyland Stadium.

Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy, who was courted to Baton Rouge but stayed in Oxford, was asked to describe his rela-

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tionship with Kiffin and plainly described him as his “old head coach last year.” And that was it.

Kiffin said he doesn’t hear most of the outside noise because of a recent social media cleanse — he hasn’t posted to X since May 11 — but his PR person gave him a printout of Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding’s comments about a lack of “ill will” between them.

“We have a great relationship,” Kiffin said, comparing his three seasons with Golding to his three as an understudy at Nick Saban’s Alabama. “We went through a lot in those three years, probably had the best three-year run in the history of the school.”

Kiffin sometimes likes to chart instances of the “butterfly effect” with the coordinator still at his side, Charlie Weis Jr., and they have talked about Ole Miss’ win over then-No. 4 LSU last September and how it eventually led to Brian Kelly’s ouster.

Not everyone might agree or understand, but Kiffin believes everything worked out.

For Ole Miss and LSU. “We took a new job, and in a lot of ways, a lot of people won,” Kiffin said. “A lot of coaches either stayed or came. They were able to keep Pete Golding, so he became a head coach. Players got a lot of really big contracts at both places.

“And both places are talked about a lot as premier programs heading into next year. There’s a lot of positives that came from that game that day.”

On this day in Tampa, he preached the gospel of what a Kiffin-led LSU can be.

“I’ve built my life on pushing out of comfort. And that may not be for everybody, and that’s fine.

That’s just how I am,” Kiffin said.

“Everyone talks about the pressure of LSU and what comes with that … then there’s the expectations that everybody in the media has that we’re supposed to be this great team right away.

“That’s an awesome challenge.

You want to talk about getting uncomfortable? That does it.”

when it lured him away from Michigan State. LSU is doing the Continued from page 1C same thing with Kiffin now.

No games played yet. Certainly no wins. But there are signs. n Which coach was featured in Kiffin said LSU has a nation’sbest 12 players with Nike NIL a cover story — a controversial deals. That number includes a cover story, naturally — in Vanity Fair of all places? Not to pick returning vet like linebacker Whit Weeks as well as Colorado on him per se, but it wasn’t Mistransfer Jordan Seaton, who Kifsissippi State’s Jeff Lebby. n Even when Kiffin didn’t fin said is the first offensive lineman with such a deal. Kiffin said make news this offseason, it no other school has more than made news. He’s only posted eight Nike NIL-ers. once on X.com (formerly TwitWhy LSU? Because they’re ter) since May 11. Highly unusutalented players, certainly. Beal. Like many of you, I assumed Kiffin had been off social media cause LSU has an established and colorful brand, for sure. because of backlash about his And because of Kiffin. The comments in the Vanity Fair piece, in which he basically said whole thing is a heady mix that ESPN’s Jordan Rodgers said it was harder to recruit to Ole must produce a national conMiss than LSU because of his tender now or Year 1 is a failure. former school’s checkered civil rights history. Kiffin said Thurs- I think that’s hyperbole, but Kiffin has promised a national title day he cut himself off because of a challenge from his son Knox in his tenure.

He clearly sounds more confito go cold turkey. dent than ever that he made the As always with Kiffin, it’s up right move in going to LSU. for the observer to decide.

“I said seven months ago when Kiffin hasn’t won a national championship like Smart, who has I took the job … we’re coming to LSU to sign the best players two. He hasn’t even coached in in the country out of high school a College Football Playoff game like Jon Sumrall did at Tulane be- and then mix that with the best portal players in the country and fore taking the job at Florida.

Tulane, as Sumrall reminded ev- put them together,” Kiffin said.

“That’s led us into this roster eryone here Tuesday, played Ole Miss twice in 2025 “and they beat that we have now, which is a rethe (bleep) out of us.” Once in the ally good mixture of that.

“That roster is exciting to regular season with Kiffin, once in the CFP without Kiffin, who left a work with. I can’t wait to get to program still running straight and the field, get back to fall camp true on a course the visor-wearing to do that. But it also excites me about the future of LSU, too. Not hot yoga devotee set for it. just this year.”

Still, Kiffin is the story. He is The potential of an exciting the show. Why? Because he’s era at LSU brings the prospect considered an offensive genius, of more love for Kiffin. More much in the way Nick Saban (who hired him at Alabama then hate. More headlines.

But no neutrality. got rid of him mid-playoff run Who needs it, anyway? because Kiffin was distracted by his next job at FAU) was considered a defensive genius when For more LSU sports updates, LSU hired him in 1999. sign up for our newsletter at LSU bet on Saban’s reputation theadvocate.com/lsunewsletter

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Panthers lose OLB Scourton to torn ACL

BY STEVE REED AP sportswriter

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers have lost outside linebacker Nic Scourton for the season after tore the ACL in his right knee on the first day of training camp on Thursday, according to a person familiar with the situation.

The person, who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the team has not yet announced the news, said Scourton will be placed on injured reserve this week.

Scourton is expected to have a second opinion on the diagnosis, the person said It’s a huge blow for the Panthers, who were counting on Scourton to be a top pass rusher opposite recently signed free agent Jaelan Phillips.

Scourton, a second-round pick in 2025 out of Texas A&M, had an outstanding rookie season for the Panthers, playing in 17 games with eight starts. He finished the season with 47 tackles, five sacks and nine quarterback hits while developing into a key starter for the NFL’s 15th-ranked defense.

“I’m just sick about it,” Panthers general manager Dan Morgan said Thursday night.

Scourton went down on a wet field late in practice during team drills. Players immediately gathered around him on one knee.

Scourton held his hand over his face as he was led into an awaiting cart.

As he was leaving the field, the cart stopped and Canales and every player on the roster individually walked over to hug Scourton before he was taken to the training room.

“They care about each other,” Panthers coach Dave Canales said. “Whenever you’re

in a group of people doing something hard together, it has a way of creating a special bond. Between all the workouts and going through a full season and an offseason and all that, it means something to the guys. I’m proud of that.”

Scourton appeared to be engaged in a block with an offensive lineman at the time of the injury.

Panthers quarterback Bryce Young was near the play at the time, but said he did not see what happened.

He praised Scourton for how quickly he has developed into a leader on defense.

“It’s been really cool to see him come into his own,” Young said. “He has a superhigh motor, has great energy. He’s fun to be around. He turns into that different competitor when he’s on the field. We feel that during practice. He has raised the level of (intensity at) practice many times. We don’t know anything yet (on the injury), but we’re just praying for him.”

It’s unclear who will take Scourton’s place in the starting lineup.

The defending NFC South champions are struggling out of the gate with setbacks.

Panthers longtime right tackle Taylor Moton is out after a blood clot was discovered in his lungs. With left tackle Ickey Ekwonu still recovering from a torn patellar tendon in his knee suffered in last season’s wildcard playoff loss to the Los Angeles Rams, the Panthers will begin the season without both starting tackles on the sideline.

Both are expected to return at some point this season, Morgan said.

Two-time Pro Bowl cornerback Jaycee Horn is dealing with a foot laceration and did not practice Thursday. Defensive tackles Tershawn Wharton (neck) and Bobby Brown (hamstring) were also out.

QB Brissett practices for Cardinals but his contract situation remains unsettled

BY DAVID BRANDT AP sportswriter

GLENDALE, Ariz. — One of the initial tasks for first-year Arizona Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur is figuring out who the team’s starting quarterback will be, now that the postKyler Murray era has arrived.

The answer might not be coming any time soon.

Veteran Jacoby Brissett — who started the final 12 games last season — was the initial favorite to land the role, but didn’t practice with the team during the offseason because he’s unhappy with his contract situation. However, he participated in Thursday’s workout in a signal a new deal could be close.

Brissett appears to be in a three-man battle with veteran Gardner Minshew and rookie Carson Beck for the starting job, but LaFleur didn’t give any clues about the depth chart when asked to describe the competition.

“I’d describe it as practice one on July 23,” LaFleur said.

The 33-year-old Brissett is in the final year of a $12.5 million, two-year deal, though only $1.5 million is guaranteed. If he remains the starter, he would be among the league’s lowest-paid quarterbacks.

Brissett had good individual stats last season with 3,366 yards passing, 23 touchdowns and eight interceptions, but the Cardinals went 1-11 in his starts. The Cardinals finished last in the NFC West at 3-14.

Safety Budda Baker made his feelings known about Brissett’s situation on social media earlier this month, posting: “Just want bro to get his (expletive) done… he is not asking for what you think. Bro is asking for below the bare minimum. Let’s just get it done!!!”

Baker stood by his statement on Thursday.

“I definitely think Jacoby did a great job coming in last year,” Baker said. “I know we didn’t get the wins that we wanted to get, but I think he commanded the offense at a high level.”

Johnson,Sweat on the PUP list Starting left tackle Paris Johnson (knee) and star edge rusher Josh Sweat (knee) opened camp on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list.

LaFleur said he wasn’t concerned about the long-term prognosis for either player.

“The Paris thing, that’s really, honestly nothing. We’re all on the same page, it’s really just maintenance stuff so he’ll be back before you know it,” LaFleur said. “Same thing with Josh. Seeing him yesterday, he’s fired up to be here. He was in great spirits and looked really good.”

Johnson and Sweat won’t practice, but they still count toward the 90-man training camp roster limit. They are permitted to attend meetings and can return to practice at any point during the preseason.

Johnson is entering his fourth season as a starter, while Sweat had a career-high 12

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Jacoby Brissett throws during training camp practice on Thursday in Glendale, Ariz.

sacks last season.

The other two on the PUP list — cornerback Garrett Williams (Achilles tendon) and Tip Reiman (ankle) — are still recovering from serious injuries that happened last season.

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Florida coach John Sumrall speaks during SEC media days on Wednesday in Tampa, Fla.

Florida to make billion-dollar stadium renovation gamble

Sumrall expected to generate wins, belief in program

BY MIKE BIANCHI

ter accepting the job at Florida (with the obvious but unsaid comparison to Lane Kiffin choosing not ORLANDO, Fla. — Steve Spurrier always called this time to coach Ole Miss in the of year “the talkin’ season.” playoff): “It (being able to coach Tulane in the playIt was one of those clasoff) was non-negotiable. I sic Spurrier expressions don’t care what the offer that perfectly captured was, if somebody had said the annual ritual of SEC Media Days and preseason we need you to take this job and do it on our terms (and news conferences. Every coach is undefeated. Every not coach Tulane in the quarterback has taken the playoff), the answer would not only have been no; it next step. Every transfer would have been hell no!” is exactly what the pron After a reporter’s phone gram needed. Every new strength and conditioning goes off and starts playcoach has made the playing music during his Media ers bigger, stronger, faster. Days news conference: “If Every new offensive coor- this was a team meeting, dinator is going to play fast you’d be kicked out. You’re lucky I’m not gonna throw and be explosive. Every this freaking podium.” new defensive coordinan On what it means to coach tor promises his guys will pin their ears back and be in the most storied conference more physical and aggres- in college football: “As a kid, I sive. Meanwhile, every fan grew up thinking there were three leagues — the AFC, the base convinces itself that NFC and the SEC. To be an this is finally the year.

SEC head coach is surreal.”

Translation: There are no n On his philosophy: “I’m losses in July, only optimism.

And if somebody handed a firm believer that the only out championship rings for disability in life is a bad atthe talkin’ season, Florida titude. I ain’t going to have coach Jon Sumrall would a bad attitude even when already have one. things go bad. That’s not Since the day he walked purple skies and butterflies.

There’s going to be adversiinto Gainesville, Sumrall has been exactly what a ty, but when it hits, you betweary Gator fan base des- ter respond with the right perately needed after four attitude. I want everybody in years of Billy Napier. He’s our building to be filled with urgency, excitement and been candid, charismatic passion about what they do.” and refreshingly quotn On his team’s potential able. He has challenged his players publicly, ener- outlook this season: “If we gized donors privately and don’t improve, we’re going to get our ass beat.” reconnected with a fan base that had grown emoThere is no question Sumtionally exhausted. His rall has been undefeated candidness, energy and in- during the talkin’ season. tensity even won over the His personality has been a welcome departure from room Wednesday at SEC the monotonous corporate Media Days in Tampa. droning that defined the Here’s a sampling: n On his decision to Napier era, when listencoach Tulane in the Col- ing to a press conference lege Football Playoff af- sometimes felt like sitting Orlando Sentinel (TNS)

through a quarterly shareholders meeting. Sumrall sounds like a football coach. More importantly, he sounds like somebody who understands exactly what Florida football is supposed to be.

But eventually, every talkin’ season comes to an end.

Soon enough, microphones give way to scoreboards, and first impressions are replaced by final records. That’s why this season feels different from most coaching debuts. Sumrall isn’t simply trying to rebuild a football program.

He’s taking over at perhaps the most consequential moment in the modern history of Florida athletics.

The timing could hardly be more significant.

Florida recently announced plans for a staggering $1.45 billion renovation of Ben Hill Griffin Stadium, believed to be the most expensive stadium renovation in the history of college athletics. The project will preserve the character of The Swamp while modernizing virtually every aspect of the facility, and much of it will be financed through long-term debt.

That represents a dramatic shift for an athletic department that has long prided itself on financial discipline. While other schools eagerly borrowed against the future to build ever-larger facilities, Florida generally preferred a more conservative approach.

Now the Gators are preparing to carry roughly a billion dollars in debt into an era when nobody can confidently explain what the financial model of college athletics will even look like five years from now.

Off-the-field issues percolate LaFleur’s first training camp — including the quarterback battle — has been overshadowed by off-the-field issues over the past few weeks.

The NFL suspended Cardinals personnel executive Ryan Gold indefinitely on July 17 for violating the league’s gambling policy. The league said its investigation determined that Gold provided confidential, non-public inside information regarding 2026 draft selections by the Cardinals before the picks were announced, and Gold also participated in parlay bets on NFL and college games.

Gold is in his 13th season with the organization.

More recently, Cardinals offensive lineman Isaiah Adams was arrested in Canada on four weapons charges. Adams, a third-year player who is competing for a starting spot, was at camp Thursday.

The 25-year-old was charged with possession of a firearm obtained in a crime, possession of a restricted/prohibited firearm, no license while in possession of a loaded firearm and possessing a prohibited device. Adams’ attorney, Adam Weisberg, said in a statement that Adams is “completely innocent in this matter.”

“He’s doing good,” LaFleur said of Adams.

“I’m not going to comment too much on that obviously ... but he’s doing good and it’s good to see him.”

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National League glance

East Division

East Division

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L 43 45 49 53 56

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Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

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West Division

Wednesday’s games

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Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale delivers to a San Diego Padres batter during the first inning of a game on Thursday in Atlanta.

Associated Press

ATLANTA — Chris Sale matched a season-high with 11 strikeouts and the Atlanta Braves hit four home runs in a 6-5 win over the San Diego Padres on Thursday.

Dominic Smith hit a three-run homer and Michael Harris II and Ozzie Albies had solo blasts off bulk reliever Griffin Canning as the Braves took three of four from San Diego. All-Star Drake Baldwin

added his 19th of the season in the seventh inning.

Sale (11-6) gave up three runs on five hits and a walk in six innings of work. All three runs came in the second inning.

Ty France hit a two-run homer in the eighth inning off Braves reliever Tyler Kinley to pull the Padres within one at 6-5. Danny Young came on for the Braves and recorded the third out of the eighth inning, then Raisel Iglesias threw a scoreless ninth to record his 21st save.

Friday’s games

Canning (1-9) took over in the second inning after a perfect first from Padres opener Kyle Hart. Harris greeted him with a 420-foot home run to right field. Canning lasted 2 ⁄ innings and gave up five runs, four earned as his ERA climbed to 6.97.

Harris was 2 for 4 with two runs scored and is now 6 for 7 in his career against Canning. Albies was 2 for 4 for the Braves, who have won six of eight.

Luis Rengifo was 2 for 5 and had a two-run single off Sale.

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Saturday’s games

MLB Friday

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L 6 8 8 9 16 16 18 23

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Western Conference

Wednesday’s games

Minnesota 86, Seattle 76 Phoenix 86, Los Angeles 82 New York 95, Chicago 94 Indiana 123, Connecticut 88 Dallas 101, Portland 97 Washington 100, Las Vegas 99

Friday’s games

No games scheduled.

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Eastern Conference

GA 16 19 18 22 24 19 24 23 24 28 24 31 28 32 40

W L T Pts GF GA Nashville 12 1 3 39 33 11 Inter Miami CF 10 2 4 34 42 30 Chicago 8 5 2 26 29 19 New England 8 5 2 26 22 18 Cincinnati 6 5 5 23 40 40 New York City FC 6 6 4 22 27 22 Charlotte FC 6 6 4 22 26 25 New York 6 6 4 22 26 35 D.C. United 4 5 7 19 22 26 Orlando City 5 9 2 17 27 44 Columbus 4 8 4 16 22 25 Toronto FC 3 6 7 16 22 29 CF Montréal 4 9 3 15 22 32 Atlanta 3 10 3 12 16 26 Philadelphia 2 10 4 10 21 31 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Wednesday’s games

Cycling Tour de France Thursday Stage 18 A 115-mile ride from Voiron to Orcières-Merlette Stage Results:

1. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, EF EducationEasyPost, 04:26:21.

2. Mauro Schmid, Switzerland, Team Jayco AlUla, 04:27:06.

3. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 04:27:06.

4. Valentin Paret-Peintre, France, Soudal Quick-Step, 04:27:35.

5. Tobias Johannessen, Norway, Uno-X Mobility, 04:28:18.

6. Raúl García Pierna, Spain, Movistar Team, 04:28:33.

7. Pablo Castrillo, Spain, Movistar Team, 04:30:51.

8. Lenny Martinez, France, Bahrain Victorious, 04:30:56.

9. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red Bull — Bora — Hansgrohe, same time.

10. Tom Pidcock, United Kingdom, Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, same time.

Also:

3. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 04:27:06.

18. Matthew Riccitello, United States, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 04:30:56.

25. Quinn Simmons, United States, LidlTrek, 04:32:12.

44. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 04:40:04.

62. Sean Quinn, United States, EF EducationEasyPost, 04:43:32.

Overall Standings:

Thursday’s games

No games scheduled.

W Vancouver 10 San Jose 10 Los Angeles FC 9 Real Salt Lake 8 FC Dallas 7 Seattle 7 Houston 7 St Louis City 6 Minn. United 6 LA Galaxy 5 Colorado 6 Portland 5 San Diego FC 4 Austin FC 4 Sporting KC 4

Charlotte FC at New York, 5:30 p.m.

Cincinnati at Columbus, 6:15 p.m.

Toronto FC at D.C. United, 6:30 p.m.

Miami at CF Montréal, 6:30 p.m.

Atlanta at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Chicago at New York City FC, 6:30 p.m.

Nashville at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m.

Seattle at Philadelphia, 6:30 p.m.

Austin FC at Houston, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Minnesota, 7:30 p.m.

Colorado at St Louis City, 7:30 p.m.

FC Dallas at San Diego FC, 8:30 p.m.

Sporting KC at Los Angeles FC, 9:30 p.m.

Real Salt Lake at Portland, 9:30 p.m.

LA Galaxy at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

Cincinnati 4, Vancouver 3 New York City FC 2, Columbus 1 Miami 3, Chicago 2 Toronto FC 0, New England 0, tie Philadelphia 3, New York 1 Atlanta 2, Charlotte FC 2, tie D.C. United 1, Houston 1, tie Sporting Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 Nashville 1, CF Montréal 0 Austin FC 3, Seattle 1 Colorado 1, San Diego FC 0 St Louis City 3, LA Galaxy 1 Los Angeles FC 3, Real Salt Lake 1 FC Dallas 2, Portland 2, tie Orlando City 4, San Jose 0

1. Tadej Pogacar, Slovenia, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 64:35:13.

2. Remco Evenepoel, Belgium, Red Bull — Bora — Hansgrohe, 64:39:45.

3. Isaac Del Toro Romero, Mexico, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 64:42:04.

4. Paul Seixas, France, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 64:42:24.

5. Juan Ayuso, Spain, Lidl-Trek, 64:44:35.

6. Mattias Skjelmose, Denmark, Lidl-Trek, 64:45:27.

7. Lenny Martinez, France, Bahrain Victorious, 64:48:03.

8. Tom Pidcock, United Kingdom, Pinarello Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team, 64:48:11.

9. Jordan Jegat, France, TotalEnergies, 64:49:17.

10. Richard Carapaz, Ecuador, EF EducationEasyPost, 64:56:13.

Also:

16. Sepp Kuss, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 65:35:50.

20. Sean Quinn, United States, EF EducationEasyPost, 65:54:36.

21. Quinn Simmons, United States, Lidl-Trek, 65:55:08.

25. Matteo Jorgenson, United States, Team Visma ‘ Lease a Bike, 66:11:44.

33. Matthew Riccitello, United States, Decathlon CMA CGM Team, 66:36:55.

Withdrew Stage 18

Brandon McNulty, United States, UAE Team Emirates XRG, 60:57:21.

Pro tennis ATP World Tour Millennium Estoril Open results Thursday

At Clube de Tenis do Estoril Estoril, Portugal Purse: €612,620 Surface: Red clay

Men’s Singles

Round of 16 Luca Van Assche, France, def. Pablo Carreno Busta (8), Spain, 6-3, 4-6, 6-2.

Jaime Faria, Portugal, def. Gonzalo Bueno, Peru, 6-2, 6-4.

Andrey Rublev (1), Russia, def. Timofey Skatov, Kazakhstan, 6-1, 6-1.

Luciano Darderi (2), Italy, def. Pedro Martinez, Spain, 6-0, 6-1.

Men’s Doubles

Quarterfinals Titouan Droguet and Kyrian Jacquet, France, def. Santiago Gonzalez and Miguel Angel Reyes-Varela, Mexico, 6-4, 6-3.

David Pel and Sander Arends (3), Netherlands, def. Diego Hidalgo, Ecuador, and

Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, 2-6, 6-3, 10-7.

Rafael Matos and Orlando Luz (2), Brazil, def. Joao Domingues and Tiago Torres, Portugal, 6-4, 6-2.

WTA Livesport Prague Open results Thursday

At TK Sparta Praha Prague Purse: $283,347 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

Women’s Singles

Round of 16 Lanlana Tararudee, Thailand, def. Nikola Bartunkova (4), Czechia, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 7-6 (6).

Lilli Tagger, Austria, def. Mai Hontama, Japan, 6-4, 6-4.

Sara Bejlek (3), Czechia, def. Maria Timofeeva, Russia, 6-1, 6-1.

Barbora Krejcikova (2), Czechia, def. Lucie Havlickova, Czechia, 6-4, 6-2.

Women’s Doubles

Quarterfinals Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Miyu (1994) Kato (3), Japan, def. Alana Smith, United States, and Weronika Falkowska, Poland, 1-6, 7-5, 10-7.

Alena Kovackova and Jana Kovackova, Czechia, def. Makoto Ninomiya, Japan, and Ingrid Martins (1), Brazil, 3-6, 6-3, 11-9.

Harriet Dart and Maia Lumsden (4), Britain, def. Dominika Salkova and Nikola Bartunkova, Czechia, walkover.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Optioned RF Johnathan Rodríguez and LHP Josh Walker to Norfolk (IL). Claimed C Yohel Pozo off waivers from St. Louis and optioned him to Norfolk.

BOSTON RED SOX — Optioned LHP Eduardo Rivera to Worcester (IL).

NEW YORK YANKEES — Optioned CF Spencer Jones to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).

TAMPA BAY RAYS — Sent RHP Manuel Rodríguez on a rehab assignment to FCL Rays.

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent RF Jesús Sánchez on a rehab assignment to FCL Blue Jays. Placed LHP Patrick Corbin on the 15-day IL retroactive to July 22. Recalled LF Davis Schneider and LHP Adam Macko from Buffalo (IL). Optioned DH Sean Keys to Buffalo. Signed Cs Cole Carson, Will Brick and Jake Bennett, SS Ryan Cooney, RHPs Nolan Higgins, Santi Garcia, Mathis Raynal, Connor Kelley, Oliver De La Torre, Carson Contier, Landon Torres, Reese Basinger, Darr Dhae, Devon King, Isaias Magdaleno and Isaac Williams, 2B Gable Mitchell, OFs Dean West and Joey Urban, LF Bryce Chance, 3B Brayden martin and Ryan Franden, CF Eddie Rosado and Gavin Seebold and RF Ian Taylor to rookie contract. Claimed OF Rudy Martin Jr. off waivers from Baltimore and been optioned him to Buffalo (IL). Transferred UTL Addison Barger to the 60-day IL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Signed OF Caden Sorrell, INFs Myles Bailey and Corey Nunez, RHPs Dylan Blomker, Isaac Morton, Lance Williams, Chase Meyer, Griffin Naess, Ashton Pocol and Ryan Marton, LHP Brandon Arvidson and C Brennan Hudson to rookie contracts.

CINCINNATI REDS — Agreed to terms with RHP Christopher Asencio on a minor league contract.

COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent CF Brenton Doyle on a rehab assignment to Albuquerque (PCL).

MIAMI MARLINS — Sent RHP Josh Ekness on a rehab assignment to Jacksonville (IL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Sent LF Brandon Lockridge on a rehab assignment to Nashville (IL).

NEW YORK METS — Sent RHP Clay Holmes on a rehab assignment to Syracuse (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Optioned RHP Noah Murdock to Indianapolis (IL). Acquired RHP Ron Marinaccio from San Diego in exchange for future considerations.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent RHP Justin Lawrence outright to Rochester (IL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association BOSTON CELTICS — Re-signed G Jordan Walsh to a veteran extension.

HOUSTON ROCKETS — Re-signed F Jae’Sean Tate to a contract.

Women’s National Basketball Association TORONTO TEMPO — Released C Kayla Alexander.

FOOTBALL

Kansas City (Cameron 5-8) at Detroit (Skubal 6-5), 5:40 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Warren 7-4) at Philadelphia (Luzardo 9-4), 5:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Holmes 6-4) at Baltimore (Rogers 6-7), 6:05 p.m.

Cleveland (Cantillo 8-5) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 8-6), 6:10 p.m.

Toronto (Yesavage 4-5) at Boston (Sandoval 0-0), 6:15 p.m.

Houston (Arrighetti 7-5) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 9-5), 6:40 p.m.

Seattle (Miller 4-4) at Texas (Gore 6-8), 7:05 p.m.

Athletics (Lopez 4-4) at Minnesota (Matthews 4-7), 7:10 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Rodriguez 3-3) at San Francisco (Webb 5-7), 9:15 p.m.

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Placed OT Paris Johnson, TE Tip Reiman, OLB Josh Sweat and CB Garrett Williams on the PUP List.

CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed TE Cade Prieskorn to a contract.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed DT Maliek Collins on the PUP List.

MIAMI DOLPHINS — Placed CBs Darrell Baker Jr. and Storm Duck on the PUP List.

TENNESSEE TITANS — Signed T Zach Thomas to a contract. Placed S Amani Hooker and T JC Latham on the PUP List. Waived T Ryan Hayes.

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Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati

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Central Division

West Division

Wednesday’s games

Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Yankees 3, 10 innings, 1st game Kansas City 5, San Francisco 4 Milwaukee 4, N.Y. Mets 3 Washington 8, Colorado 0 Cincinnati 5, Seattle 3 St. Louis 1, L.A. Angels 0 Arizona 15, Athletics 5 N.Y. Yankees 2, Pittsburgh 0, 2nd game L.A. Dodgers 9, Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 7, San Diego 6 Houston 5, Miami 2 Detroit 5, Chicago Cubs 1

Thursday’s games

Atlanta 6, San Diego 5 Arizona 10, St. Louis 6

Friday’s games

Colorado (Sugano 9-4) at Milwaukee (Drohan 5-3), 3:10 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Boyd 6-1) at Pittsburgh (Jones 2-1), 5:40 p.m.

Arizona (Rodriguez 8-3) at Washington (Littell 7-7), 5:45 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Warren 7-4) at Philadelphia (Luzardo 9-4), 5:45 p.m.

Atlanta (Holmes 6-4) at Baltimore (Rogers 6-7), 6:05 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers (Sasaki 3-5) at N.Y. Mets (Manaea 2-5), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Márquez 4-2) at Miami (TBD), 6:10 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lowder 3-7) at St. Louis (May 5-7), 7:15 p.m.

L.A. Angels (Rodriguez 3-3) at San Francisco (Webb 5-7), 9:15 p.m.

BOX SCORES

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Thursday’s games

Minnesota 3, Cleveland 1, 12 innings Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 1 Detroit 4, Kansas City 3

Sale strikes out 11 as Braves edge Padres 6-5

BY BILL TROCCHI

Boston 6, Baltimore 3, 1st game Pittsburgh 5, N.Y. Yankees 3, 10 innings, 1st game Kansas City 5, San Francisco 4 Cincinnati 5, Seattle 3 St. Louis 1, L.A. Angels 0 Arizona 15, Athletics 5 N.Y. Yankees 2, Pittsburgh 0, 2nd game Tampa Bay 4, Toronto 2 Minnesota 10, Cleveland 6 Baltimore 5, Boston 1, 2nd game Houston 5, Miami 2 Detroit 5, Chicago Cubs 1 Chicago White Sox 4, Texas 2

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

Minnesota 3, Cleveland 1

Atlanta 6, San Diego 5

Minnesota

San Diego

Cleveland ab r h bi ab r h bi Lee 3b-ss 5 0 0 0 Kwan lf 4 0 2 0 Buxton cf 4 0 1 0 Ramírez 3b 3 0 0 0 Jeffers c 5 1 1 0 DeLauter rf 4 0 0 0 Bell dh 5 0 0 0 Rocchio ss 5 0 0 0 Clem. 2b-1b 5 0 1 0 Bazzana 2b 4 0 0 0 Lewis 1b-3b 3 2 0 0 Hoskins dh 4 0 0 0 Martin lf 2 0 0 0 Manzardo 1b 4 0 0 0 Larn. ph-lf 3 0 1 1 Arias pr-1b 1 0 0 0 Keas. rf-2b 4 0 1 1 Bailey c 4 1 1 1 Kreidler ss 2 0 0 0 Halpin cf 4 0 0 0 Roden ph-rf 3 0 1 1 Schneem. ph 1 0 0 0 Totals 41 3 6 3 Totals 38 1 3 1 Minnesota 000 000 010 002 — 3 Cleveland 000 010 000 000 — 1 E—Kwan (3). DP—Minnesota 1, Cleveland 1. LOB—Minnesota 9, Cleveland 11. HR— Bailey (5). SB—Kwan (7), DeLauter (5), Clemens (7), Lewis (7), Lee (7).

IP H R ER BB SO Minnesota Bradley 7 2 1 1 3 5 Morris 1 1 0 0 0 0 Gómez 1 0 0 0 2 2 Nance 1 0 0 0 0 1 Rogers W,5-3 1 0 0 0 1 1 Anderson S,1-1 1 0 0 0 1 1 Cleveland Williams 7 2 0 0 0 11 1 ⁄3 0 1 1 2 1 Gaddis H,20 Smith BS,29-33 12⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 Holderman 2 0 0 0 1 0 Sabrowski L,3-2 1 2 2 1 1 1 WP—Bradley, Morris.

ABS Challenge—Jeffers (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Gómez (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Gómez (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Rogers (Ball-Overturned to Strike); DeLauter (Strike-Confirmed); Anderson (Ball-Confirmed).

Pitch timer violations—Bradley (pitcher); Holderman (pitcher); Rogers (pitcher); Sabrowski (pitcher).

Umpires—Home, Charlie Ramos; First, David Rackley; Second, Nestor Ceja; Third, Willie Traynor.

T—3:23. A—27,354 (34,788).

Toronto 3, Tampa Bay 1 Tampa Bay ab Díaz dh 4 Aranda 1b 4 Camine. 3b 4 Mesa rf 3 DeLuca cf 3 Simpson lf 3 William. ss 3 Palacios 2b 3 Feduccia c 3

Toronto r h bi ab r h bi 0 1 1 Piñango rf 4 1 1 0 0 0 0 Giménez ss 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Guerrero 1b 4 0 2 1 0 0 0 Clem. ss-2b 4 1 1 0 0 1 0 Springer dh 3 0 2 1 0 0 0 Kirk c 4 0 1 1 0 0 0 Okamoto 3b 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 Schneider lf 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 Lukes rf 0 0 0 0 Urías 2b 3 0 0 0 Varsho cf 0 0 0 0 Straw cf-rf 2 1 0 0 Totals 30 1 3 1 Totals 29 3 7 3 Tampa Bay 001 000 000 — 1 Toronto 101 000 10x — 3 DP—Tampa Bay 1, Toronto 0. LOB—Tampa Bay 2, Toronto 5. 2B—Feduccia (6), DeLuca (15), Piñango (8), Springer (13).

SB—Straw (4).

IP H R ER BB SO Tampa Bay Legumina 2 2 1 1 2 2 Seymour L,6-3 6 5 2 2 1 7 Toronto Bieber W,2-1 7 3 1 1 0 3 Rogers H,21 1 0 0 0 0 1 Varland S,21-21 1 0 0 0 0 2 ABS Challenge—Bieber (Ball-Overturned to Strike); DeLuca (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Straw (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Straw (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Williamson (Strike-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Brennan Miller; First, John Tumpane; Second, Chris Conroy; Third, Ben May. T—2:09. A—43,225 (39,150).

Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h bi Tatis rf 4 0 1 1 Baldwin c 4 1 1 1 Rengifo lf 5 0 2 2 Albies 2b 4 1 2 1 Macha. 3b 4 1 2 0 Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 France 1b 4 1 1 2 Harris cf 4 2 2 1 Bogaert. ss 4 0 0 0 Dubón lf 3 1 1 0 Sheets dh 4 1 1 0 Riley 3b 4 0 1 0 Fermin c 3 1 1 0 Smith dh 3 1 1 3 Song ph 1 0 0 0 Yastrzm. rf 3 0 1 0 Bowen cf 3 0 0 0 White rf 0 0 0 0 Merrill ph 1 0 0 0 Jarvis ss 3 0 0 0 Cronen. 2b 3 1 1 0 Totals 36 5 9 5 Totals 32 6 9 6 San Diego 030 000 020 — 5 Atlanta 010 400 10x — 6 E—Fermin (7). LOB—San Diego 6, Atlanta 3. HR—France (16), Harris (19), Albies (16), Smith (7), Baldwin (19).

IP H R ER BB SO San Diego Hart 1 0 0 0 0 1 4 0 4 Canning L,1-9 22⁄3 5 5 0 0 1 Matsui 11⁄3 1 0 Waldron 2 3 1 1 0 0 Rodriguez 1 0 0 0 0 2 Atlanta Sale W,11-6 6 5 3 3 1 11 Dodd H,6 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 Kinley H,11 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Young H,4 Iglesias S,21-22 1 2 0 0 0 2 HBP—Sale (Cronenworth).

ABS Challenge—Tatis (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Matsui (Ball-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Doug Eddings; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Emil Jimenez; Third, Gabe Morales.

T—2:31. A—29,441 (41,149).

Arizona 10, St. Louis 6 Arizona ab r h bi Carroll rf 5 1 1 1 Perdomo ss 2 0 0 0 Moreno c 4 1 3 2 Kepler lf 4 1 0 0 Del Cast. dh5 3 3 1 Tawa 3b-cf 3 1 1 1 Vargas 2b 5 1 3 0 Locklear 1b 5 2 3 3 Waldsc. cf 3 0 0 0 Aren. ph-3b 2 0 2 2

St. Louis ab r h bi Wether. 2b 5 2 2 0 Walker rf 4 1 2 1 Torres ph 1 1 1 2 Burles. dh 5 1 3 0 Nootbaar lf5 0 2 3 Winn ss 4 0 0 0 Fermín 3b 3 0 1 0 Church cf 4 1 1 0 Jordan 1b 4 0 0 0 Crooks c 2 0 1 0 Veláz. ph 1 0 0 0 Pagés c 1 0 0 0 Totals 381016 10 Totals 39 6 13 6 Arizona 000 310 051 — 10 St. Louis 200 000 004 — 6 DP—Arizona 1, St. Louis 2. LOB—Arizona 9, St. Louis 8. 2B—Locklear (1), Del Castillo (6), Moreno (16), Walker (22), Burleson 2 (25). 3B—Carroll (12). HR—Locklear (1).

SB—Del Castillo (1). SF—Tawa (2), Moreno (5), Carroll (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Arizona Pfaadt W,5-1 6 7 2 2 2 1 Garcia H,12 1 1 0 0 0 1 Clarke 1 0 0 0 0 0 Thompson 1 5 4 4 0 0 St. Louis McGreevy L,4-8 61⁄3 7 4 4 3 3 Bruihl 1 2 2 2 0 1 2 Svanson ⁄3 4 3 3 2 0 Graceffo 1 3 1 1 0 2 Bruihl pitched to 3 batters in the 8th.

WP—Thompson.

ABS Challenge—Winn (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Garcia (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Winn (Strike-Confirmed).

Umpires—Home, Alfonso Marquez; First, Mike Estabrook; Second, Lance Barrett; Third, Malachi Moore.

T—2:54. A—32,381 (44,494).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL July 24 1909 — Nap Rucker of the Brooklyn Dodgers struck out 16 batters in a 1-0 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates.

1931 — In an 8-7 loss to Pittsburgh, Babe Herman of Brooklyn hit for the cycle for the second time in the season.

1947 — Jackie Robinson stole home for the first time in his major league career in the Brooklyn Dodgers’ 4-2 win over Pittsburgh.

1948 — Chicago White Sox outfielder Pat Seerey become the first major leaguer to strike out seven times in a doubleheader.

1949 — Cleveland pitcher Bob Lemon hit two home runs to lead the Indians to a 7-5 victory over the Washington Senators in the opener of a doubleheader.

1968 — Hoyt Wilhelm of the Chicago White Sox passed Cy Young’s major league record when he made his 907th appearance. He retired with 1,070 appearances.

1973 — Bobby Bonds homered and doubled to lead the NL to a 7-1 rout of the AL in the All-Star game at Kansas City.

1983 — The “Pine Tar” home run was hit by the Kansas City Royals’ George Brett off New York pitcher Rich Gossage at Yankee Stadium. Brett’s shot came with two outs in the top of the ninth to give the Royals a 5-4 lead. Brett’s homer was ruled an out because the amount of pine tar exceeded what was allowed. After a protest by the Royals, the final out and the Yankees’ half of the ninth was completed on Aug. 18.

1993 — Anthony Young of the New York Mets extended his record losing streak to

27 games when he walked in the winning run in the 10th inning for a 5-4 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.

1999 — In their biggest victory in 46 years, the New York Yankees routed the Cleveland Indians 21-1 as Chili Davis went 5-for-6 with six RBIs. 2010 — Tampa Bay won in Cleveland for the first time in nearly five years. The Rays snapped an 18-game losing streak with a 6-3 win against the Indians. Tampa Bay manager Joe Maddon snapped an 0-21 personal losing streak as the visiting manager that began when he was the Angels interim manager in 1996.

2016 — Ken Griffey, Jr. and Mike Piazza are inducted into the Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Cooperstown, NY. Griffey obtained the highest percentage of the vote ever - 99.3% - in being elected in his first year of eligibility by the BBWAA, while Piazza made it on his fourth try. A crowd estimated at 50,000, the second-largest ever at Cooperstown, is on hand to witness the event.

2022 — The induction ceremony is held for the Class of 2022 at the Hall of Fame. Three of the seven men inducted - David Ortiz, Jim Kaat and Tony Oliva - are present to receive the honor. The others, all deceased, are represented by relatives - Gil Hodges, Minnie Minoso and Buck O’Neil - while Dave Winfield introduces 19th century black baseball pioneer Bud Fowler. Over 35,000 persons are present in Cooperstown, NY to witness the ceremony, and Dominican flags and Boston Red Sox gear, in honor of Ortiz, are well in evidence in the crowd.

A LITTLE RETRO FUN

RUNNING THE SHOW

The nine-piece That ’70s Band of Louisiana specializes in 1970s pop, funk and disco. The group performs hits from artists like Michael Jackson, Earth Wind & Fire, Donna Summer, Chicago and more. Catch them at the Manship Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday. $25-$45. manshiptheatre.org.

Kids will run Louisiana’s Old State Capitol from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday for an event spotlighting local kid makers plus adoptable CAAWS dogs.

A kids market on the castle grounds will be selling items made by the kids themselves. Also check out dogs looking for their forever homes. eventbrite.com.

SAVED BY THE BELL?

THINGS TO DO THIS WEEKEND

Progressive Baptist Church’s Back 2 School Bash will take place at the church from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday. Backpacks, school supplies, food, games, music, entertainment and giveaways — it’s all free. Also, free haircuts for the first boys in line and prizes. eventbrite.com.

T H E A D V O C AT E.C O M

Phil Brady’s to celebrate 40 years of blues jams

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Forty years is a long time to have the blues.

But as the Louisiana-born, nine-time Grammy-winning blues star Buddy Guy says, “Blues chase the blues away.”

Blues musicians and fans will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Phil Brady’s blues jam in Baton Rouge on Thursday.

Through the past four decades, Thursday nights at the Mid City bar on Government Street have been a weekly opportunity for musicians of all stripes to sing and play the blues. Aspiring youngsters learned from the local blues elders and, in some instances, launched music careers of their own.

Shannon “Bayou” Williford founded the Phil Brady’s blues jam in 1986, and ran it until his 1995 move to Nashville. Williford, now a resident of Pass Christian, Mississippi, returns next week to host the jam’s 40th anniversary event.

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On the Phil Brady’s ‘Legends’ wall, icons, from lower center, Lawrence Taylor, Tabby Thomas and Johnny Rossetti, top right, perform in various years at the Phil Brady’s blues jam.

Recent years have seen the passing of many musicians who contributed to the Baton Rouge blues scene, including drummer Jo Monk, born Michael Wayne Caesar; guitarist and longtime Brady’s blues jam manager Johnny Rossetti; and singers Luther Kent, Mamie Porter and SunDanze Dunston.

In honor of those gone greats, Williford will perform his original song, “Ghosts of Phil Brady’s,” at the anniversary jam.

Williford, during a call to Baton Rouge earlier this year regarding the staging of a 40th anniversary Brady’s blues jam, got a “hell, yeah” from Phil Brady’s Bar & Grill owner Joe Hall.

“It’s special to have one gig running 40 years,” Hall said. “I’m proud to be involved in it for 23 years. I’ve kept it going because it’s special to me. But the musicians make the jam night happen, not me. I just have a good time.”

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BY JUDY BERGERON Staff writer

Before another football season marches in, fans will want to plan their music outings around the big games. Here’s a look at a dozen shows coming your way now through September.

BATON ROUGE

n KOE WETZEL: 6:45 p.m. Friday,

Sept. 4, Raising Cane’s River Center, 275 S. River Road. Chart-topping country artist Wetzel’s “The Night Champion World Tour” is scheduled for 45 cities this summer and fall throughout the U.S., Canada and Australia. Expect new tracks like “Surrounded” and “Time Goes On”

PROVIDED PHOTOS

Branford Marsalis

n Sept. 27, Heymann Performing Arts Center in Lafayette

and, of course, 2025’s three-time platinum, five-week No. 1 hit “High Road.” The East Texas native’s 2024 “Damn Near Normal Tour” drew 250,000-plus fans. $32 and up. https://raisingcanesrivercenter. com/. n “WEIRD AL” YANKOVIC: 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 23, Raising Cane’s River Center Arena. The five-time Grammy winner’s “Bigger & Weirder 2026 Tour” will feature his signature full-production multimedia comedy rock show. He’ll be performing his iconic hits as well as some neverperformed-live-before fan favorites.

Yankovic is best known for his parodies of the biggest-selling musical artists over the last four decades, including Madonna, Michael Jackson, Taylor Swift, Queen, U2 and Lady Gaga, who have all given “Weird Al” their blessings. $39 and up. https:// raisingcanesrivercenter.com/. n GAVIN ADCOCK: 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, Raising Cane’s River Center Arena. Billboard has called the Georgia-born country star “one of country music’s most buzzed-about country artists.” After recording and

releasing his first original single in 2021, Adcock has gained more than 1.5 billion global streams across singles including “A Cigarette,” “Run Your Mouth,” “Deep End,” “Four Leaf Clover” and more. Released in 2024, his album “Actin’ Up Again” was designated the largest major-label country debut from a solo male artist. His latest album, “Own Worst Enemy,” was released in August 2025. $45 and up. https://tix.axs.com. n FOREVER SIMON AND GARFUNKEL: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, Manship Theatre, 100 Lafayette St. Sean Altman and Jack Skuller celebrate folk rock icons Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, the bestselling duo in rock ’n’ roll history. In addition to S and G’s biggest hits, they’ll also perform some from Simon’s solo years. Expect to hear “The Sound Of Silence,” “Bridge Over Troubled Water,” “Mrs. Robinson,” “I Am A Rock,” “The Boxer,” “Homeward Bound,” “Cecilia,” “Hazy Shade Of Winter,” “Feeling Groovy,” “Me & Julio Down by the Schoolyard,” “Kodachrome”

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The Mortuary bringing new attraction to northshore Scout Island Scream Park opens for their second year in City Park in New Orleans in 2019.

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BY KASEY BUBNASH Staff writer

There’s a house in Covington that you can always count on to be festooned with professionalcaliber decorations, no matter the holiday.

Richard Bentley-Smith still remembers the impressively detailed Egyptian tomb theme that defined its decor during Hal-

loween 2024, partly because his two young children spent much of that fall begging to drive past what they had dubbed “the cool house.”

Bentley-Smith loved seeing the house through his kids’ eyes, and thought it would be fun to inspire such childlike wonder on a larger scale at Coquille Parks and

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That ’70s Band returns to the Manship Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, bringing its lively, retro sound. Tickets are $25 and up.

SHOWS TO WATCH — BATON ROUGE AREA FRIDAY

BRYCE BROUSSARD: Galvez Seafood, Prairieville, 6 p.m.

RACHAEL HALLACK & ERIC CANTRELLE: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, 6 p.m.

KEEPIN’ TIME BAND: T’Quilas, Denham Springs, 6 p.m.

MELISSA SINGS: BLDG 5, 6 p.m.

DRAMA KINGS: El Paso, Denham Springs, 6 p.m.

SHANE MADERE: Court to Table, 6:30 p.m.

JOSH MARTIN: Le Chien Brewing Co., Denham Springs, 6:30 p.m.

KENDALL SHAFFER: Copa, Gonzales, 7 p.m.

THE LONGNECK SOCIETY: On The Half Shell, Prairieville, 7 p.m.

MY FRIENDS AND ME BAND: The Red Barn Tavern, Prairieville, 8 p.m.

HENRY TURNER JR. & ALLSTARS: Henry Turner Jr.’s Listening Room, 8 p.m.

3:05 EXPRESS: Phil Brady’s, 8 p.m.

BUBBA PLAUCHÉ: Patio Lounge, 8 p.m.

PRESS 1 FOR ENGLISH: Icehouse Tap Room, 9 p.m.

QUIANA LYNELL: The Edge Bar at L’Auberge, 9 p.m.

ORY VEILLON: Fred’s on the River, Prairieville, 9 p.m.

BRIAN & JOEY: The Vineyard, 9 p.m.

MJ & THE REDEEMERS: Fat Cat Saloon, Prairieville, 9 p.m.

SATURDAY

CLAYTON SHILLING: Fred’s on the River, Prairieville, 2 p.m.

BRITTON MAJOR: Sullivan’s Steakhouse, 5:30 p.m.

DOC HEARL: Central City, 5:30 p.m.

FLOYD BROWN TRIBUTE: El Paso, Denham Springs, 6 p.m.

TAYLOR RAE DUO: Pelican to Mars, 6 p.m.

JOVIN WEBB: Victoria’s Mexican, Denham Springs, 6 p.m.

MATT HOLT: BLDG 5, 6 p.m.

STUDIO4: T’Quilas, Denham Springs, 6 p.m.

SHADOW ROAD: Court to Table, 6:30 p.m.

ASH TRAYS: Le Chien Brewing Co., Denham Springs, 6:30 p.m.

ACOUSTICRATS: Bin Q, 6:30 p.m.

THE COVERLY BROTHERS: On The Half Shell, Prairieville, 7 p.m.

ADAM PEARCE: Copa, Gonzales, 7 p.m.

THAT ‘70S BAND: Manship Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

LUKE HUVAL CAJUN BAND: Ric Seeling Dance Studio, 7:30 p.m.

ACOUSTIC SATURDAYS W/ HENRY TURNER, DIXIE ROSE AND UNCLE CHESS: Henry Turner Jr.’s Listening Room, 8 p.m.

KAITLYN WALLACE: Rally Cap Brewing Company, 8:30 p.m.

COOPER MOHRMANN/THE SOUTHERLIES: The Texas Club, 9 p.m.

JAKE ROUNDS: Papi’s Fajita Factory, Watson, 9 p.m.

THE DRUNK UNCLES: Fat Cat Saloon, Prairieville, 9 p.m.

SAVANT: The Basin Music Hall, 9 p.m.

WHISKEY BENT: Fred’s on the River, Prairieville, 9 p.m.

SPANK THE MONKEY TRIO: Swamp Chicken Daiquiris, St. Amant, 9 p.m.

PARADE GROUND JUNKIES: O’Hara’s Irish Pub, 9 p.m.

DAMON KING & BO JAMISON: The Vineyard, 9 p.m.

SUNDAY

JIM STANDLEY: Copa, Gonzales, 10 a.m.

SHAYCHIK: On The Half Shell, Prairieville, 11 a.m.

JUSTIN BURDETTE TRIO: Superior Grill-MidCity, 11 a.m.

MICHAEL BINGHAM: Red Stick Social, noon OLD DAWGS: VFW Zachary Taylor Post, 2 p.m.

KEKE BOURQUE BAND: Fred’s on the River, Prairieville, 3 p.m.

JOEL COOPER: Icehouse Tap Room, 4 p.m.

SONGWRITER SUNDAYS: La Divina Italian Cafe, 5 p.m.

JEFF BAJON PROJECT: Pizza Byronz, 5:30 p.m.

GEORGE BELL: The Edge Bar at L’Auberge, 6:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC JAM: Fat Cat Saloon, Prairieville, 7 p.m.

MONDAY

KATIE KENNEY: Superior GrillMidCity, 6 p.m.

TUESDAY

CHRIS LEBLANC: Superior Grill-MidCity, 6 p.m.

EDDIE SMITH: On The Half Shell, Prairieville, 6:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC JAM: Brickyard South, 8 p.m.

WEDNESDAY

JEFF BAJON PROJECT: BLDG 5, 5:30 p.m.

CAM PYLE: Superior GrillMidCity, 6 p.m.

BRENT ARMSTRONG: Danny’s Dive Bar, 6 p.m.

LSU JAZZ JAM: Classic Vinyls, 6 p.m.

ERIC LEGER: On The Half Shell, Prairieville, 6:30 p.m.

KIRK HOLDER: Bin 77, 6:30 p.m.

SONGWRITERS OPEN MIC W/ HEATH RANSONNET: Coop’s on 621, Gonzales, 7 p.m.

CHRIS LEBLANC: Jefferson Lounge, 7 p.m.

ANDY PIZZO TRIO: Hayride Scandal, 7:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC JAM: O’Hara’s Irish Pub, 8 p.m.

THURSDAY

CHRIS OCMAND: BLDG 5, 5:30 p.m.

CHRIS LEBLANC: Lagniappe Steak and Seafood, 5:30 p.m.

DOROTHY LEBLANC: La Divina Italian Cafe, 6 p.m.

KYBALION: El Paso, 6 p.m.

JEFF BAJON PROJECT: Superior Grill- MidCity, 6 p.m.

ERIC WHITFIELD: Thai Kitchen, 6 p.m.

KAITLYN WALLACE: Pedro’s, 6 p.m.

ELIZABETH SHAR: On The Half Shell, Prairieville, 6:30 p.m.

KIRK HOLDER: Patio Lounge, 7 p.m.

TET DUR: Swamp Chicken Daiquiris, St. Amant, 7 p.m.

HENRY TURNER JR. & ALLSTARS: Henry Turner Jr.’s Listening Room, 8 p.m.

PARTLY CLOUDY: Gino’s Italian, 8 p.m.

BLUES JAM: Phil Brady’s, 9 p.m.

RHETT GUILLOT: The Vineyard, 9 p.m.

OUTLYING FRIDAY

TREY MORGAN: Bayou Sara Brewing, St. Francisville, 6:30 p.m.

Compiled by Marchaund Jones. Want your venue’s music listed? Email info/ photos to showstowatch@ theadvocate.com. The deadline is noon FRIDAY for the following Friday’s paper.

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PHIL BRADY’S 40-plus years at Phil Brady’s And he was having fun. It’s

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In 1986, then teenager Jay Michael attended his first Phil Brady’s jam. In 2024, Michael, a singer, guitarist and songwriter, succeeded Rossetti as jam manager.

“To have come from a place where I was totally intimidated,” Michael said, “to running the whole show, it’s amazing. I’d go there as a kid and not even attempt to get on stage. All of those great characters — Kenny Acosta, Raful Neal, Rudy Richard, Will Jackson, Big Bo Melvin. I still sit on a stool by the stage, get hypnotized by the music, soak it in and learn from everybody.”

Before he launched the Brady’s jam session, Williford was a regular at Wednesday night jams at Tabby’s Blues Box and Heritage Hall. He also formed the first Brady’s jam house band with Jim George, Joe Hunter and Troy Turner.

Williford expects to see George and Turner at the anniversary, but Hunter is a maybe.

and the late Tabby Thomas’ Tabby’s Blues Box served as blues school for Williford and so many more. Williford continued that tradition after he moved to Nashville, teaching music for 22 years.

“I put kids in bands, kind of like ‘School of Rock,’ but I taught them the blues,” he said. “I taught them like I learned from Guitar Kelly and Silas Hogan and all them (in Baton Rouge). It’s not about learning to play a song, it’s learning about playing a groove.”

Williford took his blues lessons from a generation of Baton Rouge bluesmen.

“I love the way that Silas and Kelly and Henry (Gray) and Raful took me under their arms and showed me,” he said. “Now, I’m that old guy who’s passing it on.”

Some young students of the blues graduated to major success. Williford remembers when a teenage Tab Benoit humbly asked for a spot on the Brady’s jam stage.

“Tab gets up and he’s wearing a Stevie Ray Vaughan hat and dancing. He wasn’t much of a guitar player, but,

nice to see that he jumped out and did stuff,” he said.

Williford’s jam coordinating philosophy included regular participation by African American musicians.

“Raful (Neal) loved coming in,” he said. “And I loved that, because it’s not my music, it’s their music. I’m just hanging on, loving it, but as far as where it came from, it didn’t come from us.”

Michael, a visual artist as well as a musician and jam manager, has created a commemorative 40th anniversary Brady’s jam poster.

Next week’s anniversary jam night, he said, begins at 8 p.m., earlier than usual Thursdays, and, if the blues power stays strong, will go till closing time.

“At Brady’s,” the late Rossetti said prior to the 25th anniversary jam in 2011, “you never know who you’re gonna see. Just let the jam roll.”

“Wouldn’t it be amazing,” Michael said last week, “to be at the 100th anniversary blues jam?”

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Continued from page 1D and more. $40 and up. manshiptheatre.org. n ANN HAMPTON CALLAWAY: THE STREISAND SONGBOOK: 7 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 23, Manship Theatre. $39 and up. manshiptheatre.org. Platinum Award-winning singersongwriter Callaway’s show is described as “a night of soaring songs and stories.”

Celebrating one of America’s most powerful and enduring musical artists, look for Streisand’s timeless classics.

In her own right, Callaway is an accomplished jazz and pop singer, pianist, composer, lyricist and arranger as well as an actress, educator, TV host and producer. Special guest for her Manship concert will be Shelly Berg, a Steinway piano artist and multi-Grammy-nominated arranger and producer. $39 and up. manshiptheatre.org. n THE BAND OF HEATHENS: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 8, Manship Theatre. Presented

by Red Dragon Listening Room, this concert was originally scheduled for April 23. The Americana and roots rock band from Austin is known for incisive lyrics and a sound they crafted that’s become mainstream. The band’s new album, “Country Sides,” was released Feb. 20, and takes a look back at their career. Local duo Clay Parker and Jodi James will open the show. $72.24 and up. manshiptheatre.org. n BODEANS: 7:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Sept. 16, Manship Theatre. Centered on roots rock, heartland rock and alternative rock, BoDeans is marking the 40th anniversary of its critically-acclaimed debut album, “Love & Hope & Sex & Dreams” In honor of the milestone, the band will perform a two-anda-half-hour show featuring a video retrospective that will include songs from their 14 studio records covering five decades of music — 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s and the 2020s. Among the songs will be “Good Things,” “You Don’t Get Much,” “Idaho” and “Closer to Free.” $51 and up. manshiptheatre.org. n JASON CARTER BAND: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept.

24, Manship Theatre. The Grammy-winning bluegrass and Americana band is led by fiddler Carter, a longtime

MORTUARY

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When he found out the Griswold in his neighborhood was none other than Jeff Borne, the creative behind New Orleans projects like The Mortuary Haunted House and City Park’s former Scout Island Scream Park, Bentley-Smith hoped Borne would agree to decorate the Covington park complex for Halloween.

It turns out Borne was up for a whole lot more than that. Now, after two years of planning, Borne is expanding his reign of terror to the northshore for Halloween 2026.

“We are very excited to be hosting a haunted house on the northshore once again, so the kids from Hammond all the way to Mississippi don’t have to drive across the lake,” Bentley-Smith said.

Touted as Louisiana’s “newest and most intense nightmare,” The Sawmill Haunted House opens to the public in Coquille’s River Mill events center on Oct. 2 and will run through Nov. 1.

With months to go before the pumpkins are carved and the trick-or-treaters hit the streets, Bentley-Smith said many of the nitty gritty

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member of the iconic Del McCoury Band. They offer a modern, hard-driving take on traditional bluegrass, and their live shows are recognized for lightning-fast picking, tight arrangements and a dynamic energy. $38 and up. manshiptheatre.org.

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DREAUX + DOM ELLIS: 7:30 p.m. Friday, Aug. 7, Acadiana Center for the Arts — James Devin Moncus Theater, 101 W. Vermilion St. Breaux Bridge native Boudreaux offers heartfelt storytelling and country grit. Ellis, a Nashville-based singer-songwriter who grew up in Lafayette, stirs up a gumbo of country, folk and Americana, seasoned with raw emotion and timeless soul. It promises to be an evening showcasing a pair of Louisiana’s next generation of country music. $30. https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/. n TANK AND THE BANGAS: 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 29, Acadiana Center for the Arts — James Devin Moncus Theater. A Grammy-winning New Orleans soul/hip-hop ensemble anchored by lead vocalist Tarriona “Tank” Ball, the band made its viral breakthrough as the winners of the NPR Tiny Desk Contest. The performance has more than 14 million views on YouTube. Ball is known for her quirky raps, poetry

details of Coquille’s festivities are still being ironed out. But he said “the sky is the limit” for Borne and his team.

“You couldn’t ask for a better group locally,” he said.

A New Orleans native with a long history in the haunted attraction business, Borne opened The Mortuary in a gutted Victorian mansion and former funeral home at the end of Canal Street in Mid-City in 2007. The haunted house has been terrifying visitors ever since, becoming a staple stop during the Crescent City’s spooky season.

Borne’s résumé also includes work on Universal Studios roller coasters, AREA15 District in Las Vegas, and bygone local hits like Scream Factory, a beloved northshore haunted house that was forced to close in Hurricane Katrina’s wake.

Borne said he jumped at the opportunity to get back to Covington, where he lives and where his various businesses are headquartered.

“I’m excited about it,” he said. “I’m really looking forward to it.”

The Sawmill’s name was inspired by its host venue, the River Mill, and much of its design and theme, including its fictional setting of a haunted town called Widow’s Landing, will be

and rich melodies, evidenced in the group’s most recent album, “The Last Balloon.” $35. https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/. n GIRL NAMED TOM: 7:30 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 25, Acadiana Center for the Arts — James Devin Moncus Theater. The Liechty siblings — Bekah, Caleb and Joshua — made history as the first group to win NBC’s competition series “The Voice.” The musicians fuse folk and pop in their soul-stirring performances.

The trio has sold more than 100,000 tickets across 40 states, headlined nationwide tours, and performed at the Grand Ole Opry, the Indianapolis 500 and on “The Ellen Show.” $45. https://acadianacenterforthearts.org/. n BRANFORD MARSALIS AND DIANNE REEVES CELEBRATE JOHN COLTRANE: 3 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 27, Heymann Performing Arts Center, 1373 S. College Road. Presented by the Performing Arts Society of Acadiana, the afternoon brings together Grammy-winning modern jazz masters Branford Marsalis and Dianne Reeves performing the timeless ballads of Coltrane. Marsalis’ tenor saxophone and Reeves’ soaring vocal range are backed by the Branford Marsalis Quartet. $30 and up. https:// www.heymanncenter.com/.

Email Judy Bergeron at jbergeron@theadvocate. com.

influenced by the ghost stories and lore of Madisonville. Borne said visitors can expect to see ghosts — including one inspired

by Madisonville’s Silk Lady legend — pirates and, of course, chain saws.

Unlike The Mortuary, a permanent fixture that hosts events year-round, The Sawmill will operate seasonally in the more traditional haunted house format. Borne’s team has already been at work building collapsible sets, which they’ll start moving into the space early this fall.

Eventually Borne said he hopes The Sawmill will gain enough of a following that it could one day become similar to another one of his past projects, Scout Island Scream Park, a weekslong Halloween festival in City Park that ultimately fell victim to the COVID-19 pandemic.

“It’s the prospect of how much it could grow over the next 10 years that we’re really looking at,” he said.

Like at The Mortuary, general admission and VIP tickets to The Sawmill will be available online and onsite this fall. Tickets will range from $25 to $55, and true fear fanatics can get a season pass for $150.

Email Kasey Bubnash at kasey.bubnash@ theadvocate.com.

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AROUND BATON ROUGE FRIDAY

ONCE UPON A CASTLE: STORYTIME & PUPPET THEATRE: 11 a.m., Louisiana’s Old State Capitol, 100 North Blvd. Puppet show inspired by “Mama Opossum’s Misadventures”

by Gina Gallois. Free, but donations accepted to support the castle. louisianaoldstatecapitol.org.

FRIDAY-SATURDAY

EVENING SKY VIEWING: 8:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., BREC Highland Road Park Observatory, 13800 Highland Road.

See the majesty of the night sky, for those 6 and up. hrpo. lsu.edu/events.

SATURDAY

RED STICK FARMERS MARKET: 8 a.m. to noon, Fifth and Main streets, downtown. Farmfresh produce and goods, including wine, seafood, plants, flowers, prepared and baked items and more. breada.org.

FAMILY-HOUR STARGAZING: 10 a.m., Irene W. Pennington Planetarium at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road. Learn about the stars and constellations in the local nighttime sky, followed by an all-ages show. lasm.org.

GREATER BATON ROUGE MODEL RAILROADERS: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Republic of West Florida Historical Museum, 3406 College St., Jackson.

Electric trains of all sizes will be running on five different layouts. Free admission and parking.

SUMMERTIME CAJUN DANCE: 7:30 p.m., Ric Seeling Dance Studio, 10776 N Harrells Ferry Road. Live music by the Luke Huval Cajun Band. 6:30 p.m., doors open; 6:45 p.m., free dance lessons (included with admission).

SATURDAY-SUNDAY

BASF’S KIDS’ LAB: 11 a.m.3:45 p.m. Saturday and 1:30 p.m.-3:45 p.m. Sunday, Louisiana Art & Science Museum, 100 S. River Road.

Explore the science of chemistry during 45-minute handson workshops for young scientists ages 6-12 and their accompanying adults. Included in regular admission. lasm.org.

TUESDAY

RED STICK FARMERS MARKET: 3 p.m. to 6 p.m., Main Library at Goodwood, 7711 Goodwood Blvd. Farm-fresh

STAFF PHOTO By ROBIN MILLER

Geoffrey Beene’s quilted halter neck evening dress with a dalmatian print silk jacket stands on the backdrop of an 1870 log cabin quilt in the LSU Textile & Costume Museum’s exhibit, ‘Stitches in Time: Quilts and Fashion.’

Catch the exhibit through Jan. 15. produce, goods, cooking demonstrations. breada.org.

BATON ROUGE CHESS CLUB: 6 p.m.-8 p.m., La Divina Italian Cafe, 3535 Perkins Road, Unit 360. A chance to play and learn; all levels welcome.

Free.

TUESDAY, THURSDAY

TWILIGHT TOURS: 6 p.m.7:30 p.m., BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo, 3000 Zoo Circle. Take a tram ride through the zoo in the cool of the evening, enjoy a narrated ride through the zoo, an animal encounter at the Wildlife Safari Theatre and an evening snack. Adults and teens, $16; children ages 2-12, $13; registration required. https://brzoo.org/.

HERBALIST CORINNE MARTIN: 6:30 p.m.-8 p.m., LSU Hilltop Arboretum’s Beverly Brown Coates Auditorium, 11855 Highland Road. Part of the Discovery Nature Series, Martin will discuss her book, “Louisiana Healing Garden: Medicinal Plants for a Sustainable Future.” $10, students, Hilltop Arboretum members and LMNGBR members; $15, general public; and free, Hilltop Magnolia members and above. Advance registration encouraged. https:// lsu.edu/hilltop/programs/ adult/discovernature.php.

WEDNESDAY

RED STICK FARMERS MARKET: 9 a.m. to noon, ExxonMobil YMCA, 7711 Howell Blvd.

Farm-fresh produce, goods and more. www.facebook.

com/redstickfarmersmarket.

THURSDAY

RED STICK FARMERS MARKET: 8 a.m. to noon, Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road. Farm-fresh produce, goods and more. facebook.com/redstickfarmersmarket.

OUTDOOR COMMUNITY YOGA: 6 p.m. to 7 p.m., pavilion by the pond, LSU Hilltop Arboretum, 11855 Highland Road. Drop-in; no registration required; bring your own mat.

Free, but donations welcome. lsu.edu/hilltop.

BATON ROUGE CHORUS OF SWEET ADELINES INTERNATIONAL CHRISTMAS IN JULY REHEARSAL AND PARTY: 6:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m., Ingleside Methodist Church, 4264 Capital Heights Ave. Louisiana-themed event for women 18 years and older. No audition required to attend; previous barbershop experience not necessary. www.BatonRougeChorus.org or (225) 939-9115.

WEEKLY SOCIAL BIKE RIDE: 7:30 p.m., Geaux Ride, 601 Laurel St. Free. geauxridebikes.com.

KARAOKE, TRIVIA, BINGO AND MORE: 8 p.m. to 11 p.m., Brickyard South Bar + Patio, 174 South Blvd. Presented by BarFly Entertainment. Free to play. acebook.com/brickyardsouth.

ONGOING

ANN CONNELLY FINE ART: 1670 Lobdell Ave. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesday

through Saturday. Free. (225) 927-7676 or annconnelly.com.

ART GUILD OF LOUISIANA: Independence Park Theatre, 7800 Independence Blvd.

“Workshop Show,” through Sept. 9. Life Drawing sessions 6 p.m.-9 p.m. Wednesdays. $15 per session; open studio; no instruction. Classes are held at AGL Park Studio, 2490 Silverest Ave. BATON ROUGE GALLERY CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: 1515 Dalrymple Drive. Works by Mitchell Gaudet, Mark Jane Parker and Brandon Surtain, through July 26. Hours: noon to 6 p.m.

Tuesday-Sunday. batonrougegallery.org.

CAPITOL PARK MUSEUM: 660 N. Fourth St. “We the People,” a living portrait of 21st-century American identity through nearly 200 paired photographs by Steven G. Smith shown across two giant screens, together measuring about 12 feet high and 36 feet wide, through Jan. 2, 2027.

(225) 342-5428 or louisianastatemuseum.org.

CARY SAURAGE COMMUNITY ARTS CENTER SHELL GALLERY: 233 St. Ferdinand St. “Tell A Vision,” through Aug. 14. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. artsbr.org.

ELIZABETHAN GALLERY: 680 Jefferson Highway. Call (225) 924-6437 or follow the gallery’s Facebook page.

THE GALLERY AT MANSHIP: 100 Lafayette St. “The Monsters We Sometimes Become,” multimedia art exhibition featuring original works of artist Nathaniel A.J. Landry with an original musical score and live performance

by Monoblack, through Aug. 14. Hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Tuesday-Thursday, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday.

KNOCK KNOCK CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: 1900 Dalrymple Drive. Offering interactive exhibits, programs and resources that inspire children to become creative problem solvers and lifelong learners. Summer hours are 10 a.m.-4 p.m. daily, through Aug. 3. https://knockknockmuseum.org.

LOUISIANA ART & SCIENCE MUSEUM: 100 S. River Road.

“Permanent Impressions: Women Defining Our Louisiana Collection,” through Aug. 2; “Spirit of the Swamp: The Photography of Julia Sims,” through Aug. 9; “Crossroads & Connections: A Century of

the Railway in Baton Rouge,” through Oct. 1; and “Going Places: Transportation Toys of the Past,” through Aug. 9.

(225) 344-5272 or lasm.org.

LSU MUSEUM OF ART: Shaw Center for the Arts, 100 Lafayette St. “ReVision: Women in Photography,” through Aug. 30. “South Arts Southern Prize & State Fellowships for Visual Arts, through Sept. 6. “The Folk Art Gallery,” through June 30, 2027. (225) 389-7200 or lsumoa.org.

LSU TEXTILE & COSTUME MUSEUM: Human Ecology Building, Tower Drive, LSU campus.

“Stitches in Time: Quilts & Fashion,” exploring the enduring dialogue between quilt making and dress, through Jan. 15, 2027. (225) 578-5992 or email textile@lsu.edu.

MAGNOLIA MOUND MUSEUM + HISTORIC SITE: 2161 Nicholson Drive. Guided and selfguided tours. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday-Saturday and 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. brec.org/ facility/MagnoliaMound.

OLD GOVERNOR’S MANSION: 502 North Blvd. Open for tours.

9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday. Free admission. oldgover-

norsmansion.com.

OLD STATE CAPITOL: 100 North Blvd. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Tuesday-Saturday, plus Free First Sunday. “Excursions, Expeditions, and Discoveries: A Young Nation Expands & Reimagining America: The Maps of Lewis & Clark,” through Dec. 18. Free. louisianaoldstatecapitol.org.

USS KIDD VETERANS MUSEUM: 305 S. River Road. Displays of a variety of artifacts that celebrate veteran and naval military history. Note: Vessel is in Houma for dry dock repairs. usskidd.com.

WEST BATON ROUGE MUSEUM: 845 N. Jefferson Ave., Port Allen. Travel exhibit “Awkward Family Photos,” through Aug. 9. (225) 336-2422 or westbatonrougemuseum.org.

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By The Associated Press Today is Friday, July 24, the 205th day of 2026. There are 160 days left in the year.

Today in History: On July 24, 1969, the Apollo 11 astronauts — two of whom were the first humans to set foot on the moon — splashed down safely in the Pacific.

Also on this date: In 1567, Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James.

In 1866, Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War. In 1915, the SS Eastland, a passenger ship carrying more than 2,500 people, rolled onto its side while docked at the Clark Street Bridge on the Chicago River. An estimated 844 people died in the disaster.

In 1959, during a visit to

Moscow, Vice President Richard Nixon engaged in his famous “Kitchen Debate” with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.

In 1974, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

In 1975, an Apollo spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific, completing a mission which included the first docking with a Soyuz capsule from the Soviet Union.

In 2010, a stampede inside a tunnel crowded with techno music fans left 21 people dead and more than 500 injured at the famed Love Parade festival in Duisburg, Germany.

In 2013, a high-speed train crash outside Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain killed 79 people.

In 2025, an Antonov An-24

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Today’s birthdays: Actor Dan Hedaya is 86. Actor Chris Sarandon is 84. Actor Robert Hays is 79. Actor Michael Richards is 77. Actor Lynda Carter is 75. Movie director Gus Van Sant is 74. Country singer Pam Tillis is 69. Basketball Hall of Famer Karl Malone is 63.

Retired MLB All-Star Barry Bonds is 62. Actor Kadeem Hardison is 61. Actor-singer Kristin Chenoweth is 58.

Actor Laura Leighton is 58. Actor-singer Jennifer Lopez is 57. Director Patty Jenkins (“Wonder Woman”) is 55. Actor Eric Szmanda is 51. Actor Rose Byrne is 47.

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Keep your guard up when dealing with contracts, joint ventures and shared expenses. Don't force your will on others; if you want to win approval or acceptance, use diplomacy.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Try not to be too revealing. Be a good listener, size up situations and work quietly on your own as you collect what you need to succeed. An unexpected opportunity will surface.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Be clear regarding what you can and are willing to do.

Walk away from any situation that makes you uncomfortable. Use your insight and intelligence to outmaneuver anyone trying to take advantage of you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Put more time and effort into your home, surroundings and relationships. Share your feelings and intentions, and find out where you stand before you make a commitment to anyone who may have different opinions.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Save time; cut your losses and focus on feeling, looking and doing what's best for you. Protect your assets and your reputation from anyone trying to outmaneuver you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Don't let negativity set in when a positive attitude will

attract far better people and prospects.

Consider what you are good at and enjoy doing, and find a way to turn your skills into a profit.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Be good to yourself and the ones you love. Spending time nurturing meaningful relationships will encourage a positive lifestyle change. Love and romance are in the stars.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Turn your creative imagination into something spectacular. Position yourself with people who inspire you to let your heart lead the way. Happiness is the prerequisite of doing what's best for you whenever you can.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Tame what tempts you. Be rational, use common sense and put your money to work toward greater stability and security, not loss and debt.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Pursuing education, traveling, promoting and presenting what you can do, networking and forming connections with people who can help push your agenda will get you on the road to victory.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Sharing too much will be detrimental. Put your time and effort into building a solid base to house your dreams, hopes and wishes.

Don't be afraid to be different.

The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by NEA, Inc., dist. By Andrews McMeel Syndication

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BY PHILLIP ALDER Frank A. Clark, a lawyer and politician who died in 1936, said, “If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”

Sometimes the opening lead shows the path to the defeat of the contract ... if one of the defenders finds the right subsequent play.

First, though, look only at the West hand. What should he lead against three no-trump?

Some players open two no-trump with 19 high-card points, especially when they have a good five-card suit. It can be reasonable, but not with that North hand.

Almost half of the points are in quacks (queens and jacks), which is not good, and there is one unstopped suit. One diamond is correct.

Length rules against no-trump, so West should lead a heart. And because he has no honor in the suit, he should choose the nine — top of nothing when the top two cards are touching. (When you have something like 9-7-6-4-3, lead the seven, the second-highest.)

South has seven top tricks: three hearts and four clubs. He will take the first trick with dummy’s queen and play on diamonds. What should East do?

The opening lead marks South with the heart ace and king. So he cannot also have the spade ace, because then he

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today’s thought “The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that waters shall be watered also himself.” Proverbs 11:25

God will bless those who are generous. You can’t out give the Lord. G.E. Dean

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Deliver bids to the Office of Williams Architecture, LLC physically at 700 N. 10th St. Suite 350 Third Floor, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802, or elec‐ tronically to marcus@ williams-arch.com, Attn: Marcus J. Williams, Ar‐ chitect, Bid En‐ closed:2026 EBRCOAESC001 by 2:00pm, Friday, August 7, 2026 for the project entitled: Bid Enclosed: 2026 EBRCOAESC-001 East Baton Rouge Council on Aging: Evangeline Senior Center 5186 Evangeline Street Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70805 Project Number: WA Project No. WA-03-126 Bids will be opened and read aloud with bidders invited to attend immedi‐ ately after the deadline for submission of bids.

Complete Bidding docu‐ ments may be obtained by contacting the Archi‐ tect designated in the In‐ vitation to Bid: Williams Architecture 700 N. 10TH Street, Suite 350 Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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70802 Contact Person: Marcus Williams Phone: 225-938-0421 Email: Marcus@williamsarch.com

Payment Bond written by a company licensed to do business in Louisiana, in amount equal to 100% of the Contract amount.

The Surety Company must be listed currently on the U. S. Department of Treasury Financial Management Service List (Treasury List) as ap‐ proved for an amount equal or greater than the contract amount or must be an insurance com‐ pany domiciled in Louisiana or owned by Louisiana residents. If The Surety Company is qualified other than by listing on the Treasury list, the contract amount may not exceed fifteen percent of policyholders' surplus as shown by The Surety's Company most recent financial state‐ ments filed with the Louisiana Department of Insurance and may not exceed the amount of $500,000.

However, a Louisiana domiciled in‐ surance company with at least an A-rating in the latest printing of the A. M. Best's Key Rating guide shall not be sub‐ ject to the $500,000 limi‐ tation, provided that the contract amount does not exceed ten percent of the policyholders' sur‐ plus filed with the Louisiana Department of Insurance.

The Bond shall be signed by The Surety's Company agent or attorney-in-fact and countersigned by a per‐ son who is under con‐ tract with The Surety’s Company as a licensed i hi d

Bidding Documents will be issued as allowed by the provisions of La. R.S.37:2163 B to licensed contractors who hold an active license or his au‐ thorized representative.

Electronic Bidding: Bid‐ ders shall email their bid package to the architect directly. For an electronic bid, La. R. S. 37:2163 A (1) allows a contractor to submit an authentic digi‐ tal signature on the electronic bid proposal accompanied by the con‐ tractor’s license number in order to comply with La. R. S. 37:2163 A (1).

Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments, ( Drawings, Speci‐ fications & Addenda), can be obtained from the architect.

Prospective bidders de‐ siring further informa‐ tion or interpreta¬tions of the Drawings and/or Specifications shall re‐ quest such data elec‐ tronically directly to the architect. Answers to all questions, inquiries and requests for additional information will be is‐ sued in the form of Ad‐ denda to the Drawings and Specifications. Refer to Instructions to Bid‐ ders.

The successful bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and

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The successful bidder shall provide builder’s risk insurance for the total amount of the pro‐ ject.

AN ON SITE MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 2:00pm. Contractors that have requested bidding documents from the Ar‐ chitect via email will be invited to the mandatory pre-bid conference.

Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and require‐ ments of LA R.S. 38:2212.

No bid may be with‐ drawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2215.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2214, the provisions and requirements of this Section; and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity.

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APARTMENT Holiday Acres is now accepting applications for 3- and 4-bedrooms apartments. Rent based on income.

Come and apply at Holiday Acres located at 11744 Hallmark dr. Baton Rouge, La 70807 Monday, Tuesday, and Fridays from 8-5pm.

APARTMENTS 655 North St Subsidized Efficiency Apartments cpabr.org 225-383-5551 TDD/TTY 711 RELAY

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Troy Hayes please contact attorney Larry McAlpine at 225-3171956.

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Bids will be received electronically until 2:00 pm, Monday, August 10, 2026 local time, through Louisiana Land Trust Website for the follow‐ ing:

The Louisiana Land Trust strongly encourages maximum participation in all bids by qualified Minority Business Enter‐ prises, Women Business Enterprises, small busi‐ nesses, and by local con‐ struction and demolition companies, as prime contractors and as sub‐ contractors.

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Louisiana Land Trust Louisiana Watershed Ini‐ tiative-Statewide Buyout Program & Restore Louisiana – Solu‐ tion 4 (2.0) Program Home Demolition and Slab Removal St. Tammany, Livingston & Tangipahoa Parishes, Louisiana Bid Package No.14 This project consists of the removal and disposal of structures, concrete slab foundations and concrete flatworks, re‐ moval of hazardous trees, fill and grade, and all other items identified within the bid package.

Bid documents are avail‐ able for download from LLTs website https:// www.lalandtrust.us .

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on Monday, August 3, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. local time via the following: Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/j/86818031327? d d

Specifications and bid documents for the above may be obtained from the Director of Purchas‐ ing, Louisiana Tech Uni‐ versity, Ruston, Louisiana, phone 318257-4205 or purchasing@ latech.edu.

Evidence of authority to submit the bid shall be required in accordance with R.S. 38:2212 (B)(5) and/or R.S. 39:1594 (C)(4).

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Any person requiring special accommodations shall notify Louisiana Tech University of the type(s) of accommoda‐ tions required not less than seven (7) days be‐ fore the bid opening.

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Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived at the Louisiana Tech University Office of Purchasing, P.O. Box 3157, 208 Keeny Circle, RM 408, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, Louisiana 71272 until 10:00 A.M., August 14, 2026 at which time and place they will be pub‐ licly opened for the fol‐ lowing:

Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd.

Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026503, Chair Foam - DOC/PE, 8/4/26 RFx No. 3000026450,

Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified.

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities.

Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 195158-jul 24-1t $12.62 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS The City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge will receive elec‐ tronic or paper bids for the construction of the following project: GLASGOW AVENUE SIDEWALKS (Hyacinth Avenue – Perkins Road) CITY-PARISH PROJECT No. 24-EN-HC-0026 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Grading, Earthwork, Con‐ crete Sidewalks, Drainage Structures, Sub-Surface Drainage, and associated items of work. There will be no

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pre-bid conference.

Electronic or sealed bids will be received until 2:00 p.m. Local Time, TUES‐ DAY, AUGUST 18TH, 2026 by the Purchasing Divi‐ sion, Room 826, City Hall, 222 Saint Louis Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802. No bids will be re‐ ceived after 2:00 p.m. on the same day and date.

Bid Openings can be in person or via teleconfer‐ ence.

Teleconference Call-in In‐ formation Join by phone +1-408-418-9388 United States Toll Access code: 263 373 080 (followed by the # but‐ ton) Alternate numbers to call if number above is not available, which may occur due to network traffic (use the same Ac‐ cess Code, followed by the # button): United States Toll (Boston) +1-617-315-0704 United States Toll (Chicago) +1-312-535-8110 United States Toll (Dallas) +1-469-210-7159 United States Toll (Denver) +1-720-650-7664 United States Toll (Jacksonville) +1-904-900-2303 United States Toll (Los Angeles) +1-213-306-3065

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Electronic bids and elec‐ tronic bid bonds for the solicitation will be down‐ loaded by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Pur‐ chasing Division.

Beginning as soon as feasible after the bid closing time all elec‐ tronic bids will be down‐ loaded and publicly read aloud along with all paper bids received, if any, in 806 of City Hall immediately after the 2:00 p.m. bid closing.

Bids, amendments to bids, or request for with‐ drawal of quotations, re‐ ceived after time speci‐ fied for bid opening shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.

Bids shall be firm for a period of sixty (60) days from the date of the opening of bids and no bid shall be withdrawn for any reason during this period of time ex‐ cept as allowed per R.S. 38:2214.C. Official Bid Documents are available at Central Bidding (www.central biddi ) l i

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g bidding.com). Electronic Bids may be submitted at Central Bidding (www. centralbidding.com). For questions related to the electronic bidding process, please call Cen‐ tral Bidding at 225-8104814. Paper copies of the plans, specifications and contract documents are on file and may be ob‐ tained from the Public Works and Planning Cen‐ ter located at 1100 Laurel St., Engineering Division, Room 137 or Post Office Box 1471, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70821, upon payment of Ten Dollars ($10.00). (Make checks payable to the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge.)

Fees for plans, specifica‐ tions and contract docu‐ ments are to cover the cost of reproduction and are non-refundable in ac‐ cordance with Louisiana Revised Statutes.

q percent (5%) of the total bid, shall be submitted with each bid.

A Certified Check or Cashier's Check, payable to the Parish of East Baton Rouge or a satis‐ factory Bid Bond exe‐ cuted by the Bidder and an acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five ( ) f h l

Bids shall be received electronically via www. centralbidding.com or on solicitation bid forms furnished by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish East Baton Rouge, and only those bids shall be received by the CityParish which is submit‐ ted by those Contractors in whose names the so‐ licitation bid forms and/or specifications were issued. In no event shall paper solicitation forms be issued later than twenty-four (24) hours prior to the hour and date set for receiv‐ ing proposals.

The City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge has established a Socially and Economi‐ cally Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (SEDBE) program in ac‐ cordance with Revised Statute RS 33:2233.4. It is the policy of the Parish to ensure that Eligible Business Enterprises EBE’s, certified in accor‐ dance with the Parish

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program, have an equal opportunity to receive and participate in parish contracts.

ply with all provisions of the State Licensing Law for Contractors, R.S. 37:2150-2163, as amended, for all public contracts. It shall also be the responsibility of the General Contractor to as‐ sure that all subcontrac‐ tors comply with this law. If required for bid‐ ding, Contractors must hold an active license is‐ sued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors in the classi‐ HIGHWAY, fication of STREET AND BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION, and must show their license number on the face of the bid envelope and the Uniform Public Works Bid Form.

as informalities and shall not be waived by any public entity.

moval of the existing system and design of a new addressable voice evacuation fire alarm system.

For this project the EBR Parish Purchasing office has directed a review of the scope of work and has established a mini‐ mum EBE goal of 10% of the contract amount. All Bidders shall achieve this goal or demonstrate good faith efforts to achieve the goal. Good faith efforts include meeting this EBE goal or providing documentation demonstrating that the Bidder made sufficient good faith efforts in at‐ tempting to meet this goal. Only EBE firms cer‐ tified under the Parish SEDBE Certification Pro‐ gram at the time of sub‐ mittal of the bid will count toward this EBE goal. To be considered responsive, the apparent low bidder must submit EBE Forms 1, 1A, and 2, and Letters of EBE Certi‐ fication, as appropriate within 10 days after bid opening All Contractors bidding on this work shall com‐

In accordance with La. R.S. 38:2214 (B) the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 38:2212 (A)(1)(b), the pro‐ visions and requirements of this Section, those stated in the advertise‐ ment for bids, and those required on the bid form, shall not be considered

For additional informa‐ tion please contact George Chike, P.E. at gchike@brla.gov. or Henoke Abebe, Project Manager at h.abebe@ils iengineering.com.

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Bid Package with Plans and Specifications may be obtained online at www.centralbidding. com.

Electronic Bids may be submitted at Central Bid‐ ding (www.centralbidd ing.com). For questions related to the electronic bidding process, please call Central Bidding at 225-810-4814.

Alternately, paper copies may be obtained through most reprographic ven‐ dors for their printing cost. All Bids shall be made on the Bid Package Forms.

Statutory Forms (Bid Package Part 1-A) shall be submitted to the Pur‐ chasing Division prior to Bid Opening: Certification Regarding Debarment, Suspension and Other Responsibility Matters Attestation of No Past Criminal Convictions Legal Citizen Affidavit ll i

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Bid Forms (Bid Package Part 1) submitted shall be accompanied by a Certified Check or Cashier's Check payable to the Parish of East Baton Rouge, or a satis‐ factory Bid Bond exe‐ cuted by the Bidder and an acceptable surety, in an amount equal to five percent (5%) of the total bid.

Contractors must hold an active license issued by the State of Louisiana Li‐ censing Board for Con‐ tractors in the classifica‐ tion of Electrical, and must show their license number on the face of the bid envelope. All Con‐ tractors bidding on this work shall comply with all provisions of the State Licensing Law for Con‐ tractors, La RS 37:21502163 for all public con‐ tracts. It shall also be the responsibility of the Gen‐ eral Contractor to assure that all subcontractors comply with this law.

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Alternate numbers to call if number above is not available, which may occur due to network traffic (use the same Ac‐ cess Code, followed by the # button): United States Toll (Boston) +1-617-315-0704 United States Toll (Chicago) +1-312-5358110 United States Toll (Dallas) +1-469-210-7159 United States Toll Denver) +1-720-650-7664 United States Toll (Jacksonville) +1-904-900-2303 United States Toll (Los Angeles) +1-213-306-3065 At Bid Opening in Pur‐ chasing Division Room 826 City Hall, electronic Bids and Bid Bonds will be downloaded, then all electronic and paper Bids will be publicly read aloud. Bidders and/or their authorized repre‐ sentatives are invited.

Bid results can also be viewed at the link: http://city.brla.gov/dept/ purchase/bidresults.asp Bids, amendments to bids, or request for with‐ drawal of quotations, re‐ ceived after time speci‐ fied for bid opening shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.

The contract shall be awarded to the lowest responsible and respon‐ sive bidder. In accor‐ dance with Louisiana Revised Statute (La RS) 38:2214 B, the City-Parish reserves the right to reject any and all bids exceeding the preconstruction cost estimate, or for just cause. In accordance with La RS 38:2212 B (1), the provisions and re‐ quirements stated in the Bid Package and this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived by any entity.

Bids shall be firm for a period of 45 days from the date of the Bid Open‐ ing, except as allowed per La RS 38:2214 C. The City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge has established a Socially and Economi‐ cally Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (SEDBE) program in ac‐ cordance with Revised Statute RS 33:2233.4. It is the policy of the Parish to ensure that Eligible Business Enterprises EBE’s, certified in accor‐ dance with the Parish program, have an equal opportunity to receive and participate in parish contracts.

For this project the EBR Parish Purchasing office has directed a review of the scope of work and has established a mini‐ mum EBE goal of 2% of the contract amount. All Bidders shall achieve this goal or demonstrate good faith efforts to achieve the goal. Good faith efforts include meeting this EBE goal or providing documentation demonstrating that the Bidder made sufficient good faith efforts in at‐ tempting to meet this goal. Only EBE firms cer‐ tified under the Parish SEDBE Certification Pro‐ gram at the time of sub‐ mittal of the bid will count toward this EBE goal. To be considered responsive, the apparent low bidder must submit EBE Forms 1, 1A, and 2, and Letters of EBE Certi‐ fication, as appropriate within 10 days after bid opening.

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, August 4th, at 9050 Air‐ line Hwy., Baton Rouge, LA 70815. All parties in‐ terested in this project are invited to attend this conference.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Owner: Town of Addis Post Office Box 237 Addis, LA 70710 Date of Issuance: 7/10/2026 Owen and White, Inc. P.O. Box 66396 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70896-6396 The Town of Addis will receive separate sealed Bids for the Harris Ave Drainage Improvements Project, Contract No. 261947-12. The work con‐ sists of Approximately 900 feet of 18” and 60 ft of 24” remove and re‐ place PVC storm drain.

Includes approximately 17 new catch basins, ma‐ terial and labor of con‐ necting pipes. Find exact estimated quantities in the bid tab.

The Town of Addis will receive Bids until 2:00 PM local time, Wednesday August 12, 2026, at Addis Town Hall, 7818 LA Hwy 1, Addis, LA 70710. Bids re‐ ceived after this time will not be accepted. Bids will be opened and pub‐ licly read aloud immedi‐ ately after the specified closing time. The outside of the Bid envelope shall be marked with the pro‐ ject title, name and ad‐ dress of the Bidder and current Contractor’s li‐ cense number. Bids can also be accepted elec‐ tronically at www.Centerl inebidconnect.com.

Bidding Documents may be examined at the fol‐ lowing locations: Town of Addis, Post Office Box 237, Addis, LA 70710; Physical Address: Owen and White, Inc., 8755 Goodwood Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments for this project are being distributed in elec‐ i f b h lf f

Public Notices Bids/Proposals g tronic form on behalf of the Owner by Centerline BidConnect. They may be obtained without charge and without deposit from the Public Plan Room at www.centerlinebidco nnect.com .

Printed copies are not available from the Owner or De‐ signer but arrangements can be made to obtain them through most re‐ prographic firms. Plan holders are responsible for their own reproduc‐ tion costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to: Cen‐ terline - Phone: 504-2915738, Email: bidconnect@ centerline.co Questions other than those directly related to the bid document distrib‐ ution shall be directed to the Designer at: Owen and White, Inc.; Toby Fruge, P.E.; Email: Toby@ owenandwhite.com.

Phone Number: (225) 9265125. Questions shall be submitted in writing and responses posted via Ad‐ dendum on www.centerl inebidconnect.com.

Note: A prime bidder of this job must be regis‐ tered as a Prime Bidder at the issuing office. Cen‐ terline (www.centerlineb idconnect.com), to sub‐ mit a bid on this project.

Those not registered as a Prime Bidder at the issu‐ ing office will not have their bids accepted at the time of bid opening.

Bid security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the Bid must ac‐ company each Bid in ac‐ cordance with the In‐ struction to Bidders.

No Bidder may withdraw his Bid within 45 days after the actual date of the opening thereof.

OWNER TOWN OF ADDIS BY: /s/ MR. David H. Toups, Mayor TO APPEAR IN THE: The Advocate

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Bidding centralauctionhouse. com/rfpc10656-city-ofbaton-rouge.html) or by request from the City of Baton Rouge at shab‐ nins@brla.gov.

Bids shall be submitted electronically via www. centralbidding.com or on the solicitation bid forms furnished by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge prior to the bidding deadline.

Electronic bids for the solicitation will be down‐ loaded by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Pur‐ chasing Division. Begin‐ ning as soon as feasible after the bid closing time all electronic bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud along with all paper bids received, if any, in Room 806 immedi‐ ately after the 11:00 a.m. bid closing. Bidders or their authorized repre‐ sentatives are invited to be present.

Note: The City-Parish has elected to use LaPAC, the state's online electronic bid posting and notifica‐ tion system, in addition to its standard means of advertising this require‐ ment. This Invitation to Bid is available in elec‐ tronic form at the LaPAC https:// website wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/osp/lapac/dspBid. cfm?search=departm ent&term=102.

Bids, amendments to bids or request for with‐ drawal of bids received after time specified for bid openings shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.

Inquiries will be received up until 5 pm CST on July 29, 2026.

Full information may be obtained upon request from the above address or via email shabnins@ brla.gov.

Any vendor who would like to listen to the open‐ ing of this bid can access the following link, at the date and time of this bid opening:

NOTE: The only vendor information shared at the bid opening will be the reading of the names of those vendors who submitted bids.

Join by phone +1-408-418-9388 United States Toll Access code: 263 373 080 (followed by the # but‐ ton) Alternate numbers to call if number above is not available, which may occur due to network traffic (use the same Ac‐ cess Code, followed by the # button): United States Toll (Boston) +1-617-315-0704 United States Toll (Chicago) +1-312-5358110 United States Toll (Dallas) +1-469-210-7159 United States Toll (Denver) +1-720-650-7664 United States Toll (Jacksonville) +1-904900-2303 United States Toll (Los Angeles)

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PUBLIC NOTICE ---2ELM GROVE FIELD 26-255 thru 26-257 LEGAL NOTICE STATE OF LOUISIANA, DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY, BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. In accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana, and with par‐ ticular reference to the provisions of Title 30 of Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, a public hearing will be held in the Hearing Room, 1st Floor, LaSalle Building, 617 North 3rd Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 9:00 a.m. on TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2026, upon the application of BPX OPERATING COMPANY. At such hearing the De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy will con‐ sider evidence relative to the issuance of Orders pertaining to the follow‐ ing matters relating to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, in the Elm Grove Field, Bossier and Caddo Parishes, Louisiana.

1. To permit the applicant to drill, designate and utilize two cross unit hor‐ izontal wells as alternate unit wells for HA RA SU74, HA RA SU82 and HA RA SU103 (in lieu of the two similarly located cross unit horizontal wells approved in Office of Permitting and Com‐ pliance Order No. 361-L211, effective December 1, 2020), at the locations and in the general man‐ ner shown on the plat submitted with the appli‐ cation, and made a part hereof, in exception to the spacing provisions of the 361-L Series of Or‐ ders, provided there are no perforations in any wellbore closer than 330’ to any unit boundary and limited to 100’ from any unit boundary in the di‐ rection of the horizontal wellbore closest to the top of perforations or base of perforations (200’ between wells in adja‐ cent units), except for the common unit bound‐ aries between said units.

2. To find that the pro‐ posed wells are neces‐ sary to efficiently and economically drain a portion of the reservoir covered by each unit which cannot be so drained by any existing well within such units.

3. To permit the operator to produce the unit al‐ lowable for each unit from the unit well and/or the alternate unit wells, in any combination, at its discretion.

4. To find that unit pro‐ duction from the pro‐ posed cross unit horizon‐ tal alternate unit wells shall be allocated to each unit in the same proportion as the perfo‐ rated length of the lat‐ eral in each unit bears to the total length of the perforated lateral as de‐ termined by an “as drilled” survey per‐ formed after the cross unit horizontal well is drilled and completed, provided that unit pro‐ duction shall continue to be shared on a surface acre basis.

5. To find that production from each cross unit hor‐ izontal alternate unit well shall be separated and metered individually and this information shall be reported in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of the De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy.

6. To find that, with re‐ spect to wells drilled to the Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A, within or to serve HA RA SU74, HA RA SU82, and HA RA SU103, where the horizontal por‐ tion of the well is cased and cemented back above the top of the Hay‐ nesville Zone, Reservoir A, the distance to any unit boundary and offset well(s) should be calcu‐ lated based on the dis‐ tance to the nearest per‐ foration in the well, and not based on the pene‐ tration point or terminus.

7. Except insofar as set forth above, to confirm and continue in effect the provisions of the 361L Series of Orders, the units created thereby and applicable Statewide Orders.

8. To consider such other matters as may be perti‐ nent.

The Haynesville Zone, Reservoir A was defined in Order No. 361-L, effec‐ tive July 29, 2008, and was redefined INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as HA RA SU74 is concerned, in Order No. 361-L-48, effec‐ tive July 14, 2009, INSO‐ FAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as HA RA SU82 is con‐ cerned, in Order No. 361L-45, effective July 7, 2009 and INSOFAR AND ONLY INSOFAR as HA RA SU103 is concerned, in Order No. 361-L-60, effective Oc‐ tober 27, 2009.

A plat is available for in‐ spection in the Depart‐ ment of Conservation and Energy in Baton Rouge and Shreveport, Louisiana. http://dnr.louisiana.gov/ conshearings All parties having inter‐ est therein shall take no‐ tice thereof.

BY ORDER OF: DUSTIN H. DAVIDSON, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY Baton Rouge, LA 7/21/26;7/24/26 S lck IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT, IF YOU NEED ASSISTANCE AT THE HEARING, PLEASE CON‐ TACT THE DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND ENERGY AT P.O. BOX 94275, BATON ROUGE, LA

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70804-9275 IN WRITING WITHIN TEN (10) WORK‐ ING DAYS OF THE HEAR‐ ING DATE. 195170-jul 24-1t $84.50

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PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY (LDEQ) CLEAN HARBORS WHITE CASTLE, LLCILANDFARM FACILITY ADMINISTRATIVE COM‐ PLETENESS DETERMINA‐ TION The LDEQ, Office of Envi‐ ronmental Services, has reviewed a Solid Waste Major Permit Modifica‐ tion from Clean Harbors White Castle; LLC,52735 Clark Road; White Castle, LA 70788 for the Land‐ farm Facility and deter‐ mined that it is adminis‐ tratively complete. The application was received on July 2,2026. The facil‐ ity is located at 52735 Clark Road in Iberville Parish.

Clean Harbors White Castle, LLC proposes to revise the facility's nor‐ mal and maximum oper‐ ating schedules and pro‐ vide flexibility associ‐ ated with waste receipt scheduling, weather-re‐ lated delays, mainte‐ nance activities, emer‐ gency response activi‐ ties, and periods of in‐ creased operational de‐ mand while maintaining compliance with all ap‐ plicable permit condi‐ tions and regulatory re‐ quirements.

This permit is to be processed as an expe‐ dited permit in accor‐ dance with LAC 33:I. Chapter 18.

Inquiries or requests for additional information regarding this applica‐ tion should be directed to Della Smith Permits Di‐ vision, LDEQ, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA7082l-4313, phone (225) 219-3288.

Persons wishing to be in‐ cluded on the LDEQ per‐ mit public notice mailing list or for other public participation related questions should contact the Public Participation Group in writing at LDEQ, P.O. Box 4313, Baton Rouge, LA 70821-4313, by email at DEO.PUBLICN OTICES@LA.GOV or con‐ tact the LDEQ Customer Service Center at(225) 219-LDEQ (219-5337).

Permit public notices can be viewed at the LDEQ permits public notice webpage at http://www. deq.louisiana.eov/publicnotices and general in‐ formation related to the public participation in permiuing activities can be viewed at http:// www.deq.louisiana.gov/ pase/the-public-partici pation-group.

Alternatively, individuals may elect to receive the permit public notices via email by subscribing to the LDEQ permits public notice List Server at http://louisiana.gov/ Services/Email_Notific ations DEO-PN/.

AII correspondence should speciff AI Number 8469, Permit Number P0059-R1-M7, and Activity Number PER10260002.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE OF AUTHORIZATION OF DISSOLUTION AND APPOINTMENT OF LIQUIDATOR NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Louisiana Revised Statutes 12:1334 and 12:1336 of the Louisiana Limited Liability Com‐ pany Law (the “LLCL”), Rapides After Hours Clinic, L.L.C., a Louisiana limited liability company (the “Company”), shall be liquidated out of court, and that the fol‐ lowing has been ap‐ pointed liquidator of the Company (the “Liquida‐ tor”) to wind up the af‐ fairs of the Company as set forth in the Com‐ pany’s Plan of Liquida‐ tion and Dissolution (the “Plan”), including the sale of its assets, the payment or provision for its liabilities, and the dis‐ tribution of any remain‐ ing assets in accordance with the Plan and the LLCL: Premier Health Consultants, LLC c/o Development Specialists Inc. 10 S. LaSalle St. Suite 3300 Chicago, IL 60603 Date: July 24, 2026

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y tion.

The nomination must be made on a cur‐ rent form and signed by not less than 10 resident architects, other than the nominee, holding a cur‐ rent Louisiana license.

Nominations may be filed by certified mail to the board office at 9625 Fenway Avenue, Suite B, Baton Rouge, LA 708091592, or by email to tducote@lsbae.com.

A sample of the nomina‐ tion form may be ob‐ tained upon request from the board office. The nomination shall state the parish in which the nominee resides and the district for which elec‐ tion is sought. The dead‐ line for filing a nomina‐ tion is Friday, August 7, 2026, at 5 p.m. Nomina‐ tions received on or be‐ fore such deadline shall be considered timely de‐ livered. Confirmation of receipt is the sole re‐ sponsibility of the nomi‐ nee.

Questions should be di‐ rected to the Executive Director at (225) 925-4802 or tducote@lsbae.com.

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PUBLIC NOTICE Public Hearings will be held at Zachary City Hall 4700 Main St. during a regular meeting of the Planning and Zoning Commission meetingMonday, August 03, 2026 – 6:00 pm for the purpose indicated:

Resubdivision Lot 9 into Lots 9-A & 9-B 4200-4300 Rollins Road PUBLISH: July 23, 24, 25 of year 2026 194955 July 23, 24, 25, 3t $46.39 PUBLIC NOTICE The Central Community School System currently has the following budget available for viewing: 2026-2027 General Fund Original Budget It is all available for public in‐ spection at Central Com‐ munity School System 11576 Sullivan Road, City of Central, LA 70818. A RESCHEDULED Public Hearing regarding the budget for the 2026-2027 General Fund Original Budget will be held at the Central Community School System School Board Conference Room located at 11576 Sullivan Road, City of Central, LA 70818 on Monday, August 10, 2026 at 5:30 p.m.

194165 July 24, 1t $69.32 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com.

192994-jul 2-aug 15-45t $207.90

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The City of Zachary Plan‐ ning Commission will conduct a Public Hearing Monday, August 03, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. at Zachary City Hall 4700 Main St. Zachary, LA 70791 during the Planning Commis‐ sion’s regular meeting.

The purpose of the pub‐ lic hearing is to discuss, and thereafter adopt, the proposed new Master Plan for the City of Zachary. The details of the current draft of the proposed Master Plan can be viewed online at www.cityofzachary.org 195175-JUL 23-24-26-3T $49.42

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PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE There are vacancies in Districts 2 and 5 on the Louisiana Architects Se‐ lection Board for the oneyear terms beginning September 15, 2026.

District 2 consists of the Parishes of Assumption, Jefferson, Lafourche, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Tam‐ many, Terrebonne, and Washington.

District 5 consists of the Parishes of Bienville, Bossier, Caddo, Caldwell, Claiborne, Catahoula, Concordia, DeSoto, East Carroll, Franklin, Jackson, LaSalle, Lincoln, Madi‐ son, Morehouse, Oua‐ chita, Red River, Rich‐ land, Tensas, Union, Web‐ ster, West Carroll, and Winn.

Any resident architect holding a current Louisiana license who re‐ sides in District 2 or Dis‐ trict 5 may seek nomina‐ i h i i

Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, June 23, 2022 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning .at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: MARQUAND VESALIUS WESTON AND DORIS MCWHITE WESTON ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of East Baton of Rouge, State Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as SHER‐ WOOD FOREST, FIFTH FIL‐ ING, and designated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BER THREE HUNDRED TWENTY-TWO (322), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are more partic‐ ularly shown on said map; subject to restric‐ tions, servitudes, rightsof-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August24,2026 $227.04 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 729755 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVIC‐ ING, LLC vs KAYLA MICHELLE HOLLIDAY Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, January 01, 1900 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: KAYLA MICHELLE HOLLIDAY One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages there‐ unto belonging or in any‐ wise appertaining, situ‐ ated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as TIMBER‐ LANE, and designated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BER TWO HUNDRED EIGHTY SEVEN (287), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are more partic‐ ularly shown on said map; subject to restric‐ tions, servitudes, rightsof-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $234.71 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 730001

I, TAWILL Devonta THOMAS AKA HUNCHO AKA TAWILL THOMAS AKA TAWILL D THOMAS, have been convicted of 14:45 Simple Kidnapping.

Date Convicted: 07/23/2024. 14:80 Carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Date Convicted: 07/23/2024.

My Address is: 6942 Caravel Ct Baker, LA 70714

195003-jul 24-1t $153.02

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Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/12/2003 Height: 6' Weight: 200 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 195139, JULY 24-25 $250

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SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 720283 GMFS LLC vs MARQUAND VESALIUS WESTON AND DORIS MCWHITE WESTON Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District

U.S. BANK TRUST NA‐ TIONAL ASSOCIATION NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF 2 ACQUISITION TRUST C/O U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSO‐ CIATION vs DARON DWAYNE HARDNETT AND QIANA CROSS HARDNETT, (A/K/A QIANA CROSS, QIANA HARDNETT) Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 13, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: DARON DWAYNE HARDNETT AND QIANA CROSS HARDNETT, (A/K/A QIANA CROSS, QIANA HARDNETT) One (1) certain condo‐ minium unit, together with all privileges and appurtenances there‐ unto, known as Baywood Quarters Condominium, located in Section 62, Township 7 South, Range I East, Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana (formerly Lot A-1-A-1, of Baywood Of‐ fice Park, said lot being more particularly shown and described as accord‐ ing to "Map showing ALTA/ACSM Survey of Lot A-A-A-1 Baywood Office Park and Tract D-1 -B the Lakes at Aubin Wood ... for NSH Corp" by G. l d

Public Notices Sheriff Sales p y Wayne Sledge, PLS, GWS Engineering, Inc. dated November 14, 2005, a copy of which is filed of record in the official con‐ veyance records of Fast Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, at Original 906, Bundle 11784 and designated as Unit 14, Building 1321 of Baywood Quarters Condominium, having such measure‐ ments and dimensions as more particularly de‐ scribed in the condo‐ minium declaration enti‐ tled Declaration Creating and Establishing a con‐ dominium regime for Baywood Quarter Condo‐ minium by Summerleaf Investments, LLC., filed for record in the official records of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana on May 31, 2006, as Origi‐ nal 31, Bundle 11841; said unit and the owner of same being subject to all the provisions of said de‐ claration as it exists, or may from time to time be amended, together with all rights and obligations as pertaining to the owner of same, particu‐ larly, but not exclusively, the undivided share of the common and/or lim‐ ited common elements, the use of the limited common elements re‐ served for said unit, membership in the Bay‐ wood Quarters Condo‐ minium Association, Inc., and the obligations to pay a share of the com‐ mon expenses all as set forth in said declaration and as specified in the Louisiana Condominium Act. Also conveyed unit Purchaser(s) are all cur‐ rently installed and builtin appliances and fix‐ tures, including air con‐ ditions and heating units.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $382.72 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 749494 CAF BRIDGE BORROWER AX LLC vs BATON ROUGE MULTI-FAMILY HOLDINGS LLC Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, July 17, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described property belonging to: BATON ROUGE MULTIFAMILY HOLDINGS LLC Property 1: Six (6) certain lots or parcels of ground situ‐ ated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as Melrose East, Fourth Filing, and designated on the offi‐ cial plan entitled "Mel‐ rose East Fourth Filing Being a Portion of the E.C. Witter Estate and lo‐ cated in Section 72, T7S, RlE, Greensburg Land District of Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana" for Wooddale Commercial Properties, Inc., prepared by Paul C. Boudreaux and Associ‐ ates, Inc., dated March 8, 1968 and recorded May 1, 1968 at Original 42, Bun‐ dle 6740, Official Records of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, as Lot Numbers One Hundred Eighty-Six (186), One Hundred Eighty-Seven (187), and One Hundred Eighty-Eight (188), One Hundred Eighty-Nine (189), One Hundred Ninety (190) and One Hundred Ninety-One (191), said subdivision, said lots being more par‐ ticularly described as fol‐ lows: Commence at the most Southerly intersection of the Southerly right-ofway of Rembrandt Av‐ enue and the Easterly right-of-way of North Carrollton Avenue; thence, along the Southerly right-of-way of Rembrandt Avenue North 87 deg. 34' 20" East a dis‐ tance of 257.31 feet to a point and comer, said point being the Point-ofBeginning thence, along said right-of-way North 87 deg. 34' 20" East a dis‐ tance of390.00 feet to a point and comer; thence, departing said right-ofway, South 2 deg. 25' 40" East a distance of 163.00 feet to a point and comer; thence, South 87 deg. 34'20" West a dis‐ tance of390.00 feet to a point and comer; thence, North 2 deg. 25' 40" West a distance of 163.00 feet to the Point-of-Begin‐ ning.

For information only, said property bears a Munici‐ pal Address of 6748 Rem‐ brandt Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, and each lot bears the follow‐ ing property Identifica‐ tion Number: Lot 186 - Parcel No. 764566 Lot 187 -Parcel No. 764574 Lot 188 - Parcel No. 764582 Lot 189 - Parcel No. 764590 Lot 190 - Parcel No. 764604 Lot 191 - Parcel No. 764612 Property 2: Ten certain lots or parcels of ground, situ‐ ated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as Melrose East, First Filing, and desig n ated on the offi‐ cial plan entitled "Mel‐ rose East First Filing, being a Portion of the E.C. Witter Estate and lo‐ cated in Section 72, T7S, RlE, Greensburg Land District of Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana" for Wooddale Commercial Properties, Inc., prepared by Paul C. Boudreaux and Associ‐ ates, Inc., dated February 26, 1968 and recorded March 20, 1968 at Origi‐ nal 81, Bundle 6702,

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amended at COB 209, Folio 658, Official Records of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, as Lot Numbers Sixty-Six (66), Sixty-Seven (67), SixtyEight (68), Sixty-Nine (69), Seventy (70), Ninety-One (91), Ninety-Two (92), NinetyThree (93), Ninety-Four (94), and Ninety-Five (95), said subdivision, said lots being more particu‐ larly described as fol‐ lows: Commence at the most Northeasterly intersec‐ tion of the Northerly right-of-way of Harry Drive and the Easterly right-of-way of Donmoor, said point being the Point-of-Beginning.

Thence, along the East‐ erly right-of-way of Don‐ rnoor Avenue North 2 deg. 25' 40" West a dis‐ tance of 320.00 feet to a point and comer; thence, departing said right-ofway North 87 deg. 34' 20" East a distance of330.00 feet to a point and comer; thence, South 2 deg. 25' 40" East a dis‐ tance of 320.00 feet to a point and a comer on the northerly right-of-way of Harry Drive; thence, South 87 deg. 34' 20" West a distance of 330.00 to the Point-of-Begin‐ ning.

For information only, said property bears a munici‐ pal address of854 N. Don‐ rnoor, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, and each Lot bears the following prop‐ erty identification num‐ ber: Lot 66 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764795 Lot 67 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764809 Lot 68 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764817 Lot 69 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764825 Lot 70 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764833 Lot 91 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764841 Lot 92 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764868 Lot 93 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764876 Lot 94 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764884 Lot 95 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 764892 Property 4: Nine (9) certain lots or parcels of ground, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in that subdivision in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, known as Melrose East, First Filing, and being more particularly de‐ scribed according to the official plan of said sub‐ division entitled "Final Plat of Melrose East First Filing, being a portion of the E.C. Witter Estate and located in Section 72, T7S, RlE, Greensburg Land District of Louisiana., East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana., for Wooddale Commer‐ cial Properties, Inc., Jules F. Landr y , President," prepared by Paul C. Boudreaux, Civil Engi‐ neer, dated February 26, 1968, on file and of record as Original 4 of Bundle 6695, of the offi‐ cial records of the Parish and State, as Lot Num‐ bers Twenty-One (21), Twenty-Two (22), TwentyThree (23), Seventy-One (71), Seventy- Two (72), Seventy-Three (73), Sev‐ enty-Four (74), SeventyFive (75), and Seventy-Six (76), said subdivision, each of said lots having such measurements and dimensions as are shown on the official plat, and being subject to all sub‐ division restrictions, servitudes, and mineral reservations of record.

For information only, said property bears a munici‐ pal address of 686 Monet Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, and each Lot bears the following prop‐ erty identification num‐ ber: Lot 21 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827908 Lot 22 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827916 Lot 23 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827924 For information only, said property bears a munici‐ pal address of 763 Monet Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, and each Lot bears the following prop‐ erty identification num‐ ber: Lot 71 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827932 Lot 72 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827940 Lot 73 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827959 For information only, said property bears a munici‐ pal address of747 Monet Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70806, and each Lot bears the following prop‐ erty identification num‐ ber: Lot 74 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827967 Lot 75 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827975 Lot 76 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 827983 Property 5: Five (5) certain lots or parcels of ground, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as Melrose East, Sixth Filing, and being designated on the official plan of said sub‐ division, prepared by Paul C. Boudreaux & As‐ sociates, Inc., Consulting Engineers, dated January 3, 1969, as revised, on file and of record as Original 99 of Bundle 6953 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of this Parish and State, as Lot Num‐ bers Four Hundred Thirty-Three (433), Four Hundred Thirty-Four (434), Four Hundred Thirty-Five (435), Four Hundred Thirty-Six (436) and Four Hundred ThirtySeven (437), said subdivi‐ sion, said lots having such size, shape and di‐ mensions and being sub‐ ject to such servitudes as are shown on said map.

For information only, said property bears a munici‐ pal address of 6880 Cezanne Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70806, and each Lot bears the fol‐ lowing property identifi‐ cation number: Lot 433 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 858692 Lot 434 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 858706 Lot 435 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 858714 Lot 436 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 858722 Lot 437 Property Identifi‐ cation Number 858730

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Property 9: A certain piece or portion of ground situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, desig‐ nated as Tract "D" of Melrose East Subdivi‐ sion, First Filing, said Tract D being more par‐ ticularly described as having dimensions of 120 feet on Rembrandt Av‐ enue by a depth along parallel lines of 326 feet and having a back line along Harry Drive of 120 feet as per Certificate of Survey dated September 15, 1972, by W. Kenneth Moore.

Property 10: One certain lot or parcel of ground, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as Melrose East, First Filing, and des‐ ignated on a map or plan of subdivision prepared

by Paul C. Boudreaux and Associates, Inc., Consult‐ ing Engineers, entitled "Final Plat of Melrose East, First Filing, being a portion of the E.C. Witter Estate and located in Section 72, T-7-S, R-1-E, Greensburg Land District of Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, for Wooddale Commer‐ cial Properties, Inc.," dated February 26, 1968, a copy of which is on file in the Office of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as Original 81, Bundle 6702, and identified as Tract "C," said Melrose East, First Filing, and has such di‐ mensions and size as shown on the aforesaid plan of subdivision. All as more fully shown on plat of survey prepared by Phillip J. Thomas, P.L.S., dated October 12, 1999, Job #99-361, and recorded with the Clerk of Court and Recorder of Mortgages for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana at Original 672, Bundle 11065.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $1,184.08 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 752688 DEUTSCHE BANK NA‐ TIONAL TRUST COMPANY, AS TRUSTEE FOR SOUND‐ VIEW HOME LOAN TRUST 2006-1, ASSET-BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2006-1 VS HOUSTON THOMAS JR Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 18, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: HOUSTON THOMAS JR ONE CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings, and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that sub‐ division known as BARKLEY PLACE, and designated on the offi‐ cial plan thereof, on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the clerk and recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUMBER NINETY-TWO (92), said subdivision, said lot having such measurements and di‐ mension and being sub‐ ject to such servitudes as are more particularly described on said subdi‐ vision map.

Which has the address of 12423 King James Av‐ enue, Baton Rouge, LA 70810 TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $244.89 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 758748 PENNYMAC VICES LLC CHANDLER

LOAN SER‐ VS SHAWN

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, July 24, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: SHAWN CHANDLER A certain tract or parcel of land together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, being lot twenty (20), Zachary Road Acres, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. Said Lot 20 measure‐ having the ments and dimensions and being subject to the servitudes and dedica‐ tions as set on the offi‐ cial plot recorded as Original 62 of Bundle 3881 of the official records of East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana.

TERMS OF SALE:

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Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $188.75 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 759266 PENNYMAC LOAN SER‐ VICES LLC VS CRYSTAL ANN LANDRY AND KISA HOMES, LLC Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 28, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: CRYSTAL ANN LANDRY AND KISA HOMES, LLC ALL THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, together with .all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, in that subdivi‐ sion of the PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, known as RIVER OAKS SUBDIVISION, SECOND FILING, and designated on the official map of said subdivision on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorded for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT Two Hundred Thirty Seven A (237-A), said subdivision, said lot measuring Ninety (90') feet front on Gloria Drive, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of One Hundred. Forty Five (145') feet; said lot subject to a seven and 5/10 (7.5) foot servitude for public utilities across there rear and along the southerly side line; all as shown on the official recorded subdivision map; subject to restric‐ tions, servitudes, rightsof way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $262.78 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 760048 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC vs TEQUILA BERNARD Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, May 20, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed property belong‐ ing to: TEQUILA BERNARD ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, TOGETHER WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVI‐ LEGES, SERVITUDES, AP‐ PURTENANCES AND AD‐ VANTAGES THEREUNTO BELONGING OR IN ANY‐ WISE APPERTAINING, SIT‐ UATED IN THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN THAT SUBDIVISION THEREOF KNOWN AS SOUTH HIGHLANDS SUB‐ DIVISION, FIRST FILING, PART TWO AND BEING DESIGNATED ON THE MAP OF SAID SUBDIVISION THAT IS RECORDED IN MAP BOOK 112, PAGE 51 OF THE RECORDS OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH, LOUISIANA, AS LOT ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY-THREE (183), SAID SOUTH HIGHLANDS SUB‐ DIVISION, FIRST FILING, PART TWO, SAID LOT HAVING A FRONTAGE SEVENTY-FIVE (75) FEET ON HIGH POINT ROAD BAND A DEPTH OF ONE HUNDRED FORTY (140) FEET BETWEEN EQUAL AND PARALLEL LINES; SAID LOT BEING SUBJECT TO THE SERVITUDES AND BUILDING SETBACK RE‐ QUIREMENTS SHOWN ON THE ABOVE DESCRIBED MAP; subject to restric‐ tions, servitudes, rightsof-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $ SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 760662 SYNERGY BANK FKA PEO‐ PLES BANK TRUST CO. OF POINTE COUPEE vs BROWN & TALBERT LLC, NICO TALBERT AND LOT 40 LLC Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, January 21, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described property belonging to: BROWN & TALBERT LLC, NICO TALBERT AND LOT 40 LLC A certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, in that subdivision known as FOREST HEIGHTS PARK, FIRST FILING and desig‐ nated on a plan thereof prepared by Edwards E. Evans. & Associates, Inc., C.E., dated July 16, 1979, on file and in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, as LOT Forty (40), said Forest Heights Park, First Filing, said Lot 40, having di‐ mensions, measure‐ ments and subject to servitudes and restric‐ tions as Shown on said

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The Property or its ad‐ dress is commonly known as 7412 East Caprice Avenue, Baton Rouge, LA 70811

TRACT TWO A certain tract or parcel of ground, together with all the improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in Section 42, T-6-S, R-1-E, being desig‐ nated as Tract X-2-A-1 as per that map of Survey hy Darvin W. Ferguson, P.L.S., dated April 8, 2002, entitled "Map Showing Resubdivision of Tract X2-A of The Billy J. Buzbee Property into Tracts X-2A-1, X-2-A-2 and X-2-A-3 Located in Section 42, T6-S, R-1-E, G.L.D., East Parish, Baton Rouge Louisiana for Bill Buzbee", recorded as Original 199, Bundle I 1335 of the official records of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana. Said Tract X-2-A-1 having such di‐ mensions as shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $232.15 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 763078 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SERVICES, LLC vs ERNEST BRAD MILTON Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 30, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: ERNEST BRAD MILTON ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and servitudes of passage and use, over common properties, situ‐ ated in that subdivision of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, known as Brightside Park Fourth Filing, and being desig‐ nated on "Revised Final Plat of the Subdivision of Brightside Park, Fourth Filing, formerly Lots "A" & "B", being the subdivi‐ sion of a portion of Lot ""JX"" of the Resubdivi‐ sion of Lots ""I"" & "J" of Arlington Plantation, lo‐ cated in Sections 43 & 65, T7 & SS, R-1-W, Greens‐ burg Land for Dale Can‐ gelosi Construction, Inc., 5800 One Perkins Place Drive, Suite SC, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 (504) 767-1930"", made by Ronald K. Ferris, Civil En‐ gineer & Reg. Land Sur‐ veyor, as Lot Number One Hundred TwentyFive-D (125-D), said Brightside Park, Fourth Filing, each of said lots having such measure‐ ments and dimensions as shown on said resub‐ division map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $247.45 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 763812 FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION VS ED‐ WARD EARL NANCE Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, July 09, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: ED‐ WARD EARL NANCE A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Heatherstone, a Town‐ house Community, and being designated on the official subdivision map, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for said Parish and State, as Lot Number Thirty-Eight (38), said subdivision, said lot having such measure‐ ments and dimensions as shown on said map; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $224.49 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 764110 THE COTTONPORT BANK VS NEW HEIGHTS DEVEL‐ OPMENT LLC, DINO EU‐ LANDO BROWN AND DANIEL DEWAYNE TILL‐ MAN Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, March 23, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described property belonging to: NEW HEIGHTS DEVELOP‐ MENT LLC, DINO EU‐ LANDO BROWN AND DANIEL DEWAYNE TILL‐ MAN TRACT ONE A certain parcel or tract of land located in the Parish of East Baton State of Rouge, Louisiana, in Section 42, T-6-S, R-1-E, G.L.D., con‐ taining 20.8435 acres, more or less, and desig‐ nated as Tract B-2, on map entitled, "Map showing Survey and Divi‐ sion of Tract "B" into Tracts B-1 and B-2, for‐ merly East Glen Oaks, Inc. Property, located in Section 42, T-6-S, R-1-E, Greensburg District, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, for East Baton Rouge Parish Recreation and Parks Commission,"

by Carl L. Mistric, R.L.S., dated June 20, 1983 on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder in Original 207, .Bundle 9584 for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

Subject to sanitary sewer servitude of 7.5' along the eastern boundary as shown on the above de‐

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $331.66 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 766773 FREEDOM MORTGAGE CORPORATION vs VIN‐ CENT HONORE, JR. AKA VINCENT HONORE Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, August 25, 2025 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: VIN‐ CENT HONORE, JR. AKA VINCENT HONORE One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages there‐ unto belonging or in any‐ wise appertaining, situ‐ ated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as THE WOODLANDS, SECOND FILING, and. designated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana as LOT NUMBER ONE HUNDRED NINETY TWO (192), said subdivision, said lot having such measurements and di‐ mensions and being sub‐ ject to such servitude and restrictions as are more particularly shown on said map (property").

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $229.60 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 766859 GUILD MORTGAGE COM‐ PANY LLC vs ADRIAN T JAMES Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, September 10, 2025 and to me di‐ rected, I did seize and will, beginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www. bid4assets.com/EBR SOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: ADRIAN T JAMES One certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as MARITA TERRACE, FOURTH FILING, and designated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of EAST BATON ROUGE, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUMBER ONE HUN‐ DRED EIGHT (108), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes as are shown on said subdivision map; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

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vision known as PYBURN & COLEMAN PROPERTY, and designated as LOT "0-1 ", on a map entitled, "Map Showing the Sur‐ vey of Lot 0-1, Being the Subdivision of Pyburn & Coleman Property, Being Located East of Lot M, Westdale, Inc. Tract in Section 95, T7S, R1E, G.L.D., East Baton Rouge Parish, La. for Delmas G. Hutchinson", dated No‐ vember 26, 1979 by Toxie Craft and attached to a sale recorded as Original 196, Bundle 9372 in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana. Said lot having such measure‐ ments and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and re‐ strictions as are more particularly shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

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Recorder for East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as Lot Number Sixty (60), said subdivision; said lot hav‐ ing such bearings and di‐ mensions and being sub‐ ject to such servitudes and building line restric‐ tions of record as shown on the official subdivi‐ sion plat.

said subdivision, said lot having such measure‐ ments and dimensions as shown on said map ("Property").

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $237.23 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 770405

BANKPLUS vs MAXTIN SOLUTIONS LLC ET AL Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, November 06, 2025 and to me di‐ rected, I did seize and will, beginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www. bid4assets.com/EBR SOsheriffsales., offer for sale at public auction the following described property belonging to: MAXTIN SOLUTIONS LLC ET AL

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, December 04, 2025 and to me di‐ rected, I did seize and will, beginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www. bid4assets.com/EBR SOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: LAKESHIA BANKS AKA LAKESHIA NICOLE BANKS, INDIVIDU‐ ALLY AND AS INDEPEN‐ DENT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SUCCESSION OF LC BANKS AKA LC BANKS, Ill AKA LC BANKS, JR. AND LARI US C. BANKS, INDE‐ PENDENT ADMINISTRA‐ TOR OF THE SUCCESSION OF LC BANKS, Ill AKA LC BANKS, JR.

SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 768899

THREE (3) certain lots or parcels of ground, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of EAST BATON ROUGE, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as MEL‐ ROSE EAST, FIRST FILING, and being more particu‐ larly described according to the official map of said subdivision din file and or record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorder for the said Parish and Slate, as LOT NUMBERS NINETY-SIX (96), NINETY-SEVEN (97), and NINETY-EIGHT (98), said subdivision, said lot having such measure‐ ments and dimensions and being subject to as such servitudes shown on said map.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bidder, at Public Auction previously offered WITH Appraise‐ ment, no bids were re‐ ceived, so the sale will be offered at cost and ac‐ cording to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $219.38

ALL THAT CERTAIN PAR‐ CEL OF LAND, in the City of Baton Rouge, Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, being known and designated as LOT 1406, Sherwood Forest 15th Filing, recorded in the Parish recorder's Office of East Baton Rouge, in Book Number 159, Page 10795; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights of way and outstanding mineral rights of record affecting the property.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August24,2026 $244.89 SHERIFF'S SALE

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Suit No: (17) 771776

Suit No: (17) 770286 METROPOLITAN LIFE INS. CO. VS RAY ANTHONY THOMAS

HOMEBRIDGE FINANCIAL SERVICES INC vs DYLAN DUHE AND KMX REAL ES‐ TATE LOUISIANA DIVI‐ SION, LLC

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Fieri Fa‐ cias issued out of the honorable court afore‐ said, in the above enti‐ tled and numbered cause, dated, April 24, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed property belong‐ ing to: RAY ANTHONY THOMAS

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 06, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: DYLAN DUHE AND KMX REAL ESTATE LOUISIANA DIVISION, LLC

Two (2) certain lots or parcels of ground, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining. situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that sub‐ division known as BELAIR, and designated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton

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Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BERS SEVENTEEN (17) and EIGHTEEN (18), said subdivision, said lots having such measure‐ ments and dimensions and being subject to ·such servitudes and re‐ strictions as are more particularly shown on said map; subject to re‐ strictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and out‐ standing mineral rights of record affecting the property.

MIDFIRST BANK vs LAKESHIA BANKS AKA LAKESHIA NICOLE BANKS, INDIVIDUALLY AND AS IN‐ DEPENDENT ADMINIS‐ TRATOR OF THE SUCCES‐ SION OF LC BANKS AKA LC BANKS, Ill AKA LC BANKS, JR. AND LARI US C. BANKS, INDEPENDENT ADMINISTRATOR OF THE SUCCESSION OF LC BANKS, III AKA LC BANKS, JR.

ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $262.78

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One certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing, or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in that subdivision thereof known as White Oak Landing, First Filing, and being designated on the official plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and

ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 202 $227.04 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 776238 REGIONS MORTGAGE DBA REGIONS MORTGAGE vs THE UNOPENED SUCCES‐ SION OF THOMAS RELEE PRUYN AND THE UN‐ OPOENED SUCCESSION OF DOROTHY BABCOCK PRUYN Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, April 24, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF THOMAS RELEE PRUYN AND THE UN‐ OPOENED SUCCESSION OF DOROTHY BABCOCK PRUYN ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as NORTH SHERWOOD FOREST, and designated on the offi‐ cial plan thereof, on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUMBER FIFTY-SIX (56), said subdivision, said lot having such measure‐ ments and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and re‐ strictions as arc more particularly shown on said map.

Which has the address of 11556 Archery Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70815 TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $244.89 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 777270 WILMINGTON SAVINGS FUND SOCIETY, FSB, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CA‐ PACITY BUT SOLELY AS TRUSTEE FOR IBIS HOLD‐ INGS A TRUST vs CGM LANDHOLDINGS LLC AND CURTIS GENE MOORE Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 04, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: CGM LAND HOLDINGS LLC AND CURTIS GENE MOORE ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, situated in that subdivision of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, known as LAKE VILLAS CROSSING (A RESIDEN‐ TIAL DEVELOPMENT), and being designated on the official subdivision map, on file and of record as Original 90, Bundle 13148, as revised at the final plat recorded at Original 915, Bundle 13188, in the office of the Clerk and Recorder for said parish and state, as LOT NUM‐ BER TWENTY-FOUR (24),

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $227.04

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITH Appraisement and according to law.

ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August24,2026 $229.60

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August24,2026 $229.60 SHERIFF'S SALE

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U.S. BANK TRUST NA‐ TIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCF 2 ACQUISITION TRUST vs STEVEN G. COLKMIRE AND NICOLE M. COLK‐ MIRE A/K/A NICOLE MORALES DAVIS Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 19, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: STEVEN G. COLKMIRE AND NICOLE M. COLKMIRE A/K/A NICOLE MORALES DAVIS ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision thereof known as CEDAR MILL RUN, SEC‐ OND FILING and being designated on the offi‐ cial plat thereof on fife and of record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorder for EAST BA TON ROUGE Parish, Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BER 182, said subdivi‐ sion; said lot having such bearings and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and building line restrictions of record and as shown on the official subdivi‐ sion plat ("Property").

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $250

VILLAGE CAPITAL & IN‐ VESTMENT LLC vs DERETA GAVIN Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 20, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an on line auction site at www.bid4assets. com/EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following de‐ scribed mortgaged prop‐ erty belonging to: DERETA GAVIN One certain lot or parcel of ground, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, advan‐ tages and appurte‐ nances thereunto be‐ longing or anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision thereof known as SHERWOOD FOREST SUB‐ DIVISION, SEVENTH FIL‐ ING, PART TWO, and des‐ ignated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUM‐ BER SIX HUNDRED SEV‐ ENTY-SEVEN (677), said lot having such measure‐ ments and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes as are more particularly de‐ scribed on said subdivi‐ sion map ("Property").

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

SHERIFF'S SALE

vs

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 22, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: SHANNON AL‐ LAIN ONE (1) certain lot or parcel of ground, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that sub‐ division known as PLAZA 12 GARDEN HOMES, PART II, and designated on the official plan thereof, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUMBER FIFTY (50), said subdivision, said lot hav‐ ing such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes and restric‐ tions as are more partic‐ ularly shown on said map.

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 27, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: CARL SHROP‐ SHIRE One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and ad‐ vantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in that subdivision thereof known as Sherwood For‐ est Subdivision, Eighth Filing, and being more particularly described on the official map thereof on file and of record in the office of the clerk and recorder for the Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana, as lot number eight hundred fifty-nine (859), said sub‐ division; said lot having such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servi‐ tudes and building line restrictions as shown on said recorded map and of record.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August24,2026 $224.49

SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 777913 REGIONS BANK D/B/A RE‐ GIONS MORTGAGE vs SHALETA ROBERTSON

Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, May 22, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4assets.com/ EBRSOsheriffsales, offer for sale at public auction the following described mortgaged property be‐ longing to: SHALETA ROBERTSON One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages there‐ unto belonging or in any‐ wise appertaining, situ‐ ated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐ vision known as VILLAGE COTE, FIRST FILING and designated on the offi‐ cial plan thereof, on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorder of the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, as LOT NUMBER SEVENTYTHREE-A (73-A), said sub‐ division, said lot having such measurements and dimensions and being subject to such servi‐ tudes and restrictions as are more particularly shown on said map.

Which has the address of3147 Winnipeg Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70819.

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

Which has the address of

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August24,2026 $234.71 SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 766909 LOAN FUNDER LLC vs 5343 GREENSIDE LANE RE LLC, JOE DAMIAN MELEN‐ DEZ AND JOHN GERALD POWER IV Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana Acting under and by virtue of Writ of Seizure and Sale issued out of the honorable court aforesaid, in the above entitled and numbered cause, dated, March 26, 2026 and to me directed, I did seize and will, be‐ ginning at 10:00 o'clock a.m. on August 26, 2026, via an online auction site at www.bid4as‐ setscom/EBRSOsherif sales , offer for sale at public auction the follow‐ ing described mortgaged property belonging to: 5343 GREENSIDE LANE RE LLC, JOE DAMIAN MELEN‐ DEZ AND JOHN GERALD POWER IV

193723-666325-jul 24-1t $ 102.59

ROCKET MORTGAGE LLC vs CARL SHROPSHIRE

ADVERTISED DATE July 24, 2026 August 24, 2026 $227.04

TERMS OF SALE: Cash to the highest bid‐ der, at Public Auction WITHOUT Appraisement and according to law.

One (1) certain lot or par‐ cel of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages there‐ unto belonging or in any‐ wise appertaining, situ‐ ated in the Parish of East Baton Rouge, State of Louisiana, in that subdi‐

SHERIFF'S SALE Suit No: (17) 777919

Sid J. Gautreaux, Sheriff East Baton Rouge Parish

Baton Rouge, LA 19th Judicial District Parish of East Baton Rouge State of Louisiana

Suit No: (17) 777787

Public Notices Sheriff Sales

3332 Toulon Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70816.

Suit No: (17) 777797

Suit No: (17) 777459

TRUSTMARK BANK SHANNON ALLAIN

Public Notices Sheriff Sales

193724-666332-jul 24-1t $ 102.59

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