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Krotz Springs Elementary the latest to be shuttered, despite fight from community to save it

Jury selection to begin in killing of FBI witness Prosecutors allege longtime Kenner horseman the mastermind behind staged wrecks

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Children have attended Krotz Springs Elementary for over a century. Since 2020, nearly 100 Louisiana public schools have shut down, largely due to declining enrollment. But in the small town of Krotz Springs, residents tried to save their school. BY PATRICK WALL

public schools lost 60,000 students over the past decade as families moved away, had fewer children or opted for Joseph Ashcraft was charter schools and homecrouched behind home plate catching fastballs when he schooling. heard that his kids’ school As the enrollment decline might close. accelerates, more systems THE CRISIS Two moms were chatting beare seeking to “right-size.” OF DECLINING Since 2020, nearly 100 Louisihind Ashcraft, who coaches the ENROLLMENT Krotz Springs Swamp Sisters, ana public schools have shut IN LA.’S while the pitcher warmed up. down. TRADITIONAL One said she’d heard the St. The same trend is playing PUBLIC Landry Parish School Board out nationally, with school cloSCHOOLS was considering shutting down sures surging 35% over the Krotz Springs Elementary, the past four years, according to Third in an sole public school in this small federal data. occasional town about 40 miles west of Ba“We are seeing an enormous series uptick in the number of cloton Rouge. As the softball slammed sures, both rural and urban,” into his mitt, Ashcraft turned around. said Mara Casey Tieken, an education “Wait, what?” professor at Bates College in Maine Up and down Louisiana, parents are who studies school closures and rural getting similar surprises as once-bus- education. The closures come at a high cost. tling schools shed students. The state’s Staff writer

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Joseph Ashcraft stands with his children, Jackson, 8, and Skylar, 13, at a park in Krotz Springs. They create disruption, causing test scores to drop, behavior issues to rise and friendships to fray, researchers have found. And while losing a school is painful anywhere, the loss can be

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Three years ago, Sean Alfortish was on a comeback run that had brought him home to New Orleans’ Fair Grounds. The longtime Kenner horseman had suffered a spectacular fall from grace a decade earlier. As president of the Louisiana Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, he admitted in federal court in 2013 to bilking the group and rigging an election to remain its leader. Alfortish went to prison. He lost his law license. When he got out, state racing regulators rebuffed his pleas to be allowed to own horses again. So Alfortish came back as a Alfortish trainer — ﬁrst in Texas, then New Mexico, where records show he trained a horse named Mr. Big Rig, and eventually back where he started in New Orleans. “I’m still too arrogant to listen,” Alfortish said in an interview at the Fair Grounds in 2022. “But I’ve grown to understand (the horses) a lot better.” His comeback was aided by his fiancé, a recent law school graduate and former Hollywood stuntwoman named Vanessa Motta. She owned racehorses with names like Dixie Street and Julia’s Warrior — the latter a nod to Motta’s daughter. Alfortish trained them. He could be found tending horses on the Fair Grounds backstretch or, on race days, pacing the grandstand. One spring afternoon in 2023, he punched the air and planted a kiss on Motta’s lips as Julia’s Warrior stormed the ﬁnish line a winner. It wasn’t the only game the couple was running, federal prosecutors allege. Within months of that 2023 race, both would be named atop a federal indictment as architects of an eye-popping scheme to pack cars with passengers, drive them onto highways and ram them into merging 18-wheelers. Prosecutors allege Alfortish directed the operation for years, starting around when his federal probation ended in 2016.

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Vermilion Parish ponders impact of SpaceX spaceport Residents look to Texas, Florida for clues to what future might hold

BY ALEX LUBBEN and STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writers

As Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration ﬁnalizes a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a spaceport in coastal Vermilion Parish, residents of the remote area are trying to make sense of what the unprecedented project might mean for their community. Recent comments from Musk

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and other SpaceX ofﬁcials offer a sense of the company’s plans to expand its launch capabilities, and some close watchers of the aerospace industry say the Vermilion site likely aligns with those goals. Additionally, there are two other areas that could serve as a guide for what the future holds: Boca Chica, Texas, where SpaceX has built its Starbase headquarters; and Florida’s “Space Coast,” the region around Cape Canaveral along the Atlantic Ocean that has been the site of NASA’s space launches since the Apollo program. In Starbase, Texas, formerly Boca Chica Village, SpaceX incorporated its own municipality with

about 5,000 residents. It has its own mayor. In less than a decade, the company has built rockets and launchpads there, as well as a company-run elementary school. And it is permitted to launch 25 rockets a year. Local elected ofﬁcials say it has been a boon to the regional tax base. But the frequency of rocket launches has increased with Musk’s growing quest to put more rockets carrying his Starlink satellites into orbit. Environmental groups have called attention to the impacts that those launches have had on nearby wildlife refuges. In Florida, residents in Titusville and Cape Canaveral have lived

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The sun rises behind SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship as it is prepared for ä See SPACEX, page 5A a test flight from Starbase, Texas, on July 24.

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Trump picks Will Scharf as White House counsel

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump announced Sunday that his new White House counsel will be Will Scharf, the staff secretary who as the Trumpappointed head of the National Capital Planning Commission helped secure approval for the $400 million ballroom project. Trump said that, beginning Sept. 1, Scharf will be replacing David Warrington, who will be leaving the administration to join the private sector. Trump noted that Scharf previously served as a federal prosecutor and represented him in a number of cases, including at the Supreme Court. “Will is Tough, Strong, and Smart! He also loves our Country, and respects the Law,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Will Scharf will do a great job as White House Counsel!” The shakeup in the White House counsel’s ofﬁce comes at a critical juncture — just months ahead of the midterm elections, where Trump’s Republican Party will be ﬁghting to hold on to control of Congress. Democrats have vowed to pursue investigations into Trump and his administration if they are successful in November. The White House counsel’s job is to advise on legal and policy questions related to the presidency.

Nagasaki marks 81st anniversary of bombing

TOKYO — Nagasaki marked on Sunday the 81st anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of the southwestern city, as the mayor called nuclear weapons “absolute evil,” denounced growing support for nuclear deterrence and called on the Japanese government to adhere to its three postwar non-nuclear principles. The anniversary coincided with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s government revising the country’s defense policy to further bolster the military’s offensive capability. Speculation has risen about whether Takaichi, who supports nuclear dissuasion, may allow nuclear weapons to be brought into the country, going against the third non-nuclear principle. Mayor Shiro Suzuki said that while some countries argue the possession of nuclear weapons helps deter potential attackers, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had demonstrated that humans can cross the line. “The theory of nuclear deterrence is extremely dangerous and fragile. Nuclear weapons are not a ‘necessary evil’ but an ‘absolute evil,’ and can never coexist with humanity,” Suzuki said. “To all leaders of the nuclear states and nations relying on nuclear deterrence, you must face the reality that the more you rely on nuclear deterrence, the more you increase the risk of a nuclear war.” The United States launched the Nagasaki attack on Aug. 9, 1945, killing 70,000 by the end of that year, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima that killed 140,000. Japan surrendered on Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.

Syria to take control of 2 bases from Russia

DAMASCUS, Syria — Russian forces in Syria will give up control of two strategic bases on the Mediterranean coast, which will be used as joint Russia-Syrian training centers under a new agreement between the two countries, Syria’s Foreign Ministry said Sunday. Russia was the top political and military ally of ousted President Bashar Assad during the country’s civil war between 2011 and 2024. Assad was ousted in December 2024 by Islamist insurgents led by current interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa and has since ﬂed into exile in Russia. Throughout the conflict, the Hmeimem air base and the Tartus naval base were key Russian military outposts in the eastern Mediterranean. Under the new agreement between Damascus and Moscow, Syria will take control of the Hmeimem air base and the commercial berth at Tartus port as part of its civil administration. The military facilities at both sites will become “joint training” centers, the Foreign Ministry said.

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Iran rejects U.S. talks for now Wait for Hormuz deal drags on

BY SARA GHARAIBEH and PATRICK SYKES Bloomberg News (TNS)

Iran and Oman remained short of a ﬁnal deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, although President Donald Trump signaled patience, saying the U.S. could wait for Tehran’s economic suffering to soften its stance. For its part, Iran ruled out direct talks with the U.S. for now, citing what Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described as repeated violations of a short-lived interim peace agreement signed in June. “As long as the American violation of the Memorandum of Understanding continues and the U.S. does not make amends for its violations, there is no possibility of resuming negotiations,” Araghchi was cited as saying by state TV. Araghchi also said a pact with Oman to establish a shipping route through the strait was “very close.” That didn’t seem to bother Trump, who on Sunday told Axios in a short phone call that the U.S. was now “lowkeying it.” “We are only semi-negotiating with them,” he said. “We are just watching Iran with its huge inﬂation and

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Cargo ships float at sea near the Strait of Hormuz on May 1, as seen from a rocky shoreline near Khor Fakkan, United Arab Emirates. the fact they have no money.” Sunday’s remarks follow weeks of Trump threatening massive airstrikes on Iran only to pull back, saying he wanted to give negotiations a chance. Iranian year-on-year inﬂation reached 77% recently, according to Iran’s central bank. Tehran on Saturday upped the ante by renewing a hefty list of demands for Washington as conditions for a full reopening of Hormuz, indicating any immediate respite for oil and gas supplies may be limited. The Strait of Hormuz,

through which one-ﬁfth of the globe’s oil and gas is shipped, has become a key factor in the war the U.S. and Israel started on Feb. 28. Trump has demanded the resumption of open navigation for months. With a deal elusive, the situation in the Middle East stayed volatile on Sunday. Iranian-backed Houthi rebels claimed they’d struck Saudi Aramco’s Jizan oil refinery in the kingdom. Saudi authorities earlier reported a ﬁre at the facility but it was quickly extinguished and no injuries reported. U.S. Vice President JD

Vance on Saturday suggested there’d been recent progress in talks, but he remained skeptical. The question, he said, is whether Iran will be able “to give the things that are necessary for us to be happy, for us to feel like we’ve gotten what we need out of this particular engagement,” he told Fox News. Washington has repeatedly suggested it’s part of negotiations over the management of Hormuz, which Iran disputes. “Some intermediary countries are trying to reestablish the ground for negotiations,” Araghchi

was quoted as saying on Sunday. “At present, we are not negotiating with the U.S. — the exchange of messages is taking place through intermediaries.” Oman, which borders the strait across from Iran, said its talks with Tehran were progressing in “a positive and constructive atmosphere.” In a post on X, authorities called for a halt on actions in the strait to give space for diplomatic efforts. Iran’s demands include that the U.S. lifts its naval blockade on Iranian ports, withdraws military forces from around Iran, removes sanctions, releases frozen assets and pays compensation for war damage, according to Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, a hard-liner who heads the Supreme National Security Council. Traffic through the chokepoint has been largely blocked since the start of the war, but some ships have continued to ferry cargoes as part of a shuttle program involving U.S. military help. Oil prices swung between gains and losses last week, with Brent eventually settling above $83 a barrel as traders weighed the prospects of a deal that’s expected to clear the way for the restoration of millions of barrels of supply from the Persian Gulf.

Wildfires burn across western U.S., Canada Residents evacuated amid blazes

BY JAMIE STENGLE and WUFEI YU Associated Press

Wildfires burning across the western U.S. and Canada on Sunday left some residents keeping a wary eye out for possible evacuation orders while others already forced to flee their homes waited to see what would be left on their return. In western Canada, over 20,000 people were forced to flee communities along Okanagan Lake in British Columbia over the weekend as a fast-moving wildfire destroyed homes and dozens had to be rescued by aircraft. In the U.S., crews in Washington that have been fighting three wildfires that began burning in the Spokane area for over a week continued clean-up near containment lines. Laurie Allen left her home in Nine Mile Falls, a community north of Spokane, last weekend, fleeing with her husband, dog and two kittens as a wildfire

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The Bald Range wildfire, which has forced people out of their homes in the south Okanagan region, burns Saturday in Summerland, British Columbia. burned a short distance away. The roads into her neighborhood were still closed Sunday but she said she’d learned from a friend that while covered in ashes, her house and others nearby were intact. “I’ve been here 65 years. It’s never happened,” Allen said. “We didn’t think about anything but grabbing our animals and leaving. But now it’s affected so many of our friends and family around. So it’s pretty dang devastating.” In Canada, Anette Boulet was among residents who ﬂed Summerland, home to about 12,000 people along Okanagan Lake. As she and her family left around 4:30 a.m. Saturday, their home

was shrouded in smoke. “You couldn’t see barely. It was, it was just dark, and the ridge, the ridge of fire just coming towards you,” said Boulet, who evacuated to a center in Penticton. “There’s no words to express it,” she said. “The fear.” Besides the evacuations in Summerland, the Bald Range fire, first reported Friday evening, has also led to the evacuation of about 8,000 people in and around nearby Peachland. British Columbia declared a state of emergency Saturday. Eleanor Olszewski, Canada’s minister of emergency management and community resilience, said

Mother, baby die after boat capsizes in New York Harbor By The Associated Press NEW YORK — The operator of a boat that capsized in New York Harbor, killing a mother and her infant daughter, is facing criminal charges and authorities are investigating whether the vessel was an illegal charter, the U.S. Coast Guard said Sunday. The 22-foot Bayliner speedboat overturned around 10:25 p.m. Saturday near Liberty Island, home to the Statue of Liberty, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Twelve people were rescued from the water before police arrived, and police divers later located the 27-year-old woman and 5-month-old girl in the water. Both were taken to a hospital where they were pronounced dead. According to the Coast Guard, the others were in stable condition. “We are deeply saddened by the tragic loss of life last night, and our thoughts are with the victims’ family and loved ones during this incredibly difﬁcult time,” said Capt. Doreen McCarthy, the Coast Guard Sector New York commander. “We are

extremely grateful for the heroic, swift actions of our partner agencies and Good Samaritan vessel who assisted in rescuing survivors from the water.” Manuel Hernandez, 46, of New York, has been charged with 13 counts of reckless endangerment, police said. No phone number for him could be found Sunday, and the case has not yet been entered into online court records. The victims’ identities have not been released pending notiﬁcation of family, police said Sunday. Adam Schwartz said his sightseeing company’s hot tub boat, Sea the City II, was out on a cruise when the accident occurred and took the 12 survivors onboard. “Our captain and both crew members immediately assisted, called in to the Coast Guard and ... then coordinated with the Coast Guard and NYPD Harbor units to bring them to land in Brooklyn,” Schwartz told The Associated Press on Sunday. McCarthy said Coast Guard investigators are working with police to investigate.

Sunday on social media that she’d approved a request for federal assistance from British Columbia to provide shelter and accommodations for those forced to flee. Crews fighting three wildfires in the Spokane area continued “mop-up operations” on Sunday near containment lines, and none of the fires were growing, according to a news release from the team managing those wildfires. The fires, which have burned over the last week, have damaged or destroyed about 920 structures. Earlier in the week a man was arrested and charged with intentionally setting the biggest of the three Spokanearea blazes.

Residents in the tiny rural town of Malden, located about 35 miles south of Spokane, had been urged Saturday to evacuate immediately. By Sunday, however, their evacuation level was downgraded to be ready to quickly leave if necessary. In Utah, two helicopter pilots were killed when their aircraft crashed while they were fighting a wildfire Friday morning in the Fishlake National Forest. Crews were finally able to get to the site Saturday to confirm the deaths. Officials said Sunday that fire activity had prevented them from quickly reaching the area amid steep, rough terrain.

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Russia, Ukraine exchange overnight strikes By The Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia and Ukraine exchanged strikes overnight that killed civilians and injured many others on both sides, local authorities reported. Large-scale Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities have become almost routine in recent weeks, with Moscow exploiting Ukraine’s critical shortage of interceptors for the U.S.-made Patriot systems — the sole air defense weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down ballistic missiles. In the latest attacks, Ukrainian drones killed ﬁve people and injured two dozen others, including a 4-year-old boy, in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, according to the regional administration. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, Russian missiles struck a high-rise apartment block in the Saltivskyi district, killing two people and injuring 13, ac-

cording to regional head Oleh Syniehubov. Eight more people were injured in Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa after “dozens of missiles and drones” struck the city and surrounding region, according to local administration head Oleh Kiper. U k r a i n e ’s P r e s i d e n t Volodymyr Zelenskyy has for months lobbied other countries, especially the U.S., to send Ukraine more Patriot systems made scarcer by the Iran war, arguing they are crucial for defending civilians. Failing that, Zelenskyy wants to make Patriot ammunition in Ukraine or get approval from Elon Musk to use his Starlink satellite communications system to guide ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ANDRII MARIENKO strikes inside Russia that can Firefighters put out a fire Sunday after a residential building was hit in Russia’s drone attack hit its missile launchers. Meanwhile, Kyiv has kept in Kharkiv, Ukraine. up long-range drone strikes against Russian energy in- targets deep inside Russia, night strikes hit drone ware- longing to Ukraine’s armed frastructure, as well as the sparking a fuel crisis. houses in the Kharkiv region, forces at the port of Odesa. It said its forces had shot country’s largest online reRussia’s defense ministry as well as fuel depots and tailer, Wildberries, and other on Sunday claimed its over- stores of other materiel be- down 153 Ukrainian drones

during the night, including over Russian-occupied Crimea and the Black and Azov seas. In Russia’s Belgorod region, authorities said Ukrainian drone strikes damaged 29 apartment blocks and five private houses, as well as administrative buildings and unspecified “commercial facilities.” Debris from Ukrainian drones also fell on two enterprises and a private home in the Russian city of Novorossiysk, Mayor Andrey Kravchenko said on Sunday. He did not specify what the commercial sites were. Regional authorities later said falling debris had injured one person, damaged two private houses, and blew out a window in an apartment block. A major fuel terminal is located at Novorossiysk that links Kazakhstan’s oil fields to markets around the world, and which has previously been a target for Ukrainian strikes.

DOJ pushes defense firms to Senate candidate speaks with Obama boost weapons production as Michigan Democrats look to unite By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is pressing the U.S. defense industry to accelerate production of weapons to help replenish its diminished stockpile of munitions, including those depleted in the ongoing war with Iran. Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said in a statement Saturday that the department was actively focused on boosting munitions acquisitions to provide “the weapons our warfighters need at the pace the threat demands.” He confirmed department efforts in the last week to significantly speed the process but insisted it was part of a broader modernization effort that predated the five-month-old conflict. Deputy Defense Secretary

Steve Feinberg wrote to industry leaders on Wednesday, giving them no more than 21 days to submit plans to “drive signiﬁcantly faster, more aggressive delivery schedules and/or increased production for critical capabilities,” according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post. “Yearslong development cycles are not acceptable,” Feinberg wrote. “We must dramatically accelerate our program schedules and expand our production capacity now.” The memo comes as recent ﬁghting with Iran used up more of the U.S. military’s already diminished stockpiles of advanced missile interceptors, potentially putting American troops at more risk if hostilities resume, according to a new

analysis. Shrunken inventories of Patriot and THAAD interceptors may force the U.S. and its Middle Eastern allies to take more risks to conserve those air defenses, according to the analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank. For example, it said, American forces may launch fewer missiles against incoming Iranian drones and missiles, raising the chance of one getting through. President Donald Trump in recent days has bristled over public reports of a munitions shortage, posting on Truth Social on Thursday that the U.S. has “massive amounts.” He added that “large amounts are being manufactured and shipped to the U.S. as needed.”

Suspected Irish crime boss lands in Dublin after extradition By The Associated Press

LONDON — The alleged leader of an Irish organized crime gang was extradited to Ireland from Dubai on Sunday to face allegations that he ran an international drug smuggling and money laundering empire with tentacles that stretched to Britain, Spain and the U.S. The Irish Air Corps plane carrying Daniel Kinahan, 49, landed at an airport on the outskirts of Dublin on Sunday evening after courts in Dubai refused to block his extradition. Kinahan was taken to the Special Criminal Court in Dublin where he was charged with directing the

activities of a criminal organization. He was ordered to remain in custody at the high-security Portlaoise Prison about 90 miles southwest of the capital. His next court appearance is scheduled for Oct. 5 Ireland’s Special Criminal Court handles all organized crime and terrorism cases, as well as others where prosecutors believe the ordinary courts are inadequate to ensure the “effective administration of justice.” Cases are heard by a panel of three judges without a jury. Irish media reported that a huge security operation was underway to ensure Kinahan faces justice. It includes

armed police, members of the armed forces and the prison service — which recently acquired a bombproof escort van to transport organized crime suspects, terrorists and other highrisk prisoners, Irish broadcaster RTE reported. The security precautions come after Kinahan family members were linked to a bloody gang war with another Irish organized crime group. U.S. authorities said in 2022 that the feud had resulted in 18 murders as they announced a reward of up to $5 million for information leading to the disruption of the Kinahan organization or the arrest and conviction of Kinahan.

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vice. It was very warm, very inviting, and I know that he BRIDGEWATER, N.J. — Abdul knows the critical role that El-Sayed, the Democratic Michigan is going to play,” nominee for U.S. Senate in El-Sayed told NBC’s “Meet the Press.” Michigan, said SunAsked if he would day he has spoken like to see Obama with Barack Obama come to Michigan and hopes the forto drum up support mer president camfor Democrats bepaigns with him as the party tries to fore the midterm unite after a bitter elections in Novemprimary that ex- El-Sayed ber, El-Sayed said he “really” hoped so posed deep rifts between its progressive and and that Obama “knows a lot about winning Michigan” afmoderate wings. El-Sayed said his Friday ter carrying the state in the conversation with Obama 2008 and 2012 presidential was “really warm and in- races. An Obama spokesperson spiring.” The candidate did conﬁrmed the call. not provide details. The discussion came the “I was grateful for his ad-

same day that a group of Michigan nominees and other notable national Democrats tried to present a united front at a rally in Detroit. The crowd cheered loudest for El-Sayed, a former public health official who last week narrowly beat establishment-backed U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens in a contentious and closely watched primary. A Democratic victory in the fall is crucial to the party’s chances of regaining a Senate majority. Democratic Sen. Gary Peters is not seeking reelection in the perennial swing state, which Republican Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024, while Democrat Joe Biden carried in 2020.

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Netanyahu rejects Hamas disarmament proposal touted by Trump BY DAN WILLIAMS and FARES AKRAM

Bloomberg News (TNS) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected a proposal by U.S.-backed mediators for disarming Hamas, hardening his position after voicing misgivings at the suggestion that Israel reciprocate with phased pullouts from Gaza. “Israel does not accept the 15-point document,” Netanyahu told his weekly Cabinet meeting on Sunday, according to an ofﬁcial translation. In his original remarks, he used a Hebrew verb that could be understood as “Israel rejects” or “rules out.” “The IDF will not carry out any withdrawal until Hamas is genuinely disarmed, and it will continue to thwart threats against our forces and citizens,” Netanyahu added, referring to the Israel Defense Forces. He was responding to a “road map” published on July 30 by the Board of Peace, an international

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Continued from page 1A devastating to rural communities where the local school is often a social and civic anchor. “There’s almost this sort of gravitational ﬁeld around it,” Tieken said, “like the community is kind of held together by the school.” In Krotz Springs, children have attended the town’s public school for over a century. It sits near the center of the close-knit community on the Atchafalaya River where, in 1900, a man named Charles Krotz drilled for oil but struck spring water. A s h c r a f t ’s c h i l d r e n , 13-year-old Skylar and 8-year-old Jackson, go to Krotz Springs Elementary. Their dad works just down the street, a captain in the local fire department. He gives a ﬁre safety presentation at the school every year and never misses the daddydaughter dance or “Putting on the Hits,” the annual musical production that draws many of the town’s roughly 1,000 residents to the school gym. His kids’ classmates live nearby, and a teacher lived next door. His son’s first grade teacher knew she could call Ashcraft on speakerphone if Jackson was acting up, and the school secretary knew to send the kids to the fire station if their parents couldn’t meet them after dismissal. “They know who you are, you know who they are,” Ashcraft said. “There’s a bond there.” On June 13, a couple weeks after he heard the speculation about the school’s closure, the School Board met at its office in Opelousas, the St. Landry Parish seat. Stern-faced parents and district employees packed the room, anxious to learn if the rumors were true. Superintendent Milton Batiste III explained that the St. Landry Parish school system had been steadily shrinking, losing nearly a quarter of its students over the past decade. The district now faced an $18 million deficit and risked being unable to make payroll, Batiste said. To slash expenses, he proposed closing or consolidating several schools, including Krotz Springs. “We have to downsize,” he told the crowd, “in order to survive.” Ashcraft’s son already had picked out his new uniform for second grade at Krotz Springs Elementary, and his daughter had prewritten her eighth grade graduation Snyder speech. Now, the children might never set foot again in the school. Two days before the board was to vote on the plan, Krotz Springs Mayor Carroll Snyder Evans held a town meeting to discuss how to stop the closure. Ashcraft’s friend and fellow softball coach, Derek Evans, spoke with a local TV reporter. “We’re trying to get the

consortium set up to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s postwar vision for the ravaged Palestinian territory. The president has lauded the road map as Netanyahu a “historic agreement” and “a major milestone.” Hamas has given only a hedged consent to the road map, saying it would hand over heavy weapons to a proposed new Gaza administration and conditioning this on Israeli withdrawals and the creation of a Palestinian state. The road map speaks of the new administration empowering individual Palestinians to keep their small arms. Trump’s original plan envisaged Israeli troops and tanks leaving the Gaza Strip entirely, and discussions of eventual statehood — while casting these as end results of a complete demilitarization and post-Hamas stabilization of the territory.

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The Board of Peace sounded circumspect about Netanyahu’s remarks, describing the road map as its deal with Hamas, rather than with Israel — and the timeline as pro-

tracted. “Nobody is required to do anything, last of all lsrael, before we actually have veriﬁed steps on the ground” by the Palestinian cadres, the board’s top envoy, Nickolay Mladenov, told Israel’s Channel 12 television. While predicting that decommissioning Hamas tunnels — another requirement of Trump’s plan — may take years, Mladenov said that with each eventual success in clearing a sector of territory “Israel is required to move back, progressively, step by step, in stages, ultimately to the fence of Gaza.” The initial, ceaseﬁre phase of the Trump plan was clinched last Octo-

ber. There’s been little diplomatic progress since, and the Israeli army has advanced beyond armistice lines against a shrinking Hamas ﬁefdom where some 2 million Palestinians are crammed. Israel launched the war in response to an October 2023 invasion by Hamas that blindsided Netanyahu’s religious-rightist government. Three years on, Netanyahu is hoping for reelection in October. With Hamas still undefeated, he has pointed to Israel’s continued grip on Gaza as a lesser victory. Far-right ministers in Netanyahu’s coalition have been upset by the road map. One of them, Orit Strock, called it a “bloodshed map” in a radio interview before Sunday’s cabinet meeting. Following Netanyahu’s remarks, her party’s leader, Bezalel Smotrich, praised the prime minister for issuing the “clariﬁcation.” Hamas, which is blacklisted as a terrorist group in the West, said it’s committed to the road map and accused Netanyahu of “obstructing the process for domestic, political

School Board’s attention,” Evans said, “and let them know we’re not going to just lie down.”

A dad takes on the system Before the school closure battle, Evans was just a typical Krotz Springs dad. He gets his Cajun food from Kartchner’s Grocery on U.S. 190 and works for a company that inspects equipment at oil refineries like the one in Krotz Springs. “Jet fuel and boudin balls,” he says, are what keep the town running. An alum of Krotz Springs Elementary, he has two daughters who went there and two there now. Evans saw the school — a singlestory building flanked by a Catholic church and an RV park — as essential to the town, just like the water tower that soars over Krotz Springs and the river that runs alongside it. Now, seemingly out of the blue, district officials were threatening to close it. “It hits you someplace low,” he said, “when they say, ‘Well, let’s just close it,’ like it’s nothing.” Evans decided to put up a fight. He started a “Save Krotz Springs Elementary” Facebook page. He created a petition to keep the school open, which garnered hundreds of signatures. And he wrote to state officials — the governor, the attorney general, the superintendent of education — to seek assistance. “We are not asking for special treatment,” he wrote, “we are simply asking that every possible solution be explored.” The district’s plan would transfer Krotz Springs’ roughly 200 students to the elementary and middle schools in the neighboring town of Port Barre, where Krotz Springs students already attend high school. Now, they would start commuting in preschool. Evans and other parents objected to making young children ride a bus 14 miles each way along a busy highway. He also questioned whether the district was retaliating against the town for voting against raising a property tax rate that helps fund the schools and has not increased for 40 years. On social media, some critics suggested that race played a role in Krotz Springs’ opposition to the plan: The town’s school is more than 90% White, while Port Barre’s schools are more than a quarter Black. Evans and others strongly denied that, noting that they already send their kids to Port Barre High School. Most of all, Evans was skeptical of the savings that officials said would come from closing Krotz Springs Elementary. District figures projected $1.5 million in savings by eliminating all 33 staff positions, yet some Krotz Springs teachers were being transferred to other schools. The figures also showed a reduction in Port Barre Elementary teachers, even though

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Residents of Krotz Springs attend a July meeting to discuss the proposed closure of the town’s only public school. that school would be gaining nearly 150 students. “The numbers do not add up,” Evans said. Tieken, the education professor, said closing schools doesn’t always save much money because teachers often are reassigned to other campuses, buildings still must be maintained and new transportation costs may arise. Some parents also withdraw their children, draining per-student funding from the district. “This is really ironic,” Tieken said, because often the main rationale for closing a school “is that it’s going to save money. And then it may not.”

audience, Emily Disotell, a Krotz Springs alum and parent, covered her face and cried. Later that night, Ashcraft and his wife watched a recording of the meeting. He was irate. The board had been in ﬁnancial distress for years, yet it was only now taking this drastic step, just weeks before the new school year. Skylar also was upset. When school had let out for summer break, she and her classmates had no idea they wouldn’t be coming back. “We didn’t realize,” she said, “that we were going to have to say goodbye to Krotz Springs.”

The mayor steps in

Parents chart their course

Evans had a staunch ally in his battle against the closure plan. Snyder is a lifelong Krotz Spring resident who still can name teachers he had at the elementary school nearly 60 years ago. He’s the co-owner of Atchafalaya Basin Seafood, which has been selling crawﬁsh along U.S. 190 for four decades. He’s been the town mayor for the past 15 years, a role in which he helps repair busted water mains and clear storm debris with a backhoe and chain saw. Speaking with Evans and a few other parents who wanted to know what could be done to stop the closure, Snyder had an idea. “Well,” he said, “we might be able to get a restraining order.” On the morning of July 1, the Krotz Springs town attorney ﬁled for a temporary restraining order to prevent Superintendent Batiste and the St. Landry Parish School Board from closing the school. The lawsuit said residents had not known the board was going to discuss the closure plan at the June 13 meeting, which was labeled a board “retreat.” The district officials defended themselves, saying the meeting was publicized in advance, attended by a large crowd, and only called a retreat because the board did not take any action. Still, a judge granted the order, which was modified to allow the board to vote on the Krotz Springs closure but not enact it until after a later court hearing. Concerned parents and residents crowded into the School Board’s meeting room that evening. Despite pleas from Snyder and others, ultimately, a majority of board members voted in favor of the superintendent’s plan, which called for closing six schools and reducing the district workforce by nearly 30%. In the

On a steamy July evening a couple weeks after the vote, Mayor Snyder led a gathering of residents in the Lord’s Prayer. A few days earlier, he and others had driven to Opelousas for a hearing on the temporary restraining order. The St. Landry Parish judge said he sympathized with the families, but the law was on the School Board’s side. He lifted the order, allowing the closure to proceed. Now, as families sought advice on what to do next, Snyder brought up his Plan B. “A charter school is in the making,” he told the crowd. Snyder had discussed the idea with Evans and other parents. They’d ask to lease the Krotz Springs Elementary building, where

and electoral reasons.” “We expect the mediators and the U.S. guarantor to exert pressure on Netanyahu and his government to compel him to abide by the road map,” Hamas negotiator Bassem Naim said in a statement. A surge of Israeli air strikes in July that targeted Hamas commanders — which also killed dozens of civilians — has ceased since Aug. 3, a tacit sign that Netanyahu heeded Mladenov’s calls not to endanger the diplomacy. In another signal of potential progress, the Board of Peace on Saturday said it brought together experts to plan temporary housing for displaced Palestinians, an interim measure before the permanent reconstruction that Mladenov has said would require Hamas to disarm ﬁrst. Separately, Netanyahu’s office said work was underway on a new tent city, funded by the United Arab Emirates, in an area that the IDF had cleared of Hamas and weaponry.

the district planned to put virtual class instructors. If the board wouldn’t allow it, Snyder was willing to donate 30 acres of his own land to build a campus for the new school. Many liked the idea of a Krotz Springs charter school, but that would take a year or more to launch. In the meantime, some were considering an online charter school or homeschooling. Ashcraft and his wife, who is a deputy sheriff, couldn’t stay home with their kids, so their only option seemed to be sending them to Port Barre. They worried about Jackson, who has ADHD and requires consistency. “It’s going to be rough on him,” Ashcraft said. Later that week, Snyder invited a representative from an online charter school to speak with parents. But the discussion returned to starting a Krotz Springs charter school, which could make the town less reliant on the parish School Board that many residents distrust. It also might spare Krotz Springs from the fate of other rural towns that lost their schools. “Those towns just went to hell in a handbasket,” said Misty Lejeune, whose children attend Krotz Springs Elementary. “We’re never going to allow our town to look like that.” After the discussion, Disotell, the parent who broke down in tears at the School Board meeting, said she planned to pull her kids out of the school system, enrolling two in the online charter school and one in a Christian school. “This is my way of taking a stand,” she said.

for the youth softball and baseball teams, but this year it called the event a “backto-school bash,” hoping to seed a little joy in an anxious moment. There were hamburgers fresh off the grill, sno-balls in Styrofoam cups and two inﬂatable water slides, the “Tiki Plunge” and “Hurricane.” Ashcraft stood in the pavilion, where he greeted softball players and asked Skylar to go fetch Jackson so he could see his baseball trophy. “He’s on one of those water slides,” he told her. “If there’s water, he’s in it.” His family was trying its best to plan for the coming school year. To spare their kids from early-morning bus rides, the parents decided to drive them to school. On days when Ashcraft is at the ﬁre station, his wife will have to return from her night shift at 4 a.m., make the kids breakfast, then take them to Port Barre. There were still so many uncertainties. Snyder had collected questions from parents — about bus routes, uniforms, class sizes — and sent them to the district, but he got no answers. Instead, a district administrator said the Port Barre Elementary and Middle School principals would communicate directly with parents. Ashcraft said he hadn’t received any letters from his kids’ new schools. “We don’t know what’s going on,” he said. “That makes the whole situation so much worse.” Skylar worried about getting lost at the new campus. Ashcraft dreaded driving past their old school at recess time and seeing the playground deserted. A town comes together But with school starting in The Swamp Sisters could just a few days, the family brave the 94-degree heat, couldn’t ward off the changbut Coach Joe was staying es. They could only brace in the shade. for them. It was the last day of July “We’ll figure it out,” and the softball team had he said. “We ain’t got no reunited at the park just choice.” around the corner from Krotz Springs Elementary. Email Patrick Wall at The town always hosts an patrick.wall@theadvocate. end-of-summer celebration com.

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DETAIL AREA a remote area about 10 miles farther south. Any launch site is unlikely to be located directly next to the hunting camps and homes along La. 82, but will likely be closer to the coast, according to those familiar with the site. The land there, surprisingly, is a couple of feet higher and more stable than further inland. The site makes sense for other reasons, too. It’s immediately adjacent to a deep water bayou that runs from the Gulf and connects to the Intracoastal Waterway. And it has an abundance of natural gas. “They can easily tap into the pipeline and put in a small LNG facility on-site to power their rockets,” said Eric Smith, a director at Tulane University’s Energy Institute. “It’s a relatively easy, established technology.”

mercial aerospace companies have gotten into a business that once was the purview solely of NASA. Last year, there were 181 orbital rocket launches in the U.S., more than 90% of which were conducted by SpaceX. The company is planning to ramp up its capacity, so it needs more spaceports and launchpads. SpaceX has said it aims to put data centers in space. Doing that will take millions of satellites, the company has said in federal regulatory ﬁlings. SpaceX wants to perform “a launch every few hours somewhere,” said Jonathan McDowell, a retired astrophysicist who worked at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics until earlier this year and tracks rocket launches worldwide. “Whether they can do that is a really open question, but that’s the kind of scale Accelerating space race they’re talking about.” More importantly, the The number of launches in the U.S. has increased site’s southward-facing lodramatically over the past cation on the Gulf Coast is decade as SpaceX and com- an ideal spot from which to

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launch into polar orbit — an orbital path that circles the planet from north to south. SpaceX wants to put its AI satellites into that kind of orbit because they could get continuous sunlight on their solar panels, providing a consistent source of power, according to regulatory ﬁlings. But right now, the company only has spaceports from which it can launch its Starship rockets east into an orbit that would have its satellites circle the Earth in a pathway parallel to the equator. From the site in Vermilion Parish, “you’re not going to want to launch east because you’re going to ﬂy right over New Orleans, and that will make you unpopular,” McDowell said. “But you’ve got a nice long stretch over the Gulf of Mexico to go south,” perfect for launching satellites into polar orbit. McDowell said the site makes sense for SpaceX. “Given the market today, it’s a decent choice for a launch site,” he said. It’s also at least as isolated

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In Texas, some local officials have been upbeat about SpaceX’s presence, noting that the company has brought in local revenue and a demand for skilled labor. John Cowen, Jr., the mayor of Brownsville, Texas, near Starbase, called SpaceX “a juggernaut for economic growth,” according to the Rio Grande Guardian. He said the company had brought $13 billion in economic benefits, including 4,000 permanent jobs, and $99 million in tourism-related windfalls from visitors who come to see launches. Local government leaders in Louisiana are also hopeful that SpaceX is considering their area for a spaceport. But Medrano, who lives near SpaceX’s Boca Chica launch site, has grown to oppose it. He can watch the rockets rise over the tree line from his back deck, and while he was initially supportive of the company, trafﬁc and other disruptions are now a burden, he says. Email Alex Lubben at “It rocks our house on all alex.lubben@theadvocate. the launches,” he said. “We com.

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They accuse him of planning hundreds of wrecks with “slammers,” drivers skilled in pulling off risky collisions without killing themselves or passengers. He later brought the passengers — he was said to call them “horses” — to Motta, who filed lawsuits for big payouts in New Orleans’ civil courts, prosecutors allege. A federal jury convicted Motta in March on a slew of fraud counts for her role in the scheme, captivating legal circles and national media. This week, Alfortish is set to face a jury of his own, with even higher stakes than for his ﬁancé. At a trial scheduled to begin with jury selection Monday, he is charged with fraud, conspiracy, obstruction and witness tampering for an alleged fraud involving staged wrecks. He’s also accused of masterminding the murder of Cornelius Garrison, a prolific “slammer”-turned-informant who died six years ago in a hail of bullets after cooperating with the FBI in a probe of Alfortish and Motta. Alfortish’s attorney, Shaun Clarke, declined to comment for this story. Alfortish suspected Garrison’s cooperation, and prosecutors say he commissioned two alleged associates, Leon “Chunky” Parker and Ryan “Red” Harris, to silence the lanky driver. Harris pleaded guilty, admitting to staging crashes and helping to plan Garrison’s murder. He’s expected to testify that Parker, also set for trial this week alongside Alfortish, was the triggerman. Parker’s attorney, Stephen Haedicke, has argued that the feds massaged Harris’ testimony to ﬁt that narrative. Parker has pleaded guilty to wire fraud, admitting he participated in some of the staged crashes, but not murder. U.S. District Judge Wendy Vitter is presiding over a trial expected to run for several weeks. Though Vitter has barred prosecutors from telling jurors about Al-

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never thought it would get out of hand the way it is.” On the other side of the Gulf, on Florida’s Space Coast, rocket launches have been taking place for decades. From Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, NASA sent Americans to the moon in 1969. “I grew up watching the rockets go up and loved it,” said Bill Fisk, 72, a retired funeral home director and later Federal Emergency Management Agency official who now serves as president of the Space Coast Audubon Society. “People here peacefully coexisted with NASA for years.” Still, the commercial rockets SpaceX and others now launch from the Space Coast complexes are happening with greater frequency. The company’s Starship rocket is louder and more powerful than NASA’s historic Saturn V rocket, which carried astronauts to the moon. “I can feel the rumbles now,” said Fisk, who lives nearly 60 miles from Kennedy in a community called Palm Bay and has worked to gather evidence of environmental harm caused by the launch activity. McDowell said that within a 1-mile radius of a launch site, the rocket blasts are likely to kill most birds. At 5 miles away, a launch is unlikely to break glass windows, he said — unless a rocket explodes on a launchpad, in which case it might. The closest residential area in Pecan Island is about 10 miles away from the likely launch sites along the coast. “You will deﬁnitely hear it from 10 miles,” McDowell said. “It’s not deafening. It’s probably like when a jet goes overhead.”

near active launch sites for decades. Residents there say they have seen changes in recent decades as commercial space companies have increased the number of rockets launched. “These people in that rural area in Louisiana, they better understand what’s coming,” said Rene Medrano, 66, who has lived in Brownsville, Texas, 15 miles from Starbase, since the launch site there was built. SpaceX has declined to specify its plans for Louisiana, which according to sources familiar with the deal includes the state’s settlement of a coastal lawsuit against ExxonMobil that involves about 130,000 acres of land in Vermilion Parish, which could then be transferred to the commercial aerospace company. The Landry administration has also declined to comment. Sources with knowledge of the deal say that the state is attempting to figure out how to streamline the permitting process for SpaceX to allow the company to move quickly when the deal with Louisiana is finalized, which could come as soon as this month. Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser said he had no direct knowledge of the deal. But his office had been contacted about an archaeological review of the site. “There’s going to have to be reviews of grave sites or Indian burial grounds,” Nungesser said. “And a call was made to our office.” The ExxonMobil tract that is key to the state’s deal with SpaceX includes some 200 square miles in and around Pecan Island, a community of hunting camps and about 150 full-time residents lining the two-lane rural La. 82, and Freshwater City,

from large human populations as the Boca Chica launch site in Texas or NASA’s Cape Canaveral launchpads in Florida. McDowell said a spot along Freshwater Bayou is the likeliest spot for a SpaceX launch site, and the company could ship in rockets by barge. Most launch sites are right on the coast, so rocket stages can drop off into open water. SpaceX itself has fueled speculation about that site, responding to a post on social media that included a map highlighting it. “It’s no secret that we intend to launch Starship a lot,” the company said on X, the social media site that Musk also owns.

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Governor, AG recall campaign slows

Volunteers break ties with organization’s co-founder BY JONI HESS Staff writer

The statewide movement to recall Gov. Jeff Landry and Attorney General Liz Murrill is set to wrap in less than three months, but dozens of volunteers are at odds with the campaign’s leader, spurring questions about how signatures will be counted. Over the past month, a horde of

volunteers and parish leaders have either walked away or were ousted from Louisiana Deserves Better by the organization’s co-founder Marion Gbaiwon, who they say led a toxic environment of retribution, ﬁnancial secrecy and at one point, endangered their safety. Gbaiwon disputes their account, saying they refused to follow campaign protocol and at one point showed up to her place of business

unannounced to forcibly deliver signatures. Baton Rouge residents Gbaiwon and Katilyn Stepter ﬁled a recall petition with the Louisiana Secretary of State’s Office in May, launching a momentous bipartisan effort of collecting 500,000 signatures by October. At its peak, signing posts spread to at least 40 parishes, but the number has since dwindled to 13,

according to the organization’s website. It’s unclear how many signatures the effort has collected thus far because Gbaiwon has not released that information. Stepter broke ties with Gbaiwon’s organization in July, saying that her decision was largely based on Gbaiwon’s support for former volunteer Leila Habib, who was later arrested in Baton Rouge after police said she ﬁred gunshots

on Interstate 10 and wounded two people. Many volunteers have also branched off to host independent signing events with one group, called Better Together, that has started a separate social media channel to share events. “Some volunteers will likely continue collecting signatures, and some are moving away from it. We will continue to support anyone’s decision to move forward

ä See RECALL, page 2B

Council debuts plan to save program Funding for eviction prevention counsel could be restored BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE

Staff writer

A program providing legal counsel to New Orleans tenants facing eviction could see its funding restored after cuts threatened it in July. The New Orleans City Council on Thursday introduced an ordinance that would allocate $750,000 to the program, known as “right to counsel.” It was authored by all seven council members. The boost would restore funding to the $1.3 million dedicated to the program in the city’s 2026 budget. The future of the popular program became uncertain last month when the city announced that it would receive just $575,000 this year — around 44% of the budgeted amount — as Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration struggles to solve the city’s cash crisis. The news was met with concern from housing advocates and tenants, who have celebrated the program’s success in sharply reducing the rate of cases resulting in eviction. “The council, previous councils, made a commitment that this is a priority,” said council President JP Morrell. “When you commit to someone that this is a priority, you have to treat it that way.” The money is part of the $1 million appropriation that was returned by New Orleans Area Habitat for Humanity to the city after officials accused the local nonprofit of failing to spend it quickly enough. A spokesperson for Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, which manages the legal aid program, did not respond to a request for comment. The funding still represents a cut from previous years: The program received $2.3 million in 2025. And program funding next year remains an open question. Officials warned in a budget meeting on Wednesday that significant cuts would be needed next year to avoid a $125 million budget deficit. Moreno’s 2027 budget proposal is due Oct. 1. Morrell said that while the city is in “triage mode,” the council would push for funding to keep right to counsel afloat. “Keeping someone in a unit is homelessness prevention,” Morrell said. “We don’t want them to reduce opportunities and resources to landlords and renters.” Email Sophie Kasakove at sophie.kasakove@theadvocate. com.

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Visitors look through bins of comic books during NOLA Comic Con presented by MC Conventions at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner on Sunday.

AMAZING DISPLAyS RIGHT: Lily Powers, 6, looks through a selection of LEGO mini ﬁgures while dressed as Pomni from the animated web series ‘The Amazing Digital Circus.’

Jefferson Parish School Demolition of Lindy Boggs set to begin this week Board passes budget Teacher raises not included BY ELYSE CARMOSINO Staff writer

The Jefferson Parish School Board has passed a $654 million budget for the new school year that did not include money for permanent teacher and staff raises. The unanimous vote came after district ofﬁcials said they were forced to make tough financial decisions last month to account for a $12.6 million state funding cut. The reduction was part of an order by Gov. Jeff Landry that pulled money out of district budgets to give school employees one-time stipends, which the state Legislature paid for in previous years. District administrators said they initially planned to give Jef-

ferson Parish employees a 1% raise next year. Instead, the district will give $2,000 stipends to teachers and $1,000 to support staffers, as Landry’s order requires. The district generally ﬁnalizes its budget by June, but it pushed back the timeline to account for the state funding cut and passed the budget at its meeting on Wednesday. State estimates originally said the bonuses would cost Jefferson Parish around $11 million. But district leaders chose to also give the one-time payments to principals and other staffers — such as social workers and school psychologists — who were not included in the mandate, adding about $1.5 million to the overall cost. In an email to teachers and staff Wednesday night, Superintendent

ä See BUDGET, page 2B

Building has been vacant since Katrina

BY KASEY BUBNASH Staff writer

It’s been 20 years since the Lindy Boggs Medical Center was flooded by Hurricane Katrina and left to collect graffiti on Norman C. Francis Parkway in Mid-City. Now the longblighted building is coming down, with demolition set to begin this week. Mayor Helena Moreno said in a video posted to social media Sunday that crews will begin tearing down portions of the 70-year-old structure on Tuesday. Moreno didn’t provide more information in the video, but administration spokesperson Jonah Gilmore said the city will release more specifics on Monday. Moreno vowed early on in her

tenure to address blight and other quality of life issues in the city, and the Lindy Boggs demo is the result of a cooperative endeavor agreement between her administration and developers Bill Hoffman and Paul Flower. The plan, approved by voters last fall and ﬁnalized in April, involves razing the former medical center and building an underground stormwater retention tank in its basement to help prevent street flooding in the area. Flower said Sunday that crews began preparing the site for teardown in mid-July, a process that included installing monitoring devices and other protective measures. Environmental remediation efforts began shortly after that and has since been completed in two separate, small buildings — the old central plant and nursing

ä See DEMO, page 2B

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Beloved N.O. LGBTQ+ writer Frank Perez dies BUDGET

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BY LARA NICHOLSON Staff writer

Frank Perez, a prominent New Orleans writer, historian, tour guide and LGBTQ+ advocate, died Saturday at age 57 due to cancer, according to several of his friends and colleagues. A beloved French Quarter resident, Perez spent the past two decades documenting New Orleans LGBTQ+ history through Perez his nonprofit LGBTQ+ Archives Project of Louisiana and Ambush Magazine, where he served as an editor and columnist. Colleagues remembered Perez as an irreplaceable “pillar of a community” and avid storyteller who mentored countless others and brought people together across different facets of life, from academia and politics to French Quarter celebrations. “He was larger than life,” said Tomy Acosta, owner of Ambush Magazine, a publication that covers LGBTQ+ life in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast. “He loved life. He loved the French Quarter. He loved preserving history and telling stories, and no one could tell a story like he could.” Perez was a self-proclaimed wearer of many hats: historian, teacher, writer, public speaker, activist, tour guide, Mardi Gras krewe captain, wedding officiant and tarot card reader. His favorite hat though, as he wrote in a biography on his website, was “French Quarter aficionado.” Perez authored and co-authored several books, including “Treasures of the Vieux Carré: Ten Self-Guided Walking Tours of the French Quarter” and “In Exile: The Story of Cafe Lafitte.” Perez also co-founded the LGBTQ+ Archives Project in 2014, a statewide collective aimed at preserving local gay and transgender history that opened a Queer History Exhibit Space in the

French Quarter earlier this year and offers queer history walking tours and online archive collections. He had worked as a lecturer at Loyola University since 2018, teaching classes on local LGBTQ+ history and professional tour guiding, and developed his own walking tour called “The Rainbow Fleur de Lis” starting in 2012 that earned national praise. In 2013, Perez also launched the Krewe de la Rue Royale Revelers,” a Twelfth Night party that started out of his French Quarter apartment and has since evolved into an annual celebration at the Mardi Gras Museum of Costumes and Culture, where Perez would host as the “Lord of Misrule” and dub a new “Grand Reveler” each year. Perez even ran for New Orleans City Council District C in 2021, ending up in third place out of six candidates with 11.6% of the vote. Perez worked with numerous local public ofﬁcials to help highlight the city’s LGBTQ+ history. Among those who made statements on Perez’s death over the weekend included New Orleans City Council member JP Morrell and state Rep. Alonzo Knox, D-New Orleans. “Frank was a tireless advocate for his community, and my office was proud to work alongside him on a variety of projects, like the LGBT+ Archives Project of Louisiana,” Morrell said on social media. “His dedication, passion, and impact will not be forgotten.” His community service also included serving as chair to the UpStairs Lounge 50th Anniversary Commemoration Planning Committee, a member of the New Orleans AIDS Memory Project and a member of the Gulf Coast LGBTQ+ Chamber of Commerce, among many other roles.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER

Frank Perez talks about arson victim Ferris LeBlanc during the 48th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge arson attack in the French Quarter in New Orleans on June 24, 2021. Perez, a prominent New Orleans writer, historian, tour guide and LGBTQ+ advocate, died Saturday at age 57.

in criminal justice in 1991 from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He was involved in campus religious ministry during that time and underwent “conversion therapy,” the scientifically discredited practice of trying to change a person’s sexual orientation or gender identity, he said in a 2023 interview with UL for its oral LGBTQ+ history collection. Perez left the program early to embrace his identity and called off an engagement he had to a woman at the time, he said. He then re-enrolled at UL and earned a master’s degree in English in 1997. Robert Fieseler, a mentee to Perez and author of the book “Tinderbox” about the 1973 UpStairs Lounge ﬁre, said Perez was partially motivated by that experience to document LGBTQ+ history, particularly after a housemate died from HIV/ AIDS. When Perez reached out to the housemate’s family to notify them, his parActs of memory ents said they “don’t have Perez was born in Baton a son,” Fieseler recalled Rouge in November 1968, Perez saying. “I think he viewed acts of where he attended LSU but failed out of school. He later memory as acts of protest, earned a bachelor’s degree and acts of honoring indi-

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The former Lindy Boggs Medical Center is slated to be demolished this week.

school. Demolition of those two buildings will begin on Tuesday, Flower said. Remediation of the main building is expected to be completed by early September, and the full teardown of that building will

RECALL

Group schism The Better Together group formed after Gbaiwon told group members to take a monthlong pause from all signing activities in early July, text messages between Gbaiwon and volunteer leads show. “I want to do my best to protect everyone’s mental well-being, including my own, and allow space to process everything that has happened before immediately jumping back into the work,” Gbaiwon wrote July 11, a few days after Habib was arrested. Landry and

likely take four to five months, he said. Building of the 4-milliongallon water retention tank will begin once demolition is nearly entirely ﬁnished and should take about three months to complete, according to Flower. Once functional, the hope is that the tank will be able to reduce street ﬂooding on Bienville Street by a foot

with the intention of securing them until it’s time to turn them into the secretary of state, and maybe they’re hoping that Marion will accept those,” said Regan Bashara, who is Caddo Parish’s recall leader.

Continued from page 1B however they choose,” said Better Together organizer Sara Bennett. Gbaiwon did not respond to multiple requests for an interview, but said on social media Friday that she was a regular person who initiated recall petitions without organizational backing or a budget, and that it was normal for the effort to have hurdles. “No political machine. Just determination, volunteers, and people who believe Louisiana deserves better,” she wrote. “And some of these socalled leaders and organizations want to spend their time complaining because they don’t like how I did something?”

viduals who were like him in other generations but didn’t get as good a shake,” Fieseler said. “He viewed storytelling and history in his capacity to be an equalizer — to allow the least in a society to be elevated to their highest point despite marginalization in their lifetimes.” Perez worked as an English professor at a community college in Fort Worth, Texas, before moving to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina out of a lifelong love for the city. Here, he began waiting tables at Commander’s Palace and befriending patrons at bars around the French Quarter. Among those bars included Cafe Lafitte in Exile, the oldest continuously operating gay bar in the country and the subject of his ﬁrst book, which he self-published with Jeffrey Palmquist in 2012, who was a bartender there when they met. The two republished a new version of the book earlier this year, Perez’s ﬁnal publication. His career as a writer and historian grew from that book and evolved over two decades into a reputation

Miscommunication

STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

People sign a petition to recall Gov. Jeff Landry while gathered underneath Interstate 10 in New Orleans on May 13. the state’s Republican Party criticized Habib’s involvement in the effort. “Because of this, I’d like to place your lead/volunteer participation on a temporary pause until August 11.” During the pause, some lead workers were told to refrain from hosting petition signings, attending meetings, participating in organization communications or from representing it in any capacity. Many continued to hold signing events, however, despite communications from Gbaiwon stating she would not accept any signatures from those affiliated with Better Together. Under Louisiana law, Gbaiwon as the recall’s chair is the custodian of its signa-

ture petitions and has the responsibility of turning them into the state. Lead workers would either drop them off in person at a speciﬁed location or mail them in. But Gbaiwon’s statements, previous actions and what they claimed was a veil of secrecy around campaign donations spurred a level of mistrust among volunteers, many of whom are holding on to their signature sheets until they can figure out a solution. Volunteers have pressed Gbaiwon for a total signature count to no avail. The petition sheets Gbaiwon has on hand don’t include the petitions that volunteers are holding on to. “I think the people holding on to them are doing so

Bashara hosted several weekly petition signings, and helped the organization set up data and procedures. But she quit Louisiana Deserves Better in early July after seeing Gbaiwon dismiss numerous violent threats Habib began lodging at volunteers. Habib said that she had guns and that the volunteer leads needed to ﬁnd a safe house, Bashara said. Attempts to reach Habib Friday by phone and on social media were unsuccessful. Bashara continued collecting signatures, but her event locations were removed from the website, like dozens of others who continued independently. They were replaced with old events from weeks prior. “People were going to the older location and the guys that hosted us then, were trying to help direct these people about where to go because they wanted to make sure that they signed. There was just so much confusion and miscommunication,” Bashara said. Gbaiwon said on social media that volunteers with Better Together showed up to her job to “forcefully

as a New Orleans LGBTQ+ icon and activist. Perez served as grand marshal for Southern Decadence in 2018 and for New Orleans Pride in 2020. Palmquist said that on top of his wealth of knowledge regarding French Quarter history, Perez could often recall the life stories of patrons at local gay bars as they walked in. At his home, Perez loved hosting dinner parties and cooking his family’s special picadillo recipe for guests “from high to low,” Fieseler said. “He would bring anybody who he thought could bring something to the conversation,” Fieseler said. “Frank had a way as a host to coax you out of your defenses, and you were in fun mode.” Perez is survived by his mother Louise McCann and father Frank Perez, as well as his partner Chris Trentacoste. Funeral arrangements were forthcoming and had not been ﬁnalized as of Sunday afternoon, according to Palmquist.

James Gray said that nixing the raises was necessary to avoid making other cuts. He added that increasing employee pay remains a top priority. “While this approach allows us to pay for the stipends this year without program or staffing cuts,” he said, the district will continue “to advocate for sustainable, long-term funding for employee compensation.” Jefferson Federation of Teachers President Sandra Hauer decried the decision. During Wednesday’s meeting, the union leader told the School Board that while the state stipends will help, they aren’t a substitute for a permanent raise. Jefferson Parish needs to increase educator pay to remain competitive with other districts, especially as educators face growing workloads and rising living costs, she added. “Many teachers and school support employees are operating with budgets of their own that are stretched to the breaking point,” Hauer said. “A salary increase is a lasting investment in the employees who make this district successful.”

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during heavy storms. Though developers have said they also want build a complex of apartments and retail outlets on the site, plans and financing for that portion of the project haven’t been ﬁnalized.

School system leaders across the state have warned the funding cut, which lawmakers approved in June, could have potentially catastrophic results, despite Landry’s assertion that districts could pull money from their reserve funds. Jefferson Parish schools has $211.4 million in its reserves, according to the district’s budget. District ofﬁcials say they need some savings available for emergencies. To cover the cost of the stipends, the district used money that had been earmarked for other purposes, including facility and technology upgrades, said Sarah Caruso, the district’s chief financial officer, during a budget hearing Monday. Now, the district will have less money to replace its aging technology, including student Chromebooks, in the coming years, Caruso said. It will also have less funding available to respond to a major storm, like Hurricane Ida, which caused more than $400 million in damages to the district in 2021. “This is not sustainable for us,” Caruso said. “We can absorb it because of good ﬁnancial decisions we’ve made in the past, but we cannot do this year after year.”

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give me petitions” when she asked them to follow normal submission procedures. Bennett said she didn’t offer alternative methods of delivery. “She actually requested that we don’t deliver the signatures in person, via mail or through a third party.” Gbaiwon also said Friday that she was “figuring this out day by day.” “Do I know what I’m doing every single moment? No. I’m learning, adapting, and building this as I go,” she said, and also advised people to never “confuse who the enemy is.” A lack of financial transparency has also been a concern among leaders and volunteers, triggering a state Board of Ethics complaint filed against the organization and Gbaiwon last month. The complaint asks the board to investigate whether Gbaiwon complied with financial reporting requirements codified in state law. Throughout the campaign, Louisiana Deserves Better amassed over $35,000 in donations, according to its website. The complaint says that Stepter asked for detailed accounting reports multiple times, including proceeds allocated to the organization from merchandise sales. State recall laws require those bringing in $1,000 or more to file a statement of organization with the Ethics Board within three days of filing the recall petition. Online records show that no

such filing exists. The law also requires those accepting contributions or making recall-related expenditures to file reports with the state at the 45-, 135-, and 200-day marks, but no forms have been filed as of yet. Failure to do so could result in fines and other civil penalties. Louisiana Deserves Better also lacks federal taxexempt status that would’ve allowed the group to collect large political donations and compensate its volunteers, according to the state Campaign Finance Disclosure Act. Gbaiwon previously thwarted a New Orleans advocacy group’s advice to incorporate, losing out on thousands in potential donations. She said the money came with too many strings. Email Joni Hess at joni. hess@theadvocate.com.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Jenkins, Charles LeBlanc, Olga Quentant, Andrew

Obituaries Jenkins, Charles James

Charles James Jenkins entered peacefully into eternal rest on July 29, 2026, at the age of 79. Son of the late Gladys M. Dorsey and Sylvester Jenkins. CJ is survived by his daughter Cecily Gully Smith (Richard Smith) and Granddaughters, Victoria Carter, and DonReion McCoy. Also survived by his two sisters Daisy Jackson and Deloris Calhoun and a host of other loving relatives and friends. Preceded in death by siblings Georgie Harrell, Joanne Thornton, Eva Phipps, Wardell Wilson, Emma Hamer, and Anthony Martin Sr. All are invited to attend a Celebration of Life Service for Charles "Big Jenk" Jenkins on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, for 10:00 a.m. at The Church at New Orleans, 11700 Chef Menteur Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70129. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Bishop Dr. Kevin J. Boyd Sr., officiating. Interment will follow at The Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, 34888 Grantham College Dr, Slidell, LA 70460. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

LeBlanc, Olga V.

Olga V. LeBlanc, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, and a longtime resident of Reserve, Louisiana, passed away at the age of 78. She was the beloved daughter of the late Genevieve and Wortham Jones, Sr. She is survived by her daughters, Tracy (Michael) Taris, Carmella (Lawrence) Espinosa, Tangelina (Robert) Norman, Olivia Ledet, and Melissa Ledet; her son, Jahmel A. Ledet; sixteen grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; two Godchildren, Denise McClain and LaNe'sha Warren; four sisters, Janice Hayward, Dale (Johnell) McClain, Nella Fay Haydel, and Genevieve (Billy) Caston; one brother, Timmy Jones; and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends. She was preceded in death by her grandson, Brian "BJ" Morris; her two sons, Joseph Ledet, Jr. and Korey Epps; her sisters, Carolyn Joseph and Judy Jones; and her brothers, Wortham Jones Jr., Clyde Jones, Paul Jones, Glen Jones, Eddie Jones, Wayne Jones, Weldon Jones, and Reginald Jones. Relatives and friends of the family, as well as the priests and parishioners of Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic

Church and neighboring churches, are invited to attend the Funeral Mass at Our Lady of Grace Roman Catholic Church, 780 Highway 44, Reserve, LA 70084, on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. The Rosary will begin at 9:00 a.m. Father Alexander Lema, SSJ, Celebrant. Interment St. Peter Cemetery, Reserve, Louisiana.

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Quentant, Andrew

Andrew Quetant Jr. was called home on July 31, 2026. He was preceded in death by his parents, Andrew Quetant Sr. and Leona Quetant, and by his brother Ronald Quetant. Andrew was a proud graduate of J.S. Clark, Class of 1964. He went on to serve his country in the United States Air Force as an Air Officer. Andrew had a deep love for travel and spent much of his life exploring the world. He leaves behind a loving family to cherish his memory: his siblings, Glen Quetant, Kenneth Weber, Dianne Quetant, Sheryl Quetant, and Darlene Quetant; his son, Jacob Quetant-Slatton, his grandson Isreal Quetant and Jacob's mother Tanya Slatton. He is also survived by a host of loving nieces, nephews, cousins, and other relatives and friends. The family wishes to extend heartfelt thanks to the caregivers and staff at Legacy Nursing and Rehabilitation for the compassionate care given to our beloved Andrew, and to the Comfort Care Team for the comfort brought to his final days. Andrew will be deeply missed, but his life of service, adventure, and love will always be remembered. A Grave Site Funeral will be held on Wednesday, August 12, 2026, for 11:00 a.m. at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, 34888 Grantham College Drive, Slidell, LA. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditi onbegins.com (504)2820600.

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Dreaming of a West End park worthy of the area’s storied legacy

A N.O. parade rule that follows the streetcar? That tracks.

New Orleans’ West End is more than waterfront. For generations, families gathered here to ﬁsh, sail, row, eat, celebrate and create memories along Lake Pontchartrain. It can again become one of Louisiana’s great public places —honoring its past while creating opportunities for education, recreation and tourism. Imagine a lakefront boardwalk with historic photographs and displays telling stories of West End, the New Basin Canal, Bucktown, sailing and rowing clubs, the Coast Guard, Wildlife and Fisheries, local restaurants, hurricanes and our resilience. Imagine a Louisiana guest restaurant pavilion where local and Louisiana restaurants rotate weekly, giving residents and visitors new reasons to return while showcasing the extraordinary culinary heritage of New Orleans, Jefferson Parish and Louisiana. Mobile kitchen facilities could be removed whenever storms threaten. The long-vacant state-owned yacht yard becomes the West End Heritage Museum, preserving the stories, artifacts, businesses, trades, families, individuals and vessels that shaped this waterfront. Visiting historic boats would create an ever-changing attraction. Build a waterfront worthy of the past — and the future — of New Orleans, Jefferson and Louisiana.

Like many New Orleanians, I read with interest the recent article discussing tougher Mardi Gras enforcement, including proposed $1,000 fines for ladders, tents, grills and other violations along the parade route. I certainly understand why the city is looking for solutions. Every Mardi Gras season, as certain as it is to bring fun times, seems just as certain to bring another debate over public space, with families lamenting disappearing traditions and visitors feeling shut out of them. I believe we’re trying to solve a design problem with enforcement. The best laws don’t require stronger police enforcement, they require fewer confrontations. Instead of asking officers to decide whether one more chair, ladder or tarp crosses the line, why not simply create a line everyone can understand? On St. Charles Avenue, that line already exists. Designate the space from the streetcar rail closest to St. Charles to the curb (roughly five feet) as permanent standing-room-only during parades. No ladders, tents, wagons or coolers. Behind that line, let New Orleans be New Orleans. Families should absolutely continue gathering, cousins and neighbors should still meet in the same place they’ve met for decades. Those traditions are part of the soul of Mardi Gras and deserve to be preserved. But the front row should belong to everyone. A standing-only zone would allow a young couple arriving after work, a grandparent with a grandchild or a lifelong local to experience Mardi Gras without permanent claims to the curb. Large family gatherings wouldn’t disappear; they’d simply begin about five feet farther back. The front would become a shared space again! New Orleans has always been at its best when it finds uniquely New Orleans solutions to uniquely New Orleans problems. Perhaps peace on the neutral ground isn’t found in larger fines, perhaps it’s found in five feet.

MICHAEL J. MAYER Springfield

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New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno and Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Sheng stand on a bulkhead along Lake Pontchartrain on July 16 overlooking West End Park.

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Balloons are released in October 2023 at a park on America Street in New Orleans during the vigil for the three children who were killed in a fire.

Biodegradable balloons can damage environment as well I’d like to thank our Louisiana legislators for passing an environmental act that will have little to no effect on beneﬁting our environment. I am referring to Louisiana Act 196, which bans the intentional release of balloons outdoors by people 17 years of age and over. The release of balloons made of biodegradable or photo-biodegradable materials is exempt from the law. From what I have read, biodegradable balloons can take from six months to four years to break down, longer if they are in water. That’s a long time for any type of balloon to ﬂoat around in the Gulf, our bayous or our rivers where it

can harm marine life. Additionally, most released balloons have strings or ribbons attached, which can entangle and kill or maim birds and other wildlife. This law not only provides little beneﬁt to the environment, it could actually increase the number of balloons released. A person who, out of concern for the environment, might not celebrate or memorialize an event with balloons could choose to organize a balloon release, thinking it will do no harm.

KATHLEEN SCHRENK New Orleans

Could Republicans be getting nervous about the Louisiana Senate election? Is the GOP panicking? Conservative opinion writer Quin Hillyer wrote a piece for The TimesPicayune calling for Democrats to get their house in order. What a joke! We have a two-party system, and in November we will have a choice between sending a Republican candidate or a Democrat to the Senate. The leader of the Republican Party is Donald Trump, who has wrecked our economy by engaging in what looks to be a forever war in Iran, enriched himself and his family with foreign deals made behind the backs of the American people and wasted taxpayer money on elaborate and unnecessary construction, such as the “renovation” of the Reﬂecting Pool

in Washington. What has the GOP done to stop this? Nothing. On the other hand, Louisiana’s Democratic Senate candidate, Jamie Davis — a successful farmer whose campaign is funded by small donors, not corporate PACs — has committed to putting the people of Louisiana ﬁrst by prioritizing affordable housing, reducing insurance and healthcare costs and ensuring billionaires pay their fair share. Could Hillyer be worried that Davis won all 64 parishes in the primary and is gaining ground by the day? That seems to be the case.

TINA HENDERSON New Orleans

Officials should see consequences for La.’s low rankings The recent news re: the U.S. News and World Report state rankings, in which Louisiana came last, is a bit disconcerting. The rankings reﬂect on quality of life: women’s health outcomes; population health; social determinants of health like housing, healthcare and education; economic opportunity and so much more. If we are this bad four years in a row, I have an idea from a long time ago. In 1976 I was in eighth grade, and I failed algebra for whatever reason (not paying attention, adolescence rewiring the brain). As luck would have it, that August my eldest brother had won a four-year scholarship to Notre Dame. I got to pack the car and U-Haul to travel the 6.5 hours to South Bend, Indiana.

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I participated in orientation and freshman activities, was welcomed by Coach Ara Parseghian and got to bow before “touchdown Jesus” at the library. Unfortunately, I also had a 6.5-hour ride through the ﬁelds of Indiana being castigated, tormented, realigned and straightened out by my father. His parting remark was, “You are going to high school this year, you are going to take a full college prep load and there will be nothing less than a B.” Someone with gravitas, leadership and severity of consequences needs to take our state leaders on a little car ride.

ALLA, Cleopatra parades in Algiers are still sadly missed

MATTHEW MCCANN Marrero

A big change for us in Algiers was when ALLA and Cleopatra parades were moved to the Uptown route. I was very sad. Even though it has been years, every Cleo Friday as I get in my car to drive into town, I reminisce about the days when our friends and I could just walk to Gen. DeGaulle Drive with our kids in tow. ALLA on a Sunday afternoon was glorious. It was such a fun weekend. Ain’t there no more.

Monkey torture article was appalling, had no redeeming value I was appalled and disgusted by the recent front page article about the torture of monkeys. The very long dissertation, including the description of actual acts perpetrated on these innocent animals, was totally unnecessary. I believe that the readers were divided into two groups: those who were repulsed, and those who enjoyed it and were possibly inﬂuenced to

abuse more animals. This was a story which had no redeeming value to your readers and belonged as a short report of an arrest, buried on a back page, if anywhere A bit of journalistic discretion is in order in the future on the tabloid fodder.

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COMMENTARY AI bots are busting loose. Have Wanted: A voice of reason we seen this movie before?

of Modal Labs, an executive of that As an old-school newshound — company confirmed. meaning I can remember typewriters Two days later, apparently not want— I am familiar with the old newsroom saying, “If you don’t like the ing to be left out of the publicity party, news, just wait a few minutes.” rival AI frontier lab Anthropic conLately, I find myself waiting more fessed its own sandbox breakout incithan a few minutes for another shoe dents, three at the present accounting. to drop in a present-day saga What kind of problem are we widely referred to as the “Hugfacing here? Perhaps not surprisingly, the ging Face” breach. frames many of us reach for Or perhaps you’ve heard it to understand rogue AI bots referred to as the “rogue” Opecome from cinema. After readnAI agent, although I still have questions about just how rogue Clarence ing the news, my mind raced to it was, since it seems to have just about every science fiction Page been doing only what it was demovie I have ever seen. From “Metropolis” (1927) signed to do, like it or not. and “2001: A Space Odyssey” (1968) to The story began July 21, when tech “Terminator” (1984) and “Ex Machina” giant OpenAI revealed in a blog post that an autonomous AI agent powered (2014), filmmakers have explored our fear of The Machines Taking Over. by OpenAI models, as part of a test And if you’re in the AI business, this to quantify its cyber capabilities — might be exactly where you want the namely, its capabilities for “advanced public mind to go. OpenAI described exploitation using complex attack the rogue bot as “unprecedented” and, paths” — did its job perhaps a bit too far from donning the hairshirt of conaggressively. On its own, which is what “autonotrition or using a lot of CYA language to obscure its liability for hacking mous” means, the agent broke out of another company, it laid the details out its test environment, known to the techies as a “sandbox,” and jumped over in the open. Hugging Face’s CEO, in turn, was to the internet, where it discovered almost effusive in his praise for Opeleaked usernames and passwords to accounts it used to break into another nAI’s response to the event. company, Hugging Face, an online The problem is not corporate neghub for AI models and datasets, where ligence, the message seems to be, it’s it looked for hidden answers to the our models: they’re just that powerful. benchmarks it was trying to solve. It’s similar to the way techlords talk Hugging Face, for its part, published about the prospect of AI throwing a forensic timeline, describing how the white-collar workers out of their jobs, autonomous AI system spent four and and possibly a lot of blue- and pinka half days executing 17,600 distinct collar ones, too. Far from batting away hacking actions across multiple orsuch dystopian suggestions, many AI execs reply: Yup, that’s the future. Get ganizations — without direct involveready. (And buy our product.) ment by any humans. Do we get a choice in this future? While OpenAI assured the public the situation was under control, the pesky That’s the question at the heart of my all-time favorite sci-fi movie, MGM’s agent apparently infected a customer

1956 classic “Forbidden Planet.” The action happens on a planet named Altair IV, to which a spaceship from Earth ventures to find out what happened to a previous human expedition. AI appears in the form of a vast 8,000-cubic-mile blinking and flashing underground machine, left behind by the Krell, the planet’s highly advanced ancient race who destroyed themselves, apparently from overuse of the big machine’s ability to enhance intellect. Members of the expedition wish to bring this AI back to Earth, to harness its power for humanity. But they are thwarted by Dr. Morbius, a survivor of the original Earthling expedition who has been since marooned on Altair IV (and who has used the Krell’s device to double his own brain power). “Humanity is not yet ready to receive such limitless power,” Morbius observes, a warning that resonates decades later. We have a lot of sharp minds researching and writing about cybersecurity. We have AI labs and allied industries with trillions of dollars in capital expenditure riding on the technology’s potential to earn profits and transform the economy. We have the United States Congress, which now feels the spur to Do Something (which, at this point, seems to be the bipartisan AI Kill Switch Act). And we have a president who — well, who can say what his angle is in all this? Somehow, all these interests and capabilities need to be balanced if we ever hope to achieve a consensus about what AI will and will not be allowed to do. E-mail Clarence Page at clarence47page@gmail.com.

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President Donald Trump, seated center, joined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, from left, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, acting Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling, and Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner, attends a cabinet meeting on July 31 at Camp David, the presidential retreat near Thurmont, Md.

The ‘deal’ between Hamas and Israel President Donald Trump and memmained silent about the proposed deal. I won’t. Some things bear rebers of his administration are (pick your metaphor) whistling past the peating many times so it will sink in. graveyard, engaging in wishful thinkHamas and the rest of the terrorist gangs go by different names but all ing and/or deluding themselves into believing a demon can be transformed have the same goal — the destruction of Israel (for starters). Hamas has a into an angel. charter that has never been reThe Trump administration has announced a “deal” voked, or even amended. between the terrorist group People who want to have Hamas that has occupied Gaza their eyes and minds opened for years and Israel, which will can Google “Hamas Charter” lead to Hamas’ disarmament and read it for themselves, and the withdrawal of Israeli but here are the highlights. Cal troops from the strip. its founding in 1988, Thomas Since What would supposedly folHamas’ No. 1 goal has been and remains Israel’s complete low is a rebuilding of Gaza, destruction. It has not modified or which has been reduced to rubble. Much of the world and its media blame changed that objective. Hamas wants Israel to be replaced by an Islamic Israel for the destruction and deaths Palestinian state, stretching from the of civilians, but Hamas is at fault Jordan River to the Mediterranean because its fighters and rockets hide Sea. That’s what those chants “from among civilians. the river to the sea” on college camLet’s not forget, though some apparently have forgotten, Oct. 7, 2023, puses and street demonstrations are when 1,200 people were killed in Israel about. by Hamas and 251 were abducted as The conflict is rooted in the relihostages. gious doctrine and political ideology Some were raped and many torof the Muslim Brotherhood, which means they believe their god has tured, according to those who mancommanded them to do these things, aged to escape or be exchanged for including the aforementioned Oct. 7 imprisoned terrorists in Israeli prisattacks. ons. Some see this day of terror as a Hamas promotes and encourages modern Holocaust. antisemitism, including extreme antiAs of last weekend, Israel has re-

semitic language and conspiracy theories regarding global inﬂuence. In what should be obvious to the Trump administration, Hamas has consistently rejected peace talks, or the recognition of Israel’s right to exist. This should be a nonstarter. Even if Hamas agrees to meet with administration and Israeli ofﬁcials, they won’t be serious given the stated goals in their charter. Why are we even considering playing this losing game? It’s the same with Iran, whose ayatollahs and other leaders share the same objectives as Hamas. Worldview is everything. Many people believe we are all alike and all grievances can be settled when people are sincere enough. Not true. Just as deluded Americans think socialism is good, people who think Hamas will ever lay down their weapons and reach a peace deal with Israel are playing into the hands of our — and Israel’s — enemies. To repeat, our enemies don’t think the way Westerners do. If they did, they would act and think like us. That is why transposing our morality on those who don’t share it is a recipe for disaster. Got it, or must I repeat myself? Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

on socialism

If there ever were an issue on which Democrats and Republicans could agree, it should be that socialism is bad and capitalism, with a little tweaking, is good. Yet Republicans are the loudest voices saying so. As we approach the November election, democratic socialists are making headway among voters who have been emboldened by the 2025 election of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist. And candidates endorsed by the Kathleen Democratic Socialists of America Parker have advanced in a few dozen primary elections this year. In response, Republicans and conservatives have begun speaking out against socialism, Marxism and communism, if at times disingenuously. These three orthodoxies are not the same, though there are overlaps. Not many communists are running for public office, at least not as communists, despite President Donald Trump’s claim on Monday that “we’re running against communists.” Even popular Catholic Bishop Robert Barron, founder of Word on Fire Catholic Ministries, has chimed in, explaining that a market economy, as opposed to socialism, is consistent with human freedom and dignity. The DSA wants to take over the largest corporations — a core socialist ideal — and bring democratic principles into the workplace. This may appeal to some, but a thorough reading of the DSA’s “program” should make most Americans shudder. The DSA, whose membership has grown significantly in recent years, also wants to rewrite the Constitution, eliminate the Senate and replace the Supreme Court, defund the police and provide free health care. This largesse would be funded, of course, by taxpayers, whose IRS bills would skyrocket. History — and our own eyes (see Venezuela) — tells us that the pursuit of equal outcomes can lead to equal misery. Given the DSA’s stated aspirations, it’s fair to say that democratic socialism is the gateway ideology to socialism, if not necessarily communism. Recent polling shows that voters most interested in the socialist platform tend to be young and collegeeducated. They’re ripe for the seduction thanks to the high cost of everything from groceries to rent. Even people in their 30s and 40s often can’t afford to buy a house. Job insecurity is growing as artificial intelligence threatens to render many employees obsolete. Yes, life is not perfect right now, and the promise of free stuff and feel-good rhetoric periodically seduce the young, as well as members of the intellectual elite. I was even susceptible as a college student. I remember telling my father that I thought socialism was a good idea. He replied: “It is a good idea. It just doesn’t work.” The GOP is wise to take the lead in exposing what socialists would do if given power. I wonder why Democrats are letting Republicans seize the moment. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) and other House leaders recently held a news conference to highlight the looming socialist threat. They did, however, seem a bit overwrought and prone to hyperbole in conflating socialism and communism. Having grown up in Florida during the mass influx of Cubans, I was well-versed in the stories of Fidel Castro’s Cuba at an early age and always wanted to see for myself. About 25 years ago, I traveled there with a British diplomat and a group of journalists. It was an eye-opener after decades of blocked access. People living in dilapidated apartment buildings without air-conditioning hung out of open windows in search of relief. Lights flickered during meetings with government ministers. The decaying power grid meant that people might have a few hours of electricity per day. This is what communism looks like. What socialism and communism fail to acknowledge — and the reason they fail — is what capitalism embraces: human nature. Simply put, human nature responds positively to incentives and rewards, and behavior adapts accordingly. Humans were designed to create, design, produce and find happiness in accomplishment. Without incentives, why-botherism settles in. Entrepreneurship fizzles. Hard work becomes pointless, and prosperity becomes a memory. This isn’t to say capitalism is perfect. It can be ruthless without the buttressing of personal and institutional virtue. For corporations to more fairly benefit workers and communities — and not just shareholders — legal, social and economic constraints might be necessary. But a socialist takeover would be overkill. To young people inclined toward instant gratification, socialism promises relief. To those folks, I say: Politics is like the weather. It comes and goes. You wouldn’t build an ark just because it’s raining. Count your blessings, grab an umbrella and vote wisely. As for Democrats, don’t let Republicans be the only voices of sanity. Explain to your constituents why socialism is a utopian cocktail that might get you tipsy for a while, but the hangover is hell. And Republicans? Stop with the Red Scare hysteria and stick to the facts. They are enough. Kathleen Parker is on X, @kathleenparker.

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DE Jordan suffers hamstring injury Radunz out for season as injuries stack up for N.O.

BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

Saints edge rusher Cam Jordan suffered a hamstring injury that will require further evaluation. Coach Kellen Moore said Jordan got hurt during Thursday’s practice and that the team is waiting for the pass rusher to receive a second opinion on the injury. Jordan was excused from practice Saturday to attend Drew Brees’ Hall of Fame induction, but was not on the ﬁeld a day later because of the injury. “We’re collecting info on that and we’ll see where that takes us,” Moore said. If Jordan has to miss multiple weeks, that would be a blow to the Saints and Jordan — who reunited in June after a prolonged contract negotiation. The two sides eventually reached an agreement on a one-year, $7.5 million deal that ensured Jordan would return to the Saints for a 16th season. Shortly after signing the contract, Jordan announced that he plans for 2026 to be his ﬁnal season. The 37-year-old is coming off a resurgent 101/ 2-sack season, his highest total since 2021.

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Saints edge rusher Tyree Wilson waits for a drill during training camp on Saturday at the team’s practice facility in Metairie. STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

Saints see edge rusher Wilson’s potential within arm’s reach BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

Tyree Wilson’s arms nearly reach down to his knees. They’re not quite the 40 inches that teammate Chase Young estimated, but in a sport ﬁlled with freakish measureables, Wilson’s 355/ 8-inch arms still manage to draw awe. According to MockDraftable, a website that tracks combine measurements from 1999 onward, Wilson’s arm length put him in the 96th percentile — with his measurement clocking in a full two inches longer than the average edge rusher. Oh, and he’s 6-foot-5. “If he extends his arms,” Young says, “you can’t touch him.” None of this is new to Wilson. The 26-year-old’s arm length was a big part of the appeal that led the Las Vegas Raiders to draft him seventh overall in 2023, when Wilson was regarded as a top prospect due to his rare blend of physical and athletic gifts. But Wilson’s career hasn’t panned out the way most

envisioned. After he produced only 12 sacks in 50 games, the Raiders traded Wilson to the New Orleans Saints in April in exchange for a fifth-round pick. But the Saints were more than happy to take the flyer. They acquired Wilson with a specific vision in mind, a plan to get him back on track and accelerate his development. It all starts with Wilson’s length — and making sure he’s actually using those long arms to his advantage. “He’s got pterodactyl arms now,” said Saints edge coach Jay Rodgers. “So if he can get his hands on any tackle, it’s just hard to reach him. As you gain strength and age, then you start understanding what are the attributes that you have that can help your game.” Another part of the Saints’ crash course for Wilson is to teach him the ins and outs of defensive coordinator Brandon Staley’s scheme. That goes for any new defender, of course, but coach Kellen Moore said he hopes the exposure to new techniques and concepts will aid Wilson’s game.

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Dumars: ‘I believe in the players we have’ Pelicans VP attributes quiet offseason to discipline, belief in current roster

The two most talked-about moves the New Orleans Pelicans have made this offseason are hiring a new head coach and parting ways with their longtime equipment manager. Outside of that, things have been much quieter than you would expect for a team that ﬁnished just 26-56. The Pelicans were one of eight NBA teams that didn’t Rod reach 30 wins. Walker The other seven (Dallas, Memphis, Sacramento, Utah, Brooklyn, Indiana and Washington) all added pieces this offseason, with ﬁrst-round draft picks or via trades and free agency. The Pelicans, meanwhile, haven’t moved the needle. Other than re-signing barely used veteran center DeAndre Jordan and selecting former St. Augustine High standout Jaron Pierre in

the second round of the draft, the Pels have stood still. The lack of moves comes as a surprise, especially after executive vice president of basketball operations Joe Dumars said at season’s end that he would like to add some “toughness” to the roster. Almost four months later, not much has been added. Not that Dumars hasn’t tried. “We were engaged in a lot of conversations with a lot of different teams,” Dumars said Friday in an interview. “But at the end of the day, you’ve got to make a determination if this is the right deal or not. You don’t want to make a move for the sake of making a move. It has to be right for us.” The phone calls to and from Dumars’ phone were steady throughout the summer. “When you’re presented with deals that you can do, you’ve got to make a determination if this is going to make you better and add what you need,” Dumars said. “The lack of moves being made right now is not from a lack of effort or us deciding we didn’t want to do anything. We’ve engaged with a lot of teams this offseason. But there was just

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Zion Williamson

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LSU defensive tackle Deuce Geralds walks back to a huddle during position drills on Saturday at the third session of fall camp.

LSU freshman tackle Geralds showing up — on, off the ﬁeld

BY JON BLAU Staff writer

It is rare how quickly Deuce Geralds can rocket out of a three-point stance, which is why the 6-foot-1, 280-pounder has jumped to the top of LSU’s defensive depth chart faster than most freshman D-tackles ever could. But he’s rare in other ways too. Days before preseason camp opened, and his firstteam reps were all the buzz in town, the 18-year-old was stationed under a tent nestled in the back of a Baton Rouge apartment complex. He used his forklift of a right arm to snatch a red book bag, filled with school supplies, and hand it to a mother in need. Since he was 10, Geralds has participated in community service projects, including backpack giveaways and Thanksgiving food drives. When his mother and father relocated from Louisiana to Georgia for work in the health care and social service sectors, they’d periodically stop at a McDonald’s, buy 100 hamburgers and hand them out to people experiencing homelessness. “Just bring a light into somebody’s day,” Geralds said. A freshman who could have an immediate impact on the field for LSU also has

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Rivera repeats as national champ LSU recruit again wins U.S. Championships

BY WILL GRAVES

Associated Press

PHOENIX — Hezly Rivera is leaning into her role as the leader of the next wave of U.S. women’s gymnasts. The 18-year-old Olympic gold medalist and LSU commitment won her second straight national title on Sunday, rallying from fourth during the final day of competition with four poised and professional routines. Her twoday total of 111.950 was more than a point clear of runner-up Claire Pease, making Rivera the ﬁrst American woman not named Simone Biles to go back-to-back since former world and Olympic champion Jordyn Wieber did it in 2010 and 2011. Rivera was the self-described “underdog” in Paris two years ago, when she joined an experienced group that helped the Americans win their third team gold in four Games. While some of her Olympic teammates — Biles and Suni Lee chief among them — have been on an extended break (though Lee announced last month she has started training for a return to competition), Rivera has pressed on. She edged Leanne Wong in New Orleans last year, but Rivera’s chances for a repeat seemed to be in trouble after she fell face-ﬁrst into the mat after missing a release on uneven bars on Thursday. No matter, Rivera began Sunday on bars and put together a gritty set in which she fought through a mini-stall near the end and gave coach Valeri Liukin a

BY JOHN BOHNENKAMP

NEWTON, Iowa — Ty Gibbs didn’t question his crew chief’s ﬁnal pit call. “I can’t do anything about it, so you just run with it,” Gibbs said. Gibbs used late pit strategy and held off Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell over the ﬁnal 20 laps to win the NASCAR Cup Series race Sunday at Iowa Speedway. Gibbs — the 23-year-old grandson of former NFL coaching great and NASCAR team owner Joe Gibbs — won by 0.253 seconds over Bell for his second victory of the season and his career. Gibbs and Bell each pitted with 60 laps remaining in the 350-lap race, but while Bell took four tires, Gibbs just went with two right-side tires, and came out ahead. And when leader Ross Chastain pitted on Lap 330, Gibbs took over the top spot and fought off a late charge by Bell. Tyler Allen, Gibbs’ crew chief, thought taking two tires was the

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Hezly Rivera competes in the women’s balance beam event during the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday in Phoenix. “what are you gonna do?” shrug after a dismount that included a small step. The judges awarded Rivera with a solid if not spectacular 13.850, and her momentum continued to build as she made her way across the competition ﬂoor at Matchup Mortgage Arena. Her black-andwhite bedazzled leotard glittering under the lights, Rivera put on a performance that made her look every bit the experienced veteran she has become. Pease and fellow first-day coleader Skye Blakely couldn’t quite keep up. Pease led with two rotations to go, but her ﬂoor routine

included one tumbling pass that ended with her stepping out of bounds and another in which she opted to keep her right foot hovering above the floor rather than set it down for a penalty. Still, Pease’s second-place finish was a marked improvement from a year ago, when she came to nationals fresh off a victory at U.S. Classic and stumbled to 10th. This time around, she finds herself in a solid position to make the team that will head to The Netherlands for the world championships in October. Blakely’s bid to build off a promising opening night stalled quick-

ly. She sat at the end of her first tumbling pass and bounced out of bounds on her final one, her score of 11.900 dropping her from contention for the top of the podium on her way to a seventh-place finish. Charleigh Bullock, who turned 16 last month, was third. Another LSU recruit, Reese Esponda, was fourth. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Carey, who is methodically building difficulty into her routines as she eyes a third trip to the Games, finished fifth in a meet that doubled as a homecoming for the Phoenix native.

only chance to get ahead of Bell in that final pit cycle. “We knew after practice the left sides weren’t wearing much and they tended to refire OK,” Allen said. “So in terms of coming into the race, it was definitely a viable option.” Gibbs liked the aggressive call. “I think in the position with our points situation, for sure,” he said. Gibbs, who picked up his first career win April 12 at Bristol, came into the race ranked fourth in the season standings, and moved into second — 103 points behind JGR teammate Denny Hamlin. Gibbs, who had an issue in the pits on his first stop of the day when his jack fell too early during the tire change, fell back to 28th before charging back. “You’re kind of hosed after that deal,” Gibbs said. “So you’ve got to stay locked in and keep working.” It was the seventh second-place finish of the season for Bell, who led 108 laps.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Michael Brennan had another Sunday opportunity and delivered in a big way. He made ﬁve straight birdies to pull away from Beau Hossler and close with a 6-under 64 to win the Wyndham Championship and reach the PGA Tour’s lucrative postseason. Brennan came into the final tournament of the regular season at No. 105 in the FedEx Cup, a disappointing year with only one top 10. Now his season gets extended by at least one week — maybe longer, based on how he’s playing — after his second PGA Tour title in two years. Brennan was one shot behind Hossler when he ran off five straight birdies starting on the fourth hole, all of them inside 8 feet. That turned a deﬁcit into a three-shot lead at the turn when

Hossler took a bogey on the ninth hole. Then it was a matter of hanging on for the 24-year-old Brennan, a Virginia native who played his college golf about 30 miles away at Wake Forest. “I don’t want to be done playing golf,” Brennan said. “Unfortunately, I’ve had a couple of tough Sundays. Outside of that, I had been playing really solid. This is my sixth week in a row. I’m perfectly happy running on fumes next week.” The FedEx Cup playoffs start Thursday with the FedEx St. Jude Championship at the TPC Southwind in Memphis, Tennessee. Only the top 70 players advance, and Brennan shot up to No. 47. Jackson Koivun, who left Auburn in June and won the 3M Open in only his third start, narrowly hung on to the 70th spot and goes from college to the postseason in

CINCINNATI — Jannik Sinner, the world’s No. 1 men’s tennis player, withdrew from the Cincinnati Open on Sunday because of a knee injury. Sinner, who hasn’t competed since capturing his second straight Wimbledon title last month, also withdrew from the tournament in Toronto that began Wednesday. The 24-year-old Sinner has ﬁve Grand Slam titles and just needs to win the French Open to complete the career Grand Slam. Sinner’s announcement follows a similar decision by Carlos Alcaraz, who said Tuesday he also was withdrawing from the Cincinnati event because of a lingering wrist injury. Two years ago, Sinner won the title in Cincinnati, then went on to win the U.S. Open.

Tears of joy as Vollering wins 2nd Tour de France

After winning the Women’s Tour de France for the second time on Sunday, Demi Vollering tried hard to hold back tears while the Dutch national anthem played. It was her toughest moment of the day after an ultra-dominant performance on the bike from the 2023 champion. She secured an impressive stage win, and in doing so extended her overall lead over Polish rider Katarzyna Niewiadoma-Phinney to 1 minute, 18 seconds clear of the 2024 champion. Vollering raised her bike in the air moments after crossing the ﬁnish line in Nice. Niewiadoma-Phinney had started Sunday’s ninth and ﬁnal stage only eight seconds behind Vollering, who got a time bonus for winning it.

Niemann nabs 9th LIV win; Rahm claims season title

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Ty Gibbs eats corn after winning a NASCAR Cup race on Sunday at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. “Ty did a really good job,” Bell said. “He did a great job of managing the race.” Pole-sitter Ryan Blaney, who won the inaugural 2024 Cup Series race at the 0.875-mile oval, was third after leading a racehigh 129 laps. Josh Berry finished fourth.

It was Berry’s best finish of the season, and only his third top-10 finish. Hamlin finished fifth. Chase Briscoe was sixth. Chastain recovered to finish seventh. AJ Allmendinger was eighth, followed by defending race winner William Byron. Austin Dillon was 10th.

Brennan nabs PGA postseason spot with victory By The Associated Press

Don Nelson, the second-winningest coach in NBA history who won ﬁve championships as a player with the Boston Celtics, died Sunday. He was 86. Nelson is one of two coaches in NBA history to have at least 250 wins with three franchises — Milwaukee, Dallas and Golden State — also serving as general manager for all three franchises. He was a three-time coach of the year and made the playoffs 18 times in 31 seasons. He went to the conference finals three times with the Bucks and once with the Mavericks, never winning a title. Nelson played 11 of his 14 seasons in Boston and was on five Celtics championship teams. Nelson retired as the NBA’s career coaching wins leader with 1,335, just ahead of Lenny Wilkens’ 1,332, until close friend and San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich passed him in March 2022.

Knee injury forces Sinner to exit Cincinnati Open

Gibbs holds on for win at Iowa Speedway Associated Press

Nelson, second in NBA coaching wins, dies at 86

only two months. But he had to sweat it out after closing with a 71. Matt Wallace and Davis Thompson were still on the course and in range of ﬁnishing high enough to bump Koivun out of the top 70. But they failed to hole all the key putts, and Koivun made it with eight points to spare. A bogey might have been enough to knock him out of the postseason. But on the 18th hole at Sedgeﬁeld Country Club, Koivun piped his drive straight down the middle, leaving a wedge from the fairway and an easy par. Known for his composure, he was emotionally invested in every outcome down the stretch, a rare sight from the past two months. “It’s just a different type of nerves when you know you don’t have your stuff and you’ve got to go out there and execute some shots,” Koivun said. “I think that

kind of sparked some emotion in me. Yeah, it’s easier to get comfortable when you’re playing well. It was just kind of a different feeling for me today.” Brennan started feeling the nerves, too. He was four shots behind in a tie for fourth going into the final round of the 3M Open and shot 74 to finish out of the top 20. Last week at the Rocket Classic, he was in the final group and one shot out of the lead when he went the wrong direction again, closing with a 73 to tie for 15th. He delivered in the final event of the regular season, and it was his mother who came onto the 18th green to celebrate who reminded Brennan the victory also sends him to the Masters. He made his Masters debut this year going from the PGA Tour Americas straight to the big leagues when he won the Bank of Utah Championship last fall.

BEDMINSTER, N.J. — Joaquin Niemann closed with a 2-under 69 Sunday for a three-shot victory in LIV Golf New York, extending his record with his ninth career victory in the past three years. Jon Rahm shot 76 and tied for 41st, but that still was enough to clinch the season points title for the third straight time since the two-time major champion joined LIV Golf. Niemann, who won earlier this year in South Korea, went wire-towire at Trump International. He ﬁnished at 16-under 268. Harold Varner III caught Niemann until the Chilean pulled away late with a birdie on the 13th and an eagle on the par-5 15th. Varner shot 70 to ﬁnish second.

Lynx G McBride sets WNBA record with 10 3-pointers

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota Lynx guard Kayla McBride wanted to give the hometown fans a show Sunday. She delivered one that the Target Center crowd will never forget. The ﬁve-time All-Star and fourtime EuroLeague champion broke the WNBA single-game record by making 10 3-pointers Sunday in a 103-90 victory over the Dallas Wings. McBride made 10 of 14 shots from behind the arc and ﬁnished with a career-high 43 points — and she did it in front of a home crowd that seemed to be urging her to chase the record. The record-breaker came with 2:23 to play and gave the Lynx a 9883 lead. She left the game with 1:21 remaining to a roaring ovation.

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Ole Miss set to honor Archie Manning with a statue next season BY JEFF DUNCAN Staff writer

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Former NFL player Drew Brees is introduced during the Pro Football Hall of Fame induction ceremony on Saturday at the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

‘IT WAS REALLY, REALLY IMPACTFUL’ Brees’ HOF speech leaves lasting impression on current Saints

Kellen Moore kept Saturday’s team meeting short and simple. He didn’t discuss any X’s and O’s. And there was no use reviewing anything that happened earlier in practice. The only thing Moore wanted Rod his team to see Walker and hear was the 28-minute speech Drew Brees delivered at his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction. “That’s all they needed,” Moore said. Brees, the greatest player in franchise history, once sat in the very same meeting room that current Saints’ players watched from Saturday. The message he delivered while on stage in Canton, Ohio, resonated over a thousand miles away on Airline Drive in Metairie. “I have no words,” said rookie receiver Bryce Lance. “It was really, really impactful. The full room was moved after watching that speech and I’m very thankful to coach for allowing us to watch that.” Brees, the greatest player in franchise history, once sat in the very same meeting room that current Saints players watched from Saturday. The message he delivered while on stage in Canton, Ohio, resonated over a thousand miles away on Airline Drive in Metairie.. “As good of a speech as you’re ever going to hear,” Moore said. “The impact it has on all of us when it relates to the journey of football, the New Orleans Saints and the city of New Orleans is pretty awesome.” Brees had his share of hic-

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Continued from page 1C his eyes set on what he can bring off of it. Rare for his age, but Geralds has matured quickly. He was such a young phenom in the state of Georgia, bowling over defenders at running back, that little kids were asking for his autograph in eighth grade. Collins Hill defensive line coach Cory Beck had a son playing little league ball in Geralds’ age group. He was so awed by the sight of an 11-year-old Geralds he immediately went looking for the kid’s father, Daverin, a former Ole Miss offensive lineman. “He is the most physically developed kid I’ve ever seen at that age, and I’ve been coaching high school football forever,” said Beck, who proceeded to show up to Deuce’s games for the next three years. “He was a freak. Nobody could block him.” Nobody could. Nobody has. Beck shared his protege’s career statistics at Collins Hill and felt the need to promise they aren’t fake.

Archie Manning is getting a statue. Ole Miss athletic director Keith Carter informed Manning Saturday of the school’s plans to honor him with a 13-foot statue from his legendary playing days for the Rebels. The statue has been commissioned and will be unveiled for the 2027 Ole Miss football season, Manning said. It is expected to be displayed between the Manning Football Complex and VaughtHemingway Stadium. “I was surprised and shocked and honored,” Manning said. “I don’t know if it’s set in yet.” Carter surprised Manning with the news at a reunion of the 1967 Ole Miss freshman team that he attends annually in Oxford, Mississippi. “Ole Miss has been such a huge part of my life,” he said. “I grew up 80 miles away just worshiping Ole Miss football and Ole Miss quarterbacks. I’m proud that I’ve been able to stay close to Ole Miss, (even with) not living in Mississippi.” A native of Drew, Mississippi, Manning led the Rebels to a 22-10-1 record during his three seasons as a starter from 19681970. He was a Heisman Trophy ﬁnalist in his junior and senior seasons, when he guided Ole Miss to the Sugar Bowl and Gator Bowl. He was named MVP of the Sugar Bowl after leading the Rebels to a 27-22 win against Arkansas. “Ole Miss quarterbacks were always my heroes,” Manning said. “The biggest thrill I’ve ever had in sports was to be a quarterback at Ole Miss. That’s what I grew up wanting to do, play quar-

cups along the way, including a shoulder injury before he arrived in New Orleans that could have ended his career. Instead, he persevered and rewrote the NFL record book. Overcoming adversity was the one message that Moore hopes his players received. “For all of our guys — when you’re in the middle of training camp — adversity is always going to come,” Moore said. “Everyone has faced adversity. Drew faced adversity through his career and his life. I think it’s always a reminder.” Saints defensive back Terrell Burgess grew up in San Diego, where Brees played the ﬁrst ﬁve seasons of his NFL career with the Chargers. When Burgess was 16, he even got a chance to work out with Brees. So hearing the speech was like a full-circle moment. “Just listening to how much he loves the game of football is really inspirational,” Burgess said. “Every day he went out there with dignity and made sure he made everyone around him play as well as they could.” Brees mentioned about 70 people in his speech. That included family members, friends, former coaches and teammates. That stuck out to Lance, who was only a year old when Brees entered the league in 2001. “He’s a Hall of Famer now and all he talks about is his teammates and coaches and everyone around him,” Lance said. “I think that’s something we are really trying to build (here). I know I haven’t been here long, but I can tell that’s something we are going to try to emulate.” Brees earning his spot in Canton is the pinnacle of his career. But there is still one thing left. Some day — hopefully sooner than later — the New Orleans Saints will erect a Brees statue. And if they really want to get it right, they will engrave the most

powerful line from Brees’ speech on the base of the statue: “You trusted me with the soul of the city and I would have died to protect that calling.” Those 18 words should be etched in writing forever, much like Brees’ speech will be etched in the memories of Saints fans forever. His love for the city that loved him back was just as important as all the talk about teamwork and camaraderie. “It gave me a better understanding of the city and the culture and everybody here and the fandom of the Saints,” Lance said. Zach Wood, the Saints’ veteran long snapper, got a chance to see that fandom in person. Wood was one of three current Saints (Cam Jordan and Alvin Kamara were the others) who attended the ceremony. Who Dats were everywhere. “It felt like the old days when Drew was here,” Wood said. “It felt like the Dome. It was a good reminder of how special he was to the city and how much the city lived through him.” For the new players on the roster still trying to ﬁnd the best food spots in the city or still learning how to pronounce “Tchoupitoulas,” Brees’ speech was a reminder of what makes New Orleans different. Moore knows the value of his players hearing that. “That’s the important part,” Moore said. “For a lot of the younger guys, they have got a taste of our city, our community. But they are busy in training camp and living in a hotel a lot of times during this part of the year. They start recognizing how this is different. To be honest, this isn’t a normal NFL team. This is different. This is a really special place.” In a team meeting room on Saturday, the younger Saints players learned just how special a place it is. A special player delivered the message loud and clear.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The Carolina Panthers signed Kyle Trask as a third quarterback on Sunday with Hall of Fame game hero Haynes King expected to miss time with a hamstring injury. Trask gives the Panthers a third QB behind starter Bryce Young and backup Kenny Pickett. Trask has familiarity with Panthers offensive coordinator Brad Idzik, having spent the last three seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He has limited game experience, with only 11 career pass attempts during his career. King, an undrafted rookie out of Georgia Tech, ran in from the 5 on the ﬁnal play to give the Panthers a dramatic 33-30 victory over the Arizona Cardinals on Thursday night in Canton, Ohio, to kick off the NFL preseason.

Geralds finished high school with a state-record 56 sacks. He also hurried the opposing quarterback an additional 135 times. Of his 352 tackles, 114 were for a loss. He had a head start because most freshmen don’t play at Collins Hill, which produced Heisman winner Travis Hunter. Beck was crazy enough to give Geralds first-team reps in his first spring practice, just like LSU. “Just trust me,” Beck told his fellow coaches. On his third day, Geralds came to Beck with questions. He wasn’t like most eighth-graders, only concerned about shooting his assigned gap and just hoping to pounce on a ball carrier. Geralds wanted to know what the secondary behind him was doing. He wanted to make sure everyone was fitting their gaps, himself as part of a whole. “He’s asking what the linebackers are doing, and I said, ‘Well, that’s page 13. You worry about page 1,’” Beck said. “A day or two later, he’s coming in telling me what the DBs were doing on cer-

tain calls.” Geralds was just born into the game. Literally, Daverin Sr. had Daverin Jr., nicknamed “Deuce,” when he was just a freshman at Ole Miss. The Rebels’ center brought his jumbo-sized kid into his college locker room and various other facilities during a short pro career. At home, Deuce took to watching highlights of NFL greats. “Sometimes I’d catch him; he’d be up watching some old guys like Reggie White,” Daverin said. “I’m like, ‘I’m glad you’re doing that. You need to go to bed, though.’” He could diagram X’s and O’s on a whiteboard, and the musclebound teen developed the strength to execute White’s “hump” move as an edge rusher. Collins Hill preferred Geralds inside. That way, there was no running away from him. He wreaked so much havoc, Geralds was in line to be Collins Hill’s defensive player of the week basically every week. They would try to give the award to him, but the kid who grew up handing out book bags and McDonald’s hamburgers

declined. Geralds would text his head coach, Drew Swick, and point to a Collins Hill nose tackle who was also playing offensive guard. He wanted his teammate to have the praise. “That’s just who Deuce is,” Swick said. “He wants everybody to have success.” Geralds could help LSU, unusually fast, if he stays on track. On the opening day of preseason camp, he was the ﬁrst defensive tackle through individual drills, bending back the yellow pad of a one-man sled with explosive force, then tossing it aside. On the second day, Geralds paired with another freshman, Richard Anderson, on the Tigers’ ﬁrst-team defense. If he mans the middle for LSU’s defense in the home opener against Clemson, it would be a dream come true for Geralds, who spent a sizable chunk of his childhood in Baton Rouge. His father, a Scotlandville Magnet High School valedictorian, played for Ed Orgeron at Ole Miss, and “Coach O” just rejoined LSU’s staff under

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In this 1969 file photo, Ole Miss quarterback Archie Manning evades the Tennessee defense while looking to pass during a game in Jackson, Miss.

terback at Ole Miss.” The statue will be a ﬁrst for Manning, the patriarch of “The First Family of Football,” which includes his sons, Cooper, and former NFL star quarterbacks Peyton and Eli Manning. It will be the fifth statue on the Ole Miss campus, joining tributes to Vaught, Chucky Mullins, Coolidge Ball and James Meredith. Carter displayed miniature images of the statue to Manning and his former teammates at the gathering on Saturday night. The artist will recreate an image of Manning in action during one of his signature plays, a rollout pass in head coach Johnny Vaught’s offense. “I like it,” Manning said. “It’s me.”

Panthers sign QB Trask with Hall of Fame game hero King sidelined BY STEVE REED AP sportswriter

The Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year last season, King was 21 of 34 for 180 yards and two touchdowns. He ran for 39 yards and the winning score. Panthers coach Dave Canales said King strained his hamstring on the ﬁnal play and will not play Saturday against the Buffalo Bills.

Panthers starters limit snaps Carolina quarterback Bryce Young and the rest of the team’s starters will play about 10-20 plays against the Bills, depending on the ﬂow of the game, according to Canales. The starters did not play against the Cardinals. “I’m excited to just go out there with the guys,” Young said after practice Sunday. “Any time you get to play live football it’s a privilege. especially after last week and just to be around it. You get that itch again.”

Lane Kiffin. “He’ll call me like, ‘Dad, Coach O was saying some wild stuff,’ ” Daverin said. “I said, ‘Hey, just get used to it.’ After a while, man, it’s just him. He’s a fiery guy.” “Most of the ones,” Deuce said, searching his mind for an Orgeron story he could share, “the words are too graphic for me to say.” After his show of restraint, the LSU freshman ventured back to the Geralds Foundation tent. He handed over that red book bag to a mom, then went over to a nearby bouncy house to watch neighborhood kids play. Giving back has always been a “non-negotiable” for his family, Deuce said, whether it’s once a year or once a month. His onthe-field play could offer him the platform to make an impact very quickly, and he’s ready whenever the spotlight arrives. Remember, he’s been signing autographs since the eighth grade. “The pressure was a privilege,” Geralds said. “My family kept me motivated and we stayed focused and just kept working. The job is still not done.”

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Bridgewater steps away from Lions, leaving question at backup QB

CAMP OBSERVATIONS

BY PAULA PASCHE

Associated Press

STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

New Orleans Saints wide receivers Kevin Austin Jr. and Bryce Lance high-five one another as training camp ends for the day on Sunday at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center on Airline Drive in Metairie.

Rookie WR Lance has big day Lance’s fellow rookies made Odds and ends their mark Sunday, as well. Lance, n New Orleans spent a decent Tyson, Brown and tight end Oscar After Saturday’s practice, rookie Delp caught all nine of their intend- chunk of Sunday’s practice runwideout Jordyn Tyson had the fan ed targets. ning screen passes, and each one base buzzing because of a handof them seemed to be set up well from a blocking and yards-afterful of video clips that showed him Attendance cooking one of his teammates on a The following players did not catch standpoint. n He is facing some of the lonblaze-out route. participate in Sunday’s practice: Earlier this week, it was fel- Running backs Kendre Miller (back) gest odds on the team of making low New Orleans Saints rookie and Devin Neal (hamstring), receiv- the 53-man roster, but undrafted receiver Barion Brown who was the ers Mason Tipton (leg) and Bub Means rookie running back C.J. Donaldson talk of camp after he posted sev- (personal), offensive linemen Dil- has some ability. He has made a eral straight days of highlight-reel lon Radunz (ACL) and Jeremiah Wright handful of attention-grabbing runs catches downfield. (shoulder), defensive back Rejzohn since the pads came on, using his Sunday, during the Saints’ ninth Wright, defensive lineman Christen 6-1, 230-pound frame to his bentraining camp practice, it was Bryce Miller (toe), linebacker Chris Rumph efit. Sunday, he showed some nice Lance’s turn. (ankle) and defensive end Cam vision, finding a cutback lane and The fourth-round pick out of Jordan (hamstring). bouncing a run away from the acNorth Dakota State had one of his Defensive tackle John Ridgeway tion of the play for a big gain. He most impressive single practices and Pete Werner sustained what Kellen will be an interesting one to watch to this point in training camp. He Moore described as minor injuries in the preseason. n Another player who has conended one team period by hauling during practice. Danny Stutsman took in a deep touchdown on a straight starting linebacker reps in Wer- tinued to show up day after day: “go” route. Backup slot cornerback Jayden Price, ner’s absence. “The corner was back, I had to Radunz’s ACL injury occurred who blew up one play during team press him vertical and then beat in Saturday’s practice during a drills Sunday by making a leaping him,” Lance said. one-on-one rep, and his season is pass breakup off a corner blitz. That is the type of play Lance almost certainly done. Price adds value on special teams, routinely made in college. More too, but his repeated playmaking than half of his more than 2,000 Kicker question on defense makes him feel like college receiving yards came After a really strong start to someone who belongs on the 53on plays where he was targeted training camp, making 15 of his man roster. n Veteran receiver Ronnie Bell’s 20 or more yards downfield. As first 16 attempts, kicker Charlie a 6-foot-3, 204-pound threat who Smyth‘s consistency has waned dur- strong training camp continued. ran a 4.34-second 40-yard dash at ing his last two appearances. Sunday, he got behind the Saints the combine, that figured to be a Thursday, Smyth missed three coverage — what may have been substantial part of his early NFL kicks in a row at one point and fin- a busted coverage — to haul in a résumé as well. ished 3-for-6 on the day. He added long touchdown pass from Zach WilThe more encouraging thing, three more misses to his slate Sun- son. n Deion Jones, a New Orleans nathough, was what happened after day, missing left from 47 yards, that big touchdown catch. His sec- right from 56 and left again from tive who attended Jesuit High ond catch of team drills came on 50 to close out a two-minute drill. School and LSU, got his first run during team drills Sunday, worka nice out-breaking route deep to- He finished 4-for-7 Sunday. The Saints are not going to over- ing with the third team defense at ward the right sideline, and he finished things off by making a tough react to one or two bad days from linebacker. n The Saints have one more incatch through contact over the their talented young kicker — middle of the field on a dig route. Moore has gone out of his way to stall day — in other words, a day “My teammates and my coach- say so, adding that misses are part that is focused on deeply learning staff have been really ben- of the game. But the Saints did ing a section of the playbook — eficial answering any questions I bring in another promising young- remaining in training camp. The have and helping me grow, both ster to compete with him in Tanner team will be off Monday, and go on the field and in the playbook,” Brown, who has so far gone 19 for through its final install Tuesday Lance said. “It’s been a pretty 23 on his training camp attempts before welcoming the Jacksonville smooth transition.” (Smyth, in camp, is now 22 for 29). Jaguars for joint practices.

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Saints guard Xavier Truss and edge Tyree Wilson run a drill during training on Saturday in Metairie.

Continued from page 1C Staley runs a scheme in which edge rushers “can fly,” Young said. By having stand-up rushers rather than those with a hand in the dirt, and by mixing in a variety of fronts, the results backed up that assertion last season as Young and Cam Jordan were the ﬁrst pair of Saints edge rushers to record double-digit sacks in a season since 2013. Wilson said he believes Staley’s track record is one of the reasons he’ll experience success with the Saints. In the months since joining the black and gold, Wilson said he has felt the Saints have helped “polish” his technique. Wilson considers himself a power rusher, which means he’s often relying on his strength to win matchups. But Wilson said there are counters to that approach that can help him win more consistently, such as grabbing an offensive lineman’s arm to win outside or recognizing when he has the chance to “snatch” over a lineman when a quarterback tries to climb the pocket. Those are nuances Wilson has needed time to learn as he enters his fourth year in the league. “Being a young player, you always think you can demolish guys, be stronger than them,” he

STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD said. “But guys are polished in the NFL. So you gotta be able to play with length and be able to get off and make those plays, not just get washed and be in the gap.” Some days remind Wilson his growth is still a work in progress. After a recent practice, Wilson admitted he had “a little drop-off” from the day prior. He felt he wasn’t as dominant as he knows he can be. But that’s what coaching is all about. The Saints acquired Wilson in part because of the success they had in bringing in Young, the 2020 Defensive Rookie of the Year whose career hadn’t taken off in the way most imagined. The comparison isn’t perfect — Young’s career was affected by a major knee injury that slowed his growth — but there’s no doubt the Saints have helped further de-

velop Young’s game. The former second overall pick recorded a career-high 10 sacks in 12 games last season. “I think he’s going to be a real great addition for us,” Young said of Wilson. “A real big monster coming off the edge.” For now, the Saints have mostly used Wilson with the second unit. He projects to be a rotational pass rusher, likely fourth behind Young, Carl Granderson and Jordan. But the Saints hope that as they hone in on Wilson’s development, the pass-rusher’s natural ability will “come alive,” Rodgers said. “He’s got a different body type than what we have,” Rodgers said. “So he’s long. He’s wiry. He has good build-to-speed-to-power to him, and there’s a reason why he was a top 10 pick.”

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Veteran quarterback Teddy Bridgewater has stepped away from football. “His biggest worry was letting us down, that’s the type of guy he is,” Detroit Lions coach Dan Campbell said Sunday, when Bridgewater was placed on the reserve/retired list. The 33-year-old journeyman had signed a one-year deal with the Lions in March after spending 2025 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He also spent 2023 and part of 2024 with Detroit. “So I’ve known Teddy a long time. As a human being he is unbelievable. Certainly as a player, everything that he’s about, the type of teammate he is, the way he prepares. He always played the game up here,” an emotional Campbell said, pointing to his head. “He had a huge heart. He’s going to be missed.” Campbell, who was assistant head coach with the New Orleans Saints when Bridgewater played there in 2018 and 2019, has maintained a close relationship with the quarterback. “I’ll never forget 2019 when Drew (Brees) got injured. We’d just gone out to the Rams, got beat out there and Drew got his thumb and we lost him for ﬁve weeks,” Campbell said. “Teddy stepped in and we won ﬁve in a row. That was Teddy. His time being with us meant a lot, and it

meant a lot to our guys. He’s going to be missed.” Bridgewater had been signed to back up Jared Goff. Undrafted rookie Luke Altmyer, the only other QB on the Lions roster, had been getting more reps in training camp earlier this week when Bridgewater was absent, and again on Sunday. “I thought he did some really good things,” Campbell said. “He was put in some tough positions for a young player that you absolutely have to be put in, you just do, you’ve got to be thrust in, you need to fail, you need to make mistakes so you can grow and we thought he handled it really well.” Altmyer said he has learned so much from Bridgewater. “It was a joy to spend some time with him, but it brings about opportunity for myself, and the standard is to play good football no matter how many reps and or whatever my role is, I have a job to do and my job is to do that very, very well at a high level,” Altmyer said. “I’m thankful. I believe in my abilities and I’m going to go cut it loose whatever that looks like for me.” The Lions plan to sign a veteran quarterback as soon as Monday. Campbell said Goff will not play in the preseason game Thursday in Cincinnati. “Certainly Altmyer will take a heavy load and anybody else we get we’ll get them up to speed as fast as we can and give them some reps,” Campbell said.

STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

Saints offensive lineman Dillon Radunz walks off the field after a play during training camp on Saturday in Metairie.

SAINTS

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Radunz done

The Saints’ depth along the offensive line has taken a hit. Guard Dillon Radunz suffered a torn ACL, coach Moore said Sunday. The injury will likely end Radunz’s season. Radunz, 28, was expected to be one of New Orleans’ key backups upfront. The former 2021 secondround pick started 10 of 15 games for New Orleans last season and the stint went well enough that the Saints opted to re-sign him to a two-year contract. Radunz had been primarily working this summer at right guard, moving from the left side following the Saints’ signing of David Edwards. But now, the Saints will have to ﬁnd a replacement for Radunz. The offensive lineman suffered the injury during a 1-on-1 drill Saturday when his knee buckled in a rep against defensive tackle Vernon Broughton. Radunz slowly crawled on the ground before limping up and slamming his helmet on the way to the sideline. This is the second time that Radunz has suffered a torn ACL in his career, last doing so on Dec. 22, 2022, when he was with the Tennessee Titans. Moore did not specify if the latest injury occurred on the same leg. Guard William Sherman has since taken Radunz’s reps in team drills.

Jones’ adjustment

“They said they got a lot of stuff to take back right now,” Jones said with a grin. Count Jones among those still adjusting after spending so long on the other side of the rivalry. But the 31-year-old said “it’s a blessing to be back,” even if he rarely envisioned it. “A little different,” Jones said. “It’s definitely growing on me.” Some of the best games of Jones’ career have, coincidentally, come against the Saints. There was the 90-yard pick-six off Drew Brees in 2016, the interception in the end zone to clinch an Atlanta victory over New Orleans in 2017. At his peak, Jones was a player that the Saints had to gameplan around. But Jones’ career has taken a different sharp turn since those days. In recent years, Jones has floated around the division — making stops with the Carolina Panthers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers as a reserve linebacker. He has learned to embrace special teams, where he played a career-high 60.8% of the snaps last season. In New Orleans, he’s expected to fill a similar role. Jones, though, is glad to be in the league. Before the Saints called last week to bring him in for a workout, the linebacker had been training on his own and spending time with his three daughters. He said he was not stressed over whether a call from a team would come. But the call finally came. And in his visit, Jones worked out well enough for the Saints to offer him a contract. They also had another question: Did he still want to wear No. 45? That’s the number that Jones had mostly worn since his days at LSU, the number he had so often tortured New Orleans in when with the Falcons. The choice was a no-brainer. “I know what the Saints do for the city; I know this is the heartbeat — if the Saints are doing well, the city is doing well,” Jones said. “I had fun coming in and trying to disrupt that every now and again, but like I said, it’s a blessing to be on this side.”

In the two days since he became a member of the Saints, Deion Jones is still getting used to the fact that he plays for his hometown team. The veteran linebacker hasn’t had time to stop by his mom’s house. Nor has he gotten a chance to visit some of his favorite restaurants. But Jones has heard from all sorts of family members who are ecstatic to see him in the black and gold. And he’s also heard from various friends and fans back in Atlanta who can’t believe Jones — who spent the ﬁrst six of his 10 seasons with the Falcons — actu- Email Matthew Paras at matt. ally agreed to wear those colors. paras@theadvocate.com

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SCOREBOARD Odds MLB Monday

American League FAVORITE LINE Boston -160 Baltimore -112 Texas -120 at ATHLETICS OFF National League FAVORITE LINE at ATLANTA -157 Philadelphia -112 at ARIZONA OFF at SAN DIEGO OFF Interleague FAVORITE LINE at SAN FRAN. OFF at LA DODGERS -304

UNDERDOG at TORONTO at MINNESOTA at LA ANGELS Tampa Bay

LINE +130 -107 +101 OFF

UNDERDOG N.Y Mets at ST. LOUIS Colorado Milwaukee

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UNDERDOG Houston Kansas City

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Pro football NFL Preseason glance Thursday’s games

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’s games

Denver at Atlanta, 6 p.m. Miami at Washington, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m.

Saturday’s games

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.

Houston 2, New England 0

Pro tennis

Indiana Atlanta Washington New York Chicago Toronto Connecticut

W 20 19 19 20 12 10 8

L 12 12 12 13 20 21 23

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GB — ½ ½ ½ 8 9½ 11½

x-Minnesota Golden State Las Vegas Dallas Portland Los Angeles Phoenix Seattle

W 27 22 22 19 13 12 12 6

L 7 9 11 14 19 18 22 28

Pct .794 .710 .667 .576 .406 .400 .353 .176

GB — 3½ 4½ 7½ 13 13 15 21

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Minnesota 98, Las Vegas 87 Indiana 90, Chicago 86 Portland 100, Seattle 93

Sunday’s games

New York 111, Las Vegas 71 Washington 95, Phoenix 75 Minnesota 103, Dallas 90 Golden State at Los Angeles, n

Monday’s games

Toronto at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Chicago at Seattle, 9 p.m.

Auto racing NASCAR Cup Series Iowa Corn 350 Powered by Ethanol results Sunday

At Iowa Speedway Newton, Iowa. Lap length: 0.88 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (6) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 350 laps, 69 points. 2. (22) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 350, 49. 3. (1) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 350, 47. 4. (13) Josh Berry, Ford, 350, 33. 5. (29) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 350, 37. 6. (20) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 350, 40. 7. (9) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 350, 43. 8. (25) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 350, 29. 9. (19) William Byron, Chevrolet, 350, 32. 10. (7) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 350, 33. 11. (8) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 349, 29. 12. (26) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 349, 25. 13. (27) Chris Buescher, Ford, 349, 24. 14. (3) Joey Logano, Ford, 349, 41. 15. (32) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 349, 22. 16. (14) Zane Smith, Ford, 349, 24. 17. (15) Noah Gragson, Ford, 349, 20. 18. (16) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 349, 19. (21) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 349, 18. 20. (35) Ryan Preece, Ford, 349, 17. 21. (28) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 349, 16. 22. (17) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 349, 15. 23. (33) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 349, 14. 24. (31) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 349, 13. 25. (11) M. McDowell, Chevrolet, 349, 12. 26. (24) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 349, 0. 27. (4) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 348, 10. 28. (36) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 348, 9.

WALKER

Average Speed of Race Winner: 103.34 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 57 minutes, 49 seconds. Margin of Victory: .253 seconds. Caution Flags: 7 for 45 laps. Lead Changes: 9 among 6 drivers. Lap Leaders: R.Blaney 0-93; C.Elliott 94107; B.Wallace 108-142; R.Blaney 143; C.Bell 144-214; C.Elliott 215-218; R.Blaney 219-253; C.Bell 254-290; R.Chastain 291-330; T.Gibbs 331-350 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): R.Blaney, 3 times for 129 laps; C.Bell, 2 times for 108 laps; R.Chastain, 1 time for 40 laps; B.Wallace, 1 time for 35 laps; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 20 laps; C.Elliott, 2 times for 18 laps. Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; R.Blaney, 2; C.Elliott, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; T.Gibbs, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; C.Briscoe, 1; D.Suárez, 1; J.Logano, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 886; 2. T.Reddick, 802; 3. R.Blaney, 766; 4. T.Gibbs, 751; 5. C.Hocevar, 638; 6. C.Elliott, 635; 7. C.Briscoe, 623; 8. K.Larson, 617; 9. C.Buescher, 613; 10. C.Bell, 609; 11. D.Suárez, 583; 12. W.Byron, 568; 13. J.Logano, 545; 14. B.Wallace, 540; 15. S.Van Gisbergen, 537; 16. A.Cindric, 518.

Race statistics

A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

WNBA Glance

Saturday’s games

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

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula

Pro basketball EASTERN CONFERENCE

29. (12) Austin Cindric, Ford, 348, 8. 30. (23) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 347, 7. 31. (18) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 347, 6. 32. (34) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 347, 5. 33. (2) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 332, 12. 34. (30) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, accident, 194, 3. 35. (10) Erik Jones, Toyota, accident, 4, 2. 36. (5) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, accident, 3, 1.

ATP National Bank Open results Sunday

Round of 16 Daniel Merida, Spain, def. Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 6-3, 6-1. Learner Tien (12), United States, def. Thiago Agustin Tirante, Argentina, 6-4, 6-4. Ben Shelton (5), United States, def. Joao Fonseca (22), Brazil, 6-3, 7-6 (3).

Men’s Doubles

Round of 16 Albano Olivetti and Theo Arribage, France, def. Michael Venus, New Zealand, and Yuki Bhambri, India, 7-6 (5), 5-7, 11-9. Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo (3), El Salvador, def. Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl, Czechia, 7-6 (6), 6-2.

Soccer MLS Glance W 12 11 9 9 7 7 7 7 5 6 5 3 4 4 3

Western Conference

L 2 2 6 6 6 6 7 7 5 10 8 7 10 10 12

New York at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Columbus at Charlotte FC, 6:30 p.m. D.C. United at CF Montréal, 6:30 p.m. Cincinnati at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m. New England at Toronto FC, 6:30 p.m. LA Galaxy at Houston, 7:30 p.m. Miami at Nashville, 7:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Colorado, 8:30 p.m. Minnesota at Real Salt Lake, 8:30 p.m. San Diego FC at Los Angeles FC, 9:30 p.m. St Louis City at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

NWSL Glance

W L T Pts GF GA Gotham FC 12 3 4 40 24 12 Washington 11 5 3 36 29 17 Utah Royals FC 10 5 3 33 31 19 San Diego 10 7 2 32 24 20 North Carolina 9 6 3 30 32 26 Kansas City 9 7 3 30 29 25 Portland 8 6 4 28 28 25 Angel City 7 7 2 23 24 17 Seattle 7 7 2 23 20 21 Orlando 7 10 2 23 23 29 Denver Summit FC 5 7 5 20 22 23 Boston Legacy FC 5 8 5 20 19 24 Houston 5 8 5 20 19 25 Bay FC 5 9 3 18 18 24 Louisville 5 11 2 17 24 35 Chicago 4 13 0 12 9 33 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Friday’s games

Louisville 3, Orlando 1 Gotham FC 1, San Diego 0

Saturday’s games

North Carolina 4, Washington 3 Kansas City 1, Houston 1, tie Denver Summit FC 2, Utah Royals FC 1

Sunday’s games

Friday, August 14

Men’s Singles

Nashville Inter Miami CF New England Chicago New York City FC Cincinnati Charlotte FC New York D.C. United Orlando City Columbus Toronto FC Philadelphia CF Montréal Atlanta

Saturday, August 15

Portland 4, Boston Legacy FC 3 Bay FC 0, Chicago 0, tie Angel City at Seattle, n

At IGA Stadium Montreal Purse: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

Eastern Conference

Saturday, August 8

T Pts 4 40 5 38 3 30 2 29 5 26 5 26 4 25 4 25 8 23 2 20 5 20 8 17 4 16 4 16 3 12

GF GA 35 14 45 32 28 23 32 23 31 24 45 44 29 27 29 39 26 29 30 47 26 28 24 32 25 33 24 35 19 33

W L T Pts GF GA Vancouver 10 3 4 34 38 17 Los Angeles FC 10 5 4 34 35 19 San Jose 10 5 3 33 37 24 Houston 10 6 2 32 27 24 Real Salt Lake 8 6 3 27 29 25 FC Dallas 7 5 6 27 32 25 St Louis City 7 6 5 26 24 24 Portland 7 8 3 24 33 33 Seattle 7 7 3 24 20 22 Minnesota United 6 6 6 24 20 25 Colorado 7 10 1 22 27 25 LA Galaxy 5 7 7 22 24 29 San Diego FC 5 7 6 21 32 29 Austin FC 4 9 5 17 22 36 Sporting Kansas City 4 12 2 14 18 46 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday, August 1

Nashville 2, D.C. United 2, tie New England 2, CF Montréal 2, tie New York 3, Orlando City 2 Philadelphia 3, Atlanta 2

disciplined in what you’re doing.” The Pelicans could still add Continued from page 1C pieces. They need to. Rim protection and rebounding help and more reliable shooters should still no big deal that I felt was going to be high on Dumars’ list of priorities. But as of now, the roster make us better for us to pull the looks almost exactly like it did trigger on.” Some of those trade possibilities four months ago. Dumars’ message to the fans who cringe at the came around the draft in June. thought of the Pelicans just runThe Pelicans didn’t have a firstround pick because of the trade in ning it back with the same squad? “I think if we are healthy, we the 2025 draft when they moved up to select forward Derik Queen. have a good roster,” Dumars said. “I believe in the players we have. Dumars hinted in April that the But two things can be true at the team could try to move into the same time. You can believe in your first round this year. But unlike 2025, they didn’t make any moves. roster and you can continue to look to get better. So that’s what I’m do“We certainly could have got into the first round,” Dumars said. ing. I believe in the roster, but I’m “But the price was too steep to do still looking for us to get better.” If Dumars doesn’t find what he’s it. That’s where discipline comes looking for, it’ll be up to Mosley in. It’s appealing sometimes to to do with this roster what former say you can get into the first coach Willie Green and interim round. But at what cost? Then coach James Borrego were unyou have to look at where you’re able to do these past two seasons: getting your pick at. Last year we moved into the lottery and got make the Pelicans tougher, both mentally and physically. Queen. I thought it was worth it. There is some promise in the This year, where we would have landed in the first round wouldn’t social media videos of players like Zion Williamson, Queen, Jeremiah have been worth giving up what Fears, Trey Murphy and Dejounte we had to give up.” Murray working out. But that has The Pels’ offseason silence has to transfer over into games. led to plenty of noise for a frus“I’m really happy with the aptrated fanbase. Social media has proach of all of our guys during been flooded with trade rumors involving the Pelicans all summer the offseason,” Dumars said. “The players committed to golong. Fans debated every trade ing into the offseason and taking they saw on their timeline. Even their conditioning and work to the ones that had no validity to another level. And I think that’s them. But that’s to be expected what you have been able to witwhen a team comes off back-toness with all these videos.” back non-playoff seasons. Most Williamson, who will return fans, starving to see a winning product, wanted to see something. for his eighth season, remains the key to it all. He played in 62 Anything. games last season, the second But Dumars says he never got one of those offers you can’t refuse. most of his career. Any chance the Pelicans have of staying out “You have to be disciplined in of the lottery will once again rest these seats,” Dumars said. “You on his shoulders. can’t be emotional. You can’t take Dumars’ message to Williamson things personal. You have to be real

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS American League glance

National League glance

East Division

Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto

W 71 66 64 57 56

L 46 52 53 61 63

Pct .607 .559 .547 .483 .471

GB — 5½ 7 14½ 16

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City

W 61 58 58 58 49

L 56 60 61 61 70

Pct .521 .492 .487 .487 .412

GB — 3½ 4 4 13

Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles

W 60 59 56 47 45

L 58 59 63 71 73

Pct .508 .500 .471 .398 .381

GB — 1 4½ 13 15

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s games

BASEBALL

Major League Baseball American League BOSTON RED SOX — Selected the contract of RHP Seth Martinez from Worcester (IL). Optioned LHP Raymond Burgos to Worcester. LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Reinstated RHP Ryan Watson from the IL. Optioned RHP Brett Kerry to Salt Lake (PCL). TAMPA BAY RAYS — Recalled RHP Michael Grove from Durham (IL). Placed RHP Grifﬁn Jax on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 6. TEXAS RANGERS — Selected the contract of 3B Jonah Bride from Round Rock (PCL). Optioned LF Alejandro Osuna to Round Rock. Transferred RHP Jack Leiter from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL. National League CHICAGO CUBS — Optioned RHP Ethan Roberts to Iowa (IL). Sent RHP Shelby Miller on a rehab assignment to Iowa. MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with CF Ji Hwan Bae on a minor league contract. Selected the contract of CF Ji Hwan Bae from Nashville (IL). Designated LHP Drew Rom for assignment. Placed SS Cooper Pratt on the 10-day IL. NEW YORK METS — Selected the contract of RHP Jack Weisenburger from Syracuse (IL). Optioned RHP Xzavion Curry to Syracuse. PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Recalled RHP Alan Rangel from Lehigh Valley (IL). Optioned RHP Chase Shugart to Lehigh Valley. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Sent RHP Joe Musgrove on a rehab assignment to El Paso (PCL). WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Recalled RHP Jake Bird from Rochester (IL). Optioned LHP Carson Palmquist to Rochester.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed TE Shawn Bowman and LB Eugene Asante. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed QB Kyle Trask. DETROIT LIONS — Placed QB Teddy Bridgewater on the reserve/retired list. GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed WR Kisean Johnson. Waived/injured S Johnathan Baldwin II and CB Marlon Jones.

has been simple: “To be great, you have to be obsessed with this,” he told Williamson. “You can’t casually become great in this league. What I’ve seen from him this summer is he’s obsessed with the work he’s putting in. And that is really encouraging for me that he’s putting this type of work in.” Dumars says he’s seen it from the rest of the roster, too. “Every one of them,” Dumars said. “Queen is working like he’s never worked before. Fears is working like that. Trey. Herb (Jones). Saddiq (Bey). All of them are working their butts off. That’s encouraging for me that these guys have become that obsessed with working this summer.” But are those guys who have won just 47 total games the past two seasons enough? Season 2 of the Dumars era will answer that. Dumars spent his ﬁrst year in New Orleans assessing the franchise from top to bottom. That assessment led to several changes in the building. He’s brought in new personnel like Amanda Green to handle analytics and David Cosgrave to oversee health and performance. He’s hoping those types of moves will point the franchise in a new direction. Inevitably though, success will be determined by the players on the roster. At least for now, it’ll be the same players from a season ago. “We have really good talent on our team and if we can stay healthy, we have a competitive team,” Dumars said. “Making a move for the sake of making a move doesn’t make you better. You have to evaluate your team and decide whether a move is warranted or not, or if it’s a move that’s going to make you better or not. Making a bad move may satisfy something short-term, but it doesn’t make your team better.”

Pct .602 .529 .504 .492 .437

GB — 8½ 11½ 13 19½

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 74 69 59 58 56

L 44 50 59 62 61

Pct .627 .580 .500 .483 .479

GB — 5½ 15 17 17½

Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

W 70 63 61 49 46

L 48 56 57 69 72

Pct .593 .529 .517 .415 .390

GB — 7½ 9 21 24

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s games

Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 10 innings Athletics 4, Boston 3 Miami 12, L.A. Angels 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Kansas City 2 Chicago White Sox 5, Cleveland 3 Philadelphia 7, Toronto 6, 12 innings Milwaukee 4, Minnesota 3, 10 innings Baltimore 10, Texas 5 Detroit 3, San Francisco 1, 10 innings Tampa Bay 4, Seattle 1 Houston at San Diego, n

Washington 7, Cincinnati 1 Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 11, Pittsburgh 1 Miami 12, L.A. Angels 3 Chicago Cubs 10, Kansas City 2 Philadelphia 7, Toronto 6, 12 innings St. Louis 7, Colorado 4 Milwaukee 4, Minnesota 3, 10 innings Arizona 4, L.A. Dodgers 2 Detroit 3, San Francisco 1, 10 innings Houston at San Diego, n

Boston (Gray 14-2) at Toronto (Taillon 2-6), 6:07 p.m. Baltimore (Rogers 7-7) at Minnesota (Kremer 1-4), 6:40 p.m. Texas (Gore 6-9) at L.A. Angels (Detmers 3-8), 8:38 p.m. Tampa Bay (Peralta 5-9) at Athletics (Lopez 5-4), 8:40 p.m. Houston (Wesneski 2-0) at San Francisco (TBD), 8:45 p.m. Kansas City (Cameron 6-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Skubal 7-6), 9:10 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (Scott 3-3) at Atlanta (Elder 8-6), 6:15 p.m. Philadelphia (Painter 1-8) at St. Louis (Dobbins 2-2), 6:45 p.m. Colorado (Hughes 0-3) at Arizona (Soroka 8-3), 8:40 p.m. Milwaukee (Henderson 6-1) at San Diego (Mize 4-7), 8:40 p.m. Houston (Wesneski 2-0) at San Francisco (TBD), 8:45 p.m. Kansas City (Cameron 6-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Skubal 7-6), 9:10 p.m.

Sunday’s games

Monday’s games

Sunday’s games

Monday’s games

BOX SCORES

Boston Legacy FC at Louisville, 5:30 p.m. Orlando at Portland, 7:45 p.m.

Transactions

L 47 56 59 61 67

N.Y. Yankees 5, Atlanta 4 Miami 7, L.A. Angels 0 Pittsburgh 9, N.Y. Mets 0 Washington 8, Cincinnati 2 Kansas City 6, Chicago Cubs 3 Milwaukee 4, Minnesota 3 San Diego 3, Houston 2 Detroit 8, San Francisco 0 Toronto 7, Philadelphia 5, 11 innings Colorado 8, St. Louis 6 L.A. Dodgers 2, Arizona 1, 10 innings

Saturday, August 15

Houston at North Carolina, 6 p.m. Washington at Angel City, 8 p.m.

W 71 63 60 59 52

N.Y. Yankees 5, Atlanta 4 Miami 7, L.A. Angels 0 Athletics 7, Boston 3 Kansas City 6, Chicago Cubs 3 Milwaukee 4, Minnesota 3 San Diego 3, Houston 2 Detroit 8, San Francisco 0 Texas 5, Baltimore 1 Toronto 7, Philadelphia 5, 11 innings Chicago White Sox 6, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay 3, Seattle 2

Kansas City at Gotham FC, 7 p.m. Denver Summit FC at San Diego, 9 p.m. Chicago at Seattle, 9 p.m. Bay FC at Utah Royals FC, 9 p.m.

Sunday, August 16

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

Atlanta 2, N.Y. Yankees 1

Baltimore 10, Texas 5

Atlanta

Baltimore

ab r h bi Baldwin c 4 0 0 0 Acuña rf 4 0 0 0 Olson 1b 4 1 1 1 Kim pr 0 1 0 0 Kinley p 0 0 0 0 Harris cf 4 0 1 1 Albies 2b 4 0 1 0 Smith dh-1b 4 0 0 0 Yastrzem. lf 3 0 1 0 Riley 3b 3 0 0 0 Jarvis ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 33 2 4 2 Totals 32 1 4 1 Atlanta 000 000 100 1 — 2 New York 000 000 010 0 — 1 E—Chisholm (8). DP—Atlanta 2, New York 1. LOB—Atlanta 2, New York 5. 2B—Yastrzemski (15), Grisham (17). HR—Olson (34), Grisham (13). IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Holmes 6 3 0 0 2 2 2 Dodd H,10 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 1 1 Fuentes BS,2-6 1 ⁄3 1 1 1 0 3 Iglesias W,1-2 1 0 0 0 0 2 Kinley S,1-5 1 0 0 0 0 1 New York Schlittler 7 3 1 1 0 11 Castro 1 0 0 0 0 1 Blackburn L,3-2 2 1 1 0 0 2 ABS Challenge—Schlittler (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Olson (Strike-Confirmed); Chisholm (Strike-Confirmed); Smith (Strike-Confirmed). Ejected—Sale. Umpires—Home, Dan Bellino; First, Derek Thomas; Second, Mark Ripperger; Third, Dan Merzel. T—2:27. A—42,533 (47,309).

Texas ab r h bi ab r h bi Hender. ss 4 2 0 0 Langford lf 3 1 1 0 Jackson 2b 1 0 0 0 Lopez lf 1 1 1 1 Alonso 1b 3 3 3 4 Seager dh 4 0 0 0 Encr.-St ph-3b 1 0 0 0 Wynns ph 1 0 0 0 Holliday 2b-ss 5 2 2 0 Duran ss 4 1 0 1 O’Neill dh 5 1 1 2 Nimmo rf 4 1 1 3 Beavers lf 4 1 1 1 Carter cf 1 0 0 0 Taveras rf 5 0 2 1 Burger 1b 2 0 1 0 Mayo 3b-1b 5 0 3 0 Foscue 2b 4 0 1 0 Cowser cf 4 1 2 2 Díaz c 4 0 0 0 Narváez c 4 0 1 0 Bride 3b 4 0 1 0 Cauley cf-rf 3 1 2 0 Totals 41 10 15 10 Totals 35 5 8 5 Baltimore 230 202 001 — 10 Texas 003 000 002 — 5 DP—Baltimore 0, Texas 1. LOB—Baltimore 10, Texas 8. 2B—Holliday (7), Taveras (12). 3B—Mayo (3), Lopez (1). HR—Cowser (9), Alonso 2 (25), O’Neill (10), Nimmo (13). SB—Henderson (9), Holliday (6). IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Povich 3 4 3 3 2 2 Hiraldo W,1-0 2 1 0 0 1 3 Hoppe 1 2 0 0 0 0 Kittredge 1 0 0 0 0 0 Suárez 2 1 2 2 1 1 Texas Rocker L,4-9 3 7 6 6 2 5 Montgomery 4 6 3 3 1 2 Winn 2 2 1 1 3 3 Rocker pitched to 1 batter in the 4th. HBP—Hiraldo (Langford). ABS Challenge—Povich (Ball-Confirmed); Montgomery (Ball-Confirmed); Taveras (Strike-Confirmed). Umpires—Home, James Jean; First, Sean Barber; Second, John Libka; Third, James Hoye. T—3:00. A—35,334 (40,000).

Detroit 3, San Francisco 1

Chi. White Sox 5, Cleveland 3

Detroit

Cleveland

New York ab r h bi Grisham cf 4 1 2 1 Rice dh 4 0 0 0 Ramos lf 4 0 0 0 García 1b 4 0 0 0 Chisholm 2b 3 0 1 0 Jones rf 3 0 0 0 Lombard ss 4 0 0 0 McMahon 3b 3 0 0 0 Wells c 3 0 1 0

San Francisco ab r h bi ab r h bi McGon. ss-3b 5 0 1 0 Eldridge dh 4 0 1 0 Torres 2b 4 0 0 0 J.Lee rf 4 0 0 0 Outman rf 0 0 0 0 Adames ss 3 0 1 0 Dingler dh 4 0 0 0 Devers 1b 4 0 2 0 Greene lf 4 1 0 0 Basabe 2b 4 1 0 0 Keith 3b 3 0 0 0 Gilbert cf 4 0 2 1 H.Lee ph-2b 1 1 1 1 Susac c 2 0 0 0 Torkelson 1b 4 0 2 0 Cavana. ph-c 2 0 0 0 Clark cf 4 0 0 1 McCray lf 3 0 0 0 Valencia c 3 0 1 0 Kennedy ph 1 0 0 0 McKinstry rf-2b3 1 1 0 Koss 3b 4 0 1 0 Totals 35 3 6 2 Totals 35 1 7 1 Detroit 000 001 000 2 — 3 San Francisco 000 000 100 0 — 1 E—Valencia (1), Adames (16). DP—Detroit 2, San Francisco 2. LOB—Detroit 5, San Francisco 7. 2B—Valencia (5). 3B—Gilbert (3). IP H R ER BB SO Detroit Melton 6 4 1 0 1 5 2 Finnegan BS,2-10 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 1 Sommers 1 ⁄3 2 0 0 1 2 Jansen W,3-4 1 0 0 0 0 3 Holton S,2-3 1 0 0 0 0 3 San Francisco Webb 8 4 1 1 1 2 Smith 1 0 0 0 0 3 1 Hentges L,1-4 ⁄3 2 2 1 0 0 2 Foley ⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 Melton pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. ABS Challenge—Webb (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Basabe (Strike-Confirmed); McGonigle (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Torres (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Jansen (Ball-Confirmed); McGonigle (StrikeOverturned to Ball); McGonigle (StrikeConfirmed). Umpires—Home, Paul Clemons; First, Quinn Wolcott; Second, Ramon De Jesus; Third, Adrian Johnson. T—2:46. A—32,200 (41,915).

Chicago ab r h bi ab r h bi Kwan cf 5 1 2 0 Doyle cf 5 1 2 0 DeLauter rf 3 1 0 0 Murakam. 1b 4 0 1 1 Ramírez 3b 3 0 2 1 Vargas 3b 3 1 1 0 Lowe 1b 2 0 0 1 Grichuk lf 3 1 1 1 Hoskins ph-1b 2 0 0 0 Benint. ph 1 0 0 0 Adell lf 3 0 0 0 Peters lf 0 0 0 0 Bazzana dh 3 0 0 0 B.Montg. rf 3 1 0 0 Rocchio ss 4 0 1 0 C.Montgo. dh3 1 1 3 Bailey c 2 0 0 0 Quero c 1 0 0 0 Genao 2b 3 1 0 0 Antonac. 2b 1 0 0 0 Acuña ss 4 0 0 0 Totals 30 3 5 2 Totals 28 5 6 5 Cleveland 200 000 001 — 3 Chicago 104 000 00x — 5 E—B.Montgomery (4). DP—Cleveland 1, Chicago 0. LOB—Cleveland 10, Chicago 10. 2B—Murakami (11), Vargas (26), Doyle (6), Grichuk (14). HR—C.Montgomery (26). SB—Ramírez (29), Doyle (11). SF—Lowe (1), Ramírez (4). IP H R ER BB SO Cleveland Cantillo 1 3 1 1 0 3 0 0 2 Herrin 12⁄3 1 0 1 ⁄3 2 4 4 4 0 Yoho L,2-1 BS,0-1 0 1 2 Holderman 12⁄3 0 0 2 ⁄3 0 0 0 3 0 Sabrowski 0 1 2 Gaddis 12⁄3 0 0 C.Smith 1 0 0 0 0 1 Chicago Martin 1 2 2 1 1 1 H.Smith W,1-0 2 0 0 0 4 3 0 1 2 Newcomb H,10 11⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 Brazobán H,9 12⁄3 0 0 Hudson H,8 1 1 0 0 0 1 Hicks H,8 1 1 0 0 0 1 Richards S,1-3 1 0 1 1 2 0 HBP—Herrin (Antonacci), Holderman (C.Montgomery). WP—Yoho, Gaddis, Richards(2). ABS Challenge—Murakami (Strike-Conﬁrmed); Richards (Ball-Conﬁrmed). Umpires—Home, Alex Tosi; First, Cory Blaser; Second, Austin Jones; Third, Andy Fletcher. T—2:53. A—31,263 (40,241).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Aug. 10 1901 — Frank Isbell of the Chicago White Sox set an AL record by stranding 11 teammates on the basepaths. 1944 — Charles “Red” Barrett of the Boston Braves threw only 58 pitches to beat the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 in a nine-inning game. 1957 — Mickey Mantle became the first player to clear the center-field hedge at Baltimore’s Memorial Stadium when his 460-foot homer hit the base of the scoreboard. The Yankees beat the Orioles, 6-3. 1969 — Cesar Tovar of Minnesota broke up the second no-hit bid against the Twins by a Baltimore pitcher. Tovar singled with no out in the ninth off Mike Cuellar. Earlier in the year, Tovar singled with one out in the ninth to spoil Dave McNally’s bid. 1971 — Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins hit his 500th home run in the first inning off Baltimore’s Mike Cuellar to become the 10th player to hit 500 or more in a career. Killebrew also hit No. 501 off Cuellar but the Orioles won 4-3. 1981 — Major league baseball resumed play after a two-month strike. In the St. Louis Cards-Phillies game at Philadelphia, attended by 60,561 fans, Pete Rose broke Stan Musial’s NL hit record when he singled for his 3,631st hit. It came off Mark

Littell in the eighth inning. 1987 — Philadelphia’s Kevin Gross was ejected in the fifth inning after umpires discovered a strip of sandpaper glued to the heel of his glove to scuff balls. The Phillies had a 4-2 lead over the Chicago Cubs. Gross would be suspended for 10 games the next day. 1995 — Ball Night at Dodger Stadium turned into the first forfeit in the majors in 16 years. Los Angeles forfeited a game to the St. Louis Cardinals after fans threw souvenir baseballs onto the field three times. The game was called with one out in the bottom of the ninth. 2003 — Atlanta Braves shortstop Rafael Furcal turned the 12th unassisted triple play in major league history against the St. Louis Cardinals. With runners on first and second in the fifth inning, Furcal made a leaping grab of pitcher Woody Williams’ liner. The runners were going, and Furcal stepped on second base to double up Mike Matheny before tagging out Orlando Palmeiro. 2004 — Barry Bonds became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs in 13 consecutive seasons, hitting a solo shot off John Grabow in the seventh inning of San Francisco’s 8-7 loss to Pittsburgh. Bonds has now hit 30 homers in 14 seasons, one shy of Hank Aaron’s record.

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Watch these 10 area safeties this fall BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

Cornerbacks tend to get the most attention, but the safety position is still among the most important on the football ﬁeld. From dropping back in coverage to stopping the run, safeties are asked to do plenty for a defense to succeed. Several talented high school football players at the position reside in New Orleans, as evidenced by multiple Division I commitments from the metro area. Listed below are 10 New Orleansarea safeties to watch this season.

last season along with four interceptions and two defensive touchdowns.

Jaden Keelen John Curtis (Jr.) Keelen has been a starting safety for Curtis since his freshman year, and he’s racked up over 50 solo tackles in each of the past two seasons. The 5-foot-10, 195-pound Keelen is listed as a four-star recruit, having received offers from Ole Miss, Tennessee, Indiana and other Power Four schools.

Kaiden Lucas

Edna Karr (Sr.) Karr graduated multiple starters Rontrae Carter in the secondary from last season, including LSU freshman safety Shaw (Sr.) Carter is a rare five-year starter, Aiden Hall, and Lucas appears to and he’s helped lead Shaw to back- be next in line to lead the position. to-back state championship game The 6-foot-1, 185-pound Lucas has appearances. A TCU commitment, received Division I offers and is the 6-foot, 180-pound Carter was back healthy after his junior seaan LSWA all-state selection for a son was cut short. second straight year after recording 97 tackles and two intercep- Prentice Mackyeon tions as a junior. John Curtis (Sr.) Mackyeon is a standout free Gavin Cooper safety and is one of three Curtis STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRETT DUKE defensive backs committed to Rummel (Sr.) Archbishop Shaw safety Rontrae Carter runs a drill during practice on Aug. 19 in Marrero. Cooper is coming off a breakout a Division I school. A 6-foot-1, season in which he thrived as a 195-pound Arkansas State comversatile safety after starting out mitment, Mackyeon was a ball four blocked kicks. at linebacker as a freshman. A UL hawk last season with a teamcommitment, Cooper has good size high six interceptions along with Khylin Wilson at 6-foot, 205 pounds and showed eight passes defended and 47 tackKennedy (Sr.) off his ball skills with an intercep- les. Wilson made an impact at strong safety and nickel last year in his tion in a 24-0 playoff win last year. Jack Maguire first season at Kennedy. A 6-foot, Savoy Guidry 175-pound McNeese commitment, Jesuit (Sr.) Maguire is a hard-hitting safety Wilson delivered an impressive Holy Cross (Sr.) Guidry had a breakout season who has established himself as stat line as a junior that included last year at cornerback, which led one of Jesuit’s defensive lead- 52 tackles, eight tackles for loss, to him committing to Stanford this ers and has ideal size at 6-foot-3, five pass breakups, and an interspring. The 6-foot-1, 180-pound 200 pounds. Also a standout bas- ception. Guidry will move to safety this ketball player, Maguire has refall after finishing with three in- cruiting interest for football and Others to watch terceptions as a junior along with received a Division I offer from Luca Catanzaro, Brother Martin a pick-six, 15 pass breakups and Illinois State. (Sr.); Craig Connor, John Curtis five forced fumbles. (Sr.); Brayden Fontenot, Hahnville Ryan Montague (Sr.); Ronald Gardet, Kennedy Dylan Henry (Jr.); Brandon Green, Holy Cross Destrehan (Sr.) The 6-foot, 180-pound Montague (Jr.); Paul Hoyt, Hannan (Sr.); Jaren Mandeville (Sr.) Henry started out at corner- proved to be a key piece in Destre- Marshall, St. Augustine (Jr.); Briback for Mandeville before mak- han’s secondary as a versatile safe- an Reed, Destrehan (Sr.); DeJuan ing the move to safety as a soph- ty after transferring from St. Au- Rivera, Shaw (Sr.); Brendell Vedol, omore, and he’s been a standout gustine. A Nicholls commitment, Northshore (Sr.). at the position ever since. The Montague had 65 tackles last seaFILE PHOTO By JOE TROMBATORE 6-foot, 170-pound South Alabama son, including 10 tackles for loss, Email Spencer Urquhart at Mandeville’s Dylan Henry picks off a pass against Thibodaux on Nov. 14. commitment recorded 62 tackles along with six pass breakups and surquhart@theadvocate.com.

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‘REMEMBERED, RECLAIMED, REIMAGINED’

Denver eyes restoration of its Chinatown history BY JOHN WENZEL

The Denver Post (TNS)

PROVIDED PHOTO FROM WWL

John Pela, left, on the set of WWL’s ‘The John Pela Show,’ a televised New Orleans dance program that started in 1959 as ‘Saturday Hop’ and which aired every Saturday through 1972.

DANCING

ON AIR

New Orleans had its own version of ‘American Bandstand’ in the ’60s: ‘The John Pela Show’

BY RACHEL MIPRO Contributing writer

uring the dance craze of the ’50s and ’60s, New Orleans youth were learning how to groove. But Louisiana had its own version of “American Bandstand.” One reader’s question: Does anyone remember “The John Pela Show?” It spanned more than a decade of dance trends, teaching local teens how to bop every Saturday afternoon, led by presenter John Pela. Pela, who recently celebrated two landmark occasions in May — his 95th birthday and his 75th wedding anniversary to his wife, Marilyn — has always been a fan of music. Pela recalled listening to radio broadcast programs in his younger days. “I got hooked on all that music in those days,” Pela said. “And no matter how much older I got, I was still into music, I wanted to join. And then all of a sudden, hey, ‘Here’s television.’” Originally from Ohio, the Pelas

STAFF FILE PHOTO By KATHy ANDERSON

John Pela, photographed at age 77 in July 2008, had his first show ‘Saturday Hop,’ then later ‘The John Pela Show,’ which was on the air from the late ’50s until 1972. He worked in different capacities at WWL during that same time frame. were high school sweethearts and started dating in their sophomore year of high school. When they married, Marilyn was 19 and John was 20, kicking off a lifelong partnership. “We’ve been very, very fortunate,” Marilyn Pela said. “I mar-

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WAPAKONETA, Ohio — Inside Neil Armstrong’s boyhood home, at the top of a creaky stairway, sits his bedroom where he launched model airplanes out of the rear window to measure how far they’d ﬂy. Hanging in the room now are autographed photos of astronauts who’ve visited the privately kept house to see where Armstrong’s

ﬁrst steps to the moon began. Owned by a retired history teacher devoted to preserving its past and charming character, the home is for sale for the ﬁrst time in nearly 40 years. What will become of it remains uncertain. All over Armstrong’s hometown of Wapakoneta, there are reminders of his history-making moonwalk. But few places played a bigger role early in his journey than 601 W. Benton

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ried the best guy in the world and the kindest man in the world.” The pair moved to New Orleans after living in a series of states, from Ohio to Maryland to Iowa to Florida, adopting four children

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Reach the stars at Armstrong’s childhood home BY JOHN SEEWER and PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS

DENVER — When Heather Clifton was a child, she would stand at her grandmother’s bedside after dinners and parties and admire the matriarch’s wooden curio cabinet. One day, when she was 13 or 14, her grandmother told her to pick an item out for herself, so Clifton selected a shiny gold ring with a big blue stone — which she still wears frequently. “I’ve never had it appraised but I probably should, because it might be valuable,” said Clifton, a descendant of one of Denver’s original Chinatown families. These families lived in what’s now Lower Downtown from the 1860s through the 1940s, according to History Colorado, with their community blooming along Wazee between 15th and 17th streets, and later growing to include parts of Market between 15th and 20th streets. Now she’s reappraising Chinatown at large. Its rise and fall was dramatic, with a deadly riot in 1880 stoking anti-Chinese sentiment nationwide. But its erasure has been so complete that most people don’t even know it existed, Clifton said. All that remains are a couple of plaques and a mural that is a few blocks from Coors Field. “Although Denver is usually not the ﬁrst city to come to mind when one considers the history of Chinese immigration to the United States, the establishment of the city’s Chinatown and its subsequent destruction had a profound impact on the history of race and immigration policy in the country,” History Colorado researchers wrote in their 2019 paper “The Rise and Fall of Denver’s Chinatown,” noting the national publicity the riot received in 1880. Drawn here by railroad and mining jobs, Denver’s Chinese immigrants quickly set up businesses that catered to both their own community and the local population; they had a vigorous work ethic, something that often deﬁnes immigrant communities, according to History

The former house of Neil Armstrong stands July 31 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. AP PHOTO By PATRICK AFTOORAORSAGOS

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. today.

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Early heartbeats normal with a healthy heart Dear Doctors: Is it true that if you have a normal heart, skipped heartbeats are generally harmless, especially if you also aren’t having any shortness of breath or chest discomfort? Are there any hard and fast rules regarding how many daily skipped beats is safe or normal? Dear Reader: It can be unsettling to feel like your heart has skipped a beat. Many people feel a sudden “thump” that alerts them to a change in the natural heart rhythm they are used to. This type of irregular heartbeat is common. Most people have it from time to time, often without even noticing. For people in good health with a normal heart, these errant heartbeats are usually harmless. Although it feels like your heart skipped a beat, it’s actually the opposite. A quick glitch in the heart’s electrical system causes an extra beat too soon. This beat is often weaker than normal. The brief pause after gives the heart’s main pumping chambers, the ventricles, more time to ﬁll with blood. This causes the next heartbeat to feel stronger than usual. This creates the “thump” that feels like your heart is skipping a beat. There are two types of

HISTORY

Continued from page 1D Colorado. But with only a few hundred permanent residents at its height — and because most of its buildings were demolished due to urban renewal projects in the late 20th century — even people with direct ties to the area have been in the dark about its history. “I didn’t really know about Chinatown when I was a child,” Clifton said, noting that her grandmother lived in one of the few brick buildings that have survived, at 2019 Market St. That changed when she and her cousin, Linda Lung, began researching its history. Lung, who also traces her family directly to Denver’s Chinatown, and Clifton are working to enshrine the neighborhood’s culture. Through oral histories, family archives, walking tours, historic preservation applications, partnerships with Asian American and Paciﬁc Islander organizations, and a major exhibit at History Colorado Center, they’ve increasingly brought to light the struggles, triumphs and daily rhythms of the former neighborhood. “I have lived here my entire life, and I had always wondered why we didn’t have a traditional Chinatown,” said chef Tommy Lee, whose parents moved to Denver in the 1960s from Hong Kong, in a 2022 Denver Post interview. “I started doing research and I found out there was actually a Chinatown in Denver.” Lee named his restaurant Hop Alley — after the nickname for Denver’s Chinatown, and the stereotype of opium-smoking Chinese — and it’s a knowing riff. “My family never called it Hop Alley,” Lung said of the area, whose denizens watched out for one another

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Continued from page 1D along the way. After Pela got a local job, the family quickly settled into the Crescent City scene. When Pela took over the show from 1961 to 1972, the WWL-TV show was huge in the New Orleans scene among local teenagers. Originally called “Saturday Hop,” Pela’s popularity led to a show name change, rebranding as “The John Pela Show.” In the early days of the show, teens interested in

Dr. Elizabeth Ko Dr. Eve Glazier ASK THE DOCTORS

these early heartbeats. The chamber of the heart that starts the early beat determines the type. The most common type is called a premature atrial contraction, also called a PAC. This occurs when one of the heart’s two upper chambers, called the atria, beats too soon. The lower chambers, called the ventricles, can also beat too early. This is called a premature ventricular contraction, also called a PVC. PVCs are less common than PACs. Both types of early heartbeats, though, are harmless for people in good health. Not all PACs and PVCs feel like skipped beats. They can also feel like a brief pause. They might feel like a flutter or a flipflop. If you have several early heartbeats in a row, it can feel like your heart is racing. Caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, stress, poor sleep and certain medications can trigger PACs and PVCs.

Conditions such as electrolyte imbalance, high blood pressure or thyroid disease can also cause them. It’s natural to want clear guidelines for heart symptoms and when to see a doctor. There is not one single rule that ﬁts everyone on when early heartbeats become a concern. This is because they are so common. A few hundred early beats in a day can be normal, even for someone with a healthy heart. A much higher number of early beats may be enough to warrant some tests. If you feel like you have skipped heartbeats often, talk with your doctor about your symptoms. A wearable monitor, such as a Holter monitor or Zio patch, can track how many early heartbeats you have. It can compare this amount to your normal heartbeats. This is called the “burden” of early beats. This information can help your doctor guide decisions about whether treatment may be needed. Send your questions to askthedoctors@mednet. ucla.edu, or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1450, Los Angeles, CA, 90024.

amid threats from White residents. Those culminated in an 1880 anti-Chinese race riot that left resident Look Young dead by hanging, dozens of Chinese residents seriously injured, and most of their businesses burned and destroyed. Residents rebuilt, but with anti-Chinese sentiment in overdrive after decades of racist news coverage and discriminatory federal laws, the community dwindled through the early part of the 20th century, and the Chinese culture that had deﬁned the area was quickly forgotten after that. Urban renewal further erased structures as Denver’s boom-and-bust cycle rolled along. Out of the 200 or so buildings that comprised the neighborhood, only 19 remain, owing to a spate of demolition by the city of Denver that started in the 1960s to make space for more development, said Samantha Martin, History Colorado Center’s Temple Buell associate curator of architecture. Like the Latino population that was displaced in the 1970s from what’s now the Auraria campus, as well as immigrant and Indigenous communities across the state, Chinatown’s residents found that outside pressure forged lasting bonds that united them through periods of chaos. Understanding that history is newly important as the cycle threatens to repeat itself, they said, with residents of the La Alma/Lincoln Park neighborhood (many of them already displaced from Auraria 50 years ago) fearing displacement due to a new Denver Broncos stadium in nearby Burnham Yard. Gentrification, increased taxes, and trafﬁc are usually forced upon working-class, immigrant and non-White residents when these types of land grabs occur, said Nolbert Chavez, who’s writing his Ph.D. dissertation on how

communities of color can move forward with institutions after displacement and urban development. As a regent for the University of Colorado Denver, Chavez’s ofﬁce is located in what’s believed to be Denver’s oldest residence, at 1050 9th St. — also known as the Centennial House due to its construction in 1876 (the same year Colorado became a state). “You can’t really tell the full story (of Denver) without telling our story,” Chavez said. “Rather than glossing over or hiding or downplaying it, we should embrace it and make something beautiful about it.” For Chavez, that’s included award-winning historic preservation wins, making good on promised scholarships for displaced residents, and other initiatives that seek to celebrate the lives of the hundreds of people and businesses who were pushed out to make way for the Auraria Higher Education Campus. Remembering the original Auraria residents and Denver’s Chinatown is crucial because we’re still dealing with some of the same dynamics today, Chavez said. Lies and stereotypes about race, class and culture prompted the violence in Chinatown in 1880, with a reported 3,000 Whites attacking every Chinese person they saw. But there was no evidence that Chinese residents engaged in risky behavior any more than Eurocentric immigrants and residents. “Our families dealt with opium and prostitution, because that’s just what they did,” Lung said. “But Whites would come through because they saw Chinatown as exotic and mysterious, and they liked the opium and gambling and prostitution and spectacular fireworks and focus on food. They were giving it that reputation themselves.”

dancing on the live program would ﬁll out postcards or letters asking to be on the show, and send them into the station. Once selected, they would dance to the Top 10 new hits of the day. Pela’s daughter, Jennifer, recalled the success of the show among her peers, although she was still a little too young to dance on the show while it was on air. “People were just so excited, you know, ‘Oh my God that’s your dad,’ and all that,” Jennifer Pela said. “It was a lot of fun to go through and be a part of. … That was as exciting as it could get back then.”

Around 1963, the show ushered in a new age by desegregating the dance floor, mixing Black and White dancers. “It worked, and on the very first show, it was so beautiful,” Pela said, describing how the dancers began to loosen up and dance with each other. After over 11 years of fielding the latest dance trends and songs, he moved to a desk role as a broadcast manager, ending his time in the spotlight but leaving him with plenty of reminiscing. “The 11 years with those kids, you know, just made me feel so good,” Pela said.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Aug. 10, the 222nd day of 2026. There are 143 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 10, 2020, a powerful derecho struck several Midwest U.S. states, causing four fatalities and an estimated $11 billion in damage, making it the costliest thunderstorm in modern U.S. history. Also on this date: In 1792, during the French Revolution, mobs in Paris attacked the Tuileries Palace, where King Louis XVI resided. (The king was later arrested, put on trial for treason, and executed.) In 1821, Missouri became the 24th state admitted to the Union. In 1945, a day after the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Imperial Japan conveyed its willingness to surrender provided the status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged. (The Allies responded the next day, saying they would determine the Emperor’s future status.) In 1969, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson’s cult, one day after actor Sharon Tate and four other people were killed.

In 1977, postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested in Yonkers, New York, accused of being “Son of Sam,” the gunman who killed six people and wounded seven others in the New York City area. (Berkowitz pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges and was sentenced to six consecutive life terms in prison.) In 1988, President Ronald Reagan signed a measure providing $20,000 payments to still-living Japanese-Americans who were interned by the U.S. government during World War II. In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, serving until her death in September 2020. In 2006, British authorities announced they had thwarted a plot to simultaneously blow up 10 aircraft heading to the U.S. using liquid explosives made to look like soft drinks. In 2018, Richard Russell, a 29-year-old airline ground agent, stole a commercial plane from SeaTac International Airport near Seattle; he ﬂew for 75 minutes, performing dangerous stunts while being chased by military jets before crashing into a remote island in Puget Sound, killing himself. In 2019, Jeffrey Epstein,

accused of orchestrating a sex-trafﬁcking ring and sexually abusing dozens of underage girls, was found unresponsive in his New York City jail cell and later pronounced dead at a hospital. (The city’s medical examiner ruled the death a suicide.) Today’s birthdays: Actor James Reynolds is 80. Rock singer-musician Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) is 79. Country musician Gene Johnson (Diamond Rio) is 77. Singer Patti Austin is 76. Actor Daniel Hugh Kelly is 74. Folk singersongwriter Sam Baker is 72. Actor Rosanna Arquette is 67. Actor Antonio Banderas is 66. Rock musician Jon Farriss (INXS) is 65. Singer Julia Fordham is 64. Actor Chris Caldovino is 63. Singer Neneh Cherry is 62. Singer Aaron Hall is 62. Former boxer Riddick Bowe is 59. Actor Sean Blakemore is 59. R&B singer Lorraine Pearson (Five Star) is 59. Singerproducer Michael Bivins is 58. Actor-writer Justin Theroux is 55. Actor Angie Harmon is 54. Country singer Jennifer Hanson is 53. Actor JoAnna Garcia Swisher is 47. Singer Cary Ann Hearst (Shovels & Rope) is 47. Actor Aaron Staton is 46. Actor Ryan Eggold is 42. Actor Lucas Till is 36. Reality TV star Kylie Jenner is 29. Actor Jeremy Maguire is 15.

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTOS By PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS

Karen Mikesell, owner of the home that Neil Armstrong once lived in, stands in the former bedroom of Armstrong on July 31 in Wapakoneta, Ohio.

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St. — the house where the Armstrong family settled in western Ohio when he was a young teenager. It’s where Armstrong built planes out of balsa wood and glue in the dining room and constructed a basement wind tunnel to test his models. He’d often pedal his bike from home to take ﬂying lessons at an airstrip. At age 16, Armstrong made his first solo flight and got his pilot’s license. Just 20 years later, he rocketed into space for the ﬁrst time. After the 1969 moon landing, he taught at the University of Cincinnati.

of the Navy frogmen who helped recover the command module and its crew. Some astronauts autographed their photos with personal messages to Mikesell — “thanks for taking such great care of Neil’s home!” wrote Mike Foreman, who ﬂew on two space shuttle missions. “You can read books, but you can never have those Otherworldly visitors kinds of experiences that Today, Armstrong’s two- I was able to have because story boyhood home is an I lived here,” she said. “I occasional stop for visitors could go on and on.” to the Armstrong Air and Space Museum in Wapako- Many reminders neta, even though the house Armstrong’s family itself isn’t open for tours. bought the home in 1944 afWhen Karen Mikesell ter his father had moved bought the place in 1988, them about a dozen times she had no idea who once with his job as a government lived there until another auditor. The oldest of three teacher soon told her. children, Neil was born in As a history teacher who a farmhouse just outside later became a school prin- Wapakoneta, today a city of cipal, Mikesell felt a re- just under 10,000 people. The house on Benton sponsibility to “keep it like the Armstrongs had it,” she Street with its big front porch has changed little on said. She’s hosted nine astro- the outside. Inside, the laynauts, including Buzz Al- out is similar too, though it drin, who ﬂew to the moon has been updated. In the backyard, a gawith Armstrong and Michael Collins in 1969. rage that Armstrong and Aldrin stepped inside the his father built with scrap bedroom upstairs a few lumber still stands, though years after Armstrong a chicken coop where he died in 2012, Mikesell re- and his friends gathered called, “and the tears just for Boy Scout meetings is streamed down his cheeks.” long gone. Armstrong’s old bedOver the years, she’s been given a moon rock and re- room is now decorated ceived a piece of gold foil with photos and paintthat covered the Apollo 11 ings of the moon landing. capsule — a gift from one Hanging from the ceil-

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ing is a model of the Wright brothers’ first production airplane — the aviation pioneers were from nearby Dayton and an inspiration for Armstrong. She never met Armstrong, who was famously private. She did talk with his parents, siblings and children about the 1908 home and its place in Armstrong’s upbringing.

American history for sale Mikesell, who’s 82, said she hopes someone might be willing to buy the house and donate it to the Armstrong museum, which doesn’t have the funds to acquire the property, according to Logan Rex, its spokesperson. She is just one of a handful of people who’ve owned the home since the Armstrongs sold it in the mid1960s. By the time she bought the house, the rooms were covered with wallpaper in a rainbow of colors, so she sought to restore its original look. While the house, which is listed at $430,000, isn’t legally protected from alteration, Mikesell is also optimistic that the new owners will respect it — whether it remains a private residence or becomes a place for overnight stays. “It’s time to let someone else have the opportunity to be as blessed as I’ve been,” she said, “and to take care of it and keep it as a part of history.”

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TITLE: STREET LIGHT REPAIR SERVICES SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4745 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: AUGUST 10, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: SEPTEMBER 9, 2026 @ 1:00 P.M. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: AUGUST 25, 2026 @ 11:00 A.M. OR TEAMS MEETING ID: 282 304 312 121 00 PASSCODE: QY958QB2 CALL IN: 1 504-356-4110, 695410005# Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 968-76 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: August 10, 17 and 24, 2026 NOCP 9209 196716-aug 10-17-24-3t $124.74

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Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modiﬁcations via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ ﬁcations if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 918-06, 918-58, 918.65, 950-01; 961-21, 918-85, 949-90, 961-30 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.

RELEASED ON: AUGUST 3, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: SEPTEMBER 1, 2026 @ 4:00 P.M. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: AUGUST 19, 2026 @ 11:00 AM TEAMS: Meeting ID: 252 498 720 470 92 Passcode: 252 498 720 470 92 Call in: 504-356-4110, 88186549# Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modiﬁcations via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ ﬁcations if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 909-33, 917-31, 918-87, 962-58 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

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leans (Board) will receive electronic bids uploaded to Centralbidding.com on or before Friday, August 21, 2026 at 11:00 A.M., local time, for Work Order No. 1-1194, Nashville-Napoleon Ter‐ minal Complex: Cranes 8 & 9 Structural Inspection & Repair.

Contractors must hold an active Louisiana Com‐ mercial license appropri‐ ate to the scope of work. Please direct any ques‐ tions to the Architect: Perez, APC 2525 Burgundy Street, New Orleans, LA 70117 Via email: aprevost@e-perez.com; mrobert@e-perez.com There will be a Manda‐ tory Pre-Bid Conference August 20th, 2026 at 12:00 p.m. (CDT) at the New Or‐ leans African American Museum, 1417-1418 Gov‐ ernor Nicholls, New Or‐ leans, LA 70116. Bids must be received on or before September 10th, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. (CDT). Bids can be hand-deliv‐ ered or submitted online www.cityblueprintpl at ans.com. Bids will be read aloud in a public meeting at NOAAM (1417 Gov Nicholls) at that time. NOAAM reserves the right to reject any and all bids and to waive infor‐ malities in the bidding process. 196706-aug 10-17-24-3t $592.81 PUBLIC NOTICE --INVITATION TO BID NASHVILLE-NAPOLEON TERMINAL COMPLEX CRANES 8 & 9 STRUCTURAL INSPEC‐ TION & REPAIR Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Or‐

The work consists of fur‐ nishing all labor, mater‐ ial and equipment to per‐ form non-destructive weld testing on the Board’s ship-to-shore container cranes 8 and 9, including but not limited to providing equipment for access, removal and replacement of coatings, performing VT, MT, and UT tests, and preparation of reports. The work may also consist of perform‐ ing as-needed structural repairs at the direction of the Engineer. The site is located at the NashvilleNapoleon Terminal Com‐ plex in New Orleans, Louisiana. (Estimated Cost: To be provided at bid opening). All Bids must be in accor‐ dance with the Bidding Documents on ﬁle with the Port of New Orleans. In accordance with LSA R.S. 38:2212 (E)(7), com‐ plete Bidding Documents are available for down‐ load via Central Bidding at www.centralbidding. com. Bidding Documents may also be obtained from the SEBconnect App, available in both the Apple and Google play platforms. If request for Bidding Documents is made through U.S. mail or other delivery services, bidder must furnish a street mailing address and will be held respon‐ ibl f i f

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A pre-bid conference will be held on Wednesday, August 5, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. local time at the site. Attendance via video conference will be accommodated. Contact procurement@portnola. com to request a link. Bidders are urged to at‐ tend. Federal regulations re‐ quire that persons seek‐ ing entry to secure areas of United States ports must present a valid Transportation Workers Identiﬁcation Credential (TWIC) card and must maintain possession of the TWIC at all times in secure port areas. Persons seeking entry to the below listed facilities of the Port of New Or‐ leans must possess a TWIC in order to attend pre-bid meetings on port property. Restricted areas include port prop‐ erty between Felicity Street and Henry Clay Avenue, Alabo Street Wharf, Jourdan Road Wharf, the Julia Street and Erato Street Cruise Terminals, and during cargo activities at Poland Avenue Wharf and Gover‐ nor Nicholls Street Wharf. TWIC escorts will not be permitted for this project. See Section 1000 – General Requirements. Bidding Documents will be issued only to those contractors complying with state licensing laws for contractors, La. R.S. 37:2150, et. seq. On any bid submitted in the amount of $50,000 or more, the contractor must hold at the time this bid is opened a valid license issued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors.

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This project is classified as Heavy Construction, Building Construction, or Limited Specialty Ser‐ vices. Objection to the required classification should be filed in accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 37:2165. A deposit of five percent (5%) of the cost of the contract price of work to be done for the Base Bid plus all additive Alter‐ nate Bid prices, by certi‐ fied check, cashier's check or bid bond is re‐ quired, and the bidder to whom the contract is awarded shall also be re‐ quired to furnish a per‐ formance bond in the total amount of the bid. The bid bond must be furnished in accordance with the requirements of La. R.S. 38:2218, and the performance bond in ac‐ cordance with the provi‐ sions of La. R.S. 38:2219. The award of contract, if awarded, will be made within 45 calendar days after bid opening to the lowest qualified bidder whose bid complies with all requirements pre‐ scribed. However, when the contract is to be fi‐ nanced by bonds which are required to be sold after receipt of bids, or when the contract is to be financed in whole or in part by federal, state or other funds not avail‐ able at the time bids are received, or when the contract requires a poll of the Louisiana Legisla‐ ture before contract funds are available, the time will not start until receipt of federal or state concurrence or concur‐ rence of the other fund‐ ing source in accordance with LA. R.S. 38:2215(D). Award will be within 45 calendar days after the l f b d i

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g at: www.centralbidding. com. Questions must be sub‐ mitted at least seven (7) days prior to bid open‐ ing.

__ _ ___ will not be immedi‐ ately available, the 45day period for contract award will not begin at the time of bid opening, and the deadlines under La. R.S. 38:2215 for con‐ tract execution and is‐ suance of notice to pro‐ ceed shall not apply.

These individuals are not authorized to and shall not render legal opinions or advice. No information will be given regarding the proper evidence of corporate authority as required in this bid. Each bidder is advised to con‐ sult his own counsel for such information.

X will be immediately available and the 45-day period for contract award will begin at the time of bid opening. Work in the amount of at least sixty percent (60%) of total amount of con‐ tract as awarded shall be performed by contractor at the construction site or within his own shop, plant, or yard with his own employees. The Board as an equal opportunity public entity invites and encourages DBE’s and SBE’s to sub‐ mit bids on its projects. In order to comply with the Constitution of the State of Louisiana, such certiﬁcation programs must be race and gender neutral. All questions, correspon‐ dence, inquiries, and other communications regarding this procure‐ ment shall be directed to Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Or‐ leans, Procurement De‐ partment, 1350 Port of New Orleans Place, New Orleans, LA 70130 or pro‐ curement@portnola.com. All questions will be an‐ swered via addenda and will be posted on the Central Bidding website lbiddi

Please be advised that these individuals are not the legal representatives of the Board. 195334-jul 27-aug 3-10-3t $ PUBLIC NOTICE --INVITATION TO BID NO. 3124: AS NEEDED PURCHASE AND DELIVERY OF AG‐ GREGATE MATERIALS The New Orleans Public Belt Railroad Commis‐ sion for the Port of New Orleans (“NOPB”) is so‐ liciting bids for the asneeded purchase and de‐ livery of ballast and ag‐ gregate materials (the “Materials”), as set forth more fully and in accor‐ dance with the General Conditions and Specifi‐ cations (“Specifica‐ tions”) and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the form agree‐ ment attached hereto (“Agreement”) for an ini‐ tial term of one (1) year, with the NOPB having the option to renew for two (2) additional one-year periods. Official bid documents can be downloaded and

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or by emailing Wendy Boesch in the Purchasing Department at purchas‐ ingdept@dcc.edu. Evi‐ dence of authority to submit the bid shall be required in accordance with R.S.38:2212(A)(l)(c) and/or R.S. 39:1594(C)(2) (d). AA/EOE

BID SUBMISSION: NOPB will accept sealed bids for this Project until 10:00 a.m. CDT on Thursday, August 27, 2026 (the “Bid Submission Deadline”). Any bid received after the Bid Submission Deadline will not be con‐ sidered. Bidders must submit bids electronically for this Project in the follow‐ ing way: • Submit an ELECTRONIC BID. Bids must be submitted electronically at www. centralbidding.com For any questions relating to the electronic bidding process, please call Cen‐ tral Bidding at 225-8104814. The bidder must at‐ tach a completed and signed digital copy of the Bid Form, Proof of Au‐ thority and any other documents required in the Bidding Documents. The NOPB shall not be re‐ sponsible if a bidder can‐ not complete or submit an electronic bid. Bidders shall be responsible for receiving conﬁrmation that the bid was suc‐ cessfully delivered prior to the Bid Submission Deadline. BID OPENING: Immedi‐ ately following the Bid Submission Deadline, bids will be opened in ac‐ cordance with the bid documents. NOPB CONTACT: Bidders must submit Questions in writing to procure‐ ment@railnola.com by Tuesday August 18, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. CST. As nec‐ essary, addenda to this ITB will be issued to all bidders receiving this ITB. Questions, answers, and all forms required will be posted on Central Bidding at www.central bidding.com . 196784-aug10-17-2t $76.92 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2135 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:

Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 196673-aug 10-1t $12.91 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 2139 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on October 20, 2026 for Solicitation Number Doc2312485316 - Request for Proposal (RFP) for Building Automation Ser‐ vices for Office of State Buildings. The RFP may be accessed at https:// portal.us.bn.cloud.ariba. com/dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110020848?anI d=ANONYMOUS. No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement Phone (225) 342-8010

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority is issuing a Re‐ quest for Proposals (“RFP”) to obtain RFP Documents for C-2210 Provide Cooling Tower Maintenance Services. Proposals are due Thurs‐ day, August 20, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. at which time Proposals received on time and in the correct location will be consid‐ ered. RFP Documents may be obtained online at https://www.central auctionhouse.com/ Category/10822/NewOrle ansErnestNMorialConv entionCenter or by con‐ tacting the Contracts De‐ partment at (504) 5823562 or via email at con‐ tracts@mccno.com. All Proposals must be sub‐ mitted in accordance with the RFP Documents. 195756-JUL 31-AUG10-2T $19.54 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 31-t PUBLIC NOTICE ---

196683-aug 10-1t $11.77 PUBLIC NOTICE --Proposals will be re‐ ceived until 2:00 p.m. CST on Thursday, September 10, 2026 in the Purchas‐ ing Department of Del‐ gado Community Col‐ lege, and thereafter pub‐ licly opened for the pro‐ 40006curement of R0031479 – Exterior Doors and Installation. Bid Documents and Ad‐ denda may be down‐ loaded from: https:// wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/osp/lapac/dspBid. cfm?search=departm ent&term=39

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. 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 i f i l lid

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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.

NOTICE is hereby given that Limitation Plaintiff, John J. Housey, Jr. (“Owner” and/or “Limita‐ tion Plaintiff”), as owner of the F/V EUGENIE, a 1976 Hatteras 42 Convert‐ ible sport ﬁshing vessel bearing United States Coast Guard Documenta‐ tion No. 578545 (“Vessel” and/or “EUGENIE”), her engines, equipment, gear, tackle, appurte‐ nances, etc., has ﬁled a Complaint pursuant to 46 U.S.C. §§ 181 et seq., as amended by 46 U.S.C. §§ 30501 et seq., claiming the right to exoneration from and/or limitation of liability for damage claims, demands, or liens arising out of an incident involving the Vessel on or about January 3, 2026, which resulted the per‐ sonal injury of Euell “Corky” Potts.

AGENDA ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11TH, 2026 6:00 PM ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST GOVERNMENT COMPLEX 1811 W. AIRLINE HWY. COUNCIL CHAMBERS LAPLACE, LOUISIANA ROBERT ARCURI - CHAIR‐ MAN TAMMY HOUSTON – VICECHAIRWOMAN

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Advertisement of Public Notice as required by LA state law. The public is advised that the 2027 proposed annual budget of Mid City Security Dis‐ trict will be available for public inspection during the public meeting on the 2027 proposed an‐ nual budget which will be held Thursday, August 20th at 6pm at The Can‐ nery (3803 Toulouse Street, New Orleans, LA 70119). 195537-AUG 10-1T $7.13 PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF JOHN J. HOUSEY, JR., AS OWNER OF THE F/V EUGENIE, A 1976 HATTERAS 42 CONVERTIBLE SPORT FISHING VESSEL, BEAR‐ ING OFFICIAL NO. 578545 AND FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

All persons asserting claims with respect to which the Complaint seeks exoneration from or limitation of liability are advised and admon‐ ished to ﬁle their respec‐ tive claims with the Clerk of the Court for the United States District Court, Eastern District of Louisiana, Room C151, 500 Poydras Street, New Orleans, Louisiana 70130, and to serve on the attor‐ ney for Limitation Plain‐ tiff, Alan R. Davis, of Tay‐ lor, Wellons, Politz & Duhe at 1555 Poydras Street, Suite 2000, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, a copy thereof on or be‐ fore the 12th day of Octo‐ ber, 2026, or be forever defaulted. Personal attendance is not required. Any claimant desiring to contest either the right to exoneration from and/or the right to limita‐ tion of liability shall ﬁle and serve an answer, all as required by Rule F of the Supplemental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims con‐ tained in the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. July 14, 2026

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I. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL III. OPENING PRAYER IV. PLEDGE OF ALLE‐ GIANCE V. PUBLIC COMMENT – AGENDA ITEMS ONLY (3 minutes per citizen) VI. CONSENT AGENDA A) Approval of Minutes – July 28th, 2026, Council Meeting B) Permit Approval - Des‐ tiny Christian Church “Christmas on Main Street Festival” – Satur‐ day, December 12th, 2026, 3:00 PM to 8:00 PM - From the intersec‐ tion of West 5th and Main to the railroad track on Main Street in LaPlace. VII. REPORTS President’s Report VIII. PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF ORDINANCE(S) A) 26-52 – A millage ordi‐ nance – an ordinance providing for the levy and collection of ad val‐ orem taxes in the Parish of St. John the Baptist, to be spread upon the 2026 Assessment Roll (J. Ho‐ tard) B) 26-53 – An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and an unde‐ signed lot of the Aline Plantation Subdivision, located on Willow Street, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS-1478) (J. Hotard/R. Rome) C) 26-54 – An ordinance adopting the St. John the Baptist Parish Community Center Rental and Use Policy (J. Hotard) D) 26-55 – An ordinance approving excavation within Parish Rightsof-way for the installa‐ tion of gas lines for Phase 3 throughout Live Oak Sub‐ division, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19800) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

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And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of gas lines for Phase 4 throughout Live Oak Subdivision, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19831) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

B) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26106 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to amend the Professional Services Agreement with Digital Engineering and Imaging, Inc. for the Clean Water State Revolving Loan Pro‐ gram Management

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of gas lines for Phase 5 throughout Live Oak Subdivision, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19832) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

C) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26107 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to enter into a Construction Manager at Risk agreement for Construction Phase Ser‐ vices with BLD Services, LLC for the Water Treatment at Reverse Osmosis Unit Site on Woodland Drive (Ground Improvements Work) Project

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of gas lines for Phase 6 throughout Live Oak Subdivision, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19833) (J. Hotard/R. Rome) E) 26-56 – An ordinance excavation approving within Parish Rights-ofway for the installation of ﬁber optics along Canal Court by municipal address 105 Canal Court, Garyville, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19829)

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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. 186911-may 9-aug 27 $956

D) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26108 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute Change Order 1 for the Interstate Light‐ ing LED Retroﬁt (I-10/I-55 Exit) Project

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of ﬁber optics along Carmel Val‐ ley Drive by municipal address 385 Carmel Valley Drive, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19829) (J. Hotard/ R. Rome)

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E) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26109 – A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish to amend the Professionals Services Agreement with Inﬁnity Engineering Consultants, LLC for the River Forest Lift Station #1 Rehabilita‐ tion Project

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of ﬁber optics along English Colony Drive by municipal address 1508 English Colony Drive, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19747) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

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St. John the Baptist Parish, will upon request and three (3) days ad‐ vance notice, provide reasonable accommoda‐ tion to any disabled indi‐ vidual wishing to attend the meeting. Anyone re‐ quiring reasonable ac‐ commodation is re‐ quested to contact Mrs. Stacey Cador at (985) 652-9569 (voice) or the Louisiana Relay Service 1-800-846-5277 and ask for St. John the Baptist Parish at (985) 652-9569.

And approving excava‐ tion within Parish Rightsof-way for the installation of ﬁber optics along Carrollwood Drive by municipal address 920 Carrollwood Drive, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (Permit No. 19827) (J. Hotard/ R. Rome)

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