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The Fremaux Town Center in Slidell opened in 2014. Plans are for a 50% increase in retail space.

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Slidell complex plans major expansion of retail space

BY GRACE MAYER Staff writer

A little more than a decade after the Fremaux Town Center opened in Slidell, the owners of the mixeduse center are planning a major expansion that would significantly grow the center’s footprint with the addition of much-needed new retail space.

Officials with Stirling Properties, which owns the center located off Interstate 10 near U.S. 190, are planning to add between 300,000 and 400,000 square feet of new retail space to the center — a roughly 50% increase that will bring the development to over 1 million square feet and enable it to attract more national retail brands, boutiques and restaurants.

“There are a bunch of tenants that have wanted to be a part of this project that we haven’t had room for,” said Ryan Pécot, senior

retail leasing and development adviser with Stirling. “We have enough momentum to stack three, four, five of those tenants together and put this new phase together.”

Since opening in 2014, Fremaux — a “lifestyle center” that combines an open-air shopping center with restaurants, a hotel and apartments — has come to reflect the changing face of retail, creating a campus where people can live, work and play.

While many malls and traditional retailers have downsized or closed in recent years due to competition from online shopping, Fremaux and other lifestyle centers in the region are demonstrating that demand still exists for in-person shopping destinations, provided they have the right tenant mix and the right location.

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30 judicial candidates file to run

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

is using $125 million as a yardstick. That is the amount of onetime cash the administration used to plug the gap between revenue and expenses this year.

That required certain tree-shaking measures — like tapping reserves of external city agencies — that will be much more difficult next year, Giarrusso said.

Several incumbents qualified to fight for their seats Wednesday in what promises to be a monumental election season for Orleans Parish’s courts.

Dozens of candidates for elected office lined the halls outside the clerk’s office at Criminal District Court to officially launch their campaigns as the three-day qualifying period kicked off statewide Wednesday for midterm elections this fall.

Thirty hopefuls qualified over the course of the day.

The ballot in New Orleans is dominated by judicial races in the wake of Act 748, a state law that cut three of 12 district judgeships from criminal court as part of a broader shrinking of the city’s court system.

Rhonda Goode-Douglas, one of the judges slated for removal at year’s end, made good on a promise to challenge Judge Leon Roche, whose Section I seat was

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Shoppers walk to their cars after visiting stores at the

ä See FREMAUX, page 7A Fremaux Town Center in Slidell on Wednesday.

‘Definite’ cuts coming next year, N.O. officials say Moreno administration looking at fee hikes

BY BEN MYERS Staff writer

As Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration digs out of the city’s latest cash flow crisis, officials on Wednesday warned that painful cuts would be needed to avoid a $125 million budget deficit next year.

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Chief Administrative Officer Joe Giarrusso, addressing the New Orleans City Council’s Budget Committee, said the administration will also look for ways to increase revenue, including fee hikes, to offset the cuts.

“Cuts aren’t a potential. They are a definite. The question is the magnitude. The hope is

As qualifying begins for the November open primary for Louisiana’s congressional districts, two seats are wide open for anyone to take — and ä Candidates they are drawing qualify for quite the array of area races. candidates.

PAGE 1B But, after the first day for candidates to sign up to run passed Wednesday, one big mystery remained: Will state Sen. Blake Miguez run for one of those seats? And, if so, which one?

Miguez, a Republican from New Iberia, was running for the 5th District until Louisiana’s maps got redrawn in the spring. He won President Donald Trump’s endorsement for the seat, a powerful boost in the race.

But candidates had to requalify

we can reduce that magnitude by squeezing things higher,” Giarrusso said.

The size of the deficit won’t be clear until Moreno a newly hired economist comes up with an official revenue forecast in coming weeks, but the administration

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U.S. offers $25M for leader of powerful cartel

MEXICO CITY — The U.S. government on Wednesday offered a $25 million reward for information leading to the capture of Juan Carlos González, or “Pelón,” scaling up pressure on a U.S. citizen who has emerged as the figurehead of Mexico’s most powerful cartel.

The reward was bumped up from $5 million. The Trump administration offered a total of $100 million in rewards for various leaders of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, or CJNG, and restricted the visas of family members and business associates of cartel members.

U.S. officials said the rewards, along with newly unsealed charges against five other highranking leaders, were aimed at crippling the organization’s leadership.

CJNG is among eight Mexican cartels designated as a foreign terrorist organization.

The group was dealt a blow in February when leader Nemesio Rubén Oseguera Cervantes, or “El Mencho,” was killed by the Mexican military. The U.S. provided intelligence for the operation, which resulted in a burst in violence in the state of Jalisco.

González, Oseguera Cervantes’s stepson and a dual Mexican and U.S. citizen, is reported to have taken control of the cartel, which is involved in everything from avocado production to drug smuggling.

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Deal will hinge on U.S. blockade

a joint statement will be issued “if Tehran’s nuclear program.

Iran insists on some control of Strait of Hormuz certain Earlier, they had said the potenparties do not obstruct this

BY ELENA BECATOROS, SAMY MAGDY and DARLENE SUPERVILLE Associated Press

CAIRO — Iran said Wednesday it is in the “final stage” of drafting an agreement with Oman over the Strait of Hormuz, and U.S. President Donald Trump has said a deal could be announced this week.

That could potentially reopen the critical waterway, CO ONFLICT ease pressure on the world econoIN THE T my and help bring MIIDDLE an end to the war.

EAST AST But the agreement is likely to be contingent on the U.S. lifting its blockade on Iran’s ports. The Trump administration has previously ruled out any deal that would cement Iran’s grip over the strait, which would amount to a major loss for the U.S. and a break with global norms.

Iran has insisted on some mea-

sure of control over the strait, saying it will not go back to being an open international waterway, as it was before the war.

The U.S., along with Israel, launched the war on Feb. 28, citing various goals including toppling Tehran’s government and ending its nuclear program. Those have not been achieved, and the conflict has devolved into a fight over the strait as Iran’s assertion of control and attacks on shipping have ground traffic to a near-halt.

Closure of the strait, through which a fifth of the world’s traded oil and natural gas once passed, has driven up the price of fuel and basic goods, roiling the global economy. Trump is also under mounting pressure to end an unpopular war ahead of U.S. congressional elections.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmail Baghaei, said that the agreement with Oman is in the “final stage” of drafting, and that

process,” apparently referring to the U.S. Iranian and Omani negotiators have finalized the draft deal to reopen the strait and await final approval from Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, two regional officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.

Khamenei is believed to have been wounded in the war’s opening strikes and has not been seen in public since then.

The officials, who were briefed on the negotiations, portrayed the potential deal as a temporary solution to the dispute over the strait.

They said it is tied to an agreement reached between the U.S. and Iran in June that aimed at ending the fighting and reopening the waterway but ultimately collapsed.

The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the private talks, said the potential deal will pave the way for the U.S. and Iran to resume negotiations on

CDC: 15 states now linked to cyclospora

BY MIKE STOBBE Associated Press

Drone with explosives found at German airport BERLIN — A drone with explosives was found at Germany’s Leipzig/Halle Airport and the device was defused, authorities said Wednesday, in an incident that the country’s top security official said posed a “new quality of danger.”

Both the runways at the major freight hub were closed and several flights, including one passenger plane, were diverted to other airports after a flying object was sighted nearby shortly before midnight Tuesday. An anti-explosives robot was deployed to check an object near the south runway.

Regional police and prosecutors later said an airport employee discovered a drone near the south runway with “an unknown explosive device,” and the object was examined by police. They removed its detonator.

That the drone was carrying explosives “is a new quality of danger,” German Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt told reporters at the airport.

Clerk won’t have to pay Murdaugh’s legal fees COLUMBIA, S.C — A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Alex Murdaugh seeking $600,000 in legal fees by the former court clerk whose misconduct led his murder convictions to be overturned on appeal.

Murdaugh sued Becky Hill in May saying she violated his right to a fair trial in the deaths of his wife and son.

A jury found Murdaugh guilty, but the state Supreme Court overturned the convictions and life sentences earlier this year saying Hill’s comments to jurors suggested the once-prominent lawyer was guilty and his testimony in his own defense couldn’t be trusted.

The problem with Murdaugh’s legal reasoning is he would have had to spend the money anyway because it wasn’t Hill who investigated or pursued justice against him, Judge Richard Gergel wrote in his ruling Wednesday.

Murdaugh’s attorneys filed a notice to appeal about two hours later.

CORRECTIONS A story Tuesday incorrectly stated how often New Orleans City Hall employees have been furloughed. They are furloughed once per pay period.

A headline on a story Wednesday incorrectly said that 13 New Orleans firefighters called out sick over a dispute. Their colleagues did not replace them due to a dispute.

The Times-Picayune regrets the errors.

tial agreement would have ships enter the Persian Gulf through an Iranian-controlled route and exit through a route controlled

by Oman. Service fees would be charged for providing security and preserving the maritime environment, the officials said.

The U.S. has said it is strongly opposed to any arrangement that would see Iran charge fees.

Trump was asked on Tuesday evening by reporters about a report on the Axios news site that an announcement on the strait could be made on Wednesday.

“It could happen. Tomorrow or the next day,” Trump said. “A lot of progress has been made.”

The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed Wednesday they had fired ballistic missiles toward a Saudi oil tanker on the Red Sea off the Saudi port of Yanbu, without providing evidence. There was no immediate comment from Saudi Arabia.

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Abdul El-Sayed departs following a news conference Wednesday in Detroit shortly after winning the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Michigan.

Progressives break through with El-Sayed win in Mich.

BY JOEY CAPPELLETTI Associated Press

DETROIT — Abdul El-Sayed, a former public health official who harnessed Democratic frustration with the party establishment, narrowly defeated Rep. Haley Stevens in Michigan’s U.S. Senate primary, setting up a crucial test for progressives in a key battleground state.

El-Sayed will face Republican Mike Rogers, a former congressman, in November in a race that will help determine control of the Senate. His first challenge will be unifying Democratic factions after a bitter primary that offered divergent visions for a party desperate for a path back to power.

The margin was extraordinarily close.

El-Sayed walked off the stage at his Tuesday night election party without declaring victory, and the race was not called until early Wednesday, after nearly all ballots statewide had been counted. At the time The Associated Press declared him the winner, El-Sayed led Stevens by 14,893 votes — just under 1 percentage point — out of more than 1.5 million ballots counted, the most in recent state history.

The political significance of the result, however, extends well beyond the slim margin.

“Abdul’s victory was, in my opinion, the most extraordinary victory that I can think of in modern American politics,” Sen. Bernie Sanders, a leader of the progressive movement who was an early supporter of El-Sayed’s candidacy, said Wednesday.

El-Sayed, 41, has never held elected office and entered the race seven years after losing Michigan’s Democratic gubernatorial primary by more than 20 percentage points.

This time, running on an unapologetically progressive agenda, he overcame more than $60 million in outside spending and an opponent backed by many of Michigan’s top Democrats, including Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and outgoing Sen. Gary Peters.

Extraordinary trajectory El-Sayed was joined on Wednesday by state Sen. Mallory McMorrow, a former opponent in the Senate primary, and Curtis Hertel, chair of the Michigan Democratic Party. It was an initial step toward a unified front after a bitter primary, and it reflected El-Sayed’s extraordinary political trajectory in less than a decade.

After losing the 2018 Democratic primary for governor to Whitmer, El-Sayed retreated into the political wilderness.

He started a podcast, wrote a book and became a regular presence on YouTube and television, slowly building a following while waiting for a political opening he did not know would come.

It arrived when Peters made the surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection, creating an open Senate seat in one of the country’s most competitive states.

El-Sayed launched his campaign in April 2025 with a staff of four. In his victory speech Wednesday, he recalled the small rooms that defined its early months.

“Back in April, I remember talking to a room of five people,” he said. “It was an opportunity for us to share an honest conversation about pain and about purpose. And I’ve been able to have 500 more of those discussions over the past 15 months.”

El-Sayed said he visited 110 cities and hosted more than 500 events. His volunteer network grew alongside the campaign, eventually reaching 12,000 people, according to his campaign.

The campaign also embraced a media strategy that reflected El-Sayed’s years outside elected office, aggressively pursuing attention across traditional outlets, podcasts and online platforms. Some appearances, including multiple interviews with controversial streamer Hasan Piker, drew swift backlash.

‘Movement of the many’ On July 5, McMorrow ended her campaign, leaving a two-person race between El-Sayed and Stevens. Soon after, El-Sayed stood before door-knocking volunteers in a Grand Rapids park and declared that “we have a chance of winning this election.”

“More importantly, we have a chance at winning our politics,” El-Sayed said.

“What we’re doing is building a movement of the many against the money.”

In the final days, El-Sayed leaned even further into the strategy that had helped build his campaign. He marched through downtown Detroit alongside social media influencers, then attended a private pool party with content creators, including Piker.

On election day, El-Sayed did three interviews with content creators at Detroit’s Eastern Market before doing three more with traditional news organizations, including The Associated Press and MS NOW. Hours later, the campaign that had once struggled to fill small rooms packed Detroit’s Majestic Theatre for an election night party.

NEW YORK — Parasitic illness cases in 15 states have been linked to iceberg lettuce, U.S. health officials said Wednesday.

Cyclospora cases have been reported in at least 47 states this year, and investigators have continued to probe how many could be linked to a common contaminated source.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the number of states tied to the deadly outbreak had grown from nine to 15.

Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire and North Carolina were added to a list that previously included Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Investigators initially narrowed in on lettuce served at Taco Bell. Federal officials subsequently said they are focused on Taylor Farms as the source, and the company has recalled iceberg lettuce grown in

central Mexico.

There are several reasons cyclospora outbreaks can be hard to investigate and contain, said Dr. Juan Luis Marquez, medical director of the Washtenaw County and Livingston County health departments in Michigan.

It can take weeks between when someone is exposed to the parasite and when they come down with symptoms; it’s harder to analyze the parasite in laboratories; and it’s a lot of work to interview everyone who is sick and clearly identify common exposures, said Marquez, an adjunct public health professor at the University of Michigan.

Also, “there have been staffing cuts at all levels of public health — federal, local, state — so there are less resources and capacity generally available,” Marquez said in a statement.

Cyclospora is a microscopic, spherical parasite that commonly causes watery diarrhea “with frequent and sometimes explosive bowel movements,” according to the CDC.

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BY JAMES FINN

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A Baton Rouge federal judge on Wednesday weighed holding U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials in contempt in a hearing after finding federal officials repeatedly tried deporting a man despite the judge’s repeated orders to stand down.

“The issue is not whether I can make a contempt finding, but whether I should,” said U.S. District Judge John W. deGravelles of the Middle District of Louisiana in a Zoom hearing in the case of 43-year-old Ibrahim Mohammed.

A contempt ruling against officials within DHS, which oversees U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, would mark the second such order by a federal judge this month amid an ongoing clash between federal judges and the immigration crackdown from President Donald Trump’s administration.

A Maryland man jailed over the past year at the “Camp 57” immigration lockup in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, Mohammed moved legally into the U.S. in 2014 and earned asylum from his native Ethiopia.

He was ordered deported after a child sexual abuse conviction, and federal officials marked him last year for deportation either to Eswatini or Equatorial Guinea — part of a push by the administration to send deport-

ees to countries other than their places of origin amid the administration’s ongoing immigration crackdown.

DeGravelles in February ordered Mohammed freed from Angola, ruling that ICE let him languish in detention without a viable place to deport him after finding he had qualified for supervised release.

ICE agents rearrested Mohammed two months later after finding that the two small African countries would agree to take him, a federal official previously testified. DeGravelles slammed government lawyers for their handling of the rearrest, again ordering him released. In that instance, he ruled agents violated Mohammed’s due process rights, including by failing to serve him papers saying where he would be deported, and warned the government against arresting him again without those steps.

Last week, ICE agents in Maryland did exactly that, deGravelles wrote in a curt order that triggered Wednesday’s hearing.

The government, DeGravelles wrote after consulting Mohammed’s attorneys, again failed to serve Mohammed with required papers notifying him of the country to which he would be sent — this time, the Central African Republic. Government officials also did not interview Mohammed to determine whether he had credible fear of harm upon arriving there, among other failures to adhere to due-process requirements.

The judge called government lawyers to his virtual courtroom Wednesday to show why he should not hold “decision-makers who are responsible for this re-

detention in contempt.”

DeGravelles said he would deliver a ruling on that question within a week. The civil contempt ruling would apply to senior ICE officials involved in attempts to deport Mohammed, he said.

A federal judge in California on Tuesday held DHS in civil contempt for allegedly slow-rolling her order to create digital copies of messages contained on personal cellphones of immigration agents involved in immigration raids in Los Angeles.

A senior ICE official who ordered Mohammed’s rearrest, Vernon Liggins, told deGravelles during Wednesday’s hearing that some required papers were not served to Mohammed during his latest arrest because of the huge volume of people ICE is now detaining.

“We try to get all detainees served as quickly as possible, but we’re arresting a lot of people nowadays,” Liggins said. “Mr. Mohammed, I’m sure, wasn’t the first person processed that day.”

Citing internal DHS sources, ABC News reported that ICE arrests reached a record high of 51,000 in July.

Attorneys for Mohammed asked deGravelles to compel the government to pay his attorneys fees as well as about $180 in compensation for time lost to his detention.

They also asked deGravelles to affirm a portion of an earlier ruling requiring a 14-day notice period if the government seeks to detain him again.

James Finn covers federal law enforcement and courts for The Times-Picayune | The Advocate. Email him at jfinn@theadvocate.com or contact him on Signal at jamesfinn.82.

Nanny: Clancy appeared to be a loving mother before killings

BY MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press

Months before Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, she lost significant weight, couldn’t sleep and complained of postpregnancy mental health issues, the family’s former nanny testified at her murder trial Wednesday.

But the nanny never worried the Massachusetts mother might be a danger to her children or to herself.

“I observed a wonderful mom who loved her kids,” Elaine Rossi told the jury on the seventh day of the trial in Plymouth. “She was concerned about their safety, and Callan eating and sleeping. She was a wonderful mother.”

Clancy’s defense says she was a loving mother who was overmastered by postpartum psychosis, a dangerous psychiatric condition that afflicts a small proportion of women after childbirth and affects their hold on reality.

Prosecutors contend that she acted intentionally on Jan. 24, 2023, and should be held criminally responsible for the deaths of Callan,

Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged in age from 8 months to 5 years.

Rossi was hired in September 2022, a few months after Callan was born, and let go in December after Clancy, 35, decided not to return to work. Rossi said she wasn’t told why Clancy, a f o r m e r Rossi labor and delivery nurse, chose to remain at home.

The defense sought to portray Clancy as a d o t i n g Clancy mother who acknowledged her mental health difficulties. Prosecutors likely hope the jury will see a mom who wasn’t impaired by her mental health.

Rossi testified that she saw prescription medicine bottles in the house, and that Clancy “shared with me she had postpartum and couldn’t sleep,” and had taken to sleeping in the basement.

In her journals during that

time, Clancy indicated she was struggling with anxiety and feeling overwhelmed by motherhood.

Both the prosecution and defense read excerpts from her diary to the jury Monday, where she catalogued an ever-shifting lineup of psychiatric prescriptions, as well as thoughts of suicide.

Clancy remains paralyzed from the waist down after jumping from her home’s second-story window on the night of the killings.

Clancy wrote about her struggles to get newborn Callan to sleep, and constant worries of his being sick.

She also expressed concerns about going back to work, not being able to breastfeed, and feeling disconnected from her children and her then-husband.

“I’m so desperate to get a mental break from taking care of everyone that my mind is trying to find something physically wrong with me,” she wrote in a Nov. 18, 2022, entry.

“I have crazy brain fog. I feel like I can’t make a plan,” she wrote in another, undated entry. “I live moment to moment waiting for the next nap time.”

BY MIKE STOBBE Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, placing her in charge of a public health agency beleaguered by political meddling and low morale.

Schwartz was confirmed in a 51-44 vote. The 54-year-old becomes the 22nd leader of the Atlanta-based CDC, which is charged with protecting Americans from preventable health threats, and the Schwartz agency’s first confirmed director in nearly a year. Her resume includes medical and law degrees, a stint as deputy surgeon general, and a leadership position at the U.S. Coast Guard.

Schwartz’s nomination appeared to be on shaky ground after a hearing before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee last month. The chairman, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, and others questioned whether she would be willing to stand up to Republican President Donald Trump’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., if he ordered CDC to do something unsupported by science and good public health practice.

But weeks later, Cassidy said he had spoken with Schwartz after that hearing and with others who knew her, and said he had gained confidence in her.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services officials did not immediately respond to questions about when Schwartz will start the job or her salary.

The CDC has been in turmoil since Trump returned to office last year.

Largely due to layoffs and resignations,

Man arrested at Trump’s golf course faces weapons charges

By The Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A California man who was arrested at President Donald Trump’s Los Angeles-area golf course was pretending to be part of the security detail preparing for Trump’s visit and had a stash of illegal weapons in his car and home, authorities said.

Jeanine John Taele, 38, was due in court Wednesday on a federal weapons charge but the hearing was canceled. He is being held at a downtown LA jail on state charges, according to booking records and not yet in federal custody, said a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office.

Taele was arrested Sunday at Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, two days before Trump visited for a fundraising dinner.

Taele was first seen on the property Friday, walking throughout the course wearing an earpiece and taking photos and videos of federal agents’ activities as they conducted a security assessment, according to a federal criminal complaint.

Taele drove away but then returned to the course Sunday. He approached federal agents and said he was employed by the State Department and was there for a security detail. Taele said he had a loaded weapon in his vehicle and was arrested after it was searched, according to federal officials. Authorities also found a 16-round magazine with ammunition in his pocket.

He already appeared in court on state weapons charges and a second-degree robbery charge for an unrelated incident.

Taele is charged federally with possession of an unregistered short-barreled rifle that was found at this home, authorities said. The complaint alleges the firearm is an illegally modified AR-style rifle with a barrel that was cut down to 10 inches from 14 inches.

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MEXICO CITY — A gunman killed a social media influencer during a livestream in Mexico’s volatile northwestern state of Sinaloa, authorities said Wednesday, a public killing that underscored ongoing violence targeting social media personalities in the Latin American nation.

The influencer, César Gastélum, was killed on Tuesday night in the Sinaloa state capital of Culiacan, officials said. Mexican authorities implied the killing of the young man was linked to cartel violence but did not blame any particular group.

A video of the moment of his death, which was viewed by The Associated Press, shows him laughing with two other men in a parking lot when two men pull up on a motorcycle.

One is seen pulling out a gun and shooting Gastélum. The attackers then flee the scene.

The attack was carried out just blocks

away from the local prosecutor’s office during rush hour.

Gastélum had more than 650,000 followers on TikTok, and more on Instagram and other social media platforms and would regularly post comedy videos and content layered over Mexican regional music. He at times referred to himself in his videos as “bélico,” a term often used in subcultures in Mexico to imply a connection to cartel culture.

Sinaloa has in recent years been ravaged by warring between two factions of the Sinaloa Cartel. At the height of the fighting, dead bodies would be left across the city marked with a faction’s signature. One of them, Los Chapitos, would regularly leave a pizza or a pizza box on a dead body. The other, Los Mayos, would leave behind a sombrero, and it soon became dangerous to wear the hats in Culiacan as it could signify allegiance to one group.

On Tuesday night, Gastélum was filmed wearing a white sombrero.

The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said a search of his pickup truck in the club parking lot turned up a loaded 9 mm pistol, binoculars and a badge that read “security protection agent,” according to federal prosecutors.

Law enforcement searched his home in the nearby city of Downey on Monday and found a rifle and other firearms, magazines and ammunition, body armor and notebooks with “concerning statements,” federal authorities said. No details about the statements were released.

“Mr. Taele’s troubling behavior at the President’s public golf course merely days before the President was expected to arrive raised serious red flags for law enforcement,” Patrick Grandy, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s Los Angeles office, said in a statement.

In brief remarks about Taele’s arrest to Fox News on Tuesday, Trump said “only consequential presidents” are targeted, “and I am definitely consequential,” which he said brought him “a little solace.”

Taele was a corporal in the U.S. Marines who was deployed to Iraq in 2008 and Afghanistan in 2010 and worked as a warehouse clerk, according to the U.S. Marine Corps. He earned numerous commendations, including an award for good conduct, during his service from 2008 to 2016.

State records show Taele is a licensed security guard, with his most recent license issued in February of this year and expiring in 2028. Records also show several canceled or suspended permits to carry a firearm as a security guard. State officials did not immediately respond to a request for more details about those permits.

The Los Angeles County public defender’s office, which is representing Taele in the state criminal case, did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday.

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the agency has lost 3,000-plus employees, more than one-quarter of its workforce.

Morale has plummeted as a succession of mostly temporary leaders has come and gone. The front office has been staffed by political appointees with little or no training in medicine or public health.

“Now, Dr. Schwartz needs to prove that her leadership will serve science and not the whims of politicians. CDC needs a Director who will protect public health workers, defend evidence-based guidance, and refuse any directive that would undermine public safety,” said the National Public Health Coalition, an organization of former and current CDC workers, in a statement Wednesday.

When Schwartz was nominated in April, public health experts were cautiously optimistic, citing her background. They also noted that Schwartz was the choice of Trump and not Kennedy, who is a leading voice in the anti-vaccine movement before he was tapped to oversee the CDC and other federal health agencies.

Schwartz was the third Trump nominee for CDC director in the past 18 months.

The first was a former Florida congressman, Dr. David Weldon. His Senate hearing in March 2025 was canceled an hour before it was to begin. Weldon said at the time that he had been told not enough senators were willing to vote for him.

The White House then moved on to Susan Monarez, who had been serving as the CDC’s acting director. Monarez was confirmed by the Senate, but ousted from the job in less than a month. Trump administration officials said she was not aligned with the president’s agenda, so they terminated her. Since then, there have been a series of HHS officials as acting CDC directors.

“With all the turmoil of the past two years, the CDC desperately needs stability, experienced leadership and a steadfast commitment to science,” said Dr. Georges Benjamin of the American Public Health Association, in a statement Wednesday.

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Edmonds said he had spoken with the White House and was confident Miguez would not get Trump’s endorsement in the 6th District; Miguez did not respond to questions about that claim.

But Edmonds also said he was unsure whether Miguez was running, or whether he would choose the 5th or 6th District.

Because of last-minute changes to the voting maps, the congressional races will be open primaries.

The top two vote-getters, regardless of party, will head to a runoff

in December.

On Monday, four Republicans and one Democrat filed to run in the 5th District, and four Republicans filed to run in the 6th District.

The better-known contenders for the 5th District included three state legislators. Two are Republicans from Monroe: state Sen. Stewart Cathey Jr. and state Rep. Michael Echols. Rep. Gabe Firment, R-Pollock, also signed up to run.

Misti Cordell, the chair of the Board of Regents, has also announced her candidacy but did not qualify on Wednesday. Qualifying runs through Friday.

The newly-drawn 5th District covers northeast Louisiana and is currently represented by U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, who is running for U.S. Senate. She won the Republican primary and is heavily favored to win the general election in November.

Also running in the 5th District is Austin Magee, a Republican from Franklinton, and Dan McKay, a Democrat from Bunkie.

In the 6th District, Edmonds is the heaviest hitter in the field so far.

Charlton Meginley, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Veterans Affairs, is considering entering the race, though he has not announced a decision yet, a spokesperson said.

Monique Appeaning, a Republican from Baton Rouge who served as an aide to Mayor-President Sid Edwards but departed after she was put on leave for being accused of bullying employees and using slurs, also filed to run.

Larry Davis III, a Republican from Denham Springs who declined to say where he worked, citing “ethics,” also is running.

Another Republican candidate is Michael Mebreur, of St. Francisville. Mebreur has worked as a traveling medical professional and is obtaining a master’s degree in financial economics from LSU, ac-

expiring seats under the new law, did not file qualifying papers Wednesday. Levine, who sits over the court’s Section A, has said she will run for judge, but she hasn’t revealed for which section she’ll make her bid.

Fuller declared he won’t challenge a fellow judge, but it remains uncertain if he’ll seek another elected office.

District Attorney Jason Williams will run for reelection and said he wants to build on the strides from his first term. He did not incur any challengers Wednesday.

“It has been an honor of my life working with the team of folks I get to work with in the DA’s Office,” Williams said. “I am really just looking forward to continuing the good work that we have done collaboratively with all the people in the criminal justice system to bring crime to its lowest point in our lifetime. To hit that goal has been so meaningful, but we’ve still

got a lot more work to do because we can be better. And we will be.”

Judge Clint Smith, Candice Bates Anderson and Desiree CookCalvin filed to retain their seats on the New Orleans Juvenile Court bench, which also sustained cuts under the new law. The seat held

by Judge Ranord Darensburg is being phased out at the end of the year. A second seat will be eliminated through attrition.

“I am so excited to have the opportunity to return to the bench to serve another six years of bringing critical contacts and relationships,” Smith said. “Working together in collaboration for the most vulnerable kids if families are not communicating.”

All 11 judges in Civil District Court who are eligible for reelection qualified Wednesday, according to the clerk’s office. Three other seats will be vacant with longtime jurists Kern Reese, Sidney Cates and Bernadette D’Souza

leaving office due to a state judicial age cap of 70.

State Rep. Candace Newell lodged her bid to replace Reese; veteran trial attorney Tiffany Delery qualified to run for Cates’ seat; and New Orleans family lawyer Michael Hall filed papers aiming to succeed D’Souza.

Of the nine criminal court judges with seats up for grabs after Act 748, Roche was the lone incumbent who didn’t file qualifying papers on the opening day of qualifying.

Marcus DeLarge said getting the election season underway was exciting.

“There is some anxiousness because there is an unknown,” he said moments after qualifying for his Section K seat. “Unfortunately, three seats have been eliminated, so that causes some confusion, maybe a little chaos. But I still woke up with the same conviction, and it’s my full intention to continue to serve as the criminal court

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invoices from last year and debt service payments. He said the additional expenses have been covered with the one-time sources.

Council President JP Morrell pointed to a Nov. 3 ballot initiative that would require city officials to identify funding sources for all unbudgeted spending. He blamed former Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration for overspending that was never disclosed to the council, giving rise to the ongoing fiscal crisis.

“The prior administration deficit spent us into a massive, gigantic hole,” Morrell said.

Giarrusso also detailed the administration’s plan to make up $110 million the city expected to receive from a revenue bond issue. Moreno scrapped that plan last month when it became clear the State Bond Commission would block the bond issue amid a political feud between state and city officials.

That left a cash shortage in the general fund, which could run out by the end of August without im-

mediate action. The money was needed because the city had to pay back $125 million from a revenue bond issued last fall, when a cash crisis threatened employee paychecks.

Unlike then, the city’s fund balance is now flush, buoyed by a $103 million infusion from a deal with Caesar’s Casino and Hotel for upfront lease payments. The fund balance also includes the $35 million “rainy-day fund.”

The fund balance could theoretically cover the entire cash gap, but officials want to keep it mostly intact in case of a catastrophe like a major hurricane. Giarrusso is proposing to use $25 million from the rainy-day fund, which would require a council vote at a future meeting. He said the money would be repaid as soon as tax receipts allow.

To help make up the difference, the administration wants to recoup spending on $35 million in capital projects that are delayed, under budget or reduced in scope. The council is expected to vote on that

maneuver on Thursday.

City officials are promising to reallocate funds for delayed projects, which are scattered across the city.

They include drainage projects in Broadmoor, a streetscape project near the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center and a walking path along Peoples Avenue in Gentilly, to name just a few.

The council’s Public Works Committee already signed off on the capital projects maneuver on July 30, and there was no strong objection at the Budget Committee on Wednesday. But the move could become controversial when neighborhood residents realize anticipated projects are being put off.

Morgan Clevenger, a Fairgrounds Triangle resident and community activist, called on the council to defer its vote on Thursday until residents have a chance to weigh in.

“The taxpayers, the community, we have ideas. I’m hearing a lot about meetings between all of

y’all. That’s great, but the community needs to be included,” Clevenger said.

The administration is also seeking $50.5 million from overdue grant reimbursements, receivables from the Sewerage & Water Board and projects funded by COVID-19 grants that haven’t materialized.

The S&WB portion is $20 million, which is in addition to the $42.5 million the utility has already transferred this year. Giarrusso said the S&WB notified him just before the meeting on Wednesday that it had transferred a little more than $4 million, but it’s not clear if the agency has agreed to the remaining $16 million.

“Our teams remain in active communication and are working collaboratively,” an S&WB spokesperson said this week.

If necessary, Giarrusso said he would ask the council to force additional payments under the authority of a new state law giving the council oversight of the S&WB.

Continued from page 1A after the redistricting, and Miguez has been mum about whether or where he will run. He could now run in the 5th District in northeast Louisiana or in the 6th District, which was redrawn to be a majority-White district in the Baton Rouge area that will likely elect a Republican.

It was formerly a majority-Black district represented by U.S. Rep. Cleo Fields, a Democrat who decided not to run after the district was redrawn.

Miguez represents and has lived in the New Iberia area, but he owns a property in Baton Rouge. The possibility that he would run in a district different from the one he has long represented has prompted barbs from fellow legislators.

Miguez did not return requests for comment Wednesday.

Despite the uncertainty over whether the state senator will make a bid for Congress, one of his potential opponents — and a colleague in the Senate — fired shots at Miguez after filing to run for the 6th District.

“I’m not new to this district, and I’m not new to fighting for the people of this district,” state Sen. Rick Edmonds, R-Baton Rouge, told members of the media at the Secretary of State’s Office.

Miguez “is not from here,” Edmonds said. “He doesn’t understand our communities and issues.”

JUDICIAL

Continued from page 1A spared for her Section E in the final days of the session, when legislators discarded a “last in, first out” approach to the cuts.

As Goode-Douglas qualified to challenge him, Roche did not file papers on the first day of the threeday qualifying period.

“I’ve never done this, so I’m not sure what to expect,” said GoodeDouglas, a former veteran prosecutor seeking a second term as judge. “Obviously, I respect my colleague. We’ve worked together the last couple of years since he’s been on the bench.

“I think the race should really focus on my legacy here at Criminal District Court and my experience,” she added.

Judges John Fuller and Simone Levine, the two other jurists with

BUDGET

Continued from page 1A More details about filling the gap are likely to come during the fall budget season. Moreno’s 2027 budget proposal is due Oct. 1. The administration on Wednesday released a budget dashboard that Moreno said allows residents to track spending decisions as they are made.

To cut costs this year, more than 700 employees were furloughed for one day per pay period. Giarrusso said the administration wants to avoid continuing the furloughs, noting they only saved about $4 million, while adding that “all options are on the table.”

The 2026 general fund budget is $800 million, but Giarrusso said expenses have crept up to $850 million from a combination of retention payments, accrued leave payments to new retirees, delayed

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Other races Louisiana’s other congressional seats are held by strong incumbents — and some of the biggest names in politics, such as U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who represents the 4th District, and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, who represents the 1st District.

Both are Republicans, as is U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, who holds the 3rd District seat.

None of those candidates are likely to be unseated.

Nor is U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, a Democrat who represents the 2nd District. That area is now the state’s only majority-Black district and expected to be the only Democratic seat after the state Legislature redrew the 6th District.

Carter, Higgins and Johnson all qualified Wednesday. Scalise has not yet officially signed up to run.

Lauren Jewett, of Metairie, a Democrat, and Randall Arrington, of Ponchatoula, a Republican, signed up to run against Scalise.

Walter “Rocky” Beach, who is from Gonzales and is not affiliated with any party, qualified to run in Carter’s district. Meanwhile, Democrat Conrad Cable, a farmer from Farmerville, and Republican Mike Nichols, of Pitkin, are challenging Johnson.

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judge in Section K.” Camille Buras, the city’s longestserving criminal judge, was a top prosecutor under former District Attorney Harry Connick when state legislators added Sections K and L to Criminal District Court in 1995. She recalled the district attorney, sheriffs and mayor unifying to lobby for the judgeships.

Buras was among the contingent of local judges who testified before state lawmakers as the bill to cut the judges made its way through the Legislature. She told them the statistics they relied on to warrant shrinking the courts were “skewed.”

“I saw the creation, and now I’m seeing elimination,” Buras said Wednesday. “To see three courts from our important building be eliminated, it’s really a heartbreak.”

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Appeals court may refuse defamation suit

SCARBOROUGH, Maine — A federal appeals court signaled that it might not allow a lawsuit brought by fishing industry businesses and trade groups against a California aquarium to proceed because of the case’s potential impact on free speech.

The New England-based plaintiffs sued the Monterey Bay Aquarium for defamation after the aquarium’s Seafood Watch conservation program placed American and Canadian lobster on its do-not-eat “red list” in 2022. The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is deciding whether the lawsuit can go forward.

One of the appellate judges, Judge Seth Aframe, said during oral arguments on July 27 that it doesn’t strike him as a defamation claim and that he finds the case troubling “from a First Amendment perspective.”

“The more you broaden the class of people that fall within this, the more it feels like everybody can sue,” Aframe said.

Seafood Watch placed lobster on its list of seafood to avoid because of the threat posed to rare whales, such as the North Atlantic right whale, by potential entanglement in fishing gear.

Electronic Arts closes $55 billion sale CHICAGO — Video game giant Electronic Arts officially has new owners.

The California-based maker of popular titles like “Battlefield” and “The Sims” announced Tuesday that it closed the $55 billion sale of its business to Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund PIF, investment firm Silver Lake Partners and Affinity Partners, which is run by U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The acquisition’s price tag is the largest-ever for a buyout funded by private equity.

And wider shifts to the gaming world could be on the way now that the deal is complete.

In a statement, CEO Andrew Wilson said EA and its new owners would “invest boldly, accelerate innovation, and build the next generation of games and experiences for the hundreds of millions of players and fans who inspire us every day.” And Turqi Alnowaiser, deputy governor and head of international investments at PIF — which already held a minority stake in EA for five years — also pledged to “invest heavily in EA’s growth,” including through the use of artificial intelligence in game development.

Japan’s Honda reports robust results TOKYO — Honda’s profit for the fiscal first quarter more than doubled from a year ago, as the Japanese automaker continues to tackle a turnaround from the first full year loss in its history.

Tokyo-based Honda Motor Co. said Wednesday its AprilJune profit totaled 456.9 billion yen ($2.9 billion), up from 196.6 billion yen for the same period a year ago.

Quarterly sales rose 13.5% to $38 billion, as vehicles sold well in the U.S. and India, according to the maker of the Accord sedan, Fit subcompact and Super Cub motorcycle.

Honda previously recorded a $2.7 billion loss for the fiscal year ended in March, acknowledging heavy costs for its electric-vehicle plans, which didn’t measure up to the original ambitions, partly because of U.S. President Donald Trump’s policies.

Analysts say many consumers weren’t ready to go electric.

Honda has abandoned many of its plans for EV models.

The Trump administration has pulled back on incentive programs for EVs and withheld money to states wanting to add more EV charging stations, even as gas prices have soared over the war in Iran.

Trump’s tariffs on imported autos and auto parts, lowered to 15% from the initial 25%, also worked to dent Honda’s profitability.

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U.S. stocks remain near records Wall Street expects profit growth of 50%

BY DAMIAN J. TROISE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Stocks meandered to a mixed finish on Wall Street Wednesday and remained close to their records, while oil prices held steady.

The uncertain trading on Wall Street followed two days of big gains that gave the week and August a strong start. Several big

technology companies slumped, though, ultimately weighing down the market.

“The coiled spring investors have been waiting for has finally released, with the S&P 500 Index surging to record highs for the first time in two months,” said Mark Hackett, chief market strategist at Nationwide, in a report.

The market has been generally rising as companies head into the closing stretch of their latest round of earnings reports with sharp overall gains. Three-quar-

ters of the companies within the S&P 500 have reported results so far, and Wall Street expects profit growth of 50% when they are all finished.

The Walt Disney Co. rose 3.6% after easily beating Wall Street’s profit forecasts, helped by a $1 billion box office haul from “Toy Story 5” and theme park revenue.

Booking Holdings jumped 6.6% after reporting that strong travel demand drove profit and revenue growth during its most recent quarter.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX fell 13.6% following the release late Tuesday of its first quarterly report as a public company, which showed that it sharply boosted spending on artificial intelligence. The company did help give semiconductor giant Nvidia a 3.4% boost after announcing it would exclusively use that company’s chips for its artificial intelligence technology.

Treasury yields slipped in the bond market. The yield on the 10year Treasury slipped to 4.61% from 4.63% from late Tuesday.

Rising temperatures could keep more flights from taking off on time Clear blue skies don’t always mean smooth flying

BY RIO YAMAT and M.K. WILDEMAN Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Airline passengers know to expect possible flight delays when weather forecasts call for thunderstorms, heavy snow or strong wind. The omens are less obvious on a hot summer day with clear skies.

Yet extreme heat also disrupts flights and travel plans. On the hottest days, thinner air can make it harder for aircraft to get off the ground safely. Airlines may have to lighten the load by removing passengers or cargo, or carrying less fuel.

The snag is well known at airports in desert climates around the world, from the U.S. Southwest to the Middle East. But even less extreme heat can create similar challenges at airports with higher elevations or shorter runways. Researchers say human-caused climate change could make such disruptions more common.

With heat waves searing parts of the United States and Europe this summer, Las Vegas illustrated how extreme heat can interfere with air travel. American Airlines offered compensation to customers who voluntarily gave up their seats on a July 24 flight from Harry Reid International Airport after temperatures reached 114 degrees Fahrenheit.

The airline described reducing a plane’s weight as a standard industry practice in hot-weather destinations when conditions require it to ensure a safe takeoff. The explanation comes down to physics.

Hot air is thinner than cool air, making it harder for a plane’s wings to generate lift and for jet engines to generate the thrust needed for takeoff, explained Ross Aimer, a retired United Airlines captain and CEO of Aero Consulting Experts.

“There is a science behind all this,” Aimer said. “You can’t deny the science of flight and what it takes for an airplane to operate.”

Airplanes struggle in hot, thin air Aimer likens the effect of high temperatures on airplane performance to athletes competing at high altitude. During this year’s World Cup, foreign teams competing in Mexico City — located more than 7,300 feet above sea level — had to contend with thinner air that can leave players fatigued more quickly.

“Just like human beings, jet engines require lots of cool, dense air to perform well,” Aimer said.

Before every departure, pilots and airlines determine whether an aircraft can safely take off by calculating several key factors, including the airplane’s weight, the airport’s elevation and the outside temperature, said Alan Price, a retired Delta Air Lines captain.

Aircraft at higher elevations are already operating in thinner air, so temperatures don’t have to climb as high to affect takeoff performance. Denver, for example, sits

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A jet takes flight as heat ripples radiate from the runway at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix in 2023. Researchers say extreme heat waves can disrupt flights due to thinner air. more than 5,000 feet above sea level.

Runway length also matters. Airliners need room to build enough speed for takeoff when temperatures soar, and shorter runways leave less distance to do that, Price said. That’s one reason airports such as New York’s LaGuardia and Washington’s Reagan National can be more likely to face takeoff restrictions or weight limits during very hot weather.

If the pilot’s preflight math shows an aircraft cannot safely depart as planned, airlines may choose to reduce cargo, carry less fuel and make a refueling stop later, wait for cooler temperatures or ask passengers to volunteer for a later flight.

But there comes a point when removing weight isn’t enough to make a safe takeoff possible.

“At some point, the numbers just don’t make sense,” Aimer said. “You could roll down a runway as long as you want, and you still can’t take off.”

planes taking off from four European airports would have to shed the weight equivalent of 10 passengers per flight by 2065.

While triple-digit temperatures come with desert living, the kind of hot days that might affect flights are becoming more frequent in both Phoenix and Las Vegas.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport has averaged 43 days each year since 2020 when the temperature reached at least 110 F, according to an analysis of weather station data by The Associated Press. The number of such days increased gradually over several decades before surging in the 2020s to more than triple the average during the middle of the last century.

At Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas, temperatures reached that threshold an average of about 18 days a year between 2020 and 2025 — more than double the annual average during the 1940s through 1960s, the AP analysis found.

Delays could become more common

Safety determines when to reduce weight

The Federal Aviation Administration does not set a single maximum temperature for takeoff. Instead, the FAA says, operating limits vary based on an aircraft’s make and model, its weight and the airport’s altitude.

A 2017 study by researchers from Columbia University, NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the Logistics Management Institute projected that some airports could see weight restrictions on 10% to 30% of flights departing during the hottest part of the day by midcentury if greenhouse gas emissions continued to rise. The study examined 19 airports around the world and found that airports with short runways, high elevations and hotter climates would be affected most.

A more recent study concluded that current climate prediction models indicated

Airlines have dealt with these issues for years. During a stretch of scorching heat in June 2016, American canceled several round-trip regional flights between Palm Springs, California, and Phoenix. The following year, the airline canceled dozens of regional flights in Arizona as temperatures in Phoenix climbed toward 120 F. In July 2018, some airlines bumped passengers at Denver International Airport to later flights as temperatures reached 98 F, KDVR-TV in Denver reported.

Delta Air Lines also asked for volunteers to step off a plane in Las Vegas during an excessive heat warning in July 2023 because of weight restrictions tied to the extreme temperatures. That flight was ultimately canceled after passengers spent hours aboard the aircraft in the heat.

Regulators to consider new safety requirements for electric doors

BY CHASE HUNTER

The Mercury News (TNS) Nearly two years after three young people died of smoke inhalation inside a burning Tesla Cybertruck in Piedmont California, as a friend struggled to open its doors, federal regulators are considering new safety requirements intended to prevent occupants from becoming trapped when electronic latches lose power.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration announced last week that it had granted a November petition asking the agency to consider a new federal standard requiring a “robust and obvious” door egress system in all motor vehicles. The decision begins a rulemaking process but does not

guarantee that the agency will ultimately adopt a new standard.

“It is imperative that NHTSA moves swiftly through the rulemaking process to develop and implement new federal door egress safety standards that will protect future vehicle occupants,” said Andrew McDevitt, the attorney for the Nelson family whose son Jack died in the Piedmont crash.

“But these will arrive far too late to save the lives of Jack Nelson, Krysta Tsukahara, Jeffrey and Michelle Bauer, and so many others killed and seriously injured

by Tesla’s completely inexcusable door design.”

The Bauers were among five people killed in a November 2024 Tesla Model S crash in Wisconsin. McDevitt also represents their family.

Tesla did not respond to questions from the Bay Area News Group regarding the federal agency’s review.

Since 2018, NHTSA has received more than 140 complaints about Tesla doors becoming stuck, failing to open or otherwise malfunctioning.

NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation also opened an investigation in September 2025 into approximately 174,000 model-year 2021 Tesla Model Y vehicles after receiving nine complaints that exterior doors became inoperable when the vehicles lost low-voltage power.

The complaints generally involved parents getting out of their vehicles and then being unable to reopen a door to reach a child in the back seat. In four cases, an owner

broke a window to regain entry.

NHTSA found that current federal standards do not regulate the placement or labeling of manual releases and concluded that further investigation was unlikely to establish a safety defect. The agency said the broader issue was better addressed through the separate rulemaking process.

Rep. Robin Kelly, D-Ill., introduced the legislation in January.

It would require new vehicles to have accessible manual releases for each door, establish labeling requirements and ensure first responders can enter vehicles after a loss of power.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved the bill in May, sending it to the full House for possible consideration

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Continued from page 1A stroke away from this shopping center, which is clearly good for the retailers and restaurants,” Pécot said.

“Consumers come here, especially on the weekends, to shop, eat and do whatever.”

Stirling’s plans will involve constructing multiple buildings, likely between three and seven structures, across from the existing 650,000-square-foot retail center, which is 95% leased and counts Dick’s Sporting Goods, Dillard’s, Kohl’s and Best Buy as its anchor tenants.

The new buildings will be located on undeveloped, tree-lined acreage behind the shopping center’s Dillard’s location, which backs up to the Town Center Parkway road.

The expansion would allow for more “junior” anchor tenants, Pécot said, who are looking for 15,000 to 25,000 square feet of store space. It also would add smaller storefronts for boutiques looking for 1,500- to 5,000-square-foot locations.

“We just don’t have a ton of flexibility in the current buildings because most of the spaces are leased,” Pécot said. “These new phases would allow us to bring some different size inventories to the market.”

Stirling officials began thinking about the expansion around five years ago, after fielding consistent inquiries from prospective

retail tenants. They held off, Pécot said, because of soaring construction costs following the pandemic.

Pécot declined to disclose how much the project will cost, saying it’s still too soon to estimate. A similar project currently underway — the addition of 70,000 square feet of new retail space at Elmwood — is projected to cost $35 million, or about $500 per square foot.

No deals with prospective tenants have been finalized yet, but Pécot said Stirling plans to lock in lease agreements by the end of the year.

They hope to begin construction in 2027 and open in late 2028.

“With this larger project, we’ve got a lot of acreage to have some flexibility,” Pécot said. “That’s what we’re moving toward, is creating some new space and taking some new risks.”

In 2013, Stirling partnered with Tennessee-based CBL & Associates Properties Inc. to develop the Fremaux Town Center, taking over the stalled development from Alabama-based Bayer Properties. Bayer had announced the project in 2008, but never moved forward.

When Fremaux opened a year later, St. Tammany officials hoped it would boost sales tax revenues and inject new activity in a limited retail market in Slidell. Developers with Stirling and CBL said at the time that they planned to pursue additional phases, though they knew the buildout would take years.

At the time, North Shore Square Mall, about 6 miles

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The Fremaux Town Center in Slidell is a ‘lifestyle center’ that combines an open-air shopping center with restaurants, a hotel and apartments. west of Fremaux, was the only mall in St. Tammany.

The 621,292-square-foot indoor mall housed several large anchor tenants, including Dillard’s. Days before Fremaux opened, the mall learned it would lose Sears as an anchor tenant — an early sign of what was to come.

In the years that followed, more retailers vacated North Shore mall. Today, the 41-year-old mall sits virtually empty, save for a Dillard’s Clearance Center, though that may soon change: Covington-based grocer Acquistapace purchased property at the site earlier this year.

Fremaux carved out a different fate.

Stirling and CBL grew the center’s footprint with

two apartment complexes, additional stores and restaurants, creating an expansive mixed-use development around the shops called Fremaux Park.

In 2021, a newly constructed Marriott hotel opened next to the property. In 2025, an Amazon Logistics facility opened.

Like the North Shore mall, Fremaux has experienced its share of tenant turnover.

Lane Bryant, a women’s plussize clothing store, closed after its parent company, Ascena Retail Group, filed for bankruptcy in 2020. Charlotte Russe, a women’s clothing brand, also left the location. The shopping center has five vacancies, Pécot said.

Today, the shopping center has over 65 retailers and

restaurants.

In addition to the retail expansion, Stirling, which bought out CBL last year and is now the sole owner of the center, is eyeing deals for the broader campus. The firm is in talks with potential industrial tenants, which could include manufacturers and logistics companies, Pécot said.

Lifestyle centers The expansion plans for Fremaux come as Clearview City Center in Metairie undergoes demolition, part of a $100 million redevelopment that has been in the works for more than a decade.

In nearby Elmwood, the Lauricella Land Company’s plans for the nearly 50-yearold shopping center have in-

cluded upgrades, attracting new tenants, renovations and the planned addition of a new apartment complex on the site of the former Kmart. The complex, called The Francis, broke ground in May. Fremaux has established itself as a major retail hub that the St. Tammany Economic Development Corp. is focused on further developing, said Keith Espadron, director of business and industry development.

He noted how the shopping center, and the development that has sprung up around it, was key to attracting Horsburgh and Scott to the area in 2024. The defense contractor and manufacturer built a 32,000-square-foot facility about a mile from the shopping center, and created 40 new jobs.

“This is a very attractive area for growth, and there is more land available for more investment,” Espadron said.

Slidell Mayor Randy Fandal, who is in his first year in office, said the shopping center’s plans dovetail with a number of economic plans aimed at growing Slidell.

Next to the Retreat at Fremaux Town Center Apartments, the city is renovating the Slidell Bantam Baseball Association complex, which will have eight newly turfed baseball fields aimed at hosting tournaments.

“A lot of areas are moving from indoor malls to what Fremaux is doing,” Fandal said. “I think in the next two years you’re going to see a lot of growth in Slidell.”

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SPOKANE, Wash. — Firefighters have taken advantage of cooler weather to begin getting a handle on wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of people around Washington state’s secondlargest city, but hotter, drier and breezier days lie ahead.

Officials reported Wednesday that firefighters had established containment lines around the perimeters of all three fires affecting Spokane and that they were focused on reinforcing those lines. Temperatures were expected to climb from the 80s the past two days into the upper 90s, with less humidity, late this week.

The fires — one of which authorities say was deliberately set by a man who was arrested and charged with arson — have destroyed about 850 buildings and forced the evacuation of around 67,000 people since they erupted last weekend.

Damage assessment crews have yet to tally exactly how many houses have been lost or damaged. No deaths have been reported.

The other two fires were

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Michelle Angstrom reacts to her burned home and property after a wildfire hit the northwest part of Spokane, Wash., on Tuesday. also started by people, though not necessarily deliberately, investigators have said. They remain under investigation. Those fires, the Autumn Lane and Fairview fires, started independently of the arson-caused Old Trails Fire, they said.

Some evacuees were allowed to return home, but officials did not immediately say how many. Others re-

mained in a shelter set up in a Spokane convention center, at hotels or rentals, or at the homes of friends or relatives, with no idea of how soon they might go back — if they have a house to return to.

“We figured it would be a day or two, not four or five.

It’s not the best situation,” said Debra Curran, who has been staying at the convention center since Saturday

with her husband, who has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Their house survived, but her husband would need to be transported by ambulance, which officials won’t do until the fire risk in their neighborhood drops.

Among those under evacuation orders are patients and staff from the Mann-Grandstaff VA Medical Center in

Spokane. When the fire approached on Saturday, the staff moved 27 patients to local hospitals and temporary shelters, said Bret Bowers, a spokesperson for the center.

The medical center was not burned in the fire but several staff lost their homes.

Adam Wilson, a communications officer at the Washington State Auditor’s Office, fled Saturday with his wife and three children, ages 9, 14 and 16. They had moved into their Spokane home a little over a month earlier and were still unpacking, he said.

Since then, they’ve stayed at a hotel 90 minutes to the south and with his father in Idaho. This weekend, they’ll move again, to a rental home in Spokane that their insurance is covering.

Their house is fine, Wilson said, despite flames that leveled an entire cul-de-sac just two blocks away, leaving only chimneys standing in some cases. The neighborhood remains under an evacuation order. Even if they could return, there’s no power and no internet service, and no information about how soon either will be restored.

“What you really want to hear, nobody can tell you,”

Wilson said. “It is oddly emotional and disorienting.

We did not lose any property. From the outside it looks like a family trip — ‘Hey, kids, we’re going to go visit Papa for a week, pack your bags.’ ... And yet you feel like something isn’t right.”

In Washington, there are 16 uncontained wildfires burning more than 672 square miles and being fought by more than 7,000 fire personnel, said Thomas Kyle-Milward, a spokesman for the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

“We’re looking down the barrel at one of the worst fire seasons in state history,” he said.

The man charged with starting the Old Trails Fire, Aaron F. Farinacci, 37, of Spokane, was expected to be arraigned Thursday.

According to court documents, he was arrested after a resident reported him being in the area where the fire began. He denied having started it when questioned by deputies.

Authorities said they previously contacted him during two fire investigations last year, including one in a state park that prompted evacuation notices, though he wasn’t charged in either.

3 charged with threatening people linked to Nolan Wells investigation

BY JOSH KELETY Associated Press

Three people have been charged with threatening a judge, a witness and local officials connected to the investigation into the death of Nolan Xavier Wells, an 18-yearold found dead after a July Fourth boat trip with friends to an island off Mississippi’s Gulf Coast.

None of the three appear to know Wells, his family or the boating group, or be part of the investigation. The threats came amid rampant speculation and scrutiny of the investigation, deepened in part by uncertainty surrounding Wells’ final hours, distrust of law enforcement and the state’s long history of

racist violence.

The teenager, who was Black, had traveled to the uninhabited island with a group of friends from high school, all of whom were White. He did not return with his friends to the mainland that evening. His body was found two days later off the island’s coast.

Authorities have not made any arrests or named any suspects.

An independent autopsy commissioned by Wells’ family found the 18-year-old’s cause of death to be “undetermined” pending further investigation.

Attempts to reach the defendants for comment were unsuccessful. Phone numbers listed for some of the defendants in af-

fidavits weren’t active and a call to another number went unanswered. Emails sent to addresses listed in an affidavit for one of the defendants went unanswered. It is unclear if they have attorneys yet.

One of the defendants, Edward James Porter of Illinois, allegedly called an unnamed witness on July 31 and threatened to kill them and their family, according to an affidavit. Porter also allegedly told another person in Mississippi in a phone call that he would cut them up and put them “into a suitcase.”

Porter was charged on July 31 in federal court for the Southern District of Mississippi for the threat.

Porter threatened two members of the family of Bart Edminston

Jr., a 21-year-old who knew Wells and provided aid to the boat the group used on July Fourth, said family attorney Russell Latino.

Latino said that one of the family members who Porter threatened is a witness in the investigation.

An Ohio woman was also charged with allegedly placing bomb threats at the George County Chancery Clerk’s Office and the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office on July 23. The woman, Michelle Francine Edwards, allegedly called the clerk’s office 21 times and said, “the clock is ticking,” according to an affidavit.

A California man, Joseph Alfredo Vasquez Dumarce, was charged on July 14 for allegedly sending a

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Judge Ashlee Cole posted a screenshot of Dumarce’s threatening message on Facebook on July 9.

Cole wrote in an earlier Facebook post that her son last saw Wells on July Fourth around 3 p.m. and decided to “stay on the island and return inland later with another group of friends.” Cole wrote that she deactivated her Facebook and that she fears for the safety of her children.

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written communications itself on June 1. He’s said he had no and I think for everybody to know.

Orleans DA, special prosecutor named records, or draft bills of indictment that role in an investigation the grand I think we all deserve to, at this

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

A lawyer for Attorney General Liz Murrill sued Wednesday to force Orleans Parish Attorney Jason Williams and special prosecutor Laurie White to dig harder for emails and other communication about Murrill’s short-lived criminal indictment.

Attorney Blake Arcuri filed the petitions in Orleans Parish Civil District Court, claiming Williams

and White both failed to respond properly to public records requests filed in conjunction with Murrill’s defense to the 16 felony charges she faced of public intimidation and malfeasance in office.

The filings are the latest indication that Murrill has no plans to let her aborted prosecution fade away. She and Gov. Jeff Landry have urged state and federal investigations.

The attorney general’s request to Williams’ office sought phone

might indicate the district attorney’s involvement in the secret inquiry into Murrill. The request for records from White also sought communications on the origins of the July 2 indictment.

After the Louisiana Supreme Court swiftly stayed the indictment before Murrill could be booked, White dropped the charges, saying she did so under pressure from Williams and the other city leaders who were cast as Murrill’s victims by the grand jury.

Williams’ office formally recused

jury appears to have initiated on its own, exercising a little-known power under state law.

But Murrill and Gov. Jeff Landry continued to cast doubt on those claims Wednesday outside the federal appeals court in New Orleans, both saying it stretched credulity.

With the charges against her dropped, Murrill said her push for public records remains personal.

“I do not believe and nobody that I know believes that this just happened magically all by itself,” Murrill said. “It’s for me to know,

Cameras off, but tickets still on Police to enforce school zone speed limits while traffic cameras remain off

BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

School zone cameras remain shut off in New Orleans as students return to school, but drivers can still be fined for speeding near schools.

Automated traffic cameras in designated school zones, which have been decommissioned for more than a year, will remain off for the foreseeable future as the city continues to challenge a 2024 law that requires municipalities to split revenues from the cameras with their respective school districts.

Still, New Orleans police officers began enforcing school zones this week using speed guns and active patrols, according to information provided by the New Orleans Police Department’s Public Affairs Division.

“At this time, no camera-initiated speeding or school zone tickets are being issued in the city,” the department said in a statement. “However, this does not mean that school zones will not be enforced.”

Taslin Alfonzo, a spokesperson for NOLA Public Schools, said in a statement that the district is committed to student safety regardless of the cameras.

“We urge the community to stay vigilant in school zones: slow down, exercise caution, and carefully observe all signage and speed limits around our schools,” Alfonzo said.

Jonah Gilmore, a city spokesperson, did not immediately answer several questions about the status of the cameras but said the Department of Public Works is in the process of ensuring flashing beacons in school zones are functioning.

The cameras have been shut off since the end of the 2024-25 school year. Since then, the long-running saga has included a threatening letter to city officials from Attorney General Liz Murrill and a lawsuit from the city challenging state law.

State legislators in 2024 passed a law that requires municipalities to split revenues from tickets issued by school zone cameras with their local school districts. It also barred municipalities from issuing tickets until revenue-sharing agreements are in place.

But as the city and School Board negoti-

point.”

She raised the specter of suing for malicious prosecution but said she would reserve judgment, noting that both she and Landry have called for criminal investigations into the grand jury and possible leaks.

Murrill was accused of crimes for sending letters in May to Williams, Mayor Helena Moreno and five council members, claiming they were breaking the law and

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Ex-chief sues agency over contract

Former N.O. flood authority leader alleges termination was act of retaliation

BY ALEX LUBBEN Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

A school zone speed camera, far left, is seen on Nashville Avenue in New Orleans on Wednesday. The traffic cameras will remain off while the city continues a challenge to a 2024 law, but police officers will enforce speed limits using speed guns and patrols.

After a 2025 law cleared the way for ated the agreement, New Orleans cameras kept issuing tickets. School officials said public officials to be charged with malfealast year that from May 2024 to March 2025, sance in office for violating the school zone the school zone cameras generated $1.375 ä See CAMERAS, page 2B million in net revenue and held it in escrow.

Joshua Rondeno, the former superintendent of police at New Orleans’ flood protection authority, who was fired in June, sued the agency last week alleging his termination was in violation of an employment contract that Rondeno drafted himself.

The lawsuit, filed on July 28 in the Civil District Court for Orleans Parish, centers on a series of changes to Rondeno’s employment contract that Rondeno Rondeno claims the board never approved. The lawsuit asks the court to declare the termination invalid and seeks Rondeno’s reinstatement, as well as back and future pay, lost retirement benefits and damages for reputational harm and emotional distress, plus attorney’s fees under Louisiana’s whistleblower law.

The board did not publicly vote on any version of his employment contract, and the board president told lawmakers that Rondeno drafted one version himself.

Rondeno’s attorney, Suzette Bangeris, said Wednesday that

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N.O. residents slam Hopefuls sign up for Nov. 3 races in Jefferson, St. Tammany recreation officials over More than 140 candidates qualify

Secondary Education seat and a Public Service Commission seat representing Tammany and portions of Jefferson, among other parishes, are also on the ballot.

Voters in Kenner and Metairie

BY JIM DERRY will also decide between candiand LARA NICHOLSON Staff writers dates in a special election for the state House’s 92nd District.

In most races with multiple opMore than 140 municipal candidates in Jefferson and St. Tam- ponents, the top two vote-getters many parishes signed up on the will head to a December runoff if first day of qualifying for the No- no candidate wins a simple majorvember election, when voters will ity of votes. select judges, School Board memJefferson bers, mayors and more.

Candidates seeking to represent Across federal, state and local the two large suburbs may contin- races, Jefferson Parish has 58 ue to put their names on the ballot races on the November ballot.

Two candidates qualified for through Friday, ahead of a Nov. 3 election that will also decide who the state House seat on Wednesis going to Congress. day. Gregory Carroll, a Democrat A Board of Elementary and and former three-term Kenner

City Council member, will run against political newcomer Alex Perdomo, a financial adviser and a Republican.

At the 24th Judicial District Court, only two of the 16 judge races were contested, both for seats currently held by judges that cannot run again because of their ages.

In Division F, currently held

by Judge Michael Mentz, Marko Marjanovic qualified against Joe McMahon III, both Republicans.

Marjanovic is the executive council for the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office and a former prosecutor, and McMahon is an attorney.

Blaine Benge Moncrief, a Republican, attorney and former prosecutor, qualified to run in

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conditions at public park NORD leaders say some improvements are in progress

BY JONI HESS Staff writer

New Orleans residents on Tuesday slammed the city’s recreation department over years of deferred maintenance at public parks, raising concerns about nonworking bathrooms and grass overgrowth to a board of Mayor Helena Moreno’s appointees.

Despite over $700,000 worth of maintenance projects in the queue, grass overgrowth, choked lagoons

and broken restrooms are among a litany of complaints that about 20 residents lodged to the New Orleans Recreation and Development Commission at a public meeting.

Joe Brown Park, one of the city’s largest public parks, stretches over 60 acres of greenspace, walking paths and sports fields. But residents say the park’s conditions have disintegrated over the past year.

“Those shelters are in horrible condition. The bathrooms are deplorable. They need an upgrade.

Not just a washing and a sweeping,” said New Orleans East resident Eva Washington.

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Attorney General Liz Murrill, left, stands next to Gov. Jeff Landry outside the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans on Wednesday.

Continued from page 1B risked their jobs by backing an election for a unified court clerk.

She argued she was doing her job.

After heavy pressure from Landry and others, the local leaders urged White, a former criminal court judge, to drop the case.

Murrill argued Wednesday that dropping the indictment didn’t affect her right to the records. If anything, Arcuri argued that it cleared legal barriers Williams had claimed in his response.

“Laurie White hasn’t answered at all. She’s refused to conduct a search,” Murrill said. “Jason Williams basically pointed at other directions. He didn’t adequately respond to our request either.”

Murrill said she would pay the lawyers herself for her quest for records now that the criminal case is closed.

On Wednesday, White questioned why Murrill was still pursuing the records at all.

“You can’t seem to ever make Liz Murrill’s attorneys happy, or Liz Murrill. I’ve answered their questions. I dismissed the case at the request of the politicians in New Orleans,” she said.

“I don’t know what she’s looking for. There’s no deep unknown conspiracy, and if there was, what does she hope to do? Retaliate?

Which is exactly the complaint the good citizens had at the grand jury because of her letters,” White added.

“It was dismissed. How is anything that’s going on going to be perceived as anything but retaliation and retribution and intimidation?”

CANDIDATES

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Division H for the seat currently held by Donald “Chick” Foret.

On the Jefferson Parish School Board, incumbents Gerard LeBlanc, Kriss Fairbairn Fortunato and Chad Nugent all signed up for reelection Wednesday and had drawn no opponents. Incumbent Michael Pedalino will face off against Al Galindo, a Republican and former Jefferson Chamber of Commerce chair.

Former School Board member Simeon Dickerson and local educator Dionne Nichols-Condoll, both Democrats, are running for the District 5 seat held by Derrick Shepherd. Shepherd has not publicly discussed whether he is running for reelection.

Rachel Spears, a Democrat and OB-GYN, is the only candidate thus far to qualify for the District 2 seat

PARK

Continued from page 1B Department officials in response said their hands are tied in many instances because of limited resources. They encouraged residents to continue routing their concerns through the city’s 311 nonemergency reporting system, and said the most severe problems would be resolved first.

“If it’s something that we can put on the back burner and wait until resources become available, or wait until staff becomes available, then we’ll put it on the back burner. But we’re acting currently in terms of the severity of their requests,” said NORD Chief Operating Officer Edgar Alexis.

The issues plaguing NORD parks

RONDENO

Continued from page 1B Rondeno was terminated for trying to fix problems at the agency.

“We believe him to be a protected whistleblower who was fired on the basis of retaliation,” she said.

“We do also believe that his contracts were breached.”

The Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East oversees the system of levees and pumps that protect the east bank of the New Orleans region from another Hurricane Katrina. The authority also has a small police force whose primary job is to physically protect the area’s flood control infrastructure, but also performs community policing duties in a handful of neighborhoods on the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain.

The president of the agency’s board, Peter Vicari, said he could not comment on pending litigation but did say the agency had not been served and he had not reviewed the lawsuit as of Wednesday.

State lawmakers had questioned

STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER Williams’ office issued a statement saying it promptly responded to Arcuri’s July 10 records request and hadn’t heard from him about any “alleged deficiencies” since.

“Rather than attempting to resolve any perceived dispute through a simple conversation with our office, Mr. Arcuri and Ms. Cannizzaro chose to file this mandamus action,” the statement read.

“Their decision to bypass any effort at communication and proceed directly to litigation speaks for itself, diverting scarce judicial resources to a dispute that could have been resolved with a single phone call or email.”

Landry said he doesn’t “want to visit with the mayor if she was involved in it” and didn’t believe the citizen jurors acted alone.

“I can think of no possible scenario under which a grand jury on its own spontaneously decides the attorney general has committed some kind of crime against the City Council, the mayor and the district attorney,” said the Republican governor, who early on called on Louisiana State Police to investigate.

White says nothing was rigged on her end. She said she received a phone call from Judge Leon Roche the first week of June, after Roche had signed Williams’ recusal.

“When a judge calls you who’s a fellow colleague who says, ‘I have an issue I need your help on’ — I’m a retired public servant. I help people that need help. It’s as simple as that. It’s not like I woke up with the idea to go after somebody,” White said.

“I did accept it blind,” she added of the appointment. She said she first learned the grand jury wanted to investigate Murrill when she stood before the body with Roche.

All she read, White said, was a recusal motion from Williams’ office. It said that the grand jury “independently decided to investigate Attorney General Liz Murrill about ‘public threats against multiple elected officials,’ ” including Williams.

“I had no idea what the letters were,” White said. “Didn’t know what the crime was.”

White earlier refused a request from Arcuri’s law partner, Laura

currently held by Ricky Johnson, who can’t run due to term limits.

Kevin Delahoussaye, a Republican who was appointed to the District 9 seat in June, qualified Wednesday against John Cunningham II, a retired teacher and also a Republican.

The District 4 seat, held by Republican Clay Moise, had no candidates yet.

In the city of Harahan, the top seat will be open for the taking, as Mayor Tim Baudier is term limited and announced on social media that he would run for the Jefferson Parish Council District 2 seat.

As of Wednesday, Harahan City Council member Eric Chatelain and Carol Logreco, a local real estate investor and previous City Council candidate, had signed up for that job. Both are Republicans.

Five candidates qualified to run for Harahan City Council: Linda Domangue, Lionel Hotard III, Craig Johnston, Michael Ricks and Carrie Wheeler. Ricks currently

serves on the council, while Johnston and Wheeler are both former council members. The five candidates with the highest number of votes will be selected to serve.

Harahan City Council members Jason Asbill and Tommy Budde are prohibited from running again due to term limits.

District Attorney Paul Connick, a Metairie resident and Democrat, qualified to run for potentially his seventh consecutive six-year term in office. As of Wednesday evening, no opponents qualified to run against him. Harahan Police Chief Ed Lepre was also uncontested for his seat as of Wednesday.

Voters will also decide in November on parish court judges, juvenile court judges, justices of the peace and constables.

and operations have long been a concern among community members. They have also lambasted the department for failing to communicate basic information on its website and other public-facing mediums. Officials shut down Lyons Pool in June for maintenance, for instance, but as of Tuesday NORD’s website showed the pool was still open to the public.

Their concerns come as the NORD Commission searches for a new CEO after former longtime CEO Larry Barabino resigned this summer to take a new job at the Housing Authority of New Orleans. The NORD board also received an overhaul after Moreno took office in January and added six new members.

Residents said Tuesday that whoever is considered for the role should be committed to fix-

Rondeno’s employment contract in the months preceding his termination at the flood agency, where he oversaw the agency’s 50 police officers. An initial version of his contract, signed by Rondeno and Vicari in January, stated that he could only be fired by a supermajority vote of the board — and would have granted him four years’ pay with built-in annual raises, totaling up to $910,000, as severance if he were fired without cause.

The Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office has deemed any severance payments for state employees to be an unconstitutional donation of public funds.

Rondeno was at that point making $208,000 per year. By law, the flood agency’s police chief cannot make more than the superintendent of the Louisiana State Police, who at the time made about $207,000.

That caused Sen. Kirk Talbot, RRiver Ridge, to question the contract, which he said on Wednesday clearly violated state law.

Vicari told Talbot at a hearing in May that the contract was justified because Rondeno was “taking a beating in the media,” which Vi-

Cannizzaro Rodrigue, to pass along to the grand jurors letters requesting they preserve all records about the case for potential litigation.

Rodrigue defended those letters on Wednesday, calling them standard. She said Murrill’s defense hasn’t had any contact with grand jurors.

“Laurie White refused. There’s nobody else that could give it to them,” she said of the preservation letter. “It’s just saying you may be in possession of materials that could be relevant. ‘Do not destroy this material.’ ” Murrill noted that media reports about the grand jury inquiry emerged before Murrill’s indictment. She also cited a statement from attorney and TV legal analyst Pat Fanning stating that White called him and discussed the grand jury before the charges, alleging a breach of grand jury secrecy.

Murrill said that broad immunity for grand jurors does not extend to misconduct.

“If there was grand jury tampering and that involved the grand jurors themselves participating in it, then they’re not protected from that. If they were communicating outside the room with other people, they are not protected from that,” Murrill said.

“I have never asked what were they talking about inside the room about me. What I asked was, who are they talking to outside the room about me and about this indictment? And so I think that’s fair game.”

The “petition for writ of mandamus” for records from White was assigned to Civil District Judge Jennifer Medley. The one for Williams was assigned to Judge Nicole Sheppard.

CAMERAS

Continued from page 1B traffic camera laws, city and School Board officials agreed last summer to split revenues from camera tickets 60/40.

(The malfeasance charge can be punishable with up to 10 years in prison, with or without hard labor, or a fine of up to $5,000.)

Then Murrill sent a letter ordering the city to return any fines collected after the law went into effect but before the agreements were in place, threatening to launch a criminal investigation and pursue charges against city officials if New Orleans if they did not comply.

Two weeks later, the city of New Orleans filed a lawsuit against Gov. Jeff Landry in the 19th Judicial District Court in Baton Rouge, arguing the traffic camera laws overstepped New Orleans’ authority.

Lester Duhe, a spokesperson for Murrill, declined to comment.

In the lawsuit, the city argues that sharing camera revenues with schools equates to illegal donations because the city receives nothing in return. The city also argues that new street marking requirements — including a two-foot wide yellow stripe that says “Entering school zone” in 12-inch white lettering — are improper because they differ from requirements published by the Federal Highway Patrol.

A hearing is scheduled for Sept. 21.

running for 67 races, though some may end up running unopposed.

One down-ballot race that will garner much local attention is that of St. Tammany sheriff, as a special election is being held for the remainder of Randy Smith’s term, which runs through June 2028.

That vote became needed after Smith resigned in June due to his plea of guilty to attacking a local man in a Madisonville-area steakhouse the previous month.

Four men have already announced their candidacy: Robert Hodges, retired head of the Louisiana State Police; Scott Illing, former U.S. marshal and state trooper; David Maki, retired 20year veteran of the STPSO; and Daniel Seuzeneau, who served in the Slidell Police Department for 20 years and recently was its inSt. Tammany terim chief.

As of Wednesday afternoon, all The Nov. 3 election will include one of the largest ballots in St. Tam- but Seuzeneau had officially qualimany Parish history. In total, can- fied.

Another race that will gain atdidates have put their names in the

tention is for northshore district attorney, a position held by Collin Sims, who took over on an interim basis in November 2023 when former District Attorney Warren Montgomery died in office. Sims, who presides over St. Tammany and Washington parishes, then defeated Vincent Wynne in March 2024 to fill the remaining six-year term, which runs through January 2027. No candidates signed up Wednesday to challenge him.

Other races on the ballot include all 15 St. Tammany Parish School Board members, mayor and aldermen in Abita, Pearl River and Folsom, along with several constables, justices of the peace and judgeships.

Staff writer Elyse Carmosino contributed to this report.

ing NORD’s chronic failings. They said the candidate should also be a local with a firm understanding of New Orleans culture and its people. The agency is accepting applications until Monday.

The state of Joe Brown was another big concern of residents on Tuesday. Washington added that there’s a homeless woman living in one of the Read Boulevard park’s shelters.

“There was algae all over. The homeless woman in Shelter No. 3 told me that the bathroom toilet wasn’t working.”

NORD board member Daphney Young said trees overhang throughout the park, and that neglected lagoons could pose a danger to families.

“There is a big issue with cutting, especially if children are going fishing close to the lagoon and

can’t see. Something, an alligator or anything comes up, the kids cannot see it, the parents cannot see it,” she said.

Interim CEO Natasha Robinson said the department’s maintenance team has roughly $719,000 of projects in progress, including an air handler unit replacement at the Treme Recreation Center, HVAC repairs at a Joe Brown concession building and tree canopy cutbacks on the outskirts of Joe Brown Park.

“We look forward to those improvements being completed in the next 30 to 60 days,” she said.

NORD obtained one of those contractors through the city’s Parks and Parkways Department after officials reached out to them for help at Joe Brown. Parks and Parkways also lacked the staffing or resources to cut back the trees and overgrowth, Robinson said,

so they are waiting for the city’s third-party contractor to schedule that job.

Alexis added that overgrown vegetation is a “heavy lift from our staff,” and that people should reach out to elected officials like the City Council who can potentially access other resources to expedite fixes.

But still, some residents said the problems have gone on too long.

“We’re really losing a lot of opportunities at that park,” said resident Tangee Wall, who runs Friends of Joe Brown Park, a nonprofit that aims to beautify Joe Brown. “NORD has gotten quite a bit of funding over the years and some things have just not been addressed, and it’s unacceptable.”

cari called “fake news.”

Through his attorney, Rondeno quibbled with Vicari’s account of how the contract was drafted.

Rondeno said it was Vicari’s idea to add the severance clause, not Rondeno’s.

The contract was rewritten in February to remove the severance clause. But it maintained that Rondeno could only be terminated by a majority vote of the board.

Then, in May, Rondeno and Vicari signed a third document, voiding the second version of his contract because “a Committee of the State Legislature expressed concerns surrounding the circumstances under which the Employment Agreement was confected.” It states that Rondeno will continue to serve in his role as an at-will employee.

Rondeno’s attorney said if the February contract was voided, then the January version, which included the severance clause, should remain in force.

Then, in early June, Rondeno was placed on leave pending an investigation into allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to a woman who was his subordinate at the agency, according to sources

with knowledge of the investigation who were not authorized to disclose information about it. Rondeno was fired on June 26.

“He responded to an Instagram post with a fire emoji,” Bangeris said of the allegation. “Any suggestion that Mr. Rondeno was accused of sexual harassment is inaccurate and defamatory.”

The lawsuit also claims that Rondeno fixed administrative problems at the agency that exposed the police to potential litigation, and that he helped lead an effort to rectify racial pay disparities.

During his tenure as police chief, the board expanded his role and approved budgets that increased spending on police and the flood control agency. Spending increased from around $8 million per year to nearly $14 million. A fifth of the flood agency’s operating budget is now spent on policing.

Blair duQuesnay, who leads Citizens for 1 Greater New Orleans, a flood protection watchdog group, said there was a “direct link between this lawsuit and political interference with flood protection governance.”

“The governor’s hand-picked

board president admitted he signed an employment contract that he believed to be written by the police chief himself,” she said.

“He did so without consulting with the flood protection authority’s attorney, and without seeking the advice of the board.”

Lara Nicholson writes about Jefferson Parish for The Advocate | Times-Picayune.

Email her at lnicholson@ theadvocate.com.

Email Joni Hess at joni.hess@ theadvocate.com.

Email Alex Lubben at alex. lubben@theadvocate.com and follow him on Twitter @alexlubben. His work is supported with a grant from the Walton Family Foundation, administered by the Baton Rouge Area Foundation.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Alexander Sr., Burnell Eckles, Rhosus Foret, Brent Grundmann, Ann Johnson, Carmen Johnson, Edna Jones, Gilda Kay, Tuey Kruppa, Alexander Martin, Eugene Miron, Ricardo Peterson, Herbert Talazac, Paul Triche, Kenneth

Obituaries Alexander Sr., Burnell

Burnell Alexander, Sr. peacefully entered eternal rest on May 29, 2026, at the age of 79.

He was a native of New Orleans, LA, born August 4, 1946, to the late Henry and Hilda (Bogens) Alexander.

Burnell began his career with the New Orleans Police Department. After leaving law enforcement, he worked for Southern Pacific Railroad (New Orleans), Burlington Northern Railroad then Amtrak (Seattle).

Burnell was preceded in death by his parents, Henry and Hilda Alexander; his brother, Calvin Alexander; his son, Burnell Alexander, Jr. and nephew Jerald M. Alexander, Jr. He leaves to cherish his memory his wife, Kumiko Alexander; his daughter, Michelle Alexander; his sons, Corey Alexander, Chase Alexander; his brothers, Alvin Alexander (Phyllis), Jerald M. Alexander, Sr. (Carolyn), Gregory Alexander and his sister, Sharon Alexander; 16 grandchildren; 3 great grand children; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, dear friends, and loved ones.

A Celebration of Life service will be held at 11am on Saturday, August 8, 2026, at New Orleans Bible Fellowship Baptist Church, 4430 Bundy Road, New Orleans, LA 70127, Pastor Leonard M. Parker, Officiating.

Eckles, Rhosus Gary

Foret, Brent

Brent Joseph Foret, born November 7, 1952, in New Orleans, Louisiana, passed away on August 3, 2026.

Brent was the beloved husband of Sondra Hill Foret for 30 years. He was a devoted father to Chad Foret (Mayerlin), Kelly Foret (Burke Stutes), Doug Foret (Brandi), and Jaclyn Caside (L.C.), and a treasured grandfather to Bryce Gras, Mason Dice, Emma Foret, Cole Foret, Syriana Caside, Sage Caside, and Jake Foret. He is also survived by his siblings: Leonard Foret Jr.( Gloria), Lyle Foret (Stacy), Wayne Foret (Theresa), Drew Foret (Laura), and Cindy Foret Papas (Clem). He is preceded in death by his father, Leonard Foret Sr., and mother, Elaine Troxler Foret. Sondra and Brent shared many memories in their 30 year marriage traveling, going to concerts & simply spending time together.

Brent found his greatest joy in the moments spent surrounded by his children and grandchildren, whether it was sharing laughter, or simply enjoying their company.

Brent was a wonderful, loving, and generous husband, father, grandfather, brother, and friend. He freely shared his knowledge and abilities, never hesitating to help anyone with anything. Brent personally built both a camp and a home for him and Sondra, as well as his sons.

Many memories were made at "Paradise" aka Lake Hermitage. A true outdoorsman, he held a special passion for shrimping and bass fishing, pursuits that brought him peace and fulfillment.

Brent also treasured time in the country at the home in Mississippi. His talents as a craftsman were known among family and friends; there was truly nothing Brent could not fix, build, or repair.

A visitation will be held on Thursday, August 6, 2026, from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM at Harvey - Mothe Funeral Homes, LLC, located at 2100 Westbank Expressway in Harvey, LA. The funeral service will follow immediately at 11:00 AM. Brent will be laid to rest at Westlawn Memorial Park, 1225 Whitney Avenue, Terrytown, LA, with the burial proceeding at 12:00 PM. To view and sign the online guestbook, visit MOTHEFUNERALS.COM

Grundmann, Ann Christianne

Rhosus Gary Eckles entered eternal rest on Friday, July 31, 2026, at the age of 74. He was the son of the late Rhosus B. and Lou Sylvia Eckles and the beloved husband of Mrs. Verlee T. Eckles.

Funeral services will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. at Pilgrim Baptist Church, 2114 Rev. Richard Wilson Dr., Kenner, LA, with Rev. Dr. Mitchell Stevens, Sr. officiating. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Interment will follow at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home and Cemeteries, New Orleans, LA. Arrangements are entrusted to Richardson Funeral Home of Jefferson in River Ridge, LA. www.ric hardsonfuneralhomeofjeff erson.com

things that brought her, and those around her, joy.

Long before the days of streaming services, Ann's collection of movies on VHS would rival any catalog on Netflix or Hulu. And while most people may see Costco or Buc-ee's as nothing more than a place to fill up your tank or buy a 128 pack of toilet paper, this was not the case for Ann. But while Ann certainly loved her movies, or pit stops at Buc-ee's on a road trip (or a road trip to Bucee's), it pales in comparison to Ann's love for her family. It cannot be overstated, and frankly, I am struggling to find the words to adequately articulate how much she loved her family and how much we loved and will miss her.

Ann loved her rescue dogs. In lieu of flowers, please donate to ARNO (Animal Rescue New Orleans) or the LASPCA, which would be a great way to honor her memory.

Visitation will be at 11:00 AM Saturday August 8th at Jacob Schoen & Son, 3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA with a funeral mass at noon.

Johnson, Edna Hoffmann

Edna Hoffmann Johnson, age 79, was called to be with the Lord on Saturday, August 1, 2026.

Edna was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was a graduate of Francis T. Nicholls High School class of 1964.

On October 15, 1966, she married the love of her life, Willie L. Johnson, Jr. They made their home in Chalmette until Hurricane Katrina hit in August of 2005. They moved to Slidell shortly thereafter and have never left.

She worked at multiple medical offices over the span of 50+ years. She loved the work she did over that time, and made many acquaintences, and friendships.

She leaves behind a loving family who will cherish her memory, including her devoted husband, Willie L. Johnson Jr.; her children, William "Billy" Johnson (Kara), Scott Johnson (Altee), and John "JJ" Johnson (Anjanette); her siblings, Arthur Hoffmann (Janis), Margaret Dubuisson, Hyacinth Serpas (Valance) and her sister-in-law Mildred Hoffmann; her beloved grandchildren, Jamilynne, Madeleine, Sidney, Abigail, Harper, and Sterling. She also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, extended family members, and dear friends whose lives were touched by her kindness and generosity.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John Raymond Hoffmann and Edna Marie Ducote Hoffmann; her brothers, John "Jay" Hoffmann (Jackie), Jerrel "Jerry" Hoffmann, and brother-inlaw Joseph Dubuisson.

A strong disruption was felt in the FORCE on Monday July 6, 2026 as Ann Grundmann departed this life. Cool A(u)nt, as she was known to her nieces and nephews, flew off to Never Never land where she will remain perpetually young at heart.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Elizabeth Jewett Grundamann and leaves behind her father Lawrence Grundmann, Jr. (Kathy), her sister Kay Grundmann Giepert (Gary), her nephews Jonathan and Stephen Giepert (Alathea), her niece Caroline Giepert (William), her grandniece Evie, her grandnephew Harris, her cousin and dear friend Mary Sue Flatley, as well as her beloved dog Daisy.

Ann was a true spark of joy. She made everyone feel welcome, everyone was her friend, and she had an infectious and unique laugh. She was generous and loving to a fault.

In an ever changing and complex world, Ann was able to keep things simple because she knew what she liked and poured all of her heart and soul into the

Edna lived life with warmth, laughter, and a deep love for family and friendship. In 1980, she was Queen of Gladiators Carnival Group. She was also an active member of the Shangri-La Carnival Group. She enjoyed participating in numerous softball and bowling leagues, where she formed many lifelong friendships.

In her free time, Edna loved playing Keno, cards, and a variety of games with her family and friends. She also enjoy the "girls" trips she took with her sisters, cousins, and friends. Her joyful spirit, quick smile, and love of gathering with those she cared about created countless treasured memories that will live on in the hearts of everyone who knew her.

made to the Hospice House of Slidell, P.O. Box 5806, Slidell, LA 70469.

Johnson, Martha Seymour

Carmen Martha Seymour Johnson, 85, entered peacefully into eternal rest on July 26, 2026, in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Johnson was born August 25, 1940, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the daughter of the late Regina Morgan Seymour and Charles Jules Seymour, Jr. She was one of six siblings and was preceded in death by her parents; her siblings, Jeanmarie Seymour, Charles J. Seymour III, James M. Seymour, and Rose Marie Cunningham; and her husband, Lofton Johnson, Sr. She attended McDonough 41 and Xavier Preparatory School before graduating from Joseph S. Clark High School. She served in the United States Women's Army Corps from 1962 to 1965 and was honorably discharged following her military service.

She later fulfilled her lifelong dream of becoming a registered nurse and dedicated more than 30 years to caring for the people of New Orleans at Charity Hospital before retiring following Hurricane Katrina.

She attended both Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Peter Claver Catholic Church.

Carmen Martha Seymour Johnson is survived by her children, Jeanmarie M. Sculfield, Jeannine M. Sculfield, and Jean-Pierre M. Sculfield; her grandchildren, Dallas Hightower, Maleia GentileSculfield, and Makailea Gentile-Sculfield; her brother, Reginald J. Seymour, Sr. (Gerry); and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives, and cherished friends.

Visitation will be held on Friday, August 7, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, 1923 St. Philip Street, New Orleans, La followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. Interment will be held Monday, August 10, 2026, at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery in Slidell, at 11:00 a.m. Please sign the online guestbook at www.charbonnetfuneral home.com.

Charbonnet Labat Glapion Directors, (504) 581-4111

Jones, Gilda

Gilda "Jeri" "Topaz" Jones, age 68 was born on November 29, 1957 in Los Angeles, CA and resided in New Orleans, LA, earned her wings on Monday, July 27, 2026. Gilda left a lasting impression on everyone she met. She leaves to cherish her memories a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Relatives and friends of the family, also parishioners of St. Katharine Drexel Parish (formerly Holy Ghost) and Xavier Prep Alumni are invited to attend the Mass of Christian Burial on Friday, August 7, 2026 at St. Katharine Drexel Catholic Church, 2015 Louisiana Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70115 at 10:00 a.m.

Visitation from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m.

Private Burial. You may sign the guest book on www.gertru degeddeswillis.com.

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

Kay, Tuey Ngook Lee

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passed away peacefully on July 7, 2026, at the age of 95. Born on August 22, 1930, in Toisan, Canton, China, she lived a life defined by faith, family, generosity, and love.

In 1948, Tuey married Hom Fook "Tom" Kay, and together they embarked on a journey that would take them to the United States, where she attended citizenship classes and became a proud naturalized American citizen. During their early years, she devoted herself to raising her family as a homemaker and later worked alongside her husband at Sing Lee Laundry.

Tuey was a longtime member of the Chinese Presbyterian Church in New Orleans, where her faith provided guidance and strength throughout her life. She was known for her warm hospitality, kind spirit, and unwavering dedication to her family.

Nothing brought her greater joy than caring for her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Her home was a place where family and friends were welcomed with delicious homecooked meals and loving fellowship. She was especially renowned for her Chinese dim sum specialties, including char siu steamed bao, red bean paste bao, pork and shrimp dumplings (ha cao), red bean paste tee doi, and peanut tee doi.

Her Sunday lunches and holiday celebrations became treasured traditions that created lasting memories for generations.

Among the fondest memories shared by her family are summer gatherings at the beach, where she lovingly prepared egg sandwiches for her grandchildren and delighted in having everyone together.

She also found great enjoyment in gardening, nurturing both plants and people with care and devotion.

Tuey was preceded in death by her husband, Tom Kay; her son-in-law, Gordon Wong; and her grandson, Hamilton Kay. She is survived by her children: May Kay Wong (the late Gordon Wong), Lila Kay Crotty (Bernard Timothy Crotty), Dr. Dickie Kay (Dr. Mary Chang), and Dr. Dennis Kay (Maria Kay); her grandchildren and their spouses: Jason Wong (Amy Benoit), Amy Wong Fortson (Paul Fortson), Lindsay Crotty Shin (Austin Shin), Emily Crotty (Wes McClurg), Dr. Harrison Kay (Andrea Kay), Dr. Hannah Kay (Dr. Tim Schurz), Haddon Kay, Dr. Danielle Kay (Dr. Thomas Dukovac), Christian Kay, and Andrew Kay; and her great-grandchildren: Kay Fortson, Eloise Fortson, Lea Shin, Penelope Shin, Oliver Shin, Sunny McClurg, Wyatt McClurg, Karissa Kay, Noah Schurz, Henry Dukovac, Graham Dukovac, and Eleanor Dukovac. Her legacy of love, hard work, faith, hospitality, and devotion to family will live on through all who knew and loved her.

The family is grateful for the loving, attentive care shown to our mother by doctors and nurses at Ochsner Medical Center, and all the caregivers at Peristyle, especially Maryuri Castillo and Monique Brannon over the past years.

Funeral services will be held at Garden of Memories in Metairie, Louisiana on August 8, 2026. Family and friends are invited to gather in celebration of a life well lived and a woman whose kindness, strength, and love enriched the lives of so many. Visitation will begin at 10am and the service at 12pm.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to Samaritan's Purse, PO Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607.

"Her love was expressed not only in words, but in every meal she prepared, every gathering she hosted, and every life she touched."

Kruppa, Alexander Stephen

Edna's legacy is one of love, devotion to family, and the happiness she brought to others. She will be deeply missed but forever remembered with love.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial donations be

Tuey Ngook Lee Kay, beloved mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and devoted friend,

Alexander Stephen Kruppa was born December 5, 1938 in Sarasota, FL. He passed away July 19, 2026 in

Covington, LA.

He is pre-deceased by his parents Alexander Frederick Kruppa and Avie Elizabeth Kruppa and his brother Ronny.

At Sarasota High School, Alex joined the Sailor Circus as a trapeze artist and gymnast and traveled with a circus for two years after high school. He later taught computers at Delgado Community College.

Alex met Dinah Blackwell when her family traveled to Florida in 1965.

They were married July 23, 1966 in Covington. Alex passed away four days before their 60th wedding anniversary.

Alex is survived by his wife, Dinah, and their two sons, Jason and John, and John's wife Heather, as well as grandchildren Jacob, CJ, Avery and Ronnie Kruppa.

Martin, Eugene Sterling

Eugene Sterling Martin, Sr., age 71, entered into eternal rest on Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

Beloved husband of Phyllis Denise Sterling Martin.

Eugene is also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Relatives and friends of the family, also pastors, officers, and members of Household of Faith are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Household of Faith, 712 27th Street, Gretna, LA on Friday, August 7, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Elder Booker T. Collor, Jr., officiating.

Visitation will begin at 8:30a.m. until service time at the church. Interment: Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Slidell, LA Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe Street Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.davismortuaryservic e.com.

Miron, Ricardo Enrique

Ricardo Enrique Mirón, age 81 of Metairie, LA, passed away peacefully surrounded by his family at his home on Tuesday, August 4, 2026. Rick was born on August 25, 1944, in Guatemala City, Guatemala to Ricardo Mirón and Elisa Gonzalez Mirón. In the early 1950's, Rick's family migrated to the United States where he grew up in the Carrollton area of New Orleans. He graduated from Incarnate Word Elementary School and De La Salle High School in 1963. After high school, Rick attended and graduated from LSUNO in 1968 with a degree in Business. After college, Rick was drafted and proudly served his country in the United States Army during the Vietnam Conflict where he was stationed in Germany. In 1971, Rick married the love of his life, Susan M. Mirón and together they had two sons.

He worked for Greater New Orleans Federal Credit Union, serving as President for over 20 years. He was a proud member of the Kiwanis Club of New Orleans where he served as a Treasurer for many years, the De La Salle Alumni Association, and a board member of the National Credit Union Association. Along with his wife, Rick was a longtime parishioner of St. Philip Neri Catholic Church.

Rick was preceded in death by his parents and his grandmother, Dolores Gonzalez.

Survivors include his beloved wife, Susan; his sons, Jeffrey Mirón (Angela) and Jonathan Mirón (Erin); his granddaughters, Isabella, Scarlet, and Katherine; and his brothers, Luis Mirón (Rose Ann) and Christian Mirón (Graziella). Also sur-

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Congratulations to Drew Brees on well-deserved honor Drew Brees’ accomplishments on the football field will culminate Saturday when he is formally enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio, as the first New Orleans Saint to be elected on the first ballot.

Brees’ ascendance to the sport’s most hallowed ground was assured years ago. His Saints record reads like video game statistics: five 5,000-passing yard seasons, six times as the NFL’s completion percentage leader, seven times passing yard leader and the most consecutive games with a touchdown pass in league history.

During his 15 years leading the Saints’ offense, the team won 62% of its games, made the playoffs nine times and captured the franchise’s only Super Bowl title.

His brilliance didn’t just reveal itself in consistency and longevity. It also shone through in individual moments and games: his 62-yard toss to Tre’Quan Smith that set the NFL passing yards record in 2018; a 40-yard touchdown pass to Devery Henderson in 2012 that set the record for consecutive games with a touchdown pass; his 511-yard, seven-TD game against the Giants in 2015.

Saturday, we will join the rest of the football world in celebrating Brees’ gridiron accomplishments during the traditional kickoff to the NFL season.

But we will also celebrate much more than just that. It’s almost impossible to understate the psychological importance of what Brees did in the aftermath of the worst disaster Louisiana had seen in generations.

When he arrived, he — and new coach Sean Payton — took over a franchise whose moribund status was treated as a given. They were a perfect match for a city and a state devastated nearly a year before by Hurricane Katrina. Indeed, Brees, himself recovering from a serious shoulder injury, has said that one reason he chose the Saints was because he saw the devastation and wanted to be part of a civic rebuilding effort.

Payton’s coaching brilliance and Brees’ transcendent skill paid immediate dividends, not just in the emotional win over the hated Falcons in the famed Domecoming game, but in excellence every single day. The team’s renaissance gave New Orleans reason to believe in itself again.

The ensuing years saw the team grow ever closer to a goal once thought impossible: a Super Bowl. The city improved, too, with the two feeding off each other in a symbiotic relationship.

The whole time, Brees remained relentlessly competitive, upbeat and committed to the team and Louisiana. When he led the Saints to the title, it signified not just a championship for a sports team but the recovery of the state against what had seemed like impossible odds.

Off the field, too, Brees’ contributions are legendary. Throughout Louisiana, Brees famously financed facilities at some 50 schools, plus residential wards for cancer patients, child-care services and more.

So, thank you, Drew. Of course we’re celebrating your on-the-field accomplishments, and will rejoice to see your enshrinement, complete with Payton’s sure-to-be-emotional introduction.

But we are eternally grateful, too, for all you did beyond the playing field. You will always be a Saint.

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Retired quarterback Drew Brees celebrates his 2024 induction into the Saints Hall of Fame. On Saturday, he will be enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame as the first New Orleans Saint to be elected on the first ballot.

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U.S. can learn from these socialist countries

The July 20 issue of the newspaper contained two items connected by the writers’ insights about building a stronger nation. Wayne Parker’s letter cautions against oversimplifying the controversial term “socialism.”

Jay Lapeyre’s op-ed column encourages civic engagement. I write to expand on the emotionally charged term “socialism.”

One form of socialism is practiced in two of the least democratic countries of the world: North Korea and Cuba. However, another form of socialism is practiced in some of the most progressive democratic countries.

Think Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and many other countries in Europe and elsewhere.

These social democracies combine practices of capitalism with emphasis on free and fair elections, civic participation, social cohesion and reducing inequalities in access to health care, education and housing.

We can learn from countries like these. Look at any nonpartisan ranking of the world’s countries in the areas of life expectancy, infant mortality, crime and overall life

satisfaction. Many countries that practice social democracy appear in the top 10 of one or more of these categories.

Unfortunately, the United States is not ranked in the top 10 in any of these categories. However, the U.S. is ranked in the top 10 in the category of millionaires per capita. So are Switzerland, Australia, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Canada — all governed by a form of social democracy.

Ironically, some of the most popular U.S. government programs are similar to those practiced in social democracies. The nonpartisan opinion polling company YouGov surveyed a cross-section of Americans, asking about five federal programs.

Here are the programs and the percentage of respondents favoring funding at current or higher levels: Social Security (78%); Medicare (76%); Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (72%); Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (69%); and the Women, Infants & Children Program (70%).

DAVID SABRIO Metairie

By the numbers, Trump’s policies add up to misplaced priorities Have the money to buy a new car?

How about a luxury Cadillac Escalade, base price $91,000, with high performance variance as much as $170,000 each? How many are our tax money purchasing? Quantity 250, so the Secret Service “can ride in style” and Trump said “he’ll look good in it.”

How big a motorcade is he gonna have? Can’t the Secret Service carpool some? Even base price will cost $23 million.

Important expenditures: for changing the name to Gulf of America, replacing highway signage, maritime markers, updating state textbooks and maps — estimated anywhere from half a million to $200 million or more.

Vital, really important one: changing the name of the Defense Department to “Department of War.” Internal updates, signs, digital assets and stationery — an estimated $125 million.

For a gaudy military parade to satisfy and stroke his ego, more mil-

lions. As much as $2 billion a day for a war to get a nuclear deal we had that included inspections, cameras and enrichment levels.

If your neighbor’s home is on fire, what would you do? Try to help them?

Or sue because you don’t like the smoke? It’s the United States’ No. 1 trading partner. Why is he picking a fight with Canada?

Cost to Americans for food and everything else because of chaos caused by his tariffs that we’re not supposed to be paying ourselves. Gas prices because of his foolish aggression that’s igniting a rapidly spreading Mideast war. Denying healthcare to children, plus food aid to Americans and starving people worldwide.

Nero, the Earth is on fire, and here’s $500 million for a ballroom to throw another “Great Gatsby” party. That is not my vision of making America great. I’d prefer the word “shameful.”

TERRY GRUNDMANN Kenner

State abandons land, rights to billionaire’s rockets The proposed SpaceX launchpad on Pecan Island is a direct assault on Louisiana’s coast. Our state leaders preach about protecting our vanishing coast, yet they are willing to hand over a fragile ecosystem to launch rockets. They are swapping decades of oil pollution from ExxonMobil for the destructive impact of rocket launches.

Worse still is the corrupt push to shield SpaceX from accountability. The state is stripping constitutional rights from the taxpayers by giving SpaceX immunity from lawsuits.

Louisiana must stop sacrificing its citizens to play landlord to billionaires. We must reject the Pecan Island launchpad and demand that our laws protect taxpayers, not corporate balance sheets.

MONICA KEESE Mandeville

Banning foreign robotics only dulls the ability of U.S. to compete Recent actions by the Federal Communications Commission to block foreignmade advanced robotics (see your recent article, “U.S. bans foreign-made humanoid robots”) under the guise of national security represent a troubling slide into protectionism.

While shielding domestic firms from intense price competition may offer short-term comfort, it inflicts a far more damaging, long-term cost on the American economy: the loss of the ability to learn through competition.

Capitalism thrives on the relentless pressure to adapt, innovate and outcompete rivals on an open field. When international competitors command the vast majority of the global market and drive rapid technological iteration, erecting trade barriers does not foster true resilience. Instead, it creates an insulated bubble that deprives domestic developers of the rigorous, real-world benchmarking necessary to sharpen their capabilities.

Just as military strategists warn against compressing decision cycles to the point of blindness, we must recognize that artificially slowing down market exposure to global innovation does not protect us. It isolates us.

True economic strength is forged not by hiding behind walls, but by engaging with the world’s most advanced technologies and cultivating the capacity to out-learn and out-compete them.

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COMMENTARY Armstrong’s birthday a call to action for La. jazz lovers The first time I ever saw my father cry was when he heard Louis Armstrong died.

It wasn’t obvious: He was pretending his glasses were just fogging up, necessitating use of a handkerchief near his eyes. Still, he couldn’t hide some tears running down his cheek.

Dad pulled an LP from the shelf and began playQuin ing it. I looked at the Hillyer album’s back cover, and either there or on the TV news I distinctly remember a photo of Armstrong on his New York front steps, playing his trumpet with some children.

If this guy was cherished enough to make my father cry, and if he was nice enough to hang out with neighborhood children, I figured I should give him a listen. And, well, wow: I’ve been nearly obsessed, ever since, with traditional New Orleans jazz.

These memories return because this past Tuesday was Louis Armstrong’s 125th birthday. (Is there a name for that? If “hemi” is a half, was it his hemi-semiquincentennial?) We know the exact day because, 38 years ago, New Orleans music historian Tad Jones dug up Armstrong’s baptismal records listing his birth date as Aug. 4, 1901, rather than the July 4, 1900, that the great jazz musician long had claimed.

(As an aside: I didn’t know Jones, but I randomly found myself sitting next to him at the breakfast bar of the old Bluebird Café on Prytania Street in 1988 and striking up a conversation that naturally turned to jazz — at which time he asked if I could keep a secret, and he told me he was just a day or three away from making “a big announcement” about Armstrong’s birth.

To say the least, his announcement certainly made big news.)

Of course the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival made a huge celebration of the centennial of Armstrong’s birth in 2001 (I still have the T-shirt).

And last weekend the 26th annual

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Satchmo Summerfest took place at the New Orleans Jazz Museum. Moreover, all weekend long, on Frenchmen Street and Bourbon Street and elsewhere around town, traditional jazz bands were plying their trade. The Palmetto Bug Stompers, playing with verve at DBA New Orleans, were particularly fun.

Coincidentally, the birthdate itself saw an announcement that the documentary “City of a Million Dreams,” about jazz funerals and the city’s music culture, is now getting a nationwide release on public television. It will air on WYES in New Orleans on Aug. 13 at 7:30 p.m. and Aug. 15 at 4 p.m., and on Louisiana Public Broadcasting on Aug. 18 at 8 p.m. The documentary’s filmmaker, New Orleanian Jason Berry, also was Jones’ co-author (1986) of the acclaimed Louisiana music history called “Up From the Cradle of Jazz.”

Small world — and, as Armstrong would say, “What a Wonderful World,” as well.

Now: Apologies if all the informa-

tion above may seem a tad disjointed, but then again, this is a column about jazz, where individual musicians can improvise in unexpected directions but only while still staying tethered to, and returning to, a central theme.

If you haven’t figured it out yet, the central tune here is that New Orleans traditional jazz is a treasure, as is the particular legacy of Armstrong.

Yet what should worry all of us is that this signature music of the state — which, according to essayist Gerald Early, joins the Constitution and baseball as this nation’s three most enduring gifts to civilization — seems always on the verge of dying out. Maybe I’m missing something, but no matter how hard I look, I can never seem to find anyone under 50 years old who regularly plays the real, true thing.

Yes, there are bands and musicians semi-rooted in traditional jazz of the sort played by Armstrong, King Oliver and Buddy Bolden, but most of them are brassier, funkier, less subtle, less wedded to a central melody in each song. They may be playing great music, but it’s not really traditional New Orleans jazz.

Yet we must, we absolutely must, ensure that our native music doesn’t die.

It is heartening, though, to see key institutions devoted to the music’s continuance. There’s the aforementioned jazz museum, and of course there’s the Preservation Hall Foundation, and the New Orleans Jazz and Blues Market, along with numerous clubs that still host the music. And there’s also the ambitious, forthcoming Louisiana Music and Heritage Experience, which will be a grand, museum-plus establishment in the city’s River District.

Through all these outlets, and more, all of us should want to transmit our musical heritage to new generations.

Let’s renew our dedication to this task — both as a birthday present to Satchmo and so my late father won’t be shedding tears of loss in heaven.

Email Quin Hillyer at quin.hillyer@ theadvocate.com

The era of peak socialism in America The emergence of the Democratic Socialists of America and their political victories, from New York City across the fruited plains of Michigan and Wisconsin all the way to Colorado, strikes many as a new thing in U.S. politics.

Previous movements have, in fact, increased, sometimes significantly, Michael the size and scope of Barone government. But it has been their opponents who have accused them of “creeping socialism,” while advocates have avoided the S-word.

Some major policies of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal — Social Security most of all — remain part of the fabric of American life, and elements of the social safety net have been expanded quietly but effectively enough that, as former Sen. Phil Gramm has argued, the government transfer payments have effectively equalized the incomes of those on the bottom 60% of the economic ladder.

But virtually no attention, so far as I can see, has been paid to the period in U.S. history when the government took maximum control of the private-sector economy, including the dissemination of information and communication of opinion.

That moment came more than 100 years ago, before the emergence not only of the internet but also of radio and talking motion pictures. It lasted only briefly, and its implications have mostly been glossed over by historians.

It has been chronicled recently, however, and with the help of artificial intelligence, by the iconoclastic economist Arnold Kling. The centerpiece is the policies adopted by Woodrow Wilson’s administration and an acquiescent Democratic Congress during the 19 months from April 1917 to November 1918, in which the United

States was at war with Germany and its allies in World War I. This creation of an American state that would “seize the railroad, ration the coal, set the price of wheat, conscript four million men, and prosecute the printed word” was the work of progressive reformers convinced that experts could do better than seemingly chaotic markets in running the economy.

Wilson’s War Industries Board, headed by Wall Street speculator Bernard Baruch, set out “to decide, for the whole nation, what got made, from what materials, in what quantities, at what price, and in what order of priority.” His food administration, headed by mining engineer Herbert Hoover, pushed for “meatless Tuesdays and wheatless Wednesday (and) victory gardens,” and doubled the price of wheat so that U.S. farmers could feed allies in Europe.

The government seized the railroads in December 1917, and Treasury Secretary William McAdoo (who was also Wilson’s son-in-law) “set the schedules, the rates, the wages, unified the equipment, and cut the competitive duplication.” It ran the system “imperfectly, expensively, but it moved the troops and the coal,” the essential fuel then for both heavy industry and home heating.

The fuel administration enforced “heatless Mondays,” the National War Labor Board set the eight-hour day and the War Finance Corporation built an emergency fleet. In November 1917, the 35-year-old Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt imposed a strike settlement on Bethlehem Steel’s Fore River Shipyard manager, a 29-year-old bank president named Joseph P. Kennedy.

This socialist America was anything but friendly to civil rights and civil liberties. Wilson imposed racial segregation on the federal workforce and shut down German cultural orga-

nizations. His government prosecuted and jailed the Socialist presidential candidate Eugene Debs for defending men imprisoned for obstructing the military draft.

“Everything,” Kling writes, “so far has described a state expanding — seizing, planning, rationing, prosecuting, persuading. The last movement is the one the buildup does not prepare you for, and it is the heart of the matter: how fast nearly all of it came apart.”

The War Industries Board voted to dissolve itself on New Year’s Day 1919, less than two months after the Armistice; the War Labor Board lapsed; the food and fuel controls ended; Congress (Republican after the November 1918 election) returned the railroads to private owners in the Transportation Act of 1920.

Wilson’s Democratic Party was punished in the presidential election that year. The Democratic ticket of James Cox and Franklin Roosevelt got 34% of the popular vote. The Republican ticket of Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge got 60%, the highest percentage in any election up to that date.

You can find elements of Wilson’s wartime socialism in some selfdescribed experiments within Roosevelt’s New Deal. But when war came, he didn’t choose to nationalize the railroads and industries. Instead, he got William Knudsen to enlist executives in moving toward wartime production.

If you listen to a tape of Roosevelt’s speech to Congress on Dec. 8, 1941, the loudest applause, cheers and rebel yells came after he said, “The American people, in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory.”

Socialism, he evidently thought, was not the way to get there.

Maybe there’s a lesson there for the public today.

Michael Barone is on X, @MichaelBarone.

Nebraska Senate candidate Osborn is the real deal “A Face in the Crowd” is the prophetic 1957 movie about a charismatic drifter “discovered” in an Arkansas jail. The face belongs to “Lonesome” Rhodes, a scoundrel whose folksy act catapults him to national prominence. “Lonesome” (Andy Griffith) abuses women, but the crowd only sees a lovable spinner of down-home yarns.

He deflates after getting caught on an open mic mocking his followers as idiots and fools.

Maine’s Graham Platner was a face in the crowd, sold to Democrats as a salt-of-the-sea oysterFroma who actually came from Harrop man a privileged background. The senatorial candidate survived his sordid history of mistreating women until a plausible accusation of rape finally did him in.

American politics feasts on stories of candidates from humble backgrounds who know what it means to be a working stiff. Some such contenders are uncovered as bums or phonies. But some are the real thing.

They would include Dan Osborn of Nebraska. He is the steamfitter and former union organizer from Omaha running for the Senate as an independent against Republican Sen. Pete Ricketts.

Osborn now has a decent chance of prevailing in November. His is not a new face. He had run in 2024 as an independent who did surprisingly well against Republican incumbent Deb Fischer. Osborn lost by only 7 points in a state that Donald Trump carried by about 21 points. Osborn clearly has appeal.

After the election, Osborn launched a PAC called the Working Class Heroes Fund. Its stated mission is to support candidates like him, regardless of party label. With Ricketts an heir to a family fortune exceeding $1 billion, Osborn has predictably framed the race as between the “billionaire class” and the working class.

One of his challenges, though, is to minimize the extent to which Democrats openly want him to win. Nebraska Democrats are not running their own candidate and urge their contributors to back Osborn.

To prevail in a conservative state like Nebraska, Osborn needs support from disaffected or moderate Republicans. If elected, he vows not to caucus with either party. And he criticizes Democrats for their focus on whitecollar professionals.

Working in his favor is the fact that many Nebraska Republicans are not hard right.

Omaha Rep. Don Bacon, for example, is a Republican moderate known for often criticizing Trump. His is a swing district, nationally known as the “blue dot.” Seeing himself at a disadvantage among MAGA Republicans and Democrats desperate for a win, Bacon decided not to seek another term.

Former Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse is a traditional conservative known for his intellect and courteous manners. Sasse was one of only seven Senate Republicans who voted to convict Trump for inciting the Capitol riot. He is now bravely confronting Stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

Trump’s job approval rating in Nebraska is evenly divided or slightly underwater. And so a working man fixed on pragmatic solutions would seem a serious challenger.

Arizona Democrats have Katie Hobbs running for reelection as governor. The product of a middle-class family, Hobbs put herself through college. While secretary of state in 2020, she earned national renown for defending Arizona’s election results against phony claims of voter fraud.

As governor, she has lured business to her state, which explains her directing ads toward Republicans and independents. Many Arizonans, meanwhile, remain incensed at Trump’s shabby treatment of the late Republican icon John McCain.

McCain’s widow, Cindy McCain, has publicly endorsed Hobbs against her Republican opponent, Andy Biggs. Tied hand and foot to Trump, Biggs tried to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Moderate Democrats do have a good shot at winning this November. Electorates may have grown weary of faces in the crowd, entertainers offering colorful tales and little more.

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Peterson, Herbert Joseph 'Chip'

Herbert J. "Chip" Peterson III, 56, of Corinth, Mississippi, passed away on July 28, 2026, in Houston, Texas, following a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Visitation will be held on Saturday, August 8, 2026, from 12:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. at First Baptist Church, 501 Main Street, Corinth, MS with a memorial service immediately following.

Bro. Nathan VanHorn and Bro. Bobby Capps will officiate the service with Parker Peterson delivering family reflections. He was born on September 13, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana, to Herbert J. Peterson Jr. and Joan Murphy Peterson.

Chip spent his childhood summers around Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, where he loved being on the water. He graduated from De La Salle High School in 1987. He then attended the University of Mississippi and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in 1993. On October 7, 1995,

Chip married Angel Little Peterson. Together they built a life centered on family, raising their daughters, Parker and Pierce, who were among his greatest joys and proudest accomplishments.

He loved spending time with them anywhere, but especially on Pickwick Lake, where he passed along his lifelong love of the water to his daughters, teaching them everything he knew.

In 1999, he co-founded CMS Management alongside his father-in-law and business partner, Jerry Little. Over time, CMS grew into a successful and highly respected affordable housing management and development company, managing more than one hundred affordable housing communities across eight states.

Throughout his career, Chip became one of the most respected leaders in the affordable housing industry. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Council for Affordable Housing, the Housing Association of Mississippi, where he served as President, and the Tennessee Association of Affordable Housing. His knowledge, leadership, and unwavering commitment to affordable housing earned him the respect of colleagues across the country, but it was his genuine concern for others that distinguished him most. Chip served on the Corinth School District Board of Directors, including a term as Board President. He was also a member of First Baptist Church. He enjoyed developing properties, traveling with his family, and spending time hunting and fishing with friends. His outgoing personality, genuine kindness, and ability to see the good in others allowed him to form friendships that lasted a lifetime. He valued relationships and invested deeply in the people who mattered most to him.

His generosity touched countless lives, often in ways known only to those he helped. He never sought recognition for his kindness and found greater satisfaction in serving others than in receiving credit. His quiet compassion, humble spirit, and willingness to help those in need will remain among the most enduring parts of his legacy. Chip is survived by his wife, Angel; his daughters, Parker and Pierce; his mother, Joan

Murphy Peterson; his father-in-law and mother-inlaw, Jerry and Joyce Little; and a wide circle of friends, colleagues, employees, and industry partners who were fortunate to know him. He was preceded in death by his father, Herbert J. Peterson Jr. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to Crosswind Ministry, Lighthouse Foundation, Living Free Ministries, or a charity of the donor's choice.

Talazac, Paul Joseph

Paul Joseph Talazac, Jr., a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather passed away peacefully on July 31, 2026, at the age of 91.

Born on November 17, 1934, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Paul was the beloved son of the late Paul Joseph Talazac, Sr. and Emelda Rita Blanchard Talazac. A lifelong New Orleanian at heart, he carried with him a deep appreciation for his family, his faith, and his country's history throughout his life.

Paul proudly served his nation in both the Naval Reserves and the United States Air Force, where he was assigned to the 10th Reconnaissance Bombardment Squadron under the Strategic Air Command. His military service remained a source of pride throughout his life and helped shape his enduring respect for those who served.

Following his military service, Paul enjoyed a successful career as a salesman, where his friendly personality, honesty, and ability to connect with people earned him the respect of colleagues and customers alike.

A man of many interests, Paul had a lifelong passion for family genealogy and military history. He

devoted countless hours to researching and documenting his family's heritage and the military service of relatives, preserving an invaluable legacy for future generations. He was an avid fisherman who found great joy in the outdoors and never missed an opportunity to share stories of history, family, or his latest adventure.

Paul also loved traveling and cherished every opportunity to spend time with his family.

Paul was a member of the Silver Sneakers, the Forever Young Senior Club at Epiphany of the Lord Catholic Church, the Tasters Supper Club and the National Rifle Association. His friendships through these organizations enriched his life and reflected his outgoing nature and genuine enjoyment of people.

Above all else, Paul was devoted to his family. He is survived by his loving wife of 65 years, Joan Ann Davis Talazac; his daughter, Jon Ann Talazac Lawson (Stanton); his son, Christopher Paul Talazac (Charise); his grandchildren, Jessica Alaine Talazac (Tanden), Jamie Ann Zaruba (Travis), and Michael Christopher Talazac (Rebecca); and his cherished great-grandchildren, Elizabeth Grace Zaruba and Aaron Paul Zaruba.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend a funeral service on Friday, August 7, 2026, at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. New Orleans, LA 70124. Visitation will be held from 9 AM - 11 AM with a service to begin at 11 AM. Interment will follow at Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum.

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Relatives and friends of the family are invited to the Mass of Christian Burial at Leitz-Eagan Funeral Home, Metairie, LA on Friday, August 7, 2026, at 1:00 PM. Visitation will be held from 11:00 AM until 1:00 PM. Interment will follow in Lake Lawn Park Mausoleum.

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We give thanks to God for his life and the love he shared Kenneth is preceded in death by his beloved wife, Joan Farnell Triche; parents: Earl and Velma Gross Triche; brothers: Earl Louis Triche, Jr., Ronald Triche, and Darrell Triche, Sr.; sister: Pamela Triche Clark; sister-in-law: Hilda Triche; and nephew Darrell Triche, Jr.

On Wednesday, July 29, 2026, Kenneth Joseph Triche entered eternal rest at the age of 71. Kenneth is survived by his brothers and sister, Gregory, Bernard Sr. (Shandra), Brian, and Diane Triche; sisters-in-law: Wanda Triche and Blondia Paul; devoted nieces and nephews: Erica Clark, Christie Williams, Danielle, Bernard Jr, Tamala Triche, Ava Jackson, Tiffinie Sterling, and Wallace Young; great-nieces and nephews: Brandon, Bernard III and Bryce Triche, Brianna Sterling, Ahmad and Asia Young, Dominic Jones, and Craig Williams; godchild: Bryce Triche; loving cousins: Linda Jones, Robin Lovely, Ivory Elmore Jr., Derrill and Pokey Chatman; close friends: Rodney Joseph, Sr., Bruce Kelly, Shelita Bias, Margie Lang and a host of loving extended cousins, family, and the devoted staff of Twin Oaks

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Tulane’s fearsome foursome back for fall camp Playmakers return following offseason surgeries, recovery

BY GUERRY SMITH

Contributing writer

Tulane football coach Will Hall did not glean much from Wednesday morning’s spirited preseason practice. In his words, “everybody in the country has a lot of energy on the first day,” and workouts without pads are akin to “playing basketball without a ball.”

He loves the Green Wave’s potential, though.

The two-hour-and-15-minute session at Yulman Stadium marked the return of Jack Tchienchou, the team leader in tackles, along with leading returning rusher Jamauri McClure, projected secondary starter TJ Smith and starting linebacker Dickson Agu. The former three missed spring drills due to offseason surgery, and Agu was held out of contact as he recuperated from a torn patellar tendon he suffered last September.

It is a much different roster with all four playmakers available.

“It feels great to be back, I’m not going to lie,” said Agu, a senior who had a team-high 31 tackles through four games in 2025. “I’ve just been waiting. The coaches were holding me back, saying you don’t win a ring in the spring, so now that we’re finally going, it’s amazing to be out there with the guys.”

Agu heard stories about players never fully recovering from patellar tendon injuries when he started his rehab work, but he is well past those concerns.

“I feel way better,” he said. “The left leg I hurt is testing stronger than I was before the injury. I feel like I’m coming back even

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Saints safety Julian Blackmon runs a drill during training camp on Wendesday at the team’s practice facility in Metairie. Blackmon is looking to make an impact in his return from shoulder injury.

‘LOCKED IN’ Safety Blackmon hopeful to reward Saints’ faith in him

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

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Tulane safety TJ Smith runs a drill during practice on Aug. 22. Smith had offseason shoulder surgery.

Kellen Moore didn’t have to think too hard about his first memory of Julian Blackmon in a New Orleans Saints uniform.

His memory was assisted by where he was standing.

Addressing reporters from the corner of the Saints’ indoor practice facility, Moore was standing maybe 15 yards away from where Blackmon, about a year earlier, made a memorable interception near the end of his first practice with the team.

“I don’t even know if he knew what our coverages were,” Moore said. “He just hopped in and played ball.”

That particular memory is two-sided.

The unfortunate part is that New Orleans did not have much else to go off of when considering Blackmon as a player. He appeared in one game with the Saints last year as the starting safety before tearing the posterior labrum in his right shoulder — his second consecutive season that required surgery on that shoulder.

Kiffin exhibiting experience, confidence LSU hired him for Einstein said the only source of knowlLane Kiffin is no longer the wunderkind of football. edge is experience. LSU is Kiffin’s sixth It’s been 20 years since Al Davis made head coaching job, college and pro. All the then-31-year-old Kiffin head coach of that experience should make LSU fans the then-Oakland Raiders. Now 51, Kiffin glad Kiffin didn’t get the job when it is probably as lean as he was then thanks hired Brian Kelly four years ago, or certo all the hot yoga, though he has a few tainly before that. more lines in the still boyish face.

“Going back over things (with Certainly, above all, he’s a lot Carroll), you remember how little wiser. you knew,” Kiffin said. “I equate it For LSU, that’s a good thing. to parenting. The first time you’re At one point during Wednesa parent compared to if you had six kids now. It’s my sixth job. day’s news conference after LSU’s You’ll probably do a better job.” first preseason practice, Kiffin Scott Kiffin had the Tigers easing into dropped into the conversation that Rabalais practice Wednesday morning. He he had a long talk Tuesday night said the goal is to ramp up gradually, with his mentor and one-time boss reducing the potential of injuries and to be Pete Carroll. It was about as casually fresher in the long run. as one might mention cribbing a recipe Fresher — goal strongly implied — for from a friend. Carroll isn’t credited for being as big an influence on Kiffin taking the College Football Playoff. The way he said Ole Miss was last year when the LSU job as Nick Saban is, though he Kiffin first embarked on this workload deserves a slice of the credit.

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Then again, it is plays like that one Blackmon made in his first training camp practice — plus many more throughout camp last year — that made the Saints comfortable betting on everything Blackmon can be in their defense despite the recent injury history.

“The coaches felt like I did enough, they saw enough to know that if I came back and was able to get a full season, things would be really good and it would benefit the whole team,” Blackmon said. “We like to say, ‘together, we eat.’ I’m excited for my opportunity this year, because I feel like we can do that with me on the field.”

Blackmon looked like the ideal complement to Justin Reid in their brief time together last season. In Reid, the Saints have a safety whose primary mission is to make his opponents remember his physicality. They pair him with Blackmon, who can take away a whole half of the field with his range and who is at his best when the ball is in the air.

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LSU coach Kiffin keeping preseason practices short

BY JON BLAU Staff writer

Lane Kiffin strolled into LSU’s team meeting room at 11:41 a.m. on Wednesday, a full four minutes before he was originally scheduled to speak with the media following his first preseason camp practice as head coach.

There was no need to spend another four minutes in the 92-degree heat of Baton Rouge, whipping the Tigers into shape, when the season will beat on them plenty.

Practice started at around 10 a.m., and it was done in about 90 minutes.

“We’re following kind of a ramp-up program to prevent injuries, one that we kind of started last year (at Ole Miss), just looking at being fresh at the end of season and STAFF PHOTO By PEARL SPURLOCK injuries in the first five days,” Kiffin said.

“There’s not much work out there, but that’s LSU wide receiver Phillip Wright makes really long-term thinking.”

a catch on the first day of preseason practice on Wednesday.

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Preakness will run on a Sunday

BY STEPHEN WHYNO AP sportswriter

A big change is coming to horse racing’s Triple Crown, with the Preakness Stakes moving to three weeks and a day after the Kentucky Derby and being run on Sunday for the first time.

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore and the Maryland Jockey Club announced the decision Wednesday.

No Triple Crown race has ever taken place on a Sunday in the century-plus-old history of the series.

The shift marks a major change on the horse racing calendar, following significant debate and speculation. Except for 2020 during the pandemic, the Preakness has been on the third Saturday in May, two weeks after the Kentucky Derby, since 1950.

Maryland Jockey Club CEO Bill Knauf acknowledged the tradition while also calling this the time to move the Preakness back. The Preakness will be run on May 23.

“It’s been discussed for a very long time (and) we recognized the different trends and training methods recently,” Knauf told The Associated Press. “We entered the discussion maybe even saying, ‘Hey, is two weeks the right amount? I think the week was the right placement.

It still gives an incredible test for a horse and a champion to go through that, even at three weeks.”

The aim is to get more Derby horses to participate in the second leg of the Triple Crown. For decades, it was normalcy but has become increasingly rare in recent years.

Two consecutive and three of the past five Derby winners have bypassed the Preakness to aim for the final jewel, the Belmont Stakes in June. Of the 95 horses who ran in the Derby dating to 2022, just 13 have gone to the Preakness (13.7%) with just one winner in that group.

“We are going to move it back to be able to ensure that the winner of the Kentucky Derby will then be prepared to compete in the second leg of the Triple Crown,” Moore said at a news conference in Annapolis. “By moving the day, you’re then providing additional time and

AP golf writer

LIV Golf CEO Scott O’Neil announced an agreement Wednesday with a lead investor that would allow the rival league to forge ahead without the backing of Saudi funding while making players major equity holders.

“So many of them came because this was a good opportunity for them to make some money, and this second bite at the apple is equity instead of cash,” O’Neil said at a news conference at Trump Bedminster, site of this week’s LIV Golf New York event.

O’Neil was short on details, starting with the identity of the investor and how much money was involved. He said the lead investor

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aj Mahal, second from right, and other horses compete during the 151st Preakness Stakes on May 16 at Laurel Park in Laurel, Md. space for our horses and the people who compete in the Derby to be able to then now compete to be able to be part of that Triple Crown.”

For at least next year, it has the chance to produce the opposite effect, with the Belmont scheduled for June 5, as announced Monday.

Going from a three-week to a 13day gap between the Preakness and Belmont could force owners and trainers to choose between them, given that modern 3-year-old thoroughbreds typically get significantly more time off.

Knauf said it was a decision made for the long-term future of the Preakness.

Hall of Famer Bob Baffert, who with American Pharoah in 2015 and Justify in 2018 is the only trainer to win the Triple Crown since Affirmed in 1978, said in a social media post Monday that if he has the right horse from the Kentucky Derby, he will continue to go to the Preakness annually. That was in response to the unveiling of a new championship series of races at Churchill

Downs in Louisville, Belmont Park on Long Island and Saratoga Race Course in upstate New York and does not — for now — include the Preakness.

Future changes to the schedule are always possible beyond 2027.

The shift does put the Preakness on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend beginning in 2028 and running through ‘31.

“We believe this creates tremendous excitement for our local economy and businesses,” Knauf said.

“Baltimore will become the place to be on Memorial Day weekends, as the spotlight of the racing world descends on Pimlico.”

The change comes with an extension of the media rights agreement with NBC Sports through 2032. The Preakness — as well as the BlackEyed Susan Stakes for fillies on the third Saturday in May — will air on NBC and Peacock for the next six years.

NBC Sports President of Acquisitions of Partnerships Jon Miller said at the news conference that

the network as far back as 10 years ago broached the idea of pushing the Preakness back at least a week, but previous ownership was not interested.

“It’s a success factor for everybody by moving it to the eight days later,” Miller said. “The idea of doing it Saturday-Sunday, quite honestly, was to create a weekend celebration and not just have it be a one-day event in the middle of a Triple Crown series.”

Moving the Preakness coincides with its return to Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore as part of a $500 million reconstruction project, after a one-time stop at Laurel Park.

Next year, there is expected to be limited capacity, with the full, new Pimlico scheduled to be completed by the spring of 2028.

“It’s something business has been a huge champion of,” Greater Baltimore Committee President and CEO Mark Anthony Thomas told the AP. “And so people are very enthusiastic around the state’s investments.”

“has signed a term sheet approved by our board, which will carry and fund LIV going forward.”

“It’s very good news for all of us,” O’Neil said.

O’Neil said LIV is getting “strong interest” from more than a dozen other parties who would be minority investors as the league tries to survive.

“We don’t need them, but we have the opportunity to do it,” he said of other investors.

LIV Golf New York is the penultimate individual event in a season that has been marked by upheaval, particularly the stunning announcement in March that the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia — the financial muscle of LIV since it began — is withdrawing funding after 2026.

One tournament in New Orleans already has been scrapped, and there are serious doubts the season-ending team event in Michigan on Aug. 27-30 will be played, particularly after reports the tournament has not even started preparing for it.

“We have not made any final formal decisions and hope to in the coming weeks,” O’Neil said.

LIV Golf, which launched in 2022, has spent more than $5 billion on the league. That includes some of the nine-figure bonuses to lure top players like Brooks Koepka, Dustin Johnson, Bryson DeChambeau, Jon Rahm and Phil Mickelson.

But it all began to fall apart earlier this year. Koepka was let out of his contract and returned to the PGA Tour, and Patrick Reed chose

not to renew his deal. He is leading the European tour points list and will be eligible to return to the PGA Tour next year.

Lucas Herbert, who has won twice on LIV Golf this year, said Tuesday his management has been in touch with PGA Tour officials.

O’Neil met with team captains on Tuesday, and DeChambeau led a player-only meeting later in the afternoon, though none of the players shared details.

O’Neil said he expected to finalize terms with the lead investor in the next few weeks with the goal of getting it done in September. The plan for what is being referred to as “LIV Golf 2.0” is for 10 team events each year, five of them in the United States and five others around the world.

Rivera leads LSU gym commitments into nationals

BY SCOTT RABALAIS Staff writer

The U.S. Gymnastics Championships begin their four-day run Thursday in Phoenix with the women’s competition taking on a definite future LSU flavor Hezly Rivera, the 2024 U.S. Olympic team gold medalist, returns to defend the women’s all-around title Notebook she won last year at the Smoothie King Center. Rivera is a long-time commitment to the Tigers but plans to defer the start of her college career until after the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

Two other LSU recruits — Tatum Drusch and Reese Esponda — will also compete. Both are also planning to defer their enrollment until the 2028-29 academic year.

Rivera, 18, who currently lives

NEW YORK — Longtime college basketball announcer Dick Vitale says he is making positive strides after announcing in April that he had been diagnosed with cancer for the fifth time.

The 87-year-old Vitale said on social media Wednesday that recent blood tests came back “very good” and that the immunotherapy treatments that he has been receiving are “very effective in wiping out the cancer.”

Vitale was first diagnosed with cancer in 2021, when he revealed that he had melanoma. He also was diagnosed with lymphoma and, after being declared cancer-free, learned in 2023 that he had vocal cord cancer. The following year, Vitale was diagnosed with lymph node cancer, and he underwent surgery to help treat it.

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and trains in Plano, Texas, dominated last year’s championships.

In addition to the all-around crown, she also won on floor and balance beam while sharing first place on uneven bars.

Men’s competition will be Thursday and Saturday, with women’s competition Friday and Sunday.

The women’s competition will be at 9 p.m. Friday on NBC Sports Network and Peacock, with Sunday’s finals at 5 p.m. on NBC.

Injury updates LSU coach Jay Clark said three key Tiger gymnasts underwent offseason surgery but that he expects all three to be ready for the start of fall practice.

Senior Konnor McClain had operations on her shoulder, wrist and ankle, but Clark said she is recovering well. Junior Kaliya Lincoln had work done to her elbow, while se-

nior Kylie Coen also underwent ankle filled, allowing LSU to release its surgery. schedule in early September.

The Tigers have a blockbusterNew skills filled home slate with SEC meets Clark said the Tigers are prepar- against Oklahoma, Florida, Georing for rule changes for 2027 re- gia and Missouri, along with a quiring more difficulty on uneven season opener in January against Arizona State. bars.

LSU is also expected to take part “They took away some connections that had been commonly in the annual Podium Challenge utilized,” he said. “It requires us meet at the Raising Cane’s River to add more skills or do different Center. The Tigers’ road SEC meets include trips to Alabama, releases.

“It takes a while. You may see Arkansas, Auburn and Kentucky, mistakes early in the season with while the SEC Championships the new skills that kids have never begin a two-year stint in Tampa, competed with or haven’t com- Florida.

LSU will not host an NCAA repeted with in a long time. Overall, they’re positive changes.” gional as it did in 2026. Clark plans to again hold LSU’s annual exhibiSchedule talk tion meet in early January.

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GLASGOW, Scotland — Police in Scotland said they had received reports that “several” athletes were unaccounted for following the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.

Ugandan sporting news website NBS Sport said four members of the nation’s boxing squad had reportedly gone missing in Scotland and did not rejoin the rest of the delegation before the team’s scheduled return to Uganda on Tuesday.

The Pakistan Today newspaper also reported a missing boxer from the Pakistan team.

There have been numerous cases of athletes seeking asylum following previous Commonwealth Games, including 2018 on the Gold Coast in Australia and in 2014 when hosted by Glasgow again.

Center Washington transfers to Tennessee following injunction

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Former Vanderbilt basketball player Jalen Washington has transferred to Tennessee, announcing his new school less than a week after a judge in Colorado granted a preliminary injunction giving student-athletes who graduated from high school in 2022 another season of eligibility for the upcoming year.

The decision from U.S. District Court Judge Charlotte N. Sweeney last Friday came hours after I’Ashea Myles of the Davidson County Chancery Court issued a temporary injunction to Washington and 18 other players to retain their eligibility.

Washington was the lead plaintiff in a complaint filed July 6 by the Texas Trial Group seeking the injunction.

Georgia to debut all-white uniforms vs. Western Kentucky

ATHENS, Ga. — Georgia announced Wednesday the Bulldogs will debut a new all-white look as an alternate uniform when they play Western Kentucky at home on Sept. 12.

Georgia’s uniform traditionally emphasizes its primary colors, red and black, with silver trim. The new uniform will feature white helmets, with red and black stripes, white jerseys with black numbers and red trim, and white pants.

Georgia players said they were shocked when two veterans, tight end Lawson Luckie and defensive back KJ Bolden, were selected to unveil the new uniform in a team meeting.

Georgia finished No. 6 in the AP Top 25 after winning its second consecutive SEC championship last season.

Corning Classic returns to LPGA schedule after 18 years

CORNING, N.Y. — The Corning Classic is returning to the LPGA Tour schedule in 2027 after an 18-year absence, going from a popular small-market event in western New York to offering a $5 million purse that ranks among the richest outside the majors.

The tournament had a 31-year run through 2009 until it did not renew because the economy was in a downturn and LPGA leadership at the time was demanding more from its sponsors.

Now it will be known simply as “The Classic” when it gets back its familiar spot on the calendar the last week in May. Corning, New York, is about two hours southeast of Buffalo with a population of about 11,000.

Yani Tseng won the last edition of the tournament in 2009.

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Donald works out for Rams in latest step on comeback path

BY GREG BEACHAM AP sportswriter

LOS ANGELES — Aaron Donald formally worked out for the Los Angeles Rams on Wednesday, presumably taking one of the final steps before the superstar defensive tackle decides whether to end his 21/2year retirement.

The 35-yearold Donald participated in a hosted workout with the Rams, Donald according to the league’s official transaction wire, which records such workouts with free agents before their possible signings to NFL rosters.

Donald has been working out at the Rams’ Woodland Hills training complex and at home for several weeks in his attempt to return to NFL shape. While the Rams have emphasized their willingness to wait indefinitely for Donald to decide, coach Sean McVay has expressed cautious optimism in the past week about the prospect of lining up Donald and Myles Garrett together this season on a remarkable defensive line.

“If there’s an arrow, it’s trend-

ing upwards,” McVay said last Friday.

McVay indicated that the Rams didn’t expect a decision until after they wrap up training camp at Loyola Marymount University this week. The Rams are planning to reconvene in Woodland Hills on Saturday for their first post-camp practice.

Donald retired somewhat abruptly in March 2024 following a decorated 10-year career spent entirely with the Rams.

He won the AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year award three times along with eight All-Pro selections, 10 Pro Bowl selections and a Super Bowl championship ring.

Donald apparently began to entertain the idea of a comeback early last month after the Rams traded for Garrett, one of Donald’s few contemporary peers.

The 30-year-old Garrett won two of the last three Defensive Player of the Year awards in Cleveland, where he received five All-Pro nods and seven Pro Bowl selections, along with setting the NFL’s single-season sacks record last year.

“If he’s here, I’m going to be excited to be his teammate, his partner in crime,” Garrett said last week. “I think we’re going to do great things.”

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Saints safety Julian Blackmon runs a drill during training camp on Wednesday in Metairie.

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locked in — which I’ve got to be,” Blackmon said. “It’s anothContinued from page 1C er prove-it year, it’s another oneyear contract, and it’s another chance for me to get out there Beyond their physical skill- and play a full season.”

Even when he wasn’t on the sets, Reid and Blackmon are similar personalities who think field, Blackmon added value. about the game in a similar way He played through his injury in — something that is evident 2024 because he felt compelled while watching them communi- to be there for a young secondary to lean on. When he couldn’t cate on the field.

But the Saints barely got a be on the field last season, he put glimpse of it. Blackmon made on his “coach’s hat” and helped seven tackles and recorded a then-rookie Jonas Sanker where pass breakup in 66 defensive he could.

Sanker turned in a strong snaps against Arizona in the opener last season. He went to rookie season filling Blackmon’s dinner with his agent after the spot in the lineup, and has since shifted over to the game and felt good “Star” position in about his debut per“I feel like, Brandon Staley’s formance, even if it mentally, I’m very defense — a transicame in a loss.

Then he woke up locked in — which tion Blackmon has ease based the next morning I’ve got to be. It’s helped on his own experiand felt something another prove-it ence playing as a off in his shoulder. safety.

Imaging showed the year, it’s another nickel “He took me in problem, and Blackone-year contract, and taught me the mon’s 2025 season was suddenly over. and it’s another way he watches the way he “It was just hard chance for me to film, approaches game to hear, especially get out there and day, everything,” with the anticipation of being back after play a full season.” Sanker said.

Blackmon said he having been hurt the did not know how year before,” BlackJULIAN BLACKMON, his shoulder would mon said.

Saints safety respond until he His contract added was out of surgery, to the uncertainty.

While Blackmon has been pro- but this recovery went smoother ductive when he’s been on the than the last, and he feels a more field, he had to wait until the start comfortable range of motion in of training camp to land with the joint than he did after his first a team last year because he’d surgery.

Which is good for a lot of reaplayed through his first shoulder injury (suffered in Week 1 of the sons — one of them being that he 2024 season) and put off surgery and Reid have a lot of unused celuntil after the season was over. ebrations in the bank already, and He signed a one-year “prove-it” they’re planning on using them a deal with the Saints shortly after lot this season.

“You don’t know how many Tyrann Mathieu’s sudden retirehandshakes we came up with, ment last July.

Now he was staring at free and we didn’t get to use any of agency again, only this time he them, bro,” Reid said. “We got was coming off back-to-back a whole armory of celebrations injuries. The Saints were there we’re going to be throwing out again, but Blackmon knows he this season.” only has so many chances to show who he is.

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Saints wide receiver Trey Palmer, right, and cornerback Isaac yiadom run through drills on Monday during training camp in Metairie.

Position battles heating up

BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

The longer training camp lasts, the more the New Orleans Saints have started to experiment with their starting lineups.

Coaches across the NFL say there is competition at every position, and New Orleans’ Kellen Moore is no exception. But some spots are less locked down than others.

Through six practices, the team’s position battles have begun to crystallize — with two or three starting spots, in particular, that could be up for grabs. All of them, coincidentally, reside on the defense.

Linebacker Danny Stutsman took a series of first-team reps ahead of Pete Werner for the second straight practice Wednesday, while defensive tackle John Ridgeway took snaps over veteran Nathan Shepherd. Two days earlier, the Saints also rotated in Isaac Yiadom in place of Quincy Riley.

Moore said Monday that the changes were “no big deal,” adding that the Saints would rotate guys in “different capacities” as camp progressed. And that might be true, in some instances. It would be surprising, for instance, if Riley was ultimately relegated to a lesser role after a promising rookie season.

But the swaps do matter to the players involved, particularly for those eager to prove they’re capable of starting in the NFL. “That’s a dream,” Stutsman said when asked how badly he wants to be a starter. “That’s kind of why you wake up. That’s motivation.

At the end of the day, you want to contribute as much as you can for the defense to do as much as I can.

“There’s a respect between everyone in the room, but it’s the kind of job that you want to win. Every

day you’re fighting out there and putting your best thing on tape.”

quarterback (played by assistant defensive line coach Brian Young).

Injuries stacking up

Odds and ends

After putting the pads on earlier this week, the Saints are now dealing with the aftereffects of the ramped-up physicality. Running back Kendre Miller (back), rookie defensive lineman Christen Miller (toe), rookie guard Jeremiah Wright (shoulder) and defensive lineman Keeshawn Silver (calf) were sidelined for Wednesday’s practice, Moore said.

Moore downplayed the significance of Kendre Miller’s latest injury, which naturally drew curiosity given the fourth-year back’s lengthy history. The coach, however, said he did not know the severity of Christen Miller’s toe injury, such as whether it was turf toe.

“I don’t think (so), but we’ll see,” Moore said.

Otherwise, the Saints had their usual attendance, with Bryan Bresee (ACL), Mason Tipton (leg) and Zxavian Harris (foot) still sidelined.

n After having their best practice of camp Monday, the firstteam offense had a quieter outing Wednesday. Tyler Shough went 10-for15, but many of his throws were on the shorter side. His best pass of the day was when he hit Chris Olave on a comeback route about 12 yards for the first down. n The Saints love to run situational drills and Wednesday’s practice concluded with a scenario in which the offense was down 3 with 1:15 left, starting from the opposite 35-yard line. Run by both the 1’s and 2’s, neither quarterback got a satisfying result. Shough’s drive settled for a 51-yard field goal when the signal-caller was jumped by a trio of defenders for the sack. Spencer Rattler‘s unit also had to settle for a field goal after a costly delay of game on thirdand-1 led to an incompletion. n Tanner Brown, competing to unseat kicker Charlie Smyth, went 5-of-6 during the period of practice dedicated to field goals. The UFL product missed from 39 yards, making him 15-of-17 in camp. n Barion Brown is quickly becoming a fan favorite. The sixth-round wide receiver had another noteworthy day with three impressive catches in 1-on-1 drills. And during the Saints’ situational period, Brown hauled in a dime from Rattler, stayed in bounds and took off for 36 yards down the sideline.

After practice, quarterback Zach Wilson raved about the energy the rookie brings.

Play of the day

While this section is usually reserved for action that happens in team drills, there’s an exception that is going to be made for Vernon Broughton’s first rush during one-onone pass rush drills.

Lined up against guard Cesar Ruiz, the second-year defensive lineman drove the 316-pounder back roughly 10 yards in a manner of less than two seconds. The rush even elicited an “oh my God!’ from a fan sitting in the stands.

Broughton’s second rep against Ruiz could have also qualified here, too. On the second time around, the former third-rounder used a spin move to shed Ruiz off him and climb Email Matthew Paras at matt. up the pocket to get to the stand-in paras@theadvocate.com

Falcons outside LB Walker to miss 2026 season with torn ACL

BY MAURA CAREY AP sportswriter

Atlanta Falcons outside linebacker Jalon Walker will miss the 2026 season with a torn ACL, the organization announced Wednesday.

Walker was carted off the field at training camp on Tuesday after going down following a passrush play. The injury was quickly feared to be an ACL tear, as the second-year pass rusher was unable to put any weight on his left leg.

The Falcons selected Walker with the No. 15 pick in the 2025 draft after an outstanding career at neighboring University of Georgia. He immediately bolstered the Falcons’ pass rush, recording 36 tackles, 5.5 sacks, two forced fumbles and a fumble recovery in a strong rookie campaign.

Walker’s efforts helped bring the Falcons from the bottom of the sack leaderboard in 2024 to the second-most sacks (57) in the NFL this past season, behind only the Denver Broncos (68).

The future of the Falcons’ pass rush this season is murky, as Walker’s counterpart, James Pearce Jr., could be awaiting a suspension following an offseason arrest. Police referred to the Feb. 7 incident as a domestic dispute with WNBA player and ex-girlfriend Rickea Jackson.

Walker expressed his excitement about the upcoming season

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Atlanta Falcons linebacker Jalon Walker runs during a game against the Saints on Jan. 4 in Atlanta. Walker is out for the season with a torn ACL. after the Falcons’ first day of training camp. He said he stayed local during the offseason, splitting his training between the Falcons practice facility and the University of Georgia.

“I’ve been itching at the bit just to get back in the building and get on the grass,” Walker said. “Enjoyed

the time off, but it’s time to start to roll and get the ball moving.”

The Falcons will now turn to a group of edge rushers consisting of Samson Ebukam, Azeez Ojulari, Cameron Thomas, Bralen Trice and Keshawn Banks. DeAngelo Malone was placed on the reserve/ PUP list on Tuesday.

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WR Diggs signing with Washington Commanders

BY STEPHEN WHYNO AP sportswriter

Stefon Diggs is signing with the Washington Commanders, a big addition at wide receiver to give quarterback Jayden Daniels and the offense a proven commodity who showed last season he can still be productive more than a decade into his NFL career.

The Commanders agreed with Diggs on a contract for this season, according to a person familiar with the agreement. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Wednesday because the deal had not been announced.

Diggs, a native of nearby Gaithersburg, Maryland, joins Washington for a 12th year in the league and reportedly can make up to $12 million. He spent last season with New England, making 99 catches for 1,123 yards and five touchdowns in 21 games, including the Patriots’ playoff run to the Super Bowl.

New England released him in March, and the 32-year-old went unsigned in free agency while facing strangulation and other criminal charges in connection with a dispute with his former private chef. Diggs was found not guilty in May, and the NFL said in June that he wouldn’t face any discipline after a review de-

termined there was not enough evidence to punish him under its personal conduct policy.

The Commanders had a hole at the position, and they are banking on Diggs filling it. The inhouse options of Treylon Burks and Luke McCaffrey would have put Daniels in a tough spot and likely made No. 1 receiver McLaurin deal Diggs with plenty of double teams this coming season.

Signing Diggs could rule out going after Brandon Aiyuk, a friend of Daniels’ who is still under contract with San Francisco. Aiyuk said on social media in June that he would join Washington immediately if the 49ers released him.

Aiyuk remains on the reserve/ left squad list out West, while Diggs is now in an NFC East that features receivers CeeDee Lamb and George Pickens with Dallas, DeVonta Smith with Philadelphia and Malik Nabers with the New York Giants.

Diggs previously played for Minnesota, Buffalo and Houston during a career that included him being an All-Pro selection in 2020, when he led all players with 127 catches and 1,535 yards.

Since making his debut in 2015

after the Vikings took him in the fifth round of the draft that year, Diggs has 1,025 catches for 12,523 yards and 79 TDs in the regular season and playoffs combined.

That included the “Minneapolis Miracle” catch for Minnesota in the divisional round in January 2018. With 10 seconds left, Diggs leapt and evaded a tackle to score a 61-yard touchdown and beat New Orleans 29-24.

Off the field, it has been a more tumultuous ride, including getting fined more than $200,000 by the Vikings during his final season with them in 2019 for unexcused practice absences. Diggs was traded to Buffalo in March 2020.

Diggs led the Bills in receiving four seasons in a row, but sideline outbursts and cryptic social media messages were also part of his tenure before being traded to Houston in April 2024. A torn ACL ended his time with the Texans, and skipping a voluntary offseason workout got him off to a bumpy start with the Patriots before he turned out to be a reliable option for QB Drake Maye.

Cut in part because he was owed $20.6 million, Diggs now is teaming up with Daniels, who was taken one spot ahead of Maye when they went No. 2 and 3 in the 2024 draft.

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Injuries will happen, sometimes in the most mundane of ways.

Ask the Saints about losing star defensive tackle Bryan Bresee to a season-ending non-contact ACL tear the first day of training camp. But Kiffin is out to tip the odds in his favor.

“We’ve got to control,” he said, “what we can control.”

Kiffin isn’t naïve about the LSU job, maybe his biggest pressure cooker since the Raiders. Expectations are arguably higher even than they were when he was head coach at USC. In SoCal, they demand excellence from

Beck makes his NFL debut while Pickett starts for his 5th team in four years

BY ROB MAADDI

AP pro football writer

who missed most of spring practice, and a completely revamped receiving corps. But there are enough “offseason training activities,” or OTAs, in college football now that Kiffin doesn’t see the need to overdo it.

“Looking at last year,” Kiffin said, referring to a Rebels squad that made a run to the College Football Playoff semis, “we were as healthy as any team going into the playoffs, if not healthier than anybody. I think a big part of that was because of our change of practicing less and less.”

Kiffin began really focusing on practice schedules when he arrived at Ole Miss, wondering how he could gain any possible edge over “big schools” like Georgia and Alabama that “traditionally has better players.”

“Monday, the traditional (Nick) Saban, Kirby (Smart) thing, they start practicing, which is fine; it’s won a lot of championships,” Kiffin explained at a Georgia Football Coaches Association event.

“That same practice those guys do, we just walk through it. I’m conscious of legs and body and tear, and I think it pays off at the end of the year.”

Kiffin favors an Olympic-style ramp, full pads on Tuesday, halfpads on Wednesday, then a 200-

play walk-through on Thursday.

That last part came from former Oregon coach Chip Kelly, who just seemed to have a fresher, faster team in the fourth quarter.

“Our last physical practice is Wednesday, done at noon,” Kiffin told his fellow coaches. “Alabama, Georgia … their last is Thursday at 6 p.m.”

Friday, however, isn’t a day Kiffin wants his team resting. He prefers a “Fast Friday” practice where his players “rev up” with a short, but full-speed practice, typically centered around special teams work.

He isn’t at Ole Miss anymore, but Kiffin’s formula doesn’t appear to have changed much at LSU. There are games to be won, but he wants his team prepared for a 12-team playoff that continues well into January.

No need to overdo it in August.

“There’s always outside circumstances and things that happen in games and injuries that have a lot to do with your season’s winloss total,” Kiffin said. “We’ve got to control what we can control, which is working really hard and getting the players used to playing together.”

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their Trojans, sure. But if USC doesn’t win, their fans can go to the beach. Or the mountains. Or the beach and the mountains in the same day.

In Louisiana, LSU football is a 24/7/365 all-consuming passion.

“Expectations are high,” Kiffin said. “I knew that when I came here.”

He is clearly confident he can deal with them because he has his systems well-established. Ole Miss fans won’t want to hear this, but Kiffin’s six years in Oxford were a touring company-like rehearsal for the Broadway theater that is being on the LSU stage.

Why is he vilified so by the Ole Miss folks? Sure, he left them on the eve of the CFP, perhaps undercutting a trip to the national championship game.

But Kiffin is also vilified there for the same reason Saban was reviled at LSU when he returned to college football at Alabama three years after leaving Baton Rouge in 2004. They’re worried, rightly so, that Kiffin has perfected his craft. Or at the very least polished it to a high gloss.

Kiffin is confident in himself, confident in his plan, confident in his staff. He spoke about how he was recently able to deal with some transfer portal issue instead of having to shepherd the offensive staff meeting because he knew offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., who followed Kiffin from Ole Miss, had things well in hand. That he will do things the Kiffin way.

He doesn’t feel he has to drop in and monitor the defensive

staff room because Blake Baker, who stayed as LSU’s defensive coordinator instead of leaving for any of several mid-major head coaching jobs, is running the show.

It’s very early days. The promise of LSU, a team of “really good pieces” as Kiffin called it, is counterbalanced by questions.

Questions about quarterback Sam Leavitt’s health (Kiffin said the Arizona State transfer looked the best he’s looked, though reporters only saw him during two practice periods) and the enormous job of turning this 112-piece band of players into a symphony orchestra are reflected in the Tigers’ No. 13 ranking in the preseason coaches’ poll.

The promise is there. The Kiffin factor, shall we say.

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Cardinals-Panthers will open NFL’s exhibition season

Welcome to the NFL preseason.

If you want to see starters play, wait until next month when the games count in the standings. Or watch joint practices.

The exhibition schedule kicks off Thursday night with Carson Beck and the Arizona Cardinals facing Kenny Pickett and the Carolina Panthers in the Hall of Fame Game in Canton, Ohio.

The preseason is an opportunity for rookies, backups and players fighting for roster spots to get snaps and showcase what they can do. Most first-round picks won’t play much. Cardinals running back Jerimiyah Love (No. 3 pick) and Panthers tackle Monroe Freeling (No. 19) are sitting out the opener.

Beck, a third-round pick from Miami, will be under center for new Cardinals coach Mike LaFleur.

Veteran Jacoby Brissett is Arizona’s starter and Gardner Minshew is the backup.

“I had no clue I was going to start,” Beck said. “Obviously, I thought I was going to play but I really didn’t have any expectations going into any of this. Obviously, our schedule is absolutely crazy right now, practice, meetings. But I’m looking forward to it.”

Beck, who led the Hurricanes to a national championship matchup against Indiana, said he won’t have any butterflies before the game.

“I think the last time I was nervous was maybe when I was 8 years old for our city championship in Pop Warner,” Beck said.

“It’s a game at the end of the day.

It’s an opportunity to go out there, have fun with your teammates and play the game that I love. It’s what I love doing.”

Pickett, a first-round pick by the Steelers in 2022 who led Pittsburgh to a 14-10 record in two seasons, has bounced around the league.

He spent the 2024 season with the Eagles before Philadelphia traded him to Cleveland last year.

The Browns sent him to the Raiders during training camp and he started two games for Las Vegas.

The Panthers signed Pickett to back up Bryce Young.

“Just want to go out there and operate a high level,” Pickett said.

“All the hard work that we’re putting in practice you want to see come to life on game day and that’s everyone just doing their job and executing.”

Carolina won the NFC South last

LSU

The opener against Clemson is just one month away, along with a season of immense expectations, but Kiffin didn’t want the Tigers going too hard, too fast.

There were certainly intense periods in the 10 minutes of practice media members were allowed to observe. Would-be tacklers chased ball carriers in unison in a pursuit drill as assistant coaches barked. Defensive tackles jarred a sled with the palms of their hands and tossed it aside as coaches barked some more.

But it was a quick in and out on Day 1, for the media and the Tigers alike.

“We have a lot of really good pieces. We got a chance to be really good. But everybody wants to know ‘How many wins is that?’ ” Kiffin said. “That’s all outcome, and there’s so many variables in that. We’ve got a lot of work to do with these pieces, get them to play together well, get them to play as a team together.”

There’s urgency but also a pace to that work.

LSU had a morning practice Wednesday but will return in the evening, around 6:35 p.m., on Thursday. Then a lighter walkthrough Friday.

Another morning practice follows Saturday, then no practice at all on Sunday.

Alternating morning and evening practices will follow on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday with a walk-through between them on Wednesday.

Things will get harder toward the middle of the month when consecutive practices are followed by scrimmages on Aug. 15 and Aug. 22. But this first week will fly by, because Kiffin wants to avoid soft-tissue issues at all costs.

“Those happen, and they linger, and then we fall behind,” Kiffin said. “It’s usually receivers, DBs — and then we can’t practice the way we want to, and the quarterbacks’ timings can be off.”

LSU needs to sync things up between a new quarterback, Arizona State transfer Sam Leavitt,

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Arizona Cardinals quarterback Carson Beck throws during practice at the team’s training camp on Sunday in Glendale, Ariz.

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LSU wide receiver Tyree Holloway runs with the ball during the first day of preseason practice on Wednesday at the team’s practice facility.

season with an 8-9 record. But the Panthers led the 12-win Rams in the final minute of their wild-card playoff game before NFL MVP Matthew Stafford threw a 19-yard touchdown pass to Colby Parkinson with 38 seconds left for a 34-31 victory.

The Panthers have been getting after each other in practice, so coach Dave Canales is looking forward to seeing his team hit an opponent.

“Tempers are flaring a little bit and I just have to remind them none of that helps us. It throws us out of the rhythm of practice,” Canales said.

Practice is everything for coaches in training camp.

Fewer teams play their starters in preseason games so they have to get them ready for the regular season in practice. Joint practices — teams facing opponents ahead of their exhibition game — are a growing trend in the NFL. A total of 28 teams have scheduled joint practices which begin next week.

The Rams have joint practices with the Cowboys and Saints coming up.

“That’ll be basically their preseason,” Los Angeles coach Sean McVay said. “We’ll get an opportunity to see a lot of the younger guys play in the preseason and those are great opportunities to play real football. When we put the pads on, it’s close, but you’re still not playing tackle football. And there are a couple spots. There are always important things that you want to be able to see unfold and be able to establish some depth if, God forbid, we have the inevitable injuries that do occur. But we’ll take it a day at a time and there’s so many things.”

The Detroit Lions are one of the four teams that won’t have any joint practices so some of their starters could see action in the preseason games.

“We have got to get these guys ready for a season,” Lions coach Dan Campbell said. “There’s a chance we play some of these guys in the preseason without the joint practices, and so I’m going to do what I think is best to prepare these guys for 17 weeks, but also understand that we have got to be smart about it and we can’t break them in training camp, and so the approach will stay the same, it will, and you have got to get ready, and you can’t let fear of injury scare you away from what you believe in.”

Several key players already have been hurt in practices over the past week. The Panthers lost second-year edge rusher Nic Scourton to a torn ACL on the first day of camp. They also saw wide receiver Chris Brazzell II go down with a torn LCL.

If you haven’t found Kiffin as brash as you thought you would when he arrived at LSU, you’re not alone. While he’s been tweaking fewer noses at LSU than in past years, he still found room for a bold prediction on this first day of camp for his first season: “I know as good as we are now, we’re just beginning,” he said.

“Next year, we should have a better roster. We had to sign a (high school) class in a week, then sign a portal class with half our coaches going back and forth (to Ole Miss). We should be in a better position.”

That’s the voice of experience talking.

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Leavitt ‘full participant’ in Day 1 of LSU practice

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

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John Curtis defensive back Prentice Mackyeon pursues Brother Martin’s Brodie DuMontier on Oct. 17 at Tad Gormley Stadium. Mackyeon is committed to Arkansas State.

Poised to shine

John Curtis secondary led by three college-bound seniors

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

John Curtis freshman Prentice Mackyeon sat in the front row as assistant coaches Tommy Fabacher and Jay Pittman spoke.

Seated beside him were teammates Craig Connor and Jewellz Tapp.

The three defensive backs had not yet logged any meaningful varsity snaps, and the coaches said they liked what they saw in practices and junior varsity games.

They said the trio could become difference makers at a talent-rich school that has celebrated 28 football state championships.

“You guys are up next,” Mackyeon remembered the coaches telling them.

Three years later, the coaches’ prediction has come true. The longtime teammates are now collegecommitted seniors with state-title aspirations.

“That talk kind of set us up,” said Mackyeon, an Arkansas State commitment whose six interceptions led Curtis last season. “We have the chance to do big things.

That was always the goal.

Just hearing that from our coaches. It felt really good.”

Fabacher, an LSU safety in the 1990s, has coached the secondary at his high school alma mater for the better part of three decades.

“The biggest thing was they weren’t scared to go make a tackle,” he said.

“They didn’t talk a lot. They just worked.”

That work began to pay off the following season,

TULANE

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He is part of a loaded linebacker room. Senior Chris Rodgers had 65 tackles with 61/ 2 stops for loss in 10 games after replacing him. Senior Makai Williams added 40 tackles while starting three times as a key rotational player. Transfer Dalton Hughes matched Williams’ 40 tackles at South Alabama last year. Fourth-year junior Jean Claude Joseph made strides in the spring.

“We probably have one of the most experienced groups that’s been at Tulane for a long time,” Agu said.

“There’s a lot of guys that have played here and know how to win championships.

Having that experience is crucial to running it back this year.”

Tchienchou is back after fracturing a fibula in the third quarter of Tulane’s College Football Playoff loss at Ole Miss. He tried to get it wrapped up and return to the game before realizing the seriousness of the injury, which sidelined him until June.

Spring practice was no fun.

“It was hard,” he said.

“We’re bringing in new guys, and I wanted to show them the ropes and be the

“We have the chance to do big things. That was always the goal. Just hearing that from our coaches. It felt really good.”

PRENTICE MACKyEON, John Curtis defensive back

committed free safety with three interceptions last season, including one in the semifinal. “We go hang out.

We watch film at Prentice’s house. That’s a good connection we made and chemistry that we built over the years.”

Tapp, a TCU-committed cornerback and key contributor on the state titlewinning basketball team, picked off five passes, the second-most on the team.

The veteran secondary isn’t the only reason Curtis says another title run is possible. Quarterback London Padgett returns, as does wide receiver Paul Dufrene, while junior playmaker Jarvis Stevenson is back after missing last season with a knee injury.

Younger starters in the secondary included Jaden Turner, a sophomore cornerback with two interceptions last season, and junior strong safety Jaden Keelen, the top returning tackler with 58 in 2025.

Turner is part of a younger group that has coaches believing another standout secondary is on the way, with Fabacher listing Dewin Arline and Kendall Joseph as up-and-coming sophomores.

Three years ago, Mackyeon, Connor and Tapp were freshmen sitting quietly in the front row hearing they were “up next.”

Now they’re the veterans setting the standard for the next wave of Curtis defensive backs.

when Mackyeon’s gameending interception sealed a win against Brother Martin.

It was an early sign of the secondary that would become one of Curtis’ biggest strengths.

In 2025, Curtis rode a ballhawking secondary that produced 16 of the team’s 17 interceptions to the Division I select semifinals before falling to St. Augustine in the final seconds. Mackyeon earned first-team all-district honors in the Catholic League.

“It was a tough loss,” Mackyeon said. “We looked at (the film) hundreds of times to figure out what we could have done better, coverages we could have changed.”

After years of playing together, all three can line up at multiple positions, a versatility they sharpened during summer seven-on-seven workouts.

“We’re so interchangeable,” said Mackyeon, primarily a strong safety who can also play free safety and cornerback.

Their bond goes beyond the gridiron.

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guy they lean on. A lot of times they didn’t even know I play football. I was on a scooter for half the semester and then wore a sling for the rest.”

Wednesday was his first chance to lead on the field.

“The standard at Tulane is the defense sets the tone,” he said. “We don’t plan on letting that drop at all. We are all hungry. We have points to prove, and this year is going to be a good show.”

Smith, a Division II transfer (East Central) who earned third-team All-American Conference honors as a return specialist last year, lined up next to Tchienchou as a first-team safety on Wednesday. He made 24 tackles as a reserve nickelback last year.

“He’s put on a lot of muscle and a lot of weight,” Hall said. “He looks like a grown man now instead of just an athlete. I’m really proud of him for how he attacked the offseason (following shoulder surgery). He had a plan to improve his body. We’ll move him around. He’s got a chance to be a really good player.”

McClure already is there after taking over as Tulane’s feature back in the final five games as a sophomore and demonstrating 1,000yard potential. He, too, approached rehab from offseason double-shoulder surgery with gusto.

“He’s made himself into a great player,” Hall said.

“He’s really changed his body composition. We’ve built this (program) on guys getting into year 3 and becoming superstars.”

Running back is the deepest position on the roster, with McClure, Maurice Turner, Jaylin Lucas, Johnnie Daniels and DH Dugar (who was held out Wednesday with an ankle injury) possessing big-play potential.

McClure should be first in line.

“I feel great,” he said. “I’m ready to play right now. I don’t know if it’s just the playbook is easier or I’ve just matured, but I have a better mindset of how to learn things. Whatever it is, it’s working. I feel like we (the running backs) are the best position for this team.

We are going to be the leaders.”

Lagniappe Quarterback Zeon ChrissGremillion took the first series in the opening 11-on11 drill, followed by Dagan Bruno, Kadin Semonza and Trace Johnson. … Lucas ripped off a sizable gain on the opening play. … Friday will be the first day in full pads. … Tchienchou is on the preseason watch list for the Bronko Nagurski Award, which goes to the nation’s best defensive player.

Quarterback Sam Leavitt was a full participant at LSU’s opening day of preseason practices on Wednesday, the first day of fall camp for coach Lane Kiffin in Baton Rouge.

But Leavitt’s activity and performance on Wednesday are a bit of a mystery, even if Kiffin said after practice that the Arizona State transfer was “moving around really well” after missing most of the spring recovering from a foot injury.

“If you just went out today and saw him, I don’t think that you’d think there was an injury,” Kiffin said.

“He’s all the way back from that.”

Media members were only allowed to watch two periods of Wednesday’s practice, about 10 minutes total. Leavitt worked on read-option handoffs with his running backs and threw to his receivers against no defenders during the media-viewing period.

“I thought Sam had a great day today,” Kiffin said. “He really looked the best he’s looked. And I was excited to see that he was even more comfortable with the receivers.”

Leavitt threw for over 4,500 yards and scored 44 total touchdowns in a season and a half with the Sun Devils. He led Arizona State to a Big 12 championship and the College Football Playoff in 2024 before a foot injury — the same injury that caused Leavitt to

STAFF PHOTO By PEARL SPURLOCK

LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt makes a throw to a receiver during Wednesday’s practice at the LSU practice facility. miss much of this spring — derailed his 2025 campaign.

Leavitt was available in a limited capacity during the spring but sat out after doctors removed pins from his foot that were there from the initial surgery. Kiffin then said over the summer that Leavitt would be a full participant to start fall camp in August.

“Sam’s doing great,” Kiffin told the Baton Rouge Rotary Club last week. “He’s coming back from a foot injury. He’s (at) full strength.

Now, it’s just about getting the timing down with everybody.”

In his place, Elon transfer Landen Clark and Southern Cal transfer Husan Longstreet split reps at firstteam quarterback during the spring.

Neither quarterback arrived at LSU with much high-level playing experience, resulting in an up-

and-down spring for both players. But both Longstreet and Clark improved by the end of it and showcased their impressive arm strength and mobility more effectively.

Longstreet was a five-star recruit in the 2025 class and threw for 103 yards on just 15 pass attempts in his only season with the Trojans.

Clark scored 29 total touchdowns and threw for 2,321 yards in 11 starts at Elon last season as a first-year starter and redshirt freshman.

Longstreet and Clark were present at Wednesday’s practice, taking reps after Leavitt.

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New coach Morris aims to get Okla. St. back on track

BY TIM WILLERT Associated Press

STILLWATER, Okla, — New Oklahoma State football coach Eric Morris was busy bringing people together long before fall camp started Wednesday.

Morris, hired in November Morris to replace Cowboys legend Mike Gundy, has added 88 new players since then, including 21 players he coached at North Texas State.

“Our guys have meshed,” Morris told The Associated Press outside the team’s training facility. “We spent a lot of time together this offseason because I thought building relationships was such an important thing.”

Oklahoma State returns just 25 players from last

season’s team, which finished 1-11 and hasn’t won a Big 12 Conference game since Nov. 25, 2023.

“We just have so many new people that don’t know each each other and I think that was something that we’ve done a good job of,” Morris said. “Now we’ve got to bring ’em all together, teach them how to play football and get them to execute on Saturdays.”

Execution is something that eluded Oklahoma State in 2024 and 2025, when Gundy was fired after the team’s third game. The team’s star quarterback in the late 1980s, Gundy posted winning records every season from 2006 to 2023 and had a career record of 170-90.

Morris, who has a reputation for helping quarterbacks — including North Texas transfer Drew Mestemaker — was hired to revive the program Gundy brought to prominence.

Mestemaker threw for 4,379 yards and 34 touchdowns last season as a redshirt freshman.

“I just want to see these guys compete,” Morris said. “Luckily, I’ve been in the majority of the Big 12 stadiums. I’ve coached in them, so it’s not like a thing where I’m anxious to see the crowd or whatever. But I do think it will be a ton of fun for me and a great personal experience to walkout into Boone Pickens (Stadium) for the first time.”

The NCAA does not keep records for most newcomers on a roster, but Colorado documented 87 on its 2023 roster, Deion Sanders’ first as coach.

“We’ve broken a lot of records in our time,” Morris said. “Time will tell if this is one I’m proud of or not proud of.

“I think I’ll be able to answer that question after you look at our wins and losses this year.”

Standout DE Daley makes surprise return to Indiana

BY MICHAEL MAROT AP sportswriter

Indiana defensive end Stephen Daley thought his college career ended in December when he suffered a season-ending knee injury during the Big Ten championship celebration.

Now, he’s back.

Four days after a U.S. District Court judge in Colorado ruled high school players from the 2022 graduating class could play their fifth college season, Daley returned to the practice field for the reigning national champions. He’ll be limited in early workouts, but coach Curt Cignetti remains hopeful it won’t take one of the

nation’s most disruptive defensive linemen in 2025 long to get back to full speed.

“He looks pretty good.

He’s on a modified program where he’ll dress out for practice, participate in some individual right now, no 11-on-11, and then get with the strength and conditioning staff, who will bring him along until they feel confident he’s ready to go,” Cignetti said Wednesday after the team’s first summer practice. “I don’t think it’s going to be real, real long because he was training to be ready for next year in the (NFL), so it looks like he’s in pretty good shape.”

Daley’s return solidifies what was already expected

to be a deep, experienced and talented group of defensive linemen.

After transferring to Indiana, Daley became a key cog in the Hoosiers’ historic title run. He recorded 51/ 2 sacks, forced two fumbles, knocked down a pass and led the Big Ten with 19 tackles for loss while earning honorable mention all-conference honors. He played three seasons at Kent State, starting all 24 games in his final two seasons with the Golden Flashes.

But the injury following the 13-10 victory over then No. 1 Ohio State forced Daley to sit out all three playoff games as Indiana became the first team since the 1890s to finish with a 16-0 record.

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Mets to pay $8.1M to Pirates in Weaver trade

BY RONALD BLUM AP baseball writer

The New York Mets will pay more than $8.1 million to Pittsburgh as part of this week’s trade that sent pitcher Luke Weaver to the Pirates for minor league infielder Sammy Stafura, covering most of the nearly $13.4 million remaining on the right-hander’s contract.

Pittsburgh will in effect pay Weaver just $229,412 this year, a prorated share of the $780,000 minimum salary. Weaver had $2,352,941 remaining of his $8 million salary for 2026 at the time of Monday’s trade and the Mets will pay the Pirates four installments of $530,882 on Aug. 24 and 28, and Sept. 11 and 25, according to trade details obtained by The Associated Press.

New York will pay the Pirates $6 million next year, offsetting most of his $11 million salary for 2027.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By yUKI IWAMURA The Mets owe $500,000 each on New york Mets pitcher Luke Weaver throws out Los Angeles Dodgers April 2, 6 and 30; May 14 and 28; baserunner Teoscar Hernández at first base during the eighth inning on June 11 and 25; July 9 and 23; Aug. July 26 in New york.

6 and 20; and Sept. 3.

In all, the Mets will give the Pirates $8,123,529. Weaver’s $22 Hoffman from Blue Jays to Twins former All-Star reliever.

Doval had $1,859,358 remaining million, two-year contract had $13,352,941 left at the time of the Toronto will pay Minnesota $3.75 from his $6.1 million salary, leavtrade. million to offset part of the reliev- ing the Pirates in effect responsier’s $11 million salary in 2027, the ble for $750,000. The Yankees will Taillon from Cubs to Blue Jays final season of a $33 million, three- make payments of $221,872 each on Aug. 14 and 29, Sept. 11 and 25, Chicago agreed to pay $4,956,791 year contract.

Minnesota will receive $625,000 and Oct. 9. to Toronto as part of Sunday’s trade that sent the right-hander to the on the first of each month from Blue Jays for a player to be named. April through August. The Twins Rogers from Orioles to Red Sox Taillon had $5,390,374 left from took on $3,235,294 remaining of his As part of Monday’s trade that his $18 million salary in the final $11 million salary this year as part sent catcher Adley Rutschman season of a $68 million, four-year of Monday’s trade that sent right- from Baltimore to Boston, the Oricontract, leaving Toronto in effect hander John Klein, left-hander oles included catcher Jake Rogers responsible for $433,583. He had Dasan Hill and infielder Dameu- and will pay the Red Sox $667,647 been designated for assignment. ry Pena to Toronto. The Blue Jays on Oct. 1.

Chicago will pay Toronto also receive $250,000 in internaRogers was owed $897,059 of $1,239,197 each on Aug. 14 and tional signing bonus allotment. his $3.05 million salary, leaving 28, and Sept. 11, and $1,239,200 him to cost the Red Sox in effect Varsho from Blue Jays to Astros on Sept. 25. a prorated share of the minimum.

Baltimore received catcher CarToronto is paying Houston Ray from Giants to Padres $1,609,626 as part of Monday’s deal los Narváez, right-handers AnSan Francisco will pay San Di- in which the Astros dealt right- thony Eyanson and Kyson Witherego $4,176,471, leaving the Padres hander Spencer Arrighetti to the spoon, outfielder Enddy Azocar, and a player to be named or cash. in effect responsible for $3,176,470 Blue Jays.

Varsho was owed $3,161,765 In other trades involving internaof the remaining $7,352,941 of the left-hander’s $25 million salary. from his $10.75 million salary. The tional signing bonus pool allocation: The 2021 AL Cy Young Award win- Blue Jays will make payments of — The Los Angeles Dodgers ner is in the final season of a $115 $804,813 each on Aug. 21 and Sept. sent $250,000 in allocation and 27. outfielder Jack Suwinski to Tampa million, five-year contract.

Bay for catcher Hunter Feduccia Right-hander Miguel Mendez and right-hander Jacob Kmatz. and shortstop Joniel Hernandez Doval from Yankees to Pirates — Pittsburgh acquired rightwent to the Giants as part of MonNew York is paying Pittsburgh day’s trade. San Francisco owes $1,109,358 as part of Saturday’s hander Ron Marinaccio from San $1,044,118 installments on Aug. 14 trade that sent catcher Omar Al- Diego for $500,000 in allocation, and 31, and Sept. 14, and $1,044,117 fonzo and minor league outfielder then designated the pitcher for on Sept. 30.

Luis Cruz to the Yankees for the assignment.

SCOREBOARD Hole-in-one

Las Vegas Golden State Dallas Los Angeles Phoenix Portland Seattle

Jay Jackson Course: Beaver Creek Club selection: 8-iron Hole, yardage: No. 8, n/a Witnesses: Guy France, Sal Arnone

Tuesday’s games

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Wednesday’s games

NFL Thursday

9 9 12 17 20 19 27

Golden State 92, Toronto 81

Odds FAVORITE Carolina

21 21 19 11 12 11 6

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 1½ 1½ (35½) at ARIZONA

College Football Saturday, Aug. 29

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at TCU 6½ 7 (48½) N. Carolina at USC 35½ 38½ (59½) San Jose St. at VIRGINIA 5½ 5½ (54½) NC State at ND STATE 8½ 7½ (48½) Jax. State at E. MICH. 7½ 8½ (53½) Sac. State at STANFORD 3½ 4½ (50½) Hawaii at FLOR. ST. 30½ 30½ (52½) N. Mexico St. at UNLV 3½ 5½ (59½) Memphis

Thursday, Sept. 3

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at RUTGERS 30½ 30½ (54½) UMass at KENN. ST. 21½ 23½ (53½) W. Georgia at BUFFALO 27½ 26½ (48½) Albany at DELAW. 30½ 28½ (56½) Merrimack at W. FOREST 22½ 22½ (49½) Akron at UCF 38½ 39½ (57½) Beth-Cook. at GEO. TECH 7½ 7 (50½) Colorado at MISSOURI 50½ 52½ (60½) UAPB at MINN. 43½ 45½ (51½) E. Illinois at UTAH 35½ 34½ (57½) Idaho at ILLINOIS 27½ 27½ (56½) UAB

MLB Thursday

American League FAVORITE LINE at BALTIMORE -168 at SEATTLE -158 at BOSTON -185 at KAN. CITY -120 National League FAVORITE LINE at MILWAUKEE -139 at PHILA. -334 at ATLANTA -157 San Diego -111 Interleague FAVORITE LINE at CINCINNATI -182 N.Y Mets -110 Toronto -120

UNDERDOG LA Angels Detroit Chi. White Sox Minnesota

LINE +142 +139 +153 +101

UNDERDOG Pittsburgh Washington Miami at ARIZONA

LINE +117 +270 +130 -107

UNDERDOG Athletics at CLEVELAND at CHi. CUBS

LINE +151 -109 +102

Pro basketball WNBA glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Chicago Toronto Connecticut

W 19 19 19 17 11 10 7

L 11 11 13 12 19 20 23

Pct .633 .633 .594 .586 .367 .333 .233

GB — — 1 1½ 8 9 12

Minnesota

W 25

L 6

Pct .806

GB —

WESTERN CONFERENCE

New York 92, Seattle 86 Atlanta 96, Phoenix 82 Washington 96, Dallas 92 Los Angeles at Chicago, n

Thursday’s games

Las Vegas at Indiana, 6 p.m.

Los Angeles at Minnesota, 8 p.m.

Toronto at Portland, 9 p.m.

Pro football NFL preseason glance Thursday’s games

Carolina vs Arizona at Canton, Ohio, 7 p.m.

Thursday, Aug. 13

Detroit at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.

Green Bay at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Indianapolis at New England, 6:30 p.m.

Arizona at Las Vegas, 7 p.m.

L.A. Chargers at Houston, 7 p.m.

Tennessee at San Francisco, 8 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 14

Denver at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 15

Carolina at Buffalo, noon Cleveland at Chicago, noon Minnesota at N.Y. Giants, noon Jacksonville at New Orleans, 3 p.m.

L.A. Rams at Kansas City, 3 p.m.

Philadelphia at Baltimore, 6 p.m.

Dallas at Seattle, 7 p.m.

College football USA TODAY PRESEASON POLL Rank Rec. Pts. Lrk. Votes 1. Ohio State (12-2) 1,741 6 38 2. Oregon (13-2) 1,637 4 6 3. Georgia (12-2) 1,591 5 7 4. Texas (10-3) 1,544 13 2 5. Notre Dame (10-2) 1,524 11 5 6. Indiana (16-0) 1,522 1 14 7. Miami (Fla.) (13-3) 1,409 2 0 8. Texas A&M (11-2) 1,174 8 0 9. Oklahoma (10-3) 1,104 10 0 10. Ole Miss (13-2) 1,096 3 0 11. Alabama (11-4) 1,050 9 0 12. Texas Tech (12-2) 1,034 7 0 13. LSU (7-6) 951 NR 0 14. SUSC (9-4) 838 21 0 15. BYU (12-2) 781 12 0 (9-4) 719 22 0 16. Michigan 17. Penn State (7-6) 463 NR 0 (8-5) 428 NR 0 18. Tennessee 19. Washington (9-4) 406 NR 0 20. SMU (9-4) 378 NR 0 (11-2) 313 14 0 21. Utah 22. Iowa (9-4) 291 17 0 23. Clemson (7-6) 235 NR 0 24. Houston (10-3) 194 19 0 25. Missouri (8-5) 158 NR 0 Dropped Out: No. 15 Vanderbilt (10-3); No. 16 Virginia (11-3); No. 18 Tulane (11-3); No. 20 James Madison (12-2); No. 23 Navy (11-2);

No. 24 Georgia Tech (9-4); No. 25 Illinois (9-4).

Others Receiving Votes: Louisville (9-4) 153; Florida (4-8) 147; TCU (9-4) 63; Illinois (9-4) 62; Arizona (9-4) 50; South Carolina (4-8) 50; Virginia (11-3) 40; Vanderbilt (10-3) 37; Auburn (5-7) 29; Georgia Tech (9-4) 26; Boise State (9-5) 24; Oklahoma State (1-11) 22; UNLV (10-4) 17; Florida State (5-7) 13; North Carolina State (8-5) 13; Nebraska (7-6) 12; Virginia Tech (3-9) 12; Memphis (8-5) 9; Arizona State (8-5) 8; Duke (9-5) 6; James Madison (12-2) 6; New Mexico (9-4) 4; Pittsburgh (8-5) 4; Navy (11-2) 3; Western Michigan (10-4) 3; San Diego State (9-4) 2; California (7-6) 1; Hawaii (9-4) 1; Jacksonville State (9-5) 1; Kansas State (6-6) 1.

Pro soccer MLS Glance Western Conference Vancouver Los Angeles FC San Jose Houston Real Salt Lake FC Dallas St Louis City Portland Seattle Minnesota United Colorado LA Galaxy San Diego FC Austin FC Sporting Kansas City

W 10 10 10 9 8 7 7 7 7 6 7 5 5 4 4

Eastern Conference

L 3 5 5 6 6 5 6 8 7 6 10 7 7 9 12

T Pts GF GA 4 34 38 17 4 34 35 19 3 33 37 24 2 29 25 24 3 27 29 25 6 27 32 25 5 26 24 24 3 24 33 33 3 24 20 22 6 24 20 25 1 22 27 25 7 22 24 29 6 21 32 29 5 17 22 36 2 14 18 46

W L T Pts GF GA Nashville 12 2 4 40 35 14 Inter Miami CF 11 2 5 38 45 32 New England 9 5 3 30 28 21 Chicago 9 6 2 29 32 23 New York City FC 7 6 5 26 31 24 Cincinnati 7 6 5 26 45 44 Charlotte FC 7 7 4 25 29 27 New York 7 7 4 25 29 39 D.C. United 5 5 8 23 26 29 Orlando City 6 10 2 20 30 47 Columbus 5 8 5 20 26 28 Toronto FC 3 7 8 17 24 32 Philadelphia 4 10 4 16 25 33 CF Montréal 4 10 4 16 24 35 Atlanta 3 12 3 12 19 33 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday’s games

Toronto FC 1, New York City FC 1, tie

Saturday’s games

Nashville 2, D.C. United 2, tie New England 2, CF Montréal 2, tie New York 3, Orlando City 2 Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2 Los Angeles FC 1, Vancouver 1, tie Columbus 2, Miami 2, tie Chicago 2, Charlotte FC 1 Houston 2, Sporting Kansas City 0 San Diego FC 1, Minnesota 1, tie Real Salt Lake 1, St Louis City 1, tie Colorado 1, Austin FC 0 Cincinnati 4, San Jose 2 FC Dallas 0, LA Galaxy 0, tie Portland 2, Seattle 1

Saturday’s games

Houston at New England, 3:30 p.m.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American League glance East Division Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto

W 68 64 62 56 54

Central Division Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

W 59 57 56 55 48

West Division Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles

W 59 57 55 45 43

National League glance

L 46 50 51 58 61

Pct .596 .561 .549 .491 .470

GB — 4 5½ 12 14½

L 54 58 59 58 67

Pct .522 .496 .487 .487 .417

GB — 3 4 4 12

L 57 58 59 69 71

Pct .509 .496 .482 .395 .377

GB — 1½ 3 13 15

Tuesday’s games

Baltimore 3, L.A. Angels 1 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 2 Cincinnati 5, Athletics 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, St. Louis 0 Boston 14, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 8, Minnesota 2 Houston 7, Toronto 2 Texas 5, San Francisco 4 Tampa Bay 9, Colorado 7, 11 innings Detroit 8, Seattle 0

Wednesday’s games

Toronto 5, Houston 4, 10 innings Texas 6, San Francisco 0 Tampa Bay 4, Colorado 0 Baltimore 5, L.A. Angels 2 Cincinnati 3, Athletics 2 Boston 4, Chicago White Sox 0 Kansas City 2, Minnesota 1 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 5, 10 innings St. Louis at N.Y. Yankees, n Detroit at Seattle, n

Thursday’s games

L.A. Angels (TBD) at Baltimore (Young 8-2), 11:35 a.m.

Athletics (Barnett 1-1) at Cincinnati (TBD), 11:40 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (McLean 7-7) at Cleveland (Griffin 12-3), 12:10 p.m.

Toronto (Cease 7-5) at Chicago Cubs (Peterson 6-7), 1:20 p.m.

Detroit (Valdez 6-7) at Seattle (Miller 4-5), 3:10 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Castillo 3-9) at Boston (Suarez 4-3), 6:10 p.m.

Minnesota (Ober 7-3) at Kansas City (Wacha 5-8), 6:40 p.m.

East Division Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

W 69 61 58 55 49

L 45 53 57 60 66

Pct .605 .535 .504 .478 .426

GB — 8 11½ 14½ 20½

W 70 66 57 56 55

L 43 49 58 58 58

Pct .619 .574 .496 .491 .487

GB — 5 14 14½ 15

W 69 60 59 48 45

L 46 54 55 67 70

Pct .600 .526 .518 .417 .391

GB — 8½ 9½ 21 24

Central Division Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati

West Division Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

Tuesday’s games

Philadelphia 5, Washington 0 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 2 Cincinnati 5, Athletics 4 N.Y. Yankees 2, St. Louis 0 Atlanta 4, Miami 2 Milwaukee 4, Pittsburgh 2 Chicago Cubs 5, L.A. Dodgers 1 Texas 5, San Francisco 4 Tampa Bay 9, Colorado 7, 11 innings San Diego 9, Arizona 4

Wednesday’s games

Texas 6, San Francisco 0 Chicago Cubs 7, L.A. Dodgers 6 Tampa Bay 4, Colorado 0 Cincinnati 3, Athletics 2 Atlanta 4, Miami 1 N.Y. Mets 6, Cleveland 5, 10 innings Washington at Philadelphia, n St. Louis at N.Y. Yankees, n Pittsburgh at Milwaukee, n San Diego at Arizona, n

Thursday’s games

Athletics (Barnett 1-1) at Cincinnati (TBD), 11:40 a.m.

N.Y. Mets (McLean 7-7) at Cleveland (Griffin 12-3), 12:10 p.m.

Pittsburgh (Ashcraft 11-4) at Milwaukee (May 5-7), 1:10 p.m.

Toronto (Cease 7-5) at Chicago Cubs (Peterson 6-7), 1:20 p.m.

Washington (TBD) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 14-4), 5:05 p.m.

Miami (Junk 5-6) at Atlanta (Pérez 7-6), 6:15 p.m.

San Diego (Buehler 6-5) at Arizona (Drake 0-0), 8:40 p.m.

BOX SCORES Texas 6, San Francisco 0

Toronto 5, Houston 4

San Francisco Texas ab r h bi ab r h bi Eldridge 1b 5 0 1 0 Langford lf 3 1 1 0 Lee rf 5 0 1 0 Duran 3b 3 0 0 0 Adames ss 3 0 0 0 Nimmo rf 3 2 2 2 Devers dh 4 0 2 0 Burger 1b 3 2 1 0 Basabe 2b-3b 4 0 1 0 Foscue dh 2 1 1 2 Kennedy 3b 3 0 0 0 Peders. ph-dh 2 0 1 0 Furm. ph-2b 0 0 0 0 Díaz c 4 0 1 1 McCray cf 3 0 0 0 Lopez ss 4 0 2 1 Leonard lf 3 0 1 0 Cauley 2b 4 0 0 0 Gilbert ph 1 0 0 0 Carter cf 3 0 0 0 Cavanaugh c 4 0 2 0 Totals 35 0 8 0 Totals 31 6 9 6 San Francisco 000 000 000 — 0 Texas 004 010 01x — 6 DP—San Francisco 1, Texas 0. LOB—San Francisco 11, Texas 6. 2B—Leonard (1), Cavanaugh (1), Langford (14), Díaz (9).

3B—Foscue (1). HR—Nimmo (12).

IP H R ER BB SO San Francisco Whisenhunt L,2-3 31⁄3 5 4 4 3 4 Seymour 22⁄3 2 1 1 1 2 Foley 1 0 0 0 0 1 Beck 1 2 1 1 1 1 Texas Bradford 41⁄3 5 0 0 2 5 Alexander W,2-2 12⁄3 0 0 0 0 3 Ahlstrom 1 1 0 0 0 1 Silseth 1 1 0 0 1 1 C.Winn 1 1 0 0 0 0 ABS Challenge—Bradford (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Umpires—Home, Louie Krupa; First, Adam Beck; Second, Dan Iassogna; Third, Adrian Johnson.

T—2:34. A—26,098 (40,000).

Toronto

Houston ab r h bi ab r h bi Lukes rf 5 0 1 0 Peña ss 5 1 0 0 Okamoto 1b 5 1 1 1 Alvarez dh 4 0 1 1 Sánchez lf 3 1 1 2 Altuve 2b 5 1 2 1 Springer dh 3 0 0 0 Varsho cf 4 1 1 0 Valenzuela c 3 0 0 0 Trammell rf-lf4 0 0 0 Kirk ph-c 1 0 0 0 Walker 1b 4 1 2 1 J.Smith 3b 2 0 0 0 Wade lf 4 0 3 1 Urías ph-2b 2 1 0 0 C.Smith pr-rf 0 0 0 0 Cleme. 2b-3b 4 1 1 2 Diaz c 4 0 0 0 Giménez ss 3 0 0 0 Allen 3b 3 0 1 0 Straw cf 4 1 1 0 Paredes ph-3b1 0 0 0 Totals 35 5 5 5 Totals 38 4 10 4 Toronto 000 003 000 2 — 5 Houston 003 000 000 1 — 4 E—Allen (5). DP—Toronto 0, Houston 1.

LOB—Toronto 4, Houston 7. 2B—Straw (11), Walker (24), Wade (4). HR—Sánchez (8), Clement (9), Altuve (13). SB—Varsho (10), C.Smith (10).

IP H R ER BB SO Toronto Taillon 4 6 3 3 2 4 Miles 2 2 0 0 0 2 Fluharty 1 0 0 0 0 2 Rogers 1 1 0 0 0 0 Varland W,4-4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Lee S,1-1 1 1 1 0 0 0 Houston Brown 6 3 3 3 2 8 Okert 1 0 0 0 0 1 Abreu 1 0 0 0 0 2 Hader 1 0 0 0 0 1 Sousa L,0-1 1 2 2 1 0 1 HBP—Okert (Giménez).

ABS Challenge—Brown (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Valenzuela (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Rogers (Ball-Confirmed); Diaz (Strike-Overturned to Ball).

Ejected—Espada.

Umpires—Home, Mike Muchlinski; First, Doug Eddings; Second, Emil Jimenez; Third, Gabe Morales.

T—2:55. A—27,751 (41,000).

Cincinnati 3, Athletics 2

Chicago Cubs 7, L.A. Dodgers 6

Athletics

Los Angeles Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Ohtani dh 5 2 3 3 Crw-Arm. dh 5 2 3 4 Pages cf 4 0 1 0 Suzuki rf 5 1 1 0 Call cf 0 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 5 0 1 1 Rortvedt c 0 0 0 0 Kelly c 5 0 3 0 Freeman 1b 3 0 1 0 Triantos pr 0 0 0 0 E.Hernán. 1b 2 0 0 0 Amaya c 0 0 0 0 Edman lf-cf 5 0 1 0 Busch 1b 5 1 2 0 Tucker rf 5 1 1 0 Hoerner 2b 4 1 3 1 Betts ss 5 1 4 0 Happ lf 4 0 0 0 Muncy 3b 4 1 1 3 Swanson ss 4 1 1 1 Rojas 2b 4 1 2 0 Taylor cf 3 1 1 0 Feduccia c 3 0 0 0 T.Hrnán. ph-lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 41 6 14 6 Totals 40 7 15 7 Los Angeles 100 000 050 — 6 Chicago 120 300 10x — 7 E—Muncy (10). LOB—Los Angeles 9, Chicago 10. 2B—Swanson (15), CrowArmstrong (22), Busch (19), Suzuki (20), Hoerner (24). HR—Ohtani 2 (26), Muncy (22), Crow-Armstrong 2 (26).

IP H R ER BB SO Los Angeles Lauer L,6-6 4 11 6 6 0 1 Henriquez 1 1 0 0 0 3 1 2 1 1 0 2 Hurt 1 ⁄3 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 J.Hernández 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 0 Phillips 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Dreyer Chicago Imanaga W,8-9 5 8 1 1 0 6 Ferguson 2 1 0 0 0 3 1 ⁄3 4 4 4 0 0 Thielbar 1 1 1 0 2 Zeferjahn H,11 2⁄3 Webb S,6-10 1 0 0 0 0 0 HBP—Henriquez (Taylor), Zeferjahn (Call).

WP—Henriquez, Zeferjahn.

T—3:04. A—38,691 (41,363).

Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h bi Butler rf 4 1 1 1 De La Cr. ss 3 0 1 0 Wilson dh 4 0 0 0 Stewart 1b 4 1 1 0 Soderstrom lf2 1 1 0 Myers cf 4 0 1 0 Heim c 4 0 1 1 Suárez dh 3 0 0 0 McNeil 1b-2b 4 0 0 0 Marte rf 2 1 1 1 White 3b-1b 4 0 1 0 Bleday lf 3 0 0 0 Walton 2b 2 0 0 0 Trevino c 3 0 1 1 Muncy ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Hayes 3b 3 0 0 0 Bolte cf 3 0 0 0 McLain 2b 3 1 1 1 Williams ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 31 2 4 2 Totals 28 3 6 3 Athletics 100 001 000 — 2 Cincinnati 010 011 00x — 3 LOB—Athletics 4, Cincinnati 3. 2B—Heim (13). HR—Butler (7), McLain (9). SB— Marte (6), De La Cruz (21). SF—Marte (1).

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Umpires—Home, Will Little; First, Ryan Additon; Second, Jonathan Parra; Third, Lance Barksdale.

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THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Aug. 6 1908 — John Lush threw a six-inning, rain-shortened no-hitter for the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0. It was Lush’s second no-hitter against the Dodgers.

1933 — Pinky Higgins of the Philadelphia Athletics hit for the cycle and drove in five runs in a 12-8 win over the Washington Senators.

1952 — Satchel Paige, 46, became the oldest pitcher in major league history to pitch a complete game or a shutout when he beat Virgil Trucks and the Detroit Tigers 1-0 in 12 innings.

1972 — Hank Aaron hit his 660th and 661st career home runs to break Babe Ruth’s record for most home runs with one club.

The 661st came in the 10th inning to give the Atlanta Braves a 4-3 triumph over the Cincinnati Reds.

1981 — As a result of a seven-week strike, major league baseball players approved a split-season format. The New York Yankees, Oakland A’s, Philadelphia Phillies and Los Angeles Dodgers were declared the first-half champions and automatically qualified for the divisional series.

1985 — The Major League Baseball Players’ Association went on strike.

1986 — The Texas Rangers beat the

Baltimore Orioles 13-11 in a record-setting battle of grand slams. Texas’ Toby Harrah hit a grand slam in the second inning before Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer connected for grand slams in Baltimore’s nine-run fourth.

1988 — Rich Gossage registered his 300th career save, and the Chicago Cubs beat the Philadelphia Phillies 7-4.

1999 — Tony Gwynn went 4-for-5, singling in his first at-bat to become the 22nd major leaguer to reach 3,000 hits, as the San Diego Padres beat the Montreal Expos 12-10.

2001 — Boston’s Scott Hatteberg performed the ultimate baseball opposite.

Hatteberg hit a grand slam one at-bat after lining into a triple play as the Red Sox defeated the Texas Rangers 10-7. Hatteberg lined into a triple play in the fourth inning and in the sixth he hit his second career grand slam to move Boston ahead for good.

2002 — At 32, Robb Nen became the youngest player to record 300 saves, as San Francisco beat the Chicago Cubs 11-10.

Nen became the 16th member of the 300save club.

2007 — St. Louis tied a major league record with 10 straight hits in a 10-run fifth inning, with pitcher Braden Looper and Aaron Miles getting two apiece in a 10-5 victory over San Diego.

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Glazed swordfish, salad pair for summer perfection

BY LINDA GASSENHEIMER Tribune News Service (TNS)

Here’s a simple yet flavorful three-ingredient main course that goes from oven to table in just 10 minutes. Simply stir together the sauce, spread it over a swordfish fillet and bake until perfectly cooked.

Paired with a crunchy, refreshing summer vegetable salad, this quick and satisfying meal is ideal for a warm evening. Fresh, light and full of flavor, it’s a complete dinner that comes together in minutes.

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Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya TNS PHOTO By LINDA GASSENHEIMER

Glazed Swordfish with Crunchy Zucchini Salad

Glazed Swordfish Yields 2 servings. Recipe is by Linda Gassenheimer.

6 tablespoons Dijon mustard 4 tablespoons orange marmalade ¾ pound swordfish Salt and freshly ground black pepper 2 tablespoons orange zest (optional garnish)

Trio of recipes stir up memories while sharing a comforting meal with family

1. Preheat oven to 350 F. 2. Add mustard and marmalade to a small bowl and stir to completely combine the ingredients. Set aside.

3. Line a baking tray with foil or parchment paper and add the swordfish. Sprinkle both sides of the fish with salt and pepper to taste. Spread the mustard sauce on top of the swordfish.

4. When the oven reaches 350 F, place the baking tray on the middle shelf and bake 10 minutes. A meat thermometer should read 123 F. 5. Divide in half and place on two dinner plates. Sprinkle the orange zest on top.

NUTRITION INFO PER SERVING: 343 calories (22 percent from fat), 8.4 g fat (2.0 g saturated, 3.6 g monounsaturated), 66 mg cholesterol, 35.5 g protein, 30.2 g carbohydrates, 2.2 g fiber, 666 mg sodium.

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hen my oldest child went to college, he asked me to create a book of our most loved family recipes.

He said he wanted to have a way to cook all the dishes that we made the most during his childhood years. I hate to admit this, but my son graduated last spring and all of our well-worn recipe cards still sit on my desk waiting to be put in a logical format.

There is comfort that comes from the meals we Liz Faul share around our family tables. It is very nostalgic to think back on cooking and baking with my children as they grew up in our home. A compilation of favorite family meals is a wonderful gift because it provides the aromas, tastes and memories from home even when that home is only a distant memory.

This month, I picked three more recipes from “Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Pica-

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Chicken and Sausage Jambalaya Recipe is from “Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” edited by Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker. about 5 minutes.

2. Add the sausage to the pot and cook it with the chicken, stirring it for 2 minutes, or until it is browned.

3. Add the onions and peppers and cook, stirring until soft and golden; this takes about 5-6 minutes.

4. Add the water, tomato paste, parsley and green onions. Stir and bring to a boil.

5. Add the rice, gently stir in the rice, cover the pot and reduce the heat to medium-low.

Cook until the rice is tender and has absorbed most of the 1. Heat the oil in a heavy liquid, 15- 20 minutes. Do not pot, such as a Dutch oven. stir. Fluff the mixture with a Season the pieces generously fork before serving. with Cajun seasoning. Add 6. Optional: Garnish the the seasoned chicken pieces jambalaya with sliced green to the pot, and cook over onions, parsley and a dash of medium heat until browned, hot sauce.

2 tablespoons vegetable oil 1 pound of boneless skinless chicken breast (cut into bite-size pieces) 2 teaspoons Cajun seasoning ½ pound smoked sausage (sliced into ¼ inch-thick pieces) 1½ cups chopped yellow onions 1 cup chopped bell peppers 3 cups water 1 tablespoon tomato paste 2 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 2 tablespoons chopped green onion 1½ cups long grain rice

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Maybe as you walked out of the first Ice Water round, it hit you.

Maybe it was a door that opened — or one that didn’t. Maybe it wasn’t until the next year when you were on the other side of the process. It could have been a moment standing in a hallway, waiting, that you can still describe in detail years later.

We’re inviting readers who went through sorority recruitment — recently or decades ago — to tell us about it: What’s the specific moment from Rush week you still think about? And what did Rush teach you that you didn’t expect? Send your response to jan.risher@theadvocate.com by 2 p.m. Monday.

Magic of tomato shines in Roman, Southern dishes Pomodori con il Riso, Recipe 2D

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I also love to combine chopped tomatoes with garlic, olive oil, a drizzle of balsamic vinegar and thin ribbons of basil so I can If you’re like me, you can eat spoon it onto pan-fried bread vine-ripened tomatoes all day, every day, and never get tired of for bruschetta. Add a generous them. Delicious out of hand, the dusting of grated Parmesan and I could easily devour a whole juicy culinary fruit that cooks pan in minutes. treat as a vegetable adds flavor The fact tomatoes are incredto everything from salads and sauces to egg and pasta dishes. ibly nutritious only adds to their One of my favorite hot weath- magic. They’re naturally low in calories because they’re made er eats in July and August is a up of about 95% water, and boast humble tomato sandwich made with soft white bread, lots of ä See TOMATO, page 2D mayo and a sprinkle of sea salt.

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By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Aug. 6, the 218th day of 2026. There are 147 days left in the year.

Today in history: On Aug. 6, 1945, during World War II, the U.S. B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths.

Also on this date: In 1806, Emperor Francis II abdicated, marking the end of the Holy Roman Empire after nearly a thousand years.

In 1942, Queen Wilhemina of the Netherlands became the first reigning queen to

address a joint session of Congress, telling lawmakers that despite Nazi occupation, her people’s motto remained, “No surrender.”

In 1962, Jamaica gained independence from the United Kingdom after 300 years of British rule.

In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting.

In 1991, the World Wide Web made its public debut as a means of accessing webpages over the internet.

In 2025, a U.S. Army sergeant shot and wounded five fellow soldiers at Fort Stewart in Georgia before being tackled by other

troops. Quornelius Radford was later sentenced to life in military prison with the possibility of parole after being convicted of attempted murder at a courtmartial.

Today’s birthdays: Actor-director Peter Bonerz is 88. Actor Dorian Harewood is 76.

Actor Leland Orser is 66.

Actor Michelle Yeoh is 65.

Basketball Hall of Famer David Robinson is 61. Movie writer-director M. Night Shyamalan is 56. Singer Geri Halliwell Horner is 54.

Actor Vera Farmiga is 53.

Actor Soleil Moon Frye is 50. Actor Leslie Odom Jr. is 45. Actor Ty Simpkins is 25.

Singer Nessa Barrett is 24.

Crunchy Zucchini Salad Yields 2 servings. Recipe is by Linda Gassenheimer.

1 cup zucchini cubes (about ½ inch each) 1 cup cherry tomatoes ½ cup cucumber cubes (about ½ inch each) ½ cup yellow bell pepper cubes (about

½ inch each) 1 cup canned, rinsed and drained reduced-salt cannellini beans 3 tablespoons reduced-fat vinaigrette dressing 2 cups washed, ready-to-eat arugula

1. Add the zucchini, cherry tomatoes, cucumber, yellow bell pepper cubes and cannellini beans to a small bowl.

2. Add the vinaigrette dressing and toss well.

3. Divide the arugula in half and place on two dinner plates. Spoon the zucchini mixture over the arugula.

NUTRITION INFO PER SERVING: 2.5 calories (11 percent from fat), 2.5 g fat (0.4 g saturated, 0.6 g monounsaturated), 1 mg cholesterol, 12.1 g protein, 36.3 g carbohydrates, 9.0 g fiber, 25 mg sodium.

‘Thanks for inviting me to your awful, messy home’ and, until this woman, it Dear Miss Manners: My husband met a very nice, like- had been complimented by anyone who visited. I pride minded neighbor during a myself on keeping it clean, walk, and we invited him tidy and inviting and his wife over at all times. I was for dinner. Almost at a loss on how to from the very berespond and not ginning of the evestoop to her level of ning, his wife was offense. very critical and Why in the world rude and insisted on Judith would she or anycommenting on our Martin one with a modicum home.

MISS She claimed we of manners and MANNERS had too much clutrespect do this?

What, if anything, ter, too many galcould I have said or done lery walls, that our home was a mess, and on and on. to curb her rudeness, if not outright stop it?

At first, I thought she was Gentle reader: The situation referring to another space or someone else’s home be- you describe is not lifecause I couldn’t believe my threatening, but it is bad, and it is therefore helpful ears. It was not until she to prioritize your response directed her comments to me in a way I could no lon- — to use an etiquette equivalent of the medical ger ignore that her unbeconcept of triage. lievable rudeness hit me.

Just as hospitals consider She would not drop it. it good form to stop the After the fifth comment bleeding before you ruin about clutter, I questioned the furniture, etiquette her constant negative prioritizes putting a stop to comments on our beloved space by repeating the last insults before you spoil the evening. one back to her, sarcastiSarcasm — as you discally thanking her for her gratuitous input. covered — was not the way Let me say that our space to do this. is a mix of airy and cozy, Miss Manners would

have first attempted to change the subject, without initially registering any insult received — which perhaps you did.

If that failed, she would have eventually ceased to respond, knowing that the silence would eventually register with the woman’s husband, and with the woman herself shortly after. If the rest of the evening could be made bearable, you could still serve the meal.

If there really was no stopping the comments, then eventually you might have had to pointedly stand up and thank them for coming. Either way, there is no reason to ever invite them back.

As to why your guest felt free to insult you: Do you really care?

Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners. com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

Pomodori con il Riso Serves 6. You need to turn on the oven for this dish from a forthcoming book, “Rome: Classic Recipes from the Eternal City” by Lucia Tersigni and Audrey Cosson (Michael Beazley, $33). But the upside is the finished dish doesn’t have to be eaten hot; it’s just as tasty cold, making it the perfect dish for a quick summer lunch.

3. Wash and dry tomatoes.

Slice off the top one-third of the tomato and set aside the caps. Scoop out the flesh inside with a spoon, making sure not to split the skins.

4. Put the pulp in a sieve to drain off the juice, then place the pulp (without juice) in a food processor with 2 tablespoons oil.

(I picked out most of the seeds.)

5. Add garlic, basil and 1. Preheat oven to 350 F. oregano and season liber2. Line a baking dish with ally with salt and pepper. parchment that has been Blend until smooth, then dampened and any excess remove to a bowl. water shaken off. (I put the 6. Add rice to the tomato tomatoes directly into the puree and mix well. Refrigpan.) erate for around 1 hour to 12 ripe tomatoes 4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil, divided 1 garlic clove, roughly chopped Leaves from 1 small bunch of basil Pinch of dried oregano or 1 fresh oregano sprig 12 tablespoons long-grain or basmati rice Salt and freshly ground black pepper Grated Parmesan cheese, for garnish PHOTO By LIZ FAUL

Eggplant Fritters and Tartar Sauce

Eggplant Fritters

Tartar Sauce

Makes about 6 servings. Recipe is from the cookbook “Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” edited by Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker.

Recipe is from the cookbook “Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” edited by Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker.

1 pound eggplant, peeled and cubed 1 teaspoon baking powder ½ cup all-purpose flour ½ teaspoon sugar 1 ⁄8 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Pinch of cayenne pepper 1 teaspoon salt Vegetable oil for frying OPTIONAL ADDITION: Sliced ripe summer tomato to serve with the fritters.

1. For the sauce: In a bowl, add the mayonnaise, sweet pickle relish, chopped onion, lemon juice, hot sauce and Creole seasoning and mix together until combined into a smooth sauce. Taste for seasoning and adjust as needed.

2. For the fritters: In a heavy pan, over medium heat, add the cubed eggplant and just enough wa-

½ cup of mayonnaise 1 tablespoon sweet pickle relish ½ teaspoon finely chopped onion 1 teaspoon fresh lemon juice 2 dashes hot sauce Creole seasoning to taste

ter (about 1⁄8 cup) to keep the eggplant from sticking to the bottom. Stir the eggplant, and cook until it is tender. Once the eggplant is soft, remove it from the heat, mash well with a fork and let it cool.

3. In a large mixing bowl, combine the eggplant, baking powder, flour, sugar, nutmeg, cayenne pepper and

salt. Mix well.

4. Heat about 4 inches of oil in a deep, heavy pot or electric fryer to about 360 F. Using a tablespoon measuring spoon, drop the eggplant mixture into the hot oil and fry until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes per batch.

Drain on paper towels. You can season the fritters with more salt if you wish.

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Rosemary Cookies Makes 12-15 cookies. Recipe is by Mary Youngblood Cooper, from “Cooking Up A Storm: Recipes Lost and Found from the Times-Picayune of New Orleans,” edited by Marcelle Bienvenu and Judy Walker. ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, at room temperature 1 cup all-purpose unbleached flour ½ cup confectioners sugar 2 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary leaves Squeeze of fresh lemon juice (optional) About 2 teaspoons granulated sugar

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Continued from page 1D yune of New Orleans” that I could serve together as one meal with a range of tastes and textures. First, I made eggplant fritters that had crispy edges and tender centers. Also, because I had a perfectly ripe farmers market tomato on my kitchen counter, I sliced it thin and served it under the eggplant fritters and topped each fritter with a dollop of tartar sauce.

Next, I made the chicken and sausage jambalaya.

This one-dish Louisiana classic is a favorite meal

allow the rice to soak up the flavor. (Don’t skip this step or the rice will be hard and separate from the pulp.)

7. Once the rice filling is ready, stuff the tomatoes with the mixture. Replace the tops of the tomatoes and arrange in the pan.

8. Drizzle the tomatoes with the remaining 2 tablespoons of olive oil, then cover with foil.

9. Bake in preheated oven for 20 minutes, remove the foil and bake for another 30 minutes, or until tomatoes are tender and jammy.

10. Allow to cool slightly and serve with grated Parmesan cheese on top.

1. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 2. In a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer, beat together the butter, flour, confectioners sugar, rosemary and lemon juice.

3. Spoon the dough by the teaspoons onto an ungreased cookie sheet, about 1½ inch-

es apart. Press the dough flat with a cookie stamp or the bottom of a small drinking glass dipped in granulated sugar.

4. Bake the cookies until light brown around the edges, about 10 minutes. Cool on a wire rack and store in an airtight container.

to serve to a crowd. My husband often says, “Jambalaya is the perfect meal.”

My daughter recently requested that we make jambalaya for her graduation party. The chicken and sausage recipe in “Cooking Up A Storm” was easier than the version that I usually make and it tastes just as good.

There are many ways to make jambalaya. The key is to find the right balance between rice, fluid and flavor. This recipe worked great. I garnished it with green onions and a dash of hot sauce for extra texture and spice. I served it with sweet slices of summer cantaloupe. The sweet and

salty combination is a winning one.

Finally, I made the rosemary cookies. When I read that this is one of “the most requested cookie recipes since it was published in The Times-Picayune in September 2000,” I wanted to try it myself. Like Mary Youngblood Cooper, who contributed the recipe, I have always enjoyed adding fresh herbs to almost every dish. The savory, peppery rosemary works perfectly with a squeeze of lemon in these classic butter cookies. I have only made these cookies twice, but they are already a favorite that I will add to our family cookbook.

Tomato Cracker Salad Serves 4-6. Some takes on tomato cracker salad call for dicing the tomatoes and combining them with mayonnaise and crackers for one homogenous bite. This old-school recipe from Southern Living builds a salad with sliced tomatoes on top of seasoned mayo. However you make it, it’s essential to eat the salad right away, while the crackers are still crunchy. Raw sweet corn adds a crisp and juicy finish.

12 saltine crackers 1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted 1 teaspoon garlic salt, divided 1½ cups mayonnaise 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives 1 tablespoon apple cider vinegar 2½ pounds heirloom or other peak summer tomatoes (assorted sizes and colors), sliced Black pepper ¾ cup fresh corn kernels (1 ear) 2 tablespoons small fresh basil leaves

TOMATO

Continued from page 1D a meaningful amount of vitamin C plus lycopene, a plant compound prized for its antioxidant properties.

Below we dish up two recipes in which tomatoes take center stage. The first is a crunchy, deconstructed take on a tomato sandwich.

Made with just a handful of

1. Preheat oven to 375 F. 2. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper and place crackers in a single layer on the sheet.

3. Brush tops of crackers liberally with melted butter and sprinkle with ½ teaspoon of garlic salt.

Bake until golden brown and fragrant, 8-10 minutes.

Cool completely, about 20 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, stir together mayonnaise,

chives, apple cider vinegar and remaining ½ teaspoon garlic salt in a small bowl.

5. Spread mayonnaise mixture evenly on a large platter. Arrange tomato slices on top of mayonnaise mixture, overlapping slightly.

6. Season tomatoes with pepper to taste and sprinkle with corn. Coarsely crush crackers over salad; sprinkle with basil.

pantry ingredients, tomato cracker salad is a summer classic in the South.

The second is an Italian dish from a forthcoming cookbook featuring authentic recipes from Rome.

Pomodori con il riso is usually made with risotto-style rice that is par-cooked in the tomato pulp just long enough to get rid of its raw, hard bite, but this version made with basmati opts for simply

soaking the rice in the pulp for about an hour in the fridge to soften it. I added a generous dusting of Parmesan before serving.

For a more substantial meal, add a few chopped potatoes that have been tossed in oil and chopped fresh rosemary to the pan. Just make sure it’s a small dice so they cook at the same rate as the tomatoes. The recipe can easily be halved for smaller appetites.

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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By PHILLIP ALDER We have been looking at declarer’s plan in no-trump when he has only one stopper in the suit led at trick one. But how does his strategy change when he has two stoppers in that suit?

It depends upon the number of opposing high cards declarer has to drive out before running for home. If he will lose the lead only once, he should take the first trick, give the opponents the trick they are due, and claim. However, if he has two losers to drive out, usually it is right to duck (lose) trick one.

In this example deal, West leads the spade four against three no-trump and East puts up his jack. How should South plan the play?

South starts with only five top tricks: two spades and three diamonds. He can get three winners from clubs, so also needs a heart trick. He has to concede tricks to both rounded-suit aces. The rule recommends ducking the first trick.

Let’s assume East returns his second spade. South wins and plays on clubs.

East takes his ace, but doesn’t have another spade to lead (and if he did, the suit would be 4-3).

Note that if South takes the first trick and leads a club, East wins and returns his second spade, establishing West’s suit while West still has an entry in the heart ace. Or, if South plays a high heart at trick two, West wins with his ace

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Psalms 73:16-17 Going to God’s House can help see things as they really are. Be in church this Sunday.

— G.E. Dean

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PRE-BID CONFERENCE: August 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM

SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4718

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event:

TITLE: Set Aside - Installation of One (1) 60-Ton Trane Chiller & Two (2) Air Handling Units for NOPD Third District SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4719 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: CONSTRUCTION DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: July 23, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: August 18, 2026 at 10:30 AM PRE-BID CONFERENCE: July 29, 2026 at 10:30 AM Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. https://teams.microsoft. com/meet/22734973 7897818?p=9DE5y2VPwsz oXuhISv If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 910-36; 914-50; 928-30; 967-02 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: July 23, 30 and August 6, 2026 NOCP 9172 195188-jul 23-30-aug 6-3t $129.54 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Department of Property Management TITLE: Set Aside -

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PRE-BID CONFERENCE: July 29, 2026 at 10:00 AM Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. https://teams.microsoft. com/meet/22164137158 1634?p=5H3VtnbDsU4 y0Juxgo If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 910-36; 914-50; 928-30; 967-02 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: July 23, 30, & August 6, 2026 NOCP 9171 195183-jul 23-30-aug 6-3t $130.53

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works TITLE: Infrastructure Program Management Support Services SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4741 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: July 23, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: August 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM

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If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 907-35; 925-17; 958-26; 958-77; 961-56 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: July 23, 30 and August 6, 2026 NOCP 9173

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Installation of One (1) 80-Ton Trane Chiller and Air Handling Unit for Coroner's Office

DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 962-58 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement

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APARTMENT 5708bTullisDr, 4bd2ba,StovRefrig,Util;w/dHkup, CentA/C,OffStPark,NearBus,$1800; 504-454-3847,504-512-2814

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Officer Advertising Dates: August 6, 13 and 20, 2026 NOCP 9208 196857-aug 6-13-20-3t $119.43 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2130 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. 3000026524, Evotech BN Surveillance, 8/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified.

The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities.

ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Purchasing Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0017 MUNICIPAL AND COMMU‐ NITY AFFAIRS SERVICES Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Purchas‐ ing Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 10:00 A.M. (CST) on Tues‐ day, August 25, 2026.

Specifications and quali‐ fication documents may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com; or by contacting the Executive Director of Procurement at plucius@ nolapublicschools.com.

Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688

The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, August 7 , 2026 at 10:00 A.M. (CST). The Vir‐ tual link can be found below:

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Register in advance for this meeting:

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CATS Young Male Cat, Gray Colors, Have too many cats, Looking for another home for him. Please call 504-861-9617 ($50)

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals g g y receive a confirmation email containing infor‐ mation about joining the meeting.

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Pro‐ curement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2026 195544-JUL 30-AUG 6-2T $82.38 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY ARMORED SECURITY SERVICES INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #2026-021 Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans seek‐ ing qualified vendors to provide Armored Secu‐ rity Services for RTA per specifications in IFB 2026-021.

How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Specifications and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained July 17, 2026, from the RTA’s Procure‐ ware website at https:// norta.procureware.com/ home. You will be re‐

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quired to first register on this website. The IFB can also be obtained at Re‐ gional Transit Authority’s website at http://www. norta.com

tion of DBEs on all feder‐ ally funded projects to‐ ward attainment of the agency's established overall goal of 32%. No DBE goal has been estab‐ lished for this project as there are no subcon‐ tracting opportunities on this project.

Clarification Deadline: Any questions or further information concerning this IFB must be submit‐ https:// ted through norta.procureware.com/ home by 2:00 PM on Au‐ gust 7, 2026. Only written questions submitted through Procureware site shall be considered offi‐ cial. All answers to ques‐ tions shall be by formal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026021.

Responding to IFB: Bids shall be submitted through the RTA’s Pro‐ cureware website on or before 2:00 P.M., Friday, August 14, 2026.

A Bid Opening will be held in the RTA Board Room located at 2817 Canal Street, New Or‐ leans, LA 70119, on Fri‐ day, August 14, 2026, at 2:00 PM. Any questions or further information concerning the IFB may be submitted Via https:// norta.procureware.com/ home, beginning on July 17, 2026.

RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ lations (CFR) Part 26 has an obligation to ensure nondiscrimination of Dis‐ advantaged Business En‐ terprises (DBEs) and to comply with all federal, state and local regula‐ tions relative to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on publicly funded projects. The RTA is committed to utiliza‐

Notice to all offerors is hereby provided that in accordance with all ap‐ plicable federal, state and local laws the RTA will ensure that DBEs are afforded full opportunity to submit offers and re‐ sponses to this solicita‐ tion and to participate in any contract consum‐ mated pursuant to this advertisement. Addition‐ ally, no offeror will be discriminated against on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, na‐ tional origin, ethnicity or disability. For additional information contact the RTA’s Small Business Of‐ fice at 504-827-8301.

The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals submitted.

Ronald G. Baptiste, Jr. Interim Chief Executive Officer Regional Transit Author‐ ity 194874-jul 22-30-2t $704.68 PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS 3125: Maintenance and Inspection Services for Automated Switches, Signals, Crossing i d

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195190-jul 23-30-aug 6-3t $128.52 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: New Orleans Health Department TITLE: Outpatient Treatment Services SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4746 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Professional Services DBE OPPORTUNITY: Waived RELEASED ON: August 6, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 3, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: August 17, 2026 Meeting ID: 258 355 129 752 553 Passcode: Vo9Li7yR Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

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8D ✦ Thursday,August 6, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune Public Notices Bids/Proposals g g Protections, AEI Readers, and Supporting Equipment Notice is hereby given that the New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Com‐ mission for the Port of New Orleans (“NOPB”) is seeking proposals from qualified firms (“Respon‐ dents”) to provide Auto‐ mated Switches, Signals, Crossing Protections, AEI Readers, and Supporting Equipment (“Services”).

Official bid documents can be downloaded from Central Bidding at www. centralbidding.com and the SEBConnect App. PRE-PROPOSAL CONFERENCE: Potential proposers are invited to attend a pre-proposal conference at the NOPB’s Administration Office, lo‐ cated at 4822 Tchoupi‐ toulas Street, New Or‐ leans, LA 70115 at 11:00 am (CST) on Thursday, August 13, 2026.

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: Proposals must be sub‐ mitted via Central Bid‐ www.centralbidd ding, ing.com along with five (5) bound proposals no later than 11:00 AM (CST), Wednesday, Au‐ gust 19, 2026 in order to be considered.

The bound proposals must be delivered to the New Or‐ leans Public Belt Railroad Commission for the Port of New Orleans, Procure‐ ment Department, 4822 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70115. Any proposal re‐ ceived (electrically or de‐ livered) after the Pro‐ posal Submission Dead‐ line will not be consid‐ ered. Respondents shall follow the instructions given in this Request for Proposals (RFP) in order to respond with a valid proposal for evaluation by the Evaluation Com‐ mittee.

NOPB CONTACT: Respon‐ dents must submit Ques‐ tions in writing to pro‐ curement@railnola.com

by Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. CDT. As necessary, addenda to this RFP will be issued to all respondents receiving this RFP. Questions, an‐ swers, and all forms re‐ quired will be posted on www.centralbidding.com .

196431-aug 5-12-2t $61.42 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority (“the Author‐ ity”) is requesting sealed bids for C-2228 Procure‐ ment of ADA Ramp and Guard Rails.

Bids are due Friday, Au‐ gust 21, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at which time Bids received on time and in the correct location will be considered. Bid docu‐ ments may be obtained online at https://www. centralauctionhouse. com/Category/10822/ NewOrleansErnestNMo rialConventionCenter or by contacting the Con‐ tracts Department at (504) 582-3562 or con‐ tracts@mccno.com.

All Bids must be submitted in accordance with the bid documents.

196300-AUG 6-14-2T $18.38 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.

192988-jul 2-aug 15-45t $207.90 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for Proposals (RFP) due Monday, August 31, to deconstruct spoil banks for a Canal Spoil Re‐ placement (Backfilling) Project.

Please email admin@lowlandercenter.

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org with any questions

by Tuesday, August 11.

All questions and an‐ swers will be posted on the Lowlander Center canal backfilling project page (https://www.low landercenter.org/canalbackfilling) by Tuesday, August 18. Please see the project page for RFP, per‐ mits, plat maps, back‐ ground information about the project, and an informational slidedeck.

This project is partially funded by the National Oceanic and Atmos‐ pheric Administration (NOAA), through a grant agreement with the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, grant award number: NA23NOS4730219.

The views and conclusions contained in this docu‐ ment are those of the au‐ thors and should not be interpreted as represent‐ ing the opinions or poli‐ cies of the U.S. Govern‐ ment or the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and its funding sources.

Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government, or the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation or its funding sources.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 2026 PUBLIC HEARING: 1:30 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1300 PERDIDO STREET 1st FLOOR THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION, IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH PROVISIONS OF THE CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS SUBDIVISION REG‐ ULATIONS, WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON AU‐ GUST 11, 2026 ON THE FOLLOWING MATTER: SUBDIVISION DOCKET 074-26 SD074-26 Resubdivision of Lots B and 6 into Lots 6A, 6B, and 6C in Brazilier Island, Section 31, T10S, R15E, Southeast District of Louisiana, East of the Mississippi River, Third Municipal District and bounded by Chef Menteur Highway (U.S. Highway 90) and the Fort Pike Canal (Policy D) SD085-26 Resubdivision of Lots B, S, and Y into Lots S1 and Y1 in Square 46, Burtheville, Sixth Mu‐ nicipal District and bounded by Henry Clay Avenue, Perrier Street, Calhoun Street, and Pry‐ tania Street. Municipal addresses are 6207-6209 Perrier Street and 12081210 Henry Clay Avenue.

(Policy A) THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION WILL HEAR PROPONENTS AND OPPO‐ NENTS TO THE ABOVE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO AT‐ TEND AND ALL RELEVANT COMMENTS CONCERNING THE PROPOSED CHANGES ARE ENCOURAGED. THE CPC HAS ESTABLISHED PUBLIC HEARING RULES WITHIN ITS ADMINISTRA‐ TIVE RULES, POLICIES, & PROCEDURES, WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CPC WEBSITE: WWW. NOLA.GOV/CPC. YOU MAY ALSO SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS TO THE EX‐ ECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN ADVANCE BY MAIL (1300 PERDIDO STREET, 7TH FLOOR, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112) OR EMAIL CPCINFO@NOLA.GOV. ALL WRITTEN COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON THE MONDAY, EIGHT DAYS PRIOR TO THE HEARING DATE. July 23, July 30, and August 6, 2026

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Robert Rivers, Executive Director NOCP 9169 195178-jul 23-30-aug 6-3t $102.24 PUBLIC NOTICE --I, Branch Jr, Ferdinand Bernard am the owner of the Trade Name, Trade‐ mark, or Service mark sought to be registered and no other person, firm, association, union or corporation has the right to such use in such class, either in the identi‐ cal form herein above de‐ scribed, or in any such resemblance thereto as may calculated to de‐ ceive, and the facsimiles counterparts herein Filed are true and cor‐ rect.

196403-aug 5-6-7-3t $202.30 PUBLIC NOTICE --I, Neville, Liryca Char‐ maine ™ am the owner of the Trade Name, Trade‐ mark, or Service mark sought to be registered and no other person, firm, association, union or corporation has the right to such use in such class, either in the identi‐ cal form herein above de‐ scribed, or in any such resemblance thereto as may calculated to de‐ ceive, and the facsimiles counterparts herein Filed are true and cor‐ rect.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH HISTORIC DISTRICT COMMISSION WILL CONVENE ON THURSDAY AUGUST 13, 2026 AT 3:00 P.M. IN THE PARISH COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT 1811 W. AIRLINE HWY., LAPLACE, LA TO RULE ON THE FOLLOWING: Ryan Brown – HD-1087 – Requests a Certificate of Appropriateness for the demolition of the struc‐ ture located in the Re‐ serve Historic District, which has a municipal address 1048 Highway 44, Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA. 196536-aug 6-1t $32.76 PUBLIC NOTICE --The Crescent Club New Orleans 2026, LLC is resyndicating an existing affordable multifamily property called Crescent Club, located at 3000 Tu‐ lane Avenue, New Or‐ leans 70119, to preserve its affordability as the property reaches the end of its compliance period by renovating and up‐ grading all residential units, amenity spaces, and the building exterior.

There are 228 units (136 market rate and 92 af‐ fordable units) consist‐ ing of 90 1-bedroom units and 138 2-bedroom units with set-asides ranging from 30% to 60% AMI. Ten percent of the prop‐ erty will serve special needs households and supportive services in‐ clude, but are not limited to, social and recre‐ ational programs planned by the property manager and computer labs. The project will be applying for 4% Tax Credits provided by the Louisiana Housing Cor‐ poration. The total pro‐ jected development costs are approx. $55.5M, with current projected sources consisting of ap‐ prox. $6.3M of Tax Credit Equity, $27.5M of net per‐ manent senior debt, $17.4M of an existing CDBG loan, $2M of NOI as a source, $1.1M of exist‐ ing reserves, and $1.2M of Seller Financing.

For questions / com‐ ments, reach out to Christian Brierre at cbri‐ erre@thedomaincos.com or 504-301-0014x4658.

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ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD RESOLUTION NO. 18-26 The following resolution was offered by KaTrina Chantell Griffin and seconded by Carlos Luis Zervignon.

A resolution authorizing the issuance of Revenue Anticipation Note, Series 2026, of the Orleans Parish School Board, State of Louisiana in a principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 in order to pay operating expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027; making application to the State Bond Commission for consent and authority for such borrowing; and providing for other matters with respect to the forgoing.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the Consolidated Local Government Public Finance Act (the “Act”), including Section 527 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, and other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto, Orleans Parish School Board, State of Louisiana (the “School Board”) may borrow money in order to pay operating expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, and to issue revenue anticipation notes to evidence such borrowing; and WHEREAS, based on the cash flow projection of the School Board for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, there is a need for the School Board to borrow money in anticipation of revenues in order to pay operating expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027; and WHEREAS, the School Board desires to borrow a principal amount not to exceed Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) pursuant to the Act from a bank, a consortium of local banks or an investment banking firm or any other approved purchaser and to dedicate and set aside taxes and other revenues for the payment of a Revenue Anticipation Note, Series 2026 (the “2026 Note”) to be issued under the provisions of the Act and this resolution, which 2026 Note will fall due and be payable not later than June 25, 2027, together with interest thereon as provided herein; and WHEREAS, the School Board intends to issue and sell the 2026 Note to a bank, a consortium of banks, or an investment banking firm, or any other approved purchaser in a principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000; and WHEREAS, the School Board has adopted its budget for its General Fund for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027; and WHEREAS, the borrowing authorized pursuant to this Resolution does not exceed one-half of the anticipated revenues of the School Board for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027; and WHEREAS, in connection with the issuance and sale of the 2026 Note, the School Board will be required to enter into a Purchase Agreement (the “Agreement”) with a bank, a consortium of local banks or an investment banking firm or any other approved purchaser; and WHEREAS, the issuance of the 2026 Note is subject to approval by the Louisiana State Bond Commission.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the School Board, that: SECTION 1. There is hereby authorized the incurring of debt and the issuance of Revenue Anticipation Note, Series 2026 of Orleans Parish School Board, State of Louisiana in the principal amount not to exceed $50,000,000 to be designated “Revenue Anticipation Note, Series 2026” (the “2026 Note”) to pay operating expenses for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027 pursuant to the provisions of the Consolidated Local Government Public Finance Act (the “Act”), including Section 527 of Title 39 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes of 1950, as amended, and other constitutional and statutory authority supplemental thereto.

SECTION 2. The 2026 Note shall mature not later than June 25,

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EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

The Preserve New Or‐ leans 2026, LLC is resyn‐ dicating an existing af‐ fordable multifamily property called The Pre‐ serve, located at 4301 Tu‐ lane Avenue, New Or‐ leans 70119, to preserve its affordability as the property reaches the end of its compliance period by renovating and up‐ grading all residential units, amenity spaces, and the building exterior.

There are 183 units (109 market rate and 74 af‐ fordable units) consist‐ ing of 74 1-bedroom units and 109 2-bedroom units with set-asides ranging from 30% to 60% AMI. Ten percent of the prop‐ erty will serve special needs households and supportive services in‐ clude, but are not limited to, social and recre‐ ational programs planned by the property manager and computer labs. The project will be applying for 4% Tax Credits provided by the Louisiana Housing Cor‐ poration. The total pro‐ jected development costs are approx. $44.3M, with current projected sources consisting of ap‐ prox. $5.1M of Tax Credit Equity, $21M of net per‐ manent senior debt, $14M of an existing CDBG loan, $1.4M of NOI as a source, $1.3M of existing reserves, and $1.5M of Seller Financing.

CIVIL ACTION NO. 2:26-cv984 CONSOLIDATED WITH NO. 2:26-cv-844 JUDGE GREG G. GUIDRY MAGISTRATE JUDGE DONNA P. CURRAULT

For questions / com‐ ments, reach out to Christian Brierre at cbri‐ erre@thedomaincos.com or 504-301-0014x4658.

196163-AUG 3-5-6-3T $477.94 PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN RE GENESIS MARINE, LLC, AS OWNER AND OP‐ ERATOR OF THE GENESIS GLORY AND BARGE GM 8001, PETITIONING FOR

NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS OF COMPLAINT FOR EX‐ ONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY NOW INTO COURT, through undersigned counsel, comes Genesis Marine, LLC (hereinafter “Limitation Plaintiff”), as owner and operator of the towing vessel to sub‐ mit the following Notice for publication: IN RE GENESIS MARINE, LLC, AS OWNER AND OP‐ ERATOR OF THE GENESIS GLORY AND BARGE GM 8001 PETITIONING FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY CIVIL ACTION NO. 26-984 SECTION: T (2) Notice is given that the above named Limitation Plaintiff has filed a com‐ plaint, pursuant to Sec‐ tions 4281-4285, and 4289 of the Title 46 of the United States Code, 46 U.S.C. §30501, et seq., for exoneration from or limi‐ tation of liability for all claims for any loss, dam‐ age, or injury arising out of an incident occurring on or around April 14, 2026, involving the tug and GENESIS GLORY barge GM 8001 that con‐ tacted the GI 47-L plat‐ form offshore, Gulf of America.

All persons having such claims must file their re‐ spective claims, as pro‐ vided in Rule F, including paragraphs (4) and (5) thereof, of the Supple‐ mental Rules for Certain Admiralty & Maritime Claims of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with the Clerk of this Court at the United States Courthouse, 500 Poydras Street, New Or‐ leans, Louisiana, and must serve a copy thereof on attorneys for Limitation Plaintiff on or before the 19th day of October, 2026, or be de‐

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If any claimant desires to contest either the right to exoneration from or the right to limitation of liability, he shall file and serve on the attorneys for Limitation Plaintiff an answer to the complaint on or before the afore‐ said date unless his claim has included an answer, so designated, or be defaulted.

New Orleans, Louisiana, this 13th day of May, 2026. /S/ Carol L. Michel CLERK OF COURT Respectfully submitted, PHELPS DUNBAR LLP BY: /s/ Evans Martin McLeod Evans Martin McLeod (Bar #24846) Canal Place | 365 Canal Street, Suite 2000 New Orleans, Louisiana 70130 Telephone: 504 566 1311 Facsimile: 504 568 9130 Email: marty.mcleod@ phelps.com ATTORNEYS FOR GENESIS MARINE, LLC 195162-jul 23-30-aug 6713-4t $1,404

PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN RE: THE MATTER OF SETTOON TOWING, LLC., AS OWNER AND OPERA‐ TOR OF THE M/V CHRIS‐ TINE, M/V MARSHALL J. SETTOON, AND M/V CATHY M. SETTOON PETI‐ TIONING FOR EXONERA‐ TION FROM OR LIMITA‐ TION OF LIABILITY CIVIL ACTION NO.: 2:25-cv-02537 SECTION: H (2) JUDGE JANE MILAZZO ADMIRALTY - Rule 9(h)

UNITED STATES BANKRUPTCY COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA In re: § § Case No. 26-10678 CROSBY MARINE § TRANSPORTATION,LLC, § Chapter 11 § 1 Debtors. § SECTION: A § § (Joint Administration) § §( Complex Designation) NOTICE OF BAR DATE FOR FILING PROOFS OF CLAIM TO ASSERT A MARITIME LIEN NOTICE: Your rights may be affected. You should read these papers carefully and discuss them with your attorney, if you have one in this bankruptcy case. If you do not have an attorney, you may wish to consult one.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE on March 23, 2026 (“Original Petition Date”), Crosby Marine Transportation, LLC (“Transportation”), Crosby Tugs, LLC (“Tugs”), Crosby Dredging, LLC (“Dredging”), and Bertucci Contracting Company, L.L.C. (“Bertucci” and collectively, “Original Debtors”), as Debtors in Possession, each filed for relief under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code thereby commencing these cases (the “Chapter 11 Case(s)”).

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE on July 16, 2026, (“Additional Debtor Petition Date”), Crosby Inshore Marine Services, LLC, Crosby Marine Repair, L.L.C., Crosby Offshore Marine Service, LLC, Kurt Crosby, LLC, Tala Marine, LLC, Webb Crosby, LLC, Crosby Inland Marine, LLC, Crosby Real Estate, LLC, Tala Real Estate, LLC, and Crosby Enterprises, L.L.C. (the “Additional Debtors” and together with the Original Debtors, the “Debtors”), as Debtors in Possession also filed for relief under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, commencing the Additional Debtors’ chapter 11 cases.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that the Court has set August 29, 2026 (the “Additional Bar Date”) as the deadline for any person or entity that asserts a lien (a “Maritime Lien”) (other than preferred ship mortgage) under the Commercial Instrument and Maritime Lien Act (46 U.S.C. §§ 13101–13143 (“CIMLA”) against a vessel owned by an Additional Debtor as of the Petition Date (referred to as “Creditor” or “Creditors”) to file a Proof of Claim as modified by the Order establishing the Additional Bar Date. The Additional Bar Date applies only to those Creditors who assert

2027, and shall bear interest, payable as stated therein, at the rate or rates stated thereon; provided, however, that the interest rate borne by the 2026 Note from its date of issuance until its maturity date shall not exceed 6.0% per annum. The 2026 Note issuable hereunder shall be issued in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit “A” with such necessary or appropriate variations, omissions, and insertions as are required or permitted by law or by this Resolution or by the Agreement.

SECTION 3. All sales and use tax revenues and property (ad valorem) tax revenues to accrue to the General Fund of the School Board for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2027, shall be pledged to secure the payment of the principal of and interest on the 2026 Note.

SECTION 4. The sale of the 2026 Note to a bank, a consortium of banks, or an investment banking firm, or any other approved purchaser herein referred to as the “Purchaser”), for a purchase price equal to the principal amount thereof is hereby approved.

SECTION 5. The form of the Agreement as presented at this meeting and on file with the Secretary of the School Board attached hereto as Exhibit “B”, with such additions, omissions and changes as may be approved by the President, Vice President, and/or Secretary of the School Board, is hereby approved. The signature of the President, Vice President and/or Secretary on the Agreement constitutes conclusive evidence of their approval of such additions, omissions, and changes.

SECTION 6. There is hereby created a separate and distinct restricted account to be entitled “Orleans Parish School Board Revenue Anticipation Note, Series 2026 — Sinking Fund” (the “2026 Sinking Fund Account”) to be maintained by the School Board. Amounts deposited in the said 2026 Sinking Fund Account may be applied to a lien in favor of the Purchaser of said 2026 Note.

SECTION 7. The President, Vice President, Secretary and/or Superintendent are authorized to enter into any other instruments or agreements and to take such further actions as may be necessary or desirable in connection with the issuance of the 2026 Note and the transactions contemplated by this Resolution.

SECTION 8. The President, Vice President, Secretary and/or Superintendent are fully empowered and authorized to execute all documents necessary for the issuance of the 2026 Note and to affix the seal of the School Board to such documents.

SECTION 9. Application be and same is hereby formally made to the State Bond Commission, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, for its consent and authority to issue, sell and deliver the aforesaid 2026 Note, and a certified copy of this Resolution shall be forwarded to the State Bond Commission, together with a letter requesting the prompt consideration and approval of this application.

SECTION 10. The School Board hereby finds and determines that a real necessity exists for the employment of special bond counsel in the issuance of the 2026 Note, and accordingly the law firm of Butler Snow LLP, Bond Counsel, is hereby employed as Bond Counsel to handle all matters of a legal nature in connection with the negotiation, sale, issuance, and delivery of the 2026 Note. Said special bond counsel shall prepare and submit to this School Board all proceedings necessary for the due authorization, issuance, sale, and delivery of the 2026 Note. The fee of special bond counsel in this connection is hereby fixed at $83,000, plus expenses, which sum is less than the maximum fee allowed by the Attorney General’s fee schedule for comprehensive legal and coordinated professional services in the issuance of the 2026 Note, based on the amount of said 2026 Note actually issued, sold, and delivered, plus “out-of-pocket” expenses, said fee to be contingent upon the issuance, sale, and delivery of said Notes. A certified copy of this resolution shall be forwarded to the Attorney General of the State of Louisiana for his approval of the employment herein provided for.

SECTION 11. The School Board covenants and agrees that to the extent permitted by the laws of the State Louisiana, it will comply with the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”), in order to establish, maintain and preserve the exclusion from “gross income” of interest on the 2026 Note under the Code. The School Board further covenants and agrees that it will not take any action, fail to take any action, or permit any action within its control to be taken,

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cluded an answer, so designated, or be de‐ faulted.

Personal attendance is not required.

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Settoon Tow‐ ing, LLC, as owner and operator of the M/V CHRISTINE, M/V MAR‐ SHALL J. SETTOON, AND M/V CATHY M. SETTOON, their engines, tackle, gear, furniture, appurte‐ nances, etc. (hereinafter "the Vessels") (collec‐ tively with Settoon Tow‐ ing, LLC ("Settoon"), has filed a Complaint, pur‐ suant to 46 U. S.C. §§ 30501, et seq., for exoner‐ ation from or limitation of liability for all claims for any and all loss of life, injury, loss of prop‐ erty, destruction, or dam‐ age, arising out of or re‐ lated to the casualty al‐ legedly involving the M/V CHRISTINE, M/V MARSHALL J. SETTOON, AND M/V CATHY M. SET‐ TOON as is more fully de‐ scribed in Settoon's Complaint For Exonera‐ tion From or Limitation of Liability ("Complaint").

All persons having such claims must file their re‐ spective claims, as pro‐ vided in Rule F of the Supplemental Rules for Admiralty or Maritime Claims of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with the Clerk of Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Carol L. Michel, United States Courthouse, 500 Poydras Street, Room C151, New Orleans, LA 70130, and must serve a copy thereof on counsel for Limitation Petitioner, Jef‐ ferson R. Tillery and Austin S. Glascoe of the firm of Jones Walker LLP, 201 St. Charles Ave., 47th Floor, New Orleans, LA 70170 on or before the 21st day of August, 2026, or be defaulted.

If any claimant desires to contest either the right to exoneration from or the right to limitation of liability, that claimant shall file and serve on counsel for the Limita‐ tion Petitioner an answer to the Complaint on or before the aforesaid date unless the claim has in‐

Date: June 24, 2026 /seal/ UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA Carol L. Michel Clerk of Court /s/ L. Guillot Deputy Clerk PETITIONER TO PUBLISH: Once a week for four successive weeks prior to the date fixed for filing of claims in the New Or‐ leans Advocate

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The Garden District Secu‐ rity District Commis‐ sioner meeting and pub‐ lic hearing to approve the 2027 budget and re‐ quest the City Council to levy the 2027 tax will be held on August 19, 2026 at 6:00 p.m at Trinity Episcopal School, 1329 Jackson Avenue, New Or‐ leans, LA. This hearing will consider levying in‐ creased millage rates without further voter ap‐ proval. It is open to the public. The proposed 2027 budget will be avail‐ able for inspection upon request to the GDSD of‐ fice, 504-525-7911.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its first public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307).

ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127.

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a Maritime Lien against an Additional Debtor’s vessel.

PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that if you previously filed a proof of claim against an Original Debtor and are now asserting a lien against an Additional Debtor’s vessel, you must file an additional proof of claim and identify the information above.

Further information, including how to file a Proof of Claim and all forms and attachments, is available at https://cases.stretto.com/ crosby/file-a-claim/. The website also contains a copy of the Order approving this Notice.

IF YOU ARE NOT ASSERTING A MARITIME LIEN, THIS NOTICE DOES NOT APPLY TO YOU. _____________________________ 1 The Court entered an Order directing joint administration of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Crosby Marine Transportation, LLC [No. 2610678], as lead case, with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of (i) Crosby Tugs, L.L.C. [No. 26-10679], (ii) Crosby Dredging, LLC [No. 26-10678], and (iii) Bertucci Contracting Company, L.L.C. [No. 26-10681], on March 24, 2026, [No. 26-10678, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-10679, ECF Doc. 4; No. 26-10680, ECF Doc. 4; No. 26-10681, ECF Doc. 4]. The Court entered an Order directing joint administration of the Chapter 11 bankruptcy case of Crosby Marine Transportation, LLC [No. 26-10678], as lead case, with the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of (i) Crosby Inshore Marine Service, L.L.C. [No. 26-11734], (ii) Crosby Marine Repair, L.L.C. [No. 26-11735], (iii) Crosby Offshore Marine Service, L.L.C. [No. 26-11736], (iv) Kurt Crosby, L.L.C. [No. 26-11737], (v) Tala Marine, L.L.C. [No. 26-11738], (vi) Webb Crosby, L.L.C. [No. 26-11739], (vii) Crosby Inland Marine, LLC [No. 26-11740], (viii) Crosby Real Estate, LLC [No. 26-11741], (ix) Tala Real Estate, LLC [No. 26-11742], and (x) Crosby Enterprises, L.L.C. [No. 2611743], on July 21, 2026. [No. 26-10678, ECF Doc. 663; No. 26-11734, ECF Doc. 10; No. 26-11735, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11736, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11737, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11738, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11739, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11740, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11741, ECF Doc. 9; No. 2611742, ECF Doc. 9; No. 26-11743, ECF Doc. 9].

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or permit at any time or times any of the proceeds of the 2026 Note or any other funds of the School Board to be used directly or indirectly in any manner, the effect of which would be to cause the 2026 Note to be “arbitrage bonds” or would result in the inclusion of the interest on the 2026 Note in gross income under the Code, including, without limitation, (i) the failure to comply with the limitation on investment of Note proceeds or (ii) the failure to pay any required rebate of arbitrage earnings to the United States of America or (iii) the use of the proceeds of the 2026 Note in a manner which would cause the 2026 Note to be “private activity bonds”.

SECTION 12. If any provision or item of this Resolution, or the application thereof is held invalid, such invalidity shall not affect other provisions, items, or applications of this Resolution which can be given effect without the invalid provisions, items, or applications, and to this end the provisions of this Resolution are hereby declared severable.

SECTION 13. The foregoing Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.

SECTION 14. A copy of this Resolution shall be published at least once in the official journal of the School Board or, if there is none, in a newspaper having general circulation therein. For thirty days after the date of publication, any person in interest may contest the legality of this Resolution and of any provision herein made for the security and payment of the 2026 Note. After that time, no one shall have any cause of action to test the regularity, formality, legality or effectiveness of this Resolution, and provisions thereof for any cause whatsoever. Thereafter, it shall be conclusively presumed that every legal requirement for the issuance of the 2026 Note has been complied with. No court shall have authority to inquire into any of these matters after the thirty days.

SECTION 15. By virtue of the School Board’s application for, acceptance and utilization of the benefits of the Louisiana State Bond Commission’s approvals(s) resolved and set forth herein, it resolves that it understands and agrees that such approval(s) are expressly conditioned upon, and it further resolves that it understands, agrees and binds itself, its successors and assigns, to full and continuing compliance with the “State Bond Commission Policy on Approval of Proposed Swaps, or other forms of Derivative Products Hedges, Etc.”, adopted by the Commission on July 20, 2006, as to the borrowing(s) and other matter(s) subject to the approval(s), including subsequent application and approval under said Policy of the implementation or use of any swap(s) or other product(s) or enhancement(s) covered thereby.

This resolution having been submitted to a vote; the vote thereon was as follows: YEAS: Leila Jacobs Eames, Olin G. Parker, Katherine Baudouin, Gabriela Biro, KaTrina Chantelle Griffin, Nolan Marshall, Jr., Carlos Luis Zervigon NAYS: None ABSENT: None ABSTENTIONS: None PASSED AND ADOPTED AT THE ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD BUSINESS MEETING held at 2401 Westbend Parkway, Multipurpose Room 1050, New Orleans, Louisiana, on the 30th day of July 2026.

ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD By: /s/ Leila Jacobs Eames Leila Jacobs Eames, President EXHIBITS A AND B TO THIS RESOLUTION HAVE NOT BEEN PUBLISHED. SAID EXHIBITS A AND B ARE AVAILABLE FOR PUBLIC INSPECTION AT THE OFFICES OF THE ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD, 2401 WESTBEND PARKWAY, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, MONDAYS THROUGH FRIDAYS DURING NORMAL BUSINESS HOURS. 196389-674544-aug 6-1t $ 357.64

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Comic book dealers, toy and collectible vendors, artists and more are all headed to the Pontchartrain Center at Williams Boulevard and the lake in Kenner. The annual event, which also hosts a cosplay costume contest each day, is from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Tickets start at $18.

hexfest Billed as “a weekend of witchery in old New Orleans,” a three-day gathering starts at 5:30 p.m. Friday with a riverboat ritual and dinner aboard the Creole Queen.

Activities including workshops, drumming and more rituals continue Saturday and Sunday at the Bourbon Orleans Hotel, 717 Orleans St. with witches, rootworkers, voodoo priests and more, plus a curated selection of wares from local shops. The fest is presented by Brian Cain, Christian Day and the Witches of New Orleans. Tickets start at $111. hexfest.com.

history of los isleños The thousands of Canary Islander who arrived in Louisiana in the latter part of the 1700s will be the subject of a lecutre at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the East Bank Regional Library, 4747 W. Napoleon Ave., Metairie.

The settlers landed in four strategic areas to help protect the city, including present-day St. Bernard Parish, where the culture has survived and is celebrated. jefferson.lib.la.us.

star spangled all white gala The benefit for Veterans Empowerment Services, at 7 p.m. Friday at the Capulet, 3014 Dauphine St., features entertainment, dining, a silent auction and presentations.

Guests are encouraged to wear all-white attire. Tickets start at $125. empoweringvets.us.

peppa pig at the aquarium The lovable children’s character will be taking the plunge (not really) Friday through Sunday for a meet-and-greet and photos. Also, the aquarium is offering three hours of free parking each day.

Tickets start at $47.50. Schedule a session at audubonnatureinstitute. org/peppa.

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Both runners and nonrunners dressed in red attire take part in the 2025 Red Dress Run in support of local charities. Photo by John McCusker. About 3,500 runners are expected for this year’s deep-summer event. Story by Doug MacCash on Page 6.

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Experts and enthusiasts from a variety of disciplines will be on hand Friday through Saturday at The Historic New Orleans Collection’s Williams Research Center, 410 Chartres St., for the program “Material Belief: Objects of Faith, Spirit and Tradition.” Discussions on such items as Catholic statuary, Judaica, Afro-Caribbean ritual objects and prayer samplers will include how they were made, used and kept and how they continue to function as powerful material expressions of belief throughout the region. Cost is $225. hnoc.org.

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BRUCE DAIGREPONT with WAYLON THIBODEAUX

Keith Spera SOUND CHECK

With the summer heat fully turned up, New Orleans music slows down. The Maple Leaf Bar is closed this week and Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro is closed on Mondays and Tuesdays all month.

sustain Cajun music’s presence in New Orleans. In 1986, Daigrepont moved his weekly fais do-do from the Maple Leaf to Tipitina’s. Four decades later, his SUNDAY,TIPITINA’S Cajun dance party is still going strong, Bruce Daigrepont is that rare Cajun bandleader who has lived his entire life even though it’s now once a month inin Orleans and Jefferson parishes rath- stead of once a week.

In June, Daigrepont celebrated er than southwest Louisiana, the genre’s the 40th anniversary of his Tipinatural habitat. Geography aside, he is one of Cajun music’s most vital voices. tina’s residency. That residency He’s an especially expressive singer continues this Sunday when Daiand accordionist backed by an equally grepont and his band — fiddle nimble band. Drawing on his family’s player Gina Forsyth, bassist Jim Avoyelles Parish roots, he’s written Markway and drummer Mike Barras dozens of original Cajun French com— are joined by special guest Waylon Thibodeaux, the veteran Cajun fiddler positions. Some are now standards for and bandleader.

French-speaking bands around the The show/dance starts at 5:15 p.m. world.

Tickets are $15.

And no one else has done more to

OTHER NOTEWORTHY SHOWS

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THURSDAY New Orleans smooth jazz saxophonist Clarence Johnson III leads his quartet at Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro on Frenchmen Street for shows at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. TickJohnson ets are $35.

Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie are featured for Zydeco Night at Rock ’N’ Bowl. Tickets are $17.

FRIDAY R&B singer/songwriter Ella Mai is on the road supporting her third studio album, “Do You Still Love Me?” Her Saenger Theatre stop on Friday is sold out.

Drummer Jason Marsalis, the youngest of the Marsalis brothers, presents the music of his late father, Ellis, the renowned jazz pianist, composer and educator, at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $40.

This week’s installment of the summer-long “Free Fri-

Flow Tribe days” series of no-cover concerts at Tipitina’s is headlined

by Flow Tribe, the airtight, superfunky New Orleans party band whose frontman often breaks out a trumpet. Opening the show at 9 p.m. is Zita, the local rock band fronted by trombonist/vocalist Michael Mullins.

It’s “Back to School Night” at Rock ’N’ Bowl with the hornheavy Bucktown Allstars hosting a “citywide high school reunion.” Tickets are $17.

SATURDAY For many years, trumpeter Kevin Louis, a St. Augustine High School and New Orleans Center for Creative Arts alum who went on to earn degrees in jazz performance

from Oberlin Conservatory in Ohio and Queens College in New York, led the Friday night band at the Palm Court Jazz Café. The Decatur Street nightspot, which evoked a saloon of the early 20th century, served up traditional New Orleans jazz and food. The Palm Court closed in summer 2024. But Louis and other alums of the band continue to keep the music alive. In 2024, they released “Last Chance to Dance,” a selection of favorites from the Palm Court featuring singer Yolanda Robinson. On Saturday, Louis and the Palm Court Jazz Band will reunite at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. at Snug Harbor, just a few blocks from the former home

of the Palm Court. Tickets are $40.

Earlier on Saturday, pianist Keiko Komaki’s duo plays a free happy hour show at Snug Harbor at 4:30 p.m.

From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Tipitina’s hosts its second annual “Tie-Dye Social,” an all ages event centered around tie-dyeing white Tipitina’s Tshirts. Shirts can be purchased at shop.tipitinas.com. The NOLA Patty Wagon food truck and Imperial Woodpecker Snoballs will also be on hand.

Admission is free.

Americana singer-songwriter Patty Griffin plays a sold-out show at Chickie Wah Wah. The “4 the Trenches Tour” brings Detroit rappers Babyface Ray and 42 Dugg to the Joy Theater on Saturday. Tickets start

at $62.

The House of Blues hosts “Billy vs. Elton: A Tribute to Billy Joel and Elton John.” Tickets are $27.

Costumed cover band Bag of Donuts hosts a Hawaiianthemed “Luau Night” at Rock ’N’ Bowl; tickets are $17.

SUNDAY Vocal group the Pfister Sisters plays a free happy hour show at Snug Harbor at 4:30 p.m.

Later, Snug Harbor hosts New Orleans jazz/R&B singer Roderick Harper, whose résumé includes multiple albums and numerous appearances in films, TV shows and national advertising campaigns. Harper will be joined by Max Moran on bass, Roderick Paulin on saxophones,

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Revivalists billboards take humorous approach in promoting album

BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

Morris Bart, Gordon McKernan, Dudley DeBosier and all the other injury attorneys who occupy billboard space across the New Orleans area have a new competitor: The Revivalists.

To promote their new album “Get It Honest,” the eight members of the New Orleans rock band dressed up in suits to appear as faux attorneys on a number of billboards in the Bywater neighborhood.

“Injured in a wreck? We can’t help!” announced one set of two stacked billboards.

Callers to the (417) 738-5463 number advertised on the billboards can choose to hear a sample of one of the nine songs on “Get It Honest.” Callers can also leave a voicemail that may be used on the band’s social media.

A July 30 Instagram post announcing the lawyerly campaign featured Revivalists singer David Shaw, bassist George Gekas and saxophonist Rob Ingraham posing in front of the band’s

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Shea Siraj on piano and Gerald Watkins Jr. on drums. Showtimes are at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $30.

MONDAY The Eagles of Death Metal — not to be confused with the regular Eagles — rock the House of Blues on Monday as part of the band’s 20th anniversary tour for the album “Death By Sexy.” Headsend opens the show at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $37.

Masego, the Jamaican-born singersongwriter whose self-described “traphouse jazz” music relies heavily on saxophone, brings his “Fix Your Face Tour”

billboards.

“There are some new lawyers in town……and we can’t help. At all. But! We’ve got a handful of billboards up around the Bywater, and a hotline hotter than your momma’s hot sauce,” the post read. “Give us a call at 417-REVLINE, and see just how much we can’t help.”

In the comments section of the post, Shaw wrote, “We’re comin’ for ya Morris Bart.”

“Get It Honest,” released July 24, is the Revivalists’ sixth full-length album and first since 2023’s “Pour It Out Into the Night.” The first single from the new album, “Heart Stop,” recently became the seventh Revivalists song to crack the Top 5 of Mediabase’s national AAA airplay chart.

The band will be on the road intermittently over the next few months, including at their annual headlining show Sept. 25 at Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver and their first themed cruise Nov. 3-7, “The Revivalists Present Otherside of Paradise at Sea.” They’ll sail from Miami to Nassau, Bahamas, with a slew of other bands.

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Members of The Revivalists David Shaw, George Gekas and Rob Ingraham pose in front of a billboard in the Bywater promoting the band’s album ‘Get It Honest.’

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to the Fillmore. Tickets start at $47.

WEDNESDAY Grammy-winning drummer, composer and vocalist Jamison Ross presents “Summer Soul Live” at the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market in Central City at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $39.

Brian Toval & the Vision, an inspirational quartet consisting of Brian Toval on piano and vocals, his wife Jo Ann Toval on lead vocals, drummer Cameron Woods and bassist Cheryl Woods, does a free happy hour set at Snug Harbor at 5 p.m. Later on Wednesday, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis leads the Uptown Jazz Orchestra at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $45.

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STREAK In the depths of summer, Red Dress Run drawing thousands to the French Quarter

Heat advisory, schmeat advisory.

The thousands of runners who plan to gather on Saturday morning for a 2-mile trot through the French Quarter don’t care about what the thermometer says.

Doug They care about MacCash athleticism, charity, adult beverages and a peculiar fashion requirement.

Every runner wears a red dress, regardless of gender. Because this is New Orleans, the getups can be anything from alluring to absolutely absurd. It’s an androgynous spectacle that draws a huge audience of onlookers to the old Vieux Carre during the dreary August doldrums.

Red Dress Run board member Brooke O’Bryant said that contributing to the Quarter was the goal from the start. The Red Dress Run is a tradition in the Hash House Harriers international organization, which bills itself as a “drinking club with a running problem.”

Thirty-two years ago, the New

Orleans branch of the Harriers could have picked a different season and location for their version of the Red Dress Run. But, O’Bryant said, the group picked the tourist center in late summer in order to “bring a small boost to the economy.” And the Harriers have stuck to the plan.

Last year, Red Dress Run began at the entrance to Armstrong Park on North Rampart Street. But because of construction at the old Municipal Auditorium, O’Bryant said, the start has been moved to the intersection of Esplanade Avenue and North Peters Street, next to Crescent Park.

The exact route is customarily kept a secret, even to the runners, until the start of the event.

But O’Bryant assures everyone that the path has been designed to avoid construction obstacles in the French Quarter.

Last year, there were a little more than 3,000 official runners, O’Bryant said. But this year, signups have increased, with an expected 3,500 paid participants by run day.

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ABOVE and TOP: The 2025 Red Dress Run blazes a crimson trail through the French Quarter and Marigny.

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RED DRESS RUN Run a 2-mile route dressed in red finery.

WHEN: Lineup at 9 a.m., start at 10:15 a.m. Saturday; a post-party is from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE: North Peters Street and Esplanade Avenue REGISTRATION: $69-$89 INFORMATION: noh3.com/RDR/RDRHome.php It costs $69 to $89 to officially join in the run. The fee covers expenses and contributes to charity. Over the past three years, O’Bryant said, the red Dress Run has generated $300,000, which was divided up among local nonprofit organizations selected by the Red Dress Run board of directors.

But here’s the thing. There’s nothing to stop folks from just showing up wearing a red dress and joining in the jogging mob somewhere along the route.

O’Bryant said there may be as

many unofficial participants as official, though more and more people seem to be signing up in order to enjoy the amenities and contribute to the charities.

Red Dress Runners may begin to arrive at the Mandeville Street shed in Crescent Park at 9 a.m. to begin fueling up. They will assemble at the starting line at North Peters Street and Esplanade Avenue for the start of run at 10:15 a.m.

The route of the run returns to the starting point. Afterward, a

post-run party takes place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the shade of the Mandeville Street shed. For details and to register to run, check the event website at noh3.com/RDR/RDRHome.php.

Email Doug MacCash at dmaccash@theadvocate.com.

The Red Dress Run, an annual charity event organized by the New Orleans Hash House Harriers in which runners and nonrunners dress in all-red attire, usually dresses, has generated $300,000 in the last three years.

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‘Ladies Night’ kicks off with chef Nina Compton Upcoming happy hours to feature different restaurants, female culinarians A few tables were seated for early dinner one night at Compère Lapin, but the real action at chef Nina Compton’s restaurant was at the bar.

A crowd of mostly women was chatting and circulating as they sipped special rum Ian cocktails and noshed bar McNulty snacks from Compton’s menu and also from guest chef Lisa Nelson, of Mid-City’s backstreet Trinbagonian island soul restaurant Queen Trini Lisa.

It was a different pace for what might’ve otherwise been a slow weeknight in downtown New Orleans in deep summer.

It was also the first edition of a new happy hour series that moves to different local restaurants from week to week over the next two months.

The series is called Ladies Night NOLA, but that’s not because the specials are for only women (they’re open to all). Rather, each of the restaurants is led by women, either as chef, proprietor, co-owner or some combination of these roles.

Each one brings different flair to their own edition, with a changing roster of collaborations, mini markets, karaoke at one, a whole fish breakdown at another and cocktails from stop to stop.

Compton cooked up the series through discussions with her fellow “lady boss” friends in the business, she said. She sees it as a way for hospitality businesses to dial up some self-help in summer, support each other and highlight just how much women are shaping the modern New Orleans dining scene.

“I see these women as fearless leaders in our community and they deserve more attention for what they’re doing,” Compton said.

When she proposed the idea, it

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Chefs Lisa Nelson, left, of Queen Trini Lisa, and Nina Compton, of Compère Lapin, collaborated for the first Ladies Night NOLA happy hour, an ongoing series held at restaurants around New Orleans.

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Kelly Jacques prepares pastries in the open kitchen at Ayu Bakehouse on Frenchmen Street.

ing fun and getting people together, STAFF PHOTO By IAN McNULTy introducing them to places and people Members of the Les Dames d’Escoffier culinary group pack the bar at Compère they might not know yet.”

“My hope is people turn it into that Lapin for the inaugural edition of Ladies Night NOLA. thing they do after work, getting the ladies together and going out for ladies caught fire and the circle of collaborathings up in the summer, and, let’s be night again,” she said. tors grew to a 10-part series. honest, people are looking for a deal,” Some events are drop-by happy “We’re all looking for ways to mix Compton said. “So it’s just about hav-

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‘Breaks our hearts’: Slidell Cuban cafe with big following is closing

BY JUSTIN MITCHELL

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Sophina Uong is chef and owner at Mister Mao restaurant in New Orleans.

hours, others are ticketed with reservations recommended. All are on Wednesdays from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

Here’s the Ladies Night NOLA schedule for August: n Aug. 12, Mister Mao, 4501 Tchoupitoulas St., collaborating with the Marigny bakery/cafe Ayu Bakehouse with French Truck espresso martinis, snacks and karaoke (this edition is until 8 p.m.). n Aug. 19, Rosedale, 801 Rosedale Drive, collaborating with Porgy’s Seafood Market, with a mini market of local vendors, light appetizers, live music, wines selected by Rosedale sommelier Michelle Gueydan and a whole fish butchery demo from Porgy’s fish monger Caitlin Carney supplying crudo plates. Tickets are $40. n Aug. 26, Dolfy’s, 4508 Freret St., a “Pintxos & Pitchers” happy hour with a choice of the Basque-style bar snacks and pitchers of summery cocktails, with live entertainment (t.b.a.). Tickets are $45.

Ladies Night NOLA events will continue each Wednesday in September. n Sept. 2: Chef de cuisine Nicole Cabrera Mills, Pêche Seafood Grill, 800 Magazine St. n Sept. 9: Co-owner Effie Richardson, Dakar NOLA, 937 Leonidas St. n Sept. 16: Chef/owner Sue Zemanick, Zasu, 127 N. Carrollton Ave. n Sept. 23: Co-owner Arkesha Baquet, Lil Dizzy’s Cafe, 1500 Esplanade Ave. n Sept. 30: Chef/owner Melissa Martin, Mosquito Supper Club, 3824 Dryades St. Email Ian McNulty at imcnulty@ theadvocate.com.

A popular Cuban cafe that has served Slidell and New Orleans diners for almost two decades has closed its dining room, the owners announced in a Facebook post Tuesday.

Que Rico!, a spot known for its strong coffee, authentic sandwiches and beef or pork dishes has been open in the New Orleans metro since 2009, when owners Richard and Iderlin “Donna” Rivera welcomed diners to their first space in Old Town Slidell.

The original location was a big hit among St. Tammany Parish residents, and many from New Orleans would make regular trips down interstates 10 or 12 to grab lunch or dinner there.

The Riveras moved their restaurant to Uptown New Orleans in 2019 after their lease was not renewed on the northshore. By 2022, the couple was on the move again, this time going back to Slidell with the same recipes, same big following and Instagrammable dining space at 2170 Gause Blvd.

Que Rico’s dining room is already closed but will still be doing takeout and catering orders for a few weeks.

“It breaks our hearts to have to come to the decision of closing Que Rico,” the Riveras said on Facebook.

“It’s been a hard run here and we gave it all we could and more. It’s just not in our best interest to stay open, any longer, at this location.”

Que Rico’s sudden closure announcement came as a shock to St. Tammany foodies. Hundreds of comments flowed onto Facebook, with many wishing the Riveras the best or recalling favorite dishes like the famous roasted pork.

“Your dedication to the community

is appreciated,” one fan said. “Thank you for years of wonderful, delicious family meals.”

Others hoped the Riveras would consider opening again when it is feasible for them. The owners teased this may not be the end in their Facebook post.

“Let us know if and when you open another location,” a commenter replied. “You all are the best Cuban food anywhere.”

Email Justin Mitchell at justin. mitchell@theadvocate.com.

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How area Cubanos stack up for a Miami native

BY MARCO CARTOLANO Staff writer

As the newsroom’s resident halfCuban American from Miami, I’ve been asked more than once to give my stamp Review of authenticity on Cuban food across the New Orleans area, particularly on Cuban sandwiches.

The classic Cuban sandwich, also known as a Cubano, is a spin on a ham and cheese sandwich, where mojoroasted pork, pickles and mustard are added to ham and melted Swiss cheese, then placed between Cuban bread that has been buttered and pressed.

While researchers believe the Cubano has its origins in the mixed sandwiches of the Cuban homeland, the sandwich was mostly popularized by the Cuban diaspora in Florida. These days, a deep rivalry exists between Miami and Tampa over which Florida city perfected the craft of a Cubano — Tampa’s adds Genoa salami thanks to its Italian immigrant community.

New Orleans may not be known for its own take on Cubanos, but in a city celebrated for diverse flavors, I knew a true Cubano must be out there. I decided to put that to the test at five local Cuban outposts across New Orleans and Jefferson Parish.

Taking on this sandwich odyssey, I realized how much I missed the familiar flavors of a Cubano after spending years without them, while in Illinois and Massachusetts. I also came to understand the true power of a good Cubano: the combination of the savory pork, tangy mustard, cheese and salty pickles that’s so addictive I sometimes ate half the sandwich before remembering to take notes.

Cubanos are also deceptively dense — the pressed bread gives a more modest appearance. I always needed a nice nap after.

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I started with a relatively new addition to the New Orleans food scene: Café Conmigo by Freret Street.

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3100 Kingman St., Metairie

It took me a minute to find the strip mall where this Metairie Cuban restaurant sat, but I felt at ease when I walked inside to a restaurant beaming with pride for Cuban culture.

Churros Café had one of the most beautiful Cubanos I have seen in Louisiana, cleanly cut in the middle with well-pressed bread.

The bread was soft and the cheese well-melted, even stretching a little as I took bites. The sharp Swiss cheese really made the sandwich, balancing the flavors from the pork, ham and pickles.

Its namesake refers to a traditional dessert, referred to as “the Spanish beignet,” and I had to try their take on it. The churros were some of the most delightfully crispy I’d ever seen. I dolSTAFF FILE PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER loped sugar on them, and they were a A Cuban sandwich is served at Manolito in New Orleans. sweet and crunchy delight that complemented a nice café con leche. ordered a café con leche that woke me The quick-service restaurant is a MANOLITO up from my post-work fatigue. great spot for casual Cuban fare for The sandwich kept its heat and juici- 508 Dumaine St., New Orleans the Uptown crowd, and its diner seats give a good view of the sandwichness during the 20-minute drive back making. from Kenner. The pork and ham were It takes something special to get me I ordered a Cubano and a pastelito the stars of this sandwich, and the to walk through the French Quarter’s and was fed well within a typical lunch mustard and melted cheese blended busy and loud construction in 90-degree break. gloriously. heat, but I’m here to say I would do it The Cubano was filled with meats again for the Cuban sandwich at ManoNORMA’S SWEETS BAKERY and cheese, and the bread was lito. crunchy. I was particularly impressed 3200 Georgia Ave., Kenner, and 2925 BienThe cozy bar and restaurant overlookville St., New Orleans by the mustard, which had a tangy flaing a courtyard may be the closest thing to a Havana watering hole that you can vor that managed to stand out between get in New Orleans (I have never actuall the meats and pickles.

Norma’s may be best known for its The pastelito was flaky and had a bakery, but its two locations also feaally been to Cuba, but I’ve seen photos). sweet guava that wouldn’t be out of I was immediately impressed with ture a deli filled with appealing meats, place in a Miami bakery. It would be a how well-put-together the sandwich cheeses and breads, as well as grocergreat accompaniment to a strong coflooked when I saw the plate. The freshies. pressed bread teased an enticing stack I stopped by the original Kenner lofee. cation and, after ordering, was handed of pork, mustard, pickles and cheese.

EL SÁNDWICHE The crispy bread had a good crunch a pretty, wrapped Cubano. I took the 3750 Williams Blvd., Kenner but was still soft enough to eat with sandwich back to the office and unlittle effort. The mojo pork was juicy wrapped it to marvel at the bread’s This pressed sandwich spot may look texture and the bits of meat poking out. — but what I enjoyed most was how the pork blended with the cheese and The bakery-made bread was what like a humble convenience store, but mustard. immediately impressed me. It was it had the Cubano that made me most For me, this sandwich was absolutely flaky and crunchy, but it was also rich. nostalgic.

The sandwich was filled with seasoned, the winner.

The two halves of the sandwich are I also tried the restaurant’s Cuban salty pork and ham, and I was imwrapped, so they’re easy to eat withtake on hummus with Tajin crackers, a pressed that the sandwich never fell out getting your hands dirty. They savory black bean puree and a strawapart. come with papas fritas, small and thin When I finished Norma’s sandwich, I berry daiquiri that actually tasted like French fries that are common sides felt genuinely sad that I was done. for Latin American sandwiches. I also real strawberry.

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A town is under suspicion in ‘The Crucible’ at Mandeville’s 30 by Ninety Local theatrical attention looks north this week — the northshore and New York — as shows ease into August with performances and new works to keep stages going.

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KC Simms and Aria Jackson rehearse on a New york rooftop for ‘One Night at the Blackbird,’ a New Orleans-set play by part-time resident Thomas Mullen set to premiere at the Broadway Bound Festival.

‘The Crucible’ The McCarthy “witch hunt” for communists in the 1940s and ’50s and the actual witch trials of the Massachusetts colony of the 1600sinspired Arthur Miller’s dramatic stage powerhouse, a cautionary tale Victor for bigotry and hate.

Andrews “The Crucible,” set in Salem, Massachusetts, at the height of the witchcraft frenzy, opens Saturday at 30 by Ninety Theatre in Mandeville.

In the play, a group of young girls are accused of practicing witchcraft in the puritanical age. Using actual historical events, Miller crafts a story where the events draw in the town and suspicion rampantly runs through the town as a trial progresses, lies become truths and protecting oneself can come at a huge price.

Courtney Calato Lee is the director of the show, with the talents of Blair Mayeux, Michael Graves, Aniyah Franklin, Tom Hassinger, Nino Bonura Jr., Lindsey Ehricht, Robert Pool, Jack Latner, Julia Simon, Mary Beth Stone, Tara Bennett, Nino Bonura Sr., Chris Aberle, David Jacobs, Genevieve Soine, Daniel Laurent, Ella Kornfuhrer, Amanda Jones, Sam Lee, Arden Dufilho, Sarah Cook and Travis Nevers.

The show is at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and 2:30 p.m. Sundays through Aug. 23 at 880 Lafayette St.. Tickets start at $20. Visit 30byninety.com.

‘One Night at the Blackbird’ It’s not a New Orleans stage but a

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‘The Crucible’ will open the new season at 30 by Ninety Theatre in Mandeville.

Performing a scene are Sam Lee, from left, Lindsey Ehricht and Amanda Jones.

New York one that will open a new show Wednesday with roots in the Crescent City, starring a pair of local actors and penned and produced by part-time resident Thomas Mullen.

Aria Jackson and KC Simms, familiar to local audiences from their work with NOLA Project and other local offerings, will star in “One Night at the Blackbird” as part of the Broadway Bound Festival in the Big Apple’s theater district.

Set in a funeral home in New Orleans’ 7th Ward, the show centers on club owner Lucy (or Lucifer), who has hosted dead legends in the secret nightclub for eons but is growing weary.

“I play Lucy,” Jackson said in publicity material. “She is written to double as the devil but a redeemable character nonetheless, who has a love for jazz but seeks a spiritual connection with God, being a fallen angel.”

The club manager, who wants Lucy to keeps things going, is Herman Godfrey, played by Simms.

“Herman Godfrey is an anxious wreck,” Jackson said. “He’s coming face to face with his own mortality and he’s willing to do anything, including making a deal. No, making another deal with the devil.”

The transition from one “New” city to another seems to work for Jackson.

“Being here in New York feels surreal in a way, because I never imagined that I would be in New York, and in a play so soon,” she said. “It was always a dream of mine, but it’s really exciting that I’m here courtesy of NOLA Project and with a fellow NOLA actor. It’s good to have a friendly face as we’re breaking into a whole new world.”

Added Simms: “I’m grateful we can showcase the talent that New Orleans has been cookin’ up.”

The show was chosen in August 2025 for the NOLA Project’s Rough Draughts reading series held at local bars, breweries and watering holes.

Mullen, who wrote the show with Maria Messias Mendes, hopes to bring the show back “within the next year or two.”

A former newspaper owner, Mullen received a master’s degree from Cambridge University and at 59 started a new career in theater. He splits his time between Washington state and New Orleans.

The show will run for three performances along with the other 11 offerings of the festival. Visit broadwayboundfest.com.

In production “CHICAGO”: 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays through Aug. 15; Cutting Edge Center for the Arts, 767 Robert Blvd., Slidell. Kander and Ebb’s Vaudevillestyle setting for the murderous 1920s in this Illinois town takes looks at two murderesses as they “paint the town ... and all that jazz.” Tickets start at $33. cuttindedgetheater.com.

“A GENTLEMAN’S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER”: 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday; Westwego Performing Arts Theatre, 177 Sala Ave. in Westwego. Jefferson Performing Arts stages the Broadway hit about a man desperate for a title to the point where he begins killing his relatives who stand in this way. Tickets start at $42. jpas.org.

“THE ROSE TATTOO”: 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday; Loyola’s Marquette Theater, 6363 St. Charles Ave. Tennessee Williams Theatre Co.’s production about a Sicilian widow living somewhere in Mississippi with her daughter, who deifies her late husband, in spite of his all-too-human foibles, sheltering herself and her daughter. She begins to come out with the arrival of another truck driver named Alvaro. Tickets start at $45. twtheatrenola.com.

Email Victor Andrews at vandrews@ theadvocate.com.

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