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Report blasts N.O. public housing HUD calls problems life-threatening

BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer

New Orleans’ public housing authority failed last year to ﬁx electrical hazards, inoperable windows and other life-threatening problems in its subsidized apartments, federal regulators said in a recent report. All but one of 75 units in the Housing Authority of New Orleans’ Section 8 program failed to meet federal safety standards, according to last week’s report from the Ofﬁce of Inspector General of the Department of Housing and Urban STAFF PHOTOS By CHRIS GRANGER

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Her Majesty Queen Sofia, center, the mother of the current king of Spain, walks with Tulane COO Patrick Norton, right, to the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library on the campus of Tulane University on Thursday. She toured the new exhibition, ‘Spain, Spanish America and the Atlantic World in an Age of Revolution.’

Queen Sofia of Spain’s visit to New Orleans highlights historic Spanish-American ties BY MARIE FAZIO

Staff writer

On a quiet wing on the fourth ﬂoor of Tulane University’s library, visitors are greeted with early 18th-century maps of America, the land carved into colonies by the European powers that ruled it. In one case sits a faded letter from a Spanish administrator to his nephew, Bernardo de Gálvez, with instructions for governing Spain’s Louisiana territory. (He advised growing more tobacco.) Nearby is a replica of a El Cazador, a Spanish warship that sailed out of Veracruz in 1793 loaded with coins meant to support the Spanish Louisiana province. It sank in the Gulf and never made it to New Orleans. Around the corner, another display shows newspapers and books, including one browning newspaper with a translation of Thomas

Paul Newfield, right, and Jara Roux look at historic documents on display at the grand opening of the exhibition. Paine’s 1791 “Rights of Man.” On Thursday, a member of the royal family of Spain, which once controlled much of the continent, took it all in. Her Majesty Queen Soﬁa, the mother of the current king of Spain, began a visit to New Orleans this week, and her

first official stop was at Tulane. She is on the final leg of an international tour to spread the word about the lesser-known role Spain played in the American Revolution. The exhibition, “Spain, Spanish America and the Atlantic World in an Age of Revolution” is the result of a yearlong academic effort from Tulane scholars. On Thursday evening it was officially opened to the public. It is part of the America&Spain250 Initiative, a two day symposium taking place through Saturday. It is a collaboration between the Queen Sofia Spanish Institute, the Historic New Orleans Collection and other foundations, and seeks to promote the “significant yet little-understood role of Spain” in America’s independence movement, its ongoing contributions to the country and to

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Parks and Parkways director Karam ﬁred BY BEN MYERS, SOPHIE KASAKOVE and JONI HESS Staff writers

New Orleans’ Parks and Parkways Director Michael Karam was ﬁred Wednesday, a day after a City Council member publicly criticized his department, Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration conﬁrmed. In an email to the council, Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Ernest Legier told the council’s chief of staff he had “the unfortunate task of separating Mike Karam.” Legier did not provide a reason for

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LSU,, NBA legend Bob Pettit dies at 93 He was a two-time All-American for Tigers annd two-time league MVP as a professional Staff report Bo ob Pettit, arguably the greatest basketball player in Louisiana history, died on Wed dnesday. He was 93 years old. A sself-made athlete, the Baton Rouge naBob Pettit was a tive was a two-time All-American at LSU. two-time All-American at LSU. He led the Southeastern Conference in

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scoring and was the key figure as the Tigers reached their first Final Four in 1953. As a professional with the St. Louis Hawks, Pettit was named first team All-NBA in 10 consecutive seasons, second team in the last of his 11-year career, an All-Star 11 times and the MVP of the All-Star Game a record four times. He was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in the Class of 1971. Pettit was also MVP of the league twice. And he was the MVP of the NBA’s 1958 championship series in which the Hawks broke the string of nine straight titles by

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LSU basketball legend Bob Pettit speaks at the unveiling of ä See PETTIT, page 10A a statue honoring him in 2016.

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Meat bearing false USDA labels recalled NEWYORK — More than 83 tons of meat are being recalled across the U.S. because the products were not properly inspected by federal authorities and were shipped out with falsified inspection stickers, the Department of Agriculture said. Star Meat Delivery Inc., based in Lucama, North Carolina, is recalling more than 167,000 pounds of raw pork, beef and goat nationwide. The USDA said that number could grow as it continues its investigation. Food produced without inspection may contain undeclared allergens, harmful bacteria, or other contaminants, the agency said Tuesday in announcing the recall. So far, there have been no conﬁrmed reports of illnesses or injuries from the meats, according to the USDA. The meat in question was produced “on various dates” before Tuesday and has USDA inspection stickers falsely bearing an establishment number — EST. 1363 — that the agency said “does not have a federal grant of inspection.” However, some packages people purchased may not bear that labeling because retail stores may have applied their own stickers with pricing and safe handling instructions, the agency warned. The products were shipped to Georgia distributor A&D Foods to send to retail and restaurant locations nationwide. The USDA said the products should be considered misbranded and unsafe to eat and be discarded or returned to the place of purchase. The agency said the problem was discovered during the USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s routine checks. It’s not clear whether anyone has been arrested or criminally charged.

Kenya authorities destroy $63 million meth haul

MOMBASA, Kenya — Kenyan authorities on Thursday destroyed a massive haul of methamphetamine worth an estimated $63 million, nearly a year after the drugs were intercepted in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Mombasa. The consignment, weighing about 2,257 pounds, was placed in a high-temperature kiln and destroyed as government officials watched. Interior Minister Kipchumba Murkomen oversaw the destruction and warned drug traffickers that authorities would step up efforts to disrupt the illicit trade. Murkomen said Kenya was being used both as a “transit hub” and a “market” for illegal drugs, and pledged tougher enforcement to prevent drug trafficking and substance abuse. He said suspected traffickers would face prosecution and that authorities would pursue the seizure of property linked to the illegal trade. The Kenyan Navy intercepted the consignment on Oct. 25, 2025, about 391 miles off the coast of Mombasa in the Indian Ocean. The vessel was escorted to port under armed guard.

Boat capsizes on way to Congo; 41 dead

KINSHASA,Congo — A boat heading from Tanzania to Congo on Lake Tanganyika capsized Thursday, leaving at least 41 people dead, local authorities said. The boat was carrying about 100 people as well as cargo, said Norris Mulongoyi, the provincial transport minister for Tanganyika province, adding that 49 people have been rescued and a search is ongoing for the remaining passengers. “The vessel, traveling from Kigoma, Tanzania, to the city of Kalemie in the Congo’s Tanganyika province, capsized near the village of Mapera,” Mulongoyi told The Associated Press. The cause for Thursday’s tragedy was not immediately clear.

CORRECTION A story Thursday misstated the funding source for the planned Veterans Affairs Hospital in New Orleans East. The hospital will be funded with private dollars. The Times-Picayune regrets the error.

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to use new technology to make Projects are intended to squeeze more power from aging grid ties grids more efﬁcient, lessening the

BY MARC LEVY and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — The Energy Department said Thursday that it will spend almost $2 billion to try to squeeze more electricity out of the nation’s aging and stressed power grid, as President Donald Trump’s administration steps up efforts to avoid blackouts amid skyrocketing energy demand spurred by artiﬁcial intelligence. The money will go toward 31 projects across 26 states that are expected to produce more than 23 gigawatts of additional electricity capacity — enough to power 16 million homes. The projects will use new technologies such as sensors to measure real-time weather conditions to ensure safe transmission or direct power away from congested paths, the department said. The upgrades could improve power reliability and lower elec-

tricity costs for about 100 million Americans, ofﬁcials said. “This is a quick way to lower electricity prices and increase reliability: using fibers that are already in the transmission lines to analyze what’s the temperature out, what’s the wind out, how can we use this transmission line to distribute more power, but safely and only in the right conditions,” Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in a news conference promoting the grants Thursday at a PPL Corp. facility in Allentown. The eastern Pennsylvania electric utility says two data centers in its territory came online this year and six more are under construction, with enough other data centers in the advanced planning stages that its peak electric demand could quintuple by 2032. PPL said it is receiving $71.5 million to modernize an existing highvoltage transmission line across

roughly 30 miles in northern Pennsylvania. The announcement comes amid warnings that AI’s voracious demand for power is threatening to overwhelm U.S. power supplies, as massive new data centers come online faster than new power plants can be built. It also comes as electricity bills rise faster than inﬂation in many parts of the U.S., blamed in some areas on demand from data centers. The snowballing opposition to data centers in communities across the country has thrown a wrench into the plans of the world’s richest companies and transformed the midterm election landscape. Trump continues to stick up for data centers, even as politicians from both major political parties criticize them and many communities try to block them. In the meantime, Congress and some states are trying to push utili-

need to build new power plants. Julia Selker, the executive director of the WATT Coalition, a trade association for grid-enhancing technologies, said both the projects and the scale of the investment are significant. Utilities in the U.S. are lagging places like Europe in adopting the technologies, despite federal investment in the past to develop and test them. Wright said that work on the projects should begin right away and he hoped some efﬁciencies are in place before this winter to tamp down price spikes when extreme weather sends demand skyrocketing. He said he didn’t know whether the projects would have gotten done without federal funding. Projects being announced Thursday will involve component enhancements on more than 1,500 miles of transmission lines and technological enhancements across nearly 21,000 miles, the department said.

Administration seeks approval to continue quick deportations Lower court halted third-country removals

BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST Associated Press

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President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping walk along the Colonnade of the White House in Washington on Thursday.

Trump hails ‘truly great’ friendship with Xi China’s leader urges ‘healthy’ competition between 2 powers

By AAMER MADHANI, DIDI TANG and MICHELLE L. PRICE

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed the “truly great friendship” he has forged with Xi Jinping as the Chinese leader began his highly anticipated state visit by pressing for the world’s two biggest economies to work more closely together to avoid friction as they compete. While Trump has many thorny issues to discuss with the president of America’s biggest economic rival, he focused on his long relationship with Xi as the two gathered with aides for opening remarks before formal talks. “From the time of my ﬁrst election in 2016, President Xi and I have forged a friendship, a truly great friendship, actually, built on mutual respect and the vital interests of our people,” Trump said. China has resisted the Trump administration’s urgings — and economic threats — to use its considerable leverage to prod Iran to agree to U.S. terms to end the nearly seven-month war. Xi wants to

see Trump permanently halt arms sales to Taiwan and loosen export restrictions on cutting-edge advanced chips. The two sides on Wednesday agreed to extend by two months a one-year trade truce that was set to expire Nov. 10 as they work to ﬁnd a more durable agreement.

Xi presses Trump on Taiwan In their private conversation, Xi also urged Trump to “prudently handle the Taiwan issue,” according to the Chinese state media outlet Xinhua. China has made clear it views Taiwan as the most sensitive issue in the U.S.China relationship. Beijing considers Taiwan to be Chinese territory and vows to annex the island by force if necessary. The United States is obligated by law to provide Taiwan with sufﬁcient hardware to deter any armed attack from the mainland. The U.S. has said it opposes any unilateral changes to the status quo by either side. China has repeatedly pressed Washington to permanently halt the arms sales, including when Trump and Xi met in Beijing in May. After that meeting, Trump said he was holding off on ﬁnal approval for a record $14 billion arms package that was in the pipeline. He also described arms sales to Taiwan as a “very good negotiating chip” with China.

Saudi-led coalition says 6 ballistic missiles intercepted Military blames attack on Houthi rebels

BY FATMA KHALED and CARA ANNA Associated Press

CAIRO — Six ballistic missiles targeting Saudi Arabia’s port of Yanbu on the Red Sea and the southwestern city of Taif have been intercepted, a Saudi military spokesperson said Thursday, blaming Iran-backed Houthi rebels in neighboring Yemen as ﬁghting escalates. The Houthis later claimed they ﬁred dozens of ballistic missiles and drones at the kingdom’s southwestern Jazan province. In recent days, they have been blamed for attempted attacks on the kingdom, including on Riyadh, the Saudi capital. The statement by Saudi Maj. Gen. Tur-

ki al-Malki, who is also the spokesperson for the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis, followed alerts by Saudi civil defense authorities, who later noted the danger had passed. The fighting near the crucial Red Sea shipping corridor has worried global markets as the Houthis pursue a blockade of Saudi Arabia, the world’s top oil exporter, with Iranian support. The new launches came as Yemen’s internationally recognized government prepared to take its turn addressing the annual gathering of world leaders at the United Nations. The situation in the Arab world’s poorest country is grim as the fighting backed by the two Mideast powers, Iran and Saudi Arabia, has pulled Yemen back into civil war after four years of relative calm. Over 125,000 people have fled the fighting.

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to again clear the way for continued quick deportations of immigrants to third countries where they have no ties. The government asked for an immediate halt to lower court orders finding that people must have the chance to object before the U.S. government deports them to countries other than their homelands. The justices allowed the deportation flights to continue when the case came before them last year. Since then, an appeals court has upheld a Boston-based judge’s final ruling that migrants must have a meaningful chance to argue a third-country deportation

would put them in danger of persecution or torture. The order doesn’t completely prohibit deportations to third countries, but it adds new requirements. The Trump administration says that creates unworkable delays and has already led to the cancellation of a flight carrying 70 people with criminal convictions to three different countries. “The order below would again obstruct DHS from efﬁciently removing aliens ... by inordinately delaying third-country removal for any alien who voices a fear of persecution or torture in that country, no matter how frivolous or belated the claim,” Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote. Thousands of migrants have been sent to third countries when their homelands won’t accept them or they can’t be returned there, the administration said. Those third-country governments provide assurances that people won’t be persecuted or tortured, attorneys said.

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WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy pressed President Donald Trump’s nominee for the Food and Drug Administration to stand up for vaccines in a hearing Thursday, and got some of what he wanted from her. Dr. Heidi Overton, a certified preventive care physician, contradicted President Donald Trump’s statements that the combined measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine is potentially “quite lethal” in a hearing of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committee, which is considering her nomination to run the FDA. She said the MMR vaccination “is our best tool” to combat the recent surge in measles cases. But Overton refused to criticize the president’s statements — not just on vaccines, but on issues like whether Tylenol could cause autism. She also wouldn’t say if she believed that healthcare access is a human right; if the nation’s consumers are paying the lowest pric-

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Dr. Heidi Overton testifies during her nomination to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration at the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee in Washington on Thursday. es in the world for prescription drugs, as Trump has claimed, despite evidence to the contrary; or if birth control amounts to abortion, again as the president has said. “This committee needs to know whether you will be radically honest. That you will use your authority to stand up for sound science and protect children’s health,” said Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge. “You

will also need to ensure that uninformed ideologies do not inﬂuence FDA’s decision on whether to approve individual products, even if the president is pressuring.” After the hearing, Cassidy wouldn’t say if Overton adequately addressed his concerns. Since losing in the May 16 closed GOP primary to Trump-backed U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-Baton

Rouge, Cassidy has become freer Hassan cut her off. “I wish it with his criticisms of the president wasn’t so difficult for members of and his allies. the administration to say the president was wrong.” Questions over vaccines The committee will vote at a As the White House deputy assis- future hearing on whether to adtant for domestic policy, Overton vance Overton and other health drafted the executive order that agency nominees to the full Senate changed the schedule children re- for confirmation. Before his political career, Casceive the single dose vaccination and allowed for the inoculations to sidy had been a liver doctor in the be broken up into several sticks. Louisiana charity hospital system She was standing behind Trump and published research papers in when the president said the MMR medical journals on the efficacy of vaccine possibly is “quite lethal.” certain vaccines. “The risk is in being unvacciCassidy sought assurances nated,” Cassidy said. “To say that from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a the vaccine is ‘quite lethal’ is going well-known vaccine skeptic, that, to discourage people from being in return for his support, the navaccinated when the scientific evi- tion’s vaccination policies would dence says that getting vaccinated not change arbitrarily. Soon after practically eliminates the risk of Kennedy became secretary of the getting measles, of being hospital- Department of Health and Human ized, transmitting the infection to Services, which oversees the FDA, other people and perhaps them- he rolled back those very policies. Cassidy was one of a handful of selves dying, perhaps someone else dying. That’s what the scien- Republican senators who voted to convict Trump on impeachment tific evidence shows.” Overton said her job is to present charges stemming from MAGA to the president the best version of supporters rioting at the U.S. Capthe policy he seeks. itol in an effort to sidetrack the When asked by Sen. Maggie official congressional declaration Hassan, D-N.H., if Trump was in- that Joe Biden had won the 2020 correct in his public views about presidential election. the dangers of the MMR vaccine, Overton answered, “the president Email Mark Ballard at wants the best outcomes.” mballard@theadvocate.com.

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JACKSON, Miss. — Civil rights attorney Ben Crump released information from a forensic examination of Nolan Wells’ cellphone as well as details of the ofﬁcial autopsy Thursday, just days after a Mississippi grand jury said it found no evidence of criminal conduct in the teen’s death. Attorneys representing the 18-year-old Black college student’s family have called for transparency, asking that the grand jury investigative materials and the official autopsy report be publicly released. Crump and his team discussed the contents of the cellphone analysis, even reading a few Snapchat messages out loud, but they did not release a full report of all the messages sent and received in the days leading up to and the day of Wells’ death. The grand jury had access to that information, including 282 pages of Snapchat conversations, when it convened last week, according to the panel’s report and Crump. Crump said the forensic examiner was able to track messages received and sent and tie them to the location of Wells’ phone from the day before he went missing all the way up to when his family got the phone back. “The messaging, as I said, was very telling … some of his own friends were concerned about (how) people on Horn Island can be racist,” Crump said Thursday. Wells’ family and their legal team have slammed the grand jury report and have been working to keep the investigation open and active. They’ve asked for federal authorities to look into the events surrounding Wells’ death. His body was found two days after he went with a group of mostly White friends on a boat trip to a barrier island for a July 4 party. The high-proﬁle death in a Deep South state with a history of racial tension has sparked rampant speculation and suspicion. State and local officials and several of Wells’ White friends who had become the target of that speculation had hoped that the grand jury report would quell critics.

Parents express suspicions Wells’ parents and their lawyers voiced suspicions after Wells’ friends left the island without him, saying he wanted to stay behind and talk to a girl. Wells’ phone was on the boat that took him to the island, and his family and their attorneys have expressed doubt that he would choose

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Ben Crump, right, an attorney for the family of Nolan Wells, accompanied by Wells’ parents, Elmore and Christine Wonsley, speaks at a news conference in Stonecrest, Ga., on Thursday. to stay behind without his phone. Crump said the last text message sent by Wells was July 3 around 8:30 p.m., but that was not unusual given that he and many teenagers communicate primarily on social media, including Snapchat and Instagram. Andrew Garrett, the forensic examiner who extracted the contents of Wells’ phone, said the GPS and other phone data showed that Wells had opened it with his face while it was on the boat around 2:17 p.m. It was then locked and continued to receive messages as it traveled on the boat, then by car and eventually was picked up by his family. Garrett also said at the news conference Thursday that some Snapchat messages had been deleted. He did not specify whether the senders deleted those messages on their own phones, but he made clear that he could not ascribe intent to those deletions. There was no evidence presented that suggested someone had unlocked Wells’ phone after it left the island and before the family got it back. The Associated Press sent a message to Crump’s team seeking clariﬁcation Thursday.

NEW YORK — Three news organizations banned from the White House for days were back Thursday after a judge handed CNN, MS NOW and Politico a reprieve in an extraordinary showdown between President Donald Trump and outlets whose coverage he dislikes. But media coverage of Trump’s White House was hardly normal. On a high-

A lawyer who represents some of Wells’ friends who have been the subject of speculation and online hate said it was unclear what new information the cellphone report revealed, reiterating that none of his clients were on the boat carrying Wells’ phone. “They never had the phone,” attorney Edward Paltzik said of his clients. The grand jury findings attempt to explicitly clear the friends who left the island without Wells from any wrongdoing, including trying to squash several online rumors.

profile day when Chinese leader Xi Jinping was visiting Washington and planning to attend a state dinner, no major American network was airing live coverage. After the White House banned CNN from a rotation of five major U.S. broadcast outlets who take turns shooting and sharing video, the other four — in a show of solidarity — were still declining to participate in the so-called video pool. The president posted online that TV networks “refused to cover one of the Biggest and Most Beautiful Events to take place in many years ... because they knew how good it would be,

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Lawyers question drowning The grand jury report said the panel found Wells’ death to be “consistent with drowning” and found that he had not been in a fight or altercation while on the island. Crump and Wells’ parents questioned how the panel could determine Wells likely drowned, when both the official and independent autopsies said the cause of death could not be determined. The state’s official autopsy report, which Crump’s team received late Wednesday, also said Wells’ airways and stomach were empty, raising questions about how the grand jury found he had likely drowned.

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Tropical Storm Nolo takes aim at Hawaii

BY MEGAN JANETSKY and GABRIELA AOUN ANGUEIRA Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Residents along Mexico’s west coast stacked sandbags to fortify beachfront shops and evacuated their homes, while Hawaii’s Big Island and Maui braced for potentially catastrophic ﬂooding, as two separate storms swirled in the Paciﬁc on Thursday. Heavy rains from powerful Hurricane Polo could cause lifethreatening flooding and landslides in Mexico, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center. In places like the port city of Lazaro Cardenas, seawater swept through homes Thursday and left wooden planks and furniture strewn on the streets. Polo has gone back and forth between Category 4 and 5, both major-hurricane strength. The strongest winds were expected to remain offshore as the storm’s center skirts the coast before moving out to sea. But Polo was forecast to hook back toward Mexico’s coast farther north on Saturday. Far off the southern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island, Tropical Storm Nolo was gathering strength, and forecasters expect it to become a hurricane soon. Hawaii is likely to see heavy rains starting late Thursday and winds reaching hurricane levels by early Saturday. Nolo could dump more than 2 feet of rain across islands still recovering from a string of storms. The series of powerful storms comes as the weather phenomenon El Niño prompts major environmental shifts across the world, fueling drought in some areas and flooding in others. El Niño traditionally dampens the Atlantic hurricane season, while it tends to rev up tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific with moist air and little wind shear. Hawaii has been battered this year by major flooding in the spring, an earthquake and two oth-

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Tropical Storm Nolo, left, south of Hawaii; Hurricane Odalys, middle; and Hurricane Polo, right, off the coast of Mexico, swirl in the Pacific Ocean on Thursday. er hurricanes since mid-August. “In my 20 years of experience here, I’ve never seen three hurricane watches for the islands in the same year,” said John Bravender of the National Weather Service in Honolulu.

Flooding and mudslides Mexican authorities were opening shelters and clearing people from beaches, while coastal residents tried to protect businesses from getting swept away. People in high-risk areas were being evacuated, though authorities didn’t immediately say how many. Much of the worry from locals comes from hurricanes in past years that devastated cities along the Paciﬁc coast. Hurricane Otis in 2023 unexpectedly plunged Acapulco into turmoil for weeks. “So many people said it wouldn’t happen and then it did. After that, you’re left on edge,” said Gonzalo Ramírez, a bartender in the city. Polo posed the biggest threat to Guerrero and Michoacán, neighboring states in southwest Mexico that share a long coastline scattered with small ports, tourist towns and ﬁshing villages. Much of the area is marked by poverty, and residents routinely complain they are left to fend for themselves during natural disasters. Mexican authorities have de-

ployed 15,000 security personnel across the coast and suspended schools. In Lázaro Cárdenas, a port city in Michoacán that was hit with high surf, locals and government ofﬁcials were clearing out piles of wooden planks from a number of destroyed ramadas and shoveling thick mud coating much of the town. Alicia Contreras said the walls and roof of her restaurant had been severely damaged by 15foot waves. As ofﬁcers and family helped pick through the damaged house, Contreras worried how she would economically recover. “This is huge because we have no other source of income. Now we’re just surviving,” Contreras said.

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Government foots bill for advertisement featuring Trump’s midterm messaging BY MIKE CATALINI

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At first glance, it looks like a typical Republican campaign advertisement. As images of President Donald Trump ﬂash across the screen, the 30-second spot says “America will never be a communist country” and boasts about the “largest tax cuts in history.” But there’s something different near the end — a bit of text at the bottom that says “paid for by the U.S. government.” According to AdImpact, which tracks media spending, the advertisement cost $14,000 and it ran during conservative shows on Fox News and Newsmax. The White House said in a statement the ad is “educational and unapologetically

patriotic.” “These public service announcements are about reminding Americans to love their country and understand what makes it worth defending, at home, at our borders, and abroad,” the White House statement said. Fox News and Newsmax did not immediately return a request for comment. The White House did not say what agency paid for the spot, which includes background music with singers crooning “love me” over and over. The advertisement does not say who voters should support in the midterms, but it meshes with campaign messaging from Trump and other Republicans, particularly during the party’s unusual convention in Dallas

earlier this month. Democratic Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, who is in line to chair the House Judiciary Committee if his party wins the majority in November, said in a social media post that it’s a violation of the Hatch Act for government employees to work on such a video. “It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns,” Raskin wrote. Republicans also criticized the ad. Louisiana Republican Sen. John Kennedy said he hadn’t seen the ad but questioned whether it was legal. “I don’t generally like to see politicians use public money to pay for their own campaign ads,” he said.

the conflict on Feb. 28. War powers resolutions are largely political statements, without the full force of law, but stand among the sharper tools the House and Senate have to express disapproval of the White BY LISA MASCARO House, short of halting funds for AP congressional correspondent Trump’s military actions. As resoWASHINGTON — Despite rising po- lutions, they do not go to the preslitical anxiety over the Iran war, ident’s desk for his signature. senators on Thursday narrowly rejected a war powers resolu- Republicans start to question tion seeking to halt President Republicans in control of ConDonald Trump’s military action, gress have shied away from diwhich has been largely blamed rectly confronting Trump over for the spike in gas prices and be- the war, now stretching past the come a flashpoint in the midterm seven-month mark. But their unelection. rest is surfacing as stubbornly The Senate tally, 49-50, coming high gas prices leave voters in a days after Trump’s bombastic cash crunch back home. address to the United Nations Diesel costs, in particular, have in which he threatened to “anni- almost doubled, topping $6 a galhilate” Iran, was likely the last lon, according to AAA. chance for lawmakers to go on Just returning from a swing record about the war ahead of through Iowa, Kansas and NebrasNovember. More Republicans are ka stumping for GOP candidates peeling way from the president who are suddenly at risk in their as the war drags on, a rare slap elections, Sen. John Kennedy, Rback to Trump, as they campaign Madisonville, called on Trump to for control of Congress. The Sen- hold a prime-time address to the ate outcome fell short, with four nation to explain the Iran war GOP senators joining most Dem- strategy and the end game. “People are confused about the ocrats in favor of the resolution. “They have been carrying wa- war and upset about the cost of ter for this ridiculous and ille- living,” he said. But he and others were not yet gal war for months and months and months and not listening to ready to vote against the war. “My own view is that the focus their constituents,” said Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., who pushed the war right now needs to be on attackpowers resolution forward. ing the cost of living issues,” said About half of rural American Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., who voters believe the economy is opposes the war powers resoluworse off now than when Trump tion and believes the president returned to office, according to a is acting within his authority to new survey from The Associated conduct the military action. Press in partnership with KFF. House Minorty Leader Hakeem The costs of groceries, gas and Jeffries, D-N.Y., scoffed at the healthcare rank as top pain points handful of Republicans now tryfor the rural voters. ing to distance themselves from “We’ve got to break the cycle,” what he called Trump’s failed said Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., who economy. “Now all of a sudden joined in voting yes. they’re waking up,” he said. Republican Sens. Susan Collins Earlier this month, the House of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alas- for a third time approved a war ka, Rand Paul of Kentucky also powers resolution, this time with voted for the resolution to end the seven Republicans joining the war, as they have in many previ- Democrats, including two from ous tallies, and Democratic Sen. battleground Iowa, Rep. Zach Nunn and Rep. Mariannette MillerJohn Fetterman voted against. This was the 14th time the Sen- Meeks, where affordability issues ate has considered a war powers among rural voters are dominating resolution, since Trump launched the campaigns.

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JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu began the year declaring that he stood “shoulder to shoulder” with U.S. President Donald Trump as the two countries launched a war against Iran. But this week, as world leaders gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, there are no plans for the two men to be in the same room, or even in the same city. As the war with Iran has dragged on, Trump and Netanyahu have split over how to prosecute it, straining a relationship between the two allies. Netanyahu has also faced global criticism both for Israel’s war in Gaza and settler violence in the occupied West Bank. Instead of a packed itinerary, Netanyahu, who arrived on Thursday, was scheduled to meet only a handful of leaders before giving his speech. The apparent snub underscored how badly the relationship between Trump and the prime minister has fractured. Many in Washington associate Netanyahu with the increasingly unpopular ﬁght with Iran and Trump has labored to avoid the appearance that the Israeli leader forced him into a war that Trump said would be a “little excursion” lasting only weeks. Netanyahu’s brief visit also demonstrated how isolated he is globally, three years after launching a punishing war in Gaza in retaliation for the Hamas-led attacks on Oct. 7, 2023. He faces an election next month widely seen as a referendum on his responsibility for the security failures surrounding the attacks and his ability to defend Israel’s reputation on the world stage. Day after day this week, as other heads of state have stepped to the podium, many have harshly criticized Israel’s actions, particularly

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks Thursday during the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly. in Gaza. Ahead of his visit, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani urged his arrest, saying the U.S. should honor a warrant for Netanyahu issued by the International Criminal Court. He is wanted for war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed in Gaza, though the U.S. is not a member of the court and New York City lacks the authority to arrest him. Still, the prime minister is a master showman, and often turns to props and visual aids during speeches in flawless English to drive home his message. Last year at the summit, scores of diplomats walked out while he was speaking. But that is unlikely to faze him, as he speaks primarily to an audience of Israeli voters. “He times his speech so that it is broadcast here in primetime,” said Michael Oren, a former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. who served under Netanyahu and lives in Israel. But experts say without the usual high-proﬁle meetings, the trip could hurt Netanyahu’s image at home. “I think the trip is a mistake, because it exposes his weaknesses,” said Eytan Gilboa, an expert on U.S.-Israel relations and professor at Israel’s Bar-Ilan and Reichman universities.

While many Israelis view the U.N. as hostile toward Israel, he added, the fact that he could not secure a meeting with Trump only highlights how poorly Netanyahu has managed the relationship with his nation’s strongest ally. In 2023, U.S. President Joe Biden was reluctant to host Netanyahu at the White House but still made time to sit down with him on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. “Israel cannot survive without the United States,” Gilboa said. The slight in New York follows sharp criticism from Mike Huckabee, the U.S. ambassador to Israel and a longtime supporter of Israeli settlements, of the settlers attacking Palestinian communities in the West Bank. In unusual remarks for an ambassador, he referred to the attackers as “terrorists.” “It’s signiﬁcant of a deeper rift,” Oren said of Netanyahu’s slim itinerary. When Trump was in New York on Tuesday, he met with an array of leaders from Arab nations, as well as from Denmark, Japan, Greenland, Ukraine and Venezuela, among others. He then quickly returned to Washington to roll out the red carpet for Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Administration weighs new limits on Cuban travel at the U.N. this week, the oil blockade that the Trump Havana decries Assembly State Department is now administration imposed on “strict controls” the Caribbean island nation Trump’s economic weighing on the ofﬁcials who plan to in January. squeeze return next month for an “What deﬁnes the present

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UNITED NATIONS — The Trump administration was considering imposing new restrictions on Cuban ofﬁcials who travel to the United Nations, another step to squeeze the government in Havana as its top diplomat accused the United States on Thursday of unleashing collective punishment on Cuba’s people with its intensifying measures. Even as a sizable Cuban delegation was approved to come to the U.N. General

annual U.N. vote on the decadeslong U.S. economic embargo on Cuba. That is according to U.S. officials and an internal document obtained by The Associated Press. The ofﬁcials spoke on condition of anonymity because a decision on the details of what the restrictions will entail has not yet been ﬁnalized. Potential plans to further restrict officials in New York for diplomatic work come as Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez bemoaned the “lack of progress” in negotiations between Havana and Washington. He also blasted the

status of the Cuba-U.S. relations is the brutal tightening of the economic and ﬁnancial blockade and the total oil siege imposed on our country, which is equivalent to a naval blockade,” Rodríguez said in Spanish during an AP interview on the sidelines of the annual U.N. General Assembly gathering of world leaders. His comments, made through a translator, follow President Donald Trump’s wide-ranging U.N. address Tuesday, when he again called Cuba a “failed state” and said he was “seeking a fundamental change in the situation in Cuba.”

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Venezuela’s acting president, delivering her first address to the U.N. General Assembly since coming to power, promised elections Wednesday and said the nation’s people will determine the “right moment.” “I wish to state this very clearly before this General Assembly: Elections will be held in Venezuela,” Delcy Rodriguez said, adding that her government has started a “political dialogue with opposition sectors” to secure a “process based on equal conditions for all.” Rodríguez said the Venezuelan people will determine the best time to get elections moving and assured the United Nations that, when the time comes, the country’s institutions “will be prepared to guarantee an inclusive and transparent process.” Rodríguez took over in Venezuela after a surprise U.S. military raid in January that captured then-leader Nicolás Maduro and brought him to the United States to face drug trafﬁcking charges. This is the ﬁrst trip to the United States by a Venezuelan head of state since 2018, when Maduro traveled to New York to participate in the U.N. General Assembly himself. He is currently being held only a few miles from the organization’s headquarters as he awaits trial. Rodríguez’s participation in the international forum also marks a milestone in Venezuela’s reintegration into global diplomacy. Addressing global leaders, she said that “the last time that two presidents of Venezuela and the United States met was in 2009.” She added that her country is coming back strong after “set-

backs” suffered this year and thanked President Donald Trump for being willing to resume relations after the U.S. military spirited her predecessor out of the country. The other setback to which she referred: On June 24, two powerful earthquakes, magnitudes 7.2 and 7.5, struck north-central Venezuela and killed more than 6,500 people, leaving an untold number of missing and causing widespread devastation. “I come to talk about a Venezuela whose national life has been affected by a crisis of political coexistence that disrupted the life of the nation and our interaction with the world,” Rodriguez she said. “Interests alien to the common good of Venezuelans were imposed.” Rodriguez faced a delicate balance in her speech, which needed to be addressed to both her people and the U.S. government that holds her predecessor. She thanked Trump for his willingness to resume the course of diplomatic relations and cooperation with Venezuela. “We are working earnestly to resolve existing differences through dialogue, but above all to pave the way for cooperation in the energy sector, the promotion of security, the joint fight against transnational crime, and economic cooperation for the benefit of both peoples and our continent,” she said. “Today, Venezuela is being reborn.” Since rising to power, Rodríguez has forged a close working relationship with Trump. U.S. influence in Venezuela has grown following the lifting of sanctions against Rodríguez in April, one of several recent moves by Washington to recognize her as a legitimate authority ever since the U.S. military captured her predecessor. Addressing some words to her people, Rodríguez said that she could not promise an “easy path,” noting that “the country’s recovery will take time.”

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Continued from page 1A the Boston Celtics. When he retired, Pettit had: n Scored 20,880 points, then the most in NBA history. n Pulled in 12,849 rebounds, then the second-most in NBA history. n Scored the most field goals (7,349) and the second-most free throws (6,182) in NBA history. Joe Dean, the late LSU athletic director and athlete who watched the college careers of Pete Maravich and Shaquille O’Neal from a close vantage point, was adamant that his old teammate is the best LSU basketball player ever. He had a case. In 1974, 20 years after his last game as a Tiger, Pettit was voted the best in the history of the SEC. It was a remarkable rise for a man who said the only game he excelled at as a youngster was marbles. As a freshman at Baton Rouge High School, Pettit was cut from the football, baseball and basketball junior-varsity teams. As a sophomore, he decided to concentrate on basketball, but coach Kenner Day cut Pettit again. It was a move Day would never live down but one Pettit staunchly defended. “We were five over the roster limit, and I really wasn’t good enough to make the team,” Pettit said, ‘Well, we’ve got a scholarship for you if you want to come,’ and I said. “He knew it, and I knew it.” Determined to improve, Pettit accepted.” For LSU, which hadn’t made joined a church league and spent every spare minute working on much of a basketball splash since his game. He hung a bent hanger Sparky Wade boosted the Tigers to on the garage door and shot tennis what was then a mythical national balls through it for hours at a time. championship in 1935, it was a fateHis father once recalled that his ful decision. Pettit’s career yielded son “put two large reading lamps a three-year record of 59-15 and in the window, turned them toward two NCAA appearances, including the basket and the ﬁrst Final Four practiced at night. “Nobody in the SEC, and appearance for any He’d made up his very few anywhere, could SEC team other mind he was going fake and drive around the than Kentucky. He to make the team.” the SEC scoring basket, put up a hook or set At the time, Bob, record with 1,916 scrawny and awk- hit a medium jumper the points, which held way Pettit did.” until Maravich ward, stood 5-footplayed at LSU 15 11. NED CLARK, a lifelong friend years later. By the time he and LSU teammate Pettit averaged enrolled for his 27.4 points and junior year, Pet14.1 rebounds for tit had sprouted to 6 feet, 4 inches, and was playing his college career. He developed into an imposing basketball as he had only dreamed about before. Day also coached 6-foot, 9-inch presence with a soft the football team, so until that sea- shooting touch accompanied by a son ended, he had a senior player wicked hook. Renowned trainer oversee basketball practices. Pet- Alvin Roy worked out a weight tit said teammate Charlie Roberts program for Pettit to improve his told him Day was aghast when he strength. By that time, once Pettit heard Pettit was practicing at cen- got a hand on the ball, few could take it away. ter. He had transformed himself into But that season, Pettit made the all-city squad, and the following a basketball force. “His work ethic was incredyear he was a 6-foot, 7-inch AllAmerican on the state champion- ible,” said lifelong friend and LSU teammate Ned Clark, who died in ship team. Still, college coaches were not March of this year. “That is what bowled over. Harry Rabenhorst of- eventually showed up on the court. fered Pettit a scholarship to LSU, Nobody in the SEC, and very few which was fortunate because few anywhere, could fake and drive around the basket, put up a hook other schools came calling. “Tulane, Loyola, some of the or hit a medium jumper the way state schools and later DePaul and Pettit did.” With all his accomplishments as Western Kentucky came around, but I guess no more than six or a collegian, it was as a pro that Petseven actually recruited me,” Pet- tit left his biggest impression — altit said. “Coach Raby took me out though he wasn’t sure he wanted to for a steak one night — that’s how go in that direction. “Pro basketball didn’t have the you recruited in those days — and

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Continued from page 1A Development. That’s despite reports from a HANO-commissioned inspector that the units were safe. More than 18,000 low-income people in New Orleans live in voucher housing, which is owned and managed by private landlords but subsidized and overseen by HANO. “The Authority’s contracted inspectors did not thoroughly inspect the units … In addition, the Authority relied on its contractor to perform quality control inspections for its program units, without providing adequate oversight,” the audit stated. “As a result, families … resided in housing units that were not always decent, safe, and sanitary.” The report covers units inspected by HUD’s OIG between June 2025 and May 2026. HANO Executive Director Marjorianna Willman, who took over the agency in 2025, blamed a contractor installed by the agency’s previous leadership for those failures. “It is a new day at HANO,” Willman said in a statement. “We will not tolerate practices that put families at risk or fall short of our responsibility to residents.” HANO terminated its contract with the former

inspector, Tennessee-based McCright & Associates, in February, a month after it learned of the problems, according to a termination letter sent by HANO. It installed a new inspector in June. A spokesperson for McCright did not respond to a request for comment. The recent report is only the latest example of federal scrutiny of the public housing authority, whose failures Willman has promised to remedy. In a June audit, HUD found that HANO had amassed a $1.5 million water bill at Guste Homes, and directed the agency to pause funding to its longtime management partner. HANO began directly managing the property in July. Several months before, HUD had threatened to close the Guste complex after its vacancy rate exceeded HUD guidelines.

‘Like we don’t matter’ HUD provides nearly all of HANO’s funding. The department provided $245 million for HANO’s voucher program in 2025. According to the latest audit, HUD initiated the review “based on our assessment of risks associated with public housing agencies’ HCV Program units, recent media attention, and public concern about the conditions of subsidized housing properties.” Federal inspectors found nearly 600 violations of

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ABOVE: Bob Pettit holds his trophy after being named most valuable player in the 1958 NBA All-Star Game in St. Louis, Mo. LEFT: Bob Pettit, right, signs autographs alongside Ned Clark, another former LSU standout, STAFF FILE PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON during an LSU game in 2023. glamour it has today, and I came very close to signing with an amateur team, one of the teams where you work for the company and played for the company team,” he said. “The salaries were close to the NBA’s then, and each year some of the top players went that way. But it was a year-round job. I wanted to come back to Louisiana and go into business. I didn’t want to be known as an old basketball player. I wanted to be a young businessman.” Picked second by the then-Milwaukee (later St. Louis) Hawks, Pettit asked for a $15,000 contract, a bold proposal at the time for an untried rookie with $100 to his name. Hawks owner Ben Kerner counteroffered $9,500, a salary that equaled the highest amount ever given a ﬁrst-year player. The parties agreed on $11,000, but Bob had to report to Milwaukee a month ahead of schedule to help sell tickets. On the court, coach Red Holzman saw Pettit as a center who he thought could play facing the basket, and he transformed Pettit into the game’s ﬁrst power forward — and one of its greatest players. An integral part of his basketball legacy was a scintillating Game 6 performance Pettit put on to clinch the 1958 NBA championship: He scored 50 points, including 19 of the Hawks’ last 21, in St. Louis’ 110-109 victory over the Boston Celtics. Tommy Heinsohn, the primary Celtics defender against Pettit, said he never heard the end of it from legendary Boston coach Red Auerbach, who constantly reminded his old Hall of Fame player, “We would have won 10 straight (championships) if you had held Pettit to 48 points!” Funeral arrangements are pending.

HUD standards in 74 of the 75 units. More than half of those violations, across 66 units, were “life-threatening deficiencies requiring correction within 24 hours,” including nonworking smoke detectors, electrical hazards and inoperable windows. Auditors shadowed eight of HANO’s contracted inspectors as they inspected 20 apartments. They found that inspectors identified just 63% of the compliance issues that HUD’s inspectors did. HANO would have paid property owners more than $171 million in housing assistance for units that do not meet HUD standards over the next year if no action was taken to remedy the issues or cancel contracts with noncompliant landlords, the report estimated. HANO’s board approved a contract with McCright shortly after HANO’s former executive director, Evette Hester, took over the agency in 2019. In addition to replacing McCright with a new inspector, Nan McKay & Associates, HANO addressed more than 20% of the issues HUD inspectors identiﬁed, officials told HUD in a response to the audit. HANO also terminated contracts with six landlords and suspended payments to nine landlords. And the agency created its own internal quality control de-

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Bob Pettit, center, battles for a rebound against Fordham in their Sugar Bowl basketball tournament game in New Orleans on Dec. 29, 1953.

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Continued from page 1A help explore the changing dynamics between Spain, Spanish-speaking America and the United States. After stops in Madrid in 2024 and Washington, D.C. ,in 2025, the tour is concluding in New Orleans because of its history as a Spanish colony, said M. Begoña Santos, president and CEO of the Queen Sofía Spanish Institute, a New York-based nonprofit founded to promote Spanish culture. “We feel very strongly that the history of the Gulf states are integral in the history of America,” Santos said. “The story has been presented a little too East Coast-centered.” The symposium kicked off with the opening of an exhibit at Tulane’s Doris Z. Stone Latin American Library & Research Center, a renowned collection of Latin American materials. St. Louis Cathedral will host an opening ceremony Friday, which will feature lectures on Louisiana’s role in the Spanish Empire and Spanish New Orleans. More lectures will follow at the Historic New Orleans Collection. “We designed the exhibit to provoke questions rather than provide simple answers,” said Hortensia Calvo, the director of the Stone Research Center, welcoming Queen Sofia to the exhibit. Calvo said the exhibit doesn’t focus on individual heroes or villains or specific battles. Instead researchers used “documents themselves to bring us closer to how people experience these extraordinary events as they unfolded.” “Your majesty, your presence makes this occasion particularly special,” said Patrick Norton, Tulane’s senior vice president and chief operating officer.

Spain-New Orleans ties Spain’s role in the American Revolutionary War is often overshadowed by France’s contributions to the effort, said Jason Wiese, chief curator at the Historic New Orleans Collection. But Spain sent food, muskets, gunpowder and other materials to the Continental Army through New Orleans, which was then governed by Bernardo de Gálvez, a Spaniard. Spain also contributed

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Continued from page 1A the end of Karam’s tenure. He said Sharon FranklinBrown, previously the department’s operations chief, is now the interim director. In an interview Thursday, Karam said Legier and a human resources representative informed him of his immediate termination on Wednesday, and he “was surprised by the immediacy of the termination.” “I was hoping to get an opportunity to continue working with the administration on the challenges that we face,” he said. “While I didn’t have an opportunity to say goodbye to my staff, it has been an honor working with them and serving the public.” In a statement, a spokesperson for the administration, Jonah Gilmore, said the move was part of Moreno’s “commitment to improve city services, strengthen accountability and ensure responsiveness across city government.” He said a former parks and parkways director, Ann Macdonald, would assist in the search for a permanent director. The action came the day after District E council member Jason Hughes criticized the department after Moreno’s budget address to the council on Tuesday. Hughes said Moreno’s administration is requesting a tax increase, but departments like Parks and Parkways have been providing subpar services with the money they have. “Everybody’s scratching their head, and the residents are just saying, ‘We want the damn grass cut,’ ” Hughes

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Her Majesty Queen Sofia, the mother of the current king of Spain, greets Tulane University exchange students from Spain upon her arrival to the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library on Thursday.

Guests walk through the new exhibition, ‘Spain, Spanish America and the Atlantic World in an Age of Revolution’ on Thursday. $13 million Spanish silver reales, the equivalent of about $2 billion in today’s U.S. currency, to the cause, Wiese said, and Spain’s military operations in West Florida helped weaken British forces there. “Most of that aid came through New Orleans,” Wiese said, noting that weakening British power served Spain’s political interests. Though Spain and Gálvez have received some credit

said. Karam said that Hughes had emailed him about concerns in his district on Monday, as council members often do, and that Karam had responded within a day. “I think he took issue with our responses,” Karam said. “That just speaks to resource limitations. It doesn’t speak to a large-scale concern with departmental functions.”

Added duties Parks and Parkways manages more than 2,000 acres of parks, neutral grounds and other public areas, according to the department’s website. These are generally separate from land and facilities managed by the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission, although Parks and Parkways maintains trees on NORD grounds and occasionally helps out with other tasks. After taking ofﬁce in January, Moreno issued an executive order for a task force to recommend improvements to NORD, including how to consolidate that department’s responsibilities with those of Parks and Parkways. Speaking at a Sept. 1 NORD board meeting, Karam said his department had been struggling with the added responsibilities over the past year. In addition to increased duties at NORD sites, Karam said his staff had been assigned to maintain land around libraries, cemeteries and other areas usually overseen by the Department of Property Management. “There’s a lot we’re working to consolidate,” Karam said at the meeting.

Tree troubles Hughes said Tuesday that

over the years for their contributions — including in 2014 when President Barack Obama and Congress bestowed honorary citizenship to Gálvez — the work is often overshadowed by France and Marquis de Lafayette. “The story of the American Revolution has been over a long period greatly simplified and really focused along the Atlantic seaboard and speciﬁc char-

New Orleans East residents have complained about overgrown grass on public land, trees in danger of falling and other nuisances. Hughes said department staff has responded lackadaisically while blaming a hiring freeze and reduced funding for contract work. “The responsiveness is horriﬁc. The quality is unacceptable,” Hughes said. Parks and Parkways is also responsible for maintaining more than 100,000 trees, and Karam said Thursday the department “has had challenges with addressing tree matters and our grass cutting cycle for quite some time, due to resource limitations.” Although Parks and Parkways is typically lower profile than other city departments, a string of live oak tree collapses in the drought-stricken summer of 2023 attracted controversy. Among them was a century-old tree in Jackson Square that split apart and struck a 16-year-old boy, who suffered brain damage. Nearby business owners said the tree had been showing signs of imminent collapse, including when a large limb fell off just 10 days before. The city eventually agreed to pay the injured boy and his family $4.8 million to settle a lawsuit. Later that summer, three oak trees elsewhere in the city fell within a 24-hour period. “We make every effort to remove compromised trees proactively,” Karam told reporters after the additional collapses, highlighting the severe drought conditions. “I do feel that it is an anomaly, given the circumstances.”

Sofía Spanish Institute, said Spain’s contributions are less widely discussed because they did not fight alongside American soldiers. Also, Gálvez died young and did not tour the country after the war like Lafayette did, and America’s early histories were written in the northeast, where Spain had less presence. The America&Spain250 initiative was launched three years ago in part to correct the narrative and “bring visibility” to Spain’s contributions. Santos said she hopes New Orleanians have a greater appreciation for Spanish inﬂuence in the city, including the architecture of the French Quarter, which was rebuilt during Spanish rule, and which Queen Soﬁa will visit during her time in New Orleans.

acters like Paul Revere,” Wiese said. “But it was a global The exhibit conflict involving multiple Escorted by Norton, countries.” Queen Soﬁa made her way Santos, of the Queen down a receiving line of

about two dozen Tulane students waiting in the lobby of the library. She shook hands and exchanged words with each student before heading to the exhibit on the fourth ﬂoor. It showcases aspects of the political upheavals between Atlantic countries from the 1760s through the 1820s. In chronological order the exhibit shows documents pertaining to the wars between the imperial powers, England, France and Spain, American and Haitian revolutions and eventually Spanish American Revolutions, which took place in the early 1800s. The bulk of the exhibit are rare books, artifacts and early constitutions from Tulane’s collections. Featured artifacts include a replica of the first Spanish language newspaper printed in America that brought news of Napoleon Bonaparte’s imprisonment of the Spanish king and the French takeover, Calvo said. Lindsay Cronk, Tulane University’s dean of libraries, said the exhibit is meant to evoke questions about revolutions and what form of governance should exist after a revolution. “I really think what makes this exhibit special, resonant and particularly important to this moment is that it’s not a history lesson,” Cronk said. “It is a documentation of a paper trail. It’s a story of a question that is ongoing, that we continue to debate to this day around independence and its outcomes.” The Tulane exhibit will be open to the public through May 2027. The Historic New Orleans Collection will host lectures Saturday at the Williams Research Center about Spanish America’s importance in the Revolutionary War, Bernardo de Gálvez’s Mississippi campaign, systems of slavery under different imperial rulers and other topics. The queen’s visit to the exhibition and various events “underscores that it was a much bigger story than people think it was,” Wiese said.

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Louellen Berger, the St. Charles Avenue impresario of plastic skeletons, jumped the hot glue gun this year. She began erecting her landmark Halloween display at the corner of State Street a week earlier than usual. Berger required the extra time, she said, because of the impending arrival of house guests. But the need for speed was also serendipitous. By starting sooner in 2026, Berger was able to debut this year’s centerpiece, her skeletal rendition of the recently deceased Dolly Parton, just in time for Dolly Parton Day in New Orleans on Friday — a reference to Parton’s hit “Nine to Five.” The fleshless effigy wears a flowing pink gown, with a plunging neckline stretched tight over a pair of protruding, transparent bell jars. Parton’s blue eyes shine beneath frighteningly full eyelashes, and her blond bouffant rises above her skull — held preternaturally upright with Mod Podge glue, Berger said. As with all of Berger’s 80 or more celebrity skeletons, the late singer is labeled with a mercilessly tortured pun — “Our Dear Dolly DeParton’d.” The macabre caricature of the beloved country music superstar is supposed to tickle the funny bone, as Berger puts it, but — like all of her skeletal celebs — it also reads as a sign of affection. Berger said she’d already planned to include Parton in her display this year. But when the singer died on Aug. 25, she had second thoughts. Berger recalls telling her husband she couldn’t do a skeleton Dolly now, because “everybody loves her too much.” Berger feared “it may make them feel a little too raw.” But as the accolades for Parton flowed in the aftermath of her death, and plans for public celebrations of her life were announced, Berger

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A Dolly Parton skeleton is on display for Halloween on St. Charles Avenue on Wednesday. concluded that her playfully macabre tribute wouldn’t be misunderstood. Her goal, she said, was to “make her the standout” among the other musicians in her Halloween tableau. Berger’s skeleton Parton is 8 feet tall. Dolly’s silver boots, butterﬂy-motif guitar and abundant jewelry once adorned Berger’s 2024 skeletal interpretation of pop star Taylor Swift. “I do retire them,” Berger said. Berger’s popular skeleton display got started 20-plus years ago when she posed a reclining plastic skeleton in the lower limbs of an oak tree, as

if it was napping. A Times-Picayune photographer shot the Halloween decoration, which he captioned “Lazy Bones.” Soon Berger added more skeletons and more puns, until her display stretched across the entire front yard of her mansion and from the entrance gate to the rooftop. Thousands gather on her sidewalk each year to inspect Berger’s skeleton krewe and guffaw at her gruesome wordplay. Decades before Berger’s extravagant celebrity skeleton display

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WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge Anna St. John, of New Orleans, cleared a major hurdle Thursday when the Senate Judiciary Committee — on a party-line vote — recommended she be confirmed to sit on the federal appellate bench. St. John, a 46-year-old native of Gulfport, Mississippi, and mother of four, can thank the committee’s Republican members, including Sen. John Kennedy, R-Madisonville. Republicans outnumber Democratic members, who all opposed advancing her confirmation to the full Senate for an up-or-down vote sometime in the next few weeks. Democratic members of the Senate committee opposed her nomination based on comments St. John and court filings she made about handling sexual harassment complaints. Republicans focused on her credentials and deep experience litigating massive class action lawsuits. No Republican member spoke on her behalf prior to Thursday’s vote. The ranking Democrat on the committee, U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin, of Illinois, noted that St. John has been on the federal trial bench for six months and hadn’t presided over any trials before being nominated to the appellate court on June 29. “She’s being quickly promoted because of her record as a lawyer where she repeatedly challenged

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Tulane Energy Forum set Event to tackle all sides of power issues

BY RICH COLLINS Staff writer

Installation is underway at the skeleton house in New Orleans as the scary season of Halloween approaches on Wednesday.

Energy is having a “moment,” according to Tulane professor Pierre Conner. The executive director of the Tulane Energy Institute, and one of the organizers of the Sept. 2830 Future of Energy Forum, said average citizens hadn’t been thinking much about what powers their homes or cars for several decades, but now the topic is top of mind again due to rising costs and concerns about reliability and sustainability. “Energy consciousness in society today is at level we haven’t seen since the early 1970s, when there was an oil embargo and prices quadrupled in a short period,” Conner said. “But it’s ubiquitous: we all either make it, move it or use it.” Conner said Tulane launched its energy forum three years ago as a way to spark productive conversations between industry leaders, researchers, policymakers, technology experts and consumers. The free, three-day event on Tulane’s main campus in Uptown New Orleans will feature more

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Bonano announces at-large run for Jefferson Parish Council to run for an at-large counCandidate didn’t cil position next year. Bonano, a Republican, specify which specific made the announcement a campaign event seat he’s running for during in Harahan. He did not

is vast, and my leadership skills are well proven,” Bonano said. “I have never been afraid to tackle the most controversial issues facing our citizens.” specify which of the parDuring his two terms BY LARA NICHOLSON representing District 2, ish’s two at-large seats he Staff writer which spans parts of Meis seeking. Bonano cannot Bonano tairie, Harahan, River Jefferson Parish Council Dis- run for his District 2 seat Ridge and the West Bank, Bonano trict 2 member Deano Bonano an- again due to term limits. “My experience and knowledge championed several parish projnounced Thursday night his plan

ects, including the purchase of the former Hope Haven orphanage campus to redevelop into a ﬁtness hub. He also worked with state leaders to begin a $30 million renovation to turn the Shrine on Airline into a multipurpose stadium. Bonano also facilitated major business investments in his district, such as the revitalization of Avondale shipyard and the construction of a children’s hospital at

Ochsner Health under conditions that the hospital would add a park and improve drainage and would not purchase any more neighborhood properties. He advocated for new zoning rules, such as a 2,000-foot buffer between industrial and residential properties, and launched initiatives for the parish to tackle

ä See BONANO, page 2B

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EBR Parish DA investigating LSU rape allegation University reduced football player’s punishment, files show

BY BLAKE LESCHBER Staff writer

An LSU administrative process found a football player responsible for the rape of a student but reduced his punishment on appeal, determining in part that no “force” or “malice” was involved and the athlete showed “an error in judgment,” documents show. Documents from the Title IX hearing process, obtained by The Advocate, shed new light on allegations the student made public in a TikTok video posted earlier this month. In the video, the student said she is now pursuing criminal charges against the player and feels the university let her down. On Tuesday, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore said his ofﬁce was opening an investigation into the rape alle-

gation, saying a criminal complaint Both said there was some consenwas filed. sual sexual activity, an LSU hearing LSU issued a statement saying panel found. the university correctly followed But the student said she never the administrative process in han- agreed to it proceeding to intercourse, which continued dling the matter and is coeven after she told him operating with the criminal to stop, the panel’s report investigation. said. The player said that Documents show the inhe stopped after she told cident occurred Oct. 18, him to, the panel reported. 2025, and the LSU Office The panel determined of Civil Rights and Title IX the player was responreceived an incident report Dec. 9. The civil rights of- Moore sible for rape of the student because the incident fice handles allegations of sexual misconduct among students between the two went from consenthrough an administrative process. sual to nonconsensual. In his own The football player called LSU statements, he said he did not ask police the day of the incident, say- for consent before intercourse and ing he had a sexual encounter with did not stop when he later asked the student and that she was mes- and she was silent, the panel found. The panel decided he should be saging him, claiming he raped her and threatening suicide, according suspended until May 31, 2027, the to an incident report filed by a uni- documents show. He would not be versity police officer. LSU police allowed on university property unmet with her and took her to the less given prior approval. He also hospital, where a sexual assault kit would be readmitted only if he met was completed, the report says. counseling and other requirements, During interviews with univer- and the suspension would be resity Title IX investigators, the stu- corded on his academic transcript. The player appealed, noting the dent and player provided conflicting information on what happened. timing of the Title IX complaint,

saying he should have been represented by an adviser earlier in the process and mentioning $1,000 received by the student from his family, among other issues. In her TikTok video, the student said soon after the incident, the player’s mother asked her not to ﬁle a criminal complaint and ruin his career. The student said she accepted $1,000 from the player’s family early on, and ﬁled a criminal complaint after learning he was back on campus. The administrative law judge reviewing the appeal rejected the player’s arguments and upheld the prior decision on forcible rape. But the review judge changed the punishment from a two-semester suspension to four semesters of probation, the records show. The original punishment was deemed too harsh, partly because while the athlete’s actions were nonconsensual, they did not “exhibit a deliberate disregard for complainant’s dignity and autonomy but was instead an error in judgment.” In a statement after Moore announced the opening of a criminal

investigation, LSU said the university had “properly followed its Title IX policies and processes to a conclusion.” “Let me assure everyone that this incident has been handled professionally and that LSU has strictly followed our policies, procedures and best practices, including the Title IX process, to guide our actions to date,” LSU President Wade Rousse said in a statement. “Now that a criminal complaint has been filed, our role is to continue cooperating with our law enforcement partners as they work through their investigatory process.” Moore said he has requested all reports, interviews, evidence and other records from LSU, the LSU Police Department, the Baton Rouge Police Department, the East Baton Rouge Parish Coroner’s Office and other agencies. Neither Moore nor LSU officials have made the name of the student or player public. Staff writer Patrick Sloan-Turner contributed to this report. Email Blake Leschber at blake. leschber@theadvocate.com.

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at Walmart, 1616 Airline High- aid, and the man was taken to a hos- with illegal possession of a stolen Flock cameras locate ping vehicle and driving without a liway, just after noon on Saturday pital to be treated for his injuries. Authorities said Frasier took off when he headed out to his vehicle, alleged attacker, according to the St. John the Bap- in the victim’s vehicle, a red 2014 cense. He was being held Thursday at tist Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. As he Honda CR-V. Police in Kenner spot- the Jefferson Parish Correctional police say placed his groceries inside the car, ted the stolen SUV within about 17 Center in Gretna. Bail was set at

BY MICHELLE HUNTER

a man grabbed him from behind, choked him and threw him to the ground before punching him in the Authorities arrested a suspect face. The suspect, later identiﬁed as accused of attacking and carjacking an 80-year-old man who was Christopher Frasier, 28, of Montz, loading groceries in the parking allegedly jumped into the victim’s lot of a LaPlace business over the vehicle as the 80-year-old cried out for help. weekend. A bystander came to the victim’s The victim had just ﬁnished shop-

Staff writer

minutes, using the Flock licenseplate recognition camera system. Ofﬁcers surrounded the vehicle at the intersection of Decatur Avenue and Veterans Memorial Boulevard, about a half-block from the Kenner Police Department headquarters, police said. Frasier was taken into custody and booked in Jefferson Parish

$25,150 for the charges related to the stolen vehicle, but Frasier was being held without bond for a parole violation. He will also face criminal charges in St. John Parish, the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce said. Email Michelle Hunter at mhunter@theadvocate.com.

Inmate dies after cardiac arrest, sheriff says BY MISSY WILKINSON

chelle Woodfork, who took the helm in May. The jail remains under a longstanding consent A man incarcerated at the decree put in place after a series Orleans Justice Center died of constitutional violations and Wednesday after being removed years of mismanagement. The Sheriff’s Office said the from life support following a cardiac arrest, according to the man collapsed at 2:29 p.m. on Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. Sept. 16 on a fourth-ﬂoor housHis death marks the second at ing unit and was unresponsive. the jail in as many months and An OPSO sergeant and medical the second under Sheriff Mi- staff tried to resuscitate and sta-

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“The good Lord above heard and granted the thousands of prayers that were sent up for me,” Bonano said in his announcement. “God’s message to me is that my work for him on Earth is not ﬁnished.” Bonano is the second candidate to officially announce his campaign for an at-large Parish Council seat. Jefferson Parish Council District 5 member Hans Liljeberg said this summer he would leave his Metairie post next year to run for the at-large Division B seat, currently held by Scott Walker, who is termlimited. Jennifer Van Vrancken, who represents at-large Division A, is not term-limited. She has not announced her plans for next year, but has indicated she’s “very interested” in running for parish president.

homelessness and help the aging population. Bonano has a long history with the parish, starting as its first contract administrator in 1988. Before becoming a council member in 2020, he worked as the administrative assistant to former council member Chris Roberts for nine years, parish chief of homeland security for four years and a parish deputy chief administrative officer for 10 years, among other roles. Bonano’s announcement comes six months after he experienced a life-threatening medical emergency in which his colon ruptured and led to sepsis, putting him out of work for four weeks. Bonano said in a June interview that the experience made him question Email Lara Nicholson at whether he’d seek higher ofﬁce. lnicholson@theadvocate.com.

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is to get such an important vacancy filled before the Nov. 3 congressional midterms. Should the Republicans lost the majority in the midterm elections, then St. John’s confirmation, as well as other judicial nominees will face a far more difficult path, Tobias said. As it is, Senate leaders are going to have to carve out about 30 hours of floor time to complete her confirmation. The Senate left Washington on Thursday afternoon but returns Monday afternoon for another scheduled week. She was seated April 23 on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana in New Orleans. President Donald Trump opted to promote her after 5th Circuit Judge Kurt Engelhardt, of New Orleans, decided to take senior status.

class action settlements and litigated politically charged issues,” Durbin said. With the 12-10, party-line vote, the committee recommended the full Senate conﬁrm St. John to the 17-seat bench that reviews verdicts and decisions rendered by federal trial courts in Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. “The senators had seen her before as a district (court) nominee,” said Carl Tobias, a professor at the University of Richmond Law School who monitors federal judicial nominations. Part of the reason for St. John’s selection was because her background had been so recently vetted by the administration and the senators, Tobias said. The overarching Email Mark Ballard at goal of the Trump administration mballard@theadvocate.com.

bilize the man. Emergency Medical Services took him to University Medical Center, where he was placed on life support. Medical reports said the man suffered global cerebral anoxia, a complete loss of oxygen supply, following his cardiac arrest. He was removed from life support Tuesday and died at 6:34 p.m. Wednesday. On July 27, deputies found

Saliou Thiam, 40, unresponsive and cold in his cell in Unit E on the second ﬂoor of the jail’s housing unit. Thiam was a native of Senegal and a father of two. The coroner has not yet released Thiam’s cause of death. As of Sept. 24, the Orleans Justice Center housed 1,439 inmates, exceeding the City Council’s 2019 population cap of 1,250.

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Louellen Berger, left, puts the finishing touches on the Halloween skeleton display in front of her home.

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Continued from page 1B became a sensation, she had a moment of celebrity of her own. As an aspiring actress, Louellen Aden landed the role of Jethro Bodine’s girlfriend in the classic “The Beverly Hillbillies” TV show. Later, after returning to New Orleans, she was hired as fashion director for D.H. Holmes department store. She married a Tulane University law student named Darryl Berger, who would become one of the city’s most successful real estate developers.

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or, or Elon Musk plans a spaceport, they’re bound to become part of the display, she said. Her son, Ryan, also contributes suggestions, such as this year’s “New York Nix” basketball team. Even her grandkids play a role. The big dog skeleton called “Scooby-Boo!” was their idea. Berger said she begins each year’s design process on Labor Day, and lists her inspirations in a notebook. “It snowballs,” she said. “We juggle things, the family gets involved, it’s fun.” Among new additions this year are clothing designer “Yvonne LaGore,” Saints announcer Mark Romig with his own “PodCasket,” winged actor “Bryan Bat,” fried chicken finger magnate “Todd Graves,” businessman “Bill Ghoulring” and backﬂipping pop singer “Benson Bone.” Berger’s boneyard is located at 6000 St. Charles Ave. The display was mostly in place by Thursday evening. Berger promises to install a boney pastiche of “The Odyssey,” just as soon as it’s ﬁnished. The spectacle is viewable 24 hours a day through Nov. 1.

On Wednesday, Louellen Berger, husband Darryl, and a trio of skilled skeleton installers labored in the afternoon sun, as Our Dear Dolly De-Parton’d stood patiently in the shade of an oak tree. On the grass lay rows of skeletons awaiting their turns to be lifted into place. Passersby stopped to watch the proceedings. Berger says she gets the ideas for her calcified satire “just by reading the newspaper and watch- Email Doug MacCash at ing TV.” When there’s a new may- dmaccash@theadvocate.com.

than 40 sessions covering data center growth, battery advancements, nuclear energy, critical minerals, carbon capture, shifting energy regulations, sustainable energy, artiﬁcial intelligence and other emerging technologies. Conner said the event intentionally addresses all sides of these issues as stakeholders struggle to balance the often-conﬂicting goals of energy reliability, resiliency, accessibility and affordability. “There are solutions at the intersections of those competing objectives, but one particular solution might optimize one over the other, which is why we feel it’s important to have all aspects of this conversation,” he said. Hot topics at this year’s event include water use for data centers, the impact of actions by the U.S. in Venezuela on the Gulf Coast oil industry, and how politics — especially this year’s midterm elections — could affect energy investment. “Energy requires capital intensive projects with long payouts,” Conner said. “Changing policies make it difficult, but there are obviously ways operators and investors and even consumers can protect themselves in a shifting landscape.” Keynote speakers at the forum will include federal energy regulator David LaCerte, CenterPoint Energy CEO Jason Wells and the Energy Department’s top lawyer, Jonathan Brightbill. Other participants include Geoffrey Richardson, senior vice president of commercial and business development at ExxonMobil; Kevin McMahon, vice president of production assets, Gulf of America, at Shell; Claudia Morrow, senior vice president of corporate development and strategy at Vistra Corp.; Dustin Davidson, secretary of the Louisiana Department of Conservation and Energy; Jean-Paul Coussan, Louisiana public service commissioner; Gray Stream, executive chairman and president of Gulf Coast Sequestration; Julie Stokes, president and CEO of Ellevate Louisiana; Ian Walch, vice president of energy markets at ENFRA; Darryl Willis, corporate vice president for the energy and resources industry at Microsoft; and John Weiss, vice president of sustainability and environmental policy at Entergy. Conner said one important function of the event is to spotlight Louisiana’s contributions to the nation’s energy industry. “There’s the old saying that ‘all roads lead to Rome,’ but, today, all pipelines lead to Louisiana,’ ” he said. “We’re the largest LNG exporting state in the country, so we’re at the center of this conversation.” Email Rich Collins at rich. collins@theadvocate.com.

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Crocs sues Five Below, alleging infringement

Crocs is suing Philadelphiabased discount retailer Five Below, alleging the company knowingly sold knockoff versions of Crocs’ famous foam clogs. Crocs’ attorneys say Five Below kept selling Crocs lookalikes and accessories even after being notified this March of their trademark, patent and intellectual property infringement. The allegations were detailed in a lawsuit filed last week by Crocs and its subsidiary, Jibbitz Charms, in U.S. District Court in Colorado, where Crocs is based. The plaintiffs take issue with Five Below’s “Juniors Charm Clog,” which look like trademarked Crocs, and the shoe’s accompanying charms, which resemble the patented Jibbitz ones that can be affixed to Crocs. Crocs’ classic adult clogs range from $50 to $75, while its kids’ version sells for about $40. Five Below’s “Juniors Charm Clog” is listed at $7 on its website. Five Below spokespeople did not return requests for comment Wednesday. Crocs’ attorneys have asked for a jury trial and are seeking an unspecified amount in damages, which include lost profits, according to the lawsuit. The company also wants a permanent injunction to prevent Five Below from selling products that resemble Crocs.

N.Y. says Polymarket is unlicensed gambling NEW YORK — New York sued the prediction market Polymarket on Thursday, arguing the platform is an unlicensed gambling operation and calling for a judge to block the company from operating in the state. Prediction market platforms have argued states do not have the authority to govern them because they are regulated at the federal level by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. New York officials filed Thursday's lawsuit against Polymarket in state court and want the company to face fines and be forced to pay restitution to users because the platform did not get a gambling license from the state. The state has previously sued other platforms such as Kalshi, Coinbase and Gemini using a similar argument. “By running an unlicensed gambling operation, Polymarket has done more than just knowingly violate state law, they have put New Yorkers at risk, especially those underage who are most vulnerable to problem gaming,” Gov. Kathy Hochul said in a statement. In a statement, Polymarket’s Chief Legal Officer Neal Kumar said, “We'll fight for our users.”

Starbucks to close 250 North American stores Starbucks plans to close 250 North American stores later this week. It is the second big round of store closures under Starbucks Chair and CEO Brian Niccol, who joined the company in 2024. Last September, Starbucks closed 627 stores in North America and Europe. In a letter to employees, Starbucks Chief Operating Officer Mike Grams said the locations targeted either aren't delivering acceptable financial results or can’t provide the kind of experience that Starbucks wants for customers and employees. Starbucks Workers United, which represents workers at the 700 company-owned U.S. Starbucks stores that have voted to unionize, said 20 unionized stores are among the 250 that are closing, or 8% of the total. Starbucks stores have been voting to unionize since late 2021, but the union and the company have yet to reach a labor agreement. Grams said Starbucks is continuing to retrofit North American coffeehouses to make them cozier and more inviting. The company expects 1,500 stores will be retrofitted by Sept. 30.

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KFC opens Texas test restaurant breakfast and stays open late. The Open House’s design or menu will KFC will function more like an It’s looking for ways to menu will feature new drinks like eventually reach the rest of its Apple Store or a luxury retailer, he said, without stressful lines or refreshers and crunchy- 3,424 U.S. restaurants. reclaim chicken crown boba-ﬁlled The Texas concept and gleaming, grumpy cashiers. topped milkshakes, an expanded

BY DEE-ANN DURBIN AP business writer

KFC has been taking a licking from fried chicken rivals like Raising Cane's, but the global fast-food chain has a plan to return to the top of the U.S. pecking order. The Kentucky-born brand opened a new restaurant in McKinney, Texas, on Thursday to serve as a test lab in its home market. Called Open House, it serves

lineup of tenders and sauces, and new side dishes like fried green beans and spicy pickles. The restaurant has double drivethru lanes and a mobile order pickup station. But KFC designed it to encourage customers to stay a while. After ordering at a digital kiosk, they can sit and wait for employees to bring the food to their table. There is also a photo booth and a counter selling branded merch. KFC did not say how much of

multi-story ﬂagships set to open in Dubai, Seoul and London show KFC is trying to make grabbing fast food more of an experience. “People don’t remember what they eat, but they remember how they were feeling when they were eating,” KFC Chief Concept Ofﬁcer Christophe Poirier, who leads new restaurant design, said. Poirier said KFC is automating tasks like ordering so employees can focus on hospitality. Ideally,

“You leave the retailer and say, ‘Wow. The product is amazing, but beyond that the service was amazing. For 10 or 15 minutes I was feeling like a king,’” he said. In 2015, KFC commanded a 20% share of the $21.8 billion in U.S. chicken-chain sales, according to Technomic, a restaurant market research company. By 2025, KFC’s share had fallen to 8%, even as sales at chicken chains more than doubled to $57.7 billion.

Gulf nations keep oil flowing, but the costs are mounting Workarounds in Iran war aren’t permanent fix

BY DAVID McHUGH AP business writer

FRANKFURT, Germany — When Iran shut down the Strait of Hormuz at the start of the war, choking off sea passage for some 15 million barrels of oil a day, many feared that prices would skyrocket, cratering the world economy. Instead, nearly seven months on, oil is expensive but not exorbitant, and analysts say there's enough oil available to meet current global needs, even as the higher prices cause political problems for U.S. President Donald Trump and others. That's because Saudi Arabia and other Gulf producers quickly found alternative routes and reached for unused pipeline capacity. When Iran and its militant allies targeted those, the oil exporters and the U.S. military found still other ways — workarounds for the workarounds — in an often clandestine game of whack-a-mole. With oil now at around $100 a barrel — higher than before the war but not as bad as feared — Iran has diminished leverage, while a U.S. naval blockade and tightened sanctions smother its own economy. But the workarounds are expensive and may not be sustainable. The drawing down of existing commercial oil stocks — especially by China — has also helped keep prices in check, but cannot continue indeﬁnitely. And Iran could yet gain an edge with continued attacks on key oil facilities.

Pipeline backups were ready Iran began attacking ships in the Strait of Hormuz in response to the U.S.-Israeli bombardment that started the war. In response, the Saudis turned to their East-West pipeline that carries oil to their Red Sea port of Yanbu. From there, tankers headed out through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait toward Asia. Likewise, the United Arab Emirates used its pipeline cutting across neighboring Oman to Fujairah — a route that skirts the strait. Both pipelines had spare capacity, and the UAE's state oil company ADNOC and Saudi Aramco used it to keep exports from collapsing completely during the ﬁrst weeks of the war. Meanwhile, some oil leaked out of the Strait of Hormuz. In May, ship operators willing to risk Iranian attack started taking advantage of a U.S.-supervised route near Oman, defying Iran's demands to use its own vetted route. They shuttled back and forth at night with location systems and mobile phones turned off, and ofﬂoaded to tankers waiting outside the strait. Flows from Kuwait, Iraq, and the UAE started to rise again.

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Analysts estimate 6 million barrels of oil per day or more have been passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the dark shuttle route on average. But Iranian-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen disrupted the Yanbu workaround in July by declaring a blockade of Saudi oil shipments, threatening the Bab el-Mandeb — a repeat of the Hormuz disruption. In response, the Saudis redirected Asia shipments northwest to the Mediterranean, either through the Suez Canal or — for tankers too big to use it — a pipeline across Egypt to another tanker. The oil then made a huge detour as it was shipped around Africa and back to Asia. Then the East-West pipeline was attacked earlier this month and forced to shut down, potentially for weeks.

Saudis use U.S.-protected dark shuttle With oil loading halted at Yanbu from Sept. 11, the Saudis shifted again, joining other Gulf producers sending oil through the U.S.-guided corridor in the Strait of Hormuz. On Monday, six supertankers loaded 12 million barrels at Saudi terminals on the Persian Gulf, according to shipping data company Kpler. U.S. ofﬁcials have touted the role of the southern corridor in keeping energy ﬂowing while their blockade increases pressure on Iran. Adm. Brad Cooper, head of U.S. Central Command, said in a video on social media Saturday that U.S. forces had assisted 2,000 commercial ship transits and the transport of more than 1 billion barrels of oil from Gulf partner nations over “the past couple of months.” Analysts estimate 6 million barrels of oil per day or more have been passing through the Strait of Hormuz on the dark shuttle

route on average — some 40% or more of prewar ﬂows.

Workarounds keep the economy supplied Rahul Choudhary, vice president of upstream research at energy data firm Rystad Energy, did the math as follows: With 6 million or 7 million barrels per day now flowing through the southern route, plus 2 million barrels through the pipeline to Fujairah, fully 8 million or so of the blocked 15 million barrels per day from before the war have been restored. That still leaves roughly 7 million barrels per day missing from prewar flows. But wait: About 3.5 million barrels per day are being drawn down from the globe's abundant oil inventories. Meanwhile, demand has fallen by perhaps another 5 million barrels per day, due to the higher price and sluggish economic growth in key markets. Add in 500,000 to 700,000 barrels per day from other suppliers such as the U.S., and that pretty much evens out the global oil market. “Our take is that the market is very tightly balanced,” Choudhary said. “That is why you are not seeing exceptionally high prices for crude; they are still in the $100 range, and they have not touched $140-$150 per barrel — which could have been the case if there was a deficit of 5-6 million barrels.” Sending oil to Asia through the Suez Canal instead of the Red Sea can add as much as a month to the voyage. Meanwhile, the Hormuz shuttle trade involves expensive tankers waiting at least a day and a half in the Gulf of Oman for the ship-to-ship transfer.

Australian PM rebukes OpenAI’s breach of website Agent infiltrated health service portal

BY ROD MCGUIRK Associated Press

MELBOURNE, Australia — Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Thursday he was extremely concerned about OpenAI’s breach of an Australian health department website and that the artiﬁcial intelligence company took too long to reveal the incident. An OpenAI agent inﬁltrated the public-facing Medicare Statistics Reporting Service portal on June 18, he said. The portal hosted aggregate data about health

spending and drug subsidies and is popular with researchers and academics. No personal information had been accessed, the government said. Albanese made the breach public following a telephone conversation with OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman. Altman was among heads of major AI ﬁrms who in speeches Wednesday pleaded with the United Nations to save the world or at least its people by somehow regulating the fast-expanding technology that they have been designing. “Today I spoke with … Altman to express Australia’s extreme concern about this incident,” Albanese told reporters. “I also ex-

pressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred and the nature of the way that notiﬁcation occurred as well was unacceptable.” OpenAI said in a statement it had reviewed activity involving several Australian government departments and discovered “our models took actions we did not intend.” OpenAI notiﬁed Australia of the breach in an email to a government department’s generic address on Sept. 10, Albanese said. An inquiry looking into the security breach would examine whether OpenAI could be criminally charged, Albanese said. The inquiry would also investigate

how Australian security agencies failed to detect the breach before OpenAI revealed it. Albanese said he assumed there were commercial reasons for the AI investigation of how much was being spent on particular medicines and where expenditures were changing. Government Services Minister Katy Gallagher said OpenAI had advised on Sept. 10 that an “AI agent had accessed infrastructure behind the public-facing” portal. OpenAI shared with the government the vulnerability the agent had found. She said the portal had been closed and the data moved to more secure systems.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Bernard, Janice Cambias, Seymour Dixon, Eloise Dominick, Joel Grant, Frances Jackson, Kellee Johnson, Walter L. Smith, Patricia Miller, Ann Marie Munch, John Peters, Bridget Simoneaux, Joseph Sims, Patricia Spencer Sr., Quintin Williams, Camille

New Orleans Boyd Family Dixon, Eloise L. Smith, Patricia DW Rhodes Dominick, Joel Miller, Ann Marie Spencer Sr., Quintin Jacob Schoen Bernard, Janice Grant, Frances

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Arrangements are by Jacob Schoen & Son. The family invites you to share thoughts, fond memories and condolences online at schoenfh.com.

Cambias, Seymour Richard

Seymour Richard Cambias III, age 76, of Covington, Louisiana, passed away on August 27, 2026, after a brief illness. Until his last days, he maintained his quick wit and love for a clever turn of phrase. Richard, known in his younger years as Dickie, was the son of Seymour "Chuck" Cambias and Myrl Lenfant Cambias of New Orleans, both of whom preceded him in death. Born and raised in New Orleans, Richard attended LSU and went on to work in a number of the city's food and beverage establishments, including Lenfant's, his family's restaurant. In his 40s, Richard reinvented himself and moved to Seattle, Washington, where he happily lived and worked until his retirement, when he returned to the New Orleans area. In his later years, he cared for his aging mother as a devoted son and showered his sisters, nieces, and nephews with attention and interesting conversation. He will be missed by all who knew him and remembered for his generous spirit, quick wit, and singular way with words. Interment will be held at Cypress Grove Cemetery in New Orleans on October 3, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. Friends are welcome to attend.

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All who knew her would describe her as "the life of the party." A native New Orleanian born 11/18/1928, she was an honor graduate of Sacred Heart of Jesus High School and UNO. Janice was an avid reader and world traveler with a true passion for education and performing arts. She had an over fivedecade career as a teacher of English, debate, and ESL at numerous schools in the greater New Orleans area. As a local professional actress, she performed in several theater, TV, film and commercial productions. She is preceded in death by her devoted mother Clothilde Bordelon Gremillion and by her husband of 51 years Frederick Charles Mau. As a widow, she married Jules Bernard, who brought her many years of joy until his passing. She is survived by her loving daughters, Karen Mau Molero (Marilyn,) Beryl Mau Salvatore (Jack,) Darice Mau Schillo (John,) Wendy Mau Applewhite (Greg,) and Jan Mau Hill (Allen,) along with six precious grandchildren, and 10 great grandchildren. May her sweet soul rest in peace as she joins numerous relatives and friends in eternal life. Services will be Saturday, September 26 at Jacob Schoen funeral home located at 3827 Canal St., NOLA. Visitation for the public will be 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM followed by a Catholic mass. In lieu of flowers, donations to Janice's favorite charity can be made to the National Shrine of Blessed Seelos at Seelos.org.

As a single mother, Frances worked tirelessly to raise her two sons, always putting their needs before her own. Her sacrifices gave them a foundation of love and security they carry with them today. She treasured spending time with her family, especially her children and granddaughters, and was equally devoted to the many friends she cherished throughout her life. Nothing mattered more to Frances than the people she loved. She was preceded in death by her parents, Robert and Frances Lourena Grant. She is survived by her brother, Robert, and his wife, Niko, of Las Vegas, Nevada; two sons, Wayne and his wife, Alysia, and Aaron and his wife, Stacey, of New Orleans; four granddaughters, Madelyne, Gabrielle, Amelie, and Molly; and two nephews, Robert Jr. and his wife, Tami, and Trace and his wife, Brooke. She will be remembered as a humble, kind, compassionate, and generous person who was slow to judge and quick to love.

L. Smith, Patricia Gayle

A service will be held in her memory beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 27, at the Peristyle in City Park. Mourners are requested to wear pastel colors in honor of her love of pretty and dainty things.

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Janice Gremillion Mau Bernard went home to her Lord Jesus Christ on Tuesday 9/22/2026.

After graduating from Andrew Jackson High School, Ms. Grant began working at Schwegmann's Giant Supermarkets, where she remained for more than twenty years. She made many lifelong friends there and remembered those times very fondly. For the past 25 years, she worked in the foreclosure department at Standard Mortgage Company in downtown New Orleans, where she made many more friends and enjoyed helping people through difficult financial circumstances.

age of 74. He was a native of New Orleans, LA and a resident of Cypress, TX. Beloved husband of the late Sylvia Smith Johnson. Loving father of Walter Johnson, Jr., Jeffery D. (Rosalind) Byrd, Shrieka J. Williams, Jaysen (Amber) Johnson, and the late Walter Tremaine Byrd. Son of the late Rev. John H. Johnson, Sr. and Daisy McClow Johnson. Devoted brother of Harry (Burdette) Johnson, Pastor Ricky (Terry Lynn) Johnson, Sr, Apostle George (Valerie) Green, Fay Williams, GeJoan (Warren) Garrett, Pamela (Wilhelm, Sr.), Allen, and the late Oscar Johnson, Sr., John H. Johnson, Jr., Audrey Burd, and Olga Mae Williams. Walter is also survived by 7 grandchildren, 3 godchildren, and a host of other relatives and friends. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Philadelphia Ministries, 3181 Destrehan Avenue, Harvey, LA on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Bishop James Daniels, host pastor; Pastor Ricky Johnson and Apostle George Green, officiating. Visitation will begin at 8:30a.m. until service time at the church. Interment: Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, Slidell, LA on Monday, September 28, 2026, at 11:00a.m. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

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Eloise Doxie Dixon passed away on September 15, 2026, at the age of 83. She leaves to cherish her memory - her sons, Dr. Nkrumah Dixon and his wife, Dr. Shantina Dixon, and Hasani Dixon and his wife, Kelly Dixon; and her beloved granddaughter, Nia Sage Rayford Dixon and her twin sister Ellen Bogues. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ernest Frederick Doxie and Francis Logan Doxie; her sister, Ernestine Ferguson; and her brother, Ernest Doxie Jr. Family, friends, and all whose lives she touched are invited to celebrate her life on Saturday, September 26, 2026, for 11:00 a.m. at CummingsWilson A.M.E. Church, 11001 Chef Menteur Hwy in New Orleans, Louisiana. Interment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery. Guestbook Online: www.an ewtraditionbegins.com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Dominick, Joel G.

Joel G. Dominick departed this life on Thursday, August 27, 2026 at the age of 72. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Service at Franklin Avenue Baptist Church, 8282 I-10 Service Rd, New Orleans, LA 70125 on Friday, September 25, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Interment: Restlawn Park Cemetery. Arrangements by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Kellee Victoria Jackson, age 21, entered into eternal rest on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Kellee was a 2023 graduate of St. Katherine Drexel Preparatory, graduating with honors as the class salutatorian. She continued her studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL). Kellee was employed as a substitute teacher at Audubon Charter School. Beloved daughter of Kelvin V. Jackson, Sr. and Lee Spurlock Jackson. Loving sister of Byron, Darren, Austin, Kelvin Jr., Prentice III, and Trachelle; also survived by a host of loving relatives and friends. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Rock of Ages Baptist Church, 2515 Franklin Avenue, New Orleans, LA on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 11:00a.m. Pastor Jonathan Everett, host pastor; Supt. Glenn Allen of Holy Temple Ministries COGIC, officiating. Viewing will be held from 10:00a.m.-11:00a.m. ONLY at the church. Interment: Woodlawn Park Memorial Cemetery, Westwego, LA. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

Patricia Gayle Smith of New Orleans, LA, transitioned peacefully on Saturday, September 12, 2026, at the age of 82. She entered this life on December 14, 1943, in New Orleans, LA, born to the late Stanley J. Lawless Sr. and Rosalie B. Lawless. Patricia was the beloved wife of Osway Smith; loving mother of Norman Bruce, Kerry Bruce Sr., and Kenneth Bruce (Jacqueline); and cherished sister of Rosa B. Jones, Elsie Archangle, Jacqueline Francois, Gwendolyn Harris, Stanley J. Lawless Jr., and Robert Lawless. She was a loving grandmother to her 18 grandchildren and 16 great -grandchildren, a loving sister-in-law to Dorothy Clardy and Mary Alice Baker and a cherished aunt to a host of nieces and nephews. Patricia was a proud graduate of Walter L. Cohen Sr. High School, Class of 1961. She enjoyed a long career as an Executive Housekeeper with Maison Dupuy, Le Pavillion, and The Pontchartrain until her retirement in 2005. All who knew and loved Patricia are invited to Celebrate her life on Monday, September 28, 2026. Visitation will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur

Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126. The celebration service will follow. Patricia will be laid to rest at Southeast Louisiana Veterans Cemetery, 34888 Grantham College Dr., Slidell, LA 70460. Memories and condolences may be shared at nola.com or the Guestbook Online at: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Miller, Ann Marie

Ann Marie Miller departed this life on Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at the age of 76. Beloved Wife of Milton Miller. Daughter of the late Adam and Myrtle James. Mother of Micherrie Giles Aldridge (James), Ashley TyiMarie Giles and one bonus son TaDarryl Schexnayder. Sister of the late Adam (Butch) James, Jr. God mother of four. She is also survived by 3 grandchildren Tyrin Giles, Maya Moses (Matthew), Michael Clavo III, 2 great grandchildren Tyhir & Knoxx Giles, 6 godchildren and host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. Relatives and friends of the family also employees of Archdiocese of New Orleans and New Orleans Public School System are invited to attend a Funeral Mass of Christian Burial at St. Leo the Great Catholic Church, 2916 Paris Ave. New Orleans, LA at 10:30 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Interment: St. Louis No. 3- 3421 Esplanade Ave. Arrangement by D. W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Munch, John M.

IBEW Local 130 members are hereby requested to attend the Memorial Service at McKneely Funeral Home, 110 E. Factory St., Amite, LA on September 26, 2026, at 2:00 PM, Visitation begins at 12:00 PM.

Peters, Bridget

Bridget Vonnetta Peters a loving mother, daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, niece and dear friend to many peacefully departed this earth on September 18,2026 at Passages Hospice to receive her wings and take her place in her heavenly home. Bridget was born on September 24,1973 in New Orleans, La., to Carl Peters Sr., and the late Yvonne Hollmon Williams. She was preceded in death by her mother Yvonne H. Williams and loving partner Alvin Monroe. Bridget leaves to cherish her children, Alvin, Tre'Jean (Destiny), Ashira Monroe and Ty Jae Peters, siblings Tracy Harrell (Norman Sr.),Carl Jr., Shawn, Corey (Sam), and Ciara Haskin, godson Sorrell Warren, dedicated cousins Jeffrey Jenkins, Lori Hollmon and godmother Carolyn Jenkins. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the home going celebration of life for Bridget to be held in the Chapel of Charbonnet Labat Glapion Funeral Home, 1615 St.

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Joseph Simoneaux passed away peacefully at the age of 84. He leaves behind a lifetime of memories, love, hard work, laughter, and friendships that will be cherished by all who knew him. Joseph was the loving husband of Carol Goodman Simoneaux. He was a devoted father to Beth Guidry and her husband, Beau; Gina Rivet and her husband, Joe; Brent St. Amant and his wife, Sissy; and Denny St. Amant and his wife, Lisa. He was also a proud and loving grandfather to 14 grandchildren and 27 great grandchildren. Joseph was preceded in death by his father, Albert Simoneaux; his mother, Bertha Jenkins; his brothers, Albert Simoneaux Jr. and William Lee Simoneaux; and his sisters, Silvia Champagne, Wilton Matthews, Jessy Matthews, Lucille Matthews, and Cynthia Matthews. He is survived by his sister, Margaret Matthews, and his two best friends, Ken Childs and Sal St. Phillip. Joseph was a hardworking man who took pride in everything he did. During his career, he worked for 7Up for 30 years, owned an air-conditioning company and worked at Witco. Joseph was a man who truly enjoyed the simple things in life, especially spending time outdoors. He loved duck hunting, deer hunting, and fishing. Many of his happiest moments were spent at the camp on the water, or outdoors with family and friends, making memories and enjoying the peace and beauty of nature and sharing those experiences with family and friends. He was blessed with many good friends throughout his life. His kindness, humor, stories, and friendship will be deeply missed. Joseph lived 84 meaningful years, leaving behind a legacy of love, family, hard work, and countless memories. Though he is no longer with us, his memory will live on through his wife, children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, family, friends, and all the people whose lives he touched. May he rest peacefully, forever remembered and deeply loved. Family and friends are invited to attend the Visitation at MOTHE FUNERAL HOME, 7040 Lapalco Blvd., on Saturday, September 26, 2026, beginning at 11:30AM until 1:30PM. Funeral Services will be held at the funeral home on Saturday at 1:30PM. Interment will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, 1225 Whitney Avenue, Gretna, Louisiana. The family invites you to share

Patricia S. Sims, 87, of Avondale, Louisiana, passed away on Saturday, September 19, 2026, at West Jefferson Medical Center. Relatives and friends are invited to celebrate Pat's life at Westside/Leitz -Eagan Funeral Home in Marrero on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. Funeral services will follow at 1:00 p.m., with interment at Restlawn Park Cemetery in Avondale. Pat was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on July 26, 1939, and was raised in Sioux City, Iowa. She graduated as valedictorian from Leeds High School in 1957 a reflection of the intelligence, resolve, and strong mid-Western character that would remain with her throughout her life. Pat made her home in Avondale where she lived for many years. Her faith was a central part of her life. For 58 years, she was a faithful and active member of First Baptist Church of Avondale, where her church family became an important part of her life and legacy. Pat spent much of her professional life working in insurance claims. She worked for Zurich American Insurance for many years before the company relocated out of state. She later worked at Martin Insurance Agency and ultimately retired from Eustis Insurance. Pat is survived by her children, Kenneth, Darla, Steve (Gretchen), and Vicki (Paul). She is also survived by her grandchildren, Deborah Ann, Ghueno, Luther (Jocelyn), Michael, Jordan, Allison (Jake), Matthew, Robby, and Tiffany (Richard), along with a host of great-grandchildren, great-greatgrandchildren, and other relatives. Pat was preceded in death by her parents, Andy and Mary Moyse, her husband, Horace Sims; her daughter, Deborah Tatum; her son-in-law, Conaway Saux; and her great-grandson, Adam Roberts. She was a strong woman who knew what she loved and lived her life with faith and determination. Her life was long, full, and deeply woven into the lives of those around her. Though she will be greatly missed, we can take comfort in knowing that Pat is now at peace. We celebrate her life, we honor her memory, and we give thanks for the years we were blessed to have her with us. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to First Baptist Church of Avondale, 360 S. Jamie Blvd., Avondale, Louisiana 70094.

8, 2026 at the age 38. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Funeral Service at Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave. New Orleans, La on Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 8:00 a.m. Arrangements by Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

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Camille Frances Turnbull Williams was born in New Orleans on April 29, 1928, to Alfred Turnbull Sr. and Pearl Patterson Turnbull. The second of four children and only daughter, she attended Saint Joan of Arc Elementary School and Xavier Preparatory High School. She graduated from Dillard University in 1947 at age 19 with dual degrees in elementary and preschool education. While at Dillard, she joined Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., and sang in the university choir. She later attended Atlanta University and pursued a master's degree in education. Mrs. Williams devoted more than 45 years to teaching first grade and kindergarten in New Orleans Public Schools, retiring from Tommy Lafon Elementary. A gifted musician, she played piano, violin, and organ and sang in several choirs. She was a longtime member and organist of Haven and Brooks United Methodist Churches and sang alto with the New Orleans Black Chorale for more than 20 years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Williams Jr., and brothers Stanhope and Gottlieb Turnbull. She leaves three daughters (Consuela Ferrier, Jennifer Foster, and Evangeline Williams) six grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, brother Alfred Turnbull, and many nieces, nephews, and friends. A visitation will be held from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM on 2026-09-26 at Charbonnet Family Services, 1615 St. Phillip Street. A funeral service will be held from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM on 2026-09-26 at Charbonnet Family Services, 1615 St. Phillip Street. A burial will be held at 11:15 AM on 2026-09-26 at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, 4000 Norman Mayer Blvd.

Spencer Sr., Quintin Anthony

Quintin Anthony Spencer Sr. departed this life on Tuesday, September

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It’s time for Congress to act on road funding

to last for decades to come. And This year, federal funding that helps repair potholes across Loui- it’s equally important to create a business environment that allows siana, pave new roads, expand local manufacturers to highways and improve employ skilled crews and bridges will run out. Withproduce locally available out it, businesses across materials to restore and our state could face added enhance our roads and hurdles moving goods and highways in a safe, efproviding services. LouiJustin sianans might see longer fective and expeditious White commutes and less reliable manner. GUEST routes to work and school. That’s where federal COLUMNIST funding for surface transAnd it will force thousands of Louisianans like me to portation comes in. It pay more for car repairs afhelps pave roads and ter hitting a bad bump in the road. highways that support the indusIt’s up to Congress to change that. tries igniting the Pelican State’s Perhaps more than most states, economy. Ports, offshore oil Louisiana’s roads and highways extraction, liquefied natural gas STAFF PHOTO FILE By MICHAEL JOHNSON experience a significant amount production facilities, manufacturof wear and tear. Hurricanes, ers, farmers and small businesses A road milling machine dumps old blacktop into a waiting dump truck in heavy rain, flooding and storm need durable roads to move work- Baton Rouge. surges place enormous strain on ers, equipment and goods. And drainage systems, asphalt, conit’s all reliant on Congress passing a robust, long-term surface trans- According to one recent poll, 96% remain in good condition. When crete and the underlying materiLouisiana maintains top-notch of registered voters support fedals that hold our transportation portation reauthorization bill. networks together. It’s important Louisianans and Americans eral investments in transportation transportation networks, our businesses succeed and our comto keep funding projects that across the country overwhelminfrastructure. And 92% agree not only repair damage but also that manufacturing depends on ingly agree that strong transpormunities prosper. build stronger roads and bridges roads, highways and bridges that Funding our roads also lowers tation infrastructure is essential.

costs for every household in our state. Potholes and uneven pavement create more traffic delays and result in unexpected vehicle damage that eats into our pocketbooks. The American Society of Civil Engineers gave Louisiana’s roads and highways a “D” on its 2025 Infrastructure Report Card, finding that half of our roads are in poor or mediocre condition and estimating that low-quality roads cost Louisiana motorists about $858 each year. For our families and our economy, Congress must act to extend critical surface transportation funding before it expires this year. Louisiana needs champions in Congress who fight for long-term investment that creates jobs, helps communities recover after floods and storms and supports the roads, ports and freight corridors that keep our economy prosperous. Let’s get moving.

Justin White is president of Barriere Construction.

Congress should pass catch-all bill to help veterans, caregivers I became a caregiver in 2010 of Veterans Affairs caregiver prowhen the man I was dating, an gram, help pay for professional cerArmy National Guard officer, suftifications and licenses and expand their access to federal employment fered a catastrophic spinal cord programs. injury on the Ouiska Chitto River Another bill would require the VA the day after signing paperwork deto give veterans with spinal cord inclaring his intention to retire from the military. The injury left juries, such as the man I care him with quadriplegia, and for, preventive health evalu16 years later I am still his ations. The package also caregiver. includes the Major Richard Although our 12-year marStar Act to end the “wounded veteran tax,” a policy that reriage eventually ended, my Katie role as a caregiver did not. I duces Defense Department still help him several times Ferguson retirement pay for combata week, and I am often the injured vets by the amount GUEST first call when something COLUMNIST of their VA disability. The goes wrong at night or on a Star Act counts Louisiana weekend. A legal relationReps. Clay Higgins, Julia ship does not define caregiving. It is Letlow and Troy Carter among its co-sponsors. defined by responsibility, compasSome organizations object to the sion and service. way the package is paid for, through I am one of 14.3 million Americhanges to how the VA rates future cans caring for a wounded, ill or injured service member or veteran, sleep apnea and tinnitus claims. and Louisiana is home to more than The Department of Veterans Af212,000 veterans. Caregiving is fairs was the first to propose those rarely a short-term event, and it af- changes in 2022 and testified earlier fects nearly every part of a person’s this year that they are moving forlife, from career opportunities to ward. This bill captures the savings long-term financial stability. generated by those changes, which I experienced this firsthand. are going to happen anyway, and After spending 12 years as a fullapplies them back to these longtime caregiver, I found myself standing priorities. I would much reentering the workforce after our rather see that money go to the separation. Despite holding a masfamilies who earned it. House Speaker Mike Johnson ter’s degree and having enjoyed a and Majority Leader Steve Scalise successful public relations career before caregiving, I was essentially are two of our own, and the White House has said it looks forward starting over. If returning to the to working with Congress on pasworkforce was challenging for someone with my background, how sage. I am asking Johnson and much more difficult must it be for Scalise to call a vote on the Take caregivers with fewer resources? Care of America’s Veterans Act and That reality is why I am urging bring much-needed resources and Congress to pass the Take Care support to Louisiana’s veterans, of America’s Veterans Act, which caregivers and survivors who have brings more than 60 mostly biparearned it. When caregiving ends, families tisan, bicameral bills together in should not be left to navigate the a single package to reform health next chapter alone. Mine has lasted services and benefits for veterans 16 years, and it has taught me that while helping caregivers and surcaregiving is measured in decades, vivors. not months. Louisiana’s families Some provisions included in the should not have to spend another bill have been waiting decades to be addressed. One of them, the Vet- decade waiting on Washington. eran Caregiver Reeducation, ReKatie Ferguson, who lives in employment, and Retirement Act, Lafayette, was a 2020 Dole would give Louisiana caregivers six more months of health coverage Caregiver Fellow with the when they leave the Department Elizabeth Dole Foundation.

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A rider looks back after maneuvering his e-bike to avoid a collision on Poydras Street in New Orleans.

E-bikes are here to stay, so let’s help keep riders safe Recently, I was honored to participate in a news conference hosted by the New Orleans Police Department to discuss the increase of e-bikes on the streets of New Orleans, but more speciﬁcally, what feels like an uptick in crashes, serious injuries and fatalities. The recent tragedies we’ve experienced remind us that every person traveling on our streets deserves to get where they’re going safely. You’ve already heard about the rules of the road. I want to spend a minute talking about why e-bikes matter. E-bikes are one of the fastestAllene La Spina growing forms of transportation, because they open bicycling to peoGUEST ple who might not ride otherwise. COLUMNIST E-bikes allow cycling for people with mobility limitations, people recovering from injuries, older adults who want to stay active, commuters who don’t want to arrive at work exhausted or drenched in sweat during a New Orleans summer and families replacing short car trips with a healthier, more affordable option. For many people, an e-bike isn’t a recreational toy; it’s essential transportation. Here in New Orleans, they play an important role in transportation equity. Many of our neighbors don’t have access to a personal vehicle, and public transit doesn’t always get people where they need to go in a timely manner. For many residents, an e-bike is an affordable, reliable way to get to work, school, the grocery store or a doctor’s appointment. That’s why it’s so important that we all learn how to use them safely. One thing to remember is that while an e-bike

looks like a bicycle, it doesn’t always handle like one. Because e-bikes are heavier and can accelerate more quickly, riders need to give themselves extra time and distance to stop, slow down around people walking and at intersections and ride at a speed that’s appropriate for the environment, not simply the maximum speed the bike is capable of. Speed isn’t inherently the problem. The key is matching your speed to the conditions around you. Safety is also a shared responsibility. Whether you’re walking, biking, riding an e-bike or driving a vehicle, we all have to look out for one another. Every trip includes decisions that help keep everyone safe. People driving should expect to see more people riding e-bikes. People biking should ride predictably, obey traffic laws and make themselves visible. Everyone benefits when we share the road respectfully. If you’re new to riding an e-bike, or even if you’ve been riding for years, the education and advocacy nonprofit Bike Easy offers free educational resources, safety tips and classes to help people ride confidently and legally. We encourage everyone to visit our website and follow us on social media for videos, classes and practical safety information. The goal is to help more people enjoy all the benefits of e-bikes while making sure everyone gets home safely. As part of this work, there will be two educational events on Sept. 26, focusing on e-bike safety — an in-person workshop and an online webinar. We hope you’ll join us as we work together to make bicycling easy, safe and fun for everyone in the Greater New Orleans area.

Allene La Spina is the executive director of Bike Easy.

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Art teacher Joyce Hatzidakis uses the AI tool Google Gemini in her high school classroom in Riverside, Calif.

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ISSUE OF THE WEEK EDUCATION Rapid changes in technology in the classroom have affected how millions of children are taught. Some experts worry that the advent of AI will lead to students relying on these tech tools instead of using their own brains.There is evidence already that children today have shorter attention spans, and they score lower in reading comprehension than in previous decades. How will AI affect education in the future? Here are two perspectives.

A sub for real intelligence Are we getting dumber?

I have a theory about the artificial inLeaving aside what public schools are already doing without parental consent, telligence craze that is delighting some she is right. But public schools have and scaring others. It is that we are losother problems. In New York ing natural intelligence and thus City alone public schools have risk seduction by something that lost more than 150,000 students can do the thinking for us. Never since 2015, dropping from more mind acquiring wisdom, which is than a million students a decade defined as “the ability to use your ago to roughly 885,000, according knowledge, experience, and deep to reports by the New York Post. understanding to make sound Cal “A significant number of parents decisions, good judgments, and Thomas have shifted their children away insightful choices.” from traditional public schools Why bother with any of this toward charter schools, private/religious when you can have AI take the place of your brain? Except that AI only responds institutions, or homeschooling.” That trend appears to be occurring to what you ask it to do – such as write an essay on a topic. It makes no moral judg- throughout the country. According to The Reason Foundation, “Public school ments, much less conveys anything that enrollment across the United States is might be considered wise. declining nationally, with a projected Years ago, I read the final editorial in the now defunct New Times magazine. It loss of 2.7 million students (about 6%) accurately described modern America’s between 2022 and 2031.” China’s top state security officials approach to just about everything: have warned that advanced artificial “There are almost no famous people intelligence poses a direct threat to the anymore; only celebrities.” Fame as a ruling Chinese Communist Party’s grip concept, it argued, “is too suggestive of on power, reports The New York Times. steady achievement.” In a high-profile essay, State Security One has to work and sometimes work Minister Chen Yixin warned that hostile hard to achieve. If AI can do it for you, foreign forces could weaponize AI to why read books or newspapers? Why wage “propaganda and cognitive wars” even bother to think? against China. The future doesn’t offer much hope While that might be considered a good if we consider the lack of educational thing, it can cut both ways. Members of achievement. According to the Center for Education Policy Research, U.S. edu- the Trump and Biden administrations cation is experiencing a generation-long have accused China of waging a propa“learning recession with declining math ganda war against the U.S. and worldand reading performance that began wide. AI might help the Communist years before the pandemic.” It’s unlikely Party’s efforts. AI will reverse that trend. Again, it is unlikely AI will reverse In a new op-ed for MS NOW, Julie Mar- the exodus from U.S. public schools and might even accelerate it. If young people getta Morgan, president of The Century learn they don’t have to do the hard work Foundation, makes the case for putting of acquiring knowledge, wisdom and families and educators, not Silicon Valley, in the driver’s seat should AI be used thinking for themselves, AI will do it for them. That would be something Ameriin public schools: “We are not against innovation. We are against running an cans should truly fear. uncontrolled experiment on children without parental consent, independent Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@tribevidence, or meaningful guardrails.” pub.com

Is it the end of the Flynn effect? faddish theories of instruction. Decades ago, the researcher James The United States ranked in the middle Flynn recognized a secular increase in of the pack, even though its reading IQ scores around the world that scores are close to a quarter of a amounted to humanity getting century low. smarter all the time. What to do? First, someone Now, technology appears to be should take a sledgehammer to pushing the other way. every computer and iPad in our The new results are in from a schools. Kids get enough screen 2025 Organization for Economic time at home; they don’t need more Rich Cooperation and Development test when they are in a controlled enLowry of teenage educational achievevironment that is supposed to be devoted to learning. ment around the world, and it looks The larger problem, though, is what’s like the Flynn effect in reverse. “Learning happening outside the classroom. Educaoutcomes have stagnated or declined in many countries, in some cases for well tion expert Frederick Hess of the Ameriover a decade,” according to the OECD. can Enterprise Institute notes a study It’s a mistake to put too much weight from Common Sense Media that found on any one imperfect test, but the OECD 8- to 12-year-olds are on screens for more assessment matches up with other data. than 5 hours a day, and 13- to 18-year-olds There are various theories about what acmore than 8.5 hours. That’s a tide that’s hard to overcome. counts for the slide, but it overlaps with the The new technology may pack a one-two advent of ubiquitous smartphones, universal access to social media and the rise of AI. punch: On the one hand, screens and soAs one would expect, reading has sufcial media make people dumber by diminfered most. ishing our attention span, while, on the Average reading scores dropped nearly other, AI makes it easier to be stupid by 30 points in OECD countries over the last doing our thinking for us. decade. This amounts to about a year of AI may prove the opposite of cheap schooling; in other words, 15-year-olds paper and the printing press, which were are now reading at roughly the level of long-ago technological improvements that 14-year-olds. led to more widespread writing and readThat the trend is so widespread suging and therefore more thought. If this is the case, education may need gests that the cause is also widespread — and the new technology, which has pen- to offer the equivalent of workouts for people who want to stay physically ﬁt at a etrated everywhere, ﬁts the bill. In not exactly shocking news, the OECD time when — thanks to other technologifound that AI and other digital tools had cal improvements — physical labor no downsides: “Students tended to perform longer demands it. less well when use became excessive or Education writer Daisy Christodouwhen devices were used for leisure at lou suggests that schools might become school.” “gymnasia for the mind.” These would The share of so-called hasty readers, be “places that allow you to practice and who skimmed and then made mistakes acquire the basic skills that are no longer on the test, increased sharply, a tendency directly rewarded in daily life, but which one would expect in an era of social-media are still vital.” scrolling. Reading should be foremost among Some nations did better than others. them. England fared relatively well, probably because it has been relatively immune to Rich Lowry is on X, @RichLowry.

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Breaking down LSU’s offensive line issues

BY REED DARCEY

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You may not have noticed it, but Lane Kiffin did. LSU’s first-year coach turned on the film of his program’s dominant Week 1 win over Clemson and noticed an issue that could surface later in the year. It was a potential problem with the Tigers’ offenä Texas A&M sive line — a concern that at LSU 6:30 P.M. quarterback Sam Leavitt and running back Dilin SATURDAy, ABC Jones may have broken enough tackles to mask. Leavitt was never sacked in Week 1, after all, and LSU ran for more than 300 yards on a night in which it picked up a school-record number of first downs and scored 51 points. “We did some really good things,” Kiffin said, “but we’ve got to improve; we’ve got to play better at the guard spot, if we’re going to continue to improve and play really consistent.” It turns out Kiffin’s comments were prescient. LSU has played only two games since its offense steamrolled Clemson, and according to Pro Football Focus data, Leavitt has had to navigate more pressure than only a handful of FBS quarterbacks.

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Saints wide receiver Barion Brown runs with the ball during a season-opening game against the Detroit Lions on Sept. 13 in Detroit.

Saints turning former weakness special teams into strength BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

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LSU quarterback Sam Leavitt races from the pocket against Ole Miss in the first quarter on Saturday at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium in Oxford, Miss.

Pelicans sign record-setting Reese to two-way deal

Based on the Baltimore Ravens’ alignment, Barion Brown and Jayden Price decided to switch sides of the field. Just before halftime Sunday, Ravens kicker Tyler Loop booted the ball down the right side of the field, but instead of it landing to Price, Brown was there to field the return. The New Orleans Saints wide receiver and cornerback made the right decision. The last-second swap netted a 53-yard return, a pivotal play that got the Saints into field goal range and helped them keep a one-possession game in last weekend’s 24-17 upset over Baltimore. “You can win and lose games on special teams,” Price said. “We also understand that.” The play also signaled something bigger. After being one of the NFL’s worst special teams units last season, the Saints have seemingly turned their biggest weakness into a strength. New Orleans’ upset in Baltimore featured several high-

impact special teams plays — a punt downed inside the 10-yard line, Daniel Carlson’s three made ﬁeld goals, a blocked kick by Carl Granderson — that contributed to the victory. And the unit was also solid in the Saints’ season opener in Detroit, despite the loss. “I think it was something that has been a long time coming,” Saints special teams coordinator Phil Galiano said. “Those guys left that (Baltimore) game saying, ‘If we can just do our job, this is what the result can be for us.’ … For us, we had zero missed assignments, zero missed mental efforts, we had zero LOFS (lack of effort), and the guys just played complete football. “I was really, really proud of them.” The Saints’ proliﬁc struggles in the third phase last season led many to wonder whether Galiano, one of the few holdovers from the previous coaching staff, would lose his job. But coach Kellen Moore avoided the change — he liked the group and valued the continuity — and the Saints preferred to focus on improving the unit by upgrading the personnel.

Tulane’s third-down struggles coming in favorable situations

Forward is former LSU star Angel Reese’s younger brother BY ROD WALKER

BY GUERRY SMITH

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The New Orleans Pelicans have added a prolific rebounder to the roster. The Pelicans are signing Julian Reese to a two-way contract, a source confirmed to The Times-Picayune on Thursday. Michael Scotto of HoopsHype was the first to report the deal. Reese, a 6-foot-9 power forward, is the younger brother of former LSU star and WNBA forward Angel Reese. Reese played in 13 games last season, starting 10, for the Washington Wizards. He averaged 11.8 points and 10.8 rebounds. Reese grabbed a season-high 20 rebounds against the Utah Jazz. He had at least 10 rebounds in six of his 13 games. He recorded five double-doubles. His best game was a 26-point, 17-rebound outing, also against the Jazz. Joe Dumars, Pelicans’ executive vice president of basketball operations, spoke at

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Tulane quarterback Kadin Semonza passes the ball in the first half against South Alabama on Sept. 12 at yulman Stadium.

A closer look at Tulane’s third-down defensive woes reveals the biggest issue has come on situations that should favor the Wave. After facing three quality offenses, the ﬁrst order of business against struggling Southern Miss on Saturday (6 p.m., ESPN+) in a matchup of 1-2 teams will be to get off the ﬁeld in manageable down and distances — something that eluded the defense against Duke, South Alabama and Kansas State. Opponents moved the chains on 16 of 27 attempts from third-and-5 to third-and-9 through three games — a conversion rate of 59.3% that is even higher than the overall 56.0% that puts Tulane third-to-last in the FBS. Take out third-and-9, and the rate rises to 63.7%. “We have to control what we can control,” coach Will Hall said. “We can execute and take our gap and not lose contain

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on third downs, something we have to start doing better.” The Wave has been hurt in the air and on the ground during third downs, with opponents completing 14 of 22 passes (63.7%) for 163 yards and rushing 27 times for 155 yards (5.7 average). South Alabama quarterback Bishop Davenport moved the chains with his legs three times, and Kansas State’s Avery Johnson did it once. The defense’s only real success has come on third-and-10 or longer. Since Duke converted a third-and-12 with a run by Nate Sheppard on its opening touchdown drive, the Wave is a perfect six-of-six in those situations. Southern Miss has converted only 15 of its 40 third downs (37.5%), ranking in

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Continued from page 1C the end of the season about how he wanted to add some toughness to the roster. “We have to be able to compete every night,” Dumars said in April. “We cannot get banged around, pushed around. We have to be physical and compete every night.” Reese should be able to help with that. On his two-way deal, Reese will split time between the Pelicans and the Laketown Squadron, the Pels’ G League afﬁliate that will play its games in Kenner. NBA teams are allowed to have three players on a two-way contract. Those players are allowed to be active for up to 50 NBA games. The other two-way players on the Pelicans roster are Jaron Pierre and Malik Dia. Pierre is a New Orleans native and St. Augustine High grad who was drafted in the second round in June. Dia played at Ole Miss and was one

PITTSBURGH — Ronny Simon raced home on Spencer Horwitz’s eighth inning sacrifice fly and the Pittsburgh Pirates assured themselves of the club’s first non-losing season in eight years with a 2-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Thursday. Simon reached on a walk by Ryne Stanek (2-3), advanced to second on a wild pitch and scooted to third when the throw from catcher Ivan Herrera skipped into center field for an error. Horwitz’s flyball to center was plenty deep enough for Simon to score. Luke Weaver (4-1) got the final out of the eighth for Pittsburgh. Mason Montgomery struck out the side in the ninth for his 17th save in 19 chances as Pittsburgh improved to 81-78 with three games to go. The club’s previous non-losing season came in 2018 when it won 82 games.

Gauff will be a player-owner for Florida World Team Tennis

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NEW YORK — The WNBA playoff picture is sharpening as the regular season enters its final day. The Minnesota Lynx have clinched the top seed and will face eighth-seeded New York in the opening round that begins Sunday. The Atlanta Dream will be the four seed after beating New York on Wednesday night. They will play either Indiana or Washington. “Everybody in the playoffs are capable of winning on the road and stealing a series,” Atlanta coach Karl Smesko said. “I definitely think it’s an advantage to have to play in front of your home crowd.” Indiana plays at Minnesota and Washington hosts Chicago on Thursday. Dallas is locked into the seventh seed and will face either Golden State or Las Vegas. The Valkyries visit Los Angeles and the Aces play at Phoenix. The Lynx clinched the top spot in the playoffs on Tuesday after Golden State lost to Portland in overtime. Minnesota benched its starters after an awful first half against Indiana. The Lynx reserves battled back, but fell short. Minnesota has dropped four of its past five games and has one game left at home against the Fever on Thursday. “The margin for error throughout this regular season is incredibly small and you’ll see that in the playoffs,” said New York Liberty star Breanna Stewart. “Like one through eight you don’t know who will be playing at the end of October, which is exciting. I feel like for us we’re going to get a fresh start when it comes Sunday.” Stewart missed Wednesday’s game with knee soreness. New York also lost Jonquel Jones to an ankle injury in the third quarter. With New York finishing at 26-18, this is only the second time in league history that all the playoff teams have won at least 59% of their games. The 1998 playoffs, which only had four teams, had all four teams at 60% or better. In the four major sports it’s rare to find the last place team in the playoffs with such a high win rate.

Pirates win to secure best season since 2018

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WNBA president Val Ackerman, left, and Mohegan Tribe Tribal Chairman Mark Brown hold a basketball shirt of the type that will be worn by the Connecticut Sun during a news conference on Jan. 28, 2003, at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Conn

NEW YORK — Coco Gauff will be a player-owner for the Florida franchise that will compete in the new season of World Team Tennis. The two-time Grand Slam singles champion is scheduled to play in the Florida Flamingos Racquet Club’s home matches on Dec. 14 and 15. The team will play in Amerant Bank Arena in Sunrise, home of the NHL’s Florida Panthers. Gauff grew up in Delray Beach, Florida. The Flamingos were one of the original franchises when World Team Tennis began in 1974 as a way of having a mixed-gender team format for tennis, with Hall of Famer Billie Jean King among the founders. It returns in December with the other teams based in New York and Toronto.

Sun brace for ‘emotional’ farewell FIFA’s Infantino pledges BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

UNCASVILLE, Conn. — The Connecticut WNBA franchise will play its final game in the state before it moves to Houston next year after an impressive run for the first independently owned team in the league. Texas will be the third stop for the franchise. The team moved to Connecticut in 2003 from Orlando. The Sun made three trips to the WNBA Finals, hosted a record four All-Star Games and Connecticut was the first team to turn a profit in the league’s history. The team, which was purchased for $10 million, was sold for $300 million. “It’s been an emotional week,” team president Jen Rizzotti told The Associated Press. “The silver lining of the chapter closing is it forces you to look at what this franchise has meant for over two decades and make sure the story is told and the legacy lasts forever.” The franchise is moving to the home of the former Comets, who won the first four WNBA titles. Its time in Connecticut will end Thursday when the Sun face Toronto in the regular-season finale. Rizzotti will move to Houston with the team as the president of basketball operations. She said that 75-80% of the front office staff will also make the move. “It’s exciting to celebrate the past while also being emotional that it’s ending,” she said. “Thursday is a celebration of our fans with fan appreciation night. One game isn’t enough to show the appreciation of how much they poured into the franchise for 24 years.”

Why are the Sun moving?

The WNBA seems to have outgrown the Sun with the new collective bargaining agreement demanding standard amenities for all teams that include state-of-the-art practice facilities. The Mohegan Tribe, which owns the franchise, sold the team to Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta for $300 million. The Sun had an offer for $325 million from a group led by Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca that would have moved the franchise to Boston. The WNBA basically blocked that deal from happening by saying that “relocation decisions are made by the WNBA Board of Governors and not by individual teams.” Now the franchise is becoming the ﬁrst to relocate since San Antonio moved to Las Vegas in 2017. Being in the smallest market in the WNBA led to difﬁculties for the franchise to attract top free agents. Over the past two years the team has gone from being a WNBA Finals contender to rebuilding mode. Still, despite a 10-33 record, the Sun were drawing nearly 8,700 fans a game in the 10,000-seat arena.

Sun honored their past Throughout the season Connecticut honored some of the franchise’s iconic players, including Jonquel Jones, Jasmine Thomas, Alyssa Thomas, Tina Charles along with coaches Curt Miller and Mike Thibault. The group joined other Connecticut standouts — Margo Dydek, Katie Douglas, Nykesha Sales, Taj McWilliams-Franklin,

Lindsay Whalen and Asjha Jones — in the rafters at the arena. Thibault was the last of the group to be honored as Connecticut hosted the event after last Sunday’s game against Minnesota. Whalen, Charles and McWilliams-Franklin were in attendance for that contest as well as dozens of other former employees and front ofﬁce staffers. They told stories and stayed well after the game reminiscing about the franchise. Rizzotti expects a similar celebration after Thursday’s ﬁnale. “I know we’re going really blow the game out,” she said of celebration plans. “Lot of things we’re giving away, postgame mingles and autograph opportunities. When everybody leaves we’ll just pop Champagne on the court for the last time. I’m proud of what we built.”

Connecticut was ‘icebreaker’ Etess remembers trying to sell NBA Commissioner David Stern on moving a franchise to the Mohegan Sun. The late commissioner was concerned about putting a team in a casino, but as it turns out, he was ahead of his time. The Mohegan Tribe bought the team for $10 million and with the WNBA in CBA negotiations the franchise had a few months to get everything ready to start in 2003. Thibault remembers when he was hired as the coach in January, the franchise had literally nothing. Thibault said he had to order basketballs, uniforms and even sports bras for his players. The franchise quickly turned into contenders, reaching the WNBA Finals in 2004 and 2005.

“We have to be able to compete every night. ... We have to be physical and compete every night.” JOE DUMARS, Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations the Wizards in February. He was traded to the Denver Nuggets in August but was released. Reese and Queen, both from Baltimore, were also high school teammates at St. Frances Academy for one year. When Reese was a senior and Queen was a freshman, they ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By JOHN LOCHER went undefeated during the regFormer Washington Wizards forward Julian Reese, left, and Sacramento ular season at St. Frances. The Pelicans averaged 43.9 Kings guard Emanuel Sharp battle for a rebound during the ﬁrst half of rebounds per game last season, a Summer League game on July 12 in Las Vegas. The Pelicans signed which ranked 15th in the league. Reese to a two-way contract on Thursday. The Pelicans begin training camp on Tuesday. The season of the promising players on the Queen during the 2024-25 season. opener is Oct. 21 at Smoothie King Summer League team. Reese went undrafted in 2025, Center against the Indiana Pacers. Reese attended the University but played with the Los Angeles of Maryland and was teammates Lakers Summer League team. Email Rod Walker at with Pelicans forward Derik He signed a two-way deal with rwalker@theadvocate.com.

‘culture of dialogue’

GENEVA — FIFA’s embattled president Gianni Infantino said Thursday he is committed to a fresh culture of openness at the soccer body that is “not about generating positive headlines.” Two months into a deep rift for global soccer because of Infantino’s now-dropped $4.2 billion World Cup sell-off plan, he offered to his critics this week an independent review of how FIFA is run and makes decisions. Infantino will chair an Oct. 15 meeting of the 37-member FIFA Council that also will be asked to approve consultation with the 211 member federations and six continental soccer bodies on “how to further strengthen FIFA’s decision-making processes.”

NFL fines Bengals’ Chase, Higgins for celebration

CINCINNATI — Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Ja’Marr Chase confirmed Thursday the league fined him and teammate Tee Higgins for their new “people’s elbow” celebration. Chase insisted the “people’s elbow” celebration, which involves grabbing his right elbow with his left hand and flopping the right arm forward, isn’t the sort of off-color humor others have made it out to be on social media, and they are simply creating a new way to signal a first down. The NFL fined both receivers. The first offense for an unsportsmanlike conduct fine is $14,926 while taunting offenses are $11,941. Chase, who has been fined six times by the league for various infractions, said he hopes the latest punishments from the league spur action within the NFLPA.

Braves to put Pérez on IL due to back inflammation

ATLANTA — The Braves plan to put left-hander Martín Pérez on the 15-day injured list with lower back inﬂammation, leaving Atlanta shorthanded in its starting rotation as the postseason approaches. Pérez, 9-9 with a 3.04 ERA in 26 starts this season, likely would not be available until the NL Championship Series, according to Braves manager Walt Weiss. Pérez pitched 142 innings, his highest since he was an All-Star in 2022 with Texas. Fellow Braves starter Bryce Elder, who also made 26 starts this season, is on the IL recovering from knee surgery on Sept. 8. He is expected to be out three to four weeks. Reynaldo López, who was part of the rotation at times this season and started 13 games, is on the IL with right shoulder discomfort and has no timetable for a return.

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NC State’s ex-head trainer arrested BY AARON BEARD AP sportswriter

RALEIGH, N.C. — Authorities in Florida have arrested N.C. State’s former director of sports medicine, who is accused of sexually abusing former Wolfpack male athletes under the guise of treatment, which previously led to more than 30 athletes outlining allegations in civil lawsuits. Robert M. Murphy was arrested Wednesday night and was being held in the Marion County jail on out-of-state fugitive warrants from North Carolina. The Marion County Sheriff’s Office listed 23 charges of sexual battery and nine for felony sexual contact on its online database as of Thursday morning but offered no additional details. ESPN was first to report Murphy’s arrest. The case originated with a federal civil lawsuit from a single athlete filed four years ago. That complaint alleged years of misconduct by Murphy, such as improper touching of the genitals during massages and intrusive observation while collecting urine samples during drug testing. The case eventually landed in state court in 2025 with 14 former Wolfpack athletes, with that number growing to 31 joining the lawsuit by late January and outlining similar allegations. A judge dismissed the lawsuit in June, citing procedural reasons, while attorneys for the players have appealed. Jared Hammett and Seth Blum, two Raleigh-based attorneys who have represented Murphy in the civil lawsuits, have denied wrongdoing by their client. They did so again Thursday, including a reference to N.C. State’s 2022 statement that campus police had conducted an investigation that year and filed no criminal charges. “We are very disappointed that the Wake County District Attorney’s office would choose to prosecute based on a changing story,” Hammett and Blum said Thursday. “Four years ago law enforcement concluded there was not enough to support charges. Apparently, after enough careful editing, someone came up with a story that got a prosecutor’s attention. “We, as always, believe that when people hear the actual facts of what occurred, Mr. Murphy will be cleared and the truth will be paramount.”

LSU

Continued from page 1C It’s a problem that’s gotten worse each week. Most of the pressure is coming through the interior of the Tigers’ offensive line, too, which is much tougher to dodge than the kind that comes off the edge. Leavitt has faced pressure on 41 total dropbacks, per PFF. Only 10 FBS passers have been under duress more times this year, and none of them play in the SEC. Clemson pressured Leavitt on eight of his 27 dropbacks in Week 1. Then Louisiana Tech put him under duress 15 times in Week 2 before Ole Miss did it 18 times in Week 3. No SEC offensive lineman has allowed more pressures this season than LSU left guard Bo Bordelon (10). Only five have given up more than right tackle Weston Davis (seven), and just nine have surrendered more than right guard Aliou Bah (six). Some of the blame lies with Leavitt himself — for the times when he misses a read and holds onto the ball too long. PFF data says that the fourth-year quarterback is responsible for 11 of the pressures he’s faced this season, which is the second-most among FBS passers. But the interior of LSU’s offensive line still has plenty of room to improve in pass protection. That’s why Kiffin changed his tune after the Ole Miss loss, saying that he and his staff are “gonna look at some different things” before the Tigers take on Texas A&M at 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) in Tiger Stadium. The LSU offensive line, Kiffin said, “needs to play better and more consistent.” “Too many breakdowns in oneon-one matchups,” he said. So, what can change? Kiffin and offensive coordinator Charlie Weis can call more run plays on early downs, in hopes of keeping LSU’s offense ahead of the chains and out of unfavorable down-and-distance situations. They could also give Leavitt more quick throws and easy reads. If Kiffin and Weis want to take a more drastic step, though, they can make personnel changes on the offensive line.

Durham-based attorney Kerry Sutton, who has represented players going back to the original case, said the number of athletes who have contacted players’ attorneys with similar allegations has grown to 35. “This is a huge development for the men,” Sutton said of the criminal charges. “They are extremely grateful for (Wake) ADA Melanie Shekita’s dedication and for the assistance of law enforcement in North Carolina and Florida.” All but two of those 31 athletes were “John Doe” plaintiffs to protect their identity, while two former men’s soccer players were named. One is Benjamin Locke, who filed the original complaint in August 2022 and whose allegations dating to August 2015 were the subject of the N.C. State campus police’s initial investigation. The other is one of two athletes who filed their own federal lawsuits in February 2023 and April 2023. The Associated Press typically doesn’t identify those who say they have been sexually assaulted or abused unless the person has spoken publicly about it, which Locke has done. The lawsuit with 31 athletes as plaintiffs listed Murphy, who was at N.C. State from 2012-22, among nine defendants named individually. Others are school officials accused of negligence in oversight roles, including former athletic director Debbie Yow and current AD Boo Corrigan. The judge’s June dismissal of the lawsuit cited reasons such as the statute of limitations expiring in claims dating back as early as 2013. It had also pointed to jurisdictional grounds, stating any complaint should go through the North Carolina Industrial Commission — a state agency that deals with workplace matters because N.C. State is a public university — rather than civil court. In a statement, N.C. State said it was aware of the criminal charges filed against Murphy. “Sexual misconduct of any kind is unacceptable,” the university said. “The health and safety of students and student-athletes is paramount to N.C. State Athletics and the university. We are aware of the charges filed by Wake County against Robert Murphy. We will cooperate with law enforcement in this matter. As this is an ongoing legal matter, we cannot comment further at this time.”

Bordelon, a fifth-year senior, is a converted tackle who played only 20 career snaps at left guard before this season. Kiffin moved him to that spot early in spring practice and liked the change enough to stick with it through preseason camp. On Aug. 20, LSU’s first-year coach said that Bordelon benefited from “new eyes and a new system” and that he hoped to use his example to motivate players in the future. “It doesn’t matter where you are on the depth chart, what year you are,” Kiffin said. “If you play really well, your time’s gonna come.” The problem, of course, is that Bordelon didn’t play really well in his first taste of SEC action as a starter. He and Bah combined to allow nine pressures, seven hurries and two sacks in LSU’s loss to Ole Miss, according to PFF. The Tigers could pivot to either Devin Harper or Ja’Quan Sprinkle, the two second-team guards who saw the field during the blowout wins over Clemson and Louisiana Tech. But neither player can offer proven production. Harper, a Shreveport native, was a top-100 national recruit in 2025, but Bordelon beat him out for the starting left guard spot in camp, and he’s played fewer than 100 career snaps. Sprinkle spent the first three years of his career at North Carolina Central, an FCS school. The good news, for LSU, is that the Texas A&M defense is off to an uncharacteristically slow start. The Aggies rank last among SEC teams in both sacks (four) and tackles for loss (14), and in Week 3, their defensive front pressured Kentucky quarterback Kenny Minchey on only six of his 23 dropbacks. Kiffin hopes Leavitt faces a similarly low amount of duress on Saturday. LSU can’t allow opposing defensive linemen to find passrush lanes up the middle — or else its offense will look more like it did against Ole Miss and less like it did against Clemson. “That’s what affects quarterbacks,” Kiffin said. “I love Sam’s competitiveness; I love that he put us in a position to win the game, taking us down there, where we settle for the field goal, and so we gotta play better around him. We gotta protect him better.”

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Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton drops back to throw a pass against Arkansas during a game on Saturday in Fayetteville, Ark.

No. 2 Georgia set to host Oklahoma in SEC matchup

BY MAURA CAREY

first-quarter point this season, outscoring opponents 56-0 in the first 15 minutes and 105-12 in the first Eight years ago, Oklahoma and half. Backup quarterback Ryan Georgia clashed in a thrilling dou- Puglisi has played in all three ble-overtime Rose Bowl, one that games as a result, with Stockton sent the Bulldogs to face Alabama calling it a day early after leading in the 2018 national championship. the team to a cushy lead. The Sooners and Bulldogs haven’t met since. That changes SEC gauntlet begins Saturday, when a freshly unSaturday’s matchup is Oklahoranked Oklahoma team heads to ma’s SEC opener and the second Athens to face No. 2 Georgia in of nine conference matchups for what is now a Southeastern Con- Georgia. Oklahoma faces a daunting start ference matchup. Oklahoma enters the outing to conference play, traveling to with much to prove, having fallen No. 2 Georgia before hosting No. 17-10 to Michigan in Week 2 and 1 Texas two weeks later. The Bulldogs kicked off SEC narrowly beaten New Mexico 14-6 the following week after entering play last week with a 45-17 win the game as a 21.5-point favorite. over Arkansas and will face Georgia has yet to be chal- Vanderbilt, No. 8 Alabama and Aulenged, with defensive line coach burn before an idle week leading Tray Scott running drills dur- up to “the world’s greatest cocking television timeouts against tail party” against No. 21 Florida. Georgia’s one remaining nonArkansas as tangible proof. The Bulldogs have cruised to a 3-0 re- conference game is a rivalry cord and have a plus-138 scoring week contest against in-state foe Georgia Tech. differential. AP sportswriter

Fast starts, sharp accuracy

Sooners defense a highlight

Georgia quarterback Gunner Stockton boasts an 84.4 completion percentage this season, completing 38 of 45 pass attempts for 583 yards and nine touchdowns. He tied Georgia’s single-game record with five passing touchdowns against Western Kentucky in Week 2. “Gunner Stockton, I love how he plays. This is another year that he’s started the year really, really well. He’s just a really good football player,” Oklahoma coach Brent Venables said Tuesday. “The guy’s been a winner his whole life — plays the game the right way.” Stockton’s hot start has been complemented with lockdown defense. Georgia has yet to allow a

Regardless of recent offensive woes, Oklahoma’s defense has held steady, allowing only two touchdowns over the past three games — both on the ground against Michigan. The Sooners lead the SEC in passing defense (104.3 yards per game), scoring defense (7.7 points per game), third-down conversion defense (22.5%), tackles for loss (8.7) and red zone defense (57.1%). The unit ranks top 10 nationally in each category. “It is fundamentally sound, aggressive and attacking. They are one of the top in the country every year in tackles for a loss and sacks, and I don’t think people give their coaches and their kids enough credit for how they play,”

Georgia coach Kirby Smart said. “They play with unbelievable pad level and an intensity that’s kind of unmatched in terms of the way they play.” Owen Heinecke leads the Sooners with 24 tackles. Adepoju Adebawore has a team-high 2.5 sacks. Peyton Brown has recorded four pass breakups.

Sooners offense? Not so much Oklahoma’s offense hasn’t played up to its standard, and it starts with the passing game. Quarterback John Mateer threw a critical late interception against Michigan to set up the Wolverines for a game-winning, 6-yard touchdown drive. He finished the Week 2 loss with a 52% completion rating. Mateer was picked off twice more in the first half against New Mexico, prompting boos from Memorial Stadium. He has 652 passing yards, six touchdowns and three interceptions through three games and has not yet shown the same flashiness in the run game.

What’s at stake for the Sooners? Oklahoma has little room for error after its loss to Michigan and an uninspiring Week 3 win that knocked the Sooners out of the AP Top 25. With No. 2 Georgia and No. 1 Texas looming in the next three weeks, Oklahoma could quickly ﬁnd itself needing to run the table to emerge in the College Football Playoff conversation. Another loss wouldn’t end the Sooners’ chances, but it would make their path much more difficult with plenty of tough conference competition ahead. Oklahoma earned the No. 8 seed in the CFP last year and was knocked out by No. 9 Alabama with a 34–24 ﬁrst-round loss.

TULANE

Continued from page 1C a tie for 96th nationally.

I’ll show you Tulane quarterback Kadin Semonza is not a natural on the option, but he executed it perfectly on his 9-yard touchdown run as the Wave took an early 7-0 lead on Kansas State last Saturday. With Jaylin Lucas as his pitch option, he faked out safety Logan Bartley and cut inside of him after he committed to Lucas, reaching the 1 before anyone touched him. Semonza admitted to an internal motivator — chief of staff Chris Hatcher. “It’s funny because Hatch was messing with me last week on my fake pitches,” Semonza said. “He said they suck, so I took that to heart and gave it a good fake pitch. It felt good to get in the end zone.”

Starter back Outside linebacker Jah’rie Garner planned to play through an ankle sprain against Kansas State, but when he went out for pre-game warm-ups, he realized he was not healthy enough to help. His late scratch hurt the Wave, which lost control at his position a few times as Johnson ran for a career-high 152 yards on 12 carries. Garner suffered his injury in a freakish way against South Alabama early in the second quarter. “I jumped in the air when one of our guys made a play, and I came down and sprained my ankle when I landed on it,” he said. “I got some meds and played the rest of the game, but after the game it swelled up on me and

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Tulane coach Will Hall calls to his team from the sideline duringa game against South Alabama on Sept. 12 at yulman Stadium. all week I was just trying to get through practice.” Garner missed Monday’s and Tuesday’s workouts, returning Wednesday, but he had a setback on the ﬂight to Kansas. “When we got on the plane, the pressure kind of messed with it, and when I came out Saturday, it was like, man, it would be a bad idea if I tried to get out here and play,” he said. “This week I’m feeling good and back to myself.” Garner, a redshirt junior, had seven tackles and a quarterback hurry in the ﬁrst two games.

Getting healthy Hall said he expected running back Jamauri McClure and wideout Zycarl Lewis, neither of whom will play Saturday, to return for Tulane’s American Conference opener on Oct. 10 at Army after an open date. McClure, the Wave’s leading returning rusher and a force in the

second half of 2025, has been out with a foot injury since early in preseason camp. Lewis, the Wave’s second-leading returning receiver (24 catches, 330 yards), hurt his leg at the end of a 28-yard catch-and-run in the second half of the opener at Duke.

Lagniappe Tulane has won ﬁve consecutive games against Sun Belt Conference teams since losing at home to Southern Miss in 2022, beating South Alabama three times and Southern Miss and UL once. … The Wave’s penalty yardage has decreased each week from 109 at Duke to 30 against South Alabama to 20 against Kansas State. … Tulane has not committed or forced a turnover in the past two games. The last time before then the Wave and its opponent had zero giveaways was Nov. 14, 2023, at East Carolina.

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SIX PACK Six District 9-5A schools are in the Class 5A state rankings with No. 4 St.Augustine set to face No. 5 John Curtis on Saturday and No. 8 Brother Martin going against No. 9 Jesuit on Friday. Thursday’s games put No. 1 Edna Karr against Holy Cross and No. 6 Rummel against Chalmette.

MORE OPENERS District 6-5A, 7-5A and 8-5A also begin district play this week. Reigning league champions Destrehan (7-5A) and Bonnabel (8-5A) are strong contenders to win another title while St. Paul’s (6-5A) will get challenged by Mandeville when those schools meet in Week 8.

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT? Country Day (1-2) looks to snap a six-game losing streak in games against Episcopal (1-2) when the schools meet in Baton Rouge. Last year’s 6657 shootout provided plenty of fireworks. Country Day QB Jack Grace threw a state-record nine TD passes two weeks ago vs.Willow.

LOOKING AHEAD Other New Orleans area teams near the top of the state rankings are No. 4 Shaw in Class 4A, No. 2 St. Charles Catholic in Class 3A and No. 2 Riverside in Class 1A. St. Charles Catholic and Riverside are reigning state champions set to meet next week in Reserve.

Challenge accepted DE Robichaux has grown to be a force on the St. Aug defense

BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

acques Robichaux didn’t have any Division I offers before his junior year, but that changed after he combined his size and speed with on-ﬁeld results. The 6-foot-4, 230-pound Robichaux was a pass-rushing force for St. Augustine as a junior, totaling 91/ 2 sacks along with four forced fumbles and a picksix. College coaches took notice of Robichaux, who received his ﬁrst offer from UL a few weeks after St. Aug reached the Division I select state championship game. Now in his senior season, Robichaux has gone from a situational pass rusher to a full-time starter at defensive end who can also play defensive tackle when needed. “I play a very vital role (at St. Augustine) because of how many things I can do and how many plays I can make,” Robichaux said. “What makes me successful I’d say is my motor and my mindset. When I go up against somebody, I always think they can’t stop me from getting what I’m trying to get to.” Robichaux, who now has eight Division I offers, is a Southern Miss commitment. He was offered in May committed in June after attending a Southern Miss football camp. “I went to talk to (Southern Miss) coach Blake Anderson, and he just showed me a lot of love,” Robichaux said. “I just felt that was the right decision for me and my family at the time, so I committed on the spot to Southern Miss.” St. Augustine’s offense has gotten plenty of attention having averaged nearly 50 points

Week 4 report Thursday’s games All games 7 p.m. unless noted. Hammond at Mandeville, n Chalmette vs. Rummel, n Holy Cross vs. Edna Karr, n Haynes vs. Thomas Jefferson, n Ellender vs. Morris Jeff, n

Friday’s games

All games 7 p.m. unless noted.

District 6-5A

Covington at Northshore Ponchatoula at St. Paul’s Slidell at Fontainebleau

District 7-5A

H.L. Bourgeois at East St. John

District 8-5A

East Jefferson vs. Bonnabel at Yenni Higgins vs. John Ehret at Memtsas

District 9-5A

Jesuit vs. Brother Martin at Gormley

Nondistrict

Amite at Salmen Booker T. Washington at Springﬁeld Carver vs. Sarah T. Reed at Joe Brown Central Lafourche at Destrehan Country Day at Episcopal E.D. White at Shaw Fisher at Hannan Franklinton at Jewell Sumner Hahnville at Lutcher Jefferson Rise at Istrouma Kennedy vs. L.B. Landry at Morris Jeff Lakeshore at Vandebilt Catholic McDonogh 35 at Belle Chasse Pope John Paul II at No. Christian Patrick Taylor vs. Kenner Discovery at Bertolino Pearl River at Pine Warren Easton at Zachary West St. John at St. Thomas Aquinas Willow at Newman Sophie B. Wright at St. Martin’s St. Charles vs. De La Salle at Pan Am Varnado at Ben Franklin Young Audiences at Riverside

Saturday’s games District 8-5A

Riverdale vs. West Jefferson at Memtsas, 2 p.m.

District 9-5A

John Curtis vs. St. Augustine at Gormley, 3 p.m.

Nondistrict

Abramson vs. Cohen at Pan American, 2 p.m. South Plaquemines vs. McMain at Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Stadium

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St. Agustine defensive end Jacques Robichaux III cries as he hugs his father, Jacques Robichaux Jr., after the Purple Knights defeated John Curtis in a Division I select semifinal game on Dec. 5 at Tad Gormley Stadium. The two teams meet again Saturday in a District 9-5A game.

“(Robichaux) is a kid that’s really come along in our program. He’s always had a good frame and just really went to work. It was just him coming to work every day.” ROBERT VALDEZ, St. Augustine coach per game this season with multiple Division I recruits, but the defense has played a key part in the Purple Knights’ 3-0 start. Robichaux has 21/ 2 sacks as the leader of a defensive line that includes junior Darren Coates, who also has Division I offers. “(Robichaux) has accepted the challenge (of being a leader),” defensive coordinator Matt Brown said. “The ﬁlm speaks for itself. He’s a guy that makes those quarterbacks and offensive coordinators stay up a little later trying to game plan for him.” Robichaux has attended St. Aug since his eighth-grade year. Robert Valdez became St. Augustine’s head coach when Robichaux was a sophomore and has pushed him to continue

improving. “(Robichaux) is a kid that’s really come along in our program,” Valdez said. “He’s always had a good frame and just really went to work. It was just him coming to work every day. I push him extremely hard because he has all the potential.” The work paid off for Robichaux and St. Aug in December after the Purple Knights defeated John Curtis in the semifinals to reach their first state title game since 1979. Nicknamed “Tre,” he is a third-generation Jacques Robichaux. He and his father, Jacques Robichaux Jr., hugged each other on the field after St. Augustine’s historic semifinal triumph at Tad Gormley.

“To make history with my team and then see my dad smiling and running up to me, it was a very special moment,” he said. “My dad is my best friend. Without him, I probably wouldn’t be able to do the things I’m able to do.” Up next for St. Augustine is a rematch against Curtis. Last season’s 31-29 semiﬁnal win was decided on the ﬁnal play after Purple Knights wide receiver Derrick Bennett caught a touchdown as time expired. St. Augustine beat Curtis 5528 in last year’s regular-season matchup. Kickoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. Saturday at Tad Gormley Stadium. “In this (district), there aren’t any games that you walk into thinking it’s going to be a cupcake,” Valdez said. “It’s going to be another typical St. AugCurtis game. It’s going to be a war, and somebody is going to have to make some plays.” Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@theadvocate.com.

TOP MATCHUPS BROTHER MARTIN VS. JESUIT

7 p.m. Friday Tad Gormley Stadium Hudson Fields and Justin Morgan have been sharing snaps at QB for Brother Martin (3-0) while Sully Sullivan and Mani Vandenweghe share duties for Jesuit (3-0). Max Barrios kicked the game-winning field goal with two seconds remaining in Brother Martin’s 31-29 victory last season.

ST. CHARLES VS. DE LA SALLE

7 p.m. Friday Pan American Stadium St. Charles (2-1) has played in three overtime games to start the season, including last week’s loss to Holy Cross. De La Salle (0-3) has been competitive in losses against 5A schools Covington, Northshore and St. Paul’s. This teams are meeting for the 10th year in a row (St. Charles 5-4).

JOHN CURTIS VS. ST. AUGUSTINE

3 p.m. Saturday Tad Gormley Stadium St. Augustine (3-0) scored a lastsecond touchdown to beat Curtis in the semifinals last season. The Purple Knights outscored three opponents 140-20 this season, including last week’s 52-7 thrashing of East Ascension. Curtis (2-1) played its first three games in Lafayette and Mississippi.

THREE PLAYERS TO WATCH ELIJAH ANCAR

RB, Belle Chasse The junior running back is averaging more than 100 yards rushing per game with seven touchdowns scored — all on the ground. He ran 22 times for 140 yards and three touchdowns in a win against rival South Plaquemines last week. The Cardinals host McDonogh 35 on Friday.

REN GUIDRY

QB, Newman The senior threw six TD passes as he completed 22 of 36 passes for 341 yards in a win against East Jefferson last week. That came two weeks after he threw five TD passes in Week 1 against St. John’s of Houston. Newman visits Willow on Friday.

COOPER WAKEFIELD

WR/DB, St. Martin’s The senior scored three touchdowns (one rushing, two receiving) as he rushed 11 times for 46 yards and caught five passes for 52 yards against Glen Oaks in Week 3. The Saints host Sophie B. Wright on Friday.

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Indiana begins defense of Big Ten title BY MICHAEL MAROT AP sportswriter

The Indiana Hoosiers spent Curt Cignetti’s first two seasons rebranding the program. Now the fifth-ranked and still unbeaten Hoosiers face the next big challenge — maintaining their status as a national football powerhouse. That next step begins Friday night when the 2025 national champions host unbeaten Northwestern, marking the first time in nearly 60 years the Hoosiers enter a Big Ten game holding the title of defending conference champs. And Cignetti thinks his program is in good position. “I like the way we developed and where we are right now,” he said when asked to evaluate his team after finishing non-conference play. “Every team you have you’ve got concerns, whether they be depth issues, upcoming opponents, how to best attack them, preparing your team day to day, week to week so we’re ready for Big Ten competition.” Indiana (3-0) overwhelmed its first three opponents by a combined score of 145-16 and produced the program’s first back-to-back shutouts since 1993. It hasn’t allowed a point in 136 minutes, dating to a North Texas field goal with 1:18 left in the third quarter of Week 1. But even Cignetti understands why the critics contend this team hasn’t been seriously tested while extending the Football Bowl Subdivision’s longest active winning streak to 19 and longest active home winning streak to 18. Facing Northwestern (2-0) could help alter that perception. Coach David Braun hired Chip Kelly to change the Wildcats from a low-scoring, run-heavy offense to a more balanced attack. The result: Northwestern ranks 45th nationally with 37.5 points per game. Can it work against an Indiana defense that has been among the nation’s stingiest since Cignetti took over in 2024? “It presents an incredible challenge for us, going on the road on a Friday night,” Braun said. “You can tell this group has been at it for three years and they’ve won a lot of big games, won a Big Ten championship and a national championship. There’s just a certain level of confidence they move with.” For the Hoosiers, this feels familiar — palying a team from Illinois in prime time in a Big Ten opener. A year ago, they were facing the same questions when the ninth-ranked Fighting Illini came to town. Indiana sent them home with an embarrassing 6310 rout. Cignetti isn’t talking about a repeat — he just wants his team focused on passing their first big test. “They do the things you’ve got to do to win football games,” Cignetti said. “They’re plus-4 in the turnover ratio, they’re averaging 38 points a game, they’re running for over 200 (yards), 465 (yards in) total offense, they’re holding teams to one out of eight touchdowns in the red area. They’ve given up six points in the first half and the quarterback has really developed.”

Model program Braun has watched the Hoosiers remarkable turnaround under Cignetti from afar and believes Indiana could serve as a model for Northwestern — or any program that has struggled to win consistently. The lesson for his team is simple. “That it can be done,” Braun said. “I think that’s the biggest lesson you can learn. This game is won through brotherhood and something that is bigger than self. You don’t win a national championship without a group of people that are fully bought into that. I think it starts with the mentality of why not us?”

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Saints conﬁdent Richards can step up at LT BY LUKE JOHNSON

upgrade in their practice participation status Thursday. Edge rusher Chase Young (calf), defensive lineman Nathan Shepherd (hip) and star defender Jonas Sanker (knee) all practiced fully after being limited in Wednesday’s session. Running back Travis Etienne (hamstring) was the only player who was limited at Thursday’s practice. The only new additions to the injury report were running back Kendre Miller, who missed practice with an illness, and veteran defensive lineman Davon Godchaux, who took his customary Thursday rest day. Wide receiver Barion Brown (hamstring), defensive back Martin Emerson (shoulder) and defensive linemen Christen Miller (toe) continued to miss practice with their various injuries.

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This week against the Las Vegas Raiders, the New Orleans Saints will try to get over their first major in-season injury hurdle. Asim Richards, a 25-year-old swing tackle who is in his fourth NFL Notebook season and second with the Saints, will start for the foreseeable future at left tackle in place of the injured Kelvin Banks. “It comes with the job of being a swing tackle,” Richards said. “It definitely gets your heart pumped up, but I’ve been there before, so it’s just another day honestly.” The ankle injury Banks suffered in the third quarter last week was, without question, a significant blow for a Saints offense that is off to a strong start in 2026. New Orleans selected Banks with the No. 9 pick in last year’s draft and he’s provided high-level play from the jump. His injury required surgery and will likely keep him out until late in the regular season. Which is where Richards comes in — again. New Orleans acquired Richards in a trade with the Dallas Cowboys just before the 2025 season began — a move that was informed by the Saints’ coaching connections to the Cowboys and one would return dividends. Richards started four games at right tackle last season as right tackle Taliese Fuaga dealt with multiple injuries. He also subbed in at left tackle in the season finale after Banks suffered his lone injury last season. That starting experience in coach Kellen Moore’s offense was invaluable. “Just learning the offense a little more,” Richards said. “Last

SAINTS

Continued from page 1C They did exactly that. The Saints made a rare decision to pay a punter, handing Ryan Wright a four-year, $14 million contract. The deal not only made Wright the league’s seventhhighest-paid punter, but it also marked the ﬁrst time the Saints pursued a punter in free agency since Toby Gowin in 2000. The Saints felt the move was necessary after rotating through three different punters in three years. Wright, the former Vikings punt-

Shough stats Tyler Shough has now played in 13 NFL games (with 11 of them being starts). He is the first player in NFL history to throw for 3,000 yards while completing at least 67% of his passes in his first 13 games of his career. He ranks 14th in NFL history for passing yardage in his first 11 starts (2,918). Shough is also leading the NFL in passing through two weeks, becoming the first Saints quarterback to achieve that feat since ArAP PHOTO By MATT PATTERSON chie Manning in 1979. His 662 passing Saints offensive lineman Asim Richards lines up for a snap during a preseason game against the Dallas yards through two games are the most by a Saints quarterback since Cowboys on Aug. 28 in Arlington, Texas. Drew Brees had 682 yards in the first year it wasn’t as smooth to me, I according to Pro Football Focus. ready to play every single week, two games of the 2018 season. was thinking a lot, but now it’s a lot Last week, he was thrown into the and you saw that by the way he Since Shough took over as the smoother. I don’t have to think as fire during the Saints’ second-half handled that situation going to starter in Week 9 last year, his much. I can just let it all out.” comeback and largely held his own Baltimore and hopping in there. I 283.9 offensive yards per game While playing a career-high 363 against Ravens All-Pro Trey Hendrick- think he’ll do some good stuff.” (passing and rushing) rank only offensive snaps last season, Rich- son. behind Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff (291.4), according to Next “Asim’s done a nice job,” Moore Injury report ards allowed 23 pressures and two sacks in 204 pass-blocking reps, said. “He’s prepared as if he’s Three Saints defenders saw an Gen Stats.

er who played college football at Tulane, has made a difference early on. Through two games, Wright may not have gaudy stats — his longest punt of 57 yards ranks 23rd — but three of his eight punts have been downed inside the 20, including a 37-yard punt that put Baltimore at the 6-yard line. The punt even led to another standout special-teams highlight: Granderson’s tip on Loop’s 49-yard attempt, forcing a miss. “It’s a good two games to build on,” Wright said of the unit. “I think we’re going to do just ﬁne.” Punter wasn’t the only add. The Saints even drafted a returner when they selected Brown, the all-

time SEC leader in kickoff returns, in the sixth round. The Saints avoided using Brown as a kick returner in the preseason, but the Ravens game showed why: They knew what he could do. The Saints have had special returners in recent years, including Rashid Shaheed and Deonte Harty, but those additions have typically been signed as undrafted free agents. Even Carlson, a late trainingcamp addition, has proven steady. The Saints’ kicking battle over the summer did not unfold as envisioned, as incumbent Charlie Smyth and Tanner Brown struggled in training camp.

But Carlson, the longtime kicker on the Raiders, was available and has since done his job. His lone miss was a 62-yarder at the end of regulation in New Orleans’ Week 1 loss to Detroit. But the Saints were understanding of the miss, given the distance. Galiano said he’s starting to see players play fast and noted they “have belief now.” The coordinator has been with the Saints since 2019, but last year was his ﬁrst full year in his current role. Galiano previously worked under Darren Rizzi, who still oversaw the unit when he became the Saints’ interim coach in 2024. As for his job status, Galiano

said he was never worried whether he’d be ﬁred at the end of last season. He was, however, disappointed. Disappointed by how his unit performed and how he had coached. “All I try to do is be who I am, be the same every single day,” Galiano said. “It’s never them that was at fault. It was us. I didn’t do a good enough job preparing, they didn’t do a good enough job playing and we were working together and trying to get better each and every day. “That’s who I’ll continue to be. I’m not going to change who I am. And so far it’s working. Hopefully we can keep it going that way.”

SCOREBOARD Hole-in-one

WESTERN CONFERENCE

Greg Smith

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

Course: The University Club Hole: No. 16 Yardage: 97 yards Club: A wedge Witnesses: Hal Lancon, Don Bailey, Steve Hartman

x-clinched playoff spot

Odds NFL

FAVORITE OPEN Seattle 3½ at NY GIANTS 3 Kansas City 7 Carolina 2½ at JAX 1½ Cincinnati 1½ Houston 2½ at DETROIT 9½ at BUFFALO 2½ Minnesota 1½ at SAN FRAN 11½ at N.O. 3 Baltimore 2½ LA Rams 3

Monday

FAVORITE OPEN Philadelphia 1½

FAVORITE OPEN Army 3½ Navy 12½ at RUTGERS 42½ at INDIANA 23½ Clemson 1½

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 7½ (40½) at WASH 2½ (38½) Tennessee 10½ (46½) at MIAMI 2½ (42½) at CLE 3 (46½) NE 3½ (42½) at PITT 1½ (42½) at IND 6½ (47½) NY Jets 7½ (50½) Chargers 1½ (42½) at TAMPA 8½ (48½) Arizona 3½ (43½) Las Vegas 3½ (52½) at DALLAS 2½ (44½) at DENVER TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 4½ (41½) at CHI

Friday American League

LINE OFF -132 OFF OFF -136

UNDERDOG Baltimore at K.C. at MIN Houston LA Angels

LINE OFF +109 OFF OFF +112

LINE -135 -124 -182 -138 OFF

UNDERDOG at WASH at MIAMI St. Louis Arizona LA Dodgers

LINE +114 +105 +148 +114 OFF

LINE OFF OFF -161 -113 -135 -229

UNDERDOG LINE Chicago Cubs OFF Chicago Cubs OFF Tampa Bay +132 at DETROIT -108 Cincinnati +115 Colorado +184

Pro basketball WNBA Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE x-Atlanta x-Indiana x-Washington x-New York Chicago Toronto Connecticut

W 30 28 27 26 16 11 10

L 14 15 16 18 27 32 33

Pct GB .682 — .651 1½ .628 2½ .591 4 .372 13½ .256 18½ .233 19½

Sunday’s Games

Carolina at Cleveland, noon Cincinnati at Pittsburgh, noon Houston at Indianapolis, noon Kansas City at Miami, noon L.A. Chargers at Buffalo, noon N.Y. Jets at Detroit, noon New England at Jacksonville, noon Seattle at Washington, noon Tennessee at N.Y. Giants, noon Arizona at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m. Minnesota at Tampa Bay, 3:05 p.m. Baltimore vs Dallas at Rio de Janeiro, 3:25 p.m. Las Vegas at New Orleans, 3:25 p.m. L.A. Rams at Denver, 7:20 p.m.

Connecticut 95, Toronto 81 Washington 101, Chicago 93 Indiana at Minnesota, n Golden State at Los Angeles,n Las Vegas at Phoenix, n

Monday’s Games

No games scheduled.

East Division

Philadelphia at Chicago, 7:15 p.m.

Major League Baseball

Pro football NFL Glance AMERICAN CONFERENCE East Buffalo New England N.Y. Jets Miami

W 2 1 1 0

L 0 1 1 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .000

PF 77 30 40 26

PA 62 16 30 62

Jacksonville Tennessee Houston Indianapolis

W 1 0 0 0

L 1 2 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .000 .000 .000

PF 47 30 37 53

PA 30 47 56 74

Cincinnati Baltimore Pittsburgh Cleveland

W 2 1 1 1

L 0 1 1 1

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .500

PF 53 58 23 33

PA 33 47 33 53

Kansas City Las Vegas Denver L.A. Chargers

W 2 2 1 0

L 0 0 1 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .000

PF 64 53 30 28

PA 40 27 44 52

North

West

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington

W 2 1 1 0

L 0 1 1 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .000

PF 48 34 57 42

PA 42 48 48 61

Carolina New Orleans Tampa Bay Atlanta

W 1 1 0 0

L 1 1 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .500 .000 .000

PF 71 54 46 16

PA 62 48 56 54

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Green Bay

W 2 1 1 1

L 0 1 1 1

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500 0 .500

PF 48 62 62 42

PA 25 71 46 56

Seattle San Francisco L.A. Rams Arizona

W 2 2 1 1

L 0 0 1 1

T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .500 0 .500

PF 44 62 35 33

PA 17 20 33 45

South

North

West

Thursday’s Games

Atlanta at Green Bay, n

x-Tampa Bay y-New York y-Boston Baltimore Toronto

W 96 91 85 78 77

L 62 67 73 81 82

Pct .608 .576 .538 .491 .484

GB — 5 11 18½ 19½

Cleveland Chicago Minnesota Detroit Kansas City

W 82 82 75 74 68

L 76 77 84 85 91

Pct .519 .516 .472 .465 .428

GB — ½ 7½ 8½ 14½

W Texas 79 Houston 78 Seattle 74 Athletics 63 Los Angeles 60 x-clinched division y-clinched wild card

L 80 80 84 95 98

Pct .497 .494 .468 .399 .380

GB — ½ 4½ 15½ 18½

Central Division

West Division

Wednesday’s Games

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

Thursday’s Games

Chicago White Sox 9, Kansas City 1 Texas 3, N.Y. Mets 1 Cleveland at Boston, n Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, n Houston at Athletics, n L.A. Angels at Seattle, n

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6-5), 8:40 p.m. L.A. Angels (Detmers 6-8) at Seattle (Miller 4-9), 9:10 p.m.

National League East Division x-Atlanta Philadelphia Miami Washington New York

W 93 87 78 75 73

L 65 71 81 84 86

Pct .589 .551 .491 .472 .459

GB — 6 15½ 18½ 20½

x-Milwaukee Chicago Pittsburgh St. Louis Cincinnati

W 99 88 81 77 73

L 59 71 78 82 85

Pct .627 .553 .509 .484 .462

GB — 11½ 18½ 22½ 26

W x-Los Angeles 97 San Diego 88 Arizona 84 San Francisco 65 Colorado 57 x-clinched division

L 61 70 74 94 101

Pct .614 .557 .532 .409 .361

GB — 9 13 32½ 40

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South

TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3 (48½) at TEMPLE 6½ (51½) at UAB 43½ (55½) Howard 20½ (49½) Nrthwstrn 1½ (50½) at CAL

MLB FAVORITE at N.Y YANKEES Cleveland Texas at ATHLETICS at SEATTLE National League FAVORITE N.Y Mets Atlanta at MILWAUKEE at SAN DIEGO at SAN FRAN Interleague FAVORITE at BOSTON at BOSTON at PHILADELPHIA Pittsburgh at TORONTO at CHI WHITE SOX

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College Football Friday

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Wednesday’s Games Atlanta 83, New York 65 Dallas 103, Seattle 91

Sports Betting Line Sunday

W 32 31 30 27 17 16 16 8

Chicago Cubs (Peterson 9-8) at Boston (TBD), 12:05 p.m., 1st game Chicago Cubs (Holmes 6-8) at Boston (Bennett 9-7), 5:05 p.m., 2nd game Pittsburgh (Chandler 8-9) at Detroit (Jobe 2-3), 5:40 p.m. Tampa Bay (Peralta 9-11) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 18-6), 5:40 p.m. Baltimore (Rogers 10-11) at N.Y. Yankees (Warren 10-6), 6:05 p.m. Cincinnati (Lodolo 3-6) at Toronto (Soriano 12-8), 6:07 p.m. Cleveland (Williams 14-8) at Kansas City (Cameron 9-8), 6:40 p.m. Colorado (Quintana 2-3) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 10-7), 6:40 p.m. Texas (TBD) at Minnesota (Ryan 6-10), 7:10 p.m. Houston (Wesneski 5-2) at Athletics (Lopez

Wednesday’s Games

Washington 4, Detroit 2 Minnesota 4, San Francisco 2 Milwaukee 4, Philadelphia 1 St. Louis 5, Pittsburgh 1 Atlanta 3, Cincinnati 2, 10 innings N.Y. Mets 7, Texas 2 Miami 3, Chicago Cubs 2 Arizona 5, Colorado 3 San Diego 5, L.A. Dodgers 1

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Pittsburgh 2, St. Louis 1 Chicago Cubs 2, Miami 1 Texas 3, N.Y. Mets 1 Chicago White Sox 9, Kansas City 1 Cleveland 1, Boston 0 Milwaukee 5, Philadelphia 1 Cincinnati at Atlanta, n San Diego at L.A. Dodgers, n

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Chicago Cubs (Peterson 9-8) at Boston (TBD), 12:05 p.m., 1st game Chicago Cubs (Holmes 6-8) at Boston (Bennett 9-7), 5:05 p.m., 2nd game Pittsburgh (Chandler 8-9) at Detroit, 5:40 p.m. Tampa Bay (Peralta 9-11) at Philadelphia (Sánchez 18-6), 5:40 p.m. N.Y. Mets (TBD) at Washington (Alvarez 2-6), 5:45 p.m. Cincinnati (Lodolo 3-6) at Toronto (Soriano 12-8), 6:07 p.m. Atlanta (Holmes 10-5) at Miami, 6:10 p.m. Colorado (Quintana 2-3) at Chicago White Sox (Burke 10-7), 6:40 p.m. St. Louis (McGreevy 7-9) at Milwaukee (Gasser 5-5), 6:40 p.m. Arizona at San Diego (Mize 6-9), 8:40 p.m. L.A. Dodgers (Skubal 11-7) at San Francisco (Marte 0-1), 9:15 p.m.

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Liberty at Coastal Carolina , n

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Army (1-1) at Temple (1-2), 3 p.m. Howard (1-2) at Rutgers (0-3), 6 p.m. Harvard (1-0) at Brown (1-0), 6 p.m.

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Navy (1-1) at UAB (1-2), 6 p.m.

MIDWEST

Northwestern (2-0) at Indiana (3-0), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Clemson (2-1) at California (2-1), 9:30 p.m. n (1-3), 7 p.m. Missouri St. (1-2) at SMU (2-1), 8 p.m. Oregon St. (1-2) at UTEP (1-2), 8 p.m.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Placed RHP Luis Castillo on the 15-day IL. Recalled RHP Tyler Davis from Charlotte (IL). KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed RHP Steven Cruz on the paternity list. Recalled RHP Spencer Bivens from ACL Royals. NEW YORK YANKEES — Placed RHP Clarke Schmidt on the 15-day IL, retroactive to Sept. 21. Recalled RHP Bradley Hanner from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). SEATTLE MARINERS — Placed SS Brock Rodden on the 10-day IL, retroactive to Sept. 23. Recalled 3B Leo Rivas from Tacoma (PCL). TAMPA BAY RAYS — Optioned RHP Mason Englert to Durham (IL). Selected the contract of RHP Jake Woodford from Durham. National League PITTSBURGH PIRATES — Recalled LHP Evan Sisk from Indianapolis (IL). Optioned RHP Khristian Curtis to FCL Pirates. SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS — Claimed RHP Camilo Doval off waivers from Pittsburgh. Transferred RHP Blade Tidwell to the 60-day IL.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Signed F Julian Reese to a two-way contract. Women’s National Basketball Association

FOOTBALL

National Football League CHICAGO BEARS — Signed LS Beau Gardner to the practice squad. LOS ANGELES CHARGERS — Signed WR Gary Jennings to the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Signed WR A.J. Henning to the practice squad. NEW YORK GIANTS — Placed QB Jaxson Dart on injured reserve. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed CB Shaun Wade to the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Waived DL Deshawn MckKnight with an injury settlement.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League BOSTON BRUINS — Assigned G Simon Zajicek to Providence (AHL). ANAHEIM DUCKS — Assigned D Matt Basgall and Konnor Smith, G Damian Clara and Fs Coulson Pitre, Yegor Sidorov and Herman Traff to San Diego (AHL). CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to terms with F Oliver Moore on a ﬁve-year contract extension. Loaned Fs Jiri felcman, Martin Misiak and Marek Vanacker and D Dylan Anhorn to Rockford (AHL). Assigned F Brett Seney to Rockford. COLORADO AVALANCHE — Assigned Ds Saige Weinstein, Domenick Fensore and Christian Wolanin to Colorado (AHL). COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Signed F Adam Fantilli to a six-year contract extension. DALLAS STARS — Loaned D Jack Anderson, Fs Dylan Hryckowian, Artem Shlaine and Emil Hemming and G Arno Tiefensee to Texas (AHL). LOS ANGELES KINGS — Waived for the purpose of assignment to Abbotsford (AHL) Fs Martin Chromia, Cole Guttman, Lane Pederson and Francesco Pinelli and D Joe Hicketts. Loaned Fs Aatu Jamsen and Koehn Ziemmer, Ds Angus Booth, Kirill Kirsanov and Jared Woolley to Ontario.

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Bruno Mars rocked a sold-out Dome BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

Bruno Mars opened the New Orleans stop of The Romantic Tour at a sold-out Caesars Superdome with a prayer. Set to a spaghetti Westernstyle soundtrack, a dramatic, stylized short ﬁlm depicted Mars in glitzy cowboy attire praying in a desert chapel. In the clip, he asked God to protect everyone in the audience and everyone onstage so the band could “give this city a show they will never forget.” Divine intervention or not, Review Mars’ prayers were answered. For two hours, he and his Hooligans delivered more than a concert. This was a show — well-rehearsed, smartly conceived and executed, devoid of politics and pretension, all about having a good time. It was slick, but also authentically sweaty — Mars and his musicians worked hard on their massive stage. Throwback showmanship is in his DNA, dating to his days as a child Elvis Presley impersonator in his family’s stage act in Hawaii. Now 40 and clearly nostalgic for the music and moves of the 1970s, he has absorbed elements of not just Presley, but James Brown, Michael Jackson, Prince and any number of other legends who were not content to stand in place and sing in street clothes. At the Superdome on Sept. 16, Mars and the eight mobile Hooligans were in constant, choreographed motion. The horn players, bassist, guitarist and backing vocalists were extensions of their leader, stepping and swaying in time while playing their instruments. Their sweat equity was real.

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Bruno Mars performs at a soldout Caesars Superdome in New Orleans as part of The Romantic Tour on Sept. 16.

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The Walrus gives Beatles songs a New Orleans twist on new ‘Elysian Fields Forever’ album BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

During 25 years in madcap New Orleans rock/jazz band Johnny Sketch & the Dirty Notes, Andre Bohren has sometimes questioned the quality of his original compositions. He has no such doubts in The Walrus: A New Orleans Beatles Experience — the repertoire consists entirely of Fab Four songs. “There’s no second-guessing the material,” Bohren said. “It’s been proven more than any other body of work.” That said, the Beatles catalog is not sacrosanct, and The Walrus is not a tribute band. “Elysian Fields Forever,” the debut album by The Walrus, makes that clear. Available as a vinyl LP, a CD or digital download, the album reinterprets Beatles songs as funk, jazz, power pop and other styles. The band celebrates the album release — the title is a local twist on “Strawberry Fields Forever” — with a free, all-ages show at 5 p.m. Sunday at NOLA Brewing, 3033 Tchoupitoulas St. The show is part of the citywide NOLAxNOLA concert series.

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“When we play live, we play Beatles songs the way you’ve heard them,” Bohren said. “But when it comes to recording, there’s no point in that.”

‘Not an impression’ Bohren originally aspired to be a guitarist like his late father, Spencer Bohren. But after Radiators drummer Frank Bua gifted young Andre a pair of drumsticks, he switched to drums.

He also learned classical piano and performs — sometimes in the back of a pickup truck — as a solo pianist. Guitarist/vocalist Jonathan Pretus grew up going to the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival with his parents. As an adult, he’s fronted alt-rock band The Breton Sound and logged time in Cowboy Mouth. “The Beatles have always been the biggest thing for me,” Pretus said. But New Orleans music “has always been in my DNA, even if it wasn’t necessarily what I was pursuing.” The Walrus formed in 2009 as a side project for its four conﬁrmed “Beatles nerds.” Bassist/vocalist David Pomerleau is Bohren’s bandmate in both the Dirty Notes and the classic cowboy trio the Desert Nudes. Lead guitarist Felix Wohlleben hails from a jazz background and has worked with singer Jenn Howard. During COVID, The Walrus’ porch concerts became extremely popular. “People were so hungry for anything, and the Beatles’ music has such a deep connection,” Bohren

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Branford Marsalis honors saxophonist John Coltrane during tour BY GERALDINE WYCKOFF Contributing writer

In this centennial year marking the birth of saxophone giant John Coltrane in 1926, fellow saxophonist and New Orleans native Branford Marsalis is among the many musicians and jazz lovers across the globe celebrating his inﬂuence. The Branford Marsalis Quartet and Grammy-winning vocalist Di-

Performing Arts Center in anne Reeves have teamed Lafayette. up for a newly released It’s an unforgettable exBlue Note Records album, “Dedicated to You,” perience hearing “Trane” celebrating Coltrane’s for the ﬁrst time, Marsalis unique 1963 album, “John said on a recent afternoon Coltrane and Johnny Hartat Snug Harbor as pianist Shea Pierre played “When man.” Marsalis We First Met” — the comAnd now they’re taking the freshly arranged retrospective position written by Marsalis’ late on a 50-date tour, landing nearby father, pianist and educator Ellis on Sunday, Sept. 27, at Heymann Marsalis Jr.

Branford is the oldest son in the musical Marsalis family that includes trumpeter Wynton, trombonist Delfeayo and drummer and vibist Jason Marsalis. “I ﬁrst ‘met’ Coltrane at home,” Branford Marsalis recalled. His dad’s “Bible” was the 1960 album “Giant Steps.” “I never really warmed to ‘Giant Steps,’ but I really was intrigued by ‘Sun Ship,’ ” Marsalis said. “I

was 15 or 16, and I didn’t know what the hell was going on, but I played (the album) a lot.” After graduating from De La Salle High and NOCCA, Marsalis went to Berklee College of Music. His professor was Billy Pierce, who ended up playing with Marsalis in Art Blakey’s band in the early ’80s. When he explained “Giant

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TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Friday, Sept. 25, the 268th day of 2026. There are 97 days left in the year. Today in history: On Sept. 25, 1957, nine Black students who had been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly White crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division and the National Guard. Also on this date: In 1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.) In 1956, the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable officially went into service with a three-way ceremonial call between New York, Ottawa and London. In 2012, President Barack Obama, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, pledged U.S. support for Syrians trying to oust President Bashar Assad, calling him “a dictator who massacres his own people.” In 2013, skipper Jimmy Spithill and Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup with one of the greatest comebacks in sports

history, speeding past Dean Barker and Emirates Team New Zealand in the winner-take-all Race 19 on San Francisco Bay. In 2018, Bill Cosby was sentenced to three to 10 years in prison for drugging and molesting a woman at his suburban Philadelphia home. (After serving nearly three years, Cosby went free in June 2021 after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court overturned his conviction.) Today’s birthdays: Basketball Hall of Famer Hubie Brown is 93. Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates is 83. Actor-producer Michael Douglas is 82. Model Cheryl Tiegs is 79. Actor Mimi Kennedy is 78. Film director Pedro Almodovar is 77. Actor-director Anson Williams is 77. Actor Mark Hamill is 75. Basketball Hall of Famer Bob McAdoo is 75. Actor Heather Locklear is 65. Actor Aida Turturro is 64. Actor Tate Donovan is 63. Actor Maria Doyle Kennedy is 62. Basketball Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen is 61. Actor Will Smith is 58. Actor Catherine Zeta-Jones is 57. Basketball Hall of Famer Chauncey Billups is 50. Actor Clea DuVall is 49. Rapper T.I. is 46. Actor-rapper Donald Glover (Childish Gambino) is 43. Actor Zach Woods is 42. Actor Jordan Gavaris is 37. Actor Bella Ramsey is 23.

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said. “They really latched on.” For months, The Walrus logged two or three socially distanced or outdoor gigs per weekend. They made the leap to Tipitina’s after nightclubs reopened, and realized The Walrus was more than a side project. What the quartet does “is not an impression,” Pretus said. “We don’t do fake (British) accents. We’re not going for a specific tone. We play it just as the four of us as musicians would play those songs. So there is a bit of looseness.” On “Elysian Fields Forever,” the looseness “went a lot farther,” Bohren said. “We did different arrangements, different instrumentation. Fast songs are slow, slow songs are fast. There were no bad ideas.” The Walrus’ New Orleans pedigree affords additional creative license. “New Orleans music is all music — everything has come from here at some point,” Pretus said. “That really let us take any detour we wanted.” Case in point: Alex Chilton, leader of acclaimed power-pop band Big Star, lived in New Orleans for the last years of his life. And the city had a thriving punk scene in the 1970s and ’80s. So The Walrus transformed “With A Little Help From My Friends” into a power-pop romp and put a punkish spin on “If I Fell.” The band followed the original structure of “Eleanor Rigby” but swapped piano and guitar for the original recording’s strings. “I’ve Got a Feeling” moves with a Meters undercurrent. Bohren played drums, cowbell, a wine bottle, shakers, organ and a Fender Rhodes electric keyboard, inspired by what auxiliary keyboardist Billy Preston contributed to the Beatles’ “decidedly un-funky” original version. “They’re playing a rock song, but the stuff (Preston) is playing is really funky,” Bohren said. “I’m not going to come up with something better than what Billy Preston did, so I just lifted what he did and layered it over our version.” Pretus imagined “I’m Only Sleeping” as a hazy New Orleans night in the French Quarter at Preservation Hall. His electric guitar wasn’t necessary. Instead, Wohlleben deployed a banjo. A grant from the Threadhead Cultural Foundation, a nonproﬁt that supports music and art projects in New Orleans, enabled The

Walrus to hire additional musicians and singers for “Elysian Fields Forever.” Clarinetist Jason Mingledorff and trombonist Greg Hicks draped “slippery, slide-y” horns on “I’m Only Sleeping.” “They’re both big Beatles nerds,” Bohren said, “so it was great to have them involved.” “The Inner Light” is a George Harrison composition inspired by his interest in Eastern philosophy. Only 2 minutes long, it was the B-side to the “Lady Madonna” single. The Walrus reinvented “The Inner Light” as a 7-minute “Bollywood song with a second-line beat.” Wohlleben’s electric banjo replaces the original recording’s sitar. Percussionist Mike Dillon added tablas — Indian finger drums — and Papa Mali contributed psychedelic-style guitars.

A slower, sadder ‘Help’ In the 1970s, John Lennon cited the uptempo “Help” as a Beatles song he’d like to remake. A bootleg recording from that era captured Lennon experimenting with a much slower, sadder “Help” on a piano inside his Manhattan apartment at the Dakota. “What if we could — and this sounds really presumptuous — complete his idea for him?” Pretus said. “So we took his idea and tried to ﬂesh out as much as we could of what he might have done it in that mindset.” On The Walrus’ very slow, very sad “Help,” Pretus sings lead alongside ethereal harmonies from Debbie Davis and Arsene DeLay. “Elysian Fields Forever” is laced with “Easter egg” nods to other Beatles songs. The drums in “I’m Only Sleeping” reference the drums in “Being For the Beneﬁt of Mr. Kite.” “I don’t think anybody would pinpoint that,” Bohren said. “But that’s one of the things that was really fun to pull into this.” The album concludes with a raucous “Helter Skelter.” “We worked really hard on everything, but sometimes it’s nice to just plug in and scream and bash,” Pretus said. “It’s nice to get that out of the system every now and then.” So what would Paul McCartney think of the liberties taken on “Elysian Fields Forever”? McCartney is “not that precious” about his compositions, Pretus said. “They’re all just songs to him, things that he’s done. “Art shouldn’t be static. I think Paul would agree with that.” Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

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Bruno Mars performs Sept. 16 at a sold-out Caesars Superdome in New Orleans as part of The Romantic Tour.

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“The Romantic,” released in early 2026, is Mars’ first album under his own name in a decade. His current tour is his first headlining stadiums. His promotion to the biggest venues is justified. The Romantic Tour has sold out multiple nights in some big-city stadiums. More than 50,000 fans filled the Superdome to its end-stage concert capacity on a Wednesday night. Raye, the jazz-pop British singer-songwriter who dazzled as the Gentilly Stage closer on the 2026 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s opening day, made an unannounced appearance Sept. 14 at the Original Nite Cap, a cozy burlesque and live music venue on St. Bernard Avenue. Two nights later, she sang in the Superdome. With her retro vibe, inherent style and sass, and tight, hornheavy, tuxedo-and-sneakers-clad band, she was an entirely appropriate opener for Mars. (She also subscribed to The Romantic Tour’s red color scheme.) Her final “Where Is My Husband” sparked a Superdome-size singalong and set the stage for what was to come. Following the chapel and prayer short film, Mars opened with the first two tracks from “The Romantic”: The south-of-theborder ballad “Risk It All” and the smooth horns and Cuban-style percussion of “Cha Cha Cha.” (The recorded version of “Cha Cha Cha” interpolates New Orleans rapper Terius “Juvenile” Gray’s “Slow Motion” in the chorus.) The Hooligans wore matching black with gold accents. Mars started off in a fabulous

red ensemble with lavish gold embroidery and his signature bandanna tied around his head. He would change more than once into equally eye-catching attire while not interrupting the flow of the show. The production was stadiumsized, from fireworks, flames and lasers to the massive LED screens flanking the stage. (In contrast to the former Kanye West’s recent appearance at the Superdome, Mars made it easy for fans to see him.) But the 5-foot-5-inch singer was not overwhelmed by the big production. His charisma and commitment were such that he remained the center of attention, even with all the flashing lights around him. He took a turn on congas during “Cha Cha Cha” and later took guitar solos and accompanied himself on piano, all while taking full advantage of his supple tenor. The nuances of his singing and the band’s contributions benefitted from what was, at least where I sat in the plaza-level bleacher seats, as favorable of a sound mix as I’ve heard in the Superdome. During “God Was Showing Off,” the “Angel Baby Cam” framed female audience members on the big screen. Mars dispensed big grins and blown kisses accordingly. Having focused up to that point on the “fun and flirty side of love,” Mars announced, “we’ve got to sing about the other side too, when you and your girl can’t see eye to eye.” A rain cloud appeared on the screen for the subsequent “Why You Wanna Fight?” He didn’t stay down in the dumps for long. “Julio, get the stretch!” he commanded, as a red drop-top Caddy rolled onto the stage. Mars and a couple Hooligans sat on the hood for a nostalgic medley centered on “Let’s Get It On.” He stood on the hood for “That’s What I Like,”

with its Cadillac reference.

Silk Sonic detour An hour in, the show detoured to showcase Silk Sonic, Mars’ old-school soul/funk collaboration with drummer, singer and DJ Anderson. Paak. The eager-to-please Paak, in a sparkling black jacket that matched Mars’, sang lead on “777” and “Fly As Me” as Mars stepped back and swayed alongside two other backing vocalists. He and Paak engaged in a bit of good-natured one-upmanship. “Smokin’ Out the Window” proudly wore its Earth, Wind & Fire influences, then broke down to harmonies, finger-snaps and trumpet. “Leave the Door Open” wrapped up the Silk Sonic exercise at the 20-minute mark, which felt about right. The setlist signaled its shift back to Bruno Mars with “Marry You.” He handled the power ballad “Die With a Smile” without Lady Gaga, his collaborator on the 2024 single. Shifting gears again, Mars took a turn as a piano man to accompany himself on stripped-down, truncated versions of “It Will Rain,” “Talking to the Moon,” “Grenade” and “When I Was Your Man.” He disappeared as the Hooligans banged out an instrumental “Versace on the Floor,” then returned in a Nudie-style white suit with pink paisleys for a final hit parade. If “Locked Out of Heaven” and “Just the Way You Are” weren’t enough of a finale, “Uptown Funk” was. In yet another bit of showbiz flash, as he sang the line, “I got a brand-new cane,” he caught a tossed cane in his right hand. The show, like “The Romantic” album, concluded with the sweet “Dance With Me.” Mars, a master showman as well as “The Romantic” personified, set the audience down softly. Email Keith Spera at kspera@ theadvocate.com.

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Steps” really wasn’t his thing, Pierce wasn’t surprised. He “asked if I had ever heard the John Coltrane Quartet and told me to go around the corner to Looney Tunes, a record store in Boston, and pick up one of the quartet records,” Marsalis said. “Well, they just happened to have the ﬁrst one simply called ‘Coltrane,’ and that s*** blew the doors off my ears.” It was up to Marsalis on how to best honor Coltrane, who was born Sept. 29, 1926, and died July 17, 1967. Marsalis had previously recorded a take on “A Love Supreme,” and since much of the artist’s material is so widely known, he chose to focus on a more obscure album and Coltrane’s only release to include vocals. The day after deciding on that direction, he woke up and knew Dianne Reeves was the perfect choice as vocalist. “She brings a tremendous amount of emotion, and that’s what makes it work,” Marsalis said. Their “Dedicated to You” has array of immaculately performed songs, primarily ballads, from the American jazz songbook, including Billy Strayhorn’s “Lush Life” and Irving Berlin’s “They Say It’s Wonderful.” The album is very accessible to a wide audience, like the “John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman” release back in the day. When that ﬁrst debuted, Coltrane had recently gained popular notoriety with “My Favorite Things,” a melody widely known from the movie “The Sound of Music.” But his mind was already “wandering into territory that assured that he would never have another hit record again,” Marsalis said, as Coltrane explored the outer reaches

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Joey Calderazzo, from left, Eric Revis, Dianne Reeves, Branford Marsalis and Justin Faulkner joined to record a tribute to John Coltrane, ‘Dedicated to you.’ of the music. Touches of Coltrane’s progressive directions can be detected on the original song “Big Nick,” with Marsalis and his band — pianist Joey Calderazzo, bassist Eric Revis and drummer Justin Faulkner — having some fun with the tune and taking it “out.” “Coltrane was a harmonically gifted musician, and he could still play pretty things,” Marsalis said. The 50-night tour begins this month and ends in April. It’s night after night across the country and abroad, and could certainly take a physical and mental toll. “You don’t think about it, you just do it,” Marsalis nonchalantly explained. “I’m not high-strung, and I expect things to go sideways — and it often does,” Marsalis continued. “I don’t ask for an explanation, so when it’s over, I just sound like my dad: ‘Are you ﬁnished with your tantrum? So where are we? In the same place.’ ” Branford Marsalis moved back to his hometown in 2024, but because of his touring schedule, he

doesn’t spend much time here. “I wanted to move back 20 years ago, and I’m just glad I had the opportunity to do it now,” Marsalis said. When in town, he occasionally pops up jazz spots like Snug Harbor and — more often — Bayou Bar, as it’s close to his Uptown home. “I take the subway, I mean the streetcar,” he corrected, then laughed at the ﬂub. With some of New Orleans’ ﬁnest jazz musicians making up bassist Peter Harris’ combo during the week, the repertoire often turns to some of the city’s illustrious composers and educators, including Ellis Marsalis Jr., James Black, Harold Battiste and Alvin Batiste. “It’s wild to hear these young kids know all these tunes,” Marsalis said, obviously impressed. “I wish my old man would be alive to hear that. Very few cities embrace local musicians and their music.” Geraldine Wyckoff is a music journalist in New Orleans. Email gwnomusic@yahoo.com.

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you start. Having too much information will lead to interference from those less likely to take a risk. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) — Be aware of what's unfolding around you. Prepare to move out of the way if risk comes into play. Too much of anything will cause problems. Avoid overspending or promising the impossible. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) — Gravitate toward what and who interests you. A change will help you understand the logistics behind getting what you want. Take responsibility for yourself. cAncER (June 21-July 22) — Take more time for people and pastimes you feel passionate about. Be honest with yourself and those you deal with regarding what you are able and willing to do to make your relationship and lifestyle more accommodating. LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) — Set a schedule that allows you to learn something new or upgrade your skills. Broadening your awareness and focusing on qualifications that ensure a better position will lift your spirits. VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) — Reach out and do something nice for someone, and the returns will far exceed your expectations. How you make others feel about themselves and their contributions will put you in a leadership position. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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Sudoku InstructIons: sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid with several given numbers. The object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box contains the same number only once. The difficulty level of the sudoku increases from monday to sunday. Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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Bridge By PHILLIP ALDER Pablo Picasso said, “There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.” At the bridge table, we start with 52 cards. Afterward, once the bidding and play begin, the players can be accurate or make mistakes. What do you think about the bidding in this deal? How should South plan the play in three no-trump after West leads the club two (low from a tripleton in partner’s unsupported suit)? South was right to upgrade his hand, counting it as worth 18 points. He had an excellent five-card suit, three aces and one king. After North responded one spade, East should have made a takeout double. The two-club overcall was bizarre. Then South rebid two no-trump, showing 18 or 19 (or a poor 20) points. That was a reasonable choice. (However, if North-South had been using support doubles, South should have doubled to show three spades. Then North would have rebid two diamonds, and South couldhavecontinuedwithtwono-trump.) North’s raise to game was optimistic. South started with eight top tricks: one spade, five diamonds and two clubs. He had to gain a second spade trick. So he took the first trick with dummy’s king and led the spade jack. When East cov-

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today’s thought “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, to the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, to the resurrection of damnation.” John 5:28-29 Jesus is coming back. There will be a day of judgment. Have you committed your life to him? G.E. Dean

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Scrabble GramS dIrectIons: make a 2- to 7-letter word from the letters in each row. add points of each word, using scoring directions at right. Finally, 7-letter words get 50-point bonus. “Blanks” used as any letter have no point value. all the words are in the Official sCraBBlE® players Dictionary, 5th Edition.

Yesterday’s Puzzle Answer

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For more information on tournaments and clubs, email naspa – north american sCraBBlE players association: info@scrabbleplayers.org. Visit our website: www.scrabbleplayers.org. For puzzle inquiries contact scrgrams@gmail.com.

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HErE is a plEasanT liTTlE gamE that will give you a message every day. it’s a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune. Count the letters in your first name. if the number of letters is 6 or more, subtract 4. if the number is less than 6, add 3. The result is your key number. start at the upper left-hand corner and check each of your key numbers, left to right. Then read the message the checked figures give you.

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Application Method: Qualified, interested parties should please contact Harold Boydston hboydston@allstar-electric.com or Todd McDonald tmcdonald@allstarelectric.com HOSPITALITY We are currently seeking experienced Chefs/Utility Hand/Housekeeping per‐ sonnel for offshore work rotating hitches of 14 days/12 hours per day then 14 days off. Must have the follow‐ ing: RIG PASS • SAFEGULF • HUET • BOSIET • MMC • TWIC • THREE YEARS OFFSHORE UTILITY EXPERIENCE. Appli‐ cants will also be required to pass a USCG Merchant Mariner Physical and a USCG DOT Drug Test. https://cardinal.bamboohr.com/jobs

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT: INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPT: NOAB TITLE: North Terminal Gasket Repairs EVENT NO: 4787 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Public Works SLDBE OPPORTUNITY: YES RELEASED ON: Friday, September 25, 2026, 8:00 AM CST DEADLINE TO RESPOND: Monday, October 26, 2026, at 1:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE: TBD Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If you wish to receive no‐ tiﬁcation of addendum posted by the Bureau of Purchasing about this event, register as a sup‐ plier or update your sup‐ plier account (if already registered) and select the following commodity code(s): COMMODITY CODE: 910-79 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion. For more information about this event, go to www.nola.gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Por‐ tal” under “BIDS & CON‐ TRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Portal, search “Open Events.”

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Sept 11, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: Sept 30, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Sept 16, 2026 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.

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 Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Ofﬁcer Advertising Dates: September 11, 18 and 25, 2026 NOCP 9303 200289-sept 11-18-25-3t $106.29 PUBLIC NOTICE ---

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: OFFICE OF INDEPENDENT POLICE MONITOR (OIPM) TITLE: RE-BID GENERAL COUNSEL SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4771

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

DBE OPPORTUNITY: NO

TITLE: Drug Testing Service (Rebid) SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4786

y the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event:

g lations (CFR) Part 26 has an obligation to ensure nondiscrimination of Dis‐ advantaged Business En‐ terprises (DBEs) and to comply with all federal, state and local regula‐ tions relative to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on publicly funded projects. The RTA is committed to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on all feder‐ ally funded projects to‐ ward attainment of the agency's established overall goal of 32%. No DBE goal has been estab‐ lished for this project as there are no subcon‐ tracting opportunities on this project.

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): 961-49

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.”

Purchasing Administrator

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Civil Service Department

p must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

COMMODITY CODE(s): 952-07

ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

202008-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $94.17

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion.

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

Advertising Date: September 25, October 2 and 9, 2026 NOCP 9338

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RELEASED ON: SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: November 18, 2026 PRE-SUBMITTAL CONFERENCE: SEPTEMBER 29, 2026

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James Simmons. Jr. Chief Procurement Ofﬁcer Advertising Dates: September 18, 2026, September 25, 2026 and October 2, 2026 NOCP 9315 201081-sept 18-25-oct 23t $111.33 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: TREASURY DEPARTMENT TITLE: BANKRUPTCY AND LEGAL SERVICES SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4804 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES 35% RELEASED ON: SEPTEMBER 18, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: OCTOBER 16, 2026 PRE-SUBMITTAL CONFERENCE: SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 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.

RELEASED ON:

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent i l

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TYPE OF SOLICITATION: Non-Professional Service DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

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

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 961-50 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. James Simmons, Jr. Chief Procurement Ofﬁcer Advertising Dates: September 18, 25 and October 2, 2026 NOCP 9316 201083-18-25-oct 2-3t $108.30

PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) 2026-030 CYBERSECURITY ASSESSMENT & PENETRATION TESTING Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans is seeking qualiﬁed ven‐ dors to provide cyberse‐ curity vulnerability as‐ sessment and penetra‐ tion testing services per speciﬁcations in IFB 2026-030.

Notice to all offerors is hereby provided that in accordance with all ap‐ plicable federal, state and local laws the RTA will ensure that DBEs are afforded full opportunity to submit offers and re‐ sponses to this solicita‐ tion and to participate in any contract consum‐ mated pursuant to this advertisement. Addition‐ ally, no offeror will be discriminated against on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, na‐ tional origin, ethnicity or disability. For additional information contact the RTA’s Small Business Of‐ ﬁce at 504-827-8301. The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals submitted. Ronald Baptiste Jr. Interim Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Regional Transit Authority 201994-SEP 25-OCT 9-2T $689.90 PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS As-Needed NEPA Decision Making and Permitting Support Services

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Environmental Compliance, Assessments, Remediation and Programming Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com‐ missioners of the Port of New Orleans (Board) is requesting proposals for Professional Services for as-needed Environmen‐ tal Compliance, Assess‐ ments, Remediation and Programming. All Re‐ quest for Proposal (RFP) documents will be avail‐ able on www.centralbidd ing.com on Friday, Sep‐ tember 25, 2026. The RFP documents may also be obtained from the SEB‐ Connect App, available on the Apple and Google Play platforms. Proposals must be sub‐ mitted via Central Bid‐ ding, no later than 11:00 AM (CST), on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, to be considered. Respondents shall follow the instruc‐ tions given in this Re‐ quest for Proposals (RFP) in order to respond with a valid proposal for eval‐ uation by the Board’s Evaluation Committee. All inquiries shall be di‐ rected to the Procure‐ ment Department at pro‐ curement@portnola.com by Monday, October 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM (CST). Addenda to this RFP will be issued to all Respon‐ dents receiving this RFP. Questions and answers and all forms required will be posted on www. centralbiding.com. 202012-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $63.84

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Professional Services for As-Needed Oil Spill Response Organizations and Specialized Cleanup and Disposal Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com‐ missioners of the Port of New Orleans (Board) is requesting proposals for as-needed professional services by Oil Spill Re‐ sponse Organizations. All Request for Proposal (RFP) documents will be available on www.central bidding.com on Friday, September 25, 2026. The RFP documents may also be obtained from the SE‐ BConnect App, available on both Apple and Google play platforms.

Proposals must be sub‐ mitted via Central Bid‐ ding, no later than 11:00 AM (CST), on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, to be considered. Respondents shall follow the instruc‐ tions given in this Re‐ quest for Proposals (RFP) in order to respond with a valid proposal for eval‐ uation by the Board’s Evaluation Committee.

All inquiries shall be di‐ rected to the Procure‐ ment Department at pro‐ curement@portnola.com by Monday, October 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM (CST). Addenda to this RFP will be issued to all Respon‐ dents receiving this RFP. Questions and answers and all forms required will be posted on www. centralbiding.com.

202013-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $59.79

202014-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $60.81

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ l i ( ) h

REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Professional Services for As-Needed

Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Facilities Department for the Jef‐ ferson Parish School

Legal Notices

Clariﬁcation Deadline: Any questions or further information concerning this IFB must be submit‐ ted through https:// norta.procureware.com/ home by 1:00 PM on Oc‐ tober 16, 2026. Only writ‐ ten questions submitted through the Procureware site shall be considered ofﬁcial. Responding to IFB: Bids shall be submitted through the RTA’s Pro‐ cureware website or de‐ livered to 2817 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119 on or before 2:00 P.M., November 3, 2026. A Bid Opening will be held in the RTA Board Room located at 2817 Canal Street, New Or‐ leans, LA 70119, on Tues‐ day, November 3, 2026, at 2:00 PM. Any questions or further information concerning the IFB may be submitted via https:// norta.procureware.com/ home, beginning on Sep‐ tember 25, 2026.

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Board, 4600 River Road, Administration Annex, 1st Floor, Marrero, LA 70072, until 2:00 P.M., Thursday, October 15, 2026 for the Freight and Passenger Elevator Re‐ placements at the Ad‐ ministration Annex Build‐ ing, Project No. 2024-34 B 3. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. No bids may be with‐ drawn after scheduled closing time for receipt of bids for at least thirty (30) days. The Owner has the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all informalities.

Administration Annex Building, 4600 River Road, 1st Floor, Marrero, LA 70072 to allow prospec‐ tive bidders to review the job scope and site condi‐ tions. Sealed proposals shall be marked on the envelope cover, plainly and prominently with the following: a) bidder’s name, address and tele‐ phone number b) State License Number of Con‐ tractor if the bid is in ex‐ cess of $50,000.00 and c) the statement “Proposal for (project name and number)”.

Plans and speciﬁcations and other information may be secured from the architect / engineer Holly & Smith Architects, 2302 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, Phone: 504-585-1315 for $100.00 per set for a hard copy and/or a non-re‐ fundable fee of $25.00 for an electronic set on com‐ pact disk. The full de‐ posit of one set of docu‐ ments will be refunded to each General Contrac‐ tor. For additional sets of documents and for docu‐ ments issued to subcon‐ tractors or material sup‐ pliers the cost for repro‐ duction of each set will be deducted from the de‐ posit and the balance re‐ funded. Refunds will only be made for documents returned to the architect / engineer within ten (10) days after the opening of bids. Refunds will only be made on documents re‐ tuned complete, in good condition and unmarked.

Bidders have the option to submit bids electroni‐ cally in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statute 38:2212 E (1). Please ﬁnd bid related materials and place elec‐ tronic bids at www.cen tralbidding.com. Participation by minority and female-owned busi‐ nesses, as well as busi‐ nesses located in this Parish, is encouraged. The architect/engineer has classiﬁed this pro‐ ject as General Building Construction. 200767-sep 18-25-oct 2-3t $108.30

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PUBLIC NOTICE --2008 HONDA ACCORD VIN: 1HGCS22898A013424 is stored at City of New Orleans Dept of Public Works Almonaster Tow‐ ing Facility, 10200 Al‐ monaster, New Orleans, LA 70126. If all current charges are not paid and vehicle is not claimed by the owner by September 25, 2026, a Permit to Sell or Dismantle may be ob‐ tained. Publication Dates: September 10 and 25, 2026 NOCP 9302 200285-sept 10-25-2t $16.28 PUBLIC NOTICE --BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENTS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Monday, October 19, 2026 10:00 a.m. City Council Chambers City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, 1st Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana The Board of Zoning Ad‐ justments, in accordance with Article 4 of the Com‐ prehensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance of the City of New Orleans, will hold a pub‐ lic hearing on the follow‐ ing items: Variances – Unﬁnished Business 1. BZA054-26 906 Philip Street / Charles and Sarah Anderson 2. BZA073-26 1037 Mazant Street / D T Home & Maintenance LLC,

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Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com‐ missioners of the Port of New Orleans (Board) is requesting proposals for Professional Services for as-needed NEPA decision making and permitting support. All Request for Proposal (RFP) docu‐ ments will be available on www.centralbidding. com on Friday, Septem‐ ber 25, 2026. The RFP doc‐ uments may also be ob‐ tained from the SEBCon‐ nect App, available on both the Apple and Google Play platforms.

How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Speciﬁcations and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained on Septem‐ ber 25, 2026, from the RTA’s Procureware web‐ site at https://norta. procureware.com/home. You will be required to ﬁrst register on this web‐ site. The IFB can also be obtained at the Regional Transit Authority’s web‐ site at http://www.norta. com.

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has provided funding for the maintenance, capital repair, and replacement at the Wetland Park Project as of March 2022. a. The Maintenance Fund has been provided to the City and is kept in the general fund account. b. The Maintenance Account has been funded by with $11,196.00 (the “Funded Amount”). c. The Maintenance Account shall be available for the City’s use in case of default by the Contractor. d. Immediately upon termination of this Agreement prior to the expiration of the Agreement, the Funded Amount shall revert to the City in order to complete the maintenance obligations. The Contractor is not entitled to any interest balance in the Maintenance Account. e. Immediately upon expiration of this Agreement, provided the Contractor has (i) complied with its maintenance obligations under this Agreement and (ii) is otherwise not in default of this Agreement, the Contractor shall be entitled to recoup any balance remaining in the Maintenance Account B. Article I(T)(2) shall be amended to read as follows: 1. Despite any quarterly and annual reports being publicly available on the Contractor’s website, quarterly reports are due to the City on the first day of each quarter through June 7, 2066, unless otherwise agreed upon by the Parties in writing. Reports will include the following: a. all maintenance logs, expenses, and work completed during the previous quarter; b. anticipated maintenance for the next quarter; c. any design plans developed during the previous quarter; d. results of any water quality testing reports conducted during the previous quarter; e. the proof of funding requirements under Article I(B)(3) of the Agreement has been satisfied. 2. Reports will be delivered via U.S. Mail or email to the directors of the departments via the following which the City is obligated to update accordingly: Director of Property Management City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 5W08 New Orleans, LA 70112 apwilty@nola.gov & Director of Sustainability City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 7E05 New Orleans, LA 70112 memwilliams@nola.gov A. Article I(T) shall be amended to include: 3. Failure to deliver reports timely may result in action under Article IV(C) and (D). 3. Donation of Services. In accordance with Article XII(A) of the Agreement, Article III(F) shall be amended to read as follows: F. No City Funding. The City will not provide any funding in connection with this Agreement, including as a cost share for future grants unless explicitly agreed to in writing. The Contractor agrees to be responsible for obtaining the funding for any obligations under this Agreement. Additionally, the City and the Contractor recognize that the Contractor has applied for certain funding through the State of Louisiana or the federal government and that, if secured, this source of funding is not prohibited by this Section. 4. Notice. In accordance with Article XII(A) of the Agreement, Article XI(A) is amended to read as follows: 1. To the City: Director of Department of Property Management City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 5W08 New Orleans, LA 70112 & Director of Sustainability City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 7E05 New Orleans, LA 70112 & City Attorney City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 5E03 New Orleans, LA 70112 2. To the Contractor: Sankofa Community Development Corporation Attn: Rashida Ferdinand 5200 Dauphine Street New Orleans, Louisiana 70117

Jefferson Parish Housing Services Development District (HSDD) Public Notice The Jefferson Parish Housing Services Development District (HSDD) Proposed Annual Agency Plan for Fiscal Year Beginning January 1, 2027, will be available for a 45-day public comment period beginning on August 14, 2026, and concluding at the close of business on September 28, 2026. The Annual Agency Plan is located on the HSDD website at www.jphsdd.org and can also be viewed at the HSDD Office Building, 121 Pailet Drive, Harvey, LA 70058, Monday through Thursday between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. Concerned residents should submit their Annual Agency Plan comments to the attention of Dorian Rawles, Executive Director, at the HSDD Office Building, 121 Pailet Drive, Harvey, LA 70058 or via email address info@jphsdd.org. All written comments will be accepted through close of business on or before September 28, 2026. Oral comments will be accepted in person at the Annual Agency Plan Public Hearing scheduled for Monday, September 28, 2026, at 6:00 p.m. in the HSDD Office Building located at 121 Pailet Drive, Harvey, LA 70058. The Jefferson Parish Housing Services Development District endeavors to make all public meetings accessible to persons with disabilities. If you are a person with a disability and require reasonable accommodation(s) to participate in programs and services offered by HSDD, please contact Christie Coleman, Office Manager, by phone at (504) 342-4475 or by email at info@jphsdd.org .

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5. Assignment. The assignment provision in Article XII(B) of the Agreement is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following: The Contractor may not assign or transfer its rights, duties, or obligations under this Agreement without the prior written consent of the City, which consent must be approved by a resolution of the City Council. An assignment or transfer requiring the prior written consent of the City, as described in the preceding subsection, shall occur upon a change in ownership of the Contractor or subcontractor. A “change in ownership” shall occur on the date that any one person, or more than one person acting as a group, acquires, directly or indirectly, an aggregate ownership interest in the Contractor or subcontractor that exceeds 50% of the fair market value of the Contractor or subcontractor or 50% of the total voting power of the Contractor or subcontractor. The foregoing shall not apply to the acquisition of additional ownership interests by a person whose ownership interest in the Contractor or subcontractor exceeds 50% of the fair market value of the Contractor or subcontractor or 50% of the total voting power of the contractor or subcontractor as of the effective date of the Agreement. 4. Convicted Felon Statement. The Contractor swears that it complies with City Code Section 2-8(c). No Contractor principal, member, or officer has, within the preceding five years, been convicted of, or pled guilty to, a felony under state or federal statutes for embezzlement, theft of public funds, bribery, or falsification or destruction of public records. 5. Non-Solicitation Statement. The Contractor swears that it has not employed or retained any company or person, other than a bona fide employee working solely for it, to solicit or secure this Amendment. The Contractor has not paid or agreed to pay any person, other than a bona fide employee working for it, any fee, commission, percentage, gift, or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from this Amendment. 6. Prior Terms Binding. Except as otherwise provided by this Amendment, the terms and conditions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect. 7. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original copy of this Amendment, but all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement. 8. Electronic Signature and Delivery. The Parties agree that a manually signed copy of this Amendment and any other document(s) attached to this Amendment delivered by facsimile, email, or other means of electronic transmission shall be deemed to have the same legal effect as delivery of an original signed copy of this Amendment. No legally binding obligation shall be created with respect to a Party until such Party has delivered or caused to be delivered a manually signed copy of this Amendment. [SIGNATURES CONTAINED ON NEXT PAGE] [The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank.] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Contractor, through their duly authorized representatives, execute this Amendment. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS BY: ______________________________________________________ HELENA N. MORENO, MAYOR Executed on ________________________________________________ FORM AND LEGALITY APPROVED: Law Department By: _________________________________________________ Printed Name: ________________________________________ SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION BY: _____________________________________________ RASHIDA FERDINAND, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SANKOFA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9324 201655-690504-sept 25-1t $ 415.80

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OFFICIAL NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regular meeting of October 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,567 introduced at the meeting of September 17, 2026. SAID ORDINANCE would authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement among the City of New Orleans (the “City”), the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission (the “Commission”), and Saint Patrick Booster Club, Inc. (“SPBC”), for a term greater than one year, for the public purpose of supporting, promoting, stimulating public interest in, and raising and distributing funds to benefit the construction, creation, preservation, and maintenance of public parks and playgrounds, recreational facilities, and recreational and other leisure programs and activities in the City of New Orleans, as more fully detailed in the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement attached hereto as Exhibit “A”. Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9321 OFFICIAL NOTICE CAL. NO. 35,567 EXHIBIT A COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION, NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION, AND SAINT PATRICK BOOSTER CLUB, INC. COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND THE NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION AND ST. PATRICK BOOSTER CLUB, INC. THIS COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between the City of New Orleans, represented by Helena N. Moreno, Mayor (the “City”), the New Orleans Recreation Development Commission, represented by Kyle Walker, Chair (“NORD”), and St. Patrick Booster Club, Inc., herein represented by Benjamin Markey, President (“SPBC” or “Contractor”). The City and the Contractor may sometimes be collectively referred to as the “Parties.” The Agreement is effective as of the date of Execution (the “Effective Date”). RECITALS WHEREAS, the City is a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana; WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 7, Section 14(C) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and related statutes, and Section 9-314 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, the City may enter into cooperative endeavors with the State of Louisiana, its political subdivisions and corporations, the United States and its agencies, and any public or private corporation, association, or individual with regard to cooperative financing and other economic development activities, the procurement and development of immovable property, joint planning and implementation of public works, the joint use of facilities, joint research and program implementation activities, joint funding initiatives, and other similar activities in support of public education, community development, housing rehabilitation, economic growth, and other public purposes; WHEREAS, the City, through NORD, owns and operates the recreational facility known as St. Patrick Playground, located at 4700 Baudin Street, New Orleans, LA 70119; WHEREAS, SPBC is a Louisiana non-profit corporation that provides structured recreational programming to public participants in various forms of sport and physical activity, as well as fundraising events for St. Patrick Playground; WHEREAS, the City, NORD, and SPBC desire to accomplish the valuable public purpose of improving St. Patrick Playground for public use; and WHEREAS, to that end, the City will allow SPBC to use St. Patrick Playground for its physical and recreational activities as well as fundraising in exchange for SPBC assisting the City with the upkeep of St. Patrick Playground. NOW THEREFORE, City, NORD, and SPBC each having the authority to do so, agree as follows: ARTICLE I – OBLIGATIONS OF THE PARTIES A. Obligations of the City. The City shall: 1. Administer this Agreement through NORD. B. Obligations of SPBC. SPBC shall: 1. Provide public access to Saint Patrick Playground, in accordance with NORD guidelines; 2. Submit to NORD a public statement regarding the purpose, criteria, and schedule of all athletic and recreational programming, including league play; 3. Provide open and equitable access to individuals interested in participating in league play, provided they meet the league’s publicly stated purpose and criteria; 4. Use discretion to determine and implement a fair and equitable fee for participation; 5. Ensure that any New Orleans citizen unable to meet the fee for participation due to economic hardship be considered for a total or partial fee waiver; 6. Ensure concession sale proceeds at Saint Patrick are applied to the betterment of Saint Patrick Playground facilities and/or SPBC programs at Saint Patrick Playground; 7. Provide annual financial statements to NORD, reflecting all income, partial or full waivers for economic hardships, and expenses associated with SPBC’s use and operation of Saint Patrick Playground; 8. Provide two reports to NORD each year, with one report submitted to NORD’s Contract Supervisor the third week of May and the other report submitted to NORD’s Contract Supervisor the third week of November; 9. Ensure team participation in NORD Athletic Leagues, where applicable for the following girls’ and boys’ sports: a. Girls: softball, volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, and track b. Boys: baseball, flag football, basketball, and track 10. Promote SPBC programs and services in the local community, including, but not limited to, the partial or full waivers for economic hardships; 11. Acknowledge and promote the NORD-SPBC partnership to increase awareness and registration through placement of the NORD logo on all printed materials produced for the program; 12. Ensure that materials with the NORD logo must be approved by NORD to ensure the logo usage is not distorted or used incorrectly; 13. Engage the neighbors around Saint Patrick Playground and ensure responsive management of any complaints related to SPBC events; 14. Ensure all private property damage occurring as a result of SPBC events or activities is remedied in good faith (e.g., broken windshields from baseballs); 15. Report significant damage and maintenance issues to NORD’s Administrative Office, Maintenance and Athletics divisions; 16. Maintain the grass cutting and fertilization at Saint Patrick Playground; 17. Ensure all trash is removed weekly from Saint Patrick Playground; 18. Ensure proper lighting at Saint Patrick Playground; 19. Ensure security presence at Saint Patrick Playground for SPBC events; 20. Abide by NORD’s system for scheduling games and events; and 21. Ensure that under no circumstances any portion of Saint Patrick Playground is used by SPBC as a parking facility, or that any vehicles park within Saint Patrick Playground at any time during SPBC programs. C. Obligations of NORD. NORD shall: 1. Provide SPBC with use of NORD’s St. Patrick Playground for athletic and recreational programming, provided usage does not conflict with another NORD event or an authorized rental of the facility; 2. Ensure that the public has an opportunity to use and rent Saint Patrick Playground for events, provided, however that NORD will use best reasonable efforts to refrain from allowing rentals, which may conflict with pre-approved SPBC programming at Saint Patrick Playground; 3. Facilitate publicity to increase awareness and registration by acknowledging and promoting the NORD-SPBC partnership through placement of the SPBC logo on the following: written communication, e-newsletters, websites, social media venues,

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and brochures, at NORD’s sole discretion; 4. Designate NORD’s Athletics Director as the Point-of-Contact for SPBC; 5. Ensure that NORD’s Athletics Director is responsible for working with SPBC to receive stadium programming schedules, providing NORD usage requests for Larry Gilbert Stadium at Saint Patrick Playground, and receiving repair requests for the City’s approval; 6. Establish a system for scheduling games and events in coordination with SPBC; 7. Waive rental fees to SPBC for authorized structured athletic recreational programming and pre-approved events; 8. Allow SPBC to have fundraising events, including concession sales at Saint Patrick Playground during SPBC events, provided however that proceeds are applied to the betterment of Saint Patrick Playground facilities and/or SPBC programs which utilize the Saint Patrick Playground facilities; and 9. Allow sponsorship banners to be placed on City property at Saint Patrick Playground, with the following restrictions: a. Banners may not exceed 3’ in height or 6’ in width; b. Banners must be properly maintained and removed upon request by NORD; and c. Banners may not include logos or messaging from political candidates or from the following industries: alcohol, gaming, tobacco, and forearms. ARTICLE II – FUNDING OR COMPENSATION A. Maximum Amount. The maximum amount funded or payable by the City or NORD under this Agreement is $0. B. There is no compensation to SPBC by the City or NORD pursuant to this Agreement. C. Cost Recovery. In accordance with Section 2-8.1 of the Municipal Code entitled “Cost recovery in contracts, cooperative endeavor agreements, and grants,” to the maximum extent permitted by law, the Contractor shall reimburse the City or disgorge anything of value or economic benefit received from the City if the Contractor fails to meet its contractual obligations.” ARTICLE III - DURATION AND TERMINATION A. Term. The term of this agreement shall be for five (5) years from the Effective Date. B. Extension. The City can opt to extend the term of this Agreement provided that the City Council approves it as a multi-term cooperative endeavor agreement and that additional funding, if required, is allocated by the City Council. C. Termination for Convenience. The City may terminate this Agreement at any time during the term of the Agreement by giving the other party written notice of the termination at least 30 calendar days before the intended date of termination. D. Termination for Cause. Either Party may terminate this Agreement immediately for cause by sending written notice to the Contractor. “Cause” includes without limitation any failure to perform any obligation or abide by any condition of this Agreement or the failure of any representation or warranty in this Agreement, including without limitation any failure to comply with any provision of City Code § 2-1120 or requests of the Office of Inspector General. If a termination for cause is subsequently challenged in a court of law and the challenging party prevails, the termination will be deemed to be a termination for convenience effective 30 days from the date of the original written notice of termination for cause was sent to the challenging party; no further notice will be required. ARTICLE IV - INDEMNITY A. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the Contractor will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the City, its agents, employees, officials, insurers, self-insurance funds, and assigns (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, and judgments of sums of money accruing against the Indemnified Parties: for loss of life or injury or damage to persons or property arising from or relating to any act or omission or the operation of the Contractor, its agents or employees while engaged in or in connection with the discharge or performance of any Services under this Agreement, including acts of the Contractor where a percentage of the comparative fault or negligence may be allocated to the City, unless otherwise specified hereinunder; and for any and all claims and/or liens for labor, services, or materials furnished to the Contractor in connection with the performance of work under this Agreement. B. Limitation. The Contractor’s indemnity does not extend to any loss arising from the sole negligence, gross negligence, or willful misconduct of any of the Indemnified Parties, provided that neither the Contractor nor any of its agents or employees contributed to such gross negligence or willful misconduct. C. Independent Duty. At the City’s option: (a) defend the City from or (b) reimburse the City for its costs incurred in the defense of any claim that actually or potentially falls within this indemnity, even if: (1) the allegations are or may be groundless, false, or fraudulent; or (2) the Contractor is ultimately absolved from liability. D. Expenses. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the Contractor shall bear the expenses including, but not limited to, the City’s reasonable attorney fees and expenses, incurred by the City in enforcing this indemnity. ARTICLE V - INSURANCE A. Except as otherwise noted, at all times during this Agreement or the performance of work required by this Agreement, the Contractor will maintain the following insurance in full force and effect for the duration of the work under this Agreement. Evidence of coverage shall be provided prior to the start of any activities/work, in conjunction with the Contractor’s scope of work under the Agreement. If the Contractor maintains broader coverage and/or higher limits than the minimums shown above, the City requires and shall be entitled to the broader coverage and/or the higher limits maintained by the Contractor. Any available insurance proceeds in excess of the specified minimum limits of insurance and coverage shall be available to the City: 1. Minimum Requirements: a. Commercial General Liability (CGL). Commercial General Liability Insurance including contractual liability insurance, products and completed operations, personal & advertising injury, bodily injury, property damage, abuse and molestation and any other type of liability for which this Agreement applies with limits of liability of not less than $1,000,000 each occurrence $2,000,000 policy aggregate. b. Workers’ Compensation. Workers’ Compensation & Employers Liability Insurance in compliance with the applicable Workers’ Compensation Act(s). Statutory and Employers Liability Insurance with limits of not less than $1,000,000. c. Important: The obligations for the Contractor to procure and maintain insurance shall not be constructed to waive or restrict other obligations. It is understood that neither failure to comply nor full compliance with the foregoing insurance requirements shall limit of relieve the Contractor from any liability incurred as a result of their activities/operations in conjunction with the Contractors obligations and/or Scope of Work. The Contractor shall be responsible for any losses, expenses, damages, claims and/or suits of any kind which exceed the Contractors limits of liability that arise from the performance of work under the Agreement. 2. Other Insurance Provisions. The insurance policies are to contain, or be endorsed to contain, the following provisions: a. Additional Insured Status. The Contractor will provide, and maintain current, a Certificate of Insurance including The City of New Orleans, its departments, political subdivisions, officers, Officials and employees, and volunteers as “Additional Insureds” on the CGL policy with respect to liability arising out of the performance of this Agreement. General liability coverage can be provided in the form of an endorsement to the Contractor’s insurance (at least as broad as ISO Form CG 20 10 11 85 or both CG 20 10 and CG 20 37 forms if later revisions used). The Certificate of Insurance, as evidence of all required coverage, should name the City of New Orleans as Certificate Holder and be delivered via U.S. Mail to 1300 Perdido Street, 9E06 – City Hall, New Orleans LA 70112. The Contractor shall require and verify that all Subcontractors maintain insurance and coverage limits meeting all the requirements stated herein. The Additional Insured Box must be marked “Y” for Commercial General Liability. The Subrogation Waiver Box must be marked “Y” for Workers Compensation/Employers Liability and Property coverage. b. Primary Coverage. For any claims related to this Agreement, the Contractor’s insurance coverage shall be primary insurance as respects the City, its departments, political subdivisions, officers, officials, employees, and volunteers. Any insurance or self-insurance maintained by the City shall be non-contributing to the Contractor’s coverage. c. Claims Made Policies. If applicable, the retroactive date must be shown and must be before the date of the contract or the beginning of work. If the coverage is canceled or nonrenewed, and not replaced with another claims-made policy, Contractor must purchase “extended reporting” coverage for minimum of 3 years after the termination of this Agreement. d. Waiver of Subrogation. The Contractor and its insurers agree to waive any right of subrogation which any insurer may acquire against the City by virtue of the payment of any loss under insurance required by this Agreement. e. Notice of Cancellation. 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less than 30 days. Acceptability of Insurers. Insurance is to be placed with insurers licensed and authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana with a current A.M. Best’s rating of no less than A:VII, unless otherwise acceptable to the City. B. The Contractor will provide the City’s Risk Manager (at City of New Orleans Attn: Risk Manager, 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 9E06, New Orleans, LA 70112 – Ref.: 2021 NORD -SPBC CEA), within 10 calendar days of the Effective Date and at any other time at the City’s request the following documents: 1. Proof of coverage for each policy of insurance required by this Agreement by certificate of insurance on an Acord form. C. Without notice from the City, the Contractor will: 1. Substitute insurance coverage acceptable to the City within 30 calendar days if any insurance company providing any insurance with respect to this Agreement is declared bankrupt, becomes insolvent, loses the right to do business in Louisiana, or ceases to meet the requirements of this Agreement; and 2. Notify the City’s Risk Manager in writing within 48 hours of its receipt of any notice of non-renewal, cancellation, or reduction in coverage or limits affecting any policy of insurance maintained under this Agreement. D. Special Risks or Circumstances: The City of New Orleans shall reserve the right to modify these requirements, including limits, based on the nature of the risk, prior experience, insurer coverage, or other circumstances. f.

ARTICLE VI - PERFORMANCE MEASURES A. Factors. The City will measure the performance of the Contractor according to the following non-exhaustive factors: work performed in compliance with the terms of the Agreement; staff availability; staff training; staff professionalism; staff experience; customer service; communication and accessibility; prompt and effective correction of situations and conditions; timeliness and completeness of submission of requested documentation (such as records, receipts, invoices, insurance certificates, and computer-generated reports). B. Failure to Perform. If the Contractor fails to perform according to the Agreement, the City will notify the Contractor. If there is a continued lack of performance after notification, the City may declare the Contractor in default and may pursue any appropriate remedies available under the Agreement and/or any applicable law. ARTICLE VII - NON-DISCRIMINATION A. Equal Employment Opportunity. In all hiring or employment made possible by, or resulting from this Agreement, the Contractor (1) will not be discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, sex, color, religion, gender, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, culture, or ancestry, and (2) where applicable, will take affirmative action to ensure that the Contractor’s employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, sex, color, religion, gender, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, culture, or ancestry. This requirement shall apply to, but not be limited to the following: employment, upgrading, demotion or transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship. All solicitations or advertisements for employees shall state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, gender, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, creed, culture, or ancestry. B. Non-Discrimination. In the performance of this Agreement, the Contractor will not discriminate on the basis, whether in fact or perception, of a person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, domestic partner status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or AIDS- or HIV-status against (1) any employee of the City working with the Contractor in any of Contractor’s operations within Orleans Parish or (2) any person seeking accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, services, or membership in all business, social, or other establishments or organizations operated by the Contractor. The Contractor agrees to comply with and abide by all applicable federal, state and local laws relating to non-discrimination, including, without limitation, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. C. Incorporation into Subcontracts. The Contractor will incorporate the terms and conditions of this Article into all subcontracts, by reference or otherwise, and will require all subcontractors to comply with those provisions. D. The City may terminate this Agreement for cause if the Contractor fails to comply with any obligation in this Article, which failure is a material breach of this Agreement. ARTICLE VIII - INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR A. Independent Contractor Status. The Contractor is an independent contractor and shall not be deemed an employee, servant, agent, partner, or joint venture of the City and will not hold itself or any of its employees, subcontractors or agents to be an employee, partner, or agent of the City. B. Exclusion of Worker’s Compensation Coverage. The City will not be liable to the Contractor, as an independent contractor as defined in La. R.S. 23:1021(7), for any benefits or coverage as provided by the Workmen’s Compensation Law of the State of Louisiana. Under the provisions of La. R.S. 23:1034, any person employed by the Contractor will not be considered an employee of the City for the purpose of Worker’s Compensation coverage. C. Exclusion of Unemployment Compensation Coverage. The Contractor, as an independent contractor, is being hired by the City under this Agreement for hire and defined in La. R.S. 23:1472(12) (E) and neither the Contractor nor anyone employed by it will be considered an employee of the City for the purpose of unemployment compensation coverage, which coverage same being hereby expressly waived and excluded by the parties, because: (a) the Contractor has been and will be free from any control or direction by the City over the performance of the services covered by this Agreement; (b) the services to be performed by the Contractor are outside the normal course and scope of the City’s usual business; and (c) the Contractor has been independently engaged in performing the services required under this Agreement prior to the date of this Agreement. D. Waiver of Benefits. The Contractor, as an independent contractor, will not receive from the City any sick and annual leave benefits, medical insurance, life insurance, paid vacations, paid holidays, sick leave, pension, or Social Security for any services rendered to the City under this Agreement. ARTICLE IX - NOTICE A. In General. Except for any routine communication, any notice, demand, communication, or request required or permitted under this Agreement will be given in writing and delivered in person or by certified mail, return receipt requested as follows: 1. To the City: Natasha E Robinson, CEO, New Orleans Recreation Development Commission City of New Orleans 5420 Franklin Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70122 & City Attorney City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 5E03 New Orleans, LA 70112 2. To SPBC: Benjamin Markey, President Saint Patrick Booster Club 420 South Saint Patrick Street New Orleans, LA 701119 B. Effectiveness. Notices are effective when received, except any notice that is not received due to the intended recipient’s refusal or avoidance of delivery is deemed received as of the date of the first attempted delivery. C. Notification of Change. Each party is responsible for notifying the other in writing that references this Agreement of any changes in its address(es) set forth above. ARTICLE X - FORCE MAJEURE A. Event. An event of Force Majeure will include any event or occurrence not reasonably foreseeable by the City at the execution of this Agreement, which will include, but not be limited to, abnormally severe and unusual weather conditions or other acts of God (including tropical weather events, tornados, hurricanes, and flooding); declarations of emergency; shortages of labor or materials (not caused by City); riots; terrorism; acts of public enemy; war; sabotage; cyber-attacks, threats, or incidents; epidemics or pandemics; court or governmental order; or any other cause whatsoever beyond the reasonable control of City, provided such event was not caused by the negligence or misconduct of City, by the failure of City to comply with applicable laws, or by the breach of this Agreement. B. Notice. To seek the benefit of this Article, the City must provide notice in writing to the Contractor stating: (1) an event triggering this Article has occurred; (2) the anticipated effect of the Force Majeure event on performance; and (3) the expected duration of the delay, if the Agreement is being suspended C. Effect. 1. Upon the occurrence of a Force Majeure event, for which the City has provided required notice, the City may, at its sole discretion: a. Suspend this Agreement for a duration to be set by the City,

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not to exceed 90 days. During such time of suspension, the Parties will not be liable or responsible for performance of their respective obligations under this Agreement, and there will be excluded from the computation of such period of time any delays directly due to the occurrence of the Force Majeure event. During any such period of suspension, the Contractor must take all commercially reasonable actions to mitigate against the effects of the Force Majeure event and to ensure the prompt resumption of performance when so instructed by the City; or b. Terminate this Agreement, either immediately or after one or more periods of suspension, effective on notice to Contractor and without any further compensation due. 2. Notwithstanding Section C(1) above, the obligations relating to making payments when due (for services or materials already provided) and those obligations specified to survive in the Agreement will be unaffected by any suspension or termination. ARTICLE XI - ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS A. Amendment. No amendment of or modification to this Agreement shall be valid unless and until executed in writing by the duly authorized representatives of both parties to this Agreement. B. Assignment. This Agreement and any part of the Contractor’s interest in it are not assignable or transferable without the City’s prior written consent. C. Audit and Other Oversight. The Contractor will abide by all provisions of City Code § 2-1120, including without limitation City Code § 2-1120(12), which requires the Contractor to provide the Office of Inspector General with documents and information as requested. Failure to comply with such requests is a material breach of the Agreement. In signing this Agreement, the Contractor agrees that it is subject to the jurisdiction of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court for purposes of challenging a subpoena. D. Choice of Law. This Agreement will be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana without regard to its conflict of laws provisions. E. Compliance with the City’s Hiring Requirements – Ban the Box. (i) The Contractor agrees to adhere to the City’s hiring requirements contained in City Code Sections 2-8(d) and 2-13(a)-(f). Prior to executing this Agreement, Contractor must provide a sworn statement attesting to its compliance with the City’s hiring requirements or stating why deviation from the hiring requirements is necessary. (ii) Failure to maintain compliance with the City’s hiring requirements throughout the term of the Agreement, or to provide sufficient written reasons for deviation, is a material breach of this Agreement. Upon learning of any such breach, the City will provide the Contractor notice of noncompliance and allow Contractor thirty (30) days to come into compliance. If, after providing notice and thirty (30) days to cure, the Contractor remains noncompliant, the City may move to suspend payments to Contractor, void the Agreement, or take any such legal action permitted by law or this Agreement. (iii) This section will not apply to any agreements excluded from the City’s hiring requirements by City Code Sections 2-8(d) or (g). Should a court of competent jurisdiction find any part of this section to be unenforceable, the section should be reformed, if possible, so that it is enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law, or if reformation is not possible, the section should be fully severable and the remaining provisions of the Agreement will remain in full force and effect. (iv) The Contractor will incorporate the terms and conditions of this Article into all subcontracts, by reference or otherwise, and will require all subcontractors to comply with those provisions. F. Conflicting Employment. To ensure that the Contractor’s efforts do not conflict with the City’s interests, and in recognition of the Contractor’s obligations to the City, the Contractor will decline any offer of other employment if its performance of this Agreement is likely to be adversely affected by the acceptance of the other employment. The Contractor will promptly notify the City in writing of its intention to accept the other employment and will disclose all possible effects of the other employment on the Contractor’s performance of this Agreement. The City will make the final determination whether the Contractor may accept the other employment. G. Construction of Agreement. Neither party will be deemed to have drafted this Agreement. This Agreement has been reviewed by the Parties and shall be construed and interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the Parties. 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Dammond Lockhart, Ana Elizabeth Phelps 3. BZA076-26 5230 Pitt Street / Kurt and Leah Eischen, Lupin Architec‐ ture, Lawrence T. Lupin 4. BZA080-26 906 Dante Street / Dantes-Burthe L.C., Colin Rusovich, Made Design, LLC, David Merlin Variances – New Business 5. BZA082-26 1208 Web‐ ster Street / Peter An‐ dronaco and Mary San‐ tina, Eric McCutcheon, AIA, Datum Architects 6. BZA083-26 7301 Way‐ side Drive / Erica Lamp‐ kin Richardson and Donovan Richardson Director of Safety and Permits Decision Appeals – New Business 7. BZA084-26 1616-18 Pry‐ tania Street / Gregory Lacy II and Gulsah Lacy, Benjamin Flaxenburg Any Other Matters – New Business 8. Consideration – Adop‐ tion of the 2027 Board of Zoning Adjustments Meeting Schedule Notice under the Ameri‐ cans with Disabilities Act: This meeting is ac‐ cessible to people with disabilities. Should you need further assistance, please contact the Front Desk in the Main Lobby or the ADA Administra‐ tor: (504) 658-4020 (voice), 711 LA Relay Ser‐ vice, or e-mail emhurst@ nola.gov. Please be ad‐ vised there is a courtesy telephone available for 711 calls for people with hearing or speech im‐ pairments at the wel‐ come desk of City Hall, First Floor, Main Lobby. This communiqué is available in alternative formats upon request. Advertisement Dates: September 25, October 2, 9 and 16, 2026 NOCP 9337 202007-sept 16-4t $139.00

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PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice is hereby given that Steven Courtney Gill intends to petition for readmission to the prac‐ tice of law. Anyone con‐ curring/ opposing this petition must ﬁle notice with the Louisiana Attor‐ ney Disciplinary Board 2800 Veterans Memorial Blvd Ste 310 Metairie La 70002. 201767-sep 23-25-3t $156.43 PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regu‐ lar meeting of October 15, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,573 introduced at the meeting of Septem‐ ber 17, 2026. SAID ORDINANCE would establish a conditional use to permit a Commer‐ cial Short-Term Rental in an HMC-2 Historic Marigny/Tremé/Bywater Commercial District and the Transient Lodging In‐ terim Zoning District, on Square 377, Lot D, in the Third Municipal District, bounded by Joseph Guil‐ laume Place, Pauger h

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g Street, North Rampart Street, and Saint An‐ thony Street (Municipal Address: 1822 Joseph Guillaume Place). ZON‐ ING DOCKET NO. 66/26 Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9332 201991-sept 25-1t $18.58 PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regu‐ lar meeting of October 15, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,572 introduced at the meeting of Septem‐ ber 17, 2026. SAID ORDINANCE would authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into an agree‐ ment to grant a servitude to an adjacent property owner for encroach‐ ments on/over portions of public right-of-way lo‐ cated at the municipal address 1137 Esplanade Avenue; to fix the mini‐ mum price and terms of said servitude agree‐ ment; to declare that such use as granted in the servitude agreement will incorporate space that is neither needed for public purposes nor shall such use interfere with the use of the public right-of-way; to set forth the reasons for said servitude agreement. Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9331 201981-sept 25-1t $20.60 PUBLIC NOTICE --OFFICIAL NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regu‐ lar meeting of October 15, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,576 introduced at the meeting of Septem‐ ber 17, 2026. SAID ORDINANCE would amend and reordain Sec‐ tions 146-5, 146-584, 146 585, and 146-586 of Chap‐ ter 146, and Section 154699 of Chapter 154, of the Code of the City of New Orleans to amend the en‐ forcement process for obstructions of the pub‐ lic right-of-way; to define obstructions subject to the permit requirement; to increase the applica‐ tion and permit fees for obstructions in the pub‐ lic right-of-way; to adjust the rates charged for towing and storage of and establish fines for

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obstructions removed from the public right-ofway. Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Ofﬁce of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street.

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appropriate, the singular includes the plural and neutral words and words of any gender shall include the neutral and other gender. H. Convicted Felon Statement. The Contractor complies with City Code § 2-8(c) and no principal, member, or officer of the Contractor has, within the preceding 5 years, been convicted of, or pled guilty to, a felony under state or federal statutes for embezzlement, theft of public funds, bribery, or falsification or destruction of public records. I. Employee Verification. The Contractor swears that (i) it is registered and participates in a status verification system to verify that all employees in the State of Louisiana are legal citizens of the United States or are legal aliens and (ii) it shall continue, during the term of this Agreement, to utilize a status verification system to verify the legal status of all new employees in the State of Louisiana. J. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, including all incorporated documents, constitutes the final and complete agreement and understanding between the parties. All prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, whether oral or written, are superseded by this Agreement and are without effect to vary or alter any terms or conditions of this Agreement. K. Jurisdiction. The Contractor consents and yields to the jurisdiction of the State Civil Courts of the Parish of Orleans and formally waives any pleas or exceptions of jurisdiction on account of the residence of the Contractor. L. Limitations of the City’s Obligations. The City has no obligations not explicitly set forth in this Agreement or any incorporated documents or expressly imposed by law. M. No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is entered into for the exclusive benefit of the parties and the parties expressly disclaim any intent to benefit anyone not a party to this Agreement. N. Non-Exclusivity. This Agreement is non-exclusive and the Contractor may provide services to other clients, subject to the City’s approval of any potential conflicts with the performance of this Agreement and the City may engage the services of others for the provision of some or all of the work to be performed under this Agreement. O. Non-Solicitation Statement. The Contractor has not employed or retained any company or person, other than a bona fide employee working solely for it, to solicit or secure this Agreement. The Contractor has not paid or agreed to pay any person, other than a bona fide employee working for it, any fee, commission, percentage, gift, or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from this Agreement. P. Non-Waiver. The failure of either party to insist upon strict compliance with any provision of this Agreement, to enforce any right or to seek any remedy upon discovery of any default or breach of the other party at such time as the initial discovery of the existence of such noncompliance, right, default or breach shall not affect or constitute a waiver of either party’s right to insist upon such compliance, exercise such right or seek such remedy with respect to that default or breach or any prior contemporaneous or subsequent default or breach. Q. Order of Documents. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement any incorporated documents, the terms and conditions of the Agreement take precedence over any other documents. R. Ownership of Records. All records, reports, documents and other materials delivered or transmitted to the Contractor by the City shall remain the property of the City and shall be returned by the Contractor to the City at the City’s request and at the Contractor’s expense upon the termination or expiration of this Agreement. All other materials prepared by the Contractor in connection with the performance of the services contracted for herein shall remain the property of the Contractor, unless otherwise agreed to by the Parties. S. Prohibition of Financial Interest in Agreement. No elected official or employee of the City shall have a financial interest, direct or indirect, in this Agreement. For purposes of this provision, a financial interest held by the spouse, child, or parent of any elected official or employee of the City shall be deemed to be a financial interest of such elected official or employee of the City. Any willful violation of this provision, with the expressed or implied knowledge of the Contractor, shall render this Agreement voidable by the City and shall entitle the City to recover, in addition to any other rights and remedies available to the City, all monies paid by the City to the Contractor pursuant to this Agreement without regard to the Contractor’s otherwise satisfactory performance of the Agreement. T. Prohibition on Political Activity. None of the funds, materials, property, or services provided directly or indirectly under the terms of this Agreement shall be used in the performance of this Agreement for any partisan political activity, or to further the election or defeat of any candidate for public office. U. Remedies Cumulative. No remedy set forth in the Agreement or otherwise conferred upon or reserved to any party shall be considered exclusive of any other remedy available to a party. Rather, each remedy shall be deemed distinct, separate and cumulative and each

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PUBLIC NOTICE --STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA COUNTY OF LEXINGTON

AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL

Navitas Credit Corp., Plaintiff, vs. McFaith Lawn Care, LLC, Defendant.

PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9334

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SUMMONS TO: MCFAITH LAWN CARE, LLC, DEFENDANT ABOVE-NAMED YOU ARE HEREBY SUM‐ MONED and required to answer the Complaint in this action, a copy of which is herewith served upon you, and to serve a copy of your Answer to the said Complaint on the subscriber at her of‐ ﬁce at P.O. Box 65, Glen‐ dale, SC 29346, within

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thirty (30) days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such ser‐ vice; and if you fail to an‐ swer the Complaint within the time afore‐ said, judgment by default will be rendered against you for the relief de‐ manded in the Com‐ plaint. NOTICE OF FILING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT the Summons and Complaint, of which the f i i f h

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Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regular meeting of October 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,578 introduced at the meeting of September 17, 2026.

Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regu‐ lar meeting of October 15, 2026 at 10:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,574 introduced at the meeting of Septem‐ ber 17, 2026. SAID ORDINANCE would amend and reordain Sec‐ tion 26-616 of the Code of the City of New Orleans, relative to the nightly fee for each night of occu‐ pancy of a dwelling unit used as a short-term rental.

SAID ORDINANCE would authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into Amendment No. 2 to an existing Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between the City of New Orleans (the “City”) and The National World War II Museum, Inc., to extend the term by two years, for the public purpose of improving pedestrian walkways along Andrew Higgins Drive, including enhancements within part of the Museum Operations Corridor, for the benefit of and enjoyment by New Orleans citizens and visitors and to encourage Convention Center participants to explore the historic Warehouse District and the Museum Operations Corridor in the City of New Orleans, as more fully detailed in Amendment No. 2 to the Cooperative Endeavor Agreement form attached hereto as Exhibit “A”.

Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Ofﬁce of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street.

Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street.

AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL

PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9333 202000-sept 25-1t $15.22 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE Pursuant to LSA R.S. 33:4712 the City of New Orleans hereby gives no‐ tice of its intention to au‐ thorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into an agreement to grant a servitude to an adjacent property owner for encroachments on/over portions of pub‐ lic right-of-way located at the municipal address 1137 Esplanade Avenue; to fix the minimum price and terms of said servi‐ tude agreement; to de‐ clare that such use as granted in the servitude agreement will incorpo‐ rate space that is neither needed for public pur‐ poses nor shall such use interfere with the use of the public right-of-way; to set forth the reasons for said servitude agree‐ ment; pursuant to Ordi‐ nance Calendar No. 35,572. This ordinance is sched‐ uled for final adoption on October 15, 2026, and may be seen in full in the Clerk of Council’s Office, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E09, City Hall. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATES: September 25, October 2 and 9, 2026 NOCP 9335 202005-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $53.73

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PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9329 OFFICIAL NOTICE CAL. NO. 35, 578 EXHIBIT A AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, INC. [COVER PAGE] AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO THE COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, INC. ANDREW HIGGINS STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT THIS SECOND AMENDMENT (the “Amendment”) is entered into by and between the City of New Orleans, represented by Helena N. Moreno, Mayor (the “City”), and The National WWII Museum, represented by Stephen Watson, President and CEO (the “Museum”). The City and the Museum are sometimes each referred to as the “Party”,” and collectively, as the “Parties”. The Amendment is effective as of September 15, 2026 (the “Effective Date”). RECITALS WHEREAS, the City and the Museum are parties to a cooperative endeavor agreement dated effective January 24, 2024 (the “Agreement”) (K23-599 / BRASS#5146) for the purpose of improving pedestrian walkways along Andrew Higgins Drive, including enhancements within part of the Museum Operations Corridor, for the benefit of and enjoyment by New Orleans citizens and visitors and to encourage Convention Center participants to explore the historic Warehouse District and the Museum Operations Corridor; WHEREAS, on October 22, 2025, the City and the Contractor amended the Agreement for the first time (K25-708 / BRASS#5146) to

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may be exercised from time to time as often as the occasion may arise or as may be deemed expedient. V. Severability. Should a court of competent jurisdiction find any provision of this Agreement to be unenforceable as written, the unenforceable provision should be reformed, if possible, so that it is enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law or, if reformation is not possible, the unenforceable provision shall be fully severable and the remaining provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect and shall be construed and enforced as if the unenforceable provision was never a part the Agreement. W. Survival of Certain Provisions. All representations and warranties and all obligations concerning record retention, inspections, audits, ownership, indemnification, payment, remedies, jurisdiction, and choice of law shall survive the expiration, suspension, or termination of this Agreement and continue in full force and effect. X. Terms Binding. The terms and conditions of this Agreement are binding on any heirs, successors, transferees, and assigns. ARTICLE XII - COUNTERPARTS This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original copy of this Agreement, but all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement. ARTICLE XIII - ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE AND DELIVERY The Parties agree that a manually signed copy of this Agreement and any other document(s) attached to this Agreement delivered by email shall be deemed to have the same legal effect as delivery of an original signed copy of this Agreement. No legally binding obligation shall be created with respect to a party until such party has delivered or caused to be delivered a manually signed copy of this Agreement. [The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank] [SIGNATURES CONTAINED ON NEXT PAGE] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City, NORD, and SPBC, through their duly authorized representatives, execute this Agreement. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS BY:___________________________________________ HELENA N. MORENO, MAYOR Executed on this______ of__________________ , 2026. FORM AND LEGALITY APPROVED: Law Department By: ___________________________________________ Printed Name: ___________________________________________ [SPBC and NORD’s signature found on the following pages] [Remainder of this page intentionally left blank] SAINT PATRICK BOOSTER CLUB BY: ___________________________________________ BENJAMIN MARKEY, PRESIDENT [NORD signature found on the following page] [Remainder of this page intentionally left blank] NEW ORLEANS RECREATION DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION BY: _______________________________________________________ KYLE WALKER, CHAIR [Remainder of this page intentionally left blank] AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9322

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p foregoing is a copy of the Summons, were ﬁled with the Court for Lex‐ ington County, South Carolina, on January 17, 2026.

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(864) 707-5570 ATTORNEY FOR THE PLAINTIFF Date: September 8, 2026

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extend its term for continuity of services; WHEREAS, the City and the Museum, each having the authority to do so, desire to enter this Amendment to extend the term for continuity of services; NOW THEREFORE, for good and valuable consideration, the City and the Museum amend the Agreement as follows: A. EXTENSION. The term of the Agreement is extended for two (2) additional years from September 15, 2026, through September 14, 2028. B. CONVICTED FELON STATEMENT. The Museum swears that it complies with City Code Section § 2-8(c). No Museum principal, member, or officer has, within the preceding five years, been convicted of, or pled guilty to, a felony under state or federal statutes for embezzlement, theft of public funds, bribery, or falsification or destruction of public records. C. NON-SOLICITATION STATEMENT. The Museum swears that it has not employed or retained any company or person, other than a bona fide employee working solely for it, to solicit or secure this Amendment. The Museum has not paid or agreed to pay any person, other than a bona fide employee working for it, any fee, commission, percentage, gift, or any other consideration contingent upon or resulting from this Amendment. D. ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE AND DELIVERY. The Parties agree that a manually signed copy of this Amendment and any other document(s) attached to this Amendment delivered by facsimile, email, or other means of electronic transmission shall be deemed to have the same legal effect as delivery of an original signed copy of this Amendment. No legally binding obligation shall be created with respect to a Party until such Party has delivered or caused to be delivered a manually signed copy of this Amendment. E. PRIOR TERMS BINDING. Except as otherwise provided by this Amendment, the terms and conditions of the Agreement, as amended, remain in full force and effect. [SIGNATURES CONTAINED ON THE NEXT PAGE] [The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank.] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and the Museum, through their duly authorized representatives, execute this Amendment. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS BY:__________________________________________________ HELENA N. MORENO, MAYOR Executed on this_____ of____________________ , 2026. FORM AND LEGALITY APPROVED: Law Department By: __________________________________________________ Printed Name: __________________________________________________ THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM, INC. BY: __________________________________________________ STEPHEN WATSON, PRESIDENT AND CEO AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9330 201658-690507-sept 25-1t $ 221.76

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OFFICIAL NOTICE Public Notice is hereby given that the Council of the City of New Orleans will consider at its regular meeting of October 1, 2026 at 9:00 a.m., to be held either via video conference or in the Council Chamber, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, Room 1E07, the adoption of Ordinance Calendar No. 35,577 introduced at the meeting of September 17, 2026. SAID ORDINANCE would authorize the Mayor of the City of New Orleans to enter into a Cooperative Endeavor Agreement between the City of New Orleans (the “City”) and Thrive New Orleans (“Thrive”) with a term greater than one year, for the public purpose of creating education courses and programming in horticultural to achieve economic growth in green infrastructure. Said ordinance may be seen in full in the Office of the Clerk of Council, Room 1E09, City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street. AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9327 OFFICIAL NOTICE CAL. NO. 35,577 EXHIBIT A COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND THRIVE NEW ORLEANS [COVER PAGE] COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS AND THRIVE NEW ORLEANS THIS COOPERATIVE ENDEAVOR AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is entered into by and between the City of New Orleans, represented by Helena N. Moreno, Mayor (the “City”), and Thrive New Orleans, represented by its Executive Director, Clarence Morse (“Thrive”). The City and Thrive may sometimes each be referred to as a “Party” or collectively as the “Parties.” The Agreement is effective on October 17, 2026 (the “Effective Date”). RECITALS WHEREAS, the City is a political subdivision of the State of Louisiana; WHEREAS, Thrive is a non-profit, which principal address is located at 1433 North Claiborne Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 70116; WHEREAS, pursuant to Article 7, Section 14(C) of the Louisiana Constitution of 1974, and related statutes, and Section 9-314 of the Home Rule Charter of the City of New Orleans, the City may enter into cooperative endeavors with the State of Louisiana, its political subdivisions and corporations, the United States and its agencies, and any public or private corporation, association, or individual with regard to cooperative financing and other economic development activities, the procurement and development of immovable property, joint planning and implementation of public works, the joint use of facilities, joint research and program implementation activities, joint funding initiatives, and other similar activities in support of public education, community development, housing rehabilitation, economic growth, and other public purposes; WHEREAS, the Parties desire to accomplish a valuable public purpose of creating education courses and programming in horticultural to achieve economic growth in green infrastructure. WHEREAS, Thrive will provide students and funding via AdvancingCities; and WHEREAS, the City will provide use of Department of Parks & Parkways’ (the “Department”) Greenhouse #5. NOW THEREFORE, the City and Thrive each having the authority to do so, agree as follows: ARTICLE I - THRIVE’S OBLIGATIONS A. Services. Thrive will: 1. Provide students for the program. 2. Provide funding via AdvancingCities, for the program. 3. Provide all equipment and materials required for the portion of the program for which responsible. B. Obligations. Thrive will: • Acknowledge the Department’s operating policies and procedures as outlined in Exhibit A: Parking and Security Policies, including but not limited to compliance with all applicable parking regulations, security protocols, access requirements, and safety procedures established by the Department. • Supervise all students while on the City’s property. • Minors are not allowed to accompany students or faculty affiliated with the program. • Provide and acknowledge all staff and students affiliated with the program are required to wear identifying uniform shirts (in a color other than green). • Acknowledge all students and faculty affiliated with the program must sign-in and out at the Department’s Security Booth. Any student or faculty affiliated with the program not wearing the identifying uniform shirt will not be allowed on campus. • Acknowledge that the City’s property will not to be used for lectures or classroom style education; only greenhouse “labs” may be conducted on the City’s property. • Be permitted to install a temporary shade covering in Greenhouse #5 that has been submitted in writing and approved by the City. • Be permitted to install a permanent shade system in Greenhouse #5 using City approved specifications and vendor. • Acknowledge that any greenhouse mechanical system changes, including to the MeeFog system, must be submitted in writing to the City. The City has ultimate control of ventilation, heating, and MeeFog system to operate within the parameters of greenhouse best practices. • Acknowledge that Thrive cannot grow any species on the Louisiana Noxious Weed Seed List or any illicit drugs. • Attend all regular quarterly and special meetings called by the City. • Provide reports on program outcomes, including program enrollment. • Permit Department staff to enroll in the program. • Acknowledge all public relations, collateral materials, and social media posts affiliated with the program must be approved by the Department and include the Department’s logo. • Acknowledge the Department is required to be tagged in any approved social media posts affiliated with the program using #Parkways and @ParksandParkways. • Acknowledge staff and students are not permitted to post images affiliated with the program and of or on the City’s property on personal social media accounts. Posting on personal social media accounts will result in expulsion from the City’s property. • Acknowledge that the City is not responsible for any lost, stolen, or damaged property. • Remove all equipment and materials affiliated with the program from City property at end of term of the Agreement. C. Insurance. • Thrive is not required to maintain Professional Liability Coverage. ARTICLE II - THE CITY’S OBLIGATIONS A. Administration. The City will: 1. Administer this Agreement through the Department. 2. Provide Thrive with the Department’s operating policies and procedures and other documents deemed necessary for Thrive’s performance of any work required under this Agreement. 3. Provide access to Department personnel to discuss the required services during normal working hours, as requested by Thrive. 4. Host all regular quarterly and special meetings. B. Services. The City will: 1. Provide use of Greenhouse #5 Monday-Friday 0730-1530 (excluding city holidays and emergency declarations). • Provide sign-in and out sheets at the Department’s Security Booth. • Provide assigned parking space for one Thrive transport bus. • Provide space for Department approved storage container provided by Thrive. • Provide a lock for and allow regulated use of the gate next to Greenhouse #5. • Provide water for horticulture purposes. • Provide use of electricity for a refrigerator, water cooler, fans, or other appliances required for the students and staff. All appliances must be approved by the Department. • Provide personnel staging area in the Greenhouse headhouse only in the event of extreme weather. ARTICLE III - FUNDING The City has no funding obligations under this Agreement. ARTICLE IV - DURATION AND TERMINATION A. Term. The term of this agreement shall be for two (2) years from the Effective Date. B. Extension. The City can opt to extend the term of this Agreement provided that the City Council approves it as a multi-term cooperative endeavor agreement and that additional funding, if required, is allocated by the City Council. C. Termination for Convenience. The City may terminate this Agreement at any time during the term of the Agreement by giving Thrive written

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notice of the termination at least thirty (30) calendar days before the intended date of termination. D. Termination for Cause. The City may terminate this Agreement immediately for cause by sending written notice to other Parties. “Cause” includes without limitation any failure to perform any obligation or abide by any condition of this Agreement or the failure of any representation or warranty in this Agreement, including without limitation any failure to comply with the requirements of the City’s Disadvantaged Business Enterprise program and any failure to comply with any provision of City Code § 2-1120 or requests of the Office of Inspector General. If a termination for cause is subsequently challenged in a court of law and the challenging party prevails, the termination will be deemed to be a termination for convenience effective 30 days from the date of the original written notice of termination for cause was sent to the challenging party; no further notice will be required. E. Termination for Non-Appropriation. This Agreement will terminate immediately in the event of non-appropriation of funds sufficient to maintain this Agreement without the requirement of notice and the City will not be liable for any amounts beyond the funds appropriated and encumbered for this Agreement. ARTICLE V - INDEMNITY A. In General. To the fullest extent permitted by law, the other Parties will indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the City, its agents, employees, officials, insurers, self-insurance funds, and assigns (collectively, the “Indemnified Parties”) from and against any and all claims, demands, suits, and judgments of sums of money accruing against the Indemnified Parties: for loss of life or injury or damage to persons or property arising from or relating to any act or omission or the operation of the other Parties, its agents or employees while engaged in or in connection with the discharge or performance of any Services under this Agreement; and for any and all claims and/or liens for labor, services, or materials furnished to the other Parties in connection with the performance of work under this Agreement. B. Limitation. The other Parties’ indemnity does not extend to any loss arising from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of any of the Indemnified Parties, provided that neither the other Parties nor any of its agents or employees contributed to such gross negligence or willful misconduct. C. Independent Duty. The other Parties has an immediate and independent obligation to, at the City’s option: (a) defend the City from or (b) reimburse the City for its costs incurred in the defense of any claim that actually or potentially falls within this indemnity, even if: (1) the allegations are or may be groundless, false, or fraudulent; or (2) the other Parties is ultimately absolved from liability. D. Expenses. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, the other Parties shall bear the expenses including, but not limited to, the City’s reasonable attorney fees and expenses, incurred by the City in enforcing this indemnity. ARTICLE VI – INSURANCE A. Except as otherwise noted, at all times during this Agreement or the performance of work required by this Agreement, Thrive will maintain the following insurance in full force and effect for the duration of the work under this Agreement. Evidence of coverage shall be provided prior to the start of any activities/work, in conjunction with Thrive’s scope of work under the Agreement. B. If Thrive maintains broader coverage and/or higher limits than the minimums shown above, the City requires and shall be entitled to the broader coverage and/or the higher limits maintained by Thrive. Any available insurance proceeds in excess of the specified minimum limits of insurance and coverage shall be available to the City: • Minimum Requirements: • Workers’ Compensation & Employers Liability. Insurance in compliance with the Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Act(s). Statutory and Employers Liability Insurance with limits of not less than $1,000,000. • Commercial General Liability. Insurance including contractual liability insurance, products and completed operations, personal & advertising injury, bodily injury, property damage, and any other type of liability for which this Agreement applies with limits of liability of not less than $1,000,000 each occurrence / $2,000,000 policy aggregate. • Automobile Liability. Insurance with a combined single limit of liability of not less than $1,000,000 per accident for bodily injury and property damage. Insurance shall include all owned, nonowned and hired vehicles. • Professional (Errors & Omission) Liability. As professional services are required under the contract, insurance appropriate to Thrive’s profession, providing coverage against claims which Thrive becomes legally obligated to pay as damages arising out of the performance of services with minimum limits of $1,000,000 each claim and $2,000,000 aggregate. • Policy shall be kept in force and uninterrupted for a period of three (3) years beyond policy expiration. If coverage is discontinued for any reason during this three (3) year term, Thrive must procure and evidence full extended reporting period (ERP) coverage. • Thrive shall be able to meet the above referenced specific policy limits of liability through a combination of primary and umbrella / excess coverage. • The obligations for Thrive to procure and maintain insurance shall not be constructed to waive or restrict other obligations. It is understood that neither failure to comply nor full compliance with the foregoing insurance requirements shall limit of relieve Thrive from any liability incurred as a result of their activities/operations in conjunction with Thrive’s obligations and/or Scope of Work. • Other Insurance Provisions. • Additional Insured Status. Thrive will provide, and maintain current, a Certificate of Insurance naming the City of New Orleans, its departments, political subdivisions, officers, officials, employees, and volunteers are to be covered as “Additional Insureds” on the CGL policy with respect to liability arising out of the performance of this agreement, General liability insurance coverage can be provided in the form of an endorsement to the Thrive’s insurance (at least as broad as ISO Form CG 20 10 11 85 or both CG 20 10 and CG 20 37 forms if later revisions used). • Thrive shall require and verify that all Subcontractors maintain insurance and coverage limits meeting all the requirements stated herein or the Sub-contractor liability shall be covered by Thrive. The Certificate of Insurance, as evidence of all required coverage, should name the City of New Orleans Risk Manager as Certificate Holder and be delivered via U.S. Mail to (User Department Mailing Address), with a copy forwarded to Risk Management Division, 1300 Perdido Street, 9E06 – City Hall, New Orleans LA 70112. • The Additional Insured box shall be marked “Y” or Commercial General Liability coverage. The Subrogation Waiver Box must be marked “Y” for Workers Compensation/Employers Liability and Property. • Primary Coverage. For any claims related to this agreement, Thrive’s insurance coverage shall be primary insurance as respects the City, its departments, political subdivisions, officers, officials, employees, and volunteers. Any insurance or selfinsurance maintained by the City shall be non-contributing to Thrive’s coverage. • . Claims Made Policies. If applicable, the retroactive date must be shown and must be before the date of the agreement or the beginning of work. If the coverage is canceled or non-renewed, and not replaced with another claims-made policy, Thrive must purchase “extended reporting” coverage for minimum of 3 years after the termination of this agreement. • Waiver of Subrogation. Thrive and its insurers agree to waive any right of subrogation which any insurer may acquire against the City by virtue of the payment of any loss under insurance required by this agreement. • Notice of Cancellation. Each insurance policy required above shall not be canceled, expire, or altered except without prior notice to the City of no less than 30 days. • Acceptability of Insurers. Insurance is to be placed with insurers licensed and authorized to do business in the State of Louisiana with a current A.M. Best’s rating of no less than A: VII, unless otherwise acceptable to the City. C. Notice. Thrive will provide the City’s Risk Manager (at City of New Orleans Attn: Risk Manager, 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 9E06, New Orleans, LA 70112- Ref.: CEA) the following documents, within 10 calendar days of the City’s request: i. Copies of all policies of insurance, including all policies, forms, and endorsements: • . Substitute insurance coverage acceptable to the City within 30 calendar days if any insurance company providing any insurance with respect to this Agreement is declared bankrupt, becomes insolvent, loses the right to do business in Louisiana, or ceases to meet the requirements of this Agreement. D. Special Risks or Circumstances. The City of New Orleans shall reserve the right to modify these requirements, including limits, based on the nature of the risk, prior experience, insurer coverage, or other circumstances. E. Without notice from the City, Thrive will: i. Replenish any policy aggregate limit that is impaired before commencement of any work or continuation of any work under this Agreement. ARTICLE VII - PERFORMANCE MEASURES A. Factors. The City will measure the performance of Thrive according to the following non-exhaustive factors: work performed in compliance with the terms of the Agreement; staff availability; staff training; staff professionalism; staff experience; customer service; communication and accessibility; prompt and effective correction of situations and

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conditions; timeliness and completeness of submission of requested documentation (such as records, receipts, invoices, insurance certificates, and computer-generated reports). B. Failure to Perform. If Thrive fails to perform according to the Agreement, the City will notify Thrive. If there is a continued lack of performance after notification, the City may declare Thrive in default and may pursue any appropriate remedies available under the Agreement and/or any applicable law. In the event of a notification of default, the City will invoice the defaulting Thrive for any increase in costs and other damages sustained by the City. Further, the City will seek full recovery from the defaulting Thrive. ARTICLE VIII - NON-DISCRIMINATION A. Equal Employment Opportunity. In all hiring or employment made possible by, or resulting from this Agreement, Thrive (1) will not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, religion, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, creed, culture, or ancestry, and (2) where applicable, will take affirmative action to ensure that the other Parties’ employees are treated during employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, creed, culture, or ancestry. This requirement shall apply to, but not be limited to the following: employment, upgrading, demotion or transfer, recruitment or recruitment advertising, layoff or termination, rates of pay or other forms of compensation, and selection for training, including apprenticeship. All solicitations or advertisements for employees shall state that all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, age, physical or mental disability, national origin, sexual orientation, creed, culture, or ancestry. B. Non-Discrimination. In the performance of this Agreement, Thrive will not discriminate on the basis, whether in fact or perception, of a person’s race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, domestic partner status, marital status, physical or mental disability, or AIDS- or HIVstatus against (1) any employee of the City working with Thrive in any of OPSB’s operations within Orleans Parish or (2) any person seeking accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, services, or membership in all business, social, or other establishments or organizations operated by the other Parties. Thrive agrees to comply with and abide by all applicable federal, state and local laws relating to non-discrimination, including, without limitation, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section V of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. C. Incorporation into Subcontracts. Thrive will incorporate the terms and conditions of this Article into all subcontracts, by reference or otherwise, and will require all subcontractors to comply with those provisions. D. Termination for Breach. The City may terminate this Agreement for cause if Thrive fails to comply with any obligation in this Article, which failure is a material breach of this Agreement. ARTICLE IX - INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR A. Independent other Parties Status. Thrive an independent contractor and shall not be deemed an employee, servant, agent, partner, or joint venture of the City and will not hold itself or any of its employees, subcontractors or agents to be an employee, partner, or agent of the City. B. Exclusion of Worker’s Compensation Coverage. The City will not be liable to Thrive, as an independent contractor as defined in La. R.S. 23:1021(6), for any benefits or coverage as provided by the Workmen’s Compensation Law of the State of Louisiana. Under the provisions of La. R.S. 23:1034, any person employed by Thrive will not be considered an employee of the City for the purpose of Worker’s Compensation coverage. C. Exclusion of Unemployment Compensation Coverage. Thrive, as an independent contractor, is being hired by the City under this Agreement for hire and defined in La. R.S. 23:1472(12)(E) and neither Thrive nor anyone employed by it will be considered an employee of the City for the purpose of unemployment compensation coverage, which coverage same being hereby expressly waived and excluded by the parties, because: (a) Thrive has been and will be free from any control or direction by the City over the performance of the services covered by this contract; (b) the services to be performed by Thrive are outside the normal course and scope of the City’s usual business; and (c) Thrive has been independently engaged in performing the services required under this Agreement prior to the date of this Agreement. D. Waiver of Benefits. Thrive, as an independent contractor, will not receive from the City any sick and annual leave benefits, medical insurance, life insurance, paid vacations, paid holidays, sick leave, pension, or Social Security for any services rendered to the City under this Agreement. ARTICLE X - FORCE MAJEURE A. Event. An event of Force Majeure will include any event or occurrence not reasonably foreseeable by the City at the execution of this Agreement, which will include, but not be limited to, abnormally severe and unusual weather conditions or other acts of God (including tropical weather events, tornados, hurricanes, and flooding); declarations of emergency; shortages of labor or materials (not caused by City); riots; terrorism; acts of public enemy; war; sabotage; cyber-attacks, threats, or incidents; epidemics or pandemics; court or governmental order; or any other cause whatsoever beyond the reasonable control of City, provided such event was not caused by the negligence or misconduct of City, by the failure of City to comply with applicable laws, or by the breach of this Agreement. B. Notice. To seek the benefit of this Article, the City must provide notice in writing to the other Parties stating: (1) an event triggering this Article has occurred; (2) the anticipated effect of the Force Majeure event on performance; and (3) the expected duration of the delay, if the Agreement is being suspended C. Effect. 1. Upon the occurrence of a Force Majeure event, for which the City has provided required notice, the City may, at its sole discretion: • Suspend this Agreement for a duration to be set by the City, not to exceed 90 days. During such time of suspension, the Parties will not be liable or responsible for performance of their respective obligations under this Agreement, and there will be excluded from the computation of such period of time any delays directly due to the occurrence of the Force Majeure event. During any such period of suspension, the other Parties must take all commercially reasonable actions to mitigate against the effects of the Force Majeure event and to ensure the prompt resumption of performance when so instructed by the City; or • Terminate this Agreement, either immediately or after one or more periods of suspension, effective on notice to other Parties and without any further compensation due. 2. Notwithstanding Section C(1) above, the obligations relating to making payments when due (for services or materials already provided) and those obligations specified to survive in the Agreement will be unaffected by any suspension or termination. ARTICLE XI - NOTICE A. In General. Except for any routine communication, any notice, demand, communication, or request required or permitted under this Agreement will be given in writing and delivered in person or by certified mail, return receipt requested as follows: 1. To the City: Department of Parks and Parkways City of New Orleans 1 Green Parade Lane New Orleans, LA 70122 & City Attorney City of New Orleans 1300 Perdido Street, Suite 5E03 New Orleans, LA 70112 2. To the other Parties: Clarence Morse Thrive New Orleans 1433 North Claiborne Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70116 B. Effectiveness. Notices are effective when received, except any notice that is not received due to the intended recipient’s refusal or avoidance of delivery is deemed received as of the date of the first attempted delivery. C. Notification of Change. Each party is responsible for notifying the other in writing that references this Agreement of any changes in its address(es) set forth above. ARTICLE XI - ADDITIONAL PROVISIONS A. Amendment. No amendment of or modification to this Agreement shall be valid unless and until executed in writing by the duly authorized representatives of both parties to this Agreement. B. Assignment. This Agreement and any part of Thrive’s interest in it are not assignable or transferable without the City’s prior written consent. C. Audit and Other Oversight. Thrive will abide by all provisions of City Code § 2-1120, including without limitation City Code § 2-1120(12), which requires Thrive to provide the Office of Inspector General with documents and information as requested. Failure to comply with such requests is a material breach of the Agreement. In signing this Agreement, Thrive agrees that it is subject to the jurisdiction of the Orleans Parish Civil District Court for purposes of challenging a subpoena. D. Choice of Law. This Agreement will be construed and enforced in accordance with the laws of the State of Louisiana without regard to

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its conflict of laws provisions. E. Construction of Agreement. Neither party will be deemed to have drafted this Agreement. This Agreement has been reviewed by the Parties and shall be construed and interpreted according to the ordinary meaning of the words used so as to fairly accomplish the purposes and intentions of the Parties. No term of this Agreement shall be construed or resolved in favor of or against the City or Thrive on the basis of which party drafted the uncertain or ambiguous language. The headings and captions of this Agreement are provided for convenience only and are not intended to have effect in the construction or interpretation of this Agreement. Where appropriate, the singular includes the plural and neutral words and words of any gender shall include the neutral and other gender. F. Cost Recovery. In accordance with Section 2-8.1 of the Municipal Code entitled “Cost recovery in contracts, cooperative endeavor agreements, and grants,” to the maximum extent permitted by law, the other Parties shall reimburse the City or disgorge anything of value or economic benefit received from the City if the other Parties fails to meet its contractual obligations. G. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, including all incorporated documents, constitutes the final and complete agreement and understanding between the parties. All prior and contemporaneous agreements and understandings, whether oral or written, are superseded by this Agreement and are without effect to vary or alter any terms or conditions of this Agreement. H. Exhibits. The following exhibits will be and are incorporated into this Agreement: • Parking and Security Policies as Exhibit A • Site Map of the Department as Exhibit B • Louisiana Noxious Weed Seed List as Exhibit C I. Jurisdiction. Thrive consents and yields to the jurisdiction of the State Civil Courts of the Parish of Orleans and formally waives any pleas or exceptions of jurisdiction on account of the residence of Thrive. J. Limitations of the City’s Obligations. The City has no obligations not explicitly set forth in this Agreement or any incorporated documents or expressly imposed by law. K. No Third-Party Beneficiaries. This Agreement is entered into for the exclusive benefit of the parties and the parties expressly disclaim any intent to benefit anyone not a party to this Agreement. L. Non-Exclusivity. This Agreement is non-exclusive and Thrive may provide services to other clients, subject to the City’s approval of any potential conflicts with the performance of this Agreement and the City may engage the services of others for the provision of some or all of the work to be performed under this Agreement. M. Non-Waiver. The failure of either party to insist upon strict compliance with any provision of this Agreement, to enforce any right or to seek any remedy upon discovery of any default or breach of the other party at such time as the initial discovery of the existence of such noncompliance, right, default or breach shall not affect or constitute a waiver of either party’s right to insist upon such compliance, exercise such right or seek such remedy with respect to that default or breach or any prior contemporaneous or subsequent default or breach. N. Order of Documents. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement any incorporated documents, the terms and conditions of the documents will apply in this order: the

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Race: WHITE Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 11/13/1974 Height: 5'10" Weight: 250 Hair Color: BROWN Eye Color: BLUE Scars/Tattoos:

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Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 0831/1969 Height: 5'6" Weight: 182 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos: LOUISIANA

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Race: BLACK Sex: MALE Date of Birth: 11/6/1954 Height: 5'10" Weight: 180 Hair Color: BLACK Eye Color: BROWN Scars/Tattoos:

My Address is: 7562 FORUM BLVD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128

My Address is: 14535 TILBURY RD NEW ORLEANS, LA 70128

My Address is: 8801 LAKE FOREST BLVD 5C NEW ORLEANS, LA 70127

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My Address is: 4110 IROQUOIS ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70126

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I, CHARLES PHILLIP AWTRY, have been convicted of 13A-666(a) - First Degree Sexual Abuse. Details: Sex Abuse I (Jefferson Co, AL 2013) 7y/o female victim. ALABAMA. Date Convicted: 01/14/2013. State Equivalent: 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. .

Agreement: O. Ownership of Records. Upon final payment, all data collected and all products of work prepared, created or modified by Thrive in the performance of this Agreement, including without limitation any and all notes, tables, graphs, reports, files, computer programs, source code, documents, records, disks, original drawings or other such material, regardless of form and whether finished or unfinished, but excluding Thrive’s personnel and administrative records and any tools, systems, and information used by Thrive to perform the services under this Agreement, including computer software (object code and source code), know-how, methodologies, equipment, and processes and any related intellectual property (collectively, “Work Product”) will be the exclusive property of City and the City will have all right, title and interest in any Work Product, including without limitation the right to secure and maintain any copyright, trademark, or patent of Work Product in the City’s name. No Work Product may be reproduced in any form without the City’s express written consent. The City may use and distribute any Work Product for any purpose the City deems appropriate without Thrive’s consent and for no additional consideration to Thrive. P. Prohibition of Financial Interest in Agreement. No elected official or employee of the City shall have a financial interest, direct or indirect, in this Agreement. For purposes of this provision, a financial interest held by the spouse, child, or parent of any elected official or employee of the City shall be deemed to be a financial interest of such elected official or employee of the City. Any willful violation of this provision, with the expressed or implied knowledge of Thrive, shall render this Agreement voidable by the City and shall entitle the City to recover, in addition to any other rights and remedies available to the City, all monies paid by the City to Thrive pursuant to this Agreement without regard to Thrive’s otherwise satisfactory performance of the Agreement. Q. Prohibition on Political Activity. None of the funds, materials, property, or services provided directly or indirectly under the terms of this Agreement shall be used in the performance of this Agreement for any partisan political activity, or to further the election or defeat of any candidate for public office. R. Remedies Cumulative. No remedy set forth in the Agreement or otherwise conferred upon or reserved to any party shall be considered exclusive of any other remedy available to a party. Rather, each remedy shall be deemed distinct, separate and cumulative and each may be exercised from time to time as often as the occasion may arise or as may be deemed expedient. S. Severability. Should a court of competent jurisdiction find any provision of this Agreement to be unenforceable as written, the unenforceable provision should be reformed, if possible, so that it is enforceable to the maximum extent permitted by law or, if reformation is not possible, the unenforceable provision shall be fully severable and the remaining provisions of the Agreement remain in full force and effect and shall be construed and enforced as if the unenforceable provision was never a part the Agreement. T. Survival of Certain Provisions. All representations and warranties and all obligations concerning record retention, inspections, audits, ownership, indemnification, payment, remedies, jurisdiction, and choice of law shall survive the expiration, suspension, or termination

My Address is: 2133 ROBIN ST NEW ORLEANS, LA 70122

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I, DESMOND ANTHONY PRATT, have been convicted of 14:43.1 Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 03/28/2014. 14:80 - Carnal knowledge of a juvenile. Date Convicted: 03/28/2014.

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My Address is: 1402 ESPLANADE AVE APT. 4 NEW ORLEANS, LA 70116 I, Deandre Rogers AKA DEANDRE L ROGERS, have been convicted of 14:43.1 - Sexual Battery. Date Convicted: 05/08/2024.

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My Address is: 439 GILLIGAN ST WESTWEGO, LA 70094

I, ANTHONY LEROY FISHER JR, have been convicted of Description: 120 - Rape. Date WASHINGTON Convicted: 07/26/1990. .

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NO: 878-920 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐ VICES, LLC VERSUS JAHVAN FRAZIER, SR. AND BRIANA FRAZIER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 12, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐

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of this Agreement and continue in full force and effect. U. Terms Binding. The terms and conditions of this Agreement are binding on any heirs, successors, transferees, and assigns. ARTICLE XII - COUNTERPARTS This Agreement may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed to be an original copy of this Agreement, but all of which, when taken together, shall constitute one and the same agreement. ARTICLE XIII - ELECTRONIC SIGNATURE AND DELIVERY The Parties agree that a manually signed copy of this Agreement and any other document(s) attached to this Agreement delivered by email shall be deemed to have the same legal effect as delivery of an original signed copy of this Agreement. No legally binding obligation shall be created with respect to a party until such party has delivered or caused to be delivered a manually signed copy of this Agreement. [SIGNATURES CONTAINED ON NEXT PAGE] [The remainder of this page is intentionally left blank.] IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the City and Thrive, through their duly authorized representatives, execute this Agreement. CITY OF NEW ORLEANS BY:___________________________________________________ HELENA N. MORENO, MAYOR Executed on this_______ of_________________________ , 2026. FORM AND LEGALITY APPROVED: Law Department By: ___________________________________________________ Printed Name: ___________________________________________________ THRIVE NEW ORLEANS BY: ___________________________________________________ CLARENCE MORSE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ______________________________________________________ FEDERAL TAX I.D. [EXHIBIT(S) A- C CONTAINED ON NEXT PAGE(S)] AISHA R. COLLIER CLERK OF COUNCIL PUBLICATION DATE: September 25, 2026 NOCP 9328 201657-690506-sept 25-1t $ 1,122.66

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vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit:

September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026

THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with ell the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof known as WOODMERE SUBDIVISION, SECTION 4, all as per plan of resubdivision approved by the Jefferson Perish Council under Ordinance No. 12331, recorded in COB 858 folio 638, and accord‐ ing to which said lot thereon is designated as LOT 1139 of SQUARE 'AA', which square is bounded by Mercer Lane, Marywood Drive, North Timbers Court, Timbers Drive. Patricia Lane, Wood‐ mere Boulevard, Irwin Kuntz Drive, Kornman Alex Boulevard, South Deerwood Drive and Deer‐ wood Court.

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This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: Looking for the right hire?

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24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 878-958 ROCKET MORTGAGE, LLC VERSUS BETH M. ISAAC A/K/A BETH ISAAC By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 17, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: That certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in South Avondale Subdivision, Section No. 7, in Square No. 27, bounded by Phyllis Drive, Nicolle Boule‐ vard, South Jamie Boulevard and Elaine Drive, desig‐ nated as Lot No. 19, which said lot measures 52 feet front on Phyllis Drive, 51.07 feet in width in the rear, by a depth of 111.25 feet on the sideline nearer Lot No. 18 and a depth

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p of 104 feet on the opposite sideline. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey of J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., CE&S, dated January 26, 1970. And in accor‐ dance with a survey by Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated May 17, 1994, a copy of which is an‐ nexed to act registered in COB 2895, page 883, said piece or portion of ground has the same desig‐ nation, location and measure‐ ments as set forth herein‐ above, except that said Lot 19, Square 27, Sec‐ tion 7 is located in South Avondale Homes Subdivi‐ sion. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. DENNIS F. WIGGINS, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 879-074 FIDELTY BANK VERSUS CARLOS ORLANDO STREBER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐

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son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 19, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: THAT CERTAIN CONDOMINIUM UNIT 204 of the SEVILLE SQUARE CONDOMINIUM as created by Condominium Declaration exe‐ cuted before Carl M. Hansen, Jr., N.P., for the Parish of Jefferson by Seville Proper‐ ties, Inc., as De‐ clarant dated 7/27/83 and registered on 8/3/83 in COB 1954, folio 294, of the Parish of to‐ Jefferson, gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and ad‐ vantages there‐ unto belonging or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, in‐ cluding all of the interest in Unit 204 in the common elements and limited common elements of Seville Square Condominium with said Unit 204 includ‐ ing an undi‐ vided 1.7857 percent interest in the common elements of said condo‐ minium accord‐ ing to the said Declaration and which unit and the common elements and limited common elements are situated upon the immovable property is more fully de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows according to a survey by BEM Corpora‐ tion, R.P. Fontcuberta, Jr., PLS, dated 4/20/83, a copy of which is an‐ nexed to the above described Con‐ dominium Dec‐ laration of Seville Square Condominium. CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in that part thereof known as HESS‐ MER FARMS, SECTION A, in the square bounded by Hessmer Avenue, 18th Street, Eden‐

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born Avenue and West Es‐ planade Av‐ enue, desig‐ nated as Plot No. 255, on the survey made by Gilbert, Kelly & Cou‐ turie, Inc., Sur‐ veying & Engineering. dated 4/9/79, and according to said survey, said portion of ground commences at a distance of 840 feet from the corner of Hess‐ mer and 18th Street, and measures thence 210 feer front on Hess‐ mer Avenue, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 210 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. Also all as more fully shown on the survey by BEM Corpo‐ ration, R.P. Fontcuberta, Jr., PLS, dated 4/20/83. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 879-055 COMPUTERSHA RE DELAWARE TRUST COM‐ PANY, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE PRET 2025-RPL3 TRUST VERSUS TYWAN NATASH ALLEN By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 14, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026,

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at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with al the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Woodmere Sub‐ division, Section 3, all as per plan of re-subdivi‐ sion approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on June 12, 1975, under ordinance No, 12064, and recorded in COB 839, folio 568, and as per Act of Dedication before Bern‐ hardt C. Heebe, Notary Public, dated July 21, 1975, recorded in COB 840, folio 303, said lot is described as follows; to wit: LOT 939, SQUARE V, which said is square bounded by Litchwood Lane, Post Drive (side), Bellaire Lane (side) and Patricia Lane, and according to the above, said lot commences at a distance of 245.00 feet from the comer of Pa‐ tricia Lane and Litchwood Lane, same width in the rear, by depth of 100.00 feet between equal and parallel lines; all as noted on print of survey made by J. J. Krebs and Sons, Inc., C. E. & S., dated Feb‐ ruary a, 1976, resurveyed March 16, 1976. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

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NO: 878-434 PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC VERSUS KEVIN D. STUBBS A/K/A KEVIN STUBBS AND VANESSA CONTRERAS STUBBS A/K/A VANESSA C. STUBBS A/K/A VANESSA STUBBS A/K/A VANESSA CONTRERAS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 7, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: That certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, City of Kenner, Seton Parc Subdivision, Square B, bounded by St. Christopher Drive, St. Blase Drive, Parcel "A" and the Western boundary of Subdivision, designated as Lot 24, and mea‐ suring as follows, to wit: Lot 24, com‐ mences 120 feet from the corner of St. Christo‐ pher Drive and St. Blase Drive, and mea‐ sures 60 feet front on St. Christopher Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines; all in ac‐ cordance with survey of Mandle Sur‐ veying, Inc., dated May 17, 1990, redated July 12, 1990, a copy of which is at‐ tached to an act recorded COB 2365 folio 248. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter

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of Credit. DENNIS F. WIGGINS, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 861-349 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORT‐ GAGE CORPORATION VERSUS MICHAEL LANNING RAY A/K/A MICHAEL L. RAY A/K/A MICHAEL RAY By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated February 6, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: One certain lot of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Terrytown Subdivision, Section No. 1, per survey of Gilbert, Kelly and Couturie, Inc., Surveyors, dated July 8, 1977, and according to survey by R. L. Schumann and Associates, Land Surveyor, dated December 12, 1979, is further designated and described as follows: Lot 29, Square 12, which said square is bounded by Stumpf Boule‐ vard, Bluebon‐ net Stret, South But‐ terly Circle (side) Bruce Av‐ enue (side), Homes Boule‐ vard (side) and East Butterly Circle (side), and the said lot commences at a distance of

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178.32 feet from the corner of Bluebonnet Street and Stumpf Boule‐ vard and mea‐ sures thence 65.00 feet front on Stumpf Boulevard, a width in the rear of 60.87 feet, by a depth of 120.00 feet on both side lot lines. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 860-752 NOLA FUNDING, LLC VS INVESTOR EQUITIES, LLC, ET AL By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated October 1, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all of the improve‐ ments thereon, together with all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes and ap‐ purtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining to said property situ‐ ated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part known the M.M. as Gilchrist’s West Carrollton Sub‐ division, which lots are desig‐ nated as LOTS 13 and 14, of

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BLOCK 6, which block is bounded by Spruce Street, Brooklyn Av‐ enue, Claiborne and Lake Streets and which lots ad‐ join each other and measure each ﬁfteen feet front on Brooklyn Av‐ enue, by a depth of 100 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines. A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all of the improvements thereon to‐ gether with all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining to said property, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part known as the M.M. Gilchrist’s West Carrollton Sub‐ division in BLOCK 6, which block is bounded by Spruce Street, Brooklyn Av‐ enue, Claiborne and Lake Streets and which lots is designated as LOT 16 on a plan of subdivision by Edgar Pilie, Surveyor, dated October 28, 1902, attached to an Act before Joseph Walton, NP, dated Octo‐ ber 29, 1902, according to which Lot 16 measures 30 feet front on Brooklyn Av‐ enue, by a depth of 100 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines.

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MORTGAGE, INC. VS. SAMUEL BANNISTER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 2, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit:

Improvements bear Municipal No. 439 Brooklyn Avenue, Jeffer‐ son, LA 70121

THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, situ‐ ated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as VALLEY RE‐ ALTY COMPANY SUB‐ DIVISION, desig‐ nated as LOT 230 of SQUARE 22, which said square is bounded by 13th Street, the Western line of Valley Really Company Subdivision, 12th Street, and Gaudet Drive, and Lot 230 thereof com‐ mences at a distance of 200 feet from the corner of 13th Street and Gaudet Drive and measures thence 50 feet front on Gaudet Drive, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines

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

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

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

IRL R. SILVERSTEIN Attorney for Plaintiff

ZACHARY GARRETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff

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VERSUS ARNELL A. ALEXANDER WIFE OF/AND HERBERT F. MOORE By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated February 18, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: One certain lot of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, City of Gretna, in Square "F" of Derbes Park, bounded by Marie Drive, Smithway Drive, Governor Hall Drainage Canal and Sev‐ enteenth Street, designated as Lot 8 on a sur‐ vey by Henry C. Eustis, Sur‐ veyor, dated June 19, 1971, and according to which, the said lot forms the corner of Marie and Smithway Dri‐ ves and measures 60 feet front on Marie Drive has a width in the rear of 85 feet, by a depth fronting on Smithway Drive of 132.62 feet by a depth on the other sideline of 134.96 feet. The improvements bear the Munici‐ pal Number 35 Marie Drive. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate:

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August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-370 UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE, LLC VERSUS MISAEL A. PEREZ A/K/A MISAEL A. PEREZ SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL PEREZ A/K/A MISAEL A. SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL PEREZ SANDERS A/K/A MISAEL P. SANDERS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 4, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A certain lot of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and ad‐ vantages there‐ unto belonging or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the City of Kenner, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as Kenner Heights Subdivision, in Square 17-A, thereof, bounded by Williams Boule‐ vard, Thir‐ teenth, Compromise Streets and Fourteenth, all as per plat of survey by A. W. J. Bisco, C.E., dated August 13, 1952, an‐ nexed to an act before Pierre D. Olivier, Jr., No‐ tary Public, dated Septem‐ ber 30, 1952. And according to said plat, said lot is desig‐ nated as Lot "A" and is lo‐ cated and mea‐ sures as fol‐ lows: Lot "A" forms the corner of Compromise and Thirteenth Streets and measures 50 feet front on Compromise Street, same width in the rear, by a depth and front on Thirteenth Street of 120 feet, and the same depth on the opposite sideline. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. COREY J. GIROIR

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JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 874-390 CARRINGTON MORTGAGE SER‐ VICES, LLC VERSUS ALMOTAKI AL KUHAIF AND FIRAS ALKUHAIF By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 8, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: ONE CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes. appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Southeastern Land District of the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jefferson, Sec‐ tions 14, 56, 86 and KR Town‐ ship 14 South, Range 24 East, West of the Mississippi River, in that part thereof known as LAKE TIMBERLANE ES‐ TATES, composed of a portion of De‐ strehan Divi‐ sion, designated as Parcels FF-31 and FF-3-2 as shown on plan of re‐ subdivision by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. & S., dated May 9,1986, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under No. Ordinance 17031, recorded in the Clerk of Court's office for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son in COB 1590, folio 20; said prop‐ erty being fur‐ ther resobdi‐ vided into THE COMMONS AT LAKE TIMBERLANE as per play of re‐ subdivision by Landmark Sur‐ veying, Inc., LS, dated August 15, 1997, as well as that plan entitled Privacy Entry Gate Plan for the Commons at Lake Timber‐ lane, dated No‐ vember 14. 1997, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordi‐ nance No. 20221, recorded in Clerk of Court's office for the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, under In‐ strument No. 9802013, in COB 2976, folio 188; said

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property being further resubdi‐ vided as per plan of resubdi‐ vision by Land‐ mark Surveying, Inc., LS, dated June 2, 1998, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on February 10, 1999 under Ordi‐ nance No. 20578, ﬁled and regis‐ tered under In‐ strument No. 99-13038, in COB 3002, folio 950; as cor‐ rected by plan of Landmark Surveying, Inc., I.S., entitled Act of Correc‐ tion to The Commons At Lake Timber‐ lane, dated May 10, 1999, and ac‐ cording to which, said property is des‐ ignated as The Cummons at Lake Timber‐ lane, Square ^ ,Lots IA through and including 92A, and Parcel G-IA (Wyndham Way (Private G-2A Street)), (Ashburne Cir‐ cle (Private street)), Parcel G-3A (Wyndham West (Private Street)), Parcel G-4 (Wyndham North (Private Street)), Parcel G-5A (Wyndham East (Private Street)). Parcel G-6 (Wyndham South (Private Street)). a copy of which is made part hereof by refer‐ ence and said lot is more fully de‐ scribed as fol‐ lows: LOT 41A of SQUARE A which square is bounded by Wyndham North, Wynd‐ ham West, Wyndham South (side) and Wyndham East (side) com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 297.50 feet from the intersection and Wyndham North and Wyn‐ dham West, measures 82.50 feet front on Wyndham North, has the same of width in the rear by a depth of 102.50 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines All in accordance with a survey by Johnson Pro‐ fessional I and Surveyors, dated February 22, 2000, resur‐ veyed March 23, 2000 to locate forms, resurveyed April 6, 2000 to locate slab and resurveyed Au‐ gust 17, 2000. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. L. GRAHAM ARCENEAUX Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-381 U.S. BANK

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TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE FOR RCAF ACQUISITION TRUST VERSUS LOIS KATHERINE RILEY A/K/A LOIS KATHERINE CHISIEL ROGERS RILEY A/K/A LOIS KATHERINE CHISEL ROGERS RILEY By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 7, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in that subdivision of the Parish of JEFFERSON, State of Louisiana, known as TER‐ RYTOWN SUBDI‐ VISION NO. 1, and being designated on the official sub‐ division map, on file and of record in the of‐ fice of the Clerk and Recorder for said parish and state, as LOT NUMBER THIR‐ TEEN (13), SQUARE NO. 16, said subdivi‐ sion; said lot having such measurements and dimensions as shown on said map This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-495 ONITY MORTGAGE CORPORATION F/K/A PHH MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS THE UNOPENED SUCCESSION OF MARGARET SCHOEN LA GRANGE (A/K/A MARGARET S. LAGRANGE, MARGARET LA GRANGE, MARGARET SCHOEN LAGRANGE, MARGARET

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SCHOEN) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 26, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the City of Harahan, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as COLONIAL ES‐ TATES SUBDIVI‐ SION, in SQUARE 6 thereof, bounded by Ashlawn Drive, Kenmore Drive, Stratford Drive and 6th Street, all as per plan of subdivi‐ sion by Ad1oe Orr, Jr., dated Septem‐ ber 24, 1957, an‐ nexed to an act registered in COB 493 folio 195 (entry no. 118655), Conveyance Records of Jef‐ ferson Parish, Louisiana. And according to said plan, said lot is desig‐ nated as Lot 87 and is located and measures as follows: Said Lot 87 com‐ mences 312.78 feet from the corner of Ash‐ lawn Drive and Kenmore Drive and mea‐ sures thence 60.00 feet front on Ashlawn Drive, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 100.00 feet between equal and parallel lines. And according to a plat of sur‐ vey by Joseph M. Marques (Dading, Mar‐ ques & Associates, Inc.), dated March 8, 1991, annexed to an Act of Mortgage in MOB 2868 folio 8 (Instru‐ ment No. 9111112), said Lot 87 has the same location and di‐ mensions as set forth above. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate:

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August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-535 TOWD POINT MORTGAGE TRUST 2020-4, U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS INDENTURE TRUSTEE VERSUS FRED LUKE, III (A/K/A FRED LUKE) AND DONIETHA COSSE LUKE (A/K/A DONIETHA COSSE, DONIETHA M. LUKE, DONIETHA LUKE, DONIETHA MARIA LUKE) By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 11, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, servi‐ tudes and ap‐ purtenances thereunto ap‐ plying, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as RANCH ACRES SUBDIVI‐ SION, which said piece or portion of ground is shown on that certain subdivi‐ sion plan by Alvin E. Hotard, C.E., dated April 15, 1960, ap‐ proved by Ordi‐ nance No. 4567 of the Jefferson Parish Council adopted May 12, 1960, registered in COB 507, folio 402 and is fur‐ ther described in accordance with the survey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated September 24, 1976, resurveyed No‐ vember 30, 1976 to show im‐ provements as Lot 4, of Square 18, which said lot com‐ mences 250 feet from the inter‐ section of Col‐ orado Drive and Sierra Street, and measures thence 50 feet front on Col‐ orado Drive, same width in the rear, by depths of 125 feet each. And accordance with survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie, Inc., dated May 13, 1993, a print of which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof, said lot is situated in the same square, subdivision and has the same measurements as hereinabove set forth. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ i i i

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j p rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 868-350 NATIONSTAR MORTGAGE LLC VERSUS MELISSA BRIEN NUCCIO AND DANNY ALBERT NUCCIO, JR. By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Septem‐ ber 9, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, in that part of thereof known as METAIRIE COURT SUBDIVI‐ SION, in square bounded by Lake Pontchar‐ train, Fagot Avenue, Kost‐ mayer property and by Metairie Court Roadway, designated as LOT NOS. 760 and 762 which said lots adjoin each other and mea‐ sure each 25 feet front on Metairie Court Roadway, same width in the rear, by a depth of 120 feet between equal and paral‐ lel lines and Lot 760 commences 2,000 feet from the corner of Metairie Court Roadway and Veterans Memo‐ rial Highway and commences at a distance of 8000 feet from Metairie Court Roadway and Codifer Avenue, all as show on the plan by Gilbert, & Kelly , Sur, ., dated April 3, 1956 a copy of which is annexed to an act before Harold M. Rouchell , No‐

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tary Public dated may 9, 1956 at Entry No. 76826. Improve‐ ments bear the Municipal No. 3417 METARIE COURT This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-601 THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON F/K/A THE BANK OF NEW YORK, AS SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE TO JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., SUCCESSOR BY MERGER TO CHASE BANK OF TEXAS, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR SAXON ASSET SECURITIES TRUST 2001MORTGAGE LOAN ASSET BACKED CERTIFICATES, SERIES 2000-1 VERSUS ANN FIELDS CURTIS A/K/A ANN F. CURTIS A/K/A ANN CURTIS AND VALERIA ANN CURTIS A/K/A VALERIA A. CURTIS A/K/A VALERIA CURTIS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 15, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, September 30, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: A certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the servi‐ tudes, rights and appurte‐ nances there‐ unto applying, situated in the State of Louisiana, in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, Kennedy Heights, Section 2, said portion being designated as Lot 1 of Square M, according to a plan made by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated December 18, 1967, Square M is bounded by Travis Drive, Priest Street,

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Glen Della Sub‐ division and Gambino Road. Lot 1 forms the corner of Priest Street and Travis Drive, and measures 65 feet front on Travis Drive, with the same width in the rear, with a depth on the side line closer to Gambino Road of 105 feet, and a depth on the opposite side line and fronting on Priest Street of 105 feet. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 21, 2026, September 25, 2026 Aug 21-sep 25-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 862-382 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS RAYCHELL MARIE HARRIS A/K/A RAYCHELLE M. HARRIS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated March 6, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurte‐ nances there‐ unto belonging, or in anywise appertaining, situated, lying and being in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part known as the WHITEHOUSE SUBDIVISION, forming part of the Town of Westwego, and designated as the WHOLE OF LOTS NUMBERS THIRTEEN (13), FOURTEEN (14), FIFTEEN (15), AND FOUR (4') FEET OF LOT NUMBER SIX‐ TEEN (16), ad‐ joining Lot No. 15 of SQUARE NUM‐ BER FORTYEIGHT (48) of said subdivi‐ sion, on a plan of

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survey made by Alvin E. Hotard, Parish Surveyor, dated Gretna, Louisiana, June 1, 1936, a blue print of which is attached to and made part of an act of sale by Marrero Lane and Im‐ provement As‐ sociation, Lim‐ ited, to Leon Ri‐ choux, passed before Ernest M. Conzelmann, Notary Public, dated June 17, 1936; and ac‐ cording to said plan, said Square is bounded by Av‐ enue "E and "D, Fifth and Sixth Streets; said Lots Numbers Thir‐ teen (13), Four‐ teen (14), and Fifteen (15), ad‐ join each other, and each measure THIRTY-TWO (32') feet front on Avenue "D", the same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of One Hundred Twenty-Five and 81/100 (125.81) feet, said por‐ tion of Lot Num‐ ber Sixteen (16) adjoins Lot No. 15, and measures Four (4') feet front on Avenue "D", the same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of One hundred Twenty-Five and 81/100 (125.81') feet, said piece or portion of ground mea‐ sures One Hun‐ dred (100') feet front on Avenue "D", by a depth be‐ tween equal and parallel lines of One Hundred Twenty-Five and 81/100 (125.81') feet; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the property . The improve‐ ments bear the municipal ad‐ dress 645 Av‐ enue D, West‐ wego, LA 70094 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. BRIGHAM J. LUNDBERG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 873-991 U.S. BANK TRUST NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY, BUT SOLELY AS OWNER TRUSTEE ON BEHALF OF BRAVO RESIDEN‐ TIAL FUNDING TRUST 2021-HE3 VS EDWIN R. ESTRADA A/K/A

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EDWIN ESTRADA AND ROSE MARIE TORUNO A/K/A ROSE M. TORUNO A/K/A ROSE TORUNO A/K/A ROSE MARIE ESTRADA A/K/A ROSE ESTRADA By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of FIERI FACIAS from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 5, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, TO‐ GETHER WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON, AND ALL OF THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN ANYWISE AP‐ PERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA, PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, CITY OF KENNER, IN GREATER HOLLY HEIGHTS SUBDI‐ VISION, SEC‐ TION 3, IN SQUARE "P", BOUNDED BY GLEN EAGLE LANE, SESSIONS LANE, VALMONT LANE AND BARON LANE, DESIGNATED AS LOT 10; SAID LOT COM‐ MENCES 253.63 FEET FROM THE COR‐ NER OF GLEN EAGLE LANE AND SESSIONS LANE AND MEASURES 50 FEET FRONT ON GLEN EAGLE LANE, SAME IN WIDTH IN THE REAR, BY A DEPTH OF 100 FEET BETWEEN EQUAL AND PARALLEL LINES; ALL ACCORDING TO A SURVEY BY GILBERT, KELLY AND COUTURIE, INC., DATED MAY 1, 1991, COPY OF WHICH IS ANNEXED TO ACT NO. 9127772 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ELIZABETH C. PRICE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 868-999 U.S. BANK TRUST COM‐

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PANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR VELOCITY COMMERCIAL CAPITAL LOAN TRUST 2024-3 VS SMALL WORLD CHRISTIAN ACADEMY CORP. By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated Septem‐ ber 26, 2025, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the high‐ est bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Expressway, Harvey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: A CERTAIN LOT OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, in CARROLLWOOD VILLAGE SUBDI‐ VISION, described ac‐ cording to a plan of resubdi‐ vision of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc. C.E., dated September 7, 1982, approved by Jefferson Parish Council under Ordi‐ nance No. 15331 on No‐ vember 3, 1982, and designated as PARCEL D-1A, which com‐ mences 325.75 feet from the corner of Behrman High‐ way and Park Place Drive and measures 25.7 feet front on Behrman High‐ way by a width in the rear of 120.00 feet by a depth on the Carol Sue Avenue side of 500.00 feet and on the Park Place Drive Side measures 39.22 feet from Behrman High‐ way in a north‐ easterly directly to a point and thence in an easterly direc‐ tion 306.7 feet and thence in a southerly direction 104.00 feet across the rear of Lot D-1-B and thence in an easterly di‐ rection 155.30 feet to the rear prop‐ erty line. All as more fully shown on a sur‐ vey by Wilton J. Dufrene, L.S., dated March 28, 1988. All as more fully shown on a sur‐ vey by Dufrene Surveying & En‐ gineering, Inc. dated February 23, 1998, a copy of which is at‐ tached to MOB 4125, folio 97. All as more fully shown on survey by Dufrene Survey‐ ing & Engineer‐ ing, Inc. dated February 23, 2024. For informa‐ tional purposes only: Improve‐ ments thereon bear Municipal No. 777 Behrman High‐ way, Gretna, LA 70056. Being the same property ac‐ quired by Small World Christian Academy Corp from HD and Associates, LLC on March

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19, 2024 and recorded in the conveyance records of Jefferson Parish, State of Louisiana. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. RYAN M. MCCABE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 872-417 SELECT PORTFOLIO SERVICING, INC. VERSUS DANIEL E. MCMULLEN A/K/A DANIEL MCMULLEN A/K/A DANIEL E. MCMULLEN, JR. A/K/A DANIE MCMULLEN, JR. AND ANALISA M. MCMULLEN A/KA ANALISA MCMULLEN A/K/A ANALISA ZIMMERMAN MCMULLEN A/K/A ANALISA Z. MCMULLEN By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated February 2, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: That certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the State of Louisiana, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, in Terrytown Sub‐ division No. 7 in square no. 114, by bounded LaSalle Avenue (Leslie Street side), East Lexington Avenue and Le‐ gion Drive. Said portion of ground designated as lot no. 3, com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 193.51 feet from the corner of LaSalle Avenue and Legion Drive and mea‐ sures thence in the direction of East Lexington Av‐ enue 70 feet front on LaSalle Avenue, 51 feet (title) 56.50 feet (actual) in width in the rear, by a depth li

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p on the sideline nearer Legion Drive of 104.48 feet and a depth of 110 feet on the op‐ posite sideline. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey of Sterling Mandle, Land Surveyor, dated October 12, 1976. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. DENNIS F. WIGGINS, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 878-132 SENECA MORTGAGE SER‐ VICING LLC VERSUS CARLA BONNER YIBRIN AND LUFTY YIBRIN By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 29, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: A CERTAIN PIECE OR PAR‐ CEL OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as BEAU LAC SUB‐ DIVISION, in SQUARE A, thereof, bounded by Gary Mikel Av‐ enue, West Esplanade Avenue (for‐ merly Freeport Avenue), Sev‐ enth Street and Beau Lac Lane (late Napoli Drive); and according to a survey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated June 28, 1971, the said lot is designated by the No. 2 and measures 70` front on Gary Mikel Av‐ enue, same width in the rear, by a depth between equal and parallel lines of 102` and said Lot No. 2 commences at a

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distance of 60.32` from the corner of West Es‐ planade Avenue and Gary Mikel Avenue. All in accordance with a survey of Gilbert, Kelly & Couturie`, Inc., dated 2/4/96 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-975 PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC VS SHELTON G. WILLIAMS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 24, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part known as M.A. GREEN SUBDIVISION, in SQUARE F, bounded by Cathy Street (formerly Jay Street), Richard Street, Thirba Street and Versailles Street, and accordance in with survey by Raymond B. Saucier, C.E., dated May 22, 1961, annexed to act before Garland R. Rolling, N.P., June 20, 1961, said lot is desig‐ nated as LOT 4, which measures 50 feet front on Cathy Street (formerly Jay Street), same width in the rear, by a depth of 131.00 feet on the sideline nearer Richard Street and by a depth of 130.72 feet on the sideline nearer Ver‐ sailles Street; said lot commences at a distance of 150 feet from the corner of Cathy Street (formerly Jay )

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y Street) and Ver‐ sailles Street. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated March I4, 1968 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-439 VILLAGE CAPITAL & INVESTMENT LLC VERSUS BARRY PATIN By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 10, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: THAT CERTAIN PARCEL OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the improvements thereon, and all rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in SIEVERS SUBDI‐ VISION, a resub‐ division of Plot Y. SIEV‐ ERS SUBDIVI‐ SION, according to Plan by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated April 5, 1984, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council on May 23, 1984, Ordinance No. 16035, regis‐ tered in Entry no. 8428861, Jef‐ ferson Parish, Louisiana said lot is desig‐ nated as fol‐ lows, to-wit: Lot 2, Square `B`, said is bounded by North Oak Drive, Ames Boulevard (side), South Oak Drive (side), and Mt. Shasta Lane, Lot 2 commences at a distance of 27.00 feet from a point of curva‐ ture of the inter‐ section of North Oak Drive and Mt. Shasta Lane, and measures thence 45.00 feet front on North Oak Drive,

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same in width in the rear, by a depth of 95.00 feet between equal and parallel lines, all as more fully shown on Sur‐ vey by Surveys, Inc., dated March 8, 1985, resur‐ veyed on April 1, 1985 to show improvements, redated Novem‐ ber 22, 1985 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 878-345 MIDFIRST BANK VERSUS MICHAEL AN‐ THONY HARDIN (A/K/A MICHAEL A. HARDIN) AND SHERECE S. HARDIN By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated August 10, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026, at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: ONE (1) CERTAIN LOT OR PARCEL OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situated in the Parish of JEF‐ FERSON, State of Louisiana, In that subdivision known as BENT TREE PARK, PHASE IV, and being designated on the official plan of said subdivi‐ sion, on file and of record in the office of the Clerk and Recorder of said Parish and State, as LOT NUMBER SEVEN, SQUARE TWO (72), said subdivi‐ sion, said lot having such size, shape and dimensions and being subject to such servitudes as are shown on said map. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check,

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Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. WILLIAM S. TEBBE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: September 25, 2026, October 30, 2026 Sep 25-oct 30-2t Public Notices Successions

PUBLIC NOTICE --24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA SUCCESSION OF MAGDALEN KUNKEL GAHN WIFE OF/AND JOSEPH EMMETT GAHN, JR. NO. 865-588 DIV. ”F” NOTICE BY PUBLICATION OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY NOTICE is hereby given that Patricia Gahn Mauer, duly qualiﬁed Ad‐ ministrator/Executor of the Succession of MAG‐ DALEN KUNKEL GAHN WIFE OF/AND JOSEPH EM‐ METT GAHN, JR., has made application to the Court for authority to sell Decedent’s full interest in and to the following immovable property at private sale, to-wit: 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 PARISH OF JEFFER‐ SON, State of Louisiana, in M.A. GREEN ADDITION SUBDIVISION, according to a survey made by Adloe Orr, Jr. and Associ‐ ates, C.E., dated February 11, 1954, said lot being situated in the square bounded by South line of the 50 foot strip of ground dedicated for a servitude to the 4th Jef‐ ferson Drainage District, the Western line of M.A Green Addition Subdivi‐ sion, HOWRARD AVENUE, and WESTON STREET, designated as LOT NO. 25, which said Lot No. 25 commences 120 feet from the corner of We‐ ston Street and Howard Avenue, measures 41.43 feet front on Howard Av‐ enue, 86.92 feet in width in the rear, by a depth of 157.92 feet on the side line dividing Lot No. 25 from Lot No. 24 and by a depth of 211.04 feet on the opposite side line; and which said Lot No. 25 forms a part of that par‐ tition of ground desig‐ nated as PLOT “C” on a survey made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associates, C.E., dated September 10, 1954. All in accordance with a survey made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associ‐ ates, C.E., dated July 2, 1956.According to a sur‐ vey of J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E. dated August 2, 1971, a copy of which is annexed hereto and made a part hereof, the said property has the same location, designa‐ tion and dimensions as above set forth. The improvements bear the Municipal No. 1212 North Howard Avenue. Any heirs, legatees, and/or creditors of the deceased who oppose the sale must do so within seven (7) days of the last date of publica‐ tion issued. After seven (7) days from the last publication the Court may issue an order au‐ thorizing the sale of the property for the price and sum of Sixty-Five Thousand and 00/100 ($65,000.00) all cash to seller, at private sale. Attorney: Ryan S. McBride Bar No. 29332 Address: 3525 N. Causeway Blvd #801 Metairie, LA 70002 Telephone: (504) 265-1705 199610-sept 4-25-2t $112.70

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