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Students return to class with Ten Commandments displayed

Board backs EBR schools chief

Cole faces multiple corruption charges

BY CHARLES LUSSIER Staff writer

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A new Louisiana law requires the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public school classrooms. A conservative group donated posters like the one pictured to every school system.

Most schools have complied; some teachers say they’re resisting

BY PATRICK WALL, ELYSE CARMOSINO and MARIE FAZIO Staff writers

Swept up in the back-to-school bustle, Sadeel Abed didn’t notice the glossy new posters until a student in her art class pointed one out. It featured a photo of a monument bearing the Ten Commandments in Gothic script.

Earlier this year, a federal appeals court cleared a Louisiana law requiring public schools and colleges to post the Biblical text in every classroom. When Abed and her peers returned from summer break

to their Jefferson Parish high school last week, they found the Ten Commandments on display alongside the usual whiteboards, world maps and American flags.

“Some kids have noticed, and they’re not happy about it,” said Abed, a senior at West Jefferson High School.

That’s one classroom, in one district. In others, district leaders say things have passed without much interest at all. In Bossier Parish, Superintendent Jason Rowland said the rollout was smooth.

“It’s just not an issue,” he said, “and we’re not going to make one out of it.”

The posters have been a long time coming.

The Republican-controlled state Legislature passed the Ten Commandments law in 2024, but it was paused after a group of public-school parents sued, arguing that the displays violated their children’s religious freedom. A federal judge declared the law unconstitutional, but in February the conservative 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the lower court’s ruling.

The appeals court said the legal challenge was premature because it came before the law was enacted, leaving the door open for future lawsuits by parents and civil

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LaMont Cole continues to lead the day-to-day operations of the East Baton Rouge Parish school system despite facing multiple public corruption charges arising from his previous position as an elected member of the East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council.

More than a week after Cole’s indictment by a state grand jury, there is little sign that his job status is changing anytime soon.

In the immediate aftermath, several current board members said they Cole support Cole staying on as school superintendent while he defends himself from the charges, which he says are “based on association, not attestation, and proximity to potential crimes without proof.”

The subsequent release of several damning text threads that include Cole has not shaken the board members’ stance that he can continue leading the state’s second-largest traditional school district, home to nearly 38,000 students.

“I fully support due process and believe the matter should be allowed to proceed through the appropriate process,” board member Carla Powell-Lewis said Friday.

Mike Gaudet, who is not running for reelection, expressed similar sentiments.

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Three candidates running for Denham Springs mayor prepares to step down af- nesses were ravaged, along with Longtime leader steps Landry much of the city’s core fabric. ter 12 years in office.

Landry’s has largely been The field of candidates includes down after 12 years John Cavalier, 42, a “No Party” defined bytenure the flood recovery and

BY GIGI LIMAN

candidate, and Republicans Jim Gilbert, 60, and Ben Harris, 43.

Landry was first elected in 2014, A bookstore owner, a City Coun- and at the time said he expected cil member and the head of the to serve only a single term. Two city’s Water Department are run- years later, the disastrous August ning to become the next mayor 2016 flood swept the region. Many of Denham Springs, as Gerard Denham Springs homes and busi-

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his Denham Strong initiative to rebuild the city.

Landry has not yet made an endorsement in the race but said the most important thing voters should weigh is experience. “What qualifies you to run a budget that’s $24 million a year? What qualifies

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ever changed by the flood, which hit on Aug. 12, 2016. Asked how he would want to be remembered H H H H H H from his time as mayor, Landry said, “As someone who cared,” choking up as he recalled pulling people out of the water in the midst of the disaster.

The election is Nov. 3. If no canyou to give direction to 170 diverse didate wins a majority, the top two employees?” he said. ä See MAYOR, page 5A Whoever wins will inherit a city

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Nearly 300 trying to reach Ceuta arrested

CASABLANCA, Morocco — Hundreds of migrants trying to reach the Spanish exclave of Ceuta by land and sea were arrested by Moroccan security forces, Moroccan state television reported Sunday, as authorities tightened security along the border following calls for a new mass crossing.

Moroccan state broadcaster Medi 1 TV said 294 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa were arrested Saturday while attempting to enter Ceuta. Authorities also arrested 61 Moroccans accused of facilitating the migration attempts, the broadcaster reported.

The attempted crossings followed a surge in social media posts calling on migrants to make their way to Ceuta, a Spanish city on Morocco’s northern coast. In response, Moroccan and Spanish authorities beefed up security presence and limited movement toward the area.

The latest attempt comes two weeks after tens of thousands of would-be migrants, driven by poverty and misinformation, rushed toward Ceuta in one of the deadliest migration crises to hit the region.

At least 90 people died on both sides of the border, according to official numbers, while human rights groups reported higher figures.

A senior Moroccan diplomat previously said that more than 20,000 Moroccan security personnel are deployed along the border with Ceuta each day, at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. The diplomat was not authorized to be publicly named speaking about the issue and spoke on condition of anonymity.

Thousands of migrants from across Africa and beyond travel to Morocco each year, fleeing conflict, poverty and instability and seeking a route into Europe.

Many attempt to reach Ceuta or Melilla, another Spanish exclave on Morocco’s northern coast, hoping eventually to make their way to mainland Spain and better economic opportunities.

Zimbabwe ferry disaster toll rises above 80 HARARE, Zimbabwe — Authorities on Sunday searched for more bodies from an over loaded ferry that capsized on Lake Kariba in Zimbabwe last week as the death toll in the disaster rose to more than 80 people.

The ferry capsized in strong waves on Tuesday. Police on Sunday said the death toll had risen to 84, from 72 the previous day as more bodies were recovered. Zimbabwe’s disaster management agency has said 77 people were rescued.

Estimates had put the number of passengers as high as 153 on a ferry authorized to carry 90 people, but the latest official figures now suggest the number of passengers could be even higher.

The aging ferry was traveling from the town of Kariba to rural and fishing communities in the country’s northwest, where roads are damaged and public transportation is scarce.

Among the dead are 18 children, with the youngest just 1 year old. According to police, 16 of the victims were aged 10 or younger.

Kariba is the world’s largest manmade lake by volume, created by damming the mighty Zambezi River in the late 1950s and early 1960s. It stretches more than 124 miles and is up to 25 miles wide in places.

Zimbabwe and Zambia share the lake, with their border running through its middle.

1 killed, 4 injured in shooting at park in Ky. LEXINGTON, Ky. — A shooting at a Kentucky park on Saturday killed one person and injured four others, police said.

Lexington police officers responded just before 7 p.m. to a report of shots fired and found five victims, according to a department statement. One person was declared dead at a hospital while the other four were believed to have injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.

Local news outlets reported that Police Chief Lawrence Weathers said two children, aged 4 and 14, were among those shot at Charles Young Park in downtown Lexington.

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Ukraine launches large aerial attack Hundreds of drones deployed across Russia, killing at least 6

By The Associated Press Ukraine launched hundreds of drones across Russia on Sunday, killing at least six people in one of Kyiv’s largest aerial attacks of the war.

Kyiv has stepped up its attacks on Russia this year, with long-range missiles and swarms of drones targeting military industries and energy facilities. It has also increasingly pummeled giant Wildberries depots, burning billions of dollars’ worth of merchandise belonging to the Russian online retail giant.

Those attacks have brought the war home to the Russian public nearly 41/2 years into Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Meanwhile, Ukraine also came under Russian attack, with drone strikes destroying homes and torching Kyiv’s landmark book market.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said it had destroyed 822 Ukrainian drones overnight. Some 600 drones were detected headed toward the Russian capital, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said, with a third of those destroyed over the Moscow region itself.

An 83-year-old man was killed after a Ukrainian drone hit a private home in the Moscow region, local Gov. Andrey Vorobyov said. He also confirmed that a Ukrainian attack had

sparked a blaze at a Wildberries warehouse in the town of Podolsk.

A drone attack targeted three towns in Russia’s southwestern Rostov region, killing five people, local Gov. Yury Slyusar said.

The attack, with more than 150 drones, damaged several homes and a railway station and sparked a forest fire.

Russian strikes kill 5 A Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s Kryvyi Rih killed two people and wounded 14 others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on social media Sunday. He also said that one more person had been killed in the city of Sumy.

ArcelorMittal Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine’s largest steel producer, confirmed that one of its sites had been hit in a missile attack and that operations had been partially suspended.

Elsewhere, a man and a woman died when their home was hit by a Russian strike in Ukraine’s southern Zaporizhzhia region, said Ivan Fedorov, the head of the local military administration.

Russian attacks also sparked fires throughout the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, wounding six people. A blaze took hold at one of the city’s largest book markets, tearing through kiosks huddled close to the Pochaina

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Firefighters try to put out a fire at a city book market following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Sunday. metro station. Firefighters fought back the flames, which sent plumes of black smoke across the capital, and picked their way through rubble where the market’s crowded pavilions once stood.

“Wherever the Russians can reach with their ballistic missiles, they strike civilian infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said.

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that it had targeted a metallurgical plant in Kryvyi Rih and several military-industrial sites in Kyiv, including a manufacturing facility for Ukraine’s Flamingo missiles.

The domestically produced missiles are increasingly key to Ukraine’s long-

range attacks on Russia, with Zelenskyy announcing Saturday that Kyiv had used the weapons to attack a rocket research and production center in Samara approximately 560 miles from the Ukrainian border.

NATO jet downs drone Romania’s Ministry of National Defense said Sunday that a Spanish Air and Space Force F-18 fighter jet shot down a drone that had entered Romanian airspace.

The drone’s entry into the NATO member’s airspace was detected by surveillance systems at 4:44 a.m., the ministry said, about 14.9 miles north of the eastern city of Galati near the border with neighbor-

ing Moldova. Moldova is a landlocked country between Ukraine and Romania.

A Spanish F-18 aircraft that was performing air policing duties “made radar contact with the target and received engagement approval,” the ministry said.

The ministry later said that drone debris was also reported in the Black Sea around 10 a.m. on Sunday, about 0.9 miles from the coastal city of Constanta.

However, Moldova’s Ministry of Defense said Sunday that its Army surveillance systems had detected a Geran-type Shahed drone in Moldovan airspace, which entered from Ukraine and exited toward Romania.

Rescuers in Indonesia recover 6 more bodies

BY FIRDIA LISNAWATI Associated Press

RUTENG, Indonesia — Rescue teams in eastern Indonesia recovered six more bodies Sunday, a day after a magnitude 7.7 earthquake, raising the death toll to 53, authorities said, as thousands of displaced people spent the night outdoors in fear of aftershocks.

Rescuers dug through debris looking for anyone buried beneath landslides triggered by the quake across six regencies on Flores, a predominantly Catholic island in the Muslim-majority country.

They focused on three regencies that remained inaccessible: hardest-hit Manggarai, East Manggarai and Nagekeo.

“We have cleared most landslides and reopened roads to previously isolated villages, although communication disruptions and power outages continue to hamper search efforts,” said Fathur Rahman, head of the searchand-rescue office in Maumere, the capital of Sikka regency.

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A man checks his phone near a building collapsed because of an earthquake in Reok, East nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, on Sunday.

More than 900 homes were destroyed and 450 more damaged in East Nusa Tenggara province, forcing about 5,000 people into temporary shelters. At least 241 homes were damaged in the Flores region alone, said Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Management Agency’s chief for disaster prevention.

The quake occurred at a depth of 6 miles shortly before 6 a.m. Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey said. Residents fled

in panic as tsunami warnings were issued and later lifted.

Authorities have since recorded at least 995 aftershocks, but only 46 were felt by residents, said Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Management Agency’s chief for disaster prevention, adding that 135 people were injured.

Many residents at Labuan Bajo, the gateway to Komodo National Park, one of Indonesia’s best-

Police looking for additional people in Va. college shooting

By The Associated Press ETTRICK, Va. — Authorities were seeking additional people who fired weapons during a shooting at Virginia State University that left five people wounded, police said Sunday, as a 19-year-old suspect remained in custody and investigators sought to unravel what happened.

Investigators were trying to determine what led to Saturday’s shooting and if the others who fired did so in self-defense or if they were among the aggressors, said Lt. James Lamb, commander of the Chesterfield County Police Department’s Major Crimes Unit. He did not say how many others fired weapons.

“We don’t have specific locations that we are looking (at) yet as we are working on identifying them,” Lamb said in an email response to questions from The Associated Press.

The shooting, at about 1:30 a.m. Saturday, prompted a campus lockdown and came as students were getting ready for the new school year. It happened near

the university’s Quad Annexes, where campus police and Chesterfield County officers found five people with gunshot wounds outside campus dormitories.

A suspect was found in a dormitory closet and arrested more than 14 hours after the shooting — and several hours after university officials already had lifted a campus lockdown, saying that law enforcement did not believe there was an immediate threat.

Camron Harris, 19, of Henrico, Virginia, was being held without bond in the Chesterfield County jail. He is due in state court Monday to face four counts of malicious wounding and four counts of using a firearm in the commission of a felony.

It could not be immediately determined if Harris has an attorney who could speak on his behalf, and efforts to reach his family by phone were unsuccessful.

The victims ranged in age from 17 to 23 and only one of them was a student at the university, according to police. Harris was not a student, police said.

known tourist destinations, spent the night outside because of the aftershocks.

“The shaking was terrifying, so intense that my house nearly collapsed,” said Anastasia Imad, a farmer, speaking from a makeshift green tent beside her damaged home. “We feared the aftershocks would bring it down on us while we slept.”

Landslides blocked sections of the Trans-Flores Highway, a roughly 435mile road linking communities across the mountainous island.

Meanwhile, relief workers distributed rice, readyto-eat meals, drinking water, blankets and medicine, while emergency shelters were set up for displaced residents.

Authorities said restoring electricity and communications, as well as delivering aid to remote villages isolated by landslides, were among the biggest challenges.

Associated Press writers Niniek Karmini and Edna Tarigan in Jakarta, Indonesia, contributed to this report.

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With Trump, the buck stops somewhere else President tends to avoid blame when things go awry

BY WILL WEISSERT

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — It is among the most famous phrases in presidential history: “The buck stops here.” Except with President Donald Trump, it almost never does.

Concerns about a weak economy and still-high inflation? His predecessor, Joe Biden, saddled him with that, he says, even though the Democrat has been out of office for 18-plus months and despite Trump once promising an immediate turnaround.

The problem-plagued revamp of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool? That was marred by vandalism, the Republican president insists, even though the office of a prosecutor he put in the job has said the damage was due to shoddy workmanship.

The increasingly unpopular war in Iran that has kept oil prices high, Trump’s approval rating low and sent shock waves through the global economy? Actually, this was Trump making up for timid earlier presidents who, he argues, squandered nearly 50 years of opportunities to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions.

Pithy slogans aside, all modern Trump presidents shift responsibility onto others to some degree, frequently blaming the commander-in-chief who preceded them, Congress — or both. But Trump has taken it to a new level, effectively embracing a de facto political strategy of being in charge of everything but responsible for nothing when things go badly.

“Taking responsibility being a characteristic of presidential leadership — or any kind of leadership — is absolutely true,” said Nicole Anslover, a history professor at Florida Atlantic University and author of “Harry S. Truman: The Coming of the Cold War.” Trump’s tendency to point fingers at others is increasingly in the spotlight before November’s

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national Park Service employees work July 29 at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington. midterm elections, when Republicans are trying to retain control of Congress. His unwillingness to accept blame sometimes leads him to deny that there are problems at all, and could leave GOP leaders in tight races with little reassurance for voters that their concerns are being addressed.

The White House c o u n t e r s t h a t Truman Trump is working to correct long-festering challenges, not simply throwing up his hands and ignoring them.

The president is “rightfully addressing the failures of his predecessors while taking action to deliver big wins for the American people,” spokesperson Taylor Rogers said, pointing to a series of policies that she said Republicans can run on, including tax cuts, efforts to lower prescription drug prices, cracking down on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, increasing domestic energy production and a strong stock market.

as president. That came from “pass the buck,” which, according to Truman’s presidential library, dates to frontier times, when poker players would pass a buckhorn handle knife to the person whose turn it was to deal the cards.

“The president, whoever he is, has to decide,” Truman said during his farewell address in 1953. “He can’t pass the buck to anybody. No one else can do the deciding for him. That’s his job.”

The understanding of the phrase has broadened over the years to include taking responsibility for the outcome of tough decisions. Trump used to espouse similar beliefs, saying back in 2013 that in running a business, “Whatever happens, you’re responsible. If it doesn’t happen, you’re responsible.”

Accepting the 2016 presidential nomination, Trump said, “Nobody knows the system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.”

But as president, he has often suggested that the solution and blame rest elsewhere.

“The buck stops with everybody,” Trump said in 2019, during a lengthy government shutdown. In Ducking responsibility 2020, on the same day he declared Truman famously kept a “The the coronavirus pandemic a naBuck Stops Here” sign on his desk tional emergency, he said, “I don’t

Pentagon ordered to scale back joint exercises with South Korea

BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the Pentagon on Sunday to scale back planned joint military exercises with South Korea, saying it declined to help denuclearize Iran and citing his good relationship with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Trump said in a social media post that the exercises slated to begin this week are not only costly but “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile” to North Korea, which he said “has been unthreatening and respectful” while Trump has been in the White House.

“Therefore, and based on the fact that it is too late to cancel, I have instructed Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to substantially reduce the Joint Military Exercises!”

Trump wrote. The president added that he recently asked South Korea’s president to join the U.S. in its efforts to denuclearize Iran, “and they said, ‘No thanks!’ ” The 11 days of exercises involving 18,000 South Korean soldiers were designed to beef up readiness against North Korean threats.

North Korea on Friday

threatened unspecified stern steps against the U.S. and South Korea, describing their military drills as a “a rehearsal for an aggressive war” that are triggering greater instability in the region.

The warning was typical of the harsh rhetoric that North Korea often deploys ahead of major U.S.-South Korean military exercises. Experts say North Korea has often used its rivals’ drills as a pretext to ramp up testing activities to expand its weapons arsenals and promote public support for the reclusive North Korean leader.

U.S. and South Korean forces were expected to practice joint operations in complex scenarios, including a live-fire exercise to test joint precision targeting and maneuver, a wet gap crossing, and distribution of prepositioned military equipment, according to the U.S. military.

The U.S. military has said the summertime Ulchi Freedom Shield exercises reinforce “the role of the alliance as the linchpin for regional peace and security” and reaffirm “the ironclad commitment between the United States and the Republic of Korea to defend

their homelands.”

The joint training comes days after North Korea resumed ballistic missile testing activities that are banned by the U.N. Earlier this month, South Korea, the U.S. and Japan detected the launch of a short-range ballistic missile from North Korea in what was the North’s first ballistic weapons testing activity since late June.

The missile landed in the waters off North Korea’s east coast. North Korea has been pushing hard to enlarge its nuclear and missile arsenals since Kim’s high-stakes diplomacy with Trump collapsed in 2019. Experts say Kim likely believes a bigger weapons arsenal would increase his chances for wresting more concessions from the U.S. in future.

Trump’s announcement came a day after he posted a photo of himself standing next to North Korea’s Kim, writing that the two leaders get along great “despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture.”

This is not the first time that Trump has sought to end the exercises. During his first term he also issued a surprise announcement that called the wargames “provocative.”

BBC asks U.S. court for help getting testimony from president’s family in defamation lawsuit

BY SYLVIA HUI

Associated Press LONDON — The BBC asked a U.S. court for help in getting documents and testimony from members of U.S. President Donald Trump’s family in connection with his $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the British broadcaster, a court document showed.

Lawyers for the BBC argued that Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, and

Donald Trump Jr. have “personal knowledge” and likely have records relevant to elements of Trump’s claims against the broadcaster, according to a filing Friday in federal court in Florida.

The broadcaster has been unable to serve subpoenas because the three have Secret Service protection and other security personnel around them, the filing says.

Trump filed the lawsuit in December seeking $10 billion in damages from the

BBC, accusing it of defamation as well as deceptive and unfair trade practices.

The allegations center on the way a 2024 documentary edited a speech Trump gave on Jan. 6, 2021, before protesters attacked the Capitol in Washington. The lawsuit accuses the BBC of “splicing together two entirely separate parts of President Trump’s speech” to “intentionally misrepresent the meaning of what President Trump said.”

take responsibility at all” for a lack of COVID-19 testing.

Anslover said Truman took full responsibility for dropping atomic bombs on Japan even though he was not informed that the U.S. was developing such weapons until his predecessor, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, died.

John F. Kennedy saw his approval ratings rise after he acknowledged he was to blame for the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba. Ronald Reagan said he was sorry for any involvement he may have had in the Iran-Contra scandal even while saying he wasn’t sure he was to blame. “The buck stops here with me,” he said then.

Presidents before Trump “really usually take accountability,” Anslover said.

‘Inherited a total catastrophe’ The president acknowledged in a recent Punchbowl interview that voters are angry, but he said they are not mad at him but at congressional Republicans.

Trump believes his party can hold its congressional majorities after November, but he was clear that if Republicans lose, it won’t be his fault — echoing his comments before the 2018 midterms that he

would not accept blame if his party lost control of the House, which it did.

Trump’s approval rating on the economy, once seen as among his strongest issues, has fallen throughout his time in office, from 40% in March 2025 to 32% in July, according to Associated PressNORC Center for Public Affairs Research polling. About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say Trump’s economic policies have made economic conditions worse, according to Pew Research Center polling.

Trump instead points to Biden, under whom inflation hit a fourdecade peak of 9.1% in 2022 as the pandemic was still roiling the world economy, before declining to 2.7% by November 2024. Last month, pressured by the Iran war, it was 3.4%.

“When we took office, we inherited a total catastrophe,” Trump said at a recent rally, later adding, “I inherited those high prices, just so you understand.”

Same pattern with Iran, pool The president has characterized the Iran war as “a little excursion” or “detour.” He frequently notes that U.S. wars in Vietnam and Afghanistan dragged on for years, though the Iran conflict — which he initially said would be over in four to five weeks — is now in its sixth month with no clear end in sight.

Trump has sought to shift blame to the past on the Reflecting Pool, falsely suggesting that Biden and Obama spent “hundreds of millions of dollars” trying unsuccessfully to fix it.

But Trump’s main defense has been vandalism. And, so far, at least four cases alleging that have been dropped because of a lack of evidence.

Anslover said that, after 11plus years in politics, Trump has proved he is not afraid to violate norms of presidential comportment. Lots of his core supporters do not seem bothered.

“For many Americans, it has either been a shift in how they view the presidency, or, like with so many things, they just feel empowered to say, ‘These are my priorities. My priority is not the facts,’ ” she said.

Associated Press writer Amelia Thomson DeVeaux contributed to this report.

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At least 7 have died in Indiana flooding

BY PHILIP MARCELO and OBED LAMY Associated Press

INDIANAPOLIS — Days of storms and flooding in Indiana left at least seven people dead as floodwaters receded in Indianapolis’ White River and rains eased in other parts of the state Sunday.

Frank Gounder was among the Indianapolis residents assessing the damage Sunday, which also happened to be his 37th birthday.

The furniture maker, who lives on the city’s hard-hit northside, less than a mile from the White River, had been at home as floodwaters crept up his driveway until they were about 2 feet deep in the house and his workshop.

Now Gounder is left to pick through waterlogged materials and handmade furniture in various stages of completion to see what, if anything, could be salvaged.

“It’s a lot. Before the water had actually gotten into my house and I saw that it was going to happen, I started freaking out, getting mad,” he said. “But after you realize you can’t do anything about it, you kind of just have to let go and just continue, or else you’re just going to be miserable.”

Storm victims mourned A 4-year-old boy, three men and three women were among those who had died since the storms began Aug. 11, said Liz Woods, a spokesperson for the state Department of Homeland Security.

Among the latest confirmed victims was a 31-year-old cyclist found dead early Sunday in a hole that opened up on a washed-out road in Henry County, east of Indianapolis. Henry County Coroner Brian Clark said the man, James Briar, appears to have gone around a barricade and fallen into the collapsed road.

Officials in Jennings County, in the southern end of the state, said the youngest victim reported so far was killed Tuesday when a tree crashed through his bedroom during strong winds.

“This is obviously unexpected,” Cody Low, chief deputy at the Jennings County Sheriff’s Office, told the local ABC affiliate. “There’s nothing we can say that is going to make it any better. We’re going to push through this as a community.”

The other victims included a 19-year-old man whose body was recovered Saturday. Officials in Delaware County, east of Indianapolis, said Matthew Morey had jumped off a bridge into the rushing waters of the Mississinewa River with friends three days earlier.

Family and friends gathered earlier in the week at the bridge to remember the recent high school graduate, who was headed to Purdue University, and warn of the dangers of swollen rivers.

“There are no words that can ease the pain of losing a child,” Delaware County Sheriff Tony Skinner said in a statement on Sunday. “Our hearts are with Matthew’s family,

commissioners, said during a Sunday briefing. “It’s not raining, and the water is receding.”

She said the county, located just north of Indianapolis, escaped without any loss of life, though officials were assessing whether a significant bridge damaged in the flooding could be repaired or if it needed to be completely replaced.

Nearly 130,000 utility customers statewide remained without power as of late Sunday, down from a peak of around 300,000, according to the online utility tracker PowerOutage.us.

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Frank Gounder sits in his flooded backyard, where his woodshop was also damaged by floodwaters, Sunday in Indianapolis. friends, classmates, and everyone who knew and loved him.”

Skinner’s office also confirmed Stephanie Sallee and her dog were found dead in a cornfield Friday, not far from Sallee’s car. They believe the 58-year-old had been driving on a flooded road when the vehicle was swept away.

In social media posts, Sallee’s family remembered her as a sweet, kind and “spunky lady” who adored her grandchildren and other young relatives.

morning before receding, the city Department of Public Works said.

The agency reopened city floodgates Sunday, though they urged residents to be cautious as they returned to flood-damaged neighborhoods. Emergency shelters remained open after hundreds of homes along the river and its canals were evacuated. First responders used boats to rescue people stranded by rapidly rising floodwaters.

Recovery efforts were also underway elsewhere in the state.

Recovery efforts are underway “I must admit it is a good mornIn Indianapolis, flooding from the ing,” Christine Altman, president White River peaked early Sunday of the Hamilton County board of

Heavy rains hammered Indiana over the past week, causing rivers to crest and setting records as roads and bridges were seriously damaged or washed out entirely by the rushing waters.

The White River crested at more than 24 feet in the communities of Anderson and Noblesville, surpassing records set in 1913.

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett said the flooding was the worst the city has seen in more than 30 years.

President Donald Trump on Saturday approved Braun’s request for federal disaster assistance to help with flooding response and recovery efforts.

The drenching rains and destructive flooding were among the impacts of severe storms that have wreaked havoc across the Midwest and beyond in recent days.

Wildfires rage in Belgium, Greece

BY SYLVIE CORBET and AHMAD SEIR NASSIRI Associated Press

BY ALEXA ST. JOHN and ED WHITE Associated Press

The blaze now torching Belgium has far surpassed a 2011 fire that burned nearly 5.4 square miles in the same area and was previously the country’s largest wildfire on record, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System.

Nicolas Yernaux, a spokesperson for the Public Service of Wallonia, said conditions were much worse this time.

“We’re dealing with something much deeper because we have very dry soil,” he said.

René Dahmen, chief engineer at the Department of Nature and Forest, said 2 killed as fires break out on island the fire was still spreading Sunday in In Greece, two people were killed an area that was difficult for crews to in a wildfire Sunday on the island of reach.

Interior Minister Bernard Quintin Salamina, west of Athens, Greek firesaid on X firefighters managed to keep fighters said.

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Hurricane Lala weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday after its eyewall skirted Hawaii without making landfall, but it continued to punish the state with hurricane-force gusts and pounding rain, reaching a total of nearly 3 feet in places and sending raging torrents down mountainsides.

A search and rescue mission including Civil Defense, the National Guard and a Coast Guard helicopter was launched after flash floods apparently swept several occupied homes off their foundations in the coastal communities of Na’alehu and Wai’ohinu, near the Big Island’s southern tip, authorities said.

“What makes this very challenging is that there’s rushing water, there’s debris, and there’s boulders on the road and it’s dark,” Hawaii County Mayor Kimo Alameda said Sunday.

At least one person died in a vehicle wreck in the South Point area of the Big Island, Gov. Josh Green said Saturday.

Honolulu was bearing the brunt of Sunday morning’s weather as tropical storm conditions spread westward across the island chain. Honolulu Fire Department had launched dozens of weather-related responses by 2 a.m. Sunday, including 58 reports of downed trees, 39 blown roofs, 12 downed power lines, 12 arcing-wire situations and one swimmer rescue, according to a statement from the city.

Much of the state remained under a flash flood warning, though the Big

Island was downgraded to a flood advisory Sunday, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy rain, mudslides, downed trees, active flooding and downed power lines were among the biggest threats, weather service meteorologist Stephen Parker said.

“Basically, the best thing to do right now is just stay home for a bit longer,” he said. “The storm won’t last forever and once those kind of threats get cleaned up, it will be safe to be out and about again.”

Fewer than 60,000 homes and businesses were without power by 9:30 a.m., down from more than 200,000 just a few hours earlier, according to the utility tracker poweroutage.us. At least three hospitals were operating on generator power, the governor said.

Powerful waves pounded the Big Island’s coast as Lala slowly passed by.

Just missing landfall, the eyewall didn’t weaken, and its winds pounded the mountainsides. Waterways swelled with fast-moving runoff as bands of rain blew nearly sideways.

Tropical storm warnings were in effect for the islands of Maui, Molokai, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Oahu, Kauai and Niihau, raising the possibility of destructive flooding and even wildfires kicked up by strong winds on the drier sides of the islands.

The heaviest rain Sunday morning was falling on Lanai, Moloka’i and Oahu, while the highest winds were gusts over 100 mph at the towering Mauna Kea volcano on the Big Island, Parker said.

Forecasters expect Lala to regain hurricane strength midweek.

Dry conditions fuel Belgium wildfire

In France, firefighters battling a wildfire in a pine forest in the southwestern Landes region faced no major flare-ups overnight, Landes Prefect Gilles Clavreul said. Authorities estimated the total area burned at 6.6 square miles, while about 650 people had been evacuated from their homes.

It was the third major wildfire in the vast pine forests of southwestern France this summer, following two others in late July. A massive wildfire in the neighboring Gironde department burned about 162 square miles and forced the evacuation of about 220,000 people as it spread toward the Atlantic coast and the Bordeaux area.

In the U.K., emergency crews were fighting 14 wildfires in South Wales with the support of military personnel.

Authorities warned that although the heat wave is easing, drought conditions mean the risk of wildfires remains high.

Fires gutted more than a dozen homes in the West Midlands in central England this week as officials recorded the hottest day of the year on Thursday, when temperatures reached 100.6.

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In Germany, local authorities warned Sunday that the fire was just under a mile from the border.

Belgium was hit by another spell of intense heat this week, with temperatures reaching about 98.6 in parts of the country Friday.

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A blaze in eastern Belgium burned about 12 square miles in the High Fens, a large nature reserve, in one of the country’s worst wildfires in recent history.

About 600 residents in the nearby municipalities of Waimes and Bütgenbach, in Liège province near the German border, were told to evacuate on Saturday as winds shifted and smoke spread through the area. Authorities also advised tourists to leave, while a nearby gymnasium was opened to receive evacuees.

Liège provincial governor Hervé Jamar said in a statement Sunday that more than 250 emergency personnel have been deployed, including over 100 Belgian and German firefighters, as well as police and military officers and civil protection staff. Firefighting helicopters operated by Belgium’s federal police and the Netherlands also helped.

The bodies were recovered in the village of Peristeria, where strong winds fueled the rapidly spreading blaze. A second blaze was reported in the Selini area. Firefighting and coast guard vessels evacuated some 500 beachgoers in the area.

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CAIRO — U.S. negotiator and President Donald Trump‘s son-in-law Jared Kushner held a rare meeting with the Hamas chief on Sunday in a new diplomatic effort to make progress in the stalled Gaza ceasefire. Kushner will meet on Monday with Israel’s prime minister, who is under pressure after rejecting the new 15-point, U.S.-backed road map.

The talks aim to salvage the plan for Hamas to disarm and Israel to withdraw from the Palestinian territory shattered by war.

At stake are the lives of some 2 million people in Gaza and reconstruction of the crowded enclave now largely controlled by Israeli forces, more than 10 months since the ceasefire ended major military operations. A meeting between Kushner, fellow envoy Steve Witkoff and Hamas leaders in Egypt last year helped clinch the ceasefire, whose progress

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Continued from page 1A “He deserves a chance to let the process play out,” Gaudet said. “We don’t know all the ins-and-outs and all the details. We have just gotten snippets of information.”

Board member Mark Bellue said that with the elections coming up, the current board is “investigating ways to strengthen our controls in the interim.”

Board members Dadrius Lanus and Emily Soulé have not responded to multiple requests to comment. Only Soulé is running for reelection.

Cole is facing two counts of conspiracy to commit public bribery, two counts of money laundering and a count of malfeasance in office.

Cole is two years into a four-year employment contract as school superintendent with an annual salary of $285,000. His contract expires June 30, 2028. The School Board last year gave Cole a high overall score when it evaluated his performance in his first year as superintendent, the highest score it has awarded a superintendent since 2007.

Board member Patrick Martin V is doing the most

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John Cavalier Cavalier said he first considered running after a visit from Landry a few years ago. Not long after his last reelection, the mayor came into Cavalier’s bookstore, which sits next door to the Denham Springs City Hall, and showed him a countdown clock marking the days until his term expired.

“He just shows me the timer and he goes, ‘You know what this is?’ ” Cavalier recounted. “He goes, ‘This is the countdown to when I’m done, when I’m out of here.

And you need to start thinking about running for mayor.’ ” “I felt like it was a natural fit,” Cavalier said of his decision to run.

Cavalier started Cavalier House Books out of his parents’ house in 2005, with his now-wife, while he was in college. He now has stores in Denham Springs and Lafayette.

He points to that experience — building a small business from the ground up, and the responsibility that comes with it — as an example of his qualifications.

“A lot of what the management of the city is, is the management of an independent business,” he said,

until now had been stalled over the key issue of Hamas’ disarmament.

The more than two-hour meeting in Egypt with Hamas’ Khalil al-Hayya was confirmed by a regional official and a Hamas official, both speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to reporters. Kushner was one of a trio of envoys meeting with al-Hayya, with officials from mediating countries Egypt, Qatar and Turkey also there.

Hamas in a statement later called on mediators and the U.S.-created Board of Peace overseeing the ceasefire to “compel” Israel to approve the road map for next steps.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week rejected the 15-point plan in a rare public show of defiance against the Trump administration, Israel’s closest ally.

Kushner, former British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Board of Peace director, Nickolay Mladenov, are to meet with Netanyahu on Monday, according to a source familiar with the plans and a diplomatic source. Both spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss

a closed-door meeting.

Several regional powers including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates issued a statement condemning Israel’s rejection of the road map, saying that “Israel now bears responsibility for obstructing the efforts to bring peace in Gaza.” Other signers included Jordan, Pakistan, Indonesia and the ceasefire mediators.

The foreign ministers’ statement called on the Board of Peace and the U.S. to take “immediate and con-

talking for the board.

“Right now, the law provides that a teacher or a contracted superintendent can only be removed from office for cause,” Martin told a Tuesday gathering of the parish’s Republican Party Executive Committee. “And cause is not being indicted.

Cause is being convicted by a jury of your peers.”

In an interview Wednesday with local radio host Brian Haldane, Martin went into more depth. Martin, an attorney, said the board could vote to suspend Cole but only for a limited amount of time — no more than three months as per state law and no more than two months as per Cole’s contract.

“If we were to suspend him for 60 days right now, he’d be back in 60 days unless we were able to find cause for termination,” Martin said. “And we’re not going to get into the middle of investigating something that the (state) attorney general is in the middle of prosecuting.”

Instead, Martin said he is asking the board to consider some proposals, likely at its regular meeting Thursday, that would act as additional financial safeguards.

One proposal is to have Deputy Superintendent Adam Smith also sign off on

describing his background leading a business, ensuring effective customer service and managing employees.

His store is close enough to City Hall that people looking for the municipal building often end up at his counter, he said, joking that it has made him the city’s “de facto City Hall greeter.”

Cavalier has not held public office, but he said his volunteer work and involvement in various organizations across the city, including the Denham Springs Antiques Merchant Association and the Livingston Parish Chamber of Commerce, have deepened his commitment to serving the public.

After the 2016 flood, Cavalier took about five months off to volunteer with the city’s recovery efforts. He served on the Planning and Development Commission and worked on the city’s bicycle and pedestrian master plan, which provided a framework for improving bicycle and pedestrian safety.

He said his priorities come down to two things: a master plan and small businesses.

“I want people to realize master plans are important because it’s a guiding framework, and without one you’re just Yosemite Sam shooting from the hip,” he said.

Jim Gilbert Gilbert, who is serving his first term on the Denham Springs City Council, spent nearly 40 years in the electrical power, controls and

crete measures” to keep any party from obstructing the plan’s implementation.

Kushner’s meeting with the Hamas leader aimed at ensuring the militant group’s commitment to the road map, particularly disarmament, before his meeting with Netanyahu, the regional official said.

The Hamas official said the group is committed and waiting for mediators to start the 14-day negotiation period to work out a timetable for implementation. That

period requires all parties’ approval of the road map to begin.

The Hamas official also said the Hamas leader demanded that Israel halt its attacks on Gaza and withdraw to the so-called “yellow line” dividing the territory before beginning implementation.

The yellow line was never precisely defined. Israeli forces have moved beyond it and now control about 60% of Gaza.

In May, Netanyahu said the next step was to move to 70% control, with Israel “tightening the grip” on Hamas “from every direction.”

The White House referred questions about Kushner’s meetings to the Board of Peace, which did not immediately comment. The Tony Blair Institute did not comment.

Under the road map, Hamas would hand over weapons to the Palestinian technocratic committee meant to oversee daily operations in the territory. The committee has not yet entered Gaza. But Hamas has linked the surrender of its heaviest weapons to the creation of a Palestinian state, something Israel’s current government rejects.

The road map involves Hamas gradually giving up its weapons while Israeli forces halt attacks and begin withdrawing from Gaza. But Netanyahu says Israel will not retreat from any position in Gaza until Hamas has been completely disarmed.

That stance leaves other elements of the ceasefire, including reconstruction and the deployment of international forces to separate Israeli forces from committeecontrolled areas, on hold.

Netanyahu faces a challenging election on Oct. 27 as he tries to hold on to power with a coalition that includes ministers taking a harsh line on Gaza, and it’s not clear whether he will take decisive steps on the ceasefire before then. Also coming up is the anniversary of the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack on southern Israel that sparked the war.

Netanyahu’s Likud party on Sunday responded to the statement by regional powers by claiming that “Arab states want to topple” Netanyahu so that centrist challenger Gadi Eisenkot and center-left party leader Yair Golan “will give them everything they want. That will not happen.”

district contracts in addition to the superintendent and the board president; Smith answers to Cole but has his own employment contract with the board. Another idea is hiring Postlethwaite & Netterville, the accounting firm that conducts district audits, to review district contracts issued since spring 2024, before Cole’s arrival, when the school system began publishing monthly lists of contracts.

The Advocate also reached out to the 16 School Board candidates who are running against incumbents for three open seats this fall.

Thirteen responded.

Tristan Yperman, a mother of school-age children who is running in District 6, is the only candidate arguing that Cole needs to go and that he “should be immediately removed from his position.”

“While I commend Mr. Cole for turning himself in and letting the justice system work as it should, he should no longer be connected to the school system in an official capacity,” Yperman said. “He is no more an exception to the rules than anyone else. The same should go for any employee within (the school system).”

Most candidates echoed the statements of current board members.

“The superintendent has a right to due process,” said Tebbe Jackson, a veteran educator running in District 4. “Board members should stay focused on doing what is in the best interest of students in EBR.” “The focus needs to be on our students and staff and how we can continue to move forward and make progress,” said Thomasina Joseph, an environmental activist running in District 3. “Let the due process and policies in place address his situation.”

Hannah Amoroso, a physical therapist running in District 7, said she has not seen all of the evidence and, consequently, is refraining from drawing any conclusions.

“I value the fundamental right to due process, and I believe we should hold our leaders to high standards,” Amoroso said.

“If elected, I would want the board to ensure appropriate internal safeguards are in place so that district operations are insulated from any distraction this case creates, and to stay closely informed as the case develops,” said Kimberly Bainguel, a mental health therapist running in District 1.

Tristan George, a teacher at East Feliciana High running in District 2, expressed

concern that the controversy will detract from success in the classroom and cautioned that “our students cannot afford for us to lose sight of that mission.” “(Cole) has worked to bridge divides, strengthen our district culture, and raise academic outcomes, while keeping the focus where it belongs: on our students and their success,” George said.

Chris Spalatin, running in District 7, expressed concern over the allegations against Cole. Spalatin urged the board to review its options under Cole’s employment contract and work to “make sure there is a clear continuity plan before taking action.” The candidate also noted that the school system recently went through a difficult search before hiring Cole and is now “showing academic momentum.”

“Whatever the board decides about Superintendent Cole, its responsibility is to protect that progress and make sure students and teachers aren’t the ones who pay the price for uncertainty in leadership,” said Spalatin, who spent three years with the Baton Rouge Area Chamber, where he worked with small businesses.

Other candidates chose not to weigh in.

“I have no opinion related to Mr. Cole’s indictment,” said Stephen Stewart, a former teacher running in District 3. Instead, Stewart is pushing for a restructuring of parish schools that would entice businesses and families to locate here “because our school system and literacy rate will be secondto-none!”

Four candidates declined to comment: Megan Garretson in District 1, Vereta Lee in District 2, and Robert Signater Sr. and Michael Vincent in District 7.

Nicole Fitzgerald, a former teacher at Westdale Middle and candidate in District 6, said Cole should receive the same legal protections that teachers have.

“No staff can be removed midcontract without written charges, reasonable notice, a fair hearing and a two-thirds vote of the entire board. Similarly, (the district’s) own policy states that an employee can be dismissed for a conviction, not an indictment,” Fitzgerald said. “That protection exists for every person who works in this district, and I would defend it as firmly for a first year teacher as I would for Superintendent Cole.”

automation fields, most recently as an electrical subject matter expert for ExxonMobil, retiring in 2023.

Gilbert said his experience managing multimillion-dollar projects and overseeing employees prepared him for the demands of running the city.

In addition to his current role as a council member, he worked as chief of staff to Parish President Randy Delatte and as a volunteer firefighter at the Livingston Parish District 5 Fire Department for 16 years.

“I believe I’m uniquely qualified for this role, probably more than anybody out there,” he said.

Gilbert said his years in the fire service were some of the most influential in motivating his decision to run for public office.

“You carry a device on your side, and you’re summoned to people’s worst nightmares,” he said. “It changed my outlook on life.”

Like Cavalier, his top priorities include the formation of a master plan and ensuring the city supports small business.

He describes himself as “pro responsible development.”

“It’s our responsibility to create a more predictable environment, where the ordinances the permitting and building requirements are reasonable, easy to understand and easy to navigate,” he said.

the Denham Springs Water Department for almost 25 years, the last several as superintendent. He is also a reserve police officer with the Denham Springs Police Department.

As superintendent, Harris manages the daily production, treatment and distribution of Denham Springs’ water supply and oversees

an annual budget of several million dollars.

Harris said his familiarity with the ins and outs of city government would allow for a smooth adjustment into the Mayor’s Office.

“If I was elected mayor, there would be no transition period,” he said. “I could jump in there and I already know the day-to-day work

and right where we need to get going.”

Harris said his first priority is taking care of current residents and infrastructure before pursuing new growth: “I want to evolve, but I want a good plan.”

Much like his competitors, Harris said his focus will be on the creation of a master plan.

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Palestinians remove iron from the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli airstrikes during the war with Hamas to repair and recycle it for construction, building tents or selling it on Sunday in Gaza City.

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Amtrak’s Mardi Gras line open a year Zachary Ridership numbers are high, but train faces questions over safety

BY MARTHA SANCHEZ Staff writer

The Amtrak route that carries hundreds of passengers a day between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama, is celebrating a year of extraordinary success and promise, even as its leaders confront growing questions of safety at rail crossings along the Gulf Coast.

The route, called the Mardi Gras Service, looks like a win. Since trains began running last August, the line has more than doubled its ridership projections, boosted regional tourism and helped bring new signs of economic development to many cities where Amtrak now stops.

But the triumphs have been complicated by five deadly crashes, which have killed seven people.

All died crossing the tracks in cars, maneuvering around lowered gates at crossings or walking along the rails as a train closed in.

The rising sense of both hope and peril is creating a test for Amtrak and its partners around the region, who say they are striving to prevent collisions and lure more passengers than ever.

“It’s been an exceptional first year,” Southern Rail Commission Chair Knox Ross said. But he added the commission — a group of regional leaders who push for more railways — will work with the Federal Railroad Administration over the next year to study how to lower crash risks.

“That’s just something we’ve got to try to solve,” he said.

It is also an urgent question around the country as train travel stages a comeback. Ridership is surging. Amtrak is expanding its fleet.

But many passengers say traveling by train on the Gulf Coast is unique.

“People are up and down and around and talking to each other,” said Kay Cox, a travel agent in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. She has taken more than 20

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Travelers walk to the Amtrak train in new orleans to take the Mardi Gras line bound for Mobile, Ala., on Aug. 2. groups by train to New Orleans and has also become friends with the route’s crew and conductor.

“You’re not going to get on a train in New York City going to Long Island,” she said, “and have the same kind of social experience.”

The more than $200 million project took decades of persistence and includes a twice-daily train that also stops in the Mississippi cities of Bay St. Louis, Gulfport, Biloxi and Pascagoula. And it is the first time trains have connected passengers along the Gulf Coast since before Hurricane Katrina.

Amtrak guessed about 70,000 passengers would ride in the first year. But its leaders now expect to hit the 150,000 passenger mark next week.

Most riders board in New Orleans or Mobile, and both cities are feeling the influence. Nearly 200,000 visitors from the Mobile area arrived in downtown New Orleans and the French Quarter between January and July, according to New Orleans & Company, the city’s tourism marketing agency. The number rose by 18% — or almost 30,000 people — compared to the same period last year before the Mardi Gras Service began its run.

It is a small shift for New Orleans, which gets millions of visitors each year. But Walt Leger, who leads New Orleans & Company, said he expects more international trav-

elers and businesspeople could begin taking the train as trust in the route grows.

David Clark, who serves on the Southern Rail Commission and leads Mobile’s tourism agency, said the city’s restaurants, museums and tour groups are also reporting their numbers are up.

“We’re very encouraged,” he said.

The trains are dominated by leisure travelers and have become popular with social groups, including high school reunions.

There are also new signs of economic progress. In Bay St. Louis, bars, restaurants and shops have opened in recent years steps from the train stop.

In Pascagoula, an old train depot just turned into a brewpub.

In Mobile, leaders hope a 10,000-seat arena opening next year will lure New Orleans visitors via Amtrak for concerts.

“It’s a fun thing to do,” said Tim Avegno, a New Orleanian who recently took the train with his grandchildren to explore Mobile and visit several of its museums. “We enjoyed it.”

Safety questions Avegno also raised a question: Why do trains keep hitting cars?

Amtrak trains have been involved in eight crashes along the route in the past year, according to records from the Federal Railroad Administration. A young

couple died in September when an Amtrak train hit their car as it drove over a crossing without gates in Pass Christian, Mississippi. A mother and daughter were killed in February in Mobile, an accident report says, when they drove around lowered crossing gates.

Some collisions have also raised questions about the safety of Amtrak’s crew and passengers. Authorities said nine passengers went to the hospital one night this month after their train hit a semitruck stuck on the tracks near Waveland, Mississippi. Amtrak officials also said several crew members were injured in April when a train hit a semitruck stalled at a crossing south of Mobile.

Many rail leaders around the region said they are perplexed by the rate of crashes on the Gulf Coast, where freight trains have been a constant for decades. Others questioned whether the speed of Amtrak trains might add risk.

Marc Magliari, an Amtrak spokesperson, said train speeds vary along the route. The maximum authorized speed for passenger trains between New Orleans and Mobile is 79 miles per hour. Accident reports show some trains involved in the crashes were traveling close to that speed.

Freight trains also occasionally hit cars on the Gulf Coast. But accident reports from several recent freight crashes show

the trains are often moving closer to 40 miles per hour.

Freight trains have led to fewer deadly crashes than Amtrak in the past two years along the route, according to FRA records.

If locals are used to slower freight trains, “that could be a factor,” said Christopher Barkan, a rail safety researcher at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign who leads a group of universities studying how to make railways safer.

“It’s a never-ending problem,” Barkan said. “It’s up to the motor vehicle operator to respect the fact that the train has priority at all times because they can’t stop and motor vehicles can.”

The Mississippi Department of Transportation last year finished leveling nine railroad crossings in Long Beach, Mississippi, to lower the risk of semitrucks getting stuck there.

They are planning to do the same in Pass Christian.

And most — but not all — rail crossings in coastal Mississippi now have gates that lower when a train is approaching.

Ross said the Southern Rail Commission is planning to use part of a $500,000 federal grant to study safety at rail crossings. Amtrak and Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College this month also hosted a rail safety training for instructors who teach students entering the trucking industry.

Amtrak’s future The question of safety is one of several the Mardi Gras Service is confronting. With federal help, state and local governments in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama have funded the route for three years. But the Southern Rail Commission is still working with the states to secure permanent funding.

The commission is also contemplating new steps on the Gulf Coast — maybe a seasonal stop in Ocean Springs, or a bus that would take Amtrak passengers from Mobile to Pensacola.

Its leaders hope to leverage the Mardi Gras Service’s success toward other projects, including the possibility of twicedaily trains between Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

“It helps make that case,” Ross said.

police: No shots fired at festival

BY OLIVIA TEES Staff writer

Zachary police confirmed that no shots were fired Saturday evening at the Zachary Really Hot Air Balloon Festival, which was closed during the investigation.

At 8:11 p.m., patrol officers and officers working extra duty responded to a report of multiple shots fired on the festival grounds.

Police secured the scene and through witness interviews and surveillance footage of the scene determined there was a fight that occurred but no shots fired. No spent shell casings were recovered at the scene, and multiple witnesses in close proximity to the incident reported that they did not hear any gunshots, police said.

Shortly after the incident, police received a tip that a person of interest in the battery was at the Rouses Market on Church Street. Police questioned the person and released them after it was determined they were not involved.

“We are relieved the investigation confirmed there were no shots fired at the festival. Out of an abundance of caution and in the interest of public safety, we made the decision to close the festival. Having officers already on-site allowed for a swift response and helped prevent any further incidents. We look forward to meeting with festival organizers to review our findings and make any adjustments needed to strengthen security at future events,” said Police Chief Darryl Lawrence Sr.

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PM skips visit to controversial shrine Japan marks anniversary of its surrender in WWII

Emperors have shunned shrine

BY MARI YAMAGUCHI and MAYUKO ONO Associated Press

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi stayed away from Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni Shrine on Saturday, apparently seeking to avoid further strains in relations with China and South Korea as Japan marked the 81st anniversary of its World War II surrender.

Takaichi, however, did not mention her country’s wartime past in ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By EUGEnE HoSHIKo Asia or express remorse for it in Visitors observe a moment of silence at yasukuni Shrine, which honors a speech at the ceremony, and the Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals, as the country marks defense minister and other political representatives visited the shrine. the 81st anniversary of the end of World War II on Saturday in Tokyo.

The Yasukuni Shrine, which comHe is the son of a popular former memorates over 2.4 million people prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi, who died in wars, became controwho enraged China with a visit to versial after enshrining 14 conYasukuni on Aug. 15, 2006. victed World War II Japanese war criminals. China and South Korea China, South Korea protest say visits by Japanese officials to the shrine show a lack of remorse China’s Foreign Ministry protestover Japan’s wartime atrocities. ed the visits, saying the Japanese Japan invaded and occupied large politicians’ true intentions were parts of Asia before and during to “change the verdict on the war World War II, committing atrocities criminals, cover up Japan’s war that included mass killings, forced crimes, distort the historical facts labor and the sexual enslavement and pave the way for accelerating of women. Millions died during JaKyodo nEWS PHoTo militarization.”

It urged Japan to do “serious soul pan’s wars and colonial rule.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae searching” on history and make a Japan has embraced a pacifist Takaichi lays flowers during her clean break with militarism. ethos in the decades since its deTensions between Japan and Chifeat. But memories of Japan’s co- visit to the Chidorigafuchi national lonial rule and atrocities still run Cemetery in Tokyo on Saturday. na escalated in November when deep, and leaders and the public Takaichi said a Chinese attack on in China and South Korea closely zumi, three other Cabinet minis- Taiwan could constitute “a survivwatch how Japanese leaders con- ters and three executives from al-threatening situation” for Japan Takaichi’s governing Liberal Demo- requiring the use of force. The comfront the country’s past. cratic Party visited the shrine ear- ments enraged Beijing.

Upholding commitment to peace lier Saturday. A nonpartisan group South Korea’s foreign ministry Takaichi mourned the victims of of dozens of lawmakers also prayed also criticized the Japanese politimajor devastation in Hiroshima, there. cians’ visits and offerings as “an The secretary general of anachronistic act that disregards Nagasaki and Okinawa, as well as those who perished in overseas Takaichi’s Liberal Democratic Par- history.” The ministry urged Japan battlefronts, and thanked them for ty, Shunichi Suzuki, said he prayed to face its history and demonstrate their sacrifice as the “foundation of at Yasukuni on behalf of Takaichi remorse.

Japan’s peace and prosperity today.” and brought cash offerings that South Korean President Lee Jae “Japan, since the end of the war, Takaichi made as party leader. He Myung struck a different tone in a has consistently contributed to did not disclose the amount. speech Saturday marking the 81st global peace and prosperity. We will “I renewed my war-renouncing anniversary of Korea’s liberation never let the tragedy of the war be resolve and will continue to fulfill from Japanese colonial rule. He repeated,” she said in her address Japan’s postwar responsibility as a stressed that his administration faat Nippon Budokan, located a short peace-loving nation,” Koizumi, who vors “pragmatic diplomacy.” walk away from Yasukuni. has regularly visited the shrine, “Korea-Japan cooperation is now Defense Minister Shinjiro Koi- said on X after his visit Saturday. more important than ever,” he said.

Japanese emperors have shunned Yasukuni since its 1978 inclusion of war criminals as “martyrs,” and have expressed regrets over Japan’s wartime past, though in a nuanced way.

Emperor Naruhito, in an address Saturday at the ceremony, said he hopes the ravages of war will never be repeated while “reflecting on our past and bearing in mind the feelings of deep remorse.”

Addressing concerns of fading memories of wartime history, Naruhito said he hoped the memories of the suffering during and after the war will be passed down to younger generations.

Takaichi has resisted acknowledging Japan’s wartime aggression.

She has denied that coercion was used against Korean laborers and that women were held as sex slaves for Japanese troops. She was previously part of a campaign to remove references to wartime sexual slavery, known as “comfort women,” from school textbooks.

She has said she is from a postwar generation that bears no responsibility for Japan’s past actions and has no intention of apologizing.

The country has faced revisionist pushback since the 2010s under nationalistic former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Takaichi says Abe is her political mentor.

Since 2013, Japanese prime ministers have stopped apologizing to Asian victims for wartime atrocities, under a precedent set by Abe.

Remembering relatives lost in war Descendants of the war dead also gathered at Yasukuni early Saturday to honor their fallen ancestors.

Mariko Shinoda, 56, whose grandfather died as a Kamikaze pilot, said she visited Yasukuni with her mother as a child every year on Aug. 15. Kamikaze pilots departed on their one-way missions saying, “Let’s meet at Yasukuni,” her mother told her.

“To me, Yasukuni is where every spirit gathers, and that’s where you get to see them on Aug. 15,” Shinoda said.

Associated Press writers Hyungjin Kim in Seoul, South Korea, and Kanis Leung in Hong Kong contributed to this report.

Thieves steal 4 Renaissance artworks Associated Press

MILAN — Thieves stole four works attributed to Renaissance painter Antonello da Messina worth millions of euros from the regional museum in the city of Messina in Sicily while crowds gathered across town for the traditional Assumption holiday celebrations, cultural officials and Italian media said Sunday.

The thieves bypassed alarm and security systems on Saturday evening at the MuMe museum, making off with three of the five surviving panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych, dated to 1473, as well as the double-sided panel depicting the Virgin Mary and the dead Christ in Pietà, which was removed from an armored display case, the news agency LaPresse reported.

They removed all five panels of the San Gregorio Polyptych from their frame, but abandoned two behind a wall while fleeing.

Art expert Alberto Fiz estimated the value of the stolen works at $81 million to $92 million.

“We are devastated by what happened. They were two of Antonello da Messina’s most important and best-known works. It is a tremendous loss for the museum, the city, the community and the art world,” MuMe director Marisa Mercurio told the ANSA news agency.

Mercurio said the theft occurred just before 10 p.m., and that the alarms were working and the guards were on site. She described the works as central to the region’s heritage.

“These are not merely works by Antonello da Messina,” she told Sky TG24. “They are works that hold considerable significance in terms of our identity, as well as, of course, their artistic and cultural value, because they are works by our very own Antonello da Messina.”

Messina’s top culture official, Enzo Caruso, called the theft “more

than a loss” and “a disaster.”

“Messina without Antonello is deprived of the very essence of the greatest artist of the European Renaissance,” Caruso told Sky, calling for the swift recovery of the stolen works.

Caruso noted that international interest in the artist had intensified since Italy’s Culture Ministry acquired Antonello’s devotional painting “Ecce Homo” for $14.9 million through negotiations with Sotheby’s in New York earlier this year.

Lynda Albertson, an art-crime analyst, said the works are instantly recognizable, impeding any effort to sell them through reputable channels.

“Stealing an Antonello may be far easier than selling one. If these are ordinary thieves, they will soon discover that — to their cost,” Albertson, who is the chief executive of the ARCA art crimes research association, told the Italian daily La Repubblica. She said such famous

Colombian president asks Trump to suspend tariffs

By The Associated Press BOGOTÁ, Colombia — Colombia’s President Abelardo de la Espriella has asked his ally U.S. President Donald Trump to suspend tariffs to help the South American nation recover from a powerful earthquake that killed at least 289 people.

De la Espriella took office earlier this month just days before the 7.4 magnitude quake struck. He was backed by Trump in Colombia’s closely contested presidential election, which was decided in a runoff on June 21, and has sought to emphasize his connections with the U.S. leader.

On Saturday night, de la Espriella wrote on X that he spoke with Trump and thanked him for aid sent by the U.S. in response to the earthquake. He added that he “asked him to consider the temporary suspension of the high tariffs that affect Colombian products, in order to provide relief to our businesspeople, who are facing very difficult times due to the effects of the earthquake.”

There has been no immediate response from the Trump administration to de la Espriella’s request. The U.S. has offered a total

of $26.5 million in earthquake aid, including food, shelters and health supplies, according to the U.S. State Department.

The earthquake that struck Monday morning devastated parts of western Colombia, hitting cities including Pereira, Cali and Quibdo. Cities along the country’s Pacific coast were hit particularly hard. The president declared the quake a natural disaster.

The government has said that 143 people are missing, while other civilian-run databases put the number in the thousands.

The natural disaster, whose epicenter was in one of the poorest regions of the country, Choco, has so far left 3,937 people injured, according to the government. In addition, it destroyed 14,705 homes and damaged another 81,536.

In Cali, workers searched for the more than 70 people reported missing in that city.

Hope remained alive even after the key 48to 72-hour window to find survivors beneath the rubble has long passed.

“Miracles do happen” even though more than 120 hours have passed since the earthquake struck, said Cali Mayor Alejandro Eder from the unified command post.

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artworks often pass from one criminal to another, serving as collateral for other illicit activity.

The museum was closed Sunday while investigators gathered evidence. Neither museum officials nor the Carabinieri could immediately be reached for comment.

The Ferragosto holiday, which marks the feast of the Assumption of Mary, marks the height of the Italian summer holiday season, and was being celebrated in Messina with a procession that culminated in prayers and a blessing in the main Piazza Duomo around the time of the heist.

The theft comes just days after police in the northern Italian city of Parma announced that they had recovered three stolen artworks by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse worth about $11.5 million. Five people have been detained in the March 22-23 theft from the Magnani Rocca Foundation located in the Parma province.

Margaret Roberts, a loving wife and devoted Catholic, passed away on August 12, 2026, surrounded by the love of her family. Margaret shared 64 wonderful years of marriage with her beloved husband, Jerry, the love of her life. Together, they built a lifetime of beautiful memories. They shared a love for the outdoors and especially enjoyed fishing and hunting together. They also loved to travel, taking cruises and bus tours they organized for groups. Although their adventures took them to many wonderful places, Margaret's favorite thing of all was simply holding Jerry's hand. Their enduring love and devotion to one another were an inspiration to everyone who knew them.

Margaret was preceded in death by her father, Herbert Babin; her brother, Herbert W. Babin; her mother-in-law, LaVergne Roberts; her father-in-law, Ferron Roberts, Sr.; and her beloved daughter, Rene' Roberts. She is survived by her husband, Jerry Roberts; her daughter, Jean Heaslip; her son-inlaw, Kyle Heaslip; and her granddaughters, Hunter Heaslip and Riely Heaslip.

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do residents get any say in SpaceX? The proposed siting of a SpaceX launch facility in Vermilion Parish should raise alarms about the impacts of this project on residents, along with the vulnerable coastal landscape that the state of Louisiana has said for decades it wants to protect and restore.

Vermilion Parish has seen shoreline erosion and land subsidence for decades, both exacerbated by measurable sea level rise underway. Those processes have not stopped. The subsidence reflects the long-known fact that Louisiana’s coastal land is deltaic soil, not limestone substrate like Cape Canaveral in Florida. There are also active coastal faults in the area. Public and private investments have been made to protect and enhance hunting, fishing and recreational opportunities at Pecan Island and surrounding marshes and waters, which lie in close proximity to White Lake, another important coastal resource.

But additional concerns arise from the attempt of the FAA under the current administration to remove administrative and scientific assessments of environmental and health impacts of the SpaceX project.

State officials have indicated that they will accede to this policy.

The citizens and residents of Louisiana are being told that they have no choice about whether these projects move forward and no say on the future of their parish and their homes.

Whether this is constitutional and legal is a fundamental question. Without the protection of the Constitution and the law, Louisiana’s future is in question.

MARYLEE ORR executive director, La. Environmental Action network Baton Rouge

Brees belongs on a pedestal It’s time for New Orleans to rename the former Lee Circle for this city’s greatest champion: NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Drew Brees.

He is not only the NFL’s GOAT quarterback, but also a New Orleans Saints Super Bowl champion and MVP. He was a leader both on and off the field. Drew was also a champion of the people of this city who needed him to be a winner as they rebuilt their homes, their lives and their spirit.

And yes, put his statue on that now-empty column!

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CoVId vaccine progress was remarkable, but not perfect The often antediluvian Cal Thomas has struck again in his recent commentary, “Fauci’s diary provides evidence of his egotism.” He attempts to offer a simple answer to a complex problem, but fails.

Were egotism a crime, President Trump would have been in prison many decades ago, joined by much of Congress.

Thomas accurately points out the starts and stops of medicine in the face of a new pandemic, with changing recommendations as new information became available.

As a practicing physician, I truly never heard that “getting vaccinated would prevent everyone from getting the virus,” as quoted by Thomas, nor is there any literature evidence available. No one in medicine would say something like that, knowing it’s not true of any vaccination upon initial use. Mitigating the disease is the first goal; totally eliminating it, if possible, follows worldwide vaccination.

The first COVID vaccines were available in January 2021, a remarkable event. Sadly, daily news conferences from the White House starred Trump either dissembling, or merely lying, about the utility of vaccinations vs. other treatment possibilities.

This proved to be disastrously awful disinformation, given statistics of the Delta surge of COVID in August 2021. An 800-plus-bed hospital in New Orleans at that time reported hundreds of sick and dying patients, of whom 80-90% were unvaccinated, some nine months after the vaccination became available.

Medical progress has always been akin to two steps forward and one step backward. Criticizing Dr. Anthony Fauci for this is baseless and only tastes of political retribution, so common with the current U.S. administration.

As Thomas has an affinity for biblical quotations, I offer John 8:7: “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.” Cal, stop throwing stones.

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U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, heads to a closed-door Republican policy meeting at the Capitol in Washington in June.

Cassidy again just the latest lemming in line

So, after much reflection and deep thought, Sen. Bill Cassidy once again folded like an umbrella. (Regards for that metaphor to President Donald Trump and his U.S. Attorney General for Washington, D.C., Jeanine Pirro.)

Our outgoing senator, relishing his big moment in the political spotlight, rhapsodized on the Sunday news shows about how significant he knew his decision would be. And for the second time this year, he went along with the other spineless sycophants (senators) unable to make decisions that agreed with what they must truly believe internally.

Instead of taking a stand, most Republican senators have chosen to get in line, and Cassidy simply became the last lemming in the lot.

Cassidy first showed his lack of morality and character when he opted to vote for the appointment of Robert Kennedy Jr. That was a vote that violated everything he stood for

as a career doctor.

In a second opportunity to “make a difference,” he proved to be just another good ol’ boy, devoid of any impregnable values or beliefs.

In so doing, he will be remembered in history not as a champion, but as the quisling he proved to be.

His votes were traitorous to his own moral and ethical values; he betrayed himself with each of these votes.

How sad it is that this learned man never learned to take a stand, regardless of any consequences.

I am old enough to recall a TV hero of the Wild West, Hopalong Cassidy. I never thought I’d see another Cassidy that would get me so emotional. Ladies and gentlemen, say hello — and goodbye — to Go-Along Cassidy!

MICHAEL B. RIEMER Jefferson

Cassidy, and the country, should heed M.L. King on conscience On April 4, 1967, Martin Luther King Jr. stood in Riverside Church to speak from his conscience about the Vietnam War. The timing was less than propitious.

President Lyndon Johnson had done more to advance civil rights than his predecessors. It was not the time to tell Johnson that the Vietnam War was wrong. It was not the time to describe America as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world,” to declare, “we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values.” King said, “I cannot be silent ... my conscience leaves me no other choice.”

As a constituent of Sen. Bill Cassidy, I recommend a reading of King’s speech “Beyond Vietnam: A Time To Break Silence,” to awaken conscience and courage.

Upon announcing his decision to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney ceneral, Cassidy offered a seemingly conciliatory message.

“People of Louisiana can be assured that I

DAVID ELIZARDI, M.D. Metairie

worked hard to understand the issue and to make the right decision,” he said.

My offering is not a criticism of his work ethic, but instead his betrayal of conscience, what seemed to seep out in his emotional pause, reckoning with his words before taking his seat, sealing the victory for Blanche.

Cassidy has only several months to serve Louisiana, but likely his reckoning will continue beyond this time.

Cassidy and the country need to be reminded of King’s words: “Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one’s conscience tells one that it is right.”

Loyola’s evocative new chapel reflects the talents of liturgical consultant I read with interest the article in the newspaper regarding the newly constructed Chapel of St. Ignatius at the Gayle and Tom Benson Center on the Loyola University campus in New Orleans.

I appreciated hearing from the architects, Trey Trahan and Brad McWhirter. However, I was greatly disappointed that the writer, Bob Warren, made no mention of their colleague on this project, Dr. Marchita Mauck, a retired art history professor at LSU and the Catholic liturgist who served as the liturgical consultant for this project.

Mauck was instrumental in securing the altar and the various art pieces for the project, and she made significant contributions to the design of the chapel’s prayerful and evocative experience.

RAQUEL ROBVAIS Baton Rouge

Let’s welcome SpaceX with its jobs and spending In response to Monica Keese’s letter, it is this way of thinking that puts this state last in all the good categories and first in the bad ones (“State abandons land, rights to billionaire’s rocket ships”).

Ask the folks in Vermilion Parish how they feel about the jobs, taxes and spending coming their way thanks to the proposed SpaceX project.

This state is so narrow-minded and blind to business that it makes a lot of people wonder what we are doing and if we know what we’re doing.

As evidence, I submit Orlando, Florida — the beneficiary of Louisiana’s stupidity by running Walt Disney World away.

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COMMENTARY Summertime political reruns When I was younger, so much younger than today (credit The Beatles for that lyric from “Help”), television networks would rerun programs that had originally been broadcast the previous fall and spring. A few still do, like “Wheel of Fortune” and “Jeopardy,” but those are syndicated shows. Still, it can be fun to watch programs you missed, or even ones you have seen, especially if you can impress someone with “Jeopardy” answers because you know them.

Reruns that always annoy are the political Cal Thomas ads, which start before primaries and continue until the day before the November election. Only the names of the candidates change, not the attack lines. The opponent is a monster who will ruin the country. If elected, I promise to do this or that. Those promises are rarely kept. If some are kept, such as lowering taxes, the next person in office will want to raise them. No political ad I’ve seen promises to reduce or eliminate the national debt, now racing toward an unsustainable $40 trillion.

An example of how even the most fervent promises to reduce spending never work is the now-disbanded DOGE, the Department of Government Efficiency, formerly headed by Elon Musk. DOGE was tasked with exposing and eliminating wasteful and unnecessary spending, including inefficient and redundant government agencies. Musk falsely claimed DOGE saved the taxpayers $110.3 billion — even if true, a drop in the spending bucket, but still something Musk bragged about. Credit DOGE, however, with reducing the size of the bloated federal workforce by hundreds of thousands of jobs.

A new audit by the Government Accountability Office says DOGE took credit for spending cuts already in the pipeline, exaggerated some claims and couldn’t provide evidence for others. GAO reported 96% of DOGE’s claimed savings on federal grants can’t be verified.

DOGE claimed it managed to get the Pentagon’s health agency to cancel a $1.7 billion technology contract, but GAO investigators said the contract was never cut or even reduced.

“There were no savings,” reported the

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GAO. DOGE also claimed credit for ending 264 government leases. But 108 of them were already in the pipeline before the White House office was established.

Failure is never a reason to stop politicians from making promises they know they can’t keep, mostly because consultants have found that focus groups respond well to certain words and attack lines. Democrat ads are full of “fight Trump” and “fight MAGA” lines. Too many Republican ads (and too much cable TV) focus on cultural issues, like transgender athletes in women’s sports, which affects the tiniest of minorities.

Ads criticizing socialism and calling your opponent a communist might work for some older voters, but younger ones did not live through the Cold War, much less World War II, and most of the 20th century.

They likely can’t define fascist and know little about countries that have embraced socialism. That’s because much of their information comes from social media and the internet.

If their classes get around to these topics, they are usually taught from a

left-wing perspective. How do I know?

Consider their comments against Israel, against Jews and in favor of socialism. They appear all-in on universal health care (“Medicare for all”).

No reporter I’ve heard asks them how they would pay for it and why they have faith in government to manage health care when government does few things well.

The candidates are never asked why none of the problems they cite have not been fully, or even partially, solved, when their party held all three branches of government. There is always the promise of “change,” but from what to what? The answers are almost always generalities.

The real reason spending won’t be cut is that too many people are addicted to government. In his first inaugural address on Jan. 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan said: “Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”

That’s one rerun I am happy to hear again and again.

Readers may email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribpub.com.

Peter Pan politics for sandbox revolutionaries Ronald Reagan was fond of an uncon- don’t pay a mortgage or have a landservative thought, Thomas Paine’s “We lord, because comfortable housing is a have it in our power to begin the world human right. Your retirement is pubover again.” Reagan had an excuse. licly funded.

He thought Americans “Food, education, energy, medneeded a cheerfulness infuicine, and transportation aren’t for-profit businesses; they are sion after assassinations, urban common goods and utilities … riots, Vietnam, Watergate and what if you were free to spend stagflation. Today, Paine’s deluyour time how you like without sional sense of the possible has worrying about cost or dreadresurfaced in the enthusiasm of George many young people for socialing going back to work? What Will if you didn’t have to think about ism. paying rent or loans at the end It is a longing in search of a of the month, or saving for college, or definition. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, affording groceries?”

Kamala Harris’ former running mate, In 1845-46, a philosopher not yet 30 has said socialism is “neighborliness.” sounded a similar trumpet. Socialism, Like taking a casserole to the family said Karl Marx, would allow each man that moved in next door? The “Interto “escape” from what capitalism has nationale,” socialism/communism’s “forced upon him.” Socialism would anthem since 1871, begins: “Arise ye prisoners of starvation.” But socialism end the division of labor, which Marx always means more, and less, than cas- called an “exclusive sphere of activity” and considered dehumanizing. seroles for all.

Under capitalism, he wrote, man “is Zohran Mamdani’s election helped to a hunter, a fisherman, a shepherd, or ignite 21st-century interest in sociala critical critic, and must remain so if ism, a 19th-century doctrine that had he does not want to lose his means of a deflating 20th century. Socialism, New York’s mayor says, prioritizes the livelihood.”

But in communist society nobody will “working class.” But what is that? be so confined. Socialism will enable “I think,” he told the New York Times, “if you have to work to pay your everyone to “become accomplished in any branch he wishes … to do one thing bills, I think that that is one definition today and another tomorrow, to hunt in of being a part of the working class.” the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear But if everyone with bills to pay — escattle in the evening, criticize after sentially, everyone — is socialism’s dinner.” priority, what is not socialism?

Seventy years ago, rediscovery of the The Democratic Socialists of Ameryoung Marx’s gauzy ruminations about ica, a political party, sort of, recently ending “alienation” thrilled leftists. issued its “program,” which begins by They could enjoy the frisson of naughurging readers to imagine “a future without capitalism.” You “control your tiness by calling themselves Marxists, own labor and see it going to good use. without having to plow through his turIt’s not just a job to pay the bills”: gid “mature” writings (e.g., “Das Kapi“Speaking of bills: you don’t really tal”) about the labor theory of value. have them anymore. You have no debt.

Today’s DSA program has nothing to You don’t need health insurance. You do with politics understood as the art

of the possible. DSA socialism is Peter Pan politics, the root-and-branch rejection of adulthood, understood as oppression by reality. It is psychotherapy for disappointed young people who are offended by the everydayness of everyday life — work, bills, groceries, mortgages. Yuck.

Even when the DSA ostensibly talks about politics, its extremism is merely infantilism. For example, the DSA proposes to “abolish the Senate,” which is undemocratic because large and small states have equal representation there.

Abolition would require a constitutional amendment, which 13 small states could, and more would, defeat.

The DSA’s supposedly political program (it includes dismantling the presidency and the Supreme Court) is earnest and unserious.

Because socialism shares Paine’s delusion about society’s, and humanity’s, plasticity, socialism invariably ends in disappointment. In today’s America, it begins there, with sandbox revolutionaries who think growing up is incompatible with social justice.

The New York Times reports that at a recent DSA convention in Chicago, Leon Trotsky was “talked about.”

Rightly so. He said that under socialism “the average human type will rise to the heights of an Aristotle, a Goethe, or a Marx.” So, socialism is Garrison Keillor’s imagined Lake Wobegon, where “all the children are above average.”

At the Chicago gathering, socialists could purchase “far-left merchandise,” including “guillotine earrings.” This is today’s socialism — naughty and fun but unlikely to begin America over again.

Email George Will at georgewill@washpost.com.

The ‘cancel Thanksgiving’ candidate lost Democratic socialist Francesca Hong lost her bid to be the Democratic nominee in Wisconsin’s gubernatorial race, but it’s not progressives who will be most disappointed by her defeat. It’s conservatives who will feel the pain.

They spent millions attacking Hong in ads, calling her “too liberal,” but the messaging seemed Megan clearly designed to generate supMcArdle port for her among Democratic voters, based on the GOP theory that she’d be much easier to beat in the general election than moderate David Crowley.

It almost worked, even though Hong was, to put it mildly, not a good candidate. Democrats should feel an unpleasant, crawling sensation at the base of their collective spine when they contemplate how close they came to having her on the ticket — not just because she’s a member of the Democratic Socialists of America, but because she has a hard-to-explain history of radical pronouncements.

Hong called America “an abundance of suffering.” She said we should “cancel Thanksgiving” and suggested we should “defund then abolish” the police. She publicly wrestled with her “proximity to Whiteness,” in the person of her biracial son. None of this is a good look for someone who wants ordinary people to vote for them.

Before you ask, no, Hong was not at that time some naive college student. She was in her 30s.

Her only excuse is that for a few years this sort of thing was normal among sober adults and eminent institutions. It was like watching a clique of teenage mean girls overdosing on extra-strength Robin DiAngelo. The only difference was that many of the mean girls held tenured professorships and senior roles at prestigious publications. With so many luminaries signing up to join the fun, how was Hong to know that it wouldn’t last?

I should clarify that this is not Hong’s explanation for her remarks. But then, Hong couldn’t really give a good explanation. She tried to brush off her police abolitionism. Other tweets were dismissed as “silly” or “jokes.” The best defense came from a more seasoned progressive politician, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York), who laughingly told ABC News’ Jonathan Karl that “Woke 1 was crazy!”

Note that I did not say it was a good defense.

But it is apparently the best the establishment can muster, the credo of the post-bachelor party hangover: “Whew, things got a little out of hand, but what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right?”

Well, no, it doesn’t, which is why conservatives pounced on Hong with such glee. She reawakened the rage they felt during those years of speech-policing, social media mobs and peremptory firings.

Their fury will not abate until there’s some reckoning with the cruelty and caprice of that era. The Democratic establishment’s hope that we can all just quietly agree to pretend it never happened is insufferably naive. After all, when President Donald Trump leaves office, and conservatives try to memory-hole his abuses and their shameful complicity, is the left prepared to let bygones be bygones? Because I’m sure not. Years of justifiable outrage will not, and should not, dissipate overnight.

It’s only natural for both sides of the culture wars to long for some justice, not just to satisfy their personal pique but to ensure that there is no Woke 2.0 or Trump sequel. That said, you can want a reckoning without expecting one.

And you should be mindful of the cost of trying to bring one about.

Republicans run on old tweets and transgender sports and spend too much time in office trying to defund and defang left-coded institutions, rather than solving problems. Democrats run on “saving democracy” and expropriating billionaires, then pour their political hearts into investigations and prosecutions.

This may work in a primary or in places that are very red or very blue, but it’s a lousy strategy in swing states and nationwide elections. For that matter, Hong couldn’t even win her primary, and that same night, election denier Mike Lindell went down in the Minnesota Republican gubernatorial primary.

There’s a ray of hope in that, but only a flicker, since both candidates were unusually inept.

The furious bases of the two parties will have more opportunities to nominate passionate ideologues who will at best go on to lose their general elections and at worst further destabilize American politics.

I doubt their anger will ebb soon, and I won’t even argue that it should. Sometimes you have to accept that your anger may be justified, but that doesn’t mean it can be satisfied. And once you figure that out, it’s often best to put it aside and talk about something else.

Megan McArdle is on X, @asymmetricinfo.

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But for now, the law has taken effect. Some school systems quickly put up the posters. Others remained wary. But Gov. Jeff Landry directed districts to comply, arguing that students will “greatly benefit” from seeing the posters in school.

The Louisiana Family Forum, a conservative group that says the Ten Commandments are a cornerstone of Western civilization that all students should be exposed to, donated some 55,000 posters. And state Attorney General Liz Murrill, whose office created poster templates and guidance, promised to defend the law against any additional challenges.

After attracting national media coverage and stoking a debate over religious liberty and church-state separation, the posters went up in most Louisiana classrooms without incident, according to school district officials and teachers. Some school systems sought to forestall controversy by installing the posters over the summer.

St. Tammany Parish Superintendent Jabbia said he had been “extremely nervous” about the rollout, adding that he wants students of all religious backgrounds to feel welcome in school. But he said he was relieved to find that students and staffers seem to have taken the posters in stride.

“I think everybody understands it’s a state law at this point,” he said, “and they’re just moving forward.”

Though the displays haven’t created an uproar in schools, they still upset some students and educators, who argue that the law promotes Christianity and restricts religious freedom.

A few teachers said they covered up the posters or

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Some 55,000 of the Ten Commandments posters, like this one hanging in a Lafayette Parish public school, came from the Louisiana Family Forum, an influential advocacy group that says it promotes biblical principles. took them down.

A low-key rollout Most of the Ten Commandments posters now hanging in Louisiana’s public schools came from the Louisiana Family Forum, an influential advocacy group that says it promotes biblical principles.

The organization spent nearly $100,000 in donated funds and in-kind contributions to print and deliver the posters to every public college and school system in the state, said Gene Mills, the group’s president. The nonprofit used the four poster designs created by Murrill’s office, including one with an image of Moses and a photo of U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson alongside the Ten Commandments.

“Don’t kill or steal shouldn’t be controversial,” Murrill said in a statement. “Louisiana public schools should follow the law.”

Some districts distributed the donated posters to schools this summer, along with instructions based on Murrill’s guidance.

The East Baton Rouge Parish school system told principals in a June memo to make sure the posters are “clearly visible to all students from their desks.” The Jefferson Parish school district had principals sign a document verifying that they received the posters, which they were told to install in classrooms “before teachers arrive on campus.”

In St. Tammany Parish, some School Board members

objected to Murrill’s designs, particularly the one depicting Moses and Johnson. But while the board seeks other options, the district told schools to use the donated posters, said Jabbia.

Some resistance Some classrooms have yet to put up the posters, though it’s not clear that state or local officials are checking.

In New Orleans, the school district distributed the donated posters it received to more than 75 campuses, a NOLA Public Schools spokesperson said. Several charter school leaders said they hung up the posters, but a few said they are waiting on additional shipments.

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implementation. The board has added the Ten Commandments mandate to the policies schools must adhere to.

But a state Department of Education spokesperson said there is not a reporting requirement or an enforcement mechanism in either the law or the board policy.

Brant Osborn, president of the St. Tammany teachers union, said teachers still should comply.

“They’re not going to come lock you up,” he said. “But they might write you up.”

The U.S. Supreme Court struck down a similar Kentucky law in 1980, but in recent years the court’s conservative majority has been more open to religious displays in public spaces.

Many legal observers expect the high court to eventually weigh in on Louisiana’s law or a nearly identical one in Texas, which the 5th Circuit recently upheld.

Louisiana’s statute requires the posters to include a statement explaining that some early American textbooks featured the Ten Commandments.

But teachers will have to navigate student questions about the commandments, including the prohibition on adultery and coveting a neighbor’s “manservant” or “maidservant.” Older students might ask how the law squares with the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious freedom.

Abed, the Jefferson Parish student, said students in her art class began discussing the poster as soon as they spotted it. Abed, who is Muslim, said she considers the display an endorsement of Christianity that doesn’t belong in public schools.

“Schools aren’t a place of worship,” she said, “so why do we have the Ten Commandments on every wall?”

Mills said the law is clear.

“Once the lawsuit was settled,” he said. “there was no longer any questions as to what the statute requires.”

Staff writer Charles Lussier contributed reporting.

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BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

When Darren Heitner woke up and checked his phone Thursday, he was puzzled by one of the first things he saw.

Heitner, a Florida-based attorney, is one of the top legal experts in sports. Recently, he’s been helping college basketball players obtain extra years of eligibility and maintaining an active presence on X, where he weighs in on legal issues in sports — cases such as the one that flashed across his screen that morning.

“My initial reaction was, ‘Is this a real story?’ ” he said.

Yes, it was. An attorney repre-

senting Jayden Daniels had sent LSU a cease-and-desist letter, demanding the school refrain from “any further use, display, publication, distribution, promotion, commercialization or other exploitation of” his name, image and likeness. The letter was sent on Aug. 5, the day the Tigers opened their first set of preseason practices under coach Lane Kiffin.

Daniels sent the cease-and-desist letter because LSU had given his No. 5 jersey number to sophomore cornerback DJ Pickett. The former Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback was “deeply disappointed and feels profoundly disrespected” by that decision, a Daniels spokesperson told ESPN.

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He and his family “had every reason to believe” the Tigers would no longer issue the number out of respect for what Daniels had accomplished in Baton Rouge.

But former coach Brian Kelly and his staff had once promised Pickett that he could wear No. 5.

Kiffin decided to grant that wish once he took over the program, putting LSU at odds with one of its greatest players.

What exactly is Daniels trying to accomplish? And does LSU have to do anything differently now because he sent the letter?

The Advocate asked four lawyers who practice intellectual

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Team shares platform to help find marrow donor, expand donor registry

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

In so many ways, 11-year-old Cate Hargett was just like any other kid in the stands watching the New Orleans Saints go through a joint practice against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday afternoon.

Her eyes lit up when she saw the big NFL players up close, and she was filled with the kind of bouncy energy kids of her age possess, hitting a pre-planned touchdown dance on request.

But Cate is not like other kids in one specific area. In fact, she’s not like many people at all. And that was why she and her family were there Thursday.

Cate has what is known as telomere biology disorder, a rare genetic condition that causes mutations in the telomeres, which serve as a sort of cap for chromosomes.

“We’ve known since Cate was about 2 months old that she has bone marrow failure, which means her marrow just doesn’t produce all the blood cells it needs for her to stay healthy,” said Jenni Hargett, Cate’s mother.

Jenni said Cate has been treated as a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, for most of her life. She has undergone extensive genetic testing in her 11 years, but doctors could never isolate what the issue was — until Cate participated in a clinical study at the National Institutes of Health in Maryland this summer, where they found the gene at the root of Cate’s illness.

“It’s a previously unknown inherited bone marrow failure syndrome,” Jenni Hargett said. “They know, worldwide, of about 20 patients that have it. We had hoped that by finding the gene and the cause it would give us a direction, a better way to treat.

But instead, the scientists, the researchers,

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new orleans Saints kicker Tanner Brown kicks the ball during a preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday at the Caesars Superdome.

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Some position battles add intrigue after Saints’ preseason opener

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four outings — including two days in which he sailed three attempts in each session.

The struggles undoubtedly have tightKellen Moore indicated he still has faith in Charlie Smyth. ened the Saints’ kicking competition. And The New Orleans Saints coach believes the kicker has been against the Jaguars, former UFL standout in the NFL long enough to understand that “inevitably” a Tanner Brown nailed both of his attempts miss is going to happen. from 49 and 29 yards. Throughout training “You just keep hanging in there,” Moore said. camp and the preseason, Smyth is now 35 Smyth, in his third year with the Saints, has of 44 (including extra points), while Brown Analysis no other choice. The Ireland native missed is 35 of 40.

Smyth a 52-yard field goal in Saturday’s 24-20 pre“Keep going, keep going,” Moore said season loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars, marking the latest when asked about where the battle goes from here. “Both sign the 25-year-old is in a bit of a slump at the moment.

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‘Real one’ Mosley reaches out in community

BY ROD WALKER Staff writer

Jaron Pierre smiled as he glanced over at Jamahl Mosley reclined in a chair getting his beard trimmed at the Washington Academy of Barbering and Arts in New Orleans East.

Pierre, drafted by the New Orleans Pelicans in June, was born and raised in this city. So he knows what it means for his STAFF PHoTo By EnAn CHEdIAK hometown to have his head coach spendnew orleans Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley reacts ing three hours last Tuesday afternoon doto a child’s haircut on Tuesday at Washington ing what he was doing.

“Coach Mosley is a real one,” Pierre Academy of Barbering Arts.

said. “It just tells you that he wants to be involved in the community. You can tell it’s something he’s been doing his whole life.”

Mosley was one of the last people to sit in one of the barber chairs Tuesday.

The first 21/ 2 hours was for 30 local school-aged kids. They received free haircuts, free book bags and free words of encouragement as they prepared to return to school. The day included everything from Mosley playing Uno with the kids to him just handing out life lessons.

Mosley is committed to being involved in more than just what goes on inside the

Smoothie King Center during the NBA season. What happens outside the building is important to him, too. He talked about it during his introductory news conference in May. “One of the biggest things that I believe in is the community,” Mosley said that day.

“How to be more involved, how to change lives — not just on the basketball court, but off the court. We’re on this court for a short period of time, but the legacy that we leave is more than the court.”

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Southern Lab hires King as boys basketball coach

Southern Lab has tapped Kirkland King to be the school’s next boys basketball coach.

The Kittens announced the move Saturday in a news release.

King is an alumnus of Southern Lab. King won a state title as a player for the Kittens in 1993. He was inducted into the school’s basketball hall of fame in 2010. He was an assistant coach on the Southern Lab boys basketball team when the Kittens won a state title in 2023.

King played college basketball at UConn from 1993-97 after graduating from Southern Lab. He succeeds Harold Boudreaux, who left the Kittens to become the coach for Port Allen boys basketball.

Southern Lab finished 16-13 last season and was runner-up in the Division IV select state tournament.

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Former Los Angeles dodgers pitcher Tommy John praises the late dr. Frank Jobe during a memorial service at dodger Stadium on April 7, 2014.

John died on Sunday at the age of 83.

Surgery namesake Tommy John dies He was first MLB pitcher to return after elbow procedure

BY BETH HARRIS AP sportswriter

LOS ANGELES — Tommy John, who won 288 games during a 26-year big league career and became the first pitcher to successfully return after groundbreaking elbow surgery that later was named after him, has died. He was 83.

He died at his home in Bradenton, Florida, on Saturday night, agent Mike Maguire said Sunday.

He had been in hospice care.

On Aug. 8, the New York Yankees released a social media post in which John wrote that he wanted to say goodbye to everyone, including friends and fans who followed him throughout his career, saying, “I will never forget you.”

The Yankees called John “a bedrock of our rotation during his time in pinstripes and a longtime favorite of Yankees fans.”

John was a four-time All-Star with a record of 288-231 and a 3.34 ERA during a career that stretched from 1963-89. He pitched for Cleveland, the Chicago White Sox, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Yankees, the California Angels and the Oakland Athletics.

“Tommy was an exceptional

pitcher throughout his career in Major League Baseball, and his courageous role in becoming the first to have surgery that would go on to bear his name can’t be overstated,” Stan Kasten, Dodgers president and CEO, said in a statement. “His impact both on and off the field has been felt by ballplayers of all ages and will be for generations to come.”

The left-hander was 31 years old when he tore the ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow in 1974, a death knell for pitchers’ careers to that point.

John allowed Dr. Frank Jobe, the Dodgers’ team physician, to replace the ligament with a tendon from his right forearm. Jobe gave the surgery 100-to-1 odds of being successful.

The procedure had been done on others before, although it was usually performed on wrists and hands. John was the first pitcher to have it done on his elbow.

More than 2,600 big-leaguers and thousands more amateurs have since had UCL reconstructions, better known as Tommy John surgery. It’s been a godsend for many of baseball’s greatest stars, including twoway sensation Shohei Ohtani, three-time Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander and even Philadelphia Phillies slugger Bryce Harper.

“If you put it in dollars and

cents, I think there’s no question that Tommy John is the most valuable reconstructive procedure there is,” Dodgers team physician Dr. Neal ElAttrache said in 2024.

John recorded 2,245 strikeouts but never led either league in wins or strikeouts. He had the secondmost wins of any pitcher since 1900 not to be elected to the Hall of Fame.

From 1995 through 2009, John was on the Hall of Fame ballot, but he never received more than 31.7% of the votes, falling well short of the 75% required for election.

“Tommy was a wonderful person who competed to the utmost and did what no player had ever done to save his career, in conjunction with the esteemed Dr. Frank Jobe,” former Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti posted on X. “The HOF is missing Tommy John.”

Known for his longevity, John was the opening day starter for both the 1966 Chicago White Sox and the 1989 New York Yankees. He won 124 games before his UCL repair and 164 after. His final appearance came days after his 46th birthday.

In 1974 while with the Dogers, John had a 13-3 record and led the National League in victories going into the All-Star break. He was pitching against the Montreal Expos when he permanently damaged the UCL in his left arm. After a month, the injury had not improved.

During the four-hour surgery

on Sept. 25, 1974, Jobe made holes in the humerus and ulna bones of John’s left arm and used anchors to insert the tendon in a figureeight pattern.

At first, John’s left hand was shriveled and he lacked feeling in several of his fingers because of damage to the ulnar nerve. Jobe performed a second procedure to re-route the nerve that was necessary to John’s full recovery.

John’s arm was in a cast for four months. He had recovered the full range of motion in his left arm by spring training of 1975 and spent that season resting, healing and rebuilding strength in his arm.

That September he made five appearances during an offseason instructional league, working his way up to seven innings by his final game.

He resumed pitching for the Dodgers in 1976 as the fourth starter in their rotation. John made 31 start, posting a 10-10 record, a 3.09 ERA, 91 strikeouts, 61 walks and 207 hits allowed in 207 innings.

John donated the original cast from his surgery to the Smithsonian Institution in June 2022. His teammates on the 1974 Dodgers signed it, as well as Jobe and the team’s Hall of Fame announcer Vin Scully.

The procedure has become so widely known that in 2019, Merriam-Webster added the term to its dictionary.

Scheffler opens PGA postseason in dominant form

BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Scottie Scheffler was back to his dominant form Sunday, turning a two-shot lead into a runaway in the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He closed with a 4-under 66 for an eight-shot victory, the largest in the 68-year history at the TPC Southwind.

Scheffler ended nearly seven months without winning, a season that has been marked by astonishing consistency but only one trophy to show for it from his season opener at The American Express in the California desert.

This was only close for a fleeting moment. After months of little things getting in the way, Scheffler hit a bunker shot on the par5 third that would have settled a few feet away for a tap-in birdie.

But it landed on a sprinkler head, took a hard hop and rolled through the green into the water for bogey.

“I was like, ‘Man, when is this going to stop happening?’ ” Scheffler said.

That shrunk his lead to one shot over Sungjae Im. Then Scheffler made consecutive birdie putts on the fifth and sixth holes and was on his way. Playing in the final group in stifling heat and the most wind all week, Scheffler matched the best score Sunday.

He finished at 17-under 263, eight shots clear of his Dallas

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Scottie Scheffler, right, celebrates with caddie Ted Scott on the 18th green after winning the St. Jude Championship on Sunday in Memphis, Tenn. Scheffler won by eight strokes. neighbor Si Woo Kim, who closed with a 68. The previous record was John Cook winning at TPC Southwind by seven shots in 1996.

Scheffler now has 21 career victories on the PGA Tour, 10 of them by four shots or more.

Sam Burns, one of Scheffler’s best friends in golf, played with him in the final group and took double bogey on the par-5 third hole. He shot 73 and tied for third

with Alex Noren (69).

“I don’t think it would have mattered if I played well,” Burns said.

“He was going to be tough to beat today.”

Scheffler won $3.6 million from the prize fund, and he clinched an additional $23 million in bonus money for being No. 1 in the FedEx Cup through next week’s BMW Championship. No one can catch him. No one is particularly

close in the game at the moment, even when he’s not piling up trophies.

Scheffler now has two victories, five runner-up finishes and five other top-four finishes in another stellar year that until Sunday was marked by his lack of winning compared with previous years. The TPC Southwind was the course he had played the most times without winning, and the FedEx Cup playoffs opener had been the only postseason tournament he had yet to win. All that changed.

Im wound up with a 75 to tie for fifth, but it was enough for the South Korean to move from No. 53 into the top 50 who advance to the BMW Championship next week in St. Louis. Im kept alive his chances of reaching the Tour Championship every year since he was a rookie in 2019.

Im bumped out Keith Mitchell, who stood in the water left of the 18th fairway to play a shot from the bank as he tried to give himself his best chance. That shot tumbled into the water, he made bogey and narrowly missed out.

So did Jordan Spieth, who needed to close with four pars to reach the BMW Championship for the first time since 2023, but finished with a bogey from the water on No. 15 and three pars for a 70.

The top 50 who advance also are assured of playing all the $20 million signature events next year.

Team TKN is on top again.

The duo of former LSU beach volleyball All-Americans Kristen (Nuss) Cruz and Taryn (Kloth) Brasher won their third straight title Sunday in the AVP Manhattan Beach Open in California. They defeated fellow Americans Kelly Cheng and Megan Kraft 21-18, 2116 in the final. Cruz and Brasher did not drop a set in any of their six tournament matches.

The 2024 Olympians are the first women’s duo to win three straight Manhattan Beach titles since threetime Olympic gold medalists MistyMay Treanor and Kerry Walsh-Jennings won four in a row from 2005-08.

Coming into the weekend, they were tied for third in the world rankings and have three other international wins this season in addition to the AVP tour.

Commanders backup QB Mariota sprains an MCL

Washington Commanders backup quarterback Marcus Mariota has a sprained medial collateral ligament in his right knee, coach Dan Quinn confirmed Sunday.

Mariota, 32, will miss the remainder of the preseason, but Quinn is “optimistic that he’ll be ready for the start of the regular season.”

Mariota was injured during Washington’s preseason opener against Miami on Friday night.

Starter Jayden Daniels did not play against the Dolphins.

Quinn said the Commanders don’t plan on bringing in another quarterback at this time. The only other QBs on the roster are Sam Hartman and rookie Athan Kaliakmanis.

Djokovic taken down

by Tirante in first round

MASON, Ohio — Novak Djokovic’s stay at the Cincinnati Open was a short one.

The 24-time major champion fell to Thiago Agustin Tirante 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 on Saturday in a match that took 2 hours, 44 minutes in hot and humid conditions.

A 25-year-old from Argentina, Tirante is ranked No. 50 in the world. Djokovic — a three-time Cincinnati champion and No. 5 in the rankings — was playing for the first time since his loss to topranked Jannik Sinner in the semifinals at Wimbledon.

Djokovic appeared to struggle physically in the heat and had his 10-match winning streak in Cincinnati snapped. The 39-year-old told reporters that an unspecified health condition made it difficult for him to play in hot and humid weather.

Englishman Whaley beats Leng to win U.S. Amateur

ARDMORE, Pa. — Jack Whaley of England used double gloves, needed an umbrella and was stung by a wasp at rainy Merion Golf Club and still pushed through to hold off Jay Leng to win the U.S. Amateur on Sunday.

The 22-year-old English amateur sank his final putt to clinch the 36hole final 4 and 3.

Whaley made a rapid rise from NAIA star to Florida State to amateur champion. He now has an exemption into the 2027 U.S. Open, the 2027 British Open at St. Andrews and the Masters, should he remain an amateur.

Whaley won the seventh U.S. Amateur held at Merion and is the first English amateur to win since Matt Fitzpatrick at Brookline in 2013.

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Continued from page 1B the doctors, they’re going to learn from patients like Cate that are the first to come through with it.”

While Cate and her family are navigating their journey, they also hope to help people who are going through something similar by raising awareness and increasing the number of people in the National Marrow Donor Program registry.

That was why the Hargett family was at Saints camp Thursday, and it is why players such as Saints guard Dillon Radunz offered his time and platform to get the word out.

Radunz was one of several players from both the Saints and Jaguars who made time to visit with Cate after practice Thursday, but he also submitted his own sample to the donor program — a simple process that required him to swab his cheeks for 30 seconds.

“Obviously it’s heartbreaking,” Radunz said. “Any of these diseases that pop up and need a lot of research, need a lot of help, obviously it’s sad, and it’s more sad when it happens to children who are completely innocent. You hear about a story like that and you immediately want to help.

“Anything to promote this, to promote people being registered to be donors to help people like Cate, I want to do my part to help.”

One of the main obstacles the Hargetts have encountered is education. When people think about bone marrow, they assume the donor process will be difficult or time-consuming.

“It’s a 30-second cheek swab on each side,” Jenni Hargett said.

“Then if they’re called to donate — and it’s rare to be matched with a patient — but if you are matched, that process is like donating plasma. It’s an afternoon. It’s no longer the invasive process that it was years ago.

“Once people know, it’s an easy yes.”

Because of Cate’s situation, she needs a 100% match from a donor to have the best chance of surviving the disease.

Cate’s parents work as a school-

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Saints offensive lineman dillon Radunz poses with Cate Hargett, 11, after a joint practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars on Thursday in Metairie.

“It’s a 30-second cheek swab on each side. ... If you are matched, that process is like donating plasma. It’s an afternoon. It’s no longer the invasive process that it was years ago.”

JEnnI HARGETT, mother of Cate Hargett, on joining the marrow donation registry teacher and farmer in Greenwood, Mississippi. Neither has a large social media following to get the word out. Still, because of organizations such as the Saints sharing their megaphone, Jenni Hargett said they’ve been able to add almost 10,000 people to the donor registry since they began searching for a match in December of last year.

Jenni Hargett described herself as someone who leans toward being cynical, but she said this process has restored her faith in humanity.

“I’ve heard directly from eight people who have been called as matches for other patients — those are patients that otherwise would not get a life-saving stem cell transplant,” Jenni Hargett said. “So it’s really been a beautiful thing to be a part of that.

“We’re obviously ready to find Cate’s match and be able to breathe a little easier, but it has been really amazing to know this has grown into something that is helping so many people.”

Those who are interested in joining the donor registry can find more information at my.nmdp.org/ join.

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an average of 5.6 yards per attempt.

The unfortunate part is Estime got hurt. He left early with an ankle injury, which Moore said was being further evaluated. Does that open the door for Ty Chandler? The former Vikings running back also has had a solid camp and dazzled with an 86-yard kickoff return to open the Jaguars game.

Continued from page 1B of those guys, I am proud of those guys. You go through some bumps sometimes, and you just keep going. Just keep going through training camp and through this preseason.”

Here are the other positions most affected by what happened on the field Saturday.

Wide receiver

Quarterback Will Zach Wilson get an opportunity with the second team?

After Wilson outplayed Spencer Rattler, Moore was noncommittal about whether Wilson would see reps with the second unit rather than the third. Moore did reveal that the starters likely won’t play in next week’s preseason game against the Los Angeles Rams, creating an opportunity for him to swap Rattler for Wilson if the coach decides to shake things up.

The Saints have said there’s a competition taking place for backup quarterback, but Rattler and Wilson have yet to rotate reps since camp began July 29. Wilson’s performance against Jacksonville showed that it could be worth exploring.

The former second overall pick went 11-of-16 passing for 145 yards and a touchdown, while Rattler mustered only 42 yards on

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property, sports and NIL law to weigh in on the unusual case.

Put No. 5 aside No, Daniels does not have a legal right to the No. 5, and he cannot prevent LSU from issuing it to one of its players. That’s not what his cease-and-desist action is demanding of the school.

Daniels can exercise his legal right to stop LSU from using his name, image and likeness (NIL) in certain ways. David Fleshman, a former LSU basketball player who now practices sports law in Baton Rouge, said the school could expose itself to a potential lawsuit if it uses Daniels’ NIL in a “very clear commercial purpose.”

“It’s not a blanket prohibition against any use of his name, image and likeness,” Fleshman said. “It’s only the commercial use.”

LSU had an agreement with Daniels that, presumably, outlined the ways in which the school could use his NIL after he moved on to

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new orleans Saints running back Ty Chandler, center, runs the opening kickoff back 86 yards during a preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday at the Caesars Superdome.

8-of-11 passing. Rattler was also sacked twice, one of which led to a fumble that Jacksonville recovered inside the Saints 10-yard line.

Devin Neal (hamstring) need to make sure they’re doing all they can to return to the practice field sooner rather than later because the battle to become the third runRunning back ning back arguably has intensified Moore might not have quite the more than any other position in same philosophy as former Saints camp.

Audric Estime followed a strong coach Dennis Allen, who would often say that a player can’t make week of practice with a 9-yard the team if they’re stuck in the touchdown on his first run against Jacksonville. Estime finished with training room.

But Kendre Miller (back) and 28 yards on five carries, good for

the NFL. Adam Kenner, Daniels’ attorney, referenced that contract at the top of the cease-and-desist letter, where he said that LSU had a 180-day “grace period” in which it could use Daniels’ NIL after his collegiate career ended.

It’s unclear what exactly the deal allowed LSU to do with Daniels’ NIL both before and after the grace period ended, something Tulane law professor Gabe Feldman pointed out after he was asked what he thought Daniels was trying to accomplish.

“The question is,” Feldman said, “what are the specifics of the contract they had? What did it allow them to do? What did it not allow them to do, and then, more importantly, maybe, what did they actually do? What is he complaining about?”

Feldman suggested Daniels could be “stating a legitimate claim,” but because his attorney did not offer specific evidence that LSU had violated the terms of the contract, then the letter he sent could merely could be an example of “public posturing.”

Heitner echoed that sentiment.

He said it was “rather sloppy”

for Daniels’ lawyer to make those claims and demands “without any legal basis whatsoever.”

“It seems like it’s retaliatory,” Heitner said. “It’s purely a reaction to not getting his way with respect to retirement of his jersey number.”

What has to change?

The short answer is not much.

LSU does not have to scrub Daniels from its record book, and it can keep displaying images of him in Tiger Stadium, its football operations building and other parts of campus.

If LSU wants to sell Daniels’ jersey, though, it could run into some problems. Fleshman said that use likely would be a black-and-white violation of Daniels’ NIL rights.

“The gray area, I would say,” he said, “is really around how is this video, how is this image or how is this highlight video being used?”

The purpose matters. Feldman thinks LSU can use photos and videos of Daniels in TV commercials; radio, print or streaming ads; and social media posts so long as they’re being used only to promote the football program.

The race for WR4 is wide open.

Barion Brown (four catches, 53 yards) and Kevin Austin (three catches, 24 yards) could be the most logical candidates to fill that spot, though neither delivered the kind of statement against Jacksonville to say the battle has reached a conclusion.

There’s also rookie Bryce Lance, who didn’t play Saturday because he’s been dealing with “bumps and bruises.”

The Saints don’t have a clear fourth receiver after Ja’Lynn Polk retired earlier in camp. And if rookie Jordyn Tyson, who is dealing with a hamstring injury, has to miss significant time, whoever wins that job likely will be elevated to the third receiver behind Chris Olave and Devaughn Vele.

There’s also a question of how many receivers the Saints keep.

Bub Means (four catches, 77 yards) made a case that he’s deserving of a spot, but there might not be room if the Saints have only

Things get murkier if LSU football attaches one of its corporate sponsors to images of Daniels.

“Let’s say they have a signed football,” Feldman said, “and then they put a picture of that signed football in an ad for something.

Then you can say, ‘Well, maybe they’re now using it for commercial purposes.’ ” Could promoting LSU athletics be a commercial purpose? Kansas City attorney Mit Winter, a lawyer who practices sports law and intellectual property law, thinks Daniels could have a right to object if the Tigers use his likeness in basic promotional materials.

Therein lies the gray area.

“If they wanted to keep using his NIL to promote LSU athletics,” Winter said, “they would need to enter into another agreement with him for that, and presumably Jayden Daniels would ask for some money to do that. That’s just an assumption on my part.”

five wideouts on their initial 53man roster. And even if the Saints keep six receivers, Means would have to beat out someone like Austin, who is ahead of him in the pecking order as of now.

Elsewhere, Ronnie Bell (zero catches, one target) surprisingly had a quiet night given he had been having a productive camp.

And Jalen Cropper (three catches, 49 yards) found his way to the ball, despite limited reps in practice.

Linebacker The Saints made a statement by who they didn’t play. Beyond shelving their starters, New Orleans also withheld a few key backups — including second-year linebacker Danny Stutsman.

Stutsman has been competing with Pete Werner for a starting spot opposite Kaden Elliss, and it’s worth wondering whether the decision to rest Stutsman indicates that battle is truly neck-and-neck.

Fourth-year linebacker Jaylan Ford also has taken occasional reps with the first team, and he made sure not to be forgotten with a standout performance against the Jaguars.

Ford had seven tackles and an interception, picking off Jacksonville quarterback Nick Mullens in the red zone.

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jerseys available for purchase.

That small change could be the only tangible thing that comes as a result of Daniels’ cease-and-desist letter, the four lawyers said.

That, and the possibility that other schools across the country use the case to reexamine the ways they’re using their former players’ NIL rights.

“I wouldn’t recommend betting on this,” Feldman said, “but if I were to choose a side, I would say right now it looks like LSU, probably, has very little to worry about.”

Fleshman and Heitner agree.

They’re both surprised that Daniels and his camp even took the unusual step, a move that had Heitner questioning if he had fallen for a fake news story on social media.

“Unless LSU had plans to embark on some sort of massive commercial effort to sell a product or service in association with Jayden Daniels’ name, image or likeness,” What’s next? he said, “this is all a very pointless As of Sunday, LSU still lists some exercise.” signed Daniels’ merchandise for sale on LSUshop.net, but it does Email Reed Darcey at reed. not appear to have any Daniels darcey@theadvocate.com.

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Sanders’ turn to start in Browns’ QB competition

BY JOE REEDY AP sportswriter

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By BRynn AndERSon

Indiana Fever guard Caitlin Clark dribbles the ball in the second half of a game against the Atlanta dream on Sunday in Atlanta.

Fever picks up big win over Dream, Reese

BY CHARLES ODUM AP sportswriter

ATLANTA — After the Indiana Fever’s fourth straight win, Caitlin Clark said coach Stephanie White “made a great point” in her postgame talk with the team by saying it felt like a playoff game.

If so, the Fever looked playoffready in its 95-91 overtime win over the Atlanta Dream on Sunday.

The Fever showed impressive depth with four players scoring 18 or more points. Perhaps of more importance, Indiana responded to a major challenge from an Atlanta team that began the day one-half game behind the Fever for the important fourth-place spot in the playoff standings. The top four teams receive home-court advantage in the first round.

“Coming into each night, we know how important that win is to hopefully get home-court advantage in the playoffs,” Clark said.

Atlanta led 72-64 entering the

fourth quarter. Indiana held the Dream to nine points in the final period of regulation.

“Just proud of our group,” Clark said. “Super resilient. Obviously, this was a big one.”

Clark scored 26 points with nine assists. After scoring only five points in the first half, Kelsey Mitchell had an important layup late in overtime to finish with 20 points. It was Mitchell’s 19th consecutive game scoring at least 20.

“Kelsey struggled from the floor in the first half, and she found it in the second half,” White said.

“I think that’s part of her growth, which is knowing to stay with it, that it’s going to come.”

White said Clark and Mitchell “were both terrific” and said Clark was effective in creating scoring opportunities for her teammates.

“The way that she’s getting us into offense, the way she’s using the floor to give her teammates shots ... she’s allowing the game to flow, and she’s doing a great job

of finding her teammates in that,” White said. “The way she does that, it opens things up for her.”

Makayla Timpson delivered Indiana’s first three field goals of overtime to score a career-high 20 points. Aliyah Boston added 18 points with 14 rebounds.

Clark said Atlanta — which had 32 points from Allisha Gray, and 15 points with 14 rebounds from Angel Reese — “is a team that will be scary in the playoffs. They’re great at what they do. They have a lot of different weapons.”

The Dream also had the support of a sellout crowd of 17,044 at State Farm Arena, the home of the NBA’s Atlanta Hawks and also the usual site of Dream games when Clark and the Fever are in town.

“For us, these are the games you get up for, that’s what’s fun about competition,” Clark said. “You know, you want to play the best.

It brings out the best in you. Obviously, that’s been a challenge and we’re really good at that.”

Kittle points toward Week 1 return

BY JOSH DUBOW

AP pro football writer SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle said he expects to come off the physically unable to perform list before the start of the season and remains hopeful that his surgically repaired Achilles tendon will be healthy enough for him to play in Week 1.

Kittle tore his right Achilles on Jan. 11 in a playoff win at Philadelphia and is hoping to be back at practice in time to play Week 1 on Sept. 11 in Australia against the Los Angeles Rams.

“I have a chance,” Kittle said Sunday. “We’re running around a lot, hitting top speeds. Hopefully we’re back in pads practicing sooner than later. Just trying to check the boxes and not be (dumb) is what I would say.”

Kittle has made an impressive recovery over the past seven months and has been working out on the side at practice while he remains on the PUP list. Kittle said he expects to come off that list before rosters are cut to 53 players on Aug. 30 so he won’t have to miss the first four games of the season.

The Niners are set to leave for Australia on Sept. 2, and Kittle said he wouldn’t expect to make the long flight unless the team plans to play him against the Rams. The first step will be coming off the PUP list and practicing with his teammates.

“Hopefully I’m in pads sooner than later, because I don’t want my first time to be in pads traveling in Australia,” he said. “Because I just don’t think that’d be a very smart idea. These next couple of weeks will let me

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By KELLEy L. CoX

San Francisco 49ers tight end George Kittle waves before a preseason game against the Tennessee Titans on Thursday in Santa Clara, Calif. know if I’m ready to play Week 1 or not.”

Kittle said the grueling process that he described as “the most boring rehab in the entire world” was made easier once Dr. Neal ElAttrache told him early on that Week 1 was a possibility, with Kittle saying that helped “light a fire” for him.

He also knows not to push too hard to prevent a setback.

“I want to play in every football game that I possibly can play in,” he said. “But I’m also aware it’s an 18-week season, and so hey, if you miss Week 1 and you’re playing Week 2, it is what it is. I’m just going keep that as my goal and then we’ll adjust from there if we need to.”

Kittle is a two-time All-Pro and seven-time Pro Bowler who is a key part of the San Francisco of-

fense as a passing threat and a blocker in the run game. He had 57 catches for 628 yards receiving and seven touchdowns last season.

He also brings an infectious positivity that inspires his teammates and has helped his speedy recovery.

“That’s how he lives his life,” offensive coordinator Klay Kubiak said. “That’s how he goes by his every day, and you got to appreciate that about him. To me, that’s what’s going to make him get back from his injury and be himself again is because he has the right mindset.

He attacks every day with positivity, that he’s progressing and he’s healing. Just seeing him out there just with the trainers working out, he looks great, and I’m excited to see kind of how he progresses over these next few weeks and where we’re at.”

CLEVELAND — Deshaun Watson made the most of his opportunity this past week to show he should be the Cleveland Browns starting quarterback when the season opens on Sept. 13 against Jacksonville.

The upcoming week will be Shedeur Sanders’ turn.

“I did feel going into the last game that it was relatively close in terms of both having an opportunity at the starting position, so it would be unfair to not go into the next Sanders game and give Shedeur that same opportunity,” coach Todd Monken said Sunday.

“Albeit a different team, certainly at home. There’s no guarantee the same players will be playing in this game, but it’s the closest you have, and we owe it to both players, who have handled it well and competed at a high level.”

Sanders will start and play the first half of Saturday’s game against Buffalo, as well as take snaps with the first team on Monday and Wednesday. Watson will be with the first unit on Tuesday and play the third quarter Saturday.

Both quarterbacks will take snaps with the starters during Thursday’s joint workout with the Bills. Monken said the snaps both players are getting are “pretty balanced at this point, within reason.”

Watson played six series in a 34-10 loss to the Chicago Bears.

He led the Browns to a field goal and touchdown on the second and third drives, completing 8 of 9 passes for 102 yards.

The 10-year veteran was 3 of 6 for 24 yards on his last three series, including 0 for 2 during a twominute drill late in the first half.

Watson also had more consistent

pressure in the pocket with the Browns taking out their starting offensive line after two series.

However, for his first playing time in 22 months, Watson had a solid 98.2 passer rating while going 11 of 15 for 126 yards.

“It was good to be able to move around, run around and be in live action, other guys trying to hit me and be confident with it. So the work has definitely been put in,” Watson said after Saturday’s game.

Sanders went 6 of 11 for 79 yards with an interception and a 39.6 passer rating in three possessions.

Sanders, who started the final seven games last season, had a 24-yard completion to Gage Larvadain on his first snap and later found Luke Floriea for a 35-yard gain to the Bears 14.

Cleveland didn’t get points, though, when Ahmani Marshall was stopped on fourth and 1 at the 5.

Sanders’ worst throw was on the third series, when a pass intended for Malachi Corley was overthrown and picked off by Beanie Bishop at the Bears 30 and returned 34 yards into Cleveland territory.

“I just didn’t execute, but the right decision was made,” Sanders said after the game. “Turning the ball over and all that stuff is not great, and you won’t survive a long time in the league doing that. But as long as my eyes, feet and everything were in the right place, being able to execute it, it just may happen.”

Monken hopes Sanders can bounce back this week, as he has throughout the offseason workouts.

“He’s improved so much. I mean he really has in terms of climbing the pocket and working through his progressions,” Monken said. “Even on the one he threw to 81 (Luke Floriea) in the slot, like he drifted too deep. We caught him in the blitz, but they weren’t even close. He created some of his own pressure.”

LATE SATURDAY

As NASCAR Chase nears, Logano is heating up again

BY NATE RYAN

Associated Press RICHMOND, Va. — Joey Logano delivered a warning to his NASCAR rivals after his victory Saturday night at Richmond Raceway.

“Don’t let the boys get hot,” the driver of Team Penske’s No. 22 Ford said after fending off a late charge by Chase Briscoe to earn his 39th career win by 0.392 seconds. “We’re Logano pretty strong right now. It’s awesome to see the speed in the 22 again.”

After falling as low as 20th in the points standings at the season’s halfway mark, the threetime Cup Series champion is surging toward the NASCAR Chase. Two races remain until the title run featuring the top 16 drivers.

With two victories in the past four races (after only one win in his previous 56 starts), Logano has jumped to ninth in the points standings and established himself as a championship contender again.

It’s no surprise given that it’s the 2026 season. Since 2014, Logano has either won the Cup title or advanced to the championship round in every even-numbered year, and he typically does it with a late-season spree. In his last title run, the 36-year-old won three of the final 10 races.

“We’ve seen it a lot over the years once he gets that confidence,” crew chief Paul Wolfe said. “He’s very good under pressure situations.”

Logano scored his third Richmond win Saturday but his first in nine years at the track.

“Gosh, it was a great car,” he said. “We’ve had a great car here the last five races, and we haven’t been able to capitalize on the win.

We’ve been so close, but it was sweet redemption today.”

Logano capitalized on the final strategy call by Wolfe, who pitted his driver just after taking the lead from Briscoe with 39 laps remaining. Logano needed only 15 laps to retake the lead from Christopher Bell, who was trying to stretch his tires to the finish on Richmond’s abrasive surface over the last 57 laps.

Briscoe led a race-high 171 of 400 laps. He had a best finish of 11th in nine previous starts at Richmond, one of only three active tracks where he had yet to score a top 10. After qualifying second, he passed pole-sitter Ryan Blaney on the first lap to lead the first lap of his career on the 0.75-mile oval.

“This place has been a real struggle to me,” said Briscoe, who clinched a spot in the Chase with his sixth top 10 in the past seven races. “To get close and not get it done is so frustrating. We had a great points night, but just frustrating to say the least to have one slip away like that at the end.”

Austin Cindric finished third and credited his teammate Logano with providing the advice that helped him score his best result since an April 2025 win at Talladega Superspeedway.

“This is a racetrack that I feel like Joey Logano could finish top five in my rental car,” Cindric said. “It’s a place where I study him so much.”

Denny Hamlin took fourth, followed by Chase Elliott, who notched his first top five since winning at Texas Motor Speedway three months ago.

In an emotional ceremony Friday morning, Richmond Raceway dedicated the grandstand seats where Hamlin’s parents sat for years watching NASCAR races long before their son became a 64-time winner in the Cup Series.

Hamlin’s father, Dennis, died in a house fire in December.

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NFL plans global reach via flag football

BY JAMES ELLINGWORTH

Associated Press

DUSSELDORF, Germany — Five-on-five, no contact and an emphasis on speed and elusiveness. The future of football around the world looks different.

The NFL is still hoping to reap the rewards.

The league is making its presence known this week in Dusseldorf as the German city hosts the first Olympic qualifier in flag football, a game the NFL sees as a way to turn viewers into players and lifelong fans.

There are already NFL-branded flag classes in schools from Europe to Australia, Olympic medals on offer in Los Angeles in two years’ time and NFL-backed leagues coming soon that could offer a livelihood to some of the more than 300 players from 18 countries participating in the qualifiers that began Thursday and which double as the world championships.

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By MARTIn MEISSnER “If it all plays out the way it should, it’s life-changing,” said Germany’s Malik Al-Kahlout runs with the ball during a Flag Football World Championship men’s match U.S. quarterback Nico Casares, between Mexico and Germany on Thursday in duesseldorf, Germany. whose team already has a spot in LA since it represents the host na- slippery movement is the game- authorities to get flag football lo is a physical therapist, appears classes into schools, too. changer, not big hits. on a TV game show and coaches tion.

“Getting kids connected into flag. Life is “60% flag football and “We’re still looking to become a Playing, not just watching competing global sport. Our single your brand, to your product, to 40% Clarisse,” she said. The OlymThe International Federation of games are great, they’re like con- your sport at a young age, the data pic qualifier is an audition for a American Football runs the Olym- certs,” NFL executive vice presi- is actually relatively consistent,” whole new lifestyle for Castillo pic qualifiers and championship dent of football operations Troy said Brian Flinn, the NFL senior and her teammates. vice president heading up the “Maybe people that watch us tournament, where the top two Vincent told the AP. “But to have a sport that is in- league’s global flag efforts, citing here can take us to play profesmen’s and women’s teams will earn a spot in LA, but it also has grained around the world, it points a study on U.S. teens which found sional leagues that are going to be a long-term partnership with the us in that direction of more boys the impact of playing flag was al- (possible) in the future,” she said.

NFL and the league’s logo is ev- and girls playing, more officials most as much as tackle football. “We see this as a great opportuniofficiating, more coaches coaching “Getting kids involved in the sport ty for that because we as athletes erywhere in Dusseldorf. early makes you three times more sometimes don’t get recognized NFL branding is on banners around the world.”

Olympic qualifiers in established likely to be an avid fan as an adult.” economically.” across the city, where the chamIn Canada, Olympic recognition pionships will be played on a New sports can often feel like they’re meant a high-performance trainEngland Patriots-branded field for diehard fans only, but the Women’s opportunities NFL’s expertise has helped shape next to a high school.

Olympic status has unlocked ing program for the women’s team The league has been expanding how flag football looks and sounds. funding and government backing for the first time. its slate of international games Nike and DAZN are on board as for teams around the world, in “I think we all dream of a day steadily for over a decade and partners. places far away from a traditional where we can play flag as a caWherever the NFL goes with football center. will play a record nine this season. reer,” quarterback Sara Parker Now to get people playing foot- international games, it teams up When she’s not playing wide re- said. “I think we’re heading in that ball’s fast-paced variant, where with local governments and school ceiver for Panama, Clarisse Castil- direction and we’re excited to see

where it goes.”

On the NFL side, Vincent said flag football is a “completely new world” for female participation, with increasing numbers of sanctioned high school competitions, college scholarships and potentially NCAA championship status next year.

NFL stars at the Olympics The NFL influence in flag football won’t extend to a star NFL quarterback taking Casares’ Olympic spot — at least he hopes so.

“Everyone wants our spot in the United States and obviously there’s a lot of talk about different people getting involved,” he told the AP. “We embrace that, just as much as them coming out and showing us that they want to learn our game and compete with us.”

There’s been plenty of speculation that NFL stars could swoop in and take roster spots. NFL owners had previously approved participation by the league’s players.

IFAF president Pierre Trochet said the Olympics are a “Barcelona ’92” moment for flag football, comparing the impact to NBA players on the “Dream Team” coming in and taking Olympic hoops to new heights.

“I watched (Michael) Jordan and I watched (Charles) Barkley and I wanted to be one of those superstars as well,” he said. “The most important is to have the best competitive players in the world qualify for the biggest multi-sports event in the world. That being said, nobody is entitled to be an Olympian. Everybody will have to earn their spot.”

The U.S. men’s national team beat two squads of current and ex-NFL players at an exhibition in March featuring Tom Brady, Jalen Hurts and former LSU star Joe Burrow. Casares hopes that made a point that flag football is “a little different” and NFL stars can’t just turn up and expect to be Olympians.

U.S. men win flag football world title

By The Associated Press

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By MARTIn MEISSnER

Tyler ‘Td’ davis celebrates a United States touchdown during the Flag Football World Championship men’s final game on Sunday between Italy and the USA in duesseldorf, Germany.

MOSLEY

Continued from page 1B community service events for Mosley. He was just as active the past five seasons in Orlando when he was head coach of the Magic.

Mosley makes it clear this work isn’t about him. In fact, he would have preferred no cameras around Tuesday.

“This has nothing to do with me,” he said. “It has everything to do with what we are doing as an organization to be in this community and give back.”

It didn’t take long for Pierre to appreciate his new coach. He has already invited Mosley and some of the coaching staff to his grandmother’s house for some good ole home cooking.

“New Orleans is a different place,” Pierre said. “We don’t accept a lot of people from outside or people that aren’t from here. For us to welcome him with open arms and for him to take me under his wings and take me to these events brings more and more love to him.

By the time the season starts, he will be a fan favorite for everybody down here. I’m pushing it.”

Inevitably, the only thing that will win fans over is winning games. But on Tuesday, Mosley earned his first W in New Orleans.

It didn’t happen on a basketball court, but instead in a barber school on the fourth floor of the Executive Plaza building.

Rebecca “Ro” Washington, who opened the barber school 10 years

DÜSSELDORF, Germany — The United States successfully defended the men’s title at the flag football world championships on Sunday but lost the women’s title to Canada, while Mexico’s women and Canada’s men earned qualification spots for the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

The U.S. men beat Italy 46-26 to secure a sixth straight title and the women missed out on a fourth straight title after losing 27-20 to Canada.

“Gold is the only standard,” said men’s quarterback Nico Casares, who threw two touchdown passes.

“That’s our motto. That’s what we play by, that’s what we live by.”

The U.S. women started strongly but it was tied 14-14 at the break after Caroline Moquin-Joubert caught quarterback Sara Parker’s pass at the end of the first half.

ago, was beaming with pride.

“Having coach Mosley come here and sponsor haircuts is about so much more than getting a fresh haircut,” she said. “It’s an opportunity to teach our students how to not only give back but it also builds confidence and creates connections. It’s all about serving the community and sometimes simply making someone feel good about themselves. He helped shine light on the East.”

As Mosley continues to get settled into his new hometown, he is constantly learning what makes the city tick. He’s absorbing as much information as he can.

He’s been spotted on the sideline watching the Saints practice at training camp. He admires what he’s seen from Saints coach Kellen Moore, who has brought some of his players to the Pelicans’ facility to hoop. But the biggest inspiration Mosley got came Aug. 8 when he watched Saints legend Drew Brees give his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction speech.

“It gave me goose bumps and brought tears to my eyes,” Mosley said.

It also gave him a better sense of what type of place New Orleans is. Mosley watched Brees’ speech three times.

“It was not only the passion of his words but also the passion in this city,” Mosley said. “All you could hear was the love he has for this city and how much the city poured into him. And that’s what it’s about for us. How much can we pour back into this city and give to this city and represent

Parker set up Frederique Morneau at the start of the second half as Canada took control.

The U.S. had a fourth down, yards from the line, with three seconds left, but could not make the final play count. It was Canada’s third title and first since beating the U.S. in the 2014 final.

“I feel so happy, I can’t believe it,” Parker said after hugging her mother. ”Literally the best day ever.”

The International Federation of American Football ran the championship tournament, which doubled up as a qualifier, in the German city of Düsseldorf.

The top two men’s and top two women’s teams earned a spot at the 2028 Games, along with the U.S. men’s and women’s teams because they already qualified as hosts.

Sunday’s two other finalists — the Italian men and Canadian

women — earned an Olympic spot by reaching the final against the U.S. teams, meaning that the bronze-medal games decided who joined them.

Mexico women cried with joy after a 20-19 win over Great Britain — which rallied from 20-6 down — for the women’s bronze and an Olympic spot.

But Mexico’s men lost 34-26 in overtime to Canada, which claimed an Olympic spot.

Rules of the game Flag football was among five sports given Olympic status for the 2028 Games back in 2023, with the game played five-on-five in two 20-minute halves, no tackling and an emphasis on speed and elusiveness.

The NFL has said it plans to launch women’s and men’s professional flag football ahead of the Olympics.

STAFF PHoTo By EnAn CHEdIAK

new orleans Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley, center, reacts to a student’s haircut on Tuesday at Washington Academy of Barbering Arts. the right way. The only way you do that is if you’re out in the community. That’s what we have to continue to do.”

This isn’t just something Mosley wants his team to do. He knows it’s something the players need to do.

“We are so blessed to be in the situation that we’re in as coaches and players,” Mosley said. “So we have to be able to support the people that support us.”

Mosley will preach his message of giving back to his team. Washington will preach the same message to her team of 12 aspiring barbers who were busy honing their skills Tuesday. She knows that eventually, those barbers will own their own businesses, filled with barbershop talk.

And like with most barbershops, sports will be a hot topic. The Pelicans, no doubt, will be discussed.

The 30 kids who received haircuts

and the 12 barbers who delivered those cuts will remember the three hours spent with Mosley and the lessons learned.

“This reminds me that success isn’t only measured by how much you can make,” Washington said.

“Sometimes success is measured by how much you are willing to give.”

Email Rod Walker at rwalker@ theadvocate.com.

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SCOREBOARD Braves avoid sweep

Odds Sports Betting Line MLB Monday

American League FAVORITE LINE at TAMPA BAY -167 at KANSAS CITY OFF National League FAVORITE LINE at CINCINNATI OFF at PHILA -240 at CINCINNATI OFF at N.Y METS -125 LA Dodgers -251 Interleague FAVORITE LINE Detroit -122 at BOSTON OFF Atlanta -125 at CHI CUBS -173

UNDERDOG Baltimore Athletics

LINE +132 OFF

UNDERDOG St. Louis Miami St. Louis San Diego at COLORADO

LINE OFF +190 OFF +102 +196

Pro basketball W 23 21 22 20 13 10 8

L 12 13 14 14 22 23 25

Pct .657 .618 .611 .588 .371 .303 .242

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

W 29 24 24 20 15 13 12 7

L 7 9 12 15 20 23 22 30

Pct GB .806 — .727 3½ .667 5 .571 8½ .429 13½ .361 16 .353 16 .189 22½

WESTERN CONFERENCE

x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Games

Chicago 82, Seattle 80 Indiana 95, Atlanta 91, OT Portland 88, Phoenix 85

Monday’s Games

Dallas at Golden State, 9 p.m.

Pro football NFL 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 Tampa Bay 24, N.Y. Jets 16 Washington 20, Miami 7

Saturday’s Games

Buffalo 29, Carolina 14 Chicago 34, Cleveland 10 Minnesota 13, N.Y. Giants 10 Jacksonville 24, New Orleans 20 L.A. Rams 20, Kansas City 12 Baltimore 24, Philadelphia 7 Dallas 17, Seattle 7

Thursday, Aug. 20

Las Vegas at Houston, 7 p.m.

San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, 9 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 21

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m.

Carolina at Jacksonville, 6:30 p.m.

Green Bay at Denver, 8 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 22

Washington at Detroit, 11 a.m.

Atlanta at Indianapolis, noon Baltimore at Minnesota, noon Buffalo at Cleveland, noon N.Y. Giants at Miami, 3 p.m.

New Orleans at L.A. Rams, 3 p.m.

Chicago at Cincinnati, 6 p.m.

Philadelphia at New England, 6 p.m.

Kansas City at Tampa Bay, 6:30 p.m.

Dallas at Arizona, 9 p.m.

Sunday

At Lindner Family Tennis Center Cincinnati Purse: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Results Sunday from Western & Southern Open at Lindner Family Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses):

Golf FedEx St. Jude Championship Sunday

Men’s Singles

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Sunday

At Columbia Edgewater Country Club Portland, Ore. Purse: $2 million Yardage: 6,541; Par: 72 Final Round Jeeno Thitikul 68-67-67-64—266 C. Wannasaen 69-68-67-63—267 Arpichaya Yubol 66-66-68-67—267 Sophia Schubert 67-66-67-71—271 Na Rin An 69-68-66-69—272 67-66-72-67—272 P. Anannarukarn Celine Boutier 69-67-70-66—272 S. Vinijchaitham 67-70-70-66—273 Rose Zhang 70-65-70-68—273 Chella Choi 70-67-67-70—274 Manon De Roey 67-69-68-70—274 Jiwon Jeon 67-71-66-70—274 Somi Lee 72-68-67-67—274 Anne Chen 74-65-70-66—275 Nataliya Guseva 67-68-73-67—275

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Western & Southern Open Results

Seattle at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

The Standard Portland Classic

Atlanta Braves pitcher Bryce Elder throws the first pitch of the game against the Arizona diamondbacks on Sunday in Atlanta. The Braves won 5-3 over the diamondbacks.

Tennis

Sunday, Aug. 23

At TPC Southwind Memphis, Tenn.

Purse: $20 million Yardage: 7,288; Par: 70 Final Round Scottie Scheffler 68-61-68-66—263 Si Woo Kim 70-68-65-68—271 Sam Burns 67-70-62-73—272 Alex Noren 71-66-66-69—272 Wyndham Clark 69-66-70-68—273 Sungjae Im 66-66-67-74—273 Tommy Fleetwood 66-68-68-72—274 Jake Knapp 65-70-67-72—274 Hideki Matsuyama 66-70-67-71—274 Xander Schauffele 67-72-68-67—274 Ludvig Åberg 68-65-74-67—274 Patrick Cantlay 69-66-70-70—275 Bud Cauley 66-72-70-67—275 Nicolas Echavarria 68-66-71-70—275 Matt Fitzpatrick 70-67-69-69—275 Tom Kim 69-72-63-71—275 Kurt Kitayama 65-73-66-71—275 Adam Scott 66-70-69-70—275 Pierceson Coody 71-66-70-69—276 Viktor Hovland 68-64-72-72—276 Maverick McNealy 68-70-69-69—276 Patrick Rodgers 67-69-71-69—276 Jordan Spieth 65-69-72-70—276 Ryan Gerard 70-70-68-69—277 Harry Hall 72-68-68-69—277 Max Homa 73-67-69-68—277 Jackson Koivun 71-70-66-70—277 J.T. Poston 71-68-66-72—277 Alex Smalley 68-68-72-69—277 Jacob Bridgeman 69-70-68-71—278 Chris Gotterup 66-70-69-73—278 Brian Harman 70-64-69-75—278 Russell Henley 71-70-67-70—278 Rickie Fowler 68-73-66-72—279 Nicolai Højgaard 73-70-68-68—279 Keith Mitchell 69-66-72-72—279 J.J. Spaun 71-69-67-72—279 Sepp Straka 68-73-72-66—279 Justin Rose 73-70-73-64—280 Nick Taylor 69-68-69-74—280 Cameron Young 69-69-72-70—280 Michael Brennan 73-70-67-71—281 Harris English 68-75-71-67—281 Ben Griffin 73-71-69-68—281 Sam Stevens 69-71-70-71—281 Gary Woodland 66-71-70-74—281 Corey Conners 71-71-70-70—282 Matti Schmid 73-70-67-72—282 Justin Thomas 70-67-72-73—282 Michael Thorbjornsen 65-75-72-70—282 Sudarshan Yellamaraju70-65-76-71—282 Ryo Hisatsune 69-70-71-73—283 Shane Lowry 69-72-72-70—283 Collin Morikawa 71-69-71-72—283 Michael Kim 65-72-74-73—284 Min Woo Lee 67-71-75-71—284 Jordan L. Smith 71-73-67-73—284 Eric Cole 72-72-70-71—285 Ryan Fox 73-73-72-67—285 Kristoffer Reitan 72-71-73-69—285 Alex Fitzpatrick 71-74-70-71—286 Aldrich Potgieter 71-71-72-72—286 Ricky Castillo 72-74-68-73—287 Matthew McCarty 73-72-71-71—287 Aaron Rai 72-66-71-78—287

ASSoCIATEd PRESS PHoTo By ERIK RAnK

Erika Hara 69-66-69-71—275 Minami Katsu 70-67-67-71—275 Lauren Coughlin 70-68-71-67—276 Andrea Lee 70-68-73-65—276 Hye Jin Choi 66-67-72-72—277 Mariel Galdiano 65-71-70-71—277 Morgane Metraux 68-67-75-67—277 Yealimi Noh 69-67-69-72—277 Ruoning Yin 69-68-71-69—277 Aditi Ashok 69-71-66-72—278 Ayaka Furue 68-70-72-68—278 Esther Henseleit 72-67-71-68—278 Chizzy Iwai 67-71-69-71—278 Soo Bin Joo 67-70-68-73—278 Hae-Ran Ryu 67-68-72-71—278 Dewi Weber 67-70-69-72—278 Ana Belac 72-68-69-70—279 Nicole Broch Estrup 71-68-68-72—279 Robyn Choi 67-70-71-71—279 Lindy Duncan 68-70-70-71—279 Megha Ganne 71-68-67-73—279 Juniper Jang 72-67-72-68—279 Yan Liu 67-72-69-71—279 Benedetta Moresco 67-69-74-69—279 Xiaowen Yin 73-66-71-69—279 Madison Young 71-69-67-72—279 Jenny Bae 70-69-70-71—280 Olivia Cowan 66-72-70-72—280 Jodi Ewart Shadoff 70-68-72-70—280 You Min Hwang 67-73-68-72—280 C. Lo-Chacarra Coto 67-73-69-71—280 Weiwei Zhang 71-68-67-74—280 Amanda Doherty 73-67-70-71—281 Nastasia Nadaud 69-71-73-68—281 Emily Pedersen 74-66-68-73—281 Wei-Ling Hsu 72-68-71-71—282 Gurleen Kaur 70-70-71-71—282 Mao Saigo 69-68-75-70—282 Camille Boyd 68-72-71-72—283 Ashleigh Buhai 69-69-72-73—283 MinJi Kang 71-69-70-73—283 Stephanie Meadow 71-69-70-73—283 Nika Ito 71-69-74-70—284 Alexa Pano 69-71-71-74—285 Lauren Walsh 66-73-74-72—285 Grace Kim 66-69-74-77—286 Mimi Rhodes 68-71-71-78—288 Maude-Aimee Leblanc 72-68-76-74—290 Lauren Tenuta 69-70-74-78—291

Sunday’s Games

-22 -21 -21 -17 -16 -16 -16 -15 -15 -14 -14 -14 -14 -13 -13

National League

Tampa Bay New York Boston Baltimore Toronto

W 74 69 66 61 61

L 49 55 58 63 65

Pct GB .602 — .556 5½ .532 8½ .492 13½ .484 14½

Chicago Detroit Cleveland Minnesota Kansas City

W 65 60 60 60 51

L 58 64 65 65 74

Pct .528 .484 .480 .480 .408

Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles

W 63 61 59 49 49

L 62 64 66 75 76

Pct GB .504 — .488 2 .472 4 .395 13½ .392 1

Central Division

GB — 5½ 6 6 15

Round of 64 Christopher O’Connell, Australia, def. Casper Ruud (11), Norway, 7-5, 1-2, ret.

Michael Zheng, United States, def. Ugo Humbert (24), France, 6-4, 6-3.

Daniil Medvedev (4), Russia, def. Marco Trungelliti, Argentina, 6-4, 7-5.

Joao Fonseca (23), Brazil, def. Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 6-4, 7-6 (2).

Felix Auger-Aliassime (2), Canada, def.

Stefanos Tsitsipas, Greece, 6-3, 7-5.

Lorenzo Musetti (10), Italy, def. Daniel Altmaier, Germany, 6-4, 6-2.

Taylor Fritz (6), United States, def. Alex Michelsen, United States, 6-3, 6-4.

Brandon Nakashima (27), United States, def. Aleksandar Kovacevic, United States, 6-2, 7-5.

Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argentina, def.

Arthur Rinderknech (25), France, 4-6, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (5).

Nuno Borges, Portugal, def. Francisco Cerundolo (20), Argentina, 6-4, 6-4.

Andrey Rublev (13), Russia, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 7-6 (5), 6-1.

Learner Tien (16), United States, def. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 6-3, 7-6 (4).

Daniel Merida, Spain, def. Zizou Bergs (30), Belgium, 6-3, 6-2.

Adam Walton, Australia, def. Ignacio Buse (29), Peru, 6-4, 6-3.

Women’s Singles

Round of 64 Mirra Andreeva (5), Russia, def. Oleksandra Oliynykova, Ukraine, 6-1, 6-0.

Elena Rybakina (2), Kazakhstan, def. Taylor Townsend, United States, 6-3, 6-4.

Sara Bejlek, Czechia, def. Barbora Krejcikova (23), Czechia, 7-6 (5), 6-4.

Wang Xinyu, China, def. Donna Vekic (31), Croatia, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4.

Iga Swiatek (7), Poland, def. Emiliana Arango, Colombia, 6-3, 6-0.

Janice Tjen (32), Indonesia, def. Viktorija Golubic, Switzerland, 7-6 (8), 5-7, 7-5.

Madison Keys (20), United States, def. Daria Snigur, Ukraine, 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Marie Bouzkova (22), Czechia, def. Lucrezia Stefanini, Italy, 6-2, 6-4.

Ann Li (28), United States, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 7-5, 6-3.

Aryna Sabalenka (1), Belarus, def. Talia Gibson, Australia, 6-2, 7-6 (2).

Marta Kostyuk (10), Ukraine, def. Sofia Kenin, United States, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.

Katerina Siniakova (33), Czechia, def. Jessica Bouzas Maneiro, Spain, 6-7 (5), 6-1, 6-1.

Iva Jovic (13), United States, def. Tamara Korpatsch, Germany, 6-4, 6-3.

Ekaterina Alexandrova (16), Russia, def.

Anna Blinkova, Russia, 6-7 (5), 6-4, 7-5.

Wang Xiyu, China, def. Leylah Fernandez (30), Canada, 3-6, 6-2, 6-2.

Sloane Stephens, United States, def. Anastasia Potapova (24), Russia, 6-2, 6-4.

Women’s Doubles Round of 32 Shuko Aoyama, Japan, and En-Shuo Liang, Taiwan, def. Ingrid Neel, Estonia, and Giuliana Olmos, Mexico, 6-2, 7-5.

Ulrikke Eikeri, Norway, and Quinn Gleason (6), United States, def. Demi Schuurs, Netherlands, and Ellen Perez, Australia, 6-2, 1-6, 10-7.

Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Hanyu Guo (3), China, def. Lyudmyla Kichenok, Ukraine, and Miyu (1994) Kato, Japan, 6-4, 6-2.

Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Jelena Ostapenko (5), Latvia, def. Olivia Nicholls, Britain, and Tereza Mihalikova, Slovakia, 7-6 (2), 6-3.

Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Maya Joint, Australia, def. Elise Mertens, Belgium, and Diana Shnaider (8), Russia, 7-6 (4), 3-6, 10-3.

Aldila Sutjiadi, Indonesia, and Erin Routliffe (7), New Zealand, def. Asia Muhammad, United States, and Fanny Stollar, Hungary, 7-5, 7-5.

Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova, Czechia, def. Caroline Dolehide and Emma Navarro, United States, 6-4, 6-4.

Aleksandra Krunic, Serbia, and Anna Danilina (2), Kazakhstan, def. Ann Li, United

States, and Clara Tauson, Denmark, 6-4, 6-2.

Auto racing

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League ATHLETICS — Claimed LHP Joe Rock off waivers from the Chicago White Sox. Recalled SS Darell Hernaiz from Las Vegas (PCL). Placed LF Tyler Soderstrom on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 15. Transferred RHP Justin Sterner from the 15-day IL to the 60-day IL. BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Sent C Samuel Basallo on a rehab assignment to Norfolk (IL).

BOSTON RED SOX — Recalled LHP Raymond Burgos and C Mickey Gasper from Worcester (IL). Sent SS Trevor Story on a rehab assignment to Worcester. Placed DH Masataka Yoshida on the 10-day and RHP Justin Slaten on the 15-day IL, Slaten retroactive to Aug. 13.

DETROIT TIGERS — Selected the contract of LF Brett Callahan from Toledo (IL). Designated CF Trei Cruz for assignment.

HOUSTON ASTROS — Recalled RHP Miguel Ullola from Sugar Land (PCL). Optioned RHP Ronel Blanco to Sugar Land.

KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent RHP Eli Morgan outright to Omaha (IL).

MINNESOTA TWINS — Sent C Alex Jackson outright to St. Paul (IL).

TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Reinstated LHP Brendon Little from the paternity list. Optioned LHP Ricky Tiedemann to Buffalo (IL).

National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Selected the contract of RHP Dennis Santana from Reno (PCL). Designated LHP Philip Abner for assignment.

ATLANTA BRAVES — Selected the contract of LHP Ray Kerr from Gwinnett (IL). Designated LHP Danny Young for assignment.

CHICAGO CUBS — Reinstated RHP Edward Cabrera from the 15-day IL. Optioned RHP Javier Assad to Iowa (IL). Sent RHP Daniel Palencia on a rehab assignment to Iowa.

LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHP Kyle Hurt from Oklahoma City (PCL). Placed LHP Justin Wrobleski on the 15-day IL. PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled LHP Hunter Barco and 3B Nick Yorke from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned RHP Wilber Dotel and SS Jack Brannigan to Indianapolis.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed RB Tre Stewart.

BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed RB Jonathan Ward.

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

W 74 67 64 60 56

L 50 58 61 66 69

Pct GB .597 — .536 7½ .512 10½ .476 15 .448 18½

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 77 72 63 61 59

L 48 53 61 65 64

Pct GB .616 — .576 5 .508 13½ .484 16½ .480 17

Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

W 74 67 66 51 50

L 51 58 59 73 74

Pct GB .592 — .536 7 .528 8 .411 22½ .403 23½

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s Games

St. Louis 8, Chicago Cubs 4 San Francisco 7, Colorado 1 N.Y. Mets 5, Washington 4 Miami 8, Cincinnati 4 Cleveland 6, San Diego 1 Milwaukee 4, L.A. Dodgers 1 Boston 4, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 1 Arizona 10, Atlanta 3

Baltimore 10, Tampa Bay 2 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 3 Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 5 N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3, 10 innings Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 5 Kansas City 3, L.A. Angels 0 Athletics 5, Texas 2 San Diego 5, Cleveland 0 Seattle 3, Houston 2

Atlanta 5, Arizona 3 N.Y. Mets 4, Washington 3 Pittsburgh 8, Boston 3 Miami 7, Cincinnati 1 Philadelphia 7, Minnesota 5 St. Louis 11, Chicago Cubs 4 Milwaukee 6, L.A. Dodgers 2 Colorado 13, San Francisco 7 San Diego 5, Cleveland 0

Baltimore (Young 9-3) at Tampa Bay (McClanahan 9-6), 5:05 p.m.

Detroit (Valdez 7-8) at Pittsburgh (Mlodzinski 6-5), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Bratt 1-1) at Boston (TBD), 6:10 p.m.

Athletics (Barnett 1-3) at Kansas City (Wacha 5-8), 6:40 p.m.

Atlanta (Pérez 8-6) at Minnesota (Ober 7-4), 6:40 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Castillo 4-9) at Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-9), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis (Pallante 12-6) at Cincinnati (Lowder 4-8), 12:40 p.m., 1st game Miami (Junk 6-7) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 15-4), 5:40 p.m.

St. Louis (TBD) at Cincinnati , 5:40 p.m.

Detroit (Valdez 7-8) at Pittsburgh (Mlodzinski 6-5), 6:05 p.m.

Arizona (Bratt 1-1) at Boston (TBD), 6:10 p.m.

San Diego (Buehler 7-5) at N.Y. Mets (McLean 8-8), 6:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Pérez 8-6) at Minnesota (Ober 7-4), 6:40 p.m.

Chicago White Sox (Castillo 4-9) at Chicago Cubs (Imanaga 8-9), 7:05 p.m.

St. Louis 11, Chicago Cubs 4

Athletics 5, Texas 2

St. Louis

Texas

Monday’s Games

NASCAR Cup Series Cook Out 400 Results Saturday

At Richmond Raceway Richmond, Va. Lap length: 0.75 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (10) Joey Logano, Ford, 400 laps, 73 points.

2. (2) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 400, 52.

3. (23) Austin Cindric, Ford, 400, 48.

4. (14) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 400, 46.

5. (13) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 400, 38.

6. (30) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 400, 31.

7. (8) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 400, 36.

8. (3) Josh Berry, Ford, 400, 40.

9. (5) William Byron, Chevrolet, 400, 30.

10. (25) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 400, 27.

11. (32) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 400, 28.

12. (18) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 399, 25.

13. (1) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 399, 41.

14. (31) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 399, 23.

15. (4) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 399, 22.

16. (20) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 399, 21.

17. (6) Ryan Preece, Ford, 398, 20.

18. (35) Noah Gragson, Ford, 398, 19.

19. (16) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 398, 18.

20. (7) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 398, 22.

21. (19) Chris Buescher, Ford, 398, 16.

22. (12) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 398, 15.

23. (33) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 397, 0.

24. (17) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 397, 13.

25. (11) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 397, 12.

26. (9) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 397, 11.

27. (21) Erik Jones, Toyota, 396, 10.

28. (26) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 396, 9.

29. (29) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 396, 8.

30. (27) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 396, 7.

31. (28) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 396, 6.

32. (34) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 394, 5.

33. (15) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 394, 4.

34. (37) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 392, 3.

35. (36) Josh Bilicki, Ford, 391, 0.

36. (24) Zane Smith, Ford, 366, 1.

37. (22) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, engine, 279, 1.

Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 98.339 mph.

Time of Race: 3 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds.

Margin of Victory: .392 seconds.

Caution Flags: 4 for 31 laps.

Lead Changes: 29 among 10 drivers.

Lap Leaders: R.Blaney 0; C.Briscoe 1-2; R.Blaney 3; C.Briscoe 4-6; R.Blaney 7-31; J.Berry 32; T.Gibbs 33; B.Wallace 34-36; R.Blaney 37-78; C.Briscoe 79-106; R.Blaney 107-124; C.Briscoe 125-171; J.Logano 172-178; D.Hamlin 179; R.Blaney 180-181; J.Logano 182-233; D.Hamlin 234; J.Logano 235-243; C.Briscoe 244-279; K.Larson 280281; T.Reddick 282-288; C.Briscoe 289-323; J.Logano 324; C.Bell 325-341; C.Briscoe 342360; J.Logano 361; C.Briscoe 362; D.Hamlin 363; C.Bell 364-375; J.Logano 376-400 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): C.Briscoe, 8 times for 171 laps; J.Logano, 6 times for 95 laps; R.Blaney, 6 times for 88 laps; C.Bell, 2 times for 29 laps; T.Reddick, 1 time for 7 laps; D.Hamlin, 3 times for 3 laps; B.Wallace, 1 time for 3 laps; K.Larson, 1 time for 2 laps; J.Berry, 1 time for 1 lap; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 1 lap.

Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; R.Blaney, 2; T.Gibbs, 2; C.Elliott, 2; J.Logano, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; C.Briscoe, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; D.Suárez, 1.

Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 969; 2.

R.Blaney, 854; 3. T.Gibbs, 842; 4. T.Reddick, 831; 5. C.Briscoe, 715; 6. C.Elliott, 695; 7.

C.Bell, 695; 8. K.Larson, 660; 9. J.Logano, 659; 10. C.Buescher, 653; 11. C.Hocevar, 645; 12. W.Byron, 630; 13. D.Suárez, 618; 14.

B.Wallace, 587; 15. A.Cindric, 574; 16. S.Van Gisbergen, 567.

NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.

The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

East Division

Chicago White Sox 4, Detroit 3 Toronto 4, N.Y. Yankees 1 Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 3, 10 innings Cleveland 6, San Diego 1 Seattle 10, Houston 5 Boston 4, Pittsburgh 0 Philadelphia 9, Minnesota 1 L.A. Angels 1, Kansas City 0 Texas 5, Athletics 3

Sunday’s Games

GB — 1½ 1½ 2½ 10 12 14

New York 82, Connecticut 75 Washington 80, Los Angeles 70 Minnesota 92, Las Vegas 87

East Division

Saturday’s Games

WNBA EASTERN CONFERENCE

American League

West Division

UNDERDOG LINE at PITTS -101 Arizona OFF at MINNESOTA +102 Chi White Sox +139

Indiana Atlanta New York Washington Chicago Toronto Connecticut

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

Chicago

ab r h bi Wetherholt 2b 4 3 2 1 Herrera dh 3 1 1 1 Burleson 1b 5 2 3 4 Walker rf 4 1 3 4 Baez lf 5 0 0 0 Pereira lf 0 0 0 0 Church cf 4 0 0 0 Winn ss 4 1 0 0 Crooks c 4 2 2 0 Jordan 3b 5 1 2 1

Sunday’s Games

Monday’s Games

Athletics

ab r h bi C-Amstrng cf 5 1 1 2 Suzuki rf 5 1 1 0 Bregman 3b 3 0 0 0 Happ lf 3 0 1 0 Taylor ph-lf 0 0 0 1 Hoerner 2b-ss3 0 1 0 Ramirez 1b 4 0 1 0 Swanson ss 0 0 0 0 Triantos ph-2b3 1 0 0 Conforto dh 3 0 0 0 Amaya c 3 1 1 1 Totals 38 11 1311 Totals 32 4 6 4 St. Louis 210 600 020 — 11 Chicago 002 000 011 — 4 DP_St. Louis 0, Chicago 1. LOB_St. Louis 7, Chicago 7. 2B_Wetherholt (13), Crooks (5), Walker 2 (26), Burleson (31), Suzuki (24). HR_Burleson (21), Walker (24), CrowArmstrong (28), Amaya (5). SF_Herrera (4), Taylor (1).

IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis Dobbins W,3-3 5 2 2 2 4 7 Gastelum 2 1 0 0 0 3 Graceffo 1 2 1 1 1 0 Ferguson 1 1 1 1 0 1 Chicago 2 7 3 2 Cabrera L,5-5 3 ⁄3 6 7 2 1 0 Rolison 1 1⁄3 2 2 Civale 2 2 0 0 0 4 2 ⁄3 1 2 2 1 2 Thielbar 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 Thornton Kelly 1 1 0 0 0 0 Dobbins pitched to 1 batter in the 6th.

HBP_Civale (Walker). WP_Graceffo, Cabrera.

ABS Challenge_Dobbins (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Crow-Armstrong (Strike-Confirmed).

Umpires_Home, Nate Tomlinson; First, Bruce Dreckman; Second, Paul Clemons; Third, Mark Wegner.

T_3:06. A_39,395 (41,363).

ab r h bi ab r h bi Langford lf 3 1 0 0 Bolte cf 5 1 3 0 Duran ss 4 0 0 0 Gelof lf 5 1 2 2 Nimmo rf 4 0 1 0 Wilson ss 4 0 0 0 Burger 1b 4 1 3 2 Heim c 2 0 0 0 Foscue 2b 3 0 1 0 White 1b-3b 4 2 2 1 Kelenic ph 1 0 0 0 Butler rf 4 1 2 2 N.Lopez 2b 0 0 0 0 Muncy dh 3 0 2 0 Freeman 3b 3 0 1 0 Williams 2b 4 0 1 0 Díaz c 4 0 0 0 Hernaiz 3b 2 0 1 0 Wynns dh 1 0 0 0 McNeil ph-1b 1 0 0 0 Pederson ph-dh 2 0 0 0 Carter cf 3 0 1 0 Totals 32 2 7 2 Totals 34 5 13 5 Texas 011 000 000 — 2 Athletics 020 000 21x — 5 E_Díaz (5). DP_Texas 1, Athletics 0. LOB_ Texas 6, Athletics 9. 2B_Carter (11), Muncy (9). HR_Burger (21), Butler (11), Gelof (14), White (1). S_Freeman (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Texas Bradford 4 8 2 2 1 4 Silseth 1 0 0 0 1 0 Alexander 1 0 0 0 1 0 Junis L,1-2 1 2 2 2 0 1 1 Gray ⁄3 3 1 1 0 0 2 Winn ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Athletics J.Lopez 6 5 2 2 2 6 Medina W,4-3 1 1 0 0 0 2 2 Alvarado H,7 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 1 Rom H,2 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Harris S,12-17 1 0 0 0 0 2 WP_J.Lopez.

ABS Challenge_Heim (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Bradford (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Bradford (Ball-Confirmed); Gray (Ball-Overturned to Strike).

Umpires_Home, Malachi Moore; First, Alfonso Marquez; Second, Mike Estabrook; Third, Jacob Metz.

T_2:39. A_7,343 (14,014).

Milwaukee 6, L.A. Dodgers 2

N.Y. Yankees 4, Toronto 3

Milwaukee

New York

Los Angeles

Toronto

ab r h bi Ohtani dh 4 0 1 0 Freeman 1b 4 0 0 0 Pages cf 3 1 1 1 Muncy 3b 3 1 1 1 Rojas ph 1 0 0 0 Betts ss 4 0 1 0 Tucker rf 3 0 0 0 Edman 2b 3 0 0 0 T.Hernández lf3 0 1 0 Rortvedt c 2 0 0 0 Feduccia ph-c 1 0 1 0 Totals 39 6 11 3 Totals 31 2 6 2 Milwaukee 010 010 202 — 6 Los Angeles 000 100 001 — 2 E_Edman 2 (3). DP_Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles 1. LOB_Milwaukee 10, Los Angeles 3.

2B_Chourio 2 (22), Bauers (18). HR_Muncy (24), Pages (21).

IP H R ER BB SO Milwaukee Henderson W,7-2 7 3 1 1 1 6 1 Patrick H,8 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 2 Ashby H,11 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Hall 1 1 1 1 0 1 Los Angeles Skubal L,7-7 6 7 2 1 2 7 2 Henriquez ⁄3 1 1 1 0 0 1 Vesia ⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 Hurt 1 1⁄3 1 2 0 1 3 2 Dreyer ⁄3 0 0 0 1 2 WP_Patrick.

ABS Challenge_Vaughn (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Henderson (Ball-Confirmed); Henderson (Ball-Confirmed).

Pitch timer violations_Hall (pitcher).

Umpires_Home, Emil Jimenez; First, Derek Thomas; Second, Mike Muchlinski; Third, Doug Eddings.

T_2:51. A_45,828 (56,000).

ab r h bi ab r h bi Rice 1b 5 1 1 2 Bateman rf-cf 5 0 0 0 García dh 3 0 1 1 McAdoo 1b 3 0 2 0 Ramos lf 4 0 1 0 Smith ph-3b 1 1 0 0 Grisham cf 4 0 0 0 Kirk c 3 0 1 0 Jones rf 4 0 0 0 Valenzuela c 0 0 0 0 Lombard ss 3 1 1 0 Springer dh 4 0 0 0 McMahon 3b 2 0 0 0 Clement 2b 3 0 0 1 Gldschmdt ph 0 0 0 0 Okamoto 1b 4 2 1 0 Chisholm pr-2b1 0 1 0 Cameron lf 4 0 1 1 Wells c 2 0 0 0 Giménez ss 4 0 2 1 Rosario ph 1 0 0 0 Straw cf 1 0 0 0 A.Sánchez c 1 1 0 0 Lukes ph-rf 2 0 0 0 Caballero 3b 2 1 1 1 Totals 32 4 6 4 Totals 34 3 7 3 New York 001 000 100 2 — 4 Toronto 000 010 001 1 — 3 E_Rice (4). DP_New York 2, Toronto 1.

LOB_New York 6, Toronto 5. 2B_Ramos (16), Lombard (1), Okamoto (17), Cameron (1). HR_Rice (33). SB_Lombard (1), Caballero (30), Ramos (4), Giménez (17), Chisholm (32). SF_García (2), Clement (5).

S_Caballero (3).

IP H R ER BB SO New York 1 1 4 Weathers 7 1⁄3 6 1 0 1 1 Bednar W,6-3 1 2⁄3 0 1 Hill S,2-6 1 1 1 0 0 0 Toronto 2 3 10 Cease 6 1⁄3 2 2 Little 1 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 1 Sewald 1 2⁄3 1 0 Fisher L,3-4 1 2 2 1 0 0 Little pitched to 2 batters in the 8th.

WP_Bednar.

ABS Challenge_Lombard (Strike-Overturned to Ball).

Umpires_Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Brock Ballou; Second, Vic Carapazza; Third, Nic Lentz.

T_2:59. A_42,351 (39,150).

Chicago White Sox 7, Detroit 5

Atlanta 5, Arizona 3

Chicago

Arizona

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RIGHT: This print, ‘new orleans — Spring meeting on the Metairie Race-Course,’ published May 4, 1872, in Frank Leslie’s Illustrated newspaper, shows a group of jockeys and horses during a race at the Metairie Race Course track in new orleans. This was the same course where enslaved horse jockey Abe Hawkins rode the racehorse Lecomte to victory over Lexington in 1854.

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If he wasn’t the first Black professional athlete,

Hawkins definitely was the most popular

BY ROBIN MILLER Staff writer

At the end of the race, everyone in the stands was chanting his name.

“Abe! Abe! Abe!” Not the racehorse Lecomte’s name, not the name of the horse’s owner, Thomas Jefferson Wells of Smith’s Landing, but the name of the jockey, Abe Hawkins.

While this detail might not sound remarkable now, in 1854, it was extraordinary. Hawkins was a Black man when he rode Lecomte to victory over the legendary 19th-century racehorse Lexington at the Metairie Race Course.

The year was 1854, and Hawkins was a slave on Ash-

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Though photography was being used in the mid 19th century, there are no photographs or drawn images of Abe Hawkins. This artist’s rendering of how Hawkins may have appeared sometimes is used with histories written about him. land Plantation. His job was to ride planter Duncan Kenner’s racehorses, along with others to which he was leased.

Hawkins wasn’t the youngest rider, but his body shape and size were perfect to be a horse jockey.

He was good at it — and he

A hand-colored print from the 1920s of Louisiana racehorse Lecomte, which Abe Hawkins rode to victory over the racehorse Lexington in 1854.

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was paid well too.

Was Abe Hawkins the first?

Which prompted Phyllis Hall to delve into Hawkins’ status in the world of professional sports.

“I recently learned of Abe Hawkins’ story, and I heard that some historians consider him the first Black professional athlete in the United States,” the Catahoula reader said. “Is this true or were there other Black professional athletes before him in the 1800s?”

Well, Hawkins wasn’t exactly the first.

“I think it would be reasonable to say he was among the first in Louisiana,” said Nick Weldon, director of publications at The Historic New Orleans Collection. “He certainly

There’s this piece in the newspaper in 1866, and the writer says he went to the Jersey Derby. ... And he said he shook Abe’s hand. So, here was this White man who stuck out his hand to shake the hand of a Black man, and it’s 1866.

That’s how famous Abe was.”

KATHERInE C. MoonEy, author of “Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack.”

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Extreme heat is reshaping Italy’s wine industry

BY COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press

CORTE FRANCA, Italy — Workers fan out before dawn to clip clusters of grapes destined to be transformed into Italy’s prized Franciacorta sparkling wine a full 10 days earlier than anticipated, as scorching temperatures brought the fruit to maturation earlier than ever.

Climate change is narrowing the window for harvesting wine

grapes, forcing winemakers to make quick decisions when even a few days can mean the difference between a good vintage and a bad one.

“These are delicate, frantic moments, and everything has to work perfectly,” said Berlucchi CEO Arturo Ziliani, whose father, Franco, and estate owner Guido Berlucchi became the first winemakers in the northern Italian

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Workers unload crates of wine grapes on a tractor during the harvest in Corte Franca, northern Italy, on Aug. 6.

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LOS ANGELES — Stuntwoman Devyn Dalton never stops training. Her workouts typically consist of strength exercises, mixed with martial arts and outdoor activities like hiking and running. The only things that change are the structures of her workouts, depending on the role she’s getting ready for.

“When I am (preparing) for a role specifically, I’ll definitely figure out what I need for that (character),” she said.

Sometimes it requires increased agility.

Sometimes she needs to focus on athletic training.

Regardless of Dalton the role, she has to be mentally sharp and completely submerge herself into the character, to the point of invisibility.

Her latest challenge: standing in for Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” In a scene where Odysseus and his crew come into contact with the Laestrygonians, a tribe of maneating giants, Dalton, who’s 4-and-a-half-feet tall, doubled for Damon. The filmmakers used the height difference to help create the illusion of the ginormous Laestrygonians.

In a recent appearance on the “Happy Sad Confused” podcast, Damon gave his stunt double credit for having “the greatest arms” he’s ever seen.

“It was almost 100% my arms in the movie, but you gotta give it up where it’s due,” Damon said.

Dalton’s job isn’t just creating a character based on a different actor’s movement, her job is to blend in so seamlessly that the audience doesn’t even know it’s not Damon’s arms in battle, or that she’s the one tackling Amy Madigan’s Aunt Gladys in the climactic scene in 2025’s “Weapons.”

That type of invisibility starts with the script itself. Before dissecting a scene, Dalton studies the character within the story. She looks at their emotions and motivations behind each movement.

Once she understands the character, Dalton examines how the actor portrays the words on the page. She pays attention to how the actor’s mannerisms change when they are in action — how they walk, which foot they lean on and other subconscious physical gestures.

Then, she disappears into the spectacle of the film.

“That’s when you know you’ve done your job as a stunt double,” she said. “(The audience) should just see the character and it doesn’t take them out of the film.”

As a stunt double, she is often put in dangerous situations that require extra focus. The butterflies never go away, Dalton said, and an adrenaline rush right before a physically demanding stunt is inevitable.

In situations where she is doing a new stunt for the first time, Dalton tries to visualize everything that can go wrong and prepare to react to it.

“You have to take a leap of faith and trust that the work you’ve put in is there for you,” she said.

Stunt performers are also finally getting recognition from

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TODAY IN HISTORY

By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Aug. 17, the 229th day of 2026. There are 136 days left in the year.

Today in history: On Aug. 17, 1998, President Bill Clinton gave grand jury testimony via closed-circuit television from the White House concerning his relationship with Monica Lewinsky; he then delivered a TV address in which he admitted his relationship with Lewinsky was “wrong” but denied previously committing perjury (Clinton was subsequently impeached by the House of Representatives, but acquitted in the Senate).

Also on this date: In 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat made its first voyage, heading up the Hudson River on a successful round trip between New York City and Albany.

In 1863, federal batteries and ships began bombarding Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor during the Civil War, but the Confederates managed to hold on despite several days of shelling.

In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Georgia, lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sen-

tence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who had maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.)

In 1945, Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaimed independence for Indonesia, setting off the Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch rule.

In 1945, the George Orwell novel “Animal Farm,” an allegorical satire of Soviet Communism, was first published in London by Martin Secker & Warburg.

In 1959, trumpeter Miles Davis released “Kind of Blue,” regarded as one of the most influential jazz albums of all time.

In 1978, the first successful trans-Atlantic balloon flight ended as Maxie Anderson, Ben Abruzzo and Larry Newman landed their Double Eagle II outside Paris.

In 1999, more than 17,000 people were killed when a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck the Kocaeli Province of Turkey.

In 2019, an accident during repair work at Russia’s largest hydroelectric plant killed at least 10 workers and left dozens missing after an engine room was

suddenly flooded. The accident occurred at the Sayano-Shushenskaya plant in southern Siberia.

In 2017, a van barreled down a busy walkway in central Barcelona, swerving as it mowed down pedestrians in the picturesque Spanish tourist destination.

Thirteen people were killed and 100 were injured in what authorities called a terrorist attack.

Today’s birthdays: Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton is 90. Actor Robert DeNiro is 83. Businessman Larry Ellison is 82. Film director Martha Coolidge is 80. Filmmaker/author Julian Fellowes is 77. Tennis Hall of Famer Guillermo Vilas is 74. Singer Belinda Carlisle is 68. Author Jonathan Franzen is 67. Actor Sean Penn is 66. Singer/ actor Donnie Wahlberg is 57. College Basketball Hall of Famer and retired NBA All-Star Christian Laettner is 57. Rapper Posdnuos (De La Soul) is 57. Tennis Hall of Famer Jim Courier is 56. Soccer great Thierry Henry is 49. Rock climber Alex Honnold is 41. Actor Austin Butler is 35. Singersongwriter Phoebe Bridgers is 32. Actor Lexy Kolker is 17. Actor Kayden Tokarski is 17.

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Continued from page 1C was a professional athlete, given that he won his freedom later and won money as a professional racer, but there were Black jockeys before him.”

Still, Hawkins stood out, often called “the best rider on the continent,” as noted in Weldon’s Jan. 11, 2019, article for The Historic New Orleans Collection’s First Draft blog.

“He was the first Black man on a racehorse identified by name in a newspaper as a jockey,” said Katherine C. Mooney, author of the 2014 book, “Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack.” “Jockeys who had not been as important to the story started getting named in news stories, so they became a part of the story.”

References to Hawkins as simply “Abe” or “Old Abe” began appearing in local New Orleans papers as early as 1851. His surname was added when he began riding on such Northern tracks as the Saratoga Race Course in New York, where he won the Travers Stakes.

In the forefront of racing All those newspaper mentions helped move Hawkins to the forefront of the sport.

“The thing that’s striking to me is he gets named in the newspapers even when he loses,” Mooney said. “So, it’s not like, ‘Oh, Famous Horse has won this race.’

It was, ‘Famous Jockey was riding Famous Horse.’

He’s the first jockey I’ve ever seen who gets named where he’s news no matter what happened, which is important because of the time frame in which he’s famous.”

That’s not to say there weren’t other Black celebrities at the time. Frederick Douglass probably topped the list.

“People knew who Frederick Douglass was, because he was in the news,” Mooney said. “And he was not a celebrity in a way that necessarily had to do with the fact that he was enslaved. He had been enslaved, and he was talking about abolishing that.”

But Hawkins’ celebrity was different. He was a star of an exciting sport that attracted spectators from near and far. His athleticism could stir a grandstand crowd into a fever pitch.

“Abe Hawkins shows up on the scene, and everyone knows him,” Mooney said.

“He’s riding in Saratoga during the Civil War, which, to me, is wild.”

An interest in horses Mooney, a New Orleans native, is a professor of

Continued from page 1C region of Franciacorta to produce sparkling wine using the “classic” method famously employed by France’s Champagne makers.

“We did not expect such an early harvest or such an acceleration in ripening,” Ziliani said.

Predawn picking Weeks of temperatures reaching highs between 99 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, combined with below-average rainfall, have pushed some winemakers in Franciacorta to record the earliest start on record — 10 days earlier than last year and about a month earlier than three decades ago.

Berlucchi, the oldest producer of Franciacorta, which is made using the traditional method of secondary fermentation in the bottle, began harvesting Aug. 2 as part of an industrywide effort to preserve grape quality in the face of increasingly extreme weather.

Experts say several factors combined to push Franciacorta’s harvest so early this year. A relatively mild winter meant the vines produced buds earlier, while hailstorms damaged some of the yield, lightening the fruit and bringing it to earlier maturation.

Even in late July, Berlucchi was targeting an Aug. 10 harvest date, but it quickly became clear that Pinot Nero used for sparkling blends and rosé was ready to be picked, signaled by rapidly rising sugar lev-

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A hot worker picks wine grapes during the harvest in Corte Franca, northern Italy, on Aug. 6.

els. Within two days, workers were mustered and the presses were readied.

The midday heat has been so extreme that workers are forced by regional labor rules to stop between 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m., but winemakers say it has been too hot for the afternoon shift. To gain time and bring grapes to the presses before they are overheated, Berlucchi last week started the harvest at 4 a.m., with Winemakers adapt workers picking under the “Climate change and the blaze of floodlights.

African weather systems settling over Europe are Complex calculations bringing extraordinary It is not just Franciacorta temperatures and forcing that is starting early. Sicily early picking, not only in began the wine harvest for Italy, but also in France and still wines in late July. Small Germany,” said Paolo Casparts of Tuscany also start- telletti, secretary general ed picking, as well as most of the Italian Wine Union trade organization. sparkling wine regions.

With earlier harvests beThe calculation is most complex for the makers of coming a trend, winemakChampagne-style sparkling ers say they will have to wines, which require a deli- begin monitoring the fields cate balance of much high- even earlier to make sure er fixed acidity, much lower they don’t miss the best harpH and lower sugars than vesting moment. for still reds and whites.

“A good oenologist can “Early-ripening varieties manage situations like this. such as Chardonnay re- I can say with confidence quire great care, because that wine quality is not a delay of just a couple of compromised. It simply days can leave you with requires a different organigrapes unsuitable for spar- zation of work than in past kling wine. Sugar rises too years,” Castelletti said.

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A state historical marker commemorating enslaved horse jocky Abe Hawkins stands on Ashland Road or La. 3251 in Geismar, less than a mile east of River Road. history at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

She grew up riding horses, which fueled her interest in racehorses.

“I didn’t ride racehorses, but I watched horse racing on TV,” she said. “I was a baby historian in graduate school, and I was supposed to be picking a topic for (my) thesis.”

That’s when she discovered author Ed Hotaling’s 1999 book, “The Great Black Jockeys: The Lives and Times of the Men Who Dominated America’s First National Sport” in a used bookstore.

“He has a chapter on Abe in the book, and I think I read that book in two days,” Mooney said. “I was glued to it, because I had no idea about any of this. I started looking around for sources, and I found out that so many of the archive collections you would need for this are at LSU.” Mooney quickly discovered that past historians didn’t write about Southern Black jockeys and horse trainers, because they viewed racehorse training as a plantation hobby.

“Well, when you look it up in the archives, there are reams of stuff about jockeys and trainers and racehorses,” she said. “And I sat there for three days (and) realized how important horse racing was to the people who owned these horses.”

The archival material included Kenner’s itemized list for Ashland, which included a tiny coat for Hawkins.

“I was beside myself,” she said. “And the more I looked, the more I found.

There was this whole world where these guys rode horses, and we’ve, we’ve basically forgotten it. And yet the world we live in now, and the way we treat famous Black athletes today is part and parcel of all that.”

Hawkins continued riding Meanwhile, Kenner left Ashland for Paris for the duration of the war while Hawkins continued riding horses in races throughout

the country. Hawkins technically still was a member of the enslaved jockey population.

All were leased out to ride horses and were able to travel. Hawkins’ eventual freedom came with the ratification of the 13th Amendment, which banned slavery in the United States, on Dec. 5, 1865.

“There’s this piece in the newspaper in 1866, and the writer says he went to the Jersey Derby, and one of the people he saw was Abe Hawkins,” Mooney said. “And he said he shook Abe’s hand. So, here was this White man who stuck out his hand to shake the hand of a Black man, and it’s 1866. That’s how famous Abe was.”

Meanwhile, Weldon writes that Hawkins developed tuberculosis in 1867 and returned to his wife and children at Ashland, where he died in May of that year.

He requested to be buried by the training race track on the plantation grounds.

His age is unknown.

A story circulated at the time of Hawkins’ return that the jockey offered some of his winnings to Kenner to alleviate Ashland’s wartime financial losses.

“I think if that story is true, I think it more that Abe was offering Kenner a loan,” Mooney said.

Back to the 1854 LecomteLexington matchup at Metairie Race Course, it’s no wonder Hawkins revved up the crowd. Not only did his 4-mile heat on Lecomte set a world record at 7 minutes and 26 seconds, but Hawkins also finished it with showmanship.

“He rode that horse home with one hand in the air,” Mooney said. “And the crowd was chanting, ‘Abe! Abe! Abe!’ ” Do you have a question about something in Louisiana that’s got you curious? Email your question to curiouslouisiana@ theadvocate.com. Include your name, phone number and the city where you live.

quickly and acidity falls too quickly,” said Attilio Scienza, a professor emeritus at the University of Milan.

High outdoor temperatures require the grapes to be cooled before being gently pressed in stainless steel machines to extract the highest quality freerun juice, a crucial step in sparkling wine production that cannot be rushed.

Berlucchi operates up to 24 presses a day, often late into the night, to process the unusually early harvest.

Berlucchi remains Franciacorta’s largest producer, making about 4 million bottles annually, about 20% of the Franciacorta consortium’s total production of about 20 million bottles.

About 90% are sold in Italy, with the remainder exported to markets including Germany, Switzerland, the United States and Japan.

at the 2028 ceremony for achievement in stunt design.

Continued from page 1C “It’s about time,” Dalton said.

“I’m so excited for stunts the Academy of Motion to be recognized at that Picture Arts and Sciences. high level because of the In 2025, the organization an- amount of skill it takes to nounced that the Oscars will execute these stunts and introduce a new category all these films. ... I hope one

day I get to be in that room as well,” she added.

The dream just gets bigger after working with Nolan and the cast of “The Odyssey,” one of the highestgrossing films of 2026.

“Everyone’s coming together to tell the same story,” she said.

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By PHILLIP ALDER Raymond Teller, presumably talking about Penn Jillette, said, “We did not start as friends, but as people who respected and admired each other. Crucial, absolutely crucial for a partnership.”

That is an excellent starting point for a bridge partnership. In particular, you need to be able to trust your partner’s bids and plays. But there are times when, on defense, one partner is not sure which way to turn. Then, the other partner should try to signal the right road — as in this deal. How should East-West card to defeat three spades after West leads his singleton club?

Note South’s jump to two spades, which promised some 9-11 points by an unpassed hand. West’s three-diamond rebid was aggressive, but it worked well here. First, it pushed the opponents up to three spades. Second, if East had gone on to four diamonds, that contract would have made.

East knows that the opening lead is a singleton or the higher card from a doubleton. And especially if West has led a singleton, he is wondering how to get East on lead to receive a club ruff.

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197528-Aug 15-17, 3t $102.70 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Bob Dean, Jr. is requested to contact Attorney Raushanah S. Hunter in reference to a pending legal matter at (225) 356-5252.

197674-Aug 15-17, 3t $88 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of James Calvin Johnson is requested to contact Attorney Raushanah S. Hunter in reference to a pending legal matter at (225) 3565252.

197675-Aug 15-17, 3t $88 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Rochelle Pullins is requested to contact Attorney Raushanah S. Hunter in reference to a pending legal matter at (225) 356-5252.

197671-Aug 15-17, 3t $85.90 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of the heirs of Harold W. Adams, please contact B. Kyle Kershaw, Attorney at Law, 212 Laurel Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70801, telephone number (225) 336-9600.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for Mu Zeta Chap‐ ter BUILDING ADDITION and shall be directed to Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, In‐ corporated, Mu Zeta Chapter, 2021 Harding Boulevard Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70807. The deadline for receipt of bids is 10:00 am on Sep‐ tember 23, 2026, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in a pub‐ lic meeting at Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorpo‐ rated, Mu Zeta Chapter, 2021 Harding Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807.

FOR PROJECT NUMBER: 50-NAD-21-01 Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic and paper form. Paper copies are available at a cost of $250.00 from Williams & Williams Architecture.

Any questions about this procedure shall be di‐ rected to the Designer at: Williams & Williams Architecture 9829 Siegen Lane Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810 Phone: 225-202-4552 Email: dwilliams@wwarchitectu rellc.com All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project.

A PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD 10:00 am on Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated Mu Zeta Chapter 2021 Harding Boulevard Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70807 Bids shall be accepted from General Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of BUILDING ADDITION. Bid‐ der is required to comply with provisions and re‐ quirements of LA. R.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a pe‐ riod of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with LA. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section; and those

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Tiesha Laniece Tendell is requested to contact Attorney Raushanah S. Hunter in reference to a pending legal matter at (225) 3565252.

197765-Aug 15-17, 3t $88 Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Tommy Jefferson, Sr., A/K/A Tommy Jefferson is requested to contact Attorney Raushanah S. Hunter in reference to a pending legal matter at (225) 356-5252.

197677-Aug 15-17, 3t $94.30 If you know or have any information about the whereabouts of Jeremy Paul Ross, please contact Attorney Marlon Watkins at (225) 412-2993.

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Official Bid documents are available at Central Bidding. Electronic Bids are accepted at Central Bidding. Central Bidding can be accessed at www. centralbidding.com.

To view these, download, receive bid notices by email, and submit the bid you must register with Central Auction House.

Vendors/Contractors will have the option to sub‐ mit their bids and bid bonds electronically or by paper copy. For ques‐ tions related to the elec‐ tronic bidding process, please call Central Bid‐ ding at 225-810-4814.

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ZETA PHI BETA SORORITY, INCORPORATED Mu Zeta Foundation Bernestine B. McGee, Ph.D, Mu Zeta Foundation Chair 197542 Aug, 17, 24, 31, Sept. 7, 2026 4t $1,471.64 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS VBR-232 LAFAYETTE, INC. 359 3rd Street Baton Rouge, LA 70801 Project Name: New Headquarters for Visit Baton Rouge 232 Lafayette Street Baton Rouge, LA 70801 Architect’s Project No. 2324B SEALED BIDS for the con‐ struction of the “New Headquarters for Visit Baton Rouge” consisting of the following: Construction includes abatement, selective de‐ molition, and renova‐ tion/buildout of the ex‐ isting two-story, 12,310 square foot structure to accommodate new of‐ fices for Visit Baton Rouge. Alternate scope includes specialty light‐ ing, site improvements and an addition of a new occupied roof deck. The project has been submit‐ ted to the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) – all work must be done in full compli‐ ance with noted require‐ ments in order for the project to receive the State Historic Tax Cred‐ its. will be received on Tues‐ day, September 1, 2026,

by Visit Baton Rouge, 359 Third Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70801, until 2:00 P.M. local time, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud.

Each bid shall be either hand delivered by the bidder or his agent, or shall be submitted elec‐ tronically with Central Auction House. Sealed bids shall be directed to VBR-232 Lafayette, Inc., c/o Visit Baton Rouge, 359 Third Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70801, on the day of the bid opening. Electronic bids shall be submitted to www.centralbidding. com. No bid received after the scheduled time

The Bidding Documents, consisting of Advertise‐ ment for Bids, Informa‐ tion for Bidders, Bid Form, Bid Bond, Agree‐ ment, General Condi‐ tions, Supplementary Conditions, Special Con‐ ditions, Payment Bond, Performance Bond, No‐ tice of Award, Notice to Proceed, Drawings, Spec‐ ifications and Addenda may be examined at the following locations: Gros Flores Positerry, LLC Architecture and Interior Design 12032 Bricksome Ave. Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2163 for the classification of BUILD‐ ING CONSTRUCTION. The Owner requires that each bidder attach to his bid a certified check, cashier’s check, or bid bond equivalent to 5% of the total bid as evidence of good faith of the bid‐ der. Sureties used for ob‐ taining bonds must ap‐ pear as acceptable on the U.S. Department of the Treasury Circular 570.

Proposal prices shall specifically EXCLUDE any and all taxes whatso‐ ever. Act 1029 of 1991 ex‐ empts local governments from state and local tax effective September 1, 1991. Proposal prices shall include any ship‐ ping / transportation charges, if applicable.

No bidder may withdraw his bid within forty-five (45) days after the actual date of the opening thereof except as pro‐ vided by law.

Any person with disabili‐ ties requiring special ac‐ commodations must contact the Owner no later than seven (7) days prior to the bid opening.

VISIT BATON ROUGE Jill Kidder /s/ Jill Kidder President & CEO

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A NON-MANDATORY PreBid Conference shall be held on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. at 232 Lafayette Street, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70801. Interested bidders are strongly encouraged to attend this meeting as access to the existing structure will be pro‐ vided.

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195821-aug 3-10-17-3t $167.34 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS LOUISIANA LAND TRUST HOME DEMOLITION AND SLAB REMOVAL Bids will be received electronically until 2:00 pm, Monday, August 31, 2026 local time, through Louisiana Land Trust Website for the follow‐ ing: Louisiana Land Trust Louisiana Watershed Ini‐ tiative-Statewide Buyout Program & Restore Louisiana – Solution 4 (2.0) Program Home Demolition and Slab Removal St. Tammany & Tangipahoa Parishes, Louisiana Bid Package No.14 This project consists of the removal and disposal of structures, concrete slab foundations and concrete flatworks, re‐ moval of hazardous trees, fill and grade, and all other items identified within the bid package.

Bid documents are avail‐ able for download from LLTs website https:// www.lalandtrust.us .

A non-mandatory pre-bid conference will be held on Monday, August 24, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. local time via the following re‐ mote: Zoom Meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/j/84757537035? pwd=b92KB8aWP65s2P8 QDF1bPzTQeeHmTt.1 Meeting ID: 847 5753 7035 Passcode: 096000 One tap mobile +13126266799,,8475753703 US The Louisiana Land Trust strongly encourages maximum participation in all bids by qualified Minority Business Enter‐ prises, Women Business Enterprises, small busi‐ nesses, and by local con‐ struction and demolition companies, as prime contractors and as sub‐ contractors.

Published: The AdvocateBaton Rouge & New Orleans The Tangi-Times News https://www.lalandtrust. us/ 197606-aug 17-1t $250.00 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 148 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on September 16, 2026 f li i i b

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When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time the bids are re‐ ceived, the award of this Contract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Commission or the avail‐ ability of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract Between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted.

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals p for Solicitation Number Doc2183429780 - Request for Proposal (RFP) for Family Support and Youth Transition Services for OJJ. The RFP may be accessed at: https://portal.us.bn. cloud.ariba.com/ dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110021386?anI d=ANONYMOUS. No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE the Louisiana De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy, Office of Permitting and Compli‐ ance (OPC) has received the following applica‐ tion(s) for a Coastal Use Permit (CUP) in accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 49:214.21 et seq., and the rules of the Coastal Man‐ agement Program. Appli‐ cations for coastal use permits may be in‐ spected at 617 North 3rd Street, Room 1078, Baton Rouge, LA or on the OPC webpage at: https:// www.dce.louisiana.gov/ page/coastalmanagement-publicnotices. Copies are avail‐ able, costs apply. Written comments are solicited from the public and must be received within 25 days of the date of this notice. Comments must be uploaded directly to our electronic record through the OPC web‐ page or mailed to: OPC Administrator, Kyle Balkum, P.O. Box 44487, Baton Rouge, LA 708044487. All comments must contain the appropriate CUP number and the commenter's full name and contact information.

Below are the referenced application(s): ************ CUP NUM‐ BER: P20260630 Name: Bastin, Barry 13046 BAYOU TERRACE DR ST. AMANT, LA 70774 Attn: Barry Bastin Location: Ascension Parish, LA; Lat. 30-15-19.75N, Long 90-47-05.3W; Lot 145A, Tract Z-1 & Lot 144; Bayou Terrace Subdivi‐ sion; 13046 Bayou Ter‐ race Dr. St Amant, 70774 Description: On swamp side of road, add fill dirt and pour a concrete slab to build a metal shop building. Any existing Cy‐ press or Oak trees will not be removed, only cut‐ ting underbrush around them. Also, adding onto existing house by placing dirt fill for house pad on lot next door. Approx.

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p gy Company c/o Coastal Re‐ source Consulting, LLC P. O. BOX 52370 LAFAYETTE, LA 70505 Attn: Jeremy Griffith Location: Jeffer‐ son Parish, LA; POB – Lat. 29-34-50.1N, Long 90-0350.72W and POE – Lat. 2933-06.36N, Long 900556.67W; Lafitte Field.

Description: Proposing to install approx. 18,687feet of 6-inch flowline from existing header CF1 facility to the Little Lake facility. The flowline will be jetted a minimum of 3- ft. below the mud‐ line in open water. An airboat will be used to assist in jetting flowline in shallow water areas and pulling line across mash. ************ CUP NUMBER: P20260241 Name: Chauvin, John Sea Horse MFG PO BOX 516 LYDIA, LA 70569 Attn: John Chauvin Location: Vermilion Parish, LA; Lat. 29-54-51N, Long 91-5953.8W; Section 54 T13 R5E; Lot# Tract 1 & Tract 2; 16365 East LA HWY 330 Erath, 70533 Description: The proposed project is to build a boat ramp con‐ sisting of a steel rein‐ forced concrete slab and vinyl bulkhead materials, bulkheading the bayou banks with riprap mater‐ ial, constructing a pro‐ posed wharf to run paral‐ lel to the banks of the Bayou Tigre', and deep‐ ening the water along the proposed wharf. The bayou bottom spoil where the deepening will occur, will be used as fill and remain onsite. ************ CUP NUM‐ BER: P20260684 Name: Breton Sound Holdings, LLC c/o T. Baker Smith, LLC 107 GLOBAL CIRCLE LAFAYETTE, LA 70503 Attn: Lindsey Harris Lo‐ cation: Cameron Parish, LA; Lat. 29-43-34.17N, Long. 93-32-5.126W (see plats for additional coor‐ dinates); located in West Cameron Block 21 State Lease 17774 Description: Proposal to remove ex‐ isting structure Well No. 1, as well as the 42,781' of 8" pipeline that was in‐ stalled to service the well. Approx. 14,009 cy excavation required.

197760-AUG 17-1T $42.62 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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I, Brian Christopher Green, have been convicted of 5-14-125 SEXUAL ASSAULT - 2ND DEGREE. ARKANSAS Date Convicted: 11/03/2023.

My Address is: 2080 Lobdell BLVD #2303 Baton Rouge, LA 70806 Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/30/1988 Height: 6'1" Weight: 260 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: ARKANSAS 197694, AUG 16-17 $250

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I, Lemoine Warner Jr. AKA Moine Warner AKA Nunu Warner, have been convicted of 15:542 - Failure to Register/Notify as a Sex Offender. Date Convicted: 02/02/2022.

14:81 - Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 01/28/2010.

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I, QUINTON Anderson ADAMS, have been convicted of 14:43.1 Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 01/08/2013.

14:45 - Simple Kidnapping. Date Convicted: 01/08/2013.

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I, JAMES MADISON MARSHALL JR AKA JAMES MADISON COON AKA KERWIN CUSHENBERRY AKA LIL JAMIE MARSHAL AKA COON MARSHALL AKA JAMMIE MARSHALL AKA SANDRA MARSHALL, have been convicted of 14:81 Indecent Behavior with Juveniles. Date Convicted: 07/16/1999.

My Address is: 1725 W Catalpa St Baton Rouge, LA 70815 Race: BLACK MALE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 8/14/1978 Height: 5'3" Weight: 135 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 197714, AUG 16-17 $250

I, MICHAEL Rene DEBATES AKA MICHAEL RENE DEBATES AKA Mike DEBATES, have been convicted of 14:42.1 - Forcible Rape.

Date Convicted: 08/29/1996. 14:44.1 Second Degree Kidnapping. Date Convicted: 08/29/1996.

My Address is: 11550 Southfork Ave #311 Baton Rouge, LA 70816 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 2/2/1971 Height: 6'2" Weight: 180 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: BLUE Scars/Tattoos:

NOTICE IS GIVEN that Kim Vicaro Dykes, Dative Ex‐ ecutor of the Succession of Beverly Louise Drago Vicaro, Probate No. 106,605, Div. 26, 19th JDC, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, has applied for authority to sell at private sale the Dece‐ dent’s undivided interest in the immovable prop‐ erty situated in East Baton Rouge Parish and being described as 1.48 acres of Lot 23A, situated in section 40, T-6-A, R-1-E, G.L.D., for no less the sum of EIGHT THOUSAND AND 00/100 ($8,000.00) DOLLARS, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the petition. Any opposition to the pro‐ posed sale must be filed within seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of this notice.

Additional details are contained in filings avail‐ able at the Clerk of Court for East Baton Rouge Parish.

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For the Meeting of Mayor and Council City of Zachary, LA Council Chambers, 4700 Main Street Tuesday, July 28, 2026, 6:30 P.M. A. CALL TO ORDER Mayor McDavid called the meeting to order at 6:32 p.m., on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, at the Zachary City Hall located at 4700 Main Street, Zachary, LA. B. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Invocation by Councilwoman Westmoreland Pledge of Allegiance by Councilman LeBlanc C. OPENING PROCEDURES 1. ROLL CALL

MAYOR David McDavid COUNCIL MEMBERS Brandy Westmoreland – District 1 John LeBlanc– District 2 Ambre DeVirgilio – District 3 ABSENT MEMBERS James Graves – District 4 Jennifer Landry – District 5

2. READING OF CITY POLICY RELATIVE TO OPEN MEETINGS Before proceeding with the meeting, Mayor McDavid read a statement into the record regarding the Open Meetings Law, and citizens’ right to participate in public meetings. The statement sets forth general rules of conduct of the public meeting and outlined the process through which a citizen can have items placed on the Council agenda. A copy of the rules is available at City Hall, Mayor’s Office or by calling the Clerk of the City Council. The rules will also be available at every Council meeting.

D. READING OF THE MINUTES 1. Approval of Minutes July 14, 2026, regular meeting, and approve them as written.

The motion was made by Councilman LeBlanc The motion was seconded by Councilwoman DeVirgilio To approve minutes of July 14, 2026, regular meeting, and approve them as written.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None E. HONORS, RECOGNITIONS, AND INTRODUCTIONS F. CONTRACT ITEMS/CONTRACTS OR ITEMS RELATING TO PROJECTS 1. Street/Road Projects a) McHost Road Water Main Relocation – Pay Request #4 The motion was made by Councilwoman Westmoreland The motion was seconded by Councilwoman DeVirgilio To approve McHost Road Water Main Relocation – Pay Request #4 in the amount of $106,768.12.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None b) Mt Pleasant Crosswalks – Change Order #1 and Pay Request #3 The motion was made by Councilwoman DeVirgilio The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Westmoreland To approve Mt Pleasant Crosswalks – Change Order #1, pay increase in the amount of $34,217.36 and Pay Request #3 in the amount of $122,019.34.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None c) Request authorization to go out for Bids for 2026 Road Rehabilitation Project.

The motion was made by Councilwoman DeVirgilio The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Westmoreland To approve an authorization to go out for Bids for 2026 Road Rehabilitation Project.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None d) Main Street Improvements – Retainage Pay Request #2 The motion was made by Councilwoman DeVirgilio The motion was seconded by Councilman LeBlanc To approve Main Street Improvements – Retainage Pay Request #2 in the amount of $8,152.50.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None 2.

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G. PRESENTATION OF DELEGATIONS 1. Request to Speak a) Joel Aslin, 1331 East Plains-Port Hudson Road, addressed the Council regarding concerns about individuals hunting near property adjacent to his land. He requested that the Council consider adopting an ordinance to prohibit this activity. Mayor McDavid stated that the matter would be discussed by the Council and would require a decision by the governing body.

2. Hardship Waivers a) Waiver Application – 3010 North Vernon Rd. The motion was made by Councilwoman Westmoreland The motion was not seconded To deny Waiver Application – 3010 North Vernon Rd. The motion was made by Councilman LeBlanc The motion was made by Councilwoman DeVirgilio To table Waiver Application – 3010 North Vernon Rd. YEAS: LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: Westmoreland ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None The motion failed, no action taken on the agenda item.

3. Other Variances 4. Exceptions of Regulations H. ACTION MANDATED BY HOME RULE CHARTER I.

PLANNING & ZONING MATTERS 1. Receive Minutes of the Regular meeting of July 06, 2026, of the Planning Commission and the Minutes of the Regular meeting of July 06, 2026, of the Zoning Commission.

The motion was made by Councilwoman DeVirgilio The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Westmoreland To approve receiving the minutes of the Regular meeting of July 06, 2026, of the Planning Commission and the minutes of the Regular meeting of July 06, 2026, of the Zoning Commission.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None 2.

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Planning matters REQUIRING a Public Hearing Planning Matters NOT requiring a Public Meeting Zoning Matters REQUIRING a Public Hearing Zoning Matters NOT Requiring Public Hearing Other Matters

J. RECEIVE RECORD OF PAYMENT OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE 1. Receive the balance sheet and income statement as of July 2026 and the natural gas bill when it is received.

The motion was made by Councilwoman Westmoreland The motion was seconded by Councilman LeBlanc To approve receiving the balance sheet and income statement as of July 2026 and the natural gas bill when it is received.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None K. BUDGET AND FINANCIAL MATTERS L. OLD BUSINESS PENDING FOR FINAL ACTION

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M. OLD BUSINESS PENDING N. NEW BUSINESS 1. Introduction of Ordinance 2026-13 - ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF ZACHARY TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR THE CITY OF ZACHARY TO CREATE A ONE (1) ACRE RESIDENTIAL ZONING DESIGNATION. The motion was made by Councilwoman Westmoreland The motion was seconded by Councilwoman DeVirgilio To approve Introduction of Ordinance 2026-13 - ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF ZACHARY TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR THE CITY OF ZACHARY TO CREATE A ONE (1) ACRE RESIDENTIAL ZONING DESIGNATION. YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None 2. Introduction of Ordinance 2026-14 ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF ZACHARY, STATE OF LOUISIANA, TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN PROPERTY OF THE CITY; APPROVING THE FORM AND TERMS OF SUCH AGREEMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH.

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WHEREAS, in 2025, the City of Zachary’s Unified Development Code (the “UDC”) was amended to revise the Residential Estate (RE) zoning district standards, resulting in changing the minimum lot size from 1 acre to 3 acres; WHEREAS, since that time, the City Council of the City of Zachary (“Council”) has determined that it is necessary to create a new one (1) acre residential zoning designation; WHEREAS, the Council hereby determines that the UDC is hereby amended to create a new R-1 One-Acre Residential Zoning District as follows: BE IT ORDAINED by the Council that Section 1.701(A)(3) be added as follows: Section 1.701 Zoning District References Updated A. Zoning Districts Updated 3. Per the adoption and effective date of Ordinance 2026-13, where a section of this UDC does not have a standard or regulation for the R-1 District but does have a standard or regulation for the RE district, all standards and regulations for the RE district in such section shall also apply to the R-1 district.

BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED by the Council that Table 2.101, Table 2.202, Table 2.203, Table 2.204, Table 2.303 and Table 2.502 all be amended as follows: Table 2.101 Residential Zoning Summary Table District District Name District Purpose and Description Code

The motion was made by Councilwoman DeVirgilio The motion was seconded by Councilwoman Westmoreland To approve Introduction of Ordinance 2026-14 - ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF ZACHARY, STATE OF LOUISIANA, TO ENTER INTO A LEASE AGREEMENT WITH RESPECT TO CERTAIN PROPERTY OF THE CITY; APPROVING THE FORM AND TERMS OF SUCH AGREEMENT; AND PROVIDING FOR OTHER MATTERS IN CONNECTION THEREWITH. YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None

Residential Generally. This district is a use-based district intended to permit rural residential, agriculture and forestry to be the primary use of land, and restrict uses or activities that interfere with agriculture or where owners would be impacted by the noise, dirt, or odors associated with agricultural uses.

Rural Residential

RR

R-1 Residential

R-1

Character. This district is rural in character.

Uses. Rural single-family residential, agriculture and forestry are the primary use of the land. Other uses are limited to those that are supportive of or similar to the primary residential, agricultural or forestry use.

Infrastructure. Water and sewer may be provided on-site or by public systems.

Generally. This district is a low-density single-family residential district. It is intended to permit residential development in developed and undeveloped areas of the city with larger lots.

Character. This district is low-density in nature and maintains a balance between the landscape and buildings, with on-site landscaping and tree-lined streets that shelter the buildings. Open space and low proportions of impervious surfaces characterize the built environment, and lot sizes and setbacks ensure adequate spacing between homes to maintain a sense of openness and privacy.

Uses. This district is intended to allow residential development. Institutional and recreational uses that serve the neighborhood are permitted but are restricted in scale to preserve the safety and integrity of the neighborhood streets.

Infrastructure. Public water is required; sewer treatment may be provided on-site Generally. This district is a very low-density residential district. It is intended to provide for the use of areas that are not presently accessible to the City's urban services. It is intended that this land remain undeveloped until services can be extended, but the district provides a development option.

3. Presentation - The Power of Arrival: Creating Iconic Gateways through Placemaking.

Presentation given by Councilwoman DeVirgilio.

Estate Residential

O. CONDEMNED BUILDINGS – PUBLIC HEARINGS OR OTHER ACTION REGARDING BUILDINGS BEING CONSIDERED FOR CONDEMNDATION City Attorney, Mrs. Wilson stated the next meeting will be held next month.

Character. This district is semi-rural in nature, which is characterized by a balance between the landscape and buildings that favors the landscape. On- site landscaping and tree-lined streets shelter the buildings. Open space and low proportions of impervious surfaces characterize the built environment. Development clustering may be used to ensure an adequate amount of open space will be available upon build-out to enhance neighborhood character and the lifestyle of residents.

Uses. This district is intended to allow residential neighborhoods. Recreational uses that serve the neighborhoods are permitted but are restricted in scale to preserve the safety and integrity of the neighborhood streets.

Infrastructure. Public water is required; sewer treatment may be provided on-site Generally. This district is the primary residential district for the City. It is intended to permit a wide range of residential uses on larger lots, and to encourage a variety of housing types.

Suburban Residential

P. REPORTS FROM DEPARTMENT HEADS Q. COUNCIL DISCUSSION OF BUSINESS NOT ON AGENDA (No Action May Be Taken Unless Declared an Emergency) Councilwoman Westmoreland announced that the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall will be coming to Zachary for the first time in 30 years.

The memorial will be displayed in front of Zachary High School, arriving on Thursday, November 12, and will be open to visitors from Friday, November 13, through Monday, November 16. She requested that the City assist with promoting the event through social media to help inform the community.

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Urban Residential

Character. This district is suburban in nature, which is characterized by a balance between the landscape and buildings, with on-site landscaping and tree-lined streets that shelter the buildings. Open space and low proportions of impervious surfaces characterize the built environment. Development clustering will ensure an adequate amount of open space will be available upon build-out to enhance suburban character and the lifestyle of residents.

Uses. This district is intended to allow residential neighborhoods, while permitting a range of housing types to meet all residential needs. Institutional and recreational uses that serve the neighborhoods are permitted but are restricted in scale to preserve the safety and integrity of the neighborhood streets.

Infrastructure. Public water and sewer are required.

Generally. This district is the highest intensity residential district. It is intended to permit a wide range of residential uses and encourage a variety of housing types. It is located near the traditional downtown and near major shopping areas and employment centers.

Character. This district has an urban character, which is characterized by residential buildings that cover a large percentage of the lot and are spaced closely enough to create a perception of street enclosure.

Uses. This district is intended to create higher density residential neighborhoods to meet the community's housing needs for higher density and infill housing development. Institutional and recreational uses that serve this urban neighborhood environment are permitted and encouraged.

Infrastructure. Public water and sewer are required.

Table 2.202 Residential: Residential and Institutional Uses and Overlay Districts Zoning District

R. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 7:33 p.m.

Use Standard

RR R-1

Land Use Residential Uses Housing Types

Karen Burdette Clerk of City Council CITY OF ZACHARY PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE STATE OF LOUISIANA

Dwelling, Single-Family Detached

P

P

P

Dwelling, Single-Family Detached Cluster

P

P

Sec. 2.303

P

P

Sec. 2.304

P

Sec. 2.305

Dwelling, Single-Family Attached Dwelling, Multifamily

P

Manufactured Home

P

C

C

C

C

Manufactured Home Park or Subdivision

C

C

C

C

C

Sec. 2.306 Sec. 7.201 Sec. 7.201

Special Housing Types

CERTIFICATION _____________________________ ________________________________ Karen Burdette David McDavid, Mayor Clerk of the City Council CITY OF ZACHARY PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE STATE OF LOUISIANA

Community Homes

C

Residential Eldercare Facilities

C

Institutional Residential

C

C

C

C

Home Office/Occupation

P

P

P

Home Business

P

C

C

Day Care Home

P

P

P

Bed and Breakfast

C

C

C

C

P

C

C

C

Cemetery

Sec. 7.201

C

Sec. 7.201

C

Sec. 7.201

C

Sec. 7.201 Sec. 7.201

C

C

C

C

C

Sec. 7.201

P

P

P

P

P

Sec. 7.201

C

Sec. 7.201

Hospitals

-

-

-

-

-

Sec. 7.201

Parks and Playgrounds

C

C

C

C

C

Sec. 7.201

Place of Worship

P

P

P

P

P

Sec. 7.201

C

P

p

p

P

Sec. 7.201

Protective Care

C

C

C

C

C

Sec. 7.201

Public Service

P

C

C

C

-

Sec. 7.201

Traditional Neighborhood Development (TND)

P

P

P

P

Division 6.500

Planned Unit Development (PUD)

P

P

P

P

Division 6.400

P

P

Division 6.300

Zachary Downtown Overlay (ZD) TABLE NOTES: 1 .

Table 2.203 Residential Districts: Commercial, Recreation, and Amusement Uses Zoning District

RR R-1

Land Use

Use Standard

Commercial Uses Agricultural Support / Other Rural Services

P

Campgrounds

P

C

-

-

-

Sec. 7.201

C

-

-

Sec. 7.201

Commercial Amusement/Recreation Indoor

C

-

Commercial Amusement/Recreation, Outdoor

P

-

Commercial Retail

C

-

Day Care Center

C

Sec. 7.201 C

B. INVOCATION AND PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE Rolled over from previous meeting.

Kennel/Pet Day Care

C

Mini-Warehouse/Self-Storage

C

Nursery or Greenhouse

P

Office

-

Private Club

C

Reception Facility

C

Veterinarian

C

Sec. 7.201 Sec. 7.201

Financial Institution

A. CALL TO ORDER The meeting was called to order by Chairwoman Ambre DeVirgilio at 7:40 p.m.

C

Sec. 7.201

C

Sec. 7.201 Sec. 7.201

-

Sec. 7.201

C

-

Sec. 7.201

-

C

Sec. 7.201

C

C

Sec. 7.201

C

Sec. 7.201 Sec. 7.201

-

Table 2.204 Residential Districts: Industrial, Agricultural and Special Uses

C. OPENING PROCEDURES 1. ROLL CALL MEMBERS PRESENT Brandy Westmoreland John LeBlanc Ambre DeVirgilio MEMBERS ABSENT James Graves Jennifer Landry

ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF ZACHARY TO AMEND AND UPDATE THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE FOR THE CITY OF ZACHARY TO CREATE A ONE (1) ACRE RESIDENTIAL ZONING DESIGNATION

P

C C

Overlay and Special Districts

For the Meeting of the Governing Authority of Americana Economic Development District Council Chambers, 4700 Main Street Tuesday, July 28, 2026 Immediately following close of Meeting of Mayor and City Council

ORDINANCE 2026-13

P

Educational Facility, Primary or Secondary

MINUTES

_______________________________ _____________________________ Karen Burdette, Clerk of the Ambre DeVirgilio, Chairwoman City Council CITY OF ZACHARY CITY OF ZACHARY, LA PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE STATE OF LOUISIANA _________________________________________________________________

Sec. 7.201

Educational Facility, University or Vocational

__________________________________________ Karen Burdette, Clerk of the City Council _________________________________________________________________

E. ADJOURNMENT The meeting was adjourned at 7:42 p.m.

Sec. 7.201

C

Cultural Facility

Private Residential Recreation Facilities

1. Approval to amend Resolution No. 2026-01, a Resolution to Disburse adopted on July 14, 2026, by striking out “AmericanaDaigle Development” and inserting “Americana Development Company, LLC “ to reflect the official entity name change on file with the Secretary of State.

The motion was made by Mrs. Westmoreland The motion was seconded by Mr. LeBlanc To approve to amend Resolution No. 2026-01, a Resolution to Disburse adopted on July 14, 2026, by striking out “AmericanaDaigle Development” and inserting “Americana Development Company, LLC “ to reflect the official entity name change on file with the Secretary of State.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None

Sec. 7.201

P

Institutional Uses

I further certify that the above and foregoing is a true and correct copy of the minutes of the regular meeting of the Mayor and Council of the City of Zachary, Louisiana, held on Tuesday, July 28, 2026, a proper quorum being there and then present.

D. NEW BUSINESS

P

Residential Home Uses

I, Karen Burdette, do hereby certify that I am the duly appointed Clerk of the City Council for the City of Zachary, Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

2. MINUTES OF THE PREVIOUS MEETING OF July 14, 2026, regular meeting.

The motion was made by Mrs. Westmoreland The motion was seconded by Mr. LeBlanc To approve the Minutes of July 14, 2026, regular meeting, and approve them as written.

YEAS: Westmoreland, LeBlanc, DeVirgilio NAYS: None ABSENT: Graves, Landry ABSTAINED: None

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Zoning District Land Use

RR R-1

Use Standard

Extraction

C

-

Sec. 7.201

Utilities, Community

C

C

C

C

C

Sec. 7.201

Utilities, Neighborhood

P

P

P

-

P

P

Sec. 7.201

Agriculture or Forestry

P

C

C

Commercial Stables

P

C

C

Airports

C

-

-

Sec. 7.201

-

-

Sec. 7.201

-

Sec. 7.201

Wireless Telecommunications C C C C C Facilities TABLE NOTES: 1Only in connection with a community garden and only as an accessory building

Sec. 7.201

Table 2.303 Single-Family Detached Standards (R-1/ RE / RS / RU) Minimum Lot Area

Lot Width (ft.)

Front Setback1 (ft.)

Single Family Detached

1 acre

125

Single Family Detached

3 acre

Single Family Detached

Single Family Detached

Zoning District and Development Type R

Maximum

Side Setback Min. / Total (ft.)2

Rear Setback (ft.)

Height (ft.)

Building Coverage Ratio (%)

40

20 /40

50

35

30%

200

75

30/60

50

35

20%

11,500 sf.

85

30

10 /20

30

35

45%

6,000 sf.

60

25

8 / 16

25

35

60%

R-1

TABLE NOTES: 1 Street yard refers to all yards on a street front, side, or rear.

2 The first number is the minimum side yard. The second number is the sum of the two side yards.

Table 2.502 General Nonresidential Parcel and Bulk Requirements Minimum District and Use

Lot Width Build-to Front Side Yard (ft.)1 Line (ft.)2 Setback Min. / (ft.)2 Total (ft.)2

Rear Setback (ft.)2

Min Min Parcel Permeable Area Proposed for Open Space Development

Maximum Height (ft.)

RR All Nonresidential Uses (except agriculture and forestry)1

200

N/A

75

50/100

50

70%

5 acres

35

Cemetery

200

N/A

50

30/60

50

50%

2 acres

35

Other Nonresidential Uses

125

N/A

50

30/60

35

40%

2 acres

35

Cemetery

200

N/A

50

30/60

50

50%

2 acres

35

Other Nonresidential Uses

125

N/A

50

30 / 60

35

40%

2 acres

35

Cemetery

200

N/A

50

25/50

50

50%

2 acres

35

Other Nonresidential Uses

85

N/A

25

10 / 20

30

30%

9,500 sf.

35

Cemetery

200

N/A

50

30/60

50

50%

1 acre

35

R-1

Other Nonresidential Uses 60 N/A 20 15/30 20 25% 7,000 sf 35 TABLE NOTES: Nonresidential uses in RR may have on-site utilities.

2long arterials, frontages in excess of the minimum lot width may be required. See Access Management and Circulation.

2 If a larger bufferyard is required, the setback or build-to line shall be the width of the bufferyard.

3 Buildings shall be constructed to a build-to line that allows enough room for a 10-foot-wide attached sidewalk. If the 10-foot wide sidewalk can be constructed entirely within the right-of-way, then the build-to line shall be the property line.

4Individual buildings shall not exceed 5,000 sf. for freestanding buildings; or 9,000 sf. for multi-tenant buildings with separate entrances.

Any increase in maximum floor area only allowed through conditional use approval.

1

Notwithstanding the foregoing, all other Articles, Sections and Subsections of the UDC shall remain unchanged.

This Ordinance shall become effective at the expiration of ten (10)

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calendar days after publication by the City Council for the City of Zachary, unless the referenced ordinance shall specify another effective date, all pursuant to § 2-10 (C) of the Home Rule Charter adopted by the electors for the City of Zachary.

INTRODUCED FOR ADOPTION by the City Council of the City of Zachary as a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 28th day of July, 2026.

SUBMITTED FOR FINAL APROVAL AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Zachary at a regular meeting of the said Council, after being duly noticed and publicized, held on the 11th day of August, 2026 and upon which the foregoing ordinance was read in full, the roll was called on the adoption thereof, and the Ordinance was adopted.

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ATTEST: _____________________ Karen Burdette – Clerk, City Council

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___________________________ David McDavid, Mayor

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__________________________________ Karen Burdette – Clerk, City Council I DO HEREBY ACT TO ____ ADOPT / ____VETO THIS ORDINANCE, this ____ day of ____________, 2026 at ____:___, ___ M, by my signature below.

________________________ Brandy Westmoreland Mayor Pro Tempore

_______________________ David McDavid, Mayor

Ordinance 2026-13 PRESENTED TO THE MAYOR PURSUANT TO HRC § 2-11(A), this ____ day of _______________, 2026 at ____:___, ___ M.

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