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Meta data center transforms local government in Richland Parish

Two N.O. murder convictions tossed Court cites wiretaps of disgraced former NOPD officer

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

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Elliot Colvin, the longest-serving member of the Richland Parish Police Jury, responds to an infrastructure issue concerning Meta’s data center while he and his farm crew harvest a field in Rayville on Aug. 4. BY TYLER BRIDGES

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Cecil Reddick dealt with the typical constituent requests after he was elected to the Richland Parish Police Jury in rural northeast Louisiana: repair roads, upgrade drainage and demolish dams built by beavers that were now ﬂooding roadside ditches. Then, in late 2024, Gov. Jeff Landry and executives with Meta announced shocking news: the Californiabased company planned to build a massive data center to power artificial intelligence computing, in fields where corn, rice, cotton and soybeans were grown. Now, residents constantly seek out Reddick, the Police Jury president, approaching him at the local Walmart or interrupting his meal at Wafﬂe House. “My phone never quits ringing,” Reddick said dur-

Richland Parish Police Jury President Cecil Reddick said he is frequently contacted by residents with questions about the data center plans. ing a recent interview, adding that he’s happy to help. It’s constituents with the normal calls, but also people asking about the Police Jury’s decision to impose a moratorium on new RV parks to house an army of

construction workers. Calls also come from reporters, the governor’s office and out-of-town investors enticed by the prospect of earning big money from skyrocketing land values. “This is all new to us,” Red-

dick said. “We’re learning as we go.” The creation of what Meta now says will be a $50 billion investment has upended the lives of the nine police jurors who each receive $1,600 per month to represent about 1,500 people apiece in a parish where life for decades has centered around the farmland crops. Most of the police jurors are farmers accustomed to the slow pace of life in a parish that has had no need for zoning laws. None of the four jurors interviewed for this article have a college degree, but they have Ph.D.s in life experiences. Interstate 20 bisects Richland Parish, but until recently, only a handful of passing drivers had a reason to stop in either of the parish’s two towns, Delhi (population: 2,500) and Rayville, the parish seat (population: 3,200).

A Louisiana appeals court has thrown out a pair of 30-year-old murder convictions in New Orleans, ﬁnding authorities failed to turn over key evidence before Manuel Nelson’s trial for both killings. Among the recently discovered records cited by the state 4th Circuit Court of Appeal in its decision last week are transcripts of wiretapped phone calls involving notorious New Orleans Police Department ofﬁcer Len Davis. Those wiretaps caught Davis and partner Sammie Williams talking Davis about one of the July 1994 killings, with Williams at the scene before emergency responders. Another call captured Williams trying to pin the killing on Nelson, the court said, though he and Davis in a third call agreed Nelson’s co-defendant did it alone. The panel of Judges Paula Brown, Dale Atkins and Rachael Johnson ruled it was enough for Nelson, 56, to receive a new trial in the July 1994 slayings of Elbert “Little” Wynn and William Henry “Peewee” Jones. Their murders took place six days apart in the Florida housing development in the deadliest year in modern New Orleans history, with 424 people killed in the city.

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La. juvenile detention facility under scrutiny Concerns raised after 5 guards arrested in 16 months

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BY MEGHAN FRIEDMANN Staff writer

30 years of pickin’ chicken

ness, from concept to globalization, durTodd Graves’ past, ing a media event Tuesday morning celthe company’s 30th anniversapresent and future collide ebrating ry. Alongside him were his wife, Gwen, and children Sophia and Charlie, all of in original Raising Cane’s whom work in some capacity in the fam-

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ily business. His children will be tasked with carrying on the Cane’s legacy in the future, Graves said. Though he doesn’t outright consider Todd Graves doesn’t consider himself himself a celebrity, the room at the a celebrity. Mothership said otherwise. Influencers, At least, not the red carpet kind. “A chicken finger celebrity,” the Rais- TV stations and press filled the space, ing Cane’s founder joked as he stood some traveling from as far as Hollywood in the doorway of his office outside the and New York to learn the tale of how a Mothership, the nickname for the origi- Louisiana man grew a chicken finger emnal Raising Cane’s restaurant near the pire. Cane’s staff, wearing black clothing North Gates of LSU. ä See CHICKEN, page 5A Graves detailed the rise of the busiStaff writer

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Raising Cane’s founder and owner Todd Graves recounts the making of the company, alongside his kids Sophia and Charlie and wife Gwen, at a 30th anniversary event inside the original store on Highland Road in Baton Rouge.

Over the past 16 months, ﬁve women who worked at a Louisiana juvenile detention facility have been arrested and charged with a crime that prohibits prison guards from engaging in sexual conduct with detainees. Lawmakers are now raising concerns about the number of arrests at the Acadiana Center for Youth in Bunkie. So, too, are criminal justice advocates, who say the cases are indicative of a broken Ofﬁce of Juvenile Justice system that fails to protect youth and lacks appropriate oversight. When asked about the arrests, the OJJ, which manages juveniles who enter state custody for criminal convictions, said in a statement that it takes misconduct allegations seriously and investigates “inappropriate conduct between staff and youth in custody.”

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Officer killed, second hurt in S.C. shooting

A South Carolina police officer died and a second was injured in a gunfight Saturday in a park following a call about a domestic dispute, the police chief in Columbia said. The suspect, a 33-year-old man with a lengthy criminal record, also died, Chief W.H. “Skip” Holbrook said at a news conference in the capital city. The deceased officer, 29-yearold Christopher DeLong, had been with the police department for two years and leaves behind a wife and two young children, Holbrook said. “Our hearts are broken this evening,” he said, appearing choked up at times. DeLong’s wife, in a social media post, praised her husband as the “best dad to our babies” and said she was “living a nightmare.” After a Saturday night news conference, Holbrook and other law enforcement officials joined in a procession from the hospital. The second officer, David Dymock, was in stable condition, the chief said. “I hope that our officers know that they’re not alone in this. We will lean on each other in this tragic time,” Holbrook said. “Let’s pray for this department.”

Hundreds attend funeral in Haiti for attack victims

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of people crowded into a church near Haiti’s capital on Sunday for the funeral of four of the 47 people killed in a recent gang attack so brutal that it shook a country that has long struggled with violence. Mourners wiped away tears, raised their hands and cried out as cofﬁns arrived at a church in the farming community of Kenscoff. “We thank everyone who came in solidarity with the families that died and those who lost their loved ones,” Pastor Jean Robert Dorlus said. “God will open a space to receive them.” Inside the church, people swayed to gospel music. Some wailed as their shoulders shook. The church was so packed that dozens had to stand outside, peering through the windows, as they honored those being laid to rest: a mother, father and their son, and a 70-year-old man whose body had been set on ﬁre by the gang members. “I’ve known them for a long time,” said Yvon Marleus, a Kenscoff resident who lost a cousin in the attack. “These are people who are respected in the community.” Gangs abducted more than 50 people during the attack, although they recently released six children and seven women following an intervention by community leaders and UNICEF.

1 killed, 5 injured in shooting at Swiss rave

GENEVA — A shooting at a rave in the northern Swiss canton of Aargau left one person dead and five injured early Sunday, local police and media reported. Police said they are still looking for potentially more than one suspect. Aargau cantonal police wrote earlier on X that a 22-year-old woman died of injuries at the scene. Four men and one woman, between 24 and 27 years old, were taken to the hospital with injuries ranging from minor to severe. All of the victims are residents of Switzerland, police said. They did not release their names in line with Swiss privacy rules. However, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Sunday evening identified the woman who was killed and two other victims as Italian citizens. “I express my deepest condolences for the death of Maria Spinelli, the young Italian woman who was a victim of the tragic shooting in Aarau, Switzerland,” she wrote on X, identifying the dead woman by name. “My thoughts also go to the other injured individuals, among whom there are two Italian citizens, and to all the people involved in this dramatic event,” she said, adding that she trusts “the work of the Swiss authorities to shed full light on what happened and identify those responsible.”

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U.S. strikes Iranian rocket launchers Attacks mark first military action in weeks

BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN, CARA ANNA and BEN FINLEY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in their first military action in a month on Sunday, breaking a lull in fighting during an intermittent war that has lasted more than six months. Iran swiftly vowed to retaliate for what it called a deadly attack. Forces with the Revolutionary Guard Corps were observed preparing to launch rockets with sea mines into the strait, according to Tim Hawkins, a spokesperson for the U.S. Central Command. The U.S. military last week completed clearing sea mines from the strait’s international shipping routes. Semiofficial news outlets in Iran reported sounds of explosions near Larak island on the strait. The Guard in a statement carried by Iran’s state broadcaster noted “the martyrdom and injury of several of our fighters and compatriots.” Later, Iranian state television showed what it said were ballistic missiles being fired by Iran at U.S. bases in Jordan in response

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Crowds fill a street Sunday during celebrations marking Prophet Muhammad’s birthday in Tehran, Iran. to the American strikes. There were no immediate reports of damage. A return to open conﬂict would be dangerous for the region, where Iran has targeted U.S. military bases and infrastructure in Gulf countries since the war began on Feb. 28. The last time the U.S. military confirmed targeting Iran was on July 29, when it announced a “heavy wave of strikes” on dozens of Revolutionary Guard targets including coastal surveillance and defense sites. On Aug. 1, President Donald Trump said he would order the military to hold off on new strikes at the urging of Gulf allies Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The attack comes just

days after the Trump administration said it would turn its focus to increasing economic pressure — rather than military action — to try to end its war with Iran. The shifting strategy centers on threats to punish any country or entity that continues to conduct business with Tehran. Sunday’s attack was a “fatal mistake by the Trump regime during the economic war” and the enemy will pay the consequences militarily and economically, a Guard spokesperson, Gen. Hossein Mohebi, said in a statement carried by Iranian media. The U.S. turn to using sanctions came as the administration weighs diminished munitions stockpiles after months of war,

sparking concerns that the prolonged conﬂict could undermine U.S. military readiness in other parts of the globe. As the conflict grinds on, Trump’s talk of finding a quick end to the war also appears to be fading. He stressed last week that he’s “not in a hurry” to get Iran back to the negotiating table, and he continues making the case that the Islamic Republic’s leadership is on the ropes. Appointments to Iran’s senior security leadership in the past month, however, have signaled Tehran’s deﬁance after weathering decades of sanctions as well as a lack of tolerance for dissent at home. Trump has consistently emphasized that the U.S.

and Israel campaign has been devastating for Iran’s navy and air force. Iranian officials have said the country has suffered $270 billion in direct and indirect damage. Israeli military strikes in the first weeks of the war wiped out much of the theocratic government’s leadership structure. But Iran has found leverage through its strikes against vessels on the Strait of Hormuz, where relatively few ships carrying oil and liquefied natural gas are risking passage. Iran still has enough drones and missiles to fire at vessels transiting the waterway through which 20% of the world’s oil normally flows. Crude oil prices rose Sunday in response to the U.S. attack. The price for a barrel of U.S. oil went up 1.8% to $84.94, while the price for a barrel of Brent crude, the international standard, rose 1.9% to $89.79. Tehran continues to assert that even after it works out a management plan for the strait with Oman, its neighbor on the other side of the waterway, the U.S. can’t use it until it fulfills its obligations under the memorandum of understanding the countries signed in midJune. Trump has repeatedly declared that the “Strait of Hormuz is open,” saying 24 vessels passed through last week. But that’s a fraction of the roughly 130 vessels that transited daily before the war began.

Iceland votes down proposal to restart EU bid BY KWIYEON HA and BRIAN MELLEY Associated Press

REYKJAVIK, Iceland — Iceland’s voters rejected restarting negotiations to join the European Union in a referendum that pitted concerns about geopolitical stability against keeping national control of Iceland’s prized fisheries, officials said Sunday. Opponents defeated the measure by a margin of 52.8% to 47.2%, the National Electoral Commission said. The result puts the divisive issue to rest for now — more than a decade after a euroskeptic government ended EU talks that had begun after the 2008 financial crisis. The vote Saturday was held in the shadow of repeated threats by U.S. President Donald Trump to take control of nearby Greenland. Although Iceland is a NATO member, supporters said European solidarity would provide greater protection if Trump ever made similar threats toward the volca-

to change in the next 24 months for this to be at the top of the agenda.” Guðrún Hafsteinsdóttir, leader of the opposition Independence Party who opposed the measure, said the result is a blow to the government but not European relations. “The best way to heal the wounds is for the government to listen to the conclusion and put this path aside,” she told RUV, the national ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By MARCO DI MARCO broadcaster. “Because we Leaders of the campaign against a proposal for Iceland want to remain in close with the European to restart negotiations to join the European Union react contact Union, Europe and as many to results on Saturday during an election night gathering other countries as possible,

in Reykjavik.

nic island. Iceland’s left-leaning coalition government, elected in 2024, moved up the EU referendum it had planned for next year after Trump mistakenly named Iceland four times while speaking about his designs on Greenland. Prime Minister Kristrún Frostadóttir said she did not see the loss as a setback for her coalition government but

as a win for democracy as more than 82% of the eligible 270,000 voters cast ballots. She said she would respect the result but would not rule out a future attempt to reopen the issue. “Things happened in the past couple of years, though, that I could not have predicted,” she said. “But this government will not go forward with it. And something big has

Dozens of people evacuated from Grand Canyon after flash flood BY JAMIE STENGLE and FELICIA FONSECA

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FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — A major flash flood at the Grand Canyon forced the evacuation of dozens of people and swept large boulders, metal structures and other debris into the Colorado River that runs through it, the National Park Service said. The flooding in Bright Angel Creek, which ﬂows into the river, happened Saturday afternoon and has left the park service seeking information about 15 people who may be missing or unaccounted for. Torrents of water wiped out footbridges over the creek and signiﬁcantly altered the landscape, widening the creek bed and creating what appeared to

be a new river rapid. As the park service tries to account for everyone in the area, it is asking asked anyone with details about people hiking or camping there to get in touch. It said it was working with the Arizona Department of Public Safety to continue evacuations Sunday. “This is a reminder of what a dynamic and active landscape Grand Canyon is,” said Jack Schmidt, director of the Center for Colorado River Studies at Utah State University. Popular tourist spots including the Bright Angel Campground, Phantom Ranch and parts of the North Kaibab trail remained closed on Sunday while park officials surveyed the damage, the park said. Rafting trips on the Colorado River also have been halted for now.

More than 60 people were evacuated from Phantom Ranch, which has a historic canteen and dorms, and is a common spot for rafters to get off and on the river. No injuries have been reported. Erica Viola said she was at Bright Angel Campground when the rain started Saturday afternoon, and she and about 50 other hikers watched the creek rise and then debris start to ﬂow by, including what looked like a bunkhouse. The group was taken by helicopter to safety, ending her adventure two days early, she said. About half an inch to 1 inch of rain fell within about 30 minutes in the rocky area where there’s a steep drop in elevation, said National Weather Service meteorologist Justin Johndrow in Flagstaff.

the nation is sending a clear message that we intend to steer that course ourselves.” Voters faced a simple yes-or-no question: Should Iceland resume accession negotiations with the European Union? The capital of Reykjavik was the only area in the island nation of 400,000 people where a majority supported the referendum. The inﬂuential ﬁshing industry led opposition to the referendum over fears the bloc’s common fisheries policy would open its waters to Spanish, Dutch and other trawlers.

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BY VICTORIA MILKO and NIRANJAN SHRESTHA Associated Press

DHADING, Nepal — Authorities in Nepal warned of possible fresh flooding on Sunday and urged residents in ﬂoodaffected districts to remain on high alert after water levels rose in the Bhotekoshi River. Flood warning notices were sent to people’s phones early Sunday as rescue crews worked to clear a major highway connecting Kathmandu to one of the areas worst hit by Wednesday’s catastrophic floods, which killed at least 800 people and left more than 3,000 missing in Nepal and Tibet. The latest warnings came after Chinese authorities informed their Nepalese counterparts of increased water ﬂow upstream, according to Dharam Raj Uprety, chief

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A resident looks at the swollen Trishuli River on Sunday in Galchhi, Dhading District, Nepal. executive of Nepal’s National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua, citing the country’s water resources ministry, said a new lake formed after Wednesday’s ﬂoods high in the mountains

had largely drained. But Xinhua said the ministry warned that a crater located 3.5 miles upstream, which held an estimated 1.4 million cubic meters of water, still posed some risk and required close monitoring. Nepal’s disaster agency

said Sunday the death toll had climbed to 788 with 2,502 missing, while Chinese authorities reported 16 deaths and 546 missing on the Chinese side of the border. The missing include hundreds of people from over

a dozen countries who were in the region to work, visit the mountains or make a pilgrimage to a sacred peak. On Sunday, Chinese state media said 261 foreigners were missing in Tibet, including over a hundred Nepalis and others from around the world. In Dhading, one of the worst-hit regions in Nepal, some residents began returning to ruined homes to see what can be salvaged. Residents sat in homes with walls washed away by the ﬂoods, shoveling sludgelike mud and rubble off balconies or window frames. Others scanned the ground for items they could pick out of the mud and rinse off. One man had returned for his chickens, which he found alive. He tied them up and put them in the cabin of his truck. “Everything is finished. Nothing is left. Not even our home,” Sharmila Tamang, a Dhading resident who was trying to salvage items from her home, told The Associated Press.

At a key power plant that was severely damaged by the floods, workers started inspecting the facilities Sunday to survey the destruction. The plant serves over 20,000 people across four districts. In the town of Galchhi, a group of residents sought higher ground on a nearby bridge and watched as the river roared by. Some pointed to enormous rocks washed downriver during the earlier floods, while others standing on a suspension bridge were warned off with whistles. Along the river, homes, vehicles and farm tractors could be seen jutting from the thick gray-brown sediment that enveloped entire villages in some areas. Parts of rice terraces along the riverside had dropped into the river after landslides hit them. Homes and businesses left intact after the flooding were still without electricity on Sunday, as twisted power line poles and wires lay tangled in the mud.

U.S. coaches Polish forces in drone-focused military drill BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press

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BY MARCIA DUNN AP aerospace writer

A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket with the space observatory Roman Telescope lifts off Sunday from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA’s newest crown jewel blasted off Sunday to hunt for planets around other stars, explore secret dark energy and survey the cosmos like never before. SpaceX launched the $4.3 billion Roman Space Telescope shortly after daybreak aboard a triple-the-ﬁrepower Falcon Heavy rocket. Roman blazed toward an observation point 1 million miles away that’s home to the Webb Space Telescope, one of NASA’s other big-ticket eyes in the sky. The bus-sized telescope — named after the late Nancy Grace Roman, NASA’s ﬁrst chief astronomer — will take more than three months to reach its destination. Once

there, it will cast the widest gaze yet on the hidden parts of the universe from space, uncovering the unimaginable with unsurpassed speed. “It’s going to find thousands of supernovae, tens of thousands of planets, billions of galaxies and tens of billions of stars,” said NASA science mission director Nicky Fox. “It’s going to be able to do things that we’ve never been able to do before with its massive field of view.” Several minutes after the thunderous launch from Kennedy Space Center, the rocket’s two reusable side boosters descended tail-first in a thrilling scene, producing sharp sonic booms as they landed back at Cape Canaveral. Soon afterward, the

telescope separated successfully from the rocket’s upper stage, drawing applause from ground controllers. Fox was in tears watching the action unfold. “It’s such a good day!” she said. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman was in the middle of a news conference a couple hours later, predicting that the Roman Space Telescope would soon become a household name, when his cellphone rang. President Donald Trump was on the line, offering congratulations. “Boy, it looked beautiful on television,” said Trump, fresh off his visit to Houston’s Johnson Space Center on Friday to honor the Artemis II moon crew. “You’re the hottest in space.”

HOHENFELS, Germany — On a moonless and rainy night, a group of soldiers emerged from a ramshackle building meant to resemble a church. The alpine terrain loomed over them as they quietly set off for the tree line of the German countryside a short distance away. The soldiers are members of the Polish special forces and are taking part in an exercise designed only months ago that simulates moving through enemy lines, traversing miles of enemy territory and launching a drone strike on a key enemy location. Initially designed by the Army’s Green Berets for U.S. Special Forces, the exercise that began Friday is informed by and simulates many of the challenges that Ukrainian troops have experienced in their conﬂict with Russia. It is the ﬁrst time a NATO ally like Poland has undertaken the training, and it comes at a time when tensions between Russian President

Vladimir Putin and NATO countries have escalated. “We’re using lessons learned from Ukraine,” an Army Green Beret ofﬁcer assigned to the training complex said Thursday. “All of those effects that we’re seeing either Russia or Ukraine having to overcome — we’re doing our best to replicate.” The Associated Press received rare access to both the training ground and the troops conducting the exercise, which has only been conducted twice before, both times this year, by two different Green Beret teams. The drill highlights the focus that some parts of the U.S. military have on learning the latest techniques in drone warfare, pioneered by Ukraine during its 4½year effort to repel Russian forces. It also shows how the U.S., its NATO allies and Ukraine are working together to counter the threat of possible further Russian action in coming years even as the Trump administration has warned of troop drawdowns in Europe.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe went to Moscow this week to warn Russia not to attack NATO countries, The Wall Street Journal reported. Russia has the appetite to conduct sabotage and cyberattacks against NATO countries, but Putin wants to avoid a direct confrontation, according to three Western ofﬁcials, who spoke Friday on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive military matters. During the exercise in Germany, a senior enlisted soldier familiar with the training scenario at Joint Multinational Readiness Center Hohenfels — about an hour’s drive southeast from Nuremberg — said the plan is to run it several times a year. The officer said he expects most, if not all, of the 32 NATO nations to express interest in sending their troops to try the exercise. Both spoke on condition of anonymity in line with the U.S. military’s longstanding policy of not publicly identifying individual members of special forces units.

U.S. plans to sanction another bank to up pressure on Iran, Bessent says BY FATIMA HUSSEIN

Associated Press

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — President Donald Trump’s administration plans to impose sanctions on another bank this week as it intensiﬁed efforts to economically isolate Iran, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told The Associated Press on Sunday.

“This is going to be financial violence if we have to,” Bessent said in the interview. “We Bessent are showing people that we know who you are, you know who you are, and this has got to stop.”

Bessent spoke with the AP ahead of Group of 20 meetings in Asheville, North Carolina, where he will meet individually with his counterparts from the world’s major and developing economies to encourage cooperation against Iran. The Trump administration recently signaled that it would shift from military

strikes to economic pressure during a war that recently reached the six-month mark, promising what it called an “economic D-Day” against a country that has already weathered decades of punishing sanctions. However, hostilities between the U.S. and Iran ﬂared on Sunday. U.S. forces struck Iranian rocket

launchers on the Strait of Hormuz in their first military action in a month, breaking a lull in fighting. Iran vowed to retaliate for what it called a deadly attack. In addition, the administration has mostly relied on warnings rather than new sanctions against Iran’s trading partners. There’s

also the question of how Trump will handle China, which is Iran’s biggest trading partner and leading buyer of its oil. Bessent told the AP he would speak to his Chinese counterparts at the G20 meeting and “all options are on the table” in terms of sanctioning Beijing for its continued purchases.

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White House exodus poses new challenge for Trump

Trump also tapped his Cabinet weeks. Braid’s announce- ens to create a vacuum in Trump’s person familiar with the matter. Vacancies in inner coming ment came a week after Leavitt — inner circle and finding replace- In the meantime, the White House secretary, Will Scharf, to replace is weighing a plan to again rotate Warrington as White House counanother one of Trump’s most trust- ments won’t be easy. circle prompt concern ed “If your vetting process the first Cabinet officials through the brief- sel, partly in preparation for the advisers and fiercest defenders

President Donald Trump is entering a critical stretch of his second term with a slew of resignations among his senior staff, forcing him to rely on an even smaller circle of aides. Over the last month, Trump lost his chief spokesperson, his top legal adviser, a key national security adviser and his liaison to Capitol Hill. More senior ofﬁcials are said to be weighing a potential exit over the next few months, according to people familiar with the matter. While staff departures are typical before midterm elections, the departures Leavitt of key aides such as White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt this month took some in the White House by surprise, according to a person familiar with the matter. James Braid, White House director of legislative affairs and a longtime Trump aide, announced earlier this month his plans to quit in the

go-round mandates that you have to claim that the 2020 election was stolen, then the pool of candidates was probably already small and getting smaller now,” said Marc Short, who served in the first Trump administration. The administration expressed little outward concern over the outflow of aides. “This movement is bigger than any one staff member, and the president’s mission to make America greater than ever before will continue unabated,” said White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers. Still, the loss of some of Trump’s closest advisers has left the White House without a clear succession plan in key offices. Braid, whose job was to press congressional Republicans on the president’s legislative agenda, has lost much of his staff over the last six months, according to a person familiar with the matter. Though Leavitt plans to remain in Trump’s orbit, her absence in the communications office deprives the president of one of his most effective messengers to sell his domestic and foreign policies to skeptical voters. Trump, however, is in no rush to replace Leavitt, according to a

ing room as they did while she was on maternity leave earlier this year, the person said. “This also is, without question, the hardest time to hire into an administration,” said Lisa Camooso Miller, a former Republican National Committee communications director. “The real question is, who’s going to ﬁll these roles? Will they be the right people, and will they be people that the president listens to? It’s not so much about the vacancies, but who’s willing to go into the second two years of an administration that largely will face headwinds with a change in Congress.”

Post-midterm strategy The administration has announced some key moves to boost its political operation and strategy ahead of the midterms. In April, Trump announced deputy chief of staff James Blair would temporarily leave the White House to lead the president’s political operation. Earlier this summer, the White House brought back veteran advisers Jason Miller and Johnny DeStefano to focus on midterm messaging, Bloomberg previously reported.

onslaught of congressional investigations should Democrats take control of the House, according to a White House official. Scharf was part of Trump’s legal team during his four years out of office and was one of the president’s lawyers in the election obstruction case. Several other aides have left in recent months. Trump’s pardons attorney and staunch ally Ed Martin has announced his departure from the Justice Department. Abigail Jackson, a deputy White House spokeswoman, stepped down last month to take a job in the private sector. Emily Underwood, who worked under White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller, left earlier this month to join a venture capital firm, according to a person familiar with her decision. Caleb Orr, a top adviser to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, is expected to replace her. The remaining team will have their work cut out for them. In addition to resolving conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, some within the party are pushing the White House for fresh economic plans, including further tax cuts to expand the president’s signature tax and spending law.

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tripadvisor.com as the best place to eat in Rayville. (Subway is No. 6, Waffle House is No. 7.) Adcock was elected to the Police Jury in November 2023. Months later, he was invited to a meeting in Monroe, a half hour away, with 15-20 people in attendance. He was not allowed to bring his cellphone into the meeting. Some business officials told the group that they represented a big corporation that wanted to move into the area, on farmland in an unincorporated area known as Holly Ridge. Adcock’s district encompasses that area. “They said they would have 300-500 full-time employees,” Adcock remembered. “It sounded great, especially in a parish where people go off to college and don’t return. They asked how hard it would be to get parish government behind them. I said it wouldn’t be hard.” Adcock asked: “‘Who are you?’ They said, ‘We can’t tell you.’” The business officials asked Adcock to sign a nondisclosure agreement. He did. Reddick, the Police Jury president, missed that meeting. But he soon began to hear rumors that a company wanted to invest big money in Richland Parish. “A woman who cuts my hair told me that she heard that Meta was coming here,” Reddick said. “I knew what it was.”

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Steve Adcock, 70, is a retired registered nurse who provided home hospice care at the end of his career. He lives on a farm. “I’m a Christian. I try to do service for the Lord,” he said as he dug into an order of fried catﬁsh at Big John’s Steak and Seafood, listed by

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The parish has been steadily losing population since it peaked with 26,000 residents in 1940. The 2025 estimate: 19,500. Local officials believe that the influx of investment and workers now swells the parish’s population by about 8,000, or nearly 50%, each workday. Locals now complain about traffic jams on Interstate 20 and U.S. 80, which runs parallel a mile north. Sheriff’s deputies now try to keep traffic moving along the two-lane highways that ring the data center, known as Hyperion. The residents and police jurors in Vermilion Parish — where SpaceX just announced plans to spend $100 billion to build a massive spaceport — are about to face many of the same issues. For as long as anyone can remember, Richland Parish has had only enough money to take care of basic needs. Now the police jurors have more than $20 million in the bank after sales tax collections nearly doubled in 2025. The sales tax jump provided more money than the parish had received over the previous 20 years combined, according to NELA Growth, which promotes investment in northeast Louisiana. “We’re having to learn how to spend it, so that we spend it in the right places to improve the parish,” said Jesse Lively, a police juror. “For the first time ever, we hired an in-house engineer. He takes a lot of guessing out of what we normally do.” The police jurors have also had to learn to address issues involving variance requests, permit fees and step-backs from property lines. They have been grappling with such questions as whether Hyperion will leave the parish short of water (the police jurors say it won’t), will raise electricity bills (they say they don’t believe it will) and whether the new power plants will make too much noise. On that count, the police jurors want to require Entergy Louisiana to construct power plants that emit 50-60 decibels outside. Entergy favors an 85-decibel limit. “They have to do what we tell them,” Reddick said, while acknowledging that the Police Jury faces enormous pressure from Meta, Entergy Louisiana and Landry to not impede construction of the data center.

one of the two-lane highways around Hyperion now posed a safety problem and asked: Does the parish maintain the ditches? If so, could Colvin ask to have a worker take care of the problem? Colvin texted back that he would ask a parish employee to address it. The police jurors are negotiating a ticklish but bigdollar issue with Meta. The parish typically requires payment of 1% of the construction cost to obtain a permit to get started on any project. But Meta officials balked at paying 1% of the initial $10 billion construction cost as a permit fee. So instead of paying $100 million, Meta provided $10 million. The two sides are back at the negotiating table now after Meta announced plans to double the size of Hyperion. Reddick said he believes that the two sides will settle on Meta paying a tenth of 1% for the next phase, which will generate at least another $10 million. “We’re committed to Richland Parish and to being a partner this community can count on for the long haul,” a Meta spokesperson said. “That commitment is already having a huge impact: more than $1 billion in local roads, water, and infrastructure, over $1.6 billion in work for Louisiana businesses, and resulting in historic teacher bonuses of up to $50,000 this year. We’re proud to call Richland Parish home.” Police jurors are also trying to better prepare themselves for what’s to come by hiring a consulting firm to produce a report by the end of the year that could lead to Richland Parish having its ﬁrst zoning laws. “We’re coming into the modern world,” Reddick said.

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Wynn was shot 18 times, and Jones was shot 15 times. Nelson, then 24, was convicted of both murders the following year and received two life sentences. Criminal District Judge Robin Pittman ruled in February that Nelson failed to show that the wiretaps and other undisclosed information “probably would have resulted in different verdicts.” The appeals court disagreed. Brown’s opinion says the court was swayed by “contemporaneous police notes, supplemental police reports, a previously undisclosed ballistics report, post

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Continued from page 1A with the bright red Cane’s logo, spanned the room with video cameras. The first restaurant was a labor of love. Though Graves’ famed story of a bad grade for a chicken finger restaurant business plan is common business school lore, the toil goes beyond the written plan. Graves replaced the paneling of the dated building, once an Italian restaurant and before that, a bakery. He took a crowbar to the wall to expose the brick that was underneath. It was worth it, he said. The rent for the building was cheap as long as he fixed it up. Much of his equipment came from Office Depot. Baton Rouge is woven throughout Graves’ life: He met his wife at the popular Perkins Road overpass bar Ivar’s and describes himself as an LSU fanatic. He still makes trips to Superior Grill. Graves’ success — and fame — came face to face with the restaurant’s humble beginnings on Tuesday. Who would he want to play him in a film? His good friend Leonardo DiCaprio, he said. Cane III, the latest dog that inspired the name of the company, was on the floor next to Graves. She graced Vogue magazine’s Dogue series this summer, the latest in the brand’s intersection with the fashion industry, after hosting an event during New York Fashion Week. In December, Graves told The Advocate a dream collaboration of his would be with Louis Vuitton.

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Continued from page 1A “Employees are placed on ‘no contact’ status during investigations, and violations of policies regarding Staff/ Youth Relationships can lead to disciplinary action, including termination,” the statement says. Since May 2025, OJJ’s investigative unit has arrested 18 employees on criminal charges, according to the agency. The office runs the Bunkie facility, which houses males, along with several other high-security detention facilities across the state. Young offenders may stay in OJJ custody until they turn 21. The exact nature of the allegations against the women who worked in Bunkie remains unclear. All are facing malfeasance in office charges in Avoyelles Parish tied to alleged inappropriate behavior toward youth in their custody, according to Charles Riddle, the district attorney there. He did not share details about the cases. Most of the women have pleaded not guilty to the charges, said Chad Guillot, whose law firm is representing three of the defendants. Guillot, who declined to provide further comment, is also the chief public defender for Avoyelles Parish. In a legal filing, one of the women — who is separately being sued by a detainee who claims she sexually assaulted him when he was 18 — said she believed the youth who filed that lawsuit

erate with the government and received a five-year sentence. In tossing Nelson’s convictions, the appeals court found that “the interjection of Davis and Williams into the investigative process raises the specter of corruption in that process.” Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams’ office opposed Nelson’s petition. In a statement, a spokesperson for the ofﬁce said prosecutors “intend to consult with the next of kin of both victims, as well as defense counsel, next week” to decide on a possible appeal. The statement highlighted the discovery of the FBI wiretaps but left open a decision. “The contents of those

recordings are deeply troubling and raise serious concerns. It is clear that there should have been greater coordination and transparency between federal and local law enforcement regarding this information during the 1990s prosecution,” it read. “At the same time, Mr. Nelson was convicted of two separate homicides, and the recently discovered wiretap evidence relates to only one of those charges. That distinction is significant and must be carefully considered as we evaluate the appropriate path forward.” Nelson was tried and convicted of both murders at once. His attorneys declined to comment. Staff writer Matt Bruce contributed to this story.

STAFF FILE PHOTO By JOHN H. WILLIAMS By the end of the decade, Todd Graves opened the first Raising Cane’s restaurant in 1996. Graves aims for Cane’s to become one of the top 10 resA cake Kuwait City; they now have taurant chains in the United States. He plans to open 100 designed by more than 50 locations in the region. restaurants each year and renowned Though the chain’s footgradually increase the anchef Duff nual rate over time. print is worldwide, Graves Goldman Recently, Cane’s has has been adamant about is seen at hopped across the pond and keeping close to his roots. south of the border. The the Raising He has maintained that the company aims to open its Cane’s 30th company’s headquarters ﬁrst London location in Picwill remain in Baton Rouge, anniversary with more than 100 satelcadilly Circus in March and celebration. lite operations around the spread throughout Europe from there. The restaurant country, though various will open in Monterrey, STAFF PHOTO headwinds have consistentMexico, soon with drive-thly pushed businesses and By IANNE residents out of the Pelican ru restaurants and plans to SALVOSA State. later expand in the country. He said the people of BaGraves will own the London restaurants but franton Rouge and the support they have given him keep chise the Mexico stores, him in the city. staying consistent with the “This is where Cane and I company’s past internareside,” he said. tional expansion practices of partnering with local op30 years of One Love erating groups in certain countries where it may be market. Cane’s partnered restaurants in Middle EastOn one of the tables in the more difficult to enter the with Alshaya Group to open ern cities like Dubai and original Cane’s restaurant

on Tuesday stood a roughly 7-pound cake by renowned chef Duff Goldman. Edible recreations of prominent items in Cane’s history stacked on top of each other, starting from the bottom with Graves’ briefcase, a sockeye salmon and hard hat representing the fishing and oil jobs that he took on to raise money for the restaurant, a Cane’s combo, the number “30” in the exposed brick common in the stores and topped with a replica of the Mothership. Graves, surrounded by the crowd of influencers, reporters and staffers, gawked at the cake. “This is my baby,” he said of the Mothership replica. He led a tour of his old apartment adjacent to the restaurant, which he has turned into a limited popup museum chronicling the Cane’s story. Rows of plush puppies resembling Cane in different outfits, which the company sells and donates profits to animal welfare, sat side by side in a display case. The original business plan for the restaurant — which he was going to name Folly’s Fingers — sits in a propped-open briefcase. The pop-up museum will be open for the next month. Above the museum is Graves’ former unit, which he decorated to replicate exactly how it was when he lived in it, complete with 1990s-era TVs and computers, an LSU basketball poster hanging above the bed and a copy of the first article written about the company titled “Trio’s Raising Cane a hit in LSU area,” published in The Advocate, pinned to a bulletin board.

conviction statements by witnesses and transcripts from FBI wiretaps.” Among its ﬁndings, the decision said one of the state’s star witnesses to both murders initially told police she was asleep for one of them, information that wasn’t revealed earlier. The same witness was found to be dating the lead New Orleans police detective on the case during the trial, according to the opinion. A different witness later said the detective pressured her to identify Nelson. According to the panel, the wiretapped conversations revealed that Davis and Williams discussed Jones’ killing, as well as a shooting two days later in which Nelson was the vic-

tim. Williams indicated in one call that Nelson’s co-defendant, Lawrence Peters, killed Jones. “Davis confirms, ‘Lawrence did the dude by himself?’ ” the opinion says. “Williams replies, ‘Yeah.’” “Much of the remainder of the conversation indicates that both Davis and Williams had a particular animus towards Nelson,” it added while suggesting Nelson was framed. Peters, his co-defendant, is serving life. As an ofﬁcer, Davis earned the nicknames “The Desire Terrorist” and “RoboCop” for his aggressive tactics. He was convicted of ordering the Oct. 13, 1994, execution of Kim Groves, a 9th Ward mother who had re-

ported Davis and Williams for police brutality. The two cops were suspected of running a protection racket for drug dealers and became targets along with several other ofﬁcers in an FBI probe dubbed “Operation Shattered Shield.” Groves’ killing would mark a low point for the NOPD before reforms under Superintendent Richard Pennington, who was sworn in the day she was killed. Davis would be sent to death row. Former President Joe Biden commuted his sentence to life in 2024 along with 36 other federal death row prisoners. Davis challenged the commutation, saying he didn’t ask for it, but a federal judge ruled he had no choice. Williams agreed to coop-

In the next 30 years, he hopes the company’s ﬁnances become more liquid. Selling chicken ﬁngers is a capitalintensive business, he said, but he wants to generate enough profit to give “billions” back to the community one day. His net worth is valued at $22 billion, making him the richest person in Louisiana and the 115th richest person in the world. “I’m still as actively involved as Cane’s since I was from day one, and it’s been amazing to see how it’s grown,” he told the crowd. He repeated his famous quote, “God made me good at chicken fingers to help people.”

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fabricated the accusations to comprehensive background checks of employees and reget released. cently began requiring new Details — and a lawsuit hires to undergo psychologiThe first of the OJJ staff- cal evaluations. In a June legal filing, Nash ers arrested was Khy Winbush, 25, who was booked denied all allegations of by the Avoyelles Parish sexual misconduct involvSheriff’s Office on May 9, ing detainees. She also said 2025, according to court re- the youth who was suing her cords. Winbush could not be was not the same person tied to the criminal allegations reached for comment. Two weeks later, the agen- against her. Nash did confirm there was cy arrested Keyana Nash, 32, the records show — and an area of the dorm known as in August, it booked Regina “the cut,” where she said deHolmes, 30. They are both tainees would fight. being represented by Guillot The Louisiana Department and have entered not guilty of Justice, which is reprepleas, Guillot said. senting the OJJ, disputed the The most recent arrests oc- allegations in court records curred in March and July of and also argued it would not this year. The women arrest- be liable even if misconduct ed, respectively, were Kai- did occur. The lawsuit, which was ley Francis, 27, who did not comment when reached by a originally filed in the 19th reporter, and Bianca Jones, Judicial District, has been moved to the Middle District who could not be reached. Jones was 32 when she was of Louisiana, a federal court. arrested, the court records Allegations stir concerns show. In May, a male who had When told about the arrests been held at the Acadiana at the Acadiana Center for Center for Youth sued the Youth, some members of the OJJ and Nash, the first staff state Senate’s Select Commitmember arrested. tee on Women and Children The lawsuit accused Nash expressed worry about what of using beatings and disci- was going on there. “I’m very concerned about plinary write-ups to force an 18-year-old into sexual acts. It this matter,” said state Sen. says the assaults took place in Regina Barrow, D-Baton a part of the dorm known as Rouge. “It appears our chil“the cut.” dren are experiencing an The suit further alleges the all-out attack by those who youth called the Prison Rape should be protecting them.” Elimination Act hotline to reState Sen. Beth Mizell, Rport the abuse but received Franklinton, said lawmakers no response — and that the would put the issue on the signs for the hotline were re- agenda for next month’s committee hearing. That likely moved after his attempts. The OJJ said it could not means OJJ staff will appear comment on specific ongoing before lawmakers to answer litigation but that it adheres questions. Meanwhile, two advocacy to PREA standards, conducts

groups said the allegations raise questions about how the OJJ handles youth in its custody. “The allegations coming out of the Acadiana Center for Youth are deeply disturbing,” the Louisiana Center for Children’s Rights, a New Orleans-based organization that represents children accused of crimes, said in a statement. “OJJ is the sole entity responsible for both incarcerating young people and overseeing the conditions where they are

held, creating an inherent conﬂict of interest.” Gina Womack, executive director of Families and Friends of Louisiana Incarcerated Children, said having repeated misconduct allegations in the same system forces parents to ask “how many warning signs have been ignored and how many young people have been harmed before action is taken.” The concerns come while state lawmakers are already

frustrated with another state agency that deals with youth, the Department of Children and Family Services. That agency has faced intense scrutiny over its handling of child deaths tied to abuse and neglect; last month, senators voiced skepticism after the agency said it had resolved problems with Child Protective Services case backlogs. Email Meghan Friedmann at meghan.friedmann@ theadvocate.com.

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to build and implement a new system, train staff, train sheriffs, and train court and clerk staff across our state,” Murrill said in a statement Friday. “These lawsuits are nothing more than an attempt at a money grab. The activists behind these suits do not want progress and actively obstruct it. That’s a shame because LDOC continually works at improving its systems.” The Promise of Justice Initiative, a criminal justice advocacy group

Lisa Andres and Jaren Brignac, say Louisiana violated their constitutional rights by overdetaining them. Andres claims she was kept 101 days too long, and Brignac alleges the state kept him in custody for nine days after he was supposed to get out of prison. Attorney General Liz Murrill, who represents the state in civil matters, has called allegations of systemic overdetention overblown, outdated or out of context. “My ofﬁce has worked with the LDOC tirelessly for several years

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Charter school purchases West Bank campus ISL has been leasing building from archdiocese since 2010 BY MARIE FAZIO Staff writer

International School of Louisiana, a charter school that offers French and Spanish language immersion programs at three locations across the city, purchased its West Bank campus for $1.9 million from the Archdiocese of New Orleans in July, a school official confirmed this week. ISL has leased the building, which was the site of the Holy Name of Mary school, from the archdiocese since 2010, after the parish’s school closed because of financial issues. The adjacent Holy Name of Mary parish remains in operation. The transaction follows the school’s 2024 purchase of a St. Roch school, but it remains a relatively rare move for charter schools across the city to own their facilities. “For ISL, these facility investments are about long-term stability,” said Melanie Tennyson, the charter network’s CEO. “Owning our campuses allows us to invest in the buildings our students use, plan for the future and establish permanent homes for our school communities.” ISL, a B-rated school, serves about 1,000 students across three campuses. In addition to the Algiers Point school, which offers Spanish immersion for students in kindergarten through fifth grade, ISL offers French and Spanish immersion for students in kindergarten through third grade on Arts Street in St. Roch. It also offers French and Spanish immersion for students in fourth through eighth grades on Camp Street in the Lower Garden District. ISL’s West Bank campus is “fully enrolled and thriving,” Tennyson said. Tennyson said Holy Name of Mary leadership offered the building to ISL in the spring. ISL’s board of directors approved the purchase at its May meeting and the sale closed in late July. She noted that as a Type 2 charter school authorized by the state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, ISL is not guaranteed a facility by the Orleans Parish School Board. Schools with Type 2 designation may enroll students from parishes across the state. ISL bought the St. Roch building because it was in better shape than the Orleans Parish School Board-owned building it had been operating out of and because it had enough space to fit the students from the Dixon campus and to fit other administrative staff who had been in a separate leased space. Little will change with the school’s operations now that the purchase has been finalized, Tennyson said. ISL already maintained and repaired the

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STAFF PHOTOS By ENAN CHEDIAK

HALFWAy THERE ABOVE: The annual Krewe

of OAK Mid-Summer Mardi Gras parade rolls down Carrollton Avenue in New Orleans on Saturday. LEFT: King Johnny Vidacovich, left, and Queen Alison Young, center, make announcements from the balcony of Maple Leaf Bar before the parade. ä See more on 2B.

Trial set between N.O., its firefighters after suit union president Aaron Mischler — positions that require training Nine-hour said in a Friday statement. “We and state certifications firefightbe preparing for a trial Sept. ers do not hold. settlement effort fails will 14.” The city has maintained that The New Orleans Fire Depart- assigning firefighters to higherto produce deal ment did not respond to a re- responsibility roles during staff-

BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

A dispute between the city and its firefighters over “out of class” assignments will go to trial next month after a marathon negotiation session in Civil District Court on Thursday failed to produce a settlement, union officials said. “A full day — 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. yesterday — spent in negotiation at (Judge Nicole Sheppard’s) request produced no agreement,”

quest for comment. New Orleans Fire Fighters Association Local 632 sued the city and fire agency on Aug. 6, alleging that NOFD Superintendent Roman Nelson assigned firefighters to higher-responsibility roles for which they weren’t qualified, denied them the additional pay those roles carry and threatened discipline if they refused. Such “out of class” assignments include having a firefighter cover a fire apparatus operator’s or fire captain’s shift

ing shortages is a longstanding practice and that the dispute ultimately comes down to compensation. Amid the city’s ongoing budget crisis and resulting NOFD staffing shortages, firefighters working “out of class” have been required to take on those duties without the corresponding higher pay. But union members allege Nelson violated Civil Service rules by requiring firefighters to

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A dispute between the city and its firefighters will go to trial next month after a negotiation session in Civil District Court on Thursday failed to produce a settlement, ä See TRIAL, page 2B union officials said.

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OAK-KAy PARADE

ABOVE: Proclamations are made from the balcony of Maple

Leaf Bar before the annual Krewe of OAK parade on Oak Street in New Orleans on Saturday. RIGHT: Marchers light the way as the procession rolls down Carrollton Avenue.

Houston-based attorney charged in roof fraud scheme was a managing partner of homes damaged by Hurricane that Huye and his firm allegedly the roofing company was using Law firm accused atHuye persuaded to set up shop in Loui- Huye’s law firm to handle the inMcClenny Moseley & Associ- Ida, when in fact they didn’t. a Houston-based law firm The larger goal of the alleged siana in 2022 after Hurricane Ida, surance claims. of taking money owed ates, that filed thousands of hurricane conspiracy, which also involved under the false pretense that the Huye’s law firm allegedly prodamage lawsuits in Louisiana af- Huye’s law firm and an unnamed company’s business model would ceeded to contact the insurance to homeowners companies in hundreds of letters, ter Ida and was later accused of co-conspirator, was to obtain at work.

BY WILLIE SWETT

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An attorney who worked with a Texas-based law firm accused of defrauding owners of homes damaged during Hurricane Ida was charged by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Orleans on Friday. Richard William Huye III, 34, was charged through a bill of information with conspiracy to commit wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced on Friday afternoon. The charge carries up to five years in prison.

fraud over some of its practices. In 2023, Huye’s firm faced scrutiny in federal court and was the subject of a State Police probe. That year, Huye was also suspended from practicing law by the Louisiana Supreme Court, and the firm was fined $2 million by the Louisiana insurance commissioner. The 22-page bill of information alleges that, as part of a scheme to get money from insurance companies and homeowners, Huye fraudulently stated to various companies and courts that he and his firm represented owners

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accept the assignments and retaliated against the union after it posted a bulletin reminding members of their right to decline them. The union contends that retaliation violated members’ First Amendment and labor rights. The parties gathered Thursday, when the trial was originally scheduled to begin. Instead, Sheppard ordered them to make one last attempt to settle the dispute in her courtroom, Mischler said. The order came in response to an ﬁling Wednesday by the city arguing that the union had not made “every reasonable effort” to resolve the dispute before suing. Like an Aug. 17 meeting between the firefighters’ union and the city, Thursday’s negotiations ended without an agreement.

based in New Orleans, is handling the case alongside several other firms. The plaintiffs’ attorneys are requesting that a judge certify the case as a classaction lawsuit, meaning more people with overdetention claims could join as plaintiffs. In recent years, state officials have blamed Louisiana’s record of overdetaining inmates on delays in sentencing paperwork submissions by sheriff’s offices and clerks of court offices. They also have argued they adequately addressed those issues by implementing technological advances that reduced bureaucratic delays. But Friday’s lawsuit argues the advances have not fixed the problem — and it says the state has failed to make any policy changes or set deadlines that actually

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least $40 million in attorneys’ fees and other costs from hundreds of homeowners and insurers in the Eastern District of Louisiana, the charging document alleges. The document detailed the effects of the alleged fraud on eight homeowners, who did not receive money to repair their roofs or did not receive as much as they were owed after some of the money was used to cover unapproved attorney’s fees. Sean Toomey, a lawyer for Huye, declined to comment. The alleged scheme started with an Alabama rooﬁng company

require ofﬁcials to release inmates in a timely manner. Between August 2024 and the end of 2025, approximately 1,200 people were held past their release dates, it says. Murrill’s statement also said, “Calculating time is a complex task due to the plainly evident fact that detainees do not come into state custody legally or physically until after they are sentenced.” The Department of Public Safety and Corrections declined to comment on pending litigation.

A long-running dispute Allegations of overdetention in Louisiana are not new: Since at least 2012, problems related to release date calculations have been described in the state’s own reviews and lamented in federal court decisions. The practice has sparked numerous civil lawsuits and even a federal investigation. Both civil rights attorneys

The roofing company operated on a door-knocking business model, with representatives offering free roof inspections to homeowners affected by Hurricane Ida. The roofing company would offer to make repairs, and the homeowners just had to sign off on an “assignment of beneﬁts” form, which allowed the company to speak directly with the insurance company to make claims. But many of the insurance policies in Louisiana did not allow such an assignment of benefits form, prosecutors said, and also, the homeowners didn’t know that

and the DOC previously agreed the problem was largely related to inmates who are held long enough pretrial that they are due for release on the day they are sentenced. But even when inmates were ordered released by judges, the state would wait to let them out until it processed sentencing paperwork. Critics said that process moved far too slowly. Friday’s lawsuit also says the state has a sluggish system for processing parole revocation paperwork, which exacerbates the problem. In the past few years, the Department of Public Safety and Corrections has set up an online portal where sheriffs can submit sentencing paperwork instead of mailing it. And in February, the agency rolled out a new software that performs automated release date calculations. Still, Friday’s lawsuit alleges, “none of these tools ensures DOC promptly ob-

in which they pretended they were contacting the insurance companies on behalf of the homeowners. Huye allegedly signed off on letters on behalf of at least 865 homeowners in the Eastern District of Louisiana, the charging document said. In some cases, Huye’s ﬁrm then allegedly accepted from insurance companies thousands of dollars worth of settlement money that was actually owed to the homeowners, the document said. Email Willie Swett at willie. swett@theadvocate.com.

tains ﬁles from the courts or requires a single Department or jail employee to release individuals entitled to immediate release within any period of time, and Secretary Westcott has never required any of those things,” the lawsuit says. The lawsuit takes aim speciﬁcally at Westcott, alleging he has not taken overdetention seriously enough. Citing pending litigation, the state previously declined to provide data showing that overdetention was no longer a problem. Last year, a federal judge allowed two older yet similar lawsuits, which name former prisons chief Jimmy LeBlanc as the lead defendant, to move forward as class action lawsuits. The state has appealed that decision. Staff writer Blake Leschber contributed to this story. Email Meghan Friedmann at meghan.friedmann@ theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B building. But owning the property “eliminates the uncertainty and ongoing and increased cost of leasing, and allows us to remain in Algiers Point, where ISL has been part of the community for more than 15 years,” she said.

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Potholes, construction and lack of lanes make biking hazardous To ride a bike in Baton Rouge unfortunately feels like you are putting your life at risk. My husband and I just went biking to get coffee. To get to our desired location, we had to cross Lee Drive, with all its potholes, very little shoulder, and, of course, no bike lanes. As we approached the LSU Lakes, we had to take an alternative route because of the neverending dredging project and more recent road construction. Again, we had no bike paths. Thankfully, we were aware of the risks and challenges ahead of us before leaving home, and we chose to ride mountain bikes, which can endure the bumps and are capable of navigating off-road when necessary. Many other cities in this country and abroad have worked diligently to encourage people to bike and walk by providing safe bike lanes, sidewalks and helping the community understand and respect biking and pedestrian rules. Sadly, Baton Rouge rates of obesity are currently 33% or higher. When visiting cities that are bike- and pedestrian-friendly, the health beneﬁts are noticeable. It’s time for Baton Rouge to get on board.

ALICE DEVALL Baton Rouge

Drivers must stop, look and wait at stop signs This is an urgent appeal to New Orleans drivers: Please remember that at stop signs, the law requires drivers to come to a full and complete stop. Then, before proceeding, drivers must look both ways, even if entering or crossing a one-way street. Finally, pedestrians in or near crosswalks have the right of way, and vehicles must remain at a full stop until pedestrians have completed crossing. Following these simple rules keeps drivers and pedestrians safe.

KEITH LIEDERMAN New Orleans

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Will Johnson keep his position on Ten Commandments? The 10 Commandments poster distributed by the Louisiana Family Forum has a photo of Speaker Mike Johnson on it. If the midterm elections in November give the Democrats the House majority, Hakeem Jeffries will probably become speaker. Does anyone think that the Louisiana Family Forum will print and distribute new posters with Jeffries’ photo? Could and should the current posters be removed as inaccurate? Just wondering.

TERESA OGDEN New Orleans

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Dolly Parton arrives at the 61st annual Grammy Awards in 2019 in Los Angeles. The Grammywinning singer, actor and humanitarian died Tuesday.

Can’t we all be a little more like Dolly Parton?

I cannot think of one person who has received the millions and millions of accolades for making an impact on people around the world and from every walk of life like Dolly Parton. Who might come close? Maybe a pope, maybe another musician, maybe an elected ofﬁcial, maybe a television host, maybe a local, national or worldwide community activist, maybe a poet, maybe

a great writer, maybe a well-known and respected journalist, maybe a king or a queen or maybe even Mr. Rogers. What a wonderful, beautiful, brilliant musician and a self-deprecating and generous human she was. Can’t we all be like Dolly?

EVA JACOB BARKOFF Metairie

Volunteers, LASPCA do what they can, but animal control is city’s job Having volunteered in animal welfare for more than 50 years, I have witnessed many debates about animal control and sheltering in New Orleans. What concerns me today is not the discussion itself, but the risk that public frustration will once again be directed at the very people working hardest to help animals. I remember when the Sunday newspaper published front-page photographs of euthanized dogs in August 1984. The public response was swift and harsh. Shelter staff were called “murderers,” donations were threatened and some people even threatened violence against the LASPCA. Lost in the outrage was the reality that shelter staff were dealing with the consequences of unchecked breeding and overwhelming animal overpopulation while also operating low cost spay/neuter services to address the problem at its source. Today, we ﬁnd ourselves facing another crisis. The city has reduced funding for animal control, yet criticism is again being directed at the Louisiana SPCA, which already subsidizes services that are ultimately the responsibility of local government. Animal control is far more complicated than picking up a stray dog. Dangerous animals, bite investigations, legal proceedings and public safety responsibilities require experienced personnel,

PROVIDED PHOTO FROM THE LASPCA facilities and resources. As a founder of Trap Dat Cat, I have seen ﬁrsthand how community-based solutions can help. Last year, our volunteers trapped, sterilized and vaccinated 3,500-plus cats, many through the LASPCA clinic. That work reduces suffering, decreases shelter intake and saves taxpayer dollars. If we truly want to improve outcomes for animals, we should focus on solutions, not scapegoats. Supporting animal control, prevention programs and community partnerships will beneﬁt animals, taxpayers and the entire city.

NITA HEMETER Trap Dat Cat New Orleans

Quiet deals, NDAs just business as usual “They’re free to turn me in to the ethics board, which I’m sure would do nothing.” Louisiana Sen. Jay Morris, the spearhead of Meta’s sweetheart deal, said this when confronted about his own proﬁts from that deal. While many of our own elected politicians quietly signed nondisclosure agreements — the deal is so great for Louisiana citizens that they won’t tell us what it is — Morris and his “business partners” held plots of land in rural Louisiana that were then sold to Entergy for gas turbines. This same state senator was also at the forefront of the recent carve-up of our state, and the gerrymander — again — was so democratic they wouldn’t trust it to a people’s vote.These actions form a coherent way of life: one where a very small group of people

— always rich and mostly men — take everything and leave us with the bill. But there’s more of us than them, and their world would be our choice. We can also choose justice but still respect the precedents they set. Morris claimed the answer to his alleged corruption was to go to the state’s ethics board, and perhaps that’s the worst he thinks he’d ever face. As of this writing, his own party’s Department of Justice has secured a federal indictment against former FBI Director James Comey. This indictment wasn’t for bribery, not for fraud or conspiracy. Comey was indicted for posting a picture of seashells.

ANDREW KEMP Baton Rouge

Americans deserve calm, dignified leadership Americans look to their president for inspiration, confidence and calming leadership. While there has never been a perfect president, we have seen examples of how presidents have reassuringly addressed the American people. For illustration purposes only, I cite President George H.W. Bush and his son, President George W. Bush, both Republicans. Each of them faced trying military conflicts and had their admirers and detractors. However, both men addressed the American public via national television in an even, self-assured and calm fashion. Addressing the nation is not defined as catered group chats or staged campaign events. The overwhelming idea that the presidency is a dignified and respected institution is tantamount to our republic. America does not benefit when a president defines his leadership by inventing slang insults, insufferable social media posts, denial of facts, omnipotence on every subject and an almost daily insertion of chaos. Americans have historically been viewed as beacons of light for the world. Presidential leadership’s beacon should be the standardbearer for all Americans and the world. That is an expectation that we the people deserve.

TOM LEWIS Baton Rouge

Gerrymandering leaves citizen feeling that some votes don’t count I recently received a new voter registration card, only to discover that I have been gerrymandered out of my Democratic district into Rep. Steve Scalise’s deeply red District 1. This district does not represent my views. To add insult to injury, when I tried to contact Scalise via email to voice my objection to this gerrymandering, I was told I was not in his district and therefore could not submit my complaint. Obviously, our state government has been quick to gerrymander, but not so quick to adjust their records, leaving many of us in the new district without a voice. Furthermore, this grievous gerrymandering on the part of the Republican Party has ensured that the checks and balances of a two-party system no longer exist in Louisiana. We bemoan the fact that a large proportion of voters don’t vote, yet can you blame them when our government has guaranteed that only Republican votes will count?

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COMMENTARY Americans have a right to know who Natalie Harp is

It’s summertime, and the living is uneasy, particularly in Washington newsrooms and bureaus. At this time of year, historically, serious news can be harder to find than the newspeople available to cover it. The result is what journalists call “the silly season,” when you can never guess what pseudo-story will get elevated to the headlines. Searching for silly Clarence news in seriously serious Page Washington can be easier than you might think, and of late it is becoming difficult to draw the line between the consequential and the absurd. Consider the kerfuffle raised around a remark by U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff, a Georgia Democrat often mentioned among presidential hopefuls, about President Donald Trump and a young female aide. Ossoff angered Team Trump — and Trump himself — by calling suggestive attention to the relationship widely described as exceptionally close between the president and Natalie Harp, his 35-year-old executive assistant. “He doesn’t want to do the job,” Ossoff declared to an enthusiastic crowd, regarding Trump’s air of befuddlement amid a swirl of crises bedeviling his administration. “He wants to build his ballroom and travel with Natalie on their apparently defenseless flying palace gifted by the emir of Qatar.” “With Natalie.” Those two words ignited the crowd and delighted down-inthe-dumps Democrats elsewhere who, in this polarized election season, are looking exceptionally hard for candidates who show backbone. And they were not alone. A brief sound bite from Ossoff’s 30-minute speech drew more than 5 million views on X and a volcanic backlash from Republicans, including Harp’s boss, who shot back, calling Ossoff a “Pee Wee Herman lookalike” — after mistakenly calling him “Pinky Herman.” A chorus of MAGA influencers took to social media to post their outrage that this upstart cad from Georgia had impugned the honor of a blameless professional woman. Even former House Speaker Newt Gingrich got the Bat Signal, and he assailed Ossoff on X for “misogynistic language diminishing and smearing someone who is simply doing their job.” But I would caution those who are eager, for whatever reason, to jump on the bandwagon that sees Ossoff’s barb as

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White House aide Natalie Harp walks down the steps of Marine One to board Air Force One during a departure at Joint Base Andrews, Md., last week. sexual innuendo. It would bother me if all the Harp chatter was about spreading salacious rumors about an attractive young woman working with an older boss. We’ve seen this too many times before. You might even say it’s the way of the world, I guess, but without real evidence to back it up, I don’t want to be part of the rumor mills. But I would also suggest that Ossoff’s comment was not intended to suggest a sexual relationship. Although I acknowledge that such an explanation is exactly the misdirection GOP strategists would want to create. Rather, this story is about Trump’s deep, pathological need for sycophancy. Throughout his careers in business and politics, Trump has always sought to display his dominance. It’s no surprise, then, that in his televised cabinet meetings his closest advisers vie to outdo each other in displays of ﬂattery. What’s important about Harp’s relationship to Trump is not the prurient interest but rather that she seems to be, as New York Times White House reporter Maggie Haberman put it, “sort of his binky, for lack of a better word, his comfort blanket.” And, consequently, she seems to be his main conduit to reality. We have little idea who Harp is. And the more we learn, the more anxious we ought to be. Harp is referred to by many in Trumpworld as “the human printer” for her role supplying the president with

printed copies of everything from news reports to social media chatter. She reportedly works seven days a week, texts with world leaders on his behalf and stays up late with him drafting social media posts. Over the years, questions have arisen about who controls Trump’s social media accounts and gatekeeps the often toxic messages that emanate from them. Some observers suggest that Harp is a central player. I was downright outraged by reports that Harp sent out the racist video on Trump’s Truth Social account that portrayed former President Barack Obama and former ﬁrst lady Michelle Obama as apes. Some of us take that personally, not that Trump appears to care. The post, created under Trump’s direction, appeared in February at the end of a minute-long video promoting false claims about the 2020 election. It was deleted about 12 hours later after a furious bipartisan backlash. But, as one who believes in free speech and our democratic system, I hold the faith that such cheap shots will be punished, sooner or later, by the voters. That’s the way democracies mete out political justice. It’s not perfect but it offers an irreplaceably valuable chance for us voters to be heard. And we need every chance we can get. Email Clarence Page at clarence47page@gmail.com.

A frivolous and oblivious president This August features a stunning digan’s Upper Peninsula from the Lower. This should make Iran think. vergence. The world becomes more Dabbling in naval architecture, the dangerous as U.S. governance becomes polymathic president has got the Navy more frivolous. thinking about what The WashThe president is miffed with South Korea because, among ington Post calls his “preferred other insolences, that nation’s aesthetic” for aircraft carriers. insufficient help regarding his His taste favors the World War (you and South Korea might II look, when carriers’ command suppose) redundant second centers, called “islands,” were military operation against Iran. forward, nearer the George farther The second was undertaken to middle than, as today, the back of Will destroy Iran’s nuclear weapons the ships. He also wants to return program, which the president to steam-powered catapults to said the first operation “obliterated.” launch jets off the carriers, replacing The president, regretting that “it is the newer electromagnetic catapults the too late to cancel,” decided to “substanNavy thinks serve launching efficiency. Making these changes, which would tially reduce” joint U.S.-South Korea alter the ships’ balances, would cost military exercises. He said these “send a signal that is totally inappropriate and billions of dollars and delay by years hostile” to North Korea, which has been, delivering the carriers to the fleet. The president also wants a “Golden Fleet” he said, “unthreatening” during his including 15 new battleships, costing presidency. an average of $18 billion, more than the The president sees nothing threatening about North Korea’s development of $13.3 billion newest and largest carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford. ballistic missiles capable of delivering The aesthetics of aircraft carriers, its nuclear warheads to California. He is and the counterintuitive argument for consistent. enormous surface warships in an era of On June 13, 2018, the president said, proliferating anti-ship missiles, will be “There is no longer a nuclear threat considered by the Navy. Probably until from North Korea.” On Sept. 29, 2018, he explained to some perhaps perplexed noon, Jan. 20, 2029. Regarding another “desperately West Virginians in Wheeling that he and needed” (his words) national security North Korea’s dictator, Kim Jong Un, construction: The president recently “fell in love” after exchanging letters. remembered that his proposed White The presidential patience with Iran is exhausted, so he has unleashed a one-two House ballroom is actually not about his original justification for it — morepunch. He has threatened to “bomb the shit out of” a U.S. ally, Oman, if it “gets in elegant presidential parties. In a Truth Social post that did not use the word the way” of negotiations with Iran. And “ballroom,” he said that beneath the he has proclaimed the Strait of Hormuz ballroom would be a military complex. a “NEW U.S. territory,” perhaps like the He did not say why a ballroom must Straits of Mackinac that separate Michi-

sit on top of this. He did say that people blocking what he later called the “great Military Complex/Ballroom” are “TREASONISTS” who “revealed Top Military Secrets!” The ballroom’s contribution to national security is contestable. Its contribution to constitutional law might break the “national security” spell that transfixes courts. They might reasonably block this presidential mania, saying that Congress must authorize the destruction and construction of government buildings. And that incantations of the phrase “national security” are not substitutes for thinking. Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court held that its inquiry into matters of national security “is highly constrained.” But such inquiry is not impermissible for anyone. Otherwise, “security” becomes an elastic justification for government to do whatever it wants. “The Guns of August” is Barbara Tuchman’s riveting history of Europe’s 1914 stumble into a four-year catastrophe. On Aug. 23, 1939, the Hitler-Stalin “nonaggression pact” presaged the war that began with Germany’s invasion of Poland eight days later. On Aug. 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. A large and long U.S. military involvement in the region would follow. This August, an ally on the Korean Peninsula has been slighted for the benefit of a contiguous enemy. At least the president refrained from threatening to “bomb the shit” out of South Korea. Battleships and ballrooms, another August to remember. Email George Will at georgewill@ washpost.com.

Democratic voters reject resistance stars There has been a lot of commentary on the differences between Resistance 1.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down President Donald Trump in his first term, and Resistance 2.0, the effort by anti-Trump activists to bring down Trump in his second term. There are some tactical contrasts, but the simple fact is, they’re still at it. This year’s election season has featured two much-lauded figures of Resistance 1.0 as they tried to use their anti-Trump agitation as a springboard to public office. Alex Vindman, the former National Security Council staffer who in 2019 set off the first Trump imByron peachment, ran for U.S. Senate York in Florida, and George Conway, the lawyer who talked E. Jean Carroll into suing Trump, ran for the House in New York. Both suffered crushing defeats in Democratic primaries. Conway ran in New York’s 12th Congressional District, in Manhattan, the seat vacated by the retirement of Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler. There were a lot of candidates. Conway finished fifth, with 6.1% of the vote. A wealthy lawyer, Conway loaned his campaign $2 million for the run. In all, he spent $5.7 million. The money allowed Conway to mount a vanity campaign, to publicly fantasize about getting Trump, and to pound his chest about the massive damage judgment against Trump in the Carroll trial. Conway obviously thought the theme might work in New York’s 12th, in which Kamala Harris beat Trump 81% to 17% in the 2024 presidential election. But of course, all Democrats in the race promised to oppose Trump. The Democratic voters’ job was to choose the best. Conway was not their first, second, third or fourth choice. Instead, the primary winner was a member of the New York state assembly named Micah C. Lasher, who pledged to stand up to Trump. The other Resistance star to face-plant was Vindman, who in 2019, as an active-duty Army lieutenant colonel on the staff of the National Security Council, set in motion the first impeachment of Trump. Vindman, who was privy to some of the president’s calls with world leaders, felt that Trump had committed some sort of unspecified violation in a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Vindman relayed secret information to a friend in the CIA, who came up with a “whistleblower” complaint against the president. The impeachment failed, of course. Under pressure from the Trump administration, Vindman retired from the military and began trading on his notoriety. He wrote a memoir called “Here, Right Matters,” with the title based on his congressional testimony. He started a company called Here Right Matters LLC. It did well; in a financial disclosure form this year, Vindman listed around $1.5 million in income from that and other ventures. The Alexander Vindman business did pretty well. The next step would be politics. Vindman moved to Florida and ran for the Senate as a Democrat. When he jumped into the race in January, his announcement video began with news clips from his role in the Trump impeachment. A moment later, Vindman said, as pictures of his congressional testimony played: “The last time you saw me was here, swearing an oath to tell the truth about a president who broke his. See, my family came to America as refugees to escape tyranny. And I sure as hell was not going to bow down to some wannabe tyrant. This president unleashed a reign of terror and retribution, not just against me and my family, but against all of us.” No subtlety there; the Hero of the Resistance had arrived to take on Trump! Vindman raised $16 million for his campaign, while his Democratic socialist opponent, Angie Nixon, raised a little less than $1 million. Vindman immediately became a heavy favorite to win the Democratic nomination. He remained the favorite until Election Day, when Nixon shocked the political world by trouncing Vindman, 56% to 44%. Once again, the Resistance 1.0 magic did not work. As it had been in Manhattan, only on a far larger scale, Florida Democratic voters just didn’t care that a candidate had led one of the many unsuccessful efforts to drive Trump out of office from 2017 to 2021. That doesn’t mean they like or support Trump; they absolutely don’t. But it does mean that all the excitement that Conway and Vindman and their allies stirred up in the wayback time of Trump 1.0 truly came to nothing. Email Byron York at byork@washingtonexaminer.com.

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Saints set initial 53-man roster In surprise move, veterans Burgess, yiadom miss cut

BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

MAKING THE CUT

LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt looks to make a pass during practice on Aug. 20 at the school’s practice facility. STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

When Sunday began, the New Orleans Saints had 81 players on their roster with 28 moves to make to hit the NFL-mandated 53-man roster limit by 5 p.m. The Saints made a series of different transactions to get there, waiving 15 players, releasing four veterans, placing two players on injured reserve with a return designation — including first-rounder Jordyn Tyson — placing five players on seasonending injured reserve, one on the Physically Unable to Perform list and one more on the reserve/suspended list. The initial 53-man roster included three quarterbacks and all but two members of the Saints’ eight-player 2026 draft class — Tyson and seventh-round cornerback T.J. Hall. As always, the initial 53-man roster is fluid and subject to change in the coming days. Two of the somewhat surprising veteran moves were the release of safety Terrell Burgess and corner Isaac Yiadom, both of whom started games for the Saints last season.

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Projecting LSU’s depth chart ahead of season opener vs. Clemson BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer There’s less than a week before LSU football’s season opener against Clemson on Saturday, but we still don’t know what Lane Kiffin’s first roster will look like on game day. That’s because a Louisiana judge is set to rule on a preliminary injunction hearing on Thursday that will determine the fate of over 40 athletes searching for a fifth year of eligibility from the NCAA. As many as five of the plaintiffs in the suit — Dae’Quan Wright, Zxavian Harris, Blake Cotton, Jack Pyburn and Junior Tuihalamaka — intend to join Kiffin’s roster if they are granted the injunction. LSU would get to add key players at multiple positions of need if the players win their court case. So what kind of impact could they make, and what does the rest of LSU’s roster look like ahead of its matchup with Clemson? Here’s a final look at LSU’s depth chart ahead of the season opener.

Quarterback Starter: Sam Leavitt, R-Jr. Backups: Husan Longstreet, R-Fr.; Landen Clark, R-So. Breakdown: By all indications, Leavitt has recovered from a foot injury that hampered him throughout last season and forced him to miss most of the spring. He’ll need to prove again that he can be as productive as he was in 2024 at Arizona State, but this time do it week in and

week out against SEC competition. Longstreet was a ﬁve-star recruit in the 2025 class, while Clark was the Co-Offensive Rookie of the Year in the Coastal Athletic Association. Both backups are talented enough to play, but lack the experience and polish to be immediate starters.

Running back Starter(s): Dilin Jones, R-So.; Harlem Berry, So. Backups: Caden Durham, Jr.; Stacy Gage, R-So.; Rod Gainey, R-So.; Ray-

cine Guillory, R-Fr. Breakdown: Jones is a Wisconsin transfer who has surprisingly worked his way up the depth chart. He was the Badgers’ second-leading rusher last season despite only playing in seven games. He’ll likely share snaps with Berry, a former ﬁve-star recruit who showed ﬂashes of potential last season. Durham has led LSU in carries in each of the past two years. But with a new coaching staff in place,

Tulane defense has elite back seven, talented,, young front BY GUERRY SMITH

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Saints cornerback Isaac yiadom warms up during minicamp on June 16 at the team’s indoor practice facility in Metairie. yiadom was released by the Saints on Sunday.

Breaking down Moore’s improved Saints roster BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

The second time around for Kellen Moore looks much better than the ﬁrst. The New Orleans Saints’ initial 53-man roster is set, and in the coach’s second season at the helm, the Saints’ roster seems noticeably improved compared to a year ago, when the Saints ﬁnished 6-11. But there were some surprises and some tough calls made along the way. Let’s take a further look at the initial 53:

Cooley at defensive tackle Analysis: Other than Smith, who started for South Alabama a year ago, this group’s comWith promising, mostly young players up bined tackles total from 2025 was 19. The front, talented, experienced players at line- backups bided their time behind Santana backer and in the secondary and good depth Hopper, Jordan Norman, Tre’Von McAlpeverywhere, Tulane appears to have all the ine and Eliyt Nairne, all of whom transingredients of a championship defense. ferred to Power 4 programs. Don’t expect Safety Jack Tchienchou can be a tran- a dramatic drop-off, though. While some scendent difference-maker in the back end. growing pains are in order, seniors Smith Linebacker Chris Rodgers likely has an NFL and Shepard lend experience and all of future. Future doctor Dickson Agu, the other the young guys have high potential. Forstarting linebacker, is a tremendous leader. mer coach Jon Sumrall said many of them In the transfer portal era when almost ev- would have started for past Tulane teams. Defensive line coach Eric McDaniel: “Walking in the ery non-Power 4 conference team starts over each year, the Green Wave has continuity in door, you wouldn’t say it’s the most experienced group, but that’s what I get paid for. If I’ve got the lineup and much of the coaching staff. the talent, it’s my job to get them there.” Here is a position-by-position analysis:

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Starters: Josh Lewis at end, Derrick Shepard Starter: Jah’rie Garner at nose tackle, Ed Smith at defensive tackle Backups: Warren Roberts, Gerrod HenderBackups: Reshad Sterling and Geordan son, Nik Alston Guidry at end, PaLanding Drammeh at ä See TULANE, nose tackle, Jordyn Crites and Armondous U , page 5C

Tyler Shough, Spencer Rattler and Zach Wilson: The Saints kept both Rattler and Wilson after the two battled for the backup job behind Shough. ESPN reported that the Saints rebuffed trade interest in Rattler. The Jacksonville Jaguars and Miami Dolphins both added new backup quarterbacks Sunday, and Jacksonville reportedly called on Rattler. Travis Etienne,Alvin Kamara,Audric Estime and Kendre Miller: The Saints running back room does not include Devin Neal, who was placed on

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Pegula shakes off nerves at U.S. Open BY BRIAN MAHONEY

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NEW YORK — Jessica Pegula was one of the first players to compete at the U.S. Open, and she learned last year that starting Sunday provided some nice relief. “It is a little bit weird, but I did kind of enjoy that I could breathe for the next couple of days and everyone else is still freaking out about whether they’re going to win their first round,” she said. The head start is great — unless it’s a head start back to the airport. “We were just talking about it, and I said, it’s so nice to play on Sunday when you win. But if you lose it’s not nice, because you feel like the tournament didn’t even start and you’re out of it,” No. 11 seed Marta Kostyuk said. Pegula and Kostyuk both won easily and now the get the benefit of any extra day of rest before returning for the second round. The No. 3-seeded Pegula beat Elena-Gabriela Ruse 6-3, 6-2. She said she was nervous early, which makes sense given what could be at stake for the 2024 U.S. Open runner-up. Pegula leads the women’s tour with 46 wins this season. She has two titles and has reached three other finals. Pegula can become No. 1 in the rankings if she wins her first major title and No. 2 Elena Rybakina loses before the semifinals. Pegula next faces the winner of the match between Venus Williams and fellow wild card Sofia Kenin. They were set to play in the nightcap at Arthur Ashe Stadium, and Williams and sister Serena are scheduled to play doubles together. “I felt really nervous before I went out there, but I know my coaches were like, ‘You didn’t really look that nervous. We thought you played great,’” Pegula said. The No. 11-seeded Kostyuk sure did, beating Storm Hunter 6-4, 6-1 for a strong start to the year’s final major after reaching the semifinals at the French Open and Wimbledon..

Donald ends retirement, returns to L.A. Rams

LOS ANGELES — Aaron Donald has returned to the Los Angeles Rams, ending his retirement after 21/2 years to join Myles Garrett on their defensive line. The Rams announced decision on Sunday following several weeks of discussion, preparation and intensive workouts for the star defensive lineman. Donald, 35, agreed to a one-year contract, and ESPN reported he will make at least $20 million in an incentive-laden deal. Donald became one of the greatest defensive players of his era during his ﬁrst 10 seasons spent with the Rams in St. Louis and Los Angeles. He won three AP NFL Defensive Player of the Year awards while earning 10 Pro Bowl selections, eight All-Pro selections and a Super Bowl ring.

Scherzer passes Perry for 9th on career strikeout list

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Jessica Pegula returns the ball to Elena-Gabriela Ruse during the first round of the U.S. Open on Sunday in New york.

her opening match against Camila Osorio, before Carlos Alcaraz, who won his second U.S. Open title last year, plays his ﬁrst singles match since April after recovering from a right wrist injury. Past U.S. Open champions Naomi Osaka, Iga Swiatek, Sloane Stephens and Stan Wawrinka are also on the Monday schedule, along with Wimbledon women’s champion Linda Noskova and men’s contenders such as Ben Shelton, Arthur Fils, Felix AugerAliassime and Frances Tiafoe. Daniil Medvedev, the 2021 U.S. Open champion, shook off his miserable preparation for the tournament by beating Hugo Gaston 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. The No. 7 seed was just 1-3 in the North American hard-court swing, usually a time he thrives. “Last couple of weeks was not Champions begin Monday easy,” Medvedev said. “But I’m It was the second year of a happy that today I managed to Sunday start, though some of the produce high-level tennis.” Other winners Sunday included biggest headliners won’t begin until Monday. Two-time reigning No. 19 Jasmine Paolini and No. champion Aryna Sabalenka plays 31 Leylah Fernandez, the 2021

U.S. Open runner-up. No. 27 seed Barbora Krejcikova, a two-time Grand Slam singles champion, lost 7-6 (4), 6-2 to Kamilla Rakhimova. American Tommy Paul, the No. 20 seed, bounced back from losing a ﬁrst-set tiebreak to Coleman Wong to win 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Wong a year ago became the ﬁrst man from Hong Kong to win an Open-era Grand Slam men’s singles match on the way to reaching the round of 32. Novak Djokovic was set to begin his quest for a recordextending 25th Grand Slam title on Sunday night against Mariano Navone. Djokovic, 39, most recently lost his opening match earlier this month at Cincinnati. Maric Cilic, the 2014 U.S. Open champion, and 2022 runner-up Casper Ruud both withdrew with injuries on the opening day.

on for nearly a week. The mixed doubles tournament, an exhibition headlined by Roger Federer’s return to Flushing Meadows and the singles qualifying tournaments drew large crowds, with admission to the grounds free. Fans who came for the first time Sunday may have noticed a tournament in transition. The U.S. Open is in the second year of a three-year renovation project of Arthur Ashe Stadium, the main venue at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. The improvements in the $800 million project include the addition of some lower-level seating, upgrades and additions of entertainment areas and the construction of a player performance center. “Please pardon our appearance while we are reimagining spectacular,” reads a sign above the A new look entrance to Ashe. The project is scheduled to be Though the main draws didn’t begin until Sunday, action at the completed in time for the 2027 U.S. Open has already been going U.S. Open.

TORONTO — Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Max Scherzer moved into ninth place on the career strikeout list Sunday, passing Hall of Famer Gaylord Perry. A three-time Cy Young Award winner, Scherzer, 42, reached the mark by striking out Seattle Mariners slugger Cal Raleigh for the second out of the seventh inning, the 3,535th of his career. The sellout crowd of 42,039 rose for a standing ovation when the record was shown on the scoreboard. It was Scherzer’s season-high 10th strikeout of the game. It was just the third time in MLB history a pitcher 42 or older threw seven or more innings, struck out 10 or more and allowed two or fewer baserunners. Nolan Ryan did it twice, most recently on May 1, 1991 against Toronto, his seventh and ﬁnal no-hitter.

Chinese star Ruoning Yin wins FM Championship

NORTON, Mass. — Ruoning Yin won the FM Championship on Sunday at the TPC Boston for her sixth career LPGA Tour victory, outlasting Hyo Joo Kim. Yin ran in a 25-foot birdie putt on the par-5 12th for a share of the lead with playing partner Kim. The 23-year-old Chinese player parred the next ﬁve in breezy conditions and birdied the par-5 18th for a 2-under 70 and a two-stroke victory. Kim shot 71. She dropped back with a three-putt bogey on the par3 16th, missing a 9-foot par try. The South Korean player — a twotime winner this season — missed a 7-foot birdie attempt on the par-3 17th.

Curaçao tops Nevada, wins Preece wins at Daytona, takes ﬁnal playoff spot Little League World Series BY MARK LONG Associated Press

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Known for two violent wrecks at Daytona International Speedway, Ryan Preece experienced a much different ride at NASCAR’s hometown track Saturday night: a trip to victory lane. Preece won the Cup Series regular-season finale at Daytona in overtime to secure the final playoff spot for Roush Fenway KeselLate owski Racing. Preece, who feSaturday rociously flipped cars at Daytona in 2023 and again in 2025, moved to the front during a green-whitecheckered finish when leader Zane Smith got bumped, started spinning and slammed into other cars on the last lap. Preece took the checkered flag under caution and edged Shane van Gisbergen for the 16th and final berth in the postseason finale. “This is redemption,” said Preece, whose victory landed two RFK cars into the 16-driver Chase for the championship. Chris Buescher is the other. “I’m just speechless right now,” Preece said. “Those guys, that 60 (car), we’re fighters. When you put our back against the wall, we swing hard. ... Last year, there were a lot of keyboard warriors saying I was nothing. Well, we just kicked their butts tonight.” Preece expressed confidence all week, but he found himself needing a victory late to pass van Gisbergen for the last playoff spot. Van Gisbergen finished 27th after pitting during the final caution and taking four tires. “Shame we’re not in it,” said van Gisbergen, who won twice during the regular season but missed the

“Days of Thunder.” The 64-yearold Cruise announced Saturday at Daytona he will reprise his role as NASCAR driver Cole Trickle. He said he wants to show audiences “the speed, the excitement and all that danger and stuff.” Anne Hathaway will co-star as a team owner and engineer in the ﬁlm scheduled to be released by Paramount Pictures on June 2, 2028.

Johnson’s final Daytona 500 Seven-time Cup Series champion Jimmie Johnson will drive a familiar-looking No. 48 in his final Cup Series start. Johnson unveiled his paint scheme for his Toyota in the 2027 Daytona 500 by driving a ceremonial lap around the track before Saturday’s race. The gray-and-blue scheme melds ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JOHN RAOUX the three main sponsors during Johnson’s record-setting racing Ryan Preece, center, celebrates with his crew after winning a NASCAR career: Lowe’s, Ally and Carvana. Cup race at Daytona International Speedway on Saturday in Daytona Johnson’s final start will come in Beach, Fla. the 69th running of the Daytona 500, scheduled for Feb. 21. Henplayoffs under NASCAR’s new Van Gisbergen won Stage 1 and drick Motorsports loaned Johnson format that puts more emphasis created more of a cushion on Pre- the No. 48 for his last ride. on season-long results than vic- ece, who was caught up in a three“Seeing this car for the first time car crash as he neared the finish brings back a lifetime of memotories. Bubba Wallace and Austin Cin- line. Preece raced his way back ries,” Johnson said. dric locked up the other two avail- to the front in Stage 2 and picked able spots. Wallace, Cindric, van up much-needed points with a Herbst sits out Gisbergen, Preece and Brad Kes- second-place finish behind Ryan Riley Herbst was scratched from the race because of “linelowski started the night vying for Blaney. But it came down to the final lap. gering effects” from a crash last the final three spots in the 10-race Preece needed to win to get in — weekend. Harrison Burton reChase. Wallace, who was nearly a lock and he pulled it off in dramatic placed Herbst in the No. 35 Toyota to make the 16-driver field when fashion. and finished 12th. “I’m a racer. I know what it the green flag dropped, claimed Herbst was involved in a crash his spot with a seventh-place fin- takes to build speed,” Preece at New Hampshire Motor Speedish in the opening stage. Cindric said. “So every man and woman way last Sunday, with his car avoided trouble all night, finished at RFK, thank you for giving me backing into the outside barrier sixth and advanced without much a rocket ship so I could go to the before being struck again. moon tonight.” fanfare. Up next Daniel Suarez finished second in ‘Days of Thunder’ follow-up the race, followed by Michael McThe 10-race Chase for the chamDowell, Tyler Reddick and Ricky Tom Cruise is getting back be- pionship begins at Darlington Stenhouse Jr. hind the wheel for a follow-up to Raceway next Sunday.

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Juriënsly De Windt and Shardijon De Lanoi combined to drive in six runs, and Curaçao won its second Little League World Series title, beating Nevada 11-2 in the championship game on Sunday. De Windt started on the mound and allowed two runs in three innings. Giendry Ryan and Steven Felix were nearly flawless in relief with four strikeouts over the final three innings for the tiny island nation, which previously won the tournament in 2004. Curaçao had advanced to the finals by winning the international title in 2005, 2019, 2022 and 2023. This time, the group from Pariba Little League in Willemstad had enough firepower from the mound and at the plate to beat the U.S. champion.

Palou seals 4th straight IndyCar championship

WEST ALLIS, Wis. — Alex Palou won his record-tying fourth consecutive IndyCar season championship with a 10th-place finish Sunday night in the resumption of a raindelayed race at the Milwaukee Mile. The 29-year-old from Barcelona, Spain, added to yet another dominating year for himself and Chip Ganassi Racing. Palou’s four consecutive championships match the record set by Sebastien Bourdais from 2004-07. He becomes just the third driver to win five titles, with A.J. Foyt winning seven and Scott Dixon six. It’s also a record-setting 18th title won by a Ganassi driver, one more than Team Penske. Palou finished fifth in Sunday’s regularly scheduled race.

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Scheffler captures second FedEx Cup He passes Woods on career earnings list BY DOUG FERGUSON Associated Press

ATLANTA — Scottie Scheffler’s second FedEx Cup title, and his 22nd victory on the PGA Tour during this astonishing five-year run, was different from all the others, even if it looked all too familiar. Scheffler celebrated with a beer. He had just closed with a 4-under 66 in the Tour Championship on Sunday — no one else from the leading six players broke par — and Scheffler had to wait for the last two groups to finish to make it official. “There was an open bar inside and I’m like, ‘All right, I’m grabbing a beer.’ It tasted great,” Scheffler said. “I don’t really drink often. My wife and manager were like, ‘Wow, I haven’t seen you have a beer in a long time.’ Well, season’s over now. I’m going to have a beer. Wellearned beer.” There was no arguing that, and there’s no longer a debate over who had the best season in golf. Scheffler took care of that at East Lake when he made up a three-shot deficit in four holes and pulled away to win the Tour Championship, claim a second FedEx Cup title and move past Tiger Woods for most PGA Tour earnings. Scheffler signaled his rally with a 5-iron to within 2 inches of the cup on the 211-yard second hole. He caught Viktor Hovland with a 25-foot birdie on the fourth hole, pulled ahead for the first time on the 13th and wound

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Scottie Scheffler hits from the seventh fairway during the final round of the Tour Championship on Sunday in Atlanta. up with a three-shot victory. It was his first time with the low 72-hole score at the Tour Championship. When he won in 2024, he had a two-shot lead before the tournament began given to the No. 1 seed under the “starting strokes” format. He won by four shots, even though two other players had a lower actual score. That still bugs him. “When you’re coming down the stretch of a tournament and you’re tied or one shot back, it’s different than when you’re adding it up at the end and there’s starting strokes and all that stuff,” Scheffler said. “I think having a real tournament to finish the year, where I am the

winner and the lowest score at East Lake, feels like a bit more of an accomplishment.” Schefﬂer won for the third time this year — twice in the past three weeks during the PGA Tour’s postseason — to match Chris Gotterup, Matt Fitzpatrick and U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark for most titles in 2026. Players vote on the Jack Nicklaus Award for PGA Tour player of the year. Schefﬂer has won the past four years — another would tie him with Woods for most consecutive awards. Taking over the top spot in career earnings was inevitable. The $40 million purse at the Tour Championship now

counts as official money. Scheffler won $10 million, pushing his career total to $130,390,661. Woods, who never played for more than a $10 million purse during his peak years from 1997 through 2009, had been at the top of the career money list for nearly 26 years. It was a small slice of redemption for Scheffler, who lost in a playoff to Hovland at the Travelers Championship, one of his five runnerup finishes this year. Hovland made only one birdie and closed with a 72 to finish alone in second, worth $5 million. Most aggravating for the Norwegian was having three putts hit the lip in a

four-hole stretch on the back nine, two of them for birdie and one for par. “He’s just good, and he played good every day,” Hovland said. “I could have shot 66 easily as well today. Just didn’t have it. ... It wasn’t like anybody else really played all that great in contention, and that’s what you see — a lot of guys just gagging and throwing up. And that’s where he just kind of stays in it and shoots a nice score. That gets the job done.” Schefﬂer had two bogeys — one an aggressive miss with a wedge from the fairway on No. 7, the other from a gnarly lie in the rough on the 14th — and otherwise

felt he didn’t miss much over a tough day of wind and firm turf that made the landing spots feel smaller. East Lake played to a cumulative average of 67.35 through three rounds. On Sunday, the average score was 70.07. Ryan Gerard, one shot behind Hovland staring out, made double bogey on the opening hole, followed with 13 straight pars and shot 72 to finish alone in third. “They made it as difficult as they could today, and that’s kind of what we were looking for,” Gerard said. “I just wasn’t on enough to execute shots to really tucked hole locations.” Scheffler said winning the Tour Championship for the FedEx Cup doesn’t change his outlook on the season. That’s for others to judge. Even so, he had a point to prove. He felt as though he had underachieved in the PGA Tour postseason — losing a six-shot lead to Rory McIlroy in 2022, not putting up much of a fight when Hovland won in 2023 when he started with a two-shot lead and finished 16 shots behind. “To come in this year maybe not winning the tournaments that I could have won throughout the regular season, to come in and win two out of three playoff events, is definitely a nice way to finish off the season,” Scheffler said. “That was my motto going into the playoffs. Maybe in years I’ve underperformed in the postseason, and maybe this is a year I’ll perform better than I have in the regular season.” That he did, and the beer no doubt went down smoothly.

Broncos LB Cooper on NFL commissioner’s exempt list while facing strangulation charge BY ARNIE STAPLETON Associated Press

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Joe Dean, right, receives the trophy from Nick Faldo after winning the British Masters on Sunday at The Belfry Hotel & Resort in Sutton Coldfield, England.

Former grocery driver wins British Masters By The Associated Press

BIRMINGHAM, England — Joe Dean, a former grocery delivery driver ranked No. 292, captured his first European tour title by shooting 9-under 63 to win the British Masters with his wife on the bag on Sunday. The 32-year-old Englishman started the final round seven strokes off the lead at The Belfry but made nine birdies — including four on his last six holes — to finish the week on 14-under par and move into the lead with the late starters still having holes to play. No one could catch him, with four players — Nacho Elvira (69), third-round leader Daniel Hillier (73), Niklas Norgaard (71) and Jakob Skov Olesen (71) — tying for second place, three shots back. This was the first tournament in Team Europe’s qualifying process for next year’s Ryder Cup, so that’s suddenly an unlikely target for Dean — quite the turn of events for someone who spent time delivering groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and kept doing it for nearly four years to help fund his

career when he didn’t have a card. “I enjoyed it for most of the time,” Dean said of his old part-time job. “Obviously it’s a completely different life, a completely different lifestyle. I still see the vans going up and down the road every now and then, and I keep in touch.” It was a family success, too. Dean got married to Emily following the British Open in July, and she was his caddie this week. “I can’t thank her enough for what she has to put up with, with me,” Dean said. “It was bad enough off the course, with the lows and stuff. Now it’s on and off the course. I hope I made her proud.” Marco Penge tied for sixth place with a finalround 72, marking a solid start to Ryder Cup qualifying after he failed to get selected as a captain’s pick two years ago in a breakout season on the European tour that contained three wins. Penge acknowledged this week it was the correct call by captain Luke Donald, whose team went on to win 15-13 at Bethpage Black.

Denver Broncos linebacker Jonathon Cooper, who’s facing a felony strangulation charge, will start the season on the commissioner’s exempt list. The NFL’s decision Sunday means Cooper will continue to get paid for the time being and is allowed at the team’s training facilities but cannot practice with the team or play in games. “It’s part of the process,” general manager George Paton said. “We continue to take this very seriously. We’re going to continue to monitor all the legal developments and continue to support Jonathon. Jonathon’s worked very hard to better himself and it’ll be good to have him in the

building, be in meetings and just be a part of the team.” Cooper faces an arraignment Monday on several charges after two domesticviolence arrests in June stemming from altercations with a woman he was dating at the time. He’s expected to enter a plea at that hearing unless an agreement is reached beforehand between prosecutors and Cooper’s lawyer, Harvey Steinberg. Cooper was allowed to participate in training camp and on Friday was one of the Broncos’ captains in their preseason ﬁnale, a 34-6 win over the Minnesota Vikings. The league is investigating Cooper’s situation and the sixth-year pro could face a lengthy suspension under the NFL’s domestic violence policy. Any games he serves on the exempt list would

count toward his suspension, but he would also have to repay the money he earned while on the exempt list. Cooper, who has started 52 consecutive games for the Broncos, is a key member of a defense that has led the league in sacks each of the past two seasons. He was told to stay away from the Broncos’ mandatory minicamp in June following his second arrest in a week. Cooper, 28, was arrested on June 4 following an argument and physical confrontation with his then-girlfriend that eventually resulted in a felony assault charge of strangulation. He was arrested again a week later after allegedly violating a protection order by trying to contact the woman, according to the arrest afﬁdavit. The Broncos decided not

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Saints moves Here is the full list of transactions the Saints made Sunday.

Continued from page 1C Yiadom opened the season as one of the starting outside corners for the Saints last season, but the job felt like a temporary posting while New Orleans prepared Quincy Riley for the position. This summer, he worked almost exclusively with the second team defense. But when Riley went down with an injury in training camp, the Saints turned to Martin Emerson as his replacement, pushing Yiadom further down the secondary’s hierarchy. Burgess also didn’t make the club out of training camp last year, but he quickly made it back to the active roster and appeared in 16 games. As vested veterans, Burgess and Yiadom do not have to go through the waiver process, meaning the Saints do not have to worry about another team claiming their rights. If there is mutual interest, the Saints could bring both back on the practice squad. Tight end Treyton Welch

to release Cooper, who’s due $12 million this season. He was allowed to participate in training camp after attending an inpatient clinic near Vail for more than a month. If he misses any games, Jonah Elliss, Que Robinson and Dondrea Tillman are set to expand their workload in his place: “We like the depth there,” Paton said. The Broncos decided to keep all three of their quarterbacks on the 53-man roster: Bo Nix, Jarrett Stidham and Sam Ehlinger. “We love the room; we’re going to keep the room together,” Paton said. That meant another tough cut. Draft pick Justin Joly, a tight end from N.C. State, and Red Murdock, aka “Mr. Irrelevant,” a linebacker from Buffalo, didn’t make the roster.

Released

S Terrell Burgess CB Michael Davis RB Zamir White CB Isaac Yiadom

Waived

K Tanner Brown DL Myles Cole WR Jalen Cropper EDGE Fadil Diggs RB CJ Donaldson CB T.J. Hall TE Cody Hardy OT Alan Herron OL Easton Kilty WR Trey Palmer OL Torricelli Simpkins LB Jackson Sirmon K Charlie Smyth DL Jay’Viar Suggs OT Alex Wollschlager

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Injured reserve

games remaining last season as the Saints kicker. New Orleans had pushed Smyth hard with competition this offseason after he went 8-for-12 in his small sample last season. The Saints brought in former Pro Bowler Younghoe Koo for a workout and also pitted Smyth against undrafted free agent Mason Shipley and former UFL star Tanner Brown. Smyth and Brown spent most of training camp going

Injured reserve, designated for return

Saints kicker Charlie Smyth lines up a kick during training camp on Aug. 9. Smyth was cut by the Saints on Sunday. made the roster out of training camp for the ﬁrst time after the Saints saw their depth depleted by injuries to rookie Oscar Delp and Moliki Matavao. Defensive back Mike Reid also made the club after impressing on special teams and showing he can play safety. Included in the roster cuts for the third consecutive year was kicker Charlie Smyth, the native Irishman who took over with six

CB Dalys Beanum EDGE Mike Heldman CB David Long RB Devin Neal OT Barry Wesley

WR Jordyn Tyson LB Jaylon Ford

Reserve/Physically Unable to Perform WR Mason Tipton

Reserve/Suspended

WR Brock Rechsteiner

back and forth, but when neither truly broke out, the Saints brought in former All-Pro kicker Daniel Carlson with less than a week remaining in camp.

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Titans cut QB Levis as teams trim rosters

BY ROB MAADDI

AP pro football writer Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis was among more than 1,100 players cut Sunday as NFL teams trimmed their rosters, a person with knowledge of the decision told The Associated Press. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the Titans hadn’t announced their cuts. A second-round pick in 2023 who started 21 games for the Titans, Levis was stuck behind Cam Ward and Mitch Trubisky. He was 5-16 for Tennessee in two seasons and didn’t play in 2025 following shoulder surgery. “I think he’s been awesome,” Titans coach Robert Saleh said of Levis following Saturday’s game. “I thought he did a really nice job today. I thought he had a really good two-minute drive at the end of the half. Very good awareness with the time.” Levis said he believes he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. “I feel like you’ve got to have that conﬁdence in yourself regardless of your position,” Levis said after going 14 for 22 for 143 yards against the Bears in a 24-15 loss to close out the preseason. “I saw a quote, I forget who it was, but it’s, ‘Everyone in the league here is a starter.’ You’ve got to have that mentality. You could be in at the press of a button and just be ready to play. That’s one thing that I feel like I gained a lot in my time away, is gaining back some of the conﬁdence that I lost throughout the last year that I played and I’m

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Tennessee Titans quarterback Will Levis warms up before a preseason game against the Chicago Bears on Saturday in Nashville Tenn. Levis was cut on Sunday. going to maintain that mindset the rest of my career.” Teams had to be down to 53 players from 90 before 5 p.m. Three-time former LSU star Odell Beckham Jr. made the New York Giants after missing the 2025 season. The Vikings kept J.J. McCarthy, a ﬁrst-round pick in 2024. Anthony Richardson, a ﬁrst-round pick in 2023, remains with the Colts. Both quarterbacks were on the bubble. The Browns kept four QBs after placing Dillon Gabriel on injured reserve with a back injury. Shedeur Sanders will back up Deshaun Watson and rookie Taylen Green is No. 3 on the depth chart. Gabriel,

who started six games as a rookie last season, can return in Week 5. The Atlanta Falcons also went with four QBs, keeping Tua Tagovailoa, Michael Penix Jr., Cooper Rush and Jack Strand.

Numerous players traded Several teams made trades ahead of the cutdown deadline. Offensive tackle Broderick Jones, a 2023 first-round pick, changed teams on Sunday. So did quarterback Quinn Ewers and defensive lineman CJ Okoye. Quarterback Kyle McCord, tight ends Hunter Long and Mark Redman, tackle Walter Rouse, defensive back Clark Phillips III, defensive

Saints place WR Tyson on injured reserve to start season Staff writer

Carlson wins out When the Saints signed veteran kicker Daniel Carlson this week, it appeared to be a sign they weren’t fully conﬁdent in moving forward with either of the two young kickers who had been competing for

Saturday’s trades A day earlier, the Steelers sent Jones to Dallas for draft picks. Jones who was picked 14th overall by Pittsburgh three years ago, gives the Cowboys depth at offensive tackle. Ewers, a seventh-round pick by Miami last year, will replace Nick Mullens as Trevor Lawrence’s backup. Okoye went from the Ravens to the Giants, reuniting with Harbaugh.

Practice squad Many of the players who were cut will rejoin their teams on the practice squad. Others will go to new teams. Some will reach the end of their NFL career.

Continued from page 1C season-ending injured reserve with a hamstring injury. It remains to be seen whether Kamara will be available for Week 1 as he deals with an MCL sprain.

Wide receiver (5) Chris Olave, Devaughn Vele, Bryce Lance, Barion Brown and Kevin Austin: Tyson will officially miss at least the ﬁrst four games as he was placed on injured reserve with the ability to return, a designation the Saints could give up to two players. Among this group, fans may be surprised to see Austin. Don’t be. Austin earned his spot over others such as Bub Means and Ronnie Bell because he’s reliable, contributes on special teams and has a better track record of staying healthy.

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Tight end (4)

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New Orleans Saints wide receiver Jordyn Tyson catches the ball during training camp on Aug. 9 at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center on Airline Dr. in Metairie, La. the job in training camp. Sunday, the Saints validated that idea when they waived both Charlie Smyth and Tanner Brown in order to keep Carlson on the 53-man roster. Carlson had only gone through two practices and one preseason game before the Saints needed to trim the roster to 53 players, but he performed well in his limited opportunity. Carlson made both of his field goal attempts in Friday’s preseason game against the Dallas Cowboys, including the eventual game-winner from 53 yards out with two minutes remaining. In Carlson, the Saints also kept a proven veteran. Carlson spent eight seasons with the Las Vegas Raiders, earning All-Pro honors in both 2021 (second team) and 2022 (first team). He led the league with 40 made field goals (out of 43) in 2021and connected on at least 90 % of his kicks in four seasons. Las Vegas opted not to bring Carlson back after he struggled in 2025, when he made a career-low 81.5 % of his field goal attempts (22-27). If Smyth clears waivers, New Orleans may decide to bring him back on the practice squad. Because Smyth arrived in the NFL via the International Player Pathway, any team that signs him to the practice squad would receive an exemption for an extra spot — meaning he would not count against the 16-man practice squad limit. Smyth was the incumbent kicker coming into camp, having taken over for the final six games of the 2025 season. He went 12-for-16 in those games, including a gamewinner against the Carolina Pan-

a 2027 seventh-round pick, a person familiar with the deal said on condition of anonymity because it hadn’t been announced. Patterson started 21 games over the last three seasons after being a sixthround pick by the Texans in 2023. He will back up Jake Brendel in San Francisco. The Niners had signed Brett Toth to ﬁll that role in the offseason but he has been out since early August with a concussion. The Packers continued to boost their tight end depth by acquiring Redman from the Rams for a 2028 seventh-round pick. The move comes three days after Green Bay signed veteran tight end Jonnu Smith. The Vikings sent Rouse and a 2027 seventh-round pick to the Patriots in exchange for a sixthround pick in the 2027.

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Jordyn Tyson’s debut with the Saints is officially on hold until at least Week 5. As part of the roster transactions to trim the roster down to 53 players Sunday, the Saints placed Tyson on injured reserve with a designation to return, one of two players they were allowed to place on IR without having to carry him on the active roster through cuts. Tyson will not be eligible to play until the Saints’ Week 5 home game against the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 11. The No. 8 overall pick in this year’s draft suffered a hamstring injury during a joint practice Aug. 13 against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The injury is expected to sideline Tyson for two months — which would put him almost exactly on track for a Week 5 return. Injuries have unfortunately taken up most of the oxygen regarding Tyson’s pro career to this point. He suffered multiple injuries throughout his time in college, including two hamstring injuries a year ago at Arizona State. Tyson’s hamstring injury prevented him from participating in the combine. New Orleans brought Tyson along carefully after the draft, holding him out of competitive periods for much of the summer before gradually working him in during training camp. When Tyson was on the field, he showed the tantalizing traits that made many consider him the most talented receiver prospect in this year’s draft class. He caught nearly everything quarterback Tyler Shough threw his way, and the Saints seemed intent on scheming ways to get him the ball. With Tyson on the shelf to start the season, the Saints could be leaning on a couple other members of their rookie class — fourth-rounder Bryce Lance and sixth-rounder Barion Brown — to play larger roles than the team may have originally anticipated. New Orleans also placed linebacker Jaylan Ford on injured reserve, with a designation to return. Ford suffered an undisclosed injury in the team’s preseason finale, an unfortunate finish to what had otherwise been an impressive training camp. Ford will also be eligible to return in Week 5.

lineman Gervon Dexter, centers Sedrick Van Pran-Granger and Jarrett Patterson were also traded. A day after trading Ewers to Jacksonville, the Dolphins landed a new backup quarterback by acquiring McCord from Green Bay for a 2028 sixth-round pick. The Dolphins had acquired a 2028 sixth-round pick from the Jaguars for Ewers. McCord threw four touchdown passes in a 42-38 victory over Arizona on Friday, including two in the ﬁnal 3 1/2 minutes. But the Packers signed Tyrod Taylor in May to back up Jordan Love. McCord will back up Malik Willis, who signed a three-year, $67.5 million contract in March after playing behind Love in Green Bay the past two seasons. The Cardinals acquired Long and a 2028 seventh-round selection from Jacksonville for a sixth-round selection in 2028. Long has 20 receptions for 153 yards in 46 games. The Colts got Van Pran-Granger and a 2027 seventh-round pick from Buffalo for a 2027 sixth-round selection. Van Pran-Granger appeared in 18 games, including one start with the Bills in two seasons. The trade is an indication starter Connor McGovern will be ready to go after missing much of the past month with an undisclosed lowerbody injury. Lloyd Cushenberry had replaced McGovern when he was sidelined. The Bears acquired a 2027 ﬁfthround pick and Phillips from Atlanta for Dexter. The 49ers added a backup center in Patterson from Houston for

thers from 47 yards out in Week 15.

Neal, Heldman on IR The Saints officially placed five players on injured reserve without a return designation, meaning they will not be allowed to play for New Orleans in the regular or postseason. That group included running back Devin Neal, who injured his hamstring in the Saints’ preseason loss to the Los Angeles Rams, and edge defender Mike Heldman, an undrafted rookie who showed promise as a pass rusher during the preseason and training camp. New Orleans also placed defensive back Dalys Beanum, cornerback David Long and offensive tackle Barry Wesley on injured reserve. Teams are allowed to use two IR spots on players designated to return during roster cuts, and the Saints used those on Tyson and Ford. The Saints may reach an injury settlement with any of these players if their injuries are not considered season-ending. Neal, the Saints’ sixth-rounder from last year’s draft, was considered to be in the mix for a tightly contested spot behind Travis Etienne and Alvin Kamara. But he suffered two separate hamstring injuries during the lead-up to the regular season. New Orleans ended up keeping four backs, with the others being Audric Estime and Kendre Miller. Heldman faced long odds at making the roster considering the Saints’ edge depth, but he left Friday’s preseason win against the Dallas Cowboys early with an unspecified injury.

Juwan Johnson, Noah Fant, Oscar Delp and Treyton Welch: Welch’s inclusion comes as a minor surprise, but it makes sense when factoring the injuries at this position. Moliki Matavao (knee) is out for the season and Delp, a third-round rookie, is nursing a hamstring injury. Keeping Welch gives the Saints the ability to deploy 13 personnel (three tight ends) if Delp has to miss time.

Offensive line (8) Kelvin Banks, David Edwards, Erik McCoy, Cesar Ruiz, Taliese Fuaga, Asim Richards, Jeremiah Wright and William Sherman: Perhaps this is a position the Saints will look to further address when examining the waiver wire in the coming days. Eight feels light, given teams typically keep between nine and 10 offensive linemen. But regardless, this is a solid group — particularly the starting ﬁve.

Edge rusher (5) Chase Young, Carl Granderson, Cam Jordan, Tyree Wilson and Anfernee Jennings: Jordan avoided being placed on injured reserve as he deals with a hamstring injury. The other four spots were fairly obvious. Undrafted rookie Michael Heldman cooled off down the stretch after a splashy preseason debut, but he’s now done for the year after suffering an injury in Friday’s preseason ﬁnale and landing on injured reserve.

Defensive tackle (6) Davon Godchaux, Vernon Broughton, Nathan Shepherd, Christen Miller, Khristian Boyd and John Ridgeway: This position was also affected by injuries. The Saints lost starting defensive tackle Bryan Bresee (ACL) on the ﬁrst day of training camp, and mid-camp injuries to Godchaux, Miller and Ridgeway freed up Boyd to take advantage and make the 53. Godchaux and Miller are now healthy, but there’s a question about Ridgeway’s status as he still deals with a foot injury.

Linebacker (5) Kaden Elliss, Pete Werner, Danny Stut-

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Saints wide receiver Chris Olave celebrates after catching a long pass on Aug. 9 during training camp at the team’s practice facility in Metairie.

sman, Chris Rumph and Isaiah Stalbird: Rumph made the initial roster despite missing the last three weeks of practice with an ankle injury — and switching to off-linebacker just months earlier. Notably, Jaylan Ford was the other designated player to be put on injured reserve with the ability to return after four games.

Safety (6) Justin Reid, Jonas Sanker, Julian Blackmon, Jordan Howden, Mike Reid and Lorenzo Styles: There were a few unexpected moves in this group. First, the Saints waived Terrell Burgess — a well-liked veteran who became a solid contributor last season. But he was perhaps unseated by Mike Reid, who joined the Saints right before training camp began. Reid had a terriﬁc preseason, standing out on special teams.

Cornerbacks (4) Kool-Aid McKinstry, Quincy Riley, Martin Emerson and Jayden Price: Isaac Yiadom’s release was arguably the most surprising move the Saints made Sunday. The veteran had $1.5 million in guarantees, but the Saints chose to move on anyway after Yiadom struggled throughout camp. Still, four cornerbacks, or ﬁve if you count Sanker at inside corner, feels light — especially since the Saints kept six last year and Riley (groin) is currently injured. Keep an eye on this position for New Orleans in the coming days.

Specialists (3) Kicker Daniel Carlson, punter Ryan Wright and long-snapper Zach Wood: Kicker was the big question here. Carlson locked it up despite his late entry into the race. It was telling that the Saints had him attempt Friday’s game-winning ﬁeld goal rather than Charlie Smyth or Tanner Brown. Smyth is still expected to be part of the Saints’ practice squad, if he doesn’t get claimed off waivers. Email Matthew Paras at matt. paras@theadvocate.com

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there’s no guarantee he receives the same workload this year.

two seasons. Keys started for an injured Weeks last season and should still earn some time on the ﬁeld, giving him or Dottery a breather. Whit’s brother Zach has excellent speed and could also contend for reps.

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Starters: Jayce Brown, Sr.; Eugene Wilson, R-Jr.; Winston Watkins, So. Backups: Jackson Harris, R-Jr.; Tre Brown, 5th-yr. Sr.; Roman Mothershed, R-Jr.; Malik Elzy, R-Jr.; Phillip Wright, R-Fr.; Corey Barber, Fr.; Josh Jackson, R-So.; Tyree Holloway, R-Jr.; Jabari Mack, Fr.; Brayden Allen, Fr. Breakdown: LSU’s depth chart at receiver is still anyone’s guess. Jayce Brown, Wilson, and Watkins have the most impressive résumés in the room, but nothing we’ve seen in the spring or preseason suggests they will be the starting trio against Clemson. Jayce Brown led Kansas State in receiving yards last season. Wilson was productive at Florida, but injuries have hampered his career. Watkins had 373 yards as a freshman in Kifﬁn’s offense at Ole Miss last year. Mothershed had an impressive spring, but Harris and Tre Brown have the clearest paths to playing time outside of the Jayce Brown, Wilson and Watkins trio. Harris is a deep threat who averaged nearly 20 yards per reception in 11 games at Hawaii a year ago. Tre Brown was Old Dominion’s top pass catcher, accumulating 762 receiving yards and averaging 20.1 yards per catch.

Starter: Dashawn Spears, Jr. Backup: C.J. Jimcoily, So. Breakdown: Spears inherits the role Harold Perkins had for two seasons under defensive coordinator Blake Baker. After playing mostly in thirdand-long situations at safety last season, Spears will try to prove he can be an every-down player this season.

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Safety STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU safety Dashawn Spears takes a break between drills on Aug. 10 at the team’s practice facility.

Starters: Ty Benefield, Sr.; Tamarcus Cooley, R-Jr. Backups: Faheem Delane, So.; Jhase Thomas, R-Fr.; Aiden Hall, Fr.; Isaiah Washington, Fr.; Jackson Williams, Fr.; Mason Dossett, R-So. Breakdown: Benefield was a major portal addition for LSU. The former Boise State safety was an AllMountain West first-team selection last year. Cooley, meanwhile, is a returning starter after a productive first season in Baton Rouge. Behind them, Thomas was seen taking some reps with the first team during the preseason. Delane is the brother of Mansoor, who was the No. 6 overall pick in the NFL Draft this spring after a stellar campaign with LSU. The younger Delane arrives at LSU after transferring from Ohio State.

Deuce Geralds, Fr. Backups: Dominick McKinley, Jr.; Malik Blocton, Jr; Stephiylan Green, R-Jr; Achilles Woods, R-So.; Shone Washington, 5th-yr. Sr.; Brandon Brown, R-Fr. Breakdown: This room is also in flux given the potential addition of Harris. If he receives a favorable ruling in court, he could provide a big boost to the middle of LSU’s defense. He had 58 tackles, including nine for loss, last year at Ole Miss. Two freshmen occupy starting spots in this exercise, but expect LSU to do a lot of rotating at this position. Anderson and Geralds were heralded recruits, Tight end but Green, Blocton and McKin- Cornerback ley provide plenty of power conStarter: Trey’Dez Green, Jr. Starters: DJ Pickett, So.; PJ WoodBackups: Malachi Thomas, Jr.; ference experience. Add Harris land, Jr. Zach Grace, R-Jr.; JC Anderson, Fr.; into the mix, and LSU’s defensive Backups: Ja’Keem Jackson, R-Jr.; tackle room will have a strong Michael Turner, R-So.; Havon JD LaFleur, R-Fr. Breakdown: If a Louisiana judge six-man rotation. Finney, Fr.; Dez Ellis, Fr.; Emari grants Wright a preliminary inPeterson, Fr.; Treylan James, R-Jr.; junction, he could give LSU’s 12 Edge rusher Lavonte Williams, So. personnel (two tight ends, one runBreakdown: LSU has turned to the Starters: Princewill Umanmielen, ning back) packages a major boost. Sr.; Jordan Ross, Jr. courts for extra help at this posiWright hauled in a career-high 39 Backups: Lamar Brown, Fr.; Dylan tion as well. catches for 635 yards at Ole Miss Carpenter, R-Jr.; Jaylen Brown, The Louisiana lawsuit states that last season. R-So.; Trenton Henderson, Fr.; Cotton “intends to seek a roster Whether Wright is allowed to Damien Shanklin, R-Fr.; Kolaj Cob- spot at a D-I university in Louisiplay shouldn’t affect Green, who bins, R-So.; Jaiden Braker, R-Fr. ana,” likely meaning that he will is set to be Leavitt’s top passBreakdown: Tuihalamaka and Py- try to join LSU’s roster this seacatching option. He comes into burn could drastically change the son. Cotton started in eight games this year as an AP first-team outlook of this room if they join the at Utah and finished second on the All-American, and last season he team. team in pass breakups last year. caught 33 passes for 433 yards Cotton, at the very least, could Tuihalamaka — a Notre Dame and seven touchdowns. transfer if he’s ruled eligible — provide depth for an LSU cornernever signed a pro contract, so backs room that needs it. With Offensive line he has an even clearer path to sophomore Aidan Anding out for Starters: Jordan Seaton, Jr. the team than Harris, Pyburn or the year with an Achilles tear, (LT); Bo Bordelon, 5th-yr. Sr. Wright. Pyburn was cut by the Jackson, a former Florida trans(LG); Braelin Moore, 5th-yr. Sr. Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sun- fer, is currently in line to be LSU’s (C); Aliou Bah, 5th-yr. Sr. (RG); day. If another NFL team doesn’t third cornerback. Jackson played pick him up on waivers, he could more than 10 snaps in just one SEC Weston Davis, R-So. (RT) Backups: Devin Harper, So.; Sean be primed for a return to Baton game last year, according to Pro Football Focus. Thompkins, R-Jr.; William Satter- Rouge. With that said, LSU’s starters Both Tuihalamaka and Pyburn’s white, R-So.; Darrin Strey, R-Fr.; JaKolby Jones, Jr.; Brysten Martinez, best attribute is their ability to set at corner are strong. Pickett and Fr.; Solomon Thomas, R-Fr.; Adrian the edge against the run. That skill Woodland return as key pieces of Lamb, R-So.; Jar’Mand Jones, So.; set is a need for LSU’s edge room, last year’s defense. Add in Cotton, Ja’Quan Sprinkle, R-Jr.; Brett Bor- which lacks depth and is mostly and the Tigers would be set at the made up of players who do their position. delon; R-Fr.; Ryan Miret, Fr. Breakdown: Seaton, Moore and Bah best work rushing the passer. This are virtual locks to start. Seaton became especially true after red- Special teams was the top offensive lineman in shirt sophomore Gabriel Reliford Kicker: Scott Starzyk, So. the portal out of Colorado, while tore his ACL in the spring. Punter: Grant Chadwick, Jr. Umanmielen was one of LSU’s Moore is a returning starter and Long snapper: Mack Mulhern, R-Fr. Bah had an impressive two-year biggest additions from the portal, Punt returner: Jayce Brown registering nine sacks and 13 tackrun at Maryland. Kick returner: Harlem Berry The questions on the line are at les for loss last season. Ross is a Breakdown: Starzyk made 14 of 18 former five-star recruit who had field goal attempts at Arkansas a left guard and right tackle. Davis started at right tackle for 1.5 sacks at Tennessee last year. year ago. Chadwick, after a strong most of last year, but he struggled. Brown is another former five-star first season at LSU, could face He has the physical tools to be an recruit who is expected to make an competition from Florida transfer SEC tackle — new offensive line impact as a freshman. Carpenter redshirt freshman Hayden Craig. coach Eric Wolford just needs to is another run-stuffing edge who Craig and Mulhern followed new help him reach his potential. Bor- earned playing time last season. special teams coordinator Joe delon never played much in four Houston from Florida. years under Brian Kelly, but he Linebacker Brown was seen fielding punts in lined up as LSU’s starter at left Starters: Whit Weeks, Sr.; TJ Dot- the spring, but he didn’t take any guard during the spring. at Kansas State. Berry didn’t field tery, 5th-yr.-Sr. Harper and Satterwhite are in Backups: Davhon Keys, Jr.; Zach any kicks last season, but has the line for playing time in case some- Weeks, R-Fr.; Tylen Singleton, speed and vision to be dangerous thing happens to any of the start- R-So.; Charles Ross, So.; Keylan in the role. He was also seen fielders. Harper followed Kiffin from Moses, R-Fr.; Theo Grace, R-Fr. ing kicks in the spring. Ole Miss to LSU, while Satterwhite Breakdown: Weeks and Dottery earned playing time at Tennessee form one of the top linebacker Email Koki Riley at last season. duos in the SEC. Weeks was award- koki.riley@theadvocate.com. ed the No. 7 jersey for a reason, For more LSU sports updates, Defensive tackle while Dottery was a key starter sign up for our newsletter at Starters: Richard Anderson, Fr.; on Ole Miss’ defense over the past theadvocate.com/lsunewsletter

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Continued from page 1C Analysis: Again, not much time on task, but plenty of ability at this edge rusher spot. Garner, a career backup fully recovered from a devastating knee injury earlier in his career, appears ready for the spotlight. Roberts, a redshirt freshman, is a speed rusher with tremendous upside. Alston, another redshirt freshman, is a bigger body. Henderson, returning from a knee injury, has moved over from end to provide experience. He made 20 tackles in seven games. Bandits coach Nate Fuqua: “They are all wet behind the ears, but there’s a smorgasbord in there I’m really excited about. Warren hasn’t played a lot, but his ability is different than anybody in that room.”

Linebacker Starters: Chris Rodgers, Dickson Agu

of the back seven with any concerns at all. Jahiem Johnson, Tulane’s best cover corner last year, transferred to Arkansas. Shine got picked on quite a bit while starting every game as a redshirt freshman, but he has a good skill set and the coaches believe he grew from the experience. Nicholls transfer Anthony Rogers beat out the much bigger Macho Stevenson, a Texas Tech import, for the other starting spot in camp, but both will play. LJ Green started for Troy two years ago. Justin Agu, Dickson’s older brother, came on strong at the end of camp. Hall: “We have so much more depth than last year and at any point here. We’re really comfortable with a lot of guys. Shine’s improved so much from last year, and the ones we brought in have Cornerbacks really bought into how we do Starters: Anthony Rogers, E’Zaiah things. A lot of them have length.” Shine Backups: Macho Stevenson, LJ Spear (nickelback) Green, Justin Agu Starter: TJ Smith Analysis: This is the only part Backup: Kajuan Banks Backups: Dalton Hughes, Makhi Williams Analysis: This is easily the best set of linebackers in the American Conference. Rodgers is a sidelineto-sideline playmaker who learned on the job last season and is ready to explode. Agu appears fully recovered from the meniscus injury that shelved him ﬁve games into 2025 when he was leading the team in tackles. Williams and Hughes, who made 40 tackles for South Alabama last year, are starter quality. Jean Claude Joseph, who had a good camp, could not even crack the top four. Coach Will Hall: “You’ve got a ton of depth and experience, age and maturity that you don’t always see in today’s day and age, especially. They are really good players and really good leaders.”

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Tampa Bay Buccaneers linebacker Jack Pyburn rushes during a preseason game against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Friday in Jacksonville, Fla. Pyburn was cut by the Bucs on Sunday.

Buccaneers waive LB Pyburn, paving way for LSU return BY JON BLAU Staff writer

Is the NFL’s preseason sack leader bound for Baton Rouge? It’s entirely possible, as much as it might roil college football purists. Jack Pyburn, an undrafted free agent from LSU, was waived by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday. A court filing in an eligibility lawsuit filed in Baton Rouge said Pyburn planned to return to LSU for the 2026 season if he was granted a fifth year of NCAA competition and wasn’t on an NFL roster on Tuesday. If Pyburn clears waivers over the next 24 hours, the Tigers might have another late addition to their defensive end rotation. LSU’s season opens Saturday versus Clemson. It appeared Pyburn may have played his way out of a college return after he followed a twosack effort against the Jets with another pair of quarterback takedowns in the Bucs’ preseason finale against the Jaguars. His four sacks in the NFL eclipsed the three Pyburn totaled in college with Florida and LSU. It was ultimately difficult for Tampa to keep a preseason overachiever because the franchise invested a first-round pick in ex-Miami pass rusher Rueben Bain in April and brought in Al-Quadin Muhammad after an 11-sack season in Detroit. The Bucs also returned fourthyear veteran YaYa Diaby, who had seven sacks in 2025, and Pyburn was behind eight-year veteran Anthony Nelson and recent fourth-round pick David Walker in the pecking order. Talking to reporters in Tampa after Friday’s preseason finale, Pyburn credited Bucs outside linebackers coach Larry Foote for taking his game to another level. “That is the biggest thing that I have worked on, is timing the snap and getting off the ball as fast as possible,” Pyburn said. “His overall understanding of how an offense works has helped me so tremendously understand that at a deeper level.” Pyburn’s time in the NFL could be LSU’s gain. While he was working to make an NFL team, Pyburn remained on a list of 40-plus plaintiffs in a lawsuit in Baton Rouge challenging the NCAA’s decision to not allow Class of 2022 high school graduates to play a fifth season.

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The judge overseeing the case, William Jorden, granted a temporary restraining order against the NCAA and, more recently, the Southeastern Conference, making Pyburn and his fellow athletes eligible to play in college. LSU has already recruited multiple players who were previously signed by NFL teams, including tight end Dae’Quan Wright (Eagles and Browns) and defensive tackle Zxavian Harris (Saints). The judge ruled ex-pros were eligible as long as they were released from their contracts and paid back whatever money they made. Pyburn’s undrafted deal with the Bucs reportedly guaranteed him $115,000, including a $15,000 signing bonus. If Pyburn doesn’t land on another NFL roster and returns to LSU, he would become the ﬁrst college football player who previously logged statistics for a pro team. Wright suited up for the Browns this month but didn’t record a reception, and Harris was cut by the Saints on Aug. 8 because a foot injury kept him off the ﬁeld. The SEC implemented rules against member institutions adding ex-pros, including a fine of 50% of a sport’s budget and a halfseason suspension of the team’s coach. But the judge amended the temporary restraining order to void those penalties. The league, unsurprisingly, will abide by the court order, but the SEC is likely to appeal if the plaintiffs in the Baton Rouge case are granted an injunction during Thursday’s initial hearing. For now, LSU and other conference schools can add former pros. Pyburn could still be claimed by another NFL team, as well, but Pyburn will want to be on a 53-man roster. College contributors tend to make more in the NIL and revenue-sharing era than rookie NFL practice squad members, who reportedly receive $13,000 a week, or about $234,000 over the course of an 18-week season. If Pyburn re-enrolls at LSU, this would be the Tigers’ second August addition to the defensive end rotation. Notre Dame transfer Junior Tuihalamaka, who is also a plaintiff in the Baton Rouge eligibility case, previously committed to LSU. Tuihalamaka was injured during the pre-draft process and never signed with an NFL team.

behind him seeing that, that’s how this team is going to reach its full Starter: Kevin Adams at strong safe- potential.” ty, Jack Tchienchou at free safety Backups: Josh Moore at free safe- Special teams ty, Chase Green at strong safety Kicker: Jackson Courville Analysis: Clearly a team strength. Punter: William Hudlow Tchienchou, who plays so much Long snapper: Jason Arredondo bigger than his 5-10, 192-pound Holder: Hudlow frame would suggest, is primed Kickoff/punt returner: Jaylin Lucas to build on his MVP performance Analysis: Courville, who made against North Texas in the 2025 26 of 34 field goals in two years American championship game. at Ball State, is reliable up to Adams is ready for his first career 50 yards. If the Wave needs a start after finishing fourth on the 60-yarder at the end of a half or team with 53 tackles as a reserve, a game, backup Cooper Helmke but Green, a redshirt sophomore has the leg for it. Punting is a huge who excelled in the Wave’s final concern. Hudlow, a walk-on who scrimmage, is pushing him hard. looked pretty good early in camp, Moore, a special teams contribu- struggled in the last scrimmage tor a year ago, has looked good, and is totally unproven in games. too. Smith and Banks both had His backup, Brooks Moore, is a solid camps and still are compet- true freshman. Lucas is an elite ing for the starting job at spear. returner with three career touchSafeties coach Bryan Berezowitz: “Jack downs on kickoffs. is a phenomenal player. It’s the inHall: “(Courville) just makes you tangibles that separate him. He’s feel comfortable from the standa leader. He’s unselfish. He’s the point of how he works every day. one who’s early to meetings and He is driven. He is like a military doing extra. To have talented guys guy. He’s an impressive dude.”

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FAVORITE at SEATTLE

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 4½ 3½ (44½) NE

FAVORITE at LA RAMS

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3½ 3½ (48½) San Fran

Thursday Sunday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at PITT 3 3½ (42½) Atlanta Chicago 2½ 2½ (47½) at CAR Baltimore 3½ 3½ (47½) at IND at CIN 3½ 3½ (50½) Tmpa Bay at TEN 2½ 2½ (39½) NY Jets at DETROIT 7 7 (49½) Nola Buffalo 1½ 1½ (44½) at HOU at JAX 7½ 7½ (40½) Cleveland at LAS VEGAS 3½ 3½ (40½) Miami at CHARGRS 10½ 10½ (47½) Arizona at MIN 1½ 1½ (45½) Green Bay at PHILA 4½ 4½ (46½) Wash Dallas 2½ 2½ (48½) at GIANTS

Monday FAVORITE at K.C.

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 2½ 2½ (42½) Denver

College Football Thursday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at RUTGERS 30½ 29½ (53½) UMass at KEN ST 21½ 23½ (51½)W Georgia at BUFFALO 27½ 24½ (48½) Albany at DELAWRE 30½ 28½ (55½)Merrimack at W. FOREST 22½ 24½ (48½) Akron at UCF 38½ 42½ (59½) B.Cookmn at GA TECH 7½ 6½ (50½) Colorado at MISSOURI 50½ 54½ (60½) UAPB at MIN 43½ 42½ (51½) E. Illinois at UTAH 35½ 34½ (56½) Idaho at ILLINOIS 27½ 28½ (55½) UAB

Friday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at E. MICHGN 4 3½ (54½)San Jse St. at PURDUE 30½ 35½ (56½)Indiana St. at GA ST 26½ 28½ (63½) NC A&T at KANSAS 40½ 39½ (53½) LIU Post at OKLA 40½ 41½ (50½) UTEP at MICH ST 10½ 10 (49½) Toledo at USC 23½ 22½ (51½) Fresno St. Miami (FL) 22 24½ (48½) at STAN

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at UCONN 21½ 19½ (58½) Lafayette at SYRACUSE 27½ 33½ (55½)New Hamp at B. GREEN 1½ 2½ (47½) Tarlton St. at J. MADISON 6 6½ (52½) Liberty at NEBRASKA 23½ 23½ (47½) Ohio at HOUSTON 18½ 20½ (51½)Oregon St. at ALABAMA 26½ 28½ (54½)E. Carolina at INDIANA 40½ 40½ (55½) N. Texas at ARMY 37½ 37½ (51½) Bryant at W. VIRGNA 17½ 21½ (56½)C. Carolina at PITT 15½ 16½ (49½)Miami (OH) at OHIO ST. 50½ 50½ (56½) Ball State at S. CAR 34½ 36½ (53½) Kent State at IOWA ST. 30½ 29½ (53½) SEMSU at KENTCKY 27½ 23½ (62½) Youngs St at AIR FORCE 23½ 28½ (58½) Duquesne at TEMPLE 12½ 10½ (51½)Rhde Islnd at GEORGIA 48½ 46½ (56½) Tenn St. at CHAR 17½ 17½ (46½) Citadel at UTSA 27½ 28½ (59½) Utrgv at AUBURN 7 7½ (59½) Baylor at NDSU 35½ 39½ (57½) Fordham at NAVY 30½ 30½ (53½) Towson at CIN 7½ 7½ (51½) B. College at DUKE 9½ 9½ (50½) Tulane at OREGON 24½ 24½ (51½) Boise St. at TEXAS 30½ 30½ (60½) Texas St. at TEN 47½ 46½ (66½) Furman at APP ST. 22½ 18½ (53½) Maine at PENN ST. 23½ 24½ (54½) Marshall Oklahoma St. 12½ 14 (60½) at TULSA at IOWA 30½ 31½ (45½) N. Illinois at ARKANS 40½ 40½ (63½) N. bama at S. MISS 23½ 21½ (50½) Alcorn St. at OLD DOM 41½ 41½ (55½)Norfolk St. at CSU 3½ 3½ (47½) Wyoming at S. BAMA 14½ 12½ (52½) Selu at S. FLORIDA 12½ 13½ (54½) Flrda Intl at M. TEN 25½ 20½ (59½) Murray St. at KAN ST 41½ 40½ (55½)Nicholls St. at UTAH ST. 23½ 13½ (61½) Idaho St. at JAX STATE 20½ 19½ (54½) E. Kent at VAND 35½ 30½ (61½) A. Peay at TX A&M 38½ 41½ (52½) Missou St at GA SOUTH 26½ 25½ (51½) Chrlstn S at TEX TECH 41½ 42½ (59½)A. Chrstian at RICE 21½ 22½ (47½)Hou Christ at TROY 17½ 16½ (53½) Sam Hou at MEMPHIS 10½ 9½ (53½) Arkans St at MICHIGAN 26½ 27½ (47½) W Michgn at MISS ST 28½ 28½ (55½)UL Monroe at LSU 11½ 10½ (51½) Clemson at VA TECH 47½ 51½ (57½) VMI at LA TECH 40½ 43½ (52½)Nrthstrn St at FLORIDA 26½ 27½ (59½) Fla Atl at NRTHWSN 15½ 12½ (46½) S. Dkta St. at UL 17½ 20½ (48½) Lamar at MARYLND 41½ 45½ (56½) Hampton at BYU 47½ 47½ (54½) Utah Tech at NNMSU 23½ 28½ (51½) Mercyhrst at ARIZONA 29½ 33½ (56½) N. Arizona at SDSU 40½ 40½ (58½) Prtland St. UNLV 1½ 3 (58½) at HAWAII at ARIZ ST 42½ 41½ (52½) Morgan St at NEW MEX 12½ 10½ (46½)C. Michign at SAC ST. 32½ 35½ (56½) Miss Va St W. Kntcky 3 2½ (52½)at NEVADA UCLA 1½ 1½ (53½) at CAL

Sunday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at WASH 21½ 23½ (50½) Wash St. at N.D. 20½ 20½ (47½) Wisconsin at OLE MISS 6½ 6½ (55½) Louisville

Monday

FAVORITE SMU

MLB

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 2½ 3 (53½) at FSU

Monday

American League FAVORITE LINE at BOSTON -168 at MIN -135 at TEXAS -221 at HOUSTON -135 N.Y Yankees -138 National League FAVORITE LINE at ATLANTA OFF San Diego -147 at WASH OFF Milwaukee -112 Philadelphia -118 Interleague FAVORITE LINE at TAMPA BAY -166 Baltimore -136

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LINE +135 +110 +175 +110 +118

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UNDERDOG N.Y Mets at COLORADO

LINE +138 +116

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x-clinched playoff spot Saturday’s Games New York 85, Chicago 66 Phoenix 101, Toronto 69

Sunday’s Games

Atlanta 89, Minnesota 81 Los Angeles 90, Seattle 74 Golden State 86, Portland 69 Connecticut at Dallas, n

Monday’s Games

No games scheduled.

Pro football NFL Glance Thursday’s Games

Buffalo 28, Pittsburgh 27 Cleveland 37, New England 13 San Francisco 18, Las Vegas 12 L.A. Rams 20, L.A. Chargers 18

Friday’s Games

Baltimore 41, Washington 3 Atlanta 17, Miami 12 Carolina 16, Houston 13 Jacksonville 19, Tampa Bay 0 N.Y. Giants 23, N.Y. Jets 6 Cincinnati 30, Philadelphia 13 Green Bay 42, Arizona 38 New Orleans 27, Dallas 24 Seattle 9, Kansas City 9 Denver 34, Minnesota 6

jedovic, Serbia, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3. Daniel Merida, Spain, def. Marton Fucsovics, Hungary, 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. Yibing Wu, China, def. Adam Walton, Australia, 7-6 (2), 6-2, 7-5. Jiri Lehecka (18), Czechia, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 6-1, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 6-2. Arthur Rinderknech (26), France, def. Sho Shimabukuro, Japan, 6-7 (4), 6-2, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Lloyd Harris, South Africa, def. Jack Kennedy, United States, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. Dino Prizmic, Croatia, def. Aleksandr Shevchenko, Russia, 2-6, 6-3, 6-3, 5-7, 7-5. Tommy Paul (20), United States, def. Coleman Wong, Hong Kong, China, 6-7 (3), 6-1, 6-3, 6-3. Daniil Medvedev (7), Russia, def. Hugo Gaston, France, 6-4, 6-2, 6-4. Toby Samuel, Britain, def. Tomas Machac, Czechia, 6-2, 6-3, 6-2. Luca Van Assche, France, def. Cameron Norrie (29), Britain, 6-7 (6), 6-2, 6-2, 6-3.

Saturday’s Games

Detroit 25, Indianapolis 16 Chicago 24, Tennessee 15

College football Major Scores EAST

Bryant 24, Stonehill 6 Howard 31, Alabama A&M 24 Lehigh 35, Holy Cross 10 Robert Morris 28, Wagner 7

Women’s Singles

First Round Jasmine Paolini (19), Italy, def. Veronika Erjavec, Slovenia, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4. Kamilla Rakhimova, Russia, def. Barbora Krejcikova (27), Czechia, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Jessica Pegula (3), United States, def. ElenaGabriela Ruse, Romania, 6-3, 6-2. Donna Vekic, Croatia, def. Talia Gibson, Australia, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3. Polina Iatcenko, Russia, def. Renata Zarazua, Mexico, 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7). Leylah Fernandez (31), Canada, def. Zhang Shuai, China, 6-3, 6-2. Marta Kostyuk (11), Ukraine, def. Storm Hunter, Australia, 6-4, 6-1. Wang Xinyu, China, def. Emiliana Arango, Colombia, 6-4, 6-2. Lanlana Tararudee, Thailand, def. Elvina Kalieva, United States, 6-3, 6-7 (4), 6-2. Lucrezia Stefanini, Italy, def. Dayana Yastremska, Ukraine, 6-3, 4-6, 6-1. Karolina Pliskova, Czechia, def. Hanne Vandewinkel, Belgium, 2-6, 7-5, 6-3. Ekaterina Alexandrova (18), Russia, def. McCartney Kessler, United States, 6-2, 6-2.

SOUTH

Alabama St. 30, Southern U. 17 Alcorn St. 56, Miles 7 Campbell 49, ETSU 37 Florida A&M 20, Albany St. (Ga.) 7 Florida St. 34, New Mexico St. 17 Grambling St. 49, Clark Atlanta 7 Hampton 45, Va. Lynchburg 0 Jackson St. 26, Tennessee St. 24 Mercer 23, East Texas A&M 15 Morgan St. 17, NC A&T 7 Norfolk St. 56, Winston-Salem 0 North Alabama 22, Samford 10 Richmond 35, Bucknell 14 SC State 87, Savannah St. 0 Stephen F. Austin 38, McNeese St. 27 Tennessee Tech 38, Monmouth (NJ) 14 Virginia 34, NC State 8 W. Carolina 45, E. Kentucky 21 Wofford 42, The Citadel 14

MIDWEST

Butler 27, Georgetown (KY) Tigers 23 Chicago 44, Chicago State Cougars 28 Dayton 43, Fairmont St. 20 E. Michigan 28, Sacramento St. 17 N. Dakota St. 33, Jacksonville St. 7 S. Dakota St. 70, Stetson 7 SE Missouri 23, Indiana St. 21 South Dakota 59, CCSU 20 Valparaiso 59, Lawrence 13

Auto racing NASCAR Cup Series Coke Zero Sugar 400 Results

SOUTHWEST

Ark.-Pine Bluff 35, Morehouse 15 Incarnate Word 76, Okla. Panhandle St. 14 Lamar 21, Abilene Christian 14 North Carolina 15, TCU 10 Tarleton St. 49, Prairie View 30 Texas Southern 42, NC Central 30 UT Rio Grande Valley Vaqueros 44, TexasPermian Basin 0

FAR WEST

Idaho St. 38, VMI 10 Memphis 27, UNLV 21 Montana 28, S. Utah 21 Montana St. 54, Utah Tech 0 N. Arizona 34, E. Washington 27 Southern Cal 42, San Jose St. 26 Stanford 37, Hawaii 27 UC Davis 31, Portland St. 24

Golf Tour Championship Sunday

At East Lake GC Atlanta Purse: $40 million Yardage: 7,440; Par: 70 Final Round Scottie Schefﬂer 65-67-66-66—264 Viktor Hovland 64-66-65-72—267 Ryan Gerard 65-65-66-72—268 Jacob Bridgeman 68-67-66-68—269 Alex Fitzpatrick 68-68-67-66—269 Chris Gotterup 64-67-67-71—269 Russell Henley 70-65-66-68—269 Min Woo Lee 62-73-66-68—269 Rory McIlroy 68-69-63-69—269 Ludvig Åberg 65-68-65-71—269 Tommy Fleetwood 66-70-67-67—270 Adam Scott 66-67-65-72—270 Cameron Young 70-62-68-70—270 Tom Kim 67-68-68-68—271 Si Woo Kim 69-68-65-69—271 Collin Morikawa 64-67-72-68—271 Xander Schauffele 67-71-67-66—271 Akshay Bhatia 65-69-71-68—273 Sam Burns 66-68-67-72—273 Justin Rose 68-65-69-71—273 Patrick Cantlay 68-70-68-69—275 Wyndham Clark 67-69-67-72—275 Matt Fitzpatrick 66-67-69-73—275 Hideki Matsuyama 69-70-67-69—275 Kristoffer Reitan 70-69-68-70—277 Ryan Fox 66-68-70-74—278 Alex Smalley 67-68-72-72—279 Robert MacIntyre 67-76-63-74—280 Gary Woodland 66-68-71-77—282

FM Championship Par Scores

-16 -13 -12 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -11 -10 -10 -10 -9 -9 -9 -9 -7 -7 -7 -5 -5 -5 -5 -3 -2 -1 E +2

Sunday

At TPC Boston Norton, Mass. Purse: $4.4 million Yardage: 6,533; Par: 72 Final Round Ruoning Yin, $660,000 71-65-68-70—274 -14 Hyo Joo Kim, $413,842 68-67-70-71—276 -12 A. Corpuz, $300,213 68-67-74-68—277 -11 Sei Young Kim, $209,582 64-74-67-73—278 -10 Rose Zhang, $209,582 72-68-70-68—278 -10 Jenny Bae, $131,037 68-68-72-71—279 -9 B. Matthews, $131,037 72-69-70-68—279 -9 M. Yamashita, $131,037 65-70-75-69—279 -9 Jin Hee Im, $89,213 70-70-69-71—280 -8 Somi Lee, $89,213 66-72-70-72—280 -8 Hae-Ran Ryu, $89,213 68-70-72-70—280 -8 Jeeno Thitikul, $89,213 72-68-71-69—280 -8 Na Rin An, $67,971 72-72-66-71—281 -7 L. Coughlin, $67,971 68-71-70-72—281 -7 Na. Guseva, $67,971 69-68-72-72—281 -7 Nasa Hataoka, $67,971 71-70-72-68—281 -7 P. Tavatanakit, $67,971 71-68-73-69—281 -7 Hye Jin Choi, $54,288 72-66-73-71—282 -6 Karis Davidson, $54,288 70-73-70-69—282 -6 Charley Hull, $54,288 71-70-73-68—282 -6 M. Metraux, $54,288 71-65-73-73—282 -6 Linnea Strom, $48,486 73-67-75-68—283 -5 Ashleigh Buhai, $44,127 70-71-71-72—284 -4 N. Madsen, $44,127 73-71-68-72—284 -4 S. Schubert, $44,127 70-72-72-70—284 -4 A. Yubol, $44,127 68-75-70-71—284 -4 Hailee Cooper, $33,669 72-68-73-72—285 -3 Olivia Cowan, $33,669 73-71-69-72—285 -3 Aki Iwai, $33,669 74-66-72-73—285 -3 MinJi Kang, $33,669 73-70-71-71—285 -3 Minami Katsu, $33,669 71-73-69-72—285 -3 Megan Khang, $33,669 73-69-70-73—285 -3 Yan Liu, $33,669 74-70-67-74—285 -3 Gaby Lopez, $33,669 68-72-73-72—285 -3 Mao Saigo, $33,669 72-70-69-74—285 -3 Lottie Woad, $33,669 68-73-70-74—285 -3 S. Vnjchtam, $26,738 73-65-76-72—286 -2 P. Annnrkrn, $23,148 73-70-73-71—287 -1 M. De Roey, $23,148 72-72-73-70—287 -1 A. Jutanugarn, $23,148 75-67-73-72—287 -1 N. Nadaud, $23,148 72-68-77-70—287 -1 A. Nordqvist, $23,148 74-68-73-72—287 -1 E. Pedersen, $23,148 65-72-74-76—287 -1 A. Doherty, $18,239 70-69-73-76—288 E Lindy Duncan, $18,239 70-69-70-79—288 E Isi Gabsa, $18,239 73-69-74-72—288 E Dewi Weber, $18,239 75-69-73-71—288 E Yana Wilson, $18,239 71-72-71-74—288 E Ina Yoon, $18,239 74-70-71-73—288 E Laetitia Beck, $15,407 72-71-71-75—289 +1 Nelly Korda, $15,407 72-72-72-73—289 +1 Dongeun Lee, $15,407 71-71-73-74—289 +1 Chella Choi, $13,820 70-72-77-71—290 +2 Robyn Choi, $13,820 73-70-75-72—290 +2 Lucy Li, $13,820 74-69-76-71—290 +2 Ryann O’Toole, $13,820 75-67-76-72—290 +2 Hannah Green, $12,462 74-67-73-77—291 +3 Wei-Ling Hsu, $12,462 75-68-75-73—291 +3 Anna Huang, $11,406 69-70-76-77—292 +4 Soo Bin Joo, $11,406 71-73-75-73—292 +4 Paula Reto, $11,406 74-69-76-73—292 +4 Aditi Ashok, $10,762 71-71-76-76—294 +6 Aphrodite Deng, $0 73-71-73-77—294 +6 Kiara Romero, $10,762 71-73-74-76—294 +6 Ana Belac, $10,309 73-70-75-77—295 +7 D. Darquea, $10,309 77-67-72-79—295 +7

Tennis U.S. Open Results Sunday

At The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center New York Purse: $5,438,400 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Results Sunday from US Open at The USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses):

Men’s Singles

First Round Kamil Majchrzak, Poland, def. Hamad Med-

Saturday

At Daytona International Speedway Daytona Beach, Fla. Lap length: 2.50 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Ryan Preece, Ford, 166 laps, 67 points. 2. (23) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 166, 38. 3. (17) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 166, 34. 4. (18) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 166, 33. 5. (32) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 166, 32. 6. (8) Austin Cindric, Ford, 166, 32. 7. (29) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 166, 30. 8. (20) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 166, 29. 9. (24) Josh Berry, Ford, 166, 28. 10. (16) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 166, 27. 11. (30) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 166, 26. 12. (5) Harrison Burton, Toyota, 166, 0. 13. (12) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 166, 34. 14. (21) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 166, 23. 15. (27) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 166, 24. 16. (11) Corey Heim, Toyota, 166, 0. 17. (35) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 166, 20. 18. (9) Joey Logano, Ford, 166, 27. 19. (33) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 166, 24. 20. (26) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 166, 21. 21. (31) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 166, 16. 22. (13) William Byron, Chevrolet, 166, 22. 23. (22) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 166, 16. 24. (1) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 166, 13. 25. (7) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 166, 12. 26. (37) Noah Gragson, Ford, 166, 12. 27. (3) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 166, 0. 28. (6) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 166, 19. 29. (39) Daniel Dye, Chevrolet, 166, 0. 30. (36) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 166, 7. 31. (10) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 166, 16. 32. (34) Zane Smith, Ford, accident, 165, 13. 33. (19) Ryan Blaney, Ford, accident, 165, 14. 34. (14) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, accident, 165, 12. 35. (25) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, accident, 165, 2. 36. (40) Joey Gase, Chevrolet, 165, 0. 37. (38) Casey Mears, Chevrolet, 165, 1. 38. (28) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, accident, 154, 1. 39. (15) Erik Jones, Toyota, accident, 154, 8. 40. (2) Chris Buescher, Ford, 151, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 154.692 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 40 minutes, 58 seconds. Margin of Victory: Under Caution. Caution Flags: 4 for 23 laps. Lead Changes: 41 among 22 drivers. Lap Leaders: R.Chastain 0-1; K.Larson 2; R.Chastain 3-4; C.Buescher 5-9; K.Larson 10; A.Hill 11-33; C.Buescher 34; S.Van Gisbergen 35-39; T.Gibbs 40; R.Blaney 41; J.Logano 4243; S.Van Gisbergen 44; T.Gilliland 45; A.Hill 46-49; C.Briscoe 50-55; R.Chastain 56-63; C.Elliott 64-67; Z.Smith 68-70; C.Elliott 71-81; R.Blaney 82-84; A.Cindric 85-90; C.Elliott 9194; R.Blaney 95; R.Preece 96; R.Chastain 97; J.Berry 98; R.Stenhouse 99; T.Gilliland 100106; C.Briscoe 107-109; B.Keselowski 110-113; C.Briscoe 114; B.Keselowski 115-117; C.Ware 118-119; B.Keselowski 120-122; C.Ware 123-128; W.Byron 129-142; J.Nemechek 143144; T.Reddick 145-149; R.Preece 150-152; C.Hocevar 153; Z.Smith 154-165; R.Preece 166 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): A.Hill, 2 times for 27 laps; C.Elliott, 3 times for 19 laps; Z.Smith, 2 times for 15 laps; W.Byron, 1 time for 14 laps; R.Chastain, 4 times for 12 laps; C.Briscoe, 3 times for 10 laps; B.Keselowski, 3 times for 10 laps; T.Gilliland, 2 times for 8 laps; C.Ware, 2 times for 8 laps; A.Cindric, 1 time for 6 laps; S.Van Gisbergen, 2 times for 6 laps; C.Buescher, 2 times for 6 laps; R.Preece, 3 times for 5 laps; T.Reddick, 1 time for 5 laps; R.Blaney, 3 times for 5 laps; J.Nemechek, 1 time for 2 laps; J.Logano, 1 time for 2 laps; K.Larson, 2 times for 2 laps; R.Stenhouse, 1 time for 1 lap; J.Berry, 1 time for 1 lap; T.Gibbs, 1 time for 1 lap; C.Hocevar, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; R.Blaney, 3; T.Gibbs, 2; C.Elliott, 2; J.Logano, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; C.Briscoe, 1; D.Suárez, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; R.Preece, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 1027; 2. R.Blaney, 938; 3. T.Reddick, 894; 4. T.Gibbs, 892; 5. C.Briscoe, 761; 6. C.Bell, 758; 7. K.Larson, 724; 8. C.Elliott, 723; 9. J.Logano, 709; 10. C.Buescher, 677; 11. D.Suárez, 676; 12. C.Hocevar, 673; 13. W.Byron, 666; 14. B.Wallace, 651; 15. A.Cindric, 631; 16. R.Preece, 622. NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League BOSTON RED SOX — Reinstated LF Roman Anthony and SS Trevor Story from the 60-day IL. Optioned LHP Raymond Burgos, 2B Anthony Seigler and DH Mickey Gasper to Worcester (IL). LOS ANGELES ANGELS — Recalled LHPs Blake Weiman and Mitch Farris from Salt Lake (PCL). Optioned RHP Trevor Martin to Salt Lake. Placed RHP George Klassen on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 27. MINNESOTA TWINS — Recalled RF Gabriel Gonzalez from St. Paul (IL). Placed CF Byron Buxton on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 27. Sent RHP Woo-Suk Go outright to St. Paul. NEW YORK YANKEES — Recalled RHP Luis Gil from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned RHPs Brendan Beck and Yerry De los Santos to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled RHP Nick Davila from Tacoma (PCL). Placed RHP Emerson Hancock on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 29. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Sent RHP Zac Gallen on a rehab assignment to Reno (PCL). Optioned LHP Mitch Bratt to Reno. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated LF Samad Taylor from the 10-day IL. Recalled 2B SungMun Song from El Paso (PCL). Placed 1B Gavin Sheets and LF Luis Rengifo on the 10-day IL. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Recalled LHP Matt Wilkinson from Sacramento (PCL). Placed LHP Sam Hentges on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Aug. 27. Sent 3B Buddy Kennedy outright to Sacramento. ST. LOUIS CARDINALS — Recalled 3B César Prieto from Memphis (IL). Placed 2B JJ Wetherholt on the 10-day IL.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American League East Division

National League

Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 82 78 74 68 67

L 54 59 63 70 69

Pct .603 .569 .540 .493 .493

GB — 4½ 8½ 15 15

Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

W 72 69 65 63 62

L 64 68 72 73 76

Pct .529 .504 .474 .463 .449

GB — 3½ 7½ 9 11

Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles

W 68 67 64 53 52

L 68 70 73 83 84

Pct .500 .489 .467 .390 .382

GB — 1½ 4½ 15 16

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s Games

Boston 6, N.Y. Yankees 0, 1st game Detroit 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Chicago White Sox 3, Minnesota 2 Toronto 4, Seattle 3 Kansas City 8, Cleveland 3 N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 2 Tampa Bay 7, San Diego 6 Milwaukee 5, Texas 3 N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 2, 2nd game Baltimore 5, Athletics 3 Philadelphia 4, L.A. Angels 2, 10 innings

Sunday’s Games

Cleveland 11, Kansas City 1 Toronto 7, Seattle 0 L.A. Dodgers 6, Detroit 1 N.Y. Yankees 16, Boston 1 Minnesota 5, Chicago White Sox 1 Tampa Bay 5, San Diego 4, 11 innings Texas 7, Milwaukee 4 Houston 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Baltimore 8, Athletics 5 Philadelphia 5, L.A. Angels 2

East Division Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

W 82 76 69 65 61

L 55 60 68 74 75

Pct GB .599 — .559 5½ .504 13 .468 18 .449 20½

Milwaukee Chicago St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 85 77 68 67 64

L 52 59 70 71 72

Pct GB .620 — .566 7½ .493 17½ .486 18½ .471 20½

Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado

W 82 73 72 56 52

L 55 65 65 81 85

Pct .599 .529 .526 .409 .380

Central Division

West Division

Saturday’s Games

GB — 9½ 10 26 30

Detroit 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Pittsburgh 6, St. Louis 2 Chicago Cubs 17, Cincinnati 5 Arizona 7, San Francisco 1, 1st game N.Y. Mets 6, Houston 2 Tampa Bay 7, San Diego 6 Atlanta 2, Colorado 1 Washington 5, Miami 4, 10 innings Milwaukee 5, Texas 3 San Francisco 7, Arizona 2, 2nd game Philadelphia 4, L.A. Angels 2, 10 innings

Sunday’s Games

Miami 6, Washington 2 Atlanta 3, Colorado 2, 10 innings L.A. Dodgers 6, Detroit 1 Tampa Bay 5, San Diego 4, 11 innings Pittsburgh 5, St. Louis 4 Texas 7, Milwaukee 4 Houston 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Philadelphia 5, L.A. Angels 2 Cincinnati at Chicago Cubs, n

Monday’s Games

N.Y. Mets (Stock 0-3) at Tampa Bay (Seymour 9-5), 5:40 p.m. Seattle (Kirby 9-10) at Boston (Tolle 8-6), 5:45 p.m. Detroit (Jobe 1-1) at Minnesota (Bradley 9-6), 6:40 p.m. Athletics (Jump 6-8) at Texas (deGrom 9-9), 7:05 p.m. Chicago White Sox (Kay 9-6) at Houston (Lambert 8-7), 7:10 p.m. Baltimore (Bradish 7-12) at Colorado (Gordon 1-4), 7:40 p.m. N.Y. Yankees (Rodríguez 0-2) at L.A. Angels (Klassen 2-2), 8:38 p.m.

San Francisco (TBD) at Atlanta (Elder 8-7), 5:05 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Stock 0-3) at Tampa Bay (Seymour 9-5), 5:40 p.m. San Diego (King 8-9) at Cincinnati (Singer 5-12), 5:40 p.m. Miami (Gusto 1-3) at Washington (TBD), 5:45 p.m. Milwaukee (Harrison 10-3) at Chicago Cubs (Holmes 5-6), 6:40 p.m. Baltimore (Bradish 7-12) at Colorado (Gordon 1-4), 7:40 p.m. Philadelphia (Nola 5-10) at Arizona (Pfaadt 7-1), 8:40 p.m.

WILD CARD GLANCE American League New York Boston Cleveland Baltimore Toronto Texas Minnesota Seattle

W 78 74 69 68 68 67 65 64

L 59 63 68 69 70 70 72 73

National League Pct .569 .540 .504 .496 .493 .489 .474 .467

WCGB +9 +5 — 1 1½ 2 4 5

Chicago Philadelphia Arizona San Diego Miami St. Louis

W 77 77 73 72 69 68

L 59 60 65 65 68 70

Pct .566 .562 .529 .526 .504 .493

WCGB +5 +4½ — ½ 3½ 5

BOX SCORES Houston 6, N.Y. Mets 3 Houston

New York

Texas 7, Milwaukee 4 Texas

Milwaukee

ab r h bi ab r h bi Peña ss 5 1 2 2 Lindor ss 4 1 11 Y.Alvarez lf 5 0 0 0 Soto dh 3 1 11 Velázquez lf 0 0 0 0 Bichette 3b 3 0 20 Paredes dh 4 1 0 0 Benge rf 4 0 00 Altuve 2b 5 1 2 0 Young 1b 3 0 00 Walker 1b 3 0 1 0 Morel ph 1 0 00 Varsho cf 4 0 0 1 Robert lf 4 0 00 Diaz c 3 2 1 0 Ewing cf 3 1 10 Smith rf 2 0 0 0 Semien 2b 3 0 00 Wade ph-rf 2 1 1 2 Torrens c 2 0 00 Trammell rf 0 0 0 0 Baty ph 1 0 00 Allen 3b 4 0 3 0 F.Alvarez c 0 0 00 Totals 37 610 5 Totals 31 3 5 2 Houston 110 002 200 — 6 New York 200 010 000 — 3 E_Diaz (3), Young (5). DP_Houston 1, New York 0. LOB_Houston 7, New York 5. 2B_Allen (5), Diaz (11), Bichette (22), Ewing (17). HR_Peña (17), Wade (3), Lindor (14), Soto (22). IP H R ER BB SO Houston Pecko W,1-0 5 3 3 2 2 4 Blubaugh H,9 2 1 0 0 0 2 2 Abreu H,12 ⁄3 0 0 0 2 1 1 Okert H,20 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Hader S,21-21 1 1 0 0 0 0 New York Thornton 5 6 2 2 0 5 Pintaro L,2-1 BS,0-1 1 3 2 2 0 2 Yan 1 1 2 1 1 1 Warren 1 0 0 0 0 1 Devenski 1 0 0 0 0 0 HBP_Thornton (Diaz), Yan (Walker). ABS Challenge_Wade (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Soto (Strike-Conﬁrmed); Hader (Ball-Conﬁrmed). Umpires_Home, Nate Tomlinson; First, Mark Wegner; Second, Jacob Metz; Third, Carlos Torres. T_2:59. A_25,227 (42,136).

ab r h bi ab r h bi Pederson dh4 1 1 1 Turang 2b 4 1 10 Seager ss 4 1 1 0 Mitchell cf 4 1 10 Langford lf 4 1 0 0 Bauers 1b 4 0 11 Nimmo rf 4 1 1 0 Chourio lf 4 1 11 Duran 2b 5 2 2 3 Yelich dh 4 0 00 Burger 1b 5 0 1 1 Sánchez c 3 1 12 Carter cf 5 0 0 0 Frelick rf 2 0 00 Freeman 3b 4 1 2 1 Lara ph-rf 1 0 00 Díaz c 3 0 2 1 Hamilton 3b 2 0 00 Vaughn ph-3b 2 0 0 0 Ortiz ss 4 0 20 Totals 38 710 7 Totals 34 4 7 4 Texas 011 021 200 — 7 Milwaukee 200 000 200 — 4 E_Alexander (2), Turang (6). LOB_Texas 9, Milwaukee 10. 2B_Freeman (1), Díaz 2 (11), Duran (26), Turang (29). HR_Duran (15), Pederson (24), Sánchez (11). IP H R ER BB SO Texas Rocker 3 4 2 2 4 7 Alexander W,5-2 2 0 0 0 1 1 Macko H,5 1 1 0 0 0 1 Montgomery 1 1 2 2 1 1 Junis H,17 1 1 0 0 0 0 Latz S,27-30 1 0 0 0 0 1 Milwaukee May L,6-9 4 1⁄3 6 4 4 3 4 Anderson 2 3 3 1 0 2 Wilson 2 2⁄3 1 0 0 1 2 Anderson pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. HBP_May (Pederson), Alexander (Bauers). ABS Challenge_May (Ball-Conﬁrmed); Turang (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Pitch timer violations_Turang (batter). Umpires_Home, Brennan Miller; First, Austin Jones; Second, Ben May; Third, Chris Conroy. T_3:25. A_37,996 (41,700).

Philadelphia 5, L.A. Angels 2

Baltimore 8, Athletics 5

Philadelphia

Baltimore

Los Angeles

ab r h bi ab r h bi Schwrbr dh 4 1 1 0 Meckler lf 4 2 20 Turner ss 4 1 1 0 Trout dh 4 0 11 Harper rf 5 0 2 1 Grissom 1b 5 0 10 Crawford cf 0 0 0 0 Ballesteros c 4 0 1 0 Bohm 1b 4 0 0 0 Moore 2b 3 0 10 Sosa 3b 3 1 1 1 Lowe rf 3 0 00 Arraez 2b 0 0 0 1 Siri cf 4 0 00 De La Crz lf 3 0 0 0 Peraza ss 3 0 20 Marsh lf 1 0 1 1 Guzman 3b 3 0 00 Stott 2b-3b 4 0 1 0 Realmuto c 3 2 2 1 Hill cf-rf 4 0 1 0 Totals 35 510 5 Totals 33 2 8 1 Philadelphia 001 000 121 — 5 Los Angeles 100 000 001 — 2 DP_Philadelphia 1, Los Angeles 1. LOB_ Philadelphia 8, Los Angeles 10. 2B_Stott (27), Harper (27), Meckler (11), Trout (21). HR_Realmuto (10), Sosa (7). SB_Moore (1). SF_Arraez (11). S_Guzman (2). IP H R ER BB SO Philadelphia Wheeler W,11-5 6 4 1 1 3 6 McFarlane H,1 1 0 0 0 1 1 2 Alvarado H,12 ⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 1 Kerkering S,2-5 1 ⁄3 2 1 1 0 1 Los Angeles Kikuchi L,0-5 7 6 2 2 1 6 1 Peralta ⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 2 Fermin ⁄3 1 0 0 1 0 Farris 1 2 1 1 1 2 HBP_Wheeler (Trout). ABS Challenge_Harper (Strike-Confirmed); Kikuchi (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Kikuchi (Ball-Confirmed); Hill (Strike-Confirmed); Ballesteros (StrikeConfirmed). Umpires_Home, Dan Bellino; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, Shane Livensparger; Third, Dan Merzel. T_2:53. A_31,035 (45,517).

Athletics

ab r h bi ab r h bi Alexander 2b4 1 1 0 Bolte cf 5 1 20 Alonso dh 2 2 1 0 McNeil dh 5 0 11 Holliday dh 0 1 0 0 Gelof 3b-lf 2 1 00 Hendrsn ss 4 3 4 5 Butler rf 3 0 12 Mayo 1b 4 1 1 3 Walton 2b 3 0 00 E-Strnd 3b 4 0 0 0 Stefanic ph-2b 1 0 0 0 Taveras rf 4 0 0 0 White 1b 4 1 10 Franklin lf 3 0 0 0 Cortes lf 3 0 00 Beavrs lf 1 0 0 0 Muncy ph-3b 1 0 1 0 Narváez c 4 0 0 0 Serven c 4 2 22 Cowser cf 4 0 0 0 Williams ss 3 0 10 Heim ph 1 0 00 Totals 34 8 7 8 Totals 35 5 9 5 Baltimore 100 330 010 — 8 Athletics 212 000 000 — 5 DP_Baltimore 1, Athletics 0. LOB_Baltimore 1, Athletics 6. 2B_Butler (16), McNeil (19), White (5). 3B_Henderson (5). HR_ Henderson 2 (22), Mayo (19), Serven (5). IP H R ER BB SO Baltimore Bassitt W,6-4 5 2⁄3 8 5 5 3 4 Nunez H,7 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Walker H,3 1 1 0 0 0 1 Cano S,3-5 1 0 0 0 0 0 Athletics Springs L,3-13 4 2⁄3 6 7 7 1 6 Blewett 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 4 Basso 1 0 0 0 0 1 Morris 2 1 1 1 0 2 HBP_Morris (Alonso). ABS Challenge_Bassitt (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Bolte (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Henderson (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Williams (Strike-Overturned to Ball); McNeil (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Heim (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Pitch timer violations_Bassitt (pitcher). Umpires_Home, Doug Eddings; First, Mike Muchlinski; Second, Emil Jimenez; Third, Gabe Morales. T_2:46. A_7,606 (14,014).

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AP PHOTO By DARIO LOPEZ-MILLS

Raise a toast

Can you still find hucklebucks and frozen cups around New Orleans?

Sippin’ (and chuggin’) through the years with a party mainstay — the red Solo cup BY JOSH HOFFNER Associated Press

BY TAMMY BARNEY Contributing writer

iggle like a snake. Wobble like a duck. Hunch your

back and go! That describes the Hucklebuck, a late-1940s dance craze that featured shimmies and hip gyrations. But in New Orleans, the hucklebuck also meant something much cooler: a frozen treat sold from neighborhood houses. Grandmothers became unofficial summertime entrepreneurs, serving one homemade hucklebuck at a time. Celina Fortuné was one of those grandmothers in the 7th Ward. She had a handwritten sign on her screen door listing the available flavors. Kids could knock on the door to buy a hucklebuck until 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. “Not only was she earning her own money,” her granddaughter Jessica Davis remembers, “but she also was looking out for the kids. She made sure they got home by the time the street lights came on.” Davis was 5 years old when she first remembers hucklebucks being sold. The neighborhood grandmothers used those little frozen treats to help pay utility and medical bills and, in some cases, send their children to college. Today, Davis is carrying that tradition forward. The respiratory therapist sells a gourmet version of the frozen treat through her business, Jessie’s HuckABucks, which is available at 48 locations — mostly corner and convenience stores — across the metro area. “I’m not just selling frozen treats,” Davis said. “I’m preserving New Orleans culture one cup at a time.” Every neighborhood seemed to have its own name for the frozen treat. In the Lower 9th Ward, it was a “frozen cup.” Uptown, an “iceberg.” Elsewhere,

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a “zip.” The names changed from neighborhood to neighborhood and from one generation to the next, but the treat provided the same result: cold, sweet relief from a sweltering New Orleans afternoon. The basic recipe was simple: Sweeten and ﬂavor a liquid — traditionally Kool-Aid or ﬂavored syrup — pour it into a paper or plastic cup, and freeze it solid. There was an art to eating one, too.

The Flip: The fun started before the ﬁrst bite. Squeeze or roll the cup between your hands until the frozen treat loosened. Then ﬂip it upside down and push it out, revealing that sweet, syrupy slush waiting at the top. The Peel: If your hucklebuck came in a paper or Styrofoam cup, there was no spoon required. Just tear or peel away the sides a little at a time and eat your way

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Natocha Honore, ‘The Phrozen Kup Lady,’ stores her Phrozen Kups in multiple freezers at her home in New Orleans.

STAFF PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER

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The Historic New Orleans Collection Dr. John Gorrie died anxious, humiliated and debt-ridden in his Florida Panhandle home on June 29, 1855. He had just returned from one of many frustrating visits to New Orleans, where, for the better part of seven years, he desperately and unsuccessfully courted

TABOR, S.D. — It’s red. It’s soft plastic. And it probably contains your favorite beverage. The red Solo cup belongs on any list of the country’s most distinctly American objects, but it’s actually more than a single object. It is a symbol of the American psyche — a country that loves a good party, summertime barbecues, kegged beer, tailgating and above all, friendship and community. The red Solo cup is the receptacle for each of these proud traditions. It also Part of an serves as a occasional foundation for series from beer pong and The Associated functions as Press on a vessel for America’s contraband freedom public drinks. It works as a spittoon and a reusable household cup that survives countless top-rack cycles through the dishwasher. Sharpie name inscriptions are its universal language, along with condensation formed by an ice-cold drink. Its backdrops include campgrounds, block parties, parks, tailgates, keggers and county fairs. It’s also part of the story of capitalism in 20th-century America. The Chicago-based Solo Company originally made coned paper cups for water coolers; in the 1970s, it was modified to plastic and patented in the year of America’s 200th birthday. It grew into a massive disposable foodware company and was sold for about $1 billion to Dart Container Corp. in 2012. You can trace many plot points of the country’s last 80 years with the cup, starting with the advent of a postwar office culture and now-iconic — and cliché — water coolers. The country’s advertising and marketing ethos then allowed a mass-produced plastic cup to become an American household and party mainstay. More recently, it fueled college drinking traditions and a tailgate culture that is practically a business unto itself. And 10-figure sales to larger corporations have become regular occurrences at the corporate level. The cup achieved a new level of status after country star Toby Keith recorded a rhapsodic paean about it. Keith initially viewed the song as a throwaway but warmed up to it and included it on a 2011 album. Perhaps he and his producers realized that a song whose first verse includes “barbecues, tailgates, fairs and festivals” contains all the touchstones necessary to connect with American audiences on a deeper level. “Red Solo cup/I fill you up,” the chorus goes. “Let’s have a party.” And America loves a good party indeed.

investors for his strange new invention: an “artificial” ice machine. Chilly public reception and a string of bad luck drove him to a nervous breakdown, culminating in a sudden illness that claimed his life when he was 51 years old. Shortly before his death, he wrote that his ice

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TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Monday, Aug. 31, the 243rd day of 2026. There are 122 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 31, 1997, Diana, Princess of Wales, was killed after the car she was riding in crashed in Paris; her partner Dodi Fayed and driver Henri Paul (who was found to have been intoxicated at the time of the accident) also died. Also on this date: In 1881, the ﬁrst U.S. tennis championships (for men only) began in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1886, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of up to 7.3 devastated Charleston, South Carolina, killing at least 60 people. In 1962, the Caribbean nation of Trinidad and Tobago became independent of British colonial rule. In 1972, the charismatic Soviet gymnast Olga Korbut, 17, won individual gold medals on the balance beam and ﬂoor exercise at the Summer Olympics in Munich; she also won gold for the team all-around competition and a silver in

the uneven parallel bars. In 1980, Poland’s Solidarity labor movement was born with an agreement signed in Gdansk that ended a 17-day-old strike. In 1992, White separatist Randy Weaver surrendered to authorities in Idaho, ending an 11-day siege by federal agents that had claimed the lives of Weaver’s wife, son and a deputy U.S. marshal. In 1994, Russia ofﬁcially ended its military presence in the former East Germany and the Baltics after half a century. In 2006, Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” was recovered by Norwegian authorities after being stolen nine days earlier. In 2010, President Barack Obama announced the end of the U.S. combat mission in Iraq, declaring no victory after seven years of bloodshed and telling those divided over the war in his country and around the world: “it’s time to turn the page.” In 2019, a gunman carried out a shooting rampage that stretched 10 miles between the Texas communities of Midland and Odessa,

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Continued from page 1D machine “had been found in advance of the wants of the country.” The frigid treatment his invention received had completely thawed by May 18, 1868, when the Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Company, the world’s first industrial ice-making plant, held its grand opening ceremony on the New Orleans riverfront at Tchoupitoulas and Delachaise streets. According to the NewOrleans Times, one of the 150 guests raised a toast to “the change it had effected upon the Mississippi, and of the astonishment the [river] must feel at being suddenly frozen up at this point.” Gorrie’s vision for an icy New Orleans proved prophetic, as the city became one of the epicenters of a new industry that reshaped not just the Gulf South but modern civilization.

‘No joke’ During the first half of the 19th century, if you needed ice and lived in the perennially warm regions of the American South, India, China, Europe or the Caribbean, you were at the mercy of the “Ice King,” Boston’s Frederic Tudor. The Tudor Ice Company was one of the first multinational American businesses, launched in February 1806 to public ridicule thanks to its bizarre premise. Tudor harvested free ice from New England’s lakes, put it on a schooner, and shipped it for sale wherever ice didn’t naturally occur. “No joke,” the Boston Gazette reported of his first shipment. “A vessel with a cargo of 80 tons of ice has cleared out from this port for Martinique. We hope this will not prove to be a slippery speculation.” The first shipment to New Orleans in 1826 went badly. The mayor, Count Louis Philippe de Roffignac, “thought ice was dangerous to the health of people inhabiting so warm a clime and dumped the first cargo into the river,” according to the Times-Picayune. Ironically, the Roffignac, a New Orleans iced cocktail, was invented around 50 years later and named in the mayor’s honor. Over time, the Ice King’s business solidified into a global success. By the 1840s, New Orleans and other hot metropolises around the world were erecting large, insulated “ice houses” to store and distribute Tudor ice, a product that earned the nickname “white gold” that cost today’s equivalent of $30 a pound during the summer.

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leaving seven people dead before police killed the shooter outside a movie theater in Odessa. In 2025, a landslide wiped out an entire village in Sudan’s western region of Darfur, killing an estimated 1,000 people in one of the deadliest natural disasters in the African country’s recent history. Today’s birthdays: World Golf Hall of Famer Isao Aoki is 84. Violinist Itzhak Perlman is 81. Singer Van Morrison is 81. Rock musician Rudolf Schenker (The Scorpions) is 78. Actor Richard Gere is 77. Actor Stephen McKinley Henderson is 77. Attorney and author Marcia Clark is 73. Olympic gold medal hurdler Edwin Moses is 71. Rock singer Glenn Tilbrook (Squeeze) is 69. Rock musician Gina Schock (The Go-Go’s) is 69. Singer-composer Deborah Gibson is 56. Queen Rania of Jordan is 56. Golfer Padraig Harrington is 55. Actor Chris Tucker is 55. Actor Sara Ramirez is 51. Former NFL wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald is 43. NBA All-Star Jalen Brunson is 30. Actor Jaylen Barron is 29. Actor Jason Maybaum is 19.

PROVIDED IMAGE FROM THE HISTORIC NEW ORLEANS COLLECTION he rigged up a contraption to soothe the waves of malaria and yellow fever patients overwhelming his hospital — the first air conditioner. A bedpan with a small hole was filled with ice and hung from the ceiling. Hot air rose, then flowed back down through the hole as it was cooled, lowering the temperature of the room. It took three years, but by 1844, he had made a slow, hand-cranked prototype for an ice-making machine, taking advantage of the cooling effect produced by rapidly compressing and expanding air — the same trick that powers modern refrigerators. Thrilled, he left his medical practice to pursue fulltime development in 1845. He began writing extensively about the machine in newspapers, but the pushback he received was so intense, he started assuming a pen name. The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce said his invention was a “cockand-bull story,” and some even framed it as a religious affront, including an author at the New York Globe who wrote, “There is a crank down in Apalachicola, Florida, that thinks he can make ice by his machine as good as God Almighty.” On May 6, 1851, U.S. Patent No. 8080 was awarded to “John Gorrie, of New Orleans, Louisiana” for the “artificial production of ice,” the first machine of its kind in the country. That same year, Gorrie’s chief financial backer in New Orleans unexpectedly died, dealing a critical blow to his finances and morale. After continued negative press scared away other potential investors, Gorrie died with today’s equivalent of $200,000 in debt.

‘It is real ice’ In 1859, Ferdinand Carré, of France, patented a more advanced, ammonia-based ice making machine, and by 1863, a ﬁrm founded by two fellow Frenchmen from New Orleans got a pair of small Carré machines through the Union blockade. One was kept in New Orleans, where Mathieu Jules Bujac and Camille Girardey began experimenting with industrial production at the corner of Orange and Tchoupitoulas streets, eventually importing three more machines. “It is a mistake to call this artificial ice. It is real ice made by artificial means,”

the Times-Picayune wrote in 1864. “This was ice made with the thermometer at 93 in the shade.” When the Civil War ended in 1865, engineer and former Confederate Daniel Holden improved the machine and used distilled water, making the final product not only drinkable, but clear. Suddenly, muddy Mississippi River water could be transformed into sparkling, sanitary ice blocks. Holden wrote that Bujac declared it “the most complete ice machine ever erected.” Bujac and Girardey had six 10-ton Carré machines built in Gretna under Holden’s supervision, and in 1868, the units made their historic debut powering the new Louisiana Ice Manufacturing Company, the world’s first industrial ice-making plant. An 1872 Times-Picayune article described New Orleans’s massive appetite for ice, with the city purchasing roughly 45 to 50 tons a day during the winter and 160 to 175 tons the rest of the year. Ice cream saloons alone accounted for up to 3,500 pounds a day, with hotels, soda fountains, restaurants and bars right behind them. But the largest patrons of New Orleans ice companies, the article noted, were “the wagons, which take from one to ﬁve tons per day each for resale to retail customers.” Hauling massive ice blocks in their horse-drawn wagons (and, later, trucks), icemen were a regular sight in the streets of New Orleans. By 1937, New Orleans was home to 49 ice manufacturing plants, employing between 1,500 and 2,000 people. One of which, Pelican Ice, lays claim as the world’s oldest continuously operated ice company, still running today in Kenner. Another, Cosmopolitan Ice Co., occupied a French Quarter building at 537 Chartres St. now owned by the Historic New Orleans Collection. Man-made ice transformed the region, enabling the Gulf seafood industry’s expansion beyond the coast, shaping New Orleans’s iconic cocktail culture, and linking new Northern markets to fresh Ponchatoula strawberries and other refrigerated produce. That legacy gave rise to another historic New Orleans invention as well: Ernest Hansen’s 1934 SnoBliz, the ﬁrst electric block ice-shaving machine, used to create the original sno-ball.

The physiology of the ice cream headache Dear Doctors: Can you please explain the ice cream headache? My kids get it from popsicles, and I just gave myself one by drinking some iced tea too fast. Is there anything you can do to make the pain go away more quickly? More important, any way to not get one in the ﬁrst place? Dear reader: Ah, the ice cream headache. Add it to sunburn, mosquito bites and poison ivy as one of the rites of summer. For anyone fortunate enough never to have experienced one, an ice cream headache is a sudden piercing pain deep in the forehead or temples. It is triggered by eating or drinking something frozen or very cold. And while the phenomenon also goes by the more evocative name of brain freeze, the medical term is cold-stimulus headache. The pain of an ice cream headache arrives suddenly and can be shockingly intense. It reaches its peak in about 10 to 20 (long) seconds, and in most cases is completely gone after a minute or two. Considering the amount of discomfort involved, it can be surprising to learn these episodes are harmless. No, you did not literally freeze your brain cells. But you did set into motion some interest-

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ing physiology. Let’s begin with the roof of the mouth, which is known as the hard palate. It is served by a rich network of blood vessels and sensory nerves. In an earlier theory, those blood vessels were the main players in an ice cream headache. Upon direct contact with cold food or drink, they swiftly contract. The resulting changes in blood ﬂow were believed to cause the characteristic stabbing pain. But a more recent hypothesis shifts the focus to the branches of the trigeminal nerve. One of the 12 pairs of cranial nerves, this nerve carries pain signals from the face to the brain. It also plays a role in a fascinating paradox of the ice cream headache. We’ve already established that while the cold food or drink chills the roof of the mouth, the discomfort is felt deep in the forehead or the temples. This is a phenomenon

known as referred pain. It occurs when, due to the presence of multiple neural pathways, the brain can misidentify the true source of a pain signal. And while rapid changes in blood ﬂow may still play a role in an ice cream headache, it is the sensory nerves in the roof of the mouth that are now suspected to be the main drivers. Unfortunately, you can’t stop an ice cream headache. With that ﬁrst stabbing pain, the physiological cascade is already underway. However, you may be able to blunt the discomfort. The goal is to warm the roof of the mouth. If your tongue is warm enough, pressing it against the hard palate can help. So can sipping a room-temperature beverage. To avoid brain freeze altogether, pay close attention to eating and drinking technique. If you eat or drink more slowly and minimize contact with the roof of the mouth, future icy treats should be painfree. Send your questions to askthedoctors@mednet. ucla.edu, or write: Ask the Doctors, c/o UCLA Health Sciences Media Relations, 10880 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1450, Los Angeles, CA, 90024.

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Natocha Honore taste tests her Phrozen Kup product at her home in New Orleans.

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up. I have people who come from all over to get them.” One of her friends brings an ice chest all the way from Baton Rouge in order to stock up for her kids. With so many customers and large orders, Honore said she has to refill her multiple freezers every other day with such flavors as pink pineapple, yellow watermelon, banana and creamy ice cream. She even sells frozen shot cups for those wanting an adult beverage. The days of 25-cent hucklebucks, frozen cups and zips are long gone. With larger sizes, fresh ingredients and gourmet toppings, they now cost $2 to $8 a cup. For many, however, the memories are priceless. “I’m not just in business, I’m fulfilling my purpose through my business,” Davis said. “So much has been taken from us. I did not want this to be something else taken away. “The people are in these cups,” she continued. “You can’t have culture without the people.” Have a question about something in Louisiana that’s got you curious? Email your question to curiouslouisiana@ theadvocate.com. Include your name, phone number and the city where you live.

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Notice is hereby given that Rendon Inn LLC, DBA Hangar 33, is applying to the Department of Safety and Permits, City of New Orleans, Ofﬁce of ATC, State of Louisiana, for a permit to sell alcoholic beverages, both high and low content, at retail, operating as a music venue, located at: 1511 S. Rendon St. New Orleans, LA 70125 Ofﬁcer of the LLC: Jeffrey Rizzo, Owner 198712 Aug. 31, Sept. 1,2, 3t $244.42 ROOMMATE NEEDED Single adult, older preferred. Male or female. Non-Smoking. No kids. Background check required. 504405-0901.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO QUOTE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Department of Property Management TITLE: Public Works Trades: Painting Services Zones 1- 3 ; Plumbing Services Zones 1-5 & Elevator Repairs & Rescue Services Zones 2&5 SOURCING EVENT NUMBERS: Painting Services: 4760, 4761, & 4762 Plumbing Services: 4763, 4764, 4765, 4766, 4767 Elevator Repairs & Res‐ cue Services: 4769 & 4770 DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: August 31, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 10, 2026 at 11:30 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/25249170977 6435?p=3WRixyVCmyI 1h0VTpR 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): Painting Services: 910-54; 914-61 Plumbing Services: 910-65; 914-68 Elevator Repairs & Rescue Services: 910-13; 295-70; 295-40; 295 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 sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: August 31, September 8 and 14, 2026 NOCP 9258 199102-aug 31-sept 8-143t $126.48

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Invitation to Bid SEALED PROPOSALS AS LISTED BELOW WILL BE RECEIVED BY THE PUR‐ CHASING DEPARTMENT AT: LSU HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER 433 BOLIVAR STREET ROOM 623 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 (504) 568-6261 UNTIL TIMES AND DATES INDICATED, AT WHICH TIME AND PLACE THE PROPOSALS WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AND READ:

FARM EQUIPMENT For Sale $2300 ﬁrm: 7ft Heavy Duty Disk, hardly used. Bought at Tractor Supply 985 316-6755.

BID TITLE: AHSON 7TH FLOOR AHU EQUIPMENT PURCHASE BID NUMBER: 002989 BID OPENING DATE: SEP‐ TEMBER 15, 2026 @ 2:00PM ALL INQUIRES AND RE‐ QUESTS FOR SPECIFICA‐ TIONS SHOULD BE AD‐ DRESSED VIA EMAIL TO: MWIL34@LSUHSC.EDU BIDS WILL BE PUBLICLY OPENED AT: LSUHSC-433 BOLIVAR ST. 6TH FLOOR, RM 623C NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112 SPECIFICATIONS MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE PURCHASING DEPART‐ MENT. THE RIGHT IS RE‐ SERVED TO REJECT ANY AND ALL BIDS AND TO WAIVE INFORMALITIES. 197716-aug 19-25-31-3t $72.31 PUBLIC NOTICE --NEW ORLEANS REDEVEL‐ OPMENT AUTHORITY (NORA) REQUEST FOR PROPOS‐ ALS (RFP) PROPERTY MAINTE‐ NANCE SERVICES ISSUE DATE: MONDAY, AUGUST 17, 2026 DUE DATE: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2026 The New Orleans Rede‐ velopment Authority (NORA) works to rede‐ velop and revitalize the City of New Orleans. Equipped with broad legal authorities, includ‐ ing the power to expro‐ priate blighted proper‐ ties, NORA works in part‐ nership with the City of New Orleans, local orga‐ nizations, businesses, neighborhoods, and citi‐ zens to implement com‐ prehensive neighbor‐ hood and commercial corridor redevelopment plans. With these responsibili‐ ties, NORA has a large in‐ ventory of properties that require regular maintenance (grass cut‐ ting, lot clearing, and de‐ bris removal). Properties that are the subject of this RFP include: • LLT Properties Trans‐ ferred to NORA: In the wake of Hurricane Kat‐ rina, the State of Louisiana created the Land Trust Louisiana (LLT) as the receiver of properties acquired from homeowners through the Road Home Program. In 2012, LLT transferred ap‐ proximately 3,000+ Or‐ leans Parish properties (“Road Home Properties” or “Properties”) from its inventory to NORA. This number has been de‐ creased as NORA dis‐ posed of them through its property disposition programs and there re‐ mains approximately 703 of these properties in NORA’s inventory. • NORA Properties: Cur‐ rently NORA owns ap‐ proximately 170 proper‐ ties that NORA has ac‐ quired over the years through expropriation, adjudication, long-term lease and donation. • Other properties as identiﬁed by NORA. d i

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y NORA desires to contract with multiple contractors to provide the lawn and yard maintenance on these properties on a routine or as needed basis and requests pro‐ posals from experienced property maintenance companies to provide the services needed. A copy of the RFP may be downloaded from the NORA website at www. noraworks.org, or by contacting Audrey Plessy, Procurement Manager at (504) 6584402, or via email at Au‐ drey.Plessy@nola.gov.

g on Monday, August 24, 2026. The RFQ documents may also be obtained from the SEBconnect App, available on both the Apple and Google play platforms.

During the period be‐ tween the issuance of this RFP and the proposal due date, no oral inter‐ pretation of the RFP re‐ quirements will be pro‐ vided to any prospective Offeror. All questions and requests for inter‐ pretation must be sub‐ mitted in writing to Au‐ drey.Plessy@nola.gov. The deadline for submit‐ ting questions is Thurs‐ day, September 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. (CST). NORA will respond to written questions submitted via email before the due date and time. Answers to questions will be is‐ sued in the form of an addendum. NORA will not accept re‐ sponses submitted by fax. Respondents must submit their proposal electronically through a Microsoft OneDrive shared folder. Responses delivered after the dead‐ line will not be consid‐ ered. All proposals must be uploaded to an assigned shared folder no later than WEDNESDAY, SEP‐ TEMBER 16, 2026, at 2:00 P.M. (CDT). NORA will award con‐ tracts resulting from this solicitation to the re‐ sponsible Offeror or Of‐ ferors whose proposal, conforming to the solici‐ tation, will be most ad‐ vantageous, considering price and other technical factors. NORA reserves the right to award a con‐ tract without negotia‐ tions, to make multiple awards, to make no award, or to decline ne‐ gotiations if it is deter‐ mined that no respon‐ dent can deliver the re‐ quired level of service within an acceptable price range and/or time‐ frame.

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Written proposals, shall be submitted electroni‐ cally via www.central bidding.com no later than 11:30 AM (CST), on Monday, September 21, 2026, to be considered for the contract. Failure to submit required infor‐ mation by the deadline will cause disqualiﬁca‐ tion and removal from further consideration on this Project. No informa‐ tion may be changed or submitted after the deadline. All questions, correspon‐ dence, inquiries, and other communications regarding this procure‐ ment shall be directed to Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Or‐ leans, Procurement De‐ partment, 1350 Port of New Orleans Place, New Orleans, LA 70130 or pro‐ curement@portnola.com no later than 5:00 p.m. (CST) on Friday, Septem‐ ber 11, 2026. Answers to all questions will be pro‐ vided electronically at www.centralbidding.com and on the SEBconnect App, without regard to which proposer submit‐ ted the questions, in the form of an addendum provided to all Respon‐ dents who are listed with the Board as having re‐ ceived the RFQ. The Board shall not be re‐ sponsible for any oral in‐ struction. 198204 Aug. 24, 31, Sept. 8, 2026 3t $89.10

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

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WANT TO BUY Cars, Trucks & Camper Trailers. Running or Not in any cond, with or w/out title. 504-508-0087

CATS RAGAMUFFIN & RAGDOLL KITTENS www.CatsByFrancy.com/kittens $1500up! Reg. Shots & Guaranty 337-230-3150 CATS Young Male Cat, Gray Colors, Have too many cats, Looking for another home for him. Please call 504-861-9617 ($50)

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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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permit to stabilize ac‐ tively eroding riverbank areas along the east bank of the Bogue Chitto River within privately owned property in Wash‐ ington Parish, Louisiana. Copies of the application can be reviewed by the public at the LDWF main ofﬁce, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA. The public is invited to com‐ ment on this permit re‐ quest for a period of forty-ﬁve (45) days. Re‐ sponses should be mailed to LDWF Scenic Rivers Program, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Request for Scenic River Permit on (Bogue Chitto River) The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) as Administrator of the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System is currently considering the application of The Camp Bed and Breakfast LLC for a permit to stabi‐ lize actively eroding riverbank areas along the east bank of the Bogue Chitto River within privately owned property in Washington Parish, Louisiana. Copies of the application can be re‐ viewed by the public at the LDWF main ofﬁce, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA. The public is invited to comment on this permit request for a period of forty-ﬁve (45) days. Responses should be mailed to LDWF Scenic Rivers Program, 2000 Quail Drive, Baton Rouge, LA 70808. 198496-aug 25-31-7t $724.65

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The Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) as Administrator of the Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System is currently considering the application of Tullier Investments LLC for a

In accordance with LA RS 47:6007, the production company JTRP HONORS, LLC wrapped production activities on the televi‐ sion show “THE 2025 NFL HONORS” as of FEBRU‐ ARY 10, 2025 IN NEW OR‐ LEANS, LOUISIANA.

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Public Notices Meet/Hear/Min p ing to order at 2:25 p.m. and asked for a roll call. The results were as fol‐ lows: Russell Allen Absent Geri Broussard Absent James Capella Present Stephen Caputo Present Edgar Chase, IV Present Elizabeth Ellison-Frost Present Ralph Mahana Present Octavio Mantilla Present Jerry Reyes Present Jack Rizzuto Present Desi Vega Present Camille Whitworth Pre‐

PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE Joseph P. Lopinto, III in his capacity as Sheriff of Jefferson Parish, hereby notifies his intent to donate, auction, retain or destroy unclaimed property in accordance with JP Ordinance 31-8 unless otherwise claimed by the owner within 30 days of publication of this notice. Property may be claimed by contacting the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office Property and Evidence Division, located at 1801 West Bank Expressway, Harvey, LA 700548, or by calling 504-376-2384. All claimants must provide proof of ownership before any property may be released. Item #

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Ronald Billiot

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Steven Mayfield

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LG cell phone

Jacob Alford

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G-07706-21 Debit card, multi colored bag cont. items

Gregory Thomas

G-02885-21 Glock magazine

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G-20553-21 Eye glass case

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G-05223-21 Dewalt hammer drill in case

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C-19093-21 Motorola cell phone

Garland Johnson

H-06739-21 Various Paperwork

Found

L-03443-19

Dl, credit card keys

Chad Brassette

L-03443-19

Purple bag, case make-up, folder

Found

L-03443-19

Gun case

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L-03443-19

Black Bag

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L-03443-19

Blk and blue bag

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A-19120-20

Assorted key fobs and documents

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H-14065-21 Black backpack

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H-06013-21 Wallet

Cecily Salguero

G-02885-21 Samsung cell phone IME#: 3S4…225

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G-02885-21 Glock Magazine

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H-09951-21 Brown Purse and contents

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197783-aug 17-26-31-3t $157.05

Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com‐ missioners of the Port of New Orleans (Board) is requesting the submittal of qualiﬁcations from crane manufacturers who can provide new battery-electric hybrid rubber tyred gantry con‐ tainer handling cranes and related parts. All Re‐ quest for Qualiﬁcations (RFQ) documents will be available for download via Central Bidding at www.centralbidding.com d

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APARTMENT N.O. EAST * LITTLE WOODS SPECIAL 7819 SANDS STREET * 3 BD/2 BA Central A & H * Fenced Backyard Sec 8 Welcome. No Deposit. $1,200 504-241-6189 * 504-430-1162

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Pre-Submission Meeting: A Pre-Submission Meet‐ ing will be held online via Zoom on Wednesday, September 2, 2026, at 3:00 p.m. (CDT). Prospec‐ tive respondents are en‐ couraged to attend. Dur‐ ing this meeting, NORA staff will review the sub‐ mission requirements, discuss the scope of work, and answer ques‐ tions.

APARTMENT ESPLANADE RIDGE The Carson Company, Inc. 2900 Third St., 1Bd/1Ba.................$700 3953 Delachaise St. (Up), 3/1.......$950 8940 Dinkins St., 2Bds/1Ba...........$995 2300 N. Broad St., 1Bd/1Ba...........$995 2443 N. Robertson St., 2/1...........$1150 5910 Hayne Blvd. Up, 4/1....(Sec 8 OK) 8904 Olive St., 3Bds/1Ba.............$1350 2503 S. Dorgenois St., 2/1...(Sec 8 OK) 1222 S Salcedo #201, Up 2/1......$1639 4557 Feliciana St, 5Bds/2Bas.....$2500 821-1858 * 822-8432 * 427-4646

Merchandise CEMETERY PLOTS Westlawn Cemetery Mausoleum, in the Chapel. Corr IV, Tier A, holds 6 interments $17,500. 504-259-0505

DOMESTIC TRUCKS 2021 Chev. LT Crew Cab Z71 Diesel 28k miles, Like new, 985-252-8060

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DOGS AKC Standard Poodles. Black & Parti black & white. Ready to Go. Utd on all shots & worming. Text 228-669-8581 or 228-669-2377.

APARTMENT WESTBANK * 3 Bedrooms /2.5 Baths, Double Garage, Private Yard. $1,800/Mo. 504-913-4263

4710 MUSIC STREET, GENTILLY Home For Sale or Rent. $250,000 or $2,000/month. Ready October 1st. Call James 817-891-0453.

Anyone knowing the whereabouts of Wendy Burks and Wanda Adams, please contact attorney Ryan Cox at 504-782-9889. 199264-Aug 31-Sept 2, 3t $71.20 If you know the whereabouts of SHAUNTRELLE DAVIDSON, please call or text Attorney Candace N. Newell at 504-294-9199. 198908-8/29-30-31-3t $67.00

APARTMENT WESTBANK * $1300/Mo. 2 Bedrooms, 2 Baths, 4-Car Garage/Workshop. Pets OK. 504-913-4263

Folding knives, urine detox, cigarillos, Samsung lap top, organic rolling paper, assorted jewelry, LSU money clip, baseball caps,

H-19584-21 Ink cartridge, note pads

Found

H-19911-21 Rusty magazine

Found

H-19742-21 Wallet

Gregory Brumfield

I-04703-21

Expired Credit card, Id’s

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I-03123-21

Blade weapon, Air Pistol

Anthony Loria

I-01686-21

Blade weapon

Chad Ortego

F-20898-23

Skate board

Terence Hines

H-02161-23 2 bags of assorted clothing

James Craig

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The total number present at roll call was eleven (11). Commissioner Caputo asked for public com‐ ments of agenda items. There were none. Commissioner Caputo re‐ quested a motion to ap‐ prove the NOEHA Board Meeting Minutes of June 24, 2026. Commissioner Chase moved approval; Whit‐ Commissioner worth seconded. Motion approved. Jim Cook presented the following resolution: A. Resolution 2026.12: Au‐ thorization to Restrict Forty-Four Million Four Hundred Thousand Dol‐ lars ($44,400, 000) to Headquarters Hotel Pro‐ ject. Commissioner Man‐ tilla moved approval; Commissioner Vega sec‐ onded. Motion approved. Alita Caparotta pre‐ sented consent agenda item contracts: 1. Audio Equipment – VSA, Inc.; 2. Video Equipment – VSA, Inc.; Aztek Computers; Bluum USA, Inc. Commis‐ sioner Chase moved ap‐ Commissioner proval; Rizzuto seconded. Mo‐ tion approved. Alita Caparotta pre‐ sented the 2026 Revised Commissioner Budget. Mantilla moved approval; Chase Commissioner seconded. Motion ap‐ proved. Alita Caparotta pre‐ sented the May 2026 Fi‐ nancial Report. Commis‐ sioner Rizzuto moved ap‐ Commissioner proval; Chase seconded. Motion approved. Jim Cook gave the Con‐ vention Center Chief Ex‐ ecutive Ofﬁcer’s Report. There was no Other Busi‐ ness to come before the board. Commissioner Caputo asked for a motion to ad‐ Commissioner journ. Capella moved adjourn‐ ment; Commissioner Riz‐ zuto seconded. Motion approved and the meet‐ ing adjourned at 2:50 p.m. Attest: _____________________ Jack Rizzuto, Secretary :mp 199167-AUG 31-1T $35.20

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A Meeting of Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Pub‐ lic Facility Management, Inc. was held on Wednes‐ day, July 22, 2026. Chairman Stephen Ca‐ puto called the meeting to order at 2:09 p.m. and asked for a roll call. The results were as follows: Russell Allen Absent Geri Broussard Absent James Capella Present Stephen Caputo Present Edgar Chase, IV Present Elizabeth Ellison-Frost Present Ralph Mahana Present Octavio Mantilla Present Jerry Reyes Absent Jack Rizzuto Present Desi Vega Present Camille Whitworth Pre‐ sent Eric Wright Present The total number present at roll call was ten (10). Chairman Caputo asked for public comments of items. There agenda were none. Chairman Caputo re‐ quested a motion to ap‐ prove the NOPFMI Board Meeting Minutes of June 24, 2026. Director Mahana moved approval; Director Chase seconded. Motion approved. Elaine Williams pre‐ sented the Sales, Events and Communications Re‐ port. Director Jerry Reyes en‐ tered the meeting at 2:14 p.m. Alita Caparotta pre‐ sented consent agenda item contracts: 1. Gener‐ ator Maintenance Ser‐ vices – ARCCO Company Services, Inc.; 2. Consult‐ ing Services for IT Pro‐ – TEKsystems jects Global Services, LLC. Di‐ rector Mantilla moved approval; Director Chase seconded. Motion ap‐ proved. There was no Other Busi‐ ness to come before the board. Chairman Caputo asked for a motion to adjourn. Director Rizzuto moved Director adjournment; Mahana seconded. Mo‐ tion approved and the meeting adjourned at

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PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF OR‐ LEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NUMBER 2026-0250 DIVISION C SECTION 10 EMILE JONES, III AND SHELLY J. REED VS. JEFFREY D. JACKSON FILED: DEPUTY CLERK LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the petitioners in the above entitled matter are seeking to partition by licitation, pursuant to LSA-C.C. Article 811, and under the Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure, the described following property: THAT PORTION OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, appur‐ tenances and advan‐ tages thereunto belong‐ ing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Third District of the City of New Orleans, in Gen‐ tilly Park Subdivision, which said Lot, according to a survey by William Case, Surveyor, dated August 14, 1950, a print whereof is attached to passed before act Leonard H. Rosenson, No‐ tary Public, September 11, 1950, is designated as: Lot G in Block E, by Wallace bounded Drive, Mandolin and St. Anthony Streets and the easterly line of the subdi‐ vision, said Lot G com‐ mences 252 feet from the corner of Wallace Drive and St. Anthony Street and measures thence, 42 feet front on Wallace Drive, same in width in the rear along the east‐ erly line of the subdivi‐ sion, by a depth of 125 feet, between equal and parallel lines and is com‐ posed of 24 feet of origi‐ nal Lot 7 and the adjoin‐ ing 18 feet of original Lot 6. The improvements bear h i i l

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All in accordance with a survey made by J.J. Krebs and Sons, Inc., dated Jan‐ uary 11, 1969.

Please Read This Notice Carefully for Important Information

Being the same property acquired by act before Dudley D. Flanders, No‐ tary Public, of even date herewith and registered in C. O. B. 693, folio 71.

Property owners who filed their appeals for real estate property tax assessment with the Orleans Parish Assessor on or before August 20, 2026 will be receiving a letter from the New Orleans City Council, acting in their capacity as the Board of Review, prior to September 14th. The letter will give them instructions including a website where they can look up their hearing date and time. All property owners who have filed an appeal on time will be contacted by letter, e-mail, text and/ or phone.

This partition proceeding is pending against the absentee defendant, Jef‐ frey D. Jackson, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, 421 Loyola Ave. New Orleans, Louisiana, 70112. Notice is hereby given to Jeffrey D. Jackson that he has fifteen (15) days from date of publication of this notice to answer the plaintiffs’ petition herein. PIVACH, PIVACH, THRIFFI‐ LEY & DUNBAR, L.L.C. Attorneys at Law _/s/ Timothy Thriffi‐ ley___ GEORGE PIVACH, II (#10798) TIMOTHY THRIFFILEY (#19808) 8311 Highway 23, Suite 104 Belle Chasse, LA 70037 Telephone: (504) 394-1870 Facsimile: (504) 393-2553 gpivach@pivachlaw.com Tthriffiley@pivachlaw. com

The hearings will be held primarily by phone, online through a video conference, or in person at Delgado Community College Student Life Center. The Board of Review has contracted with Hammerman &Gainer, LLC to help process the appeals and provide recommendations to the Board of Review, which will be held in open City Council Chambers.

In order to comply with State The Board of Review law,the board of Review must requests property owners to certify the tax rolls to the Louisiana work with the Orleans Parish Tax Commission by October 20, Assessor to resolve their 2026. The appeals process will end appeal. A mutually no later than October 20, 2026. acceptable, negotiated resolution is the quickestand Orleans Parish Tax Appeal Program will be most effective way to resolve a disputed real estate conducted from 9/14 - 9/25/2026. In-person appeals will be at Delgado Student Life Center. property tax assessment.

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