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La. joins suit over abortion pills by mail Attorneys general from 3 states seek to overturn ‘shield laws’ BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to toss out “shield laws” that blue states like New York and California have used to block criminal prosecutions of doctors who prescribe abortion pills by mail. They are also suing a slew of doctors and healthcare organizations that mail abortion pills across state lines, accusing the providers of illegally undercutting state laws restricting abortion. “Louisiana chooses life,” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said at news conference Wednesday in Ba-

ton Rouge. “We will not allow activist states, activist providers, or distributors profiting from killing babies to threaten Louisiana’s sovereignty, violate Louisiana’s laws and endanger Louisiana women and Louisiana babies.” Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall joined Murrill to announce the lawsuits. “We’re a pro-life state,” Griffin said. “We choose life in Arkansas.” The pair of lawsuits is the latest push by Murrill and other conservative attorneys general to enforce tougher boundaries between states with differing abortion laws after the nationwide

right to abortion was overturned with the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision in 2022, which allowed each state to set its own regulations. Louisiana has banned the use of drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol for abortions and outlawed the procedure in almost all cases — and it has clashed with states like New York and California, where abortion remains broadly legal. Murrill has tried to prosecute doctors in both states who prescribed the pills via telehealth and mailed them to Louisiana, but the governors there have refused to extradite the

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Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill holds up abortion pills while speaking alongside Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall, right, and Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin, left, during a news conference at the Louisiana Department ä See ABORTION, page 4A of Justice on Wednesday.

“Everyone’s asking, and what I’m saying is ‘ask me later,’ because I just don’t know.” C.J. GERDES, Casamento’s Restaurant owner

A FINAL SEASON?

Funding at risk for public safety agencies

Traffic accident response, police body cameras could be cut BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer

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Sal Sunseri, center, co-owner of P&J Oyster Co., and C.J. Gerdes, left, thank each after Sunseri delivered sacks of oysters ahead of the restaurant’s reopening Thursday after its summer closure, while Dolly Skinner helps prepare the kitchen.

Famous oyster bar Casmento’s reopens, but owners pondering retirement BY IAN McNULTY Staff writer

After more than 100 years in business, there are certainties at Casamento’s Restaurant. There will be raw oysters on most tables and fried oyster loaves on thick-cut white bread, instead of po-boys. The white tilework encasing the walls and counters and floors will gleam like the inside of an oyster shell. The restaurant will close for an annual summer break and reopen each

fall for what its family owners call their “season,” stretching into late spring. That reopening is Thursday, but this time, there’s uncertainty in the air and one question on the lips of its regulars: Will this be the last season for Casamento’s? Husband and wife owners C.J. and Linda Gerdes have been considering permanently closing the business, a lowkey landmark at 4330 Magazine St. first opened in 1919. They made it a matter of public discus-

sion among New Orleans oyster lovers back in May by announcing that this year is “looking like our final season.” On the eve of reopening, C.J. Gerdes said they haven’t arrived at a decision. “Everyone’s asking, and what I’m saying is ‘ask me later,’ because I just don’t know,” Gerdes said. In the balance is the future of a New Orleans dining institution rich with character and tradition contending with the

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Without new property taxes, New Orleans’ public safety agencies could cut funding for traffic accident response, emergency management personnel, and bodyworn officer cameras, as Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration seeks to close a $77 million budget gap. The proposals shared during the second day of presentations to the City Council about the city’s 2027 budget outlined details on a number of the more than 75 cuts that Moreno presented last week to the council. Public safety leaders said that the cuts would strain staff and pose new challenges for emergency response, even as they committed to keeping service as speedy as possible. City officials say that the largest cuts would be necessary if the council fails to “roll forward” property taxes, though some cuts are likely under any scenario. A full roll forward could generate up to $42 million. The council is expected to adopt a final budget by Dec. 1, and council members will hear from

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Messages show city officials expected AG indictment blowback BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

The city of New Orleans on Tuesday released messages and other records related to Attorney General Liz Murrill’s indictment in July by an Orleans Parish grand jury, in response to a request from Murrill’s attorneys. The records include drafts of a letter Mayor Helena Moreno

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and five City Council members penned to special prosecutor Laurie White, aiming to tamp down a political firestorm by asking her to torpedo the July 2 indictment. White obliged, dropping the charges against Murrill that included 16 counts of public intimidation and malfeasance in office. The records also include messages from council President JP Morrell to Moreno, council col-

ä City asks U.S. Supreme Court to reject removal of Calvin Duncan’s seat as Orleans criminal clerk. PAGE 4A leagues, a political consultant and Morrell’s staff as questions swirled about how the indictment unfolded. The city at first claimed the records released this week fulfilled

a request by Murrill’s attorneys and closed it out. But the city backtracked late Tuesday after attorney Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue objected, calling the response incomplete. The city said it would conduct a “second review” and then reopened the request about 8 p.m. Tuesday. Rodrigue noted that the city’s initial response included no messages from any other council member

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but Morrell. She said the records they’ve received so far, from the city and separately from District Attorney Jason Williams’ office in response to a lawsuit, indicate communications that remain hidden. The District Attorney’s Office has turned over a host of messages of employees, but not of Williams,

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Senate reaches energy projects deal

they pay their fair share He and Heinrich, the top energy Permitting bill would speed approvals ensure of the grid upgrades they require Democrat, have decried what they

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Bear 89, known as ‘Backpack’

Backpack declared winner of Fat Bear Week

After a week of fierce competition, Backpack emerged victorious as Fat Bear Week champion, the heftiest bear of Alaska's Katmai National Park and Preserve. The nonprofit running the longstanding contest announced the bear, known for his pacifist nature, was the winner Tuesday with more than 100,000 votes, giving him a close win over Bear 910 with just over 50% of the poll. The contest, which is in its 12th year, celebrates the resilience of the 2,200 brown bears that live in the preserve on the Alaska Peninsula, which extends from the state’s southwest corner toward the Aleutian Islands. Last year’s winner, Chunk — known officially as Bear 32 — clinched his victory at an estimated 1,200 pounds. He was handily defeated in the first round of ccompetition this year by Bucky, who went on to lose a faceoff against Backpack, known officially as Bear 89. The event this year featured 16 bears vying for the heavyweight title in a single-elimination, bracket-style tournament. All voting is done online at www. fatbearweek.org. Backpack is the son of former Fat Bear Week champion Holly, who introduced him to the Brooks River when he was a first-year cub in 2006. His name was inspired by his habit of climbing onto his mother’s back when they swam the river.

Somalia police: Pirates kill 5 crew of a tanker

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Pirates killed five crew members of a hijacked fuel tanker before security forces retook the vessel off Somalia, authorities in the country’s semiautonomous Puntland region said. The MT Honour 25 was seized in April with 17 crew members aboard, one of a growing number of piracy incidents in Puntland. The tanker was carrying 18,500 barrels of oil. Sixteen suspected pirates were detained following the operation on Tuesday, and at least 11 others escaped and remain at large, authorities said. The victims include three Pakistanis, one Myanmar national and one Indian, the Puntland Maritime Police Force said Tuesday. Four others, including three Pakistanis and one Indian, were injured. The tanker was secured and placed under the protection of Puntland authorities, according to a statement by the Puntland Maritime Police Force. The pirates are believed to have kept the crew supplied with food during the hijacking. Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said it was “deeply saddened by the tragic loss of five crew members during the operation to recover the hijacked vessel.”

Officials: No survivors in Zimbabwe crash HARARE, Zimbabwe — A helicopter with six people on board crashed in a rural part of Zimbabwe on Wednesday and it appears there were no survivors, officials said. Among the victims was a prominent businessman and his wife, state media reported. The businessman, Wicknell Chivayo, was a close ally of Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa. The helicopter crashed in the Marondera district, southeast of the capital, Harare, police said. Government spokesperson Nick Mangwana posted on X that four passengers, including a high-profile businessman, were on board along with two crew members. “Current information indicates that there were no survivors in this crash,” Mangwana posted. Mangwana and police did not immediately identify those on board, and police said they would provide more details later.

12 Senators from both parties said Wednesday they have reached a bipartisan deal on legislation aimed at speeding up permitting reviews for new energy and infrastructure projects that now face yearslong delays as lawmakers seek to meet growing demand for electricity and other forms of energy. The bill, proponents argue, would cut down the arduous timeline for getting big energy projects off the ground at a time when demand is rising because of mushrooming data centers for AI. The bill would ensure data centers are forced to pay for the increased electricity they use and would mark a significant change to a landmark environmental law that critics say slows down the process of building energy products. Republican Sen. Shelley Moore

Capito of West Virginia, chair of the Environment and Public Works Committee, called the bill “a major step toward making it faster and more efficient and easier to build infrastructure projects” of all types while maintaining important environmental protections. “The American people sent us here to do big things. This is a big thing. It’s monumental and it’s legacy-setting,” Capito said at a news conference at the Capitol where she was joined by Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island. The four senators lead the chamber's energy and environment panels. Heinrich said the bill “will mean more energy on the grid, more good-paying jobs, and lower electricity costs for families and businesses. And as data centers drive demand for more power, it will

— not leave that bill to American families." A vote on the bill won’t happen until after the midterm elections — reflecting the fraught political reality as elections loom that could change partisan control of both chambers. But the bill represents a rare instance of bipartisanship over the country’s energy policy as lawmakers from both parties agree on the need to build new energy projects of all types. Lee, who chairs the energy committee, said he is confident the bill will be approved in a lame-duck session in November, noting its bipartisan support and encouragement from business and environmental groups. Whitehouse, the top Democrat on the environment panel, also was hopeful but said Democrats were still seeking clarity on how the bill will prevent President Donald Trump's administration from blocking wind and solar projects.

call Trump's “reckless and vindictive assault on wind energy” that includes repeated actions to block large-scale wind projects under construction off the East Coast. The administration suspended five offshore wind projects in December, citing unspecified national security concerns. The projects later moved forward after federal judges intervened. A federal judge also struck down Trump’s executive order blocking wind energy projects early in his second term. Brad Campbell, president of the Conservation Law Foundation, an environmental advocacy group, panned the deal, saying it “appears to adopt a fossil fuel industry wishlist.” He said the bill could roll back clean water and endangered species protections, limit judicial review and curtail the power of the Environmental Protection Agency and states to consider impacts of energy projects.

Human rights groups ask U.N. for help to end new ICE efforts Location of thousands of detainees hidden

BY RYAN J. FOLEY Associated Press

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People walk past a banner with a photo of Marie-Célestin Karondwa, a local official who was beaten to death after publicly defending the government’s response to Ebola, in Butembo, Congo, on Wednesday.

Politician killed for defending Ebola efforts Mistrust in Congo government complicates response to spread

BY SEBASTIEN KITSA MUSAYI and EVE BRENNAN Associated Press

BUTEMBO, Congo — Mourners gathered Wednesday to bury a Congolese politician who was beaten to death after publicly defending the government’s response to Ebola, a killing that highlights the mistrust health workers say is hampering efforts to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. Marie-Célestin Karondwa, a local official with Congo’s ruling Union for Democracy and Social Progress party, was attacked Sunday at his home in Butembo, an Ebola hotspot in the eastern North Kivu province, after defending the government’s response efforts during a radio program, the party said. “They beat him up and then set the house alight,” Sagesse Kavira, Karondwa’s granddaughter, told The Associated Press at his funeral on Wednesday. He later died from his injuries at a local hospital. The killing follows a series of attacks on health workers and other responders as the Central African nation battles its

17th and deadliest Ebola outbreak, which has so far recorded over 8,000 cases including nearly 4,000 deaths. Authorities this month launched a village-centered approach to fight the Ebola outbreak. But those efforts continue to face resistance from some residents who dismiss Ebola as a hoax amid a widespread distrust in the country’s government for various reasons, ranging from how it’s managed past Ebola outbreaks to chronic corruption. Responders say skepticism about the disease has complicated efforts to work with residents, including in remote communities and emerging hot spots that already face shortages of medical supplies and healthcare workers. The mistrust is particularly difficult to overcome in eastern Congo’s rebel-controlled territories, where decades of conflict with rebels as well as human rights abuses have left many residents wary of outsiders and state authorities. The local politician killed in Butembo had been using the radio show to call on the public to obey response measures, particularly social distancing and handwashing, Jean-Baptiste Katsongo Lwatswa, first federal vice-president of UDPS in Butembo, told the AP. “That is believed to have provoked the anger of certain young people,” he said.

Afghanistan’s defense ministry claims forces killed 41 insurgents

Officials say dozens captured The defense ministry said the fighters had crossed into Afghanistan “with the crossing from Pakistan support” of Pakistan. BY ABDUL QAHAR AFGHAN Associated Press

KABUL, Afghanistan — Afghanistan’s defense ministry says its forces have killed more than 40 fighters it described as insurgents who crossed into the country from neighboring Pakistan, and captured dozens more over three days amid repeated clashes along the tense border. The insurgents included members of the Islamic State group, the ministry said in a statement issued late Tuesday night. It said it had killed 41 and captured another 62 in the Kamdesh district of the northeastern province of Nuristan from Sunday to Tuesday.

There was no immediate comment from Pakistan, but its Ministry of Information has rejected similar claims in the past. Both sides have made claims in recent weeks of killing fighters on the other side. The claims could not be independently confirmed. Tension between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been spiraling, with cross-border fighting and Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan adding to longstanding disputes over militant activity along the border. The United Nations Mission in Afghanistan said last week it had documented over 1,100 civilian deaths and injuries in Afghanistan from cross-border violence so far this year.

Human rights advocates asked a United Nations panel to intervene Wednesday to help end a new U.S. government practice of withholding from families and lawyers the whereabouts of thousands of detainees facing deportation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement removed the names of detainees with final removal orders from its Online Detainee Locator System on Sept. 15 in an apparent effort to speed up their deportations. The change, which ICE did not announce and has not explained, applies to more than 16,000 of the nearly 69,000 detainees who are in ICE custody. The move has interfered with detainees' ability to challenge looming depor-

tations by impeding access to their lawyers while devastating families who lost track of their loved ones, immigration lawyers say. A coalition of more than 30 groups who advocate for noncitizens in the U.S. petitioned the U.N.’s Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances to declare the policy a violation of international law and to push for its end. “A system with no transparency is a system with no accountability, and that should terrify all of us,” said Sarah Decker, an attorney at the Robert & Ethel Kennedy Human Rights Center, one of the petition's signatories. “Disappearing people into a network of remote detention sites, hiding their whereabouts, and cutting off their access to outside help is the definition of an enforced disappearance." Separately, on Wednesday, more than 45 House Democrats led by Reps. Luz Rivas and Veronica Escobar urged ICE to restore the names to the locator.

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New Orleans lawyer gets hearing for federal judge President nominated Peter M. Mansfield to a district seat BY MARK BALLARD Staff writer

WASHINGTON — New Orleans lawyer Peter M. Mansfield on Wednesday answered questions from the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, which is vetting his nomination to the federal trial court in New Orleans. Mansfield, a Jesuit High alum, is the chief of the civil division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office based in New Orleans, where he has worked in various capacities for the past 23 years. Whether Mansfield wins final confirmation is up in the air as the 119th Congress is entering its final days and there are other nominees to consider. “It’s going to be tough to get all these people in the

four weeks they’ll have left when they return in November,” professor Carl Tobias, of the University of Richmond School of Law, who closely watches federal judicial nominations. The Senate panel heard Mansfield‘s testimony as leadership contemplated leaving Capitol Hill for a month to allow incumbents to campaign for the Nov. 3 congressional midterm elections. When the Senate returns, they have scheduled roughly 20 days in November and December to finish up their work before the 120th Congress is sworn in. Before Mansfield can sit as a U.S. district judge, the Senate committee will need to hold another hearing and take a vote recommending

the full Senate confirm him. His confirmation will have to clear procedural votes, and then he will need a majority of the senators to approve. “I don’t know if they’ll have the time,” Tobias said. And that’s presuming that Republicans will maintain the majority in the upper chamber. In the past, when one party supplanted the other in the majority, confirmations tend to take a backseat and sometimes don’t happen at all. The Democratic minority on the committee and in the full Senate have voted against many of President Donald Trump’s nominees that they consider too partisan. Democrats are particularly concerned about how none of Trump’s nominees

are willing to flat-out say that Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election and received the most votes. Instead, all the nominees, regardless of the office they seek, have taken to repeating the same line about Biden having been certified as the winner. At Wednesday’s hearing, the Democratic senators seemed fed up with hearing that same answer. “They acted like they knew they were going to get through on a party-line vote,” Tobias said of Mansfield and the two other judicial nominees, who repeated the same answer. Trump repeatedly has claimed the 2020 election was stolen from him. Dozens of lawsuits and investigations failed to uncover evidence of widespread election fraud. Mansfield said he agrees

with the answer that previous nominees repeat. “I don’t have anything more to add,” he said. Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, of Connecticut, responded: “If you can’t say this fact because you are so intimidated by the aura of fear created by the White House about this truth, I don’t know how you can serve with integrity on the bench.” Mansfield also said that running the civil litigation department for a U.S. attorney “by necessity and definition is to be a generalist.” Criminal cases follow a prescribed process that requires federal prosecutors to pursue a defendant when certain factors are present. But the government can be either plaintiff and defendant in civil actions. Like a judge, a civil litigator needs

to identify the disputed issues, applicable law and apply that to the facts of the situation. Mansfield would replace Judge Lance M. Africk, who took senior status on the U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana bench. He attended Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio. He was one of the first graduates, in 2003, when the newly created Ave Maria School of Law, a conservative Catholic institution, was located in Michigan. The school is now located in Naples, Florida. Mansfield and his wife, a social worker, have five children — the eldest daughter was a drum major for LSU’s Golden Band from Tigerland. Email Mark Ballard at mballard@theadvocate. com.

Pair of LSU fraternities face accusations of hazing

process. Separately, seven ported on Sept. 10, accord- available to all Greek orga- seriously,” Executive Direc- distress, involves alcohol Complaints allege DKE students and two FIJI ing to the Office of Student nizations,” the statement tor Turner Spears said in a or drug consumption or the students have been issued Advocacy and Account- said. “When hazing is re- statement. “We are current- consumption of substances waterboarding, misdemeanor summons for ability letter. In the report, ported, LSU must take it ly in the fact-finding phase “to excess,” among other milk-chugging hazing, LSU spokesperson the complainant alleged very seriously and imme- and are partnered with LSU criteria.

BY HALEY MILLER Staff writer

The complaints that led LSU to place two fraternities on interim suspensions earlier this month alleged that one organization “waterboarded” pledges, while another forced them to chug gallons of chocolate milk, according to LSU documents. The hazing investigations involve the Delta Kappa Epsilon, or DKE, and Phi Gamma Delta, or FIJI, chapters. The LSU Office of Student Advocacy and Accountability sent letters to the chapters on Sept. 17 informing them of the interim suspensions. LSU recently held a hearing on the interim suspensions and upheld them, which means the fraternities will stay shut down until the final outcome of the university accountability

Meg Casper Sunstrom said. In the allegations against DKE, the complainant said they became suspicious of hazing when a pledge mentioned having to stay “long hours” in the house. The pledge told them later, “they had me doing wall sits and were actively waterboarding me in the process,” according to the report. The student also mentioned a game of Twister that resulted in another pledge breaking their collarbone because of “harsh requirements” in the game, according to the complainant. The student also said pledges were in a basement with blindfolds over their eyes but didn’t go into details about what happened. The complainant said they would attempt to have the student submit his own report of the incidents. FIJI’s suspension stems from a single incident re-

Committee advances Nicole Saphier for surgeon general President’s third nominee moves forward on a 12-11 vote BY FATIMA HUSSEIN Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Dr. Nicole Saphier, President Donald Trump’s third nominee for surgeon general, moved a step closer to confirmation after a Senate committee voted to advance her nomination on Wednesday. Saphier, a radiologist and former Fox News Channel contributor, was advanced out of the Senate Committee on Health, Saphier Education, Labor and Pensions on a 12 to 11 vote to serve as surgeon general after she was grilled at her confirmation hearing earlier this month about her stance on childhood vaccines. She expressed support for vaccines and told lawmakers she didn’t believe they cause autism. The Trump administration has sought to revisit claims about a link between vaccines and autism, although widespread scientific consensus and decades of studies have firmly concluded there is none. Timothy Westlake, who was nominated to serve as assistant secretary for mental health and substance use at the Department of Health and Human Services was also advanced out of commit-

tee on the same en bloc vote. It was not immediately clear when the officials would face a full Senate vote for their confirmation but they are expected to be approved. During her confirmation hearing, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, pressed Saphier to declare whether she believed there was a link between vaccines and autism. Saphier responded that she does “not believe childhood vaccines cause autism,” adding that “the MMR vaccine is our greatest tool for combating measles,” in response to a question by Cassidy over whether parents should give children that shot. MMR stands for measles, mumps and rubella, and the president recently called for the shots to be spaced out, against the guidance of medical groups. The surgeon general position carries limited policymaking power but serves as a loud megaphone as the nation’s top communicator to Americans on public health issues. Cassidy, who led the inquiry into Saphier’s views on vaccines, ultimately voted in support of her nomination. Sen. Bernie Sanders, the ranking member of the Senate HELP committee, said ahead of Saphier’s vote that he would vote down her nomination because in part Saphier “has questioned the need for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth, when the data science has been clear.” “We need a surgeon general who will tell the truth about vaccines, not someone who misleads the public,” said Sanders, I-Vt.

that FIJI forced pledges to chug gallons of chocolate milk, making many students vomit. The complainant also raised animal care concerns about FIJI allegedly requiring pledges to bring squirrels to a meeting. Sunstrom referenced the university’s previous statement on the incidents. “Our goal is that every chapter on campus is successful by taking advantage of the resources LSU makes

diately implement our conduct process, which is what has occurred with these two fraternities.” The national headquarters of DKE said the organization will “take appropriate action based on the facts established through these processes.” “Delta Kappa Epsilon International Fraternity is aware of the allegations involving the Zeta Zeta Chapter at Louisiana State University and takes them

in the investigative process.” The LSU chapters of the organizations, as well as the national headquarters of FIJI, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The LSU Code of Student Conduct defines hazing as a condition for initiation to or continued membership in a group “regardless of consent” that endangers physical health or safety, causes severe emotional

Under Louisiana law, committing an act of hazing not causing death can result in six months imprisonment or a $1,000 fine. Email Haley Miller at haley.miller@theadvocate. com.

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N.O. asks Supreme Court to reject clerk ruling City wants state high court’s decision overturned

BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a decision by the Louisiana Supreme Court earlier this year that endorsed a new state law eliminating the criminal clerk of court seat in New Orleans that a former life prisoner, Calvin Duncan, won last November. A petition filed Wednesday by City Attorney Charline Gipson’s office argues that Act 15, the law that eliminated Duncan’s seat as he was poised to take office, deprives Orleans Parish voters of their rights under the due process and equal protection clauses of the 14th Amendment. Moreno, City Council President JP Morrell and Calvin Johnson, the former criminal court judge who was named by the City Council as an interim clerk to lead a newly unified clerk’s office, are named as petitioners. In a statement, Moreno said she was “incredibly proud” of Gipson’s office for the petition.

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Continued from page 1A Rodrigue added. Texts they’ve received so far appear to reflect communication between White and officials in the District Attorney’s Office related to plans for Williams and a half-dozen other people to appear before the grand jury. Rodrigue has offered up to news media two exchanges from what she describes as 57 pages of records received from the District Attorney’s Office, which has not yet responded to a request from The Times-Picayune | The Advocate for the same cache.

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Continued from page 1A defendants to Louisiana, citing so-called shield laws that protect abortion access in their states. In a statement, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul defended the shield laws. “No one should have to fear being punished for seeking or providing reproductive care,” she said. “As anti-abortion extremists in other states try to reach across our borders and threaten patients and providers, New York will stand up for them.” Shield laws protect the freedom to access reproductive healthcare, Hochul said. The complaint filed with the U.S. Supreme Court against New York, California and Massachusetts argues shield laws in those states violate the Constitution because they hamstring

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Calvin Duncan was elected criminal clerk of court in New Orleans before the Legislature passed a law eliminating the position. “This case is bigger than any one officeholder or any one election,” the mayor’s statement read. “At its core, democracy demands that when people vote in a lawful election, their votes must mean something.” Duncan also lent his support to the effort. “The Attorney General and the Governor are doing everything they can to distract us from their abuses of power while trying to in-

timidate our leadership,” Duncan said in a statement Wednesday. “I am proud that our leaders remain focused on fighting for our right to have our votes count.” Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill responded Wednesday that her office will follow its usual practice by filing a waiver with the Supreme Court and seeing if they ask for a response. “Instead of filing frivolous petitions in the U.S. Supreme Court,

Murrill was indicted for letters she sent to Williams, Moreno and the five council members who supported a public vote and interim appointment to a newly unified court clerk’s post in New Orleans. She said their jobs were at risk under state “usurper” statutes that penalize official support for an unauthorized officeholder. Murrill’s attorneys argue that the July 21 letter from Moreno and the five council members urging White to drop the indictment, and a similar letter from Williams the same day, likely contradict testimony they may have given to the grand jury. The missive from Moreno and the council said they were “not intimidated” by Murrill’s letters. That

echoed a previous statement from the five council members named in them. The attorney general’s effort to pry records from the city, Williams and the special prosecutor dovetails with a criminal investigation by Louisiana State Police into the situation. Gov. Jeff Landry ordered up that probe, which is focused on possible crimes that include jury tampering, perjury and unlawful disclosure of grand jury proceedings, according to a request for a special prosecutor filed last month by a lawyer for the state. In one message released Tuesday, Morrell provided political consultant Todd Ragusa with two potential public responses to criticism

red states’ ability to enforce their own abortion restrictions. The three blue states are “actively seeking ways to nullify the sovereign rights of pro-life states to regulate abortion within their own borders,” Murrill said. A spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom blasted Louisiana’s effort. “California will never be complicit in the war on women. We lead with our values and will continue to protect reproductive rights,” the spokesperson said. Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The other lawsuit accuses 30 organizations and healthcare providers in five states and Washington, D.C., of operating websites that advertise drugs like mifepristone and misoprostol to people who live in states where abortion is illegal and then mailing them the pills.

“By abridging Plaintiff States’ traditional authority to regulate the practice of medicine, this interstate scheme places the lives and health of women, girls, and unborn babies in Plaintiff States at risk,” the complaint states. “The organizations and individuals behind this scheme are free to disagree with Plaintiff States’ policy decisions — but they are not free to disregard them.” Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama are asking a federal court in Louisiana’s Western District to declare the abortion pill shipments illegal, order the prescribers to halt them and award damages. Murrill has also been battling in court to overturn a federal government policy that allows pills to be mailed across state lines for abortions. A three-judge panel of the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments in that case earlier this month.

I suggest the city attorney spend more time learning the public records laws,” Murrill said, invoking her ongoing public records fight with the city. Duncan won with 68% of the vote over incumbent Darren Lombard last year to take the criminal court seat after a bruising race that saw Lombard sue over Duncan’s claim of being exonerated from a 1981 murder conviction in campaign ads. Moreno endorsed Lombard over Duncan in the criminal clerk’s race. The Legislature then merged the clerk seats in New Orleans shortly before Duncan was due to take office, assigning the post to civil Clerk Chelsey Richard Napoleon. Gov. Jeff Landry signed the new law on April 30. “It bears noting that the distinct duties of the Criminal Clerk factored heavily into the electorate’s informed choice to elect Duncan, whose campaign centered around the personal injustice he suffered having been wrongfully convicted of a crime and imprisoned for twenty-eight years — a period prolonged by his inability to access his own case records from the Criminal Clerk’s office,” the city’s petition states in a footnote. A divided state high court in June backed Act 15 as a “valid

from Murrill and Landry. “Response 1: I have not done anything unethical in regards the Attorney General’s prosecution, as I had nothing to do with it beyond responding … to a Grand Jury subpoena,” Morrell wrote. “All attorneys are required to comply with court orders, (and a) court issued subpoena is a ‘court order.’ As a fellow practicing attorney, the governor should know that fact.” “Response 2: Bless their hearts.” The released city records also include a message from Moreno to Morrell, a close political ally, when the city made public the July 21 letter asking White to drop the case. Moreno told Morrell to

exercise of legislative power,” answering a pair of legal challenges lodged in Baton Rouge. The court found in a 4-3 vote that city officials overstepped by naming an interim clerk to the combined post and calling for an election. “No provision of the Louisiana or United States Constitution prohibits Act 15 from being immediately effective. By the clear terms of the Act, there is no vacancy in any office,” the court ruled. The opinion was unsigned. Justices Cade Cole, Jeff Hughes and Jay McCallum along with a fill-in justice, 1st Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Allison Penzato, comprised the majority. Justices John Michael Guidry, Piper Griffin and Chief Justice John Weimer dissented. The decision supported the naming of Napoleon, the elected civil clerk, to run a unified clerk’s office in Orleans, the only parish in the state that had separate court clerks. Napoleon was one of two people who sued in Baton Rouge state court over the new law. She claimed the City Council shouldn’t have appointed Johnson as interim clerk and called for a new election. The other lawsuit was filed by Gary Crockett, a U.S. Senate candidate who claimed Act 15 was unconstitutional.

brace for political blowback from their decision to call off the indictment. “Just hold on tight bc I’m sure will be rough the next few days with people wanting us to keep fighting,” the mayor wrote. “I’m good,” Morrell responded. “Worry about others, I’m term limited.” City Attorney Charline Gipson released a statement Wednesday morning about the public records release. “In 2026 alone, the City has received and resolved more than 20,000 public records requests. The City currently has approximately 900 pending requests, and Ms. Rodrigue’s request was prioritized and processed on an expedited basis,” it states. “The City remains com-

mitted to fulfilling its obligations under Louisiana Public Records Law and ensuring the public’s right of access, which is subject to reasonable attempts to narrow or specify a request with a requestor.” City officials have received subpoenas to testify Thursday before Civil District Judge Nicole Sheppard in a public records lawsuit that Murrill’s attorneys filed against White, the special prosecutor. It’s uncertain if that court date will remain.

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WASHINGTON — Inflation slowed a bit last month as Americans ramped up their spending, though prices are still elevated and a challenge for many voters that will head to the polls for midterm elections in just over a month. Consumer prices rose 3.4% in August compared with a year earlier, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, below the 3.7% econo-

mist expectations. On a monthly basis, prices climbed 0.3%, up from 0.1% in July, a sign prices that are still running hot. Excluding the volatile energy and food categories, inflation also came in lower than expected, rising 3% in August from a year ago. And from July to August, core prices rose just 0.2%, up from 0.1% the previous month. Many economists feared core prices would rise more quickly month-tomonth. U.S. markets bounced higher immediately on the new inflation reading, with investors betting that an expected interest-rate hike from

the U.S. Federal Reserve might be delayed. Even so, inflation remains above the Federal Reserve's 2% target and the monthly increase in August suggests it isn't moving back toward the target anytime soon. The Fed lifted its key short-term interest rate two weeks ago for the first time in three years to combat inflation and most economists expect it will do so at least once more this year, possibly as soon as late next month. “Inflation’s trend is lower but still not close to their target and not improving, either,” Bill Adams, chief U.S. economist at Fifth Third Com-

mercial Bank, said in an email. Wednesday's report covered a key inflation gauge closely watched by the Fed, known as the personal consumption expenditures price index. It is similar to the higher-profile consumer price index, which was released earlier this month. High prices have cast a pall on the U.S. economy, even as growth is mostly solid and the unemployment rate is low. On Tuesday, the Conference Board's consumer confidence survey fell to its lowest level since 2014, a period that includes both the Great Recession and a global pandemic.

DoorDash partners with Macy’s, Anthropologie DoorDash is moving further into clothing delivery and expanding its return service. The San Francisco company said Wednesday it’s partnering with Macy’s, Anthropologie, The North Face, Vans and Timberland. The brands will offer their products on DoorDash’s U.S. website and its drivers will deliver them in as little as an hour. Macy’s has been using DoorDash for same-day delivery orders for several years, but this formalizes the partnership and lets Macy’s add its goods to DoorDash’s website. DoorDash drivers will also pick up and return items purchased through the app for a flat fee of $7.99. The company has been testing return service in a handful of U.S. markets and plans to roll out the service nationwide in November. DoorDash was founded as a restaurant delivery service in 2013 and added grocery delivery in 2020. It’s been expanding into areas to attract more customers to its site. DoorDash recently announced partnerships with Gap, Costco, Barnes & Noble and Kohl’s. DoorDash rival Uber Eats has also been adding retail deliveries. It announced a partnership with Foot Locker in July and expanded deliveries from Costco nationwide in September.

FTC is investigating OpenAI and Anthropic The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has opened an investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies over dangers their technology may pose to consumers, the agency said Wednesday. The AI giants and other tech companies in recent months have disclosed examples of their AI agents going beyond human instructions, finding their way onto the internet and hacking external websites. An FTC spokesperson confirmed the investigation but declined further comment. The investigation was first reported by the New York Post, which said it has been underway for months. Representatives for Anthropic and OpenAI did not immediately respond to messages for comment on Wednesday. Concerns around the dangers powerful AI models may pose to humanity have led some of the top AI developers to call for a slowdown.

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Fed watchdog finds no crimes in $2.4B renovation, only mismanagement BY CHRISTOPHER RUGABER

AP economics writer

WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve’s internal watchdog said Wednesday that the central bank has broadly mismanaged an expansive building renovation project but did not find any criminal violations, as alleged by Trump administration prosecutors. A variety of missteps by the Fed's Board of Governors and staff inflated the cost of the $2.4 billion renovation, the Fed’s inspector general said. The board did not secure a comprehensive cost estimate at the beginning of the project, nor did it nail down a maximum overall cost, a step that could have forced the building contractor to absorb the impact of inflation, the IG said in a 120-page report. Prices spiked after construction began in 2022. “Our review found that the Board has not effectively managed and executed its ... contract and repeatedly deviated from its costmanagement provisions,” the report said. The building project became a high-profile flashpoint in the Trump administration’s efforts to pressure the Fed into cutting its key interest rate. President Donald Trump even visited the construction site last July, when then-Chairman Jerome Powell corrected

Trump’s estimate of the project’s expected costs as the two stood in hard hats before TV cameras. Criticism of the project also mounted in Congress, leading Powell to request in July 2025 that the inspector general, Michael Horowitz, investigate the renovation. The building project then became the focus of a criminal investigation by Trump’s Justice Department, specifically into whether Powell had committed perjury during brief testimony about the renovation before a Senate committee. That investigation was dropped in April after a judge quashed subpoenas issued by Jeanine Pirro, the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Pirro said then she would await the outcome of the inspector general’s investigation before deciding whether to take any further action. “At no point during our evaluation did we find reasonable grounds to believe that a violation of federal criminal law had occurred requiring a referral to the U.S. Attorney General,” the IG’s report said. Tim Lauer, a spokesperson for Pirro's office, said the report is under review. Powell's term as chair ended in May, but he took the highly unusual step of remaining on the board as one of seven governors. His term as a governor lasts until January

2028. Powell said earlier this year he would remain on the board at least until he is convinced that Pirro's investigation is done. By keeping his seat, Powell has also prevented the Trump administration from filling another spot on the board. Trump on Wednesday afternoon seized on the report to renew his call for Powell to resign from the Fed. “He can’t manage a Building, and he certainly shouldn’t be allowed to manage his High Interest Rate Policy,” Trump wrote on his social media site, Truth Social. “And no, I do not want this Building named after President Donald J. Trump, ME!” Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee and a frequent critic of Powell's, said the report “confirmed that Trump lapdogs U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and Attorney General Todd Blanche have no basis to restart the President’s witch hunt against former Fed Chair Jerome Powell.” Current Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, who took office last May, welcomed the IG’s findings in a letter and said the General Services Administration, a federal agency that oversees most government buildings, would take on a consulting role with the Fed to help oversee the project.

Judge OKs Paramount's settlement with states over buyout BY WYATTE GRANTHAM-PHILIPS

AP business writer

CHICAGO — A federal judge has now granted Paramount’s settlement agreement with 12 states that sued over the company’s takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery, allowing the companies to soon close their $81 billion mega merger. In a Wednesday order, U.S. District Judge Araceli MartínezOlguín ruled that the proposed consent decree was a “fair, reasonable, and good faith approach to address the competitive harms” alleged by the states' lawsuit. Paramount previously called the antitrust challenge the last hurdle ahead of closing its Warner

merger, and signaled that it aims to close its Warner acquisition as soon as early October. Shortly after Martínez-Olguín's ruling on Wednesday afternoon, the company announced that Ynon Kreiz — current chief executive at toy giant Mattel — will join Paramount on Oct. 5 and serve as coCEO alongside David Ellison of the combined company. A Paramount-Warner marriage will bring together two of Hollywood’s last five legacy studios. HBO Max, a library full of titles including “Harry Potter” and cable networks such as CNN will also find themselves under the same roof with CBS, the likes of the “Top Gun” franchise and the

Paramount+ streaming service. Top prosecutors from 12 states — led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta — sued in July with an initial goal of blocking the merger altogether. They alleged a Paramount-Warner combo would “extinguish competition” and lead to fewer choices for consumers, particularly movie theatergoers and cable customers. Last week, the states agreed to settle these claims through new commitments from Paramount, including pledges to increase film production in the U.S. over the next five years, commit millions of dollars to a fund aimed at supporting workers displaced by the merger and establish new editorial

monitoring of CNN and CBS. When announcing the deal on Sept. 21, Bonta said the settlement was about “protecting people’s careers, the lives they’ve built here in California, the livelihoods their families rely on,” while maintaining it was not a vote of support for the merger. Many critics of the tie-up, however, quickly decried the deal as capitulating to corporate pressure and said the proposed terms were too weak. Martínez-Olguín didn't greenlight the terms right away — maintaining at a hearing on Thursday that the court isn’t merely a “rubber stamp” on a settlement of this kind and that she, like many others, still had questions.

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Passengers stop attack on plane by co-pilot Jet bound for Israel makes emergency landing in Saudi Arabia BY SAMY MAGDY, MELANIE LIDMAN, ISAAC SCHARF and JOSH FUNK Associated Press

TEL AVIV, Israel — A co-pilot stabbed a captain Wednesday on a flight to Israel before passengers burst into the cockpit and wrestled with the attacker as the plane descended sharply and passengers screamed, witnesses said. The jetliner was stabilized and made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia. It was not clear what motivated the attack, which led Israel to scramble warplanes amid concerns about a possible hijacking. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saudi Arabia arrested the co-pilot, who was not identified. The shaken passengers from the FlyDubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv landed Wednesday evening in Israel on another flight, as onlookers cheered. “We’re going to die,” passenger Naama Bershadski recalled thinking as she closed her eyes and prayed for a good ending. Israel’s emergency services said they treated three passengers with minor injuries.

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Continued from page 1A additional city department leaders about their needs in the coming weeks. The proposed elimination of a $1.3 million NOPD contract with a private company that responds to minor traffic accidents particularly sparked officials’ concerns. The company, On Scene Services, has sped up response times to traffic accidents since it was contracted in 2018, leaders said. “It would be a tremendous self-own, self-goal, horrible position to be in … if we saw call time creep back up to those terrifying levels in 2022 and 2023, where people were having to wait two, three hours for response,” said council President JP Morrell. “I do think it’s going to have to be a cooperative conversation how we address the issue.” NOPD Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said that if the contract were cut, traffic accidents would enter “the queue as any other 911 calls” and police officers would respond. The department would “do everything to maintain efficient services,” she said. The department also plans to cut $2.5 million in spending on body-worn cameras, cameras in police vehicles and Tasers. “We would take a surgical approach of who really needs to have a body camera,” said Kirkpatrick. “Not all of our officers have citizen contacts.”

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Passengers who experienced an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia on a FlyDubai flight arrive at Ben Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday. Aviation experts were surprised that the plane did not crash after a descent so extreme that most of the rudder was ripped off the tail. A video shared by Netanyahu’s office showed passenger Yaniv Hayoun, who grappled with the attacker, wearing a bloodied shirt and hugging the prime minister, who told him: “I look at you and I see a lion. I see a great hero.” After a passenger saw one pilot stab the other and called out for help, Yaniv said, he and others pushed their way into the cockpit, where he saw the co-pilot appar-

full-time civilian employees from NOPD “all across the board, in every division of our department,” said Kirkpatrick. Those duties would be filled by sworn officers. The city would shave a total of $3 million from the city’s general fund for NOPD compared with actual spending in 2026, a 2% decrease. But the proposed $167 million budget is a $5 million increase from the department’s proposed 2026 budget. That increase reflects additional funding for NOPD to conduct parking enforcement duties, which it took over from the Department of Public Works earlier this year. Moreno’s team has said some cuts could be mitigated by the roll forward, which is when the city rolls forward millage rates to the maximum allowed by law. The mayor wants the council to help decide how much to increase the millages and which programs the city should cut. Some council members have called for the mayor to have more of a hand in that decision, which is controversial. Criminal justice advocates noted on Wednesday that the NOPD, if the current budget stands, would take a smaller hit than some other departments. The New Orleans Fire Department would see a 10% cut because of unbudgeted terminal leave payouts and fire pension payments this year. The $5 million budget for the city’s low barrier homeless shelter would be zeroed out under Moreno’s proposed budget. “The things that are in place to prevent violence are being cut much more heavily than the police budget,” said Sara Omojola, director

ently trying to destroy the controls, Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 reported. “The door apparently wasn’t locked, and we managed to open it somehow,” Hayoun told journalists. “What made it difficult for us was the (other) pilot himself. He had been stabbed and was on the other side of the door.” As people wrestled with the attacker, Yaniv said he grabbed the controls and pulled them the way he had seen on television. Then other crew members took over. FlyDubai said the aircraft was

of the Vera Institute of Justice, a criminal justice nonprofit. Omojola also raised concern about decreasing the number of body-worn cameras for officers. The council will vote Thursday on whether to extend a $1.2 million a year contract with Ubuntu Village, a community violence prevention nonprofit.

Other public safety cuts The city’s fire and emergency management departments, and juvenile jail, would all face significant cuts, too. The Office of Coordination and Emergency Management proposed eliminating several key personnel to shrink its budget by 17% from 2026. Those include people responsible for coordinating emergency response and preparedness for storms and heat advisories, including one person dedicated to serving people with limited mobility. “Everybody has to wear different hats, so that’s what we’d continue to do,” said Director Darrick Hesson. The Juvenile Justice Intervention Center, the city’s juvenile jail, also proposed cuts that would shrink its budget by 14%, cutting $300,000 from programming within its facilities and $430,000 for medical care for incarcerated youth. Several incarcerated young people who spoke via teleconference at a council committee meeting Monday said the jail has given them a break from violence and poverty at home. The New Orleans Fire Department proposed slashing the city’s contribution to its

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secured by on-duty crew “who diverted and landed the aircraft safely.” Another passenger in the scrum, Tzvika Manes, told Channel 12 it took many minutes to subdue the attacker. A third responder, dentist Shota Musayev, told journalists the passengers realized they had just seconds to take control of the plane before a “critical event.” They also feared another attacker might be on the plane, so “we spread a few more people inside the plane so that if something happened, we would be able to simply take control.” Musayev then attended to the wounded captain: “He was just praying the whole time and was in contact with me, and I was afraid we would really lose him.” Netanyahu identified the Indian captain as Smit Machchhar and noted his “extraordinary bravery.” The Indian Embassy in Saudi Arabia said Machchhar was in stable condition. “Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster,” Netanyahu said on X. “He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.” When the struggle was over, video footage on social media reviewed by The Associated Press

pension system for this year by $8.5 million. The New Orleans Firefighters’ Pension and Relief Fund has been called by pension experts one of the worst in the U.S. for being chronically underfunded by the city. The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office would see a budget cut of 6%, about $219,000. A spokesperson said the cut is significant “when we are already struggling to pay dynamic bills like toxicology, body bags and specialized equipment like PPE, that have doubled in price.” Ethan Cheramie, founder

showed two men on the plane’s floor, bloodied and wounded. The captain and first officer were injured, according to a statement by Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz International Airport in Tabuk, where the plane landed at 9:45 a.m., an hour after making a distress call. Among the passengers who intervened were members of the Israeli security forces and air marshals, according to a person familiar with a probe by Saudi Arabia and regional partners. The person was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. Netanyahu had warned in recent days of unspecified, heightened security threats. The country is a week away from the anniversary of the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which has triggered a series of wars, and is weeks away from an election. In the chaos about two and a half hours after leaving Dubai, the flight descended from 33,000 feet to 17,000 feet in about a minute, before making an erratic circle close to the Jordanian border and landing in Tabuk about an hour later, according to Flightradar24, which identified the aircraft as a Boeing 737 Max 8. “Suddenly the aircraft started to fall down, like, a massive turbulence, like a massive G-force, for 20 or 30 seconds,” passenger Almog Italie said.

of On Site Services, defended his company’s work in an interview Wednesday. “Every call we handle gives NOPD about two hours of officer time back for higher priority calls and enforcement. … And we are doing it at a competitive price point for the city.” Cheramie said he would be open to decreasing the company’s rates, after Morrell suggested that NOPD explore rebidding the contract to seek the services at a lower cost. He said uncertainty about the program’s future has already led him to furlough about half his agents.

His firm is also still owed $1.3 million from the city for its work from the period spanning Sept. 1, 2025 through Aug. 31, 2026, due to a slow, clunky contracting and city ratification process, he said. Staff writers Missy Wilkinson, Joni Hess, and Marco Cartolano contributed to this report.

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LEFT: Robert Washington, an employee of Casamento’s Restaurant for 48 years, carries a broom and dustpan through the dining room at the Magazine Street restaurant ahead of its reopening Thursday after its summer closure. BELOW: P&J Oyster Co. employee Terrance Alexander delivers 15 sacks of fresh oysters to Casamento’s Restaurant. STAFF PHOTOS By DAVID GRUNFELD

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vulnerabilities that can befall a small, family business. C.J. Gerdes is nearing 70 and has been working at the restaurant since he was 14. Linda Gerdes is 67 and has been working here since marrying into the family in 1978. Both are ready to retire. But they also feel like stewards for a legacy restaurant that has endured through the same family for three generations. Plans to carry Casamento’s into the fourth generation changed through heartache and tragedy. Their daughter, Natalie Gerdes Hebert, the heir apparent to lead the restaurant, died of a heart attack last year at age 37. Her twin sister, Nikki Gerdes, suffered life-changing injuries in a severe car wreck a few years prior. It left her unable to take over the restaurant, her father said. “Our daughter dying was the deciding factor making us think about closing; that took the heart out of it for us,” he said. “I’m different. The family is different.”

Some of Casamento’s longestserving employees are reaching retirement age, too. For instance, Dolly Skinner, 65, has cooked at the restaurant for 42 years. Robert Washington, 77, has worked there for 48 years. C.J. Gerdes said hiring new staff and essentially starting over is not viable at this point in his life. News that Casamento’s days could be numbered stirred much interest last spring, not the least from people in the hospitality business. C.J. Gerdes has heard from numerous restaurant operators and real estate agents about the possibility of buying the restaurant. But he has not gotten far into discussing terms. That’s because his own outlook for Casamento’s is strung with questions. Is he really ready to let the restaurant go? If he was to sell the property and the Casamento’s name, would a new owner operate it the way the family always has? And could he bear to see it turned into something different? “If I’m going to let someone else keep the name, it’s so they keep it like it is, but is anyone going to do that?” he said, looking around two

narrow dining rooms set with just at Casamento’s traditional ways a dozen tables and filled with a life- have aged into functional pecutime of memories. liarities. Orders are taken by pen on noteA functional time capsule pads, and tabs are settled with Casamento’s is an enduring part cash only at the clanking register of an older New Orleans, said Sal tucked into a niche in the tiled Sunseri, whose family’s 150-year- walls. The metal bin keeping oysold business, P&J Oyster Co. sup- ters cold by the shucker’s counter plies local restaurants, including is chilled with ice, not electric reCasamento’s. He calls Casamen- frigeration. A trip to the restroom entails to’s an “oyster saloon,” and said similarly small, storefront seafood shimmying past a curtain and spots were once much more com- through the kitchen, as if in someone’s home, giving diners a mon around the city. That makes Casamento’s a liv- glimpse of how Casamento’s cooks. Fried oysters are second only to ing connection to the city’s food heritage. He hopes it can stay open raw oysters in popularity on the menu, but the restaurant does not somehow. “Any time an iconic place that have a commercial fryer. Instead, has meant so much to the city, C.J. Gerdes works a drumline of and paid into the coffers of the iron skillets, six of them at a time, city, closes down, that’s a loss for crowded onto each burner of the everyone,” said Sunseri. “So it’s stove, frying seafood in lard. It’s a something to understand and ap- homestyle approach that adds flapreciate while it’s here. We don’t vor and imparts freshness, as the like saying ‘ain’t dere no more.’” lard is changed every few batches. While other oyster specialists with long histories continue, like History on the half shell Acme Oyster House, Felix’s ResC.J. Gerdes’ grandfather Joe taurant & Oyster Bar and Pascal’s Casamento, an immigrant from the Manale Restaurant, they have also Italian island of Ustica, opened the evolved as businesses and changed restaurant just after World War I ownership through the years. But and worked there until his death in

1979 at the age of 90. Back in 1949, Casamento installed the current tilework and closed the restaurant over the course of several months to do the work. These were not coincidentally the summer months because, back in the era when refrigerated transport was not common in the oyster business, the restaurant’s primary ingredient wasn’t at its best anyway. This established the tradition of summer closures, which has held up ever since and set the restaurant’s unorthodox operating schedule. That schedule sets a clock for the decision that C.J. Gerdes is now grappling to resolve. He expects that the possibility of closing will spark renewed customer interest, and he’s planning for a busy season. He may keep Casamento’s open a little later than normal this year, perhaps into June. But eventually change will come to the timeless restaurant. “It’s a decision you have to make not just with your head, but with your heart too,” he said. “They have to come together.” Email Ian McNulty at imcnulty@theadvocate.com.

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Judge sought charges against TV station Holmes claims reporting revealed personal information

BY JAMES FINN

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A New Orleans judge asked police to criminally investigate WWL-TV over a report that scrutinized a real estate deal which led to federal prison time for her exfiancé, according to records.

Criminal District Court Judge Kimya Holmes, who is running for reelection in the city’s fall municipal cycle, lodged the request with a New Orleans Police Department detective on Sept. 11, according to a police report obtained by The Times-Picayune | The Advocate. Holmes’ complaint appears to in-

voke a state law that bars release of some officials’ information, but which no longer carries criminal penalties. The report, from which Holmes’ name is redacted, said she met with detectives to “make a complaint of a news media outlet (WWL-TV) revealing her home ad-

dress and vehicle information.” It lists the complainant’s occupation as “judge.” WWL-TV on Tuesday identified Holmes as the complainant in an Holmes evening news report. In an interview last week and a statement provided Wednesday by

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her campaign, the judge said revealing her address and a license plate had put her at risk. The statement said her office received calls laden with racial epithets. “It’s unnecessary,” Holmes said in the interview. “That same story could’ve been told without ever posting where I live, without ever posting what kind of car I drive.”

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Tammany schools chief retires abruptly Jabbia’s departure comes amid fallout from unreported child abuse

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Rusty Costanza, of Metairie, takes photos of the Debra H. and Robert J. Patrick Neuroscience Institute during a tour Wednesday. Costanza, who was diagnosed with ALS in 2025, will be among the first patients at Ochsner’s new facility.

Ochsner opens New Orleans brain health facility BY MARGARET DELANEY Staff writer

Ochsner Health on Wednesday opened its new Debra H. and Robert J. Patrick Neuroscience Institute, a 132,000-square-foot, fourstory facility at its Jefferson Highway complex that is dedicated entirely to brain health. Although the $120 million institute is not the state’s only neuroscience center, it is the first in Louisiana to have a standalone facility for neuroscience and brain health. “My family and I are profoundly moved by what this institute will mean for patients and their families,” said Robert “Bobby” Patrick, a principal donor, in a statement. “We are honored and excited to support this meaningful work.” The institute’s first patients will be seen starting Monday for conditions that include stroke, epilepsy, brain tumors, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis,

St. Tammany Parish public schools Superintendent Frank Jabbia retired on Wednesday after seven years overseeing the district, an unexpected move that comes a week after he faced questions over how two elementary school leaders handled allegations of child abuse. Jabbia, 55, stepped down effective immediately, according to a news release sent by the district Wednesday afternoon. As of 6 p.m., his name and picture had been removed from the dis- Jabbia trict’s website. “Serving the students, employees, families and community of St. Tammany Parish has been one of the greatest honors of my life,” Jabbia said in the news release. “I am incredibly proud of the thousands of dedicated educators and employees who work every day on behalf of our students, and I will always be grateful for the opportunity I have had to serve this community.” In recent weeks, Jabbia has had to grapple with the fallout from two former administrators at Lyon Elementary who failed to report child abuse at the school last year. Former Principal Lauryn Faciane and

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Democratic politician tours N.O. schools Rahm Emanuel floats 2028 presidential bid

This 3D model of a patient’s skull is among the capabilities that Ochsner’s Debra H. and Robert J. Patrick Neuroscience Institute will be able to produce in-house to help patients recover. Alzheimer’s disease and othNearly 600 employees jobs on day one,” said BJ er memory disorders, spine work at the institute, a 25% Lanier, director of neuroconditions, neuromuscular increase in neuro-staff for science clinic operations diseases and behavioral Ochsner Health. “This building created ä See OCHSNER, page 6B health.

District 92 House race draws three candidates Two political veterans and one newcomer are vying in special election

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leans International Airport’s inwhich covers most of Kenner frastructure, on top of confrontand parts of Metairie. H H H H H H Democrat Gregory Carroll ing statewide issues including and Republicans Alex Perdomo immigration, the insurance and Mike Sigur will vie Nov. 3 to crisis, data centers and the use fill the seat that Joe Stagni left of nondisclosure agreements by earlier this year to join the Kenner City public officials. BY LARA NICHOLSON Council. Early voting will take place Oct. 20-27. Staff writer The winning candidate will need to work The deadline to register to vote in person Two political veterans and one newcom- with state and parish officials on local is- or by mail is Oct. 5, and the deadline to er are vying in a special election this fall sues, including the blighted Esplanade ä See HOUSE SEAT, page 2B to represent Louisiana House District 92, Mall and the Louis Armstrong New Or-

BY WILLIE SWETT Staff writer

Rahm Emanuel, the former Democratic mayor of Chicago and former U.S. ambassador to Japan, visited two public schools and held a town-hall meeting in New Orleans on Wednesday as he explores a possible run for president in 2028. Emanuel spent the day visiting classrooms and speaking with administrators at Phillis Wheatley Elementary and George Washington Carver High School. Emanuel In the evening, he spoke about his work in education and his potential run for the presidency at a town hall at the New Orleans Career Center. Emanuel came to New Orleans, he said, because Louisiana students showed some of the best recovery in reading and math skills in the U.S. since the COVID-19 pandemic. A report issued in May found that among nearly 40 states, Louisiana was first in reading growth and second in math progress from 2022 to 2025. “You should have every governor coming through here, every mayor, every school

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Police detail fatal shooting outside bar Officials: Man involved in brawl with suspect

BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office homicide detectives investigating the death a 28-year-old man in early September said the victim was involved in a brawl with his alleged killer outside of a Metairie bar minutes before he was fatally shot. Iverson Aranda, 28, was arrested three days later and booked with second-degree murder in connection with the shooting, authorities said. Aranda is accused of killing Gustavo Zuniga-Mejia, a local barber and an amazing artist, according to his sister, Bree Zuniga. “My brother was a great father to his son, a great son, a great

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register online is Oct. 13.

Gregory Carroll Carroll, one of the only officials to ever serve three consecutive terms on the Kenner City Council, is seeking to represent what he said is the most diverse district in the state. He said his goals include improving infrastructure and insurance costs for constituents. Carroll, 64, served Kenner City Council District 1 from 2009 to 2022. He has since served as Kenner’s appointee for the New Orleans Aviation Board until earlier this year. Carroll said one of his top priorities if elected would be to secure funding to advance a $24 million “Kenner Pump to the River” station, which would drain water from south Kenner into the Mississippi River instead of Lake Pontchartrain, where all the city’s pumps currently send water. Carroll said the new pumps would prevent flooding by easing the amount of water north Kenner takes on from the rest of the city and the airport during storms. With those infrastructure improvements, along with other state storm mitigation programs, Carroll said Kenner residents will hopefully see some relief on their home insurance bills. Carroll said he would support a plan for the parish to purchase the Esplanade Mall to remediate the property and put it back into commerce. He said he supports stricter code enforcement against the current owners. As for state economic development projects such as data centers, Carroll said he would “not compromise providing fresh water, fresh air and fresh land” to Louisiana residents, and that more regulations need to be put in place to ensure the state isn’t giving too many resources away without enough benefit in return. He said would not sign a nondisclosure agreement for a project that touches taxpayer dollars, a practice that has become routine under Gov. Jeff Landry’s administration but has drawn criticism from voters. And while he said immigration enforcement has negatively impacted local businesses and harmed the quality of life for some Kenner residents, he said the issue is a federal one.

Alex Perdomo Perdomo, a first-time political candidate, Honduran immigrant and financial adviser, said he is running to make Kenner and Louisiana a more attractive place for young families to move after watching decades of outmigration. Perdomo, 34, immigrated to Metairie when he was 4 years old from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Now raising a family in Kenner, Perdomo said he hopes to improve home insurance rates, infrastructure, education and affordability in Louisiana as a state representative using his financial background. If elected, Perdomo said he plans to attract more insurance companies to Louisiana using incentives while also building better drainage and infrastructure systems. By doing so, Perdomo said he hopes to help lower insurance premiums and ease the affordability crisis.

brother and an absolutely amazing and Zuniga-Mejia. Authorities don’t believe the two knew one uncle,” she said. another. They were just patrons at 3 versus 1 the same bar that night, according The shooting occurred at 6 a.m. to Puccio. With the fight over, Zuniga-Mejia outside of a bar in the 2500 block of North Woodlawn Avenue in Me- and Johnson made their way to tairie, according to Sheriff’s Office Zuniga-Mejia’s white Chevrolet Detective Christopher Puccio, who Camaro. Just before getting into testified about the case during a the vehicle, witnesses told deSept. 25 hearing in Jefferson Par- tectives that Johnson fired a gun about five times into the air, Pucish Magistrate Court. It appears to have been a chaotic cio testified. night with multiple fights involvAranda, meanwhile, drove a red ing several different people before Honda CR-V back to the front of the bar where he was waiting when the deadly shooting, Puccio said. Business surveillance video of Zuniga-Mejia exited the parking one of the fights from that night lot, according to Puccio. Aranda is accused of firing about shows Aranda scrapping against three people at once, including to 10 shots from his SUV into the Zuniga-Mejia; a man named Frank Camaro as Zuniga-Mejia drove Johnson, 28; and a third, uniden- by. Aranda fled the scene after the tified brawler, according to Puc- Camaro continued forward until it cio. Aranda broke free from the crashed into a nearby telephone fight and is seen on video walking pole, according to authorities. The Sheriff’s Office received a around the corner to his vehicle, flurry of 911 calls reporting the Puccio testified. Investigator’s don’t know what shooting at 6:15 a.m. They arrived led to the fight involving Aranda on scene and found Zuniga-Mejia

GREGORY CARROLL AGE, BORN, LIVES: 64, born in Kenner, lives in Rivertown in Kenner EDUCATION: Bonnabel High School; bachelor’s of science in management, University of New Orleans PROFESSION: former director of inmate programs for Orleans Parish Sheriff’s Office; former budget analyst, Strategic Petroleum Reserve; former three-parish manager, Louisiana Spirit Hurricane Recovery Program PARTY, RELEVANT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE OR CAMPAIGN WORK: Democrat, former New Orleans Aviation Board member, 2023-2026; former Kenner City Council District 1, 2009-2022; former Jefferson Parish Council District 3 candidate, 2019; former Kenner mayoral candidate, 2016

ALEX PERDOMO AGE, BORN, LIVES: 34, born in Tegucigalpa, Honduras; lives in Morningside Park in Kenner EDUCATION: East Jefferson High School; Bachelor of Science in construction management, Louisiana State University; Master of Business Administration,Tulane University PROFESSION: Financial adviser, Edward Jones; former project manager, Siemens PARTY, RELEVANT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE OR CAMPAIGN WORK: Republican; Kenner Planning and Zoning Board member

MIKE SIGUR AGE, BORN, LIVES: 74; born in San Antonio,Texas; lives in Highway Park in Kenner EDUCATION: East Jefferson High

School PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: chief administrative assistant and other roles, Kenner Police Department PARTY, RELEVANT POLITICAL EXPERIENCE OR CAMPAIGN WORK: Republican; former Kenner City Council Member for District 2, 2014-2022; former acting Mayor of Kenner, 2016-2017; former Louisiana House of Representatives candidate for District 92; former Kenner Police Chief candidate, 2022 WEBSITE: www.mikesigur.com

infrastructure for surrounding communities. He said he would not sign an NDA in his capacity as an elected official. If elected, Perdomo would be the only elected official in Kenner who identifies as Hispanic, despite the city having the largest Hispanic population per capita in the state. Kenner’s Hispanic population came under a national spotlight in December, when U.S. Border Patrol deployed to the area and detained hundreds of people. That spurred criticisms against Kenner police for partnering with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Perdomo said while he does not support illegal immigration, the past year’s escalating immigration enforcement tactics have been “overly aggressive” to the point of harming the local economy and instilling fear in immigrants. He said if elected, he would “advocate to eliminate or revisit” the Police Department’s agreement with ICE. Perdomo said he did not want his candidacy to revolve solely around demographics, and that representing the Hispanic community in the Legislature would be “lagniappe” to accomplishing his policy goals.

Mike Sigur Sigur, 74, is a former eightyear member of the Kenner City Council and served as acting mayor of Kenner for one year in 2016. Before that, Sigur worked for the Kenner Police Department for over 40 years. Sigur said his top priority would be to secure state money for drainage, street repair and other infrastructure projects needed in Kenner, and he would collaborate with other state officials on ways to help lower insurance costs for homes and cars. He also called the Esplanade Mall the “most talked about thing” in Kenner, and said he would work with Louisiana Economic Development to identify potential buyers who could redevelop it for mixed use. Sigur added that as a retiree, he would be able to dedicate more time to working with potential developers for business projects across the state using his experience from the council. But for major developments like data centers that have required state officials to sign NDAs, Sigur said he would “have to do a lot of research to find out what is the real value and need of the NDA for a project.” In regard to the airport, Sigur said he believes it should become a state-owned regional airport rather than the property of New Orleans, and it should have an independent governing board. Sigur said the airport should not be considered a city of New Orleans business operating inside Kenner, leaving New Orleans “thinking they can do whatever they want.” Sigur also said that he would consider legislation regulating electric bikes and scooters, which he said have become a growing safety concern as children use them to travel at high speeds. Sigur also said immigration enforcement is a federal issue, but added that he worked well with the Hispanic community and would “continue representing everybody smoothly no matter what race or ethnicity.” Sigur ran against Stagni for the District 92 seat in 2023 and earned 30% of the vote.

He also said he’d like to create performance metrics to ensure the state is benefiting from economic incentive programs, such as requiring a company to invest in the community in order to get property tax exemptions above a certain percentage. Perdomo said those metrics should extend to data centers as well, and that developers for those projects should have to ensure they’ll help mitigate poten- Email Lara Nicholson at tial impacts to water and energy lnicholson@theadvocate.com.

wounded in the driver’s seat of his car, Puccio said. He’d been shot at least once in the head. Zuniga-Mejia was taken to University Medical Center in New Orleans but later died of his injuries.

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tified as Aranda, is the person who shot Zuniga-Mejia, and the CR-V left the scene after the Camaro crashed, according to Puccio. “The gentleman in the ski mask doesn’t shoot until Mr. Aranda has already left,” he said. Detectives tied Aranda to the CR-V using license-plate recognition cameras. The suspect vehicle belongs to Aranda’s mother, but he is the sole driver, Puccio said. A search of Aranda’s home turned up the same sparkly black jacket, white pants and red and black sneakers worn by the shooter that night, according to authorities. Johnson was arrested Sept. 6 after being questioned about the shooting. He was booked with second-degree battery, obstruction of justice, illegal use of a weapon and illegal possession of a stolen firearm. Deputies recovered his gun hidden behind an electrical box at a nearby business, Puccio said.

Responding deputies also encountered Johnson, who had been in the passenger seat when the shooting occurred. He was not injured and didn’t know who’d shot at the pair, according to Puccio. Witnesses would later tell investigators that when Johnson emerged from the crashed Camaro, he began firing a gun toward the bar, Puccio said. Another man who was standing outside of the bar and wearing a ski mask then began shooting back at Johnson. No one else was injured. Though authorities have not identified the masked shooter, Puccio testified that investigators are confident that last round of gunfire did not come from Aranda. The video clearly shows that the Email Michelle Hunter at driver of the Honda CR-V, later iden- mhunter@theadvocate.com.

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in 24 hours and republished them with the license plate number and home address blurred over, but Continued from page 1B that it declined to reveal its sources to the court administrator. Holmes lodged her criminal “While the nuances of the laws protecting judges are evolving, complaint with the NOPD’s First we all understand basic human de- District the day after Kazik’s letter. It was unclear what charges pocency,” the campaign’s statement said. “No one should be threaten- lice could pursue against the televiing judges with hate speech, or sion station. Kazik’s letter included taking pictures of our cars in a a copy of Louisiana Revised Statute secure garage to win a political 44:11.2, which bars dissemination campaign.” of certain officials’ personal inforThe request by a sitting judge to mation. But the state Legislature press criminal charges against a recently repealed the law’s criminews organization over reporting nal penalties, and the law allows that may have reflected poorly on those who share the information 72 her drew alarm from First Amend- hours to remove it. First Amendment advocates have ment attorneys, who said it marks a stunning threat to news organiza- questioned the law’s constitutionaltions’ rights. ity since its inception. Bruce Hamilton, director of “The idea that we are creating, Tulane University’s First Amend- by statute, protections for certain ment Clinic, called Holmes’ re- individuals that give them privacy quest a “phenomenally bad deci- rights that the rest of the residents of Louisiana do not enjoy strikes sion.” “These kinds of attacks on the me as a terrifically bad policy,” said press, specifically attempts to Hamilton, the Tulane First Amendcriminalize reportage and news ment lawyer. gathering, are likely to have a Holmes’ attempt to secure crimichilling effect, which is to say nal charges against journalists they may make some reporters comes just under three months self-censor or become cautious after court security officers acting about reporting the news,” Ham- on orders from a different Criminal ilton said. “That makes for a less- District Court judge, Leon Roche, informed public and a less robust handcuffed a reporter and a First Amendment lawyer awaiting grand marketplace of ideas.” Holmes’ law enforcement com- jury returns in the courthouse’s hallway. plaint came weeks after WWL-TV producer DanDavid Hammer, a WWLTV investigative reporter, ny Monteverde and the atpublished a story revealtorney, Eliana Beiser, had asked Roche to reopen his ing that the judge’s former courtroom for the return fiancé transferred ownerof a grand jury indictment ship of the English Turn of Louisiana Attorney house to Holmes while General Liz Murrill. They negotiating his plea deal were briefly detained and with the local U.S. Attor- Monteverde released without charges. ney’s Office. Last week, Zainey denied a reFederal prosecutors had accused the ex-fiancé, Arthur Allen, quest by Allen’s attorneys to soften of defrauding COVID-19 relief his prison sentence. programs of $712,000. Allen may “Despite defendant’s assurances have been compelled to pay some that he would make restitution as or all of that amount as restitution soon as possible,” the federal judge at sentencing, according to federal wrote in a Sept. 24 order, “the Court sentencing rules. learned for the first time the day At a sentencing hearing the before the sentencing, and conday after Hammer’s Aug. 24 re- firmed at the sentencing, that withport aired, U.S. District Judge Jay in a few days of formal charges beZainey said he had been prepared ing brought against the defendant, to sentence Allen to probation. But the defendant donated the remainZainey said he had known nothing ing portion of his ownership of his of the property transfer until he home.” saw WWL’s story. Saying he felt Zainey added: “It was obvious “duped,” the judge gave Allen two that he would be ordered to make years. restitution.” Hammer’s Aug. 24 video report Staff writer Matt Bruce contribcontained a small image of a docuuted to this story. ment involved in the property transfer that contained the home’s Email James Finn at jfinn@ address. The Aug. 24 report also theadvocate.com. showed the license plate of a Corvette leased by Allen parked in the courthouse garage, which the staLOTTERY tion said Hammer obtained from a confidential source. TUESDAY, SEPT. 29, 2026 WWL-TV says Holmes has never PICK 3: 5-4-6 disputed the accuracy of its reportPICK 4: 1-0-7-8 ing. 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dren: Tre and Austin Allert, Courtney and Jaci Bordelon, Paul, Peyton, Preston, Kylan, and Aimee' Miano, and the late Maci Clement. He was preceded in death by his brother, Jeffrey M. (Tina) and survived by his siblings, Andre J. (Gail) and Rene' P. (Jeanne). He is also survived by many nieces, nephews and many other family members and friends. Jim was a native of Kenner, LA , and a lifelong resident of LaPlace for nearly 40 years. He served proudly in the U.S. Army Battery A 1st Battalion 41st Field Artillery, Pershing Missile Group in Germany as an SP4, honorably discharged on May 24, 1977. His career then shifted to the role of Production Superintendent for Clovelly Oil. Relatives and friends are invited to attend a Funeral Mass on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 11:00 am at Garden of Memories Funeral Home & Cemetery, 4900 Airline Dr., Metairie, La. Visitation is from 9:30 am until Mass time. Interment will follow in Garden of Honor. Online condolences may be offered at www.gardenofme moriesmetairie.com.

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Obituaries Adams, Kenneth Wayne 'Kenny'

Kenneth Wayne Adams, affectionately known as Kenny, was born on January 20, 1956, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and he passed away on September 15, 2026, in Houston, Texas, from natural causes. He is preceded in death by his parents: Marion Walker(Freddie) and Eddie Adams; ex-wife, Patricia Adams; grandmother, Hazel Johnson; aunt, Audrey Montgomery of Las Vegas, Nevada; sister, Sherryl Adams; son, Micah Adams; and son-in-law, Benjamin Foster. Kenny leaves behind his beautiful wife of 40 years, Brenetta Adams, who stood beside him through life's many seasons. He also leaves behind sister, Roslyn Walker; daughters, Dawn Adams-Foster and Anastasia Jones; sons, Javon Sr, Brandon, and Darius; grandsons, Ryan(Jasmine), Dominic(Shantana), Javon Jr., Mikel, and Richard Micah Jones; granddaughters, Armani, Azariah, Shaniya, Shanice, Aaliyah and London; A host of great-grandkids, cousins and friends. Kenny's Memorial Service can be found on Zoom: October 3, 2026 @ 1pm https://us02web.zoom.u s/j/86059620994?pwd=BeV 2y6UBfENcf0rtopUyfTMvQ1 4F0O.1 Meeting ID: 860 5962 0994 Passcode: 19840401

Bordelon Jr., James Courtney

James Courtney Bordelon, Jr., age 71, has gone to be with his heavenly father on Thursday, September 24,2026. Jim was born to the late James C. Bordelon Sr., and Elizabeth (Betty) Homer Bordelon on February 9, 1955, in New Orleans, La. Jim absolutely loved spending time with his family and was a devoted LSU fan. He is survived by his wife Sindy G. Bordelon; his children: Dustie Allert (Michael), James C. Bordelon III (Lindsay), Paul Miano (Jordan) and Jessica Miano; and 9 grandchil-

Salvador Lawrence D'Antoni, Jr. departed peacefully for his final rest stop on Saturday, September 26, 2026, at his home, surrounded by his family, at the age of ninety -three. Sal was a proud product of NOLA's ninth ward where he attended St. Mary of the Angels, Francis T. Nichols, and Soule business college. Continuing a family legacy, Sal built a career in the transportation industry and became the proprietor of S. D'Antoni Motor Lines and Gemini Transport. Together with his beloved deceased wife Ruby Couvillion D'Antoni of 63 years, they raised five children: Donna D. Piediscalzo (Salvador), Salvador III (Jennifer), Lawrence (Debi), James, and Chary D. Egan (Art), along with 9 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, and nieces and nephews who all affectionally referred to him as BeeBee. He was preceded in death by his parents Salvador L. D'Antoni, Sr. and Edith Pradat D'Antoni, his brother Gerald D'Antoni, his brother-inlaw Raymond Couvillion and sister-in-law Viola Couste Couvillion. A longtime resident of Jefferson parish, Sal contributed to the development of St. Clement of Rome parish and Johnny Bright playground. He was deeply proud of his Sicilian heritage and could be seen regularly riding on St. Joseph Day with the Italian American Marching club, along with several Mardi Gras organizations. He was a proud member of American Legion Post 307 and The Cefalutana Italian Society. Retirement was no match for Sal's energy. Together with Ruby they purchased Christmas gifts for a less fortunate family with a hospitalized child. What began as a simple act of kindness grew to support hundreds of similar families throughout the metro area thru a nonprofit organization that was renamed "Rubys Kids" upon her passing. Sal's driving passion was lobbying individuals and organizations to support his vision for Ruby's Kids. Additionally, we are particularly grateful to Niki Brown, Sal's longtime partner, for becoming part of the family via the love and support that she afforded our patriarch. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Mass in the chapel of Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. in New Orleans, on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 12:00 p.m. A visitation will be held at 10:00 a.m. until service time. Interment will follow at Metairie Cemetery in All Saints Mausoleum. In honor of Sal's favorite color, please wear something

red. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Ruby's Kids c/o Julie Stokes, 3501 N. Causeway, Ste 900, Metairie, LA 70002 or Venmo @RubysKids. To view and sign the Family online guestbook, please visit www.lakelawnmetairi e.com

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Hadley, Barbara Ann

Barbara Ann Hadley departed this life on September 16, 2026, at the age of 81. She was born September 14, 1945, in San Antonio, Texas. She was a devout Christian, devoted mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She will be remembered for her kind, patient spirit, generous nature, and the love of her family. Mrs. Barbara Ann was united in marriage on March 3, 1980, to the late Mr. Charles Hadley. Their loving union lasted 33 years until Mr. Hadley preceded her in death. She leaves behind to cherish memories, her 3 loving daughters, Deborah (Dwright) Williams, Angela Hysaw, and Stephanie Hysaw: 5 grandchildren; Andrea Hysaw, Courtney Hysaw, Shantell (John) Love, Darrius (Aaryn) Bush, and Amayia Roberson; 2 great-grandchildren; Brianna Cosse and Jhavon Bush. Barbara Hadley was preceded in death by her parents, Leroy and Lillian McIntyre and her beloved husband, Charles Hadley. Services will be held at Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Avenue, New Orleans, LA 70125 on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 1:00 pm. Visitation at 12 noon. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign guestbook.

Jessie, Roosevelt Davis 'June'

Roosevelt "June" Jessie, III, entered into eternal rest on Friday, September 25, 2026, at the age of 70. He was a native of New Orleans, LA and a resident of Avondale, LA. Beloved father of Roosevelt (Ashley) Jessie, IV, Jaquetta Jessie, and Shardey (David) Wilkins. Devoted son of Alena C. Jessie and the late Roosevelt Jessie, Jr. Brother of Donald Jessie, Sr., Cletis Jessie, Sr., and Enderlin Jessie. Brother in law of Ann Jessie and Lois Jessie. Roosevelt is also survived by her 15 grandchildren, and a host of aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends. Relatives and friends of the family also pastors, officer, and members of Second St. John Missionary Baptist Church, Mt. Calvary International Worship Center, and neighboring churches; employees of West Jefferson Medical Center, Ferncrest Manor, Foundation Hospice, and United States Postal Service are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Davis Mortuary Service 6820 Westbank Expressway Marrero, LA on Friday October 2, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Pastor Jarrod Jessie, Sr. officiating. Visitation will begin at 9:00a.m. until service time at the parlor. Interment: Restlawn Park Cemetery-

Mosley, Sr. Minister John L. "Big Pants" "Godfather Juneteenth" Entered into eternal rest on September 26, 2026 at his residence in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He was an 83year-old native of New Orleans, Louisiana. Viewing at New Zion Baptist Church, 4105 Odell St. Baton Rouge, 70802 on Friday, October 2, 2026, from 9:00 am until the Celebration of Life Service at 11:00 am conducted by Pastor Robert A. Smith, Jr. A second viewing will be held at Beautiful Zion Baptist Church, Pastor James R. Williams, Sr., 1017 Elmira St., New Orleans (Algiers) 70114 on Saturday, October 3, 2026 at 9:00 am until a Musical Celebration at 11:00 am. Interment will be at Restlawn Park Cemetery, 3540 Highway 90., Avondale, Louisiana. A repast will be held at the Gamma Rho Fraternity House, 1600 Franklin St., New Orleans(Algiers) Arrangements entrusted to Miller & Daughter Mortuary.

Riviere, Carolyn Campbell

Carolyn Campbell Riviere passed away peacefully at her home of 63 years, on Wednesday evening, September 23, 2026, with her children and grandchildren by her side. Age 84, she was a lifelong resident of Metairie, La. She was preceded in death by her beloved husband of 53 years and childhood sweetheart, Paul E. Riviere, Jr., her parents, Bruce H. Campbell, Jr., and Odessia Latham Campbell. Survived by her children, Christen Riviere; Paul "Trey" Riviere, III (Sophia LeBlanc Riviere); Aimee Riviere and Ashley Riviere. Seven grandchildren, Paul "Peri" Riviere, IV; Sarah Riviere (Ian Condon); Charlotte Riviere; Luke Ladner (Mathilde Kjaer Ladner); Tanner Burgess (Brielle Moreau Burgess), Hunter Burgess; and John Michael Thomas. Her sister Peggy LaFleur (Jerald), brothers David Campbell (Fran), Douglas Campbell (Pat), and sister-in-law Ann Riviere Morrison. Also survived by many numerous nieces and nephews, and longtime friends. She graduated from East Jefferson High School in 1959 and Southeastern Louisiana University in 1963 in Education and Library Science and taught for a few years before be-

ginning her family. She was a homemaker for many years and active in her children's lives, often volunteering at their school libraries and bookfairs. She was an owner of the family businesses, Paul E. Riviere, Inc. and Cimsco, Inc. until her death. She was also a longtime parishioner of St. Francis Xavier Church, where she had been a Eucharistic Minister and served other roles in the church, such as teaching Confirmation and marriage classes. Carolyn absolutely loved gardening and was a member of the Old-World Rose Society. She enjoyed antique stores and flea markets and was a member of the New Orleans Depression Glass Society for many years. She was an avid reader and researcher of many genres, especially history, including family genealogy. She was a former member of several genealogy associations. One of her joys was to interview older family members and write down memories for future generations. She also loved spending time with family and friends at their home in Gulf Shores, AL. Her legacy will be remembered as the beloved "GramC" of her 7 grandchildren and spouses and loving Aunt to her many nieces and nephews. She loved freely and her generosity and devotion to all who knew her will be missed but live on in our hearts and memories. Her laughter and smile radiated a light, and her ability to show love and kindness were boundless as was her fierce protection of her family. Her quick wit and intelligence were some of her greatest gifts. Devoted to her family, particularly her husband, children, grandchildren, her extended family, including the family dogs and grand dogs. Relatives and friends are invited to celebrate her life on Monday, October 5, 2026, at Lake Lawn/ Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd, New Orleans, LA. Visitation will be held from 10 AM until noon, Mass of Christian Burial at noon, internment will follow at Metairie Cemetery. The family would like to express our sincere gratitude to the special "angels" at Guardian Hospice and Passionate Care Caregivers who loved and cared for her with such compassion and grace. As well as for all the support and compassion shown to her family during her transition. Especially Demetrice, Sheryl and Shika. In lieu of flowers, Masses or Donation to the Helping Hands Outreach at St. Francis Xavier Church, 444 Metairie Rd., Metairie, LA 70005 preferred. The family invites you to share your thoughts, fond memories, and condolences online at www.lakel awnmetairie.com.

Russ. She passed away on September 17, 2026. Memorial Service at Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home, 3933 Washington Ave., New Orleans, Louisiana on Friday, October 2, 2026 at 10:00am.Visitation will begin at 9:00am. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Arrangements entrusted to Duplain W. Rhodes Funeral Home, New Orleans, Louisiana. Please visit www.rhodesfuneral.com to sign the online guestbook.

Venegas, Jose E.

Jose E. Venegas, age 82, passed away peacefully on September 28, 2026 at St. Joseph Hospice in River Ridge, LA after a brief illness. Born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, Jose came to the United States in 1965 for a better life. Jose was a proud Marine who fought on the front lines with the U.S. Marine Corps in Vietnam for 13 months even though he was not a citizen. For his courage and bravery, he was awarded the Navy Commendation Medal. He became a proud U.S. citizen in 1975 after his son was born. He was employed as a machinist at Shell Oil Norco for 35 years and made many long lasting friendships there. He is survived by his loving wife of 59 years, Marilyn Smith Venegas and his loving son, Brandon J. Venegas. He is also survived by his sisters -in-law, Donna Deffner and Brenda Riggio; many nieces and nephews; his uncle, Camillo; cousin, Claudia Venegas; and numerous other family members in Honduras. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Funeral Services at Garden of Memories Funeral Home & Cemetery, 4900 Airline Drive Metairie, LA 70001 on Saturday, October 3, 2026. Visitation will begin at 10:30 am with a service starting at 12:00 noon followed by interment. To offer condolences, please visit www.gardenofmemor iesmetairie.com.

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For use of coveted state apartment, transparency not too much to ask Whether people using a public asset are properly doing so shouldn’t be a complicated question. Yet when the Louisiana Legislative Auditor requested information on who had stayed at a French Quarter apartment controlled by Lt. Gov. Billy Nungesser’s office, the list provided was full of redactions. That does not exactly inspire confidence. Behind the dust-up is actually a long-running disagreement between the legislative auditor and Nungesser, who oversees the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, which includes the Louisiana State Museums. The legislative auditor points out that the “Irby” apartment in one of the famed Pontalba buildings on Jackson Square is specifically designated for the state museum system’s use. Yet for several years now, the agency has accused Nungesser of allowing guest stays that may not comply with state law. The recent audit found that the museums “did not maintain sufficient documentation as evidence that any of the stays provided a tangible, direct benefit to (Louisiana State Museums).” Nungesser counters that the apartment can used for purposes connected to his role promoting tourism in Louisiana. As for the redactions, Louisiana State Museums director Rebecca Mackie cited “security and guest privacy,” but said that the agency always disclosed the purpose of the visits. It would be up to either a court or the Legislature to settle the legal argument, but regardless, the secrecy the lieutenant governor’s office claims is concerning. After she first wrote about the legislative auditor report that detailed the redactions, reporter Meghan Friedmann obtained an unredacted guest log. Among those listed as having used the apartment are U.S. Rep. Troy Carter, D-New Orleans, Lafayette Mayor Monique Boulet and Lee Mallett, chair of the LSU Board of Supervisors. Carter’s office said that the apartment was used for professional development and that nobody involved in the event stayed overnight. Boulet used it twice while attending meetings in the city. Mallett has stayed overnight, arguing that everything LSU does touches tourism. As for the out-of-state politicians, the log says that their stays benefited the state by building awareness. Some of those stays may well count as appropriate use of public accommodations, even if they seem to stretch the definition of tourism-related. Still, it’s worth noting that these historic apartments have long served as coveted perks for powerful people. Just two years ago, the New Orleans City Council accused then-Mayor LaToya Cantrell of improper use of a city-owned residence in the second building and essentially evicted her. We know of no such drama here, but it’s fair to ask why the secrecy. Nungesser refusing to share basic information with a government agency that is focused on compliance with the law suggests he thinks his office is above it, and that — best-case scenario — he believes generosity trumps accountability. We don’t see why the two can’t go hand in hand.

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Fired Parks and Parkways director was a scapegoat I’ve known Mike Karam for over 20 years, so I won’t pretend to be neutral. Mike is smart and, more importantly, dedicated to making New Orleans a better place. Mike’s very public termination and scapegoating is a perfect example of why many talented individuals choose to look beyond public service careers (“New Orleans Parks and Parkways director terminated after department criticism,” Sept. 24). Last October, Mike went before the City Council and told members exactly what would happen: The citywide hiring freeze and budget cuts would deepen maintenance backlogs and stretch out how often neutral grounds get cut. For more than a year, his department has worked under that freeze with little money for contractors. When Councilman Jason Hughes raised complaints about tall grass and untrimmed trees in New Orleans East, Mike said what he had said all along: The problem was resources, not effort. Days later, he was out of a job.

The underlying facts aren’t in dispute. The state’s Legislative Auditor projected the city would finish 2025 roughly $160 million short, the result of poor revenue forecasting, overtime spending and a drained fund balance. Departments were told to plan for deep cuts. Positions went unfilled. Contracts faced new restrictions. Then we act surprised when the grass grows. Firing a highly qualified and dedicated individual who warned about the shortage doesn’t mow a single neutral ground or trim a single oak. It only tells every capable person considering public service that they’ll be held responsible for decisions they didn’t make. If the City Council and the mayor want better service, the solution is to fund it and take responsibility for how we got here. Accountability starts with the people holding the purse strings, not with people handed an empty wallet and told to make it work.

In regard to a letter by John Kennedy published Sept. 9, my feathers became increasingly ruffled as I read on, but what really killed it for me was the fact that Kennedy called recycling a “feel-good program.” Seriously? I haven’t been recycling for the last 40 years only because it “felt good.” Even back then what scientists were saying about the warming of the Earth certainly did not feel good. Recycling conserves energy, reduces pollution, protects natural resources and keeps waste out of landfills where it can contaminate soil and groundwater. Preventing the plethora of plastic in our oceans is essential to the survival of its inhabitants. The benefits sound abstract until one sees the numbers: Recycling a single ton of paper saves 17 trees, 7,000 gallons of water and enough energy to power a home for six months. Scale that across an entire country and the impact is enormous. Back in 1989, I purchased a trash can for recycling at the office where I worked. I recycled at home, and I would have my little daughters help separate the materials in our backyard. We would pile the bags into the car and bring them to BFI on David Drive in Metairie. Both of my girls are grown women and still recycle. Perhaps my recycling is merely a drop in the bucket, but at least I’m concerned enough to put forth the effort. I am still recycling, even though curbside recycling was sadly abandoned by the Jefferson Parish Council since only 30% of my fellow parishioners were recycling. How discouraging! To Kennedy and all of you who think recycling isn’t crucial to our survival and that of our descendants, I am sorry to be emotional about dropping this “feel-good program.”

JAMES LUDWIG New Orleans

And the $6 beers were hard to find The $6 “Dome Foam” beers are bull. I went to the Saints-Raiders game on Sunday. I counted approximately eight places to buy a $6 beer in the whole Superdome. The closest one to me in section 626 was 12 sections over and up an escalator into the nosebleed section of 638, approximately at the 30-yard line on the Girod Street side. The $6 beers are not well advertised. I had to ask at an information

booth after searching for a while. There were taps for five different beers. They were all out 10 minutes before kick-off. I don’t think there was ever beer in those taps. I’m curious to hear from people who actually drank a $6 Dome Foam beer. Were they real or was it all foam?

MIKE BASS Lafayette

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COMMENTARY Sen. Kennedy is wrong about dealing with ‘spending porn’ Amidst famously hokey aphorisms, Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana sometimes sprinkles in sage advice. On one topic in his Sept. 27 interview on CBS’ Face the Nation, however, Kennedy went the wrong way down a constitutional blind alley. In a governmental system in which the Quin president’s power already Hillyer largely exceeds what the nation’s founders wisely intended, Kennedy would have Congress cede even more of its authority to the imperial presidency. News anchor Margaret Brennan asked Kennedy about the White House announcing two days earlier that Trump would cancel $810 million in funds already allocated by laws formally passed and signed by the president. Donald Trump claims authority to do it via a method called a “pocket rescission,” whereby he proposes canceling the spending too late in the fiscal year for Congress to weigh in. Ordinarily, a president can propose that Congress rescind — meaning claw back — the money, but unless Congress agrees to do so within 45 days, the spending remains obligated for its original purpose. The pocket rescission is an attempted end-run around Congress’ primacy in this process. The question here isn’t whether the spending is wise. The question is who has the power to decide. In our constitutional republic, that question is much more important, long-term, than the money or causes immediately in dispute. In this case, Trump’s rescissions block money intended for immigration services, health research and assistance to businesses owned by minorities, among other purposes. Kennedy told Brennan that “Congress didn’t approve this stuff,” because Congress appropriates money only in “broad categories” that often “the bureaucracy wastes. Spending porn is what I call it.” Some of us share Kennedy’s assessment of the below-zero value of the programs at issue. The “immigration services,” for instance, include programs run by leftist nongovernmental organizations whose goal is to frustrate immigration enforcement and push far-out causes such as (using actual examples cited by the White House) “legal aid for illegal aliens” and a “‘restorative learning community’ which will ‘empower the next generations of revolutionary scholars.’”

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Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., listens to Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh during a Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in July. Kennedy is right: In a sane governmental world, not a single dime of tax money would go toward teaching revolutionary ideas to this nation’s newcomers, whether legal or illegal. The problem with Kennedy’s position, though, is that the bureaucracy is acting within the parameters Congress, by law, gave it. Trump isn’t claiming the bureaucracy has acted unlawfully by making such grants; he is saying he doesn’t approve of the grants. That’s a huge difference. By the Trump-Kennedy precedent, a future President Gavin Newsom or Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could unilaterally rescind money already obligated by law for, say, military munitions or education grants for teaching phonics. Again, this would be money already allocated according to law passed by Congress and signed by a president, yet one person, the new president, could act as a dictator by overriding the law all by himself. The Constitution’s famed “checks and balances” would be even further degraded than they already are. In this case, the degradation wouldn’t occur in some gray area of constitutional interpretation, but in contradiction of an incontrovertible, bright-line constitutional principle. That principle is that Congress, not the president, owns the “power of the purse.” The General Accountability Office — the independent, nonpartisan federal agency that audits how public monies are spent — is emphatic: “Are pocket rescissions legal? No. A

pocket rescission is illegal. ...This would cede Congress’s power of the purse by allowing a president to, in effect, change the law by shortening the period of availability for fixed-period funds. The Impoundment Control Act (ICA) does not provide that authority. If Congress wanted a president to have that authority, it would need to change the law.” That’s as definitive a statement as you’ll ever see. Republican Susan Collins of Maine, chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, flat-out described Trump’s rescissions as “illegal actions.” They were an “unlawful cancellation of appropriations that were approved on a bipartisan basis and signed into law.” Later in his CBS interview, Kennedy offered an aside, or rather an admission, which expresses the proper way to stop what he calls spending porn. “Congress ought to get up off its icecold, lazy butt and cut it itself.” Exactly. If Kennedy wants to introduce a bill or an amendment blocking revolutionary education for illegal immigrants, or stopping what he calls “circumcisions in Zambia and electric buses in Rwanda,” he’ll merit massive support. Go for it, Senator. That’s your job. But don’t support an unconstitutional power for Trump, especially one you wouldn’t want a President Kamala Harris to exploit. Email Quin Hillyer at quin.hillyer@ theadvocate.com.

Ohio Senate race is tight — less than a percent NEW WATERFORD, Ohio — See how they run. Sherrod Brown is running like an old man in a hurry. That’s the phrase Lord Randolph Churchill employed to characterize the 76-year-old William Gladstone, the 19th-century British prime minister whose reputation as David backer of “the masses Shribman aagainst the classes” precisely matches Brown’s political profile. At 73 years old, Brown may be aged by the standard applied to the classical liberal reformer known as the “G.O.M.” (for Grand Old Man), but he’s a stripling compared to Sens. Charles Grassley (93), Bernie Sanders (85), and Mitch McConnell (84.) In truth, Brown is trim and ready for battle, less like Gladstone and more like the young lad Jon Ossoff (39), the Georgia Democratic senator running for reelection in Georgia and, maybe, for president in 2028. And so when Brown ambled into Jan Douglass’ big red barn to fire up six dozen Ohio voters determined to restore him to Desk 88 on the Senate floor — the very escritoire once occupied by such liberals as Herbert Lehman and Robert F. Kennedy of New York and George McGovern of South Dakota — there was a sense that he was less interested in retribution (for his 2024 loss to Republican Bernie Moreno) than in restoration (to his perch as a principal pugilist against Donald Trump). This corner of Ohio in a way is a microcosm of the character of a state often regarded as a bellwether, deliver-

ing its electoral votes to the winner in 26 of the last 29 presidential elections. Five miles away is the town of Columbiana (population 6,795), where in 1868 was born Harvey Firestone, founder of the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, which, along with the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, became one of the mainstays of the state’s economy. In the field sit acres of soybeans a few weeks from harvest, a symbol of Ohio’s agricultural heritage and the power of its farm vote. These days, the Paradise Acres farm practices “regenerative” agriculture — city folks need to know there really is such a thing, with a focus on rebuilding soil health and fostering diversity — all of which you might regard as metaphors for what Brown is attempting. He’s running against Jon Husted, a veteran Ohio lawmaker and lieutenant governor appointed to the Senate seat that became vacant when JD Vance became vice president. Husted knows what he’s up against — not only the regenerative Brown and his claims that the Republican has helped “the richest people get richer and [to] screw the middle class and people who are struggling,” but also a rebellion against high energy prices and impatience over the Iran war. That’s why last Friday, Husted swiftly adjusted his campaign playbook. “We’ve got to bring the war to a close,” he said. The next day he aired a campaign ad during the Ohio StateIllinois football game — now that’s a television broadcast sure to get the attention of Buckeye voters — carrying the legend “Focused on Affordability.”

The voters sure are. For its part, the Brown campaign has many of the same themes as Democrats across the country. Trump has nationalized the midterms — presidents do this at their peril, given the record of poor midterm performances by the party holding the White House — and so the Democrats have responded in kind. With interest for 30-year mortgages soaring above 7% and with voters reminded about high gasoline prices every time they drive past a service station sign, Democrats seem to be on the offensive. That’s the natural profile when their rivals are on the defensive about a president whose approval ratings are as weak as Trump. Then there is the issue of data centers, which have provided a backlash that has hurt candidates like Husted, a onetime advocate for tech infrastructure. Then this summer, sensing the public mood, he introduced legislation on Capitol Hill to assure that taxpayers won’t be burdened by costs associated with new data centers. “Jon Husted was the point man for data centers,” Brown said here, arguing that these facilities “come in, they gobble up our land and pollute our water, and electrical costs go up.” That riff is part of a populism that Democrats across the country are mobilizing in their battle with MAGAstyle populism. It’s getting its greatest test here in Ohio, where the two candidates are separated by three-tenths of a percentage point. Email David Shribman at dshribman@post-gazette.com.

Not even Trump could sell Trump TV I’ve worked at CNN — and Donald Trump, you’re no Ted Turner. The president of the United States, after banning CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House, launched his own 24/7 low-grade television channel. The inelegantly named “Trump TV: The Essentials Station” (a YouTube livestream) is a flop. So much for branding. By that Wednesday, the channel had lost nearly 95% of its viewership. Nothing to see there, apparently. The Daily Beast reported that viewers numbered just 427 at one point. Kathleen On Thursday morning, a federal Parker judge ordered Trump to temporarily restore White House credentials for dozens of journalists, saying the removal of their press badges was probably done without adequate due process. Even so, several reporters said they were not allowed to enter the White House grounds. Since then, they have been able to reenter. This unnecessary blowup, some might say “distraction,” seems to be further evidence that Trump is erratic, angry and out of control. He’s like a comic book antihero seemingly defined by his hatred of the very media that made him famous. (At least the Joker smiled.) Trump still holds the country and the world hostage to his impulses and baser instincts. Has he finally gone too far with the ban and some other decisions? So it seems, as some Republican candidates are breaking with him on Iran, and fewer Americans approve of him. In a twist of fortune, his media ban backfired. Several other outlets, including ABC, CBS, Fox News and NBC, joined the banned news organizations in solidarity and suspended pooled television coverage of White House events. That Monday, some outlets and wire services temporarily stopped publishing new images of presidential events in a show of support. These are surely symbolically satisfying gestures, especially to journalists who cover him. But it’s unclear if — or how long — they matter, at least to Trump. The president once had a mutually beneficial relationship with the media, which helped him secure the presidency the first time around by giving him extraordinary access and what amounted to free advertising. As Trump becomes more frustrated with his falling approval ratings and widespread ridicule, I suspect he wouldn’t mind overseeing a state-controlled media in the way Russian President Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping do. He has often expressed admiration for authoritarian leaders who maintain power in part through repression of free speech. Maybe the past few days were an experiment to see what he could get away with. The president’s likely view is: So what if the media won’t cover me anymore? He has learned the art of direct communication with his public through social media and his own ironically named Truth Social. As a candidate, he successfully exploited the public’s lack of trust in journalists and magnified it through his constant condemnation of all unfavorable press coverage as “fake news.” Though Trump isn’t the first president to battle the press, he has taken matters further in identifying the institution as an enemy that threatens national security. I was privileged to cover both a Republican and a Democratic president — George W. Bush and Barack Obama — not as part of a press pool but as a Post opinion writer with decent access to the White House. Neither Bush nor Obama was treated gently by reporters, especially Bush, yet both spoke passionately about how crucial a free and unencumbered press is to democracy. So-called patriots attack the media as though they’re part of some valiant countercultural march toward freedom when servitude is what a state-controlled media promises. Do these patriots really want only government-approved news? This rather misses the point of holding the powerful accountable to protect the public, doesn’t it? It’s sometimes difficult to discern who needs whom more — the politician or the reporter? It’s a give-and-take romance of sorts among adversaries. There’s no story without an interesting, consequential subject. Without the media, that same subject is either invisible to mainstream audiences or merely self-published. Trump got a taste of the latter when the networks declined to provide their usual pooled coverage of his anticipated reveal of a new helipad on the White House grounds. In the everyday push-and-pull between president and press, mutual respect was once the norm. The arrangement depended on basic decency on both sides and a shared understanding of their symbiotic roles serving the public. Trump’s failure to uphold that understanding has brought us to this unfortunate standoff. It does no one good, especially the American people, for such hostility to be condoned or allowed. Ted Turner, though he started the 24/7 news coverage madness, understood this — and preached it. Kathleen Parker is on X at @kathleenparker.

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Before his recusal, Roche declared Kendell Myles, 22, incompetent to stand trial on April 9 and committed him to the state mental health clinic in East Feliciana Parish. Smart said an attorney for defendant Robert Moody expressed interest in a possible plea following a Sept. 16 hearing. Smart said Moody, 23, is not a habitual offender. Attorneys for Leo Tate Sr., Gary Price and Antoine Massey said Wednesday that they’re also interested in negotiating deals if they exclude the multiple bill. Smart, however, said he intends to prosecute each defendants to the “fullest extent” based on their histories. Harris set a Nov. 13 hearing for the defendants to lock in any potential guilty pleas. Each of the men has been charged with simple escape after being accused of breaking out of the New Orleans jail early one morning in May 2025. The felony carries a sentence between two to five years. Alleged mastermind Derrick Groves, 29, and Lenton Vanburen Jr., 28, have been convicted of murder and are serving life prison sentences with no parole eligibility. Massey was sentenced to 60 years this year after being convicted of a prior rape and kidnapping. Next year’s trial could span up to two weeks, Harris said.

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An Orleans Parish judge on Wednesday set a springtime trial date for nine of the 10 men accused of breaking out of the Orleans Justice Center last year in a daring escape that touched off a monthslong search across several states. Criminal District Judge Angel Harris scheduled the trial to begin April 5. Several of the alleged escapees’ defense lawyers expressed interest Wednesday in striking plea deals before then. But prosecutors from the Attorney General’s Office, which is prosecuting the state’s case, said they intend to file habitual offender bills to hike the sentences of those with previous felony convictions. “The state does not intend to give them a free pass for escaping the prison system,” Assistant Attorney General Daniel Smart said. Harris inherited the case this month after the recusal of District Judge Leon Roche from that case and dozens of others handled by Murrill’s office, after he oversaw the grand jury that indicted her in July in a case that’s now dropped. Murrill soon moved to remove Roche from the cases of more than 50 Email Matt Bruce at matt. defendants. bruce@theadvocate.com.

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Rahm Emanuel, center, potential Democratic presidential candidate, attends a class at George Washington Carver High School on Wednesday.

Continued from page 1B board president across the country,” Emanuel told the crowd of a few dozen New Orleans residents, politicians and education leaders. As President Barack Obama’s chief of staff, Emanuel helped create the administration’s Race to the Top program, a federal education reform effort that included initiatives like Common Core testing, increased teacher evaluations and incentivizing charter schools. Later, as mayor of Chicago, the centrist Democrat has faced criticism from the left in his party focused on education reform, at times battling with the teachers union and at one point closing 50 public schools that were experiencing declining enrollment. In an interview, Emanuel said that if he decides to run, education will likely be a major component of his campaign. Democrats have “walked away from standards and accountability,” and Republicans have “walked away from public schools,” he said. He added, in a nod to a line often used by his former boss, former President Bill Clinton, that “there’s nothing that ails America that can’t be answered by what works in America. Louisiana is working.” New Orleans had its own drastic shift in educational policy after Hurricane Katrina, when the struggling school system was taken over by the state, and the traditional public school system was replaced by a charter system. Last year, a report on how the school system was faring 20 years after Katrina found the changes had led to academic improvements, including higher graduation rates and test scores compared with peers across the state. Emanuel has been a regular

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presence in national media in recent months as he tests the waters for a potential 2028 run. He made headlines earlier this year for a speech in Tel Aviv that called for the end of unconditional support for Israel. He has also criticized his party for being “weak” and said that Democrats need to adopt more of a populist message and look to Republican states that have made gains in education as a place to find ideas for broader reforms. On Wednesday, Emanuel toured G.W. Carver alongside Collegiate Academies CEO Jerel Bryant. The school has been highlighted by city education leaders as a success story for New Orleans’ charter school reform. Collegiate Academies is a charter school organization that operates G.W. Carver and a number of other high schools in New Orleans. Followed by school staff and members of the media at G.W. Carver, Emanuel shook hands with administrators and watched as students took speech and math classes, ACT prep and completed a quiz in earth sciences. He dropped by the band room too, where he heard them play “All I Do is Win,” led by teacher Eric French. It was

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Continued from page 1B at Ochsner Health. “Not only in the process of coming up from the ground for the last four years, but also as we grew, we knew that we needed to hire up to be here.” Rusty Costanza, a freelance photographer and former Times-Picayune photographer for 22 years who was diagnosed with ALS in 2025, went to Wednesday’s opening and took pictures of almost every room. He recalls the day he was diagnosed with disease, in a building across the parking lot from the new institute. “It’s a primary care office. It’s not really meant for (patients like) me,” he said. “And they only have appointments on Wednesdays.” Costanza lives in Metairie, but he is planning a move closer to the Ochsner Medical Complex for more space at home, an accessible bathroom and to be closer to the hospital as his condition worsens. Before the institute, Costanza was driving to Jefferson Highway for his scans and to Kenner for his physical therapy appointments. The new clinic rooms have “much more space. It’s brighter,” Constanza said. “This is purposed for me. I don’t have to go anywhere else.” Costanza is part of Team Gleason, an organization that provides technology, equipment and care services for patients living with ALS. The foundation, carrying the name of Saints player and longtime ALS patient and advocate Steve Gleason, has a presence on the first floor of the facility. In their lab, they have created a living room space with couches and TVs, a kitchen with a microwave, oven, stovetop and refrigerator and a bathroom and bedroom suite. All are made to look like a home. This room, according Team Gleason CEO Blair Casey, is meant to

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Continued from page 1B former Assistant Principal Tonya Barth were arrested by Covington police on May 27 and pleaded guilty to the failure to report. They were sentenced to probation and remained on paid administrative leave until Sept. 17. Neither continues to work in the district, but the handling of the matter has sparked criticism from some parents and residents across the parish. The School Board held a seven-hour meeting last week to allow the public to air its concerns, which included a five-hour executive session behind closed doors

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The lobby inside Ochsner’s Debra H. and Robert J. Patrick Neuroscience Institute is seen on Wednesday. Rusty Costanza takes photos at Ochsner’s new neuroscience institute on Wednesday.

help people with ALS adapt to their homes and regular activities in real time. It includes technologies like Google Home, Alexa and Siri as well as virtual reality headsets and voice-to-text and text-to-speech technologies. “Our goal is to train the trainers,” Casey said. “Working with the staff

where board members discussed the matter. When the board came out of executive session, one member said it was considering a move to put Jabbia on administrative paid leave, which could have been decided at the Oct. 8 meeting. The board also likely will approve at that meeting the start of a districtwide investigation that would probe each of the 55 schools and central office to find if administrators are complying with rules for reporting child abuse. “The main problem we have here is the superintendent and the two (former) administrators at Lyon Elementary are not representing the taxpayer,” area activist Jamie Segura said

here … to understand the differences between these tools.” “There isn’t a space like this that I know in the region, and arguably the country,” said Ochsner neurologist and medical director Dr. Korak Sarkar. “So we don’t exactly know how it’s going to play out, but we do know that we’re going to be creat-

at the Sept. 21 emergency meeting. “That’s my stakehold in this, and we will accept nothing less than you all being fired.” St. Tammany Parish President Mike Cooper said in a statement his office “recognizes his 32 years of dedicated service,” but also chastised Jabbia for his handling of the situation at Lyon. “We acknowledge that his retirement comes amid serious allegations which must be thoroughly and appropriately reviewed, with particular care for the affected children and families,” he said. In a Wednesday letter to the school system’s 6,000 employees, Jabbia said his priority throughout his ca-

ing these health solutions for our community.”

Brains, spines in 3D Separated into four floors, the institute’s first floor is dedicated to rehabilitation spaces. Behavioral health services occupy the second floor. The third floor has neurological clinics and infusion therapy spaces, while the fourth floor treats advanced and complex spine, brain and movement disorders. A right turn from the main lobby of the new institute leads to the Parker Family BioDesign Lab, an area of the first floor dedicated to various visualization tools for patients, physicians and students. The lab has a dedicated room for virtual reality, 3D imaging software and 3D printing, which “helps visualize anatomy both for the doctors planning surgeries and for the patients to see what’s going on,” said

reer has been to give children opportunities. “Our responsibility has always been to prepare them, support them, believe in them and give them every opportunity to make those dreams a reality,” he said. He didn’t address the recent controversy over the Lyon Elementary administrators. In a text message, Jabbia said he wasn’t immediately available to discuss his retirement. Jabbia attended St. Tammany Parish schools and graduated from Slidell High in 1989. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Southeastern Louisiana University in 1994, and returned to the parish to work at his alma mater for 14 years as a teacher, coach and driver’s

the school’s character day where students dress up as different characters. The saxophone player wore Scooby-Doo pajamas. Emanuel said he was impressed by the school’s high graduation rate, which in the 2025-26 school year was 90%, according to Stacy Martin, the chief of external affairs for Collegiate Academies. It’s projected to be 94% in 202627, she said. Earlier in the day, Emanuel met with former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant. “We have a lot of respect for each other. We talk to each other all the time,” Emanuel said of Landrieu, who has also said he is considering a possible run for president. Emanuel declined to answer a question about how his run would compare to Landrieu’s. Emanuel said he planned to meet with Mayor Helena Moreno later on his visit, which also includes a tour on Thursday of Wilcox Early Learning Academy with former Gov. John Bel Edwards, and later a stop at an elementary school in Vermilion Parish. Email Willie Swett at willie. swett@theadvocate.com.

Colin Curtis, a biomedical engineer who invented the technology. Images here are easily transferred from routine MRIs or CT scans and are free of charge. If patients would like to hold a replica of their spine or brain in their hands, the institute also has 3D printers in the lab, but it will cost $50 to $100. Across the hall, physicians can upload scans of brains and spines into a virtual reality space, put on VR glasses and move, manipulate and walk around brain blueprints. “We can do this in 20 minutes,” said Dr. Cuong “CJ” Bui, the system chair of neurosurgery at Ochsner Health. One floor up, Dr. Dean Hickman is gearing up to move from an office that he’s had for 32 years on the fourth floor of the Brent House Hotel. A seemingly odd place to care for both adult and pediatric patients, Hickman said he will miss the hotellike space with a connected bathroom that he used to call home. The second floor has group therapy rooms, a smaller pediatric waiting area, electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation and psychiatric management services. “It’ll all be a one-stop-shop here,” Hickman said. One large room on the behavioral health floor has four chairs outfitted for Spravato treatments, a newly FDA-approved mental health management that puts patients in a “dreamlike state” with a nasal spray to treat depression. The behavioral health floor was not yet ready for visitors; it’s set to open two weeks later this month. The neuroscience institute is one of many investments coming to the multiblock medical complex. Across the street, building is underway for a five-story, 343,000-square-foot, $300 million pediatric facility. The future standalone children’s hospital is the largest single construction project in Ochsner history, funded in part by a major gift from Gayle Benson.

education instructor. In 2002, he became the football coach at Northshore High School and remained there for 16 years, working his way to assistant principal in 2006 and to principal in 2013. Seven years later, in October 2020, he was chosen by the St. Tammany Parish School Board from among five candidates to replace his father, Peter Jabbia, to become the school system’s 14th superintendent. The School Board now is tasked with having to find his replacement. Their next scheduled meeting is Oct. 8, although they could call for an emergency meeting before then. School Board President Amanda Reed Martin did

not immediately return a phone call Wednesday evening. It wasn’t clear who would serve as superintendent in an interim role. Among the potential interim leaders are Assistant Superintendent of Administration and Human Resources Steve Alfonso and Assistant Superintendents Melissa Langlois and Kimberly Gardner. Email Jim Derry at jderry@theadvocate.com.

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Saints tight end Noah Fant scores a touchdown in front of Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Eric Stokes during the second half of a game on Sunday at the Caesars Superdome.

Tight ends an integral element to Saints’ fast start on offense BY LUKE JOHNSON

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For the first 71 offensive plays, the New Orleans Saints tight ends were a driving force against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday. Starter Juwan Johnson caught eight passes for 53 yards and a pair of touchdowns. Noah Fant, who joined the team as a free agent this offseason, turned his four catches into 33 yards and two more touchdowns. But play No. 72 was the one that lingered. With a little more than a minute remaining and the Saints 60 yards away from a potential game-tying touchdown, Johnson caught a pass in the right flat and lost control of the football when Raiders linebacker Nakobe Dean fought through Johnson’s stiff-arm to force a fumble. Las Vegas recovered the ball and kneeled out the remainder of the clock.

It was the last of four consecutive turnovers by the Saints and a bitter finish to an otherwise excellent performance from Johnson in particular. “I wouldn’t change anything about how I’m playing, but I definitely would change the way I was holding that football,” Johnson said Monday. “I was a little bit careless. Moving forward, just being intentional about securing the ball, falling in love with it, as (receivers coach Keith Washington) would say.” Johnson is hopeful to use the lost fumble as an opportunity to be more “intentional about securing the football.” “It’s not one of those things where I’m like, ‘I don’t know what to do.’ You know exactly what to do,” he said. “… Don’t change the way I play. Just keep playing aggressive.” Through three games, the Saints tight ends mostly have contributed in a positive way.

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Tigers offense thrives with first-down chunks

Mourning LSU’s lost legends It’s been a tough few months for LSU. No, not the lawsuits and Southeastern Conference rattling sabers about throwing the school out of the league. We’re talking about real life and death stuff. The LSU athletic staff put up composite black and white photos in Tiger Stadium’s press box this season memorializing late former Scott baseball coach and athletic Rabalais director Skip Bertman, who died Aug. 14, along with former football coach and player Jerry Stovall, who died Aug. 31. This past week, they added former basketball great Bob Pettit to the montage. Pettit, who died Sept. 24, was honored with a moment of silence before the LSU-Texas A&M game kicked off.

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Let’s go back to Jan. 22, 2020, the night of Zion Williamson’s highly anticipated NBA debut. That night included an outrageous fourthquarter scoring binge that saw Williamson bury four 3-pointers in a 2:34 stretch. The Smoothie King Center was rocking as Williamson put the NBA on notice of what was to come. Or so we thought. Williamson made just two more 3-pointers that season and has made just 27 over the next six seasons after that. That’s a total of 33 3-pointers in a career that started with the kind of bang that would make legendary NBA broadcaster Mike Breen proud. Even more eye-opening is how few he’s taken since arriving in New Orleans. He’s attempted just 102 in his career. That number has decreased in each of the past four seasons. Four years ago, he took 19. He attempted 18 in the Pelicans’ 49-win 202324 season. He took 13 the next year. Last season, he attempted a career-low four. He made one of those four. Williamson, when asked last season why he passes up 3-pointers, had this to say: “I just hate when I miss,” he said. “I don’t want to feel like I wasted a team possession.” The early indication through the first two days of training camp is that things are about to change this season. Expect his 3-point attempts to increase. Williamson has been one of the last ones on the court after practice taking extra outside shots. It’s also something he spent much of offseason working on. “This summer was about breaking that,” Williamson said. “Just playing the game, trusting my game. It was a point of emphasis this summer. Trusting my jumper. Getting

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When the LSU offense couldn’t move the ball against Ole Miss in Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford, Mississippi, Brian Kelly knew what the problem was. LSU was facing a host of issues in the first half. Kelly’s former team couldn’t run the ball against Pete Golding’s defense. Quarterback Sam Leavitt wasn’t getting the ball out of his hands quickly. The offensive line was consistently getting beat. But in Kelly’s eyes, the biggest issue LSU and Kiffin faced was none of those things. It was their inability to generate positive plays on first down. “First down is so important for Lane’s offense,” Kelly said in an interview with SiriusXM College Sports Radio. “If first down is not successful, they lose their tempo. It becomes a little bit more difficult. And I thought Pete understood that clearly, and being physical up front.” It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that first-down production is important for an offense. But for Kiffin’s attack, a good

first-down result matters more because it lets his offense go no-huddle and play with tempo, allowing Kiffin and offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. to dictate the game on their terms. “At the end of the day, that’s probably the biggest piece there,” Kelly said. “Offensively at LSU, they couldn’t get in that rhythm.” LSU eventually started playing better on first down as the game wore on, scoring two of its three touchdowns on first down and averaging 5.4 yards per play in those situations by the end of the game, slightly outpacing Ole Miss (5.2 yards). The Tigers’ first-down success in the second half nearly won them the game as they roared back from a 24-7 deficit to tie the score in the fourth quarter. Although LSU eventually lost 32-24, its continued firstdown success the next week against Texas A&M helped earn the Tigers a blowout win over the Aggies.

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Philadelphia Phillies infielder Alec Bohm hits a single against the Atlanta Braves in the first inning during Game 2 of a National League Wild Card Series on Wednesday in Atlanta. in right field, driving in Sean Murphy to give Atlanta a 2-1 lead. Harper, who resumed playing the outfield late this season for the first time since 2022, got a poor jump and was leaping for the ball near the warning track. He was not charged with an error. Matt Olson added a sacrifice fly. “I didn’t think he hit it very hard,” Harper said. “I thought it was going to be a pop fly just right at me and then it kind of kept traveling. Obviously a ball I should have caught. ... And obviously I was hearing it pretty good from Braves and Phillies fans in the dugout, so got to show up in that situation. “But how quickly can I turn the page and just get past that moment, knowing that I’m still coming up to the plate to hit and knowing that in the postseason, it doesn’t matter what you did the at-bat before, the inning before. It’s what you do in that moment.” The Phillies pulled even with

eighth-inning home runs by Schwarber and Harper off Dylan Lee, the winning pitcher in the Braves’ 5-3 opening win on Tuesday. Schwarber’s drive carried 447 feet and Harper followed with a 418-foot shot. “Some big home runs late by some really good hitters,” Braves manager Walt Weiss said. “That’s what got us.” Tyler Mahle allowed one run on six hits in seven innings for Atlanta. Cristopher Sánchez allowed three runs in 6 2/3 innings for Philadelphia while throwing a career-high 116 pitches. Painter gave up a one-out single to Mauricio Dubón in the 10th, then struck out Austin Riley before giving up a bloop single to Michael Harris II. Painter’s 0-2 fastball to Smith was called inside by plate umpire Adam Beck, but Painter and catcher J.T. Realmuto immediately called for a roboump challenge. ABS confirmed the ball clipped the strike zone,

the first time a postseason game has ended with a strike-zone appeal. Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr. walked, stole second and then stole third with Edmundo Sosa not covering the bag before scoring on Olson’s single in the first. Sánchez didn’t allow another hit until Sean Murphy doubled to center field with one out in the fifth. Mahle kept pace, though he didn’t have a perfect inning until the fifth, when he struck out Schwarber and Harper. Sánchez issued an intentional walk to Acuña with two outs before Baldwin’s grounder to second base ended the inning. Sosa left the game after reaching on an infield single to open the ninth. He appeared to aggravate a leg injury and was replaced by pinch-runner Derek Hill. Phillies manager Don Mattingly said the injury did not appear to be serious.

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White Sox pounce early, finish sweep of Astros Team earns first playoff series win since 2005 BY KRISTIE RIEKEN AP sportswriter

HOUSTON — The Chicago White Sox used a big first inning and a three-run homer from Chase Meidroth to propel them to a 7-3 win over the Houston Astros on Wednesday to sweep their AL Wild Card Series. It’s the first time Chicago has won a playoff series since beating Houston in the World Series in 2005. Under the direction of second-year skipper Will Venable and with a letter of support from Pope Leo XIV, the White Sox advanced to face AL Central champion Cleveland in the AL Division Series beginning Saturday in Cleveland. The White Sox, who lost 100 games in each of the last three seasons, are the only team in major league history to follow consecutive 100-loss seasons with a playoff berth. The AL West-winning Astros went 81-81 to become the first team to reach the postseason without a winning record. Their recent playoff woes in Houston continued Wednesday as they dropped their ninth straight home playoff game in a ninth trip to the

Veteran guard Kevin Zeitler is heading home to try to boost the slumping Green Bay Packers offense, which suffered one more setback with the news that wide receiver Jayden Reed will miss the rest of the season. Zeitler is the latest experienced guard to sign with Green Bay as the Packers attempt to strengthen their biggest area of weakness. The Packers also signed Laken Tomlinson to their 53-man roster and added Mekhi Becton. Also Wednesday, the Packers announced Reed would undergo season-ending surgery. He injured his neck in the first quarter against the New York Jets on Sept. 20. Right tackle Zach Bako-Bewele and Reed were carted off the field on consecutive plays, and neither will play again this season.

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BY CHARLES ODUM ATLANTA — Bryce Harper’s misplay in right field put Philadelphia in a hole. His homer an inning later put the Phillies in position for a comeback win that extended their postseason. Alec Bohm put Philadelphia ahead with a two-out homer in the 10th inning, and the Phillies beat the Atlanta Braves 4-3 on Wednesday to force a decisive third game in their NL Wild Card Series. The Phillies rallied with backto-back homers from Kyle Schwarber and Harper in the eighth after trailing 3-1 in the seventh. Harper’s homer made up for a crucial fielding mistake an inning earlier. “I wasn’t not trying to hit a homer, I can tell you that,” Harper said with a smile. Andrew Painter (1-0), a starter in the regular season, saved the Phillies’ beleaguered bullpen with three scoreless innings to close things out. Painter stranded two runners in the 10th when he struck out Dominic Smith with a successful ABS challenge. Playing under traditional extrainning rules that don’t include automatic runners at second base like in the regular season, Bohm delivered his third career postseason home run, a 357-foot shot to right field off right-hander Didier Fuentes (0-1). For Bohm, who has faced criticism during a rocky season in which he hit .249 and is facing free agency, the homer may have extended his time with the Phillies. “I’ve been trying not to think about that,” Bohm said. “I really don’t want the season to end.” The Phillies will try to continue their postseason dominance over the Braves in Thursday’s Game 3. Philadelphia beat Atlanta in the 1993 NLCS and the 2022 and 2023 NLDS. In the seventh, Drake Baldwin’s double glanced off Harper’s glove

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the next 13 batters after Brown exited. Chicago’s next baserunner came when Lambert walked Andrew Benintendi to start the sixth and then walked Tristan Peters. Bryan Abreu came in, and Meidroth smashed his fifth pitch off the wall in left field to push the lead to 7-3. He yelled on his entire trip around the bases to the delight of a patch of White Sox fans seated near the visitor’s dugout. Houston faced boos for a second game in a row from an unusually thin crowd. It’s a second straight playoff trip where the Astros have been swept at home in the wild card after losing both games to Detroit in 2024. Now they’ll face an uncertain future with manager Joe Espada’s contract set to expire at season’s end after general manager Dana ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By KAREN WARREN Brown was fired last month. It was a disappointing series for Chicago White Sox hitter Chase Meidroth celebrates while running Houston slugger and AL MVP-fathe bases after hitting a three-run home run during the sixth inning in Yordan Alvarez, who manGame 2 of an American League Wild Card Series against the Houston vorite aged only a single with two strikeAstros on Wednesday in Houston. outs in eight at-bats in the series. Altuve’s shot to the seats in left in six career starts against the field in the fourth inning got the postseason in the last 10 years. Chicago pounced on the Astros White Sox before Wednesday’s Astros within 4-3. It was the 28th for four runs in the first inning a debacle. postseason homer of his career, The Astros clawed their way which is second in MLB history day after scoring three in the first two innings of a 6-3 win. Houston back into it with solo home runs behind Manny Ramirez (29). ace Hunter Brown was lifted from Jeremy Peña, Cam Smith The Astros had a shot to take after getting just two outs and and Jose Altuve to trail by 1 en- the lead before Meidroth’s homer. wasn’t helped by a sloppy defense tering the sixth inning. They loaded the bases with two which committed two first-inning AJ Blubaugh, who opened Game outs in the fifth, but Anthony Kay errors. 1, and Peter Lambert, pitching on retired Altuve on a fly out to end He was 6-0 with a 2.39 ERA two days’ rest, combined to retire the inning.

The Carolina Panthers placed starting cornerbacks Jaycee Horn and Mike Jackson on injured reserve ahead of Sunday night’s game against the Detroit Lions. Both players are expected to miss roughly eight weeks, Panthers coach Dave Canales said. Horn injured his quadriceps during a 21-18 loss to the Cleveland Browns last weekend while Jackson left with a groin injury. Jackson underwent surgery on Tuesday; Horn will not need surgery. The injuries are particularly concerning given this week’s opponent. The Lions, led by quarterback Jared Goff, rank eighth in the league in passing and third in scoring through three weeks. The good news for the Panthers is they have a bye in Week 5, which would allow the secondary some time to regroup.

Titans QB Ward: Better play will silence critics

Tennessee quarterback Cam Ward said Wednesday that performing on the field will cut out all the social media criticism being thrown at his family in the wake of an 0-3 start. “My family knows the position I’m in,” Ward said. “They’re in this position as well with me.” Criticism grew louder after a 12-7 loss to the New York Giants last week when Ward was intercepted in the end zone, ending the Titans’ chance to eke out their first win. After the game, his sister, Chantel, wrote on social media that seeking out a player’s family to “personally attack them” over a game “is something completely different” from being frustrated with a player or criticizing a play.

Djokovic takes China Open match for 1st win since July

Novak Djokovic maintained his flawless record at the China Open despite needing a medical timeout during his first-round match on Wednesday. The sixth-seeded Djokovic beat Nuno Borges 6-3, 7-6 (2) for his first victory since July 7 in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. The 39-year-old extended his record to 30-0 at the Beijing tournament, which he has won six times, the last in 2015. It was Djokovic’s first match since a first-round loss at the U.S. Open on Aug. 31. He was treated on court at 3-2 down in the second set, but he didn’t appear to be hindered by the undisclosed issue as he saw out his next two service matches to love and played his best tennis after the medical timeout.

Suns forward Brooks faces DUI charge in March arrest

Phoenix Suns forward Dillon Brooks has been charged with driving under the influence related to his arrest in March by police in Scottsdale, Arizona. Online court records show that Brooks has a court date on Oct. 28 for the the Class 1 misdemeanor charge. Brooks was arrested during a traffic stop on March 6 at roughly 1 a.m. After an investigation, he was taken to jail. He was released after the booking process around 3:30 a.m. The 30-year-old was out with a fractured left hand at the time. He averaged a career-high 20.2 points per game last season and signed a $73 million, three-year extension during the offseason that will keep him with the team through 2030.

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Tulane using bye week to hash out QB situation “Trace is a young guy that has as a bright future. He will be our starter at some point. We don’t know when that’s going to be, but those are our top two.”

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The Tulane football team’s open date has more significance than simply giving it extra time to prepare for Army’s triple-option offense. The Green Wave (2-2) also needs to pick a starting quarterback for its Oct. 10 American Conference opener in West Point, New York (11 a.m., CBS Sports Network). Coach Will Hall and his staff will choose between fourth-year junior Kadin Semonza and freshman Trace Johnson after observing three practices this week. Tulane worked out Tuesday and Wednesday at Yulman Stadium, will take Thursday off to concentrate on academics and will be back on the field Friday before beginning normal game-week preparation Monday. Johnson replaced Semonza, who started the previous three games, in the fourth quarter of Saturday’s game against Southern Miss after Semonza threw an interception in the end zone. Tulane trailed 21-14 at the time but rallied to win 24-21 thanks to running back Maurice Turner’s 74-yard touchdown. Johnson, playing for the first time, went 2-of-5 passing, including a 29-yard pass to tight end Dawson Johnson to set up a field goal before Turner’s huge play. “Kadin and Trace are going to compete this week,” Hall said after Tuesday’s practice, when both of them appeared to take an equal number of repetitions. “Kadin played really well until Saturday, and he had moments when he played really well in that game. He hit people right in the hands with five balls. Three of them would have been first downs and explosives. If we catch them, we’re up

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Tulane quarterback Trace Johnson gets ready to throw the ball during the second half against Southern Miss on Saturday at yulman Stadium. three or four touchdowns and none of it ever happens. Because of that, he started pressing.” Semonza, who is 50-of-93 passing for 646 yards with three touchdowns, drew Hall’s ire for two plays in particular. First, he took a sack after rolling toward the sideline when he easily could have thrown the ball away without getting an intentional grounding call. Then he threw his first interception of the season, chucking the ball up for grabs in the end zone just before being hit on first-andgoal from the Golden Eagles 9.

lot of mental work and was looking forward to that moment.” Johnson overthrew Destyn Hill deep down the sideline on his first attempt before settling down quickly. “It was a cool team win,” he said. “But there’s a lot of stuff we have to clean up and just focus on the details this week. I just need to keep doing what I’m doing, coming in every day with the mindset of growing and just attacking practice.” Regardless of who wins the job, Tulane has plenty to fix as it gets ready for Army (2-1, 1-1 Ameri-

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Continued from page 1C They are not just three significant figures in LSU sports history, but three giants. It gets me a little more at my age, I suppose, because the older I get the more I think of how short life is. For every voice from our youth that’s stilled, it’s a reminder that mortality’s clock ticks for all of us. I often think back to Richard Burton’s line from “The Longest Day,” when his RAF pilot character talks to another pilot about a friend being shot down just before D-Day. “The thing that’s always worried me about being one of the few,” Burton said, “is the way we keep on getting … fewer.” How true that is. Bertman’s influence on LSU athletics has been well documented, though couldn’t be overstated. He dug LSU’s proud baseball tradition out of the dirt of the old Alex Box Stadium, which gave way to the current “Box” that has Bertman’s name on the field. His Tigers won five College World Series titles in 10 years from 1991-2000, setting the stage for LSU to win three more since. What gets somewhat overlooked is Bertman’s impact as athletic director, a double play (pardon the baseball pun) that makes him hands down the most influential figure in LSU athletics history. Not only did he lead LSU to great success from 2001-08 but he also insisted on bringing back the tradition of LSU playing instate schools in football. At the time, LSU was playing only Tulane, but Bertman wanted to keep the guaranteed money LSU was paying nonconference opponents in Louisiana. The tradition started with a game against UL in 2002, the first non-Tulane school from Louisiana the Tigers faced since a game in 1949 against Southeastern Louisiana. Like it or not, that influence continues with Saturday’s game in Tiger Stadium against McNeese State (6:45 p.m., SEC Network). Stovall was a brilliantly skilled athlete. Playing for LSU in the days of two-way football, he was a standout as a halfback, defensive back, punter and kick returner. He probably should have won the 1962 Heisman Trophy over Oregon State quarterback Terry Baker, but there was sentiment at the time that his chances were hurt by the fact that he was playing so close on the heels of LSU’s 1959 Heisman winner Billy Cannon. Stovall went on to an exemplary NFL career, earning three Pro Bowl nods and one All-Pro selection with the thenSt. Louis Cardinals. Stovall also answered the call when LSU needed him. He took over as football coach in 1980 after the shocking death of Bo

“He’s got to learn from that, but you can’t throw out the fact that he’s done some good things,” Hall said. “Trace is a young guy that has as a bright future. He will be our starter at some point. We don’t know when that’s going to be, but those are our top two.” Johnson performed well even though his helmet communication with the coaches broke, forcing him to head toward the sideline before each play to get the call. “I was really comfortable,” he said. “I thought I was going to be nervous, but I really wasn’t. I do a

can). The Wave needed fourthquarter comebacks to beat South Alabama and Southern Miss at home around losses at Duke and Kansas State. “The goal every year is to get everybody playing their best, and we’re obviously not doing that,” Hall said. “We’re doing things better, but we’re looking for consistency and we’re looking for details. Getting the bye week right now is good.” Hall credited Southern Miss quarterback Landry Lyddy for a pair of quality throws on two of his touchdown passes. He added Tulane got caught in man coverage with “bad leverage and bad eyes” trying to take the run away, but he liked the improvement of the defensive line, which had two early sacks. The Wave held the Golden Eagles without a first down on their first four series. Hall lamented the offense not taking advantage of that fast start, with dropped passes in particular killing momentum. “If we catch those balls, you’re talking about a potential 600-yard day and 42 points,” he said. “It’s not OK to not catch it when it hits you in the hands. We’ve got to make those plays.”

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Flowers and a banner decorate the Skip Bertman statue in Legacy Plaza on Aug. 20 at Alex Box Stadium.

Rein in an airplane crash. Rein, by the way, came to LSU from North Carolina State, where he was succeeded as head coach by Monte Kiffin — who is current LSU coach Lane Kiffin’s father — from 1980-82. Stovall coached the Tigers from 1980-83. For many modern-day LSU sports fans, Pettit’s exploits might be shrouded in the mists of time. They shouldn’t be. He led the Tigers to their first Final Four appearance in 1953 as an All-American before going on to a stellar NBA career. He was the league’s first-ever MVP in 1956 with the St. Louis Hawks and led them to the 1958 NBA title. He was also league MVP in 1959 and was four-time All-Star Game MVP, a distinction matched by only Kobe Bryant. When the NBA named its 50th anniversary team in 1996, Pettit was on it, along with fellow LSU Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Famers Pete Maravich and Shaquille O’Neal. Pettit was the first former Tiger enshrined in 1971. Monday, we lost another name from LSU’s past in former men’s gymnastics coach Armando Vega. Most folks don’t remember LSU had a men’s gymnastics team other than when its alumni are honored at sold-out women’s meets. But Vega led a strong program before LSU dropped it in 1984, producing eight conference titles and two NCAA men’s runner-up finishes in 1975 and 1976. Vega, who competed at Penn State, also represented the U.S. in the 1956 and 1964 Olympics. Finally, I wanted to give a tip of the baseball cap to former Southern baseball coach Roger Cador, who died June 30. Cador played for Southern and coached the Jaguars for more than 30 years, leading them to 14 SWAC titles and 11 NCAA Tournament appearances. A number of those were in NCAA regionals at LSU, with his Jaguars playing (and occasionally beating) the Tigers every year. I like to think he and Skip are somewhere talking baseball strategy and watching the major league playoffs right now.

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas athletic director Chris Del Conte apologized for the top-ranked Longhorns’ vulgar on-field celebrations during their win over Tennessee and called them “embarrassing” for the school. In rare criticism directed at his own program and players, Del Conte addressed the fallout from the celebrations by defensive end Colin Simmons and running back Raleek Brown on Tuesday in his weekly “Forty Acres Insider” blog post on Texas athletics. During Texas’ 20-17 win, Simmons was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct for mimicking urinating on the field after one of his school-record 51/ 2 sacks. Brown’s fourth-quarter touchdown celebration included putting his hand to his crotch and then to his face before pretending to pass out. “I’m not happy about that, I know none of us are, and it was embarrassing to our proud and widely respected football team, athletics program and university,” Del Conte wrote. “It certainly raised very warranted concerns that many of you shared with me, drew a lot of attention and I understand why.” Del Conte noted coach Steve Sarkisian on Monday called the celebrations unacceptable and said he had discussed the matter with both Simmons and Brown. Sarkisian also suggested the play-

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Continued from page 1C LSU averaged 8.1 yards per play on first down last weekend. Kiffin and Weis’ attack generated 251 yards on first down while completing 10 of 14 passes for 154 yards. The Tigers also had seven first-down plays turn into new first downs. “To win 35-6 and have really dominating numbers, 500 yards to 197,” Kiffin said, “like I said in the first game, when those things happen, that’s a lot of people doing things right.” The Tigers’ first-down success over their last six quarters may end unless they clean up certain parts of their attack. Can the offensive line hold up against the better defenses on their schedule, such as Alabama, Texas and Tennessee? How will Leavitt fare in those matchups? When will star tight end Trey’Dez Green return to the offense and boost the passcatching group?

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Texas running back Raleek Brown, center, celebrates with teammates after scoring a touchdown during the second half against Tennessee on Saturday in Knoxville, Tenn. ers would face discipline but did not elaborate. Sarkisian briefly removed Simmons from the game, and video clips of the moment were viral by halftime. Similar player conduct “cannot happen again,” Del Conte wrote. Simmons apologized in his postgame comments. “I also want to add my apology to our Longhorn community and everyone who expects better from Texas,” Del Conte wrote. “We should represent this university with class, dignity and respect at all times, and in those moments, we fell short. “I do recognize that these are young men who made mistakes,

and this is a meaningful learning experience. They have owned their mistakes, and those actions are not reflective of who they are.” Del Conte’s statement is the third time Texas has addressed on- and off-field issues and controversies since rising to No. 1 after beating Ohio State on Sept. 12. Within days after that victory, star quarterback Arch Manning apologized for publicly laughing about an AI-generated video that depicted Sarkisian slapping ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe. Texas then suspended linebacker coach Johnny Nansen for one game after he was arrested on a misdemeanor charge of driving while intoxicated.

LSU won’t answer those questions this week when the Tigers host McNeese State, but they hit the road twice over the three weeks after McNeese and also host an explosive Mississippi State team two weeks from Saturday. LSU’s first-down performance will dictate whether Kiffin’s team can survive a difficult final seven games of the year. “We’ve got seven conference games to go, four more road conference games,” Kiffin said. “Probably five of the seven are ranked (teams).” Email Koki Riley at koki.riley@theadvocate.com. For more LSU sports updates, sign up for our newsletter at theadvocate.com/lsunewsletter

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Commanders not ruling out QB Daniels for Sunday BY KEN MAGUIRE AP sportswriter

WATFORD, England — Ten days after dislocating his left elbow, Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels was back on the practice field wearing a brace and a smile. Could he actually start against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium for a game in London? Maybe. Washington coach Dan Quinn said Wednesday it’s “too early to call” whether Daniels, who was injured in Week 2 against the Dallas Cowboys, would return after missing last week’s game against the Seattle Seahawks. “But as we’re working through the week, he’ll get more reps,” Quinn said at a news conference after the team arrived in the U.K. “As we get into Thursday and Friday, we’ll see what that load looks like. “By Friday we’ll have a definite determination of where we’re at. Until then, we’ll work and start the process, but it would be too early to call.” Marcus Mariota started last week and threw three touchdown passes in a 33-31 win over reigning champion Seattle.

The Commanders’ session Wednesday was described by Quinn as a light “jog-through” not in pads. Were it a regular practice, Daniels would have been “limited,” the coach explained. Daniels did some light footwork and passing drills, as well as taking snaps under center and simulating a handoff with the ball in his left, non-throwing hand — all with a big, restrictive brace holding his elbow at an angle. It’s the second elbow dislocation for Daniels, who missed most of the second half of last season with the same injury. “Any athlete would probably tell you when you are going through something a second time, there’s a known of what the road looks like,” Quinn said. “We just don’t know yet. We’re not going to put him out there before he’s ready. Him being back on the field is like, man that’s a good step for us, and then we’ll take it from there.” Mariota, who also filled in for Daniels in Washington’s game last season in Madrid, is preparing to start again Sunday. He grew up playing soccer, so competing at the home of a Premier League club will be “kind of a cool moment, so I’m looking forward to it.” But the 12-year veteran made it

clear whose team this is. “They’re going make a collective decision that is best for Jayden, and we are going to support that,” Mariota said. “At the end of the day, I think if he’s healthy and he can play, he should play. This is his team.” He described Daniels, who didn’t speak to the media, as being in “good spirits” and “comfortable with where he’s at.” The Commanders lost to the Miami Dolphins 16-13 in overtime last season at Santiago Bernabeu Stadium, home of Real Madrid. Sunday’s game offers another contrast in the sports science debate about when to arrive in a country for an international game. The Commanders are in town two days before the Colts, a significant but not huge difference. A year ago, the Los Angeles Rams landed in London just 30 hours before kickoff against the Jacksonville Jaguars, who had arrived Tuesday of that week. The Rams then routed the Jags 35-7 at Wembley Stadium. The Rams took a similar approach for their season opener in Melbourne, Australia, against the San Francisco 49ers, who chose to go Down Under a week in advance. The Niners prevailed 27-7.

Browns to test Thursday win streak against Pittsburgh BY JOE REEDY

AP sportswriter

BEREA, Ohio — Aaron Rodgers’ NFL farewell tour continues with his final scheduled Thursday night game when the Pittsburgh Steelers face the Cleveland Browns. Even though Rodgers is one win shy of tying Tom Brady (14) for the most QB wins on Thursdays, the Steelers have not had the same success. Pittsburgh is 0-9 on the road when facing an AFC North team on Thursday. “Because there’s not enough damn time to embrace the tape,” defensive tackle Cam Heyward said. “But the great thing about it is they got to deal with the same problems we are. So it’s an even playing field.” Four of those nine losses have been against Cleveland. The Browns won 24-19 two years ago when the second half was played in a snowstorm. There was also the 2019 game when former Browns defensive end Myles Garrett got in a late-game scuffle with Steelers QB Mason Rudolph. Garrett ripped off Rudolph’s helmet, swung it and hit him in the head. “We had that snowball a couple years ago, which was crazy,” Heyward said. “Yeah, it can become a little bit more gimmicky because it’s not as sharp as a Sunday. But we’re just gonna embrace it and be ready for it.” Thursday night also marks the 150th meeting all-time between the rivals, which are separated by only 135 miles.

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Rodgers is 13-7 on Thursdays with 46 touchdowns and seven interceptions. One of those losses, though, came last season at Cincinnati when the Bengals rallied for a 33-31 victory. “I just suck it up for those three hours and then know you get a reward on the back end. I think it’s part of the game now because of the money that’s in it. I think I’m just excited about the weekend,” said Rodgers, who has thrown 11 touchdowns and no interceptions in five games against the Browns. Steelers coach Mike McCarthy is 11-5 on Thursday nights, with wins in four of the past five

games. Cleveland has won seven straight games on Thursday night, the longest active streak and tied for fourth-longest in NFL history. Deshaun Watson has four touchdowns and no interceptions in the past two games as the Browns are 2-1 for the first time since 2023. The 10-year veteran has lost to Pittsburgh in his three starts, though, including taking 18 sacks. “It’s a great opportunity to showcase what we’re about on a big national stage. And yeah, we’re super excited,” Watson said. “We’re playing a very tough opponent, experienced opponent, and we got to make sure that we have all our things locked in going into that game.”

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RB Henry says Titans did little to keep him BY NOAH TRISTER AP sportswriter

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Derrick Henry is preparing to face the Tennessee Titans for the first time as an opponent. He said his old team did not do much to try to keep him when he left in free agency for Baltimore. “They shipped me out,” he said Wednesday, before walking that back a little. “No, I don’t want to say it like that. It’s always love. But no, they didn’t offer nothing at all.” Tennessee was 6-11 in 2023, Henry’s final season there. He turned 30 in January 2024. It’s hard to know what it would have taken for him to stay, and after his final game there he was given a microphone and thanked the fans. “I knew the writing was on the wall throughout that season, and they were ready to move on,” he said. “Good things don’t last forever, so it was time for me to find a new home.” Joining Lamar Jackson on a contending team in Baltimore has been great for him. Henry rushed for 1,167 yards in his final season with the Titans, but he averaged a career-low 4.17 yards per carry. His first two full seasons with the Ravens have gone for 1,921 yards in 2024 and 1,595 in 2025 — with a career-high 5.91 yards per carry in 2024 and 5.2 last season. “Lamar was a big reason why I came here,” Henry said. “It kind of takes the pressure off of the running back just because of who he is. So, whenever I came out for free agency, this was the No. 1 spot I wanted to go to, even during that season before I got here.”

leans in 2025. Their connection has Johnson also has been a weapon paid dividends on the football field, for New Orleans once the ball is with Johnson hauling in 78.9% of in his hands, with 102 of his 173 his targets. receiving yards coming after the

Baltimore hosts Tennessee on Sunday. It’s the first time the teams have met since Henry’s move. “I’ve never coached with him, but I’ve always gotten a chance to see him from afar and go against him,” Titans coach Robert Saleh said. “He’s an animal still running like he’s 25 years old. So he’s a tremendous challenge, and anytime you’re trying to replace a Hall of Famer, it’s not easy.” The Titans are 6-31 since Henry left, including 0-3 this season. Baltimore is coming off a lastsecond win over Dallas in Brazil. That was not the easiest game for Henry, who struggled in shortyardage situations behind an injury-plagued offensive line. “Got to have them. I’ve got to be better. Can’t stop thinking about them,” Henry said. “Not saying it’s like living rent-free in my head, but just very hard on myself and very critical of myself. I’m my worst critic, so I got to be better.” Henry may want to take responsibility, but this past weekend was not the best rushing situation for him. Tackle Ronnie Stanley missed the game with a toe injury. He was back at practice Wednesday but limited. At center, Baltimore’s top three options are now injured, and none is expected back anytime soon. Rookie guard Vega Ioane is capable of moving over to play there, and coach Jesse Minter indicated that may be the shortterm solution. It would leave Andrew Vorhees and former LSU player Emery Jones competing for a guard spot, and Baltimore also signed guard Kyle Hergel and center Andre James to the practice squad.

more heavily on the position group as a whole through three weeks. New Orleans has had two or three tight ends on the field for 59 of its 222 offensive snaps this season (26.6%), according to Sumer Sports. Fant has been a big part of that, playing 47% of the offensive snaps through three weeks. Fant has proven to be a friendly target for Shough. His first touchdown against Las Vegas came near the end of the first half when he used his big frame to box out the defender on a goal-line slant. Then he showed his catch-and-run ability in the third quarter when he caught a pass in the flat and turned upfield for a 16-yard score. STAFF PHOTO The Saints tried to sign Fant in By BRETT 2025 before he ultimately landed DUKE with Cincinnati. “We pushed each other this whole offseason, the whole time he’s been here,” Johnson said of Fant. “It’s why I told him to come here last year, but we’re glad he’s here now. We’re glad he’s doing the catch, according to Next Gen Stats. things we expect him to do.” He is clearly the primary receiving threat among the tight ends, Email Luke Johnson at but the Saints also have leaned ljohnson@theadvocate.com.

Saints tight end Juwan Johnson runs with the ball as Las Vegas Raiders cornerback Hezekiah Masses defends on Sunday at the Caesars Superdome.

Continued from page 1C Johnson and Fant have combined to catch six of quarterback Tyler Shough’s eight touchdown passes, and Johnson ranks among the NFL leaders in receptions (15, fourth), receiving yards (173, sixth) and receiving touchdowns (three, tied first) among tight ends. “Red zone, those two guys and Tyler did a really good job of executing the game plan down there and having those opportunities,” Moore said of the four touchdowns caught by Johnson and Fant against the Raiders. “It’s good execution. A couple of those were contested catches.” Johnson is coming off a career year in which he set personal bests in receptions (77) and receiving yards (889). Through three games, he’s on track to top those numbers. He and Shough briefly were teammates at the University of Oregon and have gotten closer since Shough arrived in New Or-

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Baltimore Ravens running back Derrick Henry, right, is tackled by Dallas Cowboys linebacker Donovan Ezeiruaku, center, during a game in Rio de Janeiro on Sunday.

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DB Green ‘can play anywhere’ for Holy Cross BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO By STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH

Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese celebrates with teammates after being fouled during Game 2 of a WNBA first-round playoff series against the Washington Mystic on Wednesday in Washington.

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Atlanta sweeps WNBA playoff first-round series By The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Allisha Gray scored 22 points, Jordin Canada had 13 of her 19 points in the fourth quarter, and the Atlanta Dream advanced to the semifinals of the WNBA playoffs for the first time since 2018, beating the Washington Mystics 9375 in Game 2 of their firstround series on Wednesday night. Atlanta, which had lost in the first round in each of the past three seasons, will host

Game 1 of the semifinals on Sunday against New York, which swept Minnesota to become the first No. 8 seed to eliminate a No. 1 seed in the league’s 30-year history. Canada made 3-pointers on back-to-back possessions in the fourth quarter, and she added a jumper from the free-throw line on Atlanta’s next trip for an 89-70 lead with 2:58 left. Canada also had 11 assists and seven rebounds. Rhyne Howard finished with 15 points before fouling out

with 6:03 left in the fourth quarter. Former LSU star Angel Reese also had 15 points and seven rebounds while Naz Hillmon added 10 points. Sonia Citron scored 25 points for Washington. Kiki Iriafen had 15 points and 16 rebounds and became the first player in franchise history to have a first-half double-double in a playoff game. Atlanta led 41-28 with 1:26 left in the first half before Washington closed on a 7-0

run, capped by Citron’s shot in the lane just before the buzzer. The Mystics were hurt by 11 first-half turnovers. Washington went on a 14-2 run starting in the third quarter to get within 6562. But Atlanta scored the next 13 points, capped by a 3-pointer by Canada, to rebuild a double-digit lead at 78-62. The Mystics were making their first playoff appearance since winning the 2019 WNBA championship.

Fever and Aces ready for yet another decisive playoff game BY MICHAEL MAROT AP sportswriter

INDIANAPOLIS — The Indiana Fever and Las Vegas Aces have gotten well acquainted after playing 13 times over the past two seasons. They understand how to contend with each other’s star-studded lineups led by four-time league MVP A’ja Wilson and three-time AllStar Caitlin Clark. They also expect the two WNBA Coaches of the Year, Becky Hammon and Stephanie White, to make all the right moves for Game 14 when they meet Thursday. And, fittingly in Vegas, it’s a winner-take-all game for the second straight year. “This was a game they needed to win, so their urgency was a lot higher, the intensity was a lot higher,” Wilson said after Tuesday’s 99-89 loss that evened the best-of-three series at 1-1. “I don’t think they guarded me any differently, it was just the sense of urgency they played with kind of had us

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Continued from page 1C those shots up. Whether I was playing pickup (games) away from the team or with the team or just getting shots up. Just trusting it. If I miss, I miss. The next shot is going in.” Williamson expanding his range to shoot more 3-pointers and even midrange jumpers could go a long way in making everyone around him better. He knows it, which is why he makes sure to make at least 50 3-pointers at the end of practice. “It is about taking what the game gives you,” first-year Pelicans coach Jamahl Mosley said. “We stop practice and look at situations where teams are loading up on him. And then we’re giving him the answer to that test.” It’ll be up to Williamson to pass those tests. “He is so dynamic and so

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on our heels, the same way we had them in Game 1. So we’ll be better, we’ll adjust and we’ll come back with a better sense of urgency, effort and heart.” That much should be expected from a team that has won three of the past four WNBA titles. But these matchups have been among the most intriguing in the league this season and last. A year ago, the injury riddled Fever were missing Clark, Sophie Cunningham among others and still pushed the Aces to brink before an exhausted Kelsey Mitchell fell to the floor and had to be helped off the court in Game 5. Las Vegas went on to win that decisive game in overtime and wound up winning the title. This year’s matchups have been equally intriguing. Indiana has shown it can speed up the Aces, causing confusion and miscues. The

Fever used that philosophy to post 16-point and 34-point wins at Las Vegas. They also built a 20-point lead in Indianapolis before the Aces rallied to win 86-84 in overtime in August. This series has been more of the same. Wilson dominated the middle in Game 1 as Las Vegas showed its championship pedigree with a 10285 win. Clark countered with a historic performance and perhaps her best all-around game as a pro, leading the Fever to a 99-89 season-saving victory Tuesday. The game was marred by a fourth-quarter confrontation between Wilson and an Indiana fan. Wilson drew a technical foul for leaving the court and the fan was escorted out before he returned when security determined he had not violated the fan code of conduct policy. It caused a huge postgame stir but with the series shifting back to Vegas, the players’ focus will return to basketball and what they must

do to reach the best-of-five WNBA semifinals. “I thought we adjusted well on defense, and we’re going to have make more adjustments because they’re going to go back and watch the film and try to exploit what we did,” Clark said. “But overall, I thought we played a lot harder (than Game 1) and we’re going to need to take it up another level (in Game 3).”

Lobbying effort Clark and Hammon each logged complaints about the officiating in Game 2 in what amounted to an early lobbying effort for Game 3. Hammon thought the refs allowed too much contact in Game 2. “I thought where they got very stifling (defensively) was our point of attack — a lot of grabbing, handchecking,” Hammon said. “I understand it’s the playoffs, but it shouldn’t turn into the NFL, either. I think the refs have a (tough job), I wouldn’t want to be one.”

cluded shooting competitions between the two. Bey wouldn’t disclose who won those competitions, but he did have this to say about his good friend. “He can really shoot it,” Bey said of Williamson. “I think that may surprise a lot of people. He has great form and can really shoot it.” Bey, entering his second season with the Pelicans, only saw Williamson shoot four ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO By ASHLEy LANDIS 3-pointers last season. He’s anticipating more this season. Pelicans forward Zion Williamson looks to make a shot “We want him to shoot it,” during the first half against the Houston Rockets on Jan. 18 Bey said. “I told him this summer I need you to shoot in Houston. as many as possible. I know athletic that he can get to able taking that midrange.” the entire city of New Orleans We’ve seen Williamson wants him to shoot, too. He’s the lane pretty much anytime he wants,” Mosley shooting 3-pointers in prac- confident. Playing pickup said. “So our ability to say, tice before. None of it mat- with him this summer, he’s ‘OK, read what the game is ters if it doesn’t translate to been shooting it well. So I giving you.’ If there are two actual games. Those closest can’t wait to see it in a game.” Pelicans fans can’t wait, or three in front of you, now to Williamson believe it will. Williamson and teammate either. you’ve got to come off of it. They’ve been waiting to Or if they are backing all the Saddiq Bey worked out toway up, then you’ve got to gether in South Carolina see what they saw on that feel comfortable, which we over the summer. Those magical January night in absolutely do feel comfort- workouts sometimes in- 2020.

Brandon Green embraced playing multiple football positions growing up, and he’s earned the trust of Holy Cross coach Scott Wattigny to contribute in different ways this season. Green A junior who starts at safety for Holy Cross, Green can play anywhere in the secondary. He also contributes as a kick and punt returner, and he’s seen an increased role at wide receiver. “I’m a hybrid player,” said the 5-foot-10, 180-pounder. “I can play anywhere, I can play anything. I didn’t want to be just stuck to one role. I just wanted to be an athlete. It’s just another step toward helping my team win.” While Green had a strong season, one of his goals this season was to make more plays near the ball. Perhaps his biggest play came on a forced fumble in overtime against St. Charles Catholic in Week 3. Green recovered the fumble, which led to the game-winning field goal and a 10-7 Tigers win. “We needed that play to win that game,” Green said. “I’ve improved in my (pass coverage) and getting to the ball more. Just developing those skills has helped me be a better player this year.” Green also played a key part in a Week 2 win over Warren Easton in which he had an interception and returned a kickoff 83 yards for a touchdown. Holy Cross was unable to keep the win streak going last week against top-ranked Karr, but held the Cougars to less than 100 yards passing in a 31-0 loss. Green teams with senior Savoy Guidry, a Stanford commitment, in the secondary. “I see (Green) consistently getting better and better

“(Green) is a guy you’re going to always find around the ball. He’s aggressive, he’s a ball hawk, and that’s what you’re looking for in a defensive player.”

GARRET CHACHERE, Holy Cross defensive coordinator each week,” Wattigny said. “I think having a guy like Savoy next to him helps that because he doesn’t feel like he has to (cover) the whole field. His open-field tackling has just been superb.” Green, who finished last season with 50 tackles, three interceptions and three forced fumbles, forced another fumble in the Karr game. “(Green) is a guy you’re going to always find around the ball,” defensive coordinator Garret Chachere said. “He’s aggressive, he’s a ball hawk, and that’s what you’re looking for in a defensive player.” Green has college offers from Florida State, Arkansas and Purdue. That list could continue to grow as he matures. “He’s becoming more a student of the game,” Chachere said. “That’s really important now to be as good of player as he can in high school, but that’ll really serve him well in college because he’ll already have the habits of studying.” While Green has yet to have the same effect on offense, he’s expected to see more time at wide receiver. “(Green’s role on offense) is only going to keep expanding,” Wattigny said. “He’s just a playmaker. We’ve got to try to find a way to get into the end zone, and the only to do that is with your playmakers.” Holy Cross (2-2, 0-1) will face Jesuit (3-1, 0-1) on Friday at Tad Gormley Stadium. It will mark the 108th time the two schools have played. Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@theadvocate.com.

Several area games moved to Thursday because of weather BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

Football games between Rummel and John Curtis, along with St. Augustine and Chalmette, have been rescheduled to Thursday because of thunderstorms in the forecast for the weekend. Rummel and Curtis will play at 8 p.m. Thursday at Joe Yenni Stadium instead of its original Saturday date at Tad Gormley Stadium. Also Thursday at Yenni are Warren Easton and Riverdale with a 4:30 p.m.

start. St. Augustine and Chalmette will play at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Chalmette’s Bobby Nuss Stadium. Booker T. Washington and Carver will play at 7 p.m. Thursday at Gormley, another move from Saturday. Country Day and Northlake Christian will play at 7 p.m. Friday at Country Day, a move from Friday. Other moves to Thursday from Friday are McDonogh 35 at Shaw and Newman against Bonnabel, at Bertolino Playground.

WEEK 5 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE All games 7 p.m. unless noted.

Thursday’s games District 6-5A

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

District 8-5A

Warren Easton vs. Riverdale at Yenni, 4:30 p.m.

District 9-5A

St. Augustine at Chalmette Rummel vs. John Curtis at Yenni, 8 p.m.

Nondistrict

Fisher vs. Patrick Taylor at Memtsas, 6:30 p.m. Belle Chasse at Lakeshore Booker T. Washington vs. Carver at Gormley Morris Jeff at Pope John Paul II Pearl River at Jewell Sumner Salmen vs. Kennedy at Pan American Sophie B. Wright at Amite St. James vs. L.B. Landry at Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Stadium

Friday’s games District 7-5A

East St. John at Destrehan H.L. Bourgeois at Hahnville

District 8-5A

West Jefferson vs. Higgins at Memtsas

District 9-5A

Edna Karr vs. Brother Martin at Strawberry Stadium, Hammond

Holy Cross vs. Jesuit at Gormley, 7:15 p.m.

Nondistirct

Abramson at Varnado Baker at West St. John Ben Franklin at Springfield Cohen vs. Haynes at Yenni Ellender at Young Audiences De La Salle at Willow Kenner Discovery at Morgan City Lutcher at Franklinton McMain vs. Sarah T. Reed at Joe Brown Newman vs. Bonnabel at Bertolino Northlake Christian at Country Day Shaw vs. McDonogh 35 at Morris F.X. Jeff Stadium St. Charles at Riverside St. Thomas Aquinas at Hannan Thomas Jefferson at St. Martin’s

Saturday’s games District 8-5A

John Ehret vs. East Jefferson at Yenni, 6:30 p.m.

Nondistrict

Bogalusa vs. Jefferson Rise at Memtsas

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Odds NFL Thursday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Pittsburgh 3 2½ (38½) at CLEVELAND

Sunday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Indianapolis 1½ 3½ (47½) at WASH. at BALTIMORE 8½ 11½ (43½) Tennessee Green Bay 1½ 3½ (39½) at TAMPA BAY at CHICAGO 8½ 3½ (43½) NY Jets at HOUSTON 2½ 2½ (48½) Dallas Arizona 7 2½ (44½) at NY GIANTS at CINCINNATI 2½ 2½ (51½) Jacksonville at BUFFALO 3 6½ (48½) New England LA Rams 2½ 3 (43½) at PHILA. at MINNESOTA 7½ 10½ (38½) Miami at SAN FRAN. 2½ 2½ (48½) Denver at SEATTLE 3 7 (43½) LA Chargers Kansas City 5½ 4½ (47½) at LAS VEGAS Detroit 3 3½ (51½) at CAROLINA

Monday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at NEW ORL. 2½ 2½ (47½) Atlanta

College football Thursday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U at NEW MEX. ST. 1½ 2½ (57½) at TULSA 3½ 1½ (57½)

UNDERDOG WKU N. Texas

Friday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Liberty 6½ 7½ (50½) at DELAWARE at VA. TECH 5½ 3½ (55½) Pittsburgh Penn State 7 2½ (45½) at N’WESTERN

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Alabama 3 5½ (60½) at MISS. ST. Syracuse 7½ 6½ (50½) at UCONN at AIR FORCE 1½ 3 (46½) Navy Notre Dame 23½ 21 (47½) at N. CARO. at SMU 20½ 21 (55½) B. College at KANSAS 21½ 18½ (49½) M. Tennessee at IOWA ST. 1½ 3½ (53½) West Virginia at HOUSTON 11½ 12½ (51½) UCF Michigan 8½ 5½ (43½) at MINN. at WAKE FOR. 11½ 12½ (53½) Stanford at WISCONSIN 9½ 10 (43½) Mich. State at GEORGIA 23½ 24½ (51½) Vanderbilt W. Michigan 16½ 13½ (46½) at BUFFALO Toledo 13½ 19½ (52½) at BALL ST. at UNLV 1½ 2½ (53½) Cal Ohio State 14 14½ (45½) at IOWA at GEORGIA ST. 1½ 2½ (51½) Old Dominion at N.D. ST. 21 18½ (45½) Wyoming Memphis 22½ 20½ (53½) at CHARLOTTE Virginia 1½ 2½ (51½) at FLA. ST. at MIAMI (OH) 15½ 13½ (43½) Bowl. Green at TENNESSEE 7½ 7 (54½) Auburn at C. MICH. 5½ 6½ (47½) Akron Louisville 7½ 3½ (58½) at NC ST. at UMASS 2½ 6½ (49½) E. Michigan Ohio 3½ 3½ (50½) at KENT ST. Florida 2½ 4½ (57½) at MISSOURI at UAB 30½ 30½ (50½) Samford at J. MADISON 14½ 18½ (56½) Marshall at NEBRASKA 11½ 14½ (52½) Maryland at NEW MEXICO 21½ 22½ (48½) UTEP at S. CAROLINA 7 2½ (53½) Kentucky at ILLINOIS 9½ 9½ (62½) Purdue at FAU 40½ 44½ (61½) Texas Sou. Oregon State 5½ 6½ (62½) at COLO. ST. at TEXAS A&M 15½ 14 (50½) Arkansas Ga. Southern 1½ 2½ (54½) at C. CARO. UTSA 10½ 11½ (56½) at RICE BYU 5½ 6½ (47½) at TCU at S. ALABAMA 15½ 14 (57½) UL-Monroe at USC 10 9½ (58½) Washington Army 3½ 2½ (47½) at LA. TECH at S, FLORIDA 6½ 6½ (48½) Temple Texas Tech 15½ 12½ (50½) at COLORADO Miami (Fla.) 7 16½ (48½) at CLEMSON at BOISE ST. 20½ 20½ (51½) Utah State at LSU 48½ 52½ (61½) McNeese at UL 5½ 6½ (47½) Ark. State Indiana 23½ 24½ (56½) at RUTGERS at WASH. ST. 1½ 2½ (45½) Fresno State at ARIZONA ST. 4½ 4½ (49½) Baylor Texas State 3½ 4½ (60½) at S.D. ST. at ARIZONA 8½ 7 (55½) Cincinnati

College football Thursday’s games North Texas (2-2) at Tulsa (3-1), 8 p.m. W. Kentucky (1-3) at New Mexico St. (1-3), 7 p.m.

Friday’s games

State schedule

Saturday’s games

Alcorn St. (3-2) at Grambling (2-2), 2 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff (2-2) at Southern (2-3), 6 p.m. UL-Monroe (0-4) at South Alabama (2-2), 6 p.m. Northwestern St. (0-5) at Lamar (3-1), 6 p.m. Nicholls (2-3) at Houston Christian (2-3), 6 p.m. Army (2-1) at Louisiana Tech (1-2), 6:30 p.m. McNeese St. (2-3) at LSU (3-1), 6:45 p.m. Arkansas St. (2-2) at UL (3-1), 7 p.m. Idle: Southeastern Louisiana, Tulane

Pro football NFL glance AFC Buffalo N.Y. Jets New England Miami South Jacksonville Indianapolis Tennessee Houston North Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati West Kansas City Las Vegas Denver L.A. Chargers

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NFC East

Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington South Carolina New Orleans Atlanta Tampa Bay North Minnesota Detroit Chicago Green Bay West San Francisco Seattle L.A. Rams Arizona

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New york yankees first baseman Luis García hits a solo home run against the Boston Red Sox during the fourth inning in Game 2 of their American League Wild Card Series on Wednesday in New york. The game was not over by press time. Monday’s game

Atlanta at New Orleans, 7:15 p.m.

AFC leaders

Week 3 Quarterbacks

Thursday’s game

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, 7:15 p.m.

Sunday’s games

Indianapolis vs Washington at London, 8:30 a.m. Arizona at N.Y. Giants, noon Dallas at Houston, noon Green Bay at Tampa Bay, noon Jacksonville at Cincinnati, noon L.A. Rams at Philadelphia, noon N.Y. Jets at Chicago, noon New England at Buffalo, noon Tennessee at Baltimore, noon Miami at Minnesota, 3:05 p.m. Denver at San Francisco, 3:25 p.m. Kansas City at Las Vegas, 3:25 p.m. L.A. Chargers at Seattle, 3:25 p.m. Detroit at Carolina, 7:20 p.m.

D.London, Atl Golden, GB D.Smith, Phi St. Brown, Det Coker, Car

15 15 19 23 18

274 253 235 228 222

18.3 68 16.9 45 12.4 31 9.9 34 12.3 51t

Punters

0 1 1 5 2

Mahomes, KC Stroud, Hou Allen, Buf G.Smith, NYJ L.Jackson, Bal Burrow, Cin Rodgers, Pit Cousins, Las Willis, Mia J.Herbert, LAC

Att Com 98 67 120 72 86 56 102 77 76 53 103 73 113 66 92 62 86 49 88 52

Yds TD Int 812 7 2 794 3 0 786 5 2 783 4 0 745 4 1 743 6 1 700 4 2 661 9 3 627 1 2 627 3 4

Stout, NYG Way, Was Taylor, Chi Whelan, GB Mann, Phi Bailey, Atl Fox, Det Martin, Car Dixon, TB Evans, LAR

No 13 14 8 14 13 11 13 10 13 10

Yds 664 708 402 690 638 531 627 479 612 467

Lg Avg 7851.1 6050.6 6350.3 6649.3 6449.1 6248.3 6248.2 6147.9 5947.1 6746.7

Walker, KC Cook, Buf Henry, Bal Taylor, Ind Warren, Pit Jeanty, Las Tuten, Jac C.Brown, Cin Hampton, LAC Pollard, Ten

Att 65 58 66 66 38 63 43 49 50 38

Avg LG TD 5.5 60t 2 6.0 35 2 4.6 32t 6 3.9 24t 4 5.7 35 0 3.3 15 0 4.7 16 2 4.0 13 1 3.9 17 2 4.6 18 0

Price, Min Moore, GB Lane, Was Branch, Atl Kennedy, Det Raymond, Chi T.Johnson, TB Covey, Phi Turpin, Dal Smith, LAR

No 6 6 5 5 4 6 6 7 4 7

Yds 130 109 67 58 46 68 67 76 43 69

AvgLong TD 21.7 86t 1 18.2 63 0 13.4 19 0 11.6 18 0 11.5 17 0 11.3 24 0 11.2 16 0 10.9 23 0 10.8 17 0 9.9 19 0

K.Johnson, TB Br.Robinson, Atl Price, Min Melton, GB Moore, GB Berrios, NYG Duvernay, Ari

No 7 4 12 6 9 5 5

Yds 214 118 353 170 250 138 138

Avg 30.6 29.5 29.4 28.3 27.8 27.6 27.6

Gibbs, Det Smith-Njigba, Sea St. Brown, Det Watson, GB 11 tied

TD Rush 6 4 6 0 5 0 4 0 3 0

Rushers

Receivers

Kincaid, Buf Higgins, Cin Wilson, NYJ Flowers, Bal Kelce, KC Washington, Jac Schultz, Hou Boston, Cle Rice, KC Tucker, Las

Punters

Liberty (3-1) at Delaware (2-2), 6 p.m. Pittsburgh (4-0) at Virginia Tech (4-0), 6 p.m. Penn St. (3-1) at Northwestern (2-1), 7 p.m. Montana St. (5-0) at Idaho (0-4), 9:30 p.m.

East

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No 14 14 21 10 14 15 19 9 13 11

Yds 360 346 301 258 216 206 204 197 193 173 Yds 263 244 243 234 231 221 205 195 190 189

Avg LG TD 18.8 40 1 17.4 29 1 11.6 32 2 23.4 54t 1 16.5 59 2 14.7 32 2 10.8 35 0 21.7 55t 2 14.6 34 1 17.2 42 1

No 12 8 10 14 13 9 14 16 12 13

Yds 614 407 502 699 630 435 676 768 571 613

Benson, Las Wester, Bal Noel, Hou Dortch, Buf M.Jones, NE Wetjen, Pit Dike, Ten Williams, NYJ Remigio, KC

No 4 4 4 6 5 5 6 5 4

Yds 64 54 43 54 41 39 42 31 15

Avg Lg. TD 16.0 23 0 13.5 24 0 10.8 17 0 9.0 25 0 8.2 19 0 7.8 17 0 7.0 14 0 6.2 15 0 3.8 7 0

Wright, Mia R.Sanders, Cle McGowan, Ind Laube, Las C.Moore, Bal Abdullah, Jac Dortch, Buf

No 5 7 7 5 8 4 8

Yds 185 227 222 158 229 113 225

Avg 37.0 32.4 31.7 31.6 28.6 28.3 28.1

Allen, Buf Henry, Bal Taylor, Ind Walker, KC Chase, Cin Montgomery, Hou White, Las

TD Rush 6 6 6 6 4 4 4 2 3 0 3 2 3 0

Cole, Las Sanchez, Ind Scott, LAC Crawshaw, Den Johnston, Pit Cooke, Jac Kroeger, Hou Townsend, Ten Bojorquez, Cle McNamara, NYJ

Punt returners

Kickoff returners

SCORING Touchdowns

Kicking

PAT 8/8 6/7 10/10 8/8 11/11 11/12 5/5 10/10 4/4 5/5

McPherson, Cin Shrader, Ind Butker, KC Gay, Las Loop, Bal Bass, Buf Boswell, Pit C.Little, Jac Szmyt, Cle Sanders, NYJ

NFC leaders Week 3 Quarterbacks

Lg 72 59 57 68 55 58 67 65 62 58

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Rec Ret Pts 0 0 36 0 0 36 0 0 24 2 0 24 3 0 18 1 0 18 3 0 18 FG 8/8 8/8 6/8 6/6 5/6 4/4 6/8 4/6 6/6 5/6

LG Pts 58 32 58 30 46 28 59 26 57 26 46 23 56 23 47 22 50 22 52 20

Young, Car Shough, NO Stafford, LAR Love, GB Goff, Det Purdy, SF Prescott, Dal Brissett, Ari Hurts, Phi Mayfield, TB

Att Com 121 72 132 91 111 67 124 65 109 77 83 60 105 73 117 82 87 56 96 61

Yds TD Int 939 7 2 917 8 3 872 6 4 844 6 2 802 8 0 789 9 1 730 7 1 652 4 1 620 5 3 615 2 2

Bi.Robinson, Atl Gibbs, Det Swift, Chi Williams, LAR Jones, Min Hubbard, Car Irving, TB Monangai, Chi Skattebo, NYG Barkley, Phi

Att 66 65 54 38 52 41 40 30 50 34

Yds 349 307 253 214 203 184 180 178 177 174

Avg LG TD 5.3 55 2 4.7 21 4 4.7 32 3 5.6 30 1 3.9 20 1 4.5 16 1 4.5 38 1 5.9 61t 1 3.5 13 1 5.1 42 0

Smith-Njigba, Sea Olave, NO Adams, LAR Lamb, Dal Watson, GB

No 27 27 18 20 17

Yds 405 375 358 309 284

Avg LG TD 15.0 82t 6 13.9 47 1 19.9 64 2 15.5 49 3 16.7 81t 4

Rushers

Receivers

Punt returners

Kickoff returners

SCORING Touchdowns

Kicking

McLaughlin, TB Fitzgerald, Car Reichard, Min Ryland, Ari Aubrey, Dal Santos, Chi Zvada, NYG Bates, Det Myers, Sea Stevens, Was

PAT 5/5 8/9 6/6 6/6 8/9 11/11 4/4 12/12 9/9 6/8

LG TD 48 0 40 0 68 0 59 0 43 0 30 0 40 0

Rec Ret Pts 2 0 36 6 0 36 5 0 30 4 0 24 3 0 18 FG 9/9 7/7 7/7 7/8 6/7 4/5 6/6 3/3 4/4 5/7

LG Pts 59 32 53 29 56 27 49 27 60 26 50 23 52 22 31 21 57 21 57 21

Pro basketball WNBA playoff glance (x-if necessary)

First round (Best-of-3)

New York 2, Minnesota 0

Sunday: New York 91, Minnesota 75 Tuesday: New York 87, Minnesota 71

Golden State 1, Dallas 0

Sunday: Golden State 104, Dallas 80 Wednesday: Golden State at Dallas, n x-Friday: Dallas at Golden State, TBA

Las Vegas 1, Indiana 1

Sunday: Las Vegas 102, Indiana 85 Tuesday: Indiana 99, Las Vegas 89 Thursday: Indiana at Las Vegas, 8 p.m.

Atlanta 2, Washington 0

Sunday: Atlanta 92, Washington 77 Wednesday: Atlanta xx, Washington xx

Major League Baseball Wild-card series (Best-of-3)

American League

CHICAGO WHITE SOX 2, HOUSTON 0 Tuesday: Chicago 6, Houston 3 Wednesday: Chicago 7, Houston 3 NEW YORK 1, BOSTON 0 Tuesday: New York 9, Boston 0 Wednesday: Boston (Gray 18-5) at New York (Fried 5-5), n x-Thursday: Boston (Suarez 8-5) at New York (Cole 10-9), 7 p.m.

National League

ATLANTA 1, PHILADELPHIA 1 Tuesday: Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 3 Wednesday: Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 3, 10 innings Thursday: Philadelphia at Atlanta, 1 or 7 p.m. SAN DIEGO 1, CHICAGO CUBS 0 Tuesday: San Diego 8, Chicago 0 Wednesday: Chicago (Gausman 9-12) at San Diego (Pivetta 3-2), n x-Thursday: Chicago at San Diego, 9 p.m.

Wednesday’s summaries Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 3

Philadelphia Atlanta ab r h bi ab r h bi Turner ss 5 1 1 0 Acuña rf 3 1 0 0 Schwrbr dh 5 1 1 1 Baldwin dh 5 0 2 1 Harper rf-1b 5 1 2 2 Albies 2b 4 0 1 0 Bohm 1b-3b 4 1 2 1 Olson 1b 4 0 1 2 Stott 2b 5 0 1 0 Dubón lf-ss 5 0 2 0 Marsh lf 3 0 1 0 Riley 3b 4 0 1 0 De La Crz lf 2 0 1 0 Harris cf 5 0 1 0 Sosa 3b 4 0 1 0 Murphy c 3 1 1 0 Hill pr-rf 1 0 0 0 Smith ph 1 0 0 0 Crawford cf 4 0 1 0 Kim ss 1 1 0 0 Realmuto c 4 0 1 0 Ystrzemski lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 42 4 12 4 Totals 36 3 9 3 Philad 100 000 020 1 — 4 Atlanta 100 000 200 0 — 3 DP — Philadelphia 2, Atlanta 0. LOB — Philadelphia 9, Atlanta 11. 2B — Turner (1), Murphy (1), Baldwin (1). HR — Schwarber (1), Harper (1), Bohm (1). SB — Acuña 2 (0). SF — Olson (1). S — Kim (1).

IP H R ER BB SO Philadelphia 2 6 3 3 5 6 Sánchez 6 ⁄3 1 McFarlane ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Painter W,1-0 3 3 0 0 1 3 Atlanta Mahle 7 6 1 1 1 6 2 Lee BS,0-0 ⁄3 2 2 2 0 1 Iglesias 1 1 0 0 0 0 Fuentes L,0-0 11⁄3 3 1 1 0 2 Iglesias pitched to 3 batters in the 9th. ABS Challenge — Mahle (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Mahle (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Sánchez (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Sánchez (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Murphy (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Sánchez (Ball-Confirmed); Riley (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Acuña (Strike-Confirmed); Olson (Strike-Confirmed); Painter (Ball-Overturned to Strike). Pitch timer violations — Sánchez (pitcher). Umpires — Home, Adam Beck; First, Mark Ripperger; Second, Jordan Baker; Third, Nestor Ceja; Right, Dan Merzel; Left, Charlie Ramos. T — 3:03. A — 37,150 (41,149).

Chicago White Sox 7, Houston 3

Chicago Houston ab r h bi ab r h bi Antoncci lf 4 1 1 0 Peña ss 4 1 2 1 Doyle cf 1 0 1 0 Alvarez lf 4 0 0 0 Teel c 5 1 2 1 Paredes dh 2 0 0 0 Vargas 3b 5 1 0 0 Altuve 2b 4 1 2 1 Murakmi 1b 5 0 0 0 Diaz c 4 0 0 0 Benintndi dh 2 1 1 1 Walker 1b 4 0 0 0 Acuña pr-dh 1 1 0 0 Spence cf 4 0 0 0 Peters cf-lf 3 1 1 1 C.Smith rf 3 1 1 1 Meidroth 2b 3 1 2 3 Allen 3b 3 0 0 0 B.Mntgmy rf 4 0 0 0 C.Mntgmry ss3 0 0 0 Totals 36 7 8 6 Totals 32 3 5 3 Chicago 400 003 000 — 7 Houston 110 100 000 — 3 E — Allen (1), Spence (1). LOB — Chicago 6, Houston 5. 2B — Antonacci (1). HR — Meidroth (1), Peña (1), C.Smith (1), Altuve (1). SB — Acuña 2 (2), Peters (1). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Burke 4 4 3 3 0 8 1 ⁄3 1 0 0 0 1 Brazobán 2 Kay W,1-0 ⁄3 0 0 0 1 0 Hicks 2 0 0 0 0 3 Fedde 2 0 0 0 0 3 Houston 2 Brown L,0-1 ⁄3 5 4 3 1 2 Blubaugh 11⁄3 0 0 0 0 2 Lambert 3 0 2 2 2 2 Abreu 22⁄3 1 1 1 1 6 Hader 11⁄3 2 0 0 0 1 Lambert pitched to 2 batters in the 6th. HBP — Brazobán (C.Smith), Fedde (Paredes). WP — Brown. ABS Challenge — Burke (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Burke (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Lambert (Ball-Confirmed); Vargas (StrikeConfirmed); Murakami (Strike-Confirmed); Spence (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Umpires — Home, Alex Tosi; First, Ryan Additon; Second, Alan Porter; Third, Edwin Moscoso; Right, Alex MacKay; Left, Paul Clemons. T — 3:05. A — 36,015 (41,000).

Late Tuesday summaries N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 0 Boston

New York ab r h bi ab r h bi Anthony dh 2 0 0 0 Gldschdt 1b 3 1 0 0 Monstrio dh 2 0 0 0 Rice dh 5 2 4 6 Rutschman c 4 0 1 0 Ramos rf 3 0 0 0 Contreras 1b 4 0 0 0 García ph 1 0 0 0 Abreu rf 3 0 1 0 Grisham cf 1 0 0 0 Rafaela cf 3 0 0 0 Bellinger lf 4 0 1 0 Sogard 2b 3 0 0 0 Lombard ss 4 2 3 0 Duran lf 2 0 0 0 Rosario 3b 1 0 0 0 Story ss 3 0 1 0 McMahon 3b 1 1 0 0 Durbin 3b 3 0 0 0 Volpe 2b 3 0 1 0 S.Jones cf-rf 3 2 1 0 Wells c 3 1 2 2 Totals 29 0 3 0 Totals 32 9 12 8 Boston 000 000 000 — 0 New York 010 010 25x — 9 DP — Boston 2, New York 1. LOB — Boston 3, New York 6. 2B — Story (1), Rice (1). HR — Rice 2 (2). SF — Wells (1). S — Volpe (1). IP H R ER BB SO Boston 5 1 1 1 4 Tolle L,0-1 42⁄3 Miller 1⁄3 2 1 1 0 0 Weissert 1 0 0 0 0 0 Gamboa 0 3 2 2 1 0 1 3 3 2 0 Olds 11⁄3 2 Bello ⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 New York Schlittler W,1-0 6 1⁄3 2 0 0 1 10 1 0 0 0 0 Blackburn H,1 12⁄3 Schreiber 1 0 0 0 0 1 Gamboa pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. ABS Challenge — Abreu (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Tolle (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Olds (Ball-Confirmed). Umpires — Home, Nate Tomlinson; First, Scott Barry; Second, John Libka; Third, Mark Wegner; Right, Emil Jimenez; Left, John Tumpane. T — 3:01. A — 48,437 (47,309).

San Diego 8, Chicago Cubs 0

Chicago San Diego ab r h bi ab r h bi Crw-Arm. cf 3 0 0 0 Tatis rf 3 3 2 1 Bregman dh 4 0 0 0 S.Taylor lf 2 0 0 0 Busch 1b 3 0 0 0 Harris ph-lf 2 0 1 0 Suzuki rf 3 0 1 0 Bowen lf 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 Machado 3b 3 2 2 2 Happ lf Hoerner 2b 4 0 2 0 France 1b 4 1 2 0 Ramirez 3b 4 0 0 0 Merrill cf 4 0 2 2 Kelly c 3 0 0 0 Hays dh 4 0 0 0 Conforto ph 1 0 0 0 Bogaerts ss 4 1 2 1 Swanson ss 3 0 0 0 Crnnwrth 2b 4 0 1 0 Campusano c 4 1 1 0 Totals 31 0 3 0 Totals 34 8 13 6

Chicago 000 000 000 — 0 San Diego 201 130 10x — 8 E — Kelly (1), Bogaerts (1). DP — Chicago 2, San Diego 0. LOB — Chicago 8, San Diego 4. 2B — Machado (1). HR — Tatis (1), Machado (1), Bogaerts (1). SB — Crow-Armstrong (1). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago Boyd L,0-1 4 5 4 4 1 4 2 Assad ⁄3 2 3 2 1 1 Rolison 1 1 0 0 0 2 Civale 1 3 1 1 0 0 Webb 11⁄3 2 0 0 0 0 San Diego King W,1-0 7 1 0 0 3 8 Matsui 1 0 0 0 0 1 Musgrove 1 2 0 0 1 2 Rolison pitched to 2 batters in the 6th, Civale pitched to 4 batters in the 7th. ABS Challenge — Boyd (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Hays (Strike-Overturned to Ball); Civale (Ball-Confirmed); Machado (StrikeConfirmed); Busch (Strike-Confirmed). Umpires — Home, Ramon De Jesus; First, Erich Bacchus; Second, Chad Fairchild; Third, Bill Miller; Right, Clint Vondrak; Left, Rob Drake. T — 2:40. A — 47,084 (40,222).

Pro hockey NHL glance Tuesday’s games Florida 1, Carolina 0, OT Montreal 3, Toronto 2 Boston 3, N.Y. Rangers 0 Vancouver 6, Edmonton 5, OT Vegas 5, Chicago 2

Wednesday’s games

N.Y. Islanders at Toronto, n Pittsburgh at Philadelphia, n Los Angeles at Colorado, 9 p.m.

Thursday’s games

Buffalo at Columbus, 6 p.m. Philadelphia at New Jersey, 6 p.m. Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, 6 p.m. Minnesota at Nashville, 7 p.m. Seattle at Calgary, 8 p.m. Chicago at Utah, 8:30 p.m. Edmonton at Vancouver, 9 p.m. Florida at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Tennis ATP China Open At National Tennis Center. Beijing Purse: $4,089,385 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

Men’s singles

Round of 32 Karen Khachanov, Russia, def. Felix AugerAliassime (2), Canada, 6-3, 6-3. Jan-Lennard Struff, Germany, def. Thiago Agustin Tirante, Argentina, 6-1, 6-4. Yunchaokete Bu, China, def. Juan Manuel Cerundolo, Argentina, 6-2, 5-7, 6-4. Arthur Gea, France, def. Zhang Zhizhen, China, 6-4, 6-3.

ATP Japan Open

At Ariake Coliseum, Tokyo Purse: $2,342,275 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor

Men’s singles

Round of 32 Valentin Vacherot (8), Monaco, def. Alexander Blockx, Belgium, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4). Alejandro Tabilo, Chile, def. Tommy Paul (7), United States, 6-1, 6-2. Arthur Fils, France, def. Luca Van Assche, France, 6-3, 6-2.

Transactions BASEBALL

Major League Baseball American League BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Agreed to terms with RHP Jackson Rees on a minor league contract.

BASKETBALL

NBA NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed G Jaden Akins to a two-way contract.

FOOTBALL

NFL BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed S K’Von Wallace from the practice squad to the active roster. Signed C Andre James and G Kyle Hergel to the practice squad. BUFFALO BILLS — Re-signed DL Phidarian Mathis to the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Placed CB Jaycee Horn and CB Michael Jackson on injured reserve. DALLAS COWBOYS — Signed DT Elijah Garcia from the practice squad to the active roster. Placed S Jalen Thompson and DT Jonathan Bullard on injured reserve. Signed DB Alex Austin, DB Tyrek Funderburk and DB Juanyeh Thomas to the practice squad. DETROIT LIONS — Signed LB Amen Ogbongbemiga from the practice squad to the active roster. Signed WR Lawrence Keys to the practice squad. HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed DL Mario Edwards on injured reserve. LAS VEGAS RAIDERS — Signed RB Owen Wright to the practice squad. MIAMI DOLPHINS — Re-signed DL Keith Cooper Jr. to the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed P Johnny Hekker, RB Audric Estime, RB Devin Neal, OLB Keshawn Banks and G Josh Priebe to the practice squad. SEATTLE SEAHAWKS — Signed LB Jimmy Ciarlo to the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Placed WR Jalen McMillan on injured reserve.

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No strict recipe for seasonal fruit crostini

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recently toured Nunez Community College’s Culinary Research Center in Chalmette, which has a vast selection of cookbooks, menus, restaurant relics and cooking ephemera. The culinary arts students at Nunez are fortunate to have a research center on-site for their studies. The center is Liz Faul also a great resource for food writers far and wide who can use this treasure trove of cooking history for research or to inspire new thoughts on the history of cooking. As I walked through the center and saw the vast amount of cookbooks, I was struck by how important home cooking is to our cultural history. I picked up a little cookbook that was published by the General Electric Company in the 1920s called “The Electric Refrigerator Recipe and Menus” to help “the modern American homemaker.” This little historical document was just one of the many rare relics that reveal foundational texts to our modern culinary history. I also learned that the culinary arts program offers public cooking classes with local chefs. The day I was there, I was delighted that chef Andrea Apuzzo — of the acclaimed Andrea’s Restaurant in Metairie — was also there. After 37 years, Apuzzo closed his restaurant in 2022, but his recipes can still be

BY STEF FERRARI Voracious

You don’t need a recipe to make this seasonal fruit crostini with ricotta and honey. Instead, you need to trust your instincts. Choose any seasonal fruit to pair with fresh ricotta, quality honey and optional crunchy bits or herbs. Some of my favorite fruits for the crostini include cherries, figs, pears and peaches. To make it, toast baguette slices brushed with olive oil and then spread them with ricotta. Then adopt a flexible formula for topping it with fruit, drizzling with honey, and adding any extras like nuts or herbs. Like so many preparations in this cookbook, “Stuzzichini,” and in Italian food in general, it’s almost impossible to call this a recipe. Instead, it’s an act of trust: You must trust that whatever fruit you choose will pair perfectly with fresh ricotta, good-quality honey, and your choice of crunchy bits and/or herbs and/or spices, as long as it’s done with intention and care. You must trust nature, and your intuition. Some of my favorite seasonal fruits to use include rotund red cherries, juicy figs, buttery pears and tart peaches, but keep an eye out at the market and an open mind, and I have faith the formula will always deliver. I use the following as a good starting point per slice: 1 to 2 tablespoons ricotta, 2 teaspoons honey, ¼ cup fruit.

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Crostini di Frutta di Stagione, Ricotta, & Miele (Crostini with Seasonal Fruit, Ricotta and Honey) Recipe is excerpted from “Stuzzichini” by Stef Ferrari. Baguette, sliced on a bias Extra-virgin olive oil Whole-milk ricotta Seasonal fruit (cherries, pears, peaches, apples, figs, oranges) cleaned and pitted, cut to your preference Honey Nuts, fresh-cracked black pepper, fresh herbs, grated citrus zest, prosciutto (optional) 1. Brush the baguette slices with oil and toast on a sheet pan in a 375 F oven for 10 to 12 minutes. Allow to cool completely. 2. Spread the ricotta evenly across the slices. Arrange the fruit on each slice and drizzle with honey. Add any optional toppings and serve.

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Red Snapper Palermitana (Palermo style fish) Serves 4. This recipe is adapted from a recipe presented by Chef Andreas Apuzzo at a cooking demonstration at Nunez Community College’s Culinary Arts Program on Sept. 10. BREADED FISH: 4 red snapper filets (or substitute puppy drum, tilapia, cod filets) Salt and pepper to taste 2 eggs 1 tablespoon water ½ cup flour 1 cup seasoned Italian breadcrumbs 4 ounces olive oil PALERMITANA SAUCE: 1 tablespoon olive oil ½ white onion, finely diced 1-2 cloves of garlic, finely minced

6 ounces dry white wine 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce A few dashes of Tabasco, to taste ½ cup fresh lemon juice 1 ounce anchovy filets 3 ounces capers 1 can baby artichoke packed in water, drained 2 cups white mushrooms, sliced 6 ounces of butter 1 small bunch of Italian parsley, finely chopped

1. Season the fish with salt and pepper. Preheat the oven to 350 F. 2. Line up three shallow bowls on the counter. In one bowl, add the eggs and water and whisk together to make an egg wash for the fish filets. Then add the flour to the second bowl. And finally, add the breadcrumbs to the third bowl. 3. To prepare the fish: Begin by dredging each fish filet with a very light coating of flour. Then place the lightly floured fish filet in the eggwash so that the final coating of the breadcrumbs will stick to the filets. 4. In a heavy cast-iron pan

over medium-high heat, add the olive oil until hot, then gently place the breaded fish filets in the hot oil. Saute the fish until golden brown, being careful not to overcook the fish. Once both sides of the fish are golden brown, place them on a cookie sheet to warm in the oven for 5 minutes. 5. Prepare the Palermitana Sauce: Carefully clean the oil from the pan and start the sauce with a clean pan. Put the pan over mediumhigh heat and add the olive oil. Once the pan is heated, add the onions and saute. Add the garlic, but be careful not to let it brown. Add

the wine, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco sauce, and lemon juice. Stir the flavors together. Add the chopped anchovies and capers and stir. Then add the baby artichokes, sliced mushrooms. Let simmer. 6. Finish the sauce: Turn the heat to low, then whisk in the butter until smooth and stir it into the sauce. Add the chopped parsley. Turn off the heat. Taste and adjust the seasoning as necessary. CHEF’S NOTE: The anchovies melt into the sauce, adding savory depth and a salty taste, so limit the addition of extra salt.

Double-fried chicken brings flavor and crispiness SesameCumin Chicken, RECIPE 2D

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BY BETTY LIU Voracious

I have a chapter on “frying” in my latest cookbook, “The Chinese Way.” For deep-frying, use a thermometer to ensure the oil is between 350 F and 375 F. A double-fry method is often used, especially for chicken, shrimp and fish steaks. The first fry seals in juices, while the second

enhances crispiness. This recipe for Sesame-Cumin Chicken includes a marinade with scallions, garlic and wine. The chicken is coated with a mixture of sesame seeds, potato starch and cumin, then fried twice for a crispy finish. I suggests serving the dish with a lemon mayonnaise. Deep-fry (zhà), a well-known

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Mise en place for Red Snapper Palermitana

Rosemary Roasted Potatoes 1. Preheat the oven to 425 F. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. 2. On a cutting board, cut each small golden potato into four pieces, then transfer the cut potatoes into a large bowl. Drizzle the olive oil over the potatoes. Add the salt, pepper and freshly

Recipe is by Liz Faul. 1 pound golden potatoes (cut into quarters) 1-2 tablespoons olive oil 1 teaspoon salt I teaspoon freshly grated pepper 1-2 tablespoons fresh rosemary finely chopped

chopped rosemary to the oily potatoes. Toss the potatoes well so that they are coated with oil and herbs. 3. Spread the potatoes evenly on the prepared baking sheet and place them in the oven to bake until they are golden brown, or about 25-35 minutes.

Lemony Steamed Baby Broccoli Makes 4 servings. Recipe is by Liz Faul. 1 pound fresh baby broccoli florets 4 ounces of water 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 lemon (zest and juiced) 1 teaspoon salt ½ teaspoon cracked black pepper

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found in his cookbook, “La Cucina di Andrea’s New Orleans: Recipes from one of America’s best Northern Italian Restaurants.” In the words of prolific New Orleans restaurant critic Tom Fitzmorris, who wrote the introduction to this cookbook, New Orleanians “took to Andrea’s like crawfish to soft mud.” Apuzzo demonstrated how to cook his dish called Red Snapper Palermitana, or red snapper Palermostyle. He also shared health tips like avoiding oversalting your food and a fun tip on how to add lemon juice to the pan with white mushrooms to “keep the mushrooms light.” Apuzzo talked about his love of cooking as the room filled with the aroma

1. In a pot with a secure cover, turn the heat to medium-high, add the water and the broccoli florets. Cover the pot, and allow the broccoli to steam until they are tender but still crisp. Remove the broccoli florets from the

pan with a slotted spoon. 2. Place the broccoli into a bowl. Drizzle the broccoli with olive oil, lemon juice and lemon zest. Finish with salt and pepper to taste. Toss the broccoli in the lemon juice and olive oil, and serve.

kiss, Mama Mia!” Finally, Apuzzo told the culinary students, “cooking is my passion … and when you cook, you have to share.” As an avid home cook that loves to share meals with family, friends and neighbors, I understand that sharing food is a major motivation in deciding to cook a nice meal. I left this cooking demonstration hungry and eager to cook Red Snapper Palermitana. I drove directly to the seafood market and bought fresh red drum filets. To PHOTO By LIZ FAUL avoid overcooking the tender fish filets, I lightly Chef Andreas Apuzzo coated the filets with flour, demonstrates how to cook then soaked the fish filets his dish called ‘Red Snapper in an egg wash and coated Palermitana,’ or red snapper the fish with breadcrumbs. If you can’t find fresh fish, Palermo-style. this dish would work well with chicken cutlets, too. of onions browning in the I served this breaded fish pan. When the chef tasted dish with rosemary roasted his cooking creation, he potatoes and a side of lemsaid with his Italian accent and hand gesture, “Chef’s ony steamed broccoli.

Sesame-Cumin Chicken Serves 4. Recipe is excerpted from “The Chinese Way” by Betty Liu. marinate in the fridge for at least 4 hours or overnight. 3. An hour before cooking, remove the chicken from the fridge and bring to room temperature. 4, Meanwhile, make the breading: Crush the sesame seeds with the sugar with a mortar and pestle, or pulse in a food processor, until a coarse powder forms. Mix the sesame seed mixture with the potato starch and cumin in a shallow bowl. Set aside. 5. Make the cumin salt: Stir together and set aside. 6. Make the lemon mayo, if using: Combine the mayo, lemon juice and garlic in a small bowl. Refrigerate until you’re ready to serve. 7. Fry the chicken: Heat 2 inches neutral oil to 335 F in a large, deep, heavy pot. Set 1. Marinate the chicken: a wire cooling rack inside Cut the chicken into 1½- to a baking sheet, and line a 2-inch chunks. large plate with a few lay2. Combine the scallions, ers of paper towels. Prepare garlic, ginger, salt, white another one for after frying. pepper, Shaoxing wine, sesa8. Working in batches, reme oil and soy sauce in a me- move chicken from maridium bowl. Add the chicken nade, letting any liquid drip and toss to coat. Cover and off each piece, and place the

2 scallions, roughly chopped 3 large garlic cloves, peeled and smashed 2 teaspoons grated ginger 1 teaspoon kosher salt ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper 2 tablespoons Shaoxing wine 1 tablespoon light soy sauce 1½ to 2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken thighs ¼ cup white sesame seeds 2 tablespoons sugar ¾ cup potato starch 1 teaspoon ground cumin CUMIN SALT: ½ teaspoon kosher salt ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper ½ teaspoon ground cumin ¼ teaspoon smoked paprika LEMON MAYONNAISE: ¼ cup Kewpie mayonnaise Juice of 1 lemon 1 garlic clove, minced Neutral oil, for frying

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Continued from page 1D technique where the food is fried in a pool of hot oil, which both cooks it and

creates a crispy exterior, is used throughout the “frying” chapter in my cookbook “The Chinese Way.” When deep-frying, I use a thermometer, aiming for 350 F to 375 F. Another way to gauge the temperature is

chicken in breading mix. Flip to coat thoroughly in the breading, then set on first prepared wire rack. 9. When oil reaches 335 F, gently coat the chicken with more breading mixture, then carefully slip it into the hot oil. Fry for 90 seconds or until the chicken is pale golden and slightly puffy, then transfer to the second wire rack using a slotted spoon. 10. Repeat the breading and frying process with the remaining chicken, allowing the oil to reach 335 F between batches and using a slotted spoon to remove any loose breading from the oil. 11. Once the initial frying is complete, increase the oil temperature to 350 F. Fry each batch again for 3 to 5 minutes, gently turning occasionally, until the chicken is evenly golden brown and has an internal temperature of at least 165 F. 12. Place the fried chicken on the paper towel-lined plate to drain, then sprinkle with the cumin salt. 13. Serve with the lemon mayonnaise, if desired. to stick a wooden chopstick in the oil, and if tiny bubbles float rapidly up around it the heat is adequate. The coating here is seasoned with cumin and gets the texture from crushed sesame seeds.

Dear Miss Manners: I hope ways true of another. you will weigh in on a situBut paying attention ation that has caused quite is certainly always good public policy. To Miss a hubbub in our commuManners’ thinking, nity. At public meetthis is more about ings, a member of bearing and focus our school board than about what knits. It seems rude one’s hands are doto me to be preoccupied when you ing, which makes are supposed to be knitting easier to Judith listening to reports condone than conMartin stantly being on from the staff or MISS comments from the one’s phone. MANNERS public. Dear Miss Manners: Others defend her I am a receptionist with outcries of, “You’re at a surgical center who dissing women’s art!” or, checks in many patients “Some people are kineseach day. On occasion, the person I am checking in thetic learners.” turns out to be a doctor, It just seems rude to who often becomes offendme — like she’s not giving them her full attention ed that I had not addressed because her needlework them as “doctor” rather is more important. I can than by their name. understand it at a coffee There is not any inklatch, but when you are dication of the title on on the dais, it seems a bad their driver’s license or idea. insurance card (I have Gentle reader: Are we sure checked!) and this is usuthis is not Trustee Deally the only information I have about them, so I am farge’s preferred form of unsure how they think I note-taking? would know. Miss Manners has not These doctors get so upbeen to a school board meeting in years, and set, and it sets us off on the reads that they have gotten wrong foot. How can I rea good deal more bloodypair the unavoidable insult minded than they were in I keep repeating? her day. Gentle reader: Anyone who Both public and private graduated medical school school boards conduct should be smart enough to their business under rules figure out that there is no derived from some combi- way for you to know withnation of law and policy — out being told. and almost always include But doctors are people, some etiquette rules. What and some are overly senmay be acceptable to one sitive about the respect body is therefore not althat is their due — if not

perhaps as sensitive to the respect owed to other members of the staff. The challenge is to engage the rest of their brains, and it is a job that should fall to your boss, who likely has a few titles of their own. Your request is innocent enough — that doctors be told, when introducing themselves, to include their titles so that the support staff can then properly address them. Dear Miss Manners: When my family and I received the check at a restaurant, I was puzzled to find a line for the server’s tip, but also a line for the chef’s tip. I don’t think I’ve seen that before, though we go to many lovely restaurants. What is the protocol in such a situation? Is this a new practice? Gentle reader: It puzzles Miss Manners that you would consider this an example of something a lovely restaurant would do. As to the protocol, businesses are free to ask for money for the services they provide — it is called a bill — but it is not etiquette’s job to help them. Send questions to Miss Manners at her website, www.missmanners. com; to her email, dearmissmanners@gmail. com; or through postal mail to Miss Manners, Universal Uclick, 1130 Walnut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.

Exercising can lift a bad mood and I were approved for Dear Heloise: Can exercise the adoption of the cutlift our moods and help with stress? — Irene K., in Hills- est little boy. He’s 2 years old and just as darling as boro, Oregon can be. My sister decided Irene, yes, exercise can to throw a shower improve our moods for me, and all the and reduce stress people we knew by improving sleep, came. It was a total relieving muscle surprise to me, but tension, and affectI was so lucky to ing brain chemicals. receive so many Exercise is actually Hints from wonderful things very simple, and Heloise for my new son. you don’t have to go Among these gifts to a gym. A brisk was a first-aid kit. At first, walk anywhere from 20I thought it was a little odd, 30 minutes a day can help but believe me, it came in chase away depression, especially if you can find a handy when he fell down and got a tiny cut on his walking partner. knee. With a healthy, enLook for someone who can motivate you to keep ergetic little boy, I have a going! Or if you’d rather feeling that this is going to walk alone, try using be a very useful item. It’s headphones with music. also given me an idea for You’ll also feel better and gift giving for people who become more toned if you have bought a new home, eventually decide to do are doing home renovamore vigorous exercise. — tions, just got married, and Heloise more! — Paula J., in Lansing, Michigan Handy gifts Paula, so many times, people have told me about Dear Heloise: My husband

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Fire-starters Dear Heloise: I have another use for empty toilet paper rolls. I use scented, wax, night-light candles. After a week or two, when the scent wears off, I put two or three cotton balls in them to soak up the melted wax. Then I wrap these up in a couple sheets of toilet paper and stuff them inside a toilet paper roll. They make a great fire-starter in my fireplace or outdoors! — Karen, in Oregon Send a hint to heloise@ heloise.com.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, Oct. 1, the 274th day of 2026. There are 91 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 1, 2017, in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, a gunman opened fire from a room at the high-rise Mandalay Bay casino hotel in Las Vegas on a crowd of 22,000 fans at a country music concert below, causing 60 deaths and more than 850 injuries. Also on this date: In 1890, Yosemite National Park was established by the U.S. Congress. In 1903, the first modern baseball World Series began, with the National League’s Pittsburgh Pirates defeating the American League’s Boston Americans in Game 1; Boston would ultimately win the series 5-3. In 1908, Henry Ford introduced his mass-produced Model T automobile to the market. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would

build more than 15 million Model T cars. In 1910, the offices of the Los Angeles Times were destroyed by a dynamite explosion and fire, killing 21 employees; union activist J.B. McNamara eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison for the bombing. In 1949, Mao Zedong, leader of the communist People’s Liberation Army, proclaimed the People’s Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing. In 1957, the motto “In God We Trust” began appearing on U.S. paper currency. In 1962, federal marshals escorted James Meredith as he enrolled as the first Black student at the University of Mississippi; Meredith’s presence sparked rioting that left two people dead. In 1964, the Free Speech Movement began at the University of California, Berkeley, as students surrounded a police car containing an arrested campus activist for more than 30 hours. In 1971, Walt Disney

World opened near Orlando, Florida. In 1975, Muhammad Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the “Thrilla in Manila,” the last of their three boxing bouts for the heavyweight championship. In 2024, Claudia Sheinbaum, a scientist-turnedpolitician, was sworn in as the first female president of Mexico. Today’s birthdays: Actorsinger Julie Andrews is 91. Film director Jean-Jacques Annaud is 83. Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew is 81. Actor Randy Quaid is 76. Singer Youssou N’Dour is 67. Actor Esai Morales is 64. Retired MLB All-Star Mark McGwire is 63. Actor Zach Galifianakis is 57. Actor Sarah Drew is 46. Actorcomedian Beck Bennett is 42. Actor Jurnee Smollett is 40. Actor Brie Larson is 37.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) Choose your words wisely to spare yourself grief. It's important to take into consideration how your decisions will affect others. Partnerships will be strained if you use pressure tactics. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Take a little "me" time to figure out what you want or can do without hassle. Having a stubborn attitude or taking on more than you can handle will backfire. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Incorporate something fresh into your routine. You'll have a positive experience at a place you frequent or with a fitness group that encourages you to be and do your best. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Neglecting your needs will not help you get things done. Improve yourself, help others and focus on getting along instead of letting criticism take over. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Be open to learning. If you apply discipline and incorporate what you learn and master into your work, you'll boost your earning power. Don't let domestic problems erupt. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Pay attention to information you receive, and when in doubt, ask questions. Being wellinformed will help you save time, and practice will help you avoid mistakes and additional expense. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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Bridge BY PHILLIP ALDER Donald Sadoway, a Professor of Materials Chemistry at MIT, said, “In a battery, I strive to maximize electrical potential. When mentoring, I strive to maximize human potential.” This week we have been looking at deals in which declarer has been trying to maximize his chance of success. Here is another. How should South plan the play in seven hearts after West leads the diamond king? North’s two-no-trump response was the Jacoby Forcing Raise: at least fourcard heart support and game-going values. When South found three aces opposite, he bid seven hearts, thinking that it would be at worst on a black-suit finesse. In the red suits, South has five hearts, one diamond and one diamond ruff in his hand. So it seems as though South must ruff his spade losers in the dummy, then find the club queen. But there is another possibility. If he can take four spades and two clubs, that will also result in 13 tricks. In a vacuum, the percentage play in clubs is to cash the king, then to finesse through West. In the real world, it is better to lead the jack from hand, hoping that West either covers with the queen or thinks about it. Or, if he plays low smoothly, to rise with dummy’s ace

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT: INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPT: NOAB TITLE: AIRPORT AIRFIELD PAINTING AND ACCUMULATED RUBBER REMOVAL ANNUAL MAINTENANCE EVENT NO: 4785 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES SLDBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 8:00 AM CST DEADLINE TO RESPOND: Friday, October 16, 2026, at 1:00 PM CST PRE-BID CONFERENCE & SITE VISIT: N/A Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If you wish to receive no‐ tification of addendum posted by the Bureau of Purchasing about this event, register as a sup‐ plier or update your sup‐ plier account (if already registered) and select the following commodity code(s): COMMODITY CODE(s): 905-60 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion. For more information about this event, go to www.nola.gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Por‐ tal” under “BIDS & CON‐ TRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Portal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Kai L. Wells, Assistant Purchasing Administrator Advertising Dates: September 24, October 1 and 8, 2026 NOCP 9336 202006-sept 24-1-8-3t $99.21

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS Project: DELGADO COMMUNITY COLLEGE PROJECT: MARITIME AQUATICS FACILITY NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA 70129 Delgado Community College Project No.: 40006-R0031602 H/S Project No.: 25037 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Delgado Community College Pur‐ chasing Office, O’Keefe Administration Building, located at 501 City Park Avenue (Building 37), New Orleans, Louisiana 70119 until 2:00 p.m. CST on 10/21/26. All bids which have been duly re‐ ceived will be publicly opened in the Purchasing Department and, except as provided in LSA-R.S. 37:2163, read aloud. Late bids will not be ac‐ cepted. Description of the pro‐ posed work: New construction of a maritime aquatic facility within the existing Del‐ gado Community College Campus. New construction con‐ sists of a sidewalk con‐ necting to the adjacent existing school building’s sidewalk, a first responder river res‐ cue training pool, pool deck, covered pool equipment pad, and an add alternate for two (2) restrooms and showers. Complete Bid Documents for this project are avail‐ able in electronic form. They may be obtained without

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charge and without de‐ posit from Holly and Smith Architects, APAC. Printed copies are not available from the Designer, but arrangements can be made to obtain them through most repro‐ graphic firms. Plan holders are responsible for their own reproduc‐ tion costs. Questions about this procedure shall be directed to the Designer at:

Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD)

Holly and Smith Archi‐ tects, APAC 2302 Magazine St. New Orleans, LA 70130 Telephone: (504) 585-1315 E-mail: hsa@hollyandsmi th.com

RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026

A mandatory pre-bid conference will be held at the Maritime & Indus‐ trial Training Center lo‐ cated at 13200 Old Gentilly Road, New Orleans, LA 70129, on 10/6/26 at 10:00 a.m. CST. Type of Bid: Bids shall be on a lump-sum basis. Segregated bids will not be accepted. Bids security in the amount of five percent (5%) of the total bid must accompany each Bid. A certified or cashier’s check or a bid bond is acceptable bid security. If bid bond is used, it shall be writ‐ ten by a surety or insurance com‐ pany currently on the U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Man‐ agement service list of approved bonding companies which is published annu‐ ally in the Federal Regis‐ ter, or by a Louisiana domiciled in‐ surance company with at least an A-rating in the latest printing of the A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide to write individual bonds up to ten percent of policy‐ holders’ surplus as shown in the A.M. Best’s Key Rating Guide. (LSA-R.S. 38:2218.C). Bids shall be accepted from Contractors who are licensed under LA. RS.37.2150-2192 for the classification of Building Construction. Bidder shall certify that he is li‐ censed under the provi‐ sions of LSA-R.S. 37:2150 et seq. and show his license number on the bid enve‐ lope. Except as other‐ wise provided in LSA-R.S. 37:2163, any bid that does not contain the contractor’s certification and show the contractor’s license number on the bid enve‐ lope shall be automati‐ cally rejected, shall be returned to the “Re‐ Bidder stamped jected” and shall not be read aloud. Any Bidder who submits a bid for a type of construction for which he is not properly li‐ censed shall be acting in violation of LSA-R.S. 37:2163 and shall be subject to all provisions for violations and penalties thereof. Any interested person may object to the licensing classifica‐ tion of this public project in accordance with LSAR.S. 37:2163D. The successful Bidder will be required to fur‐ nish a Performance Bond guaranteeing faithful performance and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond guaranteeing the payment of all bills and obligations arising from the performance of the contract. Sureties will be required to meet qualifications set forth in LSA-R.S. 38:2218 and R.S. 38:2219 as applicable, and as set forth in the Contract Doc‐ uments. Delgado Community Col‐ lege reserves the right to reject any or all bids, to waive any and all informalities, and to re‐ ject nonconforming, nonresponsive, or condi‐ tional bids whichever is in the best interest of Delgado Com‐ munity College. Publish: Advocate (Baton Rouge and New Orleans) 9/17/26, 9/24/26 and 10/1/26. 200840-Sep 17-24-Oct 1-3t $202.63

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT:

TITLE: Repairs and Services for John Deere Equipment SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4795 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: Septermber 28, 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. 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): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

Public Notices Bids/Proposals g y 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:

The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Chief Procurement Officer Advertising Dates: October 1, 8 and 15, 2026 NOCP 9353 202698-oct 1-8-15-3t $123.45

PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD) TITLE: Repairs and Services for Freightliner Vehicles SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4799 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

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

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026

201062-sept 18-24-oct 13t $114.36 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Department of Public Works TITLE: DPW823 - Citywide Major & Minor Streets #1 SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4817 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: CONSTRUCTION DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%) RELEASED ON: October 1, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 27, 2026 at 1:30 PM PRE-BID CONFERENCE: October 13, 2026 at 1:30 PM https://teams.microsoft. com/meet/29036587845 0264?p=2n73HibNM8y 5RdTnFN Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity d if li

DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 28, 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. 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:

GUESTS:

L. Marino, Port of New Orleans A. Laurie, Port of New Orleans K. App, Port of New Orleans M. Jensen, Port of New Orleans G. Brown, Port of New Orleans C. Donze, Port of New Orleans T. Black, Port of New Orleans N. Dietzen, Port of New Orleans A. Dawson, Port of New Orleans C. Gilmore, Port of New Orleans K. Gilmore, Port of New Orleans C. Labat, Port of New Orleans C. Rapose, Port of New Orleans T. Williams, Port of New Orleans B. Bailey, Port of New Orleans M. Austin, Port of New Orleans H. Peltier, Port of New Orleans M. Sulser, Port of New Orleans J. Passaro, Port of New Orleans C. Nguyen, Port of New Orleans B. Boughrara, Port of New Orleans A. Every, Port of New Orleans J. Moran, Port of New Orleans K. Chinn, Port of New Orleans E. LeCompte, Port of New Orleans E. Federer, Port of New Orleans K. Curth, Port of New Orleans B. Skaggs, Port of New Orleans A. Hanks, Port of New Orleans A. Bierman, Port of New Orleans K. Mills, Port of New Orleans J. Fields, Port of New Orleans

ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD) TITLE: Repairs and Services for Steallntis Vehicles SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4797 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 28, 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. 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:

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:

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DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026

TITLE: Repairs and Services for Turf Equipment SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4798 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 28, 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‐ i ll li bl

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DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026

Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9307 201065-sept 18-24-oct 13t $114.36

TITLE: Preventative Maintenance Services SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4803 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 29, 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 d h f

SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4802 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: 35% RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026

PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 29, 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. 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): 405-15 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open

Roll Call & Determination of Quorum Following a roll call of Commission members, Chairman Thomas confirmed a quorum and called the meeting to order at 3:17 p.m.

II. Pledge of Allegiance Chairman Thomas lead the Pledge of Allegiance. Commissioner Williams joined the meeting at 3:19 p.m. III. Public Comment Chairman Thomas called for agenda-related public comments but there were none. IV. Report of the General Manager Ms. Scelson gave the General Manager’s report in Ms. Bryant’s absence and reported on the July volumes and productivity statistics. V. Approval of Meeting Minutes for July 2026 Chairman Thomas called for a motion to approve the public meeting minutes for July 2026, as previously circulated. Commissioner Ferrer moved to approve the minutes and Commissioner Revelle seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY VI. Action Items:

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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): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Advertising Dates: b d

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals g September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9312 201076-sept 18-24-oct 13t $114.36 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD) TITLE: Repairs and Services for General Motors Vehicles SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4800 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 28, 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. The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐

PUBLIC NOTICE JEFFERSON PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE

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TITLE: Bulk 87 Octane and 10% Ethanol Fuel

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

M. Singley, Port of New Orleans A. Thompson, Holy Cross Resident P. Murano, Holy Cross Resident S. Cali, Arcadis M. Bowers, KIEWIT K. Boulton, KIEWIT E. Rullman, Ardurra Group, Inc. P. West, EJES Inc. M. Drew, Jones Walker L. Balart, Jones Walker C. Smith, Royal A. Charbonnier, Royal M. Faherts, Royal M. Quigloy, Gulf South Engineering and Testing J. Rutherford K. Calkins, New Orleans Terminal, LLC J. Sensebe, Arcadis US I.

Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9311

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD)

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026

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

The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

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

Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9306

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ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD)

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

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46

The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

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

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ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD)

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

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46

The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening.

MEMBERS Michael A. Thomas, Chairman PRESENT: Todd P. Murphy, Secretary Treasurer Sharonda R. Williams, Member Jeanne E. Ferrer, Member Dale S. Revelle, Member

B. Branch, Chief Executive Officer C. Kocur, Vice-President, Engineering M. Scelson, Chief Administrative Officer and General Counsel L. LaCoste, Staff Attorney

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ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS

A REGULAR MEETING OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC BELT RAILROAD COMMISSION FOR THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, HELD IN THE FIRST FLOOR AUDITORIUM OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS’ OFFICES, LOCATED AT 1350 PORT OF NEW ORLEANS PLACE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL A. THOMAS AT 3:17 P.M.

STAFF:

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46

THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC BELT RAILROAD COMMISSION FOR THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS MINUTES OF THE REGULAR COMMISSION MEETING THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026

MEMBERS Darryl D. Berger, Vice-Chairman ABSENT: James J. Carter, Jr., Member

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COMMODITY CODE(s): 913-27

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.”

Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9304

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

Description

Owner

D-06561-22

Sony Blue ray

Found

D-06561-22

Sony receiver

Found

D-02195-22

Nike bag and red Nintendo 3ds

Found

G-13048-22

Gray purse with contents

Found

I-19088-22

Black clothing carrier and brown and gold purse

Found

A-14804-22

Peak inverter, black and decker sander

Found

D-01673-22

Four bags of Clothing,

Found

K-08798-22

Tan bag and personal items

Found

K-01035-22

Weed eater

Found

A-10081-22

Child car seat

Found

E-18901-22

Broom, push broom and tarp, saw, trimmer

Dexter Jackson

A-00951-22

Backpack

Found

D-07542-22

Green bag

Found

K-05699-22

Gray drawer

Gaven Rodriguez

E-03509-22

FNh gun box

Shane Tally

C-20390-22

Backpack

Wayne Wilson

K-10320-22

Tan safe

Found

C-01499-22

Blk / wht purse

Found

I-13350-22

Blu/blk bag

Found

B-06743-22

Four bags of clothes and personal items

Ceri Adams

E-10990-22

Blk backpack

Found

E-06588-22

Bag of assorted items, hammer, Found screws, sq, dewalt charger

E-11151-22

Blk /red knife

Craig Trufant

E-15184-22

Brown mag con makup and personal items

Maryah Tate

E-15184-22

Brown wallet

Gerrod Allen

E-22834-22

Safety deposit key, NY certificate

HuanHuan Chen

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Period of One Year with Two One-Year Renewal Options in an Amount Not to Exceed $2,200,000 for the Full Contract Term. Mr. Kocur presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Murphy moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Ferrer seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY C. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the Chief Executive Officer to Enter into a Contract with C.D.L. Electric Company, LLC for Maintenance and Inspection Services for Automated Switches, Signals, Crossing Protections, AEI Readers, and Supporting Equipment, for a Period of One Year, with Two One-Year Renewal Options, in an Amount Not to Exceed $2,750,000 for the Full Contract Term. Mr. Kocur presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Williams moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Revelle seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY D. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the Chief Executive Officer to Enter into an Agreement with the United States Department of Transportation, Federal Railroad Administration (“FRA”) to Receive Congressional Directed Spending Funds, under the Consolidated Rail Infrastructure and Safety Improvements (“CRISI”) Grant Program, in the Amount of $1,200,000 for the Bywater Rail Project. Ms. Scelson presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Ferrer moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Williams seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY VII. Chairman & Commissioners’ Comments Chairman Thomas asked for Commissioners’ comments but there were none. VIII. Adjournment There being no further business to come before the Commission, Chairman Thomas called for a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Murphy so moved and Commissioner Revelle seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY and Chairman Thomas adjourned the meeting at 3:24 p.m.

A. Acceptance of the Financial Statement for July 2026. Mr. Laurie presented the Commission’s financial statement for the month of July, a copy of which is made a part of these minutes. Commissioner Williams moved to accept the financial statement and Commissioner Murphy seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY B. Consider Approval of a Resolution Awarding a Contract to Intelligent Polymer Solutions, LLC for the As-Needed Purchase and Delivery of Cross Ties and Switch Ties for a

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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): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9309 201069-sept 18-24-oct 13t $115.38 PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD) TITLE: Repairs and Services for International Trucks SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4801 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 28, 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 h d l

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tual link can be found below:

The District will host a Site Visit on Wednesday, October 7, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. (CST). The Registra‐ tion link can be found below:

Register in advance for this meeting:

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): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9310 201071-sept 18-24-oct 13t $114.36

Register in advance for Site Visit Site Visit Registration at 2832 General Meyer – Fill out form The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived. NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodation for people with disabilities. The re‐ quests for any reason‐ able accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026

ADVERTISEMENT INVITATION TO BID NO. 27-FAC-0059 LEASE OF SPACE FOR 2832 GENERAL MEYER AVENUE Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) until 11:00 A.M. (CST) on Tuesday, Octo‐ ber 20, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the ITB documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this ITB shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived. NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Pro‐ curement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026 200844-sep 17-24-oct 1-3t $127.24

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

201734-SEP 24-OCT 1-2T $87.78

PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbank Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0057 ENTERPRISE OPERA‐ TIONAL EXCELLENCE & DIGITAL TRANSFORMA‐ TION ASSESSMENT

PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114

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Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 10:00 A.M. (CST) on Tues‐ day, October 20, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications documents may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com. The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. (CST). The Vir‐

THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS MINUTES OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 A MEETING OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, HELD ON THE THIRD FLOOR CONFERENCE ROOM AT ITS OFFICE LOCATED AT 1350 PORT OF NEW ORLEANS PLACE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL A. THOMAS AT 1:37 P.M.

ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0043 STRATEGIC PLAN RE‐ FRESH Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 10:00 A.M. (CST) on Tues‐ day, October 27, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com. The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, October 9, 2026, at 10:00 A.M. (CST). The Vir‐ tual link can be found below: Register in advance for hi i

James J. Carter, Jr., Member

STAFF:

B. Branch, President and Chief Executive Officer J. Escudier, Executive Counsel L. Marino, Chief of Staff and Vice-President of External Affairs N. Dietzen, Deputy General Counsel M. Singley, Executive Staff Officer

GUESTS: I.

II. Closed Executive Session to Discuss the Following Matters:

St. Bernard Parish School Board v. Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, Docket No. 24-0892, pending before the 34th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Bernard, State of Louisiana (convened in accordance with La. R.S. 42:17A(2)).

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St. Bernard Parish Government v. Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans, Docket No. 23-1006, pending before the 34th Judicial District Court for the Parish of St. Bernard, State of Louisiana (convened in accordance with La. R.S. 42:17A(2)).

Chairman Thomas read the agenda items aloud and called for a motion to enter into a closed executive session, convened in accordance with La R.S. 42:17A(1) and La. R.S. 42:17A(2)) to discuss the above matters. Commissioner Ferrer moved to enter into a closed executive session and Commissioner Williams seconded. The MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY and the Committee entered into closed session at 1:38 p.m. Following the conclusion of the discussion, Chairman Thomas called for a motion to end the closed executive session and return to the open meeting. Commissioner Murphy moved to end the closed executive session and Commissioner Ferrer seconded. The MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY and the closed executive session concluded at 3:10 p.m. III. Adjournment There being no further business to come before the Committee, Chairman Thomas called for a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Revelle moved and Commissioner Murphy seconded. The MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY and the meeting was adjourned at 3:11 p.m. _________________________________________________________________ THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS MINUTES OF THE REGULAR BOARD MEETING THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 2026 A REGULAR MEETING OF THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE PORT OF NEW ORLEANS, HELD IN THE FIRST FLOOR AUDITORIUM AT ITS OFFICE LOCATED AT 1350 PORT OF NEW ORLEANS PLACE, NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, WAS CALLED TO ORDER BY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL A. THOMAS AT 3:26 P.M. MEMBERS Michael A. Thomas, Chairman PRESENT: Todd P. Murphy, Secretary Treasurer Sharonda R. Williams, Member Jeanne E. Ferrer, Member Dale S. Revelle, Member

NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

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The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

p g posals shall be submit‐ ted thru the RTA’s Pro‐ cureware website on or before 2:00 P.M., Thursday, Octo‐ ber 27, 2026. Any ques‐ tions or further informa‐ tion concerning the RFP may be submitted Via https://norta. procureware.com/home, beginning on September 23, 2026.

g site. The IFB can also be obtained at Regional Transit Authority’s web‐ site at http://www.norta. com

The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived. NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Pro‐ curement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY , SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY , OCTOBER 1. 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY , OCTOBER 8 , 2026 201799-sep 24-oct 1-8-3t $128

201757-sep 24-oct 1-8-3t $127.24

PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0062 PROJECT AND CON‐ STRUCTION MANAGE‐ MENT SERVICES Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 11:00 A.M. (CST) on Thursday, October 22, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com. The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, October 9, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. (CST). The Vir‐ tual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting:

PUBLIC NOTICE --ORLEANS PARISH SCHOOL BOARD Procurement Department 2401 Westbend Parkway, Suite 5055 New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 ADVERTISEMENT REQUEST FOR PROPOSAL NO. 27-0058 EC ADVERTISEMENT AND MARKETING Electronic Responses to Request for Proposal rel‐ ative to the above will be received via email sub‐ mission to the Procure‐ ment Department for the Orleans Parish School Board (“OPSB” or “the District”) at 2401 West‐ bend Parkway, Suite 5055, New Orleans, Louisiana 70114 until 11:00 A.M. (CST) on Tues‐ day, October 27, 2026. Specifications and quali‐ fications are found in the RFP documents and may be obtained by visiting the District’s website at www.nolapublicschools. com. All questions re‐ garding this RFP shall be directed to the Executive Director of Procurement at procurement@nol apublicschools.com. The District will host a Virtual Pre-Proposal meeting to be held on Friday, October 9, 2026, at 11:00 A.M. (CST). The Vir‐ tual link can be found below: Register in advance for this meeting: https://us06web.zoom. us/meeting/register/aCD 5l7pUTPCccaje1vXysQ

B. Branch, President and Chief Executive Officer L. Marino, Chief of Staff and Vice-President of External Affairs J. Escudier, Chief Legal Officer A. Laurie, Chief Financial Officer K. App, Chief Commercial Officer M. Jensen, Chief Operating Officer A. Dawson, Director, Emergency Management C. Gilmore, Chief Engineering Officer K. Gilmore, Director, Real Estate C. Labat, Director, Procurement E. LeCompte, Manager, Environmental E. Federer, Director, Sustainable Development C. Donze, Staff Attorney N. Dietzen, Deputy General Counsel G. Brown, Vice-President, People & Culture C. Rapose, Project Manager, LIT T. Williams, Engineering H. Peltier, Engineering M. Sulser, Director, Engineering J. Passaro, Manager, Engineering C. Nguyen, Manager, Engineering B. Boughrara, Engineering A. Every, Manager, Accounting K. Chinn, Procurement J. Moran, Procurement K. Curth, Press Secretary B. Skaggs, Manager, Sustainable Development M. Austin, Information Technology Specialist B. Bailey, Information Technology Specialist A. Hanks, Manager, Cruise A. Bierman, Manager, Insurance and FEMA Administration K. Mills, Manager, Government & Community Affairs J. Fields, Marketing & Communications Officer M. Singley, Executive Staff Officer

Following a roll call of Committee members Chairman Thomas confirmed a quorum and called the meeting to order at 1:37 p.m.

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The District reserves the right to reject any or all Responses to Request for Proposal whenever such rejection is in its best in‐ terest in accordance with law. The provisions and requirements of this ad‐ vertisement shall not be waived.

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

STAFF:

Roll Call & Determination of Quorum

Annual Performance Review of Ms. Beth A. Branch as the Board’s President and Chief Executive Officer (convened in accordance with La. R.S. 42:17(A)(1)).

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Public Notices Bids/Proposals

Darryl D. Berger, Vice-Chairman James J. Carter, Jr., Member

M. Drew, Jones Walker L. Balart, Jones Walker

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g this meeting:

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

MEMBER ABSENT:

COMMITTEE Michael A. Thomas, Chairman MEMBERS PRESENT: Darryl D. Berger, Vice-Chairman Todd P. Murphy, Secretary Treasurer Sharonda R. Williams, Member Jeanne E. Ferrer, Member Dale S. Revelle, Member COMMITTEE MEMBER ABSENT:

Public Notices Bids/Proposals

GUESTS:

I.

T. Bryant, NOPB C. Kocur, NOPB M. Scelson, NOPB L. LaCoste, NOPB A. Thompson, Holy Cross Resident P. Murano, Holy Cross Resident S. Cali, Arcadis M. Bowers, KIEWIT K. Boulton, KIEWIT E. Rullman, Ardurra Group, Inc. P. West, EJES Inc. C. Smith, Royal A. Charbonnier, Royal M. Faherts, Royal M. Quigloy, Gulf South Engineering and Testing J. Rutherford K. Calkins, New Orleans Terminal, LLC J. Sensebe, Arcadis US

Roll Call & Determination of Quorum Following a roll call of Board members, Chairman Thomas confirmed a quorum and called the meeting to order at 3:26 p.m.

II. Public Comment Chairman Thomas called for public comment and Ms. Singley announced that one (1) individual requested to make public comment on matters not listed on the agenda. Prior to inviting the speaker to the podium, Ms. Singley read the Board’s public comment parameters. Peter Murano voiced his opposition to the proposed organic grain terminal at the Alabo Street Wharf and the rehabilitation of the rail infrastructure serving the Alabo Street Wharf. III. Report by the President and Chief Executive Officer Ms. Branch presented an overview of the July 2026 volume and productivity statistics, along with a summary of the month’s key highlights. IV. Approval of the Meeting Minutes for July 2026 Chairman Thomas called for a motion to approve the public meeting minutes for July 2026, as previously circulated. Commissioner Murphy moved to accept the minutes and Commissioner Williams seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY

NOLA Public Schools shall make every effort to provide reasonable ac‐ commodations for per‐ sons with disabilities. The requests for any rea‐ sonable accommodation shall be submitted in writing to the Executive Director of Procurement, no less than seven (7) days in advance of any meetings. Paul A. Lucius Executive Director of Procurement FIRST INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 2026 SECOND INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1, 2026 THIRD INSERTION DATE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2026 201725-sep 24-oct 1-8-3t $126.22

PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY FERRY TRANSIT SERVICES REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS (RFP) #2026-033 Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans in‐ vites qualified vendors to provide Ferry Transit Ser‐ vices per scope of work listed in RFP 2026-033. How to obtain a copy of the RFP: Scope of Work and further information concerning the RFP may be obtained September 23, 2026 from the RTA’s Procureware website at https://norta. procureware.com/home. You will be required to first register on this web‐ site. The RFP can also be obtained at Regional Transit Authority’s web‐ site at http://www.norta. com and at 2817 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119.

RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ 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%. A specific DBE goal has not been established for this project as there are no subcontracting opportu‐ nities on this project. 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. As such, award of the contract will be conditioned on meeting the requirements of the federal, state and local laws for Equal Opportu‐ nity including compli‐ ance with the policies of DBE Program. The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all submittals. Ronald G. Baptiste, Jr. Interim Chief Financial Officer Regional Transit Authority 202210-oct 1-8-2t $740.44 PUBLIC NOTICE ---

A Pre-Proposal Confer‐ ence will be held in the RTA Board Conference Room on Tuesday, Octo‐ ber 13, 2026, at 2:00 PM with a Site-Visit immedi‐ ately following.

PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #2026-034 SAMSUNG GALAXY TABLETS (Rebid)

Clarifications: Any ques‐ tions or further informa‐ tion concerning this IFB must be submitted https://norta. through procureware.com/home PM on Thursday, October 20, 2026. Only written questions submitted through Procureware site shall be considered offi‐ cial. All answers to ques‐ tions shall be by formal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026033

Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans seek‐ ing qualified vendors to provide Samsung Galaxy Tablets per specifica‐ tions in IFB 2026-034.

Responding to RFP: Pro‐ l h ll b b i

How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Specifications and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained September 23, 2026, from the RTA’s Procureware website at https://norta. procureware.com/home. You will be required to first register on this web‐ i h l b

Clarification Deadline: Any questions or further information concerning this IFB must be submit‐ https:// ted through norta.procureware.com/ home by 2:00PM on Octo‐ ber 14, 2026. Only written questions submitted through the Procureware site shall be considered official. All answers to questions shall be by for‐ mal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026-034. 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., October 21, 2026. A Bid Opening will be held in the RTA Board Room located at 2817 Canal Street, New Or‐ leans, LA 70119, on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, at 2:00 PM. RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ 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 utilization of DBEs on all federally funded projects toward attainment of the agency's established overall goal of 32%. No DBE goal has been es‐ tablished for this project as there are no subcon‐ tracting opportunities on this project. 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 G. Baptiste, Jr. Interim Chief executive Officer Regional Transit Authority 202212-oct 1-8-2t $684.30

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Commissioner Williams moved to approve the consolidated financial statements and Commissioner Murphy seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY B. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the President and Chief Executive Officer to Execute a Funding Agreement with the LSU New Orleans Research and Technology Foundation, Through the Lake Pontchartrain Basin Restoration Program, Funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, in an Amount not to Exceed $350,000, for the Implementation of the Port NOLA Collaboration for Litter Elimination Action Now (“Port NOLA CLEAN”) Project. Ms. Federer presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Williams moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Revelle seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY C. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the President and Chief Executive Officer to Enter into a Funding Agreement with the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration to Implement the Reduction of Truck Emissions at Port Facilities Program in the Amount of $7,117,567 to Support the Equipment Pilot for Port NOLA Terminal Fleets Project. Ms. Federer presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Williams recused herself from voting on this agenda item. Commissioner Murphy moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Revelle seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY D. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the President and Chief Executive Officer to Execute an Act of Sale with The Borgnemouth Realty Company, Limited for the Acquisition of Certain Parcels of Real Property in Violet, Louisiana. Mr. Kyle Gilmore presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Murphy moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Williams seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY E. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the President and Chief Executive Officer to Enter into an Agreement with the United States Department of Transportation in Connection with the Fiscal Years 2023-2024 INFRA and MEGA Grant Programs. Mr. Chris Gilmore presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Revelle moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Murphy seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY F. Consider Approval of a Resolution Authorizing the President and Chief Executive Officer to Amend the Contract with Eustis Engineering Services, LLC to Provide Geotechnical Services for the Louisiana International Terminal Project to Increase the Not-to-Exceed Cost by $585,900. Mr. Chris Gilmore presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Ferrer moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Williams seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY G. Consider Approval of a Resolution Adopting the Port of New Orleans and New Orleans Public Belt Railroad 2025 Multijurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan. Ms. Dawson presented and recommended approval of the resolution. Commissioner Williams moved to approve the resolution and Commissioner Ferrer seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY VI. Chairman and Commissioners’ Comments Chairman Thomas asked for Commissioners’ comments but there were none. VII. Adjournment There being no further business to come before the Board, Chairman Thomas called for a motion to adjourn. Commissioner Ferrer so moved and Commissioner Murphy seconded. MOTION CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY and Chairman Thomas adjourned the meeting at 3:47 p.m.

V. Action Items: A. Acceptance of the Consolidated Financial Statements for July 2026. Mr. Laurie presented the consolidated financial statements for the month of July, a copy of which is made a part of these minutes.

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10D ✦ Thursday, October 1, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune Public Notices Bids/Proposals

PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Downtown Development District of the City of New Orleans Safe Streets for All Supplemental Trans‐ portation Safety Action Plan RFP #2026 - 20 - 01 The mission of the DDD is to drive the development of Downtown New Or‐ leans and be the catalyst for a prosperous, stimu‐ lating, innovative heart of the Crescent City. Notice is hereby given that a Request for Pro‐ posals for the Safe Streets for All Supple‐ mental Transportation Safety Action Plan for the DDD. Proposals will be re‐ ceived by the Downtown Development District of the City of New Orleans (DDD) located at 201 Saint Charles Ave, Ste. 3912, New Orleans, LA, 70170 until October 28, 2026, at 2:00 pm, central time or via electronic manner to rpastorek@ downtownnola.com For more information send name, address, phone number and email address to René Pas‐ torek, Chief Economic Development Officer at rpastorek@downtownnol a.com The DDD reserves the right to accept or reject any and all items or por‐ tions of items received. Seth Knudsen President & CEO Advertising Dates: September 24, 2026 October 1, 2026 October 8, 2026 201524-sep 24-oct 1-8-3t $66.87 PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR PROPOS‐ ALS For: Banking Services Notice is hereby given that a Request for Pro‐ posals for Banking Ser‐ vices (RFP No. 001-092026) will be received by FINANCE NEW ORLEANS until November 10, 2026, at 4:00 PM. The complete RFP is available at www. financeauthority.org or by email request to pro‐ curement@financeauth ority.org. 202687-oct 1-8-2t $143.20

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Ernest N. Morial New Orleans Exhibition Hall Authority is requesting sealed bids for C-2204 Furnish & Install Sodexo Check-in Area. Bids are due Friday, Octo‐ ber 9, 2026 at 11:00 a.m. at which time bids re‐ ceived on time and in the correct location will be considered. Bid Docu‐ ments may be obtained online at https://www. centralauctionhouse. com/Category/10822/ NewOrleansErnestNMo rialConventionCenter or by contacting the Con‐ tracts Department at (504) 582-3562 or via email at contracts@ mccno.com. All Bids must be submit‐ ted in accordance with the Bid Documents. 200377-SEP 14-22-OCT 13T $28.44

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PUBLIC NOTICE --ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: Equipment Maintenance Division (EMD) TITLE: Repairs and Services for Caterpillar Engine SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4796 TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES DBE OPPORTUNITY: WAIVED RELEASED ON: September 18, 2026 DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 9, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE: September 28, 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. 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): 928-04, 928-47, 928-86, 928-87, 934-46 The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically disadvantaged busi‐ nesses and small busi‐ nesses to respond to this solicitation, or to partici‐ pate in subcontracting opportunities pursuant to this solicitation. Any person with disabilities requires special accom‐ modation must contact the buyer listed within the bid no later than seven (7) days prior to bid opening. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans. Advertising Dates: September 18, 24 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9305 201063-sept 18-24-oct 13t $114.36 PUBLIC NOTICE --Advocates for Arts-Based Education Corporation Willow School The hereby reports that it has taken all action required b l f h d i

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q by law for the adoption of its budget for fiscal year ending June 30, 2027; including public no‐ tice of availability for public inspection and holding a public hearing thereon before adopting its budget. The Willow School does not discriminate in the rendering of services to/or employment of in‐ because of dividuals race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, dis‐ ability, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law. 202479-OCT 1-1T $76.99 PUBLIC NOTICE --Burns & McDonnell on behalf of Cloud Connec‐ tor, LLC is requesting au‐ thorization to construct a natural gas pipeline be‐ tween an interconnect station near Melville, Louisiana in St. Landry Parish, and Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC and Plaquemines Ex‐ pansion, LLC Terminals in Plaquemines Parish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engi‐ neers (CEMVN) will be accepting public com‐ ments on the project until October 8, 2026. To further review and/or provide comments, addi‐ tional information and plans related to the pro‐ posal may be obtained at the following website: www.mvn.usace.army. mil/missions/regulatory/ public-notices (see Ref#: MVN-2026-00308-BV). If you have any questions or would like additional information, please con‐ tact Courtland Vice with CEMVN, Regulatory Divi‐ sion at (504) 862-1349 or at courtland.l.vice@ usace.army.mil. A certifi‐ cation that the proposed activity will not violate applicable water quality standards will be re‐ quired from the LDEQ be‐ fore a Department of the Army permit could be is‐ sued. 201950-SEP 28-OCT 8-11T $1,405.06

PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY OF NEW ORLEANS In conformity with sec‐ tions 3-115, 4-206(1), 6101, and 6-102(3) of the City Charter and LSA-R.S. 39:1306, the Council ac‐ knowledges receipt from the Mayor of the Pro‐ posed Budgets of Rev‐ enues and Expenditures for the year 2027: Cal. No. 35,579 and Cal. No. 35,580. A summary of these Bud‐ gets is listed below. Public hearings, which the charter states shall not begin sooner than the fifth business day after the first publication of this notice, will be held in the Council Chamber of City Hall be‐ ginning on Tuesday, Sep‐ tember 29, 2026 at 9:30 a.m. Copies of the Pro‐ posed Budget ordinances shall be available from the Office of the Clerk of Council. The Budget will be available on the City’s website at www.nola. gov/next/mayors-office/ topics/budget/. ESTIMATED REVENUES 2027 TAXES $498,198,844 LICENSES & PERMITS $83,977,485 INTERGOVERNMENTAL $723,969,786 SERVICE CHARGES $119,339,866 FINES & FORFEITS $11,978,241 MISCELLANEOUS REVENUES $18,993,746 OTHER FINANCING SOURCES $15,000,000 TOTAL REVENUE $

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TOTAL REVENUE $1,471,457,968 The 2027 Proposed Rev‐ enue Budget includes $250,000,000 in Intergov‐ ernmental non-recurring revenue. This is in antici‐ pation of potential addi‐ tional appropriations of federal, state, and local grants; special funds; and/or fund balance. ESTIMATED EXPENDITURES 2027 PERSONAL SERVICES $546,258,535 OTHER OPERATING $656,973,960 DEBT SERVICE $18,225,473 GRANTS, CONTRIB., AND FUND TRANSFERS $250,000,000 TOTAL EXPENDITURES $1,471,457,968 The Revenue Estimating Conference, by a unani‐ mous vote of the mem‐ bers on September 10, 2026, adopted the Esti‐ mated Revenues detailed above as the Official Forecast of Revenues for the year 2027. Publication Dates: September 22, 28 and October 1, 2026 NOCP 9319 201543-sept 22-28-oct 13t $140.38

PUBLIC NOTICE --CITY PLANNING COMMISSION PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2026 PUBLIC HEARING: 1:30 P.M. CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS 1300 PERDIDO STREET 1st FLOOR THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION, IN ACCOR‐ DANCE WITH PROVISIONS OF THE CITY OF NEW OR‐ LEANS SUBDIVISION REG‐ ULATIONS, WILL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON OC‐ TOBER 13, 2026 ON THE FOLLOWING MATTER: SUBDIVISION DOCKET 108-26 SD108-26 Resubdivision of Lots 27, 28, 12, and 13 into Lot 27-A in Square C, Third Municipal District and bounded by Danube Road, Wales Street, Mul‐ let Street, and Lincoln Beach Boulevard. Munici‐ pal addresses are 8004 Danube Road and 8007 Mullet Street. (Policy A) THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION WILL HEAR PROPONENTS AND OPPO‐ NENTS TO THE ABOVE PROPOSED SUBDIVISION. ALL INTERESTED PARTIES ARE ENCOURAGED TO AT‐ TEND AND ALL RELEVANT COMMENTS CONCERNING THE PROPOSED CHANGES ARE ENCOURAGED. THE CPC HAS ESTABLISHED PUBLIC HEARING RULES WITHIN ITS ADMINISTRA‐ TIVE RULES, POLICIES, & WHICH PROCEDURES, ARE AVAILABLE ON THE CPC WEBSITE: WWW. NOLA.GOV/CPC. YOU MAY ALSO SUBMIT WRITTEN COMMENTS TO THE EX‐ ECUTIVE DIRECTOR IN ADVANCE BY MAIL (1300 PERDIDO STREET, 7TH FLOOR, NEW ORLEANS, LA 70112) OR EMAIL CPCINFO@NOLA.GOV. ALL COMMENTS WRITTEN MUST BE RECEIVED BY CLOSE OF BUSINESS ON MONDAY, EIGHT THE DAYS PRIOR TO THE HEARING DATE. October 1 and October 8, 2026 Robert Rivers, Executive Director NOCP 9352 202694-oct 1-8-2t $58.06

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PUBLIC NOTICE --HOUSING AUTHORITY OF NEW ORLEANS INVITATION FOR BIDS IFB NO. 26-911-20 Downtown Scattered Sites – Fortified Roof Re‐ placement The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) is seeking licensed and bonded contractors to perform Fortified roof re‐ placements located at the following addresses: 1. 1112 & 1114 N. Rocheblave Street 2. 1866, 1868, 1870, & 1872 N. Miro Street 3. 1874, 1876, 1878, & 1880 N. Miro Street 4. 2114, 2116, 2118, & 2120 Allen Street 5. 1821, 1823, 1825, & 1827 N. Galvez Street 6. 1124, 1126, 1128, & 1130 N. Tonti Street HANO strongly encour‐ ages all qualified con‐ tractors, including mi‐ and nority-owned busi‐ women-owned nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this IFB, or to participate in subcontracting oppor‐ tunities pursuant to this solicitation.

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PUBLIC NOTICE --LEGAL NOTICE NOTICE TO CREDITORS UNDER LA. R.S. 12:1-1407 OF THE DISSOLUTION OF RIDGELAKE PROPERTIES, INC. IS HEREBY GIVEN that Ridgelake Proper‐ ties, Inc. (the “Corpora‐ tion”) is being wound up pursuant to a voluntary dissolution. All creditors, or all per‐ sons believed to have and subsisting valid claims against, and all persons having unful‐ contracts with filled Ridgelake Properties, Inc. are hereby called upon to present any claim they may have in detailed writing to the Board of Directors of the Corpora‐ tion, c/o Gregory D. Woolverton, 5819 Sylvia New Orleans, Drive, 70124. All Louisiana claims must be pre‐ sented in writing and must contain sufficient information reasonably to inform the Corpora‐ tion of the identity of the claimant and the sub‐ stance of the claim. Any and all such claims will be extinguished unless a proceeding to enforce the claim is commenced within three years after the publication of this notice.

This solicitation will have a voluntary pre-bid con‐ ference at 2:00 pm, Octo‐ ber 9, 2026, at 2114, 2116, 2118, & 2120 Allen St. New Orleans, LA 70119.

202622-OCT 1-1T $150.46

Responses to this solici‐ tation shall be delivered in a sealed envelope or box to the Housing Au‐ thority of New Orleans (HANO), Department of Procurement and Con‐ tracts, no later than No‐ vember 2, 2026, at 2pm to the following address: Housing Authority of New Orleans Department of Procure‐ ment and Contracts Attn: Paul Marquette, Se‐ nior Procurement Spe‐ cialist 1555 Poydras Street, Suite 1800 New Orleans, Louisiana 70112

Social Spider LLC wrapped principal pho‐ tography for SOCIAL SPI‐ DER on March 25, 2025. All vendors and creditors have been paid. For in‐ quiries send correspon‐ dence to Social Spider 1536 Magazine LLC, Street, New Orleans, LA by (date ad 70130 ends)."

The full scope of work and single copies of the IFB package may be from downloaded website at HANO’s https://www.hano.org/ business/solicitations/ ActiveSolicitations or at Housing Agency Market‐ place. All responses submitted are subject to the In‐ structions, Supplemental Instructions to Offerors, General and Supplemen‐ tal Conditions, and all other requirements con‐ tained therein, all of which are made a part of the Invitation for Bids by reference. HANO reserves the right to reject any or all offers for just cause and waive any formalities in the submission process if it is in the best interest of the public to do so. 202545-oct 1-8-15-3t $118

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202628-oct 1-8-15-3t $156.43 PUBLIC NOTICE --Whereas Frances Rigsby administratrix of the es‐ tate of Patricia Annete Dykes has made an ap‐ plication to the Court for the private sale of the property immovable owned by decedent Pa‐ tricia A. Dykes namely: land and improvements located at Municipal Nos. Frenchman 5125-27 New Orleans, Street, 70122; Louisiana recorded in MOB 2275 Folio 326 and COB 734 Folio 492 by the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Orleans. Notice is hereby given to all parties to whom it may concern, including the heirs, legatees, and creditors of the decedent and her estate are or‐ dered to make any oppo‐ sition which they have or may have to such appli‐ cation, at any time prior to the issuance of the order or judgment autho‐ rizing, approving and ho‐ mologating such applica‐ tion, and such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publica‐ tion of such notice, all in accordance with law.

LA Goons Film LLC gives notice that principal pho‐ tography for the motion picture Goons was com‐ pleted on August 30, 2024. Any person or busi‐ ness with an outstanding claim arising from the production should sub‐ mit a written description of the claim and support‐ ing documentation by October 30, 2026 to:

202645-OCT 1-8-2T $260.66

LA Goons Film LLC 12820 Panama Street Los Angeles, CA 90066

24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON

An outstanding obliga‐ tion is not waived if a creditor does not submit a claim by that date. 202640-oct 1-8-15-3t $232.96

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STATE OF LOUISIANA NO.: 878-046 DIVISION: “G” SUCCESSIONS

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OF LAURA RELLE WOLFE wife of/and MOFFETT LEON WOLFE FILED:__ ________________ _____________________ __ DEPUTY CLERK NOTICE TO SELL IMMOV‐ ABLE PROPERTY AT PRI‐ VATE SALE WHEREAS, ROBERT L. WOLFE, Administrator of the Succession of MOF‐ FETT LEON WOLFE, has made application to this Court for authority to sell the following described interest in immovable property, to-wit: AN UNDIVIDED ONE-HALF (½) INTEREST IN AND TO: LOT 71-A in SQUARE 4 of GARDEN PARK SUBDIVI‐ SION, City of Gretna, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana. Improvements bear No. 102 ASHTON STREET. Being the same property acquired by Mrs. Laura Relle, wife of and Moffett L. Wolfe per Act of Sale passed before Kent Sat‐ terlee, Jr., Notary Public, February 24, 1967, as reg‐ istered in COB 652, Folio 599, Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: All of said immovable property including, with‐ out limitation, said onehalf (½) interest is to be sold for the sum of TWO HUNDRED SEVENTY-FIVE THOUSAND EIGHT HUN‐ DRED FIFTY AND 00/100 DOLLARS, ($275,850.00) upon the terms and con‐ ditions contained in the Residential Louisiana Agreement to Buy or Sell filed into the record of these proceedings. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, to make any op‐ position to such applica‐ tion at any time prior to the issuance of the order of judgment authorizing, approving and homolo‐ gating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publica‐ tion of such notice, all in accordance with law. This Notice is requested by attorney HAROLD E. MOLAISON and issued by the Clerk of Court this day of _____ __________________, 2026. _____________________ DEPUTY CLERK OF COURT JON A. GEGENHEIMER CLERK OF COURT 202574-OCT 1-21-2T $100.58 PUBLIC NOTICE --A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, appurte‐ servitudes, nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in appertaining, anywise situated in the FIFTH DIS‐ TRICT of the City of New Orleans, Louisiana in SQUARE NO. 163 bounded LeBoeuf Street, by Newton and Homer, Thayer Streets and being designated as the whole of LOT 6 and ½ of LOT 7 which half adjoins Lot 6 as indicated on survey by F. G. Stewart, dated April 22, 1946, measuring 45 feet front on LeBoeuf Street the same width in the rear by a depth of 134 feet between equal and parallel lines. Said ½ of Lot number 7 beginning at a distance of 105 feet the corner of from and Homer LeBoeuf Streets. NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR AUTHORITY TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Succession Rep‐ resentative of the Suc‐ cession of Richard Lloyd, under Proceeding Docket Number 2022-1353, Divi‐ sion J of the Civil District Court for the Parish of State of Orleans, Louisiana, has petitioned the Court for authority to sell the following de‐ scribed immovable prop‐ erty at a private sale, by virtue of the agreement and mutual consent of all heirs, for the price of $111,111.00 cash: PROPERTY DESCRIPTION: A CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the build‐ ings and improvements thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, appurte‐ servitudes, nances and advantages thereunto belonging or in appertaining, anywise situated in the FIFTH DIS‐ TRICT of the City of New State of Orleans, Louisiana, in SQUARE NO. 163 bounded by LeBoeuf, Newton and Homer, Streets, and Thayer being designated as the WHOLE OF LOT NUMBER 6 and ONE-HALF OF LOT NUMBER 7, which half ad‐ joining Lot No. 6, as indi‐ cated on a plan of survey made by E. L. Eustis, D.C.S., dated July 22, 1927. Said piece or portion of ground measures 45 feet front on LeBoeuf Street, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 134 feet between equal and parallel lines. Said onehalf of lot number 7 be‐ ginning at a distance of 105 feet from the corner of LeBoeuf and Homer Streets. All as more fully shown by referent to of survey blue-print made by F. G. Stweart, Surveyor, dated April 22, 1946. For informational pur‐ poses only: Improve‐ ments thereon bear Mu‐ nicipal No. 919 LeBoeuf Street, New Orleans, LA 70114. CHAIN OF TITLE: Being the same property by Brenda acquired Williams, wife of/and Richard Lloyd from Ophe‐ lia Rita Ann Bourgeois, wife of/and Elroy L. Blad‐ sacker by act before Paul M. LaPeyre, Notary Pub‐ lic, dated October 9, 1973, registered in COB 721, folio 134. Being the same property acquired by further Lloyd from Richard Brenda Mae Williams by Settlement of Commu‐ nity before Allan Berger, Notary Public, dated No‐ vember 9, 1978, regis‐ tered in COB754, folio 390. Notice is further given that any heir, legatee, creditor, or other inter‐ ested party who may have an opposition to the proposed private sale of this succession asset must file such formal op‐ position with the Clerk of the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans within seven (7) days, in‐ cluding Sundays and hol‐ idays, from the date of the last publication of this notice. Attorney for the Succes‐ sion: James A. Graham, Jr. Bar Roll Number: 34835 Address: 1615 Poydras St., Suite 1320, New Or‐ leans, LA 70112 Telephone: 504-777-3625 199980-SEP 10-OCT 1-2T $133.58 PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NO. 2006-05377 c/w 2024-08447 (A) DIVISION “E” SECTION NO. 7

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WIFE OF/AND ALBERT FORTUNE NOTICE OF FILING OF FINAL ACCOUNT OF CO-ADMINISTRATORS AND CO-DATIVE TESTAMENTARY EXECUTORS NOTICE IS GIVEN to the creditors of these suc‐ cessions and to all other interested persons, that a Final Account has been filed by OCTAVIA FOR‐ TUNE WOODS, through her agent and attorney in fact, RISA BOURGEOIS, WALLACE FORTUNE, the Co-Administrators of the SUCCESSION OF ALBER‐ TINE MARRERO FORTUNE A/K/A ALBERTINE JOUR‐ DAN FORTUNE A/K/A AL‐ BERTINE FORTUNE and the Co-Dative Testamen‐ tary Executors of the SUCCESSION OF ALBERT FORTUNE, and BRIAN AN‐ THONY FORTUNE, the CoDative Testamentary Ex‐ ecutor of the SUCCES‐ SION OF ALBERT FOR‐ TUNE, with the Petition praying for homologation of the Final Account and for distribution of estate funds as listed thereon; and that the Final Ac‐ count can be homolo‐ gated after the expira‐ tion of ten (10) days from the date of the publica‐ tion of this notice. Any opposition to the Petition and Final Account must be filed prior to homolo‐ gation. CHELSEY RICHARD NAPOLEON CLERK OF COURT CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS Please publish one (1) time in the following publications: Attorney: Carol A. Newman Publication: The Advocate/The Times Picayune and The Louisiana Weekly Address: 627 Cherokee Street, Suite 102 New Orleans, Louisiana 70118 Telephone Number: (504) 861-0008 202692-oct 1-1t $56.72

PUBLIC NOTICE --STATE OF LOUISIANA CIVIL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF ORLEANS SUCCESSION OF PATRICIA BROOKS SHELTON PROBATE NO. 2026-08213 DIVISION G; SECTION 8 “NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR APPOINTMENT AS ADMINISTRATOR Notice is hereby given to the heirs, creditors, and all unknown interested parties of the Succession of Patricia Brooks Shel‐ ton that Dehlice (Debbie) Shelton, acting in her ca‐ pacity as a co-owner of immovable property be‐ longing to the estate, has applied to be appointed as the Court-Supervised Administrator of the Suc‐ cession of the deceased. Pursuant to Louisiana Code of Civil Procedure Article 3091 et seq., an order making this ap‐ pointment may be issued by the Court after the ex‐ piration of ten (10) days from the date of the pub‐ lication of this notice. Any opposition to the pe‐ tition for appointment must be filed in writing with the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana, prior to the expiration of the ten-day period or before the petition is officially granted by the Court.” 202527-OCT 1-1T $42.42

SUCCESSIONS OF ALBERTINE MARRERO FORTUNE A/K/A ALBERTINE JOURDAN FORTUNE A/K/A ALBERTINE FORTUNE,

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THIS MONTH AT THE LIBRARY RESOURCES, SERVICES, AND EVENTS VOLUME 2

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ISSUE 10

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OCTOBER 2026

WELCOME TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD!

TALK, SING, READ, WRITE, AND PLAY at the N E W LY R E O P E N E D

913 NAPOLEON AVENUE

HOURS

Monday – Thursday 10am – 6pm

Friday – Saturday 10am – 5pm

OPEN HOUSE

S AT U R D AY, OCTOBER 3 from 10:30am – 4:30pm

OCTOBER 2026

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Main Library

219 Loyola Avenue (504) 596-2570

Algiers Regional Library 3014 Holiday Drive (504) 596-2641

Alvar Library

913 Alvar Street (504) 596-2667

Central City Library

2020 Jackson Avenue, Suite 139 (504) 596-3110

Children’s Resource Center

913 Napoleon Avenue (504) 596-2628

Desire / Florida Satellite Location

3250 Industry Street

East New Orleans Regional Library 5641 Read Boulevard (504) 596-0200

EARLY LITERACY EVENTS The New Orleans Public Library offers storytimes for children from birth to age 5 at all of our locations. Visit nolalibrary.org/early-literacy for more information.

PLAYTIME & EVENING PLAYTIME

Imagine and play with Library-provided toys, dress-up clothes, puppets, and more. Each month is a new theme for children to explore. This child-led event is for children ages 2 – 5 and their families.

Cita Dennis Hubbell Library

For locations and hours, visit nolalibrary.co/playtime.

Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center

SENSORY SATURDAY STORYTIME & PLAYTIME

725 Pelican Avenue (504) 596-3113

4300 South Broad Avenue (504) 596-2660

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

1611 Fats Domino Avenue (504) 596-2695

Milton H. Latter Memorial Library 5120 Saint Charles Avenue (504) 596-2625

Saturday, October 10 from 10:30am – 11:30am & 2pm – 3:30pm Norman Mayer Library

Norman Mayer Library 3001 Gentilly Boulevard (504) 596-3100

LPO’S MUSICAL STORY HOUR

Mid-City Library 4140 Canal Street (504) 596-2654

Nora Navra Library

1902 Saint Bernard Avenue (504) 596-3118

Nix Library

1401 South Carrollton Avenue (504) 596-2630

REACH Center

Families looking for a welcoming and comfortable space for neurodivergent children can join us for an inclusive and interactive storytime or playtime. Space is limited for each program. Register at nolalibrary.co/sensory.

2022 St. Bernard Avenue, Building C (504) 256-6983

LPO’s Musical Story Hour highlights a musician from the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra who will perform alongside the reading of a classic children’s book. In October, Violist Catherine Matushek will accompany a reading of Julia Donaldson's Room on the Broom. Saturday, October 24 from 10:30am – 11am Cita Dennis Hubbell Library

CHILDREN’S EVENTS OPEN HOUSE Celebrate the reopening of the Children's Resource Center! Enjoy fun activities and events like Blue House Music, a scavenger hunt, bubbles, a NOFD firetruck, storytime and more! Plus a ribbon-cutting to welcome everyone back to the CRC. Please register at nolalibrary.co/crc-reopening to help us plan supplies.

Saturday, October 3 from 10:30am – 4:30pm Children’s Resource Center

Beginning in October, CRC events are back! MUSIC & MOVEMENT Dance, wiggle, and stretch as we use music and movement to practice early literacy skills. This program is designed for children ages 2 – 5 and their caregivers.

READING BUDDIES X WEE WRITE FOR KIDS WITH 826 NOLA

Have fun while building literacy skills. Kids in grades K-2 read, write, and play games with teen mentors to strengthen literacy skills through creative storytelling, writing, and reading activities. Register for the series at nolalibrary.co/reading-buddies. Tuesdays from 5pm – 6:15pm Norman Mayer Library

CHESS CLUB

Beginner and experienced players are welcome at Chess Club. Each session includes instruction as needed but focuses on playing against other participants or Library staff. Practice problem-solving and develop critical thinking at this hands-on STEAM program for ages 6 – 12. Wednesdays from 4pm – 5pm Algiers Regional Library Thursdays from 4pm – 5pm Cita Dennis Hubbell Library

Tuesdays from 4pm – 4:30pm

STORYTIME Read, sing, talk, write, and play together in a format designed for children from birth to 5 years old and their caregivers. Thursdays from 10:30am – 11:30am

Robert E. Smith Library 6301 Canal Boulevard (504) 596-2638

ALL PROGRAMS SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF NEW ORLEANS. ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. YOU DO NOT NEED A LIBRARY CARD. OCCASIONALLY, EVENT DATES AND TIMES CHANGE. CHECK EVENTS.NOLALIBRARY.ORG OR CALL YOUR LIBRARY LOCATION TO CONFIRM THE MOST CURRENT EVENT INFORMATION.

OCTOBER 2026

TAKE & MAKE CRAFT KITS

This month’s theme: Monster Rolls Pick up a craft kit for children to take and make at home. All Library locations have a limited number of craft kits containing an instruction sheet and items to create a craft. New crafts are available on the first Monday of each month. Additional supplies may be required and will be noted on the instruction sheet.

TEEN & TWEEN EVENTS STEAM CLUB

Experiment, create, or craft at this handson STEAM event for children ages 6 – 12.

Symmetrical Halloween Collages Experiment with spooky symmetry. Friday, October 16 from 3:30pm – 4:30pm Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library

Design and program robots to create a new and exciting city.

WITH THE NEW ORLEANS PRIDE CENTER

Enjoy games, activities, and pizza each month at this drop-in event for teens ages 11 – 18. Register at nolalibrary.co/express-yourself to help us plan supplies. Thursday, October 8 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm Main Library

Teen Volunteer Opportunities Serve your community, be creative, socialize, and earn service-learning hours. Teen volunteer opportunities are open to teens ages 14 – 18. Register at nolalibrary.co/teen-volunteers.

RUBY BRIDGES INSPIRED ART WORKSHOP FOR KIDS

Wednesday, October 21 from 4pm – 5pm Alvar Library

Discuss how this New Orleans hometown hero is an international icon. Review Ruby’s story. Draw or create mixed medium images of her.

Plus • Play Doh Club • Marble Run • Sound It Out • Frida’s Flowers • Earth-Friendly Cabbage Chemistry • Self Portraits and more!

Saturday, October 10 from 11am – 12:30pm Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center

ROBOTICS WORKSHOP FOR TWEENS WITH JESUIT ROBOTICS

EXPRESS YOURSELF! MONTHLY TRANS & QUEER TEEN HANGOUT

Saturday, October 17 from 2pm – 4pm Mid-City Library

Frankentoys Make your own creepy toys from used toy parts.

Register at nolalibrary.co/lionel.

See back cover for information.

Saturday, October 3 from 2pm – 4pm Central City Library

In celebration of Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month, Spanish language classes from New Orleans are invited to attend an interactive cultural and educational field trip. Email awander@nolalibrary.org if you are interested in participating.

WITH ARTIST IN RESIDENCE LIONEL MILTON

IN RESIDENCE LIONEL MILTON

Register at nolalibrary.co/robotics.

HISPANIC & LATINX HERITAGE MONTH CELEBRATION FIELD TRIP WITH CRISTINA KAMINIS QUARTET

Wednesday, October 7 from 10:30am – 12pm Main Library

MICHAEL JACKSON INSPIRED ART WORKSHOP FOR TEENS & ADULTS WITH ARTIST

VIRTUAL TEEN VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION Monday, October 5 from 4:30pm – 5:30pm

TEEN VOLUNTEER DAY

Tuesday, October 6 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm Mid-City Library

Tuesday, October 13 from 4:00pm – 6:00pm Milton H. Latter Memorial Library

CHESS CLUB

Earn service-learning hours while helping out at our chess club for kids ages 6 – 12. Knowledge of chess is a bonus, but not required. Wednesdays from 4pm – 5:30pm Algiers Regional Library

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Teens in grades 8 – 12 may sign up to volunteer as a Big Reading Buddy this fall to help early readers (in grades K – 2) become more independent readers. Light dinner will be served. Teens must volunteer for the series. Tuesdays from 4:45pm – 6:30pm Norman Mayer Library

Wednesday, October 14: from 4:00pm – 6:00pm Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center

Visit nolalibrary.co/STEAM for times, locations, and registration.

ALL PROGRAMS SPONSORED BY THE LIBRARY FOUNDATION OF NEW ORLEANS. ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. YOU DO NOT NEED A LIBRARY CARD. OCCASIONALLY, EVENT DATES AND TIMES CHANGE. CHECK EVENTS.NOLALIBRARY.ORG OR CALL YOUR LIBRARY LOCATION TO CONFIRM THE MOST CURRENT EVENT INFORMATION.

OCTOBER 2026

AI FOR EVERYDAY LIFE: ADULT EVENTS LEARN THE BASICS OF AI AND HOW TO USE IT FREE FLU SHOTS WITH WALGREENS

Walgreens pharmacists will administer free flu shots. Please bring I.D. and any insurance card/information. Vouchers are available on a first come, first served basis for those who are uninsured. Visit nolalibrary.co/flu-shots for times and locations.

REGISTER TO VOTE

Register to vote, get resources, and have your voting questions answered by the Orleans Parish Registrar of Voters. Friday, October 2 from 10:30am – 1:30pm East New Orleans Regional Library Monday, October 5 from 10:30am – 1:30pm Mid-City Library

MICHAEL JACKSON INSPIRED ART WORKSHOP FOR TEENS & ADULTS WITH ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

Try out Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs, one of which can show you how to create a resume. There will be ice cream.

Register at nolalibrary.co/lunch-learn.

Wednesday, October 14 from 11am – 12:30pm Central City Library

Thursday, October 22 from 1pm – 1:30pm REACH Center

THE CRAFT OF FEAR: GENERATING SCARES IN FICTION - FICTION WRITING WORKSHOP WITH ADRIAN VAN YOUNG

FRIGHT NIGHT - AN EVENING OF TERRIFYING TALES

This workshop focuses on the finer points of generating fear in fiction. We’ll examine contemporary fiction and film and engage in generative exercises to help you craft your own terrifying tale. Wednesday, October 14 from 5pm – 6:30pm Milton H. Latter Memorial Library

LIONEL MILTON

Register at nolalibrary.co/lionel.

In this illustrated lecture of New Orleaans cemetery history, explore how cemeteeries developed, their placement in the city, and how a cross section of influennces shaped the places we see today.

Saturday, October 3 from 11am – 12:30pm REACH Center

Thursday, October 15 from 5:30pm – 6:30pm Milton H. Latter Memorial Library

GRAFFITI BRIDGE WORKSHOP

Educate yourself on cash flow, debt management, financial protection, retirement planning, and long-term wealth-building strategies.

Register at nolalibrary.co/AIevent.

CITIES OF THE DEAD: THE HISTORY OF NEW ORLEANS CEMETERIES WITH HEATHER

Create a visual interpretation of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. Talk about the history of his life and musical legacy with a call and response activity.

LUNCH & LEARN: DOLLARS & $ENSE FINANCIAL LITERACY SERIES

VENEZIANO OF TULANE UNIVERSITY

Fearsome fiction authors Rebecca Baum, E. Lane Redmond, and Adrian Van Young celebrate spooky season by reading their most macabre manuscripts. Costumes encouraged. Thursday, October 22 from 5:30pm – 6:30pm Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center

OCTOBER IS AMERICAN ARCHIVES MONTH

Property Research in the City Archives & Special Collections Learn how to research your New Orleans property at the City Archives & Special Collections. Register at nolalibrary.co/preservation-research. Monday, October 26 from 6pm – 7:30pm Preservation Resource Center (923 Tchoupitoulas St. #3819)

TECHCONNECT

Book a one-on-one appointment to develop confidence, build computer skills, and grow more comfortable in today's digital world. Register at nolalibrary.co/tech-connect. Tuesdays from 10am – 12pm Wednesdays from 3pm – 5pm Algiers Regional Library

HOUSE OF SCHLOCK KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE (1988)

Register at nolalibrary.co/lionel.

Dr. Dewey hosts a special Halloween edition of House of Schlock. The mad doctor will screen Killer Klowns From Outer Space. Enjoy refreshments alongside trivia and lore from the film.

FREE PROFESSIONAL HEADSHOTS WITH CHERYL GERBER

Monday, October 5 from 5pm – 6:30pm Mid-City Library

Saturday, October 17 from 2pm – 4pm Nora Navra Library

Monday, October 26 from 4:30pm – 6:30pm Norman Mayer Library

WITH ARTIST IN RESIDENCE LIONEL MILTON

Create graffiti-inspired images while learning about the history and importance of street art. Open to adults of all skill levels.

Update your LinkedIn with a free professional headshot by local photographer Cheryl Gerber. Business or professional attire is strongly recommended. A professional backdrop will be available.

*SPONSORED BY THE FRIENDS OF THE NEW ORLEANS PUBLIC LIBRARY | ALL EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. YOU DO NOT NEED A LIBRARY CARD. OCCASIONALLY, EVENT DATES AND TIMES CHANGE. CHECK EVENTS.NOLALIBRARY.ORG OR CALL YOUR LIBRARY LOCATION TO CONFIRM THE MOST CURRENT EVENT INFORMATION.

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national fried chicken fest

art for art’s sake

The appetite for good birds keeps growing, so the event is expanding for its 10th year with a new spot on the lakefront and national music acts. Headliners like Nelly, 2 Chainz, Keri Hilson and Dillon Francis play alongside local acts from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. Also new this year are a beer garden, VIP experience and a fine-dining kickoff on Thursday. The 5K returns at 8:30 a.m. Saturday followed by a 1-mile fun run at 10 a.m. Tickets start at $21 for Friday general admission and $70 for Saturday or Sunday. friedchickenfestival.com.

Businesses and galleries Uptown and in the Warehouse District will open late Saturday as Magazine Street and the Downtown Arts District kick off the fall arts season. Sip and stroll the retail shops on Magazine from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. and peruse the galleries on Julia Street from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. with offerings of light bites, drinks and musical entertainment. Find a map of participating businesses at magazinestreet.com and artsdistrictneworleans.com.

cruisin’ the coast Travel back in time to when vintage vehicles filled the streets as Mississippi’s biggest event returns for a full week of retro fun starting on Sunday. Thousands of antique car enthusiasts from across the country cruise into the coast from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula through Oct. 11. cruisinthecoast.com.

gem & mineral show terry fator After gaining national notoriety on “America’s Got Talent,” the popular Las Vegas act, ventriloquist and impressionist begins his “Pure Imagination” national tour at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Mahalia Jackson Theater. Tickets start at $61. us.atgtickets.com.

The 54th annual event brings hidden gems to the Alario Center, 2000 Segnette Blvd., Westwego, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday-Saturday and 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Find fossils, precious gemstones, minerals, beads, jewelry, geode cracking, gem mining and more with a $7 weekend pass. Kids 11 and under get in for free. facebook.com/ gemandmineralsocietyoflouisiana.

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ABOUT LAGNIAPPE

Chicken Salad Chick opening first N.O. spot BY WILLIE SWETT Staff writer

Chicken Salad Chick, an Atlanta-based fast-food restaurant known for its chicken salad sandwiches and soups, is opening its first location in New Orleans in January. Anne and Bill DiPaola, the owners of locations in Metairie and Slidell, are opening the new storefront at 301 N. Carrollton Ave. in Mid-City. Other locations of Chicken Salad Chick around the state include Mandeville, Houma, Denham Springs, Lake Charles and Alexandria. But so far, there have been

none within the city limits of New Orleans, Anne DiPaola said. “It was just time for it to come here,” she said. Anne DiPaola said they chose the Mid-City location, most recently home to Alma Restaurant, because of its proximity to retail and other commerce. But there was a personal reason, too, she said. The location is near Cabrini and Jesuit high schools. They have a child in each, and Anne DiPaola also works as the director of communications at Cabrini, her alma mater. “I’m in this neighborhood all the time,” she said.

Bill, from left, and Anne DiPaola, with son Billy, are opening a location of Chicken Salad Chick on Carrollton Avenue in MidCity. PROVIDED PHOTO By ANNE DIPAOLA

Anne DiPaola said the restaurant’s walls will feature black-and-white photos of Bayou St. John, City Park, the Endymion parade — and a photo of Cabrini High School. Bill DiPaola works full-time managing the restaurants, while Anne DiPaola helps out with marketing. She said her three kids have also worked at their stores.

They purchased the Slidell location in January 2025 and opened the Metairie location in April 2025. They also have counter service at some area hospitals, Anne DiPaola said. She said there are nearly 350 Chicken Salad Chicks around the country. Email Willie Swett at willie. swett@theadvocate.com.

The Lagniappe section is published each Thursday by The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate. All inquiries about Lagniappe should be directed to the editor. LAGNIAPPE EDITOR: Lauren Walck, lauren.walck@ theadvocate.com COVER DESIGN: Andrea Daniel CONTRIBUTING WRITERS: Victor Andrews, Judy Bergeron, Marco Cartolano, Keith Spera, Willie Swett

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Submit events to Lagniappe at least two weeks in advance by sending an email to events@theadvocate. com.

ON THE COVER

Peter Hargrave is Scar and David Lancy Wilson is Mufasa in ‘The Lion King,’ set for the Saenger Theatre in New Orleans in October. Photo by Evan Zimmerman. Theater writer Victor Andrews runs down a number of shows set for stages around the area this month on Page 6.

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3 hotels join 6 from New Orleans on Michelin list BY MARCO CARTOLANO

mansions from the outside, and works hard to emulate the same grandeur throughout the spacious interiors,” Three hotels in New Orleans have earned a coveted according to the Michelin Guide. spot in the annual Michelin The Windsor Court was Guide for the first time, joindeveloped by local businessing six others already recman Jimmy Coleman in ommended to international 1984, building a reputation travelers. as one of the finest hotels in Two Canal Street destinathe nation. It has undergone tions and a swanky Central Business District hotel have renovations to maintain its been awarded 2026 Michelin allure. The hotel captured a bit of Keys, along with six other old-school British regality in hotels that have also been the heavily French-inspired previously awarded the city, according to the Mihonor. Similar to Michelin stars chelin Guide. for restaurants, hotels can “Stereotypical New Orearn one to three keys if leans it may not be, but they’re deemed special top-notch hotel it most cerplaces to stay in the U.S. tainly is. Though not exactly Each of the New Orleans stuffy, the Windsor’s grand hotels were awarded one airs are best breathed by Michelin Key. those with some appreciaNew hotels added this tion for fine horses and powyear are: dered wigs,” according to n Four Seasons Hotel New the Michelin Guide. The following six hotels Orleans, 2 Canal St. n The Ritz-Carlton New from across the city also reOrleans, 921 Canal St. ceived one key in this year’s n Windsor Court, 300 Graguide, signifying a “very special stay.” vier St. n Columns, Uptown The Four Seasons opened n Hotel Peter and Paul, in 2020 at the site of the former World Trade Center Marigny n Hotel Saint Vincent, building as part of a $530 million transformation. Lower Garden District n Maison Metier, Central “Set in a landmark tower on the river, it’s in the Business District n The Celestine New OrFrench Quarter and close enough to the action but also leans, French Quarter n Hotel Henrietta, Garden away from the fray,” accordDistrict ing to the Michelin Guide. Michelin has also honored The Ritz-Carlton opened several New Orleans resin 2000 following a major renovation of the building taurants last year, awardthat was once home to the ing two Michelin Stars to old Maison Blanche. The Emeril’s as well as a star Michelin Guide praised the each to Saint-Germain and hotel as the perfect location Zasu. A total of 34 Louisiana to execute the Ritz-Carlton’s restaurants were featured trademark luxury offerings. in the Michelin Guide. “Occupying a plum spot on Canal Street in the French Email Marco Cartolano Quarter, the hotel resembles at marco.cartolano@ one of the Garden District’s theadvocate.com. Staff writer

Nine hotels in New Orleans were awarded a 2026 Michelin Keys, a distinction signifying a ‘very special stay.’ ABOVE: Four Seasons Hotel New Orleans, which opened in 2020 in the CBD, is new to the list. STAFF FILE PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER

LEFT: The Columns hotel in the Garden District is among six mainstays on the list. FILE PHOTO By VERONICA DOMINACH

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MON M ON NSSST TE T ER E R MASH MA M ASH SH

Zombies, vampires, aliens and more are lumbering into the spotlight for October Victor Andrews

A frightfully fabulous number of shows are headed for stages around the metro area, many with seasonal themes of chills and thrills. There’s also some classics, a new twist of vintage stories

and a bounty of fresh themes. And a blockbuster about a cub finding his way comes back to the Saenger Theatre for a roaring good time.

‘LAUGHTER ON THE 23RD FLOOR’

Friday through Oct. 18 | Le Petit Théâtre du Vieux Carré, 616 St. Peter St., New Orleans

Comedy writers for a TV show in the middle of McCarthy-era censorship is the theme for Neil Simon’s classic stage show that organizers note is “part ‘Saturday Night Live,’ part ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.’” Scott Burrell directs the cast that includes Joshua Mark Sienkiewicz, A.J. Allegra, Yvette Bourgeois, John Jabaley, Brady Lewis, Danielle Morvant, Sean Ricalde, Daniel Rigamer and David Sellers in this show about writers each trying to outdo the other in laughter, emotion and more. The show is at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays to Saturdays and 3 p.m. Sundays. A preview will be Thursday, with a 2 p.m. matinee Oct. 17 and student performance at 10 a.m. Oct. 8. Tickets start at $35. Visit lepetittheatre.com.

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‘Laughter on the 23rd Floor’ looks at the writing team for an early television show, written by Neil Simon. From left are David Sellers, AJ Allegra, Danielle Morvant, director Scott Burrell, stage manager Sarah Chatelain and Brady Lewis.

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Pete Winfrey and Oriana Lada, shown at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, star as real World War II-era pen pals in ‘Dear Jack, Dear Louise,’ set to run at BB’s Stage Door Canteen at The National WWII Museum.

‘LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS’

Friday through Oct. 17 | Cutting Edge Center of the Arts, 767 Robert Blvd., Slidell

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‘DEAR JACK, DEAR LOUISE’

Friday through Oct. 11 | BB’s Stage Door Canteen, 945 Magazine St., New Orleans

A World War II romance comes to life, courtesy of the beloved’s son, in a show at The National WWII Museum’s theater, with a talkback by the author Friday and Saturday. Ken Ludwig, author of Tonywinning shows like “Crazy for You” and “Lend Me A Tenor,” penned the stage show about his father, Army Capt. Jack Ludwig, a physician

‘THE FOUR SEASONS’

Take a tour through opera’s greatest hits with the Loyola University Opera Workshop’s free student concert, which includes

Monday and Tuesday | The Batture, 25 Walnut St., New Orleans

Crescent City Stage takes William Shakespeare out for some fresh air for a unique evening of words, as told by some of his most commanding female characters, performed along the Mississippi River. And unlike the original productions at the Globe Theater, these will be played by women.

‘CURSE OF THE MUMMY’

Oct. 8-24 | Lafitte Greenway, 436 N. Norman C. Francis Parkway, New Orleans

Sunday | Nunemaker Auditorium, 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans

‘BARD AT THE BATTURE — LADIES’ NIGHT’

stationed in Oregon, and actress and dancer Louise Rabiner in New York City. The war gets in the way, but the pen pals keep writing. Pete Winfrey and Oriana Lada star in the show, directed by Risa Brainin. Ken Ludwig will join a special talkback. Tickets start at $50, with dinner available at Café Normandie as an add-on. The show runs at 7 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. Visit nationalww2museum.org.

As the line in the song says, “Don’t Feed the Plant.” This musical comedy focuses on a nerdy young man, Seymour, who works in a flower shop on Skid Row. But a mysterious plant comes into his life and begins to make changes for him. Just one thing: The plant is a blood-sucking, carnivorous man-eater from outer space. Oy! With a score by EGOT-winner Alan Menken and Howard Ashman, the songs are tasty mix of doo-wop zingers from the trio of street urchins — Crystal, Ronnette and Chiffon — rock-n-roll from a drug-induced sadistic dentist and ballads from love interest Audrey. Leading the production is Ezra Star as Seymour Krelborn, along with Megan Augustine, Sonni Talamo, Dallas McCann, Duane Dendinger, Ashley Binder, Alyssa Scott, Dee Carter and the voice of Brittney James Crayton. The show is at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets start at $35. Visit cuttingedgetheater.com.

snippets of 19 pieces from operas, operettas and Broadway plays. The performance begins in winter with selections from “Hansel and Gretel” and “The Pirates of Penzance,” followed by spring with Mozart’s “The Marriage of Figaro”

Six performers — Nia Ragini, Wendy Miklovic, Erin Cessna, Lorene Chesley, Elizabeth Elkins Newcomer and Tenea Intriago, all members of Actors’ Equity Association — create a variety of some of the Ragini Bard’s most memorable madames, including Lady Macbeth, Portia and Cleopatra. The shows start at 6:30 p.m. Options include BYOC (bring your own chair), communal picnic tables and Adirondack chairs. Tickets start at $41.04. Visit crescentcitystage.com. Chesley

and “The Mikado.” Summer showcases “Damn Yankees” and “Carousel,” followed by fall with “The Fantasticks” and “The Addams Family.” The show is at 3 p.m. in Monroe Hall; tickets are not required.

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The NOLA Project gets frightfully creative with a seasonally themed al fresco show featuring Pete Macelligott’s original spooky script. Artist director Tenaj Wallace said “Curse of the Mummy” “just might be our funniest monster show yet,” as the local company continues its run of creepy comedies (“Dracula” in 2023 and “Frankenstein” in 2025). Leslie Claverie directs a the fresh take on the ancient Egyptian tale, keeping the audience wrapped up in the fun. Performing will be Khiry Armstead, Natalie Boyd, Keith Claverie, Matthew Thompson, Alex Martinez Wallace, Emily Bagwill, Arrianna Chai and PJ Ruffins. BYOC is recommended for the “under the stars” production running at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Thursdays, except Oct. 15 and a 6:30 p.m show Oct. 18. Tickets for general admission start at $25, with $60 for premier seating. Visit nolaproject.com.

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The cast of ‘Le Code Noir: Revisited’ performs the historical production outdoors.

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‘ZOMBIE PROM’

Oct. 10-24 | 30 by Ninety Theatre, 880 Lafayette St., Mandeville

What happens when the school bad boy rides into the town nuclear waste dump after falling for the class beauty? Throw in a tyrannical principal, a muck-raking reporter and some ’50s-style music, and out comes a fun, rocking show. Taking roles in the tongue-in-cheek musical are Liam Favre, Addison Fitzmorris, Kristi-Anne Lyons, Nino Bonura Sr., Harrison Brady, Darcy Gunn, Owen Benefield, Jenny Urbina, Molly Hall, Ella Kornfuhrer, Zarriah Minor and Hunter Fahr. The fun runs at 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Tickets start at $32. Visit 30byninety.com. Also, the creepy good times keep coming with two showings of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” with shadow cast Oct. 30-31. The Friday show is at midnight, following a Halloween Drag Show at 9:30 p.m. featuring Gia GiaVanni, Lana O’Day and Britney Marks. For the “Rocky” showings, no outside props will be allowed, but a prop bag will be offered for $5. Tickets for the drag performance start at $30.

‘DRACULA: A COMEDY OF TERRORS’

Oct. 16-25 | Slidell Little Theatre, 2024 Nellie Drive, Slidell

It’s a spook-tacular evening of undead antics when Bram Stoker’s classic tale gets a comedic twist in this show where five actors take on more than a dozen roles. And while the show may be a “wickedly funny comedy,” it is labeled for mature audiences. Kylie Tru Barnes directs the cast of Matthew Waranius as Dracula, with Christopher Hreha, Gary Gilmore, Kimberly Nichols and Tiffany Christy. The show is at 7:30 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays, plus 2 p.m. Sundays. Tickets start at $25. Visit slidelllittletheatre.org.

‘LE CODE NOIR: REVISITED’

Oct. 16-24 | Congo Square, 701 N. Rampart St., New Orleans

Producer and director Tommye Myrick weaves the historic story of enslaved people in America under French

PROVIDED PHOTO By VOICES IN THE DARK REPERTORy THEATRE CO. theater to tell the story. Loosely following the Shakespearean story of “Hamlet,” a brother desperate Matthew Waranius as Dracula and for the throne kills the king and scares Tiffany Christy as Mina in the Slidell off the son. But the son rises again to Little Theater production of ‘Dracula: A regain his proper place. Comedy of Terrors.’ With such smash hits as “Can You Feel The Love Tonight,” “Circle of Life” and “Hakuna Matata” by Sir Elton John rule in this drama played outdoors in and Tim Rice, plus Hans Zimmer and Louis Armstrong Park about a 17-yearold girl who arrives in New Orleans and Taymor, the music is as magical as the mechanics of making humans into anitakes a 30-year trek through a time of great change in Louisiana. mals, water and even grass. Co-written by the late Mark R. SumThe show runs at 7:30 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and 1 p.m. and ner, the production by Voices in the 6:30 p.m. Sundays, plus 2 p.m. matinees Dark Repertory Theatre Co. looks at Saturdays and a 1 p.m. matinee Oct. 22. the 48 articles issued by Louis XIV in Tickets start at $39. Visit saengernola. 1685 that affected the enslaved, free people of color and Jewish communities com. from the French colonies. ‘ALIEN STATUS’ With a cast of more than 50 performOct. 22-30 | Marquette Hall, ing artists, the show melds dancers, 6363 St. Charles Ave., New Orleans musicians and actors portraying historic characters such as Marie Laveau, Loyola Presents gets spacey with a W.C.C. Claiborne and Jean Lafitte set locally written show about extraterresagainst the backdrop of the Louisiana trials in the French Quarter and life in Purchase, statehood, the War of 1812 the Bywater. and the Battle of New Orleans. Written by James Bartell, of the The show is at 7 p.m. Fridays and Sat- NOLA Project, and directed by Cuba Hatheway, the show is at 7:30 p.m. Oct. urday plus 5 p.m. Oct. 18. Tickets are 22-23 and 28-30, with a 2 p.m. show Oct. $15. For information or reservations, contact Ms. Australia at (504) 314-8606. 24 on the Uptown campus. Tickets start at $21. Visit cmm.loyno. ‘THE LION KING’ edu. PROVIDED PHOTO By SLIDELL LITTLE THEATER

Oct. 21 to Nov. 8 | Saenger Theatre, 1111 Canal St., New Orleans

An extended run of shows is necessary when a revolutionary stage phenomenon comes to the Canal Street temple of the performing arts with the story of Simba, Mufasa, Scar and more. Tony winner Julie Taymor changed the view of stage productions when the live version of the Disney film hit Broadway in 1997. Using visually stunning puppetry and dynamic staging, the show takes advantage of the entire

‘THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW’

Oct. 23-31 | Rivertown Theaters for the Performing Arts, 325 Minor St. in Kenner

Everyone will be shivering with “antici...pation” when the story of Brad, Janet, Rocky and Dr. Frank-N-Furter takes “a jump to the left” with Riff Raff and Magenta in this cult classic. The 1970s movie was first a stage play by Richard O’Brien, the original Riff Raff. The recently departed Tim Curry rose to international renown as

the alien transvestite who is the catalyst for all the fun. One aspects of the show that has endeared it to generations (yes, generations) of viewers is the audience participation element, whether it be rice for the wedding scene or Melba toast for the macabre dinner scene (“Meatloaf again?”). Expect it all in the production directed by Bryce Slocumb that includes such numbers as “The Time Warp,” “Don’t Dream It, Be It” and “Sweet Transvestite.” The show runs for only five performances (Oct. 23 is already sold out) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets start at $45. Visit rivertowntheaters.com.

‘THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’

Oct. 29 | Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing Arts, 1419 Basin St., New Orleans

A showing of the cult classic film doesn’t usually merit a listing, but when one of the original stars comes to the Crescent City, it’s live theater at its most memorable. Barry Bostwick, the original Brad Majors, will host a 4K screening at 7:30 p.m. inside Armstrong Park that will include a costume contest, a shadow cast acting out the action in front of the screen, audience participation (of course) and a movie memorabilia display. Tickets start at $30. Visit mahaliajacksontheater.com. Email Victor Andrews at vandrews@ theadvocate.com. Lagniappe is trying out a new monthly format for the Stages column. The next update will come in November. To provide feedback, email lauren.walck@ theadvocate.com.

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LSU-born band The Bends releases debut album BY JUDY BERGERON

Staff writer

From gigs at Fred’s in Tigerland to major supporting dates with The Killers, Inhaler, Ole 60 and The Red Clay Strays, alt-rock band The Bends have come a long way in four years. The band recently reached another milestone with the release of their debut album, “If You Insist,” via Warner Records. “ ‘If You Insist’ captures the band at a pivotal moment in their rise — from a Louisiana college bar band to a full-fledged touring act building a life around music,” a news release states. “The album includes previously released singles ‘Seasons Change’ and ‘Smoking In Bed,’ the latter of which broke the Alternative Airplay Top 100. Additionally, the band recently appeared on the ‘Track Star’ podcast and Zach Bryan’s ‘Belting Bronco’ series.” The Bends are on tour. For future dates, visit thebendsmusic.com. Here, Hayden Field, the band’s lead singer and guitarist, talks about the group from its beginnings to its first album. The interview has been edited for clarity and length. When did you first form and how did you guys get together? We formed the first semester of our sophomore year. Ian Marmande had been wanting to start a band and had known Jacob Rhodes from growing up in Houma and met Chase Perkins and I separately at LSU; then he called us all together. The four of us had fun playing together from the jump. You mention starting out as “an LSU band.” What years would that have been, and where are some of the places you’ve played here? Any memorable flops, killer shows? We were an LSU band from 2022 until we graduated in 2025. However, 2024 is when we started playing at other schools. I think it’s pretty funny that

our first two gigs were Battle of the Band performances and we lost both of them. I think we played well, though; we were pretty tight from the beginning. The best LSU show was in May 2025 — we sold out the Varsity Theatre right before graduating. It was pretty surreal to walk out on stage to a huge group of your peers supporting you. How would you describe your music and who are some of your musical influences? We all love bands like The Strokes and Nirvana. I grew up hearing a lot of Coldplay around the house, which I think has affected my writing. Bands like Wunderhorse and Fontaines D.C. are kind of the modern-day North Star for a band like us. We’re just trying to make songs that connect with people — our favorite songs and bands have done that for us. I’d say ’90s and 2000s alternative rock is our main inspiration and influence. Tell me about this debut album and how long have you been working on that? We’ve been working on this debut album since we moved to Nashville in June 2025. We’ve gone through plenty of different songs and different recordings of songs to find the right 12 songs for this album. We recorded part of the album in El Paso (Texas) and the other part in Nashville and worked with two producers, Sam Westhoff and Chase Lawrence. We learned a lot about ourselves as musicians, songwriters and as a band through the process because we found ourselves in this endeavor full-time in a sudden fashion and pretty recently. We are very proud of what this album became and what it stands for. The songs are the life and experience we have had these past few years, so it’s exciting to share with the world. We feel blessed and grateful to have this opportunity. Is there a main songwriter or is it a collaborative effort? How does your writing process work? I have been the main songwriter for

The Bends PROVIDED PHOTO By COLE SILBERMAN the band. The process tends to be me bringing ideas or a song to the band and getting a feel on if they like it or not. If they like it, we will jam on it as a band, and everyone can find their place within it. If that goes well, we will bring it to the studio to capture what we’ve got and if that goes well then the world will hear it. There are a handful of songs Chase Perkins and I collaborated on together to write, which was fun and something we

hadn’t done until this album. Now that the album is dropping, what’s next? We are so excited to have an album out so we can go on tour across the country and play shows full of these songs to fans. This is all we are really thinking about at this point, but I’m sure some new songs will also get written in the meantime. Email Judy Bergeron at jbergeron@ theadvocate.com.

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RIVER ECKERT’S GENERATIONS OF GROOVE

Keith Spera SOUND CHECK

NOLAxNOLA, the annual celebration of live music and music venues in New Orleans akin to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas, continues through Sunday. Events include a number of special musical pairings, some free shows and “NOLAxNOLA Talks,” a two-day music industry conference at the New Orleans Jazz Museum in the Old U.S. Mint on Thursday and Friday. Admission to the conference is free; it will also be streamed live on the museum’s YouTube channel.

FRIDAY,TIPITINA’S River Eckert is not quite 17 but has already established himself as an heir apparent to the New Orleans piano tradition. The son of New Orleans Suspects guitarist Jake Eckert, River took to the piano at a young age. During COVID, he latched onto the New Orleans style via Jon Cleary’s online lessons, then went back and absorbed the music of Professor Longhair, James Booker and other originators. He released his self-titled debut album this spring. On Friday, River Eckert headlines Tipitina’s for the first time for “Generations of Groove.” He’ll be joined by veteran New Orleans musicians/mentors, including Cyril Neville and his son Omari Neville, guitarist Dave Malone and bassist Reggie Scanlan of the Radiators, John Boutte, Deacon John and Galactic singer Jelly Joseph and bassist Rob Mercurio. (Trombonist and singer Glen David Andrews was slated to perform but dropped out after suffering what his band’s Facebook page describes as a “serious medical emergency” in late August.) The Trombone Shorty Foundation Alumni Band opens the NOLAxNOLAaffiliated show at 7 p.m. Tickets are $35. A portion of proceeds benefits the recently rebranded Tipitina’s Foundation, the venue’s affiliated philanthropic organization that supports music education.

GRETNA FESTIN’ with THIRD EYE BLIND SATURDAY, RIVERFRONT AMPHITHEATER Since 1994, Gretna Fest has taken over the Mississippi riverfront for a weekend of music and food. The Gretna Marketplace, the site of the festival, is under renovation. So instead of a three-day festival, Gretna Fest organizers are presenting Gretna Festin’, a free concert series every Saturday in October at the Riverfront Amphitheater in downtown Gretna. The series kicks off Saturday with headliner Third Eye Blind. The band is best known for its 1997 selftitled debut album, which sold several million copes on the strength of the hit singles “Jumper,” “SemiCharmed Life,” “How’s It Going to Be” and “Graduate.” Singer/guitarist Stephan Jenkins and drummer Brad Hargreaves are the only remaining members from the band’s late-’90s heyday. They have continued to release new music. Opening Saturday’s show is Peabody, the New Orleans modern rock/pop band that achieved some national recognition in the 1990s. The four members of Peabody long ago moved on to other careers but reunite occasionally. Gates for Gretna Festin’ open at 4 p.m. Saturday. Peabody performs at 5 p.m., followed by Third Eye Blind. Admission is free. The plan is for Gretna Fest to return as a three-day festival weekend in 2027.

REVISITED: THE EARLY DAYS OF SNUG HARBOR THURSDAY, SNUG HARBOR JAZZ BISTRO Even as Frenchmen Street has changed significantly, Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro has stayed true to its original mission: presenting the very best of mostly modern New Orleans jazz in an intimate setting. Snug Harbor commemorates its 40 years on Thursday with a special multimedia and live music show dubbed “Revisited: The Early Days of Snug Harbor.” Pianist Lawrence Sieberth will host this trip down memory lane, accompanied by a projection-mapping light show by artist Monica Kelly. Special guests scheduled to perform include pianist Davell Crawford,

OTHER NOTEWORTHY SHOWS THURSDAY Pete Murano, the longtime guitarist in Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue, leads his own band at Gasa Gasa as part of NOLAxNOLA ($10). Geno Delafose & French Rockin’ Boogie are featured for Zydeco Night at Rock ’N’ Bowl ($17).

FRIDAY Stephan Jenkins of Third Eye Blind

In an ambitious crosspollination of musical genres, Grammy-win-

Davell Crawford

River Eckert

baritone saxophonist Roger Lewis of the Dirty Dozen Brass Band, singers Charmaine Neville and Betty Shirley, and

pianist Oscar Rossignoli. In addition to Sieberth, the all-star house band includes guitarist Steve Masakowski and saxophonist Tony Dagradi of Astral Project, bassist Chris Severin and drummer Ricky Sebastian. Show times are 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $35. The show is part of the NOLAxNOLA concert series.

ning New Orleans hybrid R&B/ soul/funk/spoken word ensemble Tank & the Bangas and contemporary R&B singer Dawn Richard team up with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra at the Orpheum Theater. A NOLAxNOLA “Super Session” at Snug Harbor pairs drummer Mike Clark, best known for his time with Herbie Hancock & the Headhunters, with New Orleans “nouveau swing” modern jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr. plus Hammond B3 organist Wil Blades. Show times are 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.; tickets are $35.

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FRIDAY (continued) Baton Rouge blues singer and guitarist Jovin Webb, touring in support of his new, second album, “Son of a Sinner,” hits the New Orleans Jazz & Blues Market ($20). Powerhouse soul and R&B singer Erica Falls presents an evening of Marvin Gaye songs at Chickie Wah Wah. She’ll be joined by Donald Ramsey, Chris Adkins, Raymond Weber, Sam Kuslan, Roger Lewis, Gregory Davis, Kristin Diable, Jai Reed, Dave Lemon and Roderick Harper. Advance tickets start at $35 plus fees.

SATURDAY Americana singer/guitarist Maggie Koerner and her band headline Tipitina’s; Gina Leslie opens. Tickets are $22 plus fees. At Snug Harbor, CubaNOLA Arts Collective and NO-

LAxNOLA host a celebration for Cuban-born, New Orleansbased trumpeter Davisto Navarro’s new album, “Davisito + El Negro: Live from New Orleans,” which was recorded at Snug Harbor. The show also features Cuban percussionist Yissy Garcia plus pianist Oscar Rossignoli, percussionist Alexey Marti, saxophonist Brent Rose and bassist Lino Piquero. Showtimes are 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.; tickets are $35. There is an after-party starting at 11:30 p.m. with DJ Santero.

SUNDAY At 6 p.m., Melissa Weber, aka DJ Soul Sister, conducts a free, conversation-style multimedia lecture about George Clinton and Parliament-Funkadelic at Gasa Gasa, using materials from her personal archive. Bassist James Singleton is joined by Johnny Vidacovich, Ashlar

Dirty Knobs Evans, Brad Walker and Dr. Sick for a NOLAxNOLA show at Café Istanbul. At 3 p.m. Sunday at Snug Harbor, the “Nickel-a-Dance” series presents a free tribute to Preservation Hall trombonist Ronell Johnson, who died in June of complications from a heart attack at age 49. Trombonist Craig Klein leads the tribute, which also features several of Johnson’s Preservation Hall bandmates, including Ben Jaffe on sousaphone, Clint Maedgen on sax, Branden Lewis

on trumpet and Kyle Roussel on piano. Later on Sunday, Snug Harbor has keyboardist Davell Crawford and baritone vocalist James Jordan at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Tickets are $35.

TUESDAY Former Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers lead guitarist Mike Campbell fronts his band the Dirty Knobs — they recently released their fourth album, “Mission of Mercy” — at the Joy Theater. Tickets start at

$33. Singer-songwriter Chris Smither holds court at Chickie Wah Wah; advance tickets start at $20. Local “reggae-Americana” singer-songwriter Kelly “Love” Jones and her percussionheavy ensemble perform at Snug Harbor at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ($30).

WEDNESDAY Acclaimed saxophonist Brad Walker and pianist Oscar Rossignoli team up for a free happy hour show at 5 p.m. at Snug Harbor. Later at Snug Harbor, trombonist Delfeayo Marsalis & the Uptown Jazz Orchestra stage an 85th birthday tribute to baritone saxophonist Roger “The Dirty Old Man” Lewis at 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. ($45). Email Keith Spera at kspera@theadvocate.com.

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