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Optimism rising in N.O., survey finds

Moreno receives high marks from respondents BY SOPHIE KASAKOVE Staff writer

New Orleanians feel increasingly optimistic about their city’s trajectory. Nearly a third of respondents to an LSU New Orleans Quality of Life Survey released Monday said they believe Orleans Parish has become a better place to live over the past ﬁve years — up from 17% in 2024. More than half of respon-

dents say the city will become a better place to live in the next ﬁve years, up from 41% in 2024. The results are a feather in the cap of Mayor Helena Moreno, who ran on a promise to address chronic frustrations over crime, poor infrastructure and a stagnant economy. “(Moreno) is communicating a message about a more positive future,” said Ed Chervenak. “The mayor’s bringing energy and ur-

gency to her job, and it’s convincing people that it can put the city on the right path.” About 66% of respondents approved of Moreno’s performance so far. In 2024, just 33% of respondents felt positively about former Mayor LaToya Cantrell, in the midst of a series of scandals and a federal investigation into her actions while in ofﬁce. “These results show that New Orleans is turning a corner, and

our residents are beginning to feel the difference,” said Moreno in a statement Monday. “People are feeling safer, conﬁdence is growing, and more New Orleanians believe our best days are ahead of us. But we know there is still tremendous Moreno work to do, and we won’t stop.” Moreno added that her administration will continue “chipping away at the longstanding chal-

Emeril’s Delmonico building sold

lenges that have held our city back, ﬁghting for better streets, safer neighborhoods, stronger opportunities, and a city that works for everyone.” For the first time since 1986 when Chervenak, director of the LSU New Orleans Survey Research Center, began conducting the study, crime was not the most frequently mentioned problem in New Orleans. Instead, streets and infrastructure were the top issue, cited by 19% of respondents, fol-

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‘A really helpless situation’

Mid-City bars scramble as brawls, guns force changes BY POET WOLFE Staff writer

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The former Emeril’s Delmonico restaurant on St. Charles Avenue has been shuttered since the coronavirus pandemic.

Area along St. Charles Avenue has seen uptick in new investment “It’s definitely a positive sign when you see a building like this change hands at the same time so many other things are also going on nearby.”

BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer

The former Emeril’s Delmonico restaurant on St. Charles Avenue, which has been shuttered since the coronavirus pandemic, has been purchased by a local real estate investor after more than four years on the market. Hossein “Lou” Talebloo, who owns retail stores, restaurants and dozens of apartments and condos in the Garden District and downtown New Orleans, purchased the 8,800-square-foot building for $1.2 million — about a third of the nearly $4 million Emeril Lagasse was asking when he put the historic property on the market in 2021.

BOBBY TALBOT, commercial real estate broker Talebloo said in a brief phone interview Monday that it’s too soon to say what he and his family, co-owners in the property, might do with the building. “I look for investments and buy when the price is right,” said Talebloo, who splits his time between New Orleans and southern California. “We just closed on

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this property so we’re still talking about what we’re going to do.” The sale of the building comes as the roughly 1-mile stretch of lower St. Charles Avenue between Jackson Avenue and Interstate 10 is seeing an uptick in new investment. Next to the former restaurant, a slender, four-story “microhotel” is under construction. Across the street, the six-story Warbler Hotel, an upscale boutique, will welcome its ﬁrst guests this month. A few blocks away, Church of the King is nearing completion on a yearslong renovation of the former Jerusalem Temple. Other new businesses have opened nearby.

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ELECTION

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After Bayou Beer Garden closed early to avoid reaching capacity on a recent Sunday, some patrons spilled onto the streets while others climbed the fence to get inside. Then a fight involving several men broke out in the bar’s courtyard. The altercation came to an abrupt end when someone realized one of the men was armed and people fled the scene, co-owner David Demarest said. The incident, captured in a video that has since circulated on social media, prompted the Mid-City bar to begin limiting Saints game day Sunday admission to patrons 30 and older, joining a number of New Orleans bars with similar policies, including The John in the Marigny and Seal’s Class Act in the 7th Ward. The change reflects broader concerns among New Orleans bars, including in Mid-City, where some owners say they have grappled with a growing number of issues beyond physical altercations, including armed customers entering their businesses and people loitering inside and outside their establishments. Owners say these issues involving customers who are not regulars often arise on days when the Saints play, drawing in crowds who want to watch the game. City officials have stepped up se-

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This is the ﬁrst of several articles on the issues in the U.S. Senate election.

Senate candidates Davis, Letlow both support closed border by the federal Immigration They differ on Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants fort and Customs Enforcement agen-

BY TYLER BRIDGES

“I don’t want open borders where people can just walk up and cross,” Staff writer Davis said in an interview, words Both farmer Jamie Davis and echoed by Letlow, a Republican U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow agree on one who is vying with the Democrat thing: President Donald Trump’s to be the next senator from Louiclosure of the border with Mexico siana. ought to continue. The American people, said Let-

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low, “wanted the border shut down. We shut down the border.” But Davis and Letlow differ on Trump’s crackdown on undocumented immigrants who have not committed crimes after arriving to this country. Letlow praises the continued ef-

cy to search out, arrest and deport immigrants who don’t have valid documents to be in the country. “I’m very comfortable” with ICE’s approach, Letlow said in an interview. Davis gave a more expansive

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U.K. PM: Suspected plot at U.S.-run base likely tied to Iran

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French teen arrested in school shooting

AUBAGNE, France — French police detained a 14-year-old boy suspected of opening fire Monday on his middle school principal and a teacher with a shotgun that he hid in a guitar case, wounding both in a rare school shooting, prosecutors said. A staff member at the Joseph Lakanal middle school in Aubagne disarmed the boy after he fired multiple shots while roaming on two floors of the school, prosecutors said. Police then took him into custody. Aubagne is about 9 miles east of the Mediterranean port city of Marseille. Gun violence perpetrated by pupils in schools is rare in France. Marseille prosecutor Nicolas Bessone said in a statement that the pupil fired once or twice on the first floor, wounding the principal and the teacher in the legs. They were hit with pellets used in 12-gauge shotguns, according to Marseille deputy prosecutor Audrey Jouaneton and police. They were transported to a hospital with injuries that weren’t life threatening. The boy’s motives were unknown, Jouaneton said. “We still don’t have sufficiently precise evidence to say that he wanted to target the teaching staff — this principal and the teacher — but they were in any case hit by the shots,” she said. The boy then went to the second floor and opened fire again, twice — the first at the floor in front of a teacher and the second in a classroom, hitting the teaching board. The shots didn’t hit any teachers or the pupils in the classroom, but they were “very shocked,” Bessone said. The boy was then intercepted by a staff member in a stairwell, with what Jouaneton praised as “extreme courage.”

Gunman, most victims ID’d in Pa. shooting

A coroner on Monday released the names of the gunman and six of the eight people he shot and killed at a home in Erie, Pennsylvania, including seven of his relatives. The shooter in Friday’s attack was Matthew Stone Sr., 45, according to Erie County coroner Lyell Cook. Stone took his own life at the home, Erie Police Chief Rick Lorah said. According to Cook, the adult victims were Michelle Stone, 44; Angelina Stone, 24, who was due to give birth Monday; Jonathan Stone, 19; Matthew Stone, 21, and two women who lived at other addresses: Lora Roberts, 37, and Twila Tanner, 51. He said a 5-year-old boy and a 1-year-old girl also died, but that state law prevented him from releasing their names. At a memorial to the victims, Julius Windham said his daughter Amarianna was the toddler who was killed.

Archbishop decries firing squad livestream

Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who oversees the Catholic Church’s pastoral services to Catholics in the U.S. military, is condemning the proposed livestream of the ﬁring squad execution of Nidal Hasan. Broglio, in a statement Monday, also stipulated that any Catholic soldier assigned to the U.S. Army firing squad should ask to be excused from that duty, which he described as contrary to the teachings of the church. He joins other Catholic leaders in speaking out against the death penalty and the livestream plans. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist convicted of killing 13 people in 2009 at Fort Hood in Texas, is scheduled to be executed by ﬁring squad on Dec. 3. Broglio recalled that he presided over the funeral of Michael Grant Cahill, the only civilian killed in that attack. The crime committed by Hasan “was heinous, but does exposing the public to his execution serve any purpose?” Broglio asked. “The US military generally enjoys a good reputation in the world,” Broglio added. “Is there really a value to throwing them in the same boat with terrorists by broadcasting the image of the execution of a man in a wheelchair to the whole world?”

BY SYLVIA HUI

Associated Press

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Signs on the property of a neighbor of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., are displayed Monday as Homeland Security officers carry boxes during a search of Omar’s Washington residence.

Agents search Omar’s D.C. home Minnesota congresswoman vows she won’t ‘be silenced’

BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Federal agents on Monday searched the home of Democratic U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a startling escalation in a criminal investigation that brings renewed focus to the frequent target of Trump administration derision in the ﬁnal weeks of her reelection bid. The search of the Minnesota congresswoman’s home so close to next month’s midterm contests that will determine control of the House and the Senate was swiftly condemned by top Dem- Omar ocrats in Congress, who raised questions about the timing given longstanding Justice Department protocol to avoid overt investigative steps involving political candidates in the direct run-up to an election. Omar, an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, said separately that she was being targeted as one of the Republican’s “political enemies.” The nature and scope of the investigation were unclear, though Trump and ofﬁcials in his administration have repeatedly referred in recent months to the existence of an inquiry into Omar, a Somali-born Democrat whose status as an immigrant to the U.S. and left-wing views have drawn scrutiny from the White House and other Republicans. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin last month cited an “ongoing investigation” that he suggested was examining potential fraud on her family’s immigration paperwork. “Something’s going to happen,” he said. In a statement on X on Monday, Omar called the search an “attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement.” “For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation,” she said. “I will not be silenced.” Though the Republican focus on Omar’s background dates back years, the search notably took place three weeks before the November midterms, in which Omar is on the ballot for reelection. The Justice Department has historically sought to avoid public investigative

actions involving a candidate within 60 days of a primary or general election. Top Democrats seized on the timing as the latest instance in what they said was the “continued corrupt weaponization” of law enforcement against Trump’s perceived adversaries. “For years, Donald Trump and farright extremists have relentlessly targeted Congresswoman Omar with vile personal attacks and baseless accusations,” said a joint statement issued from House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and other top congressional Democrats. “Now, less than 30 days until the midterm election, his violent mass deportation machine has descended upon the home of a duly elected Member of Congress and her family.” The search was carried out by agents with Homeland Security Investigations, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security. A DHS spokesperson referred questions to the Justice Department, which said in a statement that HSI agents had executed a judicially authorized search warrant in the Washington, D.C., area related to an ongoing federal criminal investigation. It provided no other details. The street around Omar’s home was blocked off Monday morning as HSI agents carried out the search, with some removing boxes from “seized property evidence.” The operation came just two days after Trump referred pejoratively to Omar at a rally in Tennessee as coming from a country of “crime and squalor” and suggested that Vice President JD Vance “and our people” were investigating her. Vance has in the past accused Omar of committing immigration fraud, an allegation she has denied, and has said that the White House was looking for pathways to investigate her. Omar, who was first elected to the House in 2018, represents Minnesota’s 5th District, including Minneapolis. She is part of The Squad of progressive lawmakers who are a vibrant political force on the left wing of Congress but have also endured repeated attacks from Trump, dating back to his first term. She was one of the ﬁrst two MuslimAmerican women in the House and the ﬁrst African refugee to be elected to Congress. When Republicans swept control of the House in 2023, they voted to oust Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee, citing her anti-Israel remarks.

Actor Selma Blair arrested after alleged assault on flight BY MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press

NEW YORK — Actor Selma Blair was arrested after she was accused of injuring two flight attendants on a trip from Los Angeles to New York. She was also charged Monday with assaulting a police officer taking her to the hospital and a nurse after she arrived there. Blair, 54, was detained by police at about 11 p.m. Sunday after the Delta Air Lines jet parked at the gate at John F. Kennedy International Airport, the Port Authority Blair of New York and New Jersey said in a statement. Blair and one of the flight attendants were taken to a hospital for evaluation, the Port Authority said. A police officer taking her to Jamaica Hospital Medical Center said in charging documents that while she was securing Blair to a stretcher, Blair pulled a leg from the straps and kicked her repeated-

ly around the face, neck and chest, causing serious pain and substantial swelling. Later, a nurse moving Blair said the actor kicked her in the chest, causing substantial pain. A Blair representative told The Associated Press that the actor had a medical emergency that led to the alleged conduct. She was arraigned on two counts of second-degree assault late Monday at a court in Queens, where a judge set her bail at $20,000 cash or $60,000 bond and set the next hearing for January. She left court with her lawyers, wearing jeans, a white hooded sweatshirt and sunglasses. Details of what happened aboard the aircraft weren’t immediately disclosed by the airline, police or the FBI, which was investigating, but Delta said in a statement it “has zero tolerance for unruly or unlawful behavior, as the safety of our customers and crew always comes ﬁrst.”

LONDON — A suspected plot to attack a U.S.-run military air base in England was “almost certainly” directed by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Monday. Burnham previously said there are strong indications Iran was linked to the apparent plan last month to attack the RAF Fairford air base, which has been used by American bombers to strike Iran in the ongoing war. Police have arrested seven men in the investigation into the alleged plot, but all suspects have been released on bail and no one has been charged so far. Iran has denied involvement, although it has previously said that it considers any base used to attack its territory a legitimate target. “I can confirm our assessment that it is highly likely to have been coordinated in Iran, almost certainly directed by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard,” Burnham told lawmakers. “We will not tolerate these threats on our soil.” Scores of residents near the air base were evacuated from their homes on Sept. 27 as armed police officers and army bombdisposal experts swarmed the rural area. Police later said they had found a quantity of an accelerant — gasoline — in three vans linked to the initial five suspects who were arrested on the scene, but no explosives. All the suspects arrested are in their 20s. None has been identiﬁed, though police said six are British nationals while one is a dual U.K.-Iranian citizen. On Monday, the British government summoned the Iranian ambassador, who reiterated that Tehran was not involved in the suspected plot and urged the U.K. to provide evidence supporting its claims.

The U.K. also said it added two Iranians, including the head of counterespionage operations in the Revolutionary Guard, to its sanctions list. Authorities said the two were involved in conducting espionage and attacks on behalf of Iran’s government in Europe and the U.S. The U.S. pulled its bombers last week from RAF Fairford, about 100 miles west of London, and the aircraft have now been redeployed to their home bases, the Pentagon said. The Trump administration has said it believed the base faced Iranian threats intended to kill as many American troops and destroy as many U.S. planes as possible. The British government allowed the U.S. military to use RAF Fairford for what it called defensive strikes on Iranian missiles and their launch sites following Iranian attacks on U.K. interests and Britain’s allies in the Gulf. Ofﬁcials have said that local proxies linked to Iran were behind a string of arson and other attacks on the U.S., Britain and other countries, many of them targeting Jewish communities and intended to sow fear. British officials have said the number of national security cases involving activity by hostile states, including Iran, increased by 50% in the six months to December 2025. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said Monday that the Fairford air base incident “speaks to a wider trend.” “States like Iran are using proxies to conduct hostile activity here in Britain. They pay criminals or exploit naive volunteers, attacking our country and its citizens while maintaining an air of plausible deniability,” she said. In a joint statement released Monday, the foreign ministers of the U.K., U.S. and about two dozen Western countries condemned Iranian attacks on their territory.

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Zelenskyy: Russian strikes hit energy facilities Attacks come despite Trump’s claim of an ‘energy ceasefire’

BY SAMYA KULLAB Associated Press

KYIV, Ukraine — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that while Ukraine is willing to halt attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure, Moscow has continued to strike his country’s energy sites despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that the warring countries had agreed to cease such attacks. Speaking at the Warsaw Security Forum in Poland, Zelenskyy said Ukraine had been “horribly surprised” that Moscow struck a power plant in the northeastern city

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A burned car sits Monday in front of a multistory residential building damaged in a Russian drone strike in Kyiv, Ukraine. of Kharkiv, as well as a gas production facility and a civilian gas station hours after Trump announced the purported “energy ceaseﬁre” in the 4½-year-old war. Later on Monday, during an

interview on Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Zelenksyy said his government had refrained from striking Russian energy sites since Trump’s announcement Sunday, and was ready to

honor an energy ceasefire as “a good ﬁrst step” toward closing the war. But, he said, “I’m not sure that (Russian President Vladimir) Putin is ready.” “Even after yesterday’s

messages from (Trump) ... Putin attacked our gas infrastructure,” Zelenskyy said. “When we speak about energy ceasefire, it means only one thing: that they don’t attack our energy infrastructure and we don’t respond on their energy infrastructure.” Trump’s brief social media post Sunday offered few details but said the energy ceasefire took effect immediately, adding: “Do not break it!” On Monday, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov wouldn’t say whether Russia had agreed to such a ceasefire, saying only: “Contacts are ongoing.” Trump previously announced a similar agreement on ceasing energy strikes that did not come to fruition. In a social media post on Sept. 14, he said both countries had agreed “not to hit” each other’s energy infrastructure, but offered no de-

tails on that proposal either. Russia has used attacks on energy facilities in order to deny Ukrainian civilians power, heat and running water during the war, hoping to wear down public support for Ukraine’s response to Moscow’s full-scale invasion. Ukrainian ofﬁcials describe the strategy as “weaponizing winter,” and fear Russia could ramp up such attacks as cold weather approaches. Ukraine, meanwhile, has launched strikes against Russian energy sites like oil refineries, sometimes deep within Russian territory. That’s prompted Trump to blame Zelenskyy for record U.S. diesel prices — rather than the U.S.-led war in Iran — and to strike a deal with Putin on Friday to import diesel from Russia in an attempt to bring fuel prices down ahead of U.S. midterm elections.

Saudis probe how defense Pope to be admitted to hospital systems failed to stop attack Tuesday for lung nodule surgery At least 13 killed in strike on Riyadh airport BY SAMY MAGDY

Associated Press

CAIRO — Saudi Arabia has launched an investigation to determine how its air defenses failed to intercept a barrage of missiles and drones fired by Iran-backed Houthi rebels, including an attack on Riyadh airport that killed at least 13 people and wounded over 300, two regional officials said Monday. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly, said the initial probe showed that Yemen’s Houthis first fired multiple drones to pave the way for a mix of cruise and ballistic missiles to reach Riyadh’s King Khalid International Airport. The Houthis possess ballistic missiles and advanced systems fitted with warheads that can change direction during flight and pose a challenge to Patriot interceptors and other defense systems used by the Saudis. One of the officials said the investigation also aims to find out why air defense systems did not provide earlier warning of the attack in which the Houthi missiles and drones flew over 620 miles to reach Riyadh. The incident, one of a string of Houthi attacks

since last week on Saudi airports, has exposed vulnerabilities in Saudi Arabia’s defense system and signaled a dangerous inﬂection point in an expanding Mideast conflict that began more than seven months ago when the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran. The Saudi-led coalition also said it had twice intercepted and destroyed ballistic missiles launched Monday by the Houthis toward Riyadh. At least three explosions could be heard Monday night in the city. Civil defense ofﬁcials later said the danger had passed. The rebels later said they had targeted King Khalid Airport on Monday, warning international airlines that all Saudi airports, except those in the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, were unsafe. Earlier on Monday, the Saudi state-run media reported that its military was responding to a new attack involving drones and cruise missiles, but provided no details. “The events of recent weeks are serious,” Saudi Energy Minister Prince Abdul Aziz bin Salman told the World Petroleum Energy Congress in Riyadh on Monday. “Our response must be equally serious.” The Saudi governmentrun Center for International Communication, which oversees foreign media, did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the

probe into defense failures.

Saudi want U.S. help The Saudis want the U.S. to become more directly involved in their fight against the Houthis. The U.S. has provided intelligence sharing, target identification and planning for a Saudi-led offensive, but has held off on carrying out strikes against the Houthis. A U.S. intervention could prompt the Houthis to try to halt shipping through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait at the southern end of the Red Sea off Yemen, restricting the flow of oil out of the Persian Gulf. The flow of Mideast oil has already been complicated by Iranian efforts to choke off the Strait of Hormuz, where about one-fifth of the world’s oil flowed before the U.S.Iran war began. The rebels seized key areas along the Bab el-Mandeb last month. The Saudi-led coalition, backing forces aligned with Yemen’s internationally recognized government, has been trying to retake them. U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday after the deadly airport strike that he was looking at the possibility of carrying out U.S. attacks against the Houthis. But the conflict comes at a delicate time for Trump, just weeks before U.S. midterm elections that will decide if his Republican Party keeps control of Congress.

Storms leave 2 dead in Mexico; flood risk from Rachel lingers in Southwest BY JAIMIE DING and RAFAEL CASTILLO Associated Press

MEXICO CITY — Extreme tropical weather led to two deaths in Mexico and caused widespread damage over the weekend as Hurricane Simon pounded the country’s Pacific coast, authorities said Monday. Simon has weakened to a Category 2 storm, its eye remaining just offshore as its most powerful winds and rain slammed communities between the Sierra Madre and the Pacific Ocean off the coastal resort of Puerto Vallarta. More rain and isolated thunderstorms could hit the Southwest U.S., prompting forecasters to issue flood watches Monday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Rachel caused severe ﬂooding in Las Vegas over the weekend. In Mexico, a 71-year-old man died after a wall collapsed in Chilpancingo, the capital of the southern state of Guerrero, Gov. Evelyn Salgado said at a news conference. In the state of Baja California, at least 10 people were reported missing and a young girl dead in the after-

math of Rachel, according to Gov. Marina del Pilar Ávila. Officials were helping more than 50 people in temporary shelters, the governor said. Simon downed trees and electricity poles, blocked roads and flooded homes in the state’s coastal towns, including the major seaport of Acapulco, Salgado said. The storm was forecast to weaken as it moves northwest, but the National Hurricane Center in Miami said it is expected to remain a hurricane through midweek and may get more intense again on Tuesday and Wednesday. Simon is expected to turn northeast and make landfall sometime Thursday near Sinaloa, after which it will weaken rapidly as it moves inland, the center said. Heavy rainfall associated with Simon — 5 to 10 inches — in west-central Mexico over the next few days may produce life-threatening flooding and mudslides, especially in steep areas, the hurricane center said. In Puerto Vallarta, workers removed wooden panels from boarded-up storefronts and businesses reopened Monday as rains eased. The popular tourist destination’s

international airport suspended operations until 8 a.m. local time Tuesday. “Personally, I think we should remain on alert because we don’t really know whether it will arrive, move elsewhere or dissipate,” said Noelia Carrillo, a tourism agency worker. Meanwhile, Rachel weakened into a post-tropical cyclone as it moved north into Southern California. The storm battered the coast over the weekend with wind, rain and unusually large waves, which tore apart a historic boardwalk and smashed into coastal homes in Long Beach. Some residents were forced to evacuate. Las Vegas tied an all-time daily rainfall record for the month of October after receiving 1.08 inches of rain into Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service. The last time that much rain fell on the city in one October day was in 1947. Videos posted on social media showed a torrent of water rushing through a street near the Las Vegas Strip, with a Ferris wheel and casinos in the background.

BY NICOLE WINFIELD, PAOLO SANTALUCIA and COLLEEN BARRY Associated Press

VATICAN CITY — The Vatican said Pope Leo XIV will be admitted to the hospital on Tuesday ahead of surgery to remove a lung nodule, providing an unusual level of transparency about papal health under the American pope. The surgery will require a weeklong recovery in the hospital, and the Vatican on Monday canceled all Leo’s audiences through Oct. 20. Leo himself revealed the discovery of the nodule during his Sunday noon prayer and said he was following doctors’ advice to have it removed. The Vatican press office said Monday that no particular issue precipitated the tests, denying Italian media reports suggesting an inflammation had prompted Leo to have the checkup. On the eve of his departure for Rome’s Gemelli hospital, it was business as usual Monday at the Vatican. The 71-year-old Leo presided over an audience with members of a Rome-based charity, the Circolo San Pietro, and received a donation from them. He spoke in a strong, clear voice, praising their service and sacriﬁce. The crowd gave him a rousing round of applause afterward. He had six other private audiences, made three appointments and the Vatican released a letter he had penned to the outgoing dean of the College of Cardinals, thanking him for his service. The letter was signed on Sunday. In the afternoon, he had been expected to rejoin a weeklong conference he convened on ministering to families. But in the evening,

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Pope Leo XIV delivers the Angelus prayer Sunday in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican. The Vatican said Leo XIV will be admitted to the hospital on Tuesday ahead of surgery to remove a lung nodule. the two conference organizers released a statement saying that given Leo’s absence, they were changing plans and would delay publishing the ﬁnal statement from the meeting until after he recovers. The surgery was clearly unexpected and took participants of the family conference by surprise. Leo was also supposed to have presided over a Wednesday Mass, but on Monday the Vatican announced a replacement. “Of course, it comes as a surprise to all of us that the Holy Father needs to be hospitalized for a few days for an intervention,” said Quebec Cardinal Gérald Cyprien Lacroix. “But it will not change what we’re doing.” Leo had summoned the presidents of bishops conferences around the world for a week of discussion about how one of Pope Francis’ most important and controversial documents is being implemented. “The Joy of Love” aimed to help the church better minister to families coping with today’s challenges, including poverty and war but also divorce and LGBTQ+

children. It was controversial because Francis opened the door to letting divorced and civilly remarried Catholics have access to the sacraments. Leo’s surgery marks the first major health event of his 17-month pontificate. It was significant because the pope himself revealed the news, in perhaps the most public way possible: at the end of his Sunday noon blessing, with thousands of people in St. Peter’s Square. The Vatican has for centuries zealously guarded the pope’s health and has often sent out confusing information, or none at all, about papal illnesses. Pope Francis tried to change that by being upfront about his frailties and musing on his eventual death. But even during his pontificate, information was tightly controlled. Leo’s decision and reveal suggested an unusual level of transparency by the American pope.

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Judge orders one-day halt to work at D.C. golf course why a massive treeTrees being cut discuss cutting at the park needed to over the holiday weekat historic site occur end, with little notiﬁcation to in a lawsuit trying as part of Trump’s plaintiffs to halt renovation plans or renovation effort the judge.

BY GARY FIELDS Associated Press

WASHINGTON — U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes on Monday ordered a 24-hour halt to tree-cutting at the East Potomac Golf Course, a historic D.C. course that has been part of President Donald Trump’s plans to remake the city. Reyes issued the order following a tense three-hour hearing in which she blistered the government for having deceived her with its actions over the holiday weekend. Reyes said the 24-hour temporary order could be extended to 14 days if necessary. It was limited to one day while the government tries to find a key Trump administration official to

It’s the latest example of the erosion of trust between the government and the independent judiciary, as the Trump administration tries to steamroll scrutiny of its actions, from the White House ballroom to immigration enforcement. The hearing started with a blistering 15-minute statement from Reyes, who has declined repeated motions from the plaintiffs to halt work by the administration out of concern that its strategy has seemed to be move ahead on projects despite court actions. “I am thoroughly unamused right now,” Reyes said. “I do not know how I could have made it any plainer that I did not want what was to happen, to happen.” The judge added, “I have given the government

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Golfers hit from the fairway Monday near log sections cut from trees at the East Potomac Golf Course in Washington. every single beneﬁt of the doubt that it would not do precisely what it has done.” She told the government’s lawyers sharply, “I wanted you all to be better than you

have been.” The emergency hearing on a holiday expanded as the judge ordered the government to get various participants in the decision-making

process into the hearing remotely. Reyes plans to hold another hearing Tuesday and wants to hear from Greg Wischer, deputy chief of

staff at the Interior Department. Wischer pushed for the work to be done urgently, according to testimony from Frank Lands, deputy director of operations for the National Park Service. Reyes and plaintiff’s attorney Abbe Lowell raised numerous questions about the timeline and chain of command for the decision and whether the witnesses were aware of other plans by the administration. Kevin Griess, the superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks, cited a 2019 National Park Service Cultural Landscape Report as the guide for the work. Lands said it was part of Trump’s 2025 order to make D.C. safe and beautiful. Under questioning from Reyes, he acknowledged that while other city golf courses were also mentioned in the Cultural Landscape Report, there had been no discussions of work at them. Associated Press writer Matthew Daly contributed to this report.

Musk quietly becomes biggest known donor in midterm contests Trillionaire seeks to boost Republicans

BY JILL COLVIN Associated Press

NEW YORK — Elon Musk, the world’s only trillionaire, has quietly become the biggest known donor in this year’s midterm elections, doling out more than $276 million since July to try to save Republican majorities in Congress. The numbers, ﬁrst reported by The New York Times ahead of this week’s federal filing deadline, were confirmed by Andrew Romeo, a spokesperson for Musk’s super PAC. The money includes $158 million given to the Senate Leadership Fund, the main super PAC supporting Republican Senate candidates, one of the largest known political donations in American history, according to the Times. Another $76 million went

to America PAC, a Musk super PAC, which has once again built out a major turnout operation like the one it used to help elect President Donald Trump by knocking on doors in 2024. Musk also provided $10 million to Lone Star Liberty PAC, a group that supports the Republican nominee for Senate in Texas, Ken Paxton. The race has been a major focus of Musk’s efforts. It’s a dramatic turnaround since last May, when Musk said he intended to cut back on future political spending. “I think I’ve done enough,” he said at the time. Despite the cash infusion, Musk has generally kept a lower profile than in 2024, when he appeared on stage next to Trump at rallies, and in the early days of the president’s second term, when he led the Department of Government Efﬁciency. He had a falling out with Trump while leaving his government post, but the two have since reconciled. Trump presented Musk with the National Medal of Sci-

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President Donald Trump, right, presents the National Medal of Science to Elon Musk on Thursday at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington. ence last week. Musk’s net worth has ﬂuctuated around the trilliondollar line this year based on changes in stock prices, but he topped $1 trillion again last week according to Forbes magazine. Republican have a gaping financial advantage over their Democratic counterparts — a disparity that has been a rare bright spot for a party that is bracing for major potential losses amid deep voter frustration over the president’s performance, stubbornly high prices and the unpopular war with Iran. They have been using the money to blanket the airwaves in the race’s ﬁnal

stretch. “These robust investments have allowed the GOP apparatus to get its message out so Republicans can have a ﬁghting chance to defy history,” Romeo told the Times. Democrats responded to the news by accusing Republicans of using vast amounts of cash to mask their shortcomings. “Republicans are hoping to buy these elections, injecting tens of millions into races to try and outrun their unpopular candidates, unpopular president, and unpopular economy,” said Lauren French, a spokesperson for Democrats’ Senate Majority PAC.

‘Breaking Bad’ actor RJ Mitte dies at 34 BY ANDREW DALTON AP entertainment writer

LOS ANGELES — Actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte, who brought a lifetime of experience with cerebral palsy to fictional family struggles in an essential role on “Breaking Bad,” died Monday at age 34, authorities and his representatives said. Cameron County Justice of the Peace Cyndi Hinojosa told The Associated Press she declared Mitte dead at about 1:30 p.m. at what she believed was his home in Brownsville, Texas. She said she was unable to provide a cause, but an autopsy will be performed. Mitte played Walter White Jr., the son of Bryan Cranston’s chemistry teacherturned-meth dealer Walter White on nearly every epi-

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‘Breaking Bad’ actor and disability rights advocate RJ Mitte died Monday at age 34.

sode of the ﬁve seasons of the AMC show, which recently ranked as the best of the 21st century in a New York Times poll. Diagnosed at age 3, Mitte told the AP in 2014 that his disability and the surrounding struggles with physical therapy, family problems

and exorbitant medical bills — all key subjects on the show — made him better at his job. “You develop a different mentality and you develop a different look at how the world sees you and how you see the world,” he said. “You’re able to use that. And I think it’s an asset instead of something that would hinder.” Mitte was born and raised in Jackson, Mississippi. He landed small guest roles on sitcoms after moving to Los Angeles to act in 2006. Like his character, he was in his mid-teens when he began his work on “Breaking Bad,” starting in 2007. The show ran from 2008 to 2013. “Mitte brought authenticity to the role and built a platform on disability awareness and inclusion,”

One dead, several injured in incident involving Ga. Six Flags roller coaster By The Associated Press One person has died and several others were injured in an incident involving a Six Flags roller coaster Monday afternoon in Georgia, according to police. Ofﬁcials did not conﬁrm how the person died or what caused the others to be injured at Six Flags Over Georgia, about 15 miles northwest of Atlanta. Detectives will investigate the

circumstances, according to the Cobb County Police Department. A Six Flags spokesperson said the park and local authorities responded immediately and that they are fully cooperating with local authorities as they investigate. “We are deeply saddened by the guest incident at our park today,” the spokesperson said. Authorities and Six Flags

did not identify the roller coaster. However, local TV stations showed video of passengers being evacuated from the Goliath coaster. The roller coaster, which was opened in 2006, goes as fast as 70 mph and reaches heights of 200 feet, the park’s website reports. During about 3½ minutes, riders “navigate through razor-sharp turns and soar over colossal hills,” according to the website.

the actor’s representatives said in a statement announcing his death. The statement said he used “his platform to challenge stereotypes and promote greater representation.” His later credits included the ABC Family series “Switched at Birth” and the superhero satire series “Guardians of Justice.” He was also a producer of several independent ﬁlms.

Emergency vehicles arrive Sept. 30 at Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, Tenn., after the execution of Christa Pike was halted.

911 call: Help delayed by confusion after failed execution

BY EUGENE JOHNSON, HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and HOLLY MEYER Associated Press

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Emergency help for Christa Pike was delayed by confusion among first responders and Tennessee prison officials following her failed lethal injection last month, according to 911 dispatch recordings reviewed by The Associated Press. The recordings show that precious minutes elapsed as officials and responders tried to figure out whether a request for emergency help in the execution chamber was legitimate. The first call came in at 8:40 p.m. on Sept. 30, and it was about a half an hour before prison officials affirmed it was legitimate and began letting responders through the prison gates. “Per supervisors here at the DEC (Department of Emergency Communications) we have been informed it is a false call,” one unidentified person says at 9:03 p.m. “There is no medical assistance needed at Riverbend Prison.” Four minutes later, a re-

sponder reported: “Somebody is outside the gate at the prison telling us that it’s real and demanding us to go in. They say they are some sort of state ofﬁcial. I need somebody to get out to the gate and talk to those people.” It wasn’t until 9:11 p.m. that prison officials afﬁrmed the call for help was legitimate, the calls show. Pike, 50, was hospitalized after surviving two doses of pentobarbital as the state attempted to execute her for the 1995 beating and stabbing death of classmate Colleen Slemmer. At one point, Pike was on a ventilator and her attorneys did not expect her to survive. However, they said Pike woke up and began talking and walking with assistance, and she has since been discharged and is back at the Debra K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center, the women’s prison where she was housed for 30 years.

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Continued from page 1A lowed by crime at 14%. “(Residents’) perceptions are catching up with reality, and their experiences also tell them that as well,” said Chervenak. The results mirror those of another recent survey by the New Orleans Crime Coalition. Roughly 35% of 800 residents surveyed by the nonproﬁt in February cited crime and public safety as their No. 1 or No. 2 concern, compared to the 45% who did so the previous summer. Overall satisfaction with life in the city has stayed roughly the same in New Orleans as two years ago — 62% of respondents said they were satisfied. That’s a sharp uptick from 44% in 2022, when respondents indicated they were very dissatisﬁed with life in the city, reeling from high crime rates, Hurricane Ida and the COVID-19 pandemic. Researchers have conducted the survey every two years since 1986. The telephone survey of 800 registered voters, evenly

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Continued from page 1A curity and parking enforcement following the altercation at Bayou Beer Garden, according to Michael Ince, the director of the Mayor’s Office of Nighttime Economy, though he did not specify what measures or enforcements were underway. Bar owners, however, said finding a sustainable solution has proved difficult. Hiring private security guards can be costly, and security companies in Louisiana must meet specific insurance requirements. Active-duty New Orleans Police Department officers can work secondary security details at restaurants but are prohibited from doing so at bars. And many of the issues, including loitering, occur on public property rather than within the bars. “It’s a really helpless situation, because you’re left with no answers,” said Johnny Anderson, who co-owns Evangeline Lounge. Bar owners say NOPD response time slow Anderson and Demarest

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Continued from page 1A answer to the question about Trump’s ICE crackdown. “If we have a person who is illegal and they have been living a model life, they should be given an opportunity,” Davis said. “Did they break the law? Yes, they did. If you come into this country illegally, you broke the law. But I want America and Louisiana to remember one thing: People who look like me and look like the people we deem Caucasians, none of us was here. “Are we going to be the country that don’t want people to be part of the American dream? Listen to the words I said. The American dream. And think about the journey from which they came. Some came from miles upon miles upon miles and left their families to come here. Are we not going to have enough compassion to give them to make a life in Louisiana?” Early voting in the election begins Oct. 20 and ends a week later. Election day is Nov. 3. The Trump administration began rounding up undocumented immigrants and deporting them to countries such as El Salvador under Kristi Noem, his first secretary of Homeland Security. Tackling an issue that is extremely popular with Republican voters, Trump and Noem said the arrests would make the U.S. safer and prompt immigrants here illegally, either because they crossed the border or overstayed their visa, to return

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split between residents of Orleans and Jefferson parishes, was conducted by live interviewers from Sept. 12 to Sept. 30. The poll has a 4.9% margin of error.

Lee Sheng’s approval rating was 65%, but that ﬁgure was lower than the 73% rating she earned two years ago. Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joe Lopinto earns a 67% rating, which is also about 6 percentage points lower than his rating in 2024. A spokesperson for Lopinto did not immediately respond

to a request for comment. New Orleans Police Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick and Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams have both seen their approval ratings rise since 2024. Notably, Orleans Parish Sheriff Michelle Woodfork has a 50% approval rating, 10 percentage points more than her predecessor Susan Hutson had two years ago. A spokesperson for Woodfork did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The New Orleans City Council’s rating from two years ago is largely unchanged, 49% approval. In Jefferson, 59% of residents approve of the Parish Council’s performance, down 4 points from 2024. Parish Council at-large member Jennifer Van Vrancken said that she attributed the drop to the recent controversy around a government-funded Gretna brewpub. “We need to put any controversy of those past few years behind us and pivot to the future,” said Van Vrancken, who said the council would be focused on “issues that the survey tells us are the most important to our constituents, drainage jobs the cost of housing and

service.” Public opinion on many government services in New Orleans has improved in the past two years, at a time when Moreno’s administration has put emphasis on roadwork, streetlight repairs and other basic issues residents have said they want addressed. The percentage of people rating government services as “poor” or “very poor” decreased in nine of 15 categories, the survey notes. Negative ratings increased in three categories, and three were unchanged. The survey asks residents to rate issues like housing affordability, recreation programs, trash pickup and street conditions. Jefferson Parish residents were generally more positive about their government services than in Orleans Parish. However, poor evaluations of overall government services increased slightly, with negative ratings increasing by an average of 3% in nine of 15 categories. The largest increase occurred in evaluations of recreation programs, where negative ratings rose 8 percentage points.

man who did not meet its age requirement of 30 and older. That year, the Shamrock, another bar in Mid-City, shut down after a ﬁght that began in the parking lot led to the shooting death of a woman. Some neighborhood bars are scrambling to address both the presence of guns and patrons loitering or tailgating outside their businesses without implementing an age policy. Rusty White, owner of Wrong Iron, is considering installing metal detectors on Saints game days after he said his staff found a customer passed out in the parking lot with a gun. To combat loitering, he has also considered requiring patrons to pay $20 at the door, which they could then spend on drinks inside. White said he feels that

the police’s “hands are tied” by limited resources during Saints home games and the fact that tailgating outside neighborhood bars often occurs on public property. “What can the city do about that? I don’t know to be honest with you,” he said, adding that the bars also “can’t control the street.” Other bars are at a loss over how to address issues outside their businesses. At Evangeline Lounge, on the corner of Toulouse and Murat streets, Anderson said people performed 180-degree turns on threewheelers at the intersection for about a month last year on Sundays, drawing crowds of up to 100 people. Some parked their cars outside the bar and brought their own alcohol, Anderson said, adding that he called

the NOPD “25 times over the course of two months.” Similar behaviors occurred at Wit’s Inn and Red Door on Carrollton Avenue in 2024, when videos surfaced of ATVs and dirt bikes speeding down the street. The block drew further attention after a party bus and crowds stopped outside the Wit’s Inn to dance and drink, leaving the streets impassable and covered in trash and horse feces. At the time, business owners said their calls to 911 went unanswered.

Most New Orleanians are satisfied with their quality of life, according to a new LSU New Orleans study. Residents also think life in the city is improving. 100%

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For the first time in more than a decade, respondents in Orleans Parish were more optimistic about how their lives would improve over the next five years than those in Jefferson Parish. In Jefferson Parish, 42% of respondents said they were optimistic about the future, compared with 52% in Orleans Parish. But overall, Jefferson Parish residents remain very satisfied with their lives presently, with 87% reporting satisfaction, compared to 62% of New Orleanians. A spokesperson for Jefferson Parish President Cynthia Lee Shang said that officials are “encouraged by the high level of satisfaction Jefferson Parish residents have with our community, and believe that our strong public works network is a driving factor.” Residents of both parishes are less optimistic about employment opportunities than in previous years.

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“A lot of it has to do with the national mood about the economy, that people just don’t think things are on the right track,” Chervenak said. The economic outlook of Orleans Parish residents was particularly dour. In 2022, 27% of respondents said that they believed the likelihood of new jobs and industry coming into the parish was good or very good. That figure declined to 21% in 2024 and sank further to 15% in 2026.

said they have faced another challenge: Prolonged response times from NOPD officers. A Bayou Beer Garden manager, bartenders and customers called the NOPD several times to report one of the men involved in the fight was armed and patrons had been injured. But Demarest said officers did not respond to the scene until about four hours later, after the bar had closed. In a statement, the NOPD said “emergencies impacting human life will always take precedence” while nonemergency calls will have a higher wait time. The department also noted that law enforcement nationwide has been experiencing a shortage of officers in recent years. “This shortage does have an impact on a department’s ability to respond to calls for service as quickly as they would like,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, NOPD is not immune to this trend.” The NOPD did not say whether a police report was filed the day of the incident at Bayou Beer Garden. The Times-Picayune submitted a public records request for

a copy of the police report on Oct. 6. City ofﬁcials initially said they did not have records to provide because “there was no report to follow.” Ince called the brawl and other recent incidents at watering holes around the city part of “tailgating culture,” in which patrons park outside a bar and bring their own drinks. This has led establishments to alter their own business practices, including by implementing a 30-and-older policy. “The difficulty in that situation is when a normal neighborhood venue is overrun, it runs off your base of customers, which is your neighbors,” Ince said. “Those are your biggest supporters.” Beyond tailgating, “the sheer amount of gun presence” at neighborhood establishments outside MidCity, including those on Bourbon Street, has become worrisome, he said. Guns at New Orleans bars Concerns surrounding guns at bars intensiﬁed after a security guard was shot and killed in 2024 at Wit’s Inn, a now-closed Mid-City bar, after denying entry to a

home. Noem oversaw high-profile sweeps throughout the country, including one in Kenner in December that homeland security officials said led to the detention of nearly 560 people. About 10% of them had criminal histories in the United States, authorities said. Noem came under fierce criticism after ICE and Border Patrol agents shot and killed two citizens in Minnesota in January who were protesting their actions. Trump sacked Noem in March after questions arose over her spending. In June, Letlow voted with all House Republicans in approving about $70 billion more for ICE and Border Patrol through the remainder of Trump’s term, on a 214-212 vote. The new Homeland Security secretary, Markwayne Mullin, a former senator from Oklahoma, has softened Noem’s harsh rhetoric toward undocumented immigrants and is no longer conducting the high-profile sweeps. Nonetheless, he appears to have intensified the clampdown, with his agency arresting about 50,000 per

month recently. Letlow called Mullin “a friend,” adding, “I support his policies.” Thanks to Trump, she said, “Fentanyl is no longer coming across our border.” Policy experts, including the Inter-American Dialogue, say that fentanyl is still entering the U.S. from Mexico but at a lower rate. They say the reduction began under former President Joe Biden and has continued under Trump. In his comments about immigration, Davis joined many Democrats who are calling for a pathway to citizenship for recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Known as “Dreamers,” they entered the U.S. as children and have received temporary protection from deportation under the program instituted by former President Barack Obama through executive action in 2012. It has allowed some 500,000 to attend school and hold jobs legally. “You don’t know anything other than America, where are you going?” Davis asked. “You don’t have a place to be sent back to. They are essentially Americans who don’t have a birth record here.”

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Wall Street kicked off a busy week on Monday with a mixed ﬁnish for the major U.S. stock indexes, although the market remained near its all-time high. The S&P 500 slipped 0.1% after wavering between small gains and losses. The benchmark index set a record high last Tuesday and is up 14% so far this year. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.4%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.4%. Shares in roughly 64% of the companies in the S&P 500 rose, led by communication services stocks. Meta Platforms rose 3.4%, T-Mobile added 2.2%, AT&T gained 1.4% and Verizon Communications rose 2.7%. Energy stocks had some of the biggest gains as oil prices kept rising. Chevron rose 1.4%. Despite those gains, a slide in big technology stocks dragged the market into the red. Micron Technology fell 3.9%, Advanced Micro Devices dropped 2.3%, Broadcom slid 1.9% and Nvidia gave up 1.3%. They are among several companies in the sector with big stock values that tend to have a heavy inﬂuence on the market. They have also been the driving force behind the broader market’s record gains throughout the year.

Jeff Bezos dismisses AI job-loss fears Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is predicting artificial intelligence will lead to soaring productivity, allowing people to back away from the workforce with no loss in their standard of living. Bezos’ comments, made during an interview last week with Fox News, come as others warn that AI could decimate employment across swaths of the economy. In contrast, he said he believes there will be a labor shortage as people deprioritize work. “It’s going to actually be difficult to hire people,” Bezos said during the interview, which took place on a factory floor in Florida for his spaceflight company, Blue Origin. Bezos acknowledged that smart people are prognosticating about widespread worker displacement — but he doesn’t buy it. “I just happen to disagree with those smart people,” he said. Instead, Bezos said, rising productivity will let more people choose to work less. “If you have, let’s say, a twoearner-income household,” he said, “if you want to have it, fine, you’ll have it. But if you don’t want to have it, one of the people might drop out. Some people will also decide, ‘You know what, I can support my family working three days a week.’ ”

EU imposes sanctions on nearly 1,600 BRUSSELS — The European Union imposed sanctions on Monday on almost 1,600 Russian people and companies linked to Russia’s arms industry, notably targeting those suspected of involvement in making parts for drones and missiles. In the biggest single listing of sanctions since the Kremlin launched full-scale war on Ukraine almost ﬁve years ago, the EU also targeted 77 people accused of organizing, working on, or running in “sham elections” in occupied parts of Ukraine. Announcing the sanctions, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said that more than half of them “address the production chain for the ballistic missiles Russia uses to kill Ukrainian civilians every day.” “This is not the time to ease pressure on Moscow but to increase it,” she said. The EU said the companies are on a list established by the Russian government itself “that identiﬁes them as belonging to the Russian military-industrial complex, and they are therefore entitled to receive subsidies.”

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Imports of China’s cars on the rise EU caps hybrid vehicle imports at 350,000 a year

BY CHAN HO-HIM and SAM MCNEIL Associated Press

HONG KONG — China’s passenger car exports surged 64% in September from the same month in 2025, an industry association reported Monday, as Chinese automakers increasingly focus on exports to drive growth amid sluggish domestic sales. China exported around 919,000 passenger vehicles in September, lifted by overseas demand for plugin hybrids and pure electric vehicles, data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers

showed. In the ﬁrst nine months of 2026, China exported over 7.1 million passenger cars, up more than 70% from the same period last year. Meanwhile, domestic passenger car sales in China fell for most of the year as automakers faced weaker consumer confidence at home and scaled-back government subsidies. They fell 27% yearon-year in September to over 1.6 million units, according to the association. China is the world’s largest vehicle exporter, but is facing increasing skepticism from trade partners who fear it’s undermining their domestic industries and trade balance. The EU is capping Chinese hybrid vehicle imports at 350,000 a year, ofﬁcials say. In recent months, Chinese auto-

makers have more aggressively targeted rapid growth in overseas markets such as Europe, Latin America, Southeast Asia and Africa. Canada is also opening its doors to Chinese EV exports under a tariff cut deal with China. The industry increasingly relies on overseas markets for sales and proﬁt growth as players seek to offset weakness in the domestic market, analyst Stephen Chan of S&P Global Ratings said. Consultancy AlixPartners and some auto analysts expect Chinese automakers to export nearly or around 10 million vehicles globally in 2026. In Europe, Chinese automakers are increasingly challenging the European auto industry with lower costs and prices. AlixPartners’ analysis found, for example, that a

Chinese-branded EV costs around $20,000 to produce, compared with $31,000 for a European equivalent. The EU has already imposed higher tariffs on pure electric vehicles from China, prompting Chinese carmakers to export more hybrid vehicles. Recent policy discussions have focused on the rapid rise in sales of Chinese hybrids in Europe. Chinese automakers captured around 12% of Europe’s new-car market in August and accounted for one in four hybrid sales in the region, said a research note by Deutsche Bank. Amid growing pressure on the EU to rebalance trade with China, EU trade chief Maroš Šef ovi said Friday that the two sides had reached an interim deal that could halve Chinese hybrid vehicle exports to the bloc.

2 U.S. economists win Nobel Prize Work on managing economic shocks recognized

BY PAUL WISEMAN, STEFANIE DAZIO and KOSTYA MANENKOV Associated Press

STOCKHOLM — American economists Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford won the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics Monday for their work on models that have helped governments and central banks manage economic shocks, such as energy crises and inflation. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the winners in Stockholm, noting that their work created the theoretical foundation to better understand how consumers decide whether to save or spend, insights that make it easier for policymakers worldwide to stabilize economies after fluctuations. “The laureates’ research has made it possible to manage major macroeconomic crises far more effectively than before,” the Nobel committee wrote in a paper explaining the economists’ work. “It has been hugely beneficial during the pandemic and the energy crises of recent years.” Hall, 83, is affiliated with Stanford University in California. Woodford, who was born in 1955, is affiliated with Columbia University in New York. Woodford spoke to the committee by phone from New York: “It’s a tremendous honor. It’s a surprise.” Hall also said the award was a “wonderful surprise.” “I’ve spent my career trying to understand how the economy works, following interesting questions wherever they led. When I thought I had a new idea, the next step was to find out whether it was actually new, whether it was right, and whether it mattered,” he said in a statement released by Stanford. For decades, governments responded to economic shocks by following the Depression-era prescriptions of the British economist John Maynard Keynes: Intervene in the economy by lowering interest rates and taxes and hiking government spending, thereby encouraging consumers and businesses to spend and invest and help restart growth. “This is the Keynesian recipe and it worked well — until it didn’t,” said Timo Boppart, of the Nobel economics committee. Policymakers had thought economic management involved simple trade-offs — unemployment, for instance, would stay low at a time of high inflation and rise when inflation fell. But the stagflation” of the 1970s — when the world economy experienced simultaneous high inflation and high unemployment —

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Portraits of Robert E. Hall and Michael Woodford are shown as they are announced as the laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, Sweden, on Monday. proved the formula was simplistic. Some economists argued that government attempts to intervene in the economy were doomed to fail. But Hall and Woodford, in separate contributions, set about improving the Keynesian model to take into account how consumers and businesses actually make decisions about whether to invest and spend. “Economic outcomes are the result of millions of decisions made at the microlevel by households and businesses,’’ the Nobel committee wrote. “Using models based upon this approach, rather than simply studying the economy from a macro perspective, like a bird’s eye view,” Hall and Woodford’s research “generated a paradigm shift in the theory of stabilization policy.” Hall studied the way that consumers’ decisions about whether and how much to spend depend on what they expect their future income to be. “If they are optimistic, they will consume more than if they are pessimistic,’’ the committee wrote. But consumer expectations can change unexpectedly as new information about the economy comes in. Hall found that forecasting future consumer spending is virtually impossible. The idea that consumption is mostly unpredictable “is not good news for forecasters, or policymakers,” Olivier Blanchard, who was chief economist at the International Monetary Fund during the 2008 ﬁnancial crisis, said by email. “But it is news they must take into account in thinking about the ef-

fects of policy.” Hall also explored the idea that some households are so strapped ﬁnancially that they can’t borrow or tap savings in response to economic changes. In a 1982 paper with the economist Fredric Mishkin, Hall found that around 80% of households made spending decisions based on their expectations for the future “while the rest lived hand to mouth,” the committee wrote. “The prize is for research that pushes our understanding of macroeconomics from the bottom up, from families and ﬁrms making decisions over time, while looking ahead,” Ivan Werning, an economist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said in an email. Woodford’s research established that businesses make decisions about prices based on where they think interest rates will go in the future. “If the business believes that its competitors’ prices and its own costs will increase, it is best to set a higher price than it would with the opposite expectation,” the Nobel committee wrote. “Businesses’ decisions are thus also governed by their expectations.” Therefore, central banks such as the U.S. Federal Reserve, which set short-term interest rates, should provide “clear and credible communication about how they reason and what they plan to do.” Central banks have responded to this insight by working harder to explain what they are doing.

AI founders cheer Trump’s calls for industry self-policing BY GARANCE BURKE Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO — Tech Week is in full bloom in San Francisco, packing the city’s restaurants this week with venture capitalists and AI founders ebullient about the White House’s stance on regulating artiﬁcial intelligence — namely, don’t do it. And after months of debate about leading AI companies’ unchecked AI agents meddling with everything from U.S. government websites to healthcare data, the nation now finds itself further from governing AI systems than it was a few years ago. President Donald Trump brought tech titans to Washington late last month for a luncheon and ceremo-

nial signing of a voluntary safety pact he described as “almost a constitution” surrounding “Super Intelligence,” the administration’s new preferred term for AI. The 308-word agreement lays out that advanced AI labs should follow safety protocols and set up internal teams to monitor their own progress, but the administration has yet to provide details on how, in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s words, to keep “bad things” from happening. Safety challenges were not top of mind inside a crowded event space in San Francisco on Wednesday, where founders and funders said the government’s hands-off approach would net higher proﬁts for companies building AI-powered

defense and security systems. Panelists praised the government’s bullish industry support at one meeting aimed at “investing in the forefront,” part of the blitz of pop-up events organized by Andreessen Horowitz, a venture ﬁrm whose head is a Trump science and tech adviser. “I want to start with one ﬁgure that I think really emphasizes the investment opportunity of defense, and that’s $1 trillion. The U.S. government, for the first time, is allocating $1 trillion to its defense spending. And $13.5 billion of that will go to autonomous systems and AI,” said Kyle Stanford, a venture capital research director at PitchBook, a market intelligence platform. “That has

obviously brought a lot of capital into defense tech spending, more than we’ve ever seen.” A day later, three researchers at OpenAI’s headquarters said the ChatGPT maker had ﬁred them, posting that “fear and unclear rules stymie AI safety work.” Separately, David Robinson, a leader on OpenAI’s safety team until he recently resigned, said he was worried about letting the advanced labs police themselves. “This is no substitute for hard law, and it does give a lot of freedom to the companies,” Robinson said. “The time between model generations is measured in weeks … and I think we have some very serious safety challenges in front of us in the nearer term.”

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Many GOP states have new voting rules BY GARY FIELDS and JULIE CARR SMYTH

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President Donald Trump has pushed Congress to pass a proofof-citizenship law, signed an executive order seeking a national voter ID requirement and tried to limit mail voting through U.S. Postal Service changes. None of those moves succeeded in time to affect this year’s midterm elections. It’s a different matter in the states. More than three dozen voting laws passed in Republican-controlled states are taking effect for the first time this year, many of them containing elements of Trump’s stalled proposals. They include changes to what IDs are acceptable to register for the first time and requirements to show proof of citizenship, an issue the Republican president has tried but failed to get through Congress. “Trump’s attacks on our elections are deeply damaging, but they are not happening in isolation,” said Sophia Lin Lakin, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Voting Rights Project. ”Across the country, states are also advancing restrictions that make it harder for eligible voters to cast a ballot.” Republican lawmakers who support the tighter voting laws, especially around voter ID, describe them as common sense changes that help build trust in elections. Trump and other Republicans have been pushing for more restrictive rules since the president’s false claims of widespread fraud in his 2020 election loss to Democrat Joe Biden. Trump’s false claims have resonated with Republican voters, a majority of whom believe Biden was not legitimately elected despite all evidence to the contrary. Trump lost dozens of court challenges, his own attorney general found no evidence of widespread fraud, and reviews, audits and recounts in the battleground states where he contested his loss all affirmed Biden’s victory. Among the changes confronting voters as early voting gets underway: Students in New Hampshire can no longer use student IDs; Utah voters returning mail ballots

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Voters enter their ballots into scanners at early in-person voting in Cleveland on Oct. 7. must include more information on the envelope; and some voters in Mississippi might need birth certiﬁcates or passports to verify their identities. New Hampshire state Rep. Donald McFarlane said he sponsored the bill to eliminate student IDs as acceptable for voting because colleges don’t have the same controls when issuing those cards as government agencies. “The change removes a special exception and applies the same government-issued ID standard to all voters,” he said, adding that his bill had bipartisan support. Students, he said, can still get state IDs free of charge. The new requirements have not gone unchallenged. In South Dakota, the ACLU has ﬁled a lawsuit seeking to halt a new law that includes requiring voters registering for the first time to present the most common forms of ID — driver’s licenses, Tribal IDs and non-driver state IDs. They must be presented in person at places that accept registration. “Proof of citizenship in itself is not terrible,” said Kathryn Johnson, president of the League of Women Voters of South Dakota. Her concern is the requirement to present the IDs in person.

“We’re kind of a remote state, so sometimes it takes a drive, and you have to coordinate, you have to take off work, and all of these kinds of things,” she said. Some Democrats also have expressed support for voter ID during recent debates. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro said he was open to the idea as long as it wasn’t based on “conspiracy theories.” When legislatures change their state’s voting laws, they typically give election offices and voters time to adjust. Trump wanted federal voter ID and proof-of-citizenship legislation to take effect immediately, forcing election officials and voters to comply in the middle of the midterms. Ohio has a proof of citizenship requirement in effect for the first time this year for those registering to vote or updating their voter registration information at a Bureau of Motor Vehicles location. The state also eliminated its fourday grace period for mail ballots, which now must be received at local election offices by Election Day. Yet the biggest concern for voting rights groups is an ongoing purge of the state’s voter rolls. The databases used to check citizenship against voter registration

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The former Emeril’s Delmonico restaurant has been purchased by a local real estate investor after nearly four years on the market.

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Continued from page 1A Commercial real estate broker Bobby Talbot of Talbot Realty Group, which represented Lagasse on the Delmonico building, said the recent ﬂurry of activity bodes well for the area. “It’s deﬁnitely a positive sign when you see a building like this change hands at the same time so many other things are also going on nearby,” Talbot said. The two-story townhouse at 1300 St. Charles that housed Emeril’s Delmonico was a continuously operating restaurant from 1895 until the pandemic forced its closure in March 2020. It was founded in the late 19th century by Anthony Commander, who had worked at the famed New York Delmonico’s and opened his own version of the restaurant in New Orleans with the blessing of the New York family, according to a history of the restaurant from Gambit. (His brother, Emile Commander, had opened Commander’s Palace a few years earlier.) In 1911, the LaFranca

family took over Delmonico and ran it through several generations until selling to Lagasse in 1997, who renovated the building, updated its menu and changed the name to Emeril’s Delmonico. For the next 20 years, it would be known for its blend of Old World charm and Lagasse’s contemporary take on Creole classics. After the pandemic, he decided not to reopen and, in 2022, put the building up for sale. His spokesperson declined to comment. The original listing price for the building, which has multiple dining rooms on two ﬂoors, an ofﬁce, storage and a commercial kitchen, was $3.9 million or nearly $450 a foot. At the time, local real estate was booming. But in mid-2022, interest rates began to soar along with insurance premiums and construction costs. Lending slowed. Commercial real estate deals dried up and the empty restaurant building sat. In the years that followed, its price was lowered several times. By the time Talebloo purchased it last week, its price penciled out to about $136 a square foot.

It will be his latest of several properties in the area. Among his other holdings are the seven-story Factors Row apartments on Perdido Street in the Central Business District, Authentic Oriental Rugs in the 2000 block of Magazine Street and the Balcony Bar and Kitchen in the 3200 block of Magazine. In November, he’s planning to open a new live music venue on Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard and Felicity Street called Sugar Loaf. Talebloo is among several investors who have recently started to try and breathe new life into lower St. Charles Avenue. In addition to the new hotels and renovation of the former Jerusalem Temple, Adam Lambert, the president of Crescent City Auction Gallery, opened an antiques marketplace in the 1400 block of St. Charles in June called The Bellﬂower. More recently, the Texas developer behind the Warbler Hotel purchased the old Toy Cleaner in the 2000 block of St. Charles and has plans for a new building on the site, according to Talbot, who said other hotel deals nearby are in the works as well.

lists can be outdated, said Freda Levenson, legal director of the ACLU of Ohio, which has sued to overturn the law. “Vast numbers of perfectly eligible voters are vulnerable to being disenfranchised,” she said. Republican state Sen. Theresa Gavarone, one of the primary sponsors of the bill, challenged the ACLU’s legal action and said the problem it addresses is a real one. “In the past two years, hundreds of noncitizens have been removed from Ohio’s voter rolls,” she said in an email. “Every single vote cast by a noncitizen disenfranchises a lawful Ohio voter.” Outside an early voting center in Wayne County, Ohio, retired steel worker Dan Walter, an independent voter, said he opposes requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote. “It’s to keep people from voting, it sounds to me like,” he said. His wife, Jody, a retired aerospace executive and a Democrat, said she felt the same way about Ohio’s new requirement for registering to vote. “A driver’s license doesn’t prove citizenship, and that’s all they ask for now,” she said. “It’s going to be an obstacle for so many people.”

Genia Fortune had a different view. A nurse, the Millersburg resident described herself as an independent and said she voted for President Barack Obama, a Democrat, and later for Trump. She believes Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election was stolen and sees requiring documentary proof of citizenship as a necessary precaution. “I just feel like you need to be a citizen and show proof of ID,” she said. The Trump administration has pushed multiple strategies to inﬂuence this year’s midterm elections, most of them stymied by Congress or the courts. Chris Diaz, director of legislative tracking at the Voting Rights Lab, said the group has seen several versions of the Republican president’s proposals passed by his allies in the states. A recently released report by the group highlighted some of the key areas drawing Republican lawmakers’ attention, including mail balloting, voter ID and the hunt for noncitizens on voter rolls. Noncitizen voting has been a focus of the Trump administration despite it being a rare problem. The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced it had brought charges in roughly 90 cases for various types of election misconduct, including 50 against people who are alleged to have voted as noncitizens. The U.S. had 227 million registered voters for the 2024 presidential election. The Brennan Center for Justice has identiﬁed nearly 40 laws in 21 states taking effect this election season that will make it harder for eligible voters to register, stay on the rolls or cast ballots. The report from the center, part of the New York University School of Law, found that many of the new laws target subsets of voters. “What I want voters to take away from this is that elections are still run by the states and there are still people in many states who are trying to make it harder for you to vote,” said Sean Morales-Doyle, senior director of the center’s Voting Rights and Elections Program. “But that’s all the more reason to go make a plan to vote and participate.”

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AG, special prosecutor spar over records Pleas to La. Supreme Court latest turn in N.O. legal saga BY JOHN SIMERMAN Staff writer

The special prosecutor who led the grand jury that indicted Attorney General Liz Murrill over the summer is pleading with the Louisiana Supreme Court to stop Murrill’s lawyers from suing her for public records and to get her a lawyer amid an ongoing state criminal probe. Lawyers for Murrill, meanwhile, have asked the high court to ap-

point an outside judge to oversee the public records lawsuits they’ve filed against the special prosecutor, Laurie White, and District Attorney Murill Jason Williams after a third judge in New Orleans recused herself. Murrill’s attorneys also want the Louisiana Supreme Court to appoint an “independent custodian

of records,” saying White has refused to properly answer a pair of public records requests and is conﬂicted. The dueling filings mark the latWhite est turn in a legal drama stemming from an Orleans Parish grand jury’s July 2 indictment of Murrill on 16 counts of public intimidation and malfeasance in ofﬁce.

Judge Leon Roche in June appointed White, a former criminal court judge, to oversee the grand jury that indicted Murrill over purported threats to city ofﬁcials, after Williams’ ofﬁce recused itself. According to the grand jury, the district attorney was among Murrill’s victims. In an “emergency” request this week, White wrote that she received a letter this month from Collin Sims, the northshore district attorney who was named in August to oversee a criminal investigation that Gov. Jeff Landry ordered into the grand jury’s indictment of Murrill.

White wrote that she learned from Sims that she’s a “potential target” of the Louisiana State Police probe. White dismissed Murrill’s indictment on July 22 under pressure from city leaders who had expressed concerns about the political fallout. She argued that Murrill shouldn’t be allowed now to pursue a public records case against her while the state is simultaneously investigating her and others for possible crimes.

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Jan Risher

Enjoy your stay at this haunting party For years, my husband and I took our daughters to parties. On Saturday night, one of them got us into one. It was a Halloween party in Lafayette, and it reminded me of the movie “Babette’s Feast.” In the 1987 Danish ﬁlm, a French cook wins 10,000 francs in a lottery. She spends every franc on a single dinner for 12 villagers who have agreed in advance not to enjoy it. They enjoy the meal despite themselves. By the end of it, old quarrels have dissolved. Heather Holland Ros’ guests showed up ready to have fun, unlike Babette’s reluctant diners. But Holland Ros gives her party in the same spirit as Babette does: going beyond what the night requires whether or not guests notice. Holland Ros and her husband, Pierre Ros-Barbier, turned their two-bedroom, one-bath house and backyard into the Hollywood Tower Hotel, and on Saturday night, they checked in their guests.

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Autumn’s golden glow

Early morning sunlight casts a golden glow through sprinkler spray as a runner passes beneath sprawling live oaks at Audubon Park in New Orleans. The sprinklers water the golf course as autumn brings shorter days and long morning shadows.

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Heather Holland Ros dresses like Beni from the 1999 film ‘The Mummy’ for her annual Halloween party.

Vintage suitcases with personalized luggage tags were stacked in corners and along the path. A lifesize mummy stood in the banana trees. (Holland Ros made it with plastic wrap and duct tape, using her husband as the model.) Guests signed the Book of the Dead. The lampshade carried the hotel’s logo. Does a Halloween party need a custom lampshade? It does if the hostess is Holland Ros. Following a passion to an almost absurd degree is one of my favorite things a person can do. Holland Ros, 39, is a nurse. For four Octobers now, she has turned her 1,000-square-foot house into a 1930s haunted hotel modeled on Disney’s Twilight Zone Tower of Terror in Walt Disney World. She calls the night her annual Tip Top Club Halloween party. Each year, she layers a second theme over the hotel. This year’s was “The

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BY GRACE MAYER Staff writer

Three years after opening a coworking space for creatives on Banks Street in Mid-City, the owners of Burnt Canoe Studio are expanding with a second nearby location. Otway and Hannah Denny — a husband-and-wife team both deeply embedded in the city’s creative community — recently purchased the 18,000-square-foot building at 739 S. Clark St., just off Tulane Avenue near Norman C. Francis Parkway, for $1.6 million to house a second campus. The new location will be twice as big as the original, with about 35 studio spaces as well as larger ofﬁces and a business center, where tenants can share resources like large-format printers and a makerspace. The couple said the demand for the new campus from local artists, art-adjacent businesses and arts-related nonprofit organizations — the types of tenants they hope to

LEFT: Hannah and Otway Denny are the co-founders of Burnt Canoe Studio, a coworking business focused on the creative community. ABOVE: Burnt Canoe Studio’s second campus, off Tulane Avenue in Mid City, will include up to 35 studios and office suites.

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years, following a slowdown in interest during the pandemic. Burnt Canoe aims to stand out within the local market by creating offerings for the creative community.

All 42 passengers escaped unharmed from a research vessel that caught fire while traveling south of Grand Isle on Monday afternoon. Coast Guard crews responded to what early Monday seemed like a possible tragedy — a fire aboard the Rem Andes, an 88-meter seismic research vessel sailing under the Cyprus flag about 100 miles off the Louisiana shore, officials said. Passengers fled the ship on life rafts and were all safely transferred to nearby offshore supply vessels. The fire was extinguished by about 2:50 p.m., according to a Coast Guard statement. The agency said the cause of the fire was not confirmed as of Monday evening. Coast Guard Petty Officer Vincent Moreno confirmed that the vessel’s entire crew escaped injury. Some of

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Marion McCollam, founding force Prairieville man wins $2M Powerball prize of N.O. arts council, dies at 95 BY JOHN POPE

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Contributing writer Marion Andrus McCollam, an expert in urban design and arts management who was acclaimed for her work as leader of the Arts Council of New Orleans, died Sept. 25 in Houston. She was 95. She died of comMcCollam plications of pneumonia, according to her daughter Marion Cage McCollam. A native New Orleanian who graduated from the Isidore Newman School and Newcomb College, Marion Andrus McCollam earned a master’s degree in urban and regional planning from the University of New Orleans (now LSU New Orleans). She joined the administration of Mayor Dutch Morial, first as human affairs coordinator and later as arts coordinator. At City Hall, McCollam directed planning for the Duncan Plaza Design Project and the Downtown Development District. In 1981, she became director of the Arts Council of New Orleans, a private, nonprofit organization now known as Arts New Orleans that runs the city’s arts program and is dedicated to supporting arts and culture in the region by working with individuals, groups and organizations. “She had a personal enthusiasm for the arts and loved them,” said John Bullard, former director of the New Orleans Museum of Art. “She wanted to see the arts flourish here. She saw the Arts Council as a vehicle to promote all the arts in New Orleans.” McCollam took the job six years after the council’s founding. “She really built it,” said Shirley Trusty Corey, who succeeded her. “She had a sense of the things that needed to be done to move the arts ahead in the city.” Although McCollam had to deal with a variety of groups, personal-

A Prairieville man has claimed a $2 million Powerball prize, the Louisiana Lottery said. Charles Moore purchased the ticket at the Delaunes Supermarket on La. 431 in St. Amant. Moore matched all five numbers and the red Powerball number. He purchased the Power Play option, for an extra $1, doubling his winnings, the lottery said in a news release. The winning numbers for the

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Marion McCollam, then head of the Arts Council of New Orleans, poses by a mural in the French Quarter in 1989. ities and temperaments, “she had a great deal of conﬁdence and selfassurance,” said Anne Milling, a friend since their days in the Junior League of New Orleans. “She didn’t feel threatened by anyone.” McCollam, a former Junior League president who sat on the board of the Urban League of New Orleans, resigned in 1990 to lead the Cultural Arts Council of Houston (now the Houston Arts Alliance). In that role, she identiﬁed, recruited and nurtured talent. McCollam, who held that post until 1998, later founded McCollam Consultants, which advised arts organizations around the country. She also taught in Goucher College’s master’s degree program in arts administration and later served on its advisory committee. She was a former president of the U.S. Urban Arts Foundation and the vice chair of the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies. She advised the National Endowment of the Arts and sat on the advisory board of Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Gallery, was a member of the American Insti-

tute of Certiﬁed Planners and was made an honorary member of the American Institute of Architects. The Arts Management Institute named her its Arts Administrator of the Year in 1987. The Greater New Orleans Foundation gave her its award for Sustained Management Excellence in 1989, and the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies gave her its Chairman’s Award in 1992. “She was so accomplished,” Milling said, “and she did everything to perfection.” Her marriage to Andrew McCollam Jr. ended in divorce. He died in 2011. In addition to her daughter, survivors include two sons, Andrew McCollam III and Gerald McCollam; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. A memorial service will be at noon Oct. 31 at Lake Lawn Metairie Funeral Home, 5100 Pontchartrain Blvd. Visitation will begin at 11 a.m. Burial will be private. Contact John Pope at pinckelopes@gmail.com.

UL researcher’s studies on water, moon could impact future lunar farming BY KRISTIN ASKELSON

rocket, it entered a period of free fall, creating about two minutes of weightlessness. After the flight, Hasenstein A University of Louisiana at Laworked with John Z. Kiss, of Florfayette biologist’s latest research could help scientists determine ida Tech University, and Chrishow to grow plants and irrigate topher P. McKay, of NASA, to excrops on the moon. amine how water and water mixed Karl Hasenstein, a distinguished with glycerol behaved under the professor emeritus of biology in altered conditions. UL’s Ray P. Authement College The researchers found that waof Sciences, has spent more than ter did not flow as freely under luthree decades studying how plants PROVIDED PHOTO nar gravity because of increased grow in space. His research, in- University of Louisiana at surface tension. The findings suggest that irrigation systems decluding experiments conducted Lafayette’s Karl Hasenstein is aboard the International Space signed for the moon may need to Station, examines how plants re- studying how water behaves on the account for how water moves and interacts with surfaces under respond to gravity and how to pro- moon. duced gravity. duce vegetables during long space the company 4SPACE, Hasenstein The research was recently pubmissions. His latest study examined how designed and built a small, closed lished in the journal Microgravity water behaves under lunar gravity, system containing liquids and Science and Technology. which is about one-sixth as strong cameras to record how the fluids The findings underscore the imas Earth’s. The research could help behaved under altered gravity. portance of understanding fluid The experiment flew aboard a behavior when designing systems inform the design of irrigation sysBlue Origin suborbital rocket. Af- to grow plants in future lunar habitems for future lunar habitats. As part of an initiative led by ter the capsule separated from the tats, the researchers wrote. Staff writer

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have been undeniably unfair and out of proportion,” she added. “To not receive guidance or assistance from this Court would be unconscionable, unfair, and violative of my due process and equal protection rights.” Murrill has said she may sue for malicious prosecution. Her lawyers say White has cited the criminal probe to avoid turning over public records. They’re asking the court to take the decision out of her hands and to appoint an ad hoc judge over the records suit. In the filing, attorney Laura Cannizzaro Rodrigue noted that three Civil District Court judges had so far recused themselves from the records suits against White and Williams. Chief Judge Nicole Sheppard was the latest. She noted her testimony this year before the Legislature about bills targeting New Orleans’ court system, a process that “gives rise to the issues in this matter,” she wrote. Murrill’s allegedly threatening letters came in response to attempts by city officials to fill a newly unified court clerk’s seat in the city, intending to flout the Legislature. Sheppard noted that the situation normally wasn’t enough to step aside, but she found her recusal “appropriate to preserve public confidence in the fair and impartial administration of justice and to avoid the appearance of impropriety.” Murrill’s lawyers asked the Louisiana Supreme Court to leapfrog any further recusals and to appoint an ad hoc judge over the public records cases, hoping to speed things along. “The reasons given for the most recent recusal suggest the problem is not limited to any one judge,” Rodrigue wrote. The case against White is currently assigned to Civil District Judge Lori Jupiter. It’s uncertain when the Supreme Court might rule.

shipping company for offshore energy projects, lists the Rem Andes on its website as a seismic survey research vessel built in Poland in 2012. The Coast Guard had called a commercial salvage company — which Moreno described as something similar to a tow-truck service for commercial vessels — to transport the ship back to port. The Coast Guard said it will coordinate with the vessel’s operating company to assess any potential pollution threats and determine next steps. Staff writer Alex Lubben contributed reporting.

Heather Holland Ros placed dozens of pieces of vintage luggage, each with a handmade tag, around her home and garden as part of the decor for her annual themed Halloween party at her Lafayette home.

Smart fellow. Holland Ros said she always wanted to be a nurse, but she has always been creative, too. She reasoned that nursing required a degree and creativity didn’t. Lately, she said, she ﬁnds herself “craving to throw myself into creativity like this” and would like to design parties professionally. She should. In “Babette’s Feast,” the cook explains herself: “I was able to make them happy when I gave of my very best.” This week, the suitcases go back to Crowley to her childhood bedroom in her parents’ house, which STAFF PHOTO BY JAN RISHER the family calls the museum. The suitcases will wait there, Heather Holland Ros and Pierre Ros-Barbier go all out in decorating their luggage tags and all, until the hotel Lafayette home for their annual Halloween party. opens again next October.

She said she and her husband up the ante on their costumes each year because Holland Ros’ creativity inspires them. “Heather creates this gorgeous atmosphere that immerses you in her unique vision, and it brings out the best in all of her guests,” Wright said. Ros-Barbier leaves most of the party’s details to his wife. On the big night, he gears up in full costume and stands by to

check the sound system, gets ice and assists as needed. “He loves to see me just doing creative stuff,” Holland Ros said, “’cause he knows that’s what makes me happiest.” This year, Holland Ros dressed as Beni, the shifty sidekick from 1999 ﬁlm “The Mummy.” She picked him partly for comedy and partly to breathe easier. Last year, she was the Creature from the Black Lagoon, and the

Continued from page 1B Mummy,” which played on a big screen in the backyard. She plans for the better part of the year. The setup takes two days. “Most people would not expect a party like this from a tiny house,” Holland Ros said. “I’m a big believer in being able to take anything and make it something.” She gets that belief honestly. She learned it from her mother, Wendy Holland. “My mom has always been someone who loves to make an ordinary event, day, celebration more special,” Holland Ros said. The hotel has been with her a long time. Thirteen years ago, she threw a murder-mystery Sweet 16 party for her youngest sister, Claire Holland, who was in my daughter’s class. My daughter still talks about that party. Holland Ros began collecting vintage luggage back then, and she’s never stopped. What she’s after is immersion. “I just love to transport people,” she said. Monica Wright has come to the party for four years.

Perjury, jury tampering, obstruction of justice and unlawful disclosure of grand jury proceedings are among “possible violations” cited in an unusual request by a state lawyer to the Louisiana Supreme Court for a special prosecutor. White wrote that she considered her own duties as special prosecutor to be over when she dropped the indictment against Murrill. She’s since received public records requests from Murrill’s attorneys and a lawsuit. White said she has yet to be paid by the city for her work before or after Murrill’s indictment. As a “potential target or at the very least a fact witness of details” about Murrill’s indictment, White wrote of landing in a trick bag. She argues that retired Judge Robert Chaisson, the ad hoc judge appointed over the criminal investigation, should be in charge. “I plan to cooperate with the investigation and provide everything that a Court orders that I turn over if those records or documents exist,” White wrote of the criminal probe. “But I am also left in a precarious spot of being accused of violating ethical rules when grand jury secrecy is also at issue or other nefarious allegations like that have already been bandied around about me, without a single opportunity for me to respond.” White argued that she’s been unfairly viliﬁed. “Indicting the AG was not a plan I woke up with on the day I was called by a colleague who expressed a real need for assistance,” she wrote. “I am not public enemy number one for using my 40+ years of legal experience to assist in one criminal matter in which the media barrage and political attacks

Oct. 5 drawing were 16-23-32-3654, and the Powerball number was 9. Moore claimed his prize two days later, on Wednesday. After state and federal tax withholdings, he took home a little over $1.46 million, the lottery said. The Louisiana Lottery encourages all players to sign the back of their tickets immediately after purchasing to protect their claim. Winning tickets for draw-style games must be claimed within 180 days of the drawing date.

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headpiece was so heavy that, like the Creature, she kept having to come up for air. Claire Holland came home from New Zealand, mostly for the party, with her partner, Rob Clark, a New Zealander. I asked him to sum up the night. “Epic,” he said. He added that his favorite Louisiana food so far is gumbo and “the étouffée that your mother made,” he told Claire Holland.

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(Meghan "Han" Russell Lay) and Rachel Lay Hagstette (Barrett Hagstette), Great grandmother of Hunter Lay, Declan and Adler Hagstette and Louis and Magnolia Lay. Catherine (Kay) was a lifelong homemaker caring passionately for her children, mother-in-law and husband. She had a deep devotion to her catholic faith and especially to Mary. In her later years she spent most of her days watching Mass on EWTN and praying the rosary. The last words she said while on this earth were "I love you, Jesus. Amen." Relatives and friends are invited to attend a visitation to be held at St. Catherine of Siena Church, located at 106 Bonnabel Boulevard in Metairie on Friday, October 16, 2026 from 10 am to 11:30 am. A funeral mass will follow. Burial will be at Greenwood Cemetery. To view and sign the family guest book, please visit www.leitzeaganfuneralho me.com. If you would like to make a donation in honor of Catherine (Kay) Lay, please consider St. Catherine of Siena Church at stcatherineparish.com/ memorial or EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network) a 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization at www.EWTN.com.

On Friday, October 9, 2026, Catherine Nicolosi Lay passed away peacefully in her sleep at 5:15 am at the age of 101 years old. She was the beloved wife of the late Frederick Albert Lay, Jr., loving mother of Fred Michael Lay (Claudette Cassou Lay) and Alan Gerald Lay (Karen Herndon Lay). Catherine (Kay) was born in New Orleans, LA on August 6, 1925. She is the second of four children of the late Elma Schayot Nicolosi and Angelo Joseph Nicolosi, Sr., sister of the late Saverio Joseph "SJ" Nicolosi, Sydonia Nicolosi Hampton and Angelo Joseph Nicolosi, Jr., proud grandmother of Ryan Barrett Lay (Jill Yelles Lay), Aaron Brandon Lay

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James L. Lewis, IV, peacefully entered eternal rest at home on October 4, 2026, at the age of 56. He was a lifelong resident of New Orleans, LA, James Lewis, IV, affectionately known as "Chuck" to many, was the eldest of his two siblings. He was a kindhearted, caring, and very genuine man who deeply loved his family, friends, and everyone he touched. James, "Chuck," was a loyal and avid Saints fan. He also enjoyed bowling, fishing, and vacationing with family. James lived life to the fullest and spent most of his time with his parents, siblings, cousins, and extended family and friends. He truly enjoyed life! James graduated from Redeemer Catholic High School and was a member of Resurrection Catholic Church. James was a former employee of Lafarge North America cement company. James leaves to cherish

his loving parents, James, "Jimmy," and Joyce Lewis, III; his brother, Ryan Lewis; sister, Joy Lewis; and his aunts, uncles, cousins, godchildren, and many relatives and friends. James was preceded in death by his grandparents, James Lewis, II, Helen Kahn, Carl and Beatrice Coste, Sr.; uncles Carl, Jr. and Stephen Coste. Relatives and friends are invited to join our family for a Christian Mass at Resurrection of Our Lord Catholic Church, 9701 Hammond St., N.O. LA 70128, on Wednesday, October 14, 2026. Visitation will begin at 10:00 AM, with the Rosary at 10:30 AM, and the funeral at 11:00 AM. Interment will follow at St. Roch Cemetery #2, 1725 Music St., N.O., LA. Funeral arrangements were entrusted to The Boyd Funeral Home. Guestbook Online: www.anewtraditionbegins .com (504)282-0600. Linear Brooks Boyd and Donavin

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Office. Beloved husband of 42 years to Vanessa Porter Thomas. Devoted father of Essence Keiloda Thomas. Carey is also survived by a host of loving relatives and friends. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend a Mass of Christian Burial at All Saints Catholic Church, 1441 Teche Street, New Orleans, LA on Wednesday, October 14, 2026, at 11:30a.m. Visitation will begin at 9:30a.m, until service time at the church. Interment: Restlawn Park Cemetery, Avondale, LA. Arrangements by Davis Mortuary Service, 230 Monroe St. Gretna, LA To view and sign the guestbook, please go to www.da vismortuaryservice.com.

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Home visits help state move needle on maternal health If maternal health is one of the priorities of our state — and we argue it has to be — the expansion of a program that puts experts in the homes of new parents should be good news to all. We recently learned that Louisiana has almost $14 million in federal funding this year for the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting program. That’s about $1 million more than the state received last year, and it’s due partly to the state putting in $1 for every $3 in federal funding received. That’s money well spent. It’s no secret that Louisiana has one of the highest maternal and fetal mortality rates in the developed world. The crisis was the focus of a monthslong investigation by this newspaper two years ago. In it, the consequences of the crisis were made clear. Hundreds die needlessly. Research has shown that home visits with new mothers can significantly lower rates of infant mortality. Louisiana has a program geared to first-time mothers and one that helps families raising children up to 3 years of age. Trained nurses visit their homes and give information on topics ranging from babyproofing a home and breastfeeding to the importance of reading to children. Families who qualify for Medicaid are eligible and generally find out about the programs through word-of-mouth or are referred by their healthcare providers. We hope that with more money, more families can access these vital services. Reporter Marie Fazio recently spoke with Susannah Boudreaux in the state Department of Health, which runs the home visits, about why they are important. Boudreaux pointed out that the visits are not just about helping the child; it’s about helping the whole family. The nurses’ visits can spot problems and connect parents with resources, including mental health services or housing assistance. The Department of Health knows this works because it gathers data on the effectiveness of the home visiting programs. In January, Louisiana became the first state in the South to require insurance companies to cover home visiting services for infants and young children. But Boudreaux also noted that Louisiana has a long history of promoting home visitation. Since 1999, the state has committed funds to similar programs. That’s before federal funding for them was even available. We like to see long-term investments like these because we know that the future of our state depends on the health of its people. We also know that healthy mothers help raise healthy babies. There are many people working to help improve our state’s track record on maternal and infant health, and we appreciate all their efforts. But let’s take a moment to acknowledge the home visiting program that is on the front lines of making lasting change on a long, intractable problem.

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Congress isn’t going to fire itself; we need term limits When our nation was founded, the only pay Congress received was per diem when working, plus travel expenses. It took a horse-drawn carriage three days over bumpy roads to go from Boston to Washington, D.C. The average life expectancy was 47. Elective office was called “public service,” and few served more than one term. Recently I asked a college student his major. He replied, “Political science.” I asked, “Why?” He answered, “Because that’s where the money is.” Congress today is luxurious. We are stuck with professional career politicians because the Founding Fathers couldn’t anticipate an 80-year life expectancy or air travel. Members fly to Washington on Monday or Tuesday and fly home on Thursday with deluxe health and retirement benefits. They spend their time raising money. In Washington, money talks, walks and sings. Money gets them reelected. It’s accepted from

American businesses, rich citizens and even from foreign citizens, corporations and governments. One wonders what the money buys and whose interests are represented in Washington. The politicians get reelected until they get sick or die. The solution is to pass a two-term constitutional amendment, but these guys are not going to fire themselves! Let’s demand they pass a two-term amendment that excludes those in office at the time the amendment is ratified. For anyone who votes no, no matter which party they belong to, we citizens must get off our butts in the next election and vote them out of office. Let’s get this idea to go viral. Then in 2028, we can vote out those who don’t support the amendment. Talk it up with your friends. Let’s give this two-term idea the power to talk, walk and sing them out of office.

SIDNEY PULITZER New Orleans

Nothing positive about a public execution As each day brings the news of the actions and decisions of the current administration, I think they can’t possibly sink any lower. And then a new day brings a contradiction to my thinking. Live-streaming an execution by ﬁring squad is now on tap for later this year. Previously, President Donald Trump had been critical of public executions in Iran. According to Trump, anything Iran does is evil. But when similar actions are planned in a “Christian” nation, Trump is willing to give his approval. Hypocrisy is the pass-

word for functioning in the realm of the current administration. Aside from what the secretary of defense (I refuse to use the new name they’ve given to the department) may say, there is nothing positive about making the execution available for public consumption. Such streaming would only appeal to the most non-Christian, evil, depraved, barbaric segments of humanity. God help us.

NELL NAQUIN Baton Rouge

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There are those who argue against mailing the abortion drugs (mifepristone and misoprostol) to women in Louisiana. In a letter to your paper Oct. 8, three doctors stated that the practice is unsafe, as there may not be a physician with hands-on treatment for the patient. But what is the alternative? As abortion is illegal in Louisiana, women must go out of state to get the kind of care these doctors prescribe.

We are a poor state and have many residents who do not have the money to travel and stay in another state for services. These drugs are by far the safest solution for them. If the drugs become inaccessible to women in Louisiana, what will happen? Will we return to the days of the back alley? The proverbial coat hanger? Women will die as a result.

MIMI GROOME New Orleans

ICE prisoners are victims of America’s greed and cruelty As a volunteer with Louisiana Advocates for Immigrants in Detention (laaid.org), I have been in occasional contact with people incarcerated in ICE prisons in Louisiana and Mississippi during the past year and a half. To a person, they all describe horrible conditions: crowded rooms, contaminated water, inedible food, inadequate medical care, verbally abusive and racist guards. One detainee told me that they received exactly one piece of fresh fruit per week, an apple on Sunday. This poor treatment is of course deliberate, for a couple of reasons. First, these prisons are run by private incarceration companies, such as Geo Group and CoreCivic. To raise their proﬁt margins (as their shareholders expect), they cut costs by providing the bare minimum of food and care, and by hiring unqualiﬁed, cheap labor to run the prisons. Second, under the current administration’s immigration policy, the cruelty is the point. It hopes that by making immigration detention as miserable as possible, detainees will self-deport and potential immigrants will be deterred from entering the country. In other words, ICE prisoners are victims of both our greed and our cruelty. Improper entry to the United States is a misdemeanor, and unlawful presence is a civil offense. Neither one merits months and months of incarceration in wretched conditions. As an immigrant citizen, a Christian and the child of people who lived under Nazi occupation, I am appalled by this barbarism. The U.S. government is showing these people the worst of ourselves, and they are doing it in our name.

CHRISTINE KOOI Baton Rouge

Fixing FEMA, flood insurance demands independence U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow has been running political ads focused on FEMA and the high cost of flood insurance. She wants to fix them. Well, she has been in the House of Representatives for a number of years, since the death of her husband in 2020, and has done nothing to fix it. Now she wants our vote to send her to the Senate. I doubt she will fix FEMA or the flood insurance crisis. After all, she is 100% committed to Trump. I suspect she won’t use independence to help Louisianans. Vote for someone else who has the independence to do what is right for our state.

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COMMENTARY When partisanship collides with impartiality in judicial races Generally speaking, races for judgesays. ships don’t draw the same public attenThe mailer drew some immediate tion as races for many other offices in backlash from other attorneys, includLouisiana. But that doesn’t make them ing one letter to this newspaper noting any less intense or political. that criminal defense is a role One such race, playing out on required by the U.S. Constituthe northshore, has grown partion. I’d go one step further: The Constitution has much to ticularly fierce. say about protecting the rights The race illustrates one of the of the accused; it does little inherent paradoxes in requiring try to make it easier to put judges to be elected: The job Faimon to people in jail. requires them to be impartial; Roberts Lionel Rainey, Echols’ camcampaigning forces them into partisanship. paign consultant, argued that The election at hand pits two St. the flyer and video weren’t an attempt Tammany-based attorneys — Cameron to say some defendants don’t deserve a Mary and Michele Moore Echols, both defense. Republicans — against each other. Rather, he told me, it’s Mary’s judgOutside of the small community of ment that is the issue, since he chose to lawyers, neither has much of a public defend clients accused of those crimes. profile. Some defense attorneys decline to repThis means each must achieve a level resent defendants accused of certain of name recognition with voters while crimes, Rainey added. at the same time seeking to define the I’m not blaming Rainey here. He’s other candidate. And in politics, that a political consultant, so it’s his job to means attack ads. craft political messages on behalf of Echols, who spent most of her career his clients. Sometimes those involve practicing business and commercial making attention-grabbing and emolaw, saw an opportunity to go after tional appeals to voters, carefully Mary, who has spent much of his cacouched to make them factually dereer doing criminal defense. fensible. Sort of like a good criminal An Echols mailer and accompanying defense, the flyer tries to create some online video used ominous red lettering “reasonable doubt” in voters’ minds against a black background to present about Mary’s fitness for office. “The Case Against Cameron Mary.” I’m not blaming Echols either. It’s Mary’s “offenses” are listed below: not her fault that voters frequently his defense of clients accused of rape, respond to pieces like this. This is just child pornography, murder and fenthe way the game is played. And since this is a judicial election year, this tanyl distribution. game is playing out in New Orleans, “Cameron Mary cannot be trusted Baton Rouge and all over the state. to keep our families safe,” the mailer

I’m not the ﬁrst to note this problem. And it’s not just a problem in Louisiana. Texas, where judges are elected, has also grappled with it. There, in 2020, a commission created by the state Legislature recommended moving away from partisan judicial elections. But as of now, the system remains in place. There has not been a similar movement here, but perhaps there should be. More than a dozen states use some variation on what is known as the “Missouri Plan” to select at least some judges, according to a 2024 report from the Brennan Center for Justice. In the Missouri Plan, a nonpartisan nominating committee evaluates judicial candidates and presents names to the governor, who appoints the judge. Sitting judges then must go through what are called “retention elections.” Of course, the Missouri Plan doesn’t excise politics from the process completely. Rather, it shifts it from the judicial campaigns to the creation of the nominating committee and the appointment of its members. For good or for ill, in Louisiana that process would likely need to be handled by the Legislature. And given the current state of affairs in the state Capitol, I’m not particularly optimistic. In fact, getting anything “nonpartisan” out of Baton Rouge right now is about as likely as a nuanced argument in a campaign ﬂyer. Email Faimon Roberts at froberts@ theadvocate.com.

The U.S. Senate seat most likely to flip When strategists on both sides look at the 2026 Senate map, the state at the top of the list of those most likely to switch parties is North Carolina, where Republican Sen. Thom Tillis is retiring and former Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper has a signiﬁcant lead in the race to replace him. In the RealClearPolitics average of polls recently, Cooper has a 9-point lead over Republican Michael Whatley, a former chairman of the state GOP. Cooper Byron has been in front for the York entire race; going back to March, his solid and steady lead has never been smaller than 6.5 points or larger than the current 9 points. A recent poll done for the American Association of Retired Persons by Tony Fabrizio — best known as President Donald Trump’s pollster — and Democratic pollster John Anzalone suggests Republicans are in even more trouble than it earlier appeared. Cooper has an 11-point lead, 53% to 42%, in the new survey. Why? Much of the answer lies in fundamentals. For example, a president’s job approval rating has long been a strong predictor of midterm results, and in North Carolina, Trump is deeply underwater, with a 38% job approval rating and a 59% disapproval rating. It’s a disappointing situation for a president who won North Carolina three times, each time with a slightly larger percentage of the vote and a larger raw vote total. In 2016, Trump won North Carolina with 49.83% of the vote and 2,362,631 votes. In 2020, the numbers were 49.93% and 2,758,775 votes. In 2024, it was 50.86% and 2,898,423 votes. Since taking ofﬁce, though, Trump’s job approval has fallen steadily. In a series of Elon University polls, Trump’s approval was 45% in February 2025. It fell to 42% in March, 41% in April, 39% in September, 35% in March 2026 and 31% this month — even lower than the AARP poll. The reasons are the usual. The cost of living is the voters’ top issue, and they especially blame Trump for the increase in gas and diesel prices that occurred after the start of the Iran war seven months ago. Just as they do

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At left, Michael Whatley and at right, North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper. nationwide, a majority of voters now say they trust Democrats more than Republicans to handle the cost of living. On Iran, just 31% of respondents in the Elon University poll said they support the war, versus 52% who oppose and 18% who said they were unsure. Only 60% of Republicans support the war, while just 10% of Democrats and 27% of independents support it. Add to all this the fact that Cooper, who has won six statewide elections, is far better known than Whatley, who has not won any. Cooper also has signiﬁcantly higher favorable numbers. At the start of the campaign, a lot of North Carolinians had no idea who Whatley was, and since then, attacks from Democrats have helped keep his favorable rating low. The current situation could send long-term trends in North Carolina in a new direction. The state has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 2008 (Kay Hagan, who served one term), and only two since 1998 (Hagan and John Edwards, who also served one term). Now, when Republicans and Demo-

crats consider the balance of the Senate, North Carolina is the first of the net four seats Democrats would need to win to take control of the Senate. Political analyst Charlie Cook recently said, “A year ago, it wasn’t realistic to think that the Senate might flip, but now, it’s very realistic.” North Carolina, he said, is the “open seat [that] goes first.” Still, the future of the Senate remains very much in doubt (as opposed to the House, which seems set to turn Democratic). Yes, there are several states that could flip from Republicans to Democrats. After North Carolina, there are Maine, Iowa, Texas, Ohio, Alaska and Kansas. But there are also states — Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire — where Democrats are at risk of losing one of their current seats. Winning control is still not a done deal, or an easy task, for Democrats. But there will undoubtedly be some states, most clearly North Carolina, that are in for big changes. Byron York is on X, @Bryon York. Email him at byronyork@yorkcomm. com.

Reality remains undefeated

“When leaders neglect lived experience, the message collapses,” wrote former White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre in The New York Times. That is precisely the mistake Biden made, lauding the success of “Bidenomics” while “too many people were struggling with the prices of groceries, rent, child care and gas,” she said. “Their lived experience did not match the encouraging economic news, and that disconnect shaped the entire public conversation.” That disconnect between presidential rhetoric and reality helped elect Donald Trump two years ago. Today, it’s crushing him. Steve Voters are experts on one thing: Roberts themselves. On many issues, they have no firsthand information to question Trump’s numerous fraudulent claims, like that the Iran war is a success or that he won the 2020 election. But when the president boasts about a “golden age” of prosperity or that prices are coming down or that the affordability crisis is a “hoax,” they can see with their own eyes, in their own lives, that he’s lying to them. That’s why, as the think tank The Conference Board reports, consumer confidence dropped sharply in September, down to its lowest reading since 2014. That’s why only 26% approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 73% disapprove, according to the latest AP poll. And that’s why 1 in 5 Trump voters from two years ago now say they regret their choice, reports the independent polling firm Navigator. Remorse is particularly strong among young voters and Black and Hispanic voters, groups that backed Trump in unusually large numbers for economic reasons but were never staunch MAGA loyalists. “His communications team should know by now that the prices at the pump and the self-checkout line are undefeated,” wrote Jean-Pierre. Those prices are not Trump’s only political problem, however. Corruption is now rivaling cost in voters’ minds. Gallup reports that almost 9 in 10 Americans now believe government corruption is widespread, the highest level of suspicion and skepticism in 20 years. “Voters don’t think the economy is working for them, and they think it’s being rigged more and more in favor of a precious few who are cozied up to our nation’s leaders,” wrote Republican pollster Kristin Soltis Anderson in the Times. “The combination of these two worries is putting Mr. Trump and Republicans in a terrible position on the eve of an election.” Many voters once thought Trump’s deal-making prowess was a big plus in a president. They thought he would be a crusading outsider, draining the “swamp” of Washington and ousting the “deep state” from power. But it’s hard to play the outsider when you’re the president -- the ultimate insider. You can’t storm the castle when you live in it. Every day, Anderson wrote, voters “see headlines about meme coin scams, inexplicable pardons and the enormous wealth that the president’s family and close associates are accumulating.” And they are concluding that Trump and his cronies are contributing to their woes. “If people weren’t suffering right now, corruption feels harmless, but people are seeing their own situation getting worse, and they are connecting the dots on their own,” Democratic strategist Adam Bozzi told the Washington Post. Rising prices and collapsing confidence are compounded by yet another problem for Trump: his focus on incessant self-promotion, from renovating the White House to renaming the Kennedy Center. These obsessions might boost his ego, but they do nothing to boost his standing with voters. “On its own, an economy that feels as if it is leaving people behind would be a political problem for any incumbent,” wrote Anderson. “But add to it the gold leaf and vanity projects, and you wind up with a politically perilous one-two punch.” Perilous because Trump is sending clear signals to voters that he cares more about himself than about them. In the latest CNN poll, a “record-high 73% of U.S. adults say that President Donald Trump hasn’t paid enough attention to the country’s most important problems,” with only 27% saying he has the “right priorities.” Faced with this cascade of damning political news, Trump has decided that his problem is all public relations, not substance. “I’ve done a very bad job of explaining how good the country is doing,” he said at a Hispanic Heritage Month celebration at the White House, but he totally misunderstands how and why he so badly misses the mark. It’s not that he doesn’t sell his successes well; it’s that he blindly and stubbornly refuses to admit his failures and to understand and sympathize with the problems facing families across the country. He tells people to believe him, not themselves. He forgets that reality remains undefeated. Email Steven Roberts at stevecokie@gmail.com.

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Continued from page 1B “We live in such a creative city. Our main industries are creative and creativedriven,” Hannah Denny, 33, said. “We’ve seen there is a need for more of these types of spaces. In creating a hub for creatives, demand shows up.”

Creating a campus In 2022, Otway Denny was looking for space to move his wood shop from his home’s garage in MidCity, where he carved custom wooden spoons, cutting boards, frames, signs, furniture and sculptures. He searched for nearly a year for a rentable studio, and while there were coworking spaces available throughout the city, none quite suited his needs. He never found one, but he did see an opportunity. “At a certain point it clicked: Why don’t we try to do this ourselves and be a home for creatives?” he said. Developing a creative coworking campus, and crafting a business model, was an ambitious undertaking for the Dennys. Both worked for and built their own small businesses — Otway, in woodworking and graphic design, and Hannah, in the culinary space and market research. “I don’t want to say we didn’t know what we were getting ourselves into because we did,” Hannah Denny. “But we were just so excited that we weren’t scared.” They were only 30 at the time, with a newborn, when they bought the 6,000-square-foot building on Banks Street, previously occupied by a cabinet maker. The building was in good shape, and they were drawn to its location on the edge of Mid-City, which Hannah Denny said is experiencing fresh growth with Trader Joe’s, the renovated Iris Motel and new restaurants. The Dennys purchased the

Burnt Canoe Studio’s first campus, 4820 Banks St., in MidCity includes studios and flex spaces for events and classes.

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Burnt Canoe Studio’s second campus, 739 S. Clark St., will be twice as big as the original, with about 35 studio spaces as well as larger offices and a business center, where tenants can share resources like large-format printers and a makerspace.

Burnt Canoe Studio’s first campus has 10 studios, including one occupied by a local tattoo artist.

Burnt Canoe Studio plans to open its second creative co-working campus location in early November. building for $415,000 and spent another $100,000 or so on small upgrades. Nearly four months later, they opened. Within a year, their 10 studios were fully leased. Today, the tenants include individual artists, painters, a tattoo shop and a nonproﬁt. Organizations and individuals pay to host events in the building’s ﬂex space, including writing workshops, art shows and ceramics classes. The space also includes Otway Denny’s wood shop. They named the studio for a singed, wooden canoe that had once belonged to

Otway Denny’s grandfather, who’d discovered it ﬂoating and abandoned in a swamp and refurbished it as art. It now hangs on the wall of the original Burnt Canoe Studio, serving as an inspiration and a reminder to take creative risk.

As the list grew, the Dennys began looking to expand. They hunted for about a year, before ﬁnding the three-story building on Clark Street. The building, which sat unoccupied for about a year, was most recently occupied by a general contractor. The A creative ‘ecosystem’ Dennys purchased the propSince the original campus erty in September and only opened, word has spread needed to make minor upabout Burnt Canoe among grades to it. the Dennys’ connections and Like the first studio, the on social media. The campus new building will offer a has generated so much in- variety of spaces, includterest, Hannah Denny keeps ing studios and larger ofﬁce a list of potential tenants. suites, which could be recon-

ﬁgured into smaller studio spaces, and ﬂex space available for shows and classes. What will distinguish it from the first campus is a business arts center with on-site large-scale printers, lighting equipment and backdrops for tenants to utilize, as well as a communal “makerspace” with large workbenches for artistic projects. The couple is also planning to add an in-house framing shop — an extension of Otway Denny’s wood shop on the original campus. In the lobby of the building, a yellow pendulum, shaped like a buoy, dangles from a wire suspended from the ceiling of the structure, left behind by a prior tenant. It’s the kind of creative oddity that initially drew the Dennys to the building — like its industrial metal ceiling beams that hearken back to when a textile factory occupied the space during the 1880s. “Being able to offer more

variety is the goal,” Hannah Denny said. “Everyone’s looking for something different.” The couple is aiming to complete their renovations in time for an open house in early November. They’ve both been working on the building nearly seven days a week for the past three weeks to meet that deadline. They’re already thinking about plans to open a third location. “It just creates so much opportunity to be in an ecosystem like this, where you can get everything done where you are and have the resources you need,” Otway Denny said. “There’s really an opportunity for us to continue to expand.”

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Optimism ﬂeeting as Saints sink Times are tough right now for the New Orleans Saints. After their 23-13 loss to the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, they have lost three straight games and plummeted to the bottom of the Jeff NFC South standings. Duncan At 1-4, they are one of the biggest disappointments in the NFL. You don’t need me to tell you this. If you’ve watched the Saints the past three weeks, you know it. You’ve lived it. The Saints are bad in just about every way right now. They’re so bad, even Mr. Glass-Half-Full himself,

Drew Brees, is being critical of them. It’s not one thing. It’s everything. n Coaching n Game-planning and game management n On-ﬁeld execution, discipline and attention to detail n Personnel evaluation, development and procurement It hasn’t reached bag-head-level bad, but after watching the Saints commit four penalties in ﬁve snaps during one mind-numbing stretch on Sunday, it’s certainly in the area code. How bad is it? Let us count the ways and try to put this tailspin into context: n On Sunday, opposing fans took over the lower bowl of the Superdome

ä Saints at Giants. NOON SUNDAY, FOX for the second consecutive week in the fourth quarter. Last week, it was Falcons fans chanting “A-T-L.” This week, Vikings fans celebrated with a round of hearty “SKOL” chants that echoed throughout the mostly empty stadium. Gifting road wins to opponents is not what local tourism ofﬁcials have in mind when they promote New Orleans’ world-class hospitality. “It’s extremely disappointing,” quarterback Tyler Shough said. “We feel the city coming out (and) supporting (the team). When we’re in the

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Minnesota Vikings fans perform the ‘Skol’ chant after a touchdown against the New Orleans Saints at the Caesars ä See DUNCAN, page 5C Superdome on Sunday.

Kiffin laments referees’ calls in loss Goal-line play that led to Kentucky TD sent to SEC league office for review

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LSU linebacker Whit Weeks, left, jokes with coach Lane Kiffin on the sideline during the game against Louisiana Tech on Sept. 12 at Tiger Stadium. Weeks was unable to travel to Kentucky for the Tigers’ game on Saturday due to his lower-leg injury.

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In the lead-up to Saturday’s kickoff at Kentucky, the phones of LSU defenders lit up. They each received a text message from linebacker Whit Weeks, who didn’t make the trip because doctors feared a plane ﬂight could set back the senior’s recovery from a lower-leg injury suffered in late September. Weeks’ words of encouragement to his teammates — each one of them, one by one — were meaningful in their own way. But their

phones couldn’t come with them onto the field as the Wildcats busted a 77-yard run on their first play from scrimmage. They couldn’t reconnect with Weeks — their “alpha,” as LSU coach Lane Kiffin calls him — as Kentucky quarterback Kenny Minchey lined up for a two-point conversion pass in overtime that he improvised into a game-winning run. “You just don’t replace Whit,” Kiffin said Monday, clarifying he didn’t mean to speak ill of Weeks’ replacement Davhon Keys, who was the SEC’s second-leading tackler last season.

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LSU had enough spare parts to reconstitute its defense after Weeks and safety Dashawn Spears were lost to injuries in back-to-back weeks, but it was clear in a 35-34 loss to Kentucky that the No. 22 Tigers are missing something intangible. Not only is Weeks a capable blitzer and sideline-to-sideline tackler, but he’s also a charismatic leader who

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Lane Kiffin was not a happy camper with the referees during Saturday’s matchup between LSU and Kentucky, telling reporters on Monday that he “didn’t think it was a really well-officiated game.” Kiffin took exception to a few calls during the Tigers’ loss to the Wildcats, most notably the controversial decision to award Kentucky a touchdown after LSU had appeared to make a goal-line stand on the final play of the first half. On Sunday, Kiffin said an official told him “there was just too much at stake” to end the goal-line play, allowing Kentucky a second chance to push quarterback Kenny Minchey into the end zone and take a 21-17 lead. “(The line judge) said he’d be killed if he would have blown the whistle for the play being stopped,” Kiffin said on Sunday, “even though it appeared to be stopped.” The goal-line play wasn’t the only call Kiffin had an issue with, but it was the referees’ most consequential decision of the night. Kiffin confirmed on Monday that LSU had sent the play to the Southeastern Conference league office for review. “(It wasn’t well-officiated) on our side,” Kiffin said. “There’s other (games) that I think are really good and they missed on the other side. “So I just think that’s going to happen over the course of time. It was always going to kind of probably even out.” Kiffin didn’t pin LSU’s loss squarely on the referees. The Tigers squandered a fourth-quarter lead and gave up a gamewinning two-point conversion in overtime. Penalties and mental mistakes plagued them throughout the night. They even allowed a punt return for a touchdown in the first half. “(Bad calls) happen both ways over time,” Kiffin said. “It’s just in the game; it’s not always evened out. They have a hard job.”

Patience, trades lead to Dream season in Atlanta BY DOUG FEINBERG AP basketball writer

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Atlanta Dream forward Angel Reese, left, and guard Rhyne Howard smile after their team beat the New York Liberty in the WNBA semifinals on Friday in New York.

Atlanta general manager Dan Padover built the Dream into a title contender through shrewd trades, a little bit of luck and patience from the team’s ownership group. All that has paid off as Atlanta is headed to the WNBA Finals for the ﬁrst time since 2013 when the Dream play the Golden State Valkyries in the best-ofseven series that begins Saturday. “I give the ownership group a lot of credit for having the patience to have this thing get where it is today,” Padover said. “A lot of times in sports, teams get broken up too early. Letting them grow

ä WNBA Finals: Dream at Valkyries. 2:30 P.M. SATURDAY, NBC/PEACOCK

together gives a continuity that is a huge competitive advantage. You’re seeing it now.” Putting this team together started soon after Padover came to the franchise in 2021 from Las Vegas. “We never got lottery luck or many free agents really, so we had to do it through trades,” said Padover, who was with the Aces when they drafted Jackie Young with the No. 1 pick. “That’s deﬁnitely the hardest way to build a franchise.” The three-time WNBA Executive of

the Year’s ﬁrst big move was acquiring the No. 1 pick from Washington in 2022 to draft Rhyne Howard, then taking Naz Hillmon 15th that year through another traded draft pick. “None of it gets off the ground without Rhyne and Naz,” he said. “They had a belief in each other and that we could try to build something here.” The next season Padover traded for Allisha Gray for two draft picks, giving the Dream a solid foundation with Gray, Howard and Hillmon. “Got to give credit to Lish,” Padover said. “She was on the trade market, but she circled this as a place she wanted to

ä See DREAM, page 5C

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Game-worn, signed Jordan jersey sells for $14 million

A game-worn, autographed Michael Jordan road jersey from the 1998 NBA Finals has been privately sold for $14 million, an auction house announced Monday, calling it the highest price ever paid for a piece of basketball memorabilia. Pennsylvania-based Hunt Auctions announced the private treaty sale and identiﬁed the buyer as Miami real estate investor Ron Firman. The red jersey is the one Jordan wore in Game 2 of that series on June 5, 1998. The Bulls won the series in six games. The $14 million price would be the second-biggest known cost for a game-worn jersey, behind the $24.12 million paid in 2024 for the jersey worn by Babe Ruth of the New York Yankees when he hit the “called shot” home run.

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Chase Briscoe celebrates in Victory Lane after winning a NASCAR race on Sunday in Concord, N.C.

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Red-hot Briscoe back in Cup ‘Chase’ BY STEVE REED AP sportswriter

CONCORD, N.C. — Chase Briscoe’s hero in auto racing always has been Tony Stewart. Now, the driver of the No. 19 Toyota is hoping to replicate what “Smoke” accomplished in 2011 when he stunned the racing world by rallying to win the NASCAR Cup Series championship by winning ﬁve of 10 playoff races, including the season ﬁnale at Homestead to register one of the sport’s biggest comebacks. “He made a pretty unbelievable run, and hopefully we can do the same thing,” Briscoe said of Stewart. Briscoe is certainly giving it his best effort after winning back-toback playoff races. That included Sunday when he edged out Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Christopher Bell by .029 seconds to win the secondclosest race in Charlotte Motor Speedway’s 66-year history. He also won the previous week at Las Vegas.

The wins have vaulted Chase back into the “Chase.” Two weeks ago Briscoe was 123 points behind playoff points leader Kyle Larson. He’s since trimmed that deficit to 65 with four races remaining before a champion is crowned. Denny Hamlin, at 49 points back, and Bell, 51 back, also remain ahead of Briscoe heading into the stretch run. Now it’s just a matter of whether it’s too little, too late for Briscoe. “I think we are certainly in contention,” Briscoe said. “We probably need to win another race or two, but we at least put ourselves in the ballgame. That’s all you can ask for.” Briscoe lamented four laps in the playoffs that he said have cost him 75 points due to miscues. But he added the focus is on next week when the circuit heads to Phoenix. “We never know how it’s going to look in four weeks from now but just have to go to the racetrack and keep winning races ultimately, and if we can do that, the

points are going to be what they’re going to be at the end,” he said. Briscoe’s crew chief James Small is hoping to seize on the momentum from the two wins. “I think we’ve got to step on their throats while we can,” Small said. “I’m not going to let off the throttle pedal right now.” When asked if the mild-mannered Briscoe was the type to step on someone’s throat, Small laughed and said, “Deﬁnitely not.” But then Small added: “When he puts his helmet on and he’s silent, but he’s like a silent assassin.” Briscoe got a chuckle when informed of Small’s comments after the race. “You can be a nice guy outside of the race car, but in the race car I think you have to be a killer,” Briscoe said. “For us, that’s the whole approach.” Briscoe is expected to continue his “ultra aggressive” approach next week. “The only way you’re going to cut into the gap is by winning races,” Briscoe said. “If you just run second or third and Larson

runs second or third with you, like you’re not going to gain 65 points in four weeks. Yeah, just have to go win races and just have to be ultra aggressive truthfully and try to do everything we can in our power, and if it’s enough, it’ll be enough at the end.” Larson’s crew chief Cliff Daniels told reporters that Sunday was a good reality check for his team that the season isn’t over. Larson finished sixth Sunday, marking the first time he has finished outside of the top five in the postseason. Still, he was able to add nine points to his lead over the second-place Hamlin. But Briscoe is the driver that clearly has his attention. “I won’t feel comfortable until it’s over,” Larson said. “Obviously, Briscoe winning and having a good day; you can take big chunks out of (the lead) if you win. We’re going to go to some tracks where others are really good coming up, so we just have to keep putting together days like (Sunday). We weren’t the fastest, but we got good points.”

European tour will not allow LIV Golf players BY DOUG FERGUSON AP golf writer

The European tour has delivered an ultimatum to players contemplating the new version of LIV Golf, saying anyone who joins will not be allowed to be European tour members. “Players need to make a choice,” Guy Kinnings, CEO of the European tour, said in a statement Monday first reported by the BBC. The DP World Tour, as it is commercially known, previously let LIV players to keep their European membership as long as they paid fines for playing LIV events that conflicted with the tour. It extended an olive branch earlier this year to nine players, allowing them to play LIV events without sanctions provided they settled all previous fines and agreed to add European tour events to their 2026 schedules. Kinnings delivered a far stronger message — us or them — as LIV is trying to emerge from bankruptcy stemming from Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund cutting off the financial support. LIV has spent more than $5 billion since its launch in 2022. LIV has the backing of up to $300 million from BC Partners as it leans into a 10-tournament season with a focus on team competition and players owning equity in LIV 2.0. Players have until Oct. 25 to decide whether to stick with LIV, which could determine whether the beleaguered circuit can move forward

out of bankruptcy. The European tour, however, is requiring anyone seeking to join to disclose where they intend to play in 2027. The tour said it would terminate membership if the disclosures prove false. “As we have said for many years, we have rules and regulations which are there to protect our tour and which our members must all abide by,” Kinnings said. “Players who are not willing to comply with our rules and regulations should not be seeking to join our tour.” Players must be European tour members to compete in the Ryder Cup next September, adding pressure to the likes of Tyrrell Hatton of England, Tom McKibbin of Northern Ireland, Adrian Meronk of Poland and Thomas Detry of Belgium. An attorney for Jon Rahm said last week in a bankruptcy hearing for LIV that the former No. 1 player wanted to terminate his LIV contract. The question for Rahm, a two-time major champion, is how he works his way back to the PGA Tour. Sergio Garcia also asked to end his LIV contract, and David Puig of Spain has indicated he is ready to take on a European tour schedule. The European tour is negotiating a renewed alliance with the PGA Tour, which involves commercial opportunities and a path for the leading 10 players on the Race to Dubai to get PGA Tour cards. Patrick Reed and Eugenio Chacarra, who both previously played

San Francisco 49ers linebacker Dre Greenlaw was suspended for one game after headbutting Seattle linebacker Ernest Jones after a late hit on the Seahawks sideline. The NFL issued the suspension Monday, saying the headbutt of a player without a helmet during Sunday’s 32-29 win against Seattle was “contrary to the generally understood principles of sportsmanship.” Greenlaw will miss San Francisco’s game Monday night against Washington pending an appeal on Tuesday. Greenlaw has a history of infractions. He has been ejected two other times in his career. He had a sideline altercation with Philadelphia’s head of security Dom DiSandro in 2023 and was also disqualiﬁed for a helmet-to-helmet hit on the Chargers QB Justin Herbert in 2022.

Niners WR Samuel to miss time with hamstring injury

San Francisco 49ers receiver Deebo Samuel will miss at least a few weeks after injuring his hamstring in a win over the Seattle Seahawks. Coach Kyle Shanahan said Monday that Samuel “got it pretty good” and will miss some time after getting hurt Sunday. The injury to Samuel is the latest to hit the Niners’ depleted receiving room. Samuel re-signed with San Francisco early in training camp. Samuel has 16 catches for 206 yards and three touchdowns, 78 yards rushing on nine carries and was the team’s top kick returner. Projected starter Ricky Pearsall had season-ending knee surgery early in training camp and rookie De’Zhaun Stribling had surgery after injuring his ankle in the season opener.

Receiver Coleman-Williams doubtful Saturday for Tide

No. 6 Alabama is preparing to play without leading wide receiver Ryan Coleman-Williams at 14th-ranked Tennessee on Saturday. Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer said Monday that ColemanWilliams is doubtful for the Southeastern Conference rivalry known as “The Third Saturday in October.” The team captain is dealing with multiple injuries, including a concussion. Coleman-Williams left Alabama’s 20-17 loss to then-No. 2 Georgia twice Saturday night. Already wearing a brace on his right knee, he limped off the ﬁeld just before halftime after landing awkwardly on his opposite leg on a deep pass.

Tulane gets Oct. 24 time, date for late Nov. game

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Captain Jon Rahm of Legion XIII celebrates after putting on the 18th hole during the final round of HSBC LIV Golf Hong Kong on March 8. for LIV Golf, are a lock to earn PGA Tour cards this year off the European tour points list. Bernd Wiesberger of Austria, another player who signed early with LIV, also has a chance at a tour card. The plan of LIV 2.0 is to have such a streamlined schedule to allow players to compete elsewhere. But the PGA Tour bans LIV players for at least one year dating to their last LIV appearance, and now the European tour is demanding them to pick a tour. Scott O’Neil, who took over as LIV CEO when Greg Norman left, has been preaching the phrase,

“Complete, not compete” as he sees the new version of his league — without Saudi funding to offer as much as nine-ﬁgure signing bonuses — to be complementary to other golf tours. “We shouldn’t live in a world where one group of golfers is uniquely restricted from playing elsewhere,” O’Neil said in August when laying the groundwork for LIV Golf 2.0. “Our goal isn’t to replace or restrict any tour. Our mission is to bring something distinctive to the ecosystem that elevates it and makes the whole game better.”

The American Conference on Monday announced the kickoff time for Tulane’s Oct. 24 home game with Texas-San Antonio and the date for the Green Wave’s regular-season ﬁnale at South Florida. The Wave will host the Roadrunners at 7 p.m. on ESPNU and face the Bulls on Saturday, Nov. 28, with the time and television network to be determined 12 days earlier. The league had left open the possibility that game would be played Friday, Nov. 27, but opted for Temple-Memphis and TulsaUTSA on that date while pushing Tulane-South Florida and Florida Atlantic-East Carolina to Saturday. Tulane lost its American opener at Army 20-17 on Saturday. South Florida is 1-2 in league play so far this season.

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Patrick Taylor makes history 2 years after winless season BY SPENCER URQUHART Staff writer

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LSU guard Mikaylah Williams, left, drives the baseline for a score as Missouri’s Abbey Schreacke defends in a win over Missouri last season in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center.

LSU women picked to finish 3rd in SEC BY REED DARCEY Staff writer

The LSU women’s basketball team is expected to finish third in the Southeastern Conference this season. At least that’s what a group of media members said in the SEC’s 2026-27 preseason poll, the results of which were released Monday ahead of the league’s annual media days in Birmingham, Alabama. This year, LSU had two players pick up SEC preseason PRESEASON A l l - S E C honors. MEDIA POLL Mikaylah Wi l l i a m s 1. South Carolina 2. Texas was one of 3. LSU five play4. Vanderbilt 5. Kentucky ers voted 6. Oklahoma 7. Ole Miss onto the 8. Tennessee All-SEC 9. Mississippi State 10. Alabama first team, 11. Texas A&M while Mi12. Florida 13. Georgia Laysia 14. Missouri Fulwiley 15. Auburn 16. Arkansas was one of five players awarded a spot on the All-SEC second team. Voters predicted LSU to finish behind South Carolina and Texas but ahead of Vanderbilt and Kentucky. They also gave Vanderbilt junior Mikayla Blakes the nod as SEC Preseason Player of the Year. In 2025-26, the Tigers won 12 of their 16 SEC matchups to finish fourth in the conference’s regular-season standings. They landed a No. 2 seed in the NCAA

Tournament and reached the Sweet 16, where they lost to No. 3 seed Duke on a buzzer-beating 3-pointer. In the offseason, LSU lost star guard Flau’jae Johnson to the WNBA. Then point guard Jada Richard (Ole Miss), guard Bella Hines (TCU) and center Kate Koval (Baylor) entered the transfer portal, leaving Mulkey and her staff with a few holes to fill. Jada Williams, a senior who averaged 15.3 points and 7.7 assists per game last season at Iowa State, was the Tigers’ most high-profile addition. Mulkey also brought in Spanish forward Noa Morro, Florida guard Laila Reynolds, McDonald’s All-America forward Lola Lampley and Russian center Anna Minaeva. Those newcomers are each expected to play significant minutes alongside LSU’s top four returners: Williams, Fulwiley, ZaKiyah Johnson and Grace Knox. Morro isn’t expected to make her LSU debut until at least midto-late November. She recently underwent surgery to address a stress fracture she had developed in her shin. The Tigers are set to begin the season, their sixth under Mulkey, with a game against Southeastern Louisiana on Nov. 2 in the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. They’ll play two open exhibitions in the PMAC before the opener: one against UNT Dallas on Oct. 22 and another against Loyola New Orleans on Oct. 29. LSU has been picked to finish third in the league in three consecutive seasons.

Media predict LSU men as SEC’s 14th-best team BY TOYLOY BROWN III Staff writer

Coach Will Wade now knows how some media members feel about his LSU team. The Tigers are expected to ﬁnish 14th in the Southeastern Conference, according to the 2026-27 SEC preseason poll released Monday. SEC media days begin Tuesday in Birmingham, Alabama. The Tigers had no players picked for preseason All-SEC honors. The SEC only teams PRESEASON that voters MEDIA POLL predicted to finish 1. Florida behind 2. Texas LSU were 3. Arkansas 4. Tennessee Missis5. Alabama sippi State 6. Vanderbilt 7. Kentucky and South 8. Missouri Carolina. 9. Auburn 10. Texas A&M Wade, 11. Georgia who pre12. Oklahoma 13. Ole Miss viously 14. LSU led the 15. Mississippi State 16. South Carolina program from 201722, has no returning players and constructed a roster littered with ﬁfth-year transfers, overseas pros and a former college basketball player who didn’t withdraw from the NBA draft. LSU’s preseason ranking is affected by the uncertainty of Wade’s roster with multiple players not yet officially made eligible by the NCAA. While the team traveled with 14 players, only seven competed in LSU’s 6360 exhibition win over McNeese State on Thursday, including two

freshmen who were unranked high school recruits. The only player out of four international commitments to play was 20-year-old Michael Ruzic. The four other scholarship players who played the vast majority of the exhibition were fifthyear point guard Donovan Dent (UCLA), junior combo guard Divine Ugochukwu (Michigan State), senior shooting guard Abdi Bashir (Kansas State) and senior forward Mo Dioubate (Kentucky). The notable players who Wade didn’t play were fifth-year transfer guard Skyy Clark (UCLA), 22-year-old Italian-Senegalese wing Saliou Niang, 23-year-old French center Brice Dessert and 24-year-old Israeli center Gilad Levy. Austin Nunez, a fifth-year Texas-San Antonio transfer, is eligible to play but is recovering from an offseason left foot surgery. The only signee not in attendance was RJ Luis. The former St. John’s star was granted a preliminary injunction after being undrafted in the 2025 NBA Draft and signing an NBA contract. However, there’s a risk that LSU could face consequences from the SEC after it implemented rules to penalize schools that roster players who previously signed NBA deals, including two-way contracts. LSU opens the regular season against LSU-New Orleans on Nov. 3 at the Pete Maravich Assembly Center. The Tigers play two more exhibition games before that, facing Central Florida at home on Wednesday and Florida State on the road on Oct. 24.

Patrick Taylor senior quarterback Parker Marks has gone from experiencing a winless season as a sophomore to leading the Tigers to the ﬁrst 6-0 start in program history. After graduating 28 seniors after the 2023 season, several players in this y e a r ’s s e n i o r class had to take Marks on starting roles as sophomores. The Tigers went 0-10 in that 2024 season, but the now-seniors gained valuable varsity experience that’s helped lead to their recent success. Marks has nearly three years of starting experience under his belt. He commands a Patrick Taylor offense that’s averaged 36 points per game. “This is the best year (Marks) has had,” Patrick Taylor coach Kenny Bourgeois said. “Whether you look at stats, the wins, dishing out to the right people, he’s had a great year. It’s really big that we have a guy with that much experience (at quarterback). “He’s a hard worker. He gets after it in the weight room, he’s a good leader on the ﬁeld, he calls

guys out if they’re not giving the effort he gives. He’s been doing it for a while, so he knows what to expect.” Patrick Taylor’s most recent win was 49-6 over Jefferson Rise on Friday night in a game that was rescheduled from Saturday. The Tigers missed a day of practice due to the schedule change, but Marks and the offense didn’t miss a beat. He completed 13 of 21 passes for 171 yards and two touchdowns. The senior shined as a runner as well, rushing for a team-high 104 yards on 11 carries and scoring on a 10-yard rushing touchdown. “Everybody is just gelling together really well,” Marks said. “A lot of the starters have been playing together for three years, so that helps a lot. We just fixed up a lot of the things that needed to be fixed during the offseason, and the defense has been playing lights out.” Both of Marks’ Week 6 passing touchdowns went to junior Benton Bruner. Senior Jalen Patterson caught 10 passes for 131 yards, and he leads Patrick Taylor in receiving yards while also seeing carries out of the backfield and serving as a return specialist. “My connection with Parker is really good,” Patterson said. “We work hard for it every day at

practice. I like to tell him, ‘Throw it up, I’m going to go get it.’ ” Friday’s rushing total was the highest of Marks’ career after starting running back Logan Rogers sat out with an injury. Rogers, a senior, is expected back in Week 7. Running back Xavier Harlan also stepped up against Jefferson Rise. The junior rushed for 72 yards and scored three touchdowns on nine carries. “We made a couple of tweaks going into the game, and the kids executed really well,” Bourgeois said. “It was a good performance by the offense.” The defense also has been a strength this year, holding opponents to 20 points or less in all but one game. Senior linebacker Antonio Barthelemy leads the unit. Coming off a five-win season and a playoff appearance in 2025, Patrick Taylor already has increased its win total from last year. “It feels great to win,” Marks said. “(The seniors and I) are great friends off the field, so that’s a big thing. During football, we’re pushing each other hard, and we’re leaders on and off the ﬁeld with the young guys.” After beating Jefferson Rise in the ﬁrst district game, the Tigers will continue district play Thursday against L.B. Landry.

St. Charles returns to No. 1 in LSWA football state rankings LSWA football poll

BY CHRISTOPHER DABE Staff writer

Class 5A School 1st-place votes Pts. Prv. 1. Karr (9) 6-0 130 1 2. Ruston (1) 5-1 116 2 3. St. Augustine (1) 6-0 115 3 4. Rummel 6-0 101 4 5. Alexandria 5-1 86 6 6. Jesuit 5-1 62 9 7. St. Thomas More 5-1 59 7 8. Brother Martin 4-2 50 5 8. Barbe 6-0 48 NR 10. Mandeville 6-0 25 NR Others receiving votes: John Curtis 23, Catholic-Baton Rouge 21, Acadiana 18, Zachary 5, Destrehan 2, Northshore 2, Hahnville 1, Haughton 1.

The New Orleans area has a second No. 1-ranked team in the LSWA state polls released Monday. St. Charles returned to the top of the Class 3A state rankings after beating former No. 1 St. James. The Comets and 5A No. 1 Edna Karr are the local teams with top spots in the state rankings. Other state-ranked teams include No. 3 St. Augustine, No. 4 Rummel, No. 6 Jesuit and No. 8 Brother Martin in 5A. In 4A is No. 4 Shaw and No. 7 Kennedy, along with No. 5 Newman in 2A and No. 3 Riverside in 1A.

Class 4A

School 1st-place votes Pts. Prv. 1. Westgate (8) 5-0 128 1 2. Neville (2) 4-1 122 2 3. North DeSoto (1) 6-0 108 3 4. Shaw 5-1 104 4 5. Franklin Parish 5-1 78 5 6. Madison Prep 4-2 75 6 7. John F. Kennedy 5-1 64 7 8. Lake Charles Prep 5-1 61 8 9. Lafayette Renaissance 4-2 49 9 10. Leesville 5-1 22 NR Others receiving votes: Cecilia 15, Salmen 8, Tioga 8, Plaquemine 7, St. Michael 6, Belle Chasse 4, Opelousas 1.

Class 3A

School 1st-place votes 1. St. Charles (10) 5-1 2. St. James (1) 5-1 3. University 4-2 4. Sterlington 4-2

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5. Jena 4-2 87 5 6. Eunice 6-0 72 7 7. West Feliciana 6-0 56 8 8. Marksville 5-1 52 6 9. Jewel Sumner 4-2 43 9 10. Vandebilt Catholic 4-2 38 NR Others receiving votes: Loyola Prep 15, Iowa 15, Jennings 10, Northwest 6, Lutcher 5.

Class 2A

School 1st-place votes Pts. Prv. 1. Calvary Baptist (11) 6-0 132 1 2. Notre Dame 6-0 119 2 3. Mangham 5-1 110 3 4. Amite 5-1 96 4 5. Newman 5-1 81 5 6. Dunham 3-3 71 6 7. Lafayette Christian 4-2 70 7 8. Catholic-New Iberia 4-2 49 8 9. Lake Arthur 6-0 47 9 10. Mansﬁeld 5-1 34 10 Others receiving votes: Loreauville 21, Vinton 11, Oak Grove 8, Welsh 4, Green Oaks 2, West St. Mary 2, Country Day 1, Rosepine 1.

Class 1A

School 1st-place votes Pts. Prv. 1. Ouachita Christian (9) 6-0 130 1 2. Ascension Catholic (1) 6-0 118 2 3. Riverside Academy (1) 5-1 110 3 4. Haynesville 5-1 97 4 5. Southern Lab 5-0 89 5 6. Kentwood 6-0 66 6 7. Westminster-Lafayette 6-0 62 7 8. Jeanerette 5-1 52 8 9. Cedar Creek 6-0 44 9 10. Logansport 5-1 40 10 Others receiving votes: East Feliciana 22, South Plaquemines 12, Elton 3, Ascension Episcopal 3, Jonesboro-Hodge 3, Sacred Heart-VP 2, St. John-Plaquemines 1.

Michigan sticking with QB Underwood, OC Beck BY LARRY LAGE AP sportswriter

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Michigan coach Kyle Whittingham is sticking with quarterback Bryce Underwood and offensive coordinator Jason Beck. “Jason is calling plays and Bryce is our guy,” Whittingham said Monday. The Wolverines (3-2, 0-2 Big Ten) host Penn State (3-3, 0-3) on Saturday in a matchup of disappointing teams led by coaches in their ﬁrst year with two of the winningest programs in college football. Michigan was No. 16 in the AP Top 25 preseason poll, fell out after a controversial win over Western Michigan, earned a ranking again after beating then-No. 11 Oklahoma, only to go back to being unranked with losses to thenNo. 17 Iowa and Minnesota. The Wolverines are 0-2 in conference play for the first time since 2014. The Nittany Lions started the season No. 18. After three wins against Marshall, Temple and Buffalo, they dropped out of the poll with a loss to Wisconsin and stayed unranked with setbacks to Northwestern and then-No. 19

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Michigan head coach Kyle Whittingham reacts during the second half of a game against Minnesota on Oct. 3 in Minneapolis. USC. Since the ﬁrst snap this season in Ann Arbor, all eyes have been on Underwood. Coming off a shaky freshman season as the nation’s No. 1 recruit, he has struggled to sustain success in large part because of turnovers. Underwood, who mishandled the second snap of the season, has lost three fumbles and thrown four interceptions with just ﬁve passing touchdowns. He threw interceptions on

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two straight snaps against the Golden Gophers. He was picked off on an ill-advised pass against the Hawkeyes at their 2, taking away a chance to go ahead by two scores in a game Michigan lost by one point after giving up a gameending touchdown pass. While Whittingham reiterated that Underwood would continue to start, he did leave an out for an eventual change. Michigan backup QB Tommy Carr took some snaps with the ﬁrst-string offense during the team’s bye week.

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BY ANDREW GILLIS AP sportswriter

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New Orleans Saints wide receiver Jordyn Tyson catches the ball during training camp on Aug. 9 at the Ochsner Sports Performance Center. Tyson is still on injured reserve with a hamstring injury.

Saints WR Tyson won’t play in Week 6 BY LUKE JOHNSON Staff writer

It appears Jordyn Tyson‘s NFL debut will not happen until Week 7 at the earliest — and perhaps later than that. Tyson, the No. 8 overall pick in this year’s NFL draft, has spent the first five weeks of the season on injured reserve. When asked Monday whether the team was planning to open his practice window this week, New Orleans Saints coach Kellen Moore said, “not right now.” “He’s progressing well,” Moore said. “He’s doing a good job.” Tyson was expected to serve as the team’s No. 2 option in the passing game behind Chris Olave, giving the Saints and quarterback Tyler Shough a dynamic 1-2 punch in the receiver corps. But Tyson suffered a hamstring injury during an Aug. 13 joint practice against the Jacksonville Jaguars and has not been cleared to rejoin the team for practice. Tyson has been present on the sidelines for the past couple of weeks as a spectator. New Orleans managed to get by offensively without Tyson the first four weeks, with Shough ranking among the NFL leaders in passing by leaning heavily on Olave, tight end Juwan Johnson and receiver Devaughn Vele. But Tyson’s continued absence felt especially notable in the Saints’ most recent loss, when Shough was held below 100 yards passing against the Minnesota Vikings. It is possible the Saints could bring Tyson back into the fold for their Week 8 game against the Pittsburgh Steelers game in Paris,

but the team could wait until after the Week 8 bye to incorporate the rookie receiver into their attack. Moore also was asked about linebacker Kaden Elliss‘ status. Elliss has missed each of the last two games with a calf injury, and during that time New Orleans has allowed 358 yards rushing. “We’ll see this week,” Moore said. “We’ll see if he’s able to do something.”

Tackle rotation With about six minutes remaining in the second quarter of their eventual 23-13 loss to the Vikings, the Saints executed a planned rotation at left tackle. Asim Richards, who has been filling in for the injured Kelvin Banks, went to the sideline in place of Mason Murphy. New Orleans ran one series with Murphy on the field, going three-and-out, and then stuck with Richards for the remainder of the game. Afterward, Moore said the Saints went into the game planning to rotate Murphy in on the third series. “He’s been practicing well,” Moore said of Murphy, whom the Saints claimed off waivers from the Chicago Bears after roster cuts. “He earned that opportunity, and we would let the rest of the game play itself out.” The Vikings stuffed Kendre Miller for a 2-yard loss on Murphy’s first play, in large part because Murphy was beat to the inside by Jalen Redmond, who swallowed Miller up in the backfield for the loss. Murphy held up in pass protection his next two snaps, but Shough’s third-and-5 pass fell incomplete, and Richards returned to the field for the next series.

Teams typically do not rotate offensive linemen, but Moore dismissed a question about it affecting the team’s rhythm. “I think we spent all week going into that plan,” Moore said. “I don’t think it was anything we did impromptu. We talked about it. We spent the whole week focused on that. I felt those other guys earned an opportunity to hop in there and contribute to our football game”

Kicking struggles New Orleans brought in an established veteran to try and solidify their kicking just before the start of the year, but through ﬁve games, the results haven’t been there for Daniel Carlson. Sunday against the Vikings, Carlson missed an extra point that would have given the Saints a 1413 lead after Jonas Sanker‘s 87-yard scoop-and-score touchdown. It was the second extra point he’s missed this season in 13 tries, with his other miss being a blocked attempt against the Raiders. Speaking to reporters Monday, Moore said the extra point came down to Carlson missing the kick rather than it being a problem with the snap-hold operation. Carlson also has missed a pair of ﬁeld goals — both coming from farther than 50 yards, one of which was a 62-yard attempt as time expired in the season opener. His make percentage on field goals (71.4%) and extra points (84.6 %) are both well below league average. “Daniel’s got a lot of evidence,” Moore said. “We’ve obviously got to kick better, but I think he’s going to work through this and I think he’ll do a good job.”

After getting ﬁrst win, Texans set to welcome WR Harrison BY KRISTIE RIEKEN AP sportswriter

HOUSTON — C.J. Stroud had another strong game Sunday to lead the Houston Texans to their ﬁrst win. Now he and the Texans get a big boost with the addition of receiver Marvin Harrison Jr., who was acquired in a trade with Arizona this weekend. Stroud threw for 264 yards and a Harrison touchdown and ran for another score to help the Texans to a 26-3 win over Tennessee on Sunday. Stroud ranks third in the NFL with 1,402 yards passing, and he’s attempted 185 passes without an interception to start the season. “He’s doing a great job of protecting the football but also dishing the ball to multiple people,” coach DeMeco Ryans said Monday. “Offensive line has given him time to operate on schedule, and he’s doing a great job of just leading this

offense. We continue to lean in on what he’s doing well, and I can’t say enough great things about the season that he’s having thus far.” Ryans said Harrison should arrive in Houston on Monday and they will try to get him acclimated quickly so he can help this week. He’s hoping that Harrison’s familiarity with Stroud from their time together at Ohio State will help ease the transition. “I think anytime you have players who have spent time together, whether it’s college or other teams, just having that prior relationship definitely helps when you come into a new situation,” Ryans said. Harrison was the fourth overall pick in the 2024 draft, but he failed to live up to expectations in his time in Arizona. He had 885 yards receiving in 17 games as a rookie and 608 yards receiving in 12 games last season. But he had just ﬁve catches for 85 yards in the ﬁrst four games this season before landing on the inactive list for Sunday’s game as the team looked to trade him. “He’s another really great play-

maker,” Ryans said. “He’s crushed a lot of college records. Got multiple 1,000-yard receiving seasons in college. All-American, always been a top receiver when he’s been on the ﬁeld. He has good rapport with C.J. from their time at Ohio State. We’re excited to get him in, add another great player to our group.” Harrison had more than 2,400 yards receiving and 28 touchdown receptions combined in his last two seasons with the Buckeyes. The 6-foot-3, 220-pound Harrison gives the Texans another big receiver to play opposite star Nico Collins, who is 6-4 and 222 pounds. Ryans said he isn’t worried about what happened with Harrison in Arizona and said he’ll start in Houston with a clean slate. “That’s the great part of being a Houston Texan,” he said. “All the stuff that happened prior to you coming, it doesn’t matter. I don’t care what people say about you. If you focus on just being a great teammate, focus on helping the Houston Texans be great, then we’ll be just ﬁne.”

No one involved is blameless for the Washington Commanders’ game-ending debacle against the New York Giants in overtime on Sunday. Coach Dan Quinn on Monday expressed frustration with multiple facets of the final play of the 27-27 tie, when Washington allowed the clock to run out while it was in range for a game-winning field goal. With 55 seconds left and the ball at the Giants 26-yard line, the Commanders called a run play for Rachaad White that gained 2 yards and kept the clock moving. They substituted in multiple players and took their time snapping the ball, which didn’t happen until 13 seconds left. A pass play was called, but quarterback Jayden Daniels took off running and was tackled inbounds without enough time left to run another play. “Honestly just furious about our execution in the crucial moments of the game,” Quinn said on a video call with reporters Monday. “We worked really hard on these and it didn’t look like it yesterday.” Quinn said the team wanted to use more clock after getting into field goal range, considering there had been missed kicks from both teams — New York rookie Dominic Zvada was 2 of 5 on field-goal attempts, while Washington’s Drew Stevens had already missed an extra point. “It took entirely too long from there on to execute our strategy, from subbing to clock awareness to clocking the ball,” Quinn said. “And what I told the team and the coaches is it was a breakdown that can’t happen.” When asked about first-year offensive coordinator David Blough’s role in the end-of-game scenario, Quinn took responsibility. “It needs to be communicated then from me to David, who has the last words with Jayden on

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Washington Commanders coach Dan Quinn speaks during a news conference after a game against the New York Giants on Sunday in Landover, Md.

each down, not just a start of a drive,” Quinn said. “And so when there’s that time, you want to get to where the next one we’re able to clock and kick. And so those are the ones in subbing and too slow with that, our execution was just off.” The play call itself was not unorthodox or unusual, Quinn said. But if the play had been run more quickly, the team would have had time to get back to the line of scrimmage, spike the ball to stop the clock and attempt a field goal. Quinn agreed that the Commanders didn’t show enough urgency, and that communication starts with him and has to flow from there. That begins with the substitutions, which Quinn said were unnecessary in hindsight. Daniels was quick to shoulder his portion of the blame. “We have to stop the clock,” Daniels said. “We have to know the situation. We have to relay that as an offense. It starts with everyone, top down. Ultimately, it’s on me.” Daniels played with a brace on his left, non-throwing elbow after he dislocated it in Week 2, but he was effective as a rusher against the Giants. He finished with 103 yards rushing, including touchdowns of 38 and 26 yards.

Falcons facing more quarterback uncertainty BY CHARLES ODUM AP sportswriter

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Falcons are in all-too-familiar territory through five games: below .500 and facing uncertainty at quarterback. Coach Kevin Stefanski on Monday offered no update on quarterback Michael Penix, who left Sunday night’s 30-23 overtime loss to Baltimore with a rib injury. When asked whether Penix will start on Sunday for the Falcons (2-3) against Chicago, Stefanski said he would have a better idea later in the week. “I can answer that better Wednesday, just with any type of injury,” Stefanski said. “I always want to see how the guys respond over a couple days before I can give you a good answer there.” Stefanski provided no details on imaging tests on Penix’s rib, which was injured in the fourth quarter. Penix hoped to return for overtime but said the pain grew more intense as he sat on the bench during the Ravens’ long touchdown drive to open the period. Instead, Tua Tagovailoa led the offense and threw a game-ending interception. Penix said after the game he was determined to start against the Bears. “See, knowing me, I’m going to be ready to go next week because I’ve sat out enough in my career,” Penix said. “But I’m going to do everything I can in the training room, make sure I get back to where I want to be. Obviously, my health is very, very serious. I take that very serious. So that’s always going to come first. But I will work my tail off to make sure I’m back out there on that field.” Penix missed the first two games of the season while completing his recovery from a torn ACL in his left knee that ended his 2025 season. The Falcons were 0-2 with Cooper Rush as the fill-in starter, but Tagovailoa

would be the likely starter if Penix can’t play. Despite the questions at quarterback, the Falcons’ expected offensive leaders are producing. Through Sunday’s games, Bijan Robinson leads the NFL with 580 yards rushing and Drake London is fourth with 488 yards receiving. After providing efficient leadership in consecutive road wins against Green Bay and New Orleans, Penix struggled early with four straight incompletions against the Ravens before recovering to complete 19 of 32 passes for 240 yards and one touchdown. Even though the Falcons set a season-high with four sacks, the unit could not provide stops against the Baltimore offense when the game was on the line. Tyler Huntley led a game-tying touchdown drive to end regulation and the go-ahead touchdown drive to open overtime. The Falcons’ run defense led the league before giving up 208 yards on the ground, including 102 by Derrick Henry. Four Baltimore rushers had runs of 13 yards or longer, including a 47-yarder by Justice Hill. Tight end Kyle Pitts had five catches for 42 yards, including his first touchdown of the season for the Falcons. He has eight catches in his last two games after a combined two receptions in the first three games. With a shift in the offensive game script away from placing so much of the burden on the running game led by Bijan Robinson and Brian Robinson, the offense led by Penix too often fell short on first and second down. Even though the Falcons converted each of its four third-down plays when 10 or more yards were needed for a first down, Stefanski knows that is not a sustainable plan for the future. “A lot of good there, but we’ve got to look at ways that we can, No. 1, avoid third down, and No. 2, be in more manageable situations,” Stefanski said.

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Continued from page 1C commands teammates’ attention. “He’s different in-game, him and (defensive coordinator) Blake (Baker) have a really good relationship,” Kifﬁn said. “He’s one of the few players that, if he doesn’t like the calls, he’ll come over and tell you about it. And you just don’t replace that.” LSU (4-2, 1-2 SEC) is doing its best to get by, but the challenge doesn’t get any easier this week if No. 16 Mississippi State has Kamario Taylor healthy. The sophomore quarterback, who is averaging 290 yards passing and another 32 rushing, just rested through a bye week after exiting the Bulldogs’ last game against Alabama with an injury. Minchey, who isn’t quite as dynamic, just threw for 246 yards and exploited a spread-out LSU defense to stroll into the end zone on a two-point conversion. The latter wasn’t the linebackers’ fault, because the Tigers’ front didn’t properly adjust its pass rush. But Kiffin remains concerned about that position group, and the LSU defense as a whole, because he knew Weeks’ injury would have ripple effects. In the offseason, he looked up the points per game the Tigers allowed last year with and without Weeks, who missed half of the season with a similar ankle injury. LSU surrendered 13 points per game in contests Weeks played in 2025, while the Tigers permitted just over 28 in the games where he was sidelined. “I don’t like that I looked that up and then he got hurt,” Kifﬁn said with a chuckle. “That’s probably why I felt so much that day (after Texas A&M) about it.” There are personal aspects to those feelings, because Kiffin knows how hard Weeks — a pre-

season first-team All-SEC pick — worked to put himself in position to shine after multiple injury-curtailed seasons. Weeks also happens to date Kiffin’s daughter, Landry. Kiffin said he talked to Weeks for a half an hour on Monday. “He’s in a hard place,” Kiffin said. “Sometimes we always worry about how it impacts us and what’s going on with us, especially as the head coach. So I sat down just with him about, ‘What about you? Like, how are you doing?’ ” The senior isn’t in a great place, but Kiffin remains hopeful Weeks and tight end Trey’Dez Green will return at some point. Spears, another player Kiffin believes could have been an All-American, is out for the year with an ACL tear. Green made the trip to Kentucky, on the sideline in sweats, because Kiffin said just having him around affects the team’s mood positively. Weeks is the same way, but he can’t travel yet. “The goal is to still win and get through (the injuries) and then hopefully get two of the three back at some point maybe,” Kiffin said. “If you break the (Kentucky) game down, you’re in a one-play game. You’re really in a 1-yard game.” If the LSU offense scored with a 27-24 lead, a field goal wouldn’t have tied it in regulation. If the Tigers gained 1 more yard on a 9-yard pass from Sam Leavitt to Winston Watkins on third-and-10, the clock keeps running. If LSU stopped Kentucky’s final drive, or held the Wildcats out of the end zone in overtime, the Tigers would have been hailed for their resilience rather than panned for a loss to a lesser football brand. “Even with the injuries, and the punt return where we have them tackled and give them a 55-yard (touchdown), you’re still going to win,” Kiffin said. “That does show you, like I’ve told them all along, you have a chance to be a really good team.”

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LSU coach Lane Kiffin reacts after a missed field goal by Kentucky on Saturday in Lexington, Ky.

THREE AND OUT: SCOTT RABALAIS’ TAKEAWAYS FROM LSU NEWS CONFERENCE

NUMBERS DON’T TELL THE WHOLE STORY LSU is still No. 1 in the SEC in total offense and total defense. But that’s padded by lopsided wins and belies its struggles in the red zone (10th in SEC on offense, a respectable fourth on defense). “We do really good things and we don’t finish drives,” LSU coach Lane Kiffin said. “We’re just missing plays. That sounds really general, but it’s a guy open in the end zone and you don’t see him or don’t stop the run. It’s a problem.”

SUPER KAMARIO OR INJURED KAMARIO? Mississippi State QB Kamario Taylor is the SEC’s leader in total offense (321.8 yards per game), total touchdowns (18) and passing touchdowns (17). But he left the Alabama game two weeks ago in a walking boot and his status is unknown for Saturday. Asked about having to prepare for him, Kiffin said: “He’s really a problem in both areas (running and passing) … when he’s healthy.” The week’s first SEC availability report will be released Wednesday.

MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE While there are many questions about the Tigers after their 35-34 overtime loss at Kentucky, Kiffin knows how easily the narrative could be different. “We had four chances to win,” he said. “If one of those plays goes right you’re winning and everyone is saying, ‘You guys are really resilient, the hostile crowd, way to overcome.’ I don’t want to overreact either way. If we would have won, people would have said you played amazing.”

SWAC preseason favorites suffering through a lull SWAC NOTEBOOK

BY TOYLOY BROWN III

Staff writer

A pair of championship contenders for the Southwestern Athletic Conference crown are both in the midst of rough patches. Prairie View (2-5, 2-2 SWAC) and Alabama State (3-3, 1-2) are both on two-game losing streaks, despite being the leading vote-getters in the SWAC preseason poll for the West and East divisions, respectively. Southern took down Prairie View 28-14 on the road Saturday, and the reigning SWAC champions are making staff changes. Coach Tremaine Jackson said on Monday’s SWAC coaches call that offensive coordinator Christopher Buckner and defensive backs coach Darren Garrigan have been “reassigned,” and running backs coach Clifford Fedd has been promoted to offensive coordinator. Jackson was asked about the urgency at Prairie View. “Nothing’s changed from an urgency standpoint,” he said. “I’m the only coach around in this league that since 2023 I’ve been living in a ‘If you don’t win bad things are going to happen (situation),’ right. I don’t know what it’s

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Dome, we’ve got to play better.” n The loss was the Saints’ third straight at home. They’ve now lost eight of 11 home games under coach Kellen Moore and are a woeful 6-14 there the last three seasons. That’s the worst stretch since the Aints’ bag-head days of the early 1980s. The only other time they’ve been this bad at home was the initial years of the Superdome in the mid-1970s. “You only get so many

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Prairie View quarterback Tevin Carter carries the ball against Southern on Saturday at Panther Stadium in Prairie View, Texas.

since I’m gonna coach, this is the only way that I know how to be.” Florida A&M bested Alabama State 28-27 on the road Friday after the game was moved from Saturday because of Hurricane Isaias. The Rattlers took down Alabama State during homecoming in Montgomery, Alabama, sealing the win with a blocked field goal by redshirt senior defensive back Isiah Davis. FAMU erased a 13-point deﬁcit after two 80-plusyard touchdown passes to Armand Burris in the fourth quarter. The Hornets continue to be without reigning SWAC Offensive Player of the Year Andrew Body, who has played in only the first three games of the year.

Grambling wins again

For the third straight season, Grambling beat Jackson State. Grambling defeated the backto-back SWAC East division champions 45-38 on Saturday at like not to hold a trophy up at the Eddie Robinson Stadium, handend, so we walked in the door ur- ing JSU its ﬁrst loss of the year. With 1:36 left, Grambling running gent. “The urgency has always been back D’Shaun Ford scored the gohere. If I didn’t coach here … it’s ahead, 1-yard rushing touchdown, not like I’m gonna go sell pharma- giving his team a 42-38 lead, imceuticals. I’m gonna coach, and so mediately after senior linebacker

Marcellius Johnson intercepted a pass and returned it 24 yards. Coach Mickey Joseph was asked what has led to the success against Jackson State, but he said he doesn’t know the exact reason why. “I was at Grambling 14-15, didn’t lose to them,” the third-year coach said. “I was at Alcorn in (2013), didn’t lose to them. So I’ve never lost to them. “You feel like sometimes a team has your number, and right now, you know, we had that number for the last three years. And so we just got to continue to progress the program to get it going forward and continue to win games like that.” Grambling quarterback Jacobe Robinson completed 17 of 21 passes for 212 yards, four touchdowns and no interceptions. Jackson State (5-1, 2-1) closed the game without its starting quarterback Jared Lockhart, who got injured shortly before halftime and didn’t return. Coach T.C. Taylor, who didn’t have an update on Lockhart on Monday, replaced his 6-foot-6 sophomore with senior Caron Tyler, who completed 6 of 10 passes for 111 yards, one touchdown and two interceptions.

Surprise success Mississippi Valley State continues to be a feel-good story this season. After upsetting Prairie View the previous week, coach Terrell Buckley’s team beat Texas Southern 38-34 on the road Saturday, scoring 24 fourth-quarter points. It’s the first time since 2021 that Mississippi Valley State has won back-to-back conference games. “It’s been a long time since they’ve seen success up here, and being that change agent, like you guys mentioned earlier, that’s what I’m about,” Buckley said. “Having an impact and influence on and off the field. But it’s great when you have both and not just one.” Mississippi Valley State quarterback Josh Brown ran 16 yards into the end zone with 42 seconds remaining in the game, giving his team its first lead since the first quarter. The fifth-year senior threw for 266 yards, two touchdowns and two interceptions, and he ran for 100 yards and three touchdowns. The Delta Devils are tied for first in the SWAC East after being predicted to finish last in the division.

Padover knew they needed Angel Reese to contend for a title. A few months later, Padover made the move. “I think she was looking at a few different places, but given our group, given our organization, our market, we were a natural ﬁt for her,” he said. The ﬁnal piece to the puzzle involved signing DeWanna Bonner right at the end of the regular season when the Phoenix Mercury let her go. “It happened that Phoe-

nix and her worked out a deal to allow her to make a run in the postseason, and that turned into a mini-free agency with a bunch of teams that went after her,” Padover said. “We were fortunate that we had made a run at her the last few free agencies. She has a great relationship with our players, which helped.” Padover decided after the 2024 season that it was time to move on from coach Tanisha Wright after she had led

the team to consecutive playoff appearances. The team hired a search ﬁrm, and the biggest thing that the franchise wanted was a basketball purist who aligned with the core values of the organization. The answer was longtime Florida Gulf Coast coach Karl Smesko. “Karl was born to be a basketball coach. He’s extremely humble and hard working and just a phenomenal basketball mind,” Padover said. “To be in his second

year in this amazing league that is ultra competitive from a player and coaching standpoint. To have 30 wins his ﬁrst two years and then make the WNBA Finals in year two, puts him up there in elite, elite company.” With the condensed free agency period this offseason because of the new collective bargaining agreement, Padover had little time to resign Howard, Gray, Canada, Hillmon and the others. In the span of two days, he

was able to get them to all want to come back. “To lock up ﬁve players in 48 hours is crazy. Usually you don’t lock up one that quickly,” Padover said. “It’s a two-week process in a normal year.” Padover said the work began well before he was able to talk to them. “It was so important to have done your work earlier and them knowing who you are and that you care,” he said.

games at home in front of this crowd, who consistently shows up,” center Erik McCoy said. “We’ve done nothing but crap the bed with those opportunities.” Maybe it’s a good time for the Saints to embark on an extended road trip to New York and France. Who knows? Maybe this team will ﬁnd itself somewhere along the Hudson or Seine. It certainly — and inexplicably — feels lost at home right now. n The Saints’ 142 yards of total offense marked their most anemic performance in ﬁve years, dating to a paltry 127-yard effort

against the Carolina Panthers in 2021. It was the club’s third-lowest offensive output in a game in the last three decades. Likewise, their nine first downs were the fifthfewest in the last three decades and their fewest in a home game since 1997, Mike Ditka’s first season. I know the club wants to honor Iron Mike, but that’s not the way to do it. “We had a plan; we just weren’t able to execute it,” Moore said. “We just weren’t able to sustain drives. They played better than us. They coached better than us.” n And finally, the Saints’

running woes continued. The Vikings outgained the Saints on the ground 15553. The Saints’ “long” run covered 9 yards. It marked the 15th time in 22 games that the Saints have lost the rushing battle in a game under Moore. The Saints rank 29th in the league in rushing (81.8 yards a game) and 29th in average yards per carry (3.5). More troubling, they haven’t had a 100-yarder rusher in a game under Moore. They went the entire 2025 season without one, making it the ﬁrst time the Saints have gone without a 100-yard rusher

in a season since 1992. Their current streak of 27 games without a 100-yarder rusher, which dates to Week 13 of the 2024 season when Alvin Kamara had 124 yards rushing against the Los Angeles Rams, is the club’s longest streak since the early 1970s. “Our process and our operation has to continue to improve for us to be where we want to go,” guard David Edwards said. “And that starts with us up front and that starts with the players executing and being ready to go. We’ve got work to do.” I think we can all agree with Edwards on that one.

However, hard work alone is not the solution. Former Saints special teams coordinator Al Everest used to have a saying about teams that give great effort but lack the instincts, discipline, technique and/or football IQ to be successful: “A jackass works hard all day, too,” he said. “But at the end of the day, he’s still a jackass.”

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Contreras delivers as Brewers top Dodgers

BY STEVE MEGARGEE

AP sportswriter

MILWAUKEE — William Contreras hit a tying homer in the ﬁfth and singled home the go-ahead run an inning later as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 7-4 on Monday in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series. Four relievers combined to retire the last 15 Dodgers batters in order as the Brewers took a 2-0 lead over the two-time defending World Series champions in this best-of-seven series, which heads to Los Angeles for Game 3 on Wednesday. The Brewers are chasing their second pennant and first in the NL. They made their lone World Series appearance in 1982, when they were in the American League. Los Angeles is trying to become the first NL team to win three straight World Series. The Dodgers last rallied from a 2-0 deﬁcit to win a series in 2020, when they beat the Atlanta Braves in a sevengame NLCS before going on to win the World Series. The Dodgers will need more punch from their lineup to have a chance at getting back to the Fall Classic. They mustered just three hits Monday and went 0 for 4 with runners in scoring position to drop

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Milwaukee Brewers catcher William Contreras follows through on his solo home run during the fifth inning of Game 2 of the National League Championship Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday in Milwaukee. The Brewers won 7-4. to 2 for 26 in those situations this postseason. Los Angeles couldn’t even get a boost from Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who entered 8-1 with a 2.14 ERA in 11 career playoff appearances. Yamamoto lasted just 2 2/3 innings for his shortest postseason start. “Just wasn’t sharp today,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “He just didn’t have it tonight, which is very rare.”

The Dodgers took the lead on three occasions in the first five innings. Milwaukee responded each time, the last coming when Contreras tied it with a 436-foot homer to center off Kris Bubic in the fifth. That turned the game into a battle of the bullpens, where the Brewers again had the edge. Dustin May, JoJo Romero, Abner Uribe and Aaron Ashby combined to shut down the Dodgers after

Logan Henderson’s early exit. Brewers relievers have allowed one earned run in 28 2/3 postseason innings. The score was tied 4-all when Milwaukee’s David Hamilton was hit by a pitch from Brock Stewart to lead off the sixth. Stewart attempted a pickoff throw that went off the glove of ﬁrst baseman Freddie Freeman and into foul territory for an error, advancing Hamilton to second. After Jackson Chourio grounded out, the right-handed Stewart walked the left-handed-hitting Brice Turang to face the right-handed Contreras, who had homered in his previous plate appearance. Contreras singled to left this time to bring home Hamilton with the go-ahead run. Turang and Jake Bauers added RBI singles in the eighth to extend Milwaukee’s lead. The anticipated pitchers’ duel between Yamamoto and Henderson didn’t work out according to plan. In three previous playoff starts following Dodgers losses, Yamamoto had gone 3-0 with a 1.23 ERA. When he faced the Brewers in last year’s NLCS, he threw the ﬁrst playoff complete game since Justin Verlander did it in 2017. This time, Yamamoto couldn’t

even make it out of the third inning before leaving with the Dodgers behind 3-2. Henderson entered Monday having not allowed more than three runs in any of his 24 career starts (including the postseason). That streak ended when he allowed four runs over four innings. Because Henderson committed two errors — matching his previous career total — only two of the runs were earned. Milwaukee trailed 2-1 in the third when Bauers capped a 12-pitch plate appearance by taking a 3-2 offering in the dirt to load the bases with a walk. Christian Yelich followed by lining a single up the middle that brought home two runs and knocked Yamamoto out of the game. Los Angeles bailed out Yamamoto by scoring twice in the fifth. After Kyle Tucker hit a leadoff double, Tommy Edman sacrificed him to third. Henderson fielded the bunt and made a wild throw to first, enabling Tucker to score and moving Edman to second. Edman advanced to third when Mookie Betts grounded out and scored on Freeman’s sacrifice fly. Henderson also had made a wild throw to first on a pickoff attempt in the third inning that allowed Edman to score from third.

SCOREBOARD Odds Sports Betting Line NFL Thursday FAVORITE Seattle

Sunday

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 2½ 3 (41½) at DENVER

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at JAX 1½ 2½ (42½) Houston at PHILA 6½ 1½ (42) Carolina Pittsburgh 1½ 3 (40½) at TAMPA Baltimore 7 4½ (41½) at CLE New Orlens 2½ 1½ (45½) at GIANTS Chicago 3 3 (48½) at ATL at NE 9½ 7 (43½) NY Jets at IND 3½ 7 (44) Tennessee at RAMS 13½ 12½ (52½) Arizona Buffalo 6½ 5½ (52½) at VEGAS at K.C. 2½ 8½ (42½)LA Chargers at GREEN BAY 3 1½ (52½) Dallas

Monday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG at SAN FRN 5½ 7½ (50½) Washington

College Football Tuesday

FAVORITE Delaware at JAX ST

OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG 1½ 1½ (47½) at M. TEN 2½ 3 (43½) Florida Intl

Wednesday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Kennesw St 5½ 3½ (51½)at MISOU ST W. Kentucky 1½ 1½ (53½) at SAM HOU

Thursday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG E. Carolina 6½ 4½ (48½) at UAB Ga Southrn 2½ 4 (47½) at OLD DOM at TSU 9½ 14 (69½) Colorado St

Friday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Memphis 6½ 6½ (53½) at TULANE App St 2½ 1½ (52½) at C. CAR at PURDUE 2½ 3 (52½) Wash

Saturday

FAVORITE OPEN TODAY O/U UNDERDOG Ohio State 1½ 3½ (50½) at INDIANA Pittsburgh 6½ 6½ (44½) at B. COLL Northwstrn 7½ 7½ (49½) at MSU at ARMY 3½ 2½ (55½) Florida Atl at KANS ST 8½ 4½ (56½) Kansas at WEST VA 2½ 1½ (63½) Cincinnati at J. MDSN 10½ 12½ (58½) Georgia St at B. GREEN 8½ 6½ (44½) Ball State at LSU 10½ 12½ (59) Miss St at SMU 6½ 8½ (52½) Virginia at TEXAS 9½ 10½ (52½) Florida at MARYLND 4½ 6 (57½) Rutgers at BUFFALO 3½ 6½ (41½) UMass at TEMPLE 23½ 21½ (47½) Charlotte W. Michigan 8½ 6½ (43) at C. MICH at DUKE 4½ 3 (47½) N. Carolina at TX TECH 12½ 15½ (48½) Arizona St at VA TECH 8½ 10 (55½) Ga Tech at GEORGIA 16½ 20½ (49½) Auburn Toledo 6½ 6½ (53½) at E. MICH at MICH 6½ 6½ (42½) Penn State at OLE MISS 7½ 6 (59½) Missouri Alabama 1½ 8½ (53½) at TENN at MIA (OH) 9½ 9½ (47½) Akron at WYOMNG 8½ 7½ (40½) N. Illinois at AIR FORCE 3 1½ (47½) UNLV Tulsa 3 4½ (46½) at RICE at UL 3½ 4½ (49½) Troy at ORGN ST 13½ 17½ (53½) Wash St. at NDSU 14½ 15½ (45½) Nevada at MIA (FL) 16½ 21 (55½)Florida State at S. FLA 18½ 20½ (46½) Kent State at VANDER 6½ 6 (50½) Arkansas at BAYLOR 6½ 5½ (48½) TCU Arkans St 6½ 7 (62½) at S. MISS at UCLA 3 2½ (45) Wisconsin Louisville 12½ 14½ (56½) at SYRACSE at HOUSTN 2½ 3½ (61½) Oklah St Notre Dme 10½ 10 (47½) at BYU at OKLAH 6½ 6½ (43½) Kentucky at UTSA 7 6½ (54½) Navy La Tech 14½ 14½ (56½) at ULM San Jose St 10 7½ (48½) at UTEP Ohio 13½ 14 (49) at SAC ST Utah 13½ 15½ (49½) at COL Fresno St 8½ 7½ (45½) at SDSU Wake Forest 8½ 9½ (53½) at CAL New Mex 17½ 14 (45½) at HAWAII at OREGON 7½ 7½ (52½) Nebraska

MLB

Tuesday

American League FAVORITE LINE at TAMPA BAY OFF

NHL

Tuesday

FAVORITE LINE New Jersey OFF at COLUMBUS -121 at MONTREAL -158 at CAROLINA -161 at PHILA -128 Tampa Bay -165 at OTTAWA -131 at N.Y ISLANDRS -216 Pittsburgh -141 at WINNIPEG -111 Colorado -112 Vegas -130 at UTAH -162 at ANAHEIM -216 Edmonton -126

UNDERDOG Cleveland

LINE OFF

UNDERDOG LINE at DETROIT OFF Florida +102 Buffalo +129 Washington +131 Seattle +105 at N.Y RANGERS +135 St. Louis +108 Vancouver +174 at CHICAGO +116 Minnesota -110 at DALLAS -110 at NASHVILLE +107 Toronto +133 Calgary +175 at LOS ANGELES +103

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

No. 2 Golden State vs. No. 4 Atlanta

Saturday, October 17: Atlanta at Golden State, 2:30 p.m. Monday, October 19: Atlanta at Golden

State, 7 p.m. Thursday, October 22: Golden State at Atlanta, 7 p.m. Saturday, October 24: Golden State at Atlanta, 2:30 p.m. x-Monday, October 26: Atlanta at Golden State, TBA x-Thursday, October 29: Golden State at Atlanta, TBA x-Saturday, October 31: Atlanta at Golden State, TBA

1-34. RECEIVING—Baltimore, Flowers 8-53, Bateman 5-62, Andrews 4-28, Cuevas 2-26, Walker 2-9, Hill 2-5, Henry 1-18. Atlanta, D.London 7-118, Pitts 5-42, Bi.Robinson 4-32, Dotson 2-54, Branch 2-15, Woerner 1-13. MISSED FIELD GOALS—None.

Pro football

LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES

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

W 3 3 2 0

L 1 2 3 5

T Pct PF PA 0 .750 127 107 0 .600 110 94 0 .400 93 96 0 .000 70 132

Jacksonville Indianapolis Houston Tennessee

W 4 2 1 0

L 1 3 4 5

T Pct PF PA 0 .800 123 70 0 .400 124 138 0 .200 110 112 0 .000 58 109

Baltimore Cleveland Pittsburgh Cincinnati

W 4 3 3 3

L 1 2 2 2

T Pct PF PA 0 .800 146 119 0 .600 93 112 0 .600 111 109 0 .600 128 109

Kansas City Denver Las Vegas L.A. Chargers

W 4 3 3 0

L 0 2 2 5

T Pct PF PA 01.000 118 77 0 .600 97 111 0 .600 132 129 0 .000 84 129

N.Y. Giants Philadelphia Dallas Washington

W 3 2 2 1

L 1 3 3 3

T Pct PF PA 1 .700 109 106 0 .400 92 112 0 .400 138 136 1 .300 115 149

Carolina Atlanta Tampa Bay New Orleans

W 2 2 1 1

L 2 3 4 4

T Pct PF PA 0 .500 121 109 0 .400 119 122 0 .200 100 112 0 .200 118 151

South

North

West

NATIONAL CONFERENCE East

South

North

Minnesota Green Bay Detroit Chicago

W 5 3 3 3

L 0 2 2 2

T Pct PF PA 01.000 109 64 0 .600 104 112 0 .600 164 148 0 .600 119 96

San Francisco Seattle L.A. Rams Arizona

W 5 3 2 1

L 0 2 2 4

T Pct PF PA 01.000 154 93 0 .600 134 105 0 .500 85 83 0 .200 108 162

West

Thursday’s Games

Tampa Bay 24, Dallas 16

Sunday’s Games

Jacksonville 19, Philadelphia 17, London, GBR Cincinnati 31, Miami 24 Green Bay 31, Chicago 7 Houston 26, Tennessee 3 Minnesota 23, New Orleans 13 N.Y. Giants 27, Washington 27, OT N.Y. Jets 17, Cleveland 12 New England 45, Las Vegas 17 Pittsburgh 34, Indianapolis 22 Denver 23, L.A. Chargers 17 Detroit 45, Arizona 21 San Francisco 32, Seattle 29 Baltimore 30, Atlanta 23, OT Open: Kansas City, Carolina

Monday’s Games

Buffalo at L.A. Rams, n

Late Sunday Baltimore 30, Atlanta 23, OT Baltimore 3 6 6 8 7 — 30 Atlanta 7 7 3 6 0 — 23 First Quarter Bal—FG Loop 21, 10:27. Atl—Bates 36 fumble return (Folk kick), 8:03. Second Quarter Bal—FG Loop 51, 8:04. Atl—Pitts 5 pass from Penix (Folk kick), 2:24. Bal—FG Loop 51, :00. Third Quarter Atl—FG Folk 23, 9:51. Bal—Henry 18 pass from Huntley (pass failed), 6:53. Fourth Quarter Atl—FG Folk 34, 8:03. Atl—FG Folk 48, 2:31. Bal—D.Walker 7 pass from Huntley (Henry run), :40. First Overtime Bal—Huntley 1 run (Loop kick), 2:57.

A—72,392.

Bal Atl First downs 24 17 Total Net Yards 391 367 Rushes-yards 35-208 26-110 Passing 183 257 Punt Returns 1-11 2-0 Kickoff Returns 5-132 5-124 Interceptions Ret. 1-2 0-0 Comp-Att-Int 24-32-0 21-35-1 Sacked-Yards Lost 4-18 3-17 Punts 4-44.25 4-53.25 1-1 1-0 Fumbles-Lost Penalties-Yards 5-40 7-67 Time of Possession 35:10 32:45 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS RUSHING—Baltimore, Henry 24-102, Hill 4-73, Huntley 6-20, Flowers 1-13. Atlanta, Bi.Robinson 17-86, Br.Robinson 7-16, Penix 2-8. PASSING—Baltimore, Huntley 24-32-0-201. Atlanta, Penix 19-32-0-240, Tagovailoa 2-3-

Major League Baseball MLB Postseason Glance (Best-of-7)

American League

(TBS, TruTV, HBO Max)

Cleveland vs. Tampa Bay

Monday, Oct. 12: Game 1: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, n Tuesday, Oct. 13: Game 2: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Thursday, Oct. 15: Game 3: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 5 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) Friday, Oct. 16: Game 4: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 5 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Saturday, Oct. 17: Game 5: Tampa Bay at Cleveland, 7 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Monday, Oct. 19: Game 6: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 5 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max) x-Tuesday, Oct. 20: Game 7: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, 7 p.m. (TBS/TruTV/HBO Max)

National League

Sunday, Oct. 11: Game: 1 Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 1 Monday, Oct. 12: Game 2: Milwaukee 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 4 Wednesday, Oct. 14: Game 3: Milwaukee at Los Angeles Dodgers, 7 p.m. (FS1/Fox One/ Fox Deportes) Thursday, Oct. 15: Game 4: Milwaukee at Los Angeles Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FS1/Fox One/Fox Deportes) x-Friday, Oct. 16: Game 5: Milwaukee at Los Angeles Dodgers, 8 p.m. (FS1/Fox One/Fox Deportes) x-Sunday, Oct. 18: Game 6: Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. (FS1/Fox One/ Fox Deportes) x-Monday, Oct. 19: Game 7: Los Angeles Dodgers at Milwaukee, 7 p.m. (Fox/FS1/Fox One/Fox Deportes)

Late Sunday Milwaukee 2, L.A. Dodgers 1 Milwaukee

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Milwaukee 7, L.A. Dodgers 4 Los Angeles

College football College Football Schedule All Times Central (Subject to change)

Tuesday’s games SOUTH

Delaware (2-3) at Middle Tennessee (2-3), 6 p.m. FIU (3-2) at Jacksonville St. (4-2), 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 14

MIDWEST

(FOX, FS1)

Milwaukee 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 0

Los Angeles

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Milwaukee

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Kennesaw St. (1-4) at Missouri St. (1-4), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

W. Kentucky (2-4) at Sam Houston St. (1-4), 7 p.m.

Thursday’s games SOUTH

East Carolina (3-2) at UAB (3-3), 6:30 p.m. Georgia Southern (2-4) at Old Dominion (2-4), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Colorado St. (2-3) at Texas State (2-3), 7 p.m.

Friday’s games EAST

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

SOUTH

Memphis (5-1) at Tulane (2-3), 6:30 p.m. Appalachian St. (3-2) at Coastal Carolina (2-4), 7 p.m.

MIDWEST

Washington (3-3) at Purdue (3-3), 7 p.m.

Saturday’s games EAST

CCSU (2-3) at Mercyhurst (1-5), 11 a.m. Duquesne (1-4) at Stonehill (2-4), 11 a.m. Rhode Island (3-3) at Yale (3-1), 11 a.m. FAU (4-1) at Army (3-2), 11 a.m. Brown (2-2) at Princeton (3-1), 11 a.m. Cincinnati (4-1) at West Virginia (3-3), 11 a.m. New Haven (1-5) at Robert Morris (3-3), 11 a.m. Hampton (1-5) at Sacred Heart (2-4), 11 a.m. Pittsburgh (5-1) at Boston College (2-3), 11 a.m. Rutgers (1-4) at Maryland (2-4), 11:30 a.m. Bryant (4-2) at Maine (1-5), noon Merrimack (2-4) at Dartmouth (1-3), noon Holy Cross (2-4) at Harvard (4-0), noon Monmouth (NJ) (4-2) at New Hampshire (2-5), noon Charlotte (0-6) at Temple (2-4), noon Georgetown (1-4) at Colgate (4-2), noon UMass (4-2) at Buffalo (3-3), noon Lehigh (6-0) at Cornell (2-2), 1 p.m. Albany (NY) (3-3) at Stony Brook (4-2), 1:30 p.m. Lafayette (1-4) at Bucknell (1-5), 2 p.m. Villanova (2-4) at Fordham (2-5), 2:30 p.m. Morehouse (0-1) at Howard (2-4), 2:30 p.m. LIU Brooklyn (2-5) at Wagner (1-5), 4 p.m. Louisville (3-3) at Syracuse (2-3), 6:30 p.m.

SOUTH

Charleston Southern (3-3) at Clemson (3-2), 11 a.m. Mississippi St. (4-1) at LSU (4-2), 11 a.m. Georgia St. (4-1) at James Madison (6-0), 11 a.m. Chicago State (1-5) at NC A&T (2-5), 11 a.m. Morehead St. (1-5) at Davidson (2-5), noon McNeese St. (2-4) at Northwestern St. (0-6), noon VMI (0-6) at Wofford (4-3), 12:30 p.m. Presbyterian (3-3) at Stetson (1-5), 1 p.m. Austin Peay (5-2) at West Georgia (1-5), 1 p.m. E. Kentucky (2-4) at Tennessee Tech (5-1), 1:30 p.m. Bethune-Cookman (3-3) at MVSU (3-4), 2 p.m. Gardner-Webb (2-5) at UT Martin (2-4), 2 p.m. Florida A&M (2-4) at Jackson St. (5-1), 2 p.m. Grambling St. (4-2) at Alabama A&M (5-2), 2 p.m. Georgia Tech (2-3) at Virginia Tech (4-2), 2:30 p.m. Auburn (3-2) at Georgia (6-0), 2:30 p.m. Missouri (5-1) at Mississippi (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Alabama (5-1) at Tennessee (5-1), 2:30 p.m. North Carolina (3-2) at Duke (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Towson (0-7) at Campbell (5-1), 2:30 p.m. Stephen F. Austin (6-0) at Nicholls (2-4), 3 p.m. Troy (3-2) at Louisiana-Lafayette (4-2), 4 p.m. West Alabama (0-0) at West Florida (3-2), 4 p.m. South Dakota (5-2) at Murray St. (1-5), 4 p.m. Lamar (5-1) at SE Louisiana (3-3), 4 p.m. Morgan St. (5-1) at Tennessee St. (1-5), 5:30 p.m. Arkansas (2-4) at Vanderbilt (3-3), 6 p.m. Florida St. (3-3) at Miami (5-0), 6 p.m. Arkansas St. (2-4) at Southern Miss. (1-4), 6 p.m. Kent St. (2-4) at South Florida (4-2), 6 p.m. Mercer (5-2) at Samford (1-5), 6 p.m. Abilene Christian (3-4) at North Alabama (4-2), 6 p.m. Louisiana Tech (3-2) at Louisiana-Monroe (0-5), 7 p.m.

MIDWEST

Kansas (2-3) at Kansas St. (3-2), 11 a.m. Ohio St. (5-1) at Indiana (6-0), 11 a.m. Ball St. (1-5) at Bowling Green (2-4), 11 a.m. Northwestern (4-1) at Michigan St. (2-4), 11 a.m. Dayton (4-1) at Butler (5-1), noon Marist (3-3) at Drake (2-4), noon W. Michigan (4-2) at Cent. Michigan (3-3), 12:30 p.m. S. Dakota St. (5-1) at North Dakota (5-2), 1 p.m. W. Illinois (3-3) at SE Missouri (3-3), 2 p.m. Lindenwood (Mo.) (1-4) at E. Illinois (2-4), 2 p.m. Toledo (4-2) at E. Michigan (4-3), 2:30 p.m. Penn St. (3-3) at Michigan (3-2), 2:30 p.m. Akron (1-5) at Miami (Ohio) (3-3), 2:30 p.m. Illinois St. (4-2) at S. Illinois (3-4), 3 p.m. N. Iowa (3-2) at Youngstown St. (5-2), 5 p.m. Nevada (2-3) at N. Dakota St. (5-1), 6 p.m.

SOUTHWEST

Florida (4-2) at Texas (4-1), 11 a.m. Virginia (4-2) at SMU (4-1), 11 a.m. The Citadel (2-4) at Texas A&M (3-3), noon Alabama St. (3-3) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (3-2), 2 p.m. Alcorn St. (4-3) at Prairie View (2-5), 2 p.m. Arizona St. (3-2) at Texas Tech (5-0), 2:30 p.m. Tulsa (3-3) at Rice (1-5), 3:30 p.m. Cent. Arkansas (2-4) at Tarleton St. (6-0), 6 p.m. TCU (2-3) at Baylor (4-1), 6 p.m. UT Rio Grande Valley (3-3) at Incarnate Word (2-4), 6 p.m. East Texas A&M (2-4) at Houston Christian (3-3), 6 p.m. Kentucky (5-1) at Oklahoma (3-2), 6:30 p.m. Oklahoma St. (4-1) at Houston (5-1), 6:30 p.m. Navy (2-3) at UTSA (5-1), 7 p.m. San Jose St. (3-3) at UTEP (1-5), 8 p.m.

FAR WEST

Idaho (1-5) at Montana (5-2), 2 p.m. Idaho St. (4-2) at Weber St. (4-3), 2 p.m. N. Illinois (0-5) at Wyoming (3-3), 2:30 p.m. UNLV (4-2) at Air Force (4-1), 2:30 p.m. Valparaiso (3-3) at San Diego (2-4), 3 p.m. Washington St. (1-5) at Oregon St. (4-2), 5 p.m. Portland St. (2-4) at N. Arizona (5-2), 6 p.m. Montana St. (5-1) at E. Washington (2-5), 6 p.m. Elon (4-3) at Stanford (2-4), 6:30 p.m. Wisconsin (4-1) at UCLA (5-0), 6:30 p.m. Notre Dame (6-0) at BYU (5-0), 6:30 p.m. Cal Poly (4-3) at N. Colorado (2-5), 7 p.m. UC Davis (4-2) at S. Utah (2-4), 7 p.m. Ohio (4-2) at Sacramento St. (1-5), 9 p.m. Utah (5-0) at Colorado (2-3), 9:15 p.m. Fresno St. (4-2) at San Diego St. (2-4), 9:30 p.m. New Mexico (4-1) at Hawaii (1-5), 9:30 p.m. Wake Forest (5-1) at California (3-3), 9:30 p.m. Nebraska (5-1) at Oregon (3-2), 10 p.m.

FCS Top 25 Poll

RANK REC. PTS. PREV. 1. South Dakota St. (23) 5-1 647 1 2.Tarleton St. (3) 6-0 626 2 3. Stephen F. Austin 6-0 588 4 4. Lehigh 6-0 558 5 5. Montana St. 5-1 539 6 6. Youngstown St. 5-2 517 9 7. Montana 5-2 461 3 8. Lamar 5-1 458 10 9. South Dakota 5-2 407 12 10. Northern Arizona 5-2 398 14 11. Austin Peay 5-2 397 8 12. UC Davis 4-2 396 11 13. Illinois St. 4-2 333 13 14. Tennessee Tech 5-1 319 16 15. North Dakota 5-2 293 7 16. Mercer 5-2 253 18 17. Harvard 4-0 242 19 18. Campbell 5-1 227 20 19. Colgate 4-2 153 23 20. Monmouth (N.J.) 4-2 125 24 21. Idaho St. 4-2 106 17 22. Richmond 5-2 96 15 23. Yale 3-1 61 NR 24. East Tennessee St. 5-2 49 NR 25. Northern Iowa 3-2 38 NR Dropped Out: South Carolina St. (21), Jackson St. (22), Southeastern Louisiana (25) Others Receiving Votes: Jackson St., 32; West Florida, 25; Morgan St., 24; South Carolina St., 18; Stony Brook, 18; ACU, 11; Southern Illinois, 11; Cal Poly, 7; Charleston Southern, 4; Delaware St., 4; North Alabama, 4; Southeastern Louisiana, 2; Wofford, 2; Central Connecticut St., 1.

Transactions BASEBALL

American League CLEVELAND GUARDIANS — Reinstated RHP Slade Cecconi. TAMPA BAY RAYS — Reinstated RHP Brody Hopkins.

FOOTBALL

National Football League NFL — Suspended San Francisco 49ers LB Dre Greenlaw for one game without pay for unsportsmanlike conduct. BUFFALO BILLS — Signed CB Anthony Kendall from the practice squad to the active roster. Released OLB Michael Danna. Elevated DT Phidarian Mathis and WR Trent Sherﬁeld Sr. from the practice squad to the active roster. CAROLINA PANTHERS — Signed DT Keith Cooper Jr. to the practice squad. Released DE Anthony Goodlow from the practice squad. TAMPA BAY BUCCANEERS — Designated WR David Sills V to return from injured reserve.

HOCKEY

National Hockey League COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS — Reinstated RW Riley Bezeau from non-roster injured reserve. Assigned Bezeau to Cleveland (AHL). NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Placed RW Connor Brown on injured reserve, retroactive to Sept. 28. Recalled RW Stefan Noesen from Utica (AHL).

LIVING

N O L A.C O M

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Local coffee shop keeps expanding Uptown BY CHELSEA SHANNON Staff writer

A popular Uptown coffee shop focused on building community and serving craft concoctions has announced plans to open a second location for its collegeaged clientele. Lower Coast Coffee Company opened a second spot on Oct. 5 at the former Another Bar site, 5039 Freret St. The coffee shop owners want it to be a place they would have hung out in while attending Loyola University, where they met. Danielle Pauli and Patrick Kelly set out to build a business around their mutual love of good coffee, and they started roasting and selling beans in 2024. They first opened a Lower Coast Coffee counter inside NOLA Boards, next door to Magasin, initially just to sell bags of beans. “When this idea ﬁrst started, it wasn’t necessarily with the idea of having coffee shops; it was mainly to be able to roast different kinds of coffee and then distribute them,” Kelly said.

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Patrick Kelly and Danielle Pauli stand in their second coffee shop location at 5039 Freret St.

Pauli said the first summer was hard, and they doubted if they would make it as a business. “No one knew we were a new coffee shop,” Pauli said. “There were days that we were literally like, are we going to make it to fall?” But when Pauli decided to host a children’s story time in the shop, the two realized they could survive by ﬁnding ways to bring the community together. At the NOLA Boards location, a customer base grew around the storytime events. Then, when NOLA Boards moved to its new location at 3318 Magazine St. in 2025, the coffee roasting duo joined them, gaining a dedicated space with chairs, tables and a yard where kids could play while parents enjoyed coffee or tea. “It’s a good growth opportunity for us because it gave us time to perfect our recipe, dial in our offerings, but it was deﬁnitely an espresso bar, a grab-and-go thing,” Kelly said. “Now we can have a proper coffee shop with indoor seating; we could expand our menu.”

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A rain garden is a depressed bed planted with native perennials and shrubs selected for their high-water tolerance. It’s strategically situated in a spot where water flows downward toward it.

Beauty in efficiency

Rain gardens help handle today’s downpours. And they can be beautiful, too. BY JESSICA DAMIANO

Associated Press

hen a nor’easter recently hit the Eastern Seaboard, it transformed my driveway into a stretch of whitewater rapids and nearly obliterated my perennials, their shapes irretrievably distorted by high winds and heavy rain. Unfortunately, it’s not the ﬁrst time. And it won’t be the last: Scientists predict an increase in extreme weather events, including storms and ﬂoods, fed in part by humancaused climate change. I swept, then hosed, the debris off the blacktop, and used twine to wrangle my mums and catmints back into shape, at least until cold weather does them in. But my experiences and scientists’ predictions have got me planning a rain garden.

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Choose native plants best suited to high-water or even swampy conditions.

It’s strategically situated in a spot where water — from downspouts, driveways, compacted soil and other sources of runoff — ﬂows downward toward it. That runoff waters the plants and ﬁlters pollutants as What exactly is a rain garden? the soil absorbs it. And it means the Simply put, a rain garden is a excess water, as well as the road depressed bed planted with native sediment, debris, pet waste pathoperennials and shrubs selected gens, fertilizers and chemicals it for their high-water tolerance. picks up along the way, is kept out

of storm drains, watersheds and wetlands. Rain gardens can also stop water from entering your basement or affecting your foundation. In dry, drought-stricken regions, too, many gardeners are turning to rain gardens and other methods of collecting rainwater.

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National Book Award ﬁnalists tackle identity, justice and war ‘Dèy’ by Edwidge Danticat and ‘Beginning Middle End’ by Valeria Luiselli are fiction finalists for the National Book Awards.

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BY HILLEL ITALIE AP national writer

NEW YORK — Fiction by Edwidge Danticat, Valeria Luiselli and Karl Ove Knausgaard are among this year’s finalists for the National Book Awards, with many of the books taking on such contentious issues as gender identity, criminal justice and the Middle East. Last week’s announcement by the National Book Foundation of five nominees in each of five competitive categories has at

least one notable omission: Marlon James’ “The Disappearers,” a Booker Prize ﬁnalist praised by The New York Times as among the century’s best releases. James’ novel, centered around the vicious beating of a group of gay men in Jamaica in the 1980s, had been on the National Book Awards ﬁction longlist of 10 released last month. Winners, each of whom receive $10,000, will be revealed during a Nov. 18 dinner ceremony in Manhattan. Honorary medals will be

presented to Salman Rushdie and Perri Klass. Danticat’s “Dèy” and Luiselli’s “Beginning Middle End” are ﬁction ﬁnalists in a category of wide-ranging characters, subjects and locations. Danticat’s story of a mass shooting attack and its aftermath takes place in Miami, Haiti and Brooklyn, while Hannah Lillith Assadi’s “Paradiso 17” follows the worldwide journey of an exiled Palestinian.

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without spending every holiday disappointing someone? — Holiday Tug-of-War Dear Holiday Tug-of-War: Both sets of parents are reacting from love. Your mother treasures having everyone together, while your husband understandably wants precious time with his aging parents. Both of those feelings make sense. But you and your husband cannot make everyone happy every holiday. Maybe see if you could invite your husband’s parents to your parents’ house. Then everyone could be together. Making people feel included and loved is the most important goal. Dear Annie: I have been seeing a man for about four months, and I cannot tell whether I am in a relationship or just occupying space in his life. When we are together, he is wonderful. He is affectionate, attentive and talks about things we

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How to make a rain garden

You can make a rain garden as big or small as you like, but keep it at least 10 feet from your house, garage or other structures. Don’t plant it over a septic tank or underground utilities, or near a well that provides drinking water. And avoid sloped areas and those that are soggy to begin with. Dig the bed in your preferred size and shape (kidney, crescent, round and teardrop are popular). You can either gradually grade the soil toward the center so it is 6 inches lower than the perimeter, or dig everything but the perimeter 6 inches deep so a berm that high surrounds the sunken bed. Direct water toward the bed by installing a gutter extension, creating a downhill slope, digging a trench or connecting a PVC pipe to a distant gutter and running it underground to the rain garden. Slow the flow of water by lining your trench or slope with rocks or small stones. Some gardeners prefer to keep the center free of plants and cover the soil there with stones, as well.

The best plantings Choose native plants best suited to high-water or, if planting the center, even swampy conditions. Natives are naturally adapted to your region’s environment, so they’ll be easier to grow, require less maintenance and will also provide a habitat for bees, birds, butterﬂies and other wildlife. Consider planting flowering perennials alongside sedges and grasses, and incorporating shrubs and small trees, if space allows. Including some evergreens

should do months from now. He has introduced me to a few of his friends, remembers small details about my life and has even told me that he feels lucky to have met me. Then he disappears. Sometimes I will hear from him every day for a week, and then suddenly he will go two or three days without calling or texting. If I pull back, he seems to notice immediately and becomes very attentive again. But if I ask where this is going, he says he does not like “labels” and wants to “see what happens.” Last weekend, he invited me to a party, held my hand all night and introduced me to someone as “a friend.” I laughed it off at the time, but it bothered me more than I expected. I am not asking for a proposal. I just want to know whether I am building something with someone or waiting around for a man who

your teeth at bedtime or something you absolutely don’t want to forget to do ﬁrst thing in the morning, there it is to remind you as soon as you get up. It all wipes right off with a dry tissue; plus the grandkids think it’s fun to do a little artwork when they come over. Of Mini spatula Hints from course, some grownHeloise ups like to do this, Dear Heloise: After too! reading a hint about Thanks for all the great keeping a pair of pliers in years! — Megan L., in Portland, the bathroom to unscrew Oregon bottles, I thought I’d send in my hint to keep a mini Calling on an expert spatula in the bathroom. It’s amazing how much loDear Heloise: I loved the intion gets left in the bottom formation about dryer proof a tube. Just cut open the tocol. But who is the right tube and use a mini spatula person to contact about to scrape it out. I also use a cleaning out your line from mini spatula to take greasy the dryer to the outside medicated lotions out of vent? I have a corrugated the jar. — Lynette C., in Ausvent from the dryer to just under the ceiling in tintown, Ohio the basement, and then we Dry-erase marker have a vent system that’s about 20 feet from the outDear Heloise: This might be a worthy tip for “Hints side vent in the unﬁnished From Heloise.” A friend basement ceiling. asked me why I keep dryIt’d be impossible for me erase markers in my bathor my husband to clean due room, so maybe not every- to age, as with many of us. one knows how handy they Love your column! — Vicki A., via email are for jotting last-minute Vicki, I believe an applinotes on your vanity mirror. ance repairman might be Whether it’s something your best bet. If they can’t that just crosses your mind help you, ask if they know while you’re brushing someone who does this Dear Heloise: Do your gummy vitamins, supplements and the like stick to the bottom of their jars? Is it hard to dig them out? Let their stickiness and gravity work for you by storing the jars upside down! — George V., in Ventura, California

Continued from page 1D Luiselli’s family narrative spans generations and continents and Julián Delgado Lopera’s “Pretend You’re Dead and I Carry You” is set in Colombia. In Morgan Thomas’ “Mad Eden,” a transgender healthcare worker in Florida struggles for stability in an unfriendly world. Knausgaard, the Norwegian author with a wide international following, is a ﬁnalist in the translation category for “The School of Night,” translated by Martin Aitken. Other nominees include Vicente Luis Mora’s “Centroeuropa,” translated from the Spanish by Rahul Bery; Intan Paramaditha’s “Night of a Thousand Hells,” translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J.

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will further help avoid erosion. The Ladybird Johnson Wildflower Center’s Plant Finder is a good resource that lets you narrow searches by horticultural zone, sun exposure and other parameters. Put plants with the highest water needs at and around the center of your rain garden, where water will collect and pool for a bit before seeping into the soil. Plant those with moderate water needs along the elevated perimeter of the bed, which will be some-

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Rain garden care tips In the absence of rain, water the plants as necessary throughout their ﬁrst year, as their roots grow and anchor into the ground. Keep on top of weeds, too, until the plants grow and ﬁll in the bare spots between them. After you’ve designed, graded and planted your rain garden, there won’t be very much for you to do, except sit back and enjoy your striking natural landscape — and its hidden ecological function.

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likes me only when I am convenient. How do you tell the difference between someone who is genuinely cautious and someone who is simply keeping you on the hook? — Tired of Guessing Dear Tired: Mixed signals are still signals. A man can be cautious and still be clear that he wants to build something with you. After four months, it is reasonable to want more than affection one day and uncertainty the next. Not knowing is a really bad feeling. Tell him plain and simple what you are looking for. Make sure you pay attention to what he does, not just what he says. If he continues to keep you close without giving you any clarity, believe the pattern.

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Continued from page 1D With a little more space to host events like movie nights, crawfish boils and art markets, Lower Coast has drawn college students with specials like the Ube Cloud with coconut water and the Spicy Mango Matcha-Rita. The narrow Magazine Street building doesn’t have room for many tables, but the Freret Street spot will have larger tables for study groups. Pauli and Kelly said they’re also keeping the existing stage for future music options. “We do get a lot of students, so I feel like this is going to

type of work. Another possibility might be someone who cleans out home heating vents. — Heloise

Plastic sound-off Dear Heloise: Regarding your reply to Ann about the use of plastics: Yes, plastics can be recycled, but in reality, only about 5% to 6% of it is recycled in the United States. Glass, metal and paper are recycled at much higher rates (although we should be doing much better in all categories). Plus, plastic is still a petroleum product. While there are valid uses for it, seeking out containers that are made of glass, metal and paper is still a better choice. And, yes, all of it should be disposed of responsibly! I always enjoy your column. — Susan, via email

Childproof packaging Dear Heloise: My 105-yearold mom can’t get the hearing-aid batteries out of the childproof packages either. I cut through the plastic with scissors on each side of the battery, then I pop the battery out. I hope this is helpful. — Granny’s Daughter, via email Send a hint to heloise@ heloise.com.

Epstein and Tiffany Tsao; Mohamed Mbougar Sarr’s “Pure Men,” translated from the French by Lara Vergnaud; and Samar Yazbek’s “Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life: Voices of Survival and Witness in Gaza,” translated from the Arabic by Leri Price. In nonﬁction, Colin Asher is a finalist for “The Midnight Special: The Secret Prison History of American Music,” Abdelrahman ElGendy for “Huna: A Memoir of Revolution, Prison, and Becoming,” Camonghne Felix for “Let the Poets Govern: A Declaration of Freedom,” Sara Novic for “Mother Tongue” and Joseph Osmundson for “Spawning Season: An Experiment in Queer Parenthood.” David Levithan, a ﬁnalist for young people’s literature, is among a small circle of book editors who also

have accomplished careers as authors, including Jenny Jackson at Alfred A. Knopf and Jill Bialosky at W.W. Norton & Company. Levithan is an editorial director at Scholastic and a proliﬁc writer nominated this year for “The Fight of Our Lives: AIDS in America,” a collaboration with Gabriel Duckels. The other young people’s literature ﬁnalists are Elana K. Arnold’s “Holloway,” Tae Keller’s “When Tomorrow Burns,” Keala Kendall’s “That Which Feeds Us: A Hawaiian Gothic” and Julian Randall’s “Shook.” In poetry, the nominees are Victoria Chang’s “Tree of Knowledge,” Carolina Ebeid’s “Hide,” Brenda Hillman’s “Still House in the Desert: An eco-contemplation,” Fady Joudah’s “Exhibit G: Poems, Essays, and Photographs of Gaza” and Susan Stewart’s “Bramble.”

be a good place for them too,” Pauli said. “I think it’s going to be a really popular destination,” Kelly said. Pauli and Kelly create seasonal menus of signature drinks, including the almond croissant cold brew and seasonal items like the apple crisp cold brew and the fall French toast. The shop makes all its syrups inhouse. “The whole place when you’re cooking down apples, and it just smells literally like fall,” Pauli said. Pauli and Kelly are also proud of the shop’s matcha and they also sell gelato and baked goods. Pauli was previously a teacher, and Kelly was a de-

signer, but they are now all in on their coffee venture. With the expansion, Kelly said they want to meet their customers where they are. “We see what people are looking for. They want to come in and sit down. They want to have a place they can relax and enjoy their coffee,” Pauli said. Email Chelsea Shannon at cshannon@theadvocate. com.

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through learning and finding out how to reach your goals. tAuRus (April 20-May 20) Put your energy into something constructive. If you let anger mount or do things that exhaust you mentally or physically, you'll pay a price. Nurture meaningful relationships. GEMInI (May 21-June 20) A change of plans or direction will turn out better than anticipated. Throw yourself into projects that make you feel grateful. What you do to help others will open doors to new adventures, job prospects or friendships. cAncER (June 21-July 22) You'll get caught in the middle if you interfere in someone else's business. Distance yourself from drama and people likely to blame you for what goes wrong. Look inward. LEo (July 23-Aug. 22) Redirect your energy to ensure you make the most of your day. Learn something new, be a good listener and explore how you can use what you discover to make your life and your relationships better. VIRGo (Aug. 23-sept. 22) You can't monitor changes if you don't have a seat at the table. Having a laid-back attitude and a detailed assessment of the decisions others make will turn you into the go-to person. 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 This week we are looking at deals in which North and South have to decide which of two suits to choose as trumps. In general, a balanced fit — one where North and South have the same number of cards in the suit — will be preferable to an unbalanced fit — in which one player has more cards than his partner. In this deal, if the balanced diamond suit is trumps, declarer can arrange an extra ruffing trick after drawing trumps and discarding the spade eight from the dummy on his fifth club. In seven diamonds, South takes one spade, five diamonds, six clubs and one spade ruff in the North hand. If the unbalanced suit is trumps, (here the 6-4 club fit), there is an inevitable spade loser. South can win only 12 tricks, not 13. The auction itself was exciting. South opened one club, planning to bid diamonds twice to describe his distribution and strength. If West had immediately overcalled four hearts, it would have made life very tough for North-South. North could have bid five diamonds, but East would have increased the inconvenience by raising to five hearts.

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8 12

Abundant Life Tabernacle Church

1701 Franklin Ave.

8 13

Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School

2401 Humanity St.

8 14

Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School

1800 Arts St.

@ Stuart Bradley Building 2401 Humanity St.

@ Stuart Bradley Building 8 15

Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School

2401 Humanity St.

@ Stuart Bradley Building

Lisa Manning Bridges President, Orleans Parish Board of Election Supervisors

8 19

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

8 20

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

8 21

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

NOVEMBER 3RD, 2026 U.S. SENATE GENERAL/OPEN U.S. REPRESENTATIVE PRIMARY/OPEN PRIMARY

8 22

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

8 23

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

8 24

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

8 25

Milne Rec Center

5420 Franklin Ave.

8 26

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

8 27

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

8 28

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

8 30

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

9 1

St. David Catholic Church Parish Hall

5617 St. Claude Ave.

9 3

Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School

1617 Fats Domino Ave.

9 4

St. David Catholic Church Parish Hall

5617 St. Claude Ave.

9 5

Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School

1617 Fats Domino Ave.

LOCATION

ADDRESS

1 1

PCT.

International School

1400 Camp St.

1 2

International School

1400 Camp St.

1 5

International School

1400 Camp St.

1 6

Engine House #16

2000 Martin Luther King Blvd.

2 1

International School

1400 Camp St.

2 2

International School

1400 Camp St.

2 4

Guste Homes Complex

1301 Simon Bolivar Ave.

2 6

Booker T. Washington

1201 S. Roman St.

2 7

Xavier University of LA Convocation Center

7900 Stroelitz St.

3 1

Engine House #2

801 Girod St.

3 8

Israel Augustine Criminal Justice Center

2700 Tulane Ave.

3 9

Israel Augustine Criminal Justice Center

2700 Tulane Ave.

3 12

Engine House #26

436 Norman C. Francis Pkwy.

3 14

Engine House #26

436 Norman C. Francis Pkwy.

3 15

Engine House #26

436 Norman C. Francis Pkwy.

3 18

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

3 19

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

3 20

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

4 2

Our Lady of Guadalupe Church

410 Basin St.

4 3

Phillis Wheatley Community School

2300 Dumaine St.

4 6

Warren Easton School

3019 Canal St.

4 7

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

4 8

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

4 9

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

4 11

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

Enter on Lamanche St.

Enter on Lamanche St. 9 6

Dr. Martin Luther King Charter School

1617 Fats Domino Ave.

9 7

St. David Catholic Church Parish Hall

5617 St. Claude Ave.

9 8

St. David Catholic Church Parish Hall

5617 St. Claude Ave.

9 9

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 10

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 11

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 12

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 13

St. Paul Lutheran Church

2624 Burgundy St.

9 14

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 15

Blessed Seelos (Parish Hall)

3024 Burgundy St.

9 16

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 17

Stallings St. Claude Recreation Center

4300 St. Claude Ave.

9 19

St. Paul Lutheran Church

2624 Burgundy St.

9 21

Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church

Enter on Lamanche St. Enter on Lamanche St.

3721 N. Claiborne Ave.

4 14

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

4 15

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

4 17

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

9 25

Greater Evergreen Baptist Church

2243 Clouet St.

9 26

St. Josephine Bakhita

2225 Congress St.

4 17A

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

9 28

Mt. Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church

3756 Louisa St.

4 18

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

9 28C

Mt. Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church

3756 Louisa St.

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

9 29

Mt. Kingdom Missionary Baptist Church

3756 Louisa St.

9 30

Edward Hynes Charter - Parkview

4617 Mirabeau Ave.

9 30A

Edward Hynes Charter - Parkview

4617 Mirabeau Ave.

9 31

Edward Hynes Charter - Parkview

4617 Mirabeau Ave.

9 31A

Edward Hynes Charter - Parkview

4617 Mirabeau Ave.

9 31B

Bethany United Methodist Church

4533 Mendez St.

9 31D

Bethany United Methodist Church

9 32

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 33

Engine House #4

6900 Downman Rd. 4861 Rosalia Dr.

4 20

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

4 21

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

4 22

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

4 23

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

5 1

Joseph Craig Elementary School

1423 St. Philip St.

5 2

Joseph Craig Elementary School

1423 St. Philip St.

5 3

Joseph Craig Elementary School

1423 St. Philip St.

5 5

Holy Faith Temple Baptist Church

1325 Gov. Nicholls St.

5 7

Phillis Wheatley Community School

2300 Dumaine St.

5 8

Phillis Wheatley Community School

2300 Dumaine St.

5 9

Warren Easton School

3019 Canal St.

5 10

Warren Easton School

3019 Canal St.

5 11

Warren Easton School

3019 Canal St.

5 12

Engine House #35

964 N. Carrollton Ave.

5 13

Engine House #35

964 N. Carrollton Ave.

5 15

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

5 16

Success Prep @ Thurgood Marshall School

4621 Canal St.

5 17

Lighthouse for Christ Church

6645 Spanish Fort Blvd.

5 18

Lighthouse for Christ Church

6645 Spanish Fort Blvd.

6 1

Joseph Craig Elementary School

1423 St. Philip St.

6 2

N. Rampart Community Center

1130 N. Rampart St.

6 4

Joseph Craig Elementary School

1423 St. Philip St.

6 6

UJIMA Fern Brady Center

1019 N. Prieur St.

6 7

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

6 8

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

6 9

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

7 1

Engine House #9

449 Esplanade Ave.

7 2

Engine House #9

449 Esplanade Ave.

7 4

St. Roch Community Church

1738 St. Roch Ave.

7 5

Corpus Christi-Epiphany Resource Center

2022 St. Bernard Ave.

7 6

Corpus Christi-Epiphany Resource Center

2022 St. Bernard Ave.

7 7

Engine House #27

2118 Elysian Fields Ave.

7 8

Engine House #27

2118 Elysian Fields Ave.

7 9A

Engine House #27

2118 Elysian Fields Ave.

7 10

Life of Christ Christian Academy

1851 N. Dorgenois St.

7 11

Corpus Christi-Epiphany Resource Center

2022 St. Bernard Ave.

7 12

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

Legal Notices

Entrance at 1614 Pauline St. 9 23

Greater Mount Carmel Baptist Church

3721 N. Claiborne Ave. Entrance at 1614 Pauline St.

Enter on N. Tonti St.

Accessible entrance on Piety Dr. 4533 Mendez St. Accessible entrance on Piety Dr.

9 34A

Resurrection of Our Lord

9 35

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 35A

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 36

Apostolic Outreach Church

8358 Lakeforest Blvd.

9 36B

Apostolic Outreach Church

8358 Lakeforest Blvd.

9 37

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 38

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 38A

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 39

Resurrection of Our Lord

4861 Rosalia Dr.

9 39B

Suburban Baptist Church Education Center

4521 Schindler Dr.

9 40

Suburban Baptist Church Education Center

4521 Schindler Dr.

9 40A

Einstein Charter School @ Sherwood Forest

4801 Maid Marion Dr.

9 40C

Einstein Charter School @ Sherwood Forest

4801 Maid Marion Dr.

9 41

Epiphany Missionary Baptist Church

5200 Cannes St.

9 41A

Epiphany Missionary Baptist Church

5200 Cannes St.

9 41B

Epiphany Missionary Baptist Church

5200 Cannes St.

9 41C

Epiphany Missionary Baptist Church

5200 Cannes St.

9 41D

Epiphany Missionary Baptist Church

5200 Cannes St.

9 42

Engine House #4

6900 Downman Rd.

9 42C

Mildred Osborne School

6701 Curran Blvd.

Enter on Chef Menteur Hwy. Enter on Chef Menteur Hwy.

9 43A

Mildred Osborne School

6701 Curran Blvd.

9 43B

Apostolic Outreach Church

8358 Lakeforest Blvd.

9 43C

St. Maria Goretti Church

7300 Crowder Blvd.

9 43E

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

9 43F

Mildred Osborne School

6701 Curran Blvd.

9 43G

St. Maria Goretti Church

7300 Crowder Blvd.

9 43H

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

9 43I

Mildred Osborne School

6701 Curran Blvd.

9 43J

St. Maria Goretti Church

7300 Crowder Blvd.

9 43K

St. Maria Goretti Church

7300 Crowder Blvd.

9 43L

St. Maria Goretti Church

7300 Crowder Blvd.

9 43M

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

9 43N

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

9 44

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

9 44A

Dolores T. Aaron Academy

10200 Curran Blvd.

9 44B

Dolores T. Aaron Academy

10200 Curran Blvd.

9 44D

Dolores T. Aaron Academy

10200 Curran Blvd.

9 44E

Dolores T. Aaron Academy

10200 Curran Blvd.

9 44F

New Home Family Worship Center

13800 Lincoln Beach Blvd.

9 44G

Engine House #10

14069 Morrison Rd.

9 44I

Einstein Charter School @ Sherwood Forest

4801 Maid Marion Dr.

9 44J

Dolores T. Aaron Academy

10200 Curran Blvd.

9 44L

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

9 44M

Household of Faith Church

9300 I-10 Service Rd.

7 13

St. Leo the Great School

2949 St. Bernard Ave. (Annex)

7 14

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

7 15

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

7 16

St. Leo the Great School

2949 St. Bernard Ave. (Annex)

7 17

Bricolage Academy @ John McDonogh site

2426 Esplanade Ave.

7 18

Langston Hughes

3519 Trafalgar St.

7 19

Langston Hughes

3519 Trafalgar St.

7 20

Life of Christ Christian Academy

1851 N. Dorgenois St.

7 21

St. Leo the Great School

2949 St. Bernard Ave. (Annex)

7 23

Dillard University Professional Schools & Sciences Buil

2601 Gentilly Blvd. (enter main gate)

7 24

Dillard University Professional Schools & Sciences Buil

2601 Gentilly Blvd. (enter main gate)

7 25

Beacon Light International Baptist Church

1937 Mirabeau Ave.

7 25A

Beacon Light International Baptist Church

1937 Mirabeau Ave.

7 26

Dillard University Professional Schools & Sciences Buil

2601 Gentilly Blvd. (enter main gate)

7 27

Asia Baptist Church

1400 Sere St.

9 44N

Engine House #10

14069 Morrison Rd.

7 27B

Asia Baptist Church

1400 Sere St.

9 44O

New Home Family Worship Center

13800 Lincoln Beach Blvd.

7 28

Pentecost Baptist Church

1510 Harrison Ave.

9 44P

Fannie C. Williams Charter School

11755 Dwyer Rd.

7 28A

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

9 44Q

Fannie C. Williams Charter School

11755 Dwyer Rd.

7 29

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

9 45

Engine House #31

4300 Alba Rd.

7 30

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

9 45A

Engine House #31

4300 Alba Rd.

7 32

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

10 3

Renew Sci Tech Academy @ Laurel site

820 Jackson Ave.

7 33

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

10 6

Renew Sci Tech Academy @ Laurel site

820 Jackson Ave.

7 35

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

10 7

Renew Sci Tech Academy @ Laurel site

820 Jackson Ave.

7 37

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

10 8

Renew Sci Tech Academy @ Laurel site

820 Jackson Ave.

7 37A

Benjamin Franklin High School

2001 Leon C. Simon Dr.

10 9

Renew Sci Tech Academy @ Laurel site

820 Jackson Ave.

7 40

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

10 11

Dryades YMCA

2220 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

7 41

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

10 12

Dryades YMCA

2220 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

7 42

John F. Kennedy High School

6026 Paris Ave.

10 13

Dryades YMCA

2220 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

8 1

St. Paul Lutheran Church

2624 Burgundy St.

10 14

Dryades YMCA

2220 Oretha Castle Haley Blvd.

8 2

St. Paul Lutheran Church

2624 Burgundy St.

11 2

Engine #1, Task Force #5

2920 Magazine St.

8 4

St. Paul Lutheran Church

2624 Burgundy St.

11 3

Renew Sci Tech Academy @ Laurel site

820 Jackson Ave.

8 6

St. Roch Community Church

1738 St. Roch Ave.

11 4

Engine #1, Task Force #5

2920 Magazine St.

8 7

Shiloh Christian Fellowship Church

2441 N. Claiborne Ave.

11 5

Engine #1, Task Force #5

2920 Magazine St.

8 8

Abundant Life Baptist Church

1800 Arts St.

11 8

Engine #1, Task Force #5

2920 Magazine St.

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11 9

Engine #1, Task Force #5

2920 Magazine St.

15 9

Arthur Monday M.S.C.

1111 Newton St.

11 10

N.O. Speech & Hearing Ctr.

1636 Toledano St.

15 10

L.B. Landry - O.P. Walker College

1200 L.B. Landry Ave.

11 11

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

1823 Washington Ave.

11 12

New Zion Baptist Church

2319 Third St.

15 11

Harriet B. Tubman Charter

2013 Gen. Meyer Ave. Enter on Diana St.

11 13

New Zion Baptist Church

2319 Third St.

15 12

Harriet B. Tubman Charter

2013 Gen. Meyer Ave. Enter on Diana St.

11 14

New Zion Baptist Church

2319 Third St.

15 12A

Harriet B. Tubman Charter

2013 Gen. Meyer Ave. Enter on Diana St.

11 17

Renew Science Tech Academy @ Edgar P. Harney site

2503 Willow St.

15 13

Harriet B. Tubman Charter

2013 Gen. Meyer Ave. Enter on Diana St.

12 1

Benjamin Franklin Middle School

3649 Laurel St.

15 13A

Pearlie H. Elloie Head Start Center

3029 Wall Blvd.

12 2

Benjamin Franklin Middle School

3649 Laurel St.

15 13B

Pearlie H. Elloie Head Start Center

3029 Wall Blvd.

12 3

Benjamin Franklin Middle School

3649 Laurel St.

15 14

Dorothy Height Charter School

3501 Seine St. Enter on Texas St.

12 4

Benjamin Franklin Middle School

3649 Laurel St.

15 14A

Connect Church Fellowship Hall

1110 Kabel Dr. Enter on Hyman Pl.

12 5

Benjamin Franklin Middle School

3649 Laurel St.

15 14B

Connect Church Fellowship Hall

1110 Kabel Dr. Enter on Hyman Pl.

12 6

Sophie B. Wright Charter School

1426 Napoleon Ave.

15 14C

Alice M. Harte Charter School

5300 Berkley Dr. Enter on Eton St.

12 7

Sophie B. Wright Charter School

1426 Napoleon Ave.

15 14D

Connect Church Fellowship Hall

1110 Kabel Dr. Enter on Hyman Pl.

12 9

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 14E

Dorothy Height Charter School

3501 Seine St. Enter on Texas St.

12 10

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 14F

Dorothy Height Charter School

3501 Seine St. Enter on Texas St.

12 11

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 14G

Dorothy Height Charter School

3501 Seine St. Enter on Texas St.

12 12

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 15

Edna Karr High School

4400 Gen. Meyer Ave.

12 13

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 15A

Edna Karr High School

4400 Gen. Meyer Ave.

12 14

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 15B

Connect Church Fellowship Hall

1110 Kabel Dr. Enter on Hyman Pl.

12 16

Lawrence D. Crocker College Prep

2301 Marengo St.

15 16

Cut-Off Community Center

6600 Belgrade St.

12 17

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

15 17

Connect Church Fellowship Hall

1110 Kabel Dr. Enter on Hyman Pl.

12 19

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

15 17A

Connect Church Fellowship Hall

1110 Kabel Dr. Enter on Hyman Pl.

13 1

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973

531 Lyons St.

15 17B

Alice M. Harte Charter School

5300 Berkley Dr. Enter on Eton St.

13 2

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973

531 Lyons St.

15 18

Alice M. Harte Charter School

5300 Berkley Dr. Enter on Eton St.

13 3

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973

531 Lyons St.

15 18A

Alice M. Harte Charter School

5300 Berkley Dr. Enter on Eton St.

13 4

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973

531 Lyons St.

15 18B

Engine House #17

4115 Woodland Hwy.

13 5

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973

531 Lyons St.

15 18C

Engine House #17

4115 Woodland Hwy.

13 6

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 8973

531 Lyons St.

15 18D

Dwight Eisenhower School

3700 Tall Pines Dr.

13 7

Sophie B. Wright Charter School

1426 Napoleon Ave.

15 18E

Private Residence (Park Timbers)

#1 Park Timbers Dr.

13 8

Sophie B. Wright Charter School

1426 Napoleon Ave.

15 18F

Dwight Eisenhower School

3700 Tall Pines Dr.

13 9

Isidore Newman School (Henson Auditorium)

5333 Danneel St.

15 19

Cut-Off Community Center

6600 Belgrade St.

13 10

Isidore Newman School (Henson Auditorium)

5333 Danneel St.

15 19A

English Turn Property Owners Association

1 Clubhouse Dr.

13 11

Samuel Green Middle School

2319 Valence St.

15 19B

Cut-Off Community Center

6600 Belgrade St.

13 12

Isidore Newman School (Henson Auditorium)

5333 Danneel St.

15 19C

Cut-Off Community Center

6600 Belgrade St.

13 13

Isidore Newman School (Henson Auditorium)

5333 Danneel St.

16 1

Audubon Charter Lower School

428 Broadway Ave.

13 14

Isidore Newman School (Henson Auditorium)

5333 Danneel St.

16 1A

Audubon Charter Lower School

428 Broadway Ave.

13 15

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

16 2

St. Joan of Arc School

919 Cambronne St.

13 16

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

16 3

The Willow School, Dr. Everett Williams Jr. Campus

7315 Willow St.

14 1

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

1116 Jefferson Ave.

16 4

The Willow School, Dr. Everett Williams Jr. Campus

7315 Willow St.

14 2

Lycée Francais De La Nouvelle-Orléans

5951 Patton St.

16 5

Central St. Matthew United Church of Christ

1333 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 3

Lycée Francais De La Nouvelle-Orléans

5951 Patton St.

16 6

Central St. Matthew United Church of Christ

1333 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 4

Lycée Francais De La Nouvelle-Orléans

5951 Patton St.

16 7

Leah Chase School

2727 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 5

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

1116 Jefferson Ave.

16 8

Leah Chase School

2727 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 6

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

1116 Jefferson Ave.

16 9

Leah Chase School

2727 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 7

St. Charles Ave. Presbyterian Church

1545 State St.

17 1

St. Joan of Arc School

919 Cambronne St.

14 8

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

1116 Jefferson Ave.

17 2

Mater Dolorosa Parish House

1225 Dublin St.

14 9

Benjamin Franklin Elementary School

1116 Jefferson Ave.

17 3

Mater Dolorosa Parish House

1225 Dublin St.

14 10

Audubon Charter Lower School

428 Broadway Ave.

17 4

Mater Dolorosa Parish House

1225 Dublin St.

14 11

Audubon Charter Lower School

428 Broadway Ave.

17 5

1601 Leonidas St.

14 12

The Willow School, Dr. Everett Williams Jr. Campus

7315 Willow St.

Lycée Francais De La Nouvelle-Orléans-Secondary Campus

14 13A

The Willow School, Ellis Marsalis Jr. Campus

5625 Loyola Ave.

17 6

Lycée Francais De La Nouvelle-Orléans-Secondary Campus

1601 Leonidas St.

14 14

The Willow School, Ellis Marsalis Jr. Campus

17 7

Lycée Francais De La Nouvelle-Orléans-Secondary Campus

1601 Leonidas St.

14 15

The Willow School, Ellis Marsalis Jr. Campus

17 8

Engine House #25

2430 S. Carrollton Ave.

17 9

Xavier University of LA Convocation Ctr.

7900 Stroelitz St.

14 16

The Willow School, Ellis Marsalis Jr. Campus

17 10

Incarnate Word Head Start

8326 Apricot St.

17 11

Nazareth Baptist Church

9108 Pritchard Pl.

17 12

Incarnate Word Head Start

8326 Apricot St.

17 13

Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School

9330 Forshey St.

17 13A

Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School

9330 Forshey St.

17 14

Paul L. Dunbar Elementary School

9330 Forshey St.

17 15

Life Transformation Community Center

8606 Marks St.

17 16

Life Transformation Community Center

8606 Marks St.

17 17

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

17 18

Lakeview Christian Center

5885 Fleur De Lis Dr.

17 18A

Lakeview Christian Center

5885 Fleur De Lis Dr.

17 19

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

17 20

Edward Hynes Charter School Gym

990 Harrison Ave. Enter on French St.

and Career Preparatory High School

Enter on Nashville Ave. or Joseph St. 5625 Loyola Ave. Enter on Nashville Ave. or Joseph St. 5625 Loyola Ave. Enter on Nashville Ave. or Joseph St. 5625 Loyola Ave. Enter on Nashville Ave. or Joseph St. 14 17

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

14 18A

The Willow School, Dr. Everett Williams Jr. Campus

7315 Willow St.

14 19

The Willow School, Dr. Everett Williams Jr. Campus

7315 Willow St.

14 20

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

14 21

Leah Chase School

2727 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 23

Eleanor McMain High School

5712 S. Claiborne Ave.

14 24A

Leah Chase School

2727 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 25

Leah Chase School

2727 S. Carrollton Ave.

14 26

Xavier University of LA Convocation Ctr.

7900 Stroelitz St.

15 1

Algiers Courthouse

225 Morgan St.

15 2

International School of LA@Holy Name of Mary

502 Olivier St.

15 3

Algiers Courthouse

225 Morgan St.

15 5

Central Fire Station

425 Opelousas Ave.

15 6

Martin Behrman Charter School

715 Opelousas Ave.

15 8

Arthur Monday M.S.C.

1111 Newton St.

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The Foundation is an equal opportunity em‐ ployer. The Foundation does not discriminate based on social and eco‐ disadvantage, nomic race, color, sex, gender, age, disability or national origin. All small and mi‐ nority-owned firms and women’s business enter‐ prises are encouraged to qualifications submit statements. Any person requiring special accommodations to comply with this solic‐ must contact itation Brian D. Grubb, O’Donnell Grubb, PLLC, by email at bgrubb@ogattorneys. com not less than ten (10) days before the Sub‐ mission Deadline. The Split Second Foundation Mark Raymond, Jr. 203645-OCT 13-20-2T $1,005.82 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2258 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 Louisiana, at Rouge, 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026590, Supplemental Aggregates LDWF, 10/22/26 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 d i i f

Amy Vincent Director of State Procurement FAX (225) 342-8688 203462-oct 13-1t $12.05 PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE TO BIDDERS SP# 2267 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 Louisiana, at Rouge, 10:00 A.M. for the follow‐ ing: RFx No. 3000026764, Easy Care Shirts - DOC - PE, 10/22/26 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 203559-oct 13-1t $11.77 PUBLIC NOTICE --PUBLIC NOTICE REGIONAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY REPLACE TROLLEY LIFT CABLE INVITATION FOR BID (IFB) #2026-035 (Rebid) Project Description: The Regional Transit Author‐ ity of New Orleans in‐ vites qualified vendors to provide Replace Trolley Lift Cable for Streetcars obtain specifications in IFB 2026-035. How to obtain a copy of the IFB: Specifications and further information concerning the IFB may be obtained September 30, 2026 from the RTA’s Procureware website at https://norta.procurewar e.com/home. You will be required to first register on this website. The IFB can also be obtained at Regional Transit Author‐ ity’s website at http:// www.norta.com Responding to IFB: Bids shall be submitted thru the RTA’s Procureware website on or before 2:00 P.M., Wednesday, Octo‐ ber 28, 2026. Any ques‐ tions or further informa‐ tion concerning this IFB may be submitted h h h

Clariﬁcation Deadline: Any questions or further information concerning this IFB must be submit‐ https:// through ted norta.procureware.com/ home by 2:00PM on Octo‐ ber 21, 2026. Only written submitted questions through the Procureware site shall be considered ofﬁcial. All answers to questions shall be by for‐ mal addenda posted to the website under IFB 2026-035. A Bid Opening will be held in the RTA Board Room on Wednesday, Oc‐ tober 28, 2026, at 2:00 PM. Any questions or further information concerning the IFB may be submitted https://norta. Via procurewar e.com/home, beginning on September 30, 2026. RTA in accordance with 49 Code of Federal Regu‐ lations (CFR) Part 26 has an obligation to ensure nondiscrimination of Dis‐ advantaged Business En‐ terprises (DBEs) and to comply with all federal, state and local regula‐ tions related 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 established agency's overall goal of 31%. No goal has been estab‐ lished for this project. Notice to all offerors is hereby provided that in accordance with all ap‐ plicable federal, state and local laws the RTA will ensure that DBEs are afforded full opportunity to submit offers and re‐ sponses to this solicita‐ tion and to participate in any contract consum‐ mated pursuant to this advertisement. Addition‐ ally, no offeror will be discriminated against on the basis of age, sex, race, color, religion, na‐ tional origin, ethnicity or disability As such, award of the contract will be condi‐ tioned on meeting the re‐ quirements of the fed‐ eral, state and local laws for Equal Opportunity in‐ cluding compliance with the policies of DBE Pro‐ gram. The RTA reserves the right to accept or reject any and all proposals submitted. Interim Ronald G.

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Baptiste Chief Executive Ofﬁcer Regional Transit Authority 202877-oct 13-20-2t $801.70

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

Clemency I, ERIC ROGERS, DOC #375175 have applied for clemency for my conviction of SECOND DEGREE MURDER. If you have any comments, contact the Board of Pardons (225)342-5421. 203519 - OCT 12-14 3T $310

I, MANFORD DEQUEANT, DOC #436633 have applied for clemency for my conviction of OPERATION OF A VEHICLE INTOXICATED. If you have any comments, contact the Board of Pardons (225)342-5421. 203354 - OCT 11-13 3T $310

203476-695716-oct 13-1t $ 1,330.56

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p p p g single family housing; and WHEREAS, the Mortgage is now owned by the Sec‐ retary, pursuant to an as‐ signment dated May 30, 2024, and recorded on June 17, 2024 in/as Book 5075 and Page 268 with Instrument Number 12423562, in the Ofﬁce of the Recorder, Jefferson County, Louisiana; and WHEREAS, a default has made in the been covenants and condi‐ tions of the Mortgage in that payment due on July 17, 2026 was not made and remains wholly un‐ paid as of the date of this notice, and no payment has been made sufﬁcient to restore the loan to currency; and WHEREAS, the entire amount delinquent as of August 26, 2026 is $335,490.99 ; and

WINDSOR STREET, AND MEASURES ACCORDING TO THE AFORESAID PLAN OF SUBDIVISION, 67.5 FEET FRONT ON SEDGE‐ DRIVE, SAME FIELD WIDTH IN THE REAR, BY A DEPTH OF 107 FEET BE‐ TWEEN EQUAL AND PAR‐ ALLEL LINES, AND COM‐ MENCING AT A DISTANCE OF 330 FEET FROM THE CORNER OF SEDGEFIELD DRIVE AND WINDSOR STREET. ACCORDING TO A SURVEY BY S.K. LANDRY, DATED JUNE 29, 1968, RE‐ VISED TO SHOW IM‐ PROVEMENTS JUNE 21, 1971, A COPY OF WHICH IS ATTACHED TO ACT BE‐ FORE PAT W. BROWNE, LATE NOTARY PUBLIC, DATED JULY 1, 1971, THE ABOVE DESCRIBED PROP‐ ERTY IS LOCATED, DESIG‐ NATED AND MEASURES AS HEREINABOVE SET FORTH.

pay all conveyancing fees, all real estate and other taxes that are due on or after the delivery date of the remainder of the payment and all other costs associated with the transfer of title. At the conclusion of the sale, the deposits of the bidder(s) unsuccessful will be returned to them. The Secretary may grant an extension of time within which to de‐ liver the remainder of the payment. All extensions will be for 15-day incre‐ ments for a fee of $500, paid in advance. The ex‐ tension fee shall be paid in the form of a certified or cashier's check made payable to the United States Secretary of Hous‐ ing and Urban Develop‐ ment. If the high bid‐ der(s) close(s) the sale prior to the expiration of any extension period, the unused portion of the ex‐ tension fee shall be ap‐ plied toward the amount due at closing. If the high bidder(s) is/are unable to close the sale within the required period, or within any ex‐ tensions of time granted by the Secretary, the high bidder may be re‐ quired to forfeit the cash deposit, or at the elec‐ tion of the foreclosure commissioner after con‐ sultation with the HUD representative, will be li‐ able to the Secretary for any costs incurred as a result of such failure, and the Commissioner may, at the direction of the HUD Field Office Repre‐ sentative, offer the Prop‐ erty to the second high‐ est bidder for an amount equal to the highest price offered by that bid‐ der. There is no right of re‐ demption, or right of possession based upon a right of redemption, in the mortgagor or others subsequent to a foreclo‐ sure completed pursuant to the Act. Therefore, the Commis‐ Foreclosure sioner will issue a Deed to the purchaser(s) upon receipt of the entire pur‐ chase price in accor‐ dance with the terms of the sale as provided herein. HUD does not guarantee that the prop‐ erty will be vacant. The scheduled foreclo‐ sure sale shall be can‐ celled or adjourned if it is established, by docu‐ mented written applica‐ tion of the mortgagor to the Foreclosure Commis‐ sioner not less than 3 days before the date of sale, or otherwise, that the default or defaults upon which the foreclo‐ sure is based did not exist at the time of ser‐ vice of this notice of de‐ fault and foreclosure sale, or all amounts due the mortgage under agreement are tendered to the Foreclosure Com‐ missioner, in the form of a certified or cashier's check payable to the i d

WHEREAS, by virtue of this default, the Secre‐ tary has declared the en‐ tire amount of the in‐ debtedness secured by the Mortgage to be im‐ due and mediately payable; NOW THEREFORE, pur‐ suant to powers vested in me by the Single Fam‐ ily Foreclosure Act of 1994, 12 U.S.C. 3751 et seq., by 24 CFR Part 27 subpart B, and by the Secretary's designation of me as Foreclosure Commissioner, recorded on July 30, 2025, in 20250730000292 notice is hereby given that, on No‐ vember 03, 2026 at 11:00AM local time, all real and personal prop‐ erty at or used in con‐ nection with the follow‐ ing described premises ("Property"), will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder(s): EXHIBIT “A”

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PUBLIC NOTICE --NOTICE OF DEFAULT AND FORECLOSURE SALE LEGAL NOTICE WHEREAS, on Decem‐ ber 18, 2008 a certain Act of Mortgage was exe‐ by Adrian J. cuted Combe, III and Edwyna Chatagnier Combe, as mortgagor(s) (grantor(s)) in favor of Whitney National Bank, as mortgagee (grantee), and was recorded on De‐ cember 30, 2008 in 10862213 Book 4394 Or Page 65 in the Ofﬁce of the Recorder, Jefferson County, Louisiana ; and WHEREAS, the Mortgage was insured by the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban De‐ velopment (the Secre‐ tary) pursuant to the Na‐ tional Housing Act for the purpose of providing i l f il h i

LEGAL DESCRIPTION ONE CERTAIN LOT OF TOGETHER GROUND, WITH ALL THE BUILDINGS IMPROVEMENTS AND THEREON, AND ALL THE RIGHTS, WAYS, PRIVI‐ LEGES, SERVITUDES, AP‐ PURTENANCES AND AD‐ THEREUNTO VANTAGES BELONGING OR IN ANY‐ WISE APPERTAINING, SIT‐ UATED IN THE CITY OF HARAHAN, PARISH OF JEFFERSON, STATE OF LOUISIANA, IN THAT PART KNOWN AS THEREOF WEST IMPERIAL SUBDIVI‐ SION, ALL AS PER PLAN OF SAID SUBDIVISION MADE BY S.K. LANDRY, C.E., DATED JANUARY 6, 1964, APPROVED BY THE MAYOR AND BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF HARAHAN, UNDER OR‐ DINANCE NO. 468, SAID LOT BEING MORE PARTIC‐ ULARLY DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS: LOT 109, SQUARE “A” SQUARE IS WHICH BY SEDGE‐ BOUNDED FIELD, WEST IMPERIAL, CRESSIONNE DRIVES AND

IMPROVEMENTS THEREON BEAR THE MU‐ NICIPAL NO. 93 SEDGE‐ FIELD DRIVE.

Commonly known as: 93 Sedgefield Dr, Harahan LA 70123 Permanent Parcel Num‐ ber(s): 0930000734 The sale will be held on the property of the 93 Sedgefield Dr, Harahan LA 70123. The United States Sec‐ retary of Housing and Urban Development will bid $335,490.99 plus any additional accrual, fees, costs or charges in‐ curred by the Secretary up to the date of sale. There will be no prora‐ tion of taxes, rents or other income or liabili‐ ties, except that the pur‐ chaser(s) will pay, at or before closing, his (their) pro-rata share of any real estate taxes that have been paid by the Secre‐ tary to the date of the foreclosure sale. When making their bids, all bidders, except the Secretary, must sub‐ mit a deposit totaling $33,549.09 in the form of a certified check or cashier's check made out to the United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. A deposit need not accom‐ pany each oral bid. If the successful bid is oral, a of $33,549.09 deposit must be presented be‐ the bidding is fore closed. The deposit is nonrefundable. The re‐ mainder of the purchase price must be delivered within 30 days of the sale or at such other time as the Secretary may deter‐ mine for good cause shown, time being of the essence. This amount, like the bid deposits, must be delivered in the form of a certified or cashier's check. If the Secretary is the high bid‐ der, he need not pay the bid amount in cash. The successful bidder(s) will

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p y United States Secretary of Housing and Urban De‐ velopment, before public auction of the property is completed. The amount that must be paid if the mortgage is to be reinstated prior to the scheduled sale No‐ vember 03, 2026 is $335,490.99 as of plus all amounts that other would be due under the mortgage agreement if under the payments mortgage had not been accelerated, advertising costs and postage ex‐ penses incurred in giving notice, mileage by the most reasonable road distance for posting no‐ tices and for the Foreclo‐ sure Commissioner’s at‐ tendance at the sale, rea‐ sonable and customary costs incurred for title and lien record searches, the necessary out-ofpocket costs incurred by the Foreclosure Commis‐ sioner for recording doc‐ uments, a commission for the Foreclosure Com‐ missioner, and all other costs incurred in connec‐ tion with the foreclosure prior to reinstatement. Tender of payment by or cashier's certiﬁed check or application for cancellation of the fore‐ closure sale shall be sub‐ mitted to the address of the Foreclosure Commis‐ sioner provided below.

y gible for a one-bedroom or two-bedroom unit ac‐ cording to HANO’s occu‐ pancy standards and de‐ ﬁnition of elderly. • HANO’s deﬁnition of el‐ derly is a person who is at least 62 years of age. • Eligibility is based on household income, citi‐ zenship, and the ability of the family to meet screening requirements. • HANO does not discrim‐ inate based on race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, familial status, or disability.

This Instrument prepared by: Penny Daigrepont, Esq. 3500 N Causeway Blvd Suite 116 Metairie, Louisiana 70002 26-014358 203264 Oct. 13, 20, 27, 2026 3t $3,004.54 PUBLIC NOTICE --Project-Based Voucher Waiting List is Open Multiple Sites The Housing Authority of New Orleans (HANO) an‐ nounces that the waiting list for the Project-Based Voucher (PBV) housing sites listed below will open on Wednesday, Oc‐ tober 14, 2026, and close on Friday, October 16, 2026. All pre-applications received during this time frame will be assigned a lottery number. Only those with randomly as‐ signed lottery numbers 1-300 will be placed on the property’s Waiting List. Please note that only online pre-applica‐ tions are from families that qualify for one or two-bedroom units will be accepted. Further‐ more, submission of an pre-application online not guarantee does placement on the waiting list, and placement on the waiting list does not guarantee eligibility or an offer of housing. Who is Eligible? • The family must be eli‐ ibl f b d

How to Apply 1. Obtain an online appli‐ cation: online pre-appli‐ cation forms may be ac‐ cessed on HANO's web‐ site starting on Wednes‐ day, October 14, 2026, at 9:00 a.m. and closing on Friday, October 16, 2026, at 4:00 p.m. 2. Complete & Submit Online Pre-Application: online pre-applications must be completed and submitted on HANO's website - https://hano. myhousing.com. If fur‐ assistance is ther needed, please contact Project-Based the Voucher Department at (504) 670-3468. Important: If you are an individual with disabili‐ ties and need assistance with the online applica‐ tion process please con‐ HANO's Projecttact Based Voucher Depart‐ ment at (504) 670-3468 to make arrangements for completing and submit‐ ting your online applica‐ tion. You can also call HANO if you have ques‐ tions regarding this on‐ line application process or do not speak English and need translation as‐ sistance. Placement on the Waiting List • Online pre-applications will be reviewed to en‐ sure that the applicant's family qualiﬁes for the housing available for the bedroom size. • Only pre-applications with a lottery number between 1-300 will be added to the waiting list. All other pre-applications will be denied and will not be placed on the waiting list. • Online applications re‐ ceived after the applica‐ tion closing deadline WILL NOT be placed on the waiting list • After being placed on the waiting list, the wait‐ ing time is determined by applicant order on the waiting list; the bedroom size required; and unit vacancy Property Name, Location, Bedroom Size, Expected Date of Availability: Elderly Sites 3501 St. Claude Apartments 3501 St. Claude Ave., New Orleans LA 70117

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1-bedroom units Expected Date of Availability: October 19, 2026

2-bedroom units Expected Date of Availability: October 19, 2026

Redemptorist Apart‐ ments 2050 Constance St., New Orleans LA 70130 1-bedroom units Expected Date of Availability: October 19, 2026

203661-OCT 13-1T $63.05

River Garden Elderly Apartments 2017 Laurel St., New Orleans LA 70130 1-bedroom units Expected Date of Availability: October 19, 2026 Non-Elderly Sites River Garden II Apartments 530 St. Andrew St., New Orleans LA 70130 1 & 2-bedroom units Expected Date of Availability: November 20, 2026 River Garden Historic Apartments 2017 Laurel St., New Orleans LA 70130

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PUBLIC NOTICE --AGENDA ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13TH, 2026 6:00 PM ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST PARISH GOVERNMENT COMPLEX 1811 W. AIRLINE HWY. COUNCIL CHAMBERS LAPLACE, LOUISIANA ROBERT ARCURI - CHAIR‐ MAN TAMMY HOUSTON - VICECHAIRWOMAN I. CALL TO ORDER II. ROLL CALL III. OPENING PRAYER IV. PLEDGE OF ALLE‐ GIANCE V. PUBLIC COMMENT – AGENDA ITEMS ONLY (3 minutes per citizen)

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VI. SPECIAL BUSINESS

and entertainment for all ages.

XI. NEW BUSINESS

Jaclyn Hotard – Procla‐ mation - October 24th – World Polio Day

VIII. EXECUTIVE SESSION

Half and East Half of a portion of the James Haydel Tract, located at 868/872 West 5th Street, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS-1484) (J. Hotard/ R. Rome) D) 26-65 - An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of the South 88’ Lot 7 of the A. Jacob Tract, located at 301 East 14th Street, Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS-1485) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

B) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26135 - A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to adver‐ tise and receive Requests for Proposals (RFP) for the Ofﬁce of Community De‐ velopment Grants Man‐ agement Services

VII. CONSENT AGENDA A) Approval of Minutes – 22nd,2026, September Council Meeting B) Councilman Madere – Reappointment of Bonnie Dinvaut to the River Parishes Tourist Commis‐ sion C) Permit Approval – Zion Baptist Mount Church #1 Annual Cancer Walk – Saturday, October 24th, 2026, starting at 9:00 AM. Starting at Mt. Zion Baptist Church #1 at 144 South Little Hope Street and proceed to Louise Lee Street, pro‐ ceed to Emile Street, take a right on Emile Street, continue back to 144 Lit‐ tle Hope Street, this will be in the rear of the church that’s located on Emile Street, where the walk will end. D) Permit Approval – The Greater New Plymouth Baptist Church Rock “Harvest Festival” – Sat‐ October 24th, urday, 2026, with street closure from 12:00 noon until 6:00 PM. The Outreach is to bring the community to‐ gether in Unity and will feature various activities

Lasseigne Properties, LLC, et al. v. St. John the Baptist Parish, No. 81838 Div. C (La. S. Ct. 2026-00628) IX. REPORTS President’s Report X. PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDERATION OF OR‐ DINANCE(S) A) 26-62 – An ordinance amending the annual op‐ erating budget for the Economic Develop‐ ment Fund for St. John the Baptist Parish for the ﬁscal year January 1, beginning 2026, and ending December 31, 2026 (J. Hotard) B) 26-63 – An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of Lot WP-2 of Woodland Plantation, located at 301 West Air‐ line Highway, LaPlace, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS-1479) (J. Hotard/R. Rome) C) 26-64 - An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of the West

E) 26-66 - An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of a 2.8260 acre tract of land and Lot B of an undesignated subdivision, located at 230 & 258 Alligator Lane, LaPlace, St. John the Bap‐ tist Parish, LA (PZS-1486) (J. Hotard/R. Rome) F) 26-67 - An ordinance approving the resubdivi‐ sion of Lots 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5 of the Re‐ serve Industrial Park Subdivision, Block 8, lo‐ cated at 501 West 19th Street, Reserve, St. John the Baptist Parish, LA (PZS1487) (J. Hotard/R. Rome)

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A) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26134 – A Resolution adopting the ofﬁcial seal of St. John the Baptist Parish and providing for its use and protection

C) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26136 - A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish to advertise and Request for Qualiﬁ‐ cations (RFQ) for the Vicknair Canal Pump Station Engi‐ neering Services D) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26137 - A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish to award the Parish’s Group Health Insurance to Blue Cross Blue Shield of Louisiana E) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26-

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138 - A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute Change Order No. 1 with The Lemoine Company, LLC for the Re‐ serve Wastewater Treat‐ ment Pond Capacity Expansion Project F) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26139 - A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute Change Order No. 2 with Preferred Electric, Inc. for the Inter‐ state Lighting LED Retroﬁt (I-10/I-55 Exit) Project G) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26140 - A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute Change Order No. 2 with Southern Coat‐ ings, LLC for the Lyons Water Plant (North) and Re‐ serve Water Storage Tank Re‐ habilitation Project H) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution – R26141 - A Resolution autho‐ rizing St. John the Baptist Parish to extend the Professional Services Agreement with Meyer Engineers, LTD for the St. John the Baptist Parish id lk ( i

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p Sidewalks (LA 628-Main to Emily C. Street Watkins School) Project

g ture in the sum of $50,000 to the St. John the Bap‐ tist Parish Government for the Andouille Festival

I) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution - R26142 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to amend the Professional Services Agreement with Barowka and Bonura Engineers and Consultants, LLC for Grants Administration J) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution - R26143 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish to enter into a Cooperative En‐ deavor Agreement (CEA) with the Pontchartrain Levee District for the 2026 Festival of the Bonﬁres K) Jaclyn Hotard/Peter Montz – Resolution - R26144 – A Resolution authorizing St. John the Baptist Parish President to execute a Cooperative Agreement Endeavor (CEA) with the State of Louisiana, Department of Treasury required in connection with a line-item appro‐ priation in ACT 961 of the 2026 Regular Legislative Ses‐ sion of the Louisiana Legisla‐ i h f$

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XIII. ADJOURNMENT St. John the Baptist Parish, will upon request and three (3) days ad‐ vance notice, provide reasonable accommoda‐ tion to any disabled indi‐ vidual wishing to attend the meeting. Anyone re‐ quiring reasonable ac‐ is re‐ commodation quested to contact Mrs. Stacey Cador at (985) 652-9569 (voice) or the Louisiana Relay Service 1-800-846-5277 and ask for St. John the Baptist Parish at (985) 652-9569. 203648-OCT 13-1T $95.52