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Jury selection starts in staged accidents trial an FBI informant to silence years. passengers who amounted to the that Alfortish plotted the killing to 2 charged in killing killing him.

On trial are Sean Alfortish, a dis- scheme’s rank-and-file. Attorneys silence Garrison, but that he knowJudge Wendy Vit- barred Kenner magistrate accused leaned on Garrison’s stable of new ingly directed staged accidents for of FBI informant terU.S.forDistrict years alongside his fiancée, trial hours questioned 100 pro- of directing the fraud scheme, and clients, prosecutors allege.

BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

Jury selection began Monday in the second courtroom installment of New Orleans’ staged accidents saga: a murder trial of two men, including the fraud conspiracy’s alleged mastermind, charged with

spective jurors over any ties to the legal world, the trucking industry or insurance companies that could make them biased. Behind the murder, prosecutors say, was a scheme by lawyers and associates to pay “slammers,” who sideswiped cars filled with passengers into moving big rigs to produce a flow of bogus injury claims for

Leon “Chunky” Parker, the alleged triggerman in the killing of prolific slammer Cornelius Garrison III. In 2019, Garrison’s cooperation turned the tide in “Operation Sideswipe,” the federal investigation into the yearslong scheme operating largely within city limits. As a slammer, he functioned as the operation’s linchpin, interacting with

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Garrison died in a hail of bullets in his mother’s doorway in 2020, four days after his involvement in the case became public in the form of a federal indictment.

It took almost four years for an arrest in the murder, and the trial that began Monday culminates a yearslong investigation. Prosecutors are gunning to prove not only

attorney Vanessa Motta.

Motta in a trial of her own this spring was found guilty of wire fraud, obstruction and witness tampering. Prosecutors mounted dozens of witnesses to argue she profited from hundreds of lawsuits and knew they were staged.

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Senate delays federal ban on hemp products

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Apartment complex aims to increase N.O. housing supply for median income earners

New regulations could kill state’s THC drink industry

BY RICH COLLINS Staff writer

The potential doomsday for Louisiana’s popular “weed drinks” is set to be pushed back — by a few weeks, at least.

The state’s manufacturers of THC beverages and other hemp-derived THC products are celebrating a political victory at the federal level in the fight to save their industry after the U.S. Senate voted Saturday to delay a federal ban on the products by four weeks.

The new law was set to take effect Nov. 13 after Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s senior senator, led a legislative effort last year to close a 2018 loophole that inadvertently paved the way for the rise of the modern THC products industry. Language in that year’s Farm Bill legalized certain consumable products

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Port Orleans Brewing Co. employees package Louie Louie THC seltzers in New Orleans.

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The new Millennium Place apartment complex takes shape alongside historic Mississippi River warehouse architecture near Tchoupitoulas and Celeste streets in New Orleans.

Facing the river, Millennium Place incorporates some of the original cobblestone streets.

BY GRACE MAYER Staff writer

Construction is nearing completion on a new, $31 million apartment complex overlooking the Mississippi River in the Lower Garden District that aims to bolster the much-needed “missing middle” housing supply in the New Orleans area.

Millennium Place, as the 80-unit complex is known, is located on Celeste and Tchoupitoulas streets in the bend of the river across from the Walmart Super Center and near the planned River District neighborhood.

Vanessa Levine, executive director of the Renaissance Neighborhood Development Corp., the nonprofit developing the property, said developers plan to lease apartments to nurses, teachers, police officers and other middle-class earners who make too much to qualify for low-income

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housing but often cannot afford market rate rents in the city.

“There’s such a gap. It’s really high rent or low-income housing,” Levine said. “This complex is really showing that middle market housing can provide both value and a high-quality living experience.”

The project, which is partially funded through state and federal grants, is the latest of several designed to tackle

what affordable housing advocates say is a crisis in the New Orleans housing market. A 2025 study by HousingNOLA states the city needs 55,000 new affordable housing units — up from 47,000 estimated the previous year.

In recent years, public funding, which has long been used to provide

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Trump signs vaccine order against medical groups’ guidance

BY ALI SWENSON and COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order calling for revamped childhood vaccine recommendations that promote his long-held but discredited theory that childhood shots should be spaced out into separate medical visits.

The order advocates separating the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three different single-disease shots and administering all childhood immunizations at separate appointments whenever possible. It also

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Contiguous U.S. breaks hottest month record

KENSINGTON, Md. — The contiguous United States sizzled to its hottest month ever last month, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

July averaged 76.89 degrees across the Lower 48 states, eclipsing the Dust Bowl’s July 1936 by an eighth of a degree.

Records go back to 1895.

“It’s not good when you’re breaking records from the Dust Bowl, which we are in this case,” said meteorologist Jeff Masters of Yale Climate Connections. “And that was a crazy sort of situation where you put tens of millions of people in motion. You had this great migration because of the drought and the heat that hit the center of the U.S. — just a cataclysmic event in U. S. history. If we’re exceeding records from the Dust Bowl, that says that we’re in deep trouble.”

Although it was unusually cool in Alaska, hotter-thannormal conditions blanketed the Lower 48, with the most excessive heat in the Mountain West, Southwest, Northern Plains and Southeast. The heat was so widespread that every one of the Lower 48 states was at least 1 degree warmer than the 20th-century average, said Russ Vose, chief of monitoring at NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information.

The heat in the Dust Bowl years was more concentrated in parts of the Midwest and was aggravated by agricultural practices at the time, Vose said.

What’s happening now is due to the burning of coal, oil and gas, scientists said.

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Magnitude 7.4 quake rocks Colombia Officials say at least 111 killed

BY ASTRID SUÁREZ, MEGAN JANETSKY and JUAN DIAZ Associated Press

CALI, Colombia — A powerful 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, killing at least 111 people, damaging hundreds of buildings and leaving many trapped under debris while their loved ones and rescue workers searched through rubble.

Search teams and civilians picked through the remains of destroyed buildings in the country’s thirdlargest city, Cali, passing large pieces of concrete and other rubble down a long line of volunteers.

“Our building has basically been left in ruins, and the building next to ours?

Completely collapsed,” said Álvaro López, who cradled his dog as he watched the search. The desperate scene recalled the searches still ongoing in neighboring Venezuela weeks after that country was devastated by two powerful earthquakes.

Besides Cali, the quake ravaged cities across western Colombia, including Pereira, Quibdo and Manizales, and was felt in neighboring Ecuador and

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Residents and rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed building on Monday after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia.

Panama. The epicenter was in San Jose del Palmar, a community of about 4,800 people in the Choco region about 250 miles west of Bogota, the U.S. Geological Survey said.

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella said at least 87 people were injured and around 1,600 buildings were damaged, including at least 61 that completely collapsed. He declared an emergency to expedite funding for the quake recovery.

“We aren’t going to leave people alone. They are in our hearts and we are going to tend to people with our full determination,” he said.

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Boat driver charged in deadly capsizing in N.Y.

NEW YORK — The driver of a speedboat that capsized in New York Harbor over the weekend, killing a 27-year-old woman and her infant daughter, was charged Monday with causing their deaths through misconduct or neglect.

Manuel Hernandez, 46, wiped his eyes with his hand as he arrived for his initial appearance in Manhattan federal court. He was not required to enter a plea and was released on bail.

Sara Sanchez and her 5-monthold daughter, Antonella Garcia, died after the 22-foot Yamaha speedboat overturned late Saturday near the Statue of Liberty.

Twelve others were rescued and are in stable condition, authorities said.

The vessel was pulled from the water and taken to the New York Police Department’s harbor unit facility on Randall’s Island.

40 people who were killed in the Risaralda region, where Pereira is located, and 27 people in the Valle del Cauca region, where Cali is located, including three children. Authorities also confirmed nine people killed in Choco, two in the Caldas region and a 73-year-old in the Antioquia region. It was not immediately clear where the other 32 people died.

The earthquakes left many in the Andean nation unnerved after two backto-back quakes devastated neighboring Venezuela in late June, destroying hundreds of buildings and killing more than 6,300 people.

By Monday afternoon,

Trump lashes out against Iran’s demands as deal hopes dim

WHO: Ebola outbreak started in February

BUNIA, Congo — The fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record started in February, months before it was officially declared in mid-May, the World Health Organization said Monday as responders in eastern Congo struggle to catch up.

The WHO regional director for Africa, Dr. Mohamed Yakub Janabi, told a news conference that sequencing indicated the outbreak’s start. He said some cases early on were wrongly attributed to other diseases, including malaria and typhoid.

“So we are chasing the virus, the virus is ahead of us,” Janabi said.

Dr. Thierno Balde, WHO’s incident manager for the Ebola response, said the genetic sequencing was conducted under the leadership of Dr. Steve Ahuka, head of the virology department at Congo’s National Institute for Biomedical Research.

Confirmed cases of Ebola in this outbreak have reached 4,200, including over 1,900 deaths, according to the latest government figures.

WHO assesses the global risk of spread as low because Ebola does not travel through the air, making it much harder to spread than respiratory viruses. Cases detected outside the affected region have so far been quickly identified and contained without leading to sustained transmission, according to the agency.

The outbreak declared on May 15 is unlike most previous ones for Ebola because the rare Bundibugyo virus responsible for it has no approved vaccines or treatments.

Service said Monday’s quake was the country’s strongest recorded “in the 21st century,” and that it was followed by several aftershocks.

Colombia’s Pacific region around the epicenter lies along the “Ring of Fire,” the line of seismic faults encircling the Pacific Ocean where most of the world’s earthquakes occur. The Pacific, particularly the Choco region, is one of Colombia’s poorest, nestled in dense jungle. Much of Choco is only reachable by boat or plane, which may pose difficulty in assessing the wider toll.

Local authorities said the death toll included at least

people had begun reporting their loved ones missing on digital databases just as civilians did following Venezuela’s earthquakes. One database had more than 2,000 people, mostly in Cali and Pereira, with the number steadily climbing.

Photos of the missing included a young mother and her baby in Pereira; another showed an 80-year-old woman in Cali whose family was desperately looking for details after her building collapsed.

Jorge Moncayo, a 64-yearold taxi driver in Cali, said he saw plumes of dust shoot up across the city as buildings collapsed. Residents and rescue workers were searching the rubble for survivors. The local government said that people remained trapped in a number of the city’s 380 damaged buildings.

Little was known about the extent of the damage in Choco, a remote region where officials reported dozens of injured people and damaged buildings but few other details. Phone signals were out in many parts of the region’s capital, Quibdo. The town closest to the earthquake’s epicenter, San Jose del Palmar, has no airport, and is located on top of a mountain ridge along a highway linking the cities of Cali and Pereira.

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Rescue workers try to put out a fire Monday after a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.

Ukrainian strike on oil hub in Russia kills 13, officials say

By The Associated Press Ukraine attacked the petroleum hub of Nizhnekamsk in central Russia’s Tatarstan region on Monday, killing 13 people and injuring 78 others, local authorities said, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in the 4-yearold war.

The Ukrainian military said it hit an oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, which is about 750 miles east of the Ukrainian border and has a population of about 240,000.

Russian officials didn’t say what the drones targeted, but the city is home to two refineries and a petrochemical plant.

Ukraine has targeted Russian oil facilities with long-range drones almost daily in recent months.

The campaign has caused fuel shortages in Russia, eaten into its refining capacity and unsettled the population.

Previous Ukrainian attacks on Russian soil with high death tolls have come in the border region of Belgorod. In December 2023, Ukrainian shelling of the region’s capital, also called Belgorod, killed 25 people and wounded over 100, local officials said.

Five months later, a Belgorod apartment building partially collapsed after shelling, killing at least 13, according to Russian authorities.

Also on Monday, several Ukrainian drones sparked a fire at an industrial facility in the Tyumen region of western Siberia, said Gov. Alexander Moor, without offering any details.

Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces damaged part of a petrochemical

complex in Tobolsk, in the Tyumen region. The plant produces rocket fuel components, aviation fuel, composite materials for drones and high-octane gasoline, it said in a Telegram post.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says his country is trying to force Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table and stop his full-scale invasion, launched in 2022. Russia is one of the world’s biggest energy producers.

Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces struck a Taneco oil refinery in Nizhnekamsk, starting a fire.

The city came under a “massive” drone attack targeting industrial and civilian facilities, according to the press service of Tatarstan’s head, Rustam Minnikhanov.

One of the drones hit a hostel, killing nine of the 13 victims, including citizens of Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan, officials said. Uzbekistan’s consular office in Tatarstan said seven of its nationals were killed.

Russia has also regularly battered Ukraine from the air using missiles, powerful glide bombs and drones, hitting civilian areas and causing thousands of civilian casualties, according to the United Nations. In the first six months of this year, 1,396 civilians were killed and 7,978 injured in Ukraine, the U.N. office in Kyiv said last week.

A Russian glide bomb struck the city of Zaporizhzhia in southern Ukraine, injuring 24 people, authorities said Monday.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump lashed out Monday against Iran’s demands for war compensation as part of talks to wind down the conflict, dimming hopes of a quick deal that would reopen the vital Strait of Hormuz and pushing up oil prices.

“I am likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts,” Trump wrote on social media.

“Additionally, compensation should be paid to the families of the hundreds of thousands of innocent protesters that Iran has killed over the last 50 years.”

The sweeping new demands from Trump, which he said will be put “firmly into any, and all, future negotiations,” are almost certain to be rejected by Iran, and come after Tehran reiterated requests for reparations over the weekend and on Monday. Shortly after his post, Trump expanded the scope of his new demand, saying Iran should be responsible for “damages and death to the people of Lebanon, Syria, Yemen and Gaza,” without offering any details.

The hardening on both sides makes it unlikely that Washington or Tehran will be able to agree to any immediate pact on Hormuz that could help end the war. Trump and other U.S. officials had recently cheered markets by suggesting a deal with Tehran was getting closer, with both Iran and Oman in parallel discussions over the Strait of Hormuz.

Brent crude rose more than 4% on Monday to over $87 a barrel, extending a rally of more than 5% over the previous three sessions. European diesel futures surged more than 10% as refineries in Saudi Arabia and Russia also came under attack, further tightening the market for the fuel considered the workhorse of the global economy.

While Trump insisted Monday that compensa-

tion for Iran “was never mentioned in any of our negotiations or meetings,” the 14-point memorandum of understanding that Iran and the United States agreed to in June details plans for Washington and regional partners to develop a $300 billion fund for the “rehabilitation and economic development” of Iran after the war.

On Monday, Iranian officials reiterated demands for reparations and tied it to the opening of Hormuz.

“As long as hostile actions continue, the conditions for ensuring the safety of this waterway are not in place,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei

told reporters. “Its reopening is contingent on the U.S. ceasing its illegal actions, lifting the siege and compensating for damages.”

Trump had earlier signaled Sunday that he was prepared to let economic pressure on Iran build, rather than launch fresh military strikes to force a reopening of the crucial waterway for oil and gas flows.

“We are just watching Iran with its huge inflation and the fact they have no money,” Trump told Axios in an interview Sunday, saying that a U.S. naval blockade of the country was deepening its financial woes. “We are lowkeying it.”

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Todd Blanche sworn in as attorney general

BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, was sworn in Monday as attorney general after a bruising confirmation fight that exposed bipartisan concerns about the Justice Department’s direction under the Republican president.

Another former Trump attorney — Emil Bove, now a federal appeals court judge — administered the oath of office to Blanche at the White House following early Saturday’s Senate confirmation vote by the narrowest of margins. Shortly after, the newly sworn-in attorney general arrived at Justice Department headquarters to cheers from employees lined up along the entrance.

Blanche, a former federal prosecutor in New York, is

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President Donald Trump’s former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, was sworn in Monday as attorney general. officially taking command firing in April. of a Justice Department he With the confirmation bathas been leading in an acting tle behind him, Blanche now capacity since Pam Bondi’s faces the challenge of hav-

ing to navigate the demands of a president who has made no secret his desire to use the law enforcement agency

to target his political foes.

Blanche will do so with an agency that has been hollowed out by resignations, firings and voluntary departures while also confronting mounting pushback from the courts.

Blanche was confirmed in a 50-49 vote, opposed by two Republicans who cited concerns about what they described as increased politicization of the department under Trump.

Under deputy attorney general and later as acting attorney general, Blanche has overseen the investigations of numerous Trump foes, including former FBI Director James Comey, whom the Justice Department indicted in April for a second time since Trump returned to the White House last year.

Blanche has strongly defended the Trump administration against accusa-

tions that it has weaponized the Justice Department.

Blanche has said he feels no pressure to placate Trump and insists he sees no problem with the president’s interest in Justice Department matters, calling it the president’s “right” and “his duty.”

Blanche entered the president’s orbit when he left his law firm in 2023 to represent Trump against multiple criminal cases, including two brought by the Justice Department under Democratic President Joe Biden. Blanche has said that experience afforded him a firsthand look at what he contends was the weaponization of the criminal justice system against Trump.

Blanche’s defenders say the close relationship he developed with Trump as his defense lawyer can make him more successful than Bondi was at pushing back on the president’s demands.

Cassidy: Blanche decision based on U.S. attorneys’ support Cassidy’s position be- ing under Blanche, who has Cassidy said giving the not the stake-through-the- sions committee and a Senator says their came decisive when two been running the depart- Trump protection from tax heart they wanted to see for physician who strongly enthe fund. But Cornyn was dorses the use of vaccines GOP senators — Lisa ment on an interim basis probes is “totally wrong.” advice swayed fellow “No American should be satisfied, and that was per- to avoid life-threatening Murkowski, of Alaska, and since Pam Bondi was fired targeted by the law, but no suasive for Cassidy.

Collins, of Maine — in April, Cassidy said. maladies, Cassidy’s suphim on Trump’s Susan announced they were voting He said he was told that American should be above Cornyn, along with Cas- port for Kennedy, a vaccine “nay.” Some of Blanche’s federal prosecutors in Loui- the law, and that, frankly, al- sidy, and North Carolina skeptic, was critical.

AG nominee critics had siana and across the nation most weighed to vote ‘no,’ ” Sen. Thom Tillis, are the But that was back when

BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON — When U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy cast the deciding vote to confirm Todd Blanche, President Donald Trump’s controversial nominee for attorney general, he did so after hearing support from U.S. attorneys in Louisiana, he said.

“If you’re looking for a black or white decision here, you’re not going to find it.

This is a gradation of gray,” Cassidy said Sunday on CBS News’ “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan.”

He could have gone either way, and it took a couple days of weighing pros and cons before coming to his decision, Cassidy said.

Louisiana’s senior senator had voiced reservations, as other senators had, that Blanche would politically weaponize the Department of Justice.

hoped Cassidy, who will soon leave the Senate after Trump helped Rep. Julia Letlow, R-BaCassidy ton Rouge, unseat him, would join the duo.

But Blanche was confirmed, 50-49, early Saturday morning after hours of negotiations.

Cassidy noted that he wasn’t an attorney and, as most senators do when weighing controversial decisions, he sought advice from others.

He said he looked to Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, and checked in with U.S. Attorneys Kurt Wall, of Baton Rouge, and David Courcelle in New Orleans.

Wall and Courcelle told Cassidy how the Department of Justice was operat-

have been has focused on fighting violent crime, human and drug trafficking as well as rooting our fraud in government agencies. And the department provides extra resources and clear metrics to judge how well individual prosecutors are performing.

“Our morale is up, not despite the accountability, because of the accountability,” Cassidy said. “There’s a lot of positive things to say about Todd Blanche.”

Weighing against those positives was Trump’s efforts to establish a taxpayer funded $1.8 billion “antiweaponization fund,” to compensate conservatives who felt unfairly targeted by federal law enforcement.

As Trump’s lawyer, Blanche created the fund to settle a tax dispute Trump and his family were having — giving them immunity from future audits.

Cassidy said.

Cassidy said he sought the advice of Cornyn, who was one of the leading Republican senators raising questions about the weaponization fund and audits. In addition to having been an attorney general in Texas, Cornyn had been a state district judge in San Antonio and a Texas Supreme Court justice.

After negotiating with Cornyn, Blanche agreed to ensure the anti-weaponization fund would not go forward.

Opponents fear that Blanche’s assurances were

three GOP incumbents whose reelections Trump actively worked against. As lame ducks, the three have pushed back on Trump positions, which most Republicans avoid.

It was the second time Cassidy has been the deciding vote for approving one of Trump’s controversial selections to join the Cabinet.

Cassidy is responsible for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. acquiring just enough votes to become secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. As chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pen-

Cassidy was running for a third, six-year term against the headwinds of Louisiana Republicans angered at his vote to convict Trump of impeachment charges of inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol. Cassidy was twice censured by members of the state’s GOP, was forced to run in a closed primary where only Republican voters had a say and was the target of personal attacks by Trump.

He lost in the May 16 closed party primary and will leave office in January when the newly elected 120th Congress is sworn in.

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Russian high court bars only party opposing war in Ukraine from ballot

By The Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia’s highest court on Monday ordered the only party opposing the Kremlin’s military action in Ukraine to be removed from the ballot in next month’s parliamentary election.

The Supreme Court annulled the registration of Yabloko — which is Russian for “apple” — after an appeal from a pro-Kremlin party. Last month, the Central Election Commission had initially allowed Yabloko

on the ballot along with 10 other parties.

Once a leading liberal voice in parliament and often critical of the government, Yabloko later lost its bloc of seats in the State Duma as the Kremlin tightened its grip on Russian politics.

In recent years, Yabloko was the only registered opposition party that opposed sending troops into Ukraine.

Its campaign slogans included “For a ceasefire agreement, diplomacy and peace!” “Our goal is to pre-

vent nuclear war!” and “For a Russia free from fear and political repressions!”

Veteran liberal politician Grigory Yavlinsky, who co-founded Yabloko in the 1990s and chairs its political committee, deplored the ruling and said the party would appeal it.

“Barring Yabloko from the election means a refusal to engage in dialogue with those who ask questions that make the authorities uncomfortable,” Yavlinsky said in an online statement.

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Continued from page 1A low-income housing, has also been put toward increasing the supply of apartments for people that typically wouldn’t qualify for federal housing programs but still have trouble finding an affordable place to live.

A number of other housing complexes with a mix of rental rates have cropped up in recent years, including the $300 million redevelopment of the abandoned Bywater Naval Station into 294 apartments, which broke ground in January. In 2022, a former Holiday Inn in New Orleans East was converted into an affordable and middle-class apartment complex known as Highrise NOLA. The $100 Rivana Apartments development, which has yet to begin construction in the River District, plans to add 220 affordable apartment units.

The so-called middle market of tenants that Millennium Place hopes to attract typically make between 80% and 120% of an area’s median income, which in New Orleans is roughly between $49,650 and $74,450 a year for an individual, according to federal data.

Levine said that those renters are often paying as much as $2,000 for a one-bedroom in the New Orleans area, and that rents for the majority of apartments in Millennium Place will be $300 to $400 lower. However, around two dozen of the units will go to tenants who will pay market rates, which Levine said will help the property offset the costs of offering reduced rents.

Filling the ‘missing middle’ gap The roughly 59,000-square-foot apartment building will have four floors with 65 one-bedroom apartments and 15 two-bedroom units.

Amenities will include a rooftop terrace and a two-level fitness center with views of the river.

Nearly half of the units will specifically be designated for renters earning less than $49,680 a year, and 20% of the units will go to households making between about $55,850 and $62,050 a year. Four apartments will be set aside for low-income earners making $18,650 a year or less. The remaining 23 units will got to renters paying New Orleans market rates, according to property records.

Levine expects the apartments to attract teachers, healthcare workers, recent college graduates and those who are early in their careers.

Even though many in those professions have college degrees and,

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Developers of Millennium Place, an 80-unit complex under construction at Tchoupitoulas and Celeste streets in New Orleans, plan to lease apartments to nurses, teachers, police officers and other middle-class earners who make too much to qualify for low-income housing but often cannot afford market rate rents in the city.

THC

Continued from page 1A made with the active compounds derived from hemp, a form of the cannabis plant with lower levels of THC than marijuana.

Entrepreneurs quickly learned they could simply gather lots of hemp-derived THC to create products with psychoactive effects similar to those created with stronger strains. The loophole has led to roughly $28 billion in annual U.S. sales of THC-infused beverages, gummies and other products.

Beverages, though only contributing about $1 billion in annual sales, make up one of the most visible product categories. Cans of THC drinks like Louie Louie, Crescent 9 and Driftee, all made

by Louisiana companies, have become common sights on the shelves of major retailers like Rouses and Total Wine.

Other THC products are also mainstays at convenience stores

perhaps, years of experience, they often don’t earn enough to comfortably afford rent in the city.

Still, the property will help a fraction of the thousands of workers in Orleans Parish who make just above what would qualify them for affordable housing, said Andreanecia Morris, president of HousingLOUISIANA, a nonprofit

focused on advancing housing policy and affordable housing projects around the state.

“It’s not going to help the most vulnerable, but it will help the working poor,” Morris said.

and gas stations.

A bipartisan group of legislators hopes to get all of the options off shelves, but makers of the most mainstream products are hoping there will be a move to regulate instead of ban.

They say the Senate’s 61-32 vote, part of a broader, bipartisan government funding bill that will need to be approved by the House when members return from recess, gives them four more weeks to make their case.

“The next chapter begins today,” Christopher Lackner, founder and president of the Hemp Beverage Alliance, said in a statement after the vote. “We stand ready to work with Congress, the White House and stakeholders throughout the country to pass federal legislation that is strong, sensible, reliable, and prioritizes public safety.”

Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., who had been leading the fight to keep the ban on schedule, expressed disappointment with the vote’s outcome.

“We agreed to ban these drugs nearly nine months ago, but clear-

ly our fight to stop this scourge is whelmingly” want to continue to just beginning,” he said in a social have access to low-dose hemp bevmedia post. erages wherever alcohol is sold.

Local beverage makers are supHope for growing industry porting three potential federal In Louisiana, beverage manufac- bills, including the Lawful Hemp turers expressed optimism about Protection Act, the Hemp Planting the Senate’s vote despite a lack of Predictability Act and the Hempsupport from their state’s federal Derived Beverage Regulatory Clarity Act. delegation.

The first two would ban synthetic “While it was disappointing to see our Louisiana senators vote intoxicants and create standards to destroy jobs and businesses in for testing and packaging. The their home state, we hope to see third creates a regulatory frameSen. (John) Kennedy and Sen. (Bill) work specifically for hemp beverCassidy take a more pro-business ages. stance once a more robust regula“Any one of these bills would tory bill is up for consideration,” maintain the standards and access said Joe Gerrity, a founder of the we have here in Louisiana when new Louisiana Hemp Beverage it comes to hemp beverages,” La Coalition and CEO of Crescent France said. “Congress now has Canna, one of the nation’s biggest multiple paths. We hope they will listen to voters and pass sensible THC beverage manufacturers.

The offices of Kennedy and Cas- legislation.”

President Donald Trump’s adsidy did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ministration has signaled support Marie La France, one of the co- for the industry, including in a founders of Basin Street Bever- June 24 letter from Trump Cabinet ages, maker of Louie Louie drinks, member Russell Vought to House said Louisiana consumers “over- Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Benton.

sance Neighborhood Development Corporation that owns the Millennium Place apartments, was formed in 2014 to focus on bringing these types of housing projects to the greater New Orleans market.

Industrial corridor Last year, the organization finMillennium Properties Inc., the ished construction on the Denham Email Grace Mayer at grace. for-profit subsidiary of Renais- Townhomes in Livingston Parish. mayer@theadvocate.com.

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The development’s 102 apartments are fully leased, Levine said.

The group began working on Millennium Place after receiving just over $13 million through a Middle Market Loan Program the state launched specifically to finance housing projects in areas affected

by Hurricanes Laura, Delta and Ida. Funds came from the state’s Office of Community Development and federal block grants.

Crews broke ground in February 2025 and are on track to wrap up construction in November. Tenants should be able to move in by December, Levine said.

Renaissance first acquired the property for Millennium Place in 2007. The site included the Lykes Steamship Building, a property that sat vacant for over 20 years.

In 2013, Renaissance completed renovations on the building, turning it into the Centennial Place apartments, a 52-unit, mixed-income apartment complex, and a one-story storage warehouse.

That same year, Renaissance also completed renovations on the Centennial Cotton Press Building, next to the apartments. The building housed an indoor rock climbing facility and a fresh food program that provided meals to local charter schools. Renaissance has updated the property since then, and today it includes a Congregation Coffee and a commercial kitchen space available for lease.

Over the years, and as the neighborhood evolved, Renaissance decided it no longer needed a storage warehouse in the area. The developer demolished the warehouse and, with Millennium Properties, carved out the current plans to develop the Millennium Place apartments on the site.

The development comes as the neighborhood around Tchoupitoulas, once the city’s main industrial corridor, has evolved from a mostly lower-income area to one that attracts some of the highest earners in the city, making roughly $93,000 per year, or 150% above the AMI. Levine said those changes drove up rents and have led to longtime residents being displaced. The Millennium Place apartments and Renaissance’s Cotton Press development aim to bring them back and help them stay.

“We do have the ability to preserve housing in this neighborhood by building new and providing it at a middle market rate that would allow for those folks to stay,” Levine said.

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Congress should revise “the Federal regulation of hemp to ensure the fair treatment of hemp products,” Vought wrote in a document laying out the administration’s funding priorities.

Other Louisiana hemp entrepreneurs note that the four-week delay on the products they sell, while encouraging, still leaves lots of uncertainty.

Monica Olano, founder of the Cali Sober Market in Metairie and owner of Mélange, a nonalcoholic bar in the Faubourg Marigny, said the extension is better than nothing, but still just a “Band-Aid.” “For small businesses like us, where this isn’t just one revenue stream but the majority of our business, it’s still a very big question mark,” she said. “There’s still a lot of regulation and consensus that needs to happen before any of us know what our world looks like at the end of the year.”

Email Rich Collins at rich. collins@theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1A In ordering Motta detained pending her sentence, Vitter said she’d found that Motta “acquiesced” to Garrison’s death, though she had not been charged for the killing.

From the bench Monday, Vitter read names of some 60 witnesses set to take the stand over the coming weeks, asking jurors whether any seemed familiar.

The witness list shed new light on some of the voices prosecutors and defense lawyers will employ as they argue their cases over the course of the projected 20-day trial. Potential witnesses included several FBI special agents, Gar-

VACCINE

Continued from page 1A directs the nation’s health department to improve research on vaccines, which are already extensively studied, and present a plan to offer separate measles, mumps, and rubella vaccines for children, since that is not currently an option in the United States.

The renewed focus on vaccines marks a departure from the Trump administration’s recent efforts to emphasize less controversial health policies related to healthy eating, drug price negotiations and medical fraud crackdowns ahead of November’s midterm elections.

Public health experts have raised concerns that spacing out shots as Trump suggests can lead to an increased risk that children become infected with a vaccinepreventable disease before returning for another visit.

Childhood vaccines — and how and when to give them in combination — go through rigorous studies, and safety tracking continues for years as the shots are used.

Trump called the announcement a “major victory for parents’ rights, religious and constitutional rights, and for the gold standard science.”

Speaking about the order at the Oval Office on Monday, Trump repeatedly suggested the number or timing of vaccines could play a role in rising rates of autism spectrum disorder, even as scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is no link. The order also includes several changes to the childhood vaccine schedule that his health department has already attempted, but that have been blocked by a federal judge. A White House official who insisted on anonymity to brief reporters said Trump was within his right to provide his own recommendation through the executive order and said the lawsuit blocking the health department’s schedule was a separate issue.

Dr. Andrew Racine, president of the American Academy of Pediatrics, said the announcement spreads uncertainty, fear and confusion where “there doesn’t need to be any of that.” He disputed Trump’s recommendations

rison’s former girlfriend, several of Alfortish’s family members, his former law partner and insurance and trucking company defense attorneys.

Ryan “Red” Harris, a slammer and Garrison protégé who pleaded guilty to orchestrating his mentor’s killing with Parker and Alfortish, is set to testify. Harris also testified in the trial against Motta and personal injury attorney Jason Giles.

Also slated to take the stand is Jovanna Gardner, Harris’ former romantic partner, who admits at Harris’ request to texting Garrison to coax him out of his mother’s Gentilly home minutes before he was shot dead.

Prosecutors say Harris had misled Gardner about the purpose of

the messages. Gardner also pleaded guilty.

She and Harris were the first to face charges for Garrison’s killing, indicted in 2024, several months before Alfortish and Motta were accused of fraud for their roles in the staged-crash scheme.

Not until the following year, after Gardner and Harris confessed and Harris implicated Alfortish and Parker, were the men on trial this week charged with the murder. Parker’s attorney, Stephen Haedicke, has questioned Harris’ truthfulness and accused the government of massaging his statements.

On Monday, Vitter acknowledged that the murder trial’s projected length could inconvenience those who serve on the jury. “This

is too serious to be rushed,” she said. Jury selection was set to enter a second day Tuesday.

Absent from the list of witnesses read by Vitter on Monday was Motta, a career Hollywood stuntwoman-turned injury lawyer who once offered Garrison work as a stunt driver.

Prosecutors say Alfortish enlisted Motta to help with the scheme after meeting her as the landlord of her fledgling law practice.

He could not litigate lawsuits from the wrecks himself due to a previous disbarment, prosecutors say. Alfortish was stripped of his law license from an earlier conviction for defrauding the Louisiana Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association, which he led for years.

Vitter has barred prosecutors from telling the jury being empaneled about his prior fraud conviction, though they may discuss his disbarment.

Behind the wheel for many of the accidents that prosecutors claim Alfortish helped to orchestrate was Garrison — a lanky, soft-spoken man known as “Slim” who had been staging accidents for years before they met around 2016.

Garrison told his FBI handlers he began staging accidents for them shortly thereafter, according to federal records.

Motta has appealed her conviction and remains jailed pending her sentencing.

Email James Finn at jfinn@ theadvocate.com.

vaccines in certain circum- Trump’s term. He fired an entire 17-member vaccine stances.

Kush Desai, a Trump advisory committee, installspokesperson, told The As- ing replacements who made sociated Press that the pres- far more restrictive recomident is “one of countless mendations that have since parents who have voiced been halted by a federal questions and concerns judge. He also personally about the combined MMR directed the CDC to abandon vaccine” and said the plan its position that vaccines do to develop single-disease not cause autism, without vaccines would “give par- supplying any new evidence ents more options on timing to support the change.

Throughout his second and frequency for their children,” ultimately increasing term, Trump has been fixvaccine uptake. ated on connecting autism Studies of babies and tod- to vaccines. He has recently dlers in the U.S. have shown ramped up pressure on Kenthat the use of combination nedy to identify the cause of shots for childhood vac- autism, something Kennedy cines, rather than single had pledged to do with new ones, increased the likeli- research unveiled last year. hood of completing all rec- Trump publicly prodded the ommended vaccinations by health secretary for an upASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JACQUELyN MARTIN the age of 2. date on autism research in a Health Secretary Robert F. Cabinet meeting last month.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., right, speaks next to President Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine “How are you doing on the Donald Trump during a meeting to sign an executive order about vaccines Monday in the activist before he entered autism research?” Trump Oval Office of the White House. politics, set out to overhaul asked. immunization guidance “We will have an answer and said previous ones fact sheet. test for Dr. Erica Schwartz,” at DHS in the first year of for you,” Kennedy said. should stand.

“Vaccines are overwhelm- Gostin said in an email. “The “Science about vaccines ingly safe. Vaccines are ef- President is placing her in and their efficacy has not fective. Vaccines DO NOT an untenable position.”

Mugs, shirts, hats, changed,” he said. “The cause autism,” Cassidy Asked on a call with redistribution of viruses and added on X. “Breaking up porters why the president posters, books. other pathogens in our en- vaccines will mean children was advocating splitting vironment has not changed. have to get more shots to MMR into three singleSomething for Children in this country get the same protection, not disease vaccines, the White have not changed in the last fewer shots. It will increase House official did not proeveryone at the hesitancy and make chil- vide any studies supporting 48 hours.”

T-P Store! the decision. They said that dren less safe.”

Cassidy reacts Last December, Trump was Trump’s long-held view U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R- ordered the Department of and that some countries Baton Rouge, blistered the Health and Human Services provide individual measles presidential to review how peer nations order rec- approach vaccine recomommending mendations and consider fewer child- revising U.S. guidance achood vac- cordingly. The department cines just responded by cutting the m o m e n t s number of vaccines it recafter Presi- ommends for every child, dent Don- a move that has since been Cassidy ald Trump blocked in court.

Changes to federal childsigned it late Monday afternoon. hood vaccine recommenda“I’m a doctor. This ex- tions customarily require ecutive order is wrong. The approval from the director President does not have the of the Centers for Disease expertise to make these Control and Prevention. The changes,” Cassidy wrote on newly Senate-confirmed X. “Parents should listen CDC director, Dr. Erica to their child’s pediatrician Schwartz, oversaw policies about vaccines rather than promoting vaccination of listening to an inaccurate service members while in executive order. This is so a leadership position at the U.S. Coast Guard. wrong.”

Even as the order calls for revised vaccine recommen- A test for Schwartz dations, states, not the fedHowever, public health eral government, have the law expert Lawrence Gostin authority to require vaccina- at Georgetown University tions for schoolchildren. The said the Supreme Court’s order advises states with interpretation of Trump’s school vaccine mandates power may allow him to to consider updating their supersede Schwartz if she laws to reflect the adminis- does not agree to new rectration’s preferred schedule, ommendations. according to a White House “This is clearly the first

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Taylor Farms recalls jalapeño products

Taylor Fresh Foods, parent company of Taylor Farms, is voluntarily recalling some products that include jalapeños because of worries about a possible salmonella contamination.

The announcement comes a few weeks after Taylor Farms voluntarily recalled its iceberg lettuce products sourced from central Mexico because of a potential link to a multistate cyclospora outbreak that has sickened people across the U.S. Taylor Fresh Foods said that it was pulling some products, including jalapeños from store shelves after finding out that Coast Citrus Distributors was voluntarily recalling fresh jalapeños due to a potential salmonella contamination.

Guacamole, pico de gallo and taco dip are some of the prepared foods included in the recall. The list of recalled products was distributed by Taylor Farms in multiple states with a “Best If Used By” date up to and including Aug. 16, 2026. The products were sold at stores including Kroger, Stop & Shop, Target, Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s and Walmart.

Taylor Fresh Foods said that the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention were working with state and local partners to investigate illnesses in a multistate outbreak of salmonella infections linked to fresh jalapeños supplied by Coast Citrus Distributors. The company said that a grower in Sinaloa, Mexico, a supplier to Coast Citrus Distributors, was identified as the potential source in the outbreak.

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Stocks edge down from Friday record Oil prices rise on Iran uncertainty

BY STAN CHOE Associated Press

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market edged down from its all-time high on Monday, while oil prices rose on uncertainty about when the Strait of Hormuz could reopen and get the global flow of crude going again.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% from its record set on Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 60 points, or 0.1%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.3%.

Momentum slowed for stocks following a rally powered by soar-

ing profits for big U.S. companies.

Reports are on track to show earnings per share leaped 50% in the spring from a year earlier for companies in the S&P 500, according to FactSet. That would be the best growth since five years ago, when the economy was roaring out of the chasm created by COVID. Berkshire Hathaway is one of the latest companies to deliver a stronger profit for the last quarter than analysts expected, and the company built by legendary investor Warren Buffett said over the weekend that it’s also invested some of its massive pile of cash into stocks under its new CEO, Greg Abel.

Berkshire Hathaway has been famous for buying stocks at what

it considers low prices, and criticism has been high that U.S. stocks generally look too expensive. But when they report strong profits, it helps them look less pricey.

Berkshire Hathaway’s stock rose 1.5%.

MarineMax jumped 46.1% after the retailer, marina operator and superyacht services provider said it agreed to sell itself for about $1.5 billion in cash to a portfolio company of Blackstone.

Varex Imaging leaped 48.8% after Teledyne Technologies said it would buy the maker of X-ray imaging components for $18.90 per share in cash.

But Intel helped offset such gains and fell 4.1% after saying it may sell $15 billion of its stock. Such a

move would dilute the ownership stakes of shareholders, and Intel said it would likely use the cash for investments to take advantage of the huge spending underway on artificial intelligence technology.

In the oil market, the price for a barrel of Brent crude rose 5% to $87.72. It had swung between $72 and $102 last month as hopes rose and fell that the United States and Iran could reach an agreement that would allow oil tankers to freely exit the Middle East again to deliver crude worldwide.

But hopes are turning toward caution again, and the price of Brent is back to where it was earlier this month, as well as in mid-July, mid-June and in the first week of the war in March.

Trump extends Jones Act waiver for 90 days WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday extended a waiver for 90 days for foreign ships to transport goods, including oil, fertilizers and other fossil fuel products, among U.S. ports.

The president first waived the Jones Act on March 17 so that it would be easier to transport oil and refined fuels among ports, reducing price pressures after the start of the war with Iran.

The latest extension will take effect on Aug. 17 and suggests that the U.S. might be preparing for continued price pressures as the Strait of Hormuz, a primary waterway for shipping oil and natural gas, remains effectively closed because of the war.

Unlike previous extensions, the Pentagon will consult with the Maritime Administration to decide which voyages are exempt from the 1920 law containing the Jones Act. The new waiver will only apply to cargo that are sources of energy and commodities related to agriculture such as fertilizers and soybean oil.

Taylor Rogers, a White House spokeswoman, said the administration extended the waiver “to ensure our military and key industries maintain uninterrupted access to critical resources.”

China fails to launch a rocket carrying satellite BEIJING — China‘s launch of a rocket carrying a communications satellite on Monday evening was not successful, state media reported, adding that the cause of the failed launch was under investigation.

The ChinaSat 4B satellite aboard a Long March 7A rocket was launched from the country’s southern island of Hainan, which is home to the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site, part of China’s space program. The ChinaSat 4B is a comms satellite.

“The rocket experienced an anomaly during the flight and the launch mission failed,” the Xinhua news agency said.

It was the first reported Long March 7A failure since its maiden flight in March 2020, when the rocket malfunctioned after launching from Wenchang, according to Xinhua.

China has launched hundreds of missions using Long March carrier rockets delivering internet and communication satellites into a pre-set orbit.

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A 1981 Commodore SP9000 ‘Super PET’ computer and floppy disk drives displayed at the Vintage Computer Festival in Mountain View, Calif. More than 3,500 people attended the two-day festival that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apple.

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As AI grips world, the thrill of collecting older computers is growing

BY TERRY CHEA

“The enthusiasm for the history of computers and all the stuff around it is growing,” said Erik Klein, president of the Vintage Computer Federation, which organizes an annual festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View in the heart of Silicon Valley.

Bringing collectors together

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Software engineer Josh Dersch loves old computers. He spends countless hours tinkering in his garage, trying to coax decades-old machines back to life.

He estimates he owns more than 200 vintage computers and devices in his Seattle home.

“It’s always been fascinating to me to see the origins of things,” Dersch said. “It’s a fun challenge to debug and repair. You can understand the entire system from top to bottom.”

Dersch is part of a growing community of vintage computer collectors who are preserving the classic machines that helped launch the digital revolution. While Silicon Valley has since moved on to shaping the future of artificial intelligence, these hardware enthusiasts are intent on saving the Atari, Commodore and IBM machines that are ancestors to today’s laptops, wearable devices and smartphones.

Where others see junk, people like Dersch see artifacts of computer history that are worthy of attention and respect. They delight in hearing the beeps and chimes of their childhood and firing up a low-def game of “Pong” or “Space Invaders.”

This year more than 3,500 people attended the two-day Vintage Computer Festival in early August that celebrated the 50th anniversary of Apple, founded in 1976 in nearby Cupertino, Calif. It featured a panel with cofounders Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne reminiscing about the company’s early days as a scrappy startup led by the late Steve Jobs.

More than a dozen such gatherings have since sprung up in cities across North America, South America and Europe. Growing interest is reflected in more demand for vintage computers in online marketplaces, Klein said. Rare, iconic computers like the Apple-1 — the company’s first product — can fetch hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Collectors exhibited the computer systems that they have painstakingly restored to their original working condition, allowing attendees to play with the computers built long before the internet, social media and AI transformed the world.

Restoring the ‘grandfather’ Dersch drove down from Seattle to showcase the pride of his collection: the Xerox

Alto. He spent years restoring what’s considered “the grandfather of the modern computer,” which was developed at the pioneering Xerox Palo Alto Research Center in the 1970s. The Alto was one of the earliest computers to move beyond text on screen and use the mouse and graphical user interface — such as windows, icons and cursors — that became the industry standard. The model famously inspired Jobs and Bill Gates to incorporate the technologies in their early products.

Dersch’s exhibit featured a fully functioning Xerox Alto workstation with its boxy vertical monitor, chunky keyboard and mouse, as well as pizza-sized spinning disks that store tiny amounts of data by modern standards.

“It’s fun to share what I’ve done with people. It’s fun to share in what other people have done,” Dersch said. “Also, there’s a consignment area where I can buy more junk to take home with me, so that’s always fun.”

Klein, a Silicon Valley software engineering manager, was a passionate collector until his hobby overwhelmed his home and family life. He had as many as 150 computer systems — complete with accessories, documents and packaging — crammed into his closets and garage.

He said his beloved collection had become an “albatross” and he worried about burdening his family. So he started selling and giving away his machines until he only had a few favorites left at home.

Trump officials propose new rules for food additives, ingredients

BY MATTHEW PERRONE Associated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. health officials on Monday proposed a rule change that would require food manufacturers to notify regulators before introducing new ingredients or additives into processed or packaged foods.

The proposal would change a decades-old policy that advocates have called a regulatory loophole, blaming it for allowing thousands of unvetted ingredients into the U.S. food supply.

Under the proposed rule from the Food and Drug Administration, companies would have to document and submit their safety rationale

for new ingredients, giving regulators the opportunity to investigate if they see a potential risk.

Currently, companies can decide for themselves if an ingredient or additive is “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, and there is no requirement to notify or submit evidence to the FDA, although some firms do.

“Shifting to a mandatory notification system closes a decades-old information gap, giving the FDA the comprehensive visibility needed to enhance postmarket safety,” acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas told reporters on Monday.

The FDA will take comments on the proposal for 120 days.

Susan Mayne, former director of

FDA’s food program, said the new requirement would give the FDA a clearer picture of the vast number of ingredients on the U.S. market, though only a small portion would actually undergo review.

“This is a reasonable first step towards a more complete inventory, but most self-affirmed GRAS ingredients will still not be reviewed for safety by the FDA, with food ingredient safety continuing to be risk-based,” said Mayne, who is now a public health expert at Yale University.

The FDA also plans to publish a list of company-submitted ingredients. Mayne said Americans should understand that “inclusion on the list would not mean FDA thinks the

ingredient is safe.”

In a separate move, the FDA said it has completed work on the federal government’s first definition of ultraprocessed food, but did not release any details or the proposed language. The agency said it submitted the definition to the White House for further review.

Health advocates consider an official definition of ultraprocessed food a key step toward bringing greater scrutiny to meals that are blamed for multiple chronic health problems afflicting Americans. A government-backed definition could pave the way for more federal research and, eventually, possible warning labels or other restrictions.

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Canada puts military on standby over wildfires British Columbia blazes kill 1, displace thousands

BY ROB GILLIES and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

Canada put its military on standby Monday to help battle deadly wildfires in British Columbia as a local mayor warned that one of the blazes had wreaked huge destruction on his community.

A woman has died and some 20,000 people have fled their homes.

For days, scores of wildfires have burned across the province, nearly half of them out of control in hot, windy weather and prolonged drought. Thousands have fled on jammed roads as officials said even more communities could be threatened.

The mayor of Summerland — home to about 12,000 people, which was ordered evacuated on Saturday night along with about 8,000 people in and around nearby Peachland — warned that the affected areas remained too dangerous to enter and that it was impossible to determine the scope of the destruction.

CANADIAN PRESS PHOTO By DARRyL DyCK

People float Monday on the Channel Pathway that connects Okanagan Lake and Skaha Lake as smoke from wildfires burning in the region fills the air in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada.

The blaze, known as the Bald Range wildfire, remained out of control after racing toward Summerland and other communities along Okanagan Lake over the weekend.

“We need to brace ourselves for that bad news when it’s time to go back. Everybody will know somebody who has lost a home,” Summerland Mayor Doug Holmes said.

Defense Minister David McGuinty said the Canadian Armed Forces were in constant contact with pro-

vincial and federal officials and were ready to respond if British Columbia formally requested assistance. The federal government has already approved provincial requests for help with shelter and accommodations.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said an 80-year-old woman died while trying to escape the fire near Summerland. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said the death was heartbreaking and that the federal government would

continue supporting British Columbia.

The British Columbia Wildfire Service said Monday the fire had grown to about 60 square miles. Officials warned clearer skies and direct sunlight could increase fire activity.

Ravi Parmer, British Columbia Minister of Forests, said 19 helicopters were assigned to the Bald Range wildfire but that its intensity made it impossible to halt the blaze.

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Service information officer Nicole Bonnett said the smoke lingering over the fire has reduced visibility, limiting the use of air tankers and water-skimming aircraft.

Bonnett said the blaze has been fueled primarily by extremely dry conditions rather than wind, and grew explosively Friday, reaching 19 square miles within three hours.

Holmes, the Summerland mayor, said there was no timetable for when residents would be able to return as power lines had been downed and hazards at the destroyed or damaged buildings would have to be assessed first.

“The hard part is going home and seeing the devastation,” he cautioned.

Kyla Gaudiuso, a resident of the tiny community of Faulder, said her home was likely destroyed as she had gotten a photo showing the ridge where it stood engulfed in flames.

She described the community’s evacuation as “pandemonium” and said she was now staying with a friend in the town of Penticton.

“It doesn’t really seem real,” she said. “I have to see it to believe it.”

Canada has endured increasingly destructive wildfire seasons in recent years,

forcing mass evacuations and repeatedly sending smoke across large parts of the country and neighboring United States.

In California, evacuations have been ordered for areas along the famous Big Sur coast as a wildfire burns in the nearby steep, rugged mountains. The Timber Fire in Monterey County started Sunday and had grown to about 2 square miles by midday Monday, according to Cal Fire.

By Monday, a quick-moving blaze just north of Reno, Nevada, had forced about 5,500 people to evacuate, according to the U.S. Wildland Fire Service. Fueled by hot, dry and windy conditions, the Bug Fire grew to about 26.6 square miles after igniting Saturday in California.

Firefighters in Spokane, Washington, have strengthened containment lines around three destructive blazes in recent days, allowing some evacuated residents to return home.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson said Monday he visited some of the burned neighborhoods and met a retired couple who lost everything.

They told him that losing their home was terrible, but losing the community was worse, he said.

Trial starts for man accused of ordering Tupac Shakur’s killing

BY JESSICA HILL Associated Press

LAS VEGAS — Almost 30 years after rap legend Tupac Shakur was gunned down near the Las Vegas Strip, the former gang leader accused of ordering the killing went on trial Monday.

The 1996 drive-by shooting remains one of the hip-hop world’s defining moments and enduring mysteries.

Family members of Shakur were among those who gathered at a Las Vegas courthouse for the beginning of jury selection, which could continue through much of this week.

“Whoever had anything to do with it, whoever set it up, whoever had any hand in it should be locked up in prison,” said Shakur’s cousin, Kendrick Lesane.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, 63, has pleaded not guilty to murder with a deadly weapon with the intent to promote, further or assist a criminal gang in the rapper’s death. At the time, Davis was a leader of the South Side Compton Crips in California.

Davis sat next to his attorney Monday while Nevada Judge Carli Kierny asked a group of 75 potential jurors whether they have any medical issues, language barriers

or conflicts with serving in a trial scheduled to last about a month.

Thirty years after his death, Shakur remains a cultural icon and is considered one of the most influential and versatile rappers of all time.

Shakur’s death at age 25 came as his fourth solo album had sold 5 million copies.

He was in a BMW on Sept.

7, 1996, with music mogul Marion “Suge” Knight when a white Cadillac pulled up at a red light. Shakur, who was in the passenger seat, was shot multiple times and died six days later, while Knight survived.

Hanging death of woman in Miss. shakes family, community

By The Associated Press JACKSON, Miss. — The hanging death of Tasia Fortune, whose body was found outside an abandoned house, has shaken her family and community in Mississippi, where two other people have been found hanging from trees in less than a year.

Police have not indicated whether they consider the 29-year-old Black woman’s death suspicious, saying only that they are actively working “to determine the circumstances surrounding the death.”

A week after her body was found, a memorial with a photo of her face sur-

rounded by pink and white balloons, flowers and teddy bears remained Monday behind the home in a predominantly Black neighborhood.

Jackson police officers responded to the home on Aug. 3 and discovered a body hanging in the backyard. Hinds County chief medical examiner investigator Jeremiah Howard later confirmed the identity as Fortune.

Her body is now in the custody of the Mississippi State Medical Examiner’s Office, where an autopsy will be conducted to determine the cause and manner of death.

Christy Spivey, Fortune’s mother, told ABC News on Sunday that she last saw

her daughter on July 26.

Fortune, a mother of four who had lived in Mississippi for more than 10 years, had traveled to Kentucky for a family reunion.

She described her daughter as a loving mother who was not behaving out of the ordinary.

“She did not do this to herself,” Spivey told the outlet.

“I know my daughter, and she did not do this to herself.”

On Wednesday, Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes wrote a letter to Mississippi U.S. Attorney Baxter Kruger asking for assistance in the case. In the letter, Stokes referred to Fortune as a murder victim.

‘Dukes of Hazzard’ actor, former U.S. House member Ben Jones dies at 84

BY JEFFREY COLLINS Associated Press

Ben Jones, who played the good ol’ boy mechanic in “The Dukes of Hazzard” TV series and parlayed his fame into a political career and two terms in the U.S. House, has died. He was 84.

Jones had a heart attack in his home Sunday in Washington, Virginia, as he was waiting to watch his beloved Atlanta Braves play baseball, his wife, Alma Viator, said on social media. Rappahannock County Sheriff Connie Compton confirmed his death.

Jones’ fame came from his role as Cooter Davenport, the mechanic who got the Duke boys out of jams as they tried to do the right thing and fight the corrupt Boss Hogg in the fictional Hazzard County, Georgia.

After playing Cooter for all seven seasons of the series from 1979 to 1985, Jones turned to politics and was elected to the U.S. House from a district near Atlanta in 1988. The Democrat served two terms beJones fore he was redistricted out of the seat.

Jones was born in North Carolina and in college got involved in acting and civil rights, he wrote in his autobiography “Redneck Boy in the Promised Land: The Confessions of ‘Crazy Cooter.’ ” Acting took over his life.

Jones performed in numerous stage productions and had a few minor TV and movie roles in Atlanta during the 1970s before his life-

defining break came on a TV show Jones defended as a modern-day morality tale and a fine example of Southern values.

For seven seasons, Jones was one of a small band of friends and family helping Bo and Luke Duke in “The Dukes of Hazzard.” The brothers were on probation for running moonshine and were constantly trying to clear their names and stop the crooked and powerful Boss Hogg from stealing or cheating.

The Duke boys drove a modified 1969 Dodge Charger called the General Lee with a Confederate flag on its roof. Cooter owned “Cooter’s Garage” in the town square. Nearly every episode involved a car chase with jumps and stunts and a patrol car badly in need of repairs.

The case went cold until recent years, when public statements and a tell-all memoir from Davis in 2019 revived it. He was arrested in 2023.

As the trial began in Clark County District Court, Davis said Monday that if he’s convicted, he wants the judge to decide his sentence, not the jury.

Binu Palal, the county’s chief deputy district attorney, told potential jurors they were in court for a murder trial involving Shakur. He began listing names of people

involved in the case to see if potential jurors were familiar with them, including Knight and Sean “Diddy” Combs.

Prosecutors are not accusing Davis of pulling the trigger that night, and the trial likely won’t confirm who did.

Instead, prosecutors plan to show that Davis made the calls that led to Shakur’s death and provided the gun.

Davis co-wrote the memoir “Compton Street Legends,” which vividly describes the shooting. The book says Davis obtained a handgun from an associate and tossed it into

the back seat of the Cadillac but did not say who fired the fatal shots.

Orlando “Baby Lane” Anderson, Davis’ nephew, has long been considered the suspect who pulled the trigger, but charges were never brought against him. He died two years after Shakur in an unrelated gang shootout in Compton.

Two others — Deandrae “Freaky” Smith and Terry “Bubble Up” Brown — were in the car with Davis and Anderson, but they have since died as well.

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Woodfork sets up advisory group Jan Risher LOUISIANA AT LARGE

Stockett draws 500 women to La. for night of sisterhood

Hundreds of women in bright floral and toile dresses rarely choose to stand outside in the lateafternoon heat of August in Louisiana. But that’s what happened Wednesday in St. Francisville — and no one was complaining.

Before 5 p.m., the steps of St. Francisville’s Freyhan Center were filled with women in colorful dresses. It looked like a garden in bloom.

If there ever was a scene that had the look of a middle-aged sorority recruitment party, this was it. However, nobody was rushing anybody. If laughter and smiles are an indicator, everybody seemed to already belong.

The women had come to hear Kathryn Stockett, author of “The Help,” talk about her new novel, “The Calamity Club,” a story the author says is about sisterhood.

The event was free. My best count put the crowd near 500 people — some of whom spent the evening in the overflow rooms, where they couldn’t see but could hear Stockett.

St. Francisville, population 1,557, is not a place folks pass through by accident. Everyone there decided, on purpose, to be there.

The evening existed because Missy Couhig, owner of The Conundrum bookshop, was plucky enough to ask for it. She went to hear Stockett at a similar event hosted by Dixon Books in Natchez, near Stockett’s Mississippi home.

Couhig waited until the end of the event and asked if the author would consider coming to St. Francisville. Detail by detail, the rest came together. Couhig’s bookshop was too small, so she contacted the recently renovated Freyhan Center, a 1908 schoolhouse that reopened as a community center in 2025.

Before I hosted the questionand-answer portion of the evening, Stockett spoke to the crowd.

Her remarks included a reference to a Washington Post piece

by Monica Hesse — about Cheryl Hines at the White House Correspondents Dinner, watching her husband, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., get whisked off by security while she, in a strapless cocktail dress, hobbled after them.

Stockett read from Hesse’s piece about Hines: “We are all Cheryl Hines. Unprepared for the scenario in which we will be forced to run for our lives. Watching the important people be whisked away while we wonder whether we should try to follow them, or duck under a table, or grab the good wine. This country is exhausting and perverse. We should have worn different shoes.”

The evening felt like every woman in the room understood the sentiment.

Shantell Gomez, who drove in from Lafayette, said Stockett was refreshingly real and funny and

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Panel to look at jail security, safety

BY BLAKE PATERSON Staff writer

Orleans Parish Sheriff Michelle Woodfork has recruited a group of outside experts and government officials to develop recommendations for improving the safety and security of New Orleans’ notoriously troubled jail.

The independent advisory group — called the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office Security and Accountability Council — was established through an executive order signed by Wo o d f o r k o n May 4, her first Woodfork day in office.

The group held its first meeting in July and will be tasked with

conducting “a comprehensive assessment of the safety, security, and structural integrity of all Sheriff’s Office facilities and operations.”

Its members include Andrea Armstrong, a law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans who has gained national acclaim for her research on prison and jail conditions, and Iam Tucker, president and CEO of the civil engineering firm Integrated Logistical Support Inc.

New Orleans City Council members Freddie King and Jason Hughes, Deputy Mayor Michael Harrison, and designees representing Attorney General Liz Murrill, District Attorney Jason Williams and the Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections are also included.

“Anytime you can put eyes on an issue you get a better appreciation for it,” King said in an interview

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WHEELING THEM IN

STAFF PHOTOS By CHRIS GRANGER

Parents and students evoke the Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ album cover as they make their way down the street Monday during move-in day at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Members of the Wave Leaders Orientation Crew at Tulane cheer on students and parents driving across the campus in golf carts loaded with furniture and belongings Monday.

Tulane University President Michael Fitts, center, greets parents and students as they arrive on campus with carts piled high with belongings on Monday.

Bunche-Washington STEM students arrive New school’s first day has special significance

BY ELYSE CARMOSINO Staff writer

As sixth grader Ariana Urbina

walked through the doors of Metairie’s new Bunche-Washington STEM school campus for the first time Friday, the ardent reader gaped at the fully stocked bookshelves lining the school’s entryway.

Urbina, who attended the old Bunche school before it merged with Washington Elementary,

said she was initially taken aback by the size of the new campus, which can house over 700 students. But she quickly got over the size of the school to focus on its brand-new amenities she and her classmates will have access to — including all those books.

“I really like learning new stuff,” Urbina said.

Friday marked the first day of classes for students in grades six, nine and 12 as Jefferson Parish schools began welcoming children back on a staggered schedule. Students in grades seven, eight, 10 and 11 returned Monday.

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Second shooter pleads guilty in comedian’s death STAFF PHOTO By JAN RISHER

Jan Risher, from left, author Kathryn Stockett and Missy Couhig, owner of The Conundrum, gather at the Freyhan Center in St. Francisville for an event with Stockett to talk about her new book, ‘The Calamity Club.’

‘Boogie B’ hit by stray bullet in Rouses parking lot

Business DisMarket that left aspiring local comedian Brandon “Boogie B” trict. Prosecutors Montrell dead from a stray bullet agreed to drop athas pleaded guilty to manslaughtempted murder and obstruction ter, according to Orleans Parish of justice charges court records. in exchange for Jabril Cowart, 23, of New OrBY MATT BRUCE his guilty plea.

Staff writer leans, accepted a plea deal Fri- Montrell Cowart is exday, three days before his trial The man accused of instigating was set to begin in the Dec. 23, pected to receive a 25-year prisa 2022 shootout outside a Rouses 2022, shooting in the Central on sentence when he goes before

Criminal District Judge Rhonda Goode-Douglas at a hearing scheduled for Sept. 3.

Montrell was sitting in his car, parked outside the Rouses in the 700 block of Baronne Street during the day when Cowart and 34-year-old Charles Cannon began spraying bullets at one an-

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Council zoning approvals in Goodbee vetoed

BY JIM DERRY Staff writer

St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper vetoed two controversial rezoning measures approved last week by the Parish Council, a rare move that could throw two planned subdivisions in the Goodbee area into doubt.

The subdivisions are set to be located on a 264-acre tract and a smaller 31-acre tract that together were approved to add up to 800 homes. Area residents showed up to chambers en masse at the council’s monthly meeting Thursday to try and persuade the council to vote down the measures, saying any new construction in the area could pile on to existing flooding and traffic problems.

Instead, the large tract for the “Isadora” subdivision was approved by an 8-6 vote and the

smaller tract for the “Esperanza” subdivision was approved 10-4.

Cooper heeded residents’ pleas.

Although he previously wouldn’t give any hints to which way he was leaning on the project, in a statement on Monday he said growth needed to be “balanced with sufficient infrastructure and the needs of our residents.”

“Over the past several years, we have made record Cooper investments in our infrastructure, overhauled our development practices to be more aligned with our citizens’ values, and worked to ensure that growth is managed responsibly,” said Cooper, who announced earlier this year that he would not seek another term in 2027. “High-density developments in areas with planned, but

not yet designed or funded infrastructure improvements, would have undermined the progress we have worked so hard to achieve.”

If the council wants to override Cooper’s veto, Chair Cheryl Tanner would have to call a special meeting and a supermajority of at least 10 members would have to vote yes.

This last happened in 2025 when the council voted 12-0, with two members absent, to override Cooper’s veto on spending cuts.

Because of the split vote on the zoning measures, an override could be a tougher sell.

In his public statement on Monday, Cooper said he had been closely monitoring the rezoning process, including keeping abreast of residents’ views.

Dozens of members used the public-speaking periods Thursday to speak against the plans of local developer Jeff Vallee and H1 Asso-

ciates, who had been working on the approval for two years and had previously been denied twice. They finally gained initial approval in July and then final approval Thursday.

Vallee did not immediately respond to a request for comment Monday. He has stressed that if the subdivisions were built — because of the stringent newer codes — the area would be better than it was before.

His attorney, Paul Mayronne, said the first phase alone would take five years or more, and that it likely was a “20-year project.”

But some residents wanted none of it, with one saying: “I have had five 100-year floods since 1985,” and another saying it already “takes 20 to 25 minutes to get from the new subdivision cut-through to the (light at I-12).”

Email Jim Derry at jderry@ theadvocate.com.

Hahnville teen booked with murder in friend’s death

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

Staff writer

A 16-year-old Hahnville boy was arrested and booked with seconddegree murder after authorities say he fatally shot another teen early Monday morning.

The St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office has not yet identified the vic-

tim, a 14-year-old boy, nor did they name his suspected killer.

The shooting was reported at a residence in the 300 block of Smith Street in Hahnville just before 2 a.m., authorities said.

Deputies dispatched to the scene found the wounded boy. He was transported to a hospital, where he later died, the Sheriff’s Office said.

The 16-year-old boy was taken into custody on scene. In addition to murder, he was booked with obstruction of justice and illegal possession of a firearm by a juvenile, the Sheriff’s Office said.

A relative of the 16-year-old boy who asked not to be identified said the two teens were friends and neighbors who spent most days

together. Both the victim and the 16-year-old were students at Hahnville High School, according to the relative.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Det. Garrett Haun of the St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office at (985) 7831135 or ghaun@stcharlessheriff. org.

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Continued from page 1B But for students at Bunche-Washington — one of two campuses slated to open this year as construction also concludes on the new St. Ville Elementary in Harvey — this back-toschool season has special significance.

When Jefferson Parish closed Washington Elementary three years ago and moved nearly 200 students and several teachers to Bunche as part of a districtwide consolidation plan, the school initially struggled to make the transition work. Test scores declined and suspensions increased as students and teachers struggled to navigate the change, Principal Monya Thomas-Criddle recalled earlier this year.

Now, after two years of consistently improved academic performance, Bunche is merging with yet another school: T.H. Harris Middle School. The merger will add grades six through eight to Bunche-Washington, which will be called the Bunche-Washington STEM School.

This time, the consolidation comes with a sparkling new building.

“Our kids deserve the best,” Thomas-Criddle said, “and this is the best.”

Man arrested in two arson attacks

BY MARCO CARTOLANO Staff writer

A man was arrested over the weekend after he allegedly intentionally set two people on fire, causing serious burns in separate arson attacks, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

Allen Harris, 32, was booked on two counts of attempted murder related to the two arson attacks that took place this month, police said.

On Aug. 3, a man was hospitalized after he was doused in flammable liquid and deliberately set on fire in the 7th Ward, in the 1900 block of North Roman Street. On Saturday, another man was doused in flammable liquid and set on fire in the 1600 block of Elysian Fields Avenue.

Harris was identified as a suspect in both alleged attacks, and police obtained warrants for his arrest. He was taken into custody on Saturday by NOPD officers and Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents after they found him in the 7th Ward in the 2400 block of Pauger Street.

Harris was booked in the Orleans Parish jail and appeared in New Orleans Magistrate Court on Sunday, where his bail was set at $750,000.

Email Marco Cartolano at marco.cartolano@ theadvocate.com.

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STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

Students walk to their classrooms on the first day of school Friday at Bunche-Washington STEM School in Metairie.

that they would shutter six schools to address the district’s dwindling student population, which dropped from 50,500 in 2018 to around 45,000 last year.

Most students were sent to 12 other schools, while two schools were moved into different buildings.

Historic Washington Elementary was one of the shuttered schools.

Thomas-Criddle, Bunche’s longtime principal, led the two schools through the New beginnings sometimes difficult consoliIn 2023, Jefferson Parish dation. Now she must do it schools officials announced again as she welcomes the

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Continued from page 1B that she “felt feelings of collective understanding.”

Stockett told of getting expelled from school in sixth grade for reading her mother’s copy of “Fear of Flying.”

She mentioned not being brave enough as a child to ask her family’s maid about her life outside their home.

I asked her when she became brave.

She said she thought it showed up the first time she sat down to write a story.

Then Stockett offered another glimpse into the creative process, reading a line from a New York Times story about Steven Spielberg by Wesley Morris: “I can’t express enough how therapeutic and healthy it is for me to keep doing this job over and over and over again,” Spielberg said. “I work so much out through this process. So much out. I get to bleed off some of the darkness instead of letting it fester inside me. You get to let it fester inside you.”

Wednesday night felt like living proof of the sisterhood at the heart of Stockett’s new book — before “The Calamity Club” was even mentioned.

T.H. Harris Middle School students into the BuncheWashington family.

Mergers always present some challenges as students acclimate to an unfamiliar environment and new peers, Thomas-Criddle explained during an interview earlier this year. But she’s hopeful the latest consolidation will benefit students, noting that research suggests middle schoolers often perform better under a K-8 model.

She also said she’s up to the task of assimilating the new students and expand-

Dr. DeeDee Luke, who drove 97 miles from Acadiana, must have felt it, too.

She said, “I left feeling hopeful for the South. I teared up several times through the night. It’s so nice to be in a room of readers on the same page.”

Long after the last question, the line for signed books still snaked around rooms inside the building.

Even then, spirits stayed high.

Five hundred women showed up on a hot August evening to hear an author talk about sisterhood. A small-town bookshop made it happen in a century-old schoolhouse that local people, many of them women, recently saved from ruin.

An author drove 90 minutes for a free event and stayed until the last book was signed.

Maybe we all miss the things we don’t or have never had. I have two younger brothers — for whom I am grateful — but I have always been sisterless.

Maybe that’s why sisterhood represents so much hope to me. I seek (and receive) it in my cousins. I seek (and receive) it from my friends.

Hope is always right there on the surface when it comes to sisterhood — and that’s how Wednesday night in St. Francisville felt to me.

Email Jan Risher at jan.risher@ theadvocate.com.

ing Bunche-Washington into a K-8 school, pointing to her decades of experience.

“I think my previous experience working with middle school kids and teachers” will help, she said. “I’m ready to roll up my sleeves.”

On Friday, Jefferson Parish schools Superintendent James Gray visited BuncheWashington to welcome students back to a new school year — and a new campus.

He popped into classrooms to say hi to teachers and cheerfully greeted students in the hallways.

Gray, who did a final walk-

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through of the campus a day before students arrived, pointed out some features of the new $62.4 million campus. He noted the small outdoor play area in a courtyard, as well as wall fixtures throughout the school depicting different elements on the periodic table.

“There’s a lot of hard work and planning behind this build,” he said. “It’s just a beautiful thing, seeing everything come together.”

Email Elyse Carmosino at ecarmosino@theadvocate. com.

Montrell was back in New Orleans visiting family for the holidays when he went to Rouses to buy items for his grandmother and the fateful gunfire erupted.

“This was an attack on the city; that’s why his death rocked the city,” said his mother, Sherilyn Price. “It wasn’t just about him. It was the where, the when and the how. Anybody could’ve been killed at the store that day.”

The beloved comedian’s slaying was a flashpoint in the city’s spike in violent crime, coming at the tale end of a year in which New Orleans saw its highest crime rate post-Katrina. At the time, Price lashed out at District Attorney Jason Williams as well as New Orleans police and became a prominent voice against gun violence and juvenile crime.

Price said she signed off on the plea agreements prosecutors offered her son’s accused killers.

“I will continue to keep his legacy alive; I will not let New Orleans forget him,” she said.

“I’m satisfied with the justice system because I got more than most people get. I got the attention, I got the support, I got the arrests, I got the results and a measure of justice. And some people never get that.”

other across a crowded parking lot, prosecutors alleged.

An encounter between the two men inside the store had spilled outside. Prosecutors said Cowart left the Rouses first and went to retrieve his gun from a car, then waited for Cannon to exit and fired the first volley of bullets. Cannon returned fire and likely struck Montrell in the face.

NOPD said Montrell, 43, was a bystander, uninvolved in the shooting.

Goode-Douglas in April sentenced Cannon to 20 years, suspending five of them, after he pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, a gun charge and two other counts.

Dyanmonique Smith, 26, and India Broussard, 33, are slated to be tried this week as accessories to the shooting.

A New Orleans native who moved west to chase his dream, Montrell established a presence in Los Angeles’ comedy scene. He also gained popularity on TikTok and Instagram for his “New Orleans Hood History” series, video reels where he chronicled New Orleans pop culture and infused Email Matt Bruce at matt. it with his humor. bruce@theadvocate.com.

Monday. “Seeing the conditions that the inmates live in, and seeing the conditions that the employees of the jail that they work in, you get a better appreciation of what they go through.”

Conditions inside New Orleans’ lockup came under intense public scrutiny last year, after a group of 10 detainees ripped a toilet from a wall, broke through Sheetrock and ran free while a jail staffer was absent eating a meal.

The escape sharpened questions around how exactly the Orleans Justice Center, which cost around $145 million to construct and is only a decade old, had fallen into such disrepair.

Then-Sheriff Susan Hutson argued that poor maintenance and understaffing at the jail largely boiled down to a lack of funding from the City Council and Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration. City officials countered that Hutson hadn’t been transparent with the budget increases they did approve.

Woodfork, who defeated Hutson in last year’s election, has said that increased funding from City Hall will be needed to implement longer-term solutions.

“Many of our facilities require significant capital investments after years of deferred maintenance and neglect,” Woodfork told the City Council in June. “You can clearly see the damage and deterioration. Inmates have torn pieces of the doors, metal stripping and anything you can think of to make homemade weapons.”

“It takes resources and money to be more detailed about it, to fix these things, and right now our priority definitely is to shore up this building,” Woodfork added.

Email Blake Paterson at bpaterson@theadvocate. com.

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Obituaries Alexander III, Granison Timmins 'Tim'

The family of Granison "Tim" Timmins Alexander III sadly announce his passing on Thursday, July 30, 2026. Tim, as he was known by his family and friends, passed away peacefully at Avanti Senior Living in Lafayette, Louisiana. He was 70 years old.

Memorial services will be held on Friday, August 14, 2026, at 10:00 a.m. in St. Mary, Mother of the Church.

The family requests that visitation be observed on Thursday, August 13, 2026, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Martin & Castille's Downtown location.

The Reverend Father Stephen Pellessier will serve as the celebrant of the Memorial Mass and will officiate at the services.

Tim is survived by his beloved wife, Ashley Weimar Alexander; three daughters, Caroline Alexander Wells (and her husband John Wells), Rebecca Alexander Quarls (and her husband Michael Quarls), and Laura Alexander Neal (and her husband David Neal); four grandchildren, Jack and Georgia Wells, Ben Bruin Quarls, and Eleanor Neal; and one sister, Stephenie Nix (and her husband Mark Nix).

He was preceded in death by his parents, Joan and Tim Alexander; and two brothers, Edward Alexander and Gordon Alexander.

Tim lived a life marked by dedication to his family, his profession, and the traditions he loved most. A proud graduate of Isidore Newman School, Class of 1973, he earned his bachelor's degree from Louisiana State University in 1977 before receiving his Juris Doctor from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 1980. While at LSU, Tim was a proud member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity, where he formed many lifelong friendships and created countless fond-and often funny-memories that he treasured throughout his life. He spent the vast majority of his career in private practice as an oil and gas attorney, earning the respect of clients and colleagues for his knowledge, professionalism, and decades of service. He was a proud member of the Louisiana State Bar Association for more than forty years.

Of all his accomplishments, Tim was perhaps proudest of what he affectionately called "The Alexander Girls"-his three daughters. In later years, he treasured becoming "Timbo" to his four grandchildren.

An avid outdoorsman, Tim found his happiest hours in the duck blinds of Pecan Island, where he shared countless hunts with his friends and his hunting dogs.

Fellow hunters knew him for the remarkable standard to which he trained his dogs, a point of pride that reflected his discipline and commitment to doing things well. He also enjoyed fishing and remained a devoted LSU Tiger throughout his life, faithfully cheering on his alma mater.

Tim leaves behind a legacy of professional accomplishment, enduring friendships, family traditions, and a deep appreciation for the Louisiana outdoors. Those who knew him will remember his in-

telligence, his determination, his love of hunting and LSU, and the pride he took in his family.

Honorary Pallbearers: Bubba Burch, George Baños, Robert Taylor, Steve Williamson, Dr. Jeff Budden, and Jimmy Atkins.

The family extends its heartfelt gratitude to Angela Carmouche, Veronica Collins, and the loving staff at Avanti Senior Living for the compassionate care they provided to Tim. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Tim's memory to the Parkinson's Foundation.

The family invites you to share memories and condolences at www.mourning.com.

Martin & Castille Funeral Home DOWNTOWN, 330 St. Landry Street, Lafayette, Louisiana 70506, 337-2342311

David, Ervin J.

Ervin Joseph David, a native of Lakeland, La and a resident of Metarie, La, passed away on August 9, 2026 at the age of 98. Ervin served in the National Guard before being honorably discharged. He would then go on to become a glass cutter and mirror maker. Ervin would end up working for Sears Roebuck as a truck driver and doing deliveries, and would later retire from Sears after many years. Ervin enjoyed spending his time shooting pool, playing cards, trips to the casino, gardening, and taking rides to the countryside to visit with his family.

He also enjoyed working on appliances and hunting.

Ervin was a loving son, brother, father, and grandfather and will always be remembered by those he loved and the ones that loved him most.

Ervin is survived by his sons, Brian David and Larry David, married to daughter -in-law, Clara David; granddaughter, Chelsea "TweetTweet" David; and his sister, Elta "Bets" Gauthier; and numerous nieces, nephews and loved ones. Preceded in death by his wife, Velma Fontenot David; father, Alcee J. David; mother, Onelia David; stepfather, Ulysse "Blue" David; and his siblings, Mildred D. David, Dalsey J. "Black" David, Doris D. Ducote, and Lucille D. Porche.Visiting will be held at Niland's Funeral Home in New Roads, La on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 from 9:00 am until the religious service begins at 11:00 am. The entombment will follow in False River Memorial Park Mausoleum.

Pallbearers will be Larry David, Brian David, Roy David, and Ray Gauthier.Special thanks to Hospice Specialist of Louisiana, Hospice House, and Jen Care.

Greenbaum, Matthew Harris Matt

On August 8, 2026, Matthew "Matt" Harris Greenbaum, a resident of New Orleans for 54 years, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his loving family, who sang him into that good night. Matt, who was 74 years old, had battled Parkinson's disease for the past 20 years.

He is survived by: his five children, Esther Greenbaum (Jill Tucker), Miriam Greenbaum Solomon (Aaron), Vanessa Greenbaum (Adam Bosso), Madeline Greenbaum (Charles Yeilding) and Arthur "Wyatt" Greenbaum; his five grandchildren, Elizabeth Solomon, Eli Solomon, Olivia Bosso, Emilia Bosso, and Margot Yeilding; his mother, Gloria Rubin Greenbaum, his brother, Daniel Greenbaum, and his sister, Jessica Greenbaum (Jed Marcus). He is also survived by Esther and Miriam's mother, Barbara Ziv, Wyatt's mother, Ashley Hewitt, his cousins, nieces and nephews, and many dear friends, colleagues and companions.

He was predeceased by his father, Dr. Lowell Greenbaum, and Vanessa and Madeline's mother, Lesa Matherne.

Matt was born in Boston, Massachusetts and raised in Queens and Roslyn Heights, New York.

As a young child, he contracted polio, requiring years of frequent trips to the doctor with his mother, Gloria. He and his brother and best friend, Dan, grew up together sharing a lifelong love of baseball. Matt was deeply influenced by his parents, both of whom were educators, who instilled in their children an appreciation for academics, intellectual curiosity, politics, equality, and justice. They raised their children to actively strive to make the world a better place, a value which Matt incorporated into his profession as a lawyer.

Although Matt, who skipped a grade in elementary school, was challenged as younger and physically smaller than many of his classmates, he eventually became a successful high school wrestler.

In 1968, Matt entered Columbia College of Columbia University, earning his Bachelor of Arts in 1972. During his years at Columbia, which coincided with the societal upheaval caused by the Vietnam War, Matt became actively involved in the student anti-war movement. In 1969, he and other students were arrested for occupying a university building during an antiwar protest.

In the Fall of 1969, he met his future wife, Barbara Ziv, whom he married in 1972, shortly before they both entered Tulane University Law School, from which they graduated in 1975.

Matt had a storied legal career. During law school, he clerked for Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Frank A. Marullo, Jr. He was hired shortly after graduation by the renowned white-collar criminal defense lawyer, Michael Fawer, with whom he worked on many highprofile cases. He also assisted Yoko Ono in obtaining the return of stolen photographs. Matt eventually left criminal defense litigation and became a prominent Social Security disability lawyer in New Orleans. He founded The Law Offices of Matt Greenbaum, expanding the firm to Gulfport and Jackson, Mississippi. His ubiquitous television commercials made him something of a local celebrity.

Matt took particular pride in helping people who needed an advocate. His expertise in Social Security disability law was recognized nationally, and he frequently spoke at conferences of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants' Representatives. He also taught Trial Advocacy at Tulane Law School from 1984 to 1989 and Social Security Law at Loyola University New Orleans College of Law from 1992 to 1996. Matt believed deeply in education, service, and community. He was active at Metairie Park Country Day School, which all of his children attended from kindergarten through 12th grade. He served as President of the Board of the New Orleans Ballet Association and was involved in numerous other civic organizations throughout the city. His Jewish faith was integral to his life, and one of his proudest achievements was serving as President of the Board of Temple Sinai. Matt was passionate about music. His favorite artists included The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and Jackson Browne. He was a patron of the arts, and an avid New York Rangers fan and a Yankees fan through and through. He loved all things politics.

Matt's five children and five grandchildren remained his greatest source of pride and joy.

He was an active and devoted father who showed up for every soccer game, cross-country meet, music concert, school musical, and the countless ordinary moments that make up a childhood. He encouraged his children to value education, curiosity, athleticism, healthy competition, justice, and equality, to think for themselves and to stand up for what they believed was right.

Shortly after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which drastically changed the trajectory of his life, Matt was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease. For more than 20 years, he

lived with this cruel and unrelenting progressive debilitating disease. He fought it courageously to the very end. Parkinson's defined the final chapter of Matt's life, but not the life that came before it or the legacy he leaves behind.

He was brilliant and curious, brave and complicated, loving and generous.

He enthusiastically supported his family and friends, and he was wholeheartedly loved in return.

At the end, his loved ones held vigil by his side, surrounding him with the music he loved and singing him into eternal rest.

Matt's family is especially grateful to Elnora Smith, who was an important and beloved part of the Greenbaum family for more than 45 years. They also extend their gratitude to the devoted caregivers who cared for Matt throughout his long battle with Parkinson's disease, and to the staff of Poydras Home, who provided him with compassion in the final months of his life.

Visitation will be held at Temple Sinai, 6227 St. Charles Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, August 11, 2026, with a funeral service beginning thereafter at 11:00 a.m. For those unable to attend in person, the funeral service will be livestreamed through Temple Sinai's website. A catered reception will follow in the Temple Sinai Auditorium.

Memorial donations may be made in Matthew Harris Greenbaum's memory to The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, in support of its work toward better treatments and a cure for Parkinson's disease.

Gregoire, Margaret Fayers

Margaret Fayers Gregoire, or better known to Family and Friends as Biscuit, passed away peacefully on July 31, 2026 surrounded by the love of her Family at the age of 79.

She was a native of England who moved to the United States in her early 20's. She retired as the General Manager of Hurwitz Mintz Furniture, but one of her Greatest Personal accomplishments was attaining her United States Citizenship in 2009.

Margaret was the daughter of the Late Fred Fayers, and Nellie Fayers.

She was a Loving sister of Tom Fayers (Silvia), Jim Fayers, and Ruth Hunt.

In 2001, following the passing of her first husband James Gregoire Sr., Margaret's life entered a beautiful and transformative new chapter. In 2004, she united with the absolute love of her life, and devoted companion Mickey O'Conner. Together they shared 18 years of profound happiness, deep devotion, and endless adventure until his passing in 2022.

To know her during these years with Mickey was to know a life lived fully and vibrantly. She and Mickey shared a deep passion for traveling and ex-

ploring the world together.

One of their absolute favorite pastimes was sitting on the dock behind their waterfront home in the evening, sharing a glass of wine, and watching the sunset as the day drew to a close.

Margaret was a natural hostess who took immense joy in entertaining. Her home was always a gathering place of warmth and laughter, always open to family and friends. Some of her closest friends were a group of Ladies whom she loved dearly and shared countless memories with.

This close circle of lovely ladies referred to their group as "The Slidell Girls Birthday Club" (Peggy Lala, Sandy Deffner, Carrol Hock, Jane Bachiem, Nunny Levis, Barbra Blanchard, Sybil Hebert, and Kathy Schriever.)

Margaret was a loving mother to Mary Lou Gregoire, James Gregoire Jr. (Denise), Late Michael Gregoire, and Shawn O'Connor Hartman.

Grandmother of James Gregoire III (Kailey), TJ Guillot (Jenny), Daniel Gregoire (Becca), Late Elizabeth Gregoire Skaggs, and Taylor Edmonds Gregoire.

GreatGrandmother of Roman Gregoire, Rylen Gregoire, Gabriel Skaggs, Caleb Guillot, Amelia Guillot, Blakeley Penouilh, Vincent Gregoire, Dane Gregoire, and Iris Gregoire.

Margaret was a loving Mother-in-Law of Denise Gregoire (James), Connie Meyers (Sonny), and Tonyah Edmonds (Wayne).

She also loved dearly many Nieces, Nephews, and other family members including the Children, Grandchildren and GreatGrandchildren of The Late Mickey O'Conner.

On Behalf of the Entire Gregoire Family, we would like to extend a Very Special thank you to Larry and Sue Adams. Who were her neighbors and dearest friends of over 50 years.

Family and friends are invited to attend the Memorial Mass in the chapel of Mothe Funeral Home, 2100 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, LA on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 at 11am.

The Memorial Visitation will be held from 9am until 11am.

Family and friends can view and sign the online guest book at www.mothefunerals.com

Haydel, Abner Joseph

Abner Joseph Haydel, Jr. passed away peacefully, on August 9, 2026 at the age of 99 years. Beloved husband of the late Rita Thibodeaux Haydel. Son of the late Abner Joseph Haydel, Sr. and Amy Brou Haydel. Brother of the late Earl, Melvin, and Lloyd Haydel. Also survived by other loving relatives and friends.

Abner was a native of Edgard, Louisiana, lived in San Dimas, California for over 50 years, before moving back to the Westbank 10 years ago. He served his country in the U.S. Navy

and spent his career as an accountant for McDonnell Douglas / Boeing. He will be sadly missed.

A gathering of family and friends will take place at Mothe Funeral Home, 7040 Lapalco Boulevard, Marrero, Louisiana on Wednesday, August 12, 2026 from 9:30 AM to 11 AM. A Service of the Word will follow. Interment with Naval Honors will take place at Westlawn Memorial Park, Gretna.

Condolences and memories may be shared by visiting Abner's memorial page at: www.mothefunerals.com.

Lambert, Ronald Jude

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the passing of Ronald Jude Lambert, a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend, who departed this life on August 4, 2026, at the age of 87. Born on February 17, 1939, in Gramercy, Louisiana, Ronald lived a life marked by an unwavering commitment to his family and community. Ronald graduated from Southeastern Louisiana College majoring in accounting and began his career as a math teacher. Soon thereafter, he was drafted into the U.S. Army where he proudly served his country with honor.

After his military service, Ronald transitioned into the accounting profession.

Driven by his entrepreneurial spirit, he opened a business, Bourg Hardware, which he proudly owned and operated for many years. When the business closed, he returned to his career in accounting where he continued to provide trusted service up until his death.

Throughout his life, he was actively involved in numerous community organizations and was dedicated to serving others. He enjoyed dancing, socializing with family and friends, and never missed an opportunity to bring people together with his vibrant spirit and outgoing personality. A devoted family man, Ronald is survived by his loving wife Noel Nettleton Lambert; his cherished daughters Lisa Lambert Adams (Jerry Adams, Jr.) of Bourg, LA, and Melissa Lambert Tumy (Patrick Tumy) of Madisonville, LA. He deeply adored his three grandchildren, Macy Adams Arceneaux (Louis Arceneaux III), Mia Adams Tucker (Bryce Tucker), and Peyton Tumy, as well as his great-grandchild, Briar Aurelia Arceneaux. Ronald was preceded in death by his parents Aubrey A. Lambert and Marie Waguespack Lambert as well as his siblings Joseph Lambert, Earl Lambert, Aubrey J. Lambert, and Marie Lambert. The family extends their heartfelt gratitude to the compassionate staff of Hope Hospice, Terrebonne Home Care, and the many doc-

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Slightly smaller LSU freshman class is a positive sign After eight consecutive record-breaking years, LSU’s freshman class this year will be slightly smaller than the one before. That’s a good thing.

A smaller incoming class does not reflect lower demand: LSU received more than 67,000 applications this year. That’s more than three times the number a decade ago and continues an upward trajectory that has accelerated since the pandemic. LSU is also benefiting from national trends that show more students applying at major Southern schools.

With such a large applicant pool, LSU officials are smart to apply stricter admission standards.

They have also said they intend to work hard to attract the top echelon of students, those with an ACT score of 30 or above, essentially those in the top six percent of all students.

The fact that those standards were largely applied to out-of-state students is another positive.

LSU and its appeal as a brand exert one of the state’s few gravitational pulls for new residents.

Students who study here are more likely to stay here; if we can take the best of those from other states, all the better. That’s what other states have been doing to Louisiana for years.

We are also glad to see that the proportion of in-state students accepted actually ticked up a bit. Even as it pursues academic prestige, LSU must not forget its core mission as the state’s flagship university: providing a quality education for the benefit of all Louisianans.

The regional campuses, including the recently reassimilated University of New Orleans, can play a key role in this pursuit by making a good education affordable and practical for many in-state students. Other regional LSU sites, such as Alexandria, have in recent years seen enrollment booms; New Orleans, which has struggled to attract students, could use the same.

The smaller incoming class size will have some practical benefits as well. LSU’s main campus in Baton Rouge is at or near capacity.

Parking is tight, on-campus housing is packed and off-campus apartments are even more expensive. One student recounted seeing students standing in a 200-desk lecture hall because there were not enough places to sit.

“If we’re committed to excellence both in the classroom and in the student experience, then part of that calculus does have to involve maybe not growing beyond what the campus capacity is,” Emmett Brown, LSU’s head of enrollment, told this newspaper’s Haley Miller.

All of these tweaks are in service of what LSU President Wade Rousse has said is a key goal — for LSU to be named among the top 50 of the National Science Foundation’s Higher Education Research and Development Survey, which ranks top research institutions across the nation.

This is a good aim. Lifting the standards at the Baton Rouge campus — and accepting the slightly smaller classes — can serve that end as well.

Global culinary events spotlight New Orleans hospitality scene

Politicians who targeted Murrill must be punished Several weeks ago, we were proud to stand next to Attorney General Liz Murrill and present her with the Home Defense Foundation’s Hero of Home Defense Award. We present that award very sparingly, and only to public figures who have shown courage while fighting for the rights of taxpayers and law-abiding citizens.

As proud as we were on that day, we are doubly proud of the attorney general when she requested an investigation into the conduct exhibited by the New Orleans politicians who thought she should be imprisoned for enforcing laws passed by the state Legislature.

Talk about “lawfare” and improper use of government power! The conduct of those New Orleans politicians takes the cake. The AG is correct to say that their disgraceful and illegal conduct must be punished.

For if you do not punish illegal and shameful conduct, you will get more of it.

If you do not punish robberies, for exam-

ple, you will get more of them. And if you do not punish political illegalities, such as indicting an AG who is merely following an actual law — albeit one that you do not like — you will get more of them.

In sum, let us say that many New Orleans politicians have horribly mistreated their law-abiding taxpayers.

These people have ignored bribery, pretended they were ignorant of “overtime pay” which really stole public funds and turned a blind eye when criminals have been set free again and again to harm the taxpayers, to give just three examples.

It is time to hold these politicians accountable for their actions, and AG Murrill’s request for an investigation of their improper lawfare is a good start.

A recent weekend marked another milestone for New Orleans’ culinary and hospitality community. Hosting the Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie and the Bocuse d’Or Americas Selection, alongside the arrival of the Michelin Guide and the return of North America’s 50 Best Restaurants, underscores what we’ve long known: The world is paying closer attention to what makes New Orleans extraordinary.

Our students are learning in one of the world’s most celebrated culinary and hospitality cities. They build their skills in the classroom, explore the industry through field trips, gain hands-on experience through externships and launch careers in New Orleans’ vibrant hospitality community.

When world-renowned chefs and hospitality leaders engage directly with our students, they expand perspectives, share new techniques and strengthen our classrooms and our local culinary community. These experiences inspire students to dream big while reinforcing that the skills, creativity and connections they develop at the New Orleans Culinary & Hospitality Institute can prepare them for success wherever their ambitions take them.

These international events also celebrate something New Orleanians have always known: Our city is defined not only by remarkable food, but by exceptional hospitality.

New Orleans & Company deserves tremendous credit for elevating our city’s culinary reputation while showcasing the authentic culture that makes New Orleans unique.

At NOCHI, we see the impact firsthand. As global recognition grows, so do opportunities for our students.

The greatest measure of this success will be the next generation of culinary and hospitality professionals inspired to build their careers and strengthen our city’s future right here in New Orleans.

MIKE WEINBERGER founder, Home Defense Foundation JEFF CROUERE policy adviser, Home Defense Foundation Metairie

Think creatively to help college sports programs get funding With universities looking for a means to increase income due to the creation of NIL, let me offer this suggestion: Two schools should schedule home football games on back-to-back weekends in the spring, at the conclusion of their spring practices. The two schools cannot have played the prior year nor the current year. Players and coaches will benefit from game day experience without an effect on the team’s record.

Crazed football fans gathering on a spring afternoon or evening for a taste of what might be coming in the fall will fill the stadiums. All media would welcome the readership/viewership

with television rights gladly paying the schools to televise the games. Outcomes of the games will have no bearing on the records for the fall season. Call it the Preview Season. Instead of a meaningless intrasquad scrimmage in the spring, debut the current year football team after March Madness, during regular season of college baseball and before the College World Series.

The players want to get paid, and schools looking for income could find this a means to be a partial solution to financial issues.

JOSEPH BEREY Covington

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Re: “Dems made flawed candidate quit; what does GOP do?” Letters, July 23. The recent letter criticizing Republicans raises important questions about ethics in politics, but it falls short by replacing facts with broad accusations.

The author claims Republicans continue to support “rapists and fraudsters” without acknowledging the legal distinctions involved. President Donald Trump was never convicted of rape in a criminal court, and Ken Paxton has not been convicted of rape. If we are going to criticize public officials, we should do so accurately and fairly.

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have done nothing when faced with misconduct by their own candidates.

History shows that members of both political parties have, at times, defended controversial candidates and, at other times, called for them to step aside. Neither party has a monopoly on virtue or hypocrisy.

Political debate is healthiest when it is based on facts rather than inflammatory labels.

Readers deserve opinions that persuade through evidence and reason, not selective outrage.

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COMMENTARY Testimonies from people who have lived under socialism It has become a truism that people who are embracing socialism have never had to live under it and its ideological twin, communism. Young people seem so enamored by these train wrecks that they are willing to vote for the most radical candidates who promise them the moon and claim they can pay for it all by increasing taxes on “millionaires and billionaires.”

Hoping to balance the one-sided propaganda about socialism coming from the media and Cal candidates running for Thomas offices as socialists, Fox News has conducted interviews with people who once lived under these systems. The testimonies are a powerful rebuke to those who believe socialism is the answer to every problem.

In a one-week series, correspondent Alexandria Hoff interviewed people who fled the Soviet Union, China, Venezuela and Cuba.

Virginia attorney Marina Medvin, who left the Soviet Union, described herself as “overwhelmed” by the abundance of food in U.S. grocery stores.

Hoff says: “Like many who have fled authoritarian socialist regimes, Medvin is alarmed by what she sees as the Democratic Party in America warming to socialist promises.”

Medvin: “They say that the purpose of democratic socialism is to bring equality … but what equality does it bring? That everyone is equally poor?

That everyone is equally miserable, everyone is equally depressed?”

In Venezuela, reports Hoff, it took about 15 years for the nationalization of private industries to unravel into social and economic collapse. Daniel Di Martino: “We couldn’t find milk in the grocery store and then we couldn’t find chicken, then we had to line up. The government asked for our ID to buy

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Men work at a salvage yard in Caracas, Venezuela. groceries and assigned us a day of the week to go to the store.”

The story of Cuba is well known; Yali Nunez escaped the failed island nation.

Nunez sees democratic socialists in the U.S. blindly embracing what she fled at age 16: “None of these people have spent one day in socialism or communism … they are selling you a story they don’t even understand.”

The democratic socialists, notes Hoff, claim their brand of socialism differs from the totalitarian regimes because “workers” would govern institutions and not unelected bureaucrats.

The two systems are founded on lies, so why should people running on the DSA platform be trusted? Evidence reveals the objectives of socialism and communism. As many as 100 million are estimated to have died at the hands of these totalitarian governments.

Xi Van Fleet survived China’s murderous Cultural Revolution. Xi has appeared on many U.S. TV programs, warning Americans about the Maoistcommunist tactics and the danger America faces if we allow these eco-

nomic and political systems to further expand in our politics.

Others have testified about economic hardships, loss of liberties and other things Americans take for granted.

In an 1814 letter to John Taylor, John Adams warned: “Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.” Adams argued that unchecked human passions lead to self-destruction.

As I wrote in a previous book, “America’s Expiration Date,” the average age of democracies is 250 years. We are now at our “expiration date.”

Inertia from “the greatest generation” will soon run out if we do not renew the principles upon which Adams and the other Founders built the nation.

Socialism will lead to our destruction, and once destroyed, it will be nearly impossible to bring back our constitutional republic.

Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

Closed primaries are driving U.S. crazy How could Donald Trump, with bottom-scraping approval ratings, decide who would represent the Republican Party in the upcoming Texas senatorial race? The primary system offers an explanation. A simple open primary system would have let the broader public choose — and, ironically, save Republicans from a very possible loss in November.

Open primaries let registered voters cast a ballot without being members of the party. Closed primaries allow only party members to vote. About 15 states now run genuinely open primaries.

There are mixed systems that still help small numbers of voters nominate extreme candidates. Texas is one.

Texas started with an open primary in which incumbent Republican John Cornyn finished slightly ahead of Trump’s Froma choice, Ken Paxton.

Harrop But because neither got more than 50% of the vote, the top two candidates, Cornyn and Paxton, competed in a runoff. But under Texas rules, anyone who had voted in the Democratic primary could not participate in that contest.

Paxton had been impeached by the Republican-controlled Texas House.

His own top aides reported him to the FBI alleging bribery. And his wife filed for divorce citing adultery. Small wonder that recent polls show him trailing Democratic candidate James Talarico in a state said to be deep red.

Maine’s primary system is even less open, which explains how Graham Platner — he of the Nazi tattoo and creepy history with women — became the Democrat to oppose incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. Platner was a creature propped up by the hyperactive Democratic Socialists of America.

After a plausible rape charge had him dethroned as the Democratic candidate, Platner was replaced with Troy Jackson. Jackson wasn’t chosen in a primary at all but by Democratic delegates at a special convention. Maine polls now have Jackson and Collins running neck-and-neck.

Most big American cities run open, “all-candidate” primaries rather than party primaries, which limit voting to

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New york City Mayor Zohran Mamdani discusses plans for citywide discounted grocery stores. party members. New York City is an exception. And that helps explain how the citizens ended up with the radical and increasingly unpopular Zohran Mamdani as mayor.

The formula for fringe groups, whether left or right, is to organize a march into thinly attended closed primaries and make their candidate nominee for a major party. That happened in New York on June 24, 2025, a day of record temperatures that made parts feel like 126 degrees. Older voters especially feared leaving their apartments.

The DSA took advantage of the situation and nominated Mamdani in a vote that was closed to the 21% of the voters registered as independents and the 11% who are Republican. Put another way, Mamdani wrangled the Democratic nomination in a primary in which only 8% of registered voters participated. Come Election Day, he got less than half the vote in an overwhelmingly Democratic city.

The city’s Charter Revision Commission adopted an interim report that suggested letting voters decide in November whether to move New York

to open primaries. That’s how Boston and Seattle do it. They allow all eligible candidates that can be on the ballot and all registered voters to participate.

The top two vote-getters advance to the general election.

Mamdani opposes open primaries.

“I am quite content with the system of primaries that we have thus far,” he said unsurprisingly.

Not content is John Opdycke, head of Open Primaries, a political-reform organization.

“It’s ironic,” Opdycke said, “that Mayor Mamdani, who is raising important questions about the economic power of poor and working people, won’t advocate for their political power.” The group’s own polling shows even most city Democrats favoring open primaries.

There’s a reason fringe governance — from the right, the left or both — is driving so many of us crazy. Open primaries are a step toward saner majority rule.

Follow Froma Harrop on X, @FromaHarrop. She can be reached at fharrop@gmail.com.

What the professors lost by winning with El-Sayed Was it a win for the American Association of University Professors? On July 30, the organization announced that it was endorsing a political candidate for the first time in its 110-year history. Abdul El-Sayed, a left-wing Michigan Democrat running for the Senate, got the Megan ega a few days before the DemoMcArdle nod cratic primary. Last Tuesday, El-Sayed eked out a win over moderate Rep. Haley Stevens.

So was it also a win for the AAUP? Any number of critics have sprung up to say no, it was an own goal. They make the point that I’ve offered repeatedly in recent columns: The perceived politicization of academia has eroded public trust, making universities vulnerable to unprecedented Republican attacks on higher education. Universities desperately need to regain their credibility as neutral institutions, not publicly position themselves on the Democratic Party’s leftmost flank.

The rejoinder of Todd Wolfson, the AAUP’s president, is that it’s too late for meek accommodation. Wolfson, who inaugurated his term in 2024 by calling JD Vance a “fascist,” recently told Inside Higher Ed that there’s a “radical, right-wing agenda coming out of the federal government” and the organization needs to engage in “politics proper” to protect the university’s prerogatives.

Obviously I disagree. But I’m also conscious of John Stuart Mill’s admonition, “He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that.” So what’s the best case that professors should be in the fray, rather than above it?

Wolfson and his allies regard the GOP as a lost cause, leaving them no option other than counterattack. And I have to grant that conservatives really do seem bent on either destroying universities or bringing them to heel.

Rebuilding the public trust, and defusing conservative rage, will take years, at best. Much damage will be done in the meantime.

But is it smart politics to join the left-wing insurgency that’s currently upending Democratic primaries?

Maybe the AAUP has earned some goodwill from El-Sayed, but Michigan is not some deepblue congressional district where races are decided in the Democratic primary and progressives can afford to indulge their least-popular inclinations; the state went for Donald Trump twice. The endorsement of El-Sayed will also send a message about the AAUP to legislators in other redder states, where races are often decided in the Republican primary and ElSayed’s flavor of politics is poison.

Nor am I sure that this will get the AAUP much from Democrats. Will El-Sayed feel indebted? Will other Democrats fall in line on issues such as tenure protections for professors, for fear of losing the AAUP endorsement?

The most coveted union endorsements tend to come from large groups that can mobilize a big turnout, muster plenty of financial support and give politicians opportunities to stage rallies packed with blue-collar workers. Unions with concentrated memberships, like the United Auto Workers, can significantly influence results in key states. The AAUP fits none of those descriptions: Its membership is a modest 57,000, scattered across the country, and it is poor compared with heavy hitters like the 2 million-member Service Employees International Union.

If the AAUP wants to be in the political fray, rather than above it, the organization will have to learn to think of politics like professionals, rather than professors.

Engaging in “politics proper,” as the AAUP’s Wolfson vowed, is not a form of self-expression or group bonding. It is not a way to find meaning in an otherwise uncaring world. It is not an advocacy for a grand theory of radical change.

Rather, it is the prosaic art of getting things done.

In a fractious democracy such as America’s, success for an organization in practicing politics proper requires appealing to the public and building relationships with as many legislators as possible. Often that means focusing efforts on the policy positions that sound most appealing, rather than the ones the organization cares most about. For the AAUP, improving student loan terms would be an easier lift than convincing the public that professors require more direct subsidies for higher education, minimal oversight and ironclad job guarantees.

It isn’t impossible to make progress on an issue that has no great popular appeal, but it’s best if that issue is too minor for the public to notice, or too complicated for most people to understand. Unfortunately for the AAUP, the fight between universities and conservatives is already highly visible, and the politicization of academia is all too easy for Republicans to explain to the public. The AAUP won’t win that fight by making the GOP’s job even easier.

Megan McArdle is on X, @asymmetricinfo.

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DEATHS continued from tors, nurses, caregivers, and healthcare professionals who provided him with exceptional care, kindness, and dignity throughout his journey. Your compassion, support, and dedication brought comfort not only to Ronald but also to his family, and your kindness will always be remembered with deep appreciation. Ronald was laid to rest at a private family service. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

Marcotte, Edwin J

Edwin Marcotte, 97, of Cincinnati OH, passed away peacefully on Aug. 7, 2026. He was born on Sept.29, 1928 in New Orleans, LA, the son of Edwin and Delia (nee Roy) Marcotte. He and his wife, Doris Kenney, were married for 72 years. Ed is survived by his wife and three sons, David, Kenneth and Gregory, his sister Louise Marcotte Dotson, seven grandchildren, and five great grandchildren. Ed served in the Army during the Korean War as a 1st Lieutenant, Artillery, 5th Army, and was transferred to the Medical Corp as an Engineer for the Western Area Command in Germany. He retired from P&G after 34 years, and then taught Civil Engineering at The University of Cincinnati. An avid sailor, he and Doris raced a Flying Scot on Cowan Lake and had many adventures bare-boat sailing in the Aegean, Caribbean, Mediterranean and Coral Seas. They traveled to more than seventeen countries and fourteen islands around the world. A private memorial service and celebration of his long life will be held at home. Memorial donations can be made to The Salvation Army.

Murphy, Robert E.

Robert Edward Murphy, Jr. of Metairie, Louisiana passed away on August 5, 2026, at age 84. He was born on August 19, 1941, to Verdine and Robert E. Murphy, Sr. in New Orleans, LA. He was the couple's first child, and he had three younger brothers, John, Paul, and Denis.

He attended St. Rita's Catholic School and graduated from Jesuit High School in 1959. He attended Southeastern Louisiana University and earned his Bachelor's in Accounting and later his M.B.A. Bob was introduced to his wife Margo by his friend who was married to her sister. They married on May 26, 1973, and were married 53 years, always living in their same home in Metairie.

Bob and Margo immediately became parishioners at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church where they were involved in Marriage Encounter and the parish prayer group.

Bob was a C.P.A and Professor of Accounting at Xavier University for 36. He taught business and accounting classes for 36 years and was very much appreciated by his students. He also honorably served and retired from the Louisiana Air National Guard with 22 years of service.

After retirement, he enjoyed spending more time at the family's fish camp in Jourdan River Shores.

Here, he could pass the time engaged in his favorite hobby fishing and was always ready to take people out in the boat. He also began going to daily Mass and a weekly holy hour at the adoration chapel as well as volunteered with the parish's St. Vincent de Paul Society. He also made countless phone calls to keep up with family and friends.

Bob is survived by his wife, Margo, and their children: Robert Murphy, SJ; Roxanne M. Huesman and

her husband Bryan; and his two grandchildren Bryce and Hope Huesman.

He is also survived by his brothers Paul and Denis.

His brother John preceded him in death.

A funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church, 4921 West Metairie Ave, Metairie, LA, 70001, on Thursday, August 13th at 12:00pm preceded by the visitation at 10:00am and followed by internment at Garden of Memories. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to support the Society of St. Vincent de Paul New Orleans, 3500 Canal St. New Orleans, LA 70119, https://www.svdpn eworleans.org

Metairie HealthCare and Harmony Hospice for taking care of her. Relatives and friends are invited to attend services at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. New Orleans, LA on Thursday, August 13, 2026.

Visitation will be from 10:00am until the Mass begins at 11:00am. Interment will follow in All Saints Mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery. The family invites you to share your thoughts, fond memories, and condolences online at www.lakelawnmetairie.co m

on Thursday, August 13, 2026, at The Asia Baptist Church, 1400 Sere Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.

Visitation begins at 8:00 a.m., Services begins at 10:00 a.m., Officiation by Pastor, Dr. Kenneth G. Thibodeaux.

Interment will be at Louisiana National Cemetery, 303 W. Mount Pleasant Road, Zachary, Louisiana.

Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Roohi, Diane Heriard

Diane Heriard Roohi passed away peacefully on August 5, 2026. Diane is survived by her children, William "Bill" Roohi and wife Alma, Allison Roohi and Andrea Roohi Bonnette, her 3 grandchildren, Madeline Roohi Thomas and husband Jacob, Brandon Roohi, and Hannah Bonnette Roohi, and 1 great grandchild, Jake Thomas. She is also survived by her incredibly devoted sister Mary Heriard and brother Robert Heriard. She is preceded in death by her husband, Mansoor "Bill" Roohi, son Kevin Roohi, her parents Myrtle Heriard and Robert Heriard. Born on July 1, 1942, Diane grew up in Norco, LA and attended Southeastern University in Hammond, LA where she met her husband. Diane was a school teacher and worked at Kehoe France School before becoming a stay at home mom to raise her children. She was a lifelong lover of books and reading as well as traveling. She took a keen interest in current events and was always eager to stay informed and engaged with the times. She found great pride and pleasure in baking and creating treats that brought comfort and joy to those around her.

Her appreciation for art found expression in her own creativity, particularly through sewing, smocking and quilting, where her patience, imagination, and attention to detail could be seen in every piece she made. Diane was loved by her family and was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother and sister. Special thanks to the staff at

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years, Thelma Zeringer; parents, Harold and Janet Zeringer; and sister, Hallie Zeringer Rabalais. He is survived by his wife of 15 years, Katherine Zeringer; daughter, Emily Zeringer; son, Mark Zeringer (Regina); and brothers, Brian Zeringer (Rose) and Eric Zeringer (Caroline); nieces, Alexandra Dravis (Matt) and children Lillian, Levi, Lennox, Lucie and Letty, Addison Lee (Cody) and children Emerie and Arthur, and Aime' Penner (Eric), Katie Zeringer and son Oliver and nephew, Mathew Gordon.

Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services for Mark at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd in New Orleans, on Friday, August 14, 2026. Visitation will begin at 11 am with chapel service following at 1 pm.

He will be laid to rest in All Saints Mausoleum immediately upon conclusion of the chapel service.

To view and sign the family guestbook, please visit lakelawnmetairie.com

On August 3, 2026, Johnny C. Vanderson was called home to eternal rest. Johnny was born on May 6, 1942, in Roxie, Mississippi and raised in Baton Rouge, LA. He joined the United States Air Force, and later the Air Force Reserves, and served honorably for 31 years and retired as a Master Sergeant.

He worked for BellSouth Telephone Company as a Technician and retired after 31 years.

Johnny was a member of The Asia Baptist Church, he sung in the Joint Choir and Men's Choir. He was a member of Warren E. McDaniel's American Legion Post 500.

Johnny leaves to cherish his memory, his long-time partner, Gail Letman, four children: Cedric Drew, Clintonia "Tonette" Drew Felton (Cedric), and Odette Drew of Shreveport, Louisiana, and Vandra M. Fields Vanderson of New Orleans, his sister Nancy Dixon of Roxie, Mississippi; 6 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren and a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

Celebration of Life Homegoing Service will be

Mark Robert Zeringer passed away on July 31, 2026, at the age of 74. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, on March 4, 1952. A graduate of Jesuit High School, he earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and obtained his Professional Engineering license (P.E.) from the state of Louisiana. He went on to enjoy a successful career in marine construction and consulting businesses in the oil and gas industry spanning more than 45 years, first in New Orleans and later in Houston.

In his free time, Mark loved working with Legos, building model cars, ships and airplanes, and spending time with his family. He was an avid reader of mystery and spy novels and enjoyed watching sports of all kinds, especially golf, soccer, and football. He was a die-hard Saints and Texans fan.

Mark was preceded in death by his wife of 26

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QB Leavitt speaks, runs, throws and is ready to lead a title chase Here’s everything you want and need to know about new LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt: n He can run and move in the pocket. n He can throw, deep and accurately, though he admitted he’s had to adapt to gripping footballs in the swimming-pool-like Louisiana humidity. n He speaks.

The last part you didn’t know about unless you atScott tended LSU’s recent womRabalais en’s football clinic, or saw video clips thereof. But talk he finally did to the media after the Tigers’ Monday practice session for a highly anticipated 10 minutes, the first time LSU’s quarterback has uttered a word to reporters since transferring from Arizona State.

Not surprisingly, for his first time out, Leavitt said all the right things.

“It’s just been a blessing to come here,” the West Linn, Oregon, native said.

“It’s a historic place. There have been so many great players to come out of here.

Then to see the players you go up against every day in practice — Whit Weeks, TJ Dottery and Ty Benefield — it’s a special situation to be in. I don’t really see how anyone could pass it up.”

The first time LSU fans set their eyes on Leavitt in person was at a Jan. 6 men’s basketball game against South Carolina.

That night, an intimate gathering of a few thousand folks (was there anything but an intimate gathering for men’s basketball the past couple of seasons?) looked on a scene that seemed like it was going to be a cameo

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The readiness of LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt’s surgically repaired foot has been a question for months, and the program dropped the slightest of hints Sunday.

At the three-second mark of a 19-second compilation of practice clips posted to social media, Leavitt could be seen rolling to his right, appearing to pick up speed for a full-blown scramble as he zoomed out of frame.

A strong clue was backed up by a definitive statement Monday when Leavitt reached the podium for his first interview session as the Tigers’ signal caller.

“I’m 100% right now,” he said, “and I’ve been 100% for the past few months.”

Leavitt still has to prove it Sept. 5 against Clemson, but LSU fans can take some solace in the quarterback’s bounce-back ability as he recovers from a Lisfranc injury that, historically, hasn’t always been easy to come back from.

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LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt talks to the media for the first time following Monday’s fall practice at the team’s facility.

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Earlier in the summer, a video surfaced of Leavitt, who also played high school basketball, windmill-dunking a football on the goal posts of LSU’s practice facility.

“If they need me to suit up, and they’ll let me go, I’m ready,” Leavitt kidded when asked about joining Will Wade’s roster-depleted basketball program.

That dunk was solid evidence of the stability of Leavitt’s foot.

It just wasn’t followed up by much.

The Arizona State transfer didn’t speak with the media before Monday because he missed most of spring practice after an April 6 procedure to remove surgical pins from his foot. Leavitt wasn’t at SEC media days, either.

Leavitt says his foot “popped” back to full health quickly after the pins were taken out.

“It’s just been incredible. I really don’t think about it on the field at all,” Leavitt said. “Just have to obviously warm it up a little bit before practice. But just keeping

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Semonza steps forward in Tulane QB battle

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Semonza had a good outing during Monday’s practice.

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Five practices into preseason camp, none of the four quarterbacks vying for Tulane’s starting job has created clear separation.

Kadin Semonza, though, helped his cause on Monday morning during a highenergy workout in shorts and shoulder pads at the Saints indoor practice facility.

He turned in the pass of the day with a deep scoring strike to Destyn Hill on cornerback Anthony Rogers in the middle of the field during an 11-on-11 session.

He hit Garrett Mmahat for a shorter touchdown through traffic. He also led Anthony Brown-Stephens perfectly in a six-on-eight skeleton drill for another touchdown.

Each quarterback has enjoyed some good moments and endured some learning lessons in what coach Will Hall has designated an 11-practice competition before he chooses an opening-game starter.

Monday was Semonza’s turn to step forward, aside from a bad interception right into Rogers’ chest in what appeared to be a miscommunication with wideout Antwaun Parham.

“Man, he (Semonza)’s really been sharp,” Hall said. “Accuracy, eyes. I’ve been pleased with his foot quickness, too.

He’s making plays out of the pocket.”

That last quality is a bonus. Semonza

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Monday. He also credited him for a wellexecuted fake pitch keeper on an option play.

The key will be maintaining that level for the ensuing six practices. Semonza was up and down during spring drills, and he still has work to do. As was the case for most of last week, Chriss-Gremillion took the first repetitions in 11-on11 work Monday, with Bruno second,

The New Orleans Saints plan to bring in free agent cornerback Terrion Arnold for a visit, a source with knowledge of the situation said.

The visit, first reported by the NFL Network’s Mike Garafolo, comes more than a month after the 23-year-old was arrested on eight felony counts related to a kidnapping and robbery case in Florida. The Detroit Lions released Arnold, who denies the charges, five days after his arrest.

The exact date of Arnold’s visit has yet to be determined, a source said.

But the Saints would be the latest team to show interest in Arnold, a former 2024 first-rounder out of Alabama. The Houston Texans and Seattle Seahawks have also brought in the cornerback. Arnold’s agent,

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STAFF FILE PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK was sacked 32 times as a starter at Ball State in 2024, running on only 22 occasions in 12 games. Houston transfer Zeon Chriss-Gremillion, who has rushed for 992 yards in his career counting sacks, is considerably faster. John Curtis product Dagan Bruno is much more accustomed to using his legs after operating the Patriots’ split-back veer.

Yet, Hall praised Semonza for cutting at the right time to gain 8 yards on a designed quarterback run in the red zone on

Free agent CB Arnold to visit Saints

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Drivers scramble for spots in Chase

BY JOHN BOHNENKAMP

Associated Press

NEWTON, Iowa — Erik Jones knew the reality of his situation heading into the NASCAR Cup Series race at Iowa Speedway.

Jones came into the weekend 18th in the standings, 44 points behind 16th-place Austin Cindric for the final spot in The Chase that determines the series champion.

The 350-lap race Sunday was the first of the final four races of the regular season, and Jones was running out of time.

“One more bad week where we lose any ground, and it’s going to be pretty insurmountable,” Jones said.

Then Jones, who started 10th, got taken out four laps in when Tyler Reddick’s car slid into him, sending both cars into the wall and ending the day for both drivers.

Reddick knew the damage he had done.

“If I’m going to take myself out, that’s one thing,” Reddick said.

“But I took out a (Toyota) teammate who needed a good day.”

Such is life in the closing stretch of the regular season, where one bad finish or one good finish can change fortunes.

Denny Hamlin leads the standings with 923 points, 103 points ahead of Ty Gibbs, who won Sunday’s race just ahead of Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell.

Only four drivers have wrapped up Chase spots: Hamlin, Gibbs, Ryan Blaney (813) and Reddick (803).

Cindric has 526 points. Ryan Preece is the first driver below the cutline at 497 points. Ross Chastain jumped three spots after his seventh-place finish at Iowa, mov-

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A crew member leaps in front of Ty Gibbs’ car during a pit stop during a NASCAR Cup race on Sunday at Iowa Speedway in Newton, Iowa. ing into 18th place at 479 points.

Brad Keselowski is one point behind Chastain.

Other than maybe the last one or two spots, the biggest scramble now in this final month could be for seeding. Points for the top 16 drivers will reset after the Aug. 29 regular-season finale at Daytona.

The regular-season champion will be the top seed and start The Chase with 2,100 points, the second seed will have 2,075 points and the third seed will have 2,065, with a five-point drop for each seed after that.

“You have all these other little battles going on, like the battle

from sixth to 11th or 12th right now is really, really tight and that’s exciting,” said Blaney, who finished third Sunday. “Those guys are dogging it out right now. That’s a lot of points from sixth down to 11th or whatever. So I think it creates a lot of exciting things through the regular season.”

Some of the biggest changes in the standings came in that middle group. Chase Briscoe rose three spots to fifth place with 663 points.

He’s four points ahead of Bell, who climbed four spots with his second-place finish.

A crash ended Kyle Larson’s day and he finished 33rd to drop

UEFA, CONCACAF, AFC say Infantino’s plan breached trust

four spots in the standings to 10th.

The crucial jump of the day, though, belonged to Gibbs, who went from fourth to second.

“We’ve scored a lot of points in the last couple races,” Gibbs said.

“To be able to finish it off today was awesome. I think the difference between the leader and 16th is 100 points, isn’t it, when the playoffs start? So it puts you in a better shot for the title at the end of the year.”

Jones’ early exit dropped him to 20th place, 50 points behind Cindric and four drivers to climb over to get on the good side of the cut line.

it, as confederations representing its members, that we speak collectively today.”

Infantino is facing a revolt after his failed plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private equity investors.

“It is not the conduct of a custodian of the game, but of one who believes the game is answerable to him,” the letter said. “These are not the qualities football deserves in its leadership. That is why we have taken this stance: not lightly and not alone, but together, and out of duty to the game we serve.”

UEFA previously issued a threat to boycott the World Cup and other FIFA competitions despite the governing body abandoning and apologizing for its failed plan.

Norway’s soccer federation called for Infantino to step down, while the English Football Association has also withdrawn its support for Infantino’s re-election next March.

“Football’s strength has always been its unity. We call for that unity to be honoured now,” the letter said. “For leadership that serves football, not seeks to command it.”

Last Wednesday, FIFA said it had apologized for errors made over the failed plan but that senior staff at a crisis meeting in Morocco “reaffirmed their full support” for his presidency.

However, the nature of the meeting was also met with criticism.

“FIFA’s own letter also confirms

that only one elected official was present at the leadership meeting in Morocco,” the open letter said. “No FIFA Council members or Member Associations were invited to participate. Only the management committee, composed of FIFA-employed senior staff, was present.”

FIFA was also urged to go further than just acknowledging mistakes were made.

“It treats this as a failure of communication, when what football witnessed was a failure of judgment,” the letter said. “There remains no recognition that attempting to sell an interest in the FIFA World Cup was a profound failure of judgment — not just a procedural misstep, but a fundamental breach of trust with the very institutions FIFA exists to serve.”

In a statement Saturday, FIFA defended Infantino against what it called a “concerted and ongoing effort” to undermine his leadership of the organization.

That statement followed a report by British newspaper The Daily Telegraph raising questions about an exit package paid

by UEFA to a female staffer who worked with Infantino when he was general secretary of European soccer’s ruling body.

UEFA confirmed that a “departure payment” was made to the employee and said it was “in line” with regulations at the time.

Infantino worked at UEFA for 16 years before being elected FIFA president.

under duress from the rush.

The quarterbacks will get another huge opportunity to make an impression on Tuesday morning in a Yulman Stadium practice that will include referees. At least to this point, Hall’s decision is not clear-cut.

“We’re getting good quarterback play across the board,” he said.

“Their eyes were good again today.”

Hall liked almost everything about the Wave’s first preseason sojourn to Metairie.

“The great Willie Fritz used to always say we never have a bad practice when we go to the Saints, and it stands true,” he said. “You go over there and there’s just a lot of juice and energy. The kids

can feel the opportunity there.

It’s good to get out of the heat. We had an off day yesterday and indoor today, so that’s two days is a row for rehydration, which is so critical for their bodies as we go through a long camp.”

Senior tight ends Ty Thompson, who tweaked a hamstring early in last Friday’s practice, and sophomore Gabe Lovorn (unspecified injury), sat out Monday. Hall even found a positive there, assuming both return by the end of camp.

He said their absence provided extra repetitions for sophomore Cam Roberts, who was injured last year, plus transfers Dawson Johnson (Old Dominion) and Vance Bolyard (Duke) and fresh-

man Colby Simpson.

“If Ty is healthy, he will be an integral part of our offense,” Hall said. “He’s done everything in his power to put himself in position to have a big year, and the system is built for him to have a big year.”

Hall said fifth-year senior defensive end Gerrod Henderson, who practiced in a no-contact jersey, likely would be cleared for full contact next week. Henderson made 42 tackles over the past two seasons while starting three times before tearing an ACL against Memphis last November.

“He’s played a lot of football, so we’re not in a hurry,” Hall said.

“When we get him back, we want him to be fully ready.”

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Continued from page 1C Semonza third and freshman Trace Johnson fourth.

Chriss-Gremillion missed a few throws but also threw a bullet to wideout Bredell Richardson for a nice gain.

Johnson found Richardson over the middle for a big completion but overthrew him on a short corner route in the end zone.

Bruno hit Richardson through a tight window, but Parham could not pull in another of his passes with one hand and he followed with a wobbly incomplete pass

The Dallas Cowboys and defensive tackle Quinnen Williams agreed Monday on a $105.9 million, three-year extension going into his first full season with the team.

The contract includes $101 million guaranteed and will be added to the two years on his existing deal. The $35.3 million annual average on the extension is second among defensive tackles to Jalen Carter of NFC East rival Philadelphia.

The lucrative extension could keep Williams with the Cowboys through 2030 after they traded for him during the 2025 season. Dallas gave up one of the two first-round picks acquired in the shocking trade that sent star pass rusher Micah Parsons to the Green Bay Packers just a week before the opener last year.

Falcons sign Sample to add depth at edge rusher

FIFA accused of ‘deception’ over World Cup plans

UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC believe that FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s recent plan to sell an interest in the World Cup was a “fundamental breach of trust” with the institutions world soccer’s governing body serves.

In an “open letter to the football family” revealed on Monday, UEFA, CONCACAF and the AFC also said that “when trust is broken through deception, when an individual places himself above the collective that entrusted him with authority, that duty has been abandoned.”

UEFA runs soccer in Europe, CONCACAF does the same for North, Central America and the Caribbean, while the AFC governs the sport in Asia.

The letter was co-signed by UEFA president Aleksander eferin, AFC president Salman Bin Ibrahim Al-Khalifa, CONCACAF president Victor Montagliani and three general secretaries.

“Football is the world’s greatest shared passion. It belongs to no individual and no institution. It belongs to the players, the fans, the clubs, the member associations and every institution entrusted with safeguarding its future,” the open letter said. “It is in that spir-

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FIFA president Gianni Infantino arrives for the inauguration of President Abelardo de la Espriella on Friday in Cali, Colombia.

FLOWERY BRANCH, Ga. — The Atlanta Falcons signed defensive end Cameron Sample on Monday, adding depth at edge rusher less than one week after Jalon Walker’s season-ending knee injury.

Sample, 26, is a native of Snellville, Ga., near Atlanta. He was a fourth-round draft pick by Cincinnati in 2021 and signed a one-year deal with San Francisco on April 13 before he was released last week.

Sample had 85 tackles and seven sacks in four seasons with the Bengals. He missed the 2024 season with an Achilles tendon injury.

He returned to start in two of 14 games with Cincinnati last season and had 17 tackles, two sacks and one forced fumble.

Henry signs a two-year extension with Patriots

BOSTON — One of Patriots quarterback Drake Maye’s favorite offensive targets isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

Tight end Hunter Henry confirmed Monday that he signed a two-year extension to remain in New England through the 2027 season.

ESPN and the NFL Network reported that the extended pact has a base value of $16 million with incentives that could push it up to $20 million.

It ends a period of limbo for Henry, who was about to enter the final season of the previous threeyear extension he signed in 2024.

Henry, 31, led the team with seven receiving touchdowns in 2025 and his 60 catches and 768 yards were second only to Stefon Diggs.

49ers McCaffrey sits out practice with ‘tightness’

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers star running back Christian McCaffrey was held out of practice on Monday with what the team described as general tightness.

The 30-year-old McCaffrey had participated in every practice so far this summer for the 49ers as the team altered its schedule for training camp this year to eliminate stretches of three straight full practices.

Offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak said McCaffrey was “doing fine” and the team was managing his workload.

San Francisco is hoping to find a reliable backup for McCaffrey to lighten his workload after he led the NFL with 413 touches from scrimmage in the 2025 regular season.

All-Star, former White Sox SS Anderson is retiring

CHICAGO — Tim Anderson, a twotime All-Star shortstop who won the 2019 AL batting title with the Chicago White Sox, has decided to retire after spending 10 years in the major leagues.

Anderson, 33, made the announcement on Monday.

“I fought for the last two, three years. You know, I trained and I just couldn’t get the body to operate like it used to,” Anderson said.

“So I mean, I’m not one of those guys that’s going to just continue to try to get back to somewhere where I just, you know, I couldn’t get it back there.”

Anderson hit .276 with 98 homers, 350 RBIs and 122 steals in 991 games. He played for the White Sox for eight seasons before finishing his career with Miami and the Los Angeles Angels.

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Portland embraces its reborn WNBA team

BY ANNE M. PETERSON AP sportswriter

The fact Portland has shown up for its new WNBA team is, in many ways, unsurprising given the city’s long history of embracing women’s sports.

The expansion Fire rank fourth in the league with an average attendance of about 14,500 fans per game.

The only teams drawing more are the Golden State Valkyries, the New York Liberty and the Caitlin Clarkled Indiana Fever.

The Fire have dubbed the Moda Center the “Fire Pit” on game days and the team leans into the motif with pyrotechnics in game introductions.

“I think we’ve just been so fortunate, to be honest, all year to have such an amazing atmosphere here at the Fire Pit,” Fire coach Alex Sarama said. “So that’s on the fan base, that’s because of this local community and just turning up and supporting the team as they do.”

Portland has long supported women’s sports. For many years, the University of Portland’s soccer team had the top attendance in college soccer, spurred by national championships in 2002 and 2005 and star players like Christine Sinclair and Megan Rapinoe.

The Portland Thorns were among the founding teams of the National Women’s Soccer League in 2013 and have regularly been one of the top drawing clubs in the league.

And then there’s the Sports Bra, the nation’s first women’s sports bar, which opened in 2022.

“We have some of the loudest

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Portland Fire center Megan DiLeo reacts after scoring against the Las Vegas Aces during the first half of a game on July 28 in Las Vegas. fans in the WNBA,” center Megan DiLeo said. “And they’re really like our sixth man, to be honest.”

This is the second iteration of the Fire. Portland’s first WNBA team started its short run as an expansion team in 2000. Portland Trail Blazers owner Paul Allen, the cofounder of Microsoft who died in 2018, was the Fire’s chairman.

Among the Fire’s original players were Jackie Stiles and Vanessa Nygaard. The team averaged some 8,600 fans per game in 2001.

So when the team folded in 2002, it was not for lack of fan support.

AROUND THE WNBA

That year the NBA, which had owned the league’s teams, sold them to affiliated NBA teams or independent owners. Allen declined to buy the Fire and the team folded.

In 2024, the Bhathal family bought the NWSL’s Thorns for $63 million. Later that year, Lisa Bhathal Merage and brother Alex Bhathal, under the banner Raj Sports, were awarded a WNBA expansion team.

The Bhathals invested in a joint basketball-soccer training facility, the first of its kind in women’s sports, which will formally open this month.

The team leaned heavily into the “Fire Reignited” theme and has so far put on a respectable performance for an expansion franchise, ranking ninth overall in the league with a 13-19 record.

“They’ve done a really nice job of recognizing the past while also bringing in new fans,” said fan Laura Belfour. “There’s a welcoming atmosphere and it’s cool to see so many families with kids.”

Guard Carla Leite is averaging 15.5 points and 6.2 assists a game and Bridget Carleton is averaging 14.6 points and 4.4 rebounds. Car-

leton was the team’s first pick in the WNBA expansion draft. But the team has been stung by the recent loss of guard Sarah Ashlee Barker to a season-ending ACL injury.

DiLeo and her corgi Pancake, who has her own Instagram following, have become local celebrities. Formerly Megan Gustafson before her recent marriage, DiLeo has written a children’s book “Pancake’s Passport” about the beloved pet’s travels.

“I always heard things here and there about Portland and the women’s sports fandom that is here,” Carleton said after the team’s home opener. “But never knew too much about it, especially never really being on the West Coast. But even this past week, feeling it on social media, feeling it in the city — going on a walk and people recognized me already, and I hadn’t even played a game yet. It’s just incredible.”

Sarama is the team’s inaugural coach after serving as an assistant for the Cleveland Cavaliers. He practices an innovative coaching method called the Constraints-Led Approach, or CLA, which eschews repetitive drills in favor of putting players into situations that require creative problem-solving.

“I think we’re excited because I think there is a really good foundation here,” Sarama said. “I think the good thing is we overachieved, but we haven’t done that at the cost of development and playing our young players. So I think what that will do is put us in a very strong position in two years and three years as we kind of add to this core group that we have.”

For U.S. medalists, LA28 Olympics feel ‘extra special’

BY WILL GRAVES AP national writer

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Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark drives the ball during the second half of a game against the Chicago Sky on Saturday in Chicago.

Clark, Indiana set to take on Liberty

BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

NEW YORK — The surging New York Liberty will face Indiana on Tuesday night in a marquee WNBA matchup that will see the Fever at full strength after the league rescinded a technical foul against Caitlin Clark that would have kept her out.

Clark picked up her eighth technical of the season on Saturday, the number that triggers a one-game suspension, but league officials quickly rescinded it.

New York has won four straight games and seven of its last eight thanks to strong play from its top three players Breanna Stewart, Jonquel Jones and Sabrina Ionescu.

The trio has been taking turns leading the Liberty during the recent hot streak that’s bumped them up to seventh place in the standings — but just two games behind thirdplace Las Vegas.

The Liberty are coming off a 40-point win over the defending champion Aces on Sunday. The Aces rested stars A’ja Wilson, Chelsea Gray and Jackie Young as it was the second half of a brutal back-to-back for Las Vegas.

“It doesn’t matter who’s playing on the other side, we understand we needed to win,” Ionescu said. “It doesn’t matter, we wanted to go out.

We wanted to execute, we wanted to play our brand of basketball, knowing every game is important and this game isn’t going to have an asterisk by it because those players didn’t play. It’s going to show up as a win or a loss.”

New York lost by 20 to Indiana just before its current hot streak, so the Liberty would love to get some revenge.

Power poll rankings Minnesota held onto the top spot in the power poll this week, although the Lynx weren’t unanimous. No. 2 Golden State received two votes and third-ranked Washington got one. Las Vegas, Indiana and New York were next. Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago followed the Liberty. Portland was 10th and Los Angeles 11th. Phoenix, Connecti-

cut, Toronto and Seattle rounded out the poll.

Taskforce meeting WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert sent a memo to all the teams that there will be a meeting this week to continue discussions around transgender athletes in women’s basketball. The memo, sent Friday afternoon, said the topic will be discussed further by a task force of team presidents and general managers at a previously scheduled meeting next week.

Record shooting performance Kayla McBride had a recordsetting game Sunday, scoring a career-high 43 points and hitting a league-best 10 3-pointers in a win over Dallas. McBride made 10 of 14 shots from behind the arc.

“Minneapolis has become home for me and I want to give my best,” she said. “Whether the ball goes in or doesn’t, I just feel so much love. I think that’s why I can come out here and do my thing. I feel so loved and appreciated for who I am and I just love the game.

I want to win. So I’m grateful for these fans, this organization. I’m just overcome with joy, and when I have opportunities like that I want to give it back.”

Player of the week Shakira Austin of Washington was the AP player of the week for the second consecutive week. The forward averaged 22.3 points, 11.7 rebounds and 2.3 blocks to help the Mystics win all three of their games last week. Other players receiving votes included Breanna Stewart of New York, Bridget Carleton of Portland, Kelsey Mitchell of Indiana and Kayla McBride of Minnesota.

Game of the week Washington at Las Vegas, Tuesday and Thursday. The Mystics will try to extend a seven-game winning streak when they visit the Aces for a pair of games. A win Tuesday would tie the franchise record of eight consecutive victories

by Washington, matching the 2018 team.

PHOENIX — For those who have competed — or nearly competed — under the Olympic rings, the fear of missing out the next time the Games beckon is real. Regardless of the venue. Regardless of the sport.

Athletes who try to run it back following a lengthy sabbatical (and in some cases, a lengthy retirement) is hardly new. The list is filled with household names, from Mark Spitz to Michael Phelps.

From Lindsey Vonn to Simone Biles. And on and on and on.

Still, the steady drip figures to be more of a deluge as Los Angeles 2028 approaches. The inherent pull of the Games combined with the chance to compete at home on the world stage under the white-hot spotlight only the Olympics provide is already proving too tempting to ignore for a generation of American stars who have racked up medal after medal on seemingly every other continent but their own.

Track icon Allyson Felix is mounting a return in her early 40s. Six-time Olympic medalist and 2020 Olympic gymnastics allaround champion Suni Lee (with documentary crew in tow) announced last month she’s started training for a shot at her third Games. Two-time Olympic gold medalist Jade Carey is already back, winning the vault and finishing fifth in the all-around at the U.S. championships over the weekend.

Asked how much of a factor the chance to do her thing on American soil played into her decision as she enters her late 20s, Carey just smiled.

“I probably would have gone for it regardless,” said Carey, who will be 28 when the flame is lit at the Coliseum in Los Angeles. “But it does make it a little extra special that it’s in the U.S.” Or maybe a lot more special.

Oh, and conceivably a lot more lucrative too.

Life-changing success The media landscape has shifted dramatically since the 1996 Games in Atlanta. The rise of social media allows athletes to easily tell their stories directly to new audiences, and the ability to create and curate their own brand opens sponsorship opportunities that didn’t exist a generation ago.

Finding your way onto the medal stand at the Olympics anywhere in the world can make you a hero. Doing it in the States, however, can turn you into a legend. Mary Lou Retton, Mike Eruzione and Kerri Strug know how that goes.

Longtime agent Sheryl Shade, whose list of clients over the last

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From left, All-Around second place finisher Claire Pease, champion Hezly Rivera, center, and third place finisher Charleigh Bullock stand on the podium at the U.S. Gymnastics Championships on Sunday in Phoenix.

30 years has included a “who’s who” of Olympians, from gymnasts Nastia Liukin and Shawn Johnson to soccer pioneer Mia Hamm and figure skater Tara Lipinski, called the opportunities for athletes to capitalize on success in Los Angeles “exponentially” greater than any Games that have come before.

“It’s going to be long-range too,” Shade said. “Because now it doesn’t end at the Olympic Games.

That’s why LA is so important.

This is about legacy.”

Look no further than “The Magnificent Seven” for proof. Three decades ago, the members of the 1996 U.S. women’s Olympic gymnastics team walked onto the floor of the Georgia Dome for the team final as underdogs. They walked off it with gold medals around their necks, their lives forever altered.

“I mean, we all knew that was going to be special,” team captain Amanda Borden said.

Even if they had no idea how special at the time. While the group, all teenagers that summer, eventually retired and went on with their lives, to this day they get stopped by fans who remember where they were that memorable July night when the injured Strug gingerly stuck her vault landing to secure gold for the Americans.

They’ve lived the dream. In some ways, they’re still living it.

So no, they’re not surprised that so many who’ve “already been there, done that” want to give it another shot.

“I can promise (for) every athlete that makes the team, this Olympics will be one of the greatest moments of their careers,” seven-time Olympic medalist Shannon Miller said.

Her advice to anyone considering it: go for it, even if things don’t work out exactly as you planned.

Miller decided less than a year before the 2000 Games in Sydney

to give it one final shot at age 23 — considered ancient for a gymnast at the time, though not so much anymore. An injury at the Olympic trials ended that dream. Miller has no regrets, and a quarter century later it’s considered largely a footnote for the most-decorated American women’s gymnast not named Biles.

Quest for Olympic immortality Still, the attempt comes with considerable risk to both your mental and physical health. For every athlete that makes it, there will be countless others that don’t.

And for those that do, the burden to succeed will be ratcheted up to a level they’ve likely never experienced.

Dominique Moceanu, the youngest member of the Magnificent Seven, described it as a “doubleedged sword.”

“You have to understand that it will be probably the biggest moment of your life,” Moceanu said.

“Whether it’s because you put it on yourself or you feel the enormity of the weight of the country and the expectations. That does something to people, right?”

It does. Biles brought the discussion around mental health to the forefront of the Games in Tokyo when she removed herself from multiple nights of competition to protect herself while dealing with “the twisties.”

She took some time off before returning in 2023, capping the perhaps final chapter of her career — Biles remains noncommittal about her future — by winning a second all-around gold in Paris a year later.

Skye Blakely watched Biles’ triumph from afar after her bid to make the 2024 Olympic team ended when she tore her right Achilles while training at the Olympic trials, three years after her outside shot at making the 2021 squad ended with an elbow injury at the same meet.

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NFL As Tunsil needs surgery, Commanders turn to Coleman at left tackle

BY ETHAN CADEAUX

Associated Press

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New Orleans Saints head coach Kellen Moore prepares to drop the red challenge flag during the second half of a game against the Tennessee Titans on Dec. 28 in Nashville, Tenn.

NFL to allow an assistant to throw a challenge flag

BY JOSH DUBOW

AP pro football writer NFL head coaches will now be able to designate an assistant to handle the task of throwing the red flag to challenge a call through instant replay.

Since the current instant replay rule was put in place in 1999, only the head coach was allowed to throw the flag to challenge a disputed call. But the league tweaked the language in Rule 15 Section 1 of the rule book for this season, allowing that task to be delegated.

“The head coach or head coach’s pregame challenge designee can initiate a challenge by throwing a red flag onto the field of play before the next legal snap or kick,” the rule book says in Article 1 (a).

If a head coach wants to give up those duties, he will have to let the officiating crew know before the game.

The decision to throw the flag is typically made in consultation with staff in the coaches booth with the head coach having final say. That won’t likely change even if the task of throwing the flag might be del-

egated.

Teams are granted two challenges per game and can get a third if one of the first two leads to an overturn. Replay can be used in several scenarios including possession, whether the ball or a player touched the ground, whether a player was inbounds, whether a player gained a first down, or how many players were on the field.

Any scoring play, turnover, failed fourth down, possession after a kick or disqualification are automatically reviewed and can’t be challenged by teams.

QB Bridgewater explains his sudden retirement from Lions

BY RICHARD SILVA

The Detroit News (TNS) ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Asked on Sunday whether Teddy Bridgewater’s exit from the Detroit Lions meant he was completely done playing football, Dan Campbell said, “I think only he can truly answer that.”

Bridgewater has now responded to that question.

“This time it’s official,” Bridgewater said in an Instagram post Monday. “It’s so crazy 10 years ago around this time, I suffered one of the most gruesome knee injuries the game itself, its players and some doctors had ever seen. Everything football related since 2016 had been fueled by the ‘experts’ predicting that I would never play football again. We re-

ally showed them by playing 10 more seasons!

“However, this wheel of mine can no longer deal with something so simple as standing around on the turf field. This thing just doesn’t recover the same way it did years ago so I rather officially hang it up.

It’s finally run its course and when the body speaks to me, I have to listen so I that I can be in one piece and available for my children as they grow up. The game of football was beyond great to me and owes me nothing at all.”

Bridgewater was first signed by the Lions to be their backup quarterback in 2023. He was brought back toward the end of 2024 following a brief retirement to coach high school football, then spent 2025 with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The Lions again signed

Bridgewater in March.

A first-round draft by the Minnesota Vikings in 2014, Bridgewater suffered a brutal leg injury at practice in 2016, one that included a torn ACL and a knee dislocation. He went on to make 37 starts over the next nine seasons, including an undefeated five-week stretch with the New Orleans Saints in 2019.

Campbell and Bridgewater overlapped for two seasons in New Orleans. The Lions coach was emotional Sunday while discussing Bridgewater stepping away.

“Just like one part of my career was fueled by a series of events, this next chapter of my life will be fueled with an abundance of love by this sweet little angel of ours that’s coming in a couple of weeks,” Bridgewater added.

Lions center Mays will miss significant time with a wrist injury, Campbell says

BY PAULA PASCHE Associated Press

ALLEN PARK, Mich. — Center Cade May, who was signed to anchor the Detroit Lions’ reworked offensive line, will be out for significant time because of a wrist injury, coach Dan Campbell said Monday.

“You hate it, I hate it for him because I felt like he was having a good camp and he’d grown so much in our system just since spring,” Campbell said.

He would not give a timeline on May’s return from what he described as a freak injury that happened at camp Sunday.

“It stinks, but I know he’ll work his way back and be ready to go at some point,” quarterback Jared Goff said.

May’s absence will give Seth McLaughlin and Juice Scruggs

the opportunity to compete for the start at center. Scruggs was sidelined with a soft tissue injury on Monday, so McLaughlin got all the snaps with the starters while Michael Niese worked with the No. 2s.

Goff said communication was good with McLaughlin even though he had never had a snap from him before Monday.

“That’s the best way to find out on some of these guys, that’s all you can ask for. Man, it’s your shot, we’ll see where we can go with it,” Campbell said.

McLaughlin will start in the Lions’ preseason game at Cincinnati on Thursday.

“It’s the hand you’re dealt and you move on,” Campbell said.

Teddy Bridgewater, whose retirement was announced Sunday. It’s the second stint in Detroit for Dobbs, who spent two weeks on the practice squad in 2022.

“We really liked him and then he got poached, that’s kind of where it went,” Campbell said. “It’s good to get him back.”

Dobbs was on the field for Monday’s practice but did not take any reps. Rookie QB Luke Altmyer will start Thursday night.

If Dobbs is up to speed, he could see action.

A fourth-round draft pick out of Tennessee by the Steelers in 2017, Dobbs has made 27 career appearances and 15 starts. He spent last season with the Patriots as Drake Maye’s backup.

Lions sign backup QB Dobbs He appeared in four games and Veteran Josh Dobbs was completed 7 of 10 passes for 65 signed to replace quarterback yards.

ASHBURN, Va. — The Washington Commanders will be without their best offensive lineman for the foreseeable future.

Coach Dan Quinn confirmed Monday that left tackle Laremy Tunsil needs surgery on his left triceps and will be sidelined indefinitely. Quinn said the team won’t know how long Tunsil’s absence will last until after the procedure is done.

“It’s always tough to talk about a player missing time, and especially a great player like LT,” Quinn said. “He is an absolutely fantastic teammate, and he’ll be missed. We certainly can’t wait to get him back.”

Tunsil was injured Saturday during an individual drill against pass rusher Odafe Oweh. Tunsil immediately took a knee after the play and was quickly ushered into the facility following a chat with the training staff.

Losing Tunsil is a significant blow for the Commanders after the franchise made him the highest-paid tackle in the NFL in March. Tunsil, a five-time Pro Bowl selection, is one of the sport’s best pass protectors and a force in the run game.

“He is really on the top of his game right now,” Quinn said.

“Both in the run and pass, this is an equally strong player, and so it’s a big deal.”

With Tunsil out, the Commanders pivoted to Brandon Coleman to fill the void. It’s a natural transition for Coleman, who started 12 games at left tackle as a rookie for Washington in 2024 and played well. He made three starts at left tackle last year.

“He’s played a lot of winning football at left tackle here, and we know that he’s ready for it,” Quinn said. “He’s put in an excellent offseason, and the team is very confident in him.”

It has been just one practice, but Coleman said returning to left tackle has been a smooth transition — “like riding a bike.” He’s excited to return to his natural position, where he feels he can showcase his athleticism and footwork.

“My feet are good,” Coleman said. “Being able to dance with those guys, I’m able to keep up.

Now that I’m getting my hands under control in terms of knowing where to punch, knowing

what I want to do, that stuff just helps me out even more.”

Coincidentally, Coleman — along with right tackle Josh Conerly Jr. — traveled to Alabama this summer to work out with Tunsil. Spending nearly a month training together, Coleman said the experience completely changed his training habits.

“He basically revamped my whole approach to how I treat camp and the season,” Coleman said. “There’s a lot of stuff that I took from him, from his nutritionist to his strength guy, working with a chef, just taking care of my body a lot better. My prep for practice is a lot different. Seeing how a guy like that prepares every day, how he treats his body, what he does in his off time and how he recovers, that’s the price of stuff that you can’t (get) anywhere.”

Shifting Coleman to tackle allows the Commanders to maintain continuity along the rest of the offensive line. Coleman and Chris Paul entered training camp in competition for the starting left guard spot. Now, they’re working alongside each other.

“We played together last year a little bit,” Coleman said. “We trained together last year. Close, always talking, always joking around. (He is) arguably one of the strongest humans I’ve ever met. It definitely helps you out, especially having that chemistry beforehand.”

The plan is to for the Commanders to give Coleman an extended look in Tunsil’s old spot, with veteran Andrew Wylie staying in his backup swing tackle role. Quinn consulted with general manager Adam Peters and said they don’t expect to explore help in free agency right now.

Washington hopes that Tunsil can return at some point this season. His teammates expect him to do everything he can in rehab to make that happen.

“It’s tough to see a guy who put all that work in go down like that,” tackle Trent Scott said. “But he’s a stud. I’m pretty sure he’s going to attack rehab and he’ll probably be back sooner (than later).”

In the interim, Coleman will do his best to fill Tunsil’s void — something Coleman knows himself is nearly impossible to replicate.

“There’s only one Laremy Tunsil in my opinion,” Coleman said.

“The best tackle in the league.”

Former Detroit Lions cornerback Terrion Arnold celebrates after making an interception against the Minnesota Vikings on Nov. 2. Arnold, a free agent, is set to visit the Saints.

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rating when targeting Arnold in coverage with 79 catches for 1,059 yards, according to Pro Football Focus.

“What I’ll say is Terrion Arnold had No. 1 cornerback potential, but it was still untapped, you know what I mean?” Lions defensive coordinator Kelvin Sheppard told reporters last week. “And I’ll kind of leave that at that.”

If Arnold signs with the Saints, he would end up reunited with former college teammate KoolAid McKinstry. The Saints’ cornerback room is headlined by McKinstry and second-year Quincy Riley, but is seen as one of the team’s thinner positions in terms of depth.

New Orleans drafted rookies Lorenzo Styles (fifth round) and T.J. Hall (seventh), while signing veteran Martin Emerson this offseason. The Saints also lost Alontae Taylor in free agency to the Tennessee Titans, who gave the former Saints corner a three-year, $80 million contract.

Nicole Lynn, testified to a judge last month that four teams — the Texans, Seahawks, Jets and Colts — had inquired about him.

Arnold faces multiple charges after Tampa police said he was the “primary conspirator” in a plot to detain and pistolwhip three people whom he believed had stolen luxury goods and $100,000 in cash from him.

The incident reportedly took place on Feb. 4.

According to the Associated Press, at least six others face charges stemming from the plot. Two of them have pleaded guilty.

Arnold is entering his third NFL season. He appeared in 24 games with the Lions, starting 22 of them. He is coming off seasonending shoulder surgery.

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Chalmette to take on Catholic League with senior QB Wilson

BY SPENCER URQUHART

Staff writer

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South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer watches a replay during the first half of agame against Coastal Carolina on Nov. 22 in Columbia, S.C.

UNDER PRESSURE Six coaches entering 2026 season with much to prove

BY MAURA CAREY AP sportswriter

Patience for poor performance is a rarity in college football and that’s only become clearer in recent years. Eight Power Four coaches were jobless by November in 2025, and fifteen Bowl Subdivision coaches were fired throughout the season, totaling a record $270 million in buyout packages.

As the 2026 season arrives, here are six coaches entering the fall under the most pressure for instant results:

Mike Norvell • Florida State Florida State peaked too early last season with a 31-17 Week 1 upset of Alabama and two blowouts against East Texas A&M and Kent State, cruising to a 3-0 start.

And then things got shaky for the Seminoles, winning just two of their final nine games. Coach Mike Norvell is just above .500 in his six years at FSU (38-34). Thirteen of those wins came during the Noles’ playoff run in 2023. Since then, FSU has landed in the win column just seven times and finished bottom five in the ACC in back-to-back years — leaving Norvell in the win now bucket.

Bill Belichick • North Carolina Bill Belichick arrived at UNC as a first-time college coach who had won six Super Bowls with the New England Patriots, but the hyped hiring fell flat in Year 1. The Tar Heels had 70 new players while ending up with more double-digit

losses (five) than total wins (four) and missing a bowl for the first time since 2018, and there were multiple helpings of unwanted offfield headlines, too.

Belichick enters this year with 60 new players in another roster overhaul. The Tar Heels are picked to finish 15th in the 17-team Atlantic Coast Conference and have a tougher schedule in Year 2, including home games against Notre Dame and preseason ACC favorite Miami. Another off-field issue hit before camp: General manager Michael Lombardi is on leave as the subject of a school investigation.

Belichick originally signed a five-year, $50 million contract paying him $10 million in base and supplemental pay each year, though only the first three years were guaranteed. That means the school would owe the 74-year-old Belichick roughly one year’s pay if it decided to move on after the season.

Bill O’Brien • Boston College

After leading Boston College to a 7-6 record and Pinstripe Bowl appearance his first season, the Eagles regressed in 2025, finishing with a 2-10 record and ahead of only Syracuse in the ACC. Boston College’s two wins came in the first and last weeks of the season against Fordham and Syracuse, sandwiching 10 straight losses.

The sharp decline after an encouraging first season has left little Shane Beamer • South Carolina margin for error heading into Year Shane Beamer‘s fifth year at 3.

South Carolina didn’t quite go to plan, with the Gamecocks finish- Mike Locksley • Maryland ing 4-8 and 15th (1-7) in the SEC. Maryland’s Mike Locksley reSouth Carolina’s stint in the AP mains squarely on the hot seat Top 25 was short-lived, entering after nearly identical seasons in the season at No. 13 in the pre- 2024 and 2025, finishing 4-8 overseason poll and falling out of the all and 1-8 in Big Ten play. In eight rankings entirely after a Week seasons, Locksley is 37-49 for the 3 loss to Vanderbilt. The Game- Terps, and the best years in the cocks lost six of their final eight stretch were back-to-back 8-5 seagames. sons in 2022 and 2023, when MaryBeamer returns with something land won its third bowl game in as to prove and he has quarterback many years.

LaNorris Sellers, standout edge Locksley said the tough days are rusher Dylan Stewart and receiver behind the program at Big Ten Nyck Harbor to help. media days, looking forward to ramping up this season with what Luke Fickell • Wisconsin he described as one of the most It’s no secret Wisconsin’s Luke talented rosters during his time at Fickell is back on the hot seat — Maryland.

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Continued from page 1C appearance in Baton Rouge for Leavitt as he sat courtside next to LSU coach Lane Kiffin. Leavitt didn’t commit but instead was soon gone to Tennessee and Miami, his two recruiting visits after leaving Baton Rouge.

What happened next was pure recruiting theater. Kiffin flew in pursuit of Leavitt to Knoxville — where the LSU coach once coached one season and where they don’t like him much more than they do at Ole Miss — to continue his pitch to Leavitt while on his Tennessee visit.

Kiffin’s dogged determination worked, giving LSU the top-rated quarterback in the 2025-26 transfer portal cycle.

“The portal process was pretty crazy,” Leavitt said. “I didn’t expect it to go in that direction.

When I came out here and took my visit, I fell in love with the place.”

Initially not so much in love that he didn’t leave Baton Rouge for those other visits, but sometimes love has to grow on you. His confirmed NIL deal, according to the recruiting site On3.com, of $4.5 million obviously helped. If that sounds like a lot of money — and it is — bear in mind that Miami reportedly ended up giving Darian Mensah $6.5 million after being spurned by Leavitt. That does tell you Leavitt’s love for LSU wasn’t merely transactional.

The Kiffin/Charlie Weis Jr. factor (LSU’s offensive coordinator who followed Kiffin from Ole Miss) also plays an enormous part. Leavitt had to take a hard look at what they did with Trini-

he acknowledged it himself at Big Ten media days. A 4-8 record in 2025 was Wisconsin’s second straight losing season for the first time since the early 1990s. The Badgers reached lows they hadn’t seen since the 70s this past season with shutout losses against Iowa and Ohio State in back-to-back weeks. Fickell hasn’t been able to replicate the level of success he had in Cincinnati yet, with a 17-21 record. Wisconsin opens against Notre Dame at Lambeau Field in Green Bay.

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LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt sets up to make the pass during drills at fall practice on Monday at the team’s practice facility.

dad Chambliss last season with the Rebels, the prolific nature of Kiffin’s offenses throughout his tenure in Oxford, and figured this is where he would best grow into a polished NFL prospect.

“It’s easy to sell on how well people play in a short period of time with us,” Kiffin said Monday.

“They don’t have to come and wait a year and learn.

“Him projected to miss spring and not be fully cleared in spring, we sold him on, ‘Hey, at the last place, without a spring, look at what the quarterback was able to do.’ We brought in pieces around him. I think it was kind of an easy

sell. Then you’re playing quarterback at LSU, which has been a pretty good move the last 10 years.”

Those making that move to LSU, of course, include another Arizona State quarterback, Jayden Daniels, who in 2023 passed and ran his way to the Heisman Trophy.

Sophomore cornerback DJ Pickett may have gotten Jayden Daniels’ former No. 5 to wear this season — a promise from his recruitment under Brian Kelly that, kudos to Kiffin, he decided to honor — but Leavitt gets transfer quarterback-turned-superstar expectations heaped on his shoulder pads. Before Daniels, it was Joe Burrow winning the Heisman Trophy and the national championship in 2019. Despite his Lisfranc foot injury that required season-ending surgery in 2025 — Leavitt proclaimed himself 100% healthy Monday — he goes into this season with shorter Heisman odds than Burrow had.

Joe was 200/1 in August that year. Leavitt is 20/1. Not one of the top three or four favorites, but a contender based on the Kiffin/Weis magic and his dual-threat ability, a potent pairing of scheme and skill.

“Sam’s an unbelievable leader,” said safety Ty Benefield, himself a highly touted transfer from Boise State. “I love the confidence and swagger he has. Also, his big-play ability to make things happen. It’s definitely good to have that in a quarterback. We talk after practice about things he sees from me and I tell him things I see with him.

“He’s going to do great.”

At LSU, if you’re a transfer quarterback, nothing less than great is expected.

Chalmette senior quarterback Breez Wilson has delivered when put to the test in big moments over the past two seasons.

Wilson led a game-winning drive in the second round of the playoffs in his sophomore season against Hahnville, tossing a game-winning touchdown pass with 46 seconds left in regulation. The victory put Chalmette in the quarterfinals for the first time since 1968.

Now a three-year starter entering his senior year, Wilson is facing his toughest challenge yet with Chalmette moving to District 9-5A. Known as the Catholic League, the eight-team district includes some of the winningest prep football programs in the state.

“If we just focus on us, we should win a lot of games,” Wilson said. “I trust the coaches and trust the players to stay connected and work as a team.”

Chalmette was in a district of primarily St. Tammany Parish schools last season. While this year’s district schedule will be tougher, the Owls have a seasoned player at the most important position on the field. “(Wilson) is really comfortable in the offense,” Chalmette coach Jason Tucker said. “We’re able to expand what we expect him to do.

His grasp of everything is pretty good at this point. He’s always been a leader.”

After taking over the starting quarterback job early in his sophomore season, Wilson’s individual numbers took a step forward as a junior.

A dual-threat quarterback, Wilson threw for 1,306 yards and 19 touchdowns with just six interceptions last season. He excelled with his legs, leading Chalmette in rushing with 700 yards and nine touchdowns.

“I know a lot more was going to be put on my plate as I was growing (at quarterback),” Wilson said. “I was just trying to get prepared for more plays, more stuff, more key involvement into the offense.”

Wilson will be working with some new wide receivers after Chalmette graduated last year’s leading receiver, Dana Antoine.

Athletic juniors Yasha Miller and Kenard Cooks will be some of Wilson’s top targets.

Chalmette returns a senior running back in Russell Banks, who’s expected to lead the Owls in carries. Three-year starters Harrison Nunez and Gavin Estopnal are back to anchor the offensive line along with rising sophomore Kris Allen.

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all my routine and everything at night, it’s really zero thought process for me.”

The foot had been on Leavitt’s mind for some time because his injury reportedly occurred early in the 2025 season and lingered until he was ultimately shut down in late October after a loss to Houston. He had surgery quickly after that.

Leavitt was admittedly a bit naive in how fast he thought he’d recover.

“I’d say it was definitely more challenging within the first four or five months,” Leavitt said. “I thought I was just going to snap back into being full go (after the April procedure).”

Leavitt credited LSU athletic trainer Dalis Boyette with putting together a plan to limit his activity as he recovered from the second procedure.

And the 21-year-old quarterback was keen to follow the staff’s instructions. He’s long been an optimizer, whether it was his daily 7 p.m. shoulder mobility exercises as a teen or the meditation practice he took up at Arizona State.

Leavitt has even found a local farmer who supplies him his produce.

“My health is one thing that I take very seriously,” Leavitt said. ”Whether it’s the food I eat, the way I sleep, the way I recover — it’s really never a question for me. You can ask everyone from

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Chalmette junior Breez Wilson is in his second year as the Owls starting quarterback and has taken on added responsibility this season.

back,” Tucker said. “Anytime you get your quarterback back who’s a three-year starter, he’s real important. This is going to be one of our best (offensive line) groups in a while.”

Miller is also expected to start at defensive end and is among the top returners along Chalmette’s defensive front.

Senior linebacker David Gonzalez returns after recording a team-high 79 tackles last season for Chalmette. Senior Tristan DuBose is now a starting linebacker in place of Tyray Darensburg, who signed with South Alabama.

“We’ve just been staying the Chalmette way and doing what we do,” Gonzalez said. “Just trying to set the example of what it should be and showing the young guys how it should be.”

Having kicked since his sophomore year, DuBose is also Chalmette’s kicker and punter this season. The defensive backfield is led by senior cornerback Jy’Ren Tapp and senior safety Jayden Elliss.

The Catholic League slate includes defending Division I select state champion Edna Karr along with state runner-up St. Augustine and semifinalist John Curtis. Rummel, Brother Martin, Jesuit and Holy Cross make up the rest of the district.

Tucker is familiar with the Catholic League having coached in the district for four seasons at Chalmette, most recently in 2013.

“We’re not doing anything different because we’re in the Catholic League,” Tucker said. “We’re going to do things the Chalmette way like we’ve been doing. We’re going to put up a fight no matter who we play.”

If Chalmette reaches the playoffs, it won’t have to face any Catholic League teams since the Owls would be in the Division I nonselect bracket.

The other seven district foes will compete for the Division I select title.

everywhere I’ve been.

“That’s kind of something that I prioritize in my life, I think, kind of on an extreme level.”

A healthy Leavitt is essential for first-year LSU coach Lane Kiffin, who historically uses quarterbacks in the run game. Leavitt has been a plus runner when healthy, racking up 306 rushing yards in just seven games as a redshirt sophomore.

The former basketball player has a way of extending plays, juking defenders and spinning out of tackles — as long as that foot isn’t a hindrance.

Kiffin certified his quarterback’s health after the opening practice of preseason camp, saying he wouldn’t have known Leavitt was ever hurt by the way he looked in practice. It was just tough to independently verify with Leavitt doing little more than taking short dropbacks and throwing routes on air during media viewing windows.

The short video LSU released Sunday, showing Leavitt escaping the pocket, was further evidence of his progress. Kiffin then added another positive assessment Monday.

He’s been “taking care of the ball,” Kiffin said, and throwing “accurate and on time.”

“We have high standards of how we want things and what we want them to look like. It was probably unrealistic what I was expecting him to look like when he can’t move and he’s just throwing without really having his weight to be able to push into,” Kiffin said.

“Now that he’s healthy, he’s had a great week. We’re really excited about him.”

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THIS WEEK IN BASEBALL

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STANDINGS

MLB’s worst teams in 2026 much more competitive

BY DAVID BRANDT

AP baseball writer

American League glance

National League glance

East Division

East Division

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Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto

Pre-game ejections Atlanta Braves ace Chris Sale was ejected by umpire Dan Merzel before a pitch was thrown in Sunday’s game against the New York Yankees. The veteran lefty was still in a foul mood a day after being called for a balk that scored a run.

Pregame MLB ejections are rare, but not completely unprecedented.

San Francisco Giants manager Bob Melvin was ejected before a game against the Colorado Rockies in 2024 after he and bench coach Ryan Christensen delivered the

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West Division

The full-blown tank is no longer trending in Major League Baseball.

After a handful of infamous team performances in recent seasons — like the Colorado Rockies losing 119 games last season and the Chicago White Sox dropping an MLBrecord 121 games in 2024 — the worst teams have been much more competitive.

In fact, there’s a decent chance that no team will lose 100 games for the first time since 2017.

The worst teams are the Rockies (46-72), Los Angles Angels (4573), Athletics (47-71) and Kansas City Royals (49-70), putting them all within reach of avoiding tripledigit losses even if they play belowaverage baseball.

This year’s show of relative competitiveness by the league’s bottom feeders might just be a statistical outlier, though it might also be a sign that teams are viewing complete teardowns as a less compelling strategy.

The Houston Astros paved the way for the all-out tank in the early 2010s when they lost at least 106 games in three straight seasons. It was a painful stretch but paid off in the coming years with World Series titles in 2017 and 2022.

The problem is it doesn’t always work out as planned. The Baltimore Orioles were awful from 2018 to 2021 while they rebuilt their roster with high draft picks, but have zero playoff wins to show for it five years later. At last week’s trade deadline, they unloaded former No. 1 overall pick Adley Rutschman to the Boston Red Sox and appear headed for another rebuild.

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lineup card to home plate umpire Alex MacKay. Earlier this season, Brent Suter of the Los Angeles Angels and Steven Wilson and Manuel Rodriguez of the Tampa Bay Rays were ejected because of a “standoff” following the “The Star-Spangled Banner.” Umpire Lance Barrett tossed the trio after they refused to leave the field.

Historically, former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver is famous for a 1975 incident when he was ejected from the first game of a doubleheader for arguing with umpire Ron Luciano. Before the second game even started, Luciaino tossed Weaver again when he continued arguing.

NL MVP race heats up The race for National League MVP is shaping up to be a classic.

Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani and the Chicago Cubs’ uber-athletic Pete CrowArmstrong have turned the competition into a two-man race with roughly 25% of the regular season remaining.

As of Sunday, Crow-Armstrong was a slight favorite over Ohtani, according to FanDuel Sportsbook, and both teams are firmly in the playoff hunt. Crow-Armstrong is trying to earn his first MVP award while Ohtani is chasing No. 5, which would be the second-most in MLB history behind Barry Bonds, who had seven.

Here’s a look at the resume of both players.

— Crow-Armstrong has blossomed into a full-blown superstar for the Cubs, greatly improving his consistency at the plate. He’s slashed .286/.388/.544 through Sunday’s games and has 26 homers, 71 RBIs and 30 stolen bases, all while playing an exceptional center field.

The two-time All-Star also has been worth 7.4 WAR so far this season, according to baseball-reference.com, which is the best in the big leagues.

— Ohtani continues to be an offensive powerhouse, though his numbers are down from previous season. The Japanese standout is slashing .292/.395/.542 and has 26 homers and 71 RBIs. Unlike Crow-Armstrong, Ohtani usually doesn’t provide any value in the field, serving as designated hitter when he’s not pitching.

But that’s the thing: When Ohtani is healthy, he is also one of MLB’s most dominant pitchers.

The right-hander has an 8-2 record and 1.79 ERA over 14 starters with 95 strikeouts over 852⁄3 innings.

Ohtani hasn’t pitched since July 3, mainly because of soreness in his left knee. He resumed playing catch on Saturday and is slowly working toward a return to the mound. If he can provide a few good starts in September for the Dodgers, it might tip the MVP scale back in his favor.

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West Division Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

Sunday’s games

Sunday’s games

Monday’s games

Monday’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 San Diego 7, Houston 2

Kansas City Royals right fielder Jac Caglianone celebrates in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run in the seventh inning of a game against the Chicago Cubs on Saturday in Kansas City, Mo.

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Tuesday’s games

Cleveland (Bibee 4-11) at Detroit (Anderson 4-4), 5:40 p.m.

Seattle (Woo 8-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Weathers 5-7), 6:05 p.m.

Boston (Sandoval 1-0) at Toronto (Cease 7-5), 6:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Young 8-3) at Minnesota (Ober 7-3), 6:40 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lodolo 3-2) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 7-6), 6:40 p.m.

Texas (TBD) at L.A. Angels (Johnson 2-6), 8:38 p.m.

Tampa Bay (Martinez 11-3) at Athletics (Barnett 1-2), 8:40 p.m.

Houston (Brown 3-1) at San Francisco (Whisenhunt 2-3), 8:45 p.m.

Kansas City (Wacha 5-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Snell 0-1), 9:10 p.m.

Tuesday’s games

Pittsburgh (Skenes 9-10) at Miami (Pérez 5-9), 5:40 p.m.

Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-9) at Washington (Irvin 2-5), 5:45 p.m.

N.Y. Mets (McLean 8-7) at Atlanta (Pérez 7-6), 6:15 p.m.

Cincinnati (Lodolo 3-2) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 7-6), 6:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Sánchez 15-4) at St. Louis (Pallante 12-6), 6:45 p.m.

Colorado (Sugano 11-5) at Arizona (Bratt 1-1), 8:40 p.m.

Milwaukee (Harrison 9-2) at San Diego (Buehler 6-5), 8:40 p.m.

Houston (Brown 3-1) at San Francisco (Whisenhunt 2-3), 8:45 p.m.

Kansas City (Wacha 5-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Snell 0-1), 9:10 p.m.

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Aug. 11 1907 — In the second game of a doubleheader, shortened by agreement, Ed Karger of the St. Louis Cardinals pitched a seveninning perfect game, beating the Boston Braves 4-0.

1926 — Tris Speaker of Cleveland hit his 700th career double but the Indians lost to the Chicago White Sox, 7-2. The double came in the third inning off Joe Edwards.

1929 — Babe Ruth hit his 500th career home run in the second inning off Willis Hudlin at Cleveland’s League Park. The homer was Ruth’s 30th of the year, but it wasn’t enough as the Indians beat the Yankees 6-5.

1951 — Robin Roberts of the Philadelphia Phillies beat the New York Giants 4-0, dropping the Giants 13 1/2 games behind the first-place Brooklyn Dodgers.

1961 — Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves scattered six hits to beat the Chicago Cubs, 2-1, for his 300th career victory.

1970 — Philadelphia’s Jim Bunning beat the Houston Astros 6-5 to become the first pitcher to win 100 games in both leagues since Cy Young.

1980 — Reggie Jackson hits his 400th career home run, off Britt Burns, in the Yankees’ 3 - 1 victory over the White Sox at Yankee Stadium.

1986 — Cincinnati player-manager Pete Rose, 45, singled four times and doubled to set a NL record with the 10th five-hit game of his career. Rose drove in three runs in a 13-4 loss to the San Francisco Giants, to move one ahead of Max Carey for the

record.

1987 — Mark McGwire of the Athletics broke Al Rosen’s AL rookie record by hitting his 38th home run in Oakland’s 8-2 loss to the Seattle Mariners.

2004 — Randy Wolf homered twice and threw seven solid innings to lead Philadelphia to a 15-4 victory over Colorado. Wolf went 3-for-3 and scored three runs.

2007 — Rick Ankiel homered twice and drove in three runs, the latest power display by the former pitcher, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-1.

2010 — Arizona tied a major league record by hitting four consecutive home runs, with Adam LaRoche, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds and Stephen Drew all connecting in the fourth inning of an 8-2 win over Milwaukee.

2013 — After Mariano Rivera blew a third straight save for the first time in his famed career, Brett Gardner homered with two outs in the ninth inning to give the New York Yankees a 5-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Rivera with a record 643 saves, had never failed three in a row in 936 relief appearances.

2018 — Oakland’s Ramon Laureano pulled off a spectacular double play and the Athletics beat the Los Angeles Angels 7-0. With one out and Eric Young Jr. on first, Laureano raced into the gap in left-center to haul in Justin Upton’s drive. The rookie center fielder then uncorked a 320-foot throw on a fly to first base to complete the double play. Marcus Semien homered twice and Khris Davis also connected for Oakland.

SCOREBOARD Hole-in-one Bobby Wade Course: Historic City Park Hole #, yardage: No. 1, 137 Club used: 9-iron Witnesses: Jerry Matthews, John Lancaster, Bert Brouillete

Odds MLB Tuesday

American League FAVORITE LINE at DETROIT -126 at N.Y YANKEES -133 at TORONTO -153 Baltimore -119 Texas -144 Tampa Bay -162 National League FAVORITE LINE Pittsburgh -122 Chicago Cubs -166 at ATLANTA -132 Philadelphia -170 Milwaukee -143 at ARIZONA -176 Interleague FAVORITE LINE at CHI. W. SOX -166 Houston -200 at LA DODGERS -282

UNDERDOG Cleveland Seattle Boston at MINNESOTA at LA ANGELS at ATHLETICS

LINE +103 +109 +125 -102 +122 +136

UNDERDOG at MIAMI at WASH. N.Y Mets at ST. LOUIS at SAN DIEGO Colorado

LINE +100 +140 +108 +138 +118 +143

UNDERDOG Cincinnati at SAN FRAN. Kansas City

LINE +135 +168 +222

Major League Baseball American League Leaders AMERICAN LEAGUE

BATTING—Alvarez, Houston, .322; C.Simpson, Tampa Bay, .304; Ya.Díaz, Tampa Bay, .298; Jo.Jung, Texas, .294; Aranda, Tampa Bay, .286; McGonigle, Detroit, .286; Contreras, Boston, .285; Clement, Toronto, .284; Rafaela, Boston, .284; Witt, Kansas City, .284.

RUNS—Alvarez, Houston, 79; Vargas, Chicago, 78; McGonigle, Detroit, 76; Neto, Los Angeles, 74; Arozarena, Seattle, 73; Rice, New York, 72; Alonso, Baltimore, 71; Caminero, Tampa Bay, 71; Henderson, Baltimore, 67; Meidroth, Chicago, 67.

RBI—Alvarez, Houston, 86; Dingler, Detroit, 80; Rice, New York, 75; Alonso, Baltimore, 75; Aranda, Tampa Bay, 72; Caminero, Tampa Bay, 71; Contreras, Boston, 70; Okamoto, Toronto, 70; Kurtz, Athletics, 69; C.Montgomery, Chicago, 68; Bell, Minnesota, 68.

HITS—Alvarez, Houston, 137; Ya.Díaz, Tampa Bay, 131; Clement, Toronto, 128; Rafaela, Boston, 126; McGonigle, Detroit, 125; C.Simpson, Tampa Bay, 124; Caminero, Tampa Bay, 123; Aranda, Tampa Bay, 122; Nimmo, Texas, 117; Greene, Detroit, 115; C.Young, Seattle, 115.

DOUBLES—Clement, Toronto, 28; Rafaela, Boston, 28; Nimmo, Texas, 27; Vargas, Chicago, 26; Greene, Detroit, 25; Soderstrom, Athletics, 25; Alvarez, Houston, 24; Arozarena, Seattle, 24; Bell, Minnesota, 24; Jensen, Kansas City, 24; C.Walker, Houston, 24; Witt, Kansas City, 24.

TRIPLES—C.Simpson, Tampa Bay, 6; Clemens, Minnesota, 5; Taveras, Baltimore, 5; Henderson, Baltimore, 4; Keith, Detroit, 4; Nimmo, Texas, 4; 17 tied at 3.

HOME RUNS—Alvarez, Houston, 35; Caminero, Tampa Bay, 33; Rice, New York, 32; Murakami, Chicago, 26; Dingler, Detroit, 26; C.Montgomery, Chicago, 26; Buxton, Minnesota, 25; Alonso, Baltimore, 25; Okamoto, Toronto, 24; Vargas, Chicago, 24.

STOLEN BASES—C.Simpson, Tampa Bay, 31;

Witt, Kansas City, 31; Chisholm, New York, 30; Ramírez, Cleveland, 29; Caballero, New York, 28; J.Naylor, Seattle, 23; Arozarena, Seattle, 20; Mullins, Tampa Bay, 18; Walls, Tampa Bay, 18; Bazzana, Cleveland, 17; J.Duran, Boston, 17.

PITCHING—S.Gray, Boston, 14-2; N.Martinez, Tampa Bay, 11-3; Rasmussen, Tampa Bay, 11-5; G.Williams, Cleveland, 11-6; Schlittler, New York, 10-6; Eovaldi, Texas, 10-9; Seymour, Tampa Bay, 9-3; Bradley, Minnesota, 9-4; Kay, Chicago, 9-5; Messick, Cleveland, 9-6; Soriano, Toronto, 9-6; D.Martin, Chicago, 9-6; McClanahan, Tampa Bay, 9-6.

ERA—Schlittler, New York, 2.209; Cease, Toronto, 2.280; Messick, Cleveland, 2.568; N.Martinez, Tampa Bay, 2.651; Rasmussen, Tampa Bay, 2.751; S.Gray, Boston, 2.783; Burke, Chicago, 3.078; Soriano, Toronto, 3.243; Hancock, Seattle, 3.347; Montero, Detroit, 3.384.

STRIKEOUTS—G.Williams, Cleveland, 185; Cease, Toronto, 184; Schlittler, New York, 182; Detmers, Los Angeles, 150; Bradley, Minnesota, 148; L.Gilbert, Seattle, 145; Burke, Chicago, 144; deGrom, Texas, 144; Gore, Texas, 140; Ryan, Minnesota, 138.

National League Leaders NATIONAL LEAGUE

BATTING—Arraez, Philadelphia, .320; O.Lopez, Miami, .318; Gonzales, Pittsburgh, .306; McCarthy, Colorado, .306; F.Freeman, Los Angeles, .303; Moreno, Arizona, .302; J.Lee, San Francisco, .298; Rumfield, Colorado, .295; Ohtani, Los Angeles, .292; M.Harris, Atlanta, .291.

RUNS—Wood, Washington, 100; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 84; Olson, Atlanta, 83; Reynolds, Pittsburgh, 80; Turner, Philadelphia, 80; Abrams, Washington, 74; Swanson, Chicago, 74; Turang, Milwaukee, 74; Wetherholt, St. Louis, 74; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 73.

RBI—Abrams, Washington, 89; S.Stewart, Cincinnati, 87; J.Walker, St. Louis, 83; Burleson, St. Louis, 78; L.García, New York, 76; Pages, Los Angeles, 76; Turang, Milwaukee, 74; B.Lowe, Pittsburgh, 74; Wood, Washington, 73; Olson, Atlanta, 72.

HITS—O.Lopez, Miami, 147; Arraez, Philadelphia, 143; Gonzales, Pittsburgh, 133; F.Freeman, Los Angeles, 132; Tatis, San Diego, 130; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 128; J.Walker, St. Louis, 127; Abrams, Washington, 126; Burleson, St. Louis, 126; Bichette, New York, 124; M.Harris, Atlanta, 124.

DOUBLES—O.Lopez, Miami, 29; Olson, Atlanta, 29; Burleson, St. Louis, 28; Reynolds, Pittsburgh, 28; Devers, San Francisco, 27; F.Freeman, Los Angeles, 27; Turang, Milwaukee, 27; J.Lee, San Francisco, 26; Wood, Washington, 26; 8 tied at 25.

TRIPLES—Carroll, Arizona, 13; Arraez, Philadelphia, 7; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 7; O.Lopez, Miami, 7; McCarthy, Colorado, 7; X.Edwards, Miami, 6; Perdomo, Arizona, 6; Stott, Philadelphia, 6; E.De La Cruz, Cincinnati, 5; L.García, New York, 5; Lile, Washington, 5.

HOME RUNS—Schwarber, Philadelphia, 35; Goodman, Colorado, 34; Olson, Atlanta, 34; Wood, Washington, 30; Abrams, Washington, 28; Ohtani, Los Angeles, 26; CrowArmstrong, Chicago, 26; Harper, Philadelphia, 25; B.Lowe, Pittsburgh, 25; S.Stewart, Cincinnati, 25.

STOLEN BASES—Nuñez, Washington, 40; Crow-Armstrong, Chicago, 30; E.Ruiz, Miami, 27; Tatis, San Diego, 26; O.Lopez, Miami, 23; Merrill, San Diego, 23; Abrams, Washington, 22; Stott, Philadelphia, 22; O.Cruz, Pittsburgh, 21; E.De La Cruz, Cincinnati, 21; D.Hamilton, Milwaukee, 21; Mangum, Pittsburgh, 21.

PITCHING—C.Sánchez, Philadelphia, 15-4; Burns, Cincinnati, 13-2; Ashby, Milwaukee,

13-2; S.Alcantara, Miami, 13-6; F.Griffin, Cleveland, 12-3; Pallante, St. Louis, 12-6; Sale, Atlanta, 12-7; E.Rodriguez, Arizona, 114; Wrobleski, Los Angeles, 11-4; Misiorowski, Milwaukee, 11-5; B.Ashcraft, Pittsburgh, 11-5; Sugano, Colorado, 11-5.

ERA—Misiorowski, Milwaukee, 1.759; Sale, Atlanta, 2.195; Burns, Cincinnati, 2.613; C.Sánchez, Philadelphia, 2.646; Yamamoto, Los Angeles, 2.648; E.Rodriguez, Arizona, 2.700; F.Griffin, Cleveland, 3.062; Ray, San Diego, 3.243; Luzardo, Philadelphia, 3.320; M.King, San Diego, 3.367.

STRIKEOUTS—Misiorowski, Milwaukee, 204; Luzardo, Philadelphia, 176; C.Sánchez, Philadelphia, 174; Skenes, Pittsburgh, 162; McLean, New York, 156; Sale, Atlanta, 151; B.Ashcraft, Pittsburgh, 145; Burns, Cincinnati, 143; Cavalli, Washington, 141; Wheeler, Philadelphia, 132.

Soccer

Sunday’s games

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

Friday, August 14

Eastern Conference

W 12 11 9 9 7 7 7 7 5 6 5 3 4 4 3

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

Western Conference

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 15

Boston Legacy FC at Louisville, 5:30 p.m.

Orlando at Portland, 7:45 p.m.

Saturday, August 8

Houston 2, New England 0

Saturday, August 15

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 12 11 10 10 9 9 8 7 7

L 3 5 5 7 6 7 6 7 7

T Pts 4 40 3 36 3 33 2 32 3 30 3 30 4 28 2 23 2 23

GF GA 24 12 29 17 31 19 24 20 32 26 29 25 28 25 24 17 20 21

Putts per GIR

1, Hyo Joo Kim, 1.71. 2 (tie), Minami Katsu and Angel Yin, 1.73. 4 (tie), Nelly Korda and Mi Hyang Lee, 1.74. 6, Gaby Lopez, 1.75. 7, 6 tied with 1.76.

Thursday’s games

Birdies

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.

1, Aki Iwai, 249. 2, Lottie Woad, 225. 3, Miyu Yamashita, 219. 4 (tie), Minami Katsu and Haeran Ryu, 213. 6, Ina Yoon, 207. 7, Jin Hee Im, 205. 8, Jeeno Thitikul, 202. 9, 2 tied with 200.

Eagles

1, Brooke M. Henderson, 14. 2, Nelly Korda, 9. 3 (tie), Hye-Jin Choi, Minji Kang, Sei Young Kim and Ryann O’Toole, 8. 7, 6 tied with 7.

Friday’s games

Denver at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

Miami at Washington, 6 p.m.

Tampa Bay at N.Y. Jets, 6 p.m.

Sand Save Percentage

1, Pornanong Phatlum, .61%. 2 (tie), Peiyun Chien, Jin Hee Im and Nelly Korda, .59%. 5, Minjee Lee, .58%. 6 (tie), Minami Katsu and Patty Tavatanakit, .57%. 8, 3 tied with .56%.

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.

Rounds Under Par

1, Miyu Yamashita, .59%. 2, Aki Iwai, .55%.

3, Nelly Korda, .76%. 4, Haeran Ryu, .69%. 5, Lottie Woad, .56%. 6, Jeeno Thitikul, .59%. 7, Minami Katsu, .56%. 8, Jin Hee Im, .53%. 9, Cassie Porter, .59%. 10, Ina Yoon, .58%. 11, Rio Takeda, .55%.

Pro basketball WNBA glance

Transactions

Indiana Atlanta Washington New York Chicago Toronto Connecticut

W 20 19 19 20 12 10 8

L 12 12 12 13 20 21 23

Pct .625 .613 .613 .606 .375 .323 .258

GB — ½ ½ ½ 8 9½ 11½

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

W 27 23 22 19 13 12 12 6

L 7 9 11 14 19 19 22 28

Pct .794 .719 .667 .576 .406 .387 .353 .176

GB — 3 4½ 7½ 13 13½ 15 21

WESTERN CONFERENCE

New York 111, Las Vegas 71 Washington 95, Phoenix 75 Minnesota 103, Dallas 90 Golden State 84 Los Angeles 78

Monday’s games

Toronto at Atlanta, n Chicago at Seattle, n

Tuesday’s games

1, Nelly Korda, 69.18. 2, Haeran Ryu, 69.51. 3, Hyo Joo Kim, 70.16. 4, Jeeno Thitikul, 70.18. 5, Miyu Yamashita, 70.29. 6, Lydia Ko, 70.36. 7, Ruoning Yin, 70.63. 8, Ina Yoon, 70.73. 9, Sei Young Kim, 70.74. 10, Hannah Green, 70.76.

1, Haeran Ryu, .80%. 2, Jeeno Thitikul, .75%.

3, Isabello Fierro, .74%. 4 (tie), Dongeun Lee and Lottie Woad, .73%. 6, 5 tied with .72%.

NFL Preseason glance

Sunday’s games

LPGA Tour statistics Through Aug. 9 Scoring

Greens in Regulation

Pro football

EASTERN CONFERENCE

Pro golf

1, Riley Smyth, 288.74. 2, Julia Lopez Ramirez, 288.55. 3, Auston Kim, 280.58. 4, Polly Mack, 279.46. 5, Suvichaya Vinjichaitham, 278.26.

6, Ina Yoon, 277.93. 7, Laney Frye, 277.63.

8, Nanna Koerstz Madsen, 276.33. 9, Helen Briem, 276.18. 10, Bailey Tardy, 274.47.

Houston at North Carolina, 6 p.m.

Washington at Angel City, 8 p.m.

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

Washington at Las Vegas, 9 p.m.

Driving Distance

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

MLS glance

Gotham FC Washington Utah Royals FC San Diego North Carolina Kansas City Portland Angel City Seattle

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.

New York at Indiana, 6:30 p.m.

Phoenix at Los Angeles, 9 p.m.

BASEBALL

Major League Baseball American League ATHLETICS — Reinstated 3B Zack Gelof from the 10-day IL. Designated SS Jonathan Ornelas for assignment.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled RHP Cam Sanders from Norfolk (IL). Optioned LHP Cade Povich to Norfolk.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Claimed LF Nelson Velázquez off waivers from St. Louis. Designated 3B Shay Whitcomb for assignment.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Agreed to terms with RHP Craig Kimbrel on a contract.

Reinstated RHP Craig Kimbrel. Optioned RHP Easton McGee to Omaha (IL).

LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Selected the contract of LHP Sammy Peralta from Salt Lake (PCL). Placed RHP Shaun Anderson on the 15-day IL. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled 2B Charles McAdoo from Buffalo (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Simeon Woods Richardson from Buffalo. Optioned LF Davis Schneider and RHP Lazaro Estrada to Buffalo. Designated C Willie MacIver for assignment. Sent RF Rudy Martin Jr. outright to Buffalo.

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Agreed to terms with RHP Zack Littell on a contract.

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New Basel’s Market gets visit from N.O. designers

BY JOY HOLDEN Staff writer

The designers of Tyler + Tate, an antiques and home decor store in New Orleans, paid a visit to the new Basel’s Market in St. Francisville for its grand opening. They posted a walkthrough video on TikTok and Instagram with their impressions.

Basel’s Market, owned by Kalyn Anderson, opened its new location on July 31. The new market is in a historical home that Anderson and her husband renovated on 11892 Ferdinand St. The 100-year-old building was originally a Sears & Roebuck kit house.

Restoring it came with many regulations and requirements.

“This house was like another newborn child,” Anderson, a mom of three, said. “Redoing this house was a labor of love.”

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Owner Kalyn Anderson recently opened a new location of Basel’s Market in St. Francisville.

The market was formerly a food truck and a small cafe in Baton Rouge on Highland Road.

They moved to St. Francisville in 2024 on 5951 Commerce St. Since she opened the new market, Anderson said it’s been truly “like a revolving door” with people coming in “all day every day.”

“We are blessed,” Anderson said. “It has been unbelievable.”

The new Basel’s Market is located right near other shops and restaurants in St. Francisville’s charming shopping district.

From regulars to new friends Anderson met Ryan Tyler Dunagan and Grant Tate, the owners and designers of Tyler + Tate at 4537 Magazine St., through Basel’s Market. The two designers have become regulars at Basel’s in St. Francisville, and Anderson said they’ve become friends.

In the TikTok video, Tate leads the tour and explains his favorite parts of the new market.

Tate said that the Andersons did a fantastic job on the renovation of the house, noting that it looks nothing like it did previously. The market has fresh flowers, Calvin’s chicken salad, Kalyn’s pimento cheese and a menu of sandwiches.

“When you’re in there, you don’t want to leave. It is beautiful around every corner,” Tate said in the video.

He called Basel’s Market a “must visit” in St. Francisville.

Anderson is planning a reciprocal visit to the Tyler + Tate store in New Orleans.

STAFF PHOTOS By By MADDIE SCOTT

Turkey Tail is a type of mushroom that grows naturally in Louisiana, like here on a log in Baton Rouge’s Forest Community Park.

Fungi functionality

What are functional mushrooms? Louisiana business says they may improve sleep, health, more

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BY MADDIE SCOTT

cordyceps mushrooms, a medicinal fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine. Since moving back to Baton Rouge, Gros began selling tinctures in 2023.

Staff writer

rouched down in the middle of the woods in Baton Rouge, Jordan Gros pointed at something growing on the side of a log.

“This is turkey tail,” said Gros, 31, a biological and agricultural engineer. “Turkey tail is one of the most studied mushrooms, and it’s very common across the U.S.” The fungi can improve metabolism, support healthy cholesterol levels and support a healthy gut microbiome, Gros said. It makes up one of five functional mushroom tinctures Gros sells through her small-batch mushroom tincture business, Mycocentrics, along with reishi, lion’s mane, cordyceps and chaga.

On a Monday morning in August, Gros was on one of her routine foraging walks at Forest Community Park in Baton Rouge. The park is one of many sites ideal for mushroom foraging in the city. To find mushrooms, she first tries to spot microclimates where water might be held, usually in the form of fallen trees.

Properties, extraction process

Baton Rouge-based business Mycocentrics sells functional mushroom extracts in five different varieties.

She forages mushrooms for personal use but also enjoys the nature walk to spot snacks like muscadine grapes or bug-repelling leaves from the beautyberry plant.

“I’ve always had that connection to nature, and I’ve always wanted my own lab,” Gros said. “That’s how I pictured myself, like a nerdy scientist.”

Born and raised in Thibodeaux, Gros graduated from LSU in 2018 with a degree in biological engineering and moved to Massachusetts where she was one of the first people in the country to cultivate

She sources her mushrooms from small farmers across the country to extract molecules that provide benefits. On a normal day, Gros uses at least 2 milliliters of a tincture daily, often in her tea, but it can also be dropped directly on the tongue or added in a beverage.

Lion’s mane is her most popular seller, which can support cognitive performance, memory, focus and mental clarity. It’s also the mushroom that got her into the business — following a skiing incident, Gros used lion’s mane when recovering from head and spinal injuries.

She gets the most feedback from reishi, because customers have told her that it’s allowed them to sleep through the night.

For athletes, Gros recommends her personal favorite: cordyceps, which can promote more balanced, long-lasting energy through cellular

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With millions in donations, Fla. church goes green

Basel’s Market is open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

An iguana bathes in the sun at the current Church By the Sea seawall as it closes in on its fundraising goal on July 15 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Email Joy Holden at joy. holden@theadvocate.com.

MIAMI HERALD/TNS PHOTO By CARL JUSTE

BY LAUREN COSTANTINO and ALEX HARRIS Miami Herald (TNS)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The canal that flows between Fort Lauderdale resident Harry Rozelle’s house and his church is so infested with bacteria that his teenage son, Cruz, was hospitalized after swimming in it three years ago.

As he tended to his sick son, who had contracted E. coli and salmonella from the polluted

waterway, Rozelle thought about how swimming in the canal — once a normal part of Florida life — has become a major health hazard. He knew something had to be done.

The answer came after a visiting neighbor pointed to a Miami Herald article highlighting something called a “living seawall,” a manmade shoreline structure that mimics natural

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The unsolved case of addressing strangers

phone. So you call out — what?

DEAR MISS MANNERS: Some months One category of entries pleaded ago, you asked your readers for a way of addressing strangers whose for warmth.

“Friend” was the most gender is not obvious, but common suggestion, deI have not seen the answer.

We need it, so as to keep scribed by one reader as from insulting unknown “a way to convey respect people when we need to get and warmth. A lovely, their attention and don’t calm way to interact.” One want to say “Hey, you.”

Gentle Reader added, “I Judith Didn’t anyone have any try to make it a bit more Martin formal by expanding it to ideas? Did you give up?

MISS GENTLE READER: No; there ‘good friend.’ I do not think MANNERS were many charming the Quakers have minded suggestions, and yet the my appropriation of it.” question is still open. Picky Miss Another asked, “Why not use Manners is not quite happy that the word ‘dear’? While techniany submitted so far would pass cally it’s a term of endearment, her test for usefulness. it’s a fairly safe one used mostly That test is to imagine that outside of romantic context by someone is about to exit a cafe, friends and acquaintances.” having scooped up their laptop Going a step further, someone and papers, but leaving a cellwrote, “My dear aunt, now in her 90s, uses ‘love’ — ‘Yes, love,’ phone on the table. You need to or ‘Love, would you mind …’ We shout something to stop this perneed more love these days.” son, who will be gone before you A second category emphasized can get to the door to return the

respect.

Many argued for “Your honor.”

One advocate added, “Yes, it’s used for judges in the courtroom, but if we use it out of the courtroom, I don’t think we’ll confuse most people, most of the time.”

“Your grace” also made an appearance in this category. “You don’t need to be Christian to believe in the value of grace, with implied graciousness, in the world,” wrote a Gentle Reader, who then acknowledged, “Perhaps reviving and widening this usage would be rejected as too strongly implying subservience or entitlement.”

Similarly, “Noble” was suggested, with the question “Since ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ were originally used for those of rank and nobility, why not skip straight there in honoring someone?”

And “Peer,” which can refer to aristocracy, but also to “an equal in excellence or endowments: In song he never had his peer. A compan-

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Continued from page 1D aquatic habitats, like mangrove roots, giving marine life a home and improving water quality.

Rozelle brought the idea to his church, The Church by the Sea — a nondenominational Christian congregation of a few hundred people that sits on an inlet with 860 feet of coastline. Founded over 70 years ago, the church had withstood decades of erosion and sea level rise and was in dire need of a new seawall. The congregation all agreed the living seawall was a project worth pursuing.

Church leaders say the goal of the project is twofold: repair the church’s current deteriorating seawall while setting a positive example for others looking to make a difference in their coastal community.

“All of us, Christian or nonChristian, have some responsibility to take care of the Earth that God provided for us … you really don’t have to look much further than the first couple pages of the Bible to see that that’s important,” said Pastor Brian Checchio, senior pastor of The Church by the Sea. Three years and over $1.6 million in fundraising later, the church is following through with the mission.

A living sea wall is not the same as a conventional concrete wall like the ones you see up and down the waterways of South Florida.

The living seawall is designed to support marine life, resulting in a structure that protects the shoreline while serving an important environmental function.

The wall itself is 3D-printed, a concept popularized by a Miamibased tech startup called KindDesigns, resulting in concrete panels that are made to look like mangroves. The 3D-printed nooks and crannies are a perfect home for marine life — like crabs, small fish and oysters.

Oysters, clams and mussels are all filter feeders, which means they clean the water around them while they’re eating their fill. The idea is that the more of the filter feeders cling to the seawall, the cleaner the canal gets.

Permit problems Living seawalls may be a healthier choice for the local ecosystem, but they’re also more expensive to build. The permits are costly as well and would-be living seawall builders need a lot of them — from the city, the state, the county and the federal government. The city is the most expensive at 1.75% of the cost of building, the church said.

The Church by the Sea was the first to receive a permit to build a living seawall through a new program that incentivizes such projects for Fort Lauderdale homeowners and businesses.

The Living Seawall Permit Fee Assistance Program helps fund the initial costs of the city building permits.

Church leaders say it was their seawall project that acted as the nudge the city needed in order to get the permit program up and running.

“The idea was that then other people would get in line, and if they’re going to build a seawall anyway, build this type of seawall to clean up the canal behind their house,” said Checchio.

But so far, the church stands alone in both applying for and receiving the permit, or the assistance. That stacks up against the 176 conventional seawalls permitted by Fort Lauderdale in the same window where the church applied for one, the church said.

“They are the only ones that come to my attention,” said Todd Hiteshew, deputy director of public works. But, he said, the city hopes this project shows other residents that a living seawall is a valuable, doable project.

“This will hopefully trigger some inspiration,” he said.

The city is building living seawalls into a few of its city-owned parks where they make sense for the region, Hiteshew said. Ideally, these will serve as demonstration projects to residents and even other local governments.

“We’re the only one right now in Broward County, that I’m aware of, that has this incentive to spur the growth of living seawalls,” he said. “Hopefully other cities and counties will copy us.”

With the permits figured out, the church is beginning construction on the new seawall, which they say could be the largest privately funded living seawall project in Florida, and plans to finish in Spring 2027. The $1.75 million project is funded almost entirely by community donations. There are 80 feet of seawall left to find sponsors for — $1,500 per foot.

But, church leaders say they’re not worried.

“God’s hand has been on this project from the very start. We have had green lights everywhere,” Rozelle said. The little church launched a big capital campaign and donations started pouring in locally and from places as far away as Australia, Rozelle said.

Church on the water The Church by the Sea formed 73 years ago on the water — literally. The first services took place aboard the Jungle Queen boat before there was a building to meet in. Worshipers in bathing suits would gather by the dock for service and donations were collected in fishing nets.

A seaside church that celebrates life in a beach community seems like a natural ally for this kind of environmental stewardship, especially one with a congregation full of boat and yacht owners.

The seawall, which will be constructed by Southeast Marine Construction, a Fort Lauderdalebased marine contractor, will include an added boardwalk the church is calling the Discovery Pathway — a dock-style walkway extending into the canal.

The pathway will allow students, residents, and other visitors to view the living seawall from the waterside. It’s meant to inspire others interested in replacing their own aging seawalls with infrastructure that supports marine restoration.

As a church that’s always been focused on serving the community, the decision to build a living seawall instead of a conventional wall aligned well with the identity of The Church by the Sea, said Checcio, the church’s pastor.

He believes that Christians not only have a responsibility to share the teachings of Jesus Christ, but also to leave the world better than they found it.

“The community should be a better place because of our involvement in it,” he said. “I think Christians have a responsibility to lead in areas like this that are making a difference in our community.”

This story was produced with financial support from Trish and Dan Bell and donors in South Florida’s Jewish and Muslim communities, including Khalid and Diana Mirza and the Mohsin and Fauzia Jaffer Foundation, in partnership with Journalism Funding Partners.

ion; a fellow; an associate: He all his peers in beauty did surpass.”

A third category simply acknowledged humanity.

Several suggested “Human.”

And there were many advocates for “Person,” with the possibility of its being shortened to “Pers,” and the argument that “it has no particular baggage.”

Also presented was “Folk,” with the interesting explanation that “Originally and properly it had no plural, being a collective noun; but in modern use, in America, it has lost its singular number, and we hear it only in the plural. Since we have already adopted a plural pronoun (they) to describe one person, I imagine people could get used to this.”

Finally, there is a miscellaneous category.

“Cer” was suggested by a Gentle Reader as “a neutral derivation of ‘Ser,’ a Latin contraction of ‘Senhor,’ having been assured

n Vitamins B and C are waterDear Heloise: People spend money on vitamins without knowing soluble and can be taken without when and how to take food. When taken with food, them. Certain vitamins they’re absorbed slower. will do their job best when What your body can’t use they are absorbed or ride will be eliminated through along with certain foods. your waste product. n Vitamin C will have the For example: n Fat: Soluble vitamins best effect if taken little Hints from by little all day long.

A, E, D and K are best Heloise Calcium tablets work absorbed when they are best with vitamin D, but taken with fat-rich foods such as whole milk, butter, oil and be very careful because excesyogurt. If at all possible, take them sive amounts of vitamin D can be with your largest meal of the day. harmful.

by a daughter that it is used in science fiction — and if it is good enough for those good folks in the future, it is good enough for me.”

And “Peeps” was suggested as “nonoffensive in any way, and kind of endearing.”

One person wrote that they were “taking inspiration from your own ‘Gentle Reader’ usage” and trying “’GentleSoul’ … It is dignified, easy to say, respectful, benevolent and a compound of two familiar parts.”

Do any of these pass the test?

Miss Manners does not believe so.

She would not, for example, suggest yelling “Folk!” at a stranger in a crowded cafe.

Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www. missmanners.com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail.com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

n Zinc and folate tablets work well when taken together. n However, a word of warning: Before taking any of these vitamins, please consult with your doctor about whether you should be taking any vitamins at all. While vitamins can provide a benefit, they can also cause harm if they’re not taken correctly or not taken in moderation. — Brent K., in Fayetteville,Tennessee

Send a hint to heloise@heloise. com.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Aug. 11, the 223rd day of 2026. There are 142 days left in the year.

Today in history: On Aug. 11, 1934, the first federal prisoners arrived at Alcatraz Island, a former military prison, in San Francisco Bay; the island would be home to more than 1,500 prisoners over the next three decades, including gangsters Al Capone and James “Whitey” Bulger, before closing in 1963.

Also on this date: In 1929, Babe Ruth became the first baseball player to reach 500 career home runs with a homer at Cleveland’s League Park.

In 1956, abstract painter Jackson Pollock died in an automobile accident on Long Island, New

York, at age 44.

In 1972, the last U.S. ground combat troops left South Vietnam to return to the United States.

In 1973, at a house party in the Bronx, 18-year-old DJ Kool Herc began extending the musical breaks of the records he was playing and speaking over the beat, marking the (unofficial) birth of hip-hop music.

In 1992, the Mall of America, the nation’s largest shopping and entertainment center, opened in Bloomington, Minnesota.

In 1997, President Bill Clinton made the first use of the line-item veto, rejecting three items in spending and tax bills. (The U.S. Supreme Court later struck down the veto as unconstitutional.)

In 2014, Academy Award-winning actor and comedian Robin

Williams died in Tiburon, California, at age 63.

Today’s birthdays: Magazine columnist Marilyn Vos Savant is 80.

Country music singer John Conlee is 80. Computer scientist and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak is 76. Musician Joe Jackson is 72.

Playwright David Henry Hwang is 69. Actor Viola Davis is 61. Actor Embeth Davidtz is 61. Actorhost Joe Rogan is 59. Actor Anna Gunn is 58. Actor Sophie Okonedo is 58. Rock guitarist Charlie Sexton is 58. Hip-hop artist Ali Shaheed Muhammad (A Tribe Called Quest) is 56. Actor Will Friedle is 50. Rock singer Ben Gibbard is 50. Actor Merritt Wever is 46.

Actor Chris Hemsworth is 43.

Rapper Asher Roth is 41. Political commentator Tomi Lahren is 34.

Actor Alyson Stoner is 33.

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Jordan Gros, owner of Mycocentrics, shows off a jar of functional mushroom extract, left, and dried cordyceps mushrooms.

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energy (adenosine triphosphate) production and supported lung function, physical endurance and muscle recovery after exercise.

Each tincture is part of a batch made from a multiday, dual-extract process in her lab where a portion of the mushroom is extracted into organic cane ethanol, and the other portion of it is extracted into distilled water. Gros uses a dual-extract process because certain molecules will only be extracted into one or the other, she said.

“By doing both, I’m able to make a full spectrum product, and that’s really where the benefit comes,” Gros said. “It’s not one molecule.

It’s not two molecules. It’s these hundreds of molecules working in synergy together.”

The process is held under low temperatures to make a terpenerich extract, the same terpenes that, for example, give reishi mushrooms a bitter taste and also may help improve sleep.

The tinctures are sold on Gros’s website, but they’re also available in some Baton Rouge businesses such as Rad Dad Alternative and Focus and Flow.

touching mushrooms isn’t dangerous. Even touching poisonous mushrooms isn’t dangerous, because the toxins aren’t absorbed through the skin, Gros said.

“I encourage people to get out into nature and start learning about them,” Gros said, “and that might help with the mycophobia.”

The practice of using mushrooms for medicinal benefits traces back to 5,300 years ago, according to the National Library of Public Medicine, and today, certain mushrooms are an approved Centuries-old practice prescription medicine in countries Medicinal mushrooms may turn like China and Japan, including some people away due to learned turkey tail.

“Humans have been using them mycophobia (the fear of mushrooms), Gros said. In America, for thousands of years,” Gros children often grow up hearing, said. “So, I believe that anecdotal “Don’t touch that” when they go evidence is part of the supporting evidence that people should conoutside to play.

But contrary to popular belief, sider.”

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zodIAC LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Let your personality shine through and your enthusiasm mesmerize those you want on your team. How you present what you want to accomplish and promote who you are will determine who wants to tag along.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) You'll be tempted by suggestions. Use information as a starting point to dissect and establish how you can incorporate what might work to help improve your skills and develop your plans.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Put your best foot forward and let your charm and intellect lead the way. Refuse to show disappointment or upset if someone gives you a hard time; instead, come back with kindness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) It's time to take a step back and reevaluate your situation. If you refuse to rush into something you have even the smallest reservation about, you'll spare yourself money, time and upset. Pay attention to detail.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) Ride the wave, and engage in what excites you.

Pay attention to where your money goes and the returns you receive. You can bring in cash if you handle your investments with insight and intelligence.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Communication with someone close to you will confuse and unnerve you. Don't let anger set in when what's necessary is having the ability to redirect your energy into something that works for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Observe what outsiders have to offer. If you show inter-

est, you'll receive double the information regarding how to avoid pitfalls and make the most out of what you want to pursue.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Put your energy into domestic solutions and improvements. Change may not be required, but an adjustment that offers space to redesign what's important to you will lead to better results.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) Put your imagination to work. Explore the possibilities, and put your talents to good use. Being social will allow you to pick the brains of people who have something to contribute to your well-being and prospects.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Slow down, consider the consequences and refrain from sharing too much personal information.

Focus on using your skills and traits to ferret out specifics regarding domestic and professional situations.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Push for answers.

Having open dialogue will be your ticket to success. If you explore activities and projects of interest, you'll expand your mind and insight into what's possible.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) Go over documents carefully, and make changes that protect you from being taken advantage of. Leave nothing to chance, and refuse to give anyone the right to disrupt your life.

The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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BY PHILLIP ALDER James Thurber, a cartoonist, playwright, author and wit, asked of an unknown voice, “If I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”

In bridge, working out the right number is a big help. In this deal, South and East have to come up with the important figures.

South is in three no-trump. West leads the heart four. How should South plan the play?

South’s two-no-trump rebid is in principle game-forcing. North may pass only with fewer than six points and no long suit. This agreement gives the responder the three-level to suggest alternative strains, or to start a slam investigation.

South has eight top tricks: three spades, three hearts (given the lead) and two diamonds. Obviously, he should hope for a 3-2 diamond break to generate the extra winner that he needs. But since dummy has no entry outside diamonds, South should lead a low diamond from his hand and play low from the board. What should happen after that?

It will be tempting for East to win the trick and return his second heart. But with this layout, South runs home with an overtrick.

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Instead, East should hope his partner has good clubs. After overtaking West’s diamond nine with his jack, East should shift to the club six. Here, that works perfectly. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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today’s thought “For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you have need of these things.”

Luke 12:30 God knows what we need and when we need it. Trust the Lord. — G.E. Dean

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“Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. all the words are in the Official sCraBBlE® players Dictionary, 5th Edition.

Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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For more information on tournaments and clubs, email naspa – north american sCraBBlE players association: info@scrabbleplayers.org. Visit our website: www.scrabbleplayers.org. For puzzle inquiries contact scrgrams@gmail.com.

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2 - The numbers within the heavily outlined boxes, called cages, must combine using the given operation (in any order) to produce the target numbers in the top-left corners.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE TITLE: SPOUSAL INCENTIVE HEALTH REIMBURSEMENT AGREEMENT PROGRAM SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4739 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: JULY 21, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: AUGUST 20, 2026 @ 4:00 P.M. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: AUGUST 5, 2026 @10:00 A.M. TEAMS: MEETING ID: 257 492 340 784 852 PASSWORD: n6ND22kn

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ d d b h

g 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): 946-20 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.

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For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: July 21, 28, August 4 and 11, 2026 NOCP 9164 194655-jul 21-28-aug 4-114t $168.64

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority is sealed bids for C-2243 Furnish & In‐ stall Electronic Key Sys‐

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Bids are due Monday, Au‐ gust 31, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at which time bids re‐ ceived on time and in the correct location will be considered. Bid Docu‐ ments may be obtained online at https://www. centralauctionhouse. com/Category/10822/ NewOrleansErnestNMo rialConventionCenter or by contacting the Con‐ tracts Department at (504) 582-3562 or con‐ tracts@mccno.com.

All Bids must be submitted in accordance with the Bid Documents.

y g 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 informational slidedeck.

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196018-aug 3-11-20-3t $26.73 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.

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PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III IN HIS CAPACITY AS SHERIFF OF JEFFERSON PARISH, HEREBY NOTIFIES HIS INTENT TO DONATE, AUCTION, RETAIN OR DESTROY UNCLAIMED PROPERTY IN ACCORDANCE WITH JP ORDINANCE 31-8 UNLESS OTHERWISE CLAIMED BY THE OWNER WITHIN 30 DAYS OF PUBLICATION OF THIS NOTICE. PROPERTY MAY BE CLAIMED BY CONTACTING THE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE PROPERTY AND EVIDENCE DIVISION, LOCATED AT 1801 WEST BANK EXPRESSWAY, HARVEY, LA 70058, OR

BY CALLING 504-376-2384. ALL CLAIMANTS MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF OWNERSHIP BEFORE ANY PROPERTY MAY BE RELEASED.

The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for Proposals (RFP) due Monday, August 31, to d il b k

This project is partially funded by the National Oceanic and Atmos‐ pheric Administration (NOAA), through a grant agreement with the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, grant award number: NA23NOS4730219.

The views and conclusions contained in this docu‐ ment are those of the au‐ thors and should not be interpreted as represent‐ ing the opinions or poli‐ cies of the U.S. Govern‐ ment or the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and its funding sources.

Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government, or the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation or its funding sources.

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LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS UNDER LA. R.S. § 12:11432 ET SEQ. OF THE LIQ‐ UIDATION AND DISSOLU‐ TION OF SUBURBAN ELEC‐ TRIC, INCORPORATED IS HEREBY GIVEN that Sub‐ urban Electric, Incorpo‐ rated is being liquidated, pursuant to judicial au‐ thorization. All creditors, or all persons believed to have valid and subsisting claims against, and all persons having unful‐ filled contracts with Sub‐ urban Electric, Incorpo‐ rated are hereby called upon to present any claim they may have in detailed writing to Karen A. Hebert, Liquidator, c/o Jesse L. Robert, 3956 Gov‐ ernment Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70806.

All claims must be pre‐ sented in writing and must contain sufficient information reasonably to inform the Corpora‐ tion of the identity of the claimant and the sub‐ stance of the claim. Any and all such claims will be extinguished unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced

by October 30th, 2026.

ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its first public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ i l d il

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g y ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307).

ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF OR‐ LEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2023-07526 DIVISION A J-15 @ DOCKET NO. 1

196853 Aug. 11, 1t $137.72

SUCCESSION OF MAIT‐ LAND SANDERS

NEWS 24/7 ON

NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL REAL ESTATE AT PRIVATE SALE

FILED: DEPUTY CLERK

I-08904-23

HANDLE W/ BLUE TAPE

DARON SMITH

I-10132-23

TWO SCREWDRIVERS

FOUND

I-10422-23

PINK JACKET

FOUND

I-11029-23

CHASE CHECK (#0137)

JOSE ZELAYA

I-12751-23

FIRST AID KIT

FOUND

H-15197-23 STEVE MADDEN PURSE, KEYS, ASSORTED CARDS

STORE.NOLA.COM

NOTICE IS GIVEN that Beverly Wallace Sanders, Administratrix of the Succession of Maitland Sanders, has, pursuant to the provisions of Arti‐ cle 3281 of the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, petitioned this Honorable Court for authority to sell at private sale, all of the right, title and interests of the Succession in and to the following de‐ scribed real estate for the price and sum of $375,000.00: ONE CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all of the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the THIRD DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, PARISH OF ORLEANS, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof known as EASTOVER SUBDIVI‐ SION, GREENBRIER PLACE, in SQUARE A thereof, bounded by West Greenbrier Drive, Greenbrier Drive, East‐ over Drive, Interstate Highway 10, Jahncke Canal, and Gannon Road or canal, designated as LOT 10 on plan of resub‐ division made by W/E Professional Surveys, dated March 1, 1994, reg‐ istered in CIN 106476, and according to which said Lot 10 measures 58.26 feet front on West Green‐

F-21335-23

HEADBANDS, DUDE WIPES, LIGHTER, MINT CONTAINER, CIGARETTES, AUTO KEYS

FOUND

F-21335-23

AMAZON FIRE TV STICK

FOUND

F-21335-23

FOUND

FOUND

T-MOBILE HOT SPOT DEVICE, IMEI: 350265490123135

F-21386-23

GEORGE BARNETT

H-15197-23 ASSORTED CREDIT CARDS

HENRY NGUYEN

BLACK SCHOK MOBILE PHONE, SN: UNK.

H-15197-23 BOYD REWARD CARD

DAO TRAN

G-00108-23 WHITE PRO BUDS V2

FOUND

H-15197-23 CAESARS REWARD CARD

MINH PHAM

G-03806-23 BLUE VISA DEBIT CARD

MONICA JEREZ

H-15197-23 CAESARS REWARD CARD

HUNG NGUYEN

B-20174-23

GREY APPLE X MODEL IPAD SN: 2A2ERXMOX8

LEONARD MARTIN

H-15197-23 ASSORTED CREDIT CARDS, RECEIPT

ADA MARTINEZ

D-07017-23

BLACK UNKNOWN CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

CHASE SMITH

H-15197-23 LA. PURCHASE CARDS, HEALTH INS. CARDS

OSMAN MARTINEZ

D-07017-23

RED APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

DEROY HARRINGTON

I-03304-23

WALLET, SSN CARD, CREDIT CARDS, HEALTH INSURANCE CARDS

KENDRICK ALLISON

D-07017-23

BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

DEROY HARRINGTON

D-07017-23

WHITE APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

CHASE SMITH

F-02734-23

BACKWOODS CAMO BACKPACK

FOUND

F-11914-23

GLOCK BOX, MAGAZINE, PAPERWORK

HERBERT KEYS

ITEM #

DESCRIPTION

OWNER

B-02733-21

LOUIS VUITTON WALLET, HONDA KEYS

FOUND

B-02733-21

BLACK APPLE IPAD, WITH CASE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

E-00334-23

BLACK SAMSUNG CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

E-00334-23

BLACK APPLE IPHONE, W/ RED CASE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

I-04770-23

APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK, PELICAN CASE

FOUND

E-00717-23

MULTI-COLORED ZIPPER POUCH

BRANDON NGUYEN

I-06821-23

HOUSE KEYS

FOUND

I-07297-23

BLACK SANDALS

FOUND

E-04350-23

APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

I-07784-23

FOUND

E-23629-23

THREE DEBIT CARDS

SEAN STEWART

APPLE AIRTAG, SN: HWBKGLNYPOGU

F-16269-23

F-05055-23

DUTY BELT, HOLSTER, MAG POUCH, FLASHLIGHT POUCH, TWO HANDCUFF POUCHES, YELLOW VEST, AMERICAN FLAG

FOUND

BLACK BAG, CLOTHES, BLUE BAG

ORLANDO GOMEZGARCIA

TCL CELLPHONE, SN: UNK., CHARGER

FOUND

I-08288-23

F-21386-23

SAMSUNG CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

ORLANDO GOMEZGARCIA

HOLSTER, TOOTHPASTE, CLOTHES, BRACELET

FOUND

I-08288-23

F-21408-23

F-06977-23

KNIFE

FOUND

GOLD APPLE IPHONE SERIES 7

CHARLES JACKSON

GO AUTO INSURANCE DOCUMENTS

ANTONIO MCKNIGHT

E-04879-23

F-21408-23

LOUISIANA DRIVER’S LICENSE FRANCHELLE RILES

F-07533-23

RED/SILVER PIPE, BROWN/ RED PIPE

FOUND

H-18552-23 BLUE AT&T/BLACK TCL TRACE FOUND PHONE

F-23568-23

F-08444-23

FRONTIER BEAR SPRAY, SN: 517693

FOUND

I-05775-23

TEXAS LICENSE PLATE 453 XVS

ROBERT WILLIAMS

COACH WALLET, CHECK BOOK, ASSORTED CARDS, PHOTO

F-08819-23

GRAY/BLUE BAG, CLOTHING, LA DL, CREDIT CARDS, IPAD COVER/CABLE, AIR PODS

DANIEL UPTON

I-09073-23

WHITE APPLE IPHONE

SHANIEKA REAUX

I-10834-23

DEBIT CARD

MORGAN BEAN

I-10834-23

VISA CREDIT CARD

DAREN ALLEN

I-10834-23

ROBINHOOD DEBIT CARD

SERGIO REYES

I-10834-23

TWO DEBIT CARDS

TRICHELL SORRELL

I-15604-23

LOONEY TUNE BACK PACK, SHIRT, CABLE, FOUR CELL CASES, LOTTERY

FOUND

F-11178-23

KEYS ON BLACK LANYARD

FOUND

F-11190-23

LA. ID CARD

MILTON FAULKNER

K-15426-22

HP PAVILION, SN: 5CD3340VW6

GREEZY FRANCISCO

G-04976-23 BLACK SAMSUNG PHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

G-04976-23 BLUE APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

G-06021-23 VAPE PEN, WATER, PHONE NUMBER

HEATH ROBINSON

G-06426-23 LA DL, ASSORTED CARDS

GERALD JONES

G-06566-23 WALLET, ASSORTED CARDS, PAPERS

JACE THOMPSON

K-18910-22

WALLET

JASON BEEBE

B-10043-23

WALLET, LA DL, CREDIT CARDS

MIGUEL KELLEY

I-16157-23

JERRY LEE

G-11153-23 TWO MAGAZINES, 2 LIVE ROUNDS

FOUND

B-10681-23

COSMETICS, BRO/BLK BACKPACK, SAINTS MARDI GRAS BEAD, TWO RELIGIOUS BOOKS, TX DL

SARAH COOLEY

LOUISIANA IDENTIFICATION CARD

I-17753-23

ASSORTED DEBIT, CREDIT, AND GIFT CARDS

SCOTT SURGI

G-12176-23 LOUISIANA LICENSE PLATE # N587572

EAN HOLDINGS LLC.

I-18537-23

LA DRIVERS LICENSE

SEMAJ GILMORE

FOUND

B-20494-23

BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

I-18821-23

FOUND

D-07349-23

ROSE GOLD APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

MODEL GUN CO., CALIBER 45, REPLICA GUN WITH MAGAZINE

G-12434-23 CLOTHES, DG ULTRA PROTECTION

I-18821-23

E-21935-23

ASSORTED MEDICATION

DEREK ARNOULT

F-03785-23

PINK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK, AGREEMENT

JASON MATTHEW

MODEL GUN CO., MODEL: FOUND UNKNOWN, .38 CALIBER REPLICA GUN, SN: UNKNOWN

I-20466-23

F-05778-23

HOLY STONE DRONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

WALLET, SOCIAL SECURITY CARD

J-06431-23

F-06401-22

FIREARM MAGAZINE, LA ID

JOHN SEARS

F-07096-23

GRAY FOREVER 21 SWEATPANTS

FOUND

J-07454-23

F-10285-23

ANDROID C5L MAX CELL, SN: UNK.

FOUND

F-12248-23

ASSORTED PACKS OF 26 BRAID HAIR

FOUND

F-12868-23

SCISSORS, POUCH, CLIPPERS, HEADPHONE CASE, HEADPHONES

FOUND

F-13908-23

LA ID

RENNARD YOUNG

F-13931-23

HYGIENE PRODUCTS, CIGARETTES, NARCAN, LIGHTER

NATALIE DISCON

F-15460-23

SPRINGFIELD ARMORY 40 CAL. MAGAZINE

FOUND

F-16527-23

BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

F-17118-23

OZARK TRAIL KNIFE W/ SHEATH

HAROLD PERCLE

F-17242-23

ARMOR VEST, SHIRT, BALLCAP, VEHICLE DOCS.

DARRELL TERRIO

F-17438-23

YELLOW BOX CUTTER KNIFE

FOUND

K-05340-22

BACKWOODS BAG, KEYS

FOUND

K-14287-22

WALLET, SSN CARD, LA ID, TWIC, ASSORTED CARDS/ PAPERS

PRESTON BUTLER

H-22152-23 WOOD FOREST BANK CARD

MAURICE LEWIS

H-22325-23 BLACK TRACFONE, IMEI: 016053009034779)

MICHAEL CLARK

I-00036-23

US BANK DEBIT CARD

SHON JEFFERSON

I-00036-23

WHITE VISA DEBIT CARD

JUSTIN ALLEN

I-00036-23

BLUE DEBIT CARD

ASHLEY BEEBE

I-00036-23

GREEN HUMANA DEBIT CARD

RICHARD WILLMOTT

I-00036-23

BLACK DEBIT CARD

JACOB BREAUX

I-00036-23

CAPITAL ONE CREDIT CARD

MICHAEL GENELLA

I-00036-23

TWO DEBIT CARDS

CIERA GIBSON

I-00036-23

ASSORTED CREDIT CARDS, LA ID

RAYNELL HOWARD

I-00036-23

VISA DEBIT CARD

THALIA BARAHONA

I-00036-23

SAINTS VISA CARD, WENDY’S GIFT CARD

DENISE CARTER

I-00036-23

SSN CARD

GLEN ROMERO JR.

I-00036-23

VISA CREDIT CARD

FOUND

I-00036-23

REGIONS/NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT CARDS

JENNIFER HERBERT

I-00036-23

VISA DEBIT CARD, LA. PURCHASE CARD

JAVIER HENRIQUEZ

I-03496-23

WALLET, LA ID, THREE DEBIT CARDS

KEIRON JORDAN

I-05692-23

THREE TOWELS, BRA, SCARF, KEYS, POUCH, BODYWASH

FOUND

G-13443-23 TWO KNIFES, RED LOX, PIPES, FOUND CORD, BAG, POUCH G-15232-23 GRAY BAG, COSMETICS

FOUND

G-15706-23 LOUISIANA DRIVERS LICENCE

JAMES RICE

G-16522-23 WALLET, INS. CARD, PAPERS

BRIAN STOKES

CHARLES LAW

I-15945-22

LIGHTER, KEY, BIRTH CERTIFICATE, TWIC CARD

TAJ MILLER

FLORAL PULLOVER, BLACK HAND EXERCISER

FOUND

I-15945-22

APPLE WATCH, SN: GJCCTHQ4J5X0

TAJ MILLER

MAKERS MARK 1.75 LIQUOR

FOUND

I-18967-21

CLOUD MOBILE PHONE, SN: UNK.

JOSH HOLLYWOOD

K-15492-09

BRACELETS, EARRINGS, BELT, JASMINE SMITH CELL PHONE

H-13682-23 UNKNOWN MAKE CELL PHONE

WILLIAMS LOPEZ

I-17649-23

CARABINER WITH (5) KEYS

FOUND

J-03213-23

GLOCK, MODEL 17, .177 CALIBER AIR SOFT PISTOL, SN GUW017

FOUND

D-05879-22

APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

KHANH NGUYEN

E-00953-23

BLACK CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

JOSHUA SMITH

J-05933-23

ONE CAMERA STAND

FOUND

E-00953-23

LOUISIANA STATE DRIVERS LICENSE

JESSICA POOLE

NAVY BLUE NOKIA CELLPHONE

JOSHUA SMITH

J-06739-23

E-08102-23

APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK., W/ BLACK CASE

FOUND

RED APPLE IPHONE 12, SN: 353726516877266

QUINTON HAWKINS

J-07096-23

F-11914-23

BLACK ONNAIS LOCK BOX

HERBERT KEYS

J-07096-23

PURPLE APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK, W/ BLUE CASE

FOUND

G-04976-23 APPLE WATCH, W. GRN BAND, FOUND SN: UNK.

J-08843-23

TWO CREDIT CARDS, LA. PURCHASE CARD

SHELBY BOWMAN

G-04976-23 PLAID WALLET

FOUND

J-09527-23

LICENSE PLATE

FOUND

G-07977-23 BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

J-09764-23

REEBOK BLACK AND GRAY CAMOUFLAGE BAG, BLACK SOCKS

FOUND

G-07977-23 BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

J-11580-23

TOOL CASE, WO RUGER MAGAZINES, SIX 380 LIVE ROUNDS

FOUND

G-07977-23 GREEN APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND FOUND

J-14492-23

POLK RANE CONTROL BOX TOY

FOUND

G-07979-23 PINK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

J-15414-23

BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

DANIEL HARRIS

G-07979-23 BLACK MOTOROLA CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

J-19157-23

SILVER APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

G-07979-23 BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

J-19796-23

BLACK SIG SAUER MAGAZINE

HUEY ANTILL

G-07979-23 PURPLE APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

J-19796-23

CAPITAL ONE DEBIT MASTER CARD

MAGNE MAJOSUND

G-20312-23 TOMMY HILFIGER WALLET, LA ID, ASSORTED CARDS

NATHAN LUCAS

J-20774-23

LEOPOLD, MODEL: RX650, RANGE FINDER, SN: LR1BK34745

FOUND

G-22219-23 EASTPORT BAG, ENVELOPE

KENDELL WASHINGTON

K-01253-23

WALLET, LA DL, ASSORTED CARDS

MICHAEL PIERCE

G-22219-23 CLOUD MOBILE PHONE, SN: C7230227009667

KENDELL WASHINGTON

D-19850-23

K-03239-23

MICHAEL KORS WALLET, LA ID, CARDS

SHYKEISH WATKINS

GRAY APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

CHRISTOPHER HAUER

E-08931-22

APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

F-19020-14

ELECTRONIC CIGARETTE

FOUND

K-05169-23

SILVER KNIFE W/ RED HANDLE JAMES GLANCEY

K-07555-23

ASSORTED CREDIT CARDS

ANDREA HOLLINS

K-09191-23

GOLD APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK., GOLD CASE

ELIZABETH HAILE

E-11682-23

FOUR MAGAZINES, PISTOL LOWER

FOUND

F-07619-23

BACKPACK, BEANIE

FOUND

F-07619-23

SSN CARD, ASSORTED CARDS

DEDERA JOHNSON

F-13030-23

RED SAMSUNG PHONE, SN: UNK.

JOSE RESALESCASTILLO

F-20898-23

FIVE HAND KNIVES, HAT

TERENCE HINES

G-12632-23 SILBER HP CHROMEBOOK, SN: UNK.

DARREL WILLIAMS

G-12632-23 ASSORTED MAGAZINES

DARREL WILLIAMS

H-01367-23 WALLET, LA ID CARDS, VISA/ SSN CARD

RAKEEM GRAHAM

H-02318-23 ASSORTED CLOTHING

FOUND

H-05038-23 BLACK DIGIT Z SCALE

PATRICK WILSON

H-05314-23 MACHETE, KNIFE, CABLE CUTTER, BINOCULARS, SAWZALL, WRENCHES

FOUND

H-05572-23 PLAYSTATION 4, SN: MC865714579

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brier Drive, a width in the rear of 118.47 feet, by a depth on the sideline ad‐ joining Lot 9 of 127.98 feet, by a depth on the sideline adjoining Lot 11 of 141.65 feet.

Improvements thereon bear Municipal No. 190 West Greenbrier Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana 70128.

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NOW THEREFORE, in ac‐ cordance with law, no‐ tice is hereby given that BEVERLY WALLACE SANDERS, Administratrix of the Succession of Maitland Sanders, pur‐ poses to sell all of the right, title and interests of the Succession in the aforesaid real estate, at private sale, for the price and upon the terms aforesaid, and the heirs, legatees, and creditors are required to make op‐ position, if any they have or can, to such sale, within seven (7) days, in‐ cluding Sundays and hol‐ idays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears.

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PUBLICATION: The New Orleans Advocate and The Louisiana Weekly Publish Once, Then Again 21 Days Later

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myaccount.nola.com PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE Joseph P. Lopinto, III in his capacity as Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, hereby notifies his intent to donate, auction, retain or destroy unclaimed property in accordance with JP Ordinance 31-8 unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice.

Property may be claimed by contacting the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Property and Evidence Division, located at 1801 West Bank Expressway, Harvey, LA 70058, or by calling 504-376-2384. All claimants must provide proof of ownership before any property may be released.

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PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE

H-21494-23

PURSE, CHARGER, MAKEUP, USB, KEYS

Joseph P. Lopinto, III in his capacity as Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, hereby notifies his intent to donate, auction, retain or destroy unclaimed property in accordance with JP Ordinance 31-8 unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice.

H-21870-23

PINK/WHITE ELIM & PAUL PURSE FOUND

H-21870-23

BLUE ALCATEL CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

FOUND

I-01708-23

MERCHANDISE RECEIPTS

FOUND

Property may be claimed by contacting the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Property and Evidence Division, located at 1801 West Bank Expressway, Harvey, LA 70058, or by calling 504-376-2384. All claimants must provide proof of ownership before any property may be released.

J-12810-23

BACKPACK, DOCUMENTS

GERALD FRANKLIN

K-03248-23

RED BACK PACK WITH HOLY CROSS SCHOOL LOGO

FOUND

K-03248-23

BLACK BACKPACK WITH WHITE JORDAN LETTERING

NEHEMIAH JACKSON

A-02303-23

WALLET, DL, ASSORTED CARDS

RYAN DEVIN

K-06252-23

SANYO DVD PLAYER SN: :R51517793

FOUND

K-06252-23

MICROSOFT WINDOWS, SN: 018812130452

FOUND

K-06252-23

XBOX ONE CONSOLE, SN: 222838334548

FOUND

K-06252-23

APEX DVD PLAYER, SN: C6311034626

FOUND

ADDRESS: 433 Metairie Road, Suite 601 Metairie, LA 70005

CHELSEY RICHARD NAPOLEON Clerk of Court Civil District Court For the Parish of Orleans ATTORNEY: Drolla, Jr.

Legal Notices

FOUND

Item #

Description

Owner

E-17626-23

APPLE IPHONE 11, SN: DNPZL6SWN72N

JUAN RIVERARAPALO

G-11153-23

WALTHER AIRSOFT GUN, SN: 22H11792

FOUND

G-15318-23

LA ID, LA. PUR. CARD, SIX CREDIT CARDS

BRIAN SCOTT

G-15318-23

AMAZON CREDIT CARD

CARROL HUGHES

G-15318-23

PENN ACCESS CARD

DAVID SMITH

G-15318-23

SOCIAL SECURITY BOARD CARD RICARDO MANZANILLA

K-06252-23

TOSHIBA DVD PLAYER, SN: 1XPL101996

FOUND

G-15318-23

AAA CARD

CALINA LEE

K-11372-23

NET SPEND/LA. PUR. CARDS

DANIELLE HOUSTON

BLACK/SILVER ZTE CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

ANGELA MEDINA

G-15318-23

K-11372-23

BLUE CAN TANK, TWO DILLARD CARDS, BLACK PURSE

JADE DEVALL

BLACK LG CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

ANGELA MEDINA

G-16686-23

K-11372-23

BAG, WALLET, DEODORANT, MULTI-TOOL, LIGHTERS, LOG BIT, 22 CAL CARTRIDGE, SUNGLASSES

FOUND

BLACK TLC CELL PHONE, SN: UNK.

ANGELA MEDINA

H-01285-23

K-11372-23

BAGS, HAT, CARDS, TOOLS, USB ANGELA MEDINA

I-20234-23

H-02355-23

WALLET, MARYLAND DL, ASSORTED CARDS

THOMAS KLECKER

HYGIENE PRODUCTS, BLACK CASE, CLOTHES

DECARLOS JONES

K-06252-23

FOUND

H-03217-23

DISC BOOK, CD'S, HAIR CLIP, KEY, EAR BUDS, CHARGER, MAKEUP BAG, KNIFE, MAKEUP, UMBRELLA, GLOVES

FOUND

SONY PLAY STATION 3, SN: AA460135045

K-06252-23

CANNON/HOYA CAMERA LENS, CASE, BAG

FOUND

K-06252-23

WALLET, ASSORTED CARDS

H-03217-23

VEGA MOUR BOX, SHAMPOO/ CONDITIONER

ELAINE REYES

LEONARD MCGINNIS

K-14000-23

H-03217-23

CASH APP VISA CARD (#4514)

FOUND

DAISEY .177 CAL BB PISTOL, SN: BRIAN CLARK 017H16041

H-06735-23

TWO KNIVES

FOUND

K-15749-23

JACKET, HOODIE, TAPE

FOUND

I-05692-23

SKY CELL PHONE, SN: SKYB632210047683

FOUND

K-17367-23

CREST W/ LOGO

FOUND

L-00450-23

FOUND

I-13567-23

FOUR BUCKET HATS

DENZELL HOLLIDAY

BACKPACK, GLOVE, BRUSH, CROWBAR

L-02009-23

BLUE LAND END JACKET

J-20492-23

KNIFE, FOLDING RAZOR

ANTHONY CARMADELLE

LANCE LICHTENSTEIN

K-03885-23

BLACK BAG

FOUND

H-02161-23

ASSORTED HOUSEHOLD GOODS/TOOLS

JAMES CRAIG

K-10982-23

BLACK APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK. FOUND

K-10982-23

FOSSIL BACKPACK, CLOTHES

FOUND

BAG, AIR PODS, CASE, WALLET, CARDS

FOUND

H-03217-23 H-09420-23

BLACK BAG CONTAINING MISC ITEMS.

FOUND

K-12523-23

APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

ASHLEY GORIS

K-18190-23

CASH APP CARD

H-13037-23

ASSORTED DOCUMENTS

LANDRY DIXON

JAMES CROUCH SR.

H-18989-23

WALLET, LA DL, ASSORTED CARDS

YURI REYNOLDS

L-01439-23

MITCHELL RIGGINS

A-02303-23

BLACK SKI MASK, HEADLAMP

FOUND

A-02303-23

WALLET, LA ID, ASSORTED CARDS

JONATHAN NORRIS

WALLET, LA ID, ASSORTED CARDS, CASE, HYGIENE PRODUCTS, CLOTHES, PERSONAL ITEMS

L-04687-23

ASSORTED CARDS

A-02303-23

LA DL, CREDIT CARD

KENNETH BARNES

TERRYANA MARTIN

L-04733-23

MASTER KEY

SHAOPENG GAO

A-02303-23

WALLET, LA DL

STEVEN SWEETWYNE

L-05715-23

SHIRT, SPORTS COAT

RONY CRUZ

L-09452-23

FOUND

E-16450-23

LEATHER GALCO HOLSTER ENGRAVED H139HOSPD-192B

FOUND

BOX CUTTER, ALLEN WRENCH TOOL

L-11257-23

WALLET, ASSORTED CARDS

DORIS DAVIS

G-16686-23

RED APPLE IPHONE, SN: UNK.

JADE DEVALL

K-19762-23

FOUND

H-15463-23

ASSORTED CALIBER MAGAZINES, GLOCK BACKSTRAP KIT

HAVON MONTGOMERY

CAMO BAG, ASSORTED FISHING GEAR

L-05920-23

SOUTH CAROLINA DL

DALTON MCRAE

L-06656-23

BACKWOODS BACKPACK

DEVIN WING

H-15725-23

WALTHER REPLICA PELET PISTOL

FOUND

L-10141-23

HYGIENE PRODUCTS, TOOLS, SUNGLASSES, CASE, MAKEUP

FOUND

H-15885-23

WALLET, LA DL, ASSORTED CARDS

ERIN SWINDLER

H-16792-23

BLUE SAMSUNG CELL PHONE, SN: R9WW509C7TN

FOUND

A-22796-23

Kid Color Items, Denali Case, CD Case, Misc. CD’s, Kenny Rogers Tin

Found

B-00476-23

Glock BB Gun, SN: BUW019

Found

B-02358-23

Black Winter Coat

Found

B-03020-23

Wallet, Business Cards, Nissan Manual

Found

L-02574-22

Purse, Misc. Cards

Thomas Hunter

A-09197-23

Makita Grinder, SN: Unknown

Found

A-21656-23

Laptop Bag, Visa Card

Deandell Lewis

B-00119-23

Black Flashlight

Found

B-04633-23

Purse, Hygiene Products, Charger, Knife

Found Brittney Williams

A-00645-23

Access, Regions, COE Debit Cards Corey Leblanc

A-00645-23

Wage Works Debit Card

Warren Mixon

A-05833-23

Three Photo Strips, Keys, Case

Richard Mattei

B-04837-23

Green Credit Card

A-06291-23

Wallet, LA. DL, Assorted Cards

Hasaan Dubuclet

B-10100-23

Black Debit Card

Imani White

B-10854-23

Nine Packs of Game Cigars

Jimmy Jimenez

A-06523-23

Apple I-Phone, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

B-10985-23

Capital One Debit Card (#7475)

Found

A-06619-23

La. DL, CWP Card

Lavone Moore

B-11555-23

Wallet, LA ID, Misc. Cards

Ronald McClure

A-06619-23

Money Lion Card

Shaun Carter

B-17207-23

Fanta, Skittles, Bag, Clothes, Credit Card

Found

196572-675099-aug 11-1t $ 145.53

C-04520-23

Wallet, ID Cards, Credit Cards

C-04528-23

Gold Frame Glasses

Laura Cummings Found

C-04863-23

Glock Air Gun, SN: GUW019

Found

C-10410-23

Nissan Key FOB

Found

G-13048-22

Hair Tie

Found

H-10254-22

Purse, Centrum, Charger, Debit Card, Power Bank, Notebook

Kia Naquin

H-10254-22

Apple iPhone, SN: 5N016248002534755

Kia Naquin

L-20210-22

Multiple Purses

Found

L-20210-22

Samsung Tablet, SN: R52K20TAR1S

Found

A-07930-23

Nuu/Motorola Cellphones, Model/ SN: Unknown

Patrick Morton

A-17560-23

Wallet, Samsung Tablet, IMEI: 358408090862619

Miguel Baldesas

B-06693-23

Buck Knife, Samsung Cell Phone, IMEI: 350344486423583

James Churchill

B-16772-23

Motorola Cell Phone, Model/SN: Unknown

Nilson SevillaMejia

C-03912-23

OWB Holsters, Case, Sketch Pad

Found

I-13402-22

Trac Fone, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

I-13402-22

La. Purchase Card

Mark Billiot

J-15594-22

Apple I-Pad, Model/SN: Unknown

Zach Bergeron Found

A-06619-23

Lighters, Cocoa Butter, Cigarettes

Found

A-06619-23

Visa Card

Jarrett Guerrien

B-18200-23

Texas License Plate (571HWK)

Found

A-06619-23

Marvel Wallet, Misc. Cards/Papers

Found

B-19242-23

Wallet, Misc. Cards

Noah Monteforte

A-08989-23

Jacket, Underwear, Belt

Found

L-09910-22

Gerber Knife

Found

A-12926-23

Toyota Key FOB, Toyota Key, Silver Found Key

A-06306-23

Schok Cell Phone, Model/SN: Unknown

Louis Gagliano

K-03816-22

Bag, Roku, Flashlight

A-13197-23

Shirt, Pants, Underwear

Laialy Ali

A-13641-22

Found

L-16831-21

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unknown Found

I-13432-22

Camera, USB Charger

Brandon Collins

Gift Cards, Lights, Tampons, Pens, Chargers, Glasses

L-16831-21

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unknown Found

K-15097-22

Kobalt Box Cutter

Found

B-08165-23

Black Pistol Magazine

Found

L-16831-21

Brown Wallet, Saints Backpack

Found

K-16325-22

Assorted Cards

Yesenia Figueroa

B-09112-23

Assorted Clothes

Found

L-20210-22

LA. Drivers License

Jessica Acosta

L-05491-22

Motorola Moto G Cell Phone, IMEI: 7840

Michael Chubb

B-10651-23

Two Hairclips

Found

L-20210-22

LA. Identification Card

Barbara Godelfer

B-10657-23

Blanket, Shirt

Found

L-20210-22

Chase Check Book

Jessie Acosta

Blu Cell Phone, Model/SN: Unknown, Backpack

Janes Jones

B-15206-23

Revvl6 Cell Phone, SN: 861690065530830

Found

B-16244-23

Grey, Black, Gold, Apple Iphones, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

B-17207-23

SCY Cell Phone, Model: PS5, SN: Unknown, Two Scales

Found

C-00144-23

Dell Laptop, SN: X0100322-18003

Found

C-04425-23

Charging Cables, Purse

Found

C-16608-23

The Joker Picture, Knife

Found

C-14125-23

Swiss Gear Wallet

Tommy Smith

C-15523-23

2019 Nissan Registration

Found

C-17062-23

La. Drivers License

Craig Trufant

C-20177-23

Black Book Sack

Found

G-20190-22

Arc Air Gun, SN: 77-10242

Blake Benson

J-15594-22

SBR Receiver, SN:022215297046-K

Found

J-15594-22

Palmetto State Armory Receiver, SN: SCD206085

Found

L-18348-22

Crescent Folding Knife

Walter Rogers

I-06880-22

L-19112-22

Wallet, Misc. Cards, LA DL, Keys

Bernadette Bartholomew

B-09112-23

Backpack, Clothes

Found

L-22138-22

Handwritten Note

Found

B-10254-23

Found

A-12605-23

Mississippi License Plate (#FRG5881)

Found

Tool Bag, Jumper Cables, Flashlight

K-11410-22

Purse, Wig, Flashlight, Phone Case, Shoestrings, Charger, Pencil Case

Found

A-13069-23

Wallet, LA DL, Misc. Cards

Sarah Servat

A-13071-23

Walley, LA DL

Darren Camp

A-14645-23

Drago’s Backpack

Collin Berg

A-14645-23

Big Chief Backpack

Jacob Pregeant

A-21013-23

Safer, Flashlight, Stun Gun

Found

A-22579-23

Magazine

Found

E-03509-22

Apple, iPhone, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

K-16782-22

Metro Cell Phone, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

K-16782-22

Chromebook Laptop, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

A-09197-23

Makita Impact Driver, SN: 1238153, Batteries

A-00837-23

Apple iPhone, Model/SN: Unknown Found

A-07566-23

Apple Watch, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

B-01234-23

Misc. Personal Paperwork

Found

B-17071-23

Motorola Cell Phone, Model/SN: Unknown

Tung Nguyen

B-19937-23

Bookbag, Tool, Hygiene Products

Amija Harrell

C-01268-23

Apple Watch, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

C-04520-23

LA DL, Chase Debit Card

Tania Paz

C-04520-23

LA ID, Sams Club Card

Rosalie Williams

C-04520-23

La. Purchase Card

Tabari Brooks

Found

C-04520-23

Insurance Cards, La. Purchase Card

Quincy Edwards Ivrie Edwards

A-20211-23

Kia Key FOB

Found

C-04520-23

Insurance Cards

A-21244-23

Wallet, Misc. Cards

Norris Livas

C-04520-23

Insurance Card, La. Purchase Card Starr Edwards

A-22486-23

Keys, gm Key FOB, Madrid Key Chain

Found

C-04520-23

Insurance Card

Dexter Johnson

C-04520-23

Insurance Cards

Mya Cummings

C-04520-23

Insurance Cards

Zoe Edwards

196566-675083-aug 11-1t $ 176.71

10D ✦ Tuesday,August 11, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune Legal Notices

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PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE Joseph P. Lopinto, III in his capacity as Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, hereby notifies his intent to donate, auction, retain or destroy unclaimed property in accordance with JP Ordinance 31-8 unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice.

D-16691-23

Property may be claimed by contacting the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Property and Evidence Division, located at 1801 West Bank Expressway, Harvey, LA 70058, or by calling 504-376-2384. All claimants must provide proof of ownership before any property may be released.

Legal Notices

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Florida Conceal Weapon ID (#7556)

Patrick Sullivan

D-16691-23

La. DL (#9595)

Amer Mohd

D-16691-23

La. DL (#0671)

David Green

D-16691-23

La. DL (#3698)

Bobby Ball

D-19438-23

Regions Visa Card (#6301)

Ethan Dejean

D-19438-23

Three Ins. Cards, C.O. Card (#9384)

Tristan Graham

D-19438-23

La. DL (#5464)

Lauren Morris

D-19438-23

Chase Visa Card (#8468)

Allen Jackson

D-19438-23

La. DL (#9858)

Donmonique Kelson

G-06982-22

Cables and Cords, Screwdriver, Chargers, Headphones, Power Strip

Found

G-06982-22

Dell Computer, SN: (#0100)

Found

Legal Notices

Legal Notices

Legal Notices

E-08952-23

Wallet, Identity Cards, Stamps

E-19383-23

White/Red Jordan Slide Shoes

Dawn Monteforte Found

J-16700-22

Green Dress

Found

B-08387-23

La. ID

Travilique Lewis

B-10123-23

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unk.

Found

B-14966-23

Combat Paintball Gun, Model/ SN: Unk.

Found

D-19643-23

Woodforest Debit Card (#5387

Ramona Hayes

D-19643-23

Lowe’s Credit Card (#7521)

Stephanie Zarou

E-08266-23

Craftsman Skill Saw, Model/ SN: Unk.

Found

E-10829-23

Backpack, Clothes, Hygiene Products, Tool

Cameron Haverty

E-15836-23

Dell Laptop, Model/SN: Unk., Check Paper

Found

Item #

Description

Owner

A-07528-23

Clothes

Shawn Rogers

A-17986-22

Extended Magazine

Found

C-06481-23

Kitchen Knife

Angela Starkey

C-09474-23

Four Gift Cards, Five Credit Cards

Found

G-06982-22

Dell Computer, SN: (#9549)

Found

E-16218-23

Passport

Kathryn Bronsink

C-09474-23

Visa Credit Card (#4251)

Patricia Segraves

C-18350-23

Assorted Tools

Found

E-16407-23

Bag, Ruger Accessory Piece

Brandon Barthe

C-09474-23

Visa Debit Card

Louis Lockett

D-02948-23

Black/Brown Bag, Misc. Items

Jermaine Payne

E-22239-23

Kenneth Calvin

C-09474-23

Fed-Ex Vendor ID

Elise Garvin

D-09191-23

Bombshell Perfume

Found

Wallet, Identity Cards, Two Cellphones

D-09362-23

Yellow Hoodie w/ Butterfly Design

Found

L-18954-22

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unk.

Miracle Foster

L-18954-22

Miracle Foster

C-05645-23

Wallet, Lighter, Cigarettes

Shantel Jones

Purse, Wallet, Case, Key, Identity Cards

E-15612-23

Assorted Magazines, Knifes, Holster

Found

E-18613-23

Air pods, Bags, Phone Card, Sunglasses, Gift Card, Cord

Found

C-16580-23

Duffle Bag, Hygiene Products, Case

Found

D-00630-23

Black/Pink Nike Slide Shoes

Found

D-19867-23

Verizon MiFi Device, Apple Iphone

Found

E-08266-23

Assorted Tools

Found

E-10690-23

SDHC 16GB Card

Found

E-24569-23

Backpack, Clothes, La. Pur. Card, Handcuffs

Matthew Rovira

E-24599-23

Black Pocket Knife

David Thomas

F-00225-23

TCL Cell Phone, Wallet, Identity Cards

Krystalle Land

C-09474-23

Capital One Mastercard (#6749) Willie Bell

C-09474-23

U.S. Uniformed Services ID (#8300)

Zachary James

C-09474-23

Chase Visa Debit Card (#1472)

Chata Banks

C-20177-23

Celero/Schok Cellphones

Noah Langston

C-09474-23

Capital One Debit Card (#8808)

Jaena Lang

D-02176-23

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

C-09474-23

Capital One Credit Card (#8834) Stephanie Eno

C-09474-23

Venmo Mastercard (#3088)

Eonca Favorite

D-05035-23

Kydex Holster

Found

C-09474-23

República De Honduras ID Card (#02636)

Olvin Martinez-Ardon

D-09816-23

Caboodle, Cosmetic Products

Found

D-15657-23

La. DL

Darryl Shepard

C-09474-23

NCCER Card (#4245)

Kendrick Young

D-19452-23

Play Station VR Headset

Found

C-09474-23

Home Depot Credit Card (#1115)

Blan Marriott

D-21114-23

Wallet, Assorted Identity Cards

Tiffanie Cuquet

C-09474-23

Capital One Credit Card (#5132) Arnesto Sobrado

D-21331-23

Invoice, Flash drive, Scale, Clothes

Found

C-13462-23

Bag, Brass Knuckles, Jumper Cables

Found

D-21331-23

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

C-18345-23

Brown/Red Face Mask

Dedrick Riley

D-21522-23

Black Adidas Sandals

Found

C-18345-23

Black Face Mask

Joshua Riley

D-22340-23

Fed-Ex Package

Found

C-18573-23

Pink Walley, La. DL, Bag, Perfume

Carolina Suarez

E-01054-23

La. DL (#4231)

Kevin Breaux

C-20356-23

Apple IWatch, Model: Series 7

Found

E-01054-23

La. DL (#5762)

Chris Allemand

F-00225-23

Insurance Card (#5302)

Harley Blount

C-21714-23

La. DL

Harry Miller

E-01054-23

La. DL (#1162)

Christina Boutte

F-00225-23

Insurance Card (#7469)

Payton Flick

C-22743-23

La. Registration (671FXI)

Kailee McCoy

E-01054-23

La. DL (#6455), Visa Card (#3453)

Cynthia Gilmore

F-00937-23

511 Hat, Socks, Phone Card, Tools

Derek Chaisson

Courtney Vanderhorst

D-00768-23

Vanilla Gift Card (#1331)

Found

E-01054-23

La. DL (#5438)

F-02321-23

Green Wallet

Found

D-00768-23

GO2 Bank Debit Card (#6288)

Evane Russell

E-05134-23

Airsoft Gun, SN: (#9737), Ammo Found

F-02494-23

La. ID

Bader Abuhantash

Tevin Henry

E-05134-23

Samsung Cell Phone, Model/ SN: Unk.

Found

F-02751-23

Red Kitchen Knife, Pocket Knife Kathleen Meyer

E-05134-23

Samsung Cell Phone, Model/ SN: Unk.

Found

E-05134-23

AT&T Cell Phone, Model/SN: Unk.

Found

E-05134-23

Apple Iphone, Model/SN: Unk.

Found

E-05134-23

UNO Phone, Model/SN: Unk.

Found

D-18541-23

Cologne, Fishing Line, Vest, Alligator Skin Boots

David Williamson

D-19510-23

Purse, Charger, Perfume

Found

E-00953-23

Blue Cell Phone, SN: (#1945)

Found

D-00768-23

CO2 Visa Card (#5505)

D-00768-23

Capital One Credit Card (#1210) Richard Ward

D-00768-23

Caesars Reward Card (#3498)

Jevan Fleming

D-00768-23

La. DL (#7357)

Claudel Hamilton

D-00768-23

Elite Visa Card (#7166)

Troy Moore

D-00768-23

NAS Credit Union Card (#9523, Walmart Debit Card (#7483)

Algh Banks

D-05969-23

Lost Mary Vape

Found

D-07622-23

Fireman’s Federal C.U. Card (#1309)

Albert Lyons

L-14629-22

Apple I-Pad, Model/SN: Unknown

Found

L-14629-22

Samsung Notebook, SN: #144J Found

E-00953-23

Black Cell Phone, SN: (#7422)

Found

L-14629-22

Lenovo CPU, SN: #NE2C

Found

E-06543-23

Assorted Tools

Zachary Schmidt

C-21619-23

Acer Chromebook, SN: #7600

Found

E-06637-23

Wallet, Identity Cards

D-15480-23

Motorola Cellphone, Model/ SN: Unk.

Found

Kemora SmithJohnson

E-06925-23

Pink, Yellow, Blue Van Shoes

Found

F-04264-23

Black Taser w/ Sleeve

Found

C-16580-23

Case, Magnifier, Cigarette Paper

Found

E-11387-23

Assorted Clothes/Shoes, Purses, iPod, Keys, Costume Jewelry

Found

196569-675091-aug 11-1t $ 187.11

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