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N.O. public works department adding new jobs Workforce doubles while budget spending drops via capital funds

BY BEN MYERS Staff writer

The New Orleans Public Works Department has doubled its workforce this year while spending just a fraction of its budget for operations, a trick it has pulled off with an unusual maneuver that could become the departmental norm for the foreseeable future. The department is now supporting dozens of positions, along with portions of salaries for several other positions, with capital bond funds as opposed to self-generated revenue. Mayor Helena Moreno, who campaigned on beeﬁng up Public Works, announced plans along those lines earlier this year, and the department director, Steve Nelson, said on Monday that he envisions continued reliance on capital funding for personnel for the next decade. “It’s not ideal. I would love for us to be able to get to a place where the general fund covers these things,” Nelson said in an interview after a budget presentation to the City Council. “We’ve got to do what we’ve got to do to deliver.” Nelson said existing bond funding, including from a $198 million sale this year, will cover the salaries through mid-2028. After that, $7 million from future bond sales will be needed every year. The Moreno administration is planning two additional bond sales totaling more than $300 million in 2028 and 2030. Local governments typically sell bonds to raise large sums for capital projects, repaying investors with interest over 30 years. Recurring expenses like salaries are usually paid with self-generated revenue from the general fund budget. But the Moreno administration says a $77 million deﬁcit needs to be closed in the 2027 budget, making it impossible to sustain a staffed-up Public Works department with the general fund alone. Paying salaries with bond funds effectively means the administration will finance permanent positions with debt. Meanwhile, Nelson said the department will only spend about 30% of its $19 million general fund budget this year, since the budgeted amount of cash in the general fund has not materialized. The department’s operations budget will be cut to $10 million next year, but, in reality, that will amount to a small bump, assuming the general fund is solvent, Nelson said.

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Former Saints player Steve Gleason, left, visits with NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell on Monday before the Saints game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Caesars Superdome. Steve Gleason and the Saints celebrated the 20th anniversary of the “Domecoming” game FALCONS before the matchup with the Atlanta Falcons at the Caesars Superdome on SAINTS Monday. Mayor Helena Moreno awarded Gleason a key to the city before he FULL GAME led a pregame second-line COVERAGE IN SPORTS, 1C. to the Dome. The pregame festivities honored the Saints’ historic 2006 return to the Superdome and Gleason’s blocked punt that became a symbol of resilience after Hurricane Katrina.

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ABOVE: A second-line heads up Poydras Street and toward the Dome on Monday. LEFT: Former Saints players Drew Brees and Scott Fujita ride atop a float in the second-line. STAFF PHOTOS BY CHRIS GRANGER

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‘I needed those signs from the Lord’ Tragedy, faith led Julia Letlow to run for Senate BY TYLER BRIDGES Staff writer

It was Dec. 11, 2020, only six days after Luke Letlow had won an open seat to represent the 5th Congressional District that stretched from Monroe south to the Florida Parishes. He was still on a high as he sat for an interview, having fulﬁlled an ambition that was 20 years in the making as he

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became an increasingly consequential player in Republican circles. “I did not run for Congress to go up there and be one of the folks who screams at the other side,” Luke told WDSU-TV reporter Travers Mackel from his kitchen in rural Richland Parish. “The reason I’m going to Congress is to get things done.” Afterward, Luke told his wife, Julia Letlow, that he was running a fever. He died 18 days later from COVID-19. Julia Letlow buried her husband in a country cemetery near their home and almost immediately afterward faced the most consequential decision

ä Editor’s note: This is the second of two profiles on the candidates for U.S. Senate.A profile on Democratic candidate Jamie Davis appeared in yesterday’s edition. of her career: Now a widow with two children younger than 5, would she run for Luke’s congressional seat? Unlike her husband, Letlow had no hankering for elected ofﬁce. A senior administrator at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, she expected to

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U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-Baton Rouge, stands outside the Ascension Parish Courthouse in Donaldsonville. She is running ä See LETLOW, page 4A for U.S. Senate.

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2 killed after Fla. school bus rolls over in crash

A Florida school bus carrying nearly 40 people overturned after being struck by an oncoming car on the way to a high school early Monday, killing a student and the driver of another vehicle that caught fire, authorities said. A heavy presence of emergency responders rushed to the crash site in Winter Haven, south of Orlando, and 26 students were transported to a hospital, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said. At least one person was in critical condition. The crash left the bus upsidedown on the side of the road. The front end was a mangled mess of metal and one of its four back tires appeared to be missing. “It was a horrible crash,” Judd said. “It was a terrible, tragic morning. We had a beautiful 10th grade girl lose her life.” The bus was headed to Winter Haven High School when an oncoming car crossed the center line and struck the side of the bus near the rear wheels, Judd said. The sheriff said the impact ripped the tire off the bus, which then crashed head-on into an oncoming Jeep that caught fire. Most of the 39 people aboard the bus were high school students, along with the bus driver and the driver’s daughter. Judd said first responders spent the first several hours getting people to the hospital, identifying them and reuniting students with their parents. “I think this is the most horrific bus tragedy we’ve had in decades, as far back as I can remember,” Judd said. Polk County Public Schools Superintendent Frederick Heid said students practice drills on how to leave a bus that is involved in an accident. Last month, another Polk County school bus was also involved in a crash but authorities said no students were on board at the time.

Woman charged in Chicago girl’s stabbing

CHICAGO — A woman has been charged with murder for allegedly stabbing to death a 7-yearold girl who was walking along a sidewalk in a Chicago neighborhood, police said. Shavon Gayden, 48, was charged with one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the death, Chicago police said in a statement Sunday. Police said the girl was walking in the Chatham neighborhood Saturday morning when a woman carrying an unspecified sharp object approached her and stabbed her multiple times in the back. Bystanders chased after the woman and detained her, police said. Television networks showed a commercial strip lined with a restaurant, a nail salon and a market cordoned off by police tape afterward. Gayden, who is from Chicago, was initially scheduled to appear for a hearing Monday morning but was hospitalized and was not going to appear, the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office said in an email. Her injuries were not considered lifethreatening. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the child as Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon. She was pronounced dead at Comer Children’s Hospital.

Australia investigates FlyDubai co-pilot

Australian authorities launched a probe into an Omani FlyDubai co-pilot’s time in Australia after he was detained over an alleged attempt to seize an Israel-bound aircraft and crash it, Australian Federal Police said. The FlyDubai pilot is in custody in the United Arab Emirates after he allegedly attempted to take control of the Israel-bound plane. A police statement on Monday said a joint counterterrorism team, including federal and state police and Australia’s domestic intelligence agency, “is investigating the man’s links to Australia.” New Zealand’s police agency also said the co-pilot had spent time in New Zealand and that the authorities would investigate.

Caleb Flynn convicted in wife’s killing

BY JULIE CARR SMYTH and PATRICK AFTOORA-ORSAGOS Associated Press ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY ADRIAN KRAUS

Demonstrators protest Monday against Cornell University’s handling of the alleged 2024 fraternity house gang rape at the campus in Ithaca, N.Y.

Students protest Cornell’s response Demonstrators decry school’s handling of gang rape allegations

BY LEAH WILLINGHAM and TASSANEE VEJPONGSA Associated Press

ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell students thronged a campus plaza to protest the university’s response to allegations of sexual assault at a fraternity house, and the school’s main administration building was splashed with graffiti and damaged overnight. At a demonstration that overflowed the large space in front of the school’s student center, students, faculty members and others wore purple ribbons and held signs with such messages as “support survivors, expel rapists” and “Justice 4 every Jane Doe” — the name by which the woman who reported the assault is known in court papers. Others watched from pathways, windows, and a nearby hill. “Too often, we are met with silence, we are met with statements, we are met with procedures, but not enough support,” student Athena Holloway told the crowd. “How much does it take for our university to stand with survivors?” Hispanic studies professor Julia Chang added to applause: “Rape should not be inevitable.” Speakers faulted fraternities, the university trustees and Cornell President Michael Kotlikoff, saying he and his administration have prioritized protecting the university’s reputation over students’ safety. “Kotlikoff, resign!” demonstrators chanted, among other slogans, as they marched to the damaged administration building to present a list of demands. The Ivy League school has been trying to quell a firestorm — on campus and beyond — over its handling of the alleged 2024 gang rape. Early Monday, the university found signs of the anger on the very walls of its administrative headquarters. Holes were knocked into one of the building’s glass doors, and the walls beside them were marked with red-painted messages condemning patriarchy and the Ivy League school’s handling of sexual assaults, news media photos showed. Later Monday, the graffiti was removed and the door was boarded up. Cornell spokesperson Kyle Kimball

said in a statement that the university was investigating and that “damaging property is not the answer” to Cornellians’ “frustration and strong emotions.” Campus police referred questions to his office, which declined to provide more detail on the incident. The woman known as Jane Doe alleges that she was sexually assaulted by multiple Chi Phi fraternity members in October 2024 after being pressured into drinking and taking drugs. She was a Cornell student at the time. The woman recently sued the university, seven former students, the fraternity and others. Her lawsuit said that she became fully incapacitated as fraternity members assaulted her, and that one man sent others a message inviting them to participate. “I felt like bait. I felt like lions around me. It just was a totally debilitating place to be in,” she told Cornell investigators last year, according to records reviewed by The Associated Press. Lawyers for two of the former students denied they participated in a sexual assault. Attempts by The Associated Press to reach the other men or their representatives have been unsuccessful. Court records show that some of the accused students, when interviewed by Cornell investigators, described the sexual activity as consensual. Shortly before she went to Cornell police in November 2024, Jane Doe recorded a phone call with one of the men she says raped her, ABC News reported Monday, saying it had obtained the recording. The network played portions, containing only what it said was his voice, and recounted other parts of the conversation in writing. According to ABC, the man told her that after dancing with her for five minutes or less, he suggested a three-person encounter. He maintained that she agreed to it, and that he then fetched the second Chi Phi member from the dance floor. Her lawsuit says she was too intoxicated to give consent. On the call, she tried to pinpoint who else later came into the room, ABC said. The man suggested both he and she might be misremembering something that’s “not true,” but she countered that she recalled looking up and seeing “too many people” there. “What y’all did would be classified as gang rape,” she told him at one point, according to the network, which said she had provided the recording to the university.

Officials say Yemeni forces expel Houthis from areas around strait BY AHMED AL-HAJ and SAMY MAGDY Associated Press

ADEN, Yemen — Forces of the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen have recaptured several key areas around Bab elMandeb Strait from Iran-backed Houthi rebels, Yemeni officials said Monday. The officials said forces allied with the internationally recognized government have retaken the crucial town of Dhubab just north of the strait. They also captured the towns of Bab and Hadeid, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters. Witnesses said they saw government tanks and forces entering the towns. The government push came as part of a major offensive launched early Monday under air cover by a Saudi military coalition. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that it was expected that the Saudi-backed government in Yemen would hit back at the rebels to reclaim territory. Asked if the Saudi-led coalition coordinated the action with the United States, Rubio said that Saudi Arabia and the U.S. have a defense agreement but

wouldn’t offer more details. The Yemeni government was ousted from some of its territory by a Houthi campaign and the Saudis have come under attack, and “they have a right to defend themselves,” Rubio said. The U.S. has provided support to Saudi Arabia in its ongoing campaign against the Houthis, according to a regional official and a U.S. official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak to reporters. U.S. support included intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for the offensive, said the officials. The U.S. had supported the Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis early in the Yemen war, before quitting the coalition in recent years. The U.S. Embassy in the Saudi capital of Riyahd warned U.S. citizens on social media to be vigilant about possible drone or missile attacks. The offensive came just after the rebels said they had captured more territory in the southwestern part of Yemen, taking a key town in a blow to the Saudibacked forces as they advanced toward a strategic provincial capital in the region.

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A former music pastor in Ohio who appeared brieﬂy on “American Idol” was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Monday after a jury convicted him of murdering his wife while he was having an affair. Prosecutors said Caleb Flynn, 40, staged a home invasion in February after shooting Ashley Flynn, a 37-year-old schoolteacher and volleyball coach, then claimed she was killed by a burglar. In his 2013 appearance on “American Idol,” Flynn told TV viewers about how his wife had encouraged him to chase his dreams on the singing competition. He did not advance to the main competition in Hollywood. With tears rolling down his cheeks, Flynn apologized in court to his family, starting with his two daughters. “I made vows to Ashley on our wedding day. I failed in those vows,” he said. Although he admitted he lied about many things, Flynn remained adamant that he was innocent. “As I stand here before God, who is my ultimate judge, I am not lying when I say I did not kill my wife,” he said. Miami County Common Pleas Judge Jeannine Pratt said she was deeply disturbed that Flynn used his faith to hide his “deceit”

and “lust.” She quoted a victim statement from one of the daughters, read aloud moments earlier by a family member, asking: “What did Ashley ever do to make you hate her so much?” During closing arguments, prosecutors told jurors that Flynn wanted out of his marriage when he shot his wife at their house in Tipp City, a suburb north of Dayton. The couple’s two daughters were home with their father when police arrived. He sent a text message to his lover the night before the shooting, saying, “I choose you. I’m free. Actions will come tomorrow,” prosecutors said. During the trial, Alleigha Botner testified she met Flynn in 2022 while she was a 20-year-old intern at his church and had an affair with him for more than a year. She told jurors that Flynn said he hated his wife and had thoughts of killing her. Jurors also heard AIgenerated love songs that prosecutors said he made for Botner. Flynn didn’t testify on his own behalf, nor did anybody else. The gun used to kill Ashley Flynn was not found at the scene, and his attorney told jurors that investigators found no evidence that Caleb Flynn fired a gun that day. Prosecutors said his fingerprints and DNA were at the scene and that his devices showed him moving around the house, even though he claimed he was asleep at the time of the shooting. The jury found him guilty of murder, felonious assault and tampering with evidence.

Caleb Flynn listens to court proceedings on Sept. 28 at the Miami County Court of Common Pleas in Troy, Ohio. ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO

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Trump signs diesel order at rally

President campaigns for GOP candidates in Nebraska BY NICHOLAS INGRAM and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — President Donald Trump on Monday took his Republican midterm rescue mission to Nebraska, where he signed an executive order to ease limits on the tax-free use of red-dyed diesel, a decision he said would save “millions” for farmers and drive down the cost of all goods with just four weeks to go until the elections. “Pete and Jim, this should absolutely ensure your election, I guarantee you that,” Trump said, addressing GOP Gov. Pete Ricketts, who is running against an independent candidate backed by national Democrats, and Gov. Jim Pillen, who is seeking a second term. Diesel fuel prices have spiked in the aftermath of the Iran war, rattling voters and putting pressure on Republicans. Diesel fuel that is intended for off-road uses

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President Donald Trump displays a signed executive order on Monday at a campaign rally at the Pinnacle Bank Expo Center in Grand Island, Neb. such as agriculture is exempt from federal and state excise taxes, and it is dyed for law enforcement purposes, the White House explained in a fact sheet. Temporarily removing the limits would reduce cost pressures on the businesses that rely on diesel. “The typical trucker will save more than $100 every time they fill up,” Trump said, signing the executive order onstage before a crowd in Grand Island, Nebraska, located in the solidly conservative south-central part of the state. “Farmers will also save millions and millions of dollars, and this order will also drive down the cost of all goods and to go to grocery prices very substantially.” Trump’s trip is part of what the Republican president says is a 32-day blitz of rallies ahead of Nov. 3 that so far has taken him to rubyred territory such as Oklahoma and Alabama. On Wednesday, he’ll make his second stop in two weeks in Texas with a rally in San Antonio.

Ricketts, a former governor of the state, was appointed then later elected to ﬁll Sen. Ben Sasse’s seat when he left to run the University of Florida in 2023. Now Ricketts is running for his ﬁrst full six-year term against independent Dan Osborn — a race that initially was not expected to be competitive but is now being watched by the national parties. Voters across the country are frustrated with Trump’s handling of the economy, including persistently high costs for fuel and groceries. It’s a major issue for rural voters who have backed the president and his party in recent elections. The administration’s plan to allow more imports of foreign beef has particularly roiled the agriculture-rich state of Nebraska. Trump wants to lower beef prices for consumers, but ranchers have rebelled against the import proposal, arguing it would undercut them. “The plan to import lowquality foreign beef is not helping Nebraska ranchers,”

Ricketts told the AP. “I would advise the White House to change that policy and look for longer-term things that will help us build the size of the herd and ultimately bring the price of beef down for consumers.” In Grand Island, rallygoers said they trusted Trump to solve the high cost of living. “I feel like if we get our reserves built back up, get this situation in Iran taken care of, our gas prices will go down. The economy as far as groceries and stuff like that, it’s going to go down too. It’ll stabilize. I have faith in him. More faith in him than I ever had in any other president,” said Marlene Abel from Garﬁeld, Kansas, who traveled to the rally with her sister. David Kuncl, who grew up on a farm, also urged patience, expressing confidence things would improve in the long run. But the Lincoln, Nebraska, resident insisted Trump wasn’t to blame, pointing instead to what he believes is “a coup, a plot to try to hurt Trump” and the Republicans in the midterms.

Tennessee eyes more execution options Discussions come after Pike lethal injection fails

BY DAVID A. LIEB

Associated Press

Some of Tennessee’s top Republicans said Monday they want to explore alternative ways of executing condemned prisoners after the failed execution of Christa Pike, which relied on a large dose of pentobarbital. U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, the state’s Republican candidate for governor, said Pike’s unsuccessful execution last week “should not be grounds to halt carrying out the death penalty.” Rather, she said, Tennessee needs to reevaluate the way it does executions. “If it’s lethal injection, if it is electric chair, what we do know is we have to ﬁnd a way to do this — and do it successfully,” Blackburn told The Associated Press. Top legislative leaders have already spoken with Blackburn about potential changes to state execution laws during their 2027 session.

“We want to broaden it, include more methods,” House Speaker Cameron Sexton said. “What those are as of today, I’m not sure. But I don’t think there’s any method that’s off the table at this point.” Most U.S. states that allow executions use lethal injection as their primary means, though South Carolina sets its default as electrocution and Idaho the firing squad, according to the Death Penalty Information Center. Some states give prisoners a choice of execution methods. Death by electricity or gas is authorized in nine states, including five that specify nitrogen gas, the center said. Five states authorize a firing squad. Florida, which leads the nation in executions this year, uses a three-drug lethal injection that includes a sedative, a paralytic and a drug that stops the heart. Tennessee’s execution procedures have been in the national spotlight since Wednesday, when prison officials gave Pike two doses of a barbiturate that were supposed to be lethal but didn’t ultimately kill her. Pike has remained hospitalized under guard, left unconscious and on a ventilator with blisters and burns on her arms from

VIENNA, Ga. — Whoever opened ﬁre at a sprawling block party in rural southern Georgia over the weekend, killing two people and leaving nearly three dozen others injured, remained at large Monday as authorities offered no new information about the shootings. No arrests have been announced in Dooly County, where the sheriff says more than 50 shots were fired early Sunday in the small city of Vienna as more than 1,000 celebrated a homecoming football victory long after midnight. Dooly County Sheriff Craig Peavy identified the two people killed as Ja’Quavion Jackson, 21,

of Cordele, and Macaleb Jackson, 23, of Hawkinsville. The two men don’t appear to be related, said Sara Lue, a spokesperson for the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. An additional 35 people were injured — most of them by gunfire, though others were hurt in the chaotic scramble to flee, authorities told reporters at a Sunday news conference. The sheriff said an unspecified number were hospitalized with critical injuries. Authorities haven’t said what may have motivated the shootings or whether they’re looking for a lone gunman or multiple shooters. They also have not said

NEW YORK — Pennsylvania has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year, state health officials said Monday, making it the largest state outbreak in more than three decades. The U.S. is enduring its worst year for measles since 1991, with nearly 3,900 reported cases, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The nation has seen eight reported measles-associated deaths in the past two years — more than the combined total of reported deaths over the previous three decades. Since the beginning of last year, large outbreaks have been reported in several states, including Texas and Utah, as well as South Carolina, which had the largest with 997 cases reported. The governor of New York on Monday declared a disaster emergency because of measles cases in neighboring states and in rural areas of New York. The executive order extends the pool of people who can administer measles vaccines to include paramedics, midwives and others, and allows nurses to join doctors in ordering testing. The state has more than 100 cases this year. Health officials say Pennsylvania’s current outbreak started in April, west of Philadelphia. There have been 1,004 cases, including 198 hospitalizations and five deaths, state officials said. Health experts attribute such outbreaks to low vaccination rates. It’s been decades since a U.S. state has seen an outbreak surpass 1,000 cases,

stretching back to a multiyear outbreak in New York City in the early 1990s that infected more than 4,500 people. The nation eliminated the domestic spread of measles in 2000 by maintaining high vaccination rates, but those rates have fallen in recent years to below the 95% coverage needed to prevent outbreaks. In November, international health officials will meet to determine if the U.S. and Mexico have lost their measles-free status. Measles is highly contagious. It spreads when people who have it breathe, cough or sneeze, and through contaminated surfaces. It also can linger in the air for two hours. Up to 9 out of 10 people who are susceptible will get the virus if exposed, according to the CDC. U.S. measles infections have been surging in recent years, as fewer kids get routine vaccines due to parental waivers, healthcare access issues and rampant disinformation. Pennsylvania and New York are not the only states with a growing problem. Another is Ohio, with more than 200 cases this year. Like in Pennsylvania, some of the hardest-hit Ohio counties have significant Amish populations, which tend to have lower vaccination rates. Meanwhile, CDC officials have quietly begun to acknowledge measlesassociated deaths in Pennsylvania.

the drug, her lawyers have about two dozen of the 40 said. people on death row. Pike, now 50, was sentenced to death for the 1995 torture and slaying of a classmate, Colleen Slemmer. Pike was age 18 at the time and became one of the youngest women sent to death row. Republican Gov. Bill Lee, whose term ends in JanuCUSTOM BLINDS, SHADES, SHUTTERS & DRAPERY ary, halted the one remaining execution scheduled for this year and ordered an independent investigation into the state’s capital punishment system after Pike’s failed execution. He said Saturday the commissioner of the Department of Correction will step down. Blackburn said comprehensive change is needed — “it is personnel, processes, procedures, protocols that are all going to need to be addressed.” Tennessee law already allows electrocution if the department is unable to carry out a lethal injection despite reasonable efforts to do so. State law also gives people who committed crimes before 1999 the option of choosing electrocution. Between 2018 and 2020, five Tennessee prisoners chose electrocution. That could remain an option for

No arrests announced in Georgia party shootings that left 2 dead By The Associated Press

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precisely how many people were shot. “At large parties with people from different places, not just your locals, sometimes problems come,” Peavy said Sunday. Local officials say the block party wasn’t a schoolsponsored event and didn’t have a city permit. Peavy said he had extra deputies working over the weekend in anticipation of homecoming drawing large numbers of alumni and other out-oftown visitors. The sheriff did not immediately return a phone message Monday. Lue said no further updates were available from state investigators, who customarily assist Georgia’s rural communities in major cases.

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Having found a way forward after Jeremy’s death, Letlow knew she would have the strength to do so after the loss of her husband. She met with her parents to seek their assent to run for Luke’s seat. “We said, ‘Go for it. You can do this,’” remembered her father, Terry Barnhill. “We felt like she would be good for the state.” “Julia is a thinker,” said her mother, Kathi Barnhill. “She really tries to check all angles with things. Running through her mind was that she had two little babies, and she was the sole breadwinner.” Then she met with Luke’s parents. “I didn’t want somebody who just showed up to run,” recalled Johnny Letlow, Luke’s father. “A local politician did a poll a day or two later. We told her she had our blessings.” “I told Julia, ‘You know right from wrong. I think you can handle it,’” said Dianne Letlow, Luke’s mother.

Continued from page 1A continue working in higher education. But Ralph Abraham, a veterinarian and doctor who had held the congressional seat for six years before H H H H H H Luke, asked her to consider running for the seat. Letlow consulted others, including her parents and Luke’s, and she prayed. Her decision was clinched while at home when she heard a song that she thought was a sign from the Lord. Today, Letlow has served five years in the U.S. House and is considered the heavy favorite to become Louisiana’s next senator. Endorsed by President Donald Trump, Letlow knocked Sen. Bill Cassidy out of the race in the Republican primary. She faces off on Nov. 3 in the general election against Jamie Davis, a farmer from Tensas Parish who is the Democratic candidate. After five years in the public eye, Letlow steps onto a stage and strides from one event to another with conﬁdence. But she never acts like a big shot. She doesn’t always seem at ease playing the part of a politician, still laughs nervously at times and retains a sense of: Golly, how did I get here?

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‘Talent for a reason’ As she readily acknowledges, Letlow wouldn’t be in this position but for her husband’s tragic death. “I happen to be a woman of faith,” she said in a March 2021 speech as she first campaigned for Luke’s seat. “I believe that the good Lord doesn’t waste an experience, good or bad. I happen to feel that and see that so clearly in my life now as I walk this path that I never dreamed that I would be walking.” Luke and Julia had known each other casually at Ouachita Christian School in Monroe — he was one year ahead of her — but they had been out of touch. Then they attended the same party before an LSU football game while both were in college. A mutual friend pointed Luke out and said, “He’s Baton Rouge’s most eligible bachelor now.” They became a couple. Months later, Letlow invited him to her home in Monroe for dinner. She made lasagna and thought he would

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U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, R-Baton Rouge, inside the Ascension Parish Courthouse in Donaldsonville, says she is a ‘woman of faith. I believe that the good Lord doesn’t waste an experience, good or bad. I happen to feel that and see that so clearly in my life now as I walk this path that I never dreamed that I would be walking.’ ask her hand in marriage. Instead, he broke up. “It was devastating,” Letlow remembered. “It was one of the lowest points in my life.” But a year later, he sent her a contrite email, saying he had been immature. He asked for forgiveness. They married six months later. In 2014, Luke managed Abraham’s campaign for the 5th Congressional District and became his chief of staff after Abraham won the election. In 2020, Luke was well-positioned when Abraham decided not to seek a fourth term in Congress. Letlow campaigned with her husband whenever she was free, serving as his biggest champion. “Honey, you’ve got this,” she would tell him. “God gave you this talent for a reason. It’s a blessing to see you utilize this.” Luke ran ﬁrst in the nine-candidate primary and then crushed his runoff opponent on Dec. 5, 2020. The next day, Luke turned 41, and they had their daughter baptized at the local Presbyterian Church. But after Luke told her he was running a fever five days later, Letlow drove him to the hospital in Monroe, checked him in and was then given the agonizing news that she couldn’t be by his side because COVID-19 was so contagious and

dangerous. When Luke worsened, an ambulance took him to a hospital in Shreveport. Luke developed a blood clot. The doctor called Julia to tell her that an operation had been successful. “Then everything kind of went nuts, and he hung up,” Letlow said. “It was about an hour later that I got the call.” Letlow had been through tragedy before. When she was 20, her 17-year-old brother Jeremy died in a car crash. When she got the news then, she fell to her knees and cried uncontrollably. But later that day, when her sister was too inconsolable, Letlow collected herself enough to break the news to her parents. Afterward, she learned to live with the grief by interviewing people who also had lost brothers and sisters — and how they coped with it — for her doctoral dissertation at the University of South Florida. Now, 20 years after Jeremy died, she had to deal with more heartbreak with Luke’s death. “The minute your spouse dies, yes, you’re overcome with incredible grief and shock and loss,” she said recently. “But the ﬁrst thought that went to my mind was, ‘Oh, no, I’m solely responsible for two babies. I’m going to have to keep go-

ing for them.’”

‘I just had this peace’ After Luke was buried, Abraham said he wanted to discuss something with Letlow: She ought to consider running for his seat. “Julia, you were by his side,” someone else told her. “You learned from him. You saw what public service looks like. If there’s any desire in your heart to continue his legacy, we’d like for you to continue.” Letlow would later say that never in a million years had she thought someone would encourage her to run. But she trusted Abraham, Luke’s mentor, and warmed to the idea. Letlow remembered that she and Luke had held many conversations about the need to act as a humble servant to others. She also remembered a lesson from the siblings who had lost a loved one: Find a way to get outside of yourself every day and serve other people. Find a way to get up, get dressed, put your makeup on and get outside of yourself. “If you’re just in a fetal position in a dark room somewhere, it’s harder to keep moving forward,” she said. “Then to have these two small children who were depending on me to move forward in some way, I just had this peace about it.”

U.S. high court weighs climate change JOBS Continued from page 1A suits against oil and gas companies BY LINDSAY WHITEHURST and MATTHEW DALY Associated Press

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court grappled Monday with whether local governments can sue oil and gas companies in state court to help cover costs associated with climate change, an issue with potentially billions of dollars at stake. Key justices appeared wary about the potential sweep of litigation, but torn over the complex questions of federal and state law raised by the case. Ofﬁcials in Boulder argue their lawsuit is an attempt to hold energy companies Suncor and ExxonMobil accountable for their contributions to climate change.

They say that worsening disasters such as floods and wildfires put a heavy financial burden on local communities, and the industry should bear part of that cost. The city and county of Boulder first sued the oil companies in 2018, years before the 2021 Marshall Fire destroyed nearly 1,100 homes and left two people dead. Total damage was estimated at $2 billion, the costliest wildfire in Colorado history. The companies say that a ﬂurry of lawsuits in state courts is not the way to deal with the global issue. Governments from largely blue-leaning areas around the country have ﬁled similar lawsuits seeking damages that could to-

tal billions of dollars, part of a wave of legal action worldwide seeking to leverage action through the courts. “Presumably, if you prevail, the next day, a municipality in every single state will file a lawsuit,” said Chief Justice John Roberts. “How do you think that will work out on the ground?” Justice Brett Kavanaugh said a win by Boulder could bankrupt the oil companies and other potential defendants. “I mean, anyone is a potential defendant for a suit like this. Any manufacturer, any business,” he said. A win for the oil and gas companies at the Supreme Court, meanwhile, could shut down dozens of similar cases ﬁled in recent years.

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“Thee question of, well, how have you been able to do anything — that's what folks are asking — it’s because we’ve had this bond cash,” Nelson said. Louisiana Legislative Auditor Mike Waguespack, who has been monitoring city ﬁnances for the last year, said he approved the maneuver after consulting the city’s bond counsel, who “agreed this would be an acceptable practice if the work is for qualified bond-type projects,” Waguespack said in a text. Nelson told the council that infrastructure work with a life span of 10 years or longer is eligible for bond funding, meaning bond funds can be used to pay in-house staff for paving streets and sidewalks, repairing control boxes at trafﬁc lights and other tasks.

Letlow was at home a short time later when a song by the band Mercy Me began playing. The uplifting tune, “Say I Won’t” told the story of a friend of the band who lost parts of his arms and legs to septic shock but refused to be kept down afterward. “I’m gonna run,” went one of the lyrics. That resolved Letlow’s final doubts. She was gonna run. “I know it sounds a bit out there,” Letlow said. “But at that time in my life, I needed those signs from the Lord that this was the right act, to continue moving forward.” She called Abraham. “OK, Doc, let’s go do this,” she said. Letlow had to move quickly. The qualifying period was less than two weeks away. She immediately faced pushback from people who said she couldn’t campaign for and represent a sprawling district in Washington as a single mother with two small children. “Her attitude was: I’ve got to have a job,” said her mother Kathi, and friends and family could help with the children. Today, favored to become one of the 100 senators, Letlow believes she made the right choice to run for the House seat ﬁve years ago. “I know there will be future valleys,” she said. “But there are also mountaintops. Joy is a choice. I wake up every day determined to choose joy. I hope people see it in me and can feel it when they interact with me.”

He said the department has hired more than 80 new staff members this year, three quarters of which are paid with bond funds. Most of the new hires are pavers, but they also include electricians and trafﬁc engineers. That has increased department stafﬁng to around 150, Nelson said. Across the department, other staffers, including Nelson, are carefully coding their time sheets so that bond-eligible activities are used to pay salaries where appropriate. Nelson said residents should see the results in, for example, freshly paved sidewalks, including recent projects around A.L. Davis Park in Central City and Parc Brittany in New Orleans East. He said new sidewalks are now being poured at a rate of hundreds of feet per week. More broadly, Nelson said he wants to cut 311 response times for streetlight outages to 30 days or less. The aver-

age response time is now 200 days, he said, which is less than half what it was at the beginning of the year. Nelson also said he wants to improve road safety, with better striping, new trafﬁc signs and overlay projects that do more than fill potholes. He said August was the first month without a traffic fatality in 10 years. Next year, the department plans to complete a master plan for street lights, as well a condition assessment for all city streets. Council members expressed support for Nelson’s efforts. District B council member Lesli Harris said A.L. Davis Park looks “beautiful,” and Council Vice President Matthew Willard said he was pleased to hear of plans for improved road striping. “One thing that has grinded my gears for a long time is the lack of striping on streets throughout the city of New Orleans,” Willard said.

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Kyiv touts strikes on Russia’s oil reﬁning sites

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KYIV, Ukraine — Ukraine says its longrange strikes have neutralized more than half of Russia’s oil refining capacity, hampering Moscow’s ability to supply its forces during its 4½-yearold invasion. The Defense Ministry said late Sunday that recent strikes on refineries in cities, including Moscow, Yaroslavl, Ust-Luga, Perm, Saratov and Syzran, had disabled 51% of Russia’s oil refining capacity. The claim could not be independently verified. Moscow and Kyiv have intensified their aerial assaults as progress along the 750-mile front line has largely ground to a halt. Ukraine has launched repeated attacks on refineries from Moscow to Siberia, sparking a widespread fuel crisis in Russia earlier this year that forced authorities to restrict gasoline sales. Russian officials have not released figures on damage to the country’s oil infrastructure. But in a rare acknowledgment of the strikes’ economic impact, President Vladimir Putin said on

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A vehicle burns Sunday after a Russian drone strike on a residential neighborhood in Kharkiv, Ukraine. “They started attacking oil refineries and openly declared the goal of damaging our economy. Did they achieve their goal? Partially,” Putin told a meeting of the Valdai Club forum of international foreign policy experts. Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhenii Khmara said analysts from Ukraine’s intelligence services, the General Staff and the Defense Ministry had assessed the strikes’ effects. “Fifty-one percent of struck refining capacity is a significant blow to the enemy’s economy, to its ability to carry out aggression and supply its troop groupings. Our deep strikes continue to bring the war to Russian territory,” he said. Russia has historically been the world’s third-largest producer of refined fuel products from crude, after the U.S. and China. Some of Russia’s 32 refineries have been hit as many as 15 times since the start of the war, and one refinery has been hit every three days in recent months, creating a cycle of damage and emergency repairs that could degrade units long term, according to the International Energy Agency. Ukrainian strikes have also increasingly targeted the more complex equipment that removes impurities from

by about 30%, and drivers have had to wait up to 40 hours to fill up at gasoline stations. Russian refiners have tried to compensate by delaying scheduled maintenance and bringing mothballed units back online. Another response has been to lower fuel quality standards to maintain gasoline supplies, which risks damage to engines and pollution control equipment. The Kremlin has also banned diesel exports, pushing global prices higher and prompting U.S. President Donald Trump on Sept. 13 to urge Ukraine to stop hitting refineries. Meanwhile, a Russian attack with a guided aerial bomb killed at least three people and wounded 39 others, including three children, in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Monday, Mayor Ihor Terekhov said. “There may be people under the rubble of the residential building that was hit. A search and rescue operation is underway,” Terekhov wrote on his Telegram channel. An earlier Russian drone attack on the city’s Industrialnyi district also killed one person, Terekhov said late Sunday. Vehicles and an administrative building were set alight and apartment buildings were damaged, he said.

Ethiopia again demands access to the Red Sea By The Associated Press ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed reiterated on Monday that his landlocked country must have access to the Red Sea, despite neighboring countries saying at a summit Sunday that re-

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sponsibility for the sea rests with states along its shores and warning of the risk of regional conﬂict. Ethiopia lost direct access to the Red Sea in 1993 after Eritrea, formerly a region of Ethiopia, became independent. Abiy said access to the

term. Ethiopia’s relations with its regional neighbors have deteriorated in recent months. The country also faces renewed war with separatist rebels in the northern Tigray region.

BOSTON — A federal appeals court heard opposing arguments Monday over whether a judge had the authority to restore billions of dollars in funding that the Trump administration cut from Harvard University. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs ruled last year that the cuts amounted to illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of the administration’s demands for changes to Harvard’s governance and policies. The government had tied the move to Harvard’s delays in dealing with antisemitism, but the judge said the university’s federally backed research had little connection to discrimination against Jews. The ruling restored more than $2.6 billion in research funding for the wealthy Ivy League school. Though the money has resumed ﬂowing, a Justice Department attorney told a three-judge panel of the First U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Monday that Burroughs lacked the legal power to require the administration to pay it. The ﬁght over the money was a contractual dispute that rightly belonged in a different court: the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, DOJ attorney Michael Velchik said. That court, which traces its origins to the mid1800s, handles lawsuits by citizens seeking money from the federal government. “The problem is that the district court lacked jurisdiction to order specific performance,” Velchik told the First Circuit. “That is the only thing that we’re

complaining about here.” Velchik cited recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings in support of his argument. Paul Clement, an attorney for Harvard, said the case was not a straightforward contractual dispute, but raised broader issues of retaliation and discrimination. The district court’s decision restoring the funding was the “perfect remedy” for the violations it found, he said. “These are not claims that really depend on the contract in any particular way,” he said. First Circuit Judge Joshua Dunlap, a nominee of President Donald Trump, pressed Clement on whether Burroughs had in effect issued an order requiring payment and whether Harvard could make its broader legal claims without a contract. The other judges on the panel, Sandra Lynch and Gustavo Gelpi, were nominated by Democratic presidents. The judges did not immediately rule. Harvard’s lawsuit accused the Trump administration of waging a retaliation campaign against the university after it rejected a series of demands in a letter from a federal antisemitism task force. The letter demanded sweeping changes related to campus protests, academics and admissions. It was meant to address government accusations that the university had become a hotbed of liberalism and tolerated anti-Jewish harassment on campus.

Anger grows in Japan after U.S. Marine arrested in killing of woman in Okinawa BY MARI YAMAGUCHI Associated Press

TOKYO — The arrest of a U.S. Marine on suspicion of robbing and killing a local woman on Okinawa has drawn condemnation from Japan’s leaders and renewed protests against the heavy American military presence on the southern island. The alleged killing could complicate Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s push to strengthen Japanese military defense on the island and to work more closely with the U.S. military to deter China in the region. Okinawa prefectural police said they arrested Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, who is stationed at Futenma Air Station, on suspicion of strangling Anna Yagi, 39, at

a hotel in the island’s capital city of Naha early Saturday and stealing her wallet and backpack. He has denied the allegations, according to Japanese media. Security camera footage showed a man wearing a black top, trousers and white sneakers entering the hotel with the woman and later leaving alone. Ballard was arrested when a patrolling ofﬁcer saw him walking later Saturday in an entertainment district in Okinawa City, about 15 miles northeast of Naha. His shaved head and the tattoos on his arms matched those of the man in security footage, Kyodo news agency reported. “I’m outraged and ﬂabbergasted to hear that a suspect came to the (entertainment

area) after committing a murder,” Kenji Higa, who lives in Okinawa City, told the Okinawa Times. People in Okinawa have long been wary of the U.S. presence on the island but many have come to see its strategic value due to what is widely viewed as a growing threat from China. Okinawa was under U.S. occupation from World War II until 1972. Today it hosts 70% of America’s military facilities and most of the 50,000 U.S. troops based in Japan today. There has been anger over increasing crime linked to the U.S. military on the island. The number of U.S. military-related criminal cases rose to 101 last year from about 40 in 2020, according to prefectural police.

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NEW YORK — U.S. stocks rose to the edge of their all-time high on Monday after a couple of buyout announcements helped lift the market. The S&P 500 climbed 0.7% and pulled within 0.3% of its record, which was set during the summer. The Dow Jones Industrial Average added 90 points, or 0.2%, while the Nasdaq composite rallied 1.1% to set its own record. PTC helped lead the market after leaping 33.5%. Schneider Electric of France said it would pay $205 in cash for each of the software company’s shares in a deal valuing it at about $22.6 billion. The proposed deal helped lift prices for other stocks in the software industry, and Autodesk rose 4.5%. RXO, meanwhile, jumped 22.5% after C.H. Robinson Worldwide said it would buy the truck brokerage business in a deal where RXO investors could get $30.25 in cash for each of their shares. C.H. Robinson fell 10.8% for the largest loss in the S&P 500. Both Schneider Electric and C.H. Robinson mentioned the promise of artificial intelligence technology when announcing their deals, and stocks across the AI industry were strong. A 2.1% gain for Nvidia, whose chips are powering much of the move into AI, was the single strongest force lifting the S&P 500. Broadcom, meanwhile, climbed 2.1%.

Hungary official grilled over ties to China’s BYD BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s former Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó appeared before a parliamentary committee on Monday to answer questions about his dealings with Chinese automaker BYD while still in office. He left politics in July to take up an executive position with the company. Szijjártó, who served as Hungary’s foreign minister for 12 years under former Prime Minister Viktor Orbán before an election defeat in April, announced in July that he would resign his seat in Hungary’s parliament to take the job at the world’s top electric carmaker. The announcement prompted accusations of a conflict of interest, and criticism of his central role in facilitating substantial government subsidies for the company while in office. In addition to securing the deal allowing BYD to open its first European factory near the southern Hungarian city of Szeged, Szijjártó also announced in 2025 that the company would locate its European headquarters and a research and development center in Budapest, and receive $63.7 million in government assistance.

Oil exporters agree to keep production steady Seven major oil-exporting countries agreed Sunday to keep production steady in November at a time when the Iran war has driven the price of benchmark Brent crude oil above $100 a barrel. The so-called OPEC+ subgroup — Saudi Arabia, Russia, Iraq, Kuwait, Kazakhstan, Algeria and Oman — will meet again on Nov. 1 to review conditions in the oil market. The ﬁghting with Iran, which began with U.S. and Israeli attacks on Feb. 28, has disrupted global oil supplies and driven prices higher. 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. Diesel prices recently hit record highs in the United States, squeezing farmers, truckers and consumers who depend on the fuel. The G7 promised a “frontloaded substantial release” of diesel within the next 20 days and the rest over four months.

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AI industry insiders voice alarms N.Y. city leaders consider ways to regulate tech

BY ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE Associated Press

NEW YORK — Artiﬁcial intelligence insiders warned New York City's leaders about the dangers of the emerging technology on Monday, calling for greater oversight as local governments move to respond to mounting concerns that the systems could endanger humanity. At a hearing of the New York City Council, recently departed employees of Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind described a reckless culture at the ﬁrms, saying the biggest tech companies are

racing to create technology they do not understand how to control. “The companies run on a startup mindset: Move fast, break things, fix them later. That works for a photo sharing app. It does not work for building the most powerful technology ever built," said Jacob Coxon, a former engineer at Anthropic who has become a leading voice for regulation. State and city governments have been considering ways to regulate AI as the Trump administration has taken a passive approach and Congress has proven inactive. President Donald Trump has dismissed AI fears as a “hoax” and signed an agreement late last month that spells out a series of voluntary steps for the companies to take and largely allows them to self-police.

Coxon was a little-known engineer at Anthropic until he announced his departure through a series of social media posts that caught global attention. He told the Council that AI could have tremendous upsides, but without transparency and safeguards, it's more likely that things will spiral out of control. “On the current path, I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AIs and it could end in human extinction,” Coxon said. Days after Coxon resigned and aired his fears of worst-case scenarios, top executives including Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, SpaceXAI’s Elon Musk said they agreed AI’s development needs to slow down. AI companies have detailed steps

they have taken to prioritize safety, but a coordinated industry slowdown faces several obstacles. A panel of AI company staffers — representing tech giants OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and Meta — also testified at the hearing in Manhattan on Monday, telling officials that their systems are already improving people's daily lives and stressing that they are laser-focused on safety. Anthropic and OpenAI have said their advanced AI products need to be regulated, and company representatives at the hearing expressed openness to some of the Council's suggestions. “I share your commitment to ensuring that technology is developed safely and that its benefits are widely shared,” said Morgan Dwyer, of OpenAI.

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Budding food services across the U.S. want your coffee grounds, eggshells BY ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press

DETROIT — Every Monday, Ricky Blanding drives his Ford Ranger pickup truck around Detroit along a carefully planned route. Blanding hops in and out of the truck, grabbing buckets of food scraps from porches and restaurants, piling those scraps into bins in the truck bed and driving them to a composting site. Blanding is the CEO of Scrap Soils, one of the many budding food waste collection services across the country helping to divert food from landfills and make composting more accessible. It’s especially important for those who can't compost at home, who live in cities without municipal curbside pickup or who can't get to a drop-off location. Composting leftover coffee grounds, eggshells, carrot tops and more reduces the amount of food that goes into dumps where it produces the potent greenhouse gas methane. It also ultimately helps create healthy soil for gardeners and urban farmers. Experts say companies like Scrap Soils are an important part of cleaning up the broader food ecosystem. Emily Cassidy, research associate at climate solutions nonprofit Project Drawdown, said composting offers the dual benefits of reducing landfill methane emissions and, once the composting process is complete, returning nutrients to soil. “Because methane has such a big impact on the climate in a short amount of time, the more we can reduce methane, it is like pulling the emergency brake on climate change,” Cassidy said. Beyond mitigating climate change, composting can also improve local food production, she said. “That’s a way that we can see that we’re benefiting the environment, because we’re taking food and then replenishing the ground with those nutrients,” she said. Blanding, a 34-year-old native Detroiter, co-launched Scrap Soils in 2020 to play a local part in solving a statewide food waste problem that mirrors what's happening around the globe. Food waste is a huge source of methane in Michigan landfills, estimates say, and accounts for millions of metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions in the

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Ricky Blanding, founder of Scrap Soils, drops compostable material at Sanctuary Farms in Detroit. state. In Detroit, more than 70 homes and businesses are signed up for Scrap Soils’ weekly pickups. It’s an easier way to compost than making space in one's backyard or driving to a city drop-off site. Home pickups start at $15 per month, while businesses pay $60 per month or more, depending on volume. One of those commercial customers is The Grand Porter restaurant in the southwest neighborhood of Detroit. “We go through a lot of eggs, so mostly egg scraps, eggshells and the cardboard. We put all of our bread scraps, stale bread scraps, in here,” said Lou Hammer, the restaurant's executive chef, pointing to a large bin with bags of food waste inside. “Some tomato tops, some avocado skins. Probably a few other things in there, too.” “It doesn’t take any extra effort,” she said of the pickup service. “This was going to go in a bag anyway. It’s just going to go in a green bag instead.” After completing his nine-hour, more than 100-mile weekly route, Blanding drops off the waste at Scrap Soils' partner, Sanctuary Farms in Detroit. There, everything from apple cores to rotted pumpkins to corn husks is composted

into a rich soil additive that's available for purchase. “Food waste has not only become the problem,” Blanding said, “but it’s also the solution to so many issues in climate change.” The company ultimately plans to purchase a larger truck, as well as its own property and equipment for composting. It's fundraising to meet a matching grant through the state. That hasn't been without challenges. As Blanding seeks to grow, he's come up against skepticism that a small team with limited resources can make a big impact. Companies like Scrap Soils also face challenges ranging from gaining visibility to getting people to actually sign up and commit. At the same time, emphasizing what can and cannot be composted, and how to do it correctly — such as removing produce stickers before putting a peel in the bucket — is key to its success, too. “The role of a hauler is very important, and education around composting is also very important,” Blanding said. “Being able to continue to get more engagement and more partnership, those things go far in helping us to expand this tiny effort into something that actually can scale,” he added.

Norway eyes temporary ban for smart glasses BY JAMEY KEATEN Associated Press

A trip to the park. A day at the beach. A workout session at the gym. All in public spaces where smart glasses can snap photos, record conversations or stream video online — without people in the line of their lenses and microphones knowing about it. Norway’s government wants to get a handle on both the promise and peril of AI glasses and is proposing that parliament enact a temporary ban on them in some places. It’s the latest sign of growing concern in many countries about new technologies that are fundamentally changing the way people live. Some governments have banned the use of social media by children and young teens. Norway’s government said the proposal for the temporary ban will

be made to parliament, the Storting, “as soon as possible.” A key question is where to draw the line. Norwegian authorities say a ban on the use of smart glasses could apply to places where “privacy is particularly important,” like healthcare facilities or ﬁtness centers with changing rooms and showers. A major focus is spaces where children congregate, such as schools, kindergartens, playgrounds and youth clubs. But it could extend to public concerts and sports events, plus parks, beaches, museums and shopping centers. A temporary ban would give authorities time to decide what types of devices might be affected, and debate whether permanent regulation is needed. The government was quick to note that it was not

proposing a total ban and said such devices should still be allowed in some places and for private use. The government also said it was considering exceptions to a ban for vulnerable groups, so that “socially beneﬁcial uses” of smart glasses could be permitted in some circumstances. Adam Smith, a technology advocacy ofﬁcer at Britain-based Privacy International, said Norway’s move was “a welcome protection against big tech’s greedy attempts to extract ever more data, often in absence of any thought for the privacy or rights of others.” “No reality exists in which people expect to be secretly surveilled going about their daily lives,” he said. One effort to rein in the use of AI glasses has run aground — in the home of Silicon Valley. California’s governor last week vetoed legislation that would have

penalized the use of smart glasses to record people without their permission in places like changing rooms, doctor’s ofﬁces and other spaces people generally consider private. Meta, the company behind Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram that has rolled out AI glasses with eyewear vendor Ray-Ban, encourages respect for privacy and advises customers on how to use the glasses responsibly. “Respect people’s preferences. Not everyone loves being photographed. Stop recording if anyone expresses that they would rather you not,” Meta wrote on its site. The tech giant based in Menlo Park, California, says a light on the glasses indicates when recording in underway, and if the glasses detect that the light has been blocked or physically tampered with, the camera is automatically disabled.

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Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel are shown on the screen Monday as they are awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine during a news conference at the Nobel Forum at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.

3 scientists win Nobel for medicine Trio’s work led to tool that uses light to unravel how brains work

BY KOSTYA MANENKOV, LAURAN NEERGAARD and ADITHI RAMAKRISHNAN Associated Press

STOCKHOLM — The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists whose work led to a tool that uses light to help unravel how the brain works. Dr. Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel carried out research that opened a new ﬁeld with the wonky name optogenetics, combining light with genes to switch on and off neurons in living brains. Separate research from the trio — one of whom lives in the U.S. and two in Germany — resulted in a technique that helps to identify neural pathways responsible for behavior and disease. It could lead to treatments, such as restoring some vision in people with a genetic form of blindness. Experts said the advancements greatly expanded the understanding of how the brain is organized. “It has let us go from a ‘Rand McNally’ road atlas of the brain to something more akin to ‘Google Earth,’” neuroscientist Patrick Forcelli of Georgetown University said in an email. Deisseroth, 54, is a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator and Stanford University professor in California. Hegemann, 71, is at Humboldt University in Berlin, and Nagel, 73, most recently worked at the University of Würzburg, also in Germany, the assembly said. The breakthrough began when Hegemann explored how a single-cell type of green algae can swim toward light. He and Nagel discovered a particular protein that, when illuminated by blue light, opens a channel to create an electrical impulse. Putting that protein into other cells makes them light-sensitive. Brain cells use electrical signals to communicate with each other, but nor-

mally they don’t respond to light, Deisseroth told The Associated Press. He used what he calls “a trick from nature,” putting the gene that controls that microbial protein into certain cells in the brains of living mice. Beaming light at those cells — first by using tiny fibers, now with noninvasive methods — can turn neurons on or off while animals do various tasks. “People usually think about light as a way of collecting information to observe things,” he told the AP. “But this is the opposite of that. This is using light to control things, to make things happen, and to do it in a very precise way.” Optogenetics is mostly a research tool to learn how specific neurons and neural circuits work. That “gives you, inevitably, ideas for how to correct things that go wrong,” Deisseroth said. “Once you know the cells that are causal, that actually matter for a symptom or for correcting a symptom, you can devise medications or other methods that target those cells.” Already companies have studies underway trying to treat inherited blindness called retinitis pigmentosa by inserting a light-activated protein into a patient’s retina and then outfitting the person with special lightemitting glasses. Deisseroth, a physicianscientist, pointed to other scientists pursuing possible treatments for autism and schizophrenia based on information gleaned from optogenetics, he said. Experts say optogenetics has transformed neuroscience around the world, becoming a mainstay in labs trying to understand the brain pathways involved in behavior and disease — and hopefully leading to ways to fix those that go awry. “It’s a very precise set of tools for doing experiments about how the brain works that are pretty hard to do any other way,” said the University of Pittsburgh’s Jeremy Berg. He was at the U.S. National Institutes of Health in the early 2000s when it awarded Deisseroth major funding for “this vision of optogenetics that was pretty much spot-on the way it played out.”

Spain’s prime minister calls snap election BY SUMAN NAISHADHAM and JOSEPH WILSON Associated Press

MADRID — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez on Monday announced an early general election, seeking to seize momentum from housing protests that have roiled the country and frame the vote around issues that are favorable to his Socialist party. The election is scheduled for Nov. 29, and will come roughly eight months earlier than originally planned. Spaniards have staged repeated protests in cities across the country in recent weeks, demanding action on the entrenched housing crisis amid outrage over the widely publicized eviction of an 87-year-old woman in

Madrid last month. Sánchez’s government suffered a bruising legislative defeat last week when right-wing opposition parties voted down emergency decrees introduced by his government to address evictions and real estate speculation. The setback sparked wide speculation that Sánchez would move forward the general election and use the momentum on the housing issue against his rightwing opponents. If Sánchez’s gamble backﬁres, it could pave the way for a right-wing coalition of conservatives and the farright Vox party, bringing an end to one of Europe’s most prominent progressive governments, led by a vocal critic of the Trump administration.

CHICAGO — Dennis Hastert, whose congressional legacy as the longest-serving Republican House speaker was later fouled by allegations that he had molested high school athletes during his prior career as a teacher and wrestling coach, has died, a coroner said Monday. He was 84. Hastert, who was speaker from 1999 until 2007 and spent more than a year in prison later in life, died Saturday of natural causes at his home while receiving hospice care, according to Kendall County Coroner Jacquie Purcell. When he was sentenced in 2016 to more than a year behind bars, the former history teacher became one of the highest-ranking American politicians ever ordered to prison. In the late 1990s, Hastert was a little-known Illinois lawmaker with a reputation for congeniality that had helped him ascend the ranks of congressional leaders. When Newt Gingrich lost support because of ethics violations and the GOP’s poor showing in an election, Republicans elected Hastert to succeed him. In his ﬁrst weeks on the job in 1999, he presided over the House while the Senate conducted then-President Bill Clinton’s impeachment trial. After the GOP reclaimed the White House, Hastert helped pass then-President George W. Bush’s legislative agenda. In 2015 he was accused of evading banking regulations as part of a plan to pay hush money to conceal

California woman accused of spying for China BY JAIMIE DING, HUIZHONG WU and JAMIE STENGLE Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — The FBI arrested a California real estate agent as she prepared to fly to China, accusing her of secretly working for Beijing to surveil the president of Taiwan’s family in the U.S., federal officials said. The case comes at a fraught moment for U.S.China relations, with Taiwan persistently at the center of their military and diplomatic rivalry. Beijing claims the island as part of its own territory. The FBI and federal prosecutors allege Wanying Zhang surveilled the house of the president’s son and sent photos, videos and license plate information for his vehicles to a Chinese government official. The federal criminal complaint does not name the alleged target, but the FBI’s rapid response account on the social media platform X said it was the president’s son. Ting-Yu Lai, the president’s elder son, lives and works in the Seattle area as an engineer. Zhang, a 34-year-old real estate agent from Irvine who also went by the name Heather, was arrested Sunday at Los Angeles International Airport and charged with working for China as an unregistered agent, First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli said. Zhang is a naturalized U.S. citizen, said Shawn Lewis, a spokesperson for the U.S. attorney’s office. It wasn’t immediately clear if she had an attorney who could speak on her behalf. She was due to appear Monday afternoon in federal court in Los Angeles.

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House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., gestures during a news conference on June 29, 2005, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hastert has died at age 84, a coroner said Monday. unspecified “prior misconduct.” Nearly a year later, prosecutors said Hastert’s alleged misconduct involved the sexual abuse of teenage boys on his wrestling team in Yorkville, a small town west of Chicago. Prosecutors said Hastert sexually abused at least four team members during his coaching career, which lasted from 1965 to 1981. The person Hastert was paying, identified in court papers only as Individual A, said the abuse occurred in a motel room when he was 14 on the way home from wrestling camp. Hastert allegedly touched other wrestlers in a locker room after saying he would give them massages. Two wrestlers said Hastert performed sexual acts on them. Prosecutors also described a recliner where Hastert often sat in the locker room with a direct view of the stalls where the boys showered. Hastert agreed to plead guilty to evading banking laws. In all, he paid more than $1.7 million out of $3.5 million that he had promised to Individual A, sometimes in lump sums of $100,000 cash. At the sentencing hear-

ing, where he received 15 months behind bars, the visibly angry judge called Hastert a “serial child molester.” In a statement, Hastert said he was “deeply ashamed” and admitted that he “mistreated” some of his athletes. But he never referred directly to sexual abuse. When he became House speaker, Hastert was aware of the pitfalls of holding the powerful position. “You know, in this business, especially in a job like this, you can get your head someplace where it shouldn’t be,” Hastert said in a 1999 interview with The Associated Press. “But you come back home, and you’re home. You’re back where you’ve always been, and your feet are back on the ground.” As the recount of the 2000 presidential election dragged on, Hastert’s aides briefed him on the possibility that he might become acting president in the event of an Electoral College deadlock. “I really didn’t want to be president, temporary or otherwise,” Hastert wrote in a 2004 memoir. Hastert’s journey to Congress from his boyhood farm appeared to be the result of

fate and luck. In 1980, he ﬁnished third in an Illinois House primary. But the incumbent became fatally ill, and GOP leaders chose Hastert to take his place on the November ballot, where he won in a traditional GOP stronghold. Hastert became a congressional candidate in 1986 and beat the Democrat with 52% of the vote, his smallest margin of victory in a congressional race. In Washington, Hastert served quietly in House leadership, working closely with Gingrich and then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay after Republicans took control in 1995. Hastert became wealthy largely through a complex web of transactions that coincided with one of his own highway earmarks increasing the value of land he had purchased in his district. He was forced to step down as speaker in 2007, when Democrats gained control of the House, and he resigned his seat later that year.

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Several libraries closed due to AC issues Jan Risher

Reading the cards Last Friday, I was in New Orleans planning to go to the Pharmacy Museum to write a column. The afternoon was perfect. My husband and I walked a mile to the museum, only to ﬁnd it closed for a special event. So I went to Plan B — Faulkner House Books in Pirate’s Alley behind St. Louis Cathedral. It had closed early. We ended up in Jackson Square sharing an oversized cup of lemonade. We made the loop, then sat on a bench enjoying the breeze and the music from the musician in the corner. As a Louisiana friend once told me after enjoying early-morning beignets and coffee at Café Du Monde, “There’s a reason why some things are cliché. It was wonderful.” I was thinking the same thing. For about 20 minutes, I watched the fortune teller in front of us wearing a West African-style head wrap, contemplating what I would do about not yet having an experience to write a column about. She sat at her small table, eating green grapes from a basket in her wagon, with no takers. I resisted approaching her for as long as I could. Finally, I said to my husband, “I guess I need to know what it’s like to be a tarot card reader for strangers on Jackson Square.” She was one of seven tarot card readers on the plaza in front of the cathedral. Her name is Fiﬁ Laurent. She grew up in the New Orleans area, went to Destrehan High School and is in her “second season on Jackson Square.” She described a season as running from September “until it gets too hot to sit outside.”

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Fifi Laurent, a tarot card reader on Jackson Square in New Orleans

She said she has given readings professionally for nearly ﬁve years. “I was born and raised into it,” she said. “It was never a, ‘Oh, we go home, and then we do the voodoo.’ It was just a way of life.” She said it was the way her grandmother lived. “It’s how she swept the house,” Laurent said. Even so, Laurent said she didn’t anticipate being on Jackson Square doing readings. “It’s just now that it’s the cool thing to do, so now we can attach the label back to it,” she said. “I just woke up one day, and people were talking about voodoo.” She doesn’t deny there’s a show element to the readings on Jackson Square, but she’s happy that more people have access to the tradition. She said that her grandmother was forced to speak English at school, so English was all she passed down. Now Laurent speaks Creole. Doing so, she said, gives her great joy. I asked what she believes people get from her readings. “Honestly, I think they get a therapy session,” she said. Even with no one waiting, I knew time was money. I asked her price and Venmoed her $45.

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a month between August and Officials say finding affordable contractor taking a while than September over plumbing and

BY JONI HESS

had been closed for weeks due to faulty air-conditioning — for the Staff writer second summer in a row. “My car is in the shop. This Brittany Jacobs sat on the steps of Nora Navra Library in the 7th training is due today. I’m just Ward one recent afternoon, as she done,” she said, sweat pouring from her face. waited on a ride from a friend. The Nora Navra Library on St. She’d hoped to complete a training session on one of the facil- Bernard Avenue is one of four ity’s computers for her new job, branches of New Orleans Public but she was unaware the branch Library that have been closed for

months because of air conditioning issues, recurring problems in recent years that have strained library operations and irked patrons who rely on the libraries for book lending, internet access, and other resources. A ﬁfth location, Rosa F. Smith in Lakeview, reopened Monday after a near four-month closure. Nix Library in Mid-City closed for more

HVAC issues. Nora Navra has been closed since June, Rosa F. Keller in Central City since July, Alvar in the Bywater since August and Norman Meyer in Gentilly closed last month. The New Orleans East’s branch was closed for three months earlier this year. A handful of locations closed

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A PANE IN THE RAIN

STAFF PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD

A window turns misty where indoor chill meets New Orleans humidity, softening the view of Willow Street as a red umbrella brightens a warm, rain-soaked weekend.

Logistics N.O. senior community residents recount escape from multiunit ﬁre hub launches Peace Lake Towers evacuated Sunday BY MISSY WILKINSON Staff writer

Lashaun Dunbar was asleep in her sixth-story apartment at Peace Lake Towers in New Orleans East on Sunday night when a neighbor knocked and warned of a fire. Dunbar got dressed, grabbed her keys and cellphone and stepped into a dark haze. “There was nothing but smoke,” she said. “I had to feel my way to the exit and feel my way going all the way from the stairs from the sixth ﬂoor, all the way to the bottom. … I’m grateful that I made it out of here alive.” Dunbar, who has asthma, is one of many residents living in the Peace Lake Towers community, which serves people 62 and older and people with disabilities.

The 131-unit development in the 9000 block of Chef Menteur Highway was completely evacuated after a two-alarm fire broke out in a sixth-floor apartment on the east wing at around 7:55 p.m. Sunday. New Orleans Fire Department traced its origin to an oven. On Monday morning, a man who asked not to be identified said that fire started in his 63-year-old grandmother’s apartment while she was cooking fish in a skillet. He said she was unable to escape through the door because it was next to the blazing oven. “My grandma was trying to get out, but she couldn’t get out,” he said. The woman leaped through her sixth-story window, the NOFD confirmed, landing in shrubbery and mud directly below. She went to a hospital with “limited injuries,” the Fire Department said. Her grandson, who came to the

building Monday to inspect her apartment and bring her clothes, said she had a swollen lip and eye and an injury affecting her appendix, but had not broken any bones. Twenty Fire Department units carrying 55 firefighters responded to the blaze which was marked under control at 8:31 p.m. Three New Orleans Police Departments who evacuated a toddler from the building were suffered smoke inhalation. Two were treated on scene, and the third was taken to a hospital, the NOPD said. The department did not identify the officers, who were listed in stable condition Sunday night. No other injuries were reported. Fire Department Capt. Edwin Holmes said eight single-occupancy apartments received mild to significant damage.

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new trade route

Avondale Global Gateway welcomes aluminum shipment BY GRACE MAYER Staff writer

Avondale Global Gateway, the logistics hub on the site of the former Avondale Shipyard, will be used to bring between 200,000 and 300,000 tons of aluminum from Venezuela into the U.S. each year under the terms of a new trade deal announced Monday, a signiﬁcant win for the private port facility in Jefferson Parish and for the federal government, ofﬁcials said.

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La. family accused of torching rental homes in insurance scam Authorities: Yearslong fraud netted over $1M BY JAMES FINN Staff writer

The fires, prosecutors say, all started in similar places — usually in a child’s bedroom or the kitchen areas of more than a dozen residential properties clustered within a few square miles in north Louisiana. Almost all of the 13 homes were total losses. The fires ignited late at night, starting with the first one in April 2019 and the last in January of this year. There were other similarities: Renters’ insurance policies on each of the properties all traced back to a single family in the communities of Monroe and West Monroe, last name Whitlock. Lists of items lost to the fires, later sent to an insurance company, were nearly identical. Prosecutors say it was all a setup.

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Continued from page 1B She asked me to pick from cards she shuffled and kept in her basket. She covered the cards with rocks — I wasn’t sure if that was because of the wind or if the rocks meant something to her. According to the first card I picked, she told me there were parts of me that wished I spoke up with more confidence. I wasn’t certain of a correct response since I feel like I speak up aplenty. My husband, friends and coworkers can testify. That said, I do sometimes try to

In an indictment unsealed late last month, mother LaShaundalyn Whitlock Brown, her children LaQuadra Whitlock and Latricia Whitlock, and Brown’s sister, Romenique Whitlock, were charged with intentionally setting the fires, then pocketing more than $1 million in bogus renters’ insurance claims for belongings they said the ﬂames had destroyed. They’re accused of stealing thousands more from a charity intended to help struggling renters after apartment fires, obtaining and laundering the money through hidden bank accounts as well as a Walmart payment service known as “Direct2Cash.” The 31-count grand jury indictment accuses the relatives of wire fraud, money laundering, conspiracy and using ﬁre to commit a federal felony. Also charged in the indictment are Jonika James, Iesha Alexander and Travericka Williams, whom prosecutors described as friends the Whitlocks enlisted to take out renters’ policies and

manage accounts they used to move stolen cash. The picture painted by the indictment, plus statements from state and federal officials about the case, is one of a family whose members sought to enrich themselves through a brazen, yearslong scheme that hinged on burning down unwitting homeowners’ properties. The indictment names as the scheme’s victims a large insurance company that wrote renters’ insurance policies and a Washington, D.C.-based humanitarian organization that helped make fire victims whole. But the scheme had more localized impacts, too, officials said. “These fires affected whole neighborhoods,” said Zachary Keller, the U.S. attorney for Louisiana’s Western District, as he addressed reporters after the indictment was unsealed last week. “These fires affected first responders. These fires affected people who actually owned the homes that these people were renting.” Lawyers for each of the

seven defendants did not respond to inquiries. Court records show all of them have pleaded not guilty. All were released on bail save for Brown, whom a magistrate judge ordered detained due to her prior criminal history, records show. Court records say the Whitlocks would first rent properties, either in their names or those of the three additional defendants, whom prosecutors said the Whitlocks paid to illegally use their identities. (The indictment suggests they may have enlisted additional people to sign leases, too.) Then they would take out renters’ policies through a large insurance company identiﬁed in the indictment as “Victim 1.” The indictment says the company maintained a headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois — the home of State Farm’s corporate offices. A State Farm ofﬁce in Monroe did not respond to a phone message about the case. Within about two months of the Whitlocks taking out a renter’s policy, each of the

limit myself so I don’t cross the line into obnoxiousness. And yet, I recognized that I used to speak up more. I explained that I stopped speaking up all the time because it is exhausting. Somewhere along the way, I realized that I can’t ﬁx everything. That, she said, was her point. The more she talked, the more I realized that what she and I do overlaps. She listens to people to help them ﬁnd insights about their own stories. I listen to people to tell their stories. We both take on the stories of others — which, she said, has its costs, something I had not considered. Laurent said she has her

rituals and routines to not take on too much of another person’s story. “Like I keep my head covered,” she said. I have no head wrap. Until that moment, it hadn’t occurred to me that I might need one. Other people’s stories generally stay with me. Something someone said to me in an interview 21 years ago will just pop into my head at the strangest moment. I still remember an Iraqi refugee I interviewed in 2005 who told me about being in prison in Iraq. He said, “Oh, all the most interesting people were in prison in Iraq.” Taking in thousands of stories has changed me. I’d like to believe all of those stories

have worked together to make me more empathetic — and maybe, occasionally, more impatient. Laurent and I have different ideas about the need to protect ourselves from other people’s stories. Maybe the difference comes down to our thoughts on how much one person’s spirit can touch another’s. Laurent was raised in a tradition with a clear answer. I’m still working on mine. The exchange reminded me of the great joy of being a journalist. It is the gift of walking up to someone, even a tarot card reader on Jackson Square, and saying, “Tell me your story.” And they do.

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ment projects. When the current citywide hiring freeze took effect Continued from page 1B last fall, library administrators touted the position as a key factor in addressing longstanding facility last year as well, prompting of- issues. ficials to dip into the system’s reserve fund and devote over $10 Problems come after overhaul million toward replacing the roofs The library system’s recent and heating, ventilation and air problems come after the city welconditioning systems across five comed a complete rebuild of six of locations. 15 library locations heavily damLibrary officials say the problem aged in the wake of Hurricane Kais owed largely to aging post-Ka- trina. The new construction was trina heating, ventilation and air- funded through a mix of federal conditioning equipment. Repairs disaster money and private grants. But LeBlanc said sites facing have taken a while, they said, because of bottlenecks in the city’s premature HVAC equipment process of finding an affordable failures now are a result of decicontractor to the work. sions to cut corners during those Other issues have also prolonged projects. closures, such as needed roof re“The focus was on getting the placements and at Nora Navra. buildings opened quickly and not Geckos also damaged an air-con- particularly longevity,” he said, ditioning control board, which re- adding that contractors used quired additional work, according equipment that was readily availto the libraries’ building projects able, but not necessarily the best and maintenance log. quality. “What we’re noticing now is The library uses the city’s purthat equipment is failing a little chasing department to find conbit sooner than expected, so we’re tractors for repairs, a process that seeing failures at 85% to 90% of can take up to 90 days per job, at its life span instead of getting all least, officials said. the way to 100%,” library facilities The library system is largely administrator Sam LeBlanc said. funded by two dedicated properLeBlanc was hired in May for ty tax millages and by a separate a specially created position to as- nonprofit foundation that raises sess and oversee facility improve- money for programming.

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Pallets of aluminum sit on Avondale Global Gateway’s campus.

Continued from page 1B At an announcement celebrating the new deal, state and federal officials, including President Donald Trump's Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, said the annual shipments of aluminum from Venezuela through Avondale to manufacturers elsewhere in the U.S. will bolster the aluminum pipeline for the country's energy, defense and manufacturing sectors. Aluminum is used in everyday objects, including cars, airplanes, phones and microwaves. About half the aluminum used in the U.S. each year is imported, most of which comes from Canada, which currently faces a 50% import tariff from the U.S. The United Arab Emirates and China are the two second largest importers of aluminum, and also face

Mayor Helena Moreno’s administration has proposed raising local millages so that city agencies can stave off millions in cuts to city services next year, with proposals ranging from $21 million to $42 million in annual revenue. If approved by the City Council, the library tax that funds new construction, improvements, maintenance and operations could be levied at 4.00, according to a draft ordinance. A separate millage for operations could be raised to 2.33. The rates are 2.27 and 2.05 currently. According to an online calculator provided by Moreno’s administration, the new respective library millages could generate an additional $11.2 million in revenue for the system. Under Moreno’s proposed 2027 budget, which doesn’t account for any roll forward, the library would see a nearly 6% cut and would operate with $32 million in general fund dollars. Library officials did not say whether they are for or against a roll forward of the library’s millage. A spokesperson for Moreno did not respond to a question about whether she supports a roll forward for the library. The mayor has said she wants to work with the council to decide which millages should be rolled forward.

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tariffs. The shipment marks the first step to building a “reliable, long-term” relationship between the U.S. and Venezuela, which at one point was a dominant aluminum exporter, said Sean Pi, co-founder of Heeney Capital Investments, a U.S. private investment and operating firm that operates several metal mining and refining assets. Heeney partners with governments and industries to create assets that will bolster U.S. supply chains.

At the announcement Monday, the ﬁrst 15,000 tons of aluminum, which arrived at Avondale last week, were displayed on giant pallets outside a warehouse, where it will be temporarily stored. It was the ﬁrst order of its kind to be shipped from Venezuela to the U.S. in more than eight years, officials said. As shipments come in, every few weeks, workers from the campus will unload the pallets by crane from the ships. From there, the mate-

13 properties would burn. The defendants would file with the insurance firm lists of items they’d lost. The lists were often identical down to the same typos, the indictment says. The defendants would also file claims for hotel stays and other relocation costs. Though claims often originated in others’ names, the Whitlocks would route the money to several bank accounts they controlled, the indictment says. One Jan. 20, 2024, wire transfer from the insurance company to an account controlled by Brown totaled $33,354. Another the next year was nearly $70,000. The defendants sought additional payments from a “nonprofit humanitarian organization headquartered in Washington, D.C.” that maintained chapters in Louisiana, the indictment says. The organization, which is not identified further in the indictment, offered funds for food, clothing and other essential goods to people displaced by fires. The Whitlocks collected

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Continued from page 1B “Six of those residents were able to be relocated within the facility,” Holmes said in a Monday afternoon statement. “Two will be temporarily displaced and are receiving housing assistance from the American Red Cross.” Wayne Gardner, a 10year resident of Peace Lake Towers, said more aid was needed. When he returned to his apartment a few hours after the evacuation, it smelled of smoke, he said. He was not offered alternate accommodations or evaluated at

Current projects Most of the library’s infrastructure projects are funded through a citywide capital projects budget backed by bond sales. About $12 million is currently allocated through capital projects for various HVAC, roof and infrastructure repairs across locations, including $8 million for HVAC and an elevator replacement at the Main Library. Officials are expected to select a contractor this month with construction slated for completion by December 2027, according to library documents. The Children’s Resource Center is another capital project that reopened last week after a yearlong closure to address several year’s worth of deferred maintenance and facility upgrades. Rosa Smith and Norman Meyer also both received new HVAC units this year through capital projects, but Meyer remains closed since Sept. 22 due to “high temperatures in the building,” library ofﬁcials said on the agency’s website. The unit requires replacement parts and has to undergo testing. “We know this is frustrating after the building was closed for a capital project, but we want to assure our community that this is

rial will be transported from Avondale’s campus by rail, trucks and, possibly, barge, to other businesses and manufacturers around the country, said Jeff Keever, Avondale's government affairs representative.

Slowly growing The announcement is a win for T. Parker Host, the parent company that purchased the dormant Avondale Shipyard site in 2018. Since then, Host has invested millions in reviving the 275-acre property into a logistics campus, which today employs more than 600 people and transports around 75 types of commodities each year. In 2023, Host came under scrutiny when it tried to sell the facility to the Port of South Louisiana in a deal that ultimately died when state ofﬁcials balked at the price tag. Since then, Host has been searching for more tenants to ﬁll up a large amount of

thousands of dollars’ worth of bogus claims from the nonprofit, the indictment says. Many of the payments flowed through Walmart’s “Direct2Cash” service, which allows customers to send and receive money and pick it up from store locations. A Walmart spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment on the case. Officials said the investigation began when the Louisiana Department of Insurance and the National Insurance Crime Bureau, an industry group that tracks insurance fraud, began communicating about suspected fraudulent claims. Investigators from the State Fire Marshal’s Ofﬁce, Monroe Fire Department, Louisiana State Police and the FBI also investigated the case. Keller, who was born and raised in West Monroe and recently returned to the region after working as a federal prosecutor in Florida, is prosecuting the case alongside Assistant U.S. Attorney Amy J. Miller.

the scene for smoke inhalation. “All the smoke that was in the building, we had to suck up all that smoke,” Gardner said. “After we got back to our apartment, I had to smell smoke all night coming through the air conditioning. We didn’t get accommodation.” Dunbar said the smoke aggravated her asthma, and she is looking for alternate housing. She felt lucky that she escaped without injuries. Dunbar credited a “higher power” and the spirits of her mother and two brothers, one of whom died three years ago to the day. “I had my angels looking out for me,” Dunbar said.

normal,” ofﬁcials said. The closures, meanwhile, are frustrating for residents and staff alike. One staff member, who asked to remain anonymous because they aren’t authorized to publicly speak on the matter, said leaky roofs at various sites have raised concerns about poor air quality from mold long after they’ve been replaced. The Keller Library closed for more than eight months in 2024 when mold was found inside the building’s HVAC system, for example. The staffer said visible dust buildup suggests vents and air ducts aren’t often cleaned. Staff are also asked to rotate between sites as closures occur, sometimes working in inconvenient locations. They’ve also been short-staffed for years, the staffer said, an issue that has affected everything from productivity to vacation request approvals. Asked about those issues, library spokesperson Jane LeGros said the city has been under a hiring freeze and that the majority of vacancies have come from people that have exited over the last year. “We’re pushing all the chips across the board as we can, and I don’t think anybody feels the pain of closing a library more than the librarians,” LeBlanc said.

warehouse space at a facility that essentially acts as a competitor to south Louisiana’s five public ports. In May, the campus notched a significant win when it welcomed a new tenant: Brazilbased Suzano, the world’s largest wood pulp supplier. The new trade route and shipments of Venezuelan aluminum will be another boost for the facility, officials said. “This is what Avondale is built to do,” said Adam Anderson, chair and CEO of T. Parker Host. “We're honored, not surprised that Heeney trusted Avondale to offload the MV Lipsi ship.” Earlier this year, Cornerstone Chemical, an industrial products maker in Waggaman, said it planned to build a $450 million fertilizer plant on its campus, which intends to bolster the U.S.’s supply chain for fertilizer. The aluminum shipments at Avondale will aim to do something similar, said

Jefferson Parish Economic Development Commission CEO Jerry Bologna, who attended the event. “It underscores Louisiana and, more acutely Jefferson Parish, is leading the way in reducing our reliance on adversarial entities,” Bologna said. Staff writer Rich Collins contributed reporting to this story.

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fore eventually becoming a RN in 1975. She was well loved by her patients and noted for her care she provided them. Relatives and friends are invited to attend the Visitation and Prayer Service at L.A. Muhleisen & Son Funeral Home, 2607 Williams Blvd., Kenner, LA on Thursday, October 8, 2026. Visitation will be from 9:00 am - 11:00 am with the Prayer Service to start at 11:00 am. Burial will follow the services at Jefferson Memorial Gardens Cemetery, St. Rose, LA. To share memories or condolences, please visit www.muhleisen.com

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Obituaries Brouillette, Betty Lee Ellis

Betty Lee Ellis Brouillette passed away peacefully on Sunday September, 27 2026 at the age of 92. Beloved wife of Will Brouillette for 33 years. Loving mother of Debbie Kurtz (Jim), Michael Ellis (Leslie), Danny Ellis (the late Diane), and Jimmy Ellis (Joanne). Grandmother of eight. Great-grandmother of five. Daughter of the late Carson Blevins, Sr. and Vadna Herron Blevins. Sister of the late Carson "Junior" Blevins, Jr.(Josie) , George "Buddy" Blevins (Pen), and Curtis "Ray" Blevins(the late Juanita). Also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. She worked her whole life in the medical field. She began has an LPN, be-

Patricia "Tricia" Stark Favalora, 69, of Kenner, Louisiana, passed away on October 1, 2026. Born in New Orleans on February 18, 1957, to the late George J. and Beatrice Joan Stark, she was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and sister whose greatest joy was time spent with the people she loved. Tricia cherished her family above all else, and none more deeply than her husband, Stanley, to whom she was married for 41 years. Their bond was the foundation of her family and the heart of her home. Whether gathered together with her husband, her daughters, her grandchildren, or her sisters, she made every moment count. She gave generously, always sharing her time, her heart, and whatever she had with those around her. Her kindness, warmth, and selfless spirit touched everyone who knew her. She is survived by her

loving husband, Stanley J. Favalora, Jr.; her daughters, Sherri Jacob Gregson (Ray) and Michelle Favalora Maynard (Kyle); her six grandchildren, Ryan (Amberly), Rylie, Reece, Caroline, Ethan, and Alex; her sisters, Georgia Buras, Karen Rauch, Barbara Acosta (Darin), and Bridget Gardner; her mother- and father-in-law, Beverly and Greg Mangiaracina; her sistersin-law, Beverly Johns (Mark) and Elaine Deckwa (Bill); her brothers-in-law, Dominic "Nicky" Favalora (Marilyn) and Paul Favalora (Margaret); and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her sister-in-law, Debbie F. Gioe. Friends and family are invited to attend a visitation beginning at 11:00 a.m., followed by a funeral service at 1:00 p.m., on Saturday, October 10, 2026, at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd., New Orleans, Louisiana. Interment will follow the service.

Melancon, Jesse Lee

On October 1, 2026, on the Feast of St. Therese of Lisieux, Jesse Lee Melancon passed away as he lived, with humility and peacefulness while doing what he loved, working in his garden. Jesse was born in New Orleans, LA on October 12, 1941, the only child of the late Angelina Maggiore

and Lee Joseph Melancon. Although he was an only child, he never felt like one because of the love of his large Melancon family. He met the unequivocal love of his life, Jeanne Marie "Tiny" Veron, in September of 1964. They were married on August 19, 1967, and celebrated their 59th wedding anniversary this year. Jesse's life with Jeanne was made whole by his children and grandchildren: David and his late wife Laura (Tatar) and their children Madeline, Michael and Justin; Brian and Monique (Plauche) and their children Paige and Sam; and Elizabeth and George Kuchler and their children Julia, Ellie and Jack. He had the added bonus of his unofficially adopted son, Doug Hernandez, whom he loved and cherished as his own, as well as six Collins stepgrandchildren and 1 stepgreat grandchild, when David married Jennifer Babin Collins. Jesse was affectionately known as Positive Pops. He began every day by writing in his gratitude journal, intentionally listing his prayer requests and hopes for the day and giving thanks for the blessings in his life. The morning of his death, he wrote faithfully and perhaps prophetically in his journal about support and acceptance. Even to the end, Jesse could always find the light in every situation. He had a deep abiding faith and an avid devotion to Mary, especially Our Lady of Lourdes. His experience of healing in Lourdes had a profound impact on his life. It is most appropriate that he died during one of his favorite months, October, the month of the Rosary. He also revered the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony, and he and Jeanne spent many years as Team Leaders for Marriage Encounter. Jesse was incredibly proud of his service in the US Army as a military po-

liceman. While stationed in Germany, he traveled throughout Europe, which was the beginning of his lifelong love of travel. Professionally, he was a market manager for Ideal Cement Company. His work ethic permeated every part of his life. Jesse was an enthusiastic participant in many groups with many close friends. The Good Timers just celebrated their 19th year together. He and Jeanne also enjoyed their rosary group, scripture study, and card groups. Jesse was also famous for his upbeat, encouraging emails. He was always looking for ways to connect people socially, intellectually, or spiritually.

Chicago, Il. at age 85. She leaves to mourn a loving husband of more than 59 years, Rodney D. Merrick. Among numerous interests, she particular enjoyed dancing, tennis, gardening, calligraphy and teaching students with special needs. My wife Linda was the most beautiful and the best thing that ever happened to me. All of the light in my life has been extinguished.

He made an indelible mark on the lives of everyone he met. He was larger than life while remaining humble of heart. His outlook on life and positive, joyful spirit will be greatly missed by all. Visitation will be held on Thursday, October 8, 2026, from 10:30-12:15 at St. Catherine of Siena Church. Words of Remembrance will begin at 12:15, followed by his funeral Mass. A private burial will take place at a later date.

Merrick, Linda Allain

Born January 24,1941 in New Orleans, La; died September 12, 2026 in

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Proceed with caution on AI in the classroom There’s no question that artificial intelligence is reshaping our world faster than many thought possible. AI tools are transforming entire industries and could make some jobs obsolete in the next decade. And it’s also changing the way we teach our kids. Louisiana schools have embraced AI in the classroom with technology that can tailor lessons to each kid’s abilities, help teachers create lesson plans and more. The state Department of Education has issued guidance saying Louisiana wants to be a leader in leveraging AI. We are not Luddites. We recognize that AI has the potential to bring tremendous benefits to teachers and students. However, when it comes to AI in the classroom, we are with the parents who are calling for educators to slow down and think carefully about the long-term effect of having kids stare at screens and read to AI “tutors” rather than real human teachers. Let’s recall that our state’s recent reading gains that have been the talk of the nation have come not because of some fancy new technology. They have come from a back-to-basics approach that emphasizes phonics and trains teachers to spot which students are struggling and get them remedial help. The strategies adopted by education leaders have relied on data and evidence of what works. So far, little solid research exists on which AI tools work best in the classroom. Particularly for younger students, there should be thoughtful discussion before AI apps are used as a substitute for human interaction. That’s why we are encouraged that more parents are starting to force this conversation in school districts. In St. Tammany Parish, for example, a group of moms banded together to form a local chapter of Schools Beyond Screens, a national group that is advocating for restrictions on AI use in schools. One of their first steps is a survey on how devices are used in schools. The Louisiana Federation of Teachers says it is conducting a similar survey among teachers. This is important. Before we can discuss issues with AI, we need to understand exactly how it is being used. Some of the country’s largest school districts, including New York and Los Angeles, have issued moratoriums on AI use in K-12 schools. While we would not go so far as to call for a ban, we do advocate for a slowdown in the adoption of this technology. We understand that some large tech companies are making a lot of money peddling tablets, apps and AI education tools to school districts. And that makes us even more wary. After all, the oft-quoted mantra in Silicon Valley is to “move fast and break things.” That may be well and good when it comes to developing the newest phone or software. But if we break our kids, there isn’t any quick fix.

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Criminal defense is vital and guaranteed by the Constitution

N.O. should raise sales tax before asking more of property owners As a lifelong resident of New Orleans and a property taxpayer for more than 42 years, I am deeply concerned about the proposal to increase property taxes to address the city’s budget shortfall. I understand that the city faces serious financial challenges and that difficult decisions must be made. However, I question whether placing an additional burden primarily on property owners is the fairest or most sustainable approach. Property owners already contribute substantially to the cost of government through property taxes and millages that support police, fire protection, public schools, libraries, recreation, drainage and numerous other public services. These services, of course, benefit the entire community — not simply the people who own real estate. Before asking property owners to contribute even more, I believe the city should undertake a comprehensive review of its expenditures. We should identify expenditures that can be reduced or eliminated before increasing the tax burden on the people

who already own and maintain property in New Orleans. I also believe the city should consider a broader-based revenue option. One possibility would be placing a proposition before Orleans Parish voters to increase the sales tax by 0.5%, with the revenue dedicated speciﬁcally to closing the city’s budget gap. Unlike an increase in property taxes, a sales tax would collect revenue from people who do not own property as well as visitors who make taxable purchases in the city. New Orleans residents deserve a tax system that is transparent, broadbased and equitable. Property owners should not automatically be viewed as the primary solution whenever the city faces a budget shortfall. After 42 years of paying property taxes in New Orleans, I believe property owners have earned the right to ask for accountability, efﬁciency and a thorough examination of alternatives before being asked to pay more.

Recently, I received a campaign flyer in the mail from someone who suggested that her opponent in a judicial race could “not be trusted to keep our families safe.” This conclusion came from the fact that he “chose to defend” people accused of rape, murder, child pornography and fentanyl distribution. I take umbrage at this cheap shot. The candidate noted that she had started her career at the Louisiana Supreme Court and done much scholarly research. But she apparently missed both the law school classes and the Louisiana (and United States) Supreme Court opinions stressing that the system can only work with the vigorous efforts of defense attorneys, as guaranteed by both the Louisiana Constitution and the Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Like the candidate who circulated the flyer, I also started work clerking at the Louisiana Supreme Court after going to a highly regarded law school. Like her, I have written law review articles. She probably also taught — as I have— some law school classes and some continuing education courses in both substantive law and procedure. She has devoted “countless hours” to pro bono service, just as I chose to become a public defender for almost 47 years. She may have worked for her church, just as I have worked as both a eucharistic minister and Boy Scout leader. I have represented countless fellow citizens accused of rape, murder, child pornography offenses and drug distribution. But if any candidate — anywhere, anytime — were to suggest that my devotion to the ideals of the Constitution disqualified me from serving as a judge, what would that show? It would show that the candidate is so saturated with prejudices against fellow citizens accused of crime that the candidate herself cannot be trusted to rid herself of those prejudices, as would be required when taking office.

JAY PITTMAN New Orleans

We need unbiased review of 15-year roof rule I just read the article concerning the fortified roof program the state of Louisiana offered and how the rules changed midstream for those who purchased a fortified roof (“How a change in fortified roof program could cause homeowners to lose discounts after 15 years,” Oct. 3). Everyone should have seen that coming, since the Institute for Business and Home Safety board that makes the rules is nothing but executives from major insurance companies. IBHS is wholly supported by the property insurance industry. Where did the 15-year rule come from? Why

not 20 years? Are there engineering studies out there to support the 15-year rule? It seems to me that there should be an independent body outside the insurance industry that could review the rule and make a decision since the state has invested so much in the fortiﬁed roof program. Has the newspaper or Insurance Commissioner Tim Temple even asked that question? Please explain to me how the state came up with 15 years.

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Anyone who doesn’t think there is something corrupt with the NFL must not be watching the New Orleans Saints this year. Game 1: Saints sack Lions quarterback, his arm straight in the air — the ball comes loose, the Saints pick it up and score a touchdown. The ruling is an incomplete pass, and the Saints don’t have the ball. On Sept. 27, an identical play: The Saints have the ball, with quarterback Tyler Shough’s arm in the air to pass. A Raiders player hits him; the ball

comes out of his hand and the Raiders recover. The ruling is a fumble. Two identical plays, two different rulings, and both are against the Saints. Here is the catch: The NFL has a gag order in all players’ and coaches’ contracts, banning any bad talk about ofﬁciating or the NFL. If they do so, they will be ﬁned or suspended. And people pay very good money to see this corruption.

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COMMENTARY Britain bails out possible terrorists Republicans President Donald Trump says he was after he was accused in a German ter“surprised” that Britain released five ror plot. suspected terrorists on bail. The susOne might think that Britain, which pects were arrested after a farmer saw suffered its own “9/11” on July 7, 2005, when terrorists targeted London’s the masked men and several vans 100 public transportation system, yards from a British air base the killing 52 people, might take U.S. has used to conduct bombsubsequent threats more seriing runs on Iran. British authorities said tests ously and not release the five on the vehicles did not reveal suspects on bail. Human nature any “viable explosives.” Maybe and their ideology suggest not, but such suspicious behavior these men are unlikely to show Cal might have been a test run ahead up for their court date and Thomas of an attack on the base. Predictcould flee the country. Though America has not exably, Iran, which has threatened to retaliate against any nation aligning perienced another terrorist attack on itself with the U.S. attacks, has denied the scale of 9/11, Britain has been the any connection to the men. Did we extarget of several other catastrophic attacks. Unfortunately, the power of pect Iran to tell the truth? political correctness and not wanting Why not wait until the investigation to call the motivation behind these atis complete before considering the release of the suspects on bail? The pubtacks for what it is, overcame common sense. lic doesn’t know the names of the five There was the Manchester Arena men because British laws restrict such Bombing on May 22, 2017, at an Ariana disclosures, so their backgrounds canGrande concert. Twenty-two people not be independently investigated. were killed. More evidence that Britain is letting On March 22, 2017, there was an atits guard down – if it ever had it sufficiently up – comes with news that Lon- tack on London’s Westminster Bridge. The driver of a vehicle struck people don granted refugee status and later walking on the bridge. He then got out citizenship to a former bodyguard of and stabbed others. Five people died. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, though Then there was the attack on London his ties to terror groups were publicly known. They kept on hosting him even Bridge on June 3, 2017 — A van and

knife attack on London Bridge and in Borough Market killed eight people. It appeared to be a copycat of the March 22 attack. What does it say about Britain’s seriousness in ﬁghting terrorism when it took a farmer, not the police, to discover suspicious activity so close to an air base? Did the base not have cameras or military patrols? Was anyone paying attention besides the alert farmer? Britain has been in decline for years. As in other European countries, London has had issues with high levels of cross-border asylum-seekers. The border policy of the Biden administration also contributed to the immigration crisis at America’s southern border. To his credit, President Trump effectively closed the southern border to asylum seekers and unauthorized migrants and has deported thousands of criminals who violated U.S. immigration laws, potentially making the country safer. Letting these ﬁve suspects out on bail was a major mistake that could come back to haunt the British government. If terrorists, or any like-minded people manage to attack the air base and people are killed, it will be the government that will have blood on its hands. Email Cal Thomas at tcaeditors@ tribpub.com.

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Stop buying votes, everybody It would be hard to find a more insult- proval but questioned the mechanics of handing out all that dough. Rep. Beth ing offer than to exchange money for Van Duyne, R-Texas, said, “The devil’s your vote. That’s exactly what Presialways in the details.” dent Donald Trump did in announcing Actually, the devil is in the offer. It is that if voters keep Republicans in a buying of votes. If Republicans power come the midterms, attempt a partisan comeback by he’ll send every adult citizen a arguing that Democrats do it, too, $5,000 check. they have a point. Democrats do Now, one would not put monbuy votes, though they usually ey on that promise. Even if couch the exchange in less vulgar Republicans do retain control terms. of both the House and the SenFroma Was Joe Biden buying votes ate, the promise will surely Harrop when he promised to help pay off be thrown in the same manila student loans? He was. He anfolder as the vow to release the Epstein files, all of them. nounced his student-debt cancellation Of course, Trump would not be payplan, which would have erased up to ing us five grand — the federal govern- $10,000 in debt for qualifying borrowment would. ers, shortly before the 2022 midterms. That would cost around $1.2 trillion. Helping pay for education sounds Trump says the money would come nice on the surface. But it raised refrom his tariff collections. The math sentment in families who saved money doesn’t work. The tariffs so far have for college. One middle-income father, raised only about $270 billion after sub- ordinarily a devoted Democrat, comtracting the court-ordered refunds to plained to me that he sent his highimporters. achieving son to a community college To be fair to Republicans, the offer for the first two years because it was has turned a number of their stomachs. free. “I disagree with it,” said Rep. Ralph Has New York Gov. Kathy Hochul Norman, R-S.C. “It’s pay-to-play ... Plus, put votes on the auction block by mailwhere are you getting the money? I ing checks of up to $200 “to help famithink we’re in debt $40 trillion.” lies keep pace with the rising cost of Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, was less energy”? Of course. diplomatic: “Some of us think depenA Democrat up for reelection, Hodency is evil and soul-sucking, in all its chul is in a surprisingly close race with forms.” Republican Bruce Blakeman, a Nassau Others skipped the moral disapCounty executive.

Her pitch is pretty blatant: “You don’t have to do a thing. No application, no paperwork ... If you’re eligible, the check is coming to you.” She pretties it up by calling the payments an investment. These days, Vice President JD Vance sees himself as Trump’s sander, smoothing the abrasive edges of his policies without sounding overly critical, important if he harbors his own presidential ambitions. Vance also suggested that wealthy Americans wouldn’t get those $5,000 checks. “What the president is saying,” Vance explained, “is if you keep us in power and allow us to continue to do these things, then you’re going to share in some of the beneﬁts ...” Which of “these things” is he referring to? Surely not the tariffs, the Iran war, the government borrowings that have made life in America a lot more expensive. There’s the argument that farm subsidies and tax cuts are also payoffs for votes. One difference is that the farm money goes mainly to farmers and the tax cuts go mostly to the upper incomes who least need the help. All politicians should be called out for vote buying with taxpayer dollars. Trump’s $5,000 bid just adds insult by being so blatant. Froma Harrop is on X @FromaHarrop. Email her at fharrop@gmail.com.

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For more than 50 years, voters of faith have aligned strongly with the Republican Party. In the last election, White evangelical Christians accounted for almost 1 in 4 voters, and they backed Donald Trump by an astounding 82% to 17%, according to exit polls. Voters with no religious ties, also about one-fourth of the electorate, supported Kamala Harris 71% to 27%. This year, that vast imbalance is starting to shift. A small but vocal Steve number of Democratic candidates Roberts for the House and Senate are emphasizing their religious origins and values. Often, they cite scripture to explain their embrace of liberal doctrine. A typical campaign argument is voiced by Sarah Trone Garriott, a Lutheran minister and state legislator who is challenging the incumbent Republican, Zach Nunn, in Iowa’s third district. “Jesus tells the parable of the Good Samaritan,” she preaches. “Everyone is your neighbor. Anyone who is overlooked and left behind and forgotten — that’s who you are called to help, and that is the calling of government.” “When you say that a candidate is religious, most voters then assume that they’re Republican, that they’re pretty conservative,” David Campbell, a political science professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Reuters. “What you’re seeing now is a small group of Democrats who are using religious language to speak about issues on the left.” Those faith-based Democrats don’t have an easy path. Their party is deeply rooted in highly secular institutions, like universities, and coastal urban centers where words like “God” and “prayer” are seldom invoked — even disdained. “If you’re a Democratic candidate, you actually have a pretty tricky road to navigate, because on the one hand, you do have a very secular base, people who are not very comfortable with religion,” says Campbell. “But on the other hand, there are a lot of moderate voters out there who are up for grabs who are very comfortable with religious language.” The modern connection between observant voters and conservative politics obscures a long and important dimension in American history. Liberal religionists have played major roles in many righteous crusades, from abolishing slavery and enacting women’s suffrage to the civil rights struggles of the 1960s. A major change started with the Roe v. Wade decision of 1973 that legalized abortion and energized right-wing religious leaders to enter politics. Progressive court rulings on issues like gay rights and school prayer further inflamed many observant voters, and Republican candidates generated support by promising to appoint federal judges who would reverse those opinions. Donald Trump is hardly a paragon of religious values. He’s been married three times, seldom goes to church, brags about abusing women and stands convicted of sexual assault and paying hush money to a porn star. But he’s remained popular among religious conservatives by appointing about 280 judges, including three to the Supreme Court, who all voted to overturn the Roe decision. He’s also cloaked himself in religious imagery, posting memes that depict him as the pope and even as a Jesus-like healer. In his latest TV ads, he calls the fall election the “final battle” and vows to “cast out” his enemies — clear references to Biblical paradigms. The faith-based Democrats running this fall are trying to shift the focus away from these cultural issues to economic ones, where Trump and the Republicans are far weaker. A good example is Lindsay James, a Presbyterian chaplain and state legislator who decided to run for Congress in Iowa after Republicans slashed federal healthcare spending and offended her Christian values. Voters tell her about having to choose between paying for utility bills or winter clothing, rent or food. “These are the kinds of impossible choices that people are making, and they’re doing it in the wealthiest country in the world,” James said at a political rally. “And I think all of us can agree that that is not right.” “For the first time in a long time, Democratic candidates are making faith voters a priority and making sure they know that they’re an essential part of the party,” Doug Pagitt, an evangelical pastor and executive director of Vote Common Good, writes in The Hill. “Just as Republicans don’t own what it means to be American, Republicans don’t own religion. Democrats should embrace our religious diversity and firmly declare that people of faith belong in our party.” In letting Republicans “own religion,” Democrats have been making a major mistake. The candidates who are reclaiming the historical connection between strong faith and progressive ideals are doing “good works.” Email Steven Roberts at stevecokie@gmail. com.

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Atlanta Falcons running back Bijan Robinson, center, celebrates after scoring against the New Orleans Saints on Monday at the Caesars Superdome.

Falcons blow out Saints to spoil 20-year ‘Domecoming’ anniversary BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

What was supposed to be a celebration of a moment was instead a national exposure of a team that failed to meet it. On a night the New Orleans Saints honored the 20-year anniversary of the famed “Domecoming” game, when Steve Gleason’s punt block reverberated throughout a region recovering from Hurricane Katrina, the current iteration of the team was out-classed by the rival Atlanta Falcons. The final score: Atlanta 45, New Orleans 24, a brutal loss that dropped the Saints to 1-3 on the season. In an ironic twist of fate, the 45 points the Saints allowed to Atlanta represented the most it had given up to the Falcons since a 45-32 loss Sept. 26, 2016 — the 10-year anniversary of the Domecoming game. A sellout crowd was on hand to witness the Saints’ first home appearance on “Monday Night Football” since November 2021. Those fans were whipped into a frenzy shortly after the coin toss when several members of the 2006 team, including quarterback Drew Brees, met Gleason on the field to lead the pre-game Who Dat chant.

Saints fans pay tribute to Gleason statue for anniversary, Page 4C

But all those good vibes were almost instantly neutralized by the best player on the football field Monday night. On the third play from scrimmage, Falcons superstar running back Bijan Robinson squeezed through a hole in the left side of the line and hit the afterburners when he saw a wide open lane in front of him. His 59-yard lighting strike touchdown gave Atlanta a 7-0 lead before the game was even 90 seconds old. It was a sign of what was to come. Atlanta bullied a New Orleans defensive front that was without injured linebacker Kaden Elliss and edge rushers Carl Granderson and Anfernee Jennings. Robinson had 103 yards and a pair of touchdowns in the first half alone, finishing with 145 yards on the ground. His backup, Brian Robinson, scored three of his own touchdowns while tallying 62 yards rushing. The Falcons finished the game with five rushing touchdowns and 207 total rushing yards. It was the first time a Saints team allowed five rushing touchdowns in a single game since the Carolina Panthers did it against New Orleans in Week 17 of the 2012 season.

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After all the hype, Saints put forth embarrassing effort on special night as the Falcons raced to an early twoSome games you simply can’t lose. touchdown lead and never looked Monday night was one of those for back in recording a shocking 38-17 the New Orleans Saints. win. After all the buildup, the wall-toThe Saints have lost their wall media coverage, the mayshare of big home games over oral proclamation and celebrathe years but rarely have they tory second line parade, this no-showed the way they did on was one the Saints had to have. this night. You simply don’t lose to the In their first Monday night Atlanta Falcons on the 20th home appearance in nearly anniversary of the “DomeJeff four years, the Saints played coming” game. Not with Steve Duncan like a team that might not get Gleason, Drew Brees, Tromanother invite for a while. bone Shorty and Irma Thomas They allowed a 59-yard touchdown in the house. Not with Monday Night run by Bijan Robinson on the third Football and Roger Goodell on hand play from scrimmage and finished to celebrate the festivities. the ugly first quarter by losing a The Falcons, though, had other fumble, missing a field goal and comideas. They turned the Domecoming into a Dome-clubbing, spoiling the mitting four penalties. party with a shocking 45-24 beatdown Things didn’t get any better from and refusing to play sacrificial lambs there. After the Saints closed the on a night when everything was margin to 14-7 early in the secseemingly stacked against them. ond quarter, the Falcons promptly Instead of reprising their cathartic marched 64 yards for a touchdown 23-3 win in the historic reopening of and the Saints never got within douthe Superdome in 2006, the Saints ble digits from there. were embarrassed by the Falcons in The Falcons finished the game eerily similar fashion to the way they by scoring on six consecutive poswere in a 45-32 loss on the 10th annisessions. This wasn’t what Gleason meant when he sarcastically chided versary of the Domecoming. And it didn’t take long for the celä See DUNCAN, page 5C ebration to turn into a humiliation,

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Kiffin pleased with LSU’s progress Tigers enter 7-game SEC gauntlet at 4-1

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Lane Kiffin is mostly happy. Through five weeks, his first LSU team has met lofty expectations. The Tigers are nearly halfway through the season with a 4-1 record, averaging 43.6 points and allowing just 15.2 points per contest. The first-team defense has surrendered one second-half touchdown while the offense has scored nearly twice as many rushing touchdowns (19) as it had in 13 games last season (10). Their only loss came on the road to a top-10 team (Ole Miss), and they beat Texas A&M and Clemson by a combined score of 86-16. Kiffin has little to pick at heading into this weekend’s matchup against Kentucky (6 p.m., ESPN), the first of a seven-game stretch against Southeastern Conference competition. “I feel really good about our team,” Kiffin said on Monday. “We’ve had a lot of times where we’ve played as well as anybody in the country.” The numbers back Kiffin up that LSU has played like one of the best teams in the country. The Tigers are No. 10 in the AP Top 25 poll and No. 7 nationally in SP+, ESPN’s predictive efficiency metric. They also have the nation’s top defense in terms of efficiency, according to ESPN’s College Football Power Index. The only downside, according to Kiffin, has been the injuries. Losing tight end Trey’Dez Green, linebacker Whit Weeks and safety Dashawn Spears has weighed heavily on his mind. Quarterback Sam Leavitt’s hamstring injury hasn’t quelled any of his concerns, either. Green and Weeks could return this season, but Spears is out for the year with a torn ACL. Kif-

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LSU coach Lane Kiffin stands on the field during pregame warmups against McNeese State on Saturday at Tiger Stadium. Kiffin said Monday that he is pleased with the Tigers progress. fin said Monday that Green is closer to returning than Weeks. Green, who suffered a knee injury against Ole Miss, is out of his brace and able to move his knee around. “I think I feel really good apart from the injuries,” Kiffin said. “I hope you guys are figuring out I don’t make excuses; I just see how things are.” LSU has been tested only once through five games. Few people expected the Tigers to blow out Clemson and Texas A&M, but both teams have

been below their usual standard through five weeks. The Aggies lost to Kentucky at home, and Clemson has struggled offensively against everyone and got blown out by Miami at home Saturday. LSU’s lopsided wins over Louisiana Tech and McNeese State were no surprise. And in the only game when the Tigers played a quality opponent, they fell behind by 17 points at halftime and lost to Ole Miss. So the quality of competition seemingly has played at least

some role in LSU’s dominance, even as Kiffin bemoans the SEC’s decision to implement a nine-game conference schedule. “Once you’re at nine, it’s another SEC game,” Kiffin said last week. “It feels like we’ve played a whole season already and we still have seven SEC games to go.” The next three weeks may give a better indication of how good the Tigers are, but Kentucky, Mississippi State and Auburn aren’t College Football Playoff contenders or the kinds of teams a program like LSU should be measuring itself against. Kentucky has two road SEC wins, but it got blown out by Alabama. Mississippi State also got boat-raced by the Crimson Tide, and Auburn might fail to make a bowl game again. Mississippi State, thanks to star quarterback Kamario Taylor, is ranked and likely the toughest team of the bunch, but the Tigers will get to play them in Death Valley. Winning all three contests is a must before LSU has a week off before Halloween weekend and faces Alabama the following Saturday in Tiger Stadium. But Kiffin may not have a clear sense of his team’s true quality until the matchups against the Crimson Tide and Texas in November. Those two games could make or break LSU’s playoff chances. “I feel great about the future. I know what that is,” Kiffin said. “If we can put together this team in that short amount of time without any background with them. I know what next year and the year after will look like, but that has nothing to do with how this season is going.” Email Koki Riley at koki.riley@ theadvocate.com. For more LSU sports updates, sign up for our newsletter at theadvocate.com/ lsunewsletter

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31 carries for 100 yards and a touchdown. Kifﬁn likes to think outside the box to make sure not to miss a solution to a potential problem. “Sometimes the answers are right in front of you,” he said, “and you don’t realize them because you’re not open to them. So we really have a program like that, where anybody can bring up ideas, and we challenge old ways of thinking all the time to try to ﬁnd things like that.” Longstreet has not returned a punt. He called for fair catches in all of his chances Saturday. The redshirt freshman got to play his normal position, too. He completed 6 of 9 pass attempts for 62 yards in mop-up duty.

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LSU coach Lane Kiffin said Monday that tight end Trey’Dez Green and linebacker Whit Weeks will “hopefully” be able to return to the field “at some point” this season. Both Green and Weeks are out indefinitely with injuries they suffered in September. Green suffered “some sprains Notebook and bruises” in his knee in the Tigers’ Sept. 19 loss to Ole Miss, according to his mother, and Weeks fractured his lower leg in LSU’s Sept. 26 win over Texas A&M, according to multiple reports. “That will make us feel a lot better,” Kiffin said as part of an answer to a question about the overall state of his program. “Because those guys not just are great, All-American players. They were the (number) sevens for a reason. They’re dynamic leaders on the field.” Kiffin said that LSU does not have a target date for Green’s return. The junior is out of a brace and moving around freely on his injured knee. “If there’s anybody that’s gonna come back sooner maybe than what people thought, it would be him,” Kiffin said. “He’s getting closer.” As of Saturday, Weeks was still moving around on a scooter with a heavy wrap on his injured leg. He watched LSU beat McNeese State from a suite in Tiger Stadium, not the sideline. Their absences have not hurt LSU too badly yet. LSU routed the Aggies 35-6 in Week 4 and steamrolled the Cowboys 6314 in Week 5. Junior Davhon Keys started at linebacker in place of Weeks, while a mix of transfer

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LSU tight end Trey’Dez Green, top, spins out of a tackle attempt in the third quarter against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 12 at Tiger Stadium. tight ends played in place of Green, including Malachi Thomas, Zach Grace and Roman Mothershed. Mothershed, a Troy transfer, hauled in a 1-yard touchdown pass against McNeese. Keys recorded four tackles.

A QB did what? LSU did something unusual Saturday when it forced McNeese State to punt. The Tigers made their thirdstring quarterback, Husan Longstreet, a punt returner for a stretch. He wound up fielding five of McNeese’s 10 punts, in large part because Kiffin likes to drum up unconventional ideas

purely for the sake of drumming up unconventional ideas. “I think we do that as much as anybody, probably,” Kiffin said, “when it comes to creating news boxes, thinking outside the box, players playing different positions.” Kiffin compared the Longstreet experiment to something he tried during his tenure at Ole Miss. Defensive lineman JJ Pegues, a 6-foot-2, 325-pound nose guard, moonlighted as a running back because Kiffin thought the Rebels needed someone to run up the middle in short-yardage situations. He wound up finishing his collegiate career with

The Tigers’ Oct. 17 game at Tiger Stadium against Mississippi State is set for an 11 a.m. kickoff. The game will air on ABC or ESPN. This breaks LSU’s streak of six straight night games to open the 2026 season, including this weekend at Kentucky. The Tigers will have two straight 11 a.m. kickoffs because an Oct. 24 contest at Auburn already has been set for that time. The Tigers (4-1, 1-1 SEC) have a road trip to Kentucky (4-1, 2-1 SEC) this weekend before facing Mississippi State and Auburn to close out October. The Bulldogs (4-1, 2-1) just suffered their ﬁrst conference loss to Alabama after beating South Carolina and Missouri to open a nine-game SEC slate. Mississippi State has a bye this weekend. Bulldogs quarterback Kamario Taylor has been one of the most dynamic playmakers in the country, throwing for 1,450 yards and 17 touchdowns. He’s also rushed for 159 yards and a score.

Captials’ Ovechkin says 22nd season will be his last

WASHINGTON — Alex Ovechkin said Monday that his 22nd season in the NHL will be his last, beginning the farewell tour for the longtime Washington Capitals captain who holds the league’s career goalscoring record. Ovechkin addressed teammates to deliver the news before the team posted a message from him on social media. Ovechkin signed a one-year contract this past summer and turned 41 on Sept. 17. All signs pointed to this being the end, and he said he and his family decided as much in recent months. “I love this game so much, but I know in my heart it’s the right decision,” the Russian star said in a statement released before the Capitals’ home opener Wednesday night.

Medvedev disqualified after hitting spectator with ball

BEIJING — Daniil Medvedev struck a spectator with a ball and was disqualified from his semifinal against Novak Djokovic at the China Open on Monday. The spectator was helped out of the arena holding a hand over his left eye. “I feel terribly sorry for him actually and I just hope he’s OK,” Medvedev said. “Hopefully I can meet him and make up for it somehow.” Djokovic was serving for the match at 7-5, 5-3 when Medvedev hit the ball into the stands in apparent frustration. After a forehand volley winner from Djokovic, the ball bounced off the advertising boards and back toward Medvedev, who smacked a backhand that sailed into the front row.

Ravens coach: QB Jackson’s injury won’t be long term

OWINGS MILLS, Md. — Baltimore Ravens coach Jesse Minter had little in the way of an update Monday on star quarterback Lamar Jackson’s injured ankle. “We’re still gathering a lot of the information and the imaging and things like that. Just dealing with a little bit of an ankle and we’ll kind of see where that shakes out,” Minter said. “I really don’t think it’s going to be crazy long term, but we’ll see what happens.” Jackson took a sack late in the ﬁrst half of Sunday’s 24-18 win over Tennessee. His left ankle seemed to roll under a defender. Baltimore (3-1) held on to win the game but didn’t score a point with Tyler Huntley playing quarterback in place of Jackson.

NFL suspends official for swearing at Arizona TE

NEW YORK — The NFL on Monday suspended a line judge two games for swearing at Arizona tight end Trey McBride. Jeff Seeman was caught on camera cursing at McBride during the Cardinals’ loss at the New York Giants on Sunday. The incident drew the ire of union leader JC Tretter, a retired offensive lineman who played eight seasons. “This kind of behavior from an ofﬁcial towards a player is unacceptable,” Tretter, the NFL Players Association’s executive director, said on social media along with a video clip of the incident. “Players are consistently held accountable when the roles are reversed. We expect the NFL to hold ofﬁcials to the same standard.”

Hornets’ White to miss preseason with calf strain

Charlotte Hornets point guard Coby White suffered a left calf strain during training camp and will miss the entire preseason, the team announced. It’s unclear if White will be available for the regular-season opener Oct. 21 at Brooklyn. The Hornets said updates on White will be provided when more is known about the extent of the injury. White had been expected to take over the starting point guard spot after the team traded LaMelo Ball to Minnesota earlier this offseason. In 21 games with the Hornets last season White averaged 15.6 points, three rebounds and three assists per game. Charlotte’s ﬁrst preseason game is Tuesday night at home against the Nets.

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Livingston Collegiate Academy was renamed Sarah T. Reed this fall, taking on the legacy high school’s identity and branding.

New-look Sarah T. Reed squad off to unbeaten start

BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

Brice Perrier was among the football players looking for a new home after it was announced last year that Sarah T. Reed in New Orleans East was closing. Perrier, a senior wide receiver and return specialist, attended the now-closed Reed and is now at the new Sarah T. Reed high school on the campus of what was Livingston Collegiate. Livingston rebranded itself this year, taking on the Reed name and colors. The change preserved a school name in Reed that had been in New Orleans East since 1988. After reaching the playoffs last season as Livingston, the new-look Reed football team is off to a promising 5-0 start in 2026. “We didn’t get all of the kids from (the old) Sarah T. Reed, but I believe we got the right kids that we were missing in our program,” Reed coach Devon Francois said. “Those kids have bought into the system. We had that foundation (as Livingston), but these kids have really put their best foot forward, and they’re gelling.” Francois had been Livingston’s football coach for ﬁve years prior to the name change to Reed. Also the athletic director, Francois had to rebrand the school’s athletic department, trading in Livington’s dark blue and green colors for Reed’s red and gold look. “Our network, Collegiate Academies, did a great job of laying out what we wanted the rebrand to look like,” Francois said. “These kids are proud to be Olympians, and it’s amazing to have positive light in New Orleans East.” The transition has been aided by additional alumni support from the old Reed. Livington’s alumni base was small in comparison, with the school having opened in 2016. “It’s an amazing feeling to have support from the (Reed) alumni,”

The Catholic League has six teams in the LSWA state rankings released Monday after Jesuit moved back into the top 10 following the Blue Jays’ victory against Holy Cross. No. 1 Edna Karr stayed on top after its fourth-quarter comeback against Brother Martin. Following No. 2 Ruston are District 9-5A schools St. Augustine, Contact Christopher Dabe at Rummel and Brother Martin at cdabe@theadvocate.com

LSWA FOOTBALL POLLS Class 5A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. Karr (9) 5-0 129 1 2. Ruston (1) 4-1 118 2 3. St. Augustine (1) 5-0 115 3 4. Rummel 5-0 98 4 5. Brother Martin 4-1 80 5 6. Alexandria 4-1 73 7 7. St. Thomas More 4-1 64 8 8. Acadiana 4-1 50 9 9. Jesuit 4-1 45 NR 10. John Curtis 2-3 31 6 Others receiving votes: Catholic-Baton Rouge 21, Barbe 10, West Monroe 10, Central 6, Mandeville 6, Ouachita 1, Thibodaux 1.

Class 4A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. Westgate (8) 5-0 128 1 2. Neville (2) 4-1 123 2 3. North DeSoto (1) 5-0 108 3 4. Shaw 4-1 102 4 5. Franklin Parish 4-1 87 6 6. Madison Prep 3-2 69 7 7. John F. Kennedy 4-1 64 8 8. Lake Charles Prep 4-1 55 5 9. Lafayette Renaissance 3-2 40 NR 10. Plaquemine 3-2 27 NR Others receiving votes: Opelousas 19, Belle Chasse 17, Cecilia 5, Salmen 4, Leesville 5, Tioga 1.

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Sarah T. Reed seniors Brenard Adams, left, and Courtney Tennessee have helped lead the Olympians to a 5-0 start. Francois said. “They were excited to be a part of our athletic programs, and that network goes far.” Last year’s Reed team won just one game. This year has been a different story for the players who came over to the new Reed. “It was a pretty big change (coming from the old Reed), but it feels amazing playing on a new team with people that are dedicated to playing football,” Perrier said. “(Coach Francois) is amazing. Probably the best coach I’ve ever had.” Perrier, who was an all-district selection last season, has scored eight touchdowns this year. Other contributors from the old Reed include senior defensive back Joevell Marsalis and senior linebacker Davon Bryant. “We wanted to show the city who Sarah T. Reed is moving forward,” Francois said. “Last year’s (Reed team) had a 1-9 season, and we promised to give the alumni something to be proud of.” This year’s Reed offense is led by senior quarterback Courtney Tennessee, who has seen playing time at quarterback since his

freshman year. Tennessee led Reed to a 27-14 Week 4 win over Carver in which he threw two touchdowns. It was a redeeming moment for him and the players who lost to Carver in the ﬁrst round of the playoffs last year as Livingston. “I feel like I’ve improved my pocket presence and my decision making,” Tennessee said. “It’s been good having those newcomers (from the old Reed). It felt good getting redemption (against Carver). I was hurting after (the loss) in the ﬁrst round.” Senior running back Brenard Adams is also a key contributor for Reed along with senior linebacker Quallion Louis. Adams is Reed’s leading rusher with six touchdowns on the season, and Louis has recorded three interceptions. Reed is coming off a 41-6 homecoming win over McMain in Week 5. The Olympians will look to win their sixth straight game this Thursday on the road against South Plaquemines. Email Spencer Urquhart at surquhart@theadvocate.com.

Nos. 3-5. Other 9-5A schools in the rankings are No. 9 Jesuit and No. 10 John Curtis. Jesuit fell from the ranking after a Week 4 loss to Brother Martin. Other New Orleans area schools in the rankings are No. 4 Shaw and No. 7 Kennedy in Class 4A, No. 2 St. Charles in 3A, No. 5 Newman in 2A and No. 3 Riverside in 1A.

Class 3A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. St. James (8) 5-0 129 1 2. St. Charles (3) 4-1 124 2 3. University 3-2 107 4 4. Sterlington 3-2 95 5 5. Jena 3-2 83 3 6. Marksville 5-0 77 8

7. Eunice 5-0 59 9 8. West Feliciana 5-0 42 10 9. Jewel Sumner 3-2 40 6 10. Loyola Prep 3-2 35 7 Others receiving votes: Vandebilt Catholic 32, Iowa 22, Jennings 4, Northwest 4.

Class 2A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. Calvary Baptist (11) 5-0 132 1 2. Notre Dame 5-0 119 2 3. Mangham 4-1 111 3 4. Amite 4-1 91 6 5. Newman 4-1 80 7 6. Dunham 2-3 73 4 7. Lafayette Christian 3-2 68 5 8. Catholic-New Iberia 3-2 53 8 9. Lake Arthur 5-0 45 9 10. Mansﬁeld 4-1 34 10 Others receiving votes: Loreauville 20, Oak Grove 11, Vinton 6, West St. Mary 6, Country Day 3, Green Oaks 3, Kinder 2, Caldwell Parish 1.

Class 1A School (ﬁrst-place votes) Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. Ouachita Christian (11) 5-0 131 1 2. Ascension Catholic 5-0 115 3 3. Riverside Academy 4-1 112 2 4. Haynesville 4-1 97 4 5. Southern Lab 4-0 84 6 6. Kentwood 5-0 72 7 7. Westminster-Lafayette 5-0 56 9 8. Jeanerette 4-1 52 8 9. Cedar Creek 5-0 47 10 10. Logansport 4-1 40 5 Others receiving votes: East Feliciana 23, Ascension Episcopal 14, South Plaquemines 9, St. Mary’s 4, Elton 2.

WEEK 6 FOOTBALL SCHEDULE All games 7 p.m. unless noted.

Thursday District 9-4A Carver vs. McMain at Morris F.X. Jeff Sr. Stadium McDonogh 35 vs. Abramson at Joe Brown District 11-2A Country Day at Houma Christian Nondistrict Bogalusa vs. Booker T. Washington at Pan American John Ehret at Belle Chasse Sarah T. Reed at South Plaquemines

Friday

District 6-5A Covington at Mandeville Hammond at Slidell Ponchatoula at Fontainebleau St. Paul’s at Northshore District 7-5A Destrehan at Thibodaux Terrebonne at Hahnville District 8-5A East Jefferson vs. West Jefferson at Memtsas Riverdale vs. Bonnabel at Yenni District 9-5A Rummel vs. Brother Martin at Gormley, 3:30 p.m. Edna Karr vs. John Curtis at Bertolino Jesuit at Chalmette St. Augustine vs. Holy Cross at Gormley, 7:30 p.m. District 7-4A Franklinton at Hannan

Salmen at Pearl River District 10-4A Kenner Discovery at Young Audiences Shaw at Willow District 8-3A Loranger at Pope John Paul II District 9-3A Lutcher at Berwick St. Charles at St. James Vandebilt at Patterson District 11-3A Cohen vs. Sophie B. Wright at Pan American, 3:30 p.m. L.B. Landry vs. Thomas Jefferson at Memtsas District 10-2A Northlake Christian at Independence District 10-1A St. Martin’s at Riverside West St. John at Ascension Catholic Nondistrict Ben Franklin at Central Private East St. John at Denham Springs Erath at Lakeshore Morris Jeff at Newman

Saturday

District 8-5A Higgins vs. Warren Easton at Pan American, 3 p.m. District 11-3A Patrick Taylor vs. Jefferson Rise at Yenni, 2 p.m. District 10-2A Covenant Christian vs. Fisher at Memtsas, 6:30 p.m. Open date: De La Salle, Haynes, Kennedy

Mosley era to begin in Pelicans’ preseason opener BY ROD WALKER

Staff writer

New Orleans Pelicans guard Jeremiah Fears admits the first six days of training camp have been different from his rookie season a year ago. “A lot more competitive, a lot more teaching,” Fears said. So after six days of grueling defense-focused practice and the trash talking that has come with it, Fears and his teammates are looking forward to competing against someone else. The Pelicans play their preseason opener Tuesday night in Tulsa, Oklahoma, against the Oklahoma City Thunder at the BOK Center. It’ll be the ﬁrst glimpse of the Pelicans under head coach Jamahl Mosley, hired in May to turn things around for a team that has struggled in a big way the past two seasons. “(This game) gives you a real test to be able to see what you’ve done,” Mosley

said. “What you’ve put in and what feels good against your own team is great. (But) going against a different opponent where you will see different coverages and they are guarding you a little different is all great to see in real time.” OKC is one of the NBA’s elite teams, having won the championship two seasons ago and reaching the Western Conference Finals last season. The Thunder hang its hat on defense, much like Mosley. “I think it’s a great opportunity to continue to improve to see where we stand,” Mosley said. “The opponent shouldn’t matter. It has got to be about us and what we are trying to accomplish and what we are trying to improve on. As the preseason goes along and the training camp continues, I think that’s the most important piece for us. It is great that we get to go against a different opponent, but it’s going to be about us and our progress.”

Center Karlo Matkovic is eager to get started. “I haven’t played an NBA game since April, so I’m really excited,” he said. Making it even more rewarding is starting the preseason against a team of OKC’s caliber. “They are known as a defensive team, but it’s an NBA game,” Matkovic said. “Every game is different. It’s a good test, for sure. We as a team, we want to start on defense like coach Mosley wants. And we want to get more wins and get back on track.” The Pelicans travel to Tulsa with a healthy roster. Mosley’s plan is to play all of his players. His main objective? AP PHOTO BY GERALD LEONG “Just getting our system Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, right, looks to pass in,” he said. “Guys understanding going in that it’s against New Orleans Pelicans guard Jeremiah Fears, center, a different opponent. Our and center Derik Queen on Jan. 27 in Oklahoma City. principles sticking and landing. The communication. Miami Heat on Thursday see a bit more.” “The foundation has been It’s the first of four pre- and the Dallas Mavericks on laid, so going against a dif- season games for the Pels. Oct. 14. Their ﬁnal preseason ferent opponent, we get to They will travel to play the game is at the Smoothie

King Center against the Washington Wizards on Oct. 16. The regular-season opener is Oct. 21 at home against the Indiana Pacers. “This is a pretty big test for us,” Fears said about OKC. “Obviously the guys aren’t going to play a lot, but just being able to see what we look like in the minutes we do play together will be big. We’re going out there and having fun and competing. “(We want to show) our competitive edge and how we go out there and compete. No matter who is on the floor, no matter who we’re playing against.” Email Rod Walker at rwalker@theadvocate. com.

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RESULTS

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Sept. 13

31-30

Sept. 20

24-17

Sept. 27

35-27

Oct. 5

45-24

THREE AND OUT: ROD WALKER GIVES HIS TAKES ON SAINTS’ DISAPPOINTING LOSS

NO SHOW Everybody from Steve Gleason to Drew Brees to Roger Goodell to Trombone Shorty showed up for the game commemorating the 20-year anniversary of the return to the Dome after Hurricane Katrina. It’s too bad that the guys who needed to show up the most, the Saints, didn’t. During the week, Saints coach Kellen Moore made sure his players knew the significance of this game. They apparently didn’t get the memo. They got embarrassed in front of a crowd that was electric at kickoff and heading to the exits early in the fourth quarter. A team playing its first prime-time game since 2024 sure didn’t look ready for the stage.

RUNNING WILD, RUNNING MILD The Saints can’t run the ball and they can’t stop the run. What a dreadful combination. The run defense entered Monday ranked 26th in yards allowed per game (128.7).The Falcons eclipsed that by halftime (133) and finished with 205. Bijan Robinson’s 59-yard TD run on the third play set the tone. The good news for the Saints is they are finally past the running back gauntlet of Jahmyr Gibbs, Derrick Henry, Ashton Jeanty and Robinson — except they get Robinson again in January. Meanwhile, the Saints’ running game continues to struggle. They finished with just 50 yards rushing. You won’t win many games like that.

NOW WHAT? Remember when the schedule first came out and you thought the Saints would be just fine once they got through the first two games of the season? Things were supposed to lighten up after the road trips to Detroit and Baltimore. Well, think again. Yeah, the Raiders and Falcons are better than expected, and missing linebacker Kaden Elliss didn’t help Monday. But none of that excuses the effort the Saints showed against Atlanta. Moore has some work to do. Now they get the undefeated Vikings on Sunday on a short week. A team that looked solid against the Ravens two weeks ago took a giant step backward Monday night.

Moment etched in time Fans honor, learn at feet of Gleason statue

BY MATTHEW PARAS

Oct. 11 Vikings Noon

Oct. 18 at Giants Noon

Oct. 25 Steelers 8:30 a.m.

Nov. 8 Browns Noon

Nov. 15 Panthers Noon

Nov. 22 at Bears Noon

Nov. 29 at Bengals Noon

Dec. 6 Packers Noon

Dec. 13 at Panthers TBD

Dec. 20 at Buccaneers 7:15 p.m.

Dec. 27 Arizona Noon

Jan. 3 Falcons TBD

TBD Buccaneers TBD

Staff writer

Cooper Landry never had seen the play that was immortalized by the statue in front of Landry and his grandfather as they stood in line Monday. So roughly two hours before kickoff, before his grandson attended his ﬁrstever New Orleans Saints game, Frank Crawford wanted to make sure the 13-yearold understood. So the two, like many others near Gate D of the Caesars Superdome, waited in line to take a picture in front of the “Rebirth” statue — the larger-than-life bronze tribute to Steve Gleason’s famous blocked punt. Paying respect to Gleason on this day, for this anniversary, was a must. “When I think of football, and I think of things that have happened to this team,” said Crawford, the 89-yearold who has been a seasonticket holder for 53 years, “that moment is No. 1.” A raucous atmosphere filled Monday’s game between the Saints and the Atlanta Falcons, one that could be felt inside and outside the Superdome. From honoring Gleason in Lafayette Square with a second line parade to fans erupting when Drew Brees appeared on the jumbotron during the national anthem, the 20th anniversary of the Saints’ return to the Dome after Hurricane Katrina was thoroughly remembered. But the celebration wasn’t complete without fans stopping at Gleason’s statue to appreciate the legendary moment. The pictures served as another way to ensure Gleason’s play never would be forgotten. “It’s a moment frozen in my mind,” said David McClain, a 36-year-old Saints fan from Chalmette. “I’ll never forget it. I’ll be on my deathbed, I’ll remember. Being able to celebrate tonight being the homecoming game and have my children here with me and my family, it’s one I’ll hopefully never forget.” Many of the fans who attended Monday’s game were also in the building 20 years ago. Lance St. LeBlanc, for instance, commemorated the anniversary by wearing the same jersey he wore back then: Scott Fujita’s No. 55. But this time, rather than sitting in Section 618 with

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Continued from page 1C Three of those rushing touchdowns came in the ﬁrst half, powering a 24-7 halftime lead for Atlanta that had a surly home crowd booing the Saints as they jogged into the tunnel to regroup in the locker room. And, unlike previous weeks where they’d found themselves in a big deﬁcit, New Orleans didn’t have a second-half surge ready. The Saints offense never found a consistent footing.

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Former New Orleans Saints player Steve Gleason, left, visits with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell before the Saints game against the Atlanta Falcons at the Caesars Superdome on Monday. his close friend, he was with his two sons and two of their best friends. Others made trips from all over to be on hand. Lavarus Henderson and his wife ﬂew in from Davenport, Iowa, while Nick and Amanda Graziano and their two children made the eight-hour journey via airplane from Hawaii to New Orleans. The Grazianos’ itinerary included a trip to Gleason’s statue. “It was deﬁnitely a priority for me,” Nick Graziano said. “My kids aren’t as die-hard as I am, having grown up in Hawaii. You know, they don’t quite fully understand the seriousness of the Saints and what it means to this region. “But I think, hopefully, when they get in the Dome, they’ll get it.” Even all this time later, the impact of Gleason’s play can bring tears. Andrew Krosp started to cry as he recalled sitting on his couch and watching Gleason’s block. “I ran outside, I opened the garage and I screamed, ‘The Saints are back!’ ” Krosp said. The line around Gleason’s statue Monday was manageable. Crawford and Landry had to wait only five or so

minutes, with Crawford noting he was prepared to wait much longer. Some, like Justin Adams, were there with their families just to take in the scene. As they watched the poses and pictures in front of the statue, Adams spent a few minutes explaining the sig-

niﬁcance of Gleason’s block to his 17-year-old son. He explained the uncertainty of whether the Saints would stay in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, how Gleason and the Saints provided hope. After seeing Gleason on stage in Champions Square,

where the former safety’s second line parade ended, Adams and his family decided to walk over near Gate D. “We (said), ‘Let’s go say hi to Steve,’ ” Adams said.

Quarterback Tyler Shough strung together a couple nice drives, finishing with 286 passing yards and a touchdown, but it was not nearly enough for New Orleans to overcome its costly early miscues. There were two big early mistakes. The first came with New Orleans in scoring position after getting a stop on Atlanta’s second possession, when on third and 8, it dialed up a tight end screen to Juwan Johnson. The Falcons snuffed the play out for a minimal gain, and kicker Daniel Carlson’s 52yard field goal sailed wide left of the upright. The second came on the

opening play of the Saints’ next possession, when Falcons corner C.J. Henderson stripped the football from running back Kendre Miller’s hands, giving the Falcons the ball at the Saints’ 22-yard line. Atlanta took advantage of the short ﬁeld and scored again after a defensive holding penalty on Kool-Aid McKinstry negated a fourth-down stop and the Falcons went up 14-0. The Saints had one last chance to really make a game of it late in the ﬁrst half after Atlanta jumped out to a 24-7 lead. They were getting the ball back with 3:07 to go in the half with an opportunity to

score on consecutive possessions because they were set to receive the opening kick of the second half. They pushed the ball to Atlanta’s 41-yard line but the drive stalled after the Falcons dropped Shough for an 8-yard loss on a sack. Rather than attempting a 60-yard ﬁeld goal or going for it on fourth and 11 from the Falcons 42, the Saints opted to punt. On the opening drive of the second half, they pushed the ball to the Atlanta 8-yard line, but again opted to be conservative after Shough’s third-and-3 pass was batted down. Carlson kicked a 27-yard ﬁeld goal to

cut the deﬁcit to 14. Atlanta, meanwhile, went on 70-plus yard touchdown drives with each of its ﬁrst two possessions to start the second half, the second of which culminated in a 31-yard touchdown pass from quarterback Michael Penix to Jahan Dotson, effectively putting the game out of reach. The Saints have now lost six of their past seven appearances on “Monday Night Football,” and worse, they have now lost three in a row to the rival Falcons.

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The statue of Steve Gleason’s blocked kick from the first game played in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina is seen with the Plaza Tower standing behind it on June 11, 2021. The Saints lost the game Monday to commemorate the 20th anniversary of that game.

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FALCONS 45, SAINTS 24 SAINTS NOTEBOOK

BY THE NUMBERS Atlanta 45, New Orleans 24 Atlanta 14 10 7 14 — 45 New Orleans 0 7 3 14 — 24 First Quarter Atl—Bi.Robinson 59 run (Folk kick), 13:34. Drive: 4 plays, 80 yards, 1:26. Key Play: Penix 12 pass to D.London. Atlanta 7, New Orleans 0. Atl—Bi.Robinson 4 run (Folk kick), :48. Drive: 5 plays, 22 yards, 2:03. Key Play: Bi.Robinson 3 run on 3rd-and-7. Atlanta 14, New Orleans 0. Second Quarter NO—Kamara 3 run (Carlson kick), 14:57. Drive: 4 plays, 54 yards, 00:47. Key Plays: Price kick return to New Orleans 46; Shough 44 pass to Olave. Atlanta 14, New Orleans 7. Atl—Br.Robinson 4 run (Folk kick), 8:59. Drive: 11 plays, 65 yards, 5:58. Key Plays: Br.Robinson 3 run on 3rd-and-1; Penix 27 pass to D.London. Atlanta 21, New Orleans 7. Atl—FG Folk 29, 3:07. Drive: 10 plays, 75 yards, 4:45. Key Plays: Penix 37 pass to D.London; Bi.Robinson 11 run; Penix 10 pass to Pitts. Atlanta 24, New Orleans 7. Third Quarter NO—FG Carlson 27, 7:38. Drive: 14 plays, 59 yards, 7:22. Key Plays: B.Brown kick return to New Orleans 33; Shough 11 pass to Olave; Shough 9 pass to Johnson on 3rd-and-4; Shough 10 pass to Olave on 3rd-and-7. Atlanta 24, New Orleans 10. Atl—Br.Robinson 8 run (Folk kick), 2:11. Drive: 10 plays, 74 yards, 5:27. Key Plays: Branch kick return to Atlanta 26; Penix 23 pass to Dotson; Bi.Robinson 10 run; Penix 14 pass to D.London on 3rd-and-10. Atlanta 31, New Orleans 10. Fourth Quarter NO—Kamara 5 run (Carlson kick), 13:00. Drive: 14 plays, 68 yards, 4:11. Key Plays: B.Brown kick return to New Orleans 32; Shough 18 pass to Vele on 4th-and-10; Shough 17 pass to Vele on 3rd-and-18; Kamara 2 run on 4th-and-1. Atlanta 31, New Orleans 17. Atl—Dotson 31 pass from Penix (Folk kick), 9:48. Drive: 6 plays, 72 yards, 3:10. Key Plays: Branch kick return to Atlanta 28; Penix 28 pass to Pitts; Bi.Robinson 5 run on 3rd-and-2. Atlanta 38, New Orleans 17. Atl—Br.Robinson 11 run (Folk kick), 6:52. Drive: 3 plays, 21 yards, 1:30. Atlanta 45, New Orleans 17. NO—Vele 3 pass from Shough (Carlson kick), 1:13. Drive: 14 plays, 76 yards, 5:39. Key Plays: B.Brown kick return to New Orleans 24; Shough 5 pass to Vele on 3rd-and-4; Shough 23 pass to Olave on 4th-and-7. Atlanta 45, New Orleans 24.

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New Orleans Saints running back Kendre Miller runs the ball as Atlanta Falcons linebacker Divine Deablo defends on Monday in New Orleans.

Saints’ run game stuck in rut BY LUKE JOHNSON AND ROD WALKER Staff writers

The math wasn’t in the New Orleans Saints favor coming into Monday Night Football in one key area: The Atlanta Falcons entered the game with the NFL’s best rushing defense, allowing just 47.7 yards per game, and the Saints had one of the league’s least effective rushing offenses. Add in the fact that the team put starting running back Travis Etienne on injured reserve last week and were already on their backup left tackle, and what happened on the field Monday wasn’t much of a surprise. New Orleans found little to no room on the ground against the Falcons front. Through the ﬁrst three quarters, the Saints’ longest run went for just 4 yards as Atlanta built up a commanding lead — in large part because of their own rushing offense. Alvin Kamara served as New Or-

leans’ lead back in Etienne’s absence, and while he offered some positives — he scored the Saints’ first two touchdown of the game on runs of 3 and 5 yards, and also took a well-executed screen pass for a gain of 17 — he was for the most part bottled up by the Atlanta run defense. Kendre Miller did not fare any better. Miller’s first five carries went for 5 yards, and he also lost a crucial fumble deep in Saints’ territory to set up the Falcons’ second touchdown. New Orleans tried to get rushing yards from elsewhere, giving rookie speedster Barion Brown a handoff on a jet sweep in the third quarter, but even that went nowhere, with the Falcons snuffing it out for a loss of 5 yards. Kamara also left the game in the third quarter with a knee injury, but he returned on the ensuing drive.

game Who Dat chant was a special one Monday night. Several players from the 2006 team, including Steve Gleason and Curtis Deloatch, led the chant on a night commemorating the 20year anniversary of the team’s ﬁrst game in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. It was Gleason who blocked the punt and Deloatch who recovered it for a touchdown in the Saints’ win over the Falcons 20 years ago. Joining Gleason and Deloatch in leading the chant Monday night were Drew Brees, Scott Fujita, Devery Henderson, Michael Lewis, Deuce McAllister, Mike McKenzie, Lance Moore and Scott Shanle.

Werner plays

Though he missed the entire week of practice in the lead up to Monday’s game, starting linebacker Pete Werner was in the starting lineup when play began. Werner suffered a stinger in the Throwback Who Dat ﬁrst half of last week’s loss to the The Saints made sure the pre- Las Vegas Raiders and was ofﬁ-

cially questionable for the game. Tight end Noah Fant didn’t play, however. Fant, who caught three touchdowns in the Saints’ first three games, was limited throughout the week of practice with an abdominal injury and was not able to play Monday.

Odds and ends Long snapper Cal Adomitis, the third snapper the Saints have used this season, was penalized for holding during a first-quarter punt. The first kick downed Atlanta inside its own 20, but a rekick resulted in a 25-yard return that set Atlanta up at its own 49. … Edge rusher Tyree Wilson, who was inactive last week against the Raiders, recorded his first sack in a Saints uniform in the first quarter. … Kamara’s 3-yard touchdown on the first play of the second quarter was his first rushing touchdown since Week 1 of the 2025 season. It was Kamara’s 88th career touchdown of any kind.

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Continued from page 1C the Falcons to #NeverPunt. This also wasn’t what anyone in New Orleans had in mind when the day started. Monday was one of those classic big game days in New Orleans, the kind that come along once every decade or so. You could feel the energy on Sunday night as Falcons fans descended on the French Quarter and ﬁlled the air with Dirty Bird chants. By Monday morning, the anticipation was palpable across the city and steadily built throughout the day. It reached a crescendo for the pregame pep rally at Lafayette Square, where mayor Helena Moreno led a raucous Who Dat chant to a black-and-gold throng and presented Gleason with a ceremonial key to the city. Even by New Orleans’ Carnival standards, the turnout was impressive, with thousands of New STAFF PHOTO BY DAVID GRUNFELD Orleanians and costumed New Orleans Saints quarterback Tyler Shough looks for a receiver against the Atlanta Saints fans marching Falcons during the ﬁrst half on Monday at the Caesars Superdome. shoulder to shoulder from

Atl NO FIRST DOWNS 24 22 Rushing 13 6 Passing 9 13 Penalty 2 3 THIRD DOWN EFF 4-8 6-15 FOURTH DOWN EFF 0-0 3-4 TOTAL NET YARDS 420 320 Total Plays 56 69 Avg Gain 7.5 4.6 NET YARDS RUSHING 205 50 Rushes 35 19 Avg per rush 5.857 2.632 NET YARDS PASSING 215 270 Sacked-Yds lost 1-8 2-16 Gross-Yds passing 223 286 Completed-Att. 15-20 30-48 Had Intercepted 0 0 Yards-Pass Play 10.238 5.4 KICKOFFS-EndZone-TB 8-2-0 5-2-2 PUNTS-Avg. 2-36.0 3-49.667 Punts blocked 0 0 FGs-PATs blocked 0-0 0-0 TOTAL RETURN YARDAGE 90 211 Punt Returns 1-25 1-2 Kickoff Returns 3-65 8-209 Interceptions 0-0 0-0 PENALTIES-Yds 8-70 8-49 FUMBLES-Lost 0-0 1-1 TIME OF POSSESSION 30:13 29:18 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Atlanta, Bi.Robinson 19-145, Br.Robinson 14-62, Penix 2-(minus 2). New Orleans, Kamara 7-23, Donaldson 3-18, K.Miller 6-9, Shough 2-5, Brown 1-(minus 5). PASSING—Atlanta, Penix 15-20-0-223. New Orleans, Shough 30-48-0-286. RECEIVING—Atlanta, D.London 5-96, Pitts 3-47, Dotson 2-54, Branch 2-10, Hooper 1-9, Br.Robinson 1-5, Bi.Robinson 1-2. New Orleans, Olave 8-116, Johnson 6-59, Vele 6-54, Kamara 5-35, K.Miller 2-10, Donaldson 2-5, Lance 1-7. PUNT RETURNS—Atlanta, Branch 1-25. New Orleans, Brown 1-2. KICKOFF RETURNS—Atlanta, Branch 3-65. New Orleans, Brown 5-130, Price 3-79. TACKLES-ASSISTS-SACKS—Atlanta, Henderson 9-1-0, Perkins 6-2-.5, Watts 5-3-.5, Hughes 3-1-0, Daniels 3-0-0, Deablo 3-0-0, Thomas 2-3-0, Bowman 2-0-0, Dorlus 1-1-0, Ebukam 1-0-1, Brown 1-0-0, Harrison 1-0-0, Hellams 1-0-0, L.London 1-0-0, M.Smith 1-0-0, Dexter 0-2-0, Bates 0-1-0, Woods 0-1-0. New Orleans, Blackmon 5-5-0, T.Wilson 4-2-1, Sanker 4-2-0, J.Reid 3-1-0, Riley 2-2-0, Young 2-2-0, Stutsman 1-4-0, Diggs 1-3-0, Werner 1-3-0, Boyd 1-2-0, McKinstry 1-1-0, Shepherd 1-1-0, Jordan 0-2-0, Wooden 0-2-0, Broughton 0-1-0, Godchaux 0-1-0, Ridgeway 0-1-0. INTERCEPTIONS—Atlanta, None. New Orleans, None. MISSED FIELD GOALS—New Orleans, Carlson 52. OFFICIALS—Referee Land Clark, Ump Mark Pellis, HL Dale Keller, LJ Stephen Ray, FJ Jabir Walker, SJ Dave Hawkshaw, BJ Brad Freeman, Replay Gavin Anderson.

Lafayette Square to the Superdome. It was New Orleans at its passionate and eclectic best. But the party ended shortly after kickoff. By midway through the fourth quarter, Saints fans had headed for the exits and Falcons fans had taken over the lower bowl of the Superdome. Losses don’t get any more embarrassing than that. Maybe the Saints needed to be reminded of the message Sean Payton delivered to his Saints team before the original Domecoming game in 2006. In one of his most inspirational pep talks, he prodded his players to rise to the occasion, reminding them that the game would only be special if they won it. If they lost, Payton said, it would be just another game. On Monday night, the Saints didn’t just lose. They were dominated and humiliated. It will take a while to recover from this one. Instead of inspiring, their performance was insulting. Email Jeff Duncan at jduncan@theadvocate. com.Duncan

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BY JOE REEDY

AP sportswriter

CLEVELAND — Braden Montgomery lined a two-run double down the right-field line, Sean Burke allowed one hit in 5 1/3 innings of splendid relief and the Chicago White Sox beat the Cleveland Guardians 4-3 on Monday to take a 2-0 lead in their AL Division Series. The surprising White Sox improved to 4-0 in these playoffs — all on the road — and are one win from advancing to the American League Championship Series for the first time since winning the World Series in 2005. Chicago became the first team to reach the postseason after three straight 100-loss seasons, including a post-1900 record 121 defeats in 2024. Jo Adell hit an RBI triple in the eighth and Chase DeLauter had two hits for the Guardians. Starting pitcher Gavin Williams struck out 11, tied for second-most in a Cleveland postseason game.

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straight save. The best-of-five series shifts to Chicago for Game 3 on Wednesday. Kyle Teel got Chicago’s first hit with a single up the middle leading off the fourth. He advanced to second on Miguel Vargas’ walk and scored on Munetaka Murakami’s base hit to pull Chicago within 2-1. The White Sox went ahead with a three-run sixth. Vargas led off with a base hit to chase Williams and advanced to second on a groundout. Randal Grichuk drew a walk before Erik Sabrowski’s wild pitch with Tommy Pham at the plate advanced the runners to second and third. Pham flied out to shallow left before Montgomery jumped on a first-pitch fastball to drive in the ASSOCIATED PRESS PHOTO BY SUE OGROCKI go-ahead runs. Montgomery celebrated at first Chicago White Sox batter Braden Montgomery watches his two-run base before scoring on Chase double during the sixth inning of Game 2 of the American League Meidroth’s single to right. Division Series against the Cleveland Guardians on Monday in Cleveland. Williams allowed two runs and The White Sox won 4-3. four hits in five-plus innings. Burke came on with one out But the offense failed to produce Grant Taylor worked 1 1/3 innings in the third. After Travis Bafor the second straight game. and allowed one hit as he got his second zzana walked with one out in the

fourth, the right-hander retired 13 straight until DeLauter had a base hit to left to end Burke’s night. Burke struck out six and threw 83 pitches, including 53 strikes. Taylor entered and allowed an RBI triple to Adell before Nathaniel Lowe flied out to end the inning. After getting shut out on Saturday, the Guardians struck quickly with a pair of runs in the first inning. Steven Kwan led off with a base hit and José Ramírez drew a walk before Chase DeLauter’s grounder off opener Anthony Kay moved the runners to second and third. Sean Newcomb came on and intentionally walked Adell to load the bases. Lowe hit a high chopper to drive in Kwan, but Newcomb threw it wide of the bag at first, allowing Ramírez to score on the error. It marked the first time in four games this postseason the White Sox were behind. Kay faced three batters and threw 17 pitches, including eight strikes.

SCOREBOARD Odds

Pro football

Cleveland, 4 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max)

Sports Betting Line NFL

NFL Glance AMERICAN CONFERENCE

Thursday

East

Saturday, Oct. 3: Tampa Bay 1, N.Y. Yankees 0 Monday, Oct. 5: N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, n Wednesday, Oct. 7: Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Thursday, Oct. 8: Tampa Bay at N.Y. Yankees, 7 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Saturday, Oct. 10: N.Y. Yankees at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) National League (FOX, FS1)

FAVORITE at DALLAS

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 3½ 9½ (47½) Tampa Bay

FAVORITE at JAX at NE at NY JETS at WASH Cincinnati at PITTS Houston Minnesota Chicago Denver Detroit at SEATTLE Baltimore

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 1½ 5½ (42½) Phila 8½ 3½ (45½) Las Vegas 2½ 2 (40½) Cleveland 2½ 3½ (44½) NY Giants 5½ 7½ (42½) at MIAMI 2½ 2½ (44½) Indianaplis 3½ 6½ (39½) at TEN 1½ 1½ (42½) at N.O. 3 2½ (45½) at G.B. 2½ 3½ (42½)at CHARGRS 8½ 4 (54½) at ARIZ 3½ 3 (47½) San Fran 4½ 2½ (45) at ATLANTA

Sunday

Monday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at LA RAMS 3 2½ (54½) Buffalo

College Football Tuesday

FAVORITE at TROY

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 9½ 10½ (50½) South Miss

Tampa Bay 1, N.Y. Yankees 0

W Buffalo 3 New England 2 N.Y. Jets 1 Miami 0

L 1 2 3 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .500 .250 .000

PF 127 65 76 46

PA 107 77 84 101

Jacksonville Indianapolis Tennessee Houston

W 3 2 0 0

L 1 2 4 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .500 .000 .000

PF 104 102 55 84

PA 53 104 83 109

Cleveland Baltimore Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 3 3 2 2

L 1 1 2 2

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .750 .500 .500

PF 81 116 77 97

PA 95 96 87 85

Kansas City Las Vegas Denver L.A. Chargers

W 4 3 2 0

L 0 1 2 4

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .750 0 .500 0 .000

PF 118 115 74 67

PA 77 84 94 106

South

North

West

NATIONAL CONFERENCE

Wednesday

East

Thursday

N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Dallas Washington

W 3 2 2 1

L 1 2 2 3

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .750 .500 .500 .250

PF 82 75 122 88

PA 79 93 112 122

Carolina New Orleans Atlanta Tampa Bay

W 2 1 1 0

L 2 2 2 4

T 0 0 0 0

Pct .500 .333 .333 .000

PF 121 81 51 76

PA 109 83 68 96

Minnesota Chicago Detroit Green Bay

W 4 3 2 2

L 0 1 2 2

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .750 0 .500 0 .500

PF 86 112 119 73

PA 51 65 127 105

W San Francisco 4 Seattle 3 L.A. Rams 2 Arizona 1

L 0 1 2 3

T Pct 0 1.000 0 .750 0 .500 0 .250

PF 122 105 85 87

PA 64 73 83 117

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Jaxville St 2½ 3 (50½) at KNSW ST at FLA INTL 4½ 6½ (46½) New Mex St

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at W. KENT 2½ 2½ (55½) Missouri St at LIBERTY 13½ 13½ (52½) Sam Hou at UTSA 6½ 7 (50½) S. Florida at ARKANS ST 1½ 1½ (57½) S. Alabama

Friday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at LOUSVLLE 7½ 3½ (58½) Florida St at SJSU 6 6½ (43½) Wyoming at WASH 1½ 3½ (41½) Iowa at UTAH ST 1½ 5½ (43½) Wash St at BYU 14½ 10½ (46½) Iowa State

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Indiana 8½ 7½ (52½) at NEBRSKA at ARMY 6½ 3½ (47½) Tulane at PITT 4½ 4½ (47½) N. Carolina at B. GREEN 6½ 7½ (44½) Sac. St at MISSOURI 1½ 3½ (48½) Texas A&M Arizona 3½ 3½ (61½) at W. VA at OKLAH ST 9½ 9½ (54½) UCF Wake Forest 2½ 3½ (60½) at NC STATE at NWSTRN 34½ 35½ (52½) Ball State at FLORIDA 14½ 13½ (62½) S. Carolina at APP ST 5½ 9½ (51½) Old Dom Miami (OH) 2½ 2½ (46½) at UMASS Va Tech 11½ 9½ (53½) at CAL E. Michigan 5½ 7 (50½) at AKRON at KANSAS ST. 1½ 2½ (56½) Houston Illinois 2½ 2½ (49½) at MSU at W. MICH 13½ 13½ (43½) Kent State Duke 5½ 7 (49½) at GA TECH at N. TEXAS 24½ 27½ (58½) Charlotte at OREGON 12½ 11½ (59½) UCLA Ole Miss 10½ 9½ (59½) at VANDER at TOLEDO 17½ 20½ (55½) Buffalo at OHIO 3½ 3 (46½) C. Michigan at NAVY 3½ 2½ (48½) Tulsa at N.D. 35½ 37½ (54½) Stanford Texas 6½ 7½ (39½) at OKLAH at TEMPLE 3 4 (54½) UConn at E. CAR 9½ 10 (49½) Rice Tennessee 14½ 13½ (50½) at ARKAN at OHIO ST 37½ 34½ (56½) Maryland at ORGN ST. 14½ 14 (55½)San Dego St. LSU 10½ 9½ (54½) at KENT Nevada 9½ 8½ (49½) at UTEP N. Dakota St 1½ 3½ (48½) at UNLV at MEMPHIS 16½ 14½ (57½) UAB at MARSHALL 2½ 3 (58½) C. Carolina at PENN ST PK 1½ (54½) USC at LA TECH 1½ 3 (48½) UL Air Force 12½ 7½ (47½) at N. ILL James Madsn 10 7½ (54½) at GA SO at VIRGINIA 6½ 9½ (50½) Syracuse at ALABAMA 2½ 1½ (55½) Georgia Minnesota 5½ 2½ (51½) at PURDUE at UTAH 13½ 15½ (52½) Kansas Boise State 10½ 6½ (48½) at FRESNO at ARIZ ST 17½ 20½ (51½) Hawaii

MLB

Tuesday

National League FAVORITE LINE LA Dodgers OFF at SAN DIEGO -136

NHL

Tuesday

FAVORITE LINE Minnesota -112 Carolina -128 at TORONTO -160 at NEW JERSY -132 Ottawa -112 at N.Y RANGRS -146 St. Louis -127 Vegas -169 Florida -129

South

North

West

Thursday’s Games

Cleveland 27, Pittsburgh 24

Sunday’s Games

Indianapolis 30, Washington 13, London, GBR Baltimore 24, Tennessee 18 Chicago 23, N.Y. Jets 12 Dallas 34, Houston 30 Green Bay 17, Tampa Bay 14 Jacksonville 22, Cincinnati 17 L.A. Rams 24, Philadelphia 20 N.Y. Giants 36, Arizona 24 New England 29, Buffalo 26 Minnesota 15, Miami 10 Kansas City 30, Las Vegas 27 San Francisco 24, Denver 14 Seattle 30, L.A. Chargers 23 Carolina 32, Detroit 26

Monday’s Games

Atlanta at New Orleans, n

Late Sunday Carolina 32, Detroit 26 Detroit 3 13 3 7 — 26 Carolina 7 9 13 3 — 32 First Quarter Det_FG Bates 54, 12:05. Car_Hubbard 15 run (R.Fitzgerald kick), 1:50. Second Quarter Det_FG Bates 43, 12:37. Car_McMillan 32 pass from Young (kick failed), 8:08. Det_Gibbs 1 run (Bates kick), 2:14. Car_FG R.Fitzgerald 47, :28. Det_FG Bates 41, :00. Third Quarter Car_McMillan 10 pass from Young (kick failed), 9:33. Det_FG Bates 26, 6:21. Car_Hubbard 2 run (R.Fitzgerald kick), 2:47. Fourth Quarter Car_FG R.Fitzgerald 33, 8:59. Det_LaPorta 8 pass from Goff (Bates kick), 3:38.

A_73,436.

UNDERDOG at ATLANTA Milwaukee

LINE OFF +113

UNDERDOG LINE at BUFFALO -110 at MONTREAL +104 Nashville +130 Utah +109 at DETROIT -110 N.Y Islanders +120 at CHICAGO +103 at SEATTLE +141 at LOS ANGELES +105

Pro basketball WNBA Playoff Glance (x-if necessary) Semiﬁnals (Best-of-5)

Golden State 1, Las Vegas 0

Sunday, October 4: Golden State 71, Las Vegas 60 Wednesday, October 7: Las Vegas at Golden State, 8:30 p.m. Friday, October 9: Golden State at Las Vegas, 8:30 p.m. x-Sunday, October 11: Golden State at Las Vegas, TBA x-Wednesday, October 14: Las Vegas at Golden State, TBA

Atlanta 1, New York 0

Sunday, October 4: Atlanta 92, New York 82 Wednesday, October 7: New York at Atlanta, 6:30 p.m. Friday, October 9: Atlanta at New York, 6:30 p.m. x-Sunday, October 11: Atlanta at New York, TBA x-Wednesday, October 14: New York at Atlanta, TBA

Det Car First downs 24 28 Total Net Yards 452 445 Rushes-yards 15-46 28-127 Passing 406 318 Punt Returns 0-0 0-0 Kickoff Returns 5-107 6-153 Interceptions Ret. 0-0 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 32-52-0 29-41-0 Sacked-Yards Lost 1-6 3-11 Punts 2-40.5 3-44.667 Fumbles-Lost 0-0 1-0 Penalties-Yards 9-67 8-60 Time of Possession 26:45 33:15 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING_Detroit, Gibbs 15-46. Carolina, Hubbard 20-122, Young 3-3, Dillon 5-2. PASSING_Detroit, Goff 32-52-0-412. Carolina, Young 29-41-0-329. RECEIVING_Detroit, LaPorta 8-84, St. Brown 8-75, J.Williams 6-102, TeSlaa 4-95, Gibbs 4-31, Vaki 1-17, Wright 1-8. Carolina, McMillan 14-192, Tremble 4-12, Metchie 3-37, Waller 3-36, Tremayne 2-32, M.Evans 1-8, Hubbard 1-7, Dillon 1-5. MISSED FIELD GOALS_None.

Major League Baseball MLB Postseason Glance

L.A. Dodgers 1, Atlanta 1

Saturday, Oct. 3: L.A. Dodgers 5, Atlanta 3 Sunday, Oct. 4: Atlanta 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Tuesday, Oct. 6: L.A. Dodgers (Yamamoto 149) at Atlanta (Sale 14-9), 5:08 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 7: L.A. Dodgers at Atlanta, 5 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Friday, Oct. 9: Atlanta at L.A. Dodgers, 7 p.m. (FOX/FS1)

Milwaukee 2, San Diego 0

Saturday, Oct. 3: Milwaukee 3, San Diego 2 Sunday, Oct. 4: Milwaukee 4, San Diego 3 Tuesday, Oct. 6: Milwaukee (May 7-9) at San Diego (Pivetta 3-2), 8:38 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Wednesday, Oct. 7: Milwaukee at San Diego, 9 p.m. (FOX/FS1) x-Friday, Oct. 9: San Diego at Milwaukee, 3:30 p.m. (FOX/FS1)

Late Sunday Atlanta 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Atlanta

Los Angeles

ab r h bi ab r h bi Baldwin c 2 0 0 0 Betts ss 2 0 0 0 Acuña rf 5 1 1 0 Ohtani dh 4 0 1 0 Olson 1b 4 1 1 0 Smith c 4 0 0 0 Albies 2b 4 0 0 0 Freeman 1b 4 1 2 1 Harris cf 5 1 3 1 T.Hernández lf 4 0 0 0 Dubón ss 3 0 1 1 Tucker rf 4 0 1 0 Murphy dh 1 0 0 0 Pages cf 3 0 0 0 Tellez ph-dh 1 0 0 0 Rojas 3b 1 0 1 0 Hicklen dh 0 0 0 0 Muncy ph-3b 3 1 1 1 Riley 3b 3 0 0 0 Edman 2b 3 0 0 0 Thomas lf 2 0 0 0 De Paula ph 1 0 0 0 Ystrzmski lf 1 0 0 0 Totals 31 3 6 2 Totals 33 2 6 2 Atlanta 100 010 100 — 3 Los Angeles 000 100 001 — 2 DP_Atlanta 0, Los Angeles 1. LOB_Atlanta 11, Los Angeles 7. 2B_Harris (1), Rojas (1). 3B_Harris (1). HR_Freeman (1), Muncy (2). SB_Acuña (1). S_Yastrzemski (1). IP H R ER BB SO Atlanta 2 0 0 1 4 Kerr 2 2⁄3 2 ⁄3 2 1 1 1 0 Holmes 2 ⁄3 1 0 0 1 1 Lee W,1-0 Suarez H,1 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 3 Fuentes H,1 3 2⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Iglesias S,1-1 Los Angeles 3 1 1 5 5 Snell 3 2⁄3 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Stewart 2 ⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 Bubic L,0-1 1 ⁄3 0 0 0 0 0 Phillips Díaz 1 0 0 0 0 2 Henriquez 1 2 1 1 0 2 Sasaki 2 0 0 0 2 1 HBP_Sasaki (Riley). WP_Bubic. ABS Challenge_Lee (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Sasaki (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Smith (Strike-Conﬁrmed); Freeman (StrikeOverturned to Ball); Tucker (Strike-Overturned to Ball). Umpires_Home, Chris Guccione; First, James Hoye; Second, Tripp Gibson; Third, Jim Wolf; Right, Roberto Ortiz; Left, Mike Estabrook. T_3:18. A_50,729 (56,000).

Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 3 Chicago

Cleveland

ab r h bi ab r h bi Antonacci lf 4 0 0 0 Kwan cf 4 1 1 0 Teel c 4 1 1 0 Ramírez 3b 3 1 0 0 Vargas 3b 2 1 1 0 DeLauter rf 4 1 2 0 Murkmi 1b 4 0 1 1 Adell dh 3 0 1 1 Bnintndi dh 2 0 0 0 Lowe 1b 4 0 0 1 Grichuk dh 1 1 0 0 Martínez lf 4 0 0 0 Peters cf 2 0 0 0 Bazzana 2b 3 0 0 0 Pham ph 1 0 0 0 Bailey c 4 0 0 0 Doyle cf 1 0 0 0 Rocchio ss 3 0 0 0 B.Mtgmry rf 4 1 1 2 Meidoth 2b 4 0 2 1 C.Mntgmry ss 3 0 0 0 Totals 32 4 6 4 Totals 32 3 4 2 Chicago 000 103 000 — 4 Cleveland 200 000 010 — 3 E_Newcomb (), Gaddis (). DP_Chicago 0, Cleveland 1. LOB_Chicago 5, Cleveland 5. 2B_B.Montgomery (1). 3B_Adell (1). IP H R ER BB SO Chicago 1 ⁄3 1 2 1 1 0 Kay Newcomb 2 1 0 0 1 3 6 Burke W,1-0 5 1⁄3 1 1 1 1 0 Taylor S,2-2 1 1⁄3 1 0 0 0 Cleveland Williams 5 4 2 2 3 11 2 ⁄3 1 2 2 1 0 Sabrowski L,0-1 BS,0-1 Gaddis 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 Armstrong 1 1⁄3 0 0 0 0 C.Smith 1 0 0 0 0 0 Newcomb pitched to 2 batters in the 3rd, Williams pitched to 1 batter in the 6th, Gaddis pitched to 2 batters in the 7th. WP_Sabrowski. ABS Challenge_Williams (Ball-Confirmed); Antonacci (Strike-Confirmed); Burke (BallConfirmed). Pitch timer violations_Newcomb (pitcher). Umpires_Home, Gabe Morales; First, Todd Tichenor; Second, Jansen Visconti; Third, Vic Carapazza; Right, Cory Blaser; Left, Tom Hanahan. T_3:06. A_32,050 (34,788).

x-if necessary

College football

(Best-of-5) x-if necessary American League (TBS, TruTV, HBO Max)

College Football Schedule

DIVISION SERIES

Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland 0

Saturday, Oct. 3: Chicago White Sox 3, Cleveland 0 Monday, Oct. 5: Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 3 Wednesday, Oct. 7: Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 3 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Thursday, Oct. 8: Cleveland at Chicago White Sox, 4 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Saturday, Oct. 10: Chicago White Sox at

All Times Central (Subject to change)

Tuesday’s games SOUTH

Southern Miss. (1-3) at Troy (2-2), 7 p.m.

Wednesday’s games SOUTH

Jacksonville St. (3-2) at Kennesaw St. (1-3), 6 p.m. New Mexico St. (2-3) at FIU (2-2), 6:30 p.m.

Thursday’s games

SOUTH

Sam Houston St. (1-3) at Liberty (4-1), 6 p.m. Missouri St. (1-3) at W. Kentucky (1-4), 6 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

South Florida (4-1) at UTSA (4-1), 6:30 p.m. South Alabama (3-2) at Arkansas St. (2-3), 6:30 p.m.

Friday’s games EAST

Columbia (2-1) at Marist (3-2), 6 p.m.

SOUTH

Florida St. (3-2) at Louisville (2-3), 6 p.m.

FAR WEST

Wyoming (2-3) at San Jose St. (3-2), 8 p.m. Iowa (4-1) at Washington (3-2), 8 p.m. Washington St. (1-4) at Utah St. (1-4), 8 p.m. Iowa St. (3-2) at BYU (4-0), 9:15 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST

North Carolina (2-2) at Pittsburgh (5-0), 11 a.m. Dartmouth (1-2) at Yale (2-1), 11 a.m. Tulane (2-2) at Army (2-2), 11 a.m. Bryant (4-1) at Brown (1-2), 11 a.m. Stonehill (1-4) at Sacred Heart (2-3), 11 a.m. Robert Morris (3-2) at Morgan St. (4-1), 11 a.m. Arizona (4-1) at West Virginia (3-2), 11 a.m. Princeton (2-1) at Wagner (1-4), 11 a.m. Bucknell (1-4) at Georgetown (0-4), 11:30 a.m. LIU Brooklyn (1-5) at Duquesne (1-3), noon Harvard (3-0) at Cornell (2-1), noon American International (0-0) at CCSU (1-3), noon Howard (2-3) at Penn (1-2), noon Franklin Pierce (0-1) at Delaware St. (3-3), noon Miami (Ohio) (2-3) at UMass (4-1), 1 p.m. Richmond (5-1) at Fordham (1-5), 2:30 p.m. Tulsa (3-2) at Navy (1-3), 2:30 p.m. UConn (2-3) at Temple (2-3), 2:45 p.m. Stony Brook (3-2) at Towson (0-6), 3 p.m. Coastal Carolina (1-4) at Marshall (3-2), 6 p.m. Southern Cal (5-1) at Penn St. (3-2), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTH

Wake Forest (4-1) at NC State (3-2), 11 a.m. New Hampshire (2-4) at NC A&T (1-5), 11 a.m. South Carolina (2-3) at Florida (4-1), 11:45 a.m. William & Mary (2-4) at NC Central (2-4), noon Old Dominion (1-4) at Appalachian St. (3-1), noon Samford (1-4) at Chattanooga (3-3), noon Wofford (3-3) at Elon (4-2), 1 p.m. Va. Lynchburg (0-3) at Norfolk St. (3-3), 1 p.m. ETSU (4-2) at The Citadel (2-3), 1 p.m. Arkansas Baptist (0-1) at Alcorn St. (3-3), 2 p.m. W. Carolina (3-3) at Mercer (4-2), 2 p.m. E. Illinois (1-4) at Gardner-Webb (2-4), 2:30 p.m. Duke (4-0) at Georgia Tech (1-3), 2:30 p.m. Mississippi (3-1) at Vanderbilt (3-2), 2:30 p.m. UT Martin (1-4) at Tennessee St. (1-4), 2:30 p.m. Furman (2-4) at Tennessee Tech (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Florida A&M (1-4) at Alabama St. (3-2), 3 p.m. Rice (1-4) at East Carolina (2-2), 3 p.m. Jackson St. (5-0) at Grambling St. (3-2), 4 p.m. Northeastern St. (0-2) at West Florida (3-2), 4 p.m. Davidson (2-4) at Presbyterian (2-3), 4:30 p.m. SC State (5-1) at Charleston Southern (2-3), 5 p.m. West Georgia (1-4) at E. Kentucky (1-4), 5 p.m. Tarleton St. (5-0) at Austin Peay (5-1), 6 p.m. UAB (3-2) at Memphis (4-1), 6 p.m. Bethune-Cookman (3-2) at Alabama A&M (4-2), 6 p.m. LSU (4-1) at Kentucky (4-1), 6 p.m. James Madison (5-0) at Georgia Southern (2-3), 6:30 p.m. Syracuse (2-2) at Virginia (3-2), 6:30 p.m. Louisiana-Lafayette (4-1) at Louisiana Tech (2-2), 6:30 p.m. Georgia (5-0) at Alabama (5-0), 6:30 p.m.

MIDWEST

Indiana (5-0) at Nebraska (5-0), 11 a.m. Sacramento St. (1-4) at Bowling Green (1-4), 11 a.m. Texas A&M (3-2) at Missouri (4-1), 11 a.m. Morehead St. (1-4) at Dayton (3-1), 11 a.m. Ball St. (1-4) at Northwestern (3-1), 11:30 a.m. San Diego (2-3) at Butler (4-1), noon Youngstown St. (4-2) at Indiana St. (2-4), noon S. Illinois (3-3) at South Dakota (4-2), 1 p.m. Drake (2-3) at Valparaiso (2-3), 1 p.m. SE Missouri (2-3) at Lindenwood (Mo.) (1-3), 1 p.m. Stetson (1-4) at St. Thomas (Minn.) (4-2), 1 p.m. E. Michigan (3-3) at Akron (1-4), 2:30 p.m. Stanford (2-3) at Notre Dame (5-0), 2:30 p.m. Houston (4-1) at Kansas St. (3-1), 2:30 p.m. Illinois (2-3) at Michigan St. (2-3), 2:30 p.m. Kent St. (2-3) at W. Michigan (3-2), 2:30 p.m. Buffalo (2-3) at Toledo (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Cent. Michigan (3-2) at Ohio (3-2), 2:30 p.m. Maryland (2-3) at Ohio St. (4-1), 3:15 p.m. North Dakota (5-1) at N. Iowa (2-2), 4 p.m. Air Force (3-1) at N. Illinois (0-4), 6:30 p.m. Minnesota (4-1) at Purdue (2-3), 7 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

UCF (3-2) at Oklahoma St. (3-1), 11 a.m. MVSU (2-4) at Texas Southern (1-4), 2 p.m. Southern U. (2-4) at Prairie View (2-4), 2 p.m. Oklahoma (2-2) vs. Texas (4-0) at Dallas, 2:30 p.m. Charlotte (0-5) at North Texas (3-2), 2:30 p.m. Incarnate Word (2-3) at Lamar (4-1), 3 p.m. Tennessee (4-1) at Arkansas (2-3), 3:15 p.m. Nevada (1-3) at UTEP (1-4), 6 p.m. Cent. Arkansas (2-3) at Abilene Christian (2-4), 7 p.m. SE Louisiana (3-2) at UT Rio Grande Valley (2-3), 7 p.m.

FAR WEST

Idaho (1-4) at Weber St. (3-3), 2 p.m. Virginia Tech (4-1) at California (2-3), 2:30 p.m. UCLA (4-0) at Oregon (3-1), 2:30 p.m. Utah Tech (0-6) at Portland St. (1-4), 3 p.m. Montana (5-1) at N. Arizona (4-2), 4 p.m. Cal Poly (3-3) at Idaho St. (4-1), 5 p.m. San Diego St. (2-3) at Oregon St. (3-2), 5 p.m. N. Dakota St. (5-0) at UNLV (3-2), 6 p.m.

N. Colorado (2-4) at E. Washington (1-5), 6 p.m. Kansas (2-2) at Utah (4-0), 9:15 p.m. Hawaii (1-4) at Arizona St. (2-2), 9:30 p.m. Boise St. (4-1) at Fresno St. (4-1), 9:30 p.m.

FCS Top 25 Poll

Rank Rec. Pts. Prev. 1. South Dakota St. (24) 5-1 648 2 2. Tarleton St. (1) 5-0 614 3 3. Montana (1) 5-1 570 4 4. Stephen F. Austin 6-0 558 5 5. Lehigh 6-0 528 6 6. Montana St. 5-1 509 1 7. North Dakota 5-1 496 7 8. Austin Peay 5-1 472 9 9. Youngstown St. 4-2 454 10 10. Lamar 4-1 408 13 11. UC Davis 4-2 358 15 12. South Dakota 4-2 338 16 13. Illinois St. 4-2 288 11 14. Northern Arizona 4-2 287 19 15. Richmond 5-1 277 17 16. Tennessee Tech 4-1 255 8 17. Idaho St. 4-1 197 14 18. Mercer 4-2 194 21 19. Harvard 3-0 180 22 20. Campbell 5-1 171 24 21. South Carolina St. 5-1 152 12 22. Jackson St. 5-0 147 23 23. Colgate 4-2 78 20 24. Monmouth (N.J.) 4-2 48 NR 25. Southeastern Louisiana3-2 41 NR Dropped Out: West Florida (18), Southern Illinois (25) Others Receiving Votes: West Florida, 37; Bryant, 32; Yale, 24; Southern Illinois, 19; East Tennessee St., 15; Elon, 15; Idaho, 14; Stony Brook, 9; Abilene Christian, 8; Dartmouth, 3; Morgan St., 2; Alabama St., 1; Central Connecticut St., 1; North Alabama, 1; Robert Morris, 1.

Auto racing Late Sunday NASCAR Cup Series South Point 400 Results Sunday

At Las Vegas Motor Speedway Las Vegas. Lap length: 1.50 miles (Start position in parentheses) 1. (4) Chase Briscoe, Toyota, 267 laps, 75 points. 2. (6) Kyle Larson, Chevrolet, 267, 36. 3. (5) Tyler Reddick, Toyota, 267, 41. 4. (7) Austin Cindric, Ford, 267, 48. 5. (20) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 267, 47. 6. (8) William Byron, Chevrolet, 267, 34. 7. (13) Chase Elliott, Chevrolet, 267, 34. 8. (9) Bubba Wallace, Toyota, 267, 39. 9. (25) Shane Van Gisbergen, Chevrolet, 267, 28. 10. (23) Joey Logano, Ford, 267, 32. 11. (15) Alex Bowman, Chevrolet, 267, 28. 12. (10) Carson Hocevar, Chevrolet, 267, 28. 13. (14) Chris Buescher, Ford, 267, 26. 14. (11) Daniel Suárez, Chevrolet, 267, 28. 15. (19) AJ Allmendinger, Chevrolet, 267, 22. 16. (1) Denny Hamlin, Toyota, 267, 22. 17. (2) Ty Gibbs, Toyota, 267, 20. 18. (22) Riley Herbst, Toyota, 267, 19. 19. (28) Austin Dillon, Chevrolet, 267, 18. 20. (36) Noah Gragson, Ford, 267, 17. 21. (18) Michael McDowell, Chevrolet, 267, 17. 22. (33) Austin Hill, Chevrolet, 266, 0. 23. (3) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 266, 31. 24. (16) Brad Keselowski, Ford, 266, 13. 25. (21) Erik Jones, Toyota, 266, 12. 26. (35) Josh Berry, Ford, 266, 11. 27. (24) Cole Custer, Chevrolet, 266, 10. 28. (12) Ryan Preece, Ford, 265, 9. 29. (32) John H. Nemechek, Toyota, 265, 8. 30. (17) Ross Chastain, Chevrolet, 265, 7. 31. (29) Ty Dillon, Chevrolet, 265, 6. 32. (26) Ricky Stenhouse Jr, Chevrolet, 264, 5. 33. (27) Todd Gilliland, Ford, 264, 4. 34. (34) Cody Ware, Chevrolet, 263, 3. 35. (31) Connor Zilisch, Chevrolet, 262, 2. 36. (30) Zane Smith, Ford, 262, 1. Race Statistics Average Speed of Race Winner: 147.365 mph. Time of Race: 2 hours, 43 minutes, 4 seconds. Margin of Victory: 1.376 seconds. Caution Flags: 4 for 21 laps. Lead Changes: 12 among 7 drivers. Lap Leaders: D.Hamlin 0-34; T.Reddick 35; B.Wallace 36; R.Blaney 37-41; D.Hamlin 42-46; C.Briscoe 47-128; C.Bell 129-130; A.Cindric 131-162; C.Briscoe 163-215; A.Cindric 216; R.Blaney 217-221; C.Bell 222-227; C.Briscoe 228-267 Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led, Laps Led): C.Briscoe, 3 times for 175 laps; D.Hamlin, 2 times for 39 laps; A.Cindric, 2 times for 33 laps; R.Blaney, 2 times for 10 laps; C.Bell, 2 times for 8 laps; T.Reddick, 1 time for 1 lap; B.Wallace, 1 time for 1 lap. Wins: T.Reddick, 5; D.Hamlin, 4; J.Logano, 3; R.Blaney, 3; K.Larson, 2; C.Briscoe, 2; T.Gibbs, 2; C.Elliott, 2; S.Van Gisbergen, 2; C.Bell, 1; C.Hocevar, 1; D.Suárez, 1; R.Preece, 1. Top 16 in Points: 1. K.Larson, 2318; 2. D.Hamlin, 2278; 3. C.Bell, 2263; 4. J.Logano, 2247; 5. R.Blaney, 2238; 6. C.Briscoe, 2234; 7. T.Reddick, 2212; 8. T.Gibbs, 2208; 9. A.Cindric, 2190; 10. B.Wallace, 2181; 11. C.Hocevar, 2160; 12. W.Byron, 2158; 13. C.Elliott, 2155; 14. D.Suárez, 2123; 15. C.Buescher, 2122; 16. R.Preece, 2118. NASCAR Driver Rating Formula A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race. The formula combines the following categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, Lead-Lap Finish.

Transactions BASKETBALL

National Basketball Association CHICAGO BULLS — Waived G Isaiah Stevens. ORLANDO MAGIC — Waived G Mike Sharavjamts. TORONTO RAPTORS — Waived G Andre Jackson Jr. WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Waived G Jazian Gortman.

FOOTBALL

National Football League NFL — Suspended line judge Jeff Seeman for two games and referee Adrian Hill for one game for unprofessional conduct toward a player. DALLAS COWBOYS — Designated G Tyler Smith to return from injured reserve.

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‘We’re still here’

This Kenner ‘beach’ thrives on volleyball, cold beer, decades of camaraderie BY KASEY BUBNASH Staff writer

Palm trees swaying in the late evening breeze. Sand scattered across the floor of the bar. Barefoot patrons sipping frozen mango margaritas and beer. If not for the glowing lights of Planet Fitness and Treasure Chest Casino in the distance, you could almost forget this beach is in the middle of a parking lot in Kenner. “Your condo could be right over there, you know?” regular Kyle Harless joked while standing at Coconut Beach’s open-air bar on the first Thursday of the fall season in September, pointing past the dozens of sandy volleyball courts to the night sky beyond. Locals like Harless who find their way to the outdoor beach volleyball complex tend to stick around for years to come, returning several nights a week to rent a court or play in a coed league with friends and coworkers. They’re able to escape the city and enjoy the cool breeze off Lake Pontchartrain just a few blocks away.

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Anita-Francis Livingston Connick, aka Babe, with her children Suzanna, left, and Harry Connick Jr.

BY KEITH SPERA Staff writer

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Coconut Beach volleyball in Kenner on Sept. 17

Harless himself has been making the drive to this slice of paradise, sometimes as often as four times a week, since he moved to New Orleans in 2019. He’s got Coconut Beach to thank for some of his closest friendships. “This is a lot better than the gym,” Harless said, “and I can drink a beer.” Coconut Beach has been a getaway destination of sorts for generations of New Orleanians for nearly four decades now, starting as a DIY court in a swampy playground in West End and going on to survive Hurricane Katrina, a land dispute that resulted in a move to Kenner, and the COVID-19 pandemic. With about 20 courts open to a range of ages and skill levels, the complex is packed with league players on any given weeknight in the spring, summer and fall, many of whom pass the time awaiting their games by slurping down snoballs and buckets of beer. But the bar, grill and, really, the sand, are open to all who’d like to feign a beach day just 20 minutes from the heart of New Orleans. Kids run loose, dogs dig through the sand, and the vibrations are pretty good. Sometimes — more often than you might think — serious volleyball is played, too. It’s like Rock ’n’ Bowl, “but Jimmy Buffett,” said owner Christie Drury Squatrito, whose father, Mike Drury, helped start Coconut Beach back in 1988. “I think what we thrive on now is being more of a family establishment,” she said.

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Harry Connick Jr. routinely dedicated his albums to his late mother, even as he mostly declined to talk about her publicly. But at 59, he’s celebrating his enduring love for Anita-Francis Livingston Connick in a very public way. His new, orchestral album and a companion book, both titled “Babe: Elaboratio: A Tribute to My Mother,” honor the life and legacy of the woman affectionately known as Babe. An attorney and judge, she died of ovarian cancer when her son was just 13. That loss, as well as the confidence she always expressed in young Harry’s musical abilities, affected him profoundly. Connick premiered his orchestral ode to his mother in May at New York’s Carnegie Hall. At 5:30 p.m. Thursday, he’ll sit down with former mayor Mitch Landrieu at Dixon Concert Hall on the Tulane University campus to discuss “Babe: Elaboratio.” Tickets start at $35, which includes a signed copy of the book. During a recent interview, Connick explained why he recorded

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The cover of Harry Connick Jr.’s 2026 orchestral album ‘Babe: Elaboratio: A Tribute to My Mother’

“Babe: Elaboratio” in Australia, why he waited decades to perform at Carnegie Hall, and how memories of his mother informed his relationships with his wife and daughters. The interview has been edited for length and clarity. Why do “Babe: Elaboratio” now? My mom had a dream for me to play in Carnegie Hall. She talked about that since I was really little. She was from New York City, and (Carnegie Hall) was the epitome of performing halls for her. The ex-

act quote was, “I could die happy knowing that you played at Carnegie Hall. I want people to say, ‘Look, there goes Beethoven’s mother.’” She always knew that I was probably gonna end up a musician. She felt that more strongly than anyone, probably even me. When I was around 10, she was diagnosed with cancer. I remember calling Carnegie Hall from New Orleans and telling them, “Hey, I’m a piano player. I’d really love to play there for my mom.” They said, “Well, this is the box ofﬁce. We don’t book talent.” My mom thought that was nice that I did that for her. She died three years later, and obviously, I hadn’t had a chance to perform there. So I kept it in my mind that I was gonna do something special for her at Carnegie Hall. It was just a matter of when. Years ago,your manager reserved the dates May 22-23, 2026, which coincided with what

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Cuba’s ballet tradition endures despite troubled times Ballet student Roxana Perez de la Mora attends class at the National Ballet School in Havana, Cuba, on Sept. 16. AP PHOTO BY RAMON ESPINOSA

BY ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ

Associated Press

HAVANA — For months, twothirds of Cuba had no electricity at night. Some neighborhoods in the capital of Havana have been without running water for more than two weeks. Transportation is scarce and eggs, bread and cooking oil are hard to ﬁnd. Yet every morning, about 178 young students gather for class-

es at the National Ballet School in the capital. Housed in an imposing Art Nouveau building in the heart of Old Havana, the school combines rigorous dance training with academic classes in math, Spanish, history and science. Training to become a top-tier classical dancer demands discipline and sacriﬁce anywhere. In Cuba today, where blackouts and

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2D ✦ Tuesday, October 6, 2026 ✦ nola.com ✦ The Times-Picayune

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TODAY IN HISTORY By The Associated Press Today is Tuesday, Oct. 6, the 279th day of 2026. There are 86 days left in the year. Today in history: On Oct. 6, 1981, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was shot to death by members of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad while reviewing a military parade. Also on this date: In 1927, the era of talking pictures arrived with the opening of “The Jazz Singer” starring Al Jolson, a feature film containing both silent and sound-synchronized sequences. In 1973, war erupted in the Middle East as Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights during the Yom Kippur holiday, starting a nearly three-week conflict that would become known as the Yom Kippur War. In 1976, Republican President Gerald R. Ford, in his second presidential debate with Democrat Jimmy Carter, asserted that there was “no Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.” Carter went on to narrowly defeat Ford. In 1979, Pope John Paul II, on a weeklong U.S. tour, became the first pontiff to visit the White House, where he was received by President Jimmy Carter. In 2007, British adventurer Jason Lewis completed the first humanpowered circumnaviga-

tion of the globe, spanning 13 years and more than 46,000 miles. In 2014, the Supreme Court unexpectedly cleared the way for a dramatic expansion of same-sex marriage in the United States as it rejected appeals from five states seeking to preserve their bans, effectively making such marriages legal in 30 states. In 2018, in the narrowest Senate confirmation of a Supreme Court justice in nearly a century and a half, Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed by a 50-48 vote; he was sworn in hours later. In 2023, Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of her tireless campaigning for women’s rights and democracy, and against the death penalty. Mohammadi kept up her activism despite numerous arrests by Iranian authorities and having spent years behind bars. Today’s birthdays: Actor Britt Ekland is 84. Irish politician Gerry Adams is 78. Pro Football Hall of Fame coach Tony Dungy is 71. Bowler Walter Ray Williams Jr. is 67. Actor Elisabeth Shue is 63. House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, is 61. Actor Emily Mortimer is 55. Basketball Hall of Famer Rebecca Lobo is 53. Actor Ioan Gruffudd is 53. Actor Jeremy Sisto is 52. Football Hall of Famer Richard Seymour is 47. NFL quarterback Trevor Lawrence is 27.

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Christie Drury is the owner of Coconut Beach in Kenner.

VOLLEYBALL

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The start of an institution

David Beach (no relation to Coconut Beach) and Kevin Morris have spent the past few decades playing volleyball at the complex — and perhaps plotting the theft of the huge neon “Life’s a Beach” sign hanging over the bar. They’ve been at Coconut Beach in costume for Halloween, in red, white and blue for the Fourth of July, and to celebrate when another player used a metal detector from RadioShack to ﬁnd his wife’s wedding ring buried in the sand. Neither Beach or Morris had played the sport when Drury Squatrito’s dad decided to put sand and nets in Nippy Curtis Playground, near his longclosed restaurant, after visits to the beach volleyball meccas of Key West and the Bahamas in the ‘80s. But the game caught on quick. “It was fun,” Beach said, “and we were younger and athletic and we could drink while doing it.” The courts exploded in popularity, Drury Squatrito said, leading her father to enter into a cooperative endeavor with the city to adopt the land. He filled the playground with sand, expanding its size and adding more courts. At one time, she said, the West End iteration of Coconut Beach had roughly 400 teams each summer. Drury Squatrito grew up surrounded by beach volleyball, and met her husband out on the courts. But the original location wouldn’t last. A few years after Katrina, despite protests from community members, the Army Corps of Engineers confiscated the land to make way for a pumping station. Drury was reimbursed and forced to move along. “Dad could have walked

away and done something else with that money,” Drury Squatrito said. “But we were such a staple and it was such a big thing for so many people.”

‘Like bad grass’ Coconut Beach reopened in its current home in 2012, after Drury Squatrito’s father landed a similar cooperative endeavor with the city of Kenner. Though loyalists like Beach and Morris stuck with it, the move away from New Orleans cost Coconut Beach customers. Drury Squatrito, who left her corporate job in events planning and sales to join the family business full-time in 2015, has been working to win back that clientele ever since. But the Kenner complex saw a spike in popularity during the pandemic as people and high school teams opted to gather outdoors. Some indoor teams in Louisiana were introduced to beach volleyball for the ﬁrst time during the pandemic, Drury Squatrito said, and interest in beach volleyball locally has only continued to surge since Kristen Nuss’ performance at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics. Now, as Drury Squatrito watches her own young children play at the courts, she hopes to attract a new generation of customers, expanding and renovating to the deck so it can retain heat during the winter, and opening the complex up to a more diverse selection of events. She wants to foster the kind of place that will continue to be an oasis for the New Orleans area for years to come. “God,” she said, thinking of the obstacles she and her father have overcome. “We’re still here. You can’t kill us, we’re like bad grass.” Email Kasey Bubnash at kasey.bubnash@ theadvocate.com.

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Harry Connick Jr. has his bow tie straightened by his mother, Anita-Francis, while sitting on his dad’s lap at the senior Connick’s swearing-in ceremony to become the new district attorney for Orleans Parish in 1974. At left is Archbishop Philip Hannan.

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Continued from page 1D would have been your mom’s 100th birthday. I’d never been in Carnegie Hall. I kept it like that intentionally. They had asked me to play over the years, and we always told them no; they didn’t really know why. Even on the day of the show, I didn’t go in for rehearsal. I wanted the first time I walked out on the (Carnegie Hall) stage (to be) at 8 o’clock that night (for the show). I went out and performed this piece I wrote for her. It felt like a really celebratory moment, something that I felt emotionally ready to do. How did you respond to losing your mom at 13? Did you act out, retreat inward …? It was a combination of both of those things, plus the entire emotional spectrum. I was devastated. It was the most traumatic thing that I have ever experienced, still to this day. It was a miserable, miserable time for me and for my family. But as anybody who’s gone through something similar, or lost a loved one, knows, you don’t really have any alternative other than to process it and try to understand it, and hopefully eventually internalize it and move on with your life. That’s what I did. And for years, it was very difficult for me to talk about my mom. People would ask me about her in interviews, and I would get kind of snippy. I didn’t really want to discuss it. It was nobody’s business. It was almost like a snow globe in my mind that I didn’t want to shake, because the memories that I had of my mom were so pristine. But as time went on, I was able to be a little bit more

BALLET

Continued from page 1D shortages of fuel, water and food complicate daily life, those demands extend far beyond the dance studio. For 14-year-old Roxana Pérez de La Mora, that means waking up before dawn and traveling about 12 miles from her home to the school. “Sometimes I tell my mom I don’t feel like going, but missing it could cause problems for me later in training,” she said. “I’ve always said that my dream is to be a prima ballerina.”

A source of pride Despite Cuba’s ongoing crises, classical ballet remains a celebrated part of the country’s culture, nearly as popular on the island as baseball. Over the decades, Cuba has produced internationally renowned dancers and choreographers whose careers are closely followed by a knowledgeable ballet

forthcoming. The accompanying book talks about personal experiences I had with her. It’s an intimate account of my feelings toward my mom. The photographs, I’ve never shared. How do you think your life would have been different had she lived longer? My deﬁnition of what being a woman is, and femininity, and that type of strength, and being a parent, all of that was formed very deeply and early by her. By not having that after I was 13, I probably thought about things in ways that I wouldn’t have, had she been alive. I had a need for a mother. I had a need to communicate with her and be loved by her that wasn’t met. I’m just speculating, but I would think that my relationship to women now was in large part formed by my relationship with my mom. Qualities that I love in my wife, I’m sure, had something to do with things I recognized from my mom. The way I parent as a father is directly related to my mom. The fact that it was sort of frozen in time … it never evolved after 13. Had she lived, I definitely wouldn’t be the same person. As the dad of three girls, you applied parenting lessons you learned from your mom. Absolutely. I think about it to this day. Like, what would my mother say, how would my mother respond to this? Because she had such a clear moral compass, and she was so adamant about things like the discovery process. She was a real believer in letting me discover things on my own. There’s a million examples of her doing things that would be considered probably unusual or unorthodox in terms of parenting. But from my personal experience, they were brilliant decisions to make as a parent.

She met your dad in Morocco. She had a not pleasant home life in New York, so in her mid-20s, she said, “I’m out of here.” She moved to Istanbul and had a job working at some government ofﬁce as a secretary and eventually moved to Morocco. My dad was over there working for the Corps of Engineers, building an Air Force base in Nouasseur, Morocco, in 1950 or so. They fell in love, and they eloped. Their plan was to move back to New Orleans, a town that she had never been to. But my dad got tuberculosis and ended up staying (in Morocco and Europe) for a year on bed rest. So my mother went to New Orleans by herself and moved in with my dad’s parents, whom she’d never met. She was a Jew from New York. New Orleans at that time was a provincial town, so it was very hard for her to get work, being a female, being Jewish, living in Lakeview. She ﬁnally said, “I’m gonna start my own business.” She found a little place on Harrison Avenue and opened a record store called Studio A Records. They sold records and greeting cards. My dad eventually came back and helped her. The money they made put them through law school. You recorded “Babe: Elaboratio” in Australia with Orchestra Victoria. Why go to the other side of the world to record? I have a production company in Melbourne, Australia. Australia is a wonderful place for artists because they support the arts in different ways than they do in the United States. So I know the musicians down there, and I know a lot of people in the entertainment industry. I thought it would be a good idea to rehearse with an orchestra down there…. so I would be prepared to perform it the following

May. We rehearsed it and recorded it. When it came time to go to Carnegie Hall, Orchestra Victoria knew the music. I felt so comfortable playing with them that I ﬂew them to New York. A lot of plane tickets — 80 to be exact. Each of the album’s three movements is inspired by your mom’s time in a particular city: New York, Nouasseur and New Orleans. The New York movement is very soundtrack-y, then it switches to a jazz club vibe. I was just thinking about my mom’s experience and writing music that sounded like that to me. I wasn’t trying to sound soundtrack-y or (like a) jazz club. I was writing the music that I heard as I was seeing her in parts of her life that I wasn’t there to experience, which is what the name means. “Elaboratio” is just an old-fashioned way of saying “elaboration.” In the New Orleans section, you avoid musical cliches. Your piano playing is very somber in certain sections. I’m not a big cliche guy. There’s many other interesting ways to write things rather than play things that have already been done. In the beginning of the third movement, there’s actually four voices going on. There’s a bass line and then another line on my left hand that joins that, another line on my right hand, and then another line on my right hand. There’s no real tonal center there. Basically those four lines are my mother walking through New Orleans for the ﬁrst time, seeing things culturally that she had never experienced before. Walking through the French Quarter and seeing people coexisting in ways that she hadn’t seen.

audience. The Cuban National Ballet, founded in the 1940s by revered ballerina Alicia Alonso and her husband Fernando Alonso, is considered one of the world’s most prestigious companies. Tickets cost less than $1, while comparable performances elsewhere can cost as much as $300. For its season-ending gala in August, the company presented “Canto Vital,” a work by Russian choreographer Azari Plisetski to music by Gustav Mahler. The performance starred Dani Hernández, a principal dancer who also directs the National Ballet School, where Roxana trains each day. Fuel shortages had left the streets nearly empty that night, but the Avellaneda Hall at the National Theatre of Cuba was packed with elegantly dressed patrons, their hair and makeup styled for the occasion. The audience gave a standing ovation, shouting “Bravo!” The combination of demanding leadership at the

National Ballet and rigorous training at a public school has helped produce dozens of prominent dancers. Some have gone on to become principals at leading companies including the Paris Opera Ballet, the Royal Ballet in London and American Ballet Theatre in New York.

dancers. “The entire situation we’re experiencing today could affect a generation of students training in ballet, dance, music, the visual arts,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press. “And it’s been the same for all other fields: engineering, medicine, education, everything else.” Yet classical ballet remains a source of national pride while maintaining its internationally recognized standards, an endurance that is reﬂected in the discipline’s broad appeal across Cuban society. “It’s one of those things where you go out on the street and say, ‘Hey, I saw the ballet,’ and everyone starts talking to you about ballet,” he said.

Crisis tests resolve Hernández, the professional dancer and teacher, rides an electric motorcycle every day from his apartment in Havana to ballet class, which is a risky commute for someone whose career depends on avoiding injury. During recent persistent blackouts, heat and mosquitoes forced Hernández, 37, to sleep on the terrace of his apartment building. “Whether I have electricity or not, I have to be in the studio,” he said. “But I keep thinking: Will the food in my refrigerator spoil?” Hernández expressed his worry about how the country’s mounting crises could affect future generations of

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zodIAC LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) Discipline will pay off. Think about the possibilities, and implement ideas that help turn your vision into something concrete. Don't expect everyone to agree with you. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) Choose to get along. A little charm will help you bypass those looking for a debate. Protect your reputation and your relationships with associates. Put more thought into your beliefs. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) You're sitting in a better position than you realize. Open your eyes and ears, and what you discover will help protect you against scammers and those who try to take advantage of you. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Having a laidback attitude will help you get things done without interference. Be aware of misdirection and bad information. Verify everything you hear before passing it along. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) Channel your energy wisely. Discipline and patience are necessary. If you let what others do or say bother you, ego and emotions will bring drama, leaving you in an awkward position. PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) Matters concerning investments, health and contracts are best dealt with swiftly. Refuse to let inexperience cost you. Go to the experts who can provide you with the facts. ARIES (March 21-April 19) Set high goals, and push forward with enthusiasm. Clear up mixed messages by being con-

cise regarding how you feel, what you are willing to do and how to improve situations that aren't working well for you. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) Rethink your plans, choose your words carefully and stick to the script. If you embellish situations, you'll be labeled as difficult; if you back down, you'll be vulnerable and weak. GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Embrace your dreams, hopes and wishes, and see what transpires. You'll never know what's possible if you don't try. Meet any challenge you encounter with discipline and a plan. CANCER (June 21-July 22) Get active. Using your mental and physical attributes will help you get back in the game. It's time to flex your muscles and strengthen any vulnerability you've allowed to seep into your life. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Disruptions will require attention. You can resolve a domestic dispute if you compromise. Don't let ego get in the way or words put a wedge between you and what you are trying to achieve. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) Pay attention to detail and proper protocol when dealing with institutions. A networking event can lead to professional and financial opportunities. How you present yourself will determine the outcome of a meeting. The horoscope, an entertainment feature, is not based on scientific fact. © 2026 by nEa, inc., dist. By andrews mcmeel syndication

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Bridge BY PHILLIP ALDER Trent Reznor, a singer-songwriter, composer and record producer, said, “Being a rock and roll star has become as legitimate a career option as being an astronaut or a policeman or a fireman.” That is an interesting list of comparisons when you contemplate the various incomes from those professions. In this deal, though, the key word is “option.” Which option should South choose? He is in three no-trump. West leads the heart jack and East plays his seven. How should South continue? West has a textbook weak two-bid, North has a textbook takeout double, and South has a clearcut jump to three notrump. It is just a pity that the contract isn’t laydown. South has only eight winners: four spades, one heart (trick one) and three diamonds. He has to establish a club trick, but that will involve losing the lead twice and will give the defenders a chance to run the heart suit. If West has a high club, the contract is unmakable. So South must assume that East has the club ace and king. However, if declarer takes the first trick and immediately plays a club, East will get in and return his second heart. Then South will go down three, losing five hearts and two clubs.

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

PUBLIC NOTICE ---

If this solicitation is fed‐ erally funded, prospec‐ tive bidder/respondent must pay particular at‐ tention to all applicable laws and regulations of the Federal government and the State of Louisiana.

ADVERTISEMENT TO INVITATION TO BID CITY OF NEW ORLEANS SPONSORING DEPARTMENT: NEW ORLEANS RECREATIONAL DEPARTMENT COMMISSION (NORDC)

TYPE OF SOLICITATION: NON-PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

The Bureau of Purchas‐ ing uses commodity codes to notify suppliers of the release of a sourc‐ ing event and subse‐ quent modiﬁcations via addendum. Note that you would receive those noti‐ ﬁcations if you selected the following commodity code(s) before the re‐ lease of the sourcing event:

DBE OPPORTUNITY: YES (35%)

COMMODITY CODE(s): 961-68

RELEASED ON: September 29, 2026

The City of New Orleans is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages minorityowned and womenowned businesses, so‐ cially and economically di d d b i

TITLE: FOOTBALL OFFICIALS (Re-Bid) SOURCING EVENT NO.: 4814

DEADLINE TO RESPOND: October 13, 2026 PRE-BID CONFERENCE:

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This project is classified as Heavy Construction, Building Construction, or Limited Specialty Ser‐ vices. Objection to the required classification should be filed in accor‐ dance with La. R.S. 37:2165.

Persons seeking entry to the below listed facilities of the Port of New Or‐ leans must possess a TWIC in order to attend pre-bid meetings on port property. Restricted areas include port prop‐ erty between Felicity Street and Henry Clay Avenue, Alabo Street Wharf, Jourdan Road Wharf, the Julia Street and Erato Street Cruise Terminals, and during cargo activities at Poland Avenue Wharf and Gover‐ nor Nicholls Street Wharf. TWIC escorts will not be permitted for this project. See Section 1000 – General Requirements. Bidding Documents will be issued only to those contractors complying with state licensing laws for contractors, La. R.S. 37:2150, et. seq. On any bid submitted in the amount of $50,000 or more, the contractor must hold at the time this bid is opened a valid license issued by the Louisiana State Licensing Board for Contractors.

A deposit of five percent (5%) of the cost of the contract price of work to be done for the Base Bid plus all additive Alter‐ nate Bid prices, by certi‐ fied check, cashier's check or bid bond is re‐ quired, and the bidder to whom the contract is awarded shall also be re‐ quired to furnish a per‐ formance bond in the total amount of the bid. The bid bond must be furnished in accordance with the requirements of La. R.S. 38:2218, and the performance bond in ac‐ cordance with the provi‐ sions of La. R.S. 38:2219. The award of contract, if awarded, will be made within 45 calendar days after bid opening to the lowest qualified bidder whose bid complies with all requirements pre‐ scribed. However, when the contract is to be fi‐ nanced by bonds which i d b ld

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Questions must be sub‐ mitted at least seven (7) days prior to bid open‐ ing. These individuals are not authorized to and shall not render legal opinions or advice. No information will be given regarding the proper evidence of corporate authority as required in this bid. Each bidder is advised to con‐ sult his own counsel for such information. Please be advised that these individuals are not the legal representatives of the Board. 201523-sep 22-29-oct 6-3t $278.07

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2245 Sealed bids will be re‐ ceived by the Procure‐ ment Section of the Divi‐ sion of Administration, 1201 N. 3rd. St., 2nd. Floor, Suite 2-160, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, at 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026683, Cargo Trailers - DPS, 10/14/26 RFx No. 3000026733, Tan‐ dem Axle Dump Trucks – DOTD, 10/28/26 RFx No. 3000026740, Kawasaki Motorcycles – DPS, 10/28/26 RFx No. 3000026751, 8Yard Single Axle Dump Trucks – DOTD, 10/28/26 RFx No. 3000026753, 16Yard Tandem Axle Dump Trucks – DOTD, 10/28/26 RFx No. 3000026754, Bucket Truck Crew Cab – DOTD, 10/28/26 Bid proposal forms, in‐ formation and speciﬁca‐ tions may be obtained by accessing the bid num‐ ber in LaPac at www.doa. la.gov/doa/osp/ or from the procurement section listed above. No bids will be received after the date and hour speciﬁed. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids and to waive any infor‐ malities. Amy Vincent Director of State Procure‐ ment FAX (225) 342-8688 202978-OCT 6-1T $16.30

PUBLIC NOTICE --REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY 10 TONS CLIMATE MASTER REPLACEMENT UNIT INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #2026-032 Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans in‐ vites qualified vendors to replace the 10 Tons Cli‐ mate Master Replace‐ ment Unit per specifica‐ tions in IFB 2026-032. How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Specifications and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained September 16, 2026, from the RTA’s Procureware website at https://norta. procureware.com/home. You will be required to first register on this web‐ site. The IFB can also be obtained at Regional Transit Authority’s web‐ site at http://www.norta. com. Clarifications: Any ques‐ tions or further informa‐ tion concerning this IFB must be submitted https://norta. through procureware.com/home by 2:00 PM on October 9, 2026. Only written ques‐ tions submitted through Procureware site shall be considered official. All answers to questions shall be by formal ad‐ denda posted to the website under IFB 2026032. Responding to IFB: Bids shall be submitted through the RTA’s Pro‐ cureware website on or before 2:00 P.M., Thurs‐ day, October 15, 2026. A Bid Opening will be held in the Finance Con‐ ference Room located at 2817 Canal Street, New Orleans, LA 70119, on Thursday, October 15, 2026, at 2:00 PM. RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ l i ( ) h

Public Notices Bids/Proposals g lations (CFR) Part 26 has an obligation to ensure nondiscrimination of Dis‐ advantaged Business En‐ terprises (DBEs) and to comply with all federal, state and local regula‐ tions relative to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on publicly funded projects. The RTA is committed to utiliza‐ tion of DBEs on all feder‐ ally funded projects to‐ ward attainment of the agency's established overall goal of 32%. No DBE goal has been es‐ tablished for this project as there are no subcon‐ tracting opportunities on this project. Notice to all offerors is hereby provided that in accordance with all ap‐ plicable federal, state and local laws the RTA will ensure that DBEs are afforded full opportunity to submit offers and re‐ sponses to this solicita‐ tion and to participate in any contract consum‐ mated pursuant to this advertisement. Addition‐ ally, no offeror will be discriminated against on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, na‐ tional origin, ethnicity or disability. For additional information contact the RTA’s Small Business Of‐ ﬁce at 504-827-8301. The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals submitted. Ronald G. Baptiste, Jr. Interim Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Regional Transit Authority 201259-sept 29-oct 6-2t $684.30

PUBLIC NOTICE -- The Louisiana Ofﬁce of the State Museum is re‐ questing proposals for a Public-Private Partner‐ ship project to design, build, furnish, operate, and maintain an in‐ door/outdoor café at the New Orleans Jazz Mu‐ seum. For more informa‐ tion go to opportuni‐ tiesinlouisiana.com. 202695-oct 2-20-t $93.29

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PUBLIC NOTICE --(October 1, 2026) Notice is hereby given that InclusivCare intends to apply for a federal grant for operating assis‐ tance and/or capital as‐ sistance to provide the Formula Grant Program for Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities of a nonemergency, ambulatory nature for the FY 20272028 program year. The application for assis‐ tance is pursuant to the Formula Grant Program for Enhanced Mobility of Seniors and Individuals with Disabilities Program of 49 CFR 5310. Services will generally be be‐ tween (8am) and (5pm , (Monday) through (Sat‐ urday) in the area en‐ compassing (New Or‐ leans service area) , Louisiana. Transit ser‐ vices are provided with‐ out regard to race, color, and national origin in ac‐ cordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. Written comments on the proposed services may be sent within 15 days to 4028 US Hwy 90 Avon‐ dale, La. 70094 and to the Program Manager, Louisiana Department of Transportation and De‐ velopment, P.O. Box 94245, Baton Rouge, LA 70804-9245. Comments must be received by (Oc‐ tober 1, 2026 - 15 days after the date of publica‐ tion). 203117-OCT 6-21-2T $306.58 PUBLIC NOTICE --Burns & McDonnell on behalf of Cloud Connec‐ tor, LLC is requesting au‐ thorization to construct a natural gas pipeline be‐ tween an interconnect station near Melville, Louisiana in St. Landry i h d

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y Parish, and Venture Global Plaquemines LNG, LLC and Plaquemines Ex‐ pansion, LLC Terminals in Plaquemines Parish. The U.S. Army Corps of Engi‐ neers (CEMVN) will be accepting public com‐ ments on the project until October 8, 2026. To further review and/or provide comments, addi‐ tional information and plans related to the pro‐ posal may be obtained at the following website: www.mvn.usace.army. mil/missions/regulatory/ public-notices (see Ref#: MVN-2026-00308-BV). If you have any questions or would like additional information, please con‐ tact Courtland Vice with CEMVN, Regulatory Divi‐ sion at (504) 862-1349 or at courtland.l.vice@ usace.army.mil. A certiﬁ‐ cation that the proposed activity will not violate applicable water quality standards will be re‐ quired from the LDEQ be‐ fore a Department of the Army permit could be is‐ sued. 201950-SEP 28-OCT 8-11T $1,405.06

PUBLIC NOTICE --FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ReNEW Reinventing Edu‐ cation, Inc announces Free School Meals Under the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) ReNEW Reinventing Edu‐ cation announced today it will continue partici‐ pating in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) as part of the National School Lunch Program (NSLP) and School Break‐ fast Program (SBP) for the 2026 - 2027 school year. Under this provision, all students enrolled in the participating schools listed below will receive a nutritious breakfast and lunch at no charge each day. Families do not need to ﬁll out household income applications to determine individual eli‐ gibility for free or re‐ duced-price meals. This approach eliminates the administrative burden on families and school staff alike, ensuring that every student has access to healthy meals without stigma or ﬁnancial stress. Participating Schools/Sites Include: ● ReNEW Laurel Elementary ● ReNEW Moton Lakefront ● ReNEW Schaumburg Elementary ● ReNEW Dolores T Aaron Academy For additional informa‐ tion regarding the school nutrition programs, please contact: ReNEW Reinventing Edu‐ cation Attention: Damitria Santiago, Executive Director of Operations 1001 Lake Forest Blvd, Ste 710, New Orleans, LA 70127 504-367-3307 dsantiago@renewschool s.org USDA Non-Discrimination Statement In accordance with fed‐ eral civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agri‐ culture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from dis‐ criminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sex‐ ual orientation), disabil‐ ity, age, or reprisal or re‐ taliation for prior civil rights activity. This institution is an equal opportunity provider. 203098-oct 6-1t $27.77

PUBLIC NOTICE --The Grace Baptist Acad‐ emy of Marrero, Louisiana admits stu‐ dents of any race, color, national and ethnic ori‐ gin to all the rights, privi‐ leges, programs, and ac‐ tivities generally ac‐ corded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race,

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PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE OPPORTUNITY FOR REQUESTING A PUBLIC HEARING All interested persons are hereby advised that the InclusivCare has ap‐ plied to the Louisiana De‐ partment of Transporta‐ tion and Development for project funding under Federal Transit Adminis‐ tration (Section 5310 and/or 5311) for the fol‐ lowing: PROJECT: InclusivCare is preparing to [Replace ex‐ isting equipment to con‐ tinue, add additional equipment to expand, or obtain equipment to start new] transportation services in the Parish. Further details relative to the project are available from InclusivCare 4028 US Hwy 90, Avondale, La. Dr. Shondra Williams. Interested persons are advised that they may request that a public hearing be conducted to provide a means for the public to express their views relative to the pro‐ posed project on the probable social, eco‐ nomic, and environmen‐ tal effects involved. In lieu of requesting a pub‐ lic hearing, interested persons may submit their comments in writ‐ ing. Written requests for a public hearing and/or submittal of comments must be postmarked on or before (October 15, 2026 should be at least 15 days from the publica‐ tion), and should be ad‐ dressed to: InclusivCare 4028 US Hwy 90, Avon‐ dale, La. 70094. Should a public hearing be re‐ quired, public notice will be published stating the date, time, and location of the hearing. 203116-OCT 6-21-2T $378.06

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PUBLIC NOTICE --CIVIL DISTRICT COURT FOR THE PARISH OF ORLEANS STATE OF LOUISIANA NUMBER 92-13346 DIVISION – “A” NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE Whereas the Administra‐ tor of the above estate, has made application to the court For the sale of the follow‐ ing: An undivided threefourths (3/4th interest in and to: That certain portion of ground, together with all the buildings and improvements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privileges, servitudes, advantages and appurte‐ nances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise appertaining, situated in the SECOND DISTRICT of this City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 316, bounded by Gover‐ nor Nicholls, Barracks, North Toni, and North Rocheblave Street, desig‐ nated as Lot No. 3, mea‐ suring Thirty-three feet, six inches (33’6”) front on Governor Nicholls (actual And title) by same width in the rear (actual and title) by eighty feet, three inches, two lines (80’3”2’’’) in depth, title, and eighty-ﬁve feet, three inches, two lines (85’3”2’’’) actual, on side toward North Rocheblave Street, and eight ﬁve feet, four inches seven lines (85’

4”7’’’) title and eightyﬁve feet, three inches two lines (85’3”2’’’) actual on line separating Lot No. 3 and Lot No.4. the title mea‐ surements being in ac‐ cordance with a plan de‐ posited In the ofﬁce of James Graham, N.P., described as Plan No. 158, and the actual Measurements are delin‐ eated on a survey of the said property by F.G. Stewart Eng. & Sur., dated April 11, 1951, a blueprint of which is annexed to an act by Christian P. Rodick, Sr., to Mrs. Ogerita Burke, Div. wife of Madison Daniel. The improvements thereon bear the Munici‐ pal No. 2429 Governor Nicholls Street, New Orleans Louisiana. Being the same property in which Jeanne Bagneris Dowden et als acquired The interest of Welling‐ ton I. Dowden, Sr., by virtue of a Judgment of Possession Dated July 26, 1982, in the matter entitled Succes‐ sion of Wellington Dow‐ den Sr.” Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana No. 82-4415. Registered in COB 782, Folio 104, as N.A. No 460125, NOLA 7/26/82. Also Being the same property acquired by Mrs. Jeanne Bageris, wife of Welling‐ ton Dowden, Sr.” from Co‐ lumbia Homestead Asso‐ ciation by Act before Clif‐ ford P.De Laup, Jr. late N.P for the Parish of Orleans State of Louisiana, regis‐ tered In COB 593, folio 94, NOLA dated 11/10/1953 Notice is given to all parties, including heirs and creditors of the decedent of this estate be ordered to make any opposition which they may have to this application at any time prior to the order autho‐ rizing, approving, ho‐ mologating such application and that an order of judg‐ ment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days from the date of the last publication all in ac‐ cordance with the law. Atty. Bernard J. Blair, II 200694-sept 15-oct 6-2t $97.80

PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that application for au‐ thority to sell by private sale certain movable property comprising a portion of the property of the Succession of Charles L. Whited, Jr. has been filed by Shaun S. Duncan and Cynthia Anne Wegmann, in their capacities as the duly appointed, qualified, and acting Co-Executors of the Succession, in the proceeding titled Succes‐ sion of Charles L. Whited, Jr., Case No. 2025-01567, Division “B”, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana. This notice is being provided pur‐ suant to La. C.C.P. art. 3282. The movable property to be sold at private sale in‐ cludes: (1) Two (2) stone sculptures by Beatrice Hill; and (2) One (1) Painting titled “Woman” signed by Robert Gordy. Any opposition to the proposed sale must be filed within seven days from the date of the last publication of this notice. 202364-OCT 6-1T $39.88 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that certain artwork comprising a portion of the property of the Suc‐ cession of Charles L. Whited, Jr. is to be sold at public auction by New Orleans Auction Gal‐ leries, pursuant to La. C.C.P. art. 3271, in the proceeding titled Succes‐ sion of Charles L. Whited, Jr., Case No. 2025-01567, Division “B”, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana. This notice

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is being provided pur‐ suant to La. C.C.P. art. 3272. The artwork to be sold by public sale includes the following: (1) Portrait of a Man by Skylar Fein; (2) Photograph by Generic Art Solutions; (3) Fabric Mixed Media Piece by Dan Charbonnet; (4) Handcuffed Hands by Skylar Fein; (5) I Should Be Loyal to the Night‐ mare; (6) Painting by Alan Gerson; (7) Bywater Water Tower Nocturne Painting by Kaori Maeyama; (8) Bywater Tower Redux Painting by Kaori Maeyama; (9) Telegram by Sklar Fein; (10) Black Background with People – Unknown Artist; (11) All Car Paint‐ ings by Angola Artist; (12) "Marching to a Dif‐ ferent Beat" by Bruce Davenport; (13) "All I Need Is One Pen" by Bruce Davenport; (14) All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy by Dan Charbonnet; (15) Zena Moses by Carl Joe Williams; (16) Portrait of Woman Photograph; (17) Burn Baby Burn by Dan Charbonnet; (18) The Fountain by Robert War‐ ren; (19) Painting by Damien Aquiles; (20) Electric Blue by Jeffrey Pitt; (21) Large Painting of Carpenter by Kevin Brisco(?) ; (22) Painting by Roy Ferdinand; (23) Photograph by Unknown; (24) Pancake House / George W Bush by Skylar Fein; (25) 6 Designs for Costumes by N. de Malas; (26) 2 Drawings of Theater; (27) Red Inﬁnity by Walter Johnson; (28) Two Photographs by Kristina Knipe; (29) Ode to the Common Man by Jeffrey Forsythe; (30) Dol‐ lar Bill "Unite Nola" by Dan Charbonnet; (31) Landscape Drawing of Trees – "Signed Bid"; (32) Lincoln by Skylar Fein; (33) Photograph of Man at Corner Store by Kevin Kline; (34) Study #7 Washington by Skylar Fein; (35) Painting by William Bock; (36) Large Gold Metal Sculpture; (37) Marilyn by Nicole Charbonnet; (38) Robert Gordy Print; (39) Black and Red Work by Sklar Fein; (40) Candid Nature Il by Brooke Pickett; (41) Broad Daylight by Kevin Brisco; (42) Pink Silhou‐ ettes by L. Walker (An‐ gola artist); (43) Dark Sil‐ houettes by L. Walker (Angola artist); (44) Black Work by Anita Cook; (45) Black and Teal Work by Scott Andresen; (46) Blue Painting by Nicole Charbonnet; (47) Floral Face by Alan Ger‐ son; (48) Earth Sculpture by William Bock; (49) Un‐ titled (Kiss) by Stephen Collier; (50) Man Playing Sax by Roy Ferdinand; (51) Louisiana USA Flag by Skylar Fein; (52) Swimming by John Opie; (53) Snapping the Diver by John Opie; (54) Red Screen by Art Silverman; (55) Faces by Matthew Cox; (56) Book Collection on Table by Sklar Fein; (57) Clown Face by Erica Lambertson; (58) Hello by Name is John Henry by Pat Phillips; (59) Or‐ ange Painting by Nicole Charbonnet; (60) Francesca Fernandez Mckenzie from Along St. Claude Series by Jonathan Traviesa; (61) George Washington Col‐ lage by Dan Charbonnet; (62) Industrial Scene with Man by Nicole Char‐ bonnet; (63) Oil on Board by Matthew Cox; (64) Pencil on Paper by Matthew Cox; (65) Draw‐ ing of Landscape; (66) The Rainbow by Nicole Charbonnet; (67) Red Cow by Bill Isles; (68) Work by Silky Thoss; (69) Work by Silky Thoss; (70) Work by Silky Thoss; (71) Work by Stephen Collier; (72) Work by Robert Lansden; (73) Red and Pink Painting Possibly by Sally Egbert; (74) Teenagers from Mars by Dan Charbonnet; (75) Karl Marx Theory by James Concannon; (76) George Bush Triptych by Skylar Fein (1/3); (77) George Bush Triptych by Skylar Fein (2/3); (78) George Bush Triptych by Skylar Fein (3/3); (79) Work by Arthur Silver‐ man; (80) Arms by Dan Charbonnet; (81) Work Possibly by Cristina Molina; (82) Still from Performance by Avery Lawrence; (83) Drawing; (84) Marilyn; (85) Work by Brad Wreyford; (86) A Stranger to Me Series by Kevin Kline; (87) Las Maninas by Skylar Fein; ( ) i l d b i

Public Notices Successions y y (88) Untitled by Nina Schwanse; (89) Youth Manifesto by Skylar Fein; (90) Notorious Big Print; (91) Apocalypse Now by Pat Phillips; (92) Work by Bob Snead; (93) Work by Dan Charbonnet; (94) Copperplate Engraving; (95) Washington by Sky‐ lar Fein; (96) Narcissus by Generic Art Solutions; (97) Work by John Henry Kelly; (98) Work by Skylar Fein; (99) Work by Dan Charbonnet; (100) Work by Jeffrey Forsythe; (101) 2 Works possibly by Kristina Knipe (1/2); (102) 2 Works possibly by Kristina Knipe (2/2); (103) Work by Charles Hoffacker; (104) Work by Charles Hoffacker; (105) Work by Skylar Fein; (106) Work by Skylar Fein; (107) Work by Sky‐ lar Fein; (108) Work by Skylar Fein; (109) Work by Skylar Fein; (110) Jackie Gleason by Skylar Fein; (111) Painting by Erica Lambertson; (112) Another Chicken Basket by TARD; (113) Veronica Compton by Nina Schwanse; (114) D.M. Bob – Angola Art; (115) Lob‐ ster by Brian St. Cyr; (116) Phantom Vibrations by Brian Guidry; (117) Group of Clay Figures by Jerry Hampton (Angola); (118) Sketch of Boat; (119) Work on Paper; (120) Sculptures by Arthur Silverman; (121) 7 Deadly Anges by Dan Charbonnet; (122) Work by Stephen Hoffpuir; (123) Red Rooms by Patch Somerville; (124) Unknown; (125) Work by Bob Tanen; (126) Work by Doyle Gertjejensen; (127) Unknown; (128) Chomp by Kjeishus Colins; (129) Drawing; (130) Deep Fake by Kjelshus Collins; (131) Pieces of the Chapel of the Almighty Dollar Exte‐ rior by Dan Charbonnet; (132) Portrait by Stephen Hoskins; (133) Blue Ab‐ stract Painting; (134) Un‐ known; (135) Unknown; (136) Work by Carl Jo Wil‐ iams; (137) Sax by John Opie; (138) River Stone by Mare Martin; (139) Piece by Dan Charbon‐ net; (140) Sculptures by Arthur Silverman; (141) Dirty Dishes by Bob Snead; (142) Elemental Realms by Mare Martin; (143) Summer by Mare Martin; (144) Oak King‐ dom by Mare Martin; (145) Work by Skylar Fein; (146) Work by Sky‐ lar Fein; (147) Unknown; (148) Unknown; (149) Work by Bruce Laﬁtte; (150) Work by Masahiro Arai; (151) Work by Masahiro Arai; (152) Long Arms by Baltimore Glass‐ man; (153) Work by Je‐ remy Novy; (154) Picture by Lala Rascic; (155) Pair of Copperplate Engrav‐ ings (1/2); (156) Pair of Copperplate Engravings (2/2); (157) 2 Sculptures; (158) Sculpture; (159) Work by Alex Podesta; (160) Shannon During Quarantine by Kristina Knipe; (161) September Spawned a Monster by Dan Charbonnet; (162) Work by Dan Charbon‐ net; (163) 3 Heads by Sean Starwars; (164) Ronald Reagan and Elvis Presley; (165) Daiquiri with Crayﬁsh by Kristina Knipe; (166) Robot by Sean Starwars; (167) Head by Sean Starwars; (168) Work by Dan Char‐ bonnet; (169) 4 Small Works by Dan Charbon‐ net (1/4); (170) 4 Small Works by Dan Charbon‐ net (2/4); (171) 4 Small Works by Dan Charbon‐ net (3/4); (172) 4 Small Works by Dan Charbon‐ net (4/4); (173) King Kong by Dan Charbonnet; (174) Work by Dan Charbon‐ net; (175) Drawing; (176) Portrait of Lady; (177) Work by Generic Art So‐ lutions; (178) Unknown; (179) House; (180) Ship by J.P. Scott; (181) Picture by Matthew Cox; (182) Work by Mario G. Ortiz; (183) Work by MRSA (Conor Kolk); (184) Work by Kalli Padgett; (185) Work by Devin Reynolds; (186) Unknown; (187) Work by perhaps Ros‐ alind Talmadge; (188) Work by Lavar Munroe; (189) Fishing Lures – An‐ gola; (190) Painting "Edu‐ cation of the Virgin Mary"; (191) Engraving "Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew"; (192) Mexican Engraving – Jose Guadalupe Posada; (193) Mexican Engraving – Jose Guadalupe Posada; (194) Porcelain Oil Lamp Body with American Eagle and U.S. Coat of Arms; (195) Large Italian Glazed Earthenware Platter; (196) Spanish Majolica h ( ) i

Public Notices Successions p j Apothecary Jar; (197) Li‐ onel Electric Train; (198) Silver Beaker; (199) Small Silver Piece; (200) Un‐ known; (201) Painting by Newton Howard; (202) Assorted Ceramics by Susan Bowers; (203) Bird Houses – Angola Art; (204) Work in Red by Scott Andresen; (205) Work by Jacob Edwards; (206) Work by Dan Char‐ bonnet; (207) Untitled tall sculpture – Beatrice Hill; (208) Unidentified as‐ semblage; (209) Group of cylindrical vessels – artist unidentified; (210) Redemption of the Straw‐ berry Shortcake – Susan Bowers; (211) Untitled stone sculpture – artist unidentified; (212) Unti‐ tled ochre abstract paint‐ ing – artist unidentified; (213) Unidentified church/steeple painting; (214) Work by Dan Char‐ bonnet; (215) Work by Dan Charbonnet; (216) Untitled fists work – Dan Charbonnet; (217) Two Houses – Angola Art Fair; (218) Swamp Scenes – Angola Artist; (219) Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is by Lala Rascic; and (220) Silver Piece. 202361-OCT 6-1T $150.37 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that certain furniture comprising a portion of the property of the Suc‐ cession of Charles L. Whited, Jr. is to be sold at public auction by Crescent City Auction Gallery, pursuant to La. C.C.P. art. 3271, in the proceeding titled Succes‐ sion of Charles L. Whited, Jr., Case No. 2025-01567, Division “B”, in the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans, State of Louisiana. This notice is being provided pur‐ suant to La. C.C.P. art. 3272. The furniture to be sold by public sale includes the following: (1) Inlaid English Chest; (2) Chi‐ nese Low Table; (3) Pair of French Armchairs; (4) Burled-Wood Desk; (5) Regency Cabinet; (6) Chi‐ nese Console; (7) Louis XV Chair; (8) Five-Drawer English Chest; (9) English Lap Desk/Stand; (10) Ball-and-Claw Chair with Turned Stand; (11) Hep‐ plewhite Console; (12) Pad-Foot Table; (13) Eng‐ lish Games Table; (14) Pair of Upholstered Club Chairs; (15) Louis XV Sofa; (16) Silk Bergere; (17) Louis XVI Marble-Top Commode; (18) EightDrawer Georgian Chest; (19) Lolling Chair; (20) Georgian Bow-Front Desk; and (21) All rugs. 202363-OCT 6-1T $42.57

PUBLIC NOTICE --STATE OF LOUISIANA Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans NOTICE TO SELL IMMOVABLE PROPERTY AT PRIVATE SALE NUMBER: 2026-02404 DIVISION: “I” SECTION: 5 SUCCESSION OF JOHNNY WISE, SR. a/k/a JOHNNY WISE AND SUCCESSION OF ANNA MAE RUIZ WISE Whereas, the Adminis‐ trator of the above Es‐ tates, has made applica‐ tion to the Court for the sale at private sale of the immovable property hereinafter described, to-wit: A CERTAIN LOT OF GROUND, together with all the buildings and im‐ provements thereon, and all the rights, ways, privi‐ leges, servitudes, advan‐ tages and appurte‐ nances thereunto be‐ longing or in anywise ap‐ pertaining, situated in the SECOND DISTRICT of the City of New Orleans, in SQUARE NO. 314, bounded by Ursuline Av‐ enue, North Tonti, North Rocheblave and St. Phillips Streets, as per sketch of Walter J. Seghers, Surveyor, dated May 23, 1916, a blue print of which is attached to act passed before Frank J. Stich, Jr., Notary Public, on February 5, 1941 and according to which sur‐ vey said lot is designated by the letter “S” begins at a distance of ninetyﬁ f i h d

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Public Notices Successions y five feet, two inches and two lines (95’2”2”’) from the corner of Ursulines Avenue and Tonti Street, measures forty feet, six inches and six lines (40’6”6”’) front on Ursu‐ lines Avenue, by a depth of one hundred feet (100’) on the side line nearest Rocheblave Street, a first depth, on an oblique line, of thirtynine feet, eleven inches and four lines (39’11”4”’) on the opposite line, and thence a further depth of sixty-one feet, ten inches (61’10”) to the rear line, and a width in the rear of twenty-three feet, six inches (23’6”). According to survey by J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., C.E., dated September 26, 1975, revised October 1, 1975, a white print copy of which is annexed to act before Dudley D. Flanders, Notary Public, of even date herewith, said Lot S is situated in the same district and square and has the same measurements as herein‐ above set forth and com‐ mences at a distance of ninety-five feet, two inches and two lines (92’2”2”’) from the corner of Ursulines Avenue and North Tonti Street. The improvements bear the Municipal No. 2414 Ursulines Avenue. All parties hereto take cognizance of the en‐ croachments as shown on said survey of J.J. Krebs & Sons, Inc., dated September 26, 1975, and accept said property subject thereto and re‐ lieve and release me, No‐ tary, and the Guaranty Savings and Homestead Association from any and all liability and re‐ sponsibility in connec‐ tion therewith. Being the same property acquired by Mrs. Anne Mae Ruiz wife of/and Johnny Wise, Sr. by act before Dudley D. Flan‐ ders, Notary Public dated October 6, 1975, and reg‐ istered in COB 730/folio 626 of the conveyance records of Orleans Parish. UPON THE FOLLOWING TERMS AND CONDITIONS, TO-WIT: One Hundred Ninety-One Thousand and No/100 ($191,000.00) DOLLARS, Cash, for the property “AS IS” in its entirety, all cash from which the suc‐ cessions shall receive 50% of the sale proceeds for its undivided 50% in‐ terest in said property in accordance with the terms and conditions fully set forth in the Louisiana Residential Agreement to Buy or Sell, Counter Offer and Con‐ tingency Addendum at‐ tached to the Petition for Authority to Sell Immov‐ able Property at Private Sale filed in these same succession proceedings. Notice is hereby given to all parties whom it may concern, including the heirs and creditors of the decedent herein, and of this estate, be ordered to make any opposition which they have or may have to such application, at any time, prior to the issuance of the order or judgment authorizing, approving and homolo‐ gating such application and that such order or judgment may be issued after the expiration of seven (7) days, from the date of the last publica‐ tion of such notice, all in accordance with law. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, Attorney: James S. Rees, IV Publication: Address: 3750 South Claiborne Avenue New Orleans, Louisiana 70125 Telephone: (504) 897-3700 200700-sept 15-oct 6-2t $155.82

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