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In less than 48 hours, Baton Rouge police officers shot two people suspected of separate crimes, killing one and wounding another. Police Chief T.J. Morse said the officers who shot the suspects at both scenes are on administrative leave while investigations are conducted, per department policy. About 10:33 p.m. Monday, a man — later identified as 33-year-old Devin Morris — stabbed a 71-year-old man about 20 times in the face during a domestic incident at a home in the 7200 block of Winthrop Avenue and then stole the victim’s vehicle, police spokesperson L’Jean McKneely said. An arrest warrant for Morris said he and the other man were in a verbal argument when Morris pulled out a pocketknife and stabbed the 71-year-old in the facial area, causing potentially life-threatening injuries. Another individual then stepped between the two, and Morris attempted to stab again but missed and fled the scene in the stolen vehicle. The stabbing victim was taken to a hospital and is expected to survive. Officers located Morris and the vehicle about 12:50 a.m. Tuesday. Morris refused to stop for officers and led them on a vehicle pursuit to The
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Coach Lane Kiffin is greeted by LSU President Wade Rousse following LSU’s win over Clemson on Saturday. Both men are listed as defendants in the SEC’s federal lawsuit filed against LSU.
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The Southeastern Conference filed an amendment to its federal lawsuit against LSU on Tuesday in hopes of asserting its legal authority to expel the school from the league. The SEC said in its new complaint, which was filed in an Alabama federal court, that its 16 presidents will meet on Thursday “to decide whether to terminate” LSU as a member institution. According to league rules, the group needs a two-thirds vote to boot a school from the conference. It’s questionable, however, if this fight will continue because late Tuesday night it was confirmed LSU has added two injured players, Aidan Anding and Gabriel Reliford, back to its official 105-man roster. That fills the roster spots that were open for former NFL signees Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris to fill. The updated complaint in Alabama listed LSU’s entire Board of Super-
ä Scott Rabalais: SEC’s threat is serious but makes little sense. Page 1C ä LSU fills out roster without the two players at the heart of the controversy. Page 1C visors, including Chair Lee Mallett, along with Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill, as defendants. LSU President Wade Rousse, athletic director Verge Ausberry and LSU football coach Lane Kiffin were named as defendants in the SEC’s initial complaint. The league said in a statement on Tuesday that it amended the lawsuit “to protect the right of the conference and its member institutions to govern themselves.” “The SEC and its member universities have the right to establish,
St. George to remain in BR annexations suit BY CLAIRE GRUNEWALD Staff writer
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In an amendment to the federal lawsuit filed by the SEC, Attorney General Liz Murrill is accused of deploying the official powers of her office to help LSU ‘compel the SEC to associate with conduct that ä See SEC, page 12A violates its core principles.’
St. George can remain as a plaintiff in a 2020 lawsuit over business annexations, a judge ruled Tuesday, following Baton Rouge’s attempt to have the new city removed from the suit. It is the latest step in a yearslong legal battle that began following the 2019 vote to incorporate St. George, when several businesses requested to join Baton Rouge. The East Baton Rouge Parish Metro Council approved those requests. St. George organizers Norman Browning and Chris Rials originally filed the lawsuit, claiming the Metro Council illegally annexed several businesses, homes and public roads into Baton Rouge city limits. The city of St. George and the St.
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U.S. banning Canadian products as trade war escalates BY ROB GILLIES and PAUL WISEMAN
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President Donald Trump moved to shut Canadian products out of U.S. contracts.
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TORONTO — The United States is banning dairy products, most alcoholic beverages and motorcycles from Canada, the White House said Tuesday, as the trade war between the two neighbors and longtime allies escalates. The ban will take effect in three weeks and comes after Canada imposed retaliatory tariffs on $20 billion in U.S. imports earlier Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump
also moved Tuesday to shut Canadian products out of large, longterm U.S. government contracts as Canada’s retaliatory tariffs took effect and Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to speed efforts to reduce the country’s dependence on the United States. Trump directed the U.S. General Services Administration to declare Canadian products ineligible for those contracts until Canada allows “full and fair reciprocity for American products. Carney said Tuesday Canada’s strategy was about becoming more independent. “It’s about en-
suring that no country can hold us hostage. And that we can live how we want to live.” The rupture has upended one of the world’s closest relationships. On Aug. 22, the U.S. imposed 50% tariffs on about 5% of Canadian imports, charging that Canada had unfairly treated the American dairy, alcoholic beverage and auto industries. The U.S. and Canada have long sparred over trade, particularly Canada’s protected dairy market and its subsidies for producers of softwood lumber. But they remained friends and staunch allies.
Under Trump, U.S.-Canada relations have deteriorated rapidly. In addition to imposing tariffs on Canadian products, Trump has repeatedly made inflammatory comments about making Canada the 51st U.S. state. Carney came to power in a come-from-behind political victory last year by promising to stand up to him. Some Canadian provinces have banned the sale of U.S. alcoholic products — a move that prompted the retaliatory U.S. ban on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Mark Carney vowed to reduce Canada’s dependence on ä See TRADE, page 10A the U.S.
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LAS VEGAS — For decades, the airport security checkpoint has marked the end of the road for friends and relatives seeing off a traveler. That is changing for some travelers. The Transportation Security Administration has launched a new program at some U.S. airports allowing eligible TSA PreCheck members without plane tickets to pass through security and enter the gates, reviving a tradition that largely disappeared after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks nearly 25 years ago. “As an exclusive benefit for our most trusted travelers, this new program makes it easier to return to the gate for welcomes and send-offs, meet friends during a layover, and enjoy dining and shopping along the way, bringing back the moments that once defined air travel,” TSA said on its website. Before 9/11, people without tickets generally could accompany travelers to the gate. The attacks prompted sweeping changes to airport security, including restrictions on access to secure areas of airports. The program, called “Gateside by TSA PreCheck,” is free, but people must apply online one to three days before their planned visit and receive approval before going to the airport. If approved, they can enter through a TSA PreCheck lane with an acceptable form of identification. The pass is valid for one calendar day, and visitors can re-enter that day.
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Funding cuts forcing clinic closure Aid groups say three dozen health facilities in Sudan shuttering BY FATMA KHALED Associated Press
into full-scale fighting across the country. The war killed at least 59,000 people, displaced some 13 million and pushed parts of the country into famine. More aid organizations are pulling out as clinics are left without necessary medicine or funding, forcing patients to face costly transportation and dangerous journeys to get treatment, said Doctors Without Borders, or MSF. “These cuts are stripping away what little capacity remains, closing facilities, sending health workers home, and cutting off supply lines for medicines and nutrition treatment. The system is already stretched past its limit,” said Mesfin Teklu Tessema, senior technical health director for the International Rescue Committee, or IRC.
CAIRO — An additional three dozen health facilities serving more than 400,000 people in Sudan are closing this year due to global aid cuts, worsening a dire humanitarian situation in a country torn by more than three years of war, aid groups said Tuesday. The cuts come to a healthcare system that once numbered 6,500 primary healthcare facilities and 300 public hospitals, but that already was decimated in the first year and a half of war. By September 2024, the World Health Organization said that up to 70-80% of facilities in the worst-hit areas were either closed or barely functioning. Sudan plunged into war in April 2023 when tensions between the Aid reaches fewer people army and the paramilitary Rapid Mohammed Mahdi, IRC direcSupport Forces, or RSF, escalated tor for East Sudan, told The Asso-
ing in and around the camp, down from about 35 in 2021, according to MSF. The MSF-supported hospital there ciated Press that funding cuts are forcing the closure of 36 IRC-sup- “is now the only lifeline left” for refported facilities and sites, cutting ugees and residents, said Fabrizio off access to essential services for Locuratolo, MSF humanitarian afan estimated 473,700 people. fairs manager in the statement. “A small number of facilities are able to keep running for a short pe- Risks of outbreaks riod using other funding sources, Ali Almohammed, MSF emerbut this bridge support is only ex- gency health manager, warned pected to last through the end of that “serious disease outbreaks September,” Mahdi said of facili- are already happening” in sevties across Sudan. eral parts of Sudan. He told the Healthcare providers couldn’t AP that measles reached a “major find alternative funding needed outbreak level” in Darfur, with apto provide healthcare services af- proximately 75% of measles pater grants to many organizations tients being unvaccinated. in Sudan ended in June following Sudan is also experiencing cholthe announcement of U.S. aid cuts era and malaria outbreaks. last year, according to MSF. Some Multiple attempts have been major European donors also de- made to end the war, including peace talks. Most recently, the creased their aid spending. The Um Rakuba camp in Gedar- United States urged the U.N. to ef State in eastern Sudan, which impose sanctions against the warshelters around 17,000 displaced ring parties as a means of pressurpeople, is now served by fewer ing them to negotiate an end to the than 10 aid organizations operat- conflict.
Kenya’s doctors threaten to join strike by nurses BY EVELYNE MUSAMBI Associated Press
Suspect arrested in Germany grid attacks BERLIN — Police arrested a suspect Tuesday in connection with a series of attacks on power distribution systems across Germany that led to a massive, dayslong search. A 48-year-old man was arrested near a power plant in Weisweiler, in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The man, whose name and nationality were not given in line with German privacy rules but who has been widely identified by local media as Daniel V., was in possession of explosives and offered no resistance at the time of his arrest, Cologne police said in a statement. The first acts of sabotage took place early last week at a substation near the Jänschwalde coal-fired power plant in Brandenburg in northeastern Germany. Hours later, a short circuit knocked power lines out of service at the Bergheim power substation near Cologne. Top security officials in both states raised alarms and said they couldn’t exclude that the attacks were committed by foreign powers. The incidents took place as the country was on high alert after the government blamed Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport on Aug. 4 using a drone laden with explosives.
Crime task force member arrested in D.C. WASHINGTON — A member of the Georgia National Guard deployed in Washington, D.C., as part of President Donald Trump’s task force to fight crime has been arrested for pulling a gun on a fellow Guard member in an alleged dispute over regulation haircuts. Zion Mitchell, 21, was arrested earlier this month and charged with assault with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm while committing a crime of violence or dangerous crime — both felonies — in connection with an Aug. 25 incident that occurred when a group of the Guard troops took a break, according to a Metropolitan Police Department report. The arrest warrant said Mitchell and the fellow guard member, a woman, were sitting in a van when they began arguing over whether their hairstyles met Army regulations. The argument went back and forth until she heard a holster click and thought Mitchell had opened his holster. She learned from fellow Guard members after getting out of the van that a weapon had been drawn and pointed at her. She told the investigating MPD officer that she assumed the gun was loaded since all National Guard firearms are generally loaded. Mitchell was arrested Sept. 1.
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A section of the restored 15-meter ancient wall mosaic from ‘The Painted City’ site, discovered in the late 1990s within the underground structures that served as foundations for the Baths of Trajan, is seen in Rome on Tuesday.
Ancient Rome’s biggest fresco and mosaic opens Public welcome three decades after discovery
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ROME — Authorities on Tuesday unveiled what is believed to be the largest fresco and mosaic complex of ancient Rome, a first-century depiction of a maritime city in what became the largest bath complex in the world. Mayor Roberto Gualtieri presented the recently restored “Painted City” fresco and “Great Mosaic” that were discovered in an underground gallery during excavations in the 1990s of the Baths of Trajan on the Oppio hill near the Colosseum. The works are opening to the public for the first time, initially in small groups of 15 and during a trial period of weekend access starting this month. The aim is to determine how the delicate works respond to increased humidity and climactic impacts before allowing more general access. Gualtieri said the fresco, which features images of a walled port city from a birds-eye view perspective, was the largest wall fresco of its kind from ancient Rome and as such needs to be open to the public. After being hidden undergound for centuries, its blues and terra cotta colors are still clear but faded.
“They are truly unique in the world, both from the point of view of artistic beauty and the historic and documental importance,” he said at the unveiling. Rome’s cultural superintendent, Claudio Parisi Presicce, said the grandeur of the port city as depicted in the fresco, with buildings, a theater and temple, public piazzas and towers, was particularly well conserved. The restoration work included techniques to preserve and improve visibility, remove surface deposits and consolidate the grouting to keep the decorated surfaces intact. “We don’t know what city it refers to, but it must have been a particularly wellknown one,” he said The mosaic, for its part, measures some 15 yards high and features intricately decorated columns and architectural elements and figures over four different levels. The top levels are up-close images with people that are almost like theatrical scenes, while at the bottom are views of the port city’s layout from above. The Baths of Trajan, which were dedicated by Emperor Trajan in A.D. 109, extended over 15 acres and were at the time the largest bath complex in the world. They incorporated an earlier baths complex, the Domus Aurea, and were designed on a different trajectory to take better advantage of the water temperatures to optimize the thermal experience for users.
Thieves steal 4 Renoirs from a French museum, flee with 2 BY ANGELA CHARLTON Associated Press
PARIS — Two thieves sliced through a fence, climbed through a window and stole four valuable Renoir paintings Tuesday from a small museum on the French Riviera, but abandoned two of the artworks as they fled, authorities said. Investigators launched a national search for the perpetrators. The whole operation took less than three minutes and targeted the most valuable works in the Renoir Museum in the town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, the regional prosecutor’s office said. The theft conjured up painful memories of the spectacular heist of crown jewels at the Louvre Museum in Paris last year and revived calls for better security and better funding for the many cultural sites large and small that dot France’s landscape.
Cagnes-sur-Mer Mayor Bryan Masson estimated the value of the combined Renoir works stolen Tuesday at $10.5 million, but art theft experts warned they will be extremely hard to sell. The Renoir Museum is housed in the last home of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, where he lived before his death in 1919. It’s the most famous attraction in Cagnes-sur-Mer, situated between Cannes and Nice on the Mediterranean coast. The “well-equipped” and “well-informed” thieves entered the Renoir Museum via the garden, Masson told reporters at the scene. Two of the stolen works were found dropped in the museum garden — Renoir’s ”Portrait of Madame Pichon” and “Coco Reading,” the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. The two still missing are “Portrait of Madame Colonna Romano” and “Young Woman at the Well.”
NAIROBI, Kenya — Doctors in Kenya on Tuesday threatened to join a walkout by nurses that is now in its sixth week, citing an increased workload in hospitals as they cope with the impact of the strike. The nurses have been calling for the implementation of a collective bargaining agreement that was signed in 2017 following a six-month strike. The agreement remains unimplemented due to what the government has termed budgetary constraints. Dr. Davji Bhimji Atellah, secretary-general of the doctors’ union, said on Tuesday that doctors were overburdened and “cannot do the nursing jobs.” He said hospitals were already dealing with a shortage of doctors and that the healthcare system requires teamwork. “We will not watch silently as the healthcare system we have dedicated our lives to serving is allowed to deteriorate. When
one part of healthcare is compromised, we all suffer. And when we stand together, we protect our patients together,” he wrote in a post on X. On Tuesday, hundreds of nurses marched to the Council of Governors’ office, a body established to bring the 47 county governments together. The governors and the Salaries and Remuneration Commission were due to meet on Tuesday to discuss remuneration. Atellah said the doctors’ union had given the government seven days to resolve the issues raised by the nurses. If the issues were not solved, the doctors would issue a strike notice. Seth Panyako, head of the nursing union, said on Monday that the government was not prioritizing healthcare during budgeting, leaving Kenyans to suffer in hospitals. He said the excuse that there was no budget to implement the 2017 agreement was unfair to nurses who work hard to provide healthcare services.
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BY KONSTANTIN TOROPIN Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Iran has launched missiles toward U.S. targets in Jordan, Iranian state-run media said, following the latest American strikes. It’s the latest tit-for-tat retaliation after the U.S. military said it destroyed five Iranian crude oil tankers following two attacks on a U.S. warship by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard over the past two days. U.S. Central Command, when asked about the strikes on the Jordanian airbase, said it had no information to offer. The Iranian tankers destroyed in the attack were the Kivik, Charminar, Horizon 1 and the Riesco in the Gulf of Oman, Central Command said. The U.S. military also destroyed the vessel Derya, which was located near Kharg Island in the Strait of Hormuz. Central Command said the crews of the five vessels were told to abandoned ship before the attacks. The strikes come just three days after U.S. forces destroyed three Iranian oil tankers after Iran’s Revolutionary Guards tried to attack a U.S. aircraft carrier and destroyer. Iranian state television also reported the U.S. strikes, saying U.S. forces attacked at least three Iranian oil tankers near the southern port of Jask and near Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf. It said the crews were evacuated. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. will not allow Iran’s attacks to go unanswered. “Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships. And for every time they do that or try to do that, they’re going to lose tankers. And I think you’ll see that again today,” Rubio told reporters Tuesday when asked about the latest attacks in Iran while on a trip to Colombia. Danny Citrinowicz, an Iran expert at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies, warned that
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A motorboat travels past commercial vessels anchored amid haze in the Strait of Hormuz off Bandar Abbas, Iran, on Monday. such back-and-forth strikes can only risk more retaliation and further impact to the global economy. “There is no kinetic solution to the Strait of Hormuz problem,” he said on social media. “Every attempt to impose one only brings Washington and Tehran closer to an escalation that may become increasingly difficult to control.” An Iranian state TV reporter in Jask said an Iranian tanker was struck near the coast of Yekbeni, while another explosion was heard in the area whose source and location were not immediately clear. State TV later reported that the U.S. military attacked a second tanker near waters off Jask. It said the crews of both vessels were being evacuated by lifeboat toward the Jask coast. Separately, state television reported that another Iranian tanker was attacked in Kharg Island anchorage area. It said the crew was safely evacuated shortly after the strike. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Navy on Tuesday warned crews of oil tankers near ports in Kuwait and Bahrain to immediately leave their vessels, saying the ships could be targeted in retaliation for U.S. attacks on Iranian tankers. It accused Kuwait and Bahrain of hosting U.S. forces and assisting in the attacks. On Saturday, the U.S. military said it had struck three Iranian oil tankers after Navy warships were targeted with ballistic missiles,
warning that it would, “if necessary, destroy Iran’s limited and exposed oil fleet.” Iran later said it planned to announce a new “exclusion zone” near the Strait of Hormuz aimed at vessels intending to transit. The latest strikes are part of a dual economic and military approach by President Donald Trump as he struggles to bring an end to a more than six-month-old war with Tehran. The Trump administration on Tuesday also imposed sanctions on additional elements of Iran’s aviation industry, targeting more than two dozen commercial and private airlines as well as foreign cargo service providers in its new push to isolate Tehran from its remaining trading partners. Both the U.S. and Iran are seeking to exert control over the Strait of Hormuz, where about one-fifth of the world’s oil passed before the war began. Rising energy prices are posing political problems for Trump and his Republican Party ahead of the November midterm elections. A barrel of international standard Brent crude briefly climbed as high as $99.46 on Tuesday. A U.S. blockade of Iranian ports has squeezed the country’s economy by limiting its oil exports, while the American military has been helping a limited number of ships transit on a route through the Strait of Hormuz off Oman.
CAIRO — The Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group in Yemen launched a wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, wounding more than 70 people and igniting fires at oil facilities and utilities in the kingdom, authorities said. The attack was a major escalation in renewed fighting between an important U.S. ally and the Iranian proxy group. It also threatened to further destabilize a region rocked by nearly three years of wars and deliver a new blow to the global economy. Weeks of clashes have added pressure to limited global oil supplies as the Houthis target a shipping route Saudi Arabia has used to transport oil to world markets while the Strait of Hormuz is throttled due to the U.S.-Iran war. Tuesday’s attacks hit Saudi oil facilities connected to an alternative route, the Bab el-Mandeb, a strategic waterway off the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula that connects the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden. The attacks early Tuesday came hours after the rebels blamed Saudi Arabia for an airstrike that hit a prison in Yemen’s northern province of Jawf. At least seven people, including a child, were killed and seven others were wounded. The rebels hit “civilian and economic facilities” in the Saudi cities of Abha, Jazan, Najran and Khamis Mushait, said Maj. Gen. Turki al-Malki, a spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Seventy-three people were wounded, including women and children, he said, calling the attacks a “serious escalation” and vowing retaliation. The attacks ignited fires at several oil facilities and utilities in Saudi Arabia’s southern region,
the kingdom’s Energy Ministry said, adding that operations at the oil facilities and utilities were temporarily suspended. The southern region houses major oil facilities, including a 400,000-barrel-per-day oil refinery in Jazan, which is one of Saudi Arabia’s largest. The Houthis previously attacked the Abha airport. The ministry said firefighters were battling the fires Tuesday morning. In a prerecorded video statement, Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree, the Houthis military spokesman, said they fired dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at oil and economic facilities, as well as an air base in southern Saudi Arabia. He said they targeted Jazan City for Primary and Downstream Industries, a major industrial and logistics hub on Saudi Arabia’s southwestern Red Sea coast. The rebels also aimed at Aramco facilities in Najran and Abha, as well as King Khalid Air Base in Khamis Mushait. Saree blamed Saudi Arabia for the escalation, warning that “every aggression against our country and people will be met with a firm response.” While visiting Moscow, Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan accused the Houthis of resorting to violence to serve their interests over those of Yemen, despite the Kingdom offering a chance to negotiate for peace. He added during a joint news briefing with his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, that the latest escalation by the Houthis against the Kingdom is part of a series of provocations and that Saudi Arabia will not hesitate to defend itself The new fighting has threatened to reignite the country’s civil war, which began in 2014 when the Houthis seized the capital, Sanaa, and much of northern Yemen and forced the government into exile. A Saudi-led coalition intervened the following year to try to restore the government to power.
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A federal judge in Missouri on Tuesday temporarily blocked the state from using its old congressional districts in the November election, after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to get involved in the twisting and confusing legal battle. The decisions highlight the bewildering nature of Missouri’s redistricting battle, which has spanned more than a year and leaves Missouri voters in some parts of the state uncertain which district they will be in on Election Day. The federal court action came just days after the Missouri Supreme Court said the state cannot use a new U.S. House map backed by President Donald Trump in the November election because citizens turned in thousands of petition signatures demanding a statewide vote on it. The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up an appeal from Missouri’s Republican attorney general, leaving in place the injunction from Missouri’s top court. But moments later, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark, a Trump appointee, issued a temporary restraining order prohibiting Missouri from using anything other than the new districts backed by Republicans. Redistricting opponents quickly filed a notice to appeal that order to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The new districts were used in the August primary, and the winners already were certified by election officials. But the question of which districts will be used in the November election continues to linger. Clark’s
eral Catherine Hanaway said the state “is prepared to follow and comply with” Clark’s order, which she said “binds the state to using” the new congressional districts. Republican Secretary of State Denny Hoskins, who oversees elections, described the federal court order as a victory that “halts a full-on constitutional crisis.” But an attorney for People Not Politicians, the group which sponsored the referendum petition, stressed that the order from Missouri’s top court against using the new map also remains in effect. “An individual federal judge cannot overrule the Missouri Supreme Court,” said attorney Chuck Hatfield, who represents People Not Politicians.
‘Wreak havoc’ Hanaway has argued it would violate federal rights and cause confusion to switch districts for voters between the primary and general elections. Clark agreed in his written order. “Using a different map for the general election would wreak havoc on the fairness and orderliness of Missouri’s congressional elections, calling into question the candidacy of those nominated in the primaries and the votes of those who voted in the primaries,” Clark wrote. “Widespread voter confusion would inevitably follow.” U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who handles cases from Missouri, did not explain the rationale for declining to take up the case. Missouri law set a Tuesday deadline to change the candidates or issues on the November ballot. But the determination of which ballots voters receive could take longer. Federal law sets a Sept. 19 deadline to begin
signatures seeking to force legislation. a November referendum on Missouri was the second the map. Hoskins asserted Republican-led state, after that Missouri’s Constitution Texas, to respond to Trump’s doesn’t allow a referendum call last year to redraw conon congressional redistrict- gressional districts. Several ing. A lower court agreed, other states followed. All but the state Supreme Court told, Republicans hoped to reversed Hoskins’ decision. win as many as 16 additionThe state’s top court said al seats from new House the new districts were retro- maps enacted in eight states actively frozen in December, — Texas, Missouri, North when the petition signatures Carolina, Ohio, Florida, Tenwere submitted, and thus nessee, Louisiana and Alanever became law. Hoskins bama. Democrats, whose on Tuesday assigned the re- counterattack faced several districting referendum as setbacks, think they could ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By DAVID A. LIEB Proposition A on the Novem- win up to six additional seats ber ballot, in compliance from new districts in CaliSteve Perry, of Kansas City, holds a sign in opposition with the state court order. fornia and Utah. to Missouri’s congressional redistricting plan on Sept. 2 The Missouri Constitution It remains to be seen does not specifically say that whether the redistricting outside the state Capitol, in Jefferson City, Mo. a referendum can be used works as intended for Remailing absentee ballots to pledging a continued cam- for congressional redistrict- publicans. The president’s overseas citizens and mili- paign. ing. But the state Supreme party historically has lost Court said a constitutional congressional seats in the tary members. provision allowing a refer- midterms, and Trump’s Missouri currently is rep- Never became law resented in the U.S. House On the same day as the endum on “any act” of the poor approval ratings could by six Republicans and primary, Hoskins rejected Legislature encompasses provide an extra hurdle for two Democrats who were a petition with thousands of congressional redistricting Republican candidates. elected under districts that Republican state officials approved in 2022. But at Trump’s urging, Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe called the Legislature into a special session last year to redraw congressional boundaries to their advantage ahead of the midterms. The revised map targeted the 5th Congressional District, held by longtime Democratic Rep. Emanuel • Family-Owned Cleaver of Kansas City. It • Female-Led reassigned portions of Kansas City to two neighboring • Community Trusted districts represented by Republicans and stretched the We provide high-quality remainder of Cleaver’s diswindow coverings and trict far eastward into rural Republican areas. exceptional service. About 59% of the district’s voters were new under the revised map, according to an Associated Press estimate. Cleaver was unopposed in the Democratic primary. State Sen. Rick Brattin won the Republican primary in the reshaped district. He joined with Republican U.S. Rep. Bob Onder and other voters to file the federal lawsuit resulting in Clark’s temporary order. Brattin 225.400.8040 • 225.938.0748 • info@weknowblinds.com • customblindsbr.com praised the decision while
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TIRANA, Albania — Police in Albania blocked protesters from reaching parliament on Tuesday as the latest rally against a luxury development linked to U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner turned violent. The march was staged as parliament resumed from a summer recess and after the demonstrations marked their 100th day on Monday. They challenged a police cordon in the center of the capital, Tirana, pelting officers in riot gear with eggs and tomatoes.
Cars transporting lawmakers to the parliament building were confronted by the crowds and were hit with plastic water bottles before police intervened to let them through. Dubbed the ‘flamingo revolution’ for protesters’ signs depicting the pink bird that could be harmed by the coastal development, the anti-government protests have rocked Albania. Although Albanian officials have avoided giving details of Kushner’s role in the project, Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, has spoken about her family’s involvement in the venture, describing it as an “incredible project.” The protests are aimed at stopping the massive project that critics say would cause environmental damage and limit public access
to the coast. The nightly Tirana protests initially only focused on the development but have since grown into a major challenge to the country’s long-ruling Socialist government. Prime Minister Edi Rama — a target of the demonstrations — strongly supports the investment project, arguing that it would help modernize a country that spent decades in Communist isolation. “We are here because we want change. Young people are struggling. Life is getting harder, and the government is not listening. We believe Albania can do better,” protester Elidon Mehmetaj said. “We are not asking for much. We are asking for a better future — for Albanian citizens, for our country, for our future,” he said.
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U.K. bans goods from New grand jury subpoenas issued in Trump-Russia probe Israeli settlements Investigation looks to establish conspiracy theory against president
the eyes of the international comGovernment accuses munity.” “We will not acquiesce in the settlers of ‘ethnic destruction of the two-state solucleansing’ tion,” he said.
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WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is demanding testimony before a Florida grand jury in an investigation aiming to establish an intelligence community conspiracy against President Donald Trump, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. New subpoenas being issued to former government officials represent an escalation in the yearlong investigation as the Justice Department pursues a loosely defined theory that members of the intelligence community who scrutinized Trump over the last decade, including over Russian interference in the 2016 election, conspired against him and violated his rights. Investigators in recent days contacted some defense lawyers for witnesses advising them of forthcoming grand jury subpoenas. It was not clear how many as of Tuesday had received a subpoena or were still waiting to receive one, and the identities of the witnesses receiving subpoenas were also not immediately clear. The people who confirmed the subpoenas spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss a secretive grand jury investigation. The contours of the conspiracy investigation aren’t fully known, but agents and prosecutors over the last several months have focused intensely on one of Trump’s chief grievances: the U.S. government response to Russian interference in 2016 and an intelligence community assessment that Moscow meddled on Trump’s behalf at the direction of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump, who spent much of his first term shadowed by an investigation into whether his campaign colluded with Russia to sway the outcome of the election, has for years lashed out at the intelligence community finding and cast it as a “deep state” conspiracy to undermine the legitimacy of his win.
LONDON — The United Kingdom on Tuesday banned trade with Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, where it says “settler terrorists” are carrying out “ethnic cleansing” of Palestinians, in a significant toughening of Britain’s stance toward a longtime ally. France and Canada announced they would take similar action in an attempt to prevent expanding settlements and growing violence from making it impossible to establish a future Palestinian state. Israel responded angrily and said it would close the British consulate in Jerusalem. Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband said the U.K. will ban imports of all goods from the settlements and bar companies from providing services for the settlements, including financing, construction, infrastructure, real estate and advertising. “I do not believe the British people want us supporting the occupation by accepting products from settlements in our shops and supermarkets,” Miliband said. In a joint statement, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham, French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said settlement expansion and settler violence in the West Bank “pose a direct and urgent threat” to the two-state solution. They said they decided to act “before it is too late.” The economic impact is likely to be limited, since the settlements produce only a small amount of largely agricultural exports. But the move is a symbolic expression of displeasure with Israel by some of its closest allies, and it offers a new sign of the Israeli government’s growing isolation as a result of the Gaza war. Miliband said that he feels “a deep sense of shame about what has unfolded in Palestine under
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This image, contained in the indictment against former President Donald Trump, and partially redacted by sources, shows boxes of records being stored on the stage in the White and Gold Ballroom at Trump’s Mar-aLago estate in Palm Beach, Fla. Investigators searching for potential crimes in connection with the intelligence community response have conducted numerous voluntary interviews, but the subpoenas prepared for witnesses in recent days represent an apparent effort to lock down sworn testimony before a grand jury. It remains unclear whether anyone will be charged or for what offense, though lawyers for former CIA Director John Brennan have said they have been informed that he is a target as investigators examine whether he falsely testified to Congress — something he and his attorneys have consistently denied. The Justice Department last spring subpoenaed witnesses before a Washington grand jury as part of an investigation into Brennan, but swiftly withdrew the subpoenas in favor of voluntary interviews. The investigation is being run out of Florida, with the Justice Department in April bringing back into government service a top prosecutor from the Reagan administration, Joe diGenova, to serve as a counselor to the attorney general and help lead a team of agents and prosecutors. diGenova, who had previously asked then-Attorney General Pam Bondi to appoint him to the job and
has openly and repeatedly claimed Trump was the victim of an intelligence community conspiracy, declined to comment Tuesday when reached by the AP. In an indication of the wideranging nature of the investigation, the AP reported last month that diGenova’s team has sought interviews with law enforcement officials involved in the 2022 FBI search of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago property in Palm Beach, Florida. The search recovered a trove of classified documents that formed the basis of a since-abandoned Justice Department prosecution of Trump, who has long decried the FBI operation as an invasion of his privacy. Investigators have set up shop in Fort Pierce, Florida, the home court of U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon, the Trump-appointed jurist who repeatedly appeared skeptical of the classified documents case against him and ultimately dismissed it after concluding that the prosecutor who filed the charges was illegally appointed. Lawyers for Brennan last year asked the chief judge of the federal court in Florida to prevent the investigation from being steered to Cannon, whom they described as a “favored” Trump judge.
Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar condemned the “despicable” move. He said Israel would expel U.K. representatives from a joint military center monitoring the Gaza ceasefire and end U.K. training of the Palestinian Authority’s security forces in the West Bank. In addition, Israel barred entry to a dozen British lawmakers and other U.K. citizens whom Sa’ar said were “involved in antisemitic and anti-Israel activity.”
Settlements expand Under the ultranationalist government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, settlement construction in the West Bank — seized by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war — has surged. Netanyahu’s government views the West Bank as the biblical and historical homeland of the Jewish people and is opposed to the creation of a Palestinian state. The international community overwhelmingly considers such construction to be illegal. Britain and other countries have voiced particular concern about the E1 settlement project approved by Israel, which would effectively cut the territory in two. There have been marked increases in attacks by settlers on Palestinians, evictions from Palestinian towns, Israeli military operations and checkpoints that choke freedom of movement, as well as several Palestinian attacks on Israelis. “The British government agrees that there is ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in areas of the West Bank, perpetrated by settler terrorists,” Miliband said. He said there had been “houses bulldozed, roads and public infrastructure destroyed, families displaced from their homes.” The ban on trade will be in place in six to nine months, Miliband said. He said Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Poland, Portugal and Sweden have pledged to “support further action.”
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Putin assures Trump Moscow doesn’t have plans toward Europe
Smithsonian leader resigns from post at institute following clash with Trump
Kremlin says phone call between presidents was ‘constructive’
BY MEG KINNARD and GARY FIELDS Associated Press
BY SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press
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Firefighters try to extinguish a fire following a Russian missile attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, early Tuesday. affairs adviser, said the hourlong conversation between Putin and Trump was “constructive and quite frank.” Moscow has a positive view of the results of the weekend visit by Witkoff and Kushner, he added. There was no immediate White House comment on the call. Ushakov told reporters that “in view of the speculation about Russia’s alleged hostile intentions toward European countries, it was underlined that we don’t have any aggressive plans regarding Europe.” That claim runs counter to European authorities’ versions of recent incidents, such as the German government last week blaming Russia for an attempted attack at Leipzig/Halle Airport in August using a drone laden with explosives. Ushakov said Putin told Trump about the combat situation in Ukraine and Russia’s plans to make battlefield gains and achieve its military goals in what Moscow calls its “special military operation,” not a war. Zelenskyy said he is counting on meeting with Trump around Sept. 20 — about the same time that the U.N. General Assembly is being held in New York. Putin isn’t expected to attend. He indicated he will press Trump to provide more Patriot air defense systems that Kyiv needs to counter Russia’s ballistic missiles. Ukraine needs 300 Patriot missiles from its partners’ stocks, 500
air-to-air interceptors and $2 billion for more drones, U.K. Defense Secretary Wes Streeting told the meeting of countries providing help. Also on Tuesday, the European Commission approved a loan of $3.7 billion for Kyiv to purchase components for Patriot air defense systems, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said on its Telegram channel. Zelenskyy thanked U.S. officials for their efforts to unblock negotiations with Russia, which have been stuck since early this year with little progress. “As for the peace package that Kushner spoke about and the new ideas, I’ll tell you frankly, there were indeed a couple of very good, worthwhile ideas,” Zelenskyy said in audio messages answering reporters’ questions. The proposals will remain under wraps for now, he said, but he expressed hope that talks involving delegations from Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. can take place in the fall. Ukraine is “ready to find a compromise” on the issues of grain exports and energy, he said. Moscow and Kyiv have targeted each other’s grain ships in the Black Sea, raising concerns that two of the world’s major suppliers won’t be able to get their produce to market. Ukraine has also battered Russian oil facilities while Russia has pounded Ukraine’s power grid ahead of winter.
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and museum directors report to Bunch, who is subject to oversight from a Board of Regents that includes Vice President JD Vance, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, a bipartisan group of lawmakers and so-called citizen regents. Roberts, who serves as Smithsonian’s chancellor, said in a release that Bunch had “pursued excellence in the telling of our nation’s story.” The White House did not immediately return a message seeking comment. The announcement has left questions about some Smithsonian programming. Bunch is scheduled to speak Sept. 25 at the National Museum of African American History and Culture at an event entitled: “Understanding America: 10 Years of Excellence.” A Smithsonian spokesman said Bunch would be at the event. The Smithsonian has been under examination by the Trump administration since 2025 as it has focused on the images and messages presented to the public as the nation approached its 250th anniversary. A March 2025 executive order, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History, led to signs being changed at federal parks, exhibits being altered or in some cases removed, and military bases being renamed. Trump specifically cited the National Museum of African American History and Culture and argued that the Smithsonian as a whole was engaging in a “concerted and widespread effort to rewrite our Nation’s history.” Several months later, the White House ordered a wide-ranging review of the Smithsonian museums and exhibitions before the country’s 250th birthday, with a goal of aligning the institution’s content with Trump’s interpretation of American history. In a letter sent to Bunch at the time, the White House detailed the steps it expected the organization to take as part of the announced review.
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cial media post Monday. “If they want our Market, they must build here, and stop treating America like a ‘piggybank.’ ” Bombardier said in a statement that the American aerospace industry is a “clear winner on trade and exports.” It said it creates tens of thousands of jobs both directly and through its supply chain. Bombardier’s supply chain includes about 2,800 U.S. companies in 47 states, it said. Among other
things, wings for its business jets are made in Texas and flight control components are produced near Los Angeles. Honeywell, a major U.S. aerospace manufacturer, makes engines for Bombardier’s Challenger jets in Phoenix, and Collins Aerospace makes avionics and communications equipment in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. “Bombardier values its great partnership with American companies and its U.S. employees. Our
plan is to continue to invest in our people, our customers, and the communities in which we operate across the country,” it said. Bombardier has significant operations in Kansas, where Republicans have held a solid grip on both U.S. Senate seats for a century. Trump won the state by about 16 percentage points in 2024. Both senators said they had contacted the White House to express concerns about the threat to the Canadian company and its potential impact on Kansas workers. “I reached out to the Trump administration to make certain the President is aware of the significant contributions of Bombardier to Kansas and the importance of its presence in Wichita to many Kansas workers at Bombardier and in the Bombardier supply chain,” Sen. Jerry Moran wrote in a social media post. Moran promised to continue working to ensure that the planemaker’s manufacturing operations remain in Kansas. Sen. Roger Marshall voiced the same support in a social media post Tuesday, saying “I’m going to fight
dress Sept. 16 and address the European Parliament the following day. Carney acknowledged the trade actions would cause short-term pain but said they would push Canada to move faster on investment, infrastructure and trade diversification. “It was easy business, but it meant we relied too much on one economic partner,” he said. “That time is over.” More than 70% of Canadian exports still go to the United States, underscoring the scale of Carney’s push to diversify trade. He said Canada’s exports to other countries are rising sharply and are on track to double over the next decade. Carney defended the retaliation, saying Canada could not let American goods enter tariff-free while Canadian companies face U.S. tariffs. Canada was not seeking to escalate the confrontation, he said, but
the tariffs were necessary to protect Canadian workers. Carney said the larger problem was what Washington had sought in the failed negotiations. “The most fundamental issue is that the cumulative U.S. demands revealed that they wanted us to become even more reliant on them, not less,” he said. “In too many areas, they wanted dependency, not a true economic partnership.” The prime minister said Washington sought limits on Frenchlanguage and cultural protections, influence over future trade deals and terms that would weaken the auto, steel and forestry sectors. How the trade war ends could carry consequences far beyond Canada, testing whether a smaller U.S. ally can resist Trump’s economic pressure without being forced to yield. Earlier on Tuesday, a Canadian official said Ottawa did not intend to change course regardless of whether Trump responded with
nothing or what the official called a “nuclear response.” The government’s strategy will remain focused on building more at home and diversifying trade abroad, the official said. The tariffs hit hundreds of American products, including steel, aluminum, cheese, appliances, clothing, cosmetics and farm equipment, at rates of 15%, 25% or 50%. They cover about $20 billion in American goods, roughly 6% of the $333.6 billion the United States exported to Canada last year. Since Canada-U.S. trade talks collapsed Aug. 21, Trump and his administration have imposed additional tariffs and issued a series of threats and attacks portraying Canada as weak and dependent. Trump’s trade war and repeated talk of making Canada the 51st state have fueled anger across the country. Canadians have sharply cut travel to the United States and boycotted U.S. goods, moves Car-
By The Associated Press U.S. President Donald Trump has threatened to ban the sale of aircraft from Canada’s Bombardier unless it manufactures planes in the United States. The maker of private jets in response pointed out that major components for its planes, from wings to engines, are produced in the U.S. and that its supply chain that relies heavily on U.S. companies. Since Canada-U.S. trade talks collapsed on Aug. 21, Trump and his administration have unleashed a barrage of tariffs, threats and personal attacks portraying Canada as weak and dependent. Canada retaliated Tuesday with tariffs on about $20 billion worth of U.S. goods. “NO MORE SELLING BOMBARDIER IN THE UNITED STATES! Their products aren’t good enough!” Trump said in a so-
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Continued from page 1A Canada is exploring ties with the European Union that could stop just short of membership, a Canadian official familiar with the discussions said. Options could include expanding existing agreements, negotiating a new treaty or creating other forms of cooperation. The official said Canada is already consulting provinces, territories and labor groups about what a deeper relationship with the EU could look like, but no model has been chosen. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the talks publicly. Carney is due in Strasbourg, France, next week, where he will attend European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the European Union ad-
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Bombardier, a Canadian jet manufacturer, says its supply chain includes about 2,800 U.S. companies in 47 states.
to keep Bombardier’s over 1,200 Kansas jobs. I’ve already taken that concern inside the Oval Office.” Earlier this year, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that his government would buy six early-warning radar planes from Sweden’s Saab and Bombardier, rather than from U.S. aircraft makers. The Saab planes use Bombardier’s Global 6500 aircraft platform, supporting Canadian manufacturing. They have 20% U.S. content. The alternatives would have been U.S.-made E-7A Wedgetail surveillance aircraft made by Boeing or the Aeris X, made by L3Harris. The Canadian government is reviewing plans to buy U.S. F-35 fighter jets. Saab has proposed making its Gripen fighter jet in Canada. Bombardier is one of Canada’s oldest and most well-known manufacturers. The company was founded by Joseph-Armand Bombardier, an inventor and entrepreneur from rural Quebec who started out making snowmobiles and other snow-going equipment in the 1930s.
ney praised as signs of national resolve. British Columbia Premier David Eby said the province will install new signs at U.S. border crossings reading: “Welcome to British Columbia, Canada. Strong, proud and will NEVER be the 51st state. Sorry!” “While our kindness is one of our greatest strengths, you should never, ever mistake that kindness for weakness,” Eby said. Gabriel Brunet, a spokesman for Canada-U.S. Trade Minister Dominic LeBlanc, said officials from both countries remain in contact even though formal talks have not resumed. Former U.S. trade official Wendy Cutler said Carney’s public approval rating, now topping 70%, gives him little reason to restart talks. “Clearly, at this point each side does not want to look too anxious to reengage in fear of looking weak,” she said.
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Continued from page 1A Plaza Apartments at 6751 Titian Drive — less than a mile from Winthrop Avenue, where he ran into an apartment and barricaded himself inside, Morse said. Morse said the apartment where Morris hid belonged to an acquaintance who had no other connection to the case. Members of the department’s Special Response Team arrived at the scene. Morris refused to exit while officers attempted to negotiate with him for about five hours. Morse said. Police used a robot, a drone and tear gas to get Morris out, to no avail. Police then brought in a K-9 unit, but Morris started fighting with officers and the dogs while they attempted to arrest him, Morse said. He added that Morris grabbed an officer’s rifle and began fighting for control of the weapon. The officer fired a single round, which struck Morris, Morse said. Morse said officers began attempting medical aid, and EMS took Morris to a hospital, where
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Continued from page 1A George Transition District were added as plaintiffs to the case in 2024. Baton Rouge is fighting that move, leading to Tuesday’s ruling. Judge Richard “Chip” Moore overruled Baton Rouge’s attempt to remove St. George and the transition district from the lawsuit, and even said he doesn’t think another case like this exists. After both parties presented their arguments, Moore said the annexations question will still have to be figured out in another court proceeding, but that “no one ever envisioned a situation where one municipality would seek to annex property that was to be included in another municipality that was already part of the plan.” “There was some equity rule that I heard a long time ago in law school about clean
people with a rifle. When officers arrived, Johnny Bradley was on a second-floor balcony, holding a handgun, according to Morse. Bradley was yelling and ignored officers’ commands to put down the gun and raise his hands, Morse said. After Bradley allegedly jumped from his chair while armed, an officer shot him one time, Morse said. After officers gave Bradley first aid, he was transported by Emergency Medical Services and is now in stable condition. Morse said Bradley has a violent criminal history and an active warrant from a previous domestic abuse incident. The police chief praised the “professionalism displayed by all officers involved in each incident.” “I believe that these officers’ STAFF PHOTO By PEARL SPURLOCK quick thinking prevented potential, grave harm to the public, A Baton Rouge police vehicle sits outside an apartment building on other officers, and themselves,” Titian Avenue where a suspect was fatally shot by poice after a five-hour Morse said in a statement. “The standoff on Tuesday. rigorous training that Baton Rouge Police officers go through seems he later died. In the earlier shooting, officers very apparent here.” Morse said Morris previously responded to the Jaguar Plaza had been arrested on charges of apartment complex at 750 Hard- Bystanders’ reactions attempted second-degree murder ing Blvd. about 5:45 p.m. Sunday Arthur Jackson, who lives in the and an active arrest warrant. after reports of a man threatening building next door to The Plaza
hands, and the city of Baton Rouge maybe doesn’t have such clean hands in this case,” Moore continued. Attorneys for the two governments were in the courtroom Tuesday, but no elected officials were on hand. Michael Hebert, attorney for Baton Rouge, argued that challenges must be filed within 30 days of the annexation’s publication, and the city and transition district didn’t join the challenge until years later. Hebert referenced a Louisiana Supreme Court case, Naghi v. Brener, saying “somebody tried to jump in” after the proper time period and “was denied.” Hebert also argued that the two most recent plaintiffs do not fall under Louisiana statutes that say “any citizen of the municipality” can challenge an annexation. “Mr. Browning and Mr. Rials have already made claims, so it’s not like if the city and the transition district are not added to this
lawsuit, that those claims will not be made,” Hebert said. Sherri Morris, attorney for all four plaintiffs on the case, emphasized to the judge how unique the case is and focused on how the annexations took place following the 2019 incorporation vote on city boundaries. She also stated how that same incorporation vote had been tied up in legal proceedings for years, blocking the city from originally joining this lawsuit with Browning and Rials. “This case is pretty much uncharted territory,” Morris said. “The statutes that are relied upon to challenge an annexation never contemplated that an annexation would be of incorporated territory.” After hearing both sides, Moore in his decision said Louisiana law allows St. George to proceed and the time limit in question doesn’t bar the city from pursuing the case.
Apartments, said he saw the shooting. “It woke me up from my sleep, just seeing police all on my residence street,” Jackson said. “I didn’t know what was going on.” Neighbors who talked to The Advocate, like Jackson, said they believe officers did not need to shoot the suspect. “When they brought his body out, they placed him on the concrete,” Jackson said. “The EMS were here; they didn’t rush the police.” Another neighbor said they saw the vehicle driving “slowly” and thinks officers could have apprehended the suspect before resorting to gunfire. Jackson said he could tell the suspect had been shot due to the officers’ reactions. “The way the officer walked out at first, you could tell, by people’s energies. One officer was holding his vest while walking him out,” Jackson said. “It made me think about, ‘what if it was me?’ It makes me not want to trust the police.” Email Blake Leschber at blake. leschber@theadvocate.com.
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Continued from page 1A through agreed-upon governance procedures,” the statement said, “the rules under which they voluntarily compete and to expect those rules to be followed. A commitment to those rules, and to the core principles of the Southeastern Conference, is an essential element of SEC membership. “Today’s filing is necessary to defend that right and preserve the conference’s ability to govern competition among its members.” In the amended complaint, the SEC said it called the meeting in which its presidents will decide if they want to vote LSU out of the league because the school “demonstrated a lack of institutional control” over Kiffin and his football program. The league also took aim at Kiffin for some of the comments he offered on Saturday when LSU opened its season with a 51-10 win over Clemson. The Tigers’ first-year coach quipped to the ABC broadcast in a halftime interview that the score would’ve been even more lopsided had LSU been able to add “pro players.” He also said in a news conference that he fought to sign Wright and Harris, the two former Ole Miss starters, because he thought they should be eligible to play. Both Wright and Harris played four years of college football, then sued in search of a fifth after the NCAA decided not to grandfather them and the rest of their high school class into its new five-year eligibility model in June. Both players were cut from NFL rosters in August. “My job is what I believe is right,” Kiffin said, “and I believe we were fighting for what was right for those kids. I’m not going to get into all the reasons, but that’s what I believe. Many people don’t like that, but they don’t understand. “Maybe if they knew my relationship with Dae’Quan, they’d think a little different.” The SEC also said in the new complaint that Murrill “deployed the official powers” of her office to help LSU “compel the SEC to associate with conduct that violates its core principles.” Murrill filed an amicus brief in support of the athlete plaintiffs last Wednesday in the state lawsuit that led the SEC to file its initial
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LSU coach Lane Kiffin runs to sing the alma mater with the team following the win over Clemson on Saturday. federal countersuit. She then appeared at a preliminary injunction hearing for the state suit, sitting alongside the plaintiff’s attorneys, and conducted interviews with reporters about the case. She’s called the SEC’s lawsuit “legal garbage.” The league filed its initial lawsuit as a First Amendment claim, centering on the SEC’s “right not to be forced to associate its competitions, its name, its reputation and brand, and its championships with conduct that the conference has expressly condemned and that directly contradicts the stated values” of the league.” Wright suited up for the Cleveland Browns in a preseason game but didn’t play. Harris briefly spent time with the New Orleans Saints, and he testified in court last Thursday that all he received from the franchise was $190 in gas money. Both have committed to LSU.
“My job is what I believe is right, and I believe we were fighting for what was right for those kids. I’m not going to get into all the reasons, but that’s what I believe. Many people don’t like that, but they don’t understand. Maybe if they knew my relationship with Dae’Quan (Wright), they’d think a little different.” LANE KIFFIN, LSU football coach Wright, Harris and dozens of other athletes were granted a preliminary injunction by Judge William Jorden in Baton Rouge last Thursday, permitting them a fifth season of eligibility. In response to LSU’s efforts to add former pros, including for-
mer NBA G-Leaguer RJ Luis to the men’s basketball team, the SEC adopted stiff penalties against such additions, including a fine equal to 50% of a sport’s budget and a halfseason suspension for a team’s coach. The injunction given in Baton Rouge, which included the NCAA and SEC as defendants, sought to prevent the conference from instituting its penalties. In fact, LSU was enjoined by Jorden’s injunction, barring the university itself from preventing the plaintiffs from returning to NCAA competition. LSU played one of the plaintiffs, former Notre Dame defensive end Junior Tuihalamaka, in the opener against Clemson. Tuihalamaka didn’t sign a pro contract this offseason after suffering an injury in the NFL’s pre-draft process. Kiffin decided not to add Wright and Harris to LSU’s roster ahead
of the opener because of the “uncertainties” around the potential repercussions for such a move. A lawyer for the plaintiffs, Ryan Downton, called it a “measured decision” that would the allow the school more time to sort out the legal complexities of the situation. Wright had been practicing with LSU but no longer can until he’s added to the roster. He may never be because of Anding and Harris’ reinstatement to the 105. “Defendants, each of them a state actor, are forcing the conference to associate its competitions, brand and championships with conduct that the conference has expressly repudiated,” the SEC’s complaint reads. An LSU athletics spokesperson declined to comment for this story. A hearing on the SEC’s request for a temporary restraining order is set for 1 p.m. Wednesday.
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In her first appearance in federal criminal court, the founder of Impact Charter School in Baker pleaded not guilty Tuesday to accusations that she illegally diverted money that was used to buy a Tesla, install a swimming pool at her house and pay for trips around the world. Chakesha Scott was charged in
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July with seven criminal counts, five of them alleging theft. Each is a felony. Six come with a maximum jail time of 10 years, while one C. Scott charge calls for a maximum of five years in jail. A trial is scheduled to start Nov. 9 before U.S. District Judge Brian Jackson, less than four months
after a federal grand jury handed down its indictment on July 15. Scott appeared Tuesday with her attorney, Stephen Haedicke of New Orleans, before U.S Magistrate Judge Richard Bourgeois in Baton Rouge. Bourgeois released Scott after she agreed to abide by several modest conditions. After the hearing, Haedicke declined comment. Scott’s initial appearance in court was delayed nearly a month
The other three defendants in the Impact Charter case appeared before Bourgeois last week, all because Haedicke has been tied pleading not guilty. They include up with a much publicized trial in Scott’s husband Eric, who was New Orleans involving a staged principal of the school and faces wrecks insurance scheme, includ- three counts. The other defendants ing murder-conspiracy charges are the Scott’s daughter Courtney against Haedicke’s client, Leon and local construction contractor “Chunky” Parker. The jury dead- Sam Green, who face one count locked on the murder-conspiracy each. Eric Scott and Sam Green charges against Parker and fellow have retained their own attorneys, defendant Sean Alfortish, prompt- while Courtney Scott is using a ing the judge last week to declare a public defender. mistrial. Prosecutors say they plan ä See IMPACT, page 2B to retry Parker and Alfortish.
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Louisiana contestant wins first runner-up in Miss America BY JUDY BERGERON Staff writer
“First Runner-Up to Miss America. Words that will never seem real,” Louisiana’s Shelby Bordelon said via Facebook on Monday. On Sunday night, the 24-yearold Sunshine native stood onstage in West Palm Beach, Florida, along with 51 other contestants, all hoping to bring home that coveted crown and title. After reaching the final five, Bordelon, the current Miss Louisiana, came up just shy of the win, but grateful for the experience nonetheless.
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Greg Kiger looks at a painting by artist David Horton during a ‘First Wednesday’ opening reception at Baton Rouge Gallery recently. Each month, except for January and November, the gallery holds a reception to introduce the latest exhibits featuring local and regional artists. The events are free and open to the public. The next edition on Oct. 7 will feature works by John Alleyne, Lauren Cardenas, Ross Jahnke, Brian Kelly and Leslie Koptcho.
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Louisiana’s Shelby Bordelon soaks in the moment after winning first runner-up in the Miss American pageant 2027.
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Baton Rouge police are investigating a fatal shooting that happened early Tuesday morning, a spokesperson said. Darius Chambers, 28, died of multiple gunshot injuries in the shooting that happened shortly before 2 a.m. in the 4900 block of Washington Avenue, near North Foster Drive, police said. No suspect or motive have been developed at this time, police said in a news release. Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the Baton Rouge Police Department’s Violent Crimes Unit at (225) 389-4869 or Crime Stoppers at (225) 344-7867.
Regulators decline to take action on gas leaks Air emissions at landfill found to be higher than limits BY DAVID J. MITCHELL
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Federal regulators will not issue citations or take other action against the East Baton Rouge city-parish government over an inspection earlier this year that found elevated gas pollutants at the North Landfill, officials said. Decomposing municipal trash releases “landfill gas” made up primarily of methane, carbon dioxide and the rotten egg-smelling hydrogen sulfide. Inspectors found air emissions from bare spots and extraction wells along the surface of the 415acre landfill off U.S. 61 near Alsen and Zachary that were higher than federal limits. The inspection led the Environmental Protection Agency to issue six formal “areas of concern” over the sufficiency of the landfill’s internal leak inspections,
trash covering practices and the size and number of leaks. In late June, a subsequent inspection by state regulators turned up problems with keeping trash covered, a practice that can reduce emissions and prevent it from spreading in the wind. Both the EPA and state Department of Environmental Quality recently told city-parish officials that the findings won’t result in further regulatory actions. Issued in late July, the EPA letter didn’t explain their decision. An agency spokesperson declined to explain EPA’s reasoning. “EPA does not have any additional comments beyond the July 23rd letter for this topic,” spokesperson Joe Robeldo said. DEQ officials has reported that the landfill operators corrected trash covering and other shortfalls. Adam Smith, the city-parish environmental services director, said landfill workers addressed the issues identified in the two inspections promptly, with “most
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A sign at the East Baton Rouge Parish North Landfill warns of flammable gas. Inspectors recently found air emissions from bare spots and extraction wells along the surface of the landfill that were higher than ä See LEAKS, page 2B federal limits.
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“I have dreamed about the Miss America stage for as long as I can remember. Nothing I ever imagined could have prepared me for what it actually felt like to stand there tonight among some of the most extraordinary women I have ever known,” she posted on social media. “And how blessed am I that the woman standing beside me in those final moments was @reganhuntsell. There could not be a more deserving, beautiful representative to wear that crown.” Miss Texas Regan Huntsell, 25 and a Houston native, captured the title. A dancer, she is a former member of The Rockettes and joined the Birmingham Royal Ballet in 2021. “To every single person who believed in me, prayed for me, encouraged me, invested in me, and reminded me why I started when I needed it most, this belongs to you, too,” Bordelon also posted. “I came to Miss America hoping to make my state proud. I leave knowing I’ve done just that and that I gave this experience every piece of my heart.” As first runner-up, Bordelon, a graduate student at Southeastern Louisiana University, receives a $10,000 scholarship. She was also given a $3,000 scholarship for winning the preliminary evening gown competition
corrective measures completed on the day of the respective inspections.” Smith added that the deficiencies were isolated “and not representative of the entire facility.” “The city-parish takes environmental compliance seriously and works to promptly address any deficiencies identified through regulatory inspections or reviews,” he said. Waste Management operates the public landfill under contract. As other landfills do, the East Baton Rouge North Landfill uses an intricate gas and liquid contaminant collection system with 129 extraction wells. The landfill also employs earthen cover and regular inspections in an attempt to keep emissions under control. Satellite imagery financed by climate advocacy groups has shown in recent years that landfills can be sizable sources of emissions that help fuel climate change, including the flammable and potent greenhouse gas methane. Quisha Reed-Jones, executive director of the local group Alsen St. Irma Lee Community Village, said the EPA report deeply concerns her and other community members, who have spent decades living near industrial sites, hazardous waste operations, landfills and Superfund sites. “The community has been voicing concerns for years of odor and health symptoms they experience living in close proximity to hazardous waste facilities,” Reed-Jones said. The EPA scrutiny of the Baton Rouge landfill appears to be rooted in a nationwide enforcement alert from 2024. The alert warned regulators about local landfill managers failing to keep up with their own mandated emissions inspections and to take steps to keep emissions down, like covering exposed patches of dirt. On March 24, EPA inspectors checking bare spots on the landfill surface measured concentrations of a certain category of gases up to 32 times the federal threshold for repeated leaking. Around some of the landfill’s collection network, which is partially exposed at the surface, the inspectors found concentrations at two to 14 times the standard. The EPA inspectors also reported finding seven leak points within four hours, noting that when the landfill did its own inspections
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Miss Louisiana Shelby Bordelon, right, and Miss Texas Regan Huntsell await the announcement of which one of them will be Miss America 2027.
“I came to Miss America hoping to make my state proud. I leave knowing I’ve done just that and that I gave this experience every piece of my heart.”
America if Huntsell is unable to serve or fulfill her duties, chooses to resign, is dethroned for violating organization policies, or is MISS LOUISIANA SHELBy BORDELON disqualified due to legal, health or personal reasons. This has only happened Thursday night. Louisiana Organization. once in Miss America’s hisBordelon is the fifth Loui- Louisiana has never had a tory, in 1984. siana contestant to make it Miss America winner. As first runner-up, Borde- Email Judy Bergeron at to first runner-up in Miss America, according to lon would assume the title jbergeron@theadvocate. Debbie Wyatt, of the Miss and responsibilities of Miss com.
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Chakesha Scott founded Impact Charter School in 2014 but lost control of the school in February 2025 after a damning state audit and subsequent action by state regulators. She and affiliates of the old school have filed multiple civil lawsuits seeking to turn back the clock and restore them to power at the K-8 school of nearly 400 students. Perhaps the most important of those lawsuits is a federal civil case brought by Chakesha Scott and the school’s former board of directors. U.S. District Judge John deGravelles decided on Aug. 19 to put that civil case on hold until the criminal case against Chakesha Scott is resolved. The criminal charges in this matter were sought by U.S. Attorney Kurt Wall, who took over the Baton Rouge office in October. Five of the seven counts are for “theft or bribery concerning programs receiving federal funds.” Impact Charter during this period was receiving at least $10,000 a year in federal funding. Another count involves conspiracy to commit such theft. The only specific federal program named in the indictment is the federally funded COVID-era Paycheck Protection Program.
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Chakesha Scott founded Impact Charter School in 2014 but lost control of the school in February 2025. A seventh count involves money laundering. It focuses on $42,371 Chakesha Scott pulled in May 2023 from the account of Friends of Impact Charter School to buy a 2018 Tesla Model S. Prosecutors say the “funds were derived from the unlawful theft of funds from Impact Charter School.” In addition to potential jail time, federal prosecutors are asking the court to compel the defendants to forfeit any property “derived from proceeds traceable to the offense,” or, failing that, forfeit comparable “substitute property” or pay financial damages. The charges mirror many of the findings of the Louisiana Legislative Auditor’s Office in its 173-page audit of Impact Charter. Those findings include the following: n Green overbilled Impact Charter to construct a temporary building at
for the lease-to-purchase arrangement is pegged at $166,520. n Chakesha Scott, “without authority,” illegally diverted more than $2 million in lease payments to Friends of Impact Charter, the owner of the Lavey Lane campus. Those payments, which covered an 18-month period starting in September 2022, were $846,048 more than what Friends was paying on its mortgage. Scott also allegedly spent $171,659 from the school’s bank account to pay closing costs on that property, even though the school was not party to the real estate sale. n The husband and wife charged $114,094 to school credit cards to pay for what prosecutors say were “personal travel expenses.” Auditors counted 20 trips taken between October 2021 and July 2023. They included a 17-day European trip to Paris, London and Amsterdam, with a stop at Disneyland Paris. The Scotts have argued that all their trips were legally appropriate travel to professional conferences and the credit card in question was theirs and not the school’s. n Over more than five years the couple illegally diverted $292,993 from student fees and uniform sales to Friends of Impact Charter.
the 4815 Lavey Lane campus and then used almost $106,000 of those payouts to help complete construction on the Scott’s home in Zachary, including installing a new swimming pool. n Chakesha Scott took $458,200 that Impact received from the Paycheck Protection Program and moved it in June 2020, two months after receipt, to the bank account of a nonprofit associated with the school, Friends of Impact Charter, a group auditors say is controlled by her. Prosecutors say that diversion of funds was illegal. The Scotts have argued that the nonprofit’s finances are separate from those of the school. n Starting in June 2021, Chakesha Scott and Courtney Scott took cars acquired by the school — a 2017 Acura MDX and a 2021 Land Rover — for Email Charles Lussier at their own personal use. clussier@theadvocate. Total estimated expense com.
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An inspector measures the concentration of volatile organic compounds emitting from the bare ground of the East Baton Rouge Parish North Landfill on March 24 with a handheld device.
in 2025, only two leaks were discovered over the entire year. Among the areas of concern EPA pointed out was that workers conducting leak inspections were not doing them thoroughly enough. In addition to addressing the bare spots on the landfill, city-parish workers and contractors promised EPA new training on stanching emissions and better detecting them. David J. Mitchell can be reached at dmitchell@ theadvocate.com.
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Singapore man guilty in $240M bitcoin theft
WASHINGTON — A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to teaming up with friends to steal nearly a quarter-billion dollars in bitcoin from a Washington, D.C., resident — one of the largest cryptocurrency thefts in U.S. history — and then embarking on a wild spending spree with the laundered proceeds. Malone Lam, an eighth-grade dropout who came to the U.S. from Singapore, faces a maximum prison sentence of 20 years after pleading guilty to a federal racketeering conspiracy charge. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t immediately schedule Lam’s sentencing hearing in Washington. Lam was an organizer for a network of young men who carried out a string of crypto scams starting in 2023, prosecutors said. He is one of 18 defendants charged in the case and is the 11th to plead guilty, but his conviction marks a major breakthrough for the Justice Department’s investigation. In August 2024, Lam and others used “social engineering” techniques to dupe the Washington man out of bitcoin worth over $245 million. Two of Lam’s alleged co-conspirators posed as representatives of Google and the Gemini crypto exchange to manipulate the man into giving them access to his Google Drive and revealing security codes that allowed Lam to siphon off over 4,100 bitcoin, according to prosecutors. Lam helped launder and covert stolen crypto into cash that he used to buy a fleet of sports cars, rent mansions in Miami and spend millions at night clubs, including $569,000 in one evening at one Los Angeles club, authorities said.
U.K. cancels 600 flights due to air traffic issue LONDON — More than 600 flights were canceled on Tuesday due to a technical issue in Britain’s air traffic control system that caused disruptions at major airports across the U.K., the flight monitoring website Flightradar24 reported. Britain’s National Air Traffic Services said a problem had been identified in its flight processing system and engineers were urgently working on the issue, which affected flights across the U.K. In an update, it said it had “our flight system is starting to recover.” At least 625 flights to and from U.K. airports, including London Heathrow, were canceled, affecting services operated by multiple airlines, including British Airways, EasyJet, KLM and Lufthansa, according to Flightradar24.
Seattle Times alleges copyright infringement The Seattle Times Co. has sued OpenAI and Microsoft, in the latest move by media companies to call out artificial intelligence players’ alleged copyright violations. In a lawsuit filed in federal court, The Seattle Times, joined by Newsday, accused OpenAI of using the outlets’ published work to train large language models, also known as chatbots. “This was not an easy decision,” Seattle Times President and CEO Alan Fisco wrote in an email to employees Friday. “However, we feel strongly that we must defend our content — which we spend millions of dollars a year to produce — from being used without our consent or compensation.” In the lawsuit, attorneys representing The Seattle Times and Newsday, a daily newspaper based in Long Island, New York, said that OpenAI’s models were causing substantial harm to media businesses, citing industry data that said search referral traffic to midsize publishers declined by 47% year over year in December 2025. The two media outlets also accused OpenAI of diluting their trademark by generating content that falsely attributed fabricated content to The Seattle Times and Newsday.
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China tech company faces racketeering trial Huawei accused of stealing, bank fraud
BY LARRY NEUMEISTER Associated Press
NEW YORK — Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese tech company, faces a criminal racketeering trial in New York over charges that it stole technology, plotted to steal U.S. trade secrets and committed wire and bank fraud, among other crimes. Jury selection began Tuesday afternoon. The indictment alleges that, besides stealing trade secrets, Huawei and some of its subsidiar-
ies did business in North Korea despite U.S. sanctions there and installed surveillance equipment that helped Iran spy on protesters during 2009 anti-government demonstrations in Iran. Huawei’s lawyers have tried to get the broad criminal case dismissed, arguing in court filings that the U.S. allegations were too vague and impermissibly tried to extend American authority abroad. The company said in a statement that the narrative pushed by U.S. prosecutors is “demonstrably false.” “Long-term investment in innovation, backed by the utmost respect for intellectual property, has been the driving force behind Huawei’s business success,” the company said.
Huawei is the world’s biggest supplier of gear for wireless telecom networks but the company is banned from selling equipment to U.S. carriers over fears it poses a security risk. It has also been blacklisted by other Western allies like Canada and Britain. The company makes phones and other consumer electronics but has been cut off from other lines of business. More recently, it has expanded into chipmaking as the boom in artificial intelligence fuels demand for microprocessors. During President Donald Trump’s first term in office, his administration raised national security concerns about Huawei and began lobbying Western allies against including the company’s
products in their next-generation high-speed wireless networks. The U.S. announced the criminal charges in early 2019 and has since expanded the allegations. Chinese officials said the U.S. government has engaged in “economic bullying” and improperly used national security as a pretext for “oppressing Chinese companies.” U.S. prosecutors accused Huawei of using a Hong Kong shell company known as Skycom to sell equipment to Iran in violation of U.S. sanctions. They also charged its chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, with fraud, saying she misled HSBC bank about the company’s business dealings in Iran.
Affordable housing remains empty as U.S.’s poorest can’t pay for it BY CLAIRE RUSH Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. — Mathew Davis, who lives in a homeless shelter in Austin, Texas, would love an apartment of his own. But with the little money he makes donating blood plasma, even a $450-a-month tiny home with no running water and a communal bathroom would be a stretch. Meanwhile, over 4,500 units the city classifies as affordable — nearly 16% — sit empty. “I don’t make enough money really to afford anything,” Davis, 49, said of the few hundred dollars he earns a month. “I just keep trying to swim uphill.” The poorest people in the U.S. face the most acute shortages of affordable homes. But the majority of low-income housing financed in recent years is for those earning 50% of an area’s median income or above, according to a survey of state housing agencies. Some cities are now seeing an uptick in vacancies as rents for these units approach market rates. The result: Apartments designated as affordable sit empty because the poorest of the poor cannot afford them. Meanwhile, some people are forced into homelessness and others into desperate circumstances to pay for housing they can’t afford. There are only about 4 million affordable rental units available for the country’s 11 million extremely low-income renter households, according to the National Low Income Housing Coalition’s most recent annual report. These are people with annual incomes either below the federal poverty guidelines — just under $16,000 for a single-person household — or 30% of the median income in their area, whichever is higher. They comprise about a quarter of U.S. renter households, and include many people working low-wage jobs, seniors and those with disabilities living on fixed incomes. About three-quarters of extremely low-income renter households pay over half their income on rent and utilities, the report said, leaving little leftover for other necessities. Yet homes set aside for these renters were only about 12% of the affordable housing units financed in 2024 by the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit — a federal program providing tax credits to developers in exchange for keeping rents low for at least 30 years, according to figures from the National Council of State Housing Agencies. The majority are for those earning at least 50% of an area’s median income, or AMI. In Austin, that’s a single person earning roughly $47,000 a year, as compared with an extremely low-income person earning under $28,000. The program has financed nearly 4 million affordable units nationwide since its creation 40 years ago. But some experts say it’s
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In Austin, the vacancy rate for all affordable housing is nearly 16% with over 4,500 vacant units, according to real estate data and analytics firm CoStar. A healthy vacancy rate is around 5%. inefficient — and more costly than housing vouchers. “It’s enormously complex and bureaucratic, and it raises the cost of construction enormously because the rules are so complicated,” said Chris Edwards, an economist at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, who told Congress the program’s complexity “spawned” an industry of law and accounting firms just to administer it. “If you’re going to subsidize affordable housing, you should give the money directly to tenants,” he said, referring to housing vouchers. Other experts say the two programs work together well because properties built with the tax credit are required to accept vouchers — while landlords of market-rate apartments in many states are not. Still, there’s a major federal funding shortfall: Experts estimate only one-in-four eligible families ever receive vouchers. Vouchers can help the poorest pay for housing that’s targeted to higher income groups, but the waitlist can be yearslong. Some affordable housing developers say that without vouchers, it’s not economically feasible to provide units for extremely lowincome people. True Ground Housing Partners, an affordable housing developer in the Washington, D.C., area, gives an example: A unit for those
earning 60% of the area’s median income — nearly $70,000 a year — brings in $1,715 per month in rent. But after $1,575 in mortgage and operating expenses, only $140 is left. “The math does not lie,” said president and CEO Carmen Romero, noting that an extremely low-income person would pay only half that rent. “Our expenses don’t make it really possible to create a 30% AMI unit, unless there was this extraordinary amount of subsidy that just doesn’t exist.” Meanwhile, affordable housing rents for 60% AMI units are approaching those of market-rate apartments in U.S. cities like Austin, Denver and Portland, Oregon. As a result, some people are opting to pay a bit more for market-rate apartments with less income-verification and faster approval — leaving growing numbers of affordable units vacant. In Austin, the vacancy rate for all affordable housing is nearly 16% with over 4,500 vacant units, according to real estate data and analytics firm CoStar. A healthy vacancy rate is around 5%. LDG Development, an affordable housing developer, cited a 12% vacancy rate for its 60% AMI units in Austin. Chief portfolio officer Rebekah Fischer said LDG is “in direct competition” with the thousands of new market-rate apartments recently built in Austin.
U.S. hits remaining parts of Iran’s aviation sector with sanctions It’s the latest move to isolate Tehran BY FARNOUSH AMIRI Associated Press
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed sanctions on additional elements of Iran’s aviation industry, targeting more than two dozen commercial and private airlines as well as foreign cargo service providers in its new push to isolate Tehran from its remaining trading partners. The latest actions are part of the Trump administration’s Operation Economic Outcast campaign that is aimed at severing “critical
financial lifelines” for the already heavily sanctioned Iranian government. The new penalties target the remaining facets of Tehran’s already beleaguered aviation ecosystem, which Washington has sanctioned for years. “Let this be a warning to anyone doing business with Iran’s remaining airlines, all of which we sanctioned today: You are at risk of being cut off from the global financial system,” Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a news release. The Trump administration accused the 36 entities targeted this week of supporting the Islamic Republic’s efforts to use its aviation sector to move weapons, person-
nel, and illicit cargo. The moves will subject foreign firms and governments that do business with the targeted entities to sanctions themselves, including a freeze on any assets they may have in U.S. jurisdictions. In a post on X, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi called out the longstanding U.S. sanctions campaign against Iran, saying that the fallout “has been disastrous for America, including its standing worldwide.” “After failing to achieve its aims through sanctions or war, Washington’s “novel” solution is…more sanctions. Seriously?” Araghchi wrote Tuesday afternoon. The administration also claimed
that private entities based in Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan and Malaysia have provided parts and logistics services to Iran’s Mahan Air. The major airline, which flies from Tehran to a few dozen destinations in Asia, Europe and the Middle East, has been subject to U.S. counterterrorism sanctions since 2019 for its support for Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, which the State Department has designated a foreign terrorist organization. The airline was first targeted by the U.S. under the Obama administration in 2011, when it accused Mahan Air of being used to send weapons to Iranian proxies in Lebanon and Yemen.
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Obituaries Anderson, Carol McCoin
Carol McCoin Anderson, born May 2, 1951, in Bogalusa, Louisiana, passed away on September 3, 2026, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, after a courageous battle with cancer. A devoted Southern Baptist of strong faith, Carol had a
lifelong passion for reading and dedicated 44 years of her professional career to Franklin Press in Baton Rouge as a proofreader and editor. She graduated from Southeastern Louisiana University and was a member of the Phi Mu Fraternity. She was preceded in death by her father, Robert B. McCoin, Jr.; her mother, Elizabeth Holy McCoin; and her brother, Robert B. McCoin. Carol is survived by her devoted husband of 54 years, David E. Anderson, Jr.; her daughter, Cheryl Poss Zimmermann, and son-in-law, William Zimmermann; her son, Mathew David Anderson, and daughter-in-law, Jessica Brousse Anderson; her beloved grandchildren, Jackson David Poss and his wife Caitie, Charles Sanford Poss, and Charlotte Eleanor Anderson. She is also survived by her sister, Linda McCoin Crowe, and brother-in-law, A.G. Crowe; her brother, Alan Hampton McCoin, and sister-in-law, Kim McCoin; sister-in-law, Lynn McCoin; their children, and numerous extended family members and friends who will cherish her memory. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, September 9, 2026, at 11:00
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Chustz Jr, Mark (Joanna) Chustz, Aaron (Heather) Chustz and daughter Jan (David) Foulds and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. George was a Veteran of the National Guard and an avid outdoorsman who loved to hunt, fish and visit with friends. A Christian burial and celebration of life will be held at a later date.
Dies, Joyce Jagneaux
Joyce Jagneaux Dies, age 92, a resident of Livingston, Louisiana, passed away on September 5, 2026, surrounded by the love of her family. Joyce was born on March 4, 1934, in Church Point, Louisiana, to Julien and Lillian Jagneaux. Throughout her 92 years, she built a life centered around the things that mattered most to her—her family and her faith. A devout Catholic, her faith was an important part of who she was, and she especially cherished attending her Rosary group, where she found fellowship, prayer, and comfort. Joyce was a true Cajun woman to her core—strong-willed and fiercely loving. She had an enormous love for her family, and there was very little she would not do for the people she called her own. Her family was at the heart of her life, and the generations that followed her were among her greatest blessings. Maw Maw also knew how to enjoy the simple things in life. She could often be found watching the Game Show Network or Channel 9, enjoying some cookies, or looking forward to a good home-cooked meal. She appreciated good Cajun cooking—especially a good grease gravy—and she loved her butter beans. These seemingly small things became part of what made Maw Maw uniquely Maw Maw, and they will forever bring a smile to the faces of those who loved her. Joyce was preceded in death by her beloved husband, Walter J. Dies; her parents, Julien and Lillian Jagneaux; her daughters, Diane Roberts and Patricia Dies; her sonin-law, Ray Roberts; her sister, Rosa Daigle; her brother, Joseph Jagneaux; her grandson, Scotty Smith; and her great-greatgrandchild, Cason Metrejean. Those left to cherish her memory include her grandchildren, Patrick Smith and wife Melissa, Jason Smith, Christopher Smith, Chasity Ammon, Jennifer Johnson, John Roberts and wife Crystal, Susan Pate and husband Rodney, Kim Nunnally as well as numerous greatgrandchildren and greatgreat-grandchildren. To those who loved her most, however, she was more than Joyce—she was simply Maw Maw. For 92 years, her life touched generation after generation. She leaves behind memories, stories, traditions, laughter, faith, and a love that will continue to live through her family. Her absence leaves a space that cannot be filled, but her family finds comfort in knowing that the Catholic faith she held so dearly throughout her life carried
her home and reunited her with the loved ones who went before her. The family would like to extend their heartfelt gratitude to Pinnacle Hospice, with special thanks to Samantha Wheat, Chantel Denicola, and Detrella Dixon, for the compassion, kindness, and exceptional care they provided and shared with Maw Maw and her family during her final days. Visitation will be held at Greenoaks Funeral Home on September 11, 2026 from 10:30 am to 12:00 pm, followed by a Funeral Service at 12:00 pm and burial at Greenoaks Memorial Park. Serving as pallbearers will be Patrick Smith, Jason Smith, John Roberts, Travis Roberts, Lenny Simpson, and Chris Smith. Honorary pallbearers will be Gary Jagneaux and Randy Daigle. Joyce Jagneaux Dies will be deeply missed by all of her family and loved ones, lovingly remembered, and forever held in their hearts. Her family will remember her faith, her strength, and above all, the fierce love she had for her family. May her soul, and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
cookies). A private service will be held at a later date, with inurnment in the Ascension Catholic Cemetery in Donaldsonville. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Office of Development, 2900 Rocky Point Drive, Tampa, FL 33607 or online at lovetotherescue.org. in Grace's memory. The family wishes to thank the staff at Trinity Trace Community Care Center, and Foundations Hospice for their compassionate care.
ment will follow at Grace Memorial Park in Plaquemine. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made in Richard's honor to the American Cancer Society or the Iberville Museum. Please share memories online at www.wilbertservices.com.
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Guerin, Richard Joseph
Richard Joseph Guerin, Jr., a native and lifelong resident of Plaquemine, Louisiana, passed away peacefully, surrounded by his family, on Sunday, September 6, 2026, at the age of 79. He is survived by his three sons and their wives, Richard III and Angie Guerin, Brad and Shawn Guerin, and Robbie and Holly Guerin; five granddaughters, Ali Guerin, Claire Guerin, Summer Guerin, Harlie Guerin, and Harper Guerin; three siblings and their spouses, Darlene and Wayne Billings, Kenny and Donna Guerin, and Blair and Julie Guerin; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife of 55 years, Rene' Boudreaux Guerin; his parents, Richard Joseph Guerin, Sr. and Mazie Oubre Guerin; and his son, John Kirkland Guerin. Richard enjoyed writing, family genealogy, working in his yard, cooking, hunting, and fishing. Above all, he loved his five granddaughters, affectionately known as "The Guerin Girls". Richard felt strongly about helping others and was a lifelong community volunteer. He served as president of Plaquemine Parks and Recreation, the Iberville Association for Retarded Children, and the Plaquemine Jaycees, and also served on the Board of Trustees for the Iberville Museum. Richard retired after 32 years of service with BellSouth. For 26 years, Richard served as a volunteer Hunter Safety instructor and was honored as the first recipient of the State of Louisiana Volunteer Hunter Safety Award. In 1976, he was named the Outstanding Young Man of Plaquemine. Richard was a 1965 graduate of Plaquemine High School and attended Louisiana State University. Richard's pallbearers will be Richard Guerin III, Brad Guerin, Robbie Guerin, Kenny Guerin, Blair Guerin, and Derek Guerin. The family would like to express its sincere appreciation to Richard's caregivers, Dr. Gerald Miletello, nurse practitioners Judson Jones and Dorothy Ewen, and Comfort Care Hospice, for the care and compassion they provided. Visitation will be held at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Plaquemine on Friday, September 11, 2026, from 9:00 a.m. until the Mass of Christian Burial at 11:00 a.m., celebrated by Father Jason Palermo. Entomb-
Esneault, Grace Ann Schumaker
Grace Ann Schumaker Esneault, 85, of Covington, Louisiana, passed away peacefully on September 7, 2026. Grace Ann was born on January 3, 1941 in Donaldsonville, Louisiana to Camille Nizzo and Buster Schumaker (Bastiano Scimeca), but raised by her grandparents, Paul and Rosa Nizzo. After graduating from Ascension Catholic High School, she received her B.A. in Education from Nicholls State University. She is survived by her daughter Yvette O'Krepki, son Dalton Jr. (Joey), daughter in law Nicole, her grandchildren Sara Grace O'Krepki, Ryan Richard O'Krepki and his wife Emily Moore O'Krepki, Abby Michelle Esneault, Ashley Jeanne Esneault, and great -grandson Rhodes Ryan O'Krepki. She is also survived by her sister, Paula Wolf and brother Cyrus Baldwin. She is predeceased by her husband of 58 years, Dalton, and grandson Andrew Joseph O'Krepki. Grace loved spending time with her grandchildren. She loved shopping, visiting with friends, and cooking. In recent years, she discovered her love for art. She was a lifelong resident of Donaldsonville, but she and Dalton moved to Covington in 2009 after her retirement as an elementary school teacher, to be closer to their children and grandchildren. She never missed a grandparent's day, dance recital or sporting event for her grandchildren. She became an active member of St. Anselm Church and loved participating in their St. Joseph's Altar, where she continued her grandmother's Italian tradition of making Cuccidati (fig
Jeffery J. Landry, 80, passed away on August 31, 2026. Born on May 23, 1946 he was a native of Thibodaux and resident of Gonzales. Friends and family will be received at Christ the Redeemer church on Saturday, September 12, 2026 from 10:00 AM until a Memorial Mass at 11:00 AM. Burial will be held at a later date. Jeffery is survived by his sister, Denise L. Hebert; brothers, Gary J. Landry and Cyril F. Landry; sister in law, Sue Landry and numerous nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents, Clifford W. Landry and Corine Gaubert Landry; brother, Patrick Landry; brother in law, Paul Hebert; sister in law, Judith Landry. He served in the National Guard for 7 years. He was a devoted Adoration member. The family would like to thank the staff of Landmark of Baton Rouge and Lifesource Hospice. In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Lewey Body Dementia Organization: https://lbda.org/donate. Online condolences can be made at http://www.or doynefunerals.com/. Funeral arrangements were trusted to Ordoyne Funeral Home, 1489 Saint Patrick Street Thibodaux, LA 70301.
Myhand, Rhett Arthur 'Buck'
Rhett Arthur "Buck" Myhand, 75, of Thibodaux, entered eternal rest on Sunday, September 6, 2026, surrounded by his family. A devoted husband, father, Pops, brother, and friend, Buck was a man of simple tastes and boundless generosity, quick with a joke and quicker with a helping hand. To know him was to be handed a cold drink, told a story you had already heard, and made to feel like family. A Memorial Visitation will be held on Thursday, September 10, 2026 at St. Joseph Co-Cathedral from 9:00 am until the Memorial Mass at 11:00 am. Burial will follow at St. Joseph Cemetery. A Celebration of Buck's life will follow at his residence. Buck was the beloved husband of Deborah Ann "Debi" Tenney Myhand, who preceded him in death on December 6, 2025. Through her long illness he cared for her with a tenderness and devotion that humbled everyone who witnessed it. Together they raised three sons, who were his greatest pride: Ryan (Chrisy), Ryley (Autumn), and Rhett (Jena). To his grandchildren - Seth, Sydnee, Reese, Riley, Jacob, and John Ryley - he was simply Pops, and there was nothing in this world he would rather have been. Born in Addis, Louisiana to Miriam and Joe Myhand, Buck was one of eight children and remained a proud son of that town his entire life. In addition to his parents and his wife, he was preceded in death by his siblings Jerry "Dangerman" Myhand and Kim Allmindinger. He is survived by his twin brother Brett "Pete" Myhand (Simone), his brother Bill "Bubba" Myhand, and his sisters Elise Koberg, Denise (Lou) Brown, and Jocelyn Gauthreaux. He found his joy in the simplest things: a morning
on the water at Bayou Corne, a round of golf with old friends, a cold Miller Lite, a "board meeting", Mardi Gras at his house with the whole family in the yard, and a good joke. He lived simply and on purpose, and asked the world to take him exactly as he was. Buck's friendships were the work of a lifetime. Whether he was roofing a friend's house in a single Saturday, building a deck that still stands, or presiding over one of his beloved "board meetings" - an afternoon of cold beer, good company, and no business whatsoever - he was the one who showed up. His faith was quiet and steady, and he carried it the same way he carried everything else, without announcement. Buck's life was a blessing. His memory is a treasure. And he rests now beside his "pick of the litter." Online condolences can be given at www.thibodau xfuneralhome.com. Thibodaux Funeral Home has been entrusted with his arrangements.
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Childcare funding cuts steepen climb from poverty There is nothing so American as a bootstrap tale — the story of a person, through hard work and determination, pulling themselves up from poverty to success. That’s why we are disappointed that the state and federal governments seem determined to make such journeys more difficult for parents with young children. A recent analysis by The Associated Press found that there are hundreds of thousands of children in 23 states and the District of Columbia on waitlists for state-assisted childcare. In Louisiana, more than 7,700 waiting for aid for which they have already been deemed eligible. That’s a 70% increase from the previous year. The assistance, which is designed to serve low-income families and foster children, is falling further and further behind. In Louisiana, with federal help, the program subsidized 25,000 children’s care in 2022, its peak enrollment. Even so, the state had enough demand to establish a waitlist that year. And after the pandemic funding expired in 2023, Louisiana tried to pick up the difference, kicking in $88 million to the program. But it still hasn’t kept up. This year, the state allocated about $79 million, and federal funding is about $66 million short of what it was at its pandemic-era high. That means there are about 10,000 fewer children in the program this year. Parents can wait years for their aid to come through. Sometimes their children age out and begin attending school before they ever receive it. One preschool director counsels families not to expect it even if they are eligible. “If you’re filling it out now, chances are you will not get on,” Sonjia Brown-Joseph, executive director of Clara’s Little Lambs Preschool in New Orleans, told this newspaper’s Patrick Wall. “And if you do, your child will probably be heading to school by that time.” The negative effects are obvious. When parents can’t afford childcare, it makes it tougher for them to work or pursue education or training that might afford them better prospects. What’s more, research indicates that children who receive good childcare are healthier emotionally and academically. That impacts people like Dynasty Bartholomew, an Alexandria mother trying to study to become a medical assistant. Putting her 2-year-old in daycare costs $720 per month, which soaks up most of her income. She’s had to rely on relatives and nonprofits to help her pay her other bills. Bartholomew’s eligibility was granted eight months ago, but she has yet to receive aid. Every time she calls, she told Wall, she hears the same thing: “I’m on the waiting list,” she said. Even so, her determination to improve her family’s financial situation is undimmed. If only our state and federal leaders had the same resolve.
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Plan to narrow voters’ choices could have been disastrous in Duke vs. Edwards race
Nancy Landry must ensure that polling places are safe As Louisiana prepares for the Nov. 3 election, I have two questions for Secretary of State Nancy Landry, the state’s chief elections official. First, what specific steps will Landry take to protect Louisiana’s polling places from anyone who attempts to intimidate or interfere with voters or election workers? Louisianans must believe we can walk safely into our polling places, cast our ballots and leave without interference. The right to vote is fundamental to our democracy. Every registered voter, regardless of political party, has a constitutional right to vote freely and without intimidation. Landry has said that Louisiana’s voting locations are secure. I ask her to go further and explain publicly how she intends to ensure that remains true if individuals or organized groups attempt to disrupt the voting process. I also ask Landry to make her position clear regarding Louisiana’s voter
registration rolls and the federal government’s efforts to obtain them through the U.S. Postal Service. If the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately rules that the federal government does not have the legal authority to require Louisiana to turn over its voter rolls to the Postal Service, will Landry respect that ruling and refuse to comply with an order that the court has determined to be unlawful? These are not partisan questions. They are questions about the integrity of our elections, the privacy of Louisiana voters and the responsibility of the state official entrusted with administering our elections. Landry has an obligation to protect the right of every eligible Louisiana voter to participate in our elections. I believe voters deserve to know, before they go to the polls, exactly how she intends to do that.
Quin Hillyer has produced an argument so transparent that one wonders why he bothered to drape it in Madisonian costume (“Louisiana Democrats are wrong to oppose amendment to limit governors’ terms,” Sept. 6.) Hillyer fears John Bel Edwards may return, run again for governor and defeat Jeff Landry. His solution is not persuasion. It is prophylactic disqualification citing his nemesis, former Gov. Edwin Edwards. That theory is refuted by Edwin Edwards’ own record. The irony is that a lifetime ban is sold as a defense against entrenched power, while Edwards’ 1983 victory over incumbent Dave Treen shows the ordinary safeguard already at work: Voters can remove the person who actually holds power. Louisiana voters rejected Edwards in 1987, when Buddy Roemer defeated him. They rejected him again in 2014, when Garret Graves defeated him for Congress. The people did not need Hillyer’s constitutional training wheels. When they wanted Edwards out, they put him out. But Hillyer calls EWE “wily,” treats Treen’s 1983 loss as proof of a “shadow government” and skips the most important fact of all. In 1991, incumbent Gov. Roemer finished third and did not even make the runoff. Edwards faced David Duke, a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard, and won 61% to 39%. Had Amendment 4 existed, Edwards would have been barred from that ballot. Duke would not have been. That is not an abstraction. It is the historical consequence of Hillyer’s argument. Edwards won elections in public, lost elections in public and answered to voters every time. Hillyer’s proposal does the opposite: It says voters may be trusted only when their future choice has already been narrowed by politicians. If JBE runs again, let Landry beat him. If Landry cannot, do not amend the Constitution to save him from the voters.
ROBIN MAYHALL Baton Rouge
Trump’s tariffs are a tax on American consumers Why are President Donald Trump’s tariff taxes referred to in a headline as being “slapped” on a given foreign country or countries, like Canada? The U.S. government has no power to impose or collect tariff taxes on citizens or businesses from foreign countries, like Canada. The truth is, tariff taxes are imposed upon and paid for by Americans who buy exports from foreign countries like Canada. Trump’s new tariff taxes are new taxes levied only on Americans, who
must pay the tax. New tariff taxes cause imported goods to cost more, which makes price inflation worse. Please state the news accurately: Trump slapped tariff taxes on Americans, not Canadians. He backhandedly slapped us silly and raised our taxes. Meanwhile, Trump made temporary income tax cuts permanent and forever for American billionaires and the Epstein class.
MICHAEL MCSWEEN New Orleans
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COMMENTARY What comes next in Essence Fest’s partnership with N.O. Anyone who has been married for more than seven years, and certainly decades or more, knows there are times when the two of you wonder why you got married in the first place. You might eat together every time, but this time is different; you eat when you want and I’ll eat when I want. You might always pray together, but you decide to say your prayers, wishing God would change the other person. There Will are times when you need Sutton some space, some time to breathe, catch your breath, lower your own temperature, test the temperature in the room and tiptoe into it, remembering why you love each other. I think the Essence Festival of Culture and the City of New Orleans need some space and time. Temperatures have risen. Fingers have been pointed. In some cases, gloves have come off. And certainly words that might not have been said were said, and they can’t take it back. Just like married people. The reality is that, for the first time in seven years, Essence and New Orleans no longer have an agreement that there will be another Essence Festival. I can’t imagine a Fourth of July weekend in New Orleans without Essence Festival. I don’t mean this literally, but we “Essies” would die. Louisiana Legislative Auditor Michael Waguespack has asked New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno to take a closer look at the “uncommon arrangement” with Essence. He wants to “determine whether public funds were used in accordance with applicable agreements, law, regulations and policies.” I’m all for that. Let’s audit the way public funds were used for the NFL Super Bowl, which was millions, the Sugar Bowl, the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, and definitely LIV Golf, an event that didn’t even happen. One party wants millions. Another party says that’s unreasonable. One party says July wouldn’t be the same without us. Another party says don’t try
George Clinton performs during the Essence Festival of Culture at the Caesars Superdome in New Orleans. STAFF PHOTO By ENAN CHEDIAK
us; someone else might be interested. Few places can provide the same experience as the Essence Festival, born in New Orleans. It’s much larger than it was three decades ago. There are scores and hundreds, if not thousands, of repeat attendees. The event was in Houston in 2006 because Hurricane Katrina ruined those plans. I wasn’t there, but reports about the Reliant Stadium event said it was nice, but nothing like New Orleans. Post-Houston attendance grew in 2007, 2008 and 2009. In 2012, The New York Times called the event “an important event in nonhip-hop black pop for an entire generation.” There was an Essence Fest spinoff in Durban, South Africa in 2016. It wasn’t the same. Houston and Durban aren’t like us. They have versions of community, culture and music, but they’re not anything like New Orleans. People love New Orleans. Unfortunately, concert attendance and hotel nights have declined. However, there are short-term rentals these days. Still, the economic impact in recent years has been as high as $346 million. Efforts have been made to get the right decision-making parties to the table for in-person, real-talk conversations. Like a marriage, they won’t move forward without honesty, airing concerns and grievances, clarifying roles and setting parameters.
“I think there will be a high-quality festival next year,” one person close to the negotiations told me. Yes, but who would put it on? Maybe Essence. Maybe not. Instead of a multiple-year, five-, seven- or 10-year deal, I propose a two-year agreement. The parties involved — and we Essies and others — don’t want to see a year without Essence. Essence needs to be in New Orleans, the place where its childhood and teen years allowed it to mature, the place where it came into its own as a young adult festival. It’s matured with different owner-parents, and that’s part of the problem. Having multiple parents across 30-plus years has taken some getting used to. The baby has matured, there are new parents and the grown “kid” doesn’t want the newest parents to run their life. Here’s the thing: Like in marriages and families, if you’re committed to each other, you find a way to work it out. In this case, a pause, a time to figure out a long-term future, might be exactly what we need. I’m not looking for a “Can’t we all get along” moment. I want mature, grown folk to have a real talk about how to move this forward. Together. Email Will Sutton at wsutton@ theadvocate.com.
After working at Ground Zero, one question still haunts me At first we called it “the pile,” but my casual references to “the pit.” after some months, those of us who If you are too young to remember worked there started calling it “the the towers, it is hard to explain how pit.” I spent almost a year in a nearby that group must have felt. America had trailer, doing administrative work for always felt like a safe place, nesting one of the construction companies between two broad oceans, and now it clearing the site, so I watched the wasn’t. Almost 3,000 people died in the whole process day by day. terrorist attacks. The victims could The collapse of the twin towers on have been any of us, except that they Sept. 11, 2001, created an unfathomhappened to work in the wrong buildably large heap of smoking debris, ing or get on the wrong plane. A kind of including shards of the buildings that innocence had been torn from us, and jutted dramatically skyward. it seemed as if everyone’s life One of them was almost four would forever be divided into stories high. I can still see extwo halves: before and after. Those visitors had come trying actly what that sheet of twisted to comprehend this terrible thing steelwork looked like when I that happened to our country, first saw it a few days after the and all they found was a contowers fell, misted by rain and Megan ega framed against a brooding sky. McArdle struction site where some young I stared at that shard for lady was chattering about slurry a good half hour and still walls. I understood how they felt. couldn’t believe it, even though I could I, too, had struggled to comprehend smell the noxious smoke streaming off it. I would walk around the site and the pile. It looked like something out of look at the wreckage, waiting for the a movie, and I kept expecting the direc- enormity of it to hit me. It never did, because that site was too big to be tor to call cut. comprehensible. The grief I expected Over the next few months, the pile shrank. The flyers were taken down or came instead when I was walking out blew away, and eventually the workers of the subway station at Union Square and came face-to-face with hundreds got past the basements and subbaseof “Have You Seen Them?” flyers ments, where some of the last human remains were recovered from the pile. posted by families of people who never came home. I suddenly found myself Now it looked like any other construcon my knees, weeping hysterically, tion site, unless you happened to know while commuters skirted around me at that the sunken space where the engia respectful distance. Grief, I’d discovneers were fretting about the slurry wall was the hole in our country where ered, does not scale. the twin towers used to be. And neither does it sustain itself inPeriodically, VIPs would come to see definitely. As the pile disappeared and the site, and occasionally, one of the oth- the hole took shape, it became familiar to me. Perched in a trailer at the pit’s er “office girls” or I would be asked to give a tour. That spring, as I was leading edge, we told jokes, suffered through breakups and ate snacks. It had to hapa party around, I realized that I was appalling them with my cheerful descrippen, I suppose, but when I saw how those visitors reacted to my casual air, tions of the work that was ongoing and
I shared their revulsion. I had known three people who died in the towers. I had watched the towers fall on television, not knowing whether my boyfriend was inside, and later saw the smoke from the roof of my apartment building, still not knowing. Through all of it, I felt a fear and sadness and rage that I could not have imagined possible on Sept. 10. How could I forget all that, even for a moment? As the 25th anniversary approaches, that question occurs to me again. I barely hear 9/11 mentioned, and when I do, the invocation is casual, a historical reference, the way you’d refer to Gettysburg or Pearl Harbor. Intellectually, I understand that this, too, had to happen. The people who remember that awful day keep dying, and new ones keep being born who cannot know how it felt. Subsequent calamities created new befores and afters. As did better, more personal things, like babies and bachelorette parties and the nation’s 250th anniversary. Life went on, as it had to. Even the darkest grief cannot stay fresh forever. Yet emotionally, I cannot accept it. Life didn’t go on for 2,977 people. The photographs on the flyers were intended to commemorate the happiest days of their lives — weddings, birthdays and graduations. Instead, those snapshots became a memorial to the last and the worst day they ever lived. Eventually, that memorial was taken down and thrown away, or preserved as a museum exhibit that will never convey a fraction of what was lost. As I reflect on that fact, after 25 years, I find I am still capable of the most terrible grief. Megan McArdle is on X, @asymmetricinfo.
Both parties must learn to attract independents
There’s loads of talk about the struggle among the Democrats about how, or whether, to accommodate democratic socialists in the party. There’s loads of talk about the struggle among Republicans about the future of the MAGA movement once Donald Trump glides into formal political retirement. But what if those aren’t the most important moving parts in American political culture? There’s ample reason to think that the shape of American politics won’t be governed by the two parties’ choices, as important as they are. That’s because Americans increasingly are growing impatient with the two parties — and because more David than ever are identifying Shribman Americans not as members of the party of their fathers (as the old chestnut used to tell us) nor as members of any party at all. Indeed, nearly half of all Americans now identify as political Independents. That phenomenon — a new high in modern American life — has crucial implications that cascade across the immediate (the midterm congressional elections), the middle-term (the 2028 presidential elections) and the future (well into the 2030s, which aren’t so far away). For the immediate term, this development renders some of the established political principles irrelevant. Certainly, the conventional view that parties holding the White House still are at a disadvantage in the sixth year of a presidency makes the November midterms especially perilous for the Republicans. But other waves that are roiling the mainstreams of the country’s politics are emerging, and seem persistent. One of them is the growing contempt voters have for both parties, the impatience they feel with the internecine struggles that are dominating political conversation, and the concern Americans feel about the divisions that are separating them. Gallup found that 45% of American adults last year considered themselves political independents. The polling firm has been finding for many years that Independents are the largest group of Americans, but the percentage of Independents has increased significantly in the past decade and a half. In 2011, the level first registered 40%. The movement toward Independent status does not necessarily mean Americans are withdrawing from the Republican and Democratic ranks. It means that newer entries into the country’s political ranks are not associating with the parties. There is, however, increasing skepticism of the parties among all voters. A recent survey by the respected Marquette Law School Poll showed that a quarter of all Americans have an unfavorable view of both parties. Gallup noted that “a shift in Independents’ political leanings caused the Republican Party advantage that aided Trump’s reelection to dissipate almost as soon as he took office.” At the end of 2025, the president’s overall support rating was 36% — but among Independents it was only 25%, according to Gallup. Trump’s recent approval ratings generally fell in the high 30s. So what’s the implication of this for the midterms? It means that even if turnout operations by both parties are spectacularly successful, that alone won’t be enough to carry the day in states where Senate and House races are close. The winners in those races will have to appeal to Independents. That’s not so easy a task in an era of divisions prompted by lurches to the extremes. It requires some navigation toward the center, which itself is not so easy because one of the peculiarities of the American political system is that primaries generally produce candidates who lean right or left. In practical terms, candidates such as Abdul El-Sayed, who barely prevailed in the Democratic Senate primary in Michigan, will have enormous pressure to nudge toward the center for the general election. Some of his views — he’s not a democratic socialist but he shares some outlooks of the group — will be anathema to Independents. Indeed, a Fox News poll showed 55% of registered voters view El-Sayed negatively. Then again, 47% view his rival, Representative Mike Rogers similarly. The irresistible conclusion is that Independents will hold sway there, as they will elsewhere. And how about the situation in Montana, where 42% of voters identify as Independents, according to a recent Montana Free Press poll? In the Senate race in that reliably Republican state, Independent candidate Seth Bodnar, a former University of Montana president, has double the support of Democrat Lt. Col. (ret.) Alani Bankhead, though former U.S. Attorney Kurt Alme, the Republican, still holds the lead. As for Democratic Senate nominees in Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota: They all dropped out, making way for surging Independent candidates. Email David Shribman at dshribman@postgazette.com.
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SEC’s stance to expel LSU silly, but serious Scott Rabalais has had member schools leave over the years, like Tulane in 1966, but that was on their own accord. But let’s be clear: This was a real threat. You may think the SEC is off its collective rocker for even considering such action, but if it’s in writing as part of a lawsuit — a federal lawsuit — it has to be taken seriously. How did this feud between LSU and the SEC get this heated? There isn’t just one factor, though it was clearly triggered by Kiffin’s attempt to add former NFL and Ole Miss players Dae’Quan Wright and Zxavian Harris to the LSU football roster.
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LSU coach Lane Kiffin walks on the sideline after a touchdown against Clemson in the third quarter on Saturday in Tiger Stadium. After their 51-10 romp over Clemson in the season opener, the Tigers host Louisiana Tech on Saturday night.
The Southeastern Conference on Tuesday amended its lawsuit against LSU in a Birmingham, Alabama, federal court to say its member schools will meet Thursday to decide whether to kick LSU out of the conference. LSU, in return, reportedly appeared to run up a white flag Tuesday night by locking in its 105-man roster with two previously rostered injured players: Gabriel Reliford and Aidan Anding. In other words, it’s just another wild week in Lane Kiffin Land. A reasonable person would think that move should end the standoff between LSU and the conference it helped create in 1932. But this has been such an unprecedented story, such a wild clash of cultures and perspectives, that we may still not know how the SEC will react. Meanwhile, let’s cut to the chase. I do not believe the SEC will make such a drastic move to expel one of its charter and most valuable members. The SEC
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Ah, there is the magic word: “Kiffin.” He’s been a thorn in the SEC’s side since he was the coach at Tennessee, and he raised everyone’s blood pressure when he left Ole Miss at the College Football Playoff altar to take the LSU job. And let’s throw Will Wade into the mix as well, because rehiring the once-fired, FBI wire-tapped coach doesn’t sit well with the SEC, either. The rest of the conference has viewed LSU as a renegade program since the Kiffin and Wade hirings. Forget all the scandals that have enveloped virtually every other SEC member, including LSU, which had a booster give money stolen from a hospital foundation to a player’s father and covered up sexual harassment cases on a university-wide scale. But this is the Rubicon that LSU has crossed as far as the SEC is concerned. And it’s mainly because Kiffin is LSU’s
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Depth emerges for LSU during Clemson rout BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer
The LSU depth chart was a relative mystery headSTAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON ing into the season. Limited preseason access for the media and a bevy LSU running back Caden Durham slaps hands with of new faces made projecting the two-deep before Sat- fans while walking to the locker room before the game urday’s season opener against Clemson a fraught exagainst Clemson on Saturday in Tiger Stadium. ercise. So many question marks, so few easy answers. But after LSU demolished Clemson 51-10 in Tiger Stadium, we finally have answers to depth chart ques- Jones nearly had 100 yards rushing by halftime and finished averaging nearly 5 yards per attempt. tions that were previously elusive. Kiffin has said on numerous occasions that he Here are four takeaways from LSU’s depth chart doesn’t plan on handing out playing time based on after the Clemson win. reputation or NIL dollars. Placing Gage and Jones Berry, Durham roles ahead of Durham and Berry on the depth chart was After leading LSU in carries and yards last season, Kiffin walking the walk. “Dilin wasn’t a big name coming in, had the least Berry and Durham didn’t see the field until the fourth quarter on Saturday. It was a shocking development, stats of some other people coming into the room from even considering the rise of Wisconsin transfer Dilin last year,” Kiffin said. “And so we just go off of what we see (in terms of playing time).” Jones during the spring and preseason. Durham and Berry have at least 11 more games to Instead of Durham or Berry splitting carries with Jones, offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. turned prove they deserve more touches. But Jones — and to to Central Florida transfer Stacy Gage as the No. 2 ä See DEPTH, page 3C back. Gage averaged 4.1 yards on eight carries, while
Tyler Shough is so New Orleans now that he and his wife’s OB-GYN had to find a window during Mardi Gras where they were both sober for the birth of his first child. It was February in New Orleans, and Shough’s impressive rookie season had people in the city feeling better about the upcoming fall than they have in a while. Jordan was due any day with their son, Grayson, a boy who would be born in SEASON New Orleans. A caravan PREVIEW of cars was waiting to clear a path through the revelers to the hospital if ä Saints it came to that, but hopeat Lions. fully it didn’t, because this was not part of the NOON SUNDAy, FOX sober window. Shough’s first experience with New Orleans’ biggest cultural event blew his expectations away. Performing in front of tens of thousands of people wasn’t a new experience, but as he stood atop a float as the Krewe of Pygmalion’s grand marshal — chucking foam footballs at fans like he was trying to put them through their chest — he was struck by how incredibly close it all felt. “Mardi Gras was completely immersive,” Shough said. “You’re looking everybody in the eyes and throwing them stuff, trying not to kill ’em when you throw. You feel a connection. I remember everybody’s faces.” There is a famous quote that is often attributed to Drew Brees that makes its way around in situations like these: “If you love New Orleans, it will love you back.” For more than a decade, Brees served as the avatar and chief hype man for the city, and indeed, it loved him back. Not just because he was one of the best to play the game but also because of the way he became intertwined with the city. Shough first came across that line before
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FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER
Saints quarterback Tyler Shough throws a foam football during the Krewe of Pygmalion parade as he reigns as the krewe’s grand marshal on Feb. 7 in New Orleans. It was Shough’s first Mardi Gras experience.
LSU fills its roster without using ex-pros Source: Tigers add 2 injured players instead of Wright, Harris
BY JON BLAU and REED DARCEY Staff writers
Two days ahead of a threatened Southeastern Conference vote to expel LSU, it seems Lane Kiffin may be backing down in his quest to add a couple of former Ole Miss starters who previously signed with NFL teams. Two injured Tigers, cornerback Aidan Anding and defensive end Gabriel Reliford, have been added back to LSU’s official roster, according to a source. That brings the roster to the NCAA limit of 105 players. That means there is no more room — at least currently — for Kiffin to add tight end Dae’Quan Wright and defensive tackle Zxavian Harris. Wright, who suited up for
the Browns this preseason but did not play, and Harris, who signed with the Saints but never practiced, recently were made eligible for a fifth season by a preliminary injunction from a Baton Rouge court. In response to LSU’s efforts to add Wright and Harris, the SEC instituted penalties against member institutions if they added athletes who previously signed with or were rostered by professional teams. While the Baton Rouge court was preventing the NCAA and SEC from punishing the athletes, or anyone who would roster them, the SEC retaliated by filing a lawsuit with a federal court in Alabama. In an amended filing Tuesday, the conference said it was holding a vote Thursday to consider expelling LSU from the SEC. The federal court in Alabama was set to hold a hearing Wednesday to consider a
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Longhorns take No. 1; Oregon slides I’ll say it. This wasn’t a great week in college football. I know — start throwing the tomatoes now if you must. The Michigan Hail Mary was crazy; so was the fourth quarter of Ole MissLouisville. And the power outage in Tallahassee was notable, even if the football itself wasn’t pretty Koki between Florida Riley State and SMU. But other than those stories, there wasn’t a lot of drama in a Week 1 where 24 of the 25 teams in my preseason poll all won. But as the saying goes, no matter the quality of the week, the show (or in this case, the poll) must go on. Here is my AP Top 25 poll after Week 1.
A change at No. 1 Texas was the beneficiary of Oregon’s underwhelming performance against Boise State, sliding into my No. 1 spot after beating the brakes off Texas State to open its season. Quarterback Arch Manning was fabulous against the Bobcats, but talking about the Longhorns here would be wasting precious space in the newspaper. What we really need to talk about is that my preseason No. 1 team was a few bad plays away from losing to a Group of Six team at home. Granted, Boise State entered the year as the undisputed top G6 team and was firmly in the next group of teams ready to crack
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Texas quarterback Arch Manning, shown during a game against UL-Monroe on Sept. 21, 2024, and the No. 4 Longhorns take on No. 1 Ohio State on Saturday. my top 25. But for a program with the talent and expectations that Oregon has, the Ducks were maddeningly inconsistent and found themselves tied with the Broncos heading into the fourth quarter. The season is not over for Oregon. One ugly performance wasn’t enough for me to push coach Dan Lanning’s team outside of my top 5, but it was hard to rank them beyond fifth after Texas, Ohio State and Indiana all held serve, and LSU squashed Clemson as if coach Dabo Swinney’s Tigers were an FCS team.
Bye-bye Michigan I’m not naive enough to pretend that the first 59 minutes and 59 seconds of Michigan’s zombie performance against Western Michigan didn’t happen. If it weren’t for quarterback Bryce Underwood’s miraculous Hail Mary, the Wolverines would have lost. That’s why I’m treating this result the same way everyone else would have if the referees hadn’t controversially put an extra second on the clock: an in-
explicably bad loss. Look, I’m not going to pretend that one performance is gospel. I liked Michigan heading into the season and even had the Wolverines at No. 12 in my preseason poll. But clearly I underestimated Underwood’s struggles last season and should’ve baked in the possibility that Michigan would have fits and starts with a new play-caller at the helm. Those warts and more were on display against Western Michigan. And even if the final score will put a tally in the win column for coach Kyle Whittingham’s new team, I’m viewing this performance as what it really was.
Other notes Louisville and Boise State lost, but both teams played more than well enough to deserve spots in my rankings. The Cardinals shot themselves in the foot too many times against Ole Miss, but their talent on defense is real, and quarterback Lincoln Kienholz — in the second half — played like a man who can lead Louisville to an
ACC Championship Game. I have some concerns about Ole Miss after that game (the secondary… yikes!), but including Louisville in my rankings after it was No. 26 in my preseason poll was a nobrainer. It’s hard to imagine Boise State losing again after this week, although Memphis could give the Broncos a run for their money next weekend. I still believe they’re head and shoulders above the rest of the new-look Pac-12. Can you name 25 other teams that could’ve pulled off what they did this week? I didn’t think so. Forgotten in the chaos of Saturday, Sunday and Monday was Virginia’s crazy impressive performance against NC State in Week 0. The Wolfpack looked dreadful, but the Virginia defense and run game should allow the Cavaliers to be real contenders in a wideopen ACC after Miami. Now, if only I trusted Cavaliers quarterback Beau Pribula to throw that pigskin down the field. Email Koki Riley at koki.riley@ theadvocate.com.
LSU cracks top 10; Michigan out of AP Top 25 AP TOP 25 POLL
BY ERIC OLSON
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LSU jumped back into the top 10 in the first Associated Press Top 25 college football poll of the regular season on Tuesday, Oregon slipped out of the top five and Michigan fell out of the rankings altogether after it needed a second-chance Hail Mary try at home to beat Western Michigan. Ohio State remained No. 1 by a wide margin entering its showdown with No. 4 Texas on Saturday. The Buckeyes received 46 first-place votes from the voting panel of 69 writers and broadcasters. The other 23 first-place votes were divided among six teams. Georgia, Notre Dame, Texas and Indiana each moved up one spot with Oregon going from No. 2 to No. 6 following a 34-27 win over Boise State as a 25.5-point favorite. Miami, LSU, Ole Miss and Texas A&M rounded out the top 10. Reigning national champion Indiana received the second-most No. 1 votes with eight. LSU got five, Notre Dame four, Oregon three, Texas two and Miami one. LSU made one of the biggest statements of Week 1 with its 51-10 rout of Clemson in Lane Kiffin’s debut in Baton Rouge. Courtroom drama over the eligibility status of LSU players trying to return to college from NFL training camps took the spotlight in the days leading up to the game, and then Sam Leavitt and his highly paid teammates made fast work of Clemson.
Aaron Judge has returned to the New York Yankees after a 99-day absence. Recovered from a broken rib, Judge started in right field and batted third Tuesday night in a series opener against the Colorado Rockies. A three-time AL MVP, Judge had missed 84 games since his last appearance on May 31. The 34-year-old took batting practice at Yankee Stadium on Monday’s off day and was activated that night. Boone had spoken separately with Judge and strength and conditioning coach Brett McCabe, followed by the athletic training staff and Yankees brass. Judge sprayed several homers to right, center and left during batting practice Tuesday. He entered the game hitting .248 with 17 homers, 38 RBIs and a .907 OPS.
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My AP Top 25 poll after Week 1 1. Texas, 2. Ohio State, 3. Indiana, 4. LSU, 5. Oregon, 6. Notre Dame, 7. Miami, 8. Georgia, 9. Oklahoma, 10. Southern Cal, 11. Texas A&M, 12. Alabama, 13. Ole Miss, 14. BYU, 15. Texas Tech, 16. Tennessee, 17. Florida, 18. Penn State, 19. Louisville, 20. Houston, 21. Boise State, 22. Virginia, 23. SMU, 24. Arizona, 25. Minnesota Just missed: Virginia Tech, Washington, Iowa, Michigan Newcomers: Louisville, Boise State, Virginia Dropped from my preseason poll: Michigan, Washington, Clemson
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1. Ohio State (46) 1-0 1684 1 2. Georgia 1-0 1532 1 3. Notre Dame (4) 1-0 1512 2 4. Texas (2) 1-0 1462 3 5. Indiana (8) 1-0 1428 4 6. Oregon (3) 1-0 1422 10 7. Miami (FL) (1) 1-0 1405 7 8. LSU (5) 1-0 1315 5 9. Ole Miss 1-0 1154 9 10. Texas A&M 1-0 1079 12 11. Oklahoma 1-0 1039 12 12. Alabama 1-0 910 11 13. Texas Tech 1-0 900 14 14. USC 2-0 861 14 15. BYU 1-0 840 16 16. Penn State 1-0 621 14 17. SMU 1-0 501 15 18. Tennessee 1-0 491 16 19. Washington 1-0 489 21 20. Utah 1-0 381 19 21. Iowa 1-0 369 20 22. Houston 1-0 214 21 23. Missouri 1-0 182 21 24. Louisville 0-1 163 24 25. Virginia 1-0 89 4 Others receiving votes: Boise State 86, Florida 83, Michigan 69, Arizona 33, Memphis 23, South Carolina 19, Western Michigan 12, Pittsburgh 11, Navy 10, UCLA 7, Virginia Tech 6, Illinois 6, James Madison 4, Minnesota 4, Colorado 3, Auburn 2, Arizona State 2, Vanderbilt 2.
Michigan running back Jordan Marshall, right, runs the ball as Western Michigan defensive back Micah Davis, left, defends during their game on Saturday in Ann Arbor, Mich. LSU’s rise from No. 11 to No. 8 gave the Tigers their first top10 ranking since they were No. 4 after a 4-0 start last season. The Tigers went 3-6 the rest of the way, Brian Kelly was fired at midseason and Kiffin was hired away from Ole Miss with the charge of restoring LSU to its former glory. LSU’s promotion bumped Oklahoma out of the top 10. The Sooners shut out UTEP 51-0 and will take a No. 11 ranking into their visit to Michigan. That matchup lost some luster in light of Michigan’s slogging offensive performance against Western Michi-
preseason poll. Michigan went from No. 16 to out of the Top 25, the first time since at least 2008 that a team gan, a game the Wolverines won ranked so high was bounced af13-12 after one second was put ter a win. Kansas State went from back on the clock at the end of the No. 17 to unranked after holding game. That was just enough time off North Dakota of the Football for Bryce Underwood to throw a Championship Subdivision last second Hail Mary, this one land- year. ing in the hands of JJ Buchanan.
In and out Virginia rode an impressive Week 0 win over North Carolina State to a No. 25 ranking. It’s the first time since 2005 the Cavaliers have been ranked in a first regular-season poll. They finished No. 16 in the final Top 25 last season but received just one vote in the
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No. 1 Ohio State at No. 4 Texas: It’s the first regular-season, top-five matchup since these teams met in Columbus to open 2025. Texas was No. 1 that day and lost 14-7. The Buckeyes moved from No. 3 to No. 1 and stayed there until they lost to Indiana in the Big Ten championship game.
LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Tuesday in New Jersey with more than $500 million in debt, part of its goal to revive the league without Saudi funding. The move was widely expected after the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia abruptly ended its financial support after the final event of the 2026 season. LIV said it has agreed to a restructuring plan with BC Partners as the primary source of its capital. CEO Scott O’Neil has said “LIV Golf 2.0” would feature players as majority owners in a reduced schedule. In a letter to LIV Golf fans, O’Neil said the new look would expand the size of the field from 57 to 75 players and introduce a 54-hole cut.
QB Mayfield, Buccaneers agree to $165M extension
Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers agreed on a $165 million, three-year contract extension on Tuesday, a person with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press. Mayfield revived his career in Tampa Bay after replacing Tom Brady in 2023. He was entering the final season of his three-year, $100 million deal. Mayfield, who was the No. 1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL Draft by Cleveland, made the Pro Bowl in each of his first two seasons while leading the Bucs to consecutive NFC South titles. He was an MVP candidate through the first half of last season when the team started 6-2, but he struggled with injuries and tailed off.
Patriots make Gonzalez highest-paid cornerback
New England Patriots cornerback Christian Gonzalez has the long-term job security he’s been seeking all offseason. Gonzalez has agreed to a fouryear, $135 million contract with the New England Patriots that makes him the highest-paid cornerback in NFL history, two people with knowledge of the deal told The Associated Press on Tuesday. One of the people said Gonzalez is getting $102 million guaranteed. Gonzalez surpassed Devon Witherspoon’s new contract from the Seattle Seahawks. Witherspoon received a four-year, $132 million deal with $101 million guaranteed last month. A first-round pick by Bill Belichick in 2023, Gonzalez was a second-team AP All-Pro in 2024 and made the Pro Bowl in 2025.
CFP, ESPN to open talks on 24-team tournament
The College Football Playoff announced Tuesday that it will open discussions with broadcast partner ESPN about potentially doubling the tournament to 24 teams. The CFP deal that starts this season with ESPN is worth $7.8 billion over six seasons. That network would have first dibs on the first two games added to any package but the rest would be up for grabs. Fox has indicated it likes the 24team idea, but embedded within that equation is the calculation of how much any broadcast partner would pay for a new set of games involving teams that might not garner the same ratings. The CFP has been studying the impact of expanding the playoff from 12 to 16 or 24 teams for months.
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as we have to. “And all of that FBS, FCS, it doesn’t matter, like we got a game to play. They’re a target. We’re trying to get a win. They’re trying to get a win. Best team gonna win.” Faulk admitted his mindset could be influenced by his time in the NFL. He said he hasn’t given any thought to this matchup being a “buy game” that his team is expected to lose. “It’s a game that you got to play, and you go out and you try to win the football game. That’s it,” Faulk said. “I think because my mentality is in the NFL, you know, you go out there, you play against a team with a losing record; if you don’t respect your opponent and give it your best, you’re going to lose that ballgame.
the strict penalties the SEC has said it will impose on member schools that violate its pro player ban. Kiffin would’ve had to serve a six-game suspension, and his program would’ve had to pay a fine equal to half of its operating budget. LSU would’ve also lost its conference voting privileges. The Tigers, however, could still face some legal repercussions for not rostering Wright and Harris. If it doesn’t put either player on the roster, LSU could violate the terms of
the preliminary injunction that made the players eligible to play this season. When he issued that ruling, Baton Rouge judge William Jorden enjoined LSU with the SEC and the NCAA, preventing it from taking action that would stand in the way of the plaintiffs’ newly won right to play their fifth seasons. Tony Clayton, an attorney for Wright, Harris and the other plaintiffs in the Louisiana suit, told The Advocate late Tuesday that he would seek damages against the NCAA and SEC
but not LSU. “I’m gonna meet with the clients, and I’m gonna meet with the lawyers, and we plan on having the clients pursue Sankey personally, the NCAA, if they allow us to, and the SEC,” Clayton said, “because this is not an issue of LSU. Quite frankly, I doubt that LSU rosters the guys. They haven’t rostered any of these kids.” LSU did roster former Notre Dame defensive end Junior Tuihalamaka, one of the plaintiffs from the lawsuit. He contributed on
special teams in the opener against Clemson. Tu i h a l a m a k a n e v e r signed with an NFL team and LSU didn’t risk penalties by playing him. Kiffin said after LSU opened its season with a 5110 win over Clemson on Saturday that he fought to sign Wright and Harris in large part because he thought they deserved to play fifth seasons. “My job is what I believe is right,” Kiffin said, “and I believe we were fighting for what was right for those kids. I’m not going to
get into all the reasons, but that’s what I believe. Many people don’t like that, but they don’t understand. “Maybe if they knew my relationship with Dae’Quan, they’d think a little different.” Both players that were just added to the roster suffered season-ending injuries in spring practice. Anding tore an Achilles tendon and Reliford tore his ACL. Staff writer Koki Riley contributed to this report.
one to make an example of. Someone they can hold up to say, “You have to abide by the rules of the club or you can’t be a member.” Some of the SEC’s arguments are flimsy, such as claiming LSU is showing “lack of institutional control” by Kiffin popping off at halftime of the Clemson game when he said, “Imagine if we had pro players” when his Tigers were up 31-3. The SEC getting this bent about guys who were NFL camp castoffs being on the roster — we’re not talking about Joe Burrow and Ja’Marr Chase coming back — while basketball players who played for years in European leagues being eligible is hypocritical. All that said, the right of an organization to decide who gets to be part of its organization — provided its decisions are not discriminatory — is quite real. Ultimately, the SEC really
cannot afford to kick LSU to the curb. Forbes ranked LSU as the nation’s fourth most valuable college football program in 2013. CNBC last year ranked LSU as the 12th most valuable college athletic program (fifth in the SEC) overall. Tiger Stadium is the seventh-largest stadium … in the world. Meanwhile, LSU’s brand is ascending. The Tigers vaulted up to No. 8 Tuesday in The Associated Press Top 25 poll, with LSU even getting five first-place votes. But LSU can’t afford to lose its seat at the SEC table. If we play the “what if” game to its limit, LSU can’t be an independent like Notre Dame, which is only independent in football but is affiliated with the ACC (most other sports) and the Big Ten (hockey). Maybe an independent LSU could make a financially reasonable deal with say NBC (like Notre Dame) or Amazon
or Apple, but the rest of its sports need a conference home. Realistically, LSU’s entire financial future is tied to the SEC’s next TV contract. LSU used that when it unveiled its new revenue-
generating model to its 40 biggest boosters at the Governor’s Mansion this summer. Unless LSU got picked up by the Big Ten, then it would probably be getting less TV money, plus the added financial strain of
increased travel expenses. Tuesday’s action by LSU marked a de-escalation in this conflict. It’s now the SEC’s turn to do the same, though its plausible to think their relationship is permanently damaged.
After Marshall Faulk earned his first coaching win last weekend, he now has to prepare for the toughest opponent on Southern’s schedule. The Jaguars will face No. 22 Houston (1-0) at TDECU Stadium in Houston on Saturday. They are currently 50.5-point underdogs against the Big 12 program. Regardless of his opponent’s power-conference status, Faulk said Southern (1-1) will approach the Cougars the same way it does Southwestern Athletic Conference foes. “Houston is just like Jackson State, just like Prairie View,” he said on Tuesday’s SWAC coaches call. “We give everybody the respect that they deserve. (Houston) coach (Willie) Fritz is getting his guys ready to play,
temporary restraining order against several LSU officials, including the entire board of supervisors, president Wade Rousse, athletic director Verge Ausberry and Kiffin. The suit also named Louisiana attorney general Liz Murrill as a defendant. But if the LSU roster is truly full, there is no way LSU can roster the ex-pros, which means they’d avoid
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Continued from page 1C version of Julius Caesar. What are the motivations at play here? LSU and Kiffin’s angle was to add players he thought could help the Tigers win football games, though there was ample evidence they weren’t needed Saturday as LSU annihilated Clemson 51-10. The SEC is playing a bigpicture game. In the rulesmaking vacuum created by the formerly iron-fisted NCAA, the SEC and its fellow superpower the Big Ten want to have a model of self-governance. Selfgovernance starts with having rules that its member schools follow. That set up LSU as the SEC’s test case. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey and the league’s other 15 members need some-
Once Saturday’s score got out of hand, LSU offered a peek at who its sixth and seventh offensive linemen are at the moment. Tennessee transfer William Satterwhite and Baylor transfer Sean Thompkins rotated in for Braelin Moore and Colorado transfer Jordan Seaton at their positions, center and left tackle, in the third quarter. Satterwhite played in eight games as a redshirt freshman last season, while Thompkins started for Baylor over its final five games last year. North Carolina Central transfer Ja’Quan Sprinkle, Ole Miss transfer Devin Harper and freshman Brysten Martinez eventually joined Satterwhite and Thompkins on mop-up duty during the fourth quarter. Martinez was the secondteam right tackle, while Sprinkle and Harper were the second-team left and right guards.
rise up and compete against an FBS school. Listen, once the whistle blows, nobody cares that it’s FCS and FBS. It’s just kids out there playing football, having fun.” The Jaguars enjoyed a 34-15 win against Division II Kentucky State at A.W. Mumford Stadium last Saturday. The last time Southern played Houston was in 2013 when it lost 62-13 on the road in its season opener. Fans will remember that season fondly because it was the last time Southern won the SWAC championship. It outlasted Jackson State 34-27 in double overtime at Reliant Stadium in Houston. Under former coach Dawson Odums, the team went 9-4 overall and 7-2 in the conference.
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“So I know Houston’s not telling their team, ‘Hey, this is an FCS school, take them light, don’t worry about it. We’re going to have a chill week of practice.’ They’re not doing that.” Houston is coming off a 3320 win against Oregon State. The Cougars had 533 yards of offense and averaged 7.4 yards per play. Faulk said he is more worried about their defense, which had four sacks for a loss of 39 yards. Houston is also a team Faulk has some familiarity with because of his time as the running backs coach at Colorado last season. Houston beat Colorado 36-20 at home in 2025. “They’re a really good football team,” Faulk said. “They’re well coached. They’re disciplined, and that’s the kind of game that you look forward to. I want my team to go out there and understand that we got to
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The LSU wide receiver room was the hardest position group to judge heading into the season. Outside of Phillip Wright, it was an entirely different unit. It turns out SEC transfers Winston Watkins and Eugene Wilson started, but the third wideout next to them was a surprise. Malik Elzy, a transfer from Illinois, took the last spot and wound up playing 15 snaps, according to Pro Football Focus. If it weren’t for a dropped pass on the first drive that ended in an interception, perhaps Elzy would’ve played more Saturday. “Expect him to have more (opportunities) in the future,” Kiffin said. “But he really had a good camp, and that’s what we pride ourselves (on) playing off of.” Watkins and Wilson led LSU in receiver snaps. They were followed by Kansas State transfer Jayce Brown (51 snaps) and Hawaii transfer Jackson Harris (40 snaps). Freshman Corey Barber also played 23 snaps, most of which came when the game was out of hand in the second half. Watkins quietly led all Tigers with seven catches for 110 yards and a score, and Wilson had four receptions for 35 yards. Despite quarterback Sam Leavitt’s accuracy waxing and waning throughout the night, he had six completions of 15 or more yards, and his average depth of target was nearly 10 yards downfield.
against Clemson, per PFF. None of the nine players upfront played more than 32 snaps, and all of them made a positive contribution. Ole Miss transfer Princewill Umanmielen and Tennessee transfer Jordan Ross combined for eight quarterback pressures and 21/2 sacks, and Ross had an interception returned for a touchdown. Dylan Carpenter, their lead backup, also had three pressures and a sack. Freshman Lamar Brown played 16 snaps in his collegiate debut. Clemson transfer Stephylan Green and Auburn transfer Malik Blocton were stout at defensive tackle as Clemson didn’t have any rushing yards through three quarters. Freshmen Richard Anderson and Deuce Geralds earned reps with Dominick McKinley; each member of the trio had a quarterback pressure.
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Seahawks open title defense vs. Patriots Game to mark only 3rd Week 1 Super Bowl rematch in NFL history BY JOSH DUBOW
AP pro football writer The Seattle Seahawks have gotten an offseason full of congratulations, their Super Bowl rings and now will get the chance to see the banner raised before kicking off this season with hopes of repeating. But the Seahawks know that none of that ä Patriots matters once the at Seahawks. season starts. “I don’t see a 7:20 P.M. single person in WEDNESDAy, NBC the building patting themselves on the back for what we did last year,” defensive lineman Leonard Williams said. “I think everybody in the building understands that we have to start from the bottom all over again. To get to the top of that mountain, we have to start at the bottom.” They will start the season the same way the last one ended, by facing the New England Patriots seven months and one day after beating them 29-13 in Super Bowl 60 in a dominating performance punctuated by a wild cigar and champagne celebration in the locker room of one of their division rivals, the San Francisco 49ers.
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Continued from page 1C he ever arrived in New Orleans, and it seems to be his guiding philosophy. Since he took the reins of the franchise last fall, Shough has hit all the right notes as New Orleans’ adopted son. He and his wife chose to stay in New Orleans this offseason, and it is not uncommon to see him out and about in the community, sampling all it has to offer. There was a period this spring when Shough seemed to be everywhere, making endless appearances on podcasts and TV shows. All of them featured some form of the quarterback speaking glowingly about his city. People noticed. “The people love him,” said center Erik McCoy, who rode in Pygmalion with Shough. “I think they have a legitimate reason to — he’s immersed himself in the city, in the culture, in the history and everything about this place. And he’s vocal about it. And I feel like that’s why the people love him, because he loves the things they love.” That night with Pygmalion is notable because Shough said it was the most fun he’d ever had in his life, cracking beers and jokes with his teammates atop a float absorbing the experience. He was loving New Orleans and his role to play within it. At one point, Shough looked at his father-in-law, Derek Wormdahl, and caught him weeping. “It was probably because he was a little bit hammered,” Shough said with a grin, “but he was just looking at everybody, and it was the most raw experience.” Yes, Wormdahl said, he cried. In fact, he cried multiple times throughout the parade. Maybe his son-in-law was right and the libations lubed up his emotions, but it was more than that. It was all the setbacks that happened in the years leading up to that day, the dark moments of doubt that come with injuries. The times that made an NFL future feel less attainable. And it was how dizzyingly fast everything fell into place to lead to that nirvana on top of a float amid a sea of people. Wormdahl took in the scene, and he was overwhelmed. He was watching New Orleans loving Shough back. “It was tough to soak it all in and not get emotional about it,” Wormdahl said. “You know, when we turned the corner — I can’t remember which street exactly we were on — and everyone is just screaming, chanting Tyler’s name all the way down the street. It was hard to keep it together.”
‘This guy knows ball’ Before Shough wore a Saints uniform and won the city over, he found himself in one of those binds that always seem to arise during carnival season: He was walking around, and he just needed to find a place to pee. It was one of Shough’s first days in New Orleans in May 2025. The
of its past five season openers. Coach Mike Vrabel has a 2-5 record in season openers. n Maye was the MVP runner-up last season after leading the NFL in completion percentage (72%), passer rating (113.5) and finishing in the top five in TD passes (31) and yards passing (4,394). But he struggled in the playoffs with an 82.2 passer rating in four games. n Wide receiver A.J. Brown makes his debut for New England after being acquired from Philadelphia in an offseason trade. Brown had 78 catches for 1,003 yards and seven TDs last season for the Eagles. Brown is the fifth player ever with at least 1,000 yards receiving and seven TD catches in six of his first seven seasons. n Seattle has won five of its past seven season openers and is 1-1 in Week 1 under coach Mike Macdonald. n Seahawks quarterback Sam Darnold has won 14 starts and thrown for more than 4,000 yards ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By STEVE LUCIANO in each of the past two seasons. Seattle Seahawks linebacker Ernest Jones tackles New England Patriots quarterback Drake Maye during Super Bowl 60 The only other player with backon Feb. 8 in Santa Clara, Calif. The Seahawks won 29-13. to-back 14-win seasons was Tom Brady in 2003-04. n The 28 turnovers for Seattle in In all, this will be the 12th time happens Wednesday can make This marks only the third time in NFL history that there is a the two teams that played in the up for the result in February so the 2025 regular season were the Super Bowl rematch in Week 1. Super Bowl meet the following the focus is on getting going this second-most in the league. The Seahawks then became the only It also happened in 2016, when season, with the champion hav- season. “This is our chance to start the Super Bowl champion to commit reigning champion Denver beat ing won eight of the previous 11 Carolina 21-20, and in the first matchups, including Philadel- season off strong, on a good foot no turnovers in the playoffs. n Seattle led the NFL last seayear of the merger, when Minne- phia’s win over Kansas City in Stats and stuff son allowing opponents to convert sota avenged a loss to Kansas City Week 2 last season. n New England has lost four The Patriots know nothing that just 32.1% of third downs. with a 27-10 victory in 1970.
It’s knowing that wherever you go, it is going to be vibrant, alive. The food, and the communal experience of sharing it, is where the soul of a place comes out. “I love New Orleans because of the shared community aspect and the ability for everybody to let their guard down and have fun,” Shough said. “Almost every single place, almost every single restaurant, wherever you go they’re authentic to what they do. And to me, that’s who I am. I don’t want to be anybody else; I STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRETT DUKE want to be myself.” If that isn’t loving New Orleans, Fans take selfies with Saints quarterback Tyler Shough during training what is?
camp on July 30 in Metairie.
Saints had just drafted him, and after he landed, they put him up with the other draft picks in the Lakeway Marriott on the shore of Lake Pontchartrain. Shough was exploring, felt the urge and stumbled into the first place he could find that looked promising. He saw the sign, figured it was a Mediterranean restaurant, and walked in with the idea of hitting the bathroom and ordering takeout for his first meal in his new city. What Shough didn’t realize is he’d accidentally followed the footsteps of greatness. He was in Drago’s, which was also where Brees enjoyed his first meal. Shough also didn’t figure he’d be recognized, but before he could place an order, someone approached and asked whether Shough would join his family for dinner. That person was Gerry Cvitanovich, whose family has operated Drago’s since the 1960s. “They were literally having a family dinner, and I was like, ‘Please don’t. I’m not going to interrupt this. I just have to go pee and I’m going to order something to go, don’t worry about it,’ ” Shough said. “We ended up sitting down for like three hours.” Tommy Cvitanovich, who owns and operates Drago’s along with his mother, Klara, was there for the dinner. He had no idea who Shough was at the time; he just looked like a tall guy in gym shorts. But even after he learned who was sitting at the family table, there was no pretense. Shough was completely at ease with strangers he did not realize were New Orleans royalty. He remembers Shough sampling a little bit of everything — Shough, in particular, remembered the pistachio beignets to close things out — and he remembered Shough’s sense of humor as he sat in on the dinner. Shough’s ears perked up when someone told him about Brees’ first meal being there, and someone turned it around on him. “Now that Tyler’s first meal was here, we expect a Super Bowl, and unlike Drew, we want more than one,” Tommy Cvitanovich said. “We were joking with him, talking to him, and I mean, he couldn’t have been any nicer.” The meal made an impression: When Shough’s family joined him in New Orleans, Drago’s was the first place he took them, too. It also laid a foundation for what
Blinking green lights was to come. Food is the easiest entry point for someone looking to dive into this community. It is often the first thing people will grasp for when describing what they love about New Orleans. The right answers earn nodding heads, and the wrong answers can undercut someone trying to make inroads. Derek Carr never recovered from his introductory news conference when he said his first meal in the city as a member of the Saints was at the fast-casual chain Chipotle. Even if the answer was defensible for a father of (then) four young children moving to a new town and looking for something familiar, it immediately put him in the red with the fanbase. Those who wanted him out of town after two forgettable seasons frequently referenced that line as proof that Carr was a bad fit for the city. That won’t be an issue for Shough, who has been eating his way through the city like a mad man. He built his dining repertoire by tagging along for all but one or two of the weekly dinners the Saints offensive line put together last season. He’s on text threads with teammates sharing recommendations. Of course he’s tried the high-end places — he said his best overall experience in New Orleans was at Emeril’s — but he loves the hipster picks, too. “He’s immersed himself in all the places you can think of,” McCoy said. “I saw an interview where he was talking about Radosta’s Poboys, and I’m like, ‘This guy knows ball.’ ” Going out to eat in the city is just as much about the experience as it is the food. There was one meal in particular that came to Shough’s mind. After one of his first starts, he joined some teammates for a dinner at Neyow’s Creole Café in Mid City. Again, he didn’t think he’d be recognized, but as he walked in, the people in the restaurant came up to meet him and tell him he played a great game. He sat down and enjoyed the quirk of the loud music without the cuss words edited out, the rich flavors of the creole food, and the fact that he might have been the only White person in the building. ‘I’m like, ‘This is awesome,’ ” Shough said. This is the part about New Orleans that resonates with Shough on a personal level. It’s food, but it’s not really all about the food.
What does a sense of place really mean to Shough? He grew up in Arizona, and just in the last eight years football has taken him from Oregon — where he met Jordan, then a soccer player for the University of Oregon — to West Texas, to Kentucky and finally to New Orleans. That is what is so exciting, actually. Shough has been here a little less than a year, and it has all been about familiarizing himself with his new surroundings. But there’s so much more on the horizon. Shough understands the responsibility that comes with his position in this city, because he’s seen what the exemplars before him have accomplished — not just the Brees and Manning families, but someone from his own home town. Both Shough and Cam Jordan hail from Chandler, Arizona. “For me, it was just like blinking green lights,” Shough said of watching Cam Jordan. “Spend as much time as you can here, and do everything you can to surround yourself with people. Who I am off the field matters, and my influence in the community is important to me.” Shough and his wife made a conscious decision to stay in New Orleans this offseason, to have their son born here, to put off the extended spring and summer trips for another time. They are deepening their roots into what they hope will be their home for a long time. If last year was about finding what the community has to offer, this year is going to be about figuring out the reverse of that. The Shough family is looking for ways they can pour back into their home, whether it’s girls flag football or its projects in the 18th Ward. “It’s really important to both of them to be involved in their community, especially now being young parents,” Wormdahl said. “They’re hoping that this is a place where they’re going to raise their kids.” To love New Orleans is to choose to be part of it but it is also to let it be part of you. When they’re out for a walk as a family, they find themselves walking by a nearby park where little children play baseball. And they allow themselves to think of their son playing there some day. Email Luke Johnson at ljohnson@ theadvocate.com.
DE Young, QB Shough among Saints’ new captains BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer
In the offseason, Tyler Shough and Chase Young weren’t shy about how they were embracing whatever leadership void would be left after Demario Davis’ departure. Now, both players have been rewarded for their efforts as they were voted captains by their teammates. The Saints announced nine captains Tuesday, including their quarterback and star defensive end. Players voted on the selections before a team dinner held a day earlier. The captains are Shough, Young, defensive end Cam Jordan, center Erik McCoy, guard David Edwards, linebacker Kaden Elliss, safety Justin Reid, linebacker Chris Rumph and long snapper Zach Wood. Five of those nine — Shough, Edwards, Elliss, Young and Rumph — are new captains for the Saints. Rumph’s inclusion could be considered a surprise. But the veteran, who switched from edge rusher to linebacker this summer, has been a standout on special teams and earned his peers’ respect with his positivity. The Saints elected eight captains a year ago, coach Kellen Moore’s first with the franchise. The list notably did not include a quarterback, making them the only team not to select the position among the 27 teams that announced captains. The circumstances are different now. Since becoming the New Orleans starter midway through last season, Shough has tried his best to lead his teammates. This preseason, he took over the Saints’ pre-game speech — a tradition that had long been held by quarterback Drew Brees, then followed by Davis. Davis left New Orleans in March to sign with the New York Jets.
STAFF FILE PHOTO By JOHN McCUSKER
Saints defensive end Chase young targets a ball carrier during training camp on Aug. 2 at the team’s practice facility in Metairie.
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LSU baseball to face Florida, Arkansas, Georgia in 2027 BY KOKI RILEY Staff writer
ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By SETH WENIG
Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus celebrates winning a match against Linda Noskova of the Czech Republic during the quarterfinal round of the U.S. Open on Tuesday in New york.
Sabalenka wins, eyes 3rd straight U.S. Open title BY BRIAN MAHONEY Associated Press
NEW YORK — Aryna Sabalenka thought it was all slipping away. Her U.S. Open title reign and her lengthy hold on the No. 1 ranking in women’s tennis were just about gone. Then Sabalenka proved she’s not giving any of it up without a fight. Sabalenka kept alive her hopes for a third straight U.S. Open title by edging Linda Noskova 7-6 (1), 3-6, 7-6 (10-7) on Tuesday in a thrilling quarterfinal matchup of major champions. “What a battle. What an incredible player she is, and I’m speechless right now because I was pushing myself to the limit in this match, especially in the third set,” Sabalenka said. “I honestly thought that that’s it, the match is over and probably that’s what helped me to kind of like, I don’t know, feel loose and just go after my shots.” Sabalenka finished off the match with a second-serve ace to turn back the Wimbledon champion and reach the semifinals in Flushing Meadows for the sixth straight year. Sabalenka — who needed to win to maintain any hope of keeping the No. 1 ranking — will face either No. 3 Jessica Pegula or No. 26 Emma Navarro on Thursday in the semifinals. Noskova, the No. 6 seed, won her first major title at the All England Club and narrowly missed becoming the first woman since Serena Williams in 2016 to follow a title on the grass by reaching the final four on the hard courts of New York. Sabalenka was in danger of her earliest exit at the U.S. Open since going out in the second round in 2020 when Noskova got a break in the third set en route to a 4-2 lead. Sabalenka held and then played one of her best games of the match, breaking at love to tie
it at 4-all. “I just felt at some point in the third set she was definitely serving better than me and putting so much pressure on me,” Sabalenka said. “But I’m glad that I kind of threw that thought away and I was able to focus point by point and, like, literally just trying to build something bigger in that moment. “I got, not lucky, but I’m happy the way I broke her serve at 3-4. I think I really played a great intensity level of tennis, and that really gave me so much confidence that I still can get the win in this match.” She did, avoiding her first loss at the U.S. Open since Coco Gauff beat her in the 2023 final. Noskova finished with 46 winners to Sabalenka’s 42, and she hit 18 aces to Sabalenka’s 12. Both players were able to end points quickly, and Sabalenka also showed off some impressive speed in tracking down drop shots. Sabalenka came to the U.S. Open far off her usual form on hard courts, losing in the fourth round in both Toronto and Cincinnati after falling at that stage at Wimbledon. But she had recovered in New York, not dropping a set en route to the quarterfinals. She appeared to struggle to stay under control at one point, changing her racket during the third set while trying to regain her touch. She went behind 2-0 in the match tiebreaker but pulled ahead for good when Noskova double-faulted to make it 4-3, and Sabalenka took the next two points for some critical breathing room. “Being a break up in the third set, it’s not very easy. Also having a little break at the start of the tiebreak in the third one, as well, it’s frustrating, obviously,” Noskova said. “But at the same time, Aryna, she played the best tennis that she could in those moments, which didn’t really make it easy for me.”
American Tiafoe rallies from two sets down
BY BRIAN MAHONEY AP sportswriter
NEW YORK — Frances Tiafoe kept coming back until he had reached his third U.S. Open semifinal, beating Alex Michelsen 5-7, 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 7-6 (10-6) on Tuesday. Tiafoe, who lost the first two sets and then trailed 3-0 in the fifth, finally ended the match in 4 hours, 38 minutes. He then jogged over to the other side of the net, where the 22-year-old Michelsen cried on his shoulder after a devastating end to his first career major quarterfinal. The No. 11-seeded Tiafoe, who reached the final four in 2022 and 2024, awaits the winner of the late match between reigning champion Carlos Alcaraz and No. 8 Ben Shelton, who will try to guarantee the Americans have someone in the final Sunday as they seek their first men’s Grand Slam title since 2003. Tiafoe planned to watch some of it. “I’m going to enjoy this one, though. Let’s go!” he told the crowd in Arthur Ashe Stadium. Tiafoe lost to Alcaraz in 2022, when the Spaniard won the first of his seven Grand Slam titles. Tiafoe lost to fellow American Taylor Fritz two years later, when the U.S. came closest to ending it’s
men’s drought that dates to Andy Roddick’s title in Flushing Meadows. It certainly didn’t appear Tiafoe would be going back this time, after Michelsen continued his dominant run through his breakout tournament. He was the only man who hadn’t dropped a set, and he served to win the match with a 5-4 lead in the third. He got off to a nervous start with consecutive double faults, and Tiafoe eventually broke when Michelsen couldn’t put away a shot at the net. Tiafoe, who had made two previous comebacks after dropping the first two sets, was still in plenty of trouble. Michelsen broke early in the fifth en route to his 3-0 lead, with Tiafoe spiking his racket to the court in frustration at one point. But he recovered again and eventually took control by winning three straight points in the match tiebreaker for a 7-4 lead, then hitting an ace at 135 mph after Michelsen got the next two. Tiafoe joined Andre Agassi as the only American men to reach three U.S. Open semifinals in this century and will return to the top 10 for the first time in three years in the next rankings. Michelsen, ranked No. 46, fell to 0-6 in matches that go to a fifth set.
Five months remain between now and the start of the LSU baseball season. But on Tuesday, the program released its full schedule for the upcoming year. LSU begins 2027 with a doubleheader against Long Island on Feb. 19 at Alex Box Stadium. The Tigers start with eight games at home before facing Tulane on
LSU BASEBALL 2027 SCHEDULE Feb. 19: vs. Long Island, 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. (DH) Feb. 20: vs. Long Island, 3 p.m. Feb. 21: vs. Long Island, 1 p.m. Feb. 23: vs. Milwaukee, 6 p.m. Feb. 26: vs. The Citadel, 4 p.m. Feb. 27: vs. The Citadel, 2 p.m. Feb. 28: vs. The Citadel, 1 p.m. March 2: at Tulane, TBA March 5: vs. Oregon State, 8 p.m.* March 6: vs. Arizona State, 8 p.m.* March 7: vs. Iowa, 7 p.m.* March 8: at UNLV, 8 p.m.
the road and playing four games in Las Vegas, three of which will be in the Live Like Lou Las Vegas College Baseball Classic against Iowa, Arizona State and Oregon State. LSU returns home on March 12 for a three-game series against Cornell before starting Southeastern Conference play the following week against Texas at The Box. SEC play won’t be easy for the Tigers as they also face Vanderbilt,
Arkansas, Florida, Texas A&M, Ole Miss, Mississippi State and Georgia. LSU finishes the regular season at Kentucky before the SEC Tournament begins May 25 in Hoover, Alabama. The NCAA Tournament starts June 4, and the College World Series starts June 18 in Omaha, Nebraska.
March 12: vs. Cornell, 6 p.m. March 13: vs. Cornell, 6 p.m. March 14: vs. Cornell, 1 p.m. March 16: vs. LSU New Orleans, 6 p.m. March 19-21: vs. Texas, TBA March 23: vs. Southeastern, 6 p.m. March 25-27: at Florida, TBA March 30: vs. Southern, 6 p.m. April 2-4: vs. Vanderbilt, TBA April 6: vs. Grambling, 6 p.m. April 9-11: at Arkansas, TBA April 13: vs. Nicholls, 6 p.m. April 16-18: vs. Ole Miss, TBA April 20: vs. UL, 6 p.m. April 23-25: at Texas A&M, TBA
April 27: vs. McNeese, 6 p.m. April 30-May 2: vs. Georgia, TBA May 4: vs. Louisiana Tech, 6 p.m. May 7-9: at Missouri, TBA May 11: vs. UL Monroe, 6 p.m. May 14-16: vs. Mississippi State, TBA May 18: vs. South Alabama, 6 p.m. May 20-22: at Kentucky, TBA May 25-30: SEC Tournament June 4-6/7: NCAA Regional June 11-14: NCAA Super Regional June 18-27/28: College World Series *Live Like Lou Las Vegas Classic
Email Koki Riley at koki.riley@ theadvocate.com.
Parkview Baptist stalwarts key to win over St. Joseph’s BY CHARLES SALZER Contributing writer
Parkview Baptist is looking for ways to blend new players into its lineup, but it was a pair of returning stalwarts who made the difference in Tuesday night’s nondistrict volleyball match against St. Joseph’s Academy. Junior Marin Price and sophomore Olivia Kohn combined to produce 36 kills, leading Parkview Baptist to a 3-1 win over the visiting Redstickers by scores of 2519, 23-25, 25-23 and 25-21. Price led the way for Parkview (5-2) with 23 kills and 15 digs. Kohn had 13 kills, 13 digs, 16 assists and four aces. “At the beginning of the season, there are a lot of teams trying to figure out the lineups and what kids will be consistent,” said Parkview coach Allison Leake, whose squad got a boost from 10 total aces. “Some things fell our way tonight. We were hitting our spots with our serves and that helped us a lot.”
St. Joseph’s (2-3) rallied late in the second set to tie the match. Trailing 23-21, the Redstickers started a 4-0 closing run on Audrey Harrison’s kill. The run played out with a Parkview miscommunication allowing a ball to drop, Maddie Mann’s winner, and a call against Parkview for being in the net. The third set also finished up 2523, but Parkview held on in that one to take a 2-1 lead. Trailing 2115, kills by Elle Uter and Charlotte Richards helped SJA get within 24-23. The set ended on an SJA serving error. Parkview led most of the way in the fourth set, but never by more than four points. Kills by Jules Lawrence and Khloe Eason were part of a late spurt that brought SJA within 22-20. Parkview then sandwiched winning spikes from Price and Kohn around an ace by Caris Durbin to finish off the 25-21 fourth-set win. Uter topped St. Joseph’s with 15 kills while Harrison added six kills. Mackenzie Chulli (16 digs),
Emmy Graves (11 digs, 2 blocks) and Mann (2 blocks) were also factors. “We’re getting better every time we take the court,” SJA coach Donna Pixley said. “We play a lot of kids and a lot of them don’t have varsity experience yet, but they’re getting there. They could have given up a couple of times, and they didn’t. I’m proud of them.” Parkview opened with a 25-19 win in the first set. Payton Hutchison, who finished with four solo blocks, had three in the early going as the Eagles moved out to a 22-14 lead. The Redstickers got two kills from Harrison and one each from Uter and Graves, slicing their deficit to 24-19. Price’s kill ended the set for Parkview. “We’re really young,” Leake said of her lineup that included a starting seventh grader. “It’s the beginning of the season, and we’re running a lineup that’s kind of funky. (Price and Kohn) are our two big hitters, but one of them sets, so we just manage things.”
PREP REPORT Volleyball Tuesday’s scores
Ascension Christian 3, Westminster Christian 1 (25-21, 17-25, 25-23, 25-23) Liberty 3, False River 0 (25-18, 25-15, 25-14) Live Oak 3, St. John 0 (25-10, 25-11, 25-21) Dunham 3, St. Thomas More 2 (21-25, 25-23, 25-16, 19-25, 15-13) Berwick 3, Destrehan 1 (20-25, 25-21, 25-15, 25-17) St. Michael 3, Dutchtown 0 (25-16, 25-17, 25-22) Brusly 3, Walker 2 (25-19, 19-25, 25-21, 23-25, 15-5) McKinley 3, Mentorship 0 (25-22, 25-15, 25-6)
Wednesday’s games
Baker at Broadmoor, 5 p.m. Glen Oaks at North Iberville, 5 p.m. Cecilia at Brusly, 6 p.m. St. Scholastica at Central, 6 p.m. Ben Franklin at Dutchtown, 6 p.m. Istrouma at East Iberville, 6 p.m. Opelousas Catholic at False River, 6 p.m. East St. John at McKinley, 6 p.m. GEO Next Gen. at Scotlandville, 6 p.m. Liberty at University, 6 p.m.
Woodlawn at West Feliciana, 6 p.m. Donaldsonville at White Castle, 6 p.m. Episcopal at Zachary, 6 p.m.
Football Week 2 schedule
All games at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted
Thursday’s games
Helix Mentorship Academy at McKinley at Broadmoor High University High at Madison Prep at Memorial Stadium Liberty at St. Amant Glen Oaks at Abramson
Friday’s games
Northeast at Broadmoor Port Allen at Baker Dunham at Catholic at Memorial Stadium Denham Springs at Central Lutcher at Donaldsonville at Floyd Boutte Memorial Stadium Istrouma at Scotlandville St. Martin’s at White Castle Walter L. Cohen at St. John at Plaquemine High Stadium Salmen at Live Oak Belaire at North Iberville
Amite at Livonia Brusly at Woodlawn Capitol at Tara at Istrouma Middle/High Stadium Central Private at Ascension Christian Ponchatoula at Prairieville Ferriday at West Feliciana Zachary at Acadiana Dutchtown at E.D. White East Ascension at Sam Houston Ascension Catholic at Hammond Walker at Erath Plaquemine at West Monroe Parkview Baptist at Archbishop Hannan St. Michael at Slaughter Community Charter St. Thomas Aquinas at Albany Southern Lab at Carroll Jewel Sumner at Kentwood West St. John at St. James Episcopal at Northlake Christian Acadiana Christian at Springfield East Feliciana at St. Helena College and Career Academy Catholic-PC at Vermillion Catholic East Iberville at JS Clark Leadership Academy Thrive Academy at Highland Baptist
Stewart embraces pressure on U.S. BY DOUG FEINBERG Associated Press
BERLIN — Breanna Stewart knows exactly how much pressure the U.S. team is under to keep its World Cup title streak going. The Americans have won four straight women’s FIBA World Cup championships, and she’s been a part of the past three. Now the 32-year-old is the leader of a group that features many fresh faces. “There’s a ton of pressure, on Team USA and on us and embracing that,” she said. “Not having the team face it in a bad way, but understanding the ones that have been before us and what they’ve done. We want to continue to have success every time.” With the Americans coming off one of their worst offensive performances in a half century,
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL WORLD CUP Stewart took it upon herself to set a tone early in the 105-64 rout of the Czech Republic on Monday. Stewart had 11 points in the first 10 minutes as the U.S. jumped to a 29-15 lead and never looked back. “I just wanted to be better. I just wanted to really lead by example,” Stewart said after the win. “Not only just from stats, but just the way that I was communicating to my teammates. This is a big moment for all of us, and we need to take full advantage of it.” Caitlin Clark, with the national team for the first time, said that after the narrow win over Italy, Stewart came into the weight room where a few of the young-
sters were lifting. The team captain could tell they were a little down after the tight victory and had a conversation with them. “I just want you guys to know this is how it is. Don’t be intimidated by that. This is just how this goes. The games are going to be close. That doesn’t mean like you should feel defeated in any way,” Clark recalled. “I thought that was just a really good thing we needed to hear. Don’t let that bother you. These games are going to be hard.” First-time national team player and former LSU star Angel Reese has gravitated toward Stewart and her leadership style. “She’s won before and knows what it takes,” Reese said of the three-time World Cup champion. “I remember watching her play for USA Basketball when I was younger.”
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Pelicans trade Hawkins, clear salary-cap space BY ROD WALKER Staff writer
The New Orleans Pelicans have made their second move of the offseason, but the second move makes the first one possible. The Pelicans traded Jordan Hawkins, Micah Peavy, a future second-round pick and a future second-round pick swap to the Memphis Grizzlies, a source confirmed to The Times-Picayune on Tuesday. In exchange, the Pelicans are receiving AJ Johnson and Taj Gibson from the Grizzlies. Moving Hawkins gives the Pelicans the salary-
cap space to complete the deal reported two weeks ago to acquire Bennedict Mathurin. The Mathurin deal, as reported in late August, is for two years and worth $16 million. He has a player option for the second year. Hawkins, selected by the Pelicans with the No. 14 overall pick in the 2023 draft, spent three seasons with the Pelicans. He showed promise during his first three months in New Orleans with his ability to knock down 3-pointers, but his productivity dwindled after that. Hawkins averaged 8 points and 2.3 rebounds in three seasons.
He averaged a career-low 5.1 points last season. The trade comes less than a year after the Pelicans picked up Hawkins’ fourth-year option. Peavy was picked in the second round of the 2025 draft, part of the Pelicans’ stellar rookie class that also included first-round picks Jeremiah Fears and Derik Queen. Peavy was drafted for his defensive prowess, and he showed that ability throughout his rookie season. He also averaged 4.3 points in 61 games. The Pelicans will release the 41-year-old Gibson, according to a source familiar with the deal. They will owe
him $100,000. The plan for now is to keep Johnson and evaluate him in training camp. The Grizzlies had just acquired Johnson in a six-team trade in July. The 6-foot-5 shooting guard split time last season with the Washington Wizards and Dallas Mavericks. Johnson split time with the Milwaukee Bucks and Wizards the year before that, his first NBA season. He’s averaging just 4.9 points in his career while shooting only 24.5% on 3-pointers. He was the 23rd overall pick in the 2024 draft. The Pelicans start training camp on Sept. 29.
STAFF FILE PHOTO By SOPHIA GERMER
Pelicans guard Jordan Hawkins, right, passes during a game against Memphis on Nov. 26 at the Smoothie King Center.
SCOREBOARD Hole-in-one Dean Napoli Course: University Club Hole, yardage: No. 5, 154 yards Club used: 8 iron Witnesses: Ross Berthelot, Brian Terhaar, Mike Johnson, Jim Moran
Odds NFL Wednesday
FAVORITE at SEATTLE
OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 4½ 3½ (44½) New Eng
FAVORITE at LA RAMS
OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3½ 3½ (48½) San Fran
Thursday Sunday
FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at TENNESSEE 2½ 1½ (39½) NY Jets at DETROIT 7 7 (49½) N.Orleans at JACKSONVILLE 7½ 8½ (40½) Cleveland Chicago 2½ 3 (47) at CAROLN at CINCINNATI 3½ 3½ (50½) Tampa Bay at PITTSBURGH 3 3½ (41½) Atlanta Buffalo 1½ 1½ (44½) at HOUSTN Baltimore 3½ 3½ (47½) at INDINPLS at MINNESOTA 1½ 1½ (46½) Green Bay at PHILADELPHIA 4½ 5½ (44½)Washington at LAS VEGAS 3½ 3½ (40½) Miami at LA CHARGERS10½ 9½ (47½) Arizona Dallas 2½ 3 (48½) at GIANTS
Monday
FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at KANSAS CITY 2½ 2½ (43½) Denver
College Football Thursday
FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at MIAMI (FL) 49½ 55½ (61½) Fla. A&M
Friday
FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at NC STATE 30½ 30½ (48½) Richmond at VIRGINIA 43½ 44½ (54½) Norfolk St. at LOUISVILLE 37½ 36½ (56½) Villanova at BOSTON COLL 6½ 3½ (54½) Rutgers Missouri 7 5½ (50½) at KANSAS
Saturday
FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at TEXAS A&M 14½ 14½ (50½) Arizona St at INDIANA 55½ 55½ (64½) Howard at KANSAS ST 18½ 18½ (48½) Wash. St Oklahoma 2½ 5½ (43½) at MICHIGN at E. CAROLINA 8½ 7½ (56½) App State at KENT STATE 14½ 12½ (46½) Wofford at ARMY 1½ 3½ (46½) S. Florida at VIRGINIA TECH 14 19½ (49½) Old Domin Penn State 23½ 23½ (49½) at TEMPLE at N. CAROLINA 35½ 35½ (52½) E. Tenn. St. Oregon 19½ 22½ (57½) at OKLA ST at GEORGIA 35½ 40½ (55½) Western Ky at CENT. MICH. 26½ 24½ (50½) Colgate at W. VIRGINIA 34½ 39½ (56½) UT Martin at MIAMI (OH) 33½ 31½ (51½) Holy Cross at BALL STATE 18½ 15½ (56½)Stony Brook at AKRON 28½ 27½ (43½) Rob. Mrrs at UAB 9½ 9½ (55½) UL Monroe at JAMES MAD 45½ 46½ (55½) Wagner at WASHINGTON 24½ 26½ (55½) Utah State at TEXAS STATE 1½ 1½ (66½) UTSA at COLORADO 36½ 33½ (53½) Weber St Alabama 10½ 10½ (49½) at KENTCKY at NOTRE DAME 44½ 44½ (55½) Rice at MICHIGAN ST 16½ 17½ (49½) E.Michigan Maryland 10½ 12½ (52½) at UCONN Mississippi State 2½ 1½ (55½) at MINN. at BYU 6½ 7½ (47½) Arizona at PITTSBURGH 8½ 7 (57½) UCF at UMASS 24½ 21½ (54½) Sacred Hrt at TOLEDO 35½ 35½ (56½) C. Conn. St. at ILLINOIS 8½ 5½ (51½) Duke at SYRACUSE 2½ 3½ (56½) Cal UNLV 6½ 3½ (57½) at N.TEXAS at SMU 24½ 24½ (58½) UC Davis at NEW MEXICO 41½ 41½ (52½) Mercyhurst at TROY 24½ 22½ (52½) Alabama St at WYOMING 23½ 23½ (48½) Nor. Colo. at VANDERBILT 23½ 21 (54½) Delaware at FLORIDA 49½ 49½ (67½) Campbell at BOISE STATE 6½ 8½ (55½) Memphis at OHIO 1½ 2½ (50½) Jax St at LIBERTY 27½ 26½ (54½) Grdnr-Wbb at FLORIDA INT’L 7½ 10½ (47½) Buffalo at W. MICHIGAN 28½ 25½ (53½) Monmouth Illinois State 3½ 3½ (47½) at N. ILLINS at S.CAROLINA 42½ 43½ (55½) Towson at NEBRASKA 25½ 28½ (51½) Bowlng Grn Tulsa 12½ 13½ (51½) at S. HSTN at MISSOURI ST 21½ 20½ (53½) Lindenwd at CINCINNATI 36½ 36½ (60½) W.Carolina at HOUSTON 50½ 50½ (60½) Southern at TULANE 10 9½ (49½) S.Alabama at COLORADO ST20½ 20½ (57½) So.Utah Tennessee 8½ 12½ (55½) at GA. TECH at MARSHALL 17½ 13½ (56½) Mid. Tenn.
at KENNESAW STATE9½ 9½ (54½) Georgia St at UCLA 8½ 11½ (55½) S Diego St at WISCONSIN 36½ 36½ (49½) W.Illinois Texas Tech 29½ 26½ (53½) at ORGN ST at COASTAL CAR.31½ 31½ (53½) Fordham at TEXAS 1½ 1½ (48½) Ohio State at LSU 31½ 35½ (56½) La. Tech Navy 6½ 4½ (59½) at FLA ATLC at IOWA 11½ 14 (40½) Iowa State at CLEMSON 26½ 20½ (55½) Ga Southrn at OLE MISS 46½ 47½ (61½) Charlotte at AUBURN 29½ 32½ (56½) So. Miss at TCU 44½ 43½ (54½) Grambling at BAYLOR 38½ 38½ (55½)Prairie View at SAN JOSE ST 21½ 20½ (57½) Cal Poly at UTEP 27½ 26½ (53½) Tex Southrn North Dakota St 6½ 2½ (47½) at AIR FRCE at UTAH 10 12½ (55½) Arkansas at FRESNO ST. 18½ 18 (45½) Sacrmnt St Montana State 3½ 3½ (50½) at NEVADA at USC 28½ 30½ (59½) UL
MLB
Wednesday
American League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at DETROIT -134 Minnesota +109 Toronto -188 at ATHLETICS +152 at SEATTLE -162 Texas +136 Cleveland -116 at BALTIMORE -106 at BOSTON -215 LA Angels +173 National League FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE St. Louis -111 at SAN FRANCISCO -110 at SAN DIEGO -190 Washington +153 N.Y Mets -120 at MIAMI -101 at MILWAUKEE -136 Chicago Cubs +112 at LA DODGERS -317 Cincinnati +246 Interleague FAVORITE LINE UNDERDOG LINE at PHILADELPHIA-164 Houston +135 at N.Y YANKEES -257 Colorado +200 Tampa Bay -124 at ATLANTA +100 at WHITE SOX -179 Pittsburgh +135 at KANSAS CITY OFF Arizona OFF
Pro baseball MLB glance American League East Division
Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore Central Division Chicago Cleveland Minnesota Detroit Kansas City West Division Houston Texas Seattle Athletics Los Angeles
Monday’s games
W 86 82 80 72 70
L 58 62 66 73 76
Pct GB .597 — .569 4 .548 7 .497 14½ .479 17
W 75 74 69 66 64
L 69 72 76 79 81
Pct GB .521 — .507 2 .476 6½ .455 9½ .441 11½
W 74 71 67 58 55
L 71 73 77 87 90
Pct .510 .493 .465 .400 .379
GB — 2½ 6½ 16 19
Boston 5, L.A. Angels 2 Baltimore 6, Cleveland 4 Arizona 5, Kansas City 4, 10 innings Detroit 5, Minnesota 4 Athletics 6, Toronto 5
Tuesday’s games
Minnesota 3, Detroit 2 Cleveland 9, Baltimore 5 Houston 6, Philadelphia 5 L.A. Angels 6, Boston 1 N.Y. Yankees 5, Colorado 3 Tampa Bay 7, Atlanta 1 Pittsburgh 9, Chicago White Sox 3 Arizona at Kansas City, n Texas at Seattle, n Toronto at Athletics, n
Wednesday’s games
Minnesota (Matthews 9-9) at Detroit (Montero 9-8), 12:10 p.m. Toronto (TBD) at Athletics (TBD), 2:05 p.m. Texas (Quantrill 7-5) at Seattle (Anderson 0-1), 3:10 p.m. Cleveland (Griffin 15-4) at Baltimore (Baz 5-15), 5:35 p.m. Houston (Brown 5-3) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 16-5), 5:40 p.m. L.A. Angels (Johnson 3-8) at Boston (Bennett 9-6), 5:45 p.m. Colorado (Sugano 12-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Fried 4-4), 6:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Jax 6-10) at Atlanta (López 4-3), 6:15 p.m. Arizona (Kelly 9-13) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-5), 6:40 p.m.
Pittsburgh (TBD) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 9-6), 6:40 p.m.
Tuesday
East Division
Wednesday
National League Atlanta Philadelphia Miami New York Washington Central Division Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati West Division Los Angeles Arizona San Diego San Francisco Colorado
Monday’s games
W 85 81 72 67 67
L 60 64 74 78 79
Pct GB .586 — .559 4 .493 13½ .462 18 .459 18½
W 89 81 72 72 69
L 56 64 73 73 75
Pct GB .614 — .559 8 .497 17 .497 17 .479 19½
W 87 77 76 60 55
L 57 68 68 85 89
Pct GB .604 — .531 10½ .528 11 .414 27½ .382 32
Philadelphia 1, Atlanta 0 N.Y. Mets 9, Miami 4 Milwaukee 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Arizona 5, Kansas City 4, 10 innings San Diego 3, Washington 2 San Francisco 5, St. Louis 4, 11 innings L.A. Dodgers 6, Cincinnati 3
L 62 66 72 73 73 76
Pct WCGB .569 +9 .548 +6 .507 — .497 1½ .493 2 .479 4
Chicago Philadelphia Arizona San Diego
W 81 81 77 76
L 64 64 68 68
Pct WCGB .559 +4 .559 +4 .531 — .528 ½
Pro basketball FIBA Women’s World Cup glance At Berlin x—clinched berth in quarterfinals; Note: Two points awarded for a win, one for a loss.
United States 94, China 61 Italy 63, Czechia 54
Sunday
China 74, Czechia 70 United States 55, Italy 52
Monday
United States 105, Czechia 64 China 71, Italy 51
Qualification to Quarterfinals
San Francisco vs. L.A. Rams at Melbourne, VIC, 7:35 p.m.
Sunday’s games
Atlanta at Pittsburgh, noon Baltimore at Indianapolis, noon Buffalo at Houston, noon Chicago at Carolina, noon Cleveland at Jacksonville, noon N.Y. Jets at Tennessee, noon New Orleans at Detroit, noon Tampa Bay at Cincinnati, noon Arizona at L.A. Chargers, 3:25 p.m. Green Bay at Minnesota, 3:25 p.m. Miami at Las Vegas, 3:25 p.m. Washington at Philadelphia, 3:25 p.m. Dallas at N.Y. Giants, 7:20 p.m.
Friday’s games
W 82 80 74 72 71 70
Sept. 4
Thursday’s games
SOUTH Florida A&M (1-1) at Miami (1-0), 7 p.m.
New York Boston Cleveland Toronto Texas Baltimore
W 3 2 1 0
New England at Seattle, 7:20 p.m.
Thursday’s games
MLB Wild Card glance
GP 3 3 3 3
Wednesday’s games
National schedule
St. Louis (Pallante 12-6) at San Francisco (Wilkinson 0-3), 2:45 p.m. Washington (Kent 1-3) at San Diego (Buehler 8-6), 3:10 p.m. Houston (Brown 5-3) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 16-5), 5:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets (Stock 1-3) at Miami (Junk 6-9), 5:40 p.m. Colorado (Sugano 12-8) at N.Y. Yankees (Fried 4-4), 6:05 p.m. Tampa Bay (Jax 6-10) at Atlanta (López 4-3), 6:15 p.m. Arizona (Kelly 9-13) at Kansas City (Lynch 4-5), 6:40 p.m. Chicago Cubs (Gausman 9-11) at Milwaukee (Henderson 9-3), 6:40 p.m. Pittsburgh (TBD) at Chicago White Sox (Martin 9-6), 6:40 p.m. Cincinnati (Lowder 6-9) at L.A. Dodgers (Yamamoto 12-8), 9:10 p.m.
United States Italy Czechia China
NFL schedule
College football
Wednesday’s games
Group D
Pro football
Denver at Kansas City, 7:15 p.m.
N.Y. Mets 7, Miami 5 Houston 6, Philadelphia 5 N.Y. Yankees 5, Colorado 3 Tampa Bay 7, Atlanta 1 Pittsburgh 9, Chicago White Sox 3 Arizona at Kansas City, n Chicago Cubs at Milwaukee, n Washington at San Diego, n St. Louis at San Francisco, n Cincinnati at L.A. Dodgers, n
National League
Puerto Rico vs. China, 10:45 a.m. Italy vs. Australia, 1:45 p.m.
Monday’s games
Tuesday’s games
American League
Hungary 84, Japan 63 Germany 94, Korea 56
L 0 1 2 3
Pts. 6 5 4 3
EAST Rutgers (0-1) at Boston College (0-1), 6:30 p.m. SOUTH Richmond (2-0) at NC State (0-1), 6 p.m. Norfolk St. (1-1) at Virginia (1-0), 6 p.m. Villanova (1-1) at Louisville (0-1), 6 p.m. MIDWEST Missouri (1-0) at Kansas (1-0), 7 p.m.
Saturday’s games
EAST South Florida (1-0) at Army (1-0), 11 a.m. Penn St. (1-0) at Temple (1-0), 11 a.m. UT Martin (1-1) at West Virginia (1-0), noon Maryland (1-0) at UConn (1-0), 2:30 p.m. UCF (1-0) at Pittsburgh (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Sacred Heart (0-1) at UMass (1-0), 2:30 p.m. California (0-1) at Syracuse (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Middle Tennessee (1-0) at Marshall (0-1), 6 p.m. SOUTH Old Dominion (1-0) at Virginia Tech (1-0), 11 a.m. ETSU (1-1) at North Carolina (1-0), 11 a.m. Appalachian St. (1-0) at East Carolina (0-1), 11 a.m. W. Kentucky (0-1) at Georgia (1-0), 11:45 a.m. Alabama (1-0) at Kentucky (1-0), 2:30 p.m. UL-Monroe (0-1) at UAB (0-1), 2:30 p.m. Wagner (1-1) at James Madison (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Alabama St. (2-0) at Troy (1-0), 3 p.m. Delaware (1-0) at Vanderbilt (1-0), 3:15 p.m. Campbell (2-0) at Florida (1-0), 4:30 p.m. Buffalo (1-0) at FIU (0-1), 5 p.m. Gardner-Webb (0-2) at Liberty (0-1), 5 p.m. Tennessee (1-0) at Georgia Tech (0-1), 6 p.m. Georgia St. (1-0) at Kennesaw St. (1-0), 6 p.m. Towson (0-2) at South Carolina (1-0), 6 p.m. South Alabama (1-0) at Tulane (0-1), 6 p.m. North Alabama (1-1) at Southeastern (0-2), 6 p.m. Louisiana Tech (1-0) at LSU (1-0), 6:30 p.m. Navy (1-0) at FAU (0-1), 6:30 p.m. Georgia Southern (1-0) at Clemson (0-1), 6:30 p.m. Fordham (0-2) at Coastal Carolina (0-1), 6:30 p.m. Southern Miss. (1-0) at Auburn (1-0), 6:45 p.m. Charlotte (0-1) at Ole Miss (1-0), 6:45 p.m. MIDWEST Wake Forest (1-0) at Purdue (1-0), 11 a.m. Wofford (2-0) at Kent St. (0-1), 11 a.m. Howard (1-1) at Indiana (1-0), 11 a.m. Washington St. (0-1) at Kansas St. (1-0), 11 a.m. Oklahoma (1-0) at Michigan (1-0), 11 a.m. Colgate (2-0) at Cent. Michigan (0-1), noon Holy Cross (0-2) at Miami (Ohio) (0-1), noon Stony Brook (1-1) at Ball St. (0-1), 1 p.m. Rice (1-0) at Notre Dame (1-0), 2:30 p.m. E. Michigan (1-1) at Michigan St. (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Mississippi St. (1-0) at Minnesota (1-0), 2:30 p.m.
CCSU (0-1) at Toledo (0-1), 2:30 p.m. Duke (1-0) at Illinois (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Robert Morris (2-0) at Akron (0-1), 2:30 p.m. Jacksonville St. (1-1) at Ohio (0-1), 5 p.m. Monmouth (NJ) (1-1) at W. Michigan (0-1), 5:30 p.m. Bowling Green (0-1) at Nebraska (1-0), 6 p.m. W. Carolina (1-1) at Cincinnati (1-0), 6 p.m. W. Illinois (1-1) at Wisconsin (0-1), 6:15 p.m. Iowa St. (1-0) at Iowa (1-0), 6:30 p.m. SOUTHWEST Oregon (1-0) at Oklahoma St. (0-1), 11 a.m. Arizona St. (1-0) at Texas A&M (1-0), 11 a.m. UTSA (1-0) at Texas State (0-1), 2:30 p.m. UNLV (1-1) at North Texas (0-1), 2:45 p.m. UC Davis (2-0) at SMU (1-0), 3 p.m. Northwestern St. (0-2) at East Texas A&M (0-2), 6 p.m. Tulsa (1-0) at Sam Houston St. (0-1), 6 p.m. Southern U. (1-1) at Houston (1-0), 6 p.m. Ohio St. (1-0) at Texas (1-0), 6:30 p.m. Prairie View (1-1) at Baylor (0-1), 7 p.m. Grambling (2-0) at TCU (0-1), 7 p.m. Texas Southern (1-1) at UTEP (0-1), 8 p.m. FAR WEST Weber St. (1-1) at Colorado (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Arizona (1-0) at BYU (1-0), 2:30 p.m. Utah St. (0-1) at Washington (1-0), 2:30 p.m. N. Colorado (0-2) at Wyoming (0-1), 3 p.m. Mercyhurst (0-2) at New Mexico (1-0), 3 p.m. Memphis (2-0) at Boise St. (0-1), 5 p.m. San Diego (0-1) at Idaho St. (2-0), 5 p.m. San Diego St. (1-0) at UCLA (1-0), 6:15 p.m. Texas Tech (1-0) at Oregon St. (0-1), 6:30 p.m. Cal Poly (2-0) at San Jose St. (1-1), 8 p.m. N. Dakota St. (2-0) at Air Force (1-0), 9 p.m. Arkansas (1-0) at Utah (1-0), 9:15 p.m. Sacramento St. (1-1) at Fresno St. (0-1), 9:30 p.m. Montana St. (2-0) at Nevada (1-0), 9:30 p.m. UL (1-0) at Southern Cal (2-0), 10 p.m.
Sunday’s games
FAR WEST New Mexico St. (1-1) at Hawaii (0-2), 11 p.m.
Stats Perform FCS Top 25 poll Through Sept. 6
Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. Montana State (57) 2-0 1425 1 2. South Dakota State 1-1 1303 2 3. Montana 2-0 1292 3 4. Tarleton State 2-0 1272 5 5. Illinois State 2-0 1209 4 6. North Dakota 2-0 1037 8 7. UC Davis 2-0 1003 7 8. Rhode Island 1-1 994 6 9. Lehigh 2-0 941 10 10. Youngstown State 1-1 939 9 11. South Dakota 2-0 901 11 12. Tennessee Tech 2-0 836 12 13. Stephen F. Austin 2-0 806 13 14. Lamar 1-1 545 14 15. Austin Peay 1-1 540 15 16. William & Mary 2-0 506 17 17. Idaho State 2-0 478 23 18. Mercer 2-0 417 19 19. Yale 0-0 383 16 20. West Florida 2-0 317 25 21. Villanova 1-1 275 18 22. South Carolina State 2-0 270 21 23. Abilene Christian 0-2 196 20 24. Northern Arizona 1-1 160 22 25. Harvard 0-0 64 NR Dropped out: Western Carolina (24) Others receiving points (schools listed on two or more ballots): Alabama State (2-0), 55; Southern Utah (1-1, 0-1 Big Sky), 51; Campbell (2-0), 49; Cal Poly (2-0, 1-0 Big Sky), 46; Southern Illinois (1-1), 30; Richmond (2-0, 1-0 Patriot), 28; Houston Christian (1-1, 1-0 Southland), 24; Elon (2-0), 21; Jackson State (2-0), 21; Wofford (2-0), 19; Western Carolina (1-1), 15; Southeast Missouri (1-1), 14; UAlbany (1-1, 1-0 CAA), 13; UTRGV (1-1), 12; Prairie View (1-1, 1-0 SWAC), 8; Monmouth (1-1, 1-0 CAA), 4; The Citadel (1-1, 0-1 Southern), 3
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“I want good quality for the customers.” CORINNA WANG, Dumpling Hour co-owner
Down the street from Tigerland, a new dive bar offers respite BY MADDIE SCOTT Staff writer
Nicholson Drive in Baton Rouge is getting a new bar with darts, pool and cocktails. Green Rabbit Tavern first opened in 2024 at 4612 Bennington Ave., but was forced to close about a year later after the building was sold. Now, it’s reopening at a new location at 5201 Nicholson Drive at 6 p.m. Thursday. It’ll be an accessible space open to everybody 21+, said owner Billy Scott. “It doesn’t matter if you’re a 50-year-old biker or a 23-yearold law student,” Scott said. “You want to be able to walk in and feel comfortable and not feel like, ‘I don’t belong here.’ ” Scott, born in New Orleans and a Ben Franklin High School alum, has been in the bar industry since about 2003. He hopes to offer something different for Tigerland, the watering hold for LSU students, located down the street.
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One of Dumpling Hour’s specialties are the Mardi Gras dumplings, six handmade, color-coordinated dumplings in flavors of chicken, beef and veggie.
Good timing New Asian fusion restaurant opens with Mardi Gras dumplings, milk tea and Szechuan-style fare
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The dartboard and bar at Green Rabbit Tavern
“I’d like to give a respite from the insanity of Tigerland,” he said. Formerly Alexa’s Dulceria & Market, the 1,600-square-foot space is located in a strip mall next to Wahada Restaurant. Upon walking through the emerald green front door, Green Rabbit Tavern smells of freshly cut wood, brought by the installation of rustic beams and a new bar. Scott built it himself, a skill he learned out of necessity. “It’s much cheaper to do it on your own, he said. “This bar would’ve been 10,000 bucks to build. Cost me a couple hundred.” Pops of rabbit decor sprawl throughout the area: a gallery wall of several local artists’ depictions of rabbits (including crayon and colored-pencil drawings from Scott’s niece and nephew), rabbit figurines behind the bar and two rows of square-framed prints of the critter. Most of the decor came from the previous location. Two blue-felt pool tables, a couple of dartboards and hightop tables create a laid-back space for grabbing a drink and hanging out. But don’t rock the boat, he said. “Come in and have a good time, but do not let your good time affect anybody else’s good time,” he said. The drink menu includes a selection of 16 classic cocktails — margaritas, dirty martinis, Moscow mules and more. Some cocktails are Scott’s own recipes, such as the Wildberry Princess, made with raspberry vodka, black raspberry liqueur and lemonade. There’s also draft beer including Michelob Ultra, Jupiter and Ghost in the Machine. The mocktail menu has a dozen drinks, including the lavender mojito with lavender, mint, simple syrup, lime juice and soda water, or order the Firefly Sipper, concocted with raspberry, vanilla and iced tea. Green Rabbit Tavern, 5201 Nicholson Drive Studio F. Open daily from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m. Mondays through Saturdays and from 6 p.m. to midnight Sundays.
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York City to join her brother-in-law in opening the third Louisiana location. She handles front of house, and he handles back of house.
Staff writer
Corinna Wang readied the finishing touch to Dumpling Hour’s signature creme brulee drink: a blow torch. It was Tuesday, the day before the new restaurant’s soft opening on Sept. 2, and co-owner Wang, 38, stood behind the bar slinging teas and signature sips for the kitchen staff, who were preparing dishes and readying for the day ahead. Dumpling Hour, located at 7474 Corporate Blvd., Baton Rouge, will serve Asian fusion fare inside a 2,800-square-foot space formerly belonging to Serop’s Cafe that closed in December, a Greek and Lebanese restaurant with several locations across Baton Rouge. The menu at Dumpling Hour covers vast ground. Think dumplings, chow mein, vegetable dishes, Szechuan cuisine and classics like orange chicken or honey shrimp. The beverage menu has fruit tea, milk tea and house signatures — including the creme brulee drink with milk, brown sugar boba, brown sugar syrup
Menu rundown
Dumpling Hour co-owner Corinna Wang uses a blowtorch on a creme brulee drink. and ice, topped with custard and torched brown sugar. The restaurant is a familyowned business that first opened in Lafayette in 2024 and opened a second location in Youngsville last year. Now, Baton Rouge is getting a taste. “This is our business, the family business,” Wang said, adding that she wants the restaurant to grow slow and strong. Wang recently moved from New
The dumplings are handmade at the restaurant and served in a rounded basket to keep them hot. There are xiao long bao dumplings, also known as soup dumplings, filled with broth and a meat or vegetables. The menu states it’s a must-try dish. Bao buns, pan-fried dumplings and steamed dumplings are also available in numerous flavors. “When you bite that, there’s soup inside,” Wang said about the xiao long bao. “You need to drink a little broth and then there’s stuff to eat. Right now, we only have three flavors: the pork, crabmeat and chicken. I like the first one.” One of the restaurant’s signature dishes are the Mardi Gras dumplings, Wang said. The dish has six to eight handmade, color-coordinated dumplings. Purple is beef, yellow is chicken and the uncolored dumpling is filled with vegetables.
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Continued from page 1D The business is Lafayetteborn, so there’s a handful of fusion dishes, such as the Asian cracklin chicken or shrimp. They deep-dry battered bites of chicken or shrimp, mix with spicy peppers and top the dish with cilantro. The selection of vegetable dishes offers something for those who don’t eat meat — sweet and sour cucumber, roasted corn with Parmesan, crispy fried eggplant, Brussels sprouts with truffle oil and salt and wok-tossed string beans cooked with spicy peppers. For Wang, her go-to plates air on the simpler side. Classic dishes like beef on a stick, pork xiao long bao and pan fried pork buns are some of her comfort favorites. For those who like something spicy, she recommends the hot and sour glass noodles. “General Tso’s Chicken is my favorite, and it’s always my favorite with the rice,” she said. “See, I like simple.” For dessert, Wang recommends the taro buns, a purple bao bun filled with sweet taro paste. There’s also banana naan bread, ube, lemon cheesecake and
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Wok tossed string beans and Asian Cracklin Chicken is served up at Dumpling Hour. custard buns.
mer heat. Available toppings include Bubble tea honey boba, strawberry popThe restaurant is also ping boba, mango popping equipped with a bar, but it boba, lychee jelly, rainbow likely won’t start serving jelly and mango jelly. alcohol until later, about a After adding the ingredimonth, but there’s a menu of ents to each concoction, Wang milk tea, fruit tea, smoothies places the cup into a machine and house signatures avail- that stamps a plastic seal on top. The cup pops back out, able in the meantime. “Right now, I want bubble and the customer can spear tea first. I want good quality the top with a thick straw. for the customers.” Wang’s favorite is the Thai Dumpling Hour, 7474 Cormilk tea, a classic made with porate Blvd., Baton Rouge. black tea, milk, sweetener For the soft opening, hours and boba. For something re- will be 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. freshing, she recommends Mondays through Fridays the lychee fruit tea, which and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Satshe said is good for the sum- urdays and Sundays.
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with you and ask her what Dear Harriette: I wanted to went wrong. Tell her you do something special for planned that trip to make my mom, so I decided to her happy, but clearly that surprise her with a vacadidn’t work. Offer tion for her birthday. that it made you sad She loves to travel, and frustrated that so I thought it’d be a she didn’t seem to nice opportunity for enjoy herself when the two of us to get your intention was to away and bond. My make her happy. See mom and I are not as Harriette if she will talk about close as I would like Cole it. Talking may lead us to be. When I was to healing. SENSE AND younger, my mom SENSITIVITy Dear Harriette: As a took the “I am your marital and family parent, not your attorney, your suggestion friend” stance, and I think to “Can’t Stretch It,” the as I got older, time and distance never got us to the struggling divorced mom, that she approach her ex friends stage. On the vacation, I tried to about increasing child suphave a good time, but my port baffled me a bit at the mom was a bit of a grouch. optimistic assumptions unShe complained about evderlying your answer. Some key questions that erything. Nothing was good must be asked first are enough, nice enough, hot whether they divorced enough or clean enough. I amicably, whether they are tried ignoring it, but I put even on speaking terms, a lot of time, money and energy into planning some- what financial resources the ex actually has, whether thing special for her. By the end of the trip, I shared he is a generous or even a reasonable person, whether that I was not impressed with her sour attitude. Now he is a safe person to help care for the kids, whether we’re back to our normal he lives locally and so much lives, walking on eggshells more. He may well resent around each other and the child support he is payfeeling even more distant. Where do we go from here? ing now, either because he — Not Your Friend is spiteful or because he is Dear Not Your Friend: Invite also financially strapped. your mother to get together The fact that she has full
custody indicates he (or likely the court) determined he is a poor caregiver. There are so many variables. Sadly, in my more than 30 years of practicing family law, I have never known an ex-husband to willingly increase child support simply upon request of his exwife. He might be willing to negotiate something to his advantage, but that is rarely in the ex-wife’s best interest. However, if the exhusband has the financial resources, the ex-wife may have a case for increasing child support through the legal system. Only a good family law attorney can assess her situation. In some states, her ex-husband will be required to pay her attorney’s fees in such a case. In any event, I hope your optimism is well-placed in this instance. — Gut Check Dear Gut Check: Thanks for your legal and sober perspective. Much appreciated. Readers, take heed. Send questions to askharriette@ harriettecole.com or c/o Andrews McMeel Syndication, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Wednesday, Sept. 9, the 252nd day of 2026. There are 113 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 9, 1971, prisoners seized control of the maximum-security Attica Correctional Facility near Buffalo, New York, taking 42 staff members hostage and demanding improvements to inmate treatment and living conditions. Also on this date: In 1776, the second Continental Congress formally adopted the name “United States of America,” replacing the “United Colonies of North America.” In 1850, California was admitted as the 31st U.S. state. In 1919, about 1,100 members of Boston’s 1,500-member police force went on strike. The strike was broken by Massachusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge
with replacement officers. In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the first civil rights bill to pass Congress since Reconstruction, a measure primarily concerned with protecting voting rights. It also established a Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department of Justice. In 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat exchanged letters in which the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist and renounced violence and Israel recognized the PLO as representing the Palestinian people. The exchange occurred days before an agreement under the Oslo peace process. In 2022, King Charles III gave his first speech to Britain as its new monarch, vowing to carry on the “lifelong service” of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, who died a day earlier.
In 2025, Israeli conducted a daylight airstrike targeting the Hamas political leadership in Doha, Qatar. The attack killed at least five lower-ranking Hamas members and inflamed Middle East tensions as Israel continued to wage war against Hamas in Gaza. Today’s birthdays: Singer Dee Dee Sharp is 81. Former NFL quarterback Joe Theismann is 77. Actor Angela Cartwright is 74. Musicianproducer Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) is 74. Actor Hugh Grant is 66. Actor Constance Marie is 61. Actor Adam Sandler is 60. Actor Julia Sawalha is 58. Model Rachel Hunter is 57. Actor Eric Stonestreet is 55. Actor Henry Thomas is 55. Actor Goran Visnjic is 54. Pop-jazz singer Michael Bublé is 51. Actor Michelle Williams is 46. Actor Zoe Kazan is 43. Country singer-songwriter Hunter Hayes is 35.
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Leek and fontina stuffed ravioli with braised pork cheek from Nino’s in Baton Rouge the cream sauce. The pork cheek pulled it all together, perfectly balancing the dish. For dessert, I recommend the panna cotta with thickened vanilla bean cream, lemon curd, frangelico and mixed berry sauce. — Lauren Cheramie, deputy features editor
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Take the opportunity to be the one to lead the way and to set an example that encourages others to strive for perfection, kindness and generosity. ARIEs (March 21-April 19) Add an original touch to whatever you pursue. If you go the distance, you'll open doors to new beginnings. Your chance to advance is met with passion and emotional input that make you impossible to defeat. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Take your time, be aware of what's happening around you and gravitate toward the people and pursuits that make you feel grateful. Deal with situations that hold you back. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Make changes, adjustments and gestures for the right reason. Put your heart and soul into making things better, not worse. Being true to yourself will change your perspective regarding love. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Let your intuition and emotions lead the way and your truth be known. Not everyone will be happy with the decisions you make, but if it satisfies your soul, move forward with your head held high. LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) A positive change is within reach, but it's up to you to navigate your way into the circles that can help you turn your dreams into a reality. Take control instead of letting others outmaneuver you. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by NEA, Inc., dist. By Andrews McMeel Syndication
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Bridge By PHILLIP ALDER Jeff Lynne, who has had a stellar musical career, in particular with the Electric Light Orchestra and the Traveling Wilburys, and has gone on to become a major record producer, said, “I think from the age of 13, I really wanted to be a producer, and I’ve always thought that the producer was the top of the tree.” Maybe you learned bridge when you were 13; but at whatever age you started playing, the number 13 is critical. Each suit has 13 cards and each hand starts with 13 cards. East forgot that in this deal. South was in four hearts after the given auction. West led the club ace. When East signaled with the nine (starting a highlow with his doubleton), West cashed the club king and gave his partner a club ruff. What should East have done now? The auction was natural. North’s twono-trump rebid was game-invitational. South’s three-heart bid indicated at least 5-5 in the majors. North naturally raised to four hearts. (Three no-trump fails if the defenders attack diamonds early in the play.) At trick four, East tried to cash the diamond ace to set the contract. However, South trumped and crossruffed home. East should have analyzed the auction and play. South showed at least 10 cards in the majors.
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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS BID EVENT NO. #107 Sealed Bids will be re‐ ceived electronically through our E-Procure‐ ment site at www. jeffparish.gov/supplier until 2:00 p.m., Septem‐ ber 29, 2026 and shall, at the below listed time and place, be publicly opened and read aloud. At no charge, bidders may sub‐ mit via Jefferson Parish’s electronic procurement page by visiting www. jeffparish.gov/supplier to register for this free site. Bids will be accepted and received through Bridge until 2 p.m. The public bid opening will be held at the West Bank Pur‐ chasing Department at 200 Derbigny Street, Suite 4400, Gretna, LA 70053 beginning at 2:30 p.m. on each bid opening date for the following project: Three (3) Year Labor Only Contract to Perform Vari‐ ous Roof and Gutter Re‐ pairs for the Department of General Services Parish-Wide Jefferson Parish strongly encourages the involve‐ ment of small busi‐ nesses, minority busi‐ nesses, women's busi‐ ness enterprises, and veteran-owned busi‐ nesses to stimulate par‐ ticipation in procurement and assistance pro‐ grams. work in accor‐ dance with the specifica‐ tion with no additional cost to the owner. Late bids will not be accepted The Jefferson Parish Council reserves the right to reject all bids and to reject bids for just cause, pursuant to the law. Jefferson Parish and its partners as the recipi‐ ents of federal funds are fully committed to awarding a contract(s) to firm(s) that will provide high-quality services and that are dedicated to di‐ versity and to containing costs. Thus, Jefferson Parish strongly encour‐ ages the involvement of small businesses, minor‐ ity businesses, women's business enterprises, and veteran-owned busi‐ nesses to stimulate par‐ ticipation in procurement and assistance pro‐ grams. All prospective bidders are invited to attend this non-mandatory pre-bid conference, which will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Sep‐ tember 14, 2026, in the Jefferson Parish Purchas‐ ing Department, located at the General Govern‐ ment Building, 200 Der‐ bigny St., Suite 4400, Gretna, LA 70053. How‐ ever, failure to attend the pre-bid conference shall not relieve the bidder of responsibility for infor‐ mation discussed at the conference. Furthermore, failure to attend the prebid conference and in‐ spection does not relieve the successful bidder from the necessity of fur‐ nishing materials or per‐ forming any work that may be required to com‐ plete the work in accor‐ dance with the specifica‐ tion with no additional cost to the owner. Renny Simno Director Purchasing Department Misty A. Camardelle Assistant Director Purchasing Department ADV: The Baton Rouge Advocate: August 26, September 2, and 9, 2026 For additional informa‐ tion, please visit the Pur‐ chasing Webpage at h j ff i h
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Jefferson Parish strongly encourages the involve‐ ment of small busi‐ nesses, minority busi‐ nesses, women's busi‐ ness enterprises, and veteran-owned busi‐ nesses to stimulate par‐ ticipation in procurement and assistance pro‐ grams. work in accor‐ dance with the specifica‐ tion with no additional cost to the owner.
For additional informa‐ tion, please visit the Pur‐ chasing Webpage at https://www.jeffparish. gov/464/Purchasing or you may call 504-3642678.
Megan Grantham Director Purchasing Department
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Bridge City Playground Gymnasium Roof Re‐ placement Jefferson Parish Project No. 25-1130-0021 All bids must be in accor‐ dance with the contract documents on file with the Jefferson Parish Pur‐ chasing Department, Suite 4400, Jefferson Parish General Govern‐ ment Building, at 200 Derbigny Street, Gretna, Louisiana. Late bids will not be accepted. The Jefferson Parish Council reserves the right to reject all bids and to reject bids for just cause, pursuant to the law. Jefferson Parish and its partners as the recipi‐ ents of federal funds are fully committed to awarding a contract(s) to firm(s) that will provide high-quality services and that are dedicated to di‐ versity and to containing costs. Thus, Jefferson Parish strongly encour‐ ages the involvement of small businesses, minor‐ ity businesses, women's business enterprises, and veteran-owned busi‐ nesses to stimulate par‐ ticipation in procurement and assistance pro‐ grams. All prospective bidders are invited to attend this non-mandatory pre-bid conference, which will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Sep‐ tember 11, 2026, at the Bridge City Playground Gymnasium, located at 400 11th Street, Bridge City, LA 70094.However, failure to attend the prebid conference shall not relieve the bidder of re‐ sponsibility for informa‐ tion discussed at the conference. Furthermore, failure to attend the prebid conference and in‐ spection does not relieve the successful bidder from the necessity of fur‐ nishing materials or per‐ forming any work that may be required to com‐ plete the work in accor‐ dance with the specifica‐ tion with no additional cost to the owner.
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Renny Simno Director Purchasing Department Misty A. Camardelle Assistant Director Purchasing Department Baton Rouge Advocate: August 26, September 2, and 9, 2026 For additional informa‐ tion, please visit the Pur‐ chasing Webpage at https://www.jeffparish. gov/464/Purchasing or call 504-364-2678. 198342-AUG 26-ep 2-9-3t $156.55
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ceived by the Louisiana Tech University, Purchas‐ ing Office, Keeny Hall Room 408, 208 Keeny Cir‐ cle, Ruston, LA 71272. The deadline for receipt of bids is 2:00 PM on Wednesday, October 7, 2026 at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in Keeny Hall Room 408, 208 Keeny Circle, Ruston LA 71272. FOR: Replace Chiller Lomax Hall Louisiana Tech University Ruston, Louisiana BID NUMBER: 50012-66427 Complete Bidding Docu‐ ments for this project are available in electronic form. They may be ob‐ tained without charge and without deposit from Aillet, Fenner, Jolly & Mc‐ Clelland, Inc. Printed copies are not available from the Designer but arrangements can be made to obtain them through most repro‐ graphic firms. Plan hold‐ ers are responsible for their own reproduction costs. Questions about this pro‐ cedure shall be directed to the Designer at: Aillet, Fenner, Jolly & Mc‐ Clelland, Inc. 3003 Knight Street, Suite 120 Shreveport, LA 71105 Telephone: 318-425-7452 E-mail: mmiddleton@ afjmc.com All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. A MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 10:00 AM on Thursday, September 24, 2026 at Lomax Hall, 1201 Lomax Drive, Ruston, Louisiana 71270 Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Mechan‐ ical Work. Bidder is re‐ quired to comply with provisions and require‐ ments of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a pe‐ riod of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section; and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity. When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are received, the award of this Con‐ tract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Com‐ mission or the availabil‐ ity of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract Between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted. ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY LOUISIANA TECH UNIVER‐ SITY OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMODATION RE‐ QUIRED NOT LESS THEN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING. 199335-SEP 9-16-23-3T $128.76 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS
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g g striction of airboats. Ac‐ cess to portions of the Job Site that require air‐ boats (North Lake) will only be permitted on September 22 through September 24, 2026. Con‐ tact Todd Baker at (225) 342-4807 or Todd.Baker@ la.gov at least seven (7) days in advance to schedule a visit. Contrac‐ tors shall be responsible for providing their own outboard and any rental and boat launching fees. The jobsite visit is not mandatory, but it is highly encouraged for those submitting a bid.
y launching fees. The job‐ site visit is not manda‐ tory, but it is highly en‐ couraged for those submitting a bid.
Rouge (BREC) will receive electronic or paper bids for the construction of the following project:
face of the bid envelope and the Uniform Public Works Bid Form.
Contact Todd Baker at (225) 342-4807 or Todd. Baker@la.gov for any questions or issues re‐ lated to the non-manda‐ tory pre-bid conference or access to the Project Site.
Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification Heavy Con‐ struction. In accordance with LA. R.S. 37:2165(C), anyone objecting to the classification must send a certified letter to both the Louisiana State Li‐ censing Board for Con‐ tractors and the CPRA at the address listed above. The letter must be re‐ ceived no later than ten (10) working days prior to the day on which bids are to be opened. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and requirements of LA R.S.38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) calendar days after re‐ ceipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section; and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity. When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are received, the award of this Con‐ tract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Com‐ mission or the availabil‐ ity of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Con‐ tract between Owner and Contractor is fully exe‐ cuted. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is a participant in the Small Entrepreneurship (SE) Program (the Hudson Ini‐ tiative) and the VeteranOwned and Service-Con‐ nected Disabled VeteranOwned (LaVet) Small En‐ trepreneurships Pro‐ gram. Bidders are en‐ couraged to consider participation. Informa‐ tion is available from Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority or on its website at http:// www.coastal.la.gov/. STATE OF LOUISIANA, COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AUTHORITY MICHAEL HARE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 198932-sept 2-9-16-3t $232.66 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the State of Louisiana by the Coastal Protection and Restora‐ tion Authority, 150 Ter‐ race Avenue, 4th Floor Conference Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 until 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, October 14, 2026. ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY THE COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AUTHOR‐ ITY OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMODATION RE‐ QUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPEN‐ ING.
Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the State of Louisiana by the Coastal Protection and Restora‐ tion Authority, 150 Ter‐ race Avenue, 4th Floor Conference Center, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70802 until 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, October 14, 2026.
State Wildlife FOR: Refuge Terracing & Shoreline Protection Vermilion Parish, Louisiana
ANY PERSON REQUIRING SPECIAL ACCOMMODA‐ TIONS SHALL NOTIFY THE COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AU‐ THORITY OF THE TYPE(S) OF ACCOMMODATION RE‐ QUIRED NOT LESS THAN SEVEN (7) DAYS BEFORE THE BID OPENING.
Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form. They may be obtained without charge and with‐ out deposit http://coastal.la. from gov/resources/rfps-rsiqscontracts/bids/. Printed copies can also be ob‐ tained from:
FOR: State Wildlife Refuge Terracing & Shoreline Protection Vermilion Parish, Louisiana PROJECT NUMBER: TV-0100 Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form. They may be obtained without charge and with‐ out deposit from http:// coastal.la.gov/resources/ rfps-rsiqs-contracts/ bids/. Printed copies can also be obtained from:
COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AU‐ THORITY (CPRA) 150 Ter‐ race Avenue Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Attn: Kayla Causey E-mail: cpra.bidding@la. gov Phone: (225) 342-9421 Fax: (225) 800-5599 All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. A NON-MANDATORY PREBID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 2:00 PM on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 150 Terrace Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70802 and via Microsoft Teams Webinar. You may regis‐ ter for the hybrid pre-bid meeting via Microsoft Teams at: https://events.gcc. teams.microsoft.com/ event/127cf4a0-d7734e83-a2ba-f30b36e1e36 5@89b0b16b-677c-4e6fa254-61311d5b4a86? source=copyLinkLega‐ cyShareLinkDialog. The information to access meeting audio through computer, phone, or other device will be provided after register‐ ing through the link above. It is the responsibility of all potential bidders to visit the job site to as‐ sess the location, logis‐ tics, and site conditions prior to bidding. The job site (State Wildlife Refuge) is open to the public; however, contrac‐ tors must abide to the Refuge’s Rules and Regu‐ lations (wlf.louisiana. gov/page/state-wildliferefuge), including the re‐ i i f i b
PROJECT NUMBER: TV-0100
COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AUTHORITY (CPRA) 150 Terrace Avenue Baton Rouge, LA 70802 Attn: Kayla Causey E-mail: cpra.bidding@la. gov Phone: (225) 342-9421 Fax: (225) 800-5599 All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Docu‐ ments for this project. The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Docu‐ ments for this project.
A NON-MANDATORY PREBID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 2:00 PM on Thursday, September 17, 2026 at 150 Terrace Ave., Baton Rouge, LA 70802 and via Microsoft Teams Webinar. You may regis‐ ter for the hybrid pre-bid meeting via Microsoft Teams at: https://events.gcc. teams.microsoft.com/ event/127cf4a0-d7734e83-a2ba-f30b36e1e36 5@89b0b16b-677c-4e6fa254-61311d5b4a86? source=copyLinkLega‐ cyShareLinkDialog. The information to access meeting audio through computer, phone, or other device will be pro‐ vided after registering through the link above. It is the responsibility of all potential bidders to visit the job site to as‐ sess the location, logis‐ tics, and site conditions prior to bidding. The job site (State Wildlife Refuge) is open to the public; however, contractors must abide to the Refuge’s Rules and Regulations (wlf.louisiana.gov/page/ state-wildlife-refuge), in‐ cluding the restriction of airboats. Access to por‐ tions of the Job Site that require airboats (North Lake) will only be permitted on September 22 through September 24, 2026. Con‐ tact Todd Baker at (225) 3424807 or Todd.Baker@la. gov at least seven (7) days in advance to schedule a visit. Contrac‐ tors shall be responsible for providing their own outboard and any rental and boat l hi f h j b
Contact Todd Baker at (225) 342-4807 or Todd. Baker@la.gov for any questions or issues re‐ lated to the non-manda‐ tory pre-bid conference or access to the Project Site. Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification Heavy Con‐ struction. In accordance with LA. R.S. 37:2165(C), anyone ob‐ jecting to the classifica‐ tion must send a certi‐ fied letter to both the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Con‐ tractors and the CPRA at the address listed above. The letter must be re‐ ceived no later than ten (10) working days prior to the day on which bids are to be opened. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and requirements of LA R.S.38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) calendar days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214. The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In ac‐ cordance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Sec‐ tion; and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity. When this project is fi‐ nanced either partially or entirely with State Bonds or financed in whole or in part by federal or other funds which are not readily available at the time bids are re‐ ceived, the award of this Contract is contingent upon the granting of lines of credit, or the sale of bonds by the Bond Commission or the availability of federal or other funds. The State shall incur no obligation to the Contractor until the Contract be‐ tween Owner and Con‐ tractor is fully executed. Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority is a participant in the Small Entrepreneurship (SE) Program (the Hudson Ini‐ tiative) and the Veteran-Owned and Service-Connected Dis‐ abled Veteran-Owned (LaVet) Small Entrepre‐ neurships Program. Bid‐ ders are encouraged to consider participation. Informa‐ tion is available from Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority or on its website at http://www.coastal.la. gov/. STATE OF LOUISIANA, COASTAL PROTECTION AND RESTORATION AU‐ THORITY MICHAEL HARE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 198907 Sept. 2, 9, 16, 2026 3t $244.66
PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived for the Louisiana Stadium & Exposition District (LSED) at the of‐ fice of Legends Global Gate F Executive Offices, Caesars Superdome, 1500 Sugar Bowl Drive, New Orleans, LA 70112. The deadline for receipt of bids is 2:00 PM on Sep‐ tember 22, 2026, at which time bids will be opened and read aloud in a pub‐ lic meeting in the Leg‐ ends Global Conference room at Gate F of Cae‐ sars Superdome. FOR: 2025 TPC Louisiana Dewatering System Repairs 11001 Lapalco Blvd Avondale, LA 70094 PROJECT NUMBER: LSED 2025 Capital Project Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form. They may be down‐ loaded without charge and without deposit from the LSED website www. lsedgov.org under tab “Opportunities” and then “Request for Bids: Capi‐ tal Projects and Ser‐ vices” Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrange‐ ments can be made to obtain them through most reprographic firms. Plan holders are respon‐ sible for their own repro‐ duction costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Designer at:
Marrero Couvillon & Associates, LLC 2644 Sherwood Forest Blvd., Suite 200 Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70816 kschlafly@mca-llc.com All bids shall be accom‐ panied by bid security in an amount of five per‐ cent (5.0%) of the sum of the base bid and all al‐ ternates. The form of this security shall be as stated in the Instructions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. The successful Bidder shall be required to fur‐ nish a Performance and Payment Bond written as described in the Instruc‐ tions to Bidders included in the Bid Documents for this project. A MANDATORY PRE-BID CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD at 11:00 AM on Tuesday September 1, 2026, at the TPC Louisiana conference room, 11001 Lapalco Blvd., Avondale LA 70094 Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. R.S. 37:2150-2192 for the classification of Com‐ mercial Construction. Bidder is required to comply with provisions and requirements of LA R.S. 38:2212(B)(5). No bid may be withdrawn for a period of forty-five (45) days after receipt of bids, except under the provisions of LA. R.S. 38:2214.
SB 1877 ANTIOCH BLVD. PARK BOX CULVERT BRIDGE 6229 ANTIOCH BLVD., ST. GEORGE, LA 70817 Project Description: Re‐ moval of the existing bridge crossing and con‐ struction of a new pre‐ cast reinforced concrete box culvert crossing, in‐ cluding headwalls and wingwalls, concrete pavement and sidewalk, drainage improvements, riprap, erosion control, site restoration, and as‐ sociated work. Electronic OR Paper bids will be received until 2:00 P.M. CT, Tuesday, October 6, 2026, by the BREC Fi‐ nance Department, BREC Administration Building, 6201 Florida Boulevard, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. All electronic bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud, along with all paper bids received, im‐ mediately after the 2:00 P.M. bid closing in Room 1501 of the BREC Admin‐ istration Building. Bid‐ ders or their authorized representatives are in‐ vited to be present. No bids will be received after 2:00 P.M. on the same day and date. Bids, amendments to bids, or requests for withdrawal of bids, re‐ ceived after the time specified for bid opening shall not be considered for any cause whatso‐ ever, except as required by law. Bids shall be firm for a period of forty-five (45) days from the date of the opening of bids and no bid shall be with‐ drawn for any reason during this period of time except as allowed per LSA-R.S.38:2214.C. Bid‐ ders shall obtain an orig‐ inal set of bidding docu‐ ments from BREC as fol‐ lows. Complete bid documents are available on disk for purchase for Ten Dollars ($10.00) at the BREC Pur‐ chasing Department, 6201 Florida Blvd., Baton Rouge, LA, 70806. Any Ad‐ denda, if issued, will be e-mailed to prospective bidders who have pur‐ chased plans and regis‐ tered with the BREC Pur‐ chasing Department. Plans may be picked up or BREC will overnight / mail plans at bidder’s ex‐ pense. Contact the BREC Purchasing Department at (225)273-6421. Complete bid documents are available in elec‐ tronic format at www. bidexpress.com. Ques‐ tions about this proce‐ dure shall be directed to Bid Express Customer support@ Service at bidexpress.com. Toll Free: (888) 352-BIDX (2439), Phone: (352) 3814888, Fax: (888) 971-4191, Monday through Friday, 6am - 7pm CT. Bidders are responsible for their own reproduc‐ tion costs. A set of docu‐ ments can be printed by most reprographers. Electronic bids and elec‐ tronic bid bonds must be submitted through www. bidexpress.com prior to the bidding deadline. Electronic bid bonds will be downloaded by the BREC Finance Depart‐ ment immediately after the 2:00 P.M. bid closing. Bidders utilizing the elec‐ tronic bid process are re‐ sponsible for confirming that all documents are properly submitted and received by Bid Express. Questions about this pro‐ cedure shall be directed to Bid Express Customer support@ Service at bidexpress.com. Toll Free: (888) 352-BIDX (2439), Phone: (352) 3814888, Fax: (888) 971-4191, Monday through Friday, 6am - 7pm CT. Paper bid forms must be submitted in a sealed, opaque envelope and en‐ dorsed SB 1877 Antioch Blvd. Park Box Culvert Bridge for the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge along with Con‐ tractor’s license number as required by LSA-R.S. 37:2151-2165. Bids with no license number will be rejected. One (1) copy of the bid form shall be submitted. Bid form blanks must be duly filled in by the Bidder. Bidders are cautioned not to attach any condi‐ tions or provisions to their proposals. Any for‐ eign conditions will ren‐ der the proposal invalid and may cause its rejec‐ tion. A Certified Check or Cashier’s Check, payable to the Recreation and Park Commission for the Parish of East Baton Rouge or a satisfactory Bid Bond, in compliance with LSA-R.S. 38:2218.A&C, executed by the Bidder and an ac‐ ceptable surety, in an amount equal to five per‐ cent (5%) of the total bid, shall be submitted with each paper bid. BREC is an Equal Oppor‐ tunity Employer. The Bid‐ der is encouraged to uti‐ lize minority participa‐ tion in this contract to the extent possible through the use of small, disadvantaged and women-owned busi‐ nesses as suppliers or subcontractors. All Contractors bidding on this work shall com‐ ply with all provisions of the State Licensing Law for Contractors, LSA-R.S. 37:2150-2163, as amended, for all public contracts. It shall also be the responsibility of the General Contractor to as‐ sure that all subcontrac‐ tors comply with this law. Contractors must be licensed in the proper category of work. If re‐ quired for bidding, Con‐ tractors must hold an ac‐ tive license issued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors in the classification of "Highway, Street, and Bridge Construction” or “Heavy Construction” and must show their li‐ cense number on the
BREC reserves the right to reject any or all bids for just cause as allowed by LSA-R.S. 38:2214. Bids shall only be ac‐ cepted by Contractors who have formally ob‐ tained a complete set of the contract documents and in whose name the proposal forms and/or specifications were is‐ sued. The construction esti‐ mate will be read aloud at the bid opening. A pre-bid conference will be held at 9:00 A.M. CT, Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at Antioch Blvd. Park, 6229 Antioch Blvd., St. George, Louisiana 70817. The pre-bid con‐ ference is non-manda‐ tory. Bidders should re‐ view the bid documents and drawings prior to this meeting. RECREATION AND PARK COMMISSION FOR THE PARISH OF EAST BATON ROUGE ___________________ /s/ Dr. Brooks Williams, Superintendent THE ADVOCATE BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA To be Published Three Times: 09/09/2026, 09/15/2026, 09/21/2026 END OF SECTION 199985 Sept. 9, 15, 21, 2026 3t $286.17
PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 161 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd. Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026677, *Pro‐ prietary* SCBA Units DPS, 9/22/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and specifica‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities.
Public Notices Bids/Proposals y elected to use LaPAC, the state's online electronic bid posting and notifica‐ tion system, in addition to its standard means of advertising this require‐ ment. This Invitation to Bid is available in elec‐ tronic form at the LaPAC website https:// wwwcfprd.doa.louisiana. gov/osp/lapac/dspBid. cfm?search=departm ent&term=102. Bids, amendments to bids or request for with‐ drawal of bids received after time specified for bid openings shall not be considered for any cause whatsoever.
Inquiries will be received up until 5 pm on Septem‐ ber 18, 2026. Full information may be obtained upon request from the above address or by telephoning Dexter Stewart at (225) 389-3259, Ext. 3264, or via email dsstewart@brla.gov. Any vendor who would like to listen to the open‐ ing of this bid can access the following link, at the date and time of this bid opening:
NOTE: The only vendor information shared at the bid opening will be the reading of the names of those vendors who submitted bids. Join by phone +1-408-418-9388 United States Toll Access code: 263 373 080 (followed by the # but‐ ton) Alternate numbers to call if number above is not available, which may occur due to network traffic (use the same Ac‐ cess Code, followed by the # button): United States Toll (Boston) +1-617-315-0704 United States Toll (Chicago) +1-312-535-8110 United States Toll (Dallas) +1-469-210-7159 United States Toll (Denver) +1-720-650-7664 United States Toll (Jacksonville) +1-904-900-2303 United States Toll (Los Angeles) +1-213-306-3065 These numbers will pro‐ vide you with live audio access to this bid open‐ ing. 200053 Sept. 9, 16, 2026 2t $107.24
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PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 162 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on September 22, 2026 for Solicitation Number Doc2380984741 – Invita‐ tion to Negotiate (ITN) for Child Welfare Mod‐ ernization Project (CWMP). The ITN may be accessed at https:// portal.us.bn.cloud.ariba. com/dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110023794?anI d=ANONYMOUS No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Chief Procurement Offi‐ cer Phone (225) 342-8010 200016 Sept. 9, 2026 1t $11.77
PUBLIC NOTICE --VOUCHER# 26-091052 BIDS TO BE OPENED: 09/24/266 NOTICE TO BIDDERS Electronic or sealed bids will be received by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Purchasing Divi‐ sion, City Hall Building, Room 826, 222 Saint Louis Street, 8th Floor, Baton Rouge, La. until 11:00 A.M. CST, September 24, 2026 for the following: A26-91052 DRAIN CLEANING & GREASE TRAP CLEANING SERVICE Official bid documents are available at Central (https://www. Bidding centralauctionhouse. com/rfpc10656-city-ofbaton-rouge.html) or by request from the City of Baton Rouge at dsstew‐ art@brla.gov. Bids shall be submitted electronically via www. centralbidding.com or on the solicitation bid forms furnished by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge prior to the bidding deadline. Electronic bids for the solicitation will be down‐ loaded by the City of Baton Rouge and Parish of East Baton Rouge, Pur‐ chasing Division. Begin‐ ning as soon as feasible after the bid closing time all electronic bids will be downloaded and publicly read aloud along with all paper bids received, if any, in Room 806 immedi‐ ately after the 11:00 a.m. bid closing. Bidders or their authorized repre‐ sentatives are invited to be present. NOTE: The only vendor information shared at the bid open‐ ing will be the reading of the names of those ven‐ dors who submitted bids. Note: The City-Parish has l d h
PUBLIC NOTICE --"NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that IDEA Public Schools Louisiana, Inc. (“IPSL”), a Louisiana nonprofit corporation, is to be liquated under court supervision, pursuant to authorization of its mem‐ bers, duly given, and that Tonnisha Ellis, with the assistance of counsel at Schulman, Lopez, Hoffer & Adelstein, LLP who can be contacted at 1100 Poydras Street, Suite 2900, New Orleans, LA 70163, has been duly ap‐ pointed to serve as liq‐ uidator. All creditors of, all persons believing themselves to have valid claims against, and all persons having unful‐ filled contracts with said non-profit corporation are hereby called upon to present any claim they may have in writing and in detail to the liquidator at the above address on or before February 28, 2027.” 199421 Sept. 2, 9, 2026 2t $214.68 PUBLIC NOTICE In accordance with 24 CFR 91.115, of the Consol‐ idated Submission for Community Planning and Development Programs Final Rule, the State of Louisiana is making a substantial amendment to the FY 2026 Consoli‐ dated Plan Annual Action Plan for program year 2026 available to the pub‐ lic for review and com‐ ments through this no‐ tice. Public Hearing and Comment Period: The public hearing will be held in person and vir‐ tually on September 29, 2026 at 1:30 P.M. in the Board Room at the Louisiana Housing Cor‐ poration located at 2415 Quail Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70808. The link to at‐ tend the hearing virtually will be posted at https:// www.lhc.la.gov/publiccomments-and-notices. The Consolidated Plan Annual Action Plan amendment is available for a public review and comment period from September 29, 2026 to October 15, 2026. Citizens wishing to submit writ‐ ten comments during the public review and com‐ ment period may mail them, postmarked no later than October 15, 2026, to the following:
This substantial amend‐ ment concerns the ac‐ tual amount, the avail‐ ability of resources, in‐ tended uses and the dis‐ tribution of funds under the National Housing Trust Fund Program. Public notices regarding future substantial amendments to the Con‐ solidated Annual Action Plans will be printed in a l l f
IBERVILLE COUNCIL ON AGING ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 @ 1:00 PM
REGULAR MEETING SEPTEMBER 30, 2026 @ 1:30 PM 58105 COURT ST. PLAQUEMINE, LA 70764 (225) 687-9682
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***Membership deadline is September 16, 2026*** 199410-683542-Sept. 9-1t $ 48.51
The Consolidated Plan and associated Annual Action Plans describe the housing and community development needs, as well as activities to ad‐ dress those needs through the State’s for‐ mula grant and National Housing Trust Fund pro‐ grams, as defined and funded by HUD. As re‐ quired by HUD, the Con‐ solidated Plan brings to‐ gether in one (1) consoli‐ dated submission, the planning and the appli‐ cation aspects of the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), HOME Investment Part‐ nerships (HOME), Hous‐ ing Opportunity for Per‐ sons with Aids (HOPWA), Emergency Solutions Grant (ESG) and the Na‐ tional Housing Trust Fund programs. More informa‐ tion on the amendment to the Consolidated Ac‐ tion Plan is available on the State’s website at https://www.lhc.la.gov/ public-comments-andnotices. Non-English-speaking persons and persons with disabilities requir‐ ing special accommoda‐ tions should contact the Office of Community De‐ velopment at (225) 3427412, P.O. Box 94095, Baton Rouge, LA 708049095, or Heather.Paul@la. gov at least five working days prior to the hearing. 200059 Sept. 9, 2026 1t $65.35
LEGAL NOTICE BY ORDER OF THE COURT A court authorized this Notice. This is not a so‐ licitation from a lawyer. NOTICE OF DISMISSAL OF CLASS ALLEGATIONS If you were impacted by the August 25, 2023 leak of hazardous materials and subsequent fire oc‐ curring at the Marathon Petroleum Company, LP refinery located in Garyville,Louisiana and have not initiated an in‐ dividual claim, please take note of the follow‐ ing: 1. In accordance with Louisiana Civil Code arti‐ cle 3493, any claim for damages arising from the August 25, 2023 leak and/or fire was subject to a deadline or “pre‐ scriptive period” of one year following the fire. 2. A petition for damages which included class ac‐ tion allegations was filed in the matter captioned as Y. Johnson v. Marathon Petroleum Company, LP, Case No. 82355, in the 40th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. John the Baptist (“Y. Johnson Peti‐ tion”), on August 22, 2024. At the time the Y. Johnson Petition was filed, three (3) days re‐ mained of the one-year prescriptive period within which individual claims must be filed; 3. Pursuant to Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 596, the filing of the Y. Johnson Petition interrupted the prescrip‐ tive period for potential class members to assert claim as of August 22, 2024. Consequently, three (3) days remained of the prescriptive period. 4. The Court dismissed, at the request of the par‐ ties, the Y. Johnson Peti‐ tion on June 24, 2026 without prejudice. 5. Upon the notice of dis‐ missal of a class action petition such as the Y. Johnson Petition, an ad‐ ditional thirty (30) days is allowed for the filing of individual claims. Addi‐ tionally, the remaining three (3) days of the orig‐ inal prescriptive period are applicable. 6. As a result, any person who relied on the filing of class action allegations in Y. Johnson v. Marathon Petroleum Company, LP, Case No. 82355 and de‐ sires to preserve their in‐ dividual claim arising from the August 25, 2023 leak and/or fire must file their petition for dam‐ ages on or before Octo‐ ber 12, 2026, that date being thirty-three (33) days from the publica‐ tion of this notice.
LEGAL NOTICE BY ORDER OF THE COURT A court authorized this Notice. This is not a solicitation from a lawyer.
1. In accordance with Louisiana Civil Code arti‐ cle 3493, any claim for damages arising from the August 25, 2023 leak and/or fire was subject to a deadline or “pre‐ scriptive period” of one year following the fire. 2. A petition for damages which included class ac‐ tion allegations was filed in the matter captioned as Comeaux v. Marathon Petroleum Company, LP, Case No. 82362, in the 40th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. John the Baptist (“Comeaux Peti‐ tion”), on August 23, 2024. At the time the Comeaux Petition was filed, two (2) days re‐ mained of the one-year prescriptive period within which individual claims must be filed; 3. Pursuant to Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure article 596, the filing of the Comeaux Petition in‐ terrupted the prescrip‐ tive period for potential class members to assert claims, as of August 23, 2024. Consequently, two (2) days remained of the prescriptive period. 4. The Court dismissed, at the request of the par‐ ties, the Comeaux Peti‐ tion on August 21, 2026 without prejudice. 5. Upon the notice of dis‐ missal of a class action petition such as the Comeaux Petition, an additional thirty (30) days is allowed for the filing of individual claims. Additionally, the remaining two (2) days of the original prescrip‐ tive period are applica‐ ble.
PUBLIC NOTICE ---
PUBLIC NOTICE ---
If you were impacted by the August 25, 2023 leak of hazardous materials and subsequent fire oc‐ curring at the Marathon Petroleum Company, LP refinery located in Garyville, Louisiana and have not initiated an individual claim, please take note of the following:
6. As a result, any person who relied on the filing of class action allegations in Comeaux v. Marathon Petroleum Company, LP, Case No. 82362 and de‐ sires to preserve their in‐ dividual claim arising from the August 25, 2023 leak and/or fire must file their petition for dam‐ ages on or before Octo‐ ber 11, 2026, that date being thirty-two (32) days from the publica‐ tion of this notice.
p prox. 40,635 CY will be excavated with 12,027 CY placed onsite and the re‐ mainder hauled offsite. Approx. 4,695 CY of crushed stone and 2,650 CY of rock fill required. ************ CUP NUM‐ BER: P20260724 Name: Saucier, Keith 4050 IRISH BEND RD FRANKLIN, LA 70538 Attn: Keith Saucier Location: Saint Mary Parish, LA; Lat. 29-50-33N, Long 91-29-26W; 4050 Irish Bend Rd Franklin, 70538-3142 Description: Proposed installation of approx. 100 LF of bulk‐ head to prevent further shore erosion from boat traffic. Bulkhead will re‐ quire approx. 20 tie back piles and 50 CY of sand fill. Grass will be planted behind the bulkhead. 200034 Sept. 9, 2026 1t $30.35
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PUBLIC NOTICE --WBR NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: CONDEMNA‐ TION Pursuant to Parish Code Chapter 109-42 “Derelict Structures”, the follow‐ ing properties have been condemned by the Parish President. Address: 12429 SECTION RD. PORT ALLEN LA 70767 (File #26-0039) Owner: ORA LEE DAVIS Legal Description: LOT IN NE/4 SEC 24 T6S R10E MEAS 75' X 210' TAKEN FROM THE PROP OF M MATTHEWS JR 7C-6CB87 E159 A PUBLIC HEARING will be held by the West Baton Rouge PARISH COUNCIL to ratify the condemnation order. The owner of the structure may appeal the decision of the Parish President by appearing at this meeting of the PARISH COUNCIL to show cause why the structure should not be condemned. Date: Thursday, Septem‐ ber 10, 2026 Time: 5:30pm Public hearings will be held at the West Baton Rouge Parish Govern‐ mental Building, 880 N. Alexander, Port Allen, LA 70767. 195157-AUG 27-SEP 10 $228
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PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE the Louisiana De‐ partment of Conserva‐ tion and Energy, Office of Permitting and Compli‐ ance (OPC) has received the following applica‐ tion(s) for a Coastal Use Permit (CUP) in accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 49:214.21 et seq., and the rules of the Coastal Man‐ agement Program. Appli‐ cations for coastal use permits may be in‐ spected at 617 North 3rd Street, Room 1078, Baton Rouge, LA or on the OPC https:// webpage at: www.dce.louisiana.gov/ page/coastalmanagement-publicnotices. Copies are avail‐ able, costs apply. Written comments are solicited from the public and must be received within 25 days of the date of this notice. Comments must be uploaded directly to our electronic record through the OPC web‐ page or mailed to: OPC Administrator, Kyle Balkum, and P.O. Box 44487, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-4487. All comments must contain the appro‐ priate CUP number and full the commenter's name and contact infor‐ mation. Below are the referenced applica‐ tion(s): *************** CUP NUMBER: P20260723 Name: Lafourche Parish Government c/o GIS Engi‐ neering 197 ELYSIAN DR. HOUMA, LA 70363 Attn: Kodi Babin Location: Lafourche Parish, LA; Lat. 29-36-50.94N, Long -9026-56.5W; Description: Proposal to construct a new Consolidated Valen‐ tine drainage pump sta‐ tion with a 625 cfs capac‐ ity, which will consoli‐ date two existing drainage pump stations: the Old Valentine Pump Station and the new old Valentine pump station. The Consolidated Valen‐ tine pump station will allow the existing sta‐ tions to remain opera‐ tional during the con‐ struction, and therefore provide uninterrupted drainage for the areas served. Once the Consoli‐ dated Valentine pump station is operational, the existing stations will be decommissioned. Ap‐ ill b
WBR NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING: CONDEMNA‐ TION Pursuant to Parish Code Chapter 109-42 “Derelict Structures”, the follow‐ ing properties have been condemned by the Parish President. Address: 4153 MULATTO BEND RD. PORT ALLEN LA 70767 (File #26-0052) Owner: LILLIE L & LOUIS THOMPSON C/O JULIA TYLER Legal Description: LOT 25 TOURNOIR SD 50-17CB128 E6 A PUBLIC HEARING will be held by the West Rouge PARISH Baton COUNCIL to ratify the condemnation order. The owner of the structure may appeal the decision of the Parish President by appearing at this meeting of the PARISH COUNCIL to show cause why the structure should not be condemned. Date: Thursday, Septem‐ ber 10, 2026 Time: 5:30pm Public hearings will be held at the West Baton Rouge Parish Govern‐ mental Building, 880 N. Alexander, Port Allen, LA 70767. 195159-AUG 27-SEP 10 $223
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NOTICE OF DISMISSAL OF CLASS ALLEGATIONS
Comments may also be emailed to Michael Vice at mvice@lhc.la.gov no later than
Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids for just cause. In accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 38:2212(B)(1), the provi‐ sions and requirements of this Section; and those stated in the bidding documents shall not be waived by any entity.
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p local newspaper of gen‐ eral circulation and posted online on the Louisiana Housing Cor‐ poration website at https://www.lhc.la.gov/ public-comments-andnotices.
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Louisiana Housing Cor‐ poration Michael Vice, Policy Director 2415 Quail Drive Baton Rouge, LA 70808
The Available For Con‐ struction amount for this project is Four Hundred Twenty Thousand Dollars ($420,000.00)
STATE OF LOUISIANA LOUISIANA STADIUM AND EXPOSITION DISTRICT. ROBERT A. VOSBEIN, Jr., CHAIRMAN
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PUBLIC NOTICE REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS FOR SAFEKEEPING, AND CUSTODIAL SERVICES August 26, 2026 The Louisiana Asset Management Pool, Inc., a non-profit corporation which operates a short-term investment pool of over $7.2 billion comprised of funds from 976 Louisiana local political subdivisions (the Louisiana Asset Management Pool or LAMP), is seeking proposals from a qualified bank or banks for safekeeping and custodial services to be provided to LAMP for an appointment for up to 5 years. Parties interested in being considered to perform these services for the LAMP, may obtain copies of the Request for Proposal from: The Honorable John C. Fleming, MD Louisiana State Treasurer President, LAMP, Inc. c/o Ms. Krissy Orgeron Chief Administrative Officer Louisiana Asset Management Pool, Inc. 650 Poydras Street, Suite 2220 New Orleans, LA 70130 Phone:(504)525-5267 Fax:(504)525-5161 Email: korgeron@lamppool.com Responses to the RFP are due electronically at the above email address no later than Tuesday, October 13, 2026 at 10:30 a.m. CST. If needed the Corporation will announce finalists on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 those finalists will make oral presentations on Thursday, November 12, 2026 beginning at 4:30 p.m. at the Hotel Monteleone, 214 Royal Street, Vieux Carre Ballroom, New Orleans, Louisiana, 70130. However, if no finalists are announced on Wednesday, November 4, 2026 then the Corporation will select a provider on November 12, 2026 with no oral presentations conducted. 198486-680678-Aug. 26, Sept, 2, 9-3t $ 1,914.99
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