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Fortified roofs could lose discounts

winds, prompting insurers owners. Fortified roofs qualify for in Louisiana. Roofs made of met- 15 years. Designation may last toforce For one, a 15-year-old fortioffer discounts in exchange for mandatory discounts on home in- al, tile or other materials under surance premiums, but only if the the fortified standard will keep fied roof will still be higher quallower risk. only 15 years Now, the organization that in- certification is active. Once the the designation beyond 15 years, ity than a non-fortified roof of the

BY SAM KARLIN

vented the fortified standard — the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety — is preparing Louisiana has lined up $140 mil- to make a crucial declaration on lion in public money to put forti- roofs: They can only be designated fied roofs on homes, a bipartisan as fortified for 15 years. The move, which IBHS notified effort to help dig the state out of a property insurance crisis by pro- regulators of last week, could have tecting houses from hurricane- lasting ramifications for home-

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Hurwitz Mintz closing doors after 102 years

“fortiﬁed” designation is removed after 15 years, homeowners can expect to lose their discounts as well — unless they start the process over and buy another fortiﬁed roof. The determination only applies to asphalt shingles, which comprise the vast majority of roofs

though those materials are typically far more expensive. Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple, a Republican former insurance executive who has supported funding for fortified roofs, said even if the discount goes away, homeowners will still benefit from having a fortified roof after

Huge price drops are underway after Hurwitz Mintz Furniture announced that it will soon close for good.

same age, he said. Fortiﬁed roofs deploy stronger nails, sealant on the seams of the roof decking, stronger edges and a veriﬁcation process to make sure it’s installed correctly. Plus, homeowners might still be

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Attorneys: Woman on ventilator after failed execution Tennessee governor orders review

BY KIM CHANDLER and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

"Hurwitz Mintz has been a staple for generations," said Lacey Holdsworth, an interior designer who has shopped at the store for years. "I've always appreciated having them as a local resource for furniture and home furnishings." The last day in business is Dec. 31. Hurwitz Mintz was founded by Joseph Hurwitz and Morris Mintz, brothers-inlaw and Russian Jewish immigrants who

Christa Pike was placed on a ventilator and remained unconscious in a hospital in the hours after her failed execution in Tennessee, her attorneys said in a court filing Friday. Hospital staff, her lawyers said, were working to save Pike’s life and as of late Thursday were trying to clear the two doses of the drug that the state Pike uses to execute prisoners. The stunning failure in Tennessee’s execution chamber on Wednesday has left both sides of the death penalty debate demanding answers. Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee has ordered an independent review. The court filing offered the first detailed account of Pike’s condition after an ambulance carried her away from Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville on Wednesday night. Her attorneys said a day earlier that she was in critical condition. Pike’s attorneys said they believed problems with the IV lines caused the pentobarbital to flow into her body instead of her bloodstream. “Apparently at no point did any member of the execution team realize that the IV lines were not correctly placed or that the veins had blown and that the pentobarbi-

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Crowds gather to shop as prices are dropped after Hurwitz Mintz Furniture announced Friday that it will soon close for good.

Business sold furniture to generations of New Orleanians BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

Hurwitz Mintz on Friday said that after more than a century in business, it will permanently close at the end of this year, marking the end of another longtime, local brand. The decision by the store that sold furnishings to generations of New Orleanians comes three months after its thirdgeneration owner, Mitchell Mintz, died

at 74. “Hurwitz Mintz has been proud to be a part of the greater New Orleans community,” the company said in a brief statement announcing the closure. The store notified customers of the pending closure in an email blast Thursday, and by Friday morning dozens had showed up to the company's Airline Drive showroom to take advantage of the deeply discounted merchandise — and reminisce.

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Davis, Letlow utilize different styles in campaign for Senate BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

Julia Letlow

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U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow and farmer Jamie Davis are taking sharply contrasting routes as they run for the same job — to be the next senator from Louisiana. Letlow, R-Baton Rouge, is running a low-profile campaign because, analysts

said, she expects the GOP tilt in Louisiana will power her to victory on Nov. 3. Even though she has much more money, Letlow has yet to bring out the big guns on commercial TV. Letlow has also tied herself closely to President Donald Trump, who endorsed her. Davis, a Democrat, is holding open meetings across the

state to introduce himself to as many voters as possible. He has built a grassroots network of campaign volunteers, trying to reach Democrats and political independents who need a push to vote. Davis is keeping his distance from national Democrats. “It sounds like both are running a sensible campaign to reach their targeted voters,”

said Jay Dardenne, who won four statewide races to serve as secretary of state and lieutenant governor. “Julia obviously is a huge favorite and is raising money and talking to key people who can be inﬂuential. Jamie has a more difﬁcult challenge — he is doing what he can to get enough

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Suspected Boko Haram militants kill at least 15 MAIDUGURI, Nigeria — Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 15 farmers and firewood gatherers in the Marte local government area of Nigeria 's northeastern Borno State, police and human rights officials said Friday. The attack, apparently carried out by the prominent Islamic militant group, took place late Wednesday and early Thursday in the villages of Ala, Gummna and Musune in Marte, located approximately 80 miles northeast of Maiduguri, the state capital. Borno state police spokesperson Nahum Daso confirmed the violence and added that security forces are working to account for the whereabouts of three other residents who remain missing. Community members retrieved the bodies from the surrounding bushland and buried the 15 victims Thursday evening in accordance with Islamic rites. Residents said the victims, who included young men and village elders, were ambushed, bound and executed at close range while gathering firewood and tending their crops. Amnesty International condemned the attack in a statement, calling the targeting of civilians a grave violation of international humanitarian law and urging Nigerian authorities to bolster protection for vulnerable rural communities in the northeast. Islamic militants have been attacking residents and military targets in the region for more than a decade.

Nepal avalanche toll rises to 15 deaths

KATHMANDU, Nepal — Rescuers discovered eight bodies at the base camp of Mount Himlung in Nepal on Thursday, raising the total number of deaths to 15 following an avalanche during severe weather Sunday. The Nepal National Mountain Guide Association, which is leading the search, said rescuers dug through snow on Mount Himlung to ﬁnd eight bodies in tents at the base camp, where one person remains missing. “Due to continuing mountain hazards, recovery efforts have been temporarily concluded,” the association said. “Further efforts may be possible when conditions allow.” Experienced mountain guides from the association took advantage of good weather and worked through the week to dig through the snow that covered the base camp. Rescuers located 10 other climbers who were part of the group on Mount Himlung, a 23,380-foot peak in north-central Nepal, which is home to eight of the 14 tallest mountain peaks in the world including Mount Everest. The avalanche is considered one of the worst disasters in Nepal mountaineering history. All those killed or missing this week were Nepali nationals preparing for foreign clients to arrive for the Autumn climbing season that began this month.

Putin observes military drills in the Urals

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday attended military drills in the Ural Mountains involving troops from China and several other countries. Putin visited a firing range in the Chelyabinsk region to observe the final stage of the Center-2026 maneuvers. The exercises were combined with the Interaction-2026 drills held by members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization, a Moscow-dominated security alliance of several former Soviet nations. Putin said Center-2026 involved 47,000 troops training to repel an attack at 11 firing ranges and in the Caspian Sea. The drills began Monday and will run through Saturday. About 6,000 troops from Russia and other countries took part in the final phase at Chebarkulsky, Putin said. Delegations from 55 nations attended as observers, he added. The drills included military contingents from Belarus, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, as well as troops from China, Mongolia and Pakistan, according to Russian news reports.

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Court blocks Big Bend border wall Ruling temporarily halts construction in Texas region

BY REBECCA SANTANA Associated Press

WASHINGTON — A federal court in Texas on Friday issued a ruling temporarily blocking the Trump administration from building a border wall and other infrastructure across the state's Big Bend region. The news marks a major win for landowners, businesses and environmentalists in the region who have united to oppose the planned infrastructure projects, which are part of a $46 billion effort by the Trump administration to line the southern border with a mix of 30-foot-tall steel walls, vehicle barriers, roads and surveillance technology. Judge Kathleen Cardone said in

her ruling that the plaintiffs were “likely to succeed on the merits of at least one of the claims in suit, that there is a likelihood that they will suffer serious, irreparable harm without an injunction, and that the balance of the equities and the public interest weigh in their favor.” Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Opponents of the border wall project have argued that the Big Bend region of Texas is so remote and the landscape so rugged that it serves as its own deterrent to illegal immigration and that the administration violated the law when it issued a swath of waivers allowing it to bypass numer-

ous regulations in order to speed up border wall infrastructure projects. Laiken Jordahl, with the Center of Biological Diversity that brought the suit, called Cardone’s ruling a “total victory.” “The bulldozers are going to be sent packing until she rules on the merits,” Jordahl said. “This is such a historic day for Big Bend and for Texas and the Constitution.” The court's decision comes just weeks after the administration erected the ﬁrst border wall panels in the Big Bend sector in the middle of September. The border wall project through the Big Bend sector has sparked bipartisan opposition. Much of the opposition has been geared around Customs and

Border Protection’s plans for inside the Big Bend National Park, which is prized for its beautiful landscapes, limestone cliffs and crystal clear night sky views. When bulldozers were spotted clearing land in the park in August, it sparked widespread opposition with both Republicans and Democrats calling for the administration to stop. Customs and Border Protection paused all activity there, but that pause expired on Wednesday. The administration has said it’s reevaluating plans for the National Park but has so far not said what it will do there. But the judge’s ruling also extends to areas up and downriver from the National Park, where Customs and Border Protection has planned a range of border infrastructure projects that would largely require build across privately owned land.

Bodycam footage of Luigi Mangione’s arrest unsealed Judge orders release after CNN petition

BY PHILIP MARCELO Associated Press

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Health workers talk inside a Ebola treatment camp in Butembo, Congo, on Wednesday.

Congo Ebola treatment center burned down Death toll passes 4,000 as outbreak spreads

BY DIEUDONNE DIROLE AND OPE ADETAYO Associated Press

BUNIA, Congo — Congo's Ebola outbreak has killed more than 4,000 people, authorities said, as they struggle to contain what has become the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history. The latest figures released by the Health Ministry on Thursday showed that 4,018 people have died among 8,300 cases recorded since the outbreak was declared in eastern Congo on May 15. The aid group Médecins Sans Frontières, known in English as Doctors Without Borders, said Friday the outbreak has particularly worsened in the North Kivu province, accounting for 40% of new confirmed cases since the end of August. “It is like fighting a wildfire,” Stephanie Hoffman, MSF coordinator in Butembo, said. “Multiple outbreaks are developing at the same time, with varying intensity and in different locations.” Some health workers, meanwhile, gathered at the epicenter in Ituri Province to demand payment for wages owed to them. The protesters, who included surveillance team members, waved placards saying, “No money, no data!” and “No payment for months.” Some of the workers haven't been paid for August and September, said Biongi Beiza, one of the protesters in Bunia, Ituri's capital. “There is no explanation from the administration,” he said.

Congolese authorities did not immediately address the issue. Front-line workers have gone on strike several times since the outbreak began, further hampering efforts to contain the disease. A senior U.N. official said an Ebola-hit displacement camp housing a transit center for infected patients was burned by soldiers earlier this week as they were looking for weapons in Kigonze, on the outskirts of Bunia, forcing 19,000 people in the camp to flee. Creating such transit and treatment centers has been a struggle, requiring money and staff, all of which are in short supply, said Julien Harneis, the U.N. senior Ebola coordinator. "When we lose a center, that means we lose capacity, we lose investment, and we have to start again. And above all, it means that people do not get access to the care that they really need,” Harneis said. An aid worker with MSF was infected with Ebola while working in Congo, the group said in a statement. The worker arrived in the Netherlands late Thursday on a special medical flight and was transferred to a high-level isolation unit, the Leiden University Medical Center said in a statement. At least 50 health workers have died after contracting the virus. One way local authorities have tried to contain the outbreak is through mobile laboratories. In Butembo, an Associated Press journalist watched a medical team operating one such lab near an Ebola treatment center on Thursday. Test results that used to take 72 hours can now be obtained in six hours with the mobile labs, said Lota Kalubi, a doctor at the treatment center.

Taiwan receives 2 long-delayed U.S. F-16Vs, awaits additional ﬁghter jets BY HUIZHONG WU Associated Press

BANGKOK — Taiwan on Friday received the first two of 65 F-16V fighter jets ordered from the U.S., the island's air force said, following years of delays. The two F-16V Block 70 jets landed at Chihhang Air Base in Taitung. There are 63 more to be delivered. The self-ruled island, which is also claimed by Beijing as part of its territory, placed an order for the F-16Vs in 2019. Taiwan largely purchases arms from the U.S., its largest unofficial ally, to boost its defenses in the face of a military threat from China. China sends fighter jets and ships toward the island almost daily. Taiwan’s defense minister said on Tuesday that the island remains in continuous discussions with the U.S.

about their weapons sales. The shipment is the ﬁrst in a long list of backlogged U.S. orders worth almost $30 billion. The F-16Vs represent $8 billion, or roughly 25% of the entire backlog, according to Taiwan Security Monitor at George Mason University. The order had been delayed partly owing to production and supply chain issues. The delivery of the jets comes as the island waits for the U.S. administration to approve an additional $14 billion arms package. That package has stalled after U.S. President Donald Trump in May met with China’s President Xi Jinping in May. U.S. defense sales to Taiwan are a major source of tension between the U.S. and China. Beijing has repeatedly called for Washington to halt sales to Taiwan, with Xi personally raising the issue with Trump.

NEW YORK — Police bodycam footage released Friday shows the moment officers located and arrested Luigi Mangione at a Pennsylvania McDonald’s in connection with the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan. In one video, officers ask Mangione to lower the face mask he was wearing to hide his identity. “That’s 100% him,” one officer says eagerly as they step outside to speak out of Mangione’s earshot. “I told you, man,” another responds off camera. Later, an officer searches Mangione’s belongings and smiles widely as she pulls out a gun cartridge, seemingly confirming they’d found their suspect. The trove of videos comes from Mangione’s Dec. 9, 2024, arrest in

Altoona, five days after Thompson, a 50-year-old Minnesota executive, was gunned down as he walked to a midtown Manhattan hotel for his company’s annual investor conference. A Manhattan judge unsealed the recordings Friday after CNN petitioned for their release. Parts of the videos were shown during a December court hearing as Mangione’s lawyers unsuccessfully sought to get key evidence thrown out, including his initial statements to police and items seized at the time of his arrest. Mangione pleaded guilty in August to federal stalking charges and faces life in prison when he's sentenced in December. He also faces murder charges in New York state court, though those proceedings have been postponed indefinitely as his lawyers seek to have the case thrown out. The videos released Friday begin as officers descend on the McDonald’s in central Pennsylvania, nearly 300 miles from Manhattan.

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Murrill weighs in against NCAA Environmental groups La. AG seeks to join lawsuit by ULM players

BY ALYSE PFEIL Staff writer

Attorney General Liz Murrill announced Friday that Louisiana is seeking to join lawsuits against the NCAA ﬁled by running back Zachary Palmer-Smith and defensive lineman Kevontay Wells, who are both asking the court to grant them a fifth year to play football at Murrill the University of Louisiana at Monroe. It’s Murrill’s latest foray into a nationwide debate over college athlete eligibility that has roiled many other schools, including LSU. The two players are part of a cohort of college athletes who have sued the NCAA in various state courts across the country, seeking to force the association to apply new ﬁve-year eligibility rules to them. Now, Murrill is asking a state court in Ouachita Parish, where ULM is located, to allow the state to intervene as an additional party in the football players’ lawsuits. She argues that the NCAA’s refusal to al-

low them and other college athletes to play this season will have negative impacts on Louisiana and its public higher education institutions. “Louisiana law imposes an obligation of good faith in the performance of contractual relationships — that duty runs between the universities and their student athletes as well as between the NCAA and its members,” Murrill said in a statement.

Murrill’s argument In legal filings, Murrill’s office lists several reasons the state is entitled to participate in the players’ legal dispute. Louisiana’s attorney general has “as an overarching interest in protecting state public institutions from the wrath of the NCAA,” her office wrote. “This interest is particularly strong where a public institution must comply with its independent duty of good faith owed to a student athlete or with a court order,” it argues. Potential NCAA penalties like forfeiting wins, championship ineligibility and fines could “expose ULM and the state’s other public institutions to irreparable harm,” the filing says. And those penalties and other NCAA bylaws mean that public universities could face both legal and

financial risk due to “the threat of sanctions or exclusion from the NCAA, division, or a conference based on the vague notion of a failure of institutional control or failure to enforce specific bylaws, even when they have been enjoined by a court as to a specific athlete’s eligibility,” the filing says. Murrill also says her office has an interest in making sure student athletes have a fair forum where their grievances can be heard and in enforcing Louisiana unfair trade practices laws, which grant the AG “broad authority to protect state interests.” A preliminary injunction hearing is set for Wednesday in Ouachita Parish.

A larger debate Murrill and other Louisiana officials like Gov. Jeff Landry have faced criticism in recent weeks for their close involvement in college athletics broadly and, in particular, at LSU. Murrill has played an increasingly active role in various lawsuits related to NCAA and SEC regulations around who is eligible to compete in college athletics. She submitted an amicus brief in favor of more than 40 student athletes who filed a high-profile lawsuit in Baton Rouge seeking a fifth year of eligibility. Tight end

Dae’Quan Wright and defensive tackle Zxavian Harris, who previously signed with NFL teams, sought to secure two LSU football roster spots through that effort, a plan that did not pan out. During a hearing that garnered national attention across the sports world, she sat with the players’ attorneys inside the well of the courtroom, assisting with the case. Murrill has also found herself entangled in a separate federal lawsuit filed by the SEC against her and LSU officials — including every member of the university’s Board of Supervisors, President Wade Rousse, Athletic Director Verge Ausberry and head football coach Lane Kiffin. The SEC accused LSU and Murrill of violating the conference’s freedomof-association rights and of waging “a deliberate, coordinated, and public campaign to recruit professional athletes to play football for LSU during the 2026-27 season.” Last week both Murrill and the SEC in public statements said that the dispute remains unresolved. For his part, Landry has been a vocal critic of the SEC and strong supporter of LSU’s efforts to recruit players who have been sidelined from competition due to the NCAA’s eligibility rules.

Lawyers for LSU player assert innocence

ther comment until the in- continued even after she lowed our policies, proceInvestigation vestigation told him to stop, the panel’s dures and best practices, inis completed. “Mr. Shanklin looks for- report said. The player said cluding the Title IX process, underway on rape ward to the day when all in- that he stopped after she told to guide our actions to date,” accusation LSU President Wade Rousse formation surrounding this him to, the panel reported.

BY BLAKE LESCHBER Staff writer

The attorneys for an LSU football player accused of rape issued a statement as the criminal investigation continues. Damien Shanklin, a second-year defensive end for the Tigers, is currently under a criminal investigation after an LSU student accused him of raping her last year. Shanklin’s attorneys, Grant L. Willis and Morgan H. Johnson, said in a statement that Shanklin maintains his innocence and will fully cooperate with the criminal investigation. “What has been portrayed on social media and in the news thus far, is not a full account of all of the facts and circumstances surrounding this situation,” the attorneys said in a statement. “Given this an ongoing criminal investigation, all facts are not publicly available to not compromise the criminal investigation. We simply ask that the court of public opinion cease to make any assumptions about any person involved until more information is publicly available.” The attorneys also said Shanklin will have no fur-

incident is brought to light and becomes public knowledge,” the attorneys said. On Sept. 22, East Baton Rouge Parish District Attorney Hillar Moore said his office had opened an investigation into the rape claim, saying a criminal complaint was filed. Documents obtained by The Advocate show that the alleged incident occurred on Oct. 18, 2025, and the LSU Office of Civil Rights and Title IX received an incident report on Dec. 9. Shanklin called LSU police the day of the incident, saying he had a sexual encounter with the student and that she was messaging him, claiming he raped her and threatening suicide, according to an incident report filed by a university police officer. LSU police met with her and took her to the hospital, where a sexual assault kit was completed, the report says. During interviews with university Title IX investigators, the student and player gave conflicting accounts of what happened. Both said there was some consensual sexual activity, an LSU hearing panel found. But the student said she never agreed to it proceeding to intercourse, which

The panel determined that Shanklin was responsible for rape of the student because the incident between the two went from consensual to nonconsensual. In his own statements, he said he did not ask for consent before intercourse and did not stop when he later did ask and she was silent, the panel found. Shanklin was originally suspended from campus until May 31, 2027, by the panel. However, after an appeal, an administrative law judge upheld the prior decision on forcible rape but changed the punishment from a twosemester suspension to four semesters of probation. The original punishment was deemed too harsh, partly because while the athlete’s actions were nonconsensual, they did not “exhibit a deliberate disregard for complainant’s dignity and autonomy but was instead an error in judgment.” In a statement after Moore announced the opening of a criminal investigation, LSU said the university had “properly followed its Title IX policies and processes to a conclusion.” “Let me assure everyone that this incident has been handled professionally and that LSU has strictly fol-

Pete Hegseth creates Pentagon Office of Religious Affairs BY TIFFANY STANLEY

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WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is launching an ofﬁce of religious affairs, the latest of his faith-related reforms at the Pentagon. He announced in a speech Wednesday that the office will help offer “first-class religious support” and will report directly to him. “Our department is, you might say, putting on the full armor of God, because while we wage physical war, we all know the real battle is spiritual,” he said. Hegseth has infused his evangelical Christianity into his leadership of the Pentagon, hosting Christian worship services for employees and often speaking of the United States as a Christian nation. The Ofﬁce of Religious Af-

fairs, or ORA, will advocate for military chaplains and religious support “at the highest level of the Department,” according to a Pentagon statement. It will not “compel religious participation, favor one faith, or diminish the rights of personnel of any faith or lack thereof.” Some criticism of the initiative surfaced quickly. The Pentagon “owes it to the nation’s service members to defend religious freedom,” said Rachel Laser, head of Americans United for Separation of Church, which has sued the Pentagon over its worship services. “Hegseth’s latest announcement violates that promise by elevating Christianity to an even higher role in shaping U.S. military policy.” Other federal agencies have had religious or faithbased offices, which were established under President

George W. Bush and were continued in different forms under the Obama and Biden administrations. President Donald Trump established a White House Faith Office and had a similar effort during his first term. Shaun Casey, a religion scholar, led the State Department’s Office of Religion and Global Affairs during the Obama administration. The office did not promote religion or spiritual well-being, he said. “It was there to understand what were the political implications of lived religion in the various hot spots around the world.” The leader of the new office has not been named. A Pentagon memo said the religious affairs director will coordinate spiritual resources, including “faithbased homeschool support for military families.”

said in a statement. “Now that a criminal complaint has been ﬁled, our role is to continue cooperating with our law enforcement partners as they work through their investigatory process.”

sue over eased vehicle fuel economy rules

BY ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press

DETROIT — A group of environmental organizations sued the Trump administration on Friday over its recent relaxation of key vehicle fuel economy rules, a decision that the group says will make vehicles less efficient, contribute to more pollution and increase gas consumption. On Monday, the Trump administration lowered Corporate Average Fuel Economy, or CAFE, standards that set out how far new vehicles need to travel on a gallon of gasoline. The announcement was made as the Trump administration negotiated with Iran over reopening the Strait of Hormuz. About a fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait on a typical day, and the fight over its control has sent energy prices soaring across the globe. The environmental groups filed the petition for review Friday in the U.S. Court of Appeals against Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Jonathan Morrison, the administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which sets the rules. “We’re taking the Trump administration to court for this reckless rollback that prioritizes Big Oil and automaker profits over American families,” Katherine Garcia, director of Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All program, said in a statement.”It is unlawful for Trump to turn back the clock on fuel-efficient cars, forcing drivers to waste more money on gas and communities to breathe toxic air.” The Center for Biological Diversity, the Conservation

Law Foundation, the Environmental Defense Fund and Public Citizen, along with the Sierra Club, filed the suit. The Transportation Department and NHTSA earlier this week lowered the standards to an industry fleetwide average of roughly 34.9 miles per gallon for passenger cars and light trucks in the 2031 model year, down from a projected 50.4 miles per gallon under rules set by the Biden administration. The administration said the change would provide Americans more vehicle choice and encourage consumers to buy newer, safer vehicles. Experts say reducing fuel economy requirements in vehicles does not necessarily lower their cost, nor would it automatically translate to new vehicle sales. Duffy said the new rule also cuts the”illegal mandate that forced automakers to produce more expensive electric vehicles that American families didn’t want.” There has never been a mandate that manufacturers sell EVs or Americans buy them; the rules and other cleaner vehicle standards incentivized automakers to sell a mix of electric, hybrid electric and increasingly-efficient gasoline-powered vehicles. Auto companies and industry groups broadly welcomed Monday’s change, saying the rules under the Biden administration were too stringent and did not benefit consumers.

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Oman barred him from flying over extremism concerns

price of the crude oil 100 million barrels the from which diesel is made, of oil should be a other factors include the decision by Russia to ban short-term fix exports due to Ukrainian

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TEL AVIV, Israel — The FlyDubai copilot who officials said nearly crashed a Tel Aviv-bound flight with 182 people aboard was barred from flying by his native Oman over concerns he had adopted extremist views, a person familiar with the matter said Saturday. The copilot was subsequently hired by the United Arab Emirates-based airline, the person said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. It was not immediately clear to what extent he was vetted when he was hired in the Emirates. Oman’s move to bar the copilot from flying was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The attack left the region’s travel industry in crisis, raising questions about aviation security and further unsettling a Middle East already shaken by the U.S.-Iran war. A regional investigation is underway. The United Arab Emirates has canceled all flights to Israel, complicating travel for hundreds of passengers who fly between the countries on a typical day. Israel and the UAE agreed on repatriation flights, beginning Friday, to bring back passengers stranded in the UAE after commercial travel between the two

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People disembark from a FlyDubai carrying Israeli passengers who had earlier been aboard another FlyDubai aircraft that made an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia approaches Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, on Wednesday. early information he's received suggests links between the attack and Tehran but did not elaborate. Trump also said that if it is determined that Iranian agents were behind the attack, the United States will “hit them very hard.” Israeli investigators are involved in the probe but the Emiratis are in the lead, according to an official who wasn’t authorized to speak to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity. It’s unclear if the attacker was part of a group, said the ofﬁcial, adding that there is currently no evidence of a link with Iran. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the copilot had undergone “Islamist radicalization,” but has provided no evidence to back the assertion. Attacks raises questions “We are now investigatU.S. President Donald ing whether he was sent, Trump told reporters that and whoever sent him will

countries was suspended, according to an Israeli official who was not authorized to comment publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity. The first repatriation ﬂight left the UAE shortly before 11 p.m. and landed in Tel Aviv just after 1 a.m., according to the Ben Gurion International Airport website. The airport listed carriers Arkia and Israir with ﬂights scheduled to arrive from Dubai early Saturday. El Al was expected to fly passengers from Dubai to Israel on Sunday. Dubai has been a popular destination for Israelis since Israel and the UAE established ties in 2020 as part of the Trump administration's Abraham Accords to normalize ties between Israel and Arab countries.

pay a very heavy price,” Netanyahu said in a video message on Friday. UAE senior diplomatic adviser Anwar Gargash on Friday called the FlyDubai attack a “dangerous terrorist act” in a post on X. He credited the flight captain for preventing a catastrophe. The moment is a test for the UAE government, which has burnished a reputation for building effective measures against extremist activities but has also bristled in the past over criticism of security lapses. “The Emiratis are going to be interested in protecting their reputation,” said Jon Alterman, chair of Global Security and Geostrategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “They believe people should see them as a place that’s very secure, not a place that has serious lapses.”

Report: Woman said she ‘felt like bait’

academic record. They have an independent mem- men who entered the room Documents filed his include a 99-page report on ory of it. The drug, she said, of performing sex acts on campus hearing panel’s left her in a state of “vague her without her consent, in court show adisciplinary while she was partially infindings and consciousness.” similar accounts a summary of events sub- “You look like an operat- capacitated. She accused mitted by the university’s ing human being,” she told another man of kissing her in Cornell incident lawyers. school investigators at a without her consent. Ac-

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A woman who says she was gang-raped at a Cornell University fraternity told the school’s investigators last year that she “felt like bait” as the attackers were “like lions around me,” according to records from the school’s disciplinary investigation. The documents, reviewed Friday by The Associated Press, include excerpts of interviews Cornell’s investigators did with the woman and the men she accused and shed more light on the university’s handling of the case. While heavily redacted, the records offer a fuller but sometimes conflicting timeline of events and a glimpse at how the men responded to the allegations. Some disputed the woman’s account and said they weren’t involved in any assault. The woman, identiﬁed in court papers only as Jane Doe, sued Cornell and seven former students last month, alleging she was given ketamine and repeatedly assaulted at a fraternity house in October 2024. She went to campus police three weeks after the encounter and gave a detailed account of what happened, but the local district attorney decided not to ﬁle criminal charges or push for more investigation after reviewing a police summary of her interview. Only the school’s investigation, under the federal Title IX law, persisted, with a goal of deciding discipline for the students involved.

Lawsuit reveals details This week, a lawyer for one of the accused men filed documents from the school’s investigation in a lawsuit that seeks to overturn the university’s punishment and remove it from

Though only a fraction of the thousands of pages amassed in the investigation, the records show the breadth of the university’s inquiry — including 50 interviews with 32 witnesses and 12 days of hearings. Late Thursday, Gov. Kathy Hochul appointed Attorney General Letitia James as a special prosecutor to lead a renewed criminal investigation, saying she had lost faith in Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten. According to the Title IX documents filed in court, which are only a portion of the entire investigation, the woman and several of the men gave investigators similar accounts of drug use and sexual activity that took place at the Chi Phi fraternity house — but differed sharply in how much of it was consensual.

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hearing in May 2025. “You don’t look dead or asleep necessarily. So, lights are on, but nobody’s home. Your brain is not functioning at its proper level.” She said some of the men inhaled drugs off her unclothed body. “I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It just was a totally debilitating place to be in,” she told investigators.

Wellness check One of the men the woman accused of snorting drugs off her body — but not participating in other elements of the assault — denied her account. He told investigators he was in the room for no more than ﬁve minutes, and didn’t go there for sex. “That was not our intentions at all. We were just checking out to see if everything” was OK, he said. He insisted that he did not see the woman naked at any time — she was under bed coverings, he said — and did not partake in drug use. He said he sat on a couch and chatted for a few minutes, then left after the woman and another man there both indicated they were all right. A Cornell disciplinary panel later cleared him of sexual assault or exploitation allegations, but found him responsible for attempted sexual exploitation because it didn’t believe his claim to have gone to the room for altruistic reasons. The fraternity member, who is challenging Cornell’s disciplinary process in court, also posted in the Snapchat conversation, saying what was happening in the room was not a joke, adding: “Firsthand pov not a bit.” The student later told investigators he did not remember sending the message, according to Cornell’s account.

The woman had been invited there by a fraternity member for whom she had long held strong romantic feelings and sexual interest, according to the disciplinary panel’s ﬁndings. The panel found that she initially consented to sex with that man and one of his friends, though she later alleged in her lawsuit that she had been pressured into taking ketamine, marijuana and alcohol and was too intoxicated to consent. Then other men began showing up in the room, some drawn by a message one of the fraternity brothers sent to a Snapchat group at 1:42 a.m. using a vulgar term to advertise that a woman’s body was freely available. Later, another person in the chat asked if the “shop” was still open. The woman told investigators that her intoxication had rendered her partly defenseless. She said she remembered smoking marijuana and said she knew Tougher penalties she took ketamine, her ﬁrst In her lawsuit, Jane Doe time doing so, but didn’t accused two of the other

cording to the Title IX documents, Jane Doe told investigators two other men stood at the foot of the bed acting “more like voyeurs than anything.” The lawsuit seeks to hold all seven men liable for rape. She is asking for unspeciﬁed damages. Cornell hasn’t detailed the results of its investigation, but said it resulted in some students being expelled. The man who filed the lawsuit challenging his punishment was allowed to stay at Cornell, but he was ordered to stay away from the woman, take a class on sexual harassment and bystander intervention, and write a paper reﬂecting on the circumstances for which he was found responsible and include a proposal to train other students on preventing sexual harassment.

WASHINGTON — The Group of Seven wealthy democracies said Friday that they plan to release 100 million barrels of oil and fuel products in the coming weeks, starting with “substantial” amounts of diesel after the fuel recently hit record high prices in the United States. President Donald Trump said the diesel release would happen “immediately,” echoing a G7 promise to start “immediately” with a “frontloaded substantial release” of diesel within the next 20 days and the rest over four months. Trump and his Republican Party face pressure to address surging prices ahead of the Nov. 3 midterm elections, and Trump announced the action Friday on social media. The president's approval ratings on the economy hit a new low, according to an AP-NORC poll, as the Iran war and his trade battles have increased U.S. prices for oil and other goods. Gas prices in the U.S. and abroad have soared during the eight-month-long war, a cost Trump has repeatedly said is worth it for making sure Iran does not obtain nuclear weapons. The national average for a gallon of diesel in the U.S. was $6.37 on Friday, according to AAA, after hitting a record $6.52 on Sept. 22. Diesel prices have hit records in Europe, too. The release of diesel in Europe might mean less exports of diesel from the U.S., which could lower prices by 25-50 cents per gallon after a few weeks, said Michael Lynch, distinguished fellow at Energy Policy Research Foundation, a non-partisan research institution focused on energy and economics.

Prices should lower France holds the rotating presidency of the G7 group and made the announcement in a statement released after videoconference talks that Macron presided over. The G7 countries are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the U.K. and the U.S., plus EU representation. The release follows on from a March announcement that International Energy Agency member countries would release 426 million barrels of oil and products to stabilize the oil market. European Union countries committed about 92 million barrels, a promise weighted toward reﬁned products made from crude such as diesel. “This common decision and this unity should bring down prices,” Macron said. “The volumes we’re releasing should also add liquidity to the market and bring down prices.” In addition to the rise in

drone strikes on its reﬁneries. Europe does not import Russian diesel, but other buyers of Russian diesel such as Turkey and Latin American countries must now compete with Europe for available barrels. Meanwhile refined product shipments from the Persian Gulf producers have fallen due to war damage and blocked export routes. The statement pushed U.S. oil prices down 2% but “the impact was lessened by lack of clarity on an important question,” said Pavel Molchanov, investment strategy analyst at Raymond James. Is the 100 million barrels in addition to the amount already agreed in March, or “is this the final portion of the existing pledge?” he said.

Export bans off the table Some Republicans in the U.S. had called for Trump to ban U.S. exports of diesel to try to bring domestic prices down. But the G7 statement said the group agreed not to limit energy exports to each other. Oil market analysts warn a U.S. export ban could lower prices in the short term but eventually backfire by reducing supplies of gasoline since diesel output can't be lowered without also cutting overall reﬁnery production. Asked about a potential U.S. export ban on Friday, Trump said “we were never going to do it.” “We’re not going to be doing the export ban,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We’re going to be doing what we’re supposed to do.” He added that Europe is making “a major world contribution, and so are we.”

Experts say there are risks The emergency release could also be a short-term fix with the potential to do longterm harm, said Jim Krane, energy research fellow at Rice University’s Baker Institute. “Draining stocks will reduce retail fuel prices for a while, at the cost of leaving Europe with less emergency cover,” Krane said. “At some point in the future Europe and the rest of the G7 will have to refill their strategic reserves. Normally they try to do this when prices are low. Nobody knows when that will happen. It’s a risk.” With two wars raging that involve attacks on refineries and exports, “it’s not the best time to be frittering away your emergency stocks — especially when there is no visibility on future prices or peace agreements,” Krane said.

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Continued from page 1A came to New Orleans in 1920 and opened their furniture store at 217-219 Royal St., across from the Hotel Monteleone four years later. The store later expanded to include the building at 211 Royal St., where its name is still visible in tiles on the sidewalk out front. After the founders died in the mid-20th century, the next generation of family members took over the business, including Mintz’s son Ellis Mintz, who had joined in the 1930s by working summers in the furniture warehouse, according to a story in Gambit on the company's centennial in 2024. During Ellis Mintz’s more than 60 years at the helm, Hurwitz Mintz became one of the leading furniture retailers in the region, with giant picture windows on Royal Street that displayed the store’s lavish living room sets. It also was a proliﬁc advertiser, with campaigns that featured national celebrities like Barbara Feldon, star of the 1960s sitcom "Get Smart," and Adam West, star of "Batman." In the 1970s, Hurwitz Mintz opened another French Quarter furniture store, called Units, at 227 Chartres St., which sold more contemporary furniture before closing in 2004. The Royal Street location closed in 2005 after Katrina. By then, Mitchell Mintz was CEO and the company had moved its store, showroom and warehouse

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Continued from page 1A free media to counter her huge ﬁnancial advantage.” Most candidates in the final weeks of a campaign would be giving their stump speech at every stop — making their main points to win over voters. Letlow, however, is engaged in what she calls a “listening tour” that will take her to all 64 parishes in Louisiana. This approach is more typical of incumbents. Letlow is meeting with small groups at mostly closed events where she takes questions and gives locals the chance to express views on topics that she would address next year as a senator if elected. “I want to hear what people are dealing with, what their issues are, what their concerns are,” Letlow said in a phone interview Tuesday. “As you can imagine, it’s different from parish to parish. It’s so important for me to learn from them.” Letlow described many of the events as “roundtable discussions” so that “we can keep it intimate and people can share what’s going on in their parish as opposed me giving the same stump speech over and over again. I think that’s really resonating with people.” Davis’ events are more freewheeling, frequently featuring laughter, shouts of support and applause from audiences. One evening in Gretna

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Continued from page 1A tal was, in whole or in part, entering Ms. Pike’s body,” they wrote in the court ﬁling. Instead of “remedying this failure,” they prepared and administered a second dose of pentobarbital, her lawyers said. State officials have not offered any explanations about what went wrong.

Leaders want a review Lee demanded a review of the execution procedures and indeﬁnitely postponed Pike’s execution and another that had been scheduled for this year. Republican Tennessee lawmakers said the state should review whether to stop single-drug lethal injections and consider other options to carry out death sentences. The execution team worked for an hour to administer the lethal drugs, said Pike's defense lawyer Randy Spivey, who counted at least seven needles in her left arm. Neither the initial nor the backup dose of pentobar-

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Lacey Holdsworth, far right, and her sister, Ellie Glennon, pause their shopping to look at old news clips, advertisements and photos covering a wall inside Hurwitz Mintz Furniture in Metairie. The store announced Friday that it will soon close for good. to Airline Drive, which has been its headquarters ever since. In a city that still mourns the loss of D.H. Holmes department store, McKenzie's bakery and K&B drugstore several decades after their demise, the pending closure of Hurwitz Mintz was another reminder of the changing nature of

retail. The announcement comes on the heels of two more recent closures. Earlier this year, Adler’s shuttered its Canal Street jewelry store after more than a century in business. And in 2025, Langenstein’s, the city’s oldest supermarket, was acquired by Robert Fresh Market,

in late August, he told a packed audience at St. Paul’s Baptist Church that he is a farmer from Tensas Parish, in northeast Louisiana, who is running on a nonpartisan platform. Democrats in other states are blaming President Donald Trump for voters’ concerns. But Davis barely uttered the president’s name. Instead, he used his bio to connect with their everyday worries. “What I’ve learned most about Louisiana is that people are hurting,” Davis said. “Everybody is struggling.” Davis talked about his 13 grandchildren and how he wants them to have a better future in rural Louisiana. “So Paw Paw gotta do something about that,” he said. People in the crowd jumped up and applauded, with several shouting, “Yeah, you right!” Orin Grant, the pastor of the church, was sitting just to Davis’ right. “Paw Paw!” Grant cried out, prompting more applause. “Paw Paw!” Letlow is campaigning while facing headwinds, with a slew of national polls showing a drop in Trump’s approval rating. One recent poll showed that Trump, who won Louisiana with 60% of the vote in 2024, now has an approval rating in the state that is nearly matched by his disapproval rating. Letlow jumped into the Senate race in January only after Trump endorsed her over U.S. Sen. Bill Cassidy, who angered the president by voting to convict him of

inciting the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by his supporters. She knocked Cassidy, R-Baton Rouge, out of the race in the May primary. When Letlow won the Republican nomination on June 27, she began her remarks by saying, “I am so incredibly ﬁlled with gratitude for the greatest president this country has ever had, Donald Trump!” John Couvillon is a veteran pollster in Baton Rouge who did surveys for state Treasurer John Fleming, who was defeated by Letlow for the Republican nomination. Neither Fleming nor Cassidy has endorsed her. “She’s weak among White independents, in suburban areas, and there’s some defection among White Republicans for being too close to Trump, from bitter feelings from the primary and from economic anxiety,” Couvillon said. “When you’re close to Trump, you’re seeing an impact, and it’s not a positive one. (Sen.) John Kennedy has begun to be more independent of Trump lately. Julia has not done that.” Davis paid for a poll conducted by Hart Research, a longstanding Democratic firm in Washington. It showed that Letlow led him by only four points, 48% to 44%, in mid-September. “The fact that Jamie is within the margin of error of Congresswoman Letlow is notable given her name recognition is double his (82% for Letlow, versus 41% for Davis),” Hart Research

bital worked. Pike was still snoring when the execution chamber’s microphone was cut off more than an hour into the attempt. Pike’s attorneys asked a state court to order the Tennessee Department of Correction to preserve all evidence from the failed execution. “Preserving this evidence is essential to understanding what happened, ensuring accountability and protecting Christa’s legal rights,” two of her attorneys said in a statement. She was 18 when she and her boyfriend tortured and killed a classmate, Colleen Slemmer, in a jealous rage. She later became one of the youngest women to be sent to death row. Following the killing, Pike was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and post-traumatic stress disorder, her attorneys said. “It took me numerous years to even realize the gravity of what I’d done. Even more to accept how many lives I affected. I took the life of someone’s child, sister, friend. It sickens me now to think I had the ability to commit such a crime,” Pike said in an earlier clem-

ency petition. The mother of the 19-yearold woman Pike killed expressed frustration over the failed execution. “I didn’t get justice for my daughter,” May Martinez said Thursday.

Problems found years ago Four years ago, Tennessee’s governor ordered another independent review into capital punishment after abruptly stopping the April 2022 execution of Oscar Smith. Lee then paused all executions after acknowledging the state had failed to ensure its lethal injection drugs were properly tested. Months later, a report found the state hadn’t complied with its own lethal injection process since its revision in 2018, resulting in executions being conducted without proper testing of the drugs. At the time, the state used a three-drug execution protocol of midazolam, vecuronium bromide and potassium chloride. The state later switched to using just pentobarbital. Pentobarbital has been used to carry out death sentences in multiple states and by the federal government.

retiring its well-known name. "Sometimes it's just a generational thing," said Canal Street retailer David Rubenstein, whose family-owned clothing store is still in business just a few blocks from where the Hurwitz Mintz French Quarter stores were located. "If there's not a next generation to

wrote in a memo. “However, Letlow is a much polarizing ﬁgure, while Jamie has strong popularity among the Louisiana voters that are currently familiar with him. And among the nearly quarter of voters that are not registered with either major party, and thus an important swing group, Letlow’s ‘negative’ (42%) far outpaces her ‘positive’ (28%).” Asked about Davis’ poll, Letlow called it “bogus” and said, “We feel conﬁdent about winning the election. But we’re not going to take anything for granted. I’m going to keep crisscrossing the state and work for every vote to ensure that I can keep delivering for Louisi-

take over, it goes away." The company said in its statement that it is selling its more than $4 million worth of remaining inventory at deeply discounted prices. “We are grateful for the time we shared with the community, our employees, and for everyone who made it all possible,” the company said.

ana in the Senate. Letlow continued: “Most of the polls in the primary and the runoff in my race showed it to be a tight race. Some even had me losing. But we ended up winning both races by double digits.” In campaign appearances, Letlow touts her support for the SAVE Act, a high priority for Trump that Democrats say would discourage voting. She also calls for continuing Trump’s policies to ensure that the U.S. has “a safe and secure border.” She noted that her campaign website, julialetlow. com, contains her plans on 15 issues. Davis’ website, jamiefor-

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Continued from page 1A able to take advantage of smaller discounts through a wind mitigation survey, he said. “I hear contractors tell me there’s no such thing as a 20year roof,” Temple said. “It’s unrealistic to think a roof is going to last forever.” Temple noted that the decision doesn’t mean the roof has to be replaced after 15 years, only that the discount will go away. Louisiana elected officials in both parties have embraced fortified roofs as the property insurance market entered a period of global turmoil from around 2017 to 2024. Increased hurricane and wildfire risk driven by climate change sent the market spiraling, while inflation drove up the cost of construction materials. Hurricanes that hit the state in 2020 and 2021 — and the insurance claims they prompted — sent a dozen insurers belly up. Louisiana experienced dramatic premium increases, with some seeing their bills triple or more, and insurers pulled out of the market. Tens of thousands of people were forced onto Citizens, the insurer of last resort that charges more than the private market. Over the last nearly two years, the global reinsurance market has seen significant softening after capital flooded into it, causing prices to decline. An index of reinsurance costs tracked by Guy Carpenter saw a decline of around 7% last year and 16% this year. Home insurers in Louisiana generally have smaller balance sheets and tend to rely on reinsurance more heavily than insurers in nonhurricane prone states. That means rises and falls in the reinsurance market directly impact prices here. BHS, an organization backed by the insurance in-

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Workers install a fortified roof with impact-rated shingles on a home in Jefferson in May. dustry, started researching roof aging in 2013 to understand how roofs respond to perils like wind and hail. By 2024, the organization collected asphalt shingle roof sections with five to 10 years of natural weathering from “roof aging farms” in South Carolina, Wisconsin, Ohio and Alabama. The group found that between years five and 10 of a fortified roof, most begin to degrade, decreasing their ability to withstand high winds. “These findings indicate that the probability of asphalt shingle roof-cover damage or loss can be expected to increase over time,” Fortified managing director Fred Malik said in a statement. “The eligibility limit reflects how roof-cover performance changes over time; it’s not a determination that a home has lost all of the benefits provided by its original FORTIFIED improvements.” Malik noted that since the fortified standard began, that designation expires every five years unless a homeowner gets a reevaluation. Now, homeowners will be able to get up to two reevaluations after the roof is installed, and the designa-

tion expires after 15 years. William Stoudt’s nonproﬁt, Rebuilding Together New Orleans, has put on hundreds of fortiﬁed roofs for low-income homeowners. He has pushed for the state Insurance Department to boost its efforts to get the roofs to low-income residents by partnering with organizations like his. Homeowners who win the $10,000 grant in a lottery generally have to pay out of pocket for any costs over that, typically several thousand dollars. The state got a massive influx of money for fortified roof grants this year, dedicating $100 million to the program by using excess funds from Citizens, the insurer of last resort, as well as redirecting federal affordable housing funds.

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insurance costs and fortify their homes against hurricane risk. In all, Louisiana has $140 million lined up for grants, enough for 14,000 roofs, said John Ford, spokesperson for the Insurance Department. Some of that money won’t come until next year, he added. The state has already spent $55.9 million, or enough for about 5,600 roofs, he said. Stoudt said IBHS’ new policy raises questions about how Louisiana should approach building stronger homes. He warned that IBHS could decide later that the designations only last 10 years. And he said materials other than asphalt shingles are generally too costly for the average homeowner to afford. He worried that customers may panic if they got a fortified roof five to 10 years ago. IBHS noted that the first

fortified roof in Louisiana was installed in 2021; states like Alabama have been using them for longer. Stoudt said research on roofs can’t determine the speciﬁcs of each house. He’s seen roofs put on after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 that are still in excellent shape, while he’s seen other, newer roofs that have problems. “The problem is a laboratory can’t really tell an evaluator whether a roof at 123 Plum St. is going to last another ﬁve years,” Stoudt said. “A storm could happen and a roof comes off on one house and the house next door is completely untouched.”

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Hutson fears ‘trial by ambush’ Ex-sheriff’s attorneys raise red flags in indictment

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

Susan Hutson’s attorneys are raising red flags about a lack of details in the 50-count criminal indictment Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office secured earlier this year against the ousted Orleans Parish sheriff and her former chief financial officer.

During a hearing Friday morning inside the Criminal District Courthouse, Hutson’s attorney Michael McMahon told a judge that the Attorney General’s Office did not reveal specifics about Hutson and Bianka Brown’s alleged crimes in a massive amount of electronic data prosecutors handed to Hutson’s legal team Sept. 3. He referred to that first round of

evidence disclosures as a “discovery dump” but said it provided little details about the criminal acts that a special grand jury indicted Hutson over. The indictment included charges of malfeasance in ofﬁce, criminal conspiracy, obstruction of justice and falsifying public records. “We object to what we have received from the attorney general

up to this point,” McMahon said. “This is the attorney general setting up a trial by ambush.” Assistant Attorney General Hutson Heather Hendrix, who’s leading Hutson’s prosecution, called McMahon’s arguments Friday a “performance” designed to “produce sound bite clips for any press”

present in the courtroom. She said Hutson’s attorneys could easily glean more speciﬁcs about the alleged misconduct by ﬁling pretrial motions that compel prosecutors to particularize each charge. Greg Carter, the former sheriff’s lead attorney, did just that at the end of Friday’s hearing. “The indictment is well within the letter of the law,” Hendrix said. “The defendant has a remedy.

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City Hall annex eyed for N.O. East

Committee also explores downtown options BY VIOLET BUCARO Staff writer

STAFF PHOTOS BY SOPHIA GERMER

New Orleans Police Department’s Recruit Class No. 208 raise their hands as NOPD Superintendent Anne E. Kirkpatrick delivers the oath of office during the commencement exercises at Rock of Ages Baptist Church in New Orleans on Friday.

‘YOUR GRADUATION BRINGS US HOPE’ NOPD ranks hit near 4-year high with graduation of 20 new officers

BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

With Friday’s swearing-in of 20 new ofﬁcers, the New Orleans Police Department’s ranks have reached their highest level in nearly four years. There are currently 926 commissioned officers in the NOPD, officials said. The last time the NOPD had more than 926 ofﬁcers was January 2023, according to the New Orleans Public Safety Dashboard. “Your graduation brings us hope,” Deputy Mayor of Public Safety and former NOPD Chief Michael Harrison told NOPD Recruit Class No. 208 during the ceremony at Rock of Ages Baptist Church. “Of 18,000 police departments in

America, you chose this one.” Ofﬁcials including Mayor Helena Moreno, New Orleans City Council member Eugene Green, Troop NOLA Captain Rodney Hyatt and New Orleans Saints owner Gayle Benson joined hundreds of friends and family members in celebrating the new ofﬁcers. Recruits began the police academy on April 26, hailing from as far away as New York and Puerto Rico and as near as Marrero. They join the force at what Moreno described as an “extraordinary” time of historically low crime, with New Orleans’ per capita homicide rate at levels not seen since the 1960s.

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A badge is placed on the shirt of Officer Darren Dents during the commencement for the New Orleans Police ä See NOPD, page 2B Department’s Recruit Class No. 208 on Friday.

3 bars end partnership offering free HIV testing Decision ‘disappointing,’ CrescentCare says

BY POET WOLFE and JUSTIN MITCHELL Staff writers

CrescentCare, a New Orleans nonproﬁt health clinic, is no longer providing free HIV testing at three popular French Quarter gay bars, a change that prompted criticism from some local LGBTQ advocates, residents and others who said the service was important to patrons and

the community. In a prepared statement issued Thursday and posted on social media, the health and wellness clinic said that Wood Enterprises, the management company for Good Friends, Rawhide Lounge and Café Laﬁtte in Exile, told CrescentCare that it wasn’t permitted to provide free HIV testing at the bars. Management for the bars said in a statement posted to Good Friends’ Facebook page Thursday that it was not opposed to HIV testing, but that anyone who enters the bar “for reasons other than having a drink or

enjoying a great conversation” must be approved by management. The decision by Wood Enterprises prompted a torrent of online criticism directed at the bars, which serve as an important hub for the city’s gay community. One resident called the move “disgraceful,” while several others vowed not to patronize Wood Enterprise-owned businesses in the future. Another commenter said he wished he hadn’t spent money at these bars during his trip to the city for Southern Decadence. “If I had known then I

An advisory group on Wednesday eyed potential locations for a New Orleans City Hall annex on Wednesday, weeks after New Orleans East residents cried out for more city services outside of downtown. The Municipal Complex Advisory Committee, tapped by Mayor Helena Moreno to explore how to revive New Orleans’ aging City Hall and Civil District Court, discussed the former Schwegmann’s Brothers Giant Supermarket on Bullard Avenue, the old Lake Forest Plaza Shopping Center on Interstate 10 Service Road, the New Orleans Police Department’s 7th District station on Dwyer Road and other sites. Several of those locations were proposed by residents at a Sept. 3 town hall on the subject, Corrine Villavaso, an urban planner, told the committee. But members said they need to know more about the state of those buildings before committing to one of them. The committee also largely limited its discussion to the idea of an annex in New Orleans East, and not the idea of putting all of City Hall there, as some New Orleans East residents have called for. Members said an annex would be beneficial for residents who live far from downtown, and that it could stimulate economic development in the East. “I think the more density you can have

FBI creates northshore task force

Agency acting against ‘gang violence and drug activity’ BY JIM DERRY Staff writer

would’ve skipped these places,” he said on Facebook. “But I know now for the next time I visit New Orleans.” CrescentCare described the decision as “unexpected and disappointing,” adding that the longtime partnership made HIV testing “accessible where people live, gather and connect.” The nonproﬁt said it hopes to reestablish a relationship with the bars, all on or within a few blocks of Bourbon Street, so that testing could resume. Anne Breaud, a French Quarter resident who became

The FBI deputized 38 law-enforcement ofﬁcers Thursday into a new Northshore Gang Task Force, a move the agency says is the “latest step taken to address gang violence and drug activity.” Several local and state leaders attended the swearing in at the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Ofﬁce Training Center in Slidell, including Gov. Jeff Landry, Louisiana State Police Superintendent Frank Besson, St. Tammany District Attorney Collin Sims and other town sheriffs and police chiefs from St. Tammany, Washington and Tangipahoa parishes. The task force will work in conjunction with the one already in place on the south shore. According to FBI New Orleans Special Agent Jonathan Tapp on

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Chalmette man convicted of shooting after bar fight Jury finds Larry Pounds III guilty in 2024 death

BY MATT BRUCE Staff writer

A Chalmette man has been convicted of chasing down a father of six and shooting him dead two years ago after a ﬁstﬁght at a 7th Ward bar spilled into the streets. Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams this week announced the guilty verdict against

TESTING

Continued from page 1B manager of the gay bars over the summer, declined to comment Thursday but released a statement Friday afternoon saying CrescentCare was banned for not following a recently created corporate policy requiring third-party vendors and their volunteers to schedule events through management. Breaud, who was embroiled in a legal ﬁght with former Mayor LaToya Cantrell over photographs she took of the mayor from her apartment balcony, blamed CrescentCare for creating a “trial by media” after photos of Breaud’s messages with a bar employee went viral when she was asked about banning CrescentCare. “You can understand our reluctance to allow any further contact with this organization,” Breaud said on Facebook Friday afternoon. More than 100 people commented within an hour of the post, most of them critical of Breaud’s response. “If this issue was truly about scheduling and vendor policies, then it seems there should have been a collaborative conversation to resolve a procedural concern rather than a decision that resulted in an organization providing HIV testing and prevention services being barred from your establishments,” one resident said. Phoenix Bar in the Marigny and The Railyard NOLA pool in Bywater said they planned to continue their partnerships with CrescentCare and other programs to provide testing services. Phoenix offered to host additional HIV testing events should CrescentCare want to expand. “HIV testing and access to care will always be welcome here,” the bar said on Facebook.

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Continued from page 1B Friday, the reason is to “attack the problem, before it gets bad.” “If you take New Orleans for example, in 2022 it was pushing 300 murders. To date, today (in 2026), we have less than 60,” said Tapp, who attributed the decline to the installation of Troop Nola, the Louisiana State Police division focused on the city. New Orleans officials have pointed to several reasons for the crime drop, including additional state resources, proactive policing and a broader national trend of violent crime declines in major cities. There are already several violent crime task forces across the state, including in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Lafayette, Alexandria and Shreveport.

A proactive measure According to the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff’s Office, there were seven homicides last year in unincorporated parts of the parish, which was equal to 2024 numbers. There were fewer overall crimes in 2025 relative to the previous year — 2,058 from 2,567 and 80 fewer violent

Larry Pounds III, 29, following a three-day trial that ended Sept. 24. Prosecutors said Pounds, armed with a rifle, pursued a fleeing Nolan Greathouse and shot him multiple times in the 1600 block of Touro Street early the morning of Sept. 21, 2024, shortly after the two men had a fight at a nearby bar. NOPD detectives recovered footage from the bar fight as well as the ensuing shooting, which showed a man identified as Pounds standing over Greathouse firing bullets into his body after he’d fallen to the pavement. The 39-year-old man died at the scene.

Outside of being watering holes and tourist destinations during Mardi Gras, Southern Decadence and PrideFest, gay bars in New Orleans have long been on the front lines of health information and advocacy. CrescentCare was formerly the NOAIDS Task Force, which formed in 1983 as an information hotline during the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. Since then, gay bars have been used as a meeting place of sorts to disseminate information and offer services to LGBTQ+ residents. They’ve hosted fundraisers for nonproﬁts, benefits for community members and toy drives around the holidays. In 2022, monkeypox vaccines were given at Phoenix Bar, prompting a massive turnout as hundreds lined up along Elysian Fields in the Marigny to get to the shot.

New management Wood Enterprises is owned by Tom Wood, a businessman and real estate investor. Reached for comment Thursday, Wood said he was out of the country and wasn’t aware of any change to the bars’ policies. He directed questions to Breaud. In 2024, Wood announced plans to sell Good Friends and other properties after ﬁve decades of accumulating businesses and real estate in the French Quarter. He said he planned to divest and retire to the Mississippi coast, but continued to own the properties as of this year. Louisiana ranks among the states with the highest rates of HIV in the country, according to the state’s Department of Health. And while HIV is treatable, it remains a lifelong condition that requires medication and monitoring. CrescentCare said testing services remain available at its walk-in clinics on Canal Street and Elysian Fields Avenue.

offenses. Slidell was the only municipality in the parish to report a homicide, and it had three last year. It isn’t clear the extent to which law enforcement officials think gang or drug activity is related to specific instances of violent crime on the northshore. But St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Bret Ibert, who had 12 of his deputies sworn into the task force, said the creation of the task force was a proactive measure to ensure that groups aren’t able to move into the area. Being deputized by the FBI will allow local officers to cross municipal boundaries if necessary and work more closely with the bureau on drug cases and violent-crime investigations. Each of the 38 officers will have the same legal authority as federal agents to enforce federal law. The Governor’s Office did not immediately respond to an interview request Friday but said on social media of the task force: “Each of them stands between good and evil, and we are all indebted to them for their sacrifice and service.” When asked for a timeline on future results of the task force, Tapp said the numbers “will come out as they come out in the court system.”

A jury found Pounds guilty of second-degree murder while acquitting him of obstruction of justice and conspiracy to commit murder charges. He faces a mandatory life term when he goes before Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Nandi Campbell for sentencing Nov. 6. Williams had a message for Greathouse’s family during a news conference at the district attorney’s headquarters Tuesday afternoon. “You have lived with this loss for more than two years,” he said,

standing with his trial team. “Everybody up here knows no verdict can bring Nolan home. But we hope that this resolution brings some measure of comfort.” The state’s case was bolstered by testimony from Pounds’ co-defendant, Lonzella Stirgus, who was accused of instigating the shooting after Pounds and Greathouse’s initial altercation. Police said he also drove Pounds from the scene of the shooting afterward. Stirgus, 30, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit second-degree murder charges and prosecutors dismissed accessory after the

fact, obstruction of justice and second-degree murder indictments against him. In exchange for his testimony, the state agreed to a 16-year sentence for Stirgus with 10 of those years suspended, court records show. “The sad part is, is that it was just a group of people outside trying to enjoy the city, and a couple of minutes resulted in a tragedy,” said Assistant District Attorney Carlos Torres, one of the prosecutors that secured the conviction.

Email Matt Bruce at matt. bruce@theadvocate.com.

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Continued from page 1B However, they also come during a period of fiscal uncertainty for the slowly growing department. On Tuesday, NOPD floated a series of cuts during a City Council hearing on the 2027 budget as Moreno’s administration seeks to close a $77 million budget gap. Proposed cuts include eliminating a contract with On Scene Services, a private company that responds to minor fender-benders; axing 62 full-time civilian NOPD jobs; and cutting $2.5 million in spending on body-worn cameras, in-vehicle cameras and Tasers. NOPD’s hard-won stafﬁng gains come amid a surge in officer applications and a slowdown in overall departures. Faster background checks and a new proactive recruitment team have also helped, while stakeholders have pointed to the department’s success in driving down crime as a draw for

HUTSON

Continued from page 1B There’s nothing where the state is hiding the ball.” Retired New Orleans Criminal Judge Dennis Waldron, appointed to preside after all 12 sitting judges in courthouse recused themselves, urged Hutson and Brown’s attorney to formalize motions for discovery and urged the Attorney General’s Ofﬁce to hand over any necessary information the defendants may need to ﬁght the allegations fairly. He set a Dec. 11 date to hash out any discovery issues and said he hopes to be able to set a 2027 trial date at the next court hearing. “I don’t know what the state is alleging,” he said. “I hope to

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Continued from page 1B in a speciﬁc place, the more likely it is that the smaller businesses might be able to be developed and succeed,” said Andy Kopplin, the advisory board’s president and the head of the nonprofit Greater New Orleans Foundation, at Wednesday’s meeting at Union Passenger Terminal. In addition to a City Hall annex in the East, which Moreno has said is a priority, the advisory committee has explored options to renovate City Hall and Civil District Court, or to raze them and build them anew. The committee is also examining whether it makes sense to operate some City Hall services in leased building space, as the city does already. Its work is meant to remedy a problem that multiple mayoral administrations have grappled with. City Hall has long been plagued by rats, mold, water leaks, electrical problems and deteriorating walls and ceilings. The court building has also reached what architects have described as the end of its life, and ofﬁcials have said the court cannot protect archives and documents due to temperature problems and outdated construction. Kim Boyle, an advisory board member, said on

STAFF PHOTO BY SOPHIA GERMER

New Orleans Police Department Superintendent Anne E. Kirkpatrick, from left, Mayor Helena Moreno and Deputy Mayor of Public Safety Chief Michael Harrison stand on the stage during the commencement for NOPD Recruit Class No. 208 at Rock of Ages Baptist Church in New Orleans on Friday. prospective ofﬁcers. “People are always drawn to a winning team,” Kirkpatrick told the new officers Friday. “Be brilliant at the basics. Do the right thing the right way, every single time.”

“People are always drawn to a winning team. Be brilliant at the basics. Do the right thing the right way, every single time.”

learn. But it appears that this could be a very complex set of allegations.” Both Hutson and Brown sat in the courtroom and watched. McMahon joined Hutson’s legal team Aug. 5, according to court records. He’s a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Eastern District of Louisiana who secured the convictions of rogue New Orleans Police Department ofﬁcer Len Davis, former New Orleans Saints safety Darren Sharper and real estate heir Robert Durst. Brown’s attorney, Jeffrey Hufft, did not receive the evidence disclosures until Friday morning and told Waldron he’d need to review the ﬁles before he raised any concerns over the digest. Murrill launched the criminal probe last year, days after

10 inmates escaped the Orleans Justice Center that Hutson oversaw at the time. The jailbreak touched off a multistate manhunt that spanned nearly five months before all prisoners were captured. Hutson said the escapees had help from Sheriff’s Office staffers. But according to her charging affidavit, she ignored warnings from federal consent decree monitors and let security lapses inside the Perdido Street jailhouse fester long before the May 16, 2025, getaway. Hutson and Brown were indicted April 29, just days before the sheriff’s four-year term ended and Michelle Woodfork assumed office after defeating Hutson at the polls last November. McMahon said each of the counts in Hutson’s indictment included little more than a

cursory definition of the statute the ex-sheriff is accused of violating. All of the counts say Hutson’s crimes occurred between May 2, 2022 — the day she took office — and April 8, 2026. That 1,437-day span encapsulated all but the final 24 days of Hutson’s term. “She must’ve been like a walking, talking, eating, drinking crime machine,” McMahon scoffed. “Sheriff Hutson can’t answer that. She doesn’t know what she did. It’s impossible.” Hendrix stood by the state’s accusations that Hutson committed “acts against Louisiana law” on each of the 1,437 days included in the scope of the indictment. She did not provide specifics, but promised “they were numerous, broad, vast, extensive, ongoing and varied.”

Wednesday that having a City Hall annex in the East “and/or the West Bank” would be a “phenomenal idea.” But moving other city services there — as some New Orleans East residents have called for — would be difficult for attorneys who practice in Mid-City or downtown, she said. “It would be extremely problematic for the core of Civil District Court activities to take place in New Orleans East,” said Boyle, an attorney. Other annex locations committee members looked at were the Metropolitan Hospice building on Read Boulevard and a former Housing Authority of New Orleans building near Chef Menteur Highway. The owner of the Lake Forest Plaza site, Gowri Kailas, has said that he has not been able to redevelop that space due to millions of dollars in back taxes and other obligations he is trying to settle. John Schwegmann has also said he has gotten lowball offers for his family’s properties but that he continues to look for buyers and tenants. Later Wednesday, city ofﬁcials hosted a town hall at the Morris Jeff Sr. Recreation Center in Algiers to get input on the city’s plans, the ﬁnal town hall of the municipal complex planning process. Several Algiers residents said the city should offer virtual services, instead of mak-

ing people go in person to get things done. Others argued that the 60-year-old City Hall building should be preserved for its historical significance, while still more said a new building is long overdue. “I’m a historic preservationist, so I’d like to see City Hall put to use,” Jim Goodwin, a construction worker and Algiers Point resident. “If they really planned the work and did it accurately, they could go in area by area and make it really quick and efficient.” The committee has also taken feedback from consultants, architects, designers and city officials. It will make its final recommendation to Moreno’s administration on Jan. 20.

The next advisory board meeting is scheduled Oct. 14 at 1 p.m. at Union Passenger Terminal and is open to the public.

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New Orleans Area Deaths Cutrone, Jaclyn Dugas, William Gabriel Sr., Oronde' Gendron, Frances Rudolph, Taj

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Obituaries Cutrone, Jaclyn Drackett

Jaclyn Elizabeth Drackett Cutrone, age 96, died peacefully at her home on September 26, 2026, surrounded by her family. Jaclyn was born in Morgan City, Louisiana, on February 19, 1930, to Catherine Griffin "Griff" (nee Hebert) and John Robert "Jack" Drackett. Jaclyn, known to most as "Jackie" (and later as "Beba", the nickname her eldest grandchild bestowed upon her), was a devoted wife and mother and all that those titles entail. At 22, in 1952, Jackie married the love of her life, Camille Anthony Cutrone. The two, whose lives intersected early on, shared a dance class as toddlers, and were schoolmates in junior high, where Camille spotted a teenage Jackie who "cut quite a figure" with her dark wavy hair. They began dating in high school. After high school, Jackie followed in her mother's footsteps and became a nurse, working as both an ER nurse and nurse recruiter. Once married, she became a military wife while her husband served as a commissioned officer in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the U.S. Army. Following the Army, Camille established a law practice in New Orleans where the couple made their home for more than seven decades. In 1956 Jackie gave birth to her first of four daughters. As a wife and mother, she used her many talents to assemble everything from tailgate lunches to holiday feasts; shared her nursing skills by serving as a substitute nurse during her daughters' years at the Academy of the Sacred Heart; and brought her love for service to others to her involvement in civic and charitable organizations such as the Girl Scouts, DePaul Hospital Guild, St. Elizabeth's and St. Michael's Special School. As the Cutrone family expanded to include grandchildren and greatgrandchildren, Jackie's dedication to family expanded as she attended everything from plays and recitals to horse shows. She brought undivided attention, maternal instinct, and a gregarious, joyful personality to the task. Her husband routinely described her as "effervescent" and "vivacious", and in a lighthearted nod to the way she saw to the needs of others as "service-oriented".

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Lemoine (Logan), Collin McMichael, Alden Littlewood and Michael Smart (Kathryn), stepgrandchildren Daniel Smart (Patty), Katie Raymond (Craig), and Matthew Strickland, greatgrandchildren Evangeline "Evie" Lemoine and June Littlewood, step-greatgrandchild William Lemoine, her sister Joan Garber, nieces, nephews, and great-nieces and nephews, as well as numerous adoring granddogs. Jackie was preceded in death by her beloved parents and her brothers Roy G. "Mike" Simmons and John Robert Drackett, Jr. The family wishes to express its sincere appreciation and heartfelt gratitude to Jackie's devoted group of caregivers. All who knew and loved Jackie will miss her elegance, her infectious love of life and beauty, and her radiant smile. Visitation will take place Friday, October 9, 2026, at 10 a.m. at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1329 Jackson Avenue, New Orleans, LA. Funeral with Holy Eucharist will follow at 11 a.m. Private burial will take place at Metairie Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, please consider memorial contributions to Trinity Episcopal Church or St. Michael's Special School, 1522 Chippewa Street, New Orleans, LA, 70130.

Dugas, William Junius 'Bill'

of which helped shape the kindhearted man he had become. Oronde' was educated through the Catholic school system, attending St. Raymond, St. James Major, and Redeemer High School. He furthered his education at Sidney Collier Community College. Oronde was a man who wore many hats throughout his life. He worked as a laborer for several local companies and was always willing to lend a helping hand whenever he was needed. In death, Oronde' continued to give in the most selfless way possible. Through the gift of organ donation, he chose to help save and improve the lives of others. Even in his final act, Oronde' demonstrated the compassion and generosity that defined him throughout his life. Because of this extraordinary final gift, Oronde' leaves behind a legacy that extends beyond those who knew and loved him. His decision to become an organ donor gave hope and a second chance to others, making his final act one of courage, kindness, and love. He will forever be remembered as a hero whose final act was one of love and giving. Those Left to Cherish His Memory: Loving mother, Penny B. Alexander, stepfather, Henry Alexander, children, Oronde Jr and Jayceon Gabriel, sister, ljnanya Dolliole, nephew, Terrell Mc Master Jr, and niece, Zynanya Barbarain Dolliole. Celebration of Life will be held at Holy Anointed House of Prayer, 1447 Senate St, New Orleans, LA 70122 on Saturday, October 3, 2026. Visitation at 9:00am followed by service at 10:00am. No interment to follow.

Gendron, Frances Amedee

Bill died at home following a brave battle with Parkinson's. Survived by his loving wife and daughter , Bonnie Wilson Dugas, , Aimee Dugas husband Scott Keith and his adored grandsons Donovan and Marcel Keith. Also survived by his 5 siblings and their extended families. Beloved son of the late Ruth Gros Dugas Alimia and Angelo Alimia, Willie Dugas. Where a beautiful soul has been beautiful memories will remain . There will never be another like him __

Gabriel Sr., Oronde' Holly

In Loving Memory of Oronde' Holly Gabriel, Sr. Oronde' Holly Gabriel, Sr. was born on July 27, 1984 and died unexpectedly on September 19, 2026 at Touro Infirmary Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was a bundle of joy to Holly Gabriel and Penny Brazley Alexander (Henry). From an early age, Oronde' was surrounded by faith, family, and community, all

Frances Amedee Gendron passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday, September 30th, 2026 at the age of 89. Frances was born in Edgard, LA and was a 1955 graduate of Edgard High School. She worked for American Cyanamid until the birth of her first child and then stayed at home to raise her family. Frances loved to read, garden, and go shopping, but she was most happy spending time with her family and friends as often as possible. Her strong faith and love of family will be her legacy she leaves behind. Beloved wife of the late Clifford Paul "CP" Gendron, Jr. for 66 years. Loving mother of Clifford Paul Gendron, III (Kathy), Mary Gendron Herschede (Walt), Angela Elizabeth Gendron, and the late David Michael Gendron. Loving grandmother of Clifford Paul Gendron IV, Lacey Ann Gendron, Michael Anthony Rollo, Jr. (Candy), Heather Gendron Wilson, David Charles Rollo (Alexis), Haley Marie Gendron, Vincent Joseph Rollo, II, and Sarah Renee Herschede. Adoring GreatGrandmother of Jackson Parker Rainey, Caroline Grace Wilson, Mia Marie Rollo, Julian Robert Wilson,

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Liberty Baptist Church under the leadership of the Rev. Dr. Calvin W. Woods Jr. and later worshipped at United Fellowship Full Gospel Baptist Church under the leadership of Bishop Brandon Boutin.Taj dedicated his professional life to public service, political organizing, and community engagement. He served as the District E Community Liaison for the City of New Orleans Mayor's Neighborhood Engagement Office. In that role, he worked closely with neighborhood associations, residents, City departments, and community leaders throughout New Orleans East and the Lower 9th ward.. He was deeply respected for his commitment to helping others and for ensuring that residents felt heard and supported. He will be remembered for his intelligence, ambition, kindness, humor, personal style, love for his family, and a beautiful smile that accompanied the devotion he had to serving his community. He leaves to cherish his memory his parents, Tareen "Meatball" Rudolph, Chiquilla Monique "Muffin" Martin, and Jerry Martin Jr.; his grandparents, Chinito and Bryan Giddings; his siblings, Taija Rudolph, Jerleva Martin, Jerry Martin III, Jayla Martin, Jaya Martin, Derrinesha Washington, Simeon Washington, and Junisha

Smith; his aunts and uncles, Ashton Giddings, Tyist Decquir, Tyree Rudolph, Joel Johnson Sr., Kirk Washington (Irma), Shaka Zulu (Nahima); George Decquir (Senta) and Godparents Terrylon Langlois, Kelwyn Napoleon, Kory Dupree, and Tarynesa "Terri" Williams. Community members and affiliates of the City of New Orleans Mayor's Office, District E community members, ENONAC, Urban Campaign Strategies, members of Greater Liberty B.C and United Fellowship B.C. are invited to attend A public viewing which will be held Friday, October 2, 2026, from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Charbonnet Labat Glapion Funeral Home,1615 St. Philip Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.Visitation will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Saturday, October 3, 2026, followed by the Celebration of Life at 10:00 a.m. at Greater St. Stephen Full Gospel Baptist Church, 5600 Read Boulevard, New Orleans, Louisiana. Bishop Brandon Boutin will officiate. Internment will follow at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

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Why you need dental insurance in retirement. Many Americans are fortunate to have dental coverage for their entire working life, through employer-provided benefits. When those benefits end with retirement, paying dental bills out-of-pocket can come as a shock, leading people to put off or even go without care. Simply put — without dental insurance, there may be an important gap in your healthcare coverage.

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Reading and needlepoint were among Jackie's favorite pastimes. She read "whodunits" by the bagful and passed them on to friends and neighbors. She was charmed by classic films, many from her youth, and shared her love of movies with her girls early in their lives. A lifelong football fan, the softspoken Jackie was so opinionated about referee calls that her eldest daughter gave her a set of penalty flags to use during games. Jackie is survived by her husband, her four daughters Candace Cutrone (the late Ted Strickland), Catherine McMichael (Kevin), Lee Cutrone, and Jackie Smart (Frank), her grandchildren Ryan Littlewood (Emily), Lauren

Vic Anthony Rollo, Joel Andrew Wilson, Chloe Elizabeth Wilson, Cami Marie Rollo, and Libi Marie Rollo. Daughter of the late Bert P. Amedee and Stella Simon Amedee. Sister of Judy Amedee Lissard (Benny), Jackie Amedee Roussel (late Eric), Bert P. "Sonny Boy" Amedee Jr (Linda), Albert "Chick" Amedee (Brenda), Jeff Amedee (Dors), Jerilyn "Poulette" Amedee Raziano (late Bob), and Steve Amedee (Jamie). Also survived by numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Visitation and Funeral Mass at St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 13396 River Rd., Destrehan, LA on Wednesday, October 7th, 2026. Visitation will be held at the Church from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. followed by a Funeral Mass at 12:00 p.m. Internment in St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery. The Family would like to thank Kristyn Woulfe, Dr. Joplin, and the entire staff at Hearts of Hospice for their loving care during this difficult time. In lieu of flowers, a donation to St. Jude in her name would be appreciated.

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Ford Motor Co. sales totaled 509,764 in the third quarter, a year-over-year decrease of 6.6% and a continuation of declines from the ﬁrst half of 2026. The automaker again projected confidence despite the decrease, noting that total vehicle sales volume was “essentially unchanged” for the quarter when adjusting for the phaseout of the popular Ford Escape and Lincoln Corsair SUVs. The company also noted that volumes dipped about 1% across the entire U.S. auto industry. The company pointed to strong F-Series sales in September and the Super Duty’s “best quarterly production performance in 19 years” as highlights from the quarter. Ford produced more than 110,275 units of the heavy truck in the past three months. Ford also saw success with the Maverick Hybrid truck, which it touted as the country’s top-selling hybrid pickup. The model had its best-ever third quarter with a sales volume of 27,793 units. Electric vehicle sales, which currently represent a small part of Ford’s product mix, were down 80.2% compared to the third quarter of 2025. The dropoff was expected after Ford discontinued the F-150 Lightning.

Paramount-WB combo to be named Skydance David Ellison said the merged Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery will be called Skydance — the moniker he picked nearly two decades ago when the tech scion began building his Hollywood empire. Ellison, currently the chairman and chief executive of Paramount, is aiming to ﬁnalize the acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery by Tuesday. Then the combined company will assume the name and logo of his once small studio. By calling the company “Skydance,” Ellison wrote Friday in an X post, the merged entity would have “an identity of its own while allowing Paramount and Warner Bros. — and all our extraordinary brands — to remain in the spotlight.” Although the name of the corporate parent will change, the two historic studios will continue to operate under their names. As part of a settlement of an antitrust lawsuit, Paramount pledged not to sell or close its Melrose Avenue lot or Warner Bros.’ Burbank lot and to operate them “in a manner consistent with past practices.” For more than a decade, Paramount has been the smallest of the major media companies, owning CBS, Comedy Central, BET, Nickelodeon and the Melrose Avenue studio. With the $111 billion merger with Warner, Skydance will gain more valuable assets including HBO, CNN, TBS, Food Network and Warner Bros. ﬁlm and television studios, along with their massive libraries.

Puerto Rico faces record electric rates SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A record electric rate went into effect Thursday in Puerto Rico as outages persist and the U.S. territory’s power grid continues to crumble. A residential customer that consumes 800 kilowatt-hours a month will see the monthly bill rise about 18%, from $229 to $271, according to Puerto Rico’s Energy Bureau, which approved the increase. The new rate will remain in effect until at least Dec. 31 and is expected to drive up an already high cost of living on the island of 3.2 million people. The new rate of 33.86 cents per kWh far surpasses the average rate of 18.3 cents per kWh for residential customers in the U.S. mainland, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Puerto Rico’s power grid was razed by Hurricane Maria when it struck the island in 2017 as a powerful Category 4 storm.

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Amazon to invest $1B into communities Backlash against data centers has grown

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NEW YORK — Amazon is investing more than $1 billion over the next ﬁve years into communities where it operates data centers for education, job training, water and energy preservation projects and other local priorities as it reacts to a growing backlash from politicians and consumers to the tech industry’s rollout of the massive buildings.

According to a blog post on Friday by Matt Garman, Amazon’s CEO of its cloud computing arm, Amazon has already spent more than $1 billion in communities with a large data center presence over the past three years. Garman also said that Amazon is no longer using nondisclosure agreements with government agencies it works with on its projects, and it said it hosts open houses in communities where it operates to share information about what it’s doing. He also warned against the spread of what he believes is misinformation about data centers’ impact on the environment and energy rates — and he cited the

dangers of over 100 moratoriums against these centers being considered across the country. “If these measures are enacted, the U.S. could be writing its own losing ticket to this race, and the consequences would last generations,” he wrote. “As a country, we can’t afford to find ourselves in that position. There is urgency to this data center build out because we aren’t the only country that sees the benefits of AI for the economy and national security.” Garman’s pledge comes as data centers, which power artificial intelligence and cloud computing, have become a hot political issue heading into the midterms as tech

giants race to invest more money in expanding these infrastructures. Small, under-the-radar data centers have been around for decades. But the explosion of artiﬁcial intelligence chatbots has resulted in data centers that are bigger than anything just about any town has ever seen. Some of them dwarf football stadiums and factories and consume more energy than small cities. By 2030, data centers will account for nearly 3% of the world’s projected electricity use, with 935 trillion watt-hours, according to a United Nations University report released in June on these buildings’ environmental footprint.

Pandora opens $150M Vietnam jewelry factory powered by renewable energy BY HAU DINH and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL

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HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Danish jewelry company Pandora has opened the world’s largest ﬁne-jewelry crafting facility in Vietnam, a $150 million factory powered entirely by renewable electricity and using 100% recycled gold and silver. The expansion highlights a broader challenge for the jewelry industry: reducing the environmental footprint of precious metals while meeting growing demand for jewelry. Using recycled gold and silver can reduce the need for newly mined metals, but experts say making that shift requires reliable supply chains and greater transparency. The new facility in Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam will produce up to 60 million pieces of jewelry a year, increasing the company’s manufacturing capacity by 50% while cutting its carbon footprint by 17%, CEO Berta de Pablos-Barbier told The Associated Press. “We are leading the way and we really hope that the rest follow,” she said.

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After 37 years in Thailand, Pandora wanted Craftspersons create jewelry pieces at the Pandora factory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, on to expand its manufacturing base to increase Wednesday.

ﬂexibility and strengthen supply-chain resilience, Pablos-Barbier said. She said that it chose Vietnam for its skilled artisans who can meet Pandora’s standards for craftsmanship, its business environment and its strong infrastructure. Access to renewable energy infrastructure to power factories is increasingly an “important factor” for Pandora and other Danish companies, Lina Gandløse Hansen, Denmark’s ambassador to Vietnam, said. Pandora’s Vietnam facility, with 7,000 workers, will be powered entirely by renewable electricity from the sun and wind, with solar panels installed on its rooftops and plans to work with local solar farms, the company said. It is also across the road from the $1 billion factory that toymaker Lego opened in 2025, where it says it makes toys without adding planet-warming gases to the atmosphere. Vietnam has rapidly expanded renewable energy and had Southeast Asia’s largest installed solar and wind capacity at the end of 2024. But the country still relies heavily on coal to power its fast-growing economy, making it important for manufacturers to shift toward cleaner electricity as Vietnam works toward net-zero emissions by 2050. Manufacturing makes up a ﬁfth of Vietnam’s GDP and consumes half the energy it uses. There are plans to phase out its coal power plants by 2040.

minerals and inclusive energy transitions at the United Nations University. He said gold is especially easy to recycle and unlike metals such as copper, it does not break down or rust. Silver can also be recycled, although it can tarnish and needs to be cleaned. “That is why it is so valuable. We still have gold from the ancient Egyptians, in pretty good shape,” he said. The Danish company switched to using 100% recycled silver and gold for new jewelry in August 2024. Its factories receive small grains of refined metal from recyclers in Europe and Asia, sourced from items ranging from medical equipment to old cutlery, said Pandora’s chief sustainability officer Mads TwomeyMadsen. It also means finding suppliers, smelters or refiners that use only recycled material. There’s also a risk that some could add newly mined material into the mix, Ali said. “That involves a lot of auditing.”

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Recovering valuable metals from discarded products and other waste is a challenge, Twomey-Madsen said. The world is producing more e-waste than ever — 62 million metric tons in 2022, projected to grow to 82 million metric tons by 2030, according to a report by the United Nations’ International Telecommunications Using recycled gold and silver Union and research arm UNITAR. Much of Pandora’s commitment to using recycled this is processed informally, where workers gold and silver was a “big deal,” said Saleem can be exposed to toxic substances while reH. Ali, who leads the program on critical covering valuable metals such as gold and

silver. More than 1,000 harmful substances have been found in e-waste or produced when it is improperly recycled, including lead, mercury, cadmium and other toxic chemicals, according to the World Health Organization. Ali, the critical minerals expert, said that artisanal gold mining — when individuals or small groups extract gold using simple tools — was now the largest cause of mercury pollution worldwide. Miners in poor countries may use the toxic metal to separate gold from other materials, harming people and the environment. He said there have been efforts to improve gold sourcing, but tracing gold remains difﬁcult. South Asia, in particular, has high demand for gold and jewelry sellers often don’t ask where their gold comes from. “Once it gets melted, it’s very hard to track it,” he said. Twomey-Madsen said that the company hopes its commitment to buying recycled metals will show suppliers that there is a growing market for the materials. He added that Pandora initially paid a premium for recycled gold and silver, absorbing the higher cost and investing with suppliers to build a more reliable supply chain for the materials. Making jewelry is far less emissions-intensive than sectors such as aviation or cement. But he said a switch by the entire industry switching to recycled gold and silver could prevent about 58 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere each year. “That is comparable to the entire emissions of New York City,” he said.

Canada fast-tracks oil pipeline to reduce U.S. dependence Alberta separatists push for leaving

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TORONTO — Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Thursday fast-tracked a proposed oil pipeline capable of carrying 1 million barrels a day to the Paciﬁc coast, which could reduce the country’s dependence on the United States and mend relations with oil-rich Alberta as separatists push for a referendum on leaving Canada. Appearing with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in Fort McMurray, at the heart of Canada’s oil sands, Carney designated the Paciﬁc Link

pipeline as a project of national in- line an example of how “cooperaterest under legislation his govern- tive federalism can work in action.” Asked what message Albertans ment enacted to accelerate major considering separation should infrastructure projects. take, Carney said it demonstratA bid to keep Alberta in Canada ed that “Canada is working” and Alberta is holding a public vote showed what Canada could achieve on Oct. 19 on whether to hold a ref- together. Ian Brodie, a University of Calerendum on leaving Canada. Smith has long complained that Carney’s gary political science professor predecessor, Justin Trudeau, hin- and former chief of staff to Condered Alberta’s energy industry servative Prime Minister Stephen Harper, said the announcement and fueled separatist sentiment. Smith said she would vote to keep could still help separatists by unAlberta in Canada and described derscoring Alberta’s dependence the roughly 22% support for sepa- on Ottawa. “There’s no reason this pipeline ration recorded in a recent poll as couldn’t have been fast-tracked in “still too high for my liking.” “I don’t like the fact that many of July, so we’ve lost three months in our fellow citizens have given up on the project,” Brodie said. “It’s a reCanada,” she said, calling the pipe- minder that Alberta has to have a

sympathetic prime minister in order to grow its oil sector. We don’t control our fate.”

A pipeline to loosen the U.S. grip Carney said Canada had a “oncein-a-generation opportunity to become an energy superpower” and end its reliance on a single trading partner. “Today, 90% of Alberta’s oil goes to the United States,” he said. “Paciﬁc Link will materially reduce that dependence” by opening access to growing Asian markets. The proposed 775-mile pipeline would run from Bruderheim, Alberta, to a deep water port near Delta, in British Columbia, largely following the existing Trans Mountain corridor.

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Will the next president represent a new generation? How old is too old to run for president? This question is answered by voters; the Constitution sets no maximum age. How young is too young? This question is partially answered by the Constitution, which sets the minimum age at 35. But beyond that, voters decide. This question is most relevant to the next election. Six possible candidates for president in 2028 are in their 30s and 40s. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is now 36, Jon Ossoff 39, JD Vance 41, Pete Buttigieg 44, Wes Moore 47 and Andy Beshear 48. Of course, most will have two more birthdays by the time the parties nominate their candidates. Are these potential aspirants too young to win — or, more importantly, to govern? Do they have enough experience in life, governRon ment and executive decision-making to hold Faucheux the world’s most consequential job? According to a 2023 Pew Research Center poll, nearly half of American adults (49%) said the best age for a president is in the 50s. Only 17% chose the 40s, 24% the 60s, 3% the 30s and 3% the 70s. That will surely please prospects who are currently in their 50s: Elissa Slotkin, 50; Ro Khanna, 50; Josh Shapiro, 53; Marco Rubio, 55; Ted Cruz, 55; Cory Booker, 57; and Gavin Newsom, 58. Potential candidates now 60 or older include JB Pritzker, 61; Kamala Harris, 61; Mark Kelly, 62; Mitch Landrieu, 66; and Rahm Emanuel, 66. Since Ronald Reagan, five presidential elections have been won by candidates near, at or above 70. Reagan was elected at 69 and reelected at 73; Donald Trump was elected at 70 and reelected at 78; Joe Biden was elected at 77 and withdrew at 81 during a reelection bid. In 2020, five major candidates were older than 70: Biden, Trump, Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg and Elizabeth Warren. The fundamental issue is not numerical age, but generational change — the promise of something new and better. When 43-year-old John Kennedy became president, he made clear that “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.” He took office after nearly three decades of “old, gray” men in the White House. Dwight Eisenhower left office at 70 and Harry Truman at 68, and Franklin Roosevelt died in office at 63 but seemed much older. By 1960, the nation was ready for the next generation of leadership and a new sense of hope. (It should be noted, too, that the three presidents who preceded JFK have since been ranked by historians as among the nation’s greatest.) In addition to Kennedy, the youngest person ever elected president, the U.S. has elected eight presidents in their 40s: James K. Polk and James Garfield, both 49; Franklin Pierce, 48; Grover Cleveland and Barack Obama, both 47; Ulysses Grant, Theodore Roosevelt and Bill Clinton, all 46. Young presidential nominees who lost general elections included Thomas Dewey, nominated twice at 42 and 46, and William Jennings Bryan, nominated three times at 36, 40 and 48. After two presidents in their 80s, Biden and Trump, and the attendant controversies surrounding their presidencies, the 2028 election may be primed for a Gen Xer, or even an older Millennial, to win. Candidates in their 60s shouldn’t be discounted, however; the fullness of their experience could serve the nation well. But a 60-something candidate, while not considered particularly old in today’s culture, would have trouble personifying generational change. Let’s keep in mind that there are more important factors to be considered other than age, such as personal character, maturity and intellect. These characteristics can be present, or lacking, in presidents of any age or experience. There is also the matter of wisdom. George Washington had it, as did Abraham Lincoln. These wise leaders with little formal education held the nation together during its most trying times. Compare that to James Buchanan, the 15th president, who was a lawyer, state legislator, U.S. minister to Russia and the United Kingdom, member of both the U.S. House and Senate and secretary of state. An impressive background, indeed, but Buchanan lacked wisdom, and that made him one of the nation’s worst presidents. Political candidates and campaign strategists need to understand the public mood to win elections. But voters need to take the full measure of each candidate — regardless of age — before they hand them the reins of power. Ron Faucheux is a nonpartisan political analyst, pollster and writer based in Louisiana.

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how shocking is lsu athletics’ projected $26m deficit? economists explain what it all means. LSU versus McNeese State is called a “buy” game, which names an economic reality. The expected purchase is an easy win. LSU, with its nearly $230 million athletics budget, will pay McNeese State, a relative runt with an $18.5 million balance sheet, about 4% of its yearly expenses, $750,000, to come on down to Baton Rouge. The contest will draw another sellout of 102,000-plus fans who will spend millions on tickets, food and parking. A broadcast network will air it, fulfilling the Southeastern Conference’s 10-year, $3 billion contract with ESPN and Disney. In luxury boxes, LSU boosters, who pour tens of millions of dollars into the operation annually, will relish just how much bigger, stronger and faster their players are than their adversary. Their pocketbooks will remain open so it stays that way. The money in college football seems infinite, which is why it was jarring when LSU president Wade Rousse came before the state board of regents last week and revealed the sports teams were far from self-sustaining. “We’re gonna address the bleeding,” said Rousse, the former McNeese president who projected a $26 million deficit for the LSU athletic department this year. ä see LSU, page 2C

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LSU Date Opponent 9.5 Clemson 9.12 La. Tech 9.19 at Ole Miss 9.26 Texas A&M 10.3 McNeese 10.10 at Kentucky 10.17 Mississippi State 10.24 at Auburn 11.7 Alabama 11.14 Texas 11.21 at Tennessee 11.28 at Arkansas

Time/TV W, 51-10 W, 45-14 L, 32-24 W, 35-6 6:45 p.m./SECN 6 p.m./ESPN TBD 11 a.m./TBD TBD TBD TBD TBD

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1 PRINCEWILL UMANMIELEN 55 Lamar Brown

DEFENSIVE TACKLE

90 STEPHIYLAN GREEN 88 Richard Anderson 96 Dominick McKinley

DEFENSIVE TACKLE

99 DEUCE GERALDS 47 Malik Blocton

DEFENSIVE END

29 JORDAN ROSS 97 Dylan Carpenter

LINEBACKER

42 DAVHON KEYS 35 Zach Weeks

LINEBACKER

6 TJ DOTTERY 24 Tylen Singleton

STAR

2 TY BENEFIELD 31 CJ Jimcoily

CORNERBACK

5 DJ PICKETT 21 Michael Turner

CORNERBACK

11 PJ WOODLAND 8 Ja’Keem Jackson

SAFETY

28 JHASE THOMAS 13 Faheem Delane

SAFETY

0 TAMARCUS COOLEY 28 Jhase Thomas

6-4 6-5

244 285

Sr. Fr.

6-3 6-3 6-6

296 339 297

Jr. Fr. Jr.

6-1 6-3

279 286

Fr. Jr.

6-5 6-3

246 252

Jr. Jr.

6-0 6-3

227 228

Jr. Fr.

6-2 6-1

225 227

Sr. So.

6-3 6-3

208 218

Sr. So.

6-4 6-1

189 162

So. So.

5-11 6-0

164 188

Jr. Jr.

6-1 6-2

175 213

Fr. Sr.

6-0 6-1

206 175

Jr. Fr.

80 SCOTT STARZYK

PUNTER

90 GRANT CHADWICK 99 Hayden Craig

LONG SNAPPER

43 SILAS HALL 39 Mack Mulhern

KICK RETURNER 22 HARLEM BERRY

PUNT RETURNER

3 EUGENE WILSON 1 Jayce Brown

5-9

2 ELISHA EDWARDS 10 Kevin Rideau

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6-2 6-2

210 180

Sr. Fr.

6-2 6-2

204 190

Jr. Jr.

5-9 5-7

160 155

Sr. Jr.

6-8 6-3

303 310

Sr. Jr.

6-4 6-6

325 335

Jr. Sr.

6-2 6-3

300 318

Sr. So.

6-3 6-6

318 335

So. Sr.

6-4 6-3

310 310

Sr. Jr.

6-1 6-3

245 235

Sr. Fr.

6-3 6-2

235 210

So. Jr.

5-10 6-2

210 220

Sr. Sr.

WIDE RECEIVER 6 CURTIS DEVILLE 11 Jaelen Smith

WIDE RECEIVER 1 KAMERAN SENEGAL 9 Jamaal Levi

LEFT TACKLE 62 AARON SESSION 77 Devonne Barry

LEFT GUARD 56 REAGAN GILL 63 Tyler Carlson

CENTER 70 ARTHUR AVILA 52 Sam Liu

RIGHT GUARD 52 SAM LIU 63 Tyler Carlson

RIGHT TACKLE ERIC ASCHENBECK 77 Devonne Barry

TIGHT END 83 REED BOYD 88 Wyatt Fontenot

QUARTERBACK 19 DEVIN LIPPOLD 4 Jake Strong

RUNNING BACK

DEFENSE DEFENSIVE END 8 ROYCE MALOLES 18 Iyioluwa Adekoya

6-2 6-4

250 265

Sr. Jr.

6-2 6-4

285 280

Jr. Jr.

6-0 6-2

285 285

Jr. Sr.

6-3 6-2

236 240

So. Sr.

6-0 6-0

215 220

Sr. So.

6-0 6-2

225 227

Sr. So.

6-0 6-0

175 180

So. Sr.

6-2 6-0

197 180

So. Sr.

6-2 6-2

184 195

Sr. Fr.

6-2 6-1

200 185

So. Fr.

6-2 6-0

230 183

SR. Sr.

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 98 MARK FIELDER 55 Alijah Alexander

DEFENSIVE TACKLE 99 ISAIAH FOWLER 90 Kate James

DEFENSIVE END 23 RJ STATEN 14 Sean Dubose

LINEBACKER 1 LANDON BARRETT 9 Trace Meadows

LINEBACKER 6 EMAURI SIBLEY 2 Lee Holmes

STAR 7 COHEN CHARLES 13 Amyrion Mingo

CORNERBACK 3 SAFIR STILLS-BEY 24 Lorenzell Dubose

CORNERBACK 4 MASON EDWARDS 12 Kenyatta Fleet

SAFETY 11 SENTARIO WILLIS 15 Morris Taylor

SAFETY 0 JERMAINE HARGRAVES 5 Javon Davis

SPECIAL TEAMS KICKER

LSU

WIDE RECEIVER

0 OMIRI WIGGINS 7 Tre’Vonte Citizen

DEFENSE DEFENSIVE END

SPECIAL TEAMS

So.

KICKER

6-5 6-1

208 211

Jr. Fr.

6-3 6-1

213 224

So. Fr.

5-10

193

Sr.

KICK RETURNER

5-11 5-11

190 175

Jr. Sr.

PUNT RETURNER

30 DEAGLAN CAMERON

5-8

151

JR.

6-2

210

So.

5-8

180

Jr.

5-9

160

Sr.

5-10

180

Sr.

PUNTER 38 GEORGE DIXON

LONG SNAPPER 28 PIERSON PARENT 1 KAMERAN SENEGAL 3 SOLO LEWIS

COACHES Lane Kiffin’s three victories as head coach at LSU are by an average of 33.7 points per game.

STAFF FILE PHOTO BY MICHAEL JOHNSON

LSU coach Lane Kiffin is greeted by school president Wade Rousse following a win over Clemson on Sept. 6 at Tiger Stadium.

It doesn’t take a sports economist to explain why LSU expects a loss. It used to cost nothing beyond a scholarship to reel in the athletes who drive a money-making machine, but, five years into NIL pay, the the football roster is rumored to cost around $50 million. Coach Lane Kiffin is paid $13 million a year, and former coach Brian Kelly was paid a $54 million buyout to just leave. These big-ticket items forced the university to dig into the Tiger Athletic Foundation’s reserves to cover the shortfall. What a sports economist will debate is whether the word “deficit” correctly describes LSU’s predicament as it puts on another football spectacle this weekend. “Every time I order pizza, I’m running a deficit. I made zero money off the pizza,” said Andy Schwarz, an economist at the consulting firm OSKR. “The right question is not, ‘Why didn’t I make money buying pizza?’ The question is, ‘Did I get $25 of value out of that pizza?’ ” LSU sees immense value in its football program. Otherwise, dorm funds wouldn’t have been used to prop up Tiger Stadium. The state cherishes its SEC brand. Otherwise, politicians wouldn’t have rushed to the school’s defense when the conference threatened expulsion over LSU recruiting ex-pros. There is talk of “chaos” and “unsustainability” in an ecosystem where athletes are paid and they readily test their market value in the transfer portal, which spurred passage of the Protect College Sports Act in the U.S. Senate this week. LSU supports the measure. But the economists who really study college football are skeptical there’s a crisis. “I think the ‘this is not sustainable’ is supposed to mean college sports will go away. That’s what it’s code for,” Schwarz said. “And that’s (bull crap).”

‘Envelopes of Cash’ Schwarz has worked on high-proﬁle antitrust lawsuits against the NCAA and testiﬁed before Congress, but he also designs board games. His most searingly humorous game might be the college football-themed “Envelopes of Cash,” created in 2020, which allows players to “take on the roles of head coaches at major college football programs, earning high salaries to exploit unpaid labor.” “Build the best facilities. Create a winning culture. Pay a lot of cash under the table,” reads the tutorial for the online version, which assigns the user a character, “Preacher in a Visor,” and a team, the “Yellow Tigers,” and a recruiting bus out of Texas prowling for recruits.

Not-so-free ‘free market’ In the meantime, schools like LSU are trying to exist in a dual paradigm. There is still a push for flashy facilities and schemes. But universities are also funneling as much money as possible to athletes through a capped $21.3 million in direct revenue-sharing, as well as an unlimited amount in outside NIL deals with third-party businesses. Contributions from boosters, which used to count toward “revenue” in schools’ NCAA financial reports, have flowed into player pay, which leads to an accounting shortfall. “No one donates to the Saints, right? Or the Pelicans. But you donate to LSU,” said Victor Matheson, president of the North American Association of Sports Economists and a professor at Holy Cross in Massachusetts. “Most people don’t count that as a deficit. That’s just a revenue stream. “But to the extent that you’re taking more money out of the endowment than is a normal rate of return to cover those costs, that’s a serious issue.” It’s a serious issue as well if athletic departments become overly reliant on student fees or

STAFF PREDICTIONS JON BLAU

LSU 48, MCNEESE 10 This could be a more lopsided game, but it’s unclear how long Lane Kiffin plays his starters after getting “freaked out” by the Tigers’ injuries against Ole Miss and Texas A&M. Quarterback Landen Clark should get the job done in Sam Leavitt’s stead, but how does the second- and third-string offensive line perform? How about the LSU backups on defense? This team’s depth will be tested to a degree against a 2-3 FCS squad.

REED DARCEY

Matt Viator returned to McNeese State for a second stint as head coach starting in the 2025 season.

This was college football — through a cynical but not completely untrue lens — before Schwarz and others backed an NIL bill in California that touched off a landslide of legislation across states, forcing the NCAA in 2021 to no longer prohibit athlete pay. The rapid rise in athlete earnings in the last five years, in Schwarz’s view, is a rebound from decades of price fixing by an NCAA “cartel” that was breaking the law. It should be followed, in theory, by a period where coaching contracts reduce to find the right balance. “I don’t think it’s a sustainability problem longterm,” said Joel Maxcy, a professor of sports business at Drexel who was elected president of the International Association of Sports Economists in 2015. “We’ve had college football, in particular at the Power Four level, have coaching staffs earn a lot of money, proportionately more than NFL coaching staffs. There’s this in-between period where the coaches are still paid a lot.” The problem is wages are “sticky,” Schwarz said. And lawmakers have focused on capping athlete pay, which could make coaching contracts even stickier. If athlete pay is capped, then schools will seek other differentiators after maxing out on a roster. A coach like Kiffin, who can pitch recruits on an innovative offensive scheme, is the next-best investment because he attracts talent. “If there were no cap at all, and they could pay athletes whatever they wanted, what you’d see is, on the margins, schools would make decisions,” Schwarz said. “You know what? We should pay a little more for talent and a little less for a coach.”

LSU 45, MCNEESE 3 LSU should give Sam Leavitt the night off. No need to stress that sore hamstring for a game the Tigers can win handily with Landen Clark at quarterback. Just run the ball as often as possible, give Harlem Berry some extra work, get a look at some freshmen and escape what should be a wet, rainy night without another major injury. The rest of October looks tougher than we thought it would.

SCOTT RABALAIS

LSU 41, MCNEESE 10 This doesn’t look like the rout it could be, but my score assumes a few things. One, that it will be wet and Sam Leavitt will play little or not at all at quarterback. Secondly, Lane Kiffin will instruct Charlie Weis Jr. to pound the Cowboys with the run, trying to shorten the game so the Tigers can get done with McNeese as quickly as possible. You’ve heard of victory with honor? This will be victory with extreme caution.

KOKI RILEY

LSU 52, MCNEESE 13 I’m excited to see what Landen Clark does in this game. As the backup quarterback, Clark has the mobility and arm strength to be a starter in the SEC, though his accuracy and ability to read the game are still question marks because of his lack of experience. Leavitt’s hamstring injury means Clark should play every snap Saturday. The pieces around him are more than talented enough to win this game comfortably.

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direct institutional support, including taxpayer funds, to stay afloat. LSU hasn’t reached that point, but its athletics donor base has been strained. That’s why Rousse, who has a background in finance, has been working on a plan that could involve spinning off LSU’s broadcast revenue into a separate entity, which would allow investors a minority stake in a perpetual revenue generator. Somehow, LSU has to ride out a period of rising costs in an ecosystem that doesn’t experience the same market pressures as traditional businesses. There aren’t “stockholders” in an athletic department demanding profits. There are “stakeholders,” or boosters, who are limited only by their ambition. “The whole ‘raison d’être,’ the whole motivating force behind decision-making, doesn’t have to do with profitability, it has to do with victories,” said Andrew Zimbalist, a professor emeritus of economics at Smith College who has authored many books, including Unpaid Professionals: Commercialism and Conflict in Big-time College Sports. “It’s silly, or certainly inaccurate, to call it a free market.” LSU boosters don’t want to fade into irrelevance. So they spent to fire Kelly, hire Kiffin, and pay the likes of quarterback Sam Leavitt, left tackle Jordan Seaton and edge rusher Princewill Umanmielen. They will likely buy more star transfers in 2027. College teams consuming more money than they generate isn’t new. In fact, 94% of Division I athletic departments were in the red during the 2023-24 academic year, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office, even if Power Four programs typically have landed closer to break-even. Zimbalist would just ask a couple of philosophical questions amid this decade’s NIL spending spree: What if Power Four football loses its “best-in-class” appeal as an amateur sports brand and becomes viewed as the NFL’s equivalent of Triple-A baseball? What if the overt involvement of billionaire boosters, cutting checks over the table, feeds into fans’ perceptions of an uneven playing field? “Just because college sports has been growing in popularity and revenue so handsomely over the last several decades doesn’t mean that happens forever and automatically,” Zimbalist said. “A lot of the people who are making decisions need to step back and take a close look at what’s actually happening.”

plicant pool improves. “What the literature is suggesting is that, mostly, those additional applications are coming from people who are not academically wellequipped,” Zimbalist said. They may be students hellbent on attending LSU football games. But they are tuition-paying students who are in demand. Randy Grant, a professor at Linﬁeld University who wrote the textbook The Economics of Intercollegiate Sports, points to a decline in birth rates during the Great Recession from 2007-09, which has led to a declining number of applicants. “Combine that demographic cliff, as they call it, with fewer international students, because the environment’s not generally welcoming to international students these days,” Grant said, “and you just have fewer students to be spread among the schools. “So anything they can do to attract students, they’re doing.”

Cutting checks or Chick-fil-A sandwiches

In this moment, schools have a choice. If LSU wants to fuel its athletics marketing and entertainment vehicle with $26 million beyond what it draws in revenue, it can do that and probably survive. “You think about a few years ago, CTE was a big issue and people were projecting the doom of college football,” Grant said, “and it seems to be thriving as much as ever.” Schwarz doesn’t see it as a bad thing if the 40 highest-spending football schools in the country eventually break away from the rest, just as the FBS and FCS split in 1978. There will be a “sorting out,” Schwarz said, where programs with shallower pockets will compete for championships that are still relatively meaningful. “If you’re in this weird situation where essentially you were punching above your weight for a variety of reasons, including the fact that talent was artificially underpriced,” Schwarz said, “I don’t have a ton of sympathy if you don’t get to keep reaping those ill-gotten gains. But I don’t think LSU is one of those schools.” Economists agree that LSU will spend to remain in college football’s top tier. The prestige matters too much to its stakeholders not to. LSU’s opponent this weekend, McNeese State, has to be cautious for reasons that have nothing to do with NIL or revenue-sharing. Rick Gallot, president of the University of Louisiana System, said “everything is on the table” as his board engages the management consulting firm Deloitte to review its strained Football brand power athletics budgets, because everything from bussing to away games to feeding athletes on Rousse has had a look, but he’s also listened. During the regents meeting where he be- road trips has become more costly. “You’ve got a 300-pound lineman, you can’t moaned a $26 million shortfall, Rousse recalled being beckoned to the Supper Club restaurant get them a combo meal from Chick-fil-A and by E.J. Kuiper, the head of FMOL Health, which think that’s appropriate,” Gallot said, adding it might be possible to figure out whether opis one of LSU’s biggest sponsors. “Need 10 minutes,” Kuiper said. ponents have the same food vendor so athletes “Donate as much money as he does,” Rousse can use their meal points on another campus. told the regents, “you go for 10 minutes.” Everything is on the table, whether it’s D-I Kuiper wanted Rousse to meet a young wom- schools in the UL System dropping levels, to an from Boston who was the daughter of Ohio FCS, Division II or Division III or cutting sports State and Boston College graduates, but she all together. That’s not the world LSU lives in. Or the for“stumbled” into Tiger Stadium as a 10th grader while her family was on vacation and didn’t fol- mer McNeese president Rousse. “He was one of ours before LSU stole him,” low in her parents’ footsteps. She came to LSU, became interested in study- Gallot joked. “I would be more concerned if ing the brain malady CTE in football players it were a president who didn’t have the same economist’s wiring. They’re going to be fine.” and is currently in medical school. LSU will have its “buy” “Our brand matters,” game Saturday. Kiffin will Rousse said, “but we can’t continue to draw checks. LSU get caught into a system that will attack the portal come there’s no fiscal responsibilJanuary. ity.” Where there is a will to Football wins can have payspend in major college sports, offs off the field. There’s just there is a way. mixed research on how much. “It comes down to, ‘Oh, we’re While there is some ecoall losing money.’ It’s like, no, nomic impact on Saturdays, you’re all spending money Matheson said it’s marginal, and you’re doing it because around an additional $5 milyou like what you get for the lion per home game in citmoney. ‘Oh, we don’t really ies such as Tallahassee and like what we get,’ ” Schwarz Gainesville, Florida, because said, playing out a dialogue. attendees tend to be from the “Then you should stop. ‘Oh, I area and they crowd out other can’t stop.’ visitors. “There’s only one thing creThere is research to suggest people perceive an institution ating demand for a freshman as better academically when it quarterback right now, and it’s has a highly visible sports procollege programs that supposWADE ROUSSE, gram, and applications rise, edly can’t afford them.” LSU president though Zimbalist said there are not “robust” findings to Email Jon Blau at jon.blau@ suggest the quality of the aptheadvocate.com

Our brand matters, but we can’t get caught into a system that there’s no fiscal responsibility.”

OFFENSIVE LEADERS LSU

McNeese

PASSING

Player

Cmp-Att-Pct Yards TD Int

Sam Leavitt

74-116-61.3 1044

RUSHING

Player

Att

Dilin Jones Sam Leavitt Landen Clark Harlem Berry Stacy Gage Winston Watkins

Net

78 45 16 12 15 3

4.5 4.9 5.2 5.9 3.7 7.7

4 6 3 0 0 0

Rec Yards Avg TD

Winston Watkins Jackson Harris Trey’Dez Green Eugene Wilson Phillip Wright Tyree Holloway Jayce Brown Corey Barber Stacy Gage

20 11 14 15 3 2 4 1 2

314 280 222 152 70 37 37 15 10

15.7 25.5 15.9 10.1 23.3 18.5 9.3 15.0 5.0

2 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0

KICKING Player

XPM XPA FGM FGA

Scott Starzyk

Cmp-Att-Pct Yards TD Int

Devin Lippold Jake Strong

64-112-57.1 744 28-46-61.0 321

8 2

RUSHING

Avg TD

348 220 83 71 56 23

RECEIVING Player

PASSING

Player

Att

Omiri Wiggins Devin Lippold Marquez Davis Hutch Swilley Tre’Vonte Citizen Jamaal Levi

Net

56 29 10 15 24 2

Avg TD

375 161 88 87 85 52

6.7 5.6 8.8 5.8 3.5 26.0

FAR WEST

Saturday’s games

Friday’s games EAST

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

Top 25 Saturday’s games

No. 2 Georgia (4-0) vs. Vanderbilt (3-1), 11:45 a.m. No. 3 Notre Dame (4-0) at North Carolina (2-1), 11 a.m. No. 4 Miami (4-0) at Clemson (3-1), 6:30 p.m. No. 5 Ohio St. (3-1) at No. 14 Iowa (4-0), 2:30 p.m. No. 6 Indiana (4-0) at Rutgers (1-3), 7 p.m. No. 7 Alabama (4-0) at No. 16 Mississippi St. (4-0), 11 a.m. No. 8 Florida (4-0) at No. 25 Missouri (3-1), 2:30 p.m. No. 10 BYU (3-0) at TCU (2-2), 6 p.m. No. 11 LSU (3-1) vs. McNeese (2-3), 6:45 p.m. No. 12 Texas Tech (4-0) at Colorado (2-2), 6:30 p.m. No. 17 Tennessee (3-1) vs. Auburn (3-1), 2:30 p.m. No. 18 Southern Cal (4-1) vs. Washington (3-1), 6:30 p.m. No. 20 Houston (3-1) vs. UCF (3-1), 11 a.m. No. 21 SMU (3-1) vs. Boston College (2-2), 11 a.m. No. 22 Boise St. (3-1) vs. Utah St. (1-3), 6:30 p.m. No. 24 Kentucky (3-1) at South Carolina (2-2), 3:15 p.m.

Nation Thursday’s games SOUTHWEST

North Texas 45, Tulsa 44 (OT)

New Mexico St. 34, W. Kentucky 13

Liberty 30, Delaware 14

SOUTH

Pittsburgh 35, Virginia Tech 33

MIDWEST

Penn St. (3-1) at Northwestern (2-1), n

FAR WEST

Montana St. (5-0) at Idaho (0-4), n

Saturday’s games EAST

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. 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. 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.

Elisha Edwards Curtis Deville Omiri Wiggins Kameran Senegal Jamaal Levi Reed Boyd Hutch Swilley

Rec Yards Avg TD 21 15 14 13 9 5 4

311 284 120 78 69 67 64

14.8 18.9 8.6 6.0 7.7 13.4 16.0

SOUTH

Memphis (3-1) at Charlotte (0-4), 10 a.m. St. Thomas (Minn.) (4-1) at Presbyterian (1-3), 11 a.m. Stanford (2-2) at Wake Forest (3-1), 11 a.m.

3 4 1 0 1 0 0

KICKING Player

Deaglan Camron Brettson Booker

XPM XPA FGM FGA 15 2

16 2

5 0

6 0

DEFENSIVE LEADERS TACKLES

Player

Tot Solo Ast Loss Sk

TJ Dottery 26 Whit Weeks 23 Princewill Umanmielen 21 Ty Beneﬁeld 19 PJ Woodland 13 DJ Pickett 13 Deuce Geralds 13 Davhon Keys 11 Tamarcus Cooley 10 Jhase Thomas 10 Jordan Ross 10 Faheem Delane 8 Dashawn Spears 7 CJ Jimcoily 7 Stephiylan Green 7

Player

9 10 9 8 7 12 9 6 7 5 4 1 5 1 1

17 13 12 1 6 1 4 5 3 5 6 7 2 6 6

1 2.5 9 11 0 0 4 1 1 0 4.5 0 1 1 2

0 0 7 1 0 0 4 0 1 0 1.5 0 1 1 1

INTERCEPTIONS

DJ Pickett Jordan Ross Ja’Keem Jackson

Tot Yards Avg TD BU 1 1 1

32 30 10

32.0 30.0 10.0

0 1 0

0 0 1

TACKLES Player

Landon Barrett Cohen Charles Emauri Sibley Jermaine Hargraves Sentario Willis RJ Staten Saﬁr Stills-Bey Sean Dubose Mark Fielder Morris Taylor Javon Davis Amyrion Mingo Mason Edwards Royce Maloles

Player

Tot Solo Ast Loss Sk 31 25 19 18 18 17 17 15 15 13 12 11 9 9

16 13 12 11 10 9 13 7 5 9 9 8 7 4

15 12 7 7 8 8 4 8 10 4 3 3 2 5

3 1 3.5 0 1.5 3 2.5 0.5 0.5 0 2 0 0 2

0 0 1 0 0 1.5 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 2

INTERCEPTIONS

Sentario Willis Amyrion Mingo Landon Barrett

Tot Yards Avg TD BU 2 1 1

37 0 0

18.5 0.0 0.0

0 0 0

0 2 0

TEAM STATS OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 502.0

OFFENSE PER GAME Yards gained: 418.6

Plays: 78.5

Plays: 67.8

PASS 296.5

RUSH 205.5

PASS 33.0

RUSH 45.5

Turnovers: 1.75

PASS 229.2

RUSH 189.4

PASS 34.8

RUSH 33.0

Turnovers: 1.60

INTERCEPTIONS 1.50

FUMBLES 0.25

INTERCEPTIONS 1.00

FUMBLES 0.60

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 226.8

DEFENSE PER GAME Yards allowed: 419.6

PASS 179.3

PASS 247.4

RUSH 47.5

Turnovers forced: 1.75 FUMBLES 0.50

INTERCEPTIONS 1.00

SCORING PER GAME SCORED ALLOWED

RUSH 172.2

Turnovers forced: 1.40

INTERCEPTIONS 1.25

38.8

SCORED ALLOWED

28.0

22.8

23.2

19.8

15.5 2026

FUMBLES 0.40

SCORING PER GAME

SCORED ALLOWED

2025

25.5

23.5

2026

2025

CONVERSION SUCCESS

Third down

Fourth down

Third down

48.4%

28.6%

Fail

51.6%

Convert

Fail

Fourth down

41.4% 71.4%

Fail

37.5% 62.5%

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Marist (2-2) at Stetson (1-3), noon Valparaiso (1-3) at Morehead St. (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. 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. 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. 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.

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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. 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. 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.

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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. West Florida (3-1) at Abilene Christian (1-4), 7 p.m.

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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. 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, October 4

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THINGS TO WATCH IN WEEK 5 Who, what and where to keep an eye on in this week’s games around the nation

MISS. ST. AIMS TO END BAMA STREAK

Quarterback Kamario Taylor’s dynamism and recent effectiveness in the clutch has provided No. 16 Mississippi State’s cowbell-ringing fans hope that perhaps Saturday will be different from every other time the team has faced Alabama since 2007. No.7 Alabama (4-0, 2-0 SEC) has won 16 straight in the series. The Crimson Tide has been dominant against its first four opponents this season, beating each by two or more touchdowns. Mississippi State (4-0, 2-0) has won its two SEC games by a single touchdown.

NO. 5 BUCKEYES HEAD TO IOWA CITY

No. 5 Ohio State (3-1, 1-0 Big Ten) will make its first trip to Iowa City since 2017. The Hawkeyes won in a blowout that day and eliminated the thenNo.3 Buckeyes from College Football Playoff contention. Iowa defensive coordinator Phil Parker’s biggest challenge will be to come up with a plan to keep star receiver Jeremiah Smith under control. Smith caught 12 passes for 217 yards, both career highs, and tied the Ohio State record with four touchdowns last week in the Buckeyes’ 42-19 victory over Illinois.

CINCINNATI SEEKS 5-0 START

Cincinnati (4-0, 1-0 Big 12) has gone from a five-game losing streak to finish last season to a chance to start 5-0 for the first time since 2021. Cincinnati’s Big 12 road opener comes a week after rallying to win 31-26 against previously unbeaten Kansas State.Arizona (3-1, 0-1) won 30-24 last year at then-No. 22 Cincinnati. Noah Fifita threw for 294 yards and a touchdown to become the Wildcats’ career leader for TD passes last November.That was the second of the Bearcats’ five losses in a row. — Associated Press

Caution key for LSU’s second act As Lane Kiffin decided whether to go for it or punt on fourth-and-1 this past Saturday from the LSU 43, he reminded himself he was Lane Kiffin. LSU hired him to be bold in these situations. So, instead of punting for safety, he had offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr. dial up an ingenious play-action pass that had Texas A&M yell leaders yelling “Oh no!” as Sam Leavitt hit a streaking Jackson Harris on a superbly executed 57-yard touchdown pass. It was the signature play of the Tigers’ first month of games under Kiffin. Textbook Kiffin. A Kiffin stratagem that blared “This is why LSU hired him” in 10-foot tall, Dr Pepper font-styled letters. LSU’s season can be likened to a three-act play. The Scott act is over, with enough Rabalais first drama — lawsuits, legal brinksmanship, overflowing emotions and “SportsCenter” worthy national stories — to leave an audience limp in its seats. That the Tigers went 3-1 and were able to bob and weave back to their No. 11 preseason AP ranking after four games really undersells the histrionics we have witnessed. Now, as we enter the second act, the plot has twisted. The lead actor, Kiffin, has taken on a different tone, too — a character compelled by the circumstances surrounding him. Kiffin the Bold is sounding like Kiffin the Cautious as LSU prepares to host McNeese on what could be a rainy Saturday night in Tiger Stadium (6:45 p.m., SEC Network). He spoke openly this week of at least considering holding out some key players after a spate of player losses that has LSU’s season resembling Agatha Christie’s classic whodunit “And Then There Were None.” The Tigers have suffered at least six major season-ending or long-term injuries to key players like linebacker Whit Weeks, tight end Trey’Dez Green, Star (safety) Dashawn Spears, plus a worrisome hamstring issue for Leavitt. When you think about it, a 3-1 record with Clemson, Ole Miss and Texas A&M on the schedule for LSU’s first act is a completely reasonable start. Sure, everyone wants to be 4-0, but September left the Tigers exiting the month as they hoped to be entering it: a legitimate College Football Playoff contender with dreams of competing for the Southeastern Conference championship still very much in play. The second act of the season looks to bring less drama and certainly fewer blockbuster contests, starting with McNeese. ESPN pegs the Cowboys (2-3) as an overwhelming 531/ 2-point underdog. If Kiffin is thinking of holding out Leavitt and his balky hammy Saturday as an insurance policy for the rest of the season, he could almost certainly go with backup Landen Clark and get the win. Heck, he could almost certainly go with Jontre Kirklin — the wide receiver pressed into being LSU’s starting quarterback in the 2021 Texas Bowl — and get the win. You could tell from Kiffin’s words and body language at his weekly news conference that he chafes at the notion of being cautious. It isn’t in his DNA. It probably gives him a rash. But sometimes, discretion is truly the

1. TEXAS Record: 4-0, 1-0 SEC Previous ranking: 1 Last week: beat Tennessee 20-17 This week: off 2. GEORGIA Record: 4-0, 2-0 Previous ranking: 3 Last week: beat Oklahoma 41-13 This week: vs.Vanderbilt, 11:45 a.m. Saturday (SEC Network) 3. ALABAMA Record: 4-0, 2-0 Previous ranking: 4 Last week: beat South Carolina 49-18 This week: at Mississippi State, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABC) 4. FLORIDA Record: 4-0, 2-0 Previous ranking: 7 Last week: beat Ole Miss 52-28 This week: at Missouri, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) 5. OLE MISS Record: 3-1, 1-1 Previous ranking: 2 Last week: lost to Florida 52-28 This week: off 6. LSU Record: 3-1, 1-1 Previous ranking: 5 Last week: beat Texas A&M 35-6 This week: vs. McNeese, 6:45 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network) 7. TENNESSEE Record: 3-1, 0-1 Previous ranking: 6 Last week: lost to Texas 20-17 This week: vs.Auburn, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) 8. MISSISSIPPI STATE Record: 4-0, 2-0 Previous ranking: 8 Last week: beat Missouri 31-24 This week: vs.Alabama, 11 a.m. Saturday (ABC) 9. KENTUCKY Record: 3-1, 1-1 Previous ranking: 10 Last week: beat South Alabama 45-21 This week: at South Carolina, 3:15 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network)

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LSU linebacker Whit Weeks walks on crutches to the locker room in the third quarter against Texas A&M on Sept. 26 at Tiger Stadium. Weeks is out indefinitely after suffering a broken leg in the game.

better part of valor. Kifﬁn often follows his instincts to great success, as he did with that fourth-down pass against the Aggies. If instincts tell him to rest or at least limit some key players against McNeese, they’re worth listening to in this instance. The rest of the season’s second act is more compelling. And dangerous. The Ti-

gers go to Kentucky next Saturday, return home to face upstart Mississippi State, then close out the month at Auburn. All are games in which LSU figures to be favored, but all are games in which the Tigers could stub a paw if they are not … cautious. There’s that word again. I can picture Kiffin reaching for the hydrocortisone cream now. LSU has to get through the season’s second act unscathed, because the third act is a doozy. Back-to-back home games with Alabama and Texas followed by a trip to Tennessee, where the fans will only be marginally less hospitable than Ole Miss fans were to see Kiffin return to Oxford a couple of weeks ago. The season ends with a post-Thanksgiving trip to Arkansas, which right now looks like an outmatched bookend to this stretch paired neatly with McNeese. The second act of this season, as in a good play, sets the stage for the third. For the dramatic conclusion. If the Tigers have to tiptoe through games like this to get to the end in good order, to play for something significant in November as former LSU coach Gerry DiNardo liked to say, so be it. Kiffin — the experienced, wiser, if still bold by nature Kiffin LSU hired away from Ole Miss — knows that as well as anyone.

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LSU wide receiver Jackson Harris, left, makes a catch for a touchdown against Texas A&M on Sept. 26 at Tiger Stadium. Harris caught the ball on a fourth-and-1 play.

TV HIGHLIGHTS 11 a.m. Alabama at Mississippi St. ABC 11 a.m. Stanford at Wake Forest ACCN 11 a.m. Navy at Air Force CBS 11 a.m. Syracuse at UConn CBSSN 1 a.m. Boston College at SMU CW 11 a.m. Notre Dame at N. Carolina ESPN 11 a.m. UCF at Houston ESPN2 11 a.m. MTSU at Kansas ESPNU 11 a.m. Michigan at Minnesota FOX 11 a.m. West Virginia at Iowa St. TNT 11:30 a.m. Michigan St. at Wisconsin BTN 11:45 a.m. Vanderbilt at Georgia SECN 2:30 p.m. Florida at Missouri ABC

SEC RATINGS BY KOKI RILEY

Louisville at NC State ACCN Ohio St. at Iowa CBS California at UNLV CBSSN Wyoming at N. Dakota St. CW Auburn at Tennessee ESPN Virginia at Florida St. ESPN2 Marshall at James Madison ESPNU Maryland at Nebraska FS1 Purdue at Illinois BTN Kentucky at South Carolina SECN Oregon St. at Colorado St. USA BYU at TCU ESPN Arkansas at Texas A&M ESPN2

Miami at Clemson ABC Utah St. at Boise St. CBSSN Temple at South Florida ESPNU Texas Tech at Colorado FOX Washington at Southern Cal NBC McNeese at LSU SECN Indiana at Rutgers BTN Fresno St. at Washington St. USA Texas St. at San Diego St. CW Baylor at Arizona St. ESPN E. Washington at UC Davis ESPN2 Cincinnati at Arizona FOX

10. MISSOURI Record: 3-1, 0-1 Previous ranking: 11 Last week: lost to Mississippi State 31-24 This week: vs. Florida, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ABC) 11. AUBURN Record: 3-1, 1-1 Previous ranking: 13 Last week: beat Vanderbilt 21-15 This week: at Tennessee, 2:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN) 12. OKLAHOMA Record: 2-2, 0-1 Previous ranking: 12 Last week: lost to Georgia 41-13 This week: off 13. VANDERBILT Record: 3-1, 0-1 Previous ranking: 15 Last week: lost to Auburn 21-15 This week: at Georgia, 11:45 a.m. Saturday (SEC Network) 14. TEXAS A&M Record: 2-2, 0-2 Previous ranking: 9 Last week: lost to LSU 35-6 This week: vs.Arkansas, 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN2) 15. SOUTH CAROLINA Record: 2-2, 0-2 Previous ranking: 14 Last week: lost to Alabama 49-18 This week: vs. Kentucky, 3:15 p.m. Saturday (SEC Network) 16. ARKANSAS Record: 2-2, 0-1 Previous ranking: 16 Last week: beat Tulsa 34-6 This week: at Texas A&M, 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN2)

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Saints quarterback Tyler Shough runs the ball against the Atlanta Falcons on Nov. 23 in the Caesars Superdome. The Saints and Falcons renew their NFC South rivalry on Monday night in the Superdome with the NFC South lead at stake.

NFC South is off to another punchline-worthy start, but the football games have been fun BY MATTHEW PARAS Staff writer

s bleak as his team’s situation looks, Buccaneers coach Todd Bowles couldn’t help but crack a joke after Tampa Bay’s loss to the Minnesota Analysis Vikings on Sunday. “Funny thing, we’re 0-3 and a game out of ﬁrst place,” Bowles said. The NFC South had once again become the punchline. For yet another season, the oftmaligned division looks like a mess. After the Carolina Panthers won the

South by backing into the playoffs with an 8-9 record, all four teams in the division are under. 500 through three weeks. Monday’s game between the New Orleans Saints and Atlanta Falcons, both at 1-2, could be a battle for ﬁrst place, depending on how the 1-2 Carolina Panthers’ Sunday night game against the Detroit Lions goes. If you’re keeping track, that’s backto-back prime-time games for (statistically) the NFL’s worst division. The Falcons are in the midst of a threeweek prime-time stretch, too. But those who still bother to watch might uncover a dirty little secret. As

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ä Saints notebook. PAGE 6C mediocre as the NFC South can be, the division has the chance to be fun. It’s the NFL’s version of “The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives,” Hulu’s trashy real-

Coach Sumrall reawakening sleeping giant

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Robot umpires ﬂipped 54% of ABS challenges Reds, Angels among the most successful

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No. 8 Gators visit No. 25 Missouri

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida coach Jon Sumrall gave his team a history lesson about Mike Tyson two weeks ago. It was more about Buster Douglas, really. Douglas stunned Tyson at the Tokyo Dome in 1990 and did so in punishing fashion. Douglas jabbed at Tyson’s left eye for 10 rounds, causing it to swell and bleed. In preparation for Florida’s Southeastern Conference opener at Auburn, Sumrall provided commentary while showing clips of the heavyweight title ﬁght considered the greatest upset in boxing history. “Work the cut” became Sumrall’s theme for the week. He repeated it at practice, in the locker room, during pregame warmups, at halftime and even on the sideline between drives. Florida responded with the program’s most signiﬁcant road victory in a decade, providing a clear indication that the super intense and highly energetic Sumrall was on the verge of rousing the three-time

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ity show that entertains no matter how bad it gets. “I know what the records say for each and every team right now,” Saints center Erik McCoy said. “But the last few years have come down to the wire, have come down to the last game of the season.” The division’s competitiveness doesn’t automatically make it entertaining. To the average NFL fan, there was nothing particularly satisfying about watching the Panthers lose a Week 18 showdown to the Buccaneers last season only to make the play-

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Florida coach Jon Sumrall shakes hands with players during warm-ups before last Saturday’s game against Ole Miss in Gainesville, Fla. ä Florida at Missouri. 2:30 P.M. SATURDAY,ABC

national champion Gators from a seven-year slumber. “If you’re not on coach Sumrall’s level, he’s going to call you out immediately,” safety DJ Coleman said. Sumrall is setting the tone for No. 8 Florida. He followed “work the cut” with “so what, now what?” And the Gators responded by routing then-No. 4 Ole Miss 52-28 in the Swamp last Saturday, a lopsided victory

ä See SUMRALL, page 6C

NEW YORK — Robot umpires overturned 54% of challenged calls in the ﬁrst season of the Automated Ball-Strike System, and catchers were far more successful than batters. Learning when to challenge is key. The Cincinnati Reds had a net gain of 16.8 runs, according to Baseball Savant calculations of total run value of overturns on challenges. The Los Angeles Angels were next at 14, followed by the Athletics (12.3) and Minnesota (10.1). Cleveland was 30th at minus-13.4, and several other playoff teams rated poorly by that metric: the Los Angeles Dodgers (26th, -8.5), Tampa Bay (25th, -7.8), the Chicago Cubs (21st, -4.6),

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n Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, noon,TBS n Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 3 p.m., Fox n N.Y.Yankees at Tampa Bay, 5:30 p.m.,TBS n San Diego at Milwaukee, 7:30 p.m., FS1 Milwaukee (20th, -2.4), Atlanta (18th, -2.1), San Diego (17th, -1.9), the New York Yankees (16th, -2.1) and Houston (15th, -0.8). Houston’s Jose Altuve topped batters with 5.6 projected runs gained, followed by Seattle’s Cal Raleigh (4.6), Colorado’s Kyle Karros (4.5), and Cincinnati’s Sal Stewart (4.4) and JJ Bleday (4.1). The Cubs’ Seiya Suzuki led with 5.7 runs projected lost in challenges, just ahead of the Dodgers’

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AUTO RACING 11 a.m. SportsCar Championship NBC 2 p.m. SportsCar Championship NBCSN 3:30 p.m. NASCAR Cup Series: Practice TRUTV 4:35 p.m. NASCAR Cup Series: QualifyingTRUTV 6:30 p.m. NASCAR Series CW GOLF 11 a.m. Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic GOLF 2 p.m. Korn Ferry Tour pGOLF 4 p.m. Bank of Utah Championship GOLF 7 p.m. LPGA: LOTTE Championship GOLF HORSE RACING 11 a.m. America’s Day at the Races FS1

noon Breeders’ Cup Challenge NBCSN 2 p.m. Breeders’ Cup Challenge NBC 3:30 p.m. America’s Day at the Races FS2 MLB noon Chicago White Sox at Cleveland TBS 3 p.m. Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers FOX 5:30 p.m. N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay TBS 7:30 p.m. San Diego at Milwaukee FS1 NHL 6 p.m. Seattle at Edmonton NHLN 7 p.m. Dallas at Nashville PRIME

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MEN’S SOCCER 8:50 a.m. Finland vs. Albania FS2 8:55 a.m. Bradford City at Reading CBSSN 10:50 a.m. Estonia vs. Luxembourg FS2 1:30 p.m. Spain vs. Czech Republic FS2 8:50 p.m. Belize vs. French Guiana FS2 9 p.m. U.S. vs. Mexico TNT WOMEN’S SOCCER 3 p.m. Utah at Louisville ION 5:30 p.m. Bay FC at Kansas City ION 7:45 p.m. Boston at Portland ION TENNIS 9 p.m. Beijing & Tokyo Quarterfinals TENNIS

DT Boyd achieves milestone Third-year player seeing field more often

ﬁlled by either Rumph or Isaiah Stalbird, who has yet to play a defensive snap this season but played 64 snaps (5.8%) last season. Rumph, formerly an edge rusher, played three defensive snaps in the win over the Baltimore Ravens, appearing ahead of Stalbird. While Werner has not practiced in two days, he has been visible off to the side when reporters have been present. Elsewhere on Friday, defensive ends Anfernee Jennings (knee) and Carl Granderson (ankle), and Godchaux (rest) also missed practice.

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Defensive tackle Khristian Boyd insists he hasn’t been bothered by Cam Jordan after the ﬁrst sack of Boyd’s career. Jordan was adamant that was the case, even though it looked like the New Orleans Saints pass rusher had a claim to be awarded a half-sack on the play. “Good things come to those who power,” Jordan said, dapping his teammate up. “I was like ... ‘Let me have this one,’ “ Boyd said. “He was cool about it.” It took three seasons, but Boyd finally got in the sack column when he brought down Kirk Cousins in last weekend’s loss to the Las Vegas Raiders. Boyd has been used sparingly since joining the Saints in Notebook 2024, being inactive for all but 12 games. But with a toe injury to rookie Christen Miller, Boyd has not only been active for the last two weeks but he’s also played a surprising amount. Boyd logged 26 snaps against the Raiders, only one less than starting defensive tackle Davon Godchaux. “I feel like I’ve been consistent in everything I do,” Boyd said. “I put in extra work and have been consistent in practice. And so when the game comes, I’m ready. I’m ready for my moment. And I feel like I’ve been ready. You just have to wait for your opportunity.” His opportunity arrived and could be extended depending on whether Miller, who has been limited with a toe injury in practice this week, can suit up for Monday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons.

SUMRALL

Continued from page 5C that vaulted Florida to its highest ranking since December 2020. Sumrall’s next challenge is keeping his guys humble and level-headed before playing at No. 25 Missouri this Saturday. His latest theme remains under wraps for now, although players may have offered some insight. “How much are you willing to give?” left tackle Bryce Lovett said candidly. “It’s getting to the part of the season where people are starting to get banged up a little bit, starting to feel the wear

MESS

Continued from page 5C offs at 8-9 because they held a three-way tiebreaker. The entry marked the second time in four seasons the division winner ﬁnished under .500. But there can be a certain comedic quality to watching the division unfold. On X and Reddit, a widely shared offseason meme felt more than appropriate for the state of the division. The meme featured logos of the Bucs, Panthers, Saints and Falcons with the same thought bubble: “Wow. This division sucks. Thank God I’m the only good team here.” Every joke, as the saying goes, has some truth to it. What makes the NFC South compelling this year is that every team in the division has, perhaps rightfully, convinced itself it has a shot to win the division — and their offseasons reﬂected it. The

Tyson update

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New Orleans Saints defensive tackle Khristian Boyd, center, reacts after sacking Las Vegas Raiders quarterback Kirk Cousins during a game at the Caesars Superdome on Sunday.

around the facility this time of year, around the clock, even on off days.”

Rookie wide receiver Jordyn Tyson will be eligible to return from injured reserve next week because Monday will be his fourth game missed because of a hamstring injury. But Tyson may have to wait a little longer before he suits up. Coach Kellen Moore said Thursday that he does not anticipate Tyson practicing next week. The Saints host the Minnesota Vikings on Oct. 11 for Week 5. “Not at the moment, but we’ll see,” Moore said when asked whether he thinks the wide receiver will return to practice. Tyson, the eighth overall pick, suffered his latest hamstring injury on Aug. 13 when the Saints held a joint practice with the Jacksonville Jaguars. Though Moore said the injury was not related to his previous issues, Tyson has dealt with four hamstring injuries over the last year. The Saints selected him knowing that he had a “small recurrence” of the issue before the draft, leading the team to carefully manage his workload throughout the spring. New Orleans then ramped up his activity during training camp, only for Tyson to get hurt again when his foot slipped out from under him as he was getting shoved from behind.

Boyd, at 6-foot-2 and 320 pounds, excels in helping stop the run. Baltimore’s Derrick Henry and Las Vegas’ Ashton Jenty — two of the league’s more proliﬁc running backs — were held to 68 and 56 yards, respectively, in games when Boyd was active. Defensive coordinator Brandon Staley said Boyd has earned his reps through competition in practice. He has been notably active over John Ridgeway, who the Saints re-signed to a two-year, $5.8 million deal in the offseason. “I’ve been very impressed with his preparation since we’ve been here,” said Staley, who joined the Saints in 2025. “This guy is at the facility year round, and he’s

Chris Rumph learned how to play off-ball linebacker not that long ago. The veteran may be days away from starting at his new position. Saints starting linebackers Pete Werner (stinger) and Kaden Elliss (calf) again missed practice Friday, possibly putting them on track to miss Monday’s game against the Atlanta Falcons. If neither Werner nor Elliss can go, the Saints will turn to Danny Stutsman and a linebacker to be de- Email Matthew Paras at matt. termined. The other spot will be paras@theadvocate.com

and tear. So they’re just trying to push us and see how much we’re willing to give.” Sumrall led Troy (2022-23) and Tulane (2024-25) to conference title games in each of the last four seasons and the Green Wave to the College Football Playoff last season. He admits he recycles themes from time to time. But sometimes — like “work the cut” — they are new. “You accumulate things over the years that can stick with you,” Sumrall said. “And I try to message what I think our team needs based upon where we are within the year.” He gathers ideas from notes he’s taken, books he’s read and people

he’s listened to. The themes tend to resonate with 18- to 22-year-old players and could be more impactful at Florida, which has endured four losing seasons in the last ﬁve years. “We all feed off it,” defensive coordinator Brad White said. “That theme for the week is all coach, and when he tells the team, we ﬁnd out, too. Trust me, it doesn’t just motivate the players. It motivates the coaches. It motivates everybody in the building. “Everybody that’s hearing that message, you’re like, ’Man, OK, that makes complete sense. We’re all in.’ ” Sumrall’s tactics are reminiscent of those used by former Flor-

ida coach Urban Meyer, widely regarded as a master motivator. Meyer used every nugget he could unearth — even embellishing things here and there — to keep the Gators playing with an edge. Meyer famously created a giant bulletin board before the 2006 national title game against Ohio State and plastered every negative thing being written or said about the Gators on it for his players to peruse in the hotel for a week. It fired Florida up before a 41-14 romp over topranked and seven-point favorite Ohio State. Twenty years later, Sumrall is doing most of the talking — a purposeful and unﬁltered approach.

Saints loaded up on weapons to surround quarterback Tyler Shough. The Panthers splurged on defense. The Buccaneers got rave reviews for their draft. The Falcons changed coaching staffs. hiring two-time NFL Coach of the Year Kevin Stefanski. All of those changes have made the NFC South more interesting, and that’s unfolded in the games to begin the season. The Saints offense has looked electric for stretches, fueled by Shough and Chris Olave. So, surprisingly, have the Panthers with Bryce Young, who finally has a trio of receivers that has helped the quarterback rank second in passing yards. The Buccaneers? Well, the vibes from afar haven’t seemed great, but maybe backup quarterback Jalon Daniels will provide some joy while Baker Mayfield (thumb) is sidelined for three weeks. The most confusing team might be the Falcons. After looking dead in the water for the first two games, quarterback Michael

Penix’s return led to an absolute beatdown of the Green Bay Packers. Bijan Robinson had 194 yards rushing to match Drake London’s 194 yards receiving. “What impresses you is the win (over the Packers),” said Saints defensive end Cam Jordan, noting the stat lines of Atlanta’s two top playmakers. “I hate that they’re coming off a win. I would like them to be 0-3, sort of depressed in the locker room. “And no. They’re like, ‘Oh, we’re (1-2)’ and it’s because of Michael Penix. It’s because of Bijan. It’s because of Drake London. And oh, by the way, you’ve still got Kyle Pitts — who’s a top-ﬁve tight end when he gets active. His yards don’t show how talented he is, so we still have to worry about that ... waking up.” Do these fun playmakers make these teams actually good? That’ll be answered over the course of the season. But at the very least, it makes them more watchable. And that’s progress, given how dire things have been

in the division. The NFC South arguably started to fall apart when the top quarterbacks retired. Since Drew Brees walked away in 2021, the division has a combined record of 151-201 — a .429 winning percentage that is ahead of only the AFC South. Since 2022 (post Matt Ryan) and 2023 (post Tom Brady), those percentages fell to .412 and .407, respectively. If the division is now truly on the upswing, the emergence of the quarterbacks will have something to do with it. Shough is in Year 2. Penix is in Year 3. Young is in Year 4, but the 2023 ﬁrst overall pick may be playing his way into a long-term contract from Carolina. Mayﬁeld, as inconsistent as he’s been over the last year, has provided stability for Tampa Bay after Brady. Maybe that’s not the best collection of quarterbacks a division could have. And at their worst, they can produce some ugly football. Funny thing is they still make the division worth watching.

Not trending positively

Vikings WR Jefferson out vs. Dolphins with sprained ankle

The Minnesota Vikings ruled out star receiver Justin Jefferson for Sunday’s game against the Dolphins because of an ankle sprain suffered last week against Tampa Bay, and Miami will be without rookie receiver Caleb Douglas for a second straight game as he continues nursing an ankle injury. Jefferson suffered the injury in the first quarter of Minnesota’s Week 3 win against the Buccaneers and missed practice this week. The two-time All-Pro receiver watched from the sideline for a couple of series before walking to the locker room midway through the second quarter. It appeared Jefferson got hurt when a defender fell onto his right ankle. Jefferson has 13 catches for 179 yards and two touchdowns through three games.

Commanders QB Mariota to start against Colts in London

WATFORD, England — Commanders quarterback Marcus Mariota will get his second straight start in place of the injured Jayden Daniels on Sunday when Washington faces the Indianapolis Colts at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. Head coach Dan Quinn announced the decision Friday after practice at the team’s luxury hotel accommodations outside London. Daniels returned to practice this week after dislocating his elbow in Week 2 against the Dallas Cowboys. He’s been wearing a protective brace and expressed no concerns about further damage. Last week, Mariota threw three touchdown passes in the 33-31 win over the Seattle Seahawks. It’s the second elbow dislocation for Daniels, who missed most of the second half of last season with the same injury.

CBS announces Romo’s permanent exit after arrest

CBS Sports and Tony Romo have ofﬁcially parted ways, one month after the former Dallas Cowboys quarterback pleaded no contest to charges of operating a vehicle while intoxicated. Romo had been on leave since his July 23 arrest in Wisconsin. He had been the lead game analyst for CBS’ NFL coverage since 2017. Analyst JJ Watt had joined playby-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson on CBS Sports’ lead NFL team during Romo’s absence. Watt will continue in that role now and all other CBS teams will remain the same. Romo was arrested following a trafﬁc stop as he was driving south on Interstate 43 in Wisconsin. He pleaded no contest to a charge of operating while intoxicated on Sept. 1.

Djokovic rallies to beat Yunchaokete in China Open

BEIJING — Novak Djokovic rallied to beat Bu Yunchaokete and maintain his flawless record at the China Open despite again needing a medical timeout on Friday. The sixth-ranked Djokovic won 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-2 to reach the quarterfinals and extend his record to 31-0 at the Beijing tournament, which he has won six times, the last in 2015. The 39-year-old will play either top-seeded Alexander Zverev or China’s Juncheng Shang in the quarterfinals. In the women’s tournament, second-seeded Aryna Sabalenka defeat Renata Zarazua 6-1, 6-3. It was Sabalenka’s first match since losing the U.S. Open final to Elena Rybakina.

Pistons coach Bickerstaff has no animosity for center Duren

DETROIT — The lengthy negotiations between the Detroit Pistons and star center Jalen Duren didn’t leave any lingering animosity, at least not in the mind of head coach J.B. Bickerstaff. Duren, an All-NBA Third Team selection last season, agreed to a ﬁve-year, $200 million contract on Thursday. There were reports during the offseason that the restricted free agent sought sign-and-trade options and even felt disrespected by the front ofﬁce. Duren, who was not made available to the media, underwent a physical and other testing on Friday and is expected to start practicing as early as this weekend. Bickerstaff brushed aside any suggestion that Duren might not be fully invested in rejoining the team.

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Memphis back at top of American rankings AMERICAN STANDINGS

BY GUERRY SMITH Contributing writer

Besides Navy and Charlotte, every team in the American Conference likely entered October believing it could make a run at the league championship game. The Midshipmen, the preseason favorite in most circles, were out because they already had lost two conference games. Only twice in the 11-year history of the title matchup has a team with two or more league losses qualiﬁed, and only once (Central Florida in 2022) since the American dropped its divisions. Charlotte has gone more than 12 months without winning any game. Case closed. The other 12 can dare to dream, with no one stepping forward as a clear frontrunner in nonconference play.

South Florida FAU North Texas UAB Army Memphis UTSA East Carolina Tulane Rice Charlotte Temple Tulsa Navy

Thursday’s game

2. TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO

Record: 3-1 (0-0 American) Previous rank: 3 Last week: defeated Colorado State 59-45 This week: at Rice, 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN+) Extra points: Owen McCown threw for 303 yards and three scores and the Roadrunners ran for 239 yards and four touchdowns in their shootout against Colorado State. Good on the offense, but the defense surrendered 500 yards and 45 points, a major cause for concern.

3. SOUTH FLORIDA

Record: 4-0 (1-0 American) Previous rank: 4 Last week: defeated Bowling Green 14-6 This week: vs. Temple, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPNU) Extra points: A nail-biter against winless Bowling Green, which lost 56-7 to Nebraska and 55-7 to Iowa State, did not exactly scream contender even though the Bulls are the league’s only undefeated team. They trailed 6-0 entering the fourth quarter and ﬁnished with a meager 214 yards of offense.

4. FLORIDA ATLANTIC

Record: 3-1 (1-0 American) Previous rank: 5 Last week: defeated UL Monroe

All Games W L PF PA 4 0 120 56 3 1 120 123 3 2 203 165 2 2 87 103 2 1 104 48 3 1 134 104 3 1 141 117 2 2 96 101 2 2 75 93 1 3 76 121 0 4 78 144 1 3 112 111 3 2 139 106 1 2 92 77

North Texas 45, Tulsa 44, OT

Saturday’s games

Memphis at Charlotte, 10 a.m. Navy at Air Force, 11 a.m. Samford at UAB, 2:30 p.m. Texas Southern at Florida Atlantic, 5 p.m. UTSA at Rice, 6 p.m. Army at Louisiana Tech, 6:30 p.m. Temple at South Florida, 6:30 p.m.

This week: off Extra points: Starting for the first time, Miami transfer QB Emery Williams lost two fumbles in the first half but also led five touchdown drives against overmatched North Carolina Central. The Pirates needed a spark after a dismal offensive showing in their first three games.

1. MEMPHIS

Record: 3-1 (0-0 American) Previous rank: 2 Last week: off This week: at Charlotte, 10 a.m. Saturday (ESPN+) Extra points: The Tigers return to the No. 1 spot after a two-week absence. They won’t lose it at Charlotte, but the jury remains out on the ﬁnal verdict. First-year Tigers coach Charles Huff assembled a talented almost all-new roster, but the lack of continuity could hurt them as the year progresses.

Conference W L PF PA 1 0 28 24 1 0 38 30 1 0 45 44 1 0 24 20 1 1 45 45 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 17 21 0 1 44 45 0 2 50 62

12. TEMPLE

Record: 1-3 (0-1 American) Previous rank: 12 Memphis quarterback Marcus Stokes runs against Arkansas State on Sept. 5 in Memphis, Tenn. The Tigers Last week: lost to Army 21-17 open league play at Charlotte on Saturday. This week: at South Florida, 6:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPNU) Extra points: If you’re looking for overcame three turnovers and week at Army. AMERICAN an upset, this is the one. Temple Tulsa going 5 for 5 on fourth-down POWER RANKINGS lost a heartbreaker to Army for conversions, winning in dramatic 9. UAB the second consecutive year after fashion by stopping receiver Oran Record: 2-2 (1-0 American) blowing a seemingly sure victory Singleton a foot shy of the goal 45-17 Previous rank: 13 against Toledo in the final minThis week: vs. Texas Southern, line on a make-or-break 2-point Last week: defeated Navy 24-20 attempt. Jahiem White rushed 5 p.m. Saturday (ESPN+) This week: vs. Samford, 2:30 p.m. utes. South Florida rallied past Extra points: Prolific quarterback for 219 yards and Tayven Jackson Saturday (ESPN+) Army late despite being outplayed Caden Veltkamp threw for 314 threw for 332. Extra points: The last time the Blaz- and sleepwalked against Bowling yards against UL Monroe, but ers were above. 500 after Sep- Green. more significantly, he avoided an 7. TULSA tember was 2022, but they will interception for the third straight improve to 3-2 if they take care of 13. RICE Record: 3-2 (0-1 American) game. Last year, he threw at least a 1-3 FCS opponent. Two fourthPrevious rank: 1 Record: 1-3 (0-0 American) one pick in nine games on his way quarter Navy fumbles — the first Last week: lost to Arkansas 34-6 Previous rank: 11 to a nation’s high 17. This week: lost to North Texas 45-44 of which led to a go-ahead 48-yard Last week: lost to Fresno State 38TD run on the next play — were 24 in OT on Thursday 5. ARMY Extra points: A year ago, Tulsa lost the difference in their conferenceThis week: vs. Texas-San Antonio, five consecutive games after up- opening upset. 6 p.m. Saturday (ESPN+) Record: 2-1 (1-1 American) Extra points: October could not Previous rank: 8 setting Oklahoma State. Since come soon enough for the Owls, Last week: defeated Temple 21-17 stunning a much better Cowboys 10. NAVY who followed a debacle against This week: at Louisiana Tech, team this season, the Golden HurRecord: 1-2 (0-2 American) Notre Dame with losses in win6:30 p.m. Saturday (ESPN+) Previous rank: 9 ricane nearly lost to Sam Houston, Extra points: As usual, the Black got clobbered at Arkansas and Last week: lost to UAB 24-20 nable games vs. Western MichiKnights lead the FBS in rushing dropped Thursday’s heartbreaker, This week: at Air Force, 11 a.m. Sat- gan and Fresno State. Here is their (355.7) and are third in time of pos- which ended past midnight. chance for a turnaround. UTSA urday (CBS) Extra points: Playing without had lost eight conference road session (35:35). Their record accuquarterback Braxton Woodson games in a row before beating haprately reflects their performance, 8. TULANE (sprained ankle), the Midshipmen less Charlotte last November. but they lost when they should Record: 2-2 (0-0 American) got 134 yards rushing from backup have won (led South Florida 24-14 Previous rank: 6 with four minutes left) and won Last week: defeated Southern Miss Jackson Gutierrez, but he was 4 of 14. CHARLOTTE 13 passing. Whether or not Woodwhen they should have lost (out- 24-21 Record: 0-4 (0-0 American) This week: off Previous rank: 14 gained by Temple 459-315). son returns, history bodes poorly Extra points: Until the home opener on Saturday. Navy had lost five in Last week: lost to UL 34-7 6. NORTH TEXAS against South Alabama, no one a row at Air Force before winning This week: vs. Memphis, 10 a.m. had rushed for 200 or more yards there in 2024. Saturday (ESPN+) Record: 3-2 (1-0 American) at Yulman Stadium. Now, two difExtra points: At least it will be over Previous rank: 7 early for the 49ers, who kick off Last week: defeated Houston Chris- ferent Green Wave players (Jaylin 11. EAST CAROLINA at 10 a.m. Central for their league Lucas, Maurice Turner) have done tian 63-14 Record: 2-2 (0-0 American) opener. Their next win against an This week: defeated Tulsa 45-44 in it in consecutive games, and the Previous rank: 10 best back on the team, Jamauri OT on Thursday Last week: defeated North Carolina FBS opponent will be their first unExtra points: The Mean Green McClure, is due to return next Central 42-9 der second-year coach Tim Albin. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY JOHN AMIX

Dodgers star Ohtani’s injuries lingering into postseason BY BETH HARRIS Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Even Shohei Ohtani isn’t sure the extent of injuries to his right biceps, left knee and neck that kept him off the mound after the All-Star break and landed him on the injured list for the ﬁrst time with the Los Angeles Dodgers. “I haven’t been able to get a good grasp of the root cause of all this, so I think that process is going to happen during the offseason when I’m going have a little bit more time to be able to address it,” he said Friday through a translator. “As of now, it’s something I’m just going to have to manage.” Ohtani’s health is key to the Dodgers’ hopes of winning a third consecutive World Series champi-

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Continued from page 5C Shohei Ohtani (5.5), the Cubs’ Ian Happ (5.2) and Michael Busch (5.1), and the New York Mets’ Brett Baty (3.5). Milwaukee’s William Contreras led catchers with 5.2 projected runs prevented, just in front of Cleveland’s Patrick Bailey (5.1), the Mets’ Francisco Alvarez (4.5), and San Diego’s Freddy Fermin, Kansas City’s Carter Jensen and Drew Romo of the Chicago White Sox (all 4.3). “It’s like a new muscle for players to learn,” Yankees manager Aaron Boone said. “You have instincts over what to do in certain situations. This is a new instinct of knowing when to challenge and instinctively within a second, oh, that’s a ball. What’s the situation?” There were 10,557 challenges,

ä NLDS: Braves at Dodgers,

Braves’ strained rotation

onship, starting Saturday against Atlanta in Game 1 of the National League Division Series. Manager Dave Roberts isn’t sure what Ohtani can deliver. “I know that once the lights turn on, the postseason starts, the focus will be heightened,” he said. “I expect good things. I really do. We just haven’t seen it enough for me to forecast it.” The two-way superstar came off the IL with just ﬁve games remaining in the regular season. He was 5 for 21 with eight strikeouts, a walk and a double. The Dodgers have said Ohtani is feeling better since his return, and

Roberts believes his at-bat quality showed improvement. “(My body) feels really good overall,” Ohtani said. “I do feel like my swing is in a better place — it feels smooth. Just little tweaks here and there and I’ll be ready.” Ohtani was single when he went on the IL twice during his six years with the Los Angeles Angels. He’s now married and a father of two, with his son arriving in late June to join a daughter born in April 2025. “If I’d been by myself this time, I probably would have had a lot more time to think about everything, and I imagine it would have been much harder mentally,” he said in Japanese. “But I had a house full of people around me, so that made a big difference in terms of how I felt.”

The Braves’ rotation is seriously strained coming into the Division Series. Their three-game win over the Philadelphia Phillies in the Wild Card Series forced ace Chris Sale into pitching the final four outs on short rest Thursday night. He threw 95 pitches while starting Game 1. “A lot of it’s going to depend on how Chris feels. Certainly don’t want to jeopardize him and his health,” manager Walt Weiss said Friday. “He’s had to grind here recently, so we’re going to err on the side of giving him more rest, if it’s even close.” On Thursday, the Braves ruled out starters Martín Pérez (back) and Bryce Elder (knee) for the NLDS.

an average of 4.35 per game, and 5,686 led to overturned decisions. Catchers succeeded on 59% of their challenges, while batters had a 49% success rate and pitchers — who seldom challenged compared to catchers and batters — were at 40%. “ABS has really impacted the game,” Houston manager Joe Espada said. “It has really changed how more selective some of these lineups are, how more disciplined they are, how we force pitchers to be more aggressive in the zone more than in the past.” Contreras led all catchers with 185 challenges, and he also won the most with 105 (57%). Meanwhile, Philadelphia’s J.T. Realmuto had the highest success rate among catchers with at least 75 challenges at 81%. He was followed by the Cubs’ Carson Kelly (69%), Cincinnati’s Tyler Stephenson and Colorado’s Hunter Goodman (68% each), and Detroit’s Dillon Dingler (66%).

The lowest percentages among those with 75 or more challenges were Alvarez (47%), Fermin, Romo (48%) and Edgar Quero of the White Sox (49%). Stewart led batter challenges with 51 appeals and won 28 (55%). Philadelphia’s Bryce Harper was next with 47, winning 21 (45%). On success rate, Arizona’s Gabriel Moreno (68%) led batters with 20 or more challenges, followed by Miami’s Esteury Ruiz (65%), Raleigh (64%), and Minnesota’s Josh Bell and San Francisco’s Bryce Eldridge (62% each). Boston’s Ceddanne Rafaela and Colorado’s Willi Castro were at 25%, the lowest success rate among players with at least 20 challenges. Tampa Bay’s Yandy Díaz had 686 plate appearances without attempting a challenge, by far the most in the majors by a batter, ahead of Toronto’s Nathan Lukes (450). Díaz

has said he’d consider challenging a call in the World Series. Cincinnati’s 62% success rate led MLB, followed by the Athletics and Arizona (60% each), the Cubs (59%), Texas (58%), Detroit and Philadelphia (57% each) and Miami (56%). Pittsburgh was least successful at 47%, with the White Sox and Cleveland at 49% each, and Baltimore and San Diego at 50%. “We’ll keep tweaking it, keep talking about it every day and keep trying to remind the players when we have challenges, when we don’t, when’s a good time, when’s not a good time,” Padres manager Craig Stammen said. Knowing teams lose their right to challenge after two incorrect appeals, players used ABS less often early in games. There were more challenges in the ninth than any other inning — sometimes because teams knew

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“There’s a chance we’re going to have to pitch a lot of innings out of our bullpen, especially the ﬁrst couple games,” Weiss said. “We’ll have to add some arms to the roster.” The Braves had a late night after eliminating the Phillies and then traveling Friday to Los Angeles, where the Dodgers have been resting and preparing for ﬁve days.

High heat Saturday’s forecast for Los Angeles calls for a high temperature of 100 degrees when Tarik Skubal takes the mound for the Dodgers. The average high in early October is 81 degrees. “I know the pitchers are going to have a hard time,” Ohtani said. “I’m wishing all the best for Scooby.”

there would be no later innings to save them for — even though many games end without the bottom half. ABS was used in 1,366 ninth-inning challenges, with a 40% success rate. “Having one in your pocket is kind of — it’s nice to know you have it,” Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly said. The average for innings 1-3 was 1,005 challenges with a 61% success rate. Teams also got more aggressive as the season went on. Challenges per game rose from 3.76 in March to 4.60 in August and 4.61 in September, with most of that increase in catcher appeals. “You can overthink it if you let yourself,” Atlanta manager Walt Weiss said. “You start talking about saving it for certain situations, it probably doesn’t end well. My message was the lower the leverage, the more certainty you have to have.”

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VARSITY ZONE Karr DB Williams turns game around against Crusaders BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

STAFF PHOTO BY ENAN CHEDIAK

St. Charles running back Landree LeBlanc tries to evade a pair of Riverside defenders during their game on Friday night. St. Charles won 33-23.

Renewed rivalry St. Charles uses big runs to turn back Riverside in first game since 2016

Edna Karr had three turnovers in the first half against Brother Martin, but the Cougars rallied back after junior defensive back Ty Williams recorded two interceptions in the fourth quarter. Karr quarterback Marlon Jones ran in a 2-yard touchdown to cut Brother Martin’s lead to two points with 10:18 to go in the game. Brother Martin got the ball back and drove into Karr territory, but Williams delivered with an 85-yard pick-six to give Karr the lead. Williams went on to record another interception with 30 seconds remaining to seal the win for Karr, his third pick of the game. The Cougars held off Brother Martin for a 25-21 district win Friday at Strawberry Stadium in Hammond. “To have four turnovers and still win the game, that’s just fight and effort,” Karr coach Brice Brown said. “We got composed at halftime, and then we came out and played ball. This is what this district is about. It’s tough each and every week.” Karr leaned on its running game to control the clock in the closing minutes and keep Brother Martin off the scoreboard. Cougars senior Jermond Macklin finished with a teamhigh 141 yards rushing on 21 carries, and Jones had 60 yards on 12 carries. Karr rotated two quarterbacks in Jones and Forest Johnson, who threw three interceptions

in the first half but was able to find sophomore Brenin Reed for a 28-yard touchdown. Karr had a six-point lead until senior Easton Royal struck big for Brother Martin. Royal had just two catches for 15 yards prior to a 54-yard touchdown grab as time expired in the second quarter. The five-star recruit made multiple Karr defenders miss before crossing the goal line, and a successful point after gave the Crusaders the lead at halftime. “Our kids battled real hard,” Brother Martin coach Mark Bonis said. “We had opportunities to finish the football game, and we didn’t.” Royal finished with five catches for 80 yards to go along with 10 yards rushing on three carries. Justin Morgan was Brother Martin’s top passer, completing 9 of 16 passes for 135 yards. After a scoreless first quarter, Karr found the end zone first after Jones ran in for a 4-yard touchdown on a quarterback sneak. Brother Martin answered back with a touchdown on the next drive. Senior tight end Baker Balser caught a 28-yard pass from Morgan before being tackled at the 2-yard line, and the junior quarterback ran for a 1-yard touchdown to tie the game. Karr (5-0, 2-0) will continue district play next Friday against John Curtis at Muss Bertolino Stadium. Brother Martin (4-1, 1-1) will host Rummel next Friday at Tad Gormley Stadium.

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE

Staff writer

St. Charles scored four touchdowns on runs of 30 yards or longer as the Comets held off Riverside 33-23 in a matchup between reigning state champions Friday in Reserve. Landree LeBlanc scored two of those touchdowns on runs of 53 and 32 yards to help the Comets to a three-touchdown lead in the first meeting between the River Parish schools since they last met in the 2016 state finals. Riverside scored two touchdowns in the fourth but failed on a twopoint conversion that would have made it a one-score game with less than five minutes remaining. “You saw River Parish kids on both teams really lay it on the line for their school and their community,” St. Charles coach Wayne Stein said. “This is why you play the game. I’m glad we brought the rivalry back. “Once upon a time it was ugly. I think now the kids respect and the adults respect each other more than probably 20 years ago, and I think that’s the way it’s supposed to be.” St. Charles (4-1) built its large lead with an explosive run game that saw freshman Caleb Alexander run 39 yards for a touchdown in the second quarter and senior

St. Martin’s puts away Thomas Jefferson early BY DARRELL WILLIAMS Contributing writer STAFF PHOTO BY ENAN CHEDIAK

St. Charles running back Evan Duffour, right, is tackled by the Riverside defense on Friday night. Duffour ran for 132 yards on Friday. Evan Duffour run 62 yards for a score late in the third. Duffour ran 14 times for 132 yards while LeBlanc ran 10 times for 106. For Riverside (4-1), quarterback Boogie Johnson accounted for more than 300 yards in total offense as he ran 28 times for 79 yards and competed 14 of 22 passes for 237 yards and one touchdown. Johnson caught two touchdown passes in the fourth quarter from usual wide receiver Chris Becnel. Alexander and LeBlanc ran for touchdowns in the second quarter as the Comets took a 20-7 lead into halftime. “In the game plan coming into this, I knew I had to run the ball

a little bit,” LeBlanc said. “We executed it a couple times right there and had myself a couple touchdowns.” Jireh Hall’s interception near midfield set up the Comets for their second touchdown. LeBlanc scored on a 32-yard read-option keeper and coasted into the end zone without a defender nearby. On Riverside’s ensuing possession, St. Charles called timeouts to keep enough time on the clock for Blake Taravella to end the half with a 42-yard ﬁeld goal that dropped just behind the crossbar. St. Charles next will play on the road against St. James while Riverside takes on St. Martin’s at home.

De La Salle savors its first win of season BY PEYTON DOYLE Contributing writer Chad Mahaffey is not going to forget his first win as head coach of De La Salle (1-4) or the performance senior running back Eamon Williams put on to help him get it. After opening the season with four straight losses, Williams took Friday night’s game against The Willow School (1-4) into his own hands, tallying 282 yards and five touchdowns in the 57-18 road win Friday. “It feels great. Honestly man, I wasn’t thinking about the stats, I was just trying to get a win, our first win of the season,” Williams said. After second-half miscues cost De La Salle early in the season, Mahaffey was thankful his side was able to seal its first victory. “It’s been a long month, and especially with how a lot of the games have gone,” Mahaffey said. “We’ve led at halftime three of the four previous, and we weren’t able to close it out, and I’m proud to just

get on the other side of it tonight.” Williams broke the game open in the second quarter with a 92-yard rushing score to put the Cavaliers up by three scores. The senior finished the first half with 197 yards, four touchdowns and a pair of twopoint conversions. Switching out with Williams was Charles Irvin, who posted 80 yards and three touchdowns on the ground. “We call ourselves Sonic and Knuckles,” Williams said of his partnership with Irvin. “I got the speed; he got speed too, but he got more of the muscle. That’s pretty much what we do.” De La Salle entered the contest yielding 41 points per game. Against the Lions, the Cavaliers were more stingy. The 18 points allowed were a season low for De La Salle, and it surrendered just 172 yards in the game. The defensive line did much of the damage for the Cavaliers, getting four sacks in the first half as De La Salle led 38-12 at halftime.

In the second half, Williams and Irvin continued to terrorize the Lions. On the team’s first drive of the third quarter, Williams took a snap out of the Wildcat formation and ran the ball 64 yards to set the Cavaliers up in the red zone. From the 10-yard line, Irivin ran it in for his second score of the game to make it 44-18. Irvin finished De La Salle’s next drive with a 21-yard rushing touchdown. Williams finished off the scoring for the Cavaliers with his fifth touchdown of the game, running it in from 13 yards out to start the fourth quarter. De La Salle next will travel to play Jefferson Davis County in Bassfield, Mississippi, on Oct. 16. “This gives us a lot of momentum,” Williams said. “We’re going to go take it, practice next week extra hard, get Thursday and Friday off, get prepared for the Mississippi team, take that ride and get another win.” Willow will host Shaw at 7 p.m. next Friday.

St. Martin’s was coming off a victory against Sophie B. Wright that lasted approximately 31/ 2 hours. The Saints apparently didn’t want a repeat of that against Thomas Jefferson on Friday night, even though the first quarter lasted 44 minutes. St. Martin’s unleashed a quickscoring attack, building a 37-point halftime lead on the way to a 56-24 trouncing of the Jaguars during St. Martin’s homecoming game. It was St. Martin’s (4-1) fourth consecutive win since losing its opener at North Vermilion. Jefferson is 0-5. “I think our quarterback (junior Terrill Green) is really getting better,” St. Martin’s firstyear coach Kevin Dizer said. “And, when you add the playmaking abilities of (receivers) Kade Vinju and Cooper Wakefield, we have some targets. And we asked Gabe Richards, a sophomore, to really run the ball hard, and he has.” St. Martin’s roared to a 4912 halftime lead, as Green completed 11 of 15 passes for 209 yards and two touchdowns and Richards rushed for 110 yards and two touchdowns on eight carries, including scoring runs of 10 and 77 yards. Green did not play in the second half. Vinju, a senior, had touchdown receptions of 11 and 2 yards. The Saints held the Jaguars to 28 yards in the first half, all rushing, as a defense led by senior linebacker Gabe Savarese made

it difﬁcult for Thomas Jefferson to get anything going. Both of Jefferson’s ﬁrst-half touchdowns came on kickoff returns of 85 and 75 yards by receiver Stevan Ringo. By the 1:52 mark of the first quarter, St. Martin’s had a 21-0 lead. At 7:20 of the second quarter, the Saints led 35-6. Both coaches agreed to a running clock in the second half, and Dizer went with replacements throughtout the lineup. Vinju had four touchdowns, including two on kickoff returns. Jaguars first-year coach Michael Ford said he was not too surprised by St. Martin’s offensive explosion. “(St. Martin’s) has some good players, and we knew they could score,” Ford said. “We lost 15 seniors from last year’s team. We’re mostly eighth and ninth graders, trying to build a culture and get us moving forward.” St. Martin’s has a big task coming up for its next game, an opponent that Dizer is all too familiar with. The Saints will play at reigning state champion Riverside Academy, where Dizer was the head coach the previous four years after spending three as an assistant coach there. “They’re the defending state champions, and they have everybody back,” Dizer said. “We have a lot to clean up. The score (against Jefferson) looks impressive, but we gave up two touchdowns on kickoffs, had a long touchdown pass against us and just things such as jumping offsides, penalties. But we continue to get better.” Thomas Jefferson will play L.B. Landry in a matchup of West Bank schools.

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SCOREBOARD Odds

Indiana 85 Tuesday, September 29: Indiana 99, Las Vegas 89 Thursday, October 1: Las Vegas 94, Indiana 83

Sports Betting Line NFL

Atlanta 2, Washington 0

Sunday

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Monday FAVORITE at N.O.

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 2½ 2½ (48) Atlanta

College Football Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Memphis 22½ 20½ (52½) at CHAR Notre Dame 23½ 21½ (46½) at UNC at SMU 20½ 21½ (55½) B. College at KANSAS 21½ 19½ (50½) M. Tenn at AIR FORCE 1½ 3½ (45½) Navy at HOUSTON 11½ 11½ (51½) UCF at IOWA ST 1½ 3½ (53½) W. Virginia Syracuse 7½ 6½ (50½) at UCONN Michigan 8½ 5½ (43½) at MIN at W.F. 11½ 14½ (53½) Stanford Alabama 3 5½ (60½) at MISS ST at WISCONSN 9½ 9½ (43½) Mich St. at GEORGIA 23½ 25½ (51½) Vanderbilt W. Michigan 16½ 12½ (46½)at BUFFALO Toledo 13½ 21½ (52½) at BALL ST Florida 2½ 5½ (57½) at MISOU at UMASS 2½ 5½ (48½) E.Michigan at TEN 7½ 6½ (54½) Auburn at MIA (OH) 15½ 12½ (42½) B. Green Virginia 1½ 1½ (51½) at FSU Ohio State 14 14½ (45½) at IOWA at GSU 1½ 2½ (51½) Old Dom at C. MICH 5½ 6½ (47½) Akron Louisville 7½ 3½ (58½) at NC ST Ohio 3½ 3½ (50½) at KENT ST at UAB 30½ 30½ (53½) Samford at UNLV 1½ 2½ (53½) Cal at NDSU 21 17½ (44½) Wyoming at J/ MADISN 14½ 17½ (56½) Marshall at NEW MEX 21½ 22½ (47½) UTEP at NEBRASKA 11½ 14½ (52½) Maryland at ILLINOIS 9½ 9½ (62½) Purdue at S. CAROLINA 7 2½ (54½) Kentucky at FLA ATL 40½ 44½ (61½) Tex South Oregon State 5½ 6½ (62½) at CSU at TEX A&M 15½ 13½ (50½) Arkansas at S. BAMA 15½ 14½ (57½) ULM UTSA 10½ 11½ (56½) at RICE BYU 5½ 6½ (48½) at TCU Ga Southern 1½ 2½ (54½) at C. CAR. at BOISE ST 20½ 18½ (51½) Utah State Texas Tech 15½ 13½ (50½) at COL Miami (FL) 7 15½ (47½) at CLEMSN at USC 10 9½ (58½) Wash at S. FLORIDA 6½ 6½ (48½) Temple Army 3½ 1½ (47½) at LA TECH at LSU 48½ 53½ (62½) McNeese at UL 5½ 6½ (47½) Arkansas State Indiana 23½ 24½ (56½)at RUTGERS at WASH ST 1½ 1½ (45½) Fresno St. at ARIZONA ST 4½ 3½ (49½) Baylor Texas State 3½ 8½ (57½) at SDSU at ARIZONA 8½ 6½ (55½) Cincinnati

MLB Saturday

American League FAVORITE LINE at CLEVELAND -157 at TAMPA BAY -138 National League FAVORITE LINE at LA DODGERS -224 at MILWAUKEE -221

NHL

Saturday

FAVORITE LINE at EDMONTON -212 at TORONTO -129 at TAMPA BAY -159 Montreal -130 Utah -114 Carolina -133 at BUFFALO -235 New Jersey -131 at MINNESOTA -188 Dallas -135 at COLORADO -308 at VANCOUVER -114 at SAN JOSE -122

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UNDERDOG Atlanta San Diego

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UNDERDOG LINE Seattle +171 Ottawa +106 Washington +130 at PITTSBURGH +107 at COLUMBUS -108 at PHILA +109 Chicago +188 at N.Y ISLNDRS +108 Boston +152 at NASHVILLE +111 St. Louis +240 Calgary -108 Los Angels +100

Pro basketball WNBA Playoff Glance (x-if necessary)

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

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Las Vegas 2, Indiana 1

Sunday, September 27: Las Vegas 102,

Sunday, September 27: Atlanta 92, Washington 77 Wednesday, September 30: Atlanta 93, Washington 75

Pro football

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Tennis

Thursday’s Games

Cleveland 27, Pittsburgh 24

Sunday’s Games

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.

Monday’s Games

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

Late Thursday Cleveland 27, Pittsburgh 24 Pittsburgh 7 3 0 14 — 24 Cleveland 0 21 0 6 — 27 First Quarter Pit—R.Wilson 12 pass from Rodgers (Boswell kick), 2:56. Second Quarter Cle—McLaughlin 28 run (Szmyt kick), 12:14. Cle—Judkins 2 run (Szmyt kick), 8:28. Cle—Fannin 2 pass from D.Watson (Szmyt kick), 1:22. Pit—FG Boswell 31, :08. Fourth Quarter Pit—D.Washington 21 pass from Rodgers (pass failed), 10:10. Cle—FG Szmyt 44, 6:37. Pit—Freiermuth 3 pass from Rodgers (Rodgers run), 1:42. Cle—FG Szmyt 56, :10.

A—68,156.

Pit Cle First downs 24 22 Total Net Yards 361 372 Rushes-yards 19-92 27-112 Passing 269 260 Punt Returns 2-30 2-10 Kickoff Returns 4-96 4-99 Interceptions Ret. 1-0 2-0 Comp-Att-Int 22-40-2 24-33-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 5-30 2-8 Punts 5-51.8 4-62.75 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 2-1 Penalties-Yards 8-50 14-88 Time of Possession 31:11 28:49 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Pittsburgh, Warren 17-93, Homer 2-(minus 1). Cleveland, Judkins 17-53, McLaughlin 1-28, D.Watson 7-22, R.Sanders 2-9. PASSING—Pittsburgh, Rodgers 22-40-2-299. Cleveland, D.Watson 24-33-1-268. RECEIVING—Pittsburgh, Metcalf 5-115,

Alcorn State at Grambling

Arkansas-Pine Bluff at Southern

WHEN: 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: A.W. Muford Stadium (28,500), Baton Rouge ONLINE: SWAC TV RECORDS: UAPB 2-2, 0-1 SWAC; Southern 2-3, 0-1 LATEST LINE: Southern by 3½ (56½) SERIES: Southern leads 42-12-2 LAST MEETING: UAPB won 40-21. Notes: Jaguars RB Trey Holley leads the SWAC with 468 yards rushing. ... Southern’s special teams has been anything but special. SU has made just 11 of 16 extra points and is 11th in the SWAC in both net kickoff yards (37.1) and net punting average (31.4). “They suck right now,” Jaguars coach Marshall Faulk said Tuesday. ... UAPB is coming off an open date. ... UAPB coach Alonzo Hampton is a former DB at UL-Monroe (1993-96). ... It’s homecoming for Southern.

UL-Monroe at South Alabama

WHEN: 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Hancock Whitney Stadium (25,450), Mobile, Ala. ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: ULM 0-4; 0-0 Sun Belt; USA 2-2, 0-0 LATEST LINE: South Alabama by 14½ (57½) SERIES: South Alabama leads 7-5 LAST MEETING: South Alabama won 26-14 in 2025. Notes: ULM’s defense has allowed an average of 245.0 yards rushing per game (137th in the FBS) and allowed opponents to convert 53.3% of their third-down tries ... South Alabama ranks ﬁfth in the FBS with an average time of possession of 34:40. ... The Warhawks are riding a 12-game losing skid, the longest in school history since moving up to the FBS in 1994.

Northwestern State at Lamar

WHEN: 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Provost Umphrey Stadium (16,000), Beaumont, Texas Online: ESPN+ RECORDS: NW State 0-5, 0-2 Southland; Lamar 4-0, 1-0 LATEST LINE: Lamar by 41½ (54½) SERIES: NW State leads 13-12-1 LAST MEETING: Lamar won 41-14 in 2025. Notes: Lamar is coming off a 49-18 win at Nicholls State in which QB Aiden McCown accounted for four touchdowns (three passing) and had a 56-yard TD

Saturday, Oct. 3: San Diego at Milwaukee (Misiorowski 16-5), 8:30 p.m. (FOX/FS1) Sunday, Oct. 4: San Diego at Milwaukee (Henderson 11-3), 4 p.m. (FOX/FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 6: Milwaukee at San Diego, 9:30 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 7: Milwaukee at San Diego, 10 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Friday, Oct. 9: San Diego at Milwaukee, 4:30 p.m. (FOX/FS1)

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

Men’s Singles

Late Thursday Atlanta 6, Philadelphia 2

Round of 32 Daniil Medvedev (3), Russia, def. Pablo Carreno Busta, Spain, 6-4, 6-2.

Men’s Singles

Round of 16 Karen Khachanov, Russia, def. Alex Molcan, Slovakia, 7-5, 6-3. Hubert Hurkacz, Poland, def. Arthur Gea, France, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (5), 6-2.

Men’s Doubles

Round of 16 Marcelo Melo, Brazil, and Alexander Zverev, Germany, def. Robin Haase, Netherlands, and Constantin Frantzen, Germany, 6-2, 7-5. Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash (2), Britain, def. Karen Khachanov and Andrey Rublev, Russia, 6-3, 6-4. Francisco Cabral, Portugal, and James Tracy, United States, def. Flavio Cobolli, Italy, and Ignacio Buse, Peru, 3-6, 6-4, 10-5. David Pel and Sander Arends, Netherlands, def. Guido Andreozzi, Argentina, and Manuel Guinard (1), France, 6-3, 6-4.

Men’s Doubles

Quarterﬁnals Alexander Bublik, Kazakhstan, and Juncheng Shang, China, def. Maximo Gonzalez and Andres Molteni, Argentina, 7-5, 4-6, 10-8.

Major League Baseball MLB Postseason Glance All Times EDT x-if necessary

WILD CARD SERIES (Best-of-3)

American League

Chicago White Sox 2, Houston 0 Tuesday, Sept. 29: Chicago 6, Houston 3 Wednesday, Sept. 30: Chicago 7, Houston 3

New York 2, Boston 0

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

Atlanta 2, Philadelphia 1

Tuesday, Sept. 29: Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 3 Wednesday, Sept. 30: Philadelphia 4, Atlanta 3, 10 innings Thursday, Oct. 1: Atlanta 6, Philadelphia 2

San Diego 2, Chicago Cubs 0

Tuesday, Sept. 29: San Diego 8, Chicago 0 Wednesday, Sept. 30: San Diego 4, Chicago 1 DIVISION SERIES (Best-of-5) x-if necessary

American League

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Cleveland vs. Chicago White Sox

Saturday, Oct. 3: Chicago White Sox (Smith 3-3) at Cleveland (Messick 12-9), 1 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Monday, Oct. 5: Chicago White Sox at Cleveland (Williams 14-8), 5 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Wednesday, Oct. 7: Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 4 p.m. (TBS/ TruTV/HBO Max) x-Thursday, Oct. 8: Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 5 p.m. (TBS/ TruTV/HBO Max) x-Saturday, Oct. 10: Chicago White Sox at Cleveland, 5 p.m. (TBS/ TruTV/HBO Max)

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Hockey NHL Conference Glance EASTERN CONFERENCE Florida Boston Columbus Montreal New Jersey Pittsburgh N.Y. Rangers Toronto Carolina Philadelphia Detroit Ottawa

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Saturday, Oct. 3: N.Y. Yankees (Cole 10-9) at Tampa Bay (Rasmussen 16-5), 6:30 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Monday, Oct. 5: N.Y. Yankees (Schlittler 146) at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Wednesday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 8 p.m. (TBS/ TruTV/HBO Max) x-Thursday, Oct. 8: Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 8 p.m. (TBS/ TruTV/HBO Max) x-Saturday, Oct. 10: N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 8 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max)

National League (FOX, FS1)

L.A. Dodgers vs. Atlanta

Saturday, Oct. 3: Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 4 p.m. (FOX/FS1)

run. ... Lamar, ranked No. 14 in the Stats Perform FCS poll, had its only loss to FBS UL. ... The Demons will look to snap a 16-game losing streak dating to a season-opening win over Alcorn State in 2025. Before that win, NW State had lost 20 straight. ... Demons QB Zach Wilcke has thrown for 610 yards and six touchdowns this season.

Nicholls State at Houston Christian

WHEN: 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Husky Stadium (5,000), Houston ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Nicholls 2-3, 1-1 Southland; HCU 2-3, 1-1 LATEST LINE: HCU by 1½ (51½) SERIES: Nicholls leads 10-2 LAST MEETING: Nicholls won 31-7 in 2025 Notes: Colonels QB Ean Rodrigue is questionable with a shoulder injury. ... HCU will ook to bounce back for Family Weekend after suffering consecutive losses against North Texas and UIW. ... HCU won the last time the teams met in Houston, using a 50-yard ﬁeld goal with 58 seconds remaining for a 24-21 victory. ... The Nicholls roster has 92 Louisiana natives, which is the highest number of in-state players on any Division I roster. ... HCU opened its season by upsetting then-No. 19 Southeastern Louisiana in Hammond.

Thursday’s Games

New Jersey 3, Philadelphia 2, OT N.Y. Rangers 5, Tampa Bay 1 Columbus 6, Buffalo 3 Minnesota 3, Nashville 1 Seattle 6, Calgary 1 Utah 6, Chicago 0 Edmonton 9, Vancouver 7 San Jose 4, Florida 3, OT

Friday’s Games

N.Y. Rangers 2, Detroit 0 Washington 5, Carolina 2 Boston at Winnipeg, n St. Louis at Dallas, n Anaheim at Vegas, n

Saturday’s Games

Carolina at Philadelphia, 6 p.m. Chicago at Buffalo, 6 p.m. Montreal at Pittsburgh, 6 p.m. Ottawa at Toronto, 6 p.m. Seattle at Edmonton, 6 p.m. Utah at Columbus, 6 p.m. Washington at Tampa Bay, 6 p.m. New Jersey at N.Y. Islanders, 6:30 p.m. Boston at Minnesota, 7 p.m. Dallas at Nashville, 7 p.m. St. Louis at Colorado, 8 p.m. Calgary at Vancouver, 9 p.m. Los Angeles at San Jose, 9 p.m.

Transactions Major League Baseball

American League SEATTLE MARINERS — Claimed 1B Michael Toglia off waivers from Cincinnati. National League MILWAUKEE BREWERS — Reinstated 1B Andrew Vaughn from the 10-day IL.

BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association DETROIT PISTONS — Re-signed C Jalen Duren to a contract.

FOOTBALL

National Football League ARIZONA CARDINALS — Signed OL Kingsley Eguakun to the practice squad. DENVER BRONCOS — Released WR Lil’Jordan Humphrey. HOUSTON TEXANS — Placed RB British Brooks on injured reserve. LOS ANGELES RAMS — Waived WR Xavier Smith. Signed WR Alex Bachman and DE Larrell Murchison to the active roster. Placed TE Terrance Ferguson on injured reserve. NEW YORK GIANTS — Signed C Kendrick Green to the practice squad. Released T Darian Kinnard from the practice squad.

SPORTS

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Army at Louisiana Tech

WHEN: 6 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Joe Aillet Stadium (28, 019), Ruston ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Army 2-1; Tech 1-2 LATEST LINE: Army by 1½ (47½) SERIES: Army leads 3-0 LAST MEETING: Army won 27-6 in the 2024 Independence Bowl. Notes: The Black Knights, who host Tulane next week, are making their ﬁrst trip to Ruston. ... Army has the nation’s No. 1 ground game (355.7 yards per game) that will go against a Tech front seven that ranks second nationally in tackles for loss (11.0 per game) and 10th in sacks (3.33). Louisiana Tech is using this game to host its Military Appreciation and Legend’s Day events.

Arkansas State at UL

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium (30, 392), Lafayette ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: ASU 2-2, 0-0 Sun Belt; UL 3-1, 0-0 LATEST LINE: UL by 6½ (47½) SERIES: UL leads 32-22-1 LAST MEETING: UL won 34-30 in 2025. Notes: UL has won six straight games against the Red Wolves in Lafayette datingto 2014. ... UL barely with a win last year in Jonesboro after a last-second goal-line stand halted ASU at the 1-yard line. ... UL’s defense has been stellar all season. The Cajuns allowed just 137 total yards in last week’s win at Charlotte. The Niners’ 11 true possessions resulted in six punts, three fumbles, an interception and a turnover on downs. Idle: Southeastern Louisiana, Tulane

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Tampa Bay vs. N.Y. Yankees

SATURDAY’S STATE COLLEGE CAPSULES WHEN: 2 p.m. Saturday WHERE: Eddie Robinson Stadium (19,600), Grambling ONLINE: ESPN+ RECORDS: Alcorn 3-2, 2-0 SWAC; Grambling 2-2, 0-1 LATEST LINE: Grambling by 7½ (57½) SERIES: Grambling leads 20-12 LAST MEETING: Alcorn won 27-16 NOTES: It’s Grambling’s homecoming game. ... The SWAC-leading Braves average 35.0 points and 445.2 yards per game. They are led by quarterback Jaylon Tolbert, who has thrown for more than 860 yards. ... The Tigers average 29.5 points and 401.5 yards per game, led by QB Reginald Johnson (581 yards) and WR Jordan Bride.

Sunday, Oct. 4: Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FOX/FS1) Tuesday, Oct. 6: L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 6 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 7: L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 6 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Friday, Oct. 9: Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FOX/FS1)

Milwaukee vs. San Diego

ATP China Open Results Friday

NFL Glance AMERICAN CONFERENCE East

R.Wilson 3-74, Warren 3-33, Washington 3-27, Freiermuth 3-17, Pittman 2-15, Bernard 2-11, Skowronek 1-7. Cleveland, Judkins 6-43, Concepcion 5-64, Boston 4-89, Jeudy 3-36, Fannin 3-27, R.Sanders 2-7, Bond 1-2. MISSED FIELD GOALS—Pittsburgh, Boswell 48.

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THE VARSITY ZONE Jesuit tops Holy Cross in resounding fashion BY ANDREW VALENTI Contributing writer

Jesuit suffered a heartbreaking loss in its Catholic League opener last week and looked to bounce back against district rival Holy Cross on Friday night at Tad Gormley Stadium. And the Blue Jays did just that. Jesuit scored three first-half touchdowns — spearheaded by quarterback Sully Sullivan’s two scoring tosses — to down the Tigers 33-6. Sullivan connected with Tulane commitment Ja’ir Burks on a

fourth-down post route that left the senior receiver wide open for a 32-yard touchdown to put Jesuit ahead 6-0 on the team’s opening possession. After a Michael Cerruti 1-yard scoring plunge on Jesuit’s next possession to swell the Blue Jays’ lead to 13-0, Sullivan found Grant LeBeouf on a 24-yard strike for a 19-0 advantage. Sullivan finished the game 11 of 19 for 174 yards with three touchdowns and one interception and added another score on the ground. His third touchdown pass of the game came in the second

quarter on a 35-yard toss to LeBeouf with 4:29 left before halftime that pushed the Blue Jays’ lead to 25-0. Jesuit was relieved to move on from a 24-22 loss to Brother Martin last week. “We took that loss last week and learned our lessons from it the day after,” said Burks, who finished with 79 yards and a touchdown on four catches. “You’ve got to move on from a loss because you can’t still have that weight on your shoulders. We put a lot of hard work in this week, and we were able to forget about

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Dominican edges rival Mount Carmel in 5 sets

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With her team one point away from victory in the final set against district rival Mount Carmel, Dominican senior Kaitlyn Byrd’s kill ended a thrilling five-set match. Mount Carmel staged a comeback effort after Dominican won the first two sets. The Cubs went on to take the third and fourth sets to force a deciding fifth set, but Dominican held on for a 25-20, 2520, 14-25, 24-26, 16-14 win during Thursday’s “Pink Game” in front of a packed gym at Mount Carmel. Byrd’s last kill deflected off a Mount Carmel player and went out of bounds to seal the Dominican win. Dominican trailed Mount Carnel 14-13 when Dominican coach Jessica Chatellier called a timeout and her team ended the match with three straight points. “It came down to us having confidence in those big moments,” Chatellier said. “In the fifth set, we started feeling that, and we were able to go and not play scared in those tough moments. We just went after it. In those last four or five points, we played really big.” Dominican junior Hazel Roots put down a kill set up by freshman setter Ella Baker to up the fifth

terback Cooper Odle to Talon Meyers with 6:41 left in the game. “When Holy Cross got in the red zone and near the goal line, our kids knew the situation,” Jesuit coach Ryan Manale said. “I thought they kept battling and stuck together and found a way to get them off the ﬁeld, and obviously it was very crucial in this game.” Meyers led all receivers with 169 yards on eight catches with a touchdown. Jesuit now leads the all-time series with Holy Cross 63-43-1 and continues a matchup that dates back to 1922.

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Kaitlyn Byrd of Dominican, third from left, reacts to winning a point against Mount Carmel on Thursday at Mount Carmel’s gym. Byrd had 15 kills in Dominican’s 25-20, 25-20, 14-25, 24-26, 16-14 win.

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the game from last week.” Sullivan’s touchdown run came with 11:08 remaining in the game on a 32-yard run for a 33-0 lead. LeBeouf had three catches for 66 yards and two touchdowns in the contest. While the Blue Jays (4-1, 1-1) gave up 396 yards of total offense and 21 ﬁrst down to the Tigers (2-3, 0-2), the defense stepped up when it needed to. Holy Cross reached the red zone seven times and was denied points six of those times. The Tigers’ only touchdown came on a 14-yard pass from quar-

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set at 14. A block by Byrd eighth grader Elle Diley put Dominican up by one point before Byrd’s winning hit. “I wanted the ball to put it away for my team,” Byrd said. “I just trusted to give me the ball, and I went for it. Final point, I wanted the kill, and I got it.” Several Dominican players contributed to the scoring attack. Sophomore Olivia Anderson finished with a team-high 19 kills, Byrd had 15 kills, and Roots had 11 kills along with junior Hadley Bonifcic. “We’re usually pretty spread out in our attack,” Chatellier said. “Our setter (Baker) runs a really quick offense, which gave our outside some availability to be fast and beat the block. That’s what happened on the last point.” Baker finished with a team-high 52 assists. Diley had a strong allaround performance, finishing with eight kills, seven blocks and an ace. “My hitters are there for me, and they can adjust to any set,” Baker said. “It makes all my sets look good. We had a little dip (against Mount Carmel), but we worked together as a team to fight back.”

Mount Carmel senior hitter Lila Franovich was a force on offense, recording a match-high 25 kills. She shined down the stretch on Thursday, with 16 of her kills coming in the final three sets. Junior setter Sarah Clement was a key contributor for Mount Carmel, leading the Cubs with 32 assists along with 7 kills and three blocks. Cubs freshman Andy Clement finished with 10 kills, junior Briley Ross had 12 assists and senior Allie Stelle had eight kills and three blocks. “The first two sets, my girls didn’t play their game,” Mount Carmel first-year coach Ashley Lala Miller said. “We were just on the struggle bus from the atmosphere. I was so proud of how they overcame that fear, and I’ve just been trying to preach to them to play fearless, and then they started to. They left it all out on the court, and that’s all I could’ve asked for.” Dominican (17-2) will visit E.D. White on Saturday before returning home on Tuesday to face Mandeville, the No. 1-ranked team in Division I. Mount Carmel (18-4) saw its 15-match winning streak come to an end. The Cubs will be back at home to continue district play on Tuesday against Chalmette.

A trick-play touchdown by Colton Nussmeier gave Rummel a lead in the fourth quarter. But it was his teammates’ blocked extra point after a later John Curtis touchdown that allowed Rummel to defeat Curtis 10-9 Thursday at Joe Yenni Stadium. Defensive tackle Russ Lewis led the surge up the middle that resulted in the blocked extra point with 1:43 remaining, lifting Rummel to a 5-0 record for the ﬁrst time since its undefeated run to the state championship in 2019. “Knowing you just won the game on a play, making your team better, making your team happy after they just had a dogﬁght, it feels good,” Lewis said. Lewis penetrated a wide split between the center and guard, giving him enough space to slice between them after the snap. “They really had some good penetration in the middle, and we kicked it low,” Curtis coach J.T. Curtis said. “Two bad things.” Other late miscues also proved costly for Curtis (2-3, 0-2 District 9-5A). Among them was an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty for taunting following a thirddown incompletion from deep in Rummel territory. Given a first down, Rummel went 89 yards on a 14-play drive that ended with a trick-play touchdown. On first-and-goal from the 7, Coryan Hawkins (26 carries, 91 yards) took a toss from Nussmeier and ran a few steps right before he turned and threw back to the quarterback, who had only one defender to beat to the left pylon for a 7-3 lead. “We practiced it for the two or

game),” Hawkins said, “so there was no nervousness, no nothing.” With Nussmeier struggling to find open receivers against a Curtis secondary that includes three college signees, the four-star Georgia commitment kept the ball for multiple run plays. Following a wobbly screen pass to Hawkins to get inside the 40, Nussmeier went 19 yards on an run-pass option keeper to get inside the 20. Another run by Nussmeier set up a first-and-goal from the 7. After the touchdown, Rummel quickly got the ball back when defensive back Mitchell Harris recovered a fumbled handoff inside the Curtis 20, which set up Joseph Delcid for 26-yard field goal that fluttered sideways through the uprights for a 10-3 lead. Curtis responded with an 11play touchdown drive led by London Padgett, who threw a 10-yard touchdown pass to Jarvis Stevenson with a defender in tight coverage. J.T. Curtis could have called for a two-point conversion but didn’t. “We felt like our defense was playing well, that if we got into OT, that our defense playing the way they were, would give us a big opportunity to win the game,” he said. The schools moved the game from Saturday because of a severe weather forecast for the weekend. “For both teams to show up and play today, 48 hours ahead of time, I thought that was impressive,” Rummel coach Nick Monica said. “I’ve got to credit both schools for being committed to doing that.” Rummel will play next against Brother Martin on Friday at Tad Gormley Stadium. John Curtis will take on Edna Karr at Muss Bertolino Playground.

WEEK 5 FOOTBALL REPORT Thursday’s scores Acadiana 56, New Iberia 7 Acadiana Christian 40, Pickering 7 Amite 48, S. B. Wright 0 Ascension Catholic 51, Assumption 8 Ben Franklin 54, Springﬁeld 30 Buckeye 27, Holy Savior Menard 12 Country Day 49, Northlake Christian 0 Covington 40, Fontainebleau 7 Denham Springs 35, Live Oak 17 Easton 43, Riverdale 0 Elton 32, JS Clark Leadership Academy 26 Grand Lake 41, Port Barre 0 Gueydan 50, Pine Prairie 42 Hahnville 36, H.L. Bourgeois 9 Haughton 55, Parkway 36 Haynesville 48, Union Parish 27 Kennedy 42, Salmen 40 Kentwood 52, Ferriday 6 Lakeshore 41, Belle Chasse 34 Madison Prep 47, McKinley 0 Mandeville 22, Slidell 15 Mansﬁeld 46, Grant 23 Merryville 34, Linden-Kildare, Texas 30 Notre Dame 24, Cecilia 21 Northshore 41, Ponchatoula 38 Patrick Taylor 24, Fisher 7 Pearl River 54, Sumner 21 Pine 41, Loranger 12 Pope John Paul 57, Morris Jeff 0 Ringgold 50, Lena Northwood 28 Rummel 10, John Curtis Christian 9 Ruston 29, West Point, Miss. 2 Sacred Heart 49, Academy of Sacred HeartGrand Coteau 0 Saint Paul’s 14, Hammond 12 South Lafourche 42, Patterson 34 St. Augustine 51, Chalmette 13 St. James 42, Landry/Walker 6 St. Michael 45, Scotlandville 13 Terrebonne 29, South Terrebonne 26 Thibodaux 56, Central Lafourche 19 Tioga 45, Jena 26 Vandebilt Catholic 29, E.D. White 28 West St. Mary 38, Berwick 14 Westgate 43, Carencro 0 Westminster Christian (LAF) 55, Vermilion Catholic 25

Friday’s scores

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District 7-5A Destrehan 36, East St. John 0 District 8-5A

West Jefferson 22, Higgins 6 District 9-5A Edna Karr 25, Brother Martin 21 Jesuit 33, Holy Cross 6 Nondistirct Abramson 32, Varnado 6 De La Salle 57, Willow 18 St. Charles 33, Riverside 23 Hannan 38, St. Thomas Aquinas 14 St. Martin’s 56, Thomas Jefferson 24

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Acadiana Renaissance, Breaux Bridge 14 Airline 32, Natchitoches Central 29 Alexandria 51, Liberty 6 Ascension Episcopal 47, Centerville 0 Avoyelles 52, Block 0 B.T. Washington 54, Lincoln Prep 6 Barbe 59, Sulphur 7 Basile 34, Oberlin 0 Bastrop 48, General Trass6 Catholic 37, Madison-Ridgeland Aca, Miss. 14 Baton Rouge Episcopal 16, Albany 2 Beau Chene 34, East Beauregard 26 Beekman 56, Madison 0 Benton 31, C.E. Byrd 28 Bossier 34, Southwood 12 Bunkie 52, Kinder 15 Caldwell Parish 48, St. Frederick Catholic 21 Calvary Baptist Academy 52, Loyola Prep 24 Cedar Creek 22, North Webster 21 Central - B.R. 42, Ouachita Parish 21 DeRidder 48, Westlake 15 Delta Charter 50, Delhi Charter 15 Dutchtown 9, Prairieville 6 East Ascension 28, Walker 24 East Feliciana 30, Parkview Baptist 20 Erath 45, North Vermilion 20 Eunice 35, Church Point 33 Evangel Christian 46, Captain Shreve 0 Franklin Parish 38, Huntington 36 Glenbrook 57, North Caddo 33 Independence 39, Istrouma 30 Iowa 41, South Beauregard 7 Jeanerette 68, Hanson Memorial 0 Jennings 48, Washington-Marion 15 Jonesboro-Hodge 38, Arcadia 18 Kaplan 48, St. Louis 23 Karr 25, Brother Martin 21 LaSalle 38, Montgomery 36 Lafayette Renaissance 56, LCCP 34 Lake Arthur 50, Covenant Christian 20 Lakeside 40, Plain Dealing 0 Leesville 37, Many 15 Lutcher 54, Franklinton 41

Mangham 40, West Ouachita 21 Marksville 54, Pineville 43 Minden 21, Woodlawn (SH) 14 Neville 10, West Monroe 0 New Iberia Catholic 31, Catholic-PC 6 North DeSoto 56, Shreveport Northwood 13 Northwest 23, Iota 14 Opelousas 28, Lafayette Christian 26 Parklane Aca., Miss. 37, Dunham 7 Plaquemine 42, Brusly 36 Rayne 35, Mamou 21 Rayville 38, Magnolia Excellence 0 Red River 30, Logansport 24 Richwood 61, Lakeview 6 Rosepine 59, Delhi 12 Sam Houston 28, Southside 14 Southern Lab 62, East Iberville 6 St. Charles 33, Riverside 23 St. John 28, White Castle 0 St. Mary’s 23, Winnﬁeld 14 St. Thomas More 42, Lafayette 7 Sterlington 57, Oak Grove 34 University 28, Teurlings Catholic 7 Vidalia 46, D’Arbonne Woods 13 Vinton 56, LaGrange 6 Welsh 44, DeQuincy 7 West Feliciana 40, St. Helena 0 Westminster Christian 7, Opelousas Cath. 0 Woodlawn (BR) 14, Donaldsonville 13 Zachary 56, St. Amant 28

Saturday’s games

District 8-5A John Ehret vs. East Jefferson at Yenni, noon Nondistrict Bogalusa vs. Jefferson Rise at Memtsas Open date: South Plaquemines

Rummel 10, John Curtis 9

Team CHS RHS First Downs 8 11 Yards Rushing 20-27 41-128 164 13 Yards Passing Passes (C-A-HI) 11-20-0 4-11-0 Punts-avg. 6-34 7-29 Fumbles-lost 2-1 0-0 Penalties-yards 1-5 4-30 SCORING SUMMARY John Curtis 3 0 0 6 —9 0 0 0 10 —10 Rummel JC: Cole Schmidt 30 ﬁeld goal RUM: Colton Nussmeier 7 pass from Coryan Hawkins (Joseph Delcid kick) RUM: Delcid 26 ﬁeld goal JC: Jarvis Stevenson 10 pass from London Padgett (kick failed)

Warren Easton 43, Riverdale 0 Team Warren Easton Riverdale First Downs 15 3 Yards Rushing 28-210 18-16 Yards Passing 82 3 Passes (C-A-HI) 5-9-1 1-14-1 Punts-avg. 1-33 5-33 Fumbles-lost 2-0 4-1 Penalties-yards 9-80 5-57 SCORING SUMMARY Warren Easton 28 15 0 0 —43 Riverdale 0 0 0 0 —0 WE: Maki Bargky 75 kickoff return (Harrison Juarez kick) WE: Melik Andry 21 pass from Lavon Smith (Juarez kick) WE: Josiah Everage 32 run (Juarez kick) WE: Juelz Haley 70 fumble return (Juarez kick) WE: Zachary Martin safety WE: Gyron Hall 10 interception return (Juarez kick) WE: Everage 2 run (pass failed)

Newman 35, Bonnabel 14 Team NHS BHS First Downs 18 5 Yards Rushing 38-163 12-35 Yards Passing 184 157 Passes (C-A-HI) 10-16-0 10-24-2 Punts-avg. 1-1 1-1 Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards 5-50 15-14 SCORING SUMMARY Newman 10 3 22 0 —35 Bonnabel 0 0 7 7 —14 NHS: Attticus Lafleur 39 FG NHS: Jayce Irving 1 run (Lafleur kick) NHS: Lafleur 20 FG BHS: Kenyon Harper 32 run (Flavio Centeno kick) NHS: Tanner Robert 80 kick return (Irving run) NHS: Hendrix Hill 40 pass from Jaylen Hunter (Lafleur kick) NHS: Hill 22 pass from Hunter (Lafleur kick)

Edna Karr 25, Brother Martin 21 Team First Downs Yards Rushing Yards Passing Passes (C-A-HI) Punts-avg. Fumbles-lost Penalties-yards

Karr 19 40-206 165 7-18-4 3-30 0-0 9-99

BMHS 13 29-56 173 11-23-3 5-30 0-0 6-65

SCORING SUMMARY Edna Karr 0 13 0 12 —25 Brother Martin 0 14 7 0 —21 KAR: Marlon Jones 4 run (Jai Warner kick) BM: Justin Morgan 1 run (Maximo Barrios kick) KAR: Brenin Reed 28 pass from Forest Johnson (kick failed) BM: Easton Royal 54 pass from Morgan (Barrios kick) BM: Hudson Fields 2 run (Barrios kick) KAR: Jones 2 run (2-point failed) KAR: Ty Williams 85 interception return (2-point failed)

Booker T. Washington 24, G.W. Carver 18 Team BTW CHS First Downs 10 15 Yards Rushing 26-59 32-112 Yards Passing 134 197 Passes (C-A-HI) 9-21-0 12-30-1 Punts-avg. 3-24.0 2-36.5 Fumbles-lost 0-0 0-0 Penalties-yards 7-45 4-40 SCORING SUMMARY Booker T. Washington 0 8 8 8 —24 G.W. Carver 12 0 6 0 —18 Carver: Freddie Barra 48 pass from Leonard Watson (pass failed) Carver – LaTroy Hardy 26 pass from Watson (kick missed)

St. Charles 33, Riverside 23

Team St. Charles Riverside First Downs 13 22 Yards Rushing 29-322 47-147 Yards Passing 49 245 Passes (C-A-HI) 5-11-0 16-25-1 Punts-avg. 3-27 3-28 Fumbles-lost 1-1 2-1 Penalties-yards 8-82 6-45 SCORING SUMMARY St. Charles 3 17 13 0 —33 Riverside 7 0 3 13 —23 SCC: Lathan Lagarde 27 field goal RIV: Cayden Francois 9 pass from Boogie Johnson (Will Rauch kick) SCC: Caleb Alexander 39 run (Lagarde kick) SCC: Landree LeBlanc 32 run (Lagarde kick) SCC: Blake Taravella 42 field goal RIV: Rauch 35 field goal SCC: LeBlanc 53 run (Lagarde kick) SCC: Evan Dufour 62 run (kick failed) RIV: Johnson 6 pass from Chris Becnel (Rauch kick) RIV: Johnson 2 pass from Becnel (run failed)

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Forty-six years of accurately predicting how a specimen will thrive and develop has made René Fransen something of a horticultural soothsayer. Internationally celebrated, Fransen is now in semiretirement. He remains available for select consultations, offering his expertise to projects that align with his vision and values. In 2020, Fransen sold the business he founded 40 years earlier to John Mills, a longtime business part-

both Southern Living and Architectural Digest, and he holds a fellowship with the American Society of Landscape Architects. “The garden I designed ner. Since then, Fransen has worked as an indepen- for Ruthie Frierson across from Audubon dent landscape architect Park in 1981 is in and consultant, the Smithsonian continuing to design Gardens Colcustom landscapes ranging from intilection and has been published mate courtyards to widely,” Fransen massive commersaid. “Realtors cial properties. His frequently cite a ethos emphasizes garden as being technical architecFransen one of mine when ture — focusing selling a home, knowing intensely on drainage and gradients — before ﬁnaliz- the association will help ing the plant layout, creat- sell a house because of my reputation for excellence ing designs that will ﬂourthat will withstand the test ish for ages to come. of time.” His work has been pubFransen has worked lished numerous times in

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INSIDE STORY with many local organizations over the years, including Save Our Cemeteries, Longue Vue House and Gardens, French Quarter Citizens, Friends of the Cabildo, the New Orleans Botanical Garden Foundation, the Louisiana Landmarks Society, the Livability Committee of the French Quarter Management District and the State of Louisiana Landscape Architectural Selection Board. He also served as an adviser for the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture at LSU. He was the ﬁrst landscape architect the National Pool & Spa Institute selected to judge its design competition in 2003. He also garnered an award from the American Society of Landscape Architects for the grounds of a Richardsonian Romanesque mansion on St. Charles Avenue and for a 2,000-acre estate in Mississippi. HGTV featured an 1850s Gothic Revival villa and its grounds, landscaped by Fransen’s team, in its “Homes Across America” series. Fransen will soon be honored with the Louisiana Landmarks Society’s annual service award for his years of volunteer

HONORING RENÉ FRANSEN Sally Reeves, who preceded René Fransen as president, will present the Louisiana Landmarks Society service award.

WHEN: 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 9 WHERE: Pitot House, 1440 Moss St., New Orleans ADMISSION: Free and open to the public “I brought in architect Robbie Cangelosi and his roofer, and it was patched. Hurricane Ida destroyed the roof again in 2021, so we were able to start repairs at the top of the Pitot House.”

Long career, lasting friendships

Fransen’s creations are inviting and blend effortlessly with architecture. work at the Pitot House. He was largely responsible for the successful fundraising efforts

during his tenure as president, including a record-breaking fete in October 2025.

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“When I joined the board in 2020, the roof had been leaking for four years,” Fransen said.

Fransen’s work is unique — anyone familiar with his portfolio can immediately identify his signature style. His creations are inviting and blend effortlessly with architecture. They also feature whimsical elements, including garden rooms and hidden nooks, to optimize space and foster a

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Continued from page 5 ﬂow that reﬂects the client’s lifestyle. Upon graduating from LSU in 1977, Fransen undertook a project at the Uptown home of Gayfryd Steinberg (formerly Johnson). “When we met, I was 23, and she was 28,” Fransen said. “I had the luck of doing her project at 6145 St. Charles Ave. That job, installed when I was 24, rocketed me to instant fame.” Gayfryd Steinberg’s husband, Saul Steinberg, had a company that bought the Grand-Hôtel du Cap-Ferrat in France, which is now a Four Seasons. Fransen worked there, learning the site’s Mediterranean plant palette and the mistral winds that affect growth. “Having to learn plant materials in so many areas and

A backyard on State Street knowing how to put them together in planting designs is my strong point,” he said. “It has been a pleasure to push myself. From the (Texas) Hill Country, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin; the Hamptons; and the Bahamas, the plants I had to learn were vast. “My goal was to do a totally tropical palette planting de-

sign, which I ﬁnished this year for one of my old clients. It is at the Albany Marina/Resort in the Bahamas and is a great way to cap off my career, as it took six years to build and plant.” Jyl Benson writes about homes and gardens. Email her at jylbenson@gmail.com.

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Seven homes on historic Algiers Point will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday for the annual Algiers Point Home Tour. The homes are at 718 Pelican Ave., 817 Eliza St., 245 Verret St., 513 Patterson Road, 318 Delaronde St., 330 Morgan St. and 210 Olivier St. Tickets start at $35. Visit algierspoint.org for tickets and information.

‘Greaux Native’ banners fall garden seminar The St. Tammany Master Gardener Association fall seminar “Greaux Native: Plants, Bugs, and People of the Southern Landscape” will be Friday at the Castine Center at Pelican Park in Mandeville. Speakers, starting at 9 a.m., will include Elise Smith, coauthor of “Southern Women, Southern Landscapes”; Jeff Wilson, Mississippi State AgCenter coordinator for “Incorporating Native and Non-native Plants in your Garden”; and Linda Auld (The Bug Lady), whose topic will be “Plant It and They Will Come.” Registration is required at stmastergardener.org/event. Tickets start at $40.

Two classes left in bird-watching series Beginning Birding, a course on bird-watching, will cover choosing binoculars and field guides, using apps and bird identification, plus where to go to watch the feathered flyers at Coquille Park in Covington. The lectures are from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. Tuesday and Oct. 13 at 13505 La. 1085. Tickets start at $50. Visit eventbrite.com.

Longue Vue events celebrate founders A weeklong celebration of Edgar and Edith Stern, founders of the historic Longue Vue House and Gardens, will be Oct. 12-17, with a look into the

rhizome sale from 9 a.m. to noon, or until sold out, Oct. 24 at Longue Vue House and Gardens, 7 Bamboo Road. Plants start at $5. For information, visit louisianairisgnois.com.

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A dinner planned at Dooky Chase’s Restaurant celebrates the shared legacy with Longue Vue House and Gardens as institutions that served as safe spaces during the Civil Rights Movement.

lives of the couple who built the home. The Sterns lived at the 7 Bamboo Road estate from 1923 to 1978 and activated the facility for public service and spurred social progress in the Crescent City. Activities surrounding the celebration include a book release, jazz performance, Games in the Garden fundraiser and community games day. For information, visit longuevue.com.

Dinner honors Shared Legacies Shared Legacies, a dinner hosted by the Chase Family Foundation and Longue Vue House and Gardens, will be at 6:30 p.m. Oct. 13 at the landmark Dooky Chase’s Restaurant, 2301 Orleans Ave. Celebrate the common values and courage of Longue Vue’s Stern family, the Chase family and their institutions, which served as safe spaces for connecting communities during segregation and the Civil Rights Movement. Opera singer Imani Francis will perform. Tickets start at $325. Visit longuevue.com.

Iris sale slated for October The Greater New Orleans Iris Society will hold its annual

Registration for the annual Friends of Jefferson the Beautiful seminar is open. Tree School on Oct. 29 at the Jefferson Performing Arts Center in Metairie is open to community tree enthusiasts and working professionals such as arborists, landscape architects and other professionals to earn continuing education hours while learning from leaders in the ﬁeld. Professional attendees are welcome at no cost, and community members can attend for $10. Speakers for the school include Skip Kincaid, Beau Brodbeck, James Komen, Dana Brown, Lynn Dupont, Michael Reid and Amanda Rivera. Visit friendsofjeffersonthebeautiful.org.

Volunteer projects abound at City Park A variety of cleanup days and initiatives are on tap at City Park to improve and maintain the extensive urban green space. Those coming up include: n Litter Abatement Campaign: 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Graffiti Cleanup Krewe: 9 a.m. Thursday, Volunteer Center, 1031 Harrison Ave. n Love Our Waterways Cleanup: 9 a.m. Tuesday. Wheel Fun Rentals, Big Lake, 7 Friedrichs Ave. n Big Lake Native Plant Trail Restoration Project: 8 a.m. Friday. Big Lake Native Trail near 7 Friedrichs Ave. Register for the programs and ﬁnd out what to bring at friendsofcitypark.volunteerhub.com. Have a home and garden event coming up? Send it to events@theadvocate.com.

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IN SEASON: Vegetables to plant in October include beet, broccoli, cabbage, carrot, celery, collard, garlic, kale, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, mustard, onion, parsnip, radish, rutabaga, shallot, spinach, Swiss chard and turnip.You may plant transplants or seeds of broccoli, cabbage, celery, collard, kale, kohlrabi, leek, lettuce, mustard, bunching onion, spinach and Swiss chard. Root crops, including beet, carrot, radish, parsnip, rutabaga and turnip, must be grown from seeds sown directly where the plants will grow in the garden.Transplanting them tends to damage the roots and leads to a deformed, poor-quality harvest. WEED CONTROL: Apply preemergence herbicides to your lawn now to prevent coolseason annual weeds like chickweed, henbit, sticker weed and annual bluegrass. I’m often asked about controlling these weeds in the spring when it is too late to do so most effectively. Look for products like Halts, Dimension, CrabX, Crabgrass Preventer and other brands, and follow label directions.

FA ALL COLORS Trees, shrubs and perennials create a vibrant end-of-year garden display Dan Gill GREEN THUMB

Senna corymbosa is shrubbier in appearance and generally grows 5 to 8 feet tall. Starting in September, clusters of 2-inch yellow flowers are produced in great quantities, followed by green beanlike seed pods. PROVIDED PHOTO

Lots of people seem to think fall is a season of endings. In our mild winter climate, however, this simply isn’t true. As we begin to experience cooler weather, gardening activities are mostly about beginnings. October is the start of the planting season for hardy trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers. We are also planting cool-season vegetables and colorful bedding plants. Many plants seem to save up all summer for the spectacular display of ﬂowers and fruit beginning to show up in our gardens. To enhance the color in your landscape through early December, consider including these trees, shrubs and perennials.

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Caladiums are not a suitable winter houseplant BY DAN GILL

again? — Gary This is not normal. The symptoms indicate that it has become infested with lantana lace bugs. The ﬁrst sign of these sucking insects is that the plant stops blooming. Then, the foliage becomes mottled and unhealthy-looking. Spray the plant with bifenthrin or a light horticultural oil spray following package directions. Make two to three applications at the recommended intervals and spray thoroughly under the leaves. It’s a good

Contributing writer I saw your tip about digging up caladiums when they go dormant in the winter. Is it possible to bring my caladiums Garden indoors where it is warm and keep them advice growing over the winter as a houseplant? They have been growing this summer in a large pot outdoors. — Sandy No, caladiums will not grow indoors over the winter even if you provide them with ideal growing conditions. They go dormant in the fall no matter what you do. Caladiums have a natural annual dormant season when they die back to their tubers. Caladiums are native to the tropics, and their dormant season gets them through an annual dry period rather than a cold period. That is why we can dig up caladium tubers and store them dry over the winter. That is also why they may fail to return if you leave them in the ground and they stay too wet and rot. What can I do for a bed of liriope overrun by weeds? I have weeded out all I could, but there is a grass that grows by rhizomes in this bed that I haven’t been able to control. It’s not torpedograss or any of the common grasses that I know about. It’s almost like a reed but very small. I have used Over the Top and Preen to help with other weeds, but those herbicides haven’t controlled this one. — Barbara Over the Top is a postemergence selective herbicide containing sethoxydim that is useful in controlling grassy weeds in beds and ground cover areas. If it controlled the grassy weeds but not this particular one, it is likely a sedge, not a grass. Sedges look like grasses but are a different group of plants that are not controlled with selective grass killers. It is important for you to properly identify the weed to make sure you use a product that has a chance of control-

idea to trim the plant back before you start spraying to remove most of the unattractive foliage and encourage new growth. The plant should start blooming again in a few weeks. Dan Gill is a retired consumer horticulture specialist with the LSU AgCenter. He hosts the “Garden Show” on WWL-AM Saturdays at 9 a.m. Email gardening questions to gnogardening@agcenter.lsu. edu.

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Caladiums go dormant in winter regardless and will not grow indoors.

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the weed to a local nursery for ID. The herbicide Image Kills Nutsedge with imazaquin can control sedges, and it is safe to use on liriope. If the weed you are dealing with is a sedge, several applications should greatly reduce the population. It will also control some broadSTAFF FILE PHOTO BY BRETT DUKE leaf and grassy weeds. Bandana Lantana Lemon Zest is We have a large lantana bush, and lately, the leaves have become mota warm-season bedding plant. tled and stiff. It stopped flowering a few weeks ago. Is this normal for this ling it. Contact your parish time of year, or is there something LSU AgCenter Extension ofwe can try to get it to start flowering ﬁce for help or take some of

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Gold, yellow and orange The Southern golden rain tree (Koelreuteria bipinnata) is especially showy in fall. Tiny golden yellow ﬂowers have been appearing on these trees since September. The ﬂowers will eventually lead to large clusters of showy dark pink, papery seed pods. The effect is outstanding and longlasting. On a smaller scale, three types of sennas produce brilliant displays of golden yellow

flowers from late summer to winter. You may know these plants as cassias, but they have been moved from the genus Cassia to the genus Senna. The candelabra plant (Senna alata) grows up to 12 feet tall and produces tropical-looking foliage and spikes of globular gold flowers. Flowering starts in late summer and usually finishes up in late October or early November. Senna corymbosa is shrubbier in appearance and generally grows 5 to 8 feet tall. Starting in September, clusters of 2-inch yellow flowers are produced in great quantities, followed by green beanlike seed pods.

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The most spectacular of the three is the golden wonder tree (Senna splendida), which blooms from October through December and into spring, if the winter weather is mild. The large flowers almost cover the foliage and are bound to attract attention in any landscape. Golden bells, or esperanza, (Tecoma stans) is another plant that produces vibrant yellow or orange flowers in late summer and fall. Clusters of large bell-shaped flowers occur over a long season, but blooming is particularly heavy this time of year.

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The Southern golden rain tree boasts tiny golden yellow flowers that will eventually lead to large clusters of showy dark pink, papery seed pods. ful ﬂowers this month and into December are sasanquas and various roses. Sasanquas (Camellia sasanqua) are indis-

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pensable shrubs in our area. Dwarf types stay around 3 feet, while standard varieties slowly grow to 10 to 12 feet tall and can be trained as a clipped hedge, large shrub or tree shape. Similar in appearance to sasanquas, the Shishi Gashira camellia (Camellia hiemalis) is a shrub that produces dark pink flowers from October to January and grows to be 3 to 5 feet tall. In late November and December, camellias (Camellia japonica) will begin to bloom and continue through the winter. Everblooming roses, such as hybrid teas, floribundas, Chinas, Bourbons, teas and landscape roses, produce superb flowers through early December and longer if the winter is mild. Blooming roses are available at nurseries now,

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GREEN THUMB and this is an excellent time to plant them. Although not actually a rose, the confederate rose (Hibiscus mutabilis) is beginning to bloom. A large plant growing 8 to 10 feet tall, confederate roses produce large, double ﬂowers that open white and age to a rosy pink. Although generally not known for fall blooming, azaleas that bloom outside of spring are available and popular. Particularly notable are some of the Robin Hill azaleas such as Conversation Piece and Watchet. The Fashion azalea covers itself with salmon ﬂowers in fall. Finally, Encore azaleas come in a variety of colors and sizes. Check out local nurseries this season. You can see azaleas in bloom and pick out the colors you like.

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Even more colors Chrysanthemums are the best-known fall-blooming herbaceous perennials, but there are others. The toad lily (Tricyrtis formosana) and cigar plant (Cuphea micropetala) also contribute to the late-year floral display. Native asters (Symphyotrichum) produce abundant colorful flowers that attract pollinating insects. Two great gingers, butterfly ginger (Hedychium coronarium) and Kahili ginger (H. gardnerianum), produce fragrant flowers until the first hard freeze occurs. Even though they bloom through the summer, salvias always seem to look especially good as the weather cools. Two species, Mexican bush sage (Salvia leucantha) and forsythia sage (Salvia madrensis), are fall bloomers and look excellent this time of year. Mexican bush sage produces spikes of furry purple or white flowers on 3- to 5-foot-tall plants. Forsythia sage is an unusual salvia that makes large spikes of soft yellow on a bold 5-foot plant with large, dark green, quilted leaves. Hollies are notable for their attractive fruit, and their berries are beginning to ripen

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Toad lily blooms contribute to a late-year floral display. now to a brilliant red. Popular choices include Savannah holly, Foster’s holly, Eagleston holly, Burford holly and native yaupon holly (Ilex vomitoria). These are all small trees that grow to be about 15 to 25

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GOURD TIMES ROLL New Orleans business styles festive fall entryways with Texas pumpkins and gourds

BY MARIGNY LANAUX | Staff writer Our spaces have been yearning for a seasonal refresh, especially now that the first official day of fall is behind us. The home’s exterior is a great place to start — after all, festivities and holiday gatherings will soon be underway, and when entertaining guests, first impressions are important. Decorating for each season may not seem complicated, but it can be time-consuming and require a creative eye. Many a New Orleans resident has relied upon professional help for Christmas lights, decorating and winter holiday displays, but now other seasons are getting in on the game. ä See PUMPKINS, page 14

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Jacqueline Plewniak, above left, is the owner and operator of Porch & Petal, a pumpkin styling business that services the New Orleans area. ABOVE RIGHT: Plewniak arranged a cluster of neutral-toned pumpkins outside of a modern entryway in Metairie. Pumpkins are natural additions that can complement reusable seasonal decor. BELOW: Smaller pumpkins and gourds are tucked amongst larger ones. STAFF PHOTOS BY CHRIS GRANGER

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Pictured here is The Harvest Glow, Porch & Petal’s third largest package. For this particular client’s home, Plewniak opted for more neutral-toned pumpkins to accompany the modern entryway. Plewniak sources pumpkins from a Texas farm, complementing the typical orange pumpkin with those in shades of green, cream and yellow.

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Hay bales add height and variation to Plewniak’s fall pumpkin displays.

Continued from page 12 Porch & Petal is a new, local pumpkin concierge that delivers an abundance of gourds to your front door and provides professional styling. From thoughtfully positioning pumpkins on a porch to having them gracefully cascade down entryway steps, owner and operator Jacqueline Plewniak has an afﬁnity for design. “Last fall, I started seeing pumpkin displays on social media and thought, ‘Why isn’t anyone doing this in New Orleans?’ ” Plewniak said. “It felt like a fun way to get

into decorating and bring something new and festive to the city, so I decided to give it a try.” Plewniak moved back to New

Orleans four years ago after brieﬂy living here while she was younger, as she grew up moving around with her military parents.

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She spent most of her life in New York. When thinking of pumpkins, the classic bright orange squash comes to mind. Porch & Petal utilizes these traditional round varieties in displays and supplements with those of assorted colors, heights, shapes and textures, which are all sourced PORCH & from a Texas farm. PETAL “They have the (504) 408-0650 best variety porchpetal.com I’ve found, and the quality has been really good,” she said. “I would love to work with a Louisiana farm, but so far, I haven’t found one that can supply the volume I need.” Porch & Petal offers ﬁve packages, each increasing in size and complexity. The Classic is a subtle option, perfect for smaller porches. The Curated is a fuller display that incorporates hay bales; The Harvest Glow expands further, including a focal point pumpkin between 30-75 pounds; and The Signature is ideal for medium-to-large porches. Finally, The Grand Luxe is the most impressive display, resulting in the ultimate grand entrance. Pumpkins and gourds are long-lasting, natural additions that can complement wreaths, potted plants and other reusable decor. When deciding which shapes and styles may best suit your home, Plewniak focuses on the size of the entrance. Arrangements vary for homes with a simple walkway or covered porch versus a grand drive. Architecture is another element to keep in mind — modern entryways look great with pumpkins and gourds of natural, earthy tones. Porch & Petal is a onewoman show, with Plewniak periodically receiving help from friends and family. The business services the Greater New Orleans area, including Metairie, Hammond, Destrehan, the West Bank and Arabi, with occasional visits to the northshore to style homes in Covington and Mandeville. These festive displays typically last long enough to

TIPS FOR CRAFTING A PUMPKIN DISPLAY n Go lighter on traditional orange jack-o’lanterns, especially in the New Orleans heat. They tend to go bad the quickest, so Plewniak incorporates more specialty varieties. n Build your base with the orange and white pumpkins first, then add specialty pumpkins as focal points. n Pick colors that look good together and mix shapes and sizes. n Don’t skip the minis and gourds! They’re the little accessories that pull everything together. n Plewniak mists the pumpkins with a vinegar and water mixture to help keep mold at bay and removes any that start to spoil.

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This green, textured pumpkin adds variety to a neutral fall display in Metairie. kickstart fall, greet trick-ortreaters and even welcome guests at Thanksgiving. “I tell clients to toss any pumpkin that starts leaking, feeling soft or showing signs of going bad,” Plewniak said. “One spoiled pumpkin can

affect the ones around it.” Looking ahead to winter, Plewniak plans to offer fresh garland installations and hopes to branch out into more holidays, as there’s always an occasion to celebrate in New Orleans.

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LEFT: A quick walk from the historic cottage, the private pier on Lake Pontchartrain features seating for enjoying a quiet morning or conversation. ABOVE: The two-story screened porch has views of mature oak trees and the lake beyond.

Mandeville cottage complete with pier on the lake BY MARIGNY LANAUX Staff writer

Enjoy peaceful mornings, vivid sunsets and everything in between from the private pier at 730 Copal St. The Mandeville cottage is positioned on the edge of Lake Pontchartrain and also features a woodburning ﬁreplace and original architectural elements for just under $2.2 million. Built in 1840 and later expanded, the property retains much of its character across its four bedrooms and four bathrooms. Highlights include original glass windows, heart pine ﬂooring and reclaimed doors from the Old Ursuline Convent in the French Quarter. Set on 4 acres, the historic home is reached by an expansive gravel drive lined with mature oak trees, which immediately creates a sense of seclusion. The land also includes covered parking for a recreational vehicle or boat. The ground level has storage, space for patio enjoyment and a screened porch with

access to the gated saltwater pool. Traverse up the raised foundation to the interior spaces. From the porch, the front door opens into a welcoming foyer. To the right is a generous breakfast area attached to the kitchen. The culinary space is a charming room ﬁlled with cool-toned cabinetry, modern appliances and a tiled coun-

ABOVE: The screened porch extends across the property on two floors and is a quick walk to the pier on Lake Pontchartrain. LEFT: Original glass windows are utilized throughout the property, offering views of the surrounding landscape.

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Not only does this Mandeville cottage have access to Lake Pontchartrain, but it also has an in-ground, saltwater pool.

tertop with a matching backsplash. Down the hall, a grand built-in bar is complete with multiple cabinets designed for bottle and crystal storage. The dining room, which has been repurposed as a living space, is conveniently adjacent, making the front of the home an ideal setting for gathering and entertaining. Toward the back of the first story is the center hall, featuring a fireplace for nights when temperatures are likely to drop near the waterfront property. To the left, the primary bedroom has a spalike feel with a large private bathroom that includes two sinks and a soaking tub. Another bedroom and bathroom are also on this floor, each with access to the screened porch, which has views of the grounds and lake beyond. The second level includes the remaining two bedrooms and bathrooms, as well as a recreation room and quaint sitting areas. This secluded space is perfect for children’s rooms and a playroom or for hosting in-house guests during the holidays. Apart from the pier, opportunities to soak in the scenery are plentiful. The two-story screened porch, abundance of windows and second-floor skylights let in tons of natural light and offer views of the surrounding landscape.

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The kitchen is a quaint culinary preparation space with cool-toned cabinetry and tile countertops.

This living space, which can be repurposed as a dining room, has a built in bar area with ample storage. This retreat is not far from the Causeway Bridge, making it easy to commute to New Orleans.

This home is listed by Puddy Robinson, of Crescent Sotheby’s International Realty, (985) 630-6201.

ARGONNE BLVD. 6542: donation, no value stated, Angela Brown Davis and Kurt B. Davis to Kurt Davis and Angela Davis revocable trust . BOURBON ST. 201-03: $100, Arlene Meraux and Joseph Meraux Charitable Foundation to Latas Family Investments LLC. BOURBON ST. 1225: $500,000, Kent Wayne Shuff and Steven Edward Fennimore to Daniel Robert Monda and James Kyle Bryan. CANAL ST. 1201: $235,000, Katharine E. Howe to Christopher Deon Coleman. CHARTRES ST. 1234: $100, 1234 Chartres LLC to HH Chartres Street Hospitality LLC. CONTI ST. 2911: $496,000, Paige Nicole Lindelow to Fernando Alvarado Rodriguez and Natalie Comardelle. EMERALD ST. 765: $840,000, David M. Deno and Denise Sifert Deno to Jeanne F. Eddington and Robert A. Eddington. LOUIS XIV ST. 5910-12: donation, no value stated, Ernest N. Mipro Sr. and Nancy K. Mipro to Nicks Rentals LLC. N. SALCEDO ST. 709: $499,000, John Vincent Magliolo Addison

and Zachary Jonathan Addison Magliolo to Ashley Allemand Skaer and Stephen Edward Skaer. N. SALCEDO ST. 715: $79,000, John Vincent Magliolo Addison and Zachary Jonathan Addison Magliolo to Ashley Allemand Skaer and Stephen Edward Skaer. ROSEMARY PLACE 5557, UNIT 5557: $225,000, Megan Kerry Mackel to Arleen M. Goldblum. WREN ST. 14: $402,000, Mark Landry and Tara Theriot Landry to Lark & Plover LLC.

DISTRICT 3 AIRWAY ST. 6054: $38,000, David James Gibson to ET Easy Rental LLC. AMERICA ST. 4401: $20,000, Kayla K. Jenkins Rodney to D&D Realty of New Orleans Inc. BACCICH ST. 5401: $358,000, Lethe Enterprises LLC to Megan Jacqmin. BERGERAC ST. 4801, UNIT 1A: donation, no value stated, Antoinette M. Scott, Brenda K. Duperon, Carl A. Duperon, John E. Duperon Sr., Schaun P. Duperon Sr. and Veronica A. Duperon to Barbara L. Duperon. BRIGHT ST. 4901: $307,000, Garibaldi Investments LLC to Emma Warren Albert. CHEF MENTEUR HIGHWAY 4819: $200,000, Romell J. Madison to East Cate LLC. CHIMNEY WOOD LANE 1406: $50,000, Mark Bernard Bruser to ZZ Prime Management LLC. CONGRESS DRIVE 4749: $325,000, Juliana White to Kristen Lynn Baab and William Martin Kecso III. CROWDER BLVD. 7980, ED-

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Continued from page 17 GELAKE COURT 793, 7939: $108,000, Ishem Renovations LLC and Yvette Ishem Williams to Tory Lewis. DAUPHINE ST. 2500, UNIT 6: $132,000, Mary Kristina Wharton to Kirk Alan Johnson and Michael Scott Bonebrake. DELERY ST. 1012: $136,504, RCAF Acquisition Trust to Derick Gerard Martin. DREUX AVE. 2600-02: $249,000, Phalon Cornist and Renee Sylvester Cornist to Morgan Palazzo Estates LLC. DUANE ROAD 14564: $91,000, Nadine Byrd Gable and Samuel Gable Jr. to Derek Dutton. ESPLANADE AVE. 1504: $257,500,

Green Space Development LLC to 1816 Investment LLC. FLORIDA AVE. 1682: donation, no value stated, Dianne Jones Marshall to Nolan A. Marshall Jr. FRANCISCO VERRETT DRIVE 4566: $164,000, Centurion Development Inc. to Javon Anderson. FRANKLIN AVE. 420: $175,000, James L. Monaghan to Colley DSF Holdings LLC. GENTILLY ROAD 11300, 9025: $175,000, Charlene M. Carrouche to Mandell A. Blackstone. GIBSON ST. 4126: $85,000, B Vertical LLC to Prayug Koirala and Rasmita Basnet Koirala. IROQUOIS ST. 4029-31: $163,500, Corey P. Boland and Tara Boland to Jomo Madison. LAFAYE ST. 6416: $201,000, Cynthia Pacaccio Edgett and William Edgett to Gabrielle Maria Gaspard.

SHERRY L. OWEN CRS, GRI, SFR, ABR

228-760-2815 • 228-822-9870 OWENSHERRYL@AOL.COM 2208 18TH ST, SUITE B, GULFPORT, MS 39501 WWW.OWENANDCO.COM

WATERFRONT GAUTIER

HISTORIC FLARE! BAY ST. LOUIS

308 ITALIAN ISLE ROAD $2,850,000

208 SAINT CHARLES ST. $1,200,000

5 Beds / 5.5 Baths / 6,600 Sq. Ft.

This stunning property is nestled on 2.1 acres on the Gulf. Completely renovated. Bulkheaded with a boat house, lifts, air conditioned ﬁsh cleaning station, water views from almost every room, and outdoor space for entertaining. Fully furnished. A true must see!

5 Beds / 4 Baths / 2,489 Sq.Ft. Truly a one-of-a-kind home. Renovated/ restored in 2009. Historic charm meets luxury: stained glass, vaulted ceilings, antique wood, gourmet kitchen, pool, hot tub, RV hookups, gardens, and beach access. This VRBO has 3 separate units that can be leased out.

STEPS TO THE BEACH GULFPORT

LAUREN FALLS BILOXI NEW PRICE

MAID MARION DRIVE 4930: $185,000, Kevin Dernell Johnson to Tisean Stewart. MARAIS ST. 2001-2003, TOURO ST. 1201-03: $480,000, Hongtu Investment Group LLC to Jy Investment LLC. MARIGNY ST. 920: $325,000, Michael Kenneth Kaplon and Ted Kasper Kaplon to Andre M. Noujaim. MARIGNY ST. 1714-16, N. DERBIGNY ST. 2215-17, 2219: $890,000, Calypso Properties LLC to Crescent Care. MARTIN DRIVE 54: donation, no value stated, Leroy D. Saunders to Mardell Thornton. MELPOMENE ST. 1433: $310,000, Hope Damore Fossesca and James Joseph Fossesca to My Huyen LLC. MIRABEAU AVE. 1604: donation, no value stated, Dianne Jones Marshall to Nolan Ambrose Marshall Jr. MONTEGUT ST. 629-31: $1,025,000, Poncentral Investments LLC to Nicholas Gernon and Renee Lapino Gernon. N. RAMPART ST. 2818: donation, no value stated, Teri Anne Walker to Teri Anne Walker and Chad Mathew Ridgeway. PAINTERS ST. 4917-19: $365,000, Deborah J. Ivy and Elizabeth B. Anderson to Gisele Schennider. PARRY ST. 7850: $11,000, Ezare LLC to Demarco Kendrell Robinson Jr. SAND ST. 7821: $35,000, Donald Ray Myles to Inﬁnity of Success LLC. ST. DENIS ST. 2100: $197,000, Randal Gaines to John Philip Mouton. ST. MAURICE AVE. 941: donation, no value stated, Charmaine T.

Dwyer and Ronald E. Dwyer to Dwyer Family Trust. TOURO ST. 4715: $235,000, Brian Daniel Markey to Jaimee Greenleaf. TOWNSEND PLACE 7850: $100, Venture Entities LLC to Fayt Inc. VELIE ST. 4006: donation, no value stated, Gerald Wade Burg and Patricia Neidengard to Bethel Community Baptist Church. VOYAGEUR DRIVE 7210: $68,500, Judy Breland Morris to Elle Housing LLC. W. LAVERNE ST. 7628: $20,000, Darmas Group LLC to PM3CM Inc. WILDAIR DRIVE 5769: $405,000, E. Aminata Brown to Aisha Phelan Landers and Chadwick Ezell Landers.

DISTRICT 4 BRAINARD ST. 2118-2118 1/22120: donation, no value stated, George Amza Etienne to George Etienne Trust. MAGNOLIA ST. 2515-17: $110,000, Elizabethan Properties LLC to Aristeo Garcia Construction LLC. REX PLACE 2338-2340: $55,000, Seattle Bank to Matos & Sandrino LLC. ROUSSEAU ST. 2360: $215,000, DJ Family LLC to Jessie Millsap Bowen and Matthew Aaron Bowen. SECOND ST. 3227-3229, 3231-3233: $60,000, Brian K. Gibson and Karl W. Gibson to Patterson LLC. THIRD ST. 1110-12: $850,000, GB Real Estate LLC to North Palm LLC. THIRD ST. 2234: $100, AMG 550 LLC to Asset Funding Services LLC.

Wendy Hinyub

559-4808

www.wendyhinyub.com Licensed in Louisiana

108 LISA AVENUE

3500 N. Causeway, Suite 350 | Metairie, LA 70002 Independently Owned & Operated

10 GLACIER STREET 4824 FAIRFIELD STREET

Kenner $450,000

Kenner $415,000 NEW PRICE

NEW PRICE

5bd/2ba newly ren home in Driftwood, 4bds/3ba, ren kitchen, pool, garage 3600+ sq. ft., high ceils, new kit converted to cabana or playroom

1515 OLIVE AVENUE $650,000

1908 COURTNEY LANE $950,000

5 Beds / 4 Baths / 3,478 Sq. Ft 3 Beds / 3 Baths / 1,869 Sq. Ft. Beautiful Custom Home. Gorgeous Beautiful home off the Beach, Open view of water. Brick archways, wood Floor plan, Kitchen, Den with Fireplace, open to Dining room, with an awesome ﬂooring, detailed trim throughout. Open concept. Guest suite w/ separate entry. sunroom with a view of the Gulf, split Gorgeous backyard w/ pool & lounge bedroom plan. Double Garage with area. Screened porch w/ deck. Large wrought iron side fenced in yard. brick fence on extremely large lot!

Metairie $400,000

SALE PENDING

3bd/2.5ba home, wood ﬂoors, big yard

732 VILLAGE RD. UNIT E

4213 LOIRE DRIVE

1935 JOURDAN AVE

SALE PENDING

SOLD

NEW LISTING

$165,000

Kenner $310,000

2bd/2ba Beautiful renovated condo 3bd/2ba home in Chateau with a in Cobblestone Village fortiﬁed roof, lam ﬂoors, granite ctrs

SOLD

New Orleans $179,000

3bd, 2ba in lower ninth ward, move-in ready, open ﬂoor plan

4417 JANICE AVENUE ........................................... Metairie $395,000 5809 MORTON STREET .............................................Metairie $250,000 10 GELPI AVENUE ................................................... Driftwood $250,000 2600 PIRATE DRIVE................................................Chalmette $235,000

DISTRICT 5 ALIX ST. 319-21: donation, no value stated, Karen Pierce Dykes to Steven D. Dykes. CARVER ST. 3058: $125,000, Frajay LLC to Huff Experience LLC. ELMIRA AVE. 431-433: $395,000, Monika Dietrich to John Charles Barnes and M. E. Tracy Barnes. FLANDERS ST. 1320: $90,000, Radielvi LLC to Ciprian Realty LLC. HYMAN PLACE 2867: $125,000, Earl Leo Falk Jr. and Joseph Ladek Jr. to Rent With Ratto LLC. MEADOW PARK LANE 3600: $175,000, Julie Trelend Williams Jones and Leroy Jones to Nathalie Smith and William Foster. MERRILL ST. 1156: $90,850, Queenes Property Management LLC to Aaron Joseph Ponson Sr. MIMOSA COURT 3567: $295,000.06, Ricky Allen Scaggs to Gregory Anthony Perez and Joan Lynnette Perez. MONPLAISER PLACE 9: $449,900, Jordan T. Merritts and Zoe Schall Merritts to Matthew Wade Finnerty and Nicole Withers Finnerty. NUNEZ ST. 1333: donation, no value stated, Harold A. Vincent and Michelle Vincent Boyd to Lois Vincent Jones. ST. NICK DRIVE 2711: donation, no value stated, Joyce Florence Gillie Cruse to Duane Elton Cruse Sr.

DISTRICT 6 BROADWAY ST. 2025-27: $332,000, Homebank NA to Xiaoling Zhang. CALHOUN ST. 2122-24: $100, and other good and valuable consideration, Thomas W. Haspel Living Trust to Administrators of The Tulane Educational Fund. CARONDELET ST. 3914: $350,000, Sarah Mahne Schroth to Sharon Poole Mahne. CONSTANCE ST. 5206: $530,000, Gregory C. Moore and Olivia Yen Truong Moore to Matthew A. Powell. CONSTANTINOPLE ST. 1916-18: $299,000, Sarah Elizabeth Mary Nangle to Sabrina Crais Madden. GENERAL TAYLOR ST. 2826: $55,000, Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church to D4 Holdings LLC.

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REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS HENRY CLAY AVE. 1234: $100,000, Mary Wheaton Morse and Scott R. Wheaton Jr. to 1234 Henry Clay LLC. JENA ST. 818: $144,375, Eleanor P. Mouledoux, Robert Donnattd Pecarrere and Simone P. Godshall to Leon Pecarrere John Jr. LOUISIANA AVE. 825: $219,000, Igol Kabisa to Becki Allen Urkedal. PENISTON ST. 2535: $472,000, 2535 Peniston Street LLC to Erin Kelley Lunde and Leif Blake Lunde Jr. PRYTANIA ST. 3924: $127,555.98, William Andrew McDonald to Patricia M. Hinckley and Todd R. Hinckley. ROBERT ST. 725: $715,000, Bridget Angela Gallant and Paul S. Gallant Jr. to Stephen Eugene Russo. S. MIRO ST. 4606, UPPERLINE ST. 3435: $275,000, Kathleen Noonan Kirksey, Lewis P. Eaves IV, Patricia Noonan Eaves and Shannon Eaves Hattox to CCG1827 LLC. S. MIRO ST. 4220-4222: $130,000, Arnold Joseph Johnson Jr., Kimberly Denise Belton and Lynette Green to S. Miro St. LLC. VALMONT ST. 1303: $1,270,000, Margaret B. Howze Spitzer and Nicholas R. Spitzer to Duncan Scott McIntosh Jr. and Nina Waring McIntosh. VENDOME PLACE 4200: $868,000, James Briscoe and Anna Briscoe Living Trust to Andre Martin Guidry and Brian Christopher Knobloch.

DISTRICT 7 22ND ST. 125: $175,000, Leon A. Cannizzaro and Norma Gonzalez Cannizzaro to Integrity Construction Group LLC. BIRCH ST. 8620: donation, no value stated, Tammy Morris and Timothy Morris to Terrance Morris. LAKE MARINA AVE. 318: donation, no value stated, Shelly Elizabeth Chiappetta to Theresa Darnell Chiappetta 2026 revocable trust B. LAKE MARINA AVE. 318: donation, no value stated, Theresa Darnell Chiappetta to Theresa Darnell Chiappetta 2026 revocable Trust B. PRITCHARD PLACE 9107-09: $150,000, Tony Mitchell Memorial Trust to Sonny Days LLC. ZIMPEL ST. 7713: $415,000, Lisa P. Zoller to Micah Aaron Callais.

EAST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR SEPT. 18-24

HARAHAN LANCASHIRE DRIVE 7305: Dante Graziani to LS Realty LLC, $310,000. S. CLEARVIEW PARKWAY U224 832: Blair Hoeffner to Amy Romano, $147,000.

JEFFERSON GELPI AVE. 532: Eileen I Hall to Dana B. Guggenheim, $160,000. JEFFERSON HIGHWAY 24102412: Anthony Investments LLC to Gulf Coast Bank & Trust C.O., $45,500. JEFFERSON HIGHWAY 24102412: Leo A. III Ford to Anthony Investments LLC, $65,000. JAMES ST. 2200: Stephen H. Gogreve to Micah P. Marquette, $289,000. NEWMAN AVE. 155: Shane E.R. Mcevoy to Thomas Flatley Jr., $260,000. NEWMAN AVE. 321: Rosa J. Honjo to Jeanne Lemmon, $625,000. SAN CARLOS AVE. 28: Mary C. Huff to Rebecca S. Drouant, $225,000. SONIA PLACE 29: Jack E. Larson to Hannah Mayeux, $229,000.

KENNER CANNES PLACE 3321: S Moradi to Elva M.A. V Su, $295,000. CHATEAU BLVD. 3310: Adrice B. Hampton to Cinthia L. Sagastume, $235,000.

CHATEAU HAUT BRION DRIVE 44: Mayra E. Pineda to Dart Collateral Manager LLC, $66,460. COCOS PLUMOSAS DRIVE 5400: Hana Abraham to Dart Collateral Manager LLC, $105,202. COLORADO AVE. 3322: Matilde Garcia to Tania O.P. Sanchez, donation, no value stated. CONNECTICUT AVE. 4209: Debra M. Marsilla to Rebecca N. Zaman, $60,000. DELAWARE AVE. 1920: Kelse Holloway to Lin T. Eong, $140,000. DELAWARE AVE. 2115: Timothy Gren to Dart Collateral Manager LLC, $45,335. E. GRANDLAKE BLVD. 3626: Nicholas J. Glover Jr. to Peter J. Glover, donation, no value stated. FURMAN CIRCLE 54: Herbert L. Hendley to Fifty Four Furman LLC, $103,000. HUDSON ST. 1240: Dione C. Branch to Robert Celestine Jr., donation, no value stated. JOHN HOPKINS DRIVE 94: Melody R. I F. Stuart to Three Hundred Fifteen TCH Properties LLC, $138,100. KANSAS AVE. 2132: Loretta T. Simon to Perry M. Trosclair, $120,000. LUCAYA DRIVE 75: Naeem M. Awan to Naveed M.A. Awan, $200,000. MARIETTA ST. 2428: Lynn S. Purl to Csj Holdings LLC, $170,000. PANAMA ST. 2741-43: Chimento Builders LLC to Elias D. Pineda, $246,000. RHINE DRIVE 14: Terri C. Weintritt to Seven Hundred Twenty Four Remodeling LLC, $260,000. ST. ELIZABETH DRIVE 4210: Theresa W. Huete to Simmons Property LLC C. L., $375,000.

ST. JULIEN DRIVE U10 913, UNIT C, BUILDING H: Esperanza Dearrechavala to Erik Hall, $300,000. W. ESPLANADE AVE. 1500: Jacqueline H. Marti to Wanda J.M. Hunter, $152,000.

METAIRIE ASHER ST. 6504: Paul W. Freese to Rosemary W. Toussaint, $252,000. BELLE DRIVE 4800: Mamie Fong to Li L. Feng, $293,430. BONNABEL BLVD. 1236: Carey S. Adams Jr. to Susan M. Mozingo, $383,000. CARROLLTON AVE. 419: Britton S. Chauvin to Nicholas Lincoln, $420,000. CLEARVIEW PARKWAY 3908: Deborah F. Lee to DGL Investments LLC, $134,000. CLEARVIEW PARKWAY APARTMENT A 213: William H. Rambeau

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to Legacy Mortgage Asset Trust 2020 RPL1, $91,667. CLEVELAND PLACE 4924: Elizabeth M. Bennett to Scott C. Martina, donation, no value stated. CLIFFORD DRIVE 4001: Ala B.A. Barakat to Schild Construction LLC, $285,000. DERBIGNY ST. 3714: Edison Properties LLC to Sha M. C. White, $295,000. HARING ROAD 1400: Tammy T. Ryall to Jeanne M.S. Breaux, $260,000. HASTINGS ST. 6704: Mark J. Arcement to Pam M. Corkern, donation, no value stated. HESSMER AVE. 4218: Kathleen O. Howland to Joshua P. Freeman, $59,400. HOMESTEAD AVE. 856: Lisa H.

504-259-2616

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LIVING

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EACH OFFICE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED. EACH OFFICE INDEPENDENTLY OWNED & OPERATED.

29 CLEVNER DR. NEW LISTING

KENNER - $305,000

4 BD • 2 BA • Chateau Estates Lakefront

116 ELIZABETH AVENUE

649 ARIS AVENUE NEW PRICE

RIVER RIDGE - $299,000

METAIRIE - $273,000

3 BD • 2 BA • 1,289 SF • Near Miss. Levee

2 BD • 2 BA • 1,382 SF • Open Floor Plan

810 GERRY DRIVE

1500 W. ESPLANADE #28C

1629 COLISEUM ST. UNIT 2 KENNER - $170,000

3 BD • 2 BA • 1,268 SF • New Roof & AC

3320 N. ARNOULT RD. #231

KENNER - $147,000

3 BD • 2 BA • 1,725 SF • Bdrm + Ba downstairs

2712 WHITNEY PLACE #627 NEW PRICE

HELEN

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POOL + GAZEBO VIEW

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504-236-6825

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METAIRIE - $114,000

2732 WHITNEY PLACE #201

2732 WHITNEY PLACE #101

2 BD • 2 BA • 1,000 SF • Gated Comm

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HELEN.KATZ@COMPASS.COM

METAIRIE - $139,500

MAGNIFICENT MANSION, ACROSS THE STREET FROM COLISEUM SQUARE has been divided into Condos! NEW PRICE $365,000 gets you 3 bds, 3 1/2 baths with all the old world architectural details & private electric gated 3 car covered parking! This is the front unit with access to the grand porch & balconies. Newly replastered pool & brick patio too! 200 Broadway, Ste 142, New Orleans, LA 504.866.2785 Licensed by LREC • Licensed in Louisiana

NEW PRICE

1 BD • 1 BA • 756 SF

NEW PRICE

VIEW OF COURTYARD

GROUND FLOOR CONDO

METAIRIE - $114,000

METAIRIE - $122,000

1 BD • 1 BA • 756 SF

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Continued from page 19 Knight to Leonard R. Daigle Jr., $290,000. HOUMA BLVD. 1101: Kelly A. Landry to J Bohnenstiehl, $406,000. LAKE COMO AVE. 4821: Henri Wolbrette to Andrea B. Martin, $660,000. LIBERAL ST. 4321: Carmen Hurley to Dart Collateral Manager LLC, $64,763.

WEST JEFFERSON n TRANSFERS FOR SEPT. 18-24

AVONDALE

MARCIE ST. 5704: Joelle K. Halpern to Jean C. Begin, $238,700. MELODY DRIVE 1016: Lori N. Hare to Charles R. Noble, $335,000. METAIRIE HAMMOND HIGHWAY U103 420: Theresa D. Chiappetta to Dorinda P. Chiappetta, donation, no value stated. METAIRIE HEIGHTS AVE. 3041: Linda N. Clesi to DBW Costal LLC, $225,000. METAIRIE HEIGHTS AVE. 310: Frederick E. Matthew to Elysian Investments LLC, $440,000. METAIRIE LAWN DRIVE 544: Lillian W. Burger to Andrea N. Querejazu, $1,220,000.

MISSISSIPPI AVE. 1908: Randy Campbell to Misty Parria, $13,473. N. ATLANTA ST. 1405: Lauren N. Berges to Victoria A. Medina, $287,000. N. TURNBULL DRIVE 2911: Catherine H. Pham to Barbara A. Schock, $310,000. ORION AVE. 1045: Sandra L. Escude to Frank N. Bacque, $770,000. PARK DRIVE S. 4508-10: David J. Guillory to Kmhshell LLC, $175,000. POPLAR ST. 1812-1816: Pamela T. Graham to New Horizon Investments & Holdings Group LLC,

$725,000. REASER ST. 4913: Ryan J. Kline to Christin M.K. Abadie, donation, no value stated. ROMAN ST. 3725: Vanessa S. Solano to Bruce A. Walley, $357,000. SENA DRIVE 921: Trenny W. Villanueva to Maxwell Garrison, $558,000. SYCAMORE DRIVE 208: Chase Chiasson to AVD LLC, $1,175,000. TRANSCONTINENTAL DRIVE 1808: Michael Huguet to E Fejka, $330,000. VETERANS MEMORIAL BLVD. 5029: Decorator Shoppe Inc. to

Chen Brothers LLC, $2,860,000. WALTHAM ST. 901: Brittani S. Pﬁster to Brenda I Orellana, $225,000. W. METAIRIE AVE. 8912: Walter Volpati to Lucie S. Stelzer, $255,000. WYTCHWOOD DRIVE 2601-2603: Rockbridge Group LLC to Five Zero Four Investment Properties LLC, $248,000.

$80,000. SAVOIE LANE 113: Bobby J. Smith to Jane R.S. Duffourc, donation, no value stated.

T. Carr to Mohammad H. Bazzi, $266,000. MARIE DRIVE 49: Scout Vidrine to Jason P. Schiefﬂer, $150,000. MYSTIC AVE. 844: Elegant Houses LLC to K&A Homes LLC, $145,000. OCONNOR ST. 956: Patsylean Jones to Blutcher Services LLC, $10,000. RUE ST. MICHAEL 749: HCLD LLC to Elouise Boggs, $323,900. WEYER ST. 2301: Endeavor Construction Services LLC to Christina C. Rachal, $235,000. WYNDHAM S. 1225: Keith L. Deforest to Yvette Bien, $407,000.

PAILET ST. 1232: Michael R. Boines to Joycelyn Thomas, donation, no value stated. SANDALWOOD DRIVE 1136: Tammy L. M. Barca to Mcdonald Properties LLC, $64,500. SQUIREWOOD DRIVE E 1963: Kim K. Lepham to Wanto Joseph, $128,000. SWEET GUM DRIVE 3105: Charles J. Taylor Jr. to Josemie Cesar, $215,000. SWEET GUM DRIVE 3168: John Harris Jr. to Dwelling Series IV Trust, $136,000. TEXACO LANE 405: Willco Inc. to Rocael C. J. Fuentes, $299,000. WEDGWOOD DRIVE 3412: Raphael G. Meyers to Ronald Lecompte, $527,000.

JEAN LAFITTE BLVD. 507: Melvin M. Alberado Jr. to Larry E. Lafferty, $238,000.

GRETNA

WINNONA DRIVE 100: Dominique B. Jenkins to Bryant Holmes, $150,000.

BARATARIA JOAN MARIE DRIVE 4896: Bo Me Jo Property LLC to Carrie S. Cheramie, $290,000. PRIVATEER BLVD. 5318: Gros Poisson LLC to Mandeville Materials Distributors LLC, $722,000.

BRIDGE CITY SEVEN OAKS BLVD. 836: Nine Mile Westwego Investments LLC to First American Bank & Trust, $180,000.

GRAND ISLE DEWBERRY LANE 154: Wesley Laﬂeur to Glenda R. Barlow,

AMERICUS ST. 819: XK8 LLC to Ronelle M. Cummings, $4,500. CHERRYWOOD DRIVE 224: Tan B. Vo to Thi T.T.N. Vo, donation, no value stated. COMMERCE ST. 356A-356B: Vada R. Leblanc to Commerce Properties LLC, $50,000. COOPER ROAD 1922: Terrance M. Butler to Fenix Investment Properties LLC, $55,000. DOLHONDE ST. 1030: Nita Dewey to Dart Collateral Manager LLC, $30,335. GLENBROOK DRIVE 2861: Edward J. Johnston Jr. to Jurlande A. Johnston, donation, no value stated. LAKE FRANCES DRIVE 1105: Arcadia Construction Inc. to Katelyn S. Wren, $515,000. LAKE FRANCES DRIVE 1105: Brian

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HARVEY KINGS ROAD 1536: Eder Gallegos to Elmonica S. Guillard, $134,500. LAKE LYNN DRIVE 89: Lena B. Nguyen to Paul Tran, $80,000. MANHATTAN BLVD. U175 2932: Michelle H. Council to Clemmeth Henry, $83,000. OLD COMPTON ROAD 2409: Yen T. P. Vuong to Trinh Vuong, donation, no value stated.

LAFITTE CHURCH ST. JEAN 5151: Louis F. Dufrene to James W. Thompson, $117,500. DUFRENE ST. 5153: Lawrence Dufrene to Perrin Holdings LLC Kline Jr., $50,000.

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Steps from Royal Street, this meticulously restored single-story Creole Cottage pairs antique heart-pine floors, ornate plaster ceiling medallions, & 12-foot ceilings with a designed chef’s kitchen & entertaining rooms. French doors open to a lush, brick-paved courtyard with heated salt-water pool. Separate 2-story guest house. Optional leased parking nearby for $400/mo, with a transferable lease.

4461 DAVID DR. $390,000

Formal Rms + Den 4 Bd Wing - 2 Bd 2 Ba - Eat-in Kitchen 1-Story Lifestyle

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724 BARRACKS ST. • $1,795,000

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RIVER RIDGE INEZ DRIVE 9016: Roxanne F. Schultz to Diem T. Nguyen, $60,000.

MARRERO 15TH ST. 4020: Standard Mortgage Corp. to Mm Home Design LLC, $136,900. ALLO AVE. 505: Brandon Cortez to Conner Walker, $177,450. ASHLEY COURT 2616: Brooke V Cheramie to Janice S. Batiste, $359,726. AVE. D 1320: Jaime R. Flores to Bettina F. Salas, donation, no value stated. CANYON DRIVE 2629: Fredrick J. Brown to Ronghua S. Brown, donation, no value stated. CARENCRO CIRCLE 1040: Mickey C. Breaux to Mike S. Nery, $465,000. CARVER DRIVE 2080: Vmc Reo LLC to ZZ Prime Management LLC, $90,000. CEDARLAWN DRIVE 2701: Dawn Creppel to Mario Waterhouse, donation, no value stated. DOREEN LANE 2933: Joseph C. Jackson to F Cooper, donation, no value stated. EDEN ROC DRIVE 5205: Cletus E. Held to Cynthia L.B. Cole, $209,000. FOLIAGE DRIVE 2725: F.S. Johnson to Carol A. Harvey, $229,000. GIAISE ST. 1978: Bei Hatchling 1. LLC to Zmmy LLC, $160,000. JENNIFER COURT 3217: Kaitlyn M. Coludrovich to Caeleb M. Olson, $229,900. MOUNT MATTERHORN AVE. 5147: DSLD LLC to Dequan M. Smith, $274,580. OAK ST. 504: Nathan II Lomonaco to Jordan K. Musso, $211,000. OBERLIN ST. 2977: Judith G. Vidal to Henry M. Gutierrez, $125,000. PARK SHORE DRIVE 4408: OJ Construction LLC to Horizon One

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Continued from page 20 Services LLC, $55,000. PARK SHORE DRIVE 5037: Darius J. Guerin to Truman Nguyen, $235,000. PRITCHARD ROAD 2516: Sharon A. M. Farve to Edward J. Guidry Jr., $156,000. RACHEL ST. 7425: Gary Guidroz to Jose M. Avila, $62,500. RUSSELL DRIVE 2768: Hugo R. Gonzalez to Bertha A. Gonzalez, donation, no value stated. SHADOWS COURT 38: Douglas M. Lanasa Jr. to Leighann M. Vancleef, $510,000. SKINSKEY DRIVE 1251: Kim X D. Nguyen to Hau Vo, donation, no value stated. ST. ANN ST. 1100: Norma A.T. Broussard to LT FTW LLC, $145,000. ST. JAMES COURT 5146: DSLD LLC to Tom Pham, $284,195. WOODCREST DRIVE 5060: Pelicans Realty LLC to Bradley Sylve, $244,300.

TERRYTOWN B CHERRY BLOSSOM LANE 309: Joann T. Monzingo to Jnc Vining LLC, $80,000. CEDAR WOOD DRIVE 1812: Brandon N. Weaver to Bryce F. Weaver, $40,000. COOPER ROAD 1919: Secretary of Veterans Affairs to Sebastian M. Diaz, $139,000. DIANA ST. 2117: Bonita T. Cuadrado to Manpreet Singh, $165,000. FAIRLAWN DRIVE 621: Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to Amin Rabee, $160,650. LEGION DRIVE 2133: Joseph Maerke to Rosa I V Cruz, $270,000.

WESTWEGO AVE. A 337: Herbert L. Hendley to Three Hundred Thirty Seven Avenue A. LLC, $130,000. AVE. C 770: Beverly P. Barrilleaux to Saving Louisiana LLC, $40,000. GARDENIA LANE 120: RAC Development LLC to Carl G. III Waits, $207,500. JEFFER DRIVE 272: Soundview Home Loan Trust 2006 WF2 Asset Backed Certiﬁcates Series 2006 W.F.2. to Priya Mirchandani, $130,000. LAYMAN ST. 280: Tameka Rufﬁn to Dart Collateral Manager LLC, $22,938.

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ABITA SPRINGS HILLCREST COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES, LOT 22, SQUARE 8: Dupont Quality Homes LLC to Trux Air Conditioning Inc., $12,000. NORTHWOODS DRIVE 561: Robert L. Gross and Kimberly B. Gross to Gross Family Trust, donation, no value stated. PORTER DRIVE 71290: DSLD Homes LLC to Helena Ann Marette, $315,382.

COVINGTON 10TH ST. 70152: Nicholas J. Foto and Carla C. Foto to Carl J. Foto and Paige L. Foto, $200,000. BARRINGTON DRIVE 1175: Walter J. Hughes to Sandra C. Hughes, donation, no value stated. BELLE TERRE BLVD. 131: Carl R. Canafax and Anita M. Canafax to Edward Swindell Jr. and Rebecca Swindell, $429,000. BOCAGE COURT, PHASE 1A2, LOT 207A: Bocage Court LLC to Stephen L. Tujague Sr. and Lucille J. Tujague, $150,000. BRANCH CROSSING DRIVE 712: Martin E. Heitzmann to Stacy Cook, $285,000. CALDEN COURT 19642: DSLD Homes LLC to Jacques M. Tchonta Ngounou and Christelle L. Tchonta Ngounou, $309,692. COZY LANE 74451: DSLD Homes LLC to Lacey Grimm and Damien Grimm, $388,290. DELTA AVE. 74446: Busick Well Construction LLC to Brian J. Grillot and Mandy Beebe Grillot, $243,000. DIVISION OF NEW COVINGTON

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to Alexander Graham and Melany Graham, $775,000. W. 20TH AVE. 312: Matthew P. Pellerin and Trey B. Perrin to Christopher J. Hitzman and Nadia G. Hitzman, $275,000. W. 21ST AVE. 1120: Dr. Lisa Loescher LLC to Dr. Lisa and Madelyn Loescher DDS LLC, $100. and other valuable consideration. W. 25TH AVEN. 415: Ryan C. Gravolet and Juliann D. Gravolet to Albert A. Zeringue and Terri S. Zeringue, $125,000. W. 27TH STREET, LOTS 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, SQUARE 2609: John L. Smith III to Consolidated Investment Properties LLC, $205,000. WATERCROSS ESTATES, PHASE 3, LOT 61: Depp Construction Co. LLC to Christian Cassels and Avery Bower, $595,000. WHITFIELD DRIVE 10: Eric J. Traill and Angela S. Traill to 16 Above of Covington LLC, $275,000.

FOLSOM BLACKWELL CEMETARY ROAD 289: Robert S. Ray and Anna S. Ray to Kristopher Barton and Holly R. Schiffer Barton, $600,000. SHEPHERD LANE 83337: Edward R. Carlin and Linda L. Carlin to Joseph Easley and Rebecca Easley, $325,000.

Leslie J. Black and Jose L. Valencia, $451,000. ARBOR WALK SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1, LOT 2: Thomas C. Dwyer and Lucy B. Dwyer to Willis D. Tyson and Tiffany H. Tyson, $799,000. BEDICO CREEK SUBDIVISION, LOT 129: Steven S. Shuttleworth and Robin S. Shuttleworth to Steven Shuttleworth and Robin Shuttleworth Family revocable trust, donation, no value stated. HIRSON COURT 70017: Lacey A. Grimm to Lauren M. LaMartina, $255,000. JACKSON COURT 756: John K. Hearn and Frances E. Hearn to Denise Toups, $352,900. JADE COURT 312: Casey P. Brawders and Jennifer D. Brawders to Marcus Reinhold and Jeanne L. Reinhold, $599,000. LOST LAKE LANE 3025: Michael A. Lewis and Hannah L. Lewis to Dale St. John III, $355,000. NEAR MADISONVILLE, PORTION OF GROUND: Charles R. Loewen and Audley B. Loewen to Cynthia Peters Living Trust, $15,000. NIGHT HERON LANE 659: Alvarez Construction Co. LLC to Matthew C. McCarron and Karli D. McCarron, $562,990. S. FAIRWAY DRIVE 420: John A. Catalanotto and Rachael P. Catalanotto to Timothy P. Dunn and Gay S. Dunn, $922,500. WILD MAGNOLIA COURT 1001: Jerry R. Blaylock Jr. and Amy W. Blaylock to Chad M. Dicke, $840,000.

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BOBS ROAD, PORTION OF GROUND: Warren Rivera and Cheryl Huitt Rivera to Kristopher P. Guerra and Rebekah R. Guerra, $80,000. CLOVERLAND ROAD 26157: Larry H. Walls and Reta Washam to John D. Hooper and Brandi Hooper, $160,000. CYPRESS DRIVE 60344: Rosemary C. Broussard to Alexander L. Landry, $171,000. DRESDEN DRIVE 30196: David Broughton to Anita M. O’Keefe, $255,000. FAIRFAX DRIVE 60840: DSLD Homes LLC to Joshua Sandifer, $262,390. JACKSON ST. 27263: Clyde M. Silve Jr., Jason R. Silve Sr. and others to Leola Ward, $10,000. LANCASTER COURT 30277: D. R. Horton Inc.-Gulf Coast to Xiaorong Huang, $301,320. LUCILLE DRIVE 26512: Melanie B. Hunter to Andrew M. Becnel and Christine C. Becnel, $285,000. NEAR LACOMBE, PORTION OF GROUND: Kendall D. Penton to Pine Grove United Pentecoastal Church Inc., $32,220.

ANTIOCH DRIVE 67586: Suzanne Saucier Roy to David S. Durbin and Danute L. Kuprenas, $547,500. CARONDELET ST. 805: Stephen W. Phillippi Jr. to Leah D. Knight, $230,000. CHINCHUBA SUBDIVISION, LOTS 37, 38, SQUARE 18: Tandem Capital LLC to Donahoe Properties LLC, $30,000. COUNTRY CLUB ESTATES, LOT 80: Country Club North LLC to Keith R. Dannewitz II and Christie L. Dannewitz, $472,500. COURS CARSON ST. 2353: Thomas P. Landa to Thomas P. Landa Jr. and Tina P. Landa, donation, no value stated. EVANGELINE DRIVE 208: Wayne C. Guerra and Karen B. Guerra to James S. Fraser and Kelly O. Fraser, $550,000. HECTOR ST. 19213: Joseph W. Barletta to Shannon F. Barletta, donation, no value stated. HERMITAGE PLACE 104: Eric J. Tagesen and Lauren S. Tagesen to Jared J. Buhler and Cara Lee Buhler, $675,000. JACQUELINE COURT 8: Rachel Fazzio to Arby D. Wilson, $175,000. JOYCE DRIVE 3605: Melinda W. Deitz to Sean B. McCord and Taylor R. McCord, $460,000.

MADISONVILLE ACADIAN DRIVE 1009: Stephen W. Harrison to Matthew K. Black,

KIPLING LANE 202: Joshua G. Duplantis and Caitlin Swan Duplantis to Brad V. Penny and Sarah R. Eder Penny, $355,000. MANDEVILLE ANNEX SUBDIVISION, LOTS 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, SQUARE 13, LOTS 31-36, SQUARE 190A, LOT 63, SQUARE 191A: Succession of Florence E. Smith Jefferson to Rhett R. McMahon Jr., $5,000. MONTAIGNE ST. 67070: Hanaa S. Saadeh and Mohammad Y. Saadeh to Natalia K. Korokhtenkova, $280,000. OZONE ST. 2166: Lyndsay C. Cox to Brett Bryant and Camryn Conner, $220,000. PENROSE ST. 1402: Barry W. Vermeeren and Dixie A. Schwamkrug Vermeeren to Cassie J. Vermeeren, donation, no value stated. PINE ALY 106: Michael J. Francioni and Catherine J . Francioni to Thomas Enclade and Michelle Pichon, $368,500. QUAIL CREEK SUBDIVISION, PHASE 9, LOT 275: Mark A. Manda and Lisa S. Manda to Olaf A. Olson and Erica W. Olson, $420,000. SAP BERRY DRIVE 210: Zachary D. Crutchfield and Catherine R. Crutchfield to Andrew Spinosa and Callie Spinosa, $550,000. SPRINGWATER DRIVE 1173: Jennifer D. Wood to Karey Louviere and Lauren Elizabeth B. Louviere, $640,000. SPRINGWATER DRIVE 1263: Benjamin J. Dreessen and Jennifer E. Hatfield Dreessen to Jourdan L. Bender and Rachel C. Shuler, $512,500. TETE LOURS DRIVE 640: Lillian W. Richerson to Allen Naquin and Elisabeth Naquin, $360,000. W. BEACH PARKWAY 228: Bryan Landry and Alisa C. Landry to Melissa M. hall, $1,090,000. WATER OAK LANE 444: Pedro W. Yanes and Marta V. Yanes to Carly K. Bordelon, $225,000.

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CASEY COURT 66455: Jefferey C. Brown Sr. and Roxanne C. Brown to Michael A. Stubbleﬁeld and Tasha N. Stubbleﬁeld, $33,000. NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Joseph Sibley Jr. to Richard L. Esteve Jr. and Rhonda W. Esteve, $70,000. NEAR PEARL RIVER, PORTION OF GROUND: Pamela Singletary Penton Frazier to Pine Grove United Pentecoastal Church Inc., $23,595. PARLANGE DRIVE 441: James S. Baird III to Jonah B. Parker and Rebekah L. Parker, $319,000.

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SLIDELL ADELE CIRCLE 1205: William E. Shipley and Wendy M. Shipley to Onrubio L. Florendo Jr. and Amy N. Florendo, $425,000. AUTUMN LAKES ROAD 329: Dorothy O. McAuliffe to Toan M. Tran, $255,000. BELAIR SUBDIVISION, PHASE 1H1, LOT 357: Bruce Olivier and Judith Olivier to Maudeva J. Lewis, $290,000. BENJAMIN ROAD 57759: J.V. Burkes & Associates Inc. to Tanya Cook, donation, no value stated. CAMP SALMEN ROAD, PORTION OF GROUND: Carol L. Devezin Evans, Morris Devezin and others to Hunter J. Breland, $160,500. CAROLLO AVE. 678: Albert F. Greig to Christopher E. Price and Julie G. Price, $93,240. CRESCENTWOOD LOOP 328: Randall R. Robison to Taylor Elizabeth Weber, $235,000. CROSS CREEK DRIVE 138: Pebble LLC to Carolyn T. Alphonse, $285,000. CROSS GATES BLVD. 291: Devin W. Deacon and Amanda E. Deacon to NAF Cash LLC, $310,000. DEBBIE DRIVE 223: Frances Lisotta Falcon to Pontchartrain Pelican Properties LLC, $310,000. DOCKSIDE DRIVE 501: Carolyn T. Alphonse to Joseph A. Dier and Jennifer R. Dier, $495,000. DOLLY MADISON COURT 904: John K. Stevens to Eric C. Galyon and Lacey H. Galyon, $358,000. DOUBLOON DRIVE 63: Kenneth E. Parks Jr. and Terri S. Parks to Ryan J. Peryea and Allie B. Peryea, $580,000. DRURY LANE 124: Devlan W. Melancon to 124 Drury LN LLC, $160,000. E. MARINA VILLA DRIVE 4000: Donnell Carroll Jr. to Raymond Smith and Darilyn Espradron, donation, no value stated. ELISSA LANE 691: Ralph A. Hassel Jr. to Rayo M. Moreno, $298,000. GOLDENWOOD DRIVE 133: S&J Biener LLC to Scott T. Wood, $264,900. HERMINA STREET, LOT 68: Eric J. Cutrer to Emmett K. Walsh, $6,000. HOME ACRES ESTATES, LOTS D, P: Venora M. Galatas and Denise H. Maurer to TLC Properties LLC, $380,000. JAY ST. 2106: Leslie Ann Heidel Ruegsegger to Noah Barousse and Angel Godwin, $189,000. LA. 433 35240, UNIT 775C: Mark A. Segrist and Gwendolyn Leitz Segrist to Gabrielle A. Whittington, $85,000. LAKEVIEW DRIVE310: Hopkins Coastal LLC to Muddy Water Endeavors LLC, $55,000. LEEDS ST. 337: George Lacour and Rose Bourlet to Robert E. Owens and Jane Owens, $507,000. LOOP DRIVE 228: Charles M. Fotsch and Samantha S. Fotsch

to Nathaniel A. Ruple and Katrina Morgan, $270,000. MAPLE LEAF CIRCLE 345: Franklin C. Annerino to Kimberly R. McDaniel, $166,200. MARGON COURT 315: Rhinehart Family Trust to Luke T. Rogers and Owen J. Brinson, $210,000. MEGAN LANE 217: April Lagasse to Zachary L. Craig and Jennifer Confer Craig, $317,950. MOONRAKER DRIVE 226: Cheryl B. McClendon to Frank Howarrd Shewmake and Megan Jeree Shewmake, $430,000. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Succession of Merlin A. Troyani to Michael L. Troyani and Amanda M. Troyani, $58,000. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Marro LLC to 2006 Nellie Drive LLC, $138,000. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Jeffrey M. Durrant and Ricarda Durrant to Durrant Living Trust, $10 and other good and valuable consideration. NEAR SLIDELL, PORTION OF GROUND: Sheila V. Dean to Ethan M. Parker and Courtney D. Parker, donation, no value stated. NELLIE DRIVE 2022: Parkland Properties LLC to Creative Release LLC, $180,500. NORTHWOOD DRIVE 164: Patrick S. Kelley and Danielle R. Kelley to Northwood Investments LLC, donation, no value stated. OLYMPIA DRIVE 202: Richard P. Frederickson and Susan A. Herty Frederickson to Drake Bergens and Eliza J. Bergens, $200,000. ORIOLE DRIVE 228: Jeffrey L. Lipp and Rhonda H. Lipp to Barry K. Waldrop and Darla G. Waldrop, $85,000. PINEHURST FARM SUBDIVISION, LOTS 5B: Janet P. Coscino and Norman R. Coscino to Ronald G. Olivier Jr. and Lorin C. Olivier, donation, no value stated. REINE SUBDIVISION, LOT 2, SQUARE 4: Richard A. Brockhaus, Lynn Brockhaus Dominy and others to Dianne E. Brockhaus, donation, no value stated. ROYAL PALM 1530: Rodney H. Fleetwood and Laura B. Fleetwood to Daniel Zardon and Bailee Zardon, $130,000. SOUTH ST. 135: Darlene M. Sweigart to Katrin B. Sellers, $11,000. TEDDY AVE. 731: Lindsay H. Parker to BZAH Enterprises LLC, $295,000. W. QUEENS DRIVE 107: Tanner Manor LLC to Daryl Still and Julie Still, $210,000.

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FAIRGROUNDS BLVD. 117: Ross W. Richardson and Tina O. Richardson to William S. Wajda II and Alejandra M. Alsum, $799,000. NEAR BUSH, PORTION OF GROUND: Cherlyn L. Milligan to Jason V. Collier and Ashley R. Collier, $380,000.

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An old friend’s insult is no laughing matter Dear Annie: I walked away from a 50-plus-year friendship. I’ve known “Ralph,” his wife and his kids since the late-1970s. We both worked construction. Annie We never had a Lane deep friendship; DEAR ANNIE most men from the boomer generation don’t. Ralph has a sense of humor that others would say is off-putting, including uncomfortable joking, but we went through similar circumstances at different times.

A group of three to ﬁve of us construction guys used to meet for lunch on Saturdays. One Saturday, during the usual discussions of yesteryear, I ﬁnished sharing my thoughts and looked over to Ralph, who said directly to me, “That’s because you’re a useless loser.” I couldn’t believe he’d said it. I waited for the typical boomer gen’s half-cracked smile signifying he was just kidding, but it never came. One guy at lunch said he didn’t hear it; the other looked at me with the same disbelief. Ralph just stared back deadpan. I got up to go to the men’s room, looked in the mirror,

then walked back to the table and tossed down some money to cover lunch. Ralph made another ﬂippant comment: “Oh, you’re buying lunch.” I thought, “What the heck?” Ralph never lets anyone buy lunch. We all offer, and his reply is to toss out a $100 bill and tell us to get the tip. I said I had to go and left. That was two years ago. I never went back and cut off all contact. A few weeks after the incident, Ralph’s wife texted to see if all was OK. I replied, “All good.” For the past 15 years, I’ve been a home health caregiver to my mother. The past two

years were rough, and she passed away in March. I’ve yet to receive a call from anyone in that group. Imagine that — 50-plus years as friends and all he had to say to me was that I’m a “useless loser.” — Good Riddance in California Dear Good Riddance: “Off-putting” is right. Even if this kind of comment isn’t unusual for Ralph, being called a “useless loser” by a friend still stings. And two years without a word from him since is pretty telling. You could’ve been honest when his wife reached out instead of saying everything was “all good.” But Ralph could’ve

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picked up the phone at any point, too. He hasn’t. If you want an explanation, call and ask him what that day was about. If not, don’t. You don’t owe a 50-year friendship another 50 years simply because of its history. And I’m sorry about your mother. You deserved to have friends around when you needed them most. You sound like a thoughtful and gracious man — certainly not a “useless loser.” You said it best: good riddance.

TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Saturday, Oct. 3, the 276th day of 2026. There are 89 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 3, 1990, West Germany and East Germany ended 45 years of postwar division, declaring the creation of a reunified country. Also on this date: In 1873, Modoc leader Kintpuash was hanged at Fort Klamath, Oregon, after being convicted of his role in the deaths of U.S. negotiators during the Modoc War, a conflict in which his people resisted relocation. Kintpuash was the only Native American leader charged and convicted of a war crime by the U.S. In 1944, during World War II, U.S. Army troops cracked the Siegfried Line north of Aachen, Germany. In 1951, the New York Giants captured the National League pennant by a score of 5-4 as Bobby Thomson hit a three-run homer off Ralph Branca, of the Brooklyn Dodgers, which became known as the “Shot Heard ’Round the World.” In 1974, Frank Robinson became the American League’s first Black manager after he was hired by the Cleveland Indians.

In 2008, O.J. Simpson was found guilty of robbing two sports-memorabilia dealers at gunpoint in a Las Vegas hotel room. (Simpson was later sentenced to nine to 33 years in prison; he was granted parole in July 2017 and released in October of that year. He died at age 76 on April 10, 2024, after battling prostate cancer.) In 2011, an Italian appeals ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO court freed Amanda Knox, of Seattle, after four years in New York Giants owner Horace prison, tossing murder conStoneham, left, and manager victions against Knox and an Leo Durocher hug Giants ex-boyfriend in the stabbing of baseball player Bobby Thomson their British roommate, Merin the dressing room after their edith Kercher. An Italian high court definitively vindicated championship playoff victory Knox in 2015, throwing out the over the Brooklyn Dodgers convictions once and for all. on Oct. 3, 1951, at the Polo In 2013, a smugglers’ ship Grounds in New York. packed with African migrants sank off the coast of a southIn 1993, 18 U.S. service ern Italian island, killing more members and hundreds of Sothan 365 people. In 2023, the U.S. House of malis were killed in the Battle Representatives voted to reof Mogadishu — the deadliest battle for U.S. troops since move House Speaker Kevin the Vietnam War. The battle McCarthy — the first time inspired the film “Black Hawk in U.S. history a speaker had Down.” been ousted from the position. In 1995, the jury in the O.J. Though McCarthy had the Simpson murder trial in Los support of many fellow ReAngeles found the former foot- publicans, several hard-right detractors from his party esball star not guilty of the 1994 killings of his former wife, Ni- sentially forced him out. In 2025, Sean “Diddy” Combs cole Brown Simpson, and her was sentenced to four years friend Ronald Goldman.

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