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Rivana Apartments deal finalized

$111 million complex big step for River District BY RICH COLLINS Staff writer

The River District neighborhood reached a significant milestone this week when the developers of the 220-unit Rivana Apartments closed on ﬁnancing that paves the way for construction to begin on the $111 million complex later this

month. The deal, which was finalized Wednesday, will bring a second major building to the planned community just upriver from the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, where a new regional headquarters for oil giant Shell has been under construction since early 2025. The project will also serve

as a visible sign of progress for an ambitious, $1 billion mixed-use development slated for 40 acres of unused land near the banks of the Mississippi River. “The signiﬁcance of this week's closing is hard to overstate,” said Brian Gibbs, one of the Rivana's developers, in a phone interview Thursday. “Having a new building

built next to the Shell headquarters with retail and a park all helps paint the picture that this thing is rolling.” The ﬁnancial closing means the project's lead contractor, Gibbs Construction, can begin fencing off the site in the 1400 block of Tchoupitoulas Street before workers prepare to drive pilings. The construction is expected to take just under two years to complete. Units in the four-story building

REBIRTH

Top musicians join Saints legend Steve Gleason for album that coincides with 'Domecoming' anniversary

will be reserved for individuals making at or below 80% of area median income, so $49,650 a year or less. It will also have 17,000 square feet of ground-ﬂoor retail space, a ﬁtness center, a community room and a swimming pool. “The energy around the River District is growing, and people have a reason now to come see what's happening,” said Jim Cook,

ä See RIVANA, page 8A

Louisiana AP exam scores improve But many unable to access program BY PATRICK WALL Staff writer

More Louisiana high school students are earning high marks on Advanced Placement exams, according to newly released data. However, they remain far less likely than their peers nationally to have access to the college-level courses. Nearly 70% of the AP exams that Louisiana students took this year received a score of 3 or higher on a five-point scale, qualifying students for credits at

ä See EXAM, page 8A

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Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews greets Steve Gleason with the ‘fo-to-fo’ gesture — forehead-to-forehead — before a recording session for Gleason’s album at Esplanade Studios in New Orleans on Sept. 14. BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

In the shadows and stillness of a former church sanctuary, Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews presses his forehead against Steve Gleason’s, carefully maintaining eye contact. The intimate gesture — dubbed “fo-to-fo,” short for “forehead to forehead” — is Gleason’s preferred greeting since ALS paralyzed him completely. Andrews performed the previous night in Montgomery, Alabama. That morning, he drove to Atlanta, ﬂew to New Orleans, and hustled to Esplanade Studios to assist Gleason with his latest ALS-defying project: recording an album. The title? “Rebirth.” “When he called me, I was

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Contributors include Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Ben Schneider of indie-folk band Lord Huron and an Alist roster of New Orleanians: PJ Morton, Anders Osborne, Ivan Neville, River Eckert and more. The ﬁrst two songs, “Sonic Boom” featuring Trombone Shorty and “Soul Is Invincible” with southwest Louisiana singer Marc Broussard, were released online Thursday. The rest will come out episodically Recording engineer and studio owner Misha Kachkachishvili, left, ahead of an eventual physical release. and co-producer Steve Rehage oversee a recording session with The “Rebirth” rollout coinTroy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews for Steve Gleason’s album. cides with the 20th anniversary of the “Domecoming,” confused,” Andrews said. “I’m cal, “Rebirth” was inspired the Saints’ triumphant return like, ‘What do you mean?’ But by the cycles and challenges to the Superdome following whenever he calls, (I’ll do) of Gleason’s life. Lyrics are Hurricane Katrina. Gleason’s whatever I can to help out.” partly based on his poetry and ä See REBIRTH, page 6A Though not autobiographi- prose.

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FBI says 2 La. men raised money for Hamas BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

Federal authorities accused two brothers living in Louisiana of using social media to raise thousands of dollars for Hamas, the Palestinian militant group responsible for the October 2023 attack on Israel, according to newly unsealed documents. Court records show the brothers, Omar and Abdel Adhami, were arrested in September on a sealed complaint after a joint investigation by the FBI and the New York Police Department.

ä See HAMAS, page 8A

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FBI arrests Energy Department employee WASHINGTON — A Department of Energy electrical engineer has been arrested on charges of providing support to the Iranianbacked Houthi rebels, including by buying materials for homemade explosives and drones and traveling to Yemen, the Justice Department said Thursday. Ashton Hamed Ellaboudy, 51, of Richland, Washington, was arrested Thursday and is due to make his first court appearance Friday. Court records do not list an attorney available to speak on his behalf. The FBI says Ellaboudy had a goal of helping the Houthis improve their communications capabilities and traveled last September to Yemen, where the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces are now engaged in renewed violence that has killed hundreds and displaced tens of thousands. The conflict began in 2014 when the Iran-backed rebels took over the capital, Sanaa, forcing the country’s government to settle into exile in Saudi Arabia. Upon his return to the United States, authorities say, Ellaboudy told Customs and Border Protection officials that he was traveling back from Oman on a work trip and was part of a U.S. government mission to inspect defense facilities. But investigators interviewed Ellaboudy's supervisor, who reported having no knowledge of any international travel or of an Energy Department missile inspection program that Ellaboudy would have been part of, an FBI affidavit said.

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Proposal would change tax form Filers would be required to disclose citizenship status

BY KEN SWEET

Associated Press

NEW YORK — The Trump administration would require U.S. taxpayers to disclose their citizenship and work authorization status to the IRS as part of a proposed change to the annual tax form that nearly all workers file each year. Administration officials argue the new requirement will help the federal government stop immigrants lacking permanent legal status from collecting federal benefits they are not eligible for, potentially saving taxpayers up to $2 billion. But taxpayer and privacy advocates say the data could be used to help find and deport those people. “It could be used as an immigration enforcement tool and that is probably the reason why they are doing this,” said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute.

Most Americans will see it as a new checkbox that gives the government even more information on taxpayers. But those living in the country illegally face a more complicated choice: Declare on a tax return that they are not authorized to live in the U.S. or lie on the return, which is a felony. Some may stop filing their taxes altogether. “It’s dragging the IRS into this administration’s immigration policies,” said Nina Olson, executive director for the Center for Taxpayer Rights. The IRS posted its draft 1040 form for 2026 in late August. It includes the question, “At the time you file your return, are you, and your spouse if filing jointly, a U.S. citizen, U.S. national, or an alien lawfully authorized to work in the U.S.?" There are “Yes” or “No" checkboxes for both the filer and their spouse. A draft of a second

form, known as Schedule 3-A used to claim refundable tax credits, asks a similar question. The questions are not optional. Every tax filer must certify under penalty of law their immigration or citizenship status to the IRS to file their return. The Treasury Department says the new question is meant to keep immigrants lacking permanent legal status from taking advantage of refundable tax credits, such as the Earned Income Tax Credit or the Additional Child Tax Credit. These are credits for which low- and middle income workers and families may qualify that often result in a refund back to the taxpayer. In a statement, a Treasury Department official said the information will be “subject to a variety of privacy, disclosure and other legal protections.” The statement did not say whether the information will be shared with immigration

States, cities sue over EPA eliminating rule Regulation limited emmissions from power plants

BY MATTHEW DALY and JENNIFER MCDERMOTT Associated Press

Judge dismisses pool vandalizism case

WASHINGTON — A judge in the nation’s capital agreed on Thursday to permanently dismiss a criminal case charging a former Olympian with vandalizing the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, a move that could prevent federal prosecutors from reviving the case under political pressure from President Donald Trump. D.C. Superior Court Judge Todd Edelman ordered the dismissal of David Hearn’s case with “prejudice,” which would block U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office from refiling the felony charge against him. The judge ruled nearly a month after hearing attorneys’ arguments. Hearn’s lawyers say Trump administration officials have continued to falsely accuse the Maryland resident of vandalizing the reflecting pool despite Pirro’s decision to drop the case on July 31. Trump responded by saying Pirro “choked” and “folded like an umbrella.” Edelman said the case presents “exceptional circumstances” that warrant dismissing the case permanently. He agreed with defense attorneys that the government “shot first and asked questions later” by charging Hearn in a “a lightning-fast indictment process.”

Ethiopia expels 10 Eritrean diplomats

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopia ordered 10 Eritrean diplomats out of the country Thursday and closed its embassy in Eritrea, sharply escalating tensions between the neighbors hours after blasts were heard across the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa and as fighting raged in the northern region of the country. Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry gave the diplomats 48 hours to leave Addis Ababa, citing their “involvement in activities that pose a direct threat to Ethiopia’s national security.” Ethiopia last week accused Eritrea of financing rebels in the Tigray region, who took control of several towns in renewed fighting against federal forces. Eritrea’s Foreign Ministry called the move “astounding” and said it had “no option but to reciprocate in kind and sever all diplomatic ties with Ethiopia with all the negative corollaries that this entails.” An intelligence service official, who was not authorized to speak to the media, confirmed that there had been three blasts in three different locations in Addis Ababa overnight, but declined to provide further details. It remains unclear whether the blasts were related to an attack or were part of training exercises at the defense headquarters.

enforcement agencies. Despite not being authorized to live and work in the U.S., immigrants that do not have permanent legal status do pay taxes. A 2024 report by the National Taxpayer Advocate found 3.8 million tax returns where a taxpayer used an Individual Tax Identiﬁcation Number, or ITIN. While an ITIN can be issued for a variety of purposes, undocumented workers who cannot obtain a Social Security number are among those who use them. IRS data show that taxpayers who ﬁled those nearly 4 million returns paid $14.4 billion in income taxes and $6.5 billion in Social Security and Medicare taxes. A valid Social Security number, not an ITIN, is required to qualify for the Earned Income Tax Credit. The IRS checks Social Security numbers against Social Security Administration records for each claim of the EITC. Because of this process, Olson said she believes the new proposal is unnecessary.

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A police officer and a rescue worker carry an unexploded warhead from a Shahed drone out of a school damaged by a Russian strike on Kyiv, Ukraine, on Thursday.

Moscow presses aerial campaign against Ukraine Russian drone hits a Kyiv school BY SUSIE BLANN and BARRY HATTON Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — A Russian drone struck a school in Kyiv on Thursday, city ofﬁcials said, as the Ukrainian capital endured another day of relentless aerial attacks. Children and staff at the school were in shelters when the drone hit, Mayor Vitalii Klitschko said, and its warhead didn’t explode. No casualties were reported, but the building’s brick facade showed a large hole, revealing a staircase, and burn marks alongside smashed windows. Kyiv has felt like a city under siege in recent weeks, with repeated air raid alerts, punctuated by loud explosions from drone and missile strikes. The onslaught aims to terrorize civilians, ofﬁcials and analysts say, and break their will to resist 4½ years after Russia’s fullscale invasion. The strain is showing. Maryna Lystopad, 35, said her hair has started falling out due to the stress from escalating attacks and never knowing where the next attack will hit. “It’s really horrible. I can’t take it anymore. I think, I think that soon we’re all going to leave. I’m really not doing well,” she told The Associated Press. “I’m constantly anxious. I can’t relax. I keep thinking that if something happens, if something hits, one of my relatives could be killed.” Lystopad said she recently had to trav-

el to another part of Kyiv and had been “genuinely stressed” the whole way there. “I kept checking, like, whether anything was ﬂying in, where it was going, where am I supposed to go? Where am I supposed to run?” she said.

Ukraine's air defenses are stretched The front line in eastern and southern Ukraine hasn’t seen major shifts since last year, but the country is struggling to fend off Russia’s intensified aerial attacks on cities that include ballistic missiles and high-flying jet-powered drones. Reflecting the urgency of Ukraine’s plight, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he held a conference call Thursday with senior military and government officials in charge of protecting infrastructure, as some areas fall behind on implementing previously agreed measures. He said the Foreign Ministry and Defense Ministry will review agreements Ukraine has made with partner countries on supplying ammunition for air defenses and F-16 fighter jets, with an updated schedule of deliveries to be presented within 24 hours. “It is important that we have additional missiles in October,” Zelenskyy said on social media. In response to Russia's attacks, Ukraine has fired its long-range drones at manufacturing plants deep inside Russia and has targeted Russia’s drone launch sites. Zelenskyy said Thursday that Kyiv’s forces struck a site in Russia’s southwestern Oryol region that is used to store and launch attack drones.

Bolivia arrests prosecutor, 13 others Officials accused by U.S. of protecting drug traffickers

Washington. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio hailed the arrests as “bold and decisive actions to combat narco-trafficking, systemic corruption, By The Associated Press and transnational organized crime in Bolivia.” Mariaca did not immediately comment LA PAZ, Bolivia — Bolivian police arrested the country’s top prosecutor and 13 oth- on his arrest but had earlier denounced ers accused of protecting drug traffick- U.S. accusations that he accepted bribes ers, the government said Thursday, days to facilitate drug trafficking as political after the Trump administration imposed pressure on his office. Anti-drug prosevisa restrictions on the attorney general cutor Miguel Gonzales said late Wednesand several senior officials over corrup- day that police had detained Mariaca without a warrant. tion allegations. “We have dismantled a criminal orgaThe arrest of Bolivian Attorney General Roger Mariaca, appointed to a nization entrenched in the justice syssix-year term in 2024 under Bolivia’s tem,” Interior Minister Marco Antonio previous socialist government, comes Oviedo told reporters Thursday, addas conservative President Rodrigo ing that Mariaca would face charges of Paz deepens security cooperation with money laundering and drug trafficking.

WASHINGTON — States and cities sued the Trump administration Thursday for repealing rules that limit planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from power plants fueled by coal and natural gas. Twenty-one states, led by New York, are challenging the Environmental Protection Agency's power plant rule. The Democratic-led coalition also includes Pennsylvania's governor, the District of Columbia, New York City, Chicago and the city and county of Denver. They argue that “gutting one of the country’s most significant climate protections” will set the nation back decades and worsen the climate crisis. The EPA announced last month it's revoking the Biden-era rule, and said it is taking a separate but

related step to prevent future administrations from regulating climate pollution from power plants. New York Attorney General Letitia James said the federal government is showing “callous disregard” for Americans’ health and the environment, and future generations will pay the price. Power plants that burn fossil fuels are a major source of planet-warming pollution. “Dismantling these protections is a betrayal of American families, and the stakes are too high to allow this administration to once again put profits over people,” James said in a statement Thursday. The EPA said it does not comment on pending litigation. However, it said in announcing the repeal it would save the industry more than $300 billion in costs and help “unleash” American energy. EPA Assistant Administrator Aaron Szabo said in September it will allow utilities to “make the best decision for the ratepayers based on cost and cost savings, instead of being required to shut down facilities.”

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Thousands of troops head to Mideast Trump weighs new Iran strikes

The USS Theodore Roosevelt carrier is en route to the Middle East with a group of ships, including the cruiser USS Chosin and the USS Makin Island amphibious readiness group. Together, the ships carry over 7,000 sailors and 2,000 Marines.

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WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is dispatching roughly 9,000 troops aboard a group of ships to the Middle East, a U.S. official said Thursday. The bolstering of the American military presence comes as President Donald Trump warned anew that new strikes against Iran could be on the horizon. The troop movement, which includes a third aircraft carrier, underscores the rapidly evolving dynamic of Trump's war against Iran as he ponders his next move, with midterm elections in the United States looming large and new signs that the nature of the conflict may be becoming more complex. Trump has threatened that a postmidterm election escalation — despite his initial promises to Americans of a campaign that would last a matter of weeks — remains a viable option. Further complicating matters, Trump told reporters Thursday that early indications suggest that Iran is linked to the FlyDubai co-pilot who stabbed his captain and tried to crash an Israelbound flight on Wednesday. In an exchange with reporters at the White House, Trump raised the connection when asked by a reporter if there were any links between the pilot behind the attack and Tehran. “I would say the answer, based on what I’m hearing, is ‘yes,’ but we’re working on it right now,” Trump said, without offering details. Trump added that if the link to Iran is established, the United States would retaliate. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed in a Fox News interview earlier Thursday that investigators believe the FlyDubai suspect underwent “Islamist, radical indoctrination” but did not provide further details. “Oh, they’ll be hit very hard, don’t worry," Trump said. “You just ask them. They know what happened. They’ll be hit very hard.”

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for more than 260 days straight.

Trump explains rejection Trump, in a Time magazine interview published Thursday, also raised the prospects of new strikes, saying it is “possible” that he will ramp up bombing in Iran after the Nov. 3 elections in the United States. When pressed, Trump said he could not go into further detail about his strategy. “I can’t tell you that because look, you know, you’re asking, where are you going to bomb?” Trump said. He said in the interview, conducted Monday, that he rejected the latest ceaseﬁre proposal from Iran because “things that I wouldn’t have approved a year ago I wouldn’t have today.” Trump cited as an example an offer from Iran to “open up" the Strait of Hormuz, the key energy shipping corridor, but said the overall proposal was “not good enough.”

Getting more complicated Asked if the increasingly unpopular war would threaten Republican Party chances in November, Trump at ﬁrst responded, “It’s possible.” But then he added, “It should help, because Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.” The president said “100% of the people” oppose Iran having nu-

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clear attack capabilities “including worldwide.” “So, when you say it that way, it would help,” Trump added. “If you don’t say that, it could hurt.” Yet, there's also growing concern that Tehran might be turning to asymmetrical tactics following the FlyDubai attack and another suspicious incident in the U.K. Authorities believe that Iran might be looking to shift strategy just as the U.S. ﬁnds greater success in loosening Iran’s grip over the Strait of Hormuz and getting Gulf allies' oil to market, while a Navy blockade is shutting down Iran’s own oil exports. British authorities announced on Thursday the arrest of a dual U.K.-Iranian national on suspicion of plotting a terror attack following a security incident at a U.S.run military air base in England that British authorities have linked to Tehran. The arrest of the 27-year-old man in Central London came after U.K. authorities arrested ﬁve men, all British nationals in their 20s and from London, in the early hours of Sunday on suspicion of explosives and terror offenses close to the RAF Fairford air base. The base has been used by American bombers to strike Iran. The suspects have since been released on bail.

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to review a Trump administration policy denying bond hearings for immigrants as the government carries out a sweeping crackdown. The justices will consider whether immigrants who have been living in the U.S. have a right to a hearing to determine if they should remain detained while challenging their possible deportation. The case will test a key pillar of the Trump administration’s hard-line immigration agenda. Most appeals courts to have considered the issue have found that it violates federal law to detain immigrants, including those living in the U.S. illegally, without a bond hearing. Those decisions conﬂict with rulings by the 5th and 8th circuits, which held that immigrants accused of illegally entering and remaining in the U.S. must be detained while their deportation cases are pending. The high court agreed to hear the case of Ricardo Aparecido Barbosa da Cunha, a citizen of Brazil. Authorities say he entered the United States illegally two decades ago and applied for asylum in 2016. He sought a bond hearing after an immigration judge determined that his detention was mandatory following his September 2025 arrest.

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BOSTON — The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for killing her three children. During Clancy's ﬁrst trial, which ended Sept. 4 with a deadlocked jury, her defense argued that she was not criminally responsible because of a mental disease, speciﬁcally a rare condition called post-

her family's Massachusetts home in 2023. However, in a hearing earlier this week, Clancy’s attorney Kevin Reddington tried to persuade the judge that prosecutors had not offered any proof that Clancy did it. Prosecutors argued there was plenty of evidence, calling Reddington’s claim “laughable.” Prosecutors have yet to decide whether they will put the case in front of a jury for a second time. They could choose to retry her on ﬁrst-degree murder charges or seek to try her only on lesser charges, including

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The Democratic National Committee on Thursday ﬁled a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump's administration secretly changed a postcard used by U.S. citizens overseas in a way that makes it harder to register to vote. The lawsuit contends that the Department of Defense made the change by declaring an emergency, which allowed it to eliminate a speciﬁc box on the form. That box is typically checked by potential voters who acknowledge they are U.S. citizens but who have never lived in the United States. They are usually the children of U.S. citizens, and 38 states allow them to cast ballots provided they have

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Continued from page 1A block of an Atlanta Falcons punt that night electrified the team, the fans and a city struggling to rebuild. The play is immortalized in the “Rebirth” statue outside the Superdome. Ahead of Monday’s “Domecoming” anniversary game against the Falcons, Gleason will gather with fans at 3 p.m. in Lafayette Square. He’ll lead a celebratory second-line to Champions Square, where Broussard will perform. He'll also participate in the coin toss on the Superdome ﬁeld and lead the pregame “Who Dat” chant with his synthesized voice. Fifteen years after his ALS diagnosis, the light has gone out on his physical abilities. He can no longer blink; caregivers tape his eyelids open when he is awake and cover his eyeballs with protective lenses to maintain moisture. But his inner light shines as brightly as it did that epic night in the Superdome 20 years ago. The creation of “Rebirth” makes that clear.

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Jim Salters, left, and Steve Gleason listen as Troy ‘Trombone Shorty’ Andrews records the song ‘Sonic Boom’ for Gleason’s album at Esplanade Studios on The Gothic revival church Sept. 14. near the corner of Espla-

nade Avenue and North Broad Street dates to the 1920s. Industrialist Andrew Carnegie donated the pipe organ. Katrina shuttered the church. It sat vacant until Grammy-winning recording engineer Misha Kachkachishvili reopened the building as Esplanade Studios in 2013. Having undergone its own rebirth, Esplanade Studios is the appropriate setting for Gleason’s album. Music has always been a huge part of his life. In 2002, he started taking guitar lessons from Benny Dominach, a local musician he met at a crawfish boil. During the 2004 Saints season, Gleason formed a band called Fixing To Split. They played a single Friday night show at The Parish of the House of Blues. “I remember leaving pretty quickly afterward, because I needed good sleep two nights before our Sunday game,” Gleason said, using his eyes to pick words, letters and phrases from a screen. “So yes, there was a musician in there somewhere. “But I never imagined making an album like ‘Rebirth.’ This project fulﬁlls something deeper than a longtime dream. ALS has taken my natural voice, my ability to play guitar and nearly every physical form of creative expression. Somehow, I’m making an album with some extraordinary musicians and people I love. That feels impossible, which is generally where the good stuff begins.” His inner circle was wellpositioned to help. Pearl Jam’s McCready sits on the board of Team Gleason, the ALS advocacy organization. Dominach, aka Benny D, is now one of Gleason’s roundthe-clock caregivers. Steve Rehage, founder of the now-dormant Voodoo Music & Arts Experience, is a close friend. They met outside Lola’s restaurant on Esplanade Avenue the night Rehage booked Rage Against the Machine for the 2007 Voodoo Fest in City Park. Both Rehage and Jim Salt-

ers, who played linebacker alongside Gleason in high school, serve on the Team Gleason board. They are coproducing “Rebirth” with him . Before Trombone Shorty arrived at the studio on a recent Monday, Gleason, Rehage, Salters, Dominach and fellow caregiver Jenni Doiron told the story of how “Rebirth” was born. Dominach initially floated the idea of Gleason creating a song to commemorate the “Domecoming” anniversary. In October 2025, the core group, which included Gleason’s brother Kyle, embarked on a songwriting retreat on the Slidell waterfront. “We get out in Slidell and it’s like, ‘What are we doing?’” Salters recalled. “Very quickly, it became, ‘Instead of a song, let’s do an album.' How crazy does that sound? Steve Gleason, the guy who can’t move, can’t breathe on his own, is going to produce, write and release a full album.” Gleason chimed in from his wheelchair: “Hell yeah, baby.” The first song at that first retreat “literally just fell out,” Salters said. ‘When that happens, you know you’re onto something.” As Dominach put it, “We knew, going into this, that we were going to be dealing with magic.”

Stepping into the unknown During the ﬁrst and subsequent retreats, including one in Idaho, they kept coming back to the most potent and powerful moments and experiences in Gleason’s life. Those became the seeds of new songs. “That’s the word — ‘seeds,’” Gleason said. “I didn’t just hand over poems.” He insisted that the album’s themes — “love, loss, tragedy, shadows” — be universal. “If you go deep enough into Steve’s experiences, they’re all of our experiences,” Salters said. “This is not some tribute to Steve. That’s the last thing he wanted.” Gleason contributed new lyrics, such as “heal me

with your pain,” and offered feedback on song structure and feel. His wife, Michel, also provided perspective. As 13 songs took shape, Rehage solicited his music business contacts to help finish them. “It’s a very challenging project to explain,” he noted. Rehage’s involvement “legitimized this whole project,” Dominach said. “He has the (music industry) credentials.” Kachkachishvili offered up Esplanade Studios as the project's home base. Musicians cycled in to write and record. Salters’ favorite Chinese tea blend helped fuel recording sessions. River Eckert, the teenage New Orleans piano phenom, ended up co-writing and singing the album's final song, “My Rising Son,” in which a son addresses his father. Gleason’s son is named Rivers. “It was not planned that way,” Salters said. “But these things just kept happening. Every time we got insecure, one of these experiences would keep teasing us forward. You’re going, ‘I wish I would have thought of that.’” Some lyrics, Gleason said, “arrived unexpectedly. But they usually emerge from experiences I had been carrying for years.” Such was the case with “My Rising Son.” After losing the ability to blink in 2022, typing with his eyes became substantially harder for Gleason. He suffered two years of writer’s block with his poetry. Then Dominach shared a song he was writing with a line about, “My young son, please remember to take your time/I will always lift you up/You can find me where the rivers run.” With that, “my fire was lit,” Gleason said. “I finished the song over the next couple of days, which is light speed for me. “That breakthrough opened the father/son theme that bookends the album and helped unlock the spiritual dimensions of songs like ‘Wash’ and ‘Dissolve.’” (“I wasn’t the key,” Domi-

Though exhausted, Anonce the music starts … ” Did he need anything? drews rose to the occasion, Some tea might be nice. blowing brassy and bold Gleason concurred: “Yes, on his trombone. From yes, yes. Jim has awesome the upstairs control room, tea. It will be perfect.” Kachkachishvili spoke to Andrews asked who wrote him through headphones, the “Sonic Boom” horn gently alternating complicharts. Bonerama trombon- ments with requests for just ist Mark Mullins, Kachkach- one more take. The cycle repeated sevishvili told him. “It’s almost like a conver- eral times. When Kachkachsational vibe,” Kachkachish- ishvili was satisfied they had vili said. “The lead singer is what they need, Andrews singing it but the horns are switched to trumpet and reconstantly answering.” peated the process. “Classic New Orleans callOver in the corner, Salters and-response,” Andrews nodded his head in time to concluded. the song's beat. He took his place in a Gleason cannot nod. But cluster of microphones at he was absorbing the music, the center of the former processing it, feeling it. church’s high-ceilinged It is the sound of his adShorty's 'Sonic Boom' sanctuary. Gleason watched opted city. It is the sound of his “Rebirth.” Three weeks before the intently from nearby. game, the “Rebirth” team was under pressure to finish at least the first two songs, especially the Trombone Shorty showcase “Sonic Boom.” But the timing of the always-on-the-go Andrews’ WAITLIST CLOSING arrival at Esplanade Studios was uncertain. Morning Effective Monday, October 5 at 12:00 pm, Metairie turned to afternoon. Manor I, III & IV will close the waiting list for all units. While waiting, Rehage No applications will be accepted by mail, online or inreceived an email with Mcperson after this time. Cready’s guitar solos for the song “Naked Tears.” AnWhen the waiting lists reopens, we will announce it in the drews finally arrived, toting two horn cases directly from local newspaper and on our website. The best way to Louis Armstrong New Orkeep informed about our waiting lists is to check our leans International Airport. website frequently and/or our social media sites. “Thanks for being here,” Gleason said. “I love you.” If you are already on the waiting list, you will not be “I love you more,” Animpacted by the waiting list closure. We will continue to drews replied. “Thank you process all applications in the order they were received. for having me. Anytime you Please keep the staff informed of any changes to your call, I’ll be here. You know mailing address, email address or phone number. If staff that.” attempts to contact you and you do not respond by the Asked how he feels, Andrews responded, “I’m feeldeadline, your application will be removed. ing good. A little tired. But nach said. “I think it was God.”) Gleason was a constant presence in the studio, offering feedback and encouragement. “I would give a more general perspective rather than technical details,” he said. Whenever he sensed the vibe was off, he’d call a timeout and gather the musicians around his wheelchair for a huddle. Such resets, Rehage said, inevitably led to more spontaneous magic. “That’s been the theme,” Gleason said. “Stepping into the unknown. Putting ourselves out there. Trusting that there’s a path.”

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Complicated financing For more than a decade, the Convention Center has wanted to create a new neighborhood of residences, hotels, shops and entertainment venues on former industrial property originally earmarked for additional meeting space. Tourism and business leaders have said the project is essential to help New Orleans stay competitive in the meetings and hospitality sector. Yet, while other cities have built lively walkable districts near their convention halls, the Convention Center has struggled to develop its sprawling riverfront property. Now, ofﬁcials say, the project appears to be coming to fruition. “I'm excited to see housing and neighborhood-serving retail come to the site, and I'm encouraged by the momentum we're seeing across the River District,” District B council member Lesli Harris said Thursday. The Rivana developers had to put together a complex ﬁnancing deal to make the project work, as rising

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Continued from page 1A Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp records the FBI obtained show the men used the sites to solicit more than $80,000 from followers, often through posts accompanied by pro-Hamas imagery. The brothers sent the money to people allegedly afﬁliated with Hamas inside the Gaza Strip, the records show, where Israel has been at war with Hamas since the group’s Oct. 7, 2023, crossborder attack that killed 1,200 Israelis. Court records state the brothers’ alleged crimes occurred in St. Tammany Parish. They appear to have drawn law enforcement scrutiny when Abdel Adhami, the elder of the two, messaged an undercover NYPD detective last fall and tried coaxing the ofﬁcer to bring cash to Louisiana. A pair of criminal complaints drafted by FBI counterterrorism agents were unsealed Tuesday at the federal courthouse on Poydras Street. The records detail the brothers’ communications with alleged Hamas-affiliated handlers, including months of messages that appear to show them discussing how to raise, transmit and conceal money being sent to Gaza. “I also was going to tell

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Continued from page 1A many colleges and universities. Louisiana’s rate of AP exams with high scores has grown by more than 30 percentage points since 2019, the biggest increase of any state during that period, according to the Louisiana Department of Education. This year, more than 13,000 Louisiana students scored 3 or higher on an AP exam, up about 6% from last year. “I'm really pleased to see us lead the country in AP growth,” said state Superintendent of Education Cade Brumley. “When students earn college credits in high school, that reduces the number of college courses they have to take and lowers the price tag.” Despite the big gains, relatively few Louisiana students earn high marks on the tests, according to data from the College Board, the nonproﬁt that oversees the Advanced Placement program. Just under 11% of Louisiana students who graduated from a public high

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The proposed site for the Rivana Apartments is next to the Shell Riverside building in the River District. interest rates and ongoing inﬂation created challenges. The project will be funded by a combination of public and private sources, with Providence Community Housing — a local nonproﬁt that joined the development group earlier this year — owning 51% of the project and members of the River District developers' Rivana team owning the other 49%. Among the public sources of money are Low Income

Housing Tax Credits, a Community Development Block Grant, a $6.5 million loan from the Convention Center and a $6.2 million loan from the city for infrastructure work. Earlier this year, the project also secured a 40-year property tax break from the City Council that could equal $30 million over the fourdecade life of the incentive, and the Housing Authority of New Orleans is providing

project-based vouchers to help cover part of the rent for 25% of the units. On the private side, the project will be ﬁnanced with bank debt and equity contributions from the developers. “It’s a complicated capital stack in general and there were some macro challenges that also created headwinds, but we were able to do it,” said Shawn Barney, a member of the Rivana development team. “The 10-year

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you to be careful because you are not in Gaza, you are in a country eh … like they say, they hold you accountable even for a dollar,” Saleem Alzaq, a man described as Abdel Adhami’s primary contact in Gaza, wrote to him on Snapchat in February 2024, according to the records. On Thursday evening, federal prosecutors in Manhattan secured an indictment that appeared to show the Adhami brothers were subjects of a broader investigation: Alzaq was charged with raising a total of nearly $1.75 million for Hamas over several years. The arrests reflect what counterterrorism researchers describe as U.S. ofﬁcials’ escalating efforts to unravel digital networks used by Hamas’ supporters to marshal resources from within the United States. The prosecutorial push has ramped up amid a shaky ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, whose ground invasion in Gaza has killed more than 74,000 people, many of them civilians. “There’s been a steady increase of Hamas-related arrests in recent weeks across the country,” said Seamus Hughes, a researcher at the University of Nebraska Omaha’s National Counterterrorism Innovation, Technology and Education Center. “It’s clearly increasingly becoming a prosecutorial

priority for this administration,” Hughes said. “Hamas has traditionally viewed its adherents in the United States as best positioned to support the group through raising money and resources.” Abdel Adhami faces counts of providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, wire fraud and money laundering. Omar Adhami is charged with providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization and wire fraud. Between November 2023 and February of this year, the FBI says Abdel Adhami sent about $80,000 to people close to Alzaq, his alleged handler, in the Gaza Strip. He primarily used PayPal to send the money after soliciting the money from users on Instagram and other social media platforms, according to court records. Omar Adhami is accused of sending about $6,000 to associates of Alzaq in the same period, according to the records. Defense attorneys for the brothers could not immediately be reached. The New York Police Department’s role in a Louisiana-based case appears to stem from the vast counterterrorism infrastructure the city police agency has maintained since the Sept. 11, 2001, World Trade Center attacks. The unit posts ofﬁcers in cities worldwide, according to

the New York City Police Foundation. Posing as a person named “Hussain,” federal court records show the NYPD detective involved in the Adhami investigation messaged with Alzaq and Abdel Adhami last November. The undercover officer pretended to be the owner of a cash-only store and showed interest in sending money for Alzaq and Adhami’s cause. Adhami wanted the undercover agent to send money via the app Zelle. “The money is going to be

cash because my store operates in cash,” the detective replied, according to court records. “My brother has Barclays Bank, and he told me they do not have Zelle. He tried to look into the Zelle thing.” “This means there are only two solutions,” Abdel Adhami responded, according to the records. “Either cash, and to be honest, I cannot go to New York to pick the money up, and it must be difﬁcult for you to come to Louisiana to give the money to me, and I wouldn’t want that for you.”

school last year earned a 3 or above on an AP exam, compared with 25% of graduates nationally. Louisiana students also have less access to AP courses than their peers in other states. In 2025, Louisiana ranked dead last among states in terms of the share of students whose public high schools offer five or more AP courses, according to the data. About 40% of Louisiana students attended such schools, compared with 80% of high schoolers nationally. Louisiana also lags in AP exam-taking, according to the data. Just 25% of Louisiana students who graduated in 2025 took at least one AP exam during high school, compared with 37% nationally. When it comes to course access, Louisiana also has bigger racial disparities than the nation as a whole. In 2025, 35% of Black Louisiana students attended high schools with five or more AP courses, 11 percentage points lower than the share of White students. Nationally, 75% of Black students attended such schools, just 1 percentage point lower than their White

peers. Advanced Placement courses are available in a range of subjects, including math, science, English, social studies, world languages and the arts. Students who take AP classes are more likely to enroll in four-year colleges, even if they don’t earn high scores on the exams, according to research highlighted by the College Board. In Louisiana, the most AP exams taken by the most students this year were geography, English and U.S. government, according to the data. Among popular exams, biology had the lowest rate of students scoring 3 or higher (56%), while precalculus had the highest rate (90%).

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NASHVILLE,Tenn. — Christa Pike was in critical condition Thursday and receiving “lifesaving care” at a hospital, her lawyers said, a day after a failed attempt to execute her pushed Tennessee’s governor to halt further executions this year and order an independent review. Pike, who was sentenced to death for a 1995 murder, was taken to a hospital Wednesday night after surviving a double dose of the drug Tennessee uses to execute Pike prisoners. “We don’t have a sense of her prognosis or much update on her health at the moment,” attorney Randy Spivey said during a news conference. “But we know she is alive right now.” The failed execution, which one death penalty expert described as unprecedented, led Republican Gov. Bill Lee to order a review, calling what happened “deeply disturbing” and indeﬁnitely postponing Pike’s execution and another one that had

been scheduled for this year. It also reignited the debate over the state’s execution procedures, including its single-drug lethal injections. Spivey called the process cruel and torturous, saying he was “haunted” by watching and hearing Pike talking, singing and then snoring loudly during her more than 90 minutes in the death chamber. Her attorneys also said it was unclear if she might have suffered brain damage from being deprived of oxygen. May Martinez, whose daughter was murdered by Pike and her boyfriend and who traveled to Nashville to watch the execution, was also upset. “I didn’t get justice for my daughter,” Martinez told The Associated Press on Thursday. “I watched the whole thing. She was awake. She was laughing. She was moving her head, moving her feet. She was trying to sit up,” Martinez said. “Didn’t work the ﬁrst time they gave her a shot. It didn’t work the second time.”

drugs, said Spivey, who counted at least seven needles in her left arm. During the struggle to locate a vein, Pike even suggested where they might find one, he said. “Please try here, please try here,” Spivey recalled her saying. “She told them over and over, please try higher on my shoulder.” At one point Pike asked prison officials if her arm was supposed to feel that way, though it’s unclear if it was after the first dose entered her body because officials don’t share that information. Neither the initial nor the backup dose of pentobarbital worked. Pike was still snoring when the execution chamber’s microphone was cut off more than an hour into the attempt. Another Pike attorney, Steve Ferrell, said she feared there would be complications because of a lifelong blood disorder that made it tough to get needles into her veins. “Throughout her life, she’s explained to us that she had trouble having blood drawn,” he said. It was quite possible, Ferrell Attempt ends in failure said, that the IV line didn’t enter It was not immediately clear what her vein properly and the drug was went wrong. Pike’s attorneys said filling her arm instead of entering there were a number of possibilities. her bloodstream. Lee said it appeared prison staff The execution team worked for an hour to administer the lethal followed procedure.

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24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 873-761 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VERSUS TIFFANY D. SYLVESTER ODOMS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated March 17, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, Township 14 South, Range 23 and 24 East, Southeastern Land District of Louisiana, West of the Missis‐ sippi River, and designated as PARCEL P-2A-1, all as per plan thereof made by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C. E., May 15, 1973, re‐ vised September 16, 1975, revised April 11, 1974, revised May 11, 1975, and De‐ cember 29, 1975, and ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ord. No. 12331, recorded in COB 858, folio 638, and which said portion of ground was subdivided into WOODMERE SUBDIVISION,

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Attorneys seek commutation Pike’s lawyers now want her death sentence to be commuted. Now age 50, she was sentenced to death for a murder she committed at 18. She would have been the first woman executed in Tennessee in more than 200 years. An appeals court had stopped her execution an hour before it was scheduled to begin Wednesday morning, but the U.S. Supreme Court overturned that stay hours later. It was the second time this year that the state was unable to complete an execution. In the other case, officials couldn’t find a suitable vein for an IV line so the drugs weren’t administered Public Notices Sheriff Sales

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In 2024, Tennessee switched from a three-drug series for lethal injections to a single drug, pentobarbital. That came about two years after the state abruptly halted the execution of Oscar Smith and acknowledged it had failed to ensure its lethal injection drugs had been tested properly. Robin M. Maher, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center, said what Pike experienced is “singular and unparalleled” in that she survived long enough to be moved to a hospital. Seven others have survived medical problems due to an execution team’s failure to access a vein to administer lethal injection drugs, but no one has stayed alive after receiving the drugs used in executions, she said. Public Notices Sheriff Sales

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Pentobarbital, the barbiturate Tennessee uses for executions, has been used to carry out death sentences in multiple states and by the federal government. But concerns have been raised about the potential for “unnecessary pain and suffering.” Dr. Ervin Yen, an Oklahoma City PHOTO PROVIDED BY MAY MARTINEZ anesthesiologist who has no link to Pike’s execution but has witnessed Colleen Slemmer was murdered said it’s possible that if the in 1995 in Tennessee. Christa Pike others, prison staff was using a small vein, was sentenced to death for the there could have been some burning, murder, but her execution failed on as mentioned by Pike’s attorneys.

SECTION 4, all as per plan of resubdivision thereof made by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C. E., dated December 16, 1975, approved by the Jefferson Parish Council under Ordinance No. 12331, recorded COB 858, folio 638, said piece being designated as follows: LOT 1259, SQUARE "GG" bounded by North Deerwood Drive, Alex Korman Boulevard (side), South Deerwood Drive (side) and Deerwood Court, and said lot commences at a distance of 310.00' feet from the corner of Deer‐ wood Court and North Deerwood Drive, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 100.00' feel between equal and paral‐ lel lines; all as noted on print of survey of J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated May 23, 1977, resur‐ veyed July 2, 1977 to show improve‐ ments. Munici‐ pal No. 3841 N. Deerwood Drive, Harvey, LA 70058. (“Property”). This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ELIZABETH C. PRICE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA

STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VS LATOIA M. BAZILE MARCHAND WIFE OF/AND CLYDE JOSEPH MARCHAND III By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 17, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: CERTAIN PIECE OR PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and al the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ad‐ vantages and appurte‐ nances there‐ unto belonging or in anywise appertaining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in Township 14 South, Ranges 23 and 24 East, South Land District of Louisiana, West of the Missis‐ sippi River, known as the Harvey Canal Property, Jeffer‐ son Parish, Louisiana, for‐ merly desig‐ nated as Parcel Q-2-B, which said portion of ground has been resubdi‐ vided into Woodmere South Subdivision, Section 3, all as per plan of re‐ subdivision made by J. J. Krebs and Son, Inc., C. E. & S., dated October 10, 1983, ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council by Ordinance No. 15784, recorded in COB 1064, folio 925, and as per Act of Dedication be‐ fore Odom B. Heebe, Notary Public, dated February 2, 1984, recorded in COB 1067,

folio 270, same being desig‐ nated as fol‐ lows: Lot 722, Square Q, which said square is bounded by Clover Lane, De‐ strehan Avenue, Cimwood Drive and Keith Way Drive and said Lot 722 commences a distance of 725 feet from the intersection of Keith Way Drive and Clover Lane, and mea‐ sures thence 60 feet front on Clover Lane, same width across the rear by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines; all as per survey made by J. J. Krebs and Son, Inc., C. E. & S., dated August 23, 1985, resur‐ veyed October 16, 1985, to show improve‐ ments. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-154 WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A. VERSUS BRANDON K. HURST A/K/A BRANDON HURST By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐

bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 2, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: That certain piece or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, ap‐ purtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise appertaining, in that part thereof known as Moisant Place in Square No. 6, Lot No. 10, bounded by Clay Street, Fourteenth Street, Moisant Drive and Twelfth Street, which accord‐ ing to a survey by J. J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated February 26, 1960, recertified & resurveyed on November 16, 1968, said Lot No. 10 com‐ mences at a distance of 152.31 feet from the corner of Clay Street and Fourteenth Street and measures thence 50.77 feet front on Clay Street, same width in the rear, by a depth of 112 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel, all in accordance with a dated March 7, 1974, a copy of which is annexed to an act before Joseph F. Di‐ Maria, N. P., dated March 12, 1974. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. COREY J. GIROIR Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of

Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-363 LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC VS KILEY CLAIRE COLOMES A/K/A KILEY CLARK COLOMES A/K/A KILEY CLAIRE MARKEY DIVORCED WIFE OF/AND JOSEPH ANTHONY MARKEY III By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 30, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: TWO CERTAIN LOTS OF GROUND, TO‐ GETHER WITH ALL THE BUILD‐ INGS AND IMPROVEMENTS THEREON AND ALL OF THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVILEGES, SERVITUDES, APPURTE‐ NANCES AND ADVANTAGES THEREUNTO BE‐ LONGING OR IN ANYWISE APPERTAINING, SITUATED IN THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN SQUARE NO. 43, CANAL STREET SUBDIVISION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SURVEY OF ERROL E. KELLY, SUR‐ VEYOR, DATED JULY 16, 1964, A COPY OF WHICH IS ANNEXED TO ACT BEFORE JOHN H. HAM‐ MEL, JR., NO‐ TARY PUBLIC, DATED JULY 23,

1964, SAID LOTS ARE DESIGNATED AS LOTS NOS. 5 AND 6 AND ARE MORE FULLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS, TO WIT: LOT NOS. 5 AND 6 IN SQUARE NO. 43, CANAL STREET SUBDI‐ VISION ARE BOUNDED BY OAKLAWN DRIVE (FOR‐ MERLY WHIT‐ NEY BOULE‐ VARD), EAST WILLIAM DAVID PARKWAY (FOR‐ MERLY PARK STREET), URSU‐ LINE STREET AND HARRISON AVENUE. SAID LOTS NOS. 5 AND 6 ADJOIN EACH OTHER AND EACH LOT MEA‐ SURES 25.0' FEET FRONT ON OAK‐ LAWN DRIVE, THE SAME WIDTH IN THE REAR BY A DEPTH OF 110' FEET BETWEEN EQUAL PARAL‐ LEL LINES. ALL OF WHICH IS IN AC‐ CORDANCE WITH A SURVEY OF J.L. FONTCUBERTA, SURVEYOR, DATED AUGUST 30, 1976, A COPY OF WHICH IS ANNEXED TO AN ACT OF SALE BE‐ FORE ROY L. PRICE, NOTARY PUBLIC DATED SEPTEM‐ BER 7, 1976 AND DULY RECORDED IN COB 872, FOLIO 871 FOR THE PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1976 AND ALSO IN ACCORDANCE WITH A SURVEY OF S.K. LANDRY, LAND SURVEYOR, DATED DECEM‐ BER 3, 1976 AS ANNEXED TO THE ACT DATED JANUARY 13, 1977 AND RECORED AS COB 882, FOLIO 898, JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA. BEING MORE RE‐ CENTLY SHOWN ON SURVEY BY DADING, MAR‐ QUES & ASSOCI‐ ATES, INC., DATED APRIL 27, 1995, A COPY OF WHICH IS AN‐ NEXED TO THE ACT DATED APRIL 28, 1995 AND RECORDED AS COB 2916, PAGE 766, JEFFERSON PARISH, LOUISIANA. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the

time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 877-111 PENNYMAC LOAN SERVICES, LLC VERSUS REAGHAN LEE FABACHER By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 29, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon and all rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, Louisiana, in that part known as BELLEVUE GAR‐ DENS SUBDIVISION now, formerly Cypress Gar‐ dens, Section 1, designated as f

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g LOT 15 of SQUARE 6 on survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associ‐ ates, C.E., dated June 26, 1963, revised and cor‐ rected May 7, 1964, under Or‐ dinance No. 1250 of the City of Gretna, and according to which said square is bounded by Claire Avenue, Cypress Park Drive, Oak Lane, Creagan Av‐ enue, Bellevue Subdivision Ex‐ tension No. I, tract line and the Verret Canal right of way, measures 55 feet front on Creagan Av‐ enue, same in width in the rear, by a depth of 100 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. All as mare fully shown on sur‐ vey by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associ‐ ates, CE., dated December 31, 1964, and said lot commences at a distance of 62.04 feet from the point of curve of Creagan Avenue into Oak Lane (“Property”). This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. ZACHARY GAR‐ RETT YOUNG Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t

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Russian leader’s statement comes after warning to NATO

and accountability from univerN.Y. governor says sity leaders at a forum sponsored state’s attorney general by Cornell’s student government. New information about the alwill oversee case leged 2024 assault, the universi-

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking at the session of the Valdai Discussion Club in Moscow on Thursday. warning to NATO. “If it comes to a direct attack on the Russian Federation — in this case we mean Kaliningrad, or maybe some other territories — of course, inevitably and immediately the question of Russian Federation using all weapons at the disposal of our country will appear on the agenda,” he said. Putin didn’t specify whether Moscow would use nuclear weapons but said it has arms that “no one else has” and would determine which to use in case of an attack.

NATO pushed back NATO spokesperson Allison Hart confirmed Wednesday that Russia had sent a written message to the U.S.-led military alliance. “We strongly denounce the threat of force, including any irresponsible nuclear rhetoric,” she said in a statement. Hart insisted NATO is not targeting Kaliningrad and had sent a reply noting that “NATO is a defensive alliance and none of our activities or exercises pose a risk to any part of Russia.” NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Wednesday the bloc’s response to the message was “short and concise.” “Basically what we said is, ‘Hey, listen, we are defensive alliance, and stop the nuclear threat.

This is absolutely not called for and not helpful,’ ” Rutte told Euronews. NATO’s response also urged Russia to stop its “unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine,” now in its fifth year. The Baltic exclave of Kaliningrad sits between NATO members Poland and Lithuania. It is home to Russia’s main Baltic navy base and other military assets, and nuclearcapable Iskander missiles are deployed there. Western military officers have said that key military installations in Kaliningrad would be a likely first target should Russia ever attack any NATO ally. NATO allies have conducted military exercises in the Baltic Sea region in recent months. More are planned in October. It launched Operation Baltic Sentry there last year to protect communication cables and pipelines. On Aug. 18, NATO held an exercise over northern Poland and the Baltic region involving several aircraft, including an EA-37B Compass Call — a sophisticated American plane that can jam communications and radar, the U.S. Air Forces in Europe said. Defense analysts believe the unannounced, large-scale exercise would not have been welcomed by the Kremlin.

ITHACA, N.Y. — New York’s governor appointed a special prosecutor Thursday to oversee an investigation into a woman’s allegations that she was gang raped at a Cornell University fraternity house, saying she had lost faith in the local district attorney’s ability to handle the case. Gov. Kathy Hochul said she had signed an executive order appointing the ofﬁce of New York Attorney General Letitia James as the special prosecutor. “Newly released information continues to raise serious questions about the investigation conducted by the Cornell Police Department and the decision by the Tompkins County District Attorney not to prosecute an alleged sexual assault on Cornell University’s campus in October 2024,” Hochul said. “This has, in turn, undercut my faith, and the public’s faith, in the District Attorney’s ability to effectively investigate and prosecute the case at this time. Hochul said the attorney general would oversee the investigation and, if warranted, present evidence to a grand jury. “The young woman at the center of this case deserves to know that every fact will be examined and justice pursued,” Hochul said. “This action will ensure that the matter is fully and thoroughly investigated without conﬂict or bias, and handled independently with the rigor that this matter demands.” A message left for Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten was not immediately returned late Thursday. Hochul’s announcement came shortly after dozens of students and community members spent hours demanding transparency

ty’s response and the lack of criminal charges at the time has been disclosed over the last week since a lawsuit was filed last month. The case has roiled the Ivy League campus and raised questions about its response and the larger issue of how sexual assaults are handled on college campuses. The woman, identified only as Jane Doe in court documents, reported the alleged assault to campus police, discussed it with the university’s internal investigators and is pursuing a lawsuit filed in September. The lawsuit names seven fraternity brothers, the university, the Chi Phi fraternity and others, and alleges that one of the men sent a social media message to more than 50 other fraternity members alerting them to what was happening, and inviting people to take part. Lawyers for two of the men she is suing have denied they participated in a sexual assault. One said his client hadn’t touched the woman. Attempts by The Associated Press to reach the other men or their representatives have been unsuccessful. Van Houten, the Tompkins County district attorney, had announced he’d reopen the investigation earlier this week after reviewing new information in the woman’s civil lawsuit. He had issued a statement defending his initial decision not to issue charges and maintaining the woman’s first account to police didn’t include allegations that she was drugged against her will, incapacitated beyond the ability to consent, or forced into sex. Under pressure from the public and politicians, including Hochul, the private university agreed Wednesday to bring in outside lawyers to independently investigate how it handled the woman’s allegations.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been ordered not to engage in high-speed car chases and to make vehicle stops only if they have completed specific training, under new internal guidance issued after several drivers were shot in encounters with ICE. A memo sent to officers in ICE’s Enforcement and Removal Operations division and obtained by The Associated Press warned they are not authorized to chase vehicles that fail to pull over under any circumstances. Instead, officers should take down the vehicles’ information for further investigation, according to the memo signed by ICE’s executive associate director Marcos D. Charles and dated Wednesday. The new guidance comes after ICE-initiated vehicle

to flee. ICE agents have fired their guns during more than a dozen such encounters since last year, killing at least four people and wounding several others. President Donald Trump’s administration has faced internal tension over how to handle traffic stops, which are seen as particularly high-risk encounters. In a statement, ICE downplayed the significance of the memo, which said the new guidance was intended to replace and amend prior directives issued earlier this year, last year and in 2018. “Occasionally, ICE leadership issues guidance reminders to law enforcement officers,” the statement said. “Vehicle stops and arrests of illegal aliens continue.” The new memo outlines steps intended to improve the safety of vehicle stops for ICE officers, drivers they are targeting, their passengers and the public.

for traffic stops have lights and sirens that let the public know they are law enforcement vehicles when activated. All officers on the scenes of vehicle stops must wear and activate their body cameras, under the guidance. In addition, only officers who have completed one of five specific agency training courses can conduct vehicle stops. Officers who have not completed the training courses can only participate in vehicle stops “in a support capacity” as passengers and cannot be the drivers of any of the vehicles involved. The guidance says ICE officers can continue to use a controversial technique known as pinning, which is defined as “using a vehicle or physical barrier to trap or stop a car,” but only if they have received special training. Similarly, only trained officers can use spike strips that deflate tires to prevent drivers from fleeing.

Renee Good’s family sues government, immigration officials over her killing BY TIM SULLIVAN, KATHY MCCORMACK and MARK VANCLEAVE Associated Press

MINNEAPOLIS — Renee Good’s family sued the U.S. government and the architects of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown Thursday, saying “the time is absolutely now for accountability” for her killing in January by a federal agent in Minneapolis. Good’s partner, Becca Good, and her brother Brent Ganger on behalf of her larger family, accused the government and Jonathan Ross, the Immigration and

Customs Enforcement ofﬁcer who shot into her SUV and killed her, of unjustiﬁed and excessive use of force. The Jan. 7 shooting, captured on bystander video, was “the predictable and intended product” of the Trump administration’s crackdown on Somali and other immigrants in Minnesota dubbed Operation Metro Surge, according to one of the two lawsuits. “She was the love of my life,” Becca Good said at a news conference announcing the lawsuits. “I’m here today because last January, the whole world had to watch as our entire universe

was destroyed — as the sunshine who was my amazing Renee was robbed from us, from her children, and from her community.” The killings of Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, and another U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti, in Minneapolis just weeks later sparked outrage across the country and calls to rein in immigration enforcement. “What happened to Renee was completely senseless,” Ganger said. “And the fact that there’s been no accountability, no investigation, no expression of condolence, no change in policy is completely mind blowing.”

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President Vladimir Putin on Thursday reiterated Moscow’s long-held position that Russia is not planning to attack European countries but will respond to aggression with “all weapons” in its arsenal. In remarks at a foreign policy forum, Putin accused the West and Europe of escalating tensions by talking about preparing for a war with Moscow in the coming years, conducting military drills in the Baltic Sea, and seizing Russian vessels. His remarks followed Moscow’s warning to NATO that it would not hesitate to use nuclear weapons to defend Kaliningrad should any members of the military alliance try to cut off the Baltic exclave from the rest of Russia. Several Russian embassies in Europe this week issued statements that said Moscow has “information that NATO is preparing (an) air and naval blockade of Kaliningrad and (the) Kaliningrad region.” They accused European leaders of “playing a dangerous game” by saying Russia might attack another country or ramp up a campaign of destabilizing attacks with drones and sabotage. Moscow has called the allegations absurd. “There should be no mistake — Russia would be ready to use all its arsenal, including nuclear weapons, to defend its territory if NATO countries try to isolate (the) Kaliningrad region from the rest of the country,” the Russian Embassy in Ireland said in its statement on Tuesday. Asked at the Valdai Club forum Thursday whether Russia was on the cusp of a war with NATO or whether both were trying to intimidate each other, Putin said: “It’s not intimidation, it’s a response to an attempt to intimidate us.” Putin said that “everything is written correctly” in the earlier

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New Orleans developers will no longer face a steep fee if they fail to build affordable apartments downtown, a partial rollback of the city’s housing plans that ofﬁcials say reﬂects a weak market. The City Council unanimously voted Thursday to reduce fees failing to comply with a 2019 affordable housing mandate, from $305,000 to $10,000 per unit. Fees the city collects will be dedicated to the city’s Housing Trust Fund, which is also aimed at building af-

fordable projects. The change is in line with the City Planning Commission’s recommendations. In November, the commission, which analyzes policies related to public land use and development, backed a consultant’s ﬁndings that the city’s sluggish housing market has made the affordable housing mandate too costly for developers. Since the mandate was passed ﬁve years ago, it has produced no affordable units. The council vote “makes sure our laws are aligned with the current realities in our city,” said Dis-

At the time, city officials said the requirement would help prevent longtime residents from being priced out of neighborhoods that are closest to jobs and other resources. But the rising costs of development nationally and challenges in New Orleans’ real estate market in the years since have made it difficult for developers to fund deals, said Phillip Kash of HR&A Advisors, which studied the issue for the planning commission. “Declining population, flat rents,

area and authored the ordinance. “We are preserving the structure of the (mandatory inclusionary zoning) program so that higher feesin-lieu and more robust requirements can be reinstated when the city real estate market is stronger and more able to bear them,” Harris said. Harris The city’s “mandatory inclusionary zoning” law requires developers in the Central Business District and French Quarter to offer at least 10% of units at affordable rates, with nearby neighborhoods facing a 5% require-

rents and offset (the costs),” Kash said at a City Council meeting last year. Andreanecia Morris, director of Housing NOLA, a housing nonproﬁt, criticized the change in a statement Thursday. “This ordinance gives high-end developers a cheap way to bypass affordable housing requirements while remaining eligible for scarce public subsidies and incentives,” Morris said. She noted that the council has not acted on other commission recommendations. Those include

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A woman shields herself from the blazing midday sun while walking past Hasse’s Shoe Store and Young Folks Shop on Oak Street in New Orleans. For now, the umbrella offers shade from the midday heat but in the rainy, relatively cooler days coming this weekend, that same umbrella will have a very different job in keeping her dry.

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Some complain canopy is ‘butchered’ BY LARA NICHOLSON Staff writer

Entergy has paused tree trimming around power lines in Jefferson Parish while company ofﬁcials reevaluate their practices after complaints that they “butchered” parts of the leafy canopy. James Aitken, a customer service manager for Entergy Louisiana, said the utility company took responsibility for the excessive cuts. He told the Jefferson Parish Council at its Wednesday meeting that the company will work with local leaders and beautiﬁcation groups to write new tree-trimming policies. Those new policies could be to trim only within a 4-6 foot radius from a utility line instead of up to 10 feet, to require supervisors to oversee all trimmings and to create educational programs on best trees to plant and how to trim them. Aitken added that Entergy would consider improvements to its communication with Parish Council members and residents about

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A trimmed tree sits on Midway Drive in River Ridge with its branches cut several feet away from a utility pole on Wednesday.

when and where cuttings would take place. “Entergy is not against trees,” Aitken said. “We are against trees touching power lines.” Aitken said about 35% of outages across the state and in Jefferson Parish are caused by

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A former Regional Transit Authority executive who applied to be the agency’s next CEO was pulled from contention after he had already received word from the search firm that he was a semifinalist for the job. Derrick Breun, who served as the chief operating officer at the RTA from 2008 to 2013 and was a finalist in the agency’s search for a CEO in 2019, received an email in early August from search firm KL2 Connects informing him that he was one of five candidates they submitted to move on to the next selection round, according to a copy of the email. But when the search firm sent its short list to RTA officials a week later, Breun wasn’t included. The reshuffling of semifinalists by the consulting firm came after Mayor Helena Moreno raised concerns that

the search hadn’t included any New Orleanians among its five semifinalists. It was the first of two instances where Moreno pressed RTA officials to redo part of the search process. Following the intervention, two former RTA executives, Mark Major and Justin Augustine, were added as semifinalists. Moreno told WWL Louisiana earlier this month that she asked KL2 Connects to reconsider applicants from New Orleans after learning that the two former RTA executives didn’t make the initial top five. The two men made the finalized shortlist KL2 Connects sent to RTA officials on Aug. 13 and are currently among three finalists still in the running for the role. In a text message last week, Moreno said she provided the feedback after she “was told that there was no New Orleans candidate in the top five list initially.” “Too often, talented New Orleanians are overlooked for major leadership positions in their own city,” Moreno said in a statement Monday. “That is why I made clear throughout

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The alleged Dooky Chase shooter was ruled mentally unfit to stand trial and ordered to undergo treatment at a state-run mental health facility Thursday. Makahi Kelly showed psychotic symptoms when a court-appointed psychiatrist evaluated him Sept. 10. Sarah Deland, of Tulane University, also concluded in her sanity report that Kelly’s cognitive impairment would keep him from understanding the ongoing legal proceedings or help his lawyers defend him in court. Orleans Parish Criminal District Judge John Fuller adopted the doctor’s report Thursday and signed an order to commit Kelly to the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health hospital in Jackson. Specialists there will try to restore his competency so he can go to trial. If he does, Kelly faces a mandatory life sentence if he’s convicted of second-degree murder. Fuller’s ruling Thursday came after Kelly’s attorney, Graham Bosworth, and prosecutors from Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams’ office agreed to the Deland’s findings. Kelly, 19, is accused of firing bullets into Dooky Chase on Orleans Avenue the night of Jan. 16. The bullets killed 19-year-old Kareem Harris after he ran inside the iconic family-owned eatery to escape Kelly’s attack, according to New Orleans police. Three women visiting New Orleans from out of town were wounded when bullets sprayed from outside scuttled through Dooky Chase’s dining area. Harris died on the floor. The brazen shooting disrupted this year’s Carnival season and sent shock waves through the city. Dooky Chase was a haven for civil rights leaders and a stopping point for past U.S. presidents in the heart of the Treme neighborhood. News of the shooting elicited national headlines and drew an outpouring of support for the historic Creole dining spot. Police arrested Kelly, a New Orleans East teenager, days after the shooting. He was a indicted May 14 on charges of second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and three counts of aggravated battery with a firearm. Anthony Johnson Sr., 23, the alleged wheelman in the shooting, was also indicted on a charge of second-degree murder and obstruction of justice. Fuller scheduled Johnson to return to court Oct. 30 for pretrial motions. No future court dates were set in Kelly’s case. Email Matt Bruce at matt. bruce@theadvocate.com.

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Tammany School Board to hold special meeting Interim superintendent to be named

BY JIM DERRY Staff writer

One day after the sudden retirement of Superintendent Frank Jabbia, the St. Tammany Parish School Board announced it will hold a special meeting Monday night to vote to make Assistant Superintendent Steve Alfonso the interim

in 2012. “The staff in central ofﬁce replacement. Alfonso, 53, has been in the school has been supportive, and hopefully system for 18 years and has served we’ll have some clarity after Monas the head of administraday night’s meeting.” Alfonso spent a large tion and human resources chunk of his career as a since 2018 and took over as teacher and basketball an assistant superintendent coach at Archbishop Rumfour years ago. “Right now, I am trying mel High School from 2001 to keep the staff united and to 2008 after working at getting work done for the Archbishop Hannan in the kids — that’s what this is Alfonso late 1990s and then in the about,” said Alfonso, who St. Bernard Parish school has served in an administrative system for one year. He moved to role since being named an assis- the northshore and was a physical tant principal at Northshore High education teacher and coach at

Fontainebleau and Lakeshore until moving into administration. School Board President Amanda Reed Martin said Thursday she scheduled the meeting for Monday “to move things forward,” rather than wait for the regularly scheduled committee meeting Oct. 8. “I’ve been working with district leadership and legal counsel since (Wednesday) evening,” she said. “I have been very busy ensuring our school district does not suffer because of the unanticipated announcement. … We will make things better.”

Man convicted of child porn charges BY MICHELLE HUNTER Staff writer

Jefferson Parish jurors deliberated for about two hours Wednesday night before voting to convict a former Terrytown man accused of sexually abusing four girls and creating child pornography, according to court records. Joshua Sullivan, 46, was found guilty of four counts of sexual battery of a child under 13, one count of production of child sex abuse materials and three counts of possession of child sex abuse materials. The victims in the case are now adults who accused Sullivan of inappropriately touching them between 2010 and 2017, according to authorities. The women were between the ages of 7 and 13 when the abuse occurred, according to court records. The Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office opened the investigation in October 2012 when the relative of a

then-7-year-old girl took her to Ochsner Medical Center West Bank in unincorporated Gretna. The girl told medical staff and investigators that Sullivan, an acquaintance, had done “nasty things” to her during a visit to his East Niagara Circle residence in Terrytown, according to the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. The girl accused him of touching her genitals and taking photos of her while she was naked, according to court records. Detectives executed a search warrant at Sullivan’s home and seized 14 devices, including computers, cameras, cellphones and hard drives linked to his photography business. But then, the investigation came to a halt. The Sheriff’s Ofﬁce Digital Forensic Unit didn’t complete a search and extraction of the data on the devices until 2014 because of a backlog, according to court records. When the original case detective left the personal vio-

lence unit, the new detective who picked up the case never got around to reviewing the images from Sullivan’s devices, authorities said. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto in 2018 blamed the delay on the large amount of data recovered — 2.4 terabytes or the equivalence of about 850,000 photographs. A new investigator, Detective Nick Vega, was assigned to follow up on the case in 2018 after Sullivan requested the return of his equipment, according to court records. Once Vega realized the data had never been reviewed, he did so and discovered more than 5,000 images with “evidence of child sexual abuse,” according to court records. That number included “horrific” and “disturbing” photos involving children as young as infants, the Sheriff’s Office said. Detectives also determined that Sullivan took some of the explicit images and they identified at least two of the

victims in the pictures, according to the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. Vega obtained a warrant for Sullivan’s arrest, and he was taken into custody in May 2018 at his home in Talladega, Ala., where’d relocated, according to the Sheriff’s Ofﬁce. Later that year, Sullivan pleaded not guilty to sexual battery of a victim under 13, one count of production of child pornography involving a victim under 13 and two counts of possession of pornography involving children under 13, according to court records. Prosecutors added three more counts of sexual battery in 2024 after three additional victims came forward to report that they, too, had been inappropriately touched by Sullivan, according to authorities. Sullivan was convicted following a three-day trial before Judge June Berry Darensburg. He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 21.

Man accused of killing grandmother gets $1M bond BY MISSY WILKINSON

critical missing person after she disappeared from her apartment in the 5100 block of Bundy Road wearing a nightgown and without her medications, wheelchair, walker or wallet, according to an afﬁdavit supporting Justin Henry’s arrest. A multiple sclerosis patient, Denise Henry depended on caretakers from her church and family. Justin Henry had lived with his grandmother until July when she evicted him for stealing from her checking accounts, according to the afﬁdavit. On Aug. 20, Denise Henry told a caregiver that Justin Henry was coming by to do his laundry. That was the last time she was seen alive.

On Aug. 23, Justin Henry allegedly attacked two people who asked him about his grandmother’s whereabouts. He was booked into jail on three counts of simple battery and one count of criminal trespass and released the next day after posting $10,000 bail. A search for Denise Henry at hospitals and the Coroner’s Ofﬁce was fruitless. Detectives reviewed surveillance from the evening of Aug. 20 that showed a man walking from a dumpster to Denise Henry’s apartment where a “large black object (was) on the ground.” On Tuesday, Justin Henry allegedly confessed to stabbing his grandmother in the throat with a knife as she lay

on the sofa before “wrapping her in a blanket and placing her inside of a black plastic bin with a yellow lid, along with the knife,” the afﬁdavit states. The dumpster was collected the next morning, according to Justin Henry. Authorities were still searching for Denise Henry’s remains as of Wednesday, New Orleans police said. At Justin Henry’s bond setting on Wednesday, public defender Rebecca Goldstein described him as a Popeyes employee studying nursing at Delgado Community College. She said no physical evidence linked him to the crime and pointed out that he had complied with the investigation.

KL2 Connects did not respond to requests for comment. RTA Board Chair Ann Continued from page 1B Duplessis, who selected the search firm, declined to comthis process that qualified lo- ment. cal candidates, particularly those who understand RTA, Monthslong search our community and our ridThe RTA board kicked off ers, deserve serious consid- its search for a new chief executive after former CEO eration.” “That is not advocating for Lona Edwards Hankins reany particular person; it is signed in May. The board, apadvocating for New Orleans pointed by Moreno in April, talent,” Moreno added. hired KL2 Connects on a Breun lives in Kenner, $60,000 contract. which was part of the RTA’s The search firm delivered service area until Jefferson its finalized shortlist to the Parish removed itself from RTA on Aug. 13. It included the agency’s board in 2024. three out-of-state contenders He currently serves as re- and two local applicants: Augional vice president at the gustin and Major, who both transit management firm began working at the RTA Transdev, overseeing 15 tran- in 1983 and later held leadersit agencies, including in Jef- ship roles at the agency under Transdev management. ferson Parish. The RTA board narrowed In a statement, Breun confirmed that he received the the field down to three finalemails and said he was proud ists in late August. Augustin, of his track record at the the former general manager RTA. at the RTA and regional vice “I have committed the last president at Transdev, ad27 years of my life to transit vanced to the final round. throughout the New Orleans Major, a former deputy CEO market,” Breun said. “I wish at the RTA and finalist in the all the best to whoever is cho- 2023 search who also served sen for the CEO position, and on Moreno’s mayoral transihope that the best interests of tion, came in fourth, knocking the rider are at the forefront him out of the running. of any decision that is made.” Two weeks after the vote,

Moreno sent a letter to the RTA board asking them to revisit their decision and instead allow all five candidates to advance to the final round. The mayor pointed to a letter she had received from the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1560, which represents nearly 500 RTA employees, asking for her “direct involvement” in the selection and that the “full field of candidates” be reconsidered. Duplessis declined Moreno’s request and said the board would stick with its decision to narrow the field to three finalists. On Sept. 17, however, one of those finalists, Bernard Jackson, the chief operating officer at the New York City Transit Authority, withdrew his application. The RTA board then voted to include Major, along with Augustine and Reginald “Reggie” Mason, CEO of the Greensboro Transit Agency in North Car-

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A New Orleans magistrate commissioner on Wednesday set bond at $1 million for a 21-year-old man accused of stabbing his grandmother to death, then throwing her body in a dumpster. Justin Glyndell Henry Jr., 21, appeared in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court for the bond hearing more than a month after his grandmother, Denise Henry, 67, was reported missing. He allegedly confessed to the killing Tuesday and was booked into the Orleans Justice Center on a count of seconddegree murder. New Orleans police identified Denise Henry as a

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units, like reductions in required parking. Continued from page 1B The council on Thursday approved a motion directing the Planning Commisadding additional incen- sion to conduct a public tives for developers who hearing to consider those choose to build affordable other incentives.

Public forum, selection The three finalists are scheduled to appear at a community forum on Oct. 26 hosted by the transit-advocacy group RIDE New Orleans. Ahead of the event, RIDE plans to convene a group of stakeholders to publish a scorecard on the ﬁnalists. At its Oct. 27 meeting, the

Alfonso said Thursday he is ready to take over immediately if the board votes him in. “Absolutely, I am ready to do whatever is asked,” he said. “The biggest thing right now under the climate we are in is to band together and put up a united front and move forward.” Alfonso graduated from Loyola University New Orleans in 1996 and played basketball there for three years. Email Jim Derry at jderry@ theadvocate.com.

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that rule would not be enforceable because unlike in New Orleans, Entergy in Jefferson Parish is regulated by the state Public Service Commission, not the local government. Instead, the parish will work with Entergy to add new tree trimming regulations to the company’s franchise agreement, a legal document that allows Entergy to operate in Jefferson Parish. The agreement is up for renewal soon. Jefferson Parish Council member Arita Bohannan expressed skepticism that the over-trimming issue would be solved quickly. “I feel like many times it’s one of these, (you) pat us on ahead and scoot us all along, and move us down the road,” Bohannan said. “That’s why every year we have our trees butchered.” Aitken replied that he was “taken aback” by her comments because the parish had not discussed the tree trimming ordinance with Entergy before proposing it on a council agenda. He also said the company was waiting on the parish to update its ordinances surrounding utility agreements before they can negotiate a new franchise agreement. “I’m here now, and I’m addressing, and I’m not patting you on the head and patting you on the butt and telling you to move forward and everything’s going to be great,” Aitken said. “I’m here now telling you that I physically can’t put anything in writing until you pass a utility ordinance … so that way we can continue to provide quality power to this parish, because right now it’s a handshake agreement.”

vegetation overgrowth, and that tree trimming is crucial to ensuring safety and preventing outages. He said the utility company can only trim in an area every three to five years and that crews leave an automated call messagae and a door hanger at least five days before trimming on residents’ property. Residents complained for months that Entergy crews had cut large “V” shapes out of neighborhood trees, taking shade away and leaving them looking “gutted,” Jefferson Parish Council member Arita Bohannan said. Jefferson Parish Council member Deano Bonano said he received a deluge of calls from constituents two weeks ago after they discovered crews carving through several blocks of trees on Midway Drive in River Ridge. “People move to River Ridge and other places like Old Metairie for the beautiful tree canopy,” Bonano said. “But they get very upset when we destroy that canopy, and they can no longer enjoy them for the scenery they provide.” Jefferson Parish’s tree canopy covers only about 17% of its land area, concentrated in historic neighborhoods and tree preservation districts. Officials released an Urban Forest Master Plan earlier this year with the goal of increasing the tree canopy to 40% by 2041 to combat rising temperatures and increasing floods. Some Parish Council members had proposed an ordinance this summer to restrict tree trimming to 4 feet from power lines, Email Lara Nicholson at which would match the lnicholson@theadvocate. rules in New Orleans. But com.

RTA board plans to interview each of the three candidates again in executive session before holding a public vote to pick the agency’s next CEO. “At this point, we have three outstanding candidates with decades of combined experience in public transit and executive leadership,” Moreno said in her statement Monday.

“Ultimately, the Board will make the decision,” Moreno added. “I will respect that decision and look forward to working with whoever is selected.”

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U.S. unemployment claims dip to 197,000

WASHINGTON — The number of people applying for U.S. unemployment beneﬁts dipped last week to the lowest level since mid-July as layoffs remain low and most American workers enjoy job security. The Labor Department said Thursday that initial jobless claims ticked down to 197,000 from a revised 198,000 the week before. The four-week average of claims, which smooths out week-to-week volatility, dropped by 2,500 to 200,000. Claims for jobless benefits are a proxy for layoffs, and economists watch them because they can be a sign of where the job market is headed. So far this year, claims have mostly stayed below 220,000 — historically low. The American job market has remained sturdy despite higher energy prices that have squeezed businesses and consumers since the ﬁghting with Iran began Feb. 28. The U.S. on Tuesday reported that U.S. employers posted fewer job openings in August. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey also showed that layoffs fell and the number of people quitting their jobs — a sign of confidence in their prospects — retreated slightly in August. The report’s measure of gross hiring — before subtracting people who quit or lost their jobs — ticked up modestly in August but remains at low levels.

Tokyo court grants legal protection to voices TOKYO — A Tokyo court has awarded legal protection to the human voice in a landmark case in which a popular Japanese anime voice actor demanded that TikTok close an account over its unauthorized use of an artiﬁcial intelligence clone of his trademark baritone. The Tokyo District Court’s decision Wednesday was the first acknowledgment of the right to one’s voice in Japan. The ruling was good news for many anime voice actors at a time when they are increasingly concerned about the use of AI-generated versions of their voices on social media. The plaintiff, Kenjiro Tsuda, is an actor best known for his “lustrous and deep” voice in starring characters such as Kento Nanami in “Jujutsu Kaisen,” a popular anime series. In his lawsuit, Tsuda said that the anonymous operator of the TikTok account “Nanami” wrongfully proﬁted by attracting viewers with his voice narrating in more than 180 videos about urban legends and paranormal phenomena, and asked for the material to be deleted. “The human voice is symbolic of individual personality, just like one’s portrait,” Presiding Judge Aya Takahashi said, according to a court document seen by The Associated Press.

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TikTok report touts boost to firms BY CERYS DAVIES

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When Brandon Hurst ﬁrst decided to sell his plants on TikTok Live in 2023, the 32-year-old Los Angeles resident didn’t know what to expect. He said he thought he could sell at least 30 plants, but instead sold 250. Now, three years later, the internet creator, who goes by Brandon the Plant Guy, sells up to 5,000 plants a week, works out of a 3,000-square-foot greenhouse in the Sylmar neighborhood and has a staff of 13. He credits much of this success to the exposure he’s received on TikTok. “I’d be out of business if it wasn’t for TikTok,” said Hurst. “I would have ended the business and gone back to working the desk job that I

was working prior. I was already on that path, that was where we were headed. And then TikTok really did turn that around.” Hurst is one of the 920,000 California-based businesses using the social media platform to reach new customers and grow their brands, according to new data from consulting ﬁrm PF Global. In 2025, TikTok helped generate $12 billion in advertising and merchandise sales for those businesses and supported 52,000 jobs in the state, said the PF Global report, which was commissioned by TikTok. Nationwide, economic activity on TikTok last year helped contribute $81 billion to some 8.5 million U.S. businesses, the report said. The surge in activity reﬂects a

growing trend toward online commerce, as more small businesses and consumers turn to social media platforms like TikTok to buy and sell goods. “We enable American culture, American creators, American businesses, to reach an audience around the world,” said Nicole Nason, TikTok’s head of U.S. public policy, said during a presentation on Wednesday morning. The new report comes as TikTok is increasingly eager to tout its economic impact as a newly formed U.S. joint venture. In January, the company was taken over by three managing investors: Silver Lake, Oracle and Emirati investment ﬁrm MGX, each holding 15%, with ByteDance retaining 19.9% of investments. This transi-

tion came after TikTok’s Chinese parent company, ByteDance, was under pressure to divest its ownership in the app’s U.S. operations or face a nationwide ban, due to security concerns. Last month, TikTok also settled a $400 million lawsuit from the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company violated federal children’s privacy laws. TikTok, which operates its U.S. headquarters in Culver City, California, where it employs several hundred workers, is mostly known for its viral, short-form vertical videos. But, over the years, the platform has become a hub of curated viral content and a central part of many businesses’ marketing strategies.

Poll: Most blame Trump for high prices President’s economic approval among Americans hits new low

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A customer checks gas prices on Sept. 22 while he fills up his vehicle’s tank at a gas station in Racine, Wis. A new poll found 65% of U.S. adults blame Trump’s policies for persistently high costs more than factors outside of his control.

WASHINGTON — Americans are deeply frustrated with President Donald Trump’s handling of the economy and rising prices, with most panning his performance and blaming his policies as higher costs threaten his party’s chances in November. A new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research ﬁnds that only 17% of U.S. adults approve of the Republican president’s handling of the cost of living. Just 26% approve of his handling of the economy overall, marking a new low. A majority, 65%, of U.S. adults now blame Trump’s policies for persistently high costs more than factors outside of his control, signaling growing weariness over his aggressive use of tariffs and continued unhappiness with the war with Iran. The dismal numbers come just weeks before midterm elections that will determine whether Republicans maintain control of Congress and while Trump is hitting the campaign trail with an aggressive schedule of rallies. But Trump — who has asked voters to pretend that he is on the ballot as he tries to bolster turnout — remains deeply unpopular, with even many Republicans faulting him for failing to deliver on promised relief. “I was hoping it would be better or different, but it’s not really good,” said Robert Gault, 66, a retired factory worker from Bradford, Pennsylvania, who describes himself as a Republican. “Our president, I thought, was going to help the country, and so far he has not really seemed to have done that with the economy or in general. He’s not really done what I was hoping he would,” said Gault. “He said, ‘Make America Great Again.’ And I have not seen him do that.” Costs drag on Trump as the economic pain

keeps coming Over the last few months, Americans have grown more worried about being able to afford basics like groceries and gas. About half of U.S. adults now say they are “extremely” or “very” concerned about being able to fill their tanks, up from 39% in July. About half are also highly concerned about being able to afford food. Prices are “extremely exorbitant. Just the cost of everything is going up as a result of fuel,” said Pedro Sanchez, 52, of Perris, California, who voted for Trump and works in law enforcement. “I used to have a lot more disposable income. I don’t have that any more. It’s gotten eaten up because of all these increases in the cost of everything.” Trump’s current approval on the economy is a 14 percentage point drop from March 2025, just after he took office for the second time. His struggles on the issue mark a significant departure from his first term, when the economy was often a point of strength. Trump spent much of the 2024 campaign hammering President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, Democrats, on inflation and promising to lower prices. Now, there’s widespread disappointment with his performance. About 7 in 10 Americans say Trump’s handling of the cost of living has been “worse than expected.” That includes roughly half of Republicans, who are also broadly concerned about being able to afford groceries and gas. “Groceries are just like kind of out of control. It seems like everything is going up,” said Bethany Lnenicka, 41, who operates a small farm in Fairfax, Iowa. “It’s just one thing and the next week it’s another thing. It’s just insane. And of course your income doesn’t go up.” A political independent who typically votes Republican and has voted for Trump three times, Lnenicka said she had hoped his second

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term would be more like his ﬁrst. “I just do not feel like it has gotten a lot better,” she said. About 6 in 10 Republicans disapprove of Trump’s handling of the cost of living, according to the new poll, up from about half in April. “It definitely doesn’t feel like we have trended in the right direction,” agreed Kristen Slaven, 41, a mental health therapist who lives in Gluckstadt, Mississippi, and typically votes Republican. She said Trump is focused on the wrong things. “Obviously wars don’t help. When they’re necessary, I understand. But our focus on renaming bodies of water and pieces of land, that’s just stupid to me when people can’t feed their family,” she said. “I had hoped that it would be better,” Slaven added. Some Republicans are still willing to cut Trump some slack Despite their frustration, most Republicans, 67%, say factors outside of Trump’s control are more to blame for high prices. Overall, however, most Americans, 69%, continue to say the war has not been worth ﬁghting, up slightly from 64% in July. Only 28% approve of how Trump is handling Iran. Americans are also unhappy with Trump’s trade wars. Only about 3 in 10 U.S. adults approve of how he is handling trade negotiations with other countries, down from about 4 in 10 in March. And 64% say he has “gone too far” on imposing new tariffs on other countries, up from 58% in January. Overall, the picture is not better. Only about 3 in 10 Americans approve of how Trump is handling his job as president. And about 6 in 10 say the country as a whole is “much” or “somewhat” worse off than when he began his second term.

Fortnite pro gives out computers to young gamers 21-year-old plans for more through fund

BY JAMES POLLARD Associated Press

NEW YORK — After dropping out in eighth grade to pursue esports, Cody Conrod wants to help others enter the increasingly expensive world of professional gaming. The 21-year-old competitive Fortnite player, better known as Clix to his more than 8 million Twitch followers, already provides hundreds of thousands of dollars’ worth of gaming equipment through an annual holiday giveaway. Through his new holding company, launched Thursday, he is formalizing those efforts into the Dr3amin Access Fund. Fortnite, one of the world’s most popular video games, features last-

one-standing showdowns where players hunt down each other’s customizable avatars across an ever-shrinking map. Content creators have found loyal audiences by live streaming their exploits on platforms such as Twitch, the livestreaming platform owned by Amazon, and clipping the most eyecatching segments into viral shortform videos. But the equipment needed to compete at higher levels is pricey — and getting pricier. The massive data center buildout has pushed up the costs of computers, graphics processors and memory chips. Conrod recommends a setup that can handle at least 120 frames per second for a GPU-intensive game such as Fortnite. And even sub-$500, entry-level PCs are becoming scarcer, according to Joost van Dreunen, a longtime games industry researcher and adjunct assistant professor

at New York University’s Stern School of Business. “Anybody who is starting up early in their career, anybody who is building their first PC, is having an increasingly difficult time finding hardware and components for it,” he said. Conrod understands the squeeze. His parents couldn’t afford a “crazy gaming computer” when he started playing when he was 5. As Fortnite took the gaming world by storm, with publisher Epic Games offering $100 million tournament prizes, Conrod said he had to make do with a “worst of the worst” computer running 30 frames per second. After months spent begging his parents to help buy a roughly $1,600 computer, Conrod said, his dad wrote up a contract: the teenager would have three months to pay him back by working for his

plumbing company throughout the summer. Conrod ultimately needed just two weeks’ worth of Fortnite earnings to honor the deal. “If I never had that PC, if I never had access to that computer, this career — this setup that you see — would not be a thing,” Conrod said, speaking from his Dallas bedroom where he streams to thousands of viewers for hours at a time. By age 14, it was time for another conversation. He’d made nearly $200,000 through the Fortnite World Cup and felt he couldn’t balance classes with his career. Waking up for middle school at 6 a.m. to then compete in tournaments at 6 p.m. left him exhausted. “You can’t be tired when you’re playing,” he explained. Reaction times, he said, have to be “crisp.” After some hesitation, his parents agreed to let him go all-in on competitive gaming.

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Judy Geddes Bajoie, a beloved grandmother, mother, sister and aunt, age 69 was born on January 5, 1957 in New Orleans, LA passed away on Monday, September 14, 2026. Judy attended Our Lady of Lourdes Elementary School, Samuel J. Green Middle School and Walter L. Cohen High School. She attended Grambling State University on a full tennis scholarship before transferring to Southern University at New Orleans, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in History. Judy began her career as an educator, teaching at several public and parochial elementary schools. Following her retirement from teaching, she founded Tours by Judy, a local New Orleans tour company, and became well known for her informative and engaging tours. Judy leaves to cherish her memory her daughter, Christy Noel Ross (Cardell); grandsons, Cardell "Trey" III and Christopher; siblings Nolan Bajoie, Sr. (Eunice), Sen. Diana Bajoie and Reginald Bajoie, Sr. (Paphine); and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and loved ones. She was preceded in death by her parents, Olander P. Bajoie, Sr. and Julia Roudeze Bajoie; siblings Lester Charles Bajoie, Olander "Butch" Bajoie, Sr. and Paulette Bajoie Ross; and her partner, Wayne Legaux. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the Mass of Christian Burial on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at St. Peter Claver Catholic Church, 1923 St. Philip Street, New Orleans, LA at 10:00 a.m. Visitation from 9:00 a.m. until 10:00 a.m. Interment Greenwood Cemetery, 5190 Canal Blvd #200, New Orleans, LA 70124. You may sign the guest book on www.gertru degeddeswillis.com.

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Creecy, Devin Joseph

will continue to shine in the hearts of all who were fortunate enough to know him. A visitation will be held from 9:00 AM to 10:00 AM on 2026-10-03 at New Hope Baptist Church, 1807 John Raphael Jr. Way. A funeral service will be held at 10:00 AM on 2026-10 -03 at New Hope Baptist Church, 1807 Reverend John Raphael Jr. Way.

E. J. Fielding Funeral Home of Covington, Louisiana, is honored to be entrusted with Mr. Fitzgerald's funeral arrangements. His family invites you to share thoughts, memories, and condolences by signing an online guestbook at www.ejfieldingfh.com.

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Koerner, Timothy William

Grinstead, Calvin

Davis Jr., Varice 'Puggy'

Devin Joseph Creecy, known lovingly to many as Devin, was born on July 3, 1977, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and passed away on September 19, 2026, in the city he called home. He departed this life following a car accident, leaving behind a legacy of warmth, determination, and steady encouragement that will continue to inspire all who knew him. Devin lived his life with purpose and heart. He carried himself with a spirit that lifted others, and he had a way of making people feel seen, valued, and motivated to keep going. His life was a reminder that strength is not only found in great achievements, but also in the daily choice to show up, to care, and to keep moving forward with faith and courage. He was a Christian, and his faith helped shape the way he treated others, with kindness, humility, and hope. Born and raised in New Orleans, Devin remained deeply connected to the city and the people around him throughout his life. He worked with Chinchuba Institute St. Michaels and Magnolia Institute where his presence and contributions reflected his dependable character and his willingness to serve. Whether through his work, his associations, or his everyday interactions, Devin brought a sense of commitment and positivity that made a lasting difference. Devin found joy in the things that made life vibrant and meaningful. He enjoyed bowling, traveling, dancing, exercising, attending football games, watching WWE, and following basketball. These interests reflected his energetic personality and his appreciation for both fun and discipline. He understood how to celebrate life, how to stay active, and how to enjoy the moments that bring people together. His enthusiasm was contagious, and his ability to find excitement in simple pleasures made him a pleasure to be around. He was a devoted son, brother, nephew, and cousin whose family meant a great deal to him. He is survived by his brother, Raynard A. Creecy; his aunts, Gloria C. Larche, Gloria Anderson, and Christine Campbell; his uncles, Wendell Creecy, Rev. A. Ray Campbell; and his devoted cousin, Charlene Larche-Mason and a host of cousins, family and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents, Melvin J. Creecy and Jacqueline Asberry Creecy, whose love and guidance helped shape the man he became. Devin's family connections were an important part of his life, and he carried those bonds with pride and gratitude. Those who knew Devin will remember more than the details of his life. They will remember his strength, his encouragement, his smile, and the way he inspired others to keep faith in themselves. He had a motivational spirit that reminded people to keep striving, keep believing, and keep pressing on even when life became difficult. He lived with the kind of energy that said every day matters, every effort counts, and every person has value. As the great Maya Angelou once said, "People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Devin made people feel encouraged, respected, and uplifted. That is a powerful legacy, and it is one that will remain in the hearts of those who loved him. Though his time on earth ended too soon, Devin's life was not defined by its length but by its impact. He leaves behind memories that will continue to speak, lessons that will continue to guide, and an example of resilience that will continue to inspire. His journey is a reminder to live fully, love deeply, and hold fast to faith through every season of life. Devin Joseph Creecy will be dearly missed and forever remembered. His life was a gift, his spirit was a blessing, and his memory

Mr. Varice Davis, Jr. "Puggy", a lifelong resident of Kenner, LA was born November 26, 1954, peacefully passed away on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at his home. He is survived by Patricia Fontenberry, his children; Varice Davis III, Shalonda Davis and Maurice Davis, 12 grandchildren, 2 great grandchildren and a host of other family and friends. We invite all family, friends, members of Oakland Baptist Church and surrounding churches as well as his Turner Services and Burger King family to attend the homegoing service on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at Richardson Funeral Home, 11112 Jefferson Hwy., River Ridge, LA 70123. Visitation: 9am, Service: 10am, officiated by Rev. Charles Hurst. Your presence and prayers are appreciated as we come together to celebrate the life and legacy of Mr. Varice Davis, Jr. Richardson Funeral Home of Jefferson, River Ridge, LA is in charge of arrangments. wwww.richardsonf uneralhomeofjefferson.co m

Fitzgerald, Robert T. 'Bob'

Calvin Grinstead passed away on September 19, 2026, at the age of 87. Calvin Grinstead leaves to cherish his precious memories; his daughter, Latanya Grinstead; 4 Grandchildren, Layanda "Zyron" Lynn Grinstead, Leslea Grinstead, Kobe Grinstead and Samaya Kelley; 1 Great-Grandchild, Lyric Grinstead; Also survived by a host of other relatives and friends. Preceded in death by his Parents, E.F. and Rosie Lee Grinstead; 3 Brothers, Johnny Charles, Willie and Ellie (Willie) Grinstead; 2 Sisters, Queen Ester Smith and Gloria Nell Butler. Family, friends, New Hope Baptist Church, Gallier Hall and the Gentilly Woods neighborhood are invited to attend the Home- Going Service honoring the life of the late Bro. Calvin Grinstead held in the Chapel of The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001 Chef Menteur Hwy., New Orleans, LA 70126 on Saturday, October 3, 2026, for 10:00 a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:00 a.m. Bishop Larry Grinstead of Puritan Missionary Baptist Church in Indianapolis, Indiana officiating. Interment will follow at Pleasant Grove Missionary Baptist Church, 38 Pleasant Grove Rd. Silver Creek, MS. 39663. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

Huntington, Robert W

Robert T. "Bob" Fitzgerald, age 79, a native of Cleveland, Mississippi, and resident of Madisonville, Louisiana, passed into eternal rest on Wednesday, September 30, 2026, in the presence of his loving family. He was born on October 28, 1946, in Cleveland, Mississippi, to Ellis Fitzgerald and Mittie Boyd Fitzgerald. He is survived by his loving wife of nearly 60 years, Jeanne Richardson Fitzgerald; children, Tina Fitzgerald, Paul Fitzgerald (Tracy), and Jennifer F. Lambert (Cory); 9 grandchildren; 9 great grandchildren; and many extended family members, and friends. He was preceded in death by his parents and multiple siblings. Bob enjoyed a wonderful life filled with family and friends. An avid golfer and tennis player, he had his only hole-in-one on the 13th hole from 125 yards in City Park on September 22, 1990, and was captain of several tennis leagues for Kenner and City Park USTA. He also won 2nd place in a photo contest called "Kenner Places" in 1989. Bob retired from B & G Crane Company in 2014 before a short stint with St. Tammany Parish. He was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and greatgrandfather who cherished the time he shared with his loving wife and family. The family would like to give special thanks to Passages Hospice and his nurses who took wonderful care of him, particularly to Jessica Taylor. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the funeral service on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at 11:00 AM at E. J. Fielding Funeral Home, 2260 West 21st Avenue, Covington, Louisiana, with visitation beginning at 9:00 AM. Interment will follow in Theodore Dendinger Memorial Gardens, Madisonville, Louisiana.

McKinnies, Johnny M.

Timothy William Koerner passed away on Monday, September 28, 2026, at his home of thirtynine years in Pass Christian, Mississippi. His parents, Louis R Koerner and Margaret Elaine John of New Orleans predeceased him. He leaves behind his wife of 46 years, Ann Benham Koerner; siblings, Louis and Francesca Koerner; his adopted sons, Charles Randolph Holt Fisher and John Benham Fisher; a son and daughter by a prior marriage, John Parker Koerner and Cara Elizabeth Melton; grandchildren, Coltrane and Huxley Fisher; and numerous nieces and nephews. Born in New Orleans January 13, 1945, Tim spent summers on the Mississippi Gulf Coast fishing, swimming, water-skiing, and sailing and made Pass Christian his permanent home in 1987. He remained an avid sailor and fisherman. He attended Holy Name, Jesuit, and Tulane University in New Orleans and Riverside Military Academy in Georgia. He was a reservist in the U.S. Marine Corp. He is co-owner with his cousin and niece of the food distributor, John Koerner Company of New Orleans, where he created a specialty business of imported foods and culinary methods utilized by chefs nationwide. He contributed to many local and national charitable organizations, particularly those supporting animal welfare, military veterans, American Indians, and the arts. A private memorial will be held at a later date. Donations to the Humane Society of South Mississippi, 2615 25th Avenue, Gulfport, MS 39501, are appreciated. Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home, 15th Street, Gulfport is honored to serve the family of Timothy William Koerner.

Rev. Dr. Johnny M. McKinnies, Sr., emeritus entered eternal rest in Katy, TX on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, at the age of 92. Relatives and friends of the family, also pastors, officers, and members of Israel Baptist Church and all neighboring churches; Westside Missionary Baptist Association are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Israel Baptist Church 1612 Esther St. Harvey, LA on Friday, October 2, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Visitation will be held from 8:00a.m. until 10:00a.m.; Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Inc, Omega Service at 9:00.m. Interment: Providence Memorial Park CemeteryMetairie, LA. Arrangements by Prestige Undertaking Co., 419 Present St. Missouri City, TX and assisted by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA. To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

Meredith, Annie Jewel

Annie Holton Jewel Meredith entered into eternal rest at Brightpointe in Conroe, TX on Thursday, September 17, 2026, at the age of 80. She was a native of Carthage, MS and a resident of New Orleans, LA. Beloved wife of Samuel Meredith, Jr. Devoted mother of Samuel Craig Meredith, Zachary Trent Meredith, Kim Monique Meredith, Timothy Troy Meredith, and Krystal Kia Meredith. Grandmother of Jordin Meredith Williams,

Mathews, Bessie Mae Thomas

Robert W Huntington Jr., 66, of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered his heavenly home on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, surrounded by his loving family. Robert was was an Associate Minister at The Living Rock Baptist Church and the founder of Good Ground Online Ministry, where he faithfully taught God's Word.

Johnson, Marvin Duncan

Marvin Duncan Johnson, departed this life on Wednesday, September 16, 2026, in Covington, Louisiana. He was 67 years old. He was a native and lifelong resident of Buras (Sunrise), Louisiana. Left to cherish his memory is his loving wife, children and grandchildren, siblings and a host of other relatives and devoted friends. Celebration of life services will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at First Mount Zion Baptist Church 32471 LA - 23, Empire, Louisiana, 70050. Visitation will begin at 9 a.m., and funeral service will begin at 11 a.m. Pastor Jordan L. Robinson Sr., officiating and entombment will follow at Mt. Zion Memorial Park Cemetery. Funeral planning entrusted to Robinson Family Funeral Home (504) 208 2119. For online condolences

Bessie Mae Thomas Mathews entered the gates of Heaven on September 18, 2026. All who had the blessing of knowing Bessie Mae are invited to join us as we celebrate her life, honor her beautiful memory, and give thanks for the life she shared with us. Her homegoing service will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2026 at James Chapel Baptist Church, located at 4228 Thalia St., New Orleans, LA 70125. The viewing will begin at 9:00 a.m., followed by the service at 10:00 a.m. Interment will follow at Providence Memorial Park, located at 8200 Airline Dr., Metairie, LA 70003.

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Khya Kaelani Justice, Dale Justice, Jr., and LePreston Porter, IV. Daughter of the late Elizabeth Brown. Sister of Eddie Holton, also survived by a host of nieces, nephews, cousins, other relatives, and friends. Relatives and friends of the family, also pastors, officers, and members of Philadelphia Ministries and all neighboring churches are invited to attend the Celebration of Life at Philadelphia Ministries, 3181 Destrehan Avenue, Harvey, LA on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at 10:00a.m. Visitation will begin at 8:30a.m. until service time at the church. Interment: Westlawn Cemetery-Gretna, LA. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

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 beginning 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.

Simms, Zarina Dwenique

baptized at an early age by Reverend Uyless D. Landry, Sr. at First Mount Calvary B.C. She graduated from L.W. Higgins High School and would later attended Xavier University of Louisiana, earning a B.S. in Political Science. Zarina leaves to cherish her memories, her mother and father, Gaynell and Elton; sisters; Quilana and Tyra; nieces; Nataria, Quilaiya, and Tyja; nephews; Phil Jr. and Xaden, a great niece Nasiyah; as well as a host of aunts, uncles, cousins, great relatives, and friends. Above all, she leaves behind the apple of her eye, her son, Zandon. Preceded in death by her grandfathers; Cleveland and Albert, Sr.; grandmothers; Ruby and Sedonia; three aunts; Lois, Patricia, Laverne; and two uncles; Cleveland III and Michael. Zarina was welcomed into heaven by their loving arms. While we mourn the loss of Zarina, her spirit and the shared memories will forever live in our hearts. Family and friends are invited to attend the Homegoing Celebration on Saturday, October 3, 2026, for 1:00 p.m. at The Boyd Family Funeral Home, 5001

Chef Menteur Hwy, New Orleans, LA 70126. Visitation will begin at 12:30 p.m. Pastor Clarence Molliere, officiating. Interment will follow at Morning Star Cemetery, Raceland, LA. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditi onbegins.com (504)2820600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin D. Boyd Owners/Funeral Directors.

He is survived by his wife, Joan, and son, Ron Turner. Charles was a longtime resident of New Orleans, LA, and was born in Magnolia, MS. Services will be held on Saturday, October 3, 2026, at Jerusalem B.C., located at 2155 Jim Thomas Rd., Magnolia, MS 39652. Visitation will begin at 10:00 a.m., followed by the service at 11:00 a.m. Services are provided by Dennis Funeral Home, (504) 899-8252. Please visit us at www.dennismortuaryservi ce.com.

Turner, Charles 'Beanie'

CHARLES "BEANIE" TURNER entered eternal rest on September 22, 2026.

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OPINION N O L A.C O M/opinions

Don’t abandon City Hall; refurbish it that our current mayor is looking When New Orleans City Hall seriously at renovating the buildopened in 1957, it embodied the aspirations of its time: a growing ing we already have. city, a changing government and Let's be honest about why City a new era of public adminHall is in the state it's in. This isn't a building that istration. As part of a wellfailed the city. It's a buildplanned civic complex, it has served New Orleans ing the city failed to mainfor nearly seven decades. tain. Decades of deferred Yet for years, nearly every maintenance, patched new mayor has confronted Sandra over instead of properly a question its builders Stokes addressed, administration could scarcely have anticiafter administration, have GUEST left a structurally sound pated: whether City Hall COLUMNIST landmark looking tired has outlived its useful life. and worn. That's a mainMayor Ray Nagin signed a letter of intent to move city tenance problem, not a reason to offices into the former Chevron tear it down. building on Gravier Street. Mitch And make no mistake: City Hall Landrieu wanted to relocate evis a landmark. It's one of the city's erything to the old Charity Hospi- most outstanding examples of midcentury modern architecture, tal site. LaToya Cantrell pitched moving the seat of government to whether or not that's your fathe Municipal Auditorium beside vorite style. Its clean lines, glass Congo Square. Three consecutive curtain walls and confident rectmayors, three different addressangular form were New Orleans' declaration, in 1957, that this city es, one shared reflex: Abandon belonged to the modern era as Perdido Street. much as any other. Buildings like So it is genuinely refreshing

this are increasingly rare and increasingly valued elsewhere in the country. We shouldn't be so quick to throw ours away. The location also makes the case for staying put. City Hall sits in the heart of the Central Business District, close to the interstate and public transit. Approaching downtown from Basin Street/Loyola Avenue, the building has a striking presence, rising up to announce you've arrived at the seat of city government rather than just another ofﬁce block. It's within walking distance of the courts and a dense cluster of law ofﬁces that exist there largely because City Hall and Civil District Court are there. Pull that anchor out, and that ecosystem may disperse. It also checks nearly every box that planners look for in a great civic site. Adjacent Duncan Plaza adds a large public green space at City Hall's doorstep. Parking could be right-sized for actual demand, with room to modernize

Cassidy can enhance his legacy with dental bill Few members of Congress bring to dens on families and respects the clinical Washington the perspective of someone judgment of physicians over bureaucratic who has spent decades caring for painterpretations of insurance policies. For Sen. Cassidy, the legislation tients. Before entering politics, carries even greater significance. Sen. Bill Cassidy was a physiThroughout his Senate career, cian. He understands something he has consistently emphasized many lawmakers only encounter practical health policy over through briefing papers: Behind ideological battles. He has spoken every policy debate is a patient, a family and a life forever changed J. Roman about improving patient outcomes, modernizing healthcare and bringby the decisions Congress makes. Farr That is why the Ensuring Lasting ing a physician's perspective to GUEST Smiles Act, or ELSA, represents COLUMNIST policymaking. Supporting ELSA more than another healthcare bill. would be a natural extension of It is an opportunity for Sen. Casthat philosophy. History rarely remembers lawsidy to cement a legacy rooted in the values that first drew him to makers for every vote they cast. medicine: compassion, evidenceInstead, it remembers the probbased care and ensuring patients lems they solved. receive the treatment they need, Many legislators become associnot just the treatment an insurance ated with landmark reforms that Seth company decides to cover. permanently improve the lives of DeJean Americans who may never know For thousands of children and adults born with congenital anomatheir names. ELSA offers Sen. GUEST lies such as cleft lip and cleft palCOLUMNIST Cassidy that kind of opportunity. Years from now, thousands of famate, or those who suffer severe facial injuries from disease or ilies could look at a child whose retrauma, reconstruction is not cosmetic. constructive care was completed because It is essential medical care. It allows insurance finally covered what doctors children to eat, speak, breathe, hear and recommended and know that Congress smile with confidence. It enables adults to got it right. return to work, interact socially and reThat is the kind of legacy that outlasts election cycles. gain fundamental aspects of their health It is also a reminder that some of the and dignity. most meaningful legislation is not meaYet too often, patients who have undergone years of medically necessary treatsured by headlines or political victories. Instead, this legislation will be measured ment discover that insurance coverage by children who can smile without pain, ends before reconstruction is complete. Families who believed they were covered teenagers who no longer fear being desuddenly find themselves battling claim nied treatment midway through recondenials based on arbitrary distinctions struction and parents who can focus on between "cosmetic" and "medically neces- their child's recovery instead of fighting insurance appeals. sary" procedures. The result is financial As both a physician and a senator, Bill hardship and delayed treatment. Cassidy occupies a rare place at the interELSA addresses this gap by helping ensure that group health plans and insursection of medicine and public policy. Few lawmakers are as well positioned to recers cover medically necessary treatment and related reconstructive care for birth ognize the profound difference between defects and congenital anomalies that pri- cosmetic enhancement and medically marily impact the appearance or function necessary reconstruction. Even fewer have the credibility to lead on this issue. of the eyes, ears, teeth, mouth or jaw. It ELSA is an opportunity to put patients does not create new standards of beauty before politics and science before semanor open the door to elective cosmetic procedures. Instead, it recognizes what tics. physicians, surgeons and patients have If Sen. Cassidy wants to leave a lasting long understood: Reconstructive care is mark on American healthcare — one that healthcare. reflects the best traditions of medicine This issue should transcend party lines. and public service — he should make the Conservatives often speak about Ensuring Lasting Smiles Act part of his strengthening families and removing legacy. unnecessary barriers to opportunity. Progressives emphasize expanding access to J. Roman Farrar is the president of the medically necessary care. ELSA advancLouisiana Dental Association. Seth A. DeJean is the president of the Louisiana es both goals. It supports children with Academy of Pediatric Dentistry. lifelong medical conditions, reduces bur-

for accessibility, EV charging and secure ﬂeet spaces. And there's real potential for landscaping with stormwater features that could tie City Hall into Duncan Plaza and the surrounding streets instead of isolating it. Add its proximity to the Superdome and Champions Square, and you have a site with genuine momentum that could anchor a real town-center feel for downtown, if we invest in it instead of walking away from it. That momentum is only growing: A few blocks away, Tulane University is investing hundreds of millions of dollars to transform the long-vacant Charity Hospital building into a hub for bioscience research, education and innovation. A revitalized City Hall would sit alongside that energy, not compete with it. Then there's the simplest argument of all: money. A complete renovation would cost the city signiﬁcantly less than building a new complex elsewhere. The

building is eligible for state historic tax credits, and a National Register listing could unlock federal historic tax credits as well. The Louisiana Landmarks Society has already offered to prepare that National Register nomination on the city's behalf, removing one of the few real obstacles. For decades, City Hall has waited for a mayor willing to invest in it rather than abandon it. We applaud the mayor for taking that step, and we encourage the new commission to seriously weigh the advantages of renovating City Hall into the modern, midcentury landmark it was always meant to be, one that takes full advantage of its location, its architecture and the momentum already building around it. Poor City Hall has been patient long enough. It's time we gave it what it deserves.

Sandra Stokes is the chair of advocacy for the Louisiana Landmarks Society.

Protect Head Start standards that help children thrive Head Start has been part of my ers would make that harder. They family’s story for two generations. I could also weaken the partnership attended as a child, and when I looked with parents that helped my family for care for my own children, it was make informed decisions and find the at the top of my list. services Amir needed. I am a mother of four, and all have Head Start recognizes that children participated in Early Head Start or are not numbers in a classroom. Each Head Start. Head Start is much arrives with their own personmore than “a day care.” Skilled ality, abilities, experiences and teachers know each child, treat needs. Small classes and wellparents as partners and consupported teachers allow pronect families with resources grams to see the whole child that build on their strengths. and help that child grow. My son Amir began Early I have seen the same apSherelle Head Start at 18 months. His proach with my daughters. Porter speech was regressing, and I Head Start helped them build GUEST thought he might have autism. language, social and daily livCOLUMNIST I connected him with early ining skills and provided develtervention and speech services. opmental, hearing and vision Because his teachers knew him well, screenings. When one daughter was they noticed that he often played learning to manage big feelings, her alone, was sensitive to loud noises and teachers worked with her and kept showed other signs of autism. They me informed. encouraged me to seek an evaluation. Head Start also helped me grow Soon after, Amir was diagnosed with as a parent and community leader. I autism. Without Head Start, he would have served on my program’s policy not have been evaluated as quickly council since 2020, including when my because I did not know the signs. I am children were not enrolled. I stayed forever grateful that Head Start was involved because the program works there for my family. best when parents help shape it. Even before the evaluation came That experience taught me how back, his teachers made sure he was programs and systems work and gave comfortable and included. They put me opportunities to bring a parent’s supports in place and learned more perspective to important decisions. It about autism. When he became overalso helped prepare me for my curstimulated, the co-teacher would take rent role as president of the Autism him for a walk to help him calm his Society of Greater New Orleans. body and regulate. I learned from The strength of Head Start is that them and used those same strategies all these pieces work together: skilled at home. teachers, small classes, developmenBecause of Head Start’s low childtal and health screenings, family reto-teacher ratios, one teacher could sources and parent leadership. These give Amir the attention he needed are not extras. They are what make while the other children received the Head Start effective. supervision and care they deserved. The public has until Oct. 6 to comThat experience is why I am conment on the proposed changes. I hope cerned about proposed changes to the federal officials will listen to families who know Head Start firsthand and Head Start Program Performance Standards. The Department of Health preserve the standards that make the program work. I also hope my and Human Services has proposed congressional leaders — Sens. Bill rolling back standards covering class Cassidy and John Kennedy and Rep. sizes, staffing, developmental screenTroy Carter — push to protect those ings, family support and parent instandards. volvement. My family benefited from teachThe proposal would allow more children and fewer adults in infant ers who had the time, training and classrooms in 15 states and in toddler support to see my children clearly, classrooms in as many as 48 states. recognize their strengths and help As a parent, I know what that could them take their next steps. Every mean. Young children learn through Head Start family deserves the same relationships. Teachers need time opportunity. and support to recognize each child’s strengths, understand how they comSherelle Porter is the president of municate and respond when they need the Autism Society of Greater New help. Larger classes with fewer teach- Orleans.

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Decades after court-ordered desegregation, many Black students remain trapped in low-performing schools, leaving a dilemma for Black parents when choosing a school.

ISSUE OF THE WEEK RACE AND EDUCATION Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones’ recent essay about choosing a school for her daughter Najya struck a chord among Black families who face similar considerations and the broader education community. Instead of opting to send their daughter to a private, predominantly White school as many affluent Black families do, Hannah-Jones and her husband chose a diverse neighborhood public school in New York, despite the fact it didn’t have a good academic record.As Najya grew up, she questioned her parents’ decision and pushed to go to a better school. In an essay in The New York Times Magazine, Hannah-Jones outlined why, as someone who has documented how Black children are often left to languish in poor public school systems, she made the choice she did. She believed that families like hers keeping their kids in public schools could be powerful advocates to make them better for all students.That has led to an intense debate: What’s more important — fighting to change a system or giving your child every advantage possible? Here are two perspectives.

Why parents sometimes need to go to school, too

Strange racial solidarity of Nikole Hannah-Jones

Everybody, according to an old saying universal pre-K programs at Najya’s of unknown but apparently wise origin, is school, and it had attracted other well-off an expert at raising other families who enrolled their children the people’s kids. year we did, and many had stayed for kinOne child of recent nadergarten.” But that happy situation didn’t last. tional interest is the daughThus began a process many parents ter of Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist who led “The of public school students will recognize: calls and attempts to meet with 1619 Project,” a controClarence versial and Pulitzer Prize- emails, the principal, followed by silence and Page runaround, and eventually by halfhearted winning reexamination of new policies that don’t quite address the American history through the lens of slavery, instead of treating that core problem. That problem, in Hannah-Jones’ estiAmerican horror story as a sidelight. In a conversation that occurs in middle- mation, is the “callous disregard” of the class Black households nationwide, includ- adults entrusted with her child’s educaing mine, Hannah-Jones and her husband, tion. Faraji Hannah-Jones, decided to take a Hannah-Jones argues that this sort of bold, unconventional step: They enrolled educational malpractice was possible their daughter Najya in a local public because the student body in question was school next to a public housing develop“mostly low-income Black children,” of whom little was expected. It’s hard to ment in their Brooklyn neighborhood The intention, she wrote in a long essay disagree. None of this is news to parents in published in The New York Times Magatroubled school systems — and we are, zine, was “to challenge New York City’s in many cases, talking about systemic separate and unequal school system.” Despite the civil rights revolution, Han- problems, especially in big city school systems. nah-Jones wrote, most Black students Nor is it a surprise that those middle“languish in the type of schools that the class families whom Hannah-Jones had law was supposed to have eradicated.” noticed with reassurance when Najya “So, like the generations of Black parents who came before us,” she continued, was in pre-K had over time withdrawn their kids from P.S. 307. “Faraji and I felt an obligation to make And yet the Hannah-Joneses stayed, to educational decisions based on the col“fight for the students who did not have lective good and not just our individual options.” advantage.” That decision and the family’s ensuing They made that decision 10 years ago. struggles, which Hannah-Jones bravely Now, as she revealed in the Times esand unflinchingly related in her Times say, the family decided to reverse their earlier decision and move Najya to, yes, a essay, have garnered a full spectrum of reaction from mockery to condemnation. competitive public high school. But the fact remains that sometimes What changed their minds? Najya. our responsibilities to do what’s best Her mom recalls how Najya, now 16, for our children conflict with broader said something when picked up at school obligations to society, including to those one day that caused her to have second who are less fortunate than our children, thoughts. and however a parent decides to act can “Did you know my school was bad like carry unfortunate consequences, includthis when you decided to put me here?” Najya asked. ing failure and regret. Busted. Najya and some friends had By sticking her neck out and opening searched on Google about college opportu- up a very touchy subject for examinanities, which led to a search of New York tion, Hannah-Jones has done much more City school rankings. Which led to the dis- to advance the cause of public education than most of her detractors will give her covery that their school ranked dismally low, which made them wonder about their credit for. As another old slogan goes, it takes a chances for future academic success. village to raise a child. It takes good par“I feel like you got cheated,” HannahJones told her daughter later. “And I’m ents, too. sorry for that.” At first, there had been reason for hope. E-mail Clarence Page at “The district had placed one of its new clarence47page@gmail.com.

The New York Times writer Nikole Hannah-Jones thought she was making her educational choices to favor the interests of Black people, and she was — just the wrong ones. In a long essay for The New York Times MagaRich zine, the radical African Lowry American journalist writes about how her decision to send her daughter to dreadful New York City public schools for ideological reasons ended in tears. Jones, who achieved notoriety as the lead editor of the paper’s 1619 Project, believed that putting her daughter in rotten elementary and middle schools would strike a blow for racial equity. In her view, it’s unfair that so many Black kids are trapped in underperforming New York City schools, and if she trapped her own daughter in them, she and her husband — with their superior wherewithal — could make the schools better for everyone. What started as a project motivated by a savior complex ended as essentially an episode of educational Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Her bright young daughter fell far behind where she could have been academically. Most parents who are paying attention and who have the means would immediately get a kid out of a school where there are ﬁghts during the lunch period, where there is no homework, where the principal and teachers are routinely absent, and where school work isn’t graded — but Nikole Hannah-Jones persisted. By the time her daughter was old enough to realize what was going on and force her mother to let her apply to better high schools, she didn’t know algebra despite getting excellent grades in math at the subpar schools. Hannah-Jones should be furious at the adults who failed her daughter so abysmally, but she’s, in effect, still on their side by portraying school choice as a racist scam and complaining about a lack of resources. The New York City ofﬁcials, administrators, principals and teachers who are blighting the futures of young people aren’t White supremacists; by and large, they agree with Nikole Hannah-Jones politically and many of them are Afri-

can American. You can either be with them, and their narrow interest in protecting the school system from serious challenge, or with the kids. Hannah-Jones is in a version of the same conundrum as the Black Lives Matter activists who believed it was “anti-racist” to agitate against the police. Then, when they got their way and the police stepped back, more Black people were killed. Here it is supposedly “anti-racist” to keep everyone in disorderly, incompetent public schools — and the victims are Black children who have no idea of how little they’ve learned until it’s too late. This is a strange form of racial solidarity. There is no doubt that schools have a tougher job when they have a high population of disadvantaged students. But the problem is not funding, as HannahJones suggests. Studies from the centrist Brookings Institution note both that high-poverty, non-White districts spend more per pupil than lower-poverty districts, and that higher spending doesn’t ensure better results. The Success Academy charter schools in New York City have shown that disadvantaged kids can thrive when there’s an old-fashioned mix of high expectations, strict discipline and rigorous instruction — in other words, what the traditional public schools, mired in a self-interested, unaccountable bureaucracy, can’t deliver. When she sent her daughter to failing schools, Nikole Hannah-Jones imagined herself acting in the tradition of pioneering parents during the civil rights movement who sent their children through mobs to integrate Whites-only schools. Those parents desperately wanted a better education for their kids, though, whereas Hannah-Jones fed her daughter into terrible public schools in the forlorn hope that maybe she’d be OK. If not, at least Hannah-Jones had steered her clear of competitive schools with lots of White and Asian kids. That, of course, was a perverse priority. The famous line is that a neoconservative is a liberal mugged by reality. The New York City public schools mugged Nikole Hannah-Jones, and yet she still doesn’t want to press charges. Rich Lowry is on X, @RichLowry.

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BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

If you’re a New Orleans Saints fan, you’ve probably heard of Mark Butterworth by now. At the end of every Saints game this season, Butterworth — the NFL’s vice president of instant replay — has gotten on a call with a pool reporter to further explain the league’s viewpoint on calls that have ä Falcons been … highly debated, to say at Saints the least. Three games. Three controversies. 7:15 P.M. Only the Saints, right? MONDAY, ESPN Well, yes and no. In recent history, the Saints are the only team to have games that have triggered three consecutive pool reports. A pool report is conducted when a media member at the game requests one with the home public relations representatives to inquire about rule interpretations related to that contest — such as why the on-ﬁeld ofﬁcials determined Tyler Shough fumbled in last weekend’s loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, when they previously ruled that Detroit’s Jared Goff threw an incompletion against New Orleans in a very similar-looking play from weeks earlier. The Times-Picayune looked at 56 pool reports dating back to the 2024 season, when the Pro Football Writers Association (PFWA) began posting them on its website. No team other than the Saints has had three straight games featuring a pool report, and an NFL spokesperson said in that no such feat occurred in 2023, either. That makes the Saints a true outlier. But as tempting as it may be to invoke conspiracies of the NOLA No-Call, it should be noted

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Detroit Lions quarterback Jared Goff is hit by Saints defensive end Chase Young in the first half on Sept. 13 in Detroit. Officials ruled Goff threw an incompletion on the play.

Lane Kiffin said on Monday that Landen Clark has “done a great job.” The LSU backup quarterback “finds a way to make plays” when he subs into games, he said, and he “does a good job” in practice, too. And then Kiffin felt himself veering away from news conference banality and into something more honest. He just needed to throw in a disclaimer first, lest you think he had fallen victim to the kind of hyperbolic comparison that can force players to battle unfair expectations. “I’m not saying he’s Trinidad,” Kiffin said. Trinidad Chambliss, that is. The little-known, smallschool transfer quarterback who became a national star under Kiffin’s direction last season at Ole Miss. Clark is not Chambliss. But Kiffin couldn’t help but point out some of the things that the two quarterbacks have in common — traits that could become even more apparent when LSU hosts McNeese State in a tune-up at

6:45 p.m. Saturday (ABC). Kiffin could give starter Sam Leavitt and his sore hamstring the night off, and if he does, then Clark would get the start under center. Chambliss starred at a Division II school named Ferris State before he transferred to Kiffin’s Ole Miss program in 2025, while Clark got his start at Elon — an FCS team. In his lone full season as Ferris State’s starter, Chambliss accounted for more than 3,900 yards and 50 touchdowns. Clark completed 56% of his passes for 2,321 yards, 18 touchdowns and eight interceptions as a redshirt freshman in 2025, while adding another 614 yards and 11 scores on the ground. He set Elon’s single-season rushing touchdowns record. Both players were low-profile transfers when they first joined Kiffin’s program, and they each flashed an intriguing mix of size, mobility and arm talent in their first taste of SEC action. Clark made clear progress in LSU’s spring

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Pels announce broadcast plans, personalities for season BY ROD WALKER Staff writer

Three familiar faces and two new ones will make up the broadcast team for the New Orleans Pelicans this season. The veteran crew of play-by-play announcer Joel Meyers and color analyst Antonio Daniels are back again for television broadcasts. This will be the seventh season the duo has worked together. Meyers is entering his fourteenth season, while Daniels is entering Year 7. New Orleans native Andrew Lopez enters his third season as sideline reporter working alongside Meyers and Daniels. Kelly Crull is one of the two new personalities coming on board this season. Crull, an Emmy Award-winning reporter, will host the pregame, halftime and postgame show. She previously worked in national roles with the NBA on TNT, NBATV, Major League Baseball on TBS and football on ESPN. She has worked as a reporter for the Oklahoma City Thunder, San Diego Padres, Chicago Cubs, Atlanta Braves and Atlanta Hawks.

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Kalia Butler joins the organization as a team reporter for the television broadcast and the team’s digital platforms. Butler previously served this season as the sideline reporter for the WNBA’s Chicago Sky and is the host of Locked on Women’s Basketball. Gulf Coast Sports & Entertainment Network, the ofﬁcial television home of Pelicans basketball, will broadcast 80 of the team’s 82 games. The other two games — the Pelicans’ two January games in Europe against the San Antonio Spurs — will be streamed on Amazon Prime. All locally televised Pelicans games will also be available via streaming on Pelicans+. In addition, 20 of the regular season games will also be simulcast locally on FOX 8. Fans outside of the Pelicans’ regional market can access games via NBA League Pass. “We are committed to delivering a highquality broadcast experience that brings

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Reese voted Defensive Player of the Year The Associated Press NEW YORK — Atlanta Dream star forward Angel Reese was voted WNBA Defensive Player of the Year on Thursday, receiving 46 votes from 72 media members. Golden State’s Gabby Williams finished second with 20 votes and Las Vegas star A’ja Wilson was third. Wilson won the award in 2022 and 2023 and shared the honor with Minnesota’s Alanna Smith last year. Reese, a three-time All-Star who starred at LSU, helped the Dream advance to the WNBA playoff semifinals for the first time since 2018 in her first year with the franchise. Atlanta 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. The 24-year-old Reese grabbed a league-high 12.1 rebounds a game, ranked third in the league ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY STEPHANIE SCARBROUGH with 1.8 steals a game in her third season and helped the Dream Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese, right, celebrates with guard Isobel Borlase during Game 2 of a firsthave the third-best defensive rat- round playoff series against the Washington Mystics on Wednesday in Washington. ing in the WNBA. The 6-foot-4 forward broke single-season league Reese spent the first two years new surroundings, once again records with 521 rebounds and The Dream acquired her in a 206 offensive rebounds and set a of her career in Chicago before leading the league in rebounding trade with the Sky in April for WNBA record with 26 rebounds in going to the Dream in an offsea- and emerging as one of the top first-round draft picks in 2027 and a game. 2028. son trade. She flourished in her defenders in the WNBA.

Wings win in OT to force deciding game with Valkyries Ogunbowale scores WNBA playoff-record 45 BY SCHUYLER DIXON

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ARLINGTON, Texas — Arike Ogunbowale was standing near Paige Bueckers waiting for the star guard to make a move on her dribble with the Dallas Wings trailing by three as the final seconds of regulation — and their season — ticked away. Bueckers waved toward her backcourt mate, but she Late wasn’t telling Wednesday Ogunbowale to get out of the way. She was telling her to get open. After all, Bueckers knew who the hot hand was — and it wasn’t the 2025 No. 1 overall pick and Rookie of the Year who is in her ﬁrst playoff series. Ogunbowale took a pass from Bueckers on the left baseline, dribbled toward the corner and hit an off-balance corner 3-pointer, sending the game to overtime

and her on the way to a WNBA playoff-record 45 points as the Wings won a thriller 108-100 on Wednesday night, forcing a Game 3 in their first-round series. The deciding game will be Friday night in San Francisco, where the Valkyries won the series opener by 24 points. Golden State is trying to advance in the playoffs for the first time in the franchise’s second season. The Wings are trying to reach the semifinals for the second time in six postseason appearances since moving to the Dallas area in 2016. Ogunbowale opened the extra period of Game 2 by banking in a 3, then hit another one to put Dallas ahead for good at 103-100 with 1:46 remaining. The four-time All-Star easily topped her previous playoff best of 24 points after scoring 10 points on just seven shots in the series opener. “We felt like we got pushed around out there when we played in San Francisco and especially me personally I don’t feel like I was aggressive,” said Ogunbowale, who was 5 of 8 from beyond the arc, 12 of 23 overall and 16 of 18 on free throws. “I didn’t know what I would score. I was

going to shoot regardless because I just feel like seven shots isn’t enough to win playoffs and I have to be aggressive whether it’s going in or not.” Bueckers, who scored 10 points, was mired in a 3-for-13 shooting night that included an air ball on a 3-pointer with the Wings trailing by three in the ﬁnal two minutes of regulation. But she assisted on Ogunbowale’s tying 3, and again on a the banked 3 to start OT. Bueckers had four assists. “For us to do what we did today without Paige having the type of game that she always has offensively for us, to come out with a win is huge,” Wings coach Jose Fernandez said. “We had other people step up.” Ogunbowale’s shot for a 93-93 tie with 4.1 seconds left in regulation of Game 2 was followed by Gabby Williams getting called for an offensive foul on the inbound play after a Golden State timeout. That call was reversed on replay, so instead of Aziaha James having a chance to give Dallas the lead at the free-throw line, there was a jump ball at center court with 3.0 seconds to go. After a scramble for the loose ball, Golden State’s desperation shot

PELICANS

Pelicans forward Zion Williamson goes up for a layup against Milwaukee Bucks guard Kevin Porter during a game on Feb. 20 at the Smoothie King Center. The Pelicans will start preseason play on Tuesday.

Continued from page 1C Pelicans basketball to as many fans as possible across the Gulf Coast,” Pelicans’ president Dennis Lauscha said in a press release. “Our partnership with Gray Media and FOX 8, complemented by streaming access through Pelicans+, allows us to pair ﬁrst-class Pelicans’ coverage with broad accessibility throughout our region, giving fans more flexibility in how they watch. Building on last season’s significant viewership growth, we look forward to expanding our reach and giving more fans the opportunity to watch, follow and connect with the team.” The FOX 8 coverage begins with the Oct. 21 season opener at home against the Indiana Pacers. Some of the other games among the 20 that will air on Fox 8 include: the Dec. 31 game against the Los Angeles Lakers; the Jan. 28 game against LeBron James and the Philadelphia 76ers; and the March 23 game against the New York Knicks, last season’s NBA

was way off target, and after the buzzer. Williams scored a career-high 36 points, regular season or playoffs, but missed all six of her shots in the final 1:31 of overtime to finish 12 of 23 from the field. “We got one at home, and we got to bring our best,” Valkyries coach Natalie Nakase said. “That was not our best. Tomorrow’s got to be clear minds, clear focus, clear game plan, and then be ready to go for the game at home.” Ogunbowale scored 22 points in the fourth quarter and overtime — 11 in each period. She passed her previous overall career high of 41 points with the 3 that put Dallas up for good. Dallas’ Alysha Clark tied her playoff career high with 21 points, and Aziaha James added 13. Kaila Charles scored 14 points for the Valkyries, and Kayla Thornton had 13. With the scored tied at 98 in the extra period, Ogunbowale and Tiffany Hayes had to be separated after making contact. Both were called for flagrant fouls, and each made a pair of free throws with 2:26 remaining. The Valkyries didn’t score again, shooting 2 of 12 in overtime.

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champions. For the third straight season, WWL Radio (870 AM/105.3 FM) will handle the radio broadcast. Todd Graffagnini enters his eighth season as the play-by-play announcer for the radio broad-

cast. Color analyst John DeShazier is in his ﬁfteenth season. Gus Kattengell, who will host the pregame, halftime and postgame shows for radio, is in his third season. The radio broadcast will carry all 82 games and the four

preseason games. The Pelicans begin preseason play Tuesday on the road against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Email Rod Walker at rwalker@theadvocate.com.

Guardians name Messick starter for ALDS Game 1

CLEVELAND — Parker Messick will be the ﬁrst Cleveland rookie pitcher to start in a postseason game since 2016 when the Guardians left-hander takes the mound for Game 1 of the American League Division Series against the Chicago White Sox on Saturday. Manager Stephen Vogt also announced on Thursday that Gavin Williams will get the start for Game 2 on Monday. Ryan Merritt was the last Cleveland rookie pitcher to get a postseason start. He threw 4 1/3 shutout innings in Game 5 of the AL Championship Series against Toronto a decade ago. Messick went 12-9 in 32 regularseason starts. His 2.56 ERA is the lowest by a rookie pitcher in a single season with a minimum of 30 starts since the Mets’ Jon Matlack in 1972.

LHSAA suspends Carroll’s team, penalizes Assumption

The LHSAA has suspended the Carroll High School football program for the remainder of the season and Assumption won’t be able to host a home game following a brawl between fans and players at last Friday’s game in Monroe. The LHSAA released the statement late Wednesday. Also, Assumption of Napoleonville will have to pay a $500 fine and will have to play its remaining games at the opposing schools’ stadiums. According to reports, three players were ejected in the second quarter of the game for unsportsmanlike conduct. Near the end of the game, referees decided to end it early after rough play was getting out of hand. Officials said after the game about 20 Carroll players rushed toward the stadium seating and started fighting.

NASCAR owner, crew member suspended for attack on Heim

After days of indecision, NASCAR disciplined seven people who participated in the attack on young racing star Corey Heim in front of a concession stand at Martinsville Speedway shortly after the ValleyStar Credit Union 300 on Saturday. Major penalties and suspensions were issued to team owner Chad Bryant and crew member Steve Civatarese. Both are suspended indefinitely from NASCAR events — including next year’s ValleyStar Credit Union 300, a prestigious NASCAR Regional late-model event — and also are on probation for a year. Additionally, Bryant was fined $2,000 and must attend a NASCAR-approved anger management program. Civatarese was fined $1,000.

WTA announces equal prize money at Italian Open in ’27

ROME — Billie Jean King has often said that she was moved to form the women’s pro tennis circuit after earning $600 for her 1970 Italian Open title — while Ilie Nastase took home $3,500 for winning the men’s tournament the same year. In 2027 — nearly six decades after King’s title at the Foro Italico — the Rome clay-court event will finally award women the same amount of total prize money as men, as part a “major milestone” initiative that the WTA Tour announced Thursday. The initiative means that all combined WTA 1000 events will award equal prize money for the first time. Besides the Italian Open, the holdouts had been the Canadian Open and the Cincinnati Open.

Golfer MIckelson entered treatment center this year

Golfer Phil Mickelson checked himself into a facility earlier this year “seeking treatment for family trauma and addiction,” a representative for the six-time major championship winner said in a statement to news outlets on Wednesday. Mickelson, 56, reportedly is no longer at the facility. No information about the speciﬁcs of his stay or details about his reasons for entering the program have been made available. In February, Mickelson announced that he would miss the first two LIV Golf events of the year because he and his wife, Amy Mickelson, “need to be present for a family health matter.” In April, Mickelson announced he was withdrawing from the Masters.

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Curtis returns to Athens after ﬂipping from Georgia

Bulldogs off to the races Oklahoma didn’t quite provide the challenge some expected for Georgia. The Bulldogs cruised to 4-0 with a 41-13 home win on Saturday. The Bulldogs’ high-powered offense didn’t falter despite running back Nate Frazier’s absence. Georgia outrushed Oklahoma 129-

Winning the turnover game

The Commodores have had their own success blocking kicks in consecutive weeks, one a point after attempt returned for a 2-point conversion and the other a blocked punt recovered in the end zone for a TD. Vanderbilt also had two punt returns for TDs this season.

Help the freshman QB Vanderbilt coach Clark Lea hopes to keep opposing defenses off his quarterback by running the ball better. The Commodores’ 132.5 rushing yards per game ranks 106th in the FBS. “That run game is going to be really important to us allowing him to be the best he can be over the course of the season,” Lea said. “So he’s getting better, we’re getting better around him, and I’m excited for that to show up for us on Saturday.” Sedrick Alexander leads the team with 165 rushing yards and three scores. He recorded his 24th career rushing score in Week 4 against Auburn, tying with Marcus Wilson for third on Vanderbilt’s all-time rushing touchdown list. He was held to 16 rushing yards when Georgia and Vanderbilt last met in 2023.

Georgia’s defense forced four turnovers in last week’s win over Oklahoma, including three in the ﬁrst half. Linebacker Chris Cole recovered two fumbles, including an 85-yard touchdown return, while KJ Bolden added an interception. The Bulldogs turned the four takeaways into 17 points. Smart says winning the turnover battle has been a huge part of Georgia’s early success. “Turnover ratio has been better,” Smart said. “It’s probably the biggest differ- Last time ence. We’ve taken more than The Bulldogs have a 61we’ve given.” 20-2 all-time record against Vanderbilt. That includes six Vandy’s special team woes straight wins dating back to The Commodores hope 2017. The two teams last played they have fixed some personnel issues on special in 2023, when Georgia won teams that have been any- 30-21 in Nashville. Vanderthing but special this season, bilt’s last victory in the at least on protecting the series came in 2016, when punter. Vanderbilt gave up a the Commodores stunned blocked punt to Auburn last the Bulldogs 17-16 in Athweek for a touchdown in the ens. Saturday will mark the second quarter, a key play in 84th meeting between the a 21-15 loss. That’s the sec- schools, dating to 1893, and ond allowed by Vanderbilt the ﬁrst at Sanford Stadium since 2022. this season.

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Vanderbilt quarterback Jared Curtis warms up before a game against North Carolina State on Sept. 19 in Nashville, Tenn.

LSU

Continued from page 1C practices, then carried those strides into preseason camp — to the point at which he could even beat out the Southern Cal transfer and former ﬁve-star recruit Husan Longstreet for LSU’s back-up job. LSU has already found opportunities to put Clark onto the ﬁeld. He’s played 59 snaps so far — and not all of them have come at the end of blowout wins. Kiffin and his staff used Clark as a decoy for two red-zone plays in the Tigers’ Week 3 loss to Ole Miss. Then they subbed him in for Leavitt in the third quarter of their Week 4 win over Texas A&M and called an option play that he could use to show off his speed and agility. Clark faked a handoff and crept toward the line of scrimmage, looking for a hole to run through. When nothing materialized, he lunged backward and scampered to his left, dodging one would-be tackler and accelerating away from another for a 4-yard score. “In the same way with Trinidad, we called it ‘Trini-

dad Magic,’ ” Kiffin said, “whenever he went into scrimmages, all of the sudden, these things happen. And Landen has done the same thing. He really performs really well.” Clark has completed seven of his 15 passes for 109 yards and a touchdown this season, while rushing 16 times for 83 yards and three scores. Longstreet, on the other hand, has logged only seven snaps — all at the tail end of LSU’s Week 1 win over Clemson. The Tigers prepared for that matchup by holding a mock game in Tiger Stadium the week prior. Longstreet was LSU’s backup quarterback, while Clark was the scout team signal-caller — the one in charge of mimicking Clemson’s starting quarterback. Kifﬁn said that Clark “ran around all day long” in the mock game and “made some plays” against LSU’s first-team defense, a unit that ranks third among FBS teams in total defense through four weeks. The Clark-led unit even scored more against the Tigers than Clemson’s actual offense did when the two teams met for the real thing to open the season, according to what Kiffin

told the ABC broadcast of the game. At the time, Clark was LSU’s third-string quarterback. “He kind of earned his spot back,” Kiffin said. And now, Clark could be on the verge of making his first FBS start. Kiffin said on Monday that he didn’t know if Leavitt would play on Saturday, but he did say he’d be ”extremely” careful with how he managed his injury throughout the week. Four LSU starters, including kick returner Phillip Wright, have already suffered significant injuries. Kiffin doesn’t want to add Leavitt to that list. Not in a game that the Tigers can win handily without him. So Saturday could be a nice time for him to turn to Clark, the little-known, small-school transfer who reminds him, in some ways, of the one he brought to Ole Miss last year. “I’m happy for him,” Kiffin said, “and it’s a good weapon to have, obviously, regardless of Sam’s health.” Email Reed Darcey at reed.darcey@theadvocate. com. For more LSU sports updates, sign up for our newsletter at theadvocate. com/lsunewsletter

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Florida coach Jon Sumrall pumps his fist after after his team beat Ole Miss on Saturday in Gainesville, Fla.

No. 8 Florida visits Missouri with last loss as motivation BY DAVE SKRETTA AP sportswriter

There is little to suggest that Florida and Missouri have any kind of rivalry besides the fact that both reside in the SEC. They’re separated by thousands of miles, one in the middle of the Heartland, the other closer to the beach than the farms and ﬁelds of the Midwest. Rarely have their paths intersected, and even after being thrown together by the irrationality of conference realignment, the Gators and Tigers have only played 13 times in their football history. This is decidedly not Florida-Georgia or MissouriKansas. Yet a series of frustrating losses, coupled with one demeaning photograph, can quickly build some animosity. So it is with the No. 8 Gators and No. 25 Tigers, who meet Saturday at Faurot Field. Florida has lost three of its last four there, and the most recent defeat was frozen in time by an image someone captured of former Gators defensive end Tyreak Sapp, sitting on the sideline with legs splayed in front of him, as a trio of Missouri players — including current Chicago Bears wide receiver Luther Burden III — stood in front of him, one of them mocking him with a baby Gator chomp. And even though he’s new in town, Gators coach Jon Sumrall made sure his team knew all about that night. “I mean, the last time Florida played there and lost, there were still guys who are on this team,” Gators safety DJ Coleman said. “He brought that up today to us, and I feel like it’s going to be motivation, because we’re trying to make history this season,

and I feel like this is a small piece of history that we can control right now.” The Gators (4-0, 2-0) are certainly on their way to making some history. They’ve already matched their win total from Billy Napier’s final season, and they did it by squashing then-No. 4 Ole Miss — fresh off an emotional win over LSU — by a 52-28 score last week in the Swamp. Their first four opponents are a combined 12-4 with their only losses coming to the Gators, while their 28 touchdowns are one fewer than they scored all of last season. Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz called their success a reflection of their coach, whom he got to know while he was at Arkansas State and Sumrall was at Tulane. The two kept crossing paths while recruiting around Mobile, Alabama. “You can just see with the energy that he brings, the passion — his energy is infectious. The way his team plays reflects the passion,” Drinkwitz said. “If you know Jon at all, just reflects the way he carries himself, the confidence and physicality that he brings.” As for the Tigers (3-1, 1-1), they’re trying to bounce back after blowing a fourthquarter lead in a 31-24 loss at Mississippi State. “Obviously we’ve got things we need to clean up,” Missouri safety Elijah Dotson said, “but that’s what practice is for. We’re going to clean that up this week and get back to work.”

A history of close contests The last three FloridaMissouri games have been decided by a touchdown or less, and the Tigers have won the past two in Columbia by a combined three points. That includes the most recent meeting, a 33-

31 victory on Nov. 18, 2023.

Injury updates Missouri hopes to have starting edge rushers Langden Kitchen and Darris Smith available as both have been dealing with lowerbody injuries. The Gators likewise hope to have their leading receiver, Vernell Brown III, who strained a knee against Ole Miss. He has 17 catches for 271 yards and two touchdowns to go with two punt return TDs.

Defusing the explosive plays Missouri has been prone to giving up big plays this season, allowing ﬁve of at least 20 yards and two of more than 40 in last week’s loss to the Bulldogs. Now come the Gators, who are ﬁfth nationally in total offense at 532.8 yards per game.

Spotlight in the backfield Florida running back Jadan Baugh has shot into contention for the Doak Walker Award, given to the nation’s top running back. He’s No. 2 nationally in rushing with 600 yards through his first four games, and he has a nation-leading 11 touchdown runs.

Spotlight in the backfield The Tigers remain without their All-American running back, Ahmad Hardy, who was shot as an innocent bystander following a concert in Mississippi in the offseason. Hardy has yet to return to practice, leaving Jamal Roberts in the feature role.

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FOUR DOWNS: Christopher Dabe looks ahead to Week 5 football games.

WEATHER CHANGES Weekend thunderstorms prompted several schedule changes, including Rummel’s homecoming against John Curtis, moved from Saturday to Thursday, and Chalmette’s home game against St. Augustine, moved from Friday to Thursday.

CHAMPS MEET The Riverside Academy-St. Charles Catholic matchup is one of two statewide meetings this season between reigning state champions. Ouachita Parish (D-I nonselect) defeated Sterlington (D-III nonselect) 28-21 last week.

RIVALRY Jesuit and Holy Cross will meet for the 107th time, with Jesuit holding a 62-43-1 lead in the all-time series. Jesuit’s 2012 victory last year snapped Holy Cross’ three-game winning streak in the series, its longest since the 1980s.

IN THE RANKINGS Five of the top six teams in the Class 5A state rankings come from the Catholic League, with No. 1 Edna Karr ahead of No. 2 Ruston. No. 3 St. Augustine, No. 4 Rummel, No. 5 Brother Martin and No. 6 John Curtis round out the group.

LEARNING FAST

St. Augustine’s Noble developing into top-tier QB

The ball traveled nearly 40 yards through the air toward Miguel Whitley and the left pylon, with a defender in tight coverage. From the far sideline, St. Augustine coach Robert Valdez couldn’t tell whether Whitley Chris had completed Dabe the catch before stepping out of bounds. The stadium went quiet as everyone waited for the referee’s signal. Only later, watching the play on video, did Valdez appreciate just how precise Jaelle Noble’s throw had been. “That was a perfectly placed ball,” Valdez said. The throw was even more telling because Whitley wasn’t Noble’s first read. Rather than look to a tight end on third-and-6, Noble took a chance on the deep ball down the left sideline. Valdez was fine with the decision. Noble knew that if he was going to give Whitley a chance, the ball had to go where only Whitley could catch it. Four games into his first season as a varsity starter, Noble is becoming more than an athlete playing quarterback. “People are starting to see me as more of a quarterback than an athlete,” Noble said. “I’m more of a quarterback.” Noble’s performance offered plenty of evidence. He accounted for six touchdowns and nearly 400 yards of total offense last week in St. Augustine’s 42-32 victory over John Curtis, completing 20 of 26 passes for 291 yards and three touchdowns while rushing for 83 yards and three more scores. The win came against St. Augustine’s toughest opponent yet, in a rematch of last year’s state semifinal.

WEEK 5 SCHEDULE Thursday District 6-5A

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

District 7-5A

H.L. Bourgeois at Hahnville

District 8-5A

Warren Easton 43, Riverdale 0

District 9-5A

St. Augustine at Chalmette Rummel vs. John Curtis

Nondistrict

Fisher vs. Patrick Taylor Belle Chasse at Lakeshore Booker T. Washington vs. Carver Ellender at Young Audiences McDonogh 35 at Shaw Morris Jeff at Pope John Paul II Newman vs. Bonnabel at Bertolino Northlake Christian at Country Day Pearl River at Jewell Sumner Salmen vs. Kennedy at Pan American Sophie B. Wright at Amite St. James vs. L.B. Landry

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St. Augustine quarterback Jaelle Noble gets past John Curtis defnsive lineman Zyaire Shepherd for a touchdown during Saturday’s game at Tad Gormley Stadium. Noble accounted for all six touchdowns in the Purple Knights’ 42-32 victory. “It’s hard not to look at him as an athlete,” Valdez said. “He’s physically talented. He’s big. He’s strong. His head coach challenges him to look at the position of quarterback cerebrally.” Noble, a 6-foot-3 junior, has been playing quarterback since he was 4 years old. He played on the junior varsity team in eighth grade and was the primary backup for two seasons behind 3,000-yard passer Vashaun Coulon, now at Southern. Preparing Noble to face a John Curtis secondary with three college-committed players meant addressing his deepball accuracy. Several of Noble’s deep sideline passes against East Ascension the week before had sailed out of bounds, prompting Pierce to work with him on his footwork.

“I got on him about it pretty hard,” Pierce said. “It’s unacceptable, from the precedent set from Vashaun Coulon to push the ball down the ﬁeld. It’s something we harp on.” The work paid off when Noble delivered the 33-yard touchdown pass to Whitley, dropping the ball into a narrow window along the left sideline. Valdez and Pierce also made sure Noble and the rest of the offense understood the details: where to line up, how to identify defensive coverages and what the offensive line was responsible for. “He has to learn everything,” Valdez said. The coaches give Noble only what they believe he can handle. In the opener against McDonogh 35, his play sheet had roughly 80 plays. Against Curtis, it grew to about 140. More will be added as the sea-

son goes on. Noble doesn’t sound intimidated by the process. “I love people being hard on me,” Noble said. “Some people might not think I love that. I love when somebody relies on me. I love when everything is on my shoulders, and I got to control everything.” That responsibility showed up late against John Curtis. On third-and-16 in the fourth quarter, Noble took off for 18 yards, keeping the drive alive and allowing St. Augustine to run more time off the clock. Pierce saw more than a quarterback scrambling for a ﬁrst down. “Him and I watch ﬁlm together,” Pierce said. “We talk about winning plays. Plays like that, that’s a winning play.” Contact Christopher Dabe at cdabe@theadvocate.com

FRIDAY NIGHT’S TOP MATCHUPS ST. CHARLES AT RIVERSIDE

7 p.m., Mickey Roussel Field The matchup between reigning state champions is the first meeting between these schools since 2016. Riverside (4-0) has Boogie Johnson at QB after earning all-state honors at wide receiver last season. The only loss for St. Charles (3-1) came in overtime against Holy Cross.

EDNA KARR VS. BROTHER MARTIN

7 p.m., Strawberry Stadium, Hammond Both teams are 4-0 after winning their district openers — Brother Martin over Jesuit and Karr over Holy Cross. Karr’s most impressive win came against Ruston in a No. 1-vs.-No. 2 showdown in the Caesars Superdome. Brother Martin has fivestar wideout Easton Royal.

HOLY CROSS VS. JESUIT

7:15 p.m., Tad Gormley Stadium Jesuit (3-1) has big-play receiving threats Ja’ir Burks and Hayes Mestayer going against a Holy Cross secondary that includes Stanford commitment Savoy Guidry. Burks, the two-time reigning state hurdles champion, is a Tulane commitment. Holy Cross is 2-2.

Friday

All games at 7 p.m. unless noted. District 7-5A East St. John at Destrehan 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 De La Salle at Willow Kenner Discovery at Morgan City Lutcher at Franklinton McMain vs. Sarah T. Reed at Joe Brown St. Charles at Riverside St. Thomas Aquinas at Hannan Thomas Jefferson at St. Martin’s Saturday District 8-5A John Ehret vs. East Jefferson at Yenni, noon Nondistrict Bogalusa vs. Jefferson Rise at Memtsas Open date: South Plaquemines

THREE PLAYERS TO WATCH JAYLAN ASH

WR, Destrehan The Nicholls State commitment showed his big-play potential with three catches for 147 yards and two touchdowns in last week’s win against H.L. Bourgoeis. He has five touchdown catches on the season, plus one kickoff return touchdown.

JUSTIN DRAGO

RB, Country Day The senior had nearly 600 yards from scrimmage though four games with 38 carries for 301 yards and five touchdowns along with a teamhigh 24 receptions for 295 yards and three scores. QB Jack Grace has 1,601 yards passing and 21 touchdowns.

JAYCE ROMAIN

QB, Bonnabel Playing in his first game for Bonnabel, the transfer from Edna Karr competed 16 of 22 passes for 262 yards and two touchdowns and ran for another score in last week’s rivalry win against East Jefferson. His addition should boost the Bruins’ chances for a district title repeat.

Easton rolls by Riverdale Defense, special teams help Eagles snap losing streak

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Staff writer

Warren Easton defensive lineman Juelz Haley shoved his way into the Riverdale backfield and suddenly found himself with a football in his hands. He saw nothing but open field. Haley ran 70 yards for one of the three touchdowns by the Easton defense and special teams as the Eagles defeated Riverdale 43-0 in their District 8-5A opener Thursday at Joe Yenni Stadium. The win snapped an 11-game losing streak that included last season’s 0-7 record in Catholic League games along with this season’s start against East Ascension, Holy Cross, Brother Martin and Zachary. “It felt really good to finally get a win,” Haley said. “It builds our confidence for the rest of the season. Sets the tone for the rest of the season.” Easton (1-4, 1-0 District 8-5A) did all its scoring before halftime against an overmatched Riverdale team that had five freshman starters. “We needed to get us a win,” Easton coach Jerry Phillips said after his team’s first win since Sept. 19, 2025, against S l i d e l l . “ We were clicking Phillips on all phases — special teams, offense and defense. That’s all you can ask. And the effort was there. We’re getting better every week.” Along with Haley’s second fumble return touchdown this season, Maki Bargky took the opening kickoff 75 yards for the first touchdown and Gyron Hall picked off a pass from near the Riverdale goal line and returned it 10 yards for a score late in the half. The other three touchdowns came on offense. Josiah Everage ran seven times for 68 yards and two touchdowns, the first one on a 32-yard run in the first quarter. Senior quarterback Lavon Smith completed 5 of 9 passes for 82 yards and a touchdown to Melik Andry. The 21-yard pass to Andry came soon after the Riverdale punter was called down when he went to a knee to field a low snap. Sophomore Zachary Martin tacked on the other two points with a sack in the end zone for a safety. Only a botched snap kept Harrison Juarez from kicking an extra point after all six touchdowns. Easton is playing 8-5A for the first time after two seasons in the Catholic League, where the Eagles went winless in district play and did not qualify for the playoffs. A playoff appearance this season is far more likely. Easton is one of the favorites among a district that has Bonnabel as the reigning champion. Easton and Bonnabel will meet in Week 10. Haley plays on a defense that includes experienced defensive lineman Kaine Mitchell and linebacker James Curley. “We have to lean on them because we’re real inexperienced on the back end,” Phillips said. “Most of our guys up front have played football.” Among the limited bright spots for Riverdale (2-3, 0-2) were Sabyron Ferrell’s two kickoff returns beyond midfield. The Texas Southern commitment also intercepted a pass in the second quarter. Easton will play next against Higgins while Riverdale takes on Bonnabel.

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Saints RB Etienne out until at least Week 9 BY LUKE JOHNSON and MATTHEW PARAS Staff writers

New Orleans Saints running back Travis Etienne will miss the next four games after the team placed him on injured reserve Thursday. Etienne, who signed a fouryear contract with New Orleans this offseason, injured his hamstring during a 16yard run against the Las Vegas Raiders last week. He’d been dealing with a hamstring injury in the week leading up to the Raiders game. Because the Saints’ bye falls on Week 8 this Notebook season, Etienne will not be eligible to return to the team until it hosts the Cleveland Browns on Nov. 8. New Orleans will be without him for games against the Falcons, Vikings, Giants and Steelers. “It’ll take a little while,” coach Kellen Moore said. “Obviously we felt like it’ll be at least four weeks, and we’ll see how this thing progresses.” The Saints signed wide receiver Kevin Austin to the active roster from the practice squad in a corresponding move. Etienne is coming off his best game as a Saint, rushing for 57 yards and adding another 13 as a receiver before he left the game. He’d gotten off to a relatively slow start in New Orleans while splitting duties with Alvin Kamara and Kendre Miller the first two weeks, rushing for 130 yards on 30 carries while adding 51 yards on 11 receptions out of the backfield. New Orleans already had three other running backs on the active roster in Kamara, Miller and undrafted rookie free agent C.J. Donaldson, who figure to see an increased workload while Etienne is recovering. “Fortunately for us, we’ve got some guys who have played some football,” Moore said. “I think Alvin and Kendre will handle that load really well, and C.J. has found his specific role. … I feel like we’re in a good place.” After being limited to just 22 yards on his 16 touches in his season debut against Baltimore, Kamara bounced back last week, rushing for 36 yards on his nine carries with a long of 11. Despite making the splash signing of Etienne this offseason, the Saints went into this season anticipating there would be times when they’d need to lean on other

STAFF PHOTO BY BRETT DUKE

Saints running back Travis Etienne runs the ball during a game against the Las Vegas Raiders on Sunday at the Caesars Superdome.

backs — and Moore said practice report Thursday he feels fortunate to have were linebacker Divine Deablo and defensive end Samson Ebubrought Kamara back. kam, both of whom were limMore injuries ited with hamstring injuries. Both of the Saints’ starting linebackers — Pete Werner New signings (stinger) and Kaden Elliss (calf) The New Orleans Saints — did not participate in prac- worked out 16 free agents tice. Neither did edge de- this week. They ended up fenders Carl Granderson (ankle) signing two of them. The Saints added defenand Anfernee Jennings (knee), both of whom left the Saints’ sive end David Ojabo and runloss to the Las Vegas Raiders ning back Ulysses Bentley to the last week with their respec- practice squad amid injutive injuries. ries at those positions. New Werner is off to the best Orleans worked out a group start of his career for New of pass rushers and running Orleans, recording a sack, backs on Wednesday, leading two tackles for loss and a to Ojabo and Bentley signing pass breakup in addition to contracts with the team. 21 tackles while splitting Ojabo, 26, joins the Saints time with Danny Stutsman. after spending his first four Elliss re-joined the Saints years with the Baltimore this off-season after spend- Ravens. The Ravens drafting the last three seasons ed the 6-foot-4 edge rusher with Atlanta, and he’s fit with the 45th overall pick, seamlessly in coach Brandon but ultimately got minimal Staley’s defense through three returns for the selection. weeks, leading the Saints In four seasons, Ojabo, who with 24 tackles and is tied entered the NFL coming off for the team lead with five a torn Achilles, appeared quarterback hits. in only 32 games with only Safety Julian Blackmon, an- one start. He has 41/ 2 career other defensive starter, was sacks. Ojabo was also briefly a limited participant with a with the Miami Dolphins in the offseason, though he was calf injury. It wasn’t all bad news for released as part of the team’s the Saints: receiver/return roster cuts. specialist Barion Brown (hamBut Ojabo’s signing comes string) and defensive line- as starter Granderson (anman Christen Miller (toe), both kle) and veteran Jennings members of the team’s 2026 (knee) deal with injuries. draft class, returned to pracLikewise, the Saints added tice in a limited capacity af- Bentley with Etienne sideter missing all of last week. lined by a hamstring injury. Cornerback Martin Emerson Bentley, 25, went undraft(shoulder), who has rotated ed in 2025, but latched on in for starter Quincy Riley at with the Indianapolis Colts times this season, was a full and spent time on their pracparticipant in Thursday’s tice squad to begin his capractice. reer. The 5-foot-10 running Atlanta did not have a back, who has appeared in single player miss practice just one NFL game, played for injury reasons. The only college football at SMU and players listed on the Falcons Ole Miss.

Commanders QB Daniels shrugs off injury fears BY KEN MAGUIRE AP sportswriter

WATFORD, England — Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels said Thursday he has no concerns about re-injuring his left elbow and is “taking it day by day” on the possibility of starting against the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Daniels, who dislocated his elbow in Week 2 against the Dallas Cowboys, said he didn’t need immediate surgery and wanted to show leadership by returning to help his team. Daniels, a former LSU standout, missed last Sunday’s game against the Seahawks. Marcus Mariota threw three touchdown passes in the 33-31 win over the Super Bowl champions. Head coach Dan Quinn said Wednesday that Daniels would get more reps as the week progressed and that by Friday “we’ll have a deﬁnite determination of where we’re at.” For a second straight day, Daniels participated in practice while wearing a

protective brace. The brace extends from his biceps and triceps down to about the middle of his forearm — on his non-throwing arm. He was ofﬁcially “limited” Wednesday and Thursday. Daniels did footwork and throwing drills with the other QBs, looking relaxed on Thursday in the portion of practice open to the media. Asked if he thinks he’ll be ready by Sunday, Daniels smiled and said: “Just taking it day by day.” Whether or not he gets cleared, Daniels said he’ll be ready. “It’s day by day, but for sure got to mentally prepare myself to play,” he said. What about big hits or awkward falls? “That’s what the brace is for. If I had that concern, I would have got surgery,” he said. Daniels said he would revisit the surgery option after the season.

we like Jaden’s progression,” Blough said. It’s the second elbow dislocation for Daniels, who missed most of the second half of last season with the same injury. Blough said there are “lessons learned” from last year’s recovery, such as keeping Daniels’ legs in shape and staying on a throwing program. As for settling on a starter, sooner “is certainly better,” the first-year OC said. But he added: “That’s our job to be able to have any contingencies, whether it’s at quarterback, whether it is at running back. Our job is to adapt and try to find a way in that week to win.” The uncertainty might keep the Colts guessing this week, but ultimately Washington’s play calling won’t change much between Daniels and Mariota, according to Blough. In other injury updates Thursday, safety Percy QB situation is ‘fluid’ Butler (concussion) and corBefore practice Thursday, nerback Amik Robertson offensive coordinator David (knee) both were upgraded Blough was asked if he’s to full participants. Running game-planning for Daniels back Rachaad White (shoulor Mariota to start. der) did not practice for a “It is certainly fluid, and second straight day.

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Continued from page 1C that the Saints are tied for the third-most games involving a pool report since 2024 — which doesn’t put them at the center of contested calls. That distinction seemingly would belong to the Detroit Lions and the Philadelphia Eagles, who are tied with a league-high nine pool-report games. The Saints and the Pittsburgh Steelers follow with seven. Even then, a pool report hardly means the call in question swung a game. Take the 2025 NFC championship between the Eagles and Washington Commanders. Though that game was a 55-23 blowout for the Eagles, referee Shaun Hochuli found himself explaining why the Commanders were threatened with the referees awarding a score to Philadelphia after linebacker Frankie Luvu intentionally dove offside twice in a row in an attempt to stop the Eagles’ tush push. The warning had no effect on the outcome, but the oddity of the sequence warranted an explanation, nonetheless. Still, as transparent as the process can be, the explanations sometimes do little to ease the heightened emotions involved. After Sunday’s game, Butterworth told a pool reporter that Shough’s fumble was confirmed because “the quarterback clearly lost control of the ball before his hand was coming forward.” In Detroit weeks earlier, Butterworth said Goff had already started his throwing motion. But in the locker room Sunday, Saints players kept questioning the difference between the rulings. “I thought Shough’s intent was he threw it forward,” defensive end

Chase Young said, making a jab at the league’s explanation that took away the pass rusher’s sack on Goff and negated a touchdown fumble recovery. Despite both calls being critical, the Saints will be the first ones to acknowledge that those rulings aren’t the reason they have two losses on their record. New Orleans also can’t afford to dwell on the past with a crucial Monday Night Football showdown with the Atlanta Falcons looming. In some instances, the pool reports even favor New Orleans. Just ask Baltimore. In New Orleans’ Week 2 upset win over the Ravens, Shough’s go-ahead touchdown triggered a pool report after it was hard to tell whether the quarterback actually crossed the goal line in the middle of the pile. Butterworth did acknowledge no “clear and obvious” angle existed — but that’s why the initial call of a touchdown stood, rather than it be overturned. The league didn’t have the evidence to overturn the call. “The key here is the ruling on the field is a touchdown,” Butterworth said. Since 2024, the Saints are just 2-5 in games that have prompted a pool report. But interestingly, of those contests, four of the calls in question appeared to have benefitted New Orleans, regardless of the win-loss result. Last season, the New England Patriots had a 61-yard touchdown called back due to a late-arriving flag, determined to be offensive pass interference. Two weeks later, after a Rashid Shaheed fumble, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers also saw a touchdown wiped off the board when an official on the other side of the field blew his whistle because he thought the runner was down. Then in a December 2024 loss to the Commanders, the game clock at the Superdome inadvertently stopped with nine seconds

remaining — a pivotal error that gave the Saints time to score a last-second touchdown and a chance to win the game (New Orleans would fail the 2-point attempt). So how does the league determine which official speaks with a reporter? According to a league spokesperson, Butterworth — who joined the NFL in May 2024 — handles all inquiries in which instant replay has jurisdiction. For calls governed more by on-field play, such as personal foul penalties or, say, a missed pass interference call, the game’s lead referee would handle the interview. Not every controversial play triggers a pool report, either. Despite Rams cornerback Josh Wallace’s disputed pass interference on Denver’s Pat Bryant, no pool report followed Sunday night’s game between the Los Angeles Rams and the Denver Broncos because no one submitted a request. That didn’t stop people from noting the irony. “Well coach (Sean) Payton ﬁnally got his PI call!” tweeted former Rams and LSU tackle Andrew Whitworth, now an analyst for Amazon. “I say we call it even!” Pool reports have been around since the 1978 season, according to the league. And there, New Orleans — the city, anyway — was involved, too. Super Bowl XII — held at the Superdome — marked the ﬁrst game in which the league allowed the press to designate one reporter to discuss controversial calls with game officials afterward. What a coincidence. Email Matthew Paras at matt.paras@theadvocate. com

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Yankees turn attention to AL Division Series vs. Rays BY RONALD BLUM AP baseball writer

NEW YORK — Having bashed Boston without Aaron Judge, the New York Yankees face a far different task when they face the pesky Tampa Bay Rays in an AL Division Series starting Saturday. Riding powerful pitching led by Cam Schlitter and Max Fried, Yankees batters broke though just enough against Red Sox starters and beat up Boston’s bullpen in sweeping their rival in the Wild Card Series. “We’re going to continue to rely on amazing starting pitching like we have all year,” Ben Rice said after Wednesday night’s 9-2 win. ”Especially in the postseason, that’s what you need.” Schlittler and Fried combined to go 2-0 with a 0.73 ERA against the Red Sox with 16 strikeouts and two walks in 12 1⁄3 innings. Yankees manager Aaron Boone must decide whether to open against the Rays with Gerrit Cole, who was set to start a Game 3 against Boston, or Carlos Rodón. “Obviously, Gerrit’s lined up for that. Carlos is very much in play for that,” Boone said. “We have a ton of conﬁdence in both guys. I

right now.” New York’s best-of-five series against the Rays has an extra off day between Games 1 and 2, allowing Schlittler to start the second game and come back on normal rest for a Game 5. Whether Judge will return to the lineup remains unclear. Sidelined since Sept. 16 by a strained right calf, Judge has resumed hitting. “Saturday’s a long ways away, but I’m doing everything I can, all morning, night, during the game, everything to prepare myself to be ready to go,” Judge said. “So I want to be in there. So we’ll see what happens.” Tampa Bay won the season series 7-6 en route to an ALbest 98-64 record, their runners often spinning around the bases like a roulette ball going around the wheel. The Rays ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY YUKI IWAMURA were sixth in the major leagues with a .326 on-base percentage The New York Yankees take a group photo on the field to celebrate after and tied for second with 164 winning the American League Wild-Card Series against the Boston Red stolen bases. Sox in Game 2 on Wednesday in New York. Rays batters struck out the fewest times in the major leagues at think they’re both throwing the a 3.30 ERA. 1,145, an average of about two per ball really well.” “That’s been the biggest strength game fewer than the Yankees. Boone said it was possible Schlit- for us throughout the year,” Boone Because they won the AL East tler, Fried, Cole and Rodón all will said. “It sustained us. It got us and had a bye, the Rays will enstart against the Rays. New York’s through some difﬁcult times. And I ter the series with ﬁve days’ rest starters led the major leagues with feel like they’re all in a good place — which some in baseball is con-

vinced causes rust. “The alternative is playing three must-win games or two out of three. I’ll take where we’re at,” Rays manager Kevin Cash said. Rays left-handed pitchers held lefty batters to a .205 average during the regular season. Yankees lefty batters hit .500 (11 for 22) against Boston southpaws. “They faced so many guys for months there where we were very left-handed, where in the fifth inning every day it was one lefty and then another one because that’s how they attack us,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “So I’d like to think some of that familiarity and reps and all that prepared us well.” New York was second in the majors with 223 home runs, three behind Houston. What was often a home-run-or-bust batting order diversified in the Wild Card Series. Homegrown players — Rice, Spencer Jones, George Lombard Jr., Anthony Volpe and Austin Wells — combined for 11 RBIs. “The young guys have done a tremendous job,” outfielder Cody Bellinger said. “It’s been fun to watch. It’s fun to watch them grow and they’ve been a huge part of our success.”

SCOREBOARD Holes-in-one

East

Shelly Plaisance

Philadelphia N.Y. Giants Dallas Washington

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L 1 1 2 2

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PF 55 46 88 75

PA 69 55 82 92

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PF 89 81 51 62

PA 83 83 68 79

Minnesota Detroit Chicago Green Bay

W 3 2 2 1

L 0 1 1 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .667 0 .333

PF 71 93 89 56

PA 41 95 53 91

San Francisco Seattle L.A. Rams Arizona

W 3 2 1 1

L 0 1 2 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .333 0 .333

PF 98 75 61 63

PA 50 50 63 81

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Aaron Fisk

Course: Webb Hole: No. 3 Club: Gap Wedge Witness: Sean Braswell

North

Odds Sports Betting Line NFL Thursday

FAVORITE Pittsburgh

West

OPEN TODAY 3 2½

O/U UNDERDOG (37½) at CLE

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY Indianapolis 1½ 3½ at BUFFALO 3 6½ at HOUSTON 2½ 3 at CIN 2½ 2½ LA Rams 2½ 3½ Green Bay 1½ 3½ at CHI 8½ 3½ Arizona 7 2½ at BALT 8½ 11½ at MIN 7½ 10½ at SAN FRAN 2½ 2½ at SEATTLE 3 7 Kansas City 5½ 4½ Detroit 3 3½

O/U UNDERDOG (47½) at WASH (48½) New Eng (48½) Dallas (51½)Jacksonville (43½) at PHILA (38½) at TAMPA (43½) NY Jets (44½) at GIANTS (42½) Tennessee (38½) Miami (47½) Denver (42½) Chargers (48½) at VEGAS (50½) at CAR

FAVORITE at N.O.

O/U UNDERDOG (47½) Atlanta

Sunday

Monday

OPEN TODAY 2½ 2½

College Football

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY at VA TECH 5½ 2½ Liberty 6½ 6½ Penn State 7 2½

O/U UNDERDOG (54½) Pittsburgh (49½) at DEL (45½) at NWSTRN

NHL

FAVORITE at DETROIT at CAROLINA at WINNIPEG at DALLAS at VEGAS

LINE -139 -149 -118 -203 -186

UNDERDOG N.Y Rangers Washington Boston St. Louis Anaheim

LINE +115 +122 -104 +163 +151

First Round (Best-of-3)

New York 2, Minnesota 0

Sunday, September 27: New York 91, Minnesota 75 Tuesday, September 29: New York 87, Minnesota 71

Golden State 1, Dallas 1

Sunday, September 27: Golden State 104, Dallas 80 Wednesday, September 30: Dallas 108, Golden State 100, OT Friday, October 2: Dallas at Golden State, n

Las Vegas 1, Indiana 1

Sunday, September 27: Las Vegas 102, Indiana 85 Tuesday, September 29: Indiana 99, Las Vegas 89 Thursday, October 1: Indiana at Las Vegas, 8 p.m.

Atlanta 2, Washington 0

Sunday, September 27: Atlanta 92, Washington 77 Wednesday, September 30: Atlanta 93, Washington 75 Semiﬁnals (Best-of-5)

Monday’s Games

Major League Baseball MLB Postseason Glance

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

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L 0 2 2 3

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PA 78 61 51 86

Jacksonville Indianapolis Tennessee Houston

W 2 1 0 0

L 1 2 3 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .333 .000 .000

PF 82 72 37 54

PA 36 91 59 75

Pittsburgh Baltimore Cleveland Cincinnati

W 2 2 2 2

L 1 1 1 1

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .667 .667 .667 .667

PF 53 92 54 80

PA 60 78 71 63

Kansas City Las Vegas Denver L.A. Chargers

W 3 3 2 0

L 0 0 1 3

T Pct 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 .667 0 .000

PF 88 88 60 44

PA 50 54 70 76

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Boston

New York

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College football

(Best-of-3)

Schedule

Tuesday, Sept. 29: Chicago 6, Houston 3 Wednesday, Sept. 30: Chicago 7, Houston 3

Thursday, October 1 SOUTHWEST

American League Chicago White Sox 2, Houston 0 New York 2, Boston 0

Tuesday, Sept. 29: New York 9, Boston 0 Wednesday, Sept. 30: New York 9, Boston 2

Tuesday, Sept. 29: Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 3 Wednesday, Sept. 30: Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 3, 10 innings Thursday, Oct. 1: Philadelphia (Nola 7-12) at Atlanta (Kerr 0-0), n

San Diego 2, Chicago Cubs 0

Tuesday, Sept. 29: San Diego 8, Chicago 0 Wednesday, Sept. 30: San Diego 4, Chicago 1

DIVISION SERIES

All Times Central (Subject to change)

North Texas (2-2) at Tulsa (3-1), n

FAR WEST

W. Kentucky (1-3) at New Mexico St. (1-3), n

Friday, October 2 EAST

Liberty (3-1) at Delaware (2-2), 6 p.m.

SOUTH

Pittsburgh (4-0) at Virginia Tech (4-0), 6 p.m.

MIDWEST

Penn St. (3-1) at Northwestern (2-1), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Montana St. (5-0) at Idaho (0-4), 9:30 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST

(Best-of-5)

American League

(TBS, TruTV, HBO Max)

Cleveland vs. Chicago White Sox

Saturday, Oct. 3: Chicago at Cleveland, noon (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Monday, Oct. 5: Chicago at Cleveland, 4 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Wednesday, Oct. 7: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Thursday, Oct. 8: Cleveland at Chicago, TBD (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Saturday, Oct. 10: Chicago at Cleveland, TBD (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Chicago

Sunday, October 4: New York at Atlanta, TBA Wednesday, October 7: New York at Atlanta, TBA Friday, October 9: Atlanta at New York, TBA x-Sunday, October 11: Atlanta at New York, TBA x-Wednesday, October 14: New York at Atlanta, TBA

N.Y. Yankees 9, Boston 2

x-if necessary

San Diego 4, Chicago Cubs 1

No. 4 Atlanta vs. No. 8 New York

West

Indianapolis vs Washington at London, GBR, 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.

National League Atlanta 1, Philadelphia 1

WNBA Playoff Glance (x-if necessary)

North

Pittsburgh at Cleveland, n

WILD CARD SERIES

Pro basketball

South

Thursday’s Games

Sunday’s Games

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

Friday

South

T_2:50. A_47,513 (40,222).

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Syracuse (1-2) at UConn (2-2), 11 a.m. Wagner (1-3) at CCSU (0-3), 11 a.m. Brown (1-1) at Rhode Island (2-3), 11 a.m. Merrimack (2-3) at Yale (1-1), 11 a.m. Princeton (1-1) at Columbia (2-0), 11 a.m. Fordham (1-4) at Lehigh (5-0), 11 a.m. Mercyhurst (1-4) at LIU Brooklyn (0-5), 11 a.m. Cornell (1-1) at Georgetown (0-3), 11:30 a.m. Richmond (4-1) at Lafayette (1-3), 11:30 a.m. W. Michigan (2-2) at Buffalo (2-2), noon Elon (4-1) at New Hampshire (1-4), noon Morgan St. (3-1) at Villanova (2-3), noon Towson (0-5) at Monmouth (NJ) (3-2), noon Penn (1-1) at Dartmouth (0-2), 12:30 p.m. Norfolk St. (3-2) at Robert Morris (2-2), 1 p.m. Delaware St. (3-2) at Albany (NY) (2-3), 2:30 p.m. E. Michigan (2-3) at UMass (4-0), 2:30 p.m. Sacred Heart (1-3) at Maine (1-4), 2:30 p.m. NC A&T (1-4) at Bryant (3-1), 5 p.m. Colgate (4-1) at Harvard (2-0), 6 p.m. Indiana (4-0) at Rutgers (1-3), 7 p.m.

SOUTH

Stanford (2-2) at Wake Forest (3-1), 11 a.m. Notre Dame (4-0) at North Carolina (2-1), 11 a.m. Alabama (4-0) at Mississippi St. (4-0), 11 a.m. Vanderbilt (3-1) at Georgia (4-0), 11:45 a.m. Marist (2-2) at Stetson (1-3), noon Valparaiso (1-3) at Morehead St. (1-3), noon St. Thomas (Minn.) (4-1) at Presbyterian (1-3), noon Mercer (3-2) at VMI (0-5), 12:30 p.m. The Citadel (1-3) at SC State (5-0), 1 p.m. Wofford (2-3) at Furman (2-3), 1 p.m. Alcorn St. (3-2) at Grambling St. (2-2), 2 p.m. Prairie View (2-3) at MVSU (1-4), 2 p.m. Hampton (1-4) vs. Howard (1-3) at Washington, D.C., Md., 2 p.m. Samford (1-3) at UAB (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Louisville (2-2) at NC State (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Holy Cross (1-4) at William & Mary (2-3), 2:30 p.m. Auburn (3-1) at Tennessee (3-1), 2:30 p.m. Memphis (3-1) at Charlotte (0-4), 2:30 p.m. Virginia (3-1) at Florida St. (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Chattanooga (3-2) at ETSU (3-2), 2:30 p.m. Old Dominion (1-3) at Georgia St. (3-1), 2:30 p.m. Marshall (3-1) at James Madison (4-0), 2:45 p.m. Alabama St. (3-1) at Bethune-Cookman (2-2), 3 p.m. Kentucky (3-1) at South Carolina (2-2), 3:15 p.m. New Haven (1-4) at Austin Peay (4-1), 4 p.m. Jackson St. (4-0) vs. Alabama A&M (4-1) at

Mobile, Ala., 4 p.m. Campbell (4-1) at NC Central (2-3), 5 p.m. Gardner-Webb (1-4) at Charleston Southern (2-2), 5 p.m. North Alabama (3-2) at E. Kentucky (1-3), 5 p.m. Tennessee Tech (4-0) at W. Carolina (2-3), 5 p.m. Texas Southern (1-3) at FAU (3-1), 5 p.m. Ark.-Pine Bluff (2-2) at Southern U. (2-3), 6 p.m. Louisiana-Monroe (0-4) at South Alabama (2-2), 6 p.m. Georgia Southern (1-3) at Coastal Carolina (1-3), 6 p.m. Miami (4-0) at Clemson (3-1), 6:30 p.m. Temple (1-3) at South Florida (4-0), 6:30 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 Louisiana-Lafayette (3-1), 7 p.m.

MIDWEST

Middle Tennessee (2-2) at Kansas (1-2), 11 a.m. Michigan (3-1) at Minnesota (3-1), 11 a.m. West Virginia (3-1) at Iowa St. (2-2), 11 a.m. Michigan St. (2-2) at Wisconsin (3-1), 11:30 a.m. Dayton (3-0) at Drake (1-3), noon Murray St. (1-4) at North Dakota (4-1), 1 p.m. Toledo (3-1) at Ball St. (1-3), 1 p.m. Indiana St. (2-3) at South Dakota (3-2), 2 p.m. Akron (1-3) at Cent. Michigan (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Ohio (2-2) at Kent St. (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Florida (4-0) at Missouri (3-1), 2:30 p.m. Wyoming (2-2) at N. Dakota St. (4-0), 2:30 p.m. Bowling Green (0-4) at Miami (Ohio) (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Ohio St. (3-1) at Iowa (4-0), 2:30 p.m. Maryland (2-2) at Nebraska (4-0), 3 p.m. Tennessee St. (1-3) at W. Illinois (2-3), 3 p.m. Purdue (1-3) at Illinois (2-2), 3:15 p.m. Youngstown St. (3-2) at S. Illinois (3-2), 4 p.m. S. Dakota St. (4-1) at Illinois St. (4-1), 6 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Boston College (2-2) at SMU (3-1), 11 a.m. UCF (3-1) at Houston (3-1), 11 a.m. Incarnate Word (2-2) at Stephen F. Austin (5-0), 5 p.m. UT Rio Grande Valley (2-2) at East Texas A&M (1-4), 6 p.m. UTSA (3-1) at Rice (1-3), 6 p.m. Chicago State (1-4) at Tarleton St. (4-0), 6 p.m. Northwestern St. (0-5) at Lamar (3-1), 6 p.m. Arkansas (2-2) at Texas A&M (2-2), 6 p.m. Nicholls (2-3) at Houston Christian (2-3), 6 p.m. BYU (3-0) at TCU (2-2), 6 p.m. West Florida (3-1) at Abilene Christian (1-4), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Navy (1-2) at Air Force (2-1), 11 a.m. California (2-2) at UNLV (2-2), 2:30 p.m. Davidson (2-3) at San Diego (1-3), 3 p.m. N. Colorado (2-3) at Montana (4-1), 3 p.m. UTEP (1-3) at New Mexico (3-1), 3 p.m. Oregon St. (2-2) at Colorado St. (2-2), 5 p.m. Washington (3-1) at Southern Cal (4-1), 6:30 p.m. Texas Tech (4-0) at Colorado (2-2), 6:30 p.m. Utah St. (1-3) at Boise St. (3-1), 6:30 p.m. Weber St. (2-3) at Cal Poly (3-2), 7 p.m. S. Utah (1-4) at Utah Tech (0-5), 7 p.m. N. Arizona (3-2) at Idaho St. (4-0), 7 p.m. Fresno St. (3-1) at Washington St. (1-3), 8:30 p.m. E. Washington (1-4) at UC Davis (3-2), 9:30 p.m. Baylor (3-1) at Arizona St. (2-1), 9:30 p.m. Texas State (2-2) at San Diego St. (1-3), 9:30 p.m. Cincinnati (4-0) at Arizona (3-1), 10 p.m.

Sunday’s games FAR WEST

San Jose St. (2-2) at Hawaii (1-3), 11 p.m.

Hockey NHL Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Atlantic Division

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Pittsburgh Carolina Columbus New Jersey Washington N.Y. Islanders N.Y. Rangers Philadelphia

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WESTERN CONFERENCE Central Division Colorado Dallas Minnesota Nashville St. Louis Utah Winnipeg Chicago

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Vegas Vancouver Edmonton Anaheim Calgary

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Paciﬁc Division

Wednesday’s Games

Pittsburgh 7, Philadelphia 0 Toronto 2, N.Y. Islanders 1 Colorado 8, Los Angeles 4

Thursday’s Games

Buffalo at Columbus, n Philadelphia at New Jersey, n Tampa Bay at N.Y. Rangers, n Minnesota at Nashville, n Seattle at Calgary, n Chicago at Utah, n Edmonton at Vancouver, n Florida at San Jose, n

Friday’s Games

N.Y. Rangers at Detroit, 5:30 p.m. Washington at Carolina, 6 p.m. Boston at Winnipeg, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Dallas, 8 p.m. Anaheim at Vegas, 9 p.m.

ATP China Open Results Thursday

At National Tennis Center Beijing Purse: $4,089,385 Surface: Hardcourt outdoor Results Thursday from China Open at National Tennis Center (seedings in parentheses):

Men’s Singles

Round of 32 Alex de Minaur (5), Australia, def. Mariano Navone, Argentina, 7-6 (4), 6-2. Alex Molcan, Slovakia, def. Tomas Machac, Czechia, 6-3, 6-2. Francisco Cerundolo, Argentina, def. Botic Van de Zandschulp, Netherlands, 5-7, 6-4, 6-3. Quentin Halys, France, def. Ignacio Buse, Peru, 6-1, 7-6 (3). Roman Saﬁullin, Russia, def. Flavio Cobolli (4), Italy, 6-3, 6-2. Juncheng Shang, China, def. Sebastian Baez, Argentina, 5-7, 6-3, 7-5. Alexander Zverev (1), Germany, def. Cameron Norrie, Britain, 7-6 (1), 6-4. Andrey Rublev, Russia, def. Tallon Griekspoor, Netherlands, 6-4, 5-7, 7-6 (6). Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Learner Tien, United States, 5-7, 6-3, 6-4. Jakub Mensik (8), Czechia, def. Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, 6-4, 7-6 (5).

Men’s Doubles

Round of 16 Alexander Erler, Austria, and Robert Cash, United States, def. Rafael Matos and Orlando Luz (3), Brazil, 7-6 (6), 7-6 (10). Zhang Zhizhen and Yi Zhou, China, def. Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner, Germany, 6-7 (4), 6-4, 10-5. Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni, Argentina, def. Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia (4), France, 3-6, 6-4, 4-7, ret.

Transactions Major League Baseball American League KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Sent LHP Luke Little outright to Omaha (IL). NEW YORK YANKEES — Sent RHP Alexander Cornielle outright to FCL Yankees. National League CINCINNATI REDS — Sent 2B Ivan Johnson outright to Louisville (IL).

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Waived G Peter Suder and F Marquel Sutton. HOUSTON ROCKETS — Waived C Rafael Castro. TORONTO RAPTORS — Re-signed G Jamal Shead to a veteran extension. UTAH JAZZ — Waived G Jaelen House.

FOOTBALL

Boston Montreal Florida Toronto Buffalo Detroit Ottawa Tampa Bay

Metropolitan Division

San Jose 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Seattle 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Los Angeles 1 0 1 0 0 4 8 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss. Top three teams in each division and two wild cards per conference advance to playoffs.

National Football League BALTIMORE RAVENS — Signed LB Carl Jones to the practice squad. Released LB Jamon Johnson from the practice squad. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Waived LB Claudin Cherelus. Signed LB Maema Njongmeta to the practice squad. CINCINNATI BENGALS — Signed WR Ke’Shawn Williams to the practice squad. DALLAS COWBOYS — Acquired DB Joey Porter Jr. from Dallas in exchange for a 2027 sixth-round draft pick and a 2028 secondround draft pick. HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed RB Noah Whittingham on the practice squad injured list. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Signed S Tanner Ingle to the practice squad. MINNESOTA VIKINGS — Signed CB Natrone Brooks to the practice squad. NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS — Signed OL Matt Pryor to the active roster. NEW ORLEANS SAINTS — Signed WR Kevin Austin to the active roster. Placed RB Travis Etienne on injured reserve. Signed RB Ulysses Bentley and DE David Ojabo to the practice squad. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed LB Jihad Ward to the active roster. Signed NT Josh Tupou to the practice squad. NEW YORK JETS — Signed OL Kohl Levao to the active roster. Signed CB Jordan Clark and K Blake Grupe to the practice squad. Released S John Saunders Jr from the practice squad. PHILADELPHIA EAGLES — Signed LB Anfernee Orji to the practice squad. Placed LB Chance Campbell on practice squad injured reserve. PITTSBURGH STEELERS — Signed DB Doneiko Slaughter to the active roster. SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed WR Brandin Cooks to the active roster. Released WR KhaDarel Hodge. Signed WR Malik Turner to the practice squad. Designated DE Mykel Williams to return from the PUP list.

LIVING

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‘INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE’

In updated release, director talks ﬁlm’s impact BY JOHN WIRT

Contributing writer

In the 1994 film adaptation of New Orleans native Anne Rice’s novel “Interview with the Vampire,” a 20th-century vampire disdains Anglo-Irish novelist Bram Stoker’s famous vampire tale, “Dracula.” “The vulgar fictions of a demented Irishman,” Louis de Pointe du Lac tells a young reporter. Neil Jordan, the Oscar-winning Irish director of “Interview with the Vampire,” wrote the “demented Irishman” line for the genuine vampire Brad Pitt portrays in the film. “I thought,” Jordan said from his home in Dublin, Ireland, “if there was a vampire in the 20th century, that’s what he would think.” And contrary to Stoker’s imagined vampire, Jordan said with a chuckle, Louis loves crosses and garlic. Jordan spoke on the occasion of the September release of the first 4K, ultra high-definition, Blu-ray edition of “Interview with the Vampire.” His other films include “The Crying Game,” “The Butcher Boy,” The End of the Affair” and, starring future “Oppenheimer” Oscar winner Cillian Murphy, “Breakfast on Pluto.”

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Acoustic Sounds founder Chad Kassem stands in a company warehouse in Salina, Kan. Acoustic Sounds is one of the world’s leading producers of audiophile vinyl LPs.

‘THE WIZARD OF VINYL’

Some of the world’s best-sounding LPs are made by a south La. native in Kansas

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Neil Jordan, right, directs Kirsten Dunst’s Claudia in ‘Interview with the Vampire.’

Jordan took the helm of “Interview with the Vampire” after his Oscar and BAFTA wins for 1992’s “The Crying Game.” His pre-“Interview with the Vampire” history also includes reading Stoker’s London- and Transylvania-set gothic horror story, “Dracula,” during his Dublin childhood. “Not only did I read Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula,’ I grew up beside Bram Stoker’s house,” Jordan recalled. “To get to my local cinema, the Fairview, we had to pass the Crescent, an 18th-century crescent (housing development) of peeling, crumbling houses. It terrified the life out of me. I would go to see vampire movies in the cinema and be terrified for days, having to walk by Bram Stoker’s house.” Before “Interview with the Vampire,” most horror movies “were made on the cheap,” Jordan said. “And most vampire movies were made as ghoulish jokes.” On the contrary, Jordan’s adaptation of Rice’s book of vampires in the New World — a $60 million production starring Pitt alongside Tom Cruise as Lestat de Lioncourt — gave him “an opportunity to expand the universe of a vampire film,” Jordan said. To realize his vision for Louis and Lestat’s darkly beautiful environs, Jordan collaborated closely with the film’s Italian set designer-artist Dante Ferretti and French cinematographer Philippe Rousselot. The film shot in New Orleans and at nearby plantations, in San Francisco, Paris and London.

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BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

rowing up in Lafayette, Chad Kassem found plenty of trouble. Eventually, a judge gave him a choice: jail or an outof-state halfway house. So Kassem moved to Salina, Kansas, and got a job as a cook at a diner. After a friend introduced him to the sonic joys of high-quality vinyl LPs, he started a mail-order business selling albums. Forty years later, Kassem is, as the headline of a 2025 New York Times proﬁle proclaimed, the “wizard of vinyl.” In 2022, LPs outsold CDs for the ﬁrst time in 35 years. Vinyl’s remarkable resurgence shows no signs of slowing down. As one of the world’s leading producers of deluxe, audiophile-grade

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On Friday, Chad Kassem’s APO Records released deluxe vinyl editions of live albums by Louisiana guitarists Tab Benoit and the late Tony Joe White. They were recorded, respectively, in 2002 and 2003 at Blue Heaven Studios, a converted Gothic church in Salina, Kan. vinyl records, Kassem’s Acoustic Sounds family of companies is at the vanguard of that comeback. Most of the million or so records his company presses annually are acoustically pristine reissues of classic albums by the likes of Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, Steely Dan, The Doors, Stevie Ray Vaughan and The Beatles. But Kassem is also deeply com-

mitted to releasing new albums by traditional musicians from his home state. On Friday, his APO Records rolls out live recordings by Louisiana guitarists Tab Benoit and the late Tony Joe White on heavyweight, 180-gram vinyl. Later this month, Kassem commemorates Acoustic Sounds’ 40th

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“I started this all as a hobby. I’m no recording engineer or musician. I’m really just a collector and a fan.” CHAD KASSEM, founder of Acoustic Sounds

NBC’s ‘Line of Fire’ mixes crime drama, soap opera Hope Davis, center, stars in the NBC drama ‘Line of Fire.’

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BY MARK KENNEDY

AP entertainment writer NEW YORK — If you like crime procedurals, TV creator Joshua Safran suggests you catch the new NBC show “Line of Fire.” If you’re more of a soap opera person, Safran urges you watch the new NBC show “Line of Fire.” The hybrid series features a family of law enforcement ofﬁcers — one an FBI agent, one a U.S. marshal, two in the Secret

Service and one in the Department of Justice — whose work and home life overlap dramatically. It sounds like what you get when “Quantico” is mixed with “Gossip Girl” and that’s not too far from what Safran has concocted. He worked on both those series and has channeled them into a heady network mix. Plus, he’s added a little French farce.

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TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press

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Acoustic Sounds founder Chad Kassem examines a newly pressed album.

KASSEM

Continued from page 1D anniversary with The Vinyl Summit, an international gathering of vinyl enthusiasts and experts at the company’s Salina campus. The summit, from Oct. 15-18, spans seminars, behind-thescenes tours of the LP manufacturing process, a record fair and concerts. Kassem fervently believes that vinyl is the best way to experience recorded music. That faith has fueled his four-decade quest: to make great albums sound even greater. “To get a little bit better costs a whole lot of money and a whole lot of time,” he said in a recent interview. “That’s what we’re willing to do.”

A vinyl true believer As a boy in Lafayette, Kassem was always around music. His mother patented a rub board designed for women and sold them at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. When he was around 10 years old, a cousin drove him to New Orleans to see Wet Willie and Humble Pie at the Municipal Auditorium. Kassem’s ﬁrst concert left a lasting impression. At the time, he didn’t fully appreciate southwest Louisiana’s indigenous zydeco, swamp pop and Cajun music. “I had to leave Louisiana to understand just how important Louisiana is in the music world,” he said. “I took it all for granted: there’s D.L. Menard playing, there’s Warren Storm playing, there’s Clifton Chenier playing. I thought Warren Storm was a local cover band. I didn’t know these guys had hit records.” As a teenager, he let the good times roll a little too much. Lafayette, Kassem maintains, is “one of the greatest places on earth, but there’s some downsides. We like to party, we like to have a good time. Some of us just didn’t know what time to go home when the bars stay open for 24 hours.” Substance abuse led to multiple arrests. Hoping to leave his troubles in Lafayette, he relocated to Salina in 1984. At the time, CDs were starting to supplant cassettes and vinyl LPs as the most popular music format. But he remained a vinyl true believer. His successful mail-order business enabled him to expand to manufacturing records. He wouldn’t just

‘VAMPIRE’

Continued from page 1D “I said, ‘We’re going to take 18th-century New Orleans and Paris and 20thcentury San Francisco,” Jordan said, “and turn the whole world into a beautiful mausoleum. And we did.” Launching production in New Orleans in October 1993, Jordan found more than everything he needed. “It was the most beautiful experience shooting there,” he said. “Also, the most haunting experience, because we were shooting constantly at night. And it was this strange haunted environment. It was almost like the entire of the city believed in vampires.” Jordan had minimal contact with Rice, the late local novelist who published “In-

make them — he’d make better-sounding versions of albums he loved. He now has more than 100 employees in Salina dedicated to that mission. “We can do everything from the recording to the mastering, plating, pressing, printing the labels and inserts, and shipping. The only thing we don’t do is the album jackets. I have to go to bed sometime.” His Quality Record Pressings plant melds old-school sensibilities with contemporary technology. “Typically our records will be richer, warmer, smoother, nicer on the ear,” Kassem said. “They’ll have a little more bass to them, a little more weight, (sound) a little fuller.” His Analogue Productions releases around 100 reissues a year. Analogue licenses original, analog master tapes — digital copies won’t do — from record companies eager for Kassem to give their catalogs the sort of deluxe makeover that appeals to audiophiles. “Basically, you’ve got to have somebody that cares about making the best quality, sparing no expense. It’s like baking a cake. There’s a recipe and you’ve got to follow it. You can’t cheap out on one thing.”

Getting in his favorites

a Gothic-style church in downtown Salina that Kassem converted into a performance space and recording studio. “There’s only one guy that I know that’s prouder of being from Louisiana than me,” Kassem said. “And that’s Tab Benoit.” Over the years, Kassem has hosted a who’s who of Louisiana musicians at Blue Heaven, including Frogman Henry, Lazy Lester, Henry Gray, Lil Bob, Warren Storm, Jean Knight, Robert Parker and Buckwheat Zydeco. “I bring guys from (Louisiana) because that’s my favorite stuff and that’s where I grew up.” An upcoming Acoustic Sounds 40th anniversary album series will include deluxe reissues of New Orleans funk legends the Meters’ “Fire On the Bayou” and “Rejuvenation.” “A lot of stuff that I like, I’m sharing with the rest of the world,” he said. “I’m going to put some of my favorites in when I can.”

A collector and fan His tastes are reﬂected in the Vinyl Summit’s upcoming concert series in Salina. Jazz saxophonist Chico Freeman headlines Oct. 15. New Orleans-based pianist Oscar Rossignoli is also on the bill. Mud Morganfield, son of blues icon Muddy Waters, closes Oct. 16. Louisiana Gulf Coast blues guitarist Lil’ Jimmy Reed is part of that show. Guitarists Taj Mahal, Jimmie Vaughn and Bernard Allison cap off the series on Oct. 17. “The people who will come to the summit are vinyl collectors, music lovers, concertgoers, blues lovers, mastering engineers,” Kassem said. “And the musicians hang around. It’s not like ‘us’ and ‘them.’ Everybody that comes is ‘us.’ ” Even as he’s built a multimillion-dollar business, Kassem remains a music fan at heart. He still can’t fully believe he’s hung out with John Fogerty, Wynton Marsalis, Taj Mahal and other legends. “It’s amazing that some of these guys even know who I am. Me and Taj are buddies.” When Acoustic Sounds buys record collections to resell, Kassem first picks out albums for himself. “I started this all as a hobby. I’m no recording engineer or musician. I’m really just a collector and a fan.”

Analogue Productions partnered with Atlantic Records to commemorate that label’s 75th anniversary. Such is Kassem’s reputation in the audiophile community that he was mentioned by name on the “hype stickers” afﬁxed to the albums in the Atlantic anniversary series of deluxe reissues. Those reissues ranged from a double-LP, 45 rpm version of INXS’s “Kick” to high-quality remakes of Dr. John’s “In the Right Place” and “Gumbo” albums. Kassem’s APO (Analogue Productions Originals) Records specializes in new albums by traditional artists. In 2025, APO Records released a double album featuring two fiddle players afﬁliated with the Pine Leaf Boys. “Courtney Granger & Cedric Watson: Cajun & Creole Music of Louisiana” was the final recording by Granger, who had died in 2021 of complications from diabetes at age 39. APO’s new albums by fellow Louisianians Tab Benoit and Tony Joe White are both titled “Blues Masters Live.” They were recorded in 2002 and 2003, respectively, during the Blues Masters at the Crossroads concert series Email Keith Spera at at Blue Heaven Studios, kspera@theadvocate.com.

terview with the Vampire,” the ﬁrst of her 30 bestselling novels, in 1976. “She asked me to make the movie,” the director recalled. “We spoke on the phone several times. I went to meet her in her strange house in New Orleans. She was surrounded by strange statues. But when I started making the movie, she took exception to the casting of Tom Cruise. So, we didn’t speak until she’d seen the ﬁlm. When she liked it, we became friends again.” After Rice and her devoted readers vehemently opposed Cruise as Lestat and Pitt as Louis, Jordan felt relief when the author ultimately expressed her approval. “But a lot of that stuff is people creating these dramas, so more people will read their books and go to see their movies,” he said.

“It seemed a bit fake to me. I just wanted to make the best version I could of that beautiful book that she’d written.” An international hit, “Interview with the Vampire” earned $105.2 million domestically and $223.6 worldwide. Jordan, the director of 26 films and author of a dozen books, anticipates his next film will be an adaption of his 2023 novel, “The Well of Saint Nobody.” His latest novel, this year’s “The Library of Traumatic Memory,” has yet to be published in the U.S. “It’s a tough time for filmmaking,” he said of the movie business. “A lot of directors are struggling, but I’ve got several films I want to make. I don’t want to stop.” Email John Wirt at j_wirt@ msn.com.

Today is Friday, Oct. 2, the 275th day of 2026. There are 90 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 2, 1967, Thurgood Marshall joined the U.S. Supreme Court as its ﬁrst African American justice; he would serve on the bench for 24 years until his retirement in 1991. Also on this date: In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a serious stroke at the White House that left him paralyzed on his left side. In 1942, the RMS Queen Mary, an ocean liner carrying thousands of American soldiers as a converted troop ship during World War II, accidentally rammed and sank the escort ship HMS Curacoa in the North Atlantic, killing over 300 crew members aboard the Curacoa. In 1944, German troops crushed the 2-month-old Warsaw Uprising, during which a quarter of a million people were killed. In 1970, one of two char-

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Continued from page 1D “You’re going to watch a case unfold every week by very capable people who are in an area or areas of law enforcement that you may have seen before, but you’re also going to go home with them and see how they take that work home with them, how it impacts their family life, how it impacts their relationships,” he says.

Who stars, how it works? “Line of Fire,” debuting Monday, stars Peter Krause and Hope Davis as the on-again, off-again couple at the heart of the high-achieving, slightly dysfunctional Hollingsworth family. The fundamentals are not dissimilar to CBS’s long-running series “Blue Bloods,” about a multigenerational family of New York City cops and their assistant district attorney sister. But while the ﬁctional Reagan family would do seemingly anything for one another, one of the Hollingsworth family’s three children describes them as “a family full of people who will stop at nothing to protect literal strangers but are unable to stop hurting each other.” An early scene in the pilot episodes shows mom demanding that her daughter introduce the family to her new boyfriend — while both women stand over a fresh crime scene with two corpses. “I think it’s really hard these days to set boundaries, even when we do set aside time,” says Safran. “If you’re out with your partner, or you’re out with friends, the conversation really often tends to center around work because

tered twin-engine planes flying the Wichita State University football team to Utah crashed into a mountain near Silver Plume, Colorado, killing 31 of the 40 people on board. In 1968, as many as 300 people were massacred at a student protest in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco plaza in what the government initially reported as a lawful suppression of a violent riot just 10 days before the Summer Olympics’ Opening Ceremony. In 2006, an armed milk truck driver took a group of girls hostage in an Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania, killing five of them and wounding five others before taking his own life. In 2016, Hall of Fame baseball broadcaster Vin Scully signed off for the last time, ending 67 years behind the mic for the Dodgers as he called a 7-1 loss to the Giants in San Francisco. In 2018, U.S.-based journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of Saudi Arabia’s government, was killed by

Saudi Arabian officials at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2020, stricken by COVID-19, President Donald Trump was injected with an experimental drug combination at the White House before being flown to a military hospital, where he was given remdesivir, an antiviral drug. In 2023, a fire broke out in a nightclub in the southeastern Spanish city of Murcia, killing 13 people and injuring several others. Today’s birthdays: Singersongwriter Don McLean (“American Pie”) is 81. Fashion designer Donna Karan is 78. Actor Avery Brooks is 78. Photographer Annie Leibovitz is 77. Singer-actor Sting is 75. Actor Lorraine Bracco is 72. R&B singer Freddie Jackson is 70. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa is 63. Singer-songwriter Gillian Welch is 59. Actortalk show host Kelly Ripa is 56. Actor Efren Ramirez is 53. Musician Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes) is 38.

we’ve lost the art of going out and seeing where the night takes you or where the day takes you.” Each week will have its own case — pulling in two or more family members — while there are also long-term arcs, like questions around an old assassination attempt on the president and which killer is leaving little origami cranes at crime scenes. By the end of the first show, a deadly conspiracy is revealed that will echo throughout the series. Unfortunately for them, this family is destined to be in each other’s faces. “It’s a family business,” says the mom to one of her sons during a tense moment. “If you didn’t want to join it, you could have gone to art school.”

Safran says that while he was writing the family dynamic, he was inspired by the song “Stay” by Samantha Barks, with the lyric “Don’t come too close and don’t go too far.” One of the show’s champions is someone who spent a lot of time under Secret Service protection — Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of “Today” and daughter of former President George W. Bush. Hager is an executive producer. “She’s really been an invaluable resource. She’s talked to the writers, she’s come to set,” says Safran. “She’s just so positive and her energy is so infectious and great.” Hager helped Safran pick what became “Line of Fire” from a number of ideas he was kicking around. He says he’s always been interested in procedurals but forever wondered about the characters’ nonwork life. “You don’t see their home lives and I really wanted to explore that. When you watch the ‘Chicago’ shows or the ‘Law & Order’ universe, at least for me, I’m digging for pieces and clues about the characters behind their job,” he says. Safran also gets to explore ways the work-life divide can get messed up, like how the Hollingsworth’s mother is someone who is suspicious of everyone — good for tracking down fugitives — but that isn’t very helpful when meeting her kids’ new friends. “It goes both ways,” he says. “We bring home to work, but we bring work to home in the worst ways, too.”

Bigger influences After his beloved fire captain Bobby Nash was killed last year in a shocking twist on ABC’s “9-1-1,” Krause was lured back to the small screen by Safran’s scripts. The “Parenthood,” “Sports Night” and “Six Feet Under” alum says he wasn’t thinking about doing another network show but, as his credits suggest, he enjoys being part of a TV family. This time, there was a lot of family intrigue. “The fun of it for me is the concealment, that within their jobs they have to conceal things from each other and sometimes they don’t,” says Krause. “Sometimes they’ll cross a line to share information with each other, which is fun.” The cast also includes Kat Cunning, Tommy O’Brien and Taylor Bloom as the three Hollingsworth children. Guest stars include Sam Waterston, Campbell Scott and Chris Chalk.

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plain about something without sufficient information. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Zigzag through ups and downs. Drama, anger and overreactions will cost you if you don't think before you act. Don't allow stubbornness to take over, causing you to look bad or end up in a weak position. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) Point your energy in a direction that leads to personal growth and greater awareness of what you want to achieve. Socializing with people who have something to offer will be rewarding. cAncER (June 21-July 22) Let your intuition guide you. Taking your time, listening and understanding what's important to those you deal with personally and professionally will help you offer what's necessary to get what you want. LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Distance yourself from situations that can cause problems at home. Change your routine, and avoid senseless arguments that can lead to poor decisions. A little discipline will go a long way. VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) Gather information so you can understand the dynamics of a situation before you get involved. Express only what's necessary, and try to find common ground to avoid disputes that might cost you personally or financially. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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

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Bridge By PHILLIP ALDER Publilius Syrus, in the first century B.C., was a Syrian slave brought to Italy, but by exhibiting wit and intelligence, he was released and educated by his master. Syrus said, “A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.” The last four columns featured deals in which the declarers tried to maximize their chances of making their contracts. But sometimes a defender should take a page from those declarers’ books. In this deal, East is defending against four hearts. West leads the club seven. East wins with his queen and cashes the club ace, West following with the two to show that he started with a doubleton. What should East do next? After East opened one club, South had enough points to make a takeout double, planning to bid hearts on the next round to show his strong hand-type. But he feared that the opponents would carry the auction uncomfortably high in spades before he could mention his suit. The defense looks so easy: Lead a third club. West will win the trick by ruffing, return a diamond to East’s ace for down one, and perhaps another club will effect a trump promotion. In this deal, though, that backfires badly. Declarer wins the third trick in the dummy, draws trumps and claims.

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Dates are subject to changes via an adden‐ dum posted by the Bu‐ reau of Purchasing on the City’s supplier portal. If you wish to receive no‐ tiﬁcation of addendum posted by the Bureau of Purchasing about this event, register as a sup‐ plier or update your sup‐ plier account (if already registered) and select the following commodity code(s): COMMODITY CODE: 910-79 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion. For more information about this event, go to www.nola.gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Por‐ tal” under “BIDS & CON‐ TRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Portal, search “Open Events.”

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): 961-49 The City of New Orleans strongly encourages mi‐ nority-owned and women-owned busi‐ nesses, socially and eco‐ nomically disadvantaged businesses and small businesses to respond to this solicitation, or to participate in subcon‐ tracting opportunities pursuant to this solicita‐ tion. For more information about this sourcing event, go to www.nola. gov and click on “BRASS Supplier Portal” under “BIDS & CONTRACTS”. Once on the Supplier Por‐ tal, search “Open Events.” Thank you for your inter‐ est in doing business with the City of New Or‐ leans.

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Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 202662-oct 2-1t $16.34 PUBLIC NOTICE --Notice to Proposers SP# 2232 Sealed proposals will be received by the Office of State Procurement, 1201 North Third Street, 2nd Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, LA until 10:00 AM CT on November 10, 2026 for Solicitation Number Doc2399264806- Request for Proposal (RFP) for Statewide Student As‐ sessment Services. The RFP may be accessed at https://portal.us.bn. cloud.ariba.com/ dashboard/public/ appext/comsapsbncd iscoveryui#/RfxEvent/ preview/1110026412?anI d=ANONYMOUS No proposals will be con‐ sidered after the date and hour specified. The right is reserved to reject any and all proposals and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Chief Procurement Offi‐ cer Phone (225) 342-8010 202591-OCT 2-1T $11.77 PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS As-Needed NEPA Decision Making and Permitting Support Services Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com‐ missioners of the Port of New Orleans (Board) is requesting proposals for Professional Services for as-needed NEPA decision making and permitting support. All Request for Proposal (RFP) docu‐ ments will be available on www.centralbidding. com on Friday, Septem‐ ber 25, 2026. The RFP doc‐ uments may also be ob‐ tained from the SEBCon‐ nect App, available on both the Apple and Google Play platforms. Proposals must be sub‐ mitted via Central Bid‐ ding, no later than 11:00 AM (CST), on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, to be considered. Respondents shall follow the instruc‐ tions given in this Re‐ quest for Proposals (RFP) in order to respond with a valid proposal for eval‐ uation by the Board’s Evaluation Committee. All inquiries shall be di‐ rected to the Procure‐ ment Department at pro‐ curement@portnola.com by Monday, October 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM (CST). Addenda to this RFP will be issued to all Respon‐ dents receiving this RFP. Questions and answers and all forms required will be posted on www. centralbiding.com. 202013-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $59.79

PUBLIC NOTICE --REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS Professional Services for As-Needed Oil Spill Response Organizations and Specialized Cleanup and Disposal Notice is hereby given that the Board of Com‐ missioners of the Port of New Orleans (Board) is requesting proposals for as-needed professional services by Oil Spill Re‐ sponse Organizations. All Request for Proposal (RFP) documents will be available on www.central bidding.com on Friday, September 25, 2026. The RFP documents may also be obtained from the SE‐ BConnect App, available on both Apple and Google play platforms. Proposals must be sub‐ mitted via Central Bid‐ ding, no later than 11:00 AM (CST), on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, to be considered. Respondents shall follow the instruc‐ tions given in this Re‐ quest for Proposals (RFP) in order to respond with a valid proposal for eval‐ uation by the Board’s Evaluation Committee. All inquiries shall be di‐ rected to the Procure‐ ment Department at pro‐ curement@portnola.com by Monday, October 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM (CST). Addenda to this RFP will be issued to all Respon‐ dents receiving this RFP. Questions and answers and all forms required will be posted on www. centralbiding.com. 202014-sept 25-oct 2-9-3t $60.81

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

PUBLIC NOTICE --Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Facilities Department for the Jef‐ ferson Parish School Board, 4600 River Road, Administration Annex, 1st Floor, Marrero, LA 70072, until 2:00 P.M., Thursday, October 15, 2026 for the Freight and Passenger Elevator Re‐ placements at the Ad‐ ministration Annex Build‐ ing, Project No. 2024-34 B 3. Bids will be publicly opened and read aloud. No bids may be with‐ drawn after scheduled closing time for receipt of bids for at least thirty (30) days. The Owner has h i h j

Public Notices Bids/Proposals y the right to reject any or all bids and to waive all informalities. Plans and specifications and other information may be secured from the architect / engineer Holly & Smith Architects, 2302 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LA 70130, Phone: 504-585-1315 for $100.00 per set for a hard copy and/or a non-re‐ fundable fee of $25.00 for an electronic set on com‐ pact disk. The full de‐ posit of one set of docu‐ ments will be refunded to each General Contrac‐ tor. For additional sets of documents and for docu‐ ments issued to subcon‐ tractors or material sup‐ pliers the cost for repro‐ duction of each set will be deducted from the de‐ posit and the balance re‐ funded. Refunds will only be made for documents returned to the architect / engineer within ten (10) days after the opening of bids. Refunds will only be made on documents re‐ tuned complete, in good condition and unmarked. A pre-bid meeting will be held on Tuesday, October 6, 2026 at 9:00 a.m. at the Administration Annex Building, 4600 River Road, 1st Floor, Marrero, LA 70072 to allow prospec‐ tive bidders to review the job scope and site condi‐ tions. Sealed proposals shall be marked on the envelope cover, plainly and prominently with the following: a) bidder’s name, address and tele‐ phone number b) State License Number of Con‐ tractor if the bid is in ex‐ cess of $50,000.00 and c) the statement “Proposal for (project name and number)”. Bidders have the option to submit bids electroni‐ cally in accordance with Louisiana Revised Statute 38:2212 E (1). Please find bid related materials and place elec‐ tronic bids at www.cen tralbidding.com. Participation by minority and female-owned busi‐ nesses, as well as busi‐ nesses located in this Parish, is encouraged. The architect/engineer has classified this pro‐ ject as General Building Construction. 200767-sep 18-25-oct 2-3t $108.30 PUBLIC NOTICE -- The Louisiana Office of the State Museum is re‐ questing proposals for a Public-Private Partner‐ ship project to design, build, furnish, operate, and maintain an in‐ door/outdoor café at the New Orleans Jazz Mu‐ seum. For more informa‐ tion go to opportuni‐ tiesinlouisiana.com. 202695-oct 2-20-t $93.29

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PUBLIC NOTICE --BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENTS PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE Monday, October 19, 2026 10:00 a.m. City Council Chambers City Hall, 1300 Perdido Street, 1st Floor, New Orleans, Louisiana The Board of Zoning Ad‐ justments, in accordance with Article 4 of the Com‐ prehensive Zoning Ordi‐ nance of the City of New Orleans, will hold a pub‐ lic hearing on the follow‐ ing items: Variances – Unﬁnished Business 1. BZA054-26 906 Philip Street / Charles and Sarah Anderson 2. BZA073-26 1037 Mazant Street / D T Home & Maintenance LLC, Dammond Lockhart, Ana Elizabeth Phelps 3. BZA076-26 5230 Pitt Street / Kurt and Leah Eischen, Lupin Architec‐ ture, Lawrence T. Lupin 4. BZA080-26 906 Dante Street / Dantes-Burthe L.C., Colin Rusovich, Made Design, LLC, David Merlin Variances – New Business 5. BZA082-26 1208 Web‐ ster Street / Peter An‐ dronaco and Mary San‐ tina, Eric McCutcheon, AIA, Datum Architects 6. BZA083-26 7301 Way‐ side Drive / Erica Lamp‐ kin Richardson and Donovan Richardson 7. BZA085-26 3322-24 Es‐ planade Avenue / JG2 Properties LLC, Jordan Gerard, Karsen Architec‐ ture LLC, Ross Karsen Director of Safety and Permits Decision Appeals – New Business 8. BZA084-26 1616-18 Pry‐ tania Street / Gregory Lacy II and Gulsah Lacy, Benjamin Flaxenburg Any Other Matters – New Business 9. Consideration – Adop‐ tion of the 2027 Board of Zoning Adjustments Meeting Schedule Notice under the Ameri‐ cans with Disabilities Act: This meeting is ac‐ cessible to people with disabilities. Should you need further assistance, please contact the Front Desk in the Main Lobby or the ADA Administra‐ tor: (504) 658-4020 (voice), 711 LA Relay Ser‐ vice, or e-mail emhurst@ nola.gov. Please be ad‐ vised there is a courtesy telephone available for 711 calls for people with hearing or speech im‐ pairments at the wel‐ come desk of City Hall, First Floor, Main Lobby. This communiqué is available in alternative formats upon request. Advertisement Dates: September 25, October 2, 9 and 16, 2026 NOCP 9337 25-oct

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

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JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 876-509

I, TRAVIS DENNIS, DOC #588476 have applied for clemency for my conviction of SECOND DEGREE MURDER. If you have any comments, contact the Board of Pardons (225)342-5421.

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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‐ l b b i d

BRETT MORRIS VERSUS DESTINY WOODS By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 6, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Wednesday, No‐ vember 4, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the follow‐ ing described property to wit: Description: 2020 TESLA MODEL 3 WHITE 5YJ3E1EA0LF598 103 LICENSE PLATE 849JNS Stored At: AVONDALE STORAGE 3110 HWY. 90 P. O. BOX 9150 AVONDALE, LA This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds be must Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. CAMILLE R WEBRE Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: October 2, 2026 Oct 2-1t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT

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24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 875-414 FEDERAL HOME LOAN MORTGAGE CORPORATION, AS TRUSTEE FOR THE BENEFITS OF THE FREDDIE MAC SEASONED CREDIT RISK TRANSFER TRUST, SERIES 2020-2 VERSUS MATTHEW S. DAVID INDIVIDU‐ ALLY AND AS SURVIVING SPOUSE IN COMMUNITY WITH TONI BRUNO DAVID By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated May 5, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes and appurtenances thereunto be‐ longing or in any wise apper‐ taining situated in the PARISH OF JEF‐ FERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in FERRIS PLACE SUBDIVISION, UNIT NO. 2, which is part of original Lot No. 8 of the Trudeau Plantation, and in accordance with survey made by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associ‐ ates, Civil Engineers, dated January 20, 1955, said lot is situated in SQUARE NO. 6 of said subdivision which is bounded by Jade Avenue, Shirley Street, Aetna Street, and the westerly line of Ferris Place Subdivision, Unit No. 2, said lot being desig‐ nated as LOT NO. 62 and mea‐ sures 60 feet front on Jade Avenue, with the same width in the rear, by a depth be‐ tween equal and parallel lines of 90 feet. All as more fully shown on survey by Adloe Orr, Jr. & Associ‐ ates, Inc., Civil Engineers, dated Novem‐ ber 30, 1955; said Lot No. 62 com‐ mences at a dis‐ tance of 191.55 feet from the corner of Jade Avenue and Aetna Street. All as more fully shown on sur‐ vey by Sterling Mandle, Land Surveyor, dated June 21, 1975, a copy of which is an‐ nexed to act be‐ fore Charles Barera, Notary Public, dated July 11, 1975; subject to restrictions, servitudes, rights-of-way and outstanding mineral rights of record affect‐ ing the property . This sale is sub‐

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

Sons, Inc., C.E. and S., dated September 16, 1978 ("Prop‐ erty").

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

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

NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. CRIS R. JACKSON Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT

TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. CANDACE A. COURTEAU Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026

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PLANET HOME LENDING, LLC VERSUS MIRANDA L. EGLE A/K/A MIRANDA LONG EGLE MISTRETTA By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated April 24, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, situ‐ ated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as WEST‐ GATE SUBDIVI‐ SION, being a resubdivision of a portion of Highway Park Subdivision, ac‐ cording to a plan of West‐ gate Subdivi‐ sion, by Roussel and Galloway, C.E., dated June 30, 1955, recorded in Plan Book 27, folio 29, revised January 17, 1956, recorded in Plan Book 28, folio 45, which portion of ground is designated as LOT 9, in SQUARE "R", bounded by Minnesota Av‐ enue (formerly Cypress Street), 26th Street (for‐ merly 18th Street), Missis‐ sippi Avenue (formerly Fir Street), and 25th Street (for‐ merly 7th Street), said lot commences at a distances of 413.50 feet from the corner of Minnesota Av‐ enue and 26th Street, and measures thence 59.7 feet front on Min‐ nesota Avenue, same width in the rear, by a depth of 128.8 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines, all as more fully shown on the survey of J. J. Krebs and

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NO: 877-822 STANDARD MORTGAGE CORPORATION VERSUS MATIALDO SCOTT PIERRE A/K/A MA‐ TIALDO SCOTT PIERRE, JR. By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated July 24, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: THAT PORTION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servi‐ tudes, appurte‐ nances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, in the CITY OF GRETNA, in ROSE PARK SUBDIVISION, being LOT 17, SQUARE "N", bounded by Rose Drive, Claire Avenue, 25th and 27th Streets. Accord‐ ing to survey of Hotard & Webb, C.E., dated April 15, 1954, said Lot 17 commences at a distance of 268.15 foot from the corner of Rose Drive and 27th Street and mea‐ sures thence 53.63 feet front on Rose Drive, same width in the rear, by a depth of 96 feet, be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - The full purchase price is due at the

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time of the sale. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certiﬁed Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. FOERSTNER G. MEYER Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t JUDICIAL ADVERTISE‐ MENT 24TH JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT PARISH OF JEFFERSON STATE OF LOUISIANA NO: 866-839 KIRKLAND FINANCIAL LLC VERSUS NAILOR SERVICES, LLC By virtue of and in obedience to a Writ of SEIZURE AND SALE from the 24th Judicial District Court, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in the above num‐ bered and enti‐ tled cause, dated June 1, 2026, I have seized and will proceed to sell to the highest bidder at public auction, at the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Ofﬁce Complex, 1233 Westbank Ex‐ pressway, Har‐ vey, Louisiana, 70058, on Octo‐ ber 7, 2026 at 10 o'clock a.m. the following de‐ scribed prop‐ erty to wit: **TO BE SOLD SEPARATELY** ATTACHMENT “A” THAT CERTAIN PIECE OR POR‐ TION OF GROUND, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, and all of the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, appurtenances and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise situ‐ ated in the Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, in that part thereof known as ORLEANS VILLLAGE, SEC‐ TION ONE, being a part of the re‐ subivision Lots H-401, H-402, and H-403 of Ames Farm, Township 14 South, Range 23 East, South‐ west Land Dis‐ trict of Louisiana, West of the Missis‐ sippi River, which resubdi‐ vision was ap‐ proved by the Jefferson Parish Council on May 14, 1978, under

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Ordinance No. 9654, same being registered in COB 715, folio 582, Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, which said ordi‐ nance was in accor‐ dance with a certain plan of survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated August 11, 1964, and according to said survey, said lot is desig‐ nated and mea‐ sures as follows, towit: LOT 24, SQUARE F, bounded by Rue Racine, Sauvage Avenue (side) Rue Louis Phillppe; Caddy Drive, Rue Mon‐ tespan (side) and Ruse Racine (side). Said Lot 24 begins 432.31 feet from the corner of Rue Racine and Rue Louise Phillppe and measures thence 60 feet front on Rue Racine, the same width in the rear, by a depth of 85 feet be‐ tween equal and parallel lines. All in ac‐ cordance with a plan of survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated March 8, 1971. All as is more fully shown on the Mandle Sur‐ veying, Inc., dated April 4, 1996, annexed to an act registered in C.O.B. 2938, folio 75. improve‐ The ments thereon bear the munici‐ pal No. 2129 Rue Racine, Marrero, LA 70072 ATTACHMENT “B” A certain lot or portion of ground, to‐ gether with all the buildings and improve‐ ments thereon, all rights, ways, servitudes, and advantages thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise apper‐ taining, situated in the Parish of Jefferson, State of Louisiana, sit‐ uated in Addition "A" of Townsite Number Three (3), according to a plan or map showing subdivision of Farm a9 of the Ames Farms at Southside, Parish of Jeffer‐ son, State of Louisiana, made for the Ames Farm Land Co., Inc., of New Or‐ leans, Louisiana, a blue print of said map being annexed to an act passed be‐ fore Frank J. Tilotson, Notary Public, on June 19, 1924, the said Farm Lot "a9" being shown on a map made by J.W.T.

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y Stephens, C., and M.E., dated New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6, 1920, a copy of which is in the office of the Clerk of Court for the Parish of Jefferson , and also in the office of the Jef‐ ferson Title Co. Of Gretna, Louisiana, and according to which sketch addition "A" of townsite No. 3, said lot is desig‐ nated as LOT Six (6) of Block Number Seven (7), bounded by Cross Street, Fifth and Sixth Avenues and Ames Boule‐ vard, said Lot Number Six (6) adjoins Lot Number Five (5) and measures Forty-five and 09/100 (45.09') feet front on Ames Boule‐ vard, Forty-five and no/100 feet (45.00') in width on the rear line along a drainage ditch, One Hundred Forty-two and 90/100 (142.90') feet in depth on the North Line ad‐ joining Lot Num‐ ber 5, and a depth on the other side Line along Sixth Av‐ enue of One Hundred Fortyfour and 92/100 feet (144.92') The improve‐ ments thereon bear the munici‐ pal No. 1321 Ames Boule‐ vard, Marrero LA 70072 This sale is sub‐ ject to all supe‐ rior security in‐ terests, mort‐ gages, liens and privileges. TERMS - 10% down balance in 30 days. NOTE: All funds must be Cashier's Check, Certified Check, Money Order, or Personal Check with Bank Letter of Credit. W. A. MAIORANA, JR. Attorney for Plaintiff JOSEPH P. LOPINTO, III Sheriff Parish of Jefferson The New Orleans Advocate: August 28, 2026, October 2, 2026 Aug 28-oct 2-2t

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