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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy has raised concerns about President Donald Trump’s nominee to run the agency that oversees the safety of food and drugs, citing a lack of experience and questioning her commitment to defending vaccines. As chair of the powerful Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, Cassidy’s wari- Overton ness could pose problems for Dr. Heidi Overton’s nomination. Overton, of Gallup, New Mexico, is a deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council. Trump tapped her Wednesday to replace Dr. Marty Makary, who resigned in May. “While I respect Dr. Overton’s experience as a physician, I have strong concerns about her nomination to be FDA Commissioner,” Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, wrote on X moments after Trump announced his nomination. “Her lack of managerial experience does not prepare her well for leading a large organization that is already dealing with stafﬁng and morale issues.” Cassidy has not said when or if he will convene a HELP committee hearing on Overton’s nomination. Every Republican on the panel will have to approve advancing Overton’s nomination for the full Senate to vote on her conﬁrmation. Additionally, Cassidy faulted Overton for standing behind Trump when he released his

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mes said he doesn’t mind the ongoing construction. He’s more excited for the end result, when his customers will have millions of dollars’ worth of new roads, sidewalks and greenery that he expects will help attract them to the area and encourage them to visit neighboring stores and restaurants, too. “The construction, just like any other construction, has its ups and downs,” Jaimes said, “But I feel for the end game it’s going to be worth it, to be honest.” The city of Gretna and the state

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Upcoming Ye concert sparks concern Officials, Jewish community wary of Superdome show

the area’s local Jewish community, with some members worried about the potential for Ye’s concert to promote antisemitism and hate. Ye has made antisemitic and racist comments in recent years, promoted Nazi symbols and released various BY KEITH SPERA forms of a song called “Heil Hitler,” Staff writer which sampled an Adolf Hitler speech. In January, he took out a full-page Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is scheduled to perform ad in The Wall Street Journal to apoloin New Orleans for the ﬁrst time in 13 gize for his offensive comments and years on Aug. 28 at the Caesars Super- behavior. He blamed them on bipolar disorder, which he said resulted from dome. But the local appearance of the con- an undiagnosed brain injury sustained troversial star is raising concerns in in a 2002 car accident.

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“I am not a Nazi or an antisemite,” he stated in the letter addressed “To Those I’ve Hurt.” “I love Jewish people.” Ye’s apology was “a good step,” said Aaron Bloch, the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans’ director of Jewish-Multicultural and Government Affairs. That mental health may have played a role in Ye’s behavior should also be taken into consideration, Bloch said. “But when you go that far into a ‘Heil Hitler’ song, it may take more time to

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A woman who authorities said had been plotting to bomb the New York State Capitol building because she believed laws were being passed that were an affront to Islam was caught in an FBI sting operation and is now facing a federal terrorism charge, authorities announced Thursday. Jessica Bowie, 35, of Albany, had been under surveillance for more than a month as she communicated with at least one conﬁdential informant posing as an ISIS facilitator, according to a criminal complaint. Operatives working for the FBI then facilitated her plans, including providing her with money to buy ingredients for a nail bomb. On Wednesday, according to the complaint, the operatives handed Bowie a gun, ammunition and an inert explosive, then gave her instructions on how to use them. FBI agents then arrested Bowie as she left that meeting with the weapons in a bag, authorities said. No attorney information was listed for Bowie. The Federal Public Defenders’ office in Albany declined to comment Thursday.

Boat capsizes in Nigeria, killing at least 47 SOKOTO, Nigeria — A boat capsized Thursday in a river in Nigeria ’s northwestern Sokoto state, leaving at least 47 people dead, ofﬁcials and residents said. The boat was carrying more than 80 people, most of whom were heading to farms for work in Gorau town in the Goronyo local government area of the state, ofﬁcials said. Abdulkadir Yusuf, Sokoto state manager at the National Inland Waterways Authority, said the death toll was 47 people “so far.” Resident Samaila Garba, 55, said his 13-year-old granddaughter, Jamila Usman, was among those who died in the capsizing. He said he had counted at least 42 bodies of victims, most of them women and children. “You know, during the rainy season, most women and children go to the farm to work,” he told The Associated Press. Another resident, Aminu Dan Hajiya, said he goes to his farm using the same waterway and he considers himself lucky to not have been on the boat. “In fact, almost every household in the community has been affected,” he said.

Harvard settles lawsuits over stolen body parts

BOSTON — Harvard Medical School says it agreed to pay $53 million to settle class action lawsuits by relatives of body donors whose remains were sold on the black market by its former morgue manager. Harvard Medical School Deans George Q. Daley and Bernard S. Chang announced the development in a letter to the community on Tuesday, calling the actions of former morgue manager Cedric Lodge “despicable, abhorrent, and a flagrant betrayal of our values as a medical community.” Pending court approval, Harvard said that two class action settlement funds totaling $53 million will be established to resolve the lawsuits. A Harvard Medical School spokesperson on Thursday referred to the letter when asked for comment and said they had no additional information to share. The lawsuits were brought by 47 relatives of people whose remains were potentially mishandled and sold. The remains were donated for research and education. Harvard has said it cannot determine precisely which donors’ remains Lodge stole.

CORRECTION An article Thursday about New Orleans City Hall and Civil District Court buildings incorrectly stated the architecture firm Kevin Quan represents. He works for DLR Group. Also, Quan was addressing the state of the civil court building when he said it had “reached the last of its lifespan.” The Times-Picayune regrets the errors.

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Agents seize ex-lawmaker’s devices Source: Move part of sexual misconduct probe into Swalwell

BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal agents seized electronic devices from former Rep. Eric Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct by the ex-Democratic congressman from California, according to a person familiar with the matter. Swalwell’s devices were seized at the San Francisco airport on Saturday and agents executed a search warrant at his home a day later, said the person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss an ongoing investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity. A message seeking comment was left Thursday with an attorney for Swalwell, who has denied allegations of sexual assault and misconduct. The Daily Mail ﬁrst reported the seizure of Swalwell’s devices on Thursday. Swalwell announced his resignation from Congress in April following allegations that Swalwell had sexually assaulted a woman twice, including when she worked for him. The San Francisco Chronicle, followed by CNN, ﬁrst reported the

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Then-Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., speaks April 7 after holding a town hall meeting in Sacramento, Calif. Federal agents seized electronic devices from Swalwell and searched his Washington home as part of an investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct, a source says. allegations. CNN also reported that three other women alleged various kinds of sexual misconduct by Swalwell, including sending them unsolicited explicit messages or nude photos. The seven-term lawmaker had been seen as one of the leading candidates in California’s gubernatorial race before dropping out after the allegations surfaced. The ofﬁce of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg conﬁrmed

in April that it was investigating Swalwell after a former staffer told CNN and the Chronicle that Swalwell raped her at a hotel while he was in New York City for a charity gala in 2024. In a statement, Bragg’s ofﬁce encouraged “survivors and anyone with knowledge of these allegations to contact our Special Victims Division.” A lawyer representing Lonna Drewes, a California woman who in April said she had been raped

in 2018 by Swalwell, said his team was cooperating with all law enforcement agencies investigating the former congressman. “We are encouraged to learn about the escalation of the FBI’s investigation into the allegations against Eric Swalwell,” attorney Arick Fudali said in a statement. Drewes spoke of the assault at a news conference days after Swalwell dropped out of the California governor’s race. She said it occurred at a hotel in Southern California. Swalwell denied that assault. Swalwell, an Iowa native, was elected in 2012 and represented a House district east of San Francisco. He launched a presidential run in April 2019 but ended it a few months later after failing to catch on with voters. He was one of Republican President Donald Trump’s top Democratic antagonists in Congress. He was a prominent member of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees during Trump’s ﬁrst term and served as one of several Democratic prosecutors for Trump’s second impeachment after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Swalwell was removed from the Intelligence Committee by thenHouse Speaker Kevin McCarthy, RCalif., in 2023 based on Swalwell’s contact with a suspected Chinese spy, Christine Fang.

Indiana residents endure 9th day without power BY LAURA BARGFELD, R.J. RICO and ED WHITE

survival mode, doing the best that we can.” More than a week after the initial storm, many residents in East Chicago, Indiana, who lost power regained it, but then lost it again. Kevin Mejia, who has a community Facebook page, was in that category Thursday. “If I make one post, I get 500 comments,” Mejia, 30, said. “A lot of people have been reaching out to me for food: ‘Hey, I threw out hundreds of dollars in groceries.’ Elderly people don’t know who to turn to.” He’s been sleeping on the ﬂoor because his mattress is too warm. With no power, his window air conditioners are silent. Raydia Martin, assistant director of the Flourish Community Hub at Flourish Church in Gary, said the “silver lining” has been the response from volunteers and

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GARY, Ind. — Tens of thousands of residents in northwest Indiana were in survival mode Thursday as they endured a ninth day without power, throwing out spoiled food, lining up for hot meals and searching for places to charge their phones. In Gary, Indiana, schools remained closed after the deadly Aug. 11 storm downed trees and power lines. Residents turned to social media to find open laundromats and working Wi-Fi, while others sought food, diapers and cleaning wipes for low-income neighbors. Meanwhile, heavy rains in central Ohio brought flash flooding that covered roadways Thursday morning in Columbus, the state capital, where emergency crews rescued motorists from stranded cars and saved a 12-year-old boy who was swept off a bridge. Northern Indiana Public Service Co. said 68,000 customers were still without power as of Thursday morning, the majority of them in Lake County beside the Illinois border. The utility said it has restored power to 306,500 others since Aug. 11. But power is not expected to be fully restored until Tuesday in some places, including Gary. Courtney Page-Tan, an Indiana University Indianapolis professor who studies community resilience, said health concerns grow each day of a pro-

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Tyanna Borom wipes her tears while holding a free boxed lunch on Thursday at City Life Center in Gary, Ind., more than a week after a deadly storm passed through the area. longed outage. With many people using generators, poor ventilation can lead to carbon monoxide poisoning. In addition, those reliant on medical devices risk having them lose their charge, while refrigerated food once safe to eat could pose health risks as it spoils. “Nine days is a long time for a community to be without power,” Page-Tan said. Shatiya Hardin, a hair stylist in Gary for 25

years, has been unable to open her salon since the storm. She said residents in her lower-income neighborhood initially took the outages in stride. But now patience is wearing thin. “We’re always in survival mode in Gary. And I think that’s probably why it wasn’t so much of an uproar because the ﬁrst few days, it was like, ‘OK, we’re used to this .... but this is the second week now,” Hardin said. “It’s not OK for us to continually be in

Russian drone, missile barrage kills at least 16 in Ukraine’s Kyiv region BY SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia pounded the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv and the surrounding region with scores of missiles and drones in a nighttime aerial attack that lasted for hours and killed at least 16 people, officials said Thursday. Moscow’s forces have in recent months intensiﬁed their ballistic missile attacks on Kyiv, exploiting Ukraine’s chronic shortage of U.S.-made Patriot air de-

community groups. “We thrive best, you know, as humans on certainty and predictability,” Martin said. “So for something so devastating to happen so quickly, it definitely takes a toll on people mentally. Just not knowing what’s coming next, where the next meal is going to come from, and when this is all going to be over. We need to have a light at the end of the tunnel.” The utility, NIPSCO, has called the destruction “unprecedented and widespread,” and said crews from around the country have arrived to help repair downed wires, broken poles and damaged equipment. Illinois, which is served by a different utility, recovered sooner from the same storm. “No service territory is the same,” said Melody Birmingham, an executive at NIPSCO’s parent company.

fense interceptors, the sole weapon in its arsenal able to shoot down the missiles. Large-scale Russian missile strikes have become a regular occurrence this summer. Just over two weeks ago, a Russian attack on Kyiv and its surrounding region killed 17 people, and nine were killed in the city two days before that. The United Nations said last week that Kyiv was one of the hardest hit cities in July, with at least 54 civilians killed and 202 injured. At the same time, Ukraine

has shifted the war onto Russian soil through longrange drone strikes on oil facilities that have caused fuel shortages across the country. It has also unsettled the Russian public by striking warehouses of Wildberries, the country’s biggest online retailer. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has pleaded for countries to send more Patriot interceptors for defense, but international stockpiles are low amid the Iran war and Kyiv’s more than four-year ﬁght against Russia’s all-out invasion.

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U.S. aircraft carrier arrives in Middle East Vessel to relieve long-deployed USS Lincoln

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WASHINGTON — The Asiabased USS George Washington aircraft carrier is now operating in the Middle East, the U.S. military said Thursday, relieving a longdeployed carrier following reports of mental health challenges and supply shortages aboard while it was supporting the Iran war. U.S. Central Command, which oversees military operations in the Middle East, said on social media that the carrier arrived in the region Wednesday. It was not clear when the USS Abraham Lincoln would arrive back in the U.S. or whether it would

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make a port stop along the way, but the journey takes just over a month. The Washington arrived as concerns have grown about the Lincoln’s lengthy deployment, which has included a record-setting uninterrupted time at sea of more than 250 days, and about reports of crew stress and poor mental health, as well as supply shortages, including food and hygiene products. Several Democratic lawmakers have pressed the Department of Defense for accountability over conditions aboard the Lincoln, which Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has said were “completely misrepresented.” Hegseth spoke with the Lincoln’s crew last week, and Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, visited this past weekend. In an editorial published Sunday by The Wall Street

Journal, Cooper said the crew “delivered a performance for the ages, and now you are going home.” Extended deployments of carriers wear on service members who are away from home for long periods and increase strain on the ship and its equipment. While renewed hostilities between the U.S. and Iran calmed in recent weeks, the Navy is enforcing a reimposed blockade on Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz, and the Trump administration has offered no clarity on how it intends to wind down the war. Hegseth has said the U.S. can maintain the blockade “indeﬁnitely.” President Donald Trump this week downplayed reports about conditions on the Lincoln, which left its home port in San Diego in November and arrived in the Middle East in January.

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The USS George Washington aircraft carrier is now operating in the Middle East, the U.S. military said Thursday, relieving the long-deployed USS Abraham Lincoln. Trump called the nearly nine months at sea that the sailors endured a “good period of time” but added that “over the years, we’ve had them out there much longer.” Trump told reporters Monday that he spoke with

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U.S. carries out first deportations under pact with Liberia BY MARK MENGONFIA Associated Press

HARBEL, Liberia — The United States on Thursday carried out its ﬁrst deportation under an agreement for Liberia to accept up to 1,200 people who are not from the African country, one of President Donald Trump’s administration’s largest efforts yet to deport people to countries other than their own. The 20 deportees arrived at Roberts International Airport outside Monrovia. Deportees will include African nationals as well as nationals from North America, South America and the Caribbean, according to Liberian Information Minister Jerolinmek Piah. Liberian Justice Minister Natu Oswald Tweh has said they could seek asylum in the West African country if they wished.

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A plane carrying the deportees from the United States arrives Thursday at the Roberts International Airport outside of Monrovia, Liberia. The U.S. State Department declined to answer questions about the Liberia agreement, but said that implementing the Trump ad-

ministration’s immigration policies was a “top priority.” It said it was “unwavering in our commitment to end illegal and mass immigra-

tion and bolster America’s border security.” The U.S. Homeland Security Department declined to conﬁrm Thursday’s deporta-

tions “for operational security reasons” and referred additional questions to the State Department. Third-country agreements are often shrouded in secrecy. Migrants have been deported to countries they have never been to or where they face safety risks and are left with little choice other than to return to the home countries they were ﬂeeing from. The Trump administration struck agreements with at least 35 countries to deport people who are from other countries, including Liberia and 13 others in Africa, according to Third Country Deportation Watch, a partnership of Refugees International and Human Rights First that relies on public records requests, news reports and other sources. More than 23,000 people have deported to 26 coun-

tries under the agreements. The U.S. State Department previously announced that Liberia agreed to accept deportees who are not from Liberia. But a six-page agreement reached in September 2025 and posted on its website does not say how many or from which countries. In October 2025, Liberia offered to accept Kilmar Abrego Garcia of El Salvador, who was mistakenly deported to prison in El Salvador. Blocked from sending him to his native country, the Trump administration has vowed to send him to a third county, including Liberia. Abrego Garcia has said he would agree to be deported to Costa Rica, which has said it will accept him. But the government has so far declined to send him there. Abrego Garcia is fighting deportation to Liberia in a federal lawsuit in Maryland.

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TORONTO — The premier of a Canadian province launched a blistering attack on President Donald Trump on Thursday, calling him a “bad person” and “not to be trusted” and urging Canada to keep ﬁghting rather than rush to make concessions in trade talks with Washington. Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said Canada has leverage in the talks even as his province weighs restoring U.S. alcohol sales at Prime Minister Mark Carney’s urging to help secure a deal that would avert threatened 50% U.S. tariffs. “Everybody knows the American president by now, he’s erratic, he’s irresponsible, and he’s not to be trusted. And this is the person that we were supposed to make a deal with, and we’re going to make additional concessions for it. That’s why I say you can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?” Kinew said. Dominic LeBlanc, the federal minister responsible for Canada-U.S. trade, said Thursday the two countries were close to finalizing an agreement after he returned to Washington to meet again with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer. “We’re very close. We continue to make progress,” he said, adding that Canadian officials would remain in Washington to keep working on the deal. Trump has called the emerging agreement “very fair” to both sides, while tariffs on about $20 billion worth of Canadian imports have been postponed until 12:01 a.m. Saturday. Neither side has released the full terms. Despite his criticism of Trump, Kinew said Manitoba may go along with Carney’s request as part of a “Team Canada” approach.

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Rolled coils of steel sit in the yard at the ArcelorMittal Dofasco steel plant on Thursday in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. But he urged consumers to keep buying Canadian even if U.S. products return to provincial liquor stores. Other provincial leaders, including the premiers of Saskatchewan and Nova Scotia, have publicly backed the direction of Carney’s negotiation. Newfoundland and Labrador Premier Tony Wakeham said all premiers agreed during Wednesday’s call with Carney to return U.S. alcohol to store shelves, although not every premier has publicly conﬁrmed that position. “I think we should ﬁght. I think Donald Trump is very weak. I think America is weaker around the world today than it was a year ago. He’s about to get slaughtered in the midterms and the cost of living is the number one issue and he’s completely out of touch with the cost of living of Americans,” Kinew said. “We’ve got the upper hand. They are back on their heels right now. They are coming to us for a deal right now.” Kinew said he understood Carney’s request to mean that restoring U.S. alcohol sales was effectively necessary to complete the deal. The provincial bans on U.S. alcohol have been a particular irritant for the Trump administration, which has

pressed Canada to remove restrictions that sharply reduced American liquor sales. Provincial governments do not have a veto over the overall Canada-U.S. agreement, but they control measures such as liquor sales and some procurement rules that have become part of the negotiations. Eight of Canada’s 10 provinces restrict or ban U.S. alcohol — measures imposed in retaliation for Trump’s previous tariffs on Canadian goods and amid anger over his repeated talk of making Canada the 51st U.S. state. Kinew said Carney strongly pressed premiers to restore U.S. alcohol sales while other details of the agreement were still being finalized. “I wouldn’t say that he was begging us, but what is the step before begging?” Kinew said. Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, is especially important. Its government-run LCBO, one of the world’s largest alcohol purchasers, sold nearly $723 million worth of U.S. products annually before pulling them from shelves last year. Ontario Premier Doug Ford, who has clashed with Trump before, has not yet commented on the emerging deal.

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PLYMOUTH, Mass. — Hundreds of Lindsay Clancy supporters, many wearing pink clothing emblazoned with phrases such as “Believe,” “She Needed Help” and “Peace For Lindsay,” gathered Thursday outside the courthouse where she is on trial in the killings of her three children. Several of the 300 women, and a few men, said Clancy’s story resonated with them and that they wanted to raise awareness about how the mental health system treats women. Clancy’s lawyer does not dispute that she killed the children, but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she was mentally ill. The livestreamed trial has sparked massive discussions online and has brought attention to postpartum psy-

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Aimee Breault, of Acushnet, Mass., livestreams a demonstration in support of Lindsay Clancy on Thursday outside Plymouth Superior Court in Plymouth, Mass., where Clancy is on trial in connection with the deaths of her three children. chosis, a rare mental illness Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington says she had that is linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth. Reddington said she also has bipolar disorder. After strangling her children, Clancy jumped

from a second-story window and remains paralyzed from the waist down. Reddington says Clancy repeatedly sought help: She turned to multiple outpatient providers, tried various drugs they prescribed, called a suicide hotline, went to an emergency room, and

even checked herself into a psychiatric hospital. Prosecutors say the former labor and delivery nurse planned the Jan. 24, 2023, killings and contrived to get her husband out of the house by sending him to pick up medicine for one of their children and dinner for

Still recovering from Lala, Hawaii prepares for a possible cyclone

Iran dismisses U.S. economic threats By The Associated Press

Center. That system could BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER and HOLLY RAMER dump up to 15 inches of Associated Press

HONOLULU — Communities still recovering from last weekend’s hurricane in Hawaii could get pounded again in coming days from another tropical system gaining strength over warm Paciﬁc waters. Hurricane Lala tore roofs off houses, uprooted trees, covered roads in mud and rock and left many households without electricity. With thousands of homes and businesses still in the dark Thursday, forecasters warned another tropical cyclone is likely to form southeast of the islands soon. A depression moving west and northwest could become a tropical storm later Thursday and pass near or south of Hawaii’s Big Island over the weekend or early next week, according to the U.S. Central Pacific Hurricane

rain across the Big Island and trigger life-threatening ﬂooding, mudslides and rip currents, the hurricane center added. Forecasters said the disturbance had top sustained winds of 35 mph and was located about 900 miles eastsoutheast of Hilo, Hawaii. Hawaii Gov. Josh Green and other state officials planned a news conference Thursday afternoon to discuss preparations for the approaching system as well as ongoing recovery efforts from Lala, which has been blamed for two deaths. Residents found the body of a man in his 60s in a pasture Tuesday, a day after authorities recovered the body of May Doi, 93, whom neighbors said was trying to escape from ﬂoodwaters in her home. Doi was a beloved former kindergarten teacher who taught generations of

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A roadway is washed out by mud on Monday in Naalehu, Hawaii, following heavy rains from Hurricane Lala. residents in a small town on Hawaii’s Big Island. “She taught grandkids of her students,” said Aina Akamu, a former student of Doi who is now a vice principal at a local school. “She was a ﬁxture in this community.” Lala’s heaviest recorded rainfall, 43.54 inches, occurred on the northeast coast of the Big Island, the National Weather Service said. Dozens of homes were washed from foundations, bridges were damaged and about 13,200 customers on the Big Island remained without power Thursday. Efforts to restore power

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Neb. school district asks police to stop using shock gloves BY KATHY MCCORMACK and JOSH FUNK Associated Press

OMAHA, Neb. — Omaha police agreed this week to stop carrying gloves that can deliver electric shocks to students in the halls of Nebraska’s largest public school district. The decision affecting most Omaha middle and high schools came after The Associated Press ﬁrst revealed Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s plan to give

officers the gloves, which are known as G.L.O.V.E.s, or Generated Low Output Voltage Emitters. The devices have also been used in recent years by some jails. Omaha Superintendent Matthew Ray requested that police working in the schools, known as school resource ofﬁcers, stop using the gloves. Omaha Police agreed. However, the suburban Bellevue police department that patrols two Omaha schools and the large Bellevue district said its offi-

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Prayer, held up their arms and formed hearts with their hands. Some held ﬂags from different countries to show that the support for Clancy was global. Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. Researchers estimate that postpartum psychosis — which is more serious and less common than postpartum depression — afflicts 1 to 2 per 1,000 women after delivery. Jeanne Zaborski, a 72-year-old retired nurse from Rockland, Massachusetts, said she hopes the case raises awareness about postpartum health. She and many others at the rally said they had been following the trial almost daily. “It’s very sad,” Zaborski said. “I am a mother. I am a grandmother. I have a sister who had problems after birth and it’s just very sad. I hope Lindsay gets the care she needs and deserves and other women will come together like we did today.”

the family. They have also questioned the seriousness of her suicide attempt, and witnesses have testified that Clancy wouldn’t always take prescribed medications. Thursday’s rally was the first time during the nearly monthlong trial that supporters have come out in such large numbers. “Women are being dismissed, neglected and ignored when we speak up,” said April Vincent, a 52-year-old paralegal from Providence, Rhode Island. “We’re scared because nobody takes us seriously.” The women stood silently for more than an hour ahead of Thursday’s proceedings, where a chaplain called by the defense testified about visiting Clancy in the hospital after the killings. At the sight of Reddington outside the courthouse, the crowd broke into applause. Rally organizer Renee Kimball implored the crowd to trust that Reddington “has Lindsay’s fight.” Toward the end of their rally, supporters formed a circle, said the Lord’s

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Iran on Thursday dismissed threats by President Donald Trump of economic pain and isolation for the country. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has rejected the economic threats made against his country, saying that such “failed policies” will stir more hostility among Iranians and “bring more failures.” Araghchi’s comments came a few hours after Trump threatened “crushing economic measures” against Iran. The U.S. president promised “Economic Warfare and Isolation on an unprecedented scale,” but provided few details. In a social media post, Araghchi maintained that the threats aim to divert

the attention of the U.S. public from domestic ﬁnancial problems, saying that U.S. “economic terrorism threatens the global economy and the national sovereignty of countries around the world.” U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that Iran will face the “greatest coordinated economic isolation in the history of the world.” In a CNBC interview, Bessent threatened secondary sanctions on nations and companies that conduct business with Iran, saying it’s time for U.S. allies to make a decision on where they stand. China’s government and India are major buyers of Iranian oil, though Bessent didn’t call them out by name.

Authorities: Pilot in N.Y. capsizing in U.S. illegally By The Associated Press NEW YORK — The pilot of a speedboat that capsized during a tour around the Statue of Liberty, drowning an infant and her mother, has been arrested by U.S. immigration authorities who say he was in the country illegally. Manuel Ernesto Hernandez-Umana, who has a pending federal criminal case in connection with the Aug. 8 crash, lied to a border ofﬁcer and falsely claimed he was a U.S. citizen when he entered the country in Texas in 2007, the Department of Homeland Security said

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WASHINGTON — Justice Department investigators have sought to interview law enforcement officials related to the FBI search of Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate as part of a Florida-based inquiry aiming to establish a conspiracy against the Republican president, multiple people familiar with the matter said Thursday. The requests for interviews, made in recent weeks, suggest that a conspiracy investigation that had mostly appeared focused on the decade-old question of Russian interference in the 2016

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Trump-appointed judge, Aileen Cannon, ruled that the prosecutor who brought the indictment, Jack Smith, had been illegally appointed. Trump has long maintained that law enforcement and intelligence officials conspired against him over the last decade, drawing a straight line between an investigation into ties between Russia and his 2016 presidential campaign and the more recent investigations related to his retention of classified documents and his efforts to undo the FILE PHOTO PROVIDED By JUSTICE DEPARTMENT 2020 election. The Justice Department Boxes of records are stored on the stage in the White and has for months conducted Gold Ballroom at President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago an investigation in Florida in estate in Palm Beach, Fla. hopes of proving wrongdoing by the officials involved declined to comment when on charges of unlawfully re- in scrutinizing Trump. contacted by AP on Thurs- taining classified documents Much of the questioning day. The Justice Department and of obstructing FBI ef- known to have occurred so didn’t immediately respond forts to get them back. But far has centered on the govto a request for comment. the case was dismissed ernment response to RusTrump was indicted in 2023 the following year after a sian interference in the 2016

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Army to shut down overseas unit focused on drone warfare BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press

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Cars drive past data centers in Ashburn, Va., in 2023. The race to build data centers has run aground amid frustration from voters who don’t want to live near the massive warehouse campuses.

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WASHINGTON — An Army unit based in Europe that was specializing in drone warfare has been directed to end its efforts to learn and use the battlefield technology and return to being a traditional infantry battalion, officials said Thursday. For nearly a year, soldiers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade have been experimenting and building their own drones, as well as participating in drills on waging unmanned warfare after Ukraine pioneered such tactics in its yearslong conflict with Russia. Last November, 600 soldiers formed a battalion that specialized in drone warfare and was set up to be used as a dedicated unit that could deploy anywhere

electricity bills, previ- it works,” the NRSC said. Construction of rising ously saying “it’s only fair” “More than any other thing the companies to shoul- in this race, data centers are facilities becomes for the anchor hanging around der their costs. toxic in midterms He also suggested this Husted’s neck. If he loses

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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, speaking alongside cryptocurrency leaders at the White House this week, made a statement that Republican and Democratic candidates alike wouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole. “If I were the mayor of a town or the governor of a state, and I had a chance to get a big plant in, an AI plant or a data center,” Trump said, “I would absolutely want it because the jobs are enormous and the money paid, the taxes paid, are just enormous.” It’s not the kind of message anyone is using in competitive midterm races. The race to build data centers, which power artiﬁcial intelligence and cloud computing, has run aground amid frustration from voters who don’t want to live near the massive warehouse campuses. Even the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm warned that anger over data centers — some of which dwarf football stadiums and use more energy than small cities — could cost them a seat. Opposition stretches across the political spectrum because of fears that the behemoths will jack up electricity bills, drain people’s water wells, create unhealthy amounts of air and noise pollution and forever change a community’s character — all while getting lucrative tax breaks from states competing for their business. Trump has framed data centers as a necessary component of a top national and economic security priority: winning the AI race against China. However, he also has acknowledged concern over

week that data centers need “a little public relations help.” In recent months, he has gotten tech giants to sign a voluntary pledge to shield U.S. consumers from higher utility bills from data centers, even as he pushes to streamline the process for companies and utilities to build their own power plants. But building power plants doesn’t happen overnight, and the immediate political reality for candidates across the country is far different. “It is yet another dimension in which the White House appears tone deaf — tone deaf at best and indifferent to the interest of other Republican candidates at worst,” said James Henson, the director of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas, Austin, a nonpartisan research organization.

Warning in Ohio Statewide candidates from Nevada to Pennsylvania, both Republican and Democratic, are weaponizing data centers against their opponents, and candidates who absorb those attacks are subsequently trying to distance themselves from them. In Ohio, a data center hot spot with closely contested races for governor and U.S. Senate, the National Republican Senatorial Committee warned in a memo Tuesday that Sen. Jon Husted is vulnerable to losing his seat because of the centers. Democratic nominee Sherrod Brown is airing attack ads against Husted that call him the “face of data centers in Ohio” as people gather signatures for a statewide referendum to ban their construction. The Republican memo said it’s been a “sleeper issue for the entire election cycle.” “Brown is using it because

and data centers get the blame, politicians across the country will take notice — and they will not go near the next one.” The memo suggested voters may balk at Democratic candidates who want to stop data center construction altogether in favor of a Republican candidate who only wants data centers built if a community approves it in a local vote and it pays for its own power, water and other utilities. Most registered voters oppose building a data center in their area, according to a July Fox News poll. Still, the issue falls behind other voter concerns, such as cost of living, as November looms. A Quinnipiac Poll conducted in June asked voters what issues were important in deciding who to vote for in U.S. House elections, and about 4 in 10 mentioned AI data centers.

Statement used in Nevada In Nevada, Democrat Aaron Ford quickly tied Trump’s statement to Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, characterizing them as being in “lockstep on data centers.” In a statement, Ford said Trump and Lombardo are “Nevada data centers’ biggest cheerleaders” who “only care about catering to their ‘billionaire friends’ while Nevadans pay the price.” Ford this week unveiled a policy platform in which he said he would halt new state tax breaks for data centers — he estimated them at $200 million currently — while auditing existing projects to ensure they are delivering on promises. He also said he would ensure data centers pay for their electricity needs, do not deplete Nevada’s water supply and help local governments negotiate strong beneﬁts agreements with developers.

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 874-390 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐ VICES, LLC VERSUS ALMOTAKI AL KUHAIF AND FIRAS ALKUHAIF By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 8, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes. appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Southeastern Land District of the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jefferson, Sec‐ tions 14, 56, 86 and KR Town‐ ship 14 South, Range 24 East, West of the Mississippi River, in that part thereof known as LAKE TIMBERLANE ES‐ TATES, composed of a portion of De‐ strehan Divi‐ sion, designated as Parcels FF-31 and FF-3-2 as shown on plan of re‐ subdivision by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S., dated May 9,1986, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under No. Ordinance 17031, recorded in the Clerk of Court's office for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son in COB 1590, folio 20; said prop‐ erty being fur‐ ther resobdi‐ vided into THE COMMONS AT LAKE TIMBERLANE as per play of re‐ subdivision by Landmark Sur‐ veying, Inc., LS, dated August 15, 1997, as well as that plan entitled Privacy Entry Gate Plan for the Commons at Lake Timber‐ lane, dated No‐ vember 14. 1997, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordi‐ nance No. 20221, recorded in Clerk of Court's office for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, under In‐ strument No. 9802013, in COB 2976, folio 188; said property being further resubdi‐ vided as per plan of resubdi‐ vision by Land‐ mark Surveying, Inc., LS, dated June 2, 1998, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on February 10, 1999 under Ordi‐ nance No. 20578,

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ﬁled and regis‐ tered under In‐ strument No. 99-13038, in COB 3002, folio 950; as cor‐ rected by plan of Landmark Surveying, Inc., I.S., entitled Act of Correc‐ tion to The Commons At Lake Timber‐ lane, dated May 10, 1999, and ac‐ cording to which, said property is des‐ ignated as The Cummons at Lake Timber‐ lane, Square ^ ,Lots IA through and including 92A, and Parcel G-IA (Wyndham Way (Private G-2A Street)), (Ashburne Cir‐ cle (Private street)), Parcel G-3A (Wyndham West (Private Street)), Parcel G-4 (Wyndham North (Private Street)), Parcel G-5A (Wyndham East (Private Street)). Parcel G-6 (Wyndham South (Private Street)). a copy of which is made part hereof by refer‐ ence and said lot is more fully de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: LOT 41A of SQUARE A which square is bounded by Wyndham North, Wynd‐ ham West, Wyndham South (side) and Wyndham East (side) com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 297.50 feet from the intersection and Wyndham North and Wyn‐ dham West, measures 82.50 feet front on Wyndham North, has the same of width in the rear by a depth of 102.50 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines All in accordance with a survey by Johnson Pro‐ fessional I and Surveyors, dated February 22, 2000, resur‐ veyed March 23, 2000 to locate forms, resurveyed April 6, 2000 to locate slab and resurveyed Au‐ gust 17, 2000. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. L. GRAHAM ARCENEAUX Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-535 TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2020-4, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE VERSUS FRED LUKE, III (A/K/A FRED LUKE) AND DONIETHA COSSE LUKE

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(A/K/A DONIETHA COSSE, DONIETHA M. LUKE, DONIETHA LUKE, DONIETHA MARIA LUKE) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 11, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, servi‐ tudes and ap‐ purtenances thereunto ap‐ plying, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as RANCH ACRES SUBDIVI‐ SION, which said piece or portion of ground is shown on that certain subdivi‐ sion plan by Alvin E. Hotard, C.E., dated April 15, 1960, ap‐ proved by Ordi‐ nance No. 4567 of the Jefferson Parish Council adopted May 12, 1960, registered in COB 507, folio 402 and is fur‐ ther described in accordance with the survey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated September 24, 1976, resurveyed No‐ vember 30, 1976 to show im‐ provements as Lot 4, of Square 18, which said lot com‐ mences 250 feet from the inter‐ section of Col‐ orado Drive and Sierra Street, and measures thence 50 feet front on Col‐ orado Drive, same width in the rear, by depths of 125 feet each. And accordance with survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated May 13, 1993, a print of which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof, said lot is situated in the same square, subdivision and has the same measurements as hereinabove set forth. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate:

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August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-495 ONITY MORTGAGE CORPORATION F/K/A PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF MARGARET SCHOEN LA GRANGE (A/K/A MARGARET S. LAGRANGE, MARGARET LA GRANGE, MARGARET SCHOEN LAGRANGE, MARGARET SCHOEN) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 26, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the City of Harahan, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as COLONIAL ES‐ TATES SUBDIVI‐ SION, in SQUARE 6 thereof, bounded by Ashlawn Drive, Kenmore Drive, Stratford Drive and 6th Street, all as per plan of subdivi‐ sion by Ad1oe Orr, Jr., dated Septem‐ ber 24, 1957, an‐ nexed to an act registered in COB 493 folio 195 (entry no. 118655), Conveyance Records of Jef‐ ferson Parish, Louisiana. And according to said plan, said lot is desig‐ nated as Lot 87 and is located and measures as follows: Said Lot 87 com‐ mences 312.78 feet from the corner of Ash‐ lawn Drive and Kenmore Drive and mea‐ sures thence 60.00 feet front on Ashlawn Drive, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 100.00 feet between equal and parallel lines. And according to a plat of sur‐ vey by Joseph M. Marques (Dading, Mar‐ ques & Associates, Inc.), dated March 8, 1991, annexed to an Act of Mortgage in MOB 2868 folio 8 (Instru‐ ment No. 9111112), said Lot 87 has the same location and di‐ mensions

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as set above.

forth

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-381 U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCAF ACQUISITION TRUST VERSUS LOIS KATHERINE RILEY A/K/A LOIS KATHERINE CHISIEL ROGERS RILEY A/K/A LOIS KATHERINE CHISEL ROGERS RILEY By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 7, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in that subdivision of the Parish of JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, known as TER‐ RYTOWN SUBDI‐ VISION NO. 1, and being designated on the official sub‐ division map, on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorder for said parish and state, as LOT NUMBER THIR‐ TEEN (13), SQUARE NO. 16, said subdivi‐ sion; said lot having such measurements and dimensions as shown on said map This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check,

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Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-493 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS TINA LEVERT OUBRE AND RENE N. OUBRE By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 13, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof formerly known as BROOKLYN now known as DERBES PARK, in accordance with plan of Derbes Park by Boessle & Galloway, C.E., January 19, 1957, revised September 18, 1957, October 5, 1957, and Febru‐ ary 19, 1958, more fully de‐ scribed as LOT 11, SQUARE K, DERBES PARK SUBDIVISION, fronting 65 feet on Marie Drive, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of 145 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines; and in accor‐ dance with sur‐ vey of Adloe Orr, Jr & Associ‐ ates, C.E., dated Decem‐ ber 31 1963, said SQUARE K is bounded by 17th Street, Marie Drive, Gretna Boule‐ vard and the western line of Derbes Park and is bisected by right of way of Missouri Pa‐ cific Railroad, from Marie Drive to western line of Derbes Park and said LOT 11 com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 903.30 feet from the point of curve of arc at the intersection of Marie Drive with 17th Street. All

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as more fully shown on sur‐ vey made by Alvin E. Ho‐ tard, D.E., dated January 1964, except that said square is bounded by Marie Drive, Gretna City Park and the Mis‐ souri (N.O.L.C.) Pacific Railroad, and said LOT 11 com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 493.37 feet from the in‐ tersection of Missouri (N.O.L.C.) Pacific Railroad and Marie Drive. Said measure‐ ments are more fully shown on a plan of survey by Wilton J. Dufrene, Land Surveyor, dated December 5, 1983, according to which said lot is bounded by Marie Drive, 100 foot ease‐ ment to City of Gretna, Mel Ott Park and Missouri Pacific Railroad. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds be must Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. RADER JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 877-208 MIDFIRST BANK VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF ESTHER JILESYARBROUGH (A/K/A ESTHER YARBROUGH, ESTHER JILES, ESTHER JILES YARBROUGH, ESTHER JILESYARBROUG H) AND THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF CHARLES N. YARBROUGH By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 2, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated

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g in Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as MEADOW‐ BROOK SUBDIVISION, UNIT 1, desig‐ nated as LOT 10, SQUARE 3, bounded by Wil‐ lowbrook Drive, Baywood Drive, a 100 foot drainage servi‐ tude, Commerce Street and La‐ palco Boulevard. Said Lot 10 begins 180 feet from the corner of Willowbrook Drive and Baywood Drive and measures thence 60 feet front on Willow‐ brook Drive, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. All in accordance with a plat of survey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated Sep‐ tember 27, 1972, resur‐ veyed to shown improvements November 10, 1972, resur‐ veyed February 1, 1973. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. FRED J. DAIGLE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-601 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE BANK OF TEXAS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SAXON ASSET SECURITIES TRUST 2001MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-1 VERSUS ANN FIELDS CURTIS A/K/A ANN F. CURTIS A/K/A ANN CURTIS AND VALERIA ANN CURTIS A/K/A VALERIA A. CURTIS A/K/A VALERIA CURTIS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 15, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday,

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September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the servi‐ tudes, rights and appurte‐ nances there‐ unto applying, situated in the State of Louisiana, in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, Kennedy Heights, Section 2, said portion being designated as Lot 1 of Square M, according to a plan made by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated December 18, 1967, Square M is bounded by Travis Drive, Priest Street, Glen Della Sub‐ division and Gambino Road. Lot 1 forms the corner of Priest Street and Travis Drive, and measures 65 feet front on Travis Drive, with the same width in the rear, with a depth on the side line closer to Gambino Road of 105 feet, and a depth on the opposite side line and fronting on Priest Street of 105 feet. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t

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Continued from page 1A Department of Transportation and Development are adding a median, sidewalks, on-street parking and improved drainage to about half a mile of 5th Street between Richard Street and Franklin Street. They are also extending Holly Drive into a four-way intersection connecting to Fourth Street so businesses can have access to rear parking. The current eastbound lane closure will last until Oct. 19, according to DOTD, while the entire $8 million project is estimated to be completed next year. At the same time, the city has spent about $5.4 million over the past ﬁve years to buy four vacant properties along the road, with plans to remediate them and likely put them back into commerce once roadwork is complete. Together, Gretna Mayor Belinda Constant says the projects will be a shot in the arm for 5th Street to become the walkable retail corridor it once served as decades ago. “We’re creating another walkable community, much like Huey P. Long (Avenue), where they will have the opportunity to walk here and do business here on 5th Street in a mixed-use capacity,” Constant said during an interview earlier this month at the construction site.

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Gretna Mayor Belinda Constant talks about the 5th Street Revitalization Project as she tours the construction area in Gretna last week.

5th Street’s history While downtown Gretna served as the city’s nightlife district for bars and restaurants in the early 20th century, 5th Street acted as the city’s business corridor. The street connected downtown to the parish’s oldest neighborhood of McDonoghville, where car dealerships, grocery stores, doctors’ ofﬁces and other establishments lined the state-owned roadway, Traffic makes its way along 5th Street amid construction for the 5th also known as La. 466. Street Revitalization Project in Gretna. But those businesses began to dissipate after the Crescent City Connection bridge and the West- that side of the river in the 1960s cided not to rebuild. “It became a very depressed corbank Expressway opened as the through the 1980s. Once Hurricane main thoroughfare for trafﬁc on Katrina hit, many of the stores de- ridor over the last 20 years,” Con-

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convey it was a sincere apology,” Bloch said. “Also, there’s concern that what you put out into the world can’t fully be taken back. There is damage that is irretractable.”

Coordinated response

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Continued from page 1A executive order changing the vaccination schedule for children. “Dr. Overton’s active role in last week’s nonsensical vaccine executive order calls into question her commitment to standing up for sound science and protecting children’s health. That alone is almost disqualifying,” Cassidy wrote. Overton co-authored with former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal an op-ed in The Federalist attacking Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who was running in 2024 as the Democratic vice presidential candidate.

‘A raw canvas’

Under the current project, DOTD will replace the underground water lines with larger pipes for improved drainage and build a median to separate the eastbound and westbound lanes. On-street parking will line the Email Lara Nicholson at westbound lane, along with trees lnicholson@theadvocate.com.

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The Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and the Anti-Defamation League, South Central collectively sent an email to members of the local Jewish community acknowledging “real concern” about the upcoming Ye concert. The goal was not to cancel the show, Bloch said. “But we don’t want the concert to be a breeding ground for hate.” They also sent a letter to Legends Global, the company that manages the Superdome, which responded by saying there are contracts that prevent antisemitic rhetoric, songs or merchandise; the company is monitoring the other tour dates for concerning statements and actions; and the ADL Center on Extremism will train Dome staff on how to recognize symbols associated with extremist groups. Legends Global Superdome General Manager Evan Holmes spoke about the issue during a Thursday board meeting of the Louisiana Stadium and Exposition District, the state agency that oversees the Dome. He conﬁrmed he had met with representatives of the Jewish community and that Dome staffers would receive additional training. “We wanted to understand more of what to look out for,” Holmes said. Ye, Holmes acknowledged, “comes with some challenges, given some of his statements and positions he’s taken. “We’ve been really mindful of

stant said. “A lot of the businesses in this area closed, and there were lots of buildings for sale.” The redevelopment of 5th Street has been a longtime focus of Constant’s time in Gretna, since her ﬁrst run for Gretna City Council in 2005. Now, in her fourth term as the city’s mayor, the revitalization has become a major component of the city’s comprehensive plan for the next 20 years, which seeks to make 5th Street a “vibrant mixed-use corridor with ‘Main Street’ character.”

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Kanye West performs in New Orleans in 2013 during his yeezus Tour. this event. We wanted to make sure, if we were even going to consider this event, that we weren’t going to have any issues.” Meanwhile, the Museum of the Southern Jewish Experience is offering what amounts to coun-

Since losing the closed-party primary in May, Cassidy has felt less constrained about challenging Trump. He has done so several times since losing to U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-Baton Rouge. He’s criticized Trump on several issues, including the Iranian military action. But most of his fire has been directed at the rollback of vaccination protocols under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of the nation’s leading vaccine skeptics. Still, Cassidy has continued to vote for some Trump nominees, even after expressing reservations. For example, he cast a decisive vote to conﬁrm Todd Blanche as attorney general, even as two

terprogramming the weekend of Ye’s concert. It will offer free admission Aug. 28-30 at its facility at 818 Howard Ave. to “welcome a broader audience to learn from, engage with, and celebrate Southern Jewish life.”

“Dr. Overton’s active role in last week’s nonsensical vaccine executive order calls into question her commitment to standing up for sound science and protecting children’s health. That alone is almost disqualifying.”

and sidewalks on both sides of the road for pedestrians and bicyclists to travel through the area. In addition to those improvements, the city will extend Holly Drive to 4th Street and eventually build a service road and public parking areas for businesses to be able to access the back of their properties. Once finished, ownership of the roadway will be turned over from DOTD to Gretna, allowing the city to divert 18-wheeler traffic for the Zatarain’s factory and other nearby industrial properties to 4th Street, which went through its own major projects to extend the road and repair the railroad that runs along it. The changeover also means Gretna can redesign the road without having to adhere to federal and state highway regulations for lighting and other features. Gretna has purchased several vacant 5th Street properties using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act, including a Ray Brandt car dealership and a former grocery store, which the city plans to hold onto until roadwork is complete. Once finished, city officials will look for potential uses for the properties, with the goal being to lease or sell the land for a mixeduse development. “It’s a raw canvas at this point, and we’re looking for input from best practices and how new developments are happening across the region that bring the highest value not just to this property, but to the neighborhood,” Constant said. Jaimes said he would like to see more commercial buildings or recreational spaces built on the city properties to bring more foot traffic to the area. “As long as it’s something good and nothing that’s an eyesore or pointless, I’m down for it,” Jaimes said.

Kanye West ﬁrst made a name for himself with his 2004 album “The College Dropout.” His 2005 follow-up, “Late Registration,” contained the massive hit “Gold Digger” and established West as one of the most respected and successful new voices in hip-hop. Over the next nearly two decades, he branched out into lucrative side hustles, including his Yeezy sneaker partnership with Adidas. His personal life, including a tumultuous marriage to media personality and reality TV star Kim Kardashian, provided continuous fodder for tabloid news. Ye was still going by Kanye West when he headlined what was then called the New Orleans Arena in 2013 during his Yeezus Tour. He previously performed at the Essence Festival in the Superdome. More recently, his erratic public behavior, racist and antisemitic statements and promotion of Nazi symbolism damaged his brand. Adidas cut ties with him in 2022. In his Wall Street Journal mea culpa, he described being in a “fractured state” mentally, during which he “gravitated toward the most destructive symbol I could ﬁnd, the swastika, and even sold T-shirts bearing it.” He suffered “disconnected moments” that “led to poor judgment and reckless behavior that oftentimes feels like an out-of-body experience. I regret and am deeply mortified by my actions in that state, and am committed to accountability, treatment, and meaningful change. It does not excuse what I did though.” In early 2025, he writes, he “fell into a four-month long manic episode of psychotic, paranoid and impulsive behavior that destroyed my life.” He released “Heil Hitler” in May 2025. He eventually sought help, with

er as a committee chair to ensure Kennedy was conﬁrmed. Cassidy couldn’t rely on Trump’s endorsement because he voted to convict the president of impeachment charges stemming from MAGA supporters storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in hopes of delaying the congressional vote that certiﬁed Democrat SEN. BILL CASSIDy, R-Baton Rouge Joe Biden’s win in the 2020 presidential election. Louisiana Republicans were enraged and twice censured Cassidy, other Republicans voted “no.” who had two months earlier polled Back when Cassidy was seeking more votes than any other candia third six-year term and hoping date in the state’s history, except Trump would at least stay out of Trump. the race, Louisiana’s senior senaGov. Jeff Landry and the Retor — a physician who advocates publican supermajority in the using vaccines — applied his pow- Louisiana Legislature changed

his wife’s encouragement. With the aid of medication, therapy, exercise and clean living, he said, he has a “newfound, much-needed clarity. I am pouring my energy into positive, meaningful art: music, clothing, design and other new ideas to help the world. “I’m not asking for sympathy, or a free pass, though I aspire to earn your forgiveness.”

‘No issues’ so far He was to have headlined the Wireless Festival in London in July. But organizers canceled the festival after the British government denied Ye entry into the country and several festival sponsors pulled out of the event. He headlined two sold-out shows this spring at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium without incident. In June, he performed twice in Tampa, despite a public campaign by U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., to cancel the concerts at the at Raymond James Stadium, which, like the Superdome, is publicly funded. On the current tour, he performs atop a LED screen sphere set in the middle of the stadium floor. The available capacity for Ye’s concert at the Superdome is closer to a Saints game’s 70,000-plus rather than the 43,000 or so seats available for the Essence Festival of Culture. Based on Ticketmaster’s seating chart, many thousands of tickets are still available. Holmes told the LSED board Thursday that he has monitored Ye concerts on the current tour. “The good news is they’ve had no issues,” Holmes said. “In terms of what’s been said or songs that have been played, it’s been pretty pro forma. We’re not anticipating anything to change, but we’re going to prepare if something does change. We’ll be ready to deal with it if necessary.” Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

the state’s open primary system, where voters cast ballots for a candidate regardless of party afﬁliation, into a closed primary where mostly registered Republicans could participate. Trump, who had repeatedly demeaned Cassidy, endorsed Letlow. She won the primary and now faces Tensas Parish farmer Jamie Davis, a Democrat from Ferriday, in the Nov. 3 congressional midterm elections. Early voting is from Oct. 20-27. Mail-in ballots must be requested by Oct. 30 and returned postmarked by Nov. 2. Cassidy remains in office and HELP committee chair until the election’s winner is sworn in on Jan. 3, 2027.

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New Orleans tenants facing eviction will continue to receive free legal counsel through the end of the year after the council on Thursday reversed cuts that threatened the program. The council unanimously approved an ordinance allocating $750,000 to the program known as

“right to counsel,” which has been celebrated by housing advocates, tenants and some landlords for helping prevent homelessness. The future of the program became uncertain in July when the city announced it would provide just $575,000 this year — less than half of the $1.3 million it was slated to receive in the 2026 budget — in an attempt to solve the city’s cash crisis.

“We know how challenging it is and all the different things you’re grappling with, and we really appreciate the trust that the council is placing on us,” said Laura Tuggle, director of Southeast Louisiana Legal Services, which manages the program. To boost the program’s funding, the council reallocated part of a $1 million appropriation that the New Orleans Area Habitat for Human-

ity returned to the city after officials accused the local nonprofit of failing to spend it quickly enough. The Right to Counsel program initially fell prey to Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration’s austerity efforts, as the mayor worked to close a $222 million budget deficit upon taking office this year. The city furloughed workers and made departmental cuts, and more cuts could be on the horizon after city officials pulled back on a $110 million request to the state to sell bonds amid clashes with Gov. Jeff

Landry’s administration. But the council’s move on Thursday ensures the program lasts at least through the end of 2026. Program supporters thanked the council for the funding maneuver, but acknowledged that the program may be vulnerable to cuts again next year as ofﬁcials work to develop the 2027 budget. “The program speaks for itself both in the results that we see for our clients and the data,” said

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Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Jeff Hughes III took the stand for the second day Thursday in his defamation suit against The Advocate, answering questions by the newspaper’s attorneys about being disciplined by the commission that oversees judicial ethics. Hughes is seeking $10 million in damages over a 2019 editorial Hughes stemming from stories that focused on his alleged ethical lapse as a Livingston Parish district judge in a late 1990s child custody case. The hours of cross-examination followed Hughes’ earlier testimony about his upbringing as a Denham Springs multi-sport athlete, his time as a country lawyer and his rise through the judicial system to the state’s highest court. Under questioning by his attorneys, Hughes told jurors he was embarrassed by the stories and opinion pieces by The Advocate, which he claims were inaccurate, and even faced questions by his mother.

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Community remembers slain Luling 14-year-old Teen boy was ‘giant teddy bear’

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Jalen LeGaux cut a pretty intimidating ﬁgure for a 14-yearold boy. He stood a staggering 6 feet tall, weighed about 230 pounds and wore a size 16 shoe, according to his mother, Casey LeGaux. But Jalen’s immense exterior belied a gentle and sweet nature that made his unexpected death last week a shock to all who knew and loved him. “He had a big heart. He was a giant teddy bear,” Casey LeGaux, 33, said Tuesday. “He was a character. You never knew what you were going to get. Even when he was mad, he was still funny.” Almost two weeks after Jalen was shot and killed inside his Luling bedroom, relatives, friends, classmates and a grieving community are still trying to

second suspect, Jalil Washington, make sense of his loss. About 200 people gathered 17, of Hahnville, was booked with outside of his home Sunday for obstruction of justice in the case. Casey LeGaux confirmed that a candlelight vigil. Despite the blazing heat, young teens wept, Jalen and the 16-year-old were held one another, told stories close friends who spent almost every day together. The about Jalen’s life and suspect’s mother, who shared their grief. The asked not to be identified, vigil was organized by said the boys often spent Jalen’s friends, accordthe night at one another’s ing to his mother. homes. “It was beautiful. I That was the case on didn’t expect so many Aug. 10. They were in people,” Casey LeGaux Jalen’s room, and Casey said. “His friends have J. LeGaux LeGaux was fast asleep. taken it so hard.” She knew that Jalen was an in- She woke to the sound of gunfire telligent, protective, loving and and ran into her son’s room. “I found him on the floor. He caring young man. But the sheer number of attendees, their sto- was already gone,” said Casey Leries about her son’s generosity Gaux, whose panicked screams and friendship, moved her. brought her 8-year-old daughter “I thought he was just my baby. into Jalen’s room. But he was everybody’s big baby. LeGaux’s eldest daughter is Everybody loved him,” Casey Le- struggling with what she saw that night while her youngest, 6, Gaux said. Jalen died just before 2 a.m. on is starting to ask for her brother. Family members still aren’t Aug. 10. St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested sure what happened or why, a 16-year-old boy and booked him questions Casey LeGaux hasn’t with second-degree murder. A wanted to take up while still so

Flood agency hires new chief Amid praise, Joseph Picone sworn in

wracked with grief. “I just can’t even think about that right now. I have to get out of this house,” she said. “The house is too quiet, now. I just can’t live here.” Jalen died the day before he was scheduled to start his freshman year at Hahnville High School. “He was so happy to go to high school. He couldn’t stop talking about it,” Casey LeGaux said, recalling how he’d tried his school uniform on several times to make sure everything looked just right. Jalen had been a defensive lineman for the R.K. Smith Middle School football team and was exited to play for Hahnville High. Head football coach Greg Boyne said Jalen attended every summer practice. He recalled Jalen’s huge smile. “Jalen was a quiet, behind-thescenes kid,” Boyne said. “All of the freshmen knew him.” Jalen was the first of two Hahnville Tiger football team

New Orleans’ regional flood protection authority has hired a new police chief after firing his predecessor, Joshua Rondeno, whose self-drafted employment contract added to upheaval at the agency over changes pursued by Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration. Joseph Picone, a law enforcement veteran with close ties to Landry, will now lead the two police forces at the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority-East, the agency tasked with overseeing the system of levees and pumps built to prevent a repeat of Hurricane Katrina’s devastation. His arrival follows more than a year of turmoil under Rondeno, who sought to increase the agency’s spending on its 50-officer force and wrote a version of his own employment contract that would have granted him up to $910,000 in severance pay.

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N.O. council approves new S&WB members BY BEN MYERS

Walmsley. Kimbrough is one of two members appointed by the Board of Liquidation, which authorizes municipal bond issuances. The returning members are Chadrick Kennedy, Kimberly Thomas, Jonathan Stewart and Ariane Greenidge, although Greenidge still needs council conﬁrmation. Unanimous votes on the new members — along with Kennedy, Thomas and Stewart — sailed through without comments from

the council dais, although council President JP Morrell briefly discussed the Louisiana legislative auditor’s upcoming review of the agency’s ﬁnances, which the council requested. Responding to questions from a member of the public, Dan Feliciano, Morrell said Legislative Auditor Mike Waguepack’s office is preferable to a contracted auditor because “they can literally look at every single book they want.”

“A typical auditor, when they go in, there can be arguments of conﬁdentiality or that certain documents should not be allowed,” Morrell said. The conﬁrmations from the full council came after the council’s Governmental Affairs Committee approved the mayor and liquidation board’s picks. Under a law the Legislature passed this year, the board now serves at the pleasure of the mayor, who previously appointed a major-

the then-5-year-old’s grandmother, Brenda Nicholson, was fighting unsuccessfully to keep the boy’s mother from getting custody. The case triggered an FBI probe and an investigation by the disciplinary arm for the judges, the Judiciary Commission. On the stand, Hughes denied having ruled on any of Durbin’s cases while they were dating, which he says started after she left the Nicholson case in August 1998. The Advocate’s attorneys questioned that assertion, citing court minutes showing Hughes presided over a case where Durbin was reported present on July 6, 1999 — a time when Hughes acknowledges he was dating her. Though a separate document outlining the judgment shows a different lawyer signed the order, Hughes acknowledged sometimes one attorney may attend a hearing on a matter but another signs the order. Also under cross-examination, Hughes testified Wednesday that three apology letters he wrote in 2004 to former child custody litigants in two cases in his courtroom were issued to resolve an unspeciﬁed “other investigation” into his conduct that had been running in parallel with the FBI probe into the same cases. In the letters, Hughes apologized for the harm his actions — which weren’t described in detail — may have caused. At least one of the cases had triggered a probe by the

Judiciary Commission. “I offered to write this letter,” Hughes said about one of them, and the agency accepted his proposal. Hughes said the FBI probe was dropped in 2004 after the five-year window for such an inquiry expired. He testified the FBI found no wrongdoing, but kept looking, even checking to whom he may have sent flowers from a florist shop. Under questioning by attorneys for The Advocate, Hughes acknowledged spending campaign dollars to fund a defamation lawsuit he brought against Lana Venable, who was with a group that advocates against abuse of the legal system, and to pay court costs for his case against The Advocate. Suzy Montero, one of The Advocate’s attorneys, said in court that state law and other rules bar using campaign dollars for personal expenses. But the judge said he had gotten a legal opinion from an ethics attorney that he could use campaign dollars because the cases arose out of his public office. Brought months after his June 2020 lawsuit against The Advocate, Hughes’ case against Venable accused of her of defamation for a letter to the editor she wrote that was published in the newspaper. In it, she argued the ethics case involving Hughes underscored the need for greater transparency in judicial discipline. On cross-examination, Montero asked Hughes if he had received

advance knowledge in 2021 of a state Supreme Court ruling letting stand an early decision from Kimball favorable to the justice’s lawsuit against The Advocate. Montero suggested Hughes used that information to call Venable’s attorney to say that The Advocate had lost and it was time for Venable to pay. Hughes disputed Montero’s suggestion it was a shakedown, saying he simply made a settlement offer of $25,000. Venable’s attorney is expected to testify later in the trial. Montero also asked Hughes why he told The Advocate reporter Andrea Gallo in a 2019 meeting with reporters and editors that he wasn’t aware of any other apology letters besides the one he sent to Nicholson. Hughes testified he hadn’t remembered at the time that he had written the two other letters, which were dated the same day he sent the one to Nicholson. Hughes’ attorneys have called a handful of witnesses to the stand to testify to the justice’s good character and how The Advocate’s reporting affected his reputation. Former Livingston Parish schools Superintendent Warren Curtis, who has known Hughes since childhood, on Thursday recalled people talking about the articles. Curtis — who grew up raising cattle — recounted a warning his father passed on to him upon college graduation: Be sure of your facts before you brand the cow because the mark remains.

adviser in New Orleans who has been overseeing changes at the levee authority though he holds no official position in government, also worked for Landry when he was attorney general. “Joe’s career reflects the kind of integrity, experience and commitment to public service we value at the Flood Protection AuthorityEast,” said Pete Vicari, the agency’s board president. “We are confident he will bring strong, steady leadership to our police department and further strengthen the work of an already dedicated team.” The flood agency’s police are tasked with protecting the region’s flood control infrastructure and providing community policing services to a handful of neighborhoods in the lakefront area of New Orleans, along the shoreline of Lake Pontchartrain. Picone’s role includes overseeing both the Or-

leans Levee District Police Department and the East Jefferson Levee District Police Department. Moments before Picone’s swearing-in, the board voted 6-1 with one abstention to make Rondeno’s termination from the agency ofﬁcial. Rondeno came under scrutiny in May from state lawmakers after he drafted a version of his own employment contract that would have granted him four years’ worth of severance pay. The Louisiana legislative auditor has found that any severance pay for public employees in Louisiana is unconstitutional. In June, Rondeno was placed on leave while the authority investigated allegations that he sent inappropriate messages to a female police ofﬁcer who worked under him at the agency, a source close to the investigation said. Rondeno’s attorney has said that Rondeno “responded to an Instagram post with

a fire emoji,” and insisted that he has not been accused of sexual harassment. Rondeno was terminated on June 28. A month later, he sued the agency, alleging that his termination violated his employment contract and asking for his job back, as well as compensation. The Rondeno saga added to turmoil that had already engulfed the agency. Landry’s administration faced accusations of eroding reforms put in place following Katrina by seeking to bolster the agency’s police force and change the makeup of its board, among other concerns. Government watchdog groups have questioned whether the agency is straying from its flood protection mission. Authority leaders say flood protection remains paramount and that claims to the contrary are unfounded.

High Principal Jose Gonzales sent out a message to parents, offering Continued from page 1B counselors and mental health professionals on campus to support students. “We are deeply saddened by the members to die around the start of school. Running back Patrick “PJ” loss of Jalen and PJ. Both students Jackson, 17, a rising senior, died were passionate about football and were looking forward to the start of Aug. 12 after battle with cancer. After their deaths, the hashtag the school year. Our thoughts and “#hahnvillestrong” began spread- condolences are with their families, ing on social media. Hahnville friends, teammates, and all those

who knew and loved them,” Gonzales said in the message. Jackson was a relative, Casey LeGaux said. “This has taken a toll on a lot of people,” she said. Funeral services for Jalen Charles LeGaux will be held Aug. 29 at Bell Baptist Church, 300 Hackberry St., Luling. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m. followed by a service at 11 a.m. Burial will take

place at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 2349 Highway 18 in Edgard. A fundraising effort has been organized to help cover the costs of Jalen’s burial and support his family. Those who wish to donate may do so here: https://gofund.me/ f7c7f37b0.

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The New Orleans City Council on Thursday confirmed five new members of the Sewerage & Water Board, as the council and Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration begin to assert more control over the troubled utility. The new members are Corrine Villavaso, Leslie Bouie, David Gallo, Julius Kimbrough and Katie

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Continued from page 1B “She’s asking me, like why are they doing this? When are they gonna stop? What’s this all about?” Hughes testiﬁed Wednesday. On Wednesday and Thursday, under cross-examination by The Advocate’s attorneys, he faced questions about past discipline taken against him as a judge and his use of campaign dollars to fund his pursuit of defamation lawsuits against his critics. Eighteenth Judicial District Judge Kevin Kimball has limited the case to a single editorial published on June 25, 2019. The judge has allowed into evidence several other stories and columns to allow Hughes to try to prove the paper refused his demands to correct the alleged error. The articles focused on Hughes’ handling of a custody case while he was a Livingston Parish district judge that included an attorney with whom he became romantically involved. While Hughes testiﬁed he has several problems with the editorial’s factual claims and the framing of the news account, much of the case centers on whether he was ruling on the custody case of a child while dating the boy’s mother’s onetime attorney, Berkley Durbin. At the time, in 1998 and 1999,

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Continued from page 1B Picone was sworn in Thursday by former New Orleans District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro, who praised Picone and called him a “cop’s cop.” “You’re going to be extremely proud of what he does,” Cannizzaro said. “He’s going to stand behind the guys that work for him on the streets.” Picone most recently served as an assistant commissioner and chief of enforcement for the Louisiana Office of Alcohol and Tobacco Control. Before that, he worked for the Louisiana Attorney General’s Office, under now-governor Landry, where he oversaw criminal investigations statewide. Shane Guidry, Landry’s unofficial

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ity of members but could not terminate them at will. Every board member, including those being reappointed, received termination letters this month. Moreno and Morrell have said they want City Hall to have more responsibility over the standalone utility, and ofﬁcials are now exploring the possibility of converting it into a city department. A decision on what happens next is still several months away.

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Continued from page 1B Monique Blossom, policy analyst at the Fair Housing Action Center. “Looking to the 2027 budget, I look forward to continuing our discussions and remembering how effective and important this program is.” Tuggle added that the program’s services on average cost just $350 per person — far less than the cost of providing services to someone once they become homeless. Council members, all seven of whom authored the ordinance, expressed their commitment to the program. “Today is us reasserting that when we make a commitment as a city, as a City Council, that something is a right … there is a price tag attached to that,” said council President JP Morrell. “We look forward to the budget for next year and making sure this program continues.” District B council member Lesli Harris said that she has begun conversations with Orleans Parish Clerk of Court Chelsey Richard Napoleon about raising the fee for landlords to ﬁle an eviction, which she said has not been raised for 23 years. “That is another income stream that can lessen the burden on the city and help with this very important program,” Harris said. Larry Lung, a 7th Ward resident who received legal assistance in 2024 when facing a “no-cause” eviction, said that he was glad to see the program continue. “Without the assurance of this representation in eviction court, tenants would be less likely to step forward with their reports of substandard ... living conditions,” Lung said in a text message Thursday. At the same time, Lung said the city could still do more to help tenants. One way could be to enforce stricter property maintenance standards. “We have a great deal more to go,” Lung said. Email Sophie Kasakove at sophie.kasakove@ theadvocate.com.

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Charter, Cox complete $34.5 billion cable deal

Charter Communications closed on its $34.5 billion purchase of Cox Communications Thursday, ﬁnalizing a deal that unites two of the largest cable companies in the U.S., both of which have a signiﬁcant presence in south Louisiana. Charter, which operates under the Spectrum name, has more than 32 million customers, making it the largest cable company in the U.S. It operates in 41 states, providing cable to the northshore, Acadiana, Hammond and Thibodaux. Cox is the third largest cable television company in the country, with more than 6.5 million digital cable, internet, telephone and home security customers. It has a strong foothold in states spanning from California to Virginia. Cox operates in Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette. Plans are for the merged company to change its name to Cox Communications, but it will operate all cable, broadband and telephone services under the Spectrum brand. As part of the deal, existing Cox internet customers who don’t have mobile service with the company will receive a free year of Spectrum mobile. In about a month, Charter will launch its entire suite of services to all consumers in former Cox markets, such as New Orleans, Baton Rouge and Lafayette.

Mortgage rates ease again, but remain high

The average long-term U.S. mortgage rate eased for the second week in a row, but remains elevated compared with this time last year. The benchmark 30-year fixed rate mortgage rate fell to 6.65% from 6.67% last week, mortgage buyer Freddie Mac said Thursday. One year ago, the average rate was 6.58%. Borrowing costs on 15-year fixed-rate mortgages, often sought by borrowers refinancing a home loan, also eased this week. That average rate dropped to 5.95% from 5.96% last week. However, a year ago, it was at 5.69%. Despite the recent pullback, mortgage rates have been mostly rising this year, limiting homebuyers’ purchasing power. Elevated rates can lead prospective home shoppers to delay buying a home, one reason U.S. home sales have been sluggish this year. The 10-year Treasury yield was 4.71% as of midday Thursday on the bond market. Before the war, it was just 3.97% in late February. The U.S. housing market has been in a slump since 2022, when mortgage rates began to climb from pandemic-era lows. Sales of previously occupied U.S. homes were essentially flat last year, stuck at a 30-year low. U.S. sales of previouslyoccupied homes again slowed in July.

Unemployment claims drop to 206,000 WASHINGTON — Fewer people applied for U.S. unemployment benefits last week, another sign that layoffs remain low and that most Americans enjoy job security. The Labor Department reported Thursday that jobless claims dropped to 206,000 last week from a revised 212,000 the week before. The fourweek average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week ups and downs, ticked up to 204,000 last week from 199,750. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can be a harbinger for where the job market is headed. For the past year, claims have been at a historically low range of around 200,000 to 230,000 a week. The number of people collecting unemployment benefits the week that ended Aug. 8 rose to 1.8 million from 1.78 million the week before. The U.S. unemployment rate is low at 4.1%.

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Treasury secretary’s moves to calm bond market stumble

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks to members of the media outside the White House in Washington on Thursday.

Bessent announces Treasury to double bond buyback BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER and STAN CHOE

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WASHINGTON — Interest rates rebounded Thursday despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to put a lid on longer-term borrowing costs, a sign Wall Street investors remain worried about burgeoning government debt, heavy borrowing by tech firms, and the Federal Reserve’s commitment to fighting inflation. The yield on the 10-year Treasury note, a key benchmark for mortgage rates, rose back to 4.69% Thursday. That is nearly where it stood early Wednesday before Bessent surprised financial markets by announcing that Treasury would double the size of a bond buyback program starting next month to $4 billion per operation from $2 billion. The buybacks are intended to reduce the supply of 10-year to 30-year bonds and boost their prices. Yields on bonds fall when their prices rise. Bessent said Thursday on CNBC that the bond repurchase program could be larger than $4 billion. “We have a big toolkit so we’ll see,” Bessent said. “We believe that the yields don’t reflect the underlying fundamentals.” Rising bond yields push up borrowing costs for consumers and businesses, and the Trump administration has set reducing interest rates as a top goal. Home purchases have slumped as mortgage rates have moved higher this year. President Donald Trump has often demanded that the Federal Reserve lower rates, but the ongoing increases are driven primarily by financial markets. The 30-year bond yield rose to 5.23% Thursday, down only slightly from a 19-year high reached Tuesday.

Move doesn’t fix fundamental problems Bessent also said the Trump administration would announce a new effort to reduce the government’s budget deficit, possibly by Monday. He argued that the deficit will peak this year, in part because it has been driven higher by tariff refunds, a temporary factor. While the deficit has been huge for years, overall debt topped $40 trillion on Wednesday, a staggering record that arrived just months after the national debt first blew past the $39 trillion mark in April. And the Congressional Budget Office estimated earlier this week that the annual gap between government revenue and spending would top $2 trillion this year, a remarkable number outside of recessions. But Gennadiy Goldberg, head of U.S. rates

strategy at TD Securities, said reducing the deﬁcit is mostly up to Congress, rather than the Treasury Department. “What we are seeing is the market is still a little bit skeptical that Treasury can and will be able to backstop some of these moves,” Goldberg said. Another factor pushing yields higher is how much debt Big Tech companies are raising to build AI data centers. Their deluge of bond offerings is giving bond investors more to choose from, which lowers prices for bonds and pushes up their yields.

Investors are skeptical Inflation also remains a threat because oil prices keep climbing on uncertainty about when the war with Iran will let tankers freely exit the Persian Gulf again. They rose again Thursday after Trump threatened Iran with “the MOST CRUSHING ECONOMIC OPERATION EVER TAKEN AGAINST ANY COUNTRY.” The price of Brent crude oil is near $94 per barrel, compared with roughly $72 before the start of the war. The Fed typically combats inflation by raising its benchmark interest rate to slow borrowing and spending and cool the economy. Yet new Fed chair Kevin Warsh hasn’t signaled whether the Fed will take such a step. At his most recent news conference in late July, he sowed confusion about whether he sees higher rates as the right approach. He also suggested the Fed could soon switch the gauge it uses to monitor inflation, which it seeks to keep at 2%. Inflation has topped that level for more than five years, and was 3.7% in June, according to the Fed’s preferred measure. Mark Cabana, head of U.S. rates strategy at Bank of America Securities, said that a key reason for higher borrowing costs “is just elevated uncertainty about how the Fed is going to contain inflation” and what it will do “in case things don’t go to plan.” Yet Warsh has underscored he doesn’t want to provide such signals because he wants financial markets to set interest rates based on economic conditions, not on what it expects the Fed to do. Bessent’s intervention appears to be at crosspurposes with that goal, since markets are now considering what next steps Treasury might take to contain rates. The rise in rates has put pressure on Warsh to clarify his approach when he delivers a highprofile speech next Friday at an annual Fed conference in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. “Now the ball is in the Fed’s court and the ball is really in Kevin Warsh’s hands,” Cabana said. “And the market is questioning, will Warsh respond? Will he articulate a better plan?”

Bond market swings back, knocks stocks lower BY STAN CHOE Associated Press

NEW YORK — The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared on Thursday as oil prices, worries about high inflation and the U.S. government’s debt kept rising. That helped knock the U.S. stock market to its worst day in three weeks, and Walmart led the way on concerns about its upcoming profits. The S&P 500 fell 0.9% for its fourth loss in the five days since setting its all-time high last week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 703 points, or 1.3%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 1%. The bond market remains the center of the action after yields charged higher through the summer. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made a surprise move Wednesday that brought some temporary relief. His department said it will at least double the size of its planned purchases of longer-term Treasurys from Sept. 9 through Nov. 4. That helped push yields down after the 10-year Treasury’s yield hit its highest level in more than a year and the 30-year yield got back to where it was in 2007. It was a big deal because high yields slow the economy by raising interest payments for people, companies and the government, and they can undercut prices for stocks and other investments. But analysts had cautioned the effect may be short-lived, given how small the purchases are relative to the overall size of the Treasury market and how they don’t fix the fundamental concerns that had driven up yields.

Meta defends child safety efforts but critics say it falls short BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS Associated Press

CHICAGO — Meta insists it has a long history of protecting its youngest customers as it defends itself against a swath of lawsuits alleging its social media empire harms children. In the latest such instance, the social media giant is ﬁghting allegations in a California federal court that it contributes to the youth mental health crisis by deliberately and stealthily designing features to get children hooked on its platforms Instagram and Facebook. Four states are seeking billions of dollars in damages as well as fundamental changes to how Meta runs those apps. Children’s mental health, and what they do and see on social media, are all issues “Meta takes

seriously and tries to act on,” Paul Schmidt, a lawyer for the tech giant, said in opening statements this week. Critics say the company’s safety record falls short and that many of its protections simply don’t work. They include Marc Berkman, executive director at the Organization for Social Media Safety, who said Meta introduced safeguards promising to protect children in response to public pressure rather than out of concern. There’s been a “lack of real institutional willingness to act here,” Berkman said. Most of the changes Meta has introduced focus on addressing harassment and offensive content. Instagram users have always been able to block others — and, along with Meta’s oldest crown jewel, Facebook — the app has

gradually added features for reporting problematic accounts and inappropriate content. In 2016, Instagram users were given the option to delete or ﬁlter comments they found offensive, and later added warnings that prompted users to reconsider posting potentially harmful content, as well as options to limit comments and tags on their posts. Meta also says it prevents adults from starting private chats with teens if they are not already connected, and has increased checks to make sure users under 13 — the minimum age for holding a Facebook or Instagram account — aren’t online. Schmidt said in his opening remarks that Meta recognizes some users still sign up using incorrect birthdays but that the company takes enforcement of age limits seriously.

The company says it also posts warnings and resources at the top of Instagram search results related to suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, and touts its “Teen Accounts,” launched in 2024, as a safe space for teenagers online. It aligns photo and video restrictions for teen accounts with those for a PG-13 movie, unless there’s parental permission otherwise. Critics complain these changes amount to little more than corporate posturing. A September 2025 report from former employee and whistleblower Arturo Béjar and four online safety advocacy nonprofits accused Meta of not taking “real steps” to address youth safety, instead opting for “splashy headlines about new tools for parents and Instagram Teen Accounts for underage users.”

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New Orleans Area Deaths Autin, Irley Bergeron, Bobbie Chapital, Richard Cornelious, Gwendolyn DeMesme, Darnell Duronslet, Michael Edwards, Mary Goliwas Sr., Benjamin Hills Davis, Velma Perez, Mary Pond, Preston Ponseti Jr., Sidney Psarellis, Michael Russell, Edward Saunders, Glenda Smith Garnier, Wanda St. Ann Turner, Jacque Williams, Wanda Wilson, Eve

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time with his family, Joe could most often be found nose deep in a book or contentedly listening to classical music.

Joe is preceded in death by his parents and is survived by his wife, Nancy, Kate Yurgil (Joseph), David Autin (Rachel), and his granddaughter, Lydia, who will forever cherish his legacy of humility, kindness, and service. For their expert care and support, the family extends special thanks to Joe's physicians, V. Valentino, V. Tedesco, S. Salopek, L. Turkewitz, S. Karim, B. Kfoury; Hospice of Acadiana; Fr. Anselm Ofodum, Fr. Louie Richard, Robbie Lazarine, Evelyn Landry, all caregivers, Sister Lawrence and the sisters of Mt. Carmel for their constant prayers, and a host of devoted family members and friends who loved Joe for his warmth and unending kindness and generosity. A visitation will be held at Jacob Schoen and Son Funeral, 3827 Canal Street, New Orleans, on Saturday, August 22, beginning at 11a.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 12:00 p.m. Burial will follow immediately at Greenwood Cemetery.

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are invited to attend visitation on Saturday, August 22, 2026, from 11:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at Leitz Eagan Funeral Home, 4747 Veterans Memorial Blvd., Metairie, LA 70006. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated in the Leitz Eagan chapel at 1:00 PM, with interment to follow at Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans. To share fond memories and condolences, please visit www.leitzeaganfuner alhome.com

Chapital, Richard Leo 'Brown Boy'

Richard Leo Chapital, age 75, departed this Earthly Realm on Thursday, August 13, 2026. He was an avid motorcyclist and horseman. He leaves a legacy of love and cherished memories with his wife, Charlotte HarrisChapital. Celebration of Life Service Saturday, August 22, 2026, 11:00AM Bibleway Missionary Baptist Church 3308 Orleans Ave, NOLA 70119 Pastor Lance J. Brown officiating. Visitation 10:00AM until service time. Interment Private

Cornelious, Gwendolyn Alva

We celebrate the life of Irley Joseph "Joe" Autin, Jr., a quiet, kind, gentle man who lived in service to his family, his faith, and his community. Many who knew him called him "St. Joseph." He passed away on August 18, 2026, in Lafayette, LA, in the company of family and friends. Joe was a model of unending patience and empathy, a servant leader, always helping, motivating, and inspiring others to achieve their goals. His clear thinking and practical examples, particularly when studying difficult topics, was a special gift to others that paved the way to success. Joe was born on August 21, 1943, in New Orleans, LA, the only son of Irley Joseph Autin, Sr., and Lydia Guidry Autin. In 1961, he graduated from St. Aloysius High School, then pursued a life of learning and teaching. He attained a BS in Mathematics from Spring Hill College, Mobile, AL; an MS in Mathematics from Marquette University, Milwaukee, WS; and an MST in Mathematics from the University of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM. Throughout his tenure as a mathematics and computer science educator, Joe shared his expertise and skills as a Computer Help Desk Consultant and Computer Science Instructor at the University of New Orleans, a Computer Science Teacher at the Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base in New Orleans, and a mathematics teacher in Schools of the Brothers of the Sacred Heart in Metuchen, NJ; Bay St. Louis, MS; and Baton Rouge, LA. It was in Baton Rouge that Joe met fellow educator Nancy Pellerin, who shared both his unwavering faith and his passion for teaching and learning. They soon married, and together they had one son, David, and one daughter, Kate. He was a deeply devoted father and husband, dedicating countless hours to swim meets, piano recitals, school events, and dissertation proofreading. With an endless desire to help others, Joe served as a Eucharistic minister for St. Dominic Parish, worked on projects for Habitat for Humanity, spent innumerable hours tutoring students of all grades in physics, chemistry, and every level of mathematics. Two of his favorite volunteer activities were teaching older adults computer skills for the Rosa Keller Foundation and providing aid to the non-profit Raphael-Evelyn Education Foundation. When not serving his community or enjoying

Bobbie Ann Bergeron, age 80, of Metairie, Louisiana, passed away peacefully on Thursday, August 13, 2026, surrounded by loved ones. Born in New Orleans on August 18, 1945, she lived a life defined by devotion, faith, and quiet strength. Bobbie Ann is survived by her devoted siblings: Paul Henry Bergeron (Donna), Robert Paul Bergeron III (Cathy), Mary Bergeron Vinet (Bill), and Laurie Bergeron Barrois (Chuck). She was preceded in death by her parents, Dr. Robert P. Bergeron Jr., DDS and Valdor Fourmaux Bergeron, and her sister Colette Bergeron Mentz. She was a beloved "Aunt B" and godmother to a large and loving family of nieces and nephews: Mark Henry Bergeron, Gregory Bergeron (Marissa), Kimberly Bergeron Ayo (Randy), Kristy Bergeron, Chad Mentz (Megan), Jill Mentz Gaunt (Shawn), Brittany Mentz Hull (Larry), Robert P. Bergeron IV (Traci), Adam Bankston (Jill), Codi Bergeron Ackal (Jay), Katie Bergeron Colburn (Kevin), Dustin Vinet (Katie), Jesse Vinet (Stephanie), and Colby Barrois. She was also a proud great-aunt to thirty nieces and nephews. Bobbie Ann's Catholic faith was the foundation of her life. A longtime member of St. Agnes Parish and later St. Rita Parish, she lived her faith through kindness, prayer, and the way she cared for others. Diagnosed with epilepsy at an early age, she faced challenges with remarkable perseverance, supported by her loving mother, grandmothers, and siblings. She never married, choosing instead to dedicate her life to her mother. After the unexpected passing of their father in 1976, she became her mother's steadfast companion, sharing 76 years of devotion, daily routines, and a nightly goodnight kiss. A graduate of Riverdale All-Girls High School in 1966 and Jefferson VoTech, she became an exceptionally skilled typist. She worked for many years at the Sears Service Center in Jefferson. Her love of words fueled her passions for reading thousand-page novels, conquering crossword puzzles, and mastering grammar. Her greatest athletic passion was tennis. She won numerous trophies, including the NORD Junior Tennis Championship at age 18 and the Louisiana Women's Doubles State Championship. Later, she became an accomplished bowler at her beloved Bowl -a-Rama. She was an Elvis devotee and a lifelong "Who Dat." Bobbie Ann's life was one of quiet heroism, deep love, and unwavering loyalty. Her family will forever cherish her gentle spirit, humor, faith, and the immeasurable love she shared as their Aunt "B." Relatives and friends

Duronslet, Michael E.

Michael E. Duronslet, a lifelong resident of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered into eternal rest peacefully, surrounded by his family on August 2, 2026, age 79. Educated in the Catholic school system, he was a proud graduate of St. Augustine High School's class of 1964. He earned a B.S. in Mathematics from LSUNO in 1966 and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from UNO in 1980 before building a career as an electrical engineer. Mike was preceded in death by his parents, Aldon and Vivian Moore Duronslet, and brother, Gaston Duronslet, Sr. He is survived by brothers Marcel (the late Shirley) of Richmond, TX, and Lucien (Angie) of Milwaukee, OR; sisters, Eileen Odhner of Ft. Knox, KY, Victoria Conrad (Fritz) of Baton Rouge, LA, Juliana Saputo (Paul) and Annette Broussard (Harold), both of New Orleans, LA; and sister-inlaw Evangeline M. Duronslet of Gonzales, LA, as well as a host of cherished nieces, nephews, and extended family and friends who will miss him dearly. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Church, 7300 Crowder Blvd., New Orleans, LA. Visitation at 9 AM, followed by Mass at 11 AM. Interment at St. Roch Cemetery No. 2.

Edwards, Mary Ann Braud Funeral services for Gwendolyn Alva Cornelious will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at New Generation Fellowship 1000 Clay St., Kenner LA. 70062. The visitation will begin at 9AM followed by an 11AM service. Entombment will follow in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, in New Orleans, LA.

DeMesme, Darnell Claude

Darnell Claude De Mesme, age 75, was born on January 21, 1951 of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered into eternal rest on August 10, 2026. He attended Orleans Parish Schools. He worked as a Crane operator before mastering his true passion as a roofer. Known for his skill of proficiently walking any type of roof, he was affectionately called little pigeon by his collogues a name he embraced and honored. He leaves to cherish his memories; his daughter Keisha DeMesme; his son Jarnell DeMesme; thirteen grandchildren, nine great grandchildren, four sisters, Mariniece Vincent, Sharyl Landry (Darrell), Edith Alfred (Carey) and Lynette DeMesme, two brothers, Shannon De Mesme Jr. and Anthony Beauchamp and a host of nieces nephews, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Rudolph Beauchamp, Pearl Collins, and Shannon DeMesme Sr., his children, Kendra, Monica and Darnell DeMesme Jr., his sister Rita Waits, his brother Rudolph DeMesme Sr., and his nephew Darrell Landry Jr. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Service on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at Gentilly Baptist Church, 5141 Franklin Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70122 at 11:00 a.m. Visitation from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. Interment Mount Olivet Cemetery, 4000 Norman Mayer Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70122.. You may sign the guest book on www.gertrudegeddeswi llis.com. Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home, Inc., in charge (504) 522-2525.

Frances Joy Goliwas, and his brother, Walter Joseph Goliwas Jr. He is now joyfully reunited with Delery "Del" Eagan Strassel, his longtime love and companion. Ben's heart was full of the love of his family, including his children Elizabeth Goliwas Bodet (Robert †), Benjamin Fane Goliwas Jr. (Holly), Laura Goliwas Kuhlke (Chris), Andrew Alvin Goliwas (Madeleine), and Ynyra OShea. He held an unbounded love for his grandchildren who brought him great joy: Elizabeth "Ella" Kuhlke, Henry Kuhlke, Elizabeth "Libby" Bodet, Zachary Goliwas, Margaret "Maggie" Goliwas, Marcel Dubois, and Dominique "Mika" Dubois (Justin). He had the opportunity to hold the hand of his great granddaughter Juniper Alaine Berdahl-Dubois. Having served as a sailor in the U.S. Navy, Ben was affectionately known as "The Admiral." Few things brought him as much joy as being out on the water. Ben felt most at home with the wind in his sails and the horizon ahead of him, a passion that also inspired his support of the Ocean Conservancy and its mission to protect the waters of the world. He founded the grassroots organization Home Port New Orleans, where he was instrumental in coordinating the crucial removal of storm debris from Lake Pontchartrain after Hurricane Katrina. Ben dedicated much of his life to early childhood education, shaping young minds with the same warmth and patience that would come to define him in every other chapter of his life. He was an early supporter of the Special Olympics. He was a longtime volunteer of WYES, sharing in its commitment to educational programming and community, supporting his belief that "it is in giving that you receive."

of history and change while creating countless cherished memories with her family and friends. She was known for her resilience, courage, tenacity, compassion, and unwavering strength. Velma retired from the Metropolitan Developmental Center (Belle Chasse State School) after 38 years of dedicated service as a Cook Supervisor. Her commitment and accomplishments were recognized with numerous plaques and awards. She was also a professional seamstress for over 70 years. She leaves to cherish her memory her daughter, Paulette "Connie" Baker; grandchildren, Corey A. Baker, Sr. (Sheletha) and Kamala B. Jackson (Jason); four great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; stepdaughters, Ruby Crockett (Leslie) and Sybil Davis; son-in-law Earl Fox; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Widowed twice, she is preceded in death by her husbands, Ferdinand Hills and Rev. James Roy Davis, Sr.; her parents, Lawrence and Pauline Miller (née Allen), Sr.; her eleven siblings; and stepson James R. Davis, Jr and stepdaughter Shelita D. Fox. Relatives and friends are invited to attend funeral services at Greater Morning Star Baptist Church, 14497 LA-23, Belle Chase, LA 70037, on Saturday, August 22, 2026. Visitation will begin at 8:30 a.m. Services begin at 10:00 am. A viewing will be held on Friday, August 21, 2026, at Robinson Family Funeral Home, 9611 LA-23, Belle Chase, La 70037. Interment: Westlawn Cemetery

Perez, Mary Conti

Ben held a lifelong belief in the power of the number 52, fittingly, according to gematria, the numerical value of the name 'Ben' is 52, a quiet reminder that even in the smallest details, he was exactly who he was meant to be.

Mrs. Mary Ann Braud Edwards resident of St. James, La passed away on Thursday, July 23, 2026. Wife of the late Lloyd Edwards. She is survived by her children Monique, Antonio (Chandra), and Herbert (Stephanie); grandchildren Ryan (Monique), Taylor, Theo (Nia), Orlando, and Christa'lyn; great grandchildren Ethan, Chloe, Jaylen and Riley. She is also survived by her sister Mrs. Geraldine Bernard, brother Mr. Edgar Braud and her best friend of 73 years, Mrs. Shirley Julien Jefferson. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the visitation at 10 a.m. at St. James Catholic Church, 6613 Hwy 18 St. James, LA on Saturday, August 22, 2026. Recitation of the rosary will be at 11 a.m. followed by Resolutions and Reflections. Memorial Mass at 12:30 p.m. Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home. Please visit our Tribute wall at www.rhodesfuneral.com to express condolences to family. Funeral can be live streamed at www.youtube.com/ @canecatholics

Blessed with the luck of an Irishman, Ben lived a marvelous life that spanned the globe. He believed his greatest successes were measured not in material achievements, but in relationships and memories. His guiding philosophy to "treasure the moments" was more than a saying; it was the way he lived every day. Whether meeting someone for the first time or reconnecting with an old friend, Ben had a rare gift for bringing people together. His warmth, curiosity, optimism, and genuine love for others (humans and all creatures great and small) made him beloved by those whose lives were brighter for having known him. The greatest way to honor his memory is to live as he did with gratitude, generosity, and an appreciation for life's simple gifts. Above all, treasure the moments. Hip, hip! A Memorial Mass and celebration of his life will be held at St. Mary's Assumption, 923 Josephine Street, New Orleans, on Saturday morning, August 22nd, 2026 at 10:00. Visitation will begin at 9:00.

Goliwas Sr., Benjamin Fane

Hills Davis, Velma Mildred Miller

The Admiral is on the Bridge. Benjamin Fane Goliwas Sr., affectionately known as Ben, Benjamin F., and Pops, passed away peacefully, surrounded by love, on June 29, 2026. Born on July 21, 1942, in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ben was the seventh of eight children born to Walter Joseph Goliwas Sr. and Mary Fane Goliwas. He was preceded in death by his parents and his sisters Mary Jo Thibodeaux, Colleen G. Holthaus, and Peggy G. Bourgeois, and his brothers Robert Edward Goliwas and William Joseph Goliwas. He is survived by his sister,

Velma Mildred Miller Hills-Davis, 93 years old, peacefully transitioned on August 9, 2026, at Ochsner Westbank, with her daughter at her side. A native and lifelong resident of Ironton, Louisiana, she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, aunt, cousin, and friend. Velma lived a full and meaningful life spanning more than nine decades. She witnessed generations

Mary Conti Perez, passed away in Covington, Louisiana, on Wednesday, August 19, 2026. She lived 90 full years, showing love to all she met and making the most of every day. Mary was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 57 years, Vincent "Joe" Perez, III; her parents, John and Elizabeth Conti; her sister, Dottie Kindseth; and her brother, John Conti. Mary is survived by her four children, Judith Perez, Paul Perez (Nancy), Laura Houte (Steve), and Ann Perez; her nine grandchildren, Teresa Stockton (Jimmy), Lauren Olsen (Josh), Preston Perez (Rachel), Blake Perez (Elizabeth), Russell Perez (Erin), Kaitlyn Perez, Jessica Creed (Charles), Kayla Ledet (Grant), and Eric Houte; her sister, Diane Doolen (Phil); and her brother, Charles Conti (Paula). She is also survived by twelve great grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Mary was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on November 26, 1935. She was a founding member and a very active parishioner of Resurrection of Our Lord Parish in New Orleans. To honor Mary's bright spirit, the family invites you to wear bright and colorful attire. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Mass Resurrection of Our Lord Parish, 9701 Hammond St. in New Orleans, on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at 11:00AM. A visitation will be held at the church beginning at 9:00AM. The interment will follow the Mass at Metairie Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation in Mary's memory to Resurrection of Our Lord Parish. As Mary ended every conversation, "May the peace of Christ be with you." To view and sign the online guest book, please visit LakeLawnMetairie.com.

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Pond, Preston Richardson

Preston Richardson Pond, age 90, a native of New Orleans and longtime resident of Metairie, Louisiana, passed away peacefully at his home on August 10. Born September 22, 1935, in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of David Mims Pond and Florence Lillian Michel Pond. The brother of David Michael Pond (Gayle), and Charles Patrick Pond (Norma). Married to Yvonne Marie Riviere on July 2, 1955, in Incarnate Word Church, New Orleans, LA. Preston was preceded in death by his beloved wife, Yvonne Marie Riviere Pond (December 2, 2025); his daughter, Dixie Ann Pond (March 31, 1964); his father, David Mims Pond (June 29, 1960); his mother, Florence Lillian Michel Pond (January 24, 1961); and his brother, Charles Patrick Pond (March 8, 2016). Preston spent most of his childhood in the Carrollton area of New Orleans. He attended Incarnate Word Grammar School and Fortier High School prior to enlisting in the U.S. Navy. He attended many Navy schools as well as Miramar College and National University in California. Preston retired as a Petty Officer 1st Class, after completing his 20year Navy career. Because his rate, Torpedoman, was considered a sea-going rate he spent far more time at sea than on land. His duty stations included: RTC Great Lakes, ILL; USS Cascade AD-16; USS Ingersoll DD-652; USN Mine Defense Lab, Panama City, Fla; USS Vammen DE-644; USS Brinkley Bass DD-887; USS Lyman K Swenson DD729; Navy Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor, HA; USS Growler SSG-577; GMU 10 Naval Submarine Base, Pearl Harbor HA; USS Piedmont AD-17; USS Schofield DLG-3; USS Dixie AD-14; USNTC San Diego, Cal; and the USS LY Spear AS-36. Preston's military awards included the Korean Service Medal; United Nations Medal; National Defense Medal; Good Conduct (4); Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal; & China Service Medal. After retiring from military service Preston worked as a welder for Data Graphix, Inc. in California, before returning to his hometown of New Orleans, LA in 1978. Preston's second 20-year career was as an engineer with McDermott International where, again, most of his time was spent offshore, both in the United States and Internationally. His offshore career included, but was not limited to, working the great oil spill in Alaska, Mexico, Nigeria, Hong Kong, and Brazil. Preston was a member of the American Legion, Fleet Reserve Association, (FRA) and Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW). Preston was preceded in death by his beloved wife Yvonne Marie Riviere Pond and his infant daughter, Dixie Ann Pond. He is survived by his children, Penny Thomas (Douglas), Peggy Pond, and Patty-Jo Brignac. He also leaves behind his cherished grandchildren, Lonnie Cox Peterson, Brittany Brignac Ayers, Preston Matthew Plese, and Taralynn Marie Brekeen; and his greatgrandchildren, Riley Brown, Collin Brown, Jaxon Peterson, Mason Ayers, Cameryn Ayers, Addison Ayers, and Everly Plese. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Services at Garden of Memories Funeral Home and Cemetery, 4900 Airline Dr. Metairie, LA. 70001 on Saturday, August 22, 2026. Visitation will begin at 9:00 AM with a Mass at 11:00 AM. Interment will be immediately thereafter.

Ponseti, Sidney J.

Reverend Sidney Joseph Ponseti, Jr., a native of New Orleans, entered into eternal rest on Thursday, August 13, 2026, in his home in Baton Rouge at the age of 90. He was preceded in death by his parents, Sidney Joseph Ponseti, Sr. and Freda Broders Ponseti, and his beloved wife, Sylvia Ibele Ponseti. He is survived by his 3 sons, Tim Ponseti and his wife, Linda, of Charlotte, NC, John Ponseti and his wife, Elena, of Baton Rouge, Theodore Ponseti of Pineville, LA, and his daughter, Ann Ponseti Beard and her husband, Allen, of Baton Rouge. He is survived by 12 grandchildren, Daniel Ponseti, Sarah Ponseti, Rachel Ponseti, Andrew Ponseti, Jonathan Ponseti, Hannah Beard Comeaux and her husband, Andrew, Abi Beard, Paul Beard, Micah Beard, Matthew Beard, Joseph Beard; and Peter Beard. He is survived by his brotherin-law, Charles Ibele and his wife, Becky, of Clemmons, NC, and many cousins, nieces, and nephews. Over a period of 40+ years, he served as an LCMS pastor in Blytheville, AR at First Lutheran Church and in New Orleans at Zion Lutheran Church, Mt. Calvary Lutheran Church, and St. Matthew's Lutheran Church. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service at Trinity Lutheran Church, 15160 South Harrells Ferry Rd., Baton Rouge, LA 70816, on Saturday, August 22, at 11:00 a.m. Visitation will be at Trinity Lutheran Church on Saturday, August 22, from 9:30 a.m. until service time. Donations may be made to Trinity Lutheran Church. Entombment will take place in Hope Mausoleum, 4841 Canal St., New Orleans, at 2:00 p.m. Rabenhorst Funeral Home, 825 Government St., Baton Rouge, is in charge of arrangements.

Psarellis, Captain Michael Elias 'Mike'

Captain Michael Elias "Mike" Psarellis, age 82, passed away in Slidell, Louisiana, on Tuesday, August 18, 2026, with family at his side. He is survived by his brother Steven (Dawn). He is preceded in death by his wife, Mary Ann; parents, Elias and Vasilia; and sister, Erin. Captain Mike was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on June 27, 1944, and lived there until the family moved to Kardamyla, Chios, Greece and then later to Athens, Greece, where he attended the American Community School. He graduated from the State University of New York - Fort Schuyler with Bachelor of Science degree and a third mate's deck officer license for ocean going vessels. Upon graduation he immediately entered the merchant marine services. Captain Mike was a veteran of the U.S. Merchant Marines, having served on ocean going cargo ships during the Vietnam war making calls in the active war zone supporting American troops. He achieved the pinnacle of his profession by achieving the status of Unlimited Master, commanding vessels of any size worldwide and sailing the seven seas. Upon retirement, he immersed himself in his passions, painting and writing. His art was featured at his private gallery, WYES Art Auction, and at homes in the U.S. and Greece. He published his first novel "Kaliste" in 2009 and more recently completed his second novel which will be published posthumously. Captain Mike, a loving, caring, family man, lit up the room with his smile and positive energy. A religious man, he was active at Holy Trinity Greek

Orthodox Cathedral of New Orleans, where he served as a parish council board member for a number of years. After Hurricane Katrina, he became active at St. Basil's Greek Orthodox Church in Houston where he also served as president of the local AHEPA chapter. He supported many church based organizations and projects, including the annual Erin E. Psarellis Scholarship awarded to students excelling in the Greek language and arts. He will be deeply missed by his family and friends. Fair winds and following seas on your final voyage, Captain. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made to Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1200 Allen Toussaint Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70122. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral services on Saturday, August 22, 2026, at 10:00 AM at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral, 1200 Allen Toussaint Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana, with visitation beginning at 9:00 AM. Interment will follow in St. Joseph Abbey Cemetery, 75376 River Road, St. Benedict, Louisiana. E. J. Fielding Funeral Home of Covington, Louisiana, is honored to be entrusted with the funeral arrangements. The Psarellis family invites you to share thoughts, memories, and condolences by signing an online guestbook at www.ejfieldingfh.com.

Smith Garnier, Wanda Ann

Wanda Ann Smith Garnier passed away on July 16, 2026, at the age of 69. Wanda is survived by her four daughters: Dione LeVangie, Michelle Garnier, Crystal Garnier, Carla Denet, 11 grandchildren and 9 great grandchildren. Also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Preceded in death by her parents, Walter Smith, Sr. and Beulah Coleman Smith and a brother, Carl Coleman. Family and friends are invited to attend the Celebration of Life Service on August 22, 2026, for 10:00 a.m at The Living Gospel Church - New Orleans East, 7901 Crowder Blvd., New Orleans, LA 70127. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Pastor Richard Smith, officiating. Interment will follow at Mount Airy Memorial Park Cemetery, 13635 Old Spanish Trail, Boutte, LA 70039. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

and a senior at Belle Chasse High School. He is the precious son of Mai J. St. Ann and Jacque B. Turner (Morgan D. Allen). Beloved brother of Blaise Isidore III. Devoted grandson of Kathleen and Michael St.Ann Sr., Eva and Haspel Taylor Jr., and the late Erskine J. Turner Sr. Loving nephew of Michael St.Ann Jr. (Wallie), Erskine Turner Jr., and Tess A. Prout (Marlon Sr.). Cousin of Marlon Jr., Mason and Major Prout, Michael St.Ann III and Kennedi L. Turner. Godson of Bonnie Bartholomew. Godfather of Angelo Anderson III. Jacque is also survived by several great aunts and uncles, cousins, other relatives and devoted friends.

Relatives and friends of the family, staff and student body of Belle Chasse High School and Belle Chasse Academy are invited to attend the funeral service on Saturday, 22, 2026 at OLPH Catholic Church located at 8968 LA23, Belle Chasse LA. 70037. The visitation will begin at 10AMfollowed by a1:30PM mass. Father Kyle Dave will officiate and entombment will follow in OLPH Cemetery.

Interment in Little Rock Cemetery.

Wilson, Eve

Eve Wilson departed this life on Monday, August 10, 2026 at the age of 83. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Service at Treme Recreation Community Center, 900 N. Villere St. New Orleans, La 70116 on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at 11:00 am. Visitation will begin at 10:00 am. Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

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Edward Russell Jr. entered peacefully into eternal rest on Saturday, August 1, 2026. Edward was born January 31, 1948, to the late Elizabeth and Edward Russell Sr. Edward is the loving father of Tyeka Russell Mosley, Katina and John Pedesclaux, Damion Martin (Sara), and Irma Gary; brother of Ronald Russell (Linda), Deborah Russell Williams, and Shone Canty Scretchings (Kevin). Edward leaves behind a host of grandchildren, great grandchildren, nieces, nephews and other relatives and loyal friends. Relatives and friends of the family, also pastors, officers and members of Stronger Hope Baptist Church, Ideal Missionary Baptist Association, Prince Hall Masons, Shriners International, Booker T. Washington C/O 1965, U. S. Postal Service, VA Hospital, and Tulane University are invited to attend the Homegoing Celebration of Edward Russell Jr. The services will take place Saturday, August 22, 2026, at Stronger Hope Baptist Church located at 2401 S. Galvez St, Rev. Nicholas K. Derouen Sr. M.Div, officiating. Visitation will begin at 8:00 a.m. and the service will begin at 10:00 a.m. Interment Mt. Olivet Mausoleum. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditio nbegins.com (504)2820600.Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Saunders, Glenda R.

Glenda R. Saunders transitioned from this earth to heaven on July 3, 2026. She was the daughter of the late Peter G. and Bessie B. Saunders. Glenda will be missed by all that knew and loved her. A Memorial Service will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2026. May she rest in peace.

Funeral services for Wanda Gail Williams-Mack will be held on Saturday, August 22, 2026 at Robinson Family F.H. 9611 LA-23, Belle Chasse LA. Visitation 8:30am, service at 10am. Pastor Michael W. Jiles officiating.

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Big Oil’s grip on government is the real emergency brags about record U.S. oil proMy experiences growing up on the Gulf Coast are inextricably duction, while ruling out a ban on linked with the Gulf itself — oil exports. watching the sunset from How can we have an my granddad’s boat, the energy emergency and resmell of crab cooking in a cord oil and gas production pot, or driving home with at the same time? And if oil sandy feet in my mom’s and gas production in the minivan. That connection Gulf is so critical to our became harder to ignore Lindsay national security, why are as disasters like Katrina Reeves we exporting millions of and the BP oil spill upendbarrels every day to other GUEST countries? ed our neighbors’ lives and COLUMNIST The answer is simple. livelihoods. We depend on American oil executives, the Gulf. Its well-being is already rich beyond imagination, intertwined with ours. That’s why it’s maddening to see want more money and power. If protecting the nation were truly the Gulf at the center of another the goal, keeping more energy one of President Donald Trump’s at home and lowering costs for shameless lies. In one breath, the administration Americans would be the priority. Instead, the Trump administraclaims there’s a national security emergency. It’s supposedly so tion is using national security serious that federally authorized rhetoric to preserve the industry’s oil and gas activity in the Gulf preferred business model, which should be exempt from some of maximizes proﬁts by selling the Endangered Species Act’s American oil on the global market. most important protections, even Leaders in Congress need to if it means entire species will go take this threat to the Endangered extinct. Species Act seriously. The profIn the next, the administration its from disregarding one of the

country’s bedrock environmental laws will be short-lived. Extinction is forever. Scientists estimate there are now as few as 51 individual Rice’s whales, which are baleen whales that live year-round in the Gulf. Kemp’s ridley sea turtles, an endangered turtle only found along the Gulf and East Coast, are still imperiled. Though populations have rebounded, there are still only about 8,300 Florida manatees. The precarious state of the Gulf and our marine wildlife is the real emergency here, and the Trump administration’s push to ignore vital protections offered by the Endangered Species Act will leave a permanent scar. A major oil spill could be catastrophic for these iconic animals, and the odds only worsen as companies venture into deeper, more dangerous waters, with fewer regulations in place. The oil industry’s risks extend well beyond wildlife, jeopardizing important Gulf industries like ﬁshing and tourism. The shrimp and oyster industries were reeling after the Loui-

siana Offshore Oil Port spill in March, which dumped roughly 31,500 gallons of crude oil into the Gulf. One oyster harvester recently told reporters that his employees, who already live paycheck-to-paycheck, are struggling. Another oil spill will spell economic ruin for small businesses that rely on a healthy Gulf. Meanwhile, business is booming for the oil industry. Roughly 3.9 million barrels of oil were exported every day in January. That same month, oil production in the Gulf exceeded 2 million barrels per day, just the fourth time that’s ever happened. The administration reported that U.S. crude oil production hit an all-time high in 2025, and 2026 will no doubt be another productive year for the industry. The Dow Jones U.S. Oil and Gas Index hit a 10-year high in late March. All of this record production happened within the guardrails of the Endangered Species Act. Oil companies can break production records while protecting endangered species, because the

Endangered Species Act does not regulate their rates of production. But as oil companies have shown time and time again, their appetite for proﬁt is insatiable. The administration’s priorities are also crystal clear. With some marine animals on the brink of extinction and communities along the Gulf threatened with economic disaster, Trump is rolling out the red carpet for an industry that is already experiencing record highs. Congress should intervene. Voters are already upset with the state of the world. Oil-covered beaches, economic devastation and extinct whales and sea turtles won’t be winning arguments come midterms. Lawmakers need to recognize that Trump’s pandering to Big Oil won’t make Americans safer, won’t make the country more secure and won’t bring down gas prices at the pump. Lindsay Reeves is a New Orleans-based attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity’s endangered species program.

Local takeover of S&WB has promise, but cautions remain City officials are exercising new conThe “safe and reliable” language appears similar to the standards set trol over the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans, which could ultimately for Entergy New Orleans and Delta Utilities. If this standard can support lead them to fold it into city governthe council’s fiduciary obligation to adment. If that happens, it would be the most important shift in the water, sewer equately fund our water systems, that’s and drainage utility’s 127-year history. a huge step forward. Residents should pay close attenPreviously, council members had only the powers delegated tion. to them by the Legislature and Consolidating the S&WB into were understandably frusthe city should substantially resolve the governance issues trated that they couldn’t compel behind the flooded streets, water enough information to assess the Rebecca utility’s financial needs. Council main geysers and sewer line breaks that residents have long Mowbray members frequently expressed experienced. their displeasure with the utilGUEST That’s because folding the waCOLUMNIST ity’s performance by playing the only card they had — denying ter utility’s functions into city funding — which precipitated government will strengthen local decades of disinvestment in the system. oversight and accountability and make the City Council clearly responsible for Now the city may have a duty to propproperly funding it. erly fund the utility to ensure “safe and But the path to stronger city control, reliable” performance and can require activated by Act 938 of this spring’s the SWBNO to produce data to demonlegislative session, could be messy. The strate how much money it needs. legislation creates a vehicle for change BGR has long called for the council but does not define the final form of a to have a more objective and thorough future S&WB. process for reviewing the utility’s Mayor Helena Moreno created a funding requests, whether it remains a transition committee — the Public Util- stand-alone agency or becomes part of city government. ity Modernization Process Subgroup Careful funding decisions are es(PUMPS) — as we at the Bureau of Governmental Research had recomsential to sustainability. The council hasn’t yet proposed a regulatory framemended during the legislative session. That group is developing the process work, but the new ordinance has more in real time, so it’s not hard to imagine detailed reporting requirements than delays in the studies it requested, new previously existed in state law, and the challenges with day-to-day decisioncouncil can require “any additional inmaking or difficulties integrating an formation necessary to fulfill its regulaentity with more than 1,200 employees tory responsibilities.” and hundreds of millions in operating Moreover, the ordinance requires the and capital budgets. S&WB to pay the costs of regulating the PUMPS members meet in private, and utility, which can further support a real the public will only learn of proposals process with real analyses. BGR will only when they’re introduced to public monitor the issue closely, as appropriate bodies, so residents should be ready to funding will be key to upgrading infraspeak up if they have concerns. Council structure and improving performance. members have said they understand the Bottom line: We’re in a high-risk, high“you break it, you own it” concept and reward scenario. will be accountable if something goes The changes underway could mark wrong, but they should strive to balance a new day for addressing our water proper planning with an efficient transi- woes, and our public and elected offition. cials should be commended for tackling As a first foray into greater city consuch major challenges. But there are any number of ways this could go awry. trol, the ordinance and motions passed We all need to pay attention to how the by the council on Aug. 6 hold a lot of PUMPS process unfolds and any goverpromise. The utility’s operating and capital nance changes that voters are asked to budgets will now be part of the city’s decide. budget processes, and the legislation requires that “the approved budgets shall Rebecca Mowbray is the president and be sufficient to ensure S&WB’s ability to CEO of the Bureau of Governmental Research. provide safe and reliable water, sewer, and drainage services.”

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America and La. must fix youth sports systems I enjoy watching sports year-round, Great athletes are usually the byprodbut there’s something magical about the uct of a great system, but a great system World Cup. It combines athleticism, con- should not be designed primarily to protroversy, economics, geography, hope, duce professional athletes. Its primary politics and so much more. goals should be participation, retention, Once the U.S. Men’s National Team lost physical health and the lifelong skills to Belgium, I started receiving countless sports can teach us: communication, emails, text messages and articles from confidence, resilience and teamwork, to former teammates, current coaches and name a few. families with kids who play soccer. Most If organizations want to reach these of us agree on one thing: The youth socoutcomes, they need low barriers to accer system is broken. Here are my bigcess and great coaches. They should obgest reflections post-World Cup. serve practices and games to see if kids The problems in our youth system are having fun and showing improvearen’t unique to soccer. More kids ment rather than determine their should play all sports, but the success by who gets drafted and systems we’ve built in the United how many trophies they won. States often produce the opposite Money matters and how orgaresult. Boys participate at higher nizations spend it matters even rates than girls. Children from more. Someone must invest in a wealthier families have far more Lowrey better system. Philanthropists opportunities than their peers. should support scalable solutions Crews Fewer than one in four young rather than isolated programs. GUEST people get enough daily physical COLUMNIST Travel organizations should find activity and most children quit ways to reduce family costs organized sports before high because paying more doesn’t school. We could improve youth soccer, guarantee better outcomes. Schools but we’d serve far more kids by fixing should bring back intramural sports and the broader youth sports ecosystem. can work with nonprofit organizations to We’re all responsible for this brodeliver these programs. Recreation deken youth system. Travel teams have partments should ensure that resources become prohibitively expensive and support programming, not just facilities most promise more than they deliver. and administrative overhead. Nonprofit programs usually start off The youth sports system we’ve created strong due to good intentions and startup is a problem. It’s solvable too. If we want funding, but they struggle to sustain a better system, all of the youth program themselves without raising prices on providers need to collaborate. families. Public recreation departments Collective responsibility leads to coloften operate on autopilot, receiving lective impact. Youth sports need great similar funding each year regardless of leaders to generate political will, inspire outcomes. School athletic departments philanthropic resources and ensure rarely use data to maximize participayouth program leaders operate without egos or ulterior motives. If we get this tion opportunities. The resulting youth right, we’ll produce not only better athsports system resembles a pyramid: wide participation at ages 4 and 5, folletes but also a healthier community. lowed by steep attrition every year after. By the time students reach high school, Lowrey Crews is the founder and CEO only a small fraction of the student body of The 18th Ward, a sports-oriented still participates in sports. nonprofit.

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ISSUE OF THE WEEK THE ECONOMy Affordability has become a major talking point on the campaign trail as mid-term elections approach. But so too is the larger issue of how our economy is structured. Some say that American capitalism is overwhelmingly benefiting those at the top of the income scale, while leaving the rest struggling. Candidates who use the democratic socialist label are making the case that our economic system needs reform. But is that message resonating? Here are two perspectives.

Don’t malign the economy News flash of note: We when compared to others live in a mixed economy

The United States of America may be figure showing the United States with the greatest place for functionally illiter- the highest child poverty rate among a ate people to live in all of human history. group of developed countries, at 21.1%. “We must end the outrage,” he thunAn eye-popping column in the Financial Times the other day noted how dered, “that in the richest country in the people in the U.S. with very low literacy history of the world, more than 1 in 5 make about as much per hour as children live in poverty.” the average worker in the U.K. The problem with the number Is this the result of brilliant is that it comes from the OECD public policy, carefully crafted and measures income relative to to boost the prospects of those a country’s median rather than on the margins? No, it’s a byabsolute poverty. In other words, the statistic tells us where people product of the vast, endlessly Rich stand compared to others in their dynamic wealth-generating Lowry own country, not about material machine that is the American deprivation as such. As critics of economy. The Financial Times also compared co- the Sanders post have pointed out, if evhorts of low-literacy workers in the U.S. eryone in the United States — including and the U.K.: “The same proportion of the poor — instantly earned twice what U.S. workers who score stunningly low they make now, the OECD figure would on literacy earn an average of almost $30 find the same amount of “poverty”; the per hour, and two-thirds of them are in threshold for being poor would simply work. Their British counterparts make rise together with the median income. the equivalent of $20 and fewer than half What the OECD figure is really about is are employed.” inequality, an obsession of Sanders and It continued, “Factory workers in the his ilk, but not a good indicator of ecoU.S. earn 60% more than in the U.K. nomic performance. after adjusting for differences in livIn the United States, wealthy people are very wealthy, but Americans across ing costs. Plumbers and electricians much of the income distribution are also earn 90% more, and retail workers earn richer than their counterparts in Westdouble.” While the U.K. isn’t what it used to be, ern countries. it’s still a major G7 economy — yet it has With our wealth comes incredibly been significantly outpaced by its former high living standards compared to the colony across the Atlantic. rest of the developed world. If the U.K. Our political debate is characterized or France were made states in the U.S., by a mismatch between the extraordithey’d rank near or below West Virginia and Mississippi in terms of nominal GDP nary, world-beating economic achieveper capita. And we’ve been increasing ment of the United States on the one the economic gap with peer countries hand and the determination of the left — Canada, the U.K. and the EU — over — and some elements of the right — to throw out our economic system as a rank roughly the last 15 years. So, by all means, make particular failure on the other. critiques of our system and suggest This is not to deny real economic disimprovements. All such discussions, contents — especially around high costs though, should begin with recognition of for housing, education and healthcare what we’ve built and a commitment to — but perhaps no economic system has preserving it, rather than the DSA apbeen so vilified while so consistently delivering. proach of hoping to guillotine as a class The case for revolutionary change reenemy the goose that keeps laying the lies on dishonesty and misleading claims. golden egg. Enter Bernie Sanders, the patron saint Rich Lowry is on X, @RichLowry. of the DSA, who recently posted on X a

Democratic Senate nominee Abdul Elof private business, private property and Sayed of Michigan keeps calling himself a private profit.” capitalist. And the Democratic Socialists of Roosevelt’s new government programs America keep backing him to the eyeballs. were intended to save the capitalistWhy? Because the DSA understands that market system from collapsing, not, to use El-Sayed has to say that to win over even Mamdani’s words, “replace the frigidity of Democrats in a moderate state like Michirugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” Where are the heroic peasgan. They firmly expect that once elected, he would do as they say, which hapants of the Soviet agitprop films waving banners? pily conforms with what he truly Socialist Bernie Sanders heralds believes. Sweden as the socialist model, citing Confusing? Yes, on purpose. But its free health care, free college and let’s move beyond this war of laso forth. He also says, “I don’t think bels. Let’s stop using socialist and billionaires should exist.” capitalist as either compliments or Froma Sanders may not be up to date denunciations. Harrop on Sweden’s economy. It is highly The United States has a mixed capitalist with more billionaires per economy, as do most modern capita than the United States. The social countries. It has an economic system in which both the government and the private programs he admires are supported by taxes. sector control resources. The American Sweden, meanwhile, has been tightening government runs public education, Medithe rules for receiving government benecare and the U.S. Postal Service, to name a few programs. They are all taxpayerfits. For example, it’s been cutting benefits supported. to those not working. It has also adopted Why does a stamp on a letter going from a hyper-restrictive immigration policy. In a remote farmhouse in North Dakota to addition to the shock of a massive influx Chicago cost the same as a stamp on a letof people from very different cultures, ter sent from one Chicago apartment to an- Swedes rebelled at the impoverished newother three blocks away? In a purely capicomers’ claims on its social programs. The number of migrants entering Swetalist system, the stamp’s price would have reflected the difference in cost of delivery. den was down to 12,000 last year from The North Dakotan would have had to pay 117,000 in 2016. And the country is trying for this service, a lot more. But U.S. law to get people already there with residency mandates “universal service,” which keeps permits to leave. the cost of a stamp fixed. Thus, dense cities What do the “abolish-ICE” Democratic subsidize mail delivery in rural areas. Socialists think of that? Private companies, such as UPS and FeAs conservative economist Milton FrieddEx, charge vastly higher prices for deliv- man famously put it, “It’s just obvious you can’t have free immigration and a welfare ery to remote places. Note that President state.” Donald Trump has supported selling off Here’s how it works: Our capitalistthe USPS to a private company. market system generates a huge amount of Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed through wealth that can be taxed to pay for social the Social Security Act of 1935 as part of and other programs. A balance must be his New Deal program. America was in the jaws of the Great Depression, and FDR found between encouraging wealth creused the power of the federal government ation and crafting a tax code able to raise to create jobs, stabilize the financial sysmoney for desired public needs. That’s a lot harder than throwing around dated tem and keep the destitute elderly alive. labels. New York’s Democratic Socialist mayor, Zohran Mamdani, says he’s another FDR. But FDR said, “No one in the United States Froma Harrop is on X, @FromaHarrop. Email her at fharrop@gmail.com. believes more firmly than I in the system

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LSU shouldn’t rule out athletes seeking injunction I was reminded Thursday of a TV commercial from a few years back. This guy goes to a store and buys a computer. On the way home, he glances up at a billboard that reads: “The computer you just bought is already obsolete.” Things change fast in the technology biz. They’re changing just as rapidly in college athletics. So forgive your friendly neighborhood sports columnist if anything about this column on athletes seeking court orders to be ruled Scott eligible is obsolete by the Rabalais time you read this online or in print. Wednesday, an East Baton Rouge Parish judge granted a temporary restraining order allowing about 30 plaintiffs, including former LSU defensive end Jack Pyburn, who is now with Tampa Bay, to seek one more year of college eligibility and enter the transfer portal. Also on the list were three former Ole Miss starters under Lane Kiffin, including defensive lineman Zxavian Harris, tight end Dae’Quan Wright, and safety Wydett Williams. As of late Thursday afternoon, Harris (a Saints free agent signee who was later waived) and Wright (Cleveland) had entered the transfer portal. Thursday, the pace quickened. News broke that Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey filed an affidavit in Louisiana court last week against allowing athletes who sign professional contracts

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Jordyn Tyson’s leg injury is a major blow to the New Orleans Saints. His big-play ability was one of the main reasons the Saints selected him with the No. 8 overall selection in the NFL draft. He was widely viewed as one of the most explosive playmakers available after averaging more than 14 yards a catch and had 22 touchdowns in his college career. The Saints have no one on the roster with his blend of size, speed, athleticism and skill set. As a result, the offense will be decidedly less explosive without him. And that’s foreboding, because the Saints ranked last in the NFL with 56 explosive plays last season. It’s difﬁcult to overstate how poor the Saints were in this area. Their 5.21% explosive play rate was the worst in the league, meaning they generated big plays on only about 1 in every 20 offensive snaps — half the rate of the top teams (around 10%). Explosive plays, deﬁned as passes of 20-plus yards

and runs of 12-plus yards, are a leading indicator of NFL success. Of the eight teams that produced the most explosive plays a year ago, seven had winning records, and six went to the playoffs. The leaders — the Bills (112), Rams (110), Patriots (110) and Bears (108) — advanced to the divisional round of the playoffs. Meanwhile, the ﬁve teams with the fewest explosive plays — the Saints, Browns, Titans, Raiders and Jets — had a combined record of 20-65. The Saints addressed their anemic attack this offseason, signing free-agent running back Travis Etienne and tight end Noah Fant and drafting three speedy receivers: Tyson, Bryce Lance and Barion Brown. Tyson, though, was the marquee addition. Now, the Saints will try to manufacture explosive plays without one of the most explosive players on the roster, at least until Tyson heals. Explosive play production is one of four critical areas

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Saints wide receiver Barion Brown carries the ball against Jacksonville Jaguars safety Jalen Huskey in the first half of a preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Saturday at the Caesars Superdome. AP PHOTO By GERALD HERBERT

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St. Augustine duo making waves at Tulane OLB spot BY GUERRY SMITH

LSU freshman defensive linemen set for big roles

But it looks like LSU has three of Brown, Anderson and Geralds freshmen. them — Lamar Brown, Richard Anderson leaving their mark on Tigers’ and Deuce Geralds — who can buck that wisdom when the 2026 season defensive line ahead of opener conventional kicks off on Sept. 5 against Clemson.

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When Tulane’s defense takes the field against Duke in its season opener, a St. Augustine High alum will start at outside linebacker. It is not totally clear which one, though. For most of preseason camp, Purple Knights products Jah’rie Garner and Warren Roberts have been running 1-2 at the position Tulane calls bandit, giving the Green Wave defensive front a local flavor. Garner, a redshirt junior who has waited a long time for the opportunity, most likely will get the call, but Robert, a redshirt freshman, is pushing him hard in practice. “I can’t wait until Warren gets on the field because I feel like he’s going to be lightning in a bottle,” Garner said. “His first step is truly elite. He’s going to cause havoc, and he’s going to have fun doing it.” To say these two are close would be an understatement. Garner mentored Roberts

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At one point during LSU’s preseason practices, Lane Kiffin asked Ed Orgeron a question that had popped into his head. Had either of them coached a trio of freshmen defensive linemen quite like the one the Tigers have now? Kiffin and Orgeron thought back about 25 years, rolling through the groups of players they recruited and coached in stops at schools such as Southern Cal, Tennessee, Ole Miss or LSU, and came to a somewhat firm conclusion. “Neither of us has had that,” Kiffin said. Which, if true, is a fairly significant preseason storyline. Defensive linemen, in particular the ones who line up on the interior, usually don’t play significant roles as

Brown, a former U-High star, is one of the most highly rated recruits the Tigers have ever signed. He lines up on the edge. Anderson and Gerald are interior guys who were high-proﬁle recruits in their own right. Anderson was a top-20 national recruit when he graduated from Edna Karr, per 247Sports composite rankings, and Geralds wasn’t far behind him. The Sewanee, Georgia, native was a fringe top-50 prospect. Together they make LSU’s defensive linemen one of the most intriguing position groups on the roster. There are veterans with experience at a power-conference level. There are also several young players who look like they can contribute right away — and give the Tigers a future they can look forward to at those key positions.

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Sankey opposes Luis’ return SEC commissioner trying to block LSU commitment from playing in NCAA again

LAUSANNE, Switzerland — Mondo Duplantis called his victory Thursday in a vibrant lakeside Diamond League event “the greatest pole vaulting competition ever.” The Olympic and world champion, a former Lafayette High School and LSU star, then took two attempts at a world record of 6.32 meters (20 feet, 83/4 inches) and just failed to delight a noisy crowd at a pop-up venue near the Olympic Museum in Lausanne. Duplantis had cleared the bar at 6.21 meters (20-41/2) — with ﬁrsttime clearances at each of six different heights — for his best result since March, the month that he raised his own world record to 6.31 (20-81/4) at an indoor meet in his native Sweden.

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St. John’s forward RJ Luis drives to the basket during a game against Creighton in the Big East Conference tournament championship on March 15, 2025, in New york. Luis, who was signed to an NBA contract, is trying to regain his eligibility and play for LSU. tain the NCAA’s rules to stop athletes from returning, stating it is “essential to the integrity of college sports.” Luis, who committed to play for LSU coach Will Wade on May 19, needed to file a lawsuit against the NCAA to gain eligibility for the upcoming season. After going undrafted in the 2025 NBA Draft and signing an NBA contract, he wants to return to college basketball. The NCAA wants players who’ve signed NBA contracts to be ineligible. “The NCAA has not and will not grant eligibility to any prospective or returning student-athletes who have signed an NBA contract (including a two-way contract),” NCAA president Charlie Baker

said in a statement in December. Luis, a 6-foot-7 wing, entered the draft after playing three years of college basketball. After going undrafted, he signed a two-way contract with the Utah Jazz. The 23-year-old was then traded to the Boston Celtics in exchange for Georges Niang and two future second-round picks. He was waived on Oct. 15 and signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Celtics’ NBA G League afﬁliate, the Maine Celtics. An Exhibit 10 contract is a one-year, minimum salary agreement that isn’t guaranteed. Luis didn’t appear in any G League games as the Maine Celtics waived him because of an injury. He also never played in the

NBA Summer League because of a knee issue. Luis did appear in three NBA preseason games for the Boston Celtics, playing seven minutes and scoring six points overall. Luis averaged 18.2 points and 7.2 rebounds per game at St. John’s during the 2024-25 season, winning Big East Player of the Year and being named a second-team AP All-American. He left college after his junior year while his name was in the transfer portal. He spent his freshman year at Massachusetts in the Atlantic 10 before playing for coach Rick Pitino at St. John’s for two years. Email Toyloy Brown III at toyloy.brown@theadvocate.com

McIlroy shares 5-way lead at BMW BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

ST. LOUIS — Rory McIlroy might not be as far away as he thought four days ago, playing bogeyfree at Bellerive for a 6-under 64 that gave him a share of the lead Thursday in the BMW Championship with three other U.S. Open champions and Chris Gotterup. Four days brought a big change for Scottie Scheffler, too. The world’s No. 1 player went from an eight-shot victory in the postseason opener to feeling under the weather and having to rally for a 72, his highest opening round since the U.S. Open in June. Scheffler’s voice was hoarse when he said he didn’t want to stop to talk, saying only that he was sick as he headed for the locker room. McIlroy returned from a fourweek break after the British Open with plenty of rust and very little golf and failed to break par in any of the four rounds for the first time in more than ﬁve years at the FedEx St. Jude Championship. He went home to Florida and worked with swing coach Michael Bannon. “I went home and I worked on a few things and at least got myself back in a frame of mind where like I felt like I’m at least back on the right path of what I’m doing with my game and with my swing,” McIlroy said. “It’s certainly a work in progress. Days like this are encouraging, obviously. There’s still a lot of work to be done.” McIlroy is fond of saying players never remember what it’s like to play bad when they’re going well and they think they’ll never

Southeastern Conference communications head Herb Vincent will retire after the 2026 football season, according to a news release. Vincent, an LSU alum, rose up the ranks at his alma mater during a 43-year career, becoming the university’s top spokesperson from 2002-13. He became the SEC’s associate commissioner for communications in 2013 and has been there ever since. The native of North Little Rock, Arkansas, earned his bachelor’s degree in journalism from LSU in 1983. Vincent has been inducted into the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction, the LSU Manship School of Mass Communications Hall of Fame, the College Sports Communicators Hall of Fame and the Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame.

Duplantis relishes win, just misses world record

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Southeastern Conference commissioner Greg Sankey is not in favor of LSU’s attempt to give basketball player RJ Luis an extra year of eligibility, according to an afﬁdavit from Sankey obtained by The Advocate. Sankey said that allowing athletes like Luis, who’ve signed professional contracts, back into the NCAA would “fuel disruption” in college Sankey athletics, according to an afﬁdavit in response to Luis’ lawsuit. “These rules are grounded in the principle that athletics are an integral part of the academic experience,” Sankey wrote. “The rules align the time permitted for college athletics with the pursuit of an undergraduate education and further the important purpose of preserving opportunities for future student-athletes to participate in college sports.” Sankey also argued that granting players like Luis a preliminary injunction would set a precedent that doesn’t help high school students trying to join a college team and current teams who’ve been following the rules. Luis has a preliminary injunction hearing set for Monday as he attempts to gain eligibility for the season. The former St. John’s star will sit in front of Judge Ronald Johnson at 1:30 p.m. in an East Baton Rouge court. Sankey asked Johnson to main-

Vincent, a longtime LSU, SEC spokesman, to retire

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Rory McIlroy, of Northern Ireland, hits from the fifth tee during the first round of the BMW Championship on Thursday in St. Louis. play good again when the game is going poorly. It’s never that far away, and Thursday was a reminder of that. Bellerive originally was designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. and later updated by his son, Rees, who had the reputation as the “Open Doctor” for trying to modernize and toughen courses. While soft conditions contributed to a bunched leaderboard, it was hard to look past so many U.S. Open champions at the top. Gary Woodland, a Kansas native getting plenty of support in Missouri as he continues to recover from brain surgery and make it to the FedEx Cup ﬁnale, holed out for eagle on the 11th fairway and didn’t miss a green until the 18th, his lone bogey. He won the U.S. Open in 2019 at Pebble Beach. Wyndham Clark, who birdied ﬁve of his last six holes, is a two-

time U.S. Open champion, including this year at Shinnecock Hills. J.J. Spaun went back to the putter he used when he won the U.S. Open at Oakmont two years ago and had seven birdies until a bogey on the ﬁnal hole. Among those a shot behind was 2022 U.S. Open champion Matt Fitzpatrick. “Coincidence,” Clark said about ﬁve of seven U.S. Open champions at 65 or better. Woodland is the only one at 64 who really needed a start like this. The triple-digit heat last week in Memphis, Tennessee, made it difficult for him to slow his heart rate, which is key for him to prevent his brain from being overly engaged. He is at No. 31 in the FedEx Cup — only the top 30 reach the Tour Championship next week in Atlanta, which would guarantee him

starts in all four majors next year, along with giving him a chance to play for the FedEx Cup and its $10 million prize. “I can promise you East Lake wasn’t on my mind to start the year,” Woodland said. “It’s a goal, I think you write it down, but it seemed like far, far away. I’ve had up-and-down days. I’ve had some rough days lately. But we’ve built this together, Randy (Smith) and I, to get to a point where I feel very comfortable over the golf ball. “If I can ﬁnd a way to get through 18 holes mentally, my game’s in a pretty good spot where I can compete out here at a level I haven’t been able to compete in a while.” Woodland kept the excitement down when the crowd erupted in cheers to see his sand wedge from 99 yards spin back and roll into the cup for eagle on the 11th hole. He smiled and raised his arm and gave high-ﬁves to Adam Scott and the caddies. Most impressive was his 2-iron from 286 yards on the par-5 17th that rolled out to 12 feet on the fringe. ºHe narrowly missed that and settle for birdie. Woodland occasionally places his hand on the left side of his chest before putting. It looked like a reminder to keep his shoulders in place. Turns out it has a much deeper purpose. “When I’m struggling I put my hand on my heart to just to remind myself that I’m alive, and if I can feel my heart beat I know I’m breathing,” he said. “And I’ve done that this year just to try to slow my heart down, tell myself I’m safe and I’ll be all right.”

Alcaraz set to return from wrist injury at U.S. Open

NEW YORK — Carlos Alcaraz is ready to return from injury to defend his U.S. Open title. “Here we go,” Alcaraz posted on his social media pages Thursday, with one picture showing him in front of the U.S. Open logo. The seven-time Grand Slam champion has been sidelined since April because of a right wrist injury, forcing him to miss both the French Open and Wimbledon. Alcaraz won his second U.S. Open title last year, beating Jannik Sinner in the ﬁnal. He then won the Australian Open and his next tournament, part of his 22-3 start to this season. But after winning his ﬁrst match in the Barcelona Open, Alcaraz withdrew from the tournament because of the injury. He is still ranked No. 2 despite his absence.

KC city council approves $600M for Royals stadium

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals’ quest to move to a new downtown ballpark cleared a major hurdle on Wednesday when the Kansas City city council approved a $600 million commitment to help make it happen. The club announced in April that it planned to partner with Hallmark Cards on a $3 billion project to create a mixed-use development, with the new stadium as the centerpiece. The Royals have pledged to pay for $760 million of the estimated costs. The club and the city will also try to secure an additional $540 million from the state government. The goal is to break ground on the $1.9 billion stadium sometime in 2027.

Utah sues Whittingham after he bolted to Mich.

SALT LAKE CITY — The University of Utah is suing former assistant coach Freddie Whittingham for breach of contract after he left to join his brother Kyle’s staff at Michigan. The lawsuit ﬁled in Utah’s Third District Court is seeking more than $300,000 for breach of contract and at least $1 million for general and special damages. The lawsuit contends Whittingham abandoned his role as Utah’s tight ends coach to take the same job at Michigan despite being under contract through January 2027. It alleges Whittingham failed to provide written notice of resignation, get written consent from Utah to speak with Michigan and pay liquidation damages speciﬁed under terms of the contract.

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Transfer QB leads two scoring drives vs. Ponchatoula

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starter in the secondary along with senior Delaney Taylor. Goins will also contribute in the defensive backﬁeld as well as the return game. Salmen is moving back to the familiar District 7-4A after playing in Class 5A the previous two seasons. The goals of a district championship and a playoff run remain the same in Chuter’s ninth season as the Spartans’ coach. “We had 4A enrollment last year, but we were stuck in 5A,” Chuter said. “We feel that the things we did the last two years playing 5A football prepared us to make a run at this 4A crown.” Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@theadvocate. com.

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a’John Howard earned the nicknames “Captain” and “Superman” after his performance as Salmen High School’s starting quarterback last fall. The nicknames were well deserved for Howard, who was named the district offensive MVP in his first season at quarterback after starting at free safety as a sophomore. Howard proved to be a dangerous dualthreat quarterback, accounting for 30 touchdowns and nearly 3,000 total yards. Entering his senior year, Howard said he feels more confident playing quarterback than he did at this time last year now that he’s got a full year of experience at the position. “In the beginning, (playing quarterback) was a hard experience,” Howard said. “Really and truly, I just had to get comfortable. Once I got comfortable, I’m a natural athlete, so I just fit right in.” Howard relied on his rushing ability throughout last season and improved as a passer as the year went on. He finished with 902 yards rushing and 14 touchdowns on 120 carries while completing 103 of 187 passes for 1,912 yards and 16 TDs. “I’m glad (Howard) is on our football team and not anybody else’s,” coach Eric Chuter said. “He’s really studied and learned what we’re asking to do in the (passing) game. His confidence level making plays through the air is off the charts.” Rey’sean Coleman was among Howard’s go-to targets last season and returns as Salmen’s top senior wide receiver. Coleman caught 33 passes for 528 yards and five touchdowns last season and has played football with

Howard since they were kids. “(Our) connection is just there,” Coleman said. “We really don’t have to say too much, we can just give each other the look. We call (Howard) “Captain” for a reason. He really runs everything.” Salmen graduated 1,000yard rusher Jimmy Chanzy from last season. Chanzy helped take attention away from Howard. While defenses will be on the lookout for Howard this season, the Spartans have a promising new running back in senior Korde Harris. “Teams in the beginning (of last season) were really stacking up to stop Jimmy,” Chuter said. “It opened up opportunities for (Howard) with his feet and with the ball in the air that helped his progression. (Harris) is explosive with the ball; he’s a home run hitter.” Harris is one of eight new starters on offense. Senior speedsters Kyrin Goins and Kevin Smiles are among those in the mix to start alongside Coleman at wide receiver. Senior left tackle Kermit Brower, who stands at 6-foot-3, 325 pounds is the lone returning starter along the offensive line. He battles daily with senior defensive end Reginald Bouie in practice, a 6-3, 230-pound edge presence with Division I offers. Salmen returns both of its starting defensive ends in Bouie and senior Savolia Calahan, who are threeyear starters set to anchor a defensive front with ﬁrstyear starters at defensive tackle and linebacker. “(Bouie and Calahan) started as sophomores and went through some growing pains,” Chuter said. “As the years progressed, they’ve turned into some big-time players for us.” Smiles is a returning

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1. Salmen returns to Class 4A after played two seasons in Class 5A. Eric Chuter is enters his ninth season as coach and is familiar with the new district having competed in it during his coaching tenure. 2. Hunter Bonvillain takes over as Lakeshore’s coach after serving as the offensive coordinator under previous coach Brent Indest. Lakeshore returns five starters on offense but just one on defense. 3. Franklinton has won multiple playoff games in each of the past two seasons under coach Nick Saltaformaggio. Senior Kerston Diddon takes over at quarterback in place of multiyear starter Jacob Crain. 4. Jerry Leonard enters his second season as Pearl River’s coach.The Rebels have several starters back on defense and are planning to run a more balanced offense with Romy Berel at quarterback. 5. Hannan returns 1,000yard senior running back Riley Jones and senior quarterback Braden Sprang. Senior safety Paul Hoyt, who had 93 tackles last year, anchors the secondary. Spencer Urquhart

‘I just fit right in’

Rummel quarterback Colton Nussmeier showed why there was plenty of attention surrounding him during Wednesday’s scrimmage against Ponchatoula in Metairie. A four-start recruit committed to Georgia, Nussmeier transferred to Rummel less than two week ago. The Raiders’ scrimmage at Joe Yenni Stadium marked the first time this season that Nussmeier faced an opponent. He looked sharp despite having to learn the Raiders’ playbook in a short amount of time. Nussmeier led two drives with Rummel’s first-team offense that also saw the second- and third-team offenses work in. Nussmeier, who appeared to be past a knee injury that cut his junior season short, led the Raiders to touchdowns on both of his drives. “I got hurt last season, so it’s been a while since I got on the field and played,” he said. “It was good to be back. It’s been hard learning the offense in a shortened period of time, but I’ve got to do what I’ve got to do. Quarterback’s got to be a leader.” Rummel found the end zone four times during the scrimmage, and Ponchatoula scored twice. Nussmeier completed 6 of 8 passes for a touchdown and ran for a first down. The left-handed Nussmeier displayed chemistry with Rummel wide receivers Kirby Cade and Nate Singleton, who caught three passes each. His first completion went to Cade, a junior who later took a Nussmeier screen pass for a touchdown. “(Nussmeier coming in) was a little weird at first,” Cade said. “We have no Email Spencer other left-handed quarter- Urquhart at surquhart@ backs, but we’re getting theadvocate.com.

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Salmen quarterback Da’John Howard returns after accounting for 2,814 total yards last season with 30 touchdowns.

used to it. He’s a good character. Everybody thought he was going to be some Hollywood kind of guy, but he’s chill, like a regular dude.” Singleton was in line to be Rummel’s starting quarterback before Nussmeier transferred and has since moved back to wide receiver, the position he played before quarterback. “I was a little worried at first, but (the seniors) have embraced (Nussmeier),” coach Nick Monica said. “(Singleton) worked his butt off to get better at the quarterback position to help the team (and) is back to his natural position, which he’ll play in college.” Nussmeier attended high school at Flower Mound in Marcus, Texas, the past three years. He had transferred to Denton Ryan in Texas for his senior year but was ruled ineligible by the state’s University Interscholastic League. Rather than sitting out his senior year, Nussmeier moved to Louisiana with his father Doug, a former NFL quarterback who’s the Saints’ offensive coordinator. “It was hard leaving everything I’ve loved my whole life,” Colton Nussmeier said. “Being here with my dad now, I haven’t been with my whole high school career. Now he’s going to be able to come to all my games and being with my whole family. It’s going to be great.” The next opportunity for Nussmeier to face a new opponent will be during Rummel’s jamboree, which is scheduled for next Friday against St. Paul’s at Hunter Stadium in Covington. Rummel’s first regular season matchup is the following week against University High in Baton Rouge. Nussmeier will face U-High quarterback Knox Kiffin, the son of LSU football coach Lane Kiffin.

Da’John Howard QB | Salmen, Sr. Howard started out as a defensive back but is now an all-district quarterback. Howard rushed for 902 yards and 14 touchdowns last season while passing for 1,912 yards and 16 TDs. Jayden Burkhalter WR | Franklinton, Sr. The top returning wide receiver for an explosive Franklinton offense, Burkhalter finished last season with 974 yards receiving on 62 receptions, totaling 15 touchdowns. Brody Loudermilk QB | Lakeshore. Sr. A strong runner that can throw when needed, Loudermilk accounted for 2,274 total yards and 29 touchdowns last season and was an all-district selection. Gabe Timmons DL | Hannan, Sr. Timmons shined last season, racking up 11 sacks and 65 tackles.The 6-foot4, 230-pound pass rushing specialist has put himself on the recruiting radar. Reginald Bouie DL | Salmen, Sr. Bouie is an anchor for a strong Salmen defensive line. A towering 6-3, 240-pound edge presence, Bouie has offers from Southeastern Louisiana and Stephen F.

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Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton runs against Alabama during the second half of a Southeastern Conference championship game on Dec. 6 in Atlanta.

SEC desperate to end 3-year championship drought BY MARK LONG Associated Press

Blame Alabama and Georgia. Point ﬁngers at Auburn, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas, too. The Southeastern Conference, once the most dominant league in the land, lost its stranglehold on college football over the last three years. The organization that boasts a combined 19 national championships since 1990 hasn’t even made the title game since Georgia won it all in back-to-back years to close out the 2021-22 seasons. It’s a drought the league desperately would like to end this season. But the path back to the top could be harder with the addition of a ninth conference game. Sure, it provides teams with an extra chance to prove they belong in the 12-team College Football Playoff. It’s also another potential loss on postseason resumes. “It creates, without question, the most demanding sets of football schedules in all of college football,” SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey said last month. “No one has created the kind of weekly competition that exists in the Southeastern Conference. It’s competition that our fans will experience every week because we believe we’re the best conference in college football.” The last three CFPs would say otherwise, especially when recalling no-shows by Alabama last year (against Indiana) and Tennessee (against Ohio State) the year before. The Big Ten has won three straight national titles. The SEC is a combined 5-8 in the last three playoffs, with two of those victories coming against

other league opponents. SEC coaches were initially divided on a nine-game league slate but eventually agreed under the guise that the CFP would expand to 16 or 24 teams. It stayed at 12, and now league coaches are stuck with more daunting schedules and the same access to the lucrative postseason tournament. “Like anything in this world, if you want to be really good at something, you got to take risk,” Texas coach Steve Sarkisian said. “There’s calculated risks involved in life that you have to take. … Is the juice worth the squeeze or not?” The league will have a better idea in four months. Ultimately, though, SEC success will be decided in the CFP. After all, the league went 54-8 against non-conference opponents in the regular season last year — including winning records against the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big 12 and the Big Ten — but ended up again watching the title game from afar. Simply put, the SEC has been good but not great in recent years. Is the league lagging behind? Not even close. But the transfer portal and the ability to compensate players through revenue sharing as well as name, image and likeness deals have clearly minimized advantages the league enjoyed for decades. “I think it’s great for the sport,” Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “I think having everybody competitive, more guys can be invited to the party and get to the party, mainly through the portal in a lot of ways. … It’s not a one-team dominant program. It’s really everybody.”

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Continued from page 1C “It’s really exciting,” Kiffin said. “All of them have a chance to play. Those three specifically are playing a lot, and it’s really exciting in an age that a lot of people play older portal players.” It’s important to note that LSU has those players, too. Kiffin and his staff signed Clemson transfer Stephiylan Green, a redshirt junior, and Auburn transfer Malik Blocton, a true junior, last December. They also retained junior Dominick McKinley, a Lafayette native who played 370 snaps last season at the heart of the Tigers’ defense. It’s unclear exactly how LSU plans to divvy up the snaps between the freshmen and the veterans. Kiffin’s preseason practices are open to reporters for only individual drills — not the portions in which players are grouped according to their place on the depth chart. But both Kiffin and defensive coordinator Blake Baker have signaled in news conferences that Brown, Anderson and Geralds will each play at least a rotational role this season on the defensive line. Brown is expected to be LSU’s third edge rusher — behind Ole Miss transfer Princewill Umanmielen and Tennessee transfer Jordan Ross. As for who will be the first two de-

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LSU defensive tackle Deuce Geralds walks to a huddle on Aug. 8 at fall camp. Geralds is one of three freshmen that could make an impact this season.

fensive tackles to line up for Clemson’s first drive of the year? Those spots could actually go to Anderson and Geralds — two freshmen who have been impressing Kiffin and his staff since the Tigers began their spring practices in March. “They’re awesome,” said Bo Bordelon, a fifth-year senior expected to start at left guard this year. “I think LSU is going to be set for about probably the next three years on the defensive line.” Said Baker: “We’ve thrown more install at this group than I ever have in my career.” Kiffin still has concerns, though. Freshmen, as he pointed out on Aug. 10, tend to “make more mistakes”

Star power in the SEC The SEC has plenty of star power, which provides hope of ending the Big Ten’s reign. Ole Miss quarterback Trinidad Chambliss, Texas quarterback Arch Manning and South Carolina stars LaNorris Sellers and Dylan Stewart are just a few of the guys who could make a difference. Alabama receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams, Ole Miss running back Kewan Lacy, Texas receivers Cam Coleman and Ryan Wingo, Georgia defensive backs KJ Bolden and Ellis Robinson IV, and Auburn linebacker Xavier Atkins also are ones to watch.

back into college sports. That legal maneuver is aimed at LSU basketball commitment RJ Luis, the 2024-25 Big East player of the year at St. John’s who then signed two-way contracts with the Utah Jazz and Boston Celtics. In the affidavit, Sankey wrote that allowing athletes who have signed pro contracts to return to college sports “fuels disruption” and should be prohibited. Sankey isn’t picking on LSU and its lightning rod men’s basketball coach Will Wade, just being consistent. He filed a similar affidavit when basketball player Charles Bediako tried to do the same thing at Alabama last season, playing five games before his temporary restraining order was up. I have to be consistent as well. I didn’t think it was right for Bediako to play at Bama then, and I don’t think it’s right for Luis to play now. And I think it’s just bad timing for Pyburn, Harris, Wright and the other plaintiffs like former LSU women’s basketball player Amiya Joyner and men’s basketball player Rashad King to have missed out on the NCAA’s new five-for-five eligibility rule. But as LSU coach Lane Kiffin has often said, two things can be true at the same time. LSU football still needs some players, preferably veterans, at key positions. And goodness knows LSU men’s basketball needs players period. If these athletes can get a favorable ruling and LSU isn’t breaking any rules — of course, what are rules in college athletics these days? — then LSU’s programs shouldn’t deny

themselves of signing any of the aforementioned athletes if willing to take the risk. Pyburn, who played at LSU in 2025 after transferring from Florida, would definitely fill a need on the defensive line. The Tigers have talent there, but it looks like LSU will have to rely heavily on true freshmen like Deuce Geralds, Lamar Brown and Richard Anderson, especially with edge rusher Gabe Reliford having suffered a likely season-ending knee injury during spring practice. If Wright and Williams wanted to follow Kiffin to LSU as well, the Tigers could find a place for them. Kiffin was asked last week and again Thursday about the prospect of bringing in players seeking an extra year. He said last week he supported athletes getting another year and being allowed to go wherever they want, though dodged talking about specific players. Then, toward the end of Thursday’s news conference, he added: “Before (Wednesday) we would say, ‘Our team is our team, this is what we’ve got.’ But things have changed since yesterday.” Pyburn would seem to be a no-brainer for LSU football. Luis doubly so for LSU basketball. Signing players like that may fly in the face of what college athletics is supposed to be about, making it difficult for new athletes coming up from the high school ranks to find a spot. But they will likely wind up somewhere, if not LSU. In that sense, it’s hard to find fault with LSU if they pursue them in the strange and ever-shifting landscape of college sports. For more LSU sports updates, sign up for our newsletter at theadvocate.com/lsunewsletter

Six new head coaches The league has six new coaches in 2026, the largest turnover in league history. Arkansas (Ryan Silverﬁeld), Auburn (Alex Golesh), Florida (Jon Sumrall), Kentucky (Will Stein), LSU (Lane Kifﬁn) and Ole Miss ( Pete Golding) have new guys in charge. None of the changes caused as much of a stir as Kiffin’s move from Ole Miss to LSU. But all of them should provide compelling storylines.

Georgia, Texas, Bama, LSU favored This is the ﬁrst season since 2015 that no SEC team received a ﬁrstplace vote in the AP Top 25 preseason poll. It’s an indication of how much parity there is in the league. Nonetheless, Georgia (plus280) and Texas (plus-300) are the betting favorites to win the SEC. Alabama (plus-850) and LSU (plus850) are next, followed by Texas A&M, Oklahoma and Ole Miss at plus-1000. Looking for a dark horse? Try Tennessee at plus-1800.

than the veterans, and if they do in the heart of the defensive front, then an opposing offense could wind up breaking off an explosive run play that can shift a game’s momentum. LSU struggled to limit those kinds of gains, at times, in the first two years of Baker’s tenure. But that’s why the Tigers made sure they added veterans, too. Green has logged 636 career snaps, according to Pro Football Focus, and Blocton has 718. In 2025, McKinley played a rotational role for a unit that finished seventh among SEC teams in rushing defense, and on Thursday, Kiffin said that he’s had a “really good camp” after he “didn’t really have a good spring.” The point is that LSU thinks it has a nice mix of players on its defensive line — of veterans who can stabilize the unit and freshmen who can elevate it. “There’s been growing pains,” Baker said. “We’re gonna have to fight through the freshman wall at some point. I think all three of them are doing a good job fighting it right now, but I am proud of where they’re at now and where they’ve come from. “They work at it. They all love football. They got really, really bright futures, but you’ll see all three of those guys on the field.” And Kiffin thinks that’s new territory for him and Orgeron — two coaches who have come across their fair share of star defensive linemen over the years.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU edge rusher Jack Pyburn, right, celebrates after a sack against Western Kentucky in the ﬁrst quarter on Nov. 22 at Tiger Stadium.

TULANE

Continued from page 1C when they were together at St. Augustine in 2021 and 2022 and has done the same thing since Roberts joined him at Tulane last season. “It’s like big brother, little brother, I’m not going to lie,” Roberts said. “Jah’rie has been my big brother for a long time. He’s always been there trying to help me and coach me through stuff. He’s a big help-people type person. He will help anybody out.” Their personalities ﬁt their relationship. Garner comes across as an old soul. Roberts is more like an excitable, eager young pup. “I’d say I’m more of a goofy person,” he said. “Jah’rie makes sure I don’t get too goofy. He holds me to a standard. He tells me to chill.” Both of them have plenty to prove. Garner redshirted in 2023 before tearing an ACL in the spring of 2024. He was strictly a reserve last season, making half of his 14 tackles in one relief performance against East Carolina while playing behind Harvey Dyson (transferred to NC State) and senior Mo Westmoreland. With no one in front of him anymore, he cannot wait to show his ability. “I’ve been praying and working for this moment,” he said. “Everything I do, I put in God’s hands because I wouldn’t be here without him. My torn ACL was a test for my faith. Everything I’ve done since then has been intentional, just holding myself and everybody else accountable. This season I’m just putting it all on the line.” The 6-foot-3, 234-pound Garner — athletic enough to start on Tulane’s kickoff cover team — can use his smarts, too. When he reached the quarterback for a sack during a drill on Monday, he immediately ran to bandits coach Nate Fuqua and high-ﬁved him because they had been working on that exact stunt.

“I like his attitude,” Tulane coach Will Hall said. “He hasn’t played a ton because of injuries and circumstance, but he controls what he can control. He deserves to have a big year. He really does.” Roberts (6-foot-2, 219 pounds) did not make a tackle last year while playing sparingly on a deep team, but he has been a force in preseason practice when available. He missed most of the second week after suffering a concussion when he hit a pulling guard and came up woozy, but he has returned full of energy. Those few days away from the action weighed on him. “I don’t like sitting on the side,” he said. “It felt great coming back. Even last year I was thinking about when it’s my time, I’m going to make sure I show the world what I can do. I have a high motor. Every play I’m going to come at you 100 percent.” Fuqua, who joined Hall’s staff in January, has enjoyed watching the way Garner and Roberts feed off each other. “It’s really unique to see those guys interact,” Fuqua said. “Warren has really matured in the eight months I’ve been here. He’s really starting to see how Jah’rie handles himself as an older guy and really wants to follow in his footsteps.”

Lagniappe Tulane practiced at the Saints indoor facility for the second time in camp on Thursday morning. Although the offense had a good short-yardage period, the defense controlled the rest of the day, preventing any long completions in 11-on-11 work. … ChrisGremillion and Kadin Semonza continued to take the majority of the reps in their two-way battle for the starting job in the opener. … Hall praised cornerback CJ Agu, the older brother of Wave starting linebacker Dickson Agu, and sophomore tight end Dawson Johnson, a transfer from Old Dominion whom he said had a real chance to start, for having backto-back strong practices.

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SAINTS DEFENSE

SAINTS OFFENSE

Steady Shough, rookie Lance shine vs. Rams BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By GREGORy BULL

Saints coach Kellen Moore talks with Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford before a game on Nov. 2 in Inglewood, Calif.

Stafford, Rams find little resistance against Saints

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Tasked with slowing down one of the NFL’s most explosive offenses from a year ago, the Saints defense did not often have the answer for Matthew Stafford and the Los Angeles Rams during Thursday’s joint practice at the Rams facility. Playing without star receiver Puka Nacua, who is nursing an injured psoas muscle, Stafford nevertheless rarely let the ball touch the ground against the Saints secondary. The 2025 NFL MVP completed 21 of his 28 pass attempts against the Saints’ first-team defense. Early on he leaned on All-Pro wideout Davante Adams, who, even at 33 years of age was finding cracks in the Saints secondary to exploit. Four of Stafford’s first six completions went to Adams, including one superb contested catch with Kool-Aid McKinstry in tight coverage. The Rams’ attack mostly focused on the short and intermediate areas of the Saints’ coverage, picking apart the linebackers in zone coverage, but Stafford did connect

on one long throw to Adams — a play that in a live setting may have resulted in a Pete Werner sack. It was not just the pass defense. Rams running backs Kyren Williams and Blake Corum found running lanes against the New Orleans interior, showcasing some nifty feet to cut and ﬁnd more room on the ground. Only a few of the Los Angeles run plays were snuffed out at or behind the line of scrimmage, with linebacker Danny Stutsman making the best play of the day in run support when he blew up a stretch run to the right side. New Orleans went boom or bust during the red zone period. Stafford connected on a pair of touchdown passes to tight ends Terrance Ferguson and Colby Parkinson, and Corum found an easy scoring run off right guard, but New Orleans also scored a couple wins with a Julian Blackmon sack off a safety blitz and another play that resulted in a throwaway after heavy pressure. While the pass rush was often negated by Stafford’s quick release, the front did affect several plays in Thursday’s joint practice. Davon Godchaux blew up an early pass with

an interior rush, forcing an off-balance throw that Carl Granderson broke up in coverage (Granderson then hit the “strapped” celebration like a defensive back). Chase Young, Vernon Broughton and Stutsman also collected potential sacks in the practice — and even if they were not actual sacks, they forced rushed and incomplete throws. New Orleans was playing without a pair of starters against Los Angeles — middle linebacker Kaden Elliss observed practice from the sideline on a scheduled rest day, and cornerback Quincy Riley continued to miss time with a groin injury. The second-team defense found things a little easier going than the starters did. Rookie T.J. Hall and second-year player Dalys Beanum both collected interceptions off Rams’ ﬁrst-round rookie quarterback Ty Simpson, though both were the result of badly off-target throws. Veteran linebacker Deion Jones also ﬂashed as a pass rusher, with one clear sack and another pressure. Email Luke Johnson at ljohnson@theadvocate.com.

NFL ﬁnes Saints, Cowboys following practice ﬁghts BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — The NFL issued a $500,000 fine each to the New Orleans Saints and the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday after multiple fights erupted between the teams during a joint practice earlier this week. New Orleans Saints coach Kellen Moore confirmed after Thursday’s practice against the Los Angeles Rams that the league was reviewing the matter. On Tuesday, there were more than a dozen scuffles between the Saints and the Cowboys — about half of which resulted in legitimate fights. Saints center Erik McCoy tossed the helmet of a Cowboys defender in the middle of a heated scrap, while wide receiver Brock Reichsteiner body-slammed a Cowboys cornerback in a separate incident. On Dallas’ side, a Cowboys player punched Saints defensive end Tyree Wilson, while Cowboys linebacker Donovan Ezeiruaku was also ejected from the session for throwing a punch.

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Continued from page 1C of improvement for the Saints this season. A look at three other areas the Saints need to improve:

Red-zone offense The offense’s lack of explosive playmakers also revealed itself in the red zone, where the Saints ranked last in red-zone offense last year. They scored a touchdown only 44.4% of the time they drove inside the opponent’s 20-yard line. By comparison, the Eagles led the league with a 70.5% scoring rate. The struggles continued early during training camp but showed improvement in joint workouts against the Jaguars and Cowboys, with Tyler Shough and Chris Olave

AP PHOTO By MARK J. TERRILL

A helmet belonging to a Saints player is ripped off during a scrum with the Dallas Cowboys in a joint practice on Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif.

WOODLAND HILLS, Calif. — Tyler Shough faced numerous challenges in Thursday’s joint practice against the Los Angeles Rams. The quarterback didn’t have his top receiver, as Chris Olave got the day off. The Rams pass rush, even without an injured Myles Garrett, was a threat on almost every drop-back. The supporting cast around him shuffled constantly throughout the session. But no matter what faced him, Shough was steady against a unit that’s projected to be one of the best in 2026. Shough’s composure stood out last season, but the poise has again been a theme of late as the 26-year-old has started to hit his stride after a week of joint practices against the Jacksonville Jaguars, Dallas Cowboys and Rams. “We kind of got some mixedand-match personnel groups — I thought that was really good work for him,” Saints coach Kellen Moore said. “That’s a really talented defense, so there’s going to be some downs that they win, and how we respond is pretty critical. I thought our guys did a good job, certainly led by Tyler.” Shough was especially sharp in the red zone, where he connected with rookie Bryce Lance for two touchdowns. He also responded well when sacked, bouncing back quickly to find his target. Games, of course, have a different flow and feel, but it was nearly impossible not to think of how much the quarterback has grown since the last time he faced the Rams. That ended up being his first professional start, a punishing, onesided loss that left Shough with a nasty bruise on his side. Thursday was different. Shough ended the day 15-of-21. The 71.4% completion percentage was also dramatically better than last year’s joint practice against the Rams, when he went 13-of-22 (59%).

Birthday treat Lance turned 24 years old on Thursday. His birthday gift was a pair of touchdowns in the red zone. With Olave resting and Jordyn Tyson (hamstring) injured, the fourth-round rookie took advantage of his newfound reps and further cemented his chemistry with Shough. After performing well in Tuesday’s practice against the Cowboys, Lance flashed by creating separation in an area of the ﬁeld in which space is hard to come by. On his ﬁrst touchdown, Moore ran what looked like a post route to the back of the end zone and got open enough for Shough to rip a perfectly placed pass. Then, in the next team period, Shough found Lance again, this time on a 10-yard touchdown. Early in camp, it appeared as if Barion Brown would seize the next receiver spot after Ja’Lynn Polk’s sudden retirement. But the momentum has since swung to Lance, who has the case to be the third receiver with Tyson set to miss two months.

“The Competition Committee has made sportsmanship — including at joint practices — a point of emphasis over the past several years,” the league said in a statement. “All clubs were reminded by memo prior to training camp of their responsibility in preventing

unsportsmanlike behavior at joint practices that has the potential to result in injury.” Moore, who spoke to reporters before the ﬁne became public, said he was pleased that Thursday’s joint practice against the Rams did not feature any ﬁghts.

consistently finding the end zone. The Saints also scored touchdowns on two of their first three red-zone trips in their preseason opener against Jacksonville, so there’s reason for hope here. The Saints coaching staff devoted part of its offseason to a self-study on the offense’s redzone issues and added the aforementioned offensive weaponry to address this area. In particular, the Saints need to run the ball better when the field gets condensed inside the opponent’s 20. They ranked near the bottom of the league in nearly every major red-zone rushing statistic last season. “The run game’s got to come alive in the red zone,” Moore said. “That’s just the story of the red zone offenses forever.” You can’t win consistently in the

NFL if you don’t score touchdowns in the red zone. The Saints’ redzone efﬁciency will go a long way in determining the trajectory of their 2026 season.

will determine the winner of the battle. Brown, the special-teams player of the year in the UFL, has held a slight edge during the early weeks of camp.

Field goal conversions

Slow starts

If you can’t score touchdowns when you reach the red zone, you better be able to convert ﬁeld goals. And the Saints struggled here a year ago. They converted just 71.4% of their ﬁeld goals, which ranked last in the NFL. A lot of the Saints’ struggles can be attributed to Blake Grupe, who missed eight of his 26 attempts last season before being waived in Week 12. Charlie Smyth and Tanner Brown are locked in a heated competition that is expected to go down to the wire. Both have NFLquality leg strength. Consistency

The Saints’ slow starts were well-documented. They scored just 29 first-quarter points, the fewest in the NFL. Meanwhile, they allowed 122 points in the first quarter, the second-most in the NFL. Consequently, they found themselves constantly playing from behind. The Saints trailed at some point in all 17 of their games, the most in the NFL. Playing catch-up is no way to succeed in the NFL. The two teams that led the league in firstquarter points — the Patriots (110) and Rams (107) — combined to go 26-8 and advanced to their

QB2 change? After already declaring that Shough and the starters won’t play in Saturday’s preseason game, Moore declined to name

AP FILE PHOTO By MARK J. TERRILL

Saints quarterback Tyler Shough gestures during a joint practice against the Dallas Cowboys on Tuesday in Oxnard, Calif.

his starting quarterback for the exhibition. But there was a notable change made in practice Thursday. Zach Wilson — not Spencer Rattler — was the first to replace Shough, a sign that New Orleans may be contemplating a switch for the Rams exhibition. Wilson outperformed Rattler last weekend, though Moore had been noncommittal about whether the performance would lead anywhere. “We’re still talking through that,” Moore said, adding, “It could be (Wilson), but we’ll work through that. Both those guys are playing some good ball.” Rattler still got reps Thursday as the Saints rotated Wilson and Rattler between series for Shough. So if Shough took the first eight snaps, Wilson then took the field. Then after another eight plays for Shough, Rattler got his turn. But previously, the order had been Shough, Rattler and then Wilson.

Odds and ends n The Saints allowed six sacks, five of which happened when the starters were on the field. But the line play wasn’t as much of a mismatch as that stat suggests. The Saints blocked well, particularly in the run game, creating big holes for Travis Etienne, Ty Chandler and Kendre Miller. n Tackle Kelvin Banks said he felt the line had “huge growth” when compared to last year’s joint session against the Rams. “I feel like we’re communicating very well and understanding who our assignments (are), understanding where we need to go,” Banks said. “I feel like we did a lot better, for sure.” n Cesar Ruiz left early with an ankle injury, though he seemed fine after practice. The offensive lineman got his foot rolled on when center Erik McCoy fell on top of him, leading Ruiz to pound the grass out of frustration while hurt. But Ruiz then had his ankle taped and appeared to try to convince trainers to come back in, but was withheld to prevent further damage. n The Saints have a fascinating battle taking place at backup running back. Miller, after missing two weeks with a back injury, has looked explosive in the two practices since his return. Chandler, though, may be the fastest in the room. n Moore was pleased that no fights took place in Thursday’s practice. The NFL hit the Saints and the Cowboys with a $500,000 fine each after multiple scraps earlier this week.

respective conference championship games. In an effort to jump-start the offense this season, Moore evaluated his play-calling tendencies early in games and has focused on being more aggressive. The good news is the Saints started quickly on offense against the Jaguars on Saturday, scoring on their ﬁrst play from scrimmage after an 86-yard return of the opening kickoff by Ty Chandler. “We put so much time into talking about starting fast and the emphasis on that throughout training camp, which we will continue to do,” Moore said after the Jaguars game. “That’s as fast as you can start a football game. I am proud of our guys with that.” Whether the fast starts continue in the regular season remains to be seen. But it’s a promising start.

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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American League glance East Division

W Tampa Bay 76 New York 71 Boston 68 Toronto 63 Baltimore 61 Central Division W Chicago 66 Minnesota 63 Cleveland 62 Detroit 61 Kansas City 55 West Division W Houston 64 Texas 62 Seattle 60 Los Angeles 50 Athletics 49

National League glance

L 51 55 59 66 66

Pct .598 .563 .535 .488 .480

GB — 4½ 8 14 15

L 61 65 66 66 74

Pct .520 .492 .484 .480 .426

GB — 3½ 4½ 5 12

L 63 65 68 77 79

Pct .504 .488 .469 .394 .383

GB — 2 4½ 14 15½

Wednesday’s games

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3 Minnesota 6, Atlanta 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 7, Boston 6, 10 innings San Francisco 1, Cleveland 0 Tampa Bay 7, Toronto 6 N.Y. Yankees 5, Baltimore 3 Kansas City 9, Athletics 7 Seattle 7, Milwaukee 5 Washington 6, Texas 0 Houston 3, L.A. Angels 2

Thursday’s games

STAFF FILE PHOTO By HILARy SCHEINUK

LSU starting pitcher Kade Anderson returns to the dugout after getting the third out of the inning on June 21, 2025, in Game 1 of the College World Series finals against Coastal Carolina in Omaha, Neb. Anderson is set to make his MLB debut on Saturday for the Seattle Mariners against the Chicago Cubs.

Former LSU star to make MLB debut BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer

Former LSU baseball left-handed pitcher and top MLB prospect Kade Anderson is set to make his major league debut and start on the mound for the Seattle Mariners on Saturday, according to ESPN. Anderson will make his first appearance against the Chicago Cubs in Seattle. First pitch is set for 6:15 p.m., and the game will be available to watch on FOX. Seattle selected Anderson with

the No. 3 overall pick in the 2025 MLB Draft after he guided the Tigers to their eighth national championship and second title in three years that summer. He then dominated Double-A this year, posting a 1.06 ERA in 18 minor league innings. Anderson struck out 135 batters and only walked 13 in 931/ 3 innings. According to The Athletic, Anderson is the No. 1 prospect in all of baseball, and ESPN and MLB.com also list him as a top-5 prospect in the sport. In two seasons at LSU, Anderson

posted a 3.38 ERA in 37 appearances. He had 239 strikeouts in 1571/ 3 innings, tossing a complete-game shutout in Game 1 of the College World Series ﬁnal in his last outing wearing the purple and gold. He only allowed one earned run across two starts (16 innings) in Omaha against Arkansas and Coastal Carolina.

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SCOREBOARD Odds MLB Friday

American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at N.Y YANKEES -235 Toronto +194 at BALTIMORE -134 Tampa Bay +113 Detroit -120 at KAN. CITY +101 at HOUSTON -195 Athletics +162 at TEXAS OFF LA Angels OFF National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at MILWAUKEE -148 Atlanta +124 at PHILADELPHIA OFF St. Louis OFF at MIAMI -152 Washington +127 at ARIZONA -147 Cincinnati +123 at LA DODGERS -236 Pittsburgh +191 Interleague FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at BOSTON -178 San Francisco +148 at CHI. W. SOX -152 N.Y Mets +126 Cleveland -158 at COLORADO +132 at SAN DIEGO OFF Minnesota OFF Chicago Cubs -110 at SEATTLE -10 Friday FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG NY Jets 2½ 1½ (37½) at PITT. Carolina 2½ 1½ (37½) at JAX. at DENVER 4½ 6 (40½) Green Bay

Pro basketball WNBA glance EASTERN CONFERENCE W 24 22 21 22 14 10 9

Indiana Atlanta Washington New York Chicago Toronto Connecticut

L 12 13 14 15 22 25 25

Pct .667 .629 .600 .595 .389 .286 .265

GB — 1½ 2½ 2½ 10 13½ 14

L 7 10 13 16 20 23 23 30

Pct .811 .714 .649 .556 .429 .361 .343 .189

GB — 4 6 9½ 14 16½ 17 23

WESTERN CONFERENCE W x-Minnesota 30 x-Golden State 25 x-Las Vegas 24 Dallas 20 Portland 15 Phoenix 13 Los Angeles 12 Seattle 7 x-clinched playoff spot

Wednesday’s games

Washington 93, Toronto 82 Minnesota 77, Golden State 66

Thursday’s games

Indiana at Dallas, n Atlanta at Los Angeles, n Connecticut at Las Vegas, n

Cincinnati Charlotte FC NYC FC New York D.C. United Orlando City Toronto FC Columbus Philadelphia CF Montréal Atlanta

Western Conference

46 31 29 42 33 50 36 33 37 37 35

Thursday’s games

Friday’s games

N.Y. Jets at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Carolina at Jacksonville, 6:30 p.m. Green Bay at Denver, 8 p.m.

Saturday’s games

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’s game

Seattle at Tennessee, 7 p.m.

Soccer MLS glance Pts 46 39 35 33

GF 40 48 36 32

GA 15 38 25 25

Pro tennis Western & Southern Open results Thursday

At Lindner Family Tennis Center Cincinnati Purse: $9,415,725 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

Quarterﬁnals Jessica Pegula (3), United States, def. Amanda Anisimova (9), United States, 6-4, 2-6, 7-6 (4).

Men’s doubles

Round of 16 Edouard Roger-Vasselin, France, and Hugo Nys, Monaco, def. Harri Heliovaara, Finland, and Henry Patten (1), Britain, 6-4, 6-4. Albano Olivetti and Theo Arribage, France, def. Mate Pavic, Croatia, and Marcelo Arevalo (3), El Salvador, 4-6, 6-3, 10-5. Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (4), Italy, def. Adam Pavlasek and Patrik Rikl, Czechia, 6-3, 6-4. Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Constantin Frantzen, Germany, def. Rajeev Ram, United States, and Joe Salisbury, Britain, 7-6 (5), 3-6, 10-4.

Women’s doubles

BMW Championship par scores

Las Vegas at Houston, n San Francisco at L.A. Chargers, n

-1 -1 E E E E E +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +1 +2 +2 +2 +2 +3 +3 +3

Women’s singles

D.C. United at Charlotte FC, 6:30 p.m. Seattle at Cincinnati, 6:30 p.m. Toronto FC at Miami, 6:30 p.m. LA Galaxy at CF Montréal, 6:30 p.m. Chicago at New York, 6:30 p.m. Real Salt Lake at Orlando City, 6:30 p.m. Philadelphia at Austin FC, 7:30 p.m. Columbus at Nashville, 7:30 p.m. Houston at St Louis City, 7:30 p.m. FC Dallas at Vancouver, 8:30 p.m. Portland at Los Angeles FC, 9:30 p.m. Colorado at San Diego FC, 9:30 p.m. Minnesota at San Jose, 9:30 p.m.

At Bellerive Country Club Saint Louis, Mo. Purse: $20 million Yardage: 7,448; Par: 70 First Round Wyndham Clark Chris Gotterup Rory McIlroy J.J. Spaun Gary Woodland Matt Fitzpatrick Ryo Hisatsune Jacob Bridgeman Alex Fitzpatrick Michael Thorbjornsen Ludvig Åberg Akshay Bhatia Patrick Cantlay Eric Cole Russell Henley Sungjae Im Jake Knapp Maverick McNealy Kristoffer Reitan Justin Thomas Ben Grifﬁn Robert MacIntyre Collin Morikawa Aaron Rai Adam Scott Michael Brennan Nicolas Echavarria Tommy Fleetwood Min Woo Lee

35-34—69 34-35—69 35-35—70 36-34—70 37-33—70 33-37—70 34-36—70 35-36—71 35-36—71 37-34—71 34-37—71 35-36—71 33-38—71 37-34—71 36-36—72 35-37—72 36-36—72 38-34—72 35-38—73 35-38—73 38-35—73

Quarterﬁnals Flavio Cobolli (7), Italy, def. Tommy Paul (18), United States, 2-6, 6-3, 6-4.

Saturday’s games

Thursday

Justin Rose Alex Smalley Ryan Gerard Si Woo Kim Matthew McCarty J.T. Poston Xander Schauffele Sam Burns Rickie Fowler Ryan Fox Viktor Hovland Alex Noren Sahith Theegala Cameron Young Tom Kim Kurt Kitayama Hideki Matsuyama Scottie Schefﬂer Bud Cauley Nicolai Højgaard Sepp Straka

Men’s singles

New York City FC at New England, 3:30 p.m. Sporting Kansas City at Atlanta, 6 p.m.

NFL preseason

T 4 6 2 3

48 35 34 30 27 32 29 28 30 27 23

Wednesday’s games

Pro football

L 2 3 6 7

30 29 26 25 24 21 21 20 20 20 18

Cincinnati 2, New York City FC 1 CF Montréal 2, Columbus 1 New England 3, D.C. United 0 Nashville 1, New York 0 Chicago 2, Orlando City 1 Miami 2, Philadelphia 2, tie Charlotte FC 3, Toronto FC 3, tie St Louis City 1, Sporting Kansas City 1, tie Atlanta 2, Minnesota 1 Colorado 1, Los Angeles FC 0 FC Dallas 4, Real Salt Lake 3 Austin FC 2, Seattle 1 LA Galaxy 1, San Jose 0 Portland 3, San Diego FC 1 Houston 1, Vancouver 0

Pro golf

W 14 11 11 10

6 5 5 4 9 3 9 5 5 5 3

W L T Pts GF GA Houston 12 6 2 38 29 24 Vancouver 11 4 4 37 40 18 Los Angeles FC 10 7 4 34 35 21 San Jose 10 7 3 33 38 28 FC Dallas 9 5 6 33 38 29 St Louis City 8 6 6 30 28 26 Colorado 9 10 1 28 30 25 Real Salt Lake 8 7 4 28 33 30 Portland 8 9 3 27 37 36 LA Galaxy 6 8 7 25 25 30 Minn. United 6 7 7 25 22 28 Seattle 7 9 3 24 21 26 San Diego FC 6 8 6 24 34 32 Austin FC 5 10 5 20 25 39 Sport. Kan. City 4 13 3 15 19 49 NOTE: Three points for victory, one point for tie.

Golden State at Chicago, 6:30 p.m. Minnesota at Washington, 6:30 p.m. Portland at Toronto, 9 p.m.

Nashville Int. Miami CF Chicago New England

6 7 8 9 6 11 7 10 10 10 12

Sunday’s games

Friday’s games

Eastern Conference

8 8 7 7 5 6 4 5 5 5 5

Quarterﬁnals Alexandra Panova, Russia, and Magali Kempen, Belgium, def. Hao-Ching Chan, Taiwan, and Maya Joint, Australia, 1-6, 6-4, 10-2. Hsieh Su-wei, Taiwan, and Jelena Ostapenko (5), Latvia, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, and Hanyu Guo (3), China, 6-3, 6-4. Caty McNally and Iva Jovic, United States, def. Zhang Shuai and Xinyu Jiang, China, 7-6 (8), 3-6, 10-6. Marie Bouzkova and Linda Noskova, Czechia, def. Aldila Sutjiadi, Indonesia, and Erin Routliffe (7), New Zealand, 7-5, 7-5.

Cleveland 5, San Francisco 2 Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 1 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Kansas City 6, Athletics 2 Milwaukee 7, Seattle 4 N.Y. Yankees 6, Baltimore 1 Washington at Texas, n L.A. Angels at Houston, n

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American League DETROIT TIGERS — Sent CF James Outman on a rehab assignment to Toledo (IL). HOUSTON ASTROS — Designated LF Nelson Velázquez for assignment. Recalled 2B Raynel Delgado from Sugar Land (PCL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Placed LHP Samy Natera Jr. on the 15-day IL retroactive to August 17. Recalled LHP Sammy Peralta from Salt Lake (PCL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent LF Cody Bellinger on a rehab assignment to Scranton/ Wilkes-Barre (IL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Sent SS J.P. Crawford on a rehab assignment to Tacoma (PCL). TEXAS RANGERS — Sent RHP Jack Leiter on a rehab assignment to Frisco (TL). TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Sent 1B Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on a rehab assignment to Dunedin (FSL). National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Claimed RHP Andrew Hoffmann off waivers from Arizona and optioned him to Lehigh Valley (IL). Hored Mike Grahl as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Ofﬁcer. CINCINNATI REDS — Sent LHP Kent Emanuel outright to Louisville (IL). COLORADO ROCKIES — Sent RF Tyler Freeman on a rehab assignment to Albuquerque (PCL).

Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York Central Division Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati West Division Los Angeles San Diego Arizona San Francisco Colorado

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Wednesday’s games

Pittsburgh 4, Detroit 3 N.Y. Mets 4, San Diego 2 Minnesota 6, Atlanta 4 Chicago White Sox 3, Chicago Cubs 0 Arizona 7, Boston 6, 10 innings Philadelphia 4, Miami 1 San Francisco 1, Cleveland 0 Cincinnati 5, St. Louis 4 Seattle 7, Milwaukee 5 Washington 6, Texas 0 L.A. Dodgers at Colorado, n

Thursday’s games

St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 9 Cleveland 5, San Francisco 2 Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Milwaukee 7, Seattle 4 Washington at Texas, n

Friday’s games

Toronto (TBD) at N.Y. Yankees (Schlittler 10-6), 6:05 p.m. San Francisco (Webb 8-7) at Boston (Gray 15-3), 6:10 p.m. Tampa Bay (Peralta 5-10) at Baltimore (Rogers 8-8), 6:15 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Manaea 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 7-6), 6:40 p.m. Athletics (Ginn 8-7) at Houston (Wesneski 2-1), 7:10 p.m. Detroit (Melton 7-1) at Kansas City (Cameron 7-8), 7:10 p.m. L.A. Angels (Detmers 4-8) at Texas (Gore 7-9), 7:15 p.m. Cleveland (Cantillo 9-7) at Colorado (Gordon 0-3), 7:40 p.m. Minnesota (Prielipp 3-6) at San Diego (Vásquez 8-6), 8:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Boyd 8-2) at Seattle (Hancock 7-7), 9:10 p.m.

Atlanta (Sale 12-8) at Milwaukee (Misiorowski 12-5), 3:10 p.m. St. Louis (Dobbins 3-3) at Philadelphia (Luzardo 11-5), 5:40 p.m. San Francisco (Webb 8-7) at Boston (Gray 15-3), 6:10 p.m. Washington (TBD) at Miami (Gusto 0-3), 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Manaea 4-5) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 7-6), 6:40 p.m. Cleveland (Cantillo 9-7) at Colorado (Gordon 0-3), 7:40 p.m. Cincinnati (Lodolo 3-2) at Arizona (Rodriguez 12-4), 8:40 p.m. Minnesota (Prielipp 3-6) at San Diego (Vásquez 8-6), 8:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Boyd 8-2) at Seattle (Hancock 7-7), 9:10 p.m. Pittsburgh (Chandler 6-8) at L.A. Dodgers (Yamamoto 12-7), 9:10 p.m.

BOX SCORES Atlanta 2, Chicago White Sox 0

St. Louis 10, Cincinnati 9

Atlanta

St. Louis

ab r h bi ab r h bi R.Acuña rf 4 0 0 0 Antonacci lf 4 0 0 0 Baldwin dh 4 0 0 0 Murakami 1b 4 0 0 0 Olson 1b 4 0 0 0 Vargas 3b 3 0 0 0 Albies 2b 4 0 1 0 Beninten. dh 4 0 1 0 Thomas lf 3 0 0 0 B.Montgo. rf 3 0 0 0 Harris cf 4 1 1 0 C.Montgo. ss 2 0 0 0 Dubón ss 4 1 3 0 Meidroth 2b 3 0 0 0 Riley 3b 4 0 2 2 Peters cf 2 0 0 0 Murphy c 4 0 1 0 Doyle ph-cf 1 0 0 0 Romo c 1 0 0 0 Grichuk ph 1 0 0 0 Rogers c 0 0 0 0 Totals 35 2 8 2 Totals 28 0 1 0 Atlanta 001 000 100 — 2 Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 E—Antonacci (3). LOB—Atlanta 7, Chicago 4. 2B—Riley (20), Harris (28). IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta Holmes W,8-5 6 1 0 0 3 3 Fuentes H,14 1 0 0 0 0 3 Lee H,29 1 0 0 0 0 2 Iglesias S,26-29 1 0 0 0 0 2 Chicago Kay L,9-6 6 5 2 2 1 6 2 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 Brazobán 0 0 0 3 H.Smith 11⁄3 0 Richards 1 1 0 0 0 1 Holmes pitched to 2 batters in the 7th, Kay pitched to 1 batter in the 7th. WP—Holmes, Richards(2). ABS Challenge—Antonacci (StrikeOverturned to Ball); Meidroth (StrikeConﬁrmed); Dubón (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Umpires—Home, Ron Kulpa; First, Scott Barry; Second, Manny Gonzalez; Third, Tom Hanahan. T—2:22. A—17,052 (40,241).

Cincinnati ab r h bi ab r h bi Weth. ss-2b 4 3 1 0 D. La. Cr. dh 3 1 1 0 Herrera dh 3 2 1 0 Stewart 2b 4 1 1 2 Burleson 1b 4 1 1 1 Bleday lf-rf 3 1 1 1 Walker rf 4 2 1 4 Stephen. c 4 0 0 1 Báez lf 3 0 0 1 McLain ss 4 2 1 4 Pagés c 0 0 0 0 Toglia 1b 4 0 0 0 Church cf 3 0 1 0 Myers cf 3 1 0 0 Fermín ph-lf 2 1 2 2 Rodrígu. rf 3 1 1 0 Torres 2b 3 0 1 0 Friedl lf 1 0 0 0 Winn pr-ss 1 1 0 0 Hayes 3b 3 1 1 0 Jordan 3b 4 0 0 0 Suárez ph 1 1 1 1 Crooks c 2 0 0 0 Pereira ph-cf 1 0 0 0 Totals 34 10 8 8 Totals 33 9 7 9 St. Louis 103 000 006 — 10 Cincinnati 000 005 004 — 9 E—Stewart (3), Myers (1). DP—St. Louis 1, Cincinnati 2. LOB—St. Louis 6, Cincinnati 5. HR—Walker (26), McLain (12). SB—De La Cruz (22). IP H R ER BB SO St. Louis McGreevy 51⁄3 3 3 3 2 4 2 Stanek BS,1-5 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 2 Strzelecki W,1-1 2 0 0 0 1 1 2 Soriano ⁄3 1 4 4 3 2 1 O’Brien S,33-38 ⁄3 1 0 0 2 0 Cincinnati Singer 6 5 4 4 1 3 Garcia H,3 1 0 0 0 1 0 Antone H,8 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 Burke L,5-5 BS,2-3 ⁄3 2 6 0 3 1 1 Maxwell ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 HBP—Singer 2 (Wetherholt,Burleson), Burke (Torres). ABS Challenge—Herrera (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Singer (Ball-Confirmed); McGreevy (Ball-Overturned to Strike); McGreevy (Ball-Confirmed); Soriano (BallConfirmed). Pitch timer violations—Burke (pitcher). Umpires—Home, Hunter Wendelstedt; First, Vic Carapazza; Second, Nic Lentz; Third, Edwin Moscoso. T—3:02. A—15,361 (43,891).

Toronto 5, Tampa Bay 1

Milwaukee 7, Seattle 4

Chicago

Toronto

Tampa Bay ab r h bi ab r h bi McAdoo 3b-2b5 1 1 0 Simpson lf 4 1 1 0 Cameron lf 5 2 2 1 Caminero 3b 4 0 1 1 Kirk c 4 0 1 0 Aranda 1b 4 0 1 0 Springer dh 5 0 2 2 Díaz dh 4 0 2 0 Okamoto 1b-3b5 1 2 1 Mullins cf 3 0 0 0 Giménez ss 2 0 1 0 DeLuca rf 4 0 0 0 Valenzuela 1b 1 0 1 0 Palacios 2b 3 0 0 0 Clement 2b-ss3 0 1 0 Mateo ss 3 0 0 0 Straw cf 4 0 0 0 Fortes c 3 0 0 0 Lukes rf 4 1 1 1 Totals 38 5 12 5 Totals 32 1 5 1 Toronto 010 020 200 — 5 Tampa Bay 000 100 000 — 1 E—McAdoo (1), DeLuca (1). LOB—Toronto 9, Tampa Bay 5. 2B—Okamoto (18), Valenzuela (8). HR—Okamoto (26), Lukes (7), Cameron (1). SB—Giménez 2 (19). IP H R ER BB SO Toronto Bieber W,5-2 7 4 1 1 0 7 Miles 1 0 0 0 0 0 Varland 1 1 0 0 1 1 Tampa Bay Seymour L,9-4 5 6 3 3 1 8 Legumina 2 4 2 2 1 3 Roycroft 2 2 0 0 1 1 ABS Challenge—Fortes (Strike-Conﬁrmed); Cameron (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Legumina (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Legumina (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Cameron (Strike-Conﬁrmed). Pitch timer violations—Legumina (pitcher). Umpires—Home, Sean Barber; First, John Libka; Second, James Hoye; Third, James Jean. T—2:39. A—12,857 (25,025).

Seattle

Milwaukee ab r h bi ab r h bi Donovan 3b 4 0 2 2 Turang 2b 5 1 1 0 Arozarena lf 3 0 0 0 Chourio lf 3 0 1 0 Canzone rf 5 0 1 1 Bauers 1b 2 1 1 0 Rodríguez cf 5 0 1 0 Sánchez c 4 1 1 2 Naylor 1b 4 0 0 0 Yelich dh 4 1 1 0 Ward dh 2 1 0 0 Ortiz ss 4 1 1 1 Young 2b 3 1 0 0 Mitchell cf 4 2 3 3 Pereda c 3 1 1 0 Hamilt. 3b 4 0 2 1 Raleigh ph-c 0 0 0 0 Lara rf 4 0 0 0 Rodden ss 3 1 1 0 W.Wilson ph 1 0 0 0 Rivas ss 0 0 0 0 Totals 33 4 6 3 Totals 34 7 11 7 Seattle 020 200 000 — 4 Milwaukee 600 000 01x — 7 DP—Seattle 1, Milwaukee 0. LOB—Seattle 9, Milwaukee 6. 2B—Donovan (7), Sánchez (9), Mitchell 2 (26), Hamilton (10). HR— Mitchell (9). SB—Ortiz (9), Chourio (13). IP H R ER BB SO Seattle Kirby L,8-10 31⁄3 9 6 6 2 3 2 Ferrer ⁄3 0 0 0 0 1 Rucker 22⁄3 0 0 0 1 4 1 Díaz 1 ⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 Milwaukee Gasser 32⁄3 4 4 4 4 4 Patrick W,7-4 21⁄3 2 0 0 0 4 Ashby H,12 2 0 0 0 2 4 Megill S,23-25 1 0 0 0 0 1 HBP—Gasser (Arozarena). WP—Ashby. ABS Challenge—Kirby (Ball-Conﬁrmed); Kirby (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Gasser (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Bauers (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Sánchez (Strike-Conﬁrmed); Ashby (Ball-Overturned to Strike). Pitch timer violations—Kirby (pitcher). Umpires—Home, Quinn Wolcott; First, Ramon De Jesus; Second, Adrian Johnson; Third, Dexter Kelley. T—2:59. A—35,909 (41,700).

THIS DATE IN BASEBALL

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East Division

Aug. 21 1926 — Ted Lyons of the Chicago White Sox pitched a no-hitter over the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park. The 6-0 victory was achieved in 1 hour, 7 minutes. 1930 — Chick Hafey of the St. Louis Cardinals hit for the cycle and drove in five runs in a 16-6 rout of the Philadelphia Phillies. 1931 — Babe Ruth hit his 600th home run as the Yankees beat the St. Louis Browns 11-7. 1947 — The first Little League World Series was at Williamsport, Pa. The Maynard Midgets of Williamsport won the series. 1972 — Steve Carlton of Philadelphia had his 15-game winning streak snapped when Phil Niekro and the Atlanta Braves beat the Phillies 2-1 in 11 innings. 1975 — Pitching brothers Rick and Paul Reuschel of the Chicago Cubs combined to throw a 7-0 shutout against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Rick went 6 1-3 innings and Paul finished the shutout for the first ever by two brothers. 1982 — Milwaukee pitcher Rollie Fingers became the first player to achieve 300 career saves as the Brewers beat the Seattle Mariners 3-2. 1986 — Spike Owens had four hits and became the first major league player in

40 years to score six runs in a game as the Boston Red Sox routed the Cleveland Indians 24-5 with a 24-hit attack. 2007 — Garret Anderson of the Los Angeles Angels drove in a team-record 10 runs in an 18-9 rout of the New York Yankees. Anderson hit a grand slam, a three-run homer, a two-run double and an RBI double to become the 12th player in major league history to have 10 RBIs in a game. 2007 — Arizona’s Mark Reynolds tied the major league record for consecutive strikeouts by a non-pitcher when he fanned in his ninth straight plate appearance in a 7-4 loss to Milwaukee. Reynolds struck out in his first two at-bats against Dave Bush to match the record. Bush hit Reynolds with a pitch in the sixth, ending the streak. 2011 — Johnny Damon lost a grand slam to a video review in the seventh inning, then hit a game-ending home run in the ninth that lifted the Tampa Bay Rays over the Seattle Mariners 8-7. Damon connected for a leadoff shot in the ninth on the first pitch from Dan Cortes. The Rays trailed 5-4 in the seventh when Damon launched a drive to right-center field. First ruled a home run, the umpires changed the call to a three-run double after a video review.

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Louisiana’s D.K. Harrell lifts the blues torch high

‘More work needs to be done’

Buddy Guy leans back and smiles as he plays on the Festival Stage at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

BY JOHN WIRT

Contributing writer

STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

At 90, blues legend Buddy Guy is still deﬁned by his deep Louisiana roots BY KEITH SPERA

Staff writer

uddy Guy is synonymous with Chicago. It’s where his career took shape. It’s home to his namesake nightclub. At age 90, he is the greatest living embodiment of Chicago-style electric blues guitar. But Louisiana forged him and his sound. He was born on July 30, 1936, near the Atchafalaya River in rural Pointe Coupee Parish, an hour’s drive northwest of Baton Rouge. A stretch of La. 418 is named Buddy Guy Way. A historical marker in Lettsworth, erected in 2018, commemorates his birthplace. The cover of his Grammy-winning 2018 album “The Blues Is Alive and Well” — which features guest ap-

his fingers and produce a sound that gave me goose bumps,” he wrote in his 2012 autobiography, “When I Left Home.” “I saw how him and that guitar were connected. It was his woman, his baby, his friend. He stroked it like you stroke a dog. He made it cry and he made it laugh. He had it telling stories that I never heard before. He made me wanna get one.” When electricity finally reached the Guys’ wooden shack in the late Blown away by ‘Boogie Chillen’ 1940s, Buddy’s father bought a used Buddy Guy’s boyhood home had phonograph that played 78 rpm reneither electricity nor indoor plumb- cords. The first record Sam Guy brought ing. By age 9, he was picking cotton alongside his sharecropper parents. home was John Lee Hooker’s 1948 At Christmas, a musician named recording of “Boogie Chillen.” It Henry “Coot” Smith would visit. blew 13-year-old Buddy’s mind. “That’s the record that did it,” he He’d sing the blues, accompanying himself on a two-string guitar. Young wrote decades later. “Notes were Buddy was mesmerized. ä See GUY, page 2D “I watched him pick the thing with

pearances by Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Jeff Beck — depicts Guy in Lettsworth. A long, hard road led him from Louisiana cotton fields to global stardom. That road returns to his home state as the Buddy Guy 90 Tour stops at the Saenger Theatre on Tuesday. Ruston native D.K. Harrell opens the show. Tickets are still available, starting at $36.

“Blues has always been a gumbo where you throw everything in the pot. Blues ain’t no pedigree; it’s a mutt. And far as I’m concerned, mutts are beautiful.” BUDDY GUY

D.K. Harrell usually doesn’t sweat making a set list. Tuesday at the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans will be different. “This is one of the ﬁrst set lists that I’m nervous about,” the rising blues star BUDDY said in advance of his ﬁrst time GUY/D.K. as Buddy Guy’s HARRELL opening act. Reaching his 90th birthday 8 p.m.Tuesday l Saenger on July 30, Guy is America’s Theatre, New preeminent Orleans l bluesman. The l Pointe Coupee $36-$269 saengernola. Parish native’s com and myriad accolades include dkblues.com nine Grammy Awards, the National Medal of Arts, the Recording Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award, Kennedy Center Honors and induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Guy achieved another career highlight last year via his striking cameo in “Sinners,” the Oscar-winning, Louisiana-shot hit movie that exposed him to a vast new audience.

PROVIDED PHOTO By LAURA CARBONE

D.K. Harrell’s Alligator Records debut, ‘Talkin’ Heavy,’ was honored as Living Blues magazine’s album of the year.

“We only have about 45 minutes,” Harrell said of opening for Guy next week. “So, I need to get my message across and put on a good show, for the people of New Orleans, and whoever comes from near and far, and for myself and Mr. Guy. I hope Mr. Guy and his team will be pleased.” Based in Baton Rouge since last year, 28-year-old Ruston native Harrell has already achieved career milestones. His recognitions include three Blues Music Awards from the Blues Foundation in Memphis and Living Blues magazine’s

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Netﬂix leans into young adult dramas as YouTube threat grows The cast of the show ‘Poser’ stand for a group photo at Netflix’s end of summer bash red carpet event on Aug. 13 in Los Angeles.

LOS ANGELES TIMES PHOTO By RONALDO BOLAÑOS

BY WENDY LEE

Last week, Netflix launched a new hub for YA content that includes several hundred titles of LOS ANGELES — Young adult original or licensed movies and dramas have always been piv- shows about the coming-of-age otal to Netflix’s programming. stories of young adults. The genre is popular with Think of massive global hits like “Stranger Things” and “Outer viewers: 23 young adult titles made Netflix’s global top 10 Banks.” Now, the streaming giant list this year. Those include wants to make it easier for the third season of “XO Kitty,” viewers to find them on its vast about a young woman studyand eclectic platform. ing in Korea; and an ice skating Los Angeles Times (TNS)

drama called “Finding Her Edge.” Since 2023, Netﬂix said its YA shows and movies have generated more than 10.5 billion global views. The programs also are buzzy on social media, with YA titles representing 30% of Netflix’s most-talked-about titles since 2022, according to the Los Gatos-based company.

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2D ✦ Friday, August 21, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune

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TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Aug. 21, the 233rd day of 2026. There are 132 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 21, 1831, Nat Turner launched a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of at least 55 White people; scores of Black people were killed in retribution after the rebellion, and Turner was later executed. Also on this date: In 1858, the first of seven debates took place between Illinois senatorial contenders Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas. In 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” was stolen from the Louvre Museum in Paris. (It was recovered two years later in Italy.) In 1944, the United States, Britain, the Soviet Union and China opened talks at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington that helped pave the way for establishment of the United Nations. In 1959, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation officially declaring Hawaii the 50th state. In 1983, Philippine opposition leader Benigno Aquino Jr. was assassinated as he exited an aircraft at Manila International Airport. (His widow, Corazon Aquino, would become president of the Philippines three years later.) In 1991, a hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian Federation President Boris N. Yeltsin. In 1992, an 11-day siege began at the cabin of White separatist Randy Weaver in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, as government agents tried to arrest Weaver for failing to appear in court on charges of selling two illegal sawed-off shotguns; on the first day of the siege, Weaver’s teenage son, Samuel, and Deputy U.S. Marshal William Degan were killed.

In 2000, rescue efforts to reach the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk ended with divers announcing that none of the 118 sailors had survived. In 2010, Iranian and Russian engineers began loading fuel into Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which Moscow promised to safeguard to prevent material at the site from being used in any potential weapons production. In 2015, a trio of Americans, U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Spencer Stone, National Guardsman Alek Skarlatos and college student Anthony Sadler, and a British businessman, Chris Norman, tackled and disarmed a Moroccan gunman on a high-speed train between Amsterdam and Paris. In 2017, Americans witnessed their first full-blown coast-to-coast solar eclipse since World War I, with eclipse-watchers gathering along a path of totality extending 2,600 miles across the continent. In 2020, a former police officer who became known as the Golden State Killer, Joseph James DeAngelo, told victims and family members in a Sacramento courtroom that he was “truly sorry” before he was sentenced to multiple life prison sentences for a decadelong string of rapes and murders. Today’s birthdays: Rock and Roll Hall of Famer James Burton is 87. Singer Jackie DeShannon is 85. Film director Peter Weir is 82. Football Hall of Famer Willie Lanier is 81. Actor Loretta Devine is 77. Two-time Heisman Trophy winner Archie Griffin is 72. Actor Kim Cattrall is 70. Rock musician Serj Tankian (System of a Down) is 59. Actor CarrieAnne Moss is 59. Google cofounder Sergei Brin is 53. Singer Kelis is 47. TV personality Brody Jenner is 43. Olympic gold medal sprinter Usain Bolt is 40. Country singer Kacey Musgraves is 38. Soccer player Robert Lewandowski is 38. Comedian-singerfilmmaker Bo Burnham is 36. Actor Dallas Liu is 25.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

Buddy Guy plays on the Festival Stage at the 2023 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.

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Continued from page 1D simple. Words were simple. Words didn’t even rhyme. But the groove got to me. “The mood was so strong that after the song had done played, you had to play it over ... I knew that inside that song was a mystery I had to know. Once I figured out how the notes worked together, once I memorized all the words and sang the song myself, I’d have a key that would open a door. Didn’t know what was on the other side of that door, but I had to find out.” Months later, Guy was at a general store near his home when guitarist Lightnin’ Slim arrived for an impromptu gig. Guy had never seen an amplifier or heard an amplified guitar in person. “With the first twang of his guitar a shock ran through my body,” he later recalled. “The blood inside my head, the blood pumping in my heart, the blood running through my limbs — all that blood started into boiling.” The general store’s jukebox also introduced Guy to such blues greats as Muddy Waters and Little Walter. The store’s proprietor said they lived in Chicago, a place Guy knew nothing about. That Christmas, after a good harvest, Sam Guy bought Coot Smith’s two-string instrument for $4.35 and gave it to Buddy. Coot taught him how to play “Boogie Chillen” and his future path was set.

Guitar Slim’s inspiration

PROVIDED PHOTO By LAURA CARBONE

D.K. Harrell’s first words were ‘the thrill is gone,’ from blues icon BB King’s classic song.

HARRELL

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(straightened) like you had it in 1951!’ He laughed. He said, ‘Well, an old man don’t have hair. Better be careful with that stuff.’ I said, ‘Yes, sir. I want to be just like you when I grow up.’ He said, ‘Well, that’s ﬁne. But make sure you be yourself while you’re doing that. Try to keep it going. We need more young people in the blues.’ I said, ‘Yes, sir. I’m going to do my best.’ ” Having met his hero, the thrilled Harrell ran up the aisle to the theater lobby. “As soon as I hit the doors, I started crying. My life was complete.” Harrell grew up hearing the blues, gospel and soul music records his mother, Christal, and grandfather, C.H. Jackson, played at home. “My grandfather exposed me to so much music,” Harrell said. The late Jackson predicted an unordinary life for his grandson. “When I was born, my grandfather held me in the hospital, looked at my mother and said, ‘Christal, I don’t what it is, but it’s something about this boy. He’s going to be special.” Twenty-eight years later, Harrell knows there’s something special about music. “I’ve just been realizing,” he said, “especially lately with touring, that the world needs more musicians, a lot more festivals and musical events. Because right now there’s a lot of selﬁshness and separation in the world. But every time I do a show, all of these friends, strangers, lovers, family members, get together and enjoy music. When that festival is over with, they’re back to dealing with that wickedness in the world. If we can just be together as a people in the outside world, the way we are at these festivals, I feel like things will be a lot better.”

album of the year honor for “Talkin’ Heavy,” his Alligator Records debut. “I value it,” the singer-guitarist said of his multiplying awards. “It makes me feel that I’m doing something right with my music. But I can’t let it get to my head, because there’s more work that needs to be done.” Harrell has been a blues fan since he was 2. His first words were from a B.B. King classic. “My family thought I was going to be a mute,” he said. “I didn’t even say ‘Mama.’ But one day I was in my baby seat in the car and my mother put on the record ‘The Thrill Is Gone,’ with Tracy Chapman doing it with B.B. Then my mother heard a little voice singing ‘the thrill is gone.’ She almost wrecked the car. The way she tells the story is: ‘That’s how he starting talking and now I can’t get him to shut up.’ ” King became Harrell’s role model. When he was 15 years old, Harrell and his mother drove the 220 miles from their home in Ruston to King’s 2013 concert at the River Center Theatre in Baton Rouge. “He was 87 at the time, and he did wonderful,” Harrell remembered. “His playing was great. He remembered songs. The one hiccup was that he started a song and stopped and said, ‘Naw, I don’t want to play that.’ ” After the show, Harrell and other fans made their way to the stage’s edge in hopes of meeting King. Harrell’s unselfish effort to secure an autograph for a fan who struggled to get King’s attention drew the star’s notice. “I called out ‘Mr. King! Mr. King!’ He looked dead at me and leaned down and shook my hand. Email John Wirt at j_wirt@msn. I said, ‘I got my hair conked com.

Wanting their son to have options other than sharecropping, his parents sent Buddy to live with his older sister Annie Mae in Baton Rouge, where he could attend eighth grade and high school. As he plucked his two-string guitar on Annie Mae’s porch one day, a childhood friend of his father’s offered to buy him a real guitar. That six-string Harmony acoustic became his most cherished possession.

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Continued from page 1D “It’s just been really clear that this audience has a voracious appetite, and they really look to Netflix as a premier destination for these types of stories,” said Jinny Howe, Netflix’s head of scripted series for U.S. and Canada. Netflix is not alone. The genre has become increasingly important to streamers as stories about first loves, high school drama and coming-of-age tales connect with a wide demographic, from young people to older generations. The third and final season of “Euphoria” ranks among HBO Max’s three most-watched returning seasons. Amazon Prime Video in June held a fan event for its YA series and films called “Obsessed Fest.” “Off Campus,” which launched in May, reached 36 million viewers in its first 12 days on Prime Video, Amazon said. Disney+, Paramount+ and HBO Max have also released young adult titles, including “Percy Jackson and the Olympians,” “School Spirits” and “Euphoria.” “There’s just this hunger for this kind of content that’s very relationship driven and set in a time period of growth and struggle and really figuring yourself out,” said Sarah Lampert, creator and executive producer of Netflix YA series “Ginny & Georgia,” about a mother and daughter’s relationship. “It’s just so deeply human.” The young adult push comes as Netflix faces growing pressure from investors to increase the amount of time people spend on the service. To that end, Netflix has

After his mother suffered a stroke, he moved back to Lettsworth to help pick cotton. But the whole family soon settled in Baton Rouge to have better access to doctors and jobs. Buddy briefly toiled on a conveyor belt in a beer factory. He found better employment as a maintenance man on the campus of Louisiana State University and at a gas station. His ﬁrst public performance was at a Baton Rouge bar called Sitman’s. Invited by bandleader Big Poppa to sing Hank Ballard and the Midnighters’ “Work With Me, Annie,” Guy was too shy to face the audience. A friend prescribed a glass of antiseptic, which Guy guzzled. He then felt brave enough to perform. He came to consider New Orleans rhythm & blues guitarist and singer Guitar Slim’s “The Things I Used to Do” to be as formative a recording as “Boogie Chillen.” He stood close to the stage when Guitar Slim headlined the Masonic Temple in Baton Rouge. “The music was blistering,” Guy remembered. “It was like the Stratocaster was saying, ‘Go ahead, throw me around, beat me up, I can take all you got and still sound like a screaming angel from heaven.’ ” Guy followed Slim’s blueprint. “Whatever he did, I wanted to do. The excitement he caused, I wanted to cause. The pleasure he gave, I wanted to give. I wanted to be Guitar Slim.”

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desperate. Maybe I knew my life depended on tearing up that club until folks wouldn’t forget me.” The club’s owner was so impressed that he called Muddy Waters to come see this unknown guitarist. Waters became a mentor more akin to a second father. Guy’s playing was rooted in the early blues he heard in the Louisiana countryside but infused with the energy and abandon required to win over a room of rowdy blues fans in rough-and-tumble Chicago. In his view, so-called “pure blues” is a myth. “There ain’t such a thing,” he wrote in “When I Left Home.” “Blues has always been a gumbo where you throw everything in the pot. Blues ain’t no pedigree; it’s a mutt. And far as I’m concerned, mutts are beautiful.” Leonard Chess of Chess Records famously thought Guy’s stinging, feedback-laden guitar solos were too wild, raw and aggressive, and coached him to tone down. Chess changed his tune after a new generation of rock stars, including Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck, championed Guy as an inspiration. Soon enough, his fanbase expanded from primarily Black audiences in Chicago bars to primarily White audiences at colleges and music festivals. His 1991 album “Damn Right, I’ve Got the Blues” is considered his masterpiece. In 2025, his postcredits cameo in the hit vampire movie “Sinners” introduced his innate coolness to a whole new generation. Buddy Guy’s Legends, his Chicago nightclub, is a Windy City landmark. But in spirit at least, he never left Louisiana. He was once asked if traveling to Africa felt like “going home.” “I felt Africa deep in my soul,” Guy wrote. “But it wasn’t my home. Sure, it was the original home, but my real home was Louisiana. “Nothing would ever change that.”

Hoping to ﬁnd a better job and to see his blues heroes in person, he boarded a train in Hammond for Chicago on Sept. 25, 1957. He considers that date his second birthday — the day he was reborn. He initially struggled in Chicago. But one night at a South Side club called the 708, bandleader Otis Rush welcomed him onstage. Guy channeled his inner Guitar Slim and let loose. “I know I was possessed,” he later recalled of that pivotal night. “Maybe I was open to being pos- Email Keith Spera at kspera@ sessed because I was scared and theadvocate.com.

diversified the type of content it offers, adding games, video podcasts and live events like NFL football games to its platform. Still, the streamer’s stock is down 35% from a year ago, as competition from other platforms has grown. YouTube in particular remains a formidable rival, representing about 14% of streaming-watch time by U.S. viewers on TVs, compared to Netflix’s 8% in May, according to Nielsen. Despite the competition, Netflix’s original programs still dominate the most-watched streaming lists. What sets Netflix apart is its large library of content, said Alejandro Rojas, a vice president with Parrot Analytics. Netflix gets a higher percentage of viewership on its platform for programs whose primary audience are young adults compared to other streamers, he said. “Netflix has so much more content than some of the other competitors that in every category, they’re always going to be either the leader, or be close to leading in that category,” Rojas said. More shows are on the way. Last week, Netflix announced two new YA shows, the supernatural mystery series called “Sid & Zoey,” about an amoral teenager who is sent to live with a police chief and his family and develops a mutual attraction with the chief’s daughter; and “Sunshine Girls,” about a teenager who moves from New York to the suburbs of Valley Hills, California. The series will launch in December and will be shot in L.A. Another young adult drama debuting later this year is “Minimum Wage,” which focuses on teens

managing part-time jobs and love triangles. Comedian Randall Park plays an eccentric boss of a pizza shop. “Minimum Wage” films in Syracuse, New York. Many credit the growth of Netflix’s young adult content to its bet on the sci-fi series “Stranger Things,” which launched a decade ago with a cast of unknown child actors and first-time showrunners Matt and Ross Duffer to become one of its most popular shows ever. The series ended last year and Netflix is rolling out a new crop of YA shows. “We’re very much looking at creators who have something to say, who really want to be very sharp in their perspective they’re trying to relay about the story they’re telling,” Howe said. Howe has high hopes for “The Body,” about badly behaved Catholic school girls who have prophetic visions after a dance team initiation goes awry. The drama, which debuts Nov. 11, was created by a 31-year-old first-time showrunner, Quinn Shephard. “I have really felt a lack of censorship of the show,” Shephard said. “Netflix was the right home for it because of their willingness to not be afraid of something being slightly provocative, a little bit more adult and have a bit of teeth to it in this genre.” Felicia Pride, creator and showrunner of “A Different World,” said her sequel series to the original NBC show about Black students navigating their way through a fictional college should resonate with young people worldwide. “That is a huge benefit of being on Netflix and being on streaming … is the ability to have that reach,” Pride said.

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will be necessary while you sort through your differences and make plans that serve you. A job search or recommendation will pay off. PIScES (Feb. 20-March 20) Distance yourself from drama. Taking part in someone else's issue will set you back. Your best results will come from self-improvement and personal growth. Make self-help your priority. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Don't let negative energy ruin your day. Channel your angstintohomeimprovementsthatmake your life and your personal relationships easier. Consider the possibilities. tAuRuS (April 20-May 20) Take time to analyze and formulate what you want to do next. Don't feel obligated to participate in someone else's entertainment. Shift your focus inward. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) You'll thrive under pressure and demand. Change is your middle name, and excitement is part of the game. Rise to whatever occasion presents itself and takes you front and center. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Take better care of your health and emotional well-being. Don't rely on others or fall short when being responsible is necessary. Look out for your interests. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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SLDBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: Friday, August 14, 2026, at 8:00 AM CST DEADLINE TO RESPOND: Monday, August 31, 2026, at 1:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE & SITE VISIT: N/A Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If you wish to receive no‐ tification of addendum posted by the Bureau of Purchasing about this event, register as a sup‐ plier or update your sup‐ plier account (if already registered) and select the following commodity code(s): COMMODITY CODE(s): 913-81 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion. For more information about this event, go to www.nola.gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Por‐ tal” under “BIDS & CON‐ TRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Portal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr., Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: August 14th, 21st & 28th, 2026 NOCP 9220 197486-aug 14-21-28-3t $97.17 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BID Sealed Bids will be re‐ ceived by the Purchasing Office, LSU New Orleans, Admin. Annex Bldg, RM 1004G,2000 LAKESHORE DR, LAKE FRONT CAM‐ PUS, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70148. for: YEARLY SERVICE CONTRACT FOR MARCH‐ ING BAND MUSICAL IN‐ STRUMENTS, Sealed Bid No. BTB2996 until: September 11, 2026 @ 2:00 PM at which time and place the Bids will be opened and read. period of inquiry dead‐ line is September 2, 2026 addenda if any will be is‐ sued September 8, 2026 Evidence of authority to submit the bid shall be required in accordance with R.S. 39:1594 C.(4). Specifications may be obtained from the Pur‐ chasing Office. The right is reserved to reject any or all bids and to waive informalities. LSU New Orleans is an equal opportunity/affir‐ mative action employer. By: Troy A. Bacino Assistant Director chasing Dept. LSU New Orleans

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197957-AUG 21-1T $38.77 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS TITLE: SET-ASIDE DPW693 INSTALLATION OF SCHOOL ZONE FLASHING BEACONS UPGRADES CITYWIDE SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4754 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: CONSTRUCTION SER‐ VICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: AUGUST 21, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 @1:30 P.M. PRE-BID CONFERENCE: SEPTEMBER 8, 2026 @ 1:30 P.M. TEAMS: Meeting ID: 237 122 877 476 165 Passcode: FA9eT7me +1 504-356-4110,, 338254929#

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modiﬁcations via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ ﬁcations if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 968-83, 550-80, 550-85, 550-88, 550-89, 550-96, 968-77, 968-82, 914-38 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”.

Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd. Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000025934, Her‐ bicides/Insecti‐ cides/Fungicides - SW, 9/9/26 RFx No. 3000026180, ESSI BN Photo ID Equip & Sup‐ plies – SW, 9/9/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 197998-aug 21-1t $12.91 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 2168 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 15,2026 for Solicitation Number Doc2331838896 - Request for Proposal (RFP) for Mi‐ crogravimetric Weighing of PM 2.5 Filters for DEQ. The RFP may be ac‐ cessed at https://portal. us.bn.cloud.ariba.com/ dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110021718?anI d=ANONYMOUS. No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Director of State Procure‐ ment Phone (225) 342-8010 198023-AUG 21-1T $11.48 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 2172 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 29, 2026, for Solicitation Number Doc - Request for Proposal (RFP) for Canteen Packaging Pro‐ gram for DPS&C. The RFP may be accessed at https://discovery.ariba. com/rfx/1110021876 No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Chief Procurement Officer Phone (225) 342-8010 197994-aug 21-1t $10.34 PUBLIC NOTICE --SEWERAGE & WATER BOARD OF NEW ORLEANS ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS NDR Instrumentation Enhancements SOLICITATION NO. 2026-SWB-36 (5251) The Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans is requesting bids for NDR Instrumentation En‐ hancements. Bid Documents and pro‐ posal forms are available for download on August 7, 2026, on the following websites: SWBNO: https://www2.swbno. org/business_bidspecific ations.asp LAPAC: https://wwwcfprd.doa. louisiana.gov/OSP/ LaPAC/dspBid.cfm?sea rch=department& term=181 A NON- MANDATORY prebid conference will be held on August 20, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. CDT at the Sewerage and Water Board of New Orleans’ Administration Building, located at 625 St. Joseph Street Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana, 70165 or if you are unable to attend this in-person meeting, you can also join via telecon‐ ference call: Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams. microsoft.com/meet/258 315453790919?p=19huuJH cT3Vt6V08Yk Meeting ID: 258 315 453 790 919 Passcode: PA2uf7Sz Dial in by phone +1 504-224-8698,, 900340033# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 900 340 033# All inquiries shall be di‐ rected to Kimberly kbarnes@ Barnes, at swbno.org. The deadline for inquiries is on August 25, 2026, at 5:00 p.m. CDT.

Bids are due on Septem‐ ber 1, 2026, at 11:00 a.m. Any Bids received after the speciﬁed time will be rejected. Bids will then be publicly opened and read on Sep‐ tember 1, 2026, at 11:30 a.m. at Sewerage and Water Board of New Or‐ leans, 625 St. Joseph Street, Purchasing Con‐ ference Room 131, New Orleans, Louisiana. Microsoft Teams meeting Join: https://teams. microsoft.com/meet/262 356590028639?p=rjE7tXD DEbqEoa4sUY Meeting ID: 262 356 590 028 639 Passcode: wV6YW3Qs Dial in by phone +1 504-224-8698,, 728720598# United States, New Orleans Phone conference ID: 728 720 598# LATE BIDS WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. 196544-aug 7-14-21-3t $134.32

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PUBLIC NOTICE --The Louisiana Office of State Parks is requesting proposals for a PublicPrivate Partnership pro‐ ject to design, construct, and operate a high-qual‐ ity recreational vehicle campground and related amenities. For more in‐ formation go to opportu‐ nitiesinlouisiana.com. 192988-jul 2-aug 31-t PUBLIC NOTICE --The Lowlander Center (https://www.lowland ercenter.org/) is an‐ nouncing a Request for Proposals (RFP) due Monday, August 31, to deconstruct spoil banks for a Canal Spoil Re‐ placement (Backfilling) Project. Please email admin@lowlandercenter. org with any questions by Tuesday, August 11. All questions and an‐ swers will be posted on the Lowlander Center canal backfilling project page (https://www.low landercenter.org/canalbackfilling) by Tuesday, August 18. Please see the project page for RFP, per‐ mits, plat maps, back‐ ground information about the project, and an informational slidedeck. This project is partially funded by the National Oceanic and Atmos‐ pheric Administration (NOAA), through a grant agreement with the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation, grant award number: NA23NOS4730219. The views and conclusions contained in this docu‐ ment are those of the au‐ thors and should not be interpreted as represent‐ ing the opinions or poli‐ cies of the U.S. Govern‐ ment or the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and its funding sources. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government, or the Na‐ tional Fish and Wildlife Foundation or its funding sources. 196005-aug 1-31-31t $$4,838.79

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PUBLIC NOTICE --August 10, 2026 PUBLIC NOTICE City of New Orleans Helena Moreno, Mayor The New Orleans District Historic District Land‐ marks Commission will hold its regularly sched‐ uled meeting on Wednes‐ day, November 4, 2026 at 1:00 p.m in the City Coun‐ cil Chamber, 1300 Per‐ dido Street. At this meet‐ ing, a public hearing may be heard on the following landmark nominations: Nomination of 2315 Washington Avenue Nomination of 3809 Clematis Street Nomination of 3100 Calhoun Street Upon request, a sign lan‐ guage interpreter for the hearing impaired will be available at the meeting. To place a request for sign language interpreter services please call TDDY at (504) 658-2059 or 1800-981-6652. The New Orleans Historic District Landmarks Commission To run in The Times Picayune/ The N. O. Advocate Friday August 21, 2026 NOCP 9232 198148-aug 21-1t $16.90 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to be posted: Community Leaders Ad‐ vocating Student Suc‐ cess Inc./ Fannie C. Williams Charter School Budget Meeting will be held on Thursday August 27, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the school Library, Ad‐ dress: 11755 Dwyer Road New Orleans, LA 70128. Also, you can attend via the zoom link below. The 2026-27 Budget will be approved at the meeting. The Budget is available for viewing in the Busi‐ ness Office Monday- Fri‐ day 9a.m. to 3p.m. or you can contact the office at 504-373-6228 Ext 7. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom. us/j/86725218911? pwd=AczazANrSMzvT26 Eo3m1MecDbfG6Ct.1 Meeting ID: 867 2521 8911 Passcode: UFJ0tC 197271-aug 13-27-15t $180.10 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to LSA R.S. 33:4712 the City of New Orleans hereby gives no‐ tice of its intention to au‐ thorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into an agreement to grant a servitude to an adjacent property owner for encroachments on/over portions of pub‐ lic right-of-way located at the municipal address 1484 Tchoupitoulas Street ; to fix the mini‐ mum price and terms of said servitude agree‐ ment; to declare that such use as granted in the servitude agreement will incorporate space that is neither needed for public purposes nor shall such use interfere with the use of the public right-of-way; to set forth the reasons for said servitude agreement; pursuant to Ordinance Calendar No. 35,533. This ordinance is sched‐ uled for final adoption on September 3, 2026, and may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATES: August 14, 21 and 28, 2026 NOCP 9221 197492-aug 14-21-28-3t $53.73 PUBLIC NOTICE --UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT EASTERN DISTRICT OF LOUISIANA IN THE MATTER OF THE COMPLAINT OF RO BOATS, LLC AND REC MA‐ RINE LOGISTICS, LLC AS OWNER AND OPERATOR OF THE M/V GOL WORKER, PETITIONING FOR EXONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIA‐ BILITY CIVIL ACTION NO: 2:26cv-01010 - SECTION “B” (5) – ILRL-MBN NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS OF COMPLAINT FOR EX‐ ONERATION FROM OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY RO Boats, LLC and REC Marine, LLC, as owner and operator of the GOL ( i i i

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p WORKER (“Limitation Pe‐ titioners”), have filed a Complaint pursuant to Title 46 U.S.C. §§ 30501– 30512 as amended, claiming the right to ex‐ oneration from, or limita‐ tion of liability of any loss, claim, injuries, de‐ struction, or alleged damage caused by or re‐ sulting from an alleged incident involving the M/V GOL WORKER (Offi‐ cial No. 1140618) occur‐ ring on or about October 23, 2023, in the Gulf of Mexico south of Sabine Pass, which is off the coast of Louisiana, as more fully described in the Complaint. All persons, firms, or cor‐ porations asserting claims with respect to which the Complaint seeks exoneration from or limitation of liability are admonished, to file their respective claims, under oath, as provided in Rule F of the Supple‐ mental Rules for Certain Admiralty and Maritime Claims of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, with the Clerk of the United States District Court for the Eastern Dis‐ trict of Louisiana, 500 Poydras St., New Orleans, Louisiana 70130, and must serve a copy thereof on counsel for Limitation Petitioners on or before the 13th day of January, 2027 or be de‐ faulted. Any claimant desiring to contest either the right to exoneration from, or the right to limitation of liability, shall file and serve an Answer to the Complaint, unless his or her claim is included in Answer, all as is required by Rule F of the Supple‐ mental Rules for Certain Admiralty Maritime Claims of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure or be barred from bring‐ ing such action. New Orleans, Louisiana, this 15th day of July, 2026. /s/ L. Guillot Deputy Clerk of Court /s/Aaron B. Greenbaum Aaron B. Greenbaum, T.A. (#31752) Kristian B. Dobard (#36997) PUSATERI, JOHNSTON, GUILLOT & GREENBAUM, LLC 1100 Poydras Street, Suite 2250 New Orleans, LA 70163 Telephone: (504) 620-2500 Facsimile: (504) 620-2510 aaron.greenbaum@ pjgglaw.com kristian.dobard@ pjgglaw.com ATTORNEYS FOR RO BOATS, LLC AND REC MA‐ RINE LOGISTICS, LLC 195502-jul 31-aug 7-14-214t $1,333 PUBLIC NOTICE ---

SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4755 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: August 21, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 23, 2026 at 4:00 PM PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 2, 2026 at 10:30 AM Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. https://teams.microsoft. com/meet/22853774827 2074?p=Q3cuvI4u9zw m0Igrsl If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 907-35; 918-75; 925-17; 958-26; 958-77; 961-56 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer

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SUMMONS IN A CIVIL AC‐ TION To: Gerald Henry aka Ger‐ reaux Katana pka “Ger‐ reaux” (Address Un‐ known) A lawsuit has been filed against you. Within 21 days after ser‐ vice of this summons on you (not counting the day you received it) — or 60 days if you are the United States or a United States agency, or an offi‐ cer or employee of the United States described in Fed. R. Civ. P. 12 (a)(2) or (3) — you must serve on the plain‐ tiff an answer to the at‐ tached complaint or a motion under Rule 12 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. The answer motion must be or served on the plaintiff or plaintiff’s attorney, whose name and ad‐ dress are: Larry Zerner 1801 Century Park East, Ste. 2400, Los Angeles, CA 90067 If you fail to respond, judgment by default will be entered against you for the relief demanded in the complaint. You also must file your answer or motion with the court.

I, BINH VAN TO, have been convicted of 11990003 - 22.021 PC Agg Sexual Assault Sexual Motivation. TEXAS Date Convicted: 12/01/1989. My Address is: 5052 LYONS CT MARRERO, LA 70072 Race: ASIAN OR PAC. ISL. Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 4/16/1974 Height: 5'3" Weight: 140 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: TEXAS 198116, AUG 21-22 $250

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GERALD HENRY aka GER‐ REAUX KATANA pka "GERREAUX", an individ‐ ual, MARCELLUS RAYVON REGISTER pka "BABYFACE RAY", an individual, DION MARQUISE HAYES pka "42 DUGG", an individual, TAMIA MONIQUE CARTER pka "FLO MILLI", SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT, a Delaware corporation, EMPIRE DISTRIBUTION, INC., a business entity form unknown, and DOES 1-10, Inclusive 195794-JUl 21-4T $1,037.28

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation will introduce the 2026-27 budget and hold its ﬁrst public hearing on the 2026-27 budget on May 14, 2026 at 5:30 pm at Edgar P Harney Build‐ ing located at 2503 Wil‐ low St., New Orleans, LA 70113 (LA R.S. 39:1307). ReNEW-Reinventing Edu‐ cation is the charter school management or‐ ganization operating ReNEW Laurel Elemen‐ tary, ReNEW Dolores T. Aaron Elementary, ReNEW Schaumburg Ele‐ mentary, and ReNEW Moton Lakefront Elemen‐ tary. A physical copy of the 2026-2027 budget is available at 10001 Lake Forest Blvd., Suite 710, New Orleans, LA 70127. 186911-may 9-aug 27 $956

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works TITLE: Set Aside: Infrastructure Program Management Support Services

I, JOSHUA MICHAEL MACHADO AKA JOSHUA M MACADO AKA JOSHUA MACHADO AKA JOSHUA M MACHADO AKA JOSH AKA NEPHEW, have been convicted of 14:42.1 Forcible Rape. Date Convicted: 03/06/2012. 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 11/17/1992. My Address is: 1710 BRIDGE CITY AVE WESTWEGO, LA 70094 Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 12/21/1974 Height: 5'9" Weight: 210 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA 198117, AUGH 21-22 $250

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 873-439 UNITED WHOLE‐ SALE MORT‐ GAGE, LLC VERSUS TREY M. CA‐ MARDELLE, IN HIS CAPACITY AS INDEPEN‐

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DENT ADMINIS‐ TRATOR OF THE SUCCES‐ SION OF ALLEN JOHN CA‐ MARDELLE A/K/A ALLEN JOHN CAMARDELLE A/K/A ALLEN J. CAMARDELLE A/K/A ALLEN CAMARDELLE

Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026

By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated March 12, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: That certain portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or any‐ wise appertain‐ ing, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known as White House Subdivision, in the City of Westwego, in Square 10, bounded by Av‐ enue "A", Otto Street (formerly 11th Street), the Salaville Line (Laroussinin Street side) and 10th Street, which said lots of ground are a resubdivision of Lots 1 and 2 of Square 10, Whitehouse Subdivision, as shown on the sketch attached to Ordinance No. 564, City of Westwego, and approved by the City of West‐ wego on Octo‐ ber 4, 1960, recorded in COB 526, folio 307, Entry No. 200888, and ac‐ cording to said sketch, said lots are designated as Lots "B" and "C"; said Lot "B" and "C" adjoin each other and measure each 32’ feet front on Avenue "A", same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and paral‐ lel lines of 90’ feet. Said Lot "B" forms the corner of Tenth and Avenue "A". All as more fully shown on plan of survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Sur‐ Couturie, veying and Engi‐ neering, dated March 9, 1968, a copy of which is annexed to act registered in COB 700, folio 993.

jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-688 ROCKET MORT‐ GAGE, LLC VERSUS BRENDA AUGUS‐ TINE WILSON DUMAS, (A/K/A BRENDA W. DUMAS, BRENDA WILSON DUMAS) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 14, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as HARBOR ES‐ TATES SUBDIVI‐ SION, desig‐ nated as LOT 113, SQUARE 5, bounded by Heather Street, Emile Avenue, Dolly Street and Wayne Avenue. Said Lot 113 be‐ gins 213 feet from the corner of Heather Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of one hundred (100) feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. All in ac‐ cordance with a plan of survey by Murphy Engi‐ neering, Inc., C.E., dated Janu‐ ary 4, 1973, re‐ dated October 12, 1973, a copy of which is at‐ tached to the mortgage recorded at In‐ strument # 12019954. Improvements thereon bear the Municipal Number 7817 Heather Street,

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This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-105 U.S. BANK TRUST NA‐ TIONAL ASSOCI‐ ATION, AS TRUSTEE OF BRACKENRIDGE MORTGAGE TRUST VERSUS STEPHFEN J. MCGILL By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 6, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ALL THAT CER‐ TAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, Township 14 South, Ranges 23 and 24 East, South‐ eastern Land District of Louisiana, West of the Missis‐ sippi River, and designated as Parcel P-2-A-1, all as per plan thereof made by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S., dated May 15, 1973, revised September 26, 1973, revised April 11, 1974, revised May 5, 1975 and De‐ cember 29, 1975, and approved by the Jefferson Parish Council under ordinance No. 12331, recorded in COB 858, folio 638, and which said portion of ground was subdivided into Woodmere Sub‐ division, Section 4, all as per plan of resubdivision thereof made by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S, dated Decem‐ ber 16, 1975 ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under

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ordinance No. 12331, recorded COB 858, folio 638, same being designated as follows: Lot 1269, Square GG, which square is bounded by North Deerwood Drive, Alex Ko‐ rnman Blvd., South Deerwood Dr. (side) and Deerwood Ct. (Side), and said lot forms the corner of Alex Kornman Blvd. and North Deer‐ wood Dr., and measures 65 feet front on North Deerwood Drive, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines, and front on Alex Korn‐ man boulevard, all as shown on print of survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S., dated May 23, 1977, re-sur‐ veyed to show improvements July 2, 1977. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-877 U.S. BANK TRUST NA‐ TIONAL ASSOCI‐ ATION, AS TRUSTEE OF LBCABANA SERIES IV TRUST VERSUS LOUIS H. THOMAS, JR. AND ANGELA CRAWFORD THOMAS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 20, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all of the improve‐ ments thereon, all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes and ad‐ vantages there‐ unto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in what was for‐ merly known as Parcel A of the

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Orleans Village Corporation Tract and is now designated as Westminster Park Subdivi‐ sion, as per plan of subdivision by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S., dated Octo‐ ber 24, 1977, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council by Ordi‐ nance No. 13192 adopted Janu‐ ary 4, 1978, and recorded in COB 918, folio 662, and as per Act of Dedicated be‐ fore Odom B. Heebe, N.P., dated March 1, 1978, recorded in COB 920, folio 308, and said property is more particu‐ larly described as follows, to wit: LOT 3, SQUARE 5, Which said square is bounded by Bartlett Drive, Westminster Blvd., Lapalco Blvd., and Lan‐ caster Drive. Said Lot is lo‐ cated and mea‐ sures as fol‐ lows: LOT 3 measures 60 feet front on Bartlett Drive, with a width in the rear of 60.84 feet, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal lines, and com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 138.39 feet from the corner of West‐ minster Blvd. and Bartlett Drive. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey by surveys, Inc., dated Feb‐ ruary 26, 1979. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-314 PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VERSUS GERALDINE COUSTAUT By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated January 8, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the

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rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining situated, lying and being in the White‐ house Subdivi‐ sion in the City of Westwego, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, ac‐ cording to a plan of survey by Alvin E. Ho‐ tard, civil Engi‐ neer,dated Jan‐ uary 6, 1958, and adopted by the Mayor and Board of Alder‐ men of the City of Westwego, by Ordinance Nos. 526 and 527, dated February 28, 1958, and ac‐ cording to said plan said lot is designated as the whole of Lot No Five (5) of Square No. Fifty six (56), which said Square is bounded by Av‐ enue "E" and "H", Tenth Street and Vie Street; and ac‐ cording to said plan said Lot No. Five (5) measures Fiftytwo and 75/100 (52.75') feet front on Tenth Street, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of One Hundred ThirtyNine and 5/10 (139.5') feet. (“Property”). This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit.

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p p of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, in the State of LA, in that part thereof known as Haydel Manor Subdivi‐ sion, said por‐ tion being des‐ ignated as Lot 241 of Square 11. According to a plan by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associ‐ ates, C.E., dated April 30, 1969, Square 11 is bounded by Vic‐ torian Drive, Marine Avenue, the North Line of Haydel Manor and Jordan Street. Lot 241 commences at a distance of 127.49 feet from the corner of Marine Avenue and Victorian Drive and mea‐ sures thence 60 feet front on Victorian Drive, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of 100.26 feet on the side line closer to Marine Avenue and a depth on the opposite side line closer to Jordan Street of 100.38 feet. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit.

MARGIE SCOTT Attorney for Plaintiff

COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

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CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐ VICES, LLC VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF AND UNKNOWN HEIRS OF LOIS ANDERSON SAM A/K/A LOIS AN‐ DERSON SAM A/K/A LOIS A. SAM A/K/A LOIS SAM AND HARRY SAM, JR.

AMERIHOME MORTGAGE COMPANY, LLC VERSUS MARTIN FRANK GALLOT, JR.

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p and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as SOUTH AVONDALE HOMES SUBDI‐ VISION, SEC‐ TION NO. 6, ac‐ cording to a plan of J.J. Krebs & Sons, C.E. dated July 1, 1969, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordinance No. 9322, and filed for record as Entry No. 465565, registered in COB 701, folio 963 and in Plan Book 66 Plan 42 of the records of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, according to which said lot or portion of ground is desig‐ nated as fol‐ lows: LOT 33, SQUARE 21, which said square is bounded by Phyllis, Marie, Pat and Elains Drive; said Lot 33 measures 52 feet front on Phyllis Drive the same in width in the rear by a depth of 104 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the prop‐ erty. Improvements thereon bear No. Municipal 517 Phyllis Drive, Avondale, Louisiana 70094. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. BRIGHAM J. LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026 August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 829-977 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC D/B/A MR. COOPER VS DARIUS L. ROBINSON AND RAYNITA JAMES ROBINSON By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Septem‐ ber 21, 2023, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following d ib d

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g described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as AMES GAR‐ DENS ADDITION AMES FARMS in LOWER ESTELLE, designated as LOT 10, SQUARE J, which said square is bounded by Jeanne Street, East Ames Boulevard, South boundary of subdivision and Ames Boulevard Street, said lot commences 105 feet from the corner of Jeanne Street and East Ames Boulevard and measures thence 55 feet front on Jeanne Street, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 110 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey by Wilton J. Dufrene, Land Surveyor, dated June 27, 1985; subject to re‐ strictions, servi‐ tudes, rights-ofway and out‐ standing min‐ eral rights of record affecting the property. The improve‐ ments thereon bear the Munici‐ pal Address 2609 Jeanne Street, Marrero, LA 70072. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

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p vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, in that part known as MAPLE RIDGE PARK, being a of subdivision the rear portion of Lots 10, 11, 12 and 13 of the Volant LaBarre Plantation, in SQUARE "B" thereof, which square is bounded by Ole‐ ander Street, Maple Ridge Drive and West Maple Drive, designated as LOT 15 on plat of survey made by F.C. Gandolfo, Jr., Surveyor, dated March 12, 1942, on ﬁle in the of‐ ﬁce of the Clerk of Court in and for the Parish of Jefferson in Map Book 14, Page 10, re‐ dated October 5,1946 and ac‐ cording thereto, Lot 15 com‐ mences 150 feet from the corner of Maple Ridge Drive and Ole‐ ander Street (135 feet from the point of curve of the in‐ tersection of Maple Ridge Drive and Ole‐ ander Street), and measures 50 feet front on Maple Ridge Drive, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines; all in ac‐ cordance with survey by Gilbert & Kelly, Surveyors, dated Decem‐ ber 9, 1955. Which has the address of 215 Maple Ridge Drive, Metairie, LA 70001

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit.

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 865-242 MIDFIRST BANK VERSUS EDWARD M. GSELL AND COURTNEY E. PETERSON By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 29, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 853-661 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐ VICES, LLC VS THE OPENED SUCCESSION OF COTRIA V. OVER‐ STREET (A/K/A COTRIA OVERSTREET) AND TRAE BARDELL AND TISHARA BAR‐ DON By virtue of and in obedience to

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a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 6, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: ALL THAT CER‐ TAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all rights, ways, means, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known RANCH as ACRES EXTEN‐ SION, and ac‐ cording to plan of subdivision by J. J. Krebs and Associates, Inc., Civil Engi‐ neer, and Sur‐ veyor, dated September 17, 1971, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on May 25, 1972, under Ordi‐ nance no. 10688, registered in COB 764, folio 803, said portion of ground is designated as LOT 21, SQUARE 4. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ mort‐ terests, gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. EMILY A. MUELLER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 872-864 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF EARL A. ADAMS, JR., DECEASED By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 5, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana,

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70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: That certain lot or parcel of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in Township 14 South, Ranges 23 and 24 East, Southeast Land District of Louisiana, West of the Missis‐ sippi River, known as Har‐ vey Canal Prop‐ erty, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, for‐ merly known as Parcel Q-2-B, which said lot of ground has been resubdi‐ vided into Woodmere South Subdivi‐ sion, Section 3, all as per plan of resubdivision made by J.J. Krebs, Inc., CE&S, dated 10/10/1983, ap‐ poroved by the Jefferson Parish Council by Ordi‐ nance No. 15784, recorded at COB 2167/270, same being desig‐ nated as follows: LOT 739, SQUARE "Q", which said square is bounded by Cimwood Drive, Destrehan Av‐ enue, Clover Lane and KeithWay Drive, and said Lot 739 commences at a distance of 253.19 feet from the intersection of Keith-Way Drive and Cim‐ wood Drive, and measures thence 60 feet front on Cim‐ wood Drive, same in width across the rear, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. All as per survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons Inc. dated 10/14/1985, resurveyed 11/22/1985, to show improve‐ ments. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 868-983 PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VS BUTINA JOHN‐ SON, (A/K/A BUTINA LYN JOHNSON) AND JOSHUA JOHN‐ SON, (A/K/A JOSHUA JOHNSON, SR., JOSHUA DOU‐ GLAS JOHNSON) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of

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Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Septem‐ ber 24, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: One certain lot or parcel of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Ranch Es‐ tates Subdivi‐ sion, designated as Lot No. 66-A in the Square bounded by Ramsey Street, Clover Street the south boundary of the subdivision and Morning Glow Drive, and forms the corner of Ramsey Street and Clover Street and mea‐ sures thence 31.03 feet from on Ramsey Street; thence along the arc of a curve at the intersection of Ramsey Street and Clover Street 28.93 feet; a width in the rear of 51 feet; by a depth and front on Clover Street of 77.17 feet and a depth on the opposite side‐ line of 99.73 feet, all in ac‐ cordance with the plat of sur‐ vey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., Civil Engi‐ neering & Sur‐ veyors, dated October 27, 1971, resur‐ veyed May 9, 1972, a copy of which is an‐ nexed to cob 767, folio 119, Official Records of Jefferson Parish, Louisiana. And according to a survey by Kelly Gilbert, and Couturie, in., surveying and engineer‐ ing, dated Janu‐ ary 30, 1986 said lot lies in the same square and forms the corner of Ram‐ sey and Clover streets, mea‐ sures 30.13 feet front on Ramsey Street, thence along the arc of a curve at the intersection of Ramsey and Clover Streets 28.93 feet, with a width in the rear of 51 feet, by a depth and front on Clover Street of 77.17 feet and a depth on the opposite sideline of 99.73 feet. Having a munic‐ ipal address of 2573 Ramsey Drive, Marrero, LA 70072. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with irrevocable Bank Letter of Credit. PENNY M. DAIGREPONT Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P.

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LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 871-741 HARLEYDAVIDSON CREDIT CORP. AS ASSIGNEE OF EAGLEMARK SAVINGS BANK VERSUS HERMAN NEALE By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 22, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: HARLEY-DAVID‐ SON 2014 USED FLHTCU ULTRA CLASSIC ELECTRA GLII MYS REDCAY 1HD1FCM12EB67 4278 STORED AT: AVONDALE STORAGE 3110 HWY. 90 P. O. BOX 9150 AVONDALE, LA This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. PAUL S. BRENNAN Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026 Aug 21-1t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 877-221 NEIGHBORS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION VERSUS JIMMY LAM By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 7, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the

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Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: ONE 2021 HONDA CMX1100LD, MOTORCYCLE VIN: JH2SC8316MK00 1867 STORED AT: AVONDALE STORAGE 3110 HWY. 90 P. O. BOX 9150 AVONDALE, LA This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. STACY G. BUTLER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026 Aug 21-1t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 877-355 HARLEY DAVIDSON CREDIT CORP., AS ASSIGNEE OF EAGLEMARK SAVINGS BANK(HDCC) VS WARREN P. RYAN (A/K/A WARREN RYAN) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 9, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: 2022 HARLEYDAVIDSON FLHXS STREET GLIDE SPECIAL (VIN NO:1HD1KR‐ P12NB624927) STORED AT: AVONDALE STORAGE 3110 HWY. 90 P. O. BOX 9150 AVONDALE, LA This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds be must Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE

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terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

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JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

Attorney for Plaintiff

JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-393 JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NATIONAL AS‐ SOCIATION VERSUS PHILLIP L. REED By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 5, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Au‐ gust 26, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following described prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, Lake Tim‐ berlane Estates, as designated LOT 21, SQUARE B, LAKE TIMBER‐ LANE ESTATES, SECTION 4, in accordance with plan of re‐ subdivision by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated De‐ cember 8, 1989, last revised September 27, 1990, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on February 14, 1990, by Ordi‐ nance No. 17929, recorded March 15, 1990, under entry No. 9010219, in COB 2305, folio 207, more fully de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: SQUARE B is by bounded Brighton Place, Jupiter Street, Bradford Place, and Manhattan Boulevard. LOT 21 commences 1145 feet from the intersection of Jupiter Street and Brighton Place, measures thence 60 feet front on Brighton Place, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and paral‐ lel lines of 105 feet. All as more fully shown on survey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., redated and certiﬁed October 21, 1991. Which has the address of 1933 Brighton Place, Harvey, LA 70058 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds

The New Orleans Advocate: July 17, 2026, August 21, 2026 jul 17-aug 21-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 861-349 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORT‐ GAGE CORPORATION VERSUS MICHAEL LANNING RAY A/K/A MICHAEL L. RAY A/K/A MICHAEL RAY By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated February 6, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: One certain lot of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Terrytown Subdivision, Section No. 1, per survey of Gilbert, Kelly and Couturie, Inc., Surveyors, dated July 8, 1977, and according to survey by R. L. Schumann and Associates, Land Surveyor, dated December 12, 1979, is further designated and described as follows: Lot 29, Square 12, which said square is bounded by Stumpf Boule‐ vard, Bluebon‐ net Stret, South But‐ terly Circle (side) Bruce Av‐ enue (side), Homes Boule‐ vard (side) and East Butterly Circle (side), and the said lot commences at a distance of 178.32 feet from the corner of Bluebonnet Street and Stumpf Boule‐ vard and mea‐ sures thence 65.00 feet front on Stumpf Boulevard, a width in the rear of 60.87 feet, by a depth of 120.00 feet on both side lot lines. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 860-752 NOLA FUNDING, LLC VS INVESTOR EQUITIES, LLC, ET AL By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated October 1, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all of the improve‐ ments thereon, together with all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes and ap‐ purtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining to said property situ‐ ated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known the M.M. as Gilchrist’s West Carrollton Sub‐ division, which lots are desig‐ nated as LOTS 13 and 14, of BLOCK 6, which block is bounded by Spruce Street, Brooklyn Av‐ enue, Claiborne and Lake Streets and which lots ad‐ join each other and measure each ﬁfteen feet front on Brooklyn Av‐ enue, by a depth of 100 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines. A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all of the improvements thereon to‐ gether with all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining to said property, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part known as the M.M. Gilchrist’s West Carrollton Sub‐ division in BLOCK 6, which

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block is bounded by Spruce Street, Brooklyn Av‐ enue, Claiborne and Lake Streets and which lots is designated as LOT 16 on a plan of subdivision by Edgar Pilie, Surveyor, dated October 28, 1902, attached to an Act before Joseph Walton, NP, dated Octo‐ ber 29, 1902, according to which Lot 16 measures 30 feet front on Brooklyn Av‐ enue, by a depth of 100 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines. Improvements bear Municipal No. 439 Brooklyn Avenue, Jeffer‐ son, LA 70121 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. IRL R. SILVERSTEIN Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 872-267 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VERSUS ARNELL A. ALEXANDER WIFE OF/AND HERBERT F. MOORE By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated February 18, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: One certain lot of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, City of Gretna, in Square "F" of Derbes Park, bounded by Marie Drive, Smithway Drive, Governor Hall Drainage Canal and Sev‐ enteenth Street, designated as Lot 8 on a sur‐ vey by Henry C. Eustis, Sur‐ veyor, dated June 19, 1971,

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and according to which, the said lot forms the corner of Marie and Smithway Dri‐ ves and measures 60 feet front on Marie Drive has a width in the rear of 85 feet, by a depth fronting on Smithway Drive of 132.62 feet by a depth on the other sideline of 134.96 feet. The improvements bear the Munici‐ pal Number 35 Marie Drive. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

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as per plat of survey by A. W. J. Bisco, C.E., dated August 13, 1952, an‐ nexed to an act before Pierre D. Olivier, Jr., No‐ tary Public, dated Septem‐ ber 30, 1952. And according to said plat, said lot is desig‐ nated as Lot "A" and is lo‐ cated and mea‐ sures as fol‐ lows: Lot "A" forms the corner of Compromise and Thirteenth Streets and measures 50 feet front on Compromise Street, same width in the rear, by a depth and front on Thirteenth Street of 120 feet, and the same depth on the opposite sideline.

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges.

FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale.

JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit.

The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT

COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026

NO: 875-370

Aug 21-sep 25-2t

UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE, LLC VERSUS MISAEL A. PEREZ A/K/A MISAEL A. PEREZ SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL PEREZ A/K/A MISAEL A. SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL PEREZ SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL P. SANDERS

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24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 873-422 CLICK N' CLOSE, INC. F/K/A MID AMERICA MORTGAGE, INC. VS. SAMUEL BANNISTER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 2, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, situ‐ ated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as VALLEY RE‐ ALTY COMPANY SUB‐ DIVISION, desig‐ nated as LOT 230 of SQUARE 22, which said square is bounded by 13th Street, the Western line of Valley Really Company Subdivision, 12th Street, and Gaudet Drive, and Lot 230 thereof com‐ mences at a distance of 200 feet from the corner of 13th

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Street and Gaudet Drive and measures thence 50 feet front on Gaudet Drive, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ZACHARY GARRETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t Public Notices Successions

PUBLIC NOTICE --24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NUMBER: 876375 DIVI‐ SION: K SUCCESSION OF AM‐ MERETTE RIEUX MOORE NOTICE OF INTENT TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROP‐ ERTY AT PRIVATE SALE WHEREAS, the court ap‐ pointed Administrator, Kelly Calhoun Richards, of the above estate has made an application to the court for the sale of the following immovable property hereinafter de‐ scribed: ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all buildings and im‐ provements thereon and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances, prescrip‐ tions and advantages thereunto belonging, or in anywise appertaining or attached, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that por‐ tion thereof known as - - HARLEM SUBDIVISION, in SQUARE NUMBER - - 142, bounded by Berwick and Andover Streets, Causeway Boulevard (formerly Harlem Avenue and the Coster Canal), and the Property now or formerly belonging to Hyman, and which said lot of ground is desig‐ nated by the NUMBER SEVEN (7), commences at a distance of one hun‐ dred eighty (180’) feet from the corner of Berwick Street and Causeway Boulevard, and measures thence thirty (30’) feet front on BERWICK STREET, the same in width in the rear, by a depth of one hun‐ dred twenty (120’) feet, between equal and paral‐ lel lines; all according to sketch of survey made by Errol E. Kelly, Sur‐ veyor, dated January 16th, 1965, a blue print copy of which is annexed to and made part of an‐ other Act of Sale passed before Allain C. Andry, Jr., Notary Public, this date, for reference. The improvements thereon are designated by the NUMBERS 30153015-1/2 BERWICK STREET. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS: (a) The purchase price to be paid is Sixty Thou‐ sand Dollars ($60,000.00). (b) The buyer has war‐ ranted that they have cash readily available to close the sale and it is not conditioned on their ability to obtain ﬁnanc‐ ing. (c) The purchase is being made “as is” without warranties of any kind and with the purchaser waiving all rights against redhibition. (d) At closing, the Sellers shall pay 3% of the Sale Price toward the Buyer’s Broker’s compensation. Notice is hereby given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the Decedent herein, and of this estate, that any opposition to the pro‐ posed sale must be ﬁled within seven (7) days from the date of the last publication of this notice. Atty.: Logan H. Green‐ berg; 4038 Oak Bend Lane; Madisonville, LA 70447; (844) 999-9912; logan@sunriselawgroup. com 198051-AUG 20--21-2T $106.64

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