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FEMA OKs repair extension for Municipal Auditorium

Citizens seeks to offload policies Mississippi company to assume 4,764 commercial contracts BY SAM KARLIN and ALYSE PFEIL Staff writers

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People walk past Municipal Auditorium in Armstrong Park in New Orleans on Feb. 19. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has extended the deadline to complete repairs on the building to 2028, New Orleans officials said Monday.

Deadline for $38M project extended to 2028, according to officials BY JONI HESS Staff writer

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has thrown New Orleans a lifeline to complete repairs on the long-vacant Municipal Auditorium by extending the project’s deadline to 2028, city ofﬁcials said Monday. Mayor Helena Moreno in February said the city applied for an extension to renovate the shuttered building after reaching the end-of-2025 deadline to spend the money and be reimbursed. Without it, the city risked losing $38 mil-

lion in federal funding to repair and stabilize the site. “Without this extension, it would have been extremely difﬁcult to move this building toward a viable future,” Moreno said in a statement. FEMA stressed that no additional time would be allowed should the city fail to complete the approved scope of work before the Feb. 14, 2028, deadline. The city must also provide detailed quarterly progress reports to the agency. Tucked within Louis Armstrong Park in Treme, the Municipal Auditorium was once a popular setting for Mardi Gras

balls, concerts and graduations before it was forced to shutter because of heavy damage sustained after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. It’s been vacant since and has disintegrated further over the years from neglect and vandalism. FEMA awarded the city $38.5 million in 2018, after years of debate over how much the agency should pay for any repairs. The city plans to use the funds to repair mechanical, electrical and plumbing systems and to weatherproof the building’s exterior.

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EPA eliminates emissions rule for power plants Limits previously placed on planet-warming greenhouse gases

emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas and announced it is taking a separate but related step to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants. The rule change, first proBY MATTHEW DALY posed last year, represents a fundamental shift from efforts Associated Press by Democratic Presidents Joe WASHINGTON — The Environmen- Biden and Barack Obama to adtal Protection Agency said Mon- dress climate change and reguday it is repealing rules that limit late carbon dioxide and other planet-warming greenhouse gas greenhouse gases that trap the

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sun’s heat. Environmental groups decried the change, saying it would come at a cost to Americans’ health and further degrade the environment. Revoking the Biden-era power plant rule would save industry more than $300 billion in costs and help “unleash” American energy, the EPA said. The change will allow utilities to “make the best decision for the ratepayers based on cost and cost savings, instead of being required to shut

Louisiana’s insurer of last resort has approved a relatively small Mississippi company’s request to take over virtually all of its commercial policies, a move that Gov. Jeff Landry touted as progress in the state’s efforts to curtail skyrocketing property insurance rates. Louisiana Citi- Landry zens Property Insurance Corp., a nonproﬁt created by the state Legislature in 2003, has struggled to shed policies after a massive inﬂux driven by a spate of hurricanes in 2020 and 2021 that drove a dozen private insurers bankrupt.

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Trustee: Alleged abusers being protected

Archdiocese calls allegations ‘misrepresentation’ BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

down facilities,” EPA Assistant Administrator Aaron Szabo said. The power plant rule, to take effect soon after publication in the Federal Register, is expected to face immediate legal challenges. Environmental groups also are likely to challenge the separate rule proposed Monday that could prevent future administrations from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants.

The trustee overseeing the bankruptcy settlement between the Archdiocese of New Orleans and hundreds of clergy sex abuse survivors is questioning the local Roman Catholic Church’s commitment to provisions of the settlement aimed at ending decades of secrecy around child sexual abuse by clergy. In a 45-page court ﬁling on Monday, Don Massey, the independent

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4 hospitalized after Miami crane collapse

MIAMI — An 85-foot crane towering over a construction site in an upscale Miami neighborhood toppled onto a passing vehicle Monday morning, setting it on fire and injuring the driver and three construction workers, officials said. The collapse occurred shortly after 8 a.m. in the city’s Brickell neighborhood. Miami Fire Chief Robert Hevia said at a news conference Monday that he was thankful no one was killed in the crane collapse and car fire. “I’ve been on the fire department for 28 years; when you see the scene, it’s impressive,” Hevia said. “The fact that we had four victims, and they were all able to be extricated or self-extricate themselves with minor injuries is a remarkable day for them.” A woman driving on a street next to the construction site saw the crane begin to fall over, Hevia said. “To be able to see the crane falling, pull the car in reverse and pop out of the back while the car’s on fire, really incredible,” he said, adding that the crane also crushed two unoccupied parked cars but fell on a storage container with two construction workers inside. The two workers who had been trapped, along with the crane operator who managed to jump out as the crane was tipping over, were all transported to a nearby trauma center with minor injuries, Hevia said. The woman driving the car also had minor injuries and was taken to a different hospital. Officials haven’t identified the injured. Officials have not said what caused the crane, specifically a piling rig, to topple, and Hevia said the collapse is under investigation. A piling rig usually shares the same base as a traditional crane, but its upper part is designed to drive columns deep into the ground to support large structures.

South Africa road crash kills at least 21, injures 4 CAPE TOWN, South Africa — Two minibus taxis collided head-on, and an SUV crashed into them on one of South Africa’s main highways, killing at least 21 people and leaving four others seriously injured, authorities said Monday. The crash on Sunday night in the Western Cape Province took place between the small towns of Prince Albert and Leeu-Gamka, around 235 miles east of Cape Town, according to the Road Traffic Management Corporation, or RTMC, the national trafﬁc agency. The collision involved two Toyota minibus taxis and a Suzuki sport utility vehicle, police spokesperson Warrant Officer Christopher Spies said. Eighteen people were declared dead at the scene. Three others were declared dead after being taken to a hospital, bringing the toll to 21, Spies said. Four other people were seriously injured, the Western Cape Mobility Department. The death toll “may change as emergency services and authorities in the Western Cape continue their assessment of the scene,” RTMC said.

North Korea: Live-fire drill was demonstration SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said Monday it conducted a joint live-ﬁre drill involving missiles, artillery and drones that it claimed demonstrated “huge destructive power.” The test included ﬁring different types of weapons simultaneously, likely aiming at developing the ability to overwhelm South Korean and U.S. air defenses. Experts say North Korea is not slowing its testing activities even after U.S. President Donald Trump recently scaled back a military exercise with South Korea in an apparent effort to revive diplomacy with leader Kim Jong Un.

CORRECTION An article in Lagniappe on Thursday misspelled the last name of Julie Rougé, the granddaughter of the couple whose letters are featured in Mélange Dance Theatre’s production of “Love Letters of World War II.”

Decision could be revisited after midterms

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Associated Press

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Survivors from a passenger ferry overturned in bad weather in the Java Sea on Sunday are greeted by officials after disembarking a rescue ship in Banjarmasin, South Kalimantan, on Monday.

Indonesia intensifies search for missing

129 still unaccounted for in capsized ferry

BY IMAN SATRIA and NINIEK KARMINI Associated Press

BANJARMASIN, Indonesia — The search for survivors of a capsized ferry in Indonesia intensified Monday as 17 ships and aircraft from the military, police and other agencies were deployed to join the search for 129 missing after a ferry overturned in the Java Sea on Sunday. The bodies of six passengers and 108 were rescued Sunday by search teams, which increased to 655 personnel on Monday, National Search and Rescue Agency chief Mohammad Syafii said. Authorities deployed specialized underwater teams and underwater thermal drones operated by the navy to strengthen the search effort and speed up the evacuation of victims, he said. “We remain hopeful of finding more survivors,” Syafii said in a video briefing. The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying more than 240 people when

its captain issued a distress call on Sunday, saying the ship was listing in rough seas with waves of up to 10 feet while traveling from Surabaya in East Java province to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan province, on Borneo Island. Contact was lost with the ferry at about 2 a.m. Sunday and about two hours later authorities learned the vessel had overturned in the Java Sea’s Masalembo waters, about 92 miles from Banjarmasin. Videos released by the search and rescue agency after a helicopter search operation Sunday showed the overturned ferry ﬂoating in choppy waters. The manifest said the ship carried 243 people including 213 passengers and 30 crew members, although it is common in Indonesia for the number of passengers to differ from the manifest. The 390-foot ferry, which was built in Japan in 1987, also was transporting 89 vehicles. Authorities have not determined the cause of the accident. A survivor, Ahmad Saudi, said

the ferry appeared overcrowded, with many passengers forced to sleep in hallways and common areas because the cabins were full. Saudi, a bus driver traveling with a vehicle he was transporting, recalled how the ferry suddenly listed without warning, triggering panic among passengers as rough seas battered the vessel in the Java Sea. Passengers initially tried to hold on before scrambling to the higher side of the ship as it tilted further, he said, speculating the ferry’s balance may have been affected by trucks loaded on one side. “The women staying in the economy-class cabins likely didn’t survive because the ferry listed so quickly,” Saudi said. “There were no alarms or announcements warning passengers about what was happening, many people in the cabins may not have had enough time to get out.” Faisal, another survivor who goes by one name, said he and 14 other passengers clung to a section of the overturned ferry that remained above water after it capsized.

Bob Mackie dies at 87 Fashion designer to the stars defined ’70s glamour

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AP entertainment writer NEW YORK — Bob Mackie, the fashion designer whose visually provocative Hollywood style defined glamour for the 1970s — including putting Carol Burnett in some of her kookiest getups and Cher in her raciest ones — died Monday. He was 87. “He lived his 87 years to the fullest, fulfilling his dream of being a Fashion and Costume Designer, which is all he ever wanted to do,” read a statement on his social media accounts. Mackie died in Palm Springs, California, from pneumonia, his publicist said. Dubbed the “Designer to the Stars,” Mackie won nine Emmy Awards, a Tony Award and was nominated for three Oscars, including one for Barbra Streisand’s “Funny Lady,” in which she wore a sheer batwing gown. He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences’ Hall of Fame in 2002. He designed gowns for Madonna, Streisand, Sharon Stone, Diana Ross and Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and concert costumes for Pink. When Marilyn Monroe delivered a breathy, seductive take on “Happy Birthday” at a fundraiser for President John F. Kennedy and the Democratic National Committee, she did it in a sheer, beaded gown that Mackie dreamed up in a sketch. His influence can be seen in the styles of Kendall Jenner and Bella Hadid. His archival pieces are worn today by the likes of Anya Taylor-Joy, Miley Cyrus and Zendaya, the latter who wore a Mackie gown to honor Cher at the 2024 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. When Taylor Swift wanted to look like a showgirl on the cover of her 2025 album “The Life of a Showgirl,” she turned to some Mackie originals.

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s mail ballot restrictions for now, capping a ﬂurry of last-minute legal action with voting in the midterm elections already underway. The decision allows states to continue sending out mail ballots under the same processes they’ve used for years. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented from the brief order. Justice Brett Kavanaugh agreed that the restrictions should not go into effect for the midterms but indicated he might rule in favor of the Trump administration later. The Trump administration had asked the court, once again at the center of a roiling political controversy, to clear the way for restrictions before the pivotal November contests for control of Congress. The case has major implications because nearly one-third of the country votes by mail. Election officials have said there was simply no way to carry out a complete overhaul in the weeks before the midterms. Indeed, Alabama, North Carolina and Wisconsin began sending mail ballots to voters over the past week while the new system was still not active. The Trump administration plan would require states to adopt a uniform envelope style and submit lists of eligible voters to an online portal. The Postal Service could refuse to deliver ballots to states that didn’t comply. A whistleblower report, though, said the postal system’s requirements could lead to millions of mail ballots never being sent, because the portal wasn’t properly built and a single bar code error could result in an entire batch of ballots being tossed out. Democratic state ofﬁcials and voting rights groups challenged the restrictions in court, arguing that the president has no constitutional authority to set election rules that would “virtually eliminate mail voting on the eve of a major election.”

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Fashion and costume designer Bob Mackie poses in London in 2018 with two of his iconic designs: a scarlet red satin gown worn by Cher in 1975, right, and a marigold jersey jumpsuit worn by Cher between 1971 and 1976.

Sequins and embellishment were natural tools — other nicknames were the Sultan of Sequins, the Rajah of Rhinestones and the Guru of Glitter — but he had a simple motto: “You don’t try to change anybody, you just try to make them look better than ever,” he told The Associated Press in 2018. Tributes came from fellow designers and those lucky enough to wear his outﬁts. Actor Kristin Chenoweth called him a “legend” and designer Isaac Mizrahi wrote, simply, “heartbroken.” Actor Alyssa Milano called him “one of the best that ever was.” On Broadway, Mackie dressed the casts of “On the Town” in 1971 and “Moon Over Buffalo” in 1995. He also created costumes for Burnett in the revue “Putting It Together,” Debbie Reynolds in “Debbie” in 1976, Liza Minnelli in “Minnelli on Minnelli” in 1999 and, most recently, the cast of “The Cher Show,” winning his Tony Award.

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Saudi pipeline hit by drones will be out of service for weeks

Christy Spivey poses with a portrait of her late daughter Tasia Fortune on Sept. 8 in Marion, Ky.

Oil flow restricted further by attack

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BY SAMY MAGDY

Associated Press

CAIRO — A crucial Saudi oil pipeline that was struck in an attack will be mostly out of service for weeks as the damage is repaired, two regional officials said Monday, as Yemen’s Houthi rebels seized more islands along Red Sea shipping routes in a new blow to Saudi Arabia’s oil exports. Oil prices gained more than 2% amid growing worries about global petroleum supplies and the effect of the new developments on the ability of the world’s biggest exporter to get its crude to market. The Iran war has forced the kingdom to shift its exports away from the Persian Gulf, since Iranian attacks have stifled shipping through the gulf’s sole exit, the Strait of Hormuz. So the kingdom has relied on the East-West Pipeline, which runs 745 miles across the breadth of the country, to move its crude production from Gulf ports to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea. From there it can be put on tankers for export. But authorities were forced to shut down the pipeline after an attack Thursday that Saudi Arabia blamed on drones from Iranianbacked militias in Iraq. Repairing the damage, including at a major pumping facility, could take three to five weeks, the officials, who have been briefed on the matter, told The Associated Press. The pipeline may work partially during the repairs, one of the officials said, but they could not say how much oil might get through. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to brief the media. The pipeline has been moving a weekly average of 2.6 million to 4 million barrels per day since late August — a quantity that will be lost to the market if the pipeline’s flow stops completely, according to an analysis issued Monday by Rystad Energy, a Norway-based research firm. It said the jump in prices for Brent crude, which

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yemeni civilians celebrate while riding in the back of a pickup truck in the Bani Matar district, yemen, on Saturday as they follow a convoy carrying Houthi prisoners freed in Mokha on its way to Sanaa following the Houthi takeover of the southern Red Sea port city. reached $109, “is a clear signal that the market is increasingly pricing in a signiﬁcant loss of supply.” The Saudi oil company Aramco, which operates the pipeline, didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. The government-run Center for International Communication, which oversees foreign media in the kingdom, said it was looking into an AP inquiry about how long it will take to repair the pipeline.

Capture strengthens hold Meanwhile, Yemen’s Iranianbacked Houthi rebels continued to expand their threat to Saudi shipping routes out of the Red Sea by capturing the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish, government and Houthi ofﬁcials said Monday. The islands lie 100 miles north of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. The strait is a choke point that connects the Red Sea to the open ocean and Saudi Arabia’s key Asian markets. The Houthis’ advance also puts them just 20 miles from the U.S. military base in the tiny Horn of Africa nation of Djibouti, on the

Police haven’t given a suspected motive

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other side of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. For more than a month, the Houthis have been striking Saudi oil infrastructure and shipping in the Red Sea, stepping up pressure on global oil prices and boosting Iran’s leverage in its war with the United States. The Houthi advances have seemed to come with little resistance from Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces. The rebels deployed on the Hanish islands after hundreds of government-allied forces withdrew from the archipelago, according to two government officials and a Houthi official. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to journalists. Last week, the rebels seized the port city of Mokha and the island of Mayun, inside the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. Government forces are now attempting to rally and fight back. On Sunday, the military said it launched airstrikes on Houthi positions in Mokha, the coastal town of Dhubab and elsewhere in Taiz province.

JACKSON, Miss. — A man charged with murder in the hanging death of a Black woman in Mississippi pleaded not guilty Monday during his ﬁrst court appearance. The body of Tasia Fortune, 29, was found hanging from a tree behind an abandoned home in Jackson, the state capital, on Aug. 3. On Friday, police arrested 51-year-old Jarques Ratliff on a murder charge after the state medical examiner deemed her death a homicide. Ratliff is also Black. During Monday’s brief hearing in Municipal Court, a judge denied bond for Ratliff, who told the court he’s not guilty. Ratliff’s attorney at the hearing left the courthouse without speaking to reporters. The case has attracted widespread attention because the manner of Fortune’s death recalled lynchings in the Southern state, which has a tumultuous civil rights history stained by episodes of racial violence. Police and prosecutors haven’t given a suspected motive or said whether they think race played any role. Police Chief RaShall Brackney

said Friday that Ratliff, 51, had an “association” with Fortune, but she didn’t elaborate. The chief also said additional arrests are expected. Prosecutors on Monday offered few new details in court, though they said Fortune had been hanged with a “black cable cord” and that Ratliff had tried to hide from officers in a vehicle the day of his arrest. Brackney and other police officials who attended Ratliff’s hearing Monday declined to comment afterward. A Kentucky native, Fortune had a Black father and a white mother, though she identified as Black, said Christy Spivey, the dead woman’s mother. Fortune had been living in Jackson for about 10 years, according to relatives. Fortune had four children, Spivey said, adding she rarely saw two of her grandchildren. Spivey wasn’t sure where Fortune was living when she died, but she said her daughter had struggled with homelessness in recent years. She said Fortune had talked recently about starting a cleaning business and was trying to get her life in order. Two other Mississippi hanging deaths over the past year — those of a Black student at Delta State University and a homeless White man in Vicksburg — also drew widespread attention. Both of those deaths were deemed to be suicides.

Texas landowners ask a court to stop Trump’s Big Bend wall plans BY REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press

MARFA, Texas — Landowners, ranchers and business owners in the Big Bend region of Texas along with a nonproﬁt organization dedicated to protecting the region’s landscape and heritage are suing to stop the Trump administration’s plans to build a wall and other border infrastructure through the remote section of the state. The lawsuit, ﬁled by Conserve Big Bend and six landowners and with the support of dozens more people along the border, comes as the administration is ramping up a $46 billion effort to line the roughly 2,000-mile southern border with a collection of 30-foot steel bollard walls, vehicle barriers, and technology intended to keep out

smugglers and migrants. In Texas, the effort has run up against numerous lawsuits and bipartisan opposition from sheriffs, elected ofﬁcials, tour guides, environmental groups and landowners. Officials backing the wall “were woefully unprepared for the hornet’s nest they stirred up because they had no idea how much we love this place,” said David Keller, an archaeologist and historian who specializes in the Big Bend and lives in the region. “For us, the Big Bend is not an empty place on the map,” he said at a press conference announcing the suit. “It is our home.” As part of its wall-building efforts, the administration has waived numerous regulations and statutes designed to protect the environment,

archaeology or wildlife, on the basis that there’s an urgent need to protect the border in what Homeland Security has called areas of “high illegal entry.” But in the lawsuit announced Monday, the plaintiffs argue that when it comes to the Big Bend region, that’s not an accurate description. They’ve cited historical statistics issued by Customs and Border Protection showing how few people cross the border in Big Bend compared with other areas along the U.S.-Mexico border. Big Bend has about 500 miles of border — roughly one quarter of the total length of the border with Mexico from the Paciﬁc Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. But the region only accounted for about 1% of arrests, according to the lawsuit’s stats.

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Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., speaks to reporters at the U.S. Capitol on Monday in Washington.

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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky, returned to the Senate to vote on Monday for the ﬁrst time in three months, looking noticeably more frail after he was hospitalized for a June fall in his home. McConnell’s lengthy absence from the Senate generated a flood of criticism and online speculation, as he initially remained quiet for weeks about his condition. The 84-year-old senator eventually disclosed a month later that he had been “brieﬂy unconscious” due to the fall and had also been treated for mild pneumonia in the hospital. He briefly addressed reporters Monday from a wheelchair outside the Senate chamber, smiling but speaking slowly and with some difficulty. McConnell joked that he wasn’t sure

AP PHOTO By ALLISON ROBBERT how many reporters would be there after dodging so many questions during his almost two decades as leader. He said he was back in the Senate to work on a pending farm bill and because he has an ongoing interest in NATO and “backing up our good friends who are totally in the ﬁght against the Russians.” Reporters and photographers were told by Senate staff not to take video of his remarks in the second-ﬂoor hallway, even though video is often permitted in that area.

Still images were allowed. McConnell, who holds the distinction of being the longest-serving Senate leader, is in his final months of his four decades in office. He is retiring at the end of January after one of the most consequential careers in modern politics. Republicans have nominated U.S. Rep. Andy Barr to replace him, while Democrats have nominated former state lawmaker Charles Booker. McConnell has said he is determined to finish out his term.

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State weighs tax-free bond approval for mill Groups push back on Hyundai development amid air quality concerns

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Staff writer

Louisiana officials are weighing whether to approve up to $900 million in tax-free bonds for a Hyundai steel mill planned for western Ascension Parish, drawing opposition from some residents and activists who question the substantial subsidies being granted to the project. Approval would not mean the state would be on the hook for the debt, state officials say, but would grant Hyundai the ability to access lower interest rates due to the bonds’ taxfree status. Gov. Jeff Landry attended a ceremonial groundbreaking for the $5.8 billion project earlier this month, though the state is still considering its air permit. Landry has held up the steel mill as a key plank in his economic development strategy, but the project has come with major economic development incentives that were negotiated with the help of nondisclosure agreements. Both of those issues have drawn scrutiny and criticism from some residents and advocacy groups. Three days before the State Bond Commission is set to vote on the deal, residents told officials that the public needed more time to understand the implications of the additional state benefits for a project that has already drawn $2.6 billion in incentives from Louisiana taxpayers and Entergy. Anne Rolfes, director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, told officials with the Louisiana Public Facilities Authority in Baton Rouge that she and others found out about the planned bond issuance only 11 days earlier, when a notice popped up on a government website. “This whole process of funding Hyundai has been piecemeal and has been hidden,” she said during a public hearing. The groups and residents are opposed to the steel mill and several other heavy industry projects proposed inside parish government’s

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Gov. Jeff Landry, fourth from right, shakes hands with Euisun Chung, Hyundai Motor Group executive chair, after leaders from Louisiana, Korea and Hyundai shoveled dirt during the Hyundai-Posco Louisiana Steel groundbreaking ceremony in Ascension Parish on Sept. 4. Baton Rouge region. Hyundai and a local community college are setting up technical training programs to help local residents get jobs. Rural Roots, Bucket Brigade and others have been filing records requests and suing local governments for access to records related to the project and nondisclosure agreements with state and local officials. The $2.6 billion package from local and state governments and Entergy already offered to Hyundai is one of Louisiana’s largest incentive deals. The package was developed in secret with the use of nondisclosure agreements to keep its extent under wraps until the project became public, according to emails and other records obtained by The Times-Picayune | The Advocate. Under that earlier package, the company is expected to receive a Incentives worth $2.6 billion significant break on sales and propState officials say the Hyundai- erty taxes, direct cash payments Posco Louisiana Steel mill would from the state, free land and infracreate more than 1,300 direct jobs structure, and a $300 million electric and about 4,100 in indirect jobs bill break from Entergy Louisiana. from spinoff employment in the The $900 million bond issue from

17,000-acre RiverPlex MegaPark north of Donaldsonville. Their concerns center around worry about the combined air emissions in what they describe as an already overburdened area, their skepticism that jobs would filter down to the most affected fence-line communities, and the impact that the projects will have on a rural corner of the Mississippi River corridor. Ashley Gaignard, president of the group Rural Roots Louisiana, said the park is targeted for a dozen projects and local governments will pay or finance hundreds of millions of dollars for an access road, rail infrastructure and river dock along with the additional benefits for Hyundai. “I think we’ve committed enough to the MegaPark project already,” she said.

the facilities authority comes in addition to that package and would represent one of the authority’s largest issuances if Hyundai seeks the full amount. In existence for more than 50 years, the authority has issued bonds for public charter schools, sewage treatment plants and other public infrastructure, but also for economic development. The authority’s largest debt issuance happened in 2024 for the Interstate 10 Calcasieu River bridge replacement. The $1.33 billion bond issue was backed by bridge tolls and private capital. Before the hearing Monday, the authority had already given the $900 million debt preliminary backing in January and two more times in July and September as amendments were made, authority ofﬁcials said. Spokespeople for Hyundai and Louisiana Economic Development didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.

million in loans is the primary benefit the state is offering through what’s known as exempt facilities revenue bonds. It means Hyundai could win a lower interest rate on the debt when the company tries to attract buyers of its bonds in the marketplace. The exemption is tied to Hyundai’s anticipated use of recycled steel for its production methods. Martin Walke, vice president of the authority, confirmed that a 1% interest rate reduction could be expected for a tax-exempt bond versus standard commercial financing. Such a reduction could mean about $200 million to $300 million in savings for Hyundai over the life of a 30-year to 40year loan, though the amount will vary depending on how the debt is structured. The bond commission, which meets 9 a.m. Thursday at the State Capitol, is being asked for authorization of up to 40 years in debt. The federal tax code, however, appears to prevent a full $900 million loan in one year because the amount the state can issue in any single year is capped. This year it’s around $635 million for the entire state, not just the authority. The state cap is based on the state’s population and annual inflation rates, according to the tax code. Walke said it is up to Landry to decide how much of the annual debt cap, which also applies to other public projects, can be used for Hyundai. The debt could be spread out over several bond issuances across different years. A spokesperson for Landry didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. In the public hearing Monday, Walke said the debt is Hyundai’s to pay, not the taxpayers. When asked later, he added that neither the state nor the authority would face any requirement to cover the bond payments if Hyundai were to default. Even with the bond commission’s approval, the issue has to come back to the facilities authority for final approval. Walke said that date is to be determined.

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yesterday,” McEwen said. Call for independence was In the late 1990s, the U.K. passed threatens breakup of legislative acts that decentralized government through the process United Kingdom of devolution, giving each coun-

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NEW YORK — A last-ditch Trump administration effort to hunt for noncitizen voters ahead of November’s elections is requiring federal employees to misrepresent themselves on voter lookup tools in a way that likely violates state laws, according to a federal whistleblower’s statement released Monday. The Department of Homeland Security probe known as the “Unlawful Voter Initiative” also asks employees to create federal law enforcement records about voters based on unreliable data, the account warns. That could potentially wrongly implicate U.S. citizens in official documentation that could spur further investigation. The anonymous, nearly 30-page disclosure was published Monday by Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York and Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla of California, the ranking member of a Senate committee overseeing federal elections. It features screenshots and transcripts of a DHS training for a group of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services staffers, whom it says were forced in late August to drop their other work, complete a less than two-hour training and begin running DHS-provided lists of individuals through state voter registration systems to find “unlawful voters.” The whistleblower contends that agents have been asked to review 40 individuals per day, giving them about 12 minutes to determine whether each person is a legal voter and create federal records of anyone who is not. Padilla and Schumer said Monday the initiative was an example of President Donald Trump attempting to interfere in elections and that the short timelines would impede officials from conducting proper investigations. They noted

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Voters cast their ballots during the primary election in Windsor, Conn., in August. A federal whistleblower’s statement alleges a Department of Homeland Security probe likely violates state laws. that the data DHS has on voters can be unreliable and differ from state records, making any federal findings based on that data potentially problematic. “We just got more proof of Trump’s vile schemes to rig our elections,” Schumer told reporters in a news conference. “The lengths Trump will go to cheat, lie and steal in this upcoming election are simply beyond the pale.” The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Trump administration has been targeting noncitizen voting to allege it could be a source of significant fraud during the midterm elections, even as research shows voting by people who are not citizens is extremely rare. Trump has been pushing for the U.S. Postal Service to send mail ballots only to voters verified as U.S. citizens, and his Justice Department has sued to force the release of detailed voter data in 30 states and the District of Columbia, though it has not yet succeeded in those cases. The whistleblower report details an effort by the federal government to work around a lack of data from the states by directing Citizenship and Immigration Services employees to pose as individual voters to

access their state voter records. Some states, such as Virginia, explicitly limit their voter lookup tools to individuals who attest under penalty of law that they are looking up their own records. In other states, like California, personally identiﬁable information such as a driver’s license number or partial Social Security number is needed to look up individual voter records. The whistleblower said that when officers raised concerns about liability for searching the tools against state guidance, agency leaders told them to proceed with the searches anyway. Schumer and Padilla on Sunday sent a letter to DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin requesting more information about the initiative and demanding that it be stopped. DHS didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment. But earlier this month, when an immigrant rights group sued the administration to block the agency from using federal databases that it alleged were being used to target naturalized citizens, a DHS spokesperson told The Associated Press it is “laser focused on prosecuting and removing aliens who vote and preventing the dilution of the votes of U.S. citizens.”

LONDON — The leaders of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland signed a pact Monday that threatens to lead to the breakup of the United Kingdom. The first ministers of the three semiautonomous regions of the U.K. told Prime Minister Andy Burnham and his government to prepare for constitutional change and that their future lies with the European Union. “For people watching across these islands — for people watching around the world — there could be no clearer sign that Westminster’s time is coming to an end,” they said in a memorandum of understanding, referring to Parliament. The announcement came about 48 hours after U.S. President Donald Trump waded into the waters of the politically contentious issue when he said he would “love to see” a reunified Ireland during a trip to visit his golf course hosting the Irish Open. It’s the first time the leaders of all three countries are either from pro-independence parties, or prounification in the case of Northern Ireland, which was partitioned and remained part of the U.K. when Ireland won independence from Britain over a century ago. Burnham’s spokesperson brushed aside the threat and said the prime minister strongly believes in the union and was more focused on lowering the cost of living than dealing with constitutional debates. “The United Kingdom is at its best when people come together around our shared values and problem-solving, rather than division,” Tom Wells said. Nicola McEwen, director of the University of Glasgow Center for Public Policy, said the summit was symbolically important but has no legal significance. “I don’t see the threat to the union being bigger today than it

try except England some level of policy independence and selfgovernance through their own parliaments. But tensions have remained with the U.K.-wide government in London, which retained control over national issues and those concerning England. Scotland’s John Swinney and Northern Ireland’s Michelle O’Neill called for independence referendums in their countries, while Rhun ap Iorwerth did not provide a timetable for one in Wales. The three leaders appeared in their political capacity, rather than their official one, possibly because O’Neill is in a powersharing government with the Democratic Unionist Party. Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly, of the DUP, accused O’Neill, of the Sinn Fein party, of “weaponizing” the role of first minister by signing the agreement. “I am first minister in the north of Ireland,” O’Neill replied. “This is about historic change happening all around us.” Scotland tried unsuccessfully to break away in 2014, with voters rejecting a referendum 55% to 45%. But McEwen said support for Scottish independence has grown since Brexit, in which the U.K. formally left the European Union in January 2020, following a referendum in June 2016. Swinney, leader of the Scottish National Party, said he believed voters would now vote for independence if the U.K. government approved a referendum. Burnham told Parliament last week he would allow such a vote to be held if there was a “clear consensus” in Scotland, but later sent Swinney a letter saying a vote was “off limits.” The 1998 Good Friday peace accord that ended three decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland known as “The Troubles,” requires a vote on unification if polls there indicate it would likely pass, a threshold the U.K. government says has not been met.

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Continued from page 1A The proposal, expected to be made ﬁnal next year, follows on EPA’s action earlier this year revoking a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and ﬁght climate change. The February action eliminated all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks. The new plan would apply similar logic to a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as power plants. The announcements came as EPA chief Lee Zeldin, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris W r i g h t host a G20 ministerial meeting on Zeldin “energy abundance” in Houston. The announcement of the rule, coming on the same day, is both a nod to the important role oil-rich Texas plays in the energy industry and a potential snub of European and other international allies in attendance who have pursued environmentally friendly policies that the Trump administration has moved to undo. Republican President Donald Trump called climate change “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world” at a speech to the United Nations last year, and his administration withdrew the U.S. — for the second time — from the 2015 Paris climate accord that sets voluntary goals to curb planetwarming emissions. Trump has boasted of U.S. energy abundance even as the Iran war continues to disrupt global fuel markets and gas prices top $4.31 a gallon, up more than a dollar from a year ago. The rollbacks are meant to fulfill Trump’s repeated pledge to “ unleash American energy ” and make it easier for utilities to supply electricity for homes and businesses. Former Vice President Al Gore said the EPA’s action moves the United States “in the exact opposite direction

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A FEMA representative said on Monday that the extension was granted based on “extenuating circumstances” the city presented that delayed the work. In their request, the city pointed to COVID-19 and a 2019 cyber attack that crippled the city’s computer networks as circumstances beyond its control. Past redevelopment proposals that required coordination between City Hall, community groups and historic preservation agencies have also stalled the project. “Given the building’s historic nature and the heavy

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The Environmental Protection Agency said Monday it is repealing rules that limit planetwarming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas. of the rest of the world. With ongoing disruption in global energy markets, the clear answer to rising costs and energy security is clean energy.” Even as the Trump administration “is dragging the U.S. backwards,” the transition to clean energy “will continue to take hold … both in the U.S. and globally,” Gore said Monday in a email to The Associated Press. “That’s because clean energy is cheaper, creates more jobs and bolsters energy security.” The power plant rule is among nearly three dozen environmental regulations that Zeldin targeted in early 2025 when he announced what he called the “most consequential day of deregulation in American history.” Zeldin said Monday that the Trump administration “has come in to protect American energy and to make sure you can afford to keep the lights on.” Environmental and public health groups called the new rollbacks dangerous and vowed to challenge the rules in court. “Tearing down our national protections against climate pollution from power plants will have enormous costs for the health, safety and well-being of families across the country,” said Vickie Patton, general counsel for the Environmental Defense Fund. “Americans everywhere are already suffering from record-breaking heat, more dangerous ﬂoods and storms, and skyrocket-

ing insurance costs.” The EPA has a legal responsibility to protect the public from harmful pollution, Patton said, adding that “clean, affordable and reliable technologies are widely available to power our homes and businesses.” Coal, gas and oil-ﬁred power plants are responsible for about one-quarter of the nation’s total climate pollution, second only to the transportation sector. Pollution from power plants is one of the largest sources of climate-changing pollution in the world. The rules targeted by Trump’s EPA could prevent an estimated 30,000 deaths and save $275 billion each year they are in effect, according to an Associated Press examination last year that included the agency’s own prior assessments and a wide range of other research. Even a partial dismantling of the rules would mean more pollutants such as smog, mercury and lead — and especially more tiny airborne particles that can lodge in lungs and cause health problems, the AP analysis found. It would also mean higher emissions of greenhouse gases, driving Earth’s warming to deadlier levels. Biden, a Democrat, had made fighting climate change a hallmark of his presidency. Coal-ﬁred power plants would have been forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a strict EPA rule issued in 2024. Those rules

community involvement in what’s going to take place with the building … a lot of that contributed to the delay,” FEMA Public Assistance Lead Eddie Williams said. Former Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration had proposed relocating City Hall there, but the move was abandoned after pushback from the City Council and Treme community leaders who wanted any redevelopment to honor the site’s historical signiﬁcance. City leaders tapped the nonproﬁt Save Our Soul Coalition in 2024 to spearhead plans for the site and redevelop it into a cultural center that could include a museum, community gathering

spaces and a marketplace, among other uses. The coalition formed to protect Congo Square and the cultural signiﬁcance of Treme. Congo Square, which sits inside Louis Armstrong Park, formerly served as a gathering space for Native Americans, enslaved people and free people of color. “The Municipal Auditorium is a historic cornerstone of the Treme neighborhood, and protecting this $38 million ensures we do not lose a generational opportunity to restore it,” said council member Freddie King III, who represents Treme, Algiers and other historic neighborhoods.

are now being upended. In its proposal last year, the Trump EPA argued that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases from fossil fuel-fired power plants “do not contribute significantly to dangerous pollution” or climate change and therefore do not meet a threshold under the Clean Air Act for regulatory action. Greenhouse gas emissions from coal and gasfired plants “are a small and decreasing part of global emissions, the EPA said. Zeldin, a Republican and former New York congressman, said Biden-era actions were designed to “suffocate our economy in order to protect the environment,” with the intent to regulate the coal industry “out of existence” and make it “disappear.” The coal industry and groups representing coalfired power plants have denounced the Biden rule as “overreach” by the EPA and urged its repeal. Lifting the rule “will protect grid reliability and shield electricity consumers from higher costs at a time of surging demand from data centers, artificial intelligence and advanced manufacturing,” said Michelle Bloodworth, CEO of America’s Power, a trade organization for the U.S. coal fleet.

MIAMI — Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas,” a practice that “does not meet standards for humane treatment,” according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General released on Monday. Between July 17, 2025, and Jan. 18, 2026, the report said, 79 detainees were conﬁned in small metal enclosures of about 18 square feet of ﬂoor space each, for periods ranging from several minutes to nearly two hours. Photographs included in the report show a cage that looks only slightly larger than a telephone booth sitting on what is either grass or turf and surrounded by chainlink fencing topped with concertina wire. “The use of such restrictive spaces is highly unconventional,” the report stated. It noted that facility staff described the metal enclosures as “‘calming areas’ for detainees to de-escalate and have time alone.” It didn’t specify where the boxes were located or exactly the instances in which they were used but documents provided by staff at the facility said one detainee spent 26 minutes in one for failing to “comply with a lawful order.” The report said that in at least one instance, the metal enclosure may have been used as a disciplinary tool. A policy posted on the enclosures said the purpose of the holding cell space was to

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A small metal enclosure used to house detainees is seen on Jan. 21 at the ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades in Collier County, Fla. provide a “safe and secure place in general population for detainees to reﬂect on their behavior choices, manage their emotions, reduce stress, and practice self-directed behavior,” according to the document attached to the report. The revelation was part of a broader report from the inspector general that detailed other conditions it described as inhumane. The detention center was opened July 3, 2025, and closed on June 25. It quickly drew attention from immigration advocates who criticized the conditions. Detainees lacked adequate living space, access to showers, legal information and clean water, the report said, calling it a violation of federal and state detention standards. The report was prepared following an unannounced visit to the South Florida Detention Facility on Jan. 21.

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The cargo airline that flew the plane that ran off the end of a Miami runway over Labor Day weekend and killed five people lost one of its biggest customers when Amazon suspended its partnership with 21 Air, and it’s not yet clear if the company will lose more business while the crash is being investigated. The Boeing 767, loaded with packages of contact lenses, came in fast on Sept. 6, and then barreled roughly 1,300 feet past the end of the runway and smashed into a van carrying workers at a plane cleaning company. All five people who died were in the van. Five others were hurt. “After the tragic incident last weekend, we’ve spent time supporting the investigation and reviewing some of the surrounding circumstances, and we’ve decided to pause our operations with 21 Air, the operator of Flight 7598,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said in a statement. “We’ll continue working to support the investigation and everyone affected.” The National Transportation Safety Board will examine everything that might have contributed to the crash to determine what caused it. That will include the actions of the pilots and air traffic controllers as well as the jet’s maintenance history, the airline’s practices and the stormy weather at the time of the crash. The North Carolina carrier had flown packages for Amazon since 2024. The company also flies packages for DHL. Data from aviation analytics firm Cirium show that 21 Air leases its 18 airplanes, which include 13 Boeing 767s and five 757s. At least six of those planes are leased from Amazon affiliates and at least three from DHL.

Costco raises price for Kirkland motor oil Costco has raised the price of motor oil sold under its exclusive private-label brand as well as limited how much of it customers can buy weekly as oil prices climb yet again. Americans looking to try to save some money by purchasing motor oil to do their own oil changes may consider this yet another blow to their wallets, as they are already contending with high grocery prices and inﬂation worries. Costco’s Kirkland Signature full-synthetic motor oil 5-quart two-pack now costs around $58, well above the approximately $30 it had been selling for just last year. Costco is also only allowing customers to purchase two boxes a week. The wholesale club operator is also limiting purchases of Mobil 1’s full-synthetic motor oil 1-quart six pack, which sells for about $44, to ﬁve per membership.

Africa’s biggest oil refinery opens LAGOS, Nigeria — Nigerian industrialist Aliko Dangote opened his refinery to public ownership Monday with plans to raise $1.6 billion from retail investors across the continent in Africa’s biggest initial public offering, or IPO. Dangote, Africa’s richest man, dubbed the IPO one “for the people” and said he wants everyone to be able to own a share. Retail investors can buy a 10-share bundle in the sprawling Lagos-based refinery for $4, the minimum investment. Dangote retains 87% ownership of the refinery, Africa’s largest. The refinery’s scale and potential returns, especially at a time when global oil prices have risen following the U.S.Iran war, have generated excitement among retail investors. “We are all going to fully share all our prosperity with the people and that is why we call it the people’s IPO,” Dangote said at Monday’s launch at the Nigerian Exchange Group in Lagos, flanked by the refinery’s officials and associates.

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AI stocks drop, rest of Wall Street holds BY STAN CHOE

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NEW YORK — Artiﬁcial-intelligence stocks slid worldwide Monday after leaders of the industry warned a slowdown is needed for the safety of humanity. Another jump in oil prices, meanwhile, brieﬂy sent the yield of the 10-year Treasury to 5% for the bond market ’s latest pressure-raising milestone. Despite all the downers for Wall Street, gains for many stocks outside AI helped limit the market’s losses. So did a midday tempering of oil prices, and the S&P 500 fell a relatively modest 0.5%. More stocks rose within the index than fell.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 152 points, or 0.3%, and the Nasdaq composite sank 0.6% after clawing back most of an early loss of 1.3%. AI stocks have been under pressure a while because of worries their prices shot too high in the frenzy around the technology. The concerns jumped to another level over the weekend after one of the industry’s leading voices, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, called for a deliberate and global slowdown in the development of AI. Nvidia, whose profits have soared because its chips are helping to train AI models, sank 3.4% and was the heaviest weight on the market because of its massive

size. SpaceX, which gets a chunk of its business from AI, fell 2% after Elon Musk said over the weekend that he agrees with Amodei. Softbank Group, the Japanese giant that is a major investor of OpenAI, lost 10.7% in Tokyo after OpenAI’s Sam Altman likewise supported the concept of a slowdown. Altman also said in an interview with Fortune published Saturday that the company behind ChatGPT would likely wait until next year for a sale of its stock on Wall Street. That would delay a potential gusher of cash for Softbank and other early investors in OpenAI. In South Korea, the Kospi index

dropped 3.3% due to losses for its two most inﬂuential stocks, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. President Donald Trump played down the need for his administration to check the development of AI, saying he worried about ceding his country’s edge over China in a global competition and that winning would help address the risks from the advancing technology. Even with many voices inside and outside the AI industry calling for a slowdown to protect humanity, Trump said on his social media network Monday that the only guardrail it needs “is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades!”

China bristles at ‘fearmongering’ about country’s AI development Anthropic CEO calls for global slowdown BY E. EDUARDO CASTILLO and CHAN HO-HIM Associated Press

BEIJING — China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday bristled at the Anthropic CEO’s call for the U.S. to curb China’s artiﬁcial intelligence capabilities as part of a wider argument for a global slowdown on AI development. In a lengthy essay published Saturday, Dario Amodei warned that a “Chinese lead in AI would pose grave danger for the United States and the world.” To enable the U.S. to keep its technological edge, Amodei called for maintaining restrictions on sales to China of the most advanced AI chips and chipmaking equipment. A spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Amodei’s dire warnings about China were counterproductive and that all parASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO ties should work together on AI. “Fearmongering, confrontation and vicious A worker passes by robots from Chinese company Lens at the China International Supply Chain competition will only disrupt the process of Expo in Beijing on June 22. global AI governance — which serves no one’s interest,” spokesperson Guo Jiakun said at cooperation with China, the autocratic country Both China and the U.S. want “to make sure a news conference in response to a question with by far the most advanced AI capabilities.” the other side cannot establish a tech chokeXi has called for the setting up of point over them,” said Lizzi C. Lee, a fellow at about Amodei’s essay. a global AI governance framework the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for For their part, Chinese leaders have among the Global South, while pitch- China Analysis. also sounded the alarm about AI, warn“So from Beijing’s perspective, there is an ing of the risks posed by foreign entiing China as a pioneer in establishing obvious question: if the U.S. wants China to coan open-source AI community. ties with advanced capabilities. A top In an editorial published Sunday, operate on frontier safety while also restrictsecurity ofﬁcial in China’s government China’s state-run Global Times news- ing its access to frontier compute, what exactly published an essay on Sunday in which he accused “certain nations” — a refpaper dismissed Amodei’s essay as a does that cooperation look like?” Lee said. veiled call to “contain” China. erence to the U.S. — of leveraging AI It said that Amodei’s essay may ap- AI in the hands of ‘hostile forces’ advantages to hinder other countries’ Amodei innovation. pear on the surface to be focused on In an essay posted Sunday on social media, On Monday, President Donald Trump pushed global AI security, but, that it is “packed with Chen Yixin, head of China’s Ministry of State back against calls for his administration to step containment provisions targeting China and Security, warned that, in the hands of “hostile in to slow down AI development, saying such is, in essence, a ‘Cold War playbook’ for the AI forces and individuals with ulterior motives,” efforts were part of a “SICK conspiracy” which sector.” this technology could pose a direct threat to could allow China to eclipse the U.S. on AI. Amodei’s essay was published a few days “our political, institutional, and ideological seafter the FBI, National Security Agency and curity.” Trump, Xi could discuss AI governance Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Citing the capabilities of powerful technoloTrump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping are ex- Agency issued a joint cybersecurity advisory gies from U.S. companies like Anthropic and OpenAI, Chen warned that “certain nations pected to discuss AI governance, among other last week. That advisory said Chinese AI developers and organizations” now have the capabilities topics, at a meeting planned on Sept. 24. Chinese companies have developed powerful had engaged in “aggressive, malicious” efforts to “rapidly discover vulnerabilities at scale AI models that are often cheaper to use than in extracting, or “distilling,” capabilities from ... and execute complex hacking tasks.” That, advanced models from U.S.-based companies; some of the most advanced AI models in the he wrote, poses “serious risks to my country’s U.S. like Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s GPT. critical information infrastructure.” by some measures, they are just as capable. China’s Commerce Ministry dismissed the Foreign spying agencies are turning to AI to Among the concerns outlined in his essay, Amodei predicted that a swarm of AI “agents” U.S. claims as groundless and said “distilla- “aggressively harvest sensitive data, includcould be able to take over the internet in six tion” has been commonly used by many AI ing critical national data, trade secrets, and to 12 months unless researchers agree to slow companies. It also said that the U.S. was pursu- citizens’ personal privacy information,” Chen down. He said that “global pacing will require ing a “monopoly of the AI industry.” wrote.

European leaders meet as Arctic thaw opens shipping routes Russian buildup stokes security fears By The Associated Press ROVANIEMI, Finland — European leaders joined forces Monday to highlight growing competition in the Arctic, where global warming is opening new shipping routes, governments are vying for vast natural resources and a Russian military buildup is heightening security concerns. The leaders, mostly from Nordic and Baltic countries, put a spotlight on environmental challenges, economic opportunities and military vulnerabilities at a time of doubts about whether the United States, through NATO, will remain a bulwark against Russia. “This region has become a geopolitical hotspot,” German Chan-

cellor Friedrich Merz told a joint news conference, insisting a new EU focus should complement NATO’s work. “Russia is building up its military capabilities here, and Russia uses its presence for hybrid activities every day.” Merz Merz said his presence — Germany is not an Arctic country — testiﬁed to the importance of the region to overall European security and suggested years of relative neglect should end. “Let me put it this way: High north — and low attention — is over,” he said. Prime Minister Petteri Orpo of Finland, which hosted the meeting in the capital of Lapland that’s home to a Santa Claus village, noted “high demand for concrete EU

action in the Arctic” and a changing security environment. “The Arctic has emerged as the central arena of great power competition,” he said. The two-day gathering that began Sunday comes on the heels of a Norwegian seizure of a Russian vessel earlier this month in the remote Arctic archipelago of Svalbard at the request of Ukraine, drawing the condemnation of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The Centres for European Policy Network, a think tank, noted the “extremely dynamic backdrop” for the summit. It cited factors like accelerating climate change, China’s growing trade through the Arctic, and conﬂict around the Strait of Hormuz, which has raised the importance of the Northeast Passage for maritime shipments. The meeting serves as a “dress

rehearsal” for a looming revamp of the European Union’s Arctic policy expected to be released this autumn, with security at the center of the strategy for the ﬁrst time, the group said. Climate change has been thinning the Arctic ice, making shipping routes increasingly accessible and reigniting competition with Russia, China and other countries over access to the region’s mineral resources. Meanwhile, the European bloc has been grappling with its response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s persistent pressure over Greenland, a self-governing territory of EU member country Denmark. He has repeatedly said the icy, resource-rich island should be part of the United States. Greenland’s government opposes U.S. designs on the island.

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Continued from page 1A trustee, told the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New Orleans that the archdiocese has “ﬂatly refused” his request that they investigate 11 clergy members accused of child sexual abuse that surfaced during the bankruptcy claims review process. Massey said the allegations against the clergy members were previously found by the archdiocese’s own Internal Review Board to be credible but that they were never added to the official credibly accused clergy list and that they have since been named in multiple proof of claim filings, “and/or have active abuse survivors who can present the facts of their abuse … yet their names have not been added to the list.” As part of the church’s $300 million bankruptcy settlement with hundreds of abuse survivors, Archbishop Gregory Aymond, who stepped down in February, agreed to more than a dozen new child protection measures that included hiring new experts, implementing tougher reporting procedures and creating a public database of past abuse cases, including the list of clergy that had been credibly accused of abuse.

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Continued from page 1A The board of Citizens voted earlier this month to allow the Property Insurance Company of America to assume 4,764 of its commercial policies through “depopulation,” a process by which the nonprofit tries to offload its policies to private carriers to reduce its financial exposure. PICA will offer policies to virtually all of Citizens’ commercial policyholders, according to data provided by Citizens, though policyholders will ultimately decide whether to move to PICA or stay with Citizens. Landry, who announced the move Monday, said PICA’s decision to take on all of Citizens’ commercial policies, rather than just a portion of lower risk ones, is unprecedented and will lead to lower reinsurance costs for the nonprofit. The governor said it signals that insurers are coming back into the market rather than leaving Louisiana, which Landry attributed to policy changes state officials have made during his tenure. “It proves that the hard work that we’ve been doing over the last three years — of passing over 50 bills dealing with insurance and legal reform — are continuing to work,” Landry said. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple, a Republican, also lauded the move by Citizens, saying insurers are gaining confidence in the state’s market and that competition is ramping up, which should lead to better rates for customers. “PICA’s decision to offer quotes to thousands of com-

The latest salvos come more than nine months after the archdiocese ended its nearly six-year bankruptcy case with hundreds of clergy abuse survivors. The complex settlement created a trust of more than $300 million to be distributed over time among eligible survivors. Court documents filed Monday show nearly 740 survivors are eligible to receive a portion of the trust. The plan also includes more than a dozen “nonmonetary” provisions creating new, tougher child protection and abuse reporting policies, as well as a public database detailing past abuse cases.

In November 2024, when attorneys for the church jointly announced the provisions with attorneys for abuse survivors, before the case was settled, they said the measures would be “the gold standard in youth protection and child sexual abuse prevention.” But Massey flagged several areas where he said the archdiocese is falling short. Massey said he and attorneys for some abuse survivors wrote to the archdiocese’s Vicar of the Clergy in July seeking an investigation of the clergy members not on the credibly accused list. Two of the 11 clergy are named in 11 claims each, according to court documents. “Shortly after submitting the request, it was rejected,” Massey wrote. Massey also said he was concerned about a provision in the settlement that allows the archdiocese to redact from a public database the names of clergy that have not previously been included on the ofﬁcial credibly accused list. The database, which will be housed at LSU, will detail past abuse cases. Massey said allowing the archdiocese to redact the names of credibly accused abusers from the database “perpetuates a static culture that resulted in (the Archdiocese of New Orleans) seeking bankruptcy protection in

the ﬁrst place.” Another concern Massey raised in his court ﬁling is what he said was the archdiocese’s refusal to identify the members of its Internal Review Board, which is in charge of looking into allegations of clergy abuse. Keeping the names of the board members secret, even from the trustee, perpetuates a lack of trust, he wrote. Massey also said he has become aware of several instances of post-bankruptcy filing allegations of abuse by clergy. “Some instances were related by individual survivors and their lawyers, and others were the subject of public media coverage. All of it is concerning,” he wrote.

Dolese, the CEO of PICA, noted that Demotech has clearance from the federal Securities and Exchange Commission. And he said, unlike the Demotech-rated companies in Louisiana that failed, PICA insures properties in diverse geographic areas and has enough reinsurance. “The amount of reinsurance that we buy is more than the amount necessary for a hurricane,” he said. “We are willing to reduce the amount of profit we make and buy more reinsurance.” Albright said it will be up to policyholders whether to switch to PICA or stay with

Citizens. Historically, some policyholders choose to stay with the perceived stability of Citizens, even if rates are higher, he noted. That’s especially true after tens of thousands of policyholders saw their insurer go belly-up amid a rash of claims following hurricanes during the recent storms. But he noted that PICA is backed by the state guaranty association that takes on claims in the event a company goes insolvent. “Companies can go insolvent,” he said. “But if you can save a reasonable amount of money, it may be worth taking that risk because the de-

partment is doing everything they can to keep an eye on those companies.” Kenny Taylor, an insurance agent in the New Orleans area, said the market is “opening up a bit,” both on commercial and homeowners policies. He sees many policyholders who prefer to stay with Citizens rather than go with another company. “These years especially since Katrina have educated the homeowner,” Taylor said. “I think that’s a big part of it. … Also, Citizens in many of the insured lines is not going to go belly-up. They feel good about that.”

named in a proof of claim to be presented to the review board, a process that is already underway. “Archbishop Checchio and archdiocesan leadership work tirelessly everyday to honor our commitments to survivors and to keep children entrusted to our ministries safe,” said the statement, provided by spokesperson Sarah McDonald. In his filing Monday, Massey suggested that there was a path forward to upSTAFF FILE PHOTO By DAVID GRUNFELD holding the provisions of the Don Massey, the trustee overseeing the bankruptcy settlement, writing that “we settlement between the Archdiocese of New Orleans and remain optimistic that a culture of change can be more hundreds of clergy sex abuse survivors, said Monday in than aspirational, and actua court filing that the archdiocese has ‘flatly refused’ his ally be achieved.”

request that they investigate 11 clergy members accused of child sexual abuse that surfaced during the bankruptcy claims review process. Attorneys for abuse survivors said it would be a “gold standard.” Massey, an independent attorney appointed by the court to ensure that the bankruptcy settlement is executed, said the archdiocese, “is not demonstrating transparency nor a culture of change.” “It is morally repugnant and unconscionable to allow (the Archdiocese of New Orleans) to continue to suppress identities of credibly accused abusers, as has been the case for decades,” he wrote. In a statement late Mon-

day, the archdiocese called Massey’s assertions that it is not investigating claims against clergy, “a misrepresentation of the facts.” “All living archdiocesan clergy named in a proof of claim have been presented to the Internal Review Board or are still under investigation for presentation to the IRB for its recommendation on suitability for ministry,” the statement said. The statement also said that Archbishop James Checchio, who succeeded Aymond early this year, has ordered a review of all deceased archdiocesan clergy

mercial policies in Louisiana Citizens is additional evidence that Louisiana’s property insurance market is moving in the right direction,” Temple said in a statement. PICA CEO Ned Dolese said adding Temple the policies from Citizens is the ﬁrst step in the company’s plans to expand coverage in Louisiana. “The current Citizens customer can get a PICA policy today with the same coverages or with better coverage for less money,” Dolese said. “We can give the customer a better policy at a lower price, with the ultimate goal being that we want to have a conversation with the customer over the next 12 months.”

come sign for business owners who have struggled under the weight of high insurance costs for years. Homeowners rates, however, will tick up slightly, according to documents presented to the Citizens board last week. The state’s insurance market fell into turmoil in 2020 after hurricanes Laura, Delta and Zeta, then worsened again after Hurricane Ida in 2021. As climate change causes hurricanes to grow more intense and inflation drives up prices of rebuilding materials, the insurance market has struggled to ﬁnd its footing. Ben Albright, head of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Louisiana, said commercial property insurance policies experience swings in reinsurance more quickly than homeowners policies. When reinsurance costs shot up from 2020 to 2024, big rate hikes quickly struck commercial payers. Now that reinsurance costs are declining, Albright said commercial policies are among the first to feel the relief. “I do think it’s a good sign,” Albright said. “Getting more premium out of Louisiana Citizens at this moment is a good thing.”

Reinsurance price drops PICA, which is headquartered in Mississippi, gained approval from the Louisiana Department of Insurance to write policies here in late 2024. The move comes as the global reinsurance market — which plays an outsized role in the rates paid by Louisiana homeowners and businesses — sees a dramatic decline in prices. An index of prices tracked by the broker Guy Carpenter shows prices for reinsurance fell by 16% this year. Louisiana insurers, including Citizens, spend billions on reinsurance every year as a backstop to their policies, which helps cast off some of the rising risk of hurricanes and other perils. Citizens is also preparing to slash commercial property insurance rates by 14% effective in November, a wel-

Customer choice PICA is not rated by A.M. Best, which is considered the gold standard of ratings agencies. Instead, it is rated by Demotech, a smaller agency that has drawn criticism for having rated companies that later went belly-up, including a host of companies that wrote policies in Louisiana before going insolvent after the 2020 and 2021 storms.

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College or trade school? The pendulum is swinging

Greece reopens honorary consulate in New Orleans

In the past month, I’ve randomly met four 18-year-olds with no plans to go to college. One is a senior at Catholic High in Baton Rouge. Three want to pursue trade school — plumbing, auto mechanics, electrical work. The fourth graduated in May. She got her medical assistant license while she was in high school in Livingston Parish and now works full-time in a doctor’s office. Four kids in four weeks seems like more than a coincidence — it got my attention. Then, this morning, while I was in the middle of writing this column, our air conditioner went out. Zeph Beninate showed up to fix it. He’s 24 and went to trade school for HVAC, a career with obvious staying power in Louisiana. School just never was for him, he said. He wanted to do something with his hands. Make that five.

STAFF PHOTOS By CHRIS GRANGER

John Georges, second from right, businessman and owner of The Times-Picayune, uses ceremonial scissors to cut a blue ribbon Monday, officially opening Greece’s new honorary consulate at the newspaper’s St. Charles Avenue office in New Orleans. With Georges, who was named honorary consul, from left, are Greece’s Ambassador to the United States Antonis Alexandridis, Greek Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou, New Orleans Mayor Helena Moreno and Georges’ wife, Dathel Coleman Georges.

Businessman and Times-Picayune owner John Georges tapped to head cultural outpost

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Zeph Beninate, 24, chose trade school over college on his path to becoming an HVAC repairman.

I called Chandler LeBoeuf to get his insights. He’s the executive vice president of the Louisiana Community and Technical College System, which runs 12 colleges across 65 campuses statewide. LeBoeuf provided numbers that gave some context to my observation. He said 15 years ago, about 35% of the system’s students were in career and technical programs — welding, HVAC, electrical, healthcare, the whole list. Now that total is close to 50%. “It’s been a slow but steady growth,” he said. Some students leave as soon as they earn a welding certification and go straight to a job site instead of finishing out the technical diploma. LeBoeuf said they often come back for the paper later, once the paycheck is coming in. The pendulum swings, LeBoeuf said. Vocational training used to be an obvious path. Then it swung hard toward “everybody needs a four-year degree.” Now it’s swinging back. He said that Louisiana still defaults most students toward the four-year track in high school. A student has to actively choose to step off that path. I mentioned my observation to Alexis Jones, a nurse at my doctor’s office. Jones, 29, is an operations manager at Baton Rouge General. “Oh, I need to tell you my story,” she said. Neither of her parents went to college, and she wasn’t sure she needed to either. Her father said he didn’t care if she went, but she was going to do something. She had to figure out what that something was. She decided to take a patientcare tech class her senior year at Doyle High School in Walker. One class, and she came out certified as a phlebotomist, medical assistant and patient care tech. I am so afraid of needles that I can’t picture drawing someone’s

ä See RISHER, page 2B

BY RICH COLLINS Staff writer

Greek and American flags frame Greek Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Alexandra Papadopoulou, center left, as she chats with Greek Americans Vivian Demarinis, Kalliope Mullins and Elefthiera Demarinis during the reopening ceremony. The consulate reopened for the first time since Hurricane Katrina, with an office in the Warehouse District.

“I’m glad this moment came. The Greek American community here wanted this, and we need to have a presence in the southern United States.” ALEXANDRA PAPADOPOULOU, Greek deputy foreign affairs minister

Alexandra Papadopoulou is one of Greece’s highest-ranking diplomats, serving as her country’s deputy foreign minister. But when she came to New Orleans in 1987 to lead, at age 28, the city’s Greek consulate in her ﬁrst diplomatic posting, she was feeling lost and a little unsure of herself. Soon after her arrival, Papadopoulou met a local Greek American businessman. Things changed quickly after that. “He came to my ofﬁce on my second day here, and when he found out we were from the same area (in Greece), he said, ‘OK, now you come to my house,’” she said. “They adopted me.” On Monday, Papadopoulou was back in New Orleans. This time, it was to reopen Greece’s honorary consulate, which was shuttered after Hurricane Katrina. Local and Greek leaders, including Mayor Helena Moreno, Antonis Alexandridis, the ambassador of Greece to the United States,

ä See CONSULATE, page 6B

N.O. East residents call for more investment

Local entrepreneur launching Nola Bank

BY VIOLET BUCARO

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Mayor, city officials crafting 2027 budget

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New Orleans East residents on Monday said they want more attention on blight, economic development and youth programs as Mayor Helena Moreno and city ofﬁcials weigh how upward of $768 million will be spent in the 2027 budget. Over 100 residents on a rainy night packed a town hall meeting at the Household of Faith Church on the Interstate 10 Service Road to give their input on the Moreno administration’s budget plan. The mayor will present a

draft 2027 budget on Sept. 22, and the City Council will weigh in and approve a ﬁnal plan by Dec. 1. The meeting on Monday targeted residents of City Council District E, which spans New Orleans East and the Lower 9th Ward. The last of the meetings, held in recent days across all districts, is in Lakeview on Thursday. The series of town hall meetings comes as the city weighs cuts and revenue-boosting avenues to balance next year’s budget before Moreno unveils

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BY GRACE MAYER

After building a career running McDonald’s franchisees, local entrepreneur Henry Coaxum has launched a new community bank in New Orleans, the first bank to be chartered Coaxum in Louisiana in over a decade amid a wave of consolidations in the industry. Coaxum said he decided to cofound Nola Bank because of a number of mergers and acquisi-

tions that have transformed the local banking industry over the years, which is now dominated by national bank brands and larger regional players. After sitting on the board at Hammond-based Florida Parishes Bank for nearly a decade, he watched it sell to First Bancshares Inc. in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in 2019. “What we saw was an opportunity for community banking,” Coaxum said. “By starting fresh, we have an opportunity to determine who our customer is and pursue them.” Nola Bank, which will be

ä See BANK, page 2B

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Jury selection begins in slain Super Bowl reporter trial Suspects accused of preying on man, other French Quarter tourists to rob

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Jury selection began Monday afternoon in the Jefferson Parish trial of a man and woman charged with working together to drug and rob French Quarter tourists, a yearslong scheme that authorities said led to the death of a Kansas City sports reporter who traveled to New Orleans to cover the 2025 Super Bowl. Danette Colbert, 49, of Slidell, and Rickey White, 35, of Harvey, are charged with manslaughter and racketeering in the death of 27-year-old Adan Manzano. A third defendant, Christian Anderson, 34, of Slidell, is also

charged with manslaughter and racketeering. His case was severed from Colbert and White’s following a hearing on Aug. 5, according to court records. His trial has been scheduled for Oct. 19. All three have pleaded not guilty. Manzano, a father of one, worked as a sideline reporter for KBKCTV, the Kansas City affiliate for Telemundo. In the days leading up to the Super Bowl, Manzano’s coworkers became concerned after he missed a meeting on the morning of Feb. 5, 2025, according to Kenner police. Authorities conducting a wellness check discovered Manzano dead in his room at the Comfort Suites in Kenner. An autopsy later determined Manzano died of asphyxiation while lying face down on a pillow due to the combined toxic effects of alcohol and Xanax, according to the Jefferson Parish Coroner’s Ofﬁce. Kenner detectives discovered that Manzano had been out with

Man found guilty in drive-by killing of woman, unborn baby BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

arm by someone previously convicted of a felony, court minutes show. Criminal District Judge Robin Pittman set a Nov. 13 sentencing date for Holmes, who faces a mandatory life sentence with no parole for the murder conviction. Williams said the unborn victim would be about the same age as his youngest son. “We never said that this was a case about perfect people,” he said Monday. “But that little, baby boy that was in his mother’s belly, he was perfect. And the jury understood that he was completely innocent. He never got to breathe life.” Brandon Shallerhorn pleaded guilty to reduced charges in June 2025 and received a five-year sentence. He did not testify last week. It was the second time Holmes was tried in the killing. A jury deadlocked after a four-day trial in 2022. Prosecutors dismissed that case months later and soon issued a new indictment that elevated several of the murder and attempted murder charges to first-degree counts. Holmes’ attorneys argued that only the surviving victim placed Holmes at the scene of the shooting and no evidence showed he ever owned, possessed or ﬁred any of the guns used in it. Investigators connected Holmes through data from Brandon Shallerhorn’s cellphone and testing of a 40-caliber Smith & Wesson ﬁrearm that matched shell casings from each of Holmes’ and the boyfriend’s previous encounters. “We raised some serious doubts as to whether Mr. Holmes was involved in this tragic shooting, but the jury did not agree,” said Judson Mitchell, part of the defense team from Loyola University’s Law clinic. “Mr. Holmes is disappointed in the verdict and plans to appeal.”

New Orleans jurors convicted a Plum Orchard man for his role in a fatal 2019 drive-by shooting that killed a woman days before she was set to give birth. Tychelle Ridgley, 28, was 81/2-months pregnant when Zachery Holmes and two other gunmen ambushed her boyfriend near the couple’s doorstep in the 4700 block of Viola Street the night of Aug. 18, 2019. Two bullets pierced the front door, striking Ridgley as she sat on a couch in the front room. Ridgley died within minutes, along with her fetus, already named Me’Lo Alexander. Both were lost to a violent feud between Holmes and Ridgley’s boyfriend — the unborn child’s father. The two men had multiple shootouts dating back to March 2018, when another man, Ronnie Shallerhorn, 35, was killed near Willowbrook Drive. The crime went unsolved by New Orleans police. Holmes and Shallerhorn’s younger brother, Brandon Shallerhorn, began plotting to retaliate against Ridgley’s boyfriend, the rumored killer, authorities alleged. “The defense tried to make (the boyfriend) a huge distraction in the case because of the life that he lived, but the jury understood that he wasn’t perfect,” said District Attorney Jason Williams, who helped lead the prosecution. Jurors heard three days of testimony last week and spent four hours deciding Holmes’ fate before reaching a verdict in the wee hours of Saturday morning. They found Holmes, 36, guilty of second-degree murder, second-degree feticide, attempted first-degree murder, obstruction of justice and a handful of gun charges. The jury acquitted him on counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon Email Matt Bruce at matt. and illegal carrying of a fire- bruce@theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B based at 1100 S. Carrollton Ave. in the Riverbend area, is starting out with $29 million in assets that Coaxum has raised from the bank’s 12-member board and 66 other investors. The bank is applying for a minority depository institution designation and will focus on servicing minority communities — another gap in the market Coaxum aims to ﬁll. Nola Bank would become the second bank in Louisiana with the designation. The other is Liberty Bank and Trust, which has been headquartered in New Orleans since 1972. “That designation will help us work even more deliberately in various communities,” Coaxum said.

Assembling the team Coaxum has spent more than a

colleagues in the French Quarter the night before. Colbert was the last person seen with Manzano, according to authorities. She drove him back to his hotel and was seen on surveillance video entering and later leaving his room, police said. Kenner investigators allege Colbert drugged Manzano before stealing his wallet and cellphone. Colbert used his debit card to make a purchase and was later found in possession of Manzano’s property, according to Kenner police. During the trial, prosecutors are expected to argue that Manzano was the latest and last victim in a criminal enterprise run by Colbert, White and Anderson. The group allegedly collaborated to target tourists, getting them drunk or using drugs to incapacitate them with the goal of stealing cash, credit cards, debit cards, jewelry, cellphones or other ﬁnancial information. Authorities say Colbert was the group’s “prostitute or party girl”

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Continued from page 1B her plan next week. The administration has said that it expects to pull in just $768 million in general fund dollars next year, but that it is on track to spend $975 million this year. The city’s overall operating budget, which includes a general fund and other dedicated funds such as federal grants, has routinely topped $1 billion. “The 2027 budget is going to be a lean one,” Moreno told attendees Monday. “That’s why we need to make sure that every dollar is prioritized to what means you would like to see.” Moreno, ﬂanked by Chief Administrative Ofﬁcer Joe Giarrusso and other city leaders, responded to residents’ concerns and priorities and laid out the city’s plans for New Orleans East so far, including a new city annex that could house city services and departments, allowing residents in the East to better interact with city government nearby. “For sure, you’ll be getting a city services location and a city annex, for sure, that is part of the plan,” Moreno said to residents at the town hall meeting. “That has to happen.” This year, the Moreno administration has taken steps to invest in underdeveloped areas of New Orleans East, including the decrepit Willows Apartments and Lincoln Beach. It also launched the Michoud innovation cor-

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Continued from page 1B blood at any age. Jones did it at 17, plus electrocardiograms, in hospital rooms. “I had to make an adult trust me enough to draw their blood,” she said. She added that medical assistants right out of high school make around $15 an hour. Then, she said something that made my eyes open wide. “We have medical assistants who make six ﬁgures;

year building the new bank, which opened Monday, and assembling a team of executives, including Joe Omner, Nola Bank’s first president and CEO. Coaxum met Omner prior to the sale of Florida Parishes Bank, where Omner was the chief operating officer. Omner also previously worked for Parish Bank’s national division, and as a regional president with Whitney Bank, ahead of the Mississippi-based bank being acquired by Hancock Bank in 2011. Coaxum also brought on Chris Shah as senior executive vice president and chief banking officer. Shah built a nearly 29-year banking career in Dallas and helped launch Great Plains Bank in the DallasFort Worth area in 2018. He is now based in New Orleans. With $29 million in assets, Nola Bank will be among the smallest in the New Orleans market, wedged between Planters Bank & Trust Co. and First American Trust, which has 0.12% and 0.07% of the local market share, respectively, accord-

who approached the victims promising a good time to gain their confidence while plying them with alcohol. Colbert would allegedly encourage victims to visit an ATM or look over their shoulder to spy on phone passcodes. She’d then lure them back to their hotel rooms or some other private location where she’d make off with the victims’ valuables, according to investigators. White is accused of acting as Colbert’s “pimp,” obtaining clients for her and helping her access the money in her victims’ accounts. In exchanged text messages, Colbert would send photos of the victims’ driver’s licenses, Social Security cards or PINs for their phones or debit cards, authorities said. White also allegedly often provided the drugs that Colbert used on her victims, referring to the narcotics as “KO” or “knockout” in texts. In Manzano’s death, Colbert is accused of taking photos of his license and debit cards after he lost

consciousness, according to court records. She also took video of herself practicing the movements to unlock his cellphone and sent a text message with Manzano’s PIN to White, according to court records. Colbert is already serving a lengthy prison sentence for a similar crime. She was accused of drugging David Butler after meeting him on Bourbon Street in 2021. Butler said she stole his wedding ring, his cellphone and transferred about $80,000 from his bank and Bitcoin accounts. An Orleans Parish judge sentenced Colbert to probation after she was convicted of theft under $1,000, computer fraud and illegal transmission of monetary funds. But Colbert was resentenced to 25 years in prison in May 2025 after Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill ﬁled habitual offender charges against her. Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.

ridor aimed at attracting more jobs and developers. Several residents on Monday called for more attention on blight and overgrown vegetation, and many said they were frustrated with the city’s failure to fix issues after submitting 311 requests. Ethel Williams said she is fearful for her safety due to the neglect of houses and businesses in the area, including the house next door to hers. “I have ﬁve trees that are 60 feet tall, and my life is in danger,” she said. “No other parts of the city do that. … I am 85 years old and I can’t afford to move. If I could, I would. They do drugs in the house; they got snakes over there.” Lillie Thompson said she is terriﬁed by the decrepit state of her neighborhood, which she said has attracted generations of raccoons near her house. She said the issue has continued for years despite frequent complaints. “I’ve called several times,” she said, “and nobody has done anything.” Moreno assured residents that blight remains a priority for her administration, pointing to her creation of a program earlier this year aimed at bringing longvacant properties out of administrative limbo and back into use. Moreno also helped strike the deal that ultimately led to the ongoing demolition of the former Lindy Boggs Medical Center in Mid-City, which has been abandoned since Hurricane Katrina.

Resident Jerry Cooke II said he’d like to see more attention on industrial and economic corridors in residential areas to attract funding to develop property in New Orleans East. “We’ve seen it done in Algiers. We’ve seen it done in West End. We’ve seen it done Uptown. We need an economic corridor in our district,” he said. Jeffrey Schwartz, deputy mayor of community and economic development, said there are existing economic development districts, but “then we fall down on the actual funding mechanism,” he said. After several residents mentioned they want to see more youth programs, Moreno said no cuts will be made to New Orleans Recreation Development Commission programming in 2027, which oversees public parks, playgrounds, youth resources and more. She also said she’s working to forge a partnership with horse stables in the city to start programming with NORD. “Not all kids are interested in sports. So we need to open it to arts, music, visual arts,” Moreno said. “I think increasing opportunities like that helps children.” Since Moreno stepped into ofﬁce, she has prioritized streetlight and road repairs by hiring 50 new employees and merging Sewerage & Water Board with the Department of Public Works. But in a mission to plug the city’s cash crisis, the administration has taken

several unpopular steps, including cutbacks for city departments and city employees’ work hours. Other funding slashes targeted public services including drainage and road repairs. Meanwhile, citywide fee hikes have included a crackdown on parking violations, a 33% increase in sanitation fees and new Mardi Gras parade krewe fees. In August, the city launched an online dashboard showing how funds have been distributed to city departments and how much they’ve spent so far. In a town hall meeting in the Lower 9th Ward last week, administration officials said cuts to city services will continue next year as the city looks for ways to increase the city’s revenue. “We stabilized the crisis. We aren’t in chaos anymore,” Giarrusso told residents on Monday. As of September, the city’s 2026 general fund, which pays for day-to-day services and city workers, has just $19.8 million left. The city’s cash management fund, or reserve funds, is at $34.2 million, according to the city’s budget dashboard. Three additional budget town hall meetings are scheduled on Tuesday at Walter L. Cohen High School, Wednesday at Phillis Wheatley Community School and Thursday at Christian Brothers School. Each meeting takes place from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

it just depends on what position they’re in,” Jones said. On her path, she kept working as a medical assistant while she trained to become a licensed practical nurse through a 16-month program at Northshore Community College in the Florida Parishes. She sat for her boards, passed and has spent 10 years climbing the ladder at Baton Rouge General. She now oversees eight clinics and runs the hospital’s concierge program. “I’m 99% of the time one of the youngest people in

the room,” she told me. “I’ve literally clawed myself to get where I’m at today.” She acknowledged that her path has not been without cost, though. “I do sometimes wish I had gone to college and had that degree,” she said. “I think in some rooms, it matters.” She knows that she missed the sororities, the Friday nights, the version of young adulthood that comes with a dorm room and a football schedule. She can’t help but still wonder about it.

Maybe five people in four weeks, six if I count Jones, isn’t a trend. Maybe I just noticed a pendulum that’s been swinging for years. I don’t know. What I do know is that in all my years since high school, I’ve never heard this many people my kids’ age say out loud that college isn’t the plan — and they’re fine with that. The air conditioner is fixed, by the way. Beninate got it running again in less than 15 minutes.

ing to data from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., an independent government branch. Coaxum said he plans to grow his deposit base by targeting underserved communities.

First new bank in years The opening marks the ﬁrst new bank chartered in Louisiana in 16 years, Omner said. In that time, a wave of bank mergers and acquisitions have taken place, bringing new institutions into the state and increasing the market share of others. In May, an acquisition group led by veteran local banker Daryl Byrd completed the purchase of MC Bank. The Morgan City-based bank is working on constructing the new branch at the corner of Magazine Street and Jefferson Avenue in Uptown New Orleans, with plans to add several new physical locations in Lafayette and Baton Rouge, and throughout the Gulf South. Capital One, which entered the New Orleans market by acquiring

Hibernia Bank in 2005, is now the largest bank in New Orleans with nearly $9 billion in deposits and 25% of local market share. That stretch of consolidations has made it harder for community banks to compete, Omer said. “In our local market, and nationally, there is a gap for community banks,” Omner said. “They’re being gobbled up by the regionals, and every time one closes, there’s much less personal service.” Developers for Nola Bank are completing construction and upgrades to the South Carrollton Avenue building. Omner expects construction on the building, a former bank branch, to be completed by December. For now, the bank is operating out of a trailer located on the property. Nola Bank intends to focus on reaching profitability before expanding, Shah said. “Today, it’s not about how many branches you have,” Shah said. “The key thing for our community bank is to remain nimble, available

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to customers, and invest in technology and add the right people on our team.” While it typically takes more than three years for minority depository institutions, Coaxum said Nola Bank is focused on achieving proﬁtability with an “aggressive” three-year business plan. “We’re committed to working together collectively to achieve our mission, and once our mission is achieved here, we’re hopeful we can replicate this elsewhere,” Coaxum said. Email Grace Mayer at grace. mayer@theadvocate.com.

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the boys in her vehicle without proper restraints on July 6, 2024. She drove with her sons to Houston as Hurricane Beryl approached the Gulf Coast. Investigators with the Calcasieu Parish Sheriff’s Office were able to piece together a timeline and path of travel from Houston to Meridian, Mississippi, from July 6 to July 8 through cellphone records, surveillance footage and witness interviews. Surveillance footage shows Jack on July 7 at a Beaumont, Texas, gas station, pulling her 1-year-old by the arm, his body dragging along the ﬂoor behind her. Later that day, Johnson said, she would abandon her sons along I-10 in Louisiana. Four-year-old Legend’s body was discovered July 8 in a shallow body of water at a state welcome center in Vinton. No witnesses testified or surveillance footage showed what transpired there, but the autopsy report said the cause of death was drowning. The next day, a trucker spotted 1-year-old Kingtrail crawling along the interstate shoulder 6 miles away from where his brother’s body was found. He’d been bitten by mosquitoes and was dehydrated, but was otherwise healthy. The jury saw images of both boys. Johnson told the jury during closing arguments Monday that Jack abandoned both of her sons in the “middle of summer with no food, no water, no shelter, nobody” as a hurricane approached. “This is not negligence,” Johnson said. “This is a choice. This is an action.” At one point after leaving her sons, Jack texted her aunt, Tiffany Jackson, from Baton Rouge that her sons were safe. “It is not forgetfulness,” Johnson said. “It is what she intended.” King Alexander, Jack’s public defender, did not call witnesses or present evidence in his client’s defense. He told the jury during closing arguments that “the state won’t be happy unless Aaliyah Jack dies in prison,” but encouraged jurors to stand their ground and compromise as needed as part of the process. Second-degree murder convictions carry a life sentence in Louisiana. Alexander said the jury had seen “a lot of disturbing evidence” in the case, but reminded jurors that the 1-year-old boy was “completely unharmed except for some bug bites.”

Lake Charles mother Aaliyah Jack was found guilty Monday of second-degree murder in the death of her 4-year-old son, Legend, who she abandoned in 2024 along Interstate 10 and who later drowned in a body of water behind a welcome center in Vinton. A Calcasieu Parish jury also found Jack guilty of cruelty to juveniles over abandoning another son, then 1-year-old Kingtrail on the same roadway. Days later, a truck driver saw the little boy crawling in a ditch, called ﬁrst responders and stopped to help him. Kingtrail survived. The jury deliberated for just a few hours Monday over the case, which was high-profile in Lake Charles after news of the truck driver’s rescue went viral. But few details have been public leading up to trial. Judge Michael Canaday, of the 14th Judicial District, sealed the entire case ﬁle earlier this year — the same day that a reporter for The Advocate | The Times-Picayune requested to view it. The two-day trial began late last week, with new details emerging about Jack’s actions leading up to and in the aftermath of abandoning her sons. Canaday scheduled her sentencing for Nov. 5. As she sat in jail a few weeks after the death of Legend and the rescue of Kingtrail, Jack told her mother in a jail phone call that she hurt her own kids. Jurors heard a recording of the call. Jack told her mother, Conswella, in the July 20, 2024, call that she took two pills from “an associate” in Houston, which she said she later learned were ecstasy. Jack said she “was drugged out” and was going to kill herself, too, but she survived a car crash in Mississippi that totaled her vehicle. “So I hurt my kids before anybody hurt my kids,” Jack said. “You really did that?” her mother asked. “Yes, ma’am.” “Aw, no.” “I know. I know.” “Aw, man.” Prosecutor Jacob Johnson presented evidence during trial that portrayed Jack as upset about a custody agreement with her old- Email Megan Wyatt at er child’s paternal grand- mwyatt@theadvocate. mother when she placed com.

St. Tammany president suffers ‘mild stroke’ BY JIM DERRY

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St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper suffered a mild stroke last week and said he is recovering but “looks forward to getting Cooper back to my normal pace soon.” According to a social media post Monday afternoon, Cooper, 72, said a stress test he took several weeks ago indicated a blockage, resulting in the need for a stent in a “major artery.” The procedure was completed Sept. 8. He said he had planned to spend the rest of the week recuperating before returning to

work Monday. However, he said he “experienced an unexpected setback when I suffered a mild stroke, resulting in some numbness in my left hand and arm I continue to experience today.” The parish’s director of information, Michael Vinsanau, said via text Monday afternoon that Cooper is continuing to handle his normal duties. Cooper said he will have a “noticeably lighter” schedule though over the next few weeks and will limit his office hours and time at meetings. Cooper, who took office in 2020, announced earlier this year that he will not seek another term and will leave ofﬁce when this term expires in January 2028. But he said that until then, there is “still much work left to do.”

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Obituaries Haas, Donna Pitre

Donna Raye Pitre Haas, 83, a longtime resident of Metairie, Louisiana, passed away on Friday, August 28, 2026, at East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie. Donna was born December 28, 1942, in Ville Platte, Louisiana, to Marshall and Bridget Pitre. Donna graduated from Ville Platte High School where she was an excellent student and Clarinet player. In August of 1964, she married Douglas Haas in New Orleans. She was preceded in death by her siblings, Norwood Pitre, James Pitre, Geneva Babb, Lessie Letzinger, Joy Fontenot, and Delores Kostick. She is survived by her husband, Douglas J. Haas, two children, Christopher R. Haas, Suzanne R. Haas; two grandchildren; and other relatives. A memorial mass will be held at St. Edward the Confessor Catholic Church 4921 West Metairie, Metairie LA 70001, on Friday, September 25, 2026. Visitation will begin at 10:00am followed by the Catholic Mass at 11:00am. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Slidell.

Hammett, Fr. Peter

Father Peter Hammett, born Edward Hall Hammett, a monk of Saint Joseph Abbey, died September 11, 2026 at the age of 81 years. A native of New Orleans, born to parents William Hammett and Martha Monrose Hammett. His brother William (Billy) Hammett, and one nephew, Patrick Hammett. He attended high school at Saint Joseph Seminary and De La Salle High School. He graduated with an Associate of Arts degree from Saint Joseph Seminary College then continued on, earning both Bachelor and Master degrees from Notre Dame Seminary. He entered the novitiate at Saint Joseph Abbey and made profession in 1968. He was ordained in 1972. After ordination he began a teaching and administrative career including manager of operations and director of presentations of Benet Hall at Saint Joseph Seminary College until 2002. During the same period, he served as Pastor of Saint Benedict Parish from 1982 to 1987. Among his other accomplishments Father Peter was founder and manager of the Abbey gift shop and the Director of Mexico pastoral experience. Further pastoral responsibilities included Associate Pastor at Saint Anselm in Madisonville (2002), Pastor of Holy Family in Franklinton (2003-2017), and Administrator of Saint John the Baptist in Folsom (2007-2008). During this time, he also served as a member of the Clergy Council of the Archdiocese of New Orleans. Returning to the Monastery, he was appointed Archivist and Director of the Monastic Library. He continued to offer pastoral assistance to Northshore parishes and at the Carmelite Nuns of Covington, the Marianites

of Holy Cross, and Christwood Retirement Community. For the last few years of his life, he was deeply involved at the Abbey Retreat House. He was an avid reader, especially in the field of contemporary theology, and wrote several books. He was faithful to the monastic way of life and an outspoken defender of monastic values. He was careful with his diet and faithful to a routine of exercise. During his last summer, he had knee replacement surgery and recovery from that surgery was very hard on him. After a generally healthy life, he quickly suffered multiple afflictions. He was hospitalized and died within a week. He was the senior of our community. On Tuesday, September 15, Vespers for the reception of Fr. Peter's body will be held at 5:30 p.m. in the Abbey Church. The public is welcome. The Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Wednesday, September 16, at 11:15 a.m. in the Abbey Church, followed by a procession to the Abbey Cemetery, where Fr. Peter will be laid to rest. Bagnell & Son Funeral Home entrusted with arrangements. To view and sign the guest book please visit www.Bagnellfuneralho me.com

Mipro, Matthew John

He was the grandson of the late Max and Ethel Monvoisin Mipro and the late Edward and Elvera Poncet Moore.

A gifted and resourceful handyman, there seemed to be very little around the house that Matthew could not fix. He especially enjoyed carpentry and possessed a natural talent for it.

Services will be held on Thursday, September 17, 2026, at Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church 3368 Esplanade Avenue, New Orleans, LA. Visitation for family and friends will begin at 11:30 a.m., followed by a Mass of Christian Burial at 1:00 pm. Interment will follow at St. Louis Cemetery No. 3.

To his family, Matthew was affectionately known as "The Boss." The nickname was fitting, not because he demanded to be in charge, but because his family trusted his judgment and valued his wisdom. Even when he was no longer able to physically work on projects himself, Matthew remained the person everyone turned to for advice. Any project, purchase, or major decision was carefully examined by Matthew from every angle. He considered the practicality, financial impact, logistics, and every possible outcome before offering his opinion. His family knew that when "The Boss" gave his advice, it came from a place of experience, careful thought, and genuine concern for those he loved.

The family extends its most heartfelt gratitude to Shannon and Sharon at NOLA Elite Professionals, Charlene at Morris Nursing Services, and Maria and Samantha at Guardian Angel Hospice. Their compassion, kindness, and loving care brought comfort and dignity to Matthew during his final days and provided invaluable support to the family. The family welcomes you to share your thoughts, favorite memories, and condolences online at schoenfh.com. Arrangements are by Jacob Schoen & Son.

When he was younger, Matthew was an avid cyclist. Cycling was something he truly enjoyed, and it was not unusual for him to get on his bicycle after a long day of work and ride as much as 30 miles in the evening. Matthew was also a devoted LSU sports fan. He followed the Tigers with enthusiasm and took great pleasure in cheering them on.

Voelker, Jack Joseph

Jack Joseph Voelker, 92, of Diamondhead, MS, passed away peacefully on September 10, 2026, surrounded by loving family. A celebration of life will be held on Friday, September 18, 2026, at St. Matthew the Apostle Catholic Church, in Perkinston, MS. Visitation begins at 9:30am with Mass to follow at 10:00am. In lieu of flowers, the family welcomes donations to Annunciation Catholic Church of Kiln, MS. Please visit bslef.com to leave the family an online tribute.

Though Matthew is no longer with us, he will continue to live on in the hearts of all who knew and loved him.

On Tuesday, September 1, 2026, Matthew John Mipro peacefully passed away at his home following complications from myotonic muscular dystrophy. Matthew was born in New Orleans on October 23, 1958, the fifth of twelve children born to Max and Dorothy Mipro. Matthew attended Our Lady of the Rosary Elementary School and was a proud graduate of Brother Martin High School, Class of 1977. He went on to become the first college graduate in his family, earning a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of New Orleans. He later earned his Certified Public Accountant (CPA) license.

Matthew was preceded in death by his father, Max Anthony Mipro, Sr.; his sisters, Dorothy Mipro Davis and Frances Mipro; and his brothers, Max Anthony Mipro, Jr., and Frank Mipro. He is survived by his beloved mother, Dorothy Moore Mipro; his brothers, Conrad Mipro (Eva), Paul Mipro, and Ernest Mipro (Nancy); his sisters, Bridget Mipro, Susan Mipro, Nancy Mipro Shelby (Bobby), and Marianne Mipro; along with numerous nieces and nephews.

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WASHINGTON — Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential bid on Wednesday, making Joe Biden the presumptive Democratic nominee to challenge President Donald Trump in a general election campaign that will be waged against the backdrop of the coronavirus pandemic. Sanders initially ex- Sanders ceeded sky-high expectations about his ability to re-create the magic of his 2016 presidential bid and even overcame a heart attack in October. But he couldn’t convert unwavering support from progressives into a viable path to the nomination, with “electability” fears fueled by questions about whether his democratic socialist ide-

ology would be palatable to general election voters. “The path toward victory is virtually impossible,” Sanders told supporters Wednesday. “If I believed we had a feasible path to the nomination, I would certainly continue the campaign, but it’s just not there.” He called Biden a “very decent man” but didn’t offer an explicit endorsement of the former vice president. Sanders said his name would remain on the ballot in states that have not yet held primaries so he can gain more delegates and “exert signiﬁcant influence” on the Democratic platform. Biden, who is backed by much of the party’s establishment, told supporters at a virtual fundraiser that he had a “short conversation” with Sanders on Wednesday. “He didn’t just run a political campaign. He created a movement,” Biden said. “That’s a good thing for our na-

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AG’s task force is helping keep our kids safe From the beginning of her tenure as Louisiana’s attorney general, Liz Murrill has had predators who target children online in her sights. Two and a half years into her term, the task force she put together to target these predators has shown impressive results. Every sheriff’s office in the state and multiple local police departments — more than 80 agencies in all — participate in the Louisiana Attorney General’s Internet Crime Against Children task force. Officials say the collaboration has allowed agencies to share information and easily investigate across jurisdictional lines. The proof the approach is working is in the numbers. According to a recent report by this newspaper’s Patrick Sloan-Turner, Louisiana could make twice as many arrests for child sex crimes this year as it did just two years ago, from 303 in 2024 to a projected 717 in 2026. It’s also in the individual stories that these agencies tell, about overcoming the challenges of tracking exploitation of children from near and sometimes far via their electronic devices. The arrest of Jeffrey Venezia Jr. on child pornography and weapons charges, for example, started with a tip from the Covington Police Department. Once it was elevated to the task force, the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff’s Office arrested Venezia at work on outstanding misdemeanor traffic charges, while the Washington Parish Sheriff’s Office executed a search warrant on his Bogalusa home and reportedly found child porn. It all played out in a matter of hours, officials said. Murrill’s office also recently announced the results of “Operation Bottom Dweller,” a threeday undercover sting operation led by the AG’s office and Assumption Parish Sheriff Leland Falcon, which led to 10 suspects being arrested across multiple states. The multi-jurisdictional approach to fighting this sort of crime makes sense in an era in which those who target children can get to them from anywhere. “When I was growing up, my mom would say, ‘Hey, don’t ride your bike by such and such’s house. He’s a sex offender,’” said Chris Masters, the Louisiana Bureau of Investigation agent who oversees the task force. “You don’t have that now. There’s access to your children who are on their phone while they’re sitting on the couch next to you.” In addition to tearing down jurisdictional boundaries, the task force has trained members of smaller law enforcement agencies and shared resources that would not otherwise be available to them. Among the tools the agencies are increasingly using are stings, in which agents pose as children online in order to identify criminals who are on the hunt. We’ve all heard the frightening stories of how modern technology makes our children vulnerable. Because of the work by the task force, we’re hopeful that fewer will become victims.

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Runaway federal deﬁcit can’t be tackled with cuts alone The federal debt is now $40 trillion and grows by $2 trillion every year. There appears to be no end in sight. Why? Conventional wisdom, at least among the GOP, is that “taxand-spend liberals” are to blame. Sounds plausible, doesn’t it, since Democrats are most interested in public welfare? It turns out, however, that our current president is responsible for nearly 30% of that debt, and his party’s response to the debt crisis has been to enact a huge tax cut — of which they seem to be very proud — thereby depriving the government of much-needed revenue. While it is difﬁcult to compare the track record of presidents of either party because of events like the Great Recession of 2008 and the COVID pandemic of 2020, Presidents Ronald Reagan, George Bush and Trump all enacted large tax cuts. But what is actually preventing us from dealing with the debt? Very simply, Republican unwillingness

to consider any increases in federal revenue. It is a simple fact that it is not possible to reduce the debt by cost-cutting alone. It would not be difficult to increase the budget by 100% — Reagan did that — but it obviously cannot be reduced by 100% or anything like it by cutting expenditures. The solution? Surprisingly obvious. We now run an annual deficit of about 14%. A budget reduction of 7% coupled with a revenue (tax) increase of 7% would balance the budget, the first step in the process of tackling the debt. More belt-tightening and revenue will be required to reduce the debt. But it cannot be done, ever, by costcutting alone. If Republicans are serious about addressing the national debt, they have to replace their traditional “no new taxes” pledge with something real.

ROBERT PURRINGTON Metairie

Ten Commandments can prepare students for the future This present angst over freedom of religion has to be talked about. We now have nonbelievers in God claiming to have the Constitutional right to freedom of religion. But, in fact, “freedom of religion” does not mean freedom from religion. This freedom has to be for American citizens with one of the many religions, like Catholicism, Baptist, Judaism, etc. to have the freedom as stated in our United States Constitution. The United States was founded by deeply religious pilgrims who treasured the Bible. It was their supreme authority. Obviously, some people now have no religious beliefs and may even think that they can dictate what our Founding Fathers meant. What we teach our children affects their lives and is taught even subconsciously by our own beliefs and behaviors. But what is the goal of being born in the ﬁrst place? “Why did God make each of us?” That is the ﬁrst question a Catholic child like

myself was asked by Dominican Sister Samuel in the 1945 ﬁrst grade Catechism class of Holy Rosary School in Rosenberg, Texas. It may surprise nonbelievers in God that this world prepares each person for an eternal life. If chosen and lived correctly, our Creator promises us His Heavenly home. And if Heaven is desired, why wouldn’t we want to be like our American pilgrims, reading the Bible for a better life than even here in the United States of America? A teacher’s comment challenging the Ten Commandments law prompted this discourse (“New Orleans teacher asks US Supreme Court to weigh Louisiana’s Ten Commandments in schools law,” Aug. 25). My hope is for the Republican administration and Congress to adhere to the Founding Fathers’ true meaning of freedom of religion.

HELEN TURNER Metairie

Bourbon Street weed market has links to GOP donor, politician I am writing in relation to Quin Hillyer’s commentary on the new marijuana dispensary on Bourbon Street. What concerns me is what his story of decadence and debauchery omits. He fails to mention any of the following related facts: Much, if not most, of the products sold at that dispensary are manufactured by Good Day Farm. A major shareholder of Good Day Farm is Donald “Boysie” Bollinger Jr. Bollinger is a prominent Louisiana shipbuilder and Republican megadonor who has donated over $1 million to Republican candidates and committees. The president of Good Day Farm is John Davis, who is married to former state Rep. Paula Davis. And now you know the rest of the story.

PATRICK TOOLE New Orleans

WalletHub says La. is unhappy, but our hearts disagree One look at WalletHub’s recent list of “America’s happiest states” and your average person might reasonably conclude that they would stand a much better chance of being happy if they were to move to, say, New Jersey — rated as the second-happiest state —than they would living in some statistically unhappy place like New Orleans, with Louisiana ranked next to dead last on the happiness scale. Meanwhile, I’ve lived and worked (*phew*) in something like 10 different states, and I’ve never lived anyplace where the people you encounter and have to deal with in daily life were anywhere near as much fun to be around and live among as right here. That includes grocery store cashiers, healthcare workers and even the cops! Yes, that’s right, even the cops, who have the sense to be on the lookout for and respond to the big things and not sweat the small stuff. And it’s not just New Orleans — the folks in Iberia Parish were the same way. Why’s dat?

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COMMENTARY What the Clancy trial’s chatty jurors get wrong Jurors serving on high-profile trials might think better of speaking publicly about their deliberations, no matter how enticing a minute of fleeting fame might seem. From what I’ve seen from chatty jurors in the Lindsay Clancy trial, the lone holdout who caused the mistrial wasn’t the only one missing the point. In fact, he may have been the only one who got it. Several jurors have spoken out — three during a coffee-klatch-style interview with NBC10 Boston. One of those Kathleen three, Paula Devlin, Parker also appeared on “CBS Mornings” with co-host Gayle King. Half the country probably knows about the trial and is understandably curious to learn more. Just as likely, the jurors are eager to vent, engaging in a sort of public talk therapy after several weeks of grueling testimony and the relentless horror of Clancy’s killing of her three children — Cora, 5, Dawson, 3, and Callan, 8 months. The jurors in the NBC10 Boston interview seemed to be focused on personalities and styles of lawyers and witnesses. In the CBS interview, Devlin gave details about the other members of the panel. At first they were more divided, she said, with two inclined toward a murder verdict, two undecided, and the others tilting toward the not guilty by reason of insanity verdict. We learned from defense attorney Kevin Reddington that the holdout juror was a man. Thanks to Devlin, we now know that he was Black and in his 30s. So much for the anonymity he had undoubtedly hoped to protect — and was entitled to. It isn’t hard to single out a Black juror when everyone else is White. His refusal to join the others in an acquittal led to a mistrial on Sept. 4. During the NBC10 Boston interview, juror Kellie Farina explained the holdout’s refusal to join the rest: “He had the hardest time getting off the fact that Lindsay viciously killed her children.” I know just how he felt. But what were the others thinking? Welp, they really liked Reddington’s sense of humor. They said he was entertaining and arrogant. Neither quality seemed more important than the other. He was definitely arrogant — bullying in several instances — but that’s showbiz.

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Defendant Lindsay Clancy watches jurors enter the courtroom during her murder trial on Sept. 4 in Plymouth, Mass. The jurors were also critical of prosecutors for being “harsh.” I’ll admit the prosecutors were lacking in charm, but I hadn’t thought to appraise their delivery. The state’s attorneys were certainly serious, appropriately so. Team Not Guilty further praised Reddington for showing compassion for his client. What would they expect from her lawyer? They were especially appreciative that Reddington brought in witnesses who praised the defendant as a wonderful mother. That’s nice. But she wasn’t so wonderful on Jan. 24, 2023, when she sent her husband, Patrick Clancy, on a round of errands to get him out of the house before she strangled their children, was she? Though Patrick Clancy was the prosecution’s witness, he, too, was deemed “compassionate” toward his former wife and helpful to the defense. The jurors noted that he never spoke negatively of his children’s mother. These juror observations, though telling, fail to enlighten. A long, fact-ﬁlled trial surely provided more than superﬁcial impressions. But then, you know what they say about public speakers: People won’t remember what you say, but they’ll remember how you make them feel. I hesitate to praise the discre-

tion of the jurors who’ve kept their own counsel. For all I know, they’re busy signing book contracts and keeping the best stuff for their pub date. I’m sure television bookers are feverishly working on them for upcoming interviews. Meanwhile, poor Lone Juror, whoever he is. That he may have been hung up on the vicious killings seems to me wholly healthy. Proving beyond a reasonable doubt that Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for what she did would be almost impossible given so much conﬂicting testimony from so many witnesses. Jurors aren’t mind readers, yet they were being asked to get inside Lindsay Clancy’s head. The problem with jurors talking is this: Like movie stars who lose their luster once they start talking as themselves, jurors often shed their gravitas outside the courtroom. For the jury system to work, we need to think of jurors as wise and circumspect, which too often is not the case. As my father often reminded me growing up: It’s better to be quiet and thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and conﬁrm the suspicion. Kathleen Parker is on X, @kathleenparker.

A message for men over the age of 50 The diagnosis was not a surprise your PSA numbers in a blood test. The American Cancer So— well, yes it was, because, like many men with a ciety estimates 333,830 new health issue, we try to deny cases of prostate cancer and it or delay treatment when 36,320 deaths in the United everyone knows that “early States this year. About 1 in detection” is critical to a 8 men (13%) will be diagcure. nosed with prostate cancer Cal My PSA (prostate-specific in their lifetime. Black men Thomas face a significantly higher antigen) had been slowly creeping upward for the risk of getting and dying last two years. When it reached from prostate cancer than White 9.0 along with a Gleason score of men and other racial groups, again 9, my doctor said it was time to do according to the American Cancer something about it. This meant a Society. There is a 99% survival prostate biopsy. It came back posi- rate if the cancer has not spread outside the prostate, which mine tive for a cancerous tumor presshad not. ing against my rectal wall. Two Prostate cancer is the secondoptions were explained to me — a leading cause of cancer death complete removal of the gland, or among American men, ranking radiation and hormone treatment. I chose the latter. After 38 radia- right behind lung cancer. It is imtion treatments, five days a week, portant to repeat: early detection my PSA has dropped to zero and I is key, as it is for women and their can say confidently that it appears breast cancer survival rates. the little tumor has disappeared. I In my experience, men are genwill remain on a hormone drug for erally reluctant to see doctors, two years. especially when it comes to their I share this deeply personal inprostate and other private parts, but denial is not a cure and refusformation, hoping it will inspire men over 50 (or younger if you are ing examination is certain to allow in a higher risk group) to get regu- the cancer to spread, potentially beyond treatment. Yes, there can lar checkups that include a look at

be side effects and they may include urinary problems, constipation and loss of libido. For some men even a temporary loss of libido may sound worse than cancer, but how does death sound? I was fortunate to have some of the best doctors one could get at the Miami Cancer Institute in Florida. They were conﬁdent, reassuring, professional and compassionate. They also communicated in language I could understand. So, come on, men and you women who love them. Guys, do it for them and others who love you, and do it for yourselves. Any embarrassment is minimal and quickly evaporates as you realize your doctors and nurses (or at least mine) care about curing you, but once again, you must be diagnosed early. That cannot be repeated too often. It appears I will be around for a few more years to annoy my liberal friends. I am grateful to God, a supportive wife, and a tremendous medical team that were instruments in His healing. Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

A Stalin bio tells us about our time

History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Josef Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I learned, for example, that Stalin met the exiled Vladimir Lenin more than a decade before the October 1917 revolution, and that by the early 1920s until his death in 1924, Lenin was in failing health, confined to an estate with “a staff, including the worker-cook Spiridon Putin,” Russian President Vladimir Putin’s grandfather. That provides an interesting context for Vladimir Putin’s 2005 speech in which he said that “the collapse of the Soviet Union was the biggest geopolitical catastrophe of the century.” I see echoes of the present as well in the early Michael Barone Bolsheviks’ bewilderment on just how to put Marxist theory into practice in a war-torn Russia. “We go forward to the complete elimination of money,” Grigory Zinoviev explained to German socialists in 1920. “We pay wages in commodities. We introduce trolleys without fares. We have free public schools, free, if temporarily poor, meals, rent-free apartments, free lighting. “We are realizing all this,” he went on, “very slowly, under the most difficult conditions. We have to fight ceaselessly, but we have a way out, a plan.” The early Soviets sound very much like the Democratic Socialists of America. Compare DSA co-chairwoman Megan Romer talking about people having “democratic control” of their workplaces, housing, “everybody having a union,” “the working class being in charge of the means of production.” It’s clear, if you watch the video of her interview by New Yorker editor David Remnick, that neither she nor the DSA has any clear idea how these goals could be accomplished. One is reminded that New York City’s DSA Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s first city-owned grocery store is promised to open by the end of 2027 — 24 months after he took office. Nor is it clear how, without overturning the Constitution, “democratic control” can be transformed into the DSA’s government “by the working class.” Certainly, it’s not possible to achieve the DSA’s goals of abolishing the Senate, the Supreme Court and the presidency without scrapping the Constitution. Lenin’s and Stalin’s communists, of course, had no scruples about abolishing existing institutions. But one thesis of Kotkin’s biography is that Stalin genuinely believed in Marxism and that Russia could not achieve it while it was still predominantly a peasant farmer economy without creating a “working class” of industrial factory workers. To do that, it was necessary to squeeze money out of peasant farmers to finance modern factories, even if that meant murdering prosperous farmers and imposing multiyear famines that killed millions in Ukraine and beyond. Among the Bolsheviks, Kotkin argues, only Stalin had the nerve and persistence to impose this system of mass murder. If Stalin was trying to create a dominant “working class” where it did not yet exist, current American socialists and liberals say their aim is to help a “working class” that is, as the American Enterprise Institute’s Ruy Teixeira has shown, no longer the dominant part of the workforce or the electorate. The Democratic Party started to lose blue-collar worker votes as it embraced liberal cultural values in the 1970s, and the process, highly visible in the Donald Trump years, in which college graduates have moved toward Democrats and noncollege whites and Hispanics have moved toward Republicans, had visible beginnings in Bill Clinton’s and Newt Gingrich’s 1990s. The American Left’s abrupt switch from one cultural cause to another, from so-called climate change to Israel’s supposed “genocide” in response to Hamas’ vicious attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, has not sparked “working-class” enthusiasm. Democrats’ current leads in polling for November’s elections owe much more to inflation attributable to Trump’s tariffs and oil price increases attributable to military action against Iran. One lesson from Kotkin’s biography is that the outcomes of war are never predictable and that the damage from protracted wars in which neither side is winning, and the violence and killing continue seemingly endlessly, such as World War I a century ago and Russia’s war on Ukraine today, is especially grievous. Stalin, Kotkin points out, clearly understood that the Bolshevik takeover of Russia could never have happened absent what was then called the Great War. And there is no question that that war was essential to the rise of not only Stalin but also of Adolf Hitler. Each of those two evil dictators spent part of his 30s in prison and lived in total obscurity when the Archduke Franz Ferdinand was murdered and war broke out in 1914. But in Europe’s two largest nations, both sore from military defeat and devastated by economic chaos, both were able to enter offices in their 40s and quickly accumulate absolute dictatorial power. And on Aug. 23, 1939, they signed the Hitler-Stalin pact, which enabled them to seize control of most of the landmass of Eurasia, a symbiotic union of two totalitarianisms that caused the deaths of tens of millions and inspired the vision of George Orwell’s “1984.” Our problems today are not as serious, the enemies of decent civilizations today are not as powerful, and the wars and mass murders of today are not as unchecked as they were in Hitler’s and Stalin’s time. But Kotkin’s biography is a reminder that even threats that seem very unlikely can turn out to be disastrous and that decent societies cannot afford to ignore upsurges of speech suppression, antisemitism and organized violence. As Ferdinand’s driver took the wrong turn in Sarajevo and stalled the car in front of the assassin Gavrilo Princip, no one thought Stalin and Hitler would be the most consequential and deadly leaders of the 20th century. Michael Barone is on X, @MichaelBarone.

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and the Rev. Protopresbyter George Wilson, dean of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in New Orleans, joined the gathering celebrating the reestablishment of formal ties. The New Orleans businessman who welcomed Papadopoulou was Dennis Georges, chair of Imperial Trading. Now, nearly 40 years later, Papadopoulou has appointed one of his sons, John Georges, to be the city’s honorary consul of Greece. Georges and his wife, Dathel, own The Times-Picayune and The Advocate. The new honorary consulate of Greece is located on St. Charles Avenue in Georges’ executive ofﬁce, where a ribbon-cutting was held on Monday. (The building also houses The Times-Picayune.) “I’m honored to help strengthen ties between Greece and America and, in particular, New Orleans, where nearly every ship that passes by the city is Greek flagged, owned or crewed,” said Georges, whose family members first immigrated from Greece to the New Orleans area four generations ago. “Both places are going through a renaissance.” The Greek honorary consulate will be similar to four dozen or so others in the city that provide a way for countries to maintain a diplomatic presence in places where they don’t have a full consulate or embassy. Serving as volunteers, honorary consuls are able to assist citizens, promote trade, organize cultural events and represent the home country at events. “The opening of this consulate was long overdue and I’m glad this moment came,” Papadopoulou told the crowd at the Monday afternoon ceremony. “The Greek American community here wanted this, and we need to have a presence in the southern United States.”

First honorary consulate in U.S. New Orleans is well-known for its French and Spanish heritage, but it has ties with Greece dating back nearly as long. During the 19th century, a wave of immigrants helped establish one of the South’s most active Greek American communities. New Orleans was home to the ﬁrst Greek consulate in the U.S., according to Bret Clesi, honorary

Greek Ambassador to the U.S. Antonis Alexandridis stands in the lobby of Greece’s new honorary consulate in New Orleans.

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John Georges, bottom left, and his wife, Dathel Coleman Georges, greet guests Monday at the opening of Greece’s new honorary consulate in New Orleans. Georges, owner of The Times-Picayune and several other Louisiana newspapers, was named honorary consul.

LEFT: His Eminence Archbishop Elpidophoros, archbishop and primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, congratulates New Orleans in a recorded message played for guests during a celebratory luncheon at Galerie de Galatoire in the French Quarter. RIGHT: A Greek flag sits on a table at Galerie de Galatoire. consul-general of the Republic of Albania and the dean emeritus of the Louisiana Consular Corps, the ofﬁcial organization of representatives of foreign governments in Louisiana. The consulate was founded by cotton merchant Nicolas Benachi in the 1866 to represent Greek citizens in the area and to increase trade. Around the same time, Benachi helped establish the city’s Greek Orthodox Church, the ﬁrst to be formally recognized in the Americas. Other New Orleans business leaders followed Benachi as honorary consul. Greek-born oil magnate William G. Helis Sr. took on the role in the 1930s before handing it off to his son William G. Helis Jr. In

1937, the Helis family donated a building in Washington, D.C., that was used as the Greek ambassador’s residence for decades. Through the years, the New Orleans consulate served as a diplomatic, cultural and community hub, maintaining ties to the Greek Orthodox religious community and underscoring New Orleans’ role as a nexus for Greek American culture in the South, according to Clesi. The consulate stayed active for 139 years. But it didn’t survive Katrina, which damaged the World Trade Center, where it was headquartered. The Greek government decided not to reopen it in a new location.

‘Understands both worlds’

north Louisiana, and Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to discuss, among other things, reopening the New Orleans honorary consulate, which now joins 49 other active consulates in the city. “When I was ambassador, I wrote a report saying it was a good idea to open the honorary consulate, and then by the time it was ready to be examined, I was already the deputy foreign minister, so it was up to me to approve it,” she said Monday. In a statement, Johnson, R-Benton, said that the Greek American community in Louisiana represents “the very best of our two nations.” In an interview, Georges said he plans to develop cultural exchange programs, beginning next March with the celebration of Greek Independence Day and the religious feast of the Annunciation of the Virgin Mary. Georges is a founding member of the board of directors of the Hellenic Initiative, a secular nonproﬁt that has worked to create a sustainable economy recovery in Greece after the government debt crisis of the last decade. He also held leadership positions at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Cathedral in New Orleans, which hosts the annual Greek Fest each May. Several high-profile political ﬁgures endorsed Georges’ ability to make the most of that role in a video that was aired at Monday’s events. “John has been a true champion for the Greek community in New Orleans and around the world, and he played a key role in rebuilding our city after Katrina,” said House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, RJefferson. Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, called Georges “someone who understands both worlds — the boardrooms of Piraeus and the docks of New Orleans.”

Efforts this decade to bring the consulate back were boosted by Papadopoulou, who served as consul of Greece to New Orleans from 1987 to 1991. Since departing the city, the career diplomat has served in multiple roles on several continents. In 2020, she became the ﬁrst woman to serve as the Greek ambassador to the United States. Three years later, she became the country’s deputy minister of foreign affairs. Papadopoulou, who has maintained ties with New Orleans, helped set up a 2024 meeting between U.S. Speaker of the House Email Rich Collins at rich. Mike Johnson, whose district is in collins@theadvocate.com.

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Moore made right call going for win in OT

‘Attention’ grabber

Kellen Moore was a two-point conversion away from leaving Detroit’s Ford Field with his signature win as New Orleans Saints head coach. While Moore didn’t get it, the fact that he tried said a lot about him and the direction he’s trying to take this team. There were times last season when it was unclear what ä Saints Moore would have at Ravens. done in a situation NOON SUNDAy, like this. You didn’t CBS know what his identity would be. Was he going to be conservative? Or was he going to be willing to take risks like most offensive-minded coaches? Moore, in what felt like a no-brainer, elected to go for the game-winning two-point conversion Sunday after the Saints responded to the Lions’ touchdown in overtime. On the conversion, Tyler Shough’s pass to the back corner of the end zone to rookie Bryce Lance fell incomplete, dashing the Saints’ hopes of pulling off what would have been one of the most talked about wins in Week 1 of the NFL season. Instead, it was a 31-30 loss. The decision to go for the win was the right one. The play call itself could

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LSU coach Lane Kiffin kneels during a timeout in the third quarter against Louisiana Tech on Saturday in Tiger Stadium. Kiffin returns to Oxford, Miss., on Saturday night to face his former team, the Ole Miss Rebels.

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Saints coach Kellen Moore greets Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff after Sunday’s game in Detroit. The Lions held on for a 31-30 win in overtime.

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Kiffin says pressure on Ole Miss in his return to Oxford BY JON BLAU Staff writer

he eyes of the college football world are on Lane Kifﬁn as he returns to Ole Miss this weekend. And that’s a good thing, in Kifﬁn’s eyes.

“I told the players today, man, you don’t have

anything to worry about as far as attention on you all this week. There’s just going to be so much attention, hatred, everything on me,” Kifﬁn said Monday during his weekly news conference. “You just get to go play.” Kifﬁn, who has accepted his place as a college

“Really, the pressure’s on them. We (LSU) won seven games last year. They won 13. They return two Heisman candidates (Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy).” LANE KIFFIN, LSU coach football “villain,” can handle the attention. The former Tennessee coach had a run-through with vitriol when several items, including a golf ball and a mustard bottle, were hurled at him in 2021 during his return to Knoxville.

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Golding trying to keep things calm before big game

AP pro football writer NFL offenses didn’t need any time to shake off the rust. They lit up the scoreboard in one of the highest-scoring opening weeks in NFL history. The Bears beat Carolina 59-37, falling three points shy of tying Atlanta’s 53-year-old record for the most points in Week 1. The game featured 1,030 total yards and the most combined points (96) ever in an opener. Josh Allen led the Bills to a stunning performance against Houston’s typically stingy defense in a 36-31 road win. The Texans allowed the secondfewest points (17.4 per game) and fewest yards (277.2 per game) in 2025. But Allen threw for 334 yards and Buffalo scored on eight of its 11 possessions before kneeling down to win coach Joe Brady’s ﬁrst game. Ten teams scored more than 30 points, and six had at least 24 in the ﬁrst half. Maybe starters don’t need to play in the preseason. Quarterbacks were in midseason form as 13 posted a passer rating over 100. One of Chicago’s team goals set by coach Ben Johnson is to break the NFL record for most points in a season.

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OXFORD, Miss. — The walk down Galtney-Lott Plaza on the Ole Miss campus was like any other September morning. Students meandering from one class to the next. Food trucks lined the street outside ä LSU Hall and Conner Hall, serving notebook. Odom boxed Hibachi, Ham N’ Honey sandPAGE 4C wiches and Filipino comfort food. Everyone was sweating in the sunny, 90-degree heat. It was a seemingly ordinary Monday at the ﬂagship university, but the week ahead should be anything but normal. Lane Kifﬁn and his LSU Tigers are coming to town on Saturday (6:30 p.m., ABC). “We just thought he was going to stay,” said ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By ROSS D. FRANKLIN Thomas, a student and member of the Beta Theta

Ole Miss coach Pete Golding shouts encouragement to his players before the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 8 in Glendale, Ariz.

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Vikings QB Murray’s status not known for Sunday

Minnesota Vikings quarterback Kyler Murray began the week in the NFL concussion protocol, continuing his recovery from an illegal hit to the head that forced him out of his ﬁrst game with the team in the ﬁrst quarter Sunday. Murray arrived on Monday at Vikings headquarters “feeling pretty good,” according to coach Kevin O’Connell, but it was too soon to assess his availability at Chicago on Sunday. “We’ll defer to the medical folks and that protocol for how the week goes,” O’Connell said. Murray lasted 11 plays. At the end of a third-down run, he had the right side of his helmet smacked hard by Green Bay safety Javon Bullard’s lowered shoulder with the quarterback already ducking toward the turf to avoid contact.

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New Orleans Saints wide receiver Bryce Lance warms up before the game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday in Detroit. Lance had three catches for 42 yards in his NFL debut.

WR Lance shows why Saints ‘trust’ him BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

DETROIT — Devaughn Vele had a number of big catches in Sunday’s 31-30 overtime loss to the Detroit Lions, but the New Orleans Saints wide receiver said the most hyped up he felt all day was when he saw rookie Bryce Lance convert the biggest play of his young career. It was fourth and 12 with less than two minutes left in regulation. The Saints were down seven, and the game was on the line. As he avoided the blitz, quarterback Tyler Shough climbed the pocket and ﬁred a pass toward Lance’s direction. Even with Lions cornerback D.J. Reed on his back, Lance managed to haul it in for the ﬁrst down. “That’s what we look for and that’s why we trust in those guys,” Vele said. In Week 1, the Saints trusted Lance beyond his crucial fourthdown catch. With Jordyn Tyson (hamstring) on injured reserve, Lance emerged as the Saints’ clear-cut third receiver. He played 62 snaps, which were 69% of the offense’s total. The Saints’ trust in Lance extended to Shough again looking his way with the game on the line. On the Saints’ failed two-point conversion attempt in overtime, with Chris Olave and Vele covered,

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the quarterback saw Lance on a corner route and gave his 6-foot-3 receiver a chance to make a play. The pass was incomplete, but it still said a lot about the 24-yearold’s progress that the Saints were willing to have him out there. “Obviously, I wanted that last play back,” Lance said. “But I think it was a good learning experience. I know it’s a long season, so I’m going to try and just get better as the weeks go on. “I should have come down with it,” he said later. Lance finished the day with three catches for 42 yards. He surprisingly logged more snaps than other playmakers, such as running back Travis Etienne (53) and tight end Noah Fant (37). Fellow rookie wide receiver Barion Brown, a sixth-round pick out of LSU, logged only ﬁve snaps on offense. “I’m excited to keep going forward,” Lance said.

A ‘24-hour rule’ Chase Young kept his initial remarks brief when asked about Sunday’s controversial call that overturned his strip-sack on Lions quarterback Jared Goff and wiped out a game-tying touchdown on the fumble recovered and returned for a score by safety Jonas Sanker. A day later, the New Orleans

Saints pass rusher was willing to slightly expand. Young said his phone has been “blowing up” with messages over the ofﬁcials’ call, which left many — including the Saints — confused. The league overturned the initial call to an incomplete pass because it found Goff already had begun his throwing motion, despite the ball coming out backward as the result of Young’s hit. Young said he believes in a “24hour rule” and has since gotten over the controversy to focus his attention on next week’s opponent, the Baltimore Ravens. But Young added he wouldn’t do anything differently if another situation like that came up. “If I get another chance like that, I’m going to tackle him the same way,” Young said with a smile. He then started to laugh for a few seconds before letting out a “phew.” He also chuckled when asked whether it was easier to sleep knowing that the explanation was something he had never heard before. “I try to look at the bright spots, man,” Young said. “(The play ended up being) a viral video of great defense from the Saints.”

team came out relatively clean from an injury standpoint after Sunday’s loss. Moore said there would be “bumps and bruises” to manage throughout the week, but he did not mention anything that indicated a player had suffered a serious injury. That was a welcome change for New Orleans, given that injuries had piled up in training camp and the preseason. The Saints were without defensive end Cam Jordan (hamstring), running back Alvin Kamara (knee) and rookie tight end Oscar Delp (hamstring). Moore left open the possibility that all three could return to practice before next Sunday’s game against the Ravens. Kamara and Jordan were limited participants last week.

Practice-squad move

With a spot open on their practice squad, the Saints resigned defensive lineman Jonah Williams. The veteran had spent last year with the Saints and rejoined the team’s practice squad last week, but he was released when New Orleans needed the spot. The Saints re-added Williams after they saw another practice squad spot open over the weekend Coming out clean after signing tight end Treyton Welch Saints coach Kellen Moore said his to the active roster.

a game. Much like Moore was able to keep the ship afloat last season Continued from page 1C when the Saints started 2-10, he was able to do it again Sunday when the team fell behind by have been better, especially double digits. the way a big target such as “We hurt ourselves,” Young Devaughn Vele played down the said. “We know that. What we did stretch. The Lions defended the in the second half, that tells you play well. what type of team we are. We are Yeah, Moore could have taken talented enough. No doubt about the safe route and kicked a gameit, we can hang with any team in tying extra point. But there was this league.” no guarantee the Saints defense, While Moore gets credit for gowhich looked to be running on ing for the win, he also gets the “E” during Detroit’s previous blame for not having his offense possession, would have kept the ready when the game begins. Lions from driving within field Slow starts have been an issue goal range for the game-winner. for the Saints under Moore. After all, there was 1:34 remain“I’ve got to look at the plan and ing on the clock. Ninety-four secmake sure we are finding a way onds are an eternity in the NFL, especially considering the Lions ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By REy DEL RIO to move the football better in still had one timeout left. Saints coach Kellen Moore studies his info sheet on Sunday in Detroit. that early part,” Moore said. “I felt good about it going in.” “That’s a really talented ofIt needs to be fixed if the Saints fense,” Moore said about the degames in their history books. there.” want to end their five-year playcision. “You have a chance to go Although the play didn’t work, off drought. win the football game.” If the game had ended in a it sent a message to his players. The division is well within their Moore took that chance, just tie, it would have been the first grasp, as Sunday reminded us like the guy on the opposite side- So did Moore’s decision to go time the Saints have played a for it on fourth and 12 while the on a historical day for the NFC line would have done. tie game since 1972. In fact, the Saints were backed up on their South. The Saints, Falcons, PanLions coach Dan Campbell, a team has had only six ties ever, own 23-yard line. The Saints thers and Buccaneers all lost. A former assistant for the Saints, all in the franchise’s first six picked up the first down. Saints’ tie would have given them is known for his willingness to years of existence. The Saints “That means he knows his an early half-game division lead. roll the dice and take risks. So he are one of seven teams that dogs are ready, which we are,” But it’s way too early for scorenever doubted Moore would go haven’t recorded a tie since the defensive end Chase Young said. NFL first implemented overtime board watching. for two if the Saints scored. “He knows our team as far as our in 1974. The only scoreboard Moore “For sure,” Campbell said fight. You saw throughout camp was concerned with was the afterward. “I just know if I’m The fact that this season openwhat type of guys we have. No, one in Ford Field; the one that him, I’m doing that. You’re goer even got to overtime spoke we weren’t surprised.” he needed to add just two more ing for two. You’ve battled and volumes. The Saints, thanks Those who have followed the points to for a victory. slugged it out for that long, over mostly to a struggling offense 60 minutes. It’s time. (If) you get Saints from the very beginning through the first three quarters, shouldn’t be surprised, either. that (conversion), and now that trailed 21-0. Then they rattled Email Rod Walker at rwalker@ The Saints don’t have many tie brings a little life to your group off 17 straight points to make it theadvocate.com.

TALLAHASSEE,Fla.— Florida State ﬁred athletic director Michael Alford on Monday morning, school president Richard McCullough announced. Alford had held the job since January 2022 after he was hired in fall 2020 to be the president of Seminole Boosters. The dismissal was without cause, McCullough said. It’s not clear how much Alford is owed by Florida State on a four-year deal that was announced in August 2024. McCullough, speaking later Monday, said the decision to ﬁre Alford was necessary to compete in a college sports landscape that “is changing incredibly rapidly.” He appointed Bruce Warwick, currently the senior associate athletic director, to serve as interim athletic director. There will be a national search for Alford’s replacement.

Volunteers lose senior TE Davis to an ACL injury

Tennessee coach Josh Heupel said Monday that senior tight end Ethan Davis will miss the rest of the season with an ACL injury. “I hate it for Ethan,” Heupel said. “The work that he put into it, the growth of the person and the player, that the season’s cut short.” Davis opened the scoring for a second straight game for Tennessee (2-0), catching a 25-yard touchdown pass from Faizon Brandon on the Volunteers’ ﬁrst possession in a 4524 win at Georgia Tech on Saturday. The 6-foot-5, 247-pound tight end has played 26 games with 39 career receptions for 433 yards and six touchdowns. He joins a growing list of Volunteers with season-ending injuries, including receiver Joakim Dodson and safety Edrees Farooq.

Gibson retires after 17 NBA seasons, joins Bulls as coach

Taj Gibson has joined Tiago Splitter’s first coaching staff with the Chicago Bulls after playing for eight teams in 17 NBA seasons. Gibson announced the end of his playing career on Monday. The 6-foot-9 forward was selected by Chicago in the first round of the 2009 draft and played for the Bulls for his first seven-plus seasons. The 41-year-old Gibson averaged 8.3 points and 5.7 rebounds in 1,012 career games, also playing for the Oklahoma City Thunder, Minnesota Timberwolves, New York Knicks, Detroit Pistons, Charlotte Hornets and Memphis Grizzlies. Gibson was waived by New Orleans after he was acquired in a trade with Memphis last week. Splitter was hired by Chicago in June.

Raptors to complete trade for Leonard with Clippers

The trade sending Kawhi Leonard back to Toronto is ﬁnally going forward, with the Raptors and Los Angeles Clippers agreeing to complete the deal that was agreed to earlier this summer. The deal will be the same as what was agreed to 21/ 2 months ago: Leonard returns to the Raptors, with the Clippers getting Brandon Ingram, Gradey Dick, two firstround draft picks, two secondround picks and a pick swap. It’s a huge move for Toronto, which won the 2019 NBA title with Leonard leading the way and is expecting to contend in the Eastern Conference. But the sides put the agreement on hold in early July pending the resolution of the NBA’s investigation into whether the Clippers circumvented salarycap rules with regard to Leonard.

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Lamar Jackson dropped back on third and 16, and as the pocket collapsed, he somehow ducked between a couple of pass rushers before finding a running lane and taking off for the first down. “Playing football,” the two-time NFL MVP said. “Just playing football.” From the start, it was clear that the engine of the Baltimore offense was back. By the time the game was over, Jackson and the Ravens had amassed 506 total yards, making Jesse Minter a winner in his head coaching debut in a 41-23 victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. Jackson threw for 324 yards and a touchdown and also ran for a score, looking as spry as Baltimore had hoped after an injury-plagued 2025. The only real downers for the Ravens: a slew of offensive line penalties and two potentially problematic injuries to the receiving corps. “I think the confidence grows when you prepare well,” Minter said. “We put a lot of time over these last couple of weeks into this game plan, with it being the opener and the extra time that you have. So, you want to see the preparation pay off, and I felt like it really did in all three phases.” For a little while, Zay Flowers appeared headed toward an alltime great receiving day. He had a 49-yard catch-and-run on Baltimore’s first offensive play that set the Ravens up at the 2. His 54-yard touchdown reception made the score 21-6. After five possessions, he had five catches for 150 yards, but his day was also done because of hamstring issues. Rookie Ja’Kobi Lane had a touchdown catch wiped out by a penalty, and he ultimately left with a wrist injury.

LOS ANGELES — After spending time during training camp trying to manage Myles Garrett’s knee injury, it was the Los Angeles Rams’ dismal season-opening loss to the San Francisco 49ers that made it evident to everyone that the star defensive end needed surgery. Garrett did not record a tackle or sack while playing 61.5% of the defensive snaps in the Rams’ 27-7 defeat in Melbourne, Australia. Coach Sean McVay said Monday that conversations with Garrett immediately after the game last Thursday made it clear he couldn’t go on without an operation. The Rams could get some help soon on the defensive line, though it’s not clear yet when Aaron Donald will be ready to play. “We had been aware of this, thought it (Garrett’s knee) was something he would be able to work through,” McVay said. “Obviously, being out there and playing in a real game, you learn like, ‘Hey, maybe that’s not the case. So let’s change course with that.’ ” McVay did not have an updated timeline for Garrett’s recovery beyond the four-game minimum that comes with being placed on injured reserve, pending the results of the procedure. Garrett missed much of training camp because of what had been described as swelling in his knee, but McVay has not elaborated on the exact nature of the injury. The Rams acquired the reigning AP Defensive Player of the Year from the Cleveland Browns in a blockbuster trade for pass rusher Jared Verse and three draft picks in June knowing that Garrett’s workload had been

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Baltimore Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson congratulates Derrick Henry on his touchdown run during the first half of a game against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday in Indianapolis. The Ravens committed 10 penalties for 86 yards, almost all on offense. A hold on new center Jovaughn Gwyn took Lane’s touchdown off the board. Rookie Vega Ioane, a ﬁrst-round draft pick, was called for holding twice in the ﬁrst half. The usual names produced in a big way for the Ravens. In addition to Jackson’s work at quarterback, Derrick Henry ran for 144 yards and three touchdowns. Flowers was brilliant when he was in the game, and Mark Andrews had four catches. The Ravens looked extremely well prepared on offense under new coordinator Declan Doyle. “We have so many gifted players,” Andrews said. “So many tools at his disposal, and he is using them. It is just so much fun, and we are going to continue to get better

and focus and make big plays.” After a shaky preseason that led the Ravens to bring in some competition, Tyler Loop made field goals of 57 and 45 yards Sunday. The former was a career long. “Obviously, you have to make kicks and things like that, and in the preseason, he had a couple of mishaps,” Minter said. “But just the work ethic and the trust in the process in so many different things that he’s been working on, I expected nothing less. I am really happy for him that he performed that way today.” Baltimore was solid defensively at times and forced two turnovers, but the Ravens allowed 102 yards rushing on 20 carries. Minter will surely see room for improvement.

carefully managed in recent seasons. That was acceptable to McVay, who has frequently limited practice time for veteran players to maximize their game-day performance. “The reality is our job is to put our players and our team in positions to have successful outcomes,” McVay said. “Thought we would take an approach where he’d be feeling good enough to go contribute positive change and be the player that he’s capable of. That wasn’t the case, and so the next right thing for us is to be able to get this thing ﬁxed.” Garrett provided no indication he was physically compromised prior to the game, terming himself as “ready” last Tuesday. “I think I can go out there and do what I know I can do,” he said. During that news conference, Garrett embraced the high expectations that came with him joining the Rams, stating his goals for this season were to win the Super Bowl and repeat as AP Defensive Player of the Year. It was the addition of Garrett that accelerated the idea of the Rams as a super team, in part because his presence helped lure Donald out of retirement last month. McVay said Garrett’s absence would not have any effect on when the standout defensive tackle will return to the ﬁeld. Donald, a three-time AP Defensive Player of the Year, did not travel with the team to Australia as he works his way back into playing shape after two seasons out of football. McVay said it was too early to know whether Donald would play in the Rams’ home opener against the New York Giants on Monday. “He’s going to continue to work his process, and we’ll see what that looks like,” McVay said.

Dart, Likely connection helps Giants start season right BY STEPHEN WHYNO

AP sportswriter

Isaiah Likely was not at all surprised that he and Jaxson Dart clicked so quickly in their first game together that counts with the New York Giants. Their time spent watching ﬁlm and talking about football built a rapport. Then, the big tight end was the second-year quarterback’s most popular target by far throughout training camp. That chemistry was on full display in the Giants’ season-opening victory against Dallas on Sunday night, when Dart completed all eight passes he threw to Likely for 78 yards and two touchdowns. “We were really just playing and letting your talent shine,” Likely said. “Getting out there and ﬁnally showing the world what we’ve

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Continued from page 1C Johnson believes the Bears still have room to improve despite scoring touchdowns on their last four drives. “There’s still a number of things on there that I didn’t love just from the sideline perspective,” Johnson said. Entering the Broncos-Chiefs game on Monday night, teams had combined to score 750 points. The record in Week 1 is 791 in 2012. Here are nine takeaways from Sunday’s games:

Caleb in control Caleb Williams kicked off his second season in Johnson’s offense playing like a guy who is going to be an MVP candidate. He made precision throws, big plays with his legs and was in command for the Chicago offense from start to ﬁnish.

Ravens dominant Lamar Jackson, Derrick Henry and the Ravens were impressive in a 41-23 victory at Indianapolis, giving coach Jesse Minter his ﬁrst win. Baltimore has high expectations and the team’s core players were spectacular.

been practicing.” The arrival of Likely, who followed coach John Harbaugh from Baltimore, and return of No. 1 receiver Malik Nabers from an injury give the offense a couple of playmakers in the air to mix with Harbaugh’s run-focused approach. Nabers watched at camp as Likely got open on one play after another. He thinks the sure-handed 26-year-old helps level things out for Dart. “He just catches everything,” said Nabers, who played his ﬁrst game 350 days since going down with a torn ACL in his right knee. “Every time I turn around and when it goes to (No.) 9, I just know it’s going to get caught.” Harbaugh also was expecting immediate production from Likely, whom he had for four seasons with the Ravens be-

fore the Giants signed him to a three-year, $40 million contract in March. “I mean, we paid him a lot,” Harbaugh said with a laugh. “That’s what we paid him for, and he did it.” The running game, led by Cam Skattebo, got off to a strong start. He had 81 of the 170 yards the Giants gained on the ground (they only got credit for 165 because Dart lost 5 yards while kneeling out the clock). “It probably started with ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By PAMELA SMITH Skatt,” Harbaugh said on a vidNew york Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart, center, and tight end Isaiah eo call with reporters Monday. “He was running really, really Likely, right, react after Likely caught a touchdown pass from Dart against hard, really, really well. Set the the Dallas Cowboys during the second half on Sunday in East Rutherford, tempo, brought the energy, juice. N.J. I thought his reads were really good. Then of course the blocking, so there was a lot of good The offensive line of four return- cis Mauigoa played well, as did blocks.” ing starters and No. 10 pick Fran- fullback Patrick Ricard.

McDaniel’s first game as offensive coordinator, and the Cardinals pulled off the biggest upset of the week with a 26-14 win in Los Angeles. Rookie coach Mike LaFleur had an excellent game plan and QB Jacoby Brissett executed it well to lead Arizona, which was a 91/ 2-point underdog.

Bengals torment Mayfield

The Bengals bolstered a defense that desperately needed a makeover and it paid off early. Dexter Lawrence, Jonathan Allen and other new starters harassed Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield throughout the game in a 33-27 victory. Mayfield lost three fumbles in Big plays boost Philly his first game since signing a new Jalen Hurts and the Eagles were contract. Joe Burrow didn’t have to be up and down in offensive coordinator Sean Mannion’s first game, prolific thanks to Tampa Bay’s four relying on big plays to overcome turnovers. inconsistency. Hurts made enough splash plays to lead Philadelphia to Same old Watson a 24-22 win that was secured by the Deshaun Watson’s stat line defense stopping a two-point con- doesn’t tell the true story. The ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By ERIK VERDUZCO version. Browns were overmatched and Saquon Barkley got half of his 83 overwhelmed by the Jaguars, 34Chicago Bears quarterback Caleb Williams runs into the end zone against the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in Charlotte, N.C. The Bears won 59-37. yards rushing on a 42-yard carry. 10. It’s hard to imagine Watson will He’s going to need more running start Cleveland’s home opener in lanes. Week 3. Jackson, who dealt with injuries than brother Jim. Jaxson Dart, Last ride needs help last season, played like a two-time Cam Skattebo and the New York Packers miss Parsons MVP. The 32-year-old Henry ran Giants defeated Dallas 28-20 in The Green Bay Packers knocked Aaron Rodgers began his last like he’s 22. Zay Flowers had a ca- their first game with their new Kyler Murray out of the game and season in the NFL with a win in his reer day. The Colts now have lost coach. The Giants played like Har- had a 12-point lead in the second reunion with coach Mike McCareight straight games after starting baugh’s old Ravens teams. They half only to see Carson Wentz ral- thy. The Steelers beat the injury8-2 last year. Quarterback Daniel controlled the ball for almost 37 ly the Vikings to a 39-22 victory. depleted Falcons and third-string Jones was ineffective in his first minutes and kept Dak Prescott and Green Bay fell to 0-6 without All- QB Cooper Rush 20-13. Rodgers is game back from a torn Achilles, the Dallas playmakers off the field. Pro pass rusher Micah Parsons, clearly comfortable in McCarthy’s and the defense was poor. who is still recovering from ACL offense, and the 42-year-old still is McDaniel’s offense fizzles surgery. Jordan Love and the of- an elite passer. But DK Metcalf Harbaugh’s Giants debut Justin Herbert and the Chargers fense can’t afford to continue hav- struggled and the run game was lackluster. John Harbaugh had a better day had an inconsistent start in Mike ing so many miscues.

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COLLEGE FOOTBALL THREE AND OUT: SCOTT RABALAIS’ THREE THOUGHTS ON LANE KIFFIN’S NEWS CONFERENCE

IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU Lane Kiffin knew questions about him and Ole Miss were coming and seemed almost relieved to address the elephant in the room early. He clearly had an answer prepared. “It is a really unusual situation,” Kiffin said. “I know, obviously, a lot is going to be made about me, but this is about the players being prepared really well and playing really well. I’m not going to tackle anybody. I’m not going to score any touchdowns.”

SPEAKING OF TDS Ten LSU possessions reached the Louisiana Tech red zone Saturday resulting in five touchdowns, three field goals and two interceptions, one returned for a pick-six off Sam Leavitt. Kiffin said sometimes a lineman or receiver is to blame, but knows the offense, and Leavitt, must be better. “There were a lot of things we were doing right to move the ball,” Kiffin said, “but it doesn’t matter. you’ve got to finish drives.”

THE BRAND IS CHAOS Kiffin said recently he does well working within chaos. From the eligibility court cases to the SEC threats over rostering former NFL camp players to now the return to Ole Miss, Kiffin believes he’s got players who can deal with that. “All those kids choose us,” he said. “They know what they’re choosing. Kids who don’t think that way, they don’t come to us. We are a different type of program. We know who we are.”

Orgeron ‘doing better’ after health scare

BY REED DARCEY

Kifﬁn has denied that claim. It’s unclear whether Kifﬁn and LSU could still face discipline for their role in the ordeal. The SEC said last Thursday in a statement that its 16 presidents met to discuss “recent matters involving conference expectations and responsibilities” and that “discussions will continue as the conference and its member universities work toward an appropriate resolution.”

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LSU assistant coach Ed Orgeron is “doing better” after a health issue forced him to miss preseason practices and the first two games of the season, coach Lane Kiffin said Monday. Orgeron, the former LSU head LSU who’s now notebook coach working as a special assistant for recruiting and defense, started battling the health issue in midAugust. Kiffin said on Aug. 17 that he had sent Orgeron home from a practice because he “wasn’t feeling real well.” Since then, Orgeron has not been spotted in Tiger Stadium for the two contests the Tigers have played: a 51-10 win over Clemson and a 45-14 win over Louisiana Tech. “It was a little bit scary,” Kiffin said, without detailing the specific issue. Kiffin and Orgeron have known each other for more than 20 years. They worked on coach Pete Carroll‘s staff at Southern Cal from 2001-04, and Orgeron worked under Kiffin when he was the head coach at Tennessee in 2009 and USC from 2010-13. Orgeron took over the Trojans as interim coach after Kiffin was fired. In May, Kiffin hired Orgeron to his LSU staff on a one-year, $100,000 contract. Orgeron has spent the last four months helping the Tigers recruit high school players and coach defensive linemen. Both Kiffin and Orgeron also have worked as head coaches at Ole Miss, with Orgeron from 200507 and Kiffin from 2020-25. “He means a lot to me,” Kiffin said. “We’ve just been through a lot. He probably shouldn’t have joked one day. He said, ‘Hey coach, you know I’m never going to the

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Continued from page 1C Pi fraternity at Ole Miss (he declined to share his last name). “And then he ended up leaving, and we were all like, ‘What the hell?’ ” That was November. Ten months later, Ole Miss fans are still hurt by a coach who left them high and dry in the midst of the Rebels’ push for a national chamionship. Kifﬁn didn’t just leave; he left for the in-conference rival less than 350 miles south of Oxford. “I don’t understand why he did it,” Addy Stanford, a barista at High Point Coffee and Ole Miss student, said. “I understand that there’s money in it. I understand that the transfer portal is proba-

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Continued from page 1C This is arguably a bigger, more bitter circumstance in Oxford, Mississippi, because of how his six-year run with Ole Miss ended. Kiffin left for Baton Rouge just before the Rebels embarked on a run to the College Football Playoff semiﬁnals last season. His attempts to coach the team in the CFP, then bring staff and players with him to LSU, increased tensions a bit more. His mention of challenges recruiting Black athletes to Mississippi in a Vanity Fair article this past summer stoked more outrage. All year, college football fans have had Week 3 circled on their calendars, and Kifﬁn is at the center of the bull’s-eye. He thinks that’s advantageous for LSU. “Really, the pressure’s on them,” Kiffin said of Ole Miss, the program he coached from 2020-25. “We (LSU) won seven games last

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LSU assistant coach Ed Orgeron watches defensive line drills during preseason practice on Aug. 13 at the LSU practice fields.

LSU is beginning its season with five straight night games. ESPN announced Monday that the Tigers’ Sept. 26 home game against Texas A&M will kick off at 6:30 p.m. on ABC. That’s the same kickoff time that was set for each of LSU’s first three matchups: Clemson in Week 1, Louisiana Tech in Week 2 and Ole Miss in Week 3. The Tigers are also schedule to host McNeese State at 6:45 p.m. Oct. 3 in Tiger Stadium. The LSU-Ole Miss game is perhaps the most anticipated college football game of the season. Kiffin is set to return to Oxford, Mississippi, for the first time since he left the Rebels last year ahead of their College Football Playoff run. The matchup is both teams’ SEC opener. LSU, Ole Miss and Texas A&M are each top-10 teams in the latest edition of The AP Top 25 poll. They’re ranked seventh, eighth and ninth, respectively. The Tigers and Rebels are meeting as top-10 teams for the first time since 1962. LSU has dropped three of its last four matchups with the Aggies. In 2025, the Tigers lost 49-25 at home in the last game of Kelly’s tenure in Baton Rouge.

hospital. If I die, I’m dying on the field out there.’ “That’s who he is. That’s how he is with everything, and sometimes that’s not always the best thing to follow.” Orgeron, 65, was the LSU head coach from 2016-21. In 2019, he led the Tigers to a 15-0 record and a national championship. The school fired him during the 2021 season and hired coach Brian Kelly to replace him. Kiffin said Orgeron is spending parts of his weekdays at the LSU football operations building. When asked on Monday if Orgeron will travel with the Tigers for their showdown with Ole Miss on Saturday (6:30 p.m., ABC), Kiffin said “we haven’t gotten that far yet.”

“He’s doing better,” Kiffin said. it had scheduled for last Thursday “He’s still not all the way back.” on whether it wanted to expel LSU from of the league. Pro player drama “I appreciate the question,” KifKiffin sidestepped a question fin said. “We’ve really moved on Monday about his push to add for- from that, talked about that Satmer NFL training camp players urday and stuff. So we’re not goto his LSU roster, seemingly ending back there. But appreciate the ing for good the controversy that question.” The SEC has not yet dropped swirled around the first two weeks the federal lawsuit it filed against of the season. Last Tuesday, the Tigers decid- Kiffin, other top LSU officials and ed not to roster tight end Dae’Quan Louisiana Attorney General Liz MurWright and defensive tackle Zxavian ril. The conference submitted the Harris. Instead, Kiffin and his staff suit on Sept. 3, in part so it could slid two players who had suffered obtain the legal cover it needed to season-ending injuries into the levy penalties against LSU. In the pair of roster spots they had saved filing, the league accused Kiffin of for the two former Ole Miss start- orchestrating the courtroom saga ers. That move led the Southeast- that made Wright and Harris eligiern Conference to call off the vote bile to play college football again.

bly better down there, but I think that he made too many comments about how he loved Ole Miss so much just to leave like that.” The only person in Oxford downplaying the situation on Monday was Pete Golding. The Ole Miss coach. who was Kiffin’s defensive coordinator for nearly three seasons before he was promoted to the head job after Kifﬁn’s departure, was intent on normalizing the matchup at his weekly Monday news conference, despite the emotional baggage and amount of shared DNA between the teams. Not only Kifﬁn but also almost his entire offensive staff left for LSU. Wide receiver Winston Watkins, offensive lineman Devin Harper, edge rusher Princewill Umanmielen and linebacker TJ Dottery also switched addresses from Oxford to Baton Rouge.

Golding and many of his assistants worked under Kiffin and recruited and coached those players. The same is true on the LSU side, where several former LSU players and coaches now find themselves in Oxford. Running backs coach Frank Wilson landed at Ole Miss after ﬁnishing last year as the interim LSU coach, taking the gig after Brian Kelly got ﬁred. Offensive lineman Carius Curne and running back JT Lindsey spent their freshman year at LSU. Golding and Wilson are from Louisiana, and Kelly’s son, Patrick, is the assistant director of football support at Ole Miss after he worked under his father at LSU for four years. “To me, it’s like high school homecoming for these dudes,” Golding said, adding that playing

against Kiffin on Saturday will be like competing with friends in a round of golf. “If you focus on the wrong s***, that homecoming dance ain’t very fun after you get your butt beat on a Friday night.” Golding notes that the crosspollination between LSU and Ole Miss isn’t entirely uncommon in today’s era of college football. For example, when Ole Miss hosts Missouri on Oct. 17, it’ll face former starting quarterback Austin Simmons and former wide receiver Cayden Lee. But Saturday is different. When Kifﬁn returned to Tennessee as the Ole Miss coach in 2021, 11 years after he left Knoxville for Southern California, Volunteer fans threw golf balls and mustard bottles at him. Saturday could be uglier and rowdier, because this time Kifﬁn returns to Oxford less than 10 months after leaving.

“I know a lot is going to be made about me. But this is about the players,” Kifﬁn told reporters in Baton Rouge on Monday. “I’m not going to be tackling or throwing any touchdowns.” All of those storylines are seen as potential distractions for Kifﬁn and Golding, who have tried to keep their focus — and their teams’ focus — on one thing: winning Saturday. Even if this is no ordinary game. “Obviously, is there an emotional piece to this? Absolutely,” Golding said. “I think it’s going to be the team that can eliminate the noise and the distractions … that’s going to win the game.”

year. They won 13. They return two Heisman candidates (Trinidad Chambliss and Kewan Lacy). “How often does that ever happen in the same backfield? We had it one time with Matt Leinart and Reggie Bush,” Kiffin continued, thinking back to his days as an assistant at Southern Cal. He also remembered Ole Miss has the third-longest home winning streak in the country with 13 straight victories. “You guys just get to go play,” Kiffin told his LSU players, “and the pressure’s not on you.” Kiffin acknowledged there could be “real safety issues” in Oxford, but he said there are people who “have a plan for that.” The players themselves, especially on the LSU side, aren’t as ingrained in the Ole Miss storyline. Kiffin added 40-plus transfers this offseason from all over the country. He believes a particular type of athlete chooses his program anyway. They know who Kiffin is, the magnifying glass he lives under

and the attention LSU receives more broadly. He thinks that might be why the Tigers are 2-0, blowing out Clemson in the opener, despite outside noise that included the SEC threatening to expel LSU from the conference amid Kiffin’s attempts to add players who previously signed with NFL teams. “They know what they’re choosing. So kids that really maybe don’t think that way or that concerns them, they don’t come to us. They go to a different type of program,” Kiffin said. “They know what they’re getting into. We are who we are.” Kiffin believes those same players will be prepared for a hostile SEC opener on the road. The chess game between coaches could be a little more complicated, because Kiffin’s ex-defensive coordinator, now-Ole Miss head coach Pete Golding, spent years listening to what his offensive-minded boss did and didn’t like facing as they game-planned. When Kiffin became the head

coach at Ole Miss and faced his mentor, Alabama coach Nick Saban, he believed he had an advantage in those games. “As a head coach … Saban and I are much more going to tell them what we should play, things that cause us problems, than the coordinator is going to tell the head coach,” Kifﬁn said. “There’s just a lot of familiarity that’s probably never happened before when people play the next year, then half the coaches are split.” It’s a rare circumstance. Only a handful of head coaches in the modern era have jumped directly from one SEC program to another, including Tommy Tuberville from Ole Miss to Auburn in 1999 and Dan Mullen from Mississippi State to Florida in 2018. Houston Nutt jumped from Arkansas to Ole Miss ahead of the 2008 season, but he resigned from the Razorbacks before he jumped to the Rebels, replacing future LSU head coach Ed Orgeron, who is now on Kifﬁn’s staff. This particular intraconference

coaching switch is exceptionally amped up because LSU and Ole Miss were already rivals. They both head into their “Magnolia Bowl” matchup as top-10 teams for the first time since 1962. Many times over, Kiffin has tried to emphasize that neither side “lost” when he left Ole Miss for LSU. He came back to that point Monday. “It’s the most relevant matchup of these two teams in 64 years, both teams being that relevant,” Kiffin said. “That’s a really neat thing, that we were able to be a part of building a program there, that Pete’s doing a great job of continuing it as a top-10 program. When we got there (to Ole Miss), they’d won four games. “We got here eight months ago, and they were 7-6. So, I think it’s a really, really good thing that I think a lot of people could look at it and say, ‘Hey, both sides are doing really well, and both sides won.’ ”

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No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown set

LSWA FOOTBALL POLLS Class 5A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Points Prev. 1. Ruston (9) 2-0 130 1 2. Karr (2) 2-0 122 2 3. Alexandria 2-0 102 3 4. St. Augustine 2-0 99 4 5. Catholic-Baton Rouge 1-1 83 5 6. John Curtis 1-1 78 6 7. Archbishop Rummel 2-0 70 7 8. Acadiana 2-0 57 8 9. Brother Martin 2-0 40 9 10. Ouachita 2-0 20 NR Others receiving votes: West Monroe 19, Jesuit 9, Mandeville 9, Central 8, Barbe 4, St. Thomas More 2, Destrehan 1, Southside 1, Thibodaux 1.

Top-ranked Ruston to meet Karr on Saturday in Superdome

Class 4A

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

Ruston and Enda Karr will meet in a No. 1 vs. No. 2 showdown Saturday at the Caesars Superdome. Although the pairing has been known for months, the matchup required 2-0 starts for both schools to keep their places atop the LSWA polls released on Monday. Coming off of a 50-0 win at Huntington, No. 2 Karr will put its 29-game winning streak on the line against No. 1 Ruston, which features top LSU recruit Ahmad Hudson, a tight end. The 6-foot-7 Hudson was last year’s Class 5A offensive player of the year before also earning the LSWA’s Mr. Basketball selection STAFF FILE PHOTO By BRETT DUKE for his outstanding play in both Karr coach Brice Brown, left, celebrates after his team’s win against St. Augustine in the Division I select sports. state championship game on Dec. 13 at the Caesars Superdome. The second-ranked Cougars will take on The second game in the Dome doubleheader will put No. 4 St. Au- No. 1 Ruston on Saturday in the Caesars Superdome. Kickoff is set for 3 p.m. gustine against East Ascension. WEEK 3 SCHEDULE Another matchup between ranked teams is No. 7 Rummel All games 7 p.m. unless noted. Country Day at Sacred Heart-Ville Platte Riverside at Ponchatoula against Class 4A No. 2 Shaw. De La Salle at St. Paul’s Rummel at Shaw Other New Orleans area teams in Thursday’s games East St. John at West Feliciana Salmen at Chalmette McMain vs. Riverdale at Yenni, 6:30 p.m. East Jefferson at Newman the 5A rankings include No. 6 John Slidell at Lutcher St. Thomas Aquinas vs. Patrick Taylor at Ellender vs. Sarah T. Reed at Joe Brown West Jefferson at Destrehan Curtis and No. 9 Brother Martin. Memtsas, 6:30 p.m. Fontainebleu at Pearl River West St. John at Capitol Franklinton at Pine Jesuit, Mandeville and Destrehan Jefferson Rise vs. Abramson at Joe Brown Saturdays’s games Sophie B. Wright at Willow Hahnville at E.D. White all received votes. St. Martin’s at Glen Oaks Hammond vs. Higgins at Memtsas Kenner Discovery vs. Thomas Jefferson at Hannan at Pope John Paul II St. Charles stayed at No. 1 in 3A Young Audiences vs. L.B. Landry at Morris Memtsas, 2 p.m. Haynes at Ben Franklin F.X. Jeff Sr. Stadium Ruston vs. Edna Karr at Caesars Superafter a 28-27 overtime win against Holy Cross at St. Charles Friday’s games dome, 3 p.m. Jesuit vs. Bonnabel at Yenni Hahnville. East Ascension vs. St. Augustine at Caesars Belle Chasse at South Plaquemines John Curtis at Lafayette Renaissance Salmen is No. 10 in 4A. In 1A are Booker T. Washington at Mamou Superdome, 6 p.m. John Ehret at Central-BR Ben Franklin vs. Haynes at Yenni Brother Martin vs. Warren Easton at Pan Kennedy at St. Amant No. 2 Riverside and No. 10 South Morris Jeff vs. Fisher at Memtsas American Lakeshore at Northshore Plaquemines. Open date: Cohen, Northlake Christian Carver at Mandeville McDonogh 35 at Covington

School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Points Prev. 1. Westgate (8) 2-0 128 1 2. Archbishop Shaw (1) 2-0 118 2 3. North DeSoto (1) 2-0 104 3 4. Neville (1) 1-1 100 4 5. Lake Charles Prep 2-0 88 6 6. Madison Prep 1-1 78 7 7. Franklin Parish 1-1 54 8 8. Cecilia 2-0 51 9 9. Plaquemine 1-1 49 5 10. Salmen 1-1 36 NR Others receiving votes: Lafayette Renaissance 20, John F. Kennedy 15, E.D. White 6, Belle Chasse 3, Teurlings Catholic 3, Carencro 1.

Class 3A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Points Prev. 1. St. Charles (11) 2-0 136 1 2. St. James 2-0 114 T3 3. Jena 2-0 110 5 4. Sterlington 1-1 95 2 5. Iowa 1-1 70 9 6. University 0-2 67 T3 7. Jewel Sumner 1-1 63 6 8. Loyola Prep 1-1 53 8 9. Marksville 2-0 49 NR 10. Vandebilt Catholic 1-1 41 7 Others receiving votes: Iota 19, Northwest 4, Erath 4, De La Salle 3, Carroll 1, Eunice 1.

Class 2A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Points Prev. 1. Calvary Baptist (9) 2-0 129 2 2. Dunham (2) 1-1 119 1 3. Notre Dame 2-0 111 4 4. Mangham 1-1 95 6 5. Lafayette Christian 2-0 81 8 6. Oak Grove 1-1 79 3 7. Amite 2-0 76 9 8. Kinder 1-1 53 5 9. Catholic-New Iberia 1-1 36 7 10. Mansﬁeld 2-0 29 NR Others receiving votes: Newman 25, Loreauville 19, West St. Mary 6, Covenant Christian 3, Country Day 2, Union Parish 2.

Class 1A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Points Prev. 1. Ouachita Christian (8) 2-0 129 1 2. Riverside Academy (3) 2-0 123 2 3. Ascension Catholic 2-0 109 3 4. Jeanerette 2-0 96 4 5. Haynesville 1-1 83 5 6. Logansport 2-0 69 6 7. Southern Lab 2-0 66 7 8. Kentwood 2-0 59 8 9. Westminster-Lafayette 2-0 45 9 10. South Plaquemines 1-1 25 NR Others receiving votes: Cedar Creek 21, East Feliciana 12, Lincoln Prep 11, St. Edmund 6, Westminster-Opelousas 5.

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Larson puts himself in Chase as Bristol awaits BY JEFF LATZKE

The Associated Press

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Caitlin Clark of the United States, right, guards Marieme Badiane of France during the women’s FIBA World Cup final on Sunday in Berlin. The Americans won 97-79 for their fifth championship in a row.

U.S. women show hint of vulnerability in win BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

BERLIN — The names may change, but the results are the same for the U.S. women’s basketball team — another FIBA World Cup title. The Americans’ ﬁfth championship in a row came Sunday in a 9779 victory over France. It wasn’t as easy as the previous four, with the U.S. showing some vulnerability throughout the tournament. A three-point win over Italy in group play gave other teams hope. A tight game against Spain in the semifinals also raised some eyebrows. France held a 14-point ﬁrst-half lead in the title game — the biggest deficit the Americans had faced since their last loss in a major competition when Russia beat them in the semifinals of the 2006 World Cup. But the U.S. was calm and not worried. The game ended the same way the previous 35 had for the Americans, with a victory. “We are the standard,” said Breanna Stewart, who scored 22 points and earned MVP honors of the tournament for a record second time. “USA Basketball has continued to show up and go for gold and to have done that however many times consecutively is an insane stat. We want to make sure that we continue to build on that standard and everybody else knows it.” This might have been the best

chance for someone to beat the U.S. The Americans were missing four-time WNBA MVP A’ja Wilson and the roster was full of newcomers, including Caitlin Clark, Angel Reese and Paige Bueckers. Kara Lawson was coaching and getting better acquainted with the secondyoungest American squad in the past 40-plus years. Clark, Reese and Bueckers gained valuable experience and will be integral for the U.S. to continue its success over the next decade. France, which lost to the U.S. by a point in the Paris Olympics gold medal game two years ago, thought it could be the team to end the Americans’ two decades of dominance. For nearly a half, the French had it going. There was no panic on the U.S. side, thanks in part to the ultimate winner Stewart, who has two World Cup MVPs now — the ﬁrst player to ever accomplish that. She’s only 32 years old and has four World Cup championships on her resume. The Americans calmly rallied within two points at the half as Clark’s 3-pointer just before the buzzer capped the rally. The U.S. then put it away in the third quarter. “I think we felt really good about where we were at,” said Clark, who finished with 12 points. “I think France was 8 for 14 (from 3-point range). We dug ourself a hole, but we climbed out of it, and I felt like

we were never rattled by anything.” With Stewart and Wilson most likely leading the way at the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics, teams will be hard-pressed to end this run by the Americans. Besides their World Cup success, they also haven’t lost an Olympic game in 34 years. While the U.S. will be favored to capture gold at home, there are teams on the rise that will challenge them. France has a really good core led by Gabby Williams, Marine Johannes and Dominique Malonga. The French looked dominant throughout the World Cup, blowing past opponents by an average of 35.6 points. They kept that momentum going at the start against the U.S. before falling short once again. Still, the silver medal ﬁnish was the country’s best in the history of the event. Spain, which won the bronze medal, has a really talented young nucleus with Iyana Martin and Awa Fam, who are both 20. One of the biggest weaknesses for the U.S. is a lack of training time. The team got together as a whole group for the ﬁrst time a few days before the World Cup began. That won’t be a problem in 2030 when the tournament will be played in Japan. FIBA shifted the dates of it to late November and early December. That means the Americans will have ample time after the WNBA season is over to get together to train.

MADISON, Ill. — Even as his winless drought stretched on for more than a year and Hendrick Motorsports’ Chevrolets lagged behind his competitors’ Toyotas, Kyle Larson never lost faith in his abilities or trust in his team. After a timely win in NASCAR’s Chase, Larson is only nine points behind postseason leader Denny Hamlin and within striking distance of a second straight Cup Series title. Larson vaulted from seventh in the Chase standings to second with his win Sunday in the Enjoy Illinois 300 outside St. Louis, snapping a string of 51 consecutive races without a victory. It was the longest such stretch for Larson since he joined the powerful Hendrick garage in 2021. “I can see how on paper or in media’s eyes — or maybe even some competitors’ eyes — that you could doubt us, and I think that’d be reasonable,” said Larson, shrugging off the notion that he could be seen as an underdog during his season of struggles. “You know, we hadn’t won in 51 races, and yeah, we were kind of just mid throughout the season, and not starting as high as we want to be in the Chase. “So I could see that, but I don’t really view myself as that, and I don’t really feel like, ‘Oh, I’ve got ... I’m going to prove them wrong’ either.” Larson was encouraged by a competitive showing in the playoff-opening Southern 500, leading a race-high 99 laps before settling for ﬁfth place. He and crew chief Cliff Daniels thought Joey Logano had a better car Sunday at Gateway, but Larson was able to pull off the win by passing Logano on a late restart in regulation and holding him off in overtime. Despite it being just his first

win of the season, compared to four for Hamlin, Larson is in great position heading into the Saturday night race at Bristol Motor Speedway, where he has been particularly strong. Larson led 284 laps in this year’s spring race before finishing third, and even that was a step back from his recent Bristol dominance. He led 462 of 500 in a triumphant 2024 night race and followed that up by leading 411 in his 2025 spring victory. “We’re just trying to do the best job we can and try to score as many points as we can,” Larson said. “And, I mean, I would love to be nine points ahead (rather) than nine points behind right now. But you know, it’s been a good start to our Chase.” And a complete 180 from how the season started. Daniels confessed that the Hendrick teams underestimated their gap to the Toyotas, which won five of the first six races, then flailed by trying to do too much in their setups at early races, including Darlington and Phoenix. “We have learned through those mistakes that we can’t just go overreach on everything every week,” Daniels said. “Like, everything can’t be in question every week. There’s some things that have to be your solid foundation point.” Jeff Gordon, a four-time Cup Series champion and the current Hendrick vice chairman, credited Larson and his team for continuing to work hard without getting deterred by mistakes or strategic decisions that didn’t pan out. “The thing that gets you down the most, especially when you’ve had success, is not having fast race cars, not having cars capable of of running up front,” Gordon said, relating to his own career. “And I think if anything has probably challenged those guys the most, it’s that.”

Kyle Larson celebrates after winning a NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday in Madison, Ill. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By CONNOR HAMILTON

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Arizona 26, L.A. Chargers 14 Las Vegas 27, Miami 13 Minnesota 39, Green Bay 22 Philadelphia 24, Washington 22 N.Y. Giants 28, Dallas 20

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Monday’s Games

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3 4½ (53½) Detroit

Sunday

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Monday

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Friday

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Saturday

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Seattle 13, New England 10

Thursday’s Games

San Francisco 27, L.A. Rams 7

Sunday’s Games

Late Sunday N.Y. Giants 28, Dallas 20 Dallas 0 7 7 6 — 20 N.Y. Giants 7 7 7 7 — 28 First Quarter NYG_Skattebo 3 run (Zvada kick), 6:40. Second Quarter Dal_Lamb 1 pass from Prescott (Aubrey kick), 5:44. NYG_Likely 15 pass from Dart (Zvada kick), :20. Third Quarter NYG_Likely 2 pass from Dart (Zvada kick), 6:56. Dal_J.Williams 1 run (Aubrey kick), :37. Fourth Quarter NYG_Singletary 9 pass from Dart (Zvada kick), 7:23. Dal_J.Williams 17 pass from Prescott (kick failed), 5:21.

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OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 10½ 10½ (51½) Syracuse

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Baltimore 41, Indianapolis 23 Buffalo 36, Houston 31 Chicago 59, Carolina 37 Cincinnati 33, Tampa Bay 27 Detroit 31, New Orleans 30, OT Jacksonville 34, Cleveland 10 N.Y. Jets 23, Tennessee 10 Pittsburgh 20, Atlanta 13

Dal NYG First downs 21 29 Total Net Yards 244 394 Rushes-yards 18-69 37-165 Passing 175 229 Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 Kickoff Returns 5-122 3-65 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 1-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-34-1 23-29-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 0-0 2-1 Punts 2-48.0 1-46.0 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 4-1 Penalties-Yards 9-90 10-114 Time of Possession 23:20 36:40 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Dallas, J.Williams 12-41, Prescott 2-14, Luepke 1-7, Demercado 2-7, Lamb 1-0. N.Y. Giants, Skattebo 18-81, Dart 11-54, Singletary 6-16, Tracy 2-14. PASSING_Dallas, Prescott 22-34-1-175. N.Y. Giants, Dart 23-29-0-230. RECEIVING_Dallas, Lamb 5-44, J.Williams 5-31, Pickens 3-28, Flournoy 2-22, Spann-Ford 2-14, Ferguson 2-6, Schoonmaker 1-12, Mingo 1-10, Turpin 1-8. N.Y. Giants, Likely 8-78, Nabers 6-69, Singletary 4-22, Mooney 2-27, Fields 2-25, Johnson 1-9. MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

College football College football schedule All Times Central

Thursday’s games EAST

Syracuse (1-1) at Pittsburgh (2-0), 6:30 p.m. Friday, September 18

SOUTH

Miami (2-0) at Wake Forest (2-0), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Houston (2-0) at Texas Tech (2-0), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Portland St. (0-3) at Oregon (1-1), 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST

Coastal Carolina (1-1) at Delaware (1-1), 10:30 a.m. Villanova (1-2) at LIU Brooklyn (0-3), 11 a.m. Buffalo (1-1) at Penn St. (2-0), 11 a.m. Brown (0-0) at New Haven (1-2), 11 a.m. Lafayette (1-1) at Columbia (0-0), 11 a.m. Dartmouth (0-0) at Lehigh (3-0), 11 a.m. Princeton (0-0) at Bryant (2-1), noon Glenville St. (0-1) at Mercyhurst (0-3), noon Harvard (0-0) at New Hampshire (1-2), noon Cornell (0-0) at Colgate (2-1), noon Maine (1-2) at Boston College (1-1), 1 p.m. Yale (0-0) at Holy Cross (0-3), 1 p.m. Rhode Island (2-1) at Stony Brook (1-2), 1:30 p.m. Penn (0-0) at Bucknell (1-2), 2 p.m. Stonehill (1-2) at UMass (2-0), 2:30 p.m. Monmouth (NJ) (1-2) at Albany (NY) (2-1), 2:30 p.m. Southern Cal (3-0) at Rutgers (0-2), 2:30 p.m. Morgan St. (2-1) at Towson (0-3), 5 p.m. Virginia Tech (2-0) at Maryland (2-0), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTH

Mercer (2-1) at Georgia Tech (0-2), 11 a.m. North Carolina (2-0) at Clemson (1-1), 11 a.m. West Georgia (0-3) at ETSU (1-2), 11 a.m. NC State (1-1) at Vanderbilt (2-0), 11:45 a.m. VMI (0-3) at Davidson (1-2), noon Presbyterian (1-1) at W. Carolina (1-2), 1:30 p.m. Florida St. (1-1) at Alabama (2-0), 2:30 p.m. SMU (2-0) at Louisville (1-1), 2:30 p.m. Georgetown (0-1) at Richmond (2-1), 2:30 p.m. Va. Lynchburg (0-2) at Bethune-Cookman (1-1), 3 p.m. Hampton (1-2) at Norfolk St. (1-2), 3 p.m. Ball St. (1-1) at Liberty (1-1), 3 p.m. Stanford (1-1) at Duke (2-0), 3 p.m. Mississippi St. (2-0) at South Carolina (2-0), 3:15 p.m. SE Louisiana (1-2) at Louisiana-Monroe (0-2), 3:30 p.m. NC A&T (0-3) at Campbell (2-1), 5 p.m. East Carolina (0-2) at Old Dominion (1-1), 5 p.m. Point (Ga.) (0-0) at Charleston Southern (1-2), 5 p.m. Fordham (0-3) at William & Mary (2-1), 5 p.m. Wofford (2-1) at Chattanooga (1-2), 5 p.m. NC Central (2-1) at Gardner-Webb (0-3), 5 p.m. Charlotte (0-2) at Appalachian St. (2-0), 5 p.m. Sacred Heart (0-2) at Elon (2-1), 5 p.m. Dayton (2-0) at E. Kentucky (1-2), 5 p.m. FIU (1-1) at FAU (1-1), 5 p.m. Louisiana College (1-0) at Southern U. (1-2), 6 p.m. SC State (3-0) at Furman (2-1), 6 p.m. Tuskegee (0-0) at Jackson St. (2-0), 6 p.m. Florida (2-0) at Auburn (2-0), 6 p.m. Austin Peay (2-1) at West Florida (2-0), 6 p.m. Ohio (1-1) at South Alabama (1-1), 6 p.m. Delaware St. (2-1) at South Florida (2-0), 6 p.m. Nevada (1-1) at Middle Tennessee (1-1), 6 p.m. Tennessee St. (0-3) at Florida A&M (1-2), 6 p.m. Alcorn St. (2-1) at North Alabama (1-2), 6 p.m. Delta St. (0-0) at MVSU (1-2), 6 p.m. Georgia Southern (1-1) at Jacksonville St. (1-2), 6 p.m. Bowie St. (0-1) at Alabama A&M (2-1), 6 p.m. UT Martin (1-2) at Memphis (2-1), 6 p.m. UConn (1-1) at Southern Miss. (1-1), 6 p.m. Georgia St. (2-0) at UCF (1-1), 6 p.m. LSU (2-0) at Mississippi (2-0), 6:30 p.m. Virginia (2-0) vs. West Virginia (2-0) at Charlotte, N.C., 6:30 p.m. Kennesaw St. (1-1) at Tennessee (2-0), 6:45 p.m. UAB (1-1) at Louisiana-Lafayette (1-1), 7 p.m.

MIDWEST

Kansas (1-1) vs. Arizona St. (1-1) at London, United Kingdom, 11 a.m. Kent St. (1-1) at Ohio St. (1-1), 11 a.m. Bowling Green (0-2) at Iowa St. (1-1), 11 a.m. Tulane (1-1) at Kansas St. (2-0), 11 a.m. Akron (1-1) at Minnesota (1-1), 11 a.m. E. Michigan (1-2) at Wisconsin (1-1), 11:30 a.m. Valparaiso (1-1) at Indiana St. (1-2), noon Chicago State (1-2) at Butler (2-1), noon Wyoming (1-1) at Cent. Michigan (1-1), noon S. Illinois (2-1) at Illinois (1-1), 1 p.m. S. Utah (1-2) at St. Thomas (Minn.) (2-1), 1 p.m. Temple (1-1) at Toledo (1-1), 2 p.m. E. Illinois (1-2) at Illinois St. (3-0), 2 p.m. UTEP (1-1) at Michigan (2-0), 2:30 p.m. Cincinnati (2-0) vs. Miami (Ohio) (1-1) at Cincinnati, 2:30 p.m. W. Kentucky (0-2) at Indiana (2-0), 3 p.m. N. Iowa (1-1) at Iowa (2-0), 3 p.m. Marshall (1-1) at Missouri St. (1-1), 5:30 p.m. Morehead St. (1-2) at W. Illinois (1-2), 6 p.m. Youngstown St. (2-1) at S. Dakota St. (2-1), 6 p.m. Cent. Arkansas (2-1) at SE Missouri (1-2), 6 p.m. Troy (2-0) at Missouri (2-0), 6 p.m. North Dakota (3-0) at Nebraska (2-0), 6:15 p.m. Michigan St. (2-0) at Notre Dame (2-0), 6:30 p.m. Colorado (2-0) at Northwestern (1-0), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

North Texas (1-1) at Texas State (0-2), 11 a.m. Georgia (2-0) at Arkansas (1-1), 11 a.m. Kentucky (1-1) at Texas A&M (2-0), 2:30 p.m. Louisiana Tech (1-1) at Baylor (1-1), 3 p.m.

Central St. (Ohio) (0-1) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (1-2), 4 p.m. W. Michigan (1-1) at Rice (1-1), 6 p.m. Murray St. (1-2) at Oklahoma St. (1-1), 6 p.m. Nicholls (2-1) at Sam Houston St. (0-2), 6 p.m. Merrimack (1-2) at Tarleton St. (3-0), 6 p.m. Houston Christian (2-1) at Incarnate Word (1-1), 6 p.m. New Mexico (2-0) at Oklahoma (1-1), 6:30 p.m. Arkansas St. (1-1) at TCU (1-1), 7 p.m. East Texas A&M (1-2) at Tulsa (2-0), 7 p.m. McNeese St. (1-2) at UT Rio Grande Valley (1-2), 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin (3-0) at Prairie View (1-2), 7 p.m. UTSA (2-0) at Texas (2-0), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

CCSU (0-2) at Montana St. (3-0), 2 p.m. Duquesne (0-2) at Washington St. (0-2), 2:30 p.m. Utah St. (0-2) at Utah (2-0), 2:30 p.m. Wagner (1-2) at California (1-1), 2:30 p.m. Abilene Christian (0-3) at Idaho (0-3), 3 p.m. E. Washington (1-2) at Washington (2-0), 6:15 p.m. BYU (2-0) at Colorado St. (2-0), 6:30 p.m. Northwestern St. (0-3) at Weber St. (1-2), 7 p.m. Northeastern St. (0-0) at N. Colorado (0-3), 7 p.m. San Diego (0-2) at Cal Poly (2-1), 7 p.m. N. Arizona (2-1) at Utah Tech (0-3), 7 p.m. Stetson (1-2) at UC Davis (2-1), 9 p.m. South Dakota (3-0) at Boise St. (1-1), 9 p.m. James Madison (2-0) at San Diego St. (1-1), 9 p.m. N. Dakota St. (3-0) at Sacramento St. (1-2), 9:30 p.m. N. Illinois (0-2) at Arizona (1-1), 9:30 p.m. Montana (3-0) at Oregon St. (0-2), 10 p.m. Fresno St. (1-1) at San Jose St. (2-1), 10 p.m. Purdue (1-1) at UCLA (2-0), 10 p.m.

FCS Top 25 Poll

RANK REC PTS PRV 1. Montana St. (26) 3-0 650 1 2. Montana 3-0 601 2 3. South Dakota St. 2-1 595 3 4. Illinois St. 3-0 578 4 5. Tarleton St. 3-0 552 5 6. North Dakota 3-0 483 7 7. Lehigh 3-0 473 8 8. Stephen F. Austin 3-0 432 9 9. Youngstown St. 2-1 405 10 10. Tennessee Tech 3-0 393 11 11. UC Davis 2-1 389 6 12. South Dakota 3-0 370 12 13. Rhode Island 2-1 331 13 14. Austin Peay 2-1 317 15 15. Lamar 2-1 268 17 16. South Carolina St. 3-0 194 20 17. West Florida 2-0 178 2. 18. Idaho St. 3-0 177 24 19. Northern Arizona 2-1 174 23 20. Yale 0-0 160 19 21. William & Mary 2-1 103 16 22. Mercer 2-1 93 14 23.Villanova 1-2 83 18 24.Furman 2-1 74 NR 25.Southern Illinois 2-1 70 NR Dropped Out: Richmond (21), Abilene Christian (25) Others Receiving Votes: Richmond, 67; Cal Poly, 51; Colgate, 30; Wofford, 27; Jackson St., 20; Prairie View A&M, 20; Harvard, 18; Central Arkansas, 16; Southern Utah, 13; Alabama St., 10; Elon, 7; HCU, 6; Campbell, 4; Robert Morris (Pa.), 4; UAlbany, 3; Abilene Christian, 2; Dartmouth, 2; Nicholls, 2; UT Martin, 2; Monmouth (N.J.), 1; San Diego, 1; Southeast Missouri St., 1.

Auto racing NASCAR Cup Series Enjoy Illinois 300 Results Late Sunday

At World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway Madison, Ill. Lap length: 1.25 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (2) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 247 laps, 73 points. 2. (11) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 247, 38. 3. (1) Joey Logano, Ford, 247, 54. 4. (24) William Byron, Chevrolet, 247, 33. 5. (20) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 247, 32. 6. (22) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 247, 31. 7. (19) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 247, 30. 8. (6) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 247, 34. 9. (10) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 247, 33. 10. (13) Austin Cindric, Ford, 247, 27. 11. (26) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 247, 26. 12. (23) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 247, 34. 13. (25) Erik Jones, Toyota, 247, 24. 14. (7) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 247, 24. 15. (28) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 247, 22. 16. (17) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 247, 21. 17. (14) Ryan Preece, Ford, 247, 24. 18. (9) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 247, 21. 19. (4) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 247, 27. 20. (29) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 247, 17. 21. (27) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 247, 0. 22. (30) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 247, 15. 23. (35) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 247, 14. 24. (34) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 247, 13. 25. (18) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 247, 15. 26. (36) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 247, 11. 27. (21) Chris Buescher, Ford, accident, 237, 10. 28. (16) Josh Berry, Ford, 231, 15. 29. (15) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, accident, 229, 8. 30. (32) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, accident, 227, 7. 31. (8) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, accident, 214, 12. 32. (5) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, accident, 213, 11. 33. (31) Noah Gragson, Ford, accident, 198, 4. 34. (33) Riley Herbst, Toyota, accident, 176, 3. 35. (3) Ryan Blaney, Ford, accident, 154, 16. 36. (12) Zane Smith, Ford, accident, 129, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 81.469 mph. Time of Race: 3 hours, 47 minutes, 23 seconds. Margin of Victory: .333 seconds. Caution Flags: 18 for 87 laps. Lead Changes: 11 among 5 drivers. Lap Leaders: J.Logano 0-47; B.Keselowski 48-65; R.Chastain 66-80; K.Larson 81-136; J.Logano 137-158; K.Larson 159-162; J.Berry 163; B.Keselowski 164-181; J.Logano 182-201; B.Keselowski 202-220; J.Logano 221-227; K.Larson 228-247 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): J.Logano, 4 times for 96 laps; K.Larson, 3 times for 80 laps; B.Keselowski, 3 times for 55 laps; R.Chastain, 1 time for 15 laps; J.Berry, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; R.Blaney, 3; T.Gibbs, 2; J.Logano, 2; C.Elliott, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; K.Larson, 1; C.Bell, 1; C.Briscoe, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; R.Preece, 1; D.Suárez, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. D.Hamlin, 2168; 2. K.Larson, 2159; 3. C.Bell, 2150; 4. R.Blaney, 2135; 5. T.Reddick, 2126; 6. T.Gibbs, 2117; 7. J.Logano, 2117; 8. C.Briscoe, 2109; 9. C.Hocevar, 2080; 10. B.Wallace, 2078; 11. C.Elliott, 2075; 12. A.Cindric, 2060; 13. C.Buescher, 2057; 14. R.Preece, 2055; 15. W.Byron, 2054; 16. D.Suárez, 2049. NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Recalled RHP Codi Heuer from Norfolk (IL). Optioned RHP Yaramil Hiraldo to Norfolk. DETROIT TIGERS — Reinstated RHP Keider Montero from the paternity list. Optioned RHP Yilber Díaz to Toledo (IL). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Recalled RHP Lucas Erceg from Omaha (IL). Optioned RHP Easton McGee to Omaha. TORONTO BLUE JAYS — Recalled LF Davis Schneider and LHP Brendan Cellucci from Buffalo (IL). Optioned LHP Ricky Tiedemann to Buffalo. Placed RF Rudy Martin Jr. on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Sept. 13. National League ARIZONA DIAMONDBACKS — Claimed RF Jesús Sánchez off waivers from Toronto. ATLANTA BRAVES — Recalled RHP Owen Murphy from Gwinnett (IL). Designated LHP Bailey Falter for assignment. LOS ANGELES DODGERS — Recalled RHPs Bobby Miller and Paul Gervase from Oklahoma City (PCL). Optioned RHP Emmet Sheehan to Oklahoma City. Placed RHP Edgardo Henriquez on the 15-day IL. SAN DIEGO PADRES — Reinstated 1B Ty France from the paternity list. Optioned 2B Mason McCoy to El Paso (PCL).

FOOTBALL

National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed DB Ladarius Webb Jr. to the practice squad. Released LB Dominic DeLuca from the practice squad.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL American League East Division

National League

z-Tampa Bay New York Boston Toronto Baltimore

W 90 86 82 75 72

L 59 63 68 75 78

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GB — 4 8½ 15½ 18½

Chicago Cleveland Detroit Minnesota Kansas City

W 76 76 70 70 66

L 73 74 79 79 84

Pct .510 .507 .470 .470 .440

GB — ½ 6 6 10½

W L Houston 75 75 Texas 74 76 Seattle 70 80 Athletics 61 89 Los Angeles 56 93 z-clinched playoff berth

Pct .500 .493 .467 .407 .376

GB — 1 5 14 18½

Central Division

West Division

East Division

W 88 83 74 70 69

L 62 67 76 81 80

Pct .587 .553 .493 .464 .463

GB — 5 14 18½ 18½

W 93 83 75 74 70

L 57 67 75 76 79

Pct .620 .553 .500 .493 .470

GB — 10 18 19 22½

W L Los Angeles 90 59 San Diego 81 68 Arizona 79 71 San Francisco 62 88 Colorado 55 94 z-clinched playoff berth

Pct .604 .544 .527 .413 .369

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Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

Central Division z-Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati West Division

Sunday’s Games

Monday’s Games

Tuesday’s Games

Detroit 8, Colorado 1 N.Y. Yankees 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Washington 6, L.A. Angels 5 Tampa Bay 14, Houston 4 Toronto 8, Baltimore 1 St. Louis 3, Chicago White Sox 1 Cleveland 9, Minnesota 2 Boston 4, Kansas City 1 Texas 7, Arizona 6 Athletics 8, Seattle 7

Detroit 8, Colorado 1 N.Y. Yankees 2, N.Y. Mets 0 Washington 6, L.A. Angels 5 Philadelphia 9, Atlanta 4 Miami 6, L.A. Dodgers 4 St. Louis 3, Chicago White Sox 1 Cincinnati 4, Milwaukee 3 Pittsburgh 4, Chicago Cubs 3 Texas 7, Arizona 6 San Diego 6, San Francisco 4

Chicago White Sox 7, Cleveland 3 Baltimore 2, N.Y. Mets 1 Detroit at Toronto, n Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, n N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, n Seattle at L.A. Angels, n

L.A. Dodgers 4, Cincinnati 1 Baltimore 2, N.Y. Mets Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, n San Francisco at St. Louis, n San Diego at Colorado, n Miami at Arizona, n

Athletics at Tampa Bay, 5:40 p.m. Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 5:40 p.m. Detroit at Toronto, 6:07 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Minnesota, 6:40 p.m. Boston at Texas, 7:05 p.m. Kansas City at Houston, 7:10 p.m. Seattle at L.A. Angels, 8:38 p.m.

L.A. Dodgers at Cincinnati, 5:40 p.m. Milwaukee at Pittsburgh, 5:40 p.m. Philadelphia at Washington, 5:45 p.m. Baltimore at N.Y. Mets, 6:10 p.m. Atlanta at Chicago Cubs, 6:40 p.m. San Francisco at St. Louis, 6:45 p.m. San Diego at Colorado, 7:40 p.m. Miami at Arizona, 8:40 p.m.

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

W 86 82 76 75 74 72

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W 83 83 81 79

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BOX SCORES L.A. Dodgers 4, Cincinnati 1

Chi White Sox 7, Cleveland 3

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Chicago

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THIS DATE IN BASEBALL Sept. 15

1902 — Chicago Cubs infielders Tinker, Evers & Chance turn their first double play together. 1912 — Joe Wood of the Boston Red Sox pitched his 16th consecutive victory to tie Walter Johnson’s record as he beat the St. Louis Browns 2-1. 1938 — Brothers Lloyd and Paul Waner hit back-to-back homers for the Pittsburgh Pirates off Cliff Melton of the New York Giants. This was the only time brothers hit successive home runs in a major league game. It was Lloyd’s last homer. 1946 — The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Chicago Cubs 2-0 in five innings when the game was called because of gnats. The insects became such a problem for the players, umpires and fans that the game had to be stopped. 1963 — All three Alou brothers — Felipe, Matty and Jesus — played in the outfield at the same time for the San Francisco Giants in a 13-5 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. 1969 — St. Louis left-hander Steve Carlton struck out 19 Mets for a nine-inning game record. New York won the game 4-3 on two, two-run homers by Ron Swoboda. 1979 — Bob Watson of the Red Sox became the first player to hit for the cycle in both leagues as he led Boston to a 10-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. He hit for the cycle with the Houston Astros against San Francisco on June 24, 1977. 1990 — Bobby Thigpen pitched one inning and became the first relief pitcher with 50 saves in a season as the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox 7-4. 1996 — The Baltimore Orioles set baseball’s season home run record with five against Detroit, including Mark Parent’s record breaking shot in the third inning and Brady Anderson’s 10th leadoff homer of the year. The homers gave the Orioles 243, three more than the 1961 New York Yankees. 1997 — Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 51st and 52nd homers in Seattle’s win over Toronto to become the sixth major league player to hit 100 or more home runs over two consecutive seasons. Griffey hit 49 homers last season. 1998 — Ken Griffey Jr. hit his AL-leading 52nd homer and drove in five runs to be-

come the fourth-youngest player to reach 1,000 RBIs, leading the Seattle Mariners over the Minnesota Twins 12-7. 2002 — Arizona’s Curt Schilling struck out eight to reach 300 for the season, joining Randy Johnson as the first teammates in baseball history to each strike out 300 in the same season. The Diamondbacks beat Milwaukee 6-5 in 13 innings. 2008 — In an unprecedented move, the Milwaukee Brewers fired manager Ned Yost. It marked the first time in major league history — except the strike-split 1981 season — that a manager was fired in August or later with his team in playoff position. The Brewers, 83-67, lost seven of eight and fallen into a tie with Philadelphia for the NL wild-card lead. 2009 — David Ortiz hit his record-breaking 270th homer as a designated hitter and had an RBI single in Boston’s 4-1 victory over the Los Angeles Angels. Frank Thomas had held the mark with 269. 2011 — Pablo Sandoval tripled in the sixth inning to complete the first cycle of his career and San Francisco beat Colorado 8-5. 2017 — The Cleveland had its AL record run stopped at 22 straight games as the Indians were beaten 4-3 by the Kansas City Royals, who became the first team to conquer the defending league champions since Aug. 23.. The Indians came within four of matching the overall record held by the 1916 New York Giants. 2014 — The Mets’Jacob deGrom ties a major league record when he strikes out the first eight batters he faces before his opponent on the mound for the Marlins, Jarred Cosart, singles to right. DeGrom ties the record set by Jim Deshaies in 1986. He strikes out 13 in 7 innings but ends up with a no-decision as the Marlins win, 6 — 5. 2022 — On Roberto Clemente Day, the Rays make history by fielding an all-Latino line-up (excluding starting pitcher Shane McClanahan). It consists of C René Pinto, 1B Harold Ramirez, 2B Isaac Paredes, SS Wander Franco, 3B Yandy Díaz, LF David Peralta, CF José Siri, RF Randy Arozarena and DH Manuel Margot, with five different countries being represented. All wear Roberto Clemente’s iconic uniform number, 21, as they go on to defeat the Blue Jays, 11 — 0.

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Louisiana artist Michael Hunt is selling, at his cost, this print of the Pope John Paul II painting he did 25 years ago.

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Louisiana artist reﬂects on meeting with the pope 25 years later BY JUDY BERGERON Staff writer

Twenty-five years later, the details of his visit with the pope — some most holy, others more than humorous — are still vivid for Mandeville artist Michael Hunt. He saw Pope John Paul II in 2001. But unlike the masses who converge on Rome’s St. Peter’s Square hoping to catch a glimpse of the pontiff during one of his semiweekly appearances, Hunt was front and center. The prolific fine artist and commercial artist, most-known for his Saints, LSU and Mardi Gras posters, Hunt had been commissioned by former United States Ambassador to the Vatican Lindy Boggs of New Orleans, on behalf of Congress, to draw a portrait of the sitting leader of the Catholic Church. On this day, Hunt was to present the gift to him on behalf of the nation. “When I did the Pope John Paul II portrait, I really believed that that would be my legacy, that there could be nothing that could be any higher than that,” Hunt said by phone from his studio recently. Holding to that conviction, Hunt has decided to not only tell the whole story of his moments with the pope, but to share a tangible part of the experience as a way of giving back for his blessing.

When in Rome … This being his first audience with a pope, Hunt was unfamiliar with the protocol for such an occasion and had received no advance briefing on the do’s and don’ts. It was a sunny day in 2001, so the artist arrived in sunglasses and still had them on when he knelt before the pope for the portrait presentation. “Come to find out, the protocol cardinal was not going to let the photographs be released because there’s only been two publicly released photographs of an individual presenting something to the pope while wearing sunglasses,” Hunt said. “And one was Bono from U2, who suffers from some kind of eye disorder that forces him to wear sunglasses, and the other was me.” The pontiff intervened and made sure that copies of all the photos the Vatican’s photographer shot were sent to Hunt’s hotel within hours of the presentation, he said. The faux pas didn’t stop there, though. The artist knelt on the red carpet about 20 feet from the pope, watching papal aides

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PHOTO By JEFF STROUT

Stephanie Osborne, left, and Karla Marie Cochran show their appreciation for the artist Frida Kahlo at the Frida Festival on Sept. 12.

A new Mardi Gras marching krewe in New Orleans is a tribute to artist Frida Kahlo, Hispanic heritage BY DOUG MacCASH

Karla Marie “Karlita” Cochran, the founder of Las Fridas, adores Kahlo for the free-spiritn a sultry Sunday edness she represents. Cochran afternoon in June, said her father had attended Tua picturesque lane University and worked in group of women the American embassies in Guamilled near the temala and Honduras, where corner of Royal Street and she was born. As a kid, Cochran Esplanade Avenue, patiently spent half of the year in Central awaiting the arrival of the annuAmerica and half in New Oral Pride parade. The group was leans, where her family eventuclad in colorful, traditional Latally settled permanently. Cochran, a publicist and dance in American-style skirts, shawls instructor, said the strife over and flowered headbands. Some of the ladies languidly smoked STAFF PHOTO By DOUG MacCASH immigration law that’s been in the news for the past few years cigarettes with an air of noncha- Las Fridas, New Orleans’ newest Mardi Gras fueled her sense of cultural lance, defiance even. These were Las Fridas, a re- marching group awaits the Pride parade in the identity. “It was suffocating for people cently formed Mardi Gras-style French Quarter. like me, who are very proud marching group, devoted to the Kahlo was of German and Mexican Latin Americans but also (U.S.) Mexican surrealist artist Frida Kahdescent, and a decidedly modern citizens,” Cochran said. She felt the lo, an international icon. Magdalena Carmen Frida Kahlo y woman, but wholly devoted to age- need to somehow express her Latin Calderón, who died in 1954, is argu- old, indigenous Mexican culture, heritage like never before. She wantably the most famous female artist which she feared might be slipping ed to be visible. of the 20th century. A woman way away. She was a political radical and Kahlo would be her catalyst. Coahead of her time, she may fit the anti-colonialist. Kahlo was bisexual chran felt that the legendary artist 21st-century pop culture gestalt and a liberated feminist before the ä See LAS FRIDAS, page 2D terms were common parlance. even better.

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‘WE’RE PROUD TO BE PIONEERS’

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BY MARIA SHERMAN AP music writer

NEW YORK — Menudo, widely considered one of the most popular Latino boy bands of all time, will reunite for a six-day run this fall in celebration of their 50th anniversary. That’s a major milestone for any act, but a particularly remarkable one for the group established in Puerto Rico in the late

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Some people are just snazzy dressers We’re not looking for compliDear Miss Manners: I hate dress codes, but for the opposite reason ments, just not to be attacked for that most people rail about veering from the standard them. Many say that dress jeans and T-shirts. (Yes, codes are a violation of we wear those when we’re their God-given right to gardening or cleaning out wear gym clothes to work, the garage.) Our friends or they say that wearing always declare the dress a tie (let alone a tuxedo) code to be “casual,” and Judith to a wedding causes them now some go so far as to Martin extreme physical discomorder us not to “bother MISS dressing up.” fort. Blah, blah, blah. MANNERS Take last weekend. On Well, my wife and I just Saturday, we were invited like to look nice. Nothing to some friends’ house for dinfancy; we’re not clotheshorses. She’s a gorgeous woman, and she ner. It was billed as “casual,” of mostly sews her own clothes and course. I wore a long-sleeved makes prom and party dresses shirt, no tie, blue pants. My wife for our daughters. The girls and wore a ﬂowered cotton dress, the their friends get excited when kind she calls a shirtdress, with they can dress up, and ours are buttons down the front. always complimented on their The hosts both wore shorts — outﬁts. We aren’t, though. not that far from our own clothes,

you would think. But the wife said, “You really don’t have to dress up for us,” and her husband thought it was funny to add, “Oh, they’re probably going someplace fancier after this.” Ha ha. On Sunday, we were meeting two other couples at a restaurant to celebrate the anniversary of one of the couples. It was a very fancy restaurant, so I wore a jacket and a tie, and my wife wore a silk dress with the pearl necklace I gave her for her birthday. “Up,” yes, but not that “dressed up.” Well, one of the wives (who I never liked) reached over and “playfully” tried to take my tie off. I should have “playfully” reached over to take her shirt off. What is it with these people? Why do they even care what we

killing 48 people. In 1959, Nikita KhrushToday is Tuesday, Sept. 15, chev became the first Sovithe 258th day of 2026. There et head of state to visit the are 107 days left in the year. United States as he arrived Today in history: at Andrews Air Force Base On Sept. 15, 1963, four outside Washington. Black girls were killed In 1978, Muhammad Ali when a bomb went off durbecame the first boxer to capture the heavyweight ing Sunday services at the title three times, winning by 16th Street Baptist Church unanimous decision in his in Birmingham, Alabama. rematch with Leon Spinks. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen In 2008, as a result of the were eventually convicted subprime mortgage crisis, for their roles in the blast.) Lehman Brothers filed for Also on this date: Chapter 11 in the largest In 1835, Charles Darwin bankruptcy filing in U.S. reached the Galápagos history. Islands aboard the HMS In 2021, SpaceX’s first priBeagle. In 1935, the Nuremberg vate flight streaked into orLaws were enacted in Nazi bit with two contest winners, Germany, depriving German a healthcare worker and Jews of their citizenship. their billionaire sponsor, in In 1940, the tide turned the most ambitious leap yet in the Battle of Britain in in space tourism. The trip World War II, as the Royal dubbed Inspiration4 marked Air Force inflicted heavy the first time a spacecraft losses upon the Luftwaffe. circled Earth with an allIn 1958, a commuter train amateur crew and no profesheaded for New York City sional astronauts. plunged into Newark Bay In 2020, Israel signed after missing a stop signal historic diplomatic pacts and sliding off the open with two Gulf Arab states Newark Bay lift bridge, at a White House ceremony

President Donald Trump called the “dawn of a new Middle East.” The bilateral agreements formalized the normalization of Israeli relations with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. In 2024, a man aiming a rifle through shrubs as then-presidential candidate Donald Trump played golf at his West Palm Beach, Florida, country club was spotted by a Secret Service agent who fired at him, prompting the man to drop his gun and run without firing a shot. Ryan Routh was later convicted of trying to assassinate Trump and sentenced to life in prison. Today’s birthdays: Writer-director Ron Shelton is 81. Actor Tommy Lee Jones is 80. Film director Oliver Stone is 80. TV personality Lisa Vanderpump is 66. Football Hall of Famer Dan Marino is 65. Actor Josh Charles is 55. Olympic gold medal swimmer Tom Dolan is 51. Actor Tom Hardy is 49. Actor Amy Davidson is 47. Actor Dave Annable is 47. Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex, is 42.

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Continued from page 1D bring forward the close-to-5foot-tall gift. He was unsure what to do next. “So one of the Swiss guards (specialized security for John Paull II) says, ‘You’re supposed to kneel in front of the Heavenly Father.’ And I said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know,’ ” Hunt recalled. “So instead of standing up and walking to him, and then kneeling down, I crawled the 20 feet on my knees up in front of him. And he (the pope) started to laugh. Traditionally, after genuflecting, a visitor gently bows and kisses the Ring of the Fisherman on the pope’s hand. “I reached out and grabbed his other hand and kissed the top of his hand instead of kissing the ring,” Hunt said. “And he just literally burst into laughter.” At some point, the pontiff inquired of Hunt’s hometown. When he responded New Orleans, Hunt recalls the pontiff replying, “I remember the time that I spent in New Orleans … There was a rendition of ‘Ave Maria’ that was done in advance of my Mass that has been my favorite rendition. Were you there to hear it?” Hunt didn’t attend, but he did know something about that rendition that the pope didn’t. He was close New Orleans trumpeter and band leader Al Hirt, who told the artist that he didn’t know the notes to “Ave Maria.” Unable to locate the sheet music for the hymn on a Sunday, Hirt improvised, Hunt said. “So he had kind of a general idea as to what it sounded like, but he just started playing this jazz/combination of ‘Ave Maria.’ ” Hunt said. “And the Pope said, ‘I know. I began to actually tap my foot to it.’” The pope was amazed that Hirt invented the arrangement on the spot, adding that he wrote a personal note to the musician saying how much he loved his rendition,

was a proper avatar for all Latin American women. Women of all backgrounds, for that matter. The odds were stacked against Kahlo, who’d been disabled by childhood polio and a horrific trafﬁc accident as a teen, yet she triumphed. “Frida was tormented,” Cochran said. “She had a very difﬁcult life, but she was resilient. She wasn’t afraid to scare people with her thoughts and beliefs. She was revolutionary.” When Cochran announced her intention to found a Frida Kahlo-inspired marching club on April 6, the response was astonishing. Almost immediately, she said, 50 women signed up. Most were of Latin American lineage, some were Mexican, some were just Frida fans. Olivia Oldham, an artist and herbal apothecary, is a newcomer to New Orleans and a new member of Las Fridas. Her Mexican grandmother was of the generation that assimilated into American culture, Oldham said, allowing her Latin heritage to become secondary. But, through Las Fridas, Oldham said she’s able “to be loud and proud” of her Latin roots, on her grandmother’s behalf. “Frida is an impactful person in my life. She was never silenced for her po-

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Louisiana artist Michael Hunt presented his painting to Pope John Paul II during this gathering of 70,000 faithful in St. Peter’s Square in 1981.

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ency photo of the painting, is selling, at his cost of $75, a limited run of 300, 16-inchby-20-inch matted and autographed prints of the piece. The mat, in the shape of a stained glass lancet window, features four of Pope John Paul II’s favorite sayings, with images of Jesus and Mary on either side of the pontiff. Fellow artist David Johnson, based in New Orleans, is a 35-year friend of Hunt, and the two have collaborated on several projects. Among them was turning Johnson’s popular Art Decostyled covers for Arthur Hardy’s Mardi Gras Guide into posters and selling them through Hunt’s website. “Michael is an unusual kind of artist. As well as being talented, he just has a ﬂair for marketing and promotion that most artists like me don’t have,” Johnson, the Carnival guide’s longtime art director, said. But after 40 years in the poster world and over a million posters sold, Hunt says he’s retiring from that aspect of his work. “That’s it,” he said. “I’m going to go out on top, but I will do one special piece every year if I’m inspired to do it.” Visit huntstudio.com or call (504) 915-9641 for more information.

In conjunction with the 25th anniversary of his Email Judy Bergeron at John Paul II portrait, Hunt, jbergeron@theadvocate. using the original transpar- com.

litical views or sexuality,” Oldham said. “I love to be led by women who are so strong.” Claire Pickering claims no Latin roots, yet she feels Las Fridas represent her. Pickering came to Kahlo because of her love of art and love of museums. She attended art school, she said, before becoming an architect. Pickering felt a particular afﬁnity for Kahlo when she broke her ankle. The long recovery reminder her of Frida’s interminable health issues that sometimes rendered her immobile. “She was suffering, but being so positive,” Pickering said, “being such an amazing person.” Like the other Fridas,

Pickering has composed her own traditional Mexican ensemble, which she hopes represents both sides of the artist’s family. “She had her own style,” Pickering said of Kahlo. “I’m excited to be that persona for a day.” Cochran said it’s important that Las Fridas be respectful of how they depict the late artist. Kahlo’s striking unibrow may be as recognizable as Salvador Dali’s curled mustache or Andy Warhol’s silver wig. But members are asked to err on the side of subtlety to avoid caricature. Members of the group also agree to avoid describing their garments as a costume, since they are inspired by traditional garments. Cigarette smoking, which in Kahlo’s time was seen by some a symbol of female equality, is certainly not a club requirement, but it immediately became part of the Las Fridas vibe. It’s also just an opportunity to ﬂagrantly smoke in public, Cochran joked. “It’s totally Frida,” she said. Las Fridas plan to officially debut on Jan. 9, 2027, as part of the Krewe Mosaique Carnival parade. But in the meantime, several members decided to attend the Pride parade en masse. It felt like part of the mission of Las Fridas “to support another community that’s been told they don’t belong,” Cochran said.

for sure,” in reference to their 1981 single “Súbete A Mi Moto.” “It’s going to be hits,” Avellanet jumped in. Below, the septet discussed rehearsals, choreography, Puerto Rico and how Menudo has continued to resonate across generations. Remarks have been edited for clarity and brevity. AP: This lineup spans generations of Menudo. It’s like a new band. ACEVEDO: It’s been quite an exciting time to be able to come together again after all these years, even though some of us have been together on stage on other projects. … But, for example, I’ve never been on stage with René and it’s an honor. He is like, you now, one of the OGs. … We have a lot of chemistry. How have rehearsals gone? Are you relearning old choreography? AVELLANET: We’re rehearsing a lot. A lot. It’s been like three weeks so far, a lot of muscle ache, you know, we are recovering still. No, it’s coming out super, super great. I’ve learned stuff that I didn’t learn in Menudo, that I didn’t sing … but it’s ﬁne. We’re all professionals and we’ve done it before. And what about the songs — do you have to adjust them for your matured voices? RODRIGUEZ: Some of the songs, especially the earlier songs, the voices were a lot higher and maybe you go down like three steps, or something like that. But then there are other songs throughout the generations where we’re only going, like, one step down. So, it’s actually not that different, which is kind of cool. But either way, whether it’s the older ones or the middle ones or the newer ones, there’s still that freshness.

There’s still that Menudo magic because it’s us who’s singing it. And because we still have that child, that inner child in us that’s coming out while we’re singing. ACEVEDO: We’re not going to name names of songs because it’s a surprise, but it’s super cool to be able to do that. And it just takes you in this journey. … It’s going to be very visual as well. And it’s going bring back all that nostalgic feeling, deﬁnitely. GOMEZ: It’s a visual time, you know, traveling through time. The last Menudo album was in 1996, 30 years ago. Are you working on new music? GONZALES: We’re concentrating on the anniversary. But who knows what could happen in the future? ACEVEDO: We are just, like, full force. So, who knows what’s gonna happen after? Go to these shows and you tell us. Fifty years on, and Menudo is still viewed as the biggest Latino boy band of all time. What is it about this group that people continue to love and connect with? GOMEZ: I think it’s the music. … The formula of the songs, in conjunction with the dancing, the music really speaks for itself. When you hear a Menudo song, before the song ends, you already know the lyrics. And that’s a real song. And they were just written by incredible writers. They were from Spain. Carlos Villa, Alejandro Monroy. They were the ones who actually created that whole sound and the songs. I think the songs are what keeps it going. ACEVEDO: The songs and then the visual obviously. Menudo, the dances, in sync with the music — and you know, the time Menudo came out, there was just there was nothing like it.

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according to Hunt. During their roughly 15-minute chat, Hunt said the pope also: n Told him he didn’t have a portrait like that of himself, but that he was a great lover of contemporary art; n Inquired as to how Hunt achieved the glow in the portrait’s paint. It was by adding crushed 14-carat gold to it; n Said he wanted the new painting to be in his permanent collection at the Vatican; n Blessed the portrait, gave Hunt a special blessing, and also blessed the 20 rosaries Hunt had bought at the Vatican store that morning for friends and relatives; n Presented him with four special rosaries: one for Hunt, one for his wife and one each for his two children. He instructed him that the rosaries were to be buried with each of them; n Arranged for a guide for personal tours of sites, including the catacombs underneath St. Peter’s Square where the popes are buried, and the viewing of a 2-inchtall sliver of wood said to be a piece of Jesus’ cross. “It was a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Hunt said. Pope John Paul II died four years later at 84.

this would be sending a thank-you for a thank-you, and that seems kind of silly. I am curious what you think! Gentle reader: What Miss Manners thinks is that she will scream if she hears that canard again about not acknowledging a present because that would be sending a thank-you for a thank-you. No. You do not thank people for letters of thanks. You do thank them for presents, whatever happened to prompt them.

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wear? We don’t go after them for looking like slobs. Gentle reader: No need. They seem to be going after themselves. Miss Manners interprets the rudeness you encounter as “Please stop showing us up.” You needn’t stop, although Miss Manners would not consider tearing off their clothes a good response. Try instead: “This IS my informal look. I was afraid my formal look would dazzle you.” Dear Miss Manners: I received some small gifts as thank-yous for teaching and hosting a class in my home. I thanked the students in person for the gifts, as I still see them on a daily basis when I take my children to school. Am I obligated to send an ofﬁcial thank-you note? I feel like

’70s — and not just because it was in Menudo where performers like Ricky Martin and Draco Rosa got their start. Across ﬁve decades, Menudo transformed to meet the current cultural moment. When its members turned 16, most were replaced, making way for newer, junior performers to match its perpetually youthful and increasingly global audience. It worked. And across their run, the group featured over 40 performers. So, how was the reunion lineup determined? That decision was made by businessperson Paul Tarnopol, who acquired the Menudo brand name and selected the seven who will hit the road later this year: René Farrait (who was in the band from 1979-1982), Roy Rosselló (1983-1986), Raymond Acevedo (1985-1988), Sergio Gonzales (19861990), Ralphy Rodriguez (1987), Ruben Gomez (19871990) and Robert Avellanet (1988-1991). The tour kicks off on Oct. 10 at Los Angeles’ YouTube Theater before hitting Chicago’s Rosemont Theatre on Oct. 17, New York’s United Palace on Nov. 7, Mexico City’s Metropolitan Theatre on Nov. 28 and Hollywood, Florida’s Hard Rock Live on Dec. 4. It will conclude at San Juan, Puerto Rico’s Coca-Cola Music Hall on Dec. 12. During an interview in Miami, the band told The Associated Press they didn’t want to spoil the setlist, but assured that “There’s going be motorcycles in the production,

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Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter and surrealist, poses at her home in Mexico City on April 14, 1939.

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Bridge By PHILLIP ALDER Daniel J. Boorstin, a historian at the University of Chicago who died in 2004, wrote, “The traveler is active; he goes strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes ‘sight-seeing.’ “ At the bridge table, the active defender goes strenuously in search of tricks. The passive defender hopes that tricks will have to be given to him. But how does he know which way to turn? First, listen closely to the bidding. If the opponents bid aggressively, but stop in game, be active. If they inch up to game, stay passive, almost certainly leading a trump (or from a strong honor sequence). In today’s deal, what should West lead against four hearts? Note that North is right to respond one diamond. With a good hand, responder bids his longest suit first. North’s fourclub rebid is a splinter, showing fourcard heart support, at least game-going values and a singleton or void in clubs. (If South has very weak clubs, a slam is a distinct possibility.) Since North has made a slam suggestion, West should lead actively, selecting the spade two, not a passive trump or diamond queen (especially as dummy rates to have at least five diamonds). Leading low from length guarantees

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PUBLIC STORAGE # 20175, 3440 S Carrollton Ave, New Orleans, LA 70118, (504) 308-1583 Time: 09:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0025 - Carter, Felicia; 0026 - Black, Serena; 0052 - wright, Monet; 0128 - dixon, Leandrea; 0199 - Vallery, Byron; 0213 - Boutte, Tiffany; 0215 - Rojas, Sergio; 0416 - Siegal, Kristina; 0451 - Wright, Amanda; 0465 - Bell, Taliyah; 0562 - Hawkins, Charnae; 0601 - Self Expressions LLC Sansom, Trevone; 0620 - New Orleans Black Pride Alexander-Tumblin, Nikki; 0642 - Jackson, Christopher; 0678 - Beach, Shauntay; 0698 - Kennard, Angela; 0835 - Wright, Shane; 0966 - morris, Cornisha; 0977 - brown, Ivoryelle; 1003 - Judson, Amerie; 1105 - williams, Tykesh; 1129 - Paulsen, James; 1133 - Warren, Joelle PUBLIC STORAGE # 68580, 306 Market St, Hammond, LA 70401, (985) 403-4579 Time: 09:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 001 - Bengtson, Garrett; 013 - Hutchinson, Vincent; 022 - West, Altron; 077 - Matthews, Brittany; 132 - Travis, Howard; 133 - Dyer, Tyra; 231 - Bromell, Robert; 265 - Richardson, Kathryn; 271 - Richardson, Kathryn; 282 York, Laura PUBLIC STORAGE # 21802, 2930 Clearview Pkwy, Metairie, LA 70006, (504) 229-4204 Time: 09:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. A050 - Herrera, Riccy; A058 - St Amant, Kevin; A088 - Anthony, Felicia; B103 - Randolph, Nakia; B119 - Ambrose, Kevin; B163 - Effinger, Will; B239 - Celestine, Christopher; B298 - Nguyen, Vivian; B299 - Lee, Tiffany; B327 - Walker, Latara; C353 - Pujalt, Mario; C356 - Fontana, Susan; C400 - Trim, Kaela; C483 - hamilton, rachelle; C498 - Nicholas, Samuel PUBLIC STORAGE # 68582, 2820 New Highway 51, LaPlace, LA 70068, (985) 304-8014 Time: 09:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 114 - Brumfield, Darrielle; 115 - Porter, Jasmin; 156 - Williams, Myra; 225 - Kelly, Detroy; 303 - Shy, Jasmon; 332 - Thompson, Cherie; 336 - Mitchell, Brandon; 343 - Nova, Randall; 359 - Perkins, Kreig; A143 - Elmore, Barbara; A220 - Thomas, James; A307 - Sanders, Nia; A308 - Reaux, Madeline; B211 - Triche, Dorrel; C236 - Thigpen, Cassandra; C413 - Brooks, Cortez PUBLIC STORAGE # 22055, 34570 LA Highway 16, Denham Springs, LA 70706, (225) 665-5770 Time: 10:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0010 - Oswald, Kenny; 0158 - Denmark, Samantha ; 0234 - Taylor, Rena; 0353 - Johnston, Chrystal; A25 Cambre, Brandy; C10 - Yaun, Curtis; C13 - Yaun, Curtis; D18 - Butler, Mya PUBLIC STORAGE # 68583, 12843 Highway 90, Luling, LA 70070, (985) 240-3953 Time: 10:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 110 - Fields, Robin; 111 - Fields, Robin; 232 - Gillison, Luther; 323 - Barbo, Rachael; 345 - Gonzalez Ramos, Carlos; A129 - Adams, Keriyon; A135 - Jeanjacques, Hailey; A242 - Shelby, Brandon; A244 - Young, Glenda; B113 - Morris, Keaundra; B217 - Moreau, Emma; B223 - Harding, Olivia; B236 - French, Aniya; C320 - Milliman, Chuck; X306 - Dabon, Xavier; X323 - Grows, Takourin; X325 - Faucheux, Joel; X334 - Stipe, Sandra PUBLIC STORAGE # 23799, 2257 S Range Ave, Denham Springs, LA 70726, (225) 468-5877 Time: 10:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0210 - Gilmore, Katherine A.; 0228 - Coludrovich, Eric; 0309 - hampton, christy; 0346 - Haynes, Lakia; 0409 Richard, Ryan ; 0427 - lee, tyrika; 0607 - Hernandez, emmir; 0624 - Ruiz, Veronica; 0626 - Burke, Jake; 0631 - Daye, Crystal; 0808 - Marino, Theresa; 0809 - Bryant, Nija; 0906 - Jones, Jabari; 1040 - Adams, Jennifer; 2007 - Marino, Theresa PUBLIC STORAGE # 25740, 4507 Washington Ave, New Orleans, LA 70125, (504) 308-1275 Time: 10:45 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1015 - LE PAVILLON MILLER, CHAD; 1051 - jeanpierre, Erica; 1067 - McDonald, Bailee; 1155 - McLaughlin, Toya; 2093 - howard, Ashly; 2115 - Williams, Alexis; 3013 - Bengham, Jacqueline; 3031 - Dorsey, Clarence; 3050 - Bell, Dwight; 3113 - Brown, Stephanie; 3150 - Gibson, Lynette; 3185 - Justice, Khary; 3225 - Davis, Caiya; 3260 - Matthews, Michael; 3264 - Dupree, Sharrell; 3283 - Williams, Sherman; 3285 - Tucker, Delois PUBLIC STORAGE # 26983, 5730 Citrus Blvd, Elmwood, LA 70123, (504) 930-4129 Time: 11:00 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 2023 - Pritchard, Aaron; 2103 - Jackson, Dondi; 2210 - Desporte, Dylan; 2712 - Jefferson, Valencia; 2733 ARDOIN-HICKS, TREEVER; 2806 - thomas, belinda; 2818 - Favorite, Terry; 2836 - Landry, Kiera; 3001 - Boyd, Dana; 3010 - Green, Aniya; 3013 - Johnson, Romanda; 3024 - Simmons, Jaquana; 3119 - Hypedkicks LLC Jones, Harold; 3226 - DeLaRose, Shayla; 3403 - santiago, Richard; 3522 - Bennett, Patricia; 3622 - Lindsey, La’Zaya; N1041 - Alexander, Justin; S1032 - Ricks, Kristen PUBLIC STORAGE # 68836, 3334 W Airline Hwy, Reserve, LA 70084, (985) 236-4484 Time: 11:15 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0134 - Schexnayder, Brandy; 0144 - Pryor, Makale; 0241 - Mendosa, Karen; 0258 - Richardson, Vernessa; A212 - Davis, Joshua; A310 - Johnson, Roycheca; B216 - Landix, Dalila; X229 - Gardner, Lester; X248 - Kirklon, Latasha; X359 - Clark, Charles; Y134 - Tuco, Marrio; Y249 - Romeo, Craig; Y348 - Perrilloux, Danielle; Y350 Auguste, Ariana PUBLIC STORAGE # 26984, 2820 Tulane Ave, New Orleans, LA 70119, (504) 584-4619 Time: 11:30 AM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 1005 - Terrell, Adam; 1031 - R & U LLC jacobs, Marcus; 1087 - Tassara, Jeanette; 1118 - williams, Kevin; 2017 pollard, Kyriell; 2019 - Randle, Curtis; 2090 - Gastinell, Samantha; 2096 - Rixner, LISE; 2135 - Granger, Alphonse; 3011 - Arvie, Shelita; 3029 - Armant, Rayshaughn; 3030 - Jolivette, Charles; 3052 - Coney, Travis; 3113 - Jones, David; 4001 - Rickmon, Dashon; 4048 - Parquet, Tashika; 4073 - prima, Roslyn; 4115 - rickmon, dream; 5002 - simmons, ryan ; 5048 - Kruebbe, Ava; 5050 - III, Harold Calice; 5066 - Droughn, Calvin; 5107 - Bester, Bonnie PUBLIC STORAGE # 28188, 3900 Tchoupitoulas Street, New Orleans, LA 70115, (504) 224-9167 Time: 12:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0094 - Ibarra, Leonardo; 0105 - Seiley, Angele; 0144 - Mann, Thomas; 0163 - Duncan, Shantrice; 0213 - Boyd, Susan; 0555 - Overton, Wayne ; 0717 - Krantz, Rachel; 0739 - Bundy, Erik; 3431 - Robinson-Feingold, Jenni PUBLIC STORAGE # 29112, 1901 St Charles Ave, New Orleans, LA 70130, (504) 308-1566 Time: 12:30 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 2211 - Mcdonald, Vanessa; 2217 - Haynes, Michele; 3317 - Armstead, Robyn; 3412 - mahiri, Hughton; 6205 Bradley, Jennifer; B103 - Turner, Thor; M104 - Valentine, Val PUBLIC STORAGE # 78084, 3701 Highway 90 W, Avondale, LA 70094, (504) 317-1534 Time: 01:00 PM Sale to be held at www.storagetreasures.com. 0104 - Davis, Loralyn; 0112 - Leblanc, Carl; 0113 - Brown, Hendri; 1074 - Griffin, Crystal; 1113 - anderson, chuck; 1132 - Cole, Kendrell; 1151 - Mason, Janay; 2015 - Faircloth, Netisha; 2175 - Bergeron, Keith; 3015 Kampa, Patricia Public sale terms, rules, and regulations will be made available prior to the sale. All sales are subject to cancellation. We reserve the right to refuse any bid. Payment must be in cash or credit card-no checks. Buyers must secure the units with their own personal locks. To claim tax-exempt status, original RESALE certificates for each space purchased is required. By PS Retail Sales, LLC, 701 Western Avenue, Glendale, CA 91201. (818) 244-8080. 199977-685262-sep 15-1t $ 2,925.00

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nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Ofﬁcer Advertising Dates: September 8 and 15, 2026 NOCP 9271 199969-sept 8-15-2t $77.60 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Sanitation TITLE: Set-Aside-Supplemental Equipment with Operator for Special Events - Roll Off Trucks SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4776 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

Public Notices Bids/Proposals g quent modifications via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ fications if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 065-75, 929-66, 958-96, 975-37, 998-49 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James C. Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: September 8, 15 and 22, 2026 NOCP 9269 199965-sept 8-15-22-3t $118.41

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modiﬁcations via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ ﬁcations if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 917-39, 958-96, 961-13, 962-16, 962-17, 975-37, 975-44 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

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Proposals are due Tues‐ day, September 29, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. at which time Proposals received on time and in the cor‐ rect location will be con‐ sidered. RFP Documents may be obtained online at https://www.central auctionhouse.com/ Category/10822/NewOrle ansErnestNMorialConv entionCenter or by con‐ tacting the Contracts De‐ partment at (504) 5823562 or contracts@ mccno.com. All Propos‐ als must be submitted in accordance with the RFP Documents. 199491-SEP 4-15-2T $21.24

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Sanitation TITLE: Supplemental Equipment with Operator for Special Events - Skid Steers and Front Loaders SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4775

DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Sanitation

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

TITLE: Supplement Equipment with Operator for Special Events Passenger Buses

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

Advertising Dates: September 8, 15 and 22, 2026 NOCP 9268

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 29, 2026

199962-sept 8-15-22-3t $115.38

SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4776

TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

PUBLIC NOTICE --New Orleans Public Facil‐ ity Management Inc. (NOPFMI) is issuing a Re‐ quest for Proposals (“RFP”) to obtain RFP Documents for C-2240 Provide Insurance Bro‐ kerage and Consultation Services for Employee Health and Welfare Bene‐ ﬁts.

DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: September 8, 2026

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ diﬁ i i

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 29, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE:

RELEASED ON: September 8. 2026

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 16, 2026

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modiﬁcations via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ ﬁcations if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing

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PUBLIC NOTICE ---

event: COMMODITY CODE(s): 020-61, 760-44, 760-47, 760-50, 760-51, 765-38, 975-34, 998-54 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Advertising Dates: September 8, 15 and 22, 2026 NOCP 9267 199960-sept 8-15-22-3t $115.38

TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: September 29, 2026

RELEASED ON: September 8, 2026

Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal.

September 16, 2026

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For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.”

DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 16, 2026

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PUBLIC NOTICE --In accordance with Louisiana R.S. 47:6007, the production company 21083 Productions LLC hereby gives notice that principal photography for the movie “Birdsong” wrapped in New Orleans, Louisiana, in April 2024. Any outstanding creditor claims should be mailed to the address: 4008 1/2 Monroe St. Los Angeles, CA 90029 or to morgan‐ bentz@gmail.com by September 30th, 2026. 199954-SEP 8-15-22-3T $187.09 PUBLIC NOTICE --Public Notice is hereby given by TMAS Produc‐ tions LLC. Production has wrapped for “Tell Me A Secret". Any vendors or employees that have out‐ standing claims for this production are asked to send their claims no later than October 5, 2026 to 1536 Magazine St, New Orleans LA 70130. 200501-sept 15-22-29-3t $156.43

CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NUMBER 92-13346 DIVISION – “A” NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administra‐ tor of the above estate, has made application to the court For the sale of the follow‐ ing: An undivided threefourths (3/4th interest in and to: That certain portion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurte‐ nances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise appertaining, situated in the SECOND DISTRICT of this City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 316, bounded by Gover‐ nor Nicholls, Barracks, North Toni, and North Rocheblave Street, desig‐ nated as Lot No. 3, mea‐ suring Thirty-three feet, six inches (33’6”) front on Governor Nicholls (actual And title) by same width in the rear (actual and title) by eighty feet, three inches, two lines (80’3”2’’’) in depth, title, and eighty-five feet, three inches, two lines (85’3”2’’’) actual, on side toward North Rocheblave Street, and eight five feet, four inches seven lines (85’ 4”7’’’) title and eightyfive feet, three inches two lines (85’3”2’’’) actual on line separating Lot No. 3 and Lot No.4. the title mea‐ surements being in ac‐ cordance with a plan de‐ posited In the office of James Graham, N.P., described as Plan No. 158, and the actual Measurements are delin‐ eated on a survey of the said property by F.G. Stewart Eng. & Sur., dated April 11, 1951, a blueprint of which is annexed to an act by Christian P. Rodick, Sr., to Mrs. Ogerita Burke, Div. wife of Madison Daniel. The improvements thereon bear the Munici‐ pal No. 2429 Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans Louisiana. Being the same property in which Jeanne Bagneris Dowden et als acquired The interest of Welling‐ ton I. Dowden, Sr., by virtue of a Judgment of Possession Dated July 26, 1982, in the i l d

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y matter entitled Succes‐ sion of Wellington Dow‐ den Sr.” Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana No. 82-4415. Registered in COB 782, Folio 104, as N.A. No 460125, NOLA 7/26/82. Also Being the same property acquired by Mrs. Jeanne Bageris, wife of Welling‐ ton Dowden, Sr.” from Co‐ lumbia Homestead Asso‐ ciation by Act before Clif‐ ford P.De Laup, Jr. late N.P for the Parish of Orleans State of Louisiana, regis‐ tered In COB 593, folio 94, NOLA dated 11/10/1953 Notice is given to all parties, including heirs and creditors of the decedent of this estate be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to this application at any time prior to the order autho‐ rizing, approving, ho‐ mologating such application and that an order of judg‐ ment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication all in ac‐ cordance with the law.

Seghers, Surveyor, dated May 23, 1916, a blue print of which is attached to act passed before Frank J. Stich, Jr., Notary Public, on February 5, 1941 and according to which sur‐ vey said lot is designated by the letter “S” begins at a distance of ninetyfive feet, two inches and two lines (95’2”2”’) from the corner of Ursulines Avenue and Tonti Street, measures forty feet, six inches and six lines (40’6”6”’) front on Ursu‐ lines Avenue, by a depth of one hundred feet (100’) on the side line nearest Rocheblave Street, a first depth, on an oblique line, of thirtynine feet, eleven inches and four lines (39’11”4”’) on the opposite line, and thence a further depth of sixty-one feet, ten inches (61’10”) to the rear line, and a width in the rear of twenty-three feet, six inches (23’6”). According to survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated September 26, 1975, revised October 1, 1975, a white print copy of which is annexed to act before Dudley D. Flanders, Notary Public, of even date herewith, said Lot S is situated in the same district and square and has the same measurements as herein‐ above set forth and com‐ mences at a distance of ninety-five feet, two inches and two lines (92’2”2”’) from the corner of Ursulines Avenue and North Tonti Street.

Atty. Bernard J. Blair, II 200694-sept 15-oct 6-2t $97.80 PUBLIC NOTICE ---

Public Notices Successions p for its undivided 50% in‐ terest in said property in accordance with the terms and conditions fully set forth in the Louisiana Residential Agreement to Buy or Sell, Counter Offer and Con‐ tingency Addendum at‐ tached to the Petition for Authority to Sell Immov‐ able Property at Private Sale ﬁled in these same succession proceedings. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homolo‐ gating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publica‐ tion of such notice, all in accordance with law. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, Attorney: James S. Rees, IV Publication: Address: 3750 South Claiborne Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Telephone: (504) 897-3700 200700-sept 15-oct 6-2t $155.82

The improvements bear the Municipal No. 2414 Ursulines Avenue.

STATE OF LOUISIANA Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans

All parties hereto take cognizance of the en‐ croachments as shown on said survey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated September 26, 1975, and accept said property subject thereto and re‐ lieve and release me, No‐ tary, and the Guaranty Savings and Homestead Association from any and all liability and re‐ sponsibility in connec‐ tion therewith.

NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NUMBER: 2026-02404 DIVISION: “I” SECTION: 5 SUCCESSION OF JOHNNY WISE, SR. a/k/a JOHNNY WISE AND SUCCESSION OF ANNA MAE RUIZ WISE Whereas, the Adminis‐ trator of the above Es‐ tates, has made applica‐ tion to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit:

ORDER PAGE REPRINTS ANYTIME

Being the same property acquired by Mrs. Anne Mae Ruiz wife of/and Johnny Wise, Sr. by act before Dudley D. Flan‐ ders, Notary Public dated October 6, 1975, and reg‐ istered in COB 730/folio 626 of the conveyance records of Orleans Parish.

A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, advan‐ tages and appurte‐ nances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the SECOND DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 314, bounded by Ursuline Av‐ enue, North Tonti, North Rocheblave and St. Phillips Streets, as per sketch of Walter J.

UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: One Hundred Ninety-One Thousand and No/100 ($191,000.00) DOLLARS, Cash, for the property “AS IS” in its entirety, all cash from which the suc‐ cessions shall receive 50% of the sale proceeds f i di id d i

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At Manning Family Children’s, kids are our only specialty. Every person, every resource, every decision is 100% dedicated to kids! That’s why we’re proud to be ranked Louisiana’s #1 children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report. Pushing the boundaries of care, and driven by unrelenting joyful purpose, we measure our legacy in futures made possible and an entire region made healthier.

#1 in Louisiana. #1 for our kids. Officially published today, Manning Family Children’s has been named the #1 children’s hospital in Louisiana by U.S. New & World Report in its 2026-2027 rankings. Four Manning Family Children’s service lines have been recognized among the top 50 programs nationally for exceptional care, including our Urology program, ranked #22; our Nephrology program, ranked #36; our Cancer Program, ranked # 48, and our Neonatology program, ranked #49 nationally.

“The Best Children’s Hospital rankings represent well-earned recognition of the extraordinary impact Manning Family Children’s is making for kids every day,” said Lucio A. Fragoso, President and CEO of Manning Family Children’s. “This is an important reﬂection of the distinguishing role we play as Louisiana’s number one and only hospital that is entirely dedicated to the care and wellbeing of kids.” Join us at manningchildrens.org

When it comes to children’s healthcare, there’s good, and then there’s Manning Family Children’s. Here, we do things differently— and that’s why we’re proud to be ranked Louisiana’s #1 children’s hospital by U.S. News & World Report.

Unlike any other, we show up where kids are. We take on the toughest cases for the tiniest lives. Undeniable joy is at the core of our care and has been for 70 years. Today, we show up with undeniable expertise for every child, every time. Undeniably for kids. Undeniably #1. Discover how we’re leading the way for kids at manningchildrens.org/undeniable In proud partnership with