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Convention Center hotel hits roadblock

Senate president says he’ll vote against agreement

BY RICH COLLINS and JONAH MEADOWS

Officials with the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center are set to go before the State Bond CommisStaff writers sion on Thursday to seek approval Fresh questions are swirling for its development agreement around the future of New Orleans’ with the Dallas-based developers planned Convention Center “head- of the planned Omni New Orleans.

But state Senate President Camquarters” hotel ahead of a key vote on the project in Baton Rouge next eron Henry, a member of the Bond week.

Commission, said Friday the deal

is not ready for primetime and that “the Bond Commission should not approve anything related to Omni next week.”

“I am adamantly opposed to putting anything related to Omni on next week’s agenda,” said Henry, a Republican from Metairie. “I will be there, and if it’s on the agenda, I will vote against it. The financing

isn’t in place, and we don’t have a deal that’s good for the state.”

Bond Commission approval for the deal is needed before construction can begin. The developers have said they need to break ground in August, while the Mississippi River is low, or face months of delays and jeopardize a hoped-for opening date in 2030.

The planned Omni New Orleans headquarters hotel has been a decadeslong dream of Convention

Center leaders, who say a stateof-the-art facility with more than 1,000 rooms is an essential tool to land big events in the nation’s increasingly competitive meetings industry. In 2018, the center announced a partnership with Omni to build it.

Part of the deal included a complicated incentives package that critics said was overly generous,

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Employees celebrate during the grand opening of Wilcox Academy Central City in New Orleans on Friday.

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Wilcox Academy celebrates opening of newest, unique location N.O. daycare’s latest site offers housing

BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

Rochelle Wilcox and her team waved enthusiastically from a float that followed the St. Augustine High School Marching 100 to Freret Street. They were trailed by a few dozen early childcare teachers and a few toddlers, some walking handin-hand with their mothers and others riding colorful scooters.

The second-line marked the opening of Wilcox Academy of Early Learning’s newest and most unique location. In addition to serving about 150 children, the development includes four two-bedroom affordable housing units.

It’s among the first projects in the city to address two pressing

needs: childcare and affordable housing. A redeveloped century-old firehouse a few blocks away will open in September as a childcare center with seven affordable housing units.

Wilcox envisioned the site as a hub for solutions to problems she said her staff members and families regularly face, including food insecurity and lack of access to healthcare, she said in an interview Thursday.

Children will be sent home with five meals each night, easing the burden of finding food for low-income families. Children and adults can both receive health screenings on-site.

“We want to help break down those barriers,” Wilcox said. “If we can take a little bit of that burden, if we can be the gap fill-

‘The greatest of all time’

Rochelle Wilcox, the founder and CEO of Wilcox Academy of Early Learning, rides on a float during a second-line for the grand opening of Wilcox Academy Central City in New Orleans on Friday. ers, then that’s what we’ll do.” early learning center in her old It’s also a homecoming stomping grounds. The classfor Wilcox, who grew up in rooms are named after Uptown the neighborhood and has ä See DAYCARE, page 7A long dreamed of opening an

Coach’s legacy at LSU lives on as champion, legend

BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

On the day Stanley “Skip” Bertman died, his statue stood where it always had before. Bertman leaning on a dugout railing, overlooking the program he built and the field named after him within Alex Box Stadium’s walls.

Flowers lay at his feet by the bottom of the rail. ä Scott Rabalais: White roses and yellow kalanBertman’s LSU legacy is eternal. choes to the left of his statue, an Page 1C arrangement of ä LSU, college purple and pink baseball figures flowers from Billy Heroman’s to mourn loss of legendary coach, the right.

The fan who administrator. gave the carnaPage 2C tions, lilies and snapdragons left him a note: “Skip, simply the best.

Will miss ya big guy!” Another fan taped a copy of The Advocate’s story

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Calvin Duncan asks federal judge to throw out law that axed seat leader.

Former prisoner says his rights were violated itsThe suit accuses state leaders of

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

Calvin Duncan, the former life prisoner whose elected seat as New Orleans’ criminal court clerk was abolished by the Legislature this year before he could take office, has resumed his fight in federal court to reclaim the post.

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Attorneys for Duncan filed a 62-page amended petition Friday in federal court in Baton Rouge before U.S. District Judge John deGravelles, claiming that Act 15 is unconstitutional when applied to him. The law merged civil and criminal clerk offices in New Orleans and declared the elected civil clerk, Chelsey Richard Napoleon,

“a naked power-grab at odds with bedrock constitutional law, the will of the Orleans Parish electorate, and Mr. Duncan’s assumption of office.”

It accuses Gov. Jeff Landry, Attorney General Liz Murrill and Secretary of State Nancy Landry of a conspiracy to violate his civil rights. Duncan claims violations of Fourteenth Amendment pro-

tections from race discrimination, denials of equal protection and due process rights, and retaliation, as well as First Amendment claims.

Duncan Duncan’s unseating, just as he was poised to take office in early May after a convincing election win last year over the incumbent,

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Darren Lombard, set off an unrelenting political firestorm between top elected leaders in the city and state Republican lawmakers.

The recriminations peaked with last month’s short-lived indictment of Murrill by an Orleans Parish grand jury on felony charges of public intimidation and malfeasance in office. The state’s top prosecutor was accused of crimes

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Missionary kidnapped in Niger released

NIAMEY, Niger — An American missionary who was kidnapped in Niger in October has been released, his organization said Friday.

Kevin Rideout “is in good health in the care of U.S. officials,” SIM International, an Evangelical mission organization, said in a statement.

He will soon be reunited with his extended family, the statement added.

Rideout was back in U.S. custody on Friday, the country’s President Donald Trump said in a post on social media.

“Kevin, the United States of America looks forward to welcoming you HOME. Glad to have helped!” Trump wrote.

Rideout was kidnapped in the West African country’s capital, Niamey, on Oct. 21 by three armed individuals and was probably driven out of town, according to information provided by a security official at the time.

No armed group claimed responsibility for the abduction.

Niger has long faced attacks from armed groups including jihadis linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State organization.

Sailors and Marines line the deck of aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln as it deploys from San Diego in 2021. The carrier has been deployed for more than 240 days amid the conflict with Iran.

Reform UK’s Farage beats fringe candidates

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CLACTON-ON-SEA, England — Nigel Farage regained his seat in Parliament on Friday, beating a field of fringe candidates led by trash-can-wearing comic Count Binface in a special election boycotted by mainstream parties that called it a farce.

Farage, leader of the antiimmigration Reform UK party who some see as a possible next prime minister, abruptly quit his seat in July amid an investigation into whether he failed to report a $6.7 million gift from an overseas crypto billionaire.

He denied wrongdoing and ran again for the seat to prove he had voters’ support, regaining it with 63% of Thursday’s vote in an unusual election on the hottest day of the year. Binface, a serial candidate who has challenged prime ministers past and present, represented a protest vote and finished second in a field of 34 candidates — many of them also jokers — with about 27%, according to the results announced Friday.

Farage hailed the result as an “overwhelming win” that increased his vote share over the last election, but it’s hard to draw broad conclusions from the election given the lack of genuine rivals and the fact that Farage has long been popular in the conservative constituency on the east coast of England.

Picasso etching stolen from Wis. gallery found

MADISON, Wis. — Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was stolen from his Milwaukee gallery in 2018 was gone forever. But then police called last week and asked him to look an artwork that a local landlord found while cleaning out a vacant apartment.

DeLind immediately recognized the stolen “Torero” print, one of 30 known to exist signed

by Picasso.

“I was overwhelmed,” DeLind said Friday. “I was at a loss for words. It was an overwhelming moment for me.”

The sticker from his DeLind Fine Art Appraisals was still on the back of the framed print, just as it had been placed there in 2018.

Milwaukee landlord Tim Dertz told WISN-TV that he found the print while cleaning out an apartment of someone who had been evicted.

Dertz said he showed it to an antique dealer friend who recognized it as a Picasso and said it appeared to be the one DeLind reported stolen in 2018. Dertz handed it over to police, who then contacted DeLind.

CORRECTION The Advocate and Times-Picayune Tuesday cited an incorrect cost figure for the Comite Diversion Canal. It is $908 million, not billion.

The Advocate and Times-Picayune regrets the error.

Trump wants construction to continue

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and LINDSAY WHITEHURST

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Trump downplays toll of carrier deployment President says USS Lincoln at sea ‘not nearly long enough’

BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and AAMER MADHANI WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Friday downplayed the toll on American sailors enduring nearly nine months at sea on the USS Abraham Lincoln as concerns escalated about mental health and supply issues aboard the aircraft carrier supporting U.S. operations against Iran.

In a brief exchange with reporters before flying to New York for an event to highlight falling violent crime rates across the U.S., Trump refuted that family members have raised concerns about the deployment’s length and even said that the deployment — which includes a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 240 days — is “not nearly long enough.”

“That ship is moving right now, or very shortly, and it’s being replaced with another very similar ship,” Trump said when asked about the lengthy deployment. The acting navy secretary, Hung Cao, said the Lincoln “will return home soon” in a social media post on Friday.

Trump strode into office for a second term vowing to avoid lengthy and expensive military entanglements. And after launching the Iran war, alongside Israel, Trump and his advisers said the conflict would last a matter of weeks. The war is now more than five months old.

But on Friday, during his crime address in Garden City, New York, he acknowledged that he’s used the U.S. military “a little bit more than I wanted to,” while asserting anew that the U.S. operation against Iran is going well. He even said, seemingly in jest, that “pretty soon I’ll be declaring the Hormuz Strait a territory of the United States.”

“I’ll never apologize,” Trump added about the war and its impact on oil prices.

“I did the right thing.”

Extended deployments of carriers during the Iran conflict have raised concerns about the impact on service members who are away from home for long periods as well as the increasing strain on the ships and their equipment.

Several Democratic lawmakers, including Sens. Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, and Ruben Gallego, of Arizona, are pressing for accountability from the Pentagon over conditions aboard the Lincoln, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday said were “completely misrepresented.”

Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colo., who served three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan with the 82nd Airborne Division and 75th Ranger Regiment before being elected, took to social media to criticize Trump’s comments, saying on X that “President Trump does not care about our servicemembers or their families.”

Top Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have requested a classified briefing on the ship’s food inventory, sanitation issues and healthcare availability, as well as an assessment of how much longer it would be deployed before relief arrives.

Republicans have been less outspoken about the situation on the Lincoln. The GOP chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

While hostilities between the U.S. and Iran have calmed in recent weeks, the Navy has reimposed a blockade on Iranian ports in the crucial Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration has offered no clarity on how it intends to wind down the war. Hegseth said the U.S. military can maintain the blockage of Iranian ports “indefinitely.”

Another aircraft carrier, the USS George Washington, left port in Da Nang, Vietnam, last week, and is expected to replace the USS Lincoln, one of two aircraft carriers currently deployed in the Middle East.

Suspect arrested in WWII memorial vandalism in D.C.

BY GARY FIELDS Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A person has been arrested in connection with vandalism at the World War II Memorial on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Friday.

Pirro announced on X that her office was filing two felony charges against Melissa L. Farris. Pirro said the felony charges are “Depredation Against Property of the United States and Destruction of Veterans’ Memorials.” The offenses carry penalties of up to 10 years in prison.

On Thursday, the words “Clean hands dirty $” were found painted on the monument and bubbles filled a fountain.

“Vandalizing our World War II Memorial is a despicable attack on a sacred monument honoring the Americans who fought and died for our freedom. Those Americans include my father and grandfather,” Pirro wrote.

A woman identified on her Facebook page as Melissa Lovewell posted a video Thursday in which she is seen taking cans of spray paint from her bag and then painting the monument.

“I will wait here to be arrested for spraying our veterans’ fountain,” she says. “It was me, I’m doing it, it’s on camera.”

In a video posted Friday, the woman, who in a separate post said she had been in Washington for three weeks, said she was turning herself in.

The arrest warrant filed in the case indicated that witnesses took pictures of the

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Visitors walk Friday at the World War II Memorial in Washington.

vandalism occurring, which were circulated among U.S. Park Police officers.

One officer recognized the suspect as someone they arrested Aug. 10 “for unlawfully camping on federal property” just blocks away. She livestreamed that arrest, the warrant said.

The suspect was identified by her Kentucky driver’s license as Melissa L. Farris, of Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Farris was expected to be arraigned Friday. The Public Defender’s office said she was not yet listed in the system and had not been assigned an attorney.

The incident sparked harsh rebukes from both Pirro and President Donald Trump and comes after the president blamed damage to the nearby Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on vandals, without providing evidence. That case prompted charges against multiple people which were dropped when Pirro said evidence showed the damage came from botched repairs after Trump’s renovation at the site.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the White House to continue construction on its $400 million ballroom project while it appeals a lower court’s order to halt the work.

Trump’s solicitor general petitioned the high court to suspend last week’s decision by a three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Chief Justice John Roberts set a deadline of Tuesday for a response by plaintiffs challenging the ballroom project.

The divided appeals court panel ruled last week Trump must stop the White House ballroom’s construction because Congress has not approved the project.

The panel’s majority said Trump doesn’t have the unilateral authority to build a 90,000-square-foot ballroom where the White House’s East Wing stood before he ordered its demolition last fall.

The lower court suspended its own ruling for two weeks to give Trump’s Republican administration time to appeal to the Supreme Court. Solicitor General D. John Sauer asked the Supreme Court to rule on its stay petition before the appeals court panel’s decision takes effect on Aug. 21.

“This case involves an extraordinary and unlawful injunction that will halt the ongoing construction of the integrated military complex, including a totally secure ballroom space, at the East Wing of the White House, which is vitally required by national security,” Sauer wrote.

Friday’s court filing includes the administration’s first confirmation that a

threatened missile attack on Air Force One prompted the Secret Service to secretly fly Trump out of Turkey last month on an alternate military aircraft. In arguing for the need for a secure ballroom space, the filing cites “the threat of a missile attack against Air Force One on July 8” in a list of recent assassination attempts against Trump.

The filing also asserts that the project is “on time and under budget” with approximately $400 million in private donations obviating the need for any taxpayer dollars to be spent. However, Democrats in Congress have said it appears that funds from Trump’s tax cuts bill appear to be paying for ballroom work. The administration also has requested additional funding from Congress for the project, but lawmakers haven’t approved it.

In April, a district court judge ordered a stop to aboveground construction of the planned ballroom.

But the judge stressed that the White House was free to proceed with underground work, including the construction of any bunkers, military installations and medical facilities.

The D.C. Circuit panel’s 2-1 decision upheld an order to pause aboveground construction on the project, siding with historic preservationists who sued to stop construction of the ballroom.

“Whether or not a massive ballroom should be constructed is for Congress to decide and is not a matter for Executive self-help,” wrote the majority’s two judges, both appointed by Democratic presidents.

A third judge disagreed, finding that the preservationist group that challenged the project had no legal right to sue.

“The district court elevated the aesthetic displeasure of a single passerby over the government’s security interests in the ballroom,” wrote Judge Neomi Rao, who was appointed by Trump.

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The United Arab Emirates blamed Iran for firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, saying Friday that the attacks were acts of piracy.

The attacks caused no casualties but underlined the dangers faced by vessels moving cargo through the critical waterway that connects the Persian Gulf to the open oceans, as Iran keeps a firm grip on the passage.

Two tankers owned by Abu Dhabi’s state-owned oil and gas company ADNOC were attacked Thursday evening while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the company said. It added that the attack caused no injuries and that “the situation has been brought under control.”

The British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Center said two vessels were reported to have suffered minor damage when attacked by drones while transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It did not identify them as the ADNOC ships, but it appeared to be the same incident.

The UAE’s Foreign Ministry blamed the attacks on Iran and said they were a “flagrant violation” of the

across Yemen have raised fears that the country’s civil Houthi attacks war could reignite and open Yemen’s military said its another front in the Middle forces thwarted Houthi at- East. tacks early Friday in southwestern Yemen amid ongo- Kushner headed to talks ing fighting with the IranPresident Donald Trump’s backed rebels. son-in-law and negotiator Forces affiliated with Ye- Jared Kushner will travel to men’s internationally rec- the Middle East next week to ognized government said try to advance plans for an in a statement that dozens end to the conflict in Gaza of Houthis were killed and after a deal recently aninjured in fighting that dis- nounced by the Trump adrupted plans to attack mili- ministration ran into Israeli tary reinforcements in Taiz opposition.

An official with the Board province with drones, exploof Peace, the body Trump sives and artillery.

The Associated Press was established to oversee the unable to independently ver- fragile ceasefire in the Israify that toll. el-Hamas war, said Kushner, A fire broke out Friday at board high representative the port in Mokha, where Nickolay Mladenov, and exHouthis launched missiles ecutive board member and targeting the port’s infra- former British Prime Minisstructure, according to a ter Tony Blair would arrive spokesman for Yemen’s in Israel on Sunday. joint military forces. The The group will then travel spokesman, Wadah al- to Cairo, where meetings of Dubaish, could not imme- a Palestinian technocratic diately say if anyone was group set to assume control of Gaza under a U.S.-brokilled or wounded.

The Houthis said Friday kered ceasefire deal have they targeted Saudi Aramco, been taking place for the Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil past several months, said company, with a drone strike the official, who spoke on in the city of Najran near Ye- condition of anonymity bemen’s border. There was no cause planning for details immediate comment from of the trip has not yet been Aramco or Saudi Arabia. finalized.

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said in a statement.

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An injured child receives treatment Friday at a hospital after a strike on the port of Mokha, yemen.

United Nations’ principles of freedom of navigation.

“Targeting commercial shipping and using the Strait of Hormuz as a tool of economic coercion or blackmail represents acts of piracy by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps,” the Foreign Ministry said.

There was no immediate response from Iran.

Activists aid Palestinians Activists from Israel and

other countries marched through the occupied West Bank, bringing food and water to Palestinians who have been under siege by Israeli settlers for days.

Three Palestinian families in the town of Qusra have been unable to leave their homes for nearly a week after settlers surrounded the area. Israeli troops intervened multiple times, but the settlers have kept returning.

The standoff in the northern West Bank town of Qusra is the latest in a wave of settler violence in the territory, which Israel seized in the 1967 Mideast war and which would make up part of a future Palestinian state.

Defense Minister Israel Katz instructed the army to prepare a plan to transfer power to the police to enforce civilian-related matters, the Defense Ministry

Trump focuses on crime reduction as he boosts candidates in N.Y.

BY COLLIN BINKLEY and MICHELLE L. PRICE

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GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — President Donald Trump highlighted his record on crime and safety during a visit to New York on Friday, pivoting to one of his strongest issues as he looks to boost Republicans in battleground races ahead of the November midterms.

Trump was visiting the Nassau County police academy in suburban Long Island, where he was expected to promote new FBI crime statistics being released Friday showing a decrease in violent crime for 2025.

But despite the setting and an array of uniformed local police officers behind him on stage, the event was overwhelmingly a political one, with Trump lashing Democrats and promoting his record and his party’s candidates.

Trump’s visit aimed at boosting Republicans in closely contested races across his home state, but just how much his presence will help is in question as he faces lagging approval ratings and a deeply unpopular war in Iran with no end in sight.

said, “These young, these gorgeous, beautiful girls are — they want to be safe.”

“Two years ago, we were in a hellhole, and now we have one of the safest cities,” he said.

The new FBI statistics released Friday showed the homicide rate in the United States dropped to the lowest it’s been in 75 years. The report on 2025 crime statistics also showed that overall ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JULIA DEMAREE NIKHINSON violent crime dropped 9.3% President Donald Trump speaks with reporters Friday before last year. Experts note that boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md. national violent crime rates Trump briefly touched on the new crime statistics, but before long he was returning to familiar attacking lines, calling his opponents “Radical left Democrats” and his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, “Sleepy Joe.” “We call them Dumbocrats now because their policies are so dumb. Fighting to defund the police.

Does that play well in this room?” Trump said at one point, turning around to look at the officers behind him.

He criticized the state’s Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul and insulted the state’s Attorney General, Letitia James, as “a real slob” and “a disgrace.”

James successfully sued the president and his companies for financial fraud.

The Justice Department last year secured a mortgage fraud indictment against James, but the case was dismissed after a judge concluded that the prosecutor who charged her and another Trump adversary, former FBI Director James Comey, was illegally appointed.

He touted his deployment of the National Guard to cities around the U.S., including in the nation’s capital.

Trump repeatedly said that “young, beautiful girls in the White House” have thanked him for making Washington safer. It was not clear who he was referring to, but he

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BOISE, Idaho — A federal judge says Idaho can’t prosecute doctors who perform abortions to protect a pregnant person’s health or prevent self-harm.

U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill made the ruling Thursday, writing that Idaho’s “Defense of Life Act” and “Fetal Heartbeat Act” — which together create a

near-total ban on abortion — violate the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment.

Physicians who violate the laws can lose their license and face up to five years in prison.

Both laws include narrow exceptions, including abortions done to prevent the death of a pregnant woman or in some cases of rape or incest where the pregnant person has filed a police report.

The case isn’t about bodily autonomy or reproductive choice, Winmill wrote in the 81-page decision, but rather the “limit of the state’s power to make a woman suffer for the sake of an unborn child.”

The state can’t pick and choose which life-threatening conditions justify abortion, he wrote.

“A pregnant woman’s health is not a state resource to be allocated at the legislature’s whim,” Winmill wrote.

Russian drones kill mom, son in Ukraine

BY ILLIA NOVIKOV Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Russian jetpowered drones struck a home in northern Ukraine on Friday, killing a 29-yearold woman and her 9-yearold son, officials said.

The strike came a day after the United Nations said July was the deadliest month for Ukrainian civilians since the weeks following Moscow’s all-out invasion of its neighbor more than four years ago.

At least 437 civilians were killed and 2,610 wounded

last month, the U.N. monitoring mission in Kyiv said, as Russia escalated its bombing of Ukrainian towns and cities. That was 70% higher than in July last year and 30% up on June of this year.

Overall, since Russia’s invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, U.N. human rights monitors say the war has killed at least 16,874 civilians, including 820 children, and wounded 51,273, including 3,126 children.

“Every month this year the number of killed and injured civilians has increased. That

trend accelerated sharply in July,” said Danielle Bell, head of the U.N. human rights monitoring mission in Kyiv. “The number of civilian casualties in July was the highest we documented in a single month since March 2022.”

The Russian strike in northern Ukraine’s Sumy region early Friday also wounded four other people, including the dead boy’s father and grandmother, who were hospitalized with severe burns, the regional military administration chief Oleh Hryhorov said.

cally cheered and booed on cue.

To the side of the stage during his remarks were the new U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel, who each spoke to warm up the crowd before the president. Their appearance at an event that in part was designed to help Republican candidates broke long-standing norms in which the nation’s law enforcement generally tried to steer clear of participating in overtly political events.

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Judge blocks Idaho from prosecuting doctors for health-protecting abortions

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have been declining since 2022, and pinpointing an exact reason is difficult.

Trump also promoted his tariff policies, along with his tax cuts and spending law passed last year and suggested that the tax breaks on overtime would be popular with police officers. Many of his lines, especially the political attacks, didn’t get as much of a reaction from the uniformed officers as it did from the crowd of regular Trump supporters in the audience, who enthusiasti-

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Colombia grapples with rebuilding after earthquake

BY MARKO ÁLVAREZ, ASTRID SUÁREZ and NAYARA BATSCHKE

Associated Press

CALI, Colombia — As the search for survivors in the rubble of a devastating earthquake winds down, Colombia faces another challenge: rebuilding a nation shattered by a disaster that killed at least 285 people and affected more than 100,000.

Tens of thousands of houses were damaged or destroyed, according to the government. Authorities have also reported damage to thousands of schools, medical facilities and community centers in more than 400 cities.

“There is no place to live, we lost everything,” Ebert Jonathan Morales, 38, said Friday in a shelter in Cali, one of the hardest-hit cities along with Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo.

Morales is one of the 102,263 people whose lives have been upended by the 7.4 magnitude quake that struck the South American country Monday. The government says more than 280 people died, nearly 4,000 people were injured and hundreds remain missing.

Private groups estimate the

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A crane lifts a concrete slab to clear the way for rescuers searching through the rubble on Thursday in earthquake-hit Pereira, Colombia. number of missing is in the thousands.

Morales said he, his wife and four children are trying to rebuild from scratch.

“The earthquake destroyed several neighborhoods in the city. Many houses were damaged, and buildings collapsed,” he said. “We are going to stay here until the government gives us some help, some support.”

The devastation has tested

Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella, who was inaugurated just days before the earthquake shook the country’s west. De la Espriella acknowledged Thursday night that “the situation is complex” and announced a plan to partner with private companies to rebuild the nation, as well as subsidies for families who are homeless.

“We will not overcome this tragedy alone as a govern-

ment,” he said. “We need the private sector to rebuild Colombia together.”

Monday’s earthquake was the most powerful to hit Colombia this century. Government aid has yet to arrive in some areas, where many people are relying on volunteers and neighbors for help.

“A neighbor is giving me shelter,” Olga Castro, a mother of five in Cali, told The Associated Press. “At

Army halts Apache helicopter training missions after crash

BY JIM VERTUNO and JOSH FUNK Associated Press

The U.S. Army temporarily halted all Apache helicopter training missions Friday after a fatal crash in Texas earlier this week killed two soldiers.

No cause of the Wednesday crash has been released because the investigation has just begun. A safety investigation team from the Army Combat Readiness Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama, is trying to determine what happened, the Army said.

“The stand-down will remain in effect until we have a better understanding of the root cause of the accident,” the Army said in its

statement Friday.

The military has taken similar action after past crashes. Three years ago, the Army grounded all aviation units until they completed some additional training after 12 soldiers died in separate crashes in Alaska and Kentucky.

The Army made no mention of stopping the combat missions that Apache helicopters are regularly flying in the war in Iran. These helicopters have been employed around the Strait of Hormuz as part of the measures to maintain open navigation channels. One Apache crashed after running into an Iranian drone.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Deontre T. Huey, 34, of Killeen, Texas, and Warrant

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A U.S. soldier’s wife who spent more than a month in federal immigration detention said she is back home after officers removed her from a deportation flight to Brazil.

Earlier this month, The Associated Press highlighted Maisa Lopes Eliaser as one of dozens of spouses or parents of U.S. troops who

had been detained after President Donald Trump’s administration rolled back protections for military families amid its push for mass deportations. Following the AP’s reporting, a group of Congressional Democrats launched an investigation into deportations of military service members and their families.

Eliaser was placed on a deportation flight Wednesday to her native Brazil when U.S. Immigration and

“We all have to help. Today is for you, tomorrow might be for me,” volunteer Jorge Muñoz, 85, said. One of the oldest helpers at Bogotá’s Vive Claro aid collection, Muñoz has witnessed the devastation caused by other earthquakes, including one in 1999 that killed more than 1,180 people.

Local authorities opened schools, parks and public buildings as shelters, providing tents, mattresses and food to the displaced. In other parts of the hardest-hit cities, residents improvised shelters in the streets, while hundreds of volunteers rush to help those in greatest need, particularly in less accessible areas.

“These are isolated, neglected territories, historically lacking in institutional support, already plagued by violence, and now they are hit by an earthquake of this magnitude,” said María Mercedes Liévano, director of Save the Children in Colombia.

“It’s a crisis on top of a crisis, leaving the population in a situation of extreme vulnerability,” she added, citing communities including Buenaventura, the country’s main port, and Chocó, the earthquake’s epicenter.

Judge refuses to block building of border wall along tribe’s reservation

BY MICHAEL KUNZELMAN Associated Press

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Debris smolders at the site of an Army Apache helicopter crash on Wednesday near Salado, Texas.

Officer Seth L. Olmstead, 25, of Belton, Texas, were killed in the Texas crash, the Army said. They were the only two people on board when the helicopter crashed in a grassy field near Salado, about 30 miles from Fort Hood.

Huey entered the Army in 2014 and Olmstead entered in 2023. They were assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, 1st Air Cavalry Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division.

“Our hearts and deepest condolences are with the

families of the Soldiers we lost Wednesday,” said Lt. Gen. Kevin D. Admiral, III Armored Corps and Fort Hood commanding general.

“The Army is a family, and a tragedy like this is felt throughout our formations and our community.”

Aviation safety expert John Cox said it’s encouraging to see the Army take this step because “you’re guessing until you get some hard answers” and this move signals the Army is making safety a priority.

Soldier’s wife released from immigration custody

BY JACK BROOK and SAFIYAH RIDDLE

least we survived, but right now we are practically on the street because we don’t have a home anymore.”

De la Espriella said national and international funds raised in response to the disaster will focus on the reconstruction of hospitals, schools, homes, roads and airports.

Rebuilding the country requires a “serious technical assessment” to determine which buildings can be used, which can be repaired and which must be demolished and rebuilt, said Yezid Alvarado Vargas, a professor in construction engineering at Javeriana University, in Bogota, Colombia.

“Before even discussing reconstruction, we must guarantee temporary housing, food, healthcare, continuity of basic services and economic support for families who lost their homes or livelihoods,” Alvarado said.

In Bogotá, Colombia’s capital, around 500 volunteers gathered at a reception center to sort food, toiletries and pet food before distributing the supplies in the most affected areas. From youngsters to the elderly, everyone diligently participated in the challenging relief efforts.

Customs Enforcement officers on the plane received a phone call about her midflight, she told the AP. She said she was then asked by an ICE officer whether she wanted to continue on to Brazil or go back to the U.S. “Who made the call? We don’t know,” said Eliaser’s husband, Army Staff Sgt. Alexis Jaramillo. “But someone made the phone call, and then she came back.”

While other detainees were led off the plane in Brazil, Eliaser stayed on board

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ICE officers told her that she was “famous” because there were videos about her case, she said.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which oversees ICE, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly, of Arizona, a former Navy officer, directly contacted the ICE field office involved in Eliaser’s detention, according to his spokesperson.

WASHINGTON — A federal judge refused on Friday to block the Trump administration from taking steps to build 62 miles of international border wall along part of a Native American tribe’s reservation without its consent.

U.S. District Judge Richard Leon in Washington, D.C., denied the Tohono O’odham Nation’s request for a court-ordered halt to border wall construction on its 2.8-million-acre reservation. Leon ruled the tribe hasn’t established that a border wall will change its reservation boundaries without congressional authority.

The judge also rejected the tribe’s claim that the planned border wall would illegally trespass on its reservation.

“And in any event, I find that the Government’s interests in securing the border, enforcing immigration laws, and ensuring public safety outweigh any surviving irreparable harms at this juncture,” Leon wrote.

A tribe spokesperson didn’t immediately respond to an email seeking comment on the decision.

The O’odham reservation in the Sonoran Desert in Arizona abuts 62 miles of the Mexico border. The tribe has over 37,000 members, including thousands who

live in Mexico.

Building the border wall would led to “significant devastation” on the reservation, including the destruction of mountain peaks that are sacred to the O’odham, tribe attorneys said.

“It would fray the ties between O’odham communities and families on opposite sides of the border, interfere significantly with O’odham religious rituals and practices, and destroy plant and animal resources sacred to the O’odham,” the lawyers wrote.

In 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt issued a proclamation reserving a 60-foot strip of public land along the U.S.-Mexico border for a buffer zone called the “Roosevelt Reservation,” which was formed a decade before the reservation’s establishment.

Tribe attorneys say it is “fanciful at best” to suggest that border wall construction can be confined to a 60-foot-wide corridor.

During a July 22 hearing, Leon appeared to be skeptical that U.S. laws tip in favor of the tribe’s bid for a preliminary injunction, calling it an “extraordinary” request. Leon, who was nominated to the bench

by Republican President George W. Bush, said he couldn’t find a previous court ruling under comparable circumstances.

“This is a novel case with novel issues,” the judge said.

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Continued from page 1A from the day LSU baseball won its 2025 national championship to the walkway that led to his statue, also writing a message that included an arrow pointing to the article.

“Coach… you did this. You started it… Thank you! Rest in Peace.”

That observation is an astute one. Since the moment Bertman — who died on Friday at the age of 88 — stepped onto LSU’s campus for the first time as the new baseball coach in the summer of 1983, he built a legacy at LSU that has arguably been unmatched.

“He is probably the most important person in the history of LSU athletics,” LSU athletic director Verge Ausberry told The Advocate on Friday.

Bertman won five national championships and 11 College World Series appearances as LSU’s baseball coach over 18 seasons (19842001). He then hired four eventual national championship-winning head coaches as LSU’s athletic director in a seven-year tenure (20012008).

LSU won nine national championships while Bertman served as athletic director. The Tigers also reached the Final Four five times in women’s basketball and once in men’s basketball during that time.

“So many people use words like GOAT (greatest of all-time), but Skip truly was the GOAT,” former LSU baseball coach Paul Mainieri, who Bertman hired for the position in 2006, said.

“He was the greatest of all time, and I was just lucky enough to call him not only my boss, but a dear friend.”

The Miami years Bertman was born in Detroit, Michigan, but his story as a legendary coach and administrator began in Miami Beach, Florida, where he was the head baseball coach at Miami Beach High, his alma mater. The program renamed its field in his honor back in April.

At Miami Beach, Bertman led the program to a state championship in 1970 and two second-place finishes.

His years there were also when an 11-year-old Mainieri got to know the future LSU legend.

“It was about a 45-minute drive from our house over to Skip’s house on Miami Beach,” Mainieri said, recalling the first time he met Bertman. “And during the drive, my father was telling me all about Skip and what a great coach he was. And how he had developed this youth program in Miami Beach and how it had (fed) into his high school program.”

Mainieri’s father, Demie, then the head coach at Miami Dade North Community College, would meet with Bertman to share ideas and discuss players. Multiple players of Demie’s NJCAA national championship team in 1964 had come from Bertman’s program at Miami Beach.

Eventually, the Mainieri and Bertman families grew close, meeting monthly. The Mainieris had a batting cage in their backyard, and Bertman would give Paul pointers while he struggled to hit.

Even at that age, Paul would sit in on his father and Bertman’s meetings and soak up every last word.

They were his idols.

“You couldn’t wedge me away from that conversation

DUNCAN

Continued from page 1A over May letters aimed at stopping city leaders from backing an election and the appointment of an interim leader for the unified clerk’s post. Murrill claimed they were breaking the law and risking their offices.

But Duncan so far hasn’t won favor in the courts. After deGravelles first halted the state from enforcing Act 15, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals lifted his order.

The Louisiana Supreme Court has since upheld the new law and declined to re-

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Coach Skip Bertman beams as his fourth national championship team has its picture taken with the NCAA trophy in 1997. with a crowbar,” Mainieri said. “I just sat and listened to these two great coaches sharing ideas.”

Following his time at Miami Beach, Bertman became the associate head coach at the University of Miami for eight seasons, winning a national championship in 1982 before LSU hired him as its head coach ahead of the 1984 season.

Bertman builds a winner LSU’s baseball program back then was not in the same place as it is today.

Bertman’s predecessor, Jack Lamabe, was fired after five seasons and an overall record of 134-115. The man who held the position before Lamabe was Jimmy Smith, who only held the role in a part-time capacity.

Smith’s full-time gig was as the equipment manager for the football team.

“He wasn’t even out there for fall practices,” Mainieri, who played under Smith for one season, said, “except for on Sundays when the football team didn’t practice.”

LSU had reached the NCAA Tournament just once in its program’s history before Bertman’s arrival. For the dynasty he eventually built, he essentially had to start from scratch.

Ausberry remembers attending games in the early years of Bertman’s tenure as a student and linebacker on the football team. There would only be a few hundred people in the stands as he and his teammates would watch games from the train tracks next to the old Alex Box Stadium.

“I remember my buddies and I would watch games, (and) there was always Texas, and Arizona State, and Miami, and Oklahoma State, schools like that (playing on TV),” said Bill Franques, LSU baseball’s communications director who was a student at LSU when Bertman was hired. “And I remember thinking, ‘Man, wouldn’t it be great if LSU could play baseball in Omaha in the College World Series, and be on TV like all these other teams?’”

LSU reached the College World Series twice before Franques was hired as LSU baseball’s communications director in 1989, a position he still holds.

One weekend, on a road trip to Ole Miss, Bertman ordered Franques to bring a camera to the park and start taking photos in and around Oxford-University Stadium/ Swayze Field, which had just opened that season.

Bertman wanted to provide

then-athletic director Joe Dean with ideas on how LSU could upgrade the old Alex Box Stadium.

As Franques began taking pictures at the park with his 35 mm Pentax camera, Bertman got impatient and snatched the device from his hands. He then started taking photos of the outfield fence, foul pole and stands before he stopped, looked at the camera and started to get upset.

The camera only had a few exposures of film left.

Franques had forgotten to check how many he had in the camera.

“He was very, very displeased with that fact, and that he wanted to take a lot more pictures,” Franques said. “So he promptly handed me a $20 bill, told me to find the bus driver and go to a pharmacy and buy some more film. And he didn’t say it quite that nice.

“But I do remember him saying something to the effect of, ‘You know, I’m trying to win here. I’m trying to win a national championship here.’ Basically, he was saying, you need to get on board with my vision, with what I want to do, if you want to continue to work with me.”

Franques eventually found the bus driver and bought more film for Bertman to shoot with that day at Ole Miss, but Bertman wouldn’t reach his ultimate goal of winning a national championship until 1991.

When he accomplished the historic feat, Franques remembers how calm Bertman was after LSU had just climbed to the mountaintop of the sport. He shook the hands of his assistant coaches, shook hands with the opposing coach — Wichita

visit the issue.

Neither Landry’s office nor Murrill’s office immediately responded to messages sent late Friday seeking comment.

Duncan had made winning the clerk’s office a quest since leaving the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola in 2011 under an agreement that reduced his previous murder conviction and life prison sentence over a 1980s killing in New Orleans. A judge later vacated his conviction under a statute for claims of innocence.

An acclaimed inmate counsel, Duncan has chronicled his struggles gaining

access to court records from prison in his case and others.

He’s said he sought the post to keep it from happening to others.

Act 15, also known as “The Landry Act,” amounts to targeted discrimination, his attorneys wrote in the lawsuit.

“Defendants’ intentional race discrimination is the direct and proximate cause of Mr. Duncan’s injury — the loss of the office and term to which a majority-Black electorate elected him. That injury is ongoing and irreparable, has no adequate remedy at law, and would be redressed by the relief Mr. Duncan seeks,” his amended petition states.

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The Skip Bertman statue in Legacy Plaza outside of Alex Box Stadium was unveiled in 2019. The statue commemorates Bertman’s accomplishments as the LSU baseball coach from 1984 to 2001. He led the Tigers to five national championships and seven Southeastern Conference championships.

State’s Gene Stephenson — and took a moment to reflect.

“He said, ‘The reason I was that way, because I’d seen this happen in my mind so many times,’ ” Franques recalls Bertman saying. “‘I visualized this exact moment so many times, I knew exactly how I would react.’”

LSU went on to win four more national championships, winning five titles in 10 years, including back-toback championships in 1996 and 1997, before he stepped down as LSU’s head coach and became the athletic director in 2001.

By the end of his tenure, Bertman had accumulated a career record of 870-330-3.

“When I took the job here, everybody asked what kind of goals I had, you know, national championships, SEC championships, et cetera,” Mainieri said. “And I said, ‘I really only have one goal.

I’m going to feel like the custodian of the program that Skip built, and all I want to do is make him proud.’”

Athletic director Ausberry was working with the Tiger Athletic Foundation when Bertman brought him into the athletic department, shortly after Bertman was hired as LSU’s next athletic director.

What Ausberry will never forget about the opportunity was his first day on the job,

Sept. 11, 2001. But on a day that sowed chaos across the country, Bertman remained focused on solving the tasks at hand.

“One thing about Skip, you couldn’t go to him and say, ‘This is the problem,’ ” Ausberry said. “He would always say, ‘How are we going to solve the problem?’

“He was a guy who just thought about, ‘Hey, how are we going to win?’”

Under Bertman’s guidance, Ausberry learned almost everything he’d need to know for the position he now holds. Bertman placed him in various roles throughout the athletic department, including operations, game management, internal and external relations, multimedia rights and marketing promotions.

Bertman wasn’t afraid to make Ausberry uncomfortable in an effort to help him grow.

“He put us in positions where you’re a utility player,” Ausberry said. “I’m going to put you in some positions you’re uncomfortable with, but you got to get it done.”

Perhaps the biggest lesson he learned from Bertman came in the art of interviewing coaches. Don’t waste their time or insult their intelligence. They coach at the highest level of collegiate sports for a reason.

“When I was working with hiring Lane Kiffin, that’s why the interview lasted an hour and 10 minutes,” Ausberry said. “You don’t sit there for four hours and ask a guy, ‘What offense are you going to run up, what’s your scheme?’ That came from Skip.”

Bertman’s success with hiring and developing coaches resulted in national championships, but, perhaps most importantly, ushered in a new era of LSU football.

Bertman’s work with Nick Saban delivered a national title in 2003 and created a blueprint of success that led to national championships in 2007 and 2019.

Saban and Bertman had a mutual respect for one another as type-A personalities and winners during Saban’s time in Baton Rouge, Ausberry said.

“They knew what it is to be a coach, what it is to compete,” Ausberry said.

“So when you’re young as a player, you don’t get it, and when you’re a young administrator, you don’t get it.

You don’t get it until you get older. What it takes to win in this conference in the SEC and win national championships. It’s not easy.”

After Bertman stepped down as athletic director in 2008, he continued to offer advice to Mainieri, who went on to win his own national championship at LSU in 2009. Oftentimes, they’d have lunch together at Mike Anderson’s in Baton Rouge.

By 2022, when Jay Johnson took over for Mainieri following his retirement, Bertman was still a largerthan-life figure within the program. During Johnson’s tenure, he spoke to the team on multiple occasions, met with players before games and offered advice to Johnson whenever he asked for it.

The most nervous Johnson has ever been as LSU’s coach was when he had to call Bertman for the first time after he got the job.

“It was the man,” Johnson said, “the guy I held in the highest regard, and saw and viewed as the pinnacle of my profession.”

As recently as Tuesday, Bertman was asking Johnson about Logan Schmidt, a freshman left-handed pitcher who wound up at LSU despite getting picked in the second round by the Cleveland Guardians in the MLB Draft last month.

Bertman thought the world of Johnson, telling The Advocate back in February that Johnson was a “much, much, much better coach than I was.” When asked about it on Friday, Johnson chuckled before stating that he disagreed.

Before he died, Johnson and Ausberry met with Bertman on Thursday night. He was “in a situation fighting for his life,” but Ausberry still expected to have dinner with his neighbor of 26 years next weekend.

“You think, OK, it’s Skip Bertman,” Ausberry said.

“He’s going to be OK. He’s gonna wake up tomorrow and be better, and I’ll see you next week at dinner.

“He told us he loved us, and my boys are here. And we’re probably, other than his family, the last people he saw last night.”

Ausberry got the call at 1:30 a.m. on Friday that Bertman had died. As the sun came up that morning, and the news began to spread around Baton Rouge, the SEC and the nation, one constant truth remained at Alex Box Stadium.

It was Bertman leaning on the dugout railing, looming over a program, athletic department and university that he elevated to new heights.

“The first person that I think about, when I think about the state of Louisiana,” Johnson said, “is Skip Bertman.”

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Alleged shooter still faces state charges

BY MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and JENNIFER PELTZ Associated Press

NEW YORK — Luigi Mangione pleaded guilty on Friday to federal stalking charges in the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, admitting matter-offactly that he trailed the executive to an investor conference and gunned him down on a New York

City street in 2024.

Mangione, 28, said he made a gun with the aid of a 3D printer, traveled to New York and used a ruse — posing as an investor at a multibillion-dollar firm — to contact the company for details on the event.

“On the morning of Dec. 4, 2024, I shot Mr. Thompson in Manhattan, and he died,” Mangione told the Manhattan federal court, which he entered shackled at the feet but not

handcuffed in his beige jail uniform.

Listening in the audience, Thompson’s wife, Paulette, took several deep breaths and repeatedly wiped Mangione tears from her eyes.

Prosecutors plan to seek a life prison term at Mangione’s sentencing, set for Dec. 18. When U.S. District Judge Margaret M. Garnett asked whether he under-

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streets, such as Tchoupitoulas, Magnolia and Josephine.

And some of them overlook Al Davis Park on Lasalle Street, where Wilcox played as a young girl. Other classrooms have clear views of the downtown buildings.

“It was the most important thing to me to get back to the community that raised me,” Wilcox said.

The new project It’s been two decades since Wilcox founded her first childcare center in her home in the Lower 9th Ward.

After Hurricane Katrina, she reopened in Mid-City on Broad Street and in 2023 opened a location on Southern University at New Orleans’ campus for parents, students and staff.

Wilcox Academy purchased the Freret Street property, next door to KIPP

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Continued from page 1A tax rebates worth more than $860 million over 45 years.

Earlier this summer, the Convention Center renegotiated its deal with Omni in a way that would allow developers to break ground before the incentive package is finalized.

But Henry said it’s too soon and too many questions remain.

“The project is not dead by any means, but we’re still trying to make the numbers work,” Henry said.

The latest wrench in the yearslong effort to build the dedicated Convention Center hotel comes amid tensions between Gov. Jeff Landry and New Orleans officials.

Henry said the heightened political tension “obviously doesn’t help” negotiation.

Convention Center officials declined to respond to specific questions about recent developments.

“We are very confident in the discussions we are continuing to have with the governor, legislators and local leadership on this catalytic project, and we are working towards completion in the best interests of the Louisiana taxpayer, Omni and the Convention Center,” board Chair Russell Allen and CEO Jim Cook said in a statement.

Criticism, changes to deal The Convention Center signed a development agree-

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Whitman Wilcox IV, the husband of founder and CEO of Wilcox Academy of Early Learning Rochelle Wilcox, cuts a ribbon with his family for the grand opening of Wilcox Academy Central City in New Orleans on Friday.

Central City, a K-8 charter school, in July 2021.

Like other Wilcox locations, the learning center will serve a mix of low-income students and tuition-paying students, but it will aim for an enrollment that is about 80% low-income families.

They have pulled together a mix of public funding, including the City Seats program — about 1,000 early childcare seats funded by a $21 million millage approved by voters in 2021 matched by state funds — and philanthropic support.

ment with Omni early last year.

That agreement called for the Convention Center to pursue an incentive package that included 45 years of tax rebates from four separate authorities — the state; the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, known locally as the Superdome Commission; the Convention Center itself and a special subdistrict it created to levy additional taxes at the new hotel.

Those rebates could have totaled more than $800 million over the life of the deal, drawing criticism from taxpayer advocates that said the rebates would subsidize the developer for far longer than is necessary for it to meet its profit goals.

The deal also called for an annual payment to New Orleans equivalent to the property taxes paid by similar hotels.

Convention Center leaders first attempted to get lawmakers to approve the state’s contributions in April, when Cook appeared before the Joint Legislative Budget Committee in Baton Rouge.

Lawmakers expressed overall support for the project but took issue with the length and generosity of the deal before declining to vote on it.

The committee again deferred a vote on the issue in May. A month later, the Convention Center and Omni amended their development agreement.

The changes included reducing the term of the tax rebates from 45 years to 30

years, removing a requirement to secure the tax rebates before construction can begin and putting the Convention Center on the hook to pay Omni up to $120 million if the tax incentives are not approved before the hotel opens its doors.

Allen and Cook said in their statement that they have “considered feedback from the Legislature” as they work toward a deal.

“We know we have several pathways to get to project mobilization, and it is really a matter of which one is most acceptable to the most project stakeholders,” they said.

They noted the project has received two unanimous votes from the New Orleans City Council, though members still need to give a final sign-off on a property tax incentive with the city.

But the changes to the deal terms haven’t been enough to win over members of the Bond Commission, according to Henry. That means the Convention Center and Omni are likely to miss their original deadline to start construction.

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The number of New Orleans business travelers hasn’t recovered to 2019 levels, and the Convention Center’s Cook has said that building this new hotel is critical to the city’s chances of booking the 2031 Super Bowl, a priority for Gov. Jeff Landry.

Bond Commission approval is one of the final hurdles the project needs to clear. It

has secured several other approvals in recent months, including a zoning waiver from the City Council to allow the developers to construct a 27-story building that exceeds the existing height limit in the surrounding Warehouse District neighborhood by more than 200 feet.

It is unclear what happens to the project now or how state and Convention Center leaders can bridge their dif-

The project also addresses the city’s affordable housing needs with four two-bedroom units on an adjacent lot. Though federal guidelines prevent the facility from exclusively renting to teachers of students, Wilcox said they’ve encouraged families and teachers to apply to be tenants.

United Way and Credit Human will enroll residents in a two-year program to help them budget and repair their credit.

“We want to help break down those barriers,” Wilcox said.

Less than half a mile away from Wilcox Central City, construction on a similar project in a 100-year-old firehouse is nearing completion.

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ground on the redevelopment of a century-old firehouse that will eventually include seven affordable housing units.

Aireca Anderson, a Central City native and owner and director of Inquisitive Thinkers Learning Academy, will open an early childhood education center in the space.

Both the firehouse project and the new Wilcox Academy location were backed

by Alembic Community Development and were jointly awarded a federal Health and Human Services grant for job creation, said People’s Housing+ CEO Oji Alexander. Alexander said the redeveloped firehouse will begin leasing residential units in September and begin offering childcare in October.

“These are two of the first examples of cohabitation of affordable housing and childhood education projects in the city,” Alexander said. “We think it’s a model that can be replicated.”

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Mangione’s lawyers didn’t explain why he choose to plead guilty now, but after he entered the plea at Friday’s hastily scheduled hearing, they quickly sought to have the New York case thrown out on double jeopardy grounds. The state’s double jeopardy protections can kick in if a prior prosecution ends in a guilty plea.

Three of the building’s 13 classrooms will be dedicated for infants between 2 months and 1 year old, an age group that is considered in critical need of services in the city, she said.

This week, Wilcox and her staff put finishing touches on classrooms, many of which have outdoor access to fenced-in porches “where children learn curiosity and wonderment,” Wilcox said.

The building also has a commercial kitchen that will make 1,200 meals each day.

Wilcox’s sees the center as a resource hub for families who may struggle to access existing resources that are spread across the city. Families will be set up with “success coordinators” who will act as case workers and help bridge those gaps.

Wilcox said that even with existing funding, about 6,000 of the city’s children don’t have access to early learning.

“The fact is the bucket is not big enough,” she said.

“With all the funding that

What now?

The Convention Center and other hospitality leaders have emphasized for years that New Orleans has been losing business to Nashville, Austin, Atlanta and other Southern cities that have invested millions of dollars in new meeting space and hotels. Texas alone is investing $8 billion in convention infrastructure in Houston, Dallas,

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New Orleans officials assess three NORD parks

Mayor Moreno vows improved maintenance amid complaints

BY JONI HESS Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK

Large cracks dot the surface under the swing set at Bodenger Playground in the Algiers neighborhood of New Orleans on Friday.

The sun beamed over Joe W. Brown Park in New Orleans East on Friday as Mayor Helena Moreno, her staff and dozens of residents toured the park’s massive grounds.

The group entered one of Joe Brown’s shelters, where a black trash bag and a Bible covered a nonworking toilet. Nearby, a playground area had tattered benches. And concrete barricades barred public access over a bridge to the other side of the park that the state is working to replace.

“When it comes to NORD, we’ve been hearing for quite some time of the necessity for improved maintenance,” the mayor said. “And honestly … I don’t see changes happening fast enough.”

Joe Brown was the first of three parks city officials assessed Friday in response to resident complaints around deferred maintenance, one of many issues facing the New Orleans Recreation and Development Commission.

Residents and park advocates have complained about grass overgrowth, clogged lagoons and a seeming lack of urgency by the New Or-

CLEAN, SWEEP, REPEAT

leans Recreation and Development Commission in addressing the issues. Friday’s tours were meant to give city officials a firsthand look at those problems so they might find solutions.

Eva Washington, a member of the park’s advocacy group Friends of Joe W. Brown Park, said they’ve been reporting issues to NORD since 2021, and many have gone unfixed.

“I love that this happened. I’m grateful that they came out, and hopefully they can address issues at all of the parks,” she said.

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Grand jury indicts suspect in shooting Houston man killed in Metairie apartment

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

For nearly 15 years, every weekday morning, as the sun rises over New Orleans and before students and staff arrive, Joyce Warren moves quietly through Tulane University’s athletic facility, sweeping, cleaning and dusting, making the space ready for the day ahead.

Catholic churches looking to fill pews on Sunday Parishes hoping to introduce, reunite attendees at Mass

BY BOB WARREN

Staff writer

The Rev. Jared Rodrigue hopes people arriving to St. Luke the Evangelist Catholic Church in Slidell this weekend will have a hard time finding a seat.

“That would be a pretty good problem,” said Rodrigue, the church’s pastor.

Leaders of churches across the Archdiocese of New Orleans are hoping for the same thing.

It would signal the success of an archdiocese-wide initiative, “Welcome Home Sunday,” in which parishioners invite a friend or loved one to attend church with them.

The program seeks to get people into church who have never been and to reunite those who for any reason left the Catholic Church, Rodrigue said.

“Maybe it’s people who have never come in their lives.

At St. Luke, there’s a welcomehome team whose members have worked on social media and will be at the Mass to assist any newcomers.

At another parish, St. Peter Claver in New Orleans, special invitations were created to try to reach people who stopped attending after dealing with some type of loss in their lives, archdiocese spokeswoman Sarah McDonald said.

And at St. Clement of Rome in Metairie, a series of videos were produced that are tied to pastoral themes and feature current parishioners, she said.

Rodrigue said St. Luke’s capacity is 350 people, but it often STAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD packs in a hundred or so more The Archdiocese of New Orleans initiative, ‘Welcome Home Sunday,’ people at important Masses, aims to bring new and former parishioners back to church through with attendees crowding onto pews and spilling into the vestipersonal invitations and tailored plans. bule. And he hopes this weekend Or people who stopped after been coordinating with the vari- brings another overflow crowd.

“If everyone did their job, it COVID,” he said. “Or people who ous churches, which are all taihad a bad experience.” loring specific plans, but the goal would be double, right?” he said.

All the churches in the arch- is for parishioners to invite one diocese are involved in the ef- person to attend Mass with them. Bob Warren writes about faith “We purposely didn’t want to and spirituality in Louisiana. fort, Archbishop James Checchio make it too corporate-y,” Ro- Email him at bwarren@ said. theadvocate.com Checchio said Rodrigue has drigue said.

Almost four months after a Houston man was shot and killed inside a Metairie apartment, a Jefferson Parish grand jury indicted his accused killer on murder charges.

Shaquille Lemay, 23, of New Orleans, was charged Thursday with second-degree murder in the death of 21-year-old Jaden Brown, according to court records.

Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested Lemay shortly after the April 17 shooting, which was reported at Crossings apartment complex in the 2300 block of Severn Avenue in Metairie.

Neither Lemay nor Brown lived at the apartment where the shooting took place, according to homicide detective Darvelle Carter, who testified about the investigation during a preliminary hearing in Jefferson Parish magistrate court in May. The two men were “friends through mutual acquaintances” and were hanging out at the apartment with other people, according to Carter.

Lemay would later tell investigators that he and Brown were sitting on a couch. Brown was sitting to Lemay’s left side while Lemay had his gun on the sofa to his right, Carter said.

Lemay told investigators Brown tried to reach across him to grab the gun, Carter testified. That’s when Lemay told detectives he stood up and shot Brown in the chest.

Deputies dispatched to the apartment found Brown lying wounded on the living room floor. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Lemay was taken into custody outside after deputies found him sitting inside a parked vehicle with a gun on the dashboard, according to Carter.

While Lemay said he acted in selfdefense, witnesses contradicted his claim. Investigators said Brown wasn’t armed, and Lemay acted without provocation.

Carter testified that there was no history of altercations between Lemay and the victim.

After the indictment, the court raised Lemay’s bail to $750,000. He was being held Friday at the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center in Gretna.

Lemay is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.

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Residents urged to prepare for extreme heat Weather service predicts heat index around 110 degrees

BY WILLIE SWETT

Staff writer

New Orleans and Jefferson Parish officials are asking residents to take steps to prepare for extreme heat this weekend, as the National Weather Service predicts temperatures in the mid- to upper 90s and a heat index of around 110 degrees.

The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat warning for Saturday and an extreme

n Salvation Army, 4526 S. Claiheat watch for Sunday. Forecasters warn that when the heat index borne Ave. reaches over 110 degrees, risks of On Saturday, the following NORheat exhaustion and heat stroke DC pools will be open from 9 a.m. rise. to 2 p.m.: n Gert Town The parishes are encouraging n George V. Rainey residents, especially the elderly n Joe W. Brown and people with infants and chiln Sanchez dren, to take precautions to prevent n Treme health episodes. People should stay n Federal City inside, drink water and monitor for n Lemann heat-related illness symptoms, like n Stallings Gentilly shortness of breath and dizziness. n Whitney Young New Orleans On Sunday, the Treme Center at Two overnight shelters in New Or- 900 N. Villere St. will be open from leans are open for unhoused people: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. as a daytime cooln New Orleans Mission, 1130 Or- ing center.

Libraries are also available to etha Castle Haley Blvd.

cool off and will be open on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. They are closed on Sunday.

The city is also reminding residents not to leave children and pets unattended in a vehicle.

Jefferson

Two main branches of the Jefferson Parish library will serve as cooling centers with extended hours on Saturday and Sunday due to the extreme heat.

The parish library’s East Bank Regional and West Bank Regional branches, at 4747 W. Napoleon Ave. and 2751 Manhattan Blvd. will be open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Email Willie Swett at willie. on Saturday and Sunday. swett@theadvocate.com.

Rape trial in Baton Rouge on hold for 30 days

life in prison if convicted attempting to litigate the case limit displays of pink clothing in Judge grants delay in faces through “trial-by-ambush.” support of Brooks and clothing of the first-degree rape charge. “[Defense] would rather the depicting her.

The opening of Carter’s trial Madison Brooks case was State spend every possible moRay granted that request in scheduled for Monday.

BY QUINN COFFMAN Staff writer

Prosecutors with the Baton Rouge District Attorney’s Office sex crimes section on Friday successfully delayed trial against one of the men accused of raping LSU student Madison Brooks, over complaints that the suspect’s defense team was filing last-minute motions.

Judge Gail Horne Ray granted the motion Friday, extending the case against 21-year-old Desmond Carter until Sept. 17, when a motions hearing date will be held. Carter is charged with both first- and third-degree rape, and

Carter’s defense objected to the extension and said they will seek an appeal of Ray’s decision.

In a motion to delay trial filed Thursday afternoon, Assistant District Attorney Sonya CardiaPorter complained that Carter’s defense team had filed seven pretrial motions seven days out from the beginning of trial.

Those motions include attempts from the defense to exclude a toxicologist, exclude evidence related to Brooks’ death, exclude drone footage and limit the prosecution’s use of the term “victim.”

In her motion, Cardia-Porter characterizes the defense as

ment responding to their lastminute motions rather than prepare for trial,” Cardia-Porter’s motion states. “The State cannot respond to eight substantive motions, prepare for trial, accommodate all of the defense counsels’ requests, and meet the court’s orders within 36 hours, which were the circumstances this week.”

Cardia-Porter also requested the defense’s recent pretrial motions be denied as untimely.

The last two weeks have seen several hearings held over pretrial motions as Carter’s original trial date neared, including over a motion from the defense to

Other branches will follow regular hours.

The parish encourages residents to take precautions to avoid heat exhaustion and other heat-related illnesses, including by wearing light clothing, staying hydrated and avoiding alcohol.

Pet owners should also take precautions to keep their pets safe, including by avoiding taking pets outside during the hottest part of the day, using animal sunblock if necessary and ensuring that the pavement is not too hot for their paws, parish officials said.

part, allowing pink clothing in the courtroom but excluding any depictions of Brooks.

Previous pretrial motions have included requests from the defense to drop Carter’s firstdegree rape charge due to being unconstitutionally vague and to include evidence related to Brooks’ sexual partners.

Carter, alongside three other men, is accused of raping Brooks, a 19-year-old LSU student, in 2023, after which she was fatally hit by a car.

Email Quinn Coffman at quinn.coffman@theadvocate. com.

Police: Woman shot and killed Uptown Staff report The New Orleans Police Department was investigating a homicide Uptown on Friday morning after a woman was found shot and killed inside a house on Freret Street.

The death was initially reported as a suicide attempt at 4 a.m. in the 4200 block of Freret Street. Officers arrived and found the woman inside a home in the area. She was declared dead on scene by New Orleans EMS. After discovering the woman had at least one gunshot wound to her body, investigators reclassified her death as a homicide. Officers were seen going in and out of the Freret Street home at around 8:10 a.m. Friday as the investigation continued.

An autopsy will be conducted, and the woman will be identified by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office.

No other information about the shooting was immediately available.

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Police seek woman in alleged stolen valor case

BY BRIAN McCALLUM Staff writer

STAFF PHOTOS By ENAN CHEDIAK

New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno, right, and Jasmyne Watts, the founder and executive director of The Wellness Collective, walk by a stump and rotting wooden benches at Bodenger Playground in Algiers on Friday.

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Changes to come Moreno said most of the issues she spotted Friday appear to be cosmetic fixes that the city, with support from NORD’s fundraising arm, the NORD Foundation, can handle.

On Friday, neatly cut grass filled Joe Brown, Samson Playground in the Desire neighborhood and Bodenger Playground in Algiers.

Officials noted invasive plants along the fences at Joe Brown that will require removal, which the New Orleans Department of Parks and Parkways can do now that they are aware, Moreno said.

At Sampson, in front of a playground set that featured chipped paint and a faded slide, community advocate Karl Washington spoke of the park’s significance to the community and the need for a better working relationship with NORD, which manages over 160 public parks, playgrounds and recreation centers across the city.

“We’re a part of this park every day. We know the issues more than NORD and we’re invested,” he said.

The mayor asked to organize an

An overgrown lot is across the street from Bodenger Playground. internal working group earlier this year to come up with a series of other fixes. The city eventually aims to combine NORD’s workforce with the city’s Department of Parks and Parkways and to address park safety and environmental concerns.

“My goal has always been to create as many opportunities for our youth and as many recreational opportunities here in the city of New

Orleans,” Moreno said.

The mayor has also overhauled the NORD board, which aims this fall to appoint a leader to replace former CEO Larry Barabino Jr. Applications for that job are due to the agency on Monday.

Moreno said she wants to expand NORD’s partnerships and its youth programs. She also wants to improve coordination and communi-

cation between NORD and city departments to address issues, such as the invasive tree situation.

“If (Parks and Parkways) would have known that earlier, they could’ve taken care of it earlier.

Now it’s a really significant situation,” the mayor said.

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

A woman Shreveport Police investigators believe used a fake military ID card is wanted on suspicion of fraudulently taking $8,500 from a bank.

Shreveport Police are seeking the unnamed woman and have released a surveillance photo taken on July 15 when she allegedly used the identification of someone else to make a withdrawal at a Youree Drive bank branch.

According to police, the ID bore a photo of the victim, and a cash withdrawal was made in that person’s name.

Victims eventually discovered the withdrawal had been made without authorization and reported the offense.

In a news release, police said detectives were troubled by the alleged use of a fraudulent military ID. “Men and women who serve in the United States Armed Forces earn that distinction through sacrifice, commitment, and service.

Using the appearance of military service as a tool to facilitate fraud is a particularly disgraceful form of deception,” the release stated.

Anyone having any information about the incident can call the Shreveport Police Department at (318) 673-7300 or Caddo-Bossier Crime Stoppers at (318) 673-7373.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Turner Smith, Jennie Wheaton Morse, Mary

Obituaries Turner Smith, Jennie

Jennie Smith, 89, peacefully entered eternal rest on August 2, 2026. Born July 4, 1937, in Tylertown, Mississippi, to Jacob and Maudette Turner, Jennie lived a life rooted in faith, hard work, and unconditional love.

She married the love of her life, R.D. Smith, and together they raised seven children in New Orleans.

After working in the school system, Jennie owned and operated a daycare and transportation service, serving children and families throughout her community.

A devoted member of Divine Temple Church of God in Christ, Jennie was admired for her faith, elegance, and wisdom. Her family fondly remembers gathering to watch "her stories" together.

She leaves six children, sister Maude Craft, 30 grandchildren, 36 great-grandchildren, three great-great grandchildren, and many relatives and friends.

Services: Monday, August 17, 2026, at The Boyd Family Funeral Home Chapel, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA; visitation 9:00 a.m., service 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 18, 2026, at Second Street Church House of Prayer, Tylertown, MS; visitation 10:00 a.m., service 11:00 a.m. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

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the nines with all the accessories, even in her nineties. She embraced the cultural riches of New York City, whether dining in New York's theater district or frequenting the Union League Club. Wherever she was, she would be, "putting on the ritz."

Midge spent most of her adult life in Dutchess County, New York, dividing her time between Poughkeepsie and Millbrook. She was deeply involved in her community, serving as president of the Children's Home in the mid -1950s and on the board of directors of several local banks and hospitals, including Vassar Brothers Hospital in Poughkeepsie.

Midge's devotion to the Garden Club of America spanned decades and was one of the great passions of her life. In the 1970s, she led efforts to beautify Millbrook — placing the utility lines underground and planting trees along Main Street— a transformation still felt today. Her contributions were recognized by the Garden Club of America with its Club Appreciation Award in 2008, and in May 2022 she was honored for 50 years of service to the Millbrook Garden Club and the Garden Club of America.

An accomplished tennis player, Midge competed well into her mid-70s, earning numerous trophies in women's and mixed doubles play throughout her life. A lifelong tennis enthusiast, she rarely missed watching a major tournament. Her favorite events were Wimbledon and the US Open.

For over thirty years, Midge spent her winters in St. Croix, where she lived in the easternmost house in the United States, perched several hundred feet above Jack Bay. For exercise, she often swam out in the ocean off Grapetree Beach and the Ha'penny Club. The latter was a great place to hunt for conch. In her sixties she led an aerobics class that included many locals, including Mary Tyler Moore.

Midge was a dog person

and always had one at her side. She was a regular attendee at the Westminster Kennel Club's annual dog show, where she held box seats. The highlight was in 2010, when she watched as her friends Amelia Musser and Gayle Bontecou each had one of the seven finalists for Best in Show.

Amelia's Scottish Terrier, Sadie, won Best in Show.

Over the years, she owned a range of show-quality dogs, from Great Danes down to her favorite wirehair dachshunds. Her last dog, Curry, was the sweetest of them all.

She was predeceased by her husbands, Scott R. Wheaton and Clayton J. Morse.

Midge is survived by her children, Scott R. Wheaton Jr. (Gretchen) and Steven F. Wheaton (Dottie); her grandchildren, Lydia W. Lynn (Steve), Molly E. Wheaton (Michael), Fletcher S. Wheaton (Elisa), and Daisy Jane Wheaton (Cynthia); and her great-grandchildren, Logan R. Lynn and Parker F. Wheaton Herrera.

At the age of 80, Midge moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where she spent her final years.

Midge was fortunate to have had a strong group of caregivers over the last year and a half, including Marly Santos, Dorinda Prestenbach, Farrel Fisher, and Kimberlee Peeper, to whom the family extends its heartfelt gratitude.

At a private ceremony, Midge will be laid to rest in Millbrook, NY, alongside her two husbands, Scottie and Clay.

In lieu of donations, the family asks that you take a moment to reach out to someone close to you and give them a hug. Life, even at 96, is short.

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Today, we celebrate and reminisce about your birthday with laughter, hugs, and well wishes. We hold on to the memories that we will cherish forever in our hearts.

Your birthday always was, and always will be, a big deal!

Wheaton Morse, Mary Jane

Our lives as we knew them changed. But we are stronger, wiser, and held together by the memories of you. Your love continues to guide us and is seen every day in your handsome, loving, and ambitious boys.

Your memory lives on in every story we tell, every beautiful picture of you, and every award, accolade, and accomplishment you earned. None of that can ever be erased.

You are missed more than words can ever express.

Happy Heavenly 49th Birthday.

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Mary Jane Wheaton Morse, known to many as "Midge," 96, died peacefully at her home on August 8, 2026, surrounded by family who had gathered to celebrate her 96 years. She was born on December 11, 1929, in Omaha, Nebraska, to Wilfred J. Daily and Olive Leota Means Daily.

Midge was a force of nature. Determined and persistent, with a fierce competitive streak, she brought that same drive to her daily life, her corporate endeavors, and the tennis court. She was the epitome of fashion and glamour, making a point to dress to

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Ford converted plant for EV work within a year

Ford Motor Co. on Thursday said it’s on track to launch the Fathom all-electric midsize truck next year, after converting Louisville Assembly Plant in Kentucky from a gas-vehicle plant into a fully electric facility in under a year.

More equipment installation and quality verification will continue through the end of the year at the former home of the Escape and Lincoln Corsair crossovers as the plant prepares for a first-quarter launch of prototype production of the sub-$30,000 Fathom. It’s the first plant to adopt Ford’s new Universal Electric Vehicle Production System, which adopts a three-pronged assembly tree over the Henry Ford-invented moving assembly line to ease the manufacturing process.

The highly automated manufacturing process will help Louisville Assembly be able to build vehicles a net 15% faster than its former products and will help Ford catch up to Chinese competitors and Tesla Inc. that have implemented similar structures to produce EVs, often at lower costs. Wi-Fi at the plant also has been upgraded to support software quality checks.

France court blocks age social media ban PARIS — A top court in France on Friday struck down a law banning children under 15 from using social media, saying it infringes on fundamental freedoms.

The Constitutional Council ruled that provisions in the ban “disproportionately infringe freedom of expression and communication” and haven’t provided legal guarantees to ensure those rights, according to a news release summarizing the decision.

France last month became the first country in the European Union to pass a blanket ban on the platforms amid rising worldwide concerns about the harmful effects of digital content on kids. Both chambers of the Parliament had voted in favor of the measure, which also banned the use of mobile phones in high schools.

The legislation was one of the final major measures adopted under French President Emmanuel Macron’s presidency before he leaves office next year. Macron wanted the law to take effect at the start of the new school year in September, but the bill faced a review to determine whether it complied with the French Constitution.

Responding to the decision, Macron said in a statement that he was fully determined to see the ban take effect by spring and has tasked Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu “with working as quickly as possible on a legally robust proposal that takes into account the decision of the Constitutional Council as well as the European legal framework.”

Reddit to join S&P 500 index NEW YORK — Reddit will join the S&P 500 next week, giving the wide-ranging online forum a boost in prestige and investments.

Joining the S&P 500 is considered an achievement for a company because the index is a widely followed measure of the broader U.S. stock market’s health.

A company is selected for the index based on several criteria that demonstrate stability, including market size and consistent profitability.

Reddit’s stock surged 12.6% Friday.

Aside from status, inclusion means more investments. The index tracks 500 of the biggest U.S. stocks, and trillions of dollars in investments benchmark themselves against it. Those investments include mutual funds and exchange-traded funds.

Essentially, those funds will have to buy the stock once it becomes part of the index that the fund is tracking or mimicking.

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Wall Street slips following weak economy update

BY STAN CHOE Associated Press

NEW YORK — The U.S. stock market edged back from its all-time high Friday following the latest report on the economy to come in surprisingly weak, this time about how much shoppers are spending at retailers. Such data could keep interest rates low, which is something Wall Street loves, but it also raises the risk of a slowing economy when inflation is still high.

The S&P 500 slipped 0.2% from its record set the day before. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 107 points, or 0.2%, and the

Nasdaq composite sank 0.3%.

Stocks gave up modest gains from early in the morning after oil prices swung higher. The price for a barrel of Brent crude rose 1.7% to $88.52 as uncertainty continues about when the war with Iran will allow oil tankers to freely exit the Persian Gulf again.

Also raising uncertainty was a report showing shoppers spent less at U.S. retailers last month than the month before. That surprised economists, who were forecasting another month of growth.

On the bright side for financial markets, such a pullback in spending could take pressure off infla-

tion. Inflation remains much higher than anyone would like, but reports earlier this week suggested the pace of increases in prices is decelerating.

If inflation keeps trending that way, it could encourage the Federal Reserve to hold off on hikes to interest rates. Higher rates would help keep a lid on inflation, but they do so by intentionally slowing the economy and making it more expensive to borrow money.

The downside of such data, including last week’s surprisingly weak report on the U.S. job market, is that they raise the risk of a slowing economy. The Fed has no good

tool to fix both a stagnating economy and high inflation at the same time, which is why what’s called “stagflation” is seen as a worst-case scenario.

Some on Wall Street cautioned against overreacting to the weak data on U.S. retail sales, even if it was broad based. It could simply be a snap back after retail sales in earlier months were boosted by unusual factors such as big tax refunds, the World Cup and even an earlier Prime Day event at Amazon, according to Jennifer Timmerman, senior investment strategy analyst at Wells Fargo Investment Institute.

Retail sales slump sharply after summer tax-refund boost fades Consumers are more pessimistic about economy

BY ANNE D’INNOCENZIO AP business writer

NEW YORK — After splurging on the World Cup and Amazon Prime Day sales, Americans unexpectedly cut their spending in July by the biggest amount in more than a year.

Retail sales fell 0.6% last month, marking the biggest decrease since May 2025, compared with a revised gain of 0.2% in June, according to the Commerce Department data released Friday. Economists were projecting a small increase.

The decline followed a notable bump in spending in both April and May as Americans dipped into their government tax refunds.

The drop in spending for July, however, raised concern among some economists about the resiliency of consumers who have powered the economy forward despite nagging inflation and soaring gasoline prices. Yet, it may be too early to declare a retreat by one of the strongest and most consistent forces in the U.S. economy of late.

Still, the weak sales report follows unexpectedly sluggish jobs figures last week, and both suggest the economy could be slowing after strong consumer and business spending in the first half of the year.

Separately, consumers turned more pessimistic about the economy this month, likely driven by stubbornly high prices, according to the University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index, released Friday.

While most economists still expect solid economic growth in the July-September quarter, many have lowered their forecasts in the wake of the retail sales report.

Prices in July, which were not adjusted for inflation, were impacted by falling sales at gas stations. Fuel prices remained low until later in the month when evidence of a stalemate between the U.S. and Iran in the Strait of Hormuz began to grow. Business at gas stations fell 0.9% last month, according to the report.

Gas prices have been rising since the final week of July and ticked higher again overnight to $4.08 per gallon, up from $3.85 a month ago, according to motor club AAA. That’s 92 cents more per gallon than Americans were paying last year at this time.

Gas prices typically begin to recede in August as the driving season comes to a close and the AAA said this week that the high cost of fuel for Americans this late in the year is unprecedented.

Excluding sales at gas stations and auto dealers, retail sales in July fell 0.2%.

Business at motor vehicle and parts dealers saw a 1.8% drop from a 1.9% increase in June, which was helped by automakers’ promotion incentives.

Electronics and appliance sales declined 0.5%. Online sales fell 2.2% from June when they were fueled by spending surrounding Am-

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The drop in spending for July raises concern among some economists about the resiliency of consumers who have powered the economy forward despite nagging inflation and soaring gasoline prices.

Business at motor vehicle and parts dealers saw a 1.8% drop from a 1.9% increase in June, which was helped by automakers’ promotion incentives. azon’s four-day Prime Day event that began in late June, earlier than previous years.

The drop in online sales weighed heavily on the so-called control group — which excludes food services, autos, building materials and gas station sales and is used to calculate economic growth. That figure fell 0.4% last month.

“American consumers are showing signs of fatigue, “ Heather Long, chief economist at Navy Federal Credit Union, wrote Friday. “July retail sales were disappointing on all levels.”

But the weak sales seemed to be concentrated in a few areas.

Among some of the bright spots in the report: clothing and accessories stores, furniture and home furnishing stores as well as building material and garden supplies merchants all posted gains last month.

The data offers only a snapshot of consumer spending and doesn’t include activities like

travel and hotel stays. But the lone services category — restaurants — registered a healthy 0.5% increase “Though the latest numbers warrant a downgrade to the spending forecast, it’d be premature to write off the consumer,” Bernard Yaros, lead U.S. economist at Oxford Economics said.

He noted the job market is “broadly balanced,” and wealthy households, boosted by strong gains in the stock market, continue to spend.

New data this week showed that inflation declined slightly in July as gas and grocery prices slipped, though it is still rising more quickly than before the Iran war.

Consumer prices increased 3.4% in July from a year ago, down slightly from 3.5% in June, the Labor Department said Wednesday. Inflation had fallen to 2.4% before the Iran war. On a monthly basis, prices rose just 0.1% from June to July.

The modest decline marked the second straight decrease after sharply higher gas prices pushed inflation to 4.2% in May, a threeyear high.

Given the volatile economic environment, economists are closely watching how families spend behind Christmas.

Shopping has been steady, though Americans have dialed in on sales as they grow more careful with their money.

Off-price retailers, consumer electronics and office supply retailers have had a “strong early start” to the back-to-school season, said Elizabeth Lafontaine, director of research at Placer.ai.

“Consumers have looked to take advantage of early deals to check off their lists,” Lafontaine said.

Brazil’s Lula triggers reciprocity process against U.S. tariffs

BY MAURICIO SAVARESE Associated Press

SAO PAULO — Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said Friday his government has triggered an economic reciprocity law mechanism against U.S.-imposed tariffs, saying the move was intended to show his nation must be respected.

Lula In July, President Donald Trump imposed tariffs on hundreds of Brazilian exports, with duties reaching up to 37.5% in

some products. The Trump administration has accused Brazil of unfair trade practices, but Lula has denied the accusations, insisting they are politically motivated ahead of the October election.

Lula is seeking reelection against Sen. Flávio Bolsonaro, a Trump ally who met with U.S. officials, including Trump, in Washington weeks before the administration proposed higher tariffs on Brazilian goods.

“Yesterday, we invoked the reciprocity law to show that we are not to be taken lightly,” Lula said in an interview with Brazilian podcasters. “We respect ourselves. I am very calm knowing what could happen, and I am prepared to

debate the defense of Brazil anywhere in the world.”

Brazil’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement late Thursday it is requesting diplomatic consultations with its U.S. counterparts on the issue, as a sign of Lula’s aim “to privilege dialogue and negotiation in its international relations.”

The beginning of the proceedings does not necessarily mean Brazil will retaliate against U.S. tariffs.

“I don’t want any fight with the United States,” Lula said Friday.

“Unfortunately, they are spreading falsehoods.”

Earlier this month, the U.S. State Department revoked the visa of Brazil’s ambassador to Washing-

ton in retaliation for Brazil’s denial of visas last month for two American diplomats who sought to visit ahead of the October election.

The U.S. government also has accused Brazil of stalling approval of Trump’s nominee for ambassador in Brasilia, while Brazilian officials say the U.S. should have first sought the government’s approval before submitting the nomination to Congress, as diplomatic protocol requires.

Since U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio revoked the Brazilian ambassador’s visa in response to Lula’s actions but did not order her expelled, U.S. officials have said the Trump administration does not want the dispute to escalate.

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Picking the next Democratic nominee for president The politician who could have the most influence on who will be the next Democratic presidential nominee isn’t even a Democrat. He’s Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont and an unapologetic socialist.

While Democratic leaders respect Sanders for consistency and endurance, they see him as an unrealistic ideologue, not a power broker. But they may be missing the point: A Sanders endorsement, along with his sizable national organization, could have a significant impact on the 2028 nomination.

Even if Sanders can’t deliver the nomination — few people in his shoes ever can — he may have veto power over who gets it.

Sanders ran for the Democratic nomination in 2016, opposing Hillary Clinton. Her campaign was a juggernaut with tons of money, endorsements and establishment support, but Sanders animated the party’s grassroots base.

He carried 23 state primaries and caucuses Ron and captured 13.2 million votes, 43% of the Faucheux total.

In 2020, Sanders ran again and won more votes in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada than any other candidate, clobbering Joe Biden, the eventual nominee. The Democratic establishment rallied around the former vice president that year mainly to stop Sanders, who they feared could win the nomination and lose the general election.

Six years hence, Sanders is still a player. Not as a candidate — he’ll be 86 in 2028 — but as a potential kingmaker. Republicans may see him as “a crazy communist,” but Democrats give him an impressive 78% favorable rating, according to a recent Marquette University poll.

Sanders could become the Barry Goldwater of the left. The Arizona senator lost the presidency in 1964, but galvanized a conservative movement within the Republican Party that went on to nominate and elect Ronald Reagan in 1980.

Goldwater famously told Republicans: “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice ... and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Those words frightened liberals and Democrats of that era, but would the new left hear them differently today?

Many Democrats are angry at their own party’s establishment. They see it as weak, corrupt and subservient to the billionaire class. Sanders’ “Fighting Oligarchy” rallies have been channeling that anger into political action.

Remember, the Democratic establishment backed Clinton in 2016, Biden in 2020 and Kamala Harris in 2024. And the result? Two terms of Donald Trump in the White House. The party’s inability to stop Trump infuriates rank-and-file Democrats.

The nation’s widening wealth gap has also given the leftwing new fodder. How many more stories about $50 million weddings and half-billion-dollar yachts can the struggling middle-class stomach?

CNN polling finds that more than a third of Democratic voters identify as “democratic socialists.” That’s a lot. In the Gallup poll, nearly two-thirds of Democrats say they view “socialism” favorably as an economic philosophy. That’s not to be discounted.

There are limits to any movement, of course, and running a bad candidate is one of them.

The recent Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor is a case in point. Democratic socialist Francesca Hong was leading the polls until her extreme record was scrutinized.

Her past calls to abolish the police and cancel Thanksgiving were over the top. Moreover, Sanders refused to endorse her and the withdrawal of other candidates helped her opponent.

Nonetheless, Hong came within half a percentage point of winning the nomination against an establishment-backed candidate.

Who would Sanders support for president in 2028, if anybody?

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York tops the list, but it’s unclear whether she will seek the nomination. To many voters, the presidency is a bridge too far for the 36-year-old New York House member. That’s why she may decide that Chuck Schumer’s Senate seat is a more realistic goal, whether Schumer runs or not.

What about Ro Khanna from California? A close ally of Sanders, the Silicon Valley congressman co-chaired his 2020 presidential campaign. He’d love to carry Sanders’ mantle, and would need it to gain national recognition and credibility.

Other possibilities include Sens. Chris Van Hollen of Maryland and Chris Murphy of Connecticut. Both have tiptoed toward becoming more acceptable to the populist left. A biggername Democrat — Harris, Gavin Newsom, Pete Buttigieg, Wes Moore or JB Pritzker — could try the same.

It’s time Democrats ask themselves: Does association with the “socialist” label make it harder or easier for them to win general elections?

While they fear offending the far left, they still have to worry about the consequences of falling off the end of the political seesaw.

Ron Faucheux is a nonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writer based in Louisiana.

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Drew Brees is a humble hero, quick to give credit to others After reading the many accolades about former Saints quarterback Drew Brees, I noticed his most defining trait is his humility.

He has reached the pinnacle of success, not only in the game of football but in everything he does.

But when reading his comments or viewing pictures of him in your excellent articles, I see humility.

He directed any comments made about him to others, to whom he gave credit for his success.

When he posed for photos, he could have been basking in his glory. Instead, he was directing others to step in and be included in the photo, always directing attention

away from himself and onto someone else.

If he exhibited any sense of selfpride, it was in having his family around him, sharing the moment.

For a person to have reached such a height of achievement not only for himself but for his family, friends and his community in such trying times is proof of his humble existence on our Earth.

Much like the example of our Lord, he lives for others and not for himself, sharing what the meaning of life should be and in the process exemplifying what a great man he is.

GLENDA THOMAS Lafayette

E-bikes, scooters a danger to pedestrians I’ve observed a new danger on our streets — the electric bicycle and the stand-up electric scooter. Both electric bikes and electric scooters have a low profile, and they are difficult to see. They can operate at speeds up to 35 mph, though fortunately most don’t go faster than 20 mph.

Often, they are operated dangerously: at night without lights, and at all hours, with no regard for traffic regulations or the safety of any pedestrians present. I don’t think I need to discuss the dangers posed by the tandem use of electric scooters.

To add to this problem, sidewalk ramps that make sidewalks accessible to wheelchair users as well as parents with strollers, travelers with rolling bags and delivery workers

also provide easy access for electric bikes, scooters and old-fashioned pedal bicycles, creating formidable and dangerous conditions for all other users of sidewalks.

We do not like having “too many regulations” governing our lives, but we are obligated to protect the rights of all users of sidewalks and streets.

Users of electric bikes and scooters should be required to obey and respect existing traffic regulations.

They also should keep off sidewalks.

If electric bike and scooter users do not use common sense for operating their vehicles, perhaps we should provide incentives to encourage proper operation of their vehicles.

THOMAS G. SUYDAM New Orleans

Homeless may need treatment and housing In the recent article, “Landry moves to take over New Orleans homeless services,” Ed Carlson, director of Odyssey House Louisiana, says he agrees with the state that “you’ve got to get people housing-ready before they’re put into housing.”

It sounds like he’s talking about puppies from the pound.

This whole argument nationwide is a false choice by design, because this group is treated, as Pope Leo would say, as “marginalized,” and as I say, along with Pope Francis, as “human garbage.”

Many homeless persons, if not most, are not in need of treatment.

And for those who are, the resources for medical/addiction treatment are

limited at best and then often behind bureaucratic barricades that make them impenetrable.

Examples include new Medicaid rule changes that expand work requirements and policies to make opioid treatment more difficult to obtain, as pointed out by Thomas Roddy’s guest column recently.

Dr. Jennifer Avegno, the city’s deputy mayor for health and human services, nails it. Both housing and treatment need prioritizing!

We need no more pushing false choices. We need a societal commitment to provide sufficient resources for both.

Residents deserve to know facts about Landry’s deals with big business Our governor’s cozy relationship with big business is expected and unsurprising, but the novel use of nondisclosure agreements, or NDAs, to curb dissent, prevent community organizing and restrict the Legislature’s speech is deeply troubling.

In Louisiana, the largest sectors of our industry have serious and known consequences for climate, health and pollution that benefit their owners tremendously but have an outsized effect on the tax base and citizenry.

Heck, even the “largest AI training facility in the world” will only provide 1,000 permanent jobs for a $50 billion investment, if Meta’s rosy projections are to be believed.

Louisianans deserve all the information from their state government and representatives — good or bad. The governor’s actions simply don’t pass the smell test.

TAYLOR LORIO Metairie

Editorial cartoon gave the wrong idea about who’s paying for Trump’s ballroom A recent editorial cartoon

by Jeff Stahler connotes the idea that President Donald Trump’s ballroom is funded by taking money from healthcare to have it built.

That is a lie.

The ballroom is to be funded by private donations and no government money is to be used.

It is very poor policy to give the public the idea that they are being robbed of a benefit.

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Bertman’s legacy is eternal B LSU icon died early Friday in Baton Rouge

The phone rang at my desk in The Advocate’s old newsroom on Lafayette Street. The voice at the other end of the line cut unmistakably through the clatter and buzz of people scurrying about to compile that day’s news.

“Hey Rab,” the voice said. “It’s Skip, at the college.”

I had to chuckle. I knew who it was. That was the inside joke.

Anyone who ever heard Skip Bertman speak knew immediately it was no one else — not even one of the many former players, friends and fellow media members who STAFF FILE PHOTO By MATT ROSE

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more than his 870 games at LSU from 1984-2001. The late Rod Dedeaux went from New Orleans to USC and won more College World Series (10) than Bertman did with five. But Bertman won his titles in an unprecedented era of competition in the sport.

An era he helped create.

A resume like Bertman’s — five CWS titles in 11 trips to Omaha, seven Southeastern Conference championships, six SEC Tournament titles — would be enough to cement an amazing legacy. More than enough to warrant the statue of him outside Alex Box Stadium/Skip Bertman Field, hunched over the dugout railing, gazing forever toward the ballpark

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Pregame message duties fall to QB after Davis departs When the Saints take the field for their preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday, a symbolic changing of the guard will occur.

For the first time in nearly two decades, someone other than Drew Brees or Demario Davis will deliver the pregame huddle message in the south end zone before the New Orleans Saints break into warm-ups.

That someone will be Tyler Shough. The second-year Jeff quarterback said Wednesday Duncan he plans to assume the duties that were held by Davis the previous five seasons. In doing so, he will inherit a coveted role within the hierarchy of the roster, one that essentially establishes him as the unequivocal leader of the team.

“That’s my plan, to be out there every game and do it,” he said.

The pregame huddle is one of the Saints’ most popular traditions. Part hype session, part battle cry, it’s the team leader’s final chance to set the tone and establish a mindset for teammates before they engage the opponent on the gridiron.

The ritual started organically after coach Sean Payton took over the team in 2006, and, like the pregame Who Dat chant, has become a game-day tradition ever since.

The weekly breakdowns are popular with fans and media outlets, including the Saints and NFL, which broadcast the huddles regularly on their websites. The huddle breakdowns made for such good TV during the Saints’ Super Bowl run in 2009, team officials had to restrict access

did impressions of him.

If imitation is indeed the most sincere form of flattery, then Stanley “Skip” Bertman was the most flattered human Scott being I’ve ever met. DeRabalais servedly so.

Bertman, who died early Friday morning at 88, was a figure larger than life.

Brilliant, visionary, demanding and exacting in a way few people — certainly few coaches — ever are, he was the very definition of excellence.

He wanted things done The Bertman Way. Invariably, that led him and LSU to success.

He was the greatest college baseball coach ever. Full stop. Others won

Alvin Kamara always has liked having a running mate.

At its best, the dynamic creates an atmosphere where Kamara believes he and his partner can feed off of each other.

“I can look out and shoot, probably see Trav and I know the play call and I’m like, ‘Oh I know he’s about to hit this,’ ” Kamara said.

“Trav” is Travis Etienne, the Jennings native who left the Jacksonville Jaguars in March to become Kamara’s newest backfield partner. But unlike recent years, when the Saints would search for a Robin to Kamara’s Batman, Etienne’s signing marks a significant shift.

For the first time since he was a rookie, Kamara is no longer expected to be the lead running back for the Saints. Not after the four-year, $52 million contract the Saints gave Etienne.

The Saints believe the two can co-exist, which is why the

team negotiated a pay cut with Kamara last month instead of releasing him outright. But how New Orleans goes about implementing them — and whether they can jump-start a rushing attack that ranked among the league’s worst a year ago — remains one of the bigger mysteries ahead of the regular season.

“I feel like we’re just two running backs who can go out there and make things happen,” Etienne said earlier in camp. “I don’t think either one of us care who go out there first. Our biggest focus is winning the game, and I feel like that we complement each other well.”

Determining the split Kamara is quick to point out he’s shared the spotlight before. He thrived with Mark Ingram to begin his career.

Latavius Murray was a natural fit later.

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Defensive coordinator Baker gets autonomy to mold LSU defense

BY JON BLAU Staff writer

LSU coach Lane Kiffin doesn’t tell defensive coordinator Blake Baker what to do.

He suggests.

“It’s a true suggestion,” Baker said. “A lot of times, they’re really good ideas.”

That’s a luxury in this business, which Kiffin knows full well. He was an aggressive, push-the-pace offensive coordinator serving under defensive-minded head coaches

Kiffin came to LSU besuch as Southern Cal’s Pete Carroll and Alabama’s Nick Saban. cause he liked the financial Coaches from the defensive side of the resources and autonomy schematic fence often like to slow down the school promised him. It and play it conservatively. They can make appears Kiffin is affording demands that muck up a game plan.

Baker, a coordinator who “Sometimes it doesn’t always work like passed on head coaching that because they understand this part of opportunities last offseason, it and not what all that means when you Baker the same consideration. change this one thing,” Kiffin said. “So I try The defense added the not to do that very much on defense and let likes of edge rusher Princewill Umanmielthem coach.” en, linebacker TJ Dottery and safety Ty

Benefield from the transfer portal. Baker has those players flying around, chasing Kiffin’s fast-paced offense in preseason camp.

Baker is essentially the head coach of the LSU defense.

“Like any relationship, you try to feel each other out,” Baker said of his boss, “and it’s been outstanding. I think he’s been really, really good to me.”

Kiffin retained Baker, a coordinator who

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Continued from page 1C that replaced the old Alex Box because of Bertman’s sheer will that it be built.

But he also went on to serve as the LSU athletic director from 2001-08 as well, a compromise choice between then-LSU President Mark Emmert and the LSU Board of Supervisors when they were at odds over who would replace Joe Dean.

Who could say no to Skip Bertman? Hardly anyone.

Always with an eye for talent, Bertman hired four coaches who went on to win national championships in their respective sports: Les Miles (football), Paul Mainieri (baseball), Dennis Shaver (track and field) and Chuck Winstead (men’s golf).

He started the Tradition Fund at LSU, requiring donations for the right to buy season tickets.

I’ll never forget the summer afternoon in 2003 when he came to speak to our sports staff and editorial board to outline the reasons LSU needed to create this new revenue stream. It may

Atlanta Falcons edge rusher James Pearce will be suspended for the first eight games of the 2026 season for violating the league’s personal conduct policy, the league announced Friday.

Pearce was arrested in February following a domestic dispute with his ex-girlfriend and WNBA player, Rickea Jackson.

Pearce’s charges of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, fleeing police and resisting arrest, and misdemeanor stalking could be dropped if he cooperates in a pretrial intervention program requiring random drug tests, distance from Jackson and staying out of legal trouble for one year.

Pearce will be available to participate in preseason games and all team activities until the suspension takes effect on Aug. 30.

MLB awards San Francisco with 2028 All-Star Game

Staff report The LSU community woke up Friday to news of the death of Skip Bertman, a legendary baseball coach and athletic director who earned national respect as a proven winner and trailblazer in college baseball.

Bertman, a native of Miami Beach, Florida, died early Friday morning in Baton Rouge at the age of 88.

He led the LSU baseball program to its first five national championships during an 18-year run as head coach. After stepping down as baseball coach, he served as the LSU athletic director for seven years. He hired four coaches who won national titles at LSU: Les Miles (football), Paul Mainieri (baseball), Chuck Winstead (men’s golf) and Dennis Shaver (men’s and women’s track and field).

Not long after the news spread, those who knew Bertman best and admired him from afar expressed sadness over the passing of one of the more successful figures in LSU and Southeastern Conference history.

Ben McDonald, a pitcher who became the No. 1 overall pick in the 1989 MLB Draft after a stellar career at LSU under Bertman, said he visited with Bertman on Thursday night.

“My heart is broken this morning….we have lost Coach Bertman,” McDonald said on social media. “The best to ever fill out a lineup card….the man who changed college baseball forever and the man who built the best baseball program in the country.

As great a coach he was, even a better man that touched countless lives. So thankful I got to see him last night and tell him how much I loved him 1 more time!”

Gov. Jeff Landry joined those remembering Bertman for his status as one of the true LSU greats.

“The word legend is often used to signify the greatness of a person, but in sports being a legend isn’t measured by the trophies you collect. Those are just symbols of accomplishments,” Landry said in a statement. “A legend is a person who changes a standard forever, and that is what Skip Bertman did. He took something ordinary and made it extraordinary.

“Most importantly, he left his players and those he touched better than he found them. His goal was to impact the scoreboard of life. Louisiana will dearly miss him!”

Kyle Peterson, who serves as

NFL suspends Falcons edge rusher Pearce 8 games

SAN FRANCISCO — The All-Star Game is returning to San Francisco.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred made the announcement Friday that the 2028 Midsummer Classic will be at Oracle Park, home of the San Francisco Giants. The 2007 game was played in the picturesque waterfront ballpark, featuring Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki’s famous inside-thepark home run that bounced off the tricky wall in right-center field.

This will mark another major sporting event for the Bay Area recently after the Super Bowl and World Cup this year and the NBA All-Star Game in February 2025.

The Giants will host the Midsummer Classic for a fourth time overall after Candlestick Park held the first All-Star Game of the 1961 season.

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Former LSU baseball coach and athletic director Skip Bertman, left, chats with LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson, right, on the field before first pitch against Mississippi State on May 12, 2023, at Alex Box Stadium.

ESPN’s top college baseball analyst, placed Bertman atop the pantheon of great college baseball coaches.

“Skip was simply the best,” Peterson said on X. “One of the most important and influential people in the history of college baseball.

I cherished every minute that I was able to spend with him over the years. The voice that needed no introduction, you knew who it was the minute he spoke. While his voice may now be silent, his impact on college baseball will be felt for generations. Rest easy and thank you Skip.”

Ray Wright, who was an outfielder on Bertman’s final national championship squad in 2000, described his time playing for the Tigers as life-changing.

“I’m so blessed to have been a small part of the juggernaut that Skip Bertman built,” Wright said on social media. “Skip changed my life. He taught me lessons that I still carry with me and pass on to others today. I’ll never forget getting on the bus after we won the 2000 Natty in Omaha and Skip greeting each of us personally: ‘National Champion Ray Wright.’

“It was an incredible feeling, but more than that, it put into perspective what we had just accomplished. That was Skip — he made everyone around him believe they could accomplish something special. RIP Skip. There will never be another.”

LSU athletic director Verge Aus-

berry acknowledged Bertman’s time at LSU as a critical period for a school that has become a prime destination for elite coaches and athletes.

“Few people have had a greater impact on LSU than Skip Bertman,” Ausberry said in a statement. “As the greatest college baseball coach of all time, and later as our Athletics director, Skip developed a championship standard and culture still guide us today. Personally, he was a dear friend, mentor and advisor, and I’m forever grateful for the trust and faith he placed in me to serve this institution. I will continue to honor Skip by leaning into the lessons he taught me every day. Our thoughts and prayers are with his loved ones at this time.”

Current LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson developed a close relationship with Bertman after taking over the program in 2022, and Bertman made the trek to Omaha to watch Johnson’s Tigers beat Coastal Carolina for the 2025 national title.

“By far the greatest part of being the baseball coach at LSU the last five years is the relationship I was able to build with the greatest college baseball coach of my lifetime, Skip Bertman,” Johnson said in a statement. “The mentorship, and most importantly, the friendship we built is easily one of the best, most rewarding, and special relationships I have ever had. What an honor it has been to

sit with, talk baseball with, smile with, and laugh with Coach.

“Coach Bertman was so far ahead of his time while leading the LSU Tigers, and as a young coach just starting my journey, I watched, studied, and admired his incredible skills of leading, motivating, teaching, coaching, and ultimately cultivating what became ‘The Powerhouse’ of College Baseball. Being able to share the 2023 and 2025 National Championships with Coach Bertman watching is something I wouldn’t trade for the world. The impact he made and legacy he has left on the state of Louisiana and college baseball is beyond remarkable and will never be duplicated.

“I love you Coach, I will miss you, and will continue to work every day in a manner that I know would make you proud.”

Ole Miss baseball coach Mike Bianco, who was a catcher for Bertman’s 1988 and 1989 teams before becoming an assistant for Bertman from 1993-97, joined the chorus of those who saw the former LSU coach as one of the primary architects of modern college baseball.

“It’s a sad day,” Bianco said in a statement. “This morning we lost a legend. Skip Bertman was (simply) the best. His impact on College Baseball will live on forever.

I feel so blessed to have had him as a coach and a mentor. He meant so much to so many. I will miss you, Coach.”

sound quaint now in the era of uniform patches and private equity/investment, but at the time it was going to be a tough sell. And Bertman knew it.

“I need Nick (Saban) to win big,” Bertman confided. “Nine, 10 wins.”

That fall, Saban and LSU won the football program’s first national championship since 1958.

Bertman’s timing, like knowing just when to go to the bullpen, was remarkable.

Between what he did on the field and how he led off of it, LSU athletics has existed in what can only be called the Age of Bertman, the most influential and important figure it has ever known.

He not only demanded LSU’s programs compete at a high level but he also showed all those programs how to get there.

With baseball, Bertman elevated a sport that had accomplished next to nothing and turned it into a program that LSU fandom now obsesses over the way they do basketball at Kentucky or football at Alabama. Baseball’s popularity at LSU will never quite eclipse football — Bertman knew that as well as anyone — but it’s firmly entrenched as the No. 2 sport at LSU in a way that is ex-

ceedingly rare anywhere else.

At The Advocate, we staff every single LSU baseball game home and away — probably the only news organization in the country that does that for a college baseball team — because of the intense interest in the program Bertman built.

College baseball is bigger across the nation, and most specifically in the Southeastern Conference, because of Bertman. Through his promotions such as bringing in The San Diego Chicken (if you don’t know, look it up) or creating a family atmosphere at the old Alex Box where the coffee was always hot and the bathrooms always clean (in his early days, Bertman would tour the ballpark with a pregame checklist), Bertman showed baseball didn’t have to be a money pit but could pay much of its own freight. At a few places, even turn a profit.

Since Bertman’s coaching tenure, every SEC school has upgraded its ballpark or built new.

That’s hardly a coincidence. Not after the Johnny Appleseed of college baseball showed the way.

In addition to everything else, Bertman was the best storyteller

I ever met. The best pure joy I’ve had as a sportswriter was on practice days at the College World Series. Bertman would let his assistants run practice while he held court in the dugout, often with a cigar in hand, giving quotes and spinning anecdotes.

I’d love to hear one more story.

His former players I know would love to hear one more inspirational tale.

The last time I spoke to Bertman was early last month, shortly after I’d heard a large tree in his yard fell on part of his home in Riverbend.

Most of the house was consumed by a fire in 2004, taking with it much of Bertman’s trove of memorabilia from his career.

But he and his wife Sandy (who died in March 2025) survived, rebuilt and stayed. The house took a pounding from that big tree over the garage but still stood.

“The house is OK,” he said.

“Everything is fine.”

The voice wavered a little compared to Bertman’s prime, but it was still unmistakable. It seemed like it would endure forever.

Now, that voice is silent.

But the Age of Bertman continues.

Timberwolves to retire Garnett’s No. 21 jersey

MINNEAPOLIS — The Minnesota Timberwolves will retire Hall of Fame forward Kevin Garnett’s No. 21 jersey after their game against the Boston Celtics this season.

The team announced Friday that the ceremony will take place following the Feb. 28 game at Target Center against the Celtics, who retired Garnett’s jersey in 2022.

Garnett will become just the second player in the 37-year history of the franchise to have his number retired, following the late Malik Sealy, a close friend and teammate of Garnett’s who died in a car crash in 2000.

Garnett is the all-time Timberwolves leader in numerous statistical categories, including points, rebounds, blocks, assists and steals.

Venus Williams’ losing streak in singles matches now at 13

MASON, Ohio — Venus Williams’ losing streak in singles play has reached 13 matches.

The seven-time major champion was defeated 6-2, 6-2 by Emiliana Arango on Friday in the first round of the Cincinnati Open.

The 46-year-old Williams received a wild-card entry to the WTA 1000 event. She has not won a singles match since July 2025.

Arango, a 25-year-old qualifier from Colombia ranked 95th, needed 1 hour, 5 minutes to defeat Williams on the grandstand court at Lindner Tennis Center.

Williams’ last singles victory came last year in Washington, when she defeated Peyton Stearns.

Venus is also slated to play mixed doubles at the U.S. Open later this month with Alexander Bublik.

Miami RB Lyle arrested for fleeing police, reckless driving

Miami running back Jordan Lyle has been charged with a felony count of fleeing/eluding police and a misdemeanor count of reckless driving, according to the Broward County state attorney’s office in Florida.

A state attorney official said Friday that Lyle voluntary surrendered to police on Thursday, a day after warrant was issued for his arrest.

Court records show he was released after posting bond the same day.

Police allege in a report that Lyle demonstrated “wanton disregard for the safety of persons or property” by willfully fleeing or attempting to elude a marked police vehicle with its emergency lights and siren activated in Sunrise, Florida, on July 10. It’s unclear why police sought to stop Lyle or how they came to identify him as the driver.

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LSU women’s hoops adds LSU-New Orleans 17-year-old Russian center legend returns Minaeva is 6-foot-5, has played pro ball

BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

It’s been the subject of online rumors for months, and now it’s official: The LSU women’s basketball team has dipped back into the international ranks to round out its 2026-27 roster.

Coach Kim Mulkey and her staff announced Friday that they have made Anna Minaeva — a 6-foot-5, 17-year-old center who’s played professionally in Russia — their second international signee of the offseason. The first was Noa Morro, a 6-3 forward from Spain who joined the Tigers in April.

“I’m thrilled to welcome Anna to our LSU family,” Mulkey said in a statement. “She has the experience, skillset and size to make an immediate impact in our frontcourt.”

Minaeva spent the 2025-26 season playing in both Russia’s top-tier Professional Basketball League (PBL) and its second-tier Superleague. In the PBL, she averaged 5.6 points and 4.0 rebounds in 13 minutes per game.

In the Superleague, she tallied 15.1 points, 13.7 rebounds, 2.1 assists, 1.3 blocks and 1.3 steals in 31 minutes per game.

Minaeva and Morro will solidify LSU’s frontcourt this coming season.

Morro, 21, is a sharpshooting veteran with some playmaking chops. Minaeva is a taller, stronger back-to-the-basket post player with a soft touch. They’ll patrol the interior alongside sophomore Grace Knox, junior Kate Koval and sophomore Meghan Yarnevich — the three incumbent frontcourt players set to return for another season.

Koval is a native of Ukraine, which adds an interesting layer to the Minaeva signing. LSU is now believed to be the only Division I women’s college basketball team to roster players from Russia and Ukraine — the neighboring Eastern European nations that have been at war since 2022.

Both Koval and Minaeva represented their respective countries in international competition this offseason. In June, Koval competed for Ukraine in the FIBA 3x3 World Cup, while Minaeva starred on the U17 Russian team that played in the Russia-China youth games in May. She was named MVP of that event.

Minaeva will join an LSU program that had to replace seven players from last season, including star senior Flau’jae Johnson.

Three exhausted their eligibility, and four decided to enter the transfer portal. Six of the seven

were guards.

Including Minaeva, the Tigers have added six newcomers this offseason. Lola Lampley — a McDonald’s All-America wing — is the lone U.S.-born freshman. Iowa State’s Jada Williams, Florida’s Laila Reynolds and Tennessee Tech’s Chloe Larry are the three transfer guards.

Williams, a 5-8 senior, was the fifth-best player in the transfer portal, according to ESPN. She had the nation’s third-highest assist average last season (7.7), and she also scored 15.3 points per game.

Reynolds is a tall, long senior with 97 career starts.

Larry, a Bossier City native, is a junior who played her high school basketball with Mikaylah Williams.

Minaeva won’t turn 18 until January, which means she can play college basketball through 203031. The NCAA recently switched to an age-based eligibility model that allows athletes to play no more than five seasons in five calendar years.

“It takes tremendous courage to leave home at just 17 years old,” Mulkey said, “and travel across the world to pursue a dream. I’m excited to support and guide Anna as she begins this next chapter at LSU.” Email Reed Darcey at reed. darcey@theadvocate.com.

Tulane’s upcoming Mardi Gras uniforms receive rave reviews Jerseys sell out; proceeds go to Green Wave NIL fund

BY GUERRY SMITH Contributing writer

Gabe Delatte was excited and trepidatious at the same time before Tulane released its Mardi Gras-inspired City Edition uniform and helmet it will wear for its Sept. 12 home opener against South Alabama.

He needn’t have been nervous.

The overwhelmingly positive reaction to the Green Wave’s social media unveiling of the look at noon Wednesday began trending nationally on X. Associate director of new media Parker Peltier said his original post and its follow-ups created about 6 million impressions on the Tulane football account Thursday morning, with nearly 10 million impressions overall.

The collection of 120 soon-to-begame-worn jerseys sold out at $504 apiece within 24 hours through the Wave Wearhouse. The helmets, priced at $2,500, have been a hot item, too, with all proceeds going to the Green Wave Talent Fund supporting NIL opportunities for Tulane athletes.

“It’s incredibly gratifying, especially with the Mardi Gras pieces and the sensitivities people have around here about Mardi Gras,” said Delatte, the primary uniform designer. “The fact that it’s so well received really helps me sleep at night. I definitely had some anxiety there.”

The eye-catching kelly green jerseys have white numbers with a triple drop shadow of purple, green and gold on the front, back and shoulders. The first and last letter of each player’s name are decorated with Mardi Gras beads.

A jester Angry Wave is on the right hip of the pants and the collar.

The helmet, which was handpainted by artist Armando Villareal, also features a kelly green base with an Angry Wave on each side in Mardi Gras float prop style.

Down the center is an argyle pattern stripe in purple, green and gold, with alternating solid- and bead-outline diamonds. Beads also are scattered around the helmet.

Delatte, who created Mardi Gras uniforms for men’s basketball starting in 2017 when he was director for that sport, initially rejected doing something similar for football because the season does not coincide with Mardi Gras. He changed his mind when he saw South Alabama on the 2026 schedule.

Before the Jaguars played at Yulman Stadium in 2023, their uniform release on social media included a sticker with the phrase “the home of Mardi Gras” — a reference to Mobile, Alabama’s

as assistant coach

BY SPENCER URQUHART

Staff writer

Ervin Johnson returned home to Louisiana to help take care of his 84-year-old mother before talk of him joining the LSU-New Orleans men’s basketball coaching staff came up.

An LSU-New Orleans alum, Johnson was a star basketball player in college who went on to have a 13-year NBA career. After a conversation with LSUNew Orleans men’s basketball coach Stacy Hollowell and athletic director MiJohnson chael Giorlando, Johnson decided to return to his alma mater as an assistant coach.

Johnson was introduced by LSU-New Orleans on Friday afternoon during a news conference at Lakefront Arena. He spoke at the podium for nearly 10 minutes, discussing his journey and how he plans to approach his new role.

“I had a coaching offer when I was in Colorado about 10 years ago,” Johnson said. “The timing of it just wasn’t right. This time, the timing is right. It was a conversation of doing something different, doing something that you love to do, and it so happened to be at the place where all of it started.”

Former LSU-New Orleans men’s basketball coach Tim Floyd encouraged Johnson to accept his new coaching position, as did his two daughters, Ezekia and Erin.

Johnson was a community ambassador for the Denver Nuggets for over 10 years before returning to the place in which he made a name for himself playing basketball. He’s LSUNew Orleans’ all-time leader in rebounds, blocked shots, field goal percentage and doubledoubles.

A spot opened up on Hollowell’s staff after former Privateers assistant coach Javan Felix took a job with the Kenner-based Laketown Squadron, the New Orleans Pelicans’ NBA G League Email Spencer Urquhart at affiliate. surquhart@theadvocate.com.

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A Tulane player poses for a photo wearing a Mardi Gras-inspired City Edition uniform and helmet. The Green Wave will wear the uniforms in the Sept. 12 home opener against South Alabama.

contention it celebrated the holi- Both of them had family members day before New Orleans ever did. who served in World War II, and Although South Alabama did not they bonded over a special USS Salt Lake City batwear the stickers on “The fact that it’s so tleship helmet and game day, it substiuniform for the tuted a Mardi Gras well received really Utes. crest on its helmets. helps me sleep at The Mardi Gras Game on. After denight. I definitely had helmet is Villarbuting an award-winsome anxiety there.” eal’s second for Tuning baby-blue City Edition uniform that lane and seventh in GABE DELATTE, featured wroughtcollaboration with primary designer of iron fence designs Heidbreder, who new Tulane uniforms on the shoulders for joined the Wave in homecoming against the spring of 2023.

Florida Atlantic last Villareal visited for November, Tulane turned its at- the home finale against Texas-San Antonio that November to get a tention to the Mardi Gras design.

The execution required months feel for New Orleans so he would of meticulous preparation with be ready for helmet projects with help from Nike and a nameplate Tulane.

“That way whenever it was time and number vendor.

“There’s a school up river that for us to pull the trigger, he was has two of the (Mardi Gras) col- ready,” Heidbreder said. “As soon ors, so you have to be careful with as last year wrapped up, we startthat,” Delatte said. “Probably what ed working on this year’s, and he’s took the longest was making sure still going. They are not finished we get it right and still capture the yet. We will have them in hand in feeling of Mardi Gras. It’s hard to the next week and a half.” see it up front. You have to play Lagniappe around.”

The elaborate numbers received Tulane finished Friday’s light the most buzz on social media. workout at its indoor practice fa“There was a guy who said the cility, getting out of the heat before triple dropshot number is prepos- Saturday morning’s scrimmage afterous, but somehow he loved it,” ter conducting a two-minute drill Peltier said. “It’s like, yeah, Mardi at Yulman Stadium. … Defensive Gras is preposterous. That’s why end Jordan McAllister, a New it works.”

Hampshire transfer who missed The capper was Villareal’s hel- the latter part of spring practice, mets. He lives in the tiny town of no longer is listed on the roster.

Imperial, Nebraska (pop. 2,068) Hall said both absences were due but has a close connection to Tu- to the same undisclosed personal lane equipment manager Cody issue that needed to be resolved Heidbreder, who used him for before a potential return, adding handmade helmets when Heidbre- he hoped McAllister would be der held a similar position at Utah. “back with us one day.”

“I had a list of guys I had in mind,” Hollowell said. “Ervin (Johnson) is always on the list.

I called (athletic director Giorlando) and said, ‘Coach, I want to call Ervin.’ I called him and felt his enthusiasm right away. He’s going to be able to take NBA principles and help add those to our team.”

Hollowell grew up watching Johnson play basketball at LSUNew Orleans, a four-year playing career that began in 1989 and resulted in Johnson’s jersey No. 40 being retired.

Johnson spoke highly of Hollowell during Friday’s news conference. He’s the second new hire this week for LSU-New Orleans after Zach Settembre joined the Privateers staff on Wednesday. “(Hollowell) is a great guy, a great coach,” Johnson said. “I just like the way he approached the game of basketball with his players. When he called me, it was just all the right timing.”

LSU-New Orleans improved by 11 wins in Hollowell’s second season, finishing with a 15-18 overall record and an appearance in the Southland Conference Tournament.

Johnson’s addition could lead to another step forward this season for the Privateers. Hollowell’s roster will look much different with just four players back from last season.

“Coach Stacy is at the beginning of rising and improving,” Johnson said. “It’s just going to take time. I believe something really good will come out. I’m going to be on the side trying to put that belief in (the players) that they can do it.”

The 2026-27 LSU-New Orleans men’s basketball schedule was announced this week. The Privateers’ home opener is set for Nov. 7 against Loyola-New Orleans.

The matchup of the two New Orleans-based programs is the first time Hollowell will face Loyola while at LSU-New Orleans. Hollowell was Loyola’s coach for eight seasons, leading the Wolfpack to the 2022 NAIA national championship.

freshman Lamar Brown profile as quarterback-chasers from the edge, while freshmen Deuce Geralds and Richard Anderson have tantalizing potential on the interior.

Kiffin, the son of a Hall of Fame defensive coordinator, knows how much a defensive line can factor into winning or losing.

“The quarterback may not be playing well, maybe he’s hurt.

You’re on the road and it’s really loud,” Kiffin said. “Defensive line, and neutralizing the game and stopping the run, really takes those things so they’re not as big of a factor in the outcome of the game.”

Baker, who had to blitz last year to generate pressure, could have more opportunities to rush quarterbacks with his front four this season. That should allow Baker to draw up more sophisticated coverage schemes on the back end.

Kiffin might make some suggestions, but he isn’t going to have his defensive coordinator rewrite game plans to his liking.

Kiffin, who wants to be more of a “CEO” head coach, has promised a fair amount of autonomy for his offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. as well.

It’s been fun for Baker to battle it out with Weis in preseason camp, then see him across the fence after practice. Literally, they are neighbors.

“We really can look into each other’s backyards and see each other,” Baker said of Weis. “Our daughters are already best friends.”

Who knows how long Baker and Weis will remain neighbors because they could both be up for head coaching jobs next offseason if LSU wins big.

For now, Baker likes his setup in Baton Rouge.

“I’ve really enjoyed getting to know the new guys on the staff and it’s been a really good bond,” Baker said. “I’m very, very fortunate.”

spent two seasons under Brian Kelly, because of respect. He didn’t just notice that LSU improved from the 59th-ranked scoring defense in the country in 2024 to the No. 23 unit a season ago. The former Ole Miss head coach and his staff were tested by Baker’s “complicated” tendencies and looks on third down.

LSU was one of just three teams to hold the Rebels below 30 points last season, even if the Tigers couldn’t put up enough points in a 24-19 loss.

“I don’t have bragging rights on him,” Baker said. “He gets to troll me on that one, for sure.”

But Kiffin liked the energy he observed from Baker on the opposite sideline.

The 44-year-old former Tulane linebacker is known to wear cleats at practice so he can run around with his players. Baker participated in post-practice conditioning with LSU left tackle Jordan Seaton and multiple other Tigers after Thursday’s practice.

This is the kind of coach Kiffin wanted to lead his defense.

“It wasn’t just, ‘Hey, we’re just going to keep him because they’d improved here,’ ” said Kiffin, who canvassed Baker’s former colleagues. “I wanted to know how he was and his passion for football and his competitiveness and ability to adjust.”

On his end, Baker wanted to keep his family in Baton Rouge for a bit longer, especially with his children getting older.

“The second part, talking to coach Kiffin, I truly believe with what he does on offense and what we do on defense, the ultimate goal is to bring a national championship to LSU,” Baker said. “I kind of want to see that through.”

Kiffin has supplied Baker with talent in their mutual mission.

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These 8 Saints worth watching vs. Jaguars

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than any receiver not named Chris Olave, Jordyn Tyson or Devaughn Vele.

Staff writer

The starters won’t take the field for the New Orleans Saints’ preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be reason to watch.

This Saints team feels deeper than recent iterations, with a large number of interesting players fighting for only a handful of roster spots. There are also a handful of players from the rookie class who have not been able to fully display what they can do, either because of injuries or the contact restrictions in practice.

Here are eight players who have shown some interesting things in training camp.

RB Audric Estime There is no question who the top two backs on the roster are; Travis Etienne and Alvin Kamara have those spots solidified. But there is a really healthy competition for the third running back, and Estime seems to have taken the early lead.

He impressed during last season’s stretch run, posting 198 yards rushing in seven games — including an impressive 94-yard effort in a Week 17 game against the Tennessee Titans. Estime also showed he was capable as a receiver, hauling in 12 passes for 103 yards.

During Thursday’s joint practice against the Jaguars, Estime took a handful of first-team reps.

It also helps his case that his primary competition for the No. 3 spot, Devin Neal (hamstring) and Kendre Miller (back), are both nursing injuries.

Estime likely will line up in the starting backfield Saturday. He can make a good case for himself

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“It’s tradition, and it’s an important thing,” said deep snapper and team captain Zach Wood, one of six players on the roster who dates to Brees’ playing tenure. “It’s just a thing that we do here. Pregame, give the right speech, say the right words, get everybody hyped up.”

In the grand scheme of things, leading the pregame huddle might seem like a trivial thing. But it’s an exalted position for the Saints. Not just anyone gets to step into that huddle and lead the team.

Since the tradition began, only six players have led the huddles.

Joe Horn and Reggie Bush handled the duties in 2006. Brees usurped them in 2007 and passed the torch to Davis when he retired in 2020.

Other than a shared cameo appearance by Foster Moreau and Taysom Hill for one game last season, Davis and Brees have been the only players to lead the team in the pregame huddle since 2007.

Shough will be the seventh. It’s a responsibility he doesn’t take lightly.

“That’s why I have a reverence and respect for (the role), and want to go about it the right way,” he said. “More than anything, it’s about earning the respect of everybody and earning that role.

And I feel like I have done it in an authentic way.”

Shough’s predecessors attacked the job in different ways. Brees, true to form, thought long and hard about the messages he delivered. He crafted a different message every year and repeated it for each game throughout the season. He found inspiration in various places: movies, books, poetry.

In 2008, his speeches were inspired by the movie “300” — except he flipped the script from “This is Sparta” to “This is New Orleans.”

He leaned on military cadences the next two years.

The inspiration for his famous 2009 pregame chant came from a USO Tour Brees made to a U.S. Marine base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in July 2009. While there, he picked up on a running cadence the Marines used during their morning workouts and created his own version for his pregame huddle chant: “One, two, win for you. Three, four, win some more.” His 2010 chant of “When I say one, you say two.

When I say win, you say for you.

One! Two! Win! For you!” also came from the military. “(The military) is where a lot of the inspiration for some of our pregame chants came from,” Brees said last week at his Hall of Fame news conference in Canton, Ohio. “When I heard that one (in 2009), I said, I’m taking this back for my team. And sure enough,

RG Jeremiah Wright, DT Christen Miller Wright and Miller are massive and physically dominating presences on the interior lines, but we haven’t gotten to see a ton of what they can do yet.

They’re both here under the same category for three reasons: 1. They both missed some time with injuries to start camp; 2. It is difficult to evaluate offensive and defensive line play from field level; 3. The controlled environment of training camp practices doesn’t allow their best traits to fully shine.

It’s possible that neither player starts a game this season. It’s also possible they play much larger roles than they are at the present STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD moment, setting themselves up to take starting jobs in 2027.

New Orleans Saints running back Audric Estime runs up the middle during training camp at the Ochsner

Sports Performance Center in Metairie on Sunday.

in the preseason opener.

RB C.J. Donaldson Donaldson almost certainly won’t crack the 53-man roster, but he’s made a strong case during training camp for a developmental spot on the practice squad.

It is hard to truly tell what he is in a training camp setting where live tackling is not part of the equation. The Ohio State product is the biggest back on the roster, checking in at 6-foot-2 and 230 pounds, and he runs with physicality. He is not especially sudden, but he’s shown good vision in camp, exploiting a couple of cutback lanes.

He’s not a threat to break a 70yard run, but he’s an interesting

we go on to win the Super Bowl, so that one will live forever.”

Davis also took the role seriously.

He referred to the middle of the huddle as “sacred ground” and cherished the weekly responsibility.

Unlike Brees, he varied his messages from game to game and tailored his pep talks to the opponent or task at hand. He often leaned into spontaneity, proselytizing about whatever came to mind in the moment.

“That’s a special moment for us (the players), so I knew (the role) was important,” Davis said in 2019.

“But I felt like I could do it, too.”

It’s notable that Shough, at the age of 26 and just entering his second NFL season, has been anointed to the position. He will become the youngest, least decorated and most inexperienced player to assume the duties since Bush in 2006. Brees was 28 and had earned two Pro Bowl invitations when he assumed the duties in 2007.

Davis was a 31-year-old, nine-year veteran when he took over the duties in 2021. Shough, though, has earned the mantle, according to teammates.

“Obviously, we have a few leaders on the team, but I think whoever gets that role is the leader of leaders, the one running the show,” Wood said. “And Tyler is definitely that guy.”

Added veteran defensive end Chase Young: “He’s not just anybody. He’s it. He’s Tyler (expletive) Shough. We have full belief in him.

He’s the guy to lead the troops. We love our QB1. He’s that guy, and he’ll be ready (for the role).”

Shough said Davis did not designate him as his successor before leaving the Saints in free agency this offseason. Likewise, there was no vote among teammates. Instead, he simply feels the job is part of his inherent responsibility as the starting quarterback now that Davis is a member of the New York Jets.

“It’s just natural,” he said.

As his debut neared this week, Shough admitted he hadn’t quite thought through his strategy or what message he planned to convey on Saturday. He said he’s leaning toward mixing up his messages from game to game, but he still wasn’t certain which way he’d go.

“It’s going to be nowhere near the level of Demario and them, especially right off the bat,” he said. “I think it will depend upon the vibe of that week or what team we’re playing or what the message is or what hits my brain.

I think that would be how I would operate about that. Obviously, maybe Year 10, the way Drew was doing it, I think I may have a certain message, but I think that comes with time and experience as well. My main goal is, I want to be able to convey my message and get everybody on the same page and motivated to go.

“I feel like I have done it in an authentic way and want to go continue to earn it. I feel really prepared for it.”

CB Jayden Price

player, especially if he proves in tribute once the regular season a live game setting that he’s able starts. This may also give the to use his size to get tough yards. Saints their first glimpse of what Brown can truly offer in the reWRs Bryce Lance, Barion Brown, turn game, which most thought would be the way he contributed Kevin Austin right away after his prodigious Let’s group these three together college career.

Austin has played quite a bit for because they may be the starting wide receivers against the Jag- the Saints in the last few seasons as a practice squad call-up when uars.

Brown and Lance have made receivers have gone down with inflashy plays throughout the last juries. But in the wake of Ja’Lynn week of camp, including Thurs- Polk’s surprise retirement, a spot day’s joint practice against Jack- on the 53-man roster may have sonville when each accounted for opened (if the Saints decide to keep six receivers), and Austin an explosive play downfield.

Both of them are virtual locks might be in the lead for that.

He’s big, has shown he can do to make the roster, but it’s worth watching them closely to get a it in games and also gotten more sense of how they might con- work with the first-team offense

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Kamara is “extremely explosive” when cutting. They win in different ways, he said.

“The beauty of Travis is his ability to start and stop and kind of have this patience behind the line of scrimmage … is really special and unique,” guard David Edwards said. “What’s really special about AK is I feel like that guy can hit a home run at any second. His twitchiness, athleticism and burst are really unique.”

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There are physical advantages, sure — splitting reps keeps each back fresh over the course of a game. But having a true tandem, when defenses see both runners as a legitimate threat, unearths a level of energy that’s different.

If practice reps are any indication, Etienne will be the first one up. And the second. Sometimes, even the third. But the Saints also have made sure to mix Kamara in, whether that’s on third down, the last rep of a four-snap series or occasionally on the first two downs.

Saints coach Kellen Moore rarely has relied on a true 50-50 split throughout his play-calling career. As an offensive coordinator in Dallas and Philadelphia, Moore coached stars such as Ezekiel Elliott and Saquon Barkley. They got the rock often.

Elliott’s four seasons under Moore, for instance, saw him take 67%, 56.7%, 50.1% and 43.5% of Dallas’ total rushing attempts. The 2022 season was the closest Moore got to truly alternating between two backs, when an emerging Tony Pollard ended up with 1,007 yards on 190 carries to Elliott’s 876 on 231.

“It’s by situation,” Moore said.

“In general, you’re going to need a few backs to play throughout an NFL season.”

If Kamara’s workload is significantly reduced, he seems prepared.

The 31-year-old told reporters in June that he’s played every role in his career — noting he was the third back behind Adrian Peterson and Ingram as a rookie — and said he has “no animosity” toward Etienne. A month later, he reiterated he’ll have no problem with his role.

“He’s handled it well,” Saints running backs coach Joel Thomas said.

Thomas said he’s seen Kamara become “more hands-on” as each practice progresses, handing out pointers to the rest of the room.

Thomas said even as Kamara’s contract situation prolonged this summer — and there was a real question over whether the sides were headed for a divorce — he never viewed it as a situation in which he had to recruit Kamara to return.

“Everybody’s congratulating us, like, ‘Hey, Alvin’s back,’ ” Thomas said. “I’m like, ‘He never left.’ ” The hope is that by scaling back Kamara’s role, he’ll rebound from what was his worst season as a pro. Kamara’s production notably slipped in several categories in 2025. He mustered just 3.6 yards per attempt and held a success rate of 33%.

The Saints, including Kamara, also believe there’s still plenty of good football left in him. And his best years came in a tandem.

“This situation offers the poten-

Going into training camp, it felt like the Saints had a gaping hole in the depth chart behind Jonas Sanker — what already felt like a somewhat tenuous spot given the big position switch Sanker made to the Star position this offseason.

That feels less true after a couple of weeks. Price, a former UFL star who has not played a snap in a meaningful NFL game, has enjoyed an outstanding start to training camp, perhaps leading the entire defensive back group in plays made on the ball.

The preseason games will be a couple of more data points for Price to prove the team can rely upon him.

Finding what works STAFF PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD

Saints running back Alvin Kamara runs with the ball during training camp on Sunday at the team’s practice facility in Metairie.

tial for that kind of efficiency to manifest,” Kamara said.

How they mesh Kamara and Ingram were nicknamed “Boom and Zoom.” Murray, replacing Ingram as Boom, kept up the moniker.

Etienne could slide in as either label.

“We’ll flip a coin for it,” Kamara said.

Etienne and Kamara don’t have the stylistic differences that typically accompany a 1-2 running back punch. In most other tandems, there’s a big guy and a little guy. There’s a speedster and a bowling ball. That’s not the case here. Etienne and Kamara are listed as the same height (5foot-10) and weight (215 pounds).

Etienne, who grew up a Saints fan, has said he modeled his game after Kamara. It shows.

“In terms of vision and cuts, that’s where they’re very similar,” Saints run game coordinator T.J. Paganetti said. “Very, very similar.”

The similarities create opportunities for how the coaching staff wants to deploy each of them. In Jacksonville, Etienne was a more than capable threat in the passing game — where some of Kamara’s best plays have come. If that continues in 2026, the Saints could avoid the predictability that other teams face when swapping backs.

Think back to the 2023 season, for instance, when Jamaal Williams’ presence for the Saints often indicated a short-yardage run or a pass-blocking down.

But to be clear, there are differences between Etienne and Kamara beyond their four-year age gap.

Thomas said Etienne’s rushing style tends to be more “low profile,” which allows him to keep his hips square when hitting a hole.

Kamara has tremendous contact balance, which has helped him shed tackles, stay patient and cut back to create explosive plays.

Paganetti noted that Etienne has played in a variety of schemes that have helped him feel “his way through the defense,” whereas

Last year, Moore’s staff felt it took about nine games before ironing out what the Saints were best at in the run game. While wide zone runs were the Saints’ bread and butter under former coordinator Klint Kubiak in 2024, Moore utilized a buffet of concepts in his first season — sometimes to the Saints’ detriment.

Starting in Week 10 against the Carolina Panthers, there was a subtle shift. The Saints found success by hammering home insidezone runs that ripped off 5.1 yards per carry. A new formula was established. According to FTN Fantasy, the Saints went from running inside zone on 23.1% of their rushes through the first nine games to 35.8% over the final eight.

The Saints also reduced their usage of outside zone (19.8% to 11.7%) and power concepts (13.7% to 8.5%) in that span.

“We figured out who we wanted to be and what fit us,” Paganetti said.

Added Thomas: “We trimmed the fat.”

A clearer identity should lead to a faster start on the ground this season, but dramatic improvement is still needed. As much as the Saints tweaked their tendencies in the second half of the season, they managed only 3.6 yards per carry — which actually fell from the first half’s 3.8 ypc. The Saints improved on inside zone plays (averaging 4.1 a pop) but suffered elsewhere.

Adding Etienne and Edwards — who arrived from Buffalo on a fouryear, $61 million deal — demonstrated the Saints recognized that playcalling tweaks wouldn’t be enough.

The signings may allow New Orleans to tap better into run concepts that weren’t as successful last year. Etienne, for example, averaged 6.2 yards per carry on outside zone runs in 2025 — almost a full 3 yards better than what New Orleans averaged as a team.

“We’re very, very good at outside zone, like that wide zone stuff you hear about,” Paganetti said.

“Our backs have been tremendous all camp at feeling that, feeling the cutbacks, but at the same time, reading the front side. Outside of that — even some of the downhill, inside stuff — I think everything has kind of clicked.”

Etienne and Kamara clicking could be central to it all.

“Coach is going to manipulate defenses with us,” Etienne said.

“Great things are going to happen.”

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Senior transfer QB ‘understands being a leader,’ coach says

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

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Rummel quarterback Colton Nussmeier stood before his new teammates for the first time Tuesday and did what came naturally.

“The first team period,” Rummel offensive coordinator Joe Chango said. “He stepped in the huddle — ‘Let’s go, boys’ — and dapped up every dude.”

Nussmeier, whose father, Doug, is the New Orleans Saints offensive coordinator and whose older brother, Garrett, a former LSU quarterback, was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in April, had been in Louisiana less than a week.

“He understands being a leader, what it looks like,” Rummel coach Nick Monica said. “He understands the position and what it asks of him every day. He’s getting more and more comfortable every day.”

Nussmeier came to Louisiana after the University Interscholastic League in Texas ruled him ineligible for his senior season at Denton Ryan, determining he had transferred from Flower Mound Marcus for athletic purposes.

Still wanting to play his senior season, the four-star Georgia commit moved to Louisiana, where he is living with his father for the first time since Doug coached with the Dallas Cowboys during much of Colton’s childhood.

“Me and my mom and my dad haven’t been in the same house-

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Rummel quarterback Colton Nussmeier threw for 3,284 yards, 28 touchdowns and four interceptions in his last two seasons in Texas.

we’re coming back in the huddle — I don’t like it.’ But he’s the one doing it.”

During one throwing session, Chango put the ball on the right hash and asked the left-handed Nussmeier to throw a 16-yard comeback to the left side. Nussmeier delivered it on time and on target, Chango said.

“I said, ‘All right, this dude can do things I never had a high school quarterback do.’ ” Nussmeier threw for 3,284 yards, 28 touchdowns and four interceptions during his two seasons as Flower Mound Marcus’ starter.

At Rummel, Nussmeier joins a team that returns two 1,000-yard rushers in Jaden Terrance, a Tulane commitment, and Coryan Hawkins. The pair combined for 2,700 yards from scrimmage and 24 touchdowns last season.

Nussmeier’s arrival moved senior Nate Singleton from quarterback to wide receiver, but the two have quickly become close.

“He’s probably one of the dude’s closest friends,” Chango said.

“They walk on the field together.

They walk off the field together.

They sit together at lunch already.

So, like, there’s already that connection.”

Said Nussmeier: “He’s been really good to me.”

Nussmeier went several weeks without knowing where he would play his final high school season.

“It was really hard not having a team for a little bit,” he said.

Now, less than a week into practicing with his new team, Nussmeier has found a place to call home.

hold since middle school,” Nussmeier said. “It’s good for me to be with my dad again.”

Despite arriving after preseason practices had begun, Nussmeier quickly started acting like he belonged at Rummel.

“This is our 12th, 13th practice, whatever it is, and I’ve been scripting it like it’s the 12th practice even though it’s his second or third,” Chango said Thursday.

“And he’s been able to handle just about everything we’ve thrown at him. It’s nice.”

Before long, he was correcting teammates about where to line up.

“We broke the huddle yesterday,” Chango said. “He didn’t like it, so he brought them back in the huddle to break it again. Those are the types of things that, nor- Contact Christopher Dabe at mally, I’ve got to do that. ‘Hey, cdabe@theadvocate.com

Mendoza dives into video study after Raiders’ loss

BY MARK ANDERSON

Associated Press

HENDERSON, Nev. — Rather than go out and blow off steam after his first NFL preseason game Thursday night, Raiders rookie quarterback Fernando Mendoza had something else in mind.

Stay in and watch the game video.

“I have nothing else to really do tonight,” Mendoza said.

He was critical of his performance in Las Vegas’ 27-14 loss to the Arizona Cardinals. Mendoza completed 10 of 16 passes for 97 yards and a touchdown to Jack Bech. He played four series.

Mendoza’s postgame plans underscored how diligent he has been since the Raiders drafted him No. 1 overall.

Coach Klint Kubiak said because technology allows all players to immediately evaluate their performances, Mendoza likely wasn’t alone in going to the iPad. Kubiak said he wasn’t concerned about information overload, even for a young quarterback.

“Our quarterbacks, they’re expected to handle a lot of information and to process it all,” Kubiak said Friday. “So I think you push them mentally and see how much their bucket can hold. And him and Aidan (O’Connell) and Jacob (Clark) and Kirk (Cousins), those guys can carry a lot of information.”

Cousins remains the No. 1 quarterback, and Kubiak said after the game it was “his job to lose.”

But Kubiak didn’t rule out giving Mendoza more first-team snaps in training camp. Mendoza has had just one practice where he ran the starting offense, and that was because Cousins and defensive end Maxx Crosby were briefly held out of team drills because of an altercation.

The Raiders practice against the Texans in Houston on Tuesday and then play them two nights later. Las Vegas concludes its preseason schedule on Aug. 27 at home against former Bay Area rival San Francisco.

“We’re going to put a plan together this week, and that’s something that we’re talking about as a coaching staff right now,” Kubiak said. “But, really, whether it’s Aidan O’Connell, Kirk or Fernando, I would say all three of those guys

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Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Fernando Mendoza drops back to pass against the Arizona Cardinals during a preseason game on Thursday in Las Vegas. deserve first-team reps.”

Cousins has held the top spot through his consistent play in practice, which carried over into the game against Arizona. He played the opening drive, completing 5 of 6 passes for 50 yards and a touchdown to Michael Mayer.

His battle with Mendoza has been far from contentious, and Cousins will lend an ear if the youngster asks.

“I don’t pull him aside and say, ‘Hey, come here for my wisdom,’ ” Cousins said. “I think he’s a pretty smart, mature player and person, and if anything, I don’t want to get in his way. I think he knows what he’s doing and has a good feel, and I don’t want to overload him.

“If I feel like I can offer a quick nugget here or there, I will. He’s a great question asker, so a lot of times he’ll just ask. There’s also times where I say, ‘Hey, nothing needs to be said. Go do your thing, you got it.’ There’s a lot of good football up ahead for him.”

Mendoza’s other teammates also have taken note of the young player’s work ethic.

“He’s in the building, studying late night and things like that,” rookie wide receiver Malik Benson said. “So when he comes out here, he just went off it because it’s been a lot of work.”

currently in play is right guard, with Jackson Powers-Johnson and Caleb Rogers competing.

Powers-Johnson started against the Cardinals.

“I’ve been really pleased with how both of those guys are playing,” Kubiak said. “They’re making each other better. They’re making decisions hard on us, but it also means we’re continuing to build solid depth.”

Rookie Trey Zuhn, taken in the third round out of Texas A&M, has been practicing at multiple offensive line positions and was the second-team right tackle against Arizona.

“We have moved him around quite a bit, and that’s what we drafted him to do,” Kubiak said.

“That’s a position that we want to see him get live reps in a game with, so that was the plan going in.”

The other AOC

The Raiders’ O’Connell often is referred to by media and fans as AOC, a name typically associated with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. Former Raiders linebacker Kirk Morrison, an analyst on the game’s TV broadcast, said he noticed AOC was trending on social media.

“I’m like, ‘Oh my God,’ ” Morrison said on the air. “I go straight Battle for starting right guard to Aidan O’Connell. I realize, ‘Oh, The only offensive line position it’s some politics stuff.’ ”

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Saints wide receiver Jordyn Tyson catches the ball during training camp at the team’s practice facility on Sunday in Metairie.

Moore says rookie Tyson’s injury could linger into season

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

a bit more nuanced. He missed time during Arizona State’s regular season with a hamstring injury last year, then sat out much of the pre-draft process. The Saints also limited the work he did throughout the summer after they selected him.

Moore was hesitant to provide specific details about how much time Tyson may miss, though when pressed on whether it could linger into the regular season, Moore said, “It could.” Tyson is expected to get an MRI on his hamstring, if one hasn’t already been done.

“We’ll see what happens,” Moore said. “We’re in the early situations of letting the experts take care of their evaluation and put together a plan.”

Even before the injury, Tyson was not going to play in the preseason opener against Jacksonville. Moore said he wasn’t sure whether Tyson would join the team in Southern California next week, where the Saints will participate in joint practices against the Cowboys and Rams before playing the Rams in a preseason contest.

“Jordyn’s had a great camp, he’s played really good football,” Moore said. “Inevitably, this is the unfortunate part of what preseason and training camp football is. Obviously, we’ve had a few of these guys have something come up.

“We’ll be fine and get through this.”

When the New Orleans Saints selected receiver Jordyn Tyson with the No. 8 pick of this year’s draft, most of the conversation was about whether his injury history made it a risky pick.

On Friday, coach Kellen Moore told reporters that Tyson is dealing with a hamstring injury in his right leg — one that could jeopardize the prized rookie’s status for the season opener against the Detroit Lions.

“It’s something we’re going to ... collect some more information, just as far as what that timeline looks (like),” Moore said. “He just kind of got caught in a goofy spot.

It’s not anything related to a previous hamstring (injury), it’s something new.

“We’re going to collect some more information on that, put a good action plan for that moving forward, and we’ll keep progressing as well as we can.”

The injury occurred early in the Saints’ joint practice against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday when Tyson caught a crossing route and then fell to the turf near the sideline after gaining some yards after the catch.

Moore said Tyson’s foot slipped out from under him as he was getting shoved from behind, an unfortunate series of events he was told would have resulted in a hamstring injury for most players.

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Seahawks coach explains agreement with CB Arnold

BY ANDREW DESTIN Associated Press

RENTON, Wash. — After answering six minutes’ worth of questions about why the Seattle Seahawks are working on a contract with cornerback Terrion Arnold, coach Mike Macdonald was asked about the team’s preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys on Saturday.

Macdonald made it clear he was not ducking inquiries about Arnold, who is facing eight felony charges stemming from allegations he orchestrated the abduction and beating of three men in February. The 23-year-old became a free agent in June, when the Detroit Lions released him a few days after the kidnapping, armed robbery and conspiracy charges were levied.

“I understand the situation,” Macdonald said Friday. “So, I’m glad that we had the opportunity to talk about it.”

Macdonald explained why the reigning Super Bowl champions felt compelled to add Arnold, who prosecutors in Florida said arranged for men to be pistolwhipped after he wrongly suspected them of stealing $100,000 in cash and luxury goods from him.

Police called Arnold the “primary conspirator” in the Feb. 4 attack, and a judge set his bail at $1 million.

Defense attorney R. Timothy Jansen said in Hillsborough County court earlier this summer that Arnold is “absolutely denying these

allegations.” Denise White, the CEO of EAG Sports Management, an agency that represents Arnold, said there’s “no credible evidence” against him, only accounts from others who may have an incentive to get a lighter sentence.

“We also understand that it’s a serious situation with a legal matter,” Macdonald said. “There’s a process behind it, so we respect that. And that’s how we’ll operate, too, is just letting that process play out. And let the league decide if and when his return to play is.

And we’ll just kind of understand that that’s at play.”

Macdonald said the timetable for the NFL ruling on Arnold’s eligibility for the 2026 season is still being worked out. To Macdonald’s understanding, Arnold visited at least eight teams, and it is unclear when he will join the Seahawks.

“We have an agreement with him, and we’ll see,” Macdonald said. “But I just really don’t know how we’re going to do it.”

Should Arnold be permitted to play for the Seahawks this season, he could bolster what was arguably the NFL’s best defense last season.

No team allowed fewer points per game (17.2), and Seattle finished in the top seven in the league in sacks and interceptions.

Arnold should add depth to a secondary that lost cornerback Riq Woolen to free agency and has been without second-year safety Nick Emannwori, who had offseason ankle surgery, during training camp.

6C ✦ Saturday,August 15, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American League East Division

National League

Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 74 68 65 60 58

L 46 54 57 64 63

Pct .617 .557 .533 .484 .479

GB — 7 10 16 16½

Chicago Detroit Minnesota Cleveland Kansas City

W 63 60 60 59 49

L 58 62 63 64 73

Pct .521 .492 .488 .480 .402

GB — 3½ 4 5 14½

Houston Texas Seattle Los Angeles Athletics

W 62 60 57 48 47

L 60 62 65 74 74

Pct .508 .492 .467 .393 .388

GB — 2 5 14 14½

Central Division

West Division

Thursday’s games

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By DAVID J. PHILLIP

Hyped in H-town

Houston Astros right fielder Cam Smith celebrates after hitting an RBI triple as Seattle Mariners third baseman Brendan Donovan looks on during the second inning Friday in Houston.

SCOREBOARD Odds NFL Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Minnesota 1½ 2½ (41½) at NY GIANTS at BUFFALO 1½ 3 (39½) Carolina Cleveland 1½ 3 (40½) at CHICAGO at KAN. CITY 1½ 2½ (36½) LA Rams at NEW ORL. 1½ 2½ (35½) Jacksonville Philadelphia 2½ 3½ (37½) at BALTIMORE at SEATTLE 2½ 2½ (38½) Dallas

Major League Baseball American League

FAVORITE at DETROIT at TORONTO at TAMPA BAY at HOUSTON at LA ANGELS at ATHLETICS

LINE -149 OFF -145 -122 -157 OFF

National League

FAVORITE at CHIC. CUBS at SAN FRAN. at N.Y METS Miami at ATLANTA Milwaukee

LINE -179 -133 OFF -116 -141 -144

Interleague

FAVORITE LINE at CLEVELAND OFF Philadelphia -154 Boston -126

UNDERDOG White Sox N.Y Yankees Baltimore Seattle Kansas City Texas

LINE +125 OFF +119 +107 +132 OFF

UNDERDOG St. Louis Colorado Washington at CINCINNATI Arizona at LA DODGERS

LINE +144 +117 OFF -106 +116 +118

UNDERDOG LINE San Diego OFF at MINNESOTA +124 at PITTSBURGH +102

Pro football NFL preseason glance Thursday’s games

Cincinnati 16, Detroit 14 Pittsburgh 28, Green Bay 9 Indianapolis 13, New England 13 Arizona 27, Las Vegas 14 L.A. Chargers 27, Houston 7 Tennessee 19, San Francisco 13

Friday’s games

Denver 27, Atlanta 7 Washington 20, Miami 7 Tampa Bay 24, N.Y. Jets 7

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.

Pro basketball WNBA glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Chicago Toronto Connecticut

W 22 21 21 19 12 10 8

L 12 12 14 14 22 23 24

Pct GB .647 — .636 ½ .600 1½ .576 2½ .353 10 .303 11½ .250 13

W 28 24 24 20 13 13 12 7

L 7 9 11 15 20 22 21 28

Pct .800 .727 .686 .571 .394 .371 .364 .200

WESTERN CONFERENCE

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

GB — 3 4 8 14 15 15 21

Thursday’s games

Atlanta 104, Connecticut 69 New york 85, Los Angeles 81 Las Vegas 83, Washington 76

Friday’s games

Indiana 98, Dallas 87 Portland at Seattle, n

Saturday’s games

New York at Connecticut, noon Los Angeles at Washington, 6:30 p.m.

Minnesota at Las Vegas, 7 p.m.

Golf PGA Tour FedEx St. Jude Championship

At TPC Southwind; Memphis, Tenn.; Purse: $20 million; Yardage: 7,288; Par: 70

Second round

Scottie Scheffler Viktor Hovland Sungjae Im Ludvig Åberg Nicolas Echavarria Tommy Fleetwood Brian Harman Jordan Spieth Patrick Cantlay Wyndham Clark Jake Knapp Keith Mitchell Sudarshan Yellamaraju Chris Gotterup Hideki Matsuyama Patrick Rodgers Adam Scott Alex Smalley Sam Burns Pierceson Coody Matt Fitzpatrick Michael Kim Alex Noren Nick Taylor Justin Thomas Gary Woodland Bud Cauley Si Woo Kim Kurt Kitayama Min Woo Lee Maverick McNealy Aaron Rai Cameron Young Jacob Bridgeman Ryo Hisatsune J.T. Poston Xander Schauffele Ryan Gerard

68-61—129 68-64—132 66-66—132 68-65—133 68-66—134 66-68—134 70-64—134 65-69—134 69-66—135 69-66—135 65-70—135 69-66—135 70-65—135 66-70—136 66-70—136 67-69—136 66-70—136 68-68—136 67-70—137 71-66—137 70-67—137 65-72—137 71-66—137 69-68—137 70-67—137 66-71—137 66-72—138 70-68—138 65-73—138 67-71—138 68-70—138 72-66—138 69-69—138 69-70—139 69-70—139 71-68—139 67-72—139 70-70—140

-11 -8 -8 -7 -6 -6 -6 -6 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -4 -4 -4 -4 -4 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -3 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -2 -1 -1 -1 -1 E

Harry Hall Max Homa Collin Morikawa J.J. Spaun Sam Stevens Michael Thorbjornsen Rickie Fowler Russell Henley Tom Kim Jackson Koivun Shane Lowry Sepp Straka Sahith Theegala Corey Conners Aldrich Potgieter Michael Brennan Harris English Nicolai Højgaard Kristoffer Reitan Justin Rose Matti Schmid Akshay Bhatia Eric Cole Ben Griffin Rory McIlroy Jordan L. Smith Alex Fitzpatrick Matthew McCarty Ricky Castillo Ryan Fox Robert MacIntyre

DP World Tour

72-68—140 73-67—140 71-69—140 71-69—140 69-71—140 65-75—140 68-73—141 71-70—141 69-72—141 71-70—141 69-72—141 68-73—141 69-72—141 71-71—142 71-71—142 73-70—143 68-75—143 73-70—143 72-71—143 73-70—143 73-70—143 72-72—144 72-72—144 73-71—144 74-70—144 71-73—144 71-74—145 73-72—145 72-74—146 73-73—146 82-WD

E E E E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +3 +4 +4 +4 +4 +4 +5 +5 +6 +6

Danish Championship

At Great Northern; Kerteminde; Purse: $2.8 million; Yardage: 7,314; Par: 72

Second round

Cameron Adam, Scotland 70-63—133-11 Antoine Rozner, France 69-64—133-11 Ewen Ferguson, Scotland 69-65—134-10 Matthew Jordan, England 68-67—135 -9 Romain Langasque, France 69-66—135 -9 Julian Perico, Peru 69-66—135 -9 Brandon Stone, South Africa 66-69—135 -9 Caleb Surratt, United States 69-66—135 -9 Bubba Watson, United States 68-68—136 -8 Yanhan Zhou, China 69-67—136 -8 Filippo Celli, Italy 67-70—137 -7 Todd Clements, England 69-68—137 -7 Rasmus Højgaard, Denmark 70-67—137 -7 Freddy Schott, Germany 67-70—137 -7 Marcus Armitage, England 70-68—138 -6 Sam Bairstow, England 72-66—138 -6 Alejandro Del Rey, Spain 70-68—138 -6 Ricardo Gouveia, Portugal 69-69—138 -6 Marcus Helligkilde, Denmark 70-68—138 -6 Oliver Lindell, Finland 67-71—138 -6 Per Längfors, Sweden 71-67—138 -6 Jack Senior, England 70-68—138 -6 Marcel Siem, Germany 70-68—138 -6 Jeff Winther, Denmark 71-67—138 -6 Angel Ayora Fanegas, Spain 69-70—139 -5 Dan Bradbury, England 69-70—139 -5 Joe Dean, England 68-71—139 -5 Mats Ege, Norway 73-66—139 -5 Julien Guerrier, France 69-70—139 -5 Oihan Guillamoundeguy, France 70-69—139 -5 David Horsey, England 68-71—139 -5 Francesco Laporta, Italy 67-72—139 -5 Zander Lombard, South Africa 70-69—139 -5 Félix Mory, France 65-74—139 -5 Jacob Skov Olesen, Denmark 70-69—139 -5 Yannik Paul, Germany 71-68—139 -5 Ryan Peake, Australia 72-67—139 -5 Bernd Wiesberger, Austria 68-71—139 -5

Tennis Western & Southern Open At Lindner Family Tennis Center; Cincinnati Purse: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

Men’s singles

Round of 128 Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, Paraguay, def. Kyrian Jacquet, France, 6-2, 6-4.

Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Sho Shimabukuro, Japan, 6-2, 6-4.

Quentin Halys, France, def. Vit Kopriva, Czechia, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, def. Valentin Royer, France, 7-6 (4), 7-5.

Daniel Altmaier, Germany, def. Coleman Wong, Hong Kong, China, 3-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Yannick Hanfmann, Germany, def. Luca Van Assche, France, 6-2, 6-4.

Sebastian Baez, Argentina, def. Grigor Dimitrov, Bulgaria, 1-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, def. Tomas Machac, Czechia, 6-3, 6-2.

Matteo Berrettini, Italy, def. Titouan Droguet, France, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Alex Michelsen, United States, def. Jesper De Jong, Netherlands, 6-4, 6-4.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argentina, def.

Mark Lajal, Estonia, 6-4, 6-4.

James Duckworth, Australia, def. Jeffrey John Wolf, United States, 7-5, 7-6 (0).

Christopher O’Connell, Australia, def. Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, def.

Aleksandr Shevchenko, Russia, 6-4, 6-4.

Lorenzo Sonego, Italy, def. Juncheng Shang, China, 6-3, 6-3.

Women’s singles

Round of 128 Lucrezia Stefanini, Italy, def. Elisabetta Cocciaretto, Italy, 5-3, ret.

Sara Bejlek, Czechia, def. Karolina Pliskova, Czechia, 6-0, 6-2.

Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, def. Anna Bondar, Hungary, 6-3, 7-6 (5).

Daria Snigur, Ukraine, def. Yuliia Starodubtseva, Ukraine, 6-4, 6-3.

Nikola Bartunkova, Czechia, def. Alina Charaeva, Russia, 4-6, 6-4, 6-3.

Anna Blinkova, Russia, def. Mananchaya Sawangkaew, Thailand, 1-6, 6-2, 6-3.

Peyton Stearns, United States, def. Harriet Dart, Britain, 6-1, 7-6 (6).

Emiliana Arango, Colombia, def. Venus Williams, United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, def. Maya Joint, Australia, 0-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, def. Alycia Parks, United States, 6-2, 6-2.

Talia Gibson, Australia, def. Lilli Tagger, Austria, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5.

Oleksandra Oliynykova, Ukraine, def. Elvina Kalieva, United States, 6-4, 6-1.

Wang Xiyu, China, def. Maria Timofeeva, Russia, 6-0, 3-0, ret.

W 73 65 62 60 54

L 49 58 61 64 69

Pct .598 .528 .504 .484 .439

GB — 8½ 11½ 14 19½

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh

W 75 72 61 59 60

L 47 51 61 62 64

Pct .615 .585 .500 .488 .484

GB — 3½ 14 15½ 16

Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 73 66 65 50 48

L 49 57 58 71 73

Pct .598 .537 .528 .413 .397

GB — 7½ 8½ 22½ 24½

Central Division

West Division

Thursday’s games

Friday’s games

Friday’s games

Chicago White Sox 9, Detroit 5 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 4 Toronto 3, N.Y. Yankees 1 San Diego 7, Cleveland 5 Baltimore at Tampa Bay, n San Diego at Cleveland, n Seattle at Houston, n Kansas City at L.A. Angels, n Texas at Athletics, n

Pittsburgh 13, Miami 1 Cincinnati 9, Chicago White Sox 8 Washington 7, Chicago Cubs 0 Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 1 Milwaukee 5, L.A. Dodgers 4 Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 0 Cincinnati 1, Miami 0 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 4 N.Y. Mets 4, Washington 1 Arizona 2, Atlanta 0 San Diego 7, Cleveland 5 Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers, n Colorado at San Francisco, n

Saturday’s games

Saturday’s games

Chicago White Sox (Kay 9-5) at Detroit (Melton 7-1), 12:10 p.m.

N.Y. Yankees (Schlittler 10-6) at Toronto (TBD),2:07 p.m.

Baltimore (Bradish 7-11) at Tampa Bay (Seymour 9-3), 5:10 p.m.

Philadelphia (Luzardo 10-5) at Minnesota (Prielipp 3-5), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Vásquez 8-6) at Cleveland (Cantillo 8-7), 6:10 p.m.

Seattle (Hancock 6-7) at Houston (Wesneski 2-0), 6:10 p.m.

Boston (Gray 14-3) at Pittsburgh (Jones 2-4), 6:15 p.m.

Kansas City (Dobnak 2-1) at L.A. Angels (Detmers 3-8), 8:38 p.m.

Texas (Gore 6-9) at Athletics (Ginn 8-6), 8:40 p.m.

St. Louis (McGreevy 4-9) at Chicago Cubs (Boyd 8-1), 1:20 p.m.

Colorado (Lorenzen 3-10) at San Francisco (Webb 7-7), 3:05 p.m.

Washington (TBD) at N.Y. Mets (Manaea 4-5), 3:10 p.m.

Miami (Gusto 0-3) at Cincinnati (Singer 5-11), 5:40 p.m.

Philadelphia (Luzardo 10-5) at Minnesota (Prielipp 3-5), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Vásquez 8-6) at Cleveland (Cantillo 8-7), 6:10 p.m.

Arizona (Rodriguez 11-4) at Atlanta (Holmes 7-4), 6:15 p.m.

Boston (Gray 14-3) at Pittsburgh (Jones 2-4), 6:15 p.m.

Milwaukee (Misiorowski 11-5) at L.A. Dodgers (Wrobleski 11-4), 6:15 p.m.

BOX SCORES

MLS glance Eastern Conference

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

Western Conference

T 4 5 3 2 5 5 4 4 8 2 5 8 4 4 3

Pts 40 38 30 29 26 26 25 25 23 20 20 17 16 16 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 City4 12 2 14 18 46 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Saturday’s games

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.

Sunday’s games

Portland at Chicago, 5 p.m.

Philadelphia at New York City FC, 5 p.m.

FC Dallas at Austin FC, 7:30 p.m.

Vancouver at Seattle, 9:30 p.m.

Transactions BASEBALL Major League Baseball

American League ATHLETICS — Sent LHP Jeffrey Springs on a rehab assignment to Stockton (CAL).

Agreed to terms with SS Jonathan Ornelas on a minor league contract.

BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated RHP Chris Bassitt from the 60-day IL. Optioned RHP Yaramil Hiraldo to Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Sent RHP Seth Martinez outright to Worcester (IL).

CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Designated LHP Joe Rock for assignment. Placed RHP Davis Martin on the 15-day IL. Recalled RHP José Urquidy and LHP Tyler Schweitzer from Charlotte (IL). Optioned RHP Tanner McDougal to Charlotte. Claimed C Jake Rogers off waivers from Boston.

DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with OF Michael Siani on a minor league contract.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Sent RHP Mike Burrow on a rehab assignment to Sugar Land (PCL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Designated C Alex Jackson for assignment.

NEW YORK YANKEES — Agreed to terms with RHP Justin Topa on a minor league contract.

SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed SS Colt Emerson on the 10-day IL. Selected the contract of 2B Brock Rodden from Tacoma (PCL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Activated RHP Paul Sewald. Optioned RHP Lazaro Estrada to Buffalo (IL).

National League CINCINNATI REDS — Sent RHP Tony Santillan on a rehab assignment to Louisville (IL).

MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Agreed to terms with RHP Lyon Richardson on a minor league contract.

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to terms with RHP Casey Lawrence on a minor league contract. Optioned OF Kameron Misner to Lehigh Valley (IL).

PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Placed RHP Yohan Ramírez on the paternity list. Optioned OF Jhostynxon Garcia to Indianapolis (IL).

Recalled RHP Wilber Dotel and OF Billy Cook from Indianapolis.

ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Optioned 3B César Prieto to Memphis (IL).

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Optioned 2B Nate Furman and OF Grant McCray to Sacramento (PCL). Recalled OF Jonah Cox from Sacramento.

WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Sent LHP DJ Herz on a rehab assignment to Harrisburg (EL). Released RHP Miles Mikolas.

BASKETBALL

WNBA DALLAS WINGS — Signed G Christyn Williams to a player development contract.

FOOTBALL

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

Detroit 3, Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 9, Chicago White Sox 8 Seattle 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Boston 7, Toronto 0 Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 7, Texas 0

Soccer W Nashville 12 Inter Miami CF 11 New England 9 Chicago 9 New York City FC 7 Cincinnati 7 Charlotte FC 7 New York 7 D.C. United 5 Orlando City 6 Columbus 5 Toronto FC 3 Philadelphia 4 CF Montréal 4 Atlanta 3

East Division

NFL NFL — Suspended Atlanta DE James Pearce Jr. for eight games for violating the league’s personal conduct policy.

ATLANTA FALCONS — Waived OT Jack Nelson with an injury settlement.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed OT Kendall Lamm on the reserve/retire list.

BUFFALO BILLS — Signed DB Wande Owens.

Waived LB Otis Reese.

CLEVELAND BROWNS — Placed DB Tyron Herring on injured reserve.

GREEN BAY PACKERS — Waived TE RJ Maryland.

HOUSTON TEXANS — Waived K Chris Freeman.

KANSAS CITY CHIEFS — Waived DB Bryce Phillips.

NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed DB DJ James on injured reserve. Waived WR Beaux Collins with an injury settlement.

NEW YORK JETS — Waived DE Eric Watts.

PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Waived OT Lorenzo Thompson with an injury settlement.

Chicago White Sox 9, Detroit 5 Chicago

Detroit

ab r hbi ab r h bi Antonacci lf 2 1 0 0 Torres 2b 4 02 1 Doyle ph-cf 2 0 0 0 Dingler c 5 00 0 Murakami 1b 3 2 1 1 McGonigle ss 4 1 1 0 Vargas 3b 5 3 4 3 Valencia dh 4 0 2 1 Benintendi dh 4 1 1 0 Keith 3b 4 01 0 B.Mntgmry rf 5 0 3 3 Torkelson 1b 4 1 1 0 C.Mntgmry ss 5 0 0 0 McKinstry rf 4 0 0 0 Meidroth 2b 5 1 2 0 Malgeri lf 4 22 3 Peters cf-lf 5 1 3 2 Clark cf 4 11 0 Romo c 4 0 00 Totals 40 9 14 9 Totals 37 510 5 Chicago 100 502 010 — 9 Detroit 021 000 200 — 5 DP — Chicago 0, Detroit 1. LOB_Chicago 9, Detroit 6. 2B — Vargas (27), Meidroth (24), Valencia (6), Keith (15). 3B —B.Montgomery (3), Clark (2). HR_Peters (7), Murakami (27), Vargas 2 (27), Malgeri 2 (3).

IP H R ER BB SO Chicago 0 1 2 Newcomb 11⁄3 0 0 3 0 3 Urquidy W,1-1 32⁄3 5 3 2 0 0 Brazobán 11⁄3 3 2 2 0 0 0 Taylor H,9 1 ⁄3 1 0 Hudson 1 1 0 0 0 2 Detroit 6 1 4 Jobe L,1-1 32⁄3 9 6 0 0 0 Waguespack 11⁄3 0 0 2 2 1 De Jesús 21⁄3 3 2 2 1 0 1 Madden 1 ⁄3 2 1 HBP — Jobe 2 (Antonacci,Murakami).

ABS Challenge — Jobe (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Newcomb (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Urquidy (Ball-Confirmed); Jobe (Ball-Confirmed); Jobe (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Murakami (Strike-Confirmed).

Umpires — Home, D.J. Reyburn; First, Louie Krupa; Second, Adam Beck; Third, Dan Iassogna.

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Aug. 15 1905 — Rube Waddell of the Philadelphia Athletics pitched a five-inning no-hit game to beat the St. Louis Browns 2-0.

1916 — In a classic pitching duel, Babe Ruth of the Boston Red Sox beat Walter Johnson of the Washington Senators, 1-0, in 13 innings at Fenway Park.

1945 — The Chicago Cubs routed the Brooklyn Dodgers 20-6, at Ebbets Field.

Paul Gillespie knocked in six runs with two home runs and a single to lead the attack.

1955 — Warren Spahn of the Milwaukee Braves hit a home run off Mel Wright of the St. Louis Cardinals to give Spahn a homer in every NL park.

1975 — Baltimore manager Earl Weaver was ejected twice by umpire Ron Luciano. Weaver was thrown out in the first game and was ejected before the second game.

1989 — Dave Dravecky of the San Francisco Giants, in his second start after coming back from cancer surgery on his pitching arm, broke his arm but earned the win in a 3-2 victory over the Montreal Expos. In the sixth inning, after throwing a wild pitch to Tim Raines, he collapsed and clutched his left arm in agony.

1990 — Philadelphia’s Terry Mulholland pitched the record eighth no-hitter of the season as the Phillies beat the San Francisco Giants 6-0. The season’s eighth no-hitter surpassed the modern record of seven set in 1908 and 1917.

1990 — Mark McGwire hit a grand slam in the 10th inning to become the first major leaguer to hit 30 or more homers in his first four seasons and lifted the Oakland Athletics to a 6-2 victory over the Boston Red Sox. 2001 — Trevor Hoffman pitched a perfect ninth inning for his 300th career save, completing a two-hitter that lifted the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets 2-1.

2005 — Randy Winn hit for the cycle in his first four at-bats in San Francisco’s 7-3 win over Cincinnati.

2011 — Jim Thome belted his 600th home run an inning after he hit No. 599 to help the Minnesota Twins beat the Detroit Tigers 9-6. Thome became the eighth player to reach 600.

2012 — Felix Hernandez pitched the Seattle Mariners’ first perfect game and the 23rd in baseball history, overpowering the Tampa Bay Rays in a 1-0 victory.

It was the third perfect game in baseball of the season — a first — joining gems

by Chicago’s Philip Humber against the Mariners in April and San Francisco’s Matt Cain against Houston in June.

2014 — Mo’Ne Davis, one of two girls at the Little League World Series, threw a two-hitter to help Philadelphia beat Nashville 4-0. Davis, the first girl to appear for a U.S. team in South Williamsport since 2004, had eight strikeouts and no walks.

2015 — Jackie Bradley Jr. had two homers, three doubles and seven RBIs, powering Boston past Seattle 22-10.

2022 — The Rangers fire manager Chris Woodward. While the club is in third place in the AL West after two consecutive last-place finishes, it is still 12 games below .500 and 23 games out of first after having spent some $500 million on free agents in the off-season. He is replaced on an interim basis by coach Tony Beasley.

Cincinnati 1, Miami 0 Miami

Cincinnati ab r hbi ab r h bi Marsee cf 4 0 0 0 De La Cruz ss 3 0 0 0 Edwards 2b 4 0 1 0 Stewart 3b-1b 4 0 1 0 Lopez ss 4 0 1 0 Bleday lf 3 01 0 Conine dh 3 0 0 0 Stephenson c 4 1 1 0 Hernández lf 3 0 1 0 Suárez dh 4 01 1 Sanoja 3b 3 0 0 0 Toglia 1b 2 01 0 Caissie rf 2 0 0 0 Hayes 3b 1 01 0 Jiménez 1b 1 0 0 0 Myers cf 4 00 0 Mack c 2 0 0 0 Marte rf 3 00 0 Ruiz ph-rf 1 0 0 0 McLain 2b 2 00 0 Pauley 1b 2 0 10 Ramírez ph-c 1 0 0 0 Totals 30 0 4 0 Totals 30 1 6 1 Miami 000 000 000 — 0 Cincinnati 000 001 00x — 1 DP_Miami 0, Cincinnati 1. LOB_Miami 3, Cincinnati 9. 2B_Toglia (1), Suárez (15).

SB_Lopez (24).

IP H R ER BB SO Miami Alcantara L,13-7 7 3 1 1 4 2 Ekness 1 3 0 0 0 1 Cincinnati Burns W,14-2 7 4 0 0 0 8 Burke H,14 1 0 0 0 0 3 Pagán S,15-18 1 0 0 0 0 0 ABS Challenge_Toglia (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Marsee (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Stewart (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Hernández (Strike-Confirmed); Burke (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Umpires_Home, James Jean; First, Sean Barber; Second, John Libka; Third, James Hoye.

T_2:19. A_21,232 (43,891).

Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis 0 St. Louis

Chicago ab r hbi ab r h bi Wetherhlt 2b 4 0 0 0 Crw-Amstrg cf4 0 0 0 Herrera c 4 0 1 0 Suzuki dh 4 12 3 Burleson 1b 4 0 0 0 Bregman 3b 3 0 0 0 Walker rf 3 0 0 0 Busch 1b 3 01 0 Church cf 4 0 0 0 Hoerner 2b 4 01 0 Winn ss 3 0 0 0 Kelly c 3 01 0 Torres dh 3 0 1 0 Happ lf 3 00 0 Fermín lf 2 0 1 0 Taylor rf 2 10 0 Prieto 3b 3 0 0 0 Swanson ss 3 1 1 0 Totals 30 0 3 0 Totals 29 3 6 3 St. Louis 000 000 000 — 0 Chicago 000 003 00x — 3 DP — St. Louis 1, Chicago 0. LOB — St. Louis 5, Chicago 5. 2B — Suzuki (22). HR — Suzuki (21). SB — Hoerner (20), Taylor (1), Swanson (17).

St. Louis Liberatore L,5-10 Soriano Strzelecki Chicago Holmes W,5-5 Rolison H,5 Zeferjahn H,12 Webb S,9-13

IP H R ER BB SO 51⁄3 2 ⁄3 2

2 2 2 1 2 0

2 1 0

1 1 1

6 0 0

62⁄3 1 ⁄3 1 1

1 0 1 1

0 0 0 0

1 0 1 0

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zodIAC LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Don't stop setting goals until you satisfy your appetite for what you desire. Use your charm and finesse to captivate attention and to propel you to the forefront of whatever you pursue.

VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Take a moment to size up situations that offer too many choices. Don't feel pressured to follow someone else. It's up to you to reevaluate and research to avoid making a mistake.

LIBRA (sept. 23-oct. 23) Don't let anger take over. Taking on too much will cause you to fall short. Risk will lead to anxiety, not profit or pleasure. Pay attention to how others treat you. scoRPIo (oct. 24-nov. 22) Press pause and rethink your strategy. Trying to break down barriers will be costly in lost time, effort and money. Learn from your experiences in order to dodge an emotional setback. sAGITTARIus (nov. 23-Dec. 21) Kindness and courtesy are your tickets to getting what you want. If you size up your work situations and mix business with pleasure, you'll score points with someone who can help you excel. cAPRIcoRn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Keep your thoughts to yourself. Being a good listener will give you the advantage when you need it. Anger solves nothing, and addressing issues prematurely will lead to regret.

AQuARIus (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Push for what you want and give something back. A fair and honest approach will help you

move forward without regret. Getting along and being willing to meet in the middle is half the battle.

PIscEs (Feb. 20-March 20) What you do to make your space more functional will encourage you to expand your interests. Avoid interacting with those putting pressure on you to change.

When criticism comes your way, walk away.

ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Listen to your inner voice, address issues of concern and express your emotions with unfiltered truth. Positive change is about to unfold regarding work, money and relationships.

TAuRus (April 20-May 20) Chip away at projects that ease stress and give you room to breathe. Jumping into competitive or social settings will lead to anxiety and a tendency to overreact.

GEMInI (May 21-June 20) A new look, personal project or form of entertainment will change how you view your lifestyle. It's in with the new and out with the old. Embrace what motivates you to follow your heart. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Don't overdo it or get into a frenzy over things you cannot change. Worry and anxiety will wear you down physically, causing chronic health issues or leading to other repercussions.

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers.

The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Albert Einstein said, “A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”

At the bridge table, leads are very important. And not only do you have to lead the right suit, but you must also be careful which card you select.

In this deal, South is in four hearts.

West leads the diamond eight. How should East plan the defense?

North’s two-no-trump response was the Jacoby Forcing Raise, guaranteeing at least four-card heart support and game-forcing values. South rebid four hearts to show a minimum opening bid and no singleton or void.

West led a diamond because that suit was stronger than his clubs.

East knew that his partner’s lead was top of nothing. And it couldn’t be a singleton, because that would have given South five diamonds and a singleton or void, which he had denied in the auction.

Also, now dummy had diamond winners on which South could discard losers.

East realized that his side had to take, in order, one diamond, one spade and two clubs. But how to get West to win his spade trick and shift to a club?

At trick two, East carefully led the spade nine, the high card in principle denying an honor in the suit. West got

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today’s thought “This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate therein day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.” Joshua 1:8 Read the Bible. Believe the Bible. Apply the Bible. — G.E. Dean

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Scrabble GramS dIrectIons: make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus.

“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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Announcements 1850 Dickory Ave, L.L.C., d/b/a Brothers Dickory 182 is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 1850 Dickory Ave, Harahan, LA 70123.

1850 Dickory Ave, L.L.C. Brothers Dickory 182 Member: Imad Hamdan 197696 Aug. 15 1t $71.90 3N1AB8DV7NY304784 NISSAN is stored at 9581 Westbank Expressway, Westwego, LA, 70094. If all current charges are not paid and vehicle claimed by the owner by 9/5/2026 a Permit to Sell may be obtained.

197532-Aug 15-16, 2t $76.80 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of any heirs, legatees, successors or assigns of Donald H. Murphy, Sr., please contact Thomas P. Sanderson, Curator Ad Hoc, at (504) 586-0064, 4224 Canal St., NOLA 70119, or tps@boninlawfirm.com. Property rights involved.

197536-Aug 15-17, 3t $111.10 ANYONE KNOWING the whereabouts of Cynthia Navarre please contact Jon S. McGill, Sr., Atty. (504) 2085551.

197314-Aug 13-15, 3t $67 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Erica Lynn Stephens, divorced wife of Melvin Stephens please contact Attorney Keith A. Doley 504943-7071.

197744-Aug 15-17, 3t $75.40 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of MATTHEW S. DAVID, who at one time resided at 412 Jade Avenue, Metairie, LA 70003, please contact Thomas S. Block, Atty., 504-382-1204, Property Rights Involved.

197555-Aug 15-17, 3t $96.40 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Michele Downey please contact attorney Cristy Chazan at 504-5256802.

197609-Aug 15-17, 3t $37.80 Corner Store Coot LLC d/b/a Historic Irish Channel Corner Store is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of low alcohol content at

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Orange County Commu‐ nity College, 115 South Street, Middletown NY 10940, hereby invites submis‐ sion of sealed bids for the following: ITB-OCCC- 2027-11, Elec‐ tronic Waste Collection, Management, Disposition, and Related Services.

Bids will be received until 3:00 PM September 8, 2026,

by Orange County Com‐ College, 115 munity South St, Middletown, NY 10940, in Orange Hall Room 207.

The bid MUST be deliv‐ ered to a college em‐ ployee.

196535-AUG 8-15-2T $168.76 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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retail in the Parish of Orleans at the following address: 2372 Constance Street New Orleans, LA 70130 Corner Store Coot LLC Historic Irish Channel Corner Store Members: Daniel Favre, Ramsey Marcello, and Joel Ross 197604 Aug. 15 1t $77.50

Ahlert, Natalie B. Morhous 197692 Aug. 15 1t $71.90

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HOUSE Algiers-Former Double. 4Brms, 2baths.

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Exxon Veterans, L.L.C., d/b/a Exxon Veterans is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 1227 Veterans Blvd, Kenner, LA 70062.

Exxon Veterans, L.L.C. Brothers Veterans 177 Member: Imad Hamdan 197698 Aug. 15 1t $69.80 I, 1850 Dickory Ave, L.L.C. for the business of Brothers Dickory 182, am applying to the Collector of Revenue of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell tobacco products as defined by law at the municipal address located at 1850 Dickory Ave, Harahan, LA 70123 in the Parish of Jefferson.

197697 Aug. 15 1t $64.90 Koi Revolution Sushi Ayce Louisiana, LLC d/b/a Koi Sushi is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Orleans at the following address: 1200 Poydras St., Suite 103, New Orleans, LA 70113. /s/ Qingqi Wu, Member 197547 Aug 15 1t $70.50 Nanami Group LLC dba Nanami Sushi Diner & Origiri is applying to the Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content on premise for their restaurant in the Parish of Orleans at the following address: 2901 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA 70115.

Nanami Group LLC dba Nanami Sushi Diner & Origiri Member: Kar Ho Allan Ng 197667 Aug. 15 1t $78.20 RaceTrac, Inc. d/b/a RaceTrac #2470 is applying to the Office of Alcohol & Tobacco Control of the State of Louisiana for a permit to sell beverages of high and low alcohol content at retail in the Parish of Jefferson at the following address: 9419 Westbank Expressway, Bridge City, LA 70094 RaceTrac #2470 Officers: Joseph H. Akers, Karla B.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for (RFP) due Proposals Monday, August 31, to deconstruct spoil banks for a Canal Spoil Re‐ placement (Backfilling) Please email Project. 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‐ information ground about the project, and an slideinformational deck.

This project is partially funded by the National and Atmos‐ Oceanic Administration pheric (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

4710 MUSIC STREET, GENTILLY Home For Sale or Rent. $250,000 or $2,000/month. Ready October 1st.

Call James 817-891-0453.

New Orleans Rental CONSTRUCTION Hiring for Utility Hands and Tank Clean‐ ers. Must hav a aTWIC CARD, PEC, AND T HUET. RESUMES MUST BE EMAILED TO TMCTHAWK0619@GMAIL.COM

Merchandise CEMETERY PLOT 1 For Sale. Restlawn Cemetery (Avondale, LA). $3800. Call 504-4583168.

CEMETERY PLOTS Westlawn Cemetery Mausoleum, in the Chapel. Corr IV, Tier A, holds 6 interments $17,500. 504-259-0505 DECANTERS Liquor Decanter Collection for sale 275pcs 1966 & Above!

Interested Call Mr. Szabo 504-352-8412

KENNER Huge Indoor Sale 74 Androus Ave Saturday 8a-2p Sunday 9a-12p Furniture, appliances, tools, golf clubs, clothes, Entire household.

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Saturday & Sunday 8am-3pm.

Household, clothing, furniture, kitchen, memorabilia.

endorsement by the U.S. Government, or the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation or its funding sources.

g should be mailed to the 717 Camp address: Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 or to Sergio Lopez by 09/15/2026

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PUBLIC NOTICE --In accordance with LA RS 47:6007, the production Marquee company Brands LA Productions LLC activities on the se‐ ries Emeril Cooks & Tail‐ gates has wrapped pro‐ in Orleans duction Parish, Louisiana as of 12/31/2025. All/Any out‐ standing creditor claims h ld b il d h

PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to be posted: Community Leaders Ad‐ vocating Student Suc‐ cess Inc./ Fannie C. Williams Charter School Budget Meeting will be held on Thursday August 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the school Library, Ad‐ dress: 11755 Dwyer Road New Orleans, LA 70128.

Also, you can attend via the zoom link below. The 2026-27 Budget will be approved at the meeting.

The Budget is available for viewing in the Busi‐ ness Office Monday- Fri‐ day 9a.m. to 3p.m. or you can contact the office at 504-373-6228 Ext 7.

Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86725218911? pwd=AczazANrSMzvT26 Eo3m1MecDbfG6Ct.1 Meeting ID: 867 2521 8911 Passcode: UFJ0tC 197271-aug 13-27-15t $180.10

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The Town of Delight, AR is soliciting competitive bids for 26COR-086 Paving, Asphalt, Concrete, & Re‐ lated Installation Ser‐ vices.

Interested suppliers must submit a proposal in accordance with solicita‐ tion documents posted at http://www.coretrustpg. com/public-sector/solicit ations.

APARTMENT WESTBANK * $1300/Mo. 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 4-Car Garage/Workshop.

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APARTMENT Ridgefield Apartments will be accepting applications for their waiting list only from August 10th to August 15th for 2 & 3 bedroom.

During this limited application period, interested applicants can apply online at www.ridgefieldapts.com.

APARTMENT ESPLANADE RIDGE The Carson Company, Inc. 2900 Third St., 1Bd/1Ba.................$700 1703 Burdette St., 2Bds/1Ba.........$725 3953 Delachaise St. (Up), 3/1.......$950 2300 N. Broad St., 1Bd/1Ba...........$995 2731 Bruxelles St., 3Bds/1Ba......$1095 2443 N. Robertson St., 2/1...........$1150 4933 N. Rampart St., 2Bds/1Ba..$1474 5910 Hayne Blvd. Up Front, 4/1..$1495 2503 S. Dorgenois St., 2/1...........$1639 4557 Feliciana St, 5Bds/2Bas.....$2500 821-1858 * 822-8432 * 427-4646

PUBLIC NOTICE --ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its first public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307).

ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF OR‐ STATE OF LEANS, NO. 2026LOUISIANA 06808 DIVISION "E" SUC‐ CESSION OF JOSHLYN GREEN, that the Adminis‐ trator of the S SUCCES‐ SION OF JOSHLYN GREEN, filed a Petition with this Honorable Court for au‐

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thority to sell at private sale, for the price of SIXTY THOUSAND DOL‐ LARS AND NO CENTS ($90,000.00) for the Suc‐ cession's interest in and to the following de‐ scribed property: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes and ap‐ thereunto purtenances belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the FIRST DISTRICT of this City of New Orleans, Parish of Orleans, in SQUARE 713, bounded by South Genois, Baudin, South Telemachus and Streets, D'Hemecourt designated by the NUM‐ BER TWO (2), on a sketch survey made by of Gilbert, & Kelly, Survey‐ ors, dated April 15, 1944, a blue print of which is annexed to act passed before W. J. Waguespack, Jr., Notary, on April 21, 1944, according thereto, said LOT 2 commences at a distance of Thirty-two feet, one inches and one line from the corner of South Genois and Baudin Streets, and measures thence Thirty one feet, eleven inches and five lines front on South Genois Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of One hun‐ dred and eighty feet six inches and four and onehalf lines.

Improvements thereon bear Municipal Nos. 50507 South Genois Street,

CATS Young Male Cat, Gray Colors, Have too many cats, Looking for another home for him. Please call 504-861-9617 ($50) MORKIES, SHORKIES, BISHON YORKIES, CKC YORKIES vet checked shot worming meet Gulfport $450.00 334-467-3416 DOGS AKC Standard Poodles. Black & Parti black & white. Ready to Go. Utd on all shots & worming. Text 228-669-8581 or 228-669-2377.

Westies AKC registered West highland white terrier 3 boys. 225-572-7538. Text me or email me for more info jachan1215@gmail.com

Automotive CLASSIC CARS Looking to Buy an Old Foreign Project Car. Any condition, running or Not. Porsche, Jaguar, Mercedes, Maserati, Ferrari and much more. Fast and Easy transaction. Cash on the Spot. If you have any of these or any other old for‐ eign cars, please call 571-259-9656

Recreational Vehicles CAMPER-CAMP EQUIP Woody - Teardrop, fair condition $2500 or best offer 504-677-6381

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CATS RAGAMUFFIN & RAGDOLL KITTENS www.CatsByFrancy.com/kittens $1500up! Reg. Shots & Guaranty 337-230-3150

HOUSE ALGIERS POINT: 411 Elmira 3BR/2BA, Totally Renovated. Fenced, central A/C. Lovely Neighborhood $1700. 504-430-4769.

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GENTILLY 2544 ALLEN TOUSSAINT BLVD. NEWLY RENOVATED!!!

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NOW THEREFORE, in ac‐ cordance with law, no‐ tice is hereby given that Trilania Greens Adminis‐ trator of the SUCCESSION OF JOSHLYN GREEN, pro‐ pose to sell the aforesaid immovable property, 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 ten (10) days, in‐ cluding Sundays and hol‐ idays, from date whereon the last publication of this notice appears. At‐ torney: Olivia Keen Ad‐ dress: 3939 N. Causeway Blvd., Suite 105, Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 834-9733 197721-AUG 15-1T $57.73 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA No. 2025-01578 Division "B" Sect 11 Docket SUCCESSIONS OF BRENDA ANN WILLIAMS, wife of/and DONALD J. BRANON, SR., and DONALD J. BRANON, JR. NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALES

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WHEREAS the Adminis‐ tratrix of these Succes‐ sions has made applica‐ tion to the Court for the cash sale at private sale of two parcels of immov‐ able property situated in the City of New Orleans, State of Louisiana as fol‐ lows: 1. The interest of Donald J. Branon, Sr., in the prop‐ erty bearing municipal 2425 Third number Street, New Orleans, LA 70116, more particularly described as Lot 10 or K, Square 343, Fourth Dis‐ trict.

Public Notices Successions g g said application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of this Notice, all in accordance with law.

James G. Derbes LA BAR 04886 Attorney for Administratrix 1671 Robert St. New Orleans, LA 70115 504-913-7484 197627-aug 15-sept 5-2t $87.78

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS: $10,000.00 cash 2. The entirety of the property bearing munici‐ pal number 11121 N. Idle‐ wood Ct., New Orleans, LA 70128, more particu‐ larly described as Lot 3 of Square 3, Idlewood Subdivision.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS: $155,000.00 cash, seller pays real estate commis‐ sion and closing costs Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedents, and of their successions, that any op‐ position that they have or may have to such ap‐ plication must be filed prior to the issuance of the order or judgment approving authorizing, and homologating the id li i d h

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Dwarf oleander is not a reliable choice for a privacy screen

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Do you think it is likely that Little Red oleander, or any of the dwarf varieties, could reach 6 feet tall? I would like to make a privacy screen with oleander, but I don’t have room for a standard-sized Garden oleander. Thanks so much! — Bonnie No, it is unlikely that Little advice Red or other dwarf oleander varieties would reach 6 feet tall.

They typically grow to about 3 to 5 feet tall.

So, you would have to accept that the hedge will be shorter than what you are looking for and would not provide the privacy you desire.

Dwarf Burford hollies mature at 6 to 8 feet and might be a good choice. You could also ask the staff at local nurseries to show you shrubs that mature at about 6 feet tall for additional options.

What do you recommend to control chinch bugs damaging a lawn of St. Augustine grass? — David Chinch bugs are a leading insect pest of lawns during summer. The hot, dry weather we have experienced is ideal for chinch bugs, and I’m seeing emails and Facebook postings with photos showing chinch bug damage.

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While oleander bushes tend to become fuller with age, smaller dwarf varieties can be less ä See ADVICE, page 7 effective as a privacy screen.

GARDEN TIPS SCRAP SPLIT FRUIT: Fruit splitting is common in citrus this time of year. This happens when the trees absorb and move water into the fruit too fast and the skin ruptures.

Remove and dispose of split fruit.

LEND SUPPORT: Stake or otherwise support plants in flower or vegetable gardens that are tall and leaning or have fallen over onto nearby plants.

SPRAY FOR STYLE: Many ornamental grasses are producing attractive flower or seed heads this time of year. These look fantastic in arrangements indoors alone or combined with other dried materials. Spray the flower/ seed heads with a light application of hair spray or clear shellac to keep them from shattering as they dry.

FOR FOLIAGE: When flowers appear on coleus plants, which

are grown for their colorful foliage, cut them back about one-third of their height to prolong new foliage production.

Often, they just turn around and try to bloom again, but it’s worth a try.

CRAPE MYRTLE CARE: If your crape myrtle trees are still relatively small and it is convenient, trim off the clusters of green, round seedpods at the ends of the branches. This can prevent the weight of the pods from making the branches bend down, and it encourages the trees to produce a late summer flush of flowers. However, it will not hurt the trees to leave the pods alone.

REEVALUATE & REPOT: After a summer of vigorous growth, some containerized plants may be pot-bound. Check and repot into larger containers if necessary.

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In the South, several types of ornamental bananas are grown that do not produce edible fruit. The dwarf banana (Musa ornata) produces upright spikes of small flowers with attractive pinkish purple bracts. The red banana (Musa coccinia) has very attractive spikes of fiery red, and the pink velvet banana (Musa velutina) produces clusters of small, pink fruit with a velvety skin. These ornamental bananas are smaller-growing than typical bananas.

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The flowers of bananas usually begin to appear in April, May or June and are produced on a long, pendulous stalk with dusky purple bracts. The first clusters of flowers are all female, which develop into fruit. This occurs without pollination, and the bananas are seedless. The clusters of fruit are called hands. Numerous hands form on each stalk, and all together, they are called a bunch.

Once the bunch is set, the flowering stalk will continue to bloom and lengthen, but only male flowers are produced, and no more bananas will form. You may allow the flower stalk to grow or cut it off just below the bunch of developing bananas.

Bananas generally take four to six months to reach full size after flowering, depending on temperature, variety, moisture and culture practices. The fruit will generally look smoother or plumper as it matures, changing from a square or sharp/angular shape in cross-section to a more rounded shape.

Harvest the fruit when it is full-sized but green. The fruit will often split if left on the plant until fully ripe. Cut the fruit stalk and hang it in a shady place to continue ripening.

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The flowers of bananas usually begin to appear in April, May FILE PHOTO By DINAH ROGERS or June and are produced on The red banana tree produces a long, pendulous stalk with inedible, ornamental fruit. dusky purple bracts.

Should freezing temperatures threaten to occur, you must harvest the entire bunch, as bananas exposed to these conditions will be ruined.

Hang the stalk of green bananas in a warm, protected location and the fruit will ripen, even if not full-size.

Banana tree care Bananas are easy to grow in any soil, do not generally require fertilizer and are not affected by any major insect or disease problems. Plant banana trees in a spot that receives direct sun for at least half a day or more.

Bananas are large plants that require plenty of room.

This needs to be taken into consideration before you include them in your landscape.

Locate banana plantings well away from property lines (6 to 10 feet), as their ability to spread may cause problems to neighbors who do not want them in their yard. Promptly remove any banana shoots that show up where they are not wanted to keep the clump under control.

Controlling bananas is, in fact, a big issue. I have talked to many gardeners who are more interested in getting rid of an overgrown planting than enjoying the fruit. It’s not hard to keep bananas under control, but it does require occasional

attention.

You may need to irrigate during periods of prolonged drought, but bananas tend to be tough. The growth rate is generally fast without fertilizing (particularly in the fertile soils of the south shore), but you may use a general-purpose fertilizer during summer following label directions.

Pruning affects fruiting If you want your banana trees to produce fruit, how you prune them is important.

Cutting banana trees back in winter has a profound effect on production. A look at the growth habit of banana trees will show why. The banana is not a true tree — it is a giant herbaceous plant. Botanically, this means that none of its parts ever become woody like true trees.

The stem of the banana plant is a large rhizome that grows horizontally underground, and the shoots that we think of as “trees” grow up from this stem. What we call the “trunk” is created from the bases of the leaves wrapped tightly together, and it is properly called the pseudostem (false stem).

The flower stalk of the banana starts growing inside the

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Continued from page 5 These ant-sized sucking insects can be very destructive.

Look for enlarging, irregularly shaped areas where the grass has turned brown and strawlike. The brown grass blades will be rolled lengthwise into tubes. Damage often begins in areas near concrete surfaces, such as by a driveway, sidewalk or between the sidewalk and the street.

Use the flush test to determine whether chinch bugs are causing the damage. Mix one or two tablespoons of lemonscented dishwashing liquid in 1 gallon of water. Slowly pour the soapy water onto the healthy grass surrounding the injured areas. Watch the treated area for five or 10 minutes.

The chinch bugs should come to the surface where you can see them. For identification, check the internet for pictures of chinch bugs. You may do this in several spots to better verify the insect’s presence.

If you determine that you have chinch bugs, promptly apply a lawn insecticide labeled to control lawn insect pests, following label directions to minimize damage.

Look for active ingredients such as lambda-cyhalothrin, permethrin or bifenthrin.

Make two applications.

Unfortunately, chinch bugs tend to kill the grass in areas that turn brown. You will likely need to repair the dam-

BANANAS

Continued from page 6 pseudostem at ground level and must grow up through the pseudostem to emerge from the top among the leaves. In our area, a banana tree must survive at least one winter before the flower stalk will emerge and bloom.

To ensure fruit production,

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Despite the heat, continue to mow your lawn regularly to maintain it at the proper height (which varies depending on the type of lawn). age with sod, plugs or runners after the bugs are controlled.

Is it better to let grass grow a little longer during these hot, dry days? I normally cut it at 2 inches. Also, my lawn has some shallow depressions. What should I use to level it off? Someone told me to use play sand. — Kirk Despite the heat, continue to mow your lawn regularly to maintain it at the proper height (which varies depending on the type of lawn). When you mow, it is best not to remove more than one-third of the grass blades. If you cut it 2 inches tall, mow when the grass reaches 3 inches. It is not healthy for the grass to grow taller between mowings.

The weather has been dry in many areas, and if you have not had significant rain in 10 days or more, you should consider irrigating your lawn to

prevent drought stress. Use sprinklers to apply about an inch of water once a week.

You may use river sand, pump sand, builders sand or play sand to level off low areas in your lawn. When grass is actively growing is a good time to do this. Grass will not reliably grow through more than about 2 inches of fill. If you need to fill deeper in some areas, you may need to replace the grass if it does not grow up through the fill in a few weeks.

you must keep this in mind. Do not arbitrarily cut down your trees during the winter when the foliage turns brown. Generally, it takes temperatures well below 20 degrees to kill the trunks. You may trim off the dead foliage, but do not cut down living pseudostems, as you may cut the flower stalk inside.

Each individual tree will only flower and bear fruit once. Once a banana tree flow-

ers and its fruit has been harvested, you may cut it down to the ground to make room for new, productive trees to grow up from the creeping underground stem.

Banana trees are as much a part of the tropical look of south Louisiana as palms. We are fortunate to live where, with proper care and mild winters, these beautiful plants will also produce delicious fruit.

Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter. He hosts the “Garden Show” on WWL-AM Saturdays at 9 a.m. Email gardening questions to gnogardening@agcenter.lsu. edu.

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Mies van der Rohe blended the concept of the ancient Roman curule stool with modern industrial materials for his Barcelona chair.

International classics bring life to a midcentury modern home

Mies van der Rohe created the Barcelona chair in 1929 for the German Pavilion at the International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain. Using high-quality Louis materials — Aubert namely polished chrome-plated steel and leather — the chair has become a symbol of the bauhaus movement.

The Bauhaus school operated in Germany from 1919 to 1933 and sought to combine art and functional design to create a new form of modern living.

Modernists in the 1920s sought to pare things down to simple form and function.

Oddly enough, the Barcelona chair was originally created as a throne for Spanish royalty.

When visiting the 1929 exposition, the king and queen were provided Barcelona chairs in a modernist space without contradicting modernist principles.

In this masterpiece of a

chair, van der Rohe blended the concept of the ancient Roman curule stool with modern industrial materials. His use of polished, chrome-plated steel and leather set a standard for contemporary furniture aesthetics.

Not intended for the average home, the chair faded from view until the 1950s when Knoll Inc. acquired production rights. The chair hit the market in postwar America and was enthusiastically embraced by architects and interior designers. Appearing in high-style corporate settings, as well as midcentury modern ranch houses across the country, the chair became as iconic as polished terrazzo for this period.

The Barcelona chair perfectly reflects the “form follows function” philosophy. Thank you, Mies.

In 1930, van der Rohe created the Brno chair for his Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czech Republic. The house was an early modernist design in Europe, and the chair was designed

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to complement its clean lines and meticulous craftsmanship.

The Brno chair was manufactured with either flat bar or tubular polished chrome. The steel frame allows the cantilevered seat to bounce slightly.

The Brno chair has also become a 20th-century icon.

Thank you again, Mies.

But do these chairs work and play well with others?

Yes, they can. Especially when combined knowingly with antiques. The design tension between polished metal and polished wood brings warmth and function together in a beautiful way.

Local interior designer Curtis Herring has masterfully accomplished this in his midmod home. Barcelona chairs are set on a warm-toned, patterned rug while nearby a circa-1830 butler’s desk holds pride of place.

Herring commissioned Glen Armand in Alexandria to reproduce an American classical pedestal-based dining table slightly larger than the original to seat six comfortably.

He then chose Brno chairs for both comfort and the design tension of combining the classic design of two very different periods.

Adding antique furniture in a contemporary home adds

Brno chairs can serve multiple purposes, from office spaces to dining room tables. interest and depth. The same is true of adding something contemporary in a historic home furnished primarily with antiques. Consider adding a bold, colorful painting above a crusty, gilded console or a polished mahogany sideboard.

The deliberate design tension of combining old and new allows you to enjoy pieces from many different periods.

So maybe that inherited old, “brown wood” Louisiana piece can mix comfortably with chrome and glass as well and

an abstract oil when placed above an Eastlake marbletopped table. Adding a contemporary piece in an old house also serves to remind you that you do live in the 21st century.

The trick to a successful mix is to weigh the room heavily in one direction with a smattering of “other.” If the mix is 50/50 of old and new, you risk looking as though two previously divorced people have now piled everything into one space.

The other trick when mixing different styles and periods is to combine furnishings, art and objects that you love. That common denominator can go a long way in creating a beautiful and meaningful interior.

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The Gálvez Regiment and Militia will be the subject of a series of lectures in August by the Friends of the Cabildo.

The lectures, at 6 p.m. Tuesdays on Zoom, will be recorded for viewing afterward.

Cost for the lectures is $10 for nonmembers and free for members.

The upcoming lectures include: n Aug. 18: Bill Hyland, “Los Isleños in the Militia” n Aug. 25: Kevin Harrell, “Natives in the Militia” October will include lectures about Creole Heritage Month.

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Beautiful Spaces panel set at BK House The Historic BK House & Gardens, 1113 Chartres St., is hosting its annual Beautiful Spaces Symposium on Sept. 19 in the ballroom. The bicentennial event will include a deep dive into the home’s architectural history, as well as the preservation and legacy of historic properties.

Presenters include acclaimed architect Robert Cangelosi, of Koch & Wilson; master craftsman Jeff Poreé; architectural historian and preservationist Ann Masson; and Friends of the Cabildo tour guide and researcher Joanna Caprera.

Beautiful Spaces begins with coffee and pastries at 9:30 a.m., followed by a midday lunch and a cocktail reception at 3 p.m.

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Jefferson Tree School registration to open Registration for the annual Friends of Jefferson the Beautiful is open for the seminar in October.

Tree School on Oct. 29 at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie is open to community tree enthusiasts

Property owners may download and print the appropriate Board of Review form from the “Forms” page online and must submit four copies and all supporting materials for BOR appeal submissions by hand or mail.

For information, visit nolaassessor.com.

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The Historic BK House & Gardens in the French Quarter hosts its annual Beautiful Spaces Symposium, which will include a deep dive into the home’s architecture, on Sept. 19. and working professionals such as arborists, landscape architects and other professionals to earn continuing education hours while learning from leaders in the field. Professional attendees are welcome at no cost and community members can attend for $10.

Speakers for the school include Skip Kincaid, Beau Brodbeck, James Komen, Dana Brown, Lynn Dupont, Michael Reid and Amanda Rivera.

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‘Greaux Native’ banners fall garden seminar The St. Tammany Master Gardener Association fall seminar “Greaux Native: Plants, Bugs, and People of the Southern Landscape” will be Oct. 9 at the Castine Center at Pelican Park in Mandeville.

Speakers, starting at 9 a.m., will include Elise Smith, coauthor of “Southern Women, Southern Landscapes”; Jeff Wilson, Mississippi State AgCenter coordinator for “Incorporating Native and Non-native Plants in your Garden”; and Linda Auld (The Bug Lady), whose topic will be “Plant It and They Will Come.”

Registration is required and is open. Tickets start at $40.

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Orleans assessor opens rolls to public Assessment rolls for Orleans Parish property owners for 2027 are open for public inspection 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday to Friday through Aug. 17.

Open rolls locations for the Orleans Parish Assessor’s Office are: n City Hall, 1300 Perdido St., fourth floor n Algiers Courthouse, 225 Morgan St., first floor n Lakeview Christian Center, 5885 Fleur De Lis Drive, second floor Assessor Erroll Williams said anyone interested in meeting with the appraisal staff to discuss assessments is strongly encouraged to schedule an online or inperson meeting by visiting nolaassessor.com or calling (504) 754-8811. Appointments must be made at least 24 hours in advance. Individuals with scheduled appointments will be given priority. Walk-ins will be seen on a first-come, firstserved basis.

The online appeal system will be available until 4 p.m.

Aug. 20.

unteer Series: 8 a.m. Tuesday and Thursday, 2 Celebration Drive.

An eight-week series for individual volunteers to assist in greenhouse operations. n Litter Abatement Campaign: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project: 8 a.m. Friday. Big Lake Native Trail near 7 Friedrichs Ave. Register for the programs and find out what to bring at friendsofcitypark.volunteerhub.com.

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Victorian parlor meets Candyland inside stylist’s maximalist unit

BY LISA BOONE

Los Angeles Times (TNS) LOS ANGELES — After spending decades collecting clean-lined midcentury modern furniture and accessories, stylist Wendi Weger felt it was time to give her Silver Lake, California, apartment a playful update.

“Everything was brown,” Weger said from her plush sofa covered in pink and chartreuse striped Christian Lacroix fabric. “It looked like a UPS truck in here. I mean, look at me,” she added, fluffing the

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Weger thrives on “kinetic energy,” be it color, texture or a pair of bedazzled Italian loafers. In her bedroom, she mixes floral textiles and modern art with a quirky stepstool shaped like an ear of corn. In the dining room, vintage Doyle Lane ceramic beads dangle from a Mission-style wooden clock while designer handbags are draped over chairs and hat racks.

On her fireplace, an ornate gilded mirror from the 1940s she found at Sunbeam Vintage is flanked by porcelain figurines. A porcelain Capodimonte lamp nestled under vintage Japanese prints is described as “Rococo on acid.” Nearby, a handmade chandelier by artist Helen Stickler, decorated with vintage Swarovski crystals and beads, adds to what Weger describes as her “Candyland vibe.”

“That’s where I am right now,” she said about the apartment she has called home for 17 years. “I feel like I can finally play. I’m trying to bring in a candy theme without making it too grandma.”

In 2020, as the film industry slowed down because of COVID-19, Weger took a chance and opened the Curatorial Dept., a vintage and designer resale shop in Atwater Village.

Popular with celebrities including Lake Bell, Nick Thune and politicians Nithya Raman and Laura Friedman, the store is known for Weger’s signature “clothing sculptures,” where she layers mannequins with dozens of pieces of clothing and accessories.

“Styling is my art,” she said.

“To me, clothing is sculpture.”

Weger said her apartment reflects the way she dresses, with layers of art, vintage clothes and accessories, each with its own story. She joked that it looks like one of her clothing sculptures had “exploded across a room.”

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Weger views her Silver Lake apartment as her creative studio. ‘I don’t mind a lot of frenetic activity,’ she says.

Handbags are draped over dining chairs.

Place settings are layered, including Weger’s grandmother’s Wedgwood china.

Weger sits on a contemporary candy sculpture inside her Versailles-inspired apartment in Silver Lake, Calif.

Some pieces, like a pink silk pleated Gucci skirt by Alessandro Michele, hang on her bedroom wall next to vintage artworks, including a framed cross-stitch by a friend that reads “Live. Laugh. Toaster Bath.” Others are neatly arranged in her butler’s pantry.

Clothing racks fill the hallway,

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A silk Gucci skirt hangs alongside artworks in Weger’s bedroom.

‘Whether it’s producing a film, building a boutique, styling a room or a mannequin, it’s about assemblage and synergy,’ she says. living room and even her bedroom. “Clothing and handbags are art to me,” she says.

Then there’s the cashmere embroidered rabbit cape by Gucci, which she purchased secondhand.

“People chase me down on the street whenever I wear it and ask me where I got it,” she says. “To me, it’s art.”

Humor is important to her too. In the living room, a blue resin coffee table shaped like a candy wrapper adds to the playful feel, along with vintage candy dishes.

“There’s a lot of absurdity and comedy here,” she says, pointing out the Spanish angels with guns, a series of artworks from the 1600s.

“There’s something about these Spanish archangels with weapons,” she said. “They look tough and unisex to me, with mild expressions, beautiful clothes, tights, ruffles and sleeves, plus a firearm. It’s a great symbol for being a warrior, especially as a smallbusiness owner.”

Nearly everything in her apartment is secondhand, from the vintage Audubon prints arranged salon-style in the living room to the Navajo rugs and David Shrigley print she found at a garage sale.

Mixing old and new is important, she says, referring to the House of Hackney hollyhock pattern she recently added to

the walls of the living room and bedrooms, as well as the dining room lampshade.

Her apartment is essentially her atelier, or as she calls it, “the creative engine behind” the Curatorial Dept. She often does intake for her store at her kitchen table, surrounded by needlepoint pillows made by her great-uncle Elliott, who was also an entrepreneur.

“This is not cluttered to me,” she said. “This is just where everything gets sorted.”

Although Weger said she isn’t a “woo-woo person,” she believes her apartment and store came from asking the universe for what she wanted.

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The hollyhock pattern from House of Hackney appears throughout Weger’s apartment, even on this fabric lampshade.

“Tell people what you want,” she said. “Especially in L.A. People support you and help you reach your dreams. I said I wanted this apartment, and because of that, my friend thought of me when she was moving. The same thing happened with my shop. I was in a different industry when I told a shop owner friend I’d always wanted a shop, that I intended to have a shop, and she thought of me when hers became available.”

She’s already thinking about what she wants next: “I’ll be sure to tell everyone I know.”

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ROOMTO RETREAT Once a freestanding single space, designer reconfigures Irish Channel cottage interior

BY JYL BENSON

Contributing writer Daniel Garness speculates that his friend, neighbor and client Patrick Startt’s 724-square-foot home in the Irish Channel was built around the 1850s-’60s as a raised one-room affair, probably a kitchen, given the freestanding fireplace located roughly in the middle.

“The structure probably served as a dependency to another home,” said Garness, a designer of both homes and landscapes for 50 years.

As was customary at the time, the structure was constructed of 2-by-12inch bargeboards. After making their way down the Mississippi River from parts up North, flatboats were salvaged and reused as building materials.

The curious little two-bay cottage sits on land that was once part of the massive Livaudais sugar cane plantation that was subdivided into the Faubourg Livaudais neighborhood in 1832. Faubourg Livaudais included the grand homes of the Garden District, but Startt’s home was built in a rough-and-tumble neighborhood crowded with hardworking recent immigrants, mostly

of Irish and German descent.

A second room oriented to the east, whereas the first room was oriented to the north, was tacked on at some point. The builder worked again with bargeboard, repurposed

The front room, front door and stoop were added to Pat Startt’s two-bay Irish Channel home sometime early in its 175-year history. Startt is an enthusiastic celebrant of St. Patrick’s Day. the eastern exterior wall of the original structure as an interior wall, and voilà, it became a house

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The chairs in Pat Startt’s home can easily be moved outside to his spacious garden to accommodate dependency kitchen to another home.

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This ‘room’ in Startt’s lush garden is shaded by a blooming crape myrtle tree and underplanted with variegated pittosporum.

Designer Daniel Garness transformed a laundry area and a closet into a small functional bathroom with a walkin shower.

The vanity is located just outside the bathroom.

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guests. The free-standing fireplace stands amid the original structure, which was only one room, probably a

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Startt worked with Daniel Garness — a landscape, interior and architectural designer — to choose furnishings and textiles of natural materials to keep the space light and bright.

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This is the home’s first room, built in the 1850s or 1860s, probably as a dependency kitchen to another home due to the presence of a free-standing fireplace, which would have been used as a cooking hearth.

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Pat Startt’s bedroom is thought to have been a lean-to breezeway that was added to the home at some point in its history, then later enclosed to make a bedroom bay. Startt refers to the space as a ‘sleeping gallery.’ It will accommodate a bed no larger than a full-sized one.

with a front door and a stoop facing east.

At yet another point in time, a lean-to was tacked on to the northern side of the newer room.

It was eventually enclosed to create a narrow, 7-foot-by-20-foot bedroom. Later in its history — Garness thinks it was in the early 1940s — an awkward bathroom was put in. It used the northern exterior wall of the original room/ structure as its rear wall, and three walls were added. The result was a box within a box, with the bathroom door opening directly into what had evolved into

a dining room.

“Nothing is straight or orthogonal in this house,” Garness said. “At some point, an interior decorator who owned the home exposed the interior bargeboard wall, which had once been the exterior wall. And there was the problem with that bathroom. We were trying to get the house back to a one-room with a garden concept as much as possible.”

To accomplish this, the awkward bathroom was demolished, and Garness designed a new, minuscule one at the eastern end of the bedroom, where a laundry room and a closet had been.

“We did not change the footprint,” Garness said. “We wanted to be as kind and unobtrusive to the old building as we could. I

wanted to honor the house.

“We wanted to blur the lines between the house and the garden by bringing the garden in through the doors and windows, but also through the art. We wanted it to feel clean, bright, open, and unfussy.”

The hardwood floors throughout the home are original, as are the French doors leading from the initial room into the garden.

“I have developed an education in restoring old houses,” Garness said. “I think the most amazing thing is what you can do with these old houses in New Orleans.

You can get so much life out of them because we have the craftspeople here to restore them.”

A New Orleans native, he attended LSU’s School of Archi-

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tecture and then the UCLA Graduate Program in Architecture.

“I worked for many years for Charles Moore’s L.A. firm — Charles did the Piazza d’Italia and Wonderwall at the 1984 world’s fair. I’ve had my own design office in L.A. and New Orleans for the last 25 years. The work is mainly in New Orleans these days, which is quite wonderful to me. It’s a thrill to work with the best housing stock in the country.”

Startt is a retired Navy officer who went on to a second career with the Federal Emergency Management Agency. He now volunteers as a medical courier delivering bone marrow and stem cells internationally for the National Marrow Donors’ Program.

He landed in New Orleans in 2018, largely because Garness and his husband, Joseph Fay, are his close friends, essentially family.

“I was newly retired in 2021,” Startt said, “and we were driving around.

I had looked at 10 houses Uptown, but when I saw this place a couple of blocks from Dan and Joe, I knew this was it.”

Startt now divides his time between Washington, D.C.; Palm Springs, California; and New Orleans.

“I spend as much time in the garden as possible, and that’s what I wanted, one big room with a garden and a sleeping bay,” he said. “In D.C., my neighbor and I are known as the guerrilla gardeners of Capitol Hill. The parks around the city have always been ignored, so he and I started planting trees and foliage at night to beautify them. Now I kind of live in a park.”

Jyl Benson writes about homes and gardens. Email her at jylbenson@ gmail.com.

ABOVE: The north wall of Startt’s home is adorned with art depicting foliage and flowers, as well as live plants.

The ancient, weathered mirror was salvaged from a demolished bathroom addition that was thought to have been added as a ‘box’ within the original home around 1942.

LEFT: Startt’s garden is a series of simple and comfortably furnished outdoor rooms set amidst an abundance of lush foliage.

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Are the windows making your home less energy efficient?

REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS

BY ANGIE HICKS Ask Angi (TNS)

Windows play a major role in your home’s comfort and energy efficiency. Identifying small issues during the summer can help homeowners lower cooling costs now and prepare their homes for cooler weather ahead.

As summer temperatures climb, many homeowners expect their air conditioners to work a little harder. But if your home never seems to cool down, certain rooms always feel warmer than others, or your energy bills continue to climb, your windows, not your HVAC system, could be part of the problem.

Windows are one of the biggest sources of energy loss in a home, especially if they’re older or haven’t been properly maintained. Fortunately, homeowners don’t always need to replace every window to improve efficiency. A quick inspection during the summer can help identify small issues before they become larger and more expensive problems as the seasons change.

One of the first things homeowners should look for is air leaks. Even when windows are closed, worn weatherstripping, cracked caulk or small gaps around the frame can allow cool air to escape while letting hot outdoor air seep inside. That forces your air conditioner to run longer to maintain a comfortable temperature, increasing wear on your HVAC system and driving up energy costs. Replacing weatherstripping or applying fresh caulk is often an affordable way to improve efficiency and comfort.

It’s also worth checking how well your windows operate.

If they’re difficult to open or close, won’t lock properly or show signs of moisture trapped between panes of glass, they may no longer be performing as intended. Condensation between double-

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A quick inspection of windows over the summer can help identify small issues to improve efficiency. pane windows can indicate a failed seal, reducing the window’s insulating ability.

In some cases, repairing the window may be enough, while older or extensively damaged windows may be better candidates for replacement.

Summer is also an ideal time to inspect the exterior of your windows. Look for cracked caulking, peeling paint, damaged trim or gaps where moisture could eventually make its way inside. Addressing these issues now can help prevent water damage, improve insulation and leave your home better prepared for fall rains and cooler temperatures.

While replacing windows can improve energy efficiency, it’s not always necessary to replace every window at once. Many homeowners choose to make repairs or replace the windows that receive the most direct sunlight or show the greatest signs of wear first. Small improve-

ments made today can provide immediate comfort while helping homeowners spread larger investments over time.

If you’ve noticed your cooling bills increasing despite regular HVAC maintenance, your windows may deserve a closer look. A qualified window professional can inspect your home’s existing windows, identify areas where energy is being lost and recommend repairs or replacements based on your home’s needs and budget.

Your windows do much more than let in natural light.

They help regulate indoor temperatures, improve comfort, protect against the elements and contribute to your home’s overall energy efficiency.

Taking a little time this summer to inspect and maintain them can help homeowners stay more comfortable now, lower energy costs and head into fall with greater confidence.

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POEYFARRE ST. 920, UNIT 339: $335,000, Anthony D. Jones and Lea A. Jones to Brittany Melerine.

POEYFARRE ST. 920, UNIT 132: $244,200, Jude M. Chauvin to Thomas Chandler Bounds.

POEYFARRE ST. 920, UNIT 138: $180,000, Stephen Slumber III to Andree Couget Zamarlik and Dominick Rafael Zamarlik.

S. HENNESSEY ST. 616-618: $325,000, Eric S. Turner to Michelle Rene Simpson.

S. SALCEDO ST. 1315: $120,000, Glenda Marie Dawson Hawkins and Stephen Lance Hawkins to Lakeisha Ann Hayes.

S. TELEMACHUS ST. 321, 323, 325, 327: $900,000, Andrew Jordan Smith and Katherine Teresa Mills Smith to Adwoa Opoku Boateng Cordis and Philip Cordis.

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CATINA ST. 6745: $600,000, Abigail Fuqua Muirhead and Colin J. Muirhead to Roy G. Bruno.

CHARTRES ST. 921: $400,000, Epossumandas French Quarter Properties LLC to Roland Garic Toca III and Toby Sours Toca Garic.

COLBERT ST. 6017: donation, no value stated, Christine M. White, Donna Marie Raspanti, Linda Ann Draper, Lori Ann Seals and Thomas Gilbert White to Mark A. White.

COLBERT ST. 6213: $715,000, Joseph Harry Fowler Connick Sr. and Londa Matherne Connick to Natalie Rose Earles Watson and William Brooks Watson Jr. CONTI ST. 4812-14: $340,000, Beryl R. Guidroz to Hannah Palanza and Lisa Signorelli.

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LARK ST. 44: $540,000, Daigle Family irrevocable trust to Brandi Pomes Longo and Brennan P. Longo.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS non Blackman Soileau to Isabelle Grace Nichols.

N. DERBIGNY ST. 319: $215,000, Dixon Investments #1 LLC to MSY Management LLC. N. PETERS ST. 215: donation, no value stated, Richard Paul Kosow and Stephen Robert Kosow to Richard Kosow and Stephen Kosow revocable trust.

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STEWART COURT 4117: $570,100, Brian T. Seeger to Naim Jonathan Peress.

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ARTS ST. 3125-27: $180,000, Charles R. Palmer and Dorothy H. Palmer to Stephanie Chambliss.

ARTS ST. 4760: $281,000, Minnie Ruth Monroe MacLoud to Keith James Frischhertz and William De Jesus Velez Frisehhertz.

AVALON WAY 7600: $245,000, RCJ Properties LLC to Kenisha Thomas.

BANCROFT DRIVE 5723: $360,000, Karen Roemer Harper and Sean P. Harper to Renee Bienvenu Leboeuf and Sean Leboeuf.

CAMBERLEY DRIVE 7401: donation, no value stated, Diane Kathleen McCrary Roy and Julius A. Roy to Jinger A. Roy. CHAMBERLAIN DRIVE 5635:

$890,000, AJ Homes LLC to Aubrey Spriggs Madkour and Tarek Madkour.

CONGRESS ST. 914-916: $300,000, Tania Elizabeth Hahn Warren to Jennifer Rajkumar.

COVE DRIVE 6944: $194,400, Johnnie Penny and Mary Dell Penny to Detroit Brooks Jr. and Reynell Toliver Brooks.

DAUPHINE ST. 1425-1427: $685,000, Eric E. Cyranski and Gabriella Tobar Cyranski to Mark L. Cushing and Natalie R. Langley Cushing.

DORSETT DRIVE 7719-21: $73,000, Channi Gurcharan Ogra and Mohindar S. Ogra to Lads LLC. DREUX AVE. 5972: $87,000, Belinda Carr Rawlins and Wilbert J. Rawlins Jr. to Bossy Extensions LLC. ELYSIAN FIELDS AVE. 1831-1833: $186,850, Roberta C. Schadwell Williams to Trella Rae Toomer.

ESPLANADE AVE. 741, UNIT 7: $187,000, Intermarket Capital Group LLC, Luke Charles Wolsky and Melissa Russel Wolsky to Miranda Bosarge Foreman, Taylor Kristen Foreman and Travis Taylor Foreman.

EXPLORERS AVE. 13641: $12,000, Wilmot L. Washington to Christopher Randall.

FAIRMONT DRIVE 3740: $300,000, Melissa Dawson Clark to Ivan Koretsky.

FRANKLIN AVE. 6000: $279,000, Andre E. Wright and Dominique Nicole Webb to Tiffany Lakesha Green.

HAUCK DRIVE 4726: $209,500, Warren Stephen Gambino to Gary Martin Sr. and Tyra Hales.

HAUCK DRIVE 4819: $274,000, Royalty Development Group LLC to Terielle James Lawrence.

INDEPENDENCE ST. 1827: $300,000, James Alan Graham to Mandi Harvill.

LAPEYROUSE ST. 2331: $215,000, Velocity Commercial Capital Loan Trust 2027-1 to Karen Davis.

LEVY DRIVE 12201: $750,000, I-10 Lodging LLC to Vet Build LLC. LONGFELLOW DRIVE 4934: $13,000, Hunter and Hearn LLC to Pierres Real Estates LLC. LURLINE ST. 4958: $306,000, S&S Turn Key Construction LLC to Jeannette Johnson.

MIRABEAU AVE. 1601: $106,000, Jean Branch Ware and Sheryl Brown Broaden to Kac 2 LLC. MITHRA ST. 1463: $530,000, Leslie Ann Leavoy Smith to Madison Grody and Scott Soler Grody.

MORRISON ROAD 6741: $107,000, Horace Spurlock Jr. to Dream Big Properties LLC. N. DUPRE ST. 1600-02: $496,000, Shannon Worrel Meyer to Tracy Georgis.

N. NEMOURS ST. 13718-20, TREVES ST. 4850-52: $100,000, Tuyet Hang Kountz to Hai Minh Tran, Quang Minh Tran and Tuyet Trinh Tran.

OLD PRIEUR ST. 1832-36: $265,000, Bryan O. Neal Hicks and Kristy Oats Hicks to Landrius Cooley.

PARIS AVE. 5719: $800,000, AJ Homes LLC to Daron Hoffman and Zhanna Hoffman.

PAUGER ST. 2609: $295,000, J&L Home Investments LLC to Andrew Steven Porter.

POLAND AVE. 1204: $239,000, Charles R. Kellner and Ellen Oltman Kellner to April Demetria Herrera Wood and Gareth Leonard David Wood.

POLAND AVE. 1021-23: $550,000, Nathan Thomas Allbee to Hop Props LLC.

JUDITH OUDT 713.898.3775 504.866.2785 JYOUDT@GMAIL.COM

SAGE ST. 2780: $225,000, Norvell P. Rome to Ralph Alexander Finlay.

ST. BERNARD AVE. 5826: $192,000, John A. Woodard and Krystene W. Woodard to Rhina Vasquez Ortiz.

TOURO ST. 1837-39: $270,000, 1837 Investment LLC to Cedric Recole Washington.

TOURO ST. 2224-2226: $220,000, Sabrina Schnyder Harris to Crescent City Capital Commission LLC. TUPELO ST. 530-532: $115,000, Libertas Tax Fund I LLC to Bearchild Co. LLC. VANDERKLOOT AVE. 7400: $90,000, Gina L. Re Simoneaux, Linda Donnow Re, Rosario J. Re and Roy J. Re to Pavon Investment Services LLC. WINGATE DRIVE 5753: $299,999, Terre Construction LLC to Karen Howard and Kelley Fund revocable trust.

WINNERS CIRCLE 5: $190,000, Lori Beth Jackson to Ashida Vannela Burke.

DISTRICT 4 ANNUNCIATION ST. 2613, 2617, THIRD ST. 802: $700,000, Grace and Glory Family Worship Church International to Crescent City Developers LLC. BARONNE ST. 2521-23: no value stated, Michael Waldo Mayer Jr. testamentary trust to Zukie Taylor Properties LLC. CAMP ST. 2914: $800,000, Anne Reily Sutherlin to Rachel Lambert Creel and Zachary Creel.

CONSTANCE ST. 2830, UNIT D: $370,000, Helen Anthy Hellmers and Paul E. Hellmers to Matthew Koltz.

ä See ORLEANS, page 18

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Continued from page 17 JACKSON AVE. 3116: $270,000, Reauxharm LLC to Jaelen McWilliams Sr. LEBOEUF ST. 442-444: $335,000, 444 Leboeuf LLC to Benjamin David Martin and Emily Rane Fisher Martin.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. BLVD. 4132-34: $205,000, John Robert Evans to Candice L. Dabner.

PLEASANT ST. 719: $585,000, Isaac Dushane Crawford and Meghan McGough Crawford to Joseph Grespin III and Lauren E. Filkins Grespin.

ST. MARY ST. 1445: $660,000, Dennis F. Broussard to Becky Ramirez Osorio and Sergio Erubiel Osorio Living Trust.

SECOND ST. 3627-3629: $75,382, Sonja Jernagan LLC to C&H Development LLC. THIRD ST. 2320-2322: $441,000, Raun Lazier to Alex Arthur Mortimer.

WASHINGTON AVE. 1023: $1,200,000, Gail Topham Cavett to Gregory Brian Schamberg and Kelly Leigh Caissie Schamberg.

WILLOW ST. 2125: $150,000, Wayne J. Leger Jr. and Wayne J. Leger Sr. to Mertis J. Young Supplemental Pay Back Trust.

DISTRICT 5 ABBEY DRIVE 5811: $105,500, Elaine Davis to Pushing Keys LLC. ABBEY DRIVE 5811: $140,000, Pushing Keys LLC to Katd Property LLC. ALIX ST. 165: $440,000, Katherine Anna Duym and Kathleen Welch

to Bernard John Hatch III and Nicole Marie Hatch.

BECK ST. 2390: $240,000, Carrie Elliott Swanson and Reginald A. Swanson to Marvin Duran Gomez.

BRISTOL PLACE 2737: $69,000, Orlea-Gian Snoballs LLC to DLG and Sons Inc. ELIZARDI BLVD. 1415: $40,000, Succession of Cletus Herbert Robinson and Mary Cortozzo Robinson to Christine A. Bachemin and Derrick D. Holmes.

FAIRWAY OAKS DRIVE 29: $500,000, Bertha Kelly Sagrera to Barbara J. Ellis.

FAIRWAY OAKS DRIVE 50: $505,000, Michael Jude Oney to Michael Arthur Mau and Nicole Marie Freasier Mau. HERALD ST. 3736: $225,000, Dana Austen Interiano and Victor M. Interiano to Gary Joseph Bartholomew and Kimberly Martin Bartholomew.

HUNTLEE DRIVE 3427: $195,000, Elegant Houses LLC to Hannah Mildred Herrick and Michael Dean Herrick.

MAUMUS AVE. 6434: donation, no value stated, Kamau Johnson, Ryan Powell Sr. and Shryan Robey to Debra Johnson.

MAUMUS AVE. 6609: $155,000, Brunetta Hall Franklin and Ronald Franklin to Imagine Possibilities Real Estate LLC. PELICAN AVE. 616: $386,000, JBVKP Trust and Victoria K. Posey to Kelli Hardesty.

PLYMOUTH PLACE 3220: $103,000, JTNB Properties LLC to 3220 Plymouth LLC. S. PIN OAK AVE. 3825: $250,000, Jo Ann Debbie Sundermeier Reynolds and Joshua Matthew Reynolds to Deandrea Hatcher

Lane Lacoy

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Historic Home Specialist Associate Broker/Realtor

and Tamsy Rita Egbe Kambi Hatcher.

SUMNER ST. 1041: $220,000, Ahlam Zughayer and Bilal Zughayer to Jamari Sharp.

DISTRICT 6 AMELIA ST. 2816: $329,000, Crissy Renee Waters and Robert L. Waters to Teresa Walsh Folkins 2022 Family Trust.

ANNUNCIATION ST. 6225: $2,243,000, Tina Brown Sachs Gouda to Kelley Ann Carter Saucier and Luke Saucier.

AUDUBON ST. 209-211: $535,000, Nathan Lacer Tape to Ryan Michael Dileo.

COLISEUM ST. 4841-43: $585,000, David Reich and Joshua G. Ballen to Gaurav Sauda and Rishita Monga Sauda.

DELACHAISE ST. 2117-19: donation, no value stated, Gary Turner, George Turner and Kala Turner McKnight to Gail P. Tuurner.

ELEONORE ST. 1404: $1,450,000, Jennifer Dean Aschaffenburg Williamson and Timothy Houston Williamson to John Charles White and Katherine Grace Westerhold White.

FONTAINEBLEAU DRIVE 5844, STATE ST. DRIVE 3839: $600,000, Duncan Scott McIntosh Jr. and Nina Pape Waring McIntosh to Charles A. Woessner and Jessica Talbot Woessner.

GENERAL PERSHING ST. 2104: $1,300,000, Chad P. Lusco to Allison Bunnell and Randall Bunnell.

GENERAL PERSHING ST. 2318: $545,000, C&C Classic Homes Inc. to Julien Farges and Lira Casborne.

LAUREL ST. 5500-02: $869,000, IFMK Real Estate LLC to Filippo

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LAUREL ST. 5901: $1,400,000, Dano’s 2012 Childrens Trust to Jennifer Diesselhorst Wellington.

LOYOLA AVE. 6115-17: $810,000, 6115 Loyola LLC to Andrew B. Wisdom and Maria Kourebanas Wisdom.

MAGAZINE ST. 3340-3342: $100, Connecting Express LLC to H&M Real Estate Holdings LLC. OCTAVIA ST. 2808: $295,000, Andrew Jay McCreary Jr. revocable living trust to Quinlivan Homes LLC. OCTAVIA ST. 3032: $685,000, Joseph L. Fine III and Lauren B. Fine to Charles Yeilding and Madeline Greenbaum.

PALMER AVE. 2036: $100, Emile A. Wagner III and M. Elizabeth Barham Wagner to Caroline Leighton Johnson and Russel P. Johnson.

PINE ST. 2933-39: $564,000, James Kyle Chassee to Karen Johnson.

SONIAT ST. 2129-2131: $387,000, Graham C. Pickering and Leah Marie Camarillo to Annabelle Leigh Burrows, Kerri Leigh Burrows and Matthew John Burrows.

S. CLAIBORNE AVE. 4624, 4636, 4638, 4640: donation, no value stated, Wichita Investment LLC to Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma Inc. S. CLAIBORNE AVE. 7018: $590,000, Tammy Pate Osborne to Yessenia Alvarado Diaz.

S. JOHNSON ST. 5420: $450,000, Jennifer Zukoski Collier and Lee Zukoski Walker Collier to Catherine Elizabeth Lee and Tilden Harris Pick.

S. SARATOGA ST. 5416: $740,000, Payorgo Trust Co. and Equity Trust Co. to Mark J. Graffagnini.

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no value stated, Erroll Robinson to Karen Johnson Robinson.

UPPERLINE ST. 2625-27: $358,000, Adams Holding Co. LLC to Jonathan Kerry Swedlund and Vanessa Onstad.

VALMONT ST. 2435: $640,000, Cameron Francis Nodier and Elizabeth Hover Nodier to John Barrett Hover Jr.

DISTRICT 7 28TH ST. 229: $100, Sabina Panthi Doescher and Thomas Doescher to Jacob Alford and Stephanie Laura Messina.

ADAMS ST. 1616-18: $356,000, William Nolan Williams and Zoe Urann Williams to Samara N. Levy.

DUBLIN ST. 909-911: donation, no value stated, Eric Petersen, Jorgen Petersen, Kevin Petersen, Randy Petersen and Yvette P. Buchanan to Charles Henry Jumonville De Villiers.

EAGLE ST. 1608-10: $260,000, Elizabeth Freeman Calabrese to Sean Carlin Sutton and Veronica Zingarelli Sutton.

EDINBURGH ST. 9000-02: $374,000, Pi Nishti Holdings LLC to Marilyn Monique Roby.

GENERAL OGDEN ST. 2908: $159,000, Jacqueline Wells Harness, Melodie Wells Johnson and Theresa Wells Navarre to Yvette Lieteau Boyd.

JEANNETTE ST. 8421-23: $110,000, Bernadine Coco to 8421 Jeannette St. Properties LLC. LAKE MARINA AVE. 232, UNIT 2-A: $945,000, Succession of Stafford H. Latter to Jackie Brenner.

LAKE MARINA AVE. 232, UNIT D: $850,000, Cynthia M. Crosbie and James Morton Crosble IV to Cynthia Lamarque Valadez and Juan Felipe Valadez.

LAKE MARINA DRIVE 500, UNIT 324: $200,000, Janet Spansel Boudreaux and Ronald L. Boudreaux to Barry Stephen Sherman and Karen Margaret Sherman.

MIDLOTHAN ST. 52411: $5,000, Joan Earls, succession of Alvin Peter Burrell and Morris Burrell Jr. to Monopolized Investments LLC. NELSON ST. 8300: $220,000, Luis Ponciano Aguilon Perez and Regina Matias Lopez Perez to Collin Fontenot.

OLEANDER ST. 9424: $165,000, Tynisha Wallace to Tanya Lewis.

S. ROADWAY ST. 324, UNIT N31: $260,000, Edward J. Boos to John B. Sandras and Kim Salvaggio Sandras.

ST. CHARLES AVE. 7444: $170,000, Robert Arthur Moe to Jeffrey Paul Bonck and Sharon Ann Bonck.

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AUG. 6

HARAHAN BAROCCO DRIVE 8008: B Bode to Jessica D. Hommes, $470,000.

GENERES DRIVE 2305: Brett Maraist to Jennifer G. Bourgeois, $250,000.

GORDON AVE. 832: Robert E. Foret Sr. to N Arce, $362,500.

JEFFERSON AUDUBON TRACE 1608: Men & Women For Others LLC to Krystal A. Novotny, $223,250.

DECKBAR AVE. 420: Myrtle J.S. Grace to Kelly H. Grace, $150,000.

KENNER AVANT GARDE CIRCLE 100: Brianna George to Jaslyn Gregory, $127,500.

BERTOLINO DRIVE 433: Elegant Houses LLC to Dagoberto Mendez Jr., $302,500.

CALIFORNIA AVE. 3310: Noah Construction & Renovation LLC to Bairon E. Izaguirre, $145,000.

CALIFORNIA AVE. 3712: Michael Waits to Emily Flooring LLC, $65,000.

DELAWARE AVE. 4012: I Zenith Inc. to Abraham Corral, $185,000.

E. LOUISIANA STATE DRIVE 1506: Sigfredo M.A. Martinez to Roberto S.S. Ramirez, $281,500.

GRANDLAKE BLVD. 3208: Rachel A.H. Ridgley to Faith G. Williams, $320,000.

INDIANA AVE. 3221: Luis H.G.B. Perdomo to Arnold E.B.B. Per-

WEST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR JULY 31 TO

AUG. 6

AVONDALE GOODWOOD COURT 4148: DSLD LLC to J Taylor, $266,145.

RUTH DRIVE 956: Matthew V Nguyen to Lan T. Do, $60,000.

U.S. 90 W. 3026: JRM 2. LLC to Fun Tymes Party Rentals LLC, $225,000.

BARATARIA BLVD. MARRERO 2564: BZCP Marrero La LLC to Exchangeright Essential Income Strategy Properties 6. LLC, $2,700,000.

ä See WEST, page 20

domo, donation, $300,000.

LOIRE DRIVE 4213: Michael Bonura to Charlott K. Dixon, $310,000.

MINOR ST. 733-37: Farrar Out LLC to Piazza Enterprises LLC M.D., $158,000.

OLE MISS DRIVE 3202: Delfin Fernandez to Altagracia M. Bello, $255,000.

OLE MISS DRIVE 3809: Frank J. Scavo Jr. to Allison E. Hubble, $210,000.

OLYMPIC ST. 1: Sidney Cahill to Ali Aqra, $390,000.

PALMETTO 31: Todd H. O’Neill to Amma Agyemang, $910,000.

RANCHER ROAD 3282: Wilford B. Daigrepont to Paulo A. Cassanova Jr., $89,500.

TAFFY DRIVE 2445: Two Thousand Four Hundred Forty Five Taffy LLC to Elena E. R. Cornejo, $270,000.

THIRD ST. 315: Two Hundred Nineteen Pollock LLC to Chatelain 3rd Street Property LLC, $707,500.

VASSAR COURT 500: Michael P. Spizale to Loren Spizale, $245,000.

VILLAGE ROAD APT. A 730: Joyce H. Welcher to Jeffrey L. Zapata, $110,000.

METAIRIE 47TH ST. 3008: Claudia V Baugh to Neil J. Helwick, $357,600.

47TH ST. 3008: Claudia V Baugh to Neil J. Helwick, $357,600.

48TH ST. 3220: Robert H. Marver to Mikel Jarvis, $295,000.

ABADIE AVE. 1805: Jeffrey L. Springer to Kenneth Barbier, $279,000.

ACADEMY DRIVE 5117: Gina W. Restivo to Daniel Herrera, $590,000.

AIRLINE DRIVE 8121: First Chris-

tian Church of The Greater New Orleans Area to Marco T. Polanco, $1,900,000.

APRICOT ST. 4649: Larry Walters to Brittany S. Chappetta, $427,000.

ATHERTON DRIVE 408: Nathaniel S. II Rogers to Keith J. Hemel, $995,000.

BELLVIEW ST. 3913: Letitia M. Lampiasi to Julia M. Brown, $349,000.

BISSONET DRIVE 3516: Rita L. Fruge to Zachary J. Kirby, $287,000.

BONNABEL BLVD. 446: Patti B. Gilthorpe to Jane M. Laville, $350,000.

BROCKENBRAUGH COURT 549: Angel P. Carreras to Lindsay T. Dawson, $690,000.

BROCKENBRAUGH COURT 728: CJZ9204 LLC to Sydney V Artigues, $300,000.

BROCKENBRAUGH COURT 744: Michael D. April to Shannon D. Tedrow, $880,000.

CARROLLTON AVE. 140: Renee B. Downing to Charlotte S. Wirth, $360,000.

GLENDALE DRIVE 545: Linday T.F. Dawson to Mary C.T. Battle, $1,400,000.

HARANG AVE. 641: Robert J. Shirer to Irma L. Ferraro, $165,000.

JADE AVE. 416: Dreux Dongieux to Gabriel Hernandez, $260,000.

JASPER 5240: M Adams to M Adams, $170,000.

LAKE TRAIL DRIVE 3321: Katie O. Neil to Madison Cruz, $295,000.

MANDARIN ST. 205: Gaynell K. Helmstetter to George H. III Rohr, $185,000.

MASSACHUSETTS AVE. 2625: Michael P. Ryan to Carol L.G. Walton, donation, no value stated.

MONTGOMERY AVE. 401: Donna L.H. Bertolino to LSI Properties LLC, $90,000.

4440 Bancroft Dr 331 36th St Licensed in Louisiana (504) 210-2014 138 N. Cortez St. tommycrane.com 6016 Vicksburg St New Orleans, LA 70119 2340 Wisteria St 4628 Frenchman St 2318 Vienna St (lot) 3608 El Elaine i Pl $1,075,000 $ 5 846-48 Roosevelt Pl $599,000 4705-17 Iberville St $425,000 613-15 Bellecastle 2809-11 Aubry St $350,000 4812-14 Conti St $350,000 4740 Banks St $325,000 4101 Dauphine St $324,900 3809 Dauphine St 1919-21 S Rendon St 411-13 S Hennesssey St $315,000 3423 Chartres St $249,000 5700 St Claude Ave 2544-46 St Philip St

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SENAC DRIVE 4709: Quinlivan Homes LLC to Lindsay L. North, $347,000.

TOLMAS DRIVE 3524: Joann D. Raineri to Anthony L. Digeorge, donation, no value stated.

TRUDEAU DRIVE 1104: Laura S. Dominique to Insi F.B. Diego, $230,000.

ZUMA AVE. 1409: Aiden R. Lee to Megan M. Destgermain, $295,000.

RIVER RIDGE CHRETIEN POINT PLACE 8808: Samuel L. Gladden to Elc Holdings LLC, $560,000.

DIANE AVE. 313: Layman Enterprise LLC to Mario E. M. Fugon, $201,000.

NELSON DRIVE 212: Kathy R. Curtis to B Bode, $640,000.

RUSSELL ST. 10216: Tracy C. Granier to Evan R. Burnette, $265,000.

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KENNER - $170,000

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Open Flr. Plan. Attch’d sgl car garage.

1382sf liv., 1734s.f.total Shed w/electricity.

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PAPWORTH AVE. 215: Patina 215 LLC to Caroline Baer, $258,000.

RIDGEWAY DRIVE 308: Rohan R. Walvekar to McClain R. Schonekas, $1,042,500.

RIDGEWAY DRIVE 3521: Helen A. Hughes to Sarah E.C. Ricco, $510,000.

RIVERSIDE DRIVE 6200: Hasan A.A. Shaar to Yvette T.C. Alchaar, donation, no value stated.

ROSA AVE. 612: Robyn Heausler to Jane H. Doran, donation, no value stated.

S. DILTON ST. 1351: EFMT 2023 1. to Kenia C. P. Escoto, $66,200.

S. SIBLEY ST. 818: Securitized Asset Backed Receivables LLC Trust 2006 H.E.2. to Ana J.H. Calderon, $22,001.

SENA DRIVE 406: Barbara M. Lake to John Vandervort, $372,000.

SENAC DRIVE 4417: DBW Coastal LLC to Carla S. Cabrera, $609,000.

$219,000

KENNER - $149,500

3 bdrm / 2 bath condo with vaulted ceilings. Granite countertops in beautiful kitchen. Stainless Steel Appliances.

New A/C. Lrg. Fncd. Patio

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Ground Floor 1 bdrm condo. Lam Flrs in Liv, Din + Kitch. Appls includ.

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3817 APOLLO DRIVE....................................$275,000

SOLD

2704 WHITNEY PLACE, UNIT 723.................$192,000

SOLD

2712 WHITNEY PLACE, UNIT 526.................$155,000

SOLD

129 AVANT GARDE CIRCLE ..........................$125,000

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BRIDGE CITY OAK AVE. 409: C Pastrano to Courtney S. Brooks, $225,000.

GRAND ISLE CHIGHIZOLA LANE 157: Vera R. Chighizola to Jennifer A. Caspari, $120,000.

DEWBERRY LANE 116: Charlotte F. Hidalgo to Gregory J. Thigpen, $75,000.

TOURO LANE 120: Jordyn B. Glenn to Glenn Holdings LLC, donation, no value stated.

GRETNA CLAIRE AVE. 2221: Loandepot.com LLC to Federal National Mortgage Association, $65,000.

DIPLOMAT ST. 636: Sadie G.E. Medina to Carmen G.G. Hernandez, $215,000.

FAIRFIELD AVE. 339: Austin J. Hight to Joseph P. East, $420,000.

FAIRFIELD AVE. 844: Christopher J. Bowlin to Griselda G. Price, $275,000.

GLENBROOK DRIVE 2836: VP Management LLC to Leonidas J. Sanchez, $198,000.

HANCOCK ST. 817: Hancock Holdings LLC to Tracy L.T. Tatom, $188,900.

ISBELL ST. 1101: April L. Below to Bellow Management One Inc., $120,000.

MYSTIC AVE. 820: Jewel H. Mart to Elegant Houses LLC, $118,000.

OAKWOOD DRIVE 876: Amany

TONI VAN ZANDT

504-913-8665

toni@reverealtors.com 600 PORT OF NEW ORLEANS

UNIT 6F • ONE RIVER PLACE / FRENCH QUARTER

M.R. Mamun to Aisha Mamun, $220,000.

ROSE DRIVE 2112: Carol G. Scioneaux to Carol Scioneaux, donation, no value stated.

SEVENTH ST. 1017-1019: One Thousand Seventeen Properties LLC to Samuel R. Ford, $256,000.

SOUTHWOOD DRIVE 233: Tom K. Vo to Terralyn S. Schram, $310,000.

SUGARPINE DRIVE 425: Patrique Charles to Jean B. Paul, $185,000.

W. MARLIN COURT 537: Veaceslav Morari to Crismerlin F. Arias, $240,000.

WILLOW DRIVE 200: Brandi R. Brewer to K Miller, $282,000.

HARVEY FIFTH AVE. 403: Wells Fargo Bank N.A. to Thi N. N. Pham, $82,500.

GREENBRIAR LANE 3865: Elegant Houses LLC to Yendy L.M. Rosales, $275,000.

GREFER AVE. 508: Rose B. Krummel to S McCarthy, $128,000.

HEATHERWOOD DRIVE 3419: Lisa W. Fleming to Ramona J.Z. Reyes, $485,000.

PAIGE JANETTE DRIVE 2476: Investar Bank N.A. to Foury Distro LLC, $125,000.

PRIMWOOD DRIVE 3105: Miranda L. Edwards to Mahon Tammy I.R.A., $120,000.

TIMBERLANE ESTATES DRIVE 1632: Wendy G. McCrossen to Cindy E. Fremin, $190,000.

TIMBERVIEW LANE 3805: Tariq Altawbah to Joey D.H. Vo, $159,000.

TURNBERRY LANE 3319: Toni P. Grimes to Denisha M.W. Remble, $520,000.

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Larson to Logan Wade, $185,000.

MARRERO AVE. B 1305: Joshua Allemore to Mark Sanderson, $136,000.

BARATARIA BLVD. 2564: BZCP Marrero La LLC to Exchangeright Essential Income Strategy Properties 6. LLC, $2,700,000.

BERTUCCI ST. 549: Gerry B. Smith to Donald Atchley, $168,000.

EHRET ROAD 5204: Keri L.P. Byars to Peggy R. Byrne, $80,000.

EHRET ROAD 5421: Misti A. Tuglon to C Vuong, $370,000.

ERIN DRIVE 2788: Ruthie Sleem to David C. Meggs, donation, no value stated.

FOURTH ST. 4908: Carolyn M. Bush to Long Horn Railroad Services LLC, $152,000.

HAYDEL DRIVE 1532: Willie D. Rogers to Reginald R. Rogers, donation, no value stated.

LAURIE LANE 2721: Carmen J.B.A. Jimenez to Carolina H. Torres, donation, no value stated.

LONGWOOD COURT 68: Blake C. Donewar to Glenn J. Lopez Sr., $507,500.

MELBA PLACE 2000: Jacob J. Burton to Julia P. Nickerson, donation, no value stated.

PAGE ST. 5048: Trey M. Camardelle to Tyron Kennedy, $245,000.

PRITCHARD ROAD 2913: Rachal Thomassie to Jireh Home Investment LLC, $285,000.

RAMSEY DRIVE 2429: CRJH Holdings LLC to Lavonda A. Brown, $179,900.

ROCHESTER DRIVE 5083: Elizabeth D. Bernard to Elegant Houses LLC, $125,000.

RUE ESPLANADE 1613: Wilbert

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LLC, $30,500.

CABINET DRIVE 208: Catalina B.L. Pacheco to Ysmailin Z.G. Berroa, $145,000.

DELEGATE DRIVE 332: Eva M. C. Richardson to Rac Development LLC, $102,000.

FOUR OCLOCK LANE 128: Christina Barre to Stephanie Nieto, $120,000.

WEST DRIVE 809: BHB 8. Enterprise LLC to Jacob R. Torano, $112,000.

WIEGAND DRIVE 929: I&U Investment LLC to Logan Montalbano, $200,000.

DARTMOUTH ST. 2123: HBGNO LLC to Juanita D. Le, $135,000.

N. LEXINGTON AVE. 2181: Joseph N. Suchand to Alladyen Monem, $210,000.

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S.C. Barreiro to Terrance R. Davis, $299,000.

SANTA MARIA DRIVE 1105: Emelda T.B. Butler to Fidelity Bank, $26,622.

SAUVAGE AVE. 2031: Marquia Duncan to Aelicia Williams, $185,000.

SILVER LILY LANE 1541: E Barrett to Premier Site Solutions LLC, $67,000.

VERMILLION DRIVE 2604: Jimmy P. Hunt Jr. to Steven Sandoz, donation, no value stated.

WAGGAMAN DAVENPORT ST. 14: Raleen White to R Biancaniello, donation, no value stated.

RIVER ROAD 10535: James W. III Bostick to Victor Bostick, $265,000.

W. TERRAN LANE 9562: Ladarius K. Johnson to Britney G. Davis, $390,000.

WESTWEGO ALMA ST. 7821: United Brothers Properties Inc. to Whitney Hebrard, $185,000.

AVE. C 637: Conrad J. Adams to Saving Louisiana LLC, $60,000.

BARBE ST. 616: Jody D. Leblanc to Troy M. Breaux, $24,000.

BARBE ST. 620: Jody D. Leblanc to Troy Breaux, $266,000.

BUTLER DRIVE 316: Gordon Jackson Jr. to Mott Team Equipment

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ABITA SPRINGS HAZARD ST. 73104: Vanderbilt Mortgage and Finance Inc. to Shaneice L. Gordon, $113,000.

HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES, LOT 9,: Habitat for Humanity St. Tammany West Inc. to CRHGZH LLC, $8,000.

LA. 36 23080: Philip C. Fitzpatrick III and Shawn M. Fitzpatrick to Abita Pines Business Park LLC, $395,000.

LA. 59 70237, UNIT D: Sandra M. Tierney to Albert J. LeBeouf Sr., $136,500.

RAVINE ST. 70499: Silverback Holdings LLC to H Walker LLC, donation, no value stated.

STEPHEN ST. 72118: Carly Maurin to Robert C. Edwards and Alexis Edwards, $270,000.

COVINGTON BAY TREE MANOR DRIVE 124: Ronald F. Broussard Jr. to James Stewart and Donna Battaglia Stewart, $640,000.

COLLINS BLVD. 1105: Ralph R. Vineyard to Beacon Lighthouse Properties LLC, $585,000.

CRYSTAL DRIVE 76158: DH HOMES LLC to Martin J. Castjohn and Terri Lynn T. Castjohn, $125,000.

CYPRESS POINT DRIVE 4180: Kelsi Childers to SCE Development LLC, $548,500.

HOMEWOOD DRIVE 533: Jordan P. Schillesci and Tyler S. Schillesci to Daniel S. Fitzpatrick and Grace P. Gallaher, $334,000.

MAGNOLIA DRIVE 113: Alessandra Rafael to Northshore Revive Properties LLC, $165,000.

MONARCH LANE 4064: Christopher Hicks to Mason James, $349,900.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS OAK DRIVE 123: Derward Richardson and Teresa Richardson to Richardson Family Trust, donation, no value stated.

PENN MILL ROAD 73150: Kevin L. Gilmore to Donald J. Crawford II, $300,000.

RIVER CLUB SUBDIVISION, PHASE 2B, LOT 141: River Club Development LLC to DLK Homes LLC, $250,000.

RIVER ROAD 75668: Ox Lot Development LLC to Brandon Noggerath and Courtlin DonnerNoggerath, donation, no value stated.

RUE BOURDEAUX 708: Succession of Robin E. Young to Christina M. Sauls, $404,000.

S. MADISON ST. 1142: Gwen T. Newberry to Callan Glenn Danenhower, $155,000.

SECOND CONNOLLY SUBDIVISION, LOT 4, SQUARE 79: Pamela R. Miley to Lisa Miley Trevino, $230,000.

SOUTHDOWN LANE 108: Debra S. Delony to Mark S. Vignes and Rhonda B. Vignes, $500,000.

SYDNEY DRIVE 75385: Ryan Courtney and Amanda M. Harbison to Brandon Hope and Taylor L. Hope, $337,000.

TCHEFUNCTA DRIVE 205: Kay D. Escher to Casey D. Smalley and Lauren R. Smalley, $512,500.

TERRA BELLA SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1A13, LOT 456: Terra Bella Group LLC to Lonnie J. Noble and Toni C. Noble, $107,500.

W. PRESIDENTS DRIVE 1229: Carla C. Brenholtz to Devay Real Estate Holdings LLC, $261,000.

WEAVER ADDITION SUBDIVISION, PORTION OF GROUND: Succession of Lester C. Culver III to Heather B. Case, $454,500.

NEAR COVINGTON PORTION OF GROUND: Dark Roux Properties LLC to Future Property Investments LLC, $17,500.

PORTION OF GROUND: Randall C. Turner and Kathleen Cloud Turner to Pruden Creek Partners LLC, $350,000.

PORTION OF GROUND: Lloyd H. Cazaux and Phillis D. Cazaux to Dalton H. Plemer, donation, no value stated.

PORTION OF GROUND: Randall F. Bracy and Regina P. Bracy to Bracy Family Trust, donation, no value stated.

PORTION OF GROUND: Randall F. Bracy and Regina P. Bracy to Welby J. Major, donation, no value stated.

PORTION OF GROUND: Lloyd H. Cazaux and Phillis D. Cazaux to

Avery E. Plemer, donation, no value stated.

FOLSOM CHENEL ST. 313: Steadfast Builds LLC to Jerry Tichenor and Laurie S. Tichenor, $414,500.

SIMALUSA ESTATES, LOT 67: Cameron J. Martin and Leanna G. Martin to James L. White, Thomas Scagnelli and others, $165,000.

VILLAGE TRACE DRIVE 13061: Jo Ann Pollard Richards, Forman Pollard Richards and others to Nagim’s Custom Welding & Fab LLC, $115,000.

LACOMBE LANCASTER COURT 30317: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Mackenzie E. Hudson, $269,900.

LIBERTY ACRES SUBDIVISION, LOTS 3 -5, SQUARE 3: Hugh B. Ricks to Alois P. Warren III, $182,500.

N. LA. 434 62286: Ralph G. Johnson and Claire L. Johnson to Charlie Rick Investment LLC, $78,750.

QUEEN ANNE DRIVE 61213: Jeffrey C. Pilet Jr. and Tara T. Pilet to Tyran C. Strahan and Meghan M. MacDonald Strahan, $308,500.

MADISONVILLE CYPRESS BEND LANE 2040: Kyle Snedeker and Leslie Snedeker to Mandy Q. Green, $447,500.

FOX SPARROW LOOP 1060: Abby Duckworth McNeill to Square Point Management LLC, $402,000.

GREY HERON LANE 745: Michael A. Collier to Cole Black and Christina H. Black, $555,000.

MONTGOMERY TERRACE SUBDI-

VISION, LOT 50: Christopher D. Schiff and Anna P. Schiff to Tana M. Bondi, $290,000.

SPIKE DRIVE 71716: DSLD Homes LLC to Aimee Lee, $215,127.

WHITE ASH LOOP 424: Debra Macaluso to Kettle Creek II Trust, no value stated.

MANDEVILLE ABNEY DRIVE 68382: Kay C. Dorcey and Bernard H. Dorcey Estate to Owen Short, $175,000.

CEDARWOOD DRIVE 623: Edward A. Kurtz and Maureen G. Kurtz to Xiaofeng Chen, $137,900.

CINDY LOU PLACE 226: Long Winded Investments LLC to Jason D. Richoux and Melissa Wahl Richoux, $229,000.

CLAUSEL ST. 1022: Christina Marie Barras to Steven J. Forret, $100,000.

COFFEE ST. 1029: Nicole L. Cerniglia to Mark C. Ferrer, $329,900.

COLONY TRAIL DRIVE 62: Candace N. Quinn to Justin R. Coe and Frances T. Coe, $560,000.

EVERGREEN DRIVE 505: Giovanni R. Ferrazzano and Pennie M. Miano Ferrazzano to Ainsley Terrebonne and Jakob Terrebonne, $649,000.

FOUNTAINS PARK BLVD. 308: Ashley A. Simon to Jerilynn V. St. Romain, $260,000.

GARDEN AVE. 510: Dominick J. Latino Jr. and Patricia B. Neilson Latino to Patricia J. Lane and Delitha S. Lane, $441,000.

GOLDEN SHORES SUBDIVISION, LOT 69, SQUARE 4: Michael F. Serio Jr. and Heather Tarver Serio to Colin P. Quinlan, $360,000.

HAMPTON COURT 131, UNIT 307: Michelle T. AHERN to Norman Antrainer, $227,000.

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SWEET BAY DRIVE 673: Rocky J. Colombo and Michelle G. Colombo to Earline C. Davidson, $429,000.

TOWN OF MANDEVILLE, LOT 8A, SQUARE 311A: Jeffrey G. Jansen and Anne P. Duffy Jansen to Riley A. DiMaggio and Sarah A. Fagan DiMaggio, $449,900.

TOWN OF MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: David J. Dessauer III, Scott R. Dessauer and Patrick T. Dessauer to Mark S. Dessauer, $266,400.

TOWN OF MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Scott R. Dessauer, David J. Dessauer III and Mark S. Dessauer to Patrick T. Dessauer, $18,600.

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LABARRE ST. 2251: Thomas S. Thon and Cheryl K. Thon to Shane Michael McCormick and Shannon Green McCormick, $80,000.

LAFAYETTE ST. 749A: Scott R. Dessauer, Mark S. Dessauer and David J. Dessauer III to Patrick T. Dessauer, $185,000.

MARIGNY AVE. 401: James G. Redmann to Ashley A. Simon, $695,000.

MARLIN DRIVE 1913: Christina M. Sauls to Alexander Marin and Zhe Tan Marin, $425,000.

NEAR MANDEVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Lynette R. Goux to Timothy G. Goux and Jeremy D. Goux, $48,184.

PARC PLACE 69: Joseph Oberender and Tabitha Oberender to Christopher M. Ikner and Adele Fontenot Ikner, $425,000.

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How to test your lawn for grubs, and what to do if you find them

BY JESSICA DAMIANO Associated Press

What does it mean when brown patches show up in a perfectly healthy lawn? The truth is, it could be anything from drought to dog urine, fungal diseases, pests or too much fertilizer. But many homeowners automatically blame grubs.

The problem with this is that it’s often not the case, and even if grubs are present, small populations are not problematic.

Treatment should only be applied after confirming a true grub infestation. Fortunately, there’s a simple way to check, but action must be taken during a specific window of time to be effective. And that time is nigh.

Grubs are the early life forms of beetles, including

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VIOLA ST. 1165: Faulkner Home Rentals LLC to Braylon Monistere and Callie R. Demoran, $210,000.

PEARL RIVER FARMING COURT 64804: DSLD Homes LLC to Jesse G. Stewart and Caitlyn M. Billiot Stewart, $313,009.

FARMING COURT 64813: DSLD Homes LLC to Alex W. Adcock and Ashlyn Adcock, $331,035.

NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: NSA Property Holdings LLC to PS-NSA JV Pearl River Hwy 11 LLC, no value stated.

SETTER LANE 144: John B. Alleman to Luke M. Calamari and Candice T. Calamari, $490,000.

TAYLOR FARMS ROAD 64262: DSLD Homes LLC to Brendon V. Mistrot and Jessica A. Torres, $328,860.

WINDSONG PLACE 146: Darren M. Matranga to David Chase Prestage, $229,000.

SIXTH WARD NEAR SIXTH WARD, PORTION OF GROUND: Crystal L. Ricks to Mark H. Newton and Pamela M. Newton, $135,000.

European chafers, and Asiatic, Japanese and Oriental beetles.

They live close to the surface under lawns and other plants, where they feed on roots, disconnecting the roots from the plants’ top growth.

Confirming their presence is easy: Dig up a 3- to 4-inchdeep, 12-inch-square section of symptomatic lawn that partially overlaps the border of healthy grass.

If there are grubs in the lawn, the whitish, brown-headed, half-inch to 1-inch-long beetle larvae, which resemble shrimp, will be visible either on the underlying soil or on the underside of the sod-like square you removed. They’re generally curled into the shape of the letter C. Fewer than 10 grubs per square foot of soil is normal

and does not indicate an infestation, so you should not take any action. Instead, seek out other potential causes.

Treatment against grubs should only be applied if there are 10 or more of the insects present under the section of turf you removed. Heavily infested lawn sections will easily roll up like a carpet when you attempt to remove them, their roots severed by the feeding insects.

Because grubs are most vulnerable to pest-control measures when they are young, those measures will only be effective if applied in late summer.

Milky spore powder is a natural product that targets only Japanese beetle grubs. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to discern between the species.

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CHARLES COURT 314: Devin M. Juneau and Elizabeth M. Juneau to Phan N. Phan, $469,000.

CLARKSTON GROVE DRIVE 5117: Raymond E. Ponce and Yolanda V. Ponce revocable trust to Mark L. Strelke revocable trust, $235,000.

DAVIS LANDING ROAD 420: Sean M. Adcock and Britany E. Adcock to Robert W. Phillips and Erin Phillips, $299,000.

DELTA RIDGE AVE. 6752: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to David Munoz and Talsha K. Ancheta Tadeo, $407,900.

E. QUEENS DRIVE 224: Michael P. Walker and Brigitte A. Parker to Briana C. Hornsby, $225,000.

EIGHTH ST. 1575: Clinton J. Miller and Susan S. Miller to Jennifer Navarro, $240,000.

INLET DRIVE 55: Charles E. Stuart and Margaret A. Stuart to Stephen Stumpf Jr., $450,000.

KINGSPOINT SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, PORTION OF GROUND: NSA Property Holdings LLC to PS-NSA JV Slidell Voters Rd LLC, $10.

LA. 433 55259: Garrett Real Estate LLC to Craig A. O’Neal, $75,000.

LAKEVIEW DRIVE 271-73: Tiffany L. Norwood, Pamela B. Lagattuta and Travis Lagattuta to Steven Mark St. Romain Sr. and Karin S. St. Romain, $330,000.

MARINA DRIVE 636-B: Cynthia B. Barba to Wayne J. Berggren, $15,000.

MARINERS COVE BLVD. 1004: Eric

ASHTON PARC 279: Kara J. Gautier Morris and Kip P. Morris Jr. to Gamel X. Lechner, $314,000.

AUDUBON DRIVE 288: Michael Taylor, Dorothy Taylor and Kathryn Taylor Bogatz to Palazzo Enterprises LLC, $74,806.

AVONDALE SUBDIVISION, LOTS 1-35, SQUARE 6: NSA Property Holdings LLC to PS-NSA JV Slidell Gause Blvd W LLC, $10.

BERMUDA DRIVE 175: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Spencer Mayeux, $10 and other good and valuable consideration.

BLUE CRANE 2 DRIVE 256: Freedom Mortgage Corp. to Secretary of Veterans Affairs, $10.

BLUE RUSH LANE 3914: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Brandy R. Jones, $232,900.

CAMDEN ST. 214: Margaret Ann Doucette Woodard to Conrad S. Cooper and Roxanne Peters Cooper, $250,000.

CAMELLIA BUD COURT 7821: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to SV Holdings LLC, $469,000.

CARA MAE ST. 40602: D.R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Matthew J. DiLorenzo and Emily M. DiLorenzo, $310,690.

CHAMALE COVE 89: Murphy J. Chatelain to Linda Augenstein, $122,500.

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Three species of white grubs: Japanese beetle, from left, European chafer and June bug If you are certain your grubs are the Japanese variety, you can give it a try, but success rates are mixed, with better outcomes reported in warmer regions.

Beneficial nematodes are microscopic, non-segmented worms that attack soil-dwelling insects, including all types of grubs. They’re a more universal approach, with higher success rates. They, too, are natural, as they already exist in the soil; you would just be adding more. The nematodes work by infecting grubs with a

bacterium that can kill them in as little as 48 hours.

There are many nematode species available, so read package labels and look for the Heterorhabditis bacteriophora (Hb) strain, which specifically targets grubs.

To optimize effectiveness, water the soil well before applying either treatment.

Avoid using chemical treatments, which can be toxic to earthworms, honeybees and other pollinators, pets and wildlife. Some are even toxic to humans.

G. Burns and Tracy E. Burns to Jeffrey McCarstle and Amber G. McCarstle, $576,000.

MARLIN DRIVE 103: Graham Arceneaux & Allen LLC to Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, $775,155.

N. WALNUT ST. 734-36: Xoan Dinh Vu and Van Kim Pham to XVU LLC, $52,000.

NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: NSA Property Holdings LLC to PS-NSA JV Slidell Gause Blvd. LLC, $10.

PELICAN ST. 2012: Succession of Larry G. Forar and Janis Y. Forar to Marvin Frazier Jr., $160,000.

PONTCHARTRAIN DRIVE 4620, UNITS A, S: Martin A Smith Jr. Children’s Trust to Paradise Cove LLC, $50,000.

ROBIN COURT 204: Succession of Arlene H. Smith Nehlig, Charles W. Smith Jr. and others to Andrew Garcia, $180,000.

ROYAL PALM DRIVE 1457: Justin MacArthur and Carolyn Ann Kilbride to Deborah Kuchler Deroche, $345,500.

SLIDELL MANOR SUBDIVISION, LOT 22, SQUARE 9: Kaila L. Verret to Randy Dabdoub, $222,500.

SUNSET DRIVE 1433: Michael T. Goertz and Leslie E. Goertz to Opendoor Property J LLC, $182,400.

TEDDY AVE. 321: Cody A. Rinaudo and Lindsay Boos Rinaudo to Steven M. Gleason and Rhonda

Faciane Gleason, $375,000.

TEDDY AVE. 624: Geneva Dillon Toups to Melissa Holley, $100,000.

TEDDY DRIVE 1025: Drake Bergens and Eliza Bergens to Lindey A. Lodrigues, donation, no value stated.

TIDE WIND DRIVE 3268: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Karen O. Doughty, $274,756.

TUSCANY SUBDIVISION, LOT 34: Allegiance Title & Land Services LLC, Kyle W. Werner and Tracey T. Powell to Adam Brockhaus and Brenda Brockhaus, no value stated.

W. QUEENSBURY DRIVE 309: Charles E. Batten and Alyson C. Batten to Ethan Campo and Grace S. Campo, $257,000.

W. TIMBERLINE DRIVE 37187: Soudavanh K. Jarvis to Robert L. Jarvis, donation, no value stated.

WOOD DUCK LANE 761: Teresa I. Hidalgo and Shawn A. Hidalgo to Jonathan B. Nobles and Victoria Nobles, $471,000.

SUN/BUSH COWART BUSH ROAD 30247: Lyle A. Toomer III to Stuart E. Adams, $255,000.

KOKOMO LANE 226: Karl P. Vidrine and Flora Jenkins Vidrine to Camden D. Matherne, $35,500.

NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: Jammie L. Singletary to HHMR LLC, $70,000.

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Elderly parent’s cruelty testing love’s limits Dear Annie: My mother is elderly, physically frail and becoming increasingly confused. Earlier this year, she developed pneumonia and was so sick she could barely function.

Annie Her longtime Lane boyfriend, who’d DEAR ANNIE spent years neglecting, stealing from and verbally — and at times, physically — abusing her, refused to take her to the hospital. He even prevented emergency medical technicians from entering the house because he had drugs inside.

I eventually got the police involved, and she was finally taken to the hospital.

After that, she ended the relationship, but another problem quickly became clear. She was no longer able to live independently. She can

barely stand or walk because of a failed back surgery. We tried moving her in with my brother’s family while we figured out a long-term plan, but after she suffered another fall, it became obvious that it wasn’t safe. Her evaluation determined she needed skilled nursing care.

Now she’s in a care facility, and she hates being there.

She’s become someone I barely recognize who lashes out at everyone who loves her. She said such hateful things to my brother’s family that they eventually had to step away for their own well-being.

Now her ex-boyfriend is back in her life. He takes her out for hours, then returns her to the nursing home in soiled clothing. We suspect he’s using her for money, but she insists he’s the only one who cares about her. Eventually, all of my siblings reached their break-

ing point. I was the last one still trying.

Then my sister shared a voicemail Mom had left her.

The things she said about me and my siblings broke something inside me. She has accused me of kidnapping her, stealing from her, trying to have her killed and every other terrible thing you can imagine. I can no longer have a conversation with her without experiencing intense anxiety.

To make matters worse, my fiancé died suddenly of a heart attack last month. When my mother learned he had died, her only response was, “One less queer in the family.” That was the moment I realized I had nothing left to give.

Today I only manage her financial affairs because someone has to, but emotionally, I’ve had to step away. Every interaction leaves me drained for days. My own health is be-

ginning to suffer.

I know she’s elderly. I know she may not be entirely herself anymore. I know dementia and illness can change people.

But where is the line between honoring a parent and protecting yourself? How do you stop feeling guilty for walking away from someone you love when staying is destroying your own health? Thank you for any perspective you can offer. — A Son Who Doesn’t Know Where Duty Ends Dear Son: In one year, you’ve watched your mother lose her independence, your family crumble under the strain of caring for her and your fiancé die suddenly. That’s more grief than anyone knows what to do with. Even if your mother’s confusion and accusations are the result of dementia or another illness, it doesn’t make the words hurt any less.

You’re already doing what your mother needs most by

making sure she’s safe and her affairs are being managed.

You don’t have to sacrifice your own physical and emotional health to prove your love. Sometimes the best thing to do is help how you can and accept that you can’t meet every need.

As for her ex-boyfriend, if you believe he’s exploiting or abusing her, share your concerns with the nursing home’s staff. They may be able to monitor the situation or limit his access if her safety is at risk.

Allow yourself to grieve both the fiancé you lost and the mother you’ve lost in so many ways. It’s easy to lose sight of, but caring for someone shouldn’t come at the cost of losing yourself.

Send your questions for Annie Lane to dearannie@creators. com.

TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Aug. 15, the 227th day of 2026. There are 138 days left in the year.

Today in history: On Aug. 15, 1969, the Woodstock Music and Art Fair opened in upstate New York; more than 460,000 people attended the three-day festival, which would become a watershed event in American music and culture.

Also on this date: In 1057, Macbeth, King of Scots, was killed in battle by Malcolm, the eldest son of King Duncan, whom Macbeth had killed 17 years earlier.

In 1914, the Panama Canal officially opened as the SS Ancon crossed the just-completed waterway between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.

In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.

In 1947, India gained independence after nearly 200 years of British rule.

In 1961, as workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a

claimed responsibility.

In 2003, bouncing back from the largest blackout in U.S. history, cities from the Midwest to Manhattan restored power to tens of millions of people.

In 2021, the Taliban regained control of the Afghan capital of Kabul after the withdrawal of U.S. forces from the country.

In 2025, President Donald Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in a much-anticipated summit in Alaska but failed to secure an agreement to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Today’s birthdays: Actor Jim Dale is 91.

Retired Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is 88. U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., is 88. Author-journalist Linda Ellerbee is 82. Songwriter Jimmy Webb is 80. Actor Phyllis Smith is 77. Britain’s Princess Anne is 76. Actor Tess Harper is 76. Celebrity chef Tom Colicchio is ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO 64. Film director Alejandro Gonzalez More than 460,000 concertgoers fill a 600-acre pasture near Bethel, N.y., for the Inarritu is 63. Philanthropist Melinda French Gates is 62. Actor Debra MessWoodstock Music and Arts Festival, held Aug. 15-18, 1969. ing is 58. Actor Anthony Anderson is 56. Actor Ben Affleck is 54. Olympic tangle of barbed wire.

National Party. gold medal beach volleyball player In 1989, F.W. de Klerk was sworn in In 1998, 29 people were killed by a Kerri Walsh Jennings is 48. Rock singas acting president of South Africa, car bomb that tore apart the center one day after P.W. Botha resigned beer Joe Jonas (The Jonas Brothers) is 37. of Omagh, Northern Ireland; a splinActor Jennifer Lawrence is 36. cause of a power struggle within the ter group calling itself the Real IRA

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